skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's essentially expanding more on his lecture from the Hays Festival earlier this year. I found his examples of how exponential growth presents itself in real life to be entertaining and effective.
I haven't been following closely, recently, but literally the first one I checked has no check on residency [0], which is enough to bring it under SEC jurisdiction if the sale goes over other thresholds.[1]

Sales before and after the bulletin are subject to the same laws.

[0] https://etherparty.io/ico/contribute

[1] https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/internatl/foreign-priv...
Using the ratio of nominal GDPs (12:1), if the US economy was a 240 lb man then the Canadian economy would be a 9 month old baby. That 300% spanking was more than a little correction to even out some unfair(?!) subsidies. That 240 lb man's gut punch to the baby involved a lot of punishing cruelty and malice too. And this is not the only beating that that man has delivered. Eventually, the baby will recoil and look elsewhere. Hey, China, EU, TPP, Latin American, anyone wanna play nicely?
Boeing now trying to fix this PR disaster and airing ads on Canadian TV saying how much they love Canada.
Used to have a Gravitar clone for DOS. It was one of the harder games I've ever played :)
The Windows Fall Creators Update, which they are calling the Autumn Creators Update outside of North America, including in the southern hemisphere where Spring is in the air. No apostrophe. Marketing fail on so many levels.
> we simply didn't rehire for positions when someone retired because the digitization hadn't eaten whole workflows but only 5 minutes here and there

I think this is a very important part of automation in the knowledge worker sector that people often miss. Automation doesn't have to get a single person fired to lead to high unemployment, it just has to make managers stop and ask, "do we really need to replace that person who left?". I've been seeing the same thing as you over the last decade with companies I've consulted with where headcount gets pared down here and there every year, and the remaining employees are expected to use more technology tools and wear more hats to fill in the gaps.
If you have a single logical server, then it chooses the ordering, but a single client doesn't need to ask the server for the ordering of any operations generated locally: it can pick the order because it determines the relative ordering of those operations.

A client could be disconnected from the network for hours and re-synchronize at some later point in time and it all would work just fine.

The only time the client needs to connect to the server are when the client wants to publish updates, or when the client wants to receive the updates. If you only need to do that once every 10 seconds (or even once every second), does that make a client/server model workable?
What's your best example of an 'improvement' that ruined a product?
Interesting - thanks for the link! I'll have to try these some time.

I do wonder how much of this is just preventing condensation / freezer burn though. A moderate ice layer will probably be enough to stop auto-defrosting freezers from destroying food so quickly.
IMO Go has poor primitives that make even straightforward code needlessly complicated. Slices are probably the worst. Compare Python's way to inserting a value into a list:

a.insert(i, x)

With the way that the Go docs suggest:

a = append(a[:i], append([]T{x}, a[i:]...)...)

Sorting and for-range loops are other examples.
Tilapia eat vegetation, you can use them for feed.

Why does the salmon feed need to be wild? Why can't it also be farmed?
well then why go with any of them when erlang and elixir has them all beat in terms of performance AND stability? let alone the power of concurrent processes it can handle that none of those languages can hold a candle to. why? :)
Show HN: TiDB 1.0 is production ready
Two and a half years ago, Edward, Dylan, and I started this journey to build a new database for an old problem that has long plagued the infrastructure software industry. Today, we are proud to announce that this database, TiDB, is production ready. Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘the best way to predict the future is to create it.’ The future we predicted 771 days ago we now have created, because of the hard work and dedication of not just every member of our team, but also every contributor, user, and partner in our open source community. Today, we celebrate and pay gratitude to the power of the open source spirit. Tomorrow, we will continue to create the future we believe in.
And reddit. And a little thing called youtube (though to be fair last I read they're offloading a lot of the hot paths to golang and c via native modules).
Ryzen 2 2300X benchmarks Leaked, Scores beat 1800X
Haha del.ico.us actually died for me when it moved to delicous.com. Used to be kind of popular with academics and librarians too at that time.
(Possible spoilers)

Yeah, I came in well primed - having played "A Dark Room", familiar with the "paperclip maximizer" thought experiment, and familiar with various iterations of the idea of keeping an AI "in a box". Playing the game was probably a very different experience than for someone with none of that familiarity.
I think I've done a bad job at communicating my design because it's perfectly consistent with what you've said. My proposed design is a client/server model, but that doesn't mean it isn't distributed. Each client can still operate on its own for as long as it wants, and it chooses to synchronize with the central server whenever it likes. (In fact, this is quite similar to most peoples' workflows with Git/Github, and I certainly wouldn't call that painful.)

In any case, thanks for the pointers about the Microsoft research. I don't think I've seen that. I'll check it out.
Really makes me wonder if the tide will ever turn back from total annihilation of all life.
"My first child is going to be born in February; I'm 48. And I think I left it such a long time because I kind of lost faith in a lot of the work we see as photojournalists. You lose faith in humanity to some extent."

I share his sentiment. Such luck we have with this amazing planet, and all we do is destroy it. Humanity is disgusting.
It's () in haskell. Here's a good write-up: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16893900
I used eaglemode as my main file manager for a long time. I know the poster before me says it's not practical, but I had a great experience. Zooming in nested folders is cool, but the features most useful in day-to-day life were:

- Zooming in the corners of a file to see detailed information (size and disk space down to the individual bytes, hexadecimal representation of contents, some other stuff I don't remember).

- Instant visualization of almost any document (images, videos, audio, pdf (with pages side by side!), html, txt, doc, etc) straight from the file manager, with no additional clicks.

- Transparently navigating inside compressed archives (after a warning tunnel saying that this operation could be expensive).

- The two-selections mechanic for file operations, which I have never seen before or after, is incredibly intuitive after three tries and works well across a variety of operations.

- All configuration is laid on a single panel, also zoomable, with detailed information laid as a (initially) minuscule text right beside each option.

- It's just plain impressive, and a great conversation starter.

Unfortunately I had to stop using it because it was getting harder and harder to satisfy the numerous dependencies to keep media visualization working. This is even more problematic in Windows, which is a shame.
China will track its citizens’ every move with a new facial recognition system
Wow! Congratulations!
For those who want to check it out: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
Not true in 2100.
Your comment included some interesting insights that I didn't hear in the talk. (Were there things in the slides that he didn't actually talk about?)

> absurdly fast product cadences

Just curious, what do you consider absurdly fast?
There is good and bad in this.

It's good that Soros sets an example giving to charity.

It's bad that his donations go to controversial recipients, including some that ends up in the hands of those who use violence to further their causes.

Soros has been tied to racial unrest in the US, attempts to cause intervention in places like Albania, etc. He is not a kind-hearted donor, he is a billionaire with a decided agenda.
How to Quantify Our Emotions in Currency Trading
Sure, but let's say I was OK with a single point of failure. Or let's be more specific and say my central server is a PostgeSQL instance.

> In addition to being resilient to network split brain, this allows you to make performance gains at the sacrifice of consistency, where you could buffer your updates to other nodes.

My scheme allows this too, no?
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These kinds of transfers point out two things to me:

- (obvious) the ridiculousness of wealth accumulation. This is over-discussed so I won't further that discussion.

- The critical need for better philanthropy. Philanthropy is by and large ineffective. I belive this is because it either isn't taken seriously (pet projects) or generally has no feedback loop or accountability. The best philanthropic organizations by impact are probably research universities, organizations not designed to be philanthropic. That sucks!

I think for all the shit YC gets, this area may ultimately be where they make they make real social progress. YC Research is interesting, but organizations like Watsi and New Story are REALLY game-changing to me. They showed me a model that really works, and I not only give to them regularly but also other organizations I could find with a similarly direct impact (Brooklyn Bail Fund is my favorite).

I think scaling real, accountable impact is a task my generation (I'm 29) is really, really up for. I think we can do it. There will be a lot of shitty, terrible attempts it but I don't think the attempts will stop and I expect it to yield results. I hope that's part of our legacy as a generation.
Snow HN: A light weight search engine for your photos
App uses artificial intelligence to automatically describe your photos and detect the text in photos to make them more search able. Search by description, text in the image, location or date . You can backup your photos safely and even capture photos which directly saves photos to Foreva cloud and saves device space significantly.
Beta here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lyfe.circle
Anywhere I can access higher quality versions of these?
The Terrifying New Trend in Heroin Addiction
I would disagree with that, creativity is a key part of general intelligence
> That's a silly objection. The 'good' they're attempting to do is preventing terrorism by sifting through the sea of available information on social media.

They are trying to prevent terrorism. And they are sifting through lots of data.

They are also doing a lot of other things. I certainly hope terrorism isn't their main concern. Maybe some of that data is helpful preventing the odd hate crime. But it might just also be used for union busting or something like it in the name of stability and law and order.

Total surveillance is useful to control a population - but I don't think it's particularly useful as a counter terrorism tool.
It also means, if you're logging well, that you can replay the exact series of interactions, transactions included, that led to an end-user application failure.

Untangled (ClojureScript on React) + Clojure / Datomic on the back-end.
I would love it if Google Calendar notified you when you accepted multiple invites for the same date & time. It boggles my mind that this wasn't a feature from the start.
How much would you be willing to part with? :P
Bipartisan Group Plans to Urge Trump to Adjust Policing Policies
Thanks for this , it was the perfect breath mint after the articles main course. Puts this strange growth in the market on a new viewpoint for me
What difference does it make to the Filecoin users and network whether or not their tokens are overpriced right now? Some speculators might burn themselves on it, but speculation isn't the point of Filecoin, and its current price at any time won't affect whether or not the system is usable.
By language, I mean "the arts", "creative writing", "wordplay", etc. I phrased it wrong.
You've confused legal rights with natural rights. Animals don't have natural rights and (generally) don't have legal rights. They're usually legally regarded as property. Anti-cruelty statutes do not presuppose or imply rights. The absence of animal rights does not mean cruelty suddenly ceases to exist.

I didn't say we have obligations (or really duties) _to_ animals but _in respect to_ animals. This is an important distinction.

Animals do not have a right not to suffer, but it is immoral to be cruel toward them. I can, legitimately, cause suffering in an animal if it is an unfortunate effect of, say, acting for an appropriately commensurate human good. I cannot morally do the same to a human being.
That's a remarkable list, thank you for sharing it.
All you have to do is call As-of in any expression to get a value relative to time, as the entire history of a named entity is stored efficiently with persistent data structures. It’s automatic, efficient, gives you the ability to query future values!
Ban the box legislature seems to do very little, it exists in Mass but it's paired with the CORI system where the court system simply gives you the court history over to employers. I have seen a business rescind an offer from an engineer <5 days from when he was supposed to start and after he had ended employment with his previous company, over a misdemeanor on his CORI.

The first amendment concerns with the EU's right to be forgotten aren't answered yet in my book, but as long as everyone's life is tracked and passed around effortlessly via the internet it will be difficult to impossible for former criminals to maintain employment at good jobs.

Like many things that worked out in the past, such as cops being able to look up any individuals license plate, but are now incredibly cheap and easy to do because of technology, background checks are becoming onerous because they are done for _everyone_ instead of being done only when necessary

Edit: I want to add that businesses rescinding offers like this means the employee I quit can not access unemployment because they have quit their oldjob but not been "fired" from their new job. The obvious response is to no longer give two weeks notice to your old employer but then people talk and you get a reputation as a mercenary while companies look for some level of loyalty. The end result is you get fucked either way
Anyone here who understands Wifi + mobile networks better than I do able to ELI5 why 3/4G is more reliable than 802.11 in so many situations?
Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords – The New Yorker
I don't know why you're being downvoted. The epitome of so-called "fake news" is a newspaper reprinting stats a private corporation provides it in a matter-of-fact tone as the Times did here.

Instead of writing, "More than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs." The Times should've written "Flatiron claims more than 95 percent of its 1,000 graduates there have landed coding jobs." Those two words Flatiron claims are the difference between reporting and restating as fact.
I tried using Go this weekend and basically just abandoned it when I learned that it only had 'generic's for three built-in types and other than that you are forced to essentially dynamic cast everywhere.

I just don't get the appeal. Go seems a lot like what you'd get if you just removed every language feature that anyone has ever complained about; for good reason or not.
दिवाली गुरूवार को बन रहा है विशेष संयोग, पर्स में रख लें बस ये छोटा सा चीज पर्स
If you're interested in non-binned numbers, Business Insider summarized the BLS data [1] a couple years ago. Nationally, the most common occupations are retail and food service workers. You could argue that Amazon is going to put some significant portion of those out of work in the next 20 years.

Note that truck drivers are not in the top 10 chart even though the American Trucking Association estimates 3.5 million truck drivers in the US since BLS puts the number at about 1.7 million. I don't know where the discrepancy comes from.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-jobs-in-america-...
nooface used to have links to a few like this. It's currenttly being domain squatted, so here's the wayback link.

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20071012031858/http://noofa...

I used to like XCruiser.
Yes. And yet they are still with us, and are still with ordinary users too.
> Sure, but let's say I was OK with a single point of failure.

I cannot imagine designing a system for production use where anyone is OK with a single point of failure being a single instance of a machine. I mean if we're playing hypothetical games you don't need a distributed system either, just get one giant instance and put everything on it.
Yeah, plus even if performance is important, the app layer isn't necessarily the best place to optimize. It doesn't really matter how fast you sprint between database calls if the database and its IO dominate your site's performance profile, which they often do...
It would require the world to get together on a war footing to tackle threats to sustainability. Right now. Vanishingly unlikely.

I suspect this is a pattern repeated throughout the universe. Once evolution kicks up a species with the behavioural flexibility to escape ecological limits on its reproductive success, it's likely just a biological inevitability that it will pullulate uncontrollably. It will thus wipe out everything in its path until its own nest is fouled and it dies back.

If the species in question happens to be one that, like ours, has attained that flexibility via higher-order cognition, it will invent justifying rationalisations for its destructive activities (destiny, economic growth etc). But in the end it's just biology.
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“WePay and its employees will operate as Chase's payments innovation incubator in Silicon Valley"

Uh, oh. Does such a thing ever work?
Yeah, I pretty much have that with the Foundation stack (https://github.com/zurb/foundation-emails-template) but it's the MailChimp import that is painful!
This has nothing to do with this US employment. This is a trade 'war'. The issue is dumping, subsidies, and foreign competition. Whether the plane is temporarily assembled in the US or not is irrelevant.
i suppose the missing piece would be to tie it to a specific chromebook to avoid issues with pwnage of the endpoint. they say they require chrome, i wonder if it would be possible to steal the session cookies and run a second session on the same host? (maybe they fingerprint the browser or use some other scheme to ensure that they only talk to the authenticated browser process?) i suppose even if that was the case, if the endpoint was pwned the browser could be modified to make requests in the background on behalf of the pwners.

almost kinda surprising they didn't tie it to special chromebooks that they could sell. not only would it actually mitigate a big problem, i could totally see it also being some kind of a "i'm an important person" status symbol that people would brandish in public. if they gave it a distinct look it would be like a newfangled blackberry or zero halliburton for whatever you call this weird decade.
Everyone seems to say this and also to write really slow websites.
Why do you need to have a face? You certainly don't use smartphones (or any device with a camera or microphone) with your alternate personas. I occasionally want a photo, but I just find something fun online.

And about style. Mirimir only writes in English. I draw on my experience working with Americans, including many from the South. My meatspace identity never uses English online.
For the most part CRDTs of all types solve primarily one problem. The "lost update" problem.

When I worked with CRDTs---even inventing a new one based on R*-trees---they were most useful for objects/structures that needed constant mutating by lots and lots of participants concurrently where it made sense to trade constant coordination/protection overhead for lazy-evaluation/merging. Like in a settlement ledger, or massive leaderboard, or indexing structure, etc.
>Like most of the ICOs I've seen, it is flawed on basic principle and lacks a clear business model, and is ill-positioned for the future.

I thought the idea was extremely straightforward compared to almost every other ICO: you pay tokens to have files hosted for you, and you get paid tokens to host other people's files. Or are you saying that you think they won't manage to implement that?
The province did take a stake when it provided assistance but the stake taken was on the CSeries program end not on BBD itself. And hat stake just got diluted a while lot by the deal with Airbus (going from 49% to less than 20%).
True, but is that a significant amount of people who would be going to boot camps for engineering? The type of people who have the personality to get and succeed at consulting jobs seem to overlap heavily with the type of people who can learn on their own
Yeah. I don't know many people (outside of Manitoba, maybe?) who are buying that load of bovine feces. No one liked the BBD bailout, but we can all see a 300% duty for what it is: naked politicking.
If I were in charge of hiring for law schools it would look very different. There'd be lots of people with practical experience. But I'm not in charge and those that are never hire anyone with practical experience for tenure track jobs. The hire people that went to Yale or Harvard Law School, clerked for a Supreme Court justice, and preferably have a Phd in some allied field.

Do you think this is the beginning of a new trend and from here forward they aren't going to hire like I outlined above?

If we want to know if there was a finger on the scale, we need to look at how things work, not how we would wish them to work.
We send hundreds of thousands of emails every month. We're by no means a high volume sender, but we've learned a lot dealing with a bunch of these email providers.

Years ago we started with AWS SES. The pricing was amazing but there was no useful customer service outlet. If you were sending via a blacklisted IP it could be weeks before you we're seeing inboxes reliability again. It wasn't uncommon for us to devote 20+ man hours per week in dealing with email issues while using AWS.

Next we moved to MailGun. This was a HUGE improvement, however we were having to request to be moved to 'non-blacklisted' ip's on a regular basis. The pricing was great, but we were still having to invest too many hours dealing with email problems. Mostly fielding 'here is why your emails went to the spam filter, or why they never showed up' questions from our customers. You shouldn't need a template explaining to your customers why emails are showing up in spam boxes!

To be fair, MailGun was fairly new at this point but they were VERY responsive. IP's that had been blacklisted did not stay that way for long.

Lastly we moved to PostmarkApp. They were by far the most expensive ($1.50 per 1000 emails) but I only now even think of emails maybe once or twice per month. Emails just get through, no spam lists, no outages, no carrier blocks, it's amazing. Also, if you do send with enough volume you can drastically reduce the price. I believe we pay about $0.25 per thousand emails now that we purchase 5 million at a time.

They could triple their price and I would eat the costs.

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