skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing a short gig for the national revenue office there now. Their previous contractor ran away with $40k, and left them with a JPEG picture instead of a tax return portal.

The first version of a new script (one with apostrophes) was beyond unreadable.
Then it will cost more.
I do not find your explanation of the objective of PoS convincing. Maybe you are talking about their protocol that is true by construction?

Proof of Stake strategy is to make it where attacks on the blockchain are impossible in the economic sense. Proof of work strategy is making the attack infeasible by making the work required impossibly large.

Now is PoS possible? No idea. That possible fork attack seems like an impossible barrier to overcome. But we will see.
This comment is just wishful thinking and stems from a false fact. There are HNers who were using "blockchain" even before Vitalik knew about bitcoin.

There is no innovation happening. Distributed is not decentralized. Ethereum's blockchain is a mathematical proof of it being mutable (and thus not a blockchain?). Tell me any "dapp" and I will tell you the point of centralization. (Before you even mention it's probably 'the origin of money' )
Also, the government has literally nothing to do with the Alfie Evans case. The government isn't a party to any of the legal cases.

Here's a ranty English lawyer: https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/98919501104352870...
The only other companies that have been proposed all make money by charging for support.

And since when is charging money for work done 'greedy'?
We were wrong. This is how we were wrong. This is how we’re going to avoid the same mistake in the future. We’re retracting our results and will publish updated results when ready.

Clear and simple.

I wish more media could be so straight forward and honest as this.
> It can take a billion dollars to get FDA approval, how is that reasonable.

It is unreasonable to have to prove drugs are safe before shipping them out to potentially millions of people? We must have very different definitions of reasonable.
> Javascript also goes out of its way to be friendlier. While other languages complain when you try to add two different width integers, Javascript will happily add a number and a string together. It's something that drives those of us with a static typing background nuts, but makes the language more approachable overall.

We have differing definitions of friendly. Since I understand types and operator overloading, I know that 1 and "1" are different. I also know that the operator + does traditional math addition and concats Strings. If I didn't, it would probably drive me bonkers that "1" + 1 is "11" in JS instead of 2 or even "2". Having knowledge about types and overloading automatically tells me that String + Int = String.

I'm not saying that JS is bad since it lacks static typing. I'd argue that lack of static typing makes a language tougher to learn rather than more approachable. The barrier of entry is lower, but makes comprehension tougher.
Except checkups and preventative care are usually far, far more effective than emergency care. So it would be to the benefit of all for insurance to cover it.
Or that english speaking countries are/were mostly built on christian values.
What if there are no human volunteers? Or no human volunteers with this specific condition?
Surviv.io: Battle Royale is faster and more accessible than Fortnite
Facebook Reports First Quarter 2018 Results [pdf]
They're typically 1 liter plastic cylinders for holding (in/out) water. I've seen a few cupholders where they did fit. You can find cheap adapters where they don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalgene
Good. Ethical standards are worthless unless they are practiced. The tech industry needs a shit-ton more people like you.
It slid in January of last year as well. Is it a seasonal effect? (can't find FB's older figures.. I'm not good in digging up this kind of information)
ASCII with the English charset is easier than charset juggling and Unicode?

Less subconscious negative feeling from Latin-alphabet-users? It's a linguistic version of website moving to "flat" UI design.
> whenever you call a function, it might or might not spawn some background task. The function seemed to return, but is it still running in the background? There's no way to know without reading all its source code, transitively. When will it finish? Hard to say.

This reminds of me "colored functions" (red vs blue) where it becomes imperative to know if a function you are calling returns a value or a Future/Promise.

Some languages allow annotating a function to indicate as such so the IDE can help. His particular solution he presents actually doesn't address this question: Is your function sync or async? You still have to know when calling a function if it's async and needs to be in a nursery or not.

Should a programming language abstract away whether a function is async or not? async/await is a step forward (C#/JS) but it still requires knowing if the child function is async or not.
I don't think I've ever felt the need to drink in a car. Must be a cultural thing, or I guess Americans are making loooong car trips.
When the keyboard is brand new, it's the best keyboard of any laptop on the market in my opinion.

Yes, it has a horrible problem with keys not working reliably after getting even the smallest speck of dust underneath it. And yes, Apple is working on it [1]. The first generation of a new design usually introduces some bugs, but Apple reliably works them out with the next iteration. Plan your purchases accordingly.

[1] http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20180068808&SectionNum=1&...
Uplifted swine? Pigsmatrix?
Except shared data doesn't give you a little bit better performance, it gives you massively better performance. Or, in some cases, it's the only way to get usable performance at all.

Now what you could do is break objects down into annotated types. Consider immutable vs. mutable in combination with thread-unsafe, thread-compatible, and thread-safe. Immutable data that's not thread-unsafe you can share freely across threads, all is well. L2/L3 caches are happy. Mutable that's thread-safe can similarly be shared at will. Then you can force that thread-compatible objects be wrapped & accessed only from a Mutex or transfered between threads as part of a move operation.

Rust gives you the tools to do all of this, and indeed does some of it, but as part of the steep learning curve of the ownership model.
more like sharting am I right boys?
I think a lot of the hate is a reaction to the baseless hype from people just trying to get rich from cryptocurrency. There are tons of altcoins and ICOs being made and advertised constantly that are nothing but hot air. There are people making a lot of money (or thinking they can) from buying into altcoins (hyped up by nonsense marketing pages), which they then try to shill to others. People are often being incentivized by rising prices to act this way!

Outsiders start to learn that "blockchain" = "get-rich-quick nonsense", and miss the interesting technical discussions (which often come from the Bitcoin and Ethereum spaces).
The well known name of this behaviour is "thenable" and i think it's best to stick with well-known.
I don't know that, but my guess is probably anywhere between $20k - $50k. I just hear mostly stuff like "I got over 100% returns on these accounts".

For what I put in, I started with 2btc and when I stopped I had about 4. I was taking profits along the way of a few thousand every two weeks.

Of course, if you look at the crypto market last year, that's easy to see.
The benefit is to more easily draw international tourists and conduct business around the world. Most rich countries use the Latin alphabet, so it's a bid to move away from the Russosphere.
Yep, that's the blog. Specifically this post https://meanderful.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-accidental-hft-f...
I mean, this is a solved problem
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Yup, this is the comparison we see - alternative is going to a dietitian, which is very expensive. Re: your other post on people potentially churning after 2-3 months - we've actually seen strong retention, but leaving after 2-3 months is certainly a use case we've seen as well. Those users tend to have gotten a lot of value from the product, and are also profitable for us - overall not a bad outcome
Intel's marketing department doesn't know the titles until the article is published.
I recently had one of the new Macbook Pros for work and experienced exactly what the author describes. It happened regularly enough that is was a real issue. I finally got rid of it.

The can of air never resolved the issue either. I had to tap the side of the laptop and press down on the keys.

I honestly wouldn't recommend someone buy one either. They took forever to refresh the MBP and that fact that they released something after all that time with this issue is a joke. I won't be looking at Apple again for my hardware needs.
Medicaid is socialized healthcare so I think you and i spoke past each other.
> It isn't correct to "upgrade" someone to a different piece of software, and it definitely wasn't "graceful". The whole source of my rage comes from the fact that everything was inexplicably broken and I did not know why.

> And of course, the response to "man mysql" makes no sense, because MariaDB is not MySQL.

MariaDB was supposed to be a drop-in replacement. This is why Debian (and other distros like Fedora) chose to name it and help transition of existing users. Distributions tried their best to make it as painless as possible. Sorry it wasn't the case for you but I guess it still helped more people than it hurt.

> (And bear in mind, I was working from a script, so unless I sit there reading every line while it builds the VM, all of this unauthorized breakage of my machine is silent and without consulting me.)

It was documented in Release Notes [0]. You should've read it before upgrading your script. It is always a good idea to read it regardless of this specific issue.

Even if you didn't read release notes, banner text of `mysql' command makes it very clear it's MariaDB:

$ mysql
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 32
Server version: 10.1.26-MariaDB-0+deb9u1 Debian 9.1

[0]: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/c...
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What if this is evidence that many people see Facebook as a bad habit, and start the new year determined to use it less?
Why? Thumbing their national nose at Russia? Trying to align themselves economically more with Europe and America?

And, will the Unicode for the new alphabet use existing glyphs from the Latin planes, like "A"? Or will they stick with the Cyrillic planes for letters that look the same, like "A"?
Does it really make a difference to you if all the (from your perspective, as a visitor) unintelligible gibberish is written in Latin script rather than some other script?
There is no sign reflection is going to be removed. That wouldn't be possible anyway. The "denial" of use of internal APIs can be disabled with a command line switch.

The point of the new warnings is to try and start slowly weaning the Java ecosystem off the use of internal APIs, something to which it has become quite accustomed.
Chipmaker AMD's revenue climbed 40%, driven by sales from Radeon, Ryzen and EPYC
I don't suppose you touch type text all day?

Edit: I mean, I'm sure the emoji keyboard and large trackpad is better if your work involves the mouse and any of those applications where you have to click toolbar buttons a lot. Just not for typing.
I wonder if people make New Years resolutions to stop using Facebook and then relapse a few weeks in?
AFAIK the cupholders are a purely North-American thing. I never used one, ever, in any car, and I know of only one person that ever uses them to hold beverages (though never cups, always water bottles). Really an unfathomable mystery to me.
FREE method!

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- superior tech than OP
Everyone fights the GAMAF sponsored subversion of the ICT industry in their own way, depending on their personality. Although some people go around the law without breaking it, others wilfully break it (Snowden), others go around it but inadvertently break it (Lundgren), others wilfully break it but can't handle the subsequent miscarriage of justice (Swartz), yet others make money from doing things that shouldn't be illegal (Dotcom). Fight the corrupt IP machine in your way.
Promises and generators are both awesome, but they're both way more restrictive than call/cc. Now, I tend to the idea that that's usually a feature - and that at most strictly delimited continuations is more than sufficient in a normal language - but equating promises to continuations is ... not really accurate.

(but oh gods 'let' makes me so happy, having to get sensible closure behaviour by typing out let-over-lambda shenanigans by hand was -ing horrible)
In addition to the way that he describes the Model T as a cultural milestone for his generation (seeming similar to, say, how the iPod was for mine), I found it fascinating how he describes the car's ubiquitous hackability in a way that would be foreign to most car owners today.
Yes, it's actually Russian.

For a second I thought they wanted to credit the origins of Cyrillic, but realized that then it would be Bulgarian.
Hearts and minds. The immense monetary cost and hassle of doing so is weighed up against developing a closer connection to Turkey and Azerbaijan, ostensibly [1]; but the cultural subtext of easing consumption and learning of other latin-script media and art from the wider world.

There's an element of sticking it to the Russians, an element of exploiting a generational divide unlike other leaders who stuck with their aging power base, and an element of a leader wanting to make a permanent mark on the state, but they mismash into an ambitious scheme that continues Kazakhstan's to be a relevant actor and independent participant in the world stage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14124215#14124449
I'm ethnical Russian living in Kazakhstan and I think that it's not a very wise decision. As correctly written in the article, overwhelming majority of Kazakhstani citizens speak and write Russian well. I just don't see any point with this change, but costs are tremendous, you have to rewrite every single book including learning books, you have to replace every street plate. When overwhelming majority of people speak Russian and Russia is the most important trade partner, I think that it's only logical to have Russian as one of the official languages in the country (with Kazakh language, of course). Instead Russian language has strange status as a "language of international communication" and basically they are trying to suppress its usage, many plates are not include Russian translations, etc. For example in Canada only 38% of population speak French, nevertheless French is an official language.
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It's not hard to build a machine learning model that can predict the price direction with slightly more than 50% accuracy. However, once you factor in the trading fees, slippage and the spread, you will almost always lose money. I built a number systems that looked like easy money making schemes that would make small amounts on most trades, but once you factor in trading costs (which most people forget about initially) you will lose money most of the time. That applies to the stock market and also crypto currencies if you are trying to predict the price direction. I have heard also that predicting volatility in the equities market is easier and the better strategy. To make money off that you would need to use derivatives. It's less clear how to do this in crypto unless you are trading futures, and I think making money off the price volatility there requires a different strategy, making heavy use of limit orders and stop losses.
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After running Gnome for 18 years, I've quit.  why.: linux
I was expecting to see some mention about the Russian government's public reaction to such a move. It has the appearance of both a snub to Russian culture and pride, and further encroachment of Western institutions.
What is the size limit other than a tweet? Can it be expanded to articles? Also why? If twitter is down then I don't have the transaction id to look up the content.
Gee, if only there was a simple and easy way to increase the capacity of the BTC blockchain.
Work that makes this sort of censorship harder, by forcing censors to knock out all access to big chunks of the Internet, or give up includes:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5246/ to be updated later this year with:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-tls13/
and the future development of:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-sni-encrypti...

On the other hand, we have ETSI's TS 103 523-2 "(Middlebox protocol") based on TLS 1.2 and still far from finished

https://docbox.etsi.org/CYBER/CYBER/Open/Latest_Drafts/CYBER...

The idea in the Middlebox protocol is that you agree (or more likely "agree") to have one or more middleboxes intercept everything on your encrypted connections. They can read it, modify it, censor pieces, and the protocol's authors have persuaded themselves that since this has your "consent" it's all fine and this is even an improvement in some sense. Of course their stated use cases say things like "Compliance with securities laws at Financial institution" or "Malware protection on home network" not "Bigotry against gay people by theocrats" or "Censorship of political opinions in a police state". Funny how that goes.
I guess all people who think that way should visit Hungary and try to read the signs there.
Amphibian species are thought to be the proverbial canaries in the coal mine of extinction. Frog species have been crashing, salamander species are crashing, insect numbers have been crashing, reef systems are dying.

When it all falls down on our heads, we won’t be able to say we didn’t have massive flashing warning signs.
90 years ago similar Latinization was attempted in Russia itself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinisation_in_the_Soviet_U...
Let them move abroad then. If they want to work on the tools to prop up a dictatorship, they can go live in one.
developers, pay us or we will direct your players' complaints to you

How is that even remotely unreasonable though?

The game example is poor for a different reason; Oracle don't seem to care about desktop apps anymore and they want you to bundle the JVM with your app anyway. Hence new tools like jlink and javapackager.
"What if there were no animals? Or no animals with the specific condition?"

Two can play at the hypothetical game. It's stupid. The same reasoning leads to moral acceptance of human organ harvesting. ("There's no willing donors, and those prisoners don't need an extra kidney anyway, and I do!")

(Though the concern that so-called animal "models" don't reliably predict the effect of treatments on human is very real.)
Picture of a Fab is a very bad CG, pictures of 300nm process on Chinese website are directly copied from Intel. :o
Sorry, the I misread the title, it's literally the "slides" (slide deck) of Q1 earnings. Not a observation on a decline in earnings.
Trademarks are the most important kind of intellectual property law, not for the owners of the trademark, but for the public.

It protects you from shoddy fakes that do stuff like install malware (which other counterfeiters might have tried if the law were more lax on counterfeits) or stuff not following safety guidelines (like fake chargers that burn your house down).

Well enforced trademark law means that you as a buyer can investigate a seller and know what you're getting based on their reputation. And well enforced trademark law means that you as a seller are incentivized to protect your brand by making good/safe products.

EDIT: you can argue copyright or patents are bad, but fundamentally I cannot see the world be a better place without trademark laws in some form.
Yeah, long car trips. Just visiting my parents is 2 hours by car. My sister would be 2-3 days (I fly for that). I drove to visit my nearest aunt and uncle and that was a very, very long one day drive. About 12-13 hours.
If information is not a requisite, then how do you actually know what you're paying for? Or know that you're getting what you're charged for?
Be careful about how you interpret the word "prove" there. Are you sure that the sense of "prove" that applies to that theorem of Gödel corresponds to the sense of "prove" when you are talking about proof of stake?

The proofs of Gödel's theorems work by encoding the axioms and inference rules of the system in a way that can be dealt with within the system, and using that to encode statements like "this statement cannot be proven within the system" within the system.

I am not sure what the analogous thing would be if you were to attempt to carry the proof over. I am not even sure what it would mean to try to do that.

To prove that, there is no proof that can be carried out within proof of stake, that there is no proof of Falsum that can be carried out within proof of stake?

What would that even mean? What would it even mean for proof of stake to prove Falsum?

I am not asserting that proof of stake can work well, but I am not convinced by the line of reasoning that you lay out, with its current level of detail. Perhaps if you went into the details I would find it more convincing.
Glad someone else made a futurama comment first. My first thought upon reading the title:

Good news everyone!
I know that but I didn't mention it because it would be an irrelevant detail in our context.
If you really want the signs to be intelligible to foreign visitors you can likely more easily do what many other countries do and provide signage in English. This seems like a weak rationale to change how the language is written.
Slides means the slide deck, not an observation on growth or decline of earnings. I misread the title too.
Crazy Conf Notions. Viable?
Could you expand on how that would work? If X is priced at 10 units of currency, and I promise to buy 1 X for 11, and to sell 1 X for 9. And X stays available for 10, I end up paying 11, receiving 9 - netting a loss of 2. If I manage to promise a sell/buy at 10, I even out. What do I lose with low volatility? And how do I make money "both ways"?

Clearly I lack a basic understanding of the concepts involved.
The effect was von Braun diverted a vast amount of Germany's military-industrial resources into a useless weapons program, thus shortening the war.

The things that make rockets effective, a nuclear warhead, and later precision guidance systems, he did not attempt to develop. Those were developed by the US and the Soviets.

In the meantime, von Braun's technology got us to the moon, communications satellites, the space station, SpaceX, etc.

There are many ways to look at von Braun's work. I suppose it hinges on what his intentions were - but we don't have any way to find that out. I don't think we know if he knew he was developing an ineffective weapon or not, though it seems obvious in hindsight.
thanks lauren. good luck with your company.
Better and simpler solution: Create a Bitcoin address and send one Satoshi to yourself every month.

When the transactions stop, people know you are dead.

This way you need no trusted third party, no special software, no special contract.
The Twitter mob that got him fired != the Atlantic's subscriber base.
Presumably it's a lot harder for a group of evil-doers to get a country into changing laws or printing more money. Your opinions may vary. I have my faith in (some) countries.
Yes. When attempting to pattern match signs it's easier to match similar letters than symbols that appaear totally abstract. It probably has something to do with short term memory being able to hold 5-9 things. Also many languages use enough similar words (i.e. cognates) that you can use context to guess at the meaning.