skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We bemoan historical systems ( even some modern ) that require you to perform a certain job/duty because the ruling/authority/oppressor power tells you too. I guess in this case the individual 'believes' or has been convinced there are no better opportunities than to make themselves a servant of the state.

Millions of people have traversed the globe including jungles, raging oceans, hostile territories, etc. leaving family and everything they know often believing they will most likely die for the simple chance they may reach our shores.

It would seem that someone who is already here could take a bit more initiative than to limit their job search to the fast food restaurant across the street.

I am simply stating that inferring an individual should abdicate their initiative and free will to the state because they simply are not capable of managing either seems more like bigotry by low expectations.
It was a sarcastic reply to the request the poster made of me but I guess that humor was lost on you. Why on earth would I spend the time and effort to write up a well sourced research paper to satisfy some random request on hacker news?
I think the Bitcoin crowd would welcome government involvement if it were solely for the purpose of consumer protection.

It would have been easy for Turkey to prevent this, but instead, they turn the victims into criminals.

Is there anybody of note in the Bitcoin space that has ever suggested that custodial arrangements of crypto should be completely without legal or technical means of protection for depositors?

No. But there is almost nothing that any government on earth offers for that kind of assurance to the consumer. Conversely, they have all established legal and technical means that they may confiscate deposits.

They’re not doing anything to stop this ‘ponzi scheme’. They’re just making sure they can profit from it.
> This is both what many users would expect (if I have an app open, voice search works within that app), and a pretty reasonable ask for any business (don't show competitor's offering when searching within my app).

Only if I search using the in-app search feature do I expect it to be restricted to only that app.

If I'm watching a YouTube video and ask my device to play music, I expect Spotify to open as that's what I use and pay for.

The platform should prioritize the user, not the app developers.
Wrong. You hire a cheap CEO, you will get what you pay for. The best people aren’t going to work for cheap, so you’ll get a shitty or mediocre CEO who will wreck the company.

Maybe sometimes you get lucky and get a great CEO for cheap, but that’s not sustainable. You’re fighting the trend.
> Apple's insistence on only having face ID

For now. I'd wager in the next year or two we will see TouchID in the power button or under the screen. Are there Android phones with this tech already? Yes, you can almost always count on Android phones to have new types of tech before Apple but in my experience Apple's version is much more polished/solid/secure as whole. Android had "Face unlock" for at least a year or two before Apple but it was total crap. I had a coworker who had it and he ended up turning it off because it was so buggy/unreliable. FaceID for me had been pretty rock solid and I'm very happy with it. I'll be happier with a TouchID backup but I'm more than willing to wait for a secure and seamless version and not something rushed to market.
You definitely can, it says “Pay with Passcode” [1]

1. https://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/pub...
I think it's all of them, but the scary thing is what involvement in the markets for these assets can do to people.
Lots of people said the same thing about market traders and yet a great deal of their activity has been successfully automated.
I think this is the case with any manager. A great manager will not be noticeable. Things just seem to run fine.

But when you come across a bad manager, you will surely notice!

Sad for them that they only get noticed when they are bad at their job, not really when they are good or great.
The real job of upper management in the 20th and 21st century is to learn things, because change is the constant thing that's going on. - Alan Kay (2017)

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Ooooh I see and you’re correct. My mistake.
Clearly, users differ on this matter, so vendors should be able to choose their approach and let users vote with their wallets, not have everyone’s hand forced by Google.
Why wait for ETH when we already have a better sustainable currency, more secure and which supports ETH contracts out of the box? Avalanche.
I'm pretty happy that I will finally be able to cast fitness plus workouts to a bigger screen.
I predict the SCOTUS will see cheerleading as an extra-curricular activity outside of the scope for which a public school is obligated to provide and thus may restrict access to that activity in any manner they see fit. If they don't rule it that way then SCOTUS is about to open One Giant Can of Worms.
> Why is it that people think refusing to wear a mask transforms them into Braveheart, fighting for freedom against oppression?

1) In my country, some of the same scientific advisors to the government on the COVID response, are also criticizing the government for requiring masks to be worn outdoors in deserted streets, even though the science says that the risk of transmission there is negligible. They say that this kind of "hygiene theatre" can ultimately diminish the state's authority to mount efforts that truly matter to stopping the spread. A problem is that the outdoor mask law also appears to discourage outdoor exercise (even if people could exercise in a mask, the psychological barrier is real), and exercise is something public-health experts naturally want to encourage, even during the pandemic.

2) In some countries, the authorities have eased up on restrictions, or kept them on the books but ceased enforcing them, after the broad population flaunted them. Ruling parties are sensitive to what the population is willing to accept, lest unpopular restrictions cost them the next election.

Now put those two facts together, and people refusing en masse to wear a mask outdoors (while continuing to responsibly wear masks in crowded open areas and in indoor spaces like shops and other people’s homes) might be effective in ending a measure that even actual public-health experts say is pointless and oppressive.
I think the no-sql vs sql war have ended already.
Most of us now know what they can or cannot do.

Nothing new or interesting in this article.
cheerleading is like nurses and teachers. male cheerleaders do exist, they are just a small minority. we are arguing for more male teachers and nurses, and we could just as well be arguing that there should be more male cheerleaders.
* Shower first

* Put on clothes

* Deliver tangible things often
I’m not using one - as said, the project required I implement the model/all requisite math from scratch.
A real world application is getting someone to respond with a real world application that would help you make money.
Apple and much US associated supply chains have already been moving away from China. Media is regularly coming up where the side effects are reported, for example the Foxconn contractor in India. The US lacks the infrastructure to leverage talent or capacity domestically. The only thing that will fix this is government policy--otherwise Silicon Valley would have decent transit, no homelessness and California would have its own State or region-level healthcare delivery network. The same things Taiwan has with only 23 million people that benefits TSMC (and the people there).
> I would imagine that instead of an n body calculation it's lot simpler to calculate the influence from one body plus one unchanging vector, but I've never tried it.

I think what you describe could either be Euler's three-body problem (two fixed point masses and a particle) [0], or the restricted three-body problem (two point masses and a particle) in a rotating/pulsating reference frame. The former does have exact solutions, and I don't believe the latter does, though I'm admittedly not familiar with the literature. I'm also not sure how easy/hard it is to evaluate the exact solution, and how the difficulty compares to proper n-body integration.

That being said, I think using Euler's three-body problem would result in losing some potentially useful n-body effects. For example, centrifugal/centripetal forces would be missing compared to a restricted three-body problem in a rotating reference frame, so Lagrange points might not be present. There might be other effects I'm not aware of as well.

> Not a problem because if you're not close to anything then your orbit won't be chaotic.

I'm not sure I understand why being farther away from something would result in less chaotic trajectories? If anything, I'd expect more interesting orbits due to the lack of one dominating influence.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_three-body_problem
Hahaha found the CEO?

'Jesus Christ himself isnt worth 500x the worker's wages'

CEOs provide no real value, period. They also get golden parachutes even if they sink the ship.

It's inexcusable and I'll bet dollars to donuts 99% of companies don't even need one.
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I think it's slightly weird UI/UX to show the password prompt if FaceID will just instantly unlock the phone anyway (at least when not wearing a mask).
Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”
Got an S21 and the sensor works as well as any Apple ever made. But yes, it seems like the technology has matured only very recently, the first in-screen readers were pretty crap.
> To bypass travel restrictions, nominees and their guests have been designated “essential workers”.

I don't think I have to repeat what others have said here, this is pretty ridiculous.

> Zooming in is banned, so simultaneous mini-events are to be held in London and Paris for those who can’t make it to Los Angeles.

This is the part that baffles me, TBH. This is just ridiculously out-of-touch. Why would you forbid remote attendance during a goddamn pandemic!?
I often find myself looking at my website and trying to figure out what is the most important thing I have to work on right now.

But hours can pass by like this.

And I’ve learned that I need to start with something small. Even a tiny improvement/fix I spend my first 15 minutes on gets me going and into the flow state!
How do the rewards APR change with the more validators there are?
But who would the be selling that legacy fab capacity to? It would most likely be their competitors, at least in part. I just dont see Apples management being all that enthusiastic about any of that as a business. They put a huge premium in being as focused as possible.
White women are the most dangerous upholders of white supremacy in SiliconValley
Precision aim, versus a spinning trimmer that cuts a whole swath. The inverse kinematics of the system are a lot easier.

Distance. The laser and aiming mirrors can all be up in the body, while the beam reaches the dirty work.

Energy efficiency. It might be that the total energy to bring a motor up to speed and swing the arm at the weed may be greater than a brief zap with a laser, even if the instantaneous power of the laser is much higher.

Certainty. A string trimmer takes a certain amount of nuance to start gently so you don't bog down the string, advance through the weed, and understand when it's done. A laser can just run at a fixed power and scan speed, and almost certainly produce the desired results.

Frickin' lasers. There's PR value to that.
It’s useful for some situations where there are obstacles, for example drive-thru checkouts at fast food restaurants or gas stations.
Honestly I really like using Telegram since I switched from WhatsApp and I actually would find it pretty neat if I could use Telegram to interact with some local merchants. Unfortunately I am in Canada and I've yet to see any merchants doing this.

My pharmacist is on WhatsApp and it's nice to just shoot a message saying "Hey I'll be needing a refill on xyz, thanks". He is pretty into technology and trying new things out so not too surprising he had incorporated WhatsApp.

However here we already has support at pretty much every merchant for tapping to pay with phones or tapping with our credit/debit cards so I don't see a huge amount of benefits to this. For example the ordering of pizzas almost seems like it would just be easier on a website. Often when ordering pizza for the family we do things like getting half the pizza with 3 toppings and the other half with 3 different ones. This would start to get annoying to order from a bot.

So I am having a hard time finding use cases for the payment side of things in North America. I just can't think of many text based interactions I'd have with merchants that would be more ideal than using a website.
I really wish there was the option to disable the lock screen at home or on my home wifi.

Or even disable the lock screen altogether but require it for certain apps.
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Not sure if you’re joking or not. If not, at least start with the wiki page to begin learning about it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum
In my opinion Hedy badly needs syntax highlighting, along with visible indentation marks (space and tabs).
One thing is clear: Google either doesn't understand users at all or they are lying when they say this is for the user.
Ask HN: How to protect a simple-to-implement plug-in idea?
I've started working on a plug-in idea, and it seems to be one of those rare low-effort high-return cases - trivial to implement, but significantly simplifies the usability of that program.

Given the nature of this idea, I suspect it was simply overlooked by the company. However, in order to finish it, I would need access to more than what the plug-in API is currently offering, and that would require to ask the developers to include that functionality in the API (the code already exists, and they do tend to include requests in the API).

The problem is that by doing that, I risk that my idea will occur to those developers, and they might do it instead of me. I know the "I've got a billion-dollar idea" memes, and how it's really about implementation, but here the implementation is trivial.

My question is: Which is the best way to protect my idea from being implemented by the company without me? How can I make sure that I can either write a plug-in or sell it to them? Apparently hiring a lawyer for a patent is not worth the effort, given the costs. So what would be some approaches?

BTW, the company is US-based and I'm in the EU.
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I think that the role that human "instincts" play in the development of intelligence in our brain is very important. Social behavior is a key part of that.

We do see high levels of intelligence in non-mammal species, like crows, but they tend to also be very social creatures. The main counter example I can think of would be the octopus.

I think that even if we crack "general intelligence" and can make something that can problem-solve and learn on par with an Octopus, that approach will not get us to human level cognition.

I personally do believe that you will need societies of AI agents to develop the culture software to achieve human level cognition. I think we greatly underestimate the value and complexity of the cultural OS's that allow humans to perform advanced cognition.
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> One pedantic point

Your point is not pedantic at all and in fact completely negates the other commenters counterpoint made to your initial argument.

The buying power of the entity you are exchanging in has changed -- for everyone. This absolutely does not diminish your work. It is literally equivalent to being paid in many more bitcoin in 2012 versus today.

I am sure there are valid critiques of allowing deflation. But, as of yet a solid one has not been provided in this thread.

It would be interesting to see if anyone can offer other sources or arguments against this pro-savings, deflation-allowable, economy.

Allowing natural volatility into the value of any asset that is traded, including the USD, likely resolves to a more natural equilibrium in the economy, no?
But in a clever, slightly subtle way. That's the difference between what we have nowadays.
it's not like solutions are heavily being worked on: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-r..., https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/04/07/sharding.html, https://ethresear.ch/t/complete-revamp-of-the-stateless-ethe...
Stripe and Lyft Speed Up Equity Payouts to First Year
The goal isn't to "kill" the coin entirely, the goal is to reduce the amount of mining by 99% or more. And that's an easily achieveable goal. See Ethereum Classic which only uses 1% of the resources of Ethereum because of how low its price is.
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I'm very surprised Monsanto isn't out there buying and slaughtering every such startup, for precisely this reason.

You better believe they're trying _something_ to preserve their market, it's just more underhanded than that.
Please, it's womyn.
Open source is just one example. In general I would say engineers work well in a quite place with no distractions and minimal bureaucracy. It is creative work after all.

> Your idea of a managerial role doesn't seem to leave much room for technical or team leads, only "product management". Sometimes your role is to hire/motivate/unblock - and sometimes the motivational role is make sure someone spends those three hours writing unit tests everyone agreed were important even though no one wants to.

I did include mentorship in my list of things needed to help engineers grow. I'd also add "everyone agreed" in a traditional management setting is pretty much identical to "the person who decides how much people get paid, said so". Good devs will typically write the appropriate amount of testing unprodded.
Weirdly enough, facial recognition works for me with a mask already, but only if I take off my glasses.
Good timing

https://thinkingagriculture.io/the-agriculture-unicorn-hidin...
I know of two instances where the girls uploaded pictures of _themselves_ that stayed up on a very popular subreddit for years. Later when they celebrated a birthday and made a post about it, some people did the math and realized one in particular was submitting content when she was as young as 16.

I won't give her name, but one of them has a dedicated following on reddit even after her ban.

What is truly wild is these girls can send erotic pictures of themselves and be charged as an adult for distribution of underage material. The law sees them both as underage and an adult simultaneously.
> weaponizing regular citizens into voting in their interests. It's marketing and mass manipulation

Which means there is a problem even if the money never even touches a politician's / campaign's bank account. It's too easy for a politician to say something like "If elected, I will remove burdensome regulations on airlines" as a dog whistle for "I want the airline industry to buy ads that attack my opponent".

The only obvious ways to prevent that are to somehow prove that the politician coordinated their position with the industry (which seems impossible) or banning companies from ever expressing a political opinion (which apparently some politicians would like to achieve, but only those political opinions that they disagree with).

Fortunately there does exist one slightly less obvious way of preventing this, which doesn't require nullifying all the freedom of speech principles of the First Amendment. What is needed is a law (and probably an enabling Amendment) which limits political advertisements to N dollars per person per year (with N being 1% of the median US income).

Importantly, other forms of political speech and expression wouldn't be restricted. This way the law is targeted at the specific loophole that lobbying exploits, which is that people can be bombarded with a message against their wishes, generating an "illusory truth effect". People can still go out and find information, or march in the street to spread awareness of a political cause, but having more money wouldn't give you a greater ability to get your message in front of people who aren't interested in it.

The idea above is basically the core of CFR28 which is explained more in the relevant Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_in_the...
This particular case was a much easier problem. A woman asked reddit administrators to remove specific naked photos of her, taken when she was 16, and they told her they wouldn't help and that she should talk to the community moderators, while inadvertently or not continuing to sell advertising next to the underage pornography.
Bikeshare. Rideshare is a colossally inefficient in both labor and material terms. Bikeshare including wagons for kids and cargo is far, far better.

Also we can do it much faster if we accept we need to make driving worse. See https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/09/18/cars-and-train... cars and trains are fundamentally opposed, so every time build American-style light rail and yet continue widening highways we shoot ourselves in both feet.

Accepting the reality that we need carets and sticks to radically reform our material culture, demolish highways, shred zoning laws, crank up the gas tax, and then suddenly find your trains full, bikes all in use, people clamoring for more, the private sector helping with the easy stuff, and more growth in general.
I understand, but on a large public forum like HN, generic internet dynamics unfortunately take precedence over all of that. Discussions turn ugly and boring under such provocation, and the only thing that works is to just avoid it.
Yes, obviously you need a new wire format and bigger addresses; that was always going to change. What did not need to happen was changing/replacing DHCP, routing changes, and a half-hearted attempt to bake in IPsec.
So a manufacturing organisation run by committees of international bureaucrats. I struggle to imagine anything more likely to fail utterly.

You were absolutely right when you said the free market is best at cars and phones and such. But that’s exactly what pharma is, it’s the same sort of thing at the general level. Capital intensive product development and manufacturing. It it did an incredible job last year, not once or twice, but a dozen times on multiple vaccine programmes. Name one successful international government run manufacturing operation.
One of the last reasons that I still use a 6s+ is the TouchID. I still like my headphone jack too, but the TouchID is the biggest feature I don't want to lose
Something I just found out on Friday when my iPhone battery ran out while at the store: my Apple Watch could still make a purchase even though it didn’t have a cell connection. Pretty great!
For me, learning a subject in school is much harder than learning it "in the real world" precisely because I often lack the connection to it being practical or it otherwise just being taught as what instead of why. For me the connection of why it is like that makes me actually grok it, rather than forgetting it after 5 minutes.
> IMO, the 3D scanner should be on the other side, enhancing your pictures with 3D depth.

That's what the LIDAR sensor on the latest phones is for. It only gets used in photos for the portrait-mode stuff, admittedly.
I like the keyboard analogy, because you won't notice a good or great CEO, but will notice a bad one.

The only thing that you didn't consider is in CEO or management world, most keyboards are broken, and only a few work decent enough to do proper programming. That's why they are so valuable.
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Doing nothing is a perfectly fine policy. In medicine they say "first, do no harm".
I doubt users expect that. Voice assistant search on every device/platform today is always global.