skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, this sounds both smart and stupid.

Stupid because the whole point of cryptocurreny is decentralization. So, one might ask - if Facebook doesn't control it then what is the point of this?

But that's where the whole point of a blockchain comes in. Many people I know believe cryptocurrency to be anonymous. What they don't realize is blockchain is a public ledger. Everything they do is visible to everyone. Blockchain is pseudo anonymous at best. Sure, every now and then someone jumps and asks - But what about creating new addresses? New addresses are still pseudo anonymous. So, once I collect enough data I can find who is doing what on a blockchain. Now this is what will be smart about a Facebook blockchain.

Facebook can build tools to collect people's data; all the while everyone believing cryptocurrency is somehow making them anonymous.

In that way, going to blockchain for everything is a bad idea. There will be no privacy on a public database.
Is charisma not valuable in all jobs?
Couchbase releases new managed database service
Aside from the "war on cash" angle covered in other comments, setting these types of limits to an arbitrary dollar amount is fundamentally unjust.

The CTR limit of $10K in the US is well known, but when it was introduced in the 70s[1] $10K was the equivalent of around $65K in today's money.

Similarly, inflation will guarantee if this is enacted Australians won't be able to buy something like a phone, fridge or a laptop in a few decades due to the relentless progress of inflation.

A few decades after that they won't be able to buy their groceries for $10K. These types of laws effectively outlaw cash entirely, they just have a time delay until they come into full effect.

1. https://repositorio.comillas.edu/rest/bitstreams/38908/retri...
See also Google’s efforts to commoditize content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v.....
How? Even in the same city, cellular and land lines aren't always serviced by the same company. In most places I'm pretty sure it's illegal for phone companies to be swapping call data. Or are you suggesting I call back all the numbers that call me to compare bills with the owner on the other end? This plan is not going to work out.
I believe it's roughly "MOON-chow-zen", though the "OO" is more like the "oo" in "book".
You can run Pyre without using watchman if your editor-of-choice supports LSP -- the two modes are basically complementary. You can also run `pyre check` in non-incremental mode, though that may be slower depending on the size of your codebase.
As reasonable as that seems, the reality is stark: keeping the debate officially open is a bet that you'll be able to win arguments, and telling your opponents it's over is a bet that they won't be able to scrape together any political power. Don't slam on the brakes until you've crossed that finish line, wherever that is.

The failure of climate-control laws to get passed should send a clear signal that debate is actually the only place where "climate change is happening" can win.
The right is just as bad as history and have mostly manage to erase the economic system Smith wanted abolished, and according to Marx had re-emerged after Smiths dead.

Or to put it differently capitalism was never envisioned as a critique of socialism, but as a critique of nationalist mercantilism, which is the same system international socialism was supposed to tackle a century after Capitalism had failed. Though by then Imperialism had replaced mercantilism as the common name for a system where one large property owners competed with each other for world supremacy with little regard for mere renters/workers.

Once could argue that capitalism was revived after the two wars to end all wars finally managed to wipe out the old feudal order(at least in Europe) but one could also argue that the european disaster merely reset the clock and gave rise to a new (mostly American) aristocracy which is now finally becoming visible as a aristocracy. For a lot of 3rd world the end of European hegemony after world war 2 was perceived more a handover from one set of foreign owners to a new one, then "freedom and democracy", and the us have toppled more democracies then it helped build, giving some credence to the theory of the US as a mercantilist empire rather then capitalist democracy.

In a lot of ways the problem is that few modern politicians(and that economist is in practice often a subclass of politician) dare to leave the confines of circular logic where morality can be a simple matter of good vs evil and history is a consistent narrative going from the bad old times to the brave new world. Which gives rise to an extremely toxic debate culture of fractions yelling general insults of each other, using words that have long since lost any resemblance of coherent meaning.
Seems that 1 million to 1 group or even 333k to 3 groups would be more effective than 100k to 10 groups.
That is true. The problem is deciding what is or isn't propaganda.
tbh i'd read man's search for meaning again, haven't found anything similar.
skip herman hesse's books.
Don't you think it's a bit tone-deaf to be linking to Facebook here this week?

Why wouldn’t you link to the projects fucking website?

Seriously...why?
I eagerly await the day some non-Linux kernel manages to achieve anywhere near the driver support Linux has.
You might be interested in a little Linux utility called CopyQ. (https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/)

Setting up a shortcut to "paste as plain text" is a handy secondary capability. Being able to see/select your last n copied items is very helpful indeed. (Ctrl-Alt-H is my shortcut, and whenever I'm on a system that doesn't have it installed I become sad when that shortcut doesn't work...)
When walking a few blocks to find a scooter doubles the travel time of just having it at the start, it reduces the utility of the scooter.
> so I can travel the world while working remotely.

I thought the same thing. Perhaps it is because I work for someone else instead of for myself, but since I've been full time remote for the last 2 years, I've had 0 free time for anything. I rarely leave the house. Pretty much everything I need comes from online purchases or grocery delivery as I don't even have time to do that.
Termux has it. Tons of packages too. Klaus Weidner's 'Hacker's Keyboard' is indispensable as well.
There's chance GMOs will be able to be pesticide free, so that way you can avoid putting cancer-causing chemicals on the food in the first place. That seems like a huge win to me.
Waking Up by Sam Harris. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker.
Please send us a pull request if this is something you'd like this to live in the pyre-check repo!
Controlling a Quantum Computer with Code [video]
I'd have cracked my skull open from a low speed fall if I weren't wearing a helmet. As it was, my head hit the ground so hard that my glasses flattened out. IMHO, all of those people in the Netherlands are making poor choices by not wearing helmets.
In the old days, EPROM parts and OTP (one-time-programmable) parts were often the exact same die. The only difference was the window in the package. Hardware security measures are never absolute; but no one who has thought more than briefly about it would use a UV-erasable bit to protect an important secret.

"Direct" tampering with hardware is always possible, but for a recent design it will be extraordinarily expensive--electron microscopes, FIB, and so on. The interesting exploits are usually mistakes in the logic, the power supply sequencing, etc., not direct attacks on the memory cell. There's maybe some analogy with software security, where practical attacks on a (well-known) crypto algorithm are incredibly rare, and practical attacks on everything around it are incredibly common.
It could also be that either side of these debates are unknowingly using abductive reasoning for how they feel about a stance that conflicts. Perhaps the proposed axioms come after to explain how people feel about controversial issues.

Funny enough, this conversation could also be a form of abductive reasoning. We're inferring that people are using abductive reasoning because people often hold conflicting moral views, though using abductive reasoning wouldn't necessarily guarantee conflicting views.
Running NoScript in default deny JS mode results in the page loading, with no further requests occurring while you read the page (because none of the javascript that is making the requests is allowed to run).
Yes, the data is owned by you and signed for ownership attribution. AFAIK there is no "remove my data from the network", as it is a public network.
They did have Facebook Credits. I wonder what transaction volume that had. I wonder why they didn't go with one of the existing ones though.

In any case if true this has the potential to be huge - i imagine they 'll integrate a wallet for every user.
The FCC at some point considered requiring authentication numbers or attaching names to numbers. They ultimately rejected the idea. There were multiple reasons why they rejected it, but from talking to someone at the FCC one of the reasons they rejected connecting numbers to identities too strongly is that victims of domestic abuse may need to call their abuser (eg about child support), but do so without giving away too much information (like address).
Sometimes UX people design the UX to wow the people who (1) control their paycheck (2) review their work externally (3) appreciate UX theory/trends/etc. No different than a programmer using a needlessly complex algorithm to impress people on the internet.

I remember MS word putting in the 'word count' feature for the article authors who reviewed the software. That feature is a high priority item for the writers and people who need their work to fit in a certain constraint, but not for most users.
King’s Quest: The Tale of How an Nvidia Engineer’s Cube Became His Castle (2014)
So, no more paying for things in Australia with more than $7500 USD? Brutal. Pretty soon it won't be legal to even pay your rent with cash.

As far as I know various $10,000 reporting laws started in the 1970s. That's more than $60,000 in today's money. Have these limits ever been adjusted for inflation in any country?
I believe the discount you speak of for paying cash is for paying up-front rather than deferring payment.

I did actually go to the bank and withdrew the ~$14,000 for my car, purchased second hand at a brand dealership (it had been traded in for a new car). It was quite an enjoyable experience, and very interesting how the bank measured bundles of ten $100 notes out by weight, with a rubber band of evidently consistent weight around each bundle. The man that handled finance at the dealership sighed, rolled his eyes and started counting. He said he only had someone pay in cash once every few months, if that, and normally for smaller amounts.
Lots of sources are saying that with star position/velocity information, scientists can rewind or fast-forward time to see how the Milky Way looked hundreds of millions of years in the past/future.

Does anybody know how they're solving a 1B+ element n-body problem with enough precision to make that kind of claim? I thought these things were so chaotic that this kind of prediction was impossible?
The only thing that would make this announcement worse is if we found out Goldman Sachs was underwriting the ICO, breaking up different FB coins into tranches, selling these to pension funds as an investment, and then creating a credit default swap vehicle to hedge the risk - an ICOCDS, if you will.
Exactly, most people don't realize this simple strategy and worship at the altar of Google for giving "free" software.

e.g Chrome is free and google wants to push for web technologies only because their cash cow (Web Advertising) can keep generating profits as long as there are more web users specially the ones whose behavior can be easily tracked on their browser.
PyCharm, and perhaps other tools/editors, does introspect the code. It's not too hard to work out what protocols or interfaces an argument requires, e.g if you use it in a for loop it needs to be iterable, if you index or slice it then it needs to support that, if you add it to an integer etc etc.

It's not about the concrete types but instead about what protocols it supports.
Also the same reason everyone has a VM, programming language, back end framework or front end framework.

Apple: LLVM (I know I’m stretching the definition here :) ); Objective-C, Swift; N/A; Cocoa.

Microsoft: .NET CLR; Visual Basic, C#, F#; ASP.NET; N/A.

Facebook: HHVM; Hack; N/A; React.

Google: Go, Dart; Golang, Dartlang; GWT, Guava; Angular; Android, Flutter.

Oracle: JVM; Java; APEX; N/A.

It seems that for some reason just Amazon doesn’t want to play :)
And if you're half way around the world and can't meet in person, people are really hesitant to work with you. I started out remotely with neither a compsci degree nor any prior experience at a tech company, and I definitely advise against being in that situation. The only good outcome was that it spurred me to generalize more so that I could build and deploy something for a client from start to finish on my own.
>> As you can see, Notepad is incorrectly displaying the file’s contents, making the file look garbled.

> So the intended behavior was to incorrectly display the file contents?

I would argue that you're getting hung up on the author's lack of precision. Does the file look garbled in that screenshot? Sure, I think that's a reasonable interpretation of things. Is it incorrect? That depends on what Notepad was intended to be used for. I suspect Notepad was intended from day one to be a simple means of read and editing "plain text" files written on Windows, and under that premise Notepad has always functioned perfectly.

To the author's credit, belaboring the distinction between incorrect behavior (a property of the object with respect to the intentions of its creator) and undesired behavior (an attribution given by a user with respect to their needs) would make for boring reading.

> Also, I don't know why you quoted "An issue (as perceived by a user)", since I can't find that in the article anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
Second wave of Spectre-like CPU security flaws won't be fixed for a while
> Using capital as leverage for political influence is not a central tenet of capitalism. You can be a capitalist and remain entirely outside the political realm.

If capitalism is based around rational self-interest, why would anyone exclude political power as a means of increasing their wealth? It would be deeply irrational to avoid such an avenue.

> It does exist in the real world, although it can sometimes become obfuscated by government regulation and intervention. Example: Entering the pharmaceutical space to produce cost-effective generic medicines in order to steal market share from the big pharmaceuticals is hard because of government red-tape.

Yes, regulations will interfere with the unfettered pursuit of profit, but that's by intent.

> Why did you ignore my comment about tax revenue and spending, by the way? That was the meat of the post.

Because it didn't really seem to make much of a point. Yes government spending priorities could be different and I'm sure there's wastage that could be lessened - although I'd guess less than you think. Cronyism exists in any organisation of more than one person.
So you're saying the LSP portion checks the file(s) you're currently editing, whereas the watchman (also incremental) check or the non-incremental check do the whole project?

Edit: for the active file / LSP part, I mean it shows errors mainly for the active file.
> So first I would suggest some sort of global service for translating user friendly names to internet addresses.

You can't do this without having a central authority (which people don't want to be beholden to), making names cost money (or be otherwise difficult), or accepting squatters. People aren't going to pay for names and you've gained nothing if you centralize the name store. People aren't going to accept the immobility of federation like they do with email (and it still gravitates towards centralized authorities).

I think we're just going to have to accept large hard-to-gen and hard-to-read identities (e.g. base32'd pub keys like onion service names) and we each "tag" friendly names to them locally as we choose.
No, I'm referring to 'pay some intermediary $10/month, and they re-distribute it among websites you visit.'

As it turns out, most people would rather see ads... And the websites don't make enough money, unless the rates become unreasonable.
The team behind OpenMapTiles started to work on global satellite tiles too.

See https://openmaptiles.com/satellite/. Next step is merging in very detailed aerial photos for US and EU - often with 1m or 25cm/pixel resolution.

It is going to be available for both self-hosting and as part of the hosting platform https://tilehosting.com/
Writing it up is not a bad idea. If you could find citations from economists or research that has shown this to work (even if its in slightly different situations) I think it could be convincing.
John Urschel is a mathematician who recently retired from being an NFL American football player, at least in part because of the dangers of brain damage from repeated concussions. There have been several HN posts about him, but the only one I can find with a lot of comments is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14866573

His favourite theorem is described here https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0163. It's a theorem in graph theory, and it says that if you have any graph, you can find a subgraph with "not too many edges" that is "like" the original graph, in a specific sense.

"Not too many" means that for some value d which you get to choose, the number of edges is no more than about d times the number of vertices. (In general, the number of edges in a graph can scale like the number of vertices squared.)

"Like the original graph" means that a thing called the "graph Laplacian" of the cut-down graph is a good approximation to the graph Laplacian of the original. Here's one way to think about what the graph Laplacian is. Imagine a sort of "heat flow" process on the graph, where at any given time each vertex has a temperature, and at each time step you move each vertex's temperature towards the average of its neighbours' temperatures. All the possible temperature assignments constitute a finite-dimensional vector space; call it V; the graph Laplacian is a linear map from V to itself that maps a temperature assignment to the resulting change produced by one step of the heat-flow process. It's a sort of discrete version of the second derivative operator. And it turns out that lots of interesting properties of a graph can be computed just from knowing the graph Laplacian, or even just from knowing its eigenvalues.

"Good approximation" means that the relative error is on the order of 1/sqrt(d) where d is that value you got to choose earlier. So the more edges you're allowed to keep, the better the approximation can be made.

(All of the above is a handwavy approximation. If you understood everything I said and want the correct version, you can find it in the paper itself.)
That's an implementation problem mainly caused by decentralized social networks being designed mainly by techies for techies, and touted in technical circles.
How is this not anticompetitive behavior considering their ban of everything crypto advertising just a few months ago?
Woman paid $28.43 rent for Manhattan apartment she lived in from 1955
I think if you give the article a second chance, you'll see that it does not advocate for the self-promotional behavior you dislike.

The article doesn't tell us to "listing out insignificant contributions to FOSS they have made, especially when not asked." Rather the article tells us to research about how we can add value to our prospective employers beforehand.

Stated in that way, the article's message is quite "boring", but also true.
"All the talk of the pain body..."

The point with these therapeutic visualizations is to try how they work, personally, as an actual tool to solve a concrete dilemma. As such it does not matter how useless they sound in written form. Human mind has these psychlogical switches that just seem to work in specific situations. For example of a pathological "switch", the gambler is lured by an unpredictable sequence of loss and reward. Which to most people sound extremely silly, until they try it out themselves, and are totally hooked. Therapeutic switches can seem to have equal power to deal with ones emotions and pain.

For me, visualizing my pain as a separate entity that fed from my suffering allowed me to conceptualize my internal pain in a way in which I could observe and deal with it better.

It's like how some yogis speak of energy flows and whatnot - which is completely inconsequential hogwash and do not matter just as long as the movement and breathing techniques do their very physical work on the human body.

The problem with presenting functional techniques as deeply linked with an esoteric philosophy, a religious movement or (in Tolle's case) a guru is that the technique is often used as a token hook just to lure the person to follow the movement or philosophy.
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” - Ursula Le Guin
For some reason I can only run the snap with sudo, and thus any processes it spawns (clicking links or opening a file manager for example) run as root.
'The Man Who Was Thursday' by GK Chesterton. A short novel about which any description would tend to spoil the effect of reading it cold.
What system you are using to support that many sub-screens filled with applications??
as a microbrew drinker, no thanks - I actually enjoy being able to try new beers, and find myself looking forward to when the taps change over and something new and interesting comes on.

Homogenizing beer, which is what I feel this will move toward, helps bring the macro back into micro, and not something I'm looking forward to.

as a technologist, the tech sounds like a repurposing of AI paintings, much like the recent AI knitting (I know I'm simplifying it), which could end up with some novel results during the initial training, but I'd still rather enjoy the experience than drink more of the end result.
YouTube rolls out new tools to help you stop watching
May I ask which consultancy this was?

I have found that there is not a huge amount of remote work for companies based out of Scotland.
That's the sad truth, that coming generations will be paying for our short-sighted pursuit of profit and "progress".

This reminds me of the Long Now Foundation [0]. At least there is hope, that there are people aware of the need for long-term sustainable thinking, and are actively promoting it.

"Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed - some mechanism or myth which encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where 'long-term' is measured at least in centuries." Stewart Brand

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
My favorite introspective book is Awareness, By Anthony DeMello[1]

It is a small book but it really makes you think about your views on life.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Opportunities-Reality-Antho...
I know this title is not technically click bate, but it got me.