skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're probably on to something.

However, just as many people can hop in to web development and quickly create value (or at least CRUD apps), you still need really experienced people with a breadth of knowledge to push the field/work on really complicated or large scale systems.

It's the same for AI/ML/DL. Basically anybody can train an image classifier right now, but only a handful of teams on earth understand computer vision well enough to attempt to tackle self driving cars.
Product idea: Key debouncer, a program that listens to key presses and corrects input. If a character was repeated within x milliseconds, it reduces the input to a single instances of the character. Ideally it debounces the input before any key events are passed on to other programs.
Adding on - look at recently closed PRs and see if they get reviews like you're looking for. If not - keep looking until you find a project at the intersection of your skills and desire for feedback. This will take a fair bit of work, but it's worth it.

And of course - don't take things too personally, but also don't take them too seriously either. Plenty of open source projects have drive-by "code reviewers" that nitpick everything without contributing themselves. All things in moderation
Aren't you asking a bit too much info for a simple SEPA transfer ? The IBAN should be all you really need, the rest are nice to have.
Yea using adb/oemunlock. Sometimes you have to get a code (like with Sony, you input your IMEI number into their website and get one). I've had one Sony that was unlockable; a condition of the original cell provider.

Still, it's bizarre considering you can install Linux on any PC/laptop you buy.

The bigger issue of course, is that you can't just install Linux on a phone. They're all random pins soldered to random chips and all use patched to hell Kernels with binary blobs. Linux distros can release images that are designed on boot on x86/x86_64/PPC/Sparc and they'll booth up and install on most of those machines. That's impossible with nearly all Android/ARM devices.

PostmarketOS is trying to change that from the other direction, but Librem is a huge step in giving developers embedded hardware that doesn't require carefully modified and patched kernels/bootloaders.
This is huge systemic risk (the possibility that an event at the company level could trigger severe instability or collapse an entire industry or economy).

When the systems in major Nordic bank (Nordea, Danske Bank) or payment system (Visa, MasterCard) goes down, people can't do anything until it's fixed. These things are rare but they happen. Usually it's just few hours, but if the condition persists even few days it becomes a major problem.

Mobile payment and cards are nice, but cash is good backup system.
It was never an analogy. I'm saying that a website should be like a website. Just like a book is like a book. And like books, websites have a purpose that determines their design.

A website can indeed be many different things, but a lot of websites have very similar purposes, so it makes every kind of sense that websites with the same purposes end up looking similar. Just like cars look alike. Or houses.

Of course websites with a different purpose are going to look very different.
It is seems based on the classic trick of inventing an enemy ready to be defeated...
Cough. What company is this? I was looking into getting my Masters but would be much nicer if somebody was paying for it.
Definitely interesting stuff. Do you know of real world tasks where these sorts of models have proven more useful than non TC models?
Misleading title alert!!! It says nothing about it's being a utopia or having stopped being one. It is an interesting article about the eventuality of a truly cash-free society and its consequences. Only the title is stupid.
If a band plays in the woods and no one hears them should we talk about it?
So Jobs’ plan was to...trick the market into thinking it wanted thin laptops?
Other cryptos are fully anonymous & untraceable. For example zcash uses zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) to conceal all elements of a transaction (sender, receiver, amount.)
No, it is like saying news.ycombinator.com has a monopoly because it is 100% of the Hacker News market.

PS: We really need a community-backed hackernews.org
Because of complexity to set up, or because of cost? Given how pricey the TCs were, I'd think that buying an external drive would actually be cheaper.
Normal speaking speed is 150 words per minute, which when recorded equals to a ~1MB M4A file. I typically send 7-minute audio recordings, meaning roughly 1,000 words or about 2 pages of A4 text.

Rather than getting slammed with a wall of text, the recipient of my audio message can listen to it as they're driving, cooking or eating breakfast. Human voice is expressive and the audio message conveys nuance that gets lost texting. Finally, all text messages are being monitored in some fashion but I do believe audio recordings are still relatively safe and private.
True, but that doesn't weaken his point.
Crude prototype: Use macOS text corrections (System settings > Keyboard I think), e.g. “ff” is corrected to “f”, “fff” to “f”, etc.
Why is there a substantial heat sink on what's supposed to be packaged down to the size of a smartphone?
I don't think anybody truly believes "customers don't care at all" like your example illustrates.

But I think it's fair to say customers don't care about the last 2-3mm of thickness that Apple is sacrificing the ability to repair in order to squeeze out.
So... the perfect programming language has error-prone manual memory management and rampant undefined behaviour (well at least it can build the code to crash instead of “nasal deamons”)? Yeah right.
> but I'm pretty sure the reason they made this change is that they're no longer selling that many.

46.89M units last quarter is not that many?
PhD in Computer Engineering with MSc in AI/ML here. Happy to do remote work for your bank :)
You don't necessarily need a connection. It can work just as well with a QR code signature that the recipient uses later to broadcast the transaction.
Hi, harveyspec! My name is Robert and I actually went to Holberton School (Cohort 4) with no prior coding experience. I also felt like the school was sketchy when I first heard of it too, because who offers no tuition until you get a job? After attending, I can guarantee you it's not sketchy.

Honestly, I don't know who those people are that you're linking to. I've never seen or met anyone at school with those names, so I don't know what that's about. Every students code is actually on Github, so I'm not sure where you were looking. We host all of our code on GitHub publicly so anyone can see them. A lot of the reason that people who started in 2017 don't have tech jobs (I started in Sept 2017) is because we finished the first 9 months recently and are in the process of interviewing OR decided to move on to the 2nd year of the curriculum.

As for my experience: I had a wonderful time. I started in, as I said earlier, September 2017 with a class size of 35. I ended up graduating the first 9 months at the end of June with a class size of 25. Some of these people went down a Cohort to Cohort 5, and some of them dropped out due to personal reasons. No one was actually dropped from my Cohort due to bad performance. I put in my time and worked roughly 12 hours a day (sometimes shorter, sometimes longer) during the first 9 months at school. This allowed me to learn everything, use it, and commit it to knowledge. I then started preparing for interviews and actively applying during the 3 month break between the first 9 months and the last year. I ended up getting an offer letter before year 2 started, so I took it. Now I have a full-time software engineering job at my current company!

Benefits: I've met CEO's at big companies like LinkedIn and Docker, and I have friends in all of the major companies. I've also met the celebrities that you are referring to, which was nice. I genuinely just find it really exciting to be here at this time and to have such a huge network after going to Holberton.

I do agree with downrightmike though on 1 case: burnout. Holberton will take up LITERALLY all your time for 9 months, so be prepared for that if you decide to attend, but it was totally worth it. It's one giant stamina race, and you are always doing something. And when there aren't any projects to work on, you should be going to meetups and networking. That's what allowed me to get where I am.

Overall, Holberton is amazing (in my opinion) and I realize I am falling into your "long-winded answer" stereotype, but it's just because I like it so much. My suggestion: go through the application process and see if you enjoy it. If you enjoy it, then I think it would be a good fit. Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/RobertMalmstein) if you have any more questions.
The article says clearly that they are trying to figure out a stored value card. If they do, the only chilling part is if the means of exchanging it was somehow unobtainable.

It's worth remembering that cash is no clear panacea. Germany's inflation made it unworkable. Some countries have arbitrarily changed currency. Its value is based on agreement.

A true e-currency would have different problems. It would not necessarily be bad.
Email Authentication: Essential for Security and Deliverability [video]
> Social media and ad tech are currently intertwined. Facebook and Twitter are both two large players who are both ad tech and social media based. Google was until recently, and that was after years of failure

Social media was never an important part of Google's business.

> Can you name another large social media company who doesn't make money off of ad tech?

Wrong set containment. Yes, social media functions on ad tech. Bullets function on momentum. So what? Ad tech does a lot of things, social media is just one of many, many things it is used for. You are decrying ad tech as 'destroying the world', by pointing at a sliver of its use cases. You're not upset with ad tech, you're upset with social media.

> You were responding to the well known phrase "destroying the world" as if it was physically tearing the earth apart, when it's been a phrase for destroying the currently accepted social norms since at least the 90s when I first heard it in popular media.

Erm, no. I was using the phrase exactly how you are. My question, as you went back and reviewed, is whether or not the ONLY thing that ad tech is doing is destroying the world? I didn't even object to the silly insinuation that it was in fact, doing so.

> If you want to have a discussion stop being disengenous about your arguments

I'm not being disingenuous, you just need to work on your reading comprehension.

> Edit: I went and reviewed the thread. You asked "You think that all tech is doing is destroying society?". When I said "Yes", you asked for the physics of how it was destroying the world. Please stop moving the goal posts

I didn't ask if it was destroying the world. I asked if all it was doing was destroying the world. You still haven't answered the physics question, either. Ad tech is a business model for social media.

If you want to tar 'ad tech' with the sins of social media, then you need to assert that social media can only exist because of ad tech, and that the other things enabled by ad tech (e.g. google search) would be worth giving up in exchange for eliminating social media. Otherwise you're just saying "Bullets rely on momentum and bullets kill people! Therefore momentum is bad!".
If you can't use mainline Linux and/or have no GPU acceleration that's no use at all.

It's sort of theoretically useful whilst being practically pointless unless you want to produce your own OS.

How do I get into a Linux userland with X11 and a touch driver on my Galaxy Note 8? The answer is pretty much "write it all yourself, quickly before the hardware becomes obsolete".

I hope that the librem5 gains traction for that reason alone - producing a critical mass of developers.
I tried using ReasonML for a blockchain project, and I just couldn't get past being able to express this logic of interacting with a third party library:

```
const contract = new web3.eth.Contract(ABI, contractAddress, {from})
```

in ReasonML easily, despite spending hours on trying to figure it out. At the end I finally reached to a feature request asking to be able to do 'new' on member functions, and it was in 'planning'.

On the other hand Elm's approach to JS interop seemed to be far superior for quirks like these. Javascript code lives on the other side of the border, and Elm code on this. You don't have to create a type for the whole class of the third party library, just the data you want Elm to manage.
Thankfully it's not possible thanks to the wait time :-)
TL;DR: An argument for (with an included example spec) a protocol that solves many of the problems that graphql solves but at the REST layer (e.g. rather than ontop of the REST layer).

(As a personal aside: The difference between this spec and GraphQL is relatively minor, they seem equally complex in implementation details (e.g. correctly implementing a graphql server/resolvers is no cakewalk; and correctly implementing either in a less-programming-time way would require a large amount of meta-programming; something that this spec doesn't necessarily solve, or even seem to hint at, yet uses as an argument for it), the only real improvement is that this one is a layer lower (theoretically one less layer of abstraction/indirection improves performance and simplicity) and is not owned by Facebook).
Is that more convenient than a bank transfer? Now the other party needs to sign up to a bitcoin exchange.
Okay so my first thought was, why would the venues care, don't they have the ticket money anyway. Is there something I am missing about how these things are arranged, such that the venue doesn't get paid if people don't show up? If so, why?
I did my first public speaking about a week ago. I was anxious for several days ahead of the event but once I started talking the anxiety subsided. I’d recommend everyone try public speaking.
The title matches the comments here in stupidity.
There are other 'ecosystems', but hey if you want to limit yourself to two crappy choices then go right ahead.
My "music festival colleagues"? :P

Joking aside, sure, crypto would be a great solution if they were already using it. They weren't however, and trying to introduce someone half-drunk and in a party vibe to crypto is not a good idea.

If I had asked them to use crypto afterwards I would just have imposed a lot of extra work on them, which wouldn't be nice considering they did me a service by lending to me and blindly trusting me to send it back.
There is also SC ( https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699 ) and the similarly named https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

But I'm happily reaching out to gawk most of the time for CSV processing.
Not really a preprocessor per se, but look into JSS. Since it’s just JavaScript, you could use the object syntax you asked about.
Yes tables in org mode are very nice
Absolutely you're right, there's more to it than just parental & peer expectations. That's why there's still variance in outcomes despite the presence or lack of expectations. Another significant factor is what's been termed "grit", with multiple methods of measuring it, none perfect but still useful. There's no perfect way of determining long term outcomes, there's just too many confounding factors, and it's a chaotic system. It's why even "aptitude" tests like the SAT are actually very limited in the scope of what they claim to predict: not long term outcomes, only correlation with 1st year success in college, and imperfect at that (HS GPA is generally as powerful or more powerful than such tests, though predictive power is increased when both are used together.) And the further out in time you go, the weaker the "signal" is from such tests, the more you see variance in outcomes from the same initial conditions, due in part to those initial conditions capturing only a part of the picture, and due in part to the many intervening factors that happen after the initial conditions are observed.
> The data on close-quarters constant second-hand smoke (working in bars, having a partner that smokes) is sketchy

Okay, but the data on smoking is not sketchy at all, so it’s not a stretch to suggest that constant exposure to second hand smoke in a poorly ventilated environment is comparable to smoking. Unfortunately there’s no way to set up a classical controlled experiment to test that hypothesis ethically, so we have to make do with other experimental setups and data analysis.

We do have studies that assess the affects of air pollution in cities, so surely we can come up with some way of extrapolating, no?

> It's also a convenient piece of do-nothing legislation for local politicians to campaign on

Sure - cigarette smoke does not smell good to non-smokers so it’s an easy win these days since most people don’t smoke.

I’m just trying to come up with a way of legislating these things based on our best abilities to make conclusions based on data rather than feelings, but I feel as though the onslaught of information brought about by the internet is making it harder to disseminate the wheat while more disseminate the chaff. Not to mention all the ways one can make feelings look like data.
I also wish they would embrace Vala as the language for the apps. ElementaryOS has had pretty decent success so far building an app ecosystem and the choice of Vala has contributed to that
you're complaining about how i'm not understanding your beliefs in exactly the way that you want to be interpreted, so the only recourse you have is to turn away and act as if my interpretations ultimately don't matter, which is exactly in line with your stated belief that meaning is internal. i won't see you the way you see yourself, so now i'm wasting your time and making extreme statements, and there's nothing you can do about it except close yourself off.
I've heard that too, but my bank (Sbanken, normally a good user friendly bank) wouldn't let the payment go through without all the fields filled out.
The payment processor makes pennies from your business. If doing business with you ever costs them more than pennies - if it costs them dollars, or hundreds of dollars, or thousands of dollars, or more - they're going to drop you.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/9/18079880/paypal-proud-boy...

Sorry, legitimate transactions! We reject you!
That’s festival payment done wrong, but cashless can be really great at festivals.

In Denmark we have a festival called Skanderborg festival, and they build both your ticket and your cashless payment into the festival bracelet.

You use the bracelet to pay everywhere, and you can add money to it a range of payment methods, from using a visa or similar in their app, to visiting one of the cash places where you can use an atm and then add funds to your bracelet.

It’s easily the best payment experience I’ve ever had at a festival.
I think this is a bit of a disingenuous comparison. That ThinkPad looks to be around the mid 1990s (maybe early 2000s?). Meanwhile, if you looked at a modern ThinkPad (regardless of your opinion on Lenovo as a company), the keyboard is still category-leading, the weight is almost identical to a MacBook in the same class, and the thickness likewise. Look at, say, the X1 Extreme.

Replaceable RAM and SSD. 4.06 pounds. The MBP 15" is 4.03 pounds.

Now, the keyboard definitely isn't as good as it was (RIP old keyboard, may you rest in peace), but it's definitely still very competitive.
>> main selling points of cryptocurrencies: no authority can prevent a user from sending or receiving bitcoins, or ether, etc.

Until you realize that >90% of Bitcoin hashing power is controlled by a handful of Chinese guys, and those guys are probably controlled (or can be easily coerced into cooperation) by Chinese totalitarian government.
Isn’t HN social media the same way Reddit is?
It removes the entire second paragraph. It takes about 5mn to do a SEPA bank transfer: open banking client, open transfers, create new transfer, enter destination IBAN, enter amount, optionally set a data & some text, confirm.
Without the network, another recipient wouldn't know about that transaction and thus be susceptible to a double-spend, right?
I quit my Facebook account in April and have not looked back. I connect with people in Signal, Twitter, Slack and LinkedIn. Quitting Facebook felt like uninstalling a program which was eating up a lot of ram in my life.
"If I take your argument and extrapolate until it sounds absurd, then it sounds absurd, therefore your original argument is invalid."

Sorry, I'm not buying it.
What medicine can I take a couple days before I'm feeling symptoms that will reduce my risk of a full blown infection?
How can you be so sure that the result won’t be mass structural unemployment?

I agree with you about investment in education, healthcare, etc., but those things won’t pay the rent and buy groceries I’d there aren’t enough jobs.
> Utopia my ass

It actually IS a Utopia, by Thomas More's original definition; a society that appears idyllic and perfectly organised on the surface, but is only maintained in that state by everyone doing what they're supposed to do. And that is achieved by enforcing total compliance through surveillance and coercion.

The point of the book is that the reader really wouldn't want to live in Utopia once he understands the misery it requires.
As a Swede living abroad it felt like travelling back in time 20 years when I moved. Suddenly my pockets were filled with metal again and notes that had to somewhat match up to what I was spending. I assume OP feel the same way every time he goes abroad.
The Age of Exploration (1994) [video]
Thinness drives sales. Sacrificing reliability drives sales. It's not only Apple: look at Microsoft, for example.
My MacBook Air's keyboard never broke (I've had 2, kept them for 2-3 years each.
- Some old rs/6000;

- Some Sun Ultrasparc based;

- Some DEC/Compaq Alpha based;

- Some HP Itanium based;
Is there case law that supports or refutes the interpretation s of that that would make this illegal?
200+ comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18414001
Because it's a platform under active development, and they're probably more concerned with functionality than some super sexy tiny cooling solution? At some point they'll most likely test the production cooling system, but for now it probably doesn't matter. You'd be surprised how many things (cooling, PCBs, etc) are much larger early on than their production counterparts...
Throw on the capability to also detect if a word is missing a character that was typed but not registered and I think you're positioned well for an eventual Apple acquisition.
Yes, it is a good sign that people are listening to different perspectives. I’d be more concerned if tech leaders lived in sealed bubbles.
Hope you're willing to pay $x0,000 to amortize the design / code / build cost over a smaller-than-Samsung userbase then.
Swc-project/swc: Babel port in Rust
This is explained in the article, too.
In the last 3 months, we have built the new version of our API in Golang, the old one was in rails. The api serves a mobile app and a web app.

Despite taking longer to build, it's a treat to work on Golang. The explicit error handling and static typing have made our code much more reliable, with a lot less unit/integration tests required. Concurrency is dead easy to understand and build over. We are OK with using dep, definitely miss a debugger or an REPL. Having generics would make it much easier to write code. But overall it was worth it. Our response times are much lower now with a lot less server nodes required.
Fascinating. I wonder if the reverse could be found. That is areas where educated "elites" were decimated and education level plummeted.
This post, and posts about this post, have been reshared plenty since 2011. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=yegge&sort=byPopularity&prefix...
Cheat sheet of Linux performance tools
What a Ban on E-cigarette Flavors Could Mean for Big Tobacco?