skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sort of agree that that's somewhat unreasonable to expect... but on the other hand, a full macOS reinstall is pretty easy. You can opt to preserve data and settings while doing it, too. Or do a clean install and restore from backup which is unbelievably easy as well if your time machine backups are in good shape.
"Should I just talk to a bank? Do most of them offer this service?"

If you haven't asked your own bank, i.e. the one your startup uses for day to day transactions, then it's worth asking them first. Unless your country has sanctions against the destination country, they should be able to send money to a bank account in any country.

(I'm assuming that's what you mean by 'swap USD with TZS', but perhaps you want to just swap them and hold them in a local TZS account, for hedging or speculation purposes?)
Considering they are a private company and I don't work for them, no. There are 2 articles (probably same source) that you can read though [0, 1]. Also, while VC's scattershot their investments, I highly highly doubt they pumped 21.7 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS in a company that wasn't unit economically profitable in local markets [2].

[0]: https://www.ft.com/content/afa1d4de-33bc-11e6-bda0-04585c31b...

[1]: http://fortune.com/2016/06/16/uber-profitable-markets/

[2]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber#section-funding...
But small town newspapers are endangered by those costs! Facebook only makes about $6 ARPU. Automating the crap out of everything is what enables them to exist.
This reminds me about the Scaly-foot gastropod[1] mollusc which "possesses a trilayered structure comprised of a mineralized iron sulfide–based outer layer (OL) containing greigite..."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod
[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/107/3/987
Being close to that caliber and density of other tech people compensates.
What does "acquiring entropy" mean here? There is no reason a properly seeded CSPRNG should ever need to block.
I should know better to time the market, but the idea appeals to me so I've been telling myself shorting Tesla could be a way to make a pile of money. (Even without a business meltdown. Just economic headwinds could deflate Tesla.)

I don't short though, because it seems somehow a little shady. (Wishing bad luck on the shorted company.)

I'll just watch this one from the sidelines. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out.
If organic ribeyes is saving this person’s life maybe they need to be in a hospital. How about if you need an organic ribeye you can get your doctor to prescribe you one and then your EBT card works for it. I sure as hell don’t think that people who earn their wages and can’t afford organic ribeyes should be buying them for people who can’t afford them.
That seems harder to me. Anything done deep underwater costs at least an order of magnitude more, plus they still have all the same concrete requirements because they need ballast to keep the air balloons from rising to the surface.

Seems easier to just use that same mass on land with a crane.
Good point. We know that large shifts in mass, like huge landslides caused by earthquakes, can measurably affect earth's rotation. What happens when we start using multi-gigaton masses for energy storage -- that are within a couple orders of magnitude of those landslides -- in a cyclic pattern? I wonder if we could even get resonant effects.
The big loud part in the center of of your brain is the sexual part, you are not programmed to enjoy flying that's why many of us don't enjoy that, and the little piece that may enjoy it is incidental, the only 4 hardwired desires are food, sleep, sex and offspring/family protectionism.

Lucid dreaming is real, being able to control what happens there is not (lack of evidence shows so)
I don't think you understood what he was saying, because if you think "you can't protect 128 bits in software" rebuts it, you also don't believe that any software cryptography works, in any setting; virtually all of it involves managing secret or unpredictable 128 bit values.

His point is that the mechanism used to generate random bytes by a modern CSPRNG is virtually identical to the mechanism that encrypts the application_data in a TLS session.
It may seem like the selection is terrible on the streaming service, but I think a lot of content is just hard to find.
For folks who don't know, actual blood in meat is a quick way to spoil the meat. No one wants that.
The internals of the test framework are pretty heavily tied to Nix and NixOS, so a release independent of Nix(OS) isn't probably going to happen. With that said, the test infrastructure itself is exposed as library functions that any Nix user can use. And even though the test VMs itself will run NixOS, the host machine can be any Linux distro with Nix installed.
I don’t use windows. There could be one for Linux but I can’t spent my life worrying about what could be. Gotta get work done eventually and I’ve got encrypted boot and data volume with secureboot.

If you have a larger tinfoil hat you can always libreboot an x220.
> young couple ... can't see the ad, but a senior citizen can

Yes. Which is a good thing, because it saves time both to renters and landlords.

It also does not offend anyone, because there is no public age discrimination wording in the ad.

The most important part for our discussion here: there is no public promotion of age superiority in these ads. Therefore this Fair_Housing_Act does NOT apply.
The crane idea appeals to me more because the infrastructure appears simpler. Rather than having to build a lot of rail and a whole switching infrastructure, you just install the one crane and a shitload of heavy concrete blocks for it to lift. Seems like it would be cheaper.
indiehackers.com is a good resource for this.

Your goals are different from the startups here, in that you're not after investor funding, but instead want to earn a side income.

Therefore you won't need to quit your job and spend 100 hour weeks on your side projects, like you might have to with a startup. You can simply build it and grow slowly.
Maybe a little harsh on youtube. Not entirely garbage. Lot's of good content actually, you just have to tune out the noise to find them.
I don't think your metaphor is on point, either. I'm going to guess an ad in a majority-white med school is allowed (can I go on a limb and say most med schools are majority, white, anyways?).

But nothing is stopping a black person from seeing the ad.

In FB's case, it's like posting an ad at a med school (any, med school, regardless of demographics) and say...you can only view this add if you're white.
Could you be having an allergic reaction to an ingredient?
Presumably they would need to build a vessel to hold the concrete rubble in, as opposed to casting their concrete directly in the shape they desire.
What an "absurd" proposition! :)
Mastadon instances are designed not to become large.

The platform is still in its infancy, but it's intended that people can migrate around the same way that you might move to a new neighborhood. And this is the feature that Twitter just fundamentally can't copy.

When you're talking about popularity, you have to distinguish between Mastadon as a platform/protocol and each individual instance.

I am (increasingly becoming) convinced that moderation does not scale - you can either have a single large community with no moderation, or you can have a small community with good moderation. This is what's clever about Mastadon. Moderation on Mastadon doesn't need to scale, because instances are fragmented.

Twitter will never be able to compete with that unless they split apart their service, which they will (probably) never do.
Magnitude 8.2 quake strikes in the Pacific, but very deep: USGS
> The spirit of the law is to prohibit public racial propaganda. The spirit of the law is NOT about hunting down private biases.

I have no idea what you’re talking about with the “propaganda”, but everything you need to know is right there in the announcement: “The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing transactions including print and online advertisement on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, or familial status. HUD's Secretary-initiated complaint follows the Department's investigation into Facebook's advertising platform which includes targeting tools that enable advertisers to filter prospective tenants or homebuyers based on these protected classes.”

So both the spirit and letter of the law forbid discrimination, and they are arguing that Facebook enables illegal discrimination on their platform.
No, the whole point is that they need to stack these blocks up very high. You need uniformly shaped blocks for this, so no rock, and recycling concrete doesn't let you reuse the cement as binding agent -- it's already inactivated. You just get to use reuse the aggregate, which isn't the environmentally expensive component to manufacture.
We don't do that for knives.

However, we do have laws about sales of guns, chemical weapons precursors, nuclear fuel, aircraft, etc.
IMO the 2015 Macbook Pro is one of the best laptops ever made. Don't know why they went and messed that up.

I solidly regret the 2017 version. I've had one keyboard replacement already (that required the logic board to be replaced, seriously). Since then, I've already lost two keycaps. I've been ordering replacements online because they wanted me to ship it out for repair.

My 2015 Macbook is being used daily by a friend and is still in perfect shape. Worst thing that happened with that one is that I wore the letters off some of the keys.

My next laptop will probably not be a mac.
With remote work becoming more prevalent I wonder why this isn’t done more; ie moonlighting. Any others doing this? Hiring managers, are you on the lookout for people doing this on the sly?
The wind problem seems tractable and quite fun to think of different ways to solve it.
The sepia laden cloud formation is reminiscent of the 'Nature of Trees' calendar composed by photographer Paul Kozal. Be interesting if the Cloud Appreciation Society did a 'Nature of Clouds' yearly calendar using the archives of .jpg-s they've amassed. Easy enough to render in a wistful sepia motif via Adobe:

<color> .jpg > Image > Adjustments > Black and White

then

Image > Adjustments > Photo Filter > Sepia (Density 65 pct)

Was wondering what that could look like so created a mockup using an old 'Nature of Trees' .jpg:

original 'Nature of Trees' calendar page:

https://www.irista.com/gallery/2ednmcepwi1y

mockup of 'Nature of Clouds' calendar page:

https://www.irista.com/gallery/qpi3ue2ucpn0

There might be a market for it and maybe a useful source of funds for their Society.
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Thanks for the tip! I reluctantly bought a 2018 MBP but returned it within a week. I thought I would have to stick with my workhorse 2012 MBP, but now I'll check out refurbished 2015s.
Whoa. This sort of personal bile is totally off limits for HN, as I'm sure you know, irrespective of how wrong or provocative some other comment may be.

This one is easily a bannable offense. Looking through your history I notice other cases where you've been uncivil as well. I'm not going to ban you this time, but if you continue to break the site rules, we'll have to. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on.
> It wasn’t exactly normal sound so much as some kind of oscillating pressure wave.

That's exactly what sound is.
There are specific laws about how you can advertise real estate for sale or rent. Every real estate agent and landlord knows the rules.

https://www.thebalance.com/fair-housing-act-violation-179889...
Yes buying an old model is one type of solution, but I think we should be harder on Apple as the experts we are... One must wonder how many Apple employees are making these comments on tech websites too. One should not have to buy an old, used, out-of-warranty product just to avoid idiocy. Apple obviously has not been listening to customers.
Facebook did this or housing companies used the Facebook targeting boolean option to configure ad campaigns in this way?
Would you please stop using this account to get involved in low-quality arguments and flamewars? HN comments need to be more civil and substantive than what you've been doing here, regardless of how right you are or wrong others are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How does Facebook, etc make the web less open?
Targeting is not legal when it comes to real estate advertising.
This is so cool! Could you replace the crane with mine shafts and lead elevators?
An oldie, but worth a lookieloo... Rich Jones' presentation from 33c3:

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7865-gone_in_60_milliseconds
The line that internet sovereignty protects against mainly American tech is false.

Japan. Indonesia. Germany. Australia. Malaysia. South Korea. Lots of countries have had competition and have been able to have localized offerings that won in a free market. But in China. There is no free market.

AWS might be the most prolific. Far better product but it’s useless in China because it can’t be controlled. So China ends up with Alicloud a far inferior product.

The US government is becoming increasingly more paranoid of itself too. The smarter way is things like the EU are doing. Champion greater privacy for local citizens with heavy laws and companies will fall in line. It’s soft governance. You win on both fronts. Controlling data and championing human rights. Closed fists win nothing. If China implemented local data laws with extreme privacy measures Facebook would be forced to localize its offering and keep all data in China whilst fixing a massive public image problem. But it has nothing to do with that. The party is paranoid and will kill competition to control data any day.
This is like hundreds of similar articles I see every year. They managed in a lab to improve a particular genetic capability that seems to degrade with age. They improve it in the laboratory, then someone writes an overarching headline and it never goes anywhere.
I don’t know. My primary corporate experiences with this are all in Scala and Haskell (with teams that have very veteran programmers in each), and the results were terrible.

I liken it to David Deutsch’s comments on good systems of government in his book The Beginning of Infinity where he advised that the trait you should use to evaluate a system of government is not whether it produces good policies, but rather how easy it is to remove bad policies.

Languages don’t cause people to invent better designs for mapping between the real world and software abstractions. They can provide tools to help, but they don’t cause the design.

But statically typed languages do create boilerplate and sunk cost fallacies leading to living with bad designs and accepting limitations that have to be coded around.

Dynamic typing compares favorably in this regard: it is very easy to rip things out or treat a function as if it implicitly handles multiple dispatch (because you can specialize on runtime types with no overhead and no enforcement on type signatures or type bounds), and quickly get feedback on whether a design will be a good idea, or what things would look like ripping out some bad design.

I think exactly what you describe is the hyped up promise that static typing, especially in functional languages, fails to actually deliver in practice. You can still write production code that way, just incurring costs of maintenance of more code & boilerplate without the supposed offsetting benefits of catching more bugs, reducing runtime errors, or communicating design more smoothly in the type system, except in isolated, small parochial cases.
It's still possible to try to recommend as close a match as possible. If no matches, then recommend based on actor, director, producer, etc. Currently Netflix just throws in the towel and recommends some completely unrelated content.
That's fair, but also kind of my point.

There's a lot of good content on Twitter too. You just have to deal with nazis to get at it. And a lot of good deals on Ebay as long as you don't mind being careful about scammers.

The question is, do users overall want to have to filter out all of this stuff on their own, especially if filtering means fighting with the platform that they're on? Youtube is a great example of this - tons of great content, but you have to put up with the recommendation engine. You either get horrible recommendations, or you constantly train the platform like a cat.

Getting Youtube to give quality recommendations on the homepage is work.
I've spent a lot of time reading reviews over Lenovo, HP and Dell. Honestly, I wouldn't touch any of them. You can get good stuff from them, but they want the same money as you'd pay to Apple, and I don't believe overall any of those have the build quality Apple offers. And, these sorts of flaky issues affect them equally or more. I know that's not popular to say, but it's the truth.

Apple or Samsung is what I've come to. Of the Macbooks, I prefer the MPB13 non-touchbar, it not only misses the touchbar but also has no dGPU for increased reliability. It's just the simple sort of design that I tend to go for and it's solid. But if you don't like that, then take a look at the Samsung 9 Pro. They're available at Best Buy and have the traditional "good price per specs" PC argument going for them (I'll take build quality over specs anyday but that's just me), but reviews and teardowns all give me a ton of confidence in them. They also have the SPen and 2-in-1 capability which is a pretty nice value add. In my experience, Dell/HP/Lenovo never did figure out how to build a good laptop in 30 years, and given the latest Dell XPS reviews, they aren't going to start now. Lenovo's decline is more recent, after the IBM divestiture of course.

I'm sure no one is going to like this, everyone thinks something like a Lenovo X220 with Ubuntu is the only way to go, but I actually prefer Windows 10 to both macOS and desktop Linux (though I have a place in my heart for Linux Mint for sure and I quite liked Antergos for a rolling distro when I used it). With the Samsung 9 Pro, it's almost guaranteed to lose the SPen features if you insist on avoiding Windows not to mention harming the battery life.
How big an expensive of a foundation do you think it would need? I can't even imagine that being a major cost driver, compared to other elements of the system.
They are testing performance of a heavily modified and secure Xen type 1 hypervisor against a native computer with unspecified security policies?

This seems like a meaningless measurement.
"To many Chinese leaders, China’s current place in the global division of labor looks like a trap: foreign firms reap high profits from the intellectual property they own, and Chinese companies survive on the thin margins they make by manufacturing and assembling physical products."

Is this not contrary to the western perception of Chinese profiteering entirely? I don't read the chinese paper or anything but China seemed like the last people worried about IP protections.
It’s is specifically illegal to advertise real estate based on such criteria.

https://nationalfairhousing.org/responsibleadvertising/
By now you've posted like 30 comments in this thread and repeatedly broken the site guidelines in multiple ways. Please stop—intense argumentation with sharp elbows is the stuff of flamewars, not intellectually curious discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
“The Gravity Storage is cut out of surrounding rocks. Because rocks nearly always have crevasses and fine cracks through which water can flow, it is necessary to completely seal the piston and the surrounding piston cylinder against the surrounding area.

For this purpose, all freely exposed surfaces are sealed with a geomembrane and concrete.”
No doubt that was your parent poster's intention. There have been many ontological arguments throughout history. This was one such.
Are you kidding me? I can't fathom how your last sentence could even conceivably be true.
I'm kinda LOL on the downvotes. From my understanding (and I replied to OP) is that it is fine. IANAL, though.

When I was in college, lots of recruiters advertise and sponsor with the Society of Black Engineers...of Society of Women Engineers. Nothing stopped me from going to those meetings, and I did attend some. Their meetings were advertised to everyone. You weren't prevented from going to the meeting and listening to the recruiters.

Was I offended...yes and no, but more on the no side because I had the same opportunity as everyone else at school. I'll tell when I was offended. I went to a career fair one semester I saw Microsoft booth that advertised scholarships for minorities (or maybe internships? I don't know, I hope not because that woulda been illegal, in hindsight!).

There was a young Indian woman staffing the booth and I asked if I could apply. She said no...looking for blacks and hispanics. I'm Asian...so was she. Microsoft shoulda sent a black/hispanic engineer to send their message across better, too.
I've heard the idea that a rationale for the us to keep improving its jets was to provide a counter for the theoretical air forces of the world that field our previous generation of jets.
Eh, it's double the radius of Jupiter, which makes it about one fifth that of the sun, right? So the apparent BB area is a 25 times less than a star, which is small but not crazy small. More importantly, the amount of light from the parent star filtering through the planet's atmosphere would seem to be much less than the amount emitted directly by the planet, since the apparent surface of the former is only a thin ring of area around the surface for the latter.
Friend referred me to his boss.

I know for sure I couldn't have gotten in if it was through normal interviewing channels, I always bomb interview questions in the most phenomenal ways.
This a rather bold and broad prediction. Personally I'm not as confident that it's impossible for anything to go wrong, but time will tell I suppose.
Get any laptop and clean the shit out of it, mod the BIOS if you want to. I'm still on Elitebooks (8770w), they're tanks, and Intel hasn't made noticeable improvement in CPU performance since Ivy Bridge.

Zbooks seem to continue the tradition. Dell's Precisions are great, too.

Haven't had experience with the newer Thinkpads, the design, materials and being owned by a Chinese megacorp kind of drove me away.
There are apparently 100 million VPN users in China. So people do access outside offerings. Everyone I met in China had used Instagram or Facebook. These things can’t be stopped.
"Guaranteed" is a very strong word. It's okay, though. Just admit that you overstated something, and then easily move on with your life. No big deal.

There is power and freedom in the act of letting go of former actions and moving forward, from time to time. If someone judges you for making a small mistake, maybe they are the one with the issue.

This is a lesson I'm still practicing as well, so this comment is just as much a reminder to myself.
Listen, in most cities they turn away men based on gender, or make them pay a cover, while they let well-dressed women in. That is their business model. I guess they can claim that men's attraction to women is a compelling business reason, which I believe may be an exception to the anti-discrimination laws. Similar to women-only gyms saying that women's desire to avoid men while working out is a compelling business reason.

I am not a lawyer but it always struck me as unfair to a whole gender to treat them differently when they want to enter nightclubs. But of course this policy is also very ageist, biased against heavyset people etc. So do we ban that as well, since it's not something people can control?