skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Unlike bitcoin, only big institutional clients of J.P. Morgan that have undergone regulatory checks, like corporations, banks and broker-dealers can use the tokens.”

JPMC still controls who is allowed to exchange tokens. Which means that you still have to transact through JPMC to exchange tokens as JPMC controls the blockchain.

If somehow they don’t retain majority control of the blockchain, then you technically don’t have to transact through JPMC but I don’t see that happening.
> Will it let people build chips for phones like Apple does with their own GPUs and microarchitecture? Sure, and at less cost, but what then does that give the average consumer?

Isn't the biggest benefit of Apple's hardware the user experience enabled by top to bottom ownership of the software and hardware stack? I would imagine being able to replicate that without the enormous upfront design costs would be game changing, but I am not familiar with the unit economics of CPUs.
> chrome [h]as 70% market share why would you ever bother ?

This view seriously needs to die. It's honestly not that hard to test in two or three browsers, and the differences are minor enough that it isn't a pain. But the only way that's possible is through Web standardization, which only happens when there are diverse options.

As web developers, it's our duty to keep the web healthy, and that means not only optimizing for a single browser.
The way we check legality and adjust is with the character recognition. We use the second highest and third highest confidence characters. So, if you write a 5 and the model recognizes it as a 5 and then a 6 and 7, but really it's a 4, we can't help. This is because we'd add moves exponentially every time we add that many combinations
It's a common scenario. You build something with tools that allow rapid development, then if you become successful need to find a path forward to scale.

There are many paths to do this - each with trade offs.
Lot of variables not being controlled-for there...
Not really, it isn't a Bloomberg article. Sure, if you want to be pedantic and look up the definition of article, you'll disagree.

But within the context of newspapers and op-eds, you need to treat them separately.
Vim or Vim + YouCompleteMe?
Because comparing VSCode which analyze your codebase with Vim alone isn't a fair comparison.
My take: I prefer very much VSCode to Eclipse or CLion (Linux on large C++ codebase).
As for Vim, I've never managed to configure it in a way that I can use ctags and multiple tabs as simply as I can do it in an IDE.
Also, a slight problem with b) is that it must be in the context of the whole game, since incorrect moves may only arise later on. This makes it harder with characters too ofc
Honestly, it seems like you didn't read the OP very closely as there are several points where she seems to agree with you.
There'd be a lot to unpack to reply fairly and completely to your message here... so to be brief...

I'd say the MTA's problems around poor oversight wouldn't be magically solved by NYC taking control. For example, NYCHA was under NYC control. Sure, over the years the Federal Government has diminished funding from their side -- but that should not overshadow the contractor and union corruption that NYCHA, whose head was controlled by the City, suffered with. You don't need to re-read the headlines about the falsified lead inspections, but I probably do need to remind you that in the last couple of scandals (one involving orgies and parties in a South Bronx project, as well as clocking overtime while not being there), not a SINGLE person got fired, thanks to union protection. Rumors are an elevator repairman position pays 300K. Until recently, NO repairs were done anywhere after 4pm due to union agreements. Finally, the City is the worst landlord - racking up violations more than any private landlord could, in the worst sort of hypocritical irony. So no, I don't think so.

NYCHA was found at fault recently in a Federal lawsuit, where HUD almost took the whole thing over. You can't blame the Federal Government for that.

You probably don't want to know that all the green scaffolding that lasts years is being rented -- the money going to a private contractor. You can look this up and do the math, it's just another example of incompetence.

Next, the City is already making MTA's life harder financially, and here are two recent examples. One is, the Mayor came out against banning food on the subway because it supposedly disproportionally affects the poor. Yet, trash fires from stuff like food containers account for a sizeable fraction of the delays. Here's another. The DA stopped prosecuting subway turnstile jumping, which costs 80M a year from lost subway fares and something like 120m from lost bus fares. And prosecuting this would be racist, we're told.

Finally property taxes go up 20% a year -- at least mine do, because that's the max allowed by NY State. If NYC were running its own affairs, I can't even imagine what would happen.

They failed to implement a wider congestion charge, like they do in London and many other places, because, ahem, it, according to the Mayor, affects the poor (he said this). So now we applied a congestion charge to taxis and Ubers/Lyfts/for-hires, because the drivers are rich, right?

I could go on. Finally I'll leave you with, have a look at how many new City jobs opened up and new agencies opened up in 2018. Do you really think the City can be trusted fully owning its budget?
I’m sorry but your comment reeks of SJW orthodoxy.

What I read was a teacher describing her own experience working to try and fix a problem and discovering that nobody else involved has any interest in seeing that problem solved.

Here is my take: none of the historic examples of wrongdoing by this group or that have anything to do with getting educated or embracing a mindset of achievement as opposed to one that will keep them in a state of economic dependency forever.

Ask yourself: what kind of person is more useful to a politician trying to stay in power than one who will always need that politician to secure financial benefits for them? Someone who is capable of standing on their own two feet or someone who believes that the deck is stacked against them?

I know who I believe in this story.
What do you mean? Are you suggesting we force Google to offer a paid version?

"Law number XXXX: Google must offer a paid version of its search engine to end users".
Try interviewing for senior SRE positions, if you would like that quality to become an asset towards being hired.
Programming Profession
That would be an awful lot of bubbles per move, no?
This reminds me of a similar problem I came across whilst studying quantum mechanics in my undergrad. The problem is stated as follows 'imagine a perfectly upright pencil balancing on its perfectly sharpened tip. How long does it take to fall over?'. At first this seems surprising. Classically speaking, the pencil would never fall over, but knowing that we live in a quantum world, we can conclude that it would in fact fall over. The reason for this is the famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which says that the product of the uncertainty in a particle's momentum and its position is always greater than or equal to hbar/2. You can derive a similar expression for uncertainty in angular momentum and angular position.

Now, these expressions don't imply it's impossible for the angle (theta) and angular momentum (L) both to be simultaneously zero, just that it's infinitely improbable. If you plug in reasonable values for both parameters, say by assuming that Δtheta = ΔL = sqrt(hbar) and that the actual values took a figure corresponding to an expected value assuming these uncertainties, you can work out that the pencil will actually fall over in a few seconds.
The same Google that did this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-says-go...

:thinking:
We don't all publish TV content. We can see from retransmission fees for over-the-air content to the decimation of business models like Aereo what happens when content is governed. I see the Aereo business model as very similar to what's happening w/ article 13 in the EU right now.

But in general I don't think you can compare broadcast mediums to bidirectional ones (e.g. words on the telephone or text on the internet).
I don't think that casino games should be illegal, but I certainly think they should be required to advertise the odds of each bet in a comprehensible manner: "For every $1 you spend at this machine, you should expect to win .95¢."

I'd like to see the odds written that way under every craps bet, and see how many people keep playing.
> If the government waits for a consensus, it will never arrive.

I didn't say "unanimous", I said "consensus".

> as fact that agrees with my points.

You are jumping from a set of events that took place to presuming what specific action should occur in response. The former are facts, the latter requires actual arguments and support.

> there is significant work already that shows that power corrupts

On that we agree. Which leads me to entirely different conclusions.

I don't especially want to pursue this further; I don't think any new arguments are likely to arise.
Happy Valentines Day Moken
@TuringNYC I agree that the role real estate investment is playing in driving rent increases is important to address - through regulation - and I’m all for bringing good jobs to the city.

However, I think we can do better than giving massive tax breaks to megacorporations with bad records on labor relations and what has seemed to be an adversarial relationship to government and public services. I have no interest in seeing a replay of what’s happened to SF in NYC.

I think it’s important for cities to stand up for the interests of all their citizens, not just software developers and product managers (etc) in negotiations with increasingly powerful tech companies.
People seem to forget that manufacturing and distribution of hardware is the expensive bit. "You" is never going to be an ordinary member of the public.
Are you counting the fence posts or sections of the fence?

Edit: I think I screwed up that analogy.
Rust not having a GC and additional runtime is a large advantage when writing native extensions for Ruby.
Ah, good luck. Please consider all the viewpoints when linking to that blog post; else we may keep having the same conversation every time. :-)
At-home HPV tests attempt to reduce cervical cancer rates
Is there a way to convert a regular PR to a draft PR?
But that economic activity will go _somewhere_, and allowing businesses to pressure them into tax breaks is collectively gutting the ability of many city governments to function.
That's true, but according to my experience, it's usually better to perform gradual migrations like from Ruby to Crystal, if it can't solve the problem, try some other GC-based languages like Go. Things like Rust should be the last resort, especially when there is no Rust expert in your team.

EDIT: as some people explained below, this is certainly another trade-off. My experience is based on a case where the team was made of non-talented engineers and many of them stick to the same language in their whole career path.
That you for "respectfully" disagreeing.

> What do you mean by "uninformed"?

I mean that the author doesn't seem to be very informed with respect to race relations or social equity issues.

> What you mean by "traditional"?

I mean a school system that fails to take into account or fully address the same issues that I state above.

It is hard to tackle these issues because it is still too hard to have a reasoned conversation on race and the great injustices of the past (both very intentional and unintentional) that have lead students to the despair they find themselves in today. The author of this article is part of the problem IMHO.
I'm guessing Brazil
As in, a service that captures new images of a given coordinate 10x+ times per day, using presumably some rapidly updating satellite source?

Personally I would not have a use for that kind of frequency in my business, but others might. 10x per day is a lot though. Maybe someone who needs to know truck flows, flows of ships through seaports.
My guess is that the JS implementation of the worst-performing browser is having trouble with the non-1 for-loop steps. Doing 90-degree image rotation with fixed steps and some index calculations should work better (0.18 sec vs 1.5 sec for their implementation in node.js):

for (var y = 0; y < height; y++)
for (var x = 0; x < width; x++)
b[x + y*width] = a[y + (width - 1 - x)*height];

Although that's still far from the theoretical maximum throughput because the cache utilization is really bad. If you apply loop tiling, it should be even faster. This problem is closely related to matrix transpose, so there is a great deal of research you can build upon.

EDIT: 0.07 seconds with loop tiling:

for (var y0 = 0; y0 < height; y0 += 64){
for (var x0 = 0; x0 < width; x0 += 64){
for (var y = y0; y < y0 + 64; y++){
for (var x = x0; x < x0 + 64; x++){
b[x + y*width] = a[y + (width - 1 - x)*height];
"If federal officials are going to regulate social media, they should be independent of the president."

You're in luck, the legislature (where regulations are supposed to come from) is a whole separate branch from the President. Any time you've got the executive branch handling it, the President is in charge of it.
For the new grads, you're still getting tens of thousands of people moving out of campus housing and into the non-subsidized market, so it hardly seems different that bringing people from out of state.
This is great. I don't expect that everyone spends 8h a day on projects (I definitely don't manage anywhere close to this), but even 1h per day is really solid and will compound over time. I've personally found the KPIs super useful in keeping me accountable because without them I have no way of judging my own progress (or lack of).

I've started doing some of what you mentioned above, but have a few new things to try as well!
I'm holding off giving them a click (or any attention via the archive link / other copy) until I find out WHY they'd do that. Is there a valid reason?
Friendly reminder that Robert Epstein (the author of your article) is a moron who's on an anti-Google crusade because they (correctly) flagged his website as containing malware, and he threw a childish tantrum (threatening lawyers, public letters to the CEO). [1][2]

Let me summarize the core studies he ran and builds his case on [3][4]

[3]: We built a fake search engine and had people look at search results for political candidates they'd never heard of before. It turns out when the top results on the page presented one of these candidates favorably, the subjects were more likely to favor those candidates. Based on this, we think 20% of undecided voters in a nation can be swayed to support a candidate by search engines, who are clearly biasing their results on purpose. (???)

[4]: Google search results pages showed more articles favorable to Clinton than Trump. By this, and the conclusion in [3], we estimate 20% of American undecided voters (this is where the 2-3MM comes from) may have been swayed to vote for Clinton by Google.

Is it clear why this is absurd? Especially if you realize that, since the general tone of news published about the election is positive to Clinton and negative to Trump, Google is accurately reflecting the news landscape when the articles it shows are positive to Clinton.

[1] https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/one-mans-fight-wit...

[2] https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/readers-and-expert...

[3] https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/33/E4512.full.pdf?with...

[4] https://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_&_ROBERTSON_2017-A_Metho...
Can you clarify which ideas are scientifically disputed?
I like the generalist route and have always avoided roles that lock me into a specialty. I'm marketing so maybe that changes by industry but I feel this is better for future employment as you you have multiple roles you can go into. As long as you are knowledgeable in said area the interview should bring that out.

Also just for enjoyability, I prefer variety of tasks.
And by the same author as Sloth!
Flow C++ Language Extensions
... not to belabor the discussion, but have you ever run across a scenario where one of the non-technical people tried to insist on something absolutely boneheaded from either a business or technical perspective? Who gets blamed if the dev just shrugs and does it?

Hint: not the person who insisted on it. The developer.

I've seen that play out too many times. Expanding out of a strictly coding role isn't just good for career progression, it's a necessity for career self-preservation, too.
I have never been able to get my head around awk - how did you learn it?
We have been Apache 2.0 open source from day one.

https://github.com/solana-labs/solana

Kudos to filecoin! And choosing Apache 2.0 as the license.
Chrome hasn't optimized wasm very well yet. Wasm isn't and never was meant for frontend. It's meant for crunching data and making it possible to use the thousands of C libs computers run on to have a safe and efficient execution environment that is not restrained by the host software having implimented that C lib directly.

For example there was this app in C# that would convert images into 512 color palette and use dithering to retain some quality. I made a version in the browser, but because of js being too slow it didn't work for large images. Thing is, mine was far safer and accessible than the C# program.
Google used to handle phone lookup and reverse phone lookup out of the normal search index and did it very well. I found the feature to be very useful but apparently some of the network privacy folks thought it too invasive of privacy and Google deprecated the feature.

As a general rule, telephone communication seems to be on the way out--and email is not far behind. Many companies do not have public telephone numbers. Many companies do not have an accessible telephone directory of employees.
Except that the legislature writes general polices and defers to the executive to work out the specifics.
“Spam-filters, actually. Once they became selfmodifying, spam-filters and spam-bots got into a
war to see which could act more human, and since
their failures invoked a human judgement about
whether their material were convincingly human, it
was like a trillion Turing-tests from which they
could learn. From there came the first machineintelligence algorithms, and then my kind.”

I Row-Boat, Cory Doctorow, 2005: https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...
That's not really driven by the government so much as the media companies.
I think your numbers here are either out of date or not consistent for some reason. I got a batch of Humalog yesterday which claims 'retail price $1416.59' for 10 100 unit pens.
Lots are sucked into the idea that a good education will get you a good job. WRONG! Maybe a job for the rest of your life, but who wants to work for someone else till you die?

Student loans is big biz, and the govt makes lots of money from it. It's insane!
Looks like a fun art project, thanks! As you say, there aren't too many tools needed. If you were doing this on your own, though, not part of a class, where would you get the glass? It looks like you had a nice variety of interesting pieces to choose from.
Now that you've learned how to do this in the class, how feasible would it be to do at home? It seems like the grinder would be the most difficult part to replicate at home. I imagine a woodworking router with some sort of diamond grinder bit couldn't be used since I think you said it has water running on the bit.
There are some pretty effective adaptive learning systems for elementary schools. Here is one I am familiar with, from The Netherlands, in 2800 schools, around 25% of the total:

* https://nl.snappet.org/

(Apologies that it is only in Dutch).

The adaptive software pushes each child optimally for their individual learning rate. Their teachers can monitor their progress at a very granular level and give individual attention in a targeted way. The overall progress of the class can be compared with all other classes across the country.
There are no 'fast languages'. Just fast implementations.

This distinction is important.
currently we're aiming for a web of trust between your own devices, and then transitively trusting other's devices once you've verified that user.

however, a GPG-style web of trust which lets transitive trust span over users is a bit questionable: all it needs is one party to be sloppy with keysigning and the whole things falls apart. It also leaks metadata in terms of who knows who like a sieve. So we're going to see how far we can get without it :)
This is better relative to the `sed` solution as it handles the `0000` case well.
this is all about priorities and time management.
Sold out already. :- )

I want to see what Espressif, SiPeed, or some other vendor manages to do with RISC-V. I'm currently prototyping an A2DP vendor codec extension for Opus using an ESP32 board, and it is pretty painless. Bluetooth is the high value bit in my opinion.
Those texts were treated as religious texts in the regimes that followed them.
It's second, but I do think it's weak relative to the size of the city and the unfulfilled potential of what it could be.

The NY metropolitan area is ~20M people, but it's clearly much weaker when it comes to tech than the bay area at only ~7M people (I'd say, a magnitude less in number of tech startups alone), and somewhat stronger than the Boston metro area at 4M but not significantly so. Having lived in all three (and now living in Manhattan for 4 years), I don't think for example there is significantly more tech meetups (maybe even less?) or startups (definitely numerically more, but not of better quality) than in Boston, while by numbers alone it should be a whole magnitude greater.
At the risk of being flippant: Why can’t I “negotiate” my fines (parking, library fees, etc), why are these corporations afforded so much leeway?
Kind of buried until the end is the fact that FB also apparently tracks the location of its employees. The story of tracking the interns and determining they weren't "working from home" doesn't hold up as written - what was the predicate cause of concern for their safety?
anyone know of a language that is just like Ruby, minus the symbols?

or javascript, that is procedural first rather than asynchronous?

it really bugs me that there isn't one quite like it, i'm just dying for something like that.
But, we're in established markets now. People have been using FB and many other sites for many years now and those behaviors are very much ingrained in people. There are only so many hours in a day someone can be online, so to some degree all new applications are competing with FB and the other incumbent apps. It's much much harder today than 10 or 15 years ago.
The AWK programming language book is excellent!

https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_P...

You can find some discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451454
It's bad for me too, also missing some other features of Ruby (for example or, and keywords; ,,if'' keyword as a modifier, using blocks for passing a function as a parameter for functions), but there were some great surprises: the windows support seams superior to Ruby's, where I get a lot of compile errors; of course more/better math libraries.
Uber for Emotionally Available Men
Because these are real decisions that real engineers have to make all the time. Sticking to Ruby for familiarity and ease vs rewriting in a less friendly language for the sake of speed, efficiency, and control is a real tradeoff, and it’s an important decision.

Given that, I wish we saw more of these sorts of stories. I have my own tales along similar lines for multiple tools in my own company. In my case Ruby/Python/Bash vs Go/Rust. This keeps coming up so I question your thesis here that these things aren’t comparables.