skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Democracy relies on having numerous “informed” voters, but what happens when the machine gets so complicated that there are not sufficient “informed” voters?

Democracy relies on level headed people doing politics.
Nix's use of determinism actually has an important purpose, it's not just some arbitrary annoying restriction, it's what makes the whole system work properly. This script is a kind of funny meme that should probably be deleted, and anyway isn't crucial to the NixOS system at all, just a minor convenience and probably the hack was just fun to make.

Generally speaking these sandbox determinism requirements in Nixpkgs/NixOS are not annoying, they are a crucial feature: you know what you get when you install something. But yeah, it is a constraint, and sometimes when you try to package some weird program where the Makefile does some arbitrary network operations, you might find it annoying -- and you can locally disable the sandbox -- but the whole Nix philosophy is that build scripts should be reproducible, so then you just have to fix it.
SEPA is okay, but it's typically not "same business day". Just this week I initiated a transfer on Tuesday and it only arrived Thursday morning. This was between two Belgian accounts.
Here in Sweden the leader of the most furthest right wing party (Sweden Democratic Party) just recently stated that they are pushing the new ”social democratic” agenda.

This despite being self-proclaimed conservative, nationalist, and right wing during the election.

It’s a bit scary what happens when history is lost on a new generation.
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Other than for marketing purposes and PR spin, why is there any use of a blockchain here? Facebook is a single entity... whom I assume trusts itself to keep a private ledger in a database.

So... what's the point of any blockchain? I imagine any widespread adoption would just be dominated by facebook's own servers
> Can anyone explain what the point of a pegged cryptocurrency is? Since you are dependent on the issuing entity to honour the stated peg

In this case there wouldn't be a single issuing entity: "the cryptocurrency would indeed be pegged to a basket of currencies". I had written about the idea of a stablecoin tied to a basket of currencies, e.g. J M Keynes' Bancor and the Word Currency Unit, a few years back.

> why not just have your balance be an entry in a regular database maintained by that entity? What exactly does the blockchain gain you here?

If it is controlled by a centralised organisation there would appear to be little point of "blockchain", but maybe as the article says "By introducing a level of decentralization to the governance of the project, Facebook may be able to avoid regulation related to it holding too much power over a global currency".
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why couldn’t they delete everything but your trade data?
A cool accretion disk around the Galactic Centre black hole
> blockchains should be replaced with centralized SQL databases

Blockchains whose tokens are subject to the authority of a central issuer anyway should be replaced with centralized SQL databases. Bitcoin/namecoin/etc. can't be replaced with centralized databases. FBCoin can, as can any blockchain that is supposed to track meatspace resources(since physical resources are subject to the authority of the local government/men with guns anyway).

> Git repositories are just like blockchains

Nope, I don't consider this to be true. Blockchains are supposed to have decentralized consensus and allow arbitrary nodes to propose changes.
> Why isn’t the will of the people (given an equal opportunity market for people to buy mass media advertising) respected more?

Because some people don’t like the implications of what the public wants. Around the west you’re seeing a dramatic shift in people becoming more conservative in certain fronts, especially on the points of immigration and nationalism. The folks who dominate the kinds of sites that write about that stuff can’t abide by that. So they have strong incentives to denounce that all as the product of sheep-like voters being influenced by propaganda.
It is not surprising at all. Mission Control was forged in the fire (literally for Apollo 1) and they are one of the most visible "incident team" we know about.

I highly advise to read Gene Kranz memoirs "Failure is not an Option" if you work in that kind of environment.
SWIFT transfers aren't particularly slow or expensive these days. I use TransferWise but it's not cheaper in all cases.
Right. My point was not about consuming. It was about security.
There's also a documentary on the Mosuo Women here, which is how I heard of the culture: https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/07/introductio...
I believe he/she is referring to the fact that the nazi party rose to power by _claiming_ to be the new socialist worker party.
SF Pride considers excluding Google from parade over homophobic harassment on YT
The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene
What minefields?

Wetern Union, HiFX, PayPal, MoneyGram,Azimo work just fine.
or ZuckBucks
At the basic level, you have no idea what the system software is gathering from sensors, like the accelerometer, barometer, GPS, wifi signals, etc, how it is processed, and how often it is sent, and to whom. After you find out how that works, then the next logical step is to ask just what the heck the other side is doing with it.
If you want influencers, Mastodon isn't for you. The fediverse is for humans, not celebrities.
Synthesis of polypeptides:polymerization of in-situ purified N-carboxyanhydrides
Most of the surveillance I am concerned about is website surveillance, as I don’t install apps. JavaScript is “source code available.”
>I would rather have conflicts among editors than no conflict whatsoever, as the latter suggests that they all agree on how to bias things.

You have got to be kidding me, how can you say that with a straight face? https://www.vox.com/2015/9/17/9345487/wikipedia-lamest-edit-...
At WWDC 2019, Apple Kills a Service That Developers Passionately Hate
If you have researched the topic more, you would've found a that NSDAP was no stranger to nationalisations, and did that with, reportedly, huge popular support.
Hmm, I suppose spreadsheets would work, but I'd like if there was something with a friendlier interface for seeing how much someone owes me after a certain time, and with partial payments.
Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages
Huawei must raise 'shoddy' standards, says senior UK cybersecurity official
> You only need to pay if you start using the features that securely sync your connection details between devices,

SFTP, multiple sessions, agent forwarding, pasting passwords, autocomplete

These are pretty basic features that don’t require syncing that are not available on the free version.
You're talking sales to individuals though. The typical enterprise sales rep is probably not the customer for a a manufacturing process control system or retail POS.

With some exceptions. Enterprise sales reps are sometimes hired in from industries where they've been a buyer or user of the type of product that they're selling--which helps them speak the right language and understand the pain points.

But I can guarantee that many enterprise sales reps, including good ones, have never gotten hands on in even the most cursory way with the products they sell.
Sounds like its probably a Commonwealth/United States type of thing, as there is another poster here from Australia who said they know what it means. I'm from Canada and it makes perfect sense to me.
It's not meaningless; you just don't know the meaning. If I were on a website where a good fraction of the people were Francophones, and someone slipped in the word "beaucoup", I wouldn't complain that it's utterly meaningless -- I would politely ask what it meant, or look it up in a dictionary.
From what I understand (although I didn't do much research) all you have to do is to use a new enough version of Xcode and that's it, so React Native doesn't really have to add any support. Ultimately, you build native apps anyway, all JS things are hidden inside.
Unfortunately, a lot of people do. In order to obtain the critical mass you need for a functioning social network, you need content that a lot of people will want to look at. In this case, that means influencers.
Socialism is not the opposite of capitalism.

Maybe you’re thinking of a socialist planned economy?

The idea in for example a social democracy is that capitalism thoroughly embraced, but curbed through often reasonable regulation.

Edit - Love the down vote when trying to infuse some nuance:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_socialism

Let me add a personal thought:

I believe anyone claiming to carry some form of socialist agenda would agree that accountability to the people is #1.

In a totalitarian regime, as well as in a completely unregulated market economy this is no longer true for entities of power.

A reasonable balance is to be strived for, IMHO.
It's not quite true that no work is done in this area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization is an active area of research, where we try to find the optimal code sequence (for various values of "optimal" which could include small size, but more usually highest performance) using various techniques including exhaustive search, annealing and logic programming.

(To be fair superoptimizing a 512 byte game is far beyond what could be done today)
> Now, if this wasn’t bad enough, consider that this is a company as opaque as Casper.

I'm not sure I get this simile. Is he saying that the company is actually not particularly opaque, but rather as transparent as a ghost?

Or is Casper the ghost known for being unusually opaque for a ghost?

Or is he talking about Casper the mattress company?
Hydrogeological constraint on formation of Palaeoproterozoic banded Fe formation
<on track to be either the second or third warmest since records began in the mid-1800s, behind only 2016 and possibly 2017>

Soo.. cooler than mid 1800's and getting cooler averall since 2016-17
The purpose of using a blockchain scheme to issue a centralized liability is probably to increase trust in the system due to the public verifiability of issuance and transfers.
I wonder how much of this is a scam on the advertisers too, sure the platform might have great detail for targeting ads, but if someone comes along and outbids on generic terms it isn’t going to do you much good as an advertiser either.
I thought that was a reference to the joining of the DNA in the progeny.
To all the cryptocurrency devotees dreaming of a new world cryptocurrency displacing existing government-backed central banks - be careful what you wish for, it just might come true. This might be the next phase of surveillance capitalism, like Orwell except driven by a private corporation for profit rather than accountable governments for "the greater good".
On a 6-month release-cycle, how much change do you want each release? (1.13 is scheduled to be released in August, following 1.12's release in February)

It's mostly not new number types, it's new number syntactic niceties.

As the guy who ends up maintaining the build tooling at work, I'm _very_ excited about a lot of the tooling changes:

- "Reproducible builds (independent of build path)" means 2 things to me: That customers building plugins for our product will no longer need to care about how our CI set GOPATH, and that I can drop hacks around the linker on macOS including timestamps (which would otherwise result in expensive Docker rebuilds)

- "Let 'go build' write many binaries" will let me adjust the build scripts to be faster, especially in mostly-no-op cases that my coworkers like to gripe about how slow it is.

I'm also excited about os.UserConfigDir.
> legal guardrails

What many companies do is they sprinkle some magic "anonymous" pixie dust on their data and then tons of laws no longer apply, even if the data is trivially identifiable stuff. And location data is often of that nature.
having just fallen off one right before my second bounce... I can say this sounds more dangerous than I would have first thought. I landed on my tailbone - head helmets don't seem nearly useful enough. I'm grateful nothing was broken but 2 weeks later I still have occasional stabs of pain from that.
I think a pretty good argument can be made that fall of the Roman Republic was a consequence of Rome's increasing business interests abroad, and the increasing importance of military leaders executing interventions, eg in Greece, in support of those interests.
Its more complicated than that.

Sure, a lobbyist pays $10k a plate to fund a politician.. But its not buying a vote. The lobbyist is buying face-time with the politician.

And given a rapport over many times, the politician learns to trust the lobbyist. Those other people (citizens) don't really know anything, the politician thinks. The lobbyist comes from inside industry, and 'really' knows what's happening and why.

Lobbyists are just a paying type of royal advisors. And even if they weren't paying cash for plates of food, they would use their backing interests' money and power to exert 'assistance' in other ways.
Tension Pistons Amplify Force Using Fluid‐Induced Tension in Flexible Materials
Great. Well, if we aren't going to restrict CO2 and methane emissions any, can we at least agree to legalise all drugs for the going away party.

edit - I am only half joking. The war on drugs is not noted for its logical underpinnings, but if it has any, they are largely predicated on worrying about future consequences. If our official political stance is going to be 'yolo, fuck the future consequences', we may as well be consistent.
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> The propagandists exploit the asymmetry of resources and time between them and you.

And concentration of resources as happens with Social media and news channels
That is orders of magnitude slower and allocates.
Of course you can use:
https://github.com/jackmott/LinqFaster
No, you can't block or mute people in Slack
Judging from some of the comments I've seen here, quite a lot.
Could be, but I think "official police alerts" are actually one of the least reliable sources of information.
Rising methane: A new climate challenge
There are so many of us "I wish XMPP were more popular" folks.
It totally depends on the source and destination of the transfer. My girlfriend's small art house cinema recently transferred money to pay a filmmaker for festival participation and the correspondent bank fee was something like 60 euros on a 100 euro transfer.
Personally, i found the series on HBO to have been poorly researched and even more poorly delivered in execution.

A whole part of dealing with Russians as well as a large part of how their policies are shaped can be understood through culture. The characteristic bent in mannerisms that value "honor", "masculinity", less emphasis on the exact and more on "estimates" while working through problems etc. Most people who've dealt with the Russians will agree, that this series came across as British propaganda, badly inserting their societal structures to communicate the events flowing in another, completely different structure. The main character looked like a poor Austin Powers impersonator playing a Russian.

As an example, the Female Scientist, Ulana . . i have no problem with the producers exercising creative freedom to designate her character as the substitute for the hundreds of other scientists who worked on the project, but in doing so, wildly misrepresented the role of women in Russian society during those times.

The choice of English as a language itself . . fine. What the producers can't seem to grasp is the delivery of Russian is aggressive. You don't make statements in tense situations with the British smooth tongue. That does not serve the understanding of the situations during those times very well.

I could go on about the sheer lack of patriotism displayed by any of the main characters to the point where it felt as though it was forbidden when in reality, anyone who's lived through those times and interacted informally with these people knows the opposite is true, but i repeat myself.
> There's no mathematical way for it to know that you won't modify (especially remove).

This is not true. Here's three examples:

A positive result from escape analysis and then scalar replacement of aggregates.

A positive result from partial escape analysis until after this point in the program.

Speculation that list is not modified, and deoptimisation if it is.
Linq is orders of magnitude slower and allocates.
It is not always an appropriate choice.
First step in Germany would be lock politicans up that take money from special interest groups and rich people and/or have another "side-" job in industry at the same time. Also lock politicians up when they take a relevant industry job afterwards.

Reality is politicians take a lot of money but do not need to declare where they take it from and right after their politician career will get well paid job from the people they regulated a short time before.
Cool. Time to get Huawei phone. I would rather be spied upon by China then Zuckenberg.
Microsoft deletes face recognition database
The tremendous power of economic factors, or how to fix your dev team culture
Wasn't matrix (riot.im) hacked recently?

edit: found this https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bca2k2/matrix_riot...
An important note about Liberal Alliance is that they are not a liberal party in the American sense.

They claim to somewhere between classical liberal and libertarian, but they are in fact by-the-book Ayn Rand objectivists. However that label has some negative connotations (for good reason), so officially they stick to the claims of classical liberalism, libertarianism and individual freedom above all.

It's a very interesting party, and as their recent collapse has shown, a party of very strong-willed individualists.
From Facebook's perspective, the advantage is that everyone has already forfeited any expectation of privacy wrt financial transactions, since they're recorded on a public ledger. They would be able to link certain transaction events (i.e., ones that happen over Messenger or other Facebook properties) to real identities, so this project will give them tons of data to mine
Your banks are slow. Many process SEPA transfers a lot faster than that, try N26 to Revolut if you're curious.

Also the SCT inst scheme has started being rolled out.
Thank you for that! I seem to remember Gitlab also saying that they tried bootstrapping before accepting VC funds and had a hard time at it.
Sure, it’s just that Golang deliberately lacks features to create abstractions which means every time I look at it I’m disappointed.

It’s very frustrating how unstable and slow in terms of dev speed things are in the last THREE places I’ve worked (as a frontend with the backends all written in Golang). Go teams seem to rebuild everything from scratch and they never seem to understand micro services in the context of distributed systems. I mean we are doing microservices, Golang, grpc, cockroach dB and we have a few thousand users maximum. It drives me up the wall that this stack is so popular and the engineers championing it can’t deliver reliable software quickly in it... most of them can't even optimise queries in SQL and are concatenating strings together in SQL queries.

Take the Elixir ecosystem; I could outpace a team of three Golang engineers easily writing stuff in Elixir and my software would almost never crash or panic and be very flexible when changes were needed. Everything in Golang is calcified around current product requirements and a nightmare to change. So forgive me when I think Golang has a long way to go before it's something I'd want to use for anything but the smallest of command line tools.
c# does not need a foreach loop for bound check elimination.
neatherd: (archaic) A cowherd; one who looks after bulls, cows or oxen. Etymology: From neat (“cattle”) +‎ herd.[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neatherd]

(in case others might be as unfamiliar with that word as I was)
Multi-Cation Synergy Suppresses Phase Segregation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites
Relevant ads were never the goal, it's just the least creepy sounding excuse for spying.
Yeah, I moderate a couple public slack orgs and the banning machine is working hard.
Based on the sentence structure he's almost certainly being sarcastic. He could have said "opaque like glass".
it will skip the array bounds check as long as myArray.Length is the terminal condition in the for loop, rather than a local variable with the length stored.
>Do you think it's as easy for those in India, China, or Kenya, for instance?

Actually yes. Take a look at xoom.com and it's competitors for example (flat rate money transfers at a fraction of swift fees). Only issue is getting money out of those countries. But that is a political and national issue.
Please try not to make comments like this, as I keep breaking keyboards with my forehead and this is starting to become rather expensive.
To wit, A few weeks ago there was a discussion here about a method by which you could figure out how fast a browser/machine could compute an SHA 512 hash, and that this was being used to fingerprint users even who had cookies, images, JavaScript disabled.
I tried one once years ago. I admittedly don't have the world's best balance but it was much harder than I would have expected. I'm sure there are some people for whom it's relatively effortless with a bit of practice but they wouldn't seem to be the target market for rentals.

Hard to believe this isn't at least somewhat tongue in cheek/PR.
I am curious given that I have an Ad-blocker for most websites and am not on FB. How do you even see ads? Have FB et al found a workaround for ad-blockers?
Single-Cell Multi-Omic Integration: Features of Brain Cell Identity
F-ing wonderful. Almost reaffirming the inevitability of it all really. Back to uBlock it is. Thanks for the heads up.
The traffic did no transit through China right?
Always Russia and China up to shady stuff with this
I personally find early returns to be easier to understand (I think of them as exit conditions) than nested if statements but to each their own.
Hah, made me remember an activity I did in my youth - male dancer for bachelorette parties. Sure met lots of people doing that!
Yes, all the go rewrite expectations I was pinning on this 6 month release. I’m sad too.

Time to move back to JavaScript.
I think even the most literal-minded judge can parse "v.3" despite the incorrect punctuation.
Good, as software engineers, machine learning researchers, etc. we have the real power here. Just stop working for these companies. There are jobs and good incomes to be had in other industries. Tell recruiters you are not interested in ad industry.
Shopify was down for 5 hours during this incident. But they're not issuing refunds or credits to customers.

Presumably they will get a refund based on SLA for this? Shouldn't they pass that onto their customers?
It even has its own Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna