skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Even billions is cheap for Japan given that their strongest export sector these days is automobiles.
Chicago metro Deep Tunnel : $3B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan
Enjoyed the article, but my favourite part is the reference to Garth Marenghi's Darkplace in the description.
Note that this is only because tech people are scarce in Columbus, OH (or anywhere that isn't SV).

See, SV doesn't have to tolerate weirdness- everyone in tech there is replaceable (there's a surplus of members). Because of human nature, the people there now have to adopt a different ingroup/outgroup structure (which usually has a negative correlation in how interested/competent in tech they are), and what better way to do that than by using the local political leanings?

And, as a quirk of (the local) progressive politics, this also puts SV and the rest of the tech community at odds- SV claims that it's important for tech communities to exclude men/non-minorities to promote the participation of women/minorities, but the vast majority of tech communities see an objective shortage of members and can't afford to discriminate (the fact that they skew male/majority is an afterthought) so they rightfully object to doing that.

Put another way, SV can afford to be illiberal/progressive and discriminate; the rest of us are liberal because being illiberal still has meaningful consequences.
The fact that your employment history will make you look like a flaky job-hopper; thus serving as a drag on future earnings.
This crowdfunding campaign started on August 24. It was at $750000 after a month on September 26, needed ten more days to reach a million on October 4, and then somehow raised the remaining $500000 in five more days? This seems weird. They didn't have that much press over this last week.

I wonder if they had investors all along and only pretended to crowdfund.

(I'm not saying this is a scam or anything. I participated.)
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Even without, unfortunately (I'm sure they are wonderful), knowing your friends, I bet you a cookie that they don't care.
Since you mention that you are a "dropout", another interesting path to consider is to use your publications to eventually get a PhD.

Since in many countries there is a financial incentive for universities to deliver people with a PhD title, it should be easy to find a professor and committee willing to help you get a PhD, once you have a number of publications. But you should choose your publication channels wisely (e.g. respected journals earn you more credibility, and citations, which can also help).
I found some side concerns interesting:

- an earlier node was delayed due to environmental permitting

- this project will require a lot of land

- the Taiwanese government is committed to keeping this fab at home, and willing to work with TSMC on the environmental issues.
Thanks for answering.

Also, great work! I've always been impressed by Project-Fifo and DalmatinerDB
Well, we don't yet. But I do wish them the best of luck in creating one.
you don't view "getting their OS preinstalled on nearly every PC" as marketing?
Python is not using Github as a package management system. Python keeps it's packages on Pypi, which is a simpler and more specific product than Github, and seems to have a higher average uptime as a result.

More importantly, the Pypi project is open source, which means I can set up a Pypi server inside my company to host private and/or critical packages and configure it to go upstream for anything I request but don't have locally.

The Python strategy is a considered strategy that provides acceptable business continuity options.

I don't give a shit where you store your source code, that's /your/ business continuity problem.
wow, thanks, wouldn't have known how to google that without the link
Used to be a fan, but the change in licensing is worrying me. We started with the enterprise edition, which was the top tier at the time. Since then another tier has been added above and another one is in the works.
The road map is not encouraging, unless you are on premium or ultimate editions. And the license costs at least five times as much.
Also the road map shows a very Oracle-esque thinking, that only the big guys need advanced features and they are willing to pay what it takes.
I hope they find a better way, like scaling of the features rather than the features themselves.
Reluctant to place more eggs in our GitLab basket.
You could try Termux on Android. It's kind of like that but not quite.
The biggest issues that would prevent me from getting something like this for those in my family who wear bracelets is the lack of color customizing and bulkiness of the bot. But I like the idea and I'm guessing both of these issues will be worked on in the future.
They already re-wrote most all relevant graphics APIs including the macOS compositor to use Metal as backend.

All major middleware engines already support Metal as well, and relevant companies like Adobe are using it as well.

Even if they don't officially drop GL, they could just leave it on life support, similarly to Carbon APIs.
matrix about xmpp:

What is the difference between Matrix and XMPP?

The Matrix team used XMPP (Openfire, ejabberd, spectrum, asmack, XMPPFramework) for IM before starting to experiment with open HTTP APIs as an alternative in around 2012. The main issues with XMPP that drove us in this direction as of 2012 were:

- Not particularly web-friendly - you can’t easily speak XMPP from a web browser. N.B. Nowadays you have options like XMPP-FTW and Stanza.io that help loads with letting browsers talk XMPP

- Single logical server per MUC is a single point of control and availability. MUCs can be distributed over multiple physical servers, but they still sit behind a single logical JID and domain. FMUC improves this with a similar approach to Matrix, but as of Oct 2015 there are no open source implementations. The MIX XMPP extension also aims to address this limitation.

- History synchronisation is very much a second class citizen feature

- Bridging to other protocols and defragmenting existing communication apps and networks is very much a second class citizen feature

- Stanzas aren’t framed or reliably delivered without extensions. See wiki.xmpp.org for an XMPP take on this

- Multiple device support is limited. Carbons and MAM aim to resolve this

- Baseline feature set is so minimal that fragmentation of features between clients and servers is common, especially as interoperability profiles for features have fallen behind (as of July 2015)

- No strong identity system (i.e. no standard E2E PKI, unless you count X.509 certs, which are questionable)

- Not particularly well designed for mobile use cases: push; bandwidth-efficient transports. Since the time of writing a Push XEP has appeared, and wiki.xmpp.org states that XMPP is usable over a 9600bps + 30s latency link.

This said, the whole area of XMPP vs Matrix is quite subjective. Rather than fighting over which open interoperable communication standard works the best, we should just collaborate and bridge everything together. The more federation and interoperability the better.

We think of Matrix and XMPP as being quite different; at its core Matrix can be thought of as an eventually consistent global JSON db with an HTTP API and pubsub semantics - whilst XMPP can be thought of as a message passing protocol. You can use them both to build chat systems; you can use them both to build pubsub systems; each comes with different tradeoffs. Matrix has a deliberately extensive ‘kitchen sink’ baseline of functionality; XMPP has a deliberately minimal baseline set of functionality. If XMPP does what you need it to do, then we’re genuinely happy for you :) Meanwhile, rather than competing, an XMPP Bridge like Skaverat’s xmpptrix beta or jfred’s matrix-xmpp-bridge or Matrix.org’s own purple-matrix has potential to let both environments coexist and make the most of each other’s benefits.

source: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differen...
I wasn't a coffee drinker until the past couple of years when I discovered that there's a world beyond starbucks over-roasted sugary crap and awful-tasting pods.

Now, I'm extremely addicted to a perfect vanilla cappuccino as long as it isn't made with nasty sugar-filled syrup.

It has gotten to the point where french press doesn't do it for me at home, so I'm going to invest in an espresso machine and grinder and learn how to make it by hand. I'm also a huge fan of the vanilla powder they use at Better Buzz in San Diego. That stuff is worlds better than the syrup.

While the caffeine helps after lunch, I find the ritual of having a smooth creamy warm drink in the afternoon is incredibly relaxing, and is a good excuse to be "still" and organize my thoughts for the rest of the day.
Its funny how people downvote without checking.

Yes I can see every month how much I owe and how much I paid back. Month after month history. I sure also see my checking and savings accounts, from every bank (currently 2), with up to date (well, 7 days ago) status on how much money I have there. I don't know what else I can say? Screenshoots - no thank you.
One idea, crowd-fund your research using: Experiment https://experiment.com

Then publish with PLoS
The same thing happens with our health. People would rather spend trillions of dollars on health care, rather than start eating healthy. 70% of all healthcare dollars go towards diseases and causes of death that are lifestyle related causes (eating, nutrtion, excercise, smoking, etc)
Why? When you can use disaster capitalism and profit on the "volatility" provided by such events?
lol, this book is being shilled to death because one of the examples used is a (very superficial) analysis of twitter's scaling problem. try the art of computer systems performance analysis for a real treatment.
Still works for me. Whenever I search for a company name ti returns a list of employers in this format:

XXXXX Company Name

I guess the first five digits is the code.
Outlook and Notes run on-premisses.
Milwaukee, at well under 1/20th the size of Tokyo, spent $1B on a similar system:
https://deeptunnelmke.com/impact/cost/
In VLC's case, it's a question of trust. The users of VLC trust the developer to not put ads on that software; it's breaking that trust that would be the moral wrong, not necessarily the ads.
Thanks! I don't understand why screenshots are missing for most of the stuff I see everyday. We just don't have the time to install everything and then see how is the interface.
I just froze my family's credit reports with all three credit reporting agencies ... I wonder whether that blocks employers from this info as well, I imagine it's a completely separate service though.
> they obviously can’t keep it 100% open.

Why not?

Even if you honestly believe that it is a good idea to hide superior driver code (which it is not), AMD doesn't have any. NVIDIA has had superior proprietary drivers since AMD acquired ATI.
I don't agree. With proper design a zero day in a web-facing framework should not automatically expose a full database of sensitive user information to the internet.
Previously to iOS 9 if you had a solid WiFi connection but were stuck in the LAN for some reason (broken DNS or captive portal, no WAN connection, broken route or whatever not affecting the LAN segment) you were toast and had to turn WiFi off. WiFi Assist solves that.
What is a good coffe replacement? (not ilegal!)

ie: For stay alert, focused.
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I think others have mentioned that you really only need 8 lanes for a GPU
I'd challenge that very strongly. I think morality is very compatible with nihilism, both in the existential and moral nihilistic varieties.

In existential nihilism, the only real requirement is that the nihilist rejects any notion of intrinsic meaning to life and existence (at least if I'm not mistaken, I'm rusty on these things). Moral nihilism is a natural extension of that which just requires a rejection of intrinsic morality.

I would broadly say that it's really difficult to actually be a nihilist, just as I said elsewhere in this thread that it's hard to realistically disbelieve in free will, even if you intellectually process the arguments and agree with them. There's certainly a hard threshold to pass, but I disagree that it has anything to do with morality or principles. As far as I'm aware, constructing personal moral rules from first principles as a pragmatic matter is allowed so long as the nihilist 1) acknowledges that those principles are arbitrarily chosen and 2) not representative of, or descending from, any objective laws that can be gleaned from the world via deduction or induction.

Basically, I'm saying utilitarianism is a valid moral framework, and utilitarianism is compatible with nihilism. The nihilist will face significant challenges in actually living day to day life in congruence with nihilism (i.e. not really believing in anything), but the nihilist can still as a separate matter construct a moral framework that at least seems rational and internally consistent for the purposes of self-preservation.

Frankly this seems like sort of a rabbit hole. I can accept a stronger view of nihilism that disallows adherence to any moral framework, but how does that allow a nihilist to behave at all consistently or continue to function? If we take away the word "moral" and instead abstract away the terminology to, "a set of personally principles, consistently applied", what does a nihilist look like who simply doesn't have that?

If we go back to Rust, he does have moral principles, but his behavior and words are congruent with the core of existential nihilism: he rejects the notion of meaning in life and existence and admits that he attempted suicide in despair but simply couldn't out of cowardice. From that perspective it seems like nihilism plus a set of consistent principles could coexist as the continual dissonance between conscious hyper-intellectualism (existential despair) and unconscious biological drives (self-preservation).
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To what extent are the tech sector and the finance sector different?

[ObJoke: the FS does technology; the TS does upscale vending machines.]
Any suggestions on how to bypass the question of past/expected comp then?
Same reason why I have an opaque fence instead of a transparent one.

I prefer for every random passerby to know full details of everything I do.
As with any transaction on a proof of work chain, the more work there is layered on top of the item in question, the more confidence you can have. Even if you don't know that someone's presenting you with a truncated chain, you can still see that their credential is at the end of it, and know that they could have cheaply faked it.

Proof of stake would require more human consensus but proof of work is measurably expensive to produce.
I want to be cynical because I hate the idea that a gadget has to have "jewel" in the name and be a fancy "friendship bracelet" to appeal to girls. But it's a neat little trinket that somebody worked hard on, and if it really was a young woman who designed it to enjoy with their friends, I can't really hold that against them. I don't think scaring away guys from it by saying it's "for girls" is doing them any favors though.

Thinking back though, one gadget I remember being very appealing to kids of both sexes was Tamagotchi. It would be cool if someone made a more customizeable/programmable/less annoying version those in a wearable format.
Every year it gets easier. Barring bizarre regulatory hurdles it seems almost inevitable. With carriers like freedompop coming onto the scene, its starting to get pretty easy to pop a speaker, a mic, and a sim-slot onto a raspi and having a "phone".
I'd recommend the Adabox from Adafruit, it's a subscription service ... https://www.adafruit.com/adabox
> That doesn't mean it is a bad book, or bad literature, but reading pages and pages of characters focusing on interpersonal drama when they are trapped in this hideous situation pissed me off!

I haven't read anything of his work beyond a bit of The Buried Giant, but this sentence makes me want to read "Never Let Me Go". I think it's easy to focus on the immediate or even use it to distract yourself from big picture problems that might not even have solutions.
I think it's easier to say, than to experience. I do think the initial rejection should be in the first 3 words spoken, but some context/appreciation of the effort is important so the receiver understands a) why and b) next steps (reapply?).
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Do we? I mean, a netbook isn't that big, and it doesn't have the added requirement of always needing to work as a primary communications device.
Limitations change as API priorities shift. The platform has grown over time. Some inherent limitations are useful (to be a medium to creativity, to the user's control over their system overriding a developer's narcissism, to the idea that security and reliability are worth engineering for), and yes, unlikely to disappear entirely.

I can't dispute the unpopularity of Windows Phone, but from what I hear the Windows Store is fairly successful in Windows 10. Many consumers use it to install apps, which is a judge of popularity. However, if by popularity you instead mean sentiment, then I get the impression that currently most people are ambivalent about the Store in so far as it is a pragmatic tool that people neither love nor hate, just as most people neither love nor hate their toaster so long as it toasts. (Certainly there are haters, but volume of their voices is not necessarily an indication of their size/number/consumer spending activity per the first definition of a popularity, just a reminder of the passion with which they feel their sentiment.)
I am not willing to accept a principle which artificially exempts people from protection. I'm not going to protect the right to keep and bear arms only for whites, or freedom of expression only for liberal conservatives, the right to a fair trial only for south asians. Adding arbitrary, unfair stipulations to a principle defeats the purpose of having principles.

It is a broadly respected civil right not to be discriminated against on the basis of sex when being considered for a job in a role which is not reliant on sex-differentiated characteristics.

The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution is among the proudest arrangements of fourteen words in recent history. That is the way principles work, there's no "unless you're a homosexual" at the end, there's no "unless the allegations are recorded in the wee hours of the morning".

I don't understand how anyone could trade something as eternal and beautiful as body of principles into something as common and detestable as a body of exceptions.
If I’m understanding where you are currently, I’d recommend Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial. It really bridged the gap between hello world type tutorials and how a modern framework functions.
Yes. However, we need to have a modest definition of "success".
Part of the comment I quoted indicated that they only did it for women. If they were calling this out as something they do for all candidates and were just talking about how it helps women, I wouldn't see an issue with it.

For example, consider two situations.

"We provide daycare for all employees with children. This helps us recruit a more diverse team because child care responsibilities is something which tends to be unequally distributed in our society."

"We provide daycare for female employees with children. This helps us recruit a more diverse team because child care responsibilities is something which tends to be unequally distributed in our society."
You can't really mandate implants. Well, you could but that's how you get open revolution in the streets.
Has any one passed the cross over test for software engineer?
Yes, but we don't give foreign governments and intelligence agencies unhampered access to our TV and radio airwaves to broadcast whatever the hell they want. There's a big difference between US nationals broadcasting bullshit and hostile foreign governments broadcasting bullshit. Neither is ideal, but the latter is completely unacceptable, at least to me, because it touches on sovereignty issues.
Adaptation without mitigation will not be effective as the impacts worsen. Uncapped emissions and business as usual scenarios will cause outcomes that we will not be able to build ourselves out of.

We must reduce emissions and push for sustainable infrastructure and solutions, now.

We must adapt and we must also mitigate. Only through the combination of both efforts and through our determination and willingness to lead sustainable lifestyles will we be able to beat climate change. We must push for renewable energy, and technological solutions to efficiently use resources.

The policy coming out of the White House is against these efforts and we need to find a way to prevent them from hurting us and our posterity by postponing the efforts to transition to clean energy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/climate/clean-power-plan....
You're right that the bank cannot unilaterally prevent a payout.

Practically speaking though, what usually happens during a potential bank run is that governments declare a bank holiday, preventing customers from withdrawing funds.

That buys the government (and the bank) time to get their ducks in a row, line up bailouts, etc.

Things get a LOT worse if the bank is actually allowed to go under. Letting Bear Stearns and Lehman collapse was, in retrospect, probably a mistake that made the eventual bailout need to be larger.
> This does not imply that they love surveillance, loss of privacy, sexist office culture, messianic and arrogant CEOs, lack of diversity, tax avoidance schemes or sweat shop labor.

Do you love your parents despite their flaws?

Do you love what your country affords you despite its shortcomings?

Attacks on "Silicon Valley" for what a handful of jerks at a small subset of companies in SV do is just as bad as articles like "Millennials are the laziest generation".
Simple economics. Its a free rider problem, both on state to federal, as well as federal to global level. There simply are not the institutions to have global solutions.
Using brand new kind of liberally here.

The idea of a blockchain is more than 20 years old, with the first popular implementation, Bitcoin, being 9 years old.

That's the same year the iPhone 3G came out. So if you want to argue "brand new" that's where you've got to start.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_3G
> verifications, of credentials could be logged on the blockchain

And how would that work anyway? He just finished saying that everything on the chain is public. You don't have to issue a transaction to read it, you can just read the public information off your local node.
What you propose is not in fact unethical in any way. They offered a good or service for money without gouging and not during a disaster. you aren't getting nothing out of the deal, you got a place to live for decades out of the deal. That was in fact the deal you signed up for, and what was delivered. They offered you a house for X dollars a month, you paid X dollars a month and got to live in said house for the month. When the month is over, you either pay them again or go find a new house to live in. pretty simple really.