skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly half the world lives on less than $5.50 a day: World Bank
IMO Square has great looking hardware but their software is pretty mediocre and unattractive. The Stripe guys are killing it on the software front recently, wondering if square should continue pushing hard on the hardware front when stripe is eating their online lunch.
An amazing work from the Xiph team as usual. Their explanations of complex subjects always feels so clear and simple. Long live Opus!
> Even if I accept the notion that Apple collects more data than Google (which is dubious)

I showed you exactly how they collect more data. Not believing the evidence is just an example of how marketing can result in brainwashing.

You trust Apple more for the same reason, even though they have repeatedly lied to you. Remember this? "Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data. So it's not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8." [1] That no longer appears on the linked Apple "privacy" page, which turned out to be nothing more than a marketing page that made claims shown to be false by the FBI. A real privacy page would have announced the changes explaining that user's data isn't as private as originally claimed with just as much fanfare instead of updating without notice.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/apple-wont-turn-over-your-phones-data-to...
So obvious where I live. Most of the home were built in the 80s and 90s and are now falling in to disrepair because most owners just can't understand maintenance and the cost of upkeep. I spent $30K renovating our master bathroom. I don't think I'll make it back when we sell the house, but the 80s master was just done.

All the phone lines in the house are inop, I had to run new ones, mostly outside of the walls.

Siding, roof, furnace, multiple water heaters, water softener, garage doors, sliding doors, windows, wiring updates, new driveway, landscaping, back fence.

I'm also restoring an older car. It's not really even worth it except I learned a lot. Rust buckets should just go to the crusher.

iPads should be easily repairable, at least the glass and battery...
No, you shouldn't overlook it. But don't kid yourself in thinking most Americans in the 1940s weren't terribly racist. Check out this Gallup poll from 1942: https://news.gallup.com/vault/195257/gallup-vault-wwii-era-s...
I'd even be happy if the United States can go one step prior to this and actually have the customer-facing portion of the terminal (the bit with the slot, keypad, and NFC reader) actually face the customer. I'd use tap-to-pay and such far more often if I could reliably use the part of the terminal that's supposed to be for my use and if it said up front if tap and insert are supported.

Instead, right now we get this madness, especially at a lot of smaller shops, where the clerk is using the merchant side box to enter the payment amount then fumbles around with the customer side pad to insert the card and complete the transaction for me.

Just let me tap or enter my PIN, please.

(I have two cards that are PIN primary. I've put stickers on both that read, in large letters, "THIS CARD USES A PIN PLEASE ALLOW ME TO ENTER IT." On one of them, it has, in smaller letters, "THE TRANSACTION WILL DECLINE IF YOU DON'T.")
All roads lead to layer 8.
Money has always been integral to political campaigning.

But I'd say the 2016 election clearly refutes your assertion.

Republican fundraising as of 6/22/2016 in USD$millions, {total}, {candidate}, {affiliated PAC} [1]: Donald Trump (67.1, 64.6, 2.5), Jeb Bush (162.1, 35.2, 126.9), Ted Cruz (158.0, 92.6, 65.4), Marco Rubio (125.0, 47.3, 61.8)

If one wants to blame the Illuminati for secretly supporting candidates... this is a harder point in history to find support.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/electi...
Uber Driver May Drive Uber IPO
The conceptually independent threads are executed on 32 wide SIMD cores. "All the cores" within a warp/wavefront must execute the same instruction each cycle.

GPU threads got even more independent in nvidia'a volta architecture - search Volta ITS for details.
==I just don't understand what they would regulate.==

The first step to answering this question lies in understanding the data.
I've been wondering about the plastic taste lately ...
Depends on neighborhood, but generally: Duane Reade, CVS, Chase Bank, Starbucks, Kennedy Fried Chicken, Dunkin Donuts.
That's quite the story you spun there...

(see what I did?)

What is fiction? How is it different from philosophy? What about soft sciences like sociology or psychology that rely heavily on trying to interpret human behavior (presumably based on their warped, distorted brains). What about theology? How about art as a whole? Or music?

Are you trying to propose that ENTIRE world would be better if there were no fictional creations?

IDK my dude, this seems like a pretty extreme and indefensible position...
Researchers Show What Can Happen When a Drone Collides with an Airplane
Study Challenges Hospitals’ Use of Accrediting Watchdogs
> Since this is going to be a great pass time

I thought this was a fantastic eggcorn[1], until I realized that it is the actualy origin of the word 'pastime'. So, it sort of is, but isn't at the same time.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
> sigstoat: the real irony is:

>> me: (among other things including the issue of trust)

> sigstoat: when amazon is comingling inventory and generally confusing people about who they're purchasing from.

I was referring to sellers being allowed to include their own JS and Flash on listings[0] and the high-profile hacking cases along with ebay's response[1,2]. Sellers were also allowed to include 3rd-party templates to list their items (which can lead to yet another attack vector). This may still be happening but like I said, I abandoned ebay some time ago.

Also, when purchasing on ebay, you're always dealing directly with a seller. It's a marketplace, a bazaar. It's their business model (but like I said, it can mutate into something else). Unlike Amazon (where you always "feel" you're dealing with a single company - comingling aside), on ebay you never feel like you're dealing with a single entity.

As a result, I always felt on high alert: investigating sellers, viewing their reputations, etc... it's time-consuming and an effort. It constantly forces me to question... to trust.

[0] https://hacked.com/biggest-hacks-breaches-2014/

[1] https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/course_archive/2015-16/W/3482/Team...

[2] https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/18/ebay-scripting...
Humans are in the way.

There is an intermediate "rich" communication light-set that speaks more than intentions, and more directions than backward.

If you go "no driver" then your market dies. It is going to be an ironic pain for Detroit, one that ranks up there with having your company realtime video your face for thought-crimes, when individual consumers don't buy cars that don't come with a steering wheel.
What about `fc` (fix command)? It's been in unix forever.

$ echoo "hi"
-bash: echoo: command not found

$ fc # this will open your editor to fix the command.
echo "hi"
hi
Sure, the general consensus is that inheritance is better achieved through composition.

But let's be serious for a minute here: even regular inheritance has hardly ever led to the kind of nuclear disaster than most pundits claim.

It makes your code base a bit more unwieldy and a bit harder to evolve, but it's really not the end of the world.
> That is anathema to what FDR did.

What happens if you reconsider the New Deal from the perspective that the Roosevelt family benefited hugely from increased government power?
Demands like this consequently further authoritarianism based on the belief "As <PartyX>, we believe we hold a superior moral/ethical high ground, and should therefore be responsible for the decision-making that impacts the masses."

Identifying as being on the "correct side" pushes an agenda of inequality and gatekeeping out of confirmation bias (which, in theory, this group stands against given the current political discussions surrounding such issues).

If the point of revoking services and kicking customers out of their walled garden is to combat the villain of the moment and make them suffer, that is sure to have unintended negative consequences as well. The terms of this letter are looking through a lens blanketing entities as good or bad, when in reality it isn't as clear cut. Such mechanism also seems rife for abuse.

People also love to knock the government because it's easy to do, but they forget we are also responsible for the government by choosing to live in a democracy. Times change, societies change, laws change. Sure, at times it seems nothing changes and things stay shitty, but with that attitude there's nearly a guarantee that will stay true. People can talk the talk to their heart's content, but it's far easier to wish than to do.
What do you mean by DI? I find DI is an overloaded term.
Thankfully, that's gradually changing.

This November, Maine will officially be using ranked choice voting for US House and Senate seats.
Carlin's routine is meant to draw attention to the ways that authorities and systems fuck around with words and how, even with the best intentions, these changes gradually benefit the institutions instead of the downtrodden.

Most of Carlin's routines involve ironic hyperbole. He had a bit about how everybody on the road driving faster than you is a maniac and everybody driving slower than you is an idiot.

It's an extremely important bit for understanding his work. Carlin believed that everybody should express their opinion loudly from their own point of view, be aware that a lot of the time those opinions will be wrong, but know that when we do not express those opinions the fuckers always win.

When he shouts that the transition from "shellshock" to "PTSD" has been a tool used for government control he's absolutely right. It was. By making a disease name for it and creating PTSD treatment programs the military could look like it was addressing the problem, where the actual problem was the military using human suffering as a tool to reinforce American political power for economic reasons.

If you told George Carlin "yeah, but rape victims have the same experience, don't we need to include them" he'd probably have told you to call that cock-shock. You'd say "that's gross" and he'd say "rape is gross, the name for what happens after it should be horrible, not clinical".

By saying things like this, Carlin highlights hypocrisies and illusions in our lives and thought processes. Carlin wants to make sure you see what you've forgotten by moving to the new words.

I'm reminded of when Vonnegut pointed out how dangerous it was to move from Armistice Day to Veteran's Day.

"It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not."

Vonnegut doesn't mean that later veterans didn't suffer, that their service is worthless or that their pain shouldn't be noted. He's saying that by including new individuals, the message of the day - that it is horrific to murder millions of people for any reason - has been erased for the good of the military system.

People like Vonnegut and Carlin aren't trying to say things that are correct. They're trying to say things that expose truth. It's very different.
Very nice, although (and just a suggestion, not a criticism), from a design perspective, a little bit more padding in the cards would go a long way.
Some things I'm sure are more negotiable than others. That clause in particular is sort of unusual. TBH, most companies probably feel they can use the names and likenesses of their employees in connection with their business without asking anu kind of special permission. I'm admittedly in a mostly externally-facing role but I know I'm plastered all over the place and I don't think I've ever given any kind of special permission.
>Would this have been such a bad thing?

It could well have been: see the French and Russian Revolutions, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot. There were both Nazis and Communists busy in the US in the '30s, and either taking power would have been really bad.
Are they going to abandon their on premise solution? For us a hosted version is a no go and will force us to move to something else.
>> 3 - The way this works for sending emails, your devices that you compose emails on will connect directly with your Helm server over TLS. Your Helm server will then initiate a TLS session with the server hosting your recipient's email.

If my helm server connects directly with the recipient's email server won't it create problems with SPF validation? Home networks usually don't have a fixed IP address so I am not sure how SPF will work.
No, he's saying that Thanos just delayed overpopulation for a constant amount of time, and didn't really solve anything.
yes facebook forces you to put in phone number for example, for "backup authentication" "verification" purposes, and if you don't want to show that to your friends or the public you must set it to private. The default is something like "show to all friends"

There are many preferences in facebook that are like that - unavoidable/impassible fields that ask for info, and then you set it to "private/only yourself" to prevent information leakage, but are set default to world or friend visible.

It's a dark pattern that's all over facebook - you will see it if you install the facebook mobile apps - you can't proceed to surf your timeline without clicking through and answering questions sometimes - best thing is to fill in blank/gibberish info, but sometimes phone numbers, etc can't be avoided.
> everything is made of bits

Bits are objects, too...
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Duck typing is the worst of all worlds, in my experience.

And in defense of inheritance, the Liskov Substitution Principle is extremely useful and makes a lot of sense.

If a function accepts a `Weapon` as parameter, surely you should be able to pass it a `Sword`.
Why does Chrome get to do this but not Mozilla? Why is field testing such an implementation a bad thing? What do more comments add over real, concrete data (up to a point)?
Nice explanation, but the lesson I learned from it is "if you make a mess of your system, you might need a messy system to fix it again". Which might not be what the author intended, but does jive with experiences I've had.
I hated it on square's software that when I was in "financial high waters" and the person can see that I clicked the "other tip" and had to give $1 instead of $2 or $5 tips. That's just a human thing tho, the rest of the square hardware fleet is on point!
(I sent this as an email to helm's support but since the founders are responding here I am duplicating this here)

Your technology page mentions that you provide an mx gateway (presumably for inbound email for home networks that don't usually have a static IP address). You also mention that emails forwarded to the helm server via your gateway are encrypted end-to-end and your gateway cannot read the contents of that email.

I am unable to understand how this happens. TLS is not end-to-end -- since the sending mail server will establish a TLS connection with your gateway it means that you necessarily have to decrypt the incoming email before forwarding it to the helm server.

Can you explain to me how I am wrong here?
You can do GPGPU programming with Fortran, which is definitely not C-derived, predating C by at least 20 years.
Speaking as an American, I've always found at-the-table swiping to be kind of strange, at least for higher end meals. It puts the commerce part of the evening a little too front and center for me. Or maybe I'm just not used to it.
To be fair I'd take that (and similar fades on DS1/2) over Homme's obsession with false endings from Sky Valley onwards
TBH, you can do a lot of damage without a V2V communication system. I think that some people forget how much of the world is really ultimately run on various forms of trust relationships.
Buttons for pedestrian signals are great for safety. The point I was trying to get across is that in the proposed system, a pedestrian would never get a dedicated window to cross unless they push the button.
I mean the people paying for CEOs, whoever they are, are the ones with a willingness to pay some amount, and that amount is the upper limit for CEO payment.
I am baffled why they have a matrix of what data science libraries they support. They support reading and writing CSVs and Parquet (and, I assume, arbitrary files as well). How is this specific HopsFS support for Pandas? Pandas is dumping csv format to a file object which happens to write to HopsFS.

This is a pretty weak sales pitch.

Edit: I'm not actually baffled. It's clearly SEO to catch people googling around for "pandas support" or the like.
While having a Torch-esque GPU ndarray is great, the ability to easily write your own kernels without having to compile gnarly C++ code is what sets Julia apart from competitors IMO. Not sure if there's any other dynamic language offering anything like this.
I never said that. It's not perfect, but I far prefer living in a capitalist society to a centrally-planned economy, which I think can never work.

The game of capitalism requires referees. Otherwise, robbery is an excellent business model.
You provide the thesis "Noncompetes implemented smartly are good and not a power grab over employees."

Then you utterly fail to support this thesis in any imaginable fashion. Most people can't survive on 25-50% of their current salary with current obligations.

Markets/relationships require information and agency to function efficiently.

It's damn near amazing that you presumably understand that consumer choice is essential for an efficient market for groceries and wrenches but you don't believe that contracts that interfere with employees choosing an optimal employer don't make for an inefficient labor market.

When you understand that ANY employer could maintain minimal turnover by paying a competitive wage/benefits just by the human nature of desiring stability it ought to be obvious that the only reason to desire a noncompete is so that you can offer less without losing employees.
The presence of perverse incentives don't make it a non-market.
Becoming a professional Haskell and Erlang developer really shifted my view on OOP (let OOP denote class based OOP as found in Java or C++). In my view, OOP is prove a poor model for computation, and the result has been that OO code is almost always significantly more complex and error prone than an equivalent computation written in a concurrent, functional, or structured paradigm. Recent trends in language design (see Rust, Go, Elixir) also seem to be abandoning OOP in favor of other models as well.

OOP provides competing ways of abstracting behavior that in Haskell we can model with type parameters and constraints. Objects are not truly encapsulated in the way Erlang processes are and a poor fit for SMP. Objects also pathologically hide data in attempt to manage mutability, making it impossible to reason about the memory layout of the program.

All in all, OOP is a toolkit for building bad abstractions: abstractions that do not easily model computation, that hide data, and has tended to create overly complex solutions to problems that are often full of errors that a language focused more on type expressivity could catch at compile time.
This is an interesting read, and a good review of Giridharadas. But I'm frustrated that it fails to grapple with the most obvious question of all: who counts as rich?

Instead, we get "Winners Take All aims at today’s upper-crust in a world where wealth has continued to calcify into stock dividends and plush inheritances of the global one-percent...". It's the sort of line that makes me think either Giridharadas or Meyer haven't done their homework, because entering the global one percent takes an income of around $32,000, or a net worth of around $770,000. The average member of the global one percent doesn't have any stock at all, much less a plush inheritance! 46% of Americans break the global 1% income threshold, and ~5% break the wealth threshold. The global one percent are defined by international divides, not intranational ones.

Back home, the 1% continues to be a bizarre construct that conflates heart surgeons with Waltons; the bottom half of the 1% have seen their incomes roughly triple since 1950, while the top 0.01% have seen a 10x increase. Even Darren Walker's million a year only puts him around the 0.3% of earners.

I don't mean to discount the article or the book: it's fascinating to see a comparison of how the ultra-rich view social wellbeing compared to the rest of us. But I do think there's a bit of a failure to grapple with exactly what extreme wealth is, and just how far up the scale goes.
They don't look like pickaxe marks at all to me. They aren't as uniform or straight, they aren't all going in the same direction and they don't have uniform depths.

https://perstoremyr.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/krauchthal_8...

vs

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/files/2017/03/paleobu...
Orkney Islands routes are front-runners for first commercial electric flights
Congratulations, shovels can be intimidating to use as far as hand tools go. Certainly more so than a pickaxe.
looks like the source code for Nest is not public:

https://nest.pijul.com/pijul_org/nest
Geosynchronous is the word you’re looking for.
Note also that the authors' long-term solution for non-motorists is for everyone to carry an "IoT" device broadcasting their presence. Who pays for these? Note that every person needs one, including children and tourists. It adds a grave threat to privacy: in order to simply cross a street, I must agree to broadcast my whereabouts to the public. It also leads, inexorably, to a legal regime where if I fail to carry the IoT broadcaster, and get hit by car, it's my fault.
Sweet! I can now sign up to as many podcasts as I want, never listen to anything, and make money.

And so can everyone else.

And podcasters would love to use this distribution system that will net them $0 after risking capital, ONLY if they magically achieve a 100% listen rate in spite of the incredible incentives to have the listen rate be 0%. Otherwise it’ll cost them money.

And for all that hassle and risk, they get a distribution system no better than the free and open one they enjoy now.

Perhaps I’ve misunderstood something, otherwise I don’t think this idea is viable :)
Let's recap the author's main points:

- Retail revenues are not rising as fast as rent

- Hence, shopping/merchandise stores are being replaced by bars/restaurants/coffee-shops etc

Ie, businesses that sell stuff are being replaced by businesses that sell experiences.

Great!

Consumerism and materialism is a black hole for your soul. What I really care about are vibrant experiences. Interesting bars/restaurants where my friends and I can hang out. Great live theater where I can watch the arts. And yes, even stimulating coffee shops where I can spend the day reading and writing.

Want to go shopping for goods? Go online where you can shop to your heart's content. I'm glad the city's valuable real estate is being taken over by businesses that are more focused on human interactions.

For the record, I've lived in Manhattan for many years in recent times, and it has never once felt like a ghost town. I've heard many complaints about the city, but I've literally never heard anyone else complain about it feeling like a ghost town, or anything even similar. Living in suburbia though...