skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an oddly structured argument, which collapses upon itself based on the examples the author chose-and the vocabulary he uses to segment them.

An amateur does a thing because they love it, while a professional does it because they are paid to do so. Once an amateur is paid, they become professional.

Perhaps this would be more compelling if the author segmented his examples based on whether they were members of the scientific establishment, or of the scientific avant garde instead.
Author here: sometimes you want to get the tag of a value, and operate on that tag as a value, but I guess this may not be necessary in this system, given that the get_tag instruction will produce an immutable string.

EDIT: removed it. It was probably left over from old code, previous VM's I've written:
https://github.com/maximecb/zetavm/commit/7ef746f06113530468...
Wasn't Ethereum unusable for a a decent percentage of 2017 so far? " charging and billing solution with no middleman is created.”

The ethereum network is a middleman, that has fees and downtime, and the unknowable risk of future forks, downtime and client software choice incompatibilities.

This is their "wallet" https://shareandcharge.com/ which also, as for no other middleman free things, wants you to use the appstore or googleplay to use it.

"“Tomorrow 100s of EV Charging Assets all over Germany Blockchainified. E2E Product using asset-backed Crypto-EURO for payments,” "

Looks like the middlemen added to what could have easily been an interface like any other gas station are, unreliable Ethereum, unreliable appstore, playstore, and fiat currency, with trusting the accountant of that Currency to crypto gateway to maintain your balance.

This is not the distributed future. I'd prefer the charging station have a bill counter that I can feed cash into, that's far less middlemen, far more reliable, and far more secure and anonymous. Cash is king. Also paying by btc instead of requiring an oracle to keep your balance would also be more reliable, and less risky.

Everyone long ETH though, you know what arrow to click.

Wouldn't it be nice if charging your car didn't require: 1. Smart phone. 2. Credits on an oracle. 3. Internet access. 4. Yet another account on yet another third party. 5. More loss of your personal driving and location habits to yet another place.
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RT played the long game, and has done a surprisingly good job of gaining a following in fringe viewers throughout the US. Anecdotally, I participated pretty heavily in the first couple weeks of the Occupy Wall Street protests in Manhattan. For the first week or so, we got very little news coverage, and a lot of the established media was downplaying the movement, waiting for it to blow over, or picking the craziest people they could find out of the crowd to discredit us. Russia Today was one of the few news organizations who came out early, giving us positive coverage, and reflecting the views of the protesters more or less accurately. A lot of my friends became RT viewers because RT legitimately succeeded where the domestic media failed.

RT has played the strategy of going in and eating the domestic media's lunch when they hesitate to cover legitimate stories, and that has given them a dedicated following. Unfortunately, as time has passed, it has grown more clear (at least to me) that this bona-fide coverage is the bait they pull people in with, and that their coverage in general is of the journalistic quality of Fox News. They use the same tactics of lying through omission, stoking panic, appealing to emotion, and selecting stories to promote an agenda.

As for the social media shilling, the situation is extremely nuanced. At this point there are probably tens of thousands of organizations astroturfing social media to promote their interests. Russia gets a lot of attention, because they seem to be doing it on the largest scale in terms of influencing geopolitics, but I agree that they aren't the only ones doing it, and that if we make them stop, the problem won't go away. The media has spoken up a lot about Russia's twitter/facebook botting and shilling, but if we were to take a much closer look at the data, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see some shady domestic political think tanks and action committees doing it to the same extent. In fact, the shadowy domestic PACs engaging in astroturfing are probably ecstatic that Russia has taken the focus (and blame) off of them! The Internet has become a ideological battleground, and at this point, anybody who has any power to gain/lose has rolled up their sleeves and entered into the fray. I'm not quite sure what to do about it.
Privacy.com does not load. After a quick search, I think you meant abine.com?

Thanks for sharing, anyway. I'll definitely give a try on their service. Hope it works for non-US cards too, but I find it unlikely. But $3 per month for virtual cards seems too good to be true. I'll take a closer read on the tos once I get to a desktop (unrelated, but am I the only one who can't stand to do a thing on mobile devices?)
I think you're getting confused as you don't know about the fact that you can not signup to Paypal under the age of 18, unless you lie about your DOB.

IE; if you're 17 and put your DOB into the Paypal signup process, it literally stops you from signing up.

This person lied to get an account.
Any response will not help if the response is just working along with the human traffickers by providing the major part of the trip they sell. In fact the response is currently worsening the issue.

People absolutely would not be sent out to open sea in little rafts, if the traffickers and their cargo wouldn't know that if they just manage to float the cargo out of Libyan territorial waters, a large percentage will be picked up and therefore guaranteed entry to EU by bringing them to shore in Italy. This enables them to sell the trips. Those who drown are simply deadweight loss but as long as the proportion is not so large that it would diminish the sale of trips, it won't matter.

Whatever is the operation on sea, it won't help because the business is based on the EU asylum mechanism: once someone is picked up at sea, they cannot be returned to the nearby shore (Libya or whatever) from where they left. And once on EU ground, they'll be free to stay by applying for asylum. Italy is not hugely interested because the people know that there are no jobs in Italy, so they move on towards Germany, Sweden or trying to enter Britain through Calais or such.

It's a hard problem to solve. Most ideas seem to be about coming up with a new Gaddafi, to make a deal with him similarly to the Erdogan deal. This is not very nice either.
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how big really is this project? sounds more like something thought up to an advertising agency.

bmw had tons of billboards advertising the i3 as a digital wallet in futuristic concept drawings. but again, all the work of advertising agencies.
PayPal had known for a decade that he signed up before he was 18 years old, but did nothing about it. At the time they closed his account, he was well over 18 years old so why would it matter?

Besides 'a criminal record' and 'signed up for a service a bit before you were eligible' are hardly comparable.
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Ok, this is a lot faster and still slow enough that you can see what's going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klLscxJbayI

I tried faster but then it is pointless you simply can't track the camera fast enough from the hopper to the bin where it will end up. Hope that is satisfactory :)
>despite being infinitely better

How and why?

You're being condescending. I like Docker and if anything you make me not want to try systemd-nspawn with this attitude.
Thanks for the links. Sorry, reply was not related to your post.
It's disturbing that Colliani's LinkedIn lists him as a "Cybersecurity Solutions Architect" at PG&E. That's a lot of personal information for someone so clueless.
Given the disenfranchisement young people experience in our society I fully support their lying about their age at every opportunity.
Exactly. Rich people tend to have rich people habits and are more concerned with putting capital to work for them rather than impressing people with expensive purchases. That's more of a 'new' money, financially illiterate habit. There's a reason pro athletes and lottery winners go broke more often than not.
You are very defensive of PayPal in this thread. Do you have a connection with them in any way?
It's not quite 'elite' but The Well is a fairly exclusive and well-connected social network, which has been running online for over 30 years now:

https://www.well.com/join.html

I dabbled in it a couple of decades ago when there was a special-offer for a month's membership, it was certainly highbrow compared to Usenet at the time.

$150 is a fair chunk of cash for a year's membership, but does keep the rabble out whilst not being much of a road-bump to those who are keen.
Is this proof that Lego is the best educational toy for creating engineers?

What about an initial bucket for pieces that are too close to be reliablely puffed? Maybe you already do that, I couldn't tell.

On the issue pressure drop from simultaneous puffs, if you add a buffer tank with a pressure regulator for every two puffers, you'd probably avoid that problem. Like the little capacitors that used to sit by every 74xx IC.
Who cares anyway? Drug junkies and drug dealers on the meat-market, trying to hang nice drapes over everything related to it. If you call it diffrent, the uglyness will go away or at least be kept at bay. Controll the conversation over it and the reality goes away, what a laughing stock of a concept.
> I can't think of a legal reason for this policy. Normally, one must be 18 years old to enter into a contract, so the policy of preventing users under 18 from using the service is rational.

Depending on where you are, I think this is not entirely true. IANAL, but I think that in many/most US states, contracts with minors are not presumptively void, they are voidable at the option of the minor (or their guardian, I imagine). Of course, this is a pretty big downside for their counterparties, so it makes contracts with minors pretty unappealing, obviously.
Course.fast.ai has you entering Kaggle submissions right from day #1.
It is useful to know that, in the US, if you have sufficient information to send a payment into an account you also have sufficient information to debit it. Americans are, accordingly, leery about giving out account numbers.

Americans are not historically leery about giving out checks but, fun fact, we put all the information needed to empty an account on every check.

Why? Long story; legacy systems rule the world. The industry's main defense is a) surveillance of use of accounts, b) reversing transactions which appear fraudulent, and c) aggressively prosecuting fraudsters where their identity can be readily ascertained.
>How you would make invalid state unrepresentable at compile time in vanilla JavaScript?

>How you would have an HM type systems?

Let me ask you this - how do languages which compile to javascript manage to implement these features in javascript?

The answer is they don't. The javascript they generate may behave as if it were safe, but it's no more safe than any other javascript anywhere else, and no different.

Which means that it could just as well have been written that way to begin with because what's being enforced by the stricter language is idiom and style, not anything inherent to javascript itself.

>How you would not kill yourself in a simple app less than 100k LOC working alone?

I don't see how this is relevant to my point, and I don't think 100 KLOC apps represent the common use case for compile-to-js languages. I never argued that compiling to javascript wasn't useful in some way, only that it's still an abstract way to write plain old every day javascript. It's simply incorrect that compile to js language have rendered javascript less relevant because they compile to javascript.

>"And just to show how absurd is your way of thinking I can just say the following: "Except at the end of the day, you're not actually using those languages to do anything besides generating machine code Except at the end of the day, you're not actually using those languages to do anything besides generating machine code (...)

Well, no, and obviously not.

Because javascript isn't machine code. It's not bytecode. It's not assembly. It's a high level, loosely typed programming language.

However, if we were to accept your facile equivalence as true for the sake of argument, that javascript is no different than machine language, and that, therefore, compiling to javascript is no different than compiling to machine language, then it must also follow that writing javascript by hand is no different than compiling to machine language, and further that translating from any high level language to any other is the same as compiling to machine language.

If I were to transpile from any high-level language a to any other high level language b, would it make sense to then declare b equivalent to machine code? Of course not. If you took javascript and translated it to Python, is Python then equivalent to machine language? Of course not.

It's the model of treating javascript as a compile target that's absurd.

If you're going to try to construct a strawman out of my reasoning and knock it down, at least try a sturdier one.
I do not believe that it would be possible to prevent this sort of behavior by force. Any script kiddie could pull this off, and there are more born every day. Some of them barely even understand Western values, let alone have an incentive to value them.

Rather than (edit: in addition to) relying on protection, we should rely on personal safety practices. Using our own portraits as avatars may have been a mistake, in hindsight. I will recommend to my friends, that they teach their children to use a photo of their favorite toy or something, instead of their own face.
I take it Rust is not supported on ESP8266 yet?
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There is a 'default' bucket (#7) to the side of the machine that catches everything that it does not pick out in that particular run.

The simpler solution was to just stagger the tubes a bit, that way all I needed to do was drill a few new holes. I see what you mean though, that's also a clever way but the 'feed' to the air valves is a single 6 way manifold that they bolt straight on to. It would be very hard to put a buffer between the manifold and the valves.
hn gets useless in threads like this. we badly need a collapse comment tree feature.

so much off topic flame wars when everyone should be setting up tor nodes.
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Yes. Well, the net is trained to see them different for later (I have some more nifty ideas) but they are grouped together when sorting.
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I guess that's the thing: from what I can tell, Turkey ceased being a democracy with Erdogan. I do not believe anything pertaining to votes in Turkey for some time, since the time Erdogan was first elected. That vote was suspect, and so has everything that's happened since then.

In certain ways, what I find so disturbing about what's been happening in Turkey is how readily everyone seems to accept the official account of major events. The vote that initially established him, the "coup," the most recent vote... Things seem to be accepted at face value by the west without questioning it, even when major red flags are everywhere.

Erdogan isn't just a despot, he's a liar. And the West, especially Western journalism, seems to turn a blind eye.

Even if a large proportion of Turkey supports Erdogan, it doesn't mean a majority do. Even if Erdogan's government says a majority does, doesn't mean it actually does. And when a government establishes itself by subverting democratic or constitutional processes, it's not a democratic government anymore.
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>we badly need a collapse comment tree feature

It's been implemented for a while now. Do you have js disabled?
No, because they'd be entering my house. If I send an SMS, however, it goes out of my house, you see?

Discretion of investigators, prosecutors, and judges means that the "you break federal laws every day" is a no-op argument, and repealing laws takes a lot of work. I'd rather Congress focused on e.g. fixing healthcare.

Parallel construction has existed at least as long as the USA, i.e. since there have been non-public data sources. Parents, do it too. If you're upset about it you're a child.

"Arbitrary, secret laws"? What a load of nonsense. Congress passes and debates every federal law in public (albeit sometimes a bit quickly). You mean secret interpretations of laws by FISA? Yeah, not exactly news and relatively public and subject to review by elected lawmakers. How, exactly, do you suggest counterintel should work, sans secret courts?

It doesn't concern me because this combination stems from ignorance and an overactive imagination that wants to see evil where there is no evidence of evil. I imagine the systems you mention has avenues for abuse and also checks to make sure they are not abused. We should absolutely be vigilant for signs of abuse and talk about them.

Given the concrete issues facing our society right now, abuse by lawless investigators colluding with a court appointed by SCOTUS to... do what, exactly?
So I incorporate a C corp to provide my services with, so I only pay 15% taxes on what my employer pays me. But in order to spend the other 85% I have to dividend it to myself. There I owe 15-20% more in taxes (Edit: unless I'm in the very lowest bracket) for a total of 28-32% (edit: recalculated realizing dividend rates are 20% at high brackets).

The author should double check that he's deep in the 35%/39% brackets or this makes no sense. The 15% corporate rate would be on every dollar of profit, just as the 15% dividend rate would be on every dollar of distribution, so effectively he's be paying 30% on nearly 100% of his income instead of 10% on first $9k, 15% on next $20K, 25% on next $50k, 28% on the next $100k, etc.

If you make $191k, you owe $46,500k in taxes (obviously ignoring deductions). That's total of 24%. If you make $416k, you owe $121k in taxes, or 29%.

And this ignores the fact that the IRS doesn't let you run a profitable corporation without paying a reasonable salary. Even if I can only pay myself half what my employer pays the corp, all of that paycheck is at normal income tax rates plus payroll taxes.

Lastly, note that this "scam" exists today. The federal C corp tax rate on first $50k in income is 15%. But obviously it's not worth it.
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> If they didn't want to be approached, they would find a way to leave the event or avoid it in the first place.

That's plain false, and quite frankly a mean assessment. Being somewhere by yourself and not interacting can be a choice and can make for an enjoyable time out. Your broad-sweeping statement is unfounded and offensive.
What does the year have to do with it? Given any geeky subject there are going to be strong opinions, always has been that way and always will be, we just couldn't see the artifacts of it as easily before the internet.

Not all the discussion on HN will be useful, but it's the highest signal to noise I've found in 30 years of participating in internet fora, at least for a group of this size.
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Thanks for the responses! I have a feeling that projects involving vision will become more common with the fall in camera and image processing so I'm interested to learn from other's experiences.

> Slick! Do you use that to determine orientation prior to lamination so the laminate does not warp when it ages?

In this specific case- to reduce surface defects during planing. Interestingly, client forgot to specify this requirement when we designed the equipment which feeds planer. Feeding the boards in correct orientation was something the operators had learned from each other as they improved reject rates in downstream scanner but nobody in management knew about that.
The author is British, so I don't see how this is relevant.
There are two simple mental habits required to improve in anything:

1) Recognize blind spots in your knowledge or skill set. Even without acting upon them, knowing what you don't know is a quantum leap ahead of complete ignorance. Anytime you catch yourself accidentally bullshitting an answer at work, it's because this awareness hasn't been grown enough.

2) Fill in those gaps in your knowledge / skillset in small, low-pressure sprints. Make it easy on yourself. People tend to completely avoid things that make them feel uncomfortable or incompetent, so spending even a small amount of time trying to grasp something is a quantum leap ahead of completely avoiding it. After some time, this is how people seem to "know everything": it's not because they're an expert in all things, it's because they spent the 20% of time it takes to get 80% of the results.

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Although there are a lot of unknowns (and I'd fully respect that sort of opinion), comparing a primarily-5HT2A agonist to a bullet in the brain seems wildly exaggerated given the current evidence I know. If you have scientific oriented links that say otherwise, feel free to share them. From what I know, I find this route of thinking rather hyperbolic.

To give another example, ketamine's another recreational hallucinogen; if it also was thought of as akin to a "bullet in the brain" and nothing more, scientists might not have recognized the potential anti-depressive nature of glutamatergic chemicals (as has happened in the last decade or so).
All things accounted I still find HN the best discussion venue. I force myself to avoid reading discussions I suspect might not be interesting and apart from well known controversial topics signal to noise ration is usually high.

Genuinely curious question - do you know about place where these controversial technologies would be discussed in a "better" way?
What do you mean here wrt Java module systems, and when was the last time you ran into this problem?
No, we don't need flying cars so that won't happen.
They are talking about applying the rate to pass through entities.

The assumption people are making is that after the change only the corporate rate would apply to that income, it wouldn't be taxed again as personal income.

It doesn't matter, the bullet list they put out is a press release to start the policy conversation, not anything that is going to get through Congress intact.
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Is the world so boring that all we have are posts about rust?
You could potentially go via C. https://github.com/draperlaboratory/llvm-cbe
No one ever swiped right on him. This is his revenge.

Imagine how disappointed he would be if someone took all his pictures of him, his wife/husband, and family members and released it under CC0.

This is absolutely disgusting and shameful.

How much of his actions you think are motivated by the fact that he likely never got a single women to swipe right, let alone go on a date with him?
Oh, I forgot about that. Is there no European alternative?