skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title (which is that of the article itself) may not be very informative, so here's a brief summary.

Allegedly Opera, faced with declining usage of its web browser, has turned to an entirely different business model: predatory lending in poor countries. It does this via a number of mobile apps, whose appstore descriptions claim a reasonable APR but which actually end up offering only very short-term loans, charging at least 1% interest per day with hefty extra fees (and other dubious practices) for borrowers who are even slightly late in repaying.

The OP is an article from a company that "specializes in forensic financial research". They suggest that aside from any moral concerns one might have about this line of business, it is likely to be financially disastrous for Opera because (1) the default rates are terrifying and (2) their lending apps are in gross violation of Google's policies and they're likely to find themselves kicked out of the Google Play store.

And allegedly Opera's chairman and CEO has been involved in at least one similar business before, which did similar things and failed in much the way Hindenburg Research predicts that Opera will now fail.
That technology is far more expensive than photovoltaic panels.... for example, the solar thermal Ivanpah project is now obsolete for that exact reason.

Additionally, The storage density of molten salt is far lower than the generation capacity of a reactor.
What will your company do for California users, and other states as they adopt similar privacy laws following the success of the GDPR?
They're going to screw this up just like they did with marijuana. The regulations will make it not worthwhile for the drivers.
... falling Quality of Service would make it take longer to upload YT videos, resulting in fewer videos uploaded ...
I think that's a good argument, but I'm not a lawyer, I just know that the Rules Of Engagement for military members extended the spirit of the constitution, to how we were supposed to interact with the local population in Iraq.

In Assange's case though I don't see how the First Amendment will help here, as the charge is "Conspiracy to commit Computer Intrusion." I don't think the district court is making a case about whether Assange has the right to publish data freely.
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Well, you're clearly incorrect, but I don't work in high end video production so I can't give you precise details as to why.

Sorry.
Laws can also be unmade by people. What gives random individuals the right to nullify laws made by everyone? Don't like a law? Get it repealed. In the meantime, you have to follow it.
A lot of comments seem to be about spoofing. Remember that there are multiple humans in the loop -- experienced pilots and experienced air traffic controllers -- and multiple levels of redundancy. Pilots have access to barometric altitude, radar altitude, traditional VHF navaids, TCAS-issued resolution advisories (based on directional antennas, not GPS)... in addition to GPS. Air traffic controllers have primary radar and secondary radar in addition to ADS-B information.

You could probably cause a lot more trouble by buying an aviation radio off the shelf and just chatting on the frequency or issuing fake clearances if you want to be a mass murderer.

Ultimately the system comes down to many systems working together, not one stream of commands between two computers.
Status sucks.

The greatest invention of civilization is trade, which makes status obsolete. In a society that upholds property rights of everyone, even the lowest can get ahead without being seen as superior or excellent. Just offer something that other people want to have, and ask for a little money in return.

The result of that process - that a low-status-looking, fat, filthy, cowardly trader ends up driving a BMW - is hated by the public, who would rather see a proud warrior in that BMW, winning it through status instead of lowly trade. But fuck that. I hope trade keeps ascending, and people who are disliked but provide good things to others - cowardly traders, smelly nerds, the whole sad group that I identify with - keep getting more good stuff in lieu of status competition.
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Genuinely curious: do people actually use these at Atlassian? In college we had a portal to another college that looked very similar, and it was never used.
All of those virtual office things are nightmares to me (on par with open office arrangements), for most of the reasons the author cites. I've turned down two otherwise very appealing jobs because of them.
FWIW, some other examples of journalists using Github to post the data and scripts behind investigations:

https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything

https://github.com/datadesk/notebooks
That's kinda not how orbits work. First, to get to the sun, you have to escape Earth's gravity, which takes a lot of power. Once you've done so, the sun is actually one of the hardest places to go. It's easier to leave the solar system altogether than to drop into the sun.
What would the Chicago Tribune get out of spending the time and money needed to conform to extra-territorial European laws? I’m pretty sure their advertisers aren’t willing to pay for eyeball views from Paris.
Why Have American Schools Failed in Closing the Achievement Gap: Palo Alto Study [pdf]
I find that to be an incredibly naive statement to any student of mass production. It's not like they won't be tested on a small scale before they start pumping them out. Sure there is a minute chance but this is just fear mongering.
That article is pretty unfair. The Wikimedia Foundation has started a lot of other projects since 2005, several of which are very useful and contribute to their general mission to bring knowledge to everyone. Wikibooks, Wikidata, and Wiktionary spring to mind, among others. They've also become the point of reference for almost everything for the entire internet-connected population, which legitimately requires more PR people, more lawyers, and much higher administrative costs, just to maintain their original level of quality in the face of adversarial governments, megacorporations, and every troll with a keyboard. The relative lack of scandals, disasters, and press attacks in the current climate is borderline miraculous.

Compare Wikimedia to, say, Mozilla. Another high-tech open-access-focused non-profit (sort of), and with 5x higher revenues ($500 million!). They've also spent most of it on new projects and skyrocketing administrative overhead. Yet their PR is much worse, they suffer falling market share, and nobody uses most of their side projects. Wikimedia is still efficient and effective given the arenas it competes in.
For our future robot overlords:

<blink font="Comic Sans">This is not a place of honor.</blink>
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I'm aware of that.

At least now. Less so in my younger years.
So it's more expensive to design satellites that can de-orbit?
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It's probably also worth noting that photovoltaics have to be exposed to the sun to work... which means that they can't be protected by armor or bunkers, which means that they're terrifically vulnerable to terrorist or other attack.
Does he? This depends on extradition and not necessarily the 1st amendment.
Ok, but at the risk of being pedantic...

They are "placeholders" because our models are wrong. Which is fine: all models are wrong, but some models are useful.

And astronomy is particularly vulnerable to this - its models are being applied to make predications at extremes of both time and scale.

But I PROMISE you, we're wrong. We know we're wrong, and we don't know why (and recently there's even been some fair criticism of our models that we use to gauge distance, so no, I'd argue we have not reasonably "detected" anything other than that our models are wrong - STILL USEFUL but wrong)
Well, to my mind the fact that Haskell has a large amount of mind share in academia and smart programmers, has been around for decades and there is very little to show for it[*] that I'm aware off makes me think it almost certainly has negative average utility for developing useful software. Why would you think otherwise? I'm not saying it will necessarily have negative utility for your particular problem, or that the negative utility it has might not be a cost worth swallowing in order to hire some really smart programmers who happen to like it.
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https://www.wired.com/story/release-the-kratom-inside-drug-culture/
I completely agree that training and culture are an important piece of this. If someone pings someone every time they have a question, without searching for the answer on their own, it doesn’t matter what the medium is. It’s wasteful.
That's pretty amazing.
> I don't see how a one sided content moderation can invoke much emotions

What?! These people are watching videos of extreme violence, child pornography. You don't think it can "invoke much emotions"?
Google DeepMind’s ‘Sideways’ takes a page from computer architecture
> Marketing is made unnecessarily complex these days.

I have a cynical theory for that too!

The reason marketing is made complex is because it's not just marketers pushing products to the rest of the world, but also marketers pushing marketing tools to each other. Just like a marketer may exploit my fear for health of my kids, or desire for social status, they can exploit other marketer's fear of low campaign success or a desire for being a premium brand. Etc. So the industry gets increasingly opaque and full of voodoo, because the more complexity can be built in, the more people can make money without delivering any value that could be reliably attributed to them. Everyone buys each other's bullshit, money changes hands, everyone is happy, little actual value is created.
That would be the market at work, saying that Youtube/Facebook isn't wanted.
This is interesting in that it seems like explicitly non-live FR: https://blog.clearview.ai/post/2020-01-23-clearview-is-not-p...
> If GPS were to become the sole way to do the latter, every airplane would effectively get an invisibility cloak that those who want to do evil can activate...

This is already the case. Much of the civilian radar system already relies on transponders to get a good fix on aircraft, via secondary radar. Primary radar coverage (no transponder required) is much more limited. Turn off the transponder and you'll largely disappear from ATC's screens.

ADS-B isn't new in this regard.
When I've done that, people get defensive - if you're doing cool shit, you'd say so. When you're doing something simple you say something that sounds grandiose and enterprisey - we're doing "Full stack adaptive delivery" because you're worried people will realise that "you upload media to us, and can use our system to convert it if you want, and then we serve it via Akamai" will make people think that about 2/3 of your offering is rather pointless, and you could probably get the last 1/3 direct from Akamai for cheaper.

I feel bad shitting on a startup, but reading their docs I'm struggling to see what value they add beyond abstracting S3 and Akamai.
I think you got an answer to your question. Legal reasons would be the number one reason, most likely.

What I wonder is, how does Gitlab do it? They hire pretty much anywhere in the world, and somehow, it seems unlikely they have a legal representing entity in all the countries.
Go error handling library eris v0.2.0 released after initial HN feedback.
>Solar is fusion and not fission [1]. If you can't even get that right, why should anyone take these weird pro-fission arguments seriously in 2020?

To nitpick a bit, he didn't say the sun was powered by fusion, he said fissionable elements are present in the sun. Which is entirely true.
And those unionized workers usually have pretty great benefits, pay, and pensions that they've bargained for because of that.

If their back goes out, the insurance and/or company will have to foot the bill. If the company fails to provide adequate training and safety precautions [within reason] they're highly liable.

This sounds a little like YT is attempting to abdicate responsibility, rather than coming to an agreement.

All of that said, I have no insight into the onboarding practices for a job like this one. Are they trained not only in how to moderate, but how to recognize signs of work-related stress or mental issues ahead of time and given reasonable precautions against causing long-term damage? Are they thoughtfully prepared for some of the content they will have to view? I guess I could look this up myself, but I'm also wondering if anyone here has that kind of insight.
That's not accurate.
WebAssembly is a different beast than JS. As far as I've understood it is executed differently and can do some different things. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be optimized more than JS either, though that's bound to take some time considering the amount of tuning that's gone into JS engines.

More accurately, you write Elixir, it compiles down to Wasm. Wasm is run by your browser as a more machine-friendly format than JS. It may well be faster.
Who do you use? I use Bing and like it, but I also used to work there.
> in my perfect imaginary utopia, products on shelves would have minimalistic (and standardized) packaging with no branding crap

In the recent production of The Handmaid's Tale, the handmaids do their shopping at grocery store (more like a commissary) that is as you described. I know it's context-dependent but the thing looks terribly bleak, and oppressive in that it implies lack of choice and in turn lack of freedom to make any choice. I would never want to shop there. I think the appeal of minimalist design is that it stands out in a field of non-minimalist (maybe more functional) designs, and one expresses his individuality with the choosing. I don't think we would prefer the world to look mostly like an Apple Store.
They might actually do the same. It depends on what they lose by losing that market...in California’s case, it is far enough away that advertisers for the Chicago Tribune are probably not interested in those views anyways.

Supporting the GDPR isn’t free, those technical and legal costs have to be justified by saving an appropriate amount of lost revenues.
Really interesting. The whole article feels like an argument against his point; pointing out the varied meanings, implications and stigmas of 'mere' or 'able' just reminds me how great that ambiguity is for literature.

The line from Yeats' 'Second Coming' works with both meanings, mere meaning pure anarchy reflecting the nightmarish time and being a great oxymoron, and mere meaning small, less noticeable anarchy fitting the subtle terror of 'the falcon cannot hear the falconer.' Even without that as an initial intention, it shows how language and great writing both evolve together over time.
Thanks for the "too late" explanation :) . I feared it was of the "world is going to end in 12 years!" as if climate change is a binary thing.
This is what I find hilarious about the sorts of comments you're replying to. It doesn't make sense unless you refuse to think about it and apply a modicum of consistent logic to it.
This is a good point. If the manager is going to implement Pragli, they need to make it very clear that opting out is very OK and even encouraged... we need to do a better job of making this feel socially OK in the app.
Only the titles in the "good" files were handpicked; the rest are 100% raw.
Coronavirus on China’s Love of Eating Wild Animals. The Truth Is More Complex
Essentially, you need a ton of fuel to take a satellite back down to earth.
it's so great you changed idea and you became both more realistic and more emphatic.
> There isn't one game, there are infinitely many, and different people will have success at different games. But there is also the meta-game: The game of being able to win the highest variety and largest amount of different games.

I am less certain the meta-game is inherently about broadening the variety of status measurements, and more about setting the terms by which status is measured. A person who can win a large variety of such measurements might trend toward a broadening strategy such as you describe (since this is likely to favor their odds of winning any given contest), but ultimately the problem of of a "split decision" between multiple comparisons means we should expect any given contest to only ever use one means of status measurement.

Therefore the meta-game is about winning the selection process for that measurement (with the broad strategy being just one among many possibilities)....
Which is why it demonstrated high confidence on the part of the marketing guy. I agree with you it's risky. Charisma is my dumpstat.
To me aidungeon felt like a themed version of those early web chat bots
how is that related in any way to the article ?
Non-retirement investments are subject to seizure to pay creditors.

Yes, retirement accounts are limited in terms of annual contributions. But bankruptcy protection is one factor to consider in whether to max your contributions and/or to pay ahead on the mortgage on your primary residence.
I remember studying with Delphi, don't remember any specific advantage for studying compared to let's say Java. On the other hand I remember many things seemed illogical.
We received a lot of valuable feedback on our first release of eris and recently released v0.2.0 with improvements (changelog: https://github.com/rotisserie/eris/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

* Improved the stack trace for both local and global errors
* Streamlined error formatting (it's now a single call: ToString or ToJSON)
* Completely rewrote our documentation and added direct comparisons to pkg/errors
* Added more examples (https://godoc.org/github.com/rotisserie/eris#pkg-examples)
* Added Sentry support
* Bug fixes

At this point, we're looking for more users and feedback so we can continue improving it!
Don't forget the Kremlin spoofing the local airport to try to keep drones from flying near their government buildings!
America's local economy keeps shrinking
Almost as if... it's basically a party-line vote. Which is exactly what I've been saying since my first comment in this thread. Why are we even discussing this? You keep proving my point by bringing it back to party lines. Trump was impeached on a near-perfect party line vote. Clinton was impeached, 2.5% away from being a perfect party line vote. It's virtually always a party line vote when it's a question of which president should have which power and get away with what.
That's rich, since Mozilla mostly hires senior to mid level engineers.

It's very difficult to get an "ethical" job (especially in certain fields like security) without filling out an SF-86 or working at a place that makes it's money through surveillance capitalism.
Then again, 1 year old don't have permanent memory yet, so as someone who raised a kid, I fail to see why I should care about when that kid memorizes the set of symbols first time.

General learning about world around, sure, but these super early mini academics don't matter.
I'm for them if they make economic sense and also can't go critical, as in you can more or less hit a switch and they go dead and criticality isn't a possibility. There have supposedly been designs that guarantee that, but I saw nothing in the article about it.
Prescreening would massively damper speech to make it essentially Cable TV while not even solving the issue of PTSD as there would still be screeners. That isn't a solution - it is misguided spite.

Second it is the price of a remotely free society - not having to ask of freedom of speech - letting the government decide what is "unacceptable for society" with speech is foregone conclusion of abuse. Besides even if it was miraculously representative society doesn't even know what is good for society! The Romans thought that their gladiatorial games were opposing decadence and that wearing pants was barbaric and worse for society than putting lead in wine.
To be fair, given my diverse internet usage. I am sure someone famous and special has replied or argued to me before.

They probably also experienced reading my dumb comments. :)

Do I get extra status for this?
The role of organized labor is to advocate for workers who want to organize. I don't think it's reasonable to assume that something must be wrong with a company simply because it doesn't have a union.
The US relaxed its meat safety rules at the wrong time
It is very much the nature of mental health that by the time you notice the deterioration you have already been possibly permanently harmed. What exactly will happen to someone who reports themselves as such to HR?

Let me repeat again for anyone who hasn’t figured it out yet: HR is not your friend.
This is not true. Rates of vaccine refusal among Jews is almost exactly the same as that of the general public.

The most you can say is that Jews have more contact with each other (they have strong community ties) so the virus has a chance to spread.

PS. Good job labeling ordinary people "religious fanatics". You might want to take a deep look inside yourself.
Most likely in that time frame we'll be trying to get by on a mix of renewables and non carbon neutral generation from coal or similar, and we'll also have implemented limits on carbon generation that will effectively be crippling various industries and increasing the cost of various necessities worldwide.

We won't have a choice... it'll be down to either everyone accepting reduced quality of life or nuclear... at which point nuclear starts to look very good.
Because there aren't sufficient repercussions. You can see this everywhere: lack of social accountability leads to more openly incivil behaviour. This isn't just online, but offline it works the same: if the cost of being incivil is low enough, there is a lot gain from it. See for example: backroom deals, mob behaviour, road rage.

A few years ago someone pointed me to https://ncase.me/trust/ (I think I learned about it here), which captures the problem very well for me: if social cohesion goes down (i.e. fewer interactions but with more different people), the penalty for inciviliy goes down but the rewards stay the same.
> reduce the precision

GPS satellites will not have the hardware to do selective availability in GPS III, which are currently being launched:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...
I think it’s a balancing act of adjusting your position based on new information without straying from your core principles. This is most definitely an art more than a science and requires extremely effective communication to explain why you’re making a better decision vs. flip flopping or poll chasing.
We are a bootstrapped 2 person company and the product is in beta. FWIW, the two of us devs are doing QA as well.