skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but we are talking about a twofold trust problem here. Trust in an entity (external company vs internal developer) and trust in the work itself.

While I do see your point about trusting an external company which is specialized in the problem I’m trying to solve more than my own developers, I still have to transfer my highly sensitive data to them for which I have to trust them even more.
I think there are a number of different use cases that people want data for, so there aren't any blanket answers to "is this a good approach".

As an intermediary like you describe is far different than "I don't have enough real data for what I want to do", for example.
What happens if you take a flash-loan of a trillion dollars, and make a bad arbitrage decision, and loose a 1%?
The sooner that billionaire becomes a greater pejorative, the better.

The whole of society suffers from the accumulation of wealth to these few people.

On that basis, I don’t give a fuck what this person says because they won’t overcome the exploitation that got them there. And he does not command respect by having so much money.

This is the aristocracy by a different measure. Back then they used agricultural output. Now it is measured in assets.
And that's when the service becomes less usable because by then you'll start buying the ingredients by yourself.
Blizzard's Q4 Financials Show That Blitzchung Controversy Probably Had No Effect
Suppose you, and your allies, have publicly insisted that major tech companies are biased against Conservatives by deleting their posts, banning them, or whatever. You need to be seen to be taking some action to fix things somehow.

I personally doubt they'll change anything. Republicans talked about the idea of the media being biased against them for decades, from newspapers to Holywood. Major legal changes have been fairly rare.
I drive an electric (LEAF) for a little over 5 years and also maintain my wife’s characteristically low maintenance car (Honda CR-V). Despite being very low maintenance, her car is much more maintenance intensive than my car. In five years, I’ve filled the washer fluid several times, changed the wiper blades, and plugged one flat tire. On her car, oil changes alone have taken more time, to say nothing of the brakes, power steering pump, valve adjustment, exhaust gasket change, and a handful of other jobs (all small).

In my case, the “myth” very much matches my experience.
I would like to see the impact of the dollar in terms of the environment in 2020 vs 1985. I hope that the impact of my dollar is less, and I bet most people today are willing to pay more for a smaller environmental impact.
I really wish people would stop using the title “billionaire”. Is “billionaire” the new aristocracy or priesthood?
This doesn't rule out the effect of dopamine on the rest of the nervous system, including the hundred million neurons wrapping the gut as well as the neurons modulating heart function.
The dataset you linked is from 1971. The older cohorts were born near the turn of the century when nutrition wasn't exactly the greatest for large segments of the population. It's most likely that the skew is due to environmental factors rather than ethnic ones there. See [1]. Age related height declines don't even start until age 40 and are quite small for some time, so it's unlikely to be a factor in dating-related data sets. See [2].

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/136/2/473/4664347

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2807265
Threema Web uses WebRTC data channels to establish a direct connection between phone and browser: https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-web/ Definitely possible (but quite complex in practice).
Interesting study, but there are some potential issues.

One is that it is small, about 100 students.

The other is that the demographics of the students at the second school shift between the 2 years. This may confound the study due to cultural differences. For example, in my limited experience, it seems that white parents are more strict about bedtime than Asian parents, and if that is the case, more sleep may simply be a result that the second group had parents who pushed stricter bedtimes.

From: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/suppl/2018/...

School RHS FHS

Year 2016 2017 2016 2017

Students 51 41 41 41

% Female 53 49* 56 58

% White 76 75 2 19

% Asian 10 5 54 46

% Hispanic 6 5 7 7

% African American 8 5 32 22

% Unknown/other 0 10 10 10

Age (mean ±SEM) 16.08 ± 0.05 16.27 ± 0.08 16.13 ± 0.05 16.13 ± 0.06

I would take these results with a grain of salt.
I was wondering if there is any driverless USB smartcard that can speak GIDS?

The GIDS login for our sysadmin worked wonderfully, but the downside is the reader.
Flexradio Maestro hacking part 2: Revealing the backdoor
SpaceX Tourist Flights may start as early as 2021
Facebook Open-Sourced HiPlot, Python Library for ML Visualizations
True. So would Gaius “Caesar” Julius, BTW.
The YubiKey hardware with its integral firmware has never been open sourced.

https://www.yubico.com/blog/secure-hardware-vs-open-source/
That's the wrong question. The right question is how much time do you think the grid should be offline each year?

It's a simple question no renewable proponent wants to talk about because it makes their whole case indefensible.
There's evidence that some people are biologically pre-disposed towards waking up late, aka "owls" [0]. During adolescence, the tendency for delayed sleep phase rises to 7-16% [1], though it drops down to 1 in 600 for adults.

While never formally diagnosed with DSPD, I've struggled with chronotype/sleep issues my whole life, and it made public education a nightmare. I'm often still in a high-energy mental state at 2am (possibly heritable, my mother is the same way). Putting my head on the pillow is a futile gesture; I'll get tired faster if I get up and do something. I've found mitigation strategies (limiting blue light is the biggest), but it doesn't change that my energy starts low in the morning and steadily accumulates, while "larks" are the exact opposite.

I've only managed to function in my career due to much of the tech industry being highly flexible on scheduling; probably 30-40% of my output happens after 10pm, on average.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
There are a lot of studies as to why this is happening:

https://www.uk-rehab.com/alcohol-addiction/why-is-alcoholism...

https://www.ashwoodrecovery.com/blog/alcoholism-rise-not-slo...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/10/542409957...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325135#Economic-gr...
You are comparing people who have caught COVID-19, to per head of population, many of who won't catch the flu.
In the case of the brothel, it was their version of Backpage (with reviews and everything!)
The rise and rise of ransomware
Yes, thank you for your clarity - I did a bit of digging and found https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-german-house... which does seem to clear up many aspects.

I will say, the shift in electric cars and more so the iminante arrival of solid state lithium batteries, distributed and more so, local home storage will start to become and more open avenue. This would be great for flats that can not avail the installation of solar panels and also those that rent (more an aspect in Germany) which are limited. A battery tech that you don't have to worry about exploding and you can literally drive nails into and be safe, will be game changing (not advocating that people drive nails into batteries, more a way to explain how much safer they are). That level of safety will open up the home storage market more as well.
> They sort of make sense for non-developers who want to make a prototype game and "tweak" things by writing as little code as possible

I'm a programmer for life and I am always looking for opportunities to turn code into data. The editor is just a way to edit some of that data.

You can take this take this too far though. The inner platform effect is real and I'm not personally a fan of visual scripting languages most of the time. But even that has nuance, because writing shaders visually in Unreal where you get an image preview at each step of the transformation is incredible.

Note that I'm not a game developer by day and when I do dip into Unity/Unreal I tend to also avoid the editor, but looking at it as a spectrum from developer to illiterate is a fallacy.
This is generally the case for entertainment-related social media backlashes. The loudest voices generally don't reflect mass market opinions and also don't represent real monetary harm to companies. Most people simply don't care enough to actually... not pay for the thing they enjoy.
Svelte with TypeScript
it is not impossible to imagine enslaved people taking on leading roles in running the Stringer’s Hotel and other establishments in Austin.

There’s much comforting in imagined logical possibility. Reading Fredrick Douglas’s autobiographies or Blight’s recent Pulitzer winner dissipates such illusion. If the knowledge of children for sale provided in the article somehow wasn’t enough to demonstrate how unincharge slaves were.
> during the 2001 dot-com craze?

The x86 virtualisation tech just wasn’t up to it back then.
Self-selection? I imagine those are biologically wired for a late-night chronotype either don't join the Marines, or wash out relatively quickly.
If you have to pay royalties, they won't be to the bar; they'll be to the bar's architect. Copyright law generally only covers expressive, rather than functional, aspects of a copyrighted work, so things like doors and walls might be okay, but architectural design is recognized as copyrightable.

In general I strongly recommend avoiding the term "intellectual property" because it conflates several different areas of law with almost totally unrelated traditions, statutes, and (in common-law countries) precedents — copyrights, patents, design patents, mask works, trademarks, trade secrets, and most alarmingly, in the EU, database rights. (Moreover, it's an extremely loaded term, like "pro-life" and "pro-choice".)
Rob Reiner definitely tried hard to carry the torch: Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men... For about 10 years he was as hot as the sun.
I am talking about the threat model that a person have if they work with information that by law they need to keep secret, which if you live in the EU is basically any personal identifiable information about a customers. There is also a long list of professions that deal with sensitive information and carry legal binding requirements to not divulge to third parties. Typical examples is anyone working in health care, education, government, legal system and so on. I am not talking about meta data but classified or data which if disclosed results in people getting fired and holds legal punishment such as jail time.

Using gmail without encryption in those cases is a security issue and also illegal. A lot of people still use gmail in those cases and google track record in regard to data leaks has meant that few people have been found out. That said it will only take one significant data leak and people will start to dig for all data being sent to google. That day a lot of peoples head will roll.

I would guess without exaggeration that a large enough data leak at gmail would cause a global market crash. There is just too much plain text data containing sensitive information that people would dig into. Not private, not meta, just information which people should not have given to a third party. Google privacy policy does not play a role in that.
In the city of Rome, I think many adults did actually die young, in addition to infant mortality. And they were replaced by imports from the countryside.

In fact I think no large city was self-sustaining, perhaps until London, c 1800? Having that many people in proximity simply wasn't healthy. For much the same reason, very few wars before WWI (perhaps none?) had more men killed by the enemy than by disease.
Yeah fair enough. I'll find an article to submit
I have 2 dogs and work with them in the room all the time. They can be distracting, but to me, this is mostly in a good way. I do understand that they can be slightly annoying at times, but I couldn't live without them.

I do understand that several dogs may annoy you, but yeah - bring it up with management, get some noise cancelling phones. Not sure why they would put the dogs so close to you guys.
The only ongoing commissioning of a coal fired plant is Datteln 4. Construction was started 13 years ago to replace several ageing coal fired power plants. Due to technical and legal delays it will go online in 2020. Several other power plants will go offline afterwards, roughly with the same generation capacity as Datteln 4. I think it is safe to assume that this will be the last newly built coal fired power plant in Germany.
i was just looking at my renter's insurance with AAA recently and was thinking about canceling because the premiums have steadily creeped up over the last few years (by ~30-40% overall).

goodcover would cost a third of my current premiums for the lowest tier, and half for the highest. i'm going to dig a little deeper and will likely switch!

(i also did some tech consulting early in my career in life insurance underwriting, when mutual firms were all converting to corps)
There's been public claims about it, and honestly thinking that they wouldnt do it once they have the power to seems naive?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/thatcher-ordered-echelon-surve...
> Ex-spy Mike Frost told the CBS 60 Minutes programme that Thatcher had ordered surveillance on two cabinet colleagues according to excerpts released on Thursday. The allegation comes in the same week that a European Parliament report said Echelon, a surveillance system run by the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, was used for industrial espionage.
This is depressing to people who expect the dating and sexual marketplace to be some sort of meritocracy, or equality to be exhibited. It's more of a free market than some care to admit. The gritty truth is: people are depreciating assets, and some lose their value (perceived or actual) faster than others.

One of the founders of Okcupid (a data scientist) wrote a book, Dataclysm [1], using data from Okcupid's platform; I highly recommend it (this is where the above comment's [2] graphs are sourced from). You get other "interesting" observations, such that most people don't describe themselves as racist, but a surprisingly high number of people are [3].

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Dataclysm-Identity-What-Online-Offl...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22379741

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/380086/the-uncomfort... (In Online Dating, Everyone's a Little Bit Racist)
Yeah, in practice I think district heating is probably the only way to actually improve on the thermodynamic efficiency of just taking all that high-grade energy and converting it straight to low-grade heat. Running heat pumps off electricty from non-cogeneration gas plants can only roughly match the efficiency of gas heating, and smaller-scale CHP setups have efficiency losses that make them questionable.
This is neat. I was just looking for something like this the other day.

Does it support loops? I don't see any example like that. Basically I wanted to load a search results page and check something about each of the results on the page.
Exactly. "Unskilled" generally refers to how long it takes to learn the skill. You can teach someone to efficiently change duvet covers in... maybe a couple hours? You can teach someone to be a competent accountant in... maybe a couple years? That's the difference.
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I expected this, it's basically a quick way to add revenue from re-usable boosters and Crew Dragon capsules. I will be curious to hear what the price ends up being, they price an F9 launch at $62M [1] where the person buying the launch supplies the payload. If they charge $70M (adding $8M for the use of Crew Dragon) then they would need $10M per passenger to launch at "list" price.

They also say you don't need a "pro" pilot on board since everything is automated but I'd hate to be on one of these where something breaks and the tower has to "talk you down" :-). All in all its going to be really interesting over the next decade to see how this plays out.

The Bigelow deal was in 2012[2] which was only 8 years ago. I'm guessing they are ahead of that timeline, but maybe not.

[1] https://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities

[2] https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/spacex-announces-dea...
Why are they started in the first place? Where do people get the capital to start a type of business that's observably likely to fail?
It doesn’t have to do with the article but the life expectancy of a Roman slave was shockingly low

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome#Demo...
That makes me wonder: who is verifiably the best human driver? I recall reading about a truck driver who went over a million miles without being in an accident. Probably someone like that?
Google AI to no longer use gender labels like 'woman' or 'man'
The frontpage discussion after the news first broke https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282
Didn't they just have layoffs recently?
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It's much better than the reflection of a green/blue screen or an empty studio with some cameras and people.

Glossy surfaces are usually not a problem unless they're (near) perfect mirrors. Even then -- lights are usually what you see in most reflections because they're orders of magnitude brighter than the rest of the set.

If reflections are problem with this new technique in certain settings, they would be even more with the current state of the art.

In those cases you replace them digitally. No way around this; either way.

Related trivia: The chrome starships in EP1 were actually rendered with environment mapping and reflection occlusion[1].
Even most games do better stuff today. Did you notice? :]

[1] http://www.spherevfx.com/downloads/ProductionReadyGI.pdf
5.3 Reflection Occlusion, pp. 89
Yeah, I bought an expensive umbrellas for my backyard. It came without a pin in the hinge so it wouldn't open/close properly.

I told them, they said to throw it away and they would send me a new one. They sent me a new one but I repaired the other one - it seemed line a terrible waste to toss it. It crossed my mind that I could claim similar things for other objects even when they weren't broken.

That said, they both broke within a year. Taught me another lesson: buy cheap, replace yearly. Better than buying expensive and replacing yearly. Now I buy $50 outdoor wooden umbrellas.
The best time to do an install is when you’re looking at buying a water heater either way. Thus significantly reducing the price premium. Further, sizing a system to also handle home heating is generally where the real savings takes place.

As to warranty, they generally last well past that point. You may be replacing a part or to at ~10 years, but a 20+ year lifespan is common depending on the model and your water hardness.
Not a great point. Describing work as "unskilled" is about how many people can be hired to do it (aka supply).
Sure, I think. You just default client apps to all mainstream filters. So new users see nothing alarming. At least, until they start tweaking.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, not sure I’d place a bet on DO taking on AWS realistically, but:

> So to think that DigitalOcean with a $300MM debt line and 250+ people in engineering is going to go after AWS just doesn't add up.

Lots of Money + Lots of People =/= Guaranteed Success

It’s more a matter of taking on the market from a slightly different angle.

One viable path I see is for DO to ramp up their enterprise appeal by offering services on par with AWS, while cutting down the operational complexity of managing AWS services (using AWS = incredibly high overhead with configuration and everything else).
It's not 1999 anymore. There will be increasing demand for cloud services going forward. It's more of a bread and butter rush than a gold rush.
> That success comes from acting like a bank. Coinbase draws in customer funds via bank wires. It stores its assets—numerical keys that unlock coins—in vaults. It boasts of insurance coverage from Lloyd’s of London. It has a security staff of 41, including an Iraq War veteran assessing perimeter risks and a Ph.D. cryptographer doing the same for mathematical assaults.

It is a bank, that instead of storing cash, stores keys. It is centralized. It complies with regulators. It does allow you to withdraw your keys into your own wallet, but a bank also allows you to withdraw your cash to your physical wallet. It walks like a bank, and it quacks like a bank. It is a bank.
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Wow, when can we have those boxes for cars please?
I enjoyed the story and apparently many other people did too. It's fanservice for sure, hence all the callbacks to characters and aliens that had background or very brief appearances in the original movies and left people wanting more. Cheesy, perhaps, but the entire franchise is pineapple pizza in space.
I'm feeling verbose today. So.

Demand is far too overstating it. And I'm not proposing or demanding it become law. There's a bunch of side-effects we might not like.

But let's go with it anyway:

Freedom of speech is different from freedom of the press. But both are linked because the amendment was written to allow for people to record their grievances to government via a free press. This is why free press was linked - people wanted their speech recorded in print and it was seen that government might legislate this out of existence or otherwise restrict it.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Notice that people can obviously operate a press without congress outlawing it.

Care to show me where a corporation gets free speech from? Not from that amendment. It comes from law around granting corporations the status of "legal person". This was necessary to allow a group of people to operate a business and have the business be liable, make contracts etc instead of the group.

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

If you want to imply corporations have freedom of the press and therefore freedom of speech thats the only angle you have if you reject "legal person". Freedom of press is the ability to print. My fictional judge would accept that printed page as "from the corporate entity". But its still not speech: That judge would then ask the corporate entity to speak it.

As for a corporation actually being able to speak or print. The entity can own a printer. So it can "speak" via the press. But it can't actually talk without a proxy. No actual mouth nor was it born with one nor would it could presumably be seen to even possibly have been born with one. This covers the case where some clever lawyer might bring up exceptions for birth deformity as a reason for granting something without speech actual free speech.

But in reality its all moot: "legal person" is already a thing. And it overrides all of this. Until it doesn't I guess but that is unlikely.

The more astute would just say that any of these conditions would have to be put into law and the amendment prevents that. So, its still moot. Unless you determine that legal entities aren't actually people but only narrowly defined as people for particular reasons.