skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is one thing I have learnt about the populace at large is they don't pay much attention to private et el issues but when it affects enough of them they change the law in their favour. Companies get plenty of years even decades to exploit but eventually the mainstream is impacted enough that regulation gets brought down in massive heavy handed ways and often not in a good way. Privacy via GDPR and the "cookie law" before it are examples of the mainstream waking up to problems that impacted them. Get too popular and exploit too much and the mainstream will do something about.

There are movements for taking data entirely away from these companies, movements for repair and a host of other things. Eventually they will more than likely become mainstream and big tech is going to find itself on the end of a lot of regulation especially in the EU. There is no way they show self control before the point where DRM, gambling and engagement mechanics are involved they are simply too profitable.
Why is $100B too much? Who's to say there is some inherent limit to wealth? Sounds borderline communist if you ask me (and I'm not a free market capitalist myself).
I don't get it... If you send your measurements, why adjust the measurements. I would understand using AI to guess measurements based on a photo - let's say you want to give a surprise gift to someone, so not asking their measurements - but otherwise, it's just unnecessary
I fully agree with you. And considering the fact that a virus cannot be eradicated and will continue to mutate we will have to live with covid just like we do with the flu.

There is a minimum number of deaths that we should accept as a society just like we accept other causes of death.
Certainly not, but they could be better at protecting sources.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for Freelance Agencies for MVP, Market Validation
What freelance agencies do you know of or use to help develop MVPs, validate markets, etc. There were some on the recent "who wants to be hired?", but I'm sure there many out there who are always looking for leads.
Right to source sounds strong, but I am curious about how a right to source for software that's no longer produced would work. This could be very beneficial to society, and perceivably speed up progress quite a bit.
What a time to be alive. A billion dollar corporation can do something os minuscule it should not be mentioned even on the last page of the internet with letter size 2 yet it is an article on HN.
I'm a Luddite and a luddite. There's a distinction that folks fail to make: in my jargon, a Luddite opposes the automation of labor without a plan to support the displaced laborers (as the followers of Ludd), and a luddite opposes the use of technology (a perverse interpretation of Ludd as an opponent of technology)

I automate all kinds of stuff for my job, of course; I'm a cyborg and my brain works better when I can offload processing to a CPU. When I make design decisions that impact laborers at my company, that's something I think a lot about -- if it can make their job less harmful (in terms of RSI, etc), that's great; if I'm going to put somebody out of work, I'll reconsider telling my boss about an option I see.

But lots of tech is totally out of my control. IOT bugs the hell out of me, especially with everything phoning home. I hate that people willingly allow google, amazon, apple, tesla and onstar to straight up listen to every word that's said in their house/car. Hell, I don't even like cars made after the 80s.

When I grew up, there were people who reliably knew how everything in the pedestrian world worked, and could generally be counted on to fix anything that broke (except perhaps RF electronics, people specialize in that because big caps go brrr). But today, pretty much everything is unfixable; even furniture is mostly ikea or (somehow) lesser-quality pressboard crap.

So to me, saying that hackers are the new luddites is a statement about control. We want to own the objects we buy. We want to hack them, fix them, repurpose them. I'm in a relative minority on the labor theory thing
Bixby's only use is to turn the TV off when my kid forgets to do it. I just shout: Bixby turn off.
If you’re an adult in the US, they already have all that info about you. I’ve written some software that makes calls to various LexisNexis services and it’s insane how much data they have.
It used to be that we were not all indistinguishable cogs in machines designed to be as inoffensive as possible.
> Essentially, an app that you can deposit funds into, earn interest that is well above what your bank account pays, and earns rewards that are competitive (or ideally beat) with credit cards.

That would be fantastic! Give me 10% interest on my wallet, and 10% "cashback" for my purchases with crypto, and I'll switch my whole financial life to crypto.
There are many degrees of "crypto-ness".

For me the most important aspect of decentralized assets is separation between money and state; challenging government monopoly power over money.

That said, there are conveniences and advantages to centralization. Centralized exchanges help supply and demand meet quickly and efficiently.

I think its possible for those systems to live together productively. There is freedom when I choose to trust and consent to other willing parties to take control of my assets. The problem arises when we are compelled to give up control by force of law.
Have you considered setting up a distributor/forwarder in the US? The only relatively fast services I know of operating from Japan to the US right now (DHL + FedEx Priority Intl) are expensive for sure, but the prices become more economically feasible at larger parcel sizes and weights. Shipping one large batch to the US and then splitting packages there might be an option. (Japan Post Seamail is also an option (as the only available offering right now from JP), but currently takes 2-3 months to arrive).

I import a good number of items from Japan as a small business. Happy to chat more about the little context I have about both JP->US shipping and US domestic.
> tHiS IsN'T ReDdIt.

Wow, Go IS serious business then, who hurt you? it was just a joke, not meant to be taken seriously.
Taxation is not enough to pay back the entire public or private debt since all the new money which is injected into the economy enters via the banking system as loans or via government bonds (also backed by debt at a 1 to 1 ratio); so no amount of taxation against those dollars is sufficient to cover the debt which was created as a consequence of injecting those dollars into the economy in the first place... Unless the tax rate was 100% - But that would be impossible for other very obvious reasons.

The only real purposes of taxation are to force people to keep using the fiat currency as a means of payment (maintain currency monopoly) and also to maintain scarcity of the currency as this helps to keep inflation under control (at least for consumables). But it doesn't actually prevent inflation in absolute terms because the government usually ends up spending more than it collects in taxes anyway (take loans from the Fed by creating new bonds); they mostly care about having inflation lower or proportional to other countries, not about preventing inflation.

The only way to pay off the debt would be to change the mechanism via which money enters the economy so that it is no longer tied to a debt as it does so. But then the question would be who should receive all that new debt-free money? Probably it will be big corrupt megacorporations via insanely large government contracts.
> I don't understand how this is a demonstration of a color-blind policy mitigating systemic problems facing communities of color; it's not a color-blind policy.

It’s a demonstration to the communities in question and their advocates that what they would get in a GMI would mitigate problems in those communities, as a way of overcoming the resistance in those communities to the approach. The approach that is being advocated is color-blind, the issue this program is targeted at overcoming is not.

Yes, a broad color-blind GMI itself would be an even-better way of making that point, but its a lot more expensive for donation-funded charities to execute, especially when a large portion of the audience they hope to rally behind the idea is resistant to it.

This is a tool for chipping away at that resistance. And its specific shape has been shaped by interaction with the exact people whose resistance it is targeted at all.
A lot of ICOs aren't trying to turn into businesses, or at least not primarily. They're trying to make an open protocol with a valuable token. Successful examples so far include Filecoin, Ethereum, and several major Ethereum competitors. One built on top of Ethereum is Maker, the leading decentralized stablecoin. Another is Chainlink, which does oracles.

Two actual businesses I can name that started with ICOs and appear to be doing well are Funfair, which does legal regulated gambling over Ethereum state channels, and Monolith, which puts tokens on VISA cards for spending.
I want it bad as a plug-in for Jupyter notebooks.
Uhhh this isn’t a canon so much as a cannon for a VC to inject their own financial incentives into your thinking. Even if they’re wrong about what they cite, any conversation or discussion just draws more attention to them versus the competition. If you want to learn about NFTs, do you own research. Don’t lend your critical thinking resources to an investor unless they’re paying handsomely.
No, it's really just that they have no fucking idea what they are looking at, so they say it's religion.

My favorite one is how archaeologists identified hundreds of structures, all around the Mediterranean, and declared that they were religious shrines. Turns out that they were actually olive oil presses.
Not a pentester but a code monkey. Here is what worries me.

As we get tracked more, algorithms will start making better predictions about us. The negative side of this is that you will get offered ads that are specifically tailored to your interests, at the time you are most likely to buy at a price point you can afford. Essentially you will get controlled and primed by machines to consume, feel certain ways, agree with certain sentiments etc. That's not the kind of dystopia I want to be in.

This is already happening, Facebook has done experiments about user emotions. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

Youtube is using machine learning algorithms for suggesting videos https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

There is nothing to stop a company from manipulating user emotions enough to guide you down the path of buying a product.
Exactly! Robinhood doesn't and never allowed transferring in or out a wallet for any customers anywhere in the US, not just in some states like other exchanges.

You can't even sell your coins at another exchange if the price is better there.

With Robinhood and the like, you're only speculating on the value of the coin, which is very unhealthy for the market the as more of these 'exchanges' become common.
Why do you think #3 is more important than #2? Why is preserving history and etymology more important than ease of learning for new writers? Put another way, why should kids have to struggle with spelling so we can have a writing system that preserves linguistic history?
Indeed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_sizing
> There is no social solution to surveillance.

I disagree. Legislation can be enacted that makes it a crime to use a person's online (or offline) activity as a basis for targeted advertising.
I'm not on the outside of medicine. Significant practice variation exists, but complex neurosurgical conditions are usually managed at academic centers and fMRI is used for planning in neurooncology [1] and epilepsy surgery [2].

[1] https://thejns.org/focus/view/journals/neurosurg-focus/48/2/...

[2] https://n.neurology.org/content/88/4/395.long
And you see some of what you're talking about in closed systems too, where the system integrator can control both sides.

The Wii, and PlayStations since the PS3 have had system control processors that can perform downloads, updates, and general system maintenance on a low power processors even while the majority of the system is off. In the Wii that processor was also responsible for the majority of the network stack even when accessed from the main processor. On the PS4 that processor even ran a relatively complete FreeBSD.

Democratizing these techniques would be killer.
“I Was Wrong About Bitcoin,” – Peter Schiff
Presumably in times of a global famine, that would be a good time to engage in heavy spending.

Increasing the deficit is a much smaller problem than not being able to acquire enough food to ensure your population doesn't starve.
The lack of inline links is a dealbreaker for me.
Fantastic story. I joined Microsoft in 1997 but unfortunately I cannot confirm the story, I never heard this story before, but it doesn't surprise me, we had a lot of fun back then with all kinds of pranks, and Easter eggs, until one day it was all suddenly stopped, ship an Easter egg and get fired was what they told us. That was a very sad day. I can confirm that Microsoft was doing things with Java back then, I worked in an XML parser written in Java when I first joined Microsoft.
Going backwards in the questions here:

> Maybe a better question would be who are the target customers for this?

So far, our customers are software companies (and one brick and mortar company) in the fitness space. (That is to say, customers like ourselves: Perkville is such a company, a loyalty/rewards SaaS mostly in fitness.)

Long term, the target customers are any software companies that need to connect their product to a ton (hundreds or thousands) of different (large and small, diverse, needy) businesses.

> Or its more like a platform that manages user data and other services can use it as a store which executes a particular script when the state of the store changes?

You've anticipated a key differentiator: The data store. Other IPaaS systems don't keep around data that they've processed. They're entirely event driven. We needed the ability to look back in time (customers often want to do things like, oh, if it's the tenth gym check-in in a month, give the user some bonus points); we needed the ability to diff a new record against an old version of that record (customers often want to trigger rewards based on a membership status change for example); we needed the ability to bulk execute a workflow against a bunch of already stored data (we sometimes need to "back sync" a reward rule).

The visual scripts ("workflows") that our support team write are basically functions. How they get triggered is up to them. They can trigger a workflow automatically when a record is created or updated, or they can trigger them manually, or they can trigger them on a schedule, or they can trigger one from inside another. (On the roadmap is the ability to trigger a workflow from an API call, in a synchronous, atomic manner -- this is the final piece to totally replace Perkville's old hard coded integration system with Middle; automated point redemption.)

> Is it zapier but you can write a python script to automate a task?

So, as with Zapier, there are two halves of the app.

The first half is the "accounts" site. That's where all of a customer's own customers live, as separate accounts. Each account has workflows (this is the VPL), workflow triggers, a data store, and reporting screens. Python isn't written here. This is designed for our support team to go in and fulfill feature requests for customers.

The second half is the "developers" site. This is where programmers can create data sources and actions that then can be used on the account side. The goal here for us was to keep the interface as simple as possible. I wanted it so a programmer just needs to fill in a Python function, in an in-browser code editor. For a data source, they just need to handle, let's say, an input date range and an authentication dictionary, and then return (or yield ) records that match.

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Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
I think textbooks do help, immenesly, atleast for me, with the caveat that they are not there for you to help understand a language, learning to speak comes from understanding. Sure, you can learn without a formal grammar, but being an adult gives you an advantage over babies, who have to learn everything de novo.
Why on earth would you think that? C++ programmers are not “better” than web developers. They work in very different domains, and skills built up in one don’t necessarily transfer to the other.
This is absolutely disgusting and blatantly racist. This should be a much bigger deal.
The server is connected via ethernet over USB. But the server is running on the CPU of the GSM modem!!!
What Is Stateful Serverless?
I think people sometimes don’t perceive things the same way and that can lead to misunderstandings. I have sympathy, I’ve been in the position of having some edgy marketing/pr go the wrong way for a software launch.

Totally random example that I had _no involvement_ in: launching a tree survey app on the 20th of April that had insufficient moderation tools. I’ll let your imagination around this (totally hypothetical) scenario run wild.

Personally, I think the prank would have been fine if they filled the boxes with actual coffee beans.
I have the Samsung Notebook 9 Pro, wonderful machine, and the included pen experience was great, specially with the flipped tablet mode. It's a bit outdated now but there should be a new model.
> If they decide to trade with Cuba, the US government threatens sanctions which can lead to economic ruin and death, by using violence or the threat of violence to prevent the trade of crucial materials.

Sounds like a choice to me. Is it better to keep trading with a free allied country or give it all up to be allowed to trade with a dictatorship?
Not mouse warping, but I find this demo much scarier: https://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/gaze_dolores.html
Was looking for the same kind of information. Do they publish proof of ownership of underlying assets? Or are they going naked for some amounts? Do they consider themselves as a bank, and vie for a 8% non-naked rate?

In the MTGox days, the discrepancy could be viewed in the delay to take out one's coins; as well as in their market, which was displaying a very different prices than on other exchanges. Scary stuff I'm sure some HNers here will remember.
Leaving aside whether debt is 'fair' (is it fair that productive assets like land are in the hands of a hereditary plutocracy?), there is some evidence that debt forgiveness can work -- indeed, it might have been a critical release valve in the development of early civilization.

I can highly recommend David Graeber's book 'Debt: the first five thousand years' on this topic. He proposes modern 'Debt Jubilees' similar to these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)

There's nothing to say that such a jubilee couldn't have means-testing or other 'fair' aspects incorporated into the design, it doesn't have to be blanket forgiveness. In Graeber's examples of ancient jubilees 'business' debts were, iirc, usually extempt.

I agree it would be very disruptive to the existing order.
Yes, the algorithm is definitely inappropriate and too basic. However let's not overlook that it is a societal problem that a large amount of the US population does not care about Asians at all apart from porn. When there is 100x more searches for "asian hotties" than for "asian history", you can get 99% accuracy just by blacklisting the word "asian".
> I think a large chunk are people that know it's true, but think that humans can "out-build it" or "out-engineer it"

Yeah, but a lot of those people held the "climate denial" view like 1 decade ago. This is just the natural evolution of the view as it becomes more and more undeniable.
Marrying an Asian person is different from sexually fetishizing Asians as a category, so I don't think Cage or Soros are relevant here.
Wow. Which ones did you write?
> It must be tiring, eh?

For me, not at all. I have fully embraced full acceptance.

> ... despite no significant warming or sea level rise over that time ...

To be clear, I'm personally not really interested in a debate on these points, one way or another. Others can engage in these questions, hopefully in good faith.

> ... hypothesis ...

Correct!

My intuition is that the probability of collapse is 90+%. My brain is typical and typically human/biological: the bad and scary will always carry more weight than anything else.

Because of the many unknowns and because technology and society are improving exponentially, a more objective, less intuitive and less emotionally driven estimate is much lower, so I'm going with roughly 50% at the moment.

I mentioned full acceptance previously. A critical portion of that is fully accepting my own lack of objectivity, my own lack of rationality, my own lack of knowledge and understanding.

It's something I've shared with my wife and son several times: one of the most excellent and amazing things that could happen to me is, when my son is my age and I'm on my death bed, be able to honestly make fun of my 2021 self, the man who really thought there was a chance that civilization might collapse. Why? Because civilization has flourished and has overcome these challenges.

That is my preferred outcome.

> ... 'woke' people who have never created any value ...

In your eyes, am I one of those 'woke' people, who never created any value?
In a republic, law must be public. If a law references a document that cannot be accessed with the same ease as the law itself, it creates barries for heeding it correctly. I must be able to go to a library or an online platform and look it up with the same ease as the law itself. Everything else would result in a Kafkaesque system where the true version is only known to the elites, and probably doesn't even exist as such.
Love Go for the batteries include standard library, huge ecosystem, fabulous tooling, and code-linked documentation. Concurrency facilities (but I miss net channels!), easy server creation, performance and lovely dependency-free static binaries are great too.
No

https://www.hologram.io/blog/what-is-an-esim-and-how-is-it-u....

> The eSIM (embedded SIM) is a small chip soldered directly to a board inside a device
Empirical evidence is a special case observation. If you observe the whole universe in its entirety, you could separate moments that effectively followed whatever conditions you might set in a lab. You can't act on the system, but you can forever tune your models to match the infinite observations you could record. At that point the separation between observation derived knowledge versus experiential knowledge is meaningless (it's just hard to imagine a universal model manifesting without having used experiental knowledge along the way).

Whether you swing the bat or just watch it hit the ball into the sky, you have the prerequisites needed to reason about the interaction.

A more entertaining question is how a system comes to believe causality (i.e. comes to believe that things can and must have causes)
I'd expect most car electronics to be on fairly old process nodes, 90nm or something like that. It's mostly the Tesla "Full Self Driving" stuff that I'd expect to be on a leading-ish edge node and also have a decent area.