skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The VAT+UBI is notably bad for anybody on disability today. Disability today averages around $1200 per month. With Yang’s UBI, you choose between disability and UBI - so most people on disability aren’t getting any more cash. But now they have to pay 10% VAT as well, so they basically see a 10% decrease in buying power.

Can’t say I’m a huge fan of that, since UBI often gets touted as a “help the poorest” thing.

EDIT: looks like Yang's position on the stuff below changed. His website used to say it wouldn't stack with anything, now it says it stacks with some things, which makes more sense. I'm till not completely convinced though, since the combination of programs that it doesn't stack with can easily exceed the $1000/mo limit that make it regressive again. But there's a complicated analysis there that I'm not qualified to make.
All such tokens would be effectively revoked anyway since you check the iat timestamp (or lack thereof) at the authorization point.
project maintainers are not your bitch, a lot of things can happen that could make them not add that line
That's what my philosophy is (15 min max) based on my understanding, but in many places I've seen, people set the expiration to something insane like 5 days.
I liked the glitch in Two Worlds - if you don't talk with the fist questgiver (who is a disguised end boss) and instead attack him and get him to hit some villager npc in nearby village with fireball splash damage - all the villagers attack him in revange and kill him quite quickly - and the credits roll :) It's like 3 minutes and it (unintentionally) makes a great statement - normal people don't need heroes, we just need to work as a team and we can win by ourselves ;)
I know nothing about cars, but I've been wondering how anything remotely resembling what was shown could pass a crash test. It's going to have to be radically transformed, so why bother even showing a design at this point?
+1 I'd forgotten Paradox of Choice. So true
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I'm also a Cycorp employee, so I can say a little bit at least about (1) and (2).

1) We often use HOL. CycL isn't restricted to first order logic and we often reason by quantifying over predicates.

2) I don't know where you could read an explanation of it, other than the general problem that NLU is hard. It is something people at the company are interested in, though, and some of us think Cyc can play a big role in NLU.
Not to mention the maintenance and replacement of software in fields where it's already extremely dominant.

The valley may explode/implode but the rest of the world has had a pretty solid demand for developers since I was a teenager in the 90's, it's just less dramatic and less well paid with fewer hours.
Imho, the problem is Amazon and how everybody is aping them. Every store is now also a bazaar with infinite combinations of functionally-anonymous brands hawking indistinguishable Chinese plastic.

I want a e-store where somebody has taken an editorial role in curating their crap. I used to be a habitual researcher and I'm completely burned out on the process.
Could brain organoids or machines develop consciousness?
A good rule of thumb I always use if a science article title has the word "breakthrough"in it, then it's probably not a breakthrough.

If the title does nothing to describe the actual discovery made and solely consist of "Breakthrough in [Field]" then it's definitely not a breakthrough.
> The execution between them was flawless though, acting as one mind whereas a team of human has to communicate ideas.

A team of humans that has played together extensively will often intuitively know what the other human will do in a given situation without explicit communication. The fact that humans can also coordinate in unusual circumstances where intuition is insufficient is an advantage that the current version of the AI lacks.
> AI drone and carry out the hit

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots (a frightening horror mockumentary).
Do you have a source for this interpretation of their license?

It does not match the interpretation of anyone else out there that I am aware of - it is not even an argument that Genius is making in their lawsuit.
I'm just asking if there is a better solution
Maybe it'd just look like it looked in the 90's, there wouldn't be targeted advertising and everyone except the marketers would be happier.
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I really wonder how safe lidar really is for humans. Our retina are sensitive enough to detect single photons (when healthy) and lidar is known to damage digital camera sensors.
These are not mutually exclusive options. Redis is a database and runs in memory.
This is the tomato sauce problem. There are too many tomato sauces on most store shelves to ever be satisfied with what you select. You would be happier given how unimportant tomato sauce is relatively in your life, to have but one choice. More choice is not always better.
Yes, thanks to conservation efforts.
Dipole Repeller
Technically, there is an infintesimal chance that entropy spontaneously reverses permanently and that nothing ever dies.
Which is what my company does with lastPass. (Although on my personal manager I don't use it)
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It's also possible to do your token validation in something like Cloudflare Workers and store your blacklist in Workers KV. That would mean it lives all around the world closer to your users than your origin, making it unlikely it is adding meaningful latency to check it.

Disclaimer: I work at Cloudflare
As a onetime subscriber in the 80s I strongly disagree (and I didn’t renew for that reason). I felt the articles were typically not hard hitting and when they were critical of someone it was either because they simply didn’t like that person or, more commonly, it felt fake, like the WWE fake wrestler feuds or “reality tv”.

At least that was my impression as a callow youth in my 20s trying to get a couple of startups off the ground.

Also the Forbes family empire was admitted to be not especially large as they themselves described it, though believed to be >$100M
Whether or not your employer can claim ownership in court depends entirely on your contract.

But no matter what's in your contact, that route is probably not your best option. From what I understand, you created, in your own time, a project that is valuable to your employer, and that they want to use and develop. You're the expert on this project. Not just that, you designed every aspect of it, popularised it, and your employer apparently likes it enough to want it. These are valuable skills. At the very least, this should imply a nice raise. Perhaps a promotion. You're the natural PO and the natural lead developer for this project.

I would discuss this with your employer. See if they're willing to give you a nice promotion with this project as your primary responsibility and an accompanying raise. Maybe a bonus too.
for me it went:

slashdot-->digg-->reddit-->[?]
It does support pyenv, does that not work for you?
Perhaps this varies from country to country, but for the US, doesn't Nester's Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co. explicitly say that you cannot copyright these fake streets and someone creating a map that includes them would not be grounds alone for infringement?
Also, the following paragraph is very misleading:

> OpenAI Five won 99.4% of over 7000 games.

The players in those remaining percentages played repeated rounds against the AI and eventually started winning more often than not. The AI had only one strategy (deathball) and once top-skill-tier players learned how to play against it, they had a >50% chance of winning.
This is extremely different. From what I've heard, physics and mathematics are much better at shielding their students from a lot of the bad stuff in academia till later. Which is good in some ways and bad in others I suppose.
The flaw with this analysis is that since the UBI is only claimable if you don’t claim any other welfare, and 1000 a month is significantly less than the average payout from programs like disability, many poor families will be unable to claim the UBI but will still pay the tax this making the whole system regressive at low incomes.

EDIT: looks like Yang's position on the stuff below changed. His website used to say it wouldn't stack with anything, now it says it stacks with some things, which makes more sense. I'm till not completely convinced though, since the combination of programs that it doesn't stack with can easily exceed the $1000/mo limit that make it regressive again. But there's a complicated analysis there that I'm not qualified to make.
Nice one. But I was a little confused: this is 'only' about Circ? Did you consider to investigate the other companies as well? Seems there are at least four more ;-) To really say something about 'scooters in Lisbon' and 'compare with other cities' more data is needed.

One could think the hardest part of starting a new scooter company these days is finding a differentiating color...
I kind of hope the next 'net is based on cjdns, because it's a much better protocol and it's fundamentally less centralised. If the new ISPs evolved from Hyperboria, it'd be a dream come true.

There are still some bugs, though (like the horizon issue limiting the usability of convoluted or large networks: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/bugs/hori...) but it's enough that people using the network don't really need to fix them, since everything still works.

If you want to help out with the code, it's probably best to look at the bugs repo (https://github.com/hyperboria/bugs/issues); the issues in the "bugs" directory of cjd's repo are mostly large, architectural issues and non-trivial flaws that are probably due to the implementation.
I used to have to deal with an enterprise system that required quarterly password changes. The interesting thing about this system was it would refuse to let you set a new password that wasn't sufficiently different from the previous several passwords... Which almost certainly means they were implementing this security measure by storing the passwords in plaintext on the server.
For stuff like "employment, housing and credit", it's illegal to discriminate in advertising. That's why they made a whole new portal to try to avoid discrimination for those kinds of ads. So after a while if you gather data and realize that your algorithm is sexist and ageist, then continuing to use that algorithm to place ads is knowingly using sexist and ageist techniques in advertising. I think the EEOC has the authority to determine how non-discriminating FB will have to be to avoid trouble.
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>The No. 1 question people ask him upon hearing where he works is, “How can I shop there?” Put simply: Anyone is welcome to peruse the merchandise online, but actual shopping is restricted to agency employees, a shortlist of vetted visitors and, once a year, employee family members.

Back story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/meet-the-m...
Jeff Bezos says big tech employee activists are wrong
I've always thought that being able to model the physical world at multiple levels of abstraction was pretty essential for trying to interact with it in a less brittle way.

Moreover, having models of things that are interesting and relevant to humans seems pretty important for any system that interacts with humans.

And it always seemed reasonable that any system that aims to use natural language should be able to represent the meaning of the sentences it uses in a clear and understandable format.

Also "organizing the world's information" should make it usable in an automated fashion based on semantic models.
“Permanantly”...

What is the name of that law which says people correcting misspellings on the internet are doomed to make typos in their own comments...?

(But I concur that the copy needs reviewing.)
> Obviously a big issue would be "death confirmation" as is how do we know X person is actually dead so we can pay out to the "winner"?

Put people on the blockchain, obviously.
No it is filled with people who think that the mathematician should do something more useful with their time, like make targeted ad algorithms, or something.
> > [T]he problem is that now, somewhat suddenly, perfect knowledge of the perfect glove, for you specifically, exists, if you simply do enough research.

> When you're shopping in a physical store, you have no expectation that you're going to find the absolute, one-and-only perfect glove

Tinder for gloves problem sort of? The misleading impression of infinite possibilities on the Internet. In real life you optimize for local maximum only
That's why, among other things, Facebook made "a tool so you can search for and view all current housing ads in the US targeted to different places across the country, regardless of whether the ads are shown to you." https://about.fb.com/news/2019/03/protecting-against-discrim... So advertisers can target you, but they can't keep you from seeing an ad if you go looking for it.
What an amazing, jarring read.
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Google Maps 101: how imagery powers our map
Shared secrets are a really dumb way to handle authentication.

Set up a CA and sign the public keys for machines you provision to employees. All the tools are there, most software supports it (not the iPhone of course, although I’m sure there’s a hackish workaround that involves periodically sending apple money to sign something.)
My favorite game to watch speedruns of is a game called Antichamber. It's a great first person puzzle game. But it has funky rules, is non-linear and is pretty flexible. It gradually exposes you to the mechanics and gradually teaches you. I finished the game and watched a speed-run and was blown away. It mostly made sense what was done, but it was all combined in unexpected ways.
You might enjoy speedrunning, especially older games like those for the Nintendo 64 or the original Playstation.

In addition, there's the Super Mario 64 0x A Button challenge, an effort to beat the game while avoiding the use of its main mechanic. It's not a speedrun, but the themes of exploiting every glitch possible is the same. It's also the source of the infamous "0.5x A Presses" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
At this point most home networks should already be dual stack v4/v6, and most up-to-date consumer operating systems are already doing "Happy Eyeballs" by default, doing DNS requests for both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time and trying to use whichever returns fastest (and somewhat favoring IPv6).
>After a few minutes, Monteiro succeeded in hacking into the site with stolen administrator codes and installing an automated script that scraped the entire site every three hours and dumped the data on his server.

Ugh, fuck off. I think the big question here, the one that should be at the top of the article, is "Has a hit ever been purchased and carried out via darkweb sites", and the answer is "obviously not, lol".
The argument is that the blacklist is as much a SPOF as a session server would be. The blacklist kills the statelessness.
On a side note, I met the founder of Genius (then called RapGenius) at the first hackMIT. It's been 7 years but I still remember him insulting multiple people and being embarrassingly immature.
The problem that is going to affect most people most directly is not raising sea levels or being too hot outside, it's the disruption of just in time food production chains that have centralized in fewer and fewer places. Alaska might benefit by turning into a good production powerhouse in the long term, but in the meantime things aren't going to be pretty because very little change is needed for crops to be unviable in the locales they're currently grown.
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Hired_a_Contract_Killer
In my opinion, incorrect bias can happen only if either the input or process is bad. So, if you consider the output undesirable then there is a problem with input or process.

Ideally, ads would not be targeted at all in any way and micro targeting should be a crime (for privacy reasons as well). Short if that, you target people because of their proven individual preferences and tendencies as opposed to using their membership of any larger group of any kind as an input variable. Regardless of how much accuracy it enables, associative generalization is the core problem here, even without protected classes like race for example, I don't think it should be legal for any ad content to target me because I am a member of HN,now if by my explicit consent the ad system discovers I like specific topics which are also common on HN then they can use those individual level inputs WITHOUT associating it with my HN membership.

Essentially, the enemy here is formation of social bubbles as a result of explicitly clustering individuals into easily targtable micro groups. In other words, it is easier to sell ads that target specific micro groups but not so much for specific individuals.
You know, I never actually knew what it stood for.

It's the same dodge as the service contractors, but for programmers: You're technically an employee of a separate company that then contracts your labor back to Google. It's a big open secret loophole to pay less in taxes and in overall benefits.

E.g. you work in the same buildings, ride the same buses, and eat the same food, but enough of a "fire-wall" is maintained between you and the "real" Googlers to satisfy the government that you're not legally an employee of Google.

The project I worked on was so inefficient that I suspect that Google is simply big enough and rich enough to sequester talented programmers just to keep them from working for competitors.
thats like the plot of john wick, brilliant!
> Dramatic rewrites to a codebase

Otherwise known as re-architecting?
No, that stat doesn't count 65+ people: "Labour force participation rate is defined as the section of working population in the age group of 16-64"
This reminds me of when I was your age and bummed about not getting into a great school. Then, when I went to a state school, I learned: there's plenty of programs at less selective schools which do great work. For example, Santosh Nagarakatte at Rutgers, who has a PhD from Upenn and has had PhD students get bronze and gold awards at PLDI for a couple years, and he would be perfect to guide you in your PL Theory journey.

Your undegrad is less important than you think, it is like driving a Civic vs a Ferrari, one is more sexy and might get you there a bit faster, but both will get you there. Just do well in school, make relationships with professors, go to conferences, and keep learning!!! and consider this: there's more qualified people for these great schools than they can expect so that's why a lot of these public schools have an overflow of those smart people who go on to do great work and end up in the same position as the people who go to these selective schools. So, enjoy your undergrad, don't put other people down for "not knowing math", and re-calibrate. For your goals, grad school is what you really want to optimize for.
It's one reason I like sites like Wirecutter and related. It doesn't necessarily work for categories where I have very specific opinions about what I like and don't like. But if I want a trowel, a USB hub, or whatever utilitarian object, I'll probably just order one of their recommendations and be done with it--and it will probably be just fine.
Apache 2.0.
But there were plenty of rich men who volunteered to join the military. Women couldn't, regardless of whether they wanted to.

What you're saying is correct, it's just completely irrelevant.
Ask HN: API for Printers?
I'm trying to automate receiving shipping containers at our warehouse. Part of it requires printing ~3 documents so the warehouse team can inspect and label the products coming in.

I'd like to automate this process, so our non-technical warehouse staff doesn't have to mess around in our archaic ERP system just to get to the print documents.

Is there an API for printers (specifically Brother or Canon)? Or another way to trigger print jobs?
That's a cool concept. I'd love to try it.
I've just been checking the help page (https://www.facebook.com/help/2207256696182627) and waiting for the "The off-Facebook activity setting isn't currently available to you right now." thing to go away
This isn't a technical answer, or me saying that there are not better options, however with JWT's being one of the corner stones of Oauth and OIDC, it would be hard to argue that there are not successful implementations.
There's one popular misconception that everyone died young in Ye Olde Times of Yore. As you note, Michelangelo and some other historic persons with documented lives refute this misconception.

It's also incorrect to attribute shorter historical life expectancy only to infant mortality. That's why I replied to the post by mullingitover. In 1900 Americans had barely even odds of living to age 60 once they had already survived to age 18. Again referencing the Social Security data I originally linked, life expectancy at age 18 increased by 17.3 years (60.3 to 77.6 years), or 29%, over the course of the 20th century.

The maximum life spans documented among the very oldest people are also interesting, and show much smaller gains, but are separate from questions of average life expectancy among infants, children, or young adults.
Not clear.

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Just click on the big photograph and you'll be directed to the place where you can shut down conversation.

Idiot. If you're curious then you should read and think.
I just change the number at the end. I’m currently at number 8
True, though given its relatively easy to support you could get some savings in the few cases that do use it.

Also if they own some/all of the SDK's that are used for hitting their API they could bake in brotli compression at that level.
I'm still in the process to find the perfect one. So far I use Trello lists for my bookmarks but it lack of search and tags and various other stuff.
I have boards with over 5000 links, my github has over 3000 stars, it is hard to maintain and reuse the knowledge or find stuff you know you are going to look for in the future.

So I am on the works on creating my own, A Trello style boards but more suited to links and knowledge search. Far from complete but it is a start.

https://pindicate.herokuapp.com/

If you wish to view a demo account: demo@test.com:123456789

Bear in mind it is hosted on heroku free plan. Let me know if anyone find this interesting I will further invest more time in it.
It was essentially another password. It was a fixed length secret key, Something You Know (well, realistically Something You Write Down hopefully not on a Post It note stuck to your screen although that's better than nothing)

The Blog poster has forgotten or confused themselves into believing login.gov wants them to replace their Google Authenticator style sign-in, but it does not, it wants TWO methods of logging in, and Google Authenticator is only one.

Why does it want TWO?

Because two is one and one is none. Any particular method is always a single failure from being unavailable. You lose the phone, you forget the code, or whatever.

If you have two or more FIDO tokens, it will accept both methods being FIDO tokens, this is the safest option (the government ID might perhaps be as safe or safer but obviously isn't available to lay people so I have no idea)

Google Authenticator and the 10 random codes are next safest and zero cost. You will need to keep them safe, and hope login.gov keeps them safe too, and they're vulnerable to being phished, but otherwise they are pretty good.

SMS is a poor final option. But it is very convenient while also being essentially free so you can see why it had to at least be an option for now.