skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To some degree the block chain is not 100% reliable, there is a vanishing but nonzero likelihood that you are not on the correct chain of maximal likelihood. You can calculate this likelihood and feel settled that your ledger transaction is "secure enough" after some time has passed. One could imagine a trusted oracle system that operates on similar "eventually vanishing lack of confidence" principle if the oracle's actions are generally, independently verifiable.

It will of course be less scalable than the blockchain itself as a generalization.
Inbox was a tragedy. It’s very effective at separating stuff I care about from stupid junk. Unfortunately it greatly reduced the time I spent looking at email. Fantastic for me, awful for ad impressions.

The new gmail is ok I guess. It’s not substantially different from Mac inbox for me to care. Either way I’ll spent some time scanning subject lines and senders. I might be an outlier though.
If you could only get Team Fortress 2 hats or whatever with Bitcoin, that's one thing. People have been exchanging it for USD. Since it doesn't have any intrinsic value (it's not like a concert ticket or gold) outside of a medium of exchange and a store of value, comparing it with other currencies is completely fair.
There's not a lot of "discipline" that goes into paying off your credit card each month (in the sense of practice); my credit card auto-debits from my checking account at the end of the month to pay off the full balance for that billing period, so I passively pay for my purchases shortly after making them. The only way I lose money to interest is if I actively decide to log into my account and tell the system to stop paying my balance, which is something which would be bad on a variety of levels and doesn't appeal to me tremendously, so I guess it requires discipline for me to stay out of credit card debt in the same sense that it requires discipline for me to refrain from shoving a chunk of lard into my mouth.

At a minimum, you could benefit from having a credit card that you just use to pay for a monthly subscription (e.g. Netflix, Github, Patreon) and just not use it for any other expenses; stuff it in a drawer and forget about it, or physically destroy the plastic if you don't want the temptation. (Heck, you could probably even request that your credit card have a $15 limit if you want to ensure it never gets used for anything other than your Netflix subscription.)

>(btw I'm in the EU, so I don't get the obsession with CC in the USA)

I wouldn't say that Americans are "obsessed" with credit cards any more than they're "obsessed" with shampoo. Which is to say, yes, there are some people who care a great deal about hair care products and have five different bottles in their shower, but for a lot of people it's just a basic fixture of living that you're kind of expected to deal with and isn't really in people's minds. Yes, I use it every day, but I'm not a credit card enthusiast any more than I'm a shower enthusiast.
A direct democracy might make sense for any issue on which most citizens are both well enough informed to make a decision, and also motivated. But not even full-time parliamentarians can stay informed on most of them, so they need subcommittees and so forth. Given how many issues come up for governments to deal with, some amount of division of labor seems better. Not that our current representative democracy does not have plenty of issues of its own...
> this will be an entirely positive change that could save millions of lives

A censored search engine will save millions of lives? Reads like propaganda to me.

> DragonFly will probably be the largest step to democratizing information

Democratized information... with Chinese characteristics.
Interesting you mention CGI; I built https://bigcgi.com (https://github.com/bmsauer/bigcgi) primarily to address the issue of "any language" in FaaS environments.

Seeing this takes away one of my biggest comparative advantages, but I'm happy to see that at least I was not wrong in thinking this feature would be important for developers.

CGI still has the advantage of being an open standard, locally testable, and not vendor specific.
> They may have been labeled "lazy" or "space-cadet" without being offered any practical support

Yep. For the longest time I just thought that I was lazy and disorganized and that all the "brains" everyone said I had were useless because I just made stupid mistakes continually. Everyone knew I had issues, including myself, but because everyone just thought I was forgetful and lazy the only help I got was well-meaning advice from friends and self-help books.

The really fun part: other people have stated in this thread that therapy, absent pharmaceutical assistance, has effectively no value for ADD. I believe it. All of the advice I got and tried, over a decade and a half of real effort, had about as much of an effect as spitting into a hurricane. People's personal organisational tricks are woefully insufficient for ADD, just like with every other real mental health problem in existence.
A) Studies have shown that if a person takes threshold amounts anxiety can happen. This applies to other psychedelic-like substances as well. One doesn't want to take too little, but also not too much! 80mg - 120mg is the sweet spot.

B) Was is pure? Unless you're sure, it was likely cut with something.
Well that's an interesting discussion, but not one the OP is having.

Google employees post letter saying DragonFly enables human rights violations.

OP posts letter saying DragonFly creates an alternative to baidu's fraudulent and dangerous advertising, and that this is a reasonable response to the letter.

It sounds like the op thinks that Baidu's advertising and human rights violations are either related, or somehow interact.
Git is a DAG where each child of a hashed node is equally valid. For transactions and assets, what we need is a linked list (a chain) and therefore, some rule like "the longest chain is the TRUE chain".
I don't see Google voice going away since it's the service they use for the home phone add-on with fiber.

The point of this shutdown (and the Google+ shutdown) is that the services are going away for consumers, ie. moving to completely focus on GSuite integration. Google voice is still in the "Additional Google services" category and doesn't have GSuite integration beyond call-in Hangouts, so I doubt they will abandon their fiber
G Voice customers any time soon.
> How can this many brilliant people work on an area for this long and produce almost nothing of value?

To be fair, it made some folks who got lucky and bought in early nice and wealthy. Which then attracted a gaggle of shysters, hucksters and fraudsters.

When you drill down the key thing that gets people sucked in to Satoshi's Blockchain, it is naked greed. Everything layered on top about the technology, or "DLT" or whatever buzzwords these people spout is just window dressing. All of them want to Get Rich Quick and drive off into the sunset in a lambo from their bitcoin gainz.
That's it. Satoshi is obviously Elon Musk.
Mobile/Cell technologies work better when not all stations are "visible" from each other - as the channel access control in 802.11 is fundamentally peer-to-peer (even with an AP)

Some of the major outdoor WiFi companies (Ubiquiti, Miktrotik) etc started out with 802.11 then moved to cellular-style (TDMA etc.) methods for this reason.
> Because presumably that means that if someone guesses or steals my password, they now own my house.

You'll register your private keys with a PKI. In practice the worst case scenario would be needing to go to the DMV to register your new phone or something.
Hi from the UK, where I am currently getting a little tired of having to explain the difference between ochlocracy and democracy(1) to people who keep insisting that 52% is 'the will of the people' and that to not immediately fall in line behind that 52% is to be a traitor to the country and an enemy of democracy itself.

(1)The 'demos' being all the people and the 'ochlos' being the mob.
Even traditional Gibsonian cyberpunk isn't really as dystopian as it is often presented as. I remember an interview with William Gibson where he said the fact that he assumed that there would be a civilization, even a flawed one, in the mid 21st century, was optimistic given that he was writing in the 1970s and 1980s when it was widely assumed that we would likely nuke ourselves into extinction in a few years.
As a person from New Zealand without an advanced degree (from anywhere) but with 30+ years industry experience (and previously granted an H-1B in 2001), this seems like the wrong way to tackle the problem of Indian body shops.

I was selected in this year's lottery in April and am still waiting for them to start processing the case -- according to their web site it could easily take until sometime in February, ten months after submitting the paperwork. Thank goodness I'm able to do contract work for the company remotely in the meantime.

As for pushing US salaries down ... my salary is well into six figures, thank you. And was, even in my previous job, in Moscow.

If you want to hinder the Indian meat market companies, how about putting in a per country quota, as there is for Green card?

Or, just get moving with the proposed increase in the minimum salary from $60k to $130k. I'm above that already, but apparently most of the Indians aren't.

And the processing times are criminal. It's probably going to be a year from submitting the paperwork until actually moving to the US -- and with six months of the three years of the visa (starting October 1) already gone.

Getting the Russian equivalent "Highly Skilled Specialist" visa (3 years, plus one 3 year renewal, minimum salary 2 million rubles a year) only took two months.
How well do Quora ads work?
>This is the rest of the developed world standing up and saying they don't want to be involved in aiding an oppressive regime.

By the rest of the developed world you mean a small and loud subset of Google employees?
For business conference calling they have meet, which is pretty similar to Hangouts for that purpose and is what we use at my office for conference calls.

I've never tried to make a call to a single person with Hangouts because Snap, FaceTime, and others are better. They also had another app that competes with Snap and FaceTime; I don't recall the name.

So, seems like their shutting down something that's already been replaced by their own tech.
You can finanace an iPhone for basically 0%.. and it could last you 5+ years. Example are the iPhone 5s that are still quite usable.
I see two possible readings of your comment, which are almost opposites. One is that we should all learn to deal with this much data about ourselves being exposed. The other is that the root cause here was how much data they collected about us in the first place.

I really don't understand why so many companies think they need so much information about me. Or even if they do need it, why such disparate data as passport numbers, credit card numbers, email address, gender, and home address would be stored in the same database.

Is there a law that requires hotels to collect all this data? I've stayed at some cheap motels where they glanced at my driver's license and accepted a couple of $20 bills, and I got a key, and that was the entire transaction.
This is different. The engineering team provided those questions so that the recruiters stop wasting their time on people who have no chance at all. They're just implementing the filter. HR themselves did not come up with any of them, and don't make the decisions. Also, recruiting and HR are not quite the same function.
Sounds like you’re referring to Foundation and/or FontAwesome? Even though Foundation requires JS for some features, you can definitely use the CSS version only, even to get advanced features like the x-y grid.
Did anyone notice how fast this one disappeared off the first page?
I ask why this happened?
Taking it as a legitimate discussion I see nothing here violating any " approach to comments" or " site guidelines"
It's only been ten years and it takes on average around 40 years for a new technology to become useful. And this technology is much bigger and more complicated than the average new breakthrough technology, like the semiconductor or whatever.
Laughed out loud. Have some karma.
Since we are throwing out random theories, I feel fairly confident that Satoshi Nakamoto lives on the East Coast of the United States and is unlikely to ever touch any of his previously used accounts.
There is something already like this: http://www.reversebeacon.net/main.php

I use this to see if my antenna is effectively transmitting any kind of signl: http://www.reversebeacon.net/main.php

The devices, which are spread all over the world, watch the whole cw band.
Not everyone can be ultraviolet
Nope. Wrangler, Levi, all made in Poland (for central/eastern market) :)
When I bought my Volt, I found myself explaining the car to the sales guy. GM/chev did no training of sales and the dealers get far less maintenance revenue.
I recently picked up my dream computer from 19 years ago - the PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard) https://imgur.com/a/zhmi6cP

It's been great fun noodling around with, customizing the OS with Kaleidoscope schemes etc. Really love the classic MacOS. But it does bomb/hard freeze a lot. Especially with network activity (one AppleTalk glitch and the whole thing just freezes up)

One of the main issues in actually using it is that the adoption of HTTPS and deprecation of old encryption methods has made all the browsers available (including Classzilla) completely useless. My solution has been to install Firefox in a VM on my NAS and connect to that through VNC or an X11 client (former is zippier, but the latter makes it feel more native)
Related: http://www.reversebeacon.net/main.php
> Almost every single Chinese citizen I've spoken to is for this project.

Obviously. The people who aren't would be crazy to confide in you.

> Why not let them decide what they want for their country

So you would have been okay with Hitler "just" murdering Jews, not starting a war, as long as most Germans would have been for it? How come we think of it as Jews and others having been murdered, instead of Germans just doing something "to themselves"? Or hey, even during the war, wasn't that just Europeans doing something? Why not simply go all the way, to carbon-based life forms, or simply declaring everything the same, because "it's all just physics and chemistry"?

And whose country was Germany during that time, would you say -- that of the Nazis and their supporters, or the Germans in exile and in resistance, the ones in graves?

Just calling something "ideals" (because you don't dare to acknowledge the principles, while you reap their fruits no less) and "outrage", that's simply nothing but rich, considering your being "outraged" over the ideal of non-intervention, of "not judging" or "having to live without Google services" (just wow).

> You're not the one who has to live without dozens of Google services that only have shitty alternatives, they are.

So you do understand the logic, you simply only apply it to petty things, not murder.

https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/ma...

"Murder is not government". Now there's a thought. By the same token, looking away is not being a citizen.

Neither you, nor the people you have spoken to, got to taste the wrong end of the gun of totalitarianism. If you think only of yourself, nobody should think of you.
Recipes aren't protected by IP laws, which is a good thing, because if they were, food would be worse.

There's a lesson there.
Totally. I just pointed it out as others have speculated. I'm sure nobody will bother him about it and respect his denial. I wouldn't want to be outed as Satoshi either.
Africa will have a permanent debt holiday when Wakanda IPOs itself on Ethereum
With ultra high gain antennas right? So 30+ miles is only good for point to point applications.
Because email was not designed by capitalists.
I don't think that the main problem. I drive a sedan, and I have problems:

- seeing around trucks/SUVs parked near an intersection
- turning right at a red when there's a truck/SUV next to me
- finding parking spots in a parking lot dominated by trucks/SUVs (Costco is the worst)
- seeing at night when there's a truck/SUV behind me (headlights)

It's quite frustrating, especially since I'm in a part of the country with tons of lifted trucks and massive SUVs (Utah).
Is that why you invested?
have you or anyone you know had experience with this site?
I did some sessions of a therapeutic approach similar to EMDR called Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). I too was skeptical, and amazed at how well it worked. When I told a friend about it, he pointed me at the "Memory Hackers" episode of Nova, which isn't about EMDR or ART, but discusses the science of rewriting memories, and helped ease my skepticism about the approach.
Epic delays Fortnite’s account-merging tool to 2019
This looks good. I wanted to do something similar for Golang when I started learning it.

Like for a package say `sync` I want to see the most common methods first and their documentation.

I find the current godocs lacks in giving welcoming vibes and treat every aspect of a package equally where some method types are more important/useful than others.
That doesn't get you a new battery with longer life, it just lets you run down your old battery faster.
The lesson learned is to stop and think "is what I am working on now worth the time". I do waste time sometimes but normally end of day or lunch time make me reflect on the value of what I am doing. Getting out of the coding zone and into the self managing zone if you will.
> Every Chinese citizen I've talked to is pro-DragonFly, myself included.

Why would a Chinese citizen who was anti-dragonfly out themselves?
And doesn't quite make sense either. Transverse Mercator is a family of transformations, not a particular projection. Seems more likely they got confused between a local projection and some other one. Really easy to do.
You know, there are German cars that are priced competitively.

When I went shopping for a new hatchback moving on from the 20 year old Hold Civic, I did look at Honda Civic, VW Golf and tons of other small hatchbacks and I ended up with the WV which wasn't even the most expensive choice.
That is the first question that jumped into mind for me. How is this useful to me now. I assume that the LTE chip in our devices will handshake with these networks seamlessly.
Some companies would be decimated (literally) by a move from 60k to 130k... But it would definitely cut down on abuse or result in a big raise for the locals.
I never meant to imply positive things couldn’t happen, just that it’s silly to assume one very specific positive thing is the most likely thing to happen.
Thinking of Payrolling Benefits?
> A censored search engine will save millions of lives? Reads like propaganda to me.

What in the world does censorship have to do with this? Information will strictly be more available by having Google in China, than not having Google in China. Google is orders of magnitude better than Baidu, which makes not even a superficial attempt at hiding that it censors and reranks information. DragonFly will simply not allow you to search censored phrases, rather than selectively remove results.

As to why I think it’ll save lives. Let me give you an example. I once tried to search for the US consulate in China on Baidu. The phrase for that is “美国领事馆”. Try it on Baidu. When I last searched it, the website for the consulate was on the 3rd or 4th page, the address was nowhere on Baidu, and the rest of the results were travel agencies trying to make a profit.

Now think about searching for “suicide” or “depression”. Still think it won’t save lives?

Not everything has to be about censorship and human rights with China. Partial information can still save lives.

> Democratized information... with Chinese characterisitics.

Yes, what’s your point? America was built on democracy with a nice twist of slavery.
https://www.inverse.com/article/25716-lsd-brain-imaging-lyse...
These question marks after statements (or half sentence questions) really need to stop - I was hoping hacker news wouldn't slide into the lazy terrible internet grammar trends.
The Subversion api should be on this list too. I had occasion to do some development with it before and it's beatifully written.
I agree. I can imagine... well, I don't have to imagine, I've been there: the prospect of months or even years long carousel of medications, trying and discarding one after another, hoping to get lucky on the next try... It's awful. I'd like to see ketamine and some others in careful but wider use. (modafinil for example works wonders for me and is also fast acting, definitely keeps me functional during depressive periods)
AutoTrax/DEX is worth a try..

https://active3d.com/Download

Its what i use, but i cannot give a comparison with others as i have not used them in years.

The paid version is obviously better than the free version.
No, salary alone does not mean talent.

Instead, I am arguing that these theoretical research labs do not deserve to have any talent if they do not pay that talent market salary.

I want these research labs to get screwed. I hope that they fail. Because they deserve it.
Life is too short to make saving money the first priority on every decision. Drive whatever you can afford and makes happiest (and makes sense for the use case you have in mind for it, offroad, snow, racing, commute time, etc).
Ok, so take it back to 1940 and earlier. Poverty extremely widespread. Or take a look at countries by suicide rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

You'll find Jamaica, Syria, Guatemala, Pakistan, Venezuela, Iraq, Egypt, Mexico, Kenya, and a whole host of countries that are far poorer off than USA but have much lower suicide rates. You'll also notice that Japan and South Korea are higher than ours. Why is that? Poverty or economic hardship is not a predictive indicator of suicide.
I recall from your previous comments that you spent a lot of time in China. What's your take on dragonfly?
You outrage is expected. You are about to loose your leading position and you are feeling robbed. But it isn't the first time that this is happening. Remember when Asian countries were robbed of their natural resources, brainwashed away from self-sufficient and sustainable tradition/culture under the pretense of globalization just to create a market that US can sell to? Country that doesn't spend time on facebook or youtube is of no profit to US companies.
Several countries' tradition values were replaced with materialism by globalization and caused economical and social suffering.
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I don't think that's pretending at this point
Reminds me of the joke about the "Holy Roman Empire."
Most web apps do this in a JavaScript context inside the browser's security sandbox, not as native C++ code with unknown privileges.
Unless you graduated before 1969...you didn't have it better: https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2018-10-05/us-...

Sure, millennials had to come of age during the big recession of 2008, but the economy has largely recovered...and graduates today have excellent employment opportunities.
all merchants who accept credit cards incur fees for doing so and pass that cost on to consumers. Not using credits cards is giving up the opportunity to recapture some of that cost in the form of rewards. There is not a good reason to not use a credit card as a debit card.
His GitHub profile looks like just a normal guy. Maybe China keeps a bunch of GitHub accounts around and makes active commits for the purpose, and posts homework solutions while they are at it. Maybe I’m a propaganda bot.