skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> buyer or seller doesn't trust the local banking system

I've had to open and maintain bank accounts in India. (No more.) The only way I got anywhere was by threatening lawsuit, under force of a lawyer and New York State's financial regulator, in an American court.
Yes, I said "if you don't catch them you always get a full stack trace".

The comparison was between returning error values and exceptions, not between exceptions and abort. The difference is with abort is of course that once you are alerted to the error by seeing it be uncaught, you can insert an appropriate handler for it. A file-open function can throw on file not found but I will not very happy if it aborts.
Who said life is fair? Or should be? I prefer mercy.
Now it is zero though.
> Edited to add: This quote below changed while I was replying. More goalpost moving.

Can you explain how editing "not all transactions require Bolivars" to "most transactions can be done without Bolivars" is goalpost moving?

> Only if everyone agrees to not use the Bolivar anymore

Not true. People can use the Bolivar for some transactions and not others.

> It requires... a bank that allows you to make bitcoin transactions

What do you mean?

> Right, and so if you want to not be thrown in prison you're going to use the Bolivar and not US Currency.

Not true. Many Venezuelans don't want to be thrown in prison and use US currency, because it's a matter of survival.

> The same would be true with Bitcoin if Bitcoin were made illegal.

What would be true if Bitcoin were made illegal? And where?
Online Pharma Netmeds Raises $35 Mn in Series C Funding Round
The Stephen Hawking comparison is way off. His condition effected just himself. Terry Davis said some pretty terrible things aimed at actual people. He tried to hurt real people - Hawking didn't. That is a factual statement.

Im sure he did the best he could. Mental illness is a terrible thing. as a society, we do a terrible job in dealing with it. But, we can't just pretend like racist comments werent made. They were. They are part of his legacy.

TempleOs is part of his legacy too. It's his project - no one else's. It will always be tied to him. To pretend like he didn't behave the way that he did would be the same as pretending he didn't suffer from his illness. It's an impressive legacy. It's a tragic one. It's an appalling one. But, it's who he is. Whitewashing his mental problems, would just perpetuate the problems of how we handle such an illness.
Are you implying that those addresses are often used by airbnb guests?
Could it be that the human brain just cannot relate to or care about large-scale and long-term problems without continually making a conscious effort to?

It seems that as long as our immediate lives are good enough, we're fine with everything.

Does that make our species incapable of expanding beyond our home planet let alone the solar system? Because those undertakings require a fundamental reconfiguration of how we operate and interact.

So far the best "hack" we've found for keeping things going is money: Someone finds a way to make money from projects that may or may not happen to advance the species as a whole, convinces people to work on those projects with the offer of money, and those people use money to improve their immediate lives.

So until someone needs to find a way to make money from keeping climate change in check, there's probably nothing to be done about it until it directly impacts people's ability to make money and affects their immediate lives.
Article says they are going to use a steel cable.
But in the vast majority of cases, these small mistakes are caught by other mathematicians. This is because verifying a proof is easier (in terms of resources) than, for example, replicating a randomized control trial (with the necessary equipment and subjects).
Funny that this triggered that thought, but the fires of alexandria should have already...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
It’s better than every other build system, but god I wish they had just used a preexisting language for it. The syntax for CMake just feels so janky and weird, and it’s another set of things I have to remember and (eventually) forget. It’s not like it has these amazing language concepts nothing else can do; and if they’re worried about size or dependencies something like Lua would add like no overhead and be super simple to link.
Speaking only and solely for myself, I've seen a whole series of believable simulations shown to the general public and explained to a degree I find adequate. VESL springs to mind: https://vesl.jpl.nasa.gov/

Of course, believable tends to be a matter of opinion, and climate scientists have often been treated somewhat harshly by regular people when they attempt to engage.

It's enough to lead me to think that there is a whole series of such tools, already existing and meeting every one of your completely reasonable criteria! Unfortunately, they do not seem to be having the impact an optimist might hope for. Among other things, it requires a person to trust the programs involved, trust that the models correspond meaningfully to reality, and trust the intentions of the people creating them.

None of these are small asks in a politically charged arena, you know?
>>I mention this context because it's unlikely you would be able to get out of being sued by saying "Well maybe it was my roommate LOL"

Why not? It's illegal to download a movie and they have to prove what person did it. Roommate, father, sister...neighbor.
True. And inertia management, which allows arbitrarily high acceleration, with no internal effects. Reynolds and Banks, for example. And they're an interesting juxtaposition, in that Reynolds tended to paint AIs as evil, while Banks' Minds are overall decent.
You can enjoy life and be a productive person without PTSD. Violence isn’t the best way to forge a person’s character.
How are we to know that the fire isnt a cover for a massive heist?
I love when something like this happens and people opine about the loss of objects that just 10 minutes ago they didn't even know existed.
Medium is not doing any type of good job. Going on the website, i'm immediately flooded with a layout of pictures and headlines designed to gain my attention. Clicking on an article, I get two notifications that pop-up regarding their privacy policy and then their premium service. Their entire schtick is designed to distract you and keep you on their site for as long as possible, as part of a scheme to monetize as much out of every visitor. For a much better design, check out something like instapaper or it's competitors.
> the capital in the market is predominantly from the Indian banking system

Indian banks' foreign currency assets have ballooned since demonetization [1], the principal source of which has been FDI. Long story short, Indian bankers' share of the economy grew by sacrificing the country's balance of payments.

As an American investor who knows many wealthy Indians: (1) demonetization was a boon to the wealthy in India, as it provided them with cover under which to move money and (2) the entire exercise has been destructive to the soundness of India's economy. Fortunately, the world economy is growing, so the country has time to mend. But this was a bone-headed move, albeit an expertly-marketed one.

[1] https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/PublicationsView.aspx?id=18271
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Brady Bunch colors ;)
It is his project. It's his legacy. I don't see how you can separate him from what he created - I never got the feeling that he wanted anyone to - so why should we? History is what it is - let's recognize that and look at the good with the bad.
And even the agreed upon measures were criticized as hardly enough to affect the change we really need.

Scientists criticized the governments for making a show out of the agreements despite them being insufficient, and here they’re not even meeting those goals.
> Suppose you lived alone

The best way I can interpret this is that your post was being deliberately misleading, because you implied that roommates won't invalidate IP authentication, but you actually meant that lying about having roommates won't invalidate IP identification.

Am I missing a more reasonable interpretation?
The fact that we are talking about a japanese company called Obayashi making a carbon nanotube elevator to space is very cyberpunk to me.

Reminds me of Ono Sendai making wetwire jacks to the internet.
This is a civil suit, not a criminal case.
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I fully agree with you.

We can also consider a similar function f_epsilon(x) that returns the sum of x and a uniformly random number between 1 and 2 chosen at compile time, but constant at run time.

I agree it can't be specified in finite space.

The dichotomy is the computational model, from a utilitarian perspective we consider every conceptual computer to be a huge but finite finite-state-machine. One could abstractly (and less down-to-earth usefully) define/conceive of a computer that can store arbitrary variables representing uncountable objects (like real numbers etc)
> It's an impressive legacy. It's a tragic one. It's an appalling one. But, it's who he is. Whitewashing his mental problems, would just perpetuate the problems of how we handle such an illness.

I think that is the finest summation I've read in any thread about Terry, thank you
I have seen similar situations. Makes me wonder if they are a takeover target. Great way to buy a company cheap is to find and leak issues like this during initial research/diligence. It will be worth half its value in no time no matter how material.
Or good chunk of the people complaining about US electorate in 2018. It's easier to blame everything on evil Russian hackers manipulating elections than to accept that for a lot of people, given their particular problems and issues, this particular candidate may have been the least worst one, or promised the best things.
Shohar ki mohabbat hasil karne ka wazifa
I don't work at YouTube, but it is highly unlikely that they have a Brexit department or a divisiveness department. What they have is machine learning.

The goal of their Algorithm is to maximize for watch time. Any behavior that leads to longer watch time will be promoted.

If a user watches 2 videos, leaves the platform for a while then comes back later to watch a third, the system will have learned what video to suggest to another person who watched only the first two. If the system can't determine what to show next, it will choose the video that has a record of increasing watch time.
Do you get that many benefits from ZFS? I was thinking of using it for backup via zfs send/receive and snapshotting before pacman updates but the sheer amount of work made me stay with ext4 and luks setup. Too bad as I'd really want Tor give ZFS a try :(
This was a really thoughtful and interesting read. Thank you for posting it!
I don't agree. Keep in mind who owns the big ISPs and what corporate empires they're apart of. Several of the biggest ISPs (especially the cable ones) are part of giant media conglomerates - their corporate parents are also the parents of some of the biggest copyright owners out there.

Ex:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_NBCUni... (Comcast)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T#Corporate_structure (AT&T)
I don't know if I could use this as an everyday OS, but I can see so much good coming from it. Stop thinking about the newest, latest, and greatest. Stop taking control away from the user. These things, and more, we should learn from this project.
Climate is not consistent across the north. Real estate is particularly tricky because it is so reliant on local conditions, which are completely unpredictable at this point. Maybe refugees drive up demand for real estate in the south, maybe invasive beetles destroy all the maple trees, maybe the government drains the great lakes to irrigate Iowa. It's better to make solid (eco-conscious) 10-20 year investments than to try to guess what will be valuable in 50-100 imo
The video linked at "[this" point is unavailable:

>In [this video] Terry gives a brief tour of some of the more interesting features of TempleOS. At 5:50, he shows how to build a small graphical application from scratch.

However, I was able to find it here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20170313160408/https://www.youtub...
NL has been pretty safe for the last 70 years, anybody you'd like to thank you better get on with it.

The major reason NL has been so safe is because the EEG and later the EU came into being, not because of any action by enlisted military. The NATO 'an attack on one is an attack on all' combined with the nukes of France and the UK are the bigger part of the balance there, with some help from the US, where there arguably is room to point out that this was mostly to serve US interests rather than the interests of Europe, any kind of fuck-up there would have likely turned the EU into a smoldering pile of ashes.

NL has very little to be proud of when it comes to the deployment of the military, both historically and in the present.
A civil suit still requires 51%

Multiple users will cut that percentage up pretty quickly.
> It's an appalling one. But, it's who he is.

Terry's behavior is an unfortunate condition of his mental illness. It is not kind or even considerate to call someone appalling for their mental illness, it is rather, exactly the kind of behavior I would consider appalling from people who are in good headspace.
What if the cable isn't radial?

Edit: And bowed, basically in equilibrium with lateral forces.
I'm brazilian, I visited the museum in 2013, a year before the world cup. It was very memorable to me because it's essentially the only museum in Brazil that was an European style natural history museum (especially since there are so few museums in Brazil).

I walked there, it's about half a mile from the Maracanã Stadium, as you can see on the picture here [1] (in portuguese). As I passed by the stadium, I distinctly remember large banners bragging that over 700 million reais were being spent to renew the stadium. That was about $300m at the time, a truly outlandish ammount in brazilian reality.

I then visited the museum, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and took note of the fact that an entire wing was closed "for indeterminate time". I asked the staff and the reason was, obviously, budget cuts. I took another few years, just after the government secured reelection in 2015, that the government let the gravity of the fiscal situation surface, by which point there was no coming back from a 5-10 year long economic and political crisis that is still unfolding.

With regards to the museum, it should be noted that it was operating on a reduced annual budget, receiving only 60% of the 550,000 reais (less than $150k) allocated funds from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro [2]. If these numbers sound like a pittance, it's because they are. I will not be surprised if this fire was started by something as simple as an electrical malfunction of an old circuit that should have been replaced decades ago.

It really saddens me to see this news, that museum was something very unique for Brazil, but I'm not surprised. Brazil has been running on life support for two years now and I think the situation will continue worsening for a few more years. I was thinking the country would stave off becoming a second Venezuela, but the government and politicians seem set on running everything to the ground. I'm not holding my breath for our presidential elections, which are happening next month. I am sure that nothing other than sad words and perhaps some political opportunism will come out of this incident, and that no serious efforts will be done to learn from this situation and prevent similar ones from happening in the future. Unlike the US where there is serious inquiry and learning when bad things happen, the brazilian modus operandi in any such situation is to say "oh what a tragedy", turn a blind eye to root causes, and go on as usual. I am very glad I got out of Brazil to pursue graduate studies in the US, and I truly hope never to have to go back.

[1] https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2018/09/02/mu...

[2] https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2018/09/02/mu...
That's the theory. In practice, people really do just follow orders, the handful that stands up gets mowed down quite easily. Look at the large number of casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan (and Vietnam and a dozen other places) and what came of the numerous war crimes committed. You don't need 20/20 to know that when you enlist the chances that you are going to be part of something bad are pretty high.

Have a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
What he's saying is that this is a retrospective that's looking to blame outside reasons for the outcome of a vote, when ultimately the reason a vote went one way may simply be genuinely because most voters felt that way. In hindsight you can blame a million externalities for any 'undesirable' result in any election, because there are a practically infinite number of factors, foreign and domestic, involved in the elections of any major nation.

For instance imagine leave lost and chose to play the same game. In mid April 2016 Obama blew to the UK to try to do a mixture of evangelizing against Brexit and implicitly threatening the leave position as well by suggesting that Britan would be 'at the back of the queue' in any future US trade deals if Brexit passed. And one can only imagine the thousands, if not millions, of pro-remain posts and topics shared on social media by people outside of Britain. Of course these ended up being completely pointless and Obama's visit actually ended up strengthening the leave position, but cast in a different light these sort of externalities could be used to try to argue for undue and undemocratic influences that led to the result of the election. But it's revisionism.
I think what bothers me the most about this is how it was put together. It's clearly some kind of agreement between the 'five eyes' (I had no idea they actually called themselves that publicly) to spy on their citizenry. But why am I, an American citizen, reading this on an Australian site? And why are intelligence agencies creating policy?

Perhaps the fact that I work in more of government environment than a private one explains my sensitivity to this. But seriously, this is the kind of statement that heads of state or foreign ministers should make publicly.

"We, the Homeland Security, Public Safety, and Immigration Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States"

None of these agencies have been given the right by their respective nations to formulate treaties and agreements, and that's what really bothers me. People might joke about the deep-state, but this is what we mean. Intelligence agencies are formulating policy that will have great effect on the citizenry of their respective countries, and there is no discussion of it in these country's parliamentary or congressional chambers. Intelligence agencies should not get together and form pacts. The fact that they can achieve this shows the general erosion of democratic values in all five countries.

In the 1990's when Americans concerned with government spying were talking about Echelon and the NSA, the Five Eyes were considered a bit of a secret thing. Everyone knew about it, but I don't remember any of the five countries ever confirmed it. Now they're just out in the open brazenly proclaiming principles and policies, as if these intelligence agencies represent us.

"Should governments continue to encounter impediments to lawful access to information necessary to aid the protection of the citizens of our countries, we may pursue technological, enforcement, legislative or other measures to achieve lawful access solutions."

Which I translate as, "Give us what we want or we'll take it. We are judge, jury and executioner." Seriously, what does "legislative or other measures" mean? Are they just brazenly admitting that they're not bound by law, in contradiction with the immediately proceeding paragraph? Intelligence agencies don't get to pursue legislative measures in a democracy. We tell them how they should be bound, they don't get to design their own shackles.

This whole statement is just incredibly brazen and undemocratic.
His behavior was appalling. The reasons behind it were tragic. How can we pretend that either of those things aren't true?
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Indian here.

All of these arguments are parrot-repeating-cliches kind of arguments made by Modi supporters in India.

Read his last para -

>Most people who cry against demo are those who do it, just because they dislike Modi as a person (not a very charismatic personality). They would not be able to substantiate how they were personally impacted.

This is not how someone makes an argument. This is just a political statement.

Also this para -

>Most US media outlets want to feed the stereotyped view of India and jump at any chance to do that

I'd say this is possibly a valid argument but this argument has been repeated so many times (esp in last 4 years) that it has become more of an excuse to discount/discredit every criticism. Ironically, stereotyping India is on the decrease but accusing western media of stereotyping India is on the increase (esp among right wing section. )

>Whether you like it or not one more area which encouraged bad money circulation was evangelism (convert to christianity for money) and that is one more area that also been severely impacted.

This is how right wing Hindu nationalists (Modi followers) look at everything these days. You talk quantum mechanics to them and they will tell you the knowledge of QM is already there in Vedas. Though religious conversion is a fact but the scale is relatively small and money involved (when comparing to the scale of demo) was also very small. And even after demo, this money was available within few months.

> Good and bad currency sweeping back into the system (Gov allowed conversion also) has effectively nullified the funding of militancy and the fact that from demo the country has not seen any terrorist actions is a possible indicator.

Poor guy. What a big white lie. Anyone can check the stats. The numbers of Indian army personnels casualties are far greater as compared to pre Modi era.

All of his arguments can be easily debunked. The fact is that not a single person from lower middle class/elite clads stood in a queue outside a bank to exchange/deposit money. And no one went bankrupt.

Only people from extremely lower economic class suffered badly. Many even died. And we don't hear their stories.
I know people say that sarcasm is hard to pick up in text form, but I didn't think it was that tough.
They say it’s the first one but I’ve seen this installation being tested elsewhere. And of course I recall it having issues recently.

Found it: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34278788
Yes, I think the meteorite is the least of their worries. At worst it'll just be a little bit more sooty than it already was. It's all the other far less robust items which are the real concern.

I'm somewhat optimistic about the fossils too --- which are pretty much rock already, so relatively heat-resistant.
Sounds kinda like DMVPN.
Contact-Hardening Soft Shadows Made Fast
Or above 50degrees latitudes
I still don't get it. Overall, it should be believed that the end terms of Nafta should end up bolstering both economies.

One way to do that is either through common laws which are believed to benefit a sector equally in both countries if enacted across borders, or by trading one sector for another.

If that's not possible, why do we have this deal?
But this is the vertical component of the Coriolis force, which is usually negligible. Yes?