skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is a very good argument. Anti-vaxxers care about their children very much, and therefore they DON'T vaccinate them, since they think it's bad for them. From their point of view, it's the doctors who are insane.
They didn't want to steal your thunder.
That's the bias of privilege talking.

Going from $2/day to $8/day may not seem like much to you, but to someone at that level, their income has quadrupled. They might have access to a bicycle to get to a paying job now. Shoes. Clean water. School for their children, so the next generation has more opportunity. Go from $8 to $32 (using Rosling's quadruplings here), and you now have a car, potable hot and cold water from a tap, even the possibility of college for your kids. It's still "poverty" to us, but not all poverty is the same. Understanding this is a shift in perspective, and requires putting down our wealthy, western privilege for a moment.

Keep in mind, too, that a world of no health care, no clean water, no literacy, etc - the extreme poverty of the poorest nations - was the situation in much of Europe during the 19th century. It took Europe a long time to get to where it is today, and much of the progress happened in the post WWII, post colonial era. "Open exploitation" is not what you think it is, not anymore.

As I've pointed out elsewhere, much of the world has seen income increases from 20x-100x per capita in the past 50 years. That's the poor, "exploited" countries.

Economic change takes time. Generations. The fact that we wiped out two thirds of the world's extreme poverty isn't "boneheaded", it's incredible. But it will take several more generations to get the rest of the world up to the standards of our privilege.
This is called out as a TODO in the build video.
If you don't want your data scraped for collection, you wouldn't put it on Linkedin. Really the only argument is, is it more moral for Linkedin to do it instead of a plugin?
okay, there are millions of users paying money directly to use the service. they clearly find utility in it.
That's the oldest surface land, but the oldest crust is 4.4 billion years in Australia, and there are other places with less-old-but-still-billions crust. Natural erosion in those areas exposes extensive history, and we can dig too.

[1]: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140224-olde...
The Free Food That Eats Your Soul
> Our banking system certainly leaves a lot to be desired but I’d take Bank of America over Facebook pretending to be a bank 100% of the time

Facebook isn't pretending to be bank. Facebook is pretending to be a payment processor. What's the big deal?

Nobody is telling you to put all your savings into a centralized cryptocurrency, especially considering you're a US citizen with access to relatively good banking system.
You could ask Mr. Kim Dot Com...
I don't have the real story, but there was a lot of cross-pollination between smalltalk and lisp. It can be challenging to determine which things originated where sometimes.

IMO a lot of it is just that all of the ingredients for a modern desktop were there for anyone with 10s of thousands of dollars of hardware, so there was both cross-pollination as well as parallel evolution of ideas.

The invention of the sewing machine is kind of like this; there was a point at which we were very close to being able to make a sewing machine, and several people solved a subset of the problems; the union of that subset gave us a sewing machine, so singling out a single inventor is somewhat non-sensical.

Most lisp machines were specifically targeted at developers while smalltalk at Xerox was more targeted at office productivity. Interestingly enough Xerox hired the BBN team that made lisp machines, and the Xerox star was made to run lisp as well.
This is a really good point and it almost feels a little Kantian, so it seems to make sense to me. But the trouble is, when I speak of hacks, I don't mean things like defining rand() = 6. I mean things that seem really weird but after some thought, it seems to be correct. E.g. you had to add bunch of if cases to an algorithm due to some weird library requirement, and after hours of debugging the reason starts making sense and after hours of stress-testing, your algorithm produces the correct result. It's always possible you need to add more ifs and you're missing something OR the fact that you had to add ifs indicate your algorithm is not correct etc. Even after you feel comfortable a hack is good to go, that hack can still be a bug. Who knows? Engineering is all about the wisdom to decide whether something works or needs more work. It's truly amazing how stable most things are; but when you're familiar with the inner workings of a system, you're MUCH more self-conscious of possible catastrophic failures. Like, when you start reading about diseases in Wikipedia, you suddenly start checking yourself if you have those symptoms...
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth that you can pay so much for an object and you essentially don't truly own it and can't do whatever you want with it without it phoning home and asking permission from its true owners who can capriciously brick your device for any reason they want.
This is already happening to SaaS startups: https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/aws-startups-conflict.html
Unfortunately, radiation from hitting hydrogen atoms in interstellar space starts to become deadly around 0.25c or so, IIRC.
Ten euros worth of Amazon gift cards as birthday gift from the company.

That amount has a great way of signaling that the company is too cheap to do anything real, but too unsophisticated to realize they then should have just given a slice of cake or a birthday card.
> Berlin at its peak (1944) had still more than half a million more people.

Yes, with 2 - 3 times more flats per every floor in a building. And with whole multi-generational families living in every one of them. Don't forget sharing one bathroom between all this families and sometimes toilets just being wooden huts outside.

Try visiting Mitte Museum in Gesundbrunnen, you'd see how miserable pre-war housing was, yes even in the very centre.
The area around Ackerstr. was much more dangerous than Alex or Kotti is today.
> The citation I linked to was right in line with my argument.

No. The wider argument we were having was about whether Hollywood is the center of the world for American movies. It definitely is, showing where movies are physically shot doesn't change that.

> 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....

Of course you can, just like there's plenty of finance outside of NYC. That doesn't change the fact that NYC is the main finance hub for America.

I don't even know what your point is here. "Hub" doesn't mean "contains literally everything related to [industry]".
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Though a neat thing to know is that redirections can appear anywhere on the line in Bourneish shells:

time < title_complete_json.txt grep tt9184994

As it happens, when benchmarking grep-like tools on large files, this is actually somewhat likely to make a significant difference since the "useless" use of cat actually forces the file to be read sequentially as a stream (because it's piped through), while a process receiving a file on standard input can treat it as a file and e.g. mmap it.
> (Clojure and F#) as being on life support

I can't say anything about F#, but Clojure is doing quite alright. It gathers more conferences and meetups around the world (more than Haskell, OCaml, F#, Elm or Elixir). Has more podcasts (defn, the REPl, Clojurescript podcast, Apropos, Cognicast), there are other podcasts created and run by people actively using Clojure, where they talk not only about Clojure. Clojurians Slack and clojureverse.org are very active. New libraries and books coming out regularly. My company recently was hiring and I shout out on Twitter and I got DM request from all over the world: Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, India, Bangladesh, Jordan, Poland, Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, UK, Germany, US and other countries, people want to write Clojure full-time. So, yeah. I don't know where you read that Clojure is dying or whatever. It is not as big as Python or Javascript, but it's slowly, steadily growing.
Vaccines are Safe

How is this meaningful or substantive to HN?
Yet many can't afford cars even in those cities.
If he feels like I really attacked him.. I mean I can't do anything to someone who has that kind of control over the Dark Side of the Force. I'm not a Jedi or anything like that.

I will probably make another issue that is just depressing and concrete about the project and features no characters but it will be easier for people to ignore.
They built a solid looking roll-cage into the rear half of the vehicle (alongside and under the bed, as well as the roll-hoop behind the seats). One of the major contributors to the project has a background in building race cars, so presumably they've got the safety aspect covered.
The backpacking group at my university used to do the Art Loeb in one day as a feat of strength of sorts. One time a group got lost in a sudden rainstorm and had to be rescued by rangers.

Never did it myself, though I'd still like to, and I have hiked the section from Sam Knob/Black Balsam to Cold Mountain a few times. The Narrows is definitely the best part. The Appalachians aren't as impressive as mountains on the west coast, but being out them is just as satisfying -- I just wish they were closer to the urban areas.

We called the woods (all pines with no underbrush, perfect for camping) around Black Balsam the "enchanted forest", because, well, they were.
Yeah, we should totally leave that business to the payday loan shacks, right?
> so they're attracting many foreigners, especially in Berlin.

Which is very ironic because Berlin is one of the least prosperous cities in the federation.
Much of Europa has very cheap houses because populations are declining. It's just in large cities that real estate is becoming expensive.
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One really interesting issue is how they are actually going to make the zucbux actually stable.

This seems like a straightforward problem to solve: for every zucbux in circulation, stash a euro, a yen and a USD somewhere.

Except ... where do you actually stash those? In what financial institution? And how do you know said custodian is risk-free? Who is going to audit them to independently guarantee that the underlying funds actually exist?

As it turns out, the only entities that can somewhat securely provide that service are central banks themselves, and that means they have to be willing to play ball.
I doubt it was all done in a way that was as strong as the original, while also crumpling the right way to keep the passengers safe in a crash.

It certainly has value as a design exercise, but it would be hard to say how safe it really is as a daily driver.
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Self-driving cars have already killed people, that hasn't stopped them yet. Poorly made products have killed and burned houses down, and people still make/sell/buy things. Aircraft have crashed killing more than one family, and air travel is still a thing. Rockets have exploded, and people still want to be astronauts. Ships have sunk and people still travel on ships. Bridges have collapsed and people drive over bridges, restaurants and country clubs have burned down and people still attend them, tower blocks have burned or collapsed and people still live in them. Smokers have died and people still smoke.

One drone burning a house - just won't have the effect you suggest, or the world would look very different right now.
Yeah I think the idea is, envoy helps a lot on the server side, but the client side uses almost the exact same algorithms, so we ought to have something like envoy on the client side too.
CVPR 2019 Attracts 9K Attendees; Best Papers Announced
OpenGenera ran on the DEC alpha; IIRC there was some attempts to port it to non-alpha systems. I've seen it running on an emulated alpha.
Pretty much every western nation has systemically failed to recognize or support the insanely high demand for high density living in the 21st century. That is where the future of economics is, where the future of humanity in general pretty much is, and every democracy is consistently demonstrating the total inability for legislatures to sacrifice the advantage of those lucky enough to inhabit cities as they exist now for the benefit of all those who would grow the economy and future in the cities tomorrow. Largely because those in the cities have the money and influence to buy the politicians.
What kind of events this insurance covers? My understanding is that it does not protect from wire fraud. It is there to cover bank bankruptcy, which is impossible as per se with a cryptowallet in the first place.

Am I correct?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Nowhere.

Sure, but that doesn't make it not wrong. Companies are made of people. Forcing people to do something against their will is aggression; if they haven't started it then it's morally wrong.
There's something about that style of construction that feels like "Amazon Basics", like what you get when you don't care about craftmanship or longevity and just want the least expensive option. Those 5-story apartment buildings just have such a soulless cheap feeling to them, like they're made to have the illusion of being taller than they are. I really don't understand why they're so popular.
> I found the situation in Berlin to be absolutely ridiculous.

I totally agree with this assessment. I've never seen a city where you struggle to get a flat even if you have the money or can pay more.

The market is absolutely broken with literally everyone competing for the same pool of flats.
The US President is looking to the Federal Reserve to interest lower rates. By reducing their T-Bond holdings and curbing future purchases, China is increasing the volume of T-Bonds the Federal Reserve must purchase in order to achieve the US President's wishes of lower interest rates.

It seems like a good move, seeing as the President's base has a negative opinion of national debt and government interference.
There are several projects exploring different algorithms for managing crypto-collateralized stablecoins; they all involve fairly complex feedback loops. MakerDAO aka Dai is the most prominent one and quite a bit has been written about it.

https://medium.com/makerdao/stablecoins-collateralization-ty...

https://medium.com/reserve-currency/our-analysis-of-the-make...

https://prestonbyrne.com/2018/01/11/epicaricacy/

https://cointelegraph.com/news/dai-has-been-struggling-to-ma...
2% is not "staggeringly tiny". Also, the only source I can find for that is the airlines themselves: https://www.iata.org/pressroom/facts_figures/fact_sheets/Doc...

According to the IPCC, CO2 emissions are only 1/4-1/2 of aviation's impact on climate change. In 1999 they estimated the total impact as 3.5%, and projected out what will happen as aviation use increases, which it has.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...
I'm going to choose to view this in a positive light as it's a great indicator of where to not spend money. I find company values to be an increasingly important factor when choosing who to patronize.
MVC (Missing View Controller) – Where Is UIViewController in SwiftUI?
Well, to be honest if you are IO/network bound and kernel TCP stack is the bottleneck then user space networking like DPDK can help in every application. It depends on application but sometimes additional complexity of introducing DPDK is just not worth it, and just spinning another instance/server is a better choice. Look also at Seastar used in ScyllaDB with and without DPDK numbers.

Just remember you need to give DPDK one whole NIC and it's using polling so 100% CPU usage on polling cores.
Exactly why I would love to see this fail. I try to be a non-Facebook user, but everyone uses Messenger, and my local Craigslist has deteriorated because everyone sells on Facebook now, so I use it for certain things. Every once in a while, I find myself getting sucked into the "feed" view on my way to the Facebook Marketplace, especially since on mobile, every time I press "back" from a listing that I go into details on, it takes me back, not to the listings that I was looking at, but to the news feed. Facebook knows exactly what they are doing.
No need to call anyone delusional.
If the city wants something the market can't provide the solution is to do it yourself.

Berlin is partially doing that. The "Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte" is a housing association owned by the City of Berlin that builds and rents out apartments. They more or less act like other investors, just with more focus on social factors than on high profits.
Then it should be skilled, talented workers who should live in a place without public transport, buy expensive cars and gasoline and spend hours in traffic jams?
I wonder if this can go that far. It's one thing to offer a Facebook-scale version of arcade tokens, where you buy some and then distribute them within the arcade to use your choice of the arcade-owned services on offer. It's another to effectively declare your own currency and have separate businesses which only accept that (and/or can only be reasonably reached via Facebook). If the latter is not where this is going, and the coins are not good for speculation, then what is the point? And why wouldn't the various world governments have a huge problem with it?
In other contexts "split up between a group of folks" (that may be open to newcomers or not) is sometimes called "federated", while "everybody has (theoretically) a voice in the outcome" would be "decentralized".

In bitcoin, everybody has a chance to voice their opinion on what the ledger should look like (nevermind how miniscule it is these days given warehouses full of ASIC miners). Libra has 27 designated peers, and somebody in that group gets to decide about number 28 (and, potentially, about the other 26).
Hypothesis: For thousands of years, people burned them periodically, to provide habitat for desired prey, and make it easier to see them. Since then, until recently, people burned them periodically for livestock pasture.

Problem: Forest is expected cover, but now you have endangered plant species which have migrated uphill, with global climate change, until there's no uphill left. So restoring forest cover would cause extinctions.
Illegal in what jurisdiction?
But unlike banks your own cryptowallet does not have that risk at all.

Banks are simply custodians of your identity, no?
wait until 10th attempt at google I/O 2022?!
* In some languages, an array is dynamic.

Doesn't really matter for the general concept.

* The indexes might not be required to be numbers.

In most of those languages, that data type is called a map, dictionary, or even associative array. I've seen few languages actually use the phrase "associative array" primarily because it is confusing.

But, to be clear, I'm talking about the common "array" definition. That is, a value indexed by a number.

* The values might not be required to have a consistent type.

Yet, I was clear in saying "a byte array". A pointer points to the byte address and doesn't care about what type is ultimately represented. That is why void pointers are a thing. It is a language level action to reinterpret the pointer into a concrete object type.

But again, that confuses the issue of what pointers are with concerns like memory layout and object sizes. To be clear, you don't need to those concepts to understand what a pointer is.

* Some languages would let you throw random different-sized things into an array.

I specifically said "array of bytes". It does not matter what a language lets you do. A pointer is the head of a byte address and the interpretation of that byte and subsequent bytes are a language level concern. All unneeded information for a discussion on "what is a pointer".
You don’t steer anything, you write code. Apparently you are on the “cryptography team,” so are you discussing the social implications of libra with mark Zuckerberg before you implement this and that? Have you prompted any alteration to facebooks plans ever? You have rubbed elbows with all the executives at visa and Facebook and made sure that they are good fellows? Or are you just very happy with that nice fat paycheck and also the (declining) social status that you are afforded by name dropping Facebook?
The AWS instance was sized too low :) touche on the not fast enough comments.
Many people treat their city as the center of the world. NYC is infamous for this. "Flyover states" is a common pejorative classist term. Every tech company sets up offices in large cities not just for the talent, but because people want to live in the city, not in the "boonies" or "in the sticks" with a bunch of "townies."
> quality standard of living

How do you define this standard?

> equitable wealth distribution would be much better.

Let me present you with two scenarios, all else being equal, and you tell me in which one people are better off:

1: Every one makes the equivalent of $5,000 a year.

2: 90% of the population makes $20,000 a year and the remaining 10% make $100,000.

> This is how the western world justifies open exploitation.

Can you quantify this exploitation?
Kind of interested in what this means for a non Apple user. As one of those I already feel sometimes marginalised when content is shared on their walled garden and I need my wife to look at the dates for my kids’ sporting events because they’re only published on Apple. Now I’m going to be unable to carry out financial transactions, too.
The problem is they shouldn't be building stadiums either. You expect a lottery? So random luck will be the way to go.
You mean The Raft, but moored in the South Bay?

https://sites.google.com/a/trinity.edu/snow-crash-fall-2016/...
Because it's a very effective populist policy to get support from the electorate.
>It's data you made public

It's data you or someone else you know made public. Guilty by association?
I assume the downtime is due to the HTTP server, not persistence.
Sounds like that's exactly how Facebook wants you to feel.
We also have about ten years of carbon budget left if we want to avoid the worst climate change yet our emission rate is still increasing. Permafrost is already melting much faster than the pessimistic models assumed, so it might already be too late to prevent the release of the absurd amount of carbon locked in the ice.
In my experience, there is no such thing as "bad remote tech hire". Either it is a "bad hire" or you need to set the right training and expectations.

A bad hire will perform bad whether in person or remote. I do understand the premise of your question though. The issue with remote hires is not that they are bad, but they are probably not well equipped (training, expectations, process, tools) to do their job remotely. Also, unless someone is senior enough with some remote experience, I am personally hesitant hiring remote because it adds to the complexity.

So you don't eliminate bad remote hires. You eliminate the reasons why they are performing bad being remote if they are good otherwise. If they are bad anyway, then being remote probably makes it worse but not sure what you can do about the "remote" part only in such case.
Any claim of utility has a very, very high bar to get over. Mars-high.

Asteroid mining, maybe not so much, depending on how much it can be automated. The problem there quickly becomes how not to saturate demand and drive down prices to the point that the material's not worth transporting. Probably the only solution, ultimately, is to create enough demand in situ to absorb excess capacity.
It's a self-imposed hegemony. Bitcoin is controlled by the consensus of all users.

LIBOR was "decentralized". Then we found out that they were all colluding together.
How rich you’d be if you bought Apple stock instead of its products