skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do all miners [eventually] agree on the value of a block? Yes? That's a consensus.

It's amazing how many things you got wrong in such a short statement. First,
a program can't say when this "eventually" is. Then the "agree" part is wrong,
too, because it can change just like that (because of forks), which even
changes the history, not just a single transaction or group of them. And then
there's also "all miners" part, which even read as customary universal
quantifier ("all" meaning "most of them") falls apart if you remember that
this needs to be assessed by a program with limited knowledge.

It's not a consensus in any computer related meaning that one could think of.
I don't know about you, but I like how systemd can restart my processes if they die. sysvinit is ancient; time to move on.
It’s similar in the U.S. people going six figures in debt for degrees that qualify them for $30k jobs is a problem, but that is a dirt-simple ROI analysis.

Forcing nearly everyone into the college-bound track is a huge problem. Politically, vocational training is deemed classist or racist, and such utopianism creates a sad disservice to lots of young people who could be learning skilled trades and setting themselves up for comfortable living.

Just like everyone at the university level is not med-school material, not every high schooler is college material.
That's an unrelated thing.

By having CDN assets on a separate domain, you not only easily avoid accidentally sending any cookies along to the other domains (so if your CDN gets owned at least they aren't getting user credentials or session cookies), but it's also a small performance optimization as there are less things sent in the headers.

The important distinction is that the user should never ENTER any information onto those domains directly. They should be for displaying static resources only, so there is no need to "build trust" for them.
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Yeah, this thing about paying to publish papers in open access journals is really stupid. It seems to me like a compromise that governments have landed on with publishers in order to keep them in business. I would prefer a model whereby governments fund open access repositories and editorial workflows and simultaneously mandate publishing in open access repositories. The incumbent publishing corporations should not be a part of this new arrangement, their business model pulls in the opposite direction.
My knee jerk reaction here was "ugh, more consolidation of the media by US mega corporations." But then I noted that Fox is owned by News Corp, which owns the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.
Most of the FX Networks-owned content has been gone from Netflix for a while; it's been on Hulu or Prime Video.
> Just because something changes often doesn't mean it is unstable.

When you do a project contract, you surely want to define the exact standard with respect to which the application is to be developed against, so that one can decide whether the reason for something looking wrong is a browser bug (I can work around it - but it will cost extra money) or indeed a bug in my code that the customer found (i.e. I have to work extra hours for no money because I did bad work).

To be able to decide such questions is a central purpose of existence for standards.
I disagree. While non-vectorized operations are slow in Matlab, this is the first thing you'll find with a quick Google search. Every language has some performance pitfalls (ok, Matlab has many). Knowing the basics of how to write performant programs in your language of choice is a user problem.

I've seen plenty of non-performant C code. And that's one of the most performant languages you can code in, if you know what you're doing.
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> I think EU should make it easier for US citizens who get any job here to move over.

I'm pretty sure that any employable american can achieve that without hard efforts, and AFAIK most welfare is granted to salaried people, except for unemployment allowance. Same with education, some countries are equal (very low) tuitions no-question-asked.

For hardly employable 'hard worker' american, I'm pretty sure that are plenty of hard working immigration candidate to fill that. And there's no reason that low wages jobs will end better life condition for americans than others, and end up to the same problems that often comes with poverty : crime, social resent and injustice, just like home.
If you think that americans will work harder and paid better that an struggling immigrant, I think you are highly delusional, low wages hard just enough to live, and nobody will pay more for the same job.
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Sadly, in the US, we don't teach ROI. That comes in your 2nd year of college. Its a trap!
What are the tax implications for something like this? I assume some or all of the donation itself could be a write off, but isn’t he subject to income tax on the initial gains?
Except we’re talking about private for-profit companies. Sort of changes the calculus a little, I think. I don’t have sympathy for either company here.
Why sharing Daily will make a difference?
Source 2 is another matter altogether. Valve doesn't share it with third-party developers at all, whether you pay or not. There were plans back in 2015 to make it free with the condition that any game made with it has to be published to Steam non-exclusively, but that still hasn't happened yet.
My previous mortgage company was a subsidiary of CENLAR. So the corporate branding of the monthly bill listed x&y.com, the actual owner of the company was cenlar.com, and the mortage was paid at loanadministration.com, which until recently had minimal branding even tying it back to cenlar, let alone the company I ostensibly have the direct relationship with.
This just speaks from lack of experience: that's exactly what it means in the world of software. Do you not understand what specification means? "Specific" is even in the word.

You can't compare it to browsing on Amazon, because functionality doesn't just go missing and literally break buying things; functionality doesn't just suddenly get added and people rely on the exact font size and copy of a particular header in the men's clothing department to be precisely 2em and "Men’s Clothing," and now that it's changed to 1.5em and "Men's Winter Fashion" a third-party app can't render the header in an appropriate width size nor find the clothes to begin with.
I don't know and am just guessing, but...

https://medium.com/@evawxiao/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-softwa...

"The scope of the Great Firewall has grown along with the internet. Sadly, it’s a highly adaptable and robust system. In terms of software development, it means that a growing number of services are permanently or sporadically blocked.
One of those is NPM or Node Package Manager, an important tool for Node.js. To access NPM in mainland China, you’ll have to find workarounds like using a Chinese mirror. Another is Github, a popular version control and source code management tool that is occasionally blocked or at least throttled to be excruciatingly slow."
It's not a hostile takeover right? Totally voluntary. Can't force competition, right?

(actually they can and some takeovers esp. in europe are blocked to avoid monopolies)
They spent 52 billion on the merger.
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There are many cases like that. How was that with protocol generics and collections? When can it remove ARC calls?

> It's C vs C++ all over again...

From a performance POV, it seems to be a lot worse than C++. Much less baseline performance, less predictability, and almost no way to get to peak performance.
Gas exports have been frequently used as leverage against transit countries, but not against destination countries. It wouldn't per se surprise me that it's just about cutting the middleman out (cf. nordstream).
I'm not sure you can learn much from the success or failure of a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.
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Fox Sports is not part of the deal. Neither is Fox News.
You know Disney released Pulp Fiction and Scream right?
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"There are HN commenters that I think have more reliable takes on what's happening in the computer underground than Schneier."

Can you name them?
Serious Crypto is strong, and JP Aumasson is the real deal. I might still want both Cryptography Engineering and Serious Crypto; Serious Crypto is far more detailed and up-to-date, but Cryptography Engineering has valuable perspective on a lot of nuts-and-bolts stuff.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921692
It confirms that american businesses can apply pressure on a geopolitical and diplomatic level, which is scary.

Laws should apply to their own countries. If a foreign business can influence how the law is applied, it should be perceived as the US doing things that should be out of its reach. That's something empires do, and if they keep doing it, it will taint a bad image on the US.
Why? Because you need a job, and moving to a new place is expensive.

Who do you think serves you lattes at Starbucks? Millionaires? Low paying work needs to be done, even in SF.
Also worth noting that Fox still owned the rights to the first Star Wars movie. It didn't come with the Lucasfilm acquisition:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tangled-rights-could-...
Well, they used to.
My understanding is that Deep Learning is a type of Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence is the idea that a machine performs similarly or better than a human for a specific task. Artificial General Intelligence is when a machine performs similarly to a human in many different kinds of tasks.
The X-Men franchise is the 7th highest grossing movie franchise of all time, bringing in almost 5 billion USD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films. Add that to the 13.5 billion for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and you can see how valuable this can be.
I do both.

On my more serious projects, I check in dependencies. My mantra here is "after a git clone and with the compiler, it must build without internet connection".

The size of my repos ranges from 5 MiB to 1800 MiB (though the later also stores a shitload of archival data for reasons I won't detail), the later one is still very manageable.

On my more "fun" repos I don't commit deps since I think them less important until it turns serious.
Aristotle said there are 3 types of friendship but only one we should strive for
The author is actually claiming something more serious than the title suggests: "...all the concerns added together cast reasonable doubts about the current scientific validity of the main claims."

To me, what follows does not seem to justify this claim, but it is not my field. In addition, some of his arguments seem to be beside the point - for example, he asks "Does AlphaZero completely learn from self-play?", and while saying generally, yes, he objects that encoding the rules was a non-trivial matter. While that certainly seems to be true, it does not seem to have much bearing on the claim that AlphaZero apparently learned to win through self-play. That, to me, seems to be its singular achievement: the absence of human-written tactics and strategy (unless the encoding of the rules somehow prefigured them, which is not being claimed here, and which seems highly unlikely.)
The Beauty of Developing Sorting Algorithms for the GPU
Clearly not enough are leaving because otherwise the pay will naturally rise.
From the inside, it feels as though the machine is breaking down.

Some easy to point out problems today: hiring freeze for a large swath of the company; the loss of the very-controversial feedback system[0]; changing leadership principles to remove 'vocally self-critical'; anti-customer behavior like removing Chromecasts.

The biggest change that I see is the bureaucracy taking over. A metrics driven company has become a game of who can lie the best with statistics. The leadership principles aren't nearly as important as making your numbers look good.

When problems happen, mechanisms like Cause-Of-Error reports, previously used to solve the root problem, become weapons to use against rivals. Blame is the name of the game, not solving problems. And of course you can't make any change without spending a day writing a request to make the change and getting 5 levels of managers to approve it.

I think it will get worse. I think it's what will cause Amazon to eventually fail. A body growing fat and old, losing it's ability to fight off real cancers.

[0] It was sometimes misused, but the anytime feedback system and end of year feedback helped me grow as a human. I miss it.
Good read. Same goes with google. Google has self replicating talent machine built up which builds the talent machine recursively.
You can't declare failure before a game is even released.
Surely, the role of the embassy of a power, ruled by a oligarchy of merchants and aristocrats, it's very different from the expected role of the embassy of a democratic federal republic.

Just joking. As you say, business as usual.
Sure but they are using the copyright to insist on attribution, which undermines the argument that they are simply against using the law. If they really didn't care they'd use CC0.

And in the quoted statement they are not saying the W3C should improve their process for forking WHATWG's work. They are saying the W3C shouldn't fork their work at all. So despite their specifically chosen license (with easy to understand layman's summary) are WHATWG against all forking? Or are they simply against the W3C?
I do, yes. Disney took incredible heat and a number of shareholders bailed as a result of Miramax releasing Pulp Fiction, and Weinstein had to fight for it, if I recall my film history. Disney also refused to allow Miramax to release Dogma, which is history that is guiding my surprise. That studio is part of the reason they started being more careful, and they finally divested Miramax in 2010.

It’ll be interesting to see how they handle their portfolio going forward.
Might be illegal, due to zoning and building code.
Fox continues to own News and Sports. However rumors are that Murdoch may also be shopping other parts of what remains. Disney gets Movies including Avatar and XMen, etc, 300 other channels, production studios, controlling stake in Hulu and for some bizarre historical reason, now own the rights to Star Wars IV, A New Hope.
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Why should we read what he writes or take him seriously? Is he another kiddie with a blog or someone with intellect and accomplishments which command respect?
Wasn't HTML 5 supposed to be the last explicit version and then it would be a living standard without changing the version number?
I did not down vote it, but I would assume that it is because the comment has no sustenance, just claiming they will be overcome offers no proof that they will be overcome. I could claim that they wont, and it would be just as valid of a statement. At the moment we don't know how they will be overcome. All proposals on the table either lead to possible centralization or still don't increase the transaction volume enough for blockchain tech to become a truly global currency that can handle all payment transactions happening in the world at any moment. While I agree it will most likely be overcome in time, I can offer no proof of that, so my opinion has very little value in the context of this conversation.
These microscopic glass shells are supercharging solar power UK
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Good point, thanks. I suppose that's just the nature of it.
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TL;DR: "They should just move." is a naive response to the issue presented.

Children and family/friends who are around to support you and also sometimes watch your children are often a reason. Could someone move themselves and their two children? Yes, it would cost $300 (to start). Then you'd need to find a place where all three of you could live before you've actually even found a job. This short-term place to live would likely be a motel, meaning you'd likely be unable to cook and spending more on food to feed yourself and your family. Then you need to figure out child care because you've lost the support network of family (and friends) who were living near you.

Physical mobility, moving from state to state, in this country is often much harder than the simplistic viewpoint people seem to give it.

If your perspective is that of a single individual with no dependents (even if you're poor) then you're going to think that physical mobility is relatively easy and everyone should be able to do it.

If your perspective is that of an individual with dependents then you're going to think that physical mobility could quickly become a challenge if you can't afford the upfront costs and short to mid term costs after you've moved and need to "settle" yourself.

There are a lot of, "Sure, but..." responses that usually come about with this type of discussion. "Sure, but why couldn't they temporarily go into debt? Their long-term earnings would put them in a better place eventually." and "Sure, but why aren't they applying for food and/or housing assistance or other programs at the location they're planning to move to." or "Sure, but why couldn't they have family watch their kids while they go to the new place and get setup."

The reality is those perspectives are from someone educated enough to understand economics, government programs and how the system works, and someone with a supportive well functioning family. All of which someone working a food-service job is unlikely to have.
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> What makes those malls so... relevant?

One factor not mentioned so far is that they are large employers of low skilled labor. If malls disappear, this will be one less employment option.
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is asking small businesses to submit their concept for how they could build a web based platform so the US Government can leverage free lance software talent for rapid software development like industry already can. To find the USSOCOM announcement, follow the link and click on “SBIR BAA 2018.1” link. There are four separate topics listed by SOCOM. Look down the page and find the USSOCOM document link. Look for the last topic, “SOCOM18-004 Rapid Acquisition Demonstrator“. Then look for the topic description, about four pages into the WORD document. You can also find additional info about the SBIR program on Wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Business_Innovation_Rese...
This is just them investing $90M in bitcoin right? To the moon...
What‘s the alternative (for web apps)?
A lot of this kind of thing is due to upgrading LLVM, which I'd imagine should cause similar variance with clang, but maybe not!
There needs to be a better way to sort out titles which can refer to multiple items. For instance, "Constantine" only matches the TV show, not the Keanu Reeves movie; "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" only matches the Bay version, not 1990.
Sane antitrust regulations should kill this deal.

It is bad for everybody other than shareholders of those two companies. In particular bad for customers, other companies and employees:
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172555...

https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21695385-profits-are...
That seems a bit extreme.
I think appreciated if done tactfully, as you've done. The upvotes/downvotes would decide.

TIL. https://english.stackexchange.com/a/34794
> although local situations obviously have tragic effects (Syria, Venezuela)

Considering people who came to Europe in the last time you can at least add Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palaestina, some African countries to this list. And I'd say (apart from often atrocious politics) it's b/c there are too many young men and no work.

> Material goods production (plastics) is at an all time high

with worldwide measurable effects on the sea. (Immission probably due to only 6 large rivers, but still)

(many more signs)

I fear the Club of Rome will work out very well in time
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How does one perform feature detection in a static HTML page?

As far as I can tell the only way to author a compatible web page these days is by checking every damn feature of HTML you use against some humongous table like Can I Use? before assuming your audiences' browsers support it.

Compare to versioned specs, where I need simply determine the minimum spec version supported by my target audience (and any exceptions to the spec) and code against that spec.

There is some utility in naming sets of well-supported features...
Lumberyard is very popular in Asia and is the main market for it.
What is cross-platform development like?

Also, what about Objective-C prevents business logic bugs?
Not that it's an excuse, but I've personally seen many "technology averse" people struggle with the changing "rules" about passwords.

When they started using computers, they were taught to NEVER write your password down and to do things like replace letters like I with numbers like 1 for security.

Not only are those not true any more, but the opposite is recommended. Making a unique LONG password is much more important, and writing it down on a sticky note next to your monitor is arguably more secure from some threats than even something like LastPass.
Great! That’s all I need to hear - will place an order.
In the 150 years before WW II ended there has hardly been 20 years of peace in Europe in one stretch.

Domestic European squabble developed into bloodiest conflicts the world had seen, more than once, never mind whole continents in submission and despair up until the 50s. Yet it is Russia that poses perpetual imminent threat.

Very unfortunately for territories bordering Russia, they are a, indeed, a buffer zone and get mowed down and/or change hands every time shit hits the fan. Equally so, in fact, by Russia and by the Western (“Proper”) Europe.
More hardware still means better results — or there would be no need to cap the time per move.

It’s always been a trade off between using more expensive heuristics on fewer moves or cheaper heuristics on more moves. The “number of moves” thing only says that they went all-in on the better heuristics angle. In fact, there was something posted recently about test games where they played go by just using the first move suggested by the search heuristic and that was pretty strong.
You don't have to hand anything over with near field stuff. You put it near it, ding, done. Saving you 5 minutes + time it takes for you to exchange cash. If you're dealing with a waiter for lunch, you're already wasting a ton of time.
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As long as Disney can take Star Wars: ANH and X-Men licensing rights away from Fox, then fine.
Well if it were just FPTP, it would be bad. But still not as bad as what we have now. We have known, admitted gerrymandering that disenfranchises and de-represents voters intentionally to split them up and make their decisions not valid.

I'm sitting with a -3 on my main post, and I still believe my points are still valid. I live in a liberal city in Indiana, and the republicans have gerrymandered us down the middle to split our votes to 2 different republican districts. Prior to 2010, we had better representation and would get more moderate republicans or democrats. No longer.
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Are you not asking of me a much higher degree of rigour than the Club of Rome demonstrated?

The simplest: No exhaustible has been depleted yet. See table 4. Add the years in columns 3 or 4 or 5 to 1972. Gold, mercury, silver were predicted to be exhausted by 2017. None are.