skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a little misleading isn't it?

I miss the old assembler. It could just be that I have a poor memory, but with 8/16-bit assembly, I could remember almost everything about my toolset and focus on the problem.

With modern APIs and languages--even modern assembly languages--I spend more time googling than anything else.
This makes me think of the classic Monty Hall problem, where Monty opens a door and asks if you would like to switch or stay.. which is actually giving you information that the door opened was a goat (which he had to do if you picked the door with the other goat).

So when try to understand "how long until the block is mined?" at t=10, you're given information that the block has not been mined yet and have to update your predictions, thus making the average time from t=10 another 10 minutes away.

The hard part I have internalizing is if I were to make a progress bar for block mining, it would be totally useless because it'd always show 10 minutes away, until BOOM it hits 100% when a block is found (or someone else does).

Then I had a realization that it's the wrong question to ask because the time is truly unknown, but instead we could show a "progress" bar of the percentile! So starts at 0.1%, then 5%, then 50% (median time whatever that is). Thinking this way becomes very intuitive, because now you're no longer wondering when it will finish, but instead are given a benchmark of survival time and can think things like "crazy, only 1% of blocks have taken more than 40 minutes to mine." and at the same time get the piece of mind of seeing something "progress" while at the same time being comfortable that it will never finish, until it does.
Your quip here ignores the original conversation, which is about "dev tools for designers." You also conflate the "bygone days" of slower connections with the "bygone days" of monolithic rich media binaries/downloads.

Average web page size has increased dramatically over the last decade [1][2], suggesting "massive sites" are more of a today-problem than a bygone one.

I understand "Flash" was the trigger-word here, and it is for a lot of people. "Flash Player" the consumer experience was fundamentally different from "Flash," the creation environment. Flash the "dev tool for designers" was the baby thrown out with the bath water.

[1] https://www.keycdn.com/support/the-growth-of-web-page-size/
[2] https://www.yottaa.com/a-brief-history-of-web-page-size/
We are not Facebook's customers. Their advertisers are. They owe us practically nothing.
This is an interesting hypothesis, but your presentation of it is off in a way that sets off my crackpot detector. If you can regenerate the components of the argument with citations to reputable sources, it may be worth re-presenting it somewhere with less editorializing. But any time you talk about water fluoridation, you have to be very careful not to accidentally import information from the web of schizophrenics-citing-schizophrenics that most discussion of that topic comes from, and also to credibly signal that you're being careful in that way.
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We joke at the office about going to update our linkedin after terrible meetings. In fact the act of interacting with that site at all, either from updates or clicking emails, is probably a sign I'm looking for greener pastures.
The graphic on there is brilliant.
They're dangerous if you don't have an efficient way to pacify them, which we thankfully do. In the modern developed world, they can pick up virtual AK-47s in Fortnite or join a League of Legends team instead, which is much less destabilizing.
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Could not have said it better myself!

Thank you, AgileBits - much appreciated!
This is the typical penny wise and dollar foolish mindset.

The average user makes Facebook something like $21 a year. That’s like $1.75 a month, which would give you $0.70 after their 60% take.

70 cents. Not even a dollar. Not even including taxes yet. After taxes you are likely making something like 52 cents.

If you are that pressed for money, I recommend Mechanical Turk. You will make in an hour what Facebook makes you in a year. Or be a panhandler, you will make even more.
What if they dig up dirt on someone with the same or similar name? My mom can't give blood because of some guy with a name that is one letter different than hers. You'd think a different gender would make it easy to fix - but no, she finally gave up.
I pay ~€10 a month for Spotify, Netflix, etc. I'd pay the same for Facebook (as long as they also kept the regular ad-based service so people wouldn't leave en masse).
the opensource git will soon contain this update as well, then it will make its way to F-Droid ;)
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Contact lens solution does not contain a borate-type preservative. The active ingredient in contact lens solution is boric acid. There are some contact lens solutions that don't contain boric acid but they won't make slime. You need boric acid to make slime and you can either get it from Borax or contact lens solution.

Borax has been getting negative press recently and I see people recommending contact lens solution as an alternative. But why is contact lens solution safer than Borax, when the active ingredient in both is boric acid?
I made my first big Speech. A day in the life of a software engineer:
It looks like while the core kernel and a lot of components are written in C++, there are a number of components written in Rust: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/master/Cargo.toml

One of the advantages of a microkernel architecture is that it is relatively easy for different components to be written in different languages.
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> Intelligence is at least partly genetically inherited (notwithstanding other factors). Salary is not.

Studies show that salary is, in fact, quite heritable.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/press-releases/2...
> Society has much larger fish to fry.

I wish I had a dime everytime someone used this justification.
Do you also hold the same view regarding medicines? That the FDA shouldn't regulate medicines, and manufacturers can make insane promises? After all, we love free market over human lives.
This has been around for a while but it's both neat and actually a practical way to color drawings. Pixiv (popular Japanese art website) integrates it nicely into their web sketching/livestream thing.

It's also open source, both the NN part and the web UI.

https://github.com/pfnet/PaintsChainer
Is the color added in editing or was there color in the moon's surface?
Two reasons why Reddit isn't "digg-ing" their own grave right now:

1. This change is much smaller and less destructive than digg's big change (although the long term effects can be just as destructive).

2. When Digg's redesign caused an exodus, Reddit was extremely well known as "that ugly digg clone" and "this digg link was on Reddit yesterday". Reddit doesn't have a well known established "number two" the way digg did. Raddleme is a leftist fringe site, voat is a racist fringe site, HN is a technology fringe site. Discord servers rely on Reddit for discoverability and member vetting. When this has been discussed before, I've never seen a viable candidate mentioned. Since the only people who can leave are people who only use fringe topics, Reddit won't be able to loose critical mass and then the fringers will have to come back.

On the other hand, these changes appear to be a step into the Twitter/Instagram/facebook market. I'm curious if Reddit will be ready in time to take advantage of this upcoming Facebook exodus, also if there will even be an exodus.
Thanks. Is having XCode necessary in order to build and publish for iOS (I guess yes)? I don't use apple computers and use linux, so if that's the case I'd need to buy a Mac and XCode to do so, no?
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>This is one of the few area where the government, meaning you and I, NEEDS to step up and protect the citizens.

I agree that regulation is necessary here, but I'm fascinated that you think tech/data privacy is a special case. Businesses in all sorts of industries are prone to abusing and mistreating people.
St Helena's existing airport is problematic due to wind shear and tailwinds - the existing route flying in there takes fewer passengers than the planes they use can normally take to compensate for the difficult conditions, and the geography of the island makes a larger runway problematic.

Ascension would be more likely, given that it has a runway intended as an emergency runway for the Shuttle, and it has a bunch of communications facilities (GCHQ, NASA, ESA, BBC Atlantic relay) as well as US and UK military facilities.
Yeah, gak or floam once rubbed into fabrics or carpet were pretty much impossible to get out.

I think we had one container of each, and after my mother realized their staining potential, we found them both dried up one day, their lids mysteriously left off.
Hey!
Sorry for the shameless plug - I actually had the same problem so I built a simple product around this, eliopay.com . It integrates with PayPal, Stripe (CC) and cryptocurrencies (with Paybear). Still very new tho (haven't officially launched).

I'd love to integrate with Munt in the future!
Sherry Turkle [1], a psychologist who wrote about humans and the interactions with computers, wrote about people who use computers as a way to satisfy a need for total control. This manifests itself in building/making or using a low level means to accomplish something that could have been done with a higher level or easier means. These users prefer the lower level means over the easier way because the latter would remove some control or transparency of operation from the person.

So, nostalgia is a big part of the NES appeal, but there may be other factors as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Turkle
Can we once and for all accept that what you give to a website can be used by that website? Don't give your relationship status to Facebook if you don't want them to have it. It's a simple solution isn't it?

I think for so long people ignored the impact of what they did with their data. Facebook isn't your doctor or your lawyer. Facebook make cash out of targeted ads, it's their business models, they WILL use the data you gave them to target you with ads.
That is super cool. Any data on how it compares to pypy's JIT?
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Assembler for the Ethereum Virtual Machine
Who is "they" -- government or industry?

If you believe that we should be skeptical of both, perhaps there's common ground where we can agree. Power corrupts, power collects within both government and industry, and they constantly reinforce each other through corruption and regulatory capture. The state has the monopoly on violence so it deserves special care, but commercial entities (especially multi-national corporations) have plenty of power to threaten and ruin individuals.
Totally agree about making `internal` the default visibility for Solidity/EVM functions.

Should also require visibility to be declared (right now just compiler warnings happen).
Exactly. I downloaded mine and there were entire chat histories missing, and some of the ones I explored were incomplete. I could see more data in the actual browser chat interface than what was in the download. It didn't include posts I made on other people pages, all the likes, shares, and the thousands of gifs I've sh!tposted. It also did not include data from the pages I manage/own.
Not from the poster above, but here's my original content on Steemit

https://steemit.com/linux/@alphydan/teaching-cyber-security
Financial companies have been using FPGAs and even custom ASICs for a while now for HFT.

If you are willing to buy old wireless towers in order to gain the speed of light speed increase in vacuum vs in fiber, custom silicon is chump change.
> which is suitable for web-based publication, and game multimedia (graphics, audio, control, etc.)?

ChickenScheme uses continuations to transpile to C. So it supports interfacing easily with C libraries, and it supports binary distribution (Which in my exprience is difficult in most lisps/schemes).

You can use it out of the box with something like SFML or whatever.
I've had a lot of fun trying homebrew games on my modded NES Classic. If you're a fan of the original Metroid, you should definitely try Rogue Dawn. It plays like a true sequel to NES metroid and it adds features from later Metroid games.
> We support this by having a $49/month membership fee and by not accepting insurance.

This is the trick. Accepting insurance - in particular, Medicare and Medicaid, because of their particular reimbursement model - makes it impossible for most providers to provide up-front pricing.

Typically the providers who can are for specialized treatments that don't intersect with other specialists much, like outpatient psychiatry or psychotherapy (you'll see this a lot in places like New York, where the demand is high enough that good psychiatrists can ensure a steady stream of patients even if they don't accept any insurance, and they rarely need to refer people to other specialists). I'm glad you're able to operate a practice like this elsewhere, especially for a non-psychiatric (I'm assuming) medical clinic.
Admit implies wrongdoing. I'm not. I think it can be perfectly fair to want to be guarded about your secret sauce if that's what you believe it to be.
Definitely. It's the kind of manipulative dystopia that might have been designed by timeshare salesmen and propagandists. But the weird part to me is that conscious design seems basically unnecessary. It's dystopia metastasized.

I've interviewed the occasional person looking to leave Facebook, and one of the surprising things to me is how small everybody's job is. They're all optimizing micro-metrics for micro-gains, with very little thought as to the systemic impact. Those micro-metrics in turn roll up to plausible-sounding things like revenue, DAU, time on site, and engagement. Yay engagement! How could that be bad?

But I've never heard anybody from Facebook, employee or exec, say, "Gosh, could we be acting like tobacco company execs or slot machine designers?" They don't even seem to understand addiction as a topic, let alone a concern. It's very much as Upton Sinclair said: "“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
If it were only social media companies that might be significant, but every company we interact with is doing the same things these days. For example, did you know that employers are selling weekly paycheck info to credit bureaus without consent? Unbelievable it's not illegal.

For some strange reason Americans only care about privacy regarding medical info, but everything else is totally up for grabs. Never understood that dichotomy.
Essentially they have much better resolution source material and they scaled that into a 4K signal which allows for a viewing experience that is "better" than having it be scaled to 1080P.

As for showing it on the web? Well generally unless you have a 4K monitor you won't see it at the full video resolution. It does look pretty crisp and stunning at 4K.
I understand that you are angry about the Cambridge Analytica revelations, I am too. But I am not spreading misinformation, I am participating in a discussion. I have repeatedly try to communicate that I am not talking about targeted advertising. In the senate hearing, the counsel is honing on some important points. What is the alternative to Facebook (i.e. a real competitor)? What information is Facebook gathering on non-users? What is Facebook doing to shield users' from the outside world? How much metadata is Facebook gathering/surmising outside of a user's direct input? These are way bigger questions than does Facebook allow Advertisers to target you based on certain demographics (a similar but different debate). Google is poised to abuse / misuse personal data in the same way but regulating and persecuting are very different processes and should not be conflated in these discussions. I simply want to draw those distinctions between Google and Facebook.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russias-s-300-s-40...
That is still incorrect. Assuming a poisson process, the expected time to find the next block from T+0 is T+15 no matter what information was given or not given.

edit: and assuming 2/3 hashing power
> Republicans will require mandatory public service to obtain UBI

That's a far more liberal perspective than the republicans in my family take, unfortunately.
Flip your argument around: suppose a startup walked into a VC firm and said "we want you to fully fund us for our first couple years, which will be expensive, and in return we expect to give you nothing -- no equity of any sort, no shares of future profits, nothing".

Would anyone who had the ability to invest in something that actually provides a return take that offer?

But that's exactly the offer researchers -- many of whom work at publicly-funded universities -- are currently making.
Somewhat related survey: 70% won't even pay a measly 8 cents per month to avoid ads.[1]

The random suggestions out there saying Facebook could theoretically charge users $5/month for zero ads is naive I think.

Also, a general point about surveys... Asking people about hypothetical payments usually overestimates what they would actually do with real money. Surveys asking factual questions like "how many children do you have?" yield more accurate results than "would you pay $9 for product X?"

E.g. the article says 25% would pay $6/month for no ads. Probably the more realistic answer is to divide that by 10 and estimate that only 2.5% would actually pay that subscription amount to Facebook.

[1] https://www.tune.com/blog/mobile-ads-70-of-smartphone-owners...
As a European, the situation is only slightly better for me. Formally I have some rights, and some things that are legal in the US may be illegal here, but that has not kept any company from doing it anyway. I have yet to receive better privacy in real terms, and hope GDPR will finally make the mass intrusions unprofitable, maybe even criminal.

There was the Bye Bye Facebook event here yesterday, 10k people from the Netherlands deleted their Facebook accounts.

Personally I'm waiting until may 25 to do this: I hope that after that date, Facebook will be legally required to really delete my data, and be liable if they don't. I'm afraid that before that date, they'll just hide that data from me, and continue adding to it by tracking, and continue selling it to advertisers outside the Facebook site.
Factory jobs started out being awful, and workers had to physically fight and die to get basic protections. Eventually we got a 40-hour work week, less child labor, etc.
Agreed. I have way less issue with them serving ads to the visitor than the tracking of a user across the internet.
I use Emacs, and I'm one of the lead contributors to Flutter. Hopefully that answers your question. :-)

We have various tools that can help you configure your setup without an IDE. For example, `flutter run` listens to SIGUSR1 to do a hot reload, `flutter analyze` has a flag to write the latest results to a file, etc.
Definitely the things Linkedin do are so much worse and creepier, just by looking at the people they recommend me to connect to, the level of offline tracking they must be doing are creepy beyond imagination.
Yes, from jobs, from luck, from university, from parents people actually can have so many contacts that they don't have to worry about finding clients. That's a core prerequisit for consulting. If you don't have that, your best approach is working for the biggest company that will take you 5+ years while trying to spend a lot of time with customers and partner companies.
Seems kind of ironic doesn't it?
I think we decided advertisers deserve all the data when we generally prefer to visit ad supported services vs paid services.

Lowest friction wins. Advertising is lower friction than payment.
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Euratom is in a very special situation there in that the treaties related to Euratom makes it subject to ECJ jurisdiction, which is one of the "red lines" of the UK government.

ESA is not in the same situation and e.g. Norway is a member of ESA and Canada sits on the ESA council under a Cooperation Agreement.
It doesn't seem to do much. It looks like it just generates lots of calls from the byte code. It doesn't do any type inference.

The big win with a smart Python compiler is detecting when you don't need to represent data with the general "CObject" type and can use machine integer or floats. Then arithmetic becomes much faster. PyPy does some of that.

Being able to make an executable with no dependencies is worth something. It makes deployment easier. No need to fuss with containers or installing the right libraries on the target.
Just curious, but why not automate your link to the previous discussion? Why does Hacker News rely on people like you to post links to previous discussions? If there has been 3 discussions of an essay, over the course of 8 years, why not list all 3 discussions, when someone posts it again in the year 2021?
"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."

Source: 2010 MetaFilter Comment => https://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#32560...
As a small business owner, I love the fact that I can advertise to people who are searching for a particular thing, or have a particular demographic, or whatever. I never could have launched my company without it. Clearly those people got some value out of it as well: they were told about a company that they didn't know existed, and wound up signing up for an account with that company. Win-win.

Everyone has known for years that Facebook tracks everything they do. Facebook hasn't really tried to hide that fact. The silent majority chose to use it anyway because whatever benefits they get outweigh the loss in privacy. I am in that majority, and the last thing I need is some vocal minority second-guessing my choice.
There arent infinite resources, the whole point is how to manage them. The US has millions of malnourished kids, Something that can be solved with a lot less resources than obscure diseases that will affect only a handful.

That said, let the billionaires spend their money on such cures if they wish (and they do). If we talk about what is the role of government in spending money to save lives, expensive pharma isnt one of them.
This kind of company deserves to die, and the public record laws for highly personal data also. The obsession with "background checks" is a really huge part of why the US has extremely high recidivism rate.

When people can't find a job even flipping burgers or distributing newspapers, they have no choice other than to go back to the criminal life.

edit: as I got private feedback: it is not my intention to disrespect people flipping burgers or doing other "low level" jobs. My post was meant to illustrate that these two jobs usually do not require education and especially not a "background check", so it is entirely pointless to do these (or to not hire people with a... shady past).
That's exactly what the limited time period for patent protection is supposed to ensure, isn't it?
If we want to get pedantic; "Nostalgia: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition", where there seems to be an emphasis on 'wistful', 'excessive' and 'irrecoverable' parts of the definition, which in turn can infer a negative connotation about it all.

However, I agree with you, trying to capture past enjoyments and in cases like this, continue to make new memories and fun times, go for it I say!
Safari can indeed be updated. I use a 2008 iMac sometimes on El Cap and it still gets regular security updates and updates for Safari/Pages/etc.