skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How was the experience?
As a result of the funding, researchers were able to discover NEK1 - a newly tagged identify genetic factors contributing to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The article was published in Nature and can be found here. https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3626. The discovery was a direct result of the money raised from the Ice Bucket Challenge.
If you just treat your credit cards like debit cards, you can easily build a better credit score without really being 'in debt' or paying any interest. And in the US at least, there are also some other benefits, like better fraud protection and purchase/sign-ups bonuses.
I'm sure there's room for improvement but at some point this is paradoxical. Users who want data privacy want their presence and behavior obfuscated, which is fundamentally opposed to anti-fraud systems which are designed to analyze the presence and behavior of users to determine if they are fraudulent.
I suspect it's because Americans live far more leveraged lives? We finance everything: our phones, our cars, our lawn mowers, our education. The average student loan debt is about $35k. The average household has over $20k in non-mortgage debt. The average credit card has a balance of over $6k; the average retail card over $1800. The average car payment is $400 (used) and $550 (new). You typically walk into a car dealership and drive away in a few hours with a car worth tens of thousands of dollars. And these numbers are increasing every year. With so much hunger for debt, manually underwriting isn't practical for the smallest debts. (at least not based on most businesses like car dealerships who depend on volume and spontaneity)

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/credit-cards/articles/the-av...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/03/01/care-pa...
Did they even perform any file (write)operations when testing? If not that was a waste of time... FAT32 would have performed just as well.
The US is still a functioning democracy, more or less. Vote smarter, people.
No I asked a question
You're right that it wasn't a good analogy. More like the Wal-Mart Store Card Credit Builder.
FedEx ditching Amazon is a 'watershed moment'
> Our template for what war looks like is WW2, because that's the last time in living memory that the whole world erupted in high intensity warfare. So we've naturally built a military machine to fight the last war, but with bigger and more high-tech weaponry.

This criticism might loosely have been true in the 1980s to 1990s, but doesn't seem particularly relevant now.

> But historically, Peter Thiel's observation that "each moment in history happens only once" may be closer to the truth.

It's obviously literally true, and it's been recognized as true more broadly in military matters since before Thiel was born. What is always in dispute until the next war starts is which lessons learned from the last one are critically in error now, not whether that will be the case somewhere.
It's really really really hard to attribute battery usage correctly when it comes to push notifications.
The comments here about how bad America's privatized credit system is, make me wonder what it would take to "disrupt" that industry. I guess the hard thing is that it's about having relationships with all these giant institutions, so there's a strong in-group bias.
In the terms, there are 2 separate credit-builder cards. Only one requires Prime. The one that does not require Prime is not eligible for 5% back UNLESS the cardholder also has Prime.

> 4. The Amazon.com Store Card Credit Builder. The Amazon.com Store Card Credit Builder is available to customers with an Amazon.com account, subject to credit approval.

[...]

> 5. The Amazon Prime Store Card Credit Builder. The Amazon Prime Store Card Credit Builder, an upgrade from the Amazon.com Store Card Credit Builder, is available to customers with an Eligible Amazon Prime Membership only, subject to credit approval.
And has to pay hefty security deposits, each time when they switch (without a proper credit score)
The AWS console is a jarring experience due to this and, in my opinion, not very well done. Every service has a different theme and it is generally ugly.

From a business standpoint, I doubt many people are turning away from them just because of this though.
Why do secured credit cards have an interest rate? They're charging you to borrow money from yourself? The cost of maintaining an account should be covered by the processing fees, right?
Hm, if you do git it another try and experience that again, please open an issue on Github so it can be fixed:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/new
You can ship so long as it's not statically linked.
That's assuming you don't use prime for anything else, like free fast shipping, or the TV shows.
Listen to this AI voice clone of Bill Gates created by Facebook’s engineers
I'm not going to say nothing while someone advocates suicide. I'm just not that understanding.
I think its easier to build a credit score from "no credit history" than recovering from a bad credit.. so :" no credit history" > "bad credit" in long term
My previous job was doing microservices for frontend and current job is doing monorepos. I prefer monorepo for frontend because:

* Full page refresh between frontend services
* Inconsistency between services.
Sometimes services use different major versions
between @company/footer @company/header components
that is extremely ugly when navigating
* Sharing data between services is hard.
How can I update profile photo in header from my page?
I saw iframe injection hacks to go around it!!
* A single page can have multiple team owners,
those things can get tricky fast
* Monorepo is easier to make tooling for.
It's backed by Synchrony meaning it will have impossibly shitty management tools, can't speak to a human without spending an hour on the phone. No thanks.
You say there's no strong evidence, but then you speculatively say "are going to need"? And you refer to total store ordering, which is not required even for a barrier? Next time I'm sitting with the people who designed a chip which was the clock-speed champion for quite some time, maybe I'll ask them about the reasons.
This is a weird line to argue from... What guarantees any platform you use (yes, even including wordpress) won't delete you data or terminate your service agreement? Even more laughable, if it was unfairly terminated, how can you argue when you are dead?

If you want longevity -- and want a VPS, just load up your vps (in the case of DO) wallet, pre-purchase out your domain name for a few years in advance and sit back. That's the best you are going to get, without paying somebody specifically. If you are popular enough, your stuff will be archived anyway.

But for heavens sake, if you actually have a need for post-life longevity for your content, put it in a will. Plan for death.
PostmarketOS seems the most promising effort for a truly open and affordable handheld OS with mainline kernel and other good practices.

And there's also a useful incremental path for evolution, that starts with a familiar GNU/Linux and moves gradually towards handheld tweaks (UI, power, devices, apps).

It's important to be upfront that PostmarketOS is not yet viable as a daily driver, or people will feel they wasted their time looking at it. What it really needs is programmers, like the earlier Linux ones, who will power through the pain of getting things working well, and stick with it for months, as a labor of love.
This very common trope always annoys me. "There is so much money flowing through the economy, and I just need to get a little bit for {insert cause}".

No.

Money does not flow like water through pipes, and you cannot just siphon some off without affecting the whole. Dollars are packets... each one is addressed to a particular destination, and sent to accomplish a specific purpose. If we want money for {cause}, we must choose to address dollars to that cause to the exclusion of other purposes.

/rant

(I know that melling specifically mentioned giving up bottled water, but there has to be a compelling reason to do so that EVERY dollar/packet sender agrees on.)
Makes you think, doesn't it?
Yep. Glad that there are at least a few people whose brains haven't been turned to mush by decades of propaganda and inflexible market fundamentalist orthodoxy.
They should be allowed to die. This is the reasonable position. Societal reaction to such action may change administrative policy, but it would do so through entirely proper political channels. The job of the civil servant is to implement policy and advise, not to determine or defend it from changes made in a proper fashion.
Absolutely. There are tons of people I encounter every single day that seem to think it is cheaper to build everything inhouse. I think it comes from a complete misunderstanding of how business delivers value coupled with RMS-like distrust of anything they cannot completely crack the lid open and mess around with. Mostly the former, some of the later.
This was my first thought as well. If you can't get encrypted messaging apps to use the SMS service siphon you can at least snag notification text - and most people allow the message to be in the notification.
The group of people that really need a super powerful mac but can’t afford 6k is a pretty small niche, not sure they should worry too much about them.
True, which is why I go back to my original comment of just having it take you to the search engine settings, with the different services listed out. It's a reasonable compromise of being honest & sane without much friction on the user's end.

I know you're claiming that's not what the OP is calling for, but we're literally just going on four words from them. Regardless, "train wreck" is an over-exaggeration for either of our assumptions.
as more and more companies sell FOSS licensed software, that definition is going to change. commercial software as the opposite of Free Software worked as long as the majority of Free Software products were generally free as in beverage in addition to having a free license. "Commercial Open Source" is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applica...
At first this struck me as expensive, in the sense that per Gbps, I get a much better price from Comcast. And then I remembered all of the externalities that come along with that price: data caps, potential monitoring, bad customer support and whatever else I'm forgetting.

How much is avoiding those actually worth to me? Probably pretty close to the price difference, actually, and if those things are really important to me I should be willing to walk the walk and pay for them.

I won't, because I don't live in Philadelphia, but I hope to have real viable alternatives where I do live.
yeah, tell that to the black teenagers dragged to Homan Square in Chicago
Yes, I definitely missed that one. Good catch.
Keepalive across cells are not universally available. Most mobile networks renew your IP at each handover.
I would think polymer/ web components is perfect for micro services.

Is anyone using that?
Cryptocurrency media site CCN is shutting down today. Cites Google Algo Update
so you're rebuilding Visual Basic in react.
We Used the Word ‘Apeshit’ in a Paper for a Tier 1 ML Conference
Piping Server – Pipe commands to listeners over the web
The restrictions placed upon the fellow are more “capricious” in the words of the judge than necessary. Perhaps all his communications need to be read. I somehow doubt that prevention of communications by his lawyers is an important part of counter-terrorism, or that it can take more than a day or two to make sure that correspondence does not promote terrorism.

And I fail to see why we should force-feed a prisoner in the first place, which is the main problem.
Ah, yes, experts.
Yep. I'm really confused why this press release/advertisement for Amazon is on the front page of Hacker News. It's not new technology; it's not even close to being innovative. It's literally just an Amazon logo pasted onto an old idea. This is an advertisement.
I'm at a Coworking space that uses Philly Wisper exclusively. I just got 75 down 85 up. I totally recommend them as an affordable alternative to the big players in Philly that absolutely won't sell your data. I wish I could get them at home but they don't have a line of sight to my place :(

[1] https://www.speedtest.net/result/8326306965
On one hand your right, he's trying to justify torture and most of us here probably don't agree with that.

On the other hand statements of the "when you start a sentence with X then you're wrong" variety are just a more wordy and upscale analog of the jerks who are posting "yikes" in reply to any comment they don't like on Reddit and add nothing to the conversation.
It is if you open it incognito from a SERP.

Re: "how do they detect it?" -- without investigating it, I would suspect browser fingerprinting within a window time slice.
Can residential customers buy the business plan to get the higher bandwidth?
"It's our moral high ground that stops us from killing the terrorist or letting him starve himself to death."

The US kills alleged terrorists (or allegedly suspected terrorists) all the time via drone bombings and various other military actions, and has also killed them in captivity -- all this usually without any kind of trial.

As for keeping them from starving to death, the prisoners seem to prefer to die of starvation rather than be tortured in prison for the rest of their lives. In this case, letting them die may be less cruel than forcing them to live. Not to mention that force feeding is itself a form of torture.

There is no moral high ground here.
Fascinating. Conspiracy theories around software. Might make for a fun sci-fi creative writing exercise.
You can arrange for malloc to fail. If overcommit is disabled with the right sysctl parameters, then mmap will fail if there isn't enough physical memory to materialize the entire mapping. Even under overcommit, very large malloc requests that translate directly to large mmap requests can fail with a null return.
When I lived in Australia for a short period I couldn't get a credit card without a small credit limit due to not having any credit history in Australia (my US credit didn't matter). So it's definitely not just the US.
The open source project was started before Copperhead existed and long before it was incorporated. The project was never directly owned or controlled by the company, as that was an explicit condition of the collaboration with the company. GrapheneOS is the continuation of that original project, but a lot has been learned and it will never become associated with another company or organization to the same extent. The purpose and values behind the project were eroded by the association with a company focused on a business model. It was a problematic relationship long before you heard about it and eventually Copperhead betrayed the project. You can see for yourself that they made a bunch of ultimatums and threats trying to take over the project and end the independence from the company. They failed at doing that, but they succeeded at hijacking all of the infrastructure and preventing it from ever pushing out another update to the existing installs. The OS was never compromised, but it lost all of the infrastructure and resources supporting it so it has taken a long time to even get some basics back up and running. Most of the initial focus after the disaster was on standalone projects like https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc and https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor. It took a long time to get things back up and running, and it has definitely been massively set back both not only in terms of the development work but also in many other ways. It has still managed to continue onwards and while the OS itself hasn't been fully restored, there's a bunch of useful standalone work that's far better than anything the project offered in the past.

You're substantially misrepresenting the events that occurred based on a very incomplete account of the events that you've seen. People seeing your comment are going to end up with an incorrect understanding, just as you did. You're stating your assumptions and misconceptions about what happened as if they're facts. It's a very incorrect account of a very small part of the story. This game of broken telephone where people misinform themselves and then propagate variations of that to many other people is a poor way of spreading knowledge.
> There’s a lot of money in the US economy that we just need to figure out how to get into basic research.

> Give up bottled water and donate the money to medical research for a few years?

This is a false "we". There is no coherent group with similar goals you're talking about; just a mass of humans who care more about drinking bottled water than medical research.
Not if you can't get credit cards at all (because of zero credit rating).
All the sibling answers are pretty much spot on except for one thing: you're building your credit score; you're setting a track record for your ability to repay debt. Certainly, something similar exists in your neighborhood/region/country. Otherwise, how would anyone know that they'll ever get their money back from you?

The major thing to note here in the US is there are three 'big' companies that track this information about individuals. And (now) there's a fairly standardized method for calculating your score, and that score affects A) whether you can borrow and B) the interest rate on the borrowed money.
From the linked article:

Modern RAM is believed, with much justification, to be reliable, and error-detecting RAM has largely fallen out of use for non-critical applications. By the mid-1990s, most DRAM had dropped parity checking as manufacturers felt confident that it was no longer necessary.
I have an amex gold card for the similar purpose of it being a "charge" card and not a credit card. I can't carry a balance month to month, and that's how I want it.
Newspapers are perfectly happy to complain about big tech's privacy issues, but are completely fine being beneficiaries of it and don't care about the serious implications of removing one's choice to use private browsing mode.
I let my Prime subscription expire 6 months ago and I honestly haven't even noticed. The quality of the Amazon experience had already declined so much that I had already stopped using Amazon for most of my shopping/streaming.

2-3 years ago, I was making a purchase on Amazon at least once a month. These days I only use Amazon for price-matching at other stores.
They apparently announced when this was going to happen, so it was more about timing than buying specific tickets.
I agree. Mark is knowledgeable and attentive. Given that they are a small player in a big space, they are very sensitive to customer issues and really strive to provide great service and uptime.
It does help explain many of the unusual aspects of the president.
It truly is still an amazing language, to me. It's fallen out of favor as a valid language for most tasks, and trends seem to dictate a lot of what is used these days, especially in the web development world.

Perl 5 is likely what you learned in 2007, it's what I learned in 2001, and it's the same Perl now.

To all: Perl 5 is still a wonderful language with a lot of unique and distinct features, and I highly recommend giving it an honest try if you haven't. You probably won't want to replace your favorite language, though maybe you'll see things just a bit differently, which in my experience is always a good thing.
The biggest challenge with this approach is how you handle 'user context' and how the different front-ends manage that dependency.
Some could even run at 1080i! IT's pretty impressive honestly. ModernVintageGamer on youtube has some great videos with high quality footage of it.
Microsoft probably doesn't need to license Google Earth data because Bing data has been competing pretty well in that space, reports to the contrary aside.

One of Bing's particular focuses contrasting them to Google Earth/Maps photography has been a particular interest in "Birds Eye" isometric-feeling photography taken from helicopters at particular altitudes and compass angles, I would imagine is particularly applicable to trying to generate rich models for Flight Simulator use at similar altitudes, more so than a lot of traditional "flat" overhead aerial photography used by map providers.

(It's gotten harder to find Bird's Eye in Bing Maps redesigns sadly. It's "hidden" in the right-click menu now. Still, it is a useful and interesting type of aerial photographer that should be celebrated as useful and interesting.)
Not really, it's just basic configuration of nginx or something like that. Putting up nginx with microcaching in front of your webserver is literally a five minute task. If you have no idea on how to do it, then it's going to take half an hour with some tutorials, so even in that case it's not that much more work than serving a static HTML page.
I suspect your points are spot-on, but I wish we had concrete numbers associated with your bullet-list. Otherwise I'm not sure if I have things in proper perspective.
I believe it has to do with how much Americans tend to borrow, but I'm not sure which is cause and which is effect.

Do Americans borrow so much money that they need additional proof that they can pay it back (via credit ratings), OR, do Americans get the ability to borrow more because there are credit ratings systems to help lenders feel safer loaning money?

Probably somewhere in the middle.
how cool!!!!
I'm out of the loop, can someone tell me why Hacker News loves RISC so much?
But if there's more money in doing it the way they're doing it now (leading to you calling it "short-term, easy money"), and switching back to the old way isn't more profitable, then that's really down to the consumers, because without them there would be zero revenue for these game companies.

The game companies aren't really in a position of power here; the consumers are. If they stop buying, then the entire industry goes under immediately. As I said before, games are purely a luxury, though it seems like gamers refuse to believe this. But apparently there's no shortage of people willing to throw their money at these companies and buy into these business models of buying broken games and paying extra to "unlock" content to keep playing.

I have coworkers like this. They complain a lot about the state of games, about how buggy they are and how they're entirely broken when they're first released, yet they keep buying them anyway. I ask them why and they don't really have an answer. Personally, I have much better things to spend my time and money on than entertainment products that disrespect me: I can go on a hike or bike ride, I can go on a date, I can go to cultural events, I can go to the gym, I can work on one of the languages I'm learning, or if I want to kill time at home doing something "mindless" I can just watch stuff on YouTube for free, watch Netflix, or play an old video game in an emulator even. Why so many young men insist on spending all their free time playing buggy games that aren't even complete when you buy them, I have no idea; there's many other things to do with your time.
Animal Rights Debate Between Peter Singer and Richard Posner
Amazon In-Car Delivery with Key App
I've had similar thoughts after learning category theory. I'm trying to develop a conceptual model where each different category (JSX, data layer, data fetching, validation, 2-way binding) cleanly composes.

With arcane nature of category theory not being common knowledge, frameworks, libraries, standards, etc, are unfortunately being created in ways that actually prevent patterns of composition.

It's almost to the point that I'm wanting to reinvent things from the ground up based on solid patterns of composition.

Have you done any work or discovered any patterns to make things behave more like the monoidal "<>" that you mentioned?
I would have to delve deeper to give actually useful feedback, but I wanted to say from a presentational point of view, it looks great, well done for putting something like this together