skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In reality, bugging my residence isn't going to result in very interesting data. What exactly do you think is going to happen?

This is literally "why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide" in other words. What do I think will happen? I think someone at Amazon might be able to listen in on a conversation I have with my wife. I don't want a third party like Amazon to have a recording of things that I say to my wife because it's none of their business and I don't see a big utility trade-off in being able to ask a voice assistant how many quarts are in a gallon in exchange for letting Amazon record me in my private domicile.

And frankly the only reason I carry a mainstream cell phone is because I'm socially required to do so. I don't find the argument of "Google can hear you already through your phone so why not install more microphones in your house" compelling.
Previous discussions here:

245 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446839

8 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544693

2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20470404
Canada might have this problem soon.

Study visas are virtually unrestricted. But there are more being issued than immigration pathway seats (which are restricted).
The difficulty that I have with NiMh batteries is that it is very difficult to tell when they are done charging, and they are less tolerant of overcharging and "trickle charging" than the NiCad chemistries which preceded them.

Most chargers will just assume that you've discharged them fully between uses, and perform a "full" charge cycle when one is plugged in, maybe with a temperature sensor to stop if they get too hot. You can't really use resting voltage as a gauge, and it's tricky to find a good charger which can reliably detect the small and brief "dip" in voltage which occurs around the time that the batteries are fully charged.

They're great batteries, and I also prefer them for applications where the batteries get fully drained before being plugged in, but they can still be iffy for applications where you only discharge them briefly and want to keep them "topped up".

For those applications, these days you can buy 1.5V lithium cells in AA/AAA form factors with built-in microUSB charging ports. But those are lithium-based, so you have to be careful about thermal runaway.

Life is a balancing act full of compromises...
McK will bill $3 million, the 23 year old may get at best same as your $100k salary. Which makes everyone feel sour, esp the youngster for getting 3% of what their boss charged the client...!
You're missing a couple of things - first, it isn't zero sum. I don't care if I'm poor relatively as long as I'm not poor absolutely.

Second, the average benefit isn't $1,000 a month and in almost all cases the $1k per month is an increase on existing benefit numbers.

Third, since it doesn't come with strings, you don't have to worry about losing your benefits when you get a job or a kid leaves the home, when you relapse or when you get sick and can't manage the tangled web of government red tape.
That's weird because I get your ideal update flow in the apps of theirs I use (Rider, Webstorm & Datagrip) i.e. a notification that there is a new update with an update now button that downloads and installs the update. Maybe it's a platform specific thing, I'm on Windows.
I'm excited that this was downvoted into negative points! I'd love to hear why this was a bad answer.
The human body, incredibly robust and frustratingly fragile at the same time.
Nice catch @kull.

@samanthalee233 That's great! I tried to log in to suggest the change, but it did not work with my normal Gitlab account.
It's worth pointing out that Kotlin has a very powerful monadic abstraction besides nullable: suspend functions, aka coroutines. Arrow KT builds on those to bring you a quasi he notation. They even abuse Kotlins very limited destructuring support (.componentN functions) to bring monadic variable bindings into their syntax. The following is legal Kotlin code

fx {
val (x) = action() // A<B>, where Monad<A>
val y = x + 5 // "pure" function
y
}

The block evaluates to a value of type A<B>. It's going the get even better when Arrow meta is ready for prime time. Arrow is like a neat functional backdoor language hidden inside what seems to be just Java 2.0.
Sometimes checking is sharing.

I think there are ways to design APIs to be more private, but noone seems to do it.

For instance, one way to figure out your time zone is to send your location to a server, which will return the time zone.

Another more private way might be to load a list of location vs timezones for a region of the US, then calculate your timezone locally.
English is dominant now, and as you say history shows the dominant lingua francas changes over time - all the time. But I don't think another existing nation's language will take over. Not Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, etc. Instead, I think an evolved version of English will dominate in 100-200 years time.

We already have many localised Englishes across the world, American, Australian, Indian, various pidgin English, but also in politics, business, social media there are "New Speak" version of English in those contexts.

One of these will evolve to be the lingua franca of the young connected people and dominate. And then be superseded by the next evolved language.

Once we colonize Mars and elsewhere there will be some interesting forks in languages I am sure.
'understand' is from German, 'comprehend' is from French.

We get 'Fort' from French, but the equivalent concept 'Stronghold' has Germanic root words and construction.

What does that prove?

Yet your central point remains, the core of the language is Germanic.
What are you typing into amazon to only find AA? If I type "18650" into amazon I get multiple options for manufacturer, chemistry, and capacity.

As well, there are a handful of websites that specialize in selling battery cells, do a web search for "18650 for sale"

26650 cells have higher capacity and max current numbers than 18650s on average but your 18650 charger likely won't have prongs long enough to reach the pads.

If they were long enough, it would charge just fine.
Totally agreed! I've seen this at other startups, and it works great.
It's funny that, if it was a net neutrality issue, e.g. Comcast pushing a new video format and prioritizing video for their own streaming service, the internet would be a warzone by now. But we all love google. And google used to be all fuzzy and unevil. But now they 're evil
This is when you slow down to 20 mph and wait for him to get irritated enough to go around you.
Are you arguing that we should give up on avoiding potential security risks because we carry phones?
Fair enough. That still compares quite favorably to the US version's $7.25.

If unionization and a near doubling in minimum wage makes a hamburger, fries, and Coke cost $0.71 more, I think I can accept that.
TIL:

"Hiybbprqag?" How Google Tripped Up Microsoft

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hiybbprqag-how-google-tripped-u...
Yeah definitely. It does lack the same sense of progression that you have with a game someone carefully crafted, it's almost more like collaborative storytelling than a game in that sense. It's pretty cool to see the adventures you end up playing with it though.
In that scenario, the parking lots need to be on the grid. Even if you cover a car in solar panels, for almost everyone they’d be a range booster rather than turn the car into a net producer.
An excerpt from the 1st post of this series: "Why would a team be motivated to build another search engine? Why would Hubert Burda Media finance this over several years (they continued to back us especially in times when things got tough)?" https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-01/the-world-needs-cliqz-the-w...
I'm seeing a lot of comments in here made from the perspective of people who have never had the experience of being caught on the poverty flypaper.

Preying upon the weak is an industry. The admonition to "work harder!" is propaganda disseminated by those who passively benefit from the labor of others. The fact is that wages have not risen along with productivity: it is mostly just ownership dividends that rise.

A food-service worker should be able to enjoy the benefits that have accrued to our civilization over many centuries of specialized labor, and still be a functional person in civil society after a day's labor is done--even though food-service work is one of our lowest-status specialties. Even the least of us are still persons in their own right, and in a nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires, we are all far more likely to stumble into deeper embarrassment than to recover those grandiose estates that were so unfortunately lost when we erred in choosing our parents.
The state of the world doesn't seem to be consistent between actions. Got stuff like "someone calls out to you" -> say hello -> "person notices you for the first time and says 'I didn't see you there' "

And stuff like "There is someone to your left" -> go right -> "you go right towards the person".

Also sometimes the game seems to do something completely different from what I say. Is it actually reacting to my commands, or is it just doing what it thinks the player is likely to do, and then retroactively merging the resulting text with what you initially commanded it to do?
NiCad is the devil though but I assume you didn't advocate them, just missed a property of them.
That’s not an apples to apples comparison, but I agree that this is stupid.
> you need to pay for insurance + a car to even function in society. That is the opposite of freedom

I’m not sure what “freedom” is supposed to mean in that context. How is being dependent on paying for public transportation better? In countries where public transportation is amazing enough to obviate the need for cars, you just trade in the freedom to go wherever you want whenever you want.
>A good chunk of harmful mutations will prevent people from procreating, either by killing them first, or making it unlikely for them to find a mate.

well, what about a recessive allele that doesnt cause problems in the first generation but does in subsequent? What about co-dependent deadly / devastating gene expressions between newly added genes that pop up after 2 people with these co-active genes expressing like a hundred years from now? look, given what i studied and why, i would never say we should forever abstain from gene editing technology. BUT, we have to hold those who conduct genetic modification experiments to the absolute highest ethical and engineering standards. It is akin to the level of power given by atomic science, maybe even more. one can be sure that the powers of a God would include the power of the atom and the power of the gene near the top of the list.
> They will go home to merrily enjoy their new UBI checks.

Which might be cheaper for the government than paying them to do their current jobs.
Right, good point, at least NiMh batteries aren't full of cadmium.
Also different DNS servers?

https://www.dnsperf.com/ does DNS services monitoring.
No they're envisioning Amazon claiming to protect their workers in bad faith in order to protect Amazon from suits for not vetting their workers properly.
Yes. my home network is super slow and usually I blame Comcast but this is different.
Lyft sued by more than 20 women for ongoing sexual assaults
You might be disappointed. Sometimes the least sympathetic people are the ones that have been there before. Shared experiences don't necessarily translate into compassion.
I've never used mine for purchasing and I use it an absolute ton. Mostly for cooking and converting units so I dont have to put my fish-covered hands on my phone to calculate things. If doing things in the kitchen was the only thing I used it for it would still have been worth the investment.
Most people I know with small websites will not pay $15/month for analytics. The privacy part of it is also not really the concern of small website owners.

This is not to dismiss Fathom entirely. But there are free alternative (with server setup cost) that keeps your data private: Matomo (formerly Piwik).

I've run it in parallel with Google Analytics and it was the closest replacement I could find. But again, small website owners don't pay for analytics. When anything I write generates even modest traffic, Matomo crashed. Adding a more robust server would help, and they have documentation for optimization. But hey it's just my personal blog.

If you are looking to add robust analytics, GA is the no-brainer. If you are willing to pay and respect privacy, use Matomo and have your devops optimize it for you.
Can't blame Amazozn if they don't let you view their workers entering your home.
Yeah that's a really good future/research question. I've thought some about how you could do more structured generation. Maybe you could do some kind of reverse summarization, where you take a plot outline and expand out the details would be really interesting to try out? It's still not clear the best way to do structured text generation.
They talk about using query logs to optimize their search results:

>Queries performed by people, if associated to a web page, serve as even cleaner summaries than anchor text. This is because all the logic put in place by the search engine, who resolved the query with a list of web pages, and all human understanding and experience that led one to select the best page from the offered result list end up embedded in the association <query, url>.

This would seem to present a "rich get richer" problem where the oldest links that have the largest click-through tend to float to the top making it difficult for a new result that may be "better" to appear high in the search results. Anyone know how search engines tackle this problem?
Hell yah to that too!
Does the USA not have mobile ordering for McD’s?

Or is that just a Canada trial thing?
Petrica Passed First Time – ADriving Rushden
Jehu Garcia is a good reference for batter deals ( note discount code "JEHU" )https://kit.co/jehu/black-friday-deals-2019 found via his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD7tYQd4XE4
Co-ops don’t need to be profitable, just one more reason to use them.
We have a Lite version too if $14 is too much: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom
Qualcomm-- tying and bundling experts.

Good thing for them that their lobbyist was put in charge of the DOJ Antitrust division. ( https://www.vox.com/2017/9/27/16376050/trump-administration-... )
Would you agree that China sees eye to eye with the West regarding other ethical concerns such as copyright, patents, organ transplants, or genocide?
There is JetBrains toolbox for that, for server products there are some tools as well
I’m not a chemist — would it be harder to get it from recycling old batteries than getting it from rocks?

Because even the battery market is saturated, recycling is the only source you’ll need.
Ok Dr. Mengele
Thank you, dear sir, for this startup idea. I think I can save the American Stockholders trillions!
Nicotine, amphetamines, shear terror
this makes absolutely no sense. just because there's a living space 500 feet from a job doesnt mean your job and your place to live are that close
Yeah there's definitely times where it's not as coherent as you would hope, other times though it blows me away with certain adventures.
That's good news for Québec where they have made laws to treat English speakers as second class citizens. Businesses in Québec are advised not to greet customers with "Bonjour-Hi" but just "Bonjour" to preserve the identity & French culture in Québec.
The problem with this discussion is the definition of "hard". Is pushing a rock up and down a mountain easier or harder than getting a degree in computers? For me it's the former, studying cool stuff in cafes seems "easier".
This is actually quite a good question, and I don't understand why you're being given such grief for it. But I also might have an answer. TL;DR: the government isn't paying McKinsey for services rendered. It's paying for bureaucratic capital, which is a Veblen good.

There is a confluence of two dynamics going on here. The first is that once a contractor is listed on the GSA schedule, you don't have to justify their price. The process of getting listed on the GSA Schedule is supposed to mean that the government has already vetted the goods being offered and the price they're being offered for. No further competition is needed. You can simply place an order for the goods or service listed and like magic it sails through the government procurement process.

So the next question is, if contractor A and contractor B are both listed on the GSA Schedule as providing a given service, and contractor A is twice as expensive as contractor B, why would any rational individual choose contractor A? And the answer is, in this case, you aren't paying for the advice. You're paying for the social capital needed to make the advice stick. If all you wanted was the advice, you could certainly go to contractor B and pay them twice minimum wage to get a 23-year year old college graduate to give you advice. But that advice would not carry the weight you need to get upper management to take it as gospel, because you clearly didn't pay enough money for that. Nobody cares if you pay $50,000 to get consultant advice and then ignore what they told you.

So what you do instead is pick the name with the most cachet out of the entire list, given that you don't have to justify the price on a cost-benefit curve any more since it's already been GSA approved, knowing full well that they'll give you identical advice but now with a million-dollar price tag attached... and that fact will carry enough weight to get the changes they recommend all the way up to your agency director, who'll either sign off or have to take an incredible amount of public heat explaining why he/she didn't take the advice his/her own agency spent millions of dollars to get.

Basically, a straightforward application of the Washington Post rule.
How to explain code coverage to anyone
working in heat, whether from ovens/fryer, engines, or something else is so incredibly draining that its hard for people to understand unless they've done it.

At the end of the day you just want a room temperature shower and a cold drink, the mental capacity isn't really there for much else.
I mean, people at first scoffed at the idea of GPU prices rising in 2013 and 2017/18 due to crypto mining (both times!)
Hey, don't knock it, it boosts our GDP!
100% agree that something needs to happen. The way we treat less-fortunate people is shameful and undignified.

My biggest concern with UBI specifically is that it will be absorbed by landlords and other societal rent-seekers. My personal opinion is that we should democratize workplaces, through unions in the short-term and co-ops in the long term. McDonalds cashiers should have a say in their working conditions beyond the bare minimum employment regulations (that are so often ignored in retail and food services).
This is true. While I learned English in the written form in my teens and was able to somewhat understand movies in English, I only became proficient in it in spoken form after I joined a guild in an online MMO game and everybody talked through TeamSpeak. Good times :)
Unfortunately, this seems to be the norm for a lot of low-level jobs in the United States. You end up giving in because the job market for such jobs is saturated and others will take it for lower wages/off-the-books.

When I was 18 (many years ago), I remember having a job that did the same "we need you to stay later" BS. The buses stopped running at 8PM in the suburbs and I had to regularly walk 5-6 miles back home. Cabs and Lyft/Uber aren't much of an option when it would significantly eat into your paycheck. Most people get tired of giving you rides because you cannot afford a car.

Using a bicycle was more dangerous than walking; some people would throw things out their window at you or swerve/yell to scare you.

Factor in how managers "reward" certain employees with better shifts or punish by cutting hours. I could see why many people switch to the dole or dealing.
Why would an unskilled poor person do better in an environment with worse resources to help them?

In a poorer country they would have a decreased cost of living but a decreased earnings and fewer family and friends.

I cannot comprehend the thought process that leads you to come to this conclusion.

Example my wife is disabled we live on my very modest income due to costs of life and medical care we have zero wealth of any kind and a well maintained 2004 car. I think I have $13 in the bank right now.

Where ought I move to increase my fortunes and who would let me who would also pay for my wife's medicine.
The article is flagged because the author is an anti-intellectual Bible-thumper, and we don't need such silliness.
GPT-2 has had these consistency issues from the very first demo. The things it gets right are incredibly impressive (orc who can't count -> use math to confuse orc -> orc starts fighting with other orcs).
> Propaganda tries to force you to believe something.

The most extreme versions of it, yes. But here is a definition from Cambridges dictionary

"Information, ideas, opinions, or images, often only giving one part of an argument, that are broadcast, published, or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people's opinions:"

I think the article fits that definition pretty well. As well as most articles that bring a higher being into a rational discussion.
It definitely didn't eradicate focus. I was playing Runescape focused for hours as a kid.
Look again lots of people here are saying that the research can continue but must be held to not only ethical but engineering standards of the highest order. If youre willing to compromise on those to achieve strategic goals between nation states, than thats a political or moral distinction and ill let it weigh on your conscience if you create a generation of infertile children 80 years from now.
Actually, that's exactly what it is.
Genes are the most tightly coupled code in existence (literally!), and we've barely scratched the surface in seeing what changes we could make and where to make them without bringing the whole thing crashing down.
Spelunky, a procedurally generated platformer roguelite, has an extremely rich competitive speedrunner community. That is my primary relationship to speedrunning, so I'm answering in the context of "whats fun / worthwhile about speedrunning"?

1) There's lots of different categories to compete in. As new possibilities are discovered in the game, the community congrats around goals of speedrunning any given seed. In these scenarios, its generally about building the skills to be proficient at a particular goal in record time regardless of the seed.

2) most of the modern roguelites I play include a "Daily Seed," where every player gets to play the game exactly once each day and be ranked on a leaderboard. You compete on a given seed. If you want a global ranking system, you might consider it by track-record. Something like, "of the last 50 games this player played, what is their aggregate ranking vs other players' last 50 games played", or do that same comparison, but only in the cases where those players shared a seed for the RNG.

It's true that there's no absolute "best game", but there is "best game ever on this particularly interesting seed."

This leads me to believe that this approach can both make speedrunning continue to be new and interesting to participants as well as result in a scenario where the record can mean something. Yes, there are ways to cheat the system if you really want to cheat, in all but a live in-person audited game. It shifts the focus slightly from reverse-engineering of the game and towards being a better all-round player. And it's more interesting for machine solving, too: how can I build an AI that will take the optimal route regardless of seed? How can I know that the optimal route was achieved?
Walmart is trialling it in a location in Toronto.

I wish they had a proper barcode scanner to carry around instead of using the phone to scan though.