skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not free and definitely no support for go. I was actually wondering how objectbox compares to versant but I quickly answered myself: objectbox is designed for low-end loads and iot stuff while versant is more geared towards big databases (ie millions of objects) and concurrent, networked access.

Anyone willing to correct me or add to this is welcome (and please do).
Converting a C++ OpenGL application to WASM with Emscripten (+ interactive demo)
He can, he just can't make copies of them. It's like selling an used book.

In the US, it's called the First-sale doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
> It's a fail-safe.

But it's more dangerous than using a debit card where a stolen card ties up real money during the dispute window.

Also, you can have a credit card limit set low enough that maxing it out still means you can pay it off.
I'm not forgetting those or any other historical scripts. I mentioned those. My comment about the number of users of glyphs was in the context of future new glyphs. The supply of old glyphs is pretty limited, so it's easy to accept them all even if the number of users is minute :)
That actually was a thriving industry for a few years in the 90s.
Last updated in 2003. Seems eerily prescient, most of what it said back then would apply even more so today. All that would be needed is an amendment to 3) so that it also applies for init systems, to bring that list fully up to date.
Very interesting. I always assumed that the SP500 index composition was some sort of loss leader for SP where the brand awareness created by the SP500 name served as proof of legitimacy for some other service.

Never thought the index composition could be a cash cow in itself. Im intrigued at how the IP is protected, in legal terms (i.e. what exactly is copyrighted or patented or trademarked or trade secrets), if you are able to comment on that aspect?
>Other than showing some opaque credit agency that your ok for more credit.

This credit agency determines your ability to rent with a low deposit and your ability to purchase a home with a loan.
> suppose it happens in areas of "pathological science" like infinite energy machines

I'd draw analogies to pyramid-schemes and "multi-level marketing", which are both "successful" but not in a good way.

I feel the collective "blockchain" mind-scape is absolutely dominated by nontechnical aspects, like the idea you can "get rich quick", and the assumption that you can find a "greater fool" to ensure your profit from a dodgy-product or speculative buying. This crowds out "actual engineering" and tends to corrupt whatever is left.
Is Liveness a critical factor in learning Computer Science?
The Ford Escape might be designed for Europe, but it's still designed on top of Mazda designed platform for the Mazda6, primarily using the Duratec/EcoBoost inline-4 engine that's based off a Mazda MZR engine design. EcoSport uses a Ford designed engine, but it's still using the Mazda2 platform. Ford's been partnered with Mazda from 1974-2015 which predates and outlasted Merkur.

The Imapla is on GM's Epsilon platform, which was originally designed by Opel. CT6 is on a completely homegrown platform, which is probably why it's the last car in GM's discontinuation lineup to be discontinued.

They may have had platforms that were designed for the US market, but they weren't the designer.
Credit cards let me finance most of my purchases 20-30 days and the merchants cover the financing costs.

That's not living beyond your means.
US charges ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch with fraud over $11bn sale to HP
I find this to be a little short sighted stufy. Perhaps he should ask the citizens of venezuela if it works? Or people paying taxes in bitcoin in Australia?

No doubt, there is a lot of hype. No doubt, a lot of people, including techies, have lost sight of what is important. No doubt, many in the space are impatient, and do not understand that blockchain development, the real blockchain development is more like development of aircraft frames. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. No doubt, people are trying to apply it where it is not necessary.

There are, however, a plethora of other use cases. The key though, in my opinion, is placing all of it under the hood, invisible to the user except where it is absolutely needed (ie, hi user! here is your wallet).

The truth is that many businesses already run replicated, distributed databases on replicated, distributed servers, and it is plenty fast since they don't have to worry about solving advanced cryptographic math equations for incentive purposes. However, one problem facing generalized platform blockchains, such as ethereum, is that the current entire concept of business and how its modeled is far behind what a blockchain can deliver to a business and its interested parties. The problem, as I see it, is primarily one of control, and secondly, one of trust.. I mentioned the replicated distributed stuff earlier, and I think it safe to say no current business will ever open nodes to outside participants (such as customers, or resellers), or even inside participants (shareholders, employees). Unless shareholders demand it (for instance, to ensure a fair number of shares can ever be created), a completely internalized blockchain is pointless and no more trustworthy to society than what we already have.

Another large problem is obviously power consumption. Every bitcoin maximalist needs to come to the realization that one of the strongest ways the established players will fight a new paradigm is by controlling power costs. For many in the developed world, bitcoin is out of reach, as mining equipment is expensive, and power makes it impossible to turn a profit. The best solution to this is green, _affordable_ energy sources and affordable mining equipment. Proof of Stake is not completely the answer.

Finally, I point to this part of the "study":

> We documented 43 blockchain use-cases through internet searches,

No wonder they got terrible results. Doctors tell patients all of the time to not google your symptoms, it always ends with cancer. Does this mean doctors are a failure?

The established financial systems took a thousand years to formulate into what we know today. Patience is power.
The DOD said in the past a lot of fake chips from China were getting into American systems. It's an inspiration for things like Trusted Foundry Program.
These days, chess players get to find out after the game when they check the all knowing computer. Fifty years ago, even if you played at the highest and most scrutinized levels of chess, you might not find out your move was objectively a mistake for years.
Facebook hasn't been innovative for a long time, though. Not since they copied Snapchat stories on Instagram.
My partner makes 'spare' money arbitraging between TK Maxx and ebay in the UK, she follows all the big fashion vloggers on youtube then buys the stuff she thinks will sell based on spotting trends across them, she frequently makes 100% margin and averages >50% (across everything).

She does it because it's fun and she's bored but so far she's really damn good at it.

I find it funny that someone with an advanced degree in finance spends her spare time doing that but it's a hobby and she makes more than I do playing Chess (which is zero) so I can't laugh.
Yes, for me as well, Firefox in Linux.

I use NoScript and a bunch of other extensions, but disabling them didn't help. And sure, I could have spent more time debugging it, but damn. These are image files!
OpenBSD includes a large number of precompiled packages. In fact you are encouraged to use these rather than compiling from ports unless you have a specific need that isn't met by the standard package.

It's my understanding that most of the other BSDs are similar in this regard, though I don't have first-hand experience.

if you want to stay with Linux, I have heard that Arch is one of the more BSD-like distributions.
> As an "active investor" your competition is HFT algos on servers located as physically close as possible to the stock market in order to achieve superhuman reflexes.

That's usually not true at all. HFT makes up a huge portion of market volume, but for almost all investors is basically negligible to their return, despite what Michael Lewis might scare you into believing. HFT firms make a comparatively small profit in the universe of Wall Street, so they aren't eating your returns.

That's not to say actively managing your money is not difficult. You're mostly competing against sophisticated investors and firms with a far greater capital and knowledge base than you. It's just that in general, the majority of capital being bet against you is not from High Frequency Trading
Satoshi Nakamoto made a post after years of silence?
rms's toenails aside, I'd suggest that every licence is about enforcing a set of views on others. There are plenty of licences to choose from, so it's fairly easy to find one compatible with your own views.

In the context of GP's (beginningguava) comment about 'open source projects' needing to change their licensing to prevent corporations making money by SaaSing various tools, my point was twofold - first, by definition you can't have free software with restrictions like that, and second you'd be merely fighting the symptoms (with little chance of success).

Aside - I'm curious what you mean by the 'open source software development model', as I don't think that's actually a thing.
Isn’t a lot of cost of housing in local labour (building the houses or building the bulk materials like brick or planks locally)

Would prefab housing really help with poverty when the production is suddenly offshored?
Have you ever voted before? Assume 10 questions per company. Exposure to S&P 500 would mean 5,000 questions to answer. I don't know what the general stats are, but some proxies I've seen have 20+ questions.

Now, you will most likely be uninformed about most of the decisions that need to be made, which lead to your 2nd point about default options suggested by the index fund manager. But that just circles back to Bogle's points in the article. Also, with index fund costs at rock bottoms, good luck getting quality research into your voting options.
>Which ones specifically? If they are truly for free then I don't need to pay for them by virtue of having a credit card.

Chargebacks, protection against a stolen card, no real money being tied up during a dispute, etc.

>If they are truly for free then I don't need to pay for them by virtue of having a credit card.

Every consumer is already paying for them because business price in the credit card fees into their retail prices. If you don't get a discount for using cash/debit, you are already paying for this protection.

In the US, by not using a card, you are still paying for the benefits without getting them.
> The primary fallacy of all these blockchain proponents is only seeing problems as technical in nature when they really lie somewhere else. The same applies especially to smart contracts.

This is a great point, especially with smart contracts, the problem of the wet code is massively more complex than that of the dry code.
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The Osmocom project created a GSM baseband codebase already (but it isn't useful for end-users):

https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/

There are LTE modems that run Linux, theoretically the code that runs on them could be rewritten from scratch:

https://osmocom.org/projects/quectel-modems/

In addition there have been many baseband exploits over the years, those could be used to gain access to basebands and reverse engineer everything.
Linux has more drivers for the latest hardware.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=babies%20gene&sort=byDate&date...

Original, 270+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18530906
So far the market has decided that she economics for protecting users and protecting data just isn't there and that's why we see what we see.

That's why GDPR happened. "Ok, if you're not going to do anything about it, we'll make you do something about it."

So you're not taking the economists point of view at least from the perspective of the free market rather you're thinking about which economic levers you could pull to effect change from a regulators point of view.
Unless you're doing old-school serial/modem communication, I can't imagine anyone wanting to use UTF-7.
First, care (2010)
In large company I worked, everything critical go through active directory. Every user is assigned to group/role. Every Server application have it's own entry as well. Every authorisation is audited (app launch, document access, databases access...). The day someone leave badge goes off, mail and every access are freeze.
On a day to day usage you could revoke some or all access of a user, even just block word or a database instance. I've seen friend blocked at the door one morning because an inquiry was in process on their computer usage (it last 2 weeks and the guy was innocent,it was someone from IT who manually installed/modify unknown system files on his computer).
From security standpoint almost nobody have access to production database. Most of the people work on old snapshot or incomplete extract.
In another company. If you do a request on sensitive database (select * from customer), a security guard come to your office ask you to stay away from keyboard. Then the office manager is called to ensure that your work is legit.
I gave a copy of Leisure Suit Larry to a friend in late primary school (I guess I was 12). His parent called my Dad and had a whinge and he basically laughed at them.

Ah, good times.
The problem with this argument is that you're assuming that there's more offer than demand, when in fact is the opposite. This is why tech companies push hard for the H1-B program.

It's possible that there's a large body of citizens with technical degrees that theoretically could fulfill those jobs, but that doesn't mean that they have the skills or the applied knowledge to perform at the standards required for those jobs. People like to poke at this argument, but any technical person knows that claiming that you know a technology (e.g: a programming language) doesn't equal to being great at working with that technology.

Every company has the right to enforce a hiring standard and most top companies will have a very high one. I don't think this has to do at all with formal education but rather with experience and skill. This applies to anyone regardless of nationality or origin.

Anecdotically, some of the best American born programmers I have met in my life, don't have an undergrad degree or dropped before graduating. They are all employed at top companies and have always managed to stay employed and keep growing their incomes steadily.

Either way, H1-B is a mess and should change for the benefit of everyone affected directly and indirectly by it. This means American workers, internation students, foreign talent and companies.
Also a dev on loki-network, we have $4.1+ million USD so far invested in relays (and potentially exits). It's layer 3 (so think more like i2p) but newer crypto and much better latency.

A good overview of the project is here:
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/blob/master/doc...

other docs here:
https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/blob/master/doc...

Join our test-net now:
https://discord.gg/eB8k6xQ or #llarp on freenode
you can invite people from outside your org to meetings, but yes, it's not a purely public service. Duo and Allo are still out there though.
If the participants trust each other not to gang up on a minority but otherwise don't trust each other then BFT consensus is appropriate. As the OP said, that's around 1% of cases but maybe those cases are valuable.
Quantum Entanglement with 10B Atoms
The question really isn’t about whether serverless runs on servers or not. It’s about whether the workflow still feels like dealing with your own servers or not. In some ways, yes it still feels like that and in other ways, such as scaling up and load balancing, it doesn’t as much.
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How technology can help combat loneliness and social isolation
Electromagnetic Defense Task Force Report [pdf]
> No, they will tend to discriminate against low-income people.

Even this is disputed. The conservative argument is that existing regulations make it more difficult to operate a business, so more of the people who would otherwise have their own small business are stuck working a dead end job for someone else, or are unemployed because the small business they would have worked at was destroyed.

Better for the same person to have a $60,000/year job than a $30,000/year job plus $15,000 in government assistance.
There should be a big FAT warning in the mysql/mariadb docs that "utf8" should NEVER be used, and "utf8mb4" is likely the intended use... A future full version cut should probably change the alias for "utf8" to the proper implementation.

Came across this the last time I used mysql, fortunately before it was too far into the project. In any case, every time I've ever used mysql, there's something that pisses me off about it. Like indexing on a BINARY field is using case-insensitive comparisons, like it's actually text.
Could iOS vs. Android be understood as a faint echo of BSD vs. Linux?
Well I think the goal is to line it up when you do have a job.
But that's just running a business poorly and you'll likely lose customers over it.
How does the blockchain keep brokers from lying?
In my experience that only comes into play with Laptops. FreeBSD supports pretty much any server or desktop hardware an organization or person has. Also FreeBSD has never made Laptop support a goal of the operating system, FreeBSD is primarily a server operating system for which it does a great job.
Every successful cryptocurrency has had protocol upgrades which require governance and I imagine private blockchains will be similar. You can't just let it run. So if you have an industry organization to perform ongoing governance of the blockchain then it is probably cheaper to have that organization run a database.
The tour is free, but yeah, I had to pay transportation for myself and the guide (who I arranged online after some googling). The actual site is fairly far from central Tokyo, so it's about a 20-30 dollar train fare.

The guide himself was free, a nice older gentleman who used to be some sort of government liason. He insisted on taking a taxi for the 2 miles from the train station to the tour though, which was pricey. But I didn't have much of a choice (despite a whole face-saving false choice he offered of walking vs taxi that was deeply emblematic of a certain strain of Japanese cultural weirdness).
The big companies with huge pockets will set up shop in small low CoL places and squeeze out smaller research companies out of talented graduate students in high expertise niche fields like research in EE, AI etc. They will be able to outbid anyone local easily since they're already paying a lot for them in SF/NYC/DC/Seattle/Portland/Austin etc.
Putting lies into a blockchain doesn't make them true. Lettuce can still kill you in a post-blockchain society.
Wikipedia has themes and also lets you add whatever custom CSS you want to your account.

My personal favorite is WiTeX, which makes Wikipedia look like a LaTeX document [1].

[1] https://github.com/AndrewBelt/WiTeX
IMO it's a combination of multiple factors. Chasing short term profits definitely plays a role, but there are other cultural factors. An adversarial relationship with labor[1]. Over-reliance on inspection processes to catch production issues. Poor engineering culture that focuses on individual issues as they occur instead of taking a systems-level view. Over-reliance on metrics and KPIs. Performance review criteria that incentivize ignoring or under-reporting issues[2].

Also note that fuel pumps may not be the best example. American manufacturing of mechanical components has gotten a lot better over the past couple of decades. But electronic components are the new opportunity to repeat the mistakes of the pasts.

[1] Watch https://youtu.be/qg8bbFwZLMA?t=1760 through about 44:20, which is an decent overview (although the explanation of Kaizen focuses too much on efficiency). Compare the description of the Japanese relationship with labor to how labor is usually treated in the US. Also notice from 36:40 on how much focus is put on technology versus process (although that may be forgiven since it is a TV show).

[2] For example, in theory you may say your employees have the authority to stop production if they notice an issue. But if the line workers are graded on how many parts they produce, and the engineers are graded on how much downtime there is, nobody is going to report anything.
I haven’t even tried that because that sounds like an infinite retry scenario waiting to happen.
I mean, the government choose the term. So it actually is their fault if people don't live to see the end of the term, even if the human lifespan itself is not their fault.
people at war with each other that still need to have a relationship with each other

So Wall Street banks?
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https://m.imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed

Is NIST correct?
Marriott security breach exposed data of up to 500M guests (Update)
What will happen to Google voice texting through hangouts?
This is why I respect psychologists who test ideas most people consider common sense, even if the results confirm the common sense.

It's like RSVPing to your sister's wedding: it seems obvious, but making it official helps the rest of the planning.
Take a look at NixOS. Everything is precompiled, but only until you start changing packages (configure flags and what not).
Yes it can really work wonders but it’s also easy to use recreational. Had a friend who only does cocaine as he loves being in control and hated on mdma... he is also the most negative person I ever knew and would usally end up in a fight anytime he walked out the door... he blames his ptsd. One time we got him to do mdma anyway and he changed to the most positive guy over nite... sometimes accused us of being negative suddenly even though that used to be his middle name. It had that effect for 1-2 months untill he was back to his old self.