skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've identified it. We're talking about productivity gains, so that accountant gets as much done as they did before, minus the commute time. At a bare minimum, that's doing 8 hours of work in 8 hours, versus 8 hours of work in 10 hours, or whatever your commute is. People who drive (most people) cannot usually perform economic activity during their commute. Better yet, maybe that accountant figures that they really work for 4-6 hours of the day and the rest is kind of wasted on chitchat or looking busy. The autonomy to quietly get work done in less time will grant that worker even more hours in the day.

There may be GDP effects that counterbalance this. Less money spent on gas or at small businesses near the employer. However, as suburbs have more at-home workers, more lunch spots will pop up nearby so I doubt the GDP effects are big. Sure, some might spend their productivity gains enjoying an extra bowl of cereal, but there's nothing wrong with that.
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As someone else who isn't young: we'll figure out other things but climate change thing is a much bigger problem. It's fundamentally unlike how we fixed CFCs/ozone, lead levels, DDT, or anything else in human history. We should all endeavor to fix it even if it requires bribing oil executives for a generation so we can involve something that is a closer to a French revolution outcome for the class that is causing this problem. It's an existential issue for the young.
We have devops, why not marksales?
Must be your circles.

In 2018 (must be higher now) 22% of uk residents with internet access reported having regularly used a smart speaker.

https://contentstorage-nax1.emarketer.com/519874bbcaa13e06b8...
For those wondering, it’s roughly 1157.4 days (38 months)[0]

[0]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1e8+seconds+in+months
same as now, encryption and permissions. We'll just have more options and less lock-in.
Maybe https://geoengineering.environment.harvard.edu/geoengineerin...

getting pure co2 from the air is profitable, because it is used in soda etc. The challenge is to get it pure, but climate is a huge business opportunity
It's a research demo and you seem to frame it in a negative light almost exclusively. Not that your remarks aren't valid (they are). Seems a bit flippant.
I make a bold prediction that we'll run out of digits rather soon.
I didn’t say it should be free. I just think if your sharing articles for discussion you should share ones that everyone can read
Sounds plausible. That’s completely irrelevant to my point however.
No, Elixir does not aim to be a general-purpose language. It is built for a virtual machine that greatly excels at distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
If manufacturing would like to screw off with shipping things in huge amounts of styrofoam, that would be just great because have you ever tried to get rid of styrofoam in the trash cleanly? Why do we ever have this material still in use when cardboard exists?
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Which has nothing to do with what I said. No single change is going to eliminate net CO2 production. You need to solve every single one and electric vs gas stoves are a very specific example of that choice. Worldwide no country has weighed in on gas vs electric stoves in large part because it’s not a major factor but also because nobody is actually aiming for zero CO2.

Carbon is produced as a side effect of methods not an inherent property of a given lifestyle.
Not for me, I'll take nuclear over natural gas any day.
You're getting down voted, but you're right. Apple filters heavily, they know everything in the apps they allow or disallow. Anything that is allowed and that they profit from, they are complicit in.
The fact that it happens so consistently indicates it is some kind of conspiracy.
There are tons of replication issues across the sciences, they are just most salient in the Social Sciences because the topic is just really hard to study well.

Clinical trials can often be flawed, even if the stats are fine, just in how they sample. For example, women are often excluded from trials due to hormonal changes, but how drugs impact women is really important! Participants are also typically drawn from specific locations, and so may not be representative of people with different diets, lifestyles, and environmental factors.

Physics has its own controversies, though not always directly related to replication. For example, Harry Collins recounts the social factors involved in the discovery of gravitational waves: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/03/28/harry-collins-...
I don't see any part of the comment that implies that Apple can do no wrong.
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> as though the decision to raise children was comparable to the decision to become a grandmaster Starcraft player.

Why isn’t it comparable though? Both are life affecting choices and both affect other people around you.

As someone without children, I’ve often had to pick up the slack because parents needed time off or to leave early or to step out of a meeting. I think it’s ok to cut people slack, what I don’t think is ok is drawing arbitrary lines between what it is and isn’t acceptable to cut people slack over. If your toddler interrupts every meeting and it’s causing problems to the rest of the team that is on you and you need to figure out a solution, the same way as if the Starcraft player affects the team then that’s on them. To the rest of us there's no tangible difference. Yes, if its medical and its out of your control, or there's some occasional issue, then its no problem at all and obviously extra concessions should be made during the current global situation and I’m absolutely supportive of giving extra concessions to parents in this case — but this is an extraordinary situation that needs extraordinary care and concessions. The part that isn't ok is if its regular and you expect everyone else to be ok with it because the reason happens to be children. You don't get to force your life choices on us, sorry. At least afford us the same flexibility.

To be clear, I’m ok with making concessions when parents need them, I just also think the favour needs to be returned when I need time, regardless of why I might need it. Having children is a choice, no matter how you want to rationalise it (and it’s perfectly fine to make that choice but it’s not fair to then expect people who didn’t make that choice to bend over backwards for you, at least in normal non-covid times)
There's a nice countdown here: https://epochconverter.com/countdown
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On the other hand, there’s the suffragettes, the Civil Rights movement, the Velvet Revolution, etc. If less people made excuses and instead joined the youth, change might happen.
For Facebook at least, it's not about 'ads'. Personalised ads are a distraction. Not being able to track outside of their platform takes away the ability to extend the profile they are building around the user. Their customers are interested in this profile because they can use that information to manipulate the user. And we're not talking about choosing Bosch over Whirlpool for a new dishwasher...
Something very similar was posted yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979

Which links to:
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
> It is upending centuries of financial customs, rules, laws, and institutions.

More like decades. On a historical timeline, electronic bank accounts and the ensuing financial surveillance and financial censorship laws are themselves recent developments.
This seems like poor branding on the part of the cigar brands (at least for online sales).
Worth noting that the concepts of piping and pattern matching don't just exist in the language itself, but also in an architectural level. Plugs, for example, allow you to "pipe" entire web requests in a very elegant and logical fashion.
Dementia Stopped Peter Max from Painting. For Some, It Was an Opportunity (2019)
It's gonna be so fun. In UTC:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.now().timestamp()
1599923432.252943
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(16e8)
datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 13, 8, 26, 40)
More money + more power = promotion.
I hope this will be much easier for people to do when there are decentralized options. (other thread here discussing that.) And then the big players can't just buy the competitors and keep locking us into the same problem.
If OP has a false sense of security due to port knocking the ssh may not have been updated as recently.
Wouldn't not merging a PR be the same as saying no
[1] I don't have official statistics but anecdotally I can say that as a teenager, almost everyone I knew had modified their moped or scooter.

Anecdotally neither me, nor anyone I knew, had their mopeds modded to exceed the limiter
> they’re not heavily in advertising... yet

haha, remember iAd? That failed quickly.
Well we now have a number of companies who are paying for all sorts of things, Amazon and Microsoft being two of them. With hopefully more in the future once we get the foundation going.
That's not what a 'marketing manager' says, that's what an 'agency' says. Very different things.

Part of this misunderstanding derives from what was hinted at in the article in that the valley has basically a complete lack of understanding of what marketing is.
2032 Problem
If a person of Snowden's reputation is not enough for you, who is?
Saying 'no thanks' and closing is saying 'no'. Leaving it unacknowledged isn't saying yes or no.
Not at all. It's my way of saying that the US government would not bother forbidding the transaction.

Further, did the US protest when China ordered Google out of the country in 2008? (And Facebook, but it wasn't nearly as large then.) No.
I'm with you... Once in Thailand I was shocked that nobody on mopeds wears a helmet. My conclusion was that the people doesn't value their lives high enough. Sadly, I don't know how to put it differently. I don't know if this is culture, education, or what.
But the US doesn't promote openness, human rights, or democracy. It promotes its own mercantilism and spiteful sensitivity while accusing others of doing so. How many human rights do Palestinians have in USA’s greatest ally, Israel? (40% are denied citizenship) How much market openness is Tiktok seeing in US? Why is US #2 mid east ally a monarchy? These are all baldfaced lies and only uninformed Americans living in the US media bubble believe them. The people in charge of the US are hell bent on destroying those things when they come into conflict with their own power. Therefore they should have no role in enforcing any international orders.
In fairness, it had to be said that in Italy (fiat Punto, I guess you're Italian?) in the time where no license was required to drive 50cc and no helmet was mandatory it was pretty much a anarchy on streets.

I had to get a license at 16 to drive a 125cc (both theoretical and actual driving test) and many of my peers had taken a smaller test (theoretical only) at 14 to drive their 50cc.

I am satisfied that such exams are now mandatory and helmets are mandatory too.
> there's simply nothing that suggests the current laws achieve their claimed intent

Decriminalizing heroin possession and use, while keeping production and sale illegal, has already resulted in absolutely massive reduction of heroin use in several places. Sometimes to the point that there’s only a few elderly addicts hanging on but virtually no younger users are taking up the drug. I’d say that the policies achieved their claimed intent. What more do you want?
And we have to care about South Florida because of the undemocratic system of the electoral college.
This is both untrue and incredibly unproductive - born of a mishmash of puritan morals and modern problems.

Do you use a dishwasher? You should. They use less water and less energy per wash then any human washing by hand. Yet people instinctively seem to think hand washing is better because it's harder work.

No amount of energy use reduction is going to make a shred of difference if all our power comes from coal. Period. Everything else is secondary and non-fundamental: solar panels can be manufactured cleanly, and the consequences of mishandling still only pollute locally - serious, but not an uncontrollable global problem.

Environmentalism of the "we must sacrifice" nature is being pushed by idiots on the left and corporates on the right: the left feels it's honest because it's hard, the right knows that no one will do it but boy does it shift blame away from them and encourage populism and dismissal in public discourse.
If I run the google query "holiday heart" site:goodreads.com I get the Margarita García Robayo translation on the first page of 10 results.

On the other hand, when I use the search on goodreads itself, the Robayo book - with 298 ratings - is not among the first 20 results.

Ahead of it are books like:

"Home for the Holidays (Heart of the Wolf #28; Silver Town Wolf #9)" - no phrase match, pluralises holidays, splits the query between the book title and series, and has 178 ratings.

"The Pastry Queen Christmas: Big-Hearted Holiday Entertaining, Texas Style" - again no phrase match, heart becomes big-hearted, and it's a subtitle, and the book has 122 ratings

"Holiday of the Heart (Heart, #4)" - finally a book with both words in the title! But no phrase match, and this book has.... 2 ratings.

If the search doesn't support phrase matches, doesn't rank precise matches higher, and doesn't rank more popular books higher - how the hell is it ranking things?

Of course, goodreads is hardly the first site to have a shitty search that causes users to google things instead. The ranking could well be "whatever order elasticsearch produces"
Certainly looks like karma.
> Alexa demonstrably does not listen to your conversations

I won't soon forget this story[0]. It listens to everything, and if it thinks it hears the start of a command it starts doing stuff with what it hears. That detection can have bugs, some of them practically unavoidable (like differentiating between a conversation about a person named Alexa and a command).

Amazon themselves have said that "[voice] data is stored remotely" as opposed to on the device[1]. So it seems likely that most Alexa users have had at least some parts of a conversation in which they did not intend to involve Alexa stored on an Amazon server, and possibly reviewed by some number of employees[2].

I think the strongest thing you can say "demonstrably" about regarding Alexa is that it does not store _all_ your conversations.

0. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-devic...

1. https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/2819/mystery-...

2. https://time.com/5568815/amazon-workers-listen-to-alexa/
> Mosseri said Instagram’s advertising business requires certain data to show users relevant ads and to provide value for its advertisers, the majority of which are small and medium-sized businesses.

And they're always showing me utterly irrelevant ads and content ^_^

Not that I complain, I like that they haven't managed to track me well so far. But then again, I do wonder if they'd ever share that info (or if it was leaked), which companies/people would believe about me: whatever I say, or the flawed model that they've built.
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Either way, Apple takes 30% of the revenue. Apple isn't standing up to Epic's gambling, they''re profiting a lot from it and their only issue with Epic seems to be that they want to keep profiting from it. The Epic and Apple case started when Epic circumvented Apple for in app purchases and lowered their prices accordingly.
And most of these alternatives still need an E-Mail to sign up, which loops back to gmail. Statista puts the number of its users at 1.5 billion in 2018[0]. There are some alternatives, yes, but if you ever tried to run your own mailserver you'll quickly find out that gmail users not receiving your mail is very much a problem.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/432390/active-gmail-user...
The true illusion is that there be true barons: they are us, in our multiple guises of investors and pensioners and account-holders and wage slaves. Some tower over others (the Gates and Bezos of the world) but in truth they’re just an outsized outlier. As long as we engage in the artefice that we are beholden to evildoers who lord it over us, we will never be free.
I agree that some choices were made for us, but abdicating any personal responsibility In favor of anger at someone else strikes me as lazy and defeatist thinking. Many people in industrialized nations make choices every day and have full control over their own behavior - how they get around, what they eat, how and how often they travel, the brands they engage with... sitting and waiting for the problem to be solved for us is what’s gotten us nowhere.
It's based on this: https://www.replicationmarkets.com, which is linked in the first paragraph of the article.

Per https://www.replicationmarkets.com/index.php/rules, volunteers are predicting whether 3000 social science papers are replicable. According to the rules, of those 3000 papers, ~5% will be resolved (i.e. attempts will be made to replicate). According to the article, 175 will be resolved. It's unclear to me who exactly will do that work but I would guess it's people behind replications markets dot com (they are funded by DARPA). The rules say that no one knows ahead of time which papers will be resolved so I assume the ~5% (or 175) will be chosen by random.

The data in the article seems to be based on what the forecasters predicted, not which papers actually replicated (that work hasn't been done yet...or at least hasn't been made public). The author of the article is assuming that the forecasters are accurate. To back up this assumption, he cites previous studies showing that markets are good at this kind of thing.

The tone is ranty but, by participating in the markets, the author is putting his money where his mouth is.
And? This implying Alexa is spying on your conversations crap is getting out of hand on HN.

The dude is ceo of a cybersecurity company and has very unique and deep insights into global security threats. He’s definitely someone you would want to have around to advise on security especially as foreign threats are ramping up on the digital front.

Alexa, Google assistant, Siri are demonstrably not listening to your conversations, us in the tech industry should know better than to spread this sort of FUD.
OMSCS doesn't use proctortrack anymore, for the records. It uses honorlock.

But that doesn't change my POV one iota. Proctortrack was an app which was used during exams, and uninstalled afterwards.
Yeah this thing is quite luxurious I’m not sure the authors realized this. Either that or this sponsored content. I know you’re not supposed to say that here, but it really felt like that. Seemed to be totally lacking any critical perspective. Couldn’t figure it out.

I also don’t get how these are supposed to be safe for 14 year olds and pedestrians.
> You can blame big oil or the government, but it really starts with you, and people need to start using less energy.

Targeting individuals' behavior to reduce energy consumption has been tried and largely failed to have much impact.

Even private industry has largely passed on the chance to offer renewable energy consuming products - like EVs or high efficiency homes - to consumers at mass market prices.

The products are mostly targeted at the more well off, minimizing their potential impact on climate change.

A price on carbon is precisely the input that the entire economy needs to stimulate a shift in demand away from fossil fuels, and the fact that we don't have that today is the direct result of fossil fuel industry actions and government inaction.
2037 is a potential overflow, I believe. I imagine only pre 2000 systems would likely be affected.
As somebody that lives in a fairly big city and hasn't needed a car for the last 8 years, such cars are interesting to me because 99% of the driving I would do would be in the city itself.

So much so that the car I drive the most via car sharing and that I'd like to buy is a smart fortwo.
>I CAN'T WAIT for decentralized infrastructure to finally become robust enough that clones of instagram and facebook can all share a network

What? We HAVE this TODAY. It's called the INTERNET. How would another internet solve the problems that thrived in this version.
There's nothing wrong with getting paid to help people. That's the whole moral justification for capitalism.
For those as oblivious to +0000 as I am, and wondering if that is GMT or UTC:

- GMT is a time zone officially used in some European and African countries. The time can be displayed using both the 24-hour format (0 - 24) or the 12-hour format (1 - 12 am/pm).

- UTC is not a time zone, but a time standard that is the basis for civil time and time zones worldwide. This means that no country or territory officially uses UTC as a local time.

Source: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html
Never seen a charge for a wire transfer in europe.
I think you're right. Take a look at the before/after curves for "this is what the predictions look like after the papers".

The before curves are gaussian+ distributed and pessimistic, but the after curves are all distinctly bimodal (or worse). This suggests that some population of the participants were broadly pessimized by their surveys and another population was broadly optimized by their surveys.

This could instead be a measurement of how people's trust in science is predicated on how well it matches their own prior beliefs.

+ A sharper eye shows they aren't quite bimodal in the prior belief. Even in those cases, the separation between the modes gets much wider.
Apart from his actions, he's very good at his job and argues and formulates his ideas and thoughts very carefully.

He's a leading thinker in our time, because he puts his thoughts out there in a new way, he's making well-reasoned arguments and he has a platform to spread his ideas.
Ah. You can set up dash-suffixing if you're using a custom domain with gmail. Create a new "catch-all" email account. Log into that new catch-all account, and create forwarding rules for alice-* to go to alice@example.com, bob-* to go to bob@example.com, ...

I've done this for more than a decade.
Amazon would be moronic to do such a thing.

Goodreads could've turned around and begun selling books direct, they had the customers buying intent, not amazon.

Other sites would've seen this move and begun to pivot away from amazon's affiliate system for fear of the rug being pulled out from underneath them.
CCstal says >"People forget that bike riders, once its past a certain amount of distance will sweat + are exposed to the elements.">

Driving home yesterday in a light rain I saw a gentleman in a bright yellow soccer shirt riding a bicycle slowly on the sidewalk. A wide stripe of dark brown mud ran up his back and onto his helmet! As I drove past I just had to laugh and wonder what the front wheel was doing to him!

No one owned a bicycle without fenders when I was young; today finding a bike with fenders is difficult. And some of today's aftermarket fenders are ridiculously flimsy.

I do not understand the absence of fenders on today's bicycles.
Big Gravity is conspiring to keep us all down