skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t have Facebook,the social network way back, in my mind when trying to make my argument (I definitely should have made this clearer).

Remove the history behind Facebook and just look at the numbers of the LibraCoin consortium and you’re not dealing with just one person. That’s the lens someone wanting to make a competitor should be looking through, not that LibraCoin has a long thread tying back to “just” Zuck. That catalyst has little to do with the challenge of competing with LibraCoin as it has started today.
Sorry for delay. Had to refresh my memory, dig up that old code.

I used the 'queue' (submodule?) from caolan's terrific 'async' module to limit the number of Redis requests in flight.

https://caolan.github.io/async/v3/docs.html#queue

https://www.npmjs.com/package/async

As said above, this prevents the Redis responses from piling up on the Redis server, waiting to be sent.

To troubleshoot: If the Redis CLIENT LIST's output length list, output memory, or both, are growing without ever shrinking, then I'd bet one delicious apple fritter your app's Redis client isn't processing responses fast enough. Check out the 'obl', 'oll', 'omem' stats.

https://redis.io/commands/client-list

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Fronting Redis calls with async.queue makes the client code gnarly. So I banged out a (very minimal) client with an internal queue.

I had been weighing releasing it. And then if there's any interest, then maybe flesh out the client. There's some other notions I had wanted to try out.

I'm NOT a nodejs developer. So I hadn't fully worked out how to do proper I/O, with proper timeouts, retry, backoff. So for instance, I'd want the async.queue concurrency limit to be adaptive.
One day I got a similar call from an old customer I had not heard about for 6 months or so "Please help, my customer website has been hacked ! All content has been deleted !".
A simple grep delete on the Apache logs showed that a User-Agent called GoogleBot visited all delete pages.
Looking at these pages source codes, the developers that coded their website had forgotten to check authentication on a number of administration pages.
And of course, the list page showed links to delete each content item, that was intercepted by a javascript callback doing a confirm(), which didn't matter for GoogleBot.
So Facebook would have their own Animal Farm?
I think Maybe, Either, etc. are just implemented in regular Haskell, they're not special things in the language.
It sounds to me like you and the author have already decided on the conclusion, you'e made up your minds that whatever is the opposite of what an intelligence agency says is the truth, and are grasping at straws to justify that belief.

Nobody ever said the russians are genius master hackers, only that their operation is large and well funded and they're not particularly concerned about hiding it.

The fact that Mitch McConnel wants to keep his Russian connections secret does not disprove those russian connections.

You clearly haven't actually read the mueller report if you think it's "discovering nothing" and "pointless". It's free, you can read it today.
Jack Dorsey's “EMF-shielding tent” is bogus
This is the truest thing in this comment section.
SRI: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
For sure, I’ve lived in places like that in SD during and after college.

My point is that properties above entry level apartment grade are scarce in the valley despite the fact that rents can support it better than just about anywhere. It actually kept me from moving up there
YC Alumns Bitrise raise $20M to fix mobile development
> What does a function that doesn't error look like under try-catch? How do you tell it apart from a function that can error.

By the empty throws clause.
The counter argument there is that if he had access to Satoshi's wallet in the last year of his life, why wouldn't he have cashed at least some of it out to provide for his family (and donate the rest to the ALS foundation which he spent a lot of energy raising money for)?
can someone explain the downvotes? Would be cool to understand why this is rubbing y'all the wrong way.
It may not be complex, but it's certainly obscure. Any JavaScript developer could understand the try/catch example but many would struggle with the Either example.
It's not even a surprise for me anymore when this happens (3-4 times in my life). They make more money this way and I figure a ton of people either just default on the debt or eat the expense because they don't understand.

The worst part is that they will keep you on the phone sometimes for upwards of 8+ hours to settle this sorta crap - I am lucky to have a job that I can keep a phone on hold via speaker for hours and hours at a time.

Protip for anyone reading this - they put a "hey Mr. X, you still with us?" human bit spaced out by around 45 minutes-ish. Don't miss it or be on mute because they'll drop the call in about 2s if you don't immediately answer effectively making you start ALL over again.
Back when I forked and redesigned an embedded network analysis and packet dumping tool, I did not change one letter in the name. I gave it a completely different name, and credited the original author, even after 95% of the original code was changed.

The purpose was twofold: 1) respect to the original author whose ideas and work made it easy for me to attempt this project, and 2) I didn't want my bastardized horrible code to reflect on the original project or cause confusion.

Curl is the most widely used HTTP request tool outside of a browser. Calling your fork of it "crurl" is like forking "Linux" and calling it "Linox". This is a dick move.
> I'd be willing to bet that not even 10% of programmers could actually explain what a monad is.

To be fair, I don't think you need to really understand what monad is to understand Either.
Please see (sibling?) reply to jessaustin. Thanks.
Can everyone just stop giving him attention?
That really is a straw man. There are plenty of OO enthusiasts who would immediately call out fluent APIs as being very bad style.

Ideological demonization is pointless for advocates of either side.
Less plastic consumption means less dependency on oil. Generally a good idea for all human beings. But, dominant oil companies will do anything they can to stop it.
The problem is publishers are not managing expectations. If you're showing gameplay footage of a product that is still a year out or more in development, you had better follow up with new trailer releases as major elements of the game change. Look to [Hideo] Kojima Productions' Death Stranding for an example of hype tempered with gameplay footage that is released in drips and drabs as development of the game progresses. You can get a realistic sense of how the game will play.
No, that is only to protect IP rights.
A Google-copyrighted network library will make sure that Google users will only see Google-authorized parts of the Internet.
> some of them don't have 24/7 ATMs.

And a lot (if not most) of them will not accept foreign cards, even if the ATM is accessible.

7/11 to the rescue, however.
TLDR: It's Craig Wright again, move along...
> The girl, who is just about to turn 13 - the minimum age for Instagram - has recently joined the social network.

So what we are seeing here is a TOS violation?
They missed a trick by not naming it libgurl.
Congratulations!

FreeBSD and OpenBSD were my first non-windows OS I tried out. I think the time was 1999 or 1998. Good memories even though I had not much clue of what I was doing at that time. Still learned a lot, basic unix system administration and such. The FreeBSD documentation is great!

Even learned C because I thought maybe I could contribute code. Unfortunately I never made it to contribute. I regret that very much.
Aha, I mentioned this yesterday in the 'oldies' thread.
Be interesting to see if others have anything to say on it, or if the idea of a VAX Cluster has passed most people by.
Commodore had the A2024 monitor. 1024x800 for NTSC and 1024x1024 for PAL.

https://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id...
It does have gigabit ethernet and there's also an expansion board with SATA and PCIe but that's another $2000 because it's using an enormous FPGA.
The “Privacy Policy” Policy
Because citizens often make decisions that benefit them in the short term but that are catastrophic in the long term. You might be right if everyone were a perfectly rational actor with access to all relevant information, but they aren't.
I've wondered about the likelihood of needing to defend myself, but since I'm completely incompetent in that regard, I'll have to opt for security by obfuscation.

In my musings, the two things that most worry me is an acute shortage of fresh water, and that any hospitable place I choose is also going to attract hordes of other climate refugees that will outcompete me. There are places like the Pacific North West of the US that are likely to fare relatively well in the Climate Wars. Yet these regions will also attract climate refugees from elsewhere in the country. Canada has a lot more amenable landmass to work with, and relatively fewer people to compete with. Ironically, Canada's acceptance of refugees with open arms gives me pause, since it suggests a likely destination for global climate refugees (ghastly of me, I know). In that respect, NZ's geographical isolation and sparse population strike me as huge pluses.
Bloomberg just did a piece on Boston Seaport development and how expensive strategies for climate mitigation are already being priced in.

Construction and design of 21st Century seawalls is certainly one of the "hard tech" challenges of our lifetimes.

Boston Built a New Waterfront Just in Time for the Apocalypse

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/boston-bu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawall
There's a lot of variance between individuals. Given the choice this sounds like an overall better job than working a busy McDonald's drive through (people are assholes when they're hungry) but I'm not the kind of person that's particularly bothered by graphic violence. My opinion of humanity is dark enough to accommodate it. I'm sure many people would prefer McDonald's though.

Some of the people interviewed were complaining primarily about the bad working conditions (and their complaints are valid as far as I care). I would wager these people are not as bothered by the content (though I'm sure they don't like it) as the ones who's primary complaints are about the content. They could probably do the job with less burnout if the rest of the job was made to suck less (i.e. it wasn't a shitty call center style job with all the accompanying baggage).

Edit: Why am I getting down-voted? Can people legitimately not fathom that some people would not be seriously bothered by seeing this content? People post violent content to Facebook. Shock and gore sites exist because some people actively seek out(!!) the kind of content that these moderators are being exposed to. It stands to reason that the subset of the population that at least finds that content not mentally damaging is substantially larger than the group that seeks it out.
From the article:

He sought out the on-site counselor for support, but found him unhelpful.

“He just flat-out told me: ‘I don’t really know how to help you guys,’”
"He watched videos of people playing with human fetuses, and says he learned that they are allowed on Facebook “as long as the skin is translucent.”

Wow. Just Wow.
Wasn't there some artical on hn earlier about how Paul le roux might have been the inventor? And this Craig guy having worked with him before?I think it got taken down, was that not legit?
I don't have first-hand experience with the job, but I've read a few articles about these sort of teams, as they're widely deployed by all the large Internet companies.

In my view, it's knowledge work. Sure, it's knowledge work that almost anyone can be trained to do, but there's a skill set required.

For example, moderators need to make judgment calls that distinguish between offensive uses and artistic/journalistic/parody uses. There are many cultures and in-groups on Earth, which makes this harder than it might seem at first blush. Not all nudity is obscenity, not all hate speech is blatant.
Link to tutorial?
I'm confused why somebody would claim to possess an immense fortune (Satoshi's blocks are currently worth ~$10B) without being able to verify and/or access that fortune.

Congrats. Now you have a huge target on your back. Watch your step and sleep with one eye open for the rest of your life.

But go try to borrow money, and the bank will ask, "Why don't you just... use some of your fortune."
My mistake. I read the first line of the ripgrep readme and assumed because utils like `find` run slower with regex matching for the same searches that ripgrep would be similar.

> ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern

I'm not sure if many other people would jump to similar conclusions. So the readme might not really need a revision.
Executives would also not put up with it - obviously, to the point that I'm not sure whether you meant to include them or not when you said "employees".

Not wanting drudge work is common to nearly all people who have options. Why should devs get all the hate?
I don't understand, can you elaborate? What difference does it make if a duplicate is spotted by a human vs by a machine?
For consumers India's banking system has seen a large number of fast online payment systems. Yes, they have problems especially in rural areas but for the people that would be target group of Libra they are well served in India. In fact, India and (as far as I know) many African countries have far more advanced digital payments systems for consumers than many European countries.

International transfers are still an issue (at least from India to abroad) but this is largely a regulatory issue on foreign remittance than a technological one.
This was discussed in a really interesting way in the Pearl/MacKenzie book "The Book of Why" which I heavily recommend for people interested in cause & effect. Really opened my eyes to a lot of things I had been doing statistically but never known formally what was going on. http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/
Have you looked at old newspapers? Clickbait headlines are the opposite of what they did. They're designed so you can get a pretty damn good idea of what's going on by skimming the headlines and maybe first couple lines of each story.
It doesn't appear to have any DRAM, so you'd have to find a linux capable of running in 16 (sixteen) kilobytes of onchip SRAM. Without an MMU.
So what is this guy's end game?

Is this just an ego play or does he plan to make money off this claim?
Dear Bureaucrat, My Boss Doesn't Appreciate Me (Let a Little Crap Hit the Fan)
> Can anyone at Facebook speak to whether engineers are aware of the working conditions of moderators, and agitate to improve their lot?

They are passively aware but mostly don't care. The engineers who express frustration are in the vast minority. Most engineers are just super happy about their own situations, very focused on PSCs, and try to keep to their own stuff. Any internal frustrations are channelled towards appropriate feedback channels where the anger is watered down.
One reason to break up a function is deep logic nesting.
If you consider the Code Coverage metric a valid metric, then it says we'd need 2^N independent tests to validate each possible branch of logic in a function.

Breaking that nesting can reduce the number of required tests by an order of magnitude. At that point we may need an integration test to validate that we can transition from one to the other neatly, but this grows linearly instead of exponentially.

Deep nesting often comes with very long functions.
Yes, but that doesn't explain the m68k porting effort of 2013. The Apollo core doesn't have an MMU so it won't run Linux.
> If we had the political will, the Orion design could get people there in, what, 200 years, and that's with '70s technology.

No,the version of Orion that is mostly an integration challenge over 1970s tech would take almost 7 times that long to get to Alpha Centauri as a missile (i.e., without turnover to decelerate to relative rest.)

The even more speculative version was estimated to cut that by a factor for ten to only 133 years, but that's still to a target 1/3 the distance of this one, and still without deceleration.
Is there something wrong with the title?
Paying them better and taking their working conditions more seriously.

There are serious scalability issues with facebook’s current business model, which inevitably puts workers in a position where they have few rights, low pay, and poor working conditions.

We have to be able to question the viability of a business that treats workers this way. Contracting firms essentially allow companies like FB to completely absolve responsibility for the conditions of these low-paid workers.
Popular misconception.

Allowing someone to do something means there is estoppel (my explicit action to let you do X is considered in law to prohibit me later going after you for doing X even if you'd otherwise have no right to do it) but doesn't magically abolish my right to forbid others.

Claims require that you actively use the mark, if you last sold Rocqua brand hats in 1987, your claim against me for using that mark in 2019 won't work, but they don't require you go around suing or even threatening to sue anybody. That's just lawyers getting themselves a few extra bucks off the unenlightened, mixed with people who want an excuse for behaving badly.
California:

Perform on-aircraft troubleshooting of the F-22 Avionics Systems in support of the F-22 flight test program at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB)

https://web.archive.org/web/20190618050109/https://www.lockh...
Wellcome Global Monitor shows European crisis of confidence in science
Sounds like my current HQ.

I have worked for too many startups with inadequate bathroom setups.

It is a big red-flag for me now.
Interestingly enough Wolfram Alpha uses month to mean 30 days and 10 hours(rounded to 30.42 days when displayed) which is 365/12.

`1 month - 10 hours` = 30 days

`2 months - 20 hours` = 60 days
https://qz.com/1347735/how-many-people-can-earth-support-its...
Jesus christ, that's outright fraud.
Yep - exactly this. Now imagine they're keeping you alive on with this system extracting as much money as they possibly can even though you're a terminal patient that is in pain 100% of their remaining days.

Healthcare in this country is a racket.
Probably because they use mandatory arbitration.
There is another option here. The fact that it is pitch perfect to the official line is probably the message. There are two main reasons for someone parroting an official line. Either they are dumb and obedient, or they are being very sarcastic and indicating the opposite. Three Body Problem goes over the problems for Chinese citizens in trying to second guess the current official line when the state is looking and features a protagonist whose main skill is his ability to not give away what he is thinking. I would not be so quick to take his statements at face value for things he can get into serious trouble over.
The DRY culture taken to the logical extreme ends up exactly here.

Perhaps someone influential can create an acceptable definition for when it is OK to "repeat yourself". The node.js package dependency culture is toxic.
My Indian bank even has two versions, one has cleartext, and is readable and responsive. The other was designed for 90's desktops and is a password field.
I have no idea what you meant by that statement.
Link to the study main page:

https://wellcome.ac.uk/reports/wellcome-global-monitor/2018

Link to full study report pdf:

https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-global-m...
I'm no expert on crypto and usually get talked at by a mate about it.

But didn't this chap have child porn uploaded to his coin or something because his data storage was so big?

therefore anyone who uses it is effectivly distributing child porn.
And if there's any trouble with "cash" issued by a private company: Best of luck getting help from their "customer support".

At least a bank is regulated and holdings are insured up to a certain amount.
Of course, if the job involves risks to mental health!
IIRC, English defamation law puts the burden of proof on the defence, who once accused must prove they didn't defame, so many conmen throughout history have tried to use it to their advantage such as David Irving vs Penguin Books.
No exit controls in Israel? Or not enough time to get the car on a list?
I'm somewhat surprised that story wasn't investigated as securities fraud. I'm sure a lot of people stood to make a lot of money shorting supermicro. Anyone who knows more about this than me know why it is ok for Bloomberg to do that?

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulex_hoax for an example of fabricated news causing massive changes to stock price.
Just jail outside facing processes like firefox. (BSD Jails, Firejail in Linux and probably another solution on Mac)
Are you using mainly Debian on the command line on m68k, or actually running a GUI?
Ah, not in my backyard
The difference is that CPUs burst above the speed they can sustain. The alternative would be running slower all the time.

Comcast, in contrast, just lets you use more of their otherwise idle capacity, then throttles you. The alternative would be getting the full capacity of their network all the time.
They're contracting it out so they can wash their hands, how's that count as "doing the best they can"?
I’m sourcing parts for a FreeNAS build which runs on FreeBSD. I’ve never touched FreeBSD but I’m looking forward to learning another *Nix. The supported hardware for FreeBSD/FreeNAS isn’t as great as Linux or Windows and the new C246 server grade parts are proving hard to find.

>In fact, there’s a good chance you’re already using at least some code derived from FreeBSD in your everyday life. For example, ... or play the latest PlayStation 4 game sensation, you’re already using FreeBSD.

Looks like I have indirectly touched FreeBSD with the PS4.
"libcrurl" seems tailor-made to cause confusion.

If they wanted to follow usual fork/clean-room-implementation alternative norms, they could use some kind of synonym for "curl" such that the intent is clear without being infringing.

Suggestions:

- libcoil

- libtwist

- libcrimp

- libswirl
They most likely can't change wallpaper on their windows XP...
>when did this clickbait formulation of headlines become the norm even for serious, reputable news?

When clicks and ad views became the target for news outlets.
I'm Satoshi Nakamoto, and so's my wife!
Retail Measurement Needs to Change
I am a widower and this is creepiest shit I've ever heard of.
I met and know Satoshi, and he is not CW. This is all I will say about this.
At one point could this have been a more complicated thing to determine and later less so, so the code changed to just the one liner?
He should team up with the guy who "invented" email.
It’s pretty simple elite athletes already are a one in 10^the_power_of_whatever it’s all about gaming the system and gaming the game beyond that.

Better suits, better shoes, high altitude training, pressure chambers, “supplements” these are all in play.

If you aren’t in the top 0.1% or even rarer than that you ain’t gonna win any Olympic medals.

Take Phelps for example the guy is a genetic phenom he produces almost no lactic acid, he is double jointed which allows him to swim butterfly like no other, his proportions are utterly fucked up with having a longer torso with stubby legs, a longer wingspan than his height and huge flipper feet.

His mom might as well had gotten knocked up by a dolphin considering how near perfect he is for swimming.
Duplicacy: A lock-free deduplication cloud backup tool
I remember a lot of crypto exchanges require photo of passport / id card. This is not new