skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.

Vanilla Ice song, Titanic song (my heart will go on), and Hansen Mmmbop might make you cringe, but people went nuts over those songs for a reason. At the time they were amazing. Php might not be the world's greatest language, but at the time it had what people needed in the way they needed it (easy to build websites). Haskell may be objectively better than Php from a language design standpoint, but there is still a LOT that keeps your average Joe/Jane developer from really learning the language (which string library to use as the seemingly default one is really slow, bad IDE support, unpredictable performance due to laziness, monads...etc). You can tell me Haskell is great all day and on paper I would agree, but due to the simple fact that in reality nobody is using it in production or hiring for it (yes some outliers exist), that tells the average person all they need to know. Where is Haskell on tiobe (yes not a perfect source I'm aware, but good enough)? I don't think it even shows up in the top 50 languages. That means drastically reduced employability to many people.

I'm definitely not bashing Haskell btw. I think it's great, but I could also understand a lot of people shying away for good reason.
I didn’t make any reference to any visual/user benefits/trust from EV certs.

If you’re going to do cross-signing, then you do need to essentially operate your own root program - assuming you want to keep your own root secure. You’ll also then presumably need to serve an additional cert (or two, if you’re keeping your own root offline) in the intermediate chain so it can be validated by the client.
Yeah that’s absolutely true.

The ecosystem of tuned software just isn’t as big on Power.
DOA.

>The reason why I am using it is mainly for marketing purpose.

>I am going to change the term to zero leakage, what do you
guys think?

The author may change it to Uber Super Duper The Best of The Filesystems in the entire Observable and the non observable parallel universes, makes more sense.
> a criminal, by definition, is someone who doesn't care about the law.

That was my point too: that it's not really a good argument to argue against laws because they are uneffective against criminals who don't care about them.

Laws against child abuse are only effective on people who care about child abuse.

Laws against plane hijacking are only effective on people who care about laws on plane hijacking.

What's the difference?
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POWER9 represents a colossal investment in high-performance processors. It'd take a couple dozen billion dollars for RISC-V to get there.
Looks interesting - on my checklist for serious testing.

Currently using cryptomator[0] for encrypting local directories under Linux. Works very well with Nemo (File Manager), browsers (I keep local html pages here..), gedit. Some apps don't like accessing the DAV-based links (geany), while others generally work will enough that I have long-term confidence (ZIM Desktop Wiki = issues only with moving pages around within ZIM itself).

[0] https://cryptomator.org/
Pretty sure that his point in bringing that up isn't to say that what they are doing is unethical from a FOSS point of view, but rather he was making the point that it is entirely within Amazon's technical prowess to make their content available on Android devices
Ok. So finally it's start making sense.
Google blocked Amazon access to https://www.youtube.com/tv. So they set webview url to https://www.youtube.com/ instead.

Correct?
> Criminals can be absolutely sure that citizens won't be able to protect themselves.

How about this: Criminals can expect not to be shot when they try to pull something, thus they don't have to shoot first. If the amount of criminals trying to pull something does not go up or down (which I expect but don't know) the whole criminaling might become less deadly.
I think the reason is that adding new keywords to the language always means the risk of breaking somebody's code.

I can see why a standardization body would want to avoid that, even though I agree wholeheartedly the result is not pretty.
though it's worth remembering that QEMU developers do not have the deep pockets that MS has -- and it is the depth of the pockets, rather than the (alleged) violation that drives law suits and threats.
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I would so love screenshots of that...
Ask HN: Are there arguments against kids playing Clash of Clans?
> Changing traditions causes a lot of entitlement in people who also feel that they should get a special treatment and it seems that there's no end to it. In a democratic society, entitlement from small groups is a societal cancer.

I'd hardly call gay marriage 'special treatment'. It's the opposite: equal treatment. In that regard it's fundamentally different from, say, mandatory wheelchair-access laws.

> They absolutely need to have it called marriage, a word that has had a different religious meaning for hundreds of years.

The emotional baggage of religious conservatives isn't reason enough to deny gay couples an equal right to be officially partnered in the eyes of the law. 'Equal' includes the name of the arrangement.
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Can we do the same things for ourselves? In other words, is there a website that can scrape my identity off of Google/Amazon/Facebook/Twitter. I dont want them using me as their data/content to make a profit.

Or perhaps going forward the solution is simpler. Make a script that generates a false and impossible identity for every website I visit.

Randomize my name,email, birth date, gender, location, ip address, browser cookies for every socket that a browser opens.
To be fair, there are times in bitcoin when two hashes are found consecutively. In this case, who decides which one is the correct hash? The answer is that the network enters a contentious state and the miners compete over the correct hash until a new one is found ad infinitum. The chances of there multiple competing chains becomes virtually zero as time goes on.

The same thing happens with IOTA, except the mining happens on the node sending the transaction (and confirming two others). Competing transactions can happen, and are propagated through the network, but eventually a consensus is reached. I’m only familiar with IOTA in passing, but the biggest flaw I see is of a malicious actor flooding the network with transactions to themselves. I believe the theory is that once the network is big enough this will economically not be feasible, but until then they have the master node. Whether or not this will end up working out, I’m not sure.

Happy to be corrected for any of this. I’m not super familiar with IOTA, this is just my understanding of it.
Very impressive! Works well, nice UI, informative.

After doing a couple exercises what I don't like is the naming convention. Something like "montlymaintenance" or "recommendedby" are just hard to read and type and I'd much rather use snake-case and/or shorter names. Eg. "monthly_maintenance" or "maintenance_per_month" or just "maintenance" if it's explicit enough that it's always per month.

Also to me using shorthands for ids is a bit hmm hmm I mean sure you write them a lot so it's useful to spare your fingers when typing queries but "facid" just seems wrong. Again maybe underscore? "fac_id" or even "facility_id".

Well that's at least my opinion. Also would it be a better practise to use "timestamptz" instead of "timestamp"? And FYI I had to zoom to 125% because the font was so small on my laptop.
>Developers aren't happy, customers aren't happy

I am both of these and could not disagree more.
> ...mining just stop producing new coins but continue being profitable with just the transaction fees?

The profitability of mining never really changes. When rewards for mining increase, profitability briefly increases, but then more miners join, the hash rate goes up, increasing the cost of mining and bringing mining profits back to equilibrium. And vice versa: if rewards for mining were to go down (for example as the block reward reduces according to schedule), the least profitable miners leave, the hash rate goes down, decreasing mining costs and bringing mining profits back to equilibrium.

The hash rate follows total mining rewards (the sum of block rewards and transaction fees). Mining costs follow the hash rate. Mining profitability is the difference between mining costs and mining rewards.
Tim Cook Thinks China Will Allow VPNs to Return to the App Store
> High price of bitcoin resulted in surge of "bitcoin is a fraud" kind of articles to HN.

The higher the price, the more energy miners can profitably use. The environmental aspect of bitcoin is getting attention because the carbon footprint is no longer hypothetical.
Smuggled tobacco is at most 30% of Brazilian market. Was 16% before 2011. If we had 70% of legalized marijuana, we would be much better.

Source: https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/economia/2014/07/04/intern...
Good point.

What do you think about shared components using React SSR?

https://github.com/styfle/react-server-example-tsx
The coming trade war over data – Axios
Sigh. Heh, I completely forgot Amazon sold everything. I thought this was about AWS.

If only something AWS- and Australia- related could bring "excitement, dread and defiance." That would be absolutely absolutely wonderful; getting any sort of hosting or VPS-type service here is nothing short of insane.

For example the only $20/mo offers I'm aware of only offer like 256MB RAM for example. And there is a VERY low bandwidth cap, with extra bandwidth starting at "eye-watering" and skyrocketing to "...wat." pretty quickly.
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Chicago is a terrible example. They may have restrictive gun control laws, but you need only leave the state and it's a very different story.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20151008/NEWS02/15100...
>I also feel very strongly that the web has been completely trapped by coorporate interests.

"corporate interests" haven't trapped the web.

People are choosing to pretend that the web has somehow ceased to exist outside of a few silos, or that javascript has no purpose other than to further corporate or media interests, or that Facebook owns HTML now, but none of that is true. The web is just as open as it's ever been.

Just because mainstream viewing habits tend to converge towards a few corporate owned social media sites does not mean the web has become owned by corporations, it just means people have gotten lazy and don't want to work to discover new content.
I actually like this feature. If I truly don't need a field, I leave it out. If I do need it, I have a clear definition of what it is.

This feels so much easier to work with than untyped scripting languages where I basically get a hash bag and read values out ad-hoc, checking what they are as I go.
SG-MONOS could enable MCUs with 100Mbyte of on chip flash
Have a look at slide 43 here:

https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Wed1345-RISCV-W...

This is from a couple years ago. Even more important (I can't find it right now) is that risc-v compiles code to fewer bytes than x86 and fewer micro-ops as well. With the smaller/simpler instruction set it also requires less area and power, so it may be just a matter of time now.
Could you explain your proposed conversion process?
Apparently "Zero Knowledge" is used in the more modern way; it's encrypted with a password.
Inside the Beltway was always HOV-only during rush hour. It was originally HOV-3; but, was reduced to HOV-2. If the goal was to decrease the number of cars and increase car-pooling, they could have gone back to HOV-3.
> Some of the places where it does not cause big problems (eg Switzerland) have liberal gun laws and high ownership rates.

So you don't consider suicides to be a 'big problem', eh?
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-s-troubling-record-...
Is Amazon Lightsail in Sydney what you're looking for?
They are the major source of drug crime. We make sure to arrest more minorities for drug offences, therefore they must be the source. Ignore any spurious "facts" that show drug use and incarceration rates don't match! It must be the brown people.
Using Logstash, is it possible to queue events in case the machine in question temporarily loses network connectivity?
Not only do they ignore it, they lie.

https://www.skepticink.com/humanisticas/2013/03/23/is-the-io...
States with strict gun regulation primarily have it because of violence that already existed prior to regulation, whether in the form of gang problems, terrorism, or otherwise. You don't call for regulation of something that's not a problem - if nobody ever got killed by a gun, nobody would ever have thought to regulate them.

The question is why Chicago has problems with organised violence and other places don't to the same degree. I think if you look into it, the reasons are significantly more complex than "one place has more legal guns" - the data for that hypothesis doesn't make sense when plotted on a chart.
> It seems to me that some of these discussions are mostly dominated by irrationality.

I have another theory: people are very conservative and rational (with all its limitations) at the society level, doesn't matter if they came from the left or right, deep changes in society have unexpected consequences. It didn't happen with same marriage laws but can happen in many other sectors.
The contentious state in bitcoin is a network fork. Fork A and Fork B. Both have equal chances. It is the next winning miner that decides which fork will be elected. So the responsibility is just pushed to the next guy.

That's not the same with IOTA. Who gets to decide which fork is better? Based on what? Number of txs? That wouldn't work and I think it is obvious why.
James Holmes was mentally ill, stopped his therapy, and wrote journals filled with details about how he was going to kill people.

His perception of reality, his interpretation of threats, and what drove his motivations were are an exceptionally poor basis for establishing public gun policy.
I think in some situations it’s because the work friendships are not true and are based on proximity and convenience. When the work ends there is no longer any proximity so the friendship withers.

I think this may be exacerbated by all the messaging about how work is a “family.” It’s typically not, but can be confusing when a co-worker is no longer part of the family.

Of course the best, most productive companies I worked with had small teams that had relationships outside of work.

But in most cases I’m just being polite to 90% of co-workers because we work together.
Spielman was my algorithms Prof in college and legitimately one of the smartest guys in terms of raw intelligence I’ve ever met. He was a great teacher, able to explain the most complicated of problems in language that I could intuitively understand and get excited about. Before that class I had a lot of problems with the math sides of CS (still definitely do), but he really made the subject approachable for me. I started the class getting C’s, but after visiting his office hours nearly weekly, by the end of the semester I was getting 100s on my problem sets.

That class, and the way he taught it, convinced me that advanced math, whilst hard for me, is not beyond my grasp or really that of anyone. It’s just a matter of breaking problems down into manageable chunks and recognizable sub-problems, a skill at which Spielman is especially adept.

I knew he was smart then (he had just received a $500k McArthur “genius” grant), but reading this article really put into perspective how effective he is and how lucky I was to have him as a professor. His same skill for breaking down problems that helped me succeed in his class seems to be the same skill that enabled him to solve this problem.
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The other hash function they use is called Kerl a homonym of Curl.
Assuming you mean “dependent types in F#” rather than “F#”, after reading the article, I concluded that these are, in fact, not dependent types, but just so-called “smart constructors”. Since “dependent types in F#” don't exist, it doesn't make sense to ask whether they're useful or useless.
I've worked on both sides of this, in both PR and as a journalist. What you're describing is perfectly ethical - as a PR I, of course would send journalists specific pitches tailored to what I thought were their interests, and make sure that they had all the material they needed to do minimal work.

As a journalist, I loved PRs who sent me interesting stories pitched at my interests and publication. Yes please - send them in. That didn't mean that I didn;t then do my job; speak to competitors, treat the pitch with a fair degree of scepticism, etc.

What's being described in the article is quite different - deliberate corruption of the editorial process.
I think this is a continuing trend that’s been slowly growing over the past 20 years. Fortunately, it’s a lot easier to get a job in tech without networking (job boards) than in writing.

Seeing an org outsourced isn’t new, but it’s always new when it happens to you. Seems odd that this writer hasn’t tracked this trend.
Coutts: Bitcoin backed by 'nothing but sentiment,' no plans to invest
Paul thinks Christians shouldn't marry http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/marriage.html
If Amazon isn't willing to sell Google products, Google could be unwilling to show search results leading to Amazon ...

This battle could be so entertaining that you don't need YouTube or Amazon videos at all ;-)
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> These topics transcend political identity.

Yup, that's why you had to go with 'hurrrrr Trump!'
The annoying things is that all the use cases you just described could be handled locally (over wifi/home-nework) without Alexa being connected to the wider web.

This is all I want; give me the option to not have the assistant connect to the web but still work in a more limited capacity for home automation and to interact with the local files/programs on the computers in my home.
Artificial Intelligence and Chinese Power
Who said anything about offline nodes accepting payments? I wouldn’t expect transactions to even be remotely possible offline.
My perspective as FIDE master who has played Ruy Lopez Exchange type of positions for 30+ years.

9. Qe1 is a pretty normal maneuvering move

13. Ncxe5??! looks like a major howler.

Ask 100 strong chess players and 99 of them would completely ignore it.
You are giving up a piece for two pawns in an open position and black has no real weaknesses. There is no real basis for a sacrifice.

This shouldn't work. The crazy thing is that Stockfish almost makes it work.

It is the kind of move you play when you absolutely must win and must win now.

The only reason Stockfish considered it is because of white pawn on a5 giving additional tactics in breaking up black pawn chain with a6 a couple of moves down. With pawn on a4 Ncxe5 wouldnt be worth attempting.

The crazy thing is that being such a bully almost worked!

At move 28. White looks very solid, with 3 perfect pawns for the piece + black has horrible weaknesses.
29. g3 is a bit suspect but the next super computer move is

31. Qxc7 this has to be losing but it is a typical computer bully move.

Most strong human players would prefer to defend h3 hole with Kg2 (on Qh5 f5 looks fine).

The idea is that black's white square bishop is boxed in with white pawns.

There must be a concrete reason why Stockfish did not play Kg2.

Overall the impression one gets is of very "human" play by Alpha and ultra aggressive play by Stockfish.

EDIT: so extremely impressive play by Alpha but a bit suspicious aggression by Stockfish.
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he mentions that this is not a transcript.
A blockchain is a DAG. Just one with no branches. Like, if in using Git you never branched but only used `master` for everything: that's a blockchain.
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Switzerland is proof that gun ownership and homicides are not necessarily related. Education and intelligence are probably the main factors here. So if there is a measurable relation between the two, it says more about the sad state of the society where the tests were conducted.
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Top 10 sites are not using EV because they don't wan't to meet the expectations of EV-level trust.

If twitter compromises your account details, you can change your passwords. If your (E-validated) electronic banking service compromises your account details, you can sue.

EV is laborious for social reasons (and some technical reasons ofcourse, nobody likes ASN1 extensions etc.), your effort to secure and validate a service is proportional to your stake in the transaction.
You can definitely get cheap MIPS machines, I have a MIPS board in my robot that only costs $5 in bulk.
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Technocracy implies a belief that a sophisticated and well-enforced set of top-down policies - which aren't tied to any other vague elements of leadership or political maneuvering - are the best way to rule societies. Not that the people at the top themselves have the know-how to craft and execute them. Just as one can be a AGW proponent by trusting scientists without knowing how to read climatological data or sequester even a single cc of carbon dioxide.
GP asked about relation of gun laws vs death numbers. You are pretending to answer that, but you weasel in the change from 'general violence' to 'gun violence'. Of course if guns are more easily available, there will be more gun violence, but that's not what GP asked.
When will Amazon build something to compete with youtube?
I do intend to answer this, but need to find time because it's not a short answer.
People fly all the time, that's also bad for the environment. Don't do it...