skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pentagon racks up $35T in accounting changes in a year
Loving the new Microsoft.
It means instant gratification.
>More fundamentally, it’s insufficient to throw in a few courses on maths that everyone quickly forgets. Maths, science, and logic should be the basic foundation for cultivating children’s world view, not literature, philosophy, or social studies.

Absolutely fundamentally disagree, and this is from someone that's studied primarily maths at every stage of education.

I'd much rather people were taught and viewed the world through the lens of literature and philosophy than maths and science. The world has too many 'DAE STEM???' 'OMG SCIENCE!!!!111' STEMlords already.
In my case, there is a tangible reward for many things, but if it's long term (i.e. and reward will only be realized years or even just months out) I probably wont ever do it. Ots a huge problem for me atm.
Interesting branding. Clear value proposition. As essentially an alternate interface/version of an off-shore development agency for small tasks this will succeed or fail over the longer run based on whether the developers are competent and speedy, whether project/task management is done well.

One thing that strikes me is how well constrained and defined the micro-tasks are. I find that many of the micro-tasks are micro for someone who is already familiar with the business processes, tech stack and existing code base but as soon as you want to hand it off it becomes more complex and the hand off consumes nearly as much time and effort as just doing the task yourself.

In a larger project the cost savings in rates often justifies the additional communication and project management overhead but I wonder if that can still work at a micro level.
I find the whole "inner ring for people who know what they're doing and outer ring for people who have no business driving in heavy traffic" concept highly attractive but the fact that the safety claims revolve around injuries and makes no mention of overall accidents (if it reduced overall accidents surely they would mention it) makes me suspect this thing is a fender bender (and therefore traffic jam) factory.
“The ideal timeframe to use for the reward function” is an instance of an age old question about what’s really important in life. Most people agree that taking lots of heroin and dying in a matter of months is suboptimal. Most people also agree that living a life of utter sacrifice in pursuit of some higher goal might not be good either. You might be working on something pointless. Some self interest is actually beneficial to society in general. In order to validate that you’re doing something worthwhile. It’s also debatable how to value the opportunity cost of missed fun now, against future fun. Especially if the future fun is experienced by someone else.

Conscience, selfless love for our children, culture, and religion are varying levels of patch on this simple human brain chemistry. I don’t think technology adds anything fundamentally new.
I thought France has a rental culture, no?

I'd rather be alive and renting than dead with an estate that has ownership of a building.
Eating Disorders as a Service?
The fact that it disgusts him, and that you in turn might appreciate the irony of the reward system actually hating itself is pretty strong evidence that there's more to the human experience than biologically reinforced operant conditioning.
And I think there is a big difference between "system" and "applications".
It is not like this is hypothetical magic or unexplored, see any sandboxing ever or Android and iOS, where an app can't even access another app's files without specifically asking for permission.
Obligatory reminder that if this kind of "X hour downtime per year" is such a big problem for your business you can go multi-AZ and multi-region.

If you choose not to, that's a valid and often the right choice but then don't panic and scream when something fails. It's a trade-off decision that you have to make. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Either you care enough to design, build, and test that kind of fault tolerance or you don't. If you do you get its benefits during these times. If you don't then just own it and put up with the downtimes a few times per year.
> the entire enterprise is a license to print money

Correct

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=fin&q=NASDAQ:+QQQ&stick=H4...
Free software is suspicious?

I cannot endorse the app but it is made by dnscrypt-proxy enthusiasts. Had been removed from AppStore and brought back thanks to support of German incubator

https://techcultivation.org/#overview

https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/issues/42#issueco...

https://github.com/s-s/dnscloak
Bug Tracking Benefits Go Far Beyond Software Development
Details on generated columns:

https://sqlite.org/gencol.html
> And btw: I wanted to cancel my subscription afterwards, but apparently you can't do that via web from the EU (or not for my subscription type?) - so I need to cancel on the phone, during american business hours.

There's existing NL law (maybe based on EU regulation?) that makes this impossible. Basically: the way you cancel should be as easy as you subscribe. Meaning, if you could subscribe online, you must be able to cancel the subscription online. If subscribing was utterly difficult, then cancelling can be utterly difficult.

If there's EU regulation behind it, usually you can force any foreign company to abide by this. Unfortunately it was difficult to figure out if this NL law was based on any EU regulation (e.g. Consumer Rights Directive from https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/consumers/consumer-c...).
Society definitely doesn't benefit, I think we can afford massive inequality much more easily than reduced social mobility. That the richest classes have the option to 'pull the ladder up' behind their children is an indication that democracy is not delivering the results it should.

But I don't think there are easy fixes, because there's also intergenerational social mobility - working class parents going without luxuries to send their children to a better school etc. It's very tough to give poor-but-ambitious families means to improve their lot over a long time without already-wealthy families monopolizing those opportunities.
By that logic, a newspaper can be sold as a "macOS replacement" if the intended target audience only uses their Mac to read the news.
> I for one would feel disgusted with myself if I were to discover that I'm nothing more than the output of a reward function. YMMV.

Very interesting and heavy statement to say in this context.

(I think your comment should be upvoted just to bring this honest description of how feelings and self-image interact with our thinking)
I think it's MUCH more naive to assume we are just a very advanced automaton trying to optimise a reward function.

What we don't know is infinitely larger than what we do know.
Well, it's true that the cliched "scientific method" taught in high schools is a gross oversimplification, and many discoveries are made by accident rather than deliberately trying to test a clearly defined hypothesis. But in the 1980s-1990s "Science Wars", there was a movement by postmodernists to try to claim that science is just an ideology no better than religion or magic. This movement liked to quote Feyerabend and Kuhn regularly. That's why many working scientists don't really have warm feelings towards philosophers of science in general.
The irony here is that Google mostly got its market share by paying companies like Adobe to pack the Google Toolbar in their installers which would hijack IE's default search and change it to Google. (Chrome later came out of a fear Microsoft might block the Google Toolbar in IE.)

Don't get me wrong, it's trashy behavior. But it's hardly a new one.
Show HN: React Native Pin View v3.0.0
The Fastmail app is very good, for example.
> These kind of abuses are the best recruiter a terrorist organisation can have

I'm willing to bet that's the whole point. This way some countries can keep up the BS "war on terror". They create and maintain a certain status quo and then "fight" against it. This way trillions of dollars get siphoned (from their own citizens!) into certain people's pockets (some even enemies of their own citizens!), and they maintain influence over the Middle East.

> citizens of the United States would know better

The citizens of the US, like most of the world, has Facebook to keep them entertained, and student loans and more immediate problems to distract them from things that have no obvious direct impact on them. When they found out every aspect of their lives is being spied on and investigated even by their own was there a massive revolt? No, everyone everywhere took it sitting down in a sign that this can continue and even escalate. They'll even justify torture by saying "well they probably are terrorists otherwise they wouldn't get this treatment". Land of the free to do as you're told.

https://mamot.fr/system/media_attachments/files/001/582/923/...
You can always map lots of small reward functions onto a single large one.

For a fictitious example, total_reward = sin(time_of_day) × dopamine_reward + (oxytocin_reward / adrenaline_reward)
Ask HN: Why Are There `Remote: Only US` or `Remote: Only Europe` Jobs?
I am under an impression that there are limited software engineers in US and EU, which is why they have to hire from everywhere else. And with anti-immigration regimes companies are now turning towards remote work. But seeing job listing with `Remote: Only US` or `Remote: Only EU` makes me wonder if I am wrong in thinking that?

Can someone here who is responsible for creating such vacancies or anyone who knows clarify about why they have this condition?
The traffic engineer who managed to convince authorities that this was the solution to their problems must've been very charismatic.
Flutter navigation – routing made easy
You can overfit a model to your hold out set quite easily with repeated trials. It's a trap you have to avoid in normal circumstances! (Feynman: "You are the easiest person to fool"). Even if you have to submit code to generate your model parameters from "the training set" (which hasn't been explained at all well by "People" if that is indeed the case) you could do that overfitting deliberately here with the illegal unseen data as your hold out set. Aside from the advantage of a bigger training set. Aside from the advantage in model selection, which is not done with code from a training set. Aside from the advantage to your feature engineering also not done in code. Aside from the advantage to your regularization choices, bias parameters etc etc.

So yes you absolutely /can/ submit a model trained on your own private data set even if what you submit is a model code that will be re-trained. Even if "the training set" is different to the provided - you still have that scraped data so you can slice it up with the provided training set so that any selected training set does well against the rest. Now the overfit you've just carefully engineered should win against the honest models unless you suck, right? It's kind of risible that they had to go further and hard code certain results, don't you think? Perhaps if they still couldn't win with scraped, illegal additional data then everyone else had illegal data too? Perhaps Kaggle is not a good indicator of how good ML techniques are in practise? Perhaps Kaggle systematically overstates ML effectiveness due to this kind of uncaught cheating in many of their competitions? I bet kaggle won't look too hard at that.
This sounds serious, please consider seeking mental support and health care.

Even if you don't make it to the top of your value pyramid, life should offer you something.
The beauty of these kind of junctions is you can drive clockwise or anti-clockwise. Essentially it's not a roundabout but rather one junction comprised of lots of roundabouts.

The Colchester equivalent better demonstrates this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Colchester)

Personal anecdote: I had to drive around one of these junctions during my driving test
I grew up near a city called Birmingham in the UK which has it's share of... disturbing junctions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ways,_Birmingham

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelly_Hill_Interchange

They look insane on a map, they must have been hellish to navigate before GPS.
It took some time to find a combination of medicine that worked for me, and I was pretty lucky as far as that is concerned. So my first bit of advice to anyone considering medicine is to stick with it and follow directions. It's also important to find a psychiatrist who will work with you, in my experience (your mileage will vary) it takes roughly a month or sometimes two to see if something is working, so sticking with it (unless you start having really serious side effects) is important even if it appears not to be working. Also, a good psychiatrist, in my experience, will give you a phone number so you can reach him at almost any time with questions and concerns.

As far as medication itself goes, I started with Atomoxetine (Straterra) and that barely worked for me, I also tried Methylphenidate in extended release form (Concerta) which does work but came with an annoying amount of anxiety. What works best for me is Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse), which is basically extended release amphetamine. I take 70mg daily in the morning and it works really well and doesn't produce any side effects for me. 70mg is considered a large dose, but seeing how I can sleep well and even take naps during the day (if I want), and have no anxiety, irritability or tachycardia when taking it, it seems to be an appropriate dose for me. A friend of mine suspected he had ADHD and took a much lower dose of Vyvanse (10 mg), and he was shaky and irritable right away, so in the end his diagnosis wasn't ADHD but depression, which can have similar symptoms.

Also when I started, I took fluoxetine and clonazepam to help with depression and anxiety that was caused by living with untreated ADHD, but I'm not taking that anymore because I don't need to, following doctor's advice, of course, never stop taking anti-depressants by yourself, withdrawal can be harsh if you don't take care and taper the dose off gradually. These helped me keep my mood in the right space so I could get started on working towards fixing my problems. Now I'm just taking Vyvanse, and while the dose might decrease in the future, it's likely that I'll be taking it for the rest of my life, or at least until heart problems make it impossible to keep taking it.

I hope this helps, even if it's more information that you asked for. The point I wanted to make is that while medication is there to help, it doesn't magically make the problems go away (even if the right combination can feel that way), and the same symptoms can mean many different things, so psychiatric medicine can involve a lot of trial and error, especially if you're unlucky. I found it very important to keep careful track of how my state of mind changed as I took the medicine and to report it as accurately as possible to my psychiatrist.
Nothing is particularly simple about X11, especially in its modern incarnations. It's much simpler to have an API that maps cleanly to what the hardware is actually doing, which is what Wayland is.

You can still prefer X11 for its features, like network transparency, but it is more complex than Wayland.
I think on every flight I take it's 99% business people maybe that's why.
> they learn to think for themselves, that they ask a lot of questions, that they question authority, that they stand up for what they believe in

And math and science teach you how to frame those questions. They enable you to evaluate the evidence that those authorities may be using. They show how to present new evidence or new models to update the existing knowledge.

In short, math and science addresses the issue of if two people have differing views, how can they state those views clearly (mathematics) and evaluate the correctness of those views in an objective manner (science).

The issue with our society isn’t that people aren’t questioning authority, it is that a lot of people are questioning, not in a quest for truth, but to be able to impose their view of the world on everybody else and become the authority. Without science and mathematics, all this questioning just devolves to demagoguery and questions of power and control. There are many groups that claim to “question” authority, but woe be to any member that question the group’s beliefs.

Science and mathematics allow people from different backgrounds with different beliefs to all speak a common language and have a common way of stating hypothesis and evaluating evidence so that we can learn more about our world. Engineering and technology allow us to use that knowledge to make other humans lives better.
My driving instructor sketched The Magic on paper and asked me to draw various routes before he let me drive on it. My driving test went over it, so at least I was prepared!
If it’s close why complicate things?
Marketing in the world of GDPR, CCPA and third-party cookie blocking
X is not simple.
Bush was the worst president. But where was the impeachment over starting an illegal imperialist war? Where was the impeachment for setting up an unconstitutional torture prison? Where were all these Democrats then? Oh right, they were voting for it!
I live close to this magnificent piece of engineering, AMA.
switzerland has way more new drug patents (per capita) and universal healthcare
I'm confused by this reaction here - this was a _brilliant_ hack of the system and I think his work should be celebrated. Was it in keeping with the intention of the competition? Of course not. Were lives threatened by their creative solution to the competition? Also no. At the end of the day it was a fun, inventive approach to a made-up problem.

So what's the problem?
There are many clients that are open source that you can use check these out: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr#clients
it just seems to me to be only trading one kind of risk externalization for another. Simple top-down solutions are so very attractive, but are absolute folly for interconnected complex systems. The moral of the Tower of Babel. Or if you prefer a different ancient heuristic, simple utopian visions are always a Siren that will eat you.

Nassim Taleb's concept of scale seems to me could be one root cause. The farther away the deciders are to the implications of their decisions, the less accountability they have. The more local and "market based" systems are, the more accountability, or Skin In The Game they have, and therefore more robust the dynamic.

Example: Communism has worked wonderfully at the scale of the family for thousands of years, but has always turned monstrous at the scale of a nation.
Lets assume that instead that money would go to the employee and not to social security. And we will assume that a large house would cost about 500k EUR. Thus, in 40 years, you would have collected a million euros more. That is about 25k EUR extra per year. That seems to be about the amount of income tax a French citizen would pay every year.

Thus, that money doesn't just go to health care. It also goes to other social security programs and government projects.
It's hard for me to say as it's a box that I am inside of.

However, it is near impossible to even muster a desire or motive to stop procrastinating when there seems to be no value in anything I'm doing except distraction from the anguish of dragging myself through Life.

Likely it's a feedback loop, the start of which I am not clear on.
Ah, a fellow Swindonian!
Web Browsing on PinePhone Running ArchLinux
Spaghetti junction is still hellish...
Two reasons that come to my mind:
1. legal burden of hiring globally
2. while allowing remote work, the company might not be set up for asynchronous communication
I think I've suggested before that someone (Mozilla comes to mind) could use this as an opportunity in the same way they did with asm.js, roughly along the lines of:

- specify a strict subset of html and css (no scripts, or maybe a set of well-known scripts for things like autocomplete etc, avoiding layouts that are known to be problematic)

- add a meta tag or something to indicate that the browser should attempt to read this page based on these rules.

- fall back if the page doesn't follow the spec exactly.

I guess this could result in lightening fast pages. Now get one or two organizations on board (Wikipedia? Other non-profits? etc.) and suddenly people will notice.
Ah, I forgot about Marriott.

The problem with fines against Google (and Facebook, too) is that it's peanuts for them. They just factor this in the same category as "legal costs", and it never affects them even remotely.
A new text message scam is disguising itself as a FedEx notification
Huh? I’m working in a bigger corporation, and if I just faff around for a day I’m not sure anyone would notice.

Of course I can’t spend it watching cat videos, but reading reddit or HN is very possible (or basically anything that looks workish).
"Especially if the future fun is experienced by someone else."

I'm always reminded of the commercial where the young man saves up his money and works hard so his much older self can fly first class somewhere. I always think the same, this could be some other version of himself, does it make sense to give this your future self?
Sidetrack: I really miss when designers added h*w. Even mobile apps do it now causing the button under your finger to jump as you’re tapping...

Feels like such a step backward
Agreed, this actually happened in the buildings ASREA comp. the data was found online.
This is actually a surprisingly good idea. I'm heavily a front end person and never really thought of just releasing a API. It's taking a surprisingly long time to set up a CRUD, even small things like responsive drop downs.
I'm not saying that all psychologists and psychiatrists are unaware of mind's complexity and are sloppy/mechanical when applying diagnoses. But I would definitely say that some of them are.

However, my main point was not to attack a profession, but rather to point out that the claim that "ADHD exists" is somewhat weak, given some evidence (like differences in percentage of diagnosed cases among continents, official guidelines that seem arbitrary on some points and open to various interpretations on other points, and the fact that some of the symptoms typically assigned to ADHD are present in all sorts of mixes and magnitudes in almost every human being).

I would rather see the medical community substitute this claim with a more saner "there exist a lot of diverse psychological symptoms, and they all have roots in problems that people have".

Therefore, we need more psychology (as in "let's talk, see what's wrong, and get to the causes, to the roots, and try to solve them") and less "medicine done wrong" (i.e. "let's see what symptoms you have, let's see in what box you fit, and let's stuff you with pills for the rest of your life without ever getting to the root of your problems").

And I would like a society which is more aware of the importance of mental hygiene, of introspection and communication as ways to solve problems (which should almost never be solved with pills), and that is more educated and mature on drugs (I would love to see less kids being stuffed with Ritalin and other meths, and more adults instead experimenting with these drugs for productivity and psychological self-exploration, aware that they are doing amphetamines and aware of the risks and benefits involved).
Oh wow.

I was just a kid in high school when I made my first HTML site on geocities. It's so cool to see it has still lived on in archives.

Flash content still alive and well... the javascript current year broke, probably y2k ... the geocities provided page view counter is also dead :)

It's also alarming how instantly without effort I recalled my ridiculously long address on there from memory.