skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> FLP also proposed to upload litigation materials to IA in only machine-readable formats compressed into enormous multi-gigabyte tarballs, ending the human-readable individual HTML files that have for years made it easy for normal users with standard web browsers to see court records.

Perhaps the "only" is telling here. Were they previously also uploading the tarballs? No wholesale user would want to scrape the thousands of extra pages of HTML to download the content. So if they weren't already uploading the tarballs, this is actually a beneficial change.
He may well be, but consider three things. One, what is the chance that North Korea might undergo a political crisis, precipitated by either internal or external events during his lifetime? Secondly, is there anything he would not do or threaten to do in order to avert that? Finally, to our knowledge there have been several technical errors or accidents that came close to detonating or launching nuclear weapons, both in the US and in Russia. What are the chances that North Korea's technical and procedural controls are better than both, and does his behaviour increase or decrease the associated risks?
> As a former Googler, I can see why people post these: internally Google is hyper-evangelized as the best place to work ever (why would you work anywhere else). When leaving, its a necessary step to form a good argument for yourself as to why you've decided to go against the culture.

As another former Googler, this was one of the most concerning things about my experience at Google. The pressure I put on myself and received from others when I was debating whether to leave was enormous, especially because it was my first job. Nevermind the rampant imposter syndrome while you still work there. In hindsight, it was super toxic and led me to stay there even longer than was good for me and burning out harder. I've talked to a few current Googlers and Xooglers who also felt that way.
Also, there was zero mention of what state the senator is from. Whatever happened to the standard "(D-OR)" after first mention of a senator in an article?
I remember reading (clear back in the late 1970s, in Datamation magazine) how much fun IBM was having trying to make 2 mainframe CPUs operate coherently with sub-nanosecond clock speeds, when the two CPUs were several feet apart. Just from a speed-of-light perspective, the problem is obvious.
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I don't understand why Mozilla prioritised integrating and then buying a closed-source alternative to the existing open-source project Wallabag.

How does deeply integrating one service provider — making it harder for their competition — promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web?
> Part of the "why not" is a deeply ingrained belief in at least American culture that morning people are just "better" than night people. It's so ingrained that we mostly forget to talk about it and it's just assumed. "Early bird catches the worm" and all that.

I think you really nailed it here. People who aren't "morning people" are viewed as lazy, strange, and unmotivated. And it's very frustrating to try to make people understand that I don't stay up until 3:00am every night and sleep until noon, or that I'm not lazy because I'm not flitting around the room like a humming bird the moment I get out of bed. It's like it's completely impossible to have this conversation because people are totally unwilling to see things in any other way.

Also, the early worm gets eaten.
It's pretty accurate. Presidents of two countries have been declaring that they will use nuclear weapons against the other. They have been provoking each other, and each interprets the provocation as an act of war. It's pretty bad. The only reason no one is reacting is because there's nothing we can do. Might as well live your life while there's still time, and hope rationality will win out.
Anybody know if you're able to transfer your cryptocurrency on Coinbase to Robinhood? In theory, I could avoid Coinbase's fees for selling.
This seems to be common knowledge, somehow, but I've never seen it myself. Maybe it depends on the type of music, or musician.

I perform with a couple groups you've never heard of, and I hate seeing cell phones at performances. I'm just trying to perform, not be discovered.
I don't know the psychology but, yeah, everyone has turned into the (virtual) shutter button clicking fanatics that was a Japanese peculiarity 20 years ago. And it wasn't just vacation pictures. There would be photos at all sorts of work events and day to day activities that Americans rarely photographed.

I needed one or two in situ pictures of me doing computer stuff from past times and I had almost nothing I could pull out.
I'm definitely most productive in the morning. I do best when I can just get to work and get into something. If I should up to work mid day (perhaps, due to prior appointments) it's a struggle to get into work.
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I get this in dense areas now. I will still get "in a half mile turn left on X street", but when it actually gives me "turn left" I will instead get "take the next left" or "take the second left" if there are multiple streets close together on the left.
Of course not, you're still there :D Jokes aside, its a big company with many offices and tens of thousands of employees. YMMV.
> Bitcoin isn't backed by an asset.

It's backed by hash rate, which secures the blockchain.
Your talk was excellent, kudos to you for being willing to present a controversial idea to an audience that is instinctively hostile to any intentional weakening of crypto. It was certainly a hot topic at lunch.

My primary concern and others’ was that strong crypto is already out there and can’t ever be taken away. I understand that you’re choosing to hand-wave over this for the sake of bringing a novel idea to the table, but I’d say it’s a fundamental flaw that can only be addressed by not only outlawing strong crypto in every country, but also finding a way to prevent criminals from implementing and using algorithms that have been known for a while now. That seems, to say the least, quite hard.
Neither are callbacks just functions nor are they necessarily asynchronous, that’s just how they work in JavaScript for example.

Callbacks - or closures, to use the more general mathematical term - allow you to delegate behaviour.
What you say is true, but - and I believe that's GP's point - it's also an admission of defeat. There will always be low-risk/high-monetary-reward trivialities to cater for. But when you see your visionaries getting into them, instead of working on the actually important things, that's when you realize, with sadness, that they no longer care.
Assuming you want to make as much money as possible, focusing on the problems of the portion of the population that makes the most money seems most efficient, i.e. educated professionals in urban areas.
First, let's ignore cryptos because I'm talking about IPO's only (albeit the thread is about cryptos)

"Providing capital to someone does not only occur in the IPO stage. I'm not even sure how to go about refuting that statement; that's... not how finance works anywhere on the planet."

First, I provided that statement in the context of the parent comment. In the equities market, providing capital occurs only in IPOs, not in the secondary market. When you buy Apple stock, you typically are exchanging money with another person who is selling it. You are not providing capital to Apple.

Second, you could've gone about refuting my statement by providing a counter-example. It's that easy. Otherwise you're simply just trying to put me down, and make me look like an idiot, without explaining why.
"- translate"

learn every language?
Maybe that was the conventional wisdom at the time. Later we found out that wasn’t as true as we would hope.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUfBc4qQMg
The movie this clip is from and the companion book are much more detailed about the realities of the time and the though processes of those world leaders.
I've never seen it either, at triple-digit gigs in the US.

It's BS - people just have a hard-on for punishing new social behaviours in others, that they don't partake in themselves. The old disruptions are 'well, what can you do?', while the new disruption are all 'think of the children!'

Otherwise, they would be trying to accomodate cell phone users, and arrange things so their behaviour was less disruptive to others, rather than fighting them outright. Cell phone usage at concerts is the equivalent of taping, and people have set up dedicated taping sections at music events in the past.
This right here ... so many people eat lunch at their desk. I find that I feel so much better when I take a break, both from being inside, and being in front of my computer where my work cannot escape my brain.
My experience with people who don't float easily is that they're not expanding their lungs enough. When you train in diving, you realize just how much different your buoyancy is when you have a full breath compared to an exhale. On my first few dives, I realized that I didn't trust the equipment enough and kept my lungs full while only taking shallow breaths. Learning to dive with mostly empty lungs made it so much easier and allowed me to get rid of all but one weight on my belt.

When I started training in freediving (apnea), I learned how to take much fuller breaths. I can almost guarantee that if you haven't done that kind of training, strengthened your diaphragm and learned 3-zone breathing, you aren't taking in nearly as much air as you could.

Our bodies are mostly water and the amount of mass that we have that's denser than water isn't that much denser. But water is a lot denser than air and the more you can add air volume, the more buoyant you become. Learning to float is a matter of learning to maximize your volume. Some density numbers from the internet...

Salt water: 1.03g/ml
Fresh water: 1g/ml
Muscle: 1.06g/ml
Bone: 1.1g/ml (approximate...couldn't find a good source for this)
Fat: 0.9g/ml
Air: 0.0023g/ml

The numbers seem to back up your instructors. As you can see, all these values are fairly close except for air, so adding more air to your volume can dramatically change your buoyancy. Wikipedia lists the average adult male lung capacity at 6L, so a 5L breath should be achievable for most. In salt water, that 5L breath will add more than 5kg of buoyancy, which is enough to float around 400 lbs of muscle or 176 lbs of bone. In fresh water, that same 5L breath will add a bit less, enough to cancel out 193 lbs of muscle or 121 lbs of bone. There's no way that I can know your body composition, but those numbers are very substantial. The more likely is that you're just not getting anywhere near 5L of air in your lungs.

If you're ever into you're trying it again, look up some stretches to open up the lungs. Then practice breathing shallowly with nearly-full lungs. If you're able to do that, you'll probably be able to float laying on your back, where your head is mostly submerged...remember, every part of your body above the surface counts against your buoyancy, for the same reason that air in the lungs matters so much.
Overnight steel cut oats + flaxseed + chia seed + peanutbutter = my breakfast for the last 4 months.

Are we on the same diet?
Bad behavior? RH's market is the Millennials who see it as a fancy gambling, check out Reddit's r/RobinHood or - even better - r/wallstreetbets.

I can see RH becoming a dominant player in the Tech Fin Millennials space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet_toys

They were banned because if a child swallows two of them, then they'll pull toward each other, possibly ripping a hole in the intestine.
But the legal reasoning right now that the children are harmed in the making of it and their victims, dead or not, suffered through the making and suffers through continued distribution of it. I'm sure there'll be some landmark cases soon enough.
It's not always the reinforcement. It can also be the accumulated result of decades of very slow reactions happening in the cement binder, or between the binder and the aggregate, generally also driven by moisture and gases penetrating the pores in the concrete, so cracks and spalling accelerate the process.

If it was just the rebar, we could replace the iron rebar with drawn basalt fiber rebar.

Perhaps in the future, structural concrete will be covered in an outer layer of ceramic that is subsequently vitrified at a certain stage in curing. You keep your building from collapsing by burning it in a towering inferno first.
Buckyballs! I still have some, bought when they were legal in the U.S. They're pretty strong magnets and stick together and you can make shapes with them.

Only problem -- if a little kid or animal swallows at least 2 of them, then they can pinch some intestines together inside you and be stuck there and kill you.
If the app is aiming to making carpooling more accessible, you will see an increase in occurrence of these issues.

The point I'm driving at is that it's still a marketplace and it comes with all the same standard hazards that apply to any marketplace. There are disputes and exceptions that have to be managed. Machines are not good at that yet.
The second was definitely political, as he was one of the main organizers of the black panther party. The third occurred less than 60 years ago, or less than two generations.
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I use withState from recompose heavily for this reason.
It seems (from the pitch deck posted in another comment) that I had conflated "ride sharing" with "unregulated use of your car and free time to work for a cab service". It seems I was biased by all the "sharing economy" BS and jumped to a conclusion I shouldn't have jumped to.
Gold is speculative, stocks are investments. Bitcoin is speculative.

https://i.imgur.com/AltAcnB.jpg

Keep in mind this graph is logarithmic in scale.
It's ironic to me that this is basically what Lyft started as (Zimride).
Hey that's pretty fun.

Thanks for posting this. I wonder if I could see it from the city. It's supposed to be visible in 41 days for about 4 minutes. It would be nice if they could have a little bit more accurate timing, though.
Ask HN: Are any designers wireframing/prototyping in code?
It seems like Sketch is taking over the space, but for me, tools like this just get in the way and slow me down. I've been writing front-end for over 10 years and have developed considerable speed just coding designs instead of using a tool like Sketch.

For those of you that are very practiced with writing front-end code, have you come to the same conclusion or are there benefits to using a tool like Sketch that I'm missing?
Love what you guys are doing!
Each of the languages you mention are very small deltas (relatively) from our current state of the art (some more than others). It's not hard to convince one of the benefits of such languages, because they are already anchored. e.g. X language is like Y but with Types. Or, W language is like Z but with pure functions. etc.

Eve was very different from any language in widespread adoption, to the point where using it didn't even feel like programming at times. Therefore, it was difficult to quantify the benefits to others (especially companies) who have not experienced them first hand. With Eve, we didn't even know the full scope of supposed benefits until we started actually using the system we imagined in our heads.
surely 'failing to appeal to authority' would be anti-hacker, any elegantly hacked solution would appeal to authority while simultaneously undertaking pro-hacker activity in order to legitimise and make maximum impact with your actions, I would rather consider these scientists who have taken their time to bring something important to our attention as media hackers, and the fact we are discussing them tells me their fu is prime.
>which means you're going to be taking home a lot more disposable income than you would in SV.

Rolling the dice in SV will result in much bigger winnings more often than it will in other areas. That's worth something, and obviously people are willing to pay for it (give up some things).
You have to watch the SafariLive Channel on Youtube. They are live everyday and they dont shy away from the hunt. amazing stuff.
The whole "work is life" thing is pretty weird, and I'm ambitious. Life has lots of interesting things that have nothing to do with JavaScript, why would you waste your youth on yet another JS framework?

I somewhat regret the large amounts of time I put into my side projects when I was young (20s). They definitely produced results in my career, but I'm uncertain if they provided that much of a boost. From my vantage point, you can get along quite well by latching on to a bandwagon and networking, rather than working so hard.
What? No, it's not. He was responding to the claim that "nobody has that right" with a clear example showing it's false...
"Soon enough, numerous sites/services will crop up, likely funded by ads, subscription fees or non-profit status, competing on usability for retail consumers."

Will they compete with the Internet Archive, which does not need to serve ads or charge fees?

The authors question remains unanswered. Is there any reason for the data to now be withheld from the Internet Archive?

This comment appears to be an appeal for "competition" that involves eliminating a competitor: the Internet Archive.

But consider that there are some users who prefer the Internet Archive for usability. Perhaps this is why the author writes about this on his blog. Anyone wishing to compete on usability can copy the data from Internet Archive and reformat it as they wish.

In the same way, there are some users who prefer EDGAR for SEC filings versus alternatives in terms of usability. Anyone can copy the data from EDGAR, repackage it and then compete on usability.

The existing source of the public data may present the data in a format free from Javascript tracking, third party advertising, paywalls and "free apis" that would allow access to be limited and optionally denied (contradicts stated objective of "making these documents accessible"; instead seeks to limit access). For some users, being free from these impediments makes the data highly accessible.

With respect to those users, any new proposed source must compete with the existing source. Not to mention the potential it allows for any others who may wish to reformat/repackage the data.

When the people behind the new proposed source call for the discontinuation of the original source, this raises a red flag.

Eliminating a competitor is not a prerequisite for "competition".

Finally, the suggestion of "non-profit status" is interesting.

Lets say someone who enjoys programming wants to start a project/company that repackages donated public information in a way that she believes is more usable than the alternatives.

Lets assume the costs of doing this are not that much, mainly just her time.

If she charges fees to users or advertisers for access, her income from this effort might exceed her costs.

She might reinvest the surplus into the project. She might pay herself a salary.

Is there a limit on how much she can pay herself while the business still remains tax-exempt?
Suppose some system like this is actually possible and not just fiction. Then, the FBI still doesn't need it, because the legal system already has a way to address this problem. Warrants.
It still sounds as though they accuse the public for this, though. I can't abide that.
Sitting behind the wheel of a country where crystal meth is easier to get than food.
i don't know about you but i'm willing to give the computer science professor who gave the presentation at a security conference the benefit of the doubt about understanding encryption
Not only that, the metaphor doesn't make sense. If we were at 2 minutes to midnight 1953, either we're dead now or the clock doesn't work like a clock. It should be the doomsday pressure gauge.
You're projecting and not seeing the big picture. Cheap, high-quality, and healthy food delivery would be beneficial to all Americans, especially the working class and especially fledgling restauranteurs. Just because you live a life of luxury doesn't mean that all services are luxuries.

Someone who is working oddjobs from 9am-9pm and still barely making next month's rent payment would benefit both from having extra time, and hopefully their health would not suffer if they were eating decent food.
>Food delivery is hitting the world like a cat-5 hurricane. You can’t watch a network football game without seeing commercials about it.

So the "world" is the US? Because the rest doesn't have "network football games" or "food delivery" ads, and tons of countries have had perfectly thriving delivery businesses, even open 24/7.
What would make this "declarative way to talk about C interfaces" less error prone than something like this?

extern fn read(fd: c_int, buf: *mut c_char, len: usize) -> isize;

pub fn read(fd: c_int, buf: &mut [c_char]) -> isize {
unsafe { read(fd, buf.as_mut(), buf.len()) }
}

Further, note that this is insufficient for an idiomatic Rust API. You would also want to wrap the file descriptor (perhaps not for all C APIs) and the return value (definitely applies to all C APIs). So it would really look more like this:

pub struct File { fd: c_int }

impl File {
pub fn read(&self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize, ReadError> {
let r = unsafe { read(self.fd, buf.as_mut(), buf.len()) };
if r == -1 {
Err(ReadError::from(errno))
} else {
Ok(r as usize)
}
}
}

I can certainly imagine a way to do that declaratively, but not in a way that helps even this most basic of examples. (Also, note that constructing raw pointers is completely safe- `as_mut` for example.)
I tend to agree and I always got the impression that Casey was far more motivated by his vlogging than running beme.
Where are you getting these numbers from? The CIA factbook says over 300k Americans visit Denmark every year, and the information I can find on Chinese tourists says Denmark was estimated to get less than 300k Chinese tourists in all of 2017 (it was updated in Nov 2017).

Also Denmark gets close to a million British visitors per year. And then add to that the number of visitors from countries who are very likely to speak English as a second language, and the people from countries like Ireland, Canada, and Australia.

I think the problem here is that you don't notice all of the English speakers because they just don't stick out as much as Chinese tourists do. Sure you can notice the obvious tourists, but there are plenty of them that you wouldn't know were tourists unless you talked them. Chinese culture is also much different, so they are even more likely to stick out.

In addition, I'm going to guess that Chinese tourists are a common topic of conversation and news coverage, at least more so than English speaking tourists are because it's a change from the norm--you have to change if you want to accommodate them. This can lead to you over-representing Chinese tourists in your mental model.
Everything from the marketing to branding/design to distribution channel is designed to encourage higher frequency active trading among retail investors. When you're using Facebook-like product design tactics to encourage "engagement" (in this case, more trades), then you're not a neutral fee-free brokerage but an active contributor to irrational behavior.

I would be less critical if they had a library of investor education materials, or required investors to go through a training course to understand the risks of riskier trades (i.e. margin or options trading), but as far as I know they don't have anything like that.
I post this in every related thread but can't help myself as I really believe it's important. Delete your facebook/instagram/whatever account. Get off of Google services. If and when a distrubuted, encrypted, open source social network gains traction that cares about privacy as much as duckduckgo, then maybe consider using it. This will almost certainly never happen because joe interweb clicker doesn't give a shit.