skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"intangible value" is the type of thing I'm less sympathetic to. People are living on the streets because they can't afford housing, because there isn't enough being built. Emotional attachments to a piece of property are not more important than solving the human misery caused by the current state of affairs.
The EV / LES designations always seemed particularly perverse to me. These neighborhoods were built at the highest density possible at the time in order to provide cheap housing for immigrants. Visually blocks vary between dull and outright hideous.

The best to honor the history of those neighborhoods would be to build and build and build until units became affordable again.
I think unlimited energy means a pretty immediate heat death for a society that has such an unhealthy relationship with dumping externalities.
> I’ve seen this invoked so many times to shirk responsibility though. Someone piles up all kinds of crap in a tight little closet, complete with a bowling ball on top, and the next unsuspecting dev who comes by and opens it gets an avalanche of crap falling on them while the original author can be heard somewhere in the background saying “it’s not my problem.”

I'm accustomed to collective ownership where, ideally, this never happens and in practice happens rarely (followed by the little closet being torn out and replaced).

> I like the zero flaw principle where new feature work stops until all currently known flaws are fixed.

I agree: stop the line. But I think it's orthogonal to the sins or virtues of n-repology.
I'm not going to mention the application software or OS, since I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me will give you information about that.

What you're probably not thinking about is the baseband processor, which negotiates cellular connections and handles everything related to making the phone an actual phone. The trouble with baseband modems/processors is that none of them are open source and that they oftentimes have direct memory access to the application processor. iPhones and the Purism Librem phone isolate the baseband further from the application processor than the average Android phone.

Even if you find a nice phone and install an open-source, audited, secure operating system, your hardware might compromise you.
Where are you seeing that? ASP info I could can find shows 59k.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/23/tesla-model-3-average-s...
Well given the expertise that RedHat has with KVM, it's a big warning "don't run nested kvm for now", it's pretty clear, what more do you need?

https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Nested_Guests

"As of Feb 2018 this feature is considered working but experimental, and some limitations apply."
Hold up, so the flat-earthers just need to think a little bigger?

(Legit tho I've been trying to understand the 'shape' of the universe for a while now -- in the sense of, when I look at stars and galaxies in the sky above me, what direction am I looking as it relates to where things are in the universe relative to each other? As a kid I took Bill Nyes word for it: everything is on the surface of a balloon, expanding from the center. But do I ever see the far side of the balloon? Or is everywhere I look somehow constrained to the surface in every direction away from me, such that the 'other side of the balloon' is infinitely far away... but if I could see far enough, my own spot on the surface of this sphere would be visible to me, minus a few billion years... I want to understand this but I am very confused! This looks like an informative website so I'll keep reading ... thank you)
So many people have it all figured out for "why cryptocurrencies fail" but your question is exactly why bitcoin and crypto succeed.
You've ignored the examples I gave of policies where the right wing has clearly lost ground, and in doing so have missed my point. I'm not claiming the right wing has lost ground everywhere. I'm suggesting the right wing has lost ground where it is in conflict with the interests of the elites. And it has typically gained ground in areas that are of high importance to the elites and relative unimportance to the bulk of the people who make up the right wing.

A large influx of economic migrants is in the interest of the elites, not the bulk of the people who make up the right wing. It is the elites who have pushed for and benefited from those policies, and they have been wildly successful.

Equality among the sexes not a right wing goal, and that is the direction society has moved over the past 100 years.

Sexual liberation, and the related disappearance of Christianity from popular culture, is not a right wing goal.

Social inequality and corporate welfare are goals of the elite, not the right wing, which primarily consists of rural working class white men who are victims of the policies meant to bring about those goals as much as anyone else.

Military intervention is a project of the elite and transcends political parties in the US. Working class Republicans would never have dreamed up going to Iraq or Libya or Syria to oust a dictator, any more than working class Democrats would have. Either side can be made to support such a conflict as we have seen by taking advantage of in-group out-group tendencies, but they'd never come up with it themselves. They have no reason to. But the elites do, so it happened.

You're right that there is little real dissent in the US. The reason is that real dissent is suppressed by the elites, not protected by them. It's harassed and deliberately targeted by government officials. It's kicked off of platforms run by the elites. It's viciously attacked at every turn by the elite-owned corporate media. If you want to know where the real dissent is, look for the ideas that the elites actually try to stop.
They say that it scales mainly with number of users, and per-transaction data is minor. But they also say it's 100 bytes per transaction, so with 10 tx/sec you get 31 gigabytes per year, just for the transaction data.

That's not as much of a storage improvement as I expected from mimblewimble. By comparison, a simple ETH transfer on Ethereum takes 109 bytes: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/30175/what-is-t...

They do say they could optimize Grin's transaction storage further but don't quantify that. Does anyone here know what the potential is?
For those using monorepos, what is your branch strategy? Say that 3 projects share a library, and release on different schedules. How does each project freeze shared library changes? Do you keep N version branches?

How does the library team know which consumers a commit may break? What tools are recommended?
> Economically we are far better off with children in care and parents in the work force

Any data to support that? Given that there is a deadweight economic loss due to taxes, if both parents work and the income from the second parent doesn’t exceed the cost of child care + taxes, it would seem that in many cases, two parents working could actually be a net loss for the economy as the family might have less disposable income than if just one parent worked. A family with two kids could very easily spend $50k per year on child care. So the other parent would have to make $50k just to break even before the taxes. The second parent could very easily have to make $80k just to cover child care plus the loss from taxes since that second income is taxed as part of the overall household income. Kids with stay at home parents have higher school performance, which has an economic impact as well.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/eric-bettinger-why-sta...
As someone who frequently flies into London relatively late at night, it's not easy to get a decent meal at 11pm, Of course, I'm not sure the options for a decent meal in Manhattan at that hour are great either. The number of fast food restaurants open don't really count and London is better if you know where some of the ethnic enclaves are.

NYC is definitely more of a "city that never sleeps" than most but its hours are not the norm for most major world cities.
Not true. There's a time bomb in the Ethereum protocol that makes mining more difficult over time. This slows the issuance (and the whole blockchain).

During Ethereum's life, the block reward has been reduced, and the time bomb has been delayed. This is in itself an example of how blockchains depend on an initial human consensus. The Ethereum Foundation is overseeing Ethereum's monetary policy, and the miners mostly approve of it. This is not a bad thing (decentralization != anarchy).
> the usual “blockchain is 110% useless”

Are there any projects that you consider to be a success that currently use a distributed blockchain?

I suspect like most people my skepticism comes not from the inherent technology but in all actual deployments so far.

A system that solves scaling, doesn’t appear to be a questionable pyramid scheme, and had even a few of the advantages of the existing financial system would be welcomed.
Why is Huawei doing well then? [0]

"Huawei posted 33% global gains y/y, versus flat for Apple, and for Q3 in China,
where Apple is reporting struggles, Huawei sales rose 13%. Have rising trade tensions created anti-American Sentiment???"

[0] https://twitter.com/quantbond/status/1080863553454780416

I think it's all about Apple losing share and being overpriced compared to competition, along with Chinese support for Chinese company.

A slow down will exacerbate this but as of now huge disparity compared to Huawei.
Mine should be arriving tomorrow or Monday, I'm intending to try and use it with Linux. From what I can tell, the display more-or-less presents as a normal 2d monitor which expects a tiled grid of views that differ in azimuth: have a look at https://vimeo.com/lookingglassfactory
What is Apple Worth?
What’s the Right Path for Scaling?
>I'm not really sure what to say.

You could start with answering the questions that I asked.
This website is a great example of the challenges with being data-driven. It leads to a conclusion which is terribly flawed because of a failure to account for relevant nuance in the data.

C# is definitely not C++ or C. It would be better to lump it with Java.

But how many developers are now going to walk away thinking they should bone up on C since there are apparently so many positions out there for it?

And how many other statistics out there are similarly flawed? How much of our day-to-day off-the-cuff knowledge is based on poor data entry?
Did you get the leap with it too? If so, do you think that's worth the extra $100?
A Fortune–and an Ad? How One Company Is Penetrating Chinese Restaurants
It's true that there are numbers between Houston and 14th but they no longer necessarily make any sense. Consider the corner of W 4th St and W 13th St for example--that shouldn't exist.
They're still around in some incarnation! Apparently they got bought by Arçelik, a Turkish household appliances manufacturer, in 2007.

Here in the Netherlands, they now have a large range of cheap things, from button cell batteries to earbuds to remotes, cables, flashlights, cameras, navigation systems, you name it.

It's all ridiculously cheap (competitive with Aliexpress prices and sometimes better). Quality is not always great, but not as bad as it could be, and some things I've gotten are surprisingly well built (competitive with things 10-20x the price.) For example, a flashlight I got for 0.99€ with a solid metal construction that's survived whatever I've thrown at it so far.

And yes, they still make radios! Much lower quality, and not shortwave, but still.
I do, on every course page. Big grey box.
" the universe on the boundary of a manifold is sufficient to completely specify the state inside " made it click for me if I understood you right. Makes me think of cellular automata: the state of the whole grid can be specified by the information contained in the first row + the laws of physics on the grid (game of life, etc) - is that kind of like the "boundary" we're talking about here?
Minimum Wage / Home Affordability by Metro Area
this is based on my gut feeling, as someone who is hiring and has FOSS projects we use for work.

first of all, there are multiple factors at play:

does contributing to FOSS projects increase your chances at getting any job?

does it make a difference to which projects you contribute to?

both these can be answered with yes.

having a portfolio of public contributions is helpful. (personally i think it is unfair to those who can't afford the free time to spend coding, so i try to reduce the effect, but even then the ability to look at your code will give me insights that i'd otherwise not get)

if i am looking for a webdeveloper, i probably won't care so much about your kernel contributions, other than as a general indicator of your skills. at the worst i might fear that your career interests don't align with the job i can offer.

so working on a company's codebase is likely going to help make sure that your interests are aligned with the work i want you to do. but only if the job you apply for is actually in that very area.

most of googles jobs for example are not angular, flutter or tensorflow. contributing there will probably not make a difference because you likely won't be hired to work on those.

it is more likely to matter for smaller projects/companies.

however on your last point, as mentioned by others, unless your contribution is so significant that you already know the core developers on a first name basis (like you are in the top 10% of non-core contributors) they won't reach out to you. bigger companies won't because it's not enough to stand out, and smaller companies rarely have the funds to hire people on a whim.

what contributing may help you with is to be the first to hear when new positions open up.

if you are in the inner circle of angular developers, you may find out sooner if a new position in the angular team opens up. and you may have a chance, not because you contributed, but because they already know you and because you were able to submit an application earlier. (they know you because you contributed, but if you keep a stealth appearance while contributing, so that you never interact with other developers then that probably won't help)

i have been in that group in one project, and while i didn't get an offer from the company behind the project, job offers that targeted the experience were usually posted first on the core developer list, and so i knew about them early. my actual code contributions though weren't really that significant but being on the inner circle helped (i organized conferences for the community and helped edit a book for example).
Well, when I was growing up, common sense said I should ride on the side walk. The side walk was hardly ever used and perfectly suited to riding a bike. The road was much more frequently used; by 3000lb death machines piloted by zombies. No thanks.

If the side walk is too populated to comfortably ride a bike, and the road is busy with said suicide cans, then there is simply no place for a bike. I haven't ridden one in years. A short section of "bike lane" and a helmet wouldn't do much to convince me otherwise.
That’s basically what Firewatch is (and it’s fantastic!!!)
Babies do not 'obviously love sugar.' They just have the sweet taste-buds first, which aligns with breastmilk being sweet.

The baby is just as likely to be freaking out at the sensation overload (not necessarily in a bad way) rather than enjoying the sugar.

Also, babies are familiar with tastes from before birth depending on what the mother ate, so it's also likely the mothers have had quite the sweet tooth while pregnant.

But it's not a preference thing for babies, it's physiological...
Bytecode compilers and interpreters
I like that they are open about their expenses[0]. That's unusual.

I wish they would be able to accept payments w/o requiring users to run non-free JS.

[0]: https://10er.co/open
> must have been in the Insured's blind spot, therefore it was an unavoidable accident

No shoulder check => gross negligence => revoke license
Thermal energy storage will almost certainly play a big role. Germany constructed a test facility in 2017 focused on reducing the cost of these types of plants, and there are already dozens in operation in other countries.

Germany is also making a major push for in-home battery installations (recently surpassing 100k units, up from around 5k units in 2013).
Maybe not so much with the horse riding, but I'm pretty sure most people where I live would rather I did 200km/h through the city center in a virtual racecar than in a real sports car.

Games let you do things you really, really, really shouldn't do in real life.
Yes, that's a good analogy.
I don't think anybody's claiming that having HSV is better than not having HSV, but the fact is that it's incredibly common. It's been with us for millennia and it's not going anywhere until medicine and technology figure out a way to wipe it out. To quote herpes.com stats:

> By the time they're teenagers or young adults, about 50% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies in their blood. By the time they are over age 50, some 80-90% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies.

And this is HSV1 alone. You add HSV2 to it and, I believe according to some stats, you end up with 80% of the world population having some variation of it. Stigmatizing 4 out of 5 people in the world makes no sense and is helping nobody. You can't avoid getting it, unless you never interact with another human being, and treating others like broken goods until you become one too (because it IS only a matter of time) is inhumane.

On a related note, I believe the majority of the stigma comes from HSV2, which I'm sure has much more to do with sexual morality than with medicine. Nobody blinks an eye if you have its oral counterpart, you go to CVS and buy a Blistex. However, if you have the genital version, now THAT is a problem. Same virus, vastly different reaction.
I didn't see any mention on price but when I clicked the pre-order now button and added the phone to the cart, the price shows as $599...not bad!
They only store outstanding UTXOs, not the whole transaction history
> Are there any projects that you consider to be a success that currently use a distributed blockchain?

Would you object to me saying "bitcoin" (edit: I should be clear that I'm primarily referring to market value and making money for those involved with this one)?

It's morally ambiguous at best, but what about "dark net markets"?

Or if we just don't worry about morality, "cryptolockers"?

Of course the latter two are really just consequences of us having a reasonable secure and (seemingly) anonymous currency. The fact that bitcoin enabled them perhaps says more about the state of the rest of the world than bitcoin itself.
Germans called it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik
Facebook and Dropbox took years to switch. Instagram took at least 10 months. (I think that was just the big push.) They switched after the Python developers added compatibility features in 2011 and 2012 and libraries had time to catch up.
See dwarf fortress for a counter-example. I’m of the opinion that story-writing is a red-herring in video games; an attempt to apply “tricks” from other mediums, by disregarding the “interactivity” of video games. A story can be sufficiently created by means of the player’s operations, if the simulation is sufficiently complex and built to support it.

Another example is competitive fps games like CoD/Halo/Quake — the story (and singleplayer mode in general) is wholly unimportant; players will continue to have, and create, stories, despite the multiplayer modes offering little more than a setting. Interaction between each other becomes the story you tell.

No man’s sky (NMS) was simply a bad game, and poorly implemented procedural generation (procedurally generated games are appealing in that you’re exploring the system/simulation, and trying to get a handle on it. No man’s sky had a lot of “elements” to its generation, but its system was very basic; it didn’t take long to mostly understand it, and it was sufficiently complex to allow interesting new phenomena to emerge). NMS’s failure says very little about what procedural generation can offer, because it didn’t make a very good attempt at it. Spore is another example of a failed attempt. Borderlands is another, to a degree. None of these games understood that it’s the system thats interesting, not the combinatorial explosion. Thus their procedural generation is totally unsatisfying, and uninteresting.
It's clear that some "professional" work can be done on an iPad. Depending on your use case it might even have some advantages compared to a desktop or laptop. But for the vast majority of cases the iPad equivalent, if it exists at all, is seriously underpowered compared to the desktop options.

And there are some fundamental reasons why I expect it to stay this way. Mainly that touch is a very low resolution input mechanism but also that Apple has utterly failed to create a healthy market for sustainable professional software businesses.
Algo Capital Launches $100M Fund for Algorand Projects
Or maybe use your mirrors or shoulder check instead of flying blind.
Spying on computer monitors with TempestSDR
>I wonder if webassembly supports that notion or not?

It does[0]. It's just a spec for a bytecode, and it's designed with the intent of being run in the browser and natively.

[0]https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/
If it fits your use case you can use std::valarray<T>. See here: https://godbolt.org/g/JBSvuH
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Yeah, I'm only talking about the quality of the frames. WP has a pretty slick buying experience, I'll give them that. Shuron needs to get with 21st century UX. But...their frames are objectively higher quality than WP.
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How much does the roster of what pilots are constantly scanning have to do with what is happening to the rear of the airplane's path of travel?

Pilots don't have the problem of a child jumping into their path from between parked cars.

They can fly blind in a complete fog, by instruments.

In a car, your attention should be mostly toward the front. The rear action deserves attention, but not a lot; just a glance every few seconds.

There are times in driving when what is happening rearward is very important and deserves a lot of attention; it's generally good to keep those to a minimum.
It seems rather overengineered to me. IETF and W3C standards do support the general content-addressing, "naming things with hashes" use case via the existing ni:// (Named Information) URI schema (RFC6920).
As a former DXer, I used the Satellit at a time when the shortwave tropical bands were filled with exotic stations. Nowadays, I have my SDR with technical specs we could only dream about back then but on the same bands I struggle to find any stations at all. Blame the migration of shortwave stations to FM and the Internet over the past 30 years where they enjoy far better fidelity.