skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Movies don't only make money from the the theater. Their revenue at the theater is actually their smallest source. Back in the day it was theater < DVD sales < tv licensing.

You don't get to keep making movies if they lose money. Laikas movies have done well, even if you don't want that to be true.
I think you have it backwards. The researchers are also surprised, but if their new hypothesis is correct it means perhaps it isn't homo sapiens than domesticate fire, but domesticated fire than makes homo sapiens the modern humans.

Perhaps we're not the "best" hominin species, but merely the lucky ones that happened on the technology to out compete and eradicate. And that's what we did.

Worse is Better when Prometheus is VC?
I think part of the reason is that chat bots tend to be racist without any intentional effort to make them so. I saw a post last year where someone built the most default language AI setup using the most popular training data and then got it to rank words based on their positivity. Without any intentional effort the AI ranked English names as positive and African/Asian/etc names as neutral or negative words.
Cool stuff and looks like using tech for right purposes. Is the code open-source? I can imagine the data would be strictly confidential as it involves real people.

Any cities south of the border?
Agreed. I can definitely see myself using this once password reset is an option.

I am sure there are use cases with the existing functionality.

Telling users their data will be irretrievable if they loose their password would certainly hurt conversions for many types of apps. And it would be a huge headache dealing with those who inevitably dismiss or fail to understand that.
I’m interested in this type of idea and would be willing to help test your flows and give feedback. Email me at my username @ gmail!
Perhaps irrelevant and offtopic GDPR complaints should be disallowed as well, similar to complaints about paywalls.
Shouldn't an in-restaurant ordering solution be processing card-present transactions as opposed to card-not-present?
SEO+Archives+Reliable+Sprout+Page
I have a strong feeling that this will be the next "major" product that Google kills.
Make security authentication in Government and Public services more secure.

At the Moment, I'm fighting with a monolithic, untouched Java 8 / JavaEE6 service which has lots of old dependencies and that uses old cryptographic ciphers, some of them classified as unsafe (e.g. brainpool512p1).

None knows how to make a reproducible build, since everyone gets a different and working or not-working package and some modules are not even released (using the infamous -SNAPSHOT) in maven and there's no documentation. Unfortunately, there's little testing, so everything can be broken easily and none can know it.

Some developers are also really undisciplined, touching code but not running end-to-end (manual) testing, not even running the installer.

If I had the decision power, I would throw this thing away and start from scratch, probably without Java too or, if Java, at least the latest one and maybe Spring, not JavaEE: Wildfly moves too fast and each release breaks compatibility with the previous one, concerning settings (RedHat: why do you do this??)
An engineering approximation to free?
London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd
> The most logical answer is that they have a tradition of migrating. These are people who have been moving for a couple of thousand years. They have been migrating from island to island and they keep migrating until they run out of places to migrate to.

While their ocean wayfinding skills were doubtless incredible, I have a hard time believing they migrated for the sake of migration.

Most human migrations away from an existing settlement are motivated by the tips of the spears of those who hold power in the settlement, ultimately by population exceeding the resources available.

People still ultimately prefer the relative security of the settlement to the dangers of the wilds, and usually only venture out into the latter when they have no other choice.

Obviously this applies less to nomadic groups, but even in that case the group is really a mobile settlement.
I always love bringing up [Ignaz Semmelweiss](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis), the Hungarian physician who advocated for hand washing before germ theory was established, after observing that pregnant mothers were more likely to become infected when they were handled by doctors than by midwives. His fastidiousness made him unpopular though and he was ridiculed as a stickler by his fellow staff. When he refused to drop this theory, his colleagues convinced his wife to commit him to a mental hospital, where he died due to infection from an unsanitary operation.
... and fast.ai?
It would have been different, no doubt about that. However, it's not like we don't already version everything internally. Wikis keep every edit in the revision history, we put all our code in git, etc. Even back in the day VMS systems had a version number as part of every file name, with the OS automatically keeping past versions of every file. It's just that there's no version field in our standard url syntax, so there's no standardized way of using retrieving those versioned documents.
Could you add thermal imaging support to pick out folks with a fever in a crowd?
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It seems to me like these massive-data approaches will eventually give responses that look like your first type, but are actually just statistically likely matches based on the dataset.

The question is whether this approach will ever confer the ability to generate new responses, or is just building a big lookup table already encodes a potential response to any input.
That's the essence of a money mark.

If you're going to go into business, go into business.

If you're going to run a charity, run a charity.

When you think you're doing one, but actually doing the other, you're going to have a bad time.
For-profit conference people that made money running cannabis conferences have started running psychedelic investment conferences but I have been told by those on the circuit that they are bullshit money grabs and that you should not attend. Two years from now they'll probably be real and still run by the same bullshit artists as today.

You could invest in quasi-legal grow ops in areas where mushrooms have been mostly decriminalized, like Oakland, California. You could invest in the largest marijuana companies that are the most likely to pivot to other plant medicines.

But, otherwise, basically, no, there is no reasonable way to invest in psychedelic mushrooms right now. Possibly buying domain names.

Something I did predicting the future of this industry was buy buylsd.com 5 years ago for $1500 (not operating now obviously until that's legal but another ten years would be a long time, I think). www.buymushrooms.com will similarly go up enormously in value in a future with widely legal drugs, at least as long as that is still a future with .com type in traffic and prioritized search engine rankings. I don't own buymushrooms.com but that would probably be a great investment at $10k, questionable at over $100k.
He lied on a sworn affidavit, basically, when going out for his grants which includes a background check. You swear your statements to be true. He lied. It doesn’t matter what country is in vogue at the time, and in 2012 China was very much considered a threat for these exact kinds of things.

This is pretty black and white, assuming the evidence presented is legit, which he will have the opportunity to oppose in court.
NAT and double-NAT are common in WISP networks. Also of course most hotels, Starbucks, schools, conferences, airplanes, albeit those are not ISP services. And cellular carriers often NAT.
It's also good to suspend judgement until the case works its way through the courts.

The Wen Ho Lee case is a point of reference here - he was accused of the worst kind of espionage and "convicted" after leaks in the NYT - but then the case dissolved and Lee got a big settlement.
Isolation Forest algorithm for real time anomaly detection
We are in the middle of a second US revolution (1970)
It might be a misunderstanding about our legal system and what is a serious issue versus one that can be overlooked or patched up somehow.

Maybe like a foolish US tourist taking some recreational drugs to China?

(I'm not comparing the two issues in a moral way, just to show how different crimes can be minor/serious in different countries.)
Public Service Announcement: LINQ is not just syntactic sugar for processing collections.

The beauty and power of Linq is that it is translated to expression trees at runtime, can be interpreted by a provider, transformed to basically anything - sql, MongoQuery, intermediate language, etc. - and you can pass around types of:

Expression<Func<T,bool>>

to different providers.

Like

repo.Find<Customer>(c => c.Age > 50 && c.Sex == “M”);
I'm guessing this is different from a DAW? Also, cloud-based music making applications is an area I'm generally interested in, and I find it somewhat crazy that a lot of mainstream music software companies haven't stuck a foot in. I'm aware of some, like Cubase having cloud collaboration, but it's mostly blue ocean.
Sounds like you have to invest in their entire portfolio to get exposure to their nascent psilocybin research.
Well, people are working on it. For example, what's been happening in Firefox. C/C++ has a head start in the millions of person-hours.
Enumerating Core Undefined Behavior
The farthest i'll go is changing everything to the keymap i'm familiar with, if possible. Thankfully the VS Code marketplace supports sharing premade keymaps :)
How much carbon will building 5G release? Does climate change make building 5G a bad idea? (Does climate change make any big new infrastructure project that isn't just a restoration of existing infrastructure a bad idea?) Also, it seems obvious that the smaller cell size means there will never be good coverage in even slightly remote areas, unless 4G also remains operational. In places like Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine 5G-only would greatly reduce public safety.
IDK, it's not that difficult, I've seen all kinds of outdoorsy organizations/events manage to teach preteen kids in less than an hour to start a fire with flint&steel + items they themselves gather in the forest. It's more difficult if it's been raining or everything is under snow, but I've seen adults do that (with some guiding words, though, not discovering on their own) quite quickly even if they've never done this before.

It takes some effort and patience (mostly in preparing a good environment for a spark to light something small and dry on fire), and you need to know what are good conditions for a fire to start (which may not be obvious if you've never had fire), and you need a desire to make a fire as opposed to fearing it; so there's some barrier to overcome in inventing/attempting the process, but once that's done and you see how others are using and maintaining fire (even if the 'magic' initial process is obscured) then the technique would spread out like literal fire.
SEVP releases 2018 report on nonimmigrant students in US
Wow. Truly unbelievable.
It’s not a conflict of interest, it’s a lie on a background check that likely would have lost him the DoD grants.

I don’t think anyone is saying “don’t establish a lab” but if someone asks you whether you’re being paid by foreign interests you can’t just say “I don’t know who the organization is that had been paying me for years.”

This has nothing to do with conflict of interest, outside of the conflicts between DoD and whether clearances / grants are released to those that are being paid by other nation states.
We have an iPad pro at work & a piece of me dies thinking that such a powerful device will never run anything but iOS.
I'm trying to create a program that can procedurally generate regular plane tilings, in a way that allows them to blend into each other over space and/or time. It makes sense in my head, but I think it won't end up working quite as well as I hope.
How so? This is an enterprise play. An integrated, fully featured chat app are table stakes to be considered against the likes of Microsoft Office.

This isn't chasing some hot fad.
I think you missed the context slightly. OP is saying that there are cheap and unsophisticated way to fool the Tesla autopilot system, in addition to expensive ones. If an autonomous system threw the rock vs a human, that has nothing to do with OP's comment.
The more powerful our languages get and more robust our programs written in them get (those go hand in hand), the easier it will be to compile languages from one language to another without compromising code quality or legibility.

I hope this will lead to a new golden age of programming and PL research where more software is not "trapped" in the language and era it is first developed, and we aren't constantly bouncing between the extremes of endlessly accumulating tech debt or naively rewriting.
The Controversy Behind Nike’s Vaporfly Running Shoe
Sounds like they did not make a modicum of effort to support any platform.

iTunes was multiplatform (Windows & OS X), if Apple wanted they could invest the resources to do so for Apple Music. Apparently it is not a priority tho
Turns out urban transit is an energy hog
> there was a widespread belief that, by nature of being surrounded by tech, young people would automatically learn how it worked under the surface and possess an inherent fluency in IT.

Over the course of the last 25 years, I've never heard that expectation anywhere. There was always a mentality that computers would keep getting easier to use, which is completely true. There was always the idea that kids would integrate computers into their lives from the start, which is also true.

I never heard anyone say that kids born in the late 90s would somehow in general understand the inner working of computers.
meta: i submitted this story a couple of years ago, but it didn’t get any traction. i was invited by the mods to resubmit it, and this time it did a little better. never thought i would be part of the “second chance pool” i have heard so much about. this motivates me to find and submit other things i think are interesting.
Byzantine Foothold
If you value WireGuard and can spare a few bucks the inventor/maintainer is getting about 1/10th what they publicly ask for to maintain:

https://www.patreon.com/zx2c4
That is a denial of reality. You don't get articles written saying how you're on the edge of financial doom by making money.
That's a donation rather than an investment but they might take money for their B-corp wholly owned subsidiaries at some points. Donating money to MAPS and getting on their conference and private dinner circuit as a big money person is for better or worse the way to eventually gain access to those kinds of deals, but I know they've been wining and dining enough billionaires at this point that they don't really need the money and other non-profits in the space are better opportunities.

I'll likely be starting some kind of non-profit in the space with Thomas Ray within the next year. Check out his research:

https://www.transformpress.com/breadth-and-depth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygDULQ9AY7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxrAUIIbkeM
Would this be something like Zapier?
> ..., wastefully approaching each red light far too fast, ...

Oh, you want to save gas? Joke's on you:

> In the UK, in 2009, it was revealed that the Department for Transport had previously discouraged green waves as they reduced fuel usage, and thus less revenue was raised from fuel taxes.
Puzzles or Problems
Companies might be cavalier about these things because the consumers are so often brutal and unforgiving (irrationally so, in so many cases).

There's no winning the PR game on Reddit or other social media sites when you have some motivated psychopathic shit-posters drumming up the negative sentiment - especially when the conversation gets titled that way early. There are a few sacred cows, but almost every other noteworthy game or console at some point goes through a similar phase. If the company keeps things afloat long enough while iterating on their product, the shit-posters generally get bored or move on to something else.

Many good products succeed despite it all.
The motivation certainly seems to mainly have been finding new places to live:

> While the early Polynesians were skilled navigators, most evidence indicates that their primary exploratory motivation was to ease the demands of burgeoning populations. Polynesian mythology does not speak of explorers bent on conquest of new territories, but rather of heroic discoverers of new lands for the benefit of those who voyaged with them.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_culture#Development...

> People still ultimately prefer the relative security of the settlement to the dangers of the wilds, and usually only venture out into the latter when they have no other choice.

From what I've seen, the opposite is true, at least for a subset of people who prefer to travel and explore. These people usually move again after their new land is fully established. They just like the frontier.
Maybe UK would rather be spied upon by Chinese Gov. than by US Gov.
I know I would.
Titan Rain
That brings me back. I remember Authorize.net before there was the ActiveMerchant gem (ruby).

Have you used Stripe as well? Authorize.net always got the job done. Then Stripe came along. I was honestly surprised of its success at the time. It was mainly just more of a joy to use - not cheaper or much easier. Just 'fun' as I remember it.
That's not really a thing. The pools are large-ish; the chances of winding back on the same IP after a change are tiny.
cold, almost want to get the razor out and get myself some wool here.
Inside the Push to Legalize Magic Mushrooms for Depression and PTSD
I setup WireGuard on my Ubiquiti router and have profiles installed on my phone and Mac.

Extremely convenient for some basic privacy when on a public hotspot.
I had the 2012 nexus 7 when I was in school and I loved it. Used it all the time for just about everything including insane use cases like programming. Then I got my first phone in about 2014 and didn't really have much of a use for the n7. Its just like a phone only slightly bigger but less portable and no 4g. Since then I haven't been interested in a new tablet and it looks like the entire Android tablet scene died.
The percentage depends on the business "risk" category , transaction volume, return and charge back rate. You can get rates as low as 1.9% and .15 per transaction. That doesn't cover payment processing gateway fees (ie Authorize.net) though.
Playing devils advocate, I'd really prefer this kind of functionality as a separate browser add-on - i.e. unlinked to my reddit signon.

For privacy you needn't require the reddit ID of your users. Simply that they want to save something from reddit to their tryunearth.com account.
>ACH soon

What is your approach to bank account verification? Plaid/Yodlee, a more traditional "deposit x money, ask for verification", or both?
I am working on giving solo entrepreneurs and micro business owners back more of their valuable time by eliminating menial admin tasks. Time is typically your most valuable resource but when you are working alone or on a small team, someone still needs to take care of the admin, eating away at your valuable time.

I’m starting with the sharing of common information with clients and partners. Organizations are often required to supply information on a regular basis to a wide range of clients and partners (bank account details, company, company registration details, tax clearance documents, certifications, charity registration number, etc.). A lot of these documents need to be renewed on an annual basis so there is a constant stream of requests for updated versions.

For bank accounts, the ability to verify a bank account automatically can prevent invoice fraud.

I’m looking at a model where a piece of business information is uploaded to a central platform and then provide permission for others to access it and to receive notifications when a new version is available.

In the first startup school batch for 2020 and working on validating the problem with actual users.
It isn't like he's arguing for a preemptive strike against China. Just a rule about giving taxpayer funding to their agents (which is what one becomes when agreeing to work on their behalf)
this sounds like the opposite of an interesting problem
I am building movie-macther for alerting user for their IMDB's watchlist.

https://github.com/navyad/moviematch
Judea Pearl has been talking about this gap like forever now. According to him, causal modeling is the missing piece. I do believe it is a serious step up (i mean, does it take a model to look at 350GB of text to have that presented conversation?) .. however I don't know enough to know whether that is enough.

(Reading TheBookOfNow and Causality in parallel)
If you are home, can you virtually answer the door with the amcrest without using any cloud services? From a desktop browser? From an android phone?
> One lingering question I have for all migrations in antiquity is why (given very low pop density)?

It's likely was that people clustered in dense settlements around natural assets like good hunting and fishing areas, or sheltered areas. Control of those would have almost certainly generated competition and conflict.

Our romanticization
of the idea of living in very low density situations is a modern thing facilitated by industrial technology, just like camping became a socially acceptable pastime once people didn't have to do it to survive.

> Did people just overhunt and overfish so they had to move on before agriculture took hold?

Perhaps. The Polynesians of Rapa Nui seem to have done themselves in that way. But more likely they were forced into migration by their own relatives when they started running out of room.
Thanks, looks interesting. I find Markdown a great idea in theory, but have found very few examples of wysiwyg markdown editors that work 'as you'd expect'. For me that means:

- Bullets with multiple indents going from 1 to 1) a. etc
- Table handling
- Usual formatting like heading levels etc

And there seem to be lots of flavours of markdown too, just to add another layer to things.
Lieber requested that half of his money be deposited into a Chinese bank account and other half be paid to him in cash when he next visit WUT.
https://twitter.com/gbrumfiel/status/1222217996959199234?s=2...
I believe that is for the all-in-one option. And I do not believe Authorize.net offered that a decade back. Anyways, if you already have your merchant account, it is only 10cents a transaction.
Stack not especially necessary. From 2016: http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Ortho
What is it with the British and devolving into an oppressive police state? Their similar questionable policy choices are well documented throughout their storied history. Seems like England is trying to reclaim the good old days of the 17th and 18th century.

Antarctica has got space for them to dump everyone who looks the wrong way at a lord - or central Australia if they can reign in the republicans.
https://btcpayserver.org/
I did read the article, yet came away baffled by the headline. Of course Neanderthal knew how to make fire...
Very glad to see WireGuard getting more adoption. I've been using it while mobile and traveling and it's been absolutely rock solid.

OpenWrt router back at home, multiple Android devices and Fedora machines connecting back that just work seamlessly between different networks. It's been such a treat to use and watch and help it mature.

Just need more popular VPN providers to start supporting it -- NordVPN and PIA have provided "support" for it, and Nord allows using it as "NordLynx" on their Linux app.
What the fuck? Let him out already you savages!
I made blurb.cloud so that an old phone or tablet could serve as a shared billboard.
Two satellites will narrowly avoid colliding at 32,800 MPH on Wednesday