skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But YouTube Kids will never play in my house again until I know that every piece of content on there has been reviewed by a human before it goes live.

I don’t have kids, but this seems a bit over the top. Children live in the world with the rest of us, and are exposed to things every day that haven’t been reviewed and approved as child safe. Angry drivers on the road may flip you off or yell at you while your kid is in the car, or someone at a stop light may be blaring music that you find to be offensive and not approved for consumption by children. Both of these things would objectively be scarier than a clown on a computer screen, yet kids see and hear these things every day and somehow most of them don’t grow up to be serial killers. Sure, try your best to shield them from harmful content, but completely shutting down something that is 98% clean, educational, child friendly content seems like throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Good luck replacing it without giving the car computer mental breakdown. I replaced my car's tire once and all the sensors went crazy until engine light came on. They are not making those car software forgiving.
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> I can't fix things.

This one sticks out to me from a job-market POV.

Plumbers are already on par with psychiatrists in terms of pay. Sure, the work is hard, but from a supply-demand POV, the markets are saying that they do work that is of equal value (all this varies highly, but stick with me here).

Most repair work takes a LOT of experience until the employee is anywhere near proficient. Farmers will tell you that they learned the repair side in very stressful situations and that there is always something that breaks in new, and more expensive, ways each and every time. Repairing even 'simple' machines like a tractor takes a lot of experience.

So, when you add in a computer that intentionally 'breaks' the machine, and then you have the regular machine that will break, and then you have all the linkages that make the computer control the machine (all of which can break), you are requiring that the repair-person be VERY skilled at troubleshooting and repair.

Then, you eliminate most of the ways that people learn to troubleshoot and repair these machines (via these computers), and you are left with even fewer people that will be able to fix the tractors. Think something more like a bio-tech/MRI company's field-service engineers. Those people get paid bank to get sent out to malfunctioning machines and they are trained out the wazoo.

From the tractor manufacturer's perspective, yes, making machines that work for the manufacturer and not the customer, is going to really work out well for this quarter's stock price. But down the road 7 years? I think this is a poison pill.
Ask HN: What (mundane) personal services do you outsource?
What personal services do you pay to outsource?

I’m finally approaching the financial stage of life where i can pay for time. There are a lot of things that take a lot of time - laundry, doing the dishes, organizing my kids piles and piles of toys, etc.

Putting aside the midwestern shame I have of not doing everything on my own, what mundane daily tasks do you pay someone else to do? What does it cost? What would you LIKE to outsource but fear the social repercussions if anyone found out?
I watched veggietales in school as a kid, but I don't remember much about other than vague recollections of a joseph and the many colored coat adaptation.

I'm just curious, what do you find not to be family friendly about the show?
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Hopefully some of the PoS coins can help with this, we’ll see.
The question is moot: it's precisely because we have evidence of things not currently explained (observation does not fit theory) that we must postulate that our theory is wrong, or that there is more to discover, or both.

"Dark energy" is a conventional term to describe some energy of unknown source that has the effect of accelerating space expansion with time. We call "dark energy" the thing that explains this observation, whatever that thing might be (we just assume it's some form of energy since it produces motion, acceleration, in a way seemingly opposed to, and stronger than gravity, but for all we knew it could be fluffy creatures from the 7th dimension, "energy" is just an educated guess).

If you remove the observational discrepancy, then you remove the need for "dark energy" to exist in the first place.

The article precisely suggests that:

- there was no such observational discrepancy, rather errors in calculations following observation

- reality is thus shown to conform to our current equations; it's our interpretation of the pretty pictures we took that was wrong all along; this is now corrected.

If true, it's the end of dark energy as a cause because the consequence is gone.

At no point (before or after it's proven or disproven) does "dark energy" imply a postulate on "what it actually is" — and chances are, when we explain previously unknown phenomena, the finders come up with a new theory and ad hoc terminology. Rarely the word sticks when it's just too good an intuition — e.g. the "atom".

Note that "dark matter" is exactly the same, it's a conventional term to denote some matter-like unknown object that has the effect of giving galaxies their characteristic shapes and interactions forming much larger patterns (structure about as big to individual galaxies as galaxies are to individual stars).
I set the look of Mac IE 5, possibly kickstarted Aqua
> No, that's simply unfair to the companies

Maybe that's true of Walmart and GM, but your random A/B round startup? I don't think it is unfair at all. They could offer legitimate equity of they choose not to. Sure, it would be still be a gamble but at least it would be French roulette and not the West Virginia lottery.
It might be cultural. I think it is. Being unsure or humble is not valued as much as it should be.
The irony I see is that people suddenly care about animals being killed for no purpose.

Regarding your #2, no, it is not a necessity to raise and slaughter animals. You can survive just fine on an entirely plant-based diet. It's detrimental to the world which is literally on fire right now. To add to this, there is no sustainable way we can raise them "more humanely" as the population increases and countries like China raise the demand exponentially. Factory farming exists for a reason.

Regarding #3, there is no way to humanely raise an animal only to kill it unjustifiably. If we needed them to survive, that would be a different story. But we do not.

#4, I don't even know what point you're trying to make here.
This is a biased assessment. In some cultures, mutual connection is still the goto for meeting and subsequently dating new people.
There is an insider story within a story on this page titled "New Look : How I set the look of Mac IE 5, possibly kickstarted Aqua (sorry), and invented translucent blurred windows, in the 1990s". Just scroll one page down.
I thought that title reflect story better.
All of what you're suggesting already happened. The surfers brought a lawsuit to establish there is a public right of way. They lost (on two different theories of why there is a public right of way): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-26/billionai... https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art... ("Therefore, the court of appeal in Friends I found that, because the Martin’s Beach property had been certified under the 1851 law without any mention of a public interest and never passed into state ownership, there could be no common law public trust easement over the land to the water."). California is now trying to establish there is a public right of way on a third theory.

In the meantime, California has been end-running around the whole right-of-way issue. It's been saying "whether or not there is a public right of way, you need a permit to put up obstructions."

This has worked insofar as Khosla has not actually applied for a permit yet. But at some point the State will have to justify denying Khosla a permit, and asserting "we're going to do through our fence-permitting powers what we cannot do as a matter of property law" is not a great look.
Absolutely brilliant! And scary.
Industrial agriculture would still be cheaper than bespoke farming even if they were good stewards of their soil, if only because of economies of scale.
What about a spreadsheet program that can be scripted with Javascript?

JS is nice because all you need to write it is a text editor and a web browser, both of which just about all computers have. I had an entry-level job that involved a computer once and automated a lot of the painful stuff with JS - I bet that if more people knew JS, more people would do the same.

I don't know if that'd be a good business proposition, but I think it could be a good on-ramp.
You seem to do. :)

Though, it's kind of interesting how we discriminate between animals on the basis of their species, breed, age, gender, location, color and what not perfectly fine.
No - this article aside, most of the evidence suggests that this is matter that is actually there, not just an error term that we have added to our models.
That's like saying Windows has pretty much EOL'd every non-Windows desktop. Citation needed.
Strong agree on the key to success being a company that will invest in training juniors. I think a lot of the noise around bootcamps misses this key fact - it's not really the education which makes people employable, it's the real-world work experience.

I think that just having a directory of companies that are willing to hire people with minimal experience at slightly-better-than minimum wage is a much better approach to the problem then trying to delude people that anyone can make six figures after a two month boot camp.

Some can, sure, but it's a much less reliable method than working in the industry for a few years.
Also here we can see: a machine, in this case a tractor, has to be more complicated in the future to ensure economic growth and to rise added value.
Exactly. For some reason people see wild animals differently, and use words like "innocent", while an animal born into a world where it's destination is a grocery store aisle somehow deserves it.
There is a huge difference between mistakenly building over a property line and intentionally obstructing a shared in-use right of way. Parties to a right of way generally have the right to improve and maintain it for their use. Removing a lock would be a reasonable action to maintain access of a shared right of way, similar to cutting up a downed tree, towing a parked car, etc.
My point is, the comment saying "I pick and choose" doesn't make any sense in context, because it's referring to choosing whether to use an expert, not delegating the choice of experts to someone, i.e. a generalist. You can choose between experts all you want, and since none of them are generalists, you are still the generalist.

I think my comment was misinterpreted, but it's not clear how.
One of the problems is the bounce back is not evenly distributed. The fastest breeding animals bounce back fast, the slow breeding animals take hundreds to thousands of years, if they ever recover at all.
They see tools not as a way to get more done or be efficient, but as something that's "moving their cheese" and they don't like it. It doesn't matter how overworked they are by remedial tasks that could be automated, until you show them everything finished, end-to-end, working flawlessly, they won't be interested in the slightest.

Will they be paid more for the increase in productivity?
Sure, but keeping that history is just a small part of what I said.

The point about code review still stands.
I guess people are going to act like I'm a lunatic, but of course it's wrong. Dark Energy violates basic conservation of energy, and the evidence for it has never been strong or convincing. Lots of us have been saying this since forever.
This doesn't make much sense to me. The speed of light is a constant, right? Gravitational interactions may change the directional component, but the speed would remain constant, no?
Intel Promises Thunderbolt 4 with Tiger Lake – CES 2020
Linux in 2020: 27.8M lines of code in the kernel, 1.3M in systemd
Was Apple mentioned somewhere in the slide deck that Anandtech has as the second part of the article? Or was it in a video version of the presentation? Super interested by what you're saying here.
Alleged Chinese Spyware Pre-Installed on All Samsung Devices [Reddit]
> I guess the difference is that it improves road safety,

This is false; the road cameras don't actually improve the road safety — they highly increase rear-end collisions. They're mostly there for revenue, and some jurisdictions don't make them legal; e.g., in California, tickets issued by speed-traffic cameras will be dismissed by any judge.
>Of course, the schools don't care, they make their money either way.

Why should they? They take a bunch of people looking for a shortcut to a career that pays better money, and offer them a shortcut education in exchange for better money than they'd get teaching a curriculum elsewhere.
2019–A Year of Hope for Alzheimer's Research
GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy
Linking gravitational waves and X-rays with joint LISA and Athena observations
Everyone in the US has to get in and out of bed every day, usually in a groggy state. I get the angle, but it's not really a fair comparison.
> it's set by the most optimistic buyer.

No, it's set by the least optimistic seller.

That's the reason we have labor unions -- to stop those that otherwise would work for low wages and/or in deplorable conditions, from doing so. Thus undercutting those that "hold out" for fair wages and conditions.

Think about it. If the entire graduating BSCS class of 2020 banded together and declared they would not work for less than $400k/yr starting, FAANG would simply have to pay that (they have the cash). It's because there's one dipshit willing to work for $250k TC that all the rest have to take that salary as well.
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Possibly, but I don’t think I would necessarily blame my manager for that. It was the case at my previous two companies until I finally found one where it appears promotion is actually feasible.
Part of the problem is that if you gave 20 developers/data scientists/ml engineers the same the set of data and asked them the do data prep and feature engineering, you'd probably have them come back with 20 different approaches.

To avoid pipeline jungles, teams need to agree to certain API's that their data processing code will follow e.g scikit-learn helped many people standardized around fit/predict/transform for their machine learning algorithms. In the future, I expect we'll see this expand to other parts of the process, such as feature engineering.

Towards that goal, I work on an open source library trying to do this for feature engineering called Featuretools. You can check it out here: https://github.com/FeatureLabs/featuretools/
but it does come from the religious / patriarchal mind set of a bygone era. I would put it to you that the devil find work for idle hands who have no money.

If this was true then why aren't the prisons full of retirees? - because they have money and so can afford to occupy their time.

It's time to remove these trite sayings from the public discourse imho they add nothing to an argument.
That's the one major point where Fossil probably falls short: Extending a repository's capabilities would add overhead to every single one of them (and, potentially, to each commit's meta data).
Enlighten the graduates.

How is BTC centralized.

I'm waiting.
This is true!

I think my main point was past predictions about long term economic growth have been wrong in the past, so I would weigh new ones very carefully.
> The public can do whatever it wants on the beach itself.

The public can do what it wants on the part of the beach up to the high tide line. It doesn't extend to the whole of what you'd think of as the "beach."
The act of trading is zero-sum(slightly worse when you consider taxes and fees). On one side, a person is getting a right to an uncertain cash flow based on the companies performance and giving up a lump sum of cash in the present. On the other side the person is giving up the uncertain future cashflows for a lump sum in the present. Both people can win based on their risk/liquidity preferences but one person's upside is the other person's downside.
My take is that the FTC is operating from a perspective that if you create content that's designed for children, and you put it on normal Youtube without labeling it, you're sort of "tempting" children to come into an unsafe environment.

In the Ars video, the FTC chairman says the following (16:30):

> "On the Internet though, you don't know who your users are. So what the COPPA rule more specifically does, is, 'where the content is directed to children, we are presuming the users are 12 and under.' [...] If however you are a general-audience platform like Youtube, you don't know what the content necessarily on your platform is. [...] That's what we mean when we talk about strict-liability for content creators."

To me, I interpret this quote (as well as the rest of the video) to say that the FTC does not care whether or not the platform is directed towards children. Keep in mind that Youtube is already officially designated as not directed towards children under 12. If your child is using Youtube, you are violating their TOS. My personal interpretation of this video is that the FTC is saying, "we don't care if the platform is for children, if the content is for children, the rules apply -- no matter where you put it."

As to whether or not content creators should be liable for Youtube collecting data that the creators don't even have access to, that's another question. But the FTC doesn't seem interested in asking that question. It's pretty clear to me that the chairman views creators purely as a means to getting at Youtube, regardless of what the consequences are to the individual uploaders. Creators are the "fish in a barrel."
According to Mozilla's data [1], 1366x768 was just this past year eclipsed as the most common desktop resolution. By the only incrementally superior 1920x1080.

[1] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware
This year at least, they're distributing them as a single video file with multiple audio tracks. No idea how Roku handles that.
That's it, I'm holding onto my 20 year old mobile phone in case it makes a resurgence in another 20 years. Replaceable battery, no tracking, and components you can see and re-solder!
No, this other extreme is not desirable either.
Possibly. But you still need a Lead Developer to sign off on decision making. And high net worth individuals will have consolidated voting rights on those decisions. Perhaps if PoS is mixed with other development models?
Supply and demand. Good jobs get thousands of applicants, attractive people get swamped with messages. The more balanced the two sides, the better an online marketplace will be.
Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop
Once all 21 million coins are "produced" - what powered hardware will be required to manage transactions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMiNQifZcM
Their species are not in danger. In fact, they are succcessful because they sort of domesticated us (like wheat). Think in the survival of bees, the ones that spread the genes is the queen, so the death of laborers don't damage the specie (I know hat won't be of any consolation for the cows that die daily).

In the other hand, in that massive number you may end having many extinct species (that may or not be critical for the Australian ecosystem, but still after they are extinct is over forever), and putting many others on the verge of extinction (either for the amount of individuals killed or the ecosystem damage).
> "As a parent" is one of my favourite phrases, by the way. It translates to "I know better than you, regardless of your parental status".

I sympathize with this. Lots of parents are vociferous morons, because lots of people are morons and becoming parents does not fix that. But: There is a real difference, at least for many people. Your brain rewires itself to be hyper-vigilant about child safety and child harm. I can't watch TV or movies anymore that involve harm or the threat of grave harm to children, but these wouldn't have bothered me before. When I enter a room, I subconsciously scan it like Jason Bourne if he were a toddler's bodyguard. Slippery surfaces? Sharp table corners? Unfenced stairs? I've compared notes with friends and this is a common, if not universal, change in parents. They spend a lot of time thinking about child safety.
Thank you, very interesting pointers!
This analysis is correct and it looks like SingleFile doesn't provide protection from this class of attack.

However, there are solutions that can protect against this type of attack. The attack you describe above is similar to what is known as a "double-spend" attack. Using a digital signature you can prove that a particular key (and therefore user) signed a particular transaction, but cryptography alone cannot prove that there was not another competing transaction that spends the same funds. Prior to Bitcoin, digital currencies required a central database to prevent these double-spends. With Bitcoin and subsequent cryptocurrencies this attack is prevented via a distributed database with a consensus algorithm.

Peter Todd (and others) have generalized prevention of double-spends to the idea of a "single-use seal" which can be implemented using the Bitcoin blockchain as an implementing decentralized service. [1] The idea is that there is some kind of formal protocol used (a higher layer in the protocol stack) and in the example above, the political prognosticator ties the hash of their single prediction of the winner of the presidential election to a particular Bitcoin UTXO (unspent transaction output) which serves a "single-use seal". The combination of the higher-layer messaging protocol and the "lock" to a single commitment tied to the UTXO limits the prognosticator to a single prediction. They don't have to reveal their prediction at the time it is made, but they do have to publicly (or privately) commit via a higher-level protocol to the single prediction.

[1] https://petertodd.org/2016/commitments-and-single-use-seals

Update: For the content hash of the (SingleFile) web page, you could have a sequence of these single-use seals each creating a new, linked transaction (UTXO) every time the website content is changed. This would allow users to verify the current content or what the content was at a particular time in history. As long as the root of this chain was somehow published (uniquely) at some start time in the past (in OpenSeals Terminology [2] this is called a "Root Proof".

[2] https://github.com/rgb-org/spec/blob/develop/01-OpenSeals.md...
Ernst & Young have published some interesting data about the costs of private vs public blockchains, and how they've developed tools built on Ethereum to reduce those costs.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjessel/2020/01/06/ernst--you...

https://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/ey-total-cost-of-o...
wasnt inability to scale a part of it tho? we didnt know how to architect for eagerly connected graphs then.
Which is fine. The lines of fonts are much less blurry that way, especially if subpixel rendering is off.
Late edit: sorry DrRobinson, I lost track of the thread and wasn't really disagreeing with you.
So if I have two VC approaching, once offered me 1M for 20% and the other one offered 10M for 20%, I should take the first one?
With AMD announcing truly Zen2-based mobile APUs, I felt it was important to gather all the mistakes laptop OEMs have been making and call them out so that at least a voice exists capturing these complaints. Unfortunately, you cannot vote with your wallet if the option you want does not yet exist. Here's hoping that they start to listen.