skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paperchain | Financial Products Lead | NYC-preferred. Remote OK.
https://paperchain.io

Paperchain transforms streaming analytics data into revenue insights enabling creators to advance their future revenues instantly. We’re creating the future of media payments through our unique learning model that prices media streaming activity in near real-time and data integrations with the world’s largest streaming services, such as Spotify, Apple and YouTube.

You can read about our financing pilot here to learn more about our model — https://medium.com/paperchain/how-we-worked-with-centrifuge-...

We’re looking for a Finance Lead to develop our financial products, including working with our product team to integrate risk models, asset pricing as well as coordinate product development with our decentralized finance and institutional finance partners.

Job Post: https://angel.co/company/paperchain/jobs/719901-financial-pr...
Would the state of the Earth be better or worse if not for this development?
There are several things called Unity, which I suppose is why the game engine is often referred to as Unity3d.
After which, Haber went on to play a key role in helping Germany develop chemical weapons for World War I.
This is interesting, I'd have expected it to be much higher. I know that the Air Force Space Command employed more people than NASA, which has a $20B+ budget. I assume more is massaged in elsewhere.
How AI could help video gamers create the exact games they want to play
While some people might scoff at this, I'll be honest and say I don't know the exact unit economics off the top of my head, but my cost per install hovers around 30-50 cents. The way I do it is whatever money I made the previous month, I set my ad budget to a little more than half of that amount. I always tell myself I'm going to boost it more, but I don't login to the ads manager too frequently to be honest.
Another way to look at this (and this only works for domains, not things like hosting) is supply and demand. There's a limit to the number of domains out there, and there's a huge increase in people who want them.

It's almost like Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies... scarcity is built in to domains. At some point, they'll all be taken.
(Similar to the response for another question.)
BERT is a language representation model while Turing-NLG is a language generation model (similar to GPT). They are not directly comparable (they can potentially be massaged to mimic the other, but, not something that we have done yet.)
He can refuse to sign it as many times as he wants.

Congress can only override his veto with a 2/3rds majority, that is highly implausible.

If congress and the president can't come to terms on a budget, our government effectively shuts down [1] in what is, largely, a form of political gamesmanship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un...
I am sorry, you come across as extremely over-enthusiastic, without too many specifics beyond “we’re just about to figure it all out”, “you just wait”, and “it’s gonna revolutionize everything”. We’ve seen this before with ImageNet, didn’t we? When everybody thought that because ConvNets are crushing all the older methods, AI is right around the corner. Well, it turned out to be much more complicated than that, didn’t it. Transformers are great (well, if you have the compute that is) don’t get me wrong, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The field is over-hyped as it is.
Other direction - in 1997 Bill Clinton was deporting people without process which is where this body of law came from. The standard practice was that children with adults would get a bond hearing (because adults could represent themselves and their children) but unaccompanied children were being deported OR they pretty much became permanent residents of the detention system.

Then in 2017, they left limbo and have the right to be heard in a court:
https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/flores_v....

So... is a five year old expected to deal with their legal process? Yes, and they're appointed council to help with that, which is way better than where we were 20 years ago.
FBReader is available for windows, if you're looking for open source (keeping in mind that the Android version is no longer open source, so it's not the same FBReader). CoolReader is also available for windows.

Personally, I actually prefer calibre's ebook reader; if you dislike it, but do use a Calibre library, Calibre Web [0] has a (IMO) fairly decent browser-based ebook reader

[0]: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
As someone who hates President Trump with every fiber of my being but the submitted budget rarely looks anything like what actually becomes appropriated.
If I were to add a new branch, it wouldn't be a Space Force.

It'd be a cyberwar force.
For the record, GPS infrastructure was DoD funded. My point is: DoD funding is not all doom, gloom, weapons dev.

A lot of it is logistical infrastructure that has significant benefit for civilian applications.

Remember, defense funding is what fueld the tech sector's birth
Unfortunately, even though these amyloid drugs keep on failing, the "try something else" part of the "if you fail, then you've learned something and can try something else" equation doesn't seem to really register with the industry for whatever reason. We keep pouring money into amyloid trials when it's pretty clear that there's still a lot of basic research to be done to find new leads to pursue.
Toothbrush.
The process was around 6 months long and the child was “4 and a half!” when it started...

A 5 year old can not read/understand or legally sign a legal document. What kind of context would make this “okay”?
Love your user name. So your prompt is a pound sign? ;)
Jules Vernes is one of my favorite authors.

He dreamt big, wild (Michel Strogoff), and daringly (From the Earth to the Moon), ranging from adventure (Around the World in Eighty Days) to scientific anticipation (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), to sheer madness (Robur the Conqueror).

My favorite quote of his is quite revealing of the man's character: "Tout ce qui est dans la limite du possible doit être et sera accompli". Which I would roughly translate as "All that is within the limits of the possible must and will be accomplished".
You lost me at MacOS "sort of has it". MacOS's spotlight works the best out of all of them you listed. AFAIK, in Gnome, you can't search for text in files with the search function. I believe you could in Unity. Window's search mostly works, but I've had issues with it looking for text in files.
I think I'll keep that word.
The latex condom.
Remember this moment when Trump, McConnell, and various other horsemen of the apocalypse tell us we can't afford food stamps or health insurance for poor children.
Yeah makes total sense. I think in the end people mostly misinterpreted the Genesis part in the Bible, and most of it for that matter.

My vision is one I grew after reading several texts of several sources and reflecting about them, not only traditional religious texts but more esoteric and occult texts about it. It's very interesting to see that they mostly complement one another. If you get an esoteric hermetic text or something about how creation occurred you see that it doesn't negate the Bible, and it doesn't negate Science at all. It just goes deeper and deeper, mostly using symbolism.
In the academic community a seminal work on performance is Anders Ericsson's The Road To Excellence. It is based on a premise that excellence in one field is pertinent to excellence in another.
The president can veto any bill sent to him by congress, and that includes the budget.

Should the Democrats control both houses, this is a real possibility. However, it's unlikely to come to that.

Instead, a political process would happen in which the president makes his intent known, and Republicans use the threat as a tool to get a budget more inline with what the president proposed in the first place.
I was not aware of that. How depressing.

Still, I think some of my point can still be salvaged - this implies that it was patented in the early 80s, which by my reckoning is still well after it became possible.
I'd love to see some of these built out and tested. I'm assuming most would snap in half when riding over the first curb. Thanks for sharing!
I've seen pictures on the intarwebs of people using full Commodore PETs at coffee shops. I think in Toronto.
What You Need to Know About Magnesium and Your Sleep
Respectfully disagree.

Paperwork "signed" by a five year ought to be meaningless in any legal situation and the judge should have laughed this out of court. If an adult says "write your name here" they're almost certainly going to do it. They're little kids!
The one in question was offered crayons to color with afterward!

Here's an article with more context: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-five-year-old-w...

In brief, the hearing is to determine if the person can be released on a bond (or parole) instead of being detained. In other words, this probably would have gotten the kid out much faster!
Is Ruby on Rails Dead?
The more and more gets leaked about all this, the more I'm convinced that this is simply a move to set up a policing force - in Space - before the Mars colony really gets rolling.

I mean, when Mars gets colonised, what's to stop Mars from becoming a superpower in the Sol system within a very short period of time? Pretty much nothing.

Once humanity gets its footing on Mars - and it really looks like this is going to happen within the next few decades - there are going to be security repercussions for those of us left on Earth. I believe this Space Force effort is an attempt to make USA not only Earth's police force, but that of the solar system, too.

Extraordinary times! To be actually typing this, in earnest..
The individual agencies, under the guidance of a Cabinet secretary (appointed by the President) submit their budgets. It's a combination of the work of the career civil servants (largely continuing their existing work, plus some new things they'd like to do) and the goals of the President.

That's the budget sent to Congress, and traditionally pronounced "dead on arrival". In practice, the Congress is usually pretty interested in continuing to fund existing programs (many of them mandated by law), and changes (adding and removing stuff) is done around the edges.

The final appropriations bill (authorization to spend money) is passed by the House, then the Senate, and then possibly reconciled between the two.

That's then sent to the President, who can sign it or veto it. The veto could be overridden, but it's a very high bar to clear, and the President's party nearly always has enough votes to avoid that even if they're not an outright majority. So then there's a protracted negotiation... during which the government may shut down if the existing appropriations bill expires (including temporary extensions).
> More than that, I think NLP will unlock new ways of interacting with computers. Computers will be able to handle the ambiguity of human language, transcending their rigid “only do exactly what you tell them” models of the world.

Such as google's duplex?
I'm no statistics expert, but given they can predict election outcomes from samples of a couple thousand people for tens of milions of voters, 40k+ infected with coronavirus is enough to have a very good idea about death rates.
>One could argue this is partly why companies want to do this sort of thing, so their employees grow (among other good / less-than-good reasons).

I really wonder how much of it is this, and how much of it is virtue-signaling at the corporate level: "look at how great our company is! We have our employees spend work hours on charity work!"

While it wouldn't do much for "team building", it seems like society would be better off if these companies simply contributed to a fund to pay minimum-wage workers to do this charity work. This would get more charity work done, and also provide jobs for some underprivileged people.

As for your soapbox, I completely agree.
There's plenty of reasons for economic-abundance value that overlap with strategic military-security spending: strengthening one's stance against bad actors like China and their allies, redirecting and/or mining asteroids for their resources, etc.. Whether Space Force's overt mission is currently aligned with intergalactic safety - certainly Elon Musk is aware and will effort towards protecting and managing for such potential events.
Doesn't this already exist through the NSA and friends?
There are people on youtube who refine their own ores. They are lucky enough to live in a place where ore is close to the surface - not high quality ore, but with enough that for a youtube video you can get a small quantity of pure metal out. (high quality ore is either deep in the ground or already mined). For iron the process is actually simple, knowledge of iron refining likely predated the bronze age, but quality iron ores were too hard to come by to make it useful. (bronze is in much less quantity overall, but where there was was easy to find)

Edit: I won't discount the advances in iron refining though. the methods known thousands of years ago were not suitable to large scale production. It is hard to say if they would have made those advances if ore was available or not.
Volvo opened up the patent for modern three way seat belts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt
https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/news/volvo-trucks-magazine...
Animations far predate such loading tricks.

They provide a sense of spatialisation and context. e.g minimising a window with an animation (such as the Genie effect, but even earlier, cruder ones) helps in understanding where it went and finding it back instead of having it just vanish. Over time the user builds a model of how it operates by observing such cues. To an advanced user it makes no sense because one already understands that, so the animation becomes an inconvenient delay.

Some animations though, are just there for the heck of it, and don’t help (or even confuse) the user. They’re like the high contrast demo mode on TV, aside for being perceptually satisfying, they carry no meaning, and are actively revolting by their cognitive dissonance to users that already have a understanding of interaction models, but you’d be hard pressed to explain that to users that don’t have that understanding.
This is a interesting thought, is there an literature stating a strategic advantage to starting mini wars to train in real warfare?
That's a very good explanation!
Sure, but in this region it’s more like buy my local good for you product, sure it’s a little more expensive but.... “OR ELSE”... Many have been driven out of their town or even killed (yes that is what I said) if you go against the status quo in the Basque region. Mondragón would not exist for not for the Basque cause... and most likely (it’s been their financial arm) the Basque cause would not have existed with out Mondragón.
Sounds like they purchased Anchor for the ad insertion feature. IMO, as a podcast producer, this is a great thing. That said, Anchor currently lets us publish our podcast almost everywhere we'd like to. I can totally see Anchor being turned into Spotify: the podcast host, then that being done away with. I guess that's when we leave Anchor. I don't know, though. I hate having to run ads and how we never get support, but have reached something like 150 plays a week in a year.

I hate to sound like a jerk, but if people paid producers instead of subscribing to companies, the world may be a better place.
Replying from my laptop.

I agree, there needs to be a way to represent relationships between information. I personally don't think knowledge graphs will be the ones to do it, not because they dont work, but because of how imperfect they are, in the data quality sense.

See this paper here:

"DIFFERENTIABLE REASONING OVER A VIRTUAL KNOWLEDGE BASE"
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=SJxstlHFPH

Which is a recent effort, among many, by google research to build a model that can view a document as a knowledge graph, instead of explicitly tying pieces of the document to the graph, the idea to is to create a graph from the document. This is paper is a bit different from that, they do input a knowledge graph for training, but I think the idea and track of where they are headed has a ton of room to evolve. The trick is that transformer models have unlocked the ability to understand the text, so all of this "quasi knowledge graph extraction" that i was just explaining, is only recently possible! There's no research on it, because the baseline understanding of tokens has been too primitive. This is why there is so much room to grow, BERT has unlocked new methods, it can be used as a base for a ton of new NLP.

Just to emphasize again, I'm not saying what I outlined above will be a good way to do it, just that ideas like this could only be tested recently. There's a million new ways to spin this problem.
It's also probably not encouraging that the Connections TV show spans ... often hundreds of years, or more.

A lot of us are just falling for someone else.
Further still, the control software has only recently become efficient enough at the same time that computation is cheap enough to make slicing 3D models a minutes task instead of a months task.
Thanks for that perspective. I too have fought with ADHD tendencies my whole life and have also had similar issues with art and penmanship, and switched to digital notes as early as possible for these reasons, but find myself needing more actual pen and paper as I do more architecture work. Thanks for opening my eyes to something I thought was always closed to me.
The budget outlines a plan to have a budget surplus by 2035. Obviously it would be better for that to happen sooner but that seems unlikely. People are upset about these cuts. Imagine how upset they would be if all discretionary spending was cut in half.
"According to the warrant". Take that with a grain of salt.
If the values of a person are "achieving personal power" in first position and "respect others" in last, that person may be ok to steal.

I hear some people arguing that in business "not breaking the laws" is not the problem unless they get caught and even in that case, it is a problem only if the consequences end up costing more than the gain they receive in doing it.

So a person with those value may end up breaking the law. Are you saying it is ok?
A mysterious 80 nm amoeba virus with a near-complete “ORFan genome”
IMO the invention of microstepping controllers made 3d printing possible; and when they started getting cheap enough for hackers to play with is when all the previous ideas became practical to implment, and then got patented.

There's something to be said for the availability of cheap, high precision stepper motors: these things were a much bigger deal to acquire and control not that long ago.
ME: So there are absolutely no aliens?

GOVERNMENT: looks at paper um no absolutely not.

ME: But you need a space military?

GOVERNMENT: yes that is correct

ME: may I ask why?

GOVERNMENT: I’m sorry that is classified

Lol no
I wonder how long it will be until they decide to reorg NASA under Space Force.
Same here. I've read that book probably at least 20 times in my life, and I expect I'll read it at least a couple more if I live long enough.
And arguably, soaps available in shops are getting worse with every iteration. Enter a big store in most of the developed world, and you can hardly find a regular soap bar anymore (only liquids, "hydrating bars", etc.). Craft markets still have them luckily.
I think this is generally a side effect of people considering actions to be a replacement for the Controller part of MVC. Meaning any sort of logic (including legitimate state manipulation) is jammed into actions.

Personally, I don't see that as a huge problem. Better in an action than sprinkled into components. As someone else mentioned, redux-thunk makes this even easier (and one could argue, promotes this).
I'm in the process of building a B2B multi-tenant SaaS application and one of the best decisions I made so far was to use Easy Peasy [0] to handle the state of my React application logic. It has a very intuitive and powerful API. I would recommend everyone to take it a look as it is not very known.

[0] https://github.com/ctrlplusb/easy-peasy
> Also, the Blackberry was actually useful as a phone. IIRC the iPhones could barely make phone calls until the iPhone 4.

I used mine from a couple months after release until the 4S came out and have no experience supporting that - it was equivalent quality to any other phone I used during that period (pre-VoLTE). The main source of problems was AT&T's network but that affected all phones since it was do to them having massively underprovisioned their network.
Electric battery
Yes, but duplex doesn't work and was too early.
I guess it technically isn't (I believe force multiplier would be the term) but GPS is an extremely powerful weapon if only one side has such capabilities
Some papers which you might find interesting:

Lin, B. Y., Chen, X., Chen, J., & Ren, X. (2019). KagNet: Knowledge-Aware Graph Networks for Commonsense Reasoning. 2822–2832. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/d19-1282

Liu, W., Zhou, P., Zhao, Z., Wang, Z., Ju, Q., Deng, H., & Wang, P. (2019). K-BERT: Enabling Language Representation with Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07606

Trinh, T. H., & Le, Q. V. (2019). Do Language Models Have Common Sense? Iclr, 1–12.

Ostendorff, M., Bourgonje, P., Berger, M., Moreno-Schneider, J., Rehm, G., & Gipp, B. (2019). Enriching BERT with Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Document Classification. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08402
On behalf of the science departments: "We're willing to try!"
Would the world be better or worse off without the population boom that resulted from the invention?
My favorite Commodore PET appearance in a music video is Pete Shelley's 1981 Homosapien:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI

It's the professional version with the Big Boy keyboard, and it's running some silly BASIC program printing out text in a loop.
Spotlight has not been useful to me in over half a decade. It never finds the files I need, despite the fact that I know they're there, I know I typed them right, and I know its settings hasn't hidden or ignored them. And instead it almost always shows useless files in completely obscure parts of the OS that shouldn't even show up in Spotlight. I turned it off like a year ago and haven't regretted it since.
This sucks, I would rather see more civilian than military advanced projects, but of course Trump has the opposite preference.

(That isn't to say that DoE isn't doing plenty of military stuff too.)
Deployed widely in modern times, but invented in antiquity.
"Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. After a two year “freeze”, Verisign can increase prices by 7% annually during 2026-2029, then another two year “freeze”. This cycle will continue, meaning that within 10 years, .COM domains could cost approximately 70% more than the current wholesale price of $7.85 — and the sky is the limit."
About 150 of them?