skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think many people actively working on front end will agree with passing closures as the best way. "callback hell" is a very common complaint.

What you've discussed above seems to overlap pretty well with both redux and monadic state management like Elm.
They are just people with a lot of money who spend it on things they like. What more is there to understand?
exactly this, and it is pretty awful; effectively, Facebook is taking sides in an ongoing conflict
They've screwed countless group buys by locking the organizers account and freezing funds after "detecting" unusual spending (ie receiving money from a bunch of other users in a short period of time). Same thing happened to a friend organizing a group gift for another mutual fiend. Unethically, PayPal kept receiving funds to the account after they froze it.
I'm with you. The problem is, PayPal weren't the only payment processors to bail on Substar, if we want to purchase online which popular/accessible processors are not engaging in similar? Genuine question
Because:

We aren't living in a jungle where it is every man for himself.

Older people might not be as fast as they used to be, but they do have experience and wisdom.

Profit margins aren't the only thing in life/business. The best societies are those that take care of their sick, elderly and the disabled.
Which is guaranteed with aging.
The electricity company has bills to pay. If some company can find a way to make unlimited energy without expending resources, then yes, they will become the richest entity in the world, regardless of the presence of Bitcoin or not.

Your assumptions are all resting on the idea that Bitcoin can't be used to pay taxes. This is already pretty flawed in a few places where it is possible. It will be flawed in many places fairly soon, because governments don't want to miss the boat either.

But Bitcoin maximalists don't actually care about this government thing. They would rather it collapse in on itself so that they can instead spend their money with businesses which make much better use of it than politicians.

For that reason, there is a demand for Bitcoin, and while the demand exists, people are willing to pay more to acquire it. At this point, they have to pay more because they're buying from a market with reduced liquidity, largely because existing hodlers would rather keep hold of it because they're pretty confident it will continue to appreciate in value over time.

And in the current world, where the government sanctioned financial services (paypal, mastercard etc) are actively unpersoning people for having unorthodox political views, there is clearly a growing market for an alternative financial instrument which this cartel does not control.
The point of this example is that making paper hats creates little to no wealth. No one is going to compensate you handsomely for whatever random activity you choose - there has to be demand.
You could just buy low-cost ETFs of your choice for free. If you're looking for some place to park cash, BIL is yielding 2.15%.

That being said, I'm not advocating that everyone switch to BofA/Merrill Edge, just that it's a really good deal for those who want it.
So... the only way a fake dollar bill isn't genuine is that the paper it's made from is not blessed by the US government? When you put it like that yes... still very much fake and a crime ;). Like any other counterfeiting. The least he could have done was tell the customers they are "replicas" or whatever. But he'd make less money.

Also the guy himself expected the software on that "plastic" to be 98% accurate. Of course, none of the customers ever got to know that. Do you think the end users paid just 25c for them also? ;)

Since you have no problem with getting fakes without knowing in advance, how would you feel if the next time your parents give you allowance money they were "98% accurate" fakes?
No, it’s definitely the graphics and gameplay. The distribution helped, but that wasn’t new - id and Apogee and others had been distributing demo “episodes” of their games going back to Commander Keen at least. Doom was a monumental technical achievement when it came out, and if you want some real perspective on that, check out the game that came out just a few weeks earlier and was considered “cutting edge” at the time: “Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold.”
This is exactly it. Nostalgia is overpowering.
Why do visa and mastercard want to ban people from receiving money? If anyone here have the answer please share.
Simple mechanical vacuum pumps can reach ~1 mbar (0.001 atmosphere).[0] I doubt that Guericke's pump could reach even 100 mbar, but that's only 10% of atmospheric pressure. So the force to separate the hemispheres would have been only ~2 short tons. That's still a lot, however.

The best multistage pumps can reach ~0.0001 mbar.[0]

Generally, attainable vacuum by pumping depends on leakage rate vs pump speed, and also on the vapor pressures of components. Such as oil used for lubrication, grease for sealing, rubber or plastic hoses, etc.

So for a high vacuum system, you want just metal and glass, and you want them to be very clean. Fingerprints are a huge issue. Also, you typically put a cold trap between your pump and the working volume. Both to get lower pressure, and to avoid contamination. For low vacuum, dry ice in acetone is OK. Then liquid nitrogen, and finally liquid helium.

0) https://cds.cern.ch/record/1046850/files/p43.pdf

Edit: It's important to avoid contamination of the working volume (say, by pump oil) and of the pump (say, by water, or corrosive substances).
Prevailing wages have adjusted over time with inflation, but not to a reality where people over fifty are eased out just because they can be. What would wages be like, if everyone acknowledged that you could work until 49 and that's it? Companies would pay quite a lot more for younger talent than they do now. Employees are stuck with pricing that evolved under the old model of lifetime employment, while employers are operating under the new model of at-will employment.
I was very confused at first. Fire effect in doom?
The article is 10 years old. Has MIT graduated a generation of failures?
I first started coding professionally in the early 90’s, just as “the web” started to take off. I found myself surrounded by people who talked about the network stack all the time; I put together that there was an important concept called “TCP/IP” in there. So I did what I thought was the most logical thing: I picked up a copy of Richard Steven’s “TCP/IP Illustrated” and read it cover to cover. Then a funny thing happened - I found out I actually knew WAY more about the network stack than all the people around me who were blathering about it non-stop as though they were experts (which I didn’t and still don’t consider myself). That experience has made me take other’s claims of expertise with a grain of salt.
Why quote the entire comment you’re replying to?
I honestly don't have a problem with PayPal dropping a customer. Even though I hate PayPal, if they don't want to do business with somebody they shouldn't have to. But holding their money for 180 days, that is suspiciously like theft
No rhyme or reason given, the other times Paypal have withheld funds from or barred others for less legitimate reasons, most recently substar. For me big tech actively sabotaging the careers and income of folks with whom they, often arbitrarily find problematic is a big problem, particularly given how reliant people are on the web for these purposes and the increasing lack of competition
I don't know if we need new laws. We need more competitors, for sure.

Jordan Peterson (if you know him) has partnered to solve the problem of PayPal and Patreon deplatforming people, and is starting a competing service that doesn't depend on traditional payment circuits.

No one knows much about how it will work, but it might prove to be a good alternative to avoid being at the mercy of these companies.
Phillip Morris owns Juul now, so it doesn’t surprise me that there might be efforts to throw smoking under the bus globally.
React is on my list of things I don’t know. : )
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It’s not good or bad, it’s just the nature of the beast.

The nature of a nuclear plant is that it is incredibly capital intensive, and needs to operate at capacity to work financially.

Solar is interesting because it’s peak output aligns with peak demand. Your solar farm isn’t going to do much for you st night, but that’s ok because you don’t need the power!
An honors degree from Harvard (or another Ivy) is still rare (with respect to the general public) and has value even if everyone who graduates gets one.
So what are you going to do about it?

I was formally educated to do low level development, did operating systems, hardware design, and communications for a living for 15 years. During that time I also learned and regularly used FP, data processing, windows GUI, full stack web development. Every year I pick a new tooling language so that I'm not completely tied to one language or paradigm. Every time I have an opportunity to use the right language or tool for the job I learn it and use it.

The whole point of my education process was not to learn C and Assembly, it was to motivate me to he constantly learning. When I wanted a new job I created a "real world problem" to solve, did actual design docs, took courses online, read books, etc. Was able to get a new job in a completely different field, doubling my pay and reducing my work load. That's all due to the fact that if I had a list of stuff I didnt know I'd be out there learning that stuff every waking minute.
Now contains 100% less radium...
You do know the number 95% comes very frequently from statistical analysis right?
No, it's not, but the problem with his argument is that he gives a narrow and extremely specific definition of consciouness and then all the structure works.

I'm not really that much in the debate about consciousness but I'm a lot into the one about intelligence: there are many definitions of intelligence and none of them seems satisfying. You can define intelligence from a rational point of view, as some kind of function or model, but it's extremely narrow, arbitrary and limited. That's the trick he uses. To me it's not enough. The very idea of intelligence is restrictive, antropocentric and confusing. That's because with the existing tools we have (including reason) we cannot converge to a satisfying idea of intelligence, that eludes our analysis.
Hackernews is more of an echo chamber than a gathering of curious and etcetera people.
For me, to give an amount of work for students as to not extend my week beyond 40 hours would have meant no more than 45 minutes of non-instruction time per day. Lesson planning for one day typically took longer than that, aided by the fact as I taught three courses. So, out the gate, there is no time for homework, assessments, projects, student help outside class time, tracking grades, reaching out to parents when kids need some more support, dealing with disruptive students, etc.

More simply put, if I had only given out enough work as to keep me at 40 hr/wk, there would have only been end of unit tests with no retakes that were only multiple choice (still would have gone over the 40 hr, but it would still have to happen) and any disruptive students would have been walking around campus (because I was not allowed to send them to the VP or detention as there was no room) where I would face liability if they came to harm (which was a real possibility - we had a kid murdered 5 feet off campus once, stabbed to death).

Man, I am so thankful for my career in development.
I looked over the few solder joints that are visible and I think your soldering technique needs some work. First make sure your iron is actually hot enough, a hotter iron works quicker and the result is less, not more heating of the joint. Then, try to work like this: first heat up the joint with just a tiny bit of solder on the tip of the iron, much less than you need for the joint, just enough to transfer heat, do that for 1 to 2 seconds, then feed in just enough solder from the spool to make the joint, withdraw the spool and then the iron and let it cool without moving at all. That way your joints will flow nicely instead of beading above the PCB and you won't have too much solder in the joints. Good luck!
I agree with the sentiment, but in this case it appears the discs were just being used to restore software that was still legally licensed to the computer. But license issues aside, it seems this guy was conspiring to commit fraud through the customs/import process too.
The comment you are replying to mentions a teacher who doesn’t seem to be being taken advantage of. Your comment seems to imply that all teachers in 21st century western civilisation are taken advantage of. Do you mean that the Australian teacher mentioned is still being taken advantage of, or that Australia is not western civilisation (or that they are not working in the 21st century)?
Hmm maybe elm isn't really monads. Tried to bullshit there, my bad. https://redux.js.org/introduction/prior-art#elm
The way general adversarial networks work on tricking image recognition systems is that they vary pixels of the input image slightly to manipulate the output of the neural network.

For alphazero, the input is the board, which you can't manipulate arbitrarily. You can run an evaluation of a board based on a move and see if its significantly different than the evaluation that alphazero comes up with, and maybe try to exploit that. But if you have a better evaluation of some state than that of alphazero, you're likely a stronger player anyway so this extra step is unnecessary. Most of the value of the bot comes from the evaluation function of a board, along with some hyper-parameters. But the evaluation is probably the most important part and the most difficult to replicate.
I have a script called update-my-things.sh, which updates my Python’s pipsi scripts, my Python’s pew virtualenvs, my Rust toolchains, my VMs, my local software Git mirrors, etc.

All stitched together in (bad) Bash.
Well maybe people are paid pretty close to what they are actually worth already in their 30s and 40s and the problem is their spending doesn't match their income over their lifetime.

This could be true for a small number of people; but when we look at the population as a whole, spending has to be balanced by productivity. People can't spend money on goods and services that aren't being produced. If there is excess productivity that isn't matched by wages -- if people are consistently able to consume more than they earn -- we have to ask where that extra productivity is coming from.
Thoreau and Illitch, among others, had interesting ideas.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.576...
https://hackernoon.com/paypal-is-still-one-of-the-worst-onli...

I wrote this article on Hacker Noon 18 months ago or so, nothing has changed. The only good thing was the article going viral, which spawned a new golden level of PayPal customer service - they also had to disable account deletion for 48h, which was nice to know.

I've moved away entirely to Stripe and other services and it's been bliss.
Related twitter thread: https://twitter.com/themattchan/status/1076977773195931648
Because ideas are not pure and unbiased. Every single event in your life contributes to your biases, to the way you conduct science, to the way make statements and the content of these statements.

Race, gender and class in this case are clearly connected because he embodies all the stereotypes of the white male STEMlord. It makes sense, he summarized readings from others like him to appeal to a crowd of people like him. The crowd is becoming aware of this echo-chamber/safe-space for engineer and questions his motives, because they have been fed the same ideas over and over and he doesn't challenge them but just reinforces them.
LOL I didn’t want to be the first person to say that, so I’m glad you said it. In the spirit of charity, though, I’m sure that his list of the things that he does know overlaps my list of things I don’t know.
Here is one: http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/thehackernews/ search for others
Altria, not Phillip Morris, bought a 35% stake, not full ownership.
I spent many years optimizing "stat-like" APIs for Picasa - Windows just feels very different than Linux once you're benchmarking.

It turns out Windows/SMB is very good at "give me all metadata over the wire for a directory" and not so fast at single file stat performance. On a high-latency network (e.g. Wi-Fi) the Windows approach is faster, but on a local disk (e.g., compiling code), Linux stat is faster.
On Why this site was banned? http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/thehackernews/ Plagiarism to begin with!
Great write-up, thanks for the link. TLDR: Race condition when switches reboot during high (read normal) traffic load.

I love the fact the "fix" was to reduce traffic load so that the issue was unlikely to occur and let things go back to normal.

> AT&T solved the problem by reducing the messaging load of the CCS7 network. That allowed the switches to rest themselves and the network to stabilize.
How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success
This site was banned probably due to copyright violations: http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/thehackernews/
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Why? There's not a single reference to religion or any hint that the author might be religious.
website is down https://juul.com
Yeah, that's the whole point of division of labor and specialization and all that -- we focus on one thing and trade for the other things. Without spending the system doesn't work anymore.
ever since i discovered podcasts, audiodrama and audiobooks i stopped dreading a long commute. on the contrary, i now look forward to it, because those 2-3 hours are the most quiet of the day. and while i was an avid reader in my youth, i haven't read any books for decades until recently. now i average a book per month.
I guess the server could sign the content.
Heavily editorialized HN title. The "research" mentioned in the article is not discussed in any detail, nor is any reference provided.
"A mass academic conspiracy" is precisely what we see in the social sciences. Any social scientist who publishes a heretical view is excommunicated. The evidence is never considered; the mere idea, indeed merely a few heretical words, is enough to end a career.

I could name a number of examples but I'm confident you're familiar with a few of them.
Probably no Linux because these were intended to be used with old computers sold to consumers. And regardless of the merits of Linux, virtually no average consumer is going to purchase a computer without Windows.
Saw this. Also was discussed at 35C3:

https://c3lt.de/35c3/talk/CK3DWH/
I'd like an answer to that too. If one emerges I'm inclined to support it. Hopefully there are enough people like us to make that profitable.
Altria is Phillip Morris Inc's new name.
The difference is that the government doesn't take over all farms, restaurants and grocery stores and require you to get your food from them even for everyone who can afford it themselves.
> “win win” (company gets subsidy, area gets jobs)

Anand Giridharadas recently gave an a great talk[1] (at Google!) in which he explains how "win win" is a charade used to set the framing of the conversation.

Framing a plan (like a subsidy) as something that benefits everyone has good optics, but it implicitly creates a framing that only considers that plan. (it's either this plan or "you get nothing"). Without the restricted framing, the choice isn't a binary "subsidies or nothing"; there are many ways that money could be spent. (e.g. maybe going without that business and investing in education or infrastructure would provide a greater benefit).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM
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> most expensive, most politically supported public transit systems barely work

Source?

>but the quality just isn't there

Based on what metrics? Last time I checked, public transportation in any city doesn't routinely suffer breakdowns around the same time, every work day. It also doesn't suck money from productive city centers into outlying suburbs to pay for an absurd amount of infrastructure to support a particular, luxurious transportation lifestyle.
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Arthur Eddington was innocent
And they buried the correct rams horn full of crystals before planting.

I’m not kidding.
You know putting "right" at the end turns your comment from helpful to dickish, right?
Refactoring over the five years is the opportunity a good developer gives you.

When I say the architecture “seizes up” I mean it gets to the point where

1) a refactor that would shave 100 points off your annual planned work costs more than 100 points

and 2) hacks are slowing your pace to the point that a realistic estimate for your annual planned work is growing faster than your team is working it down.

Note that in such a situation you will still be “getting things done” but your costs are rising while your output is decreasing. Eventually that grinds to a halt and your team will demand a costly and often fatal 2.0 cycle.

A good developer can refactor as they work, and say no to unworkable plans, such that your cost per point grows only linearly, so you can maintain stable feature output while growing your staff linearly.
I remember running the Doom demo for the first time and being absolutely blown away by it. And then we discovered multi-player mode.

I’d haul my 486 box on a train to the next city just to play it, for hours into the night.

Descent never did that to me.

It was technically fantastic, but didn’t have the atmosphere, or the multi-player. And after playing for a while, it also made me nauseous. ;-)
Here is Dr Rosemary’s twitter, she was quoted, you can ask her

https://twitter.com/DrRosemaryL
TBH all the names here are new to me... What is a good starting point?
Do not get me wrong, I am learning constantly and like it that way (now I go through a Haskell textbook and have a few MOOCs in my to-do list), but the thing is, I feel like I am still fighting a losing battle; there is just too many new information out there to understand everything. That is the source of anxiety for me.
Yeah I agree. This seems to be a corruption that's been with the US since our inception tbh. There's been this generalized idea that "government = bad, business = good" and to that end we've relied heavily in our development on companies to build the country. One can take railroads in their early days as a prominent example or frontier settlers who were literally paid to go build cities out west.

It seems part of the problem is we're in a new world where such subsidies are counter productive because too many people rely on them. In this case, it shouldn't even be legal to use taxes to subsidize any singular private businesses -- and those that require subsidy to function should be nationalized (they're not functioning on the market system).
Ask HN: What worries you when selecting a remote worker?
In order to increase my chances to get my ideal remote job I am trying to anticipate and solve the common concerns the employer may have. I have listed some like "Is the timezone compatible?", "Does this person have a history of working remotely successfully?". Which others concerns/screeners am I missing?
Ours is probably some 20 years old initial MIT Scheme implementation added with homegrown features like "Object Oriented Scheme" etc., but a debugger was never implemented for the same. Talks have been going on to move to an implementation that has a debugger, but at such a scale changing that would be difficult.
No sources or study data included with the article.

This is not news, this is propaganda.
The Russians have been building floating nuclear power plants to deploy to remote areas that need power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power...