skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would there be limits on how much you could request from someone?

Why? Are there limits on accessing your own bank accounts IRL?

> Would bots spam everyone on earth requesting $50?

No. Facebook would not allow that to happen. They control their user base with a tight fist when it affects their own revenue (user privacy less so).

> Do you have to maintain a list of who can and cannot request money from you? It just seems like there would be a lot of headaches with that system.

Why bother? Yes it could be uncool behaviour to request money from people, especially if the request had some social pressure around it.

But people can (and do) already behave in uncool ways on Facebook and the world goes on.

The potential revenue from being a money pipe would motivate Facebook to effectively deal with all of these problems.
"In April 2018, the IAAF announced new "differences of sex development" rules that required athletes with specific disorders of sex development, testosterone levels of 5 nmol/L and above, and certain androgen sensitivity to take medication to lower their testosterone levels, effective beginning 8 May 2019. Due to the narrow scope of the changes, which also apply to only those athletes competing in the 400m, 800m, and 1500m, many people thought the rule change was designed specifically to target Semenya."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya#2018_testostero...
Yes ofcourse they will.

When a county doesn't receive tax it will be a very big problem.

So countries need to be in control of the flow of money.

It is also a very big problem is an outsider can change the value of your own currency. So you don't want US companies taking over your money flow.
I totally agree with you on this. All the disagreements comes from ideology. And the imbalance of power causes the abuse of power. The CCP uses its monopoly to maintain its control over the country. But why end is not justified by the means? How would Kant solve the trolley problem? If CCP's forcing "education" is wrong, what about forcing the Kantian ethics on CCP? Who actually is abusing power?
You don't mention their age which may help!

Charles Stross's Merchant Princes is a rolicking good read, and well suited for teens and near I think - our eldest loved them. I recommend the first six (the six books are now sold as a trilogy, as they were originally intended to be).

The relaunch of the series with a new follow-up trilogy rather loses the plot and was a big disappointment... So I'd stick to the originals. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_Princes
We've banned this account for using HN for ideological and racial battle. Doing this will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know anything about the research, and suspect the article is being alarmist, but I'm a little bit confused by our dialogue—first you asked why it was a negative thing, and now you're asking why it is a "damaging" thing, with "damaging" in quotes, even though neither the article nor I uses that word. I don't think that the article means to suggest that the bone growths themselves are causing damage, but rather that they are indicating damage (though, again, I have no expertise to evaluate that claim, and haven't even followed up on any links in the article).
I enjoyed The House of the Scorpion https://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Scorpion-Nancy-Farmer-ebook/d...

You can find award winning books of different genre in the database of award winning children's books: http://www.dawcl.com/

You can browse through winners of the Carnegie Medal here: https://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive.php

Weirdly they don't keep the short lists. :-/

EDIT: here are the shortlists for a few years. You can find them easily with google:

https://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/press.php?release=pres_...

https://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/press.php?release=pres_...

https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/mar/17...

http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/childrens-books/news/2012-cilip-c...
Nice! Didn't know it was Netflix who caught this. I wonder how they did this - fuzzing perhaps? Curious how difficult it would be to employ a genetic fuzzer like afl-fuzz to look for such bugs.
When you don’t know how to fix your product
What I’m interested in is if somehow there is a planet almost exactly like earth, if so would they have evolved humans similar to us.
The title seems a little clicky baity, the problem is evidently that they export renewable energy certificates so people might double count the renewable energy that powers the data centers and being an island their connectivity is limited to submarine cables.
Thats assuming the EU isnt easy to buy off - looking at a couple of regulations in the pesticide industry its easy to see they're very accommodative. Lobbying is big business in Brussels.
Trinity: PSP Emulator Escape
I see no reason why a productive city with a high-earning, tax-paying population won't be able to pay police officers, firefighters, nurses, etc. as much as they need to be paid in order to do their important jobs well. I don't see why artists who do important work e.g. for Apple won't be paid well too.
Jeff Bezos' 2016 Letter to Amazon Shareholders
Ellen Pao: Our world is LGBTQIA. Your workplace should be too
Nationalistic and ideological flamewar are not allowed here. Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to warn you about this before. Please don't do it again so we don't have to ban you.
Where do you expect food to come from without an ecosystem that supports the crops we are farming right now?
It’s the first multi-cloud.

AWS obviously just AWS.

Based on Imply Cloud website it looks like it too is just AWS.

Timescale Cloud gives you freedom to choose your own cloud provider, and lets you migrate between clouds with a few clicks.

I’m fairly certain we are the first to offer that, but I’m open to any counter examples.
If climate change kills the bottom 90% of the population, the remaining 10% will follow shortly behind them because nothing that made them "the 10%" will exist once those 90% are gone. "Wealth" at it's most fundamental means "can pay less wealthy people to do things for you". Without the poor, no one is rich.
Ask HN: What adjustments did you make to your Stripe Atlas incorporation docs?
I'm about to incorporate with Stripe Atlas, and I'm wondering what kind of adjustments I need to make to their default incorporation document. For example, a friend recommended I look for a Double Trigger clause, which it seems they have. I'm wondering what other pro tips there are out there.
Mozilla-Backed Game Demonstrating Dangers of Machine Learning Bias for Hiring
This is the MalcomX counterpoint to MLK's movement - that one hand needs to be open and welcoming while the other wields a weapon. aka "speak softly but carry a big stick".

It's interesting to know if such a dynamic occurred during the Indian liberation movement, or whether it was more due to the British Empire being overextended at the same time (note: independence happened just after WW2)
Does it say she made herself look older? Investors generally prefer younger AFAICT. It's assumed if someone is 42 and not successful yet, they never will be, but someone 20 has a chance and will be more in touch with modern technology. A lot of Y-combinator events target high schoolers, even. IBM has also gotten in trouble a lot for unfairly eliminating old people. I would think she would have made herself look younger.
It’s like the McMansion craze of the late 90s / early 2000s: fancy looking boxes with no architectural chops, built as cheaply and flimsily as possible, faux-everything, windows and landscaping only in front, and random roof gables everywhere. Pure phony, surface-deep and designed to appeal to buyers who only care about looks. Basically the Instagram version of housing.
Nuclear power is very carbon-efficient (tonnes CO2 emmitted / GWh produced) due to the large quantity of energy produced over the generator lifecycle. It's on par with wind power, and better than solar, according to World Nuclear Org.

| Lignite | 1054 |
| Coal | 888 |
| Oil | 733 |
| Natural Gas | 499 |
| SolarPV | 85 |
| Biomass | 45 |
| Nuclear | 29 |
| Hydroelectric | 26 |
| Wind | 26 |

[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/our-association/publications/on...
It seems that global methane levels have been increasing drastically in the past decade, I wish more discussion of global warming focused on the effects of fracking and use of natural gas.

https://www.methanelevels.org/
>You'd have to start you commute previous day to get to the office by the morning.

Or, you know, build actual public transit
If I try to scroll down on iPhone, it shows that a 500 error was hidden behind the nav/header.
> Also, remember that most people that are against CoCs are the ones that want to be able to call names on everyone.

There's a XKCD comic which points out how people who claim to "hate drama" tend to be the most dramatic people[1].

That's how I tend to perceive projects that put a lot of emphasis on their CoC. The more they emphasize it, the more I expect pettiness, vindictiveness, and bad faith.

[1]https://xkcd.com/1124/
> ... there are no public complaints against him ...

I gather that's because making complaints public would arguably identify those who had submitted them. And still, with that there's zero public accountability.
A moderator downweighted the thread the same way we downweight any topic that has been highly repeated, especially when it is highly repeated and also highly politicized and provocative.

I know that sounds tendentious when you feel strongly about a story, but you have to remember what HN exists for. We're optimizing for one thing: intellectual curiosity. If you take that statement literally, which you should, then it will be obvious what the moderation call is here. Curiosity is incompatible with repetition and rage, however justified the rage. Actually, justified rage is even worse for curiosity; it crowds it out for longer. This doesn't mean the story is unimportant—quite the contrary.

More on this for anyone who wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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IMO, the hope that trade and economics would bring democracy to China was delusional from the start. It's the same sort of flag-waving idiocy that assumed toppling Saddam would turn Iraq into the Middle Eastern equivalent of post-war Japan. The US has basically permanently nerfed its own global hegemony barely 2 decades after defeating its only major adversary (the Soviet Union), all because of the idealistic aspirations of flag-waving ideologues that triumphed over pragmatic realists and cynics.
The Anthropocene Reviewed [Episode]
I'm looking at US Census American Community Survey B25001 "Housing Units" which is all-inclusive. This figure stood at 30,898 in 2017 and 29,247 in 2010. These estimates are consistent with the ABAG report which says that Redwood City permitted only 891 units 2014-2017. According to ABAG's GIS, Redwood City did not permit _any_ multifamily dwellings in 2017. 100% of permitting activity was secondary units of detached houses.

http://housing.abag.ca.gov/map
> People don't want neighbors because neighbors are a pain.

> LOUD

Sound is very much the problem. I don't want a huge amount of land, I don't want lawn, I don't want landscaping, I definitely don't want a neighborhood association, but what I do want is good soundproofing and no shared walls (or worse, floors/ceilings). In practice, there's no soundproofing that can substitute for an air gap.
How long would a civilisation need to survive in order to leave a geological impression?
> That's just part of the bootstrapping process, to avoid volatility in the short-term.

How would you stop pegging libra to a currency without destroying or distorting enormous values of libra that existing owners have and therefore permanently destroying trust in libra? I don't see any real substance to this sort of vague cynical claim that "they're just biding their time".

> And how do you suggest they'll do that?

By applying the same transaction reporting laws to libra (which have equivalent currency value) that already apply to bank-to-bank transactions. The key validators in libra transactions are legal corporations unambiguously within government jurisdiction.
When this thread started it was about existential threats. Few people would argue that ten degrees celsius isn't likely to be a huge disaster.
This isn't the case, your wallet is not tied to your Facebook account.
"Houston" 100% has some sprawl issues, but that's why it's a metroplex now, Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, and the Woodlands and Sugar Land are zoned for lower density.
There should be a way to vet negative people in some way that comments wouldn't be toxic
> It will allow for a worldwide social credit system. If Facebook decides to remove you, your money and many services will be inaccessible.

And this is creepy thing here.
This is why I doubt any major cryptocurrency advances will come from an established company. The risk of noncompliance for them is too great, but to have an effective cryptocurrency you have to build it resistant to outside control. It’s a catch-22 for the companies.

Why does a cryptocurrency have to be resistant to outside control? Because otherwise there’s no reason to use it, since the existing networks run by Visa or the US dollar are more efficient and scalable. The value of bitcoin is in its equalization, no one person on the network’s voice matters more than another.
The ideas published in journals all depend on humans.

But to an outsider, these connections are completely invisible. Conferences cost thousands of dollars to attend. Subject matter experts are hard to find, so many connections are simply not made.

Which is a good reason to support such a platform, because it may make such views possible and existing deficits more visible and quantifiable :)

Small and medium size businesses outside academia could also use it as to improve their technology and connections.
If you don't specify any search parameters, the first result is a pair of goats.

https://fleuron.lib.cam.ac.uk/ornament/066740090000600_0
And the broader context is when talking about micro-optimizations versus reasonable architectures.

You shouldn't micro-optimize before profiling, because it likely won't matter. Bluntly, if you have a flat profile, none of the optimizations in this article are relevant anyway. You'll be able to pull out single digit percentage speedups, maybe.

The optimize then profile argument isn't meant to be about architecture. Yes, you should build performant architecture. Yes, you should take time to plan a performant architecture before building[+]. But the question of profile than optimize is never (except in the strange way you're bringing it up) about doing macro-optimizations before you've written a line of code. It's almost always in the context of "don't just try to optimize what you think is slow, because you're almost always wrong".

Big-O style speedups from architectural changes aren't micro-optimizations, they generally sit outside of that conversation entirely.

As an aside, flat profiles are in practice exceedingly rare. Most (useful) programs do the same thing many times. Its very unusual to see a program that isn't, in essence, a loop. And the area inside the loop is going to be hot. The pareto principle applies to execution time too.

[+]: Maybe startups who gotta ship it to survive as the exception.
Fauna Web Dev here,

You can try it out virtually configuration-free in the database console: https://dashboard.fauna.com/

Here's a link to a sample gql file you can download and run: https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/_attachments/graphql/sc...
EINTR and PC Loser-Ing: The “Worse Is Better” Case Study (2011)
"Powered by Aiven" + nearly identical interface, so this is kind of a reselling arrangement? Aiven supports timescale on postgres, so what additional features does Timescale Cloud provide?
It makes a big difference if all your function signatures in a Go program take a string parameter or a []byte parameter, or if they take some other expensive type by value. Refactoring this later can be close to impossible. I would say rather than micro-optimizations these are the choices that must be made correctly in the early phases of development to avoid having an unfixable performance problem later.
... and the area we're talking about is both building better transportation and agreed to prioritize building dense at train stations.

It's certainly the case that more can be done for both of these.
This was the subtext at Google’s Next conference. Basically 9 of the top 10 retailers are moving to GCP. The last one is Amazon.
Libra isn't completely centralized. There's a long list of other corporations and institutions that will be validators. Facebook won't have 100% or even 10% control.
> It could completely block you any time it wants to for any reason it wants to

As opposed to what banks did in Cyprus in 2013 when they seized the money on the savings account of their own customers and basically stopped people from withdrawing their money from their own bank accounts?

And said customers had no recourse at all against the banks helping themselves to their money?
"very low security footprint" -- that's great.

But tell me this: if I buy Sqreen's services, will you guarantee to make my customers (and me) financially whole should you be the source of a compromise?

Will you make us financially whole if we integrate you properly but you don't do your job?
My observation is that humans' ability to effectively self-govern maxes out around 100 million, maybe even closer to 70 million.

If you look at the world happiness report/index, the top 50 countries are all under 100 million (exceptions: US, Mexico) and not especially large landmass (exceptions: US, Australia).

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

Growing up watching Star Trek I always thought the idea of some benevolent global government running in a post scarcity future was the goal we should all be shooting for but in retrospect it looks about as flawed as traditional communist command economies.
2 day shipping is cost effective to amazon when most goods are near the customer. 2 day shipping cross country is much different than driving the amazon truck to the nearest post office distribution center for local delivery. They need to get those goods that are most common to most of their warehouses.
Truckla: The world's first Tesla pickup truck
“Ah yes, all of them. Every politician in a place where millions live is bad, none of them are working to build housing and schools, transit and infrastructure.”

That’s a horrible argument that has no basis in fact. Multiple cities, like Mountain View, Oakland, San Jose and Foster City, just to name a few off the top of my head, are putting in affordable housing. Alameda County Transit has vastly expanded their bus fleet, something the tax payers chose on the ballot!

You might hate your elected officials, but not all of us do.
Ask HN: What is your experience with using Substack for newsletters?
Welcome to the less extreme version of Seoul.
Mountain View has permitted a large amount of housing development west of 101 along San Antonio Road for what feels like 15 years (these were all one-two story businesses or Sears/Montgomery Ward open mall, now mixed used with four story apartment/condos, new Facebook offices), also a lot of development along Rengstorff and some right on El Camino during the same time. Friends who left and came to visit recently said it was tremendously different than they remembered.
You are describing a replica, not a counterfeit.
>Contrast that with if Google paid $1B in taxes to the bay area communities where it has facilities, would those governments have the same priorities for those funds?

Of course not, because the goal of local Bay Area governments is to make land more expensive, not less.
And those ASIC miners serve a purpose, it becomes much harder for a state sponsored actor to develop more efficient mining technology to attack the network. And the miners who run the ASICS are the ones with the highest incentive to keep the network running strong.
Some states (Washington, IIRC?) require overtime hours be tracked even for salaried positions, and those hours should be 1.5x regular rate.

(This is off the top of my head based on an internship 6 years ago)
Kanev[1] disagrees. Flat profiles are the common case in actual practice.

Edited to add: Since apparently you also work at Google, you should walk over to Svilen's desk and just ask him if profiles of production software are generally flat, or if they generally have hot spots.

1: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
It's in moments like this where I really dislike running Ubuntu and having to wait for the new build to be released.
It sounds as though we are in violent agreement.
Or technology (self driving cars, remote work) and social change (universal basic income) would not require you to live in a city to work there or work at all that productively.
> I wonder how they did this - fuzzing perhaps?

That, reviewing/auditing kernel code or they got hit with it.
For this reason, unless the backers of this are powerful enough I see this being under intense scrutiny and possibly heavily regulated.

Fin system panicking? hah - Visa backs this. And no downside for FB if this fails (other than opportunity cost).
Every time I see one of these systemic vulnerabilities get found I wonder how many others someone (or some entity) are just sitting on until they REALLY need to use it.

Someone tell me it’s all going to be okay and this digital world isn’t going to just crumble someday. Please. Anyone.
New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (2014)
I would suppose that packing people into high density housing is great for efficient distribution of goods, and seeing as dense megacities support great public transit I would wager that this is clearly better for the environment than the alternative.
Seconded -- I know little about climate science, but I have faith that the people who have PhDs in in and have dedicated their working lives to learning more are aware of Milankovitch cycles. Yet over and over some other internet dummy who is no more educated on the subject than me will dismiss the IPCC report and triumphantly say something like, "AGW is a hoax. The climate changes cyclically because of Milankovitch cycles", as if climate scientists had never heard of it or hadn't factored that into their models already.

Another good one is when they will trot out some statistic, say, 30M years ago the CO2 levels were at 4000ppm and we are doing just fine. What they seem to fail to recognize is that the only reason they have that knowledge is due to climate researchers. Somehow the deniers will accept climate research if they think it supports their position, but then will decry the researches as ignorant, as if the climatologists weren't aware of the very facts they have amassed.
There is much debate in this thread about which approach is best for combating global warming. It is plainly obvious that large scale policy efforts will need to happen at some point. This is the “top down” approach delivered by collective political action.

But there also ought to be a bottoms up culture change which encourages humans to recognize and self-limit their own impact. The world is too populous that our own actions won’t impact others at the new scale humanity exists. We won’t have political action without some parts or hopefully all of the culture embracing limits on our behavior. I don’t think these two approaches are mutually exclusive.

To address the parent comment here: Calling strangers bad people is very seldom a fruitful rhetorical approach, and I would advise against it. But individual action will end up being required someday; might as well start practicing today.