skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small idea: reframe suggestions to be positive, future-looking, and pro-active, such as replacing:

did you forget to ‘#include <limits.h>’?

with:

do you want to ‘#include <limits.h>’?

or, perhaps better:

you may want to ‘#include <limits.h>’.

It may seem a small thing, but focusing on the solution
rather than the problem may tend to sooth the mind
of the coder, rather than to magnify their annoyance.

Consider it a path that is the opposite of Nedry's
"You didn't say the magic word!"
You could just make a Google Sheet called "My Friend Tokens", make two columns "name" and "amount", and put each friend on a row. Then enter your rewards there and share the sheet in read-only mode with everyone.

What's the actual difference between this and an Ethereum token? Except you don't need to pay for the Google Sheet, of course.
If you own land you can do what you want with it.
I recommend The Next Generation. I find the crew in that series to be more variable and interesting, and the production is obviously more modern. You might be interested in the crew member Data, who is an android, considering the tech nature of HN!
>we ban people

We are not all Americans. Most of the Free World does not see the USA as a lodestar in how to treat criminals.
Grandma is most likely not going to be riding a tricycle to the store. We live in NYC. Let’s focus on making sure she has a store to ride to.
That would be nice to have when working in Javascript, making code a lot more readable and easy to update.

Alas, we don't get such luxuries as named groups or static typing... Woe is me.
That is a terrible comparison. Social credit is more like a credit report or score than something criminal.
Totally agree, I actually thought his response was pretty funny. If people can't take a joke like that they need to lighten up/harden up a bit.
No. I'm not saying that at all.

You seem to have forgotten that you wrote this.

> The best we can do is, as with lung cancer, is think about it statistically. Compare the people exposed in the leaks to similarly situated people who were not mentioned, and see if the former had a statistically significant higher death rate from Taliban attacks for themselves or their families.

> I don't know if the data is available to carry out that analysis.
I noticed you've posted the same thing in many different posts with increasing inaccuracy.

> instead they have to be given permission to transact by monolithic liquidity hubs

Completely false

> who of course must take their own fee

May, and routes aren't prescribed so they may take a fee on a payment that may be routed through them.

> I would want a rate of return similar to stocks but times some multiple to account for the very high risk of my hot wallet getting hacked and losing all my money.

What. This is completely disconnected from Lightning's functionality.

Please stop spreading FUD.
Jury nullification is still definitely a thing. The trick is actually getting on the jury.
Car culture keeps parking prices down, to the point that all spots are always taken, pushing delivery vehicles into illegality.
Never put animations in your PowerPoint decks. Ever.
And again and again, we have the usual suspects doing the usual things in every single one of these type of stories - every single one. I guess dang and others are ok with it.
“Published” doesn’t always mean “public.” You can publish something to an internal company repo, and still want to remove it in case an unscrupulous coworker ever joins and digs through your history.

Also, consider “secrets” in the “Personally Identifiable Information” sense, or the “confidential information shared to you by a third party” sense. If these are published, someone might see them; but the longer they stay published, the more people might see them, so you have an obligation to remove them.

Also, re: reusing a tag, what about having already announced a release version number, and tagging the release with it, only to find out the release is broken? It’s kind of problematic to have to bump the version again when the previous version didn’t even go out to anyone.

I would propose a slightly more relaxed rule: you shouldn’t be able to erase/overwrite a tag once there exist other tags in the repo with creation or signing timestamps newer than those of the targeted tag. So you can overwrite something you just created, but not something that’s “history.”

(An alternative to this would be if tags had nicknames or “object versions”, like in an S3 bucket. If you could have a v1.0.0 “tag” that first pointed to a static v1.0.0+1 ref, and then to a v1.0.0+2 ref, where clients don’t see the static ref tags but can still check them out using some special syntax in combination with the visible tag—and where you can revoke a static ref, but not overwrite it—that’d probably make everyone happy.)
This. I assume a few of these provocative landing pages attempt to identify 0day exploits as well.
You need to physically connect your premesis to the middlemen.

In lightning, you need only virtually connect them.

There's a literal world of difference between the two.
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Stress and Food
4 is the last one voiced by Leonard Nemoy, isn’t it?
Ha, that's a wonderful description of that episode :).
i came back to HN to thank you for putting this service. As a product manager often times i want to test ideas and i was able to put together something that looks nice using your product within an hour. I customized a template but the tools were pretty intuitive.
It was so easy and pain-free that i immediately wanted to prototype another idea but seems i can only do one per account.
Anyways, thanks and keep up the good work.
The most direct answer is that we’re providing ease of use and helpful tools. I guess you could argue that it’s easy or hard depending on the person. We plan on making money from paid features later on, like automated token distribution hooked into API’s, and smart contracts that can easily be hooked up to your token.
The reality is that there are plenty of places around the world that have transitioned from car-centric to mass-transit centric / self-propulsion-centric cities. Deliveries can happen with bikes and for larger things trucks can use side street. Really, only the elderly or disabled really need to get dropped off right at the door. Others should get fined for blocking traffic. Once you've been to a nice city and you see it all work out like the bike optimists talk of it working you see that they're right about most of it. The only thing I think they get a little wrong is that some of them over-estimate the speed they think they'll be able to bike. Good cities tend to have way more cyclists and this is safer, but slower. Don't get me wrong, I'm a speed demon with my bike, but I'd take a European city over an American one any day of the week.
Hm, I did wonder if it would be interpreted that way... but I do mean it would be bad for me.
Thank you for posting that link - as I was reading the article, that picture was the first thing that caught my eye and I couldn't figure out what he was riding!
> 3 days? In contrast, your liability is capped at $500 if you inform your bank of debit card fraud within 60 days.

Unless your bank considers the fraud to have been caused by a lack of care on your behalf, in which case you will not be refunded and have virtually no means of appeal

(note: Obviously depends on your country and local laws)
Does anyone have have the actual context of where “once untrustworthy, always restricted” is applied? It sounds like the author cherry picked the most provocative quote out of context and applied the most nefarious translation, especially since the punishments seem to be temporary according to the article.
Thanks for sharing this! Quote from the article:

In the original Civilization, it was because of a bug. Each leader in the game had an “aggression” rating, and Gandhi - to best reflect his real-world persona - was given the lowest score possible, a 1, so low that he’d rarely if ever go out of his way to declare war on someone.

Only, there was a problem. When a player adopted democracy in Civilization, their aggression would be automatically reduced by 2. Code being code, if Gandhi went democratic his aggression wouldn’t go to -1, it looped back around to the ludicrously high figure of 255, making him as aggressive as a civilization could possibly be.
You will have full control of the token contract from the ETH address that you used to create the token.
Oh I do think the currencies should be used for exchanging things. I mostly meant that they shouldn’t be viewed as an investment or a way to make money. More as an actual currency.
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Absolutely correct, and one of the reasons why I'm suspicious of attempts to grant private companies too much leeway with regards to people's livelihoods. Barring someone from working for life in professional roles - what difference is there practically, not philosophically between that and the old Soviet practice of ruining people's careers if they weren't in good standing in the Party?

The average Joe won't experience any difference. The armchair political scientist will argue it endlessly (I put myself in that category, by the way).
DUP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16602878

(my own submission 30 minutes before yours. Wonder why it was not marked as dup)
A current GTX 1080ti is overpowered for a 1080p display, it's too much GPU for too few pixels. If you're driving a 4K display or a head-mounted display with higher refresh rates it will break a sweat, but not on today's games with today's workloads.

Audio used to be really difficult to process in real-time but now it's trivial. There's only so much audio processing you can do before it's ridiculous and pointless.

The same goes for video. Once you have, say, a 40K display for each eye at 244Hz there's no point in going for more pixels or faster refresh rates. If a GPU can handle that, easily, then that GPU will probably be best put to use doing other things in addition to rendering graphics.

Memory is not tied to your senses, we can always find uses for more. Audio and video are, and at some point it's as good as real.
Aside from the hindsight/foresight inversion, you probably mean if your foresight was 20/20, but the rest of the market had no better foresight than they actually do.

In which case, of course, you should invest entirely in the highest rate-of-return investmentd that the rest of the market currently undervalues.

The problem is people are prone to overrate their own foresight.
Not mutually exclusive!
You're talking about credentials. Secrets are often credentials, but more generally refer to anything confidential.
My English might fail me here, but if you think about a 20 year sentence and find it not adequate to the crime, wouldn't you have "considered" it?

I can understand why the question is asked though. The jury is there to find facts, i.e. define what has happened. The judge will then find the "correct" sentence if found guilty. The jury should not be swayed to a not guilty finding if they believe a guilty would be correct, just because the possible maximum sentence is too long, even if it would not be imposed in the case at hand anyway.
There's a state database compiled by CHP called SWITRS that tracks traffic accidents. You can find it here. http://iswitrs.chp.ca.gov/Reports/jsp/userLogin.jsp

We don't call it out by name in the story, but it's the kind of existing government system that could be expanded to provide a better, official count of street racing deaths.

Our Los Angeles Times team has mined SWITRS in the past for other stories, like these:

http://graphics.latimes.com/la-pedestrians/

http://graphics.latimes.com/la-bike-hit-and-runs/
I think there's more to fascism than that.
Criminal background checks should be limited with regards to this criteria considered for employment.
I feel like people who are seriously concerned about this should make an effort to live exclusively how they imagine for at least a week each year. Going through a preliminary dry-run will probably uncover a number of issues, some of which may be bad enough to make all your planning for naught.
Yeah, I believe him when he says it happens, but I've never encountered hostility on SO, and I've asked some really stupid questions (and in each case, I really ought to have known better and done my homework, so in my case I would have deserved a bit of condescension).
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Thanks; I like it. I've added that to https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84890
In many cities, UPS tells its drivers to park illegally and then pays the resulting tickets in bulk. It's a cost of doing business for them. This cost is limited by the number of parking enforcement vehicles.

If the cost were increased enough (perhaps by enforcing the law more aggressively), UPS might choose a different strategy such as telling its drivers to park legally and walk further.
Cloudron 2.0 released
Caste systems will never go away until the asymmetric advantage they endow to a majority is honestly weighed against the hidden costs of society manifesting self-fulfilling prophecies in the minority. Which way should the slippery slope slide? Should an individual’s means to succeed be the rule or an exception. That’s freedom, thats’s bravery in my eyes.
Costco knows their customers, not the future.
My favorite coin so far is the TallCoin: "I will issue 1 coin to any person who is taller than me (I'm 6'7")".

https://www.onhexel.com/token/bb571299-e19a-4671-9036-7b3e73...
In NYC in early 20th century, long-term street parking was uncommon. As cars became more common, street parking was considered a blight and made illegal. The American Automobile Association successfully lobbied to get this regulation overturned in 1950.

The streets are now lined with parked cars, which means that police, taxis, contractors, and delivery vehicles double-park, often blocking bike lanes and bus lanes.
Privacy coins and decentralized exchanges will start rewarding individuals who engage in untraceable tax evasion, which will get easier over time. This puts a negative reward signal on honesty.

The current governance system will have to adapt or die. It's not much different than any other disrupted industry, except this one is armed.
Not really about the article, but the amount of Whataboutism has been growing uncomfortably stronger in the comments on Hacker News.

Actions of others is not enough to justify one's self (good or bad). All these comments using Chinese/USA or Western/Eastern as their main point of argument is superfluous.
The problem is you can not be kinda of driving.

Until they can do level 4 should not be doing imo.
In fact, that same graph used to have a trend line of 3.2 mm/yr, and is now 3.1. I've been checking in with that site off-and-on for the last few years. At the current linear rate, we're looking at an increase of 0.25m by 2100. To get to the 1m by 2100 that is predicted, we would have to have a linear sea level rise of 12.4 mm/yr.

The graph displayed shows some variable years a few years ago, but it's mostly been pretty linear. The graph shows 20 years or so of data, and we're 82 years out from 2100. I would expect to see it curving up sometime soon, but it hasn't done that yet.
I think this relates more to Chinese Legalism than Confucian ideals.

This social credit is just what the "men of methods" would prescribe replace aristocracy with a bureaucracy. You get automatic four year ban for certain services if social credit drops below certain level.
By the time announcements like this are made, there have already been lengthy successful IT pilots with much change management planning already conducted, partners engaged, etc. If they say 12-18mo, they may slip to 18-24mo, but definitely not multiple years.

That said, the other commenter is also accurate: a "full" roll-out will not mean 100% replacement. Things would break and it would be an irresponsible management decision to force some things that shouldn't be forced.

Source: I led a large MSO-->G Suite migration in a previous role.
But you can't avoid trading with a ERC20 token, because they are designed to be tradable. Any exchange can add the token to the supported list, and the users can immediately send the tokens to the exchange and buy and sell them.

Unless these are not really tokens and the "user/owner" can send the tokens without a centralized permission.
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But suppose peanut butter sandwiches were illegal, and people were fighting and dying in the streets for the right to make them. (That's what it was like in the 1960s and 1970s as far as civil rights were concerned).

So depicting a peanut butter sandwich might be illegal. Or it might be like marijuana, where depicting a peanut butter sandwich, while technically legal, is seen as an inducement to commit a crime and so is suppressed by extralegal means. On the other hand, depicting peanut butter and bread but no sandwich... well, obviously, a peanut butter sandwich is what would have come next, if the filmmakers weren't under the thumb of the government. Obviously

If sandwiches are contested, then showing them (or not showing them) is political. Civil rights was and is contested; Fred Rogers' presentation of a colorblind little slice of utopia to America's children was political too.
On the other hand, if you want to sink endless hours to model building that is also possible in the other end of the spectrum. I find this video series quite inspirational, I hope one day if/when I retire I can do similar thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8tSfy0KJks

He also has another video on a smaller boat which bit less intimidating and actually makes this sort of modelbuilding to look almost feasible.
How can we streamline industrial espionage?
I'm having a ton of fun with Elixir these days. Primarily focused on utilizing Nerves and deploying sensors in agricultural environments monitoring irrigation, temperature and humidity.
Yes, https://github.com/chimera/sonomafireinfo.org
Colonization is a great game from a mechanical perspective (aside from the AI bugs, which make it a slog to play today, and the crazy behaviors of the game when you have Ben Franklin). I find it difficult to play today in no small part because of the level of violence done to history. Civilization posits itself as almost a board game, and to me it largely strips itself of the historicity that its setting implies by turning it into overtly "gamey" stuff. Pottery implies Granary. Colonization personalizes a lot...and stuff like the way that native "converts" "flock to your mission in their city" when you attack it with artillery is a significant whitewashing of what anybody playing the game as an adult knows is going on.

I don't think Brian Reynolds had ill intentions by any stretch; you can, of course, be peaceful in Col, and it's probably the best way to play at higher levels (France becomes really advantageous, especially stacking with the Pocahontas bonus). And the way the manual is written clearly indicates that they understood the parts of the historical record that the game leaves out. I have always assumed that there was fear from higher-ups at MicroProse that made them sanitize the game a little. But it mostly makes me wonder what a more honest game, made today, would look like.

I might or might not have half an engine written on this laptop, as it happens...at some point I'd love to sit down and talk to Reynolds about that game. Everyone asks him about Alpha Centauri, but I really want to know about Col!

(Also: while Civ4Col is pretty lame, I think its biggest mods, The Authentic Colonization and Religion and Revolution, take important steps toward a more honest representation of things. They're also really, really fun in ways Civ4Col was not.)
There is so much land to scan. The vast majority of the Pontic-Caspian steppe for example. There is a lot of history to be found in burial grounds but it's a real lot of sparsely populated land and so noone has the slightest idea where to start.
That’s a question I have too. I don’t want to forcibly put anything on the blockchain. I’m specifically curious about use cases where the decentralization, scarcity, and smart contract pieces of this can become useful. I can’t predict exactly what, but I do think those things will be used for interesting projects and our tools will keep making that easier for people to play with. We’ve listed a few examples of things people are doing above. But right now, I agree that in many ways this is less functional than a database. Right now people use it for fun, and to try out the technology for new things.
Civ III and a Compaq - same! I even got involved making multi-unit graphics over at CivFanatics.
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I've played every Civ since the original. I love blowing the minds of kids who're playing it now, telling them how copy protection worked in the first game. Easily my favorite PC game of all time.
Alpha Centauri. Still play it from time to time.
Agreed--thanks for the correction.
I like the idea of ease of use for creating a token . But, if I sign up for your service what do you anticipate the cost of it will be per month / year for this?

Also, what are the smart contracts you use or security features that you have and can it be audited or is it a trade secret ?

Have you looked at other private ledger technologies and what do you think of those ?
> Women commit very few crimes compared to men. That's not bias, it's a fact.

All methods of assessing who commits crime are subject to societal biases (and largely the same set of biases, so you can't negate them by combining multiple sources). There's no unbiased oracle to consult for true criminal guilt.

And that is even leaving aside that many crimes are defined in ways that, while they are “objective” in the sense that term is used in legal jargon, actual guilt or innocence is itself fundamentally not an objective fact.
I do admit that around half of the circumstances where I was listening to audiobooks I was multitasking or in a situation or environment where a physical book would be more difficult, but some situations were focused listening as well and strong narrative content usually persisted better in memory.

Most frequent contexts were:
- Cooking
- Working out
- Airplane
- Subway Rides (If the train is too crowded to read I'll switch to listening to an audiobook)
- Walking Places
- Focused listening before bed
Now pair that with "basic income". Same thing will happen anywhere that awful idea is put in place. Got a ticket? No worries; we already deducted it;)

Public transit and free money are just two of many ways to increase the people's dependence on the state. Next up is the "opportunity" of pre-programmed cars.
The ferroelectric materials here are used in the insulating stack, so actually higher DC resistance is a good thing.
I had exactly the same problem with the Ergo Pro, with exactly the same resolution: within a year, it was simply untenable to continue using it due to repetitive key issues. It's a shame, because I actually liked the feel of their keyswitches, but it was starting to drive me nuts the number of times I'd have to correct something, to say nothing of the number of mangled vi and zsh commands that resulted from a stuck "r" or "t".

I really liked the split layout, though, and going back to a tenkeyless non-split keyboard started to bug my wrists. Fortunately, Kinesis now has a split keyboard that uses genuine CherryMX switches, and it's been terrific: the combination of a split, adjustable keyboard with actual mechanical switches has finally made my wrists and fingers happy.
Implementing the “tails” from Data.List module
I hope that he found peace, somehow.
My biggest issue is the anti competitive behavior by Amazon in banning all companies on their marketplace from being allowed to sell competing products from companies like Google.

Fine do not sell yourself from not allowing anyone else is going too far.