skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the advantage is that since e-mail is a plain text medium, it could be "forced" if clients started supporting it.

And it would require zero hacks like this AMP thing and would also be 100% retro compatible if a markup language with sensible plain text legibility were chosen.
This, in turn, reminds me of the Cat Organ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_organ).
The laws of Physics don't explain reality, they model it to our best approximation.

>and because it has been verified. //

That may be true for you but is essentially an appeal to authority. Most scientists claim to be falsificationists and the current agreed Scientific Method is one of Popperian falsification.

Your comment on cliffs belies an ignorance of epistemology - people didn't used to have a gravitational theory, as far as we know no animals have one, that doesn't mean you then jump off cliffs. One's beliefs about reality don't fundamentally change reality.
Memory usage is a lot less. Electron has a full webbrowser running to display the page, which this uses Gtk on Linux or cocoa on Mac etc.
Creating new humans is costly and risky.

Maybe immortal humans give you a better bang for the buck.
Yes, think about the lost tax revenue because of all those undiagnosed ADHD patients who are working in the creative sector instead of in a proper office job.
A decent dose of medication could have given them a so much more fulfilling life ..
I don't think AMP for email will have success. It works only for users with gmail, so all other email provider users are left out. Why should someone write an AMP email if it does not work for any client? And if gmail users don't like AMP mails they can just switch provider or trash them.

I don't see a problem here.
Someone even went so far as to build a FUSE filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS
When beliefs run counter to reality, the divergence between what is, and what is perceived ought to be, can increase to the point that the state's monopoly on violence is used to prop up a belief system.

If the gap is big enough, I think the result becomes indistinguishable from a theocracy, with analogues to blasphemy and ostracization for describing reality too closely, enforced by the state.
I don't really understand what you mean. To get data from a server, you can just use normal nodejs to send a http request. Usually you'll have it so that it works when a callback is triggered, such as a button press.
Off topic: it would be nice if the title included `[pdf]`.
Bitcoin alone is responsible for this reputation of slow transaction times among cryptocurrencies. Litecoin and Ethereum have the same blockchain architecture but are mined faster, so they are faster, but this linear improvement may not be sufficient for scaling. Minerless "DAG" coins like Nano may prove to be more practical in the long run because they scale exponentially.

re: Value change during a transaction: volatility is a fundamental problem with any currency. Adoption and volume will decrease volatility, which this announcement is moving towards :) Ripple's value-add to the banking industry, for instance, similarly relies on adoption in order to create an international pool of liquidity in order to facilitate efficient cross-border currency exchange. The more volume, the less volatility there is, which means less cost to banks using XRP as a payment "bridge". The same is desirable for merchants and consumers.
I never understood comments like this. Some people, me included, benefit tremendously from medication. Unless you've been in the same situation I think you should be very careful about crass comments like this. You're talking about peoples quality of life.
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Have fun playing hardball over a few hundred bucks a month.
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If you treat these things as source languages, sure.

Surely the point is that this stuff is possible at all. If you really wanted to program something meaningful using BGP hacks, you could build a compiler.
The entire article can literally be paraphrased as “rich dude says bitcoin is bad”. There’s absolutely no more information, opinions or reasoning in it.
Damore’s screed was also rife with fallacies and unsupported generalizations, let’s not forget that. It drives me nuts that his lack of “charisma” (rather than his lack of logical reasoning skills or writing ability) is what people are saying got him fired. If he’d written a manifesto that sloppy on a technical topic people would’ve ripped him to shreds.
Welcome to the (unfinished) world of Statecharts
Posted yesterday and still has the random page bug
C++ templates are like programming in Haskell without a type system - all of the pain, none of the gain.
I consider this a reflection of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
> Think about all the different situations where being treated equally to someone else is a good thing. Now you generalize that into "everyone is created equal", and that turns into a justification for all these situations.

The valid generalization would be "everyone should be treated equally" not "everyone is created equal" which is a totally different thing.
Make software patents last 5 years instead of 17.
It baffles me that both Munger and Buffett, two people known for avoiding investments they don't understand, see the need to continually undercut Bitcoin despite clearly not understanding it. Buffett has admitted he doesn't understand it. Not investing in something you don't understand is sage advice - can we extend that to withholding comment as well?
Deep reinforcement learning doesn't work yet
some arguments are rational while other arguments are political

These attributes are mostly orthogonal though. Most evidence, even if conclusive, will show that certain approaches benefit one group more than some others. There is no such thing as purely evidence-based policy, because there is no agreement on what to optimize for.

I think this whole evidence-based fad completely misses the point. It insinuates that there is a perfect possible outcome that will benefit all equally, and that is simply not the case. And by focusing on the outcomes, it detracts from the real sticking point: let's talk about how to harmonize goals, instead of only results.
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>so that inventors can't just sit on an old and important patent they own? //

Compulsory licenses fill this gap preventing patents from being used to inhibit development.
Delphi 23 and Delphi 10.2.3
It's not just them. Carl Icahn, Michael Bloomberg - these old timers kind of fall all over themselves every time they try to explain bitcoin and blockchain tech. It's actually slightly amusing, not far from that famous clip of Bryant Gumble asking "what is internet?" c. 1993.
My young daughter as ADD/ADHD. It is no joke. ADD/ADHD is an executive function deficit, with tremendous negative impact on one's ability to regulate behavior, resist distractions, plan and persist through a plan. You can imagine how devastating that can be as you age and more and more is expected of you in terms of self-management. Deep shame, anxiety and depression as a result are common. Medication helps, sometimes a lot, and the objections against it, to my knowledge, are not rooted in evidence.
The article has 3 paragraphs, and coveys nothing more than some ultra rich dudes stance on Bitcoin and some gov't policy regarding it.

Read here and save yourself the click:

> Billionaire Charles Munger said he detests Bitcoin and wouldn’t have anything to do with the digital currency.

> “I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the moment it was raised,” Munger said Wednesday at the annual meeting for Daily Journal Corp. in Los Angeles. “It’s just disgusting. Bitcoin is noxious poison.”

> Munger said the government of China, which is “stepping on it” pretty hard, is right, and the U.S. government, which is more lax on Bitcoin, is wrong.

Article says nothing on why he came to his conclusion. My best guess: he's whining caus he was late to the party.

It's people like this who usually claim to be so against gov't regulation, unless it can make/save them some money then they are quick to lobby for it. No spine, no vision apart from "more money for me".
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When you start comparing the $20B cost for ITER versus "big" projects like the human genome, which took $1B over a similar time scale, ITER really does seem like a boondoggle. It's sucking up massive amounts of research dollars and attention on scientific/engineering goals that don't necessarily even move in the right direction! Suppose they succeed; then what? What has been learned that can spur the next $20B? Will the next tokamok take an order of magnitude less money to produce, like the next genome did the day after the first was released?

Big projects always use ridiculous and deceptive hype, but "unlimited energy" takes that to a new level, IMHO.
> evidence that patents are beneficial in any field is lacking

Pharma?

It's trendy to pretend that pharma patents are the Devil incarnate because they enable exploitative pricepoints by the patent-holder, but the fact is that's what enables the profit motive for the research in the first place. (At least, I've never seen a serious argument against this, only righteous blustering.)

(The fact that US pharma companies spend more on advertising than on research, has no bearing here.)
> dear god, how is there so much code that does nothing, and how did it all get witten since I last had a chance to look

This, 100 times over! It is simply incredible how much code and how complex systems a junior dev (junior by knowledge, not by years of coding) can produce in a short time while you were looking the other way... :-D
Good point.

EDIT: I think what you're doing here is criticising A by constructing A' and arguing that it is better (by having the same consequences while being less general). That is a good way of criticising the generalization as well.
Your right, they can be at your secrity module cost.

I currently (as I understand the state of pos) see pos useful for other the other blochain ESC stuff and pow for a safe currency (BTC)
Screed? It was a simple memo, something that he meant for a few people and had shared internally for months before it became so widely misunderstood. He didn't say anything outright false, only that men and women are different and have different interests, so forcing 50/50 wont be a good outcome.

Also, Google even agrees with him: https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/958138574171287552

"Did I read this right? Susan Wojicicki said that women find “geeky male industries” (as opposed to “social industries”) “not very interesting” and Sundar cites research on gender differences."
Well it kinda feels weird to disagree with someone like Munger but there are few of his views I dont agree with.

Someone asked him should we send humans to Mars, he dismissed the idea saying its too expensive and complicated we should just stick to probes, from a monetary perspective he is right but sending probes to another planet does not inspire the next generation, humans walking on Mars does.

He also did not have favourable views about Elon Musk essentially saying he will fail because of hubris.
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Ask HN: Why Cloudflare Doesn't Offer Public DNS Resolvers?
Surely being among one of the largest DNS hosts, this would be beneficial for them and internet?
A bit off topic, but can someone investigate how much legalized gambling costs the UK per year? Every town has at least two or three bookmakers in it, filled with the poorest residents gambling away their already paltry wages.

And what about council tax? What kind of government charges extra taxes to the renting population?

As an American in the UK, I see regressive taxes like this, and then just shake my head when the MPs start asking why nobody is buying houses anymore.
It's not that people with ADHD just have different jobs, it's that any job can be difficult to keep, and even just managing your own life. ADHD is far less trivial than some people make it out to be.
A close friend of mine has been in and out of the job market for years with various diagnosis, including stress, depression, anxiety, OCD, one doctor even suggested brain damage.

She was diagnosed with ADHD and ADD a few years ago, got medication for it which cleared up most of the above symptoms. She has now held a steady job, although at a reduced workload, for a few years.
Irrelevant in this context. Open Standards matter more than Open Source.

The former is designed for interoperability. The later is designed for forking.

The difference is subtle, but you can't fork your way out of Google's control of the market, unless you have Google-like resources. Big companies have tried and failed. Chrome is now the new IExplorer and its Open Source nature does not matter, quite the contrary, the danger is now less visible than it was with IExplorer, because compared to Microsoft they can use OSS for marketing and they aren't dropping the ball on its development.
I don’t see this as a problem as long as you make time to add tests later once you are convinced the code will be kept active through user traction.
On the other flip side it encourages writing test that have zero business value.
Nano takes like 4 seconds to confirm and has zero fees for transfer. It's really a no-brainer, but unfortunately this Bitgrail thing is going to muddy the waters for a long time.
Waiting for the Robot Rembrandt
I have no reason to not believe the article when it says:

> “Look,” he said, “it might be one strand in terms of what’s motivating them to buy here. But in my experience it’s never been the overriding reason. It’s much more of a positive thing. What they see when they come here is utopia.”

> In one sense, I knew what he meant by this. He meant excellent wine. He meant world-class golf. He meant agreeable climate, endless white sand beaches that scarcely aroused the suspicion of the existence of other human beings.

The author goes into more detail about the tensions between the different and even contradictory views of "utopia" in the history of New Zealand.
They are also working on Lightning Network integration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXe-wQyrWw&feature=youtu.be
Do everything on paper with historical data. You will find the market is absurdly efficient. Don't bother with a broker until you've got a historical system working. In other words, pretend it's February 2017 and use the rest of years data as the future. You can get daily data for free and you can buy minute data fairly cheap.
Great, you found my comment!

That explains why I didn't find what tuning you where using.

By the way, there is no contact information on the page (if there is, I didn't see it when I was looking for it.)
Oh yeah, go ahead and do TDD to prove to your CTO that he is right.

TDD is a tool for specific needs, just doing TDD because you heard it's great will just kill the team productivity and whatever product they are working on.
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Part of the appeal of bitcoin is that you don't need to care what a payment processor thinks of your business.

You're welcome to accept bitcoin payments without using coinbase or any other payment processor.
Who cares? How much were the solar cells on the market recently? 22 cents a watt? Any chance fusion could beat that price, even taken into account solar's dismal load factors?
Except most low end chips (mostly ARM) are immune.
>Super Mario World

Okay, with some script...

>Here is a video, where a human (not a script!) creates a playable Flappy Bird clone this way.

Wait, what?!
Far from being an argument against cryptocurrency's utility, that's a very strong argument in favour of using cryptocurrency.

The more people who use cryptocurrency, and accept payment in cryptocurrency, the easier it is to live your life with minimal exposure to the likes of Coinbase.
You didn't read my comment did you?

The artists wouldn't have any power to play with and wouldn't have even have had this venue to practice their art if it wasn't for the kindness of the building owner.

The artists are setting a precedent for property owners that to prevent being "beaten like a dog", the best solution is to not let people practice their art on your property.
I can tell you for sure that the way they make software for engine, transmission, safety break, lane assist etc. is very different than the way they make software for anything not safety related. The ultimate luxury they provide is time.
> a management experiment

Really? Billions and billions of Euros, hundreds of thousand of metric tons of concrete, hundreds of MW of power, thousands of gallons of fresh water-per-minute, tends of thousands of nuclear waste, to run a "management experiment"?? This has to be the most ludicrous, expensive and ill-designed case study in the history of mankind.

Also, it seems the word "experiment" is inadequate. An experiment requires

1/ a theory and an expectation of what should happen

2/ a rigorous, controlled and replicable setup, where you test the theory and compare the actual result to the expected one

Having many people from different nations working together does not qualify as a "experiment"; maybe it's an experience, or a happening (like a concert). It's the Woodstock of science; it must certainly be fun for all involved but it's unlikely humanity will make much progress because of it.
Would be great to see a vid where someone used this.
Strongly agree. With more constraints in the language, one gains greater power to reason. This is what the Ethereum creators are learning the hard way. I also think folks would be surprised with how much can be accomplished without Turing completeness. For example, merge sort can be implemented as a simple functional unfold, or "primitive corecursion" in a total language.
What does this mean for a crypto project like Request Network (https://request.network/#/) which is trying to become the "Paypal for cryptocurrencies"?

I am genuinely curious as I own some REQ, believe in the team, but also like what Coinbase has done to bring crypto to the masses (minus the outrageous fees of course).
My wife is a private practice speech therapist. She goes to great lengths to separate her personal social media from work social media. She has separate work and personal accounts for Facebook, Google, WhatsApp etc. Still she gets friend suggestions for her clients on her personal accounts. And it's not just once or twice, usually her suggested friends list is almost the exact same as her current client list.

Its creepy, and slightly disturbing to realise just how much effort they are putting in to mapping out your life and acquaintances even when you try to prevent it.
I've heard this asserted several times, but nobody's said which of his sources they disagree with. Could you link to a source you disagree with and the basis for your disagreement?
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I used CalDAV on both iOS and MacOS for the last 2 years and worked just fine. Never had any problems. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

It's true that back in 2015 FastMail was not doing invitations and RSVPs through CalDAV, but they fixed that since then.

> most probable reason it isn't installed by default is that CalDav is a failed standard

That is extreme bullshit, the same kind of bullshit that Google used to kill Google Talk and its XMPP interop, while pushing for their shitty and completely proprietary Hangouts.

People used Google Talk back in the day due to its simplicity and interoperability. Who is using Hangouts now?
I actually hope it dies, because we can then put such bullshit arguments to rest.

CalDAV can only become a failed standard because unpaid fanboys and shills keep normalizing this behavior.

But until then I'll keep using CalDAV and I'll be happy about not participating in this charade ;-)
Transformer oil is there primary for cooling and secondary for corrosion resistance. When you see transformer burning, it's the oil inside. Larger transformers cycle oil through pipes visible outside.

In the Czech Republic (or at least in some parts) pole numbers and their positions are shared with emergency services. If you are disoriented, reading the number identifies your exact position. Works for railway crossings as well.

Update: typos
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16279856
> And what about council tax? What kind of government charges extra taxes to the renting population?

I'm not familiar with the details, isn't "council tax" just a property tax like it exists in the US and many other countries as well?
This episode of the Joe Rogan podcast w/ Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein touches on similar issues (among other things) and discusses why it's still important to have discussions like these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G59zsjM2UI
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I checked out your webpage, and I like the product, but it seems Mac only. Any plans for a Win version?
Nothing outright false, but that was the major problem with it. Just because you aren't obviously wrong and you safecheck yourself with facts doesn't mean you are actually correct in your assessment.

He didn't say anything outright false, only that men and women are different and have different interests, so forcing 50/50 wont be a good outcome

I agree with OP that this difference in interests is probably socialized. Men and women are very obviously socialized differently, not to mention at many places (tech companies especially), the social atmosphere is one that favors men (boys) with keggers and nerf guns.

Damore's memo isn't very convincing from that perspective, because if the difference can be explain by 20 years of socialization, it can also be changed, and Damore's argument seemed to be based upon some inherent difference between the sexes and his solutions predicated on that assumption. Then again, not really sure exactly what he was arguing because it was meandering.

It's been argued to death at this point, but it genuinely surprises me that people find his poorly sourced memo (or whatever you want to call it) as the centerpiece for this topic. With that as the starting point, no wonder the discussion is garbage. The people who support viewpoints like Damore's should aim higher because it is not helping their case.

To give a more complete answer, here's a section from his memo:

De-emphasize empathy.

I’ve heard several calls for increased empathy on diversity issues. While I strongly support trying to understand how and why people think the way they do, relying on affective empathy—feeling another’s pain—causes us to focus on anecdotes, favor individuals similar to us, and harbor other irrational and dangerous biases. Being emotionally unengaged helps us better reason about the facts.

There are multiple claims there. He does refer to a blog post, but reading that, do you have any clue what that blog post may be about or how it applies to his argument?
And some other countries (e.g. Slovenia, Sweden, UK) use H.264 as well.
"If you start throwing rocks that large" is a terrible argument. It is the same as arguments about keeping treatments for which there is no clinical evidence just because money, reputation, and public morality might at stake in varying degrees. If overreach in patent and copyright law is a drag on the economy, which it very likely is, it's costing not just freedom, but it amounts to the theft of wider prosperity for the benefit of the connected. Just how much worse than that do you think what are here completely vague and unspecified "unintended consequence" going to get? Be specific.
Sorry for the stupid question (I wasn't following this event): so it's a _real_ car? inside an aircraft (which i imagine the inside is like military cargo ship as seen in movies)?