skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's not a decent payment method, it's not a currency.

Before bitcoin, was there any currency that was also a payment method?

I would also add that though it's not great a payment method, it's not to a degree worse than payments in euros for instance. Bank wire transfers take up to three days in Europe. I don't hear anyone stating that this undermines the value of euro as a currency.
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.3
So on the one end, you have the manager who wrestles with Powerpoint, Project, Word, Kayak.com etc.and spends only 20% of her time working as a systems designer, her real area of expertise. On the other, you have the manager who dictates his email to be typed up by a secretary, and who reads only printouts of incoming email.

Where is the sweet spot, DIY where it makes sense, and delegating to others where that makes sense?
Typical Tesla does X article. Its about the future, its going to be the biggest of its kind, not even trying to compare whats already existing.

One other (counter) example woule be next-kraftwerke (https://www.next-kraftwerke.com/), an already existing virtual power plant with 4300+ connected producers, 3500MW potential output (more than anything claimed in the article) and also 100% renewable (including wind, solar, water, wind2hydrogen etc.). And there certainly others...
It would be nice - but the Microsoft Access framework didn't really give you a way to ask the query system "How far along are we?"
That's an opinion piece and not a piece of actual investigate journalism. I'd say the point still stands: the term political correctness was popularized by the racist Sweden Democrats, and is used as I expressed. It's still mainly the right wing extremists that use it, even though it's more common to see populist far righters use it also.
Chrome OS is almost ready to replace Android on tablets
Sure.

- Onion Routing Protocol: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/maste...

- P2P Node and Channel Discovery https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/maste...

This repo contains specs for a lot of parts of the LN, although probably there may be changes I imagine.

As for code, one of the implementations, LND (Go):
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/tree/master/routing
but there are at least 3 other implementations in the works.

https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning (clang)
https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair (Scala)
https://github.com/mit-dci/lit (Go)
A parser just means
A function from streams
To maybe a pair,
One in which there
Is the stream, and the thing that it means
Does React keep the order for state updates?
- Buy Tesla and spin out project titan to the acquisition. End the distraction and get back to base business

- Quadruple down on e-health. Microsoft gave up. No one should trust amazon, google or fb to do this with any semblance of privacy.

- create “Apple seeds” - companies building tech for the ecosystem but too small at the present to be part of Apple. - imagine ubiquity being an Apple subsidiary like Claris was
Yes, though they are avoiding permit fees as well.
> Quite frankly, I'm not worried about physical access being a "vulnerability"

But it is. Imagine a dongle that installs a rootkit once you plug it in. And
now give somebody your laptop to hold for a minute.

There were (still are?) very similar issues with Windows autorun on CDs and
pendrives.
I'm not a Nazi, but rules are rules. If you are intent on immigrating to a country, then it is your duty to read and understand that country's laws. I can't visit Singapore and then claim ignorance if I get fined for spitting.

E.g the guy could have googled "sweden work permit," clicked on the first result, then through to the FAQ:

What is the requirement regarding wages?

To be granted a work permit, you must be offered a wage that is at the level of a Swedish collective agreement or what is normal for the profession or industry. You must also work to such an extent that your wages amount to at least SEK 13,000 a month before tax.

https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...
I'd be bold and invest in creating a new product that will be of iPhone magnitude. I think if any company could do a google-glass like AR device and make it popular it would be Apple.

But do something. Don't miss NLP/AI because Apple is sorely behind and Siri is fast becoming a joke. In 10 years, Tim Cook may look like Steve Ballmer.

Also, hire more developers. good chat Tim
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10683778
If you ignore the IPCC reports of 1.5m because it was based on inomplete data and consequently intentionally ignored several positive feedback liops, the most recent studies suggest 3m-4m by 2075-2100 are very possible and even likely. This obviously totally floods places like miami, osaka, all three airports in NYC, Bangladesh is gone, many of the coastal Chinese cities, parts of vancouver, etc. I haven't looked in detail at Silicon Valley but the western coast tends to fare better because there is a rapid rise from the coast (many cliffs as well though they are extra vulnerable to increased erosion and you will see many collapses) and because of how the rise won't be even (due to gravity and other variables), places like the east coast will see a much greater percentage of that water focus there.
Reviewing some of the papers was required as part of the homework assignments. That included about 15 of the most important papers. Additionally I read about 20 more to understand some of the ideas a bit better, but the list is very exhaustive and serves more as a pointer to supplemental material for those interested.
i am an anthropology major who recently became a full stack developer. this path looks impossible - what the f^*$ is linear algebra. I thought programming didnt need maths!
Carbon taxes are regressive. I’m not disagreeing with your premise, but it makes them politically difficult. (Global warming will hit the poor the hardest too.)

Anyway, it is easy to make the carbon capture economy work, assuming you’re OK with instituting a fair carbon tax:

Give carbon capture plants 0.5 tons of carbon credit for each ton captured, and have the government sell unlimited carbon credits at 2x the market rate capturers charge.

I guess cutting income/corporate tax (could they even go negative?) could prevent this from crashing the economy, and let you adjust for the inherently regressive nature of fuel taxes.
Alphabet’s Earnings Disappoint. Blame It on the iPhone
You think the claim that "they", here referring to immigrants (not defining skin color), isn't racist? It's a generalization on a group of people. And it's a negative one.
I have deleted all my photos on Facebook. Some of the "featured" photos I've deleted dozens of times (I've deleted twice just now leaving this comment midway) and Facebook still shows those featured photos in my profile when I log-in. Yes, it doesn't show anything to the public or my friends but I still can't get rid of those photos on Facebook. I tried to contact Fb couple of times but of course I didn't receive any response.

So no, I really don't think I should trust Fb with my account deletion. Besides for a long time that's just deactivation. A friend deactivated his account and after few months he received an email that in case he had changed his mind he should click this link and then they should go ahead with reactivation process. Well, that link was reactivation.

As for Google, here's an example - I get a brand new YouTube account when I visit YouTube and just play a video if I am logged in to my Gmail a/c in that browser session. The last time I tested it (before deciding to not ever logging into Fb, Tw, Google etc in the my main browser where I do my most of, and personal, browsing) it would create a YouTube account. No, not a single message, or pop up or anything. Just an automatic YouTube account. I must have deleted my YouTube account (or accounts) some 15 times by now.

I've never used Instagram, or Snapchat. Yes, Reddit's account deletion is actually straightforward (unless they too keep it hidden from user and don't delete it).
Depends how it is wired.
Sounds like a really good tutorial on leveraging your privilege to marginalize someone
We don't want to go back to those levels of carbon in the atmosphere. Doing so would completely disrupt every ecosystem in the world. As pointed out already, carbon neutral refers to a time scale that is in the order of at most a few decades. Anything longer than that would have severe ecological effects.
Spot on from what I was thinking.
Conference on the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing
One word: privacy. They are already trying to create an image that what is on an iphone is yours, that osx does not send endless amounts of telemetry back to the mothership,etc.. But I think that in the next 5 years this image will become a very important differentiator.

In the near future there will be services like the amazon and google voice assistants that rely on you being the product and there will be services that you use in private without relying on them sucking up all your meta data.
soace colonies

(as long as we're just making up future scientific advances)
We had only 16 Megs of RAM. I think it had put chunks of the query process to virtual memory to deal with the 'on timer' stuff in the GUI process.
Ordinary is no longer economically survivable.
> multiple times even after told to stop

What does this refer to? Damore shared his views, as well as his arguments, in an internal group devoted to such issues, and there was no issue until it was leaked, and people made a fuss about it. Also see "course of events" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...
I thought this post contributed to the discussion here so I vouched for it.

Yes one of the things you hopefully learn in sports is not just teamwork but that you are ultimately trying to be a little bit better every practice, every competition. And that is all on you, and success is measured individually.

It's one of the things I like about sports like running, you can always compare your performance with your previous time. Setting a new PR ("personal record") is what you are mostly striving for.
There are no government agents entering your premises, but if it turns out you had the data still (and even if it's an employee telling the police), you're on the hook for up to 4% global revenue for the time frame in which you did it, or 20 million EUR, whichever is higher.

So you absolutely don't want to do that.

Google handles this by, over the course of a few weeks, even deleting all traces from its backups and caches.
I would not go that far. With every type of olympics these days, you need to have money to fully concentrate on the sport (including many years before you become successful). There may be some sports that require less dedicated support like running but when a nation like India that has about 1 on 6 people wins 1 or 2 medals in summer olympics again and again it should become clear that those games aren't any different.
Open Source OSX/macOS, at least versions prior. Microsoft is going to beat Apple to it if it doesn't happen soon.
Holy shit I've been using a Mac for how many years and never knew this feature existed. Thank you, friend.
I actually don't see anything wrong with middle managers doing clerical work. Middle management has always been largely an information processing task: Gathering, analyzing, organizing, and communicating information.
There are also cases of immigrants being deported for taking a second job to pay the bills because the law for a worker's visa says that it applies to "a job" as in singular [0]. The same applies if you quit a lousy job and find a new one [1].

I suspect it's game theory; the public reacts more negatively to allowing immigrants the right to stay since it means they get access to integration programs while the public might get mad over an incident like this but not the overall trend of being overly rigid. The choice becomes pretty easy politically.

[0] http://viralt.aftonbladet.se/sheikh-29-ska-utvisas-fran-sver...
[1] https://digital.di.se/artikel/han-fick-jobb-som-utvecklare--...
The spreading of capabilities often fails because of this, you don't have the experience. And since you're not in it deep, you don't build real skills. Spreading one self thin.

The argument often came in the last decade. Everybody could be <foo>. And technically yes, the average smartphone of today has the potential to be EMI + Warner Bros + ... Yet it doesn't scale with the number of users. People did as much if not better with old sequencers or vintage paint programs.

It's rarely the tool that matters.

I regularly think that the world would lose by being flat. You need peak and valleys so you can master and enjoy the complexity of a domain. Having access to everything is akin to the paradox of choice. It's seducive but only on a short term basis.
This would probably be best for the kids, but...

"...not even be thinking about that until about middle school age..."

your kids will never be professional football, baseball, basketball (or soccer, probably) players, or Olympic gymnasts, or classical musicians because they will be competing against people who have been practising since they were three. No matter how much natural gift they have.
Inside Fort Botox, Where a Deadly Toxin Yields $2.8B Drug (2017)
Learning to play an instrument and play music and learning a foreign language are both supposed to be quite good for you, mentally speaking.
I'd about say the opposite.

Organizing all your jQuery into meaningful classes and keeping the whole thing organized and orchestrated is very much the essence of programming. It's a rare skill (as a trip through many large jQuery code bases reveals).

Filling in some templates causing magic to happen behind the scenes on the other hand, not so much.

That being said, 1) are we interested in feeling like programmers or in pumping product? 2) if "pumping" is the answer, best tools depends on what is being done. All in favor or SPAs (when needed), but no, they aren't cooler than jQuery and are often big fat pigs that just shouldn't be used in that situation.
For some reason it’s much easier for The Economist to hold my attention in print vs. on my phone. It’s perfect for a public transit commute (when there’s room to hold reading material).
This outcome seems perverse, but I understand how it is an extension of the idea that the government can set minimum salaries.

By paying less for labor, even his own, his company gets an advantage. The only way for his competitors to compete with cheap labor would be hiring their own cheap labor, but that creates the condition (low wage for labor) Sweden wants to solve.

Why should the regulations around minimum wage apply differently to him than to others? Of course, it seems perverse because we know that he really wants to have a lower wage, that it really is in his best interest to have a lower wage, etc but at the same time, that might apply to many people who would want to work at below minimum wage.

If you think the government should set rules like "You must earn X or be deported" then it seems to me you have no reason to be upset with this result.
I subscribe to Logic, A Public Space and The New Yorker.
You can find it in the Whois information for my domain
People have only been paying with coins for six or so millenia now...

(And of course the reason bank credit has more recently become treated as currency and accepted as electronic payment is because it's exchangeable on demand, at parity to and often instantaneously for legal tender)
Having good secretarial staff is under appreciated. Yeah, I can do my own time (I bill by the hour), book my flights, find open meeting times, etc. But if an administrative assistant can support 3 professionals saving them just 5 hours a month, they can pay for themselves.
ARM64 servers.

This one is quite a low hanging fruit.

Apple has the most advanced ARMv8 based core, one that can rival Intel.

And the market is enormous, larger by far than iPad, or Mac.

Of course Apple being Apple they would ship entire boxes, and not just the CPUs.
> I wonder why they did that. Stability, probably?

Not malice anyway... From this project:

"Note there is likely a reason why IOThunderboltFamily considers a peripheral unsupported in the first place. Use at your own peril."
I think they mean across all channels implying some "velocity of money" fallacy harming the bitcoin network.
I bought a year subscription to wired and popular science for 5$ each on amazon prime during black friday. Don't know if I will continue it after a year but for the price of a coffee, why not?
The fundamental difference between a SPA and traditional website is that the routing and compositing of views is generally handled by the client rather than the server.

It doesn't make sense to call something that doesn't respect that design a SPA. A poorly implemented SPA is what I would call that.
Most of those already exist, they just have poor UX.

My files are all around me, conveniently stored on the //storageserver/share/ drive. File storage UI/UX hasn't changed for 20 years though.

I can stand on my balcony reading news from my phone, looking out at the town isn't so pretty all the time though, and I'm imagine it would be even less pretty if a "digital city" where the residents are present online more than off.

You can walk around on a webcam, it's just not sociable. Do you mean you'd like a drone following you? That would just be distracting for the person you're communicating with.
Oh I didnt see the were including an rx580.

The razer core, that looks like this kind of system, costs 499 without a GPU...
> this is common in th west.

Common in the east too. I would imagine this is common to all human(living?) beings.

I had 2 of my classmates commit suicide because they didn't achieve success at engineering entrance exam.

Its one of the most vivid memories I have from my teens. I walked into our hostel and there he was lying in his bed with half eaten apple in his mouth. I think he tried to eat something sweet after downing chemical pesticide.
Great to see the article posted on a "classic" (static) website built w/ jekyll. Find more open source (ready-to-fork) themes @ https://drjekyllthemes.github.io Build your own "classic" websites / blogs :-).
Creator here! Some of the mathematical surfaces you see are Enneper, Klein, and Trifold Surfaces. Models developed in Blender and Lens Studio.

Please share and let me know what you all think!
Bitcoin may have made a PR mistake by not allowing for interim scaling solutions like BCH did with doubling the block size, but block size increases are a dead end. They cannot possibly scale the network enough if demand really takes off. I think lightening is a very interesting solution. You may disagree, but you can’t just plan to increase the block size forever.
How to make your app popular by emotional appeal
I've definitely seen and done what is described here. I always justified it to myself as doing the things that keep me sane long enough to do the things I actually have to do.
According to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, there are no local hidden variables and the world is truly random. Even knowing the complete state of a particle will not tell you how its wave function will collapse.
"Everything" is an amazing utility. I have it setup on a windows server as well and can seamlessly search my desktop as well as everything on the server pretty much instantly. I'm at just under 4 million files with it.
No. Because it is an SPA, it means there is more work to restore the default behavior of the back button. That's the way he should have articulated his point.

You also mention HTML5 routing.. Ok now you have to configure your web server to properly parse the URL and understand what it's conveying.
Miniature Macintosh Plus
It has been an interesting conversation so far. Since I have been going through Jackson's text it makes a useful problem to work. I'm working up the field equations for inside the sphere, inside a charged concave surface, and inside a concave depression in a sphere. I suspect that this thread will be dead before I'm done but the next time around I'll be able to post a link to a paper :-).
Incoming call glitch latest to hit iPhone X
پلی استایرن,Polystyrene
Testing with Kettle
>That's an opinion piece and not a piece of actual investigate journalism.

You're moving the goalposts.
There are too many rules for people to keep track of all of them and they have to be interpreted and enforced with discretion.

So, yes if you get whipped in Singapore for spitting out gum, that is wrong on their part. It is rude to spit gum but you don't deserve to be physically beaten for it.
Are you suggesting we're better off with PSD?
> 2. People mostly install adblockers to block really annoying ads.*

I don't really think there's any other kind of ad. For the majority of us, there's absolutely no value in ads; so there's no reason I'd want them displayed.
You have successfuly uncovered that Rust is a fundamentally different programming language, instead of a variation of the same. I feel that having learned Rust, any new language similar to Rust would have way lower learning curve. It is quite similar to the jump required from imperative to a funtional language. We may be missing a good name for a paradigm the Rust falls into.
For those of you who can't get past the paywall, here's the gist:

hundreds of owners have complained on Apple forums that their pocket supercomputer cannot accomplish the most basic task that even a $10 phone can, namely taking an incoming call.

When it rings, the iPhone’s touchscreen appears to be delayed from turning on for up to 10 seconds, preventing the user from tapping the virtual button required to answer a call.

“Whenever I receive an incoming call in my iPhone X, ringtones start but the display comes in after 6-8 seconds,” says one user on Apple’s support pages.

Hundreds of other customers on that post and similar complaints on Apple’s forums have indicated they are suffering the same problem.

“I can often not see an incoming call coming, can only hear it! At other times, there is a significant delay :( ,” reads another post.

Apple said that it was “looking into these reports”.
How Tall Is Mount Everest? For Nepal, It’s a Touchy Question
Yeah, but I can build an actual Ferrari.

However I do consider the Mac OS to be very Benz-like, which is why I think it’s terrible.
When I first used Windows 10 I was so shocked that even cooperate people were just fine with Microsoft pushing images and games to everyone's workstations over the internet.

It's like they own all the computers now and you just accept it.
You missed the headline apparently since you were commenting about the dangers of sucking too much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Clearly if it's carbon neural there's no danger of that happening.

Trees are also carbon neutral since they either burn or decompose and return the carbon to the atmosphere. But over much longer timescales than fuel - so they could still be useful in combating global warming (despite what some people say.)
Timeline for images?

Well done!
I really don't get it. Every single place I've been at that had a secretary was running like cream cheese. But no-one has them anymore. The only things I can figure is that the healthcare, retirement, and sexual harassment issues really do add up to remove the utility of a secretary.
>Maybe an unpopular view on HN but I have no problem with Google letting Damore go.

But federal labor law likely does have a problem with his dismissal.
SiFive introduced RISC-V linux-capable multicore processor
Huh so, Tibet does generate a lot of water relative to its size (>620 km^3 per year). By comparison China only generates 3-4x as much water total. However, the vast majority of Tibet's water drains to India not China (like >85% or something).

So at first glance I don't see it. Is the concern that China is somehow going to massively redirect water flows somehow and take water away from India?