skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are from which countries?

It's still pretty hard, long and costly to transfer cash from a bank to another one. In fact at mine, still until recently it took 24 hours just to add someone to send him fund from the same bank. Interac, which is the provider of debit in Canada, recently made a way to transfer cash that many banks decided to add for a cost of 1$ per transaction. It's now widely used and banks use that as an incentive now (2 free transactions a month, amazing!).

This is all due to old antiquated technologies used by the banks. They clearly don't want to evolve. Bitcoin at least is universal, simple and works.
> not sure that C really needs to try to be the fastest and most highly optimized language

Sure it does. That's the whole point: performance and low-level access over safety and convenient features. These are the defining attributes of the C language (along with its minimalism).

If you want a safe and convenient language, why are you using C?

If you don't think C should be as fast as possible, which language should? How would that language differ from C?

It's not C's fault that people use it when they shouldn't.

> In the second case, perhaps the compiler could insert a runtime check for aliasing, and branch to either a fast path or a slow path as appropriate.

I don't get you. Are you referring to the dangers of the 'restrict' keyword? Otherwise, it's quite legal to pass aliasing pointers, and the compiler is free to introduce a check for aliasing.

If you're thinking of the strict aliasing rule, I think you're misunderstand it. It has to do with misusing types. To quote Wikipedia:

> pointer arguments in a function are assumed not to alias if they point to fundamentally different types, except for char* and void*, which may alias to any other type
If nvme swap gets faster too with huge pages then testing a whole microservice swarm on a local dev machine might benefit from it when the currently idle services can be swapped more swiftly while something chews on data.
I think there is something like that already. Look for "metered connections".
Maybe you can use one of the data interchange protocols that has a story for backward/forward compatibility? Something like Apache Avro or Protocol Buffers should allow you to work with different versions of your data at the same time.

See: http://martin.kleppmann.com/2012/12/05/schema-evolution-in-a...

His book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" has a section on this.
Oh I've definitely toyed with the fantasy of dolphin or octopus evolving in near parallel with humanity to the point of advanced technology (or having evolved to the point where they saw the innate flaws in advanced technology as inferior to an improved understanding of their innate biology and instead developed philosophically or spiritually, if you will).

Might make a good story or two.
No see it's not quite true for either side.

It's called "outgroup homogeneity," when you are part of an us-vs-them scenario your "us" always seems to be a coalition of diverse viewpoints whereas your "them" is a single collective viewpoint.

So for example if you are in a team of white males you might want to get a token black person or a token woman on your team to "bring the black perspective" or "bring the female perspective" to whatever you're working on: that's a systematic bias, you're implicitly assuming that there's not going to be a diversity of black/female perspectives the way that you already know there's a lot of white male perspectives.

In fact the broader issue that will lead the US inexorably to civil war even if present communications difficulties abate is that we do elections by dividing our electoral bodies into independent seats and then run first-past-the-post elections for each seat. The issue is fixed-point theorems. Each election is a polity -> polity map; the fixed point of split-FPTP-elections is a polity which is 50% one party, 50% the other party, both parties are completely spineless chameleons which shift however they need to in order to maintain the 50/50 status quo, and people are loosely affiliated with one party while disgusted by the opposition. As the first US civil war showed, this disgust will naturally build without bound until the highly prominent issues at the time cause movements toward secession which then lead to active conflict.

I was going to say "if you're coming from a place that does proportional elections this probably seems like nonsense to you," but that is my own outgroup homogeneity effect rearing its ugly head again! The truth is that even proportionate systems have problems with this sort of divisiveness; witness Brexit in the UK and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands for two examples. But I would insist that there is a characteristic spinelessness that pushes this further from just "we are one nation with serious divisions to reconcile" to "they are awful and we will never reconcile, let's just get a divorce" in the US system.
I have never been a fan of fast reading techniques/book summary services. I like taking my time with books (maybe too much sometimes) because I feel understand the author's idea better if I get some time to reflect on the words. So I usually try not to rush through books. However, slow reading (the concept described in this article) makes me feel sleepy... I guess I stick to my inner reading speed.
It's because you say "they" are extremist without saying who you actually are talking about.

Then you start a new comment with "These same people are calling others Nazi"

Who? When? Where?
With global roaming? Maybe something like knowroaming, $8 for a day's unlimited data in 100+ countries. Not much good if you want to use 100kbytes a day, but for your use case it might work

https://www.knowroaming.com/order/data-packages/160-global-u...
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South China Morning Post is a great source for information about East Asia. I recommend their daily newsletter to anyone interested.
One can document sublanguages, too. The Common Lisp standard for example defines sublanges like LOOP, FORMAT, the Pretty Printer, CLOS, etc.

The better embedded languages in Lisp often follow conventions: see for example CLOS and the various conventions it follows from naming to integration.

The actual problem is that defining sublanguages for most developers is not something they have learned. The result is a multitude of languages for similar tasks with their own infrastructure. For many programmers it is normal to wait for new language constructs for several years - while they work around this by combining language built-in constructs (extreme: creating lots of bloat - see Java), by using preprocessors (upto transpilers of different languages - see Java and Javascript for languages transpiling to those).

There is some complexity in Lisp providing features for embedding languages.

But there is also complexity in working around that with languages not very good in embedding. See for example Clojure, a language which provides functional programming idioms on top of Java - the integration is great - but many developers are not satisfied about the integration when it comes to debugging - see the complexity for example of stack traces in a layered language design.
I think it will also discourage the type of cheating that is almost certainly coming with our society’s new, open embrace of gambling.
I wouldn't want the last name of someone that is expected to and has a mistress regardless of their level in business... They dishonored that name.
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The intense human desire to be snarky?

You can understand why the story might be interesting to business or technology people?

I never knew humidity affected radio transmission speeds.
Yup, I'm the OP there. :)
The stock exchange is literally the only party which even has the order flow data, whereas sporting events happen in arenas where thousands of people witness them. I wouldn't think a stock exchange could sue me for publishing order flow that I was personally party to, since that would seem draconian, but maybe I'm wrong. Likewise, I don't see how somebody can sue me for recording the fact that I saw Altuve go 2 for 3 with a homer and a single the other day. Again, maybe I'm wrong. Intellectual property doesn't really make much inherent sense, since it's all arbitrary and socially constructed, so lawyers and judges can often come to what ordinary people would think of as bonkers conclusions.
Well into Java/C# time then. I suppose Allen's point was that Java and C# hadn't done much to improve on the basic ideas of C?
Oh good, when the kids ask the difficult question -- "where does the internet come from" -- I can legitimately say "a stork brings it"
I feel similarly, but history suggests that if it's a terrible idea then the UK government will be very keen on passing domestic legislation that is similar but more extreme.
I've found that the proponents of speed reading mostly only read non fiction books that help them with their career (directly or indirectly), so I guess it makes sense to speed through them... but yeah, I can't even do that with the nonfiction books I read.
Ask HN: Should ICANN be allowed to run example.com
The domains example.com and example.org are reserved in RFC 2606 and RFC 6761 for documentation purposes, however they're resolvable, hosted on AWS, and serve web content on http and https protocols.

The SSL certificates are issued to ICANN: https://crt.sh/?Identity=%.example.com

However sometimes SSL certificates for example domains issued to other entities: https://crt.sh/?id=24560621 but this is tangential.

The amount of accidental traffic and queries directed at these domains could be substantial. Some of these requests may contain confidential information. Is this a possible conflict/risk or should ICANN be absolved?
Wonderful idea.
There is, but Windows 10 will disable this functionality after a month so you have to keep logging in to reset it. We had problems using a remote PC with a 4G dongle - programs like Office kept downloading updates even when Windows update was disabled. Having turned on metering, we didn't even think about it until the bill came through.
I currently have my domain, and use protonmail.com. Email is "hosted" securely through protonmail, but I get the email of my choice, as I route through my DNS provider. It's simple, easy, inexpensive, and secure.
Yes, wouldn't be good in an emergency when out trekking if it needed a nearby base station!
Thanks, they've also linked directly to the English version, now.
I use FlexiRoam which gives me ~$30/GB that works in almost any country - everyone I’ve travelled to so far. On the same recharge and SIM card. It also sticks onto your existing sim and lets you software switch between your existing sim and the flexiroam.

They also have country specific plans which are cheaper for some specific destinations. I’ve not tried those but I’ve gone through about 25GB of data over 2 years of the global plans in probably 10+ countries.

Obligatory referral link which gives you 100MB free data. Though worth searching sometimes travel sites have a promo code that’s good for 500MB or more free:
http://roam.my/LATHIAT
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
You mean “until recently” right? People have stopped even using “I’m not racist but...” when that was much more common a few years or so back. The political climate and subtle language has changed everywhere. It’s tough to notice as a white person but if you’re in the South and aren’t white the differences are obvious even once you go into suburbs.
Personally I think the stork was the one who made the phone calls. Just getting back for them putting a tracker on him.
It is not really affecting stock trading, but it is affecting HFT trading, where many thousands of bids are made each second.

What I mean is that if you wanted to actually buy or sell stocks you would not notice the difference.
Is this what they mean by "liquidity crisis"?
The book Sapiens states that in the 1500s the Chinese had a 15 thousands ocean ready ship fleet, but for various reasons there were not really into exploring.

Is that really true? 15k ships sounds absurdly high for that era.
Interesting, i have never thought that this is a problem as my telco covers calls/sms in 207 countries and data in 174 countries, you just have to have the correct phone plan (there are 3 groups of countries with different price for data starting from 100MB to 1GB for 15 days at 13EUR)
Trying to speed read mathematics at least seems like a pretty bad idea. Maybe it works better for shallow self help books?
> it's a really underused feature for some reason

My suspicion is that it’s mainly because memory mapping files, while safe for reading, have a whole bunch of edge cases where the file can accidentally be corrupted.
Did you use FlatList or ListView (or a custom module) for this? I've noticed that ListView sometimes does much better than FlatList, interested to hear what you used.
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Exactly. Using "as" everywhere might require some small backward incompatible changes to make sure semantics line up, but at least then we wouldn't have redundant syntax.
Higher testosterone levels are apparently driving men to luxury goods
I agree it's a shame there's so little Ada/SPARK. Does Ada hold its own at low-level work though? C interfaces well with assembly code, has pointers, etc. Can Ada compete there?
I think that and also some people want to be able to speak about topics they don't know about. For example a friend of mine (a doctor) was not familiar with the concepts of "agile" so he went and had downloaded a book summary as audio and listen to it during his commute. Now he doesn't feel like a complete idiot when the topic comes up. I guess he pays the service exactly for this feeling
Since we figured out what causes scurvy and the amount of vitamins needed to prevent it weighs almost nothing, I'd bet that scurvy won't be one of the problems we encounter in space.
One person in the car in NYC.
*While some countries have vastly cheaper data. Some do not and also if you go to lots of destinations the “starter park” / SIM card cost can outweigh the cost difference easily. Which is why it easily made sense to me.

Also saves you trying to find one at the airport (strangely not always possible) and also gives you coverage when at transit airports (flying from Australia to varios destinations I almost always have a few hours transit somewhere in the middle)

If you’re in a country with easily accessible cheaper data for long enough (eg the UK has really cheap travel sims) you could always switch for that trip.
Surely ancillary data I can glean from watching sports broadcasts is open?

For example, if I use convolutional neural networks to parse broadcast video and derive statistics from that data, how could I not own that information?
In Sudan it is quite common for people to hunt storks in order to harvest their valuable SIM cards.
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Doesn’t look like cosmoline to me, too solid. I think wax is right.
>Can we make it so that you pick an OS to boot based on which pipe Mario goes down?

This would be awesome.
Speculating here, but i suspect there was no pin or similar so that people in the field could just power it on, attach it to a bird, and let the bird go.

Never mind that i suspect that the data amount was not much more than a sms with a GPS position sent to a fixed number every X hours.
The Gigafactory happened. https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-stunning-numbers-behind-succ...
Maybe people could start claiming copyright over their personal history. If I start running around in artistically meaningful patterns, can I claim that all of the people who track my location and sell it are infringing? I could start a game of Calvinball and be protected until it finished.
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This is very fluffy for Lamport, nothing of real substance in this essay.

I did get a chuckle out of this:
> In retrospect, thinking of programs as automobiles wasn’t so bad. Automobiles are pretty simple. If their car stops working, people expect any good mechanic to be able to figure out why and fix the problem.

Ok, I guess a century of engineering has produced some pretty simple machines :) /s
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I don't really know what these red/blue tribes represent, but the way you describe "social justice-y folks" seems to coincide with the way Jordan Peterson and Sargon of Akkad criticise third-wave feminism for being marxist and controlling. Ironically marxists are traditionally identified by the color red.

Unfortunately, authoritarianism and the desire for thought control is never tied to one political ideology. It will always seem like an option to those in control.

I don't know if the Japanese softcore child porn wave seems to be a symptom of people being unable to find a safe middle, or if it's a late consequence of cultural globalism. Lacking an over-all perspectives in a foreign culture makes this kind of analysis hard.
Also, bundles.

I have a dozen of game I have never played, and will probably never play. They were part of a bundle that was cheaper than the individual game(s) I wanted.
The last sentence threw me off (about certain content not being covered). If it was just your first paragraph, I would have thought it was sarcasm. And I was tired.
I think of it the other way around. While I didn't get much from the 800wpm level, I found the training on not backtracking and understanding the eye movements allowed me to understand better, not worse, and still allowed me to stop at my leisure. It's less that I'm rushing through the book and more that I'm being more intentional about it.
exactly this.

i guess other browsers don't support tags in bookmarks.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_lock
I agree, lack of nutrients and vitamins won't be a concern in most space trips. I also don't know about pirates. Where are they going to hide?

I think the biggest risks are loss of breathable air and claustrophobia/prolonged isolation (if people freak out in ships, imagine in deep space).
I thought this is just normal thing, that you can bring your SIM card anywhere and it will just work. Prices are different thing.

The device could be optimized to send the data only when connected to a low-cost network, or send just general data at very low frequency when on high-cost network, just to know the device is alive.

Also getting a cheap plan on data but expensive on calls should be also possible.
Nice job!

I don't usually use a Git client with a UI, but I'm going to be giving this a try on a couple of current projects at work.

You should add a "buy me a coffee/beer" option. I'm sure you'd gain some support
We should spend thousands of dollars on a lawyer for a clearly fraudulent extension... because? The legal system is a waste of time and money and is where you go as a last resort.

And yes, it would. The Chrome Web Store isn’t exactly a high traffic destination. We just want to prevent the thing from stealing data since it asks for domain permissions.

Why have the form specifically for this if you’re not going to process it? Oh wait, it’s Google... never mind.
Well, I'll buy one in three generations time then ;)
Meh, they need to use gravity waves; not affected by dielectric constant. Maybe a spinning mass that is frequency modulated. I just need to patent that and be funded by some wealthy traders.

Seriously though, I’m surprised they are not using direct path, deeply buried air-line coax. Has to be TEM propogation or else group delay is too high, so rectangular waveguide won’t work. Circular may work; I need to brush up on my EM.
The desire is the same, whether it’s animated or not. That’s the issue - you still desire sexual power imbalances. It’s not about using the power, it’s about the desire.

Anyways, these are just my musings on the matter. I am not an expert or familiar with the subject at all. I just was curious as to why society still is disgusted by child porn even when the harm is removed
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Ant Financial is handling ~$4 trillion in payment processing annually. They have about half of the Chinese mobile payments market in Alipay (WeChat has something like 35-40%). They've moved into numerous financial segments.

They had about $9 billion in revenue in 2017, and are nearing a billion users.

The $150b valuation is rich, however it's about 1/3 to 1/4 the PE ratio that Amazon and Netflix are being given currently. At $150b it's trading for ~85 times net profit.

The business is wildly profitable as you might expect. In terms of size, consider how big Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, etc. are.

Visa now has a $294 billion market cap. That's based on $18b in sales and extremely high margins. Mastercard is worth $204 billion. PayPal is worth $100 billion; Ant Financial will be larger than PayPal in terms of sales within 12-24 months (and is comparable now in profit).

The big risk regarding Ant Financial, is that the Chinese authorities are afraid of it and have begun boxing it in with controls. As one might expect, they don't like the idea of a single corporation controlling so much of China's financial flow (unless it's very firmly under the boot of the government).
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A buddy of mine used to work on radio internet stuffs. He said water does all kinds of strange things to the signal and it's path. Transmitting over large bodies of water and in full sports stadiums can be problematic
I ran the code and it gave me [2, 3, 5, 6, 7], missing the 1. Appending the_array[i] after clearing the new_run by `new_run = []` seems to fix this issue.
Thanks. I wasn't sure this concept would work.
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> By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine.

Java and C# weren´t even a thing.

I suggest you read the IBM RISC research papers done with PL/8 with an LLVM like architecture in the mid-70's before they pivoted into UNIX when going into the market.

The way system programming was done in Burroughs in mid-60's, nowadays still sold as Unisys ClearPath platform.

OS/400 firmware being written in PL/S in the early 80's.

Or even some analysis of Ada deployments in High Integrity Systems, like "Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK" (2015).
From an engineering perspective other solutions may be superior for grid-scale stationary storage but li-ion batteries have been benefiting from economies of scale due to mobile computing and EVs.
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