skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Would a majority opinion just become indisputable truth?

Even worse -- a decentralized information verification system will endorse the opinions of the few while claiming to be majority-rule.
How does this have anything to do with net neutrality? Nobody is filtering the traffic, it's all equal.

You can use whatever provider you want, but customers will probably choose the ones that provide greater value instead of paying the ridiculous bandwidth markups by the rest.
Not OP, but if you look at Rust, take out the borrow checker and you basically have Swift.
It's a nice combination of modern OO and functional language constructs that make it easy to write elegant abstractions.
It's moving that shopping cart data from being stored at a single origin, to being stored in the network all around the world. The advantage of that in that use-case is you can render your site just as quickly as if it was a static website, but it can contain the customer's personal shopping cart data.
Yeah US money was on the old "another coin for every doubling". But base-ten doesn't admit to that very well. So we used 1-2-5-10-20-50. We had 1 penny, 2 penny (gone), nickle, dime, quarter(? where is the 20-cent piece?), 50-cent-piece (no name for this?), dollar, two-dollar (gone, then back, then gone again), $10, $20, $50, $100
Businesses that accept credit cards are already prevented from offering cash discounts by credit card companies’ merchant agreements. No lobbying needed.

Also, savvy buyers can already make back most or all of the processing fees that are baked into prices without giving up the convenience or protection of credit cards. Lots of credit cards give cash back or other rewards that are worth ~2% of the purchase price.
> And all paperwork and contracts are ultimately done by the lawyer. I have honest to goodness no idea why you involved a realtor at all if you were selling it by yourself. Their only job is to attract prospective buyers (read as: list your house on the MLS).

Also handle things like showings, no?
I like how you could send your resume as a text file but it better be ASCII.
If it's that easy why didn't you do it then? We should have plenty of competitors to SpaceX and Tesla with loads of reusable rockets and amazing self driving cars RIGHT NOW if everything seems so trivial in your opinion. Any dumbass can do it, including you! Time to get dirty and stack up on those millions of $ since things are so easy to pull off.

That's why Elon sleeps under the desk and works 18 hours a day because it's all very very easy.

I almost forgot how easy it was to sit on the sideline and critique someone else's work :) It's cute.
This is me with my tinfoil hat on, but I think the real reason behind the push to get women into tech is to drive down wages by growing the labor pool. That's the real reason IMO that big companies and others are pushing so hard for women to code and to get into STEM. I don't think that these big companies really care about women or anything, but doubling the labor pool and thus driving down wages, now that's something I can really see big corps getting on board with.
I honestly think that its closer to mindless consumerism than passion. Something to feed the addiction to novelty.
> if I can do my taxes online then buying a house should be easy.

Uh, should it? I doubt many people sell homes nearly as often as they file taxes.
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Here is John Sotos paper "Biotechnology and the lifetime of technical civilizations" where he looks at the ramifications of a society where any resourceful person will have access to biotechnology capable of killing millions and setting back civilization.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01149
For the record, when I posted that comment, its score was in the negative, and now it's positive again. So I guess it was just a matter of waiting for more people to read it.
> actively participating in the political game

At least in the British system people acknowledge this as a reality of newspapers, which generally endorse specific parties or candidates. The TV news is more of a problem. I'm not sure the problem with BBC political coverage is bias per se as that much of it is terrible and includes inviting terrible people to be on Question Time because they generate lots of controversy.

(It's also interesting that we on the internet consider doxxing to be some sort of Queensbury rules violation, while newspapers consider finding someone and interrogating them on their doorstep in front of their family to be standard operating procedure. Not to mention hacking their voicemail.)
Tesla would almost assuredly not be a fraction as valuable with bondholders running it as they would with Musk at the helm. The company's fortunes are inextricably bound up with the founder. The only thing the bondholders are likely to do with the business if they find themselves owning it outright is liquidate. A fact that is quite likely being taken into account in the current market brinksmanship imbroglio.
Just saw Finding Vivial Maier, which gives details about the everyday life of the most underrated photographer ever. This shows a mix of both complex personality and pure talent. This was a very interesting show!
>If the rent is more than the mortgage why would I rent?

Because owning a property involves putting money down, maintaining, being exposed to market value fluctuations, etc. on a very expensive and relatively non-liquid asset.

Sure, buying would mostly have been the right financial decision in the Bay area at least over the past decade for most people. But, especially if I don't want to deal with home ownership, can find an attractive rental property, and want to maintain flexibility, paying a premium to rent can absolutely make sense.
I'm in the same camp. I'm going to be happy if at the end of this we've managed to get a better (cleaner, safer, more reliable, cheaper) car or a better rocket or whatever, but I don't buy the whole "rocket jesus" worshipping, like I don't buy the whole guru worshipping in startup culture in general.
Why is python 2.7 faster than 3? I thought one of the big reasons to switch to 3 was because of performance
I have been writing code for over 10 years and I can comfortably say that Swift is one of the best languages today than many other languages at a much later stage in their life (hey there Java!). I'm not talking about the standard lib, I'm talking primarily about the language and how well one can express their ideas with it without shooting oneself in the foot.

The only reason I suspect that Apple is not all over Swift is that many of their programmers are the type of coders who like falling back to C when they feel they need a performance boost. Perhaps they like the message-like nature of ObjC. Dunno. I can say that I've been able to get apps to 0 fixable crashes with Swift (some crashes are system level), not something I've ever done with ObjC, let alone Java for Android.
If a profit seeking company makes a product that isn’t profitable, how can it be considered “good”?
Gotta deal with the lemon issue though. You make one mistake buying, and you have a quarter-million-dollar problem. Takes a lot of transaction fees to recover from that?
this is the hardest thing for people to get sometimes, it was the original core "concept" behind devops/ci-cd:

upgrades don't get easier when you delay them and make them bigger, they get harder. if you think k8s upgrades are bad now, having them change twice as much half as often would be worse.
It's not controversial; it cannot generate outrage.
I think optionals are my favorite feature. That may be due to me coming from a Java background (which also has optionals since 8, but I feel it's rather clumsy compared to Swift and other modern native languages).

By doing optional chaining you can do something like: if let name = result.person?.firstName { ... } which only evaluates firstName if person is not nil, and then stores the result in name which is immutable.

It's easier to avoid mutable code in Swift than in many other languages. For this reason I would love to start working with Swift on the backend at some point in the future.

I like extensions, being able to extend any class I want by just typing it into any file I want. This helps with iterative development and trying something out.

Speaking of iteratively, if I want to try something quick, I can also drop down to a shell and start the Swift REPL to experiment.

I like how built-in functions like zip and mapValues are available, so it in some ways has a Pythonic feel. I like the syntax of building strings by just taking a variable name and going let s = "Hi there \(name)!".

There are lots of other things I enjoy, such as subscripts (see why here: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Subscripts.h...) and

Some things I would like to see improved is Xcode itself and also Swift's capabilities in the backend.
Seafile is great
I love it and want to use it, but two announcements of a new cloud hosted distributed DB and no mention of how consistency works or how conflicts are handled worries me a bit.

Maybe one of the cloudflare people that read HN can shed some light on this? What happens when I write to the same key simultaneously from multiple workers and/or multiple edge nodes?
It would need to be designed in such a way to protect against mob rule. I would suggest that it follow the Scientific Theory and implement similar controls for pursuing truth.
It is not the case that because all possible mutations have and will continue to occur, all mutations are safe to be technologically propagated. There are many discovered and as yet undiscovered mechanics and ecologies involved in which mutations can propagate naturally.

Sulams reply has the real main reason for confidence in the safety of propagating this mutation.
I've never had a good System 76 experience - and lordy do I wish I did. I'd like nothing more than to buy a Linux supported laptop from a vendor, and continue to support OSS. I've System76'd, ThinkPengiun'd, etc... and they're all bad. Somehow, System76 continues to chose Clevo or Sagers that are just poorly built, as opposed to the well built kit.

Ultimately we just settle on buying great gear from whatever vendor works - and we make it work. Currently we run AlienWare from end-to-end, though I'm using a Surface for my mobile needs.
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If that were the case, then it wouldn't be embraced by the ever more intelligent public.
Nothing makes one's life difficult and impossible to integrate into society like a criminal record for smoking a joint, eh?
>Traditionally those letting houses owned the houses outright - the mortgage was paid off.

So, in other words, they have a bunch of money invested in an asset that, if they sold it, could otherwise be earning some rate of return in some other investment.
In another thread, a person replying to a Google blog said software is about trust, because a person can't read millions of lines of source.

Once trust is broken it's hard to get back. So maybe news is also about trust. Hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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The feature aside, this is a really great blog post: learning a bit about the history of the feature, even if only tangentially related (Babbage and the Analytical Engine) in the intro is great.
Feedback for OpenShift: Fix your support licensing terms and tooling. Having to manually deregister nodes on a web form to avoid hitting support limits is archaic and absurd.

I realize that the aim is mostly at the enterprise market who don't run autoscaling groups or cattle-grade servers, but you're scaring off potential clients with these kinds of setups.
Hi HN! I initially built this as an experiment in making a useful service with as little user interface as possible, and then thought that I'd try turning it into a service. It turns out, though, that I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to marketing. So, I guess this is kind of an Ask HN as well: how do I find users for a service like this (outside of HN)? I did dabble briefly with AdWords but didn't know enough about how it worked to use it effectively, and I'm at a bit of a loss for other ideas.
... and additionally no successful roulette players exist (if we exclude the casino), or - if they exist - they are more rare than unicorns.
Refcently I stumbled over an article regarding SpaceX cost structure raising the theory that commercial launches are subsidized by government launches. Also that reusing stages is not such a relevant cost driver. I simply don't know enough about rocket technology and costs to actually judge the validity of these points, but they seemd plausible. As this point is coming up regularly I really have to take a deper look SpaceX costs and launch costs in general.
shouldn't it be "prey boot camps"? they're training preys, not predators.
The value comes from saving engineering resources and time for implementation, while getting a highly flexible and global environment with lots of features.

With some providers like GCP + provisioned capacity, you can get pretty close to dedicated machines while maintaining the highly available cloud environment.
I’m curious if this is nurtured behavior or behavior devolped through an evolutionary process, or both. This reminds me of the fox domestication experiment in Siberia in the 40’s. Researchers bred foxes, kept all the ones that didn’t show as many signs of being afraid of humans, then subsequently bred those ones again (the rest were turned into furs to fund the research.) This process is kind of like that, but in reverse. Will say that these don’t seem to be truly domesticated bettongs, so not quite the same, but still interested.

(edit - spelling)
Instead of down voting, be useful and show your arguments.
I really don't understand why.
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Its listed under "node"
Can someone explain to me why this factually correct[1] comment is so heavily downvoted, as opposed to explaining how I may be mistaken?

I’m baffled to say the least.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039870
The middle of the article reminded me of Asimov:

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way...

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
oh i see, thanks
Different Strokes for Different Folks.

"News" is harmful because out of billions of things going on every day it has to pick out just a few and those few things have to have enough coherence that somebody who watches CNN at 5:25 has a similar experience to someone who tunes in at 7:10 later on.

Communities have shared truths and falsehoods. Here in the US I think many people are following the Kavanaugh supreme court nomination. If you reload Google News every hour you will probably see nothing new, but some bombshell seems to drop every 1.5 days or so.

It is not irrational that people care about it, but the way in which people are irrational is particularly irrational.

For instance Kavanaugh could just withdraw him nomination and the Republicans have a long list of other conservative judges that could do that job but no they can't stand losing at all so they will wind up losing something bigger all while warning the Democrats that they risk looking like crazy fools who are out of touch with the American people.

And you know that gets people right back in it and keeps the ratings high and you'd better believe all those anchors on CNN got a bonus at the end of 2018 because if it bleeds it leads.

Can you tear it down for everybody? Good luck.

Can you protect yourself? You can.
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> when Optional values start brushing up against that top level of user-visible stuff

Perhaps you are under-using sum types - or enums with associated values as they are called in Swift.
Difficult to get into details in this format, but for example, instead of:

`enum State {
case connected(Connection, SomeOtherStateRelatedToConnected)
case disconnected
}

let state: State
`

You have:
`
var connection: Connection?
var someOtherState: SomeOtherStateRelatedToConnected?
`
Sure, but how is this different from the problem faced by, like, CarMax? If your volume is large enough it doesn't matter.
Both, but the media is more "agile" on their morals.

The more I see the more I think many if not most reporters/journalists/media people are sociopaths. definitely not better than politicians.
>many with criminal convictions are bad people

So are many people without criminal convictions. What's your point? I for one think that, say, the Walton heirs or similar rent-extracting landlord heirs are more of a drain on society than poverty-stricken kids selling drugs or making other bad life choices. Life isn't black and white, and further to the point data shows that rehabilitating criminals delivers better outcomes than shoving them into criminality schools (i.e. prisions), as it should be crushingly obvious by now.
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For me, to make swift a total contender it need good support for non-apple platforms:

https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/8zb9y1/state_of_swif...

For that, I'm exploring with rust now, but certainly is far harder than use swift.

I also look at nim, yet I think is too inmature for use in ios/android?
Depending on the local regulations, you can turn a (long term) profit while a rent inferior to the mortgage repayments.

Can't get on the specifics as it varies country to country and even local regulations but as anecdotal evidence, I'm currently looking at a property in my hometown, with a mortgage of 80k€ (cost of mortgage 7k€, 10 years).
This property would rent at 4000€/y, resulting in a yearly loss of roughly 4000€ (you read that right).

With local incentives and tax shelters, I would still net 18k€ in gain over 10 years. On a 80k€ property, that's a 21% ROI....
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Thank you; that's kind.
I wonder if people complaining about Marzipan are the same praising React Native...
We're already using massive spraying of insecticides. This has got to be less damaging? People are going to do something, hard to stop them, this might be the better alternative
I can recommend The Fog of War.
It's reminiscent of that Zen anecdote in Raise High the Roof Beam: http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~brubaker/3592H/dukemu-salinge...
How did you learn so much about blood? Are there any resources you would reccomend?
> The Aedes genus of mosquitoes are an invasive species in most of the world that was introduced by human activity in the first place.

Life, uh, finds a way. While it was an invasive species, it's now part of the respective ecosystems. Setting up a bunch of houses in the middle of a grassland is invasive, but you may not make life better by trying to burn it down during the dry season.
I thought this was going to relate to the printing of cigarette ads inside of books, and immediately thought of Harlan Ellison’s “dead gophers” interview ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_hekYXWiw
That's one thing that bothers me too. If they provide something for free it's almost always junk food, candy or soda. I prefer not to have this in my face all the time while I am at work.
Why would Google help another govt censor their own citizens?

To curry favor, some kind of quid pro quo. Aka a bribe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
> if our society honestly believed they had been redeemed they would not need the label

That assumes that "society" is correctly and fully informed on the issue. Sex offenders have one of the lowest recidivism rate compared to other crimes. Plus it is a diverse category with many different types of situations all lumped into the same connotation in people's minds.
Why is landing on an asteroid a monumentous achievement? It seems like a nice one, I guess a first-of, but monumentous? No. Second, it was Japan, not the US, that probably meant there was less coverage than if NASA had done it. Third, we had some other news over the past few days which has riveted the nation.
Doesn't it happen already? Half of human dna is old viral load. Perhaps a mosquito virus will take on this gene drive, arrive in humans through a mosquito bite, spread it from there.
They already own it with their global network, and their customers already pay for the infrastructure and capacity. The per-use bandwidth costs are pure profit.
So does chemical spraying.
Amazon or many supermarkets?

https://www.amazon.com/McCormick-Natural-Vanilla-Extract-Glu...
What exactly is evil about their deal with advertisement?
Thanks for the answer!

I've been waiting impatiently for a better Swift backend ecosystem, because I'd love to use it for web development as well.
Is a disk image of one of these available anywhere?

I find it much more likely that these are being used for what they say they are (basically a proxy so they can buy ads from a residential IP) than some crazy MITM device. The "Attacker" is basically renting an IP connection or paying a co-location fee for their little server.

Plugging a device into your network doesn't make it magically see all the traffic. It would have to be doing ARP spoofing, DHCP hijacking, or hacking the router config/firmware. Is it possible that it is doing some or all of those things -- sure. But why? That could all be done via a malicious client executable that would give you access to the network and much more and is much more discrete than a physical box, so why would someone go through the trouble of shipping out a box + paying the recipient? The more simple explanation is the sender of the device is doing nefarious actions on the internet and needs a bunch of IPs for cheap so when they get blocked they can just move on to the next IP.

Would I put one of these on my home network - hell no. But if one of my friends tells me they had one plugged into their network I wouldn't immediately assume that their entire digital life was compromised. I would tell them to unplug it though.
Another post about discussing a functional programming tool in [insert language with a different primary paradigm here], another few threads from the functional programming fans stating how their preference is absolutely correct and how that paradigm is veritably better than any other.

It isn't, it's just a different way to approach programming.

As for the article, it isn't really a case against lambdas themselves, just against misusing them. It certainly didn't make a strong enough case for me to stop using them.
And, as mentioned in a sibling comment, as complex as the K8s project is now, upgrades break things. They regularly break APIs, CLI arguments, tooling, documentation, integrations, and just about everything else.

Having your entire k8s infrastructure go down due to a "oopsie" in an upgrade is a risk. And mitigating these risks takes time and effort.
Anti-clickbait: they didn't blow up their lab, just blew the doors off an iron enclosure intended to contain the massive shockwave, which turned out to be even more massive than intended. Still impressive though!