skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flooding along the midwestern rivers has begun to destroy crop fields. Many attribute these floods to climate change.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-weather-agriculture/u...
I think your point would be better made by not focusing on the terminology.

The way I would define the term "cryptocurrency", Libra Coin would qualify since it uses a blockchain and cryptography. And transactions must be validated by multiple different parties (validators).

Your objection seems to be related to something like openness, i.e. who is allowed to become a validator. In other words, within cryptocurrencies, there are two categories. They could be called, say, open and invite-only.

Libra is invite-only, which you don't think is a good setup. That's the real objection, not that it isn't distributed and not that it isn't a cryptocurrency.
Most of modern Boston is built on trash dumped into the harbor to make more land, so I can imagine that they are going to have some issues with any sea rises.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/Boston-landfill-...

One side-effect of all this land-filling is that it is really difficult to get a feel for what the place would have been like historically. For instance, the campaigns of 1775 don't make a lot of sense if you are reading about them and trying to look at a modern map.
Specialist software for industry can be absurdly shit sometimes. There are seemingly tons of niche software packages used in business that cost thousands per copy and lack even the most rudimentary features normally found in most software.
>> In the short term, increased housing will decrease property values.

> How?

If you keep demand constant and increase supply, you will decrease price. This is one of the most basic tenants of microeconomics.

If that's too abstract, just imagine you're a landlord in SF who's used to increasing your rent by 10% per year (no idea what the actual number is) because there are 1% vacancies in the city. Now imagine that all of a sudden more housing came on line so that there are now 20% vacancies in the city. You probably wouldn't be able to increase your price and may have to drop it.

Now imagine that the number of bedrooms in SF increased by a factor of 10 overnight. The price of real estate would crater.

In the long term, the price of real estate will go up with density. All you have to do is look at places like Manhattan, Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc. This is because cities tend to draw in new citizens from the surrounding area until it is too expensive or too uncomfortable to live there. However, it takes time for those people to move to the city and fill vacancies.
At the very least, FB must be held to account as editors.

FB vigorously opposes this.

However, with 1) a staff of 30K++ screeners, 2) who knows how many moderators, etc, 3) many layers of management decisions and policy on what is and is not allowed on the platform and the reasons why/why not, 4) extensive human & algorithmic promotion and demotion of content, they are absolutely actively editing their site. This is arguably even more extensive editing than from any print or media organization.

The only reason FB wants to avoid the "editing" label is so they can edit as they please. I.e., they want to edit for 'engagement' and profit, not for social responsibility.

This cannot remain out of control without consequences, which we are already seeing in society.
The U.S. Constitution in org-mode
That is messed up! That must have been a bull that did that. So different from other ungulates I've observed.
I can second the sentiment in this article about SLA/SLE being very hard to define. For example, my company originally agreed to an SLA with a customer regarding API response time. The problem was that the SLA was a flat 500ms and didn't take into account the nature of the possible queries. It's possible to request up to 18 months worth of data, which is never going to return to 500ms.

I had to spend 6 hours analyzing data to figure out what factors of a query actually impacted response time. It required me re-learning advanced spreadsheet skills to find correlations in log data. We're now in the process of rewriting the agreement because this analysis was not done at contract time.

This is a topic not really written about that much.
This is the most important part of the equation but it is very intentionally omitted. Another factor is financial mismanagement on the part of municipalities like the debacle with San Jose’s fire chief pensions and police salaries. People want to simplify the issue to nimby old people versus the rest of decent society but the reality is that it’s a problem of unsustainable population growth and myopic and incompetent governance.
All of those outcomes were initially paid for by government, meaning us taxpayers.

For instance, railroads were given huge land grants.
Practice your Y Combinator interview
Used server raid controllers that need to be flashed into IT mode (FreeNAS requirement) and compatible with FreeBSD. People on the FreeNAS forums had issues with a dell H700 controller that’s common in used hardware, R720 in my case. Some used mobos too.

Not all of the new C246 motherboards by Supermicro have FreeBSD listed as supported. Even boards that only have a small change are not identical, one board adds 4 gigabit ports but isn’t listed under FreeBSD, it will likely work but if any weird issues happen I doubt I’ll get official support.
they probably would refer to them as bandwidth saving codecs :D but you're right
Played with yes. And it makes things less clunky, indeed. But it's still built on top of System.Net.HttpWebRequest, meaning it inherits its limitations too, like e.g. sub-par http(s)-only proxy support.
Nice. I am glad they did not make things too polished. For instance, in the Beastie Boys video there are these freeze frames with artifacts that seem easy to "fix", but probably would degrade the overall experience by being too perfect: https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE?t=86
Insurectech is a clear necessity, thanx for this
California Unplugged
No, that's what fake Satoshi would do. Real Satoshi wouldn't.
Great. I think this is the kind of booster Rust sorely needed.
The first time I installed FreeBSD was in 1995, setting up a basic internet presence (mail, ftp, http) for the consulting firm I worked for. There was a small ISP on the floor above us, and we ran PPP over a serial cable strung out the window.

Aside from a little exposure to NextStep at school, it was my first unix. I had the impression that FreeBSD was this capital-I Institution - Core has always been so professional and competent that from the outside, it never looked like a newish project. I have no idea how they had such comprehensive documentation and still found the time to write code.

I'm still incredibly impressed with them, love FreeBSD, and have been running it with only minor interruptions ever since. I've not been terribly involved (and not at all now), but it has been a privilege to have lived basically my entire career with such an incredibly competent and helpful group of awesome people building what is IMO the world's best server OS.

Looking forward to another 26!
App Store continues to vastly outpace Google Play in consumer spending
OCaml is more memory safe than Rust (as the "unsafe" parts are harder to access). But it does have GC, so GC is likely the primary reason.
> Not talking about code today, although, I don’t think a strict limit is a good thing there either, for other reasons. I’m talking about human text.

I'd like to hear about those other reasons. It really makes sense for human text, but I can't "wrap" my head around why wraping long code lines could end up being more legible.

I've started following a simple rule of a soft limit of 80 chars and a hard limit of 120. I find that it makes it more concise and makes me think a lot more about how I can make it easier to read and understand.
VxWorks: A Real-Time operating system
I personally use a Linux OS and have never used FreeBSD, what's the most convincing reason(s) for making the switch?
Ultimately you can only have one absolute principle or right; if you have two, eventually they will come into conflict and you have to decide which is really absolute and which is just mostly absolute.
Building an AI is expensive. It also means FB is on the hook for false classifications.

This moderator labor is (relatively) cheap. It also allows FB to point to a third party if something goes wrong.

Look at their statements in the article. It's easier for them to distance themselves and point to "bad actor" contractors than it is if these were direct FB employees.
I think you are wildly incorrect, but I hope that you are right.
Polyplexus – social network for scientists from DARPA
Adaptive KMV Estimator (HyperLogLog Alternative)
The Libra discussion was strange, because it was mostly pro-crypto people who didn't grasp how not crypto Libra is, and anti-Facebook people, with a slice of "hey this is probably illegal" people thrown in.
Definitely don't agree with this. e.g. elections
What's stopping you from giving high percentages of your income/wealth away to those less fortunate than you right now?
I really like a lot of functional programming techniques in JS, but the Left/Right style of error handling just always seems messy and unreadable to me.
They should put this much hustle into the business for the sake of the business, every week. Not just one weekend for YC.
Impressively, they did actually merge the fix:
https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/pull/553

It's good to see that Microsoft's "open source" programs aren't just code-dumps
HTTP-dl MIT – A pure C library and client for reliable HTTP downloading
Right, but they created their own huge-ness instead of buying it from something else that was already huge.
"venerable" should be "vulnerable", and Mountain View is mis-capitalized in a few places... :-)
Watch me Dockerize a Python application in just 3 minutes (you can do it too!)
I know people who have given up flying for this very reason. She could have chosen not to go and to conduct any business over the internet (I'm assuming she was flying for business and not for pleasure).
I've been interested in doing something like this so I can run an iMessage proxy. A lot of neat gateway apps for OSx have popped up (like https://www.wemessageapp.com) to get iMessage support on Android.
The list of states who went blue in the 2016 and 2018 elections.
Maybe they do. This narrative doesn't indicate they don't.
Sure, but this seems arbitrary. Why is $150K great but $30K isn't? At what level of income for software engineers would you consider employers to be "debasing" the values of social stability? What's so unstable about a world in which software engineers don't make a ton of money?
For when curl and wget just can't get the job done.

Bad connection, getting resets, downloads failing?
Then, perhaps the schools should start treating them like children and putting a foot down when they start running roughshod... And by this I mean High Schools and Universities. Again, the world is not fair, it isn't meant to be. And children should learn this.

Beyond all of that, PARENTS should be raising their children. They seem to be too concerned about protecting their kids, instead of letting them know in deep specifics how bills/finances in the home work. There's no reason a 10yo can't sit with you when you pay bills, or look at a spreadsheet that outlines things.

It doesn't even take THAT much... I have most of my paycheck going into an account that bills get paid out of... most are set to autopay, except the largest ones (house/car payments). Every two weeks, when I get paid, I sit down and pay those bills due. The rest of my paycheck goes into an account that is for day to day expenses, and that's all I get for it.

In the end, it's not JUST the schools that are responsible for raising children, and the (US) government doesn't do a very good job of most things. Raise your children people.
Speaking from an NTSC background:

Often times, even professionals working with older, standard-definition video end up processing it incorrectly, or may be working with digitizations in which someone else already made an error. Interlacing is almost never handled by a "double framerate" method (in which a 30fps interlaced video, each frame consisting of two 60Hz fields, is transformed into a 60fps progressive video). As well, often times such video is even captured with every other field missing (more common in VHS captures than professionally-handled captures, but that's a slight digression).

Also, SD video really does look best on an SD CRT display. Often times, the upscaling to HD, as well as the differing visual properties of typical HD displays, will cause the inherent flaws of the SD material to be more pronounced. You won't ever get a true comparison without seeing the video playing on a decent SDTV. And honestly, playing these videos on an SDTV would probably look amazing compared to what you would have seen on MTV in the 80s and 90s.
> the right to the driver to suspend anyone from travel

That wouldn't fly in the US. The moment you ban someone from anything, someone will find a way to push why it was wrong to do. But yeah, I haven't that issue in other countries.

Another issue with buses are cities with streets that are too small. In some US cities, drivers already have to do miracles to get buses through.
They're only "more prey than predator" because humans have fought back against them.

A wolf wouldn't think twice about killing a human.
Along with Barack Obama and probably another half billion people, I am a huge fan of sci-fi author Liu Cixin. As a fan of Liu's, it is interesting to get to know him a bit better.

A fun read!

His old sci-fi story The Wondering Earth is available on Netflix, which is pretty good but I prefer reading his books.
I've had good success using the Ramda library. It provides a lot of functional style programming helper functions but still feels good in native JS.
In the UK they actually are fast (as in: often almost instantaneous, and almost always on a same-day basis). In the rest of the world, not so much.
> kinda forgot about it

At least you didn’t ended loosing one of your dragons because of it.
You can find links to VMS installation images with a Google search, for both VAX and Alpha.

You can also find links to a license key generator if you search for "VMS Liberation Front" This gives you keys for VMS and all layered products.

I am only advocating this until you get a "legit" Hobbyist license, of course.
If I had the fuck-you levels of money facebook does I'd switch you and your house cleaner's salary, hire a PI to follow you and figure out which waiter or clerk hates you the most (you know there's at least one) and give them $3.5 million in front of you. Simply because the most powerful and hilarious usage of fuck-you money is punching up in such a manner.

And making someone's life better at the expense of someone that thinks like you do on top is a cherry on the most flavorful sorbet.

What I'm saying is you're a diiiiiiiick

Edit: I was so taken aback by the dickery I forgot my closing point and I guess this shit isn't obvious to some people: There's little reason whatsoever beyond personal insecurity to not want someone to make as much as possible. But many reasons to not want them to make as little as possible. If you can get away with either - like facebook can at this point, I really feel like - why the hell would you do the latter. I'm aware of the practical issues with incentives with this for example, but you already derailed the thread into dumb anyway so what's it matter.
Yup absolutely. My dinky shitty rent controlled poor neighborhood apartment in Canada was better built (by a LOT) than my expensive new construction in the US. Im so sick of being involved in all my neighbors private conversations.
Well there are 3 realistic options here:

Intel igpus

Nvidia

AmdATI
One of my Statistics professors made great use of one of these (he called it a Quincunx) our my Six Sigma class. It was about management, and how reacting to processes you can’t control just makes things worse.

He’d pick someone from the class, tell them he was going to check their performance (like they were a Sales manager), a run a ball through the Quincunx. If the ball landed on the left, that meant they’d underperform, and they got a tongue lashing. If it fell on the right, they got praise. People got angry about the senselessness of it all.

But that was the point. The lesson: if you mandate targets on something that is essentially random and can’t be controlled, you’re going to have a bad time. (And if you react to those random results by changing the process, results get even worse — but that was another class for another day.)
101 Dalmatians is wrong :-)
For anyone interested, there is an ongoing debate to re-introduce Wolves to the Scottish Highlands. We have a major issue with deer overpopulation (which comes with Lyme disease and damaged trees).

So gameskeepers are receptive to the idea although sheep farmers are concerned.

https://www.conservationjobs.co.uk/articles/wolf-reintroduct...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/08/wolves-s...
That’s an impressive amount of work to carry an error state around, and check before each step if there is an error set.

I feel like this is a trivially simple idea which has been contorted by poor nomenclature and lacking the proper syntactic sugar, which results in significantly more cognitive load than should be necessary to achieve the desired result.

Kind of like that sentence actually.
The most egregious example of this was the old Windows connect-to-WiFi password box, which not only masked the password, but made you enter it twice. Why you had to enter it twice (when connecting, not creating the password) is totally beyond me.
The article does mention that the Boston Seaport District now floods a dozen times a year instead of 2-3 times in the 1960s.
How can you even argue that we can have infinite growth in a finite world?
What crappy typesetting. I can't believe they didn't just use LaTeX.
Broke: import tariffs motivated by short-termist trade war one-upmanship and bigotism.

Woke: import tarrifs motivated by long-termist climate change reduction.

We swear they're not the same thing so they can't have similar effects! This time it will be different and those unenlightened non-Westerns will listen to our thought leadership!
>likely going to acquire mental illnesses

I find hard to believe humans are so sensitive that some visual stimulation is going to give them mental illnesses. We evolved in an environment where violence was part of real life and a real threat to our own well being, seeing it on a screen will elicit emotions we may not be used to in modern life, but causing mental illness is a stretch.
My iPhone only ever connects to networks I've used -- never unknown open networks. I know it's possible to enable automatic asking (I think, via "ask to join network"?), but that seems like an annoying feature.
I have the opposite problem, apps/windows don't consistently return to where they used to be - in particular Slack never does (probably something with electron) but more frustratingly Messages never does either - it always goes to the same location on my primary display.
First Microsoft cloud regions in Middle East now available
If those functions are interchangeable then you potentially have to deal with exception control flow on every line, or even within a single line. It makes it very hard to reason about all possible paths through a given function and do things like safe resource management (e.g. you always have to handle the possibility of further exceptions in your exception-handling code path).

For system failures it's ok because the only handling you're going to do is retry at high level (and so even languages with an Either-oriented style tend to have some form of "panics" or exceptions for that kind of failure). But it can be a real problem when that also happens for "normal failure" paths like bad user input where you want to actually have business logic that handles and perhaps recovers from the failure.
Password managers sound great until you buy your kids a Chromebook and they need to type in their secure password to log in every damn time.
Let's face it: the traditional world is shitting their pants.

The disruption of 'money' was already on the table with all the cryptocurrencies. And now powerhouses such as Facebook, Visa and MasterCard, Uber and Lyft, eBay, and Spotify stand behind this new Libra.

I would shit my pants too.
Why does that video not have more views?
Just what I want my grandmother to see when she logs into Facebook once a week to check on the grandkids.

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Does this depict pedophilia? Y/N

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This image was flagged by other users as depicting horrible gore and death, do you agree Y/N?

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This post may contain hate speech, do you agree? Y/N

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Thank you for making Facebook a safer place for everybody!

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Absolutely. It's a very depressing observation for myself, and an uncomfortable truth for the industry.
I thought YC main thing was growth not revenue. Why did they get rejected for revenue? Also making someone fly overseas for a 10 minute interview to get rejected really sucks.

I hate the all day interview, but if you are coming from overseas then maybe give them more than 10 mins.
It's great that YC provides feedback on why they don't accept (some) companies. However, it's a bit disappointing to see that not having MRR is a reason to reject a company. It seems like a lot of the successful YC companies were accepted way before they were anywhere to close to revenue -- and some were even working on a completely different product when accepted.

My hope is that MRR is sufficient, but not necessary for acceptance!
It's not a business proposition and its benefits are not driven by user stories.

The reason you would chose it as your platform is if you desire a clean and streamlined Unix environment and experience.

But ZFS native support comes to mind, and supposedly a kick ass network stack for very very high volumes.

And a very permissive license.

And ports software repository is nice, and pkgsrc is also nice.
Long been needed! Easy to use =]
I fondly remember when I wrote a Galton board simulation as a computer science school project. It would show the ball falling down and simulate the coin flip at each stage, summing up the number of balls that fell into each slot. The hard thing was it had to run on a 80286. The final version had some nifty background graphics and advanced drawing routines, written in Pascal and some inline assembly ;)
The word is "exploitive". Desperate people will do things because they have to. If I pay a homeless person $20 to humiliate himself, is that a fair transaction, or an exploitation of the asymmetry between our conditions?
missiveapp.com and conferenceBadge.com, my two startups, have both been rejected at the interview phase. Our yearly revenue for both now stands in the 7 digits. We are still just a team of 3 + 1 employee, 100% bootstrapped. Life is good. My advice, keep pushing!

https://missiveapp.com/
https://www.conferencebadge.com
I didn't say infinite growth. I said we're nowhere near the ceiling.
Subsumption-driven clause learning with DPLL+restarts
I'm sure it's not what they want, but there's a few extensions that have you covered there.
For what it's worth, VS Code merges a tremendous number of PRs from the community, despite having a dedicated team: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclo...

New MSFT really "gets" open source. It's an exciting time.