skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are things that benefit from the economy of scale (e.g. factories) and then there are those that don't. Laundry is clearly in the second league: all the machines are independent of each other so the whole thing can (and usually is, nowadays) split apart (everyone has a washing machine at their place).
One thing I'm finding a limitation about this setup is that it's hard to do some package installs, due to the toolchain limitations.

gcc is out. you have to install clang, but that doesn't work for everything.
It's important to recognize the very real impacts that our own individual consumptions and habits have on the world around us. And I believe that everyone has a moral obligation to minimize that impact as much as feasible.

The reality is that there's an unpaid cost for many consumer goods in order to produce them at scale and at an affordable rate. Sometimes I feel that by partaking in this system you're implicitly perpetuating it. While it is difficult to give up those comforts & luxuries that we're accustomed to, humans have been around a long time without them, so we can get by without them too.
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> There is no "Situation" right now.

No matter what your political beliefs, it's obviously dishonest to claim there's not a "situation" in the US.
Meanwhile this has disappeared from the front page of HN despite having a higher score than plenty of other similarly aged posts on the front page

It's no secret that the moderation here disagrees with the consensus formed in these comments. It's definitely odd.
It's interesting to note the trend for the various BCC/BTC markets: the more volume the lower the price[1]. It could be a symptom of most of the volume being sellers dumping into bids.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/#markets
That's what she thinks.
In addition to 9gags, imgur and reddit top subreddits (top) lists are interesting places to get inspired.
Remember when we had a unified communication network?

I can use my phone for video chat over Facetime. Or Facebook Messenger. Or Skype. Or Whatsapp. Or Google Hangouts (haven't installed Duo. yet)

Signal and Line can both do audio calls but not video. Yet.

I think with the union of all those networks I should be able to do a video chat with 95% of my contacts.

When's SIP taking over the world again?
will be faster with ruby jit, jruby or truffle?
later edit:
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When it comes to speed, the question is never about pure performance.
If that was the case, we would all be writing assembly. The question is about being fast enough, while allowing you to ship and iterate quickly.

Ruby meets my needs and each year continues to get about 7-10% faster. There is also a push for Ruby “3x3” to make Ruby 3 at least 3 times faster than Ruby 2.

To that end there are really exciting projects like MJIT. There are already alternative implementations with JIT like JRuby and TruffleRuby.

Ruby is fast enough for my needs, and is only getting faster.

So while WEBrick might not be “webscale”, is Ruby? I say yes.

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Maybe I shlould stop scanning the articles and read them:))
> From what I read, Bitcoin Cash is an alternative cryptocurrency like Ethereum

No, it's a fork. The fact that you put quotation marks around the word makes it seem like you think it's some kind of allegory. It's as much a fork as it gets. Ethereum was a whole new chain, not a fork.
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The problem seems to me that users and miners have different priorities, and it's the miners who decide what the consensus is, not people who actually hold bitcoin. Of course, miners hold BTC too, and presumably want BTC to hold its value, so they wouldn't, say, intentionally inflate BTC (unlike a government-backed currency). But there's still a disconnect there. Consensus is consensus of miners, not consensus of users.
Yeah that was a pretty crappy attitude considering BCC is trading at $200 right now. I imagine a lot of early bitcoin buyers used coinbase and are sitting on like 10+ btc.

Not really cool to be ambiguous about stealing $2000+ from your users.
Hell, just optimising would be a start.
Short of political assassination, is anything done by the US government outside the US illegal under US law?
To me, it seems like Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is just a cash grab (no pun intended) by a minority of misguided Bitcoin enthusiasts. From what I can tell, the main reason for the resistance to Segwit is that it reduces the power and influence of miners. That's why the people who are pushing BCH are also invested in mining. Miners earn money from transaction fees, and therefore have an incentive to artificially inflate the fees by delaying transactions (transactions are processed in order of highest to lowest fees).

There's a great blog post which summarizes the situation here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-heck-bitcoin-might-split-...
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It is misleading. It deemphasizes what can be learned from the article. What helped this company get traction was ease of use, the 7 lines of code made it easy to use, and also, that the reason this company even got off the ground is the 2 brothers and their focus on getting the company to where it is. It seems to me that whatever they would have chosen to do would have had some success.

Again, it highlights the point that it's not the idea, they're a dime a dozen, it's the people that implement the idea.
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Except nobody was "investing" (speculating) on GNU Herd. It should give a lot of people pause that Bitcoin can just suddenly split like this. What's to stop it from being split again and again?
Anything scrupulous that would give you recurring revenue.

The sky is the limit, with the exception that it shouldn't be illegal/immoral.

Of course, that's open to wide interpretation, but there are obvious things you wouldn't want to do... if it was exploitative, for example.
True, and funny too how technology "disrupts" only to eventually repeat history.

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
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Ultimately, the legal drama did not undercut programmers' ability to use or redistribute BSD. However, it did stunt adoption of the operating system by creating doubts about BSD's legal future.

In the time frame they are talking about, 1993-1994, almost nobody was using Linux commercially (except tjhe distros selling it). Even after that, Linux was fairly immature. If BSD was going to be a real contender, it still had a sizable lead. That it didn't win in the end leads me to believe other factors were more important, such as the license (which the article you linked also notes).

The BSD license is more permissive and appealing to a lot of organizations, but the requirement of the GPL to give back ultimately lead to a virtuous cycle where companies moved portions of their code in-kernel, because out of kernel is more problematic if it's also not proprietary.
There is a more or less predictable order in which words for colors will emerge in languages.
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It's actually gotten worse.

PayPal tried to "modernize" their old crufty SOAP API with a REST-based API but ended up creating a separate half-functional, poorly documented, buggy layer on top of it that actually loses payments sometimes. I processed millions of payments through it and actually have their support people admitting the problems.

Their only hope is a reverse-takeover from Braintree. I'm not holding my breath; I've done my last PayPal integration. Forget all the "paypal will hold your money" concerns - the real problem is that they will loose your money in the wonky Rube Goldberg machine they've created to process payments.
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I had pretty much the same experience. I programmed an API to talk to a payment gateway connected to a chase merchant account some years ago. It was not fun. When I setup Stripe I was confused when it was done and there weren't 25 more steps before it works.
Correct. I was wondering the entire time reading the link what exactly was illegal since it is fairly common knowledge that all nations spy on each other and in the US it is totally legal for the US government to spy on foreigners who are not on their soil.
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Ahh I thought this 20% drop per 6 blocks was only after the split block and would end after the first 6 blocks mined in 12h, would have been too easy to game that one.

Looks like though they're getting blocks now, 4 blocks in less than two hours.
There are some key words that are copy pasted into every conversation of Bitcoin lately. "Satoshi's plan" is one of them. Make of that what you will. Personally I find it a tad bit creepy. Bitcoin is innovative, but it attracts penny stock-like investment schemes like sugar to ants.

Of all the sales pitches for this coin, Satoshi's original plan makes the least possible sense. This is a fork from Satoshi's coin that removes features, the most important of which is the enabler of payment channels, which if anything was Satoshi's plan.

It's not like it's hard to read Satoshi's writings directly from the source. It's seven years ago, not ancient Rome. The forum has almost all of it intact verbatim and then there's the wiki. In what little sense there ever was a "plan" it's in plain view for everyone to see and read all about what people thought of payment channels, fraud proofs, and everything else.
Ease of development was our number one reason to use Stripe for sure. We did end up adding Paypal after and it was a pain to work with.

Stripe was so reliable that we had clickety-test that used their real sandbox API to make sure in our CI that payment kept working.

Whenever someone brings up Stripe it always brings happy memories. I've never worked with a third party API that was as nice as theirs. Their Ruby SDK helped with that of course.
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As you mentioned, front page results are meant to demonstrate our tech. We are constantly trying to balance the humor side and that, however, making sure every result is funny is not very scalable.
No, Litecoin already exists.
The monster called Alphabet needs to be shaken down by the governments.
I don't mind that much in this case, since it's not really a clickbait title despite the similar phrasing.
Thanks, will be fixed soon!
It's a "nice" headline for Bloomberg's advertisers (and hence, for Bloomberg) in that it gets people to click on the link.

But in terms of information content, it's a horrible headline (for the reasons you so succinctly describe).
Makes sense.

Bot-0 creates a message that's slightly incorrect to a human reader. Bot-1 reads and interprets it correctly. Bot-0 gets a reasonable response from Bot-1 and thus increasing the confidence in how it structured its original message. Millions of iterations later and you get a weird corpus with weird structure.

You can achieve the same thing with two young children that spend a lot of time together e.g. twins.
How can they allow jumping around the call stack while also destructing/freeing objects?
Alternately many grapes are pretty blueish and almost all are greenish before fully ripe.

Ex: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=wine%20grape&tbs=im...
Which part is ridiculous? The fact that Dpkg, RPM, their peers, and
infrastructure on top of all that (APT, up2date, Yum, BSD ports, Gentoo
Portage, and so on) existed for a long time before Homebrew, the fact that
people were constantly complaining about Homebrew breaking their installed
packages on update, the fact that it used to require /usr/local to be
user-owned, or the fact that it wasn't using (still isn't? I haven't checked)
cryptographic signatures for downloading software to install?
I tend to write out some very long form Facebook posts, and I recently did one that included some porn domain URLs to illustrate a point, and when I tried to post it, Facebook simply said "This contains content we don't like", wouldn't allow me to edit it, and then deleted the entire post.

It was a good reminder that Facebook isn't really that user friendly.
jarjar?
RAFT is not BFT. You need nodes to cooperate. If the nodes lie, the system will collapse.
The last common block was #478558 mined at 3:16:14 PM UTC

The first BCC fork block was mined at 8:12:41 PM, almost 5 hours later.

The 2nd one was mined at 8:33:06 PM, 20 minutes later.

And then an other one not 5 minutes later.

Meanwhile the difficulty remained constant at 860221984436.2223

Clearly there's been a sudden surge in the hash rate.
Facebook penetration is really high so I imagine at this point preventing an exodus of users is more of a concern than it was in the past.
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That's the thing about performance. If you do something a million times, it's usually OK if the first time takes a thousand times longer than the fast case, as long as subsequent times are fast.

Look at how much code is written in Ruby and Python. Their method dispatches are way slower. To put it in perspective, it takes CPython about an order of magnitude longer to add two numbers together than it takes Objective-C to do a dynamic method dispatch.
I heard that but WE have blue sky, and yellow flowers. We can't say we didn't have yellow till we transferred the dye from a yellow flower to a fabric? We have documentation of dye millennium before Homer and Cave paintings nearly forty thousands years before them. https://zady.com/features/the-history-of-fabric-dye
I've heard that's one of the big reasons Linux succeeded over 386BSD (?), but GP is right that GNU could have just made their own OS a few times over in the time Linux has been around and they've barely achieved anything other than starting over at least once with a new kernel.
Right, the "self-closing elements" don't actually bother me. I do slightly prefer the <foo /> form, but in general I don't care. What used to baffle me was I couldn't do a "<div />" as that wasn't allowed. And I couldn't think of a good reason to care on that. (It seemed you had to go out of your way to disallow that, for no apparent reason.)

The tag inference, I just don't get. I can /almost/ understand the example you used, but the examples include crap like:

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<tr>

Where the second "<tr>" is actually part of the inferred "<tbody>". Just, why?

Edit: And to be perfectly clear, I do expect most of this to be handled for me by whatever framework I'm using nowdays. And, I don't actually generate documents directly that much. For docs, I typically go with LaTeX or friends. (Honestly, probably org-mode moreso, but even that is light nowdays.)
Is there some major liability that people are agreeing to when they accept the T&Cs?

The agreements between payment services and merchants are some of the most one-sided legal contracts you are ever likely to encounter. Unless you are a huge merchant, they are probably non-negotiable. Typically they grant the payment service and/or its associates the authority to literally take money straight out of your bank account, impose often unspecified levels of fees for vaguely defined transgressions, etc. They will also typically make the merchant responsible for almost anything that goes wrong in terms of fraud, other than perhaps a few specific exceptions where facilities like 3-D Secure were used.

Stripe seems to be little better than anyone else with much of this, though as I understand it that is partly because the card networks impose their own terms and intermediary services like Stripe are essentially just passing them on without having much say about it themselves either.

To give credit where it's due, I've never personally encountered Stripe actually abusing those sorts of terms, and getting signed up with them in the first place was dramatically easier than the alternatives available at the time other than possibly entry-level PayPal (+ accompanying horror stories, depending on who you ask).
That didn't have time to trigger. Difficulty didn't change.
My apologies. Feel free to delete my comment.