skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a popular idea that dollars and euros derive their value because taxes are paid in that currency, or because it's backed by the state's military power.

The USD derives its value from an extraordinarily productive and innovative economy, that has led the world for a century, and has been the world's largest economy since the 19th century. The US economy has been highly functioning, and remarkably consistent on an averaged out basis, for approaching 200 years, more so than any other major economy. Venezuela's problem is precisely that their economy ceased to function properly, and its currency followed in line.

The US military exists solely because of that successful economy. One must inherently go before the other. US wealth and economic primacy did not originate from military strength, it originated overwhelmingly from trade, commodities, industry, invention during the 19th century. The US military was barely a third rate power when the US economy became the world's largest circa ~1890.

If military power played an outsized role in determining economic outcomes today, North Korea would be rich. Saddam's Iraq would have been incredibly affluent. Soviet Russia would have ruled the world economically. And Canada today would be bankrupt, as would Norway, Finland and Sweden. Japan would have wilted after WW2, instead they witnessed one of the greatest economic recoveries and booms in world history, almost entirely sans military; their boom wasn't because of Japan's ability to project military power. The US economy would not wilt if the US spent $450 billion (~2.3% of GDP) instead of $700 billion (~3.4% of GDP) on its military - the economy would benefit in fact, by redirecting resources to superior productive uses.

> What happens to the dollar when public consensus, trust and collective belief is weakened?

That has been a fantasy premise for about 3/4 of a century now. The Yen was going to crush the dollar. The Euro was going to overtake the dollar. The Yuan is going to crush the dollar. Meanwhile, dollar dominance is as strong as it has ever been. The US economy chugs forward, adding $600 to $800 billion a year in new economic output, still one of the core leaders in innovation and productivity. Venezuela's failure was one of State corruption and oppression, destroying any semblence of a functioning economic system, it's not because they needed a bit more military might to project with.
Well, yes and no. Linpack is pretty useless, but STREAMS Triad is actually a very good proxy for problems that are memory bandwidth bound, and the only way to "game" it is to actually provide a better chip.
Google just can't seem to win with some people. Notifications like this have an obvious benefit, in that they make the degree of tracking that is happening very clear even to the non-technical end user (and if they aren't comfortable with the tradeoffs involved, they can disable it). But apparently simple acknowledgement of what the phone (any smartphone) already knows is "creepy", and it's more comforting to bury your head in the sand and pretend it isn't going on ("I'm going back to an iPhone"). Out of sight, out of mind, I guess.

This whole post just gets sillier as it goes. It's dire and creepy and "robotic" for Google to acknowledge that your phone, the internet, and their business are machine-driven, and to be open + straightforward about the fact that said machines can make good use of your human judgement + opinion, for the benefit of other humans? They need to "soften this blow"? Really?
Do you have a source for that? running 16 bit code in 32bit mode doesn't sound like it would work. All the instructions would do 32bit operations instead of 16bit operations. So if a program did what it thought was a 16bit write to a memory location it would actually end up doing a 32bit write and would clobber the adjacent 16bit memory location.
I just makes me sad for a developer that actually created that language, who put lots of knowledge and work in it. And then someone (I assume not same person) try to propagate it using such stupid example.
At least it's standard gauge rail, so that's a plus.
Photoshop CC 2018 works on Wine 3.0. Screenshots [1] and original post [2].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/k0HI0

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7ql4kl/the_screensho...
Ok the experience the author described at the networking event is pretty much textbook social anxiety.. Wanting to communicate, but being unable to, freezing, thinking other ppl are judging you without any reason - all these point to social anxiety not introversion. The rest of the article though has many good ideas and good advice for introverts..
Migrate Microsoft Azure SQL Database to Amazon Aurora
> You don't need to reinvent everything that the DOM does as the DOM is is burdened down with all kinds of backwards compatibility concerns and conflicting design philosophies.

Those can largely be avoided, and they typically don't cause global performance impacts.

> E.g., I don't think any sane design of a UI toolkit would include the ability to read and modify the string representation of the UI code at runtime - yet it's a critical feature for the DOM.

That isn't a problem. innerHTML is lazily computed from the tree structure: if you don't use it, you don't pay for it.

> Likewise, you wouldn't necessarily need the ability to access and mutate arbitrary nodes of the document tree at any time. (including mutations that might change which CSS selectors apply to a node) E.g., you could only expose higher-level widgets instead or only expose variables that feed into a template.

The main benefit of this would be to eliminate restyling, but cascading is really useful from a design point of view. That's why we've seen native frameworks such as Qt and GTK+ move to style sheets. And if you reinvent restyling, it'll be a ton of work to do better—remember that Servo and Firefox Quantum have a parallel work-stealing implementation of it. I've never seen any native toolkit that even comes close to that amount of performance effort.
Interestingly, it seems to lose 1/3 of the inputs I'm trying to send...
It's still a 150MB web-browser + attached web app, right?
Everything is humanities, even economics.

Everything started out in the humanities. It's sort of like a primal trunk or root. I think philosophy, history, and art still have a lot to tell us about the human condition. I think some of the key questions to be asked are still waiting to be asked. However, I do think that science will deliver the final answers. (Giving more fodder for additional questions.)
> Any well thought out cost benefit analysis says 64 billion is absolutely unreasonable.

This desperately needs the support of at least one such “well thought out” cost/benefit analysis.
The author appears to think that optimizing for tax revenue is one of the main goals of publicly funded transportation infrastructure (a category which includes roads, sidewalks, subways, etc.) or is at least not a terrible idea.

I cannot even begin to convey how much I disagree.

The purpose of public funded transportation infrastructure is to make transportation cheap (in terms of time, money, frustration or any other metric, they are all interchangeable) to the point where anyone can use it. In an ideal world physical distance would be negligible part of any decision. Travel would be as inconsequential as getting water from a faucet. Obviously this is little more than a fantasy.

Making cities walk-able at the expense of some longer range form of transit is not something I endorse in any way shape or form. Making longer range transportation more expensive (time and money are basically the same thing at this level) creates a negative incentive for people to move about beyond a the limited distance of cheap alternatives (i.e. walking). While that may be a benefit to the wealthy it creates is a detriment to the poor. For example, you're stuck paying too much for bad selection at the local grocery store because you can't afford the level of mass transit pass or a car that would let you get to the better grocery store in a reasonable time (or maybe the increased demand for buses and rail degrades their quality substantially).

To hear the author toss in the tax argument annoys me. Transportation isn't free. It costs money and time. It's basically a tax on physical distance. There's no such thing as good roads in a city. They're busy and slow during basically all the hours which people want to use them. People don't pay for a car or rail pass because they want to but because the benefits of increased freedom of movement outweigh the costs. The costs aren't cheap. If increased business/commerce and tax revenue is your argument for reducing the capacity of people to get in/out of your city then you should be asking yourself how the heck you got to a the point where people would rather put up with driving than live/work/spend money in your city.
As someone said it is a voluntary project but some companies make money from it like Transgaming (now Nvidia) which works by porting games to Mac OS X. So games like FFXIV for Mac are not native but actually a professional wine based wrapper.
Not sure which Bell Labs. Newark is ~30 min both by car and train during Rush from Murray Hill... which is in the Middle of some of the nicest suburbs in the state. The other you might be talking about is Holmdel. Thats at least an hour down the GSP and I think train would be at least that.
News like this feels jaded, because it's really non-news. A rich, former CEO, 1% of the 1% got a board seat, it's not like racial status has much to do with it.
Stop repeating this, it is wrong. Uber copied Lyft, Uber was initially another high end black car/limo service, the whole history was documented on TechCrunch articles, here is one to start: https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/22/zimrides-lyft-is-going-to-...
I have no idea, but the previous commenter said that there are few women chefs because there are few woman line cooks, and most chefs are line cooks first.
What is the basis for your assumption of "- a strong existing tech workforce and universities."?

Amazon already has a strong and diverse tech force, in fact, they have so many tech workers that it has affected Seattle's housing crises.

I highly doubt HQ2 will have that many tech workers. If anything, Amazon wants to pay less for non-tech workers because they can't write off those salaries, which implies that the location for HQ2 should be favorable for non-tech roles.
It also has Portland and Cleveland as the next most likely and they have been eliminated. Gambling sites are not useful for decisions like this which are made by a small group of people. Gambling sites are useful for things like elections where you want to sample a small part of the large population.
Implementing an open salary policy at a 17-year-old company
Huh? Part of your comments is wrong. Lyft existed before Uber as zimrides. Not only that Lyft and another competitor Sidecar pioneered ride sharing - Uber started out as a black car service and borrowed it's current business model from those two. Even more, Lyft was the first to take on city regulators, when Uber was still a black car service and Uber initially opposed the move to make ride sharing legal and only jumped on the bandwagon when it looked like Lyft was going to succeed and eat Uber for lunch. It's actually the other way around- Uber exists because of Lyft (source of all this - the Upstarts by Brad Stone which I'm currently reading). But everything else you said I agree with: Taxis were just plain awful.
Wine is one of those amazing software. Kudos for a new release.
If density is so awful, why have malls been closing left and right for years? Why have so many people been flocking to more dense neighborhoods?
The Woodlands has 1.5 dwellings per acre. Urbanity begins at 20 dwellings per acre, and even that isn’t particularly dense and may not enable walking as the primary mode.
They pay the user for it with increased Google Drive space, a free subscription to the NYT, etc.
It depends on what you do, which version. Photoshop CS2 or CS4 should be a breeze on most systems, but you need RAM to make it work. 4GB is a minimum, 8 or 12 is much better. About 5 years ago I tried Wine with Photoshop, but couldn't get it to work. After a while the windows fell apart, so to speak. Buttons failed and so on.

After that I moved to VB and that is for me the most reliable, especially with the right snapshots available. That is: right after installing Windows, then after configuring it, then after installing Photoshop. The option to go back to a previous state is great.
I'm not sure how that'd be possible. It uses blocks (^) so it requires blocks with clang, no?

I've changed my macro to yours, and compiled with clang (3.9)

CC=clang-3.9 make clean indent depend all

clang-3.9 -c -O3 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Werror -Wframe-larger-than=131072 -Wno-format-truncation -I. -std=c11 -I/usr/local/include -Wextra -Wno-override-init -funroll-loops -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_HF_LINUX_INTEL_PT_LIB -Wno-initializer-overrides -Wno-unknown-warning-option -Wno-gnu-empty-initializer -Wno-format-pedantic -Wno-gnu-statement-expression -D_HF_ARCH_LINUX -o cmdline.o cmdline.c
In file included from cmdline.c:23:
In file included from ./cmdline.h:28:
./honggfuzz.h:357:40: error: blocks support disabled - compile with -fblocks or pick a deployment target that supports them
static inline void defer_cleanup(void (^*b)()) {
^
cmdline.c:68:5: error: blocks support disabled - compile with -fblocks or pick a deployment target that supports them
defer {
^
./honggfuzz.h:364:39: note: expanded from macro 'defer'
__attribute__((unused)) void (^defer_varname(__COUNTER__))() = ^
^
cmdline.c:68:5: error: blocks support disabled - compile with -fblocks or pick a deployment target that supports them
./honggfuzz.h:364:72: note: expanded from macro 'defer'
__attribute__((unused)) void (^defer_varname(__COUNTER__))() = ^
^
3 errors generated.
Makefile:266: recipe for target 'cmdline.o' failed
make: *** [cmdline.o] Error 1

PS. Hm.. maybe that's the clang version you're using (900)?
They don't need skyscrapers or other big city stuff. Just more 3/4 story buildings that use their available lot well. You don't even have to mandate that; just get rid of the restrictions and market forces would gradually drive things in that way.
Yes, I was not entirely serious. The word I was looking for was "flippant", but I couldn't conjure it up when writing so I wrote "blunt".
> Social democracy (Europe, USA to a lesser extent) is a hybrid that basically works but you still have to make money in that system.

Whether it's capitalism with a large dose of socialism of socialism or socialism with a large dose of capitalism, neither extreme seems to work as well as approaches that adopt portions of both.

> Most people are not little philosopher kings who work to advance a grand vision of life's unfolding in the universe. Most people just want to do the minimum to get by until they can get their next dose of entertainment. I hate to be such a cynic, but I have eyes.

I think the only people that actually work to advance understanding of the universe do so for selfish reasons, and we all just get to benefit from the byproduct of their self interest. If I had to guess whether Einstein of Newton did what they did because they wanted every human to be better of, or if it was primarily because that's what they enjoyed doing and they were lucky enough to be in circumstances that allowed them to live doing that (and become famous as well), I know where I'd place my bet.

It's the same for child rearing. There's a sense of happiness and contentment when your children are happy and safe (or at a minimum there's usually uneasiness and dread when your children are unhappy or unsafe), so you try to make that the situation the one that makes you the most comfortable happy. It's an instinctual and emotional response, but doesn't necessarily make sense from a purely rational self-interest point of view.

We aren't saints, we're machines with wacky firmware that imparts interesting and had to evaluate value functions.
> rampant: flourishing or spreading unchecked.

I have lived in the south for 33 years (in particular, one of these states mentioned) - if you think that racism is flourishing or spreading unchecked you are misinformed. It exists, but it's dying. Please stop spreading hyperbole like this.
Senate passes bill to renew controversial NSA spying powers
If this were true, why would cities that don’t have this even be on the list?
the difference between a billboard and google is that ppl are aware that a billboard is advertisement. i don't think that ppl really understand what they are agreeing to when they get a pixel, chromebook, or even just gmail. and this way, google can put up those micro billboards that we often do not consciously perceive but that still influence our actions. and the google billboards that we do perceive, for them, very few ppl understand why they are so powerful at showing us personally just the right stuff.
Their privacy policy is here: https://www.airhelp.com/en/privacy/

I don't see anything specifically about what information they collect from scanned emails.
>Still, you can't put a price on having a grocery store, train station, liquor store, neighborhood bar, and cheap Mediterranean restaurant all within a 5 minute walk.

Whoever you're paying money to did just that.
Using AI to Solve Churn
Good, the less effective various spying techniques are, and the easier they are to throw off, the better the internet is for its users. I don't want any website owners to know what device, browser, or other program, I use to access their site, and they have no business knowing that. I like it being a piece of information I can supply voluntarily for my own purposes, and I get the heebie jeebies every time I read about a new shady fingerprinting technique that exploits some new, previously unexplored quirk of web technologies.
The obvious countermeasure seems to be to feed them bullshit data (wrong reviews, pictures from elsewhere and what-not), but for some curious reason this feels antisocial against other Google users in a way that outweighs the benefits of sabotaging their data collection. Attacking Google almost has something of being an /r/atheism style gadfly.

(Well, there's also the problem that there is no telling how they would react to an account getting flagged for nonsense submissions. Losing access to my gmail would be a personal catastrophe well in excess of losing a full wallet or two.)
dang, every time there's a story about Google, admins here link to official Google blogs. Every time it hits the front page. And if thee's a negative story about Google, it's quickly buried/flagged/disappeared.
As a "young entrepreneur", I have no interest in Silicon Valley. In fact, I'm more inclined to be a farmer who moonlights as an engineer.
A quick google search suggests that while there are some concerns about housing affordability in Minneapolis, there isn't the sort of housing crunch that would make constructing an ADU rapidly profitable like it might be in San Francisco. If I implied the regulation was the only thing keeping people from building ADUs everywhere, I apologize for being unclear.
... and screw it again a week later.
Does Canada take a large proportion of unskilled and poor immigrants?
> If an operation exceeds this limit, an insufficient significant bits signal "sNaN(isb)" would be raised.

What about for binary repeating decimals like 0.3? Wouldn't it always raise that signal?
They're on by default because only one person in this debate has said that he/she would turn it on. Most of these features have to be shoved down our throat, because there's on incentive to turn them on.
I did this to a man at a San Jose dog park that was wearing a Netflix shirt. It turns out he just got it from the local Goodwill and had no connection to Netflix.
Multi-user AR experience
The Tragedy of the Advertising Commons
The problem is the cities citizens. Northern European cities such as Copenhagen are pretty quiet, despite their high density.

A lot of the character of a city does come from how its citizens imagine it's supposed to be. In the nicer parts of Stuttgart in 2000: Never once even the smell of garbage.
Agree. I lived in Miami and the tech scene there is a joke. Unless they want to make some Latin America play there is nothing to gain from there. The fact it’s even on the list makes me suspect that is something they are looking to do.
To be fair, Microsoft has yet to remove all the Windows 95 style design. The Windows 10 installer has at least 3 different eras of design visible at once.
And this is why we have (nominally independent) external auditors for corporations.

Cooking the books is maladaptive in the long run, and needs to be discouraged at every level.
Oh you can totally game those things by ignoring your thermal limits and/or overclock briefly since you know the exact duration of the test. It's a really common approach in the GPU chip space.

The right way to do things is have a private test that matches a slice of your real workload. That way the vendor can't tailor their chips/drivers to it.
Well yeah, it's not like how it's packaged changed the underlying design.

If you want a lightweight version of the slack client and don't fell like using the IRC or XMPP bridges you can use Epiphany (or Chromium) to install the website an an 'App'.
As long as they keep churning out awesome AAAs and continue to get lots of quality indie and third party games to the Switch, I'm okay with this also being a thing they do.
Weather seems to be a lesser concern to cycling as both all of the Netherlands and Copenhagen demonstrate. Hills are more of an issue, but given how electric cycles improve, that should be taken care of. All in all, cycling is a replacement for car traffic more than for walking and thus the space allocation for cycle path should be taken from roads rather than pedestrian areas.
> Wine can be built as an APK package and behaves like a proper Android application.

Cool.
I guess I also don't need to pay taxes anymore, because if I don't pay taxes those are just taxes that wouldn't have been paid otherwise.
Thanks for sharing. I quickly learned peers found "big words" alienating. Like you, I process what I learn through conversation. I've found the best way to do it is reach out to an expert in the field or an academic. They are often quite happy to help someone learn about a topic that is important to them.
Commoditizing labor is very disruptive and stuff, yet it drives down the price to commodity levels - right above subsistence. The entire gig economy is like this. And not just them either.
This is why this is happening. Everybody is quick to jump on the climate change bandwagon, but the government in ZA is VERY inefficient, incompetent and corrupt... to the point of making many other countries worst days look like competence. If the land reform goes through without compensation expect it to get a lot worse (which is being actively talked about by some of the parties). The compensated land reform has already been a disaster. Farms that were purchased and distributed went from being productive farms to producing nothing in many cases. This is all about mis-management. The Western Cape provincial government, which is where Cape Town is, is one of the more functional governments in the country too.