skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears to me to actually be more complicated to host things in the cloud than buying physical servers and DIY hosting. If anything I think they are deepening the knowledge needed to just operate a basic web app.

I don't follow how 'using their size to put ... out of work' follows.

Do you have specific examples?
People have similar faces. Who knew?

The technology is not perfect. And should never be used as evidence of a crime, just as an indication that two images might be of the same person and to have humans look at them.

And then those humans will also make mistakes. People do look alike. And there are twins.

I think a jury should require more evidence than just similar appearance. But such a match is a strong indication of where to look.
So the question then begs. Is this the beginnings of a digital bank?

Will they start to do things like:

- Virtual Accounts / Ledger support.

- Micro Loans.

There doesn't seem to be a digital bank that does end to end payments in the US, that businesses can plug into with an API and have everything taken care of.

There is Railsbank[0], yet they are located in the UK and US support may be in Q4 this year. But they aren't an acquirer.

This is a very interesting development for sure!

[0]: https://www.railsbank.com/

p.s if anyone does know of an end to end fintech service provider for the US. Let me know. All of the ones that I have found, unfortunately are EU only.
And they just announced in their conference call, Zen 2 Rome will be Fabbed with TSMC 7nm.
You're making the mistake of thinking that over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment saves lives, when it probably doesn't, and may well decrease length of life as well as quality of life.

The US has massive rates of testing for various stuff. It also has a lower life-expectancy than other similar nations.
Expii.com will work for algebra practice then choose any undergrad intro math text and try it, looking up things you don't remember as you go.
Kahn Academy
>"Just measuring single page-loads using a browser extension is far to simplistic of a metric."

All I know is the site has become almost unusable on an old tablet I have, it sits on a loading screen for tens of seconds before loading some simple text content. So whatever they are doing is not very efficient.

I'd love to see better analyses along these lines though. How many TWh per year on pron, how many on netflix/streaming video, how many on drinking/partying. There's all sorts of unnecessary stuff we have no intuition for.
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Spotify has a "radio" functionality that is very similar to Pandora's... but vastly more flexible, and with a seemingly far greater selection of tracks to draw from.
That's also not what I'm saying. I'm saying there are certain types of enhancements (Kardashians) which are considered unbecoming to discuss in certain serious topics (supreme court decisions). I think the list of eschewed enhancements for science should be expanded to include the type discussed in my top level comment.
If I use my normal VISA card at a retailer they pay an interchange fee right?

If I create a physical card through stripe, and I use that card at a retailer does the retailer still pay a interchange fee? If so who does that go to? How does that system work?
I mean, when you really look at it, banks aren't really up to speed with the speed of information these days.

A lot of these things that shouldn't be issues are issues because they're still operating as if there are still people who are managing most of this and physical checks and credit slips are being passed around.
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Maybe go through the Khan Academy math courses. The organize it by grade level. Then you can see where you are lacking.
I think there's an additional security aspect to this. A big company has their credit card processing system breached? Cancel the card for that vendor, and you don't have to worry about updating all your bills/autodebit.
I had them all and in different countries. Apple Music had lost me forever when day after day for a month they has been suggesting Heavy Metal albums and playlists to me - genre that I do not listen too which is obvious based on my music library and habits.

Spotify is getting on my nerves due to caned music in curated playlists. But I have free subscription as part of family package.

I like Google Music best and miss Rdio.
Very cool.

Any chance Stripe lifts some restrictions on prohibited businesses soon? Virtual cards can be particularly useful in travel, but that use case on Stripe has long been considered prohibited:
https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses

Also, any chance for custom prints on the cards?
As a software developer I am against this
How are they easy to solve? Most people (decidedly not the ones browsing HN) will just buy an el cheapo microSD from some random phone repair shop or google for ‘cheapest microSD 64gb’ and end up ordering some crappy card from AliExpress. If you do what Sony did with the Vita and PSP and force people to use proper (read: your) card then the cards turn out horribly expensive because economies of scale don’t kick in. It’s also decidedly an Apple-esque move.

Besides that, Apple can’t control the entire worlds cellular and WiFi coverage. Some parts of countries only have 3G, some buildings only have shity WiFi. However, Apple can control how their iPhone’s storage performs by not allowing you to use crappy SD cards and just having you opt for more internal storage.
I’d use Khan Academy, which lets you build brick by brick from simple addition. The gamification is motivating, and you can’t fool yourself.
Anyone know why the black hole is marked well off the axis of the orbit of S2 in diagram [1]? Is there enough mass elsewhere at the center of the galaxy to have it orbiting a common mass so far off axis? The video of the orbit [2] seems to show it closer to the axis or the focus I'd expect but still seemingly a bit of an offset. The fulldome view video [3] does show that there is quite a bit of stuff moving around there so maybe my imaginations are wrong, I think of a black hole having so much mass that it completely dominates the local gravitational field.

1. https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/eso1825c/

2. https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/videos/eso1825g/

3. https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/videos/eso1825g/
Khan academy would be a good resource for that.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math
Make it an extension API.

The GP noted that the more concerning thing going away isn't Firefox presentation of feeds (the live bookmarks) bit the discovery. So far, you can use the orange button to learn which page supports RSS or even learn that RSS exist in general. Without that button, even if there are extensions, only people who already know what RSS is will be motivated to install them.

Now we get that kind of default discoverability instead for proprietary services like Pocket...

A low-maintenance compromise would be to keep the button, but make it strictly extension-only. Provide an API/manifest entry where an extension can register as RSS reader. If the button is clicked, that extension gets a callback. If no extension is installed, open the Browse Extensions tab and offer an option to hide the button.

The Firefox devs would still need to maintain the button and feed discovery logic (which mostly checks for a specific meta tag, I think) but could still throw out live bookmarks, the Atom parser, etc.
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SBCL aka the best one. I develop on both Windows and Linux machines, depending on circumstances and it works pretty well on both.
Well... legal where?

The tax avoidance strategy of choice, the Irish Sandwich, is perfectly legal in Ireland and the Irish government actively invites companies to use it. They take taxes away from EU countries and collect generous subsidies from those same countries, double-dipping. Focus your ire there, or Luxembourg, or any of the other countries who have made a whole industry out of it.
Whether healthcare is for-profit or non-profit does not change how the legal system works.
> Is Google Play Music anything more than the audio from YouTube uploads?

Yes, Google Play Music is a regular “official digital content from music publishers” streaming service.

The All Access bundles commercial-free YouTube access and if the same song has an official video on YouTube you can switch to it instead of the audio directly from the GPM app, but the catalogs are separate.
I wasn't being challenged enough.
I think Gwynne Shotwel is super interesting and have even briefly blogged about her. That doesn't mean what she had for breakfast yesterday is interesting; that's just a fun distraction.
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>Mining pools are literally just "the gig economy" for computational power.

Thats a great analogy. I'm amused by then thinking about what would happen if 51% of the drivers were able to band together and take control of Uber.
It should be a real ease to create good music discovery/curation for spotify since they acquired the echonest.
It it really simple to add similar music to what you are currently listening to, too a rolling playlist.
Unfortunately, the way they fo it feels like promotion instead of individual curation.

It was easy when I created trushuffle some 8 yrs ago (before Spotify aquired echonest) and it should be even easier for a multi billion company.
Thats right - he's effectively acting as an "ambulance chaser" - a legal role that often twists, embellishes, and often straight up lies to extract $$$ from hospitals and doctors.
I'm concerned about this, because its removal makes it harder for basic users to use RSS/Atom. The web has become unreasonably centralized, and feed readers + RSS is tool that enables the web to be more decentralized. Yes, some people can install a separate reader, but many can't, and Feedly (etc.) provide more features than some people need. Some people really do need only the basics.
Is it just me or the card animation has rendering issues when scrolling? Using latest MacBook Pro 15"
So it seems that quantum particles do not "choose" their state until observed. I've heard this multiple times now, including in this article (demonstrated by the 33 sticks analogy).

As I understand it (and correct me if I'm wrong), the particles give different distributions depending on how they are observed and these distributions vary in fashion distinction from how they would vary if there were underlying classical distribution involved - this gives "quantum logic".
Op here

What you are looking at is a Hacker News client inspired by the Apollo client for Reddit. It's built with React Native for iOS and Android.

There have been recent statements from big companies, like Airbnb, about phasing out react native because it doesn't play nicely with their native codebase. The feedback I've seen is all based on the misunderstanding that React Native and native isn't a good fit. I wanted to demonstrate that this not the case, and that, if an app is built from a react native first approach, it will not just work, but work very well.

The codebase is in TypeScript, Native Navigation, Firebase for API, mobx-state-tree for app state, Code Push for OTA updates, Sentry for error tracking and CSS Modules with Stylus for styling.

I'd love to get some feedback, I've been building this on weekends for the last month or so. I can answer questions about the app or React Native in general.
Your intestines are filled with e-coli. It spreads via contaminated water (or food, usually water).
Sometimes you hand the card to the cashier and sometimes you don't. Thats's the way it's been for decades.

The chip does add co fusion sometimes, but that's natural when transitioning to a new tech.
Totally agree. General magic tried to do something really innovative and failed. I think they deserve a lot of respect for trying something hard.
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Pretty much yes. We like to push to master, and then push to production. Some teams cherry pick changes to a deployment branch and deploy from there instead of master.

Edit to add: We may be "doing it wrong", but this is the least effort way to do centralized development.
It would be necessary to use a different private key on each device for it to be secure, so something like 192-168-1-1.internaldevices1489420.hp.net
Perhaps the presence of the virus causes the beta amyloid to be produced, or to not be cleared (because it's being used to trap the virus)? I'm no biologist but spitballing on why you might see a direct relationship vs an inverse one.
Choose s specific math subtopic relevant to your work and bust ass. For you, writing a program using new knowledge might be the best.
Are these credit or debit cards? Asking because I've previously had issues with virtual debit cards where merchants "force posted" transactions through.
A place that I worked (not in the bay area) had a cafeteria where employees could eat one meal for free per workday by using a meal ticket. They also cut deals with nearby restaurants so the meal tickets could be used as basically $5 vouchers at the restaurants. That seemed like an OK compromise. Not sure how it worked behind the scenes.
You mean people who "make" stuff? I think the dream is still alive and all you have to do is start doing it. The way the Internet is these days the ability to link up with other people making stuff is pretty easy. My only problem is that I haven't figured out how to structure my own life to do more of it, but I think that's a local and temporary personal problem more than a system of repression.
The only thing keeping me with Spotify is last.fm integration.
I don't think this is unknowable; just a couple minutes of Googling turned up a bunch of studies. Consumer Reports posted an analysis from journal articles indicating that maternal mortality from C sections is strongly correlated with specific hospitals; since the predicates for an emergency C section generally aren't correlated, that strongly suggests it's the procedure and not the circumstances that are to blame. The major causes of mortality due to C section include sepsis and anaesthesia errors (this happened to my wife during the birth of our first kid), which are also intrinsic to the surgery and not to the circumstances of the pregnancy.
Emburse are great! They provide far more in the way of user a user experience to set controls, manage budgets, etc. We'd highly encourage going with them! (Stripe Issuing is an API-first product -- if you want to build software like Emburse, we would be more suitable.)
I'm suggesting that most of these human-interest angles on science should be considered just as un-newsworthy as the Kardashians. The breakfast cereal eaten by the scientist and Kim Kardashian are equally non-relevant, even if the former seems justifiable on first glance.
Now, we just need a CA AG candidate to propose breaking up the Wall Street giants...
Man - California, specifically the Valley, is completely off its rocker when it comes to policy making.

I really hope Amazon's new HQ helps pave the way to start de-centralizing the tech industry from that one, overcrowded, and increasingly almost hostile spot.
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LE won't be given "settings"
I’m on an iPhone X, and when the animation is visible the scrolling performance is awful, seems like ~10 FPS.
I wonder if this is not an oversight and rights for purchased music are only for the country where they were bought. I'm not sure, but this might be working as intended, and if so I doubt this is Apple's fault.
Although this is explicitly at odds with the author's intentions, I don't think there should be an overlap of any kind between "moon" and "planet." So I'd modify his definition of "A planet is a sub-stellar mass body that has never undergone nuclear fusion and that has sufficient self-gravitation to assume a spheroidal shape adequately described by a triaxial ellipsoid regardless of its orbital parameters" to add: "excluding any object that orbits a point located within a planet." Thus our Moon would remain a moon but Pluto-Charon could be a double planet because the point they revolve around is not within either body.
It all sounds very interesting, and I can totally believe that it might not be amyloid plaques that are the cause. I also believe we should fund multiple lines of study. BUT, I also had this odd feeling of deja vu while reading it, and eventually I realized that it sounded like some of the early HIV-skeptics, when the HIV hypothesis had been around for years but no effective treatments had been found yet.
Two books: Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang and Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P Thompson.
Maybe this is a silly question, but why don't we just lower the corporate tax rate significantly (maybe 10 or 15%), and make the use of tax havens illegal?

I'll bet 10% of $17bil is still quite a bit more than whatever Google paid in US taxes that same year. Is it because "making the use of tax havens illegal" is hard/impossible?
do you have experience with both? what are the differences?
Unless you have an iPhone you wouldn't know about it anyway.
>How do people convince their team or management to use a newer language which may not have plenty of alternative programmers and experiences in the team in their projects?

It would be hard for something like Nim, Ocaml, which are brilliant languages but lack the some support.

But Elixir is built on top of Erlang. Erlang! The whole Networking world depends on it on one way or another. It is literally some of the most important pieces of technology. You can replaces your OS with something else, you can replaces your lib with alternatives. But I am not aware of another ecosystem that is an alternative of Erlang and it is battle tested the hack of it.

And Elixir is built on top of Erlang / OTP.
Talk about fascist capitalism. If I ran these companies I'd make everything cost one cent and have a giant barrel of pennies just sitting around with "take what you need" written in it. It's not free anymore. Problem solved.
It's more likely that Google's support for HTTPS everywhere caused them to do both. It introduced HTTPS as a ranking signal in 2014, well before Let's Encrypt.
you have entered into a contract, one that likely doesn't account for that sort of "cancellation" and so gyms could legally keep charging you, consider the account delinquent for awhile, then close it and sell that debt to a collection agency.

This happens. A LOT.
We would be entirely API used for QA automation.

Looked through the docs and meets the same needs that Emburse meets.
I work out of my garage in Sunnyvale, building a platform trying to make the web better. I eat lunch regularly with friends who do similar things, and I've been a part of several companies (via VC work) that have desired to improve humanity and are doing it.

There are people out there doing what you've described, but it doesn't (and never did) get headlines because most headlines are paid for.
Two of my favorites:

1. Monopoly, with no "house rules" - play it exactly as written in the game manual. Monopoly was created as a teaching tool about the outcomes of unregulated capitalism, and it is a very, very good teacher. At some point, one or two players will accrue enough wealth to become the clear winners, and all the other players will start a slow spiral into poverty. Over the years people have added "house rules" in an attempt to make the game more friendly and fun, which is completely missing the point. It's not intended to be friendly or fun, it's intended to educate!

2. The Parable of the Polygons: https://ncase.me/polygons/. Arguably not much of a game or a puzzle, but its use of interactive game-ish mechanics makes the story much more impactful.
seems pretty cut and dry to me
>It's related to it being a particular good opposition.

Actually, it's not. Mars reaches perihelion about every 2 Earth years without encountering a dust storm of this magnitude. It's also important to point out that the distance of a planet to the Sun usually does not have a great effect on the weather. Even though Mars has a more elliptical orbit than most, the difference in light received at its closest/furthest points to the Sun only accounts to about .7 times the light received from the Sun.
Can anyone comment on the legality of this? IANAL and it’s just a feeling, but it seems like this must be unconstitutional somehow?
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> I think it is disingenuous not to include these features

Before you ever heard the term "WASM" all of "these features" were available via plain old HTML5 and Javascript. Since that is the case why not argue that browsers themselves are the new Flash? And if so, what does WASM have to do with it?

The answer to the last question is "nothing."

"These features" did not have their origin in WASM. They existed prior to WASM and function independently of WASM because they do not depend on WASM. They are not WASM. Full stop. Conflating them all into WASM is, in fact, disingenuous.
I think you're speaking to my point? The higher quality reporting is rarer and stuck with way fewer resources.
I wonder what take aways there are for personal finance.

I also wonder if real estate will drop with the market, and what impact that has on a HCOL pro-seller housing market.
Everything in Spotify is extremely region specific. I’ve flown from the US to Asia and lost the ability to play some songs.
Starting reading an article on some info handed over, ended up reading a politicized article. Can someone link me the source this article is using for the new news? I'm having a hard time finding it in the inline links of the text.

EDIT: Via [0], I found the docs at [1]. Tech Crunch is a shameful, op-ed joke of a site.

0 - https://twitter.com/DamianCollins/status/1022437025667014656
1 - https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/cultu...
how is this buried?

that old quote comes to mind "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

totally agree. batten down the hatches, winter is coming, etc
Absolutely happy to talk about travel use cases -- we are supporting it today. We also (only) support custom designs.
Coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Watched a replay of the livestream and it is so good!
That's taxable income then, no?
Looks like debit, the docs mention that purchases debit your stripe account balance.
It matters when the 800lb deadlifting community is accused of rampant sexism, and counter-productive policies are put in place to correct this perceived injustice.
I don't think this is particularly surprising or even a very useful metric, besides I don't understand why for instance "mining pools disbursing coins to members" is considered to have no economic value (the article mentions that "Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio" shares this sentiment but doesn't justify their choice). Maybe one could expect that trading and speculation would be higher but I suspect that the average bitcoiner just trades directly on the exchanges without ever owning a wallet, or maybe just for "cold storage" if they're wealthy enough. As such I expect most of it is done off-chain.

What I would be curious to know is what portion of the remaining third is actually used to buy goods and services vs. speculation. And for those who actually use it as a currency, how much is for buying legal things. My gut tells me that the number must be ridiculously low.
Question, is it possible that our universe could be in a black hole? When you look at the way our existence is structured, everything has a parent. An an electron has an atom has it's parent, atoms have molecules has their parent etc. Germs, bacteria, humans, planets all have parents. Surely our universe has to have a parent.