skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We learned about logarithms as well in the 2000s, but they never mentioned slide rules. Just lots of tables and charts to get a feel for it.
What is a decision tree in machine learning?
Swiss maintain their road and tunnel infrastructure just fine. They have more tunnel miles per capita than the US. A lot depends on the fraction of value non-producing population that the value producing population has to appease.
There is a DOM story: host bindings. It just isn't implemented yet.

However, that doesn't mean that you can't use it now. wasm-bindgen is essentially a polyfill for host bindings plus some other little things.

Some resources to check out if you want to learn more:

* Host bindings: https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...

* More info about web-sys (web-sys is like the raw libc for the web): https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/web-sys/index.html

* API documentation for web-sys: https://docs.rs/web-sys/0.3.2/web_sys/

* DOM hello world example: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html

* A mini MS Paint style example: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/paint.html

* An FM synth in WebAudio: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/web-audio.h...
That is a mountain sized "if".
If I were only earning $1000/mo then my Affordable Care Act health insurance would be free...
Did you expect it to be easier than solar system exploration or what? The engineering problems have plausible solutions: You'd need a lot of water anyway so a shield of ice can handle debris, the ice, together with the ship's own mass, also shields radiation quite a bit.

This is pretty different from a "fairy tale" and not addressed at all by the blog posts you used as arguments.
The government's "stable coin" lost 96% of its value since 1913. Time to try something different? https://comparegoldandsilverprices.com/news/economics-101/do...
> And the Futurama take on this was just as bad

At least with Futurama, Mom was an established character and they were able to comment on other internet culture like Twitter.
You go from saying it achieves the goal of being decentralized, and in the next breath point out that it’s centralized. I don’t get it.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you".

If you're going to reach the kids and young adults of the 21st century, your church can't act like it's still the 19th.

If all you care about is your existing congregation of late-stage adults and senior citizens, then perhaps organ music and "the unadulterated truth" are just fine. But it means your church has an expiration date.
What if people have kids when the economy is booming and soon fall into poverty due to the economy bust cycle and other factors such as crazy medical bills or some bad luck. Most Americans can't afford kids if they keep in mind that the economy is a rollercoaster and unpredictable events pul them down.
The US also has a good chunk of rare earths. It was a shortsighted move to allow the mining equipment to be sold off to China for a quick buck. But there's still time to fix this.
Then give me a warning: "This is an unauthorized charger. For the security of the phone, we have lowered the power usage. You can disable this in options -> Powermode, however Google is not responsible for any issues this might cause", add some lawyer speak and done.

Edit: Spelling
Aliens.......
> I don't know much about the lifestyles of their senior employees/leaders - maybe it's a televangelist-style Gulfstream-and-champagne-fest, maybe not.

Sadly, if this article is accurate, it may be closer to the above than I'd thought: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/taxpayers-support-lavish-h...
That was not ideological battle. That was responding to someone that their concern over civility was misplaced.
LinuxKit gives build push run for VMs. It was kind if designed to be a half way stage to a full unikernel model.
Not only that, but disagreements about what something means is often a Very Hard Problem, and even when courts judge something one way or another, there are many people who _disagree strongly_, and hope to either change the judiciary, or change the laws to more explicitly favor their position. (This is, as far as I recall, how one is supposed to resolve disagreements about what the law _should be_ in our country.)

For example, many reasonable people disagree on whether the second amendment's wording is intended to mean that _everyone_ should be able to bear arms, or whether it's intended to mean _only people in a militia_, and there also seems to be some disagreement on what "arms" means. I can see how a reasonable person could interpret it in either way. Such disagreement seems to have been something which the founders themselves shared.

tl;dr: People disagree both on what we currently interpret words in law to mean, as well as on what the _intent_ was when it was originally written.
Top facility company in delhi
I know during that time some of the Samsung phones I had wouldn't charge with any random cable. One (S3 I think) typically required a much higher quality cord (so I had 2 categories of micro USBs) and the s5 used a 21-pin cord (though I believe you could use the micro USB side with a standard cable)
A shaky patch that “just works” but doesn’t have good tests is a time bomb waiting to happen. When a change six months later breaks the shaky patch, who fixes it?

Piling on lots of little bad changes is only possible if you have a good cleanup process (that I’ve never seen, who likes cleaning up bad code that isn’t breaking yet).

I think this may just be different management / development philosophies.
I imagine this could also boost the price of Ethereum and increase usage in general.

Coinbase needs to pivot from the pyramid scheme economics of the early coins and instead focus on transaction volume.
The transactions can be decentralized while the mining is centralized.
along with the bridge?
videogames damaged a man's liver and KILLED him? nah, i don't think so.
If a sketchy charger can brick the phone, I'd consider the phone broken by design.
React vs. Vue: Which is growing faster?
Interesting, have always believed in exercise, but felt marathons were "too much" of a good thing. Should I reevaluate that?
>which has already grabbed and used chunks of memory for page tables you need to not step on.

UEFI supplies you with a memory map that allows you to see what memory is untouchable and large chunks of it can be remapped away into memory regions you don't touch.
Honestly that doesn't look that bad. SQL is a lot weirder in many ways, and I say that as someone who has written a lot of SQL.
Decentralized transactions are distinct from decentralized issuance. Decentralized issuance doesn't matter to most people in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. They have been happy to participate in ICOs where coins are issued from a central authority.

That said, I haven't yet heard anything on how transactions are actually verified (ie. Proof of work vs Proof of Stake)

Edit: It appears to be an Ethereum-based token: https://support.usdc.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600154713...
Actually MongoDB is quite popular in the analytics space. It has a unique trick with Spark/Hadoop where its data gets represented as a single wide table. This allows you to use it as an analytical/ML feature store which is not possible with anything other than Cassandra.

Also not sure where you get the idea dataframes are unique to SQL databases because that's completely wrong. HBase and Cassandra were even the original big data databases and they aren't relational. And Spark can manifest almost any database as a dataframe.
And even for buildings, we have two conventions in use. Plus a debate about whether the ground floor is really a floor, or whether the word "floor" naturally implies something elevated above the ground...
Not to mention the potential liability if a crappy charger overcharges the battery and causes a fire in someone's pocket.
He said incredible memory. But I suppose my point is that it's easier to remember things when you've encountered them many times in your career and been developing so long (over 45 years!).
No, USDC is fee-free. They charge purchase fees on other cryptocurrencies though...
Who is with me to make some iceberg crop circles?

YC - fund a giant helicopter with a laser to cut out elaborate designs in the ice?

I am not saying it's aliens, but...
A software designer ended his life in his parked car in the East Village
The ring by itself could actually be useful.

That said, there's a huge list of failed smart ring companies which /r/shittykickstarters loves shitting on:

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/8j73df/...

https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/6o3xrx/...
I feel like the rise of the "legalish"/"jailhouse lawyer" type person is just a facet of a broader societal trend towards the rejection of expertise.

Experts are gatekeepers, and the whole thrust of the culture over the last few decades has been towards the removal of gatekeepers, towards the "democratization" of everything. Who needs journalism when you have blogs and social media? Who needs doctors when you have WebMD and Goop? Who needs lawyers when you have LegalZoom and YouTube?

The problem, of course, being that experts are called experts because they know stuff that you don't, and as we drive all the experts out of the public square the vacuum left behind as their knowledge departs is being filled by dangerous nonsense. "Democratization" is not proving to be a very good advertisement for democracy.

The less fashionable expertise becomes, the more I find I appreciate it.
The US dollar already is exactly that with square cash or Venmo.
Autocracy
We've got historical precedent for that, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#Steri...

> Sterilization was most frequently recommended by physicians because of a pervasive belief that Puerto Ricans and the poor were not intelligent enough to use other forms of contraception. Physicians and hospitals alike also implemented hospital policy to encourage sterilization, with some hospitals refusing to admit healthy pregnant women for delivery unless they consented to be sterilized. This has been best documented at Presbyterian Hospital, where the unofficial policy for a time was to refuse admittance for delivery to women who already had three living children unless she consented to sterilization. There is additional evidence that true informed consent was not obtained from patients before they underwent sterilization, if consent was solicited at all.
They are both. Without political change, there's little hope but this does not mean technical change doesn't play an important role too (sufficient technological progress could push political change)
> why not switch the root 2048 bit RSA keys, and those TLD-level 1024 bit keys, for ECC keys?

Because this is the first time they ever switched the root key, and they want to observe the effects a bit more first? My prediction assumes that it works and sufficient time will pass. Also, ECC keys are not yet as widely supported by resolvers as RSA keys are. This, too, will require experimentations and time for conversion to be viable.
Shouldn’t providing a safe charging be a charger manufacturer’s responsibility?

Have you seen the manufacturing quality of some of the chargers out there? I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't an effort by Google to prevent a long series of "Google phones explode into flames!" clickbait headlines when ultra-cheap knock-off charging pads start showing up at flea markets.
What Google is doing here is specifically rejecting the chargers that do conform to the standard by tacking on a proprietary handshake.

HP had a similar charging DRM scheme on their first few models with USB-C charging but seems to have dropped it.

Apple has been doing this with non-MFi chargers since iOS 7. A lot of people were mad when the OS update made their perfectly good chargers stop working. Of course now there are clones of the MFi authentication chip and even with a new chip revision Apple can't reject them without also breaking all of the old legitimate chargers. So it completely failed to actually solve the problem anyway.
That article is dramatically inaccurate in many ways, starting with its claim of gold's value not changing over time.
> … it's performance is closer to Java …

You seem to be quoting yourself out-of-context ;-)

In full, you wrote — "… but it's performance is closer to Java, which is a few orders of magnitude slower than C++" — and that is not shown by those measurements.
Depositing and withdrawing money from their system?
I actually prefer a slower charge since it helps the battery last longer. I wish that the charging speed was software-configurable. I also have a samsung Qi charger on my desk, with another by my bed. They slow charge my iPhone, but if I need a quick boost because I’m going back out, I’ll plug it in to an Anker charger. It’d be great if one could do it all: slow charging overnight, with faster charging in the off-hours - it could even be automatic based on what it thinks you want (and learn your habits over time), with a software override.
> Decentralized transactions are distinct from decentralized issuance

Dollars can be transacted, online and offline, through a variety of means ranging from at the Federal Reserve to totally de-centralised.
Agreed. This simulator seems to make a lot of near worst case assumptions and paint with a very broad brush.

For starters:

Lifting 20lb is not going to take a toll on your body unless your body is already beat to crap from something else.

Most people can replace a window. If you don't then you probably know someone who can. Poor people trade semi-skilled labor around as favors all the time.

You don't need to join a gym to stay in shape, especially if your job involves manual labor. You also don't need to stay in tip top physical shape, just don't let yourself get seriously out of shape.

Nobody is doing credit checks for lower end jobs or lower end housing. They care more about your criminal record or lack thereof. If your poor you're either not going to use credit or your credit will be crap. Good credit isn't going to help you dig a ditch or unload a truck so you'll get hired anyway.

The whole point of choosing housing on the rural end of the available options is to reduce the cost of living and not have someone siphon the gas out of your car. In the simulation the shopping selector reflects city prices and the crime happens anyway.

Doing laundry in a sink, tub or 5gal bucket is a perfectly fine option if your washer doesn't work. It also doesn't cost $30 to go to the laundromat. You don't just wear dirty clothes. That's what college kids who've never lived on their own and lose their laundry card do.

I get that the whole point of this game it to make a statement but it paints a picture that seriously undersells the resourcefulness of poor people. It's also very clear that the decision tree in this simulator was written using a set of assumptions about how certain problems be solved and those assumptions were either made in an ivory tower or were designed to mostly go unnoticed to those in ivory towers.

edit: Yes I have had jobs like this. I know exactly what they're like. I've been a janitor, I've worked in food-service, I've done under the table construction, I've worked for a temp agency. I've literally dug ditches and scrubbed toilets (not that bad on average, watch out for the edge cases though). If you expect me to have a lot of sympathy with people who lift 20lb in a 70deg warehouse then you will be disappointed. Yes it's a crappy job that pays poorly and I'm sure it's soul crushing but it's not the pyramid building slave labor that some people like to equate it to. The lack of advancement opportunities (advancement to better paying jobs) in some of these jobs are what I consider the primary reason that people in these jobs can't get out of poverty.
Something that's missing from this article: Since USDC is an ERC20 token based on Ethereum, you'll still need to hold ETH so that you can pay for gas to move the USDC stablecoin token around.

A fiat-world analogy to this would be to imagine if spending Euros required you to hold US Dollars to pay the transaction fees.
Assuming that it's because of global warming, you wouldn't suddenly expect them all to start blooming in september one year. You'd gradually see it happening more and more often, to more and more trees.

That we've seen it before or that it isn't widespread doesn't mean that it's not a problem or a sign of a problem.
Many low income people have smartphones actually, and use them in lieu of desktops. Not being connected isn’t the reason they’re unbanked or underbanked, you could argue moving more to digital would include more of them. Plus the US dollar is already digital.

In part they don’t have bank accounts because they’re poor, so they don’t have money to put in them. If they weren’t broke they’d have bank accounts. IMO this is more a function of wealth inequality in the US than of banking.

Think about it, you’ve got $0. Now I give you a fee free bank account. You’ve still got $0. You’re no more included in the financial system.
IG account hacked – no action from IG
A friend suggested to post here. My IG account got hacked over 3 weeks ago. There is no way to get resolution through their online tools. Any advice?
How are USD backed cryptocurrencies not considered illegal USD surrogates? If they aren't yet, maybe they will be once there's a lawsuit.
Show HN: Websites in 2018
Ok, I see. Still it seems like the dream of cryptocurrency was total decentralization. If the supply is centralized does it matter if the transactions aren’t? It’s still a single point of failure.
> If the unikernel is running as a normal process, all that potentially vulnerable code is still on the box [...]

Correct. Conceptually the same applies to all Type 2 hypervisors. Type 1 less so, but you could still potentially exploit Xen and you have all of the dom0 to play around in.

> The paper suggests using system-call filtering via seccomp or similar to block off this attack surface, but if you trust seccomp to have zero bugs, you might as well do traditional process sandboxing a la Google Chrome.

If you do that, you will have to do a line-by-line analysis of the code you want to sandbox in order to determine exactly which syscalls it's using. With the approach presented in our paper the developer does not need to care about this. For example, she can develop her MirageOS unikernel as a normal UNIX process and switch to a guaranteed-to-work-minimal-seccomp sandbox with a simple change of target (build-time configuration option).

But yes, you are now trusting seccomp instead of KVM. I believe in giving people the ability to easily make that choice.

> The problem unikernels solve is that traditionally [...] can't rely on eg. a shell or a debugger being available to arbitrarily move bytes around.

That part does not change with the sandboxing mechanism changing. The stuff that's inside is still only your unikernel.
And to be fair the USB-C transition is an utter disaster. You can't tell really at all what capabilities a given USB-C device or even cable has by its appearance.

I have a mess of black and white USB-C cables and every time I try to hook up a random USB-C accessory or plug in my USB-C laptop to its 85watt charger I have to check to check if it's charging or transferring data at full-speed. I've resorted to adding a bit of white nail-polish to the cables that I know transfer at full speed and power.

And good luck finding a quality USB-C hub that actually fulfills any of the promises of "only need to plug in one cable to run everything on your laptop at full-tilt."
Do you have another source besides PragerU? They don't exactly have a good record of telling the truth or being impartial on subjects.
Not that I entirely find it convincing, but a reasonable counter-argument is the Samsung-airplane fire situation.

If a model/brand becomes known for catching on fire, that entire model/brand can be easily restricted from things like planes.

So bad chargers and replacement batteries are a potential threat to the reputation of a brand... that said, the problem with Samsung batteries catching on fire was all Samsung's fault.
Missed that. Yes, that makes it plausible as Post and K&E had both ceased production by then and, presumably, most of the cheaper plastic ones were either made in Japan or in places like the Soviet Union for domestic use.
If it helps, the company also did not register for an EIN
In any cae, the charger definitely should only be a PSU. Current, voltage, and temperature during charging should be completely managed by the phone hardware. Otherwise a defective charger can easily destroy the battery, and potentially also your house.

If I'd hazard a guess - assuming it's not only greed - they are either offloading part of that work to the charger for a smaller bill of materials for the phone, or the charger is part of the thermal design.

The higher current for fast charging might generate more heat than the body of the phone can get rid of on its own, and the stand could be engineered to cool down the phone. Almost all cordless power tool chargers have some kind of fan that connects to battery pack cooling ducts to prevent it from overheating during changing.
Appreciate the extra technical details. The conflation is still a useful shorthand in terms of the discussion of the ad in question: it's wording specifically says "replace engineers" with this mechanical computer. You are right, it doesn't need to state "replace [humans] computers with [mechanical] computers" because that is already implied in the name choice.

Whatever the ratio of "over-qualified" human computers were at the time, it was still a non-zero number, and it is useful to remember those "notable stories". Even the "non-over-qualified" members not "notable" enough for memory weren't machines, and you can't claim they had no impact outside of "pure mechanistic tasks"; certainly there was a lot of under-appreciated QA/QC work and inter-personal labor that got shifted around over the years. Any loss of a workforce to automation isn't just "mere" obsoletion, because people aren't machines, and it is good to remember that (conflation, overlaps, or not). Especially for a word like "computer" as opposed to "dishwasher" where we practically never have a reason to "human compute" today, to pull out slide rules and step through some math. (There are still human dishwashers in major restaurants; we still have dishes in our homes that we manually wash in addition to machine washing.)
>I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority.

Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of cryptocurrencies though? After all this authority could selectively blacklist some coins from ever being converted back to their peg currency, effectively rendering them worthless, couldn't they? You couldn't easily launder it away because this authority could decide that if these coins are used in any transaction then the "bad" coins would contaminate the outputs proportionally to their amount in the inputs, so it would mean that people would double check their inputs not to get "bad" money. So it would be effectively like trying to spend fake dollar bills (except that the authenticity verification would be quick, automatic and completely impossible to fake).

That means that on top of trusting the authority to fairly issue the coin you also give it the power to effectively censor transactions.
Easy peasy redux-based state management
As far as my definitions are concerned, they are correct. Nothing is concrete or black and white. Sexuality is complex but arguing over semantics regarding outliers does not make a fact.