skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn’t posted by the creator.

GitHub of the link submitter: https://github.com/dsego

Twitter of the Chime dev: https://twitter.com/mattie
For future reference, the smart person creates a second login on their machine with no notifications allowed and with nothing logged in for presenting.
Presumably this wouldn't cover screensharing from an app like Slack or Zoom?
One wonders what the monetary value of that disenfranchisement has been over the years. Will we ever broach that issue?
Cash-based businesses tend to be under higher scrutiny for money laundering. For example, a laundry mat may also have its water bills audited etc. to make sure their costs correspond with their income.

Laundering money at scale is actually a pretty big nuisance, unless you have and evil bank like HSBC to assist you [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Money_laundering_(2003,_2...
The scratchpad, too
I bet a lot would change if the largest funding institutions publicly prioritized funding scientists who have a history of publishing reproducible work.
First, Art and collectibles are also given preferential tax treatment and have no kinds of double taxation.

Anyway, unrealized capital gains are untaxed as they compound, which might be ok except inheritance and gifts under 10m for couples are also untaxed creating a giant loophole allowing for very low lifetime tax rates.

It’s the same issues as companies keeping giant piles of cash offshore rather than issuing dividends. Tax loopholes create economic issues which a low AMT actually helps smooth out without creating excessive burdens. Another solution is to tax all capital gains and have an investment tax break of some kind, which allows earned income to be invested without excessive taxation relative to capital gains.

PS: Couples being assumed as people have 2 parents.
If you check his remarks from Spec-ulation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk), he also thinks just plain old libraries should not remove or change functionality, but only accrete. If you want to make a breaking change, you should change the name of the library. You can see this philosophy in practice with clojure.spec.alpha-2: https://github.com/clojure/spec-alpha2
An illusion. Genera let you inspect just about down to hardware. Emacs is a veneer over what ever the underlying operating system is.
> It was really disappointing to find that nobody developing the developer tools really consider user experience or nativeness

I understand the perspective around several editors that look alien and feel less native and don't use the Cocoa UI for its GUI. TextMate, CodeRunner and Coda-like apps which are still around are probably the great examples for great macOS apps for developers. UI consistency matters but matters less to a 'developer' as they usually have access to powerful machines and the Electron-cost wouldn't hit them that much and just want to get the work done. But for normal users, both consistency and user experience matter, which you have highlighted in your flutter arguments, but depending on the platform flutter targets, it varies.

Mac and Windows provide a consistent UX which is why it is straightforward for developers to look at one native GUI toolkit to write apps like Chime that look native on their platforms. I find it hard to see why Linux also could not have some native apps on their platform too. Perhaps its the multiple choices of alternative GUI stacks or the lack of a consistent desktop environment which makes it difficult for users to expect a predictable experience with their apps. I don't know.

I'd rather have more native apps altogether cross-platform or not and less of Electron-based apps on my MacBook. Or even better: An open-source OS that has a consistent GUI and SDK that benefits users and developers.
Depends on country in Anglo Saxon law (UK USA) its the norm.

And many European countries eg Germany just have it as part of the general labor law - so you wouldn't see it in a "contract"
That war was fought by slackers and procrastinators much worse than OP.

"- Men, we need to take that castle!

- Oh come on! It's already August, no way we can take it before fall! The roads will be muddy! Let's try next year!! Or next decade!!!"
What does YouTube have that you can't find elsewhere on the web?
same name as an Amazon communicator: https://aws.amazon.com/chime/
Some people enjoy reading such conversations. You may simply not be one of them; that's fine.
Is there a websearch benchmark which actually shows objectively how good all these alternative search engines such as DDG are?

How do we know which one is better, and how much worse we are off by using alternatives?
Wait, you can get around IP bans (Google certainly has a CAPTCHA on anyone trying to access Search from a Tor exit node IP address) by using a different client? Like, the check is client-side? That seems odd.
And I'm sure that when we were living through our own youth subcultures, all the people who remembered greasers and beatniks thought the same way.
Ah, yes. Wishful thinking.
Well, that's assuming that the anti-feature of device attestation doesn't end up being used in the inevitable way that the spec allows:

"But attestation is not spoofable. Therefore, if sites launch webauthn support and accept attestations from the current set of token vendors, future vendors may be locked out of the market: Their devices won’t work because their attestations aren’t trusted, and they won’t be able to get sites to update because they won’t have enough market presence to matter."

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/27/webauthn.html
Can you give some examples?
I feel like that's not the case: eBay, AirBnB, etc are some of the iconic marketplaces and create massive income opportunities to people who didn't this option before the platform existed.
Interesting -- the market aspect is crucial. My only other qualm, which may or may not be better than necessary side effects of capitalism: if someone has "owned" a house for a long time, especially in a growing area, what is their Land Value Tax? Have they not profited through intelligent or lucky speculation by not having an auction since decades back when the price was much lower, and are they not incentivized to hold onto it even if it should be redeveloped? On the other side, will the feds kick people out with eminent domain for the above reasoning?

I came up with a scenario about why I thought this would hinder property improvement, but I think I solved it within the Georgian system:

Let's say Alice buys a piece of property zoned for 10 story buildings at 2mm/year LVT. She invests 30M and 3 years of construction into building a 10 story building that can generate 4mm/year in rent. It will pay itself off in 21 years plus start generating profit. Alice has specialized in being a great property develop but not a property manager. However, she is now TIED to this property -- if she lets it go up for auction, she loses the profits from her improvements. Sure, she can contract out property managers and eat into the profit, but this just increases the time until she can afford to build the next building.

In a capitalist system, Alice can sell the building upon successful completion and immediately profit to the exact degree the market thinks she improved the land's value. That capital can immediately go into the next project and allow better specialization of human resources.

However, I now suppose that the party who "bought" the land from the feds doesn't have to be the specialist who gets contracted to develop it. She can still be paid 30M upon completion and go straight into the next project with a different owner, without ever dealing with an auction.

I potentially like this system a lot, as long as it allows wealth and non-land property rights, and market pricing, but I do need to think about it more. Thanks for helping to explain.
In Georgist terms 'land' means any non-renewable natural opportunity such as thr actual land, magnetic spectrum (wifi, 5g)… deposit of oil or iron ore or even ancient sites built by previous civilizations that nobody can claim inheritance to nowadays.

Labor is in theory infinitely expandable. Capital is infinitely expandable. Land (and natural opportunities) is fixed in supply, so according to Georgists there is no moral argument for favoring somebody for its monopolization. It should be community owned and rights of use to it should be given out to people, priced by a market mechanism.

Labor and capital don't suffer from fixed supply or renewability so according to Georgists there is no need to prevent it from expanding, eg. by slapping taxes on it.

Georgist movement is also known as single-tax or zero-tax movement, because they advocate that there should be no taxes on labor, consumption or capital. The only tax implemented should be the natural monopoly tax (land value tax). They say it would be enough to finace government from it because there are crazy trillions of dollars parked in real estate. Real estate price is actually land value price (location, location, lovation), so only land tax would suffice and there is no need for property taxation, which is actually product of someone's labor.

Some Georgists say that Land Value Tax is not even a tax but a payment for exclusive rights of use. You pay for the service the government gives you directly, therefore it's not a tax. In this way they argue you can run a society with exactly ZERO taxes and paradoxically raise even more money than current tax system.
I'd stay as long as you can. Put as much money away, in the stock market. You can become financially independent in just a few years.
>I would hope we are in a stage like in the late XIX century, where everything seemed to be known in physics, with some tiny things still needing an explanation

I don't see how that's possible given current uncertainties. We still haven't figured out how to relate quantum mechanics and relativity, haven't fully uncovered the deep structure of matter, and are still debating over strings vs membranes and whatnot. It seems more likely we're still missing something something foundational.
> life really is unfair and success in life is more linked to the lottery of birth and opportunities available to you

No offense but, you're just now realizing this?

That's literally life in a nutshell. Random chance. You of course have to rise to the opportunity, but that's often not difficult at all. It's getting the opportunity that is hard, but almost entirely a matter of dice roll. Accept it, and do your best in life.
> there is no easy way to export all your [Google Photos]

If you're in the EU, I'd love to see them try and hold your data hostage as of May 2018. Was this before that time / outside of the EU?
Netflix doesn’t sell hardware.
Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations
Wind apparently produces more at night. I guess it makes sense given thermal cycling. Sun goes down and locally cools producing a temperature differential which makes wind more night-biased and a good solar complement.

Which suggests favoring the time based on whatever the "grid-time-bias" has cheaper.
Follow conversation on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/ekdbiy/chime_a_go_e...

The creator of this editor contributed some comments to this post.
> one of the leading people in your industry

You may not recognize it, but this is a statistical distribution argument. :) It is assuming that there is a steep gradient between Google and "outside-of-google".

It is hard to prove that this is true regardless of the intentions of the statement or what was left unsaid.
Having just today finished Cixin Liu's 'Death's End', I rescind my 'distinctly more uncompromising' comment.
Is that because the music is cool and varied enough that it's now fun to just dance alone, but it wouldn't have been fun with older music?

Or because, with 1000 kinds of music today, nobody can figure out how to dance together to a given song?

Or did people dance alone all the time in the old days, but nobody recorded it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic#United_States

Failure is the right word for indirect democracy, which is also known as representative democracy.

Every terrible President in the past fifty years hasn't been elected by popular vote, representative democracies enable gerrymandering, and direct democracy has been shown repeatedly to have none of these problems. See: Switzerland.
While I certainly don't think all things in the digital space map perfectly to things in the analog space, there's literally centuries of precedence for descendants of someone who's deceased to make decisions about publicly releasing their journals, correspondence, unfinished manuscripts, and so on. Most of Emily Dickinson's poems were published after her death by her sister; author John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer-prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces was discovered and submitted for publication by his mother after he committed suicide; Franz Kafka's The Trial was only published because Kafka's executor defied his dying wish to burn his unpublished works.

tl;dr: I don't think the ethical questions here are affected by whether the deceased's writing takes the form of ink on paper or bits on digital storage.
I didn't read the whole thing, but the first few paragraphs make it sound almost exactly like SQRL (ie. no secrets to keep).
> but also believe that being unable to reproduce a result can often be explained by their lack of sufficient information (or resources) to reproduce said results, rather than always assuming the other person must be lying (or just pretty darn lucky).

Most certainly, when you go to replicate something, and fail, your first assumption is that you did something wrong. Even the second or third time. But after enough tries, you start to look for another explanation. "Irreproducibility", as Nature and the common scientist would use the term, doesn't mean "I tried once and failed", it means "I tried everything I could possibly think of and it still doesn't work".

Also, for many types of experiment it is questionable whether they are reproducible even in principle. One of the common analyses I do is called RNA-seq. It quantifies, for each of ~25K genes, whether and how much it went up or down with a given perturbation.

So the result of such an experiment is a 25K long list with numbers attached to each gene. What would it mean to replicate such a result? Surely the list of significant genes and pathways will not be identical even if a robot were to perform exactly the same experiment, due to biological variability.

Some people find this property of nonfalsifiability to be convenient, however...
Regrettably one worrying trend I'm seeing is people hearing that Google and Facebook do despicable things, and switching to an alternative like Wechat, which is arguably infinitely worse.

Perhaps when discussing Google or Facebook, we should put that in context and mention that they are some of the world's most transparent major tech companies.
2 books per month, really?

What does your schedule looks like? I have a large catalog of books which Id love to go over, but it can be very hard for me to find the time to simply sit and read beyond sitting on a plane or a bus
Yes, if a service says "we only support Yubikeys for login", you should boycott them.
To add to this, at least for myself, there's a certain existential dread that came with being in a similar position.

When you don't have resources, you do have excuses. Oh, I can't do X, Y, and Z because I don't have the time or money or this or that.

Once you have enough money, there's a certain point where you run out of excuses. It's a little uncomfortable. But it's literally the best first world problem you can ask for.
Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors
Nothing happens in journalism much like in science and in many other fields like disgraced police officers who end up climbing the ladder still.

Case in point: Michael Riley who wrote Bloomberg's thoroughly debunked story on SuperMicro "The Big Hack", has now been promoted to manage all of the their cybersecurity coverage.
Worth mentioning that scientific research, even if difficult to reproduce, is still better than, say, superstitious crap. Looking at you, chem trail antivax climate deniers.
As someone who has glimpses into their own sociopathetic tendencies.. its less exhausting understanding that humans are really just slightly less dumb primates.

That said I'm very low on that totem pole, and am easily pulled back into human behaviors with e.g. a surprise bonus. I have worked with sociopaths who have fully embraced themselves and it's nothing short of amazing how they can bend time and space around them to make people insanely productive
Oh, damn, I forgot to vote in them!

No wonder the world has gone to hell!
Heartbroken to see "I Am A Cat" on there. Granted, it's probably too fanciful for many (and a lot gets lost in translation) but Soseki is one author I'd like to see get more attention in the West.
HCaptcha – Earn Money with a Captcha
Grandpa buys school bus to take his 10 grandchildren to school
Thank you for the reply. I'll consider this.
Why trust a monopolist that makes its money using tracking when you can use the alternatives from the list?
I don't know if it's how Georgian works, but this shouldn't mystify you in principle: municipalities do it all the time for property taxes: set a budget for the year (mostly going to schools), then determine every plot's relative value to all of the other plots. Divide up the budget along these percentages.
16-Pixel RGB TextScroller WiFi-Controlled over Webserver
As a chemistry PhD, this sure looks a lot like the reproducibility is directly proportional to the complexity of the underlying phenomena being studied.
what is the email?
Their position seems pretty straightforward; other people should have to pay them money, but they shouldn't have to pay other people money. They have this same position on pretty much everything else too.
And MOP never heard that one in the UK
The universe is sufficiently close to infinite that I think we can probably say that land is infinitely expandable too
16-pixel RGB TextScroller (YouTube video)
Until university positions and research grants stop being given out based on prior research _results_ (which is what journals tend to look for), we won't be able to trust the research performed there.

There are millions of dollars on the line for researchers involved. It is the difference between a well paid career and a life of destitution while being a slave to huge student debt.

Professorship and research grants should be given out based on criteria that are only incidental to research results.

Evaluate profs and grants based on:

1. Domain knowledge (test the applicants)
2. Math skills (test the applicants, makes sure they know about how to avoid p-hacking, preregistration etc.)
3. Motivation and leadership.
4. Prior and current research _proposals_ (but without looking at the results or whether they have been published).
5. Other skills such as communication, interpersonal skills, outstanding achievements etc.

Universities should not rely on journals to evaluate their professors. This corrupts the whole system. Journals have different goals. They want to publish well done research with interesting results. Universities should hire researchers that do good quality research with interesting _questions_ regardless of the results.

If universities keep giving out jobs based on having generated interesting publishable results, they are going to keep getting researchers that ignore biases and and ignore bad science practices in order to generate publishable (but unreliable and often false) results.
It's true that science doesn't value every published paper equally, but it's also true that publish or perish is creating ever-growing mountains of worthless papers. This is a real problem, and drags the quality of everything down.

Besides, the fact that there isn't one reputable journal in most fields that remains untarnished by the replication crisis is both a practical problem and a problem of public trust. A lot of this BS science is paid for directly by the public's tax dollars, or else by their student loans. I wouldn't expect the public to be so forgiving if 95% of it is bunk.
If modern politics is any guide, the takeaway is that you are able to run for office no matter what happened in your personal life. Your family, I can understand not putting them through that, but there's no reason why you should be ashamed of anything you've done.
Yandex might be a niche choice, if your main worry is "5/9 Eyes". Free, even to bring your own domain.
actually, in some places resources are public goods and are auctioned off regardless of land ownership. eg:
https://www.bcplacer.com/basic_rules.htm

yeah, basically you can go prospecting on anyone's private land (some caveats)
reversal and cure should be synonymous. to reverse something, would mean that you go to a state where you can do whatever and it not affect you. The correct term is treat it with diet, its still a condition you have.

When I was diagnosed with t1d at the age of 24, I can't count on 1 hand how many people told me that I can "reverse" it by (going low carb/eating gluten free/eating cinnamon). I know we are talking about type 2 diabetes in this case, but
Yes. Same flow/process. The difference is, the service provider vets the packages. Certainly, given the risks, there's a market at the enterprise level. Sec for them is real.
Yes, it isn't great... many top 'reviews' appear to be a platform for social justice posturing or indulgent navel gazing by the reviewer. Rather than you know, saying anything useful about the book.
Depends on the definition of "serious" you want to use. The V developer might have thought he was serious, but the most superficial critique of his claims showed he wasn't realistic. So being charitable, V is something between a amateurs pipe-dream and a joke.

Similarly...not seeing so much shilling for Mill these days. Anyone using that oft promised 'simulator' yet?
To some extent they are doing this by embracing Kubernetes. For us, almost all of our infrastructure other than databases is running directly on GKE, so moving to AWS or Azure would be fairly easy.
Regardless of what their understanding of Big O is, Google still needs a lot people to do CRUD work or make another mobile app, like any other company.

The issue seems to be hiring the highly educated and entitled to do boring but necessary work. GSUs can only motivate people so much.
Well, they can unless it's securely encrypted.
The Oldest Copy of the First Illustrated Book Has Been Discovered in Egypt
Raw possession does not always equal the legal right to dispose of something. To an extent this could be treated as a very limited scope data breach depending upon who your attorney is in the matter. Litigation outcomes should be interesting since the firm the strategist worked for is suing to regain legal custody of the materials.
Hello World with LoRaWAN, The Things Network and Arduino
You can use it in production for users who have hardware tokens (and it is used in production by many sites for 2FA). But if you mean you can't _exclusively_ use it in production, then yes that is probably true since not all users will have authenticators (yet).
> but leaves you the maximum amount of (mental|emotional|psychological|spiritual|whatever) energy

That's probably not the case. It looks counterintuitive but being bored and feeling unmotivated at work can leave you at the end of the day with much less energy than an very intensive but interesting work.

Your 2nd paragraph makes sense for a person like you, but I'd guess that the OP is one of those different people, for who self-satisfaction at work is a key thing.