skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting story and I would like to learn more about libra-coin. Unfortunately I think hackernews has a strong anti-facebook bias that is making the opinions here nearly universally one sided.

I think we can say three things fairly uncontroversially in favor of this

1. The world could use an online independent currency

2. Adding stability to blockchain currencies and having that work on a large scale is a good thing

3. Unlike government issued currencies, any monopoly or control facebook derives isn't done through force, it's by making a coin better than all the other coins. Other people are still free to make their competing coins.

That said I understand the detractions that many here are presenting. I just wish there could be a deeper exploration of both the pros and cons.
Researchers have developed an app to allow a user to easily program any robot
The only reason I have one is that I think potential employers would find it weird if I didn't. Many online application forms have fields for linkedin profile url. I may be mistaken, but I think sometimes it was even required.
I think the key here as you mention is the "pull through". Previously they could tell which ads generate buzz. The more important metric is which ads generate sales.
This.

Cities don't want or need more landlords. It needs more landOWNER residents.
There's a bunch of people saying "why not going out of the Bay?" This doesn't work because for most of the foreign workers with H1B visa job security matters more to them. With H1B visa, you gotta find another job in 60 days when there's a trouble with your employer. Otherwise you'll be kicked out. Also note that Chinese and Indian people are typically stuck at H1B for 5~10 years and they're the majority of SWE H1B holders.

If you're in the Valley (or at least a big city), the solution is pretty simple; take a day off, go to interviews and get a job. You don't have to move out and will have a good chance to get a job relevant to your career. The same thing doesn't apply to most of the other areas. The risk is so high that it can effectively end your career, those people with H1B just tend to pay more for living in the Bay.

So in order to have another big campus out of those big cities, there must be a pre-established, significant SWE ecosystem that can guarantee a level of job opportunity. Unfortunately, this cannot be done by a single company.
If there is a Life friendly planet, which is much older than where we live, shouldn't there be life forms?

Shouldn't those be searching for other life supporting planets, vigorously than us since they would be much mature and advanced?

why no one found us?

WHAT IS THE PROBABILITY OF US FINDING AN ALIEN VS AN ADVANCED RACE FINDING US AS ALIEN?
Actually if we find life on other planets that is bad news for us as a species:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/409936/where-are-they/
"Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" was a good book
Guess depends where you are/how far. It got expensive fast for me Ubering 15miles(one way) to work and back. Was about $60/day with tipping.
Alright, this is just a prepaid access system built on top of crypto. I strongly believe the need for a prepaid access system to lower transaction fees for moving money digitally, but the companies backing this are some of the most vile. This consortium are never going to do anything in the users' interest. If they're making bank on interest from deposits, that's never going to flow back.

As well, all these companies (sellers of prepaid access) are going to need to be registered as Money Service Businesses (MSB) in the US. That puts them under all the AML/KYC laws. So we don't even get our libertarian wet dream of money without the red tape. We'll see what their privacy protections look like.

I want this technology to exist. I would rather pay 5 cents per news article I read than being prompted for a 10 dollar per month subscription. However, I want this to fail miserably due an extreme lack of faith in the companies behind it. All these companies will fight for regulation that cements their position and prevents others from entering the market.
Rent control does not disincentivize new construction.
So when Target says to Facebook I have this list of email addresses hashed with this algorithm can you match them to this $PRODUCT you know why when you buy some tide you get a FB ad for tide before you leave the store.
Honestly, I'm pretty confident that the sec teams at Facebook are better staffed and more skilled than at my bank.
Second Leaflet. When Google Maps dropped support for loading GPX files from external websites (a handy way to share tracks ), I was forced to find my own solution. I found Leaflet and a few hours later I was up and running with topo maps and GPX tracks overlayed on my own webserver.
Your link indirectly says that a CUV is a type of truck.
it wouldn't be HN unless somebody claimed "I could build this in a weekend".
I was just debating about this book and read some not so favorable goodreads reviews about it. Can anyone recommend something similar to 2001 oddysey (the book) specially the part about going through the stargate?
Well the site is down.
Hackernews hug of death already?
“Flesh-Eating” Bacteria May Be Spreading to Beaches Once Thought Off-Limits
From my experience, it's not easy to get to decision makers, and SMBs are often not concerned enough with security.

I feel like having a great network is absolutely essential for these startups - and it sounds like OP does have a great network, so I think they've got a good shot.
I think there's just such a huge opportunity to drive sales through messenger, fb, etc with low-friction payments. They already have the 'best' targeted advertising. They just want to extend their platform all the way through to actual sales. Then they can justify a larger cut than with just the ads.

They've certainly tried payments and money-transfers before. This isn't entirely new territory. It's just very country-specific. They get hit by high transaction fees. No one wants to type their full credit card and address info, then deal with required two-factor authentication in Europe, etc. And nothing is worse than having to forward someone from your app to an unreliable slow desktop-targeted bank page which then sends you an SMS/email that you have to type back into the bank.. etc.

FB is actually right. The credit card system is straight broken from a user-experience point of view. It wasn't created with computers, mobile, or basic security in mind. It's just band-aid on top of band-aids since the 70s. And obviously cash doesn't have much presence online in western countries. FB struggles to get people to buy things through their apps. They desperately want to fix that.

Crypto currencies just work better at a fundamental level with mobile payments. It has always just been a lack of institutional support to get them supported. VISA/MC have probably been looking for a way to leapfrog bitcoin/etherium for some time now. I'm not surprised they jumped on board when a bunch of real technology companies decided to leapfrog them. Otherwise, they'd likely be in for a world of hurt in a few years if something like Apple/Google Credit launched their own without them. It's not like people love VISA/MC as companies. A huge number of people would jump ship so fast if there was literally any other option.
It was enough of a big deal that Southwest Airlines said they would accommodated any passenger who didn't wanted to fly on the Max. My mom, not a frequent flyer, kept emailing me about the problems with it before they were taken offline.

I am sure way more than 1% of the population cares if they fly on this plane.
It seems you should learn more about Lisp—and how to read it—before criticizing it as unreadable. As it is, your comment simply reads as if you were saying, "French is unreadable because I only know English." Of course it is. So learn how to read the new language.
Unfortunately the "decentralization is a spectrum" crowd has already furnished the fintech narrative with the arguments necessary to justify calling this "decentralized."

The "decentralization" quality should not be used to describe any system that doesn't exhibit a permanent, irreversible systemic trend towards greater decentralization of all the levers, concentrations and bottlenecks of power within itself over time.

For this to happen, the natural tendency toward concentration of leverage would need to introduce a proportional net cost increase to the system, rather than (as it normally would) be the mechanism by which economies of scale accrue to it.
> This freeze actually exempts new construction, so the whole problem is mood.

_This_ freeze excepts new construction, but it exposes the risk of a future freeze. Now, being a landlord in Berlin means being prepared for a rent freeze being applied in the future. That must be taken into account for projections of future income, and will either reduce your projected profit, or require raising rents on new construction to keep your projected profit.
"We can be either alone in the Universe, or not alone. Both possibilities are terrifying" (quoting from memory).
Well, I guess that is where the Fermi paradox comes in...
so every dog gets vaccinated for certain diseases. If vaccines did cause anything, wouldn't people talk more about it in "that dog they knew" or "someone who knew someone with an authistic dog" ?
When going frame-by-frame you tend to go back and forth.
You can preload and cache, but that leans a lot more on your player and hardware. Yes, you do get every frame but some frames may be very "muddy" because of compression. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just not an optimized use-case that's trivial with other codecs.

Seeking is another example. It's a hard requirement for video editing, and desirable for users but often compromised for more preferable things like bandwidth and file size. For example, if the data-rate is variable, you don't really know where 3minutes 20seconds into the file is without hunting around (which is trivial if the data-rate is constant). MP3 supports a 1-100% lookup table at the front of the file, but this isn't very granular for long files. Even if you can find the spot in the file, you'll probably snap to an i-frame unless you decode the whole segment.

I'm sure these things will get better as codecs mature and constraints on size and processing power ease up.
Yes, the Waukesha diversion shows that if a community is patient and wealthy enough, the lakes are for sale. At the risk that we share sources, https://www.amazon.com/Great-Lakes-Water-Wars/dp/159726637X is great and has a chapter on Waukesha.
"What's burned projects many more times and most worth worrying about are security-related compiler errors. They transform your code in a way that removes safety/security checks or adds a security problem (eg timing channel)."

I'm not sure if the removal of safety or security checks were caused by compiler correctness issues rather than misunderstanding of language semantics / memory model of a programming language.
If we take removal of a memset (to erase sensitive data) or of erroneous integer overflow checks (because of relying on undefined behavior) as an example, they are based on language / programmer error than compiler errors. These issues should be fixed at the language level so that first, a programmer can express his intentions more easily and second, that it is hard to write code which doesn't align with the programmers intention.
If your site cannot handle the moderate 3-5 requests per second it would take for google to make hundreds of thousands (500k) of requests a day, then I hate to break it to you but you have bigger problems at hand.
it's something you can mostly opt out of, just like sport cars.

Yes, but how far do you take the rhetoric of name-calling people "entitled" down the slippery slope? Entitled for wanting to drive a sports car? Entitled for wanting to eat imported food? Entitled for wanting to wear imported clothes? Entitled for wanting to wear clean, patterned, well-fitting new clothes? Entitled for wanting to eat meat? Entitled for wanting to live in a space more than one room? Entitled for wanting water and electricity on-tap? Entitled for wanting to see the sun instead of an underground one-room home? Entitled for wanting to consume more than minimal-calorie quantity of nutrient gruel and move their feet outside the prescribed shoulder-width standing allocation?

Adjusting to make carbon-neutral or carbon-negative choices is way better than name-calling trying to shame people for wanting to live their lives, in the environment they were born into, doing the things they learn from people around them.

The problem is that people have more than enough money to pay a few couple hundred dollars more per year.

.. good? That's not a problem?

Paying more tax on ICE vehicles (and extra for sport cars) to make it "carbon neutral" doesn't remove all the gases from city centers and won't prevent these gases to end up in our lungs.

That is a concern, and it is a concern of mine, but it's a goal-shift from talking about ICE and electric vehicles for climate change reasons.
> I wonder if in the future people will wonder why they are called phone companies?

Similarly, I keep wondering if the word "phone" might annex the word "computer" entirely. If most people call their day-to-day pocket computer a "phone", what's to stop people calling every computer a non-pocket phone?

Some classic "futurism" ads of AT&T from back in the monopoly era (50s/60s) always had that interesting assumption that phones would be everywhere and do everything. We seem to have brought that future about ironically enough, just that the definition of "phone" is changing so drastically, and also that there are a lot fewer AT&T logos on everything.
In some ways companies are like little dictatorships that are super efficient with their "taxes" (income/profit) so it's not that hard to see how they could outgrow and outmaneuver an inefficient democracy.
Which is the basis of one of my arguments to anti-vaxxers: the doctors and scientists have decades of education and experience, and they take this vaccine themselves, and give it to their own children. That's the most reputable recommendation.
Seeing that the post you responded to said “A lot of blockbuster movies and popular TV shows are being shot in other places because other places are cheaper and they offer better incentives.”

The citation I linked to was right in line with my argument.

And, I know for a fact that you can not only get into “cloud computing” without going anywhere near Seattle, AWS hires SAs, TAMs, etc in many major cities and most of the third party Amazon Partners aren’t anywhere near Seattle....
It wasn't a structural flaw. The plane flies fine. It's a regulatory compliance flaw. It doesn't fly enough like the old one without the software.

And before anyone says "hurr durr it pitches up" (or something like that) the amount it pitches up when wide open at low speed is perfectly fine from a performance standpoint but it is not similar enough to the old plane to get away without retraining pilots, hence the software.
It's not an ivory tower thing at all.

$12000 doesn't mean the same thing when you consider the cost of living difference between the urban and rural areas.

$12k goes way farther towards purchasing goods and services in the rural area, so naturally it seems like an awful lot of money there, but it purchases far fewer goods and services in a big city. This is similar to how household incomes between different countries aren't directly comparable until you adjust for Purchasing Power Parity [1].

That doesn't mean that all big city dwellers are better off. Some undoubtedly are, and some are definitely not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
I'm sure they'll care once someone loses their zuccbuccs for saying "Men are trash".
You are 1000% wrong. Pay scales are "owned" by the DMCA.
https://www.dcma.mil/DCMA-Pricing-Support/

A PhD with 20 years of experience = this pay band

You can pay your people whatever you want, but the gov will only pay your people what the DCMA says they are worth. If you pay higher, it comes out of profit (which is also metered by the DCMA) or some other source.

Source: A own a R&D engineering company that works for the DoD and IC.

I can pay a EE PhD $400k/year but the DoD will "only" pay me back around $175k for this person's time. I have to make up the difference.

Hence, for defense contractors, we "only" pay what the DCMA will let us charge.

In order, what matters are: tickets, experience, degrees, certs
It might be psychologically satisfying to blame Mother Nature for a particular problem that is the direct result of recent USA military and diplomatic policy, but it seems sort of silly. Millions of people who are still alive right now witnessed the intentional destruction of Iraq's government and civil society, the deliberate transfer of weapons and matériel to nascent anti-civil-society groups, and the intentional weakening of Syria's government and civil society through sanctions and military attacks. We don't have to learn about this; we saw it happen in real time. The Middle East hasn't had rain forests at any time in recorded history.

This line of argument is so ridiculous that one is tempted to speculate you're trolling us to make real warming enthusiasts look worse...
Your example doesn't seem right. Doesn't the Get perform an allocation anyway because you access the value of the pointer and store it in a new variable b? It's very likely b will escape to the heap.
Rent control never works, but that never dissuades governments from trying it again and again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation
As is plenty evident with existing cryptos, the network effect is a huge part of a cryptocurrency's success (technically speaking, bitcoin is far from the best crypto out there, but it's the most popular because it was first and is nowadays the most well known).

Facebook's huge existing network will be a massive boon for Libra, however well designed it actually is from a technical standpoint: FB has direct reach into billions of people's daily life.

Good or bad, it will become a strong contender in the crypto space, unless regulators get in the way.
Oh sure, a report created to justify a massive assault on both speech and rights of (possibly unsympathetic, but still) sexworkers makes the chose scapegoat look bad. Not exactly surprising. Just as the absence of any significant numbers of,you know, actual sex traffickers being caught anywhere either before or after BP's shutdown.
I believe the missing factor is investment. You're likely referencing numbers just for trade. There is also foreign investment to consider. I believe China has been a large net investor for some time and those investments, by their foreign nature, reduce China's foreign reserves as well.
More Democrats than Republicans? I find that surprising.
>All we did was speed up what was happening anyway.

I can think of a number of crimes where this statement is also true, so I'm not so certain it serves as an adequate defense.
There was the Lisp-machines, Symbolics etc. I was lucky to be able to work on one. Then they went out of favor because of cheaper hardware that could run anything.

But I wonder, what happened to the Lisp-machine software? Should it not be possible to run it on current day general purpose hardware even more snappily?
Maybe they should use this module that I can't read about to power their site. :P
Google’s ninth attempt at a messaging service will be based on RCS
Seems that even that doubled Redis performance wasn't enough.
There's only 5 combinations of yes/no votes you can get with 9 indistinct entities, so 20% isn't unusual at all
Absolutely. The main area near the parking lot can get a little hectic sometimes, but once you get away from there you're good to go!

I love 'The Narrows' stretch right before the base of the Cold Mountain summit. If you want a true test of mettle, instead of starting from Black Balsam knob, drive over to Canton and find Camp Daniel Boone boy scout camp. There you will find the Art Loeb trail head.

To get to the summit and back is 10.5 miles round trip & 3000 ft total elevation gain. Don't try this if you're not in shape haha! One of the most difficult hikes I know of in WNC but the feeling sitting on top of the rocks at the summit is magical. Very satisfying!
https://archive.fo/4WMYg
I remember back in the day (early 2000s) installing one of the first Alpine slide out / fold out LCD panel head units in my car, then stuffing an xBox OG in the back arm rest and playing video games while waiting for people.

Fun times!
I'd call that a change in aerodynamic or flight characteristics as compared to earlier 737s rather than a structural flaw. That might seem a picky, semantic difference, but I think that, especially with aircraft, precision language is appropriate. The aircraft is not structurally flawed or at least no structural flaws have been revealed yet. It is perhaps a design flaw but, were there no earlier 737s to which it can be compared, it'd probably just be a flight characteristic.
The pay for "lower paying jobs" will rise, assuming the city actually needs them.
We've asked you before to please stop posting unsubstantively. We eventually ban accounts that won't follow the guidelines, so could you please review them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The run infinitely nested versions of Sqreen, of course.
You need 253 people in the room to have > 50% probability that one will have the same birthday as you.

1 - ((365 - 1)/365)^253 = 0.5005
CE = Conformite Europe = "We promise we meet all the safety standards, scout's honor!"
> But I did experience classism from my friends and family: there is status living in a world-class city.

Can you go more into depth on that because I've never seen that and some of my extended family lives in small cities/farms in the midwest. If anything, they laugh because I pay $300 a month for parking. Then again, maybe chicago/seattle/san francisco aren't status bearing world class cities.
It is correct to note that C++ lacks some core language features that many newer languages have, tailored to more convenient and, often, safer use of slippery sum types. Sum types are a step away from lexical typing, and without that support add risk that strong typing was invented to contain.

There is an active project to have a powerful pattern-matching primitive ready in time to adopt into C++23. In the meantime, C++17 supports "structured bindings" that are often helpful.
Google services have a good track record of uptime. You don't complain on the countless hours of uptime. HN hate at it again
China is in a delicate position. They're fighting trade war from weaker position. Their diversification to gold makes sense. They probably know that they don't have the power to "sink" the dollar. If they need the dollar in the future, they can still sell their gold and purchase US treasury again.

I think they are testing out strategies. Gold is an alternative. The US and its European allies still control most of the gold reserve. Western countries have an upper hand if currency war moves to gold.

Some Asian countries are voicing support for gold backed currency. But they together don't have substantial gold reserve. I think China is waiting for a break of European countries to gold. That would be a real opening for them in this battle.

There's also bitcoin. China doesn't like it because the system is decentralized and supply is limited. They can't easily take control of the market. But the US also face similar issues. That would make an unpredictable battle field. For now, it seems China is treading slowly with gold.
It's not so much the security teams as it is the society-destroying beliefs of Facebook's upper management. Doesn't matter how good your security team is when they take marching orders from people who aren't aligned with improving society's health.
Someone who didn't care about causing a sexual harassment complaint and couldn't be arsed to flip through the book?