skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It did and it didn't. On one hand, we stopped a panic that would have led to a true depression. On the other hand we did so by actually increasing the power and wealth of many of the people and organizations responsible for creating the conditions that led to the panic.

Do that long enough and you get a civilization run by overconfident incompetents and shielded fraudsters. That build up of delusional bozos at the top is one of the things that eventually leads to collapse.

Bitcoin was in some ways a protest in code form. Why can't we create a software defined monetary system that is transparent and where corrupt and incompetent human orgs can be replaced by algorithms?

I like that idea, but Bitcoin itself was really just a proof of concept. We're not there yet. In the meantime we've gotten a silly bubble that's starting to look like a parody of the project's original goals.
Because it allows users to send inappropriate content?

What next, automatic voice censorship? That's technically feasible now.
I don't think web components were intended to be used directly by average users; even a basic abstraction layer makes the tedious bits easier. Take this to its logical end and you have something like [skatejs](https://github.com/skatejs/skatejs), an abstraction layer over web components that you'd probably find very familiar and easy to use.

In that sense, web components aren't meant to compete with react and other frameworks, but to serve as an alternate, native foundational layer for frameworks.
I have seen very few people actually hook up a debugger and step through code lately. This is particularly pronounced in many of the functional idioms that are making it into java and similar languages. Stepping through a loop is now much more involved, entering the stream is a step in, not just a step.

I don't actually have a lot of experience with the rust world, but the main complaint with macros is typically that you can't step through them easily.

With my getting downvoted, I'm assuming I'm wrong and that step debuggers are more common in rust than I was assuming. I think that makes me happy. If anyone has a good video demonstrating this level of tooling, I'd be interested.
Agreed. What can we really say is causal? Not that much in the grand scheme of things.
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Yes. You can have persistent channels with up to 100000 members which operate more or less like an individual chat. The program has separate notification settings for group chats, allows pinning of messages, etc. Content is shared the same way, you can integrate bots pretty easily into channels, and so on. Just search online for channels or browse through this list: https://tchannels.me

It's pretty handy, and how deep you go is up to you.
No because that would require some form of energy transfer. To observe the state of the system you have to take energy from it. I suspect your very presence would likely be a big contributor to this not working to start with too.

Disclaimer: I am not a physicist; merely an engineer.
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You mean the gov't regulation prevented the GD that it created?
The main goal of this project is as a helper for monitoring/alerting, a very basic UI is present and is optional.

I made this tool for our internal use, and posted it here just in case anyone else has similar issues.

Edit: Added screenshot https://github.com/turbobytes/certmon#screenshot
When are Lyft and Uber going to add a “refund” button within their app?
This morning - once again - I got charged 5usd for cancelling a ride even though I had good reasons to do so. This happens too many times because of Lyft/Uber's fault, not mine:

- I cancel a ride because the driver goes in the opposite direction
- The app keeps showing 2/4 mins and it's been 10+min I have been waiting
- Drivers calling me to ask to cancel the ride
- ...

If I want to get a refund, I need to spend too much time: DM + email -> https://twitter.com/julienbarbier42/status/959105112223264768 + wait for the refund to show on my bank account. (note: when I do ask for refund I always get it, the customer support is nice with me, all the time).

When it comes to paying Lyft/Uber, this is automatically done, they don't have to send me a DM and email to ask me to pay them for the service I used. Why would we have to spend so much time to get reimbursed for a service that we did NOT use?

Please Lyft/Uber, add a button "refund" WITHIN the app. You technically can EASILY do it. It should be as easy to get reimbursed than to be charged. Of course, you can review complains / claims, but I should not have to spend that much more time asking for reimbursement, especially when I right, I am a customer for a long time, I already have a good track record, and all claims I made in the past were confirmed by your team.

Why is this not already done?
New Universe Simulation Makes Predictions About Cosmological Structures
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Every time I think software is hard, I dabble in hardware for a bit.
I personally find Rust quite a joy to read.
I guess the main countervailing force against this would be pricing pressure from employers looking for better deals. I don't really know what the power balance looks like in those negotiations, but employers banding together would certainly tip the scales

It is my underatanding however that a lot of providers have payers under their thumb. A great example of this is the UCLA vs blue shield (or blue cross?) of CA a few years back. Another commenter here mentioned UPMC, another example of a mammoth local provider dictating what payers do. Sutter health in the Bay Area is a similar Goliath, and the publicly traded hospital systems (community health, HCA, etc) have made a business model out of exploiting local hospital monopolies to extract money from payers.

Payers definitely don't like this, and if they start getting squeezed on the other side from employers, it could really squeeze some payers
How well does it work with heavy use of macros? Specifically, what does it mean to "step into" a heavily macro based section? I'd be very interested in seeing examples.
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What is the “problem?” Depending on what you’re trying to solve, you don’t need to go as low level as possible — it’s likely a mistake as to try and model the universe is a futile exercise.
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What if an internet service provider sells Internet subscriptions that are not backed by real bandwidth. If enough customers want to stream video the ISP will not be able to provide enough bandwidth for them.

Would you call that fraud?
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First rule of science reporting: Instances of the word "May" should be read as "Probably Won't".
I'm increasingly of the opinion that teeth just need to go. They don't heal, so all your efforts are only to postpone their decay. The pulp and nerves only serve to help them grow and then only provide a liability. Modern implants seem overall superior. If you have the money and tolerance for short-term-pain i'd advise just yanking them all and getting implants.

Edit: I'd like to apologise. I was raised in a rural area without floride or proper dental care. My teeth are in a place where no matter what I do I will be losing almost all of them over the next decade. I am frustrated.
I do still cite Qt's API documentation as the best I've ever used.
Only 39% of the submissions to the latest ICLR (machine learning conference) were from .edu emails [1]. There's a lot of research going on outside of academia, and there's also a large portion of academia that doesn't use the .edu TLD. That said, I don't have a solution to your problem of fighting spam.

[1]: http://webia.lip6.fr/~pajot/dataviz.html
The first time I saw the shanghi tower video, I actually thought he was going to BASE jump because he initially had a backpack on.

But, many of these situations guys are putting themselves in wouldn't be helped by a parachute. If they fall close to the structure getting the chute to open is going to be a problem.
2017 for me was the year of the podcast. I came across podcasts such as The Daily from the New York Times, a 20 minute rundown of the day's biggest stories, and Hardcore History from Dan Carlin, 4-6 hour epics. Alongside podcasts on politics, tech, and more. Podcasts are consuming my TV, movie and music streaming time.

My biggest issue are the ads, they are very generic and it seems the same types of companies dominate the space. Primarily services like zip recruiter, blue apron, and other subscription types. Also, the ad reads are very hit or miss when done by the podcast presenters.

I think there is big business for a pod casting platform that can get the ad model right (personalized ads, professionally read) along with suggestions and curation of suggested podcasts.
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Ahh the race track. It's just like the highway, except the roads are smaller and a corporation gets to control who drives on it. And they make you pay to use it. Brilliant.
Its definitely not. VC funded startups are 0.1% of the global businesses out there. For every VC company there are 100k small businesses working on being productive and profitable.
> oh, where do you find private doctors in France?

Most doctors in France are private practitioners. They may or may not draw some (or all) of their revenue from insurance, which is partly funded by the government, but not fully (only a little more than 70% of health costs, in the aggregate).
benefits me personally

People driving around me by car (whether I'm by bike or car or ...) usually also don't benefit me personally. On the contrary. Also there's a ton of car driving going on which to me seems completely unnecessary (e.g. I know people driving to a store 3 times a week, and I know for a fact the products they buy would be just as good if only bought once a week, and I'm not even speaking about the extra emissions of the car). I actually know of accidents caused by people in perfect health which as such in my opinion could just as well have taken their bike out in the sunny weather to go to the bakery 1 kilometre from their house.

Apart from that, being no stranger to extreme sports and random 'weird' behaviour myself, I also think about it in another way: what this guy does is in no way beneficial to me or you but maybe it is beneficial for him. He did this already before sharing it with millions and I'm pretty sure that is not his main driving force. 'Adrenaline addiction' or whatever you want to call it is likely pretty real from him. At least it is for me. And what happens to me mentally when I don't get my shot is not nice. So yes, this behaviour is sort of necessary to be able to function normally and feel alive. Though I do try not to things which might put other people at risk.
Who will now live forever as we have cured them of every form of cancer.

I am quite conflicted about science news of this nature. "Study looks interesting!" covers 95% of these stories, but doesn't have the same jazz to it as the headlines we get.

To be honest, I've consumed thousands of these stories. Not a one of them provided information that I ever found valuable. They just took up a few minutes of reading and provided some fodder for online conversation.
For context, this was sent to readers of my sarcastic / informative weekly newsletter, Last Week in AWS (https://lastweekinaws.com).
Gwynne Shotwell (CEO of SpaceX) stated near the end of this video[1] that the reason they had such good video coverage is that they usually follow the second stage, but in this case it was a classified mission and were forbidden to do so. The cameras followed the first stage return instead.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjTHJzWPTnU
I believe Rust took direct inspiration from Scheme (or at the very least functional languages in general).
Announcing Linode Block Storage Volumes
I don't think connected neural ensembles made from a deep learning architecture can scale to what we would call general artificial intelligence.

At least not with decades of manual supervision.
On the other hand, the main application for those contracts is ICOs -- which are themselves primarily a speculative instrument. It's turtles all the way down.
Genuine question: whether or not Tether is fraudulent, how much can a currency with a market cap of ~$2B affect the greater ecosystem, or even just Bitcoin with a purported market cap of ~$150B? Obviously a scandal of this magnitude in a major cryptocurrency is bad for the whole environment for a host of reasons...but if Tether is really just a ~$2B fabricated cash injection, how much could it really prop up BTC?
Do implants last longer and/or work better? My understanding is that they try to save the original tooth because implants just push the problem down the road a bit farther, but you have to replace them again later.
Cool story. I got one when visiting France on holidays in my teens just when they came out in volume. I really don't remember anything else from that holiday.
My hope is that there isn't a complete crash before some of the most unique and important ideas being built on blockchain technology have a chance to come to light.

It might need a 2014 reset before it happens, but there are plenty of ideas not yet able to be executed because the crypto community at large are waiting for the technology to catch up.

I have a business plan in the works on a nonprofit that would benefit the world as a whole. I don't want investors or an ICO or whatever. I just want crypto to still be exciting by the time I build it, otherwise it'll be that much harder to onboard anyone who would benefit from such a system.
War photographer Eddie Adams and the Saigon photo that shocked the world
Having went through removing a single healthy tooth (Wisdom) I'd say that yanking 20+ teeth is a crazy endeavour.
Spectre/Meltdown Pits Transparency Against Liability
C++ templates are intertwined with parsing and typechecking, while Rust has two separate features that cover the same ground: macros, which are purely parse time, and generics, which are purely run at typechecking time. This has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of C++'s model is that it has one feature instead of two, and this allows for features like SFINAE that Rust has no analogue to. The advantages of Rust's model are that (1) the implementation is a lot simpler; (2) you can typecheck generics before they're expanded, which is a big improvement in ergonomics; (3) generics cover 90% of the use cases, so you rarely have to reach for macros.
A short guide on features of Python 3 for data scientists
Apparently back pain is exclusively a physical laborers' problem
Ask HN: What would you like to see in a tech blog revolving around JavaScript?
I am making myself a challenge to write 1 quality blog everyday to make sure I got a good grasp of the subject in question.

I know, I know you must be thinking yet another blog. But I think the number of libraries/frameworks JavaScript ecosystem creates, there aren't enough people blogging about them. Also, there aren't more quality blogs like CSS Tricks or HackerNoon or sometimes FreeCodeCamp (yeah FCC used to be great once upon a time). Most of the people that write a lot of code aren't that interested in blogging.

I can write about CSS, JavaScript, React, React Native, GraphQL, Apollo, Node, Redux, Mobx, Jest, Flow & a lot of other things.

Please comment if you work with any of the above & what you would like to see? A full blown real world example or short explaination of concepts. Also, if there is any interest I can create Series like CSS Grid (there are already many out there but mine would be more example focused) or anything you love.

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