skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who have neither shouldn’t be telling people who do what they can and can’t perceive.

Even if every properly conducted blind placebo test seems to indicate otherwise?
There is one major reason why this isn't practical in the United States yet: Europe has a well developed, often tax payer or state subsidised public transport network. Americans don't have that at scale: they must use their cars to go to work, else they cannot work. Solve the problem of public transport first. You can start with tax payers' funding and move on to a purely for-profit, no subsidies model gradually by incremental optimisation.
Maintaining backward compatibility is very important because C++ is used in many places for software that have very high development costs, since generally, C++ code that is written, doesn't get written to be thrown away, like I'm sure it's the case for other languages. Like it or not, C++ is much harder to write than other languages, so of course applications in php or js, since they are more easily written, can be tossed away since they're cheaper to write.

Breaking C++ backward compatibility would induce an immense cost on the industry.

New languages don't have that problem, obviously, and it's hard to see if they would have that problem if they would have the level of adoption of C++.

Not to mention that even if it's decided to break backward compatibility, it might be decided to do it not once, but several times, and it would further induce more costs.

C++ is also one of those languages that is used by many big companies, because it's actually well standardized (how many languages are that well standardized, and used for sensitive software, like C++ is). You don't have that many languages like this one.

Like always, "there are languages people complain about, and languages nobody uses".

Although I agree that things should be removed, but I honestly am not expert enough to understand which and why. Also those companies are still able to use their own compilers if they wish, and break compatibility if they want to.
Yes, trying to send a transaction which is at or near the limit will result in it failing.

But that article doesn't mention that the limit is artificially imposed so that people aren't risking too much money on unproven code.

As the system is shown to be stable, that limit will be raised and eventually removed, and the issue here will no longer exist.

Plus, failure in this case means "using the blockchain", and for larger amounts of money the fees are generally a fraction of the amount transferred, even during times of high mempool.
I don't know, I personally find the "I'm selling the CDs because people don't know it's available for free online" a bit unconvincing. He did it in hopes of profiting [0] by misleading people into thinking they pay for an original. What he sold is freely available online, one search away. Definitely a lot more accessible than buying his discs. This article is heavily biased and fails to present any of the evidence that puts the guy in a bad light.

Also [1]:
> However, in essence, what Lundgren eventually pleaded guilty to was making these Dell refurbishers’ customers believe that they were obtaining a genuine Dell-branded "Reinstallation Disc" with Dell’s blessing, when in actuality, they weren’t.

P.S. I love how the downvotes pour in with no actual dissenting opinion :). Nowhere even in the guy's own emails can anyone find anything but mentions of profit, a ripe market, and basically doing his best to deceive customers by making the product look like a genuine Dell one (arranging for fake Microsoft and Dell labels to be applied to the discs). Nobody goes to such lengths to deceive their customers out of honesty and good intentions.

What he did is like recycling paper into freshly printed counterfeit banknotes. Real Robin Hood.

> “You would have to be an expert with a magnifying glass to know and/or see such differences.” [2]

> “If the software will be 98% accurate I believe I can get away with that.” [2]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/27/17293650/microsoft-recycl...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/why-the-man-who-...

[2] https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...
I feel like depending on the work type ie not a Government Contracting / Defense Contracts type of company means you can do these sort of things and treat your teams like grown adults. Enable sensible logging and what not.

Nothings worse than not being able to stop a deployment you realized has a fatal issue for one server in a cluster or whatever the case.

If you are SSHing to a production server you either know what you are doing and why you are there or you will be 'getting a box.'
Would be nice to have subtitles!
Ask HN: What resources do you use for your annual “Year in Review”?
Hey everyone,

As New Year's approaches I try to spend a few days reviewing my previous year and making some general plans for the coming one. The last two years I've used Alex Vemeer's 8760 Hours (https://alexvermeer.com/8760hours-v2-update-announce/) as a guideline but I figured I'd see what else people use since this seems like something that would be popular with the HN crowd.

Happy (almost) New Year!
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The VC game operates under one critical assumption: winner takes all.

There's no room at current valuations for two taxi firms, internet shops, TV streaming firms,etc. in the long run. The valuations are only justified by the belief that in the future they will be so dominant that they will be able to set prices to higher levels. While there is competition in the market they can never return the profits to investors.
I have working knowledge of C, C++, Scheme, and a little bit of Python, but I really don't think Scheme is true to all its hype. I'm not even sure if everyone praising it here is using it in real life projects or not or only academically. We do, and man, the tough life is with it. The only debugging we have here is numerous "format (print)" statements, it is terribly slow, and may be not everyone's using it as intended, but the way it promotes "lists" for everything is just plain wrong IMHO. End result, a lot of wrongful uses of searching in lists where a proper C/C++ data structure would prove much faster.

Oh, and the deluge of useless parenthesis that it is, it hurts my eyes to read that code.
Especially when people are conditioned to be afraid of saying no. A lot of issues can be resolved with a “no” response.
Then you know little of wolves: they would only hunt a moose in a large pack. And yes, they are very shy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YybY5sEeZUU
In Vue you still need to use CSS to center it or align it to right if is part of a window component.
We were on salary, not paid by the case.
I don't like php.

I need Go with ADT and pattern matching.

In JavaScript i also want to see JS being used as vmcode and a higher level language similar to Go with ADTs/pattern matching compiling down to JS and everyone using it.
It seems that this "manufacturing counterfeits" is literally just copying Windows CDs:

> Lundgren made 28,000 of the discs and shipped them to a broker, who planned to sell them to computer refurbishing shops for about 25 cents each, so they could provide them to used-computer buyers.

> Microsoft’s lawyers valued the discs at $25 each and said they represent $700,000 in potential sales.

Firstly I think it's a harsh sentence (because copying isn't theft[0]), but secondly can anyone tell me why on earth he didn't just burn some Debian discs? (Perhaps with LXDE if it's really old computers.)

[0]: https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4
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This sentencing is wrong. Microsoft was not even selling those disks and the computers on which the software was intended to be installed were already licensed to use the software. Just because of some "estimated" or "virtual" losses, this guy is being sent to prison. How screwed up is our justice system?
Diff'rent strokes: I really like that feature in iMessage. I find it kind of like being in a cartoon, with the little thought bubble about to produce a response.
New E.P.A. Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury into the Air
F# would be a good candidate. It covers all dominant paradigms without exploding complexity.
The price of PC components, especially DDR4 RAM, is on the decline
Trans-Siberian Railway: The World’s Longest Train Ride for $1,000
I'm glad we're on the same page.
Does this use for it's inspiration Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses? [1]

1. http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/
Hmmm... I thought the I in IM refers to the fact that the message is SENT instantly.
Make emulators. Program for them the old school way. Win
Yeah but what about implementing the real compiler after the spec? While you're at it why not make it a different language?
Seems like it’d be easier, cheaper, and more “accurate” to put conditioners on the input to the equipment directly... by doing this to the transformer you’re still including your whole house and any noisy equipment (like lights) on your power line.
Oh I absolutely love C++11, 14 and 17. It's just that there are always some really dumb parts that are shipped together with the good parts. Like mandatory begin and end iterators for list comprehension, iota, unreadable syntax of C++20 ranges, etc.
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In CGI ecosystem there was no kinesis, cloudwatch, Dynamodb.

Considering serverless lambda i isolation isn't a worthy comparison.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the mantra. But the "this" you refer to doesn't really illustrate a problem with it.

Here's how these exchanges SHOULD go ...

Kid: Could I do extra credit to bring my grade up?
Teacher: No, I'm sorry, the grade won't change.
Kid: Okay. (thinks to himself, "Well, it was worth a shot")

The unhealthy thing is not the venturing to ask. It's not accepting a reasonable answer when it is given:

Kid: Could I do extra credit to bring my grade up?
Teacher: No, I'm sorry, the grade won't change.
Kid: How dare you. You'll be hearing from my parents.

(or, more likely)

Parent: Could my kid do extra credit to bring his grade up?
Teacher: No, I'm sorry, the grade won't change.
Parent: How dare you. I'm going over your head.
The worst is someone contacting you

> Hi

(waiting) (waiting) (waiting)

< OK Hi

(typing) (pause) (typing) (pause) (typing) (pause) (typing) (pause)

FFS hurry up already
I think that’s all over the country. I’ve also asked Romands friends, same there.
This is a very good article. What stumps me though is how the 10x engineers/architects make such sound technical choices without knowing a lot of things. I perennially feel ignorant of Computer Science concepts that many others seem to possess. This article helps me to understand it's not only me. But I would still like to make the best tech choices most of the times...But the problem is..WHAT TO LEARN NEXT? THERE'S BILLION THINGS, WHAT TO PICK UP?
Joscha Bach is a perfect example of the tech community fetishizing its own ways of making sense of the world. Can the speaker acknowledge that his model of the world is the result of growing up in a rationality-loving Western tradition of thought? No. Can he even interpret a question as the start of a conversation rather than a challenge to his intelligence? No. Listening to Joscha Bach is like listening to the screams of computer scientists as they are slowly squeezed to death.
Interesting articles, infortunatly it has many typos:
framebuffer is initiated full yellow, not black;
pixel in code should be firePixel[src];
randomness should be applied symmetrically with rand+1 in [-1;1].
Liked those. Plus his reading of Sherlock Holmes.
Lightning network is not Bitcoin. I was asking what’s unstable about Bitcoin.
I don't think many cities were "built around cars", that was mostly a process of evolution. In Europe, many cities had their cores layout even by the romans, latest for sure in the medieval times[1]. At the time the first cars arrived, cities had large roads, used by pedestrians, riders and horse carts. Allowing cars on those streets was the logical thing back when there were not many of them. And while the cars were pushing out pedestrians from the streets quickly, fundamentally the cars still "worked". Street side parking could still deal with all cars, you could drive to the shops you wanted to visit and park there - which still holds true in extremely low density areas today.

With each decade, car ownership grew significantly, but back then it was decided to deal with the increasing traffic by making cities more "car friendly". To a certain point that worked, but later even large efforts couldn't keep up, but the damanges were done to the cities. To reverse them, it will take a long time, as the car traffic needs to be replaced by other means of transportation.
Time Magazine’s positive Bitcoin article goes viral
Open source hardware could defend against next generation hacking
Jill Lepore’s These Truths was the best history book this year. Perhaps this decade.
I read the Doom Black Book over the holidays and it was a real treat.
I built the site www.AudiobookReviews.com just to help answer this question :)

Would love some feedback.
Meh. I wrote C# for 13 years of my career, starting with .NET 1.0. I worked at Microsoft, writing C# services, I worked for consultancies writing C# servers, clients, and web apps.

I’ve been doing full time JS with some Ruby for the past 5 years. I doubt I could write anything more than “Hello world” in C# without a lot of Googling.
I spent a lot more time this year listening to audiobooks than music. Most of it was Will Durant's history audiobooks from Audible[1]. Highly recommended.

[1] - https://www.audible.com/series?asin=B00G2H1JW8&ref=a_search_...
Self-pity is a national sport, but unwarranted in this case:

The country provides free health services, with quality levels that are worldwide references.

Everyone has access to free high school education and next to free university access. You can earn a medical degree for less than 10k€ in school fees.

Police, although understaffed, are effective, resulting in top world ranks in citizen security.

The only real black spot, in State services is justice. It works, but is slow as molasses.

All of these services must be paid. You draw a correlation between GDP, disposable income, and taxation level that is erroneous. The link is between State service level and taxation level. In Portugal these look OK.
The "rationality-loving Western tradition of thought" has given us cures for diseases, crops that feed 7 billion people, worldwide communications, and machines that fly, travel to other planets, even drive themselves. Those are pretty good reasons to trust that way of making sense of the world.

And your closing remark just sounds like an attack on the pitch of his voice, further weakening your argument, such as it is.
The two are very different.

Knowing consensus rules I can verify the chain and if I notice something fishy - I go back to figuring out if I’m being attacked.

If instead I simply accept what chain I should follow - I have no guarantees I wasn’t attacked.

With PoS it’s even worse - I can generate million different chains for zero cost and you have no objective measure to tell which one of them is more genuine and more secure. That’s exactly the issue PoW solves - gives you such objective measure to compare chains.
Worst than the Irish tax system is Luxembourg’s and that one has been around since the 70s. Plenty of US corporations- like Wall-mart, Amazon- have subsidiaries in Luxembourg
Most game developers do not code their own engines. In fact unless you're doing something special (e.g. claybook, Miegakure, anything with true videos, or an unusual development pipeline/platform), it is immeasurably more economical to use an engine like unity/unreal with their large communities, asset stores, support and decent tooling. Even many 'AAA' games are now starting to use these commoditised engines (possibly with their own extensions/forks)
I don't think that's necessarily true, using constexpr facilities you could make a function do nothing according to a compile-time variable value
It's solved for Cardano (Genesis). A new user can determine which chain to follow without relying on third parties.
If I give a company $100M in tax breaks to come to my city, and they end up paying $50M in tax (instead of $150M), the outcome was financially positive as the alternative was that they don’t come and my tax revenue is $0.
it's not as obvious as it looks. maybe someone wants to construct urls like this:

wget http://example.com/files/(basename -s .jpg *.jpg).png

but ( is a legal character in urls, so fish can't possibly predict which use is desired.
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You sources have nothing to do with my reply.

“Tweaking” the system is how the US system got so messed up in the first place. Anyone who suggests “just one simple tweak should fix things” is an idiot.
Many blue collar workers are seasonal and get unemployment benefits otherwise
In which case nobody would be teaching the kids art. Of course she's being taken advantage of, she's a teacher in 21st century western civilization.
Shared hosting includes automatic capacity scaling and on-demand pricing?
Read the Microsoft link repeated here for convenience:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...

Microsoft didn't bring up the case, and it's obvious from the guys own emails he was producing counterfeit discs to pass off as genuine for his own profit. If he were blatantly doing it, and not trying to deceive buyers, I would not feel as strongly as I do that he is trying to spin it differently now that he has been caught. If it weren't for profit, he could have spent his efforts publicizing the availability of genuine discs on his blog and elsewhere to get people to keep their old Windows machines. XP didn't officially end until April 2014, and he was doing this in 2012.

In the end, I think 15 years sentence is very harsh considering rapists get an average of 9.8 years, and only serve about 5.4 years.
> I still don’t understand the benefit over a progressive system.

Simplicity and personal data protection. In order to capture tax in advance with perfect estimates, employers would need to know your total income and deductible expenses. With the simplistic system, they just need to know how much they're paying you.
I think it was only 15 months : "15-month prison term and a $50,000 fine"
The first course doesn't need to touch on every programming style. Python is fine for learning imperative basics (preconditions, postconditions of your loops and methods, etc)
15 month based on article. Plus fine.
Space Tornado
The gate of Buchenwald concentration camp (2014)
We both want affordable housing. I just want it to be legal to build it closer to jobs.

Driving is dangerous, as are its byproducts. More driving kills more people.
A good critique of Musk and some of his more math-challenged ideas
Agree - Too many bold statements, too much pseudo-certainty, and no room for questions. Early on in his talk, he declares infinite as solved/irrelevant - bordering on philosophical laziness. As presented by Mr.Bach, "computational functionalism" is not all that different than most organized religions - ornamental, dogmatic and mostly wrong.
super sommeliers can. They are 1 in a thousand (amongst even professionals)

Most professional wine tasters crumble in blind taste tests.
Doctors are expected to give the proper amount of care so they do that. Doctors doesn't care about what this will eventually cost for the government. The doctors work for private companies so the have no incentive to limit the care. They also have no big incentive to provide more care than needed.

Anyone can go to a doctor to get an appropriate level of treatment. If you want more than that, to the degree that you want to waste your own money, then of course you can do that by paying for it out of your own pocket.

It's funny that we are having this discussion. This is a solved problem in large parts or the world and the only reason it's an issue in the US is due to people being crazy.
I also think it is counterproductive for each to try to think the way proposed. The market gets cheap expert consultants without the higher medical costs that come with the time it took to create them and still bringing down the wages of new workers. The workers are collectively screwed because they competed on strategies rather than collectively bargaining.

If I end up a well paid consultant in my retirement, then I just sold even more of my life away for the garbage the market produces to justify endless competition. I really only need my portion of the basics, like every other worker.
15 months not years.
Not really, that's just how it is.

Someone (or a group of person) fought and convinced other that its in their best interests to make a particular law. For example a law against murder, some people think that its in their best interest to punish people for murder, some other don't.

Regardless what the "true" morality is regarding murder, the one who fight and and can either successfully force or convince other to follow, get to decide what the law is.
Our universe: An expanding bubble in an extra dimension
Dop: Distributed Object Protocol
Then maybe you don't need to equalize it? Run your experiment with both sources at a wide range of volumes. If there's actually a noticeable difference, it should come across in the data.
> can anyone tell me why on earth he didn't just burn some Debian discs?

Because Windows is what the typical American PC user expects and is familiar with.
He didn't just copy the software content of the disc. He reproduced the printing and labelling of the originals, and kept refining his product to look more similar to the original so they'd get through customs.

He wasn't always selling them for 25cents. There are documents from him where he's selling them for $20.
Great argument for white supremacy...

Watch the talk and the Q&A, interested to know what you think after that.

Love,
A new HN User excited to have an informed exchange of views
Afaik the real team name is Messenger Foundation. FB has the concept of foundation teams, with the only goal of keeping a part of the service working no mater what.

/edit: been informed by some of the people in the picture that technically there are 2 teams there: Messenger Infra and Messenger Foundation
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>and was only listened to after he went to the press.

Or more realistically, when employees returned to the office.
You can say the same about solar which needs fuelcell technology we dont have. Nuclear waste is not problems that we have no idea to solve.
Diesel car fumes smell bad. It's not an issue in Canada/USA because only bigger trucks use diesel. However, many European cities are full of diesel cars and polluting mopeds.
Baby Girl with Three Hands Worshipped as a God in India (Photo+Video)
What the hell does that have to do with white supremacy? Rationality is available to anyone regardless of race, and isn't exclusively a creation of white people either.

You called it a "Western" tradition of thought and I was merely echoing your words. In truth, "the East" contributed a lot, many people in "the West" don't value rationality, and many people elsewhere do. Our rational view of the world is a shared achievement and inheritance by and for anyone who chooses to contribute.
But we have no fuelcell technology and no grid and no signs of anything even closely resembling a solution thats possible to pay for, nuclear provides energy for a very long time and doesent need to be fixed all the time like dolar and wind.
"I understand the concept of types and can read annotations but I’ve never written it. The few times I tried, I ran into difficulties."

I know it's part of the "typescript" section. But it honestly sounds like it is quite general.

I looked his github, and his only C# experience seems to be a tictactoe made in 2014.