skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a cryptocurrency fan and developer who wants to build services on top of cryptocurrency networks.

I want a cheap, fast, decentralized solution for token ownership with a great user experience. I want to build back-end solutions for crypto-tokens representing digital collectables, in-game items, etc.

I need a critical mass of users before these services start to become viable as a business model. Thus I need a cryptocurrency for tokens to succeed in a meaningful way. And I want this regardless of whether I own the native token of this network.
There is no failure. It is FB business model.
I think that's a fair question; A good litmus test is people who had bitcoins prior to 2012 (arbitrary date), I had friends who mined bitcoins because they thought it was "cool" and because they liked the idea, not because it was an investment.

Personally the computational overhead makes me weep a fair amount; we're simultaneously trying to save the planet while making our payment methods several orders of magnitude more expensive in terms of power. But if there was a "coin" that was comparative in terms of energy expenditure with what currently exists then I'd be more than happy to "lose" my wealth in other coins. That is a very low price to pay for such a system.
That's not their quality control you are referring to but the content guidelines (censor). It's a choice they are free to make, and are probably mostly copied off some American idea on what should be public or not.

The problem you are running in to is that your ideas don't match their ideas and you want them to match your ideas (which they won't because they don't live in your world, they live in their world, which at this time is mostly the USA world).

If in your country the government would enforce some law stating that companies should not block sex in their content pipelines, then Apple, just like they do in every other country, will comply. This is also the reason they censor stuff in China, it's the law over there.

So while their ideas and values might not match with you, they do still have to follow the law. If you believe companies with a large impact should not block certain information from flowing, that is something you can enforce by law.

A company has to deal with the law, and cannot go and be an anarchist whenever it feels like it (but people can) because then they cease to exist.
> Generics aren't a cure-all, they merely duplicate code and change the type. Its not much better than copy-paste and replace the type names.

Nobody ever said that.

> . Its not much better than copy-paste and replace the type names.

Yes it is. You let the compiler do the job, instead of doing it manually.
And it's one of the harder places to fix apparently.

I went to a place that repairs jeans and they quoted me the purchase price of the jeans to fix it.
As of 12 years ago:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2007/11/researchers-turn-ski...
"You're clearly not only unwilling to engage in logical reasoning, you also seem to lack basic reading comprehension."

- that is not simply pointing out mistakes. That's ridiculous insults that have no place on HN. I didn't think zeroname came off better in that exchange at all, in terms of who was trying to communicate, not just appear superior. There was a crossed wire, and condescending lectures in basic logic mixed with insults did not help.
> nothing to install or update

That's not a feature. That's how you have no control at all.
Where do you draw the line though? Planet Earth used to be a lot bigger than it is now (metaphorically speaking).

"All of which is happening in the Solar System..."

"All of which is happening in the Milky Way..."

"All of which is happening in the Observable Universe..."

It's probably a cycle that will occur as we make advances in communication technology.
Probably at least a decade. I remember hearing about it towards the beginning of the century. It is one path towards a less controversial acquisition of stem cells.
Space colonization and suffering risks [pdf]
This guy seems to think that the reason people get into wars is because they don't like each other's faces, or something. That's not a reason to risk your life in a violent conflict. The reason wars start is because the king/emperor/CEO or whoever is at the top of the food chain has an interest in expanding their dominion because it makes them richer. That's why wars get started. To think that wars just randomly start because people are crabby or don't have an adult to supervise them- that's the thinking of a child.

But he says right in the article that there's no meaningful way to actually control people in another system! So what would be the reason to go to war?
Fine them off the surface of the planet. This is just beyond bad. It is not just something that happens. The amount of failsafes that should have triggered before something like this should be so high that the probabilities should be indestinguishable from 0.

Apparently it is only calls from three län (administrative regions), but only because the others didn't use the service of the company in question.
There is this video about inline styles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3OF4A30jSQ, based on a lot of real-world experience.

It addresses some of these points at 35:23 - that you can kind of make CSS work if you always do everything right, but it's not as easy in practice (most of the experience stuff is at the beginning - which shows that they did kinda do everything "right").
Well, an obvious problem with it is that they may (will, probably) inadvertently confess to many many more crimes than they realize. A lawyer can help for "negotiating" a fair sentence.

(The police & prosecutors will try to pin as much as possible on you. It's all about those numbers.)
Let's talk legal ramifications.

The cause of technical breaches falls onto a sliding scale in my mind. That scale goes from pure technical negligence to overbearing technical complexity.

This breach seems like pure negligence. In a surgery this wouldn't be "complications", it would be malpractice. Does GDPR protect those breached here? What recourse do these people have?

We really need to change the narrative around data. It should be a liability. Unlike other disruptions software drives, this will need to be driven by governments.
HVDC lines are really neat tech and I fully support solar farms in the Sahara to supply Europe, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's cheaper to launch satellites than to build a global power grid that can provide solar power over night.

I think debris is not a terrible problem right now. We manage to have a large number of satellites in high orbits.
Both F# and C# can do ad-hoc polymorphism - I use it in my language-ext library [1], the library is C# but the principle is the same for F#. It's not idiomatic (or pretty), but it's possible if needed. Higher-kinds is the killer missing feature.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext#ad-hoc-polymorphism
If you need caching then you would likely server render your page and that would inline all of the critical css to be cached as well.

Writing your css in JS files also does nothing to prevent you from separating content and presentation. You can write components that just handle styling. I see more problems with separation in css where you end up with one giant file that handles the whole site.
From the "Quality Goals" in the Software Architecture PDF:

"Scytl sVote should fulfil for instance the following quality standards (not exhaustive):

• Scalability.

• Accessibility and responsiveness.

• Data separation.

• Universal verifiability and individual verifiability.

• Performance efficiency."

Worrying that anonymity and security is not mentioned, but "responsiveness" is.
> I wonder if JPL/NASA will consider using Rust for any of their future missions.

You are quite welcome to try, but don't expect any help - the Rust Evangelism Strike Force is way too busy focusing on world domination on Earth for Rust, at the moment. Missions in outer space are still outside their remit.
So if you think of $250K as the cost to get the business to sustainable, then $60K is part of it, a bunch of your own money is part of it, and your sweat and and anyone who works for you for equity is another part. Think about time too. It could be $250K up front sourced by investors, or $250K over 3 years combining all the sources. Or somewhere in between. There is nuance. Good luck!
this seems like a valuable point: the collective misremembering of WW2 as some sort of "noble war", at least by the Allies, should probably be completely reassessed. but it is tied in very closely to the non-empire myth, and so it isn't.
Slightly off topic, but stories like this remind me of the Aeolipile[0] from Ancient Rome.

It was a simple steam engine invented in 250BC, but the Romans never applied it to anything because there was no economic impetus. No one in antiquity seriously questioned slavery, and there was no major industry or constructions that couldn't be accomplished by throwing bodies at the problem until it was finished.

In modern times, we done the same thing with a lot of industries, like agriculture. Fruit harvesting robots are totally feasible, but we have political and economic policies that make it easier to use migrant labor than it is to invest in innovation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
Confronting a Sinful Church
> using something like SCSS
> adopt a simple naming structure

and suddenly

> I still don't see CSS-in-JS as more of a bandaid for people that like CSS

Why are SCSS or poor-man's-substitute-for-modularity in the form of naming conventions fine, and why JS-in-CSS is bad?
Historically philosophers were often at odds with the idea of democracy. Once you discover what is true and what is false, it is very frustrating to have to deal with people who are not as smart as you are.

Modern philosophers are mostly pro-democratic for a number of reasons. They have to invent mental tricks to make democracy compatible with what they think is right. "Ministry of information" or separating voting (based on values) from decision making (based on facts) are examples of such tricks.

IMO, if we value democracy, we'll have to agree that decisions taken democratically will sometimes be wrong. The only way to fix that without compromising the democracy, is to raise the level of an average citizen's education.
Those opposed to exploring the new world were basing it on ignorance and rumors. Dragons! Sea monsters! The edge of the earth! None of which was true, you just need to have enough supplies, keep the crew from mutiny, and hope there's decent weather.

In contrast, what we know from facts about space travel: even real sea monsters might leave you alone once in a while, but space is actively trying to kill you at every moment. There are real problems to be solved, like rocket equation, radiation, having enough bandwidth once you get there to stream Netflix. The monsters out there are quite real and quite deadly.

Luddites were just worried about job security.
"The latest trends"? To me Go is particularly conservative.

I don't feel like arguing over a word that has become essentially meaningless over time, but I think you have seriously misunderstood what hipster means or was once supposed to mean. Either that, or you don't really know about Go and are just judging it by its marketing's design aesthetics (Gopher, fonts etc. following a trendy googley style).
You want to put it in synchronous? How do you keep it lit up all the time?

You do understand you need many more panel fields as opposed to receiving stations that way and half of them is wasted anyway?

I thought the idea is to put them in solar Lagrange or solar synchronous orbit and bend or reflect the maser to stations. 24 hour lit, though a bit trashy if Lsun is used.

The math is suspicious anyway. Wouldn't it mean that the panels would cost 25% of this on ground?
But Wire is not a matrix client, is it?

If it is, they hide it well.
British lawmakers accuse Zuckerberg of spectacular leadership failure? Hmm...

It’s not that I don’t agree, it’s just a funny accusation coming from them.
Death to Minimalism
It would be ok for the code editor if you primarily reading
We should think a lot about colonizing space, and plan, and then do it.
What you linked is "CSS-in-JS" (in the sense that the library/framework you use transforms the output for you, for convenience, i.e., you're not writing BEM or whatever - same as in the original article). Vue scopes the styles by adding a data attribute.

https://vue-loader.vuejs.org/guide/scoped-css.html#scoped-cs...

Inspect the result here: https://codesandbox.io/s/3v0pjzoy7q
Cases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial show that indeed, court may fail to establish the truth, especially in politically motivated cases.
Show HN: Visualize Git Commits and Pull Requests Across Many Repos
I want a cryptocurrency which is egalitarian - evenly distributed among people in the world, rather than one in which a few people own the majority and profit hugely.
"Porting lodash" isn't an end unto itself, but you can use `interface{}` everywhere and have the same degree of type safety that lodash enjoys, which is to say zero.
The counter is that if that crypto really became that used, you'd begin being paid in it.

There was a brief moment where companies began paying employees in crypto.
I would love to buy them
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What is fairly distributed in this world?
Honestly, it sounds like you now have a write-only site, as you will have a hell of a time 5 years down the road when the CI changes.

Personally, I find the Vue.js concept much nicer, but even given that, I define my styling in LESS (SASS...) to benefit from inheritance/mixins on the level of styling. Semantic approaches like BEM or Bulma make a lot more sense to me.

It seems to me React has made a feature out of a flaw, much like the intermingling of code and HTML back in the days with ASP/JSP/PHP.
You may be thinking of Don't Talk to the Police[1]? I'm not sure if the speaker explicitly says this or just quotes someone who did, but let's just say that this is a recurring theme in the talk...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Which brings us back full circle to the point I was originally trying to convey: if a coding standard forces you to write more convoluted and harder-to-read code just to work around some of its rules, that is a clear failure of said standard.

Fortunately MISRA seems to have gotten back some sanity in the 2012 revision compared to the one the above JPL standard is based on.
Deep Learning from Scratch to GPU: Increasing Performance with Batch Processing
There are multiple ways and levels. The easiest is gatekeeper, which lives in the security settings. Next is SIP, which is a deeper layer (also PKI based) which cannot be changed while booted (which is a very good security model). You can only change this preboot or in the recovery environment. At that point, you may choose to disable SIP completely, or just parts of it (done using the csrutil). For an easier preboot option, you can use something like rEFInd/rEFIt to do this whenever you feel like it from a small preboot application.

Security-wise, that can be problematic, and I suggest you turn on EFI password authentication so it's not something everyone can do to your machine. This means you can still change the SIP settings on-demand per boot using a USB stick with rEFInd on it, but doing that requires you to chain boot off of that USB drive and doing that triggers EFI protection and requires a password before you can do that. Normal boot would not require a password and lets you use the system as-is.
TL;DR; this is a lightweight open source alternative to tools such as GitPrime. This project started as way to learn Rust on nights/weekends, but as an engineering leader, I do believe that there exists a real gap between the creators of software and the stakeholders. Maybe something like this could help– curious to get some feedback from the HN readers. I will include the following three thoughts/assertions:

There is a fundamental gap between engineers and the stakeholders in the technology and value they create. This can manifest itself in many ways: including mismanagement, low feature velocity, and misaligned incentives. A big reason for this is that software and systems are complex and difficult to reason about– particularly at organizational scale. To make the situation even worse, there are virtually no commonplace leading metrics to represent the health of an engineering organization. Project tracking software and traditional velocity metrics are extremely gameable, inconsistent and fail to capture the deeper context in the code itself. Infrastructure and product-level metrics generally break down with respect to net-new feature development. A potential solution is to utilize source-level metrics– based on commits, pull requests, and continuous integration and deployment data.

The involvement of individual contributors is essential in bridging this gap. In order to meaningfully utilize source-level metrics, it is vital that the people who know the code the best have full transparency and input into the process. Moreover, they should be able to help tune and ensure that the metrics are actually meaningful by incorporating their own knowledge of the specific codebases involved. Not only are existing tools in this area expensive and inaccessible, but they are also generally black boxes that are sold and brought in by management. Having deep roots in open source and being accessible to the engineers themselves is key.

Source-level metrics are ineffective for stack ranking individual engineers. Engineers share a deep aversion to measuring individual performance by source-level metrics. This aversion is well-founded as the contribution of a single code-change to the overall value of a system is impossible to accurately quantify. Furthermore, at the individual-level, programming methodologies such as pair-programming further confound things. In aggregate, however, the meaning of these metrics increases and can be used as leading indicators of an entire organization or team. Moreover, It is in the best interest of an individual contributor to have some form of data-driven decision making at the organizational level versus the alternative.
Money is more fairly distributed than cryptocurrencies.

Credit Suisse found that 97% of bitcoin is held by 4% of addresses (though some may belong to exchanges): http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-97-are-held-by-4-of-a...
See also: http://localhost.run/
Not for the monitor, but for the dock that's connected to all the monitors (belkin thing)
CSS... sweet memories. For some reason I never was able to learn how the damn thing works. I worked for Google Analitics in 2011 and we rebuilt it using new in house built framework which championed an idea of a separate styles for an on screen component. Every dev was starting a new component with: clean_styles directive as nobody was brave enough to deal with what comes from the top. Even though it was possible to use cascading part, nobody was brave enough to own styles for the whole product. So, We ended up with so many styles we had to split them in couple files as we reached a limit in IE on number of styles in one file. Last time I checked GA is loading 3 of them...
Is it a time for some other way of doing it?
I always thought css-modules is the de-facto practice
> a language flaw in the React concept.

What language are you talking about? React is Javascript

> Look at this beauty for comparison

Meanwhile Vue is neither HTML [1], nor strictly speaking CSS [1], and has a very wierd concept of how objects work in JS.

[1] It's a templating system with its own rules and mini-DSLs that ends up being compiled into JS.
If this kills proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, I'm all for it.
By that logic Apple's Retina displays would be worse than non-Retina displays. Down-sampling decreases eye strain and makes the image smoother. It is only an issue when dealing with fine lines that our eyes watch very closely, such as in text.
The Enterprise Journey to Artificial General Intelligence (2018)
In the 1950s and 1960s many developed nations had national science programmes that were much more than they are now. They didn't always capitalise on them to best effect (carbon fibre springs to mind here), despite having patents.

Not always military either: Concorde, APT(Pendolino) and TGV, Ariane, hovercraft, nuclear etc.

I'd link Wikipedia, but the entry on UK's National Research Development Corporation is comically short, and I can't find anything for the French equivalent on English wiki. Can't even remember the name of the equivalent US programme to link that.

Nevertheless a lot of significant science and the products that stemmed from that, that wouldn't get done otherwise, came with government funding. It's a good part of the positive image of science in the immediate post war years.

I would love to see some of those huge blue sky national science projects make a return.

EDIT: Atrocious grammar.
Poorly designed code is possible with any language. Was it unmaintainable because of something fundamental to css in js?
I have so many small components that I would loathe to have a separate stylesheet. Yes, it's a small thing to just switch tabs, but this is a small problem. And these small problems add up and can be a huge pain. I really really like the SFCs in vue and compare it to a bit of butter on toast. It might be a small thing, but it seems like it makes a big difference.
I even think that this utility (to me, it is synonymous with the simplicity from which it comes) has actual mathematical elegance. Whereas functional languages I find not particularly elegant once they hit the real world, must run on real machines etc. It gets ugly, complicated, or slow, really quick.
What use is it to see the price of the item without knowing the shipping cost? It seems to me that what you’re really saying is that they need to know where you live and what kind of shipping you want before they can show you the real price.
With that amount of money, I can live 100 years.
Housing, insurance, food, every basic need covered (and I ll own my house for goods, no loan).

Why the hell would I start a company ?
money have replaced values already owned by people

it didn't pop-up from nothing

crypto currencies need to be acquired using either real currencies or through some form of mining, that requires real currencies to acquire the resources needed to bootstrap it

the crypto space is already a place where rich got richer, less rich got sometimes more rich, most of the times nothing changed for them, really poor individuals from really poor countries couldn't even get started
I don't want to take the part of Zuckerberg nor Facebook, but "spectacular leadership failure" from UK lawmakers after two years trying to get out of EU is a bit funny.
Did you buy the two-century-old propaganda that the Luddites were motivated by hatred of technology?

Come to think, it's also odd to pose "not exploring the New World" as an existential threat to human progress, given that there were plenty of humans already there.
I'm wondering when the flashpoint will be when a standing government is publicly given the finger by a megacorporation. It's happening quite often these days through wishy-washy sideways explanations and question dodging worthy of the very government members that are doing the questioning, but eventually corporate executives will get to the point that they no longer find that they NEED to do such things, daring the world's presidents and parliaments to do anything to stop them.

At that point, I think society will need to question where they have given power: to the governments through taxes and laws, or to corporations through willful dollars and convenience? After all, what power does a body have if not granted it by the people (at least ideally)?
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