skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I have a REALLY tough time believing automation can't replace a minimum of 50% of the current human workforce - we just haven't done it because there are large swaths of population willing to work for slave wages.

Whether you agree with UBI or not you better have a solution for how those people are going to survive when they are eventually replaced by a machine. The alternative will be endless war and famine or genocide.
Um this is how twitter works. 280 char limit. Before it was 180. The nature of twitter wasn't ever meant to be taken seriously as a source but current media popularized it by being lazy and sourcing from twitter.

People say all sorts of crazy things there if you follow active users on twitter. They are quick at deleting them too.

I mean there are startups to take screenshots of tweets - https://pikaso.me

Should tell you enough.
At least somebody figured out how to make pirate chips for most of them.

Dunno if that will always be the case for the future.
"Novel" as in less-ordinary compared to what my filter bubble shows me, not as in new
Apple AirPods Generation 2
Appreciate it! 2 months, sounds like I may get a response soon then.
UBI experiments in countries like Kenya and India in poor rural areas with little education show few problems.

Non-mainstream ideas like UBI and RCV are simply suggestions exasperated that things aren't working to avoid a complete disaster and dissolution of the US. Should we keep trying to yell and scream for the same solutions tried for decades and ultimately lost as the GOP has stomped on the fragmented left in the US? To me, the worst of all solutions is to KEEP doing the same damn things and continuing to lose like what Dems did with Russiagate. We might get gay marriage rights, perhaps some civil rights 2.0, and some semblance of Roe v Wade but to me that won't matter if we're in a full blown Civil War a few years from now. Pulling conservatives / regressives back to the middle and into something resembling good faith dialogue again is possible with UBI discussions at least that I haven't found with almost any other political topic in... decades. Granted, that'll be until Fox News gets their hands on it, but beating mainstream media narratives (both left and right) to the punch has been productive.
There was barely any lockdown here in Finland. The Helsinki region was quarantined from the rest of the country, but that's about it. Barely anyone wears masks either. The USA seems to be taking this much more seriously.
Newer article on the same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997362
Maybe there is:

1. Hire Chuck Moore to write a spreadsheet in Forth.

2. Hire Fabrice Bellard to write tiny Forth interpreter in Javascript.

tada.
If I may, a totally different way of funding open source projects is possible too, that doesn’t rely on charity mechanisms:
I will submit it to HN now as a link under the title “A Decentralized Model for Funding Open Source”. Look tor it there.
Alzheimer's: 'Promising' blood test for early stage of disease
You missed this bit:

> after a bit of an ear bashing

If someone from my old employer calls and asks me politely for a bit of help with something I know well, I'd help.

If they call to yell at me about how I left behind a fragile system or how I left them in the lurch by quitting, the correct response is to tell them to get fucked, if they then ask for help after that, the correct response is to tell them to go fuck themselves.

Normalising that kind of abusive behaviour is not going to improve the lives of the co-workers you left behind.
It puts you at the mercy of the government. Of course, you could argue that that practically puts you at the mercy of the rich because governments are heavily influenced by the rich, but it really doesn't matter who you're at the mercy of. It's a mistake to fixate solely on the rich as the only people you should worry about being at the mercy of.

Take government grants and other forms of funding received by universities. Sure, it sounds nice, but the result is that institutions slowly begin to depend on these sources of funding to the degree that their successful operation and even very existence depends on them. This puts universities in a very dangerous position and this dependence has been used to steer universities in directions they might not otherwise have gone.
lol @ this getting downvoted.
YSK that ANN is already in the process of being added to Lucene:

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/42326

A different implementation is already in OpenDistro for Elasticsearch:

https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/knn...
Up to a point, yes. They did get many conclusions that are easily disproved today.
This is another definitely fascinating aspect I appreciate as well. Watching videos where someone installs Windows 1 and upgrades all the way to Windows 10 is weirdly satisfying.

Edit: Another funny thing is some software still works despite them ditching support for it I think despite them saying they no longer would support VB6 you can still install it on Windows 10 if you really wanted to. My advise is dont click anything while the installer UI runs... Its very sensitive.
New Relic giving 100 GB of free monitoring
fair point, I remember during the financial crisis in 2009 how i felt the bank bailout was unfair and the market should have been allowed to sort it out.

Since then i've come to believe that lives are tied to market prices so it's more complicated. You can let it crash and create opportunity for new investor, you can also watch someone drown and create a new spot at the pool. ...it gets complicated.
I am completely puzzled why you'd say that you need a "popular, well known and trustable organization with enough money to invest in this". How is the largest developer ecosystem in human history not the exact entity to do this?

But then you go on to suggest Facebook, Apple or Google... I'm not sure we're experiencing the same zeitgeist. Is Trump president where you are?
Ledger data breach impacts one million users, hardware wallet funds are ‘safe’
Does anyone know if a post is flagged (and normally hidden) after one poster flags it or is there some other way?

Is there any mod review that takes places before (or after)?
I agree, you'll have to take it up with the wall street journal though, I didn't write the article:)
The article headline changed since this was posted. I've updated it to reflect the new title.
>Does this include programs and settings?

Yes, I believe so - I'm guessing this is due to things being more siloed

I should also mention it won't let you choose an OS version, although it does say the name of the one that will be installed
I was going to say that it might not even have been the telegraph as mail was delivered multiple times a day in London at one point. So even letter delivery was pretty quick as long as the distance wasn't too great.

But, in this case, you're right. I searched the text and it was indeed telegrams that were being sent.

The Moonstone stands up pretty well. The Woman in White is pretty good too. I haven't read his other books although I'm told they fall off from those two.
Hey, thanks a bunch for the input.

In my proposed scenario, I would have expected there to be two databases - one at company A and another at AWS (company B).

I plan to give company A a preinstalled server and ask them to just plug it in at their premises. But the server won’t be big enough after 6 months of data, so I want to charge them a small rate to push their data to my AWS when it gets too full.

The technology to sync the two databases and determine which data to keep on premises and which to push off to AWS is what I am trying to identify.

Hopefully that clarifies
This is my experience too, I have a single long term friend that started as a colleague, but the rest have drifted into acquaintances after leaving companies. I liked the majority of them, and we socialised outside of work but when that main anchor of seeing each other during the week was removed the friendships faded too.

I suppose it is a problem to form proper relationships with people outside of work if you're not left with any time outside of work though, so for some people being sociable in the office is a good way to mask that work life balance issue in the short term.

It could also just be an age thing, when I was younger I would have probably preferred to be in the office, but now I want to be with my family as much as I can be and removing things like the commute makes a huge difference in available time.
For NLP I would maybe add

Speech and Language Processing
From Dan Jurafsky,

Available at: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
Breaking arithmetic down to a single operator represented as movement and a single value represented as null/zero. Because there is no variation in operator or value you can remove them from the equation so only the structure remains. You can use that structure to create fractals storing information, manipulate and navigate through them. Working on the final prototype now and got rough designs to implement in hardware but its getting severely delayed because of absence of UBI.

There are two types of higher education here, academic and applied. School adviser had no clue and advised to walk the applied path because it would get me into computer science one year faster. Yeah, applied CS, but I needed academic. Tried to get back onto the train, did hardware and software for a total of 9 years but in the end the gap was too large to get recognised and make the jump. One advantage though, it allowed me to think outside the academic box.
The Forgotten Early Adopters
A failed SOD1 genetic therapy with Bannwarth syndrome commorbidity
Association between naturally occurring lithium in drinking water and suicide
If Trump loses the election, he will be banned from Twitter before the end of January 2021
Can't find the article about a specific case, but according to the link below it appears that a new law specifically includes "liking" as punishable in serious cases.

https://www.stimme.de/heilbronn/nachrichten/region/daumen-ho...
You Can Use Emoji in File Names on Windows 10
>For your second question: there is a fair amount of research into the effects of visual and audiovisual stimuli on pedophiles and other sex offenders.

I'm more just curious because I haven't seen anything (other than from the authors I've cited) on the effects of fictional (and in particular highly stylized) material on regular people, or even pedophiles specifically. Gary Young's book on The Gamer's Dilemma from 2010 or so also concludes there is no evidence for fictional material having these effects.

What do you mean by "stimulate demand"? For example, it would not surprise me at all that pedophiles find certain depictions arousing, but that still wouldn't be any reason to illegalize it, unless we are to go about banning everything that pedophiles also find arousing (which is a bridge I suspect many would not want to cross). Of course pedophiles are aroused, but are non-pedophilic individuals also aroused? The study on Japanese fans of lolicon manga does not so neatly indicate pedophilia as an appropriate category for their attractions, nor does it explain why they are so defensive against real depictions.

With fictional material, from what I can gather, there's something else at play which does not fit into the commonly held notion that fiction is always (or even most of the time) a substitute for the real deal.

To my mind, the difficult questions are: if the material is arousing to pedophiles, what does that arousal indicate in the risk of an offence (obtaining real CP or otherwise)? Do the effects persist? What is the persistent effect post-orgasm? Are stylized or fictional depicitions sufficient to arouse an interest in the real thing? Is it appropriate or desirable to prosecute or produce policy based on the tastes of pedophiles, especially given that the majority or a high percentage of CSA crimes are not perpetrated by pedophiles?

I've tried quite hard to find material on specifically lolicon manga or fanfiction, and a study among either pedophiles or others. If it does exist, I'd be very interested to see it, and I would have expected it to crop up in the arguments I've had so far. Especially, a study among those who are not already convicted for a crime (contact offence or otherwise). Those results would only, at best, tell us about criminals, and pedophile criminals with NC/C offences are almost reputable for showing lower impulse control.

To put it another way: access to regular porn may inflame the desires of a rapist, and they may even make him more likely to committ an offence; is this sufficient to illegalize porn for everybody? Alcohol may have the same effect, and the question still applies.
> A lesson to never, ever trust anything here

FWIW, it's been corrected in less than 18 hours.

Conclusion: You can continue to blindly trust everything here (provided you check a day later)

;-)
I don’t think it’s rude to give them your rates.... but then again I have been only working with consultancies for the past 15+ years, so even in house work gets a billable rate attached to it.

Anything that takes more than an hour should be billed. If the guys at the company are really your friends, they would fight to see you get paid.
> His team found that instant coffee comes out best, but that capsules are the runner up in the environmental impact stakes. Filter or drip coffee comes third, while traditional espresso has the worst environmental impact. “The impact, such as greenhouse gas emissions, water and fertiliser use, mostly occurs where the coffee is grown,” says Hill. “Capsules tend to need less coffee input to make a single drink and so their overall impact can be lower even though we see more waste when we throw them away.”

I find it difficult to believe that the 2 tablespoons-of-coffee per 8-oz cup has a bigger environmental impact than the plastic-bit.

I think I see the argument, but its hard for me to agree to it.

EDIT: Hmm... there's a cool heuristic that I always go back to whenever we start measuring small things. Assume all weights have the same environmental impact: because the biggest user of greenhouse gasses is the truck (or boat, or train) used to transport the material.

EDIT: So 2-tablespoons of coffee weighs ~10-grams. The article quotes 5.7 grams of coffee per capsule. How heavy is the capsule? If the capsule itself is 4.3 grams (or less), then maybe you're saving energy on transportation costs.

EDIT: My bet however, is that a bag of coffee beans delivers the greatest coffee-to-weight ratio and is the most environmentally sound. Coffee Filters are extremely light, and there are steel mesh reusable filters if you care about the environmental impact of disposable paper filters.

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> Aside from the environmental impact of growing beans in the first place, the second biggest hit is the energy it takes to brew coffee. That’s why barista-made espresso fares so badly in terms of its environmental footprint: a lot of energy is needed to brew just a tiny single espresso cup. Capsules, on the other hand, are more efficient. The coffee machines only flash-heat the amount of water needed for one portion, unlike, for example, boiling a kettle.

Cold brew for the win? I actually prefer cold brew whenever I do things myself for taste reasons. (Less bitterness). Cold brew is also more convenient: I pull it out of the fridge, then drink without any wait time.

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> Sebastien Humbert, an expert in life-cycle assessment studies at Quantis, a company that works with many organisations to improve their sustainability, cautions that if you take a responsible consumer — not an average consumer — then it is possible to make drip-filter coffee with less negative impact than capsules, albeit just ever so slightly. “However, if you are an irresponsible consumer, if your drip filter machine is very inefficient, if you leave it on, if you make more coffee than necessary, then you can make drip-filter coffee significantly worse than capsules,” he says.

Okay: so it seems like they're assuming irresponsible and wasteful behavior on behalf of drip-coffee makers.
That's why I treat HN the same way as Reddit. Just because people talk in a more sophisticated manner doesn't mean that they are anymore factual.
Has anyone in currency exchange noticed signals of inflation? I track GBP=>USD and even in a post-Brexit COVID economy the rate changed from 1.23 in April to a peak of 1.30 on Tuesday. This really looks like inflation to me, but I'm not an expert.
Google Releases a New Library for Model Explainability
If a large portion of the population thinks climate denial is not a good thing climate denial is also an outrage prompter, prompting outrage is good business in 2020.
Is there more money circulating? If people quit their £30k job for UBI.
I think 'paltry' is an assumption... since nothing is implemented yet, how can you say the future, undecided amount will turn out to be paltry?

I do agree with the regulating capitalism better part. I just wish I had a better idea than repeating Paris 1794.
Fortunately this pandemic will only last a single quarter!
May I suggest OP replaces the "greater than" symbol with the "less than" symbol in the title of the article, to avoid confusing old people like me? :)
Well, the profit could be $1 if you're "profitable" which would warrant a bad valuation (like if you just resell SMSes with no value add at all). But another commentor quoted an 18% margin so if that's true it seems weird. Why raise $200M by equity if you make around $150M in profit. It can't be the whole story..
Yeah there's certainly a factor of "title seems about right, I'll up-vote" out there.

There have been a lot of articles where even the comments were entirely "nothing about this is right" and that's not counting opinion / perspective articles, like cold hard facts wrong.

It's really frustrating to see on HN.
jędrny is close - works for food and for body parts
I found its spiritual predecessors, the Turtle and the Roamer, and the programming language LOGO, to be helpful in learning maths and programming at an early age. I then moved to BASIC. Then Pascal, then Delphi.

YMMV, but ask geeks who grew up in the UK during the late eighties and early nineties and see what their opinion is.

Maybe it's less important now that things like Minecraft are so much more immersive than the tools we had "back in the day", but I wouldn't discount it so easily.
I mean, if GitLab and the rest of the also-rans can't make a dent in Github's market share, I don't understand where you think this market disrupter is going to emerge from unless there's a grand migration to something Next that Github inexplicably is not able to adapt to.

I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Downvotes should force a comment box, or have a link for list of users downvoting a comment. I don’t see what value anonymous downvotes bring to a forum dedicated to informed discussion.
I tried it via an Ethernet to USB adapter and the laptop didn't see the wired connection

Maybe a proper rj45 would work
> When you compare the last three years of Obama’s Presidency vs. Trump’s first three years, Trump’s deficits will be almost $1 trillion greater at $2.47 trillion to $1.51 trillion for Obama. It doesn’t look like Trump’s tax cuts will pay for themselves.

To be clear: this is a fair comparison because it doesn't include the pandemic.

It's worth noting that this isn't unique to Trump. Deficits increased under Reagan and Bush, while deficits decreased under Clinton and Obama[1]. Republican austerity claims are thoroughly debunked bullshit at this point.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/rep...
It's not just one person normally. Not only you can click "flag" and find that no change was made, you can also vouch for flagged posts to make them visible again.
I live in a tiny tourist town (population of ~600) upriver from NYC, our busy season is from July to October spurred on by the millions of city dwellers who take the train up to our tiny town to go to our numerous festivals, our vibrant downtown shops and hike our wondrous mountain trails. Hiking has returned (but feels significantly down from last year), shops are open but not many people are training up, and all festivals for the rest of the year have been canceled. I know a handful of shops have shuttered, a few that I know the owners of are on the verge of shuttering, as I'm sure most of them are.

I'm certain that once this pandemic is over, there will probably be some people who scoop up these shops for a steal, people will move back into the cities with rents depressed, and things will start recovering, but there will be a HUGE scar left that will keep consumer confidence down for a while. I'm worried that the millennials, having faced the second major economic blow in their short careers (mine included), are going to forever hold on to this trauma.
Many on HN have noticed, I have a serious philosophical issue with centralization and closed source software.

Every time I see people say “X is the only one who can do it, I hope X is gonna do it but they won’t” this is part of the problem.

I am going to post this link right now on HN, under the title “A decentralized model for funding open source” which an entirely decentralized approach to funding open source projects, journalism and more. And we are launching it Q4 of this year. Once we do, it will spur permissionless innovation.

Look, VOIP disrupted phone companies, Web disrupted AOL, drove many costs to almost zero. Just in the last 20 years. We can do the same here. Stop waiting “Please” for GitHub.
What really bothered me was that the cost to the government to drug test welfare recipients in Floridia cost more than to simply give them the money in the first place. Fiscal conservative me says "what was the point of that?" and the only answer I see making sense is that it's competing ideologies where the more important one wins, and in this case it's punishment over fiscal responsibility and abdicating any government responsibilities for solving the causes of widespread addiction. Which makes almost no sense given how strong the DARE program was in the 90s (granted, based upon hilariously bad trials and a sham by politicians as feel good projects)
Because I think sometimes people make comments on here that aren’t very good.
No, URLs are not secret or secure, at best they are hidden.

A proper secret is something that you can only give consciously, URLs are often shared without intent (via screensharing, screenshots, (often unencrypted) emails, server/proxy logs, etc).

Many services like the ones you quote do allow sharing via URLs for ease of use but should also have a option to turn off auth-in-url style authentication for things that are sensitive.

It's okay for things that have a low value but need to be shared easily, but should not be considered secure.
Then accept papers that refute these results by providing arbitrary data where it's missing.
Thank you for you work on Nano! I'll never understand the elitism around text editors in the Linx world but am glad a user-friendly option like Nano exists.
I think there's going to be a run on houses in the suburbs over the next year or two, as urban decay sets in. A lot of those downtown office workers are going to keep working from home, so all of those restaurants and cafes that cater to them are going to be in trouble. Not to mention, our cities are growing less safe by the day.

I'm in the suburbs of a large city now (I used to commute into the city every day), and looking to move further out now that remote work is a real thing. Land in semi-rural and rural areas is being snapped up like crazy at the moment. I'm shopping. The biggest stumbling bock to us tech workers really being able to spread ourselves out is reliable internet access. Satellite internet is... meh. Hopefully solutions like Musk's starlink will change that soon.