skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the digital economy, user data is typically treated as capital created by corporations observing willing individuals. This neglects users' roles in creating data, reducing incentives for users, distributing the gains from the data economy unequally, and stoking fears of automation. Instead, treating data (at least partially) as labor could help resolve these issues and restore a functioning market for user contributions, but may run against the near-term interests of dominant data monopsonists who have benefited from data being treated as "free." Countervailing power, in the form of competition, a data labor movement, and/or thoughtful regulation could help restore balance.

This is one of Jaron Lanier's arguments. And I guess Tim Berner-Lee's as well. Individuals should own their data and corporations should pay for access to it. Or at least the dynamics of who owns what should be re-thought because when two visionaries think the current model is broken the rest of us should probably take notice and think about what they're trying to say.

> Nilay Patel: How do you make people’s data valuable? Do you have to pass a law?

> Jaron Lanier: It has to come from multiple directions at once. I think there should be laws. I think people should be encouraged to take advantage of labor law if it’s powerful in whatever country they live in or whatever other body of law might be available in order to bargain for the value of their data and be able to create mids that extract value for the benefit of the people the data comes from on their own terms.

> "With advertising you're never going to get the motivations aligned," Berners-Lee said. That's a common refrain with websites and apps that must serve two masters -- those of us using them, for whom privacy is desirable, and the advertisers funding them, for whom privacy makes ad targeting harder.

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https://www.cnet.com/news/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18302076/data-monetization...
Jazz in Hacker News. Should I submit something about reggaeton next? This is getting RIDICULOUS. Gimme the old HN back!
This might be intentional on your part, but it seems to mark enharmonic equivalents as incorrect (a 5th from Gb is Db, which is the same as C# but C# is marked as incorrect).
If the technology is so much better it doesn't make sense to horde it. Put it out there and dominate the market. The longer you sit on it the longer you give your competitors to develop similar or better alternatives and waste your advantage.

The most likely answer is that they can't be manufactured at scale for reasonable price points currently.
> Because of all of these confounding factors, it's not really possible to draw any conclusions from what we know to be a bunch of variously flawed studies. To me, the most uncomfortable truth revealed by all this research is how willing some people are to jump at ultimately tenuous research that supports racist preconceptions.

This is deeply unfair to psychometrics researchers. For it to be racist the claim would have to be that group differences in mean psychometric differences are overwhelmingly hereditary and so far as I know absolutely nobody with any education on the subject is making that claim. They allow that it could be nutrition, toxin exposure, cultural, or any number of other factors. Nobody credible says it's just heredity because the evidence doesn't support that. Nonetheless, the differences are measurable and persistent.
> couldn't you fix this with dependent types somehow?

quoting from the post:

> the way I had set things up, every time I used the [sqrt] symbol I had to supply a proof that what I was taking the square root of was non-negative.

"supplying a proof" is how you do it in dependently-typed systems afaik. the author tried it, and it was inconvenient
Sure but then I guess maybe you can find ergonomic improvements to your dependent type system so as not to run into the problems discussed in the article (e.g. having to reprove that something is not zero over and over again).
Jada Pinkett Smith’s Mother Posts a Message Following August Alsina Scandal
The easiest way to provide affordable housing is to raise wages. You can do this by having a functioning economy. Unfortunately, depressed areas are depressed due to 50 years of sending jobs overseas. Right now, it's trendy to live in cities, so they're attracting the upper middle class. Eventually, the steam is going to run out of that engine, and we're going to figure out that a city full of nothing but bars and starbucks is a net drain on society.
That's not exactly right... in Haskell, 1/0 has type Fractional a => a. So, it could be any fractional type. If 1/0 occurs in a context where it'll be interpreted as a floating-point number, you'll get Infinity, yes, as per how standard floating-point works. In other contexts though you may get an error. E.g., if you import Data.Ratio and do 1/0 :: Rational, you'll get an error.
The Last of Us, Uncharted, God of War, Horizon: Zero Dawn
What are the legal/ethical/regulations you have to jump through to be allowed to dump genetically modified yeast into a pond?
Ski Jumps
The title is a bit sneaky. Division by zero in "type theory" will depend on just that -- your type theory. Some theories use special values for division by zero (e.g. could spit out DNE or +INF/-INF). But then you need to formalize how you do "things" with DNE or infinities. This is, more often than not, an unnecessary rabbit hole, so just returning 0 is simpler. Some theories might require a proof that the denominator isn't zero (essentially making division a three-argument function) -- which is kind of a cool way of thinking about it[1].

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/334393/how-does-typ...
Was watching the first few sessions of Great Courses The Black Death. The Black Death essentially led to the end of Feudalism, the rise of the merchant class and the rise of cities. Since there were a lot less serfs (in some hard hit areas 50% less) to do the farming Feudal lords raised wages to attract serfs from neighboring serfdoms.
Weed is not addictive, it's very good for your life. I read it in Hacker News so it has to be true.
>Many families viewed studying in the US as a pathway to eventual residence.

I thought they were coming for education? Now we're lamenting that they can't move their whole family to the US?
How to Guarantee Success at Work
Seeing as they still count for course credit, I don't think Harvard considers them to be jokes. I will take the highly paid accreditors at Harvard's opinion over yours, sorry mate.
Maybe he's not interested in the natural gas for energy.

Everything I know about natural gas came from visiting and energy museum, but from what I remember, natural gas is used to make hydrogen, plastics, fertilizer, certain types of animal foods, and even things like vitamins.

At an elementary level, it's easy to imagine a world without natural gas because there are lots of other ways to make electricity. But it's harder to imagine a world without plastic.
Huh? Banks would be happy for caller ID to verifiably say Bank Foo or 1-800-certified-callback-number.
The only time I place comments is exactly this: to explain why.

Today I just had this example. I placed a little sleep in a loop. But there is absolutely no way to know why it is there. So I inserted a comment to explain the loop is DOSing a server by constantly requesting it and the sleep will reduce the load on that server.

Those comments are not only for others but also for yourself. Even weeks from now it is easy to lose track on why you did things the way you did.

Comments on why are very helpful.
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where someone returns a single-purchase item and then purchases the same exact item as the result of seeing an ad for it. They're already aware of the item and if they want another one after return they're probably just going to exchange it because something is wrong with it. It's not even a sale and I'm skeptical that seeing the ad has a strong influence on whether a customer asks for a refund or a replacement.

ML is not some holy grail that always produces optimum algorithms. It depends heavily on inputs and on the assumptions, both explicit and implicit in the training data. My guess is Amazon does not have a "single-purchase item" model and it's not something the AI was trained to identify and so they aren't specifically excluded from groups of "similar-or-same" items.

I think it is far more likely that Amazon is optimizing the cost of development against the marginal benefit of not showing ads for single-purchase items than that this is somehow driving more sales.
I don't know offhand what instructions were introduced in Pentium or later.

Doing some googling... 486 had cmpxchg, that's good.

Seems it didn't have rdtsc. It's not out of the question, I might say even pretty common, for user mode code to use that one via inline asm to implement a timer.

Obviously no SIMD instructions. If they say they're supporting 686 or better they might have some compiler flags that depend on mmx or similar? SSE came late to P6.
Well unless the system can somehow infer it for you. But maybe this is too hard a problem for now?
Many companies will deduct money from gift cards at regular intervals if they aren't used for some arbitrary period, so it can be worse than 0 interest even if the card is used by the recipient.
Hour glass, floppy disk, envelope, AA style battery for laptops, and now manilla folders go on the pile of icons that are too abstract for people to recognize anymore. What next, people won't recognize the sheet of paper for document anymore? Clipboards are probably already weird now.
Which part offends: my defense of the claim that India, China, and North Korea are market economies, or the part about how the US interferes in other nations' affairs? Can you be more specific as to what I'm to stop? Did I not mention UBI and land value taxes enough, or something?
It does if the in person version of your classes are more engaging than the online versions you would be stuck with otherwise.
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to give you your data back
So you watched some hentai and now you're a Japan expert? Give me a break.
New, more infectious strain of Covid-19 now dominates global cases of virus
Walmart is in no sense distressed, and the Fed owns a microscopic amount of their debt, as part of an effort to create a broad market index of corporate debt.
Google also seems to be preferring new results. SEO is part of it, but SEO shouldnt change the good content google already had indexed. SEO
I am not going to defend the Iranian regime or military services in general, which I think is a waste of time for all parties. But is it the role of the US immigration regime to circumvent military duties in foreign countries?
Wasn't the problem with OLEDs simply breakdown? They lose some percentage of their brightness and color depth every year until they look old and washed out? And the worst part is each color degrades at a different rate so the color balance gets wonky as the panel ages.
Modern days Linux kernel requires a bootloader, as seen in the video. In the old days, you could dd the kernel to the floppy disk and use rdev to point to the root partition to start after loading the kernel.
Discord is the greatest voice chat, I highly recommend it.
Sure. I would love to.
The Coming Fall Crisis (Covid-19 and Higher Ed)
My feeling based on getting older and watching friend slip into old age. Moving old people is generally bad.

What bothers me most about the current state of the city is there have always been waves of people coming in, sometimes staying often eventually leaving. Most of them though came for the city at least partially. And because of that they were willing to accept what it was. But the Web 2.0 Tech Bro's are here for the money and do not accept the city and it's long term residents for that it is. What they want it for all those people to get kicked so more people like them can come here to become rich.

You can accept the Hispanics coming into the mission and changing it. The gays coming to Polk St and then moving to the Castro. Even the Dot Bomb kids coming, because back then they could have gone to the south bay or elsewhere. But just for money and a lack of acceptance of the city and it's past? Yeah no.
It was covered in Orange Is t
The New Black, for one.
So why do most of the PS4s I find on ebay all say "Made in China"? Are the parts made in China and then assembled in Japan at the Kisarazu plant? Or are they only making PS4 units in Japan for the domestic Japanese market...and making the rest of the world's units in China?
Saving money? You know Harvard doesn’t charge by the number of credits you take, right?

Also, community college credits are generally not counted towards graduation. Why do you think they do that?
What also amazes me about his music is that how even some obscure movies he scored for had really great soundtracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqre0jAq724
This isn't even related to the military service. This is related to making a promise to someone when giving them a VISA and then breaking that promise for no good reason.

There is literally no reason for ICE to be doing this.
Any profit from the Fed goes back to the Treasury and seigniorage is basically a tax on all USD holders through inflation so it is largely a distinction without a difference. It is our money. Giving it back to us isn't a "loss".
> but the GDP is also increased 5x

Not really. You went from negotiating with one country to negotiating with one country of the same size (just 5 times). In an individual negotiation you are still facing a single equivalent country (with no GDP increase).
Ask HN: Rejected from FB, what was your experience like?
Two weeks ago I was rejected from FB. It was for a management position.

I am very open to the fact that I am just not what they are looking for but I kind of had a poor experience.

The initial interview was pretty much:

1) This is a little about me
2) Tell me about you

and the rest was reading what felt like a checklist of questions. There wasn't really anything specific, just kind of generalizations like "Give me an example of how you dealt with situation X"

I guess its fair but I was expecting a lot more back and forth or to be challenged with some scenario where I could demonstrate how I would resolve, etc..

I hate not being humble but I have been pretty successful at my current employer and over the years worked/mentored with a lot of different people/teams and seen a wide range of skillsets. Quite a few who I know are now at FB were not really who I would call cream of the crop (I am just giving context, I would never belittle another dev)

Anyway, I read some people say it depends on the interviewer etc.. I dont want to blame the interviewer, I am just curious if this is a typical interview for first round?
I take delivery of a Raspberry Pi 4 tomorrow. I’m really hoping it will replace my MBP for almost everything I do — namely clerical office work, teaching high school CS, and web browsing. Exciting times.
Not on ARM macs. The option is missing. The only remaining option is for allowing older versions of the OS, which must still be signed by Apple.
I think it shows

Input a positive integer
Fibonacci sequence:

I don't expect to see the second line.
You can on Intel-based machines, as far as I know it is not clear yet whether you can on ARM-based systems.
Whilst I agree the wording could have been better, I think the parent has a point.

I did a double-degree in Commerce (Finance and Economics), and Computer Engineering at Sydney Uni.

English is my first language, and I've always liked economics/finance. However, I found the commerce side of things much easier to cruise through (I was working full-time as well). The material was easier, contact hours were much less, you could fluff your way through essays (to a degree), and it was obvious many of the students there (i.e. international students) just wanted to finish, and get their degree (nothing wrong with that in itself). Many people didn't bother showing up, and just studied online, and sat the final exam.

Engineering...oh man. The material was tough, the maths was tricky, and there was many mandatory contact hours or mandatory tutorials (> 20 a week). If you didn't show up to weekly classes, you got marked down, which is basically a fail. And while you can fudge an essay in commerce (assuming some basic grasp of first principles), try fudging an answer on Fourier transforms, or gradient-descents. However, many people genuinely had a passion for the subject, and the lecturers/tutors really did push you hard.

Also - look at the dropouts rates for fields - a lot more people dropped out of engineering degrees by year 2/3 versus say, Commerce. I can't speak to other fields/areas.

This experience may not apply to everybody - but as somebody who did a degree in both fields, I think it's telling.
Show HN: Browserless, the headless Chrome driver for Node.js
For the uninitiated: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving

1. Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.

I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off.

2. A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.

I looked at a reference manual for my car just to answer one question, but I spent the whole afternoon with my nose buried in it, just yak shaving, and got no work done on the car itself.
Fun fact / challenge: nobody reading this comment is in a room without a product made by Koch industries.

Do you count the radio waves passing through my house carrying PBS television signals? Kochs fund PBS.
The same move was made by Telegram:
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/05/exclusive-telegram-to-temp...
> My point is that this is not something that should just be expected to run its course because it’s a “natural law”, and is thus some evidence of some fundamental truth.

What I'm missing is what alternative you see. Sure, we could turn the relationship between input and output on its head and watch what happens when whoever crosses the finish line last wins the race. But what does that achieve?

> We do add rules to many (most?) sporting events, largely out of ethics.

We add constraints so we can compare the abilities, and that gets too hard to be useful when we don't focus on something. If we had a new sport, not unlike a decathlon, but testing every skill imaginable, I'm sure we'd find the field much closer together, and we'd probably have quite a few surprises, but it would take forever and wouldn't really tell us anything. Constraining it with rules allows for comparison.

Yes, of course, we could constrain researchers as well by how much time they were allowed to work, or which books they were allowed to read, and how often they are allowed to look something up etc, but we're not really interested in some very narrow, hyper-specific "research" skill, it's not a hobby, we want results. Ergo we look at who gets the most results, or gets them the fastest, or cracks the hardest puzzles, whatever you may use to compare researchers.
Hopefully you're being metaphorical with the use of the term expected value, or are you really suggesting that a young person plans their education based on what's more profitable? Not that money isn't something to consider, but the "value" you get out of your education and other formative experiences isn't measured in dollars.
No one is denying that the lockdowns are having serious repercussions throughout all of society. There will definitely be many unintended deaths from other causes that would not otherwise have happened without Coronavirus.

That said, you are just flat out wrong about how many people die in the US from driving and Coronary Heart Disease each year. Together, those two account for ~400k fatalities each year. In the best case scenario, Covid may cause almost double that number in less than 12 months. In the worst case scenario, it could be many times that number. Also, we need to keep in mind that while covid predominately kills the elderly, some younger people will still die from it. CHD pretty much only kills the elderly.
that's not why Apply joined AV1.
They joined AV1 because they were forced to. Netflix, Google, Amazon are all on the AV1 bandwagon. If Youtube, Netflix and Prime Video all use AV1 for future higher quality streams, Apple cannot avoid supporting it.
I actually utilized an API that did just that in some automated software I wrote with a friend a few years ago. Was actually sort of interesting how it all worked with sending the captcha then checking for the solution string after the person had solved and inserting that back into the page before carrying on.

Pretty sure at the time the cost was something like .013 cents per solve. I always wondered who the people sitting there doing that were or what their situation was.
I like to disguise my brilliance in a patina of filth so I can confuse literalists while evoking deeper thoughts in lateral thinkers.

Obviously I threw you off the scent by triggering your sensibilities.

But I'll have you know I've worked with PM's who had very distinct physical traits that attempted to buck the conventions. One woman worked exclusively in athleisure and halter tops, even in winter. Another guy had piercings all over his face and ears. This other nitwit wore the same exact orange hoodie abomination every single day for four months. My favorite is the guy who wore tiny golf shirts so I could see his underwear on top of his jeans. This is a grown man, with a beard! He should have gone into military service to learn something about personal grooming and had no place in the organization no matter how brilliant. His very presence was a sector stating "abandon hope all ye who enter here" as in you have zero chance of seeing a real client now get back to your coerced agile workflow.

These signals are impossible to ignore and reek of bougie decadence and cause people like me who want to invest their whole lives to something more than an unfair exchange of time for money to die a little inside and seek the comfort of strangers to air our grievances only to get downvoted, therefore reinforcing the trauma.

Plus I like to disguise my modesty in an utter lack of respect because this industry is a cockroach infested nest of groupthink if you ask me with everyone copying everyone's signals until only clones remain. Then we argue about diversity and scratch our heads as to why none of the girls want to play with us.

The reference to man boobs is in relation to grown men signalling like middleschoolers wearing printed T's from guardians of the galaxy and star trek while they get progressively more corpulent on a diet of chicken wings and lunch specials and pints of shock top. Oh and pizza. Always the dry pizza left over from those two pizza meetings.