skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that sovereign immunity only applied to suing of state actors (ie employees / officials, etc) but I guess it can be applied writ-large to entire institutions as well based on the copyright infringement ruling?

Sounds like a job for the state legislature to handle - writing out an exception to immunity for infringement. Otherwise why would anyone bother attempting to do licensed work in Texas at all?
What a waste of brain cycles.
> What would it take?

All the developers in the world combined can not solve a legal problem. You can't implement technologies like Widevine without a license, and if they simply won't give you one [0], you're dead in the water.

[0]: https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...
Note that "mass anomolies" are almost universal charateristics of lunar (and other) craters, as evidenced by this image from the GRAIL gravimetric survey:

https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/711375main_grail20121205...

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

Specifics will vary by both impactor size and composition -- meteorites can be largely rocky, that is less dense, or metallic iron-nickel, extremely dense. The Aitken basin was likely formed by a both large and dense impactor.

Somewhat related, in the evolution of the Earth, the thought's occurred that the late-stage colision between proto-Earth and Theia might have resulted in a greater prevalence of heavy elements in Earth's crust and outer mantle than an otherwise uniform early accretion process might have generated. Speculation on my part, no literature of which I'm aware.
Totally agree, especially with such additives like aspartame, sucralose etc.
IMO this is it, the last best chance for a cryptocurrency to take off and actually be used as a currency and not a speculative vehicle. If Libra fails, even with all of Facebook’s resources at its disposal, then there is unlikely to be any viable cryptocurrency for at least another generation.

Disclaimer: I hold a lot of stock in FB and no positions in other crypto.
I'll be honest, I'm excited.

The biggest hurdle to Bitcoin adoption are on-ramps / off-ramps. Businesses and individuals dealing with Bitcoin frequently get de-risked by banks and suppressed by regulators (e.g: China & India).

Libra if (a) can be interacted with via API, (b) can itself be acquired via bank transfers / credit cards & (c) not geo-fenced, will eventually be adapted into one of the many exchanges and will contribute greatly to solving Bitcoin's on-ramping issues.

Whether consumers want Bitcoin once they've tasted Libra, well that's an ideological choice. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
Ask HN: What are some pros/cons of working for big/small companies?
Speculative vehicle? We're paying devs salaries in Bitcoin, what are you talking about?
The 2019 Tesla model S has a range of 370 miles, and I assume that as time passes, more EVs will have a range approaching that figure.

That range is considerably longer than the range of my bladder, so once charging increases in speed, this "problem" simply vanishes. We're already on our way there, the first 250kW charger opened this week, and will add 180 miles of range in 15 minutes.

In fact, it's better than an ICE car, because I can charge at home, and start every single journey with 100% charge.
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Timeouts don’t have to involve separation from loved ones, just from the stimulus that’s causing the behavior.

You can be with your child during a timeout. It’s not jail.
Exam Cheats Cited in Three-Day Internet Shutdown in Ethiopia
Walnut Creek CDs were quite common.

I did buy a bunch of them on regular basis.
Would you rather:

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

or

Mark
Why would anyone want a facebook coin that is completely controlled by Facebook which can be controlled by the government when with Bitcoin you get complete sovereignty?
Many standards are simply guidelines or arbitrary rules. Someone just makes it up. For e.g. i++ has a specific meaning according to a language standard. Or the width of a door should be 36" inches. That is something someone just made up. You can make up a standard yourself. Other kinds of standards have years of work behind them, like engineering standards for bridges, or food safety standards. Someone has to pay the people to do the work. There is nothing inherently free or non-free about them.

The other important thing here is being able to read the standard gets you nowhere. You have to implement the standard, and an independent third party has to verify that you have implemented them. Someone has to pay for all this work. It would be nice if this was tax payer supported, but if the government isn't going to pay for it, maybe you would like to setup an international fund to contribute? I'm sure they would love to make them free of charge.

>They should enable things, not to be used for profit. Profiteering from that hinders progress. It should be quite self explanatory.

I want to pay the people who work on the standards. Profits help with that. Ergo, profits help progress. QED :)

BTW, ISO standards have been for-pay for years. Please explain specifically how it has hindered progress. Some data would be nice. The burden of proof is on you, given the decades of counter-factual evidence.
This isn't serverless.
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Someone already pays for the work of making standards. And it's not ISO.

Someone has to pay for the work for implementing them too, but not for accessing the standard itself. Lot's of things were not free, because of someone trying to sit in the middle, where they shouldn't have.
and many people are compensated in highly volatile stocks that are subject to speculation, you paying someone in bitcoin doesn't change anything about its speculative nature, it just means your employees are willing to receive compensation in a volatile currency.
No it doesn't. ETC is worth something like 2% of the value of ETH, it's a joke in comparison. Besides, the existence of "Ethereum Classic" is not something special, it's the inevitable side effect of suddenly having the balance of your ETH wallet "cloned" in a fork, you only have to lose if you don't treat both wallets like they're real.
> I’ve heard from people close to the project

Oh, these anonymous sources which are proven to be highly reliable like... never?

> replace national currencies

They can have a strategy but that does not mean they are able to execute on it. Plus, by the time they get to a point where they endanger a local currency they would probably get a national ban in such countries. I mean what would you expect anything else?
Nobody but it doesnt mattet. Facebook has the potential to br the western wechat with this.
Micropayments.
Here's a related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20174847
I would have killed to have tools like Unity when I got into game programming. All of my hobby time was eaten up trying to wrangle OpenGL and C++ and crappy open source engines, and cobbling together a shitty physics engine, so I never got around to the actual game part. When I went back years later to prototype ideas in Unity, it was a breath of fresh air.

However, in my struggles to get off the ground, I did learn a lot more about font rendering than I ever wanted to, and it has come up unexpectedly useful.
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I can't read the article in it's entirety but decentralisation is not what makes a crypto currency a crypto currency. Visa, Master card, Joe shmoe, anyone can start a centralized ledger that uses crypto.
Sure, but not one owned by Facebook.

It's a sick joke.
No tutorials on how to get started and the product could possibly be purged in another 3 years. Start with something like Gamemaker if you really want something that will be around for sometime.
I was never able to "get" chess.

I know the rules, I can methodically scan every position, but I feel that I can never really think more than one step ahead. I just start feeling restless, get overwhelmed at the board and my processing slows to a crawl.

I might look calm and focused on the outside, but inside I'm fidgety and thinking "what the fuck am I looking at? how can I ever think of a larger strategy when I can barely think of a move that doesn't get my pieces killed?" It feels like I become a very slow triply-nested for-loop.

I work at a FANG and am very good at my job, so don't need the validation. Still a bummer. Wish I was better.
All I care for is the end of the fiat system and the beginning of freedom for humanity.
Our Eyes Are Always Darting Around, So How Come Our Vision Isn’t Blurry?
I don't think this is a textbox example of Goodhart's law.

A healthy amount of sleep is a great target and measure, just like staying within a healthy weight range and lots of other biometrics.

I think Goodhart's law applies to people gaming the system or juking the stats to inflate a measured number causing the number to lose meaning. It doesn't matter what you do, getting enough sleep is important.
Dude is a legend. One of my favorite parts in Wild Wild Country is when they're interviewing "local rancher" Jon Bowerman. Paraphrasing, but there's a part where he's talking about his father and it goes something like: "He fought in the war...went behind enemy lines in Italy and convinced the German 8th Army to surrender. Then he led the Ducks to 4 national championships and became US Olympic coach, but retired heartbroken after Munich. Then one day he was in the garage and melted some old retreat rubber with a waffle iron and glued it to an old worn out shoe. The result became...uh...Nike""
As eeZah7Ux noted, both.
But the article addresses this by saying that the vast majority of rules never get used?
Why would we have had electric car from the beginning? Producing an E-car consumes more energy than a car with an internal combustion engine, the milage is a joke. And if electricity is coming from coal power plants it is all but green.
Oh, ok. I really wasn't sure.
> Early electric cars performed better in cities than internal combustion vehicles

This article talks a lot about cars around 1900.

In the US in 1900, 60% of the population lived in rural areas and only 40% lived in cities. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...)

So working well in rural areas was probably a more important concern. A product that works OK for all your potential customers is better (from a business's point of view) than one that works a bit better for some customers and not at all for others.
Unpopular but true. The future is either serial electric vehicles SEV or hydrogenium powered cars
Because not everyone cares about "complete sovereignty"? There's a reason why all these companies are still successful, most people don't care that much about their privacy or other dignities if it means convenience.
I have another (albeit more expensive) workflow. I use texpad[0] on my Mac and iPad, with the files stored in Dropbox and iCloud. Works like a charm and almost no overhead setting up.

[0] https://www.texpad.com
Hunting licenses constitute due process, no?
Binary encoding of variable length options with Golang
No but they need one to do so _while refusing to evolve_. Let them die. Let them be replaced. Humanity will produce something better.
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Looking at the site, it seems like they also allow for custom scripts if you want functionality that their templates don’t provide.
If this coin can be traded freely on crypto exchanges, then it will provide a convienient on/off ramp for other cryptocurrencies.
Clearly the next step is to somehow communicate with the Kea.
Le Chatelier's Principle
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Not sure who the audience for this is. Kids I guess? Game developers want engines and tools that make development easier without losing power or flexibility. Players want new interesting gaming experiences.
Can anyone explain how this will be different (from a user perspective) than any other tech enabled payments platform (Alipay, Paypal, Venmo etc)?

What's the rationale?
It was ~ $200k in 2006.

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/mcintosh-reference-system-the-...

https://www.audioholics.com/trade-shows/2006-consumer-electr...
Korea-Finland Startup Summit 2019 opens up doors for cooperation
Yep. There have been entire posts who linked to reddit posts.
its run by facebook.
Huh, I always thought Opera was the first tabbed browser but according to wiki, BookLink Technologies' InternetWorks browser was the first, followed by Netcaptor three years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)#History
I don't think I agree.

> Tether and Gemini can freeze/suspend anybody's account at any time for any reason with practically no effort if they wanted to.

But only liquidity providers at the edge of the payment network even need to have "accounts" with Tether or Gemini.

> You can even track your blacklisted token amounts through middlemen and mixers.

Yes, coins could be blacklisted, but it's not likely that they would be unless it came to be publicly known that they were associated with a crime.

> The main thing to keep in mind with stablecoins is that your coins are only worth something as long as the producer (Tether/Gemini/Facebook/etc) is willing to give you actual hard currency for those coins.

They don't need to give me hard currency. They just need to give somebody hard currency, and then, only if and when people actually want to redeem cash for the coins (which should be the exception, not the rule).

I don't need to have a relationship with Gemini to spend their coins (whether to get cash out or not) since I can sell the coins for about $1 to someone else who can do that.
Are you saying Facebook will tip the scales in the wrong direction?
in the meantime you can take matters into your own hands and jailbreak if possible
Many-valued logic
Interesting and surprising.

I still don't see much point given that there are now stablecoins pegged exactly to the USD with audited bank reserves.
>No, you are not going to get arrested in America for making a joke about George Washington.

If someone leaks you joking about repeating a historical terrorist attack the chances that the police at least pay you a visit is very high, in the United States and other Western countries.

There's actually a whole array of news articles you can find on your search engine of choice about arrests after people made social media posts about threatening politicians. Which I might add, joke or not is very reasonable.
depends on the Mark: Zuckerberg or Karpeles?

on second thought, no it doesn't
What sort of crypto? Just hiding the ledger behind SSL or encrypting the data is not what makes the "crypto" in cryptocurrency.
> If you want to keep the direct drive though you would need to have a larger engine and use hook-up and variable cut-off to keep the efficiency of the smaller engine while cruising.

An alternative would be to make hybrids. Use an electric motor to get reasonable acceleration and a smaller steam engine for cruising distance.
Hey,you sound like you know a lot about this topic. I'm really interested in learning about it, do you have any recommendations for resources (books, youtube channels, etc.)? Thanks!
Yes it looks like it's for kids. Basically everything a kid would want from Minecraft, minus the licensed characters I guess.
Feature creep seems to be a common failure of many standards. Bluetooth or usb-c to name some others.

World is missing a standard, a good and lean one is created, multiple vendors implement it, there's an initial year of minor incompatibilities but otherwise all is gold and glory, everybody loves the standard. Standard becomes immensely popular so everything supports the standard and worse - the standard starts supporting everything because every vendor just has this one small extension they want to add. After adding thousands of such extensions, suddenly the standard isn't so lean anymore. Now the spec isn't just a single RFC that can be read over lunch. It's a whole collection of documents with thousands of pages, appendices, mandatory extensions and compatibility tests. You need few people employed just to keep up with organizing the documentation. Vendor implementations start becoming incompatible because of too high complexity. Only a few big players manage to stay afloat and they probably like it that way because it raises the barrier to entry and they get to keep their position.
Joke about a person vs planning a terrorist attack
As a veteran chrome extension developer, I'm more inclined to trust extension authors than I am to trust the chrome extension API development team, because it's a bad API with bad documentation and bad performance.

Google's claims that the new API will be faster were already shown to be a blatant lie.
"At one point he locked the entire New York banking community in his library until a $25m bail-out fund had been agreed."

Feels like JPM is a bit underrated by history. Imagine a Fed Chair who's not a government official and who's only authority comes from the combination of his financial prowess and personal balance sheet.
Shelf space strategy for marketing developer toolS
Telegram Hit by DDoS Attack Blames China
A trivial website which needs 10s to go from blank to content. I fear the CPU will have the same fate. Unusable.
Now you're moving the goalposts, though. Saying that the network shouldn't play a role in security is totally different than saying that it currently plays none.

I find it really hard to understand this obsession with pining for a world where security doesn't need to exist. It does, and it always will. Design around that, it's not hard.
Libra is the portuguese word for pound sterling
There was probably other factors. Good pay/conditions/close to home/etc.

Also it's not always so easy to up and quit every time someone looks at you the wrong way.
Surely teleop has the same issues as regular trucks though - they are a danger to pedestrians and cyclists sharing the roads.
based on the article, I think you missed the point. This is a competitor with Minecraft. Not a competitor to Unity.
Real Estate Vc
How good is real estate innovation helping perspectives in tech moving towards privacy helps people understand how safe is zillow
Fuck correctness: I made my money through porn
Kea are birds.
Does anybody have any idea how to get free those journals? Thanks
> Producing an E-car consumes more energy than a car with an internal combustion engine,

That's true! These differences change as soon as the cars are driven. EVs are powered by electricity, which is generally a cleaner energy source than gasoline. Battery electric cars make up for their higher manufacturing emissions within eighteen months of driving — shorter range models can offset the extra emissions within 6 months. Source: https://youtu.be/K9m9WDxmSN8

> the milage is a joke.

The 2019 Tesla model S has a range of 370 miles, and on new superchargers will add 180 miles of range in 15 minutes. Source: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/24/new-tesla-model-s-370-m...

Of course, most EV owners rarely use any charger other than their home one, since you can start every journey with 100% charge.

This might be "a joke" to you, I cannot say.

> And if electricity is coming from coal power plants it is all but green.

That's also true! Lucky then that all electricity does not come from coal power plants. In the US, that's only 17.8%. Source: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/

Those with solar panels on their homes don't get their power from any kind of power plant at all, just the sun.
There are the 70nm Global Foundries fabs in Dresden (ex-AMD), Bosch is planning their fab there also. Good enough for R&D, the real CPU's will be fabricated in Taiwan or China then, I assume.
FWIW I had never heard of this saga. I found it quite an enjoyable read.
Just because you own property doesn’t mean you get to do whatever you want with it. The Ritz knew there would be conditions, and they chose to agree. They could have sold the property and built a hotel elsewhere if they didn’t like the conditions.
Pixar's Sharp Kelvinlets
Can't read the article. What is it backed by? Where's this information coming from? I can't find any press release or sources that aren't publishers themselves—this smells like insubstantial technology and bought hype (not that it won't work...).
I imagine it's similar to dry aging beef. With the right temperature and humidity, you support only bacteria that are safe to eat and you end up with a dry protective exterior before long which allows the fish to begin safely fermenting. You can do this with a surprising number of things. The trick is to have the correct initial conditions which prevents the proliferation of counterproductive bacteria. They also dip the fish in a brine to promote the right bacteria and prevent others from taking hold.

As for insects, it's likely that it's too cold outside (I think the article mentioned that it's kept outside in cool weather). Once it's done doing the cool weather thing it goes inside.
So, it's crypto all the way down?
You're forgetting how much credit card transaction suck. As I see it this is the main problem facebook could solve through sheer volume of use: microtransactions.

Granted this is about the worst way this future could come about....
I'm not sure, I could see myself playing this with friends.

I enjoy playing games with friends that involve challenges,.but often that just translates to outmaneuvering some enemy in some game.

This seems like a great experience where we can really experience each other's creations. Sort of like Minecraft, but imo it's hard to embrace something that "belongs" to someone else, as things tend to be in minecraft.
Medium has a paywall on this page. Here's a cache.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190614024004/https://instagram...
I've met a hell of a lot of authoritarians in the crypto scene over the past decade. Blockchain technology is a centralized datastore so of course it's a tool for global authoritarianism; think IBM in the 1930s selling slow databases to the Nazi's so they can keep a universal ledger of the Jews.

P2P distributed architectures such as Holochain which actually decentralize data and control are far more positive paradigms for humanity.
Then I see no difference from USD. What exactly is the point? Yet another payment method?
Chess excellence depends very much on experience: the more you play and train, the better you get. See, people say it's the mind game, but it only depends on the intelect as long both players are similarly experienced.

Also, a game of chess is long and can get boring: in the beginning of a game people usually play "by the book", trying to adhere to some basic principles (control the center of the table, pull out your pieces into play, protect your king by castling, etc).

In the middle of the game, as long as you managed to avoid losing any piece so far, is where the actual play takes place, when you try to gain material advantage and this is where I spend most of my thinking fuel.

The end of the game, again, depends very much on training and experience, because there are known strategies how one should play with pawn and king against king for example. Of course, some of the strategies are obvious, like promoting your pawn to a queen and mate your opponent, but others are not, like gaining the opposition to be able to promote/block the pawn.

I don't have too much patience playing whole games myself, but I like training my mind by making chess puzzles/tactics daily, which I'd recommend you try yourself: your offered a position where you know that after a few moves you have to end up in advantage.
Has everyone already forgotten KODAKCoin [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KodakCoin