skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This Instagram influencers thing is really a separate universe of cheats and tricks. Take those wannabe influencers, who are "promoting" some exclusive brand for free without brand owner knowledge only to make an impression that this brand paid them, which means that they are such influential influencers. Apparently they hope that some other brand owner will look and say "Wow, this guy was hired by, say, Nike, for a promo, we had to hire her or him as well too". Crazy times.
which looks like the most efficient way. China will likely make it the State miner initiative in the middle of all those legal changes.
He's right though. There's zero reason for a state like Wyoming to vote for this. Wyoming residents' votes for president are worth more than 3.8 times Florida residents' votes. I agree that it's stupid that they have that additional weight, but from their perspective it'd be stupid to pass something like this.

30 states/regions have more weight than the national average, and 20 have less weight. Louisiana is right at the national average.
Wow, these are very interesting. Thanks for sharing them here.
https://www.iea.org/statistics/?country=WORLD&year=2016&cate...
The mental fortitude Dota 2 gives...
mate, the health situation in the US is a joke. the US is less healthy than Oman and Slovenia.
Traditional crude peaked, but it became possible to produce shale oil at scale and that has delayed the overall peak a bit.
I was a contractor at a company where one of the divisions did Craiglist scraping as part of the business model and they had a closet full of laptops doing the scraping part of the job - thirdhand what I heard was separate PC's were necessary for the anti-scraping workaround they were using.
>When did "Show HN" threads became shark tank?

From the 2007 announcement of Dropbox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

"""
1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
"""
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How is this an ad for a competitor to Tik Tok?

And which competitor? I figured it was an ad for flip, which is (as far as I can tell) a leasing service.
Right, now computers come with 4+ cores, so it does not lag as much.
Templenes: NES Emulator for TempleOS
How to Hold Your Team Accountable
I'm not arguing about server side java apps. But java UI apps is still trash.
Been trying that for a while (to demonstrate things), and while I've spent tonnes of time helping colleagues (even more senior ones) both in my team and in others, it's almost irrelevant when it comes to management. (Been doing this for more than 2 years now.)

I'm starting to realise that there's a supply-demand chain - limited number of growth opportunities which need to be distributed among the engineers. So if I didn't catch the initial train, then there's little to no prospect of getting on it while it's going.
Estimates aside (I imagine these vary a lot by area anyway.. city vs rural, etc.), aren't these the same considerations as phone lines?
At my dental office, they can tell you the total cost without insurance which is the maximum they would charge for any procedure. If you paid in cash in full, they would do a discount (for non-insured).

For those insured, it depended on the insurance you had but they would give you a rough estimate based on the plan you had (mostly because they can’t be 100% certain what the insurance will cover down to the exact dollar amount.

In my experience the estimate is often off but close enough that I am not worried I’d owe an insane amount afterwards.
At the moment, it's limited to 8 with AV. Without AV though, we've tested past a few hundred with no problems.

We've got a pretty long pipeline of features, one of them includes a better setup for things like webinars, with one presenter and a large number of consumers.
So, increase DoD spending even more (in such a way that cannot be easily reverted) and further antagonize with second most influential country on Earth which is really important to US economically - while confirming that all any small country needs to get free american help is to peddle a small democratic underdog narrative? Just to be clear - in Hong Kong case, I believe this narrative to be true, but it being true is much less important that it being perceived as true and actively promoted in american media.
Didn't say that all marketing or even the majority is wrong. Just that there are bad practices.
But to enter the market, you just need to buy those Bitmain ASICs and find a cheap power source. That's what makes it a commodity market: barriers to entry are low, so if a big player gets too dominant, a bunch of new entrants with money but not necessarily expertise can take them down. You can't really do that to say Goldman Sachs or Wells Fargo, where a large portion of the competitive advantage they've built up is the trust (har har) and relationships they've developed over the past 150 years.

There's perhaps worries that Bitmain could get too big and poison the chain, but they're hamstrung in that by Bitcoin being an open protocol. If they did that the network would fork, and despite the higher hash rate in the Bitmain fork, holders would dump the Bitmain coins and buy the original fork, since they wouldn't trust the poisoned chain.
Invest in a carbon monoxide detector, also you might want to make sure you're eating a healthy diet, don't have any nutrient deficiencies or imbalances, and get enough sleep and exercise.
Hah, I will now believe that this was indeed placed there as a joke.

There are actually a few more people than just Jesus looking out towards Mona Lisa, some with amusing expressions. It is just a rather busy painting, so it can be hard to notice.
that's not the only cost of renewables,look at germany and france https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/05...
> That's arguably a lot more important that what protocol it uses

I'd disagree. Many VPN protocols suck even if the gateway is in-house. I guess there's a reason they introduced that with Wireguard specifically.
Ads is fine. Nothing bad with it. All TV programs show ads everyday.

It's the policy that matters. If all website enforces a policy that requires user permission to show it, then it's good to go.
I've updated the article to be more clear about the existence of the auxiliary interface. Thanks for the comment, super useful!
Miners are literally there to skim value out of a transaction. They're middlemen.

And it is a waste. There are plenty of more efficient ways to make a transaction. I get that bitcoin is designed around this waste but that's hardly an excuse.
> If there's one truth I've learned in my decades of dealing with computers, it's that you can't beat C at being C.

Have you ever seen a language that has made a serious attempt?

The last few years, the only significant one I know of is Rust. But it's not really a C replacement. C is essentially fancy assembly. Rust is conceptually quite advanced.

Zig is one of very few languages I've seen that makes a serious attempt at being a better C. No garbage collection, no fancy borrowing checker, but quite a few improvements/features that actually matter to low-level/embedded programming.

My use-case is microcontrollers, and I've tried a few different new languages for fun. Zig is the first one where I actually came out of it wanting to use it for real. The only problem is it's still not finished.
Hey thanks. I think probably our experiences are just different here. I've found that convention (one css file next to the JS component in this case) is sensible but can break down over time or with larger dev teams. In these cases, I tend to prefer a technical constraint over convention when there is a choice between the two and it's for something important. On tracking down the styling, we haven't found identifying the relevant component where CSS lives difficult in practice but I can see that might not always be the case.

Edit: just to add, the comment in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19608498 does a much better job of explaining all the benefits of CSS-in-JS.
> Wait, so are they sold or gifted?

Sold to the dealers perhaps? Not ruling out imprecise writing, but the dealers are franchise, not subsidiary, so I would expect them to not get their marketing materials for free.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a logical fallacy. Very basic.

MCAS caused the extreme mistrim that resulted in the crash. Turning it off does not solve the mistrim.
Yes, all of those things.
I would not call it preventing fraud, rather simplifying global money supply and making it more transparent, which in turn could prevent fraud due to smaller attack surface and more eyeballs.
> if Youtube closed tomorrow, there would be an outcry

Clever youtube though, let you become a paying customer and bypass the ads. It really is a very compelling resource once the millstone of advertising is removed.
This should be a global effort funded by democratic countries including the EU, North America, Britain, and maybe even India. The point is to keep the world from fracturing into hands of this sort of pseudo-fascism and capitalist-liberalism. The more I see the sorts of moves China is making, the more I feel that we're heading into a new sort of Cold War and America seems to be sitting back letting it happen rather than actively attempting to contain it... because it seems that they can't actually afford to do so.
Nitpick: The article talks about sparse linear algebra (rather than dense) by modeling a graph traversal as a sparse matrix-vector multiplication. The sparse matrix represents the adjacency matrix of the graph, and the vector represents the subset of vertices that are currently "active" (you can think of an active vertex as being in the workqueue for a breadth-first-search).

I haven't tried benchmarking Prof. Davis's GraphBLAS implementation myself against the one you linked to. My intuition would be that the GraphBLAS one is faster for larger graphs, because it uses data structures like CSR (compressed sparse row) [1], which are heavily optimized for processing static graphs (i.e. graphs that are not very amenable to adding vertices or edges). Based on the code examples on the first page, lua-graph seems more focused on small, dynamic graphs where the user can easily add vertices and edges. Short answer: they target different sets of applications. GraphBLAS is faster for processing large, static graphs with |V| and |E| in the millions or billions. lua-graph perhaps more flexible and handles dynamic graphs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_matrix#Compressed_spars...
As a techie, you should still apprectiate the fact that Bitcoin mining is the first financial system that can be measured in terms of energy impact.

Existing systems, banks and all adjacent institutions and companies, are close to impossible to track and measure.
Hongkong was taken away from China with cannons and drugs.

Handing it back was the right thing to do legally (for the new territories), morally, and historically.

It's sad to see people effectively praising European imperialism in 2019, reminds me of the old "civilising the natives" antics.

Edit since I'm being prevented from relying to comments:

There is no regression. Those protesters were charged under a colonial-era law.

Hongkong did not even have the Legislative Council under the British, which was created it as a 'gift' to the Chinese.

From the popular vote, it seems to me that the "pro-Beijing" camp has a majority, so that's what "the people want"...

Let's be realistic and put things in perspective, shall we.

Edit 2:

To the person who replied:

> Meanwhile, during those 100 years, a new, distinct, non Chinese culture developed. Hong Kong people speak a different language than mainland, have different food, culture references and desires.

HK's culture is as Chinese as can be. In fact it is more traditional Chinese than the mainland. They speak Chinese
(Cantonese is 'Chinese', it's the language spoken in Guangdong province hence why it is spoken in HK, 'Canton' is how Guangzhou used to be called...), they eat Chinese.
It would be good to know a minimum about a topic before commenting.
>> I mean, if you watch sitcoms on TV, you're developing your sense of humor, observe people engaged in funny dialogue etc.

No, you are not developing your sense of humor.
Most of the humor in the "funny dialogue" is conditioned and triggered by the laugh track.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BFSZ8XzWOM for example.
Great timing for those of us on Zeit's Now.sh v1 service which seems to be in it's way to deprecate serverless docker deployments.
No smoking,no tattoos,no bikinis: inside China’s war to ‘clean up’ the internet
Only tangentially related, but I saw a very upsetting video on Reddit yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOAbkTs_a4

In this video you see a Chinese woman being arrested for making online comments about Xi Jinping. She says everything right and it doesn't matter, they just take her anyways.

I don't know what point I'm trying to make other than that it's a very sad state of affairs for Chinese people right now, and I feel for them.
Potential to be huge for sure, but with the way Google sunsets projects on the regs, I'm not sure I fully trust it as a robust solution long term. Granted with container-based-deployments, it should be trivial to switch between services which would mitigate that. It's certainly interesting, but I may wait a year or so before I trust it for prod.
Ha yes definitely. One of our motivations in this work is to be able to identify and serve only the CSS that is needed for the specific page/components being requested.
My 86-Year-Old Mother Is an Inadvertent Market Timer
No need remote, the brain will run the TV
If you made such a statement unquoted you’d be branded populist
What an awful made-up story. I wish I did some actual work instead.
I just got into (light) meditation over the past few months, and I've found the practice has made working out more pleasant. In the past I always made myself do it, but it was more of a struggle to not want to be done and doing something more mentally stimulating. I think the meditation has helped train me to make the most of the experience and not be craving more stimulation (at least, as much as before).
Does this mean that Apple gets notified every time a user runs an executable?
".. Which brings us back to the bikini question. The answer to that, it turns out, is something AI is not yet very good at: context.

To an algorithm, a bikini is a bikini. But to a human, a bikini in different settings can mean very different things. So, a bikini at a swimming pool with children running about? Fine. Skimpy two-piece in a bedroom with soft, romantic background music? Probably not. .."

Wonder if pure image-based learning can overcome this ?
Exactly. Main problem is that people treat a phone or computer as a tool that serves their needs and might not realize that in fact it serves someone's else needs. They cannot see the traffic their device sends to Google, they cannot examine Google's comprehensive databases. Data collection remains unnoticed, there are no icons and no warnings.

Opting out of data collection is inconvenient. When I need to log into Google or any other large company service, I have to do it in a private tab. When I want to run skype or slack, I have to create a separate OS account for them because major linux distributions don't have any protections preventing slack from reading my browser's history. Oh, and did you notice that Linux Slack app opens a browser to log in? I guess the reason for it might be that they want to store cookies in the browser and track the user across the Internet.
Have you got an example of a C replacement that was actually better than C, got as far as Zig and is now abandoned? I can't think of one. I've been look for a better C for 15 years and Zig is the best candidate I've found. I don't think DasbetterC counts, since it is a side effort to the greater goals of D.
We already use computers in traditional banking in a much more efficient way than bitcoin.
Commenters are applauding the environmental implications of this policy, but I’m curious why no one is considering the human side of this ban. There are a billion people living under authoritarianism who are stuck with an increasingly devalued Yuan and steadily losing the ability to obtain other currencies.

Is that not also a problem that can result in humanitarian disaster? I don’t think we should be comfortable with blanket bans just because they are accompanied by government greenwashing PR.
The timing of this funding round is also the biggest surprise for me. Their last round was in November last year and they raised a significant amount of money. It's genuinely taken me aback that five months later they are raising funding again.
The risk level is nowhere near "everything is wiped out", but the risk level for species in general is higher than the risk level for humans.
Programming language popularity: C++ bounces back at Python's expense
https://pchiusano.github.io/2017-01-20/why-not-haskell.html
I found this argument compelling: Haskell is good for programs like compilers: they do many interesting things but without needing to interact with the outside world as much.

Whereas "straight-forward CRUD app" is more about interacting with the outside world, which is harder to do in Haskell compared to, say, Go.

HN discussions
2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17114308
2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450828
>Solar costs have fallen very rapidly.

proof? beacuse using solar and wind bring a rise in the cost of energy https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/05...
You have a condition that means you cannot freely eat fruit. Most people, and children in particular, have no problem with fruit or fruit juice. The problem is, as with everything else in life, lack of moderation. 1 small glass of juice a day and 2 pieces of fruit are perfectly fine, recommended even, for healthy people.
Xmake can only simplify the maintenance management of dependencies, improve the usability and maintainability, but can not fully realize the way you say
HK was ran by a colonial government, the irony is that the British had 100 years to grant HK citizens full suffrage but chose not to do until China modernisation made handback inevitable.
Yeah - I get by with overnight uploads or coffee shops, but if I needed it regularly I'd have to jump ship :| It's enough to do video meetings or a single high quality movie stream, and that's really all I need for 99% of the time.

Faster would be nice occasionally, but adblock has a bigger impact on page load time than bandwidth at this point.
It has an emoji in the title...I'm sold.
Its goal is similar to that of Rust. I'm sure it has more goals than only replacing C. Effectively it can become yet another systems programming language, but potentially one of the best, and thus replace C (or work alongside C in existing programs).

I haven't played with Zig but it looks a lot more appealing than e.g. Rust to me.

In the end though, I'll prefer plain old C (C99 or C11).
Currently it is tech companies who hurt people's privacy and anonimity. They definitely deserve "intervention".
Reminds me of this Warren Buffet quote "By periodically investing in an index fund, for example, the know-nothing investor can actually outperform most investment professionals. Paradoxically, when ‘dumb’ money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.”
>I ended up buying a $80 bluetooth adapter for my wired headphones

What's the point of a headphone if you're listening to MP3/AAC → A2DP transcoded music?
But this is just a pipe dream. You would just have fraud hidden away in Swiss bitcoin accounts and wallets in the Cayman islands. Isn't it just less privacy for the naive user and business as usual for the fraudster?
They say this applies to every single vendor but they only mention( multiple times) Huawei.
> Running five miles of cable would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars

There are more modern laying techniques for rural areas that don't require you to dig up that much. A five person team can lay 3 kilometers of fiber a day in rural areas with modern microtrenching solutions. (looks like this for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bfbh3ILLD0)
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These are exogenous substances - they didn't magically synthesize in the animals from water and grain. As a regulator, any detectable amount should be a case opened to investigate that particular supply chain.
Yes, I agree very much.
I have one criticism: although zig has advertised very early on an amazing array of targets (probably taken from clang/llvm itself), some of the most esoteric ones have never worked for me, like powerpc (32bit) and MIPS. The blame is not entirely in zig but also in LLVM.

It would be more fair to not even mention them as supported _at all_, or at the very least to document them as Tier 4.
1 and 3 are not true anymore, the new canonical CMake way is targets with attached dependencies, header file search paths, compiler flags and possibly other things. Bad documentation - well yeah, it's specifically missing first-party best practices and howto documentation and the third-party documentation as well as really old first-party documentation in the CMake wiki often recommends bad old practices.

You forgot to mention that the language is awful (but that usually doesn't get in the way IME).
> categorized into so called nice classes

They're called Nice classes, named after the city of Nice (France).
I understood the author the same way you did
Facebook's ad targeting algorithm is inherently biased
Quite the dog's breakfast:

> In the first version of the software, there were 70 full copies of 4
different OpenSSL versions, ranging from 0.9.8 to 1.0.2k (including one from
a vendor SDK) with partial copies of 14 versions, ranging from 0.9.7d to
1.0.2k, those partial copies numbering 304. Fragments of 10 versions,
ranging from 0.9.6 to 1.0.2k, were also found across the codebase, with
these normally being small sets of files that had been copied to import some
particular functionality."
Just like every other code.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will have my legal help check it and take the appropriate steps.
If it would 'prevent fraud' it should be possible to e.g. retrieve stolen funds.
Instead, it is a mechanism to ensure money is only spent once.

Cash solves this rather cheaply (because it is physical). Electronic money does it a lot more efficiently that bitcoin. Perhaps the power usage of all banks is higher than bitcoin, but power per transaction is a lot better.
The random newsgroup post this links to does, but the sources it relies on don’t
How do you make it accessible from all devices you use?
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Free or paid doesn't mean anything. You buy Windows 10 or you buy an Android phone - and you get under surveillance. Actually, using a "free" linux distribution or a "free" pirated Windows might give you higher chance to stay under radar.
I wonder if we'll get Edge for Linux then... Considering the shift MS products have gone (VS Code is great!) I would be happy to give it a try.