skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We probably disagree on definitions, because the term risk can sometimes refer to the expected damage and sometimes to the variance of the damage. So I will try to express myself more clearly:

Let's say you have a house worth $100,000 and statistically it burns down once in 1000 years. This means that the expected damage is $100 per year, but the variance is very high because once the house burns down, the damage is 1000 times greater than the expected damage. With insurance, however, the variance is zero because you pay the same amount every year, whether your house burns down that year or not.

I would argue that with a perfect insurance you would only pay the expected loss, i.e. $100 per year, and not more or less, because ideally the insurance has accurately assessed the expected loss and diversified the variance away.
However, with less ideal risk assessment, you could pay more or less because other houses burn more or less often.
Yep, if someone actually hits on one of those high profit bids, it gets scheduled first, and a low profit job gets pushed.

When you have no jobs, you'll take almost break even to prevent employee loss.
As far as I can see, the GP is describing event sourcing. In a way that people can easily understand why it's important.
There's actually no need to really change the password. The check for used passwords has its limits, so after going through [password]1 to, let's say, [password]20, it lets you use [password]1 again. A script (for loop with smbpasswd, for example) can do this in a few seconds.
I won’t even use a corded lawn mower. I highly doubt I’d put up with dragging a wire behind a combine through a 400 acre field.
Two of my primary languages are Thai and Japanese and I use DDG as my primary search engine. DDG results for non-English language are not as good as Google, but I found it to be only a _minor_ inconvenient.

They've been rapidly improving, and I found myself append !gj to the query less and less over the past few years. While I might not be able to find what I was looking for within the first few results, usually clicking to the second page get me what I wanted.
A proxy load balance server allows to use proxy pool more effectively
Thanks for posting that, I had never seen the Cybertruck move. That looks terrible in motion. It moves like a toy and not in a good way. Something funky about the way the wheels fit in the wheel wells and the way it all goes together.
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For 60 minutes of hot yoga, the effort and challenge is occasionally so intense and nearly overwhelming, that it reminds me of the power of doing hard things. I often think if I just did 2-3 super hard things a day with this intensity, then I could master various skills, knowledge and perhaps life itself.

Although it’s harder to study and learn a programming language, even just for 2-3 hours a week, than it is to do something physically intense with group pressure. I think mostly the ease of studying and practicing is what limits me. Going to yoga is the hardest part, once there it’s relatively straightforward to complete it.

If I setup a system to intensely learn with limited technical friction (ie frustration of a slow environment with a clear path to what to learn), then I could overcome this. Of course, ultimately it just comes down to my choice.
I'm running Pentadactyl in Waterfox[0], which is a fork of the last good Firefox incorporating security updates from new Firefox. I can't vouch for how secure this really is in practice--perhaps the whole plan is a fool's errand--but it certainly works fine.

[0] https://www.waterfox.net/
Nowadays my searches always consist of "reddit + search" to get actual user reviews or comments
> If you share out a personal folder as your team folder, IT can’t find your folder to share it to new members of your team. The person who owns the folder has to share it out.

> It was confusing because if someone were sharing something and I was the admin of that account, I should have access to all files and accounts. Nope.

In both cases, you should be able to assume the shared folder owner (via the admin console) and modify their permissions. Did this not work for you?

(note: I'm an ex-Dropbox eng that worked on a lot of the sharing/team management systems)
And what happens when Google decides that it doesn’t much fancy providing a Mapping service for free at huge cost that it has no way of monetizing?

I’m guessing that’s the point at which we pivot back into ‘Oh noes, Google closes every unprofitable service’

Google providing these services is contingent on them being linked together, both for Google and for the user.
And people downvote you, which is silly. What, exactly, does google have a monopoly on? People use their products because they are good, not because they have to. Anybody could cone along with better mail, maps, or search and people would have little trouble switching (okay mail might be tricky).
BMW shares AI tools used in production
If users don't punish search engines that inundate them with ads even though good alternatives are readily available, then no breakup of any kind will make a difference.

(Again, I'm not talking about other issues with Google's market dominance such as those related to AdWords from the perspective of ad buyers or Android licensing conditions)
The rules around streaming are much tighter than the rules around purchases.

For purchasing films, stuff like iTunes & Google Movies are still pretty good bets, they do have quite a lot.

Streaming often falls under public performance and a few other more restrictive contracts, making it harder.

As to why a mass-streaming service like Netflix doesn't offer both, usually, then it's simple - you want people to continue paying. The business model depends on people not signing up, downloading, and then cancelling.

In my experience a surprising number of people are willing to do that. (Doesn't stop me offering it, however.)

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As for DRM with videos... Hollywood truly, truly despises the idea of DRM-free. I've looked at few contracts for film collections recently, and every contract I saw _required_ the use of DRM. It wasn't a negotiable point.

Which is mostly theatre. Bypassing DRM does not take significant effort. It can never truly prevent theft (ignoring any definition of theft), and is massively anti-consumer in the way it breaks. It hurts real customers and doesn't hurt pirates.

All the same, it's a hard rule with most national film associations.
Thus very expensive to keep running.
Because: people love to take the Faustian deal.
Thanks, it's a Vue app built using NuxtJS.

See i thought that too until I faced a visa related problem when I was trying to visit Philippine. Long story short I ended up cancelling my tickers as I didn't get the visa in time which I thought i didn't needed in the first place. So I decided to solve the information inconsistency, contradicting and confusing information out there.
It's ok to be critical of how Australia is handling people trying to cross into their country without going through the proper process. I don't think it's ok, at all, to call these detention centers "concentration camps" given what's currently going on in the world and what has happened in the past. It's simply not ok. That you live next to Mauthausen and you still think it's ok is baffling to me.

I've gone to places like the Holocaust Museum in the United States and witnessed the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis, people being executed, starved to death, gassed, forced into slavery (many of which currently going on with China's new Holocaust of Muslims) and I simply don't see those same activities being systematically conducted by the Australian (or any western) government. It's just not even remotely the same and I don't know how you can justify coming to that conclusion.

Even if you thought that these governments were doing much worse than what may be in view of the public, I'm bewildered as to why you would think that intentionally equating concentration camps (Nazis and Chinese) with detention centers is in any way helpful. Do you think when the Nazis rounded up Jews they gave them medical care and food and water?

Maybe you should revisit Mauthausen and get a more proper perspective. To me it seems that your work has clouded your judgement.
> So in the above case, the next step would perhaps be to look at the actual genes involved.

And the next step after finding a correlation with race is also to figure out why it holds.

> Then please provide examples of two organisms that have very little in common genetically but are considered the same species.

That's irrelevant. The point is you are assigning meaning to genetic similarity, just like people concerned with studying race are assigning meaning to racial classifications (wherever they come from). You are prioritizing one set of properties over another and simply declaring that these are more important, or "real", or "natural" when this simply isn't the case.

If species were truly a natural kind there would be no exceptions like the one I pointed out. If we're not studying a natural kind, then any distinctions we wish to make are arbitrary. Like I said, they may be more useful, or precise, but they're still arbitrary.

> Please give examples of species that were categorized due to politics or ideology and where it gets the underlying biology wrong.

So you're claiming, "an example of this specific political influence doesn't exist in the sciences, therefore political influence doesn't exist in the sciences". Is that your argument?

> Why would you group people using far less accuracy when you want to study heritibility of traits? That doesn't make any sense.

And yet, plenty of correlations have been found. Making sense of these is exactly why racial studies should be allowed. Finding surprising associations and figuring out why they exist is exactly what science is supposed to do.
They want a minimum 7-character login, and first & last name-- then it seems you can't just type your desired actual address's name@mailfence.com, instead you have to select from a short list of varied combinations of login, first, last. I just changed my first name to the short name I wanted and went back to that list, and as expected, it appeared as an option. I picked it, I restored my real name, everything is OK AFAICT. Still, I wish vivaldi.net and mail.com would get on the 2FA train... especially the former.
Indexing is easy. It’s a solved computer science problem that you just need to throw hardware at. Ranking and relevant searching is the hard part and is partly influenced by adding usage data of millions of people.
Open Sourcery is a very good Twine game with significant player agency.

> BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.

The essential gameplay centers around a loop where you choose places to scan. You have a variety of choices to make for each threat, from annihilating them to passing off the issue to your creators to making friends with the viruses that attack the systems you were tasked with defending. (You do make choices by clicking)

The choices you make affect your options in the final fight, which even triggers actions based on a real-time countdown clock and not just clicks (by default, you can toggle in settings).

It gave me a hilarious and enjoyable few hours of gameplay. You can play the initial bit online, and the preview is representative of the whole game's appeal.

http://abigailcorfman.com/OpenSorcery.html

$4 on steam, with an extra $4 Christmas-themed DLC recently released.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/585180/Open_Sorcery/

Note: BEL/S does not appear in-game or out-of-game to be open source, in case that's going to piss someone off. I still found the pun cute.
I'd just like to add, since nobody else has mentioned -- Hestra. They make extremely high quality gloves that will last you well over a decade.

If you spend time "optimizing" your life according to the Diderot Effect, you'll find these brands that are sitting at the top of their industry, quietly producing excellent products used by people who know exactly what they want.

It can be a dangerous thing to start only using the "best products", but once you start knocking off the low hanging fruit, you can make a noticeable difference in the quality of your life by having products that excel at their job.
I found the title easy to read, but then, I am familiar with non-technological uses of the word “cache,” what “crypto-Jewish” is, and how that directly ties into the inquisition.

This is less a bad headline and more a mismatch between the audience’s knowledge level of Jewish history and the editor’s expectations.

Then again, an Israeli readership’s average level of Jewish history knowledge is likely not the same as HN’s level of knowledge.
Regular running or swimming would produce better effects.

Yoga is nothing but a regular routine of improving circulation. Same amount of running or swimming will do better.
Who's claiming that A is inherently more valuable than B?
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That's a funny argument however as I don't watch streams. Aculite and Jackfrags are some of my favourite creators but I just want a tight 10-20minute video of good content. I'm not going to watch someone have half a conversation with someone else for 2 hours. If they decide to stop producing those and only stream I will no longer find their content. So arguably people remixing streams are adding 90% of that value to me that wouldn't be there before.
This article is anthropomorphising a company. The journalist has no way of knowing if everyone at Skip was a nice guy.

I had to complain to the city twice about a Skip distributor’s aggressive strategy of tying their scooters in the early morning to every available bike hoop (and even trash cans) around the Twitter building.

The city has rules about how many scooters can be tied to a public bike hoop and at least one person at Skip was not nice and was ignoring that rule.
> Do you like paying for your search engine, Gmail, maps, and more?

These services could still all be free because they could sell their ad space to AdWords. What it would mean though is that other email / maps / video services would be able to compete, as would other ad networks.
I agree with you. The fact that Google serves ads for search results is not the problem, the real issue is their indifference to user privacy. They would have to sell ads to keep lights running. But they can do away with privacy transgressions.
I've been all in on secure email, and friends the last week or so since buying yet another domain. It's really a painful world. The tradeoff continues to be that Google and Microsoft both provide a tonne of value (and security) for $5/month/user. At the same time the obvious tradeoff on privacy and anonymity is made :(.

The secure email services provide far less product-based value, though clearly the security and lack of ad tracking is there.

Ultimately the market will declare - but currently people overwhelmingly choose brand (Google) and feature-based value, whilst giving up their privacy. It's quite frustrating.
How can I profit by helping to reduce poverty in Africa?
I am from Angola, and I would like to build a company that solves the problems in Angola by reducing poverty, unemployment and improving life conditions of the people, without relying that much on the government.

Angola just changed presidents in 2017, after having the same president for 38 straight years. The new president shows willingness to help improve the country's condition, however, he has a military background and most of what he's done is to fire ministers who do not show work, which is a good thing. However, he seems to lack ideas on how to improve the country, which is understandable given his background.

Now, I plan on opening a company that helps to reduce poverty, and accelerate social and economical development in the country, since the president has shown that he wants to help the country but does not know how.

My company would consist in researching and finding the problems the country faces, this would include famine, unemployment, high rates of imports, education, etc. And then open companies that solve these problems, thus, generating jobs and improving life conditions at the same time.

The problem is that I can't find a suitable business model that would help generate profits enough to continue to run the company. For instance, how would a company that helps to clean the streets make profits, or an hospital that cure diseases from the poor profit? Any help would be appreciated…

Thanks!
It's not because you do not understand something and its reasons to exist (though I hinted at them in previous comments) that it is 'crummy'...
The Science of Bread Aroma and Taste
Have you ever tried to convince someone of taking even moderate climate-related action? I happen to think leaders may actually be a bit too far ahead of the population they represent when it comes to climate change.
Show HN: HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal
Then other services begin to become competitive again because they’re not up against a surveillance juggernaut market dumping with subsidized products to hoover up more data. That’s exactly the purpose of anti-monopoly regulation.

Honestly, the turn away from making money from the service itself vs using it as a front for some other, more abstract ploy is where tech has gone wrong in the past couple decades.
This is a console application that I wrote for browsing HN in a terminal. It has an ncurses UI and uses libcurl to query the HN API [0]. Currently works on Linux and Mac. I also ported it to web with Emscripten's Fetch API so it can be easily demonstrated [1].

[0] - https://github.com/HackerNews/API

[1] - https://hnterm.ggerganov.com
I made the switch a couple of days ago. Here is my experience so far:
- interface looks better than a few years ago. It is still gwt based though which is notably insecure (I got a NPE in a warning the other day).
- they do support multiple domains but with a limit on aliases which is quite low (10 for the base plan)
- plus addressing is nice but managing where each go (folder) is a pain.
- no subdomain addressing
- privacy feels better with servers not in the US
- my threath model doesnt include the NSA so I am fine having unencrypted emails if I can have IMAP instead of browser based.
- calendar is very well done and simple to use
- combined with Nine on android I replaced google calendar, contacts and gmail.

Overall I am happy with the switch.
“Keep doing what you’re doing until someone threatens you with physical force, PHYSICAL FORCE” - Unknown
> And what happens when Google decides that it doesn’t much fancy providing a Mapping service for free at huge cost that it has no way of monetizing?

They charge phone companies billions of dollars for the use of Maps. That's why Apple made their own version. It's not exactly a cash cow, but they're not providing it for free either.
I borrowed it from the library here in Denmark.
Carbon offsets are a scam, they do not prevent CO2 to be added to the current levels we have now.

It's just for capitalists to believe they can keep flying by planting trees.
Agreed. There’s a better way to have more competition: end artificial intellectual monopoly laws. To compete against Google you need a small moon of licensed information. If all public information was public domain, many people could build great competitors relatively quickly.
Use a trial period where you grant bail to everyone (non violent offences only). You could run many different algorithms and models, recording all of their predictions. Since you granted everyone bail, you have a clear picture for which predictors accurately denied bail to the skippers.
Thanks, @littlestymar. To me, Harari's take seems more neutral than "romanticized". I share his skepticism of those who claim concrete knowledge of aspects of pre-literate human culture at which, logically, one can only guess or imagine. This might counter your point about his relative expertise / authority for that time period.

That said, I'm no historian, just a layperson who found Harari's work (so far -- I haven't yet finished "Sapiens") thought-provoking and interesting. In the relevant early chapters his perspective is refreshingly different from the norm -- in some ways comparable (for me) to Zinn's "A People's History of the US", in that it provides a PoV sufficiently removed from the standard narrative to serve as a reminder of how shallow and incomplete any one-sided version of events must be. The GP's citing of Pinker likely belongs in this camp, too: referencing an author whose ideas have merit (eg Pinker's computational theory in "How the Mind Works"), independent of their ultimate status as authoritative works.
Wouldn't it be pretty obvious if he ever did any transactions with the bitcoin in question?
Excel has been the same for which ten years?
> This works for data too, not just map labels.

But only in a couple decades when the patent expires....

Can you recommend any publicly available papers describing methods which can be used in freely licensed software?
Does the book offer alternatives?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve8tYdNltGg
You haven't answered the central question, which is why you want a punishment outside of the deterrence effect.

And I've addressed the deterrence issue at length, just asserting that my model is wrong without explaining why won't cut it.
this is not meaningful work, because there is no "brain health" outcome in the papers they reviewed that is clinically relevant.

For example: "Increase in right hippocampal GM density among yoga group." Why is this a good thing? Let's not even talk about the physical inappropriateness of using "density" to discuss MRI results.

Using meaningless-but-easy measurements as a surrogate / proxy for meaningful-but-hard measurements is an entire field called "biomarkers". It's incredibly challenging in neurology, and we don't have many good, validated biomarkers. If you want to use "MRI density" (sic), or "fMRI activation", then first you need an entire study to prove that the biomarker is valid. This a subtle point, but it's as if you're counting lines of code to determine the best programming language: yes, it's a measure, but how does it relate, and what does it mean?

We all (including doctors) want things that are natural, wholistic, and give us a subjective sense of well-being (like exercise and mindfulness) to be magically effective. But that doesn't change the need for rigorous science in order to know that it's the case.

And the formula is always the same: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial within a representative population using a directly meaningful outcome.

This review failed the "meaningful outcome" part, even if (and I personally don't care to look further) they got the rest of pieces right.
I’m still amazed by the sheer amount of money there is in this. $30,000 a month for reuploaders? $100,000 in a day for ad deals?

Makes me wonder if I chose the wrong career.
Video lectures: http://videolectures.net/david_mackay/

Also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500221