skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think bitcoin has been really overhyped (and manipulated in many different ways), and would be happy to see it fade into history (if not some of the technologies and ideas it's based on).

However, I'm not happy to see an outright ban on it, for all sorts of reasons. Not only are there fundamental freedom of speech issues involved, but it sets a dangerous precedent with regard to decentralized computing in general. I also believe that the best way forward in a bitcoin-free future is to leave things be, expose rather than suppress, and to let people do what they want so as to encourage transition.

I'm surprised to see so many comments supportive of this move here. First they come for bitcoin, then they come for Matrix?
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> If someone proposes to me that murder isn't ethical, I can more-or-less get on board with that without a bunch of defining and qualifying.

I think "murder" is an excellent example for making your main point. Because even that term would need further qualifications about euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, etc.
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Do you agree that if a nation is successfully invaded its currency will lose its integrity?

Do you agree that defense against invasion requires an adequate military or agreements with nations with adequate militaries?

If we agree on those two claims, it seems we must agree that militarily robust sovereignty is necessary but not sufficient for the integrity of a fiat currency.
Seems like the core problem is a single standard for many different kinds of devices, which makes it possible for devices to act totally different from what it physically appears to be.

Maybe we should have stuck to PS/2 keyboards after all.
I work remotely on a satellite connection. Been doing it for a couple of years.

The minimum connection latency is 800-1000 ms, and the maximum download speed is 1-3 Mbps. That's with a 10 GB bandwidth cap though, so my actual download speed is 10-100 kbps for 90% of the month.

Any live video/audio/screen sharing is not possible. I have to schedule transfers for large files (1-5 GB) overnight, which are not bandwidth constrained during early morning hours.

I can get away with it because all of my work communication is through text channels.

It's not for everyone, but it's possible. For me, getting out of the city and living in the mountains with nature is well worth the trade-off of giving up some modern conveniences.
Speaking from a code archeology ;) perspective, there's another explanation: the previous fix has addressed the proximate problem, but also unearthed a deeper problem, which may or may not be fixable.
Portable build files don't appear to be a design goal... if you want those, you probably need a different tool. They do exist.

As for distributing CMake, the intention is presumably that it's installed on the system of whoever's going to build the code, like make, or gcc, or whatever.
Credit card interest rates can easily approach 25% for those who don't pay off their balance.
I can assure you there are incredibly distinct foods, languages and cultures everywhere in China.

People from different provinces consider themselves "people from that particular province". I guess the difference is that they also consider themselves Chinese.

> The OP alludes that HK was kept under the yolk [sic] of British rule, and is eager to shed its shackles to return to the mainland. This is simply not the case.

But they were. Governers were appointed by the Queen. Protests were brutally surpressed -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1966_riots

(edit: typos)
"Methinks they doth protest too much..."

I think what you're seeing is intellectualized social liberalism and what many call "virtue signaling." Many of the residents of SF harbor intellectual views that are very liberal but are not willing to support policies that actually help the poor or disadvantaged minorities if those policies conflict with any other priority they might have (like protecting the valuation of overpriced real estate).

BTW the left has no monopoly on this kind of hypocrisy. Driving through an ultra-conservative region of West Virginia a while back I saw two billboards on opposite sides of the road. One said "Lust: a path straight to hell!" and had a Bible reference. The other advertised a combination strip club and adult bookstore. The region has massively high rates of alcoholism, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, domestic violence, and many other vices, but many of the residents of such regions are pretty self-righteous about how much more Godly they are than the heathens in places like California and New York.

I have found that self-righteousness tends to coincide with hypocrisy.
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OK, that's clever.

But... why are they calling these "Doppler" shifts? A Doppler shift is a frequency change due to motion of the transmitter relative to the wave medium. Clearly they're not throwing these radios around. So these are just "frequency" shifts, right?
Although a bit overdramatic at times, there is so much truth on this article. I wish i could do more than upvote it.

“Crowded thoroughfares such as Market Street, even in the light of midday, stage a carnival of indecipherable outbursts and drug-induced thrashings about which the police seem to do nothing.”

This really touched me because the police in SF, if you ever see one, look disinterested at best.
It is a conundrum that most American cities do not really support their public transit systems very well, and yet they seem to desire the kind of urban organization that basically requires a well-run transit system.
>Purdue, for example, caps total payments at 2.5 times what a student borrowed, so the most successful don’t feel gouged. That would be a 15 year loan at 15% APR. That IS gouging.

15% APR isn't gouging. That's a typical APR for an unsecured personal loan, which this is. Well, it's actually worse than an unsecured loan for the lender since payment is tied to employment. So, not egregious.

It's also not 15 years. The term maxes out at less than 10 years for English majors. The person being interviewed is on the hook for 8 and a half years.

EDIT: Where did you even get the 15% APR from? 2.5 times what the student borrowed does not work out to 15%, unless the debt is paid off in under 7 years.

A 15% APR over 15 years would be over 8 times the original loan amount.
Readers in the UK or Commonwealth might be more familiar with the Usborne series of books for 8 bit computers.

The publisher has made them available from their website[0]. Here is a series of modern reviews from a friend of mine[1].

My favorite when I was a kid was the one that taught assembly language to pre-teens. I still think of cartoon robots putting notes into boxes whenever I assign something to a variable.

[0] https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...

[1] http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/category/usborne
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High fevers in infants can be quite serious, even fatal, so yes you do go to the ER for a high fever in that case.
This is a popular myth.

https://www.sftu.org/2018/06/five-myths-about-the-homeless-p...

According to that, 71% of people on the streets of SF used to be homed, and aren’t on the streets due to drugs.
The "wasting fuel" part is some submarine by Baiada that the BBC fell for
Full autonomy has been 10 years away for half a century. If driving still exists in a century, I'd wager that full autonomy would still be 10 years away then.
In this case, the user is fuel for the product.
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I really don't see the problem here. This is a single list, curated by one source. It doesn't need to be credible, it's not a standard.

OP isn't trying to shame anyone for using other software or force companies to fix things; they're making a resource so you can find software that meets their particular criteria, even if their particular criteria is ill-defined. The point is to help people find software that they might not have heard of, not to form a definitive checklist.

Extrapolate this idea out -- if someone walks up to you and says, "hey, play Baba is You, it's really fun," it would be weird to respond, "Yeah, but what is your definition of fun? How can I trust you without one?"
This is what it looked like for a sec: https://i.imgur.com/37DnL9n.png (while hovering latest committer name)
It's like watching Exit, Voice, and Loyalty play out in real time: https://www.amazon.com/Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Responses-Organiza...
Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places
"If it's free then you are the product"

BINGO! http://crimeflare.net:83/cfs.html
> It allows you to browse and make transactions the blockchain-based Internet of the future, also known as Web 3.

Pretty important press release for Opera. You'd think they'd proof read it?
You are correct. US Congress (most of the time) legislate in favor of whoever pays more.
The other consideration is that it makes investors incentivized to get you to succeed (at least as far as salary is concerned). That could be a huge advantage if you manage to get the right investors.

Of course I also wonder if it's only a matter of time before a short market emerges - which it will - if investors need to hedge against a recession or something that would not be covered by traditional insurance products.
Not just that we expect to, we can. Back in the day you could download them as well, but it costs a lot of money: someone had to pay for the computer and phone line and then one computer per phone line was common. It also took a long time to download files at 300 baud, and often you were paying long distance rates to the phone company (which was far more expensive than long distance rates now despite inflation). Most of us were using audio cassettes to store our programs on, dreaming of a floppy disk that held 80k... (we knew hard drives existed, but they were so expensive that we didn't dare dream of them)

While it was possible to buy a multi-user computer, or a connection to the internet, we didn't even know such a thing existed. Not that it mattered, as practically the cost was far our of reach.
That does sound frustrating. I think it is good advice to view your work as an opportunity to take initiative and build something impressive, like a test suite or any kind of tool to automate some the work so there won't be any "unimportant" tasks for anybody to work on.
>Society needs a change. The lower classes need a raise.

The lower classes may get a raise but so will the ones above them to compensate and eventually cost of living just goes up to match the previous status quo.
Yet, the way Web 3.0 works in practice is with a browser extension (which Reborn basically integrated) that does http API calls to a centralized 3rd-party server.

So while they market decentralization and trustlessness, they are one server-compromise away from getting fed a completely false view of Ethereum's blockchain state and losing all their funds.

If that's an attempt on web 3.0, we might as well just skip straight to web 4.0.
On the contrary, Arch Linux has ‘python’ as Python 3 and ‘python2’ as Python 2. Although most of the Linux users are on Ubuntu, you can’t ignore those other distributions.
The mistake here is assuming that if SF grows it must become NYC. What if it could be better? There are many other even higher density cities than NYC in the world with much better policies and quality of life. Look to those.
That doesn't seem to be related to padding. Airlines still like to arrive early. If there's no gate available, it's cheaper for the airline to wait on a taxiway than to circle in the air. Fuel costs are a major driver of airline profitability, hence airlines have no incentive to spend time in the air if it's not absolutely necessary.
Planet Money did a podcast on this recently:

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
They Create Worlds is a fantastic podcast in general, and I encourage folks with an interest in the history of games--or of computer tech in general, given the way it's historically tracked--to give it a listen. Alex is one of the true scholars of the topic.
While the paper might not be known for its economic/market insight, is that enough to dismiss the ideas presented in it?

I would rather discuss the implications of the buy backs and whether there is merit in the argument that a recession will/could topple these companies.

If the idea is bunk, why?
Only with some airlines and at some airports. Not all airports allow it and some airlines don't like it (apparently due to higher stress on the other engine).
This is a very upsetting comment. Docker is one of the things that is making modern security compliance about 10 times harder than it was before even on 10k-100k systems. Especially in government contexts where using the approved/certified/correct cryptographic modules (FIPS 140-2) is an absolute requirement. FIPS 140-2 in particular requires not only the appropriate package to be available (commonly OpenSSL) but also for the application to opt into a FIPS 140-2 mode after linking.

There is also the fact that cryptographic libraries that are certified are often on a 2-3 month delay from the non-certified modules. You have to verify that the Host OS's kernel, the runtime that is providing the containing environment, and every single Docker image that is used to run an application, ensure that each application is running in an appropriate FIPS 140-2 mode inside the container, and also verify that every container is being appropriately kept up to date.

Using Docker does not eschew responsibilities you have to ensure that your OpenSSL and other materials is up to date, especially since Docker doesn't give you any protections when it comes to encryption over the wire or encryption with data at rest which is exactly where a cryptographic library with a vulnerability like in the original article leaves a vulnerability where there shouldn't be one.
If you think Microsoft's business is mostly centered around ads, you missed a thing or two.
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It would be very difficult to do worse than non-dischargable debt, like students in the US get fit student loans. I think you can get rid of an ISA by going bankrupt as it’s just a loan with a variable repayment schedule dependent on income. That description elides from the fact that the terms are not standardised either in terms of caps on amount paid back or the time you pay back. It should still be dischargeable in bankruptcy though.
> very few kids/families,

I am raising my kids here and disagree with your assessment. There is a pretty good community of families here.
This is totally backwards. Here the local gov't is encouraging people to use their electronic services so that they don't have to deal with endless stacks of paper forms.
Not sure what you mean exactly. A lot of the issues are people “protecting their neighborhoods” from development and preserving the “feel”. People generally are voting against policies that would raise inventory of housing, which is really the only way to reduce its cost.
this book brought me so many hours of joy as a child. I typed these programs in and read it over and over again. I remember now parts that I didn't understand (like Nim) and being amazed at some things people could do in BASIC (https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=4).

For fun recently I ported zork to an esp32.
The consequences are disappearance. A lot harder to bargain, bluster, or bribe your way out of than a trial. Also less lawful.
Is this a list of ethical software, carefully curated and thought about, or is this a list of non-main-stream software with the implicit assumption that contrarianism is implicitly ethical?

When I look at your list, I just see a sentence of ad copy about each product and an outbound link. Why not an essay about each product and the criteria you used when deciding that product was ethical and its competitors were not?
>Why exactly does this author think an airplane needs a lot of computing power?

I think the way you criticize the article is about as faulty as the article itself.

This piece is about detailing how the 737 is an outdated design that got patched and patched till it more or less broke. The processing power is just /one/ aspect and is given as a point of reference, like the 1968 photo.

I am no expert in aviation, but I guess it's quite a safe guess that fly-by-wire systems need more processing power than mechanical/analog designs. And that a glass cockpit with a trouble database needs more than a blinking LED and a paper handbook.

Nowhere in the article does the author claim the 737 MAX crashed because it had too weak CPUs. It is, however, one indication of an obsolete design - newer jets like the A320 or the 787 have more beefy processors for a reason.

I know I worked in 1-dimensional transportation and their 486-based onboard-processors felt cramped, the software engineers had to hack around their limitations and they wished they could switch to something newer. I doubt 3-dimensional transportation is easier to implement.
I don't really understand how unsplash makes money
It has very, very basic loop functionally. A repeat function would be more accurate.
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As opposed to...well. RIP EH.
While flying sucks. In recent years I felt like I've been able to make connections way easier than in the past.

It used to be any two flights even remotely close to landing and departing time and I was really hesitant to book them .... less so now.
Increasingly? Are you a time traveller?

Ads (and web browsing in general) certainly have been getting much much safer in the past years, working exploit kits are vastly more difficult to come by than they were only a few years ago.

The landscape simply is nothing like it was during blackhole kits heyday.
> 15% APR isn't gouging. That's a typical APR for an unsecured personal loan, which this is.

My credit card is 15%. An unsecured personal loan is more like 4-9%.
Not everyone got a tax cut and the cuts went primarily to businesses and the ultra wealthy. The President also tried to make the cuts look bigger by changing withholding requirements. It doesn't invalidate that most people are ignorant, most people don't even pay any taxes, but if you're moderately well off, have more than one home, and live in a state that actually has a functional state government that provides services to their people, there's a larger possibility that you saw an increase in taxes. No other first world country does taxes the way we do because the IRS already knows how much most people owe.
It has to be physical for the checklist to work?
You know how some people say, "No, no ad whitelisting. #GETOUT?"

This is why.
It is however not the only data point which points in this direction. Population statistics from both Sweden and Norway show that men are about twice as likely to not have children that women.

It would be interesting to see more formal studies on the topic, but as far as I know there is no collaborating data to support the theory that the data we have is an artifact from the dating app.
https://www.musicfestivalwizard.com
This one suits me nice. Relevant info through adequate filtering.
Facebook is using AI to map population density around the world
Hi there! As a Northern Norwegian who recently moved south, here's the benefits for living in the most northern area, Finnmark:

Student loans:
Everyone who lives and work in Finnmark and/or North-Troms can have a yearly, tax-free, writedown of student loans based on 10% of the original loan sum. Maximum of 25.000 NOK per year.

Less tax:
Everyone living in Finnmark and North-Troms that pays taxes gets an automatic writeoff for 15.000 (tax class 1) / 30.000 NOK (tax class 2). They also have a tax rate that's 3.5% less than the rest of the country.

Exemption for electricity charge:
Pay 9.5 øre less per kWh, also the whole of Northern Norway doesn't pay VAT on electricity.

Source: http://www.finnmark.no/page.jsp?id=56&lang=no
Emphasizing porn users and blackmail implies that the hacker blackmailed porn users by threatening to expose their usage (like what kind of porn they watch or somwthing).

The correct title is guy got jailed for infecting computers with ransomware through regular ads. This is something that happens weekly I would assume, and is barely newsworthy.
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New theory... the original twitter's annual performance metric is based on number of successful new hires (turned down offers and candidate who realize they are a bad fit are negatives)
You're shocked that an online news agency wouldn't advocate for users to install an adblocker?
We don't ban users for "non-conforming posts" unless you mean non-conforming with the site guidelines.

People sometimes claim otherwise but such claims never seem to come with links that would allow readers to make up their own minds. If what you're saying is even 10% true, there should be an abundance of such links available.
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Can you give examples/evidence of this "aggressive political rhetoric" coming from "this area"?
I'm guessing the lust billboard guy made their sign as a response to the adult entertainment billboard guy, and the two don't share that much in common.
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This is the same as any non-tech person using a "VPN". They do not care about privacy or anything. So this makes sense.
'Officer: “So, what’s the problem? Why are we in this situation?”

Young Man (voice cracking): “You. F---ing you!”'
Yes, I sketched out textbook suggestions for almost all of OP's topics in a preferred order for reading them. You can roughly segregate material (at the early undergraduate level) into algebra and analysis sequences. See my other comment in this thread.
Yeah - glass houses and stones and all that. A lot of people have a tough time taking real stock of what they themselves actually bring to the table.
So is Oracle's goal killing off Java? It seems so from the looks of it. Or perhaps I'm missing the big picture here
Or a company. Or an executive of a company. Or a member of the police.
> At what point does it become Google's responsibility

The last time we tried to push the responsibility onto individual organizations to inform the public of the basics of how the Internet works, we ended up with "This site uses cookies" dialogs popping up redundantly and annoyingly everywhere.

I think I'd rather see the money spent on a public education campaign, not unlike the US Health and Human Services videos of the 1950s. While hokey and hilarious by modern standards, they provided a real service in helping Americans reconcile with rapid advances in technology and hygiene (including now "common sense" ideas such as "Don't play in construction sites" and "Drinking and driving are dangerous").
Seems to me that there were enough of those 90% of Americans to vote Trump into office and thereby affect policy greatly.

And, I personally see this move as another of his swamp draining actions.

When Trump got into office, he didn't know who was who, so he went along with the suggestions of who should be in different posts. As time went along, he started figuring out who wasn't on Team Trump and worked out replacements.
...why do I care about push notifications? By "customers love that feature" you mean, you like that feature. Most people aren't interested in having an app at all but the ones that are just want to be able to look at their balance, make payments, and cash cheques.

If I want to see if I have made a payment, I just open the app...which takes 10 seconds instead of a 5 second push notification.
A million word gap for children who aren't read to at home
Not to dismiss this completely, but there are neighborhoods with lots of kids around. SOMA just isn’t one of them.