skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the debate on this thread whether startups can't meaningfully tackle deep societal problems.

We are the working on building a free universal basic safety net for all: https://betterbank.app/

Essentially it's a checking account+insurance policy, bank with us and if you ever got hurt we will pay upto $5k in cash…use it for out-of-pocket expenses+ lost wages. It's free because we make money from debit interchange, targeted at either uninsured young folks who find obamacare to be too expensive or families with high deductibles.

Do we qualify as a profit minded start also doing good? If not, are there any other models out there
I've heard this suggested seriously in a number of places lately. (Often in response to the recent abortion bans - there's a "Men cause 100% of unintended pregnancies!" meme going around.) Don't necessarily agree with it, just like I don't agree with the abortion bans, but be aware that there is a sizable contingent of people who seriously want this to happen.
Seriously, stop thinking about the singer and think about the number. $500,000,000. That's a lot of money. The world is a crazy place right now, and part of it has to do with so few people amassing so much wealth.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that existing laws and civil structures are capable of dealing with this without new laws having to be passed explicitly for this case.

Doing it more quickly would have been nice, sure.
'Deepfake' AI can turn the Mona Lisa into a convincing real person
I still don't really understand how a journalist, non-U.S. citizen, operating entirely outside the U.S. is being indicted for anything.

I understand he obtained U.S. documents and published them.

However, if I obtain on-the-ground images of the Tiananmen Square protests and share them on Facebook with my friend group, should I be subject to Chinese laws?

I don't live in China, I don't have Chinese citizenship, I've never been to China. Should I be subject to Chinese law?
> It seems pretty different from a password because you're not giving control of your domain: if they broke their contract, you could take it back at any time.

You are giving them everything they'd need to obtain a DV certificate for your domain, though. You can stop them from using it at any time just by changing the DNS records, but you'd need to wait at least two years (825 days for maximum TLS certificate duration) before you could be certain any certificates they had been issued before that point had expired.
Reporters who reported on those leaks are largely in the clear.

Had they tried to give someone help someone " (i) circumvent legal safeguards on information" ... they likely would be in a lot of trouble. Such as "hey man here's how to hack Muller's computer" and so forth (that's a very blunt example but it would qualify).

That isn't a line that gets crossed by reporters very often in the US. It's hard to talk about in here as so few people want to talk about the actual charges, but that step in assisting (or trying to) is the key to these charges.
Creating views makes more sense sometimes and CTEs make more sense other times.

Creating views just for one query is kind of like creating temporary variables for each subexpression. Sure, it works, but not a great solution.

Also, other databases do optimize through a CTE. So if you port to PG 11, you might see a lot of regressions in plans unless you rewrite to use views instead. PG 12 will work a lot better for existing queries.
I'm not sure how anything I said can even remotely be construed as implying that any political party can have all the answers, seeing as it was little more than a criticism of one policy area of one political party.
Fuck, really? I used that option, they nailed me. God damn.
There comes a point at which marginal wealth stops having any utility

No there doesn't. Whatever you can't spend goes towards making sure your descendants are taken care of. Or you can donate it to the various charitable organizations of your choosing.
>My hatred for Bluetooth grows...

Same. It was completely missing from the device manager on my laptop for 4 days. Now it's back. Nothing bloody changed??

And now I've got a BT dongle in the post which apparently I no longer need. wth
You are right, we should be clear about what is being claimed by the government.

However, is there any legitimate alternative method for a whistleblower to expose the US government of warcrimes, as WikiLeaks did? It seems quite unfair for a government to murder innocent civilians and then protect itself by putting the evidence behind a password.
Not quite right, rather "Equifax: where you're our product whether you wanted to be or not."
It is not that simple. There are artists for example who are disabled and it is difficult to do concerts, but I agree with you. Just wanted to point that out as some people think of artists as dancing monkeys and not humans like everyone else.
If I forked a repo it’s because I was making a PR to fix something. It says nothing about whether I’m still depending on that code.
Given who she's been palling around with since, I wouldn't be surprised if the Obama administration let her go to see where she would lead them.
It's unfortunate Ecuador went back on its promise of asylum, but I will give them some credit that they granted it in the first place, against what was surely strong USA pressure, and protected Assange for 7 years.
I'm having a very hard time believing your statement, because all you need to do is substitute $500,000,000 for her name and ask yourself should people have more wealth than that, with all the inequality in the world right now?
they are apparently delicious https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jul/31/featuresreview...
It is amazing what this tiny company has achieved with minimal resources.

Sometimes I feel someone should buy these guys and put their designers in charge of much bigger things.

(or maybe that's exactly how you kill talent)
Can you provide some links please? So that I don't have to trust the memory of a throwaway.
"I do not believe Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet's, etc, wealth impacts my inalienable right to life, liberty, and property."

That seems simple enough, however there are a multitude of secondary effects that happen when you allow individuals or corporations to amass the levels of wealth we see today. This enables them to monopolize markets through a variety of means and subvert the political process. Even without Citizen's United making bribery pretty much legal such wealthy entities would still be able to use their wealth to influence society.

Simply because Gates was in the right place and time to develop a near OS monopoly he should have a disproportionate say in society's politics?

These are not simple problems to solve, but then again they aren't that difficult either.
That's so cool. Do you have a photo of the gargoyles? Or anything else?
If it doesn't make sense, then it means someone who shouldn't have will make profit.
> The first section of the indictment describes the various ways in which Assange and/or Wikileaks said, more or less, "gee, it sure would be nice if someone got these classified documents for us."

A lot of news orgs, and individual reporters, have explicitly asked for information about specific topics. Yes, usually not by explicitly mentioning it being classified, but for plenty topics that's basically implied.

By my read the indictment doesn't formulate any limiting principles on the more broad charges that could be levied against many reporters.

> Finally, we have a section labeled "C. ASSANGE Encouraged Manning to Continue Her Theft of Classified Documents and Agreed to Help Her Crack a Password Hash to a Military Computer". This described how Assange provided Chelsea Manning with tools allowing her to circumvent passwords and other protections on classified computers.

Which is why the previous version, which had only this charge, was much less heavily criticized.
Except, as several landlords are learning right now, there's no money without a tenant, and not every tenant fits in every place, and not every empty space gets a tenant who's willing to pay the rent being asked. And in residential places: a good tenant that pays less might be more lucrative than a bad tenant that "pays more"
The argument was that nobody should be richer than what they can earn through work, or "exploitation" of themselves as a capital asset. Ronaldo would also work as a yardstick. Earning purely through property or being a boss wouldn't. It's an interesting one to explore, as there are all sorts of annoying corner cases possible.
This article is looking at things completely wrong. The big story is that the EV revoltution is starting to take off, and it will turn things upside down, including almost certainly leading to the end of many present auto companies.

What analysts should be doing is looking at the various auto companies and evaluating them for how well they are preparing for the coming storm. And as part of that include Tesla, and if you do that, you find it is in important ways better prepared than anyone else.
Take a look at the Webpack page that GP mentioned. This is already happening
1) The spire rebuilt in 1859 by Viollet-Le-Duc didn't have XIXe century look, it was heavily inspired by the one of the Orleans cathedral

2) Even with that, Viollet-Le-Duc is somewhat criticized for it's restoration works as he generally chose what looked "nice" as opposed to historical accuracy or significance.

Rebuilding the spire in a modern style would be a mistake in my opinion, or at the very least, a huge risk of style disunity of the building, rebuilding in Gothic style maybe boring but it's safe.

As to which technics could be used, that's another matter. Notre-Dame would not be the first cathedral to be rebuilt using the technics of the day.

Reims was rebuilt using concret, and the result is actually quite beautiful:

https://img.aws.la-croix.com/2019/04/17/1301016385/charpente...

Others were rebuilt using steel, Metz Cathedral for example.
I subscribed to prime once here in New Zealand and discovered that the UI (at least on PS4) displays everything, and only tells you that it's not available in your country when you try to play something.

As a pretty large portion of the stuff seemed to not be available here this made it basically unusable.
Well, if you consider ripping the DVD valid then there's absolutely nothing stopping you from saving the rented digital stream either. At the bare minimum, aside from whatever DRM is in place directly capturing the stream w/ OBS is always viable.
I’ve seen a surgeon in my institution pick up something similar. He does a lot of ops under fluoroscopy, and those lead aprons get hot as hell.
Ok. Why does that make their singular beliefs relevant? I'd expect the poster I was responding to to link news articles, politicians, political pundits, etc. to show it was a not a commonly held belief that he'd face such charges. Not some prolific poster on a niche tech forum.
Operation Cancelling and Std:Fstream
I mean, and that $4.2B IMF loan secured by Moreno.

Meeting with Manafort about Assange was one of the first things Moreno did when he was in power.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/manafort-tried-to-make-deal-...
Apologies; I should've explicitly indicated "Digital Medium Format", as the most appropriate "like for like" comparison - shows my biases :->.

(I would edit for clarity but I believe time has expired for that)

Thx for pointing it out!
> I once wrote a replacement for the + operator in javascript because computers can't do proper addition (0.1+0.2!=0.3).

That's normal floating point math behaviour and fine in most use cases. You can't fix this for add, sub, mul and div without serious performance implications.

> Would it be that much slower, that it's an awful idea to do by default?

Yes. Easily an order of magnitude slower, perhabs two. The fixed size of uint32, float, double, etc. is an important property that allows computations to be fast. And since the size is fixed, you have to accept trade-offs in how or which numbers can be represented. Also, as someone else already mentioned, you can't even store 1 / 3 as a single numeric value. You'd have to store it as a rational number. Things are going to get super complicated once you combine rational numbers in computations and complex formulas.

I'm doing lot's of number crunching tasks with javascript, with performances of up to almost ~50% of equivalent C++ code. If js would have used a non-natively supported number format by default, it would have been useless for me.
Aren’t all people dancing monkeys?

Also could you give examples of popular disabled artists that can’t perform on stage?

Because I don’t think I or anyone I know could list a single example.
It's easy being "accurate" when everybody else is a "liberal snowflake"
New York Experiments with a ‘Holy Grail’ to End Gridlock
This is in reply to @ztratar original comment which is now flagged and so I can't see it - where he was wondering why the Assange case was a first amendment issue.

IMO this is an excellent article that explores first amendment issues and the Assange case:
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indi...

Side comment: while I totally disagreed with zratar's comments, not sure why he's flagged - which ends up being a form of censorship here. Can't imagine what he said was so offensive it had to disappear.
>Which is irrelevant,

Facts are irrelivant...

> because they'd manufacture some other charge to get him on.

Because of things that aren't facts?

I don't know what to tell you other than with that pattern it seems like you could belive in lizard people or something.
>I still expect the US to make a binding promise.

Even if it is expressly told, in private, by the Home Secretary, that it doesn't have to, even while the UK government claims a different policy in public, as has apparently already happened in this other case? Also, the Home Office could make an exception at the very last minute if it wants to. There would be questions asked, but it would be largely moot if he is already out of the country.
I find it odd that people blame the left for NIMBYism I guess its a regional thing but here in Denver most of the left of center folks are trying to get YIMBY legislation rolling. I don't think this is a left right issue here more of a stubborn old people want to see mountains from west facing windows issue.
I'm sorry but where did I insist upon proper addition? I'll annotate the parts of my post that might be mistaken for it:

> a replacement for the + operator in javascript because computers can't do proper addition (0.1+0.2!=0.3).

Just saying they can't do it (I edited this: first I said that JS doesn't do it properly, but I thought that was rather too narrow. I guess 'computers' is too broad again. Pick a name, you know what I mean)

> [an explanation of what worked for me some years ago] Then you have arbitrary size and decimals with perfect addition (no floating point approximations anymore).

Again, just mentioning that this would solve it for addition, not saying this is the perfect way for life, the universe, and everything.

> Would it be that much slower, that it's an awful idea to do by default?

See, I'm not insisting on anything, I'm wondering and asking.

> Python gets away with it,

It doesn't do correct decimal addition either, so I'm not even focusing on resolving floating point inaccuracies, I'm more interested in "if it would be so slow to do arbitrary precision integers---oh and by the way, wouldn't it also solve this addition thing?"

Now, you also didn't exactly say that I was insisting, you said "someone who insists". So maybe this only applies to your parent comment. But every time I bring it up, people stumble over each other to tell me why it is this way. I already know why it is this way. There is a lot other words in the comment that one could reply to, and it's rather frustrating that it's completely overshadowed - every time - by people ignoring everything except those twelve magic characters: 0.1+0.2!=0.3.
"Struggle to pay" introduces an inflammatory ambiguity that generates the undesirable heat/light ratio that journalists should be avoiding in the first place.
You've been on H1B for 17 years?
There was a news story recently about Congress literally barring the IRS from ever offering their own service, which is quite different. I don't know if it passed or not...
Sometimes you dine and dash too, I suppose? If the food isn't really good or you don't want to support the restaurant?
The Jacky Verandas are still bare... Get your butt behind a desk and start studying while theres time!
"People on HN"

Thousands of people comment on hacker news, including people who said the opposite of what you attribute to HN. It's unwise to to treat the people that you are arguing with on Tuesday as if they are are the same people you are arguing with on Monday.
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
Speaking of, they recently changed the pricing model for (part of) Config. It should be much cheaper now. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-updated-pay-per-use-pri...
Leak reveals Uber’s $9.99 unlimited delivery Eats Pass
I'd be a lot happier if we actually acted like the 10th means what it says.
There's a new leader in Ecuador, more US friendly, and they leaned on him with the IMF --- they got a huge loan just as they gave him up. It does seem that he is a bit of an asshole, but I don't think it's conspiratorial
to think there's more to it than that.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-imf/ecuador-inks-...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ecuador-jilted-assange-as-it-so...
YouTube's copyright system is broken [video]
I guess a lot of blowback is coming from the fact that you decided to call it Government 2.0. It seems a bit presumptuous, guilty of the same hyperbole tech is always accused of...changing the world etc...but at the same time it's a title I would click on. It's outrageous, but serves a purpose
Whistle-blowing is legally protected in many contexts, but not this one. There's a long continuum of things one is expected to try first -- from complaining to your boss, to reaching out to relevant oversight officials and Congress, to contacting the press -- before you simply send hundreds of thousands of documents to a foreigner working for a GRU propaganda laundry.
For context: Ecuador changed governments in between. While the current president was officially the continuation of the previous one (the one who granted Assange asylum), in effect he turned soon after being elected, to the point the prior president considers him a traitor to all he initially stood for.

So you must give credit to the prior government, not the current one.
Oh Lord, it says a lot about the economy. People aren't entering extended adolecense because they love Mom's spaghetti.
If you deeply care about music and are an audiophile you do. I was on what.cd before it closed are really appreciated being able to get flac rips of original release vinyl, sometimes dating back 60-70 years.

Example first pressings I have in flac: velvet underground, the doors, led zeppelin, etc
Don't overlook that all those criminals didn't become criminals involuntarily, like the slaves did.
No, it's somewhat longer, but much less dramatic at around 25 hours: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/074873040301800...

However, your confusion is understandable.

Nathaniel Kleitman spent a month in a cave in 1938 studying sleep/wake cycles, and found that he could maintain a 28 hour cycle. He did this deliberately, however, and this does not reflect the circadian rhythm. Rather, this wake/sleep cycle depends on C (the circadian rhythm) and S, homeostatic effects that reflect the previous period of wakefullness. It's also entirely possible to sleep at any point in the circadian rhythm (as anyone who has napped will know), so the circadian rhythm can simply decouple in extreme wake/sleep cycles (e.g. 20h or 28h).

http://www.chronobiology.ch/wp-content/uploads/publications/...

Also, even with the circadian rhythm not being preciesly 24 hours, it's still 24 hours with entertainment. That's the standard physiological condition; it really is a 24-hour cycle. Free-running is like removing a component of the clock, seeing that it doesn't keep 24-hour time, and calling it broken. That's not the case; entrainment is part of the process and how the body keeps coordinated with its environment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717723/
For works released in someones lifetime the effective limit is effectively infinite for ~25% of people based on actuarial tables and assuming the best case of the author published it the year you were born and died that very same year. If the author died when the reader was 13 that's less than 50% who will ever live to that point.

If the author is anonymous(or work for hire) or lives for 20 years after they published the work then it is effectively infinite for ~91% of people assuming the best case.

Say what you want about the old 14+14 system but at least it would have meant that by the time you were a parent you could almost certainly share the works that were influential with you as a kid with your kids. With the current system you have to cross your fingers that it was popular enough to remain in print rather than moving to some limbo of unable to be acquired except 2nd hand or illegally.
For example, https://www.reddit.com/domain/ycombinator.com/
China would say yes, and in such a case you should not ever be in a state that has and/or requires good diplomatic relationship with, or economic support from, China.

Law is, after all, what gets executed, and debating whether it's right or wrong is a luxury you don't have when it's executed on you.
I mean he's facing these charges, not because he published the leaks themselves, but because he help facilitate the leaking. Journalists don't do that.
There was even an administration change in between, which means that it is likely whoever followed up on these charges within the US government had their eye on the prize for more than half a decade.
This is more or less normal in long-term business leases: everyone can do the same math, and it's just a way of making the immediate pain of a new lease a little less injurious to the tenant's cash flow.

If the tenant shrinks headcount, they can sublet a portion or move to a smaller space and sublet the whole thing. If the tenant is growing their business faster than the rent increases, it doesn't hurt. And at the end of the lease, everything is re-negotiable again.
Of course we do that. But then how do you validate that wasn’t a bot generating a request trying to increase the publishers traffic? Do you trust the publisher blindly? You need some sort of insight into the web request other than a single integer counter claiming an impression occurred in order to validate the individual.

Part of targeting is ignoring the fraud.
I dunno, I quite like Morgan Housel's take, namely:

No one has any idea how long this cycle can go. Australia hasn’t had a recession in 28 years. The rule of thumb is that unless you predicted the expansion would last this long you don’t get to predict when or how it will end. Which means basically no one gets to predict when or how it will end.

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/its-been-a-while/
No, I think the "crazy conspiracy people" were right all along.

Whether or not they were provably right at the time is not the issue. They were right. They could read between the lines, and they were right.
Every language gains warts as features are added (or no features are added and it gets left behind and more of a pain to use). It's impossible to always make the right decision, and sometimes there is no right decision as conflicting needs war.

If you're looking for a language without warts, good luck.