skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, that is a problem. However, the capacity limits you mention don't disappear when we just say, "Open University of California to the whole planet". The only real solution is to build up more top-quality universities in Missouri and Alabama.

That's unrealistic, otherwise there would be a top-quality university in Missouri and Alabama. Our existence is one of constraints.

> Once you've committed to making Missouri and Alabama more productive, the process helps itself along, so it's actually nowhere near miraculous.

Education is the immediate antithesis of productivity -- we're on hacker news and you know that pair programming is either a code-quality, knowledge-sharing, or bug-avoidance issue, and specifically never a means for immediate gains nor all three. You can't throw cash at university and get smarter students -- I went to a top 50 school where the top administration is compensated better than the top 10.

> Actually, the last place I worked, everyone earned the same salary. We functioned pretty well.

What about now? Do you ask junior QA if you can give them the earning difference? If you oppose this notion based on separation of duty, do you think union politics would be better at making this differentiation?

> Because you can't enjoy things when you're dead, and we've seen in history that inheritance leads to aristocracy, social instability, and mass destruction.

You avoided the issue of removing inheritance being untenable. If I die, my nephew gets all of my wealth and I hope it brings him happiness and fulfillment. If you try to legislate that, I will simply route around you.

What mass destruction? What social instability? My partner comes from a communist nation and his/her (not interested in disclosing sexual details) experiences add color to the reality that political dispensation of resources is a terrible machinery.

Socialism/communism does not result in a more "equal" society. If hard numbers don't do it for you, find the nearest Chinese/Russian emigrant area and buy an older person a drink and ask if it's alright to pick his/her brain.

> Is it in your interest to defect in a one-shot prisoner's dilemma? Was it in the interest of Marie Antoinette to say, "Let them eat cake"? Your long-term rational interest can differ from short-term selfishness.

I have no obligation to your kids, will always pick my own kids over yours, and it's not a prisoner's dilemma -- if you try to tax me to the extent that I'm providing luxury for others, that changes the moral algebra for resources that I very well could shield from taxation.
Proposed California bill allows hotels to be built in costal state parks
I was persuaded by the proposal. Do you still prefer directly exposing the monotonic clock? If so, why?
Then I can avoid the tax by using a timer device to switch the lights on and off
That's what I'm developing :D

The idea is to create a human programming language to encode activities for learning/practicing principles found in the book Nonviolent Communication and publish that before publishing the language as a way to protect oneself.
No, there's no Upwork for top-tier programmers. Top-tier programmers who engage in consulting have the means to differentiate themselves. Being part of a marketplace like Upwork is great for the marketplace, great for the buyer and not so great for the seller. If you are capable of selling top tier services, you probably don't want to be commoditized by a marketplace that drives prices down.
I don't avoid it, but it does make me want to click less

I also avoid any groups that for some reason just keep popping up over and over and over (hackernoon for example). I like content aggregates because of content coming from different sources, not the same old ones!
...continue
That's still a small population to choose from.
Worth making the distinction between a human face in general, and the face of a specific human.
A friend of mine had something similar[0] on his car (it was a Lamborghini) to avoid his car being identified in images online.
I'm sure it's not hard to have hoodies and tee shirts with this integrated.
It's not visible to the human eye so unless you hold up a camera, it'll not be a problem.
That said, this might be an issue if you visit a bank or airport or something along those lines.
[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2oYReMaS4A
This is really cool. I'd upvote more if I could.

And it would have come in really handy for studying for the google cloud support role I didn't get. Fault all my own.
Yes. It really is a great project.
If you want to participate in any way, please feel free to contact them. They are always looking for people to help.
Qinhai Lake,The best hike in China
Beautiful - Go to protest against Trump (or even to document it [1]) - get arrested and charged with "Rioting", "Disturbing the Peace" or my most favorite "Resisting Arrest[2]" - get an Arrest Record - Get fired immediately thanks to RAP BACK - Charges get dropped.

Rinse and repeat.

Welcome Absolute Fascism.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/24/journalists-ch...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=92toXdu2KR0
Similar to RubyPinch: I don't categorically avoid them, but they do signal "low-quality" to me and are thus less likely to be clicked. (There are good authors on medium, but since the authorship isn't as prominent it's less likely I'll recognize them)
Violence wasn't limited to a handful of anarchists during the inauguration.

There have been numerous incidents of assault, arson, vandalism, looting, and such during protests for at least a couple years now, starting with BLM protests long before Trump and the election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_unrest

Some prominent activists have even defended these acts. For example, Deeray McKesson called In Defense of Looting "absolute required reading".

https://twitter.com/deray/status/524704650218729473
CPU emulator in web browser (Arm/Mips/X86/Sparc)
From the original article:

"It’s working (pdf), according to Bank of Montreal analysts. They show how prices have been falling in Vancouver but are still appreciating steeply in Toronto and Victoria, which don’t have a similar tax."

If your point were correct, you'd also see declining prices in Toronto/Victoria, no?

Here's the PDF: http://economics.bmocapitalmarkets.com/economics/amcharts/GD...
Introduction to Git and GitHub for non-coders
^^ alternative facts, folks!
Hey HN, author here! Thanks for reading. If you got through this article, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts! Feel free to PM me (@breandan or bre @ ndan .co). You might also enjoy reading about some of other articles I wrote about notation [1] or democratising education [2]:

[1]: http://breandan.net/2015/02/01/shorthand/

[2]: http://breandan.net/2016/04/13/equal-education-in-china/
> generally always bent towards parties identifying one another, building trust, and using courts when those previous methods failed

That costs a lot of money. It makes it hard to get started if you are untrusted, and it means you have to have a court system, you have to do legal stuff, you have to constantly be wary of the potentially changing trustworthiness of your counterparty.

Blockchains eliminate all of this overhead. It doesn't matter if you are dealing with a highly regulated bank or if you are dealing with Bob the hobo, the blockchain guarantees that you can't be stabbed in the back (... err, when used correctly. Used incorrectly it will not provide any security at all).

I think this is something a lot of people fail to grasp. The true power of the blockchain is its ability to bring trust to places where it's currently inaccessible. Banks that don't trust eachother can do buisness directly. Countries that don't trust eachother can do business directly. A person with no name, no reputation, and no tether to a court system can also be transacted with safely, because the courts, names, and reputations are made strictly unnecessary.

And the proposal is that doing things this way is much cheaper than doing things the traditional way, especially when you consider all of the innovation that could never happen simply because the innovator was unknown or untrusted. All of the energy and money that goes into mining Bitcoin, in my opinion, is more than made up for by the value-add here.
Demo for ARM: https://alexaltea.github.io/unicorn.js/demo.html?arch=arm

This is based on the Unicorn emulator (open source): https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn
What are 25-year mortgages with 5 year terms?

Do you mean the interest rate is fixed for only five years? If so, people will not need to refinance as long as interest rates stay low.
> One interesting thing I noticed is that some housing markets don't really go down that much, they just stop growing. I can remember the home my parents owned in Toronto. They sold it for $325K in 1990. In 2005 I looked up the price and it was about the same. Adjusted for inflation, the it was a price decrease.

This isn't actually what happened in Toronto, to be clear. There was a huge housing boom (especially condos) in Toronto in the late 80s, followed by a bust. >100% gain in real housing prices between 1985-1989, then a 40% drop between 1989-1996. What you saw was a housing collapse which took until the 2000s to recover, not a flatlining.
This will get better once we have type level integers. It's just not there yet. You're totally right that it's a weak point st the moment.
Alacritty: A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
How far can we go? Limits of Humanity [video]
The Unbearable Lightness..... is my favorite and the only fiction I have read. Never knew a fiction could be so full of emotions.
Ah I thought you meant Rust generally, not this project. Makes sense!

(I still don't think that's enough to justify using C over Rust here, just that I understand you now.)
Well they had a problem. Their software was being pirated. There was talk of a selling a hardware dongle with it. But I am not sure what came of it, since I lost contact with them.

Here is what I wonder. Even if they lowered the price just for China, would there be a point where they would choose to pay for it or it would never matter a pirated copy would always be preferred.
Please stop with the canned dismissal memes. The poster may honestly be unaware of any such examples. Regardless, a comment such as yours doesn't add substantively to the conversation. Much better to provide evidence, as sibling comments have done.
You've never heard of it, really? Do tell us all about the comprehensive research you've done on this matter.
Holy cow. You are me 5 years ago!

Australia. 31. No assets. Partner finishing her studies. Couldn't afford a house. No kid. Needs to lose 20kg. Can't give up Coke (Zero anyway, I don't touch the real stuff because of the calories but increasingly Aspartame is shown to inhibit weight loss too).

Spoiler: She finished study and having the extra security from another income stream meant we could buy a house last year. We had to save a deposit though which took a long time and a few steps up in my career and lots and lots of overtime and development on my part - a year or two of 60-80 hour weeks and a few job changes too. Also the job market is always iffy for both of us but we simply couldn't rent a dog box any longer. The place we have now is a bit on the edges of the city so takes 30-45 minutes each way to work but at least we can breathe!

We won't be able to have kids, at least not now. Ive projected we will pay off the loan in about 10 years so maybe then. Because we pay double the minimum.

As for weight I lost 3kg this year so far. It had really hit the limit and when I went to the Doctor end of last year and after a blood test he said the diabetes word. Since then all I've done is 20 minutes a day on the treadmill while watching Voltron on Netflix, cutting out most of the Coke and junk food, but most importantly cutting down on dinner.

Really I don't miss the Coke much. We have other stuff like making a milkshake (mostly ice, a bit of milk, and a banana or coffee shot and a scoop of chocolate powder). It's pretty filling. Sometimes we skip dinner and just have a banana shake.

Did you know you're only meant to have ~100g of meat a day??? We were eating 250-500 and now we are down to about 150g per day (with some allowances up or down). That right sizes everything once you notice the difference and your plates are half as big as they used to be.

There's still a long way to go on both fronts. But man. Go lift a 3kg weight. That's a bloody lot! Now imagine 20kg! We are right to feel guilty and need to do something about it.

Good luck.
He kind of trashes Steve Jobs in the book basically predicting Steve's hubris will lead to the downfall of Apple. Quote:

But with Steve Jobs, Apple will always attempt to mould
the universe to fit Steve's vision of Apple, and will pay the price again and again and again

Feels like he wrote this just before the IPhone. Another excerpt:

Without Jobs, Apple could never have risen from obscurity to become a world-class brand. But with Steve Jobs, Apple will always attempt to mould the universe to fit Steve's vision of Apple, and will pay the price again and again and again. 'Lesser' companies and men will filch their ideas, connect,connect, connect, and beat Apple at its own game.
Steve Jobs is not a monster. He is an all-American maverick and a world-class marketing genius. But until a man or woman as powerful as he is arrives at Apple (over his dead body), who is determined to break the cycle he has indulged in for so many years, Apple will remain merely an icon of awe. It
will not become a company of the size that truly could (and
should) 'bury' monsters like IBM.

Not quite Nostradamus there but give him credit for trying.
Hierarchical instancing YEAAHHH!!!!

Thanks guys; I no longer need to go write my own path tracer.

(I say this because I really like the idea of things like Chunky (the pathtracer for Minecraft), but I'd rather be able to simply export data to a more mature, full-featured renderer. Hierarchical instancing means you can do things like make bricks out of grains of sand, make brick blocks out of bricks, etc, without /necessarily/ blowing your memory budget when rendering a large map.)
In Ethereum and similar systems, a smart contract is a script which can hold funds and various other data. It has functions that can be called by users, which can update data and move money around. The script can also act like a user and call other scripts.
You probably should use a somewhat random timer and include some heating and cooling too...but yeah it probably could be tricked fairly easily.
>Where does it end?

It rather only starts here. Just wait until AI tech evolve enough for AI-produced creative work to be minimally valuable.
I completely agree. One common thread of argument re the age at which one is not one's parent's property is that it's adulthood, the age at which someone can be reasonably expected to make informed and rational decisions for oneself, but arguably even by that (arbitrary) standard 14 and 15 year olds may qualify for example.

An often used justification is that parents usually know what's best for children - to eat vegetables rather than chocolate, to do homework rather than play games all day, to be active rather than sedentary etc. yet again it's an arbitrary measure, and there are many examples where parents do not know better than the children.

Ultimately these questions need decision either at the state level or at the familial level or at some other level of relationship between a parent and child. I don't know what the answers are, but we should most certainly not deny discussion of them.

Intellecutal property is a horrible beast, the idea that because ideas have value by virtue of having them first is silly, and is actually a by-product of the capitalist system where the first entrant into a particular market status is valued. What's worse is the fact that someone can say "I had this idea first therefore I can stop you from doing things with that idea, even if you came up with it independently of me".

The problem is that there is nobody to listen to you. Democracy does not want these arguments (preferring instead silly arguments about tax) and leaders do not want to hear it anyway (for risk of losing power). Even within philosophy, daring and controversial ideas are shunned (on the concept of property, capitalism, copyright, age of consent).

It's unfortunate.
Why would someone need to keep the all? I would think that only the hash would be needed for blocks without UTXO's
I didn't conflate anything, I'm merely trying to discern which side of the legal spectrum this fear is being directed towards. Judging by the reaction to my questions, I'm guessing it's towards the unlawful.
The problem with POS is that it ties to those coins and requires you to have them online in hot wallets
it should start with a list of companies that publicly state that their employees are allowed to protest, even if the company disagrees with them.
From your website you are obviously a talented kid. Not sure where you are but sounds like getting out of your immediate environment may something to try more of. Without large expenses, have you tried solo pursuits in nature away from others like walking/hiking, nature photography, cycling, kayaking? Second hand bikes or kayaks are usually very cheap, many phones now have great cameras. Honestly a bit of exercise really helps with mood and outlook. Also sometimes just starting a project (eg. photography) and recording your progress can be immensely satisfying.
> racism in the United States got fixed

Did I miss a memo?

There are more black men under state custody or supervision in the United States today for acts that no sensible person regards as criminal (drugs) than were enslaved in 1850.
Isn't that what social networks are for, validating our own self-importance?
I feel it is necessary to mention that there's an enormous amount of snakeoil in the blockchain/appcoin/altcoin industry, and that there are hundreds if not thousands of people who have invented broken "solutions" to blockchain problems that they are trying to sell.

Many of these solutions come from people who genuinely believe that they've solved fundamental problems with Bitcoin. But by and large, they have missed important security vectors. Writing a blockchain is a lot like rolling your own crypto - leave it to the experts, and don't trust one unless you've got a bunch of experts who agree that it seems sound.

These problems are very hard. If you are wondering why Bitcoin has not adopted some interesting new technology despite years of dozens of experts doing their best to get scaling into Bitcoin, it's probably because the interesting new technology has some fatal flaw.
Been using TiddlyWiki, first Class, now TW5, for over a decade. I keep my work and home project notebooks in them. Invaluable for going back and recalling what worked and what didn't work - or helping colleagues who stumble on the same problems I solved a while ago. I migrated to the node.js 'hosted' version a few months back and that has motivated me to start integrating these notebooks more. TiddlyWiki are just programable enough to satisfy the need or occasional yak shaving urge.
Is he aware that most academic jobs in France require speaking French now ? :v

As for the quick comment about opinion polls when the campaign has not even officially started... well, no comment.
You found the library. Looks like simple math stuff. Neat.
I agree with you. But the mainstream narrative also don't talk about everything not been perfect the last 8 years, and bad stuff done by/during Obama administration are just now starting to be a problem to the media (and consequently, to a huge parcel of citizens that follow the trend). As someone said, where were the strikes and protests when Obama were conducting drones missions or the destruction of Libya, Syria, Somalia, etc? It is bad to keep deepen division, but it is a lot worse if one party takes over everything owning the narrative of "the good side" in a very illegitimate way, which is exactly what is developing in the USA right now. I feel very sorry about it, it is very similar to what happened here in Brazil and it got us to a coup d'etat.
Neither one is true.

The Secret Service was initially chartered solely as an anti-counterfeiting task force. The Pinkertons never became part of the government; they were just a handy private army to be deployed by people who'd obtained the good will of the government.
Simply that the proposal is complex and involves subtleties of behaviour, and I worry that there may be further unexpected consequences found later (like the equality surprises). I do think that the proposal nicely works around the problem of back-compatibility for the APIs which were using a time.Time instead of a time.Duration.

But: I expect that many of the uses of time.Now to measure elapsed time were accompanied by a comment along the lines of "// TODO: use a monotonic clock when go exposes it".

I see little harm in exposing `time.MonotonicNow` or similar, in addition to these changes, particularly as this is what the original github issue requested: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914

This could also be done at very low risk in the `golang.org/x` packages, and the hypothesis that the go community does not understand monotonic clocks could be tested, by looking at the rate of adoption.
> why Zuckerberg doesn't want to run for office as president. He doesn't have to to be president.

Reminds me of the scene in snow crash with a vastly diminished POTUS.
This is similar to restclient.el for Emacs. https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

wuzz seems to be focused on one request at a time, though.
I think there's a crucial legal notion of "uttering" forgeries as currency, but other stricter laws do exist to protect currencies against illegal replication. AFAIK.
That was an awesome article to read, but it's missing one thing: examples of their work!

Is there anywhere online that presents an overview of their arguments and theories?
They get utility, but they still have to pay the mortgage based on the old price. They'd get the utility anyway, without the price drop, so utility-wise the situation is neutral. But money-wise, it is a huge loss, which can make it very hard also to move - if you paid 20% down and the price dropped 20%, now if you sell the house, you only have enough money to pay the bank, and maybe a little equity you've accumulated on the way, which may be barely enough to pay closing costs, agent's fees, etc. But now you still need a house, and you need 20% down to pay again, but you no longer have any cash, or have very little of it, way not enough to pay 20% even of the new, lower price. You have only two choices here: give up the idea of owning a home for next 10 years or so, or hold out on selling until the prices go up again. I don't see a big win here.
There are a lot of problems with PoS: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf

For the most part, proof-of-stake has been strictly rejected as a viable means of building decentralized consensus by the industry experts.
And for those who might be interested, a proposed stckexchange area51: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/105326/tiddlywiki?...
Right. The only difference between the meme entrepreneur and the small restaurant kicked out by the rising rent is that the former has the novelty of the new. I bet he could go on reddit and start over and sell t-shirts or something and make some money, if he's that good. And I bet he is pursuing alternatives right now.
Yes but the whole point is that that's only "worthwhile" for you, and it contributes to fucking everyone else in the housing market over.
Another commenter linked to a discussion about updating the Bitcoin software, but are you talking about updates to the Bitcoin blockchain?

An 'update' would be a new block or transaction. The Bitcoin network shares new blocks and transaction over a flood network where every node is peered with 8+ other nodes, and will tell all of them when it sees a new block or transaction.