skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a world where there were only pedestrians, would you want them to start having licences? Per mile, walking is exceedingly dangerous compared to other modes of transport.
China Weighs Slowing or Halting Purchases of U.S. Treasuries
That's not what a market cap means. There are cryptocurrencies too that have no limit on the number of produced coins. Market cap means market capitalization.
interesting post! But only the idea is kind of creepy... Anyways, if someone new enters the group this person is usually not able to see all the previous posts...
An Actor, a model and an architect walk onto the web
I don't think, Backster's "research" on plants is convincing: http://skepdic.com/plants.html
> If players are taking turns, they can sign the state changes as they go, and submit the final couple moves to the blockchain.

This is the same way that the lightning / plasma network works, right?
In my country (Finland), the average age of cars used in traffic is 13 years.
We’d love to link you to this website but it’s impossible
You’ll want to look into counterparty risk before placing such a bet, in which case you’ll likely find the house tends to win.
The Mark Twain Project has made his autobiography (and other writings) freely available online:

http://www.marktwainproject.org/landing_writings.shtml

I listened to the audiobook version, as my preference/availability. Highly recommended.
Wow thanks for sharing the event! It's going to be something else, I can't believe how excited folks are for rare digital art. The movement does feel like something special not just in the blockchain world but in the tech world in particular.
Oh no no.

Most software we use daily is barely running, filled with holes, in fact crap. Developed by multiple contractors, barely maintained.
Please actually provide substantive content to the discussion or don't comment.
I spent about 10 days in the hospital when I was in 1st grade. A couple of other kids about my age shared the room for some part of that time. Both had been hit by cars when darting out into the street, one I think on a sled. Each, I think, escaped with a broken limb.

Shortly before we moved to the street where we now live, a kid rode his bike down a driveway and out into the street. The car that struck him was unlikely to have been going more than 30 mph, but the kid was in a coma for a week or two. A little later, a girl came down her driveway on a skateboard, and bounced off the side of a passing sports ute. I don't drive much these days, but I've had a sense of these neighborhood streets as dangerous places.
On a tangential note, that "Phage therapy" Wikipedia page makes reference to the Sinclair Lewis book "Arrowsmith":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowsmith_(novel)

I found it to be one more the more inspirational books I had read as a young student.
Sure - email me at xavier AT opencraft com if there are any question you'd like to sort out before applying, I'll be happy to answer you.
We're not talking about programming the machines, we're talking about walking people through how to use the machines, help customers troubleshoot when somethings go wrong and knowing where to kick the machines when they crash. You'll easily find 1000 people qualified to do that among your 10k cashiers.
There may be a few hundred thousand of developers that do but there are hundreds of millions of users that just want their stuff to work.

Profit is in the users, not in the developers
Chinese firm to operate China iCloud accounts
Yes, if you're streaming data to EU and getting money for that from a customer in EU, then you are exporting goods to EU. It's not "as if the customer went to USA, bought the dvd" (in which case it's a local sale and a customer imports their own personal stuff when coming back), it's an international export sale, you bring that "DVD" to Europe. It's as when you ship physical goods through customs, and both the goods and the money flowing through them are subject to EU rules.

If you have zero establishment in EU whatsoever, fines could be taken from all your EU sales revenue (i.e. any funds en route from EU customers to you), and it could be expected that (after they smooth out the process) they also might get a local (e.g. USA) court ruling to enforce that debt on you, there's a lot of international cooperation between the authorities in regards to enforcing trade law. That will take time, though, so until that you're safe unless you want to take money from EU customers or sell the user/advertisement information to EU (or compliant) businesses - in which case, you'll rather want to be compliant.
North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
So teenagers working part-time need to earn a living wage? Having a one-size-fits-all number is damaging. The problem is workers who don't hone a useful skill and create a record of reliability. Anyone that does that won't be making the minimum wage after a little while, at least in the current economy.
But children do manage to ride bikes safely all over the world every day without any formal training. On the other hand, adults who have had training and are licensed to drive still manage to cause accidents.
That's mostly true, but it doesn't completely work. 200 of something with a low market cap with the potential to gain 200-4000% is way better than 0.00159 of something with a large market cap and low likelihood of doubling. E.g. a random altcoin vs bitcoin today
They, yes, the nebulous "they," say you should expect to spend around 1% of the house's value a year for repairs, upkeep, and maintenance. This rule of thumb doesn't quite work when the local housing market is in a bubble though.

Of course, there will be years you spend much less and years your roof needs replacing so you'll spend much more, so that's why you amortize.
I agree that it's crucial to have a good license for your project to spread. But I think it's one of those things that takes a lot of mental effort when you do it the first time.

Fortunately GitHub helps you quite a lot nowadays with choosing the license for your project.
It's staggering to spend time in some of the US's biggest transit hubs - LAX, Penn, the NYC airports, and then go and spend time in some around the world.

The US has a lot of catching up to do on it's basic infrastructure.
Do not underestimate the competitive advantage (read necessity considering that nations wage war against each other) for nations to have cheap access to food and energy.
I'm sure your sample is bigger than mine, so maybe that's a regional thing (I'm in Europe)? Did you notice some trends?
Man, HZD looks insanely great at 4K HDR on a 65" OLED – buy far the prettiest game I've ever played. It doesn't play at 60fps though, as far as I know it's capped at 30fps. Presumably they can't guarantee stable frame rates higher than that, which probably makes sense given the insanely great graphics. At 30fps thought it's super stable, I've never seen it stutter and I've finished both the main game and DLC. Great game, can't wait for the sequel!
> TI is probably not in the position to develop.

Once again, they've buried the details way deep down in this article, nearly impossible to find. In this outlandish case, I had to reach as far down as the 1st half of the second sentence which subtly discloses (emphasis mine):

"Automakers and Tier-1 suppliers can use this new programmable ADB solution to design headlight systems"
You needing to trust the website will exist for the coins to hold any value, while true, is not the same as having to trust the currency will work as a currency - i.e. that what is yours is yours, and the steemit owners can't simply wipe out the database or change their numbers arbitrarily.

I'm not saying this model is foolproof, and perhaps you're right and steemit (or app specific coins) will never be a big hit because of that. My point was just to show an example of a different kind of business model / monetization strategy made possible because of the blockchain, and there will certainly be others.
Believe it or not, performance.. Embree holds up against Nvidia GPUs and Optix, at least it did in 2014 (see: https://embree.github.io/data/siggraph2014_embree_paper.pdf)
Brazil is already heavily survieled by the US ;)
Don't reuse contact solution? Uh-oh, I do this. It stays in the case for 2-3 days typically. Apparently I should stop...
Only because so much FUD has been spread about the GPL
Aren't most fast food restaurants franchises, and the individual corporations running them own a handful in a fairly constrained geographic area? There are 3-4 companies that own the various McDonalds locations in my area and I don't think any of them own more than 3.
wonder why they failed to make further advances? I mean at some point they had to invent all that technology they had
No, I don't think so?

1. Pedestrians move at much slower speeds than bicycles. If two pedestrians walk into each at 5mph the damage is much lower than if two cyclists collide at 30mph.

2. Since pedestrians move much slower than bicycles they can manoeuvre much faster. The stopping distance for a walking pedestrian is less than 1m, the stopping distance for a bycicle travelling at 30mph is much greater.

3. If two pedestrians walk into each other the chance of collateral damage is quite low. It's quite easy to walk around two people that just walked into each other.

If two cyclists collide, there is a good chance that cyclists on each side of them will get caught up in the collision, crash and injure themselves too. A good example of this are the crashes seen on Tour de France.

Of course, if people started running as a mode of transport it would become increasingly dangerous, and you'd have to start separating the walkers from the runners as the damage from a potential collision would be much greater.
Microsoft Rollsout Microsoft To-Do
I was just worrying last night that I've released my side project too early, so glad to hear someone encouraging imperfect-but-usable releases. If anyone has advice on finding users, testers, and contributors besides posting on Show HN, please let me know.

https://github.com/spieglt/flyingcarpet
It doesn't matter about preference. Many security people will tell you "WhatsApp is encrypted" as if that makes it secure. My feeling is that rather than deriding it as the false sense of security that it is, the community prefer to trust its claims and believe that it's secure.
Do I need to point out the irony of the incivility of telling someone to "clean up your act" in a comment complaining about incivility?
Signal has the perception of being more secure simply because it isn't owned by Facebook. I will never trust a Facebook server with private messages, despite both Signal and WhatsApp having the same security features on paper.
That's lower than I would have guessed.
NEO is currently quite centralized†, which is an easy trade-off to make for higher throughput (see the traditional infrastructure of the web). It may not become more decentralized in the future, but its consensus mechanism (dBFT) is not really proven yet, which is why they are playing it safe. They will continue developing it of course, as will Ethereum with its proposed and not-yet-rolled-out PoS.

Time will tell which one is safe. If the rewards are high enough, someone powerful/knowledgeable will inevitably try and break or cheat the system.

† Some people like to make a distinction between "distributed" and "decentralized". For me the former is part of the latter.
I was surprised by three new mini traffic circles in Florida on a new road extension. The approaches are embellished with speed bumps. The bumps took away all enthusiasm for the thing.

(Cattlemen Rd in Sarasota)
I recommend everybody read the wikipedia article. Essentially the ozone is in a dynamic equilibrium - constantly degrading and constantly being created. When they say depletion, I believe they mean "total depletion to date" not "rate of depletion."

Per wikipedia, "Ozone levels stabilized by the mid-1990s and began to recover in the 2000s. Recovery is projected to continue over the next century, and the ozone hole is expected to reach pre-1980 levels by around 2075 .[4] The Montreal Protocol is considered the most successful international environmental agreement to date."

So I'm confused what new information this article is providing exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion
It is better because shared resources are going into improving the technology, instead of lining the pockets of parasitic patent trolls. It should be obvious.

TL;DR: patents here slow down progress, not speed it up.

> At least when the cost of a patent license gets bundled into your Blu-Ray player, you know what you’re paying.

Rather you know what you are being ripped off for. It doesn't make it proper.
It's going to take several DAOs being profitable and not getting exploited into oblivion for years before the idea can gain any traction.

Oh, "blockchain" is not a proper name or an uncountable noun, btw...
More precise understanding of faults and how to deal with them can go a long way before suggesting formal verification. Bug is not a fault, but it may cause faults though. You can try to find this bug beforehand or you can deal with the faults at runtime. In practice not just bugs cause faults, but also hardware failures, natural disasters, human mistakes and so on, so you kind of have to deal with faults either way.

> But we can certainly arrange to radically limit the scope of damage available to any particular piece of crap, which should vastly reduce systemic crappiness.

Now, this is the big idea behind supervision trees. Where you split everything into the smallest possible isolated processes and supervisors that watch over them, so that in the event of any process failing it can just get restarted, limiting the scope of the problem to only that one tiny process for the shortest possible time. This idea might even reduce the cost of software development compared to some more popular software development practices. But it does require an easy to use actor model in the language.
Depends on the style of home (Spanish, traditional, modern, etc). I see clay tile, slate, and asphalt mixed in the same neighborhood pretty frequently. Of course, the higher the home value the less likely it's going to have asphalt (or at least asphalt that looks like asphalt).
if they do not go outside they would be clean from toxo
> you can't see anything from cars

This is a very important difference and that’s the main reason I yearn for self-driving cars. Current vehicles are horrible to see where you are driving and drivers are in denial about it. At least, when you have engineers trying to represent a scene, they gut reaction is “No way I am dealing with such a slim view, I”m putting the camera where it can see what’s happening.”
Tuples are just two or more values with separate types lumped together, i.e. (Int, String).

For example, in Haskell, to get the elements of a map, there's this function:

assocs :: Map k v -> [(k, v)]

which gives you an array of tuples, the first element of which is of type k (the map key type) and the second element being of type v (the map value type.)
Is being paid a non-living wage better than being paid nothing at all?

Say I am a one man shop. I would like an assistant, but I don't actually make enough to pay the assistant a "living wage". My options are to hire an assistant at non-living wages, or not hire an assistant at all. Which is preferable?
Driverless Hotel Rooms: The End of Uber, Airbnb and Human Landlords
Minimum wage is less for teenagers. When I was 15 the minimum wage was $5.15 and I was paid $4.85 because that was the minimum wage for a 15 year old. And it wasn't because I received tips, where the minimum wage was even lower ($2.80 or so I think?)
A machine learning model to understand fashion search queries
> If it were so obvious

I characterized your snark as obnoxious not obvious.
And public transport definitely isn't going to be taking up the slack given the catastrophic decline in public investment therein.
The Five Pillars of Popovich
You can afford to hire a part-time assistant. You shouldn't be able to hire someone to work full-time for you for $20 a week. I hope that's obvious.
Depends on the set probably, but in my experience most TVs still do some processing.
It is a highly uncommon occurrence and it doesn't happen more often precisely because of the vastly diminished kinetic energy involved.
One of the reasons why I suspect NEO may be more suited for such things. State changes will likely still be a factor, but once the smart contract is deployed, it's free to execute.
> I don't think the patent issues are at all resolved or easy.

Same applies to any codec, including HEVC. I.e. patent trolling can always happen and HEVC users aren't immune to it either. So AVC1 wins being actually officially free.
We as consumers will see no gains from using self service checkouts. I am doing the job that someone once did for me so that Target can make more money. Those efficiency gains for Target are a direct burden on me.

Also, I’d argue that self checkout is not faster than having someone checkout and someone bag for me, maybe it seemed faster in that scenario, but it’s unliekly faster in general.
This reminded me of the scene in "Sopranos", when Paulie visits a Starbucks-like cafe https://youtu.be/cUKJWsnAAXs?t=1m1s
Am suddenly interested in building a product that handles your taxes when you give it read access to your Coinbase account.
Exactly, that's what my original comment said. Use it on the wound area before sewing the wound up. Or why not during the whole process.
Great thanks for the feedback. Looking into it.
> Of course! In a world where there were only cyclists there would still need to be a set of rules that all cyclists are required to follow.

What about walking? People can run into other people, knock them down stairs, it's a risk...

I think that most observers find the idea that bike use is a public hazard, and must be restricted to be obviously ludicrous.
>We have some formal verification, it's called typed systems. Very limited, I know.

Very limited.

In my many years of experience doing software professionally, the serious bugs, that is, the ones that took us more than one day of debugging (after such a bug was able to be reproduced), were the ones that had nothing to do with types but with

* bad understanding of the business rules

* bad fundamental implementation of the problem domain

* misuse / incorrect use of an API or libraries

* API/library behaviour different from what the documentation says.

No type system will save you from them. Type systems don't verify how the code does the correct thing. They only verify that the types moved between functions/modules satisfy certain conditions. Big deal.

Where code reusability implies that your functions should apply to the widest type of circumstances (and thus increasing the scope in which they can be reused), type systems go fundamentally against to this goal, enforcing your functions to go very specific on what they're able to accept and return.

Dynamically typed systems allow for faster coding, and also allow for interactive development which allows for faster, easier testing of individual components as they are developed. Also, the very best dynamically typed systems also allow for redefining / uploading updated function definitions while the code is running, which greatly increases development & testing speed (emphasis added.)

This is not just a claim, this is my personal experience after about 23 years of programming where 90% of those years were spent using statically typed systems.

As for speed, for highly optimized code Java, Haskell, and F# are basically in the same ballpark. Which is, very good speed. Well, Common Lisp (dynamically typed language) is not only in the same ballpark, but faster than them in some cases.

You know what i'm going to choose.

Or, different take on this: If i was going for absolute speed i'd be hacking in C, where no Hindley-Milner type checker gets in the way of clever tricks for gaining that extra bit of performance you need on that tight loop.
To be fair that happens in Britain too, or at least it did at both my primary and secondary school.
These kiosks are already in tons of McDonald's locations from what I understand (I've only seen them in Canada but I'm told they're elsewhere) so I don't get the hesitation.

They work well, especially if there's a long line or you're hungover and don't want to talk to anybody.

What I'm wondering is when they're gonna figure out how to replace the cooks with machines (though that's a different task from kiosks, you need actual robotics) and staff the place with a single manager to deal with customer complaints.
My local Burger King has transitioned to this. I don't often eat there, but I'll admit it is a guilty pleasure.

One interesting thing I've noticed is that with ordering kiosks, I'm much more likely to be upsold.

Having all the option laid out in front of me, and no pressure from someone trying to "sell" me I find it far easier to select add ons.

This says to me that there is a profit motive beyond simple efficiency. It creates opportunity for better sales as well.
You seem to be posting this an awful lot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16059553

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16045374

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15960326

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15945842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890656

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15825092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15807678

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15785828

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15775204

I guess it works, though. When you posted it for the 9^{th} time a week ago it got 10 comments.
Do unused flight credits roll over?
>> But, the generality it provides leaves open the possibility of building higher-level abstractions on top of it [...] I know a bunch of these exist in various forms, CLI and GUI, and for me anyway, none that I'm aware of cover everything I need to do with git—but I believe such an application could be built and the community would stabilize on using it for 90% of cases instead.

The beauty of being able to use an abstraction on top of git is that it doesn't need to cover everything you do. You can use a GUI or a couple simple aliases or scripts for daily driving and then move to the CLI for surgery; a good GUI will have a CLI pane or a button to open a CLI in the right directory.

Even for simply committing, it's nice to have the GUI visualization as an easy sanity check that you haven't accidentally added tons of files, or as an easy way to browse your changes before committing.

Stabilizing on git itself is good enough, there's no need for everyone to use the same abstraction on top of it. The only reason there's so much focus on the CLI is because it's the default, and because power users keep convincing newbies that you're not cool if you don't use it.
> Both mining and staking are competitive industries that require productive activity by their participants.

Validators also charge rent for their services, which especially in the case of miners, is a staggeringly inefficient use of electricity.
Suburbs That Haven't Recovered from the Recession
Sounds like Facebook is working on a Yelp killer rather than an event discovery tool.
You assume that "the lower average" group will apply as much (i.e. lower ability people will apply too) as the "higher average" group.

I could now point "confused or insincere" right back at you ...

But at least this whole debate is wonderful example why you should not assume bad faith in others.
But that in itself is also a problem, because people outside the security community does not like Signal.

I've tried so many times to convert people, but every non-security person prefer LINE, WhatsApp and Telegram. The reasons are simple; they are fun to use, good user experience and the most important one "my friends use it".
"The KODAKOne image rights management platform will create an encrypted, digital ledger of rights ownership for photographers to register both new and archive work that they can then license within the platform."