skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most helpful thing for competition right now would be breaking up the FAAG. Alas, the US wields a lot of power with them across the world, so that won't happen.
The point of Libra is to create a consumer small purchase transaction medium with low friction. Businesses using it only care if it has enough Swiss backing so they can get a week’s business or two turned into real currency.

It only has to be sound enough for those goals. As it is used more it will get hardened.

The killer use is being able to pay overseas contractors without friction. Since there is no privacy, government on the other end will levy instant income tax withholding with glee.
If you’re an employer yourself why not just give him a job if he wants it? If he’s 16 now he could have five years work experience by the time his classmates graduate college. Alternatively skip sixth form college and just go straight to university. He can enroll with the Open University tomorrow, be done in three years and have his Bachelor’s by the time he’s 19.
The important step to launch Internet Computer.
A clean install of Windows 10 is close to literally unusable on my 11-inch Dell AMD A9-9420e laptop, with 16GB (lol) RAM and SATA SSD.

Basically, the "Windows Antimalware Executable" and various other Windows processes keep one of the two CPU cores more or less constantly pegged. Everything takes ages. The only way to really use this damn thing is to disable Windows' realtime virus protection, which, well.... ouch. And it's still barely tolerable just for playing music files and the most basic of web browsing.

Granted, that's a cheap and hugely underpowered laptop.

But this was disappointing to me because I had a 1.3GHZ Core Solo based machine with 4GB and a primitive SSD running Windows 7 circa 2009/2010 and it was plenty usable.
If Google didn't want to delete your data, they wouldn't lie about it, they just wouldn't give you the option.
> I'd say that those who failed to fight back at school also end up failing to fight back as adults.

I'm just that kind of person, I'm having hard time fighting back, because typically everytime it made situation worse. I can't think of good response in the time where that response is required, and trying to respond just with violence does nothing good. From what I've seen, bullies typically try to anger someone and steer them towards making actions that hurt or disgrace bullied person, sometimes even making them look like original attacker.
Sounds great! This also means that there is a country with legal precedent, and data on how it works out in practice, so we're not just speaking hypothetical situations! Can you say anything about that?
I doubt that's what they were saying. It's simply that only 1/3rd of the government signed onto the treaty. That was public and well known.

Any foreign power would realize they couldn't rely on continuity as their only supporters was a president who couldn't hold power for longer than 8 years.

If Congress had signed in, it wouldn't matter who was President afterwards.

Countries like the UK, don't have this issue since they are parliamentary governments so there's really only 1 branch of government with legislative and executive power integrated.

Most countries in North and South America though are presidential democracies, so the US is in good company.
Separating kids into streams within the same school doesn’t work, because school is about enculturation, and the kids are still together at recess.

Separating gifted kids into “magnet schools” sort of works, but they’re just getting the same teachers they’d get anywhere else—we don’t really know how to select for teachers that can teach gifted kids any better, so we just select for teachers with impressive resumes.

You know what works? Academies. Specifically, military academies, though technical academies sometimes do too. Places where the students and teachers are of a selected population, not by natural talent, but by their driven-ness to grow and succeed. Those tend to product functional, intelligent, mature and mentally-healthy adults. And the difference is simple: in an academy, bad grades are stigmatized by the students, while good grades (and hard work to achieve good grades) are not. Everyone wants to be “the smartest kid in the class”, and popularity generally correlates with how well you do in the classes (i.e. everyone wants to be friends with the most-competent kids.)

The one core flaw of the academy model is that this constant mutual pushing of one-another to succeed, leaves students little time to actually get to know one-another or indulge in any outside interests. Hobbies aren’t actively discouraged, but you can only have one to the degree that it doesn’t interfere with your pursuit of top grades; so nobody ends up pursuing heavy-time-investment hobbies, since few others would, so even if one can make time themselves, there’s nobody to share it with. Since academy students are so busy working their asses off, they also essentially treat their fellow students as “coworkers” (interfacing with them only to accelerate their own productivity), skipping right over the stage where they treat the children in their own classes like friends, bonding over shared interests and the like.

Not sure if there’s any in-between, though. Give kids the time and opportunity to create their own subcultures with their own definitions of success, and all the problems of regular schooling re-emerge.
This ignores the big problems in Facebook's Libra:

1) It charges ECONOMIC RENTS. The ethical asset backed and currency backed stable coin needs to pass profits from revenue generating assets to the currency holder. The member companies should only take a tiny slice of the profits. This is the MASSIVE problem.

2) Libra is designed that ECONOMIC RENTS will be sharecropped and sent to the member companies. This will be the economic incentives for them to force it on their customer base and create incredibly fast adoption. This is a good thing, except it turns evil by the economic rents from #1.
It just doesn't happen, in my experience.

I have 5 different domains with catch-alls and I get 0 unsolicited emails.

I have seen it happen at companies that paste their emails everywhere, but with personal domains, it doesn't happen.
Profitable business are the one when one can not add Further value to it. i.e. advertise. Or retail trading like business.
until you get caught in a pump-and-dump scam that is ...
USA.

In Kindergarten I punched a kid on the bus for taking “my seat.” I remember being surprised I had done it. I wasn’t thinking about it or intending to do it. The bus driver wrote me up, and I had a talk with the principal the next day. The talk was confusing for me and I was a “good kid” so it was a little traumatic as well. What I took away from it was that it was never okay to hit.

Well, that meant I didn’t hit back, either. I was bullied a little in elementary school after that, always physically; mostly by one guy who was older and bigger by virtue of being held back a year. There was one older girl who tried to verbally bully me when she saw me but I didn’t understand what she was saying so it never really bothered me.

Things were really bad in middle school. My parents divorced, which was devastating to me, and I was in a new school district with all new kids. And I didn’t hit back. I was bullied constantly on the bus by a big kid and his toady. I had a few more bullies at school as well, and when I moved again (same district/school) I had bullies in my neighborhood so I got bullied by some of the same kids even away from school. Everything combined put me in a place where standing up for myself wasn’t possible emotionally, and the few times I tried it made things worse.

There is a lot of truth to “just standing up for yourself” to end bullying, but that just shifts it onto the next victim; and it wasn’t something that could help me at the time.

For no reason I understand, maybe school policy, the bullying stopped being physical in the ninth grade, and for the rest of high school it stopped completely.
There is an apply now button on the job advertisement page which asks you to sign up for something. I will not use that because I do not know what Im signing up for or with who or why.
Thought exactly that!
Tech companies aren't regulated at all. Nobody knows how to regulate them. They're also afraid of making google and other american tech giants noncompetitive with entirely unregulated chinese companies all vyying for AI/quantum computing supremacy.
> Unfortunately that kind of punitive punishment will deter genuine cases from be being filed for fear of penalties .

Legal insurance ("Rechtsschutzversicherung" in German) helps here.

> What cost should the court award ?

In Germany courts can order that one party has to cover all associated costs or that the cost be split / limited to "reasonable" amounts - this ensures that everyone has viable access to legal defense.
Certification is the single most expensive part of an aircraft.

The more "off-nominal" an aircraft is, the harder, and thus more expensive, it is to certify. Commercial aircraft (which a "flying taxi" would be) are also much more expensive to certify than general aviation aircraft.

Drone-style "air taxi" aircraft are very different from a systems, reliability, and redundancy point of view than fixed wing (can glide) or rotary wing (can autorotate) aircraft. The FAA is comfortable with those types of aircraft. Convincing the FAA that single and multiple failures (e.g. battery failure) won't cause a drone-style aircraft to fall out of the sky is going to be very expensive.

As an example, it took many years and multiple attempts to get the FAA to certify composite aircraft. Ref:

* Lear Fan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LearAvia_Lear_Fan

* Beech Starship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Starship

* Cirus VK30 / ST50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_VK-30#Variants

* Piaggio P.180 Avanti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_P.180_Avanti

I don't believe there were any commercially successful aircraft that were primarily composite before the Boeing 787.
Algorithmic interviews test for intelligence. Everyone prefers more intelligent and capable developers.
Standups don't prevent that. You can have people saying things and still not revealing they need help. A weekly meeting could still caught the lack of progress in span of three months.

Plus, if he really "had done nothing 3 months later" then it is not about being ashamed to ask for help. Being ashamed to ask for help would explain unfinished things or technical problems here and there.

Being ashamed is likely an excuse there.
Also the original IBM PC keyboards: https://clickykeyboards.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/024.j...
Enjoyment and Intrinsic Motivation
> Nurburgring

Where Tesla just put down a 7:13

> torque curve

What's the Duramax's torque at 0 RPM?
Yep, honestly it was almost like I never left.

I used a VPN so I was almost constantly connected to our company network. At the company we don't do a lot of face-to-face meetings (typically only the older management folks here prefer that). Most of us use chat or email but I also get the occasional phone call. This project was pretty straight forward where the employee made a request and actually was able to send us the online documentation of the commands and we were able to take it from there. We built a prototype of what he was looking for and we made some minor tweaks after his initial review.

We did come on-site at least once a week (sometimes more if it was needed) but they were mostly reserved for those occasional face-to-face meetings or when we were setting up a BLE Mesh Network for workorder tracking.
Algorithmic interviews test for intelligence. Everyone prefers more intelligent and capable developers. At the end of the day an interview is a competition; the job goes not to any qualified candidate, but the best qualified.
because even with a third party, it's still much cheaper, secure, and private.
> Apple have never tried to adopt a model similar to the one used by Linux distributions, positioning themselves as the intermediary between the end users and application developers.

Wait, isn't the prime example of an OS or device manufacturer doing that not “Linux distros”, but instead the app store model that Apple embraced we exclusive consumer mechanism for add-on software with iOS, and have since extended in less-rigid form (because of legacy expectations) to MacOS?
XPath for Web Scraping
Because of crypto’s ”monetary policy”. And the point is you are not obligated to use a third party.
It is essentially a counter-regulation to try to undo damage of monopolistic protections. The better thing would be to strip away the anti-circumvention clauses entirely but that isn't politically viable unfortunately.

Really regarding loopholes I doubt it is because of any lobbying by tech companies so much as massive incompetence from grandstanders and trying to serve vested interests. Just look at the "link tax". Their paycheck and job security doesn't rest on understanding so are willfully ignorant. They gleefully skip to dystopia in the name of doing something because of feelings with no regard for "will it actually solve the goddamned problem?!".
We should just bury the idea of replacing ground cars with their flying counterparts. Not that it is a bad idea to develop electric VTOL vehicle, on the contrary, but ultimately they are going to replace the existing flying fleet: helicopters and planes.
Moving people around cities is much more safe and efficient using trains, buses, taxis and bicycles. Moving people a bit less wouldn't hurt too, with more vertical development, more remote-working, next-door delivery and mixed-use zoning.
> " It is a pivot from a company whose advertising business is so embroiled in scandal and corruption that it has no choice but to try to diversify into payments and credit scoring to survive. The clear long term goal is to act as a data broker and mediate consumers access to credit based on their private social media data. This is such an utterly terrifying and dystopian story that should cause more alarm than it does."

^ This. The rest is moot.
An Error in a Python Script May Have Invalidated 150 Research Projects
Aside from perhaps lack of developers / competency, I wonder why central banks don't issue digital currencies themselves?

Mark Carney (current Bank of England governor) has been warming up to the idea - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/20/mark-carney...

Not sure if that because he is setting himself up for a new job at Libra after his BoE gig finishes in 2 months, or is there merit to the idea and appetite from central bankers?
Only in a narrow bill of materials sense (and mostly in the case of jet aircraft). The real expense is in the processes (such as maintenance) that minimize the likelihood of heavy objects falling out of the sky on people and property.

There are also noise issues associated with scaling up personal air transport.

People do routinely fly personal aircraft in sparsely populated areas like much of Alaska. Scaling that up in somewhere like the northeast US or Bay Area seems... unlikely.
And your expenses (including miles).

I run a very small scale resell operation and I do my taxes myself.
Microsoft successfully archives 'Superman' movie on a piece of glass
Whoah!

Okay, counter-point: in my experience Udacity has the highest quality content on the toughest technical subjects. To me, it is evident that an enormous amount of work has gone into making the lectures and exercises effective.

Coursera has more courses, and the quality varies more but some of them are excellent. In any case, Coursera lectures come from university partners we are all familiar with, so people can decide if they like the Andrew Ng Machine Learning Class or Geoff Hinton on Neural Networks.

I am not affiliated with either of them.
I think XP SP2 was the high point of Microsoft OSes. But don't forget that the initial releases of XP were chock-full of massive security holes
This is a general attack against perceptual hashing. It tries to achieve multiple objectives. Using stenography you could add any data in the image, like you would with encryption as you suggest. But here it is deeper.

By superposing a very transparent bad image with the good one, the perceptual hash won't be affected but the image would be still labelled as offensive by the poor guy labeling the data because the transparent offensive image is still visible. This mean that the good data will be marked as potentially offensive.

This allows anyone to target any individual user, or website. You take some of their published content, overlay offensive image and republish. The image will be reported as offensive, yet have a similar hash (i.e. a collision) to the good image which automated systems will pick-up as the original image being offensive and blacklisting its user or tanking down the website on search engine results.

Because this is sensitive data, by law it should be deleted as soon as it is detected which means the proofs get deleted automatically.
How does that help? I just gave an example in the post you replied to showing how parents with means can send their children to tutorials to help them score better.

I can give you another example from my own life. Like I said previously, I graduated from a low rated public school on the small town south. I had the highest SAT score in the school and the second highest in the county (around 1000 graduating seniors). Not bragging, it was far from a perfect score. How much of that do you think is due to my natural brilliance and how much do you think it was due to my mom not only being a Math teacher who was teaching me high school math in middle school, but her also doing SAT tutorials in middle school and sitting down with me at night to help me solve SAT practice problems in high school?

I’m sure that my learning Latin in the magnet middle school that she called in a favor to get me into didn’t hurt me doing well on the English portion.

Besides, there was a recent well reported scandal about how rich people were able to game the system and bribe people to get their kids in school. Their punishment was a slap on the risk while a homeless poor Black lady is spending years in jail for enrolling her children in a school that was out of her district.
I appreciate your kind words. I'll look around some job boards and see if anything looks interesting!
Farm country feeds America, but try buying groceries there
Then it would be fine if all these interviews asked was, "Why does this code with a O(n^2) algorithm suck?" People seem to have more of an issue when the interviews seem to blow right past that into leetcode hards.
Apple's $2.5B Home Loan Program a Distraction
There are plenty of alternatives for submitting videos, but YouTube has the content. The best option, IMO, is to consume YouTube videos in a way that doesn't track or monetize you, such as NewPipe (Android) and YouTube downloader.

Personally, I just don't watch YouTube much and prefer other entertainment sources. I read news on personal blogs, link aggregators (like HN), and newspaper sites, I have a streaming subscription, play video games, read books, etc. If I want to share a video with friends/family, I either email it or send a link to my NextCloud instance.

The hardest things for me to switch from has been Gmail and Google Docs, just because I have so much stuff already there.
For a long time I was using a 27" 4k screen. I recently upgraded to a 32" 4k screen and tried ultra wides before buying. For me, nothing beats a single 32" 4k screen. Sadly there are no 32" 5k screens, otherwise I would have bought one.
Correct, but they aren't enforcing their copyright, they're claiming a breach of GPL.

GPL doesn't force you to upstream your changes, and so, within the context of GPL v2, where would they be forced to hand over source code on request to sfconservancy?
No company can thrive when putting politics over profit.
Sorry to hear that. I hope things are better for you now.
A highlight from the comments:

>> That was Captain Ahab level persistence. I wonder how long it took him.

> I was one of the spectators on the Prometheus thread. It took him 2 days. It was insane
The thing that sinks most of these flying car or flying taxi initiatives is the noise problem. Because airplane engines are so darn loud, all flying cars are forced to operate away from built up areas whether or not they're capable of vertical takeoffs and landings. Which makes them inherently redundant, as you're already having to drive out of the city to get to your flying car - at which point you could just drive slightly further to an airport and get on a conventional plane that boats vastly higher cruising speeds and fuel efficiencies.

If not for the fact that airplanes are noisier than a fox stuck in a trashcan rolling down hill, we'd already have flying taxis of a variety of different forms that take off and land on top of sky scrapers. The youtuber mustard did a recent video exploring one such concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJOm1V77Xg

Using ducted fans and an electric motor both reduce noise, so time will tell if we've finally achieved a "city acceptable noise level" out of one of these designs at long last.
As a programmer, I want my user to have the best experience possible using my software. Using a generic sort function may be the optimal solution for me, as a programmer for getting the job done quickly, but in some occasions, it delivers an experience which is far from optimal for my user.

Let's take the sort function as an example.

There are many problems for which the sort function far from the optimal solution. For example, sorting billion numbers, each in [1,10000]. (You could do it in O(n), instead of O(nlogn), for large data sets it is significant)
Hell, I would pay you to improve Apple's documentation.
Nothing like having a phone number the FBI can call...
non profit doesn't mean the executive level goes without, charities are infamous in this regard. that colleges can hide their endowments behind similar is just more proof we have a tax system designed to benefit the few and not the many

I have no issue with local papers going non profit, however the idea they can do it any not cross into the political side is going to be a stretch. either from the weight given to certain stories, selection of letters to editors, down to opinion pieces, there are many ways to skirt the rules
This had its own discussion a little while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627274
How is local news essential to democracy or help make better voting decisions?

For example, according to Patch (which is not nonprofit) this morning, if I exclude the vast amount of advertising and pathological fake news and focus on actual local coverage, in my hometown the local electronics recycling program is temporarily moving because of road construction, and three miles across town the police have reported three recent delivery package thefts.

How would either story influence me being more or less likely to vote for Trump in 2020?

There's been an intense cultural shift towards not making informed decisions in the voting booth; one MUST either vote along demographic identity lines or optionally follow groupthink or keep very, very quiet lest suffer possibly violent consequences. If those cultural trends change, then there would be motivation for informed voting. However, "everyone in charge" at this time likes the system and its a disinformation to pretend informed voting is relevant at this time. The problem at this time isn't "voter education" but "conform to your group or be punished".
I'm a teapot? That's what 418 is.
Instead of having one Facebook abusing people's privacy, we get 5 Facebooks that do so. Breaking up a company does not ditectly address the issue of its conduct.
More money for Microsoft and Amazon I guess