skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memes on the Blockchain. Good idea or bad idea?
Imagine a meme app where the memes are stored on the Blockchain.

the memes will be moderated before they go onto the blockchain to make sure it is appropriate content, but the memes going on the Blockchain will be submitted by app users only.

I can try to ensure this by requiring authentication from Facebook, Google, or any other suitable identity provider(s). I would only need some unique identifier to ensure that a person is who they say they are. I simply rely on this service to ensure that an account is a real person and not a bot.

I can create some ability blacklist users, so that if a user is found to be a bot or regularly posts inappropriate memes, the user and their posts will be marked as blacklisted, and the app will not display that content any more.

I could use Ropsten Ethereum and IPFS in Combination. This way the app would be free to use.

This way the list of memes displayed can be an immutable record of truly user generated content that would be available to everyone. All users will be able to look at memes and post memes from anywhere they can access the blockchain.

Once put on the blockchain the record of memes can not be retroactively censored because the blockchain would ensure that the records are distributed.

If you're have any questions, feel free to ask.

P.s. there is no crypto currency involved. This app is simply taking advantage of blockchain technology. This app in question will be available for free. Transaction on the blockchain will be on the free-to-use Ropsten ethereum blockchain, and image files will be stored on IPFS.
I am commenting with a pseudonym on this website and I'm sure I hold many views which you would attribute to "bots". I am however a real person and not even Russian! Most of the people who you disagree with are the same, you must accept that.
> probably because then they would be liable for when someone hacks your shit and then uses it to login to your bank and steal all your stuff

Which law specifically would make Apple liable if your iCloud keychain was hacked and the credentials used?
This happened to me about a year ago
k8s hides away some scalability problems and does not address many others.

Most real scalability issues exist on lower levels and require more theoretical thinking than experimenting with tools.
Farewell, application menus
In science, measuring things until you find a benefit is called p-hacking. Every extra test you do that splits your data along a different dimension, is another independent opportunity for "random chance" to look like positive signal.

There is no programming project in existence with enough developers working on it, that developer-productivity data derived from a change to it would not be considered "underpowered" for the sake of proving anything.
Machine learning? If some logic, than precise and reproducible please. Prolog would be nice, not some neural nets. gcc already has some nice lisp. Jeff Dean usually has good ideas, but not this one. ML would be more useful for a JIT, dynamic optimization problems at run-time.

But the problem is only the botched architecture, with non-manageable interdependencies. Of course inlining is the mother of all optimizations, most other optimization should be applied after inlining. But for inlining to be effective it has to run after constant folding. And then after inlining you have to run most optimization passes again to get the real benefits.

This problem is much simpler: Missing as-integration and a botched constexpr API. They should just take it from llvm.
I was on an infra so the "product" was improving both developer experience and user experience. Thing is — as a senior engineer, you're encouraged to do work that spans across multiple teams. The self-review would include all the impactful things you've done by helping person X or team Y or product Z, etc.
Neatly for who?
People want candy though
The leaked document is from October 2015.

It’s missing new regions in Ohio, Mumbai, Seoul, Canada, Paris, and GovCloud.
> there’s growing outrage over the week-long disappearance of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who Turkish officials say was murdered last week in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on orders from the Saudi Royal family, then cut into pieces with a bone saw and removed from the building.

Wow, that's crazy.

>Silicon Valley big wheels as Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman and Travis Kalanick are advisors to a $500 billion megacity project being built by the country, which has pitched it as a model of what future cities will look like.

Has Sam Altman commented on this project at all, or is it not associated with YC?
Are you equating being conservative with engaging in anti-social punishment? That doesn't make any sense. Even after accounting for differences in income, conservatives (especially religious conservatives) contribute most to charity, and also engage in volunteer activities at pretty high rates.

Note that I'm not saying that engaging in anti-social punishment is liberal, just that I don't think it's clear how such behavior maps onto political values.

I would agree with the notions that societies that undergo forceful transformations may tend towards anti-social punishment, which is probably related to weak norms of civic cooperation and rule of law.
digression: What an interesting non-news news site. If you want to give the impression that you are a 'fake news' site, this might be one way to do it. No contacts have been filled out, the site has been under reconstruction since 2013, and the stories don't have bylines or other information that would let you know who wrote them.

That said, it would not surprise me in the least if people felt bound by such contracts because they are at an extreme disadvantage when it comes to litigation. I did not see the call for better unions at the end (I may have missed it) or legislation that would provide a financial defense for people improperly accused of violating an unenforcable contract (something like an Anti-SLAPP law[1] for working contracts)

[1] http://www.casp.net/california-anti-slapp-first-amendment-la...
I'm surprised it took 17 years after Saudi money paid for 9/11[1] for this to become the case.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/15/911-report-s...
This would imply that the SoftBank Vision fund is also radioactive...
"PostgreSQL 11 should be made generally available on October 18, 2018." !!!
Look at the list of prominent SV VCs and execs who were recently 'named to a Saudi advisory board': Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Travis Kalanick etc.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-execs-named-saudi-board...
It's proof by assertion. Just repeat the same thing over and over, eventually it will be true.

It's a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
Your feeling is one I would share. They probably won't.

My experiences are similar. People really vary in their response to a good deed directly favoring them, and I suspect the nature and quantity of deeds they do can be correlated to those responses.
The problem is the utter lack of evidence for the claim. The assertion that reading tweets makes it harder to read novels is not supported by any evidence I’m aware of.

You can find plenty of people saying “I stopped reading books because of [X,Y, or Z] and now it’s harder to read books”. But the common thread there is not X, Y, or Z. It’s “I stopped reading books”.

The idea that “adaptation” to one type of reading makes other types of reading harder doesn’t sound unreasonable but that doesn’t mean it’s actually true. Adaptation to running doesn’t exactly make walking harder.
In almost all cases, modern processors have enough multi-threaded performance to play optimized (multi-threaded) games acceptably. It's the single-threaded ones that will be challenging to run, and it's those challenging tasks that you should optimize your system around.

Optimizing for MT-heavy games is the gaming equivalent of premature optimization - everybody can run Doom at a million FPS, but Fallout 4 or PUBG shit all over every system and you'll be begging for every frame you can get.

You can "prefer" whatever you want but developers don't care. This site of all places knows that time-to-market is what really matters. If you want to play those titles, you have to deal with it. Either optimize for the shitty titles, accept that you're going to be losing a fairly significant amount of frames (the 2700X is behind as much as 30% in some titles), or don't play those titles.
What value does a blockchain serve here? Is anyone asking for a distributed meme ledger?
Great story. So basically you’re saying your gut outsmarted you because it knew it wouldn’t be worth it...
>Anyone who got paid in RSUs almost certainly made out well.

"Well" is relative. The price of the stock may have gone up but its value is still much less than that of the income they could have had at $15/hr over the time it takes to vest. No one is really making out like a bandit on their RSUs at that level.
People have been saying that for 5 years (which is, in fact, how long XB1/PS4 have been on the market). Single-threaded performance is still the dominant factor in gaming performance.

Games make use of up to 6 threads, but single-threaded performance still determines overall framerate to a large extent. Games are not exempt from Amdahl's law: as long as you've got enough threads to offload work, it comes down to the single-threaded portion of the workload. The faster you can run the main game loop the faster the game runs.
Not sure what you mean. Care to elaborate?
Your points are largely valid, but prometheus is a monitoring solution, not a scientific or financial tool.
Certain tradeoffs are taken since the monitoring aspect comes first and being scientifically correct comes second.
Hence poll vs push, for instance.
Token sales happen on Ethereum, not Bitcoin. And ironically, it would potentially be a good way to fund space exploration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBki5sBw5E

If EOS can raise $4 billion over a year-long token sale, we could surely raise a few billion for a Mars colony that could change the destiny of the human species.
Instead of Repo Man, it's Repo Drone?
Hi pallavn (or someone else who might know), how was the animation at the top of the page created? Beautiful work all around btw!
So much abuse yet here's what I was replying to: "Taking email out of the loop is a technical solution to a problem that is inherently social, not technical."
The clear implication being that you can't solve social problems with tech, but we do this all the time and have, forever, as my example shows. Q.E.D.

Inherently social problems are commonly solved by technical interventions, e.g. distressing human smells by bathing or perfuming.

Did that really need rererepeating? No, the point was clear the in first instance, you just disagreed and preferred vituperation it to addressing my point. People who just gainsay here annoy me, but you've hit a new low.
The US was drastically less racially diverse 50 years ago. It was 90% non hispanic white in 1965 before immigration laws were changed.
Surprised Sam Altman would sign on. Doesn't Saudi Arabia execute non-heterosexual people?
If Georgio Paviani was real, it could also be a pseudonym for a real human being, in which case there would be no ID that you could show. Pretty sure Lady Gaga's driver license doesn't use that name.
Yes, this matches my experience as well. I've been at Google 6 years now in various SWE roles. I can count the number of times I've been directly asked to do something by anyone in my management chain on one hand.
So, it appears that this has a bit to do with how you slice things. A few days ago, a commenter published several debt related indicators which are far better than they were prior to the 2008 crash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18177141.

I think it might be a product of low interest rates, but I'm not entirely sure.
I was concerned about that non-compete, so I did a bit of checking and found that it was NOT A CONTRACT as far as the law was concerned. You see, a contract by definition requires consideration on both sides. The relevant courts had repeatedly found that an offer of initial employment counted as consideration, but an offer of continued employment did not.

As with all things legal, this depends on the jurisdiction (in this case, meaning the state since we're talking about US law). The general rule in most states is that continued employment is not sufficient consideration, but in Illinois it currently is; California doesn't allow non-competes for non-owner/non-highly-compensated employees, so it's a moot point in CA. [https://www.bna.com/continued-employment-sufficient-b5798208...]
Next time I try it, if it's still an issue then I will report.

Thanks!
Sure, that's certainly valid, but it's an emotional perspective. From a financial perspective I'd rather have my money working for me.
this is personal data, GDPR gives you the right to get a full dump of it.
Not to mention the impact of not signing a contract is much higher for a person than for a company.
Transgenic plants could make for more nutritious salmon
Education, I feel like many are screaming. If only they knew more about this stuff, then they wouldn't fall into this trap. But isn't this an arms race? If workers got smarter, wouldn't industry find something else to exploit, giving workers just as little leverage as before (possibly exploiting the fact that workers have to trade away something to have time to learn more)?
> Sexism kept women out of medicine and law for centuries. It's only very recently that this has changed. Women were not even admitted to Harvard Law School until 1950.

You're equivocating. You know very well that the type of sexism that kept women from working in virtually all professions, including law and medicine, is not the type of sexism we're discussing now.
I love that fact that there are "usual procedures" when it comes to humans going back and forth to our 20-year-old SPACE STATION!

Next, we'll have real-life gritty action heroes who admit to "making it up as I go along?" (Actually, that was Neil Armstrong when we manually piloted the first lunar landing.)
> Why should software vendors gain legal control over our data, simply because we use their software?

Well, probably because their EULA says so. Hence my question: "can we have a rule".
That's why I chose galvanization as an example. The coating acts as an anode until it's consumed.
>It's not hard to acquire that much money.

As a privileged developer, this is an extremely untrue and privileged statement. Developers like myself who don't live in SF are lucky to receive any signing bonus, and would be lucky to earn half of that as a yearly salary. Outside the US it's not possible. You are part of a very small and very fortunate group.

Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#salary
I really wonder how a website can end up looking like this: https://i.imgur.com/GL2buwD.png
That would make all sorts of services unavailable to the common person. Essentially if a direct and immediate exchange couldn't be performed the transaction can't happen. A contract is needed for any sort of debt. It could be as simple as putting down a deposit for a contractor to remodel a bathroom.
I agree for possible selfish reasons. My dad was adopted and he died from a heart attack. He made all of the decisions you’d need to make to ensure you had a heart attack like he was going down a checklist but it would be good to find out if there’s a family history of heart disease I think it would be good to know.
That's debatable, but I find Apple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Win10 all user-hostile. One of them being "worse" than another, in some person's opinion, in no way excuses anyone from being bad.
Maybe Zenimax can now move on from committing necrophilia with the corpses of Fallout and Wolfenstein and stop trying to reanimate the corpse of Skyrim.
Thanks for reporting this issue!
This metric is meaningless, for all we know DDG could have become less helpful and people have to rephrase their queries more often than before.

EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue.
Very neat! That sounds like it's pretty similar to this one then. I wonder if the FISK was directly inspired by the DiskFax? I'm hoping to get in touch with the designer so I may have some answers soon.

I'd love to see those schematics if you can find them!
Discussing wages with other employees, by the way, is something employers cannot prohibit in the US.[1] Although many employers try.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/wb/media/pay_secrecy.pdf
The i7 lost HT but gained 2 real cores, which will be faster in practice.

The i7 has the same amount of cache as its predecessor and the i9 has more.

9-series has hardware fixes for Meltdown variant 3 as well as the L1 terminal fault fix.
Likewise, YC's move into China was brought up by people on HN concerned about the censorship practices of the Chinese government.
That's also because nobody is ever going to actually wear outfits like this: https://youtu.be/a1ew-tsk8KA?t=983
Ask HN: How to get better at design as a developer?
I have a lot of experience developing products, and when I work with a designer, things come out looking well. If I ever try to design something myself, I usually start with a pretty barebones UI, then 'polish' it to make it look better, and the end result is always pretty bad. I know what good design looks like, but I have a hard time putting it together something original myself.

I can take a decent theme, and then tweak it to make it a little more original, but that usually makes the design worse. I can 'copy' something that looks good, and then again try and make it a little more original, with the same result.

I'm looking for advice about how to develop this skillset. Is there some kind of 'deliberate practice' one can do to improve their design skills? I like working in Sketch, and one thing I've thought of is to simply design a bunch of fake applications, and never actually develop it. This way, I could design a new UI maybe once a week, and spend a few hours on each design.

Any other tips? Spend more time browsing dribbble? Are there good books or resources on interface design to teach me the principles?
This is Trump's boy. He helped him get in power. In some ways Trump might have done a good things, because the Saudi needed a bit more crazy guy on the top for the west to finally wake up about what a terrible place Saudi Arabia is.

The whole west, and in particular the US has made a faustian bargain with Saudi Arabia. Sooner or later someone has to answer for that.

Our number one terrorists problem comes from Wahabism, the toxic strain of Islam, coming straight out of Saudi Arabia funded by petro dollars.

It was weak and embarrassing that we could not back up Canada when they stood up to these bullies.
This paper calls Mars uniquely suitable, but only briefly references O'Neill on free-space habitats built out of lunar or asteroid material. His main argument against seems to be the need to protect from radiation, but it's not like O'Neill and successors did not know -- they had designs for that. Yes, a habitat with gravity and shielding and agriculture would be expensive. So would colonizing Mars.
USA has a lot of problems, but the fact that free press exists is a miracle.

Calling people out by name that they are hypocrites by taking Saudi money and basically funding murder would get you killed in most countries.
$9B? Over a decade or so? $900M a year?

That's something like 0.15% of the annual military budget of the US.

For comparison, the F35 program has already cost nearly $500B and is going to cost at least $1.5T over its lifetime.

$9B - for a Moon rocket - is pocket change.

Sure, cost overruns = bad. But let's at least have some perspective here.
You'll sign a contract when buying the car.
All these concerns are understandable, but after reading a lot of lisp and non mainstream litterature (jitted OSes, ocaml compiler, lisp machines), I'd give lots of trust points to the thing described above.

But I'd expect a lot of needs for security and encryption since those times had almost no troubles regarding this.
The concept or actual privacy? The concept will inevitably become more well-known if the actuality is becoming so obviously not private (which it is).
I work fully remote and that's what I think as well. It's a thing that let's you wait or respond immediately, up to you. That's the major selling point.

Depends on company culture, of course. But my team is also distributed from -8 to + 10 UTC. So nobody is expecting someone who is asleep to write back to them.

Another thing to note is the presence of other sources of communication, like GitLab issues. If you have those you don't always have to ping a live person in sync mode. Often you can just pick up an issue and do it with minimal input.
> firing everyone from any startup they acquired, and then re-hiring them immediately under the same terms

I can't imagine any judge accepting this... but I can imagine it backfiring badly, adding bad faith into the interpretation.
My personal experience is different. OT tends to be quadratic in terms of computational complexity and codebase size.
As long as you consider a simple case, 1^2 is 1. Then, add more data types (not just text), faulty servers, faulty network, non trivial network architectures...
All these problems tend to interact. They easily go combinatorial, but again 1! is 1.
I worked with an OT codebase that had C++ templates within C defines and I edited them using regexes (x types of operations => x^2 types of potential transformations).

OT aside, data sync in general is not a solved problem.
Maybe I am especially unlucky, but I have yet to see a chat app that has no sync glitches. A chat is not the most difficult data structure to sync, but I saw bugs in Slack, Telegram, Instagram, Gchat, Skype, others... WhatsApp does not even try to sync...

A lot depends on the diversity of your use cases and the number of the nines you expect from the system...
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Goodyear welted shoes can be resoled multiple times plus you can also glue a plastic sole over the leather one. The cost is 15$ and when you're wearing it out you simply replace it. Dainite soles are quite more long lasting than leather ones too. Goodyear > Blake > Cement.

Not only the construction matters but also the leather used in the upper. I can differentiate a 200$ shoe from a 500$ one at a glance, a good pair of shoes can be brought back to life even if they have been seriously abused. There are more durable leathers too like cordovan.

In clothing there are many garments where there isn't much of a correlation between price and quality but leather shoes and jackets isn't one.