skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree. Many municipalities offer an annual discount day for folks who have outstanding toll road charges that aren't worth sending to collections. Voluntary payment skyrockets during these kinds of things.
What happened to them? They were in the news a lot for a while but lately it’s totally quiet . I thought they finally had released something. Has anybody tried their tech?
GP didn't offer meaningless "stats" like your link. They simply noted that relaxing gun laws like allowing concealed carry leads to an increase in violent crime under every analysis. https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/concealed-... presents a survey of the research.
Email is still widely used by billions of people whereas line editors never were.
> What would a tool of actual decentralization look like?

Not sure. But I'd bet if the initial devs of Wikipedia wondered too much about that question we'd be subscribing to Encyclopedia Britannica Online to research it.
> Battle.net, Ubiplay, Origin, Epic

Not sure how relevant are the first 3 of those in this context. Battle.net, UPlay and Origin are basically just download/update systems for Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA and not a real competing store that could take over the whole market.

Epic's store is the only one that sells 3rd party titles.

More relevant competition would be GOG and to some extent itch.io (recently surpassed 200k titles in their catalog, but it's mostly very small indie games).
Hmm...not sure how to expand on what I said. Perhaps an example will help:

If you go to a bank asking to borrow money they might ask "what collateral do you have to secure a loan?". If you own a house, they would ask you to bring in the property title document to prove to them that you own it (or some title company would do that work for them).

Patents can serve a similar purpose: you want to borrow money from an investor to develop a product idea into a commercial product: they might say "what patents do you have?". To them, the patent document serves a similar purpose to the property title in the bank loan case: a piece of paper that makes them think there's something of value that they can ultimately take from you or sell if the company doesn't succeed, or at least something that gives them a warmer and fuzzier feeling that if you were just saying "Trust me I know what I'm doing".
As a French (from Paris ) I have hard time understanding there French and I rather understand when they speak English , but I don’t ask them to switch to English because I know that would drive them mad if I do
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Yeah, it recently hit 1.0. They're also adding some things they said they wouldn't, namely more PvE stuff. I'm hoping they add NPCs of some kind with scriptable behavior to give us something to fight
Great marketing and lot of suckers who bought into the Hype.
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I don't think that's entirely true. People have analyzed the network traffic and found it to match the wakewords. The hardware and software architecture has also been analyzed and my understanding is that the wakeword functionality is implemented by secondary low-power hardware, which turns on the main system only after hearing the wakeword. Of course, anything is possible in theory and I wouldn't be surprised to see some targeted attacks happening occasionally, but that's pretty different from massive always-on 24/7 audio collection from all consumers.

Some related links:
https://www.iot-tests.org/2017/06/careless-whisper-does-amaz...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08696
If ever there were an article that exemplified "a picture is worth 1,000 words"... the editor didn't seem to understand the point and published 5,000 words.
The algorithm probably used an individual characteristic such as individual income rather than household income to set a credit limit. Why is that an outrage?

I get several credit card solicitations a week. In general, Americans not getting enough credit is not a problem.
Q: What would a tool of actual decentralization look like?

A: A pre-modern village.
This seems very personal, describing a single person’s expectations and their experience in a single narrow subset of programming jobs.

Many of the “expectations” were not something that people were really expecting. Many of the “reality” parts are not always true, too.
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OT but pretty keen to figure out why someone decided that they needed to invest in a 52 core gaming rig last month (check the last line of the Linux table) https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/
Xfce 4.12 is effectively EOL but may get security updates
No Hospitals use fax because it's too hard to change, most information traveling through fax is sent via automated fax servers so it is the worst of both worlds, hack-able server and unencrypted transmission protocol.
I don’t know of any consumer credit product that takes assets into account.

I doubt very seriously that Apple would call Goldman and ask them to give some people special treatment. I’m not saying that Apple wouldn’t do that because it isn’t fair. They wouldn’t waste their time doing it.
I can't remember the last time someone called me an optimist. So where are some examples of these people that slice up people's brains for fun? If the law exists for good reason, there must be at least one example of an offender.
It’s common to pledge assets as collateral, but I’ve never seen patents actually assigned as a condition for a loan.

This looks pretty strange.
Guys! Just a coincidence that I visit rethinkdb website and found the news. It's very good news!
Cops are more likely to commit crimes than CCW licensees.
Purely by luck. As the report the article is writing about outlines...

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/state-of-galileo-and-accid...
I’m really hoping magic leap makes it in the long run. They’re a huge tech employer in south Florida, and frankly we could use more tech companies. I’m always afraid a recession will wipe them out and flood the market with experienced engineers.
Refactoring and the Art of Improvement
I will top post unless I know the recipients are familiar with quoting conventions. I have run into far too many people who become confused otherwise.
Those were examples of POLICE MISCONDUCT. Which is to say, crimes committed WHILE THEY WERE EMPLOYED AS POLICE OFFICERS. This has precisely nothing to do with employment discrimination against former felons. It has to do with enabling ongoing criminal behavior by police officers -- those very people entrusted with a sacred privileged duty to uphold the law -- without fear of consequence. Police officers (and judges and others granted power by our society to wield life-and-death power over other citizens) must be held to the highest standards in their conduct.
> On of the consequences of low union rate and very low wages is that the op ex of having an employee in the US is cheaper than the cap ex of automation.

Are you saying that ports in China have high wages AND high union rates compared to US? Because even if that was true, it didn't stopped them automating the ports.
>These new freedoms and liberties are created by technology, increased wealth distribution (globally), and changing social norms towards individual rights and equality.

Having freedom and liberty does not automatically result in increased wealth distribution, individual rights or equality.

Just because we have a system that allows people to communicate and collaborate across the globe instantaneously doesn't mean that they will do so constructively towards positive directions. They can also use this power for selfish and/or destructive mean. This is really the lesson that we've been taught in the past 10 years.

> I have the individual freedom to choose which information sources I tune into, and I have never had a greater variety than today.

I trust that your information sources are sound, but many other people choose to tune into information sources that are not, but confirms that own bias. There is a part of human psychology which finds this type of behaviour immensely rewarding.

The idea that more information and more connectivity automatically result in more freedom which would then naturally better society is exactly what led us down to the path to the current information dystopia.
Everything on that graphic is sourced at the bottom.

Right from your link: "NO STUDIES MET OUR CRITERIA" -> "Defensive Gun Use"

Obviously they need to avoid that given the first thing on the graphic. Even skipping the biggest stat, they honestly admit "limited" and "inconclusive" on the table's 4th row: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis.html

"increase in violent crime under every analysis"

the table you linked to says "limited", and the criteria for limited is "At least one study meeting our inclusion criteria ".

So by "every analysis" you mean "at least one study".
Can we please stop this manufactured outrage? Its almost 2020 and I'm just done with it.
Since the whole original headline is too long, I'd suggest "The tale of Europe’s Galileo satellites going dark"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21498107
Top posting is completely worthless. All it does is include the message you replied to, which any sane email client can show immediately without having to copy it all.
The gap will be even larger, more low code UI and FaaS are going to make hiring a lot harder.

I think we don't spend enough time on socket level programming and concurrency.

I don't know how many Java devs are still writing blocking IO code..
Thanks for providing the link to the archive.

I have up the capacity, but when the cite hits #1 on Hacker News (as it is right now), it looks like the traffic is still overwhelming. It probably does not help that I put the larger associated document for people to download (I was going to put a link up but the link was not working in the Chrome browser).
In New Zealand there is at club level. Also all high school grades, except inter-school matches IIRC, are weight limited.
It also doesn’t help that Canadian cell phone plans usually include no roaming at all or horribly expensive roaming.

So if an attacker knows you’re making a day trip to go to one of the malls that dot the border, they can pounce and you won’t know until damage is done.

Meanwhile, T-Mobile plans include so much Canadian roaming that your plan is better than local Canadians’.
If it makes you feel better, I'm in my early 30s, and switched careers to software dev just last year, and I definitely understand "^H." Although I understood it because a veteran guy passed on the story to me a while ago. So I guess the moral is, keep that oral history alive!
I’ve been reading “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” recently, and this is totally the classic case for her argument. We’ve clearly reached the point where our utility to the technology providers has surpassed their utility to us. I have no idea why anyone would have one of those things in their home. It’s no longer a matter of the technology itself, but who is behind it and what they are doing with it. I don’t like the Bezos drives his warehouse workers like something out of a Dickens era factory horror show, but the notion that he’d like to turn me into a “consumption worker” is just too much to stomach.
Humans have always thought or related the latest technology to their own functioning, particularly of the brain. It's amazing to see the process of people finding pistons and mechanical automatons as a metaphor for the mind. Then sequential programming and now ML. Humans have an incredible ability to restructure their own ideas about their brain with machines and adapt to new ideas, in a way that would break a machine. Not to mention the rest of human biology that contributes to our functioning minds outside of the brain.

I don't know how to separate out the difference between learning something through immersion and seeing the broader world view that nestles those ideas within them.
from the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/genchuckyeager/status/111284127532415795...

Aside: Incidentally I just drove to campus on Yeager Road ! 25 astronauts graduated from Purdue including Neil Armstrong. Yeager flew with Armstrong ( https://twitter.com/genchuckyeager/status/987529421618794496 ) & felt rather strongly about Armstrong's portrayal by Gosling in First Man ( https://twitter.com/genchuckyeager/status/103555534785798144... ) Space is huge here at Purdue...yesterday was Space day with over 1000+ kids packed into Neil Armstrong hall making rockets & stuff.
Jobs left the company for all intents and purposes in the mid 80s. What would he know about Apple’s financial or technical decisions that any outside observer wouldn’t know?
On the other hand there are many times where I wish I could convince other programmers of that statement. Lots of repetitive boring code is usually better then convoluted meta frameworks to solve the same task. I just spent my morning digging through 8 layers of OO abstraction hell that turn CSV files into sql because someone thought the easy way was too repetitive and the could cut the LoC count.
That's a good point! Maybe that's the source of it. I've gotten used to it for a couple of statically compiled long-lived binaries (games), but other than that even software I compile myself gets packaged before I install it.
Perfectly makes sense, thanks! I must have missed it as it was earlier export default function, will update this.
For many years, I've claimed to some of my friends that the goal of Amazon is to get to the point where they can order things for us before we even know that we want them. So Amazon wouldn't even require a confirmation on our part. We'll just come home to the packages that Amazon has decided that we need or want.

This situation raises a whole host of issues, and I'm not claiming it'd be a good thing. It just seems to me like the obvious endgame for Amazon, and I think it perfectly fits the modern ethos of reducing friction and pursuing convenience at all costs, including losing our own agency.
I've found sprinkling print statements to be an easy and quick alternative to setting up logging.
So you think only boomers will find this sort of thing off putting or creepy?
The title is probably wrong. At a quick glance, this looks like an ordinary security interest, not an assignment.
You have a range of 2-4km, reaching that range in a couple seconds, and a lethal range of several hundred feet. Why do you need guidance, or a way to abort after launch? If you don't want it to go boom, don't launch it in the first place.

And we're working on destroying the chemical weapons. It's just tricky. Some of the chemical weapons were corrosive, which makes them difficult to move.
Google is very good at precisely controlling what happens to the data. You never hear about some huge leak where 1B google accounts had their whole data taken.
You forgot sudo. IIRC Windows Steam asks for Admin rights.
> And it feels like a category error to ask which accountant, or political pundit, is the Greatest of All Time, but the answers surely matter more for the human project than the ones for Scrabble or League of Legends—where data and answers are readily available.

It feels like a category error because it is a category error. Competitive games have a finite set of explicitly defined rules and win conditions; jobs do not.

> Even small changes along these lines would be a big deal. Imagine if each of us got as good at our jobs as the average teenager is at Fortnite.

I think the average person is already probably better at their job than the average teenager is at Fortnite; it's just that the "win conditions" for an average person at a job are significantly more complex and can vary quite a bit between different people and situations.

For example, besides whatever people themselves consider to be a "win" at their jobs, there's also things like this: https://dilbert.com/strip/2012-05-29
I thought it was about proper noun vs common noun.

"an internet" is common noun – an abstract concept of which many particular implementations could exist.

"the Internet" is a proper noun – one specific implementation of that concept. Right now, the only one of any significance, but that may not last forever.

If humans someday colonise Mars – TCP/IP is not suitable for interplanetary use. We'll likely end up with two separate TCP/IP internets, one on Earth and one on Mars, with non-IP protocols used to communicate between them. The Earth-based one would be descendant of "the Internet" we are using right now, the Mars-based one would be a new internet.

(By the time we colonise Mars, I wouldn't be surprised if TCP has been wholly replaced by QUIC, so instead of TCP/IP we'd all be using QUIC/UDP/IP.)
This is a recordation of a security interest, not an assignment.
I don’t know if this is what goes through people’s heads, but why bother to spend the time to return the book and lose access to its utility when you can just keep it.
The article confuses SIM Swapping and Phone Porting Fraud.

The latter may be harder to undo given that it cancels your account. And providers always claim it’s impossible to give people their old plans back.
Your code didn't look so bad to me :)

I think you may have met some of my colleagues working on similar problems at Dweb camp recently.
Agreed that more data is required to draw any sort of conclusion from this.

That said, my understanding of behavioral therapy is that you reward desired behaviors and ignore unwanted behaviors. Punishment is also on the table for flagrant violation of the rules, but it needs to be applied equally and immediately.

With that in mind, how does the library system reward good actors -- those that return books on-time, that sort of thing? It's really hard to shape behavior when you have a surplus of sticks and a notable lack of carrots.
> The database is resilient in spite of all but one of your nodes crashing,

Well, once I hear that, I wouldn't be willing to pay anything. I admit, you did say magic consensus protocol. But by definition, this is impossible, unless you can reliably detect a node has gone down and isn't up and serving requests somehow. TBF that is to some extent possible. But a network partition will still take it down.

At a certain point, the biggest reliability factor is the complexity of the software, not the reliability of the hardware. You want the clustering logic as simple as possible. You need parts of query evaluation, hipster programming language evaluation, to be precisely deterministic.
Eh, not quite. It’s fairly well-understood what is used to determine a credit score and basically how all that information is compiled.

Seeing that your first three points have nothing to do with your credit score and aren’t captured by credit agencies, you’ve kind of demonstrated that it isn’t well understood.

Credit applications usually just ask for your income. They only verify it my experience sometimes for car loans and only for the last month and they only go back three months for verifications for mortgages.
Hah. Sadly, it's what I'm marketed as, because that's whar sells.

'Statistics based marketing/lead programs' doesn't sell.
'Cutting edge AI for customer level personalisation' does.
>it gets heavily downvoted. But I don’t ever hear why

Perhaps because it's yet another pre-mined altcoin? Even if your idea happens to be good, the idea of an ICO has been given such a bad name that you need to wash your hands of anything associated with that funding model. But something tells me you won't.

I used to think there was always a chance that "this time would be different" with promising ICO companies that I supported (not even with my money but with my volunteering as a developer), only to get burned again and again. My experiences are not atypical.

However, I've been burned even more badly by mainstream social networking, so I want to believe that your idea will work. Tough dilemma.
What's your definition of sequential in this context?
What I am left wondering is how many are kicked off a police force in another state and then get hired on in California? This report only looked at officers California records.

I know there are cases where doctors lose their medical license and there's a handful of states where they can move and regain a license. Is the same true for police officers?
Think about the logistics savings by having stuff be auto-ordered before you need it.
The patents were not assigned. JPMorgan merely recorded a security interest in the patents (although the USPTO does list this as an “assignment”, it’s not). This is completely customary for a secured loan.

You sometimes see secured lenders forego this type of filing since it’s a bit of a pain in the ass, but for a company like magic leap, you would definitely want to do it since that’s where most of the value is.

It’s hard to say more without knowing the terms of the loan. Perhaps they are struggling to raise more equity and had to resort to debt on bad terms, or perhaps it just made sense to raise debt instead of equity and they could do so on favorable terms.
Using patents to secure loans is not new. Most Famously Tesla did it.

What makes it "news" is that Magic Leap was able to raise $2.6 Billion without having to resort to using the I.P. as collateral. It usually does not make the previous investors happy and you usually resort to this when you can't raise money any other way. It is also a one-trick-pony in that you can't do it again and future potential investors know that the I.P. is already gone if the company goes bust.

They just announced a $280M investment from NTT Docomo, but base on my and other people's estimates, Magic Leap was running out of money while burning through about $600M/year so that only bought them about 5 months of runway.
Perhaps so. That doesn't mean that all control is equivalent, though. There is (at the moment) a significant difference between the Great Firewall and the level of regulation that exists in, say, the EU.
Which is irrelevant since your credit report doesn’t list your assets nor does any credit card that I am aware of ask you to list assets let alone verify them.
Couple years back when I was dating a girl in Ft Lauderdale, I was looking at companies in Florida. Interestingly enough, it was the only (!) state that was cutting funding for the CS program across its state programs.

Ended up in NYC, and now, Washington D.C.

Don’t think a single company can save the tech economy of a state that doesn’t seem to think its worth the investment. That being said, I love Florida and it would be awesome to build out a tech sector down there.
> It doesnt use virtualization but rather hooks the APIs and redirects them to "in folder structure"

Do they do it in a filesystem filter driver or similar? Hooking DLL calls in user mode is not really a secure way to do this.
The thing is, Valve put in the initial investment to support Linux in a big way. Now that things seem more stable, they could pull that support and save money. But how much money would they save? Maintenance of what they have now is far cheaper than the initial investment.

So why not continue support? It’s always, always nice to have an escape hatch you can point to should Microsoft get that look in their eyes again.