skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the forever useable font family. Despite being quite so old and yet modern till date.
Alot of the designs created by us utilizes lucida as well as fonts inspired by lucida. Over the decade, we've experienced wide acceptance of lucida font family by our subscribers.
The Apex and the (Possible) End of Fissure 8
Beats they paid 3 billion for, that seems pretty big... and ML while it has a lot of investment could be purchased (if it's on a downtrend/failing cycle) for that much if they just want a talent acquisition... I mean ML has hype but it's nowhere near as big as even Tesla, definitely not as big as some of the recent 'big' buys like Disney buying Fox for 70 billion, or even FB/Whatsapp for 20 billion...

I mean, I feel ML team is definitely worth more than Whatsapp, but they don't have a product that's ready for mainstream yet... having the full backing of one of the bigger companies could bring mass AR to mainstream audiences faster.
Agreed (OP here). Although I never studied them personally, I often hear that Ralph Kimball's books on data warehousing and ETL are the canonical texts on the side of data engineering you mention.
NASA’s box requirement is 70C. That means the ICs in the box are much hotter, parent is probably refering to IC temp, not unit.
Ricardo from the Kencko team here, happy to answer any questions!
could you elaborate on that? we aren't using an ORM and are able to successfully batch queries to improve performance. Couple that with an understanding that the developer should not use overly-nested queries and its been working out fairly well so far, although we're not dealing with a massive user load yet.
Maybe its a generational thing, but i have no clue how i would go about buying/trading gold and i dont think anyone in my friend group does either. Bitcoin is far more accessible.
I agree. It's almost hilariously counterintuitive. I recently needed to send a moderate sum of money (4 figures) to someone who lives across the country. There's no obvious reason why this should cost me anything or not happen in the same day. However,

* Checks / ACH takes days to close, plus in many situations you might have to actually mail the person a check

* EFT seems reliable, but takes days and requires having been previously set up and authenticated (which borders on impossible if you don't own both accounts).

* Wiring seems like the obvious solution, but depending on your combination of banks fees are going to be >1% for transactions of my size. I also failed to get a wire to happen in <24 hours online for reasons I still don't understand.

* Using a money sending service like Google Pay sounds reasonable enough, but even assuming you're under the transaction limit and have already set up everything necessary to satisfy their fraud prevention systems, any large amount will still take multiple days to fully clear.

On the other hand, while Bitcoin's slow transaction times are a pain for in-person merchant payments, being able to send even large sums of money reliably in less than an hour for (comparatively) a small fee seems almost miraculous. It's true that if you need to go USD -> BTC -> USD it takes much longer, but that's more a problem with currency exchange than an inherent limitation of the currency itself.
No, it's positive margins offseting negative fixed costs.
I'll add to this -

As someone who's country is actively
looking at expropriation of white-owned land a bank account that NO ONE can access without your permission is hugely appealing. If you're living in a country with functioning institutions you take this for granted
Aadhar has security flaws because people who are responsible for it (directors etc, not coders) are with their heads up in the arse. When a reporter asked an official how they are trying to secure data, the answer was: "The datacenter building surrounding wall is 13feet high & 2 feet thick. Nobody can come & break that wall & steal data." Mind you this datacenter is always online; & is known for pretty basic flaws.

The file they give you as a encrypted pdf of your ID is locked with first four capital letters of your name & then your birth year. It was very touted that this password range is from AAAA to ZZZZ & 0000 to 9999 making a brute force time to 52+ years. But then, nobody before 1918 is alive; & nobody born in 2019 & after. So 0000-9999 becomes 1918-2018. Then names: then most popular name lists are available from many sources. 52 year brute force was proved to be 3 something minutes. The authorities response: they filed criminal cases against who wrote about these flaws.
Even with subsidies, there's an effective price floor.

Even with renewable energy there's an opportunity cost - you can sell it back to the grid. Plus the fixed costs of buying the solar panels and mining equipment in the first place.
A counterpoint that suggests that his nautilus example is bunk:

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/08/26/epigenet...
>Term limits are necessary, there should be no such thing as a "career politician". A politician should be required to have actual skills, and not just a nice smile.

Why are they necessary? How is claiming they are necessary not inherently impugning the concept of self-rule, how is it not inherently illiberal and arbitrary? What kind of base ideology are you subscribing to? Why shouldn't there be a career politician? What are examples of "actual skills" that you think should apply for proper legislating or executing or judging laws?

As someone who did study political science and law, I find term limits in law to be an abomination. A cheat. A long term destroyer of trust and institutional knowledge. You want actual skills, but you refuse to grant a person with such actual skills the position of a professional, with a career. It's an illogical position.

I doubt there is some Dunning-Kruger effect really going on with STEM folks and politics, although the blinders on approach I consistently see makes it superficially appear like that might be possible. Instead I think it's discomfort with the fact there are multiple ideologies, and you must choose, and it is that which will guide your future decision making on policy. Without the choise, you're vaporware. And without adversarialism, you're milquetoast. In both politics and law, the adversarial system is mandatory. I get way more suspicious when two ideological factions agree with each other from the outset on something than when they're adversarial and compelled to compromise. There is no compromise and there is no innovation without adversarialism.

I miss Feynman though. There was a guy with a very good balance between comfort not knowing, and discomfort not knowing. Lack of hubris, and yet no lack of ambition to learn.
have you tried readlang? I'm really happy with it, but I'm studying German. Not sure if it works with asian languages.

The website doesn't emphasize it, but readlang has a spaced repetition vocab tool. With multiple (at least for romance languages) built in dictionaries.
The Go compiler is still faster than most of the competition, even when you compare with optimizations turned off.
That's not a big of a deal as you're making it out to be. I can say this because I use bitcoin regularly in commerce. I pay 3 cents equivalent (typical fast fee over the last handful of months) plus maybe 20 cents if I'm silly and use something like coinbase to purchase bitcoin initially.

And then my transaction clears in 10-20 minutes instead of a day or two like the banks' ACH network.
Securing bitcoin is much easier than securing gold. Gold can be confiscated easily; bitcoin is much harder, especially with things like brainkeys.

Additionally, gold does not have a built in global teleporter. Bitcoin does. I can send basically an unlimited quantity of value to anyone with internet access in minutes with bitcoin; the same is not possible with gold.

If bitcoin is only useful for global remittance and bypassing the long-distance-money-transfer cartels of the world, it is an insanely valuable tool. My estimation is that it is valuable for at least that, and probably several other things as well (e.g. online payments for physical goods that are subject to high chargeback risk, et c).
Not being able to write perfect bug-free software is honestly a myth.

Short of bit flipping due to environmental conditions, it's more than possibleto get an algorithm and state machine perfect. Look at the old landline networks. Look at vending machines. It's just HARD. No one wants to pay for HARD.

Yes. Therac-25's problem did come from lack of defense-in-depth. That doesn't take away from the fact that Quality was sacrificed in the name of a cheaper production cost, and less time to market.

The easiest way to get people to be okay with shoddy things? Tell them it's impossible to do better. Microsoft took that route, so everybody drinks the kool-aid. Even people who should know better.
Google can make some snazzy things, and Amazon echo's pretty nice, I think Apple's not the 'only' ones who can do stylish, I personally prefer Google's phones over iphone, but I'm not an apple fanboy either. I prefer utility over style, and I enjoy android/linux over ios/macos anyday.

Google seems to have had some decent experience lately with hardware, Amazon still feels like it flounders a little in this area with failed fireos phones, and alexa/echos' and maybe firesticks are the only major things they've really come out with that stuck, I guess kindles too a bit, but not great.

Samsung I guess could also be another contender to buy them, they put out some great devices as well... I don't know who it'll be - but I think ML will be acqui-hired.
> A currency with no mechanism for monetary policy is not going to be adopted.

...except that bitcoin has been adopted, just not widely. Your basic premise is false.
Sometimes I would run to that guard and jump through him and finish the level very quickly. On a small but significant fraction of the times, his sword strike would miss so it was possible to skip him without luring/climbing. Since the success rate is low, this only makes sense for that guard, as losing to that guard has a low cost: you just restart the game.
Looks like you can get 25 Mbps with a 300GB cap for $120. That's not bad IMO. I'm paying $40/month for 25Mbps but I also live in the city so other things are more expensive.
> would not recommend at all to maths-minded folks.

Why not?
Bloomberg's use in news keeps falling too. They have set up computational paywalls to prevent people from reading their articles. But for some reason people on HN just keep posting them. It's a weird exception to the no-paywalled article status quo.
The director RS Sharma literally posted his number on personal twitter saying no harm if this number is public. In few minutes people found his school transcripts, bank statements, call logs, amazon orders with cash on delivery were on its way to his house. Few days later official Twitter handle of Aadhar had to say please keep it safe the way you do your wallet or home key. Use it but don't flaunt it.
It seems like some of the C++ library features are special-cased.

From the Q&A section of the readme:

"Which notable features are not implemented yet?

> Object-oriented features"

"Which libraries are supported?

> iostream (only cin and cout and endl)"
Their adoption of newer CPUs is, on the other hand, write disappointing.

I'm writing this on a MacBook Pro that was released with a CPU one full generation behind its competition.
Endarkenment Later: A Review of Pinker's “Enlightenment Now”
Delivering value is part of the equation, obviously.

Something is not valuable unless there are customers actually receiving value.
Wild how consensus forms over time, huh?
I hope they made a lot of money from the dongle division.
> Another fork of bitcoin.

That's factually wrong. Lightning is a protocol on top of Bitcoin (like HTTP is built on TCP) and not a fork.

It has a different set of trade offs: transactions on it are instant, but one should only store small amounts on it (like what you would carry in your purse) since your money on it can be stolen if you are offline for too long (and you did not pay someone to monitor the network for you). But as long as you are online often enough your funds are secure.

If someone is curious how it works: https://lightning.network/
Randomness in .NET
FULL INFORMATION
Better genderless pronouns
It's pretty ironic to have an article decry skim reading that itself is littered with distracting (and pointless) text extracts and useless photos, all designed to distract. It took me deliberate effort to resist the distractions.
redux-saga makes implementing a pattern like this pretty straight-forward.

You can have sagas subscribing to actions and processing them in arbitrary ways, including dispatching new actions.
Failed in what sense, and for whom? Some people made and are making a lot of (real) money from it (especially the thieves that have executed the numerous heists from exchanges, wallets, etc.) There is a definite ecosystem here that has players profiting from it that would want it to continue.
It’s pretty easy to just buy $GLD with any brokerage account if you just want gold exposure. If you don’t trust the ETFs to honor your claims when the apocalypse arrives things are harder of course.
You are right, its so much shitty show; your auth is attached to your fingerprint n SMS. Everything, tax, bank, post, school, passport, hospital everything is attached. Even your phone too where you receive the SMS. Imagine the horror for people who lost their SIM card; to get a copy of SIM they need the SMS code which was sent to their registered number; wait for it.. which was lost.
Here's how I deal with the bloat and readability problem on
hackernews: https://github.com/damng/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content
In this context, it's much harder to protect gold from the government (if it decides it wants to take it away).

Plus buying stuff online is more tricky.

I could envision alternative reality though, where there are companies specializing in providing tokens that have 100% coverage in gold. You would need to trust them and their software, but some trust is always involved. The problem is those would be an easy target with physical holdings (so the problem of the gov comes back, but they could choose under which gov to operate). In that scenario, if the problem gets big enough the gov will take care of it, no matter where on the planet is that gold. In the case of Bitcoin though, while temporarily it can be hampered very easily, it's quite impossible to make it completely go away.

The biggest point for gold IMO which you didn't mention, since all value comes from people and their beliefs, is thousands of years vs 10 years.
Is there any "easy" algo-like setup? I've checked but all of them still seem to involve a lot of steps. I could do it but I'd prefer if there's some quick start to test it out.
yes, we stopped making application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) back in 1980 in favor of general purpose processors that do all applications decently fast.

there is no rocket science to making an ASIC because we already know how to, and its economically viable again to dust off that knowledge
Python 2 (and Apple ships a vintage version of it) is on /usr/bin/python whereas Python 3 usually gets installed on /usr/bin/python3. The corresponding versions of pip, ipython and others usually get the '3' suffix. That's what Canonical and Red Hat do. If you need Python 2, you can install it yourself.

Apple would break compatibility if it removed Python 2, which it could do, if they really wanted.
It is weird, if you can't buy and sell with bitcoin daily(whatever that means) what value does it have for you?
A form of Gresham's Law, whose generalised form is that equivalent current-cycle benefits outweigh non-apparent long term net advantage (benefit less cost). Or even more generally: a complexity constraint.

Risk is a nonapparent long-form cost, and unless specifically manifested (insurance, regulations, fines), will be ignored.

The results of a scholarly search for "a gresham's law of" are illuminating, spanning divorce, neighbourhoods, academic admissions, environmental regulations, incorporation, shipping, management, court citations, television programming, politics, and more.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="a%20gresham%27s%20law%...
0.18 works, but compilation takes too long - and apparently that was fixed in 0.19.

We've waited for this fix a long time (over a year), but we can't upgrade because the only (AFAIK) library that connects to Elixir's Phoenix Channels stopped working. In fact the language (0.19) currently has no websocket support.

During this whole year of development, we could not compile the 0.19-dev. It was somewhere closed. We couldn't even see the commits. Pretty sure there's a nice and long post somewhere explaining how "outsiders" would slow down the progress by giving, how dare them, feedback.

We could wait a little bit more, but, even though I was deeply in love with elm, the language that made me not dread frontend development anymore, I am now totally uninterested at it, driven away by 1) lack of transparency and 2) total blocking of genuine and constructive user feedback, which feels like censorship - or simply a closed-source, proprietary software.

The language is good though. Has some minor flaws, but I believe over time they will get fixed. Though it lacks some powerful features that will never be implemented. But ovoverall, we were able to tackle complexity quite nicely. I guess we - me and my team - just got tired of how it is handled.

Oh, and Elm is way too verbose. Pretty sure that 45kloc codebase will be about 15-20kloc in cljs!
I've seen the more ideologically zealous bitcoin enthusiasts declare that "freeing" consumers from those are a selling point. It's difficult to have meaningful discussions with people like that, it's almost like talking with the devoutly religious.
Unfortunately WireGuard is UDP only, so I can't even use it to get out through the university wifi firewall. 80 / 443 on TCP only.

At least OpenVPN, for all the criticism the article throws at it, has the configurability to pass through the various strange firewall rules that exist in the real World. Waiting eight seconds for negotiation isn't a big deal when the new and shiny 'replacement' doesn't have a hope of working.
That’s also just information you know about many of your acquaintances, and that people often publish online. Join a dating site, and you have the password to the PDFs.

Of course, you still need to obtain the PDFs. And there is that wall in the way...
What router do you have that lets you run wire guard?
Gold

- Can be transferred instantly for pennies anywhere in the world with an internet connection.

- Not controlled by an inflated "paper" gold market.

- Can not be controlled by a government....

Yes, I hope it was sarcasm.
> One could argue "if that's a problem for you, don't use it," but in reality we all have to interact with others' code. The fact that it is allowed (and de facto encouraged by convention) means it still impacts those of us who choose not to write it ourselves.

Exactly my point. They decided they don’t want to use it and they decided to enforce it to all their users. The reason I don’t want to have anything to do with their language.
Ask HN: Alternative to Google finance?
I was a heavy user of Google finance. But for last few years I had not used it and when I checked today, its gone!

Is there any alternative to Google finance, especially the stock screener feature.

Thanks!
Note that I wasn't responding to the issue in the article, but OP's statement about armchair humanities work. I'd generally agree that the level of work done by the average humanities grad could probably be done from an armchair by someone not trained as a humanities major. I work in the humanities and decreasing support for this kind of work is a reality, related to but not 100% connected to the decline discussed in the article. Adjunctification is one cause.
United Flight 232 Lecture by Capt. Al Haynes
Is there a popular repository of shared Anki decks other than https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/?
Yes, not sure what triggers it but I would often see this random shift past an enemy with the skeleton later in the game. What a great game.
>His point is the fundamental principles of fractional reserve are flawed, and the system will alwayssuffer from the looming threat of a bank run.

What? Are you posting from the 1930s? In the US at least this is not an issue for the average person because of the FDIC. There is no "looming threat of a bank run" anywhere in the developed world, precisely because governments and regulations prevent it.

This is exactly the kind of lunacy the parent was talking about. It's near-religious ideological ranting.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZYHMMMeHic
You can build a simple house without formal plans, most especially if architect, builder, and owner/occupant are the same.

Divide roles, or increase complexity of the project, or its relationships with the surrounding infrastructure, and planning or standardisation requirements escalate quickly.
Managers get paid more because their benefit to the organization is that they amplify the productivity of the entire team (if they’re good). Of course there are many examples of bad managers where this doesn’t happen, but that’s the idea anyway.
This is actually why Agner is famous:
https://www.agner.org/optimize/
The law which implemented this ID, says, nobody can use it to malign purpose; The authority is found to use this clause against anybody who wrote about its flaws.

The law also says that only Authority can disable this ID, anytime. So once somebody's ID is dead, they suffer civil death. No job, hospital, travel, mobile, taxes.

Every week they switch from ID number is secret: ID number is not secret.

This number can not be changed even for a person. To keep it safe, they introduced a virtual ID number, which, again is permanent for one's life.
First, use in commerce peaked when transaction fees went too high in 2017, and consumers didn't try the shitty user experience again

okay, temporary problem

the payment processor's user experience kind of sucks and the network didn't help that

better UX and lightning network will help with that. There are also some BIPs regarding signing transactions differently, as well as smaller transactions coming. This year, 2018, more people already use another form of smaller transactions and also combine them. Bitcoin would handle a lot more load this year.

Secondly, M1 is a tiny fraction of the supply used for goods and services, M2 and M3 are illiquid stores of value. Bitcoin isn't functioning differently to currencies in this regard so its a weird standard to put it at to proclaim it isn't a good value transfer mechanism.
I didn't write the README.
You can literally go to a gold dealer shop; it's like forex for gold. Even in my moderately sized American city there are twenty that show up in Google Maps within a twenty minute drive. And you buy gold and it's physically in your possession; verifying it is easy, and the best part is you can verify it at some other gold dealer if you're super paranoid.

With BTC, you have to find a trusted exchange and a trusted wallet. The average consumer doesn't really know anything beyond a google search and the first two results.
my understanding is that Debian/Ubuntu preference ABI stability within a release - and that ABI stability is not guaranteed going between kernel branches. I believe this is also the case with CentOS/RHEL too.

I might be totally wrong about this.
If the government wants your gold or private key, they’re going to get it. How long are you going to hold out against their proverbial $5 rubber hose? Solitary confinement? Mundane legal threats?
Looking at the description of the C64 port, it looks like each frame of the character in the DOS and Apple II versions were just drawn over the scene and the pixels affected just redrawn when he moves (including blocks that obscure his view). So, no sprite compiler.