skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nowadays, everything is pass-by-value.

Even viewing sharing as a subtype of value, that's not true; call by need exists in modern languages (e.g., Haskell), and, in fact, classic call-by-reference is available in lots of languages, though not the exclusive model in any (and not the primary model in any current popular language I can think of.)
After scouring the website for a bit I can't make head nor tail of this.

Since it sounds like a fork of Ripple, it's very much centralized, right?
I don't get it, it's far too abstract to me. A company's goal is to fulfill its vision? It really doesn't help unless they identify what that vision is. And identifying who the stakeholders are is of course an important step but it doesn't illuminate anything unless we know what they intend.
I recently attended a Joey Alexander concert at SFJazz. Aside from a clear "no photograph" policy, there are also attendants watching people and reminding them if they took their phones out. It's working but definitely didn't cover all high-profile concerts like the ones featuring Jack White.
The Wisdom And/or Madness of Crowds
unless you pass an object ..... then it is its partial pass by reference. Is HN the place to get wrong information, this is an example of what is going on here. How is this not completely downvoted out of oblivion

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/518000/is-javascript-a-p...
Absolutely! And more, it may be that the users are getting more distracted and less productive, although it seems they don't recognize this possibility.

I have tried to use the new tab with everything integrated (another search bar? most visited/pin without reordering, pocket articles) and Mozilla snarks and tips (which I like and find elegant) the feeling each time I open a new tab is the same as when I open my phone with the intent of doing something and, after being bombarded with icons and notifications, completely forget what I wanted to solve in the first place.

It is horrible UX to me. At least I can disable it as I did and I love my empty new tab without any suggestions whatsoever.

Just to dig a bit deeper, I believe browsers chrome should be removed (or greatly reduced) and we should try something new. I don't want to see an endless list of open tabs or your shiny buttons, I want to absorb content. Using Vimperator/Pentadactyl/qutebrowser,etc in the past without system borders opened my eyes to how websites can be beautiful when they are not in a cage and I can't unsee the bloat.

The best Mozilla product of the past couple years, to me, wasn't FF Quantum, but Firefox Focus. I want Focus for the desktop. Amnesic, secure, fast, unbloatable.
> I prefer hotels to Airbnb

I really don't get this kind of opinion, just because it is so binary. Hotels are great when you need to quickly check-in and check-out, although the experience vary grandly and they can get pretty bad and pretty expensive.

On the other hand if I want to feel "at home", if I want something cheaper, if I want a kitchen and if I want something well located. Airbnb is always the answer.

There's something really impersonal about staying in a hotel that you don't get with an Airbnb (although some airbnbs are pretty bad as well).

I remember almost all the airbnbs I've stayed at. I usually forget about how a hotel room looks a few days after checking out. Try to think about this, you'll be surprised ;)
Not quite accurate. The primitive types (string, number, null, boolean, symbol, undefined) are passed only by value. Also, the page you link to says "the terminology is inconsistent across different sources", so it doesn't seem an ideal choice. Javascript is pass by value, with some of those values being references.
I agree with Yegge, but this launched in June, not the day after Yegge's blog post.
In fairness to free.law which appears to provide unrestricted bulk access and uses open formats, what stops anyone, including the blog author, from downloading the bulk data, and then uploading to the Internet Archive?

To some users, it is actually preferable to have bulk access to raw data than thousands of individual html pages on a www server. Because for some it may be less work to transform the raw data into some other format, e.g., 1000s of pages of html, than it is to scrape all those html pages from a www server, process and store them in a searchable format.

Consider raw text versus PDF. PDF may look great but text is more flexible and more easily searchable. While its easy to convert text to PDF for reading, converting from PDF to text for searching is fraught with difficulty and a high margin for error.

If one accepts

more difficult: PDF -> text
less difficult: text -> PDF

then it stands to reason that text is the more preferable format to start with. Because its both easy to search and easy to generate PDF for aesthetics and reading.
Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization
Pretty much this. Law enforcement is trying to get their monetary share from crime (or "crime" depending upon how you look at it), and anything they can do to make that easier they want.
Still better than my own existential dread about all the things programming I'll never be able/doing/learning/getting a hang on, which I derive from the realization that my lifespan is limited. I mean, it's not easy to admit that even my basic research is ... mostly out-/open-sourced.

EDIT: reading the article further, I discover the author is covering this. It's an amazing read.
Hi, since you're here just a quick question not really worth a Github issue - what is the reason for the 1-second resolution in the DELAY parameter in Disque and will that ever get more fine? We currently use Bull as a job queue on Redis and the delay is a key and visible part of our application, so that alone kind of eliminates Disque as a consideration for us.
Whoooooa
Interesting for me, in as much as I'm a python3 programmer transitioning to R/Shiny...

Python is better for doing the work but R/Shiny is better for showing it to people.
I didn't get paid to say.
I'm a big fan and I hope you see this comment before the edit window passes (unlikely, unfortunately):

You need to get yourself some whitespace in this reply!
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That being anti-illegal immigration is being a nazi? That's evidence of exaggerated rhetoric, which distorts the discussion.
If it was an existing condition or not a work related injury then most likely they have no legal recourse.
With kids you are always "on call".
"(...) None of us could live with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to. An habitual truth-teller is simply an impossible creature; he does not exist; he never has existed. Of course there are people who think they never lie, but it is not so—and this ignorance is one of the very things that shame our so-called civilization. Everybody lies—every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. (...)"

Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html)
That is not what I meant. Both are objectively measurable results - of course if you look at critic voices the details in their implementation differ, but in general yes.

But there are different ways of implementing something and which one you choose depends on assumptions. If you use Field Equations for describing relativity you need a certain set of assumptions. If you use a different mechanism to describe relativity, you need another set.

You can't build a theory without assumptions.
> It is available literally anywhere in the industrialized world.

A Tesla Supercharger is 120kW of power. A typical US house uses 74.75kW-hrs per day (if averaged over 16-hours, that's 5kW per hour).

Even if you dropped down to a typical "L2" charging station of 7.2kW(roughly 10-miles of charge every hour), each charging car is virtually the same electricity usage as an entire residential house.

10kW of Solar Panels is easily "googlable" if you want to estimate the costs of this kind of infrastructure. Buy a 10kW panel for each car you want to charge in your parking lot, and you can see how expensive this can get.

With current levels of infrastructure, it is probably infeasible to charge more than 10 cars in most parking garages today. You'd have to build transformers of significantly higher power to supply the electricity required at schools, work, malls, etc. etc.

And then there is the question of "who pays for all this infrastructure", as well as "who pays for the electricity". Finally, with "smart grids", we still need to decide upon policies when the grid is overpowered as well as underpowered. Some smart-grid systems will run air-conditioning at half-power during underpowered grid status for example, should car charging in parking lots also run at half or less charging speed in the case of poor grid functionality???

Its a non-trivial problem. 3 or 4 L1 chargers in a parking lot (which barely gives 3-miles of charge per hour) is practically useless to the typical consumer. Electric car owners will rely upon a 240V L2 unit in their garage if they want to be practical about all of this. As well as a car that has a big enough battery to take yourself to work (the mall, the school) and back on a single charge.

In summary: there are cultural, infrastructure, AND policy questions that need to be answered should electric chargers be widely deployed in a typical parking lot.
I've stayed at Airbnb's where I wasn't allowed to use their kitchen. Ergo, Airbnb isn't always the answer, it does vary.
The simplest answer is to ask Congress to put aside a budget for a Congressional encrypted communications channel with key escrow or some other great backdoor idea. Then, the executive can do an RFP, get it implemented and then we just wait until presumed-private-congressional communications are revealed.
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He must be a relative of my late friend, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7387402
It's not different, but so far no one knows the interpreter semantics.
Odd, did it say what the error was?

[edit] I think I found and fixed the issue. Thanks for mentioning it.

Yes, working on having a better landing page for sure. I just pushed a small update to clean it up a bit. Been trying to get some design help though.

I like the idea of a default entry. I may have to play around with that.
> Invested a little saved and since then made a decent return, better than if that money was in a bank. So far, I'm doing better than the large-company mutual funds after 3 years, but as I've been reading, that's probably good luck.

The only thing you should be comparing yourself against is the s&p500, if you haven't beaten that, then you're down.

Also, the markets have been in an unprecedented bull run. Everything you've learned will be useless once the tide turns
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>I don't know, how about we embrace mobile phones in gigs instead?

Because its the exact opposite of what he's trying to do here? Music is an inherently human experience, why do we need to bring computers in to all aspects of our life?
Software Quality as Perceived Risk Part II
Checking phones is part of the human experience.
Using virtual reality to identify brain areas involved in memory
Why Is Apple Suddenly Hiring So Many More Designers?
> The American view of human rights is that your fundamental rights are endowed by your creator, and not given to you by man. In other words, no person is needed to provide a right to you.

I'm not arguing that you are necessarily wrong, but I am arguing that your point and the actual execution of our government are contradictory.

Notable contradictions to the above, the 2nd, 18th & 21st amendments. Let's go with the 2nd since is wonderfully controversial. Via the above definition and a loose modern interpretation of modern state of the law: People have the right to own guns. The government doesn't have the right to stop it.

But relying on the quoted above, and if we're discussing rights given via a creator, and not rights given by another man, there is no constitutional right to be able to buy a gun. A person can own a gun, and create a guy and form a militia of gun owners, but the government is well within it's rights to ban the sale of all guns in the country without any violation of the 2nd.

Now we're all reasonable people here, and know that's not the contemporary interpretation. And no-one (certainly least me) is arguing that it should be. But what it does point out that that we can't use the concept of "rights given by a creator" as a necessary criteria for supporting or judging contemporary interpretation of rights and law. Not that it hasn't happened.

So again I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that it's a contradictory argument against healthcare. If we say we cut out healthcare for that reason, then we also have to also cut out everything that has the same lacking reason.
You can read John Hawks, quoted in this post's linked NYT article, with his own take on recent findings[1], echoing many of the points made by Razib Khan. Even Chris Stringer, one of most vocal & staunch advocates for a simple Out of Africa has recently walked that back [2]

If you are reading experts still standing behind a simplistic Out of Africa model after all the recent findings of archaic admixture and incredibly deep splits in human populations, I'd be very curious to see some links to papers/articles.

[1] https://medium.com/@johnhawks/the-story-of-modern-human-orig...

[2] https://www.edge.org/conversation/christopher_stringer-rethi...
I take it you didn't buy amazon 10 years ago for a 1600% return?
I don't think that Airbnb is really giving back to the community: they might IPO this year or the next and most of the value created will go to VCs, founders and employees, while guests and hosts still pay up to 20% fees.

That's why I've built CryptoCribs (https://www.cryptocribs.com) to enable repeat users to share their homes without paying a middleman
It can still be correlation. It's possible you're just attributing something to an attribute you're tracking but that's just coincidence. Without a sense of why, you can't be certain about any conclusions.
Thanks for the kind words.

We're trying to get a productive discussion started, so hopefully we can reduce the risk of ever getting stuck with something truly horrible like mandated backdoors or key escrow.

Re: strong crypto can't be taken away - That's very true. I guess it depends on what threat model Wray is hoping to go after.

At least until a few years ago, the terrorists weren't even using encryption -- they were posting publicly about their upcoming attacks on Facebook! There was this awkward period of a couple of years where, after every attack, the authorities would claim there was encryption preventing them from stopping the attack. Then some days later, we came to find out that the attacker was already known to them and had been communicating in the clear!

So I think if Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, ..., all moved to some very-very-expensive-but-breakable model, that would cover most of the guys doing knife and gun attacks, truck bombs, etc. in the real world.
It always baffles me that a company based in a country as litigious as the US has gotten away with being so careless about Customer Care for so long.
Interesting conversation. I don’t think a choice of work defines somebody as much as you are suggesting.

Also, there are loads of people in sfba that are not wealthy tech workers. You blame the region and our group think but it’s maybe partly your personal bubble?
It was initially a fork of Ripple but has since been rewritten. Stellar is more decentralized, because each node decides which others to trust. In the Ripple network, certain nodes have been blessed as "validating nodes".

There's a Stellar StackExchange question which goes into the differences a bit more: https://stellar.stackexchange.com/a/57/9
Thank you for the reply. Those blog articles are indeed upsetting. The good news is they do not reflect our current attitude towards signup walls. I expect major changes soon, we've heavily staffed up the internal teams that deal with this so I expect a more elegant unauth experience in the future.
I'm the same way as the parent. Especially traveling on business, I want something straightforward and reliable even if my flight is delayed. Especially outside of cities on vacation, I may well stay in "official" B&Bs (which are increasingly listed on Airbnb although I almost always book direct) assuming it's not somewhere like a national park where I likely don't have that option.
Why was no one ever so militant against advertising in newspapers? "There are pages of ads, whole sections, just ads!! I didn't look in the newspaper to see ads!"

Because newspaper ads didn't track us, didn't bounce and shake, and didn't execute malware on our computers.
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200,000 years is still very recent. 2 million years ago we where limited to Africa. After that things get complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus#/media/File:Human...

And of course on these time scales people can easily walk all over the place. We only see remnants of larger populations lone wanderers are extremely unlikely to leave any evidence behind.
There are many non-printable characters that can be used to hide whatever you want in plain sight.
Maybe you've been lucky so far working with good code.

Most code is like this, it's semi-painful to work in. Once you have been working on it a while you'll be more used to it.

I would spin it more like this. Hey if we refactor/rewrite this we can improve it and knock out these bugs in the process.

It may be hard to convince the company to spend money on refactoring let alone writing tests. But you can always ask in a positive way to start on parts of it.

You get paid the same, be positive, fix bugs/issues, improve things where you can. Keep making positive suggestions.

As a developer you're almost always going to feel the urge to rewrite every app from scratch. I expect the code is making them money and they just want to keep things moving for now.

At some point there is usually a rewrite from scratch, maybe that can be your project.

Good luck with your new gig.
Good. These kinds of things need to happen and be well-known in order for companies like Tinder to get their act together.
For me, as an introvert, having my phone to play a game on has changed everything for me. Instead of not going to a social event at all, or leaving early when I'm feeling drained, I can take out my phone for a few minutes here and there to zone out and recharge my batteries.

If I found out a venue was going to take my phone as I came in, that would be a HARD no for me ever going to that venue. And if I didn't know about it beforehand, I would be extremely irate.
I love taking the address of labels. Back in highschool I wrote a couple of articles on using them to create JIT compilers:

http://maplant.com/jit_bf.html

http://dginasa.blogspot.com/2012/05/jit-compilation-without-...
> In the other case, I leave the facility, get to safety, but my phone is either destroyed, or in a pile with 900 other concert-goers' phones, and I need to either wait around (in a place where emergency services probably don't want extra people), or _replace my destroyed phone_.

You should check out how Yondr works: https://www.overyondr.com/howitworks/

The phone stays with you.
Well, the one idea we have now is to limit it to whoever can authorize spending thousands or millions of dollars in electricity to solve a computational puzzle that recovers the key.

In practice, I'd like to see it require judicial oversight to release the funds.
Why does everything crypto related feel the need to create a whitepaper following scientific conventions, even when there is nothing scientific about it...
I find the Boy Scout Rule to be helpful:

> The Boy Scouts have a rule: "Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it." If you find a mess on the ground, you clean it up regardless of who might have made the mess. You intentionally improve the environment for the next group of campers. Actually the original form of that rule, written by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the father of scouting, was "Try and leave this world a little better than you found it."

> What if we followed a similar rule in our code: "Always check a module in cleaner than when you checked it out." No matter who the original author was, what if we always made some effort, no matter how small, to improve the module. What would be the result?

http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/The_Bo...

Apply it as you go. Piece by piece. Perhaps encourage your fellow developers to adopt the practice.
And not just to check that they aren't dead :)
Hammers and Nails
> This decreases the total amount of apartments available for long-term renters.

I don't see why this is necessarily bad. If short-term renters provide better value to the owners, why should they be deprived of this opportunity?
Sarcasm is an ok thing in mediums where there are side channel cues that the user is being sarcastic. Unfortunately, it doesn't carry well in writing, unless you're extremely clear about it.

I don't think it adds anything to an online comments board / discussion. And in some cases, it detracts. It often just comes across as hostility.
Primitive types and properties that are primitive types are pass by value, objects and functions are pass by reference.
if you will it, it is no dream
The price has nothing to do with the science. Otherwise, why didn't it explode back in 2015 when SCP was released?
I think one of the key benefits for some users is that they can use the HOV lane and save a good chunk of time every day.

And many people aren't like you - they might make minimum wage and gas is a big expense for them.

Now I wouldn't do it for the reasons you mentioned but we must remember that we're a fortunate group.
How to get developers to report time? 3 reasons and solution
that may very well be really bad for consumers. If Robinhood sells to Citadel and Citadel has better execution than IB, you are getting worse prices on IB.
Thanks! Done :-)
We have some preliminary thoughts: https://twitter.com/hackermath/status/956617943768481792
It really didn't take long for the connection to be drawn - Archaeopteryx was discovered in the 1860s or so, if I remember rightly. What took a long time was for the idea to reach the public and stick.
They're revamping their Education department
is it strictly in-mem? for instance if redis is restarted is there an option for unread streams to be saved with redis persistence
I don't see any harm in artists running this experiment, for many younger audience members, it could be the first time they experience a show without phones.

As long as such restrictions are transparent to the ticket-buyer, I'll allow them to vote with their cash. This initiative seems to be an attempt by Mr. White to sculpt the environment and experience at his shows, which is his prerogative. Other bands routinely impose restrictions (Metallica won't allow alcohol to be served while they're on-stage; Morrissey won't allow any meat to be served at his shows).
What makes "scientists" somehow especially qualified to opine on military and national security matters?

For making the actual bombs, yes, you need scientists and engineers, but the use (or likelihood of use) of the bombs is not a scientific issue.

> It only breaks when one uses authority in one field to claim credibility in something else.

Which is exactly what they're doing.
I think GOOG is perfectly capable of upping their game to- and above UBER/Lyft levels.

Even if it would require unthinkable religious sacrifice of actually providing live human support from GOOG side.
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