skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A potential analogy might be something like using Carrie Fisher's image in the new Star Wars movies. I would assume the estate got paid for that. Or holo-tupac.

Practically speaking I think it will come down to what you negotiate. If you negotiate usage of the bar for your series then you can use it, otherwise not. If you negotiate resale of that model then that's legal, otherwise not. Most large productions will probably want to stay far on the right side of the law and get a written/financial agreement until things are hammered out, then you'll have amateur filmmakers who have to do vigilante shoots.

And again, probably something that will have to be legislated out for the long term.

In France, the appearance of buildings can be copyrighted, famously the Eiffel Tower is very aggressive about suing photographers.
I think it's that the layout of the map, with flags going above and below a circular plane, looks exactly like (and is perhaps inspired by) the scanner that shows where ships around you in local space are in Elite/Oolite (FOSS Elite 1984 clone, highly recommended).
Hey creator here, this didn't get any traction so it's pretty buried right now, but for anyone who finds this in the future, our course is a free, self-paced curriculum that focuses on foundational knowledge and preparing learners to teach themselves anything that comes after. It has about 400+ hours of work in it and while designed for beginners with no assumed knowledge, has a lot to offer anybody no matter how long they've been around computers.
Sure, I've no doubt grocery stores have a better economy-of-scale around this sort of thing, but the article seemed to be invalidating the entire product, so I was speaking against that.

I will also say that the recipes are a huge factor, and the delivery is a non-zero factor. We haven't gotten the same recipe twice and they consistently impress with bold and unexpected flavors, and fewer trips to the store (and fewer ingredients going to waste from expiration) is really nice as a pair of working adults.
Don't forget that Snowden leaks revealed that there is a huge open sharing pipe directly with Israel.

I can't recall the details - Ill have to go look it up again, but apparently Israel gets more data than any of the others, IIRC.
Yes, I understand what that kind of comparison is, but you haven’t substantiated it.

It’s a pretty horrible analogy - demeaning to cancer patients aside from anything else, and seems to seek to tarnish a seemingly well-intentioned business by linking it to something awful, without any basis.

I don’t suggest the company is beyond criticism or without a need to improve; it’s still a fairly new company after all.
Why do you value Visa over MC?
Coinbase closed the account; they did allow all funds to be withdrawn.

Fortunately there are tons of digital currency exchanges. Kraken, Gemini, Bittrex are all very viable alternatives that also comply with various regulations in the US.
The difference in height for US age cohorts (among adults, obviously) is driven by ethnicity- and younger cohorts are shorter on average.
Ask HN: Can a PEO rightfully expose your income to other employers?
In 2019 I worked for two companies that made use of the same professional employer organization (PEO). This PEO generated a single W-2 for 2019, combining my income from the two companies. Both companies can view this combined income W-2. Simple W-2 less payroll math would reveal to each company what the other paid.

This doesn't sit well with me for myriad reasons, and I can't imagine this is entirely legal. While the PEO reps are empathetic in correspondence on this issue, no resolution/progress on the matter has been made whatsoever over the last few weeks. Any advice/counsel is appreciated.
Ad Polish end of high school exams: quite a few years ago I created an interactive widget to explore it https://github.com/stared/delab-matury.

There are a few jokes about the Matural Distribution (Matura is the name of this exam) or the Polish Gaussian.

It is the Polish language, which is the most discontinuous. However:

- There are quite a few scores for the essay which are subjective (e.g. on the style).

- It is an official procedure that in the case of results on the edge, the person marking should mark an ambiguous score in the favour of the student.
One of the things I missed the most living in Europe without a dryer (this was the norm in my experience, at least when/where I lived) was a warm fluffy cotton towel fresh from the dryer. I pay 8-9 US cents per kW/h which with a 240V 20A dryer (little known fact even to people who live here, almost every house in the US has both ~240V and ~120V service) pulling 3000W in service runs me about 25-35 cents a load or closer to $1 in Germany. Worth it.
> Some people just aren't cut out for athletics genetically. Some grow later on and may or may not be interested. Age seems like a fair sorting criteria and general enough to not introduce too much complexity.

Age isn't particularly fair but it isn't the worst either. As a kid, being around kids younger than you can be really displeasing. When you're a kid, the only thing you want is to be treated like you're older/better than you are. If you keep getting put on teams for people who are small - it's likely you're being put on teams for people who are smaller than you.

I had to play baseball with 7-yr olds for about 3 years. It wore me down as a kid. I gave up on baseball at that point and said I wasn't doing it anymore. The reason I had to play with them is because no coach wanted me on their team because they saw me as too small. (Small town, they didn't group by age as much as they did by size) I'd see kids go up to bigger-kid teams and get bigger but I stayed the same size.

As a kid - it was super disheartening to be stuck with the same 7 to 8 year olds for all that time and seeing people you used to play with in the bigger kid league. It sucked.

That said - baseball is probably the ONLY sport I can imagine being where you could move kids up by age and not by size as much. Football, soccer, basketball, etc. all involve a serious size component to them whereas baseball is less so - in my mind.

For reference - I grew up to be a normal sized adult. I was just super late on the curve compared to my peers.
Speaking of, why are we talking about self-driving cars when trains and trams still have drivers, and those are much more constrained problem spaces?
I get around 6 emails per day from various spammers operating from AWS servers[1] asking that I unsubscribe to stop receiving their emails. They presumably want me to: reveal my location (the page has tracking pixels) and that my email works (confirm target address is valid). Or something similarly stupid or valuable to them.

I also got a very threatening email purporting to have access to my gmail etc. I didn't wait around for confirmation. My instant response: got a new sim for its mobile number, set up 2fa on that for gmail. Put new sim in an old phone. Also changed password etc.

I advise anyone with a gmail etc still using sms/text for 2fa to at least set it up so the mobile number used is not one that has ever appeared in your contacts list. Or that you've ever given out to a random website, eg facebook/linkedin. Linkedin has repeatedly lost control[2] over their database in terms of email/phone number.

I kept my main number just for contact as before but I dont use it for 2fa. Also, plenty of other 2fa options exist so use them. Authenticator app is a thing too. Now I have two phones with that app. Very handy.

My new "authentication" phone is a prepaid thing with 365 say expiry and $5 credit. I never make or receive calls on it. Its not on my contact list.

I'll leave out the benefits of having your own domain because this comment is long enough. Only that it makes spam origin detection so much easier. Not to mention filtering.

[1] why gmail can't filter by sender hostname/ip is beyond me. I'd also like to tag emails from unsecured transports. My current solution is reporting spam via gmail and also I'm in the process of extracting out a automated list of AWS hosts that are sending spam so I could report them to AWS.

[2] which is why my very old mobile number that was fresh at the time is now "out there" against my email address. The source was hopefully just linkedin scraping. I know it was only linkedin because that phone was unfortunately destroyed about a week later.
I expect better.
What is your basis for saying "way more useful"? So far, I've got an argument why price inflation is way more useful, and you've got a bare claim.

Even the article you linked says "However, there is a general consensus on the importance and responsibility of central banks and monetary authorities in setting public expectations of price inflation and in trying to control it." That is, economists recognize the importance and value of price inflation as a measure, while they are divided on how to consider monetary inflation.
Thanks for pointing out, link is this one: https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/9857/mark-twain-his-own-devices...
> I don't really understand why someone would buy one of their mattresses that you can't test out at a store

As someone who bought a mattress online:

1. You don't have to go to a store, which makes it much more convenient to buy.
2. If you don't like it, you can return it for a full refund, so there's no possibility of wasting money on a mattress you don't like.
This makes zero sense. I hang dry most of my laundry because, why not? But the few things that go into my tumble dryer had better get out completely dry, what would be the point otherwise? Recent dryers with heat-pumps take longer but consume less energy.
Exactly. Accelerating and crashing into a barrier a human would easily avoid is not acceptable. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/02/13/ntsb-r...

It psychologically like being a passenger in a car with a good driver who has a history of epileptic seizures.
I wonder how many drug studies we'll end up having to eventually re-do to account for metabolic interference by microbes.

Everyone without this microbe was non-responsive to Drug A.
Everyone with this microbe had negative outcomes from Drug B.
PlayStation and Facebook cancel GDC appearances citing coronavirus concerns
They also showed how they were working on cut-in prediction in the tesla autonomy day video
Show HN: Narratory – a dialog-first chatbot authoring tool and runtime
I'm guessing the comments you are referring to are more specific than a broad reading of "government involvement in tech"? My first thoughts were "DARPAnet, automobile safety standards, ... etc.". Reading it as "regulation of communications", I find myself leaning more towards agreeing with your sentiments.
It says there is no need for an arguement because there is nothing to justify it.
"Should it be legal for the government to kill and harvest the organs of underperforming schoolchildren?".

"No. Full stop." Is a stance that there is nothing to even argue.
Interesting.

L-dopa appears to have L-Tyrosene as a precursor, which can be found in Casein (present in cheese) or synthesized from Phenylalanine (a metabolic byproduct of Aspartame).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-DOPA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrosine --casein in intro pgh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrosine#Biosynthesis --phenylalanine

Edit: The phe->tyr connection in the context of a gut biome capable of converting l-dopa to dopamine is dubious, though, because I'd assume phe->tyr synthesis would likely not take place in the gut, rather beyond it, in mammals. So uh, maybe just cheese?

Anyway, I'm not an organic chemist. I can't even remotely pretend to be qualified to connect those dots. But if my anecdotal/personal experience says anything: breaking my aspartame habit has been an utter nightmare when I switched to keto, and I still love cheese. I drank well over two liters of diet coke a day for years, and I still go through cheese like air.

I invite corrections from the experts here. Dead certain I got something wrong. All I know is I have a hideous addiction to certain foods and anything minting dopamine in my gut would surely invite my curiosity.
I'm not sure why your comment is stated in the second person; I have not voted in any primary, participated in any caucus, responded to any survey, or joined any sort of political association with regards to the 2020 election. I understand (and happen to disagree with) the point you're trying to make, but I don't understand why you're implying that myself or other commenters on Hacker News are personally responsible for who is running in the primary.
Apple Think Different Ad Narrated by Steve Jobs (Algerian Version)
Zinus foam mattresses in the US are quite affordable (~$200) especially when they have their sales going.
> Nuclear power is the only solution.

How much energy storage do we need to not need nuclear? That seems to be an assumption you're making that I'm not actually familiar with.
Obviously he fired you as a customer.

This is how the misspellings in Nigerian Prince emails market to the "right" customers.
Unity supports builds targeting WebGL and WASM.

Last time I stumbled on an "io game" built this way, the lack of WASM debugging tools made it very hard to hack at the game :(
Where's your serverless product? I don't want to manage Kubernetes any more than I want to manage instances.
Apple will pop a new battery into it for like $150 and it'll work good as new. Be quick, though, as parts are only available for five years from last sale.
> I've always viewed Tropic Thunder as somewhat of a successor to Blazing Saddles

I'd say Django Unchained is the closest I've seen to a modern Blazing Saddles.
Thanks! For some reason I find it difficult to just approach people and talk about stuff with them.
That makes intuitive sense, but hasn't matched what I've seen in real life. I have had much more interesting and polite conversations on Freenet (which provides almost complete anonymity) than I have had on Facebook, back when I used it. I'm guessing it's because the audience is smaller and less visible. I think people posture for the invisible audience they assume are watching their every post, so larger communities tend to go south much more quickly than smaller more focused ones. You also get more group-think and mob-like behavior. As another example, smaller subreddits on reddit are much more polite and fun (in my experience) than the main subs. Whenever a subreddit I'm on gets linked to r/all, I just skip that post for my general mental stability. Youtube comments are another example, which are generally terrible in my experience and are visible by a huge potential audience.
When I run the numbers, a solar water heater does not work out for me. In order for me to eliminate my electric heater I would need an active (somewhat more costly) solar heating system which run ~$4k the lower end if you include the cost of installation. At a rate of about $500 a year in water heating costs that's a 8 year payback timeframe for a device that has a 5 year warranty (more expensive models have longer warranties).
How should people buy mattresses, or mattress-like products, to avoid this 2000% markup?
Synthetic data is a tool in a system of privacy-preserving analytics. I don't think a lot of companies would be comfortable with shipping their sensitive data into a model sitting not on their premises. The model, needs to generate good enough results that would make sense in a training/analysis scenario (doubtful) and preserve the privacy of that data (difficult).

People in the Privacy-preserving industry try to find the silver bullet in one technology, but the real solution is a combination of different technologies. Trusted delegation of computation + privacy-preserving techniques together solve this issue, but separately provide marginal value.
> It is an official procedure that in the case of results on the edge, the person marking should mark an ambiguous score in the favour of the student

Given that it's subjective, I find that a really generous and positive take on marking protocol. It takes some perspective to note that while you can't see the value in someone's work, there may still be value in it.

edit: After reading through the article in full, I understand perhaps that's not what's going on exactly. Just teachers trying their hardest to find ways not to fail the exam as it is such an important life step for that person. Still a virtuous thing to do!
Consider computer graphics and computer vision. If you had a photorealistic renderer, it could be useful for generating training data for a vision algorithm. However, you can't just run your rendering pipeline backwards to create a scene out of an image.
A scenario for a hypothetical private nuclear program
Oh my... I saw FIDO2 and immediately (for some reason) thought it was a resurgence of FidoNet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet and somehow someone built a new FidoNet with security and audits.
OpenPGP is arriving, will be available via firmware upgrade.

https://github.com/solokeys/openpgp
Tracking technology is too effective not to use. A two week incubation is catastrophic for containment. It seems that most countries have given up trying, before it's even begun - only Singapore is doing exhaustive contact tracing and testing. The standard of testing and isolation in western countries (looking at the US and UK) is... poor. Imagine if this disease had a 100% fatality rate - it would be apocalyptic and we would be powerless.

Privacy and control of information is a huge concern. The correct architecture for this, in my opinion, is exhaustive local collection of location data, followed by subpoena on confirmed diagnosis. Once you've been proven to have been walking around town infecting people, other people's right to know they've been exposed trumps your right to location privacy (although the data need not be tagged with identity, we must assume that the level of detail required to make it useful would deanonymize it). Everybody can check their local tracks database against the public record of exposure hotspots, and get themselves tested if they've been exposed.

The biggest challenge with a system like this is making sure the people in charge of it are trustworthy, and persuading people that it's in their interest to participate in it.
Well, Bernie was also endorsing Castro's Cuba, the USSR, and the Sandinistas' Nicaragua. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhpVAkBDg5o (He visited each of these countries in the mid-to late 80s, when the atrocities were already well-known).

Not quite the Nordic model.

He praises socialist governments, ignoring their murders and killings of people trying to escape, and when their economies inevitably tank, he shifts to different examples (1980s Bernie "Castro...totally transformed society" visited for the third time in 1989. The "special period" crisis began in 1991 with widespread famine. 2016 "The Cuban economy is a disaster" 2020 "Let's talk about...Denmark!").

The new strategy of endorsing non-socialist economies (Scandinavian countries with capitalist free market economies and strong social safety nets) is probably a better long-term model. Danish Prime Minister: "I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy." https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/denmark-tells-...
The lint in the lint trap comes from somewhere, and I really doubt that much material is flying off of air dried clothes.
Employees would be seen as acting on behalf of the corporate entity. So really they are proxy and/or talking for the corporate entity. Not themselves.

Most random employees have no usefully unrestricted free speech when their contract often deliberately punishes them if they say the wrong word. Those people working for companies shut up about their work unless they are willing to go whistleblower / they reveal a workplace safety issue / have legal advice etc.
Some people died yesterday (3)
Am I having Déjà vu?

Does anyone else remember seeing a thread about Coinbase trying something ambitious/sanctimonious and then comments calling it fluff or handwaving it away, just like this, a year or more ago?
> The reality is, you can guarantee certain values are not passed. That’s fairly easy

Nonsense. There's a fundamental requirement that for a model to have utility, it must have access to relevant data. If you truly find a leak-proof way to block certain values (which is borderline impossible in itself), then you make the model significantly weaker or outright useless if those values aren't uniformly distributed across the input domain.

And if you do have leakage (and you almost certainly do), then direct re-identification becomes a trivial problem and we're back to square one.

Synthetic data generated from statistical analysis of real data is either worthless or leaky. One of those two conditions is formally guaranteed to be true.

GP is correct that a viable synthetic data generator basically has to have already solved your problem for you, and in that sense it just becomes your model which is trained on real data. Training an additional model on top of that model doesn't add any privacy or mitigate reidentification.
(And of course currencies have been digital, as opposed to analog, for thousands of years, and one of the leading hypotheses on the origin of digits as a way of representing numbers is that they were used for accounting. "Digital" is not simply a synonym for "electronic"; rather, it's the practice of representing numbers or other information as sequences of discrete, arbitrary symbols, rather than continuously varying quantities of something like weight, width, or voltage; symbols such as "4", coins, or cuneiform glyphs.)
Anecdotally I saw that skew in real life before online dating. Women and men would all tell me I looked "About" 5'10", which I decoded as shorthand for "You're definitely not 6 foot"
Very cool. It works with the motion sensor
I organise tech conferences as part of a non-profit.

If I've already started selling tickets, and had to postpone the event because of something like COVID-19, I'd be looking at paying Stripe something like $3,500 in payment processing fees (it's 3.4%+$0.50 here; and assuming $100k in ticket revenue) for the privilege of refunding my attendees.

It's not an amount that would sink our non-profit, but the full fee is also not something that we should have to pay, just because we want to do right by our attendees.
> how would one find one?

Mattress Underground's explanation of local manufacturers is a good start: https://www.themattressunderground.com/the-industry/manufact.... Their forum also has Q&A about specific cities.

The rest of their tutorials are as good as any online: https://www.themattressunderground.com/the-industry/industry..., https://www.themattressunderground.com/mattresses/mattress.h...
Same reason Schwab bought td and Ms did this deal today... Expand out their younger millennial base and sell them more products.

Jpm has Chase as it's retail platform. But it lags behind in trading features.

Why not?
> 1) the NSA never did anything illegal

Okay... but even if it was legal that doesn't mean what they did is "right". There's a big difference.
Don't the current 5-Eyes practices already include all of this?

"I'll spy on your people, you will spy on my people."
The "feel good" chemical in your brain is put together from a building block version of it.

But sometimes it doesn't get that far, because special types of bugs in your gut get to the building block version first. They do the same thing your brain does to it, but it's unclear what the effects are, because it's happening in your gut before it gets to your brain.

This is a paper confirming and isolating one of those special types of bugs. The implications could be pretty big: Are these bugs affecting medications? Moods? Are they stealing our brain's supply of feel good chemical? Can we use their powers for good?
Why did Yubikey ever close source their firmware? It's really saddening to see a company going back on that