skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you respond in the wrong place? "More money" is a premise of "Most people in the western world aren't likely to buy more food, just because they have more money."
I did vote against it, but mostly for other reasons.

The companies (mostly banks and insurances) lobbying for the e-ID have already implemented a similar project called "Swiss-ID" which was supposed to be used across a majority of service providers. From the point of view of the user, it looked and behaved a lot like OAuth.

What I am afraid of is that the e-ID will be implemented in a similar way, and data will be stored centrally. That's a big difference to the classic physical ID we have, because while the government controlled some data centrally (name, year of birth etc), no information about banking or illnesses was ever stored in a central place.

If there was an indication about how the e-ID was going to be implemented, and if there was a reasonable effort to make sure data is being kept isolated (e.g. by issuing a physical tokens and encrypting the data with them) I might have voted yes. But there was no such information, and I expected the worst.
I recently learned that the uninstall cmd doesn't uninstall the app from the phone but only for the user. This may come handy if you uninstall something by mistake, say, an essential service. Forgot the reinstall cmd but it's easy to find.
Show HN: Sentiment analysis on Reddit penny stocks posts using Wit.AI
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This program scrapes data from Reddit (you can select the subreddits), and filters the top mentions of penny stocks that people are talking about. You can then train your own Wit.AI to analyse sentiments from the data to gain more understanding of the ground sentiments.

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Contrasting Kafka with Akka
I have a lawyer friend who learned to program from scratch, starting older than 40.

He works for a large automaker now writing javascript web apps and is way happier than when he was lawyering. It took him less than 2-3 years to switch.
But that's my point, it is already NOT in the EVM, the cost is so high that the author didn't commit the code to it - ethereum fell at the very first hurdle!
Thanks, I hate it. I'm losing every single game (I think I tried like about 30-ish times). If that's how 12-years old are playing them I should probably apply for disability benefits. My naive approach by trying to define safe squares to move pieces to and naive capture goals by exchanging figures of lesser value is not working against this algorithm, I guess I'll probably have better chance if I'd just run the same logic on paper.
Speculation in commodities reminded me of the onion futures act [0]

"""
The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts".[1]

In 1955, two onion traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, cornered the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The resulting regulatory actions led to the passing of the act on August 28, 1958. As of January 2021, it remains in effect.[1]

The law was amended in 2010 to add motion picture box office futures to the list of banned futures contracts, in response to lobbying efforts by the Motion Picture Association of America.[2]
"""

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
Well, political correctness in that context is a term deployed by people opposing greater respect for minorities and such, so the pejorative association is intended. Nobody uses that term to describe their own work.
Restaurant supply chains are a totally separate beast. Bulk foods being supplied were mostly sent to landfills. Tons of potatoes for example that were only ear-marked for restaurants went straight to the dump.

Supplier A only supplies to restaurants it's normally a safe bet, so that's all they do. No restaurants buying - holy shit - my entire crop is excess...

I'm not a farmer but this is what I've read.

There's also the fact a lot of panic buyers might buy too much, then end up throwing a bit away because of fear that when they need it - it won't be there, but then it just spoils at home, etc.

Also food banks are taking a lot of the food. More people actually have money for food (one thing the govt does do is make sure people don't starve (usually) maybe more if you have kids).

TLDR: You can't just move all restaurant food to consumer/grocery like it's a commodity in Factorio... it takes a lot to shift global supply chains and get new contracts on how deliverables are received, etc...
Well, "fascinating" is a synonym for "interesting", no?

As for "frightening" - the things that make tech "interesting" are a combination of rarity and power. The same combination has the potential to destabilize power structures. So it's not really surprising or avoidable.
Now that's some specialized knowledge. How do the stars even line up so that someone with the insight on British sex practices of the fourties, lands precisely in a random thread mentioning Orwell's writing on the matter?
Exactly my sentiment. Tax paid child abuse. We should implore how this ever got this far, and fix the system to ensure this never happens again. As a result I've come to believe that religious freedom should have well enough protection by freedom of expression and freedom of association; and hence should be removed from constitutions and put into the regular code of law.

Freedom of religion may not constitutionally compete with bodily integrity (nor with freedom of expression (blasphemy)).
> Although these experiments were conducted with only Dutch speakers, the team believes that it's likely they would have found the same results with other languages.

Red flag. That's not science.
IIRC it was already a hit as Google Tez, probably because it is a much better name. The google pay re-branding was done when it had already proven to be a huge success, probably with a long-term goal of merging it with the international Google Pay.
I'd recommend finding something that combines programming and whatever your prior career has been, so you can bridge the gap.

I moved from teaching to coding by first working on open source teaching software in my spare time, then using it as part of my teaching work, then getting a junior coding job at a university. I was a better teacher because of the software I was making, and I was a more attractive junior hire due to my domain knowledge.

Code at home --> Use project at old job --> Use domain knowledge plus project to land first coding job --> Coding career :)
> amazingly long waiting times (measured in years) for anything but the most basic interventions

Do you have some examples? Since the vast majority of HN people (myself included) aren't medically trained, it might be very unclear what kind of interventions you're thinking about.

For example, I would hazard a guess that something that is mostly cosmetic could be considered "basic" – but my experience is that such a thing is given a low priority (rightfully so, IMHO). Yet there's lots of urgent and non-"basic" cancer interventions that happen quickly. So I'm a bit puzzled.
A question for this thread... Does not having Google Analytics on your site affect your google search site ranking in any way?

I have Google Analytics on my sites and I'm concerned about losing vistors if I swap to some other trackers.
Bing is pretty good though. The results are different from Google's but not necessarily worse or better.
Seems that they got the idea from a Danish show which similaryly got "controversy" around it because it was unusual.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/ult...
Very important point, thanks.
Hmm it worked for me on my Chrome. It might be a plugin you have? Not sure.
Those documents are not that hard to forge though.

It's simply more likely that the US has more high value targets, has more criminals/grifters doing this kind of fraud/scam, and non-US media talks less about these identity theft events.
Yeah, that doesn't sound great...
> No. And No.

I thought as much ...

(At least you've taken the time to reply - even to a tongue in cheek comment - instead of taking to the downvotes, which I appreciate ...)

Considering EVM fees, I find it endlessly fascinating that people are paying for computation per cycle, on a distributed VM.-

It blows one away ...

(Also, a pity that Conway is not here to opine on this.)
Could undecidability similar to that of Conway or another halting problem be used to better solve security of financial transactions?

If it’s ubersecure maybe it would outperform Moore’s Law, quantum computing, and the hyper-intelligent AIs.
> In some of these free healthcare countries you can be SOL if you get cancer or a rare condition and don't have money for the latest treatments. Here in New Zealand the wait times are so long that a lot of people just pay for private surgery/screening.

That is indeed a problem. How does giving up and saying "the rich or well-insured can get these things, the poor not" help in any way shape or form?
Brain on a stick is still livestock.
"Compare this to homes in films now: massive, sterile cavernous spaces with minimalist furniture. Kitchens are industrial-sized and spotless, and they contain no food. There is no excess. There is no mess."

Finally, it's not just me. I can't stand these sterile looking homes and kitchen especially. For the same reason, I am not a huge fan of sterile looking restaurant tables either. The author evokes the emotions behind such feelings better than I can, but it reminds of a famous Joan Rivers joke on the Johny Carson show.

"Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum, "My God, the floor's immaculate! Lie down, you hot bitch."
You don't have do incorporated at all.

All you need is an idea and build an app. Connect Stripe to your personal account to receive payout. That's all.

Unless you do consulting or have business partner, I think you just stick to a sole proprietorship. As in, dont have to do anything, SaaS and Bank account all under yourname. Just get a separate bank account.

Focus on your app, get paid customer first, withdrawal money to your own bank account.
Wouldn't prices go up anyway if farmers were forced to pay higher wages for picking? I imagine the margin on vegetables is quite tiny...
Ahh the request is only done for unique users - so if you already was there once he won't send another request again until you clear your browsing data (or just the sessionStorage)
GDP measures income, not spending. If someone outside the US spends money on Amazon, and a portion of that money becomes part of Bezos' income, that portion is counted in the US GDP, not the foreign country's GDP.

His income last year was around $60 billion, or $200 per person (of any age) in the United States. While last year was exceptional, all of his wealth ($600 per capita) was income in the last 20 or so years, most of it in the last 10. And his ex-wife Mackenzie Scott kept 25% of their combined wealth when they separated.

So it's simply not true that his contribution to GDP looks completely trivial even when compared to total US GDP.
> Presumably you'd have a healthcare plan of some sort, one which politicians have mandated over the years to cover practically everything.

And if you can't afford that plan?
Fetishizing and Desexualising is a non sequitur.

And the author must have not watched the same wonder woman if they didn't get Steve and Diana's connection.

Oh and the reason they don't show food /eating in kitchens is that filming scenes where the actors are eating is problematic given the number of takes needed.
It would be great to have VR support for something like this. The field of VR content creation is woefully sparse.
Somewhat related: I was blown away when I first heard the argument that intelligence is basically compression.

http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#compai

Haven't done any more digging into this but it did give me something to ponder about.
I often find that when talking to other slightly autistic people like me the conversation goes on for far too long and we just can't end it. I often find myself making yet another utterance while there's a voice in my head telling me to shut the fuck up because this is tiring. I can tell the same voice is in the head of my conversation partner too---I know it's time to stop and so do they---but we just keep going. It makes me completely avoid starting conversations with these people after I recognise the problem.

I had a housemate who just couldn't stop. As far as I can tell if he met his clone they would talk until one of them died. Literally the only way to end the conversation is just to walk out of the room and don't stop for any reason whatsoever. I fully believe that he knew it was awkward to keep a conversation going when the other person has physically left the room, is halfway up the stairs and trying to leave, but he just couldn't.

If this sounds like you then try really, really hard to stop it because people will learn to avoid you and that would be a shame.
What the 902 to 928 MHz spectrum looks like. All those blips in the waterfall are smart meters or some other IoT device.

http://www.w6rz.net/33cm.png
I did a data scientist-focused review on the same book if that's useful: https://medium.com/@rishabhkabra/book-review-the-book-of-why...
that sounds like the general trend of wages in the US to not adjust upwards since Reagan’s presidency
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Interesting that one of the marquee features of flutter is that the same code should work for web, but google pay's flutter re-write has dropped the web entirely. Maybe flutter is not so portable after all?
When you think of a scientist or engineer, who comes to mind? Is it a man/woman?
Am I interpreting this correctly that there’s a minimum wage that applies to Australians but not foreigners, and farmers thus rely on foreign labor?

Edit: In Sweden we have/have had similar situations with temporary immigrants that for example pick berries for exploitative wages, but that’s because there’s no actual minimum wage per se - in the rest of society decent wages are ensured by strong unions (except in areas where demand is high anyway, like say for software developers).
You seem to read too much into my comment, and make it into something partisan. I'm not interested in that debate. My thoughts about statistics and probability were there before I read Pearl's book. Pearl mentions potential outcomes in his book.
It is relevant because they chose to abandon best practices because of a lack of tooling. A badly chosen language constraining your development methods is like a tail wagging the dog. There are languages and, more importantly, implementations out there that allow this kind of design. Just think of SML/NJ as an example for the principle.

If performance is important and C# doesn't allow unit testing performant code then switch to C++ or Rust.

It is staggering how many people seem to see the choice of language as an absolutely unchangeable decision. Rewriting even millions of lines of js or python code is definitely doable, even incrementally, and if your organization does not deem it worth the effort then maybe performance is not your most important concern.
> If it's a basic operating system functionality (dealing with files, viewing photos) it's fine if you can't uninstall it, but then it better not come with any kind of separate user agreement, separate updates, changes in functionality, upselling attempts etc.

Which is the case for Google Photos. It is also a messenger (not kidding), shows notifications with "moments" it automatically created from your photos, lets you create photo books which you can order and so on.

I would prefer a smaller default gallery app with Google Photos being an optional extra.
Oops, the title broke. It's supposed to say "HashCat"
How We Classify Products at Skroutz
You can see how it's going when the super rich are buying agricultural land
At nigh-on 40 years old, I’ve come to believe that ethical violations are routinely perpetrated on the world because good people who would
otherwise speak out ‘have a wife and kids to feed’. As if that life decision to start a family, for all of the happiness and wonder that comes from it, plays right into the hands of the management structure inevitably looming over it.
>Flour, sugar, etc. were all a real pain to get a hold of

I see that as a win. Neither flour nor sugar is essential or healthy.
And perhaps more significantly, DDoS attacks against Minecraft servers are extremely common. There's a massive market dedicated purely to DDoSing Minecraft servers.

In addition to its popularity, I would guess that this is probably related to the fact that the average age of Minecraft players is probably lower than the average age for most other popular online games. A disgruntled person between the age of 12 - 18 who knows they can completely shut down the fun-having ability of everyone they're pissed off at for a few dollars per hour will often feel pretty tempted.
London as a tech hub does punch above its weight, mostly because the language makes for a very deep pool of labour -- people from all of Europe plus Russia/India.

Of course that is only half the equation -- better and cheaper labour (than in Berlin or Paris, say) brings you halfway there, but the language barrier for customers in the EU as well as regulatory hurdles still make massively harder to scale to the whole of the EU than to the whole of the US.
I will bite, although this moves away from the news that Switzerland votes against the electronic ID system.

> How did that happen?

Two hypothesis:

a) The railroad net in Switzerland is fairly small when compared to Germany.

b) The numbers in the punctuality statistics are skewed. For example, once a train from Germany is late and wants to cross the border to Switzerland (e.g. Freiburg-Basel crossing), it is put on hold and has to wait until it falls into the next swiss train slot, entering Switzerland "on time". In Germany, this would be counted as a delay.

Source: Lived in Switzerland for a while.
Of course you can! I decided to learn to code when I was 37yo. Now I am 41 and I earn a lot more as a junior developer than I ever did in any other job.

I wrote a lot about my path and I think it can help both in the why and the how: https://rodrigohgpontes.github.io/

Good luck!
As an eastern european, it does feel like western europe is sinking. West seem to be fucking over their citizens. On the other hand, this gives a chance for East and Asia to raise faster. But ceiling is getting lower and lower. Anecdata observations is East (and Asia) is slowly rising, but difference to West is shrinking much faster.
To be fair, there is not really any other country to compare them to on this. No country which was already rich, stable, democratic and well-educated has ever received such a large resources windfall as Norway did from North Sea Oil.
Looks nice we want to try it out. We cannot find the slack integration though, is it available yet?
Good riddance. No need for Elsevier, look elsewhere [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
If only they could print productivity to match.
I suppose it's important to know the context that this colleague suggested their skin colour was darker than she expected.

"Wow, what a tan"

> "Yeah I just came back from 3 months in Egypt"

"Yeah! I was a momentarily surprised because your skin colour was darker than I expected since I'd seen your photo on your CV"

Maybe I'm giving the colleague too much credit.
Yeah. The UK did reasonably well. Not civil war, just one IMF bailout, you can still buy something for a pound sterling.
It sounds like you don't have formal experience in economics - how can you possibly so sure of yourself because the maths looks good to you? Especially when experts are saying that the paper is flawed - this should at least give you some pause? As you've said in this thread - economics is not a hard science like physics or comp-sci. So then surely you NEED domain knowledge to make bold claims about what is and isn't broken in economics?
Buying an NFT requires buying ETH which increases demand for ETH and pushes up the price, encouraging more people to mine ETH, which uses more electricity. Also another effect is pushing up gas fees as people compete to make transactions which again helps miners and encourages more new miners to rig up and join in.
This reminds me of how elephants don't suffer from cancer, because of their size their tumors get tumors and die off before doing damage to the animal. The best bureaucracy is not an efficient one, but one so inefficient that it can't do harm.
"That" didn't happen after "that".

When do you draw the line "US no longer needs China against Russia"?
Some missinformation on my side:

I checked the Google Photos app and opened my account settings. According to the information in the app, free & unlimited storage of photos in "high" (not original) quality will still be available for me after June 1st 2021. But uploads from other devices will count toward the available space quota.

So Google Photos works as always on the Google Pixel 3a.
Production has decreased, or at least ability to ship it has.

Consumption is probably the same for most families, albeit they may buy 10% more to make sure certain staples are good in case of a shortage.. more so during the ebb/flow of covid-19 waves and lockdowns.

So a family might end up wasting more food just to be sure they have enough for planned meals or alternatives.

A lot of people are having mental health issues from lockdown, that can affect eating behaviors as well - depression can cause gain or loss of appetite so that's up in the air - could also make you plan to eat in but then decide to get take out because you're too depressed to cook. (Source: I've done this as my anxiety/depression has been really bad this year and my wife who's never been depressed is barely functional this year).

I think the biggest thing is just everything's shifting. We're not just dealing with covid-19 but also fires and other natural disasters. Unfortunately, I think climate change could keep this the norm even if covid-19 is completely normalized (i.e. we return to some semblance of normal).

Covid-19 variants could also keep things an issue. I'm going to get flagged for fear-mongering but I don't see how the next decade gets any better than it is right now, except for fleeting relief cycles as we come out of the pandemic ... but there's a lot of shifting global strife.

You can almost feel the change from day to day everything's changing faster and faster and it's getting harder to predict the future. Kind of like the singularity when technology speeds up.
I don't believe you can uninstall OEM apps from the drive of the phone unless you have root permission.

As another comment mentioned, you can disable them for the single user over adb. On my sony phone you can disable OEM apps the same place you'd normally uninstall them in the GUI.

It took some clicking (tapping?), but I disabled a bunch of cruft 2 years ago when I bought the phone and haven't had any issues.
What’s the timescale for that? I know they are testing it now.
That's great, they're just two items and a lot of people didn't routinely buy flour (or something like yeast). Meanwhile, everything else has gone up in addition. A number of produce items have increased 25-50% in the last year here.

Gotta love some of the people on HN. Maybe it's just the late night crowd?