skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Corruption is corruption and nobody ever accepts it as 'part of our historical culture'

You'd be surprised. Some cultures don't like rigid "law and order" on everyday life, and prefer bendable laws in some cases (even if are OK with stricter laws in others). It has a lot to do with historical development and custom law, rather than some sterile "law trumps everything" being everybody's utopia.

>Having a corrupt government official take your home because they want to build a mall is pretty much Universally bad.

Sure, but having a strong government and not blow up a 1.6 billion country into competing factions and civil war chaos is pretty much universally badder.

Most of the "bleeding hearts" (for the countries of others), assume once you break down the "corrupt government" a functional democracy will follow.

The never bother wondering whether a functional democracy is even possible at that scale, nor to ponder the other places they've turned into hell-holes with their interventions.

Nor do they care much about sovereignty, the idea that people should fix those things for themselves, and not have some third parties (with their own ideas, culture, and interests) impose a solution.

>Being told how many children you can and cannot have is not something anyone would rather live with.

At the individual level maybe. But having too much population grown in your country is not something "anyone would rather live with" either.
Oh hell that must be horrible. It’s bad enough compiling small things.
They need payment providers, that are easy enough for an average joe to use. That may be harder to get
> Nobody denies its slow, its a waste of resources, its buggy, its hyped

A lot of people deny all of that, actually.

> slow

They say "there is no faster way to achieve distributed consensus".

> waste

They say "it's not wasteful because its securing the network".

> buggy

They say "unlike all other software systems, it's never been hacked!".

> hyped

They say "it's literally the greatest innovation since the internet"

> And i dont understand Why so many dont see a benefit if we could one day build true decentralized systems

I have no idea, I guess most engineers are just too jealous of early adopters getting rich to be willing to give cryptocurrency a chance. There are so many problems that can be solved right now with cryptocurrency if the community would just give cryptocurrency a fair shot instead of always trying to say that it doesn't solve any real problems.

Note: the previous paragraph is a satirical portrayal of a cryptocurrency enthusiast attempting to explain why the entire software community isn't hyped about cryptocurrency.
Everyone wants to protect the environment. But I watch out for two important costs: economic, and centralization of power. Unfortunately, this seems likely to have high costs in both areas.

I prefer a decentralized approach. People nearly always underestimate the rate of technological change. Solar panels, battery tech, and electric cars are a winning combination. Some investments/incentives for public charging infrastructure and maybe some gas taxes will go a long way.

Once electric car total ownership costs get low enough, then gasoline cars will be worthless scrap heaps over night. Once solar power and battery tech improves enough, it will take over very quickly.

I don't see a case for radicalism here. It feels like a fight and will disrupt many lives, and it doesn't need to be that way. Resistance to clean tech disappears quickly when you show people that it works. Maybe just some minor policy tweaks to push it along.
Are you talking about Etherium, or blockchain tech? Because one is likely headed nowhere and one is here to stay.
Being good at things is more a function of practice/effort (and less a function of innate talent) than most people think.

Your friend should list the things they really enjoy doing and try to find the one that has a reasonable tradeoff between fun and future income.
What I'm curious to know is if she is "Chinese" in this situation - meaning was she traveling under a Chinese passport.
Some unexplained physical symptoms may be caused by unresolved emotional trauma
Meanwhile, headlines are remarkable in the emphasis of their own agenda, whichever way the banana peels:

https://freebeacon.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-gr...

'What is more, such programs would entail a massive expansion of government spending and power. Chris Edwards, an economist at the Cato Institute, told the Free Beacon by email that in his view, "the plan seems more about [Ocasio-Cortez's] socialist leveling philosophy than reducing pollution."'
Not sure if this is a joke or not, but the parallel is not even close.
From what I can tell, the streaming catalog is still a small subset of the CD catalog, so if you're into discovering new music, you're restricting yourself by only using the former.
Can't say I've ever had the explodey sound any of my Android phones through the audio jack. I've had it a handful of times with some bluetooth buds, but I'd just as soon chalk it up to their cheapness.

I do have the hissing sound he's described when using my ATH-M50's with my phone, and even my laptop. My solution (albeit more expensive than his DIY one) was to buy a portable DAC/amp, specifically a Fiio E17[0]. It connects via USB/micro/C, and it's worked on every laptop and Android phone I've had since the Samsung GSII. It also used to be able to dock with a separate desktop amp[1], until my dock broke. There are plenty of other portable, Android-compatible DAC's that are not too expensive. It's a bit of a bummer to feel like you need to pay for yet-another-piece-of-gear just so you can enjoy your audiophile headphones with your audiphile-quality music on the go, but sometimes that's the price of fidelity.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-Alpen-Portable-Headphone-Amplifi...
[1]https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-Desktop-Headphone-Amplifier-Dock...
i would never trust myself to change the raw output of a fundamental tool like this. my coding is too poor (of the add-on), debugging (the target issue) is too hard.
output of gdb is one place where I don't mind seeing everything. In seeing everything is where you find the problem.

Oh, yes, this is clever, and for those that like this kind of thing I am impressed.
Thank you for making them, and your support back then.

I still have my eventscripts release T shirt somewhere :)
>Also - if your example of 'US selling stuff to Iran' is the 'Iran contra affair' then maybe you made my point, because this was a massive scandal, and it's 30 years ago. If that's the extent of it, then it's not bad.

That's just an example, the US has played both sides anywhere they could, and armed "bad guys" since forever...

As for the scandal, yeah, some scandal, Bush then became president (and then had his son become President), and Oliver North had his charges dismissed.
> The US program was expensive in part because they were trying to do it as quickly as possible,

The US also was trying to just do it, whereas the USSR had the benefit of stolen research.
You Need a Numeric Keypad to Start with Your HHKB
What about mixing frontend with backend?

That’s terrible.
The other day I thought about buying some citrus and then realized I still had a can of beets to get my vitamin C from in line with this.
There is only limited number of sites where building pumped hydro is possible, and lots of them are already taken.
> Ethereum is providing a base layer protocol for apps that [...] are fully trusted.

Wait, wait, I thought the hype peak is far behind us. Ever heard about 51% Attack?
You can use the `cargo graph` [0] command to get a graphviz view of the dependency graph. The `Cargo.lock` file which Cargo generates should also contain all the information you want in machine-readable form.

[0]: https://github.com/kbknapp/cargo-graph
Sure goverments can affect etherum and bitcoin but they cant stop it globally and Im talking about the next generations build from the learnings of bitcoin and the likes. Its not just about money but information any kind that could benefit. Stripe is cool but just one area and its centralized and itself relies on payment networks like visa and mastercard, banks and other psp networks all the way to the POS.
You can disagree with me, but the legal aspect is still the same. You owned the physical delivery mechanism, and the single use license that delivery mechanism represented. Sure, you could sell that, but the point is still the same in that you never owned the content, legally speaking.
>When will you self-centred fucks understand that your personal profit does not justify destroying the planet?

When the singularity occurs and all human consciousness merges into a single, altruistic meta-being?
It's a shame that most people here and everywhere, when asked about Kateryna Yushchenko, would at most recall the wife of former ukrainian president, and almost noone heard about another ukrainian Kateryna Yushchenko, author of one of the first programming languages.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateryna_Yushchenko_(scientist...
Ask HN: What's the best way to spend $2500 on Machine Learning content?
Employer has allocated $2500 for learning that expires end of the year.
Here's my current plan - can anyone suggest a better way to spend the remaining $1150?

Spent:

$999 - Udacity's Deep Learning Nanodegree
$345 - Python and career-related books

Plan to spend:

$999 - Udacity's Deep Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree
$49 - Coursera's Deep Learning specialization
$100 - more books

Thank you
Seattle's ST3 is a massive project and it will solve a lot of problems! The extension goes all the way to the Redmond tech center and the other extension will eventually make it to Everett, meaning there will finally be a train that runs all the time instead of just a few times per day M-F and for select sport events.

There are so many people who cannot afford housing anywhere near Seattle and they are the runs who run your Wal-greens and Starbucks. They have to sit in traffic on I-5 or wait for express buses. This will be a big step up and it's only a start. Seattle needed ST3 a decade ago, and it's going to have a way bigger impact that you think.
> There is little reason to believe that China would expand beyond its historical borders, they have enough people and land as is.

The GP asserted that China wouldn't expand beyond its historical border, which was false. Not sure why you change the subject.

Also, if you feel the need to bring Indians and Mexicans to prove your point, Chinese dynasties invaded neighbor countries over many centuries, bringing hardship and brutality with them. That was how China came to be in the first place.
I'm not disagreeing, but what's your background/reasoning for this advice, specifically the "50%" part?
VCs also use projected future cash flows or as the previous commenter said, an approximation of such.
> Despite its intense temperature, the peak power generating density of the core overall is similar to an active compost heap...

I've seen this comparison before and it also seemed quite surprising to me. But in hindsight maybe it shouldn't: The sun is already billions of years old and it hasn't burned out yet.

Another way to think of it: A larger compost pile has to radiate more heat out of the same surface area as a smaller heap because of the Square–cube law [1]. Now imagine a compost heap more than 800,000 miles in diameter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
Nothing wrong with it. I just like options -- colors, fonts, etc. I also don't expect Apple to innovate much on their mail client.
I don't think "legal tender" means what you think it means.

In many jurisdictions (including the US and the Eurozone, as far as I know), almost no business is required to accept legal tender as payment. Legal tender is only required to be accepted when settling a debt, and even then there can be restrictions (such as a maximum denomination or number of banknotes or coins, a maximum amount that can be settled in cash, or contract obligations).
Both have millions of illegals and tons of native "developed world" style poor within their borders.

You think the UK would want France's unemployed for example?
The index is based upon median income and median home sale price, not upon house prices as an absolute value. It’s an indicator of affordability. I don’t know if indexes are comparable across different countries and what they would mean.
Why on earth would your doctor say that to you? He or she didn't even suggest there might be the possibility of walking?

I'm so very glad you ignored your doctor, but I wonder how many people out there didn't and never even tried to walk again after complex knee surgery.
I would expect it to be quite the opposite: it looks like a true hexagonal architecture for the web, with the thinnest of adapter for the client part, which is nearly perfect.

You can debug all your logic on the server.

I'd guess a/the big drawback would be no offline capability. But if you're fine with that (many are), then why not?
If I am POSTing logs to a thing, why would that thing be your program and not, say, Logstash's HTTP input or even direct to an Elasticsearch cluster?

Do I really want to POST logs? What if the logging endpoint is not available? Don't I want log delivery uncoupled from the application, so logging failures don't become application failures?
I've used Tumblr for a couple years. I've never "reshared". I'm just too antisocial for that.
> Ethereum is providing a base layer protocol for apps that never go down, never fail, and are fully trusted.

dapps nobody uses? ICO pump and dumps? you lost the crowd there Sir.

We are not luddites, I don't think you fully comprehend what that word means.

You are assuming blockchain right now, in it's current shape and form, a ReallSlowDatabase(tm), with no real Fortune 500 or the military using it to power their major operations, the so called ledger already exists in Datomic and now AWS, the alleged decentralized PoW tx verification process is bullshit, mining pools have centralized, every fucking meetup I go to I get people like you getting in my fucking face telling me why im a fucking idiot for not buying to their pump and dump schemes that SEC is looking into, it's litearlly the ultimate hyperereality-using social media accounts to shill and attack unbelievers for not HODL, blindly calling any piece of fact or reality as FUD or FakeNews(tm)

Shut the fuck up.

Seriously. We are not luddites, HN users range from NASA engineers to lawyers, who all exercise common sense and have seen this type of pump and dump of technological hype probably far far longer than most blockchain thumpers.

God. I don't care if dang bans me for this post, I just had to get this off my chest. A fucking cult has hijacked the internet.
Perhaps one day we'll put the waste in cars, a la "Back To The Future ".
I’m assuming the poster is referring to the Magnuson-Moss Warrany Act: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson–Moss_Warranty_Act
>military cannot be outsourced overseas

A lot of countries buy arms from the US. In fact I might even hazard to guess that the US is the world's largest arms supplier. Perhaps you are right, maybe the missiles will not work if fired in the wrong direction.
I DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A TAX TO APPLE TO LISTEN TO MY MUSIC.

Is it better to pay a tax to Google and not be able to listen to your music?

(I say that as an Android user who hasn't run into this problem, though 90% of my listening is through streaming services, I still have all of my CD's sitting on a hard drive, but they are all (as far as I know) available over streaming now, so I just use that)
Lol. Billionaires have all kinds of offices-away-from-home, complete with secretaries, accountants, and other employees.

It's just that no state would bust them on a "no business visa" issue for that, they want their money and investments.
How many decades do we need to wait for it to be useful? The iPod took markets by storm that very year. Blockchain has had a decade.
Just checked and it isn't accurate for citizens of Pakistan. For instance it says, "visa is required for Israel". Pakistan doesn't recognise Israel therefore they can't even apply for a visa.
> Once electric car total ownership costs get low enough

What does car ownership have to do with two billion people around the globe moving one mile inland? Why would car prices help during a bread riot?
I'd recommend using your country's official website, they usually keep the visa requirements and travel advice up to date.
I agree that I think that diet is one significant part of a (probably complex) equation - not a single deciding factor.

But regarding Japanese stomach cancer... if you're saying they get stomach cancer more than others because of their diet, how do they still live so long? Do they also have a secret way of beating the cancer so it doesn't cut their lives short?
Exactly! It’s much more efficient to chase millions of dollars from people who don’t understand your business.
You seem to be argiing from the position of "previous skepticism of new technologies was proved false, so we should assume this skepticism will prove false too" That doesn't seem reasonable. Some skepticism has been proven accurate. There's enough enthusiasm for crypto blockchain to carry it forward if there's a future in it. We don't all need to back that vision when plenty of valid criticisms exist for the skeptical viewpoint as well.
I install git by compiling from source, as Ubuntu's version is behind a bit.

My normal set of options isn't working.

./configure --with-openssl --with-libpcre2 --with-curl --with-expat --with-pager=less --with-editor=vim --with-tcltk

LINK git-credential-store
LINK git-fast-import
LINK git-daemon
LINK git-imap-send
LINK git-http-backend
LINK git-sh-i18n--envsubst
LINK git-shell
LINK git-remote-testsvn

imap-send.o: In function `sk_GENERAL_NAME_num':
/usr/include/openssl/x509v3.h:165: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_sk_num'
imap-send.o: In function `sk_GENERAL_NAME_value':
/usr/include/openssl/x509v3.h:165: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_sk_value'
imap-send.o: In function `sk_GENERAL_NAME_pop_free':
/usr/include/openssl/x509v3.h:165: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_sk_pop_free'
/usr/include/openssl/x509v3.h:165: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_sk_pop_free'
imap-send.o: In function `ssl_socket_connect':
/home/aaron/Downloads/git-2.20.0/imap-send.c:287: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_init_ssl'
/home/aaron/Downloads/git-2.20.0/imap-send.c:288: undefined reference to `OPENSSL_init_ssl'
/home/aaron/Downloads/git-2.20.0/imap-send.c:290: undefined reference to `TLS_method'
/home/aaron/Downloads/git-2.20.0/imap-send.c:303: undefined reference to `SSL_CTX_set_options'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:2374: recipe for target 'git-imap-send' failed
make: * [git-imap-send] Error 1
It's probably fine. Does the implied rent cover the mortgage?
I recommend using Timatic, through one of the interfaces, like https://www.traveldoc.aero

This is what industry professionals use to check if you are eligible to board a flight.
If the promise of crypto plays out, it will have a huge positive impact on climate change.

What a lot of people forget to realize when they talk about how much energy crypto uses is how much energy the systems that are currently in place are already using, which crypto has the potential to replace.

One such example might be property ownership and title companies. Title companies are big business. They have large buildings, they have many employees. The sum total of the resources being used by title companies have a huge carbon footprint.

Crypto could eliminate title companies. A blockchain is the perfect solution for storing records of property ownership in a way that is incredibly well-suited for the mostly digital age we find ourselves in, and would be vastly more efficient than the way we currently manage property ownership and transfer.

If blockchain tech becomes relevant to the point where we should be concerned about its carbon footprint, that means it's replacing things which currently exist which already have a huge carbon footprint.
You never owned the copyright on the content, but you did own the thing. Not a "single-use license". Owning a CD is exactly like owning a book, in that way.
'Like opening a fan oven': Australia's rainforest threatened by bushfires
QUOTE

"I took this fusion class when I was at Georgia Tech and I will never forget it. We started studying and I go, "Man, this is really hard." Charged particles don't want to get near each other. Bare nuclei are both charged, positive charged, they want to avoid each other.

And my professor had a really great way of putting it. "It's like going to the mini golf." He says, "You know how in mini golf you've got the volcano, and the volcano's got the hole at the very top, and you've got to putt your ball in a way that it goes all the way up the side of the volcano, and 'phwep!' falls in the hole." He goes, "OK. That's like fusion. The ball is like a nucleus, and the volcano is the scattering effect.

So any time you want to have a nucleus go to another nucleus, it scatters; it rolls up the mountain and it rolls down the side, it rolls over here, over there... and only when you just perfectly get it on the right angle does it go in the volcano." Now, the problem with fusion, he goes, "You can't steer the ball, you have to have enough temperature so that it can make it all the way up the side of the volcano and fall in, and then you have to have enough balls because you can't steer them there at the mini golf park", that's density, "and then because they're flying all over the place, you've got to make sure that there's a fence around the mini golf park so that they don't get away." That's confinement.

He said, "Those are your three things: density, temperature, and confinement, to make fusion happen."

I said, "Dude, that's really hard!" So, I came up with another analogy, "So, I guess fission would be like the mini golf park except now the volcano was flush, the hole was about this big around, the balls are going slow, and every time the ball goes in the hole, two more balls come out."

He goes, "Yeah, that's pretty good."

ENDQUOTE

Watch the whole thing. It's good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG1YjDdI_c8
Tim should put his money where his mouth is!

He posts on Twitter instead of his own blog. Saving the web is pretty simple: post to your own blog and stop using closed silos like Facebook and Twitter. Support IndieWeb tech instead of calling for government regulation.

Also, why is Facebook considered the web? Unless you’re a member the content isn’t accessible. Facebook exposes practically no HTML on the web at all.
Amazon has pretty incredible margins as a business. They invest the profit margin into new ventures and growth.
Solar is already winning in terms of cost and I think there's more efficiency to come: https://www.businessinsider.com/solar-power-cost-decrease-20...

This was predicted a decade ago. Solar will bring electricity costs down, then electric cars will gradually take over.
There was probably a lot of money paying what is essentially slave labor digging up coal and turning it into hurricanes and floods along the way.