skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nah, shut you down with the health board for putting everyone's lives at risk. there's no live and let live here. if folks just sit back and do nothing, people will die.
So, how about a $4 or $5 version which is the size of a coaster and only has the wifi symbol on it? You could have them manufactured in china by the thousands for a few pennies apiece.
Is it too much to ask for politicians to do the right thing regardless of lobbying?
We've used Conductor at my workplace for about a year now. The grounding is pretty solid but the documentation is pretty pants once you dig into it. We have to resort to digging into github issues to find fairly fundamental features that aren't really documented. I feel Conductor is something Netflix has open-sourced and then sort of dumped on the OS community.

For example there isn't any examples of how to implement workers using their Java client, we had to dig up a blog post to do that, although it is fairly simple a very basic example of implementing the Worker interface would be nice.

They also do not make it clear the exact relationship between tasks and workflows and it's hard to find any good examples of relatively complex workflows and task definitions available on the internet other than Netflix's barebones documenatation and the kitchen-sink workflow they provide, which is broken by default on the current API.

Also the configuration makes mention of so many fields that are pretty much undocumented, like you can swap out your persistence layer for something else but I would have no idea how that works.
I don't own one right now. Thinking about an Oculus Quest for Beat Saber or the HP Reverb G2 for Flight Simulator. Obviously the first is better for exercise.
hn has become a cesspool for /r/thedonald rejects
It is acceptable, that's why the law protecting DMV data categorically allows it, indicating that society approves of that use.

It wasn't a slippery slope - the opposite in fact. The records were practically wide open and the DPPA set the limits on who can access it and for what reasons.

I'd appreciate a real response to my prior comment. Simply stating your opinion that an action is unacceptable does not make for productive discourse.
Society is a critical part of the answer because without it, there is no "amount" of anything.

Effort has a clear opportunity cost which is why I think a lot of people instinctively agree that individuals should be rewarded based on the amount they contribute to the societal pot.
As someone from an academic background, it's a bit different than how academic labs are set up. My academic lab had a number of different projects in different research areas, ranging from human health to agriculture, but the unifying theme was big data analysis. The fact we all had this focal point meant we often had shared overlap with common tooling, which meant a lot of collaboration. Whether it was for alzheimers susceptibility or corn yields, you were working with tabular data.

Sure, we had people worked more on the bench and people who never set foot in the lab, but everyone made sure to know exactly how their data came into their hands and it's purpose, so if you were a statistician, you would learn everything about the corn sample you were given to analyze so you could make the correct considerations in your analysis. And if you were that wet lab person and wanted to present a figure that the statistician generated, you would learn everything about the test used, and all the assumptions made when choosing that method of analysis over others. Even in academia, this high level of collaborative interdisciplinary learning can be rare, but makes you a much better scientist who as a much better grasp on the wider project and your role to play.

I think a lot of startups operate with a mercenary mindset. Everyone is hired to play a discrete non-overlapping role, which tends to silo ideas. Central planning from upon high is also the norm, rather than collaborative discussion and solving problems from the bench up.

Depressingly, there are more and more big name academic labs that are adopting this startup oriented top down approach, with a head professor calling the shots and giving marching orders to a few sub research professors with their own postdocs, and grad students, and undergrads. I've known grad students and post docs in these labs who are outright denied to direct the research in their own projects, even if they have good ideas, simply because they didn't come from the top down. Pursuing your own ideas is the whole point of grad school and post doctoral training. On top of that, these labs siphon funding from more innovative and smaller groups by outputting higher numbers of ho hum papers, or affording expensive research with large, multi-institutional grants, both of which are heavily favored metrics in the grant proposal and tenure process.
This hasn't been the case for years. If you choose the dates, the full price (including any fees) is included in the total.
750M genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in Florida Keys
Oh don't get me wrong - I think Trump is a weak and terrible candidate too. Which is why I'm so disappointed in the lack of ability to field a candidate who can actually debate him or follow a stronger trend than Hillary. It should be relatively easy to beat Trump, but we choose a guy who already dropped out of the same race decades ago, and struggles to finish the phrase "all men are created ..." during a speech?
Tesla Video Data Processing Supercomputer ‘Dojo’
Chris Rock had a great sketch about minimum wage:

'I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? It's like, "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law."'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Fr1djc67U
It's not tied to a key at all, it's basically just a hash (read: the checksum kind) with no authenticity guarantees as to who signed the binary.
requiring a business to abide by local laws isn't the same as randomly requesting identifying papers for no reason, cut the hyperbole.

i suppose you freak out when the health department does restaurant inspections too? "it's my right to eat as much rat poop as i want!"
Sure. But the Iranian government has sovereignty, just like the US government. That means that they cannot be bound by any contract if they decide to change their mind, the most that can be done is that you might press for a fair market value.

Why do you hold the Iranian government to a standard no other government in the world is held? Would you expect the American government to be forever bound to treaties signed by the British, or to agreements made by the executive alone ranging from two decades to a century ago?
When janitors are automated away by coronavirus, will we also need to teach the robots how to write on paper and read handwriting on paper?
In San Diego, it is full day for kindergarten, with many younger kids attending full day tk (transitional kindergarten).
> Also congratulations for not caring about a 1 in 200 chance of death (pretty high by the way) because you're healthy and passing on the risk to some vulnerable person (probably your parents or a school teacher) with a 1 in 10 chance of death

Where do you get these numbers from?
I think this is part of a longer term and much larger cash grab of eventually forcing all Mac software to go through the app store. Apple will of course require a modest 30% cut of all sales for providing their benevolent oversight.
> A game engine that needs to keep track of imported resources (especially when you want automatic imports when the file is saved via a 3rd party tool - e.g. saving a model on Blender or a texture on Krita causes an automatic reimport/convert to the engine's format)

A game engine isn't likely to do that in a production build. Even if it wanted to though, these sorts of "file ticket" sandboxes still has support for "directory ticket" and "file watchers". Even if storage specifics like "drive" or "path" are opaque to the application, they can still ask the user for permission to an entire directory (either explicitly in an "Open Directory" or implicitly in directories they naturally own such as "app data" and "resources" directories). Figuring out "where" that directory is for the user in Blender or Krita might not be straightforward, but just because those "tickets" are designed to be opaque to applications doesn't mean they have to be opaque to users and the operating system has lots of interesting possibilities to answer user questions about where things are, such as smarter Save File dialogs that are "ticket aware". ("Open Tickets > Game X has an Active File Watcher on this Resource Directory")

Almost all the same applies to other similar tools like file servers, file managers, VCS clients. Opaque/transparent is a "cone" in "ticket" based systems. It probably should be opaque where exactly my "file share" folder is stored, and all of my folders that are not my file share folder to a file server, so long as the contents inside that file share are transparent enough. The hard thing is defining those "cones", but the past default of "everything is transparent" is a problem and the over-correction in some systems to "nothing is transparent" sometimes blinds us to finding better ways to define these visibility cones rather than complain that they exist at all.

(Fwiw, all of the above is possible in the strict UWP Windows sandbox today: you can ask for directory tickets, you can ask for file watchers with those tickets. This isn't entirely theoretical, there have been practical applications, if not enough.)
https://www.digitaltrends.com/how-to/diy-nfc-coasters/

Seems like phones have an easy way to make your own DIY stickers, but I'm sure it's just a standard format that you could write with any username/pw/ap that you wanted.
You essentially work a half day. Burying the lede here a bit.
Any UBI system that is funded through a free market economy will necessarily have the rich paying far more in taxes than they receive in basic income in return.
In theory no, that's impossible. In practice, I publish checksums on my website and people trust that I am not malicious.
> They should have learned that by age 4, which is why kids start pre-k/k at the 4/5 age range.

Lol. Because you think they should? Love the one-size fits all statement - not.

As soon as someone has 2+ kids, they realize how ludicrous that statement is. Better yet go talk to a kindergarten teacher - I don't know how they handle kids that age that are not even theirs
Sounds like something the EU will look at in the future if they aren't already.
Looking ahead, Fauci said he’s “cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021. I don’t think it’s dreaming … I believe it’s a reality (and) will be shown to be reality.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/7242988/fauci-usa-coronavirus-vac...

Of course nothing is guaranteed, but to me that seems like we can be pretty sure that we will have a vaccine in 2021.
That’s about a month’s worth of deaths. The economic impact would be roughly that of everybody taking a really long vacation. We are past that. And it’s completely besides the point—-it does not seem like that is the calculus going into our policy decisions here in August.
> My TV is relatively old and the Netflix app just can't keep up anymore

You might be locked out of HD content because TV doesn't support the newest DRM.

I can't play anything HD on my 4K tv anymore because it doesn't support HCDP 2.2
Which increases the point of being allowed to develop apps for a generic computing platform.
I’ve always been all for the minimum wage. Seems like it should be a helpful and/or necessary leveler.

Lately though, sometimes ... I’ll get a disorienting flip around in perspective and I will think just what gives you the right to step between me and another consenting adult when we attempt to make a transaction!

And it feels almost gross that the government would paternalistically step in and tell us what agreement we are allowed to make.

I’m not sure what I think in the end. Somehow both things feel true simultaneously.
It is possible to still make all of these work by having frameworks that hold the permission to access the functionality, or by having entitlements to more tightly restrict which applications have access to a feature.

For example, some backgrounding modes on iOS require an app to get an entitlement to act as a VOIP client, or a mapping directions app. The system access is limited to only give access to the things which a VOIP client or map should need in the background.

On iOS, ReplayKit allows apps to participate in screen casting - both with first party support for an app being cast, and for an app which wants to share a video stream out.

Screen sharing on macOS also will likely move to ReplayKit, but it currently requires the user to approve a request to share the screen.

You can open a 'folder' rather than individual files to gain access to a full project structure.

Clipboard managers are difficult in a sandbox model where the clipboard manager has no permission to stay running in the background. Similar applications like custom keyboards on iOS solved this by having a smaller 'extension' stay resident, and having that extension run with a very restricted set of permissions. For instance, no access to shared storage, IPC, or to the network. A keyboard must work without these permissions to get in the App Store, but they may prompt the user to elevate permissions.
I've got to say, I think your proposed message is considerably less clear than the actual one.

E.g., a reader would have to understand the perspective of the developer to even start to guess what that might mean. (Why would a developer pay or not pay $99 to Apple for verification? How do the implications of that affect my decision to run this program?) It would be pretty much meaningless to the average non-developer user.

I agree the price of notarization should be a nominal incremental cost. I don't know if there are many level 3 people doing MacOS development, but if so, there needs to be a cheaper price for them. (The numbers of level 1 and 2 MacOS developers must be practically nothing.)
…wait, what? Why is this designed like that? Surely downloading a revocation list is not that onerous…
I don't really get the point of decentralised _storage_ solutions, where the stated goal is to compete with ≈ S3 [0].

S3 storage pricing, for most users is just a rounding error compared to e.g egress or compute cost. And it has proven to be tremendously reliable, both in durability and access. No sane person would point a CDN against a Filecoin backed origin, right?

For kinda-censorship resistant distribution of stuff like Wikileak dumps we already have torrents right now, where the seeders are aware of the content they spread.

For uses where S3 is not competitive, like storage of my media rips, spinning rust at places like Hetzner exist, or Backblaze et. al for more casual backup uses.

The only point I can see for decentralised "storage" of this kind is for ultra high durability, small data size, almost never read, almost some sort of "stakes". One could imagine something like storing contracts/land deeds, similar to Gwern's timestamping of URL's. The files should be small, the storage model optimised for maximal durability (every node store's almost everything?), and prices high enough to ensure durability.

[0]: Just look at this PR page https://filecoin.io/store/
[1]: https://www.gwern.net/Timestamping
> The blog post was written in the context of the widely reported story of Apple threatening to terminate the developer account of Epic Games, which would prevent them from signing and notarizing their Mac software.

This part is key. It shows that Apple's signing and notarising requirement isn't about money, nor is it about security. Epic broke the rules of the iOS store, and now they'll be forbidden from developing on a completely different platform, just because Apple doesn't like them.
>Seriously, that's like what $40 on a typical 6 month policy?

Interesting that you think car insurance costs around $500/year. Claims that people pay close to triple that on average seem to be abundant.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/car-insurance/average-co...
> Obviously a lot goes into ensuring the data existing on a low latency connection to the distributed-client

This is admittedly a non-trivial task but perhaps an example can shed light on way it can be more efficient in practice.

Consider the Apple Photos app. It's on your phone, it's on your desktop, it's on the cloud (iCloud storage). Say you have so many photos they don't fit on your phone. When you try to access a photo that is not on your phone it gets it from icloud (these are literally features that are currently offered by photos/iCloud). Now suppose your desktop has lots of storage, you usually look at your photos while connected to your local network, why cant you get the data from there?

The key to the efficiency of file coin is not some magic cryptographic token, it's not even "blockchain", the key is the underlying protocols being unified for synchronizing devices across multiple tiers of networking. Filecoin mostly just makes sure the data doesn't disappear and gives you an optional substitute for cloud storage.
Content addressing, p2p communication by default, flexible/future-proof standards for negotiated what data is and how it is formatted, and in modular plug-and-play utilization of many different communication/synchronization techniques is the key to applications being built in more effective and efficient way than conventional client/server architecture.

The word that comes to mind is "flexibility". Want you store to be S3 buckets? Great! Want to host a private network, only your devices can access? Great! Want to joint the public network? Great! Want to ensure persistence of data via a token? Great! Want to just use the address mechanism? Great! Want to run the software in the cloud, on you local machine, in a sandboxed browser tab and have them all seamlessly forming a p2p network over a multitude of network standards (tcp, udp, web-sockets, etc)? Great!

I worked extensively last year with various ipfs techs utilized in a private p2p network consisting of ARM nodes capture time-series measurement devices and cloud based persistent nodes managing the pinset of data and persisting long-term storage. There are definitely some rough edges but again it's open-source built is such a modular way it's almost difficult to develop your self into a corner.

The software coming out of protocol labs is overwhelmingly not new technology. Protocol lab large focuses on utilization of battle-tested existing standards and tech (many of which are relatively ancient like TCP, ssh, git, json, etc) unified, without breaking existing stands, via a common addressing mechanism.

tl;dr Filecoin/crypto-tokens just a side note! The vast majority of software coming out of protocol labs is independently useful and largely focuses on bridging together widely-used battle-tested tech.
> Europe can relax because they worked hard in the beginning to get everything under control.

Where do you see that COVID19 is over?

> under control

A very steep second wave of infection is, to me, the opposite of "under control". Do you actually check data?

https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/fr

Also, just routinely mentioning:

"No country knows the total number of people infected with COVID-19. All we know is the infection status of those who have been tested."

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing

Also, the US tests about twice more (per thousand people) vs the rates of testing in Europe, so you should expect at least 2x more cases discovered in the US just by this mere fact.

Most of Europe also has only a "symptoms-based" testing policy, while the US also has an "asymptomic" testing policy.
It means they'd have less to panic over. It means that everyone in this country would be in a better place (including Trump and that's not permissible to be said in this political environment).
That is in fact a fundamental distinction between the Universal Basic Income and the Federal Job Guarantee.

One criticism of the UBI is that being unmoored from production makes it extremely inflationary. That requires high levels of tax to destroy enough money to offset the inflation.

https://www.realprogressivesusa.com/news/economic-justice/20...
Canadian government sides with telecoms in appeal of CRTC’s lower wholesale rate
>> Will work be more decentralized in 10 years than it is today? Yes.

That's a big call during an unprecedented work from home pandemic.
Because it says the binary is damaged/malware/sketchy and that is not correct.
> it has no utility.

You can send money anywhere in the world in any amount for a flat fee.
It provides an asset with a fixed supply to prevent against inflation.
these provide plenty of utility

What you may mean is that it doesn't generate earnings/cash flow so it's not a productive investment.
> Is the state persisted to disk

Exactly!
A lot.

They make it illegal for you to hire someone at a rate below the minimum wage, even if they agree to it.

They force unemployment of those with skills below the average minimum-wage employee's.

They pick an arbitrary minimum wage mandated by government fiat, instead of determined in the marketplace. Such an arbitrary wage suffers from the economic calculation problem, where rational allocation of goods is impossible without free markets and prices to communicate supply and demand.

Changes in the minimum wage affect other things, like the price of food in restaurants, in way which is nonlinear from the actual supply and demand of those goods and services. It's as though there is pressure for prices to move upwards or downwards in response to market conditions, but the minimum wage, or other prices directly affected by the minimum wage, are not allowed to respond to those market conditions, and so a shortage or oversupply occurs.

https://fee.org/articles/topics/minimum%20wage
I'm eager for them to go public so people who short them can lose their shirts.
Yes, and people are trying to run this outside browser too(like a jvm alternative). Not sure what's the craze about wasm outside browsers considering all the risks.
A number of streaming services won't let you recieve 4K on PC.
Every worker gets to do this, and it happens a lot in startups and big companies alike. Stocks and stock options are (varyingly) anchored to whole-company valuation, and early / senior employees that produce more value will often get more stock because they comprise a greater share of the company's health.

If your friend insists on paying you a low flat fee for doing highly lucrative work, your rational choice is to turn down the offer and find another employer, or even go at it on your own. Your friend's rational choice is to negotiate because the lost profits from you (and others) declining the offer is worth more than the profits he loses by paying you more.

Regardless of that, a single transaction like this is often not sufficient to accurately determine the market value of your contribution. Market valuation happens in aggregate for this reason. A single irrational transaction like the one you described just represents a market inefficiency.
Sorry, that's what I meant to say. Wal-Mart is the largest private employer by a factor of 3. They're probably first in many categories (of absolute numbers, not percentages) based on the size of their workforce.
Excellent book. Took me three reads to understand most of what was going on, but very much worth it.
Viewing it all through the lense of supply and demand is probably the best way to get a solid, dispassionate understanding of the situation. Specifically price inelasticity..

It also explains why workers in "essential" jobs are still low wage. An apparently baffling situation even though we were all taught the answer in highschool econ 101.