skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
«banks aren't always open»

There you have it. In an always connected world, it's practically an anachronism to have to wait the "next business day" to send a wire when you missed the cutoff time of the day :-/

Plus: irreversibility of txns, escaping corrupt governments seizing funds, escaping inflation, etc.
> Would you want that?

That's a dangerous question to ask. By framing it that way, you turn a clear cut matter of overstepping professional boundaries into a personal question.
As you well know, you can't cross into this kind of personal attack here. I don't want to ban you, so please fix this and stop doing it, regardless of how wrong or unpleasant the other person is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> HN is probably mainly a place of realism

Not far above that comment is the following:

Pretty much everyone who is not part of the elite ruling class is influenced by the Dunning–Kruger effect. We all think we have it figured out, and that there's no way they could pull the wool over my eyes like they do to those rubes, and don't realize that we are those rubes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15937896
I'm new here; I was expecting to see a page full of comments addressing your final question, "Where is the outrage about that?" But no-one mentioned it at all! Well, I guess that answers that question. (Although raises a few more.)
Would you please stop violating the site guidelines and posting ideological rants to HN? We've asked you several times, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15023452 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14334771.

If you can't control yourself we're going to ban you, not because of your views but simply because you didn't control yourself. Please control yourself.

It might help to re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
In Florida, I pay $20/mo for 10mbps cable and it includes 5 cellphone lines w/ unlimited voice+text and 100mb mobile data... $12/month for each additional gb or $45 for unlimited data, shared among the 5 cellphones. https://www.xfinity.com/mobile/plan

To keep the $20/mo, I will have to call them after 1 year of service.

In Canada, isn't there a data cap on your fiber internet? I think I have 1tb/mo here for my cable internet.
> Please give examples.

Mandatory gender quotas. Women-only lectures, events and benefits.

> What exactly do you propose was Damore's original intent?

Why does it matter. Thats not the point.
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I didn’t say it was logical.
Unlike the USA, where all of our TV content is fresh and new.... like we have Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Law & Order: LA, Law & Order: True Crime
NEWS FLASH TO ALL. Companies never care about you and your cause. They care about their cause. Never make that mistake. Google,Netflix,Facebook... Name your favorite company, they only care about surviving another day and/or increasing their influence. Sometimes their cause and yours will be the same but that does not mean it will always happen. That's why Netflix doesn't care anymore. It's not in the interest anymore.
Oh deer, macaque.
I love this write up, thanks for sharing. This is a very clearly structured overview of most of the basic formalism I remember from undergrad physics. I'll bookmark this as a refresher if I ever decide to do physics again. That said though, I'm not convinced that I would have been able to follow this document if I had not already been familiar with the formalism. Though the assumptions are generally stated, I suspect their implications are not clear to those approaching the subject for the first time.
> Had Damore been a woman, she would have to be fired too.

I seriously doubt that. The public would generally be conflicted about crucifying a woman in the name of women, it would have not arised easily to public knowledge.

To deepen the understanding of the situation, men and women withing google might have shown public agreement of some level with the essay and they havent been fire. People have done threats and attacks of many degrees on Damore because of that essay, which would have been a firable offense in any other circumstance.
”What exactly are Uber's options in a city where the scam is supported by politicians?”

The management could always open up a pizza company.

If your business model sucks because it depends on regulators giving you a break, that’s on you. No business has the right to be profitable, that’s how capitalism works.

If Uber however lawfully changes the regulations with the help of the court system, they need to understand they aren’t a special snowflake that are the only ones allowed in on the market.
Adults have trouble with all this stuff because mostly they don't learn it at all, even with a liberal arts education or any of the other things you mention. The entire rationalism movement is essentially founded based on the fact that ostensibly educated people don't realize how badly their brains work by default.

The greatest superpower we have as humans is that we have the ability to introspect, and second guess our immediate responses in light of what we've learned. That allows us to jump to conclusions much quicker on shoddy evidence, because we can course correct later as we gather more, and it's super effective as a learning strategy. Learning how to better correct our initial hypotheses helps us perform even better, but it requires us to actually study the things that humans tend to get wrong. Most education, professions, and life experiences do not support that goal, so it's an easy win if you go outside the system to do so.
In the same vein as, "Charlie don't surf" ?
I agree -- this paints a much clearer picture of why the behavior in question was inappropriate.

It reminds me very much of behavior my girlfriend has experienced as a public high school teacher. I could give you an entire laundry list of comments and advances male coworkers have made to her, ranging from mildly questionable to pretty creepy. It really makes me sympathize with Lum, and I find what she's describing here very believable.
Great story about a VR introspective
Reminds me of https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
If John wants to pay Sally, but the cheap/practical way is to use the existing path of channels through Bob and Carol and whatever, then it’s not peer-to-peer anymore! I don’t get why this fundamental architecture change is so appealing to some people.
I've never used Uber. Lyft has been cheaper and it doesn't have all this garbage attached to it.
The loop stream detector can’t handle a call/ret in the loop.
Amazing how Yankees are annoying g the whole world...
Why these friendly robots can’t be good friends to our kids
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It's different because regardless if your node is online or not, venmo's servers can still accept payments on your behalf, and it's presumed that taking venmo's servers offline would be considerably harder than taking yours offline.
Actually, according to comments on one of the Bugzilla reports about this issue (#1424977), the original bug implementing the feature is:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003

As you'll see, this bug is marked as private (at least as of writing this comment). So, as a matter of fact, it does not appear that even the most diligent user had the option of reviewing what's going on. So far, it has not even been disclosed who among the Firefox peers signed off on this change; that information appears to be private as well.
The big thing you’re missing is that the theater shows new movies. Also, iTunes rentals are usually more than that.
Yes, but for hiring or tenure the researchers are always being evaluated by others in the field, so there would be a human sanity check.

Plus in practice as others have alluded to it's usually Prof. Alice's lab, where grad students Bob, Cindy, Dave and Evelyn each pursue their own corner of the research, and they're all on each paper with the first author designated appropriately.
While this may be possible, I think you are drastically misrepresenting your own situation and the rest of Canada.

If you're phone plan is legit, I'd like to see what it is. My bet is that you're paying Rogers $40/month for some tiny amount of data over LTE[1].

Secondly, this is like saying "I live in a super rich suburb and never see homeless people around. Must not be an issue."

Now, I don't actually think that your intention was malicious, but come on. Vancouver is the rich suburb of Canada when it comes to anything.

Cheap fibre in Vancouver is more or less something you luck into by getting into a new and super expensive condo or hopping on an intro offer from Shaw or Telus.

[1] https://www.rogers.com/consumer/wireless/smartphone-plans?ip...

Edit: I'd be so bold as to suggest that even while Vancouver does have some options for cheaper internet, the median cost per person would be notably higher than the rest of the country.
After Google, Facebook, Twitter et al un-personed people for their beliefs, my trust in them declined a great deal.

Thus when these same corporations yelled about "Net Neutrality" I was left wondering what the real deal was.
My perception is that the appearance of strength is intertwined with social standing in America. (I'm not saying it isn't elsewhere, just that it is here.)
You're absolutely correct on the video editing front.

The ability to work on full res 4k/8k video (in realtime) without generating down-scaled proxies will be a huge time-saver for editors in addition to saving money during post.
Every time there is something mentioning Bitcoin Cash or the scaling issues with Bitcoin Core, the same people show up in these threads attacking everyone and spamming the comments with the same arguments over and over. (I’m not going to name names but look through these comments and see some of the posters calling Bitcoin Cash “bcash” and posting 30+ comments.)

Can we please not turn this forum ito the childish name calling of r/Bitcoin? There are good arguments for and against the two main Bitcoin forks and I’d like HN to be a place where these can be discussed without name calling and personal attacks.
An assistant.
How is an ABNF grammar specification somehow not "machine friendly"?!
Yea I gave up on eth wallets as well. I just ended up dumping my coins onto coinbase and hope they don't get hacked or something... I looked into hot wallets, but so many people have theirs keys stolen somehow. Figured it was last risk to leave it on an exchange.
Sadly that bright line is pretty dim in some companies. As soon as there is one "hard-to-fix" transgression, the organization finds a way to internally justify it. The first transgression makes additional transgressions feel easier.

This is often sold to staff under the guise of "but everyone does it" and "there's no way to be 100% compliant/legal".
Who doesn't enjoy a nice back scratch? Humans do, domestic animals do, bears do, this guy https://imgur.com/gallery/HllqVPF does. I imagine so do the deer.
A faster implementation for the browser / browser IDEs
I was more using that as an example to separate speech from the person saying it.

In terms of speech that offends, we can only control what we say, not what people think about it, nor whether their thought is reasonable. Therefore, punishing someone for what they say because it offended someone seems pretty illogical, unless you can make a damned good case, based on context, that it was probably going to offend.

A simple way to resolve that question is to ask the person who said it, "Why did you say that?" If they have a response that is not "because I wanted to offend" that is also reasonable, then I'd suggest the onus falls at least equally on the person who claims offense.
Texas is very welcoming to people, we just ask that you don't turn Texas into another version of the place you left.

Austin and Houston are some very diverse cities, and that's awesome, but the way people vote in those cities could turn Texas into a place that's like the places that people wanted to leave.
Maybe a nit, but I'm sure at least the female of the species observed something within a few months, rather than 9. Sure birth by 9, but I'm sure they felt hormonal changes, physical changes etc which culminated with bearing... so not quite a 9 month gap.
I'm not trying to say that if they memorize some definitions they'll have a deep understanding of the human condition. I'm saying that by simply normalizing that level of analysis and understanding of human behavior, we can begin shaking off a lot of unproductive cultural baggage. It helps to know to categorize the ineffective behavior you experience as pathological as opposed to attribution to gender, race, religion, political persuasion, or other culturally-encouraged fallacies.

Also, it's not like being better able to understand people is an unattractive concept to kids: most of them naturally attempt to make sense of the world, and helping them internalize the completely natural multi-faceted fallibility of humans (including themselves) will pay off enormously in their future interactions with people.
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Our biggest advocacy group Open Media would say otherwise. Our regulations are constantly under threat by the big ~3 telecom companies.

https://openmedia.org/en/ca

Edit: Maxime Bernier, in his tweet, creates a false dichotomy between government regulation and more competition. Yes we need more competition, but no we don't need less regulation unless that regulation is a major contributor to getting started. Now granted, I don't know a lot about getting started in telecom, but I suspect there isn't legislation in place that actively discourages new players.
I suspect (mind, suspect!) that approach wouldn't work here in Norway because of the (generally) different geography; in most of the UK, the main problem would be that you got too far away from the transmitter site for proper reception, in which case overlapping like you describe would work fine.

Over here, multipath interference is the main problem with FM - signals bouncing off any number of mountainsides before arriving at the receiver, causing a signal transmitted at time T to arrive at [T+t1], [T+t2]...[T+tn] at the receiver, with no way for the receiver to tell them apart as they are all on the same frequency. Garbled mess ensues.

Hence, rather than a few huge transmitter sites, we rely on thousands of smaller sites, the smallest of which used to operate at 200mW, IIRC.
Hold on, let me promote it in troll chat for a bit. Okay, now I'm fully invested in your scamcoin. When does it moon and when do I buy my Lambos?

Ah shoot. I thought we were all doing the thing where we get rich
I've been playing through the Metal Gear series in release order, starting the MSX games, currently on Peace Walker.

It took me until 3 to actually think Kojima was decent at storytelling, and then 4 got me onboard the "Kojima is a genius" train. Metal Gear's backdrop is a fever dream about the military industrial complex, but the storytelling is always much more focused on exploring themes and ideals than it is dedication to realism.

FWIW, there has been a significant increase in the quality of his work. Solid 1 was kind of puerile and hamfisted in its approach to its themes, in a kind of "terrible shounen anime" kind of way. Solid 2 was a really amazing prediction of the way surveillance works in a modern society, but was needlessly obtuse. Solid 3 was way easier to digest, and Solid 4 was sublime. But neither really work in isolation from the first two, and slogging through them definitely takes a lot of patience, so I see where you're coming from.

I guess the way I'd summarize is: a lot of people talk about abandoning setting details for other motives (e.g. there are monsters in the witcher, so why can't there be a sizeable black population), but Kojima is one of the few I'd trust to actually pull it off - I just need it to not be ~1999 Kojima.
Moxie has made it pretty clear through the way Signal operates than Moxie's worldview is one where our feudal lords know better than mere serfs can ever hope to. I'm not at all surprised that yet again trust roots are taken out of the hands of end users.
really an hour? maybe inside the country, internationally is days and more expensive of course depending of the bank, then you add the bank commission for having an account with them, all the paperwork, and all the time, you don't really own the money, the bank owns the money.
Wow. Another ever-more-crazy story out of the US. As the page was loading, I first thought the story's title was "Democracy Dies in Darkness" but then realized that's the Washington Post's motto...
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The age of Tantric bullshit all over again. Science and finance became a contest of idiotic sophisticated models, similar to ancient cosmology and pseudo-philosophy. Piling bullshit upon bullshit and trying to overshout everyone else. All model-based science is such contest of tantras made out of math and probability.

Now everyone is inventing a new breed of digital turnips (not forgetting to secure a middle man position for themselves) as if this is anything but hype. My block-chain based turnips are better than yours.

Laws of economics are bound by the laws of physics. It is merely the principle of energy efficiency at work and related medium of exchange and social constructs. If something grows out of nothing it is not economics anymore. It is something else. Mass hysteria. Social momentum. Lifecicle of a meme. Whatever it is.

Crypto currencies to finance are what cat pictures are to the internet. One could monetize can I haz hamburger meme, but there is nothing substantial behind it. So are crypto currencies.
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Please don't post rage rants to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To riff on your concept, I met a woman in SF who was signing up for a lease at an apartment building. Knowing that she'd just moved from the midwest, and therefore not used to living in a big city, I asked her how parking was. "Oh, I don't have a spot", she said, "but the apartment comes with a subscription to Luxe (the on-demand valet service)". A year later, Luxe went out of business - now I wonder how her parking situation is.
That narrative is a bit tiresome, since it's so obviously false.

The Bitcoin developers (not "Bitcoin Core") had just implemented a block size increase after years of discussion.

The segwit2x intiative didn't take part in this. They didn't bother even writing a specification, let alone a proposal or take it through public discussion.
> JUST TO DELETE A FOLDER?!

The standard solution to that is compeltely anticlimactic. Just run the disk cleanup program (diskmgr), and there’ll be an option to remove “previous windows installations”.

It IS possible to manually delete it, but you would need to do the “take ownership” thing; being an admin user does not immediately give you permission to override security on files owned by TrustedInstaller, but you COULD still take ownership.

That being said, the last time I checked it wasn’t easy to get the “take ownership” thing work recursively.

It seems to me that under the hood, Windows is actually reasonably good. But the user experience had been slowly going downhill for a while since Windows 8, even though IMO it’s still okay-ish, despite Windows 10’s many annoyances.
The Federalist Papers were campaign propaganda for the ratification of the Constitution; a comment in the Federalist Papers is not a basis for rejecting the possibility that the position put forward in that comment is a public rationalization rather than the real motivation, any moreso than would be the case for any argument put forward in any other work of political campaign propaganda.
Hi, I'm like a 10-year-in loser who wants to strike it rich with bitcoin. Please describe in detail how I and only I can become a new-money juggernaut in finance. Ty
Marketing or not, I got the game and played in one sitting. Initially I did not realize how it was getting solved. Soon the creator’s puzzle techniques started becoming evident (repetitive) and then it was enjoyable. Became easier though.
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An Uber driver can afford a Tesla??
Yes it's overblown. You can expect that to happen with any political argument.

But I still haven't been able to find any convincing argument to give these monopolies the ability to make people's internet worse in subtle ways. I expect the actual effects of getting rid of net neutrality will be buffering problems, more expensive internet services like Netflix, and small annoyances that won't bother non-technical people.
Errr... is "dom.enable_performance" really a privacy setting?

Doing someone online searching now, not seeing an explanation for it. There is one other HN post though, also mentioning it in a privacy context, but not further info either. :/
a few support full anonymity today.

And of those, one more than others.
the definition of fact ends when the lines starting with fac end. they aren't doing something nuts like mixing up lines of a function definition if that's what you're getting at.

also, this is syntactic sugar for a case statement.. and you couldn't just use those.
Anti idiot actually
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It might increase my resale value, if most buyers are like me (not commercial owners who always supercharge.) Which they are.
Killing net neutrality has brought on a new call for public broadband
These are my feelings exactly. I run a small, all-remote web company with six developers. When I'm hiring, I'm looking at least 80% at cover letter, 20% at resume. And even that 20 is mostly just to make sure they have the basic competence to put together a resume, and to check experience and education to get an idea of salary range. Most of the decision to interview is based on cover letter and the answer to our fizzbuzz-style application question. (And then all of the decision on whether to hire is based on a series of realistic coding assignments, designed to mimic the kind of work that would be done on the job, each graded against a defined rubric.)

Regarding cover letter advice, the main thing I would suggest is to try and demonstrate that you're aware of what the company does, and specifically interested in that position. Cover letters where you've just copy/pasted the name of the company and the position, then inserted a few relevant points, are painfully easy to spot. Far more effective is a letter that is really focused around your fit for that specific position. And, at least for me, it's a plus if you also clearly acknowledge anything that would be considered a weakness (lack of specific experience for instance,) and then make the case for why you would be a good choice regardless. Once again, this demonstrates you've thought about the company's specific needs and how you will address them.

Finally, be aware of who you're writing to. If possible, try to get a sense of the company culture before writing the letter, and tailor your style to fit. If you know the company you're applying to is small and/or relatively informal (and possibly even regardless), you can stand out from all the generic letters by allowing a bit of personality to come through.