skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You own your money, not somebody else (AKA banks).

Banks will only act as a loan mechanism.

Fiat currency will be converted to crypto as a means to invest in the country monetary system. Tools will be built around converting globally decentralized cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bitcoin) into a country-specific cryptocurrency.

It will redefine the world economy for the fact there will be no paper money anymore. It will also remove the last piece of liberty you have, which is to get paid by physical cash.

The globally decentralized countryless currency - Bitcoin or whatever protocol will be called "Bitcoin" - will bring the physical money liberty back, but it won't be the same thing.
Possibly, but the space requirements for crypto shouldn't be underestimated. I think Satoshi kept 1MB blocks because he realized it would quickly become untenable for most people to run full nodes. ETH has similar problems.

What does the end game for this situation look like? Will people just create Bitcoin Zero, which is identical to Bitcoin but preallocates the existing coins starting from the genesis block? (A manual GC, as it were.)

Otherwise it seems like crypto will be around 100 years from now, but probably not BTC. At least not in a form where non-miners can participate.
Mine lasts about a week, which is incidentally far better than the Nexus 7 when set to default settings.
You feel like a foreigner in your own country, speaking the same language, growing up with the same TV programs as everyone else. Now imagine how would it be if you moved to another country entirely.

If the former is cultural shock, the latter is a multi-story Tesla Coil to the face :)
It turns out all those things can be done in userland, you don’t need a new kind of kernel to support it. Likewise, most of the interesting things going on systems research today (e.g. distributed computing) don’t really touch the kernel either.
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Well I, for one, feel that I'm benefiting from hearing from people who regret having children. So in the right context, I think it's indeed helpful.
Dark matter would like to have a word with you.

If there is one thing we have learned through the history of science, it's to be careful about statements like "X contains nothing".
Scientists Figure Out How to Make Muscle from Scratch
That's really not the only thing that can improve society. Singapore, as you note, improved without it. Well, many places have.
You may not like the consequences that come about from a quasi-fascistic techno-reactionary government, which is fine. On the other hand, there are benefits to such systems. If Amazon owned Seattle, do you think there would be such filth and homeless squalor throughout the city? Or the daily opioid deaths on our streets. Would Bezos be okay with that? How about our traffic? It is funny to me that a city with perhaps the top logistics talent and management in the world has an ineffectual transportation system due in part to the challenges of collective action and the biases in underfunding public goods endemic and researched in the study of the interaction between representative government, taxation, and investment.

Don't misinterpret me as advocating for that world, radical change tends to do more harm than good. But there is nothing wrong with holding a clear view of why people find it an enticing proposition. It's a little intellectually dismissive to just call it some base fetishization or fantasy. Or at least that's how I interpreted your comment, perhaps my interpretation was uncharitable.
I doubt you’d want to implement the process scheduler in hardware, it would be very inflexible.
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Correct. But they can retain your devices and all your stuff.
So there are a few reasons to favour hexagons (or triangles) over squares....

Squares don't pack as closely as hexes, meaning that you can get 18% more hexes into a space than squares for a given perimeter-size. Squares also degenerate badly over the surface of the sphere.... you can't keep a consistent size as you change latitude, and they turn into triangles when you reach the poles.
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Throwaway but, keep the politics OFF of HN.

HN content quality remains very high without the need for politics to creep in everywhere. If you want politics go elsewhere, not here.
Not sure why you are laughing. Bay area is the hub of the so-called CS job industry and the cult-ish hiring practices that are being discussed in this thread largely originate from there and are used there.
So am I supposed to weld them in place? How is something like that going to remain in place during a crash? I would find that claim slightly more believable if they were to remain up to prevent snagging the rider during a crash.

My motorcycle foot pegs are mounted and hinged in a way that they fold up when they contact the ground, I believe this is typical of most motorcycles.
Cierge also uses magic links, making the code invisible to keyloggers. You can configure it to use magic links exclusively.
Surprisingly well, from my own experience. It can even increase your productivity and dicrease distractions: it blocks most ads, suppresses annoying "interactive" features, bans participation in most time-wasting sites (eg. facebook) while still allowing browsing. And of course security.

For the very few domains I deem absolutely necessary, I can always whitelist them.
Great, article. I've noticed a trend with anything which requires masscan is probably going to be fun/interesting.
It is fair to say that the irony was the reason I commented, rather than downvoting and moving on, but the point stands that summarizing a brief, non-technical article distorts the author's views (as Spolsky said, you lose nuance when summarizing your own thoughts - how could it be otherwise when your thoughts are summarized by a stranger?) and leads to pointless, flame-bait-y semantic argments of the kind he complained about (cf: this post , and the 3 above it, and (god forbid) those below it).

And by the by, any time you find yourself using words like "all", "always" or "never" in describing someone else's position is a good time to pause and reflect on whether you're honoring the Principle of Charity, as paraphrased in the HN comment guidelines thusly:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

The good faith interpretation of my post was that I was complaining about your summary, not about summaries generally and certainly not about summaries in wildly different contexts like journal abstracts.

However, just to reiterate: please understand that I'm not attacking you, or saying that you mis-characterized anyone's position on purpose, or out of malice or incompetence. The whole point of the essay we're discussing is that conveying a complex and nuanced position through a short block of text is hard, and that when someone tries, a distorted view of the author's position is the expected outcome.
Please learn the difference between political speech and advertising.
Does this add that to the preferences GUI again? That was one of the big features I was looking for.
Huh? where the downvote could possibly come from?
> but I don't think it's unreasonable for Google's long-term bet to be that they want their hardware to be self-sustaining and not reliant on their other revenue (namely advertising).

It's not like Google disable tracking or ads in their latest phones. It's a simple case of wanting to get paid twice, and people still buying it.
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Yep! We felt the same way when we saw that question. I think HQ will prioritize questions that are hard but still feel possible. Otherwise their engagement will start dropping off.
No, because Option/Maybe can nested, nulls can't.
This is a very scary idea!
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The point is when families measure their worth in economic terms, the people in those families suffer.

Read the story. He had a dad who worked 90 hours a week and contemplated suicide in 6th grade. His life sounds to have been directed and micromanaged well into adulthood, with an objective of keeping up the family brand above all else.

That’s a human tragedy.
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I regret that ... I don't have access to all the parallel universes so I know which way things turned out for every important decision I ever made!
I could be wrong, but I don't know if that is true here. First, if the receiver is aware exactly what parts to ignore, and the transmission itself is not interfered with or altered, then it's not really noise as far as the channel is concerned. Second, the assumption here is that spurious packets would be sent when data is not being transmitted, so this principle probably wouldn't hold anyway because the "noise" is inversely correlated to the signal.
The 'solution' of adding random data to hide these "steps" is a common misunderstanding of the theory behind preventing bandwidth side-channel attacks. It'll probably work in practice as long as the amount of randomness relative to the delta is sufficiently large and the attacker only can only make a limited amount of samples.
Why must a hiring position be so “confident” for an entry-level hire? Take a couple of weeks to decide, maybe even one.

You basically already know what an entry-level hire will know: they’ll remember most of what the last year of their degree taught them, and have a fuzzy memory of anything earlier. They’ll be about as good at problem-solving as you can see on a whiteboard. You’re not paying ultra-senior salaries out of the gate; you’re just getting what you pay for so bring in somebody promising, start them on a project and let them begin a career with you.

Like I said, put yourself in the “new hire” position. They should be treated better given their likely circumstances:

You have to survive, you need rent and food and whatever else. You have debts. You’re probably working some non-ideal job (or 2 jobs) in the meantime for enough cash, enjoying all the no-free-time-left that gives you. If you’re really lucky, only a handful of companies have given you some stupid assignment to do with your spare hours, and since it’s “homework” and you have “more time”, they probably dreamed up a more involved problem than the average whiteboard question would be. Then you feel extra pressure because you really want to get it right but in reality you probably ended up rushing the thing and making some silly mistakes that you won’t see.

Never mind that “homework” is just the latest example of unnecessarily-long-winded hiring practices. Once you add up every little thing that every company wants, you’ve spent a lot of time that you don’t really have. (Some want you to create a new web account and profile that redundantly re-specifies 90% of your résumé. Some require you to specify your résumé as a file, then they scan it and scatter it into the wrong fields and discard the rest, requiring you to fix it all. Some have other forms for you to fill out. Some want multiple phone interview half-hours of your time, multiple on-sites, etc. and still can’t get back to you in under 3 weeks. Now do that 10 or 20 more times and don’t miss your next shift at the coffee shop.)
The oceans are not saturated with salt, and there aren't many processes that extract salt from the ocean, but the process that made the oceans salty to begin with continues.

Also, the Earth is slowly losing its atmosphere, and with it -presumably- some water.

Of course, there's still a lot of water in rocks, so it's possible that the oceans could gain water and thus less salty.

But my guess is it's getting saltier.
Anybody knows if it is possible to use Pocket with a custom server? So far I found only the ticket which tracks the open sourcing process of pocket:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343006

11 month old, not even assigned yet... looks like I should come back 2038.
Hey, this looked really interesting to me. But I went to https://statvoo.com/page/statvoo-rating-system -- to check out how the ranking system works, and it doesn't seem like it gives much information. Care to explain it a little more in depth?

I like the idea. I'm trying to think of some applications for the data.
Fwiw, I wasn't a fan of the original integration of pocket into Firefox, but they are now completely owned by Mozilla: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...
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I stopped reading after the first couple of paragraphs. This is SEOd to hell and back to the point where it's painfull to read.
The best decision ever was to log out.
Would be awesome if you guys publish the raw data (questions and answers). Would love to try to build a model as a learning exercise.
I'm curious, is the value in learning the python language or learning how to implement the functions and libraries written for python? From the tutorials I have gone through they all seem to call said functions almost immediately after adding a few numbers and the obligatory hello world script. Am I missing something?
See the long-lost NES prototype of SimCity
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If i understand you correctly, you're describing the mechanism Ceylon uses:

https://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2013/04/01/java-null/

I think this is pretty cool. I haven't used it in practice.
>Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
>Allow running of unsigned extensions

That doesn't sound very nice.
Sad but interesting story, thanks for sharing. I've had a similar experience with meeting someone IRL and being totally disappointed at what a jerk they were.

You sound like an awesome person to me :-)
Not sure if you're serious. So if you believe that, why haven't you already killed yourself? That would be the best you could do, right? Unless you have some plan to 'take out' others besides you. But I can't believe you really believe that.
If we are going to be pedantic, Costco doesn't subsidize anything with the membership fee, the average and median spending by a member in a month is way more than the annual membership fee. About half the stores near me have the food court outside the store - they don't care if one is a member or not at those stores. In addition, Costco doesn't use loss leaders according to interviews I've read.
That's encouraging in two directions. Not only are they encoding different subject matter areas in the same net, they're using the same net for different subject matter areas. Standardized net designs may work for a variety of tasks.

Progress marches on.
Better use a safe© solution:

curl -sL https://www.mozilla.com | html2pdf | pdfviewer

Just kidding ;-)
You don't need to evade market forces, you just need to actually think about the implications of your zoning laws. Allow more high density houses to be built and require them to have family friendly units. Stop subsidizing the suburban sprawl to the detriment of urban development and fix the broken school systems.
No need to be super pessimistic, but there is reason to temper your excitement - this is quite preliminary research (little results to indicate much benefit to this - "But the results show that even on the ImageNet task, the presence of such blocks does not detract from performance, and may even slightly improve it."), and is still entirely supervised. Something like this able to learn in a semi-supervised fashion from images and text could really seem revolutionary.
This might be a useful resource:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911467
No, it isn't designed to lessen the influence of liberal cities. It is designed to lessen the influence of more populated states over less populated states. It is an attempt to level influence a bit. More populated states still obviously have an advantage in absolute terms, but it allows for more states to override a single large state.
I'm not sure I understand this comment -- seems like you wholly agree with the sentiment you quoted? You might be hard-pressed outside of the cities you mentioned, but they are highly plausible in those and other cities (e.g. Seattle).
> Your connection is not secure
>
> SEC_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERTIFICATE (expired October 31, 2017)

Doesn't make me want to listen to any website claiming to "fix firefox" when they can't even bother to keep their SSL certs up to date.
I spent a little time searching for evidence of people getting in trouble for running an open WiFi AP that someone else used for illegal activity. Didn't find anything.

Possibly relevant to your question.
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Some companies have a policy of only confirming that they worked there and how long.
Not sure if it is the case, but the original plan was for Brave to replace ads with its own: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/mozil...
Except it's not a misrepresentation at all. It's well known that men and women have different abilities. And note how Damore said such differences may contribute, not do. So where's the misrepresentation exactly? Also, you're misusing "fallacious". Damore's argument wouldn't be fallacious if it were factually incorrect.

Furthermore, the straw man I referred to is that she took his brief mention of possible difference in abilities as an implication that Damore was saying they would adversely affect female success in engineering. He doesn't say that anywhere. She's putting words in his mouth instead of making a charitable reading like one should in any debate. Considering Damore's argument doesn't in any way depend on differences in ability, what do you think the charitable reading is?

You're arguing exactly the same straw man as Sadedin. Damore's whole argument does not depend on this one statement, even if it were untrue. Many more of Sadedin's rebuttals make exactly the same mistake and I'm not going to rehash this whole thing again.

I also notice that you've now repeatedly ignored the other experts I've cited in preference to one that agrees with your chosen narrative. I suggest exposing yourself to a wider variety of opinions and data.
Nulls can be nested if you are using a language with explicit pointer types.

E.g.,

Int*** x;

Can be a lot like

Maybe Maybe Maybe Int

It's just that in languages where a type like Integer really means “an integer or a null", the nullability doesn't nest, and no one wants to deal with naked pointers.
> Well they don't because you disabled telemetry, now the company or organization has no data to improve anything

No.
So I haven't had to fire that many people yet.. but you think someone that worked for me for 3 months should get 3 months severance?

I think something like 2 weeks is "fair", and unemployment would kick in past that.

In any case, firing stinks and is super hard. Agree it's important to get it done sooner rather than later though. Interviews are imperfect.
Oh well, in that case it kinds of makes sense, as long as you are also transparent during the hiring process that this is the state of affairs in your company.

I guess I jumped to conclusions too quickly, but I can see how firing fast could maybe work paired with regular feedback to avoid surprises. I don't think it could work for everyone (particularly parents with young children), but under certain circumstances what you say probably makes sense.
Yet organizations went decades making fantastic and ever-improving software without telemetry. What changed? Why would telemetry suddenly become a basic requirement for improvement?
Heya campingalert,

I went here: https://www.leads-daily.com/about -- to find more information. I got a 404. Womp womp.

I'd definitely like to know more about what you're doing and if it'd be helpful to me.

Happy Friday.
Especially when it is open source.
Yep, Dr. Sahr came to the office a few times when we were first getting the original version done. He implemented the core of the algorithm and we took on many of the utility methods, most of them in https://github.com/uber/h3/blob/master/src/h3lib/lib/algos.c

Then we dug in on code formatting, performance tuning (we've removed almost all of the H3IndexFat struct representation usage and switched most things to bitwise operations), and testing coverage.

As for the bindings, I don't know which will be open sourced, so I can't say more, but we had asked Dr. Sahr to make sure the API itself never allocates memory, it must be passed in allocated memory, so it's not too hard to make bindings that work with both manual memory management and garbage-collected languages.

Making the emscripten-compiled front-end Javascript "binding" was a lot of fun, though. :)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16128838

18+ points
There is a lot of really good advice in there... perhaps almost too much in the sense that it's easy to skip the ones you should pay attention to, and nod along to the ones that reinforce your existing idea of what advice you need. Putting myself in my wife's shoes for a moment, I'm pretty sure she'd say I need to listen to the advice on getting more sleep (I'm typing this at 1am in the UK). In fact, thinking about it, I am going to call it a night now!

I'm a first-time founder, and lucky enough that our company (Overleaf [1]) has been going for five years now. If you haven't had enough of the advice for one evening, you can read my take on it here: https://clutter.errantscience.com/2017/07/31/reflecting-on-t...

[1] https://www.overleaf.com
>Let's disable Javascript too while we are at it.

Yes, let's do that.
Digging trenches and laying out cables over entire neighborhoods is probably natural monopoly territory... i.e. it's not easily achievable without proper regulation / governemnt involvement. Therefore, another way to look at this is:

Proliferating internet access has been a big public/private partnership, and therefore we need NN to ensure that it continues to serve the public good. We shuld be fighting for the "public" part of the public/private partnership to not get fleeced.
Well, it's the first OS that isn't built on C/C++ (unsafe languages). That alone is a huge step forward for security and correctness. And it seems to improve on Linux on most ways, which is nice. Sure, besides Rust there aren't any new big ideas going on in Redox, but is there anything better out there? Rust+microkernel sounds like state-of-the-art to me.
I disable javascript and I miss out on a lot of the internet. I don't miss any of it though.
That's not the reason gold is a popular reserve. It's just hard to inflate, and we've decided to pretend it's valuable because the alternative would be inconvenient. Like Amazon shares and the concept of web advertising.
There's contributory infringement in copyright law, but copyright law is so far out of balance these days that I'm hesitant to draw an inference from it.

This otherwise sounds like worrying that you'll be charged with armed robbery because the robbers threw their gun onto your lawn while escaping the cops. Yeah, sure, that could happen, but only through a series of factual misunderstandings about who did what, not because you actually committed a crime.
As long as I can retire to my great big turnip in the country when it is all over I am happy.
Ask HN: Forced to choose Python
When starting a new team and more than 50% wants to use Python, it is selected as the production language. The best programmers however wants to use something else, but "to be able to create a great team" Python is selected.

What would you do?

* You have a couple of very experienced programmers on board that hates Python but uses languages that are not that common.
> Costco can spread the loss of the 1.50 hot dog over membership fees,

Costco is profitable before membership fees, though that profit is less than the amount of membership fees. It's not covering any loss with membership fees, it's piling them on top of a small profit to make a bigger profit.