skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sorta like how increasing surgical strikes in Vietnam will end the war faster and save thousands of lives?

Maybe not the former, but certainly the latter if it meant a reduction in alternatives like carpet bombing, etc.

In World War II, the military would drop thousands of bombs over a wide area in the hope that a few would land on a German ball bearing factory. Now that they have more precise weapons, they don't need to do that anymore to accomplish similar missions. If the military feels it needs to smash something small, they'll use a big, oversize hammer if they don't have a small one available. They don't give up and go home.

> More efficient targeting just means more strikes.

Maybe, maybe not. I don't know how you could reasonably be so certain about that.

> And all of this targeting is extra judicial anyway...

As is de rigueur for military targeting.
Huge thanks for Neanderthal and Bayadera! There is stuff that is basically impossible to run in Stan that becomes feasible on a laptop with a GPU with Bayadera, and the fact that I can do all this in Clojure without having to migrate to Python or worse R has been a great boon.
Vesting isn't perfect though. It treats all contributions the same and only really looks at the time it took to do some work.

The ideal situation seems to be that anyone doing work immediately vests ownership upon performing the work.
https://matrix.org is essentially a modern IRC, but federated and completely FOSS. I suggest people drawn to an IRC-like experience without the proprietary nature of Slack and Discord [give it a shot](https://riot.im).
If this isn’t technically the same project as JSON, it isn’t a great name (just sounds like a later version). Shouldn’t it be “json-es5” or something?

Anyway, the changes are all sensible, definitely covering the few things I routinely want to do with JSON files.
...did you and I read the same article....?
Read it again. It's quite interesting.
Tcl is the granddaddy of embeddable scripting languages. It has had safe sub-interpreters for untrusted code for quite a while. They were added back when it had a shot of being a contender against JavaScript and safe script evaluation was deemed necessary.
No. I only gave you small examples. For example, system margins and guides are not taken into account by the RN layout system, causing apps to look non-native. Almost everything is implemented reinvent-the-wheel style in RN, which makes it uncanny valley (and thus, very easy to spot).
> For example, some Anime (and nothing all that weird, it's just the preconception that cartoons are for kids).

At this point it's not the age issue. I think most people get that there are animated shows for every demo at this point.

It's the fact that you had to preface with "nothing all that weird".

And the fact that I've heard that so often on the internet only to find out that "well, except for that, but she's not as young as she looks, she's actually a 5000 year old dragon. But they're all flirting with her because of her magic powers, not because she looks 8." Oookay...
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As far as I understand the bytecode is interpreted (not JITed to native instructions), which is afaik OK on iOS.
Personal wellbeing hint: Do not ever joke about an airline pilot's recent alcohol intake, as the article suggests. This has been done, was treated as a genuine accusation, and precipitated cancellation of the flight.

Don't fully recall consequences to the joker, but they weren't good, starting with being identified by seat number to fellow passengers.
How is this compare to Mozilla's Servo approach?

https://servo.org/

From the simple block diagram and benchmark, servo seems to be better?

Servo claims 500 fps.

This only shows 22-48 fps.

Anyone have good technical explanation on the difference?
As for me:

- I have got my medical procedures scheduled and performed, finally (3 months of procrastination)

- Have planned and performed some trainings for my team (1 week of procrastination)

- Going to purchase some small pieces of a furniture into the office (6 months of procrastination)
You know that IRC is FOSS as well right?
“I think China will be fine given that it can simply stop accepting money from the US if T​r​u​m​p's tariff pettiness starts to sting. Who do you think precisely, phones and computers are sold to?”

Fixed it for ya. (I tease)
No, I really was put off by the low quality and the dumb accents that Gibson did (which I'm guessing is the version you listened to).

Just checked the wiki and supposedly there are two other versions out there which I guess I'll have to find now.
I don't think it matters what they are called. The connotations are attached to the people, not the word. Change the words and it becomes a euphemism treadmill.
An unfortunate title (does nature do click bait now?). Why use the term dwarf instead of quoting the numeric value (or say "more than double")?
I made this over the past couple weekends, using Vue and Firebase! Would definitely appreciate feedback :D
> a tiny little bit of spite in everything IT related from programming language design

A mere hour after your comment, a link to the dynamically-typed Gravity language ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373545 ) appeared on HN. The syntax appears to be based on Apache Groovy's (and its syntactic clones Dart and Swift), and as for the name, well, "Gravity is groovy" ?!
Check out http://duktape.org. Extremely easy to embed, great performance, and can go down to a ridiculous 1.5KB of RAM at startup.

This and JerryScript (https://github.com/jerryscript-project/jerryscript) are the two most active embedded JS engines.
Made me think of the doomed "10 cent beer night", another Cleveland event that suffered from unintended consequences:

https://youtu.be/CFtR38Mlscc
That's not necessarily true, though, if capturing it costs more than just letting it leak.
> yubi key expose a device (or type as a usb keyboard), which every single user process have access to

So? Are there any actual exploits you'd like to share that take advantage of either of these? Or are you just speaking in hypotheticals? Because in that case, basically everything you do on any computer that isn't airgapped (and even that can be exploited) is going to theoretically be exploitable.
Being that Behavior is a game development company, is it feasible that they used in-house libraries for developing common game functions, such as animation, that could explain some of the similarities?

And if that's the case, and Behavior had ownership of the libraries prior to their contract with Bethesda, does usage of these libraries in Fallout Shelter therefore transfer ownership to Bethesda?
WHOIS says creation date 1998-01-15.
That's really funny, and something I want to see. It sounds like a SIGBOVIK paper
@yebyen It's seems you know what you are talking about. Would you be interested to test Nevercode out and share you experience?
I’ve spent a bit of my life thinking about this as I come from a bit of an odd circumstance as my parents purposely raised me poor (despite having wealth), didn’t offer much support and made me struggle thinking it would make me very resilient. They very much believe that anything that doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

The biggest problem with childhood adversity is that you are risking your health. My physical health started to fail and I’ve been unable to work for the last few years. I wasn’t born with the strongest constitution, but I do think my upbringing is a large contributor to my health problems.

I have friends who grew up in wealthy supportive environments, they are doing absolutely fine but the article is right in that they don’t have the drive or sacrifice to accomplish huge things. They are also by and large, very healthy. On the other hand, with my immigrant friends (many of whom are very successful), even though most are healthy there is a way higher percentage of health problems.

Another problem that I have is that I have some poor people impulses and habits, like issues with instant gratification. I did get some benefits in that I am amazingly resourceful and have great problem solving skills. I have the resilience to navigate awful bureaucracies and deal with everyday problems which has been helpful in my attempts to restore my health. I do know a lot of normal people would’ve given up by now.
Not the OP, but I think what they're referring to is the "follow your passion", "do what you love", "if you love your work, you don't work for a single day" messages that imply "it's not important to [select] a profession for which there is more demand than supply"
>but a better design would use metadata associated with the input to determine its format rather than guessing.

how would that have prevented this incident? if the metadata is stored in the filesystem (as opposed to the file contents), chances are, the updater is going to blindly mark whatever it downloaded as "an executable". if it's part of the file contents, it's essentially the same as magic bytes.
Yeah, this article doesn't really seem in sync with the realities of where the construction is in Atlanta.

The reality seems to be more one of the market chasing changing preferences - as desire for denser areas increases relatively, a lot of inside-the-perimeter denser construction has followed.
Yeah, that's not an uncommon malady. That's why off-by-one errors are one of the two most common errors in computer programming, along with naming things and cache invalidation.
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You would expect that to be the case in the Bay Area, but even now people will spend several hundred thousand dollars more for a home in a good school district, even though that money could have been used to pay for private school.
Is there precedent to be repaid losses in line kind?
That's not how bankruptcy works. He effectively made an unsecured, interest-free loan to Mt Gox for $8. The only thing he's entitled to in the event of default is that $8, what the company used his loan for is irrelevant.
Stealing IP mostly helps manufacturing, It doesn't really help innovation

One of the lies we were told was that only manufacturing and other low-value-add activities would be going offshore, all the high-pay and -prestige design work would be staying in the West.

But Japan showed in the 80s and 90s that once a country has achieved a level of manufacturing, design comes naturally and quality comes naturally, and the hollowing out of the West shows that once you lose manufacturing, your design capabilities stagnate. And now the West is squandering what little it has left making the same mistake with China.

We even say it on this site often enough, ideas are cheap, executing is hard. Manufacturing is executing.
>A case can be made that "sovereign countries" are imaginary constructs that should be abolished

An exceedingly weak case can be made. It makes for a fun thought experiment but it falls apart really quickly.

Say someone did manage to abolish all the states, why would that not just be the conqueror establishing a new global state? How would you enforce the rule no states allowed? Who would enforce it? If there was no global state to enforce the rule, what stops someone like me from organizing a state and easily conquering the stateless?

>...elevating that line to some concrete status is rooted in a worldview which has no objective reality

I'm curious what worldview you think is rooted in objective reality? To me a world where everyone just gets along and lives in cooperative communes is lacking a foundation in reality.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the state. I do however view it as a necessary evil. Remember, ultimately the state is still just people. Any gripe you have with the state is just a gripe against people with power. Saying that nobody should hold power is a cop out.

The hard part of organizing the human race is trying to determine who should organize us. To that end it seems like a democratic state is more desirable than a hopelessly disorganized commune.
I'm trying to get a company approved to sell portable batteries on Amazon and it is pretty strict. Amazon requires testing reports that meet the UL 2056(?) certification or something. I don't know whether they require this for all electronics but as an Amazon seller, it seems to me they are very intense about quality and customer satisfaction. Another example is that I helped someone with a product launch for headphones that ended up having a little over 6% return rate. It was flagged by Amazon within a week.

However, what I have also learned is that there are many Chinese sellers that have also learned how to game the system.
more aggressive surveillance - there is a ton of gas leak detection technology out there, but its use is optional in most places...
> It seems every "how to do Slack right" post emphasizes that you shouldn't use Slack as a chat service.

I think these posts tend to emphasize that you should use Slack more like IRC. IRC is generally treated as asynchronous. Channels have tens, hundreds or thousands of people idling in them, and you can talk to those people, but you don't know when they'll talk back.

Those messages may turn into real time conversations very easily, but they don't have to.

That's also why channels are so important. You can ask a bunch of people with knowledge on the topic a question, and someone will probably respond somewhat soon. And if they take a while, you should be right there idling to receive answers even while you aren't available.
It's good that they want to maintain and nourish the culture that has grown up around IRC, but in the long run, shouldn't the focus be on keeping the culture but moving it toward newer federated systems like Matrix? IRC is late 80's technology with no security.
I suspect you’re not using spherical magnets for this purpose?
Thanks for the thumbs up!
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That's precisely what isn't happening; if it bankruptcy that would be the case, but civil rehabilitation is allowing some portion of the BTC to be returned.

That's why people are so excited about this news.
SCOTUS' Carpenter case is being hailed as a digital privacy victory. It’s not
GNU cash :)

https://gnucash.org/
8 million -> 13 million metric tons (+60% increase) of Methane seems like a big jump.
Because not everyone considers these industries to be immoral.

Morals - as opposed to ethics and ethical behaviour - very much depend on your personal point of view.

Some people object to porn. In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with porn or adult entertainment as long as all parties involved are consenting adults.

Personally, I consider working for defence contractors or intelligence agencies to be objectionable. Many people however don't feel embarrassed by it and even take pride in their work in those industries.

Apart from ethical questions, technical challenges might be a part of it. Scaling a huge video site - adult or not - is no simple task.
Carbon tax
FYI, almost all of your comments are dead.
Your link went dead. I would greatly appreciate actually being able to read this article.
That's decidedly not what the article claims. It claims that there are people who live in the suburbs but would prefer not to, and provides evidence to support that claim. The same evidence acknowledges the existence of people who are happy living in suburbs.
I wasn't aware of this. So they launched 1.5 million balloons to set a Guinness World Record only to have Guinness not recognize the record and have 60% of the balloons fall into the river and eventually make their way to Canada. Crazy times back then.
The Japanese government is responsible for this Japanese company. The FBI has little involvement.

You're likely thinking of the Silk Road.
At some point is the media going to realize that most millenials are adults, and have been for a while?
How in the world will any small company in it's infancy be able to know whether they're even properly complying with all of the new privacy rules without paying for an expensive audit?

Web based, personal projects seem to be the most vulnerable.
1. Regardless of politics, legislating for net neutrality and privacy on the state level is just silly.

2. This won’t “reign in” the big firms it’ll shield them from competition.

3. At a time when China is totally protecting their tech firms from outside competition and providing them with stolen IP and the EU is using every tool in their disposal to go after US tech companies the last thing our lawmaker should do is try and stab our tech firms in the back.
That's a bummer. My wife and I moved to Germany and the public transit is so good here that we don't need a car and without it are saving hundreds every month. We got bikes and are generally healthier. There is at least one downside: large grocery runs like we used to do in the states: we just do many smaller ones throughout the week and find that we spend less on groceries, so win-win. I'd be for more and better public transit than less.
Arguably, that Lamborghini is even a thing suggests otherwise. There is tons of new and younger money out there that could be deployed to build real lasting foundations for families, at least enough for grandchildren to have private school and college taken care of.
Valve revamps its next controller, should make using hands in VR feel way cooler
A studio audience would help me score higher on jokes received.
I would hold up Houston as the counterexample. It has zero zoning policies whatsoever and is one of the most sprawled cities in the country, and everyone lives in low-density single family ranch homes with huge floor plans and drives an hour to work each way.

Developers still basically just plop large single-family residential developments on random plots of land with few ways to stop them. In the absence of zoning, developers will not build denser properties because they’re riskier.
Insurance companies keep trying to recommend ibuprofen to me to replace Celebrex (my knees basically have no cartilage). Except I’m tolerant of the whole standard NSAID family, hence Celebrex. Doesn’t matter, they keep recommending it to save money.

At least they don’t force it on me
Wow. That sort of thing can be the effect of little to now negotiating leverage by the acquired company. They only raised 6.3M according to Crunchbase.
I am not saying there are really no bad or incompetent actors.. but it costs the industry $2 billion per year because of these loses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/climate/methane-leaks.htm...
I'm of a generation after you, likely, but I'm in the same boat. I learned python by maintaining an IRC bot, which started out rolling d20s. It then expanded into a 1000+ line monstrosity, which was a mess, but the features taught me many aspects of programming, and let me apply it. The bot has since been rewritten into much, much cleaner code, and is one of a few projects I'm proud of. All thanks to RFC1459.
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To anyone reading "“tremendous opportunity” to reduce methane emissions by developing systems to quickly detect malfunctions at oil and gas facilities" and running to the garage to connect an RPI to an off-the-shelf 5$ sensor and submit her YC2019 application: The tech is there. It's been there for years. Everything is in place, this is a political/emission tax/EPA/incentive issue per-se.
It is native to Mexico, where it is pollinated by bees. But the bees only live in Mexico. Everywhere else vanilla is grown, it is pollinated by hand. I think even in Mexico, commercial growers use hand pollination.
New Charges in Huge C.I.A. Breach Known as Vault 7
While many articles erroneously refer to 12 year olds as millennials, I don't think this article falls into the trap. They clearly define the age ranges they are bucketing into millennial at the outset and continue the analysis from there.
To the best of my knowledge the divisibility of 12 is rarely used in music. Most chords consist use several different intervals.

The popularity of pentatonic music also suggests divisibility isn't unmissable.
You screw up your architecture and development process. Choosing your stack is not what you should focus on, whatever you choose will not solve your problems.
he seems to be purchasing influence/control by offering "jobs" to the people in charge of various IRC projects, publicly: freenode[1], kiwiirc[2] (and presumably snoonet) -- I've been told there are others (not public info)

he's also brought on board the disgraced mt. gox CEO as CTO -- what on earth is he up to?

[1] https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn: "Some of you might also find yourselves dealing with me in my new role as Director of Sponsorship and Events at Private Internet Access"

[2] https://kiwiirc.com/blog/Kiwi_IRC_gets_sponsored_by_PrivateI...

[3]
https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/04/19/disgraced-ceo-of-mt-gox-a...
IRC is and always will be, the greatest social network :)
Marketed or commonly used

That specifically is an or statement, not and.
There is nothing about emoji in this article.
I think the parent commenter is just saying that it's not something you can actually believe, just like a company saying they'll never sell your data.

Sure, that's the intention but when someone comes around waving a checkbook, they can in turn buy you and shut you down, sell your customers' info, etc. Sure, its not YOU allowing that to happen but by ceding control you essentially allowed that to happen.
Some of the arguments are a bit difficult to follow, if not swallow:

> Small variations in year one do not justify massively different founder equity splits in year 2-10.

Yet this is, essentially, how it's done for employees. At least recently, YC seems to be embarking on a campaign to bridge the gap in risk-vs-compensation between employees and founders, as they did between founders and investors.

> More equity = more motivation.

I'm not sure this is always true. I can certainly attest to its falsehood when equity is in the sub-1% range, as for most employees.

Even assuming its truth, however, since equity is zero-sum, that means that the motivating ability (the "more"-ing characteristic) of equity is zero-sum, too. It doesn't, however, mean that its motivating ability is the same on every founder, nor that such motivation is of equal value.

> If you don’t value your co-founders, neither will anyone else.

> Startups are about execution, not about ideas.

Besides potential other critiques, the above two concepts seem, to me, to contradict each other.

> Equity should be split equally because all the work is ahead of you.

> what we almost always recommend at YC: equal equity splits among co-founders.

All that said, I think this is probably the best reasoning: equity split at the beginning isn't likely to be something worth spending a ton of time/stress on for the vast majority of early startups, so equal split makes a sensible default.
Read it recently, had some ideas, but seemed to be either a conscious crib of Gibson's cyberpunk oeuvre or just so derivative of it that I kept comparing scenes/characters in it to similar ones in Neuromancer. And Gibson is the better writer.
Yes, great feat indeed. This country exactly deserves these kind of people in order to grow.
> Postmarked couriers aren’t required to report to any supervisor, and are free to work as much or as little as they want with no set work schedules, according to the majority ruling.

“Control” here is falling prey to the freedom fallacy; something we should expect a judge to overcome.

Because the employee’s value is only known to the employer and the employer’s value only to the employee, the only calculable control is in the exchange.

If the employer pays the employee up front, the employee has control. Otherwise, they don’t.

Independent contractors manage this with a per-job contract only good for liability, but not control. The difference between an employee and an independent contractor is merely in the nature of the agreement over time. “Control” has nothing to do with it.

What am I missing?