skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, people do this all the time with kids too. They pick up the first thing that's either popular or they see as "child appropriate". It's just laziness. It's not hard to think adults do it to other adults. Especially if they think the whole thing is pointless to begin with.
And 1 hour of skype-to-phone a month.
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This lets those with the most money set up non profits and use taxpayer dollars to fulfill political agendas on public access channels and permit firing employees that object to the new propaganda making machine so long as at least one viewer objects to that employees work?

Sign me up and call me Sinclair.
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I'm not savvy enough to understand the legal nuances. They say the allow pseudonimity, which for me means they will not control user-to-user transactions, which means anything goes at exchange time. It will be different if you try to get the cash out of the system, but if you find a large enough Libra market you can live off-grid forever (theoretically).
Clearly you didnt read the whitepaper. Facebook (and partners) literally mint libra. You give them a dollar, they mint a dollars worth of libra and stick the dollar in their "reserve". What stops them minting more libra than they actually hold fiat reserves for?
What are the chances that would've already happened given how long we've been sending life made RF off the planet? A 24 year exchange isn't awful.
The risk of write-profile-optimize is that you might write a big slow program with a totally flat profile. If it doesn’t meet performance requirements at that point, then what?
It’s no different than when the guys from Mighty Car Mods hire local fabricators for their chop jobs. Modding a car like this is a huge job!
The trilogy _Three Body Problem_ is a good read, and has something to say about this. :)
Not remotely, assuming you mean VMS and not VAX (ie vs. Alpha).

Lots of places were using them into the 20th century, so folks with VMS experience don't even need to be especially old. I have a friend here in Houston who works at $BigNameOilCorp, and they had VMS in production until 2005 or 2006.
Prioritizing penny-pinching in general over being nice to people in general is an easy temptation for entrepreneurs, and it goes well with generic egoism.

For example, I'm used to more or less annual all-hands dinners at inadequate restaurants, with better wine for the partners (all sitting together, of course) and combined with partners-only yacht weekends and the like.
Yeah, Curious Droid is a nice channel. I really enjoyed this video on SLAM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHONQAMV48

What an insane idea that was.
The world isn't going to fit perfectly into mental models, it's much more complex, variable, and random. "The Bed of Procrustes" comes to mind: The mythical innkeeper that wanted his guests to fit perfectly into their bed, so he would either stretch the guests or chop off limbs to make them fit.

IMO the maps don't always match the terrain, but the maps are worth studying.

I'm going to buy the book as I found Traction super useful, and I'd like to see their take on popular mental models. But I'm keeping in mind the limits of models. (I like a good dose of Nassim Nicholas Taleb for this)
I mean technically sharing the data between the validators _for free_ doesn't count as selling.
Not saying there won't be ill effects. But the alarmist idea that the world will be 80% desert isn't based on any science.
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>That sounds amazingly dystopian. I mean, that’s literally a money built on an oligarchy. By design.

You can already kind of do that with other crypto currencies. For e.g. > 70% of bitcoin mining happens inside China, and the currency is susceptible to a 51% attack (in theory anyway). This site calculates the cost of executing such an attack.

https://www.crypto51.app/
hmmm, the first 2 months of my (rescued) dog being in my home (a year ago) were anxiety-filled for her, and now i wonder if it was due to the led bulbs. she’s mostly settled now, realizing that home is good for sleep, though still gets nervous here and there. she likes being outside more but that seems to be true of dogs in general.
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* got a $6 christmas bonus one year. (they did a percentage across that board, and i was working very little.)

* coupon for $10 off a turkey on more than one occasion

* enormous bowl of candy left out for everyone to get fat on. when employees complained that we didn't appreciate a constant supply of candy, CEO whined about how he was giving us "free food" and we were complaining.

* two different employers have decided that they needed to paint a bunch of fancy accent walls. they then get budget painters to put a single sloppy coat of cheap paint over the professionally painted office-wall-grey. ends up looking pitiful.
>A smattering of nonprofits, which didn’t have to pay the $10 million entry fee, also populates the consortium to make sure not everyone can be corrupted by financial incentives.

Is this a euphemism for 'stuffing the ballot box with nonprofits your wife and friends and are on'?
Why no server backup best practices? There should be 2ndary and tertiary servers ready instantly.
This is particularly bad with channels. If you look at a book like "Concurrency in Go", the apparent simplicity of the language leads to patterns are far from trivial, and the lack of generics means that it's impossible to implement them correctly once and reuse them for any data types... so everyone ends up having to implement their own, which can be fun, but pretty bad for correctness.
Did you try The Silver Searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher? :)
Sometimes the admins will let a horrible decision be realized because they want the decision makers to face the consequences.

Or maybe there's another 50 SoG book that about suits for accountants.

Or they confused 50SoG with Lean In, another book about women getting ahead in the corporate world
I didn't know 50 Shades of Grey was erotica until the movie trailers started hitting TV.

Most guys had no clue about the book other than thinking it was a straight forward romance book. I could make the same claims against other people about how they can't tell the difference between spam and real emails or ad results and real results. I know because I'm consistently around it and I HAVE to know. It takes a level of maturity to understand that everyone else doesn't know what you may know.
you should search what "opportunity cost" means.
The market is highly inflated compared to other investments because people are blindly buying without thinking at almost any stupid price. Your comment is a perfect example of that.
You say its "backed", but what stops them minting more libra than they have "backing" for? Nobody would know any different unless every user attempted to remove all their funds at once. How can you be sure that this wont happen? This is EXACTLY like a bank, but without any of the regulatory protections.
Now do some napkin math on the amount of gears and levers you need to reach such calculating power, mr. Babbage.
"The single greatest national security threat for India is Indians' abject incompetence in governing themselves."

Why don't you learn from your Northerly neighbors (China) on how to run government? One thing I find in my travels to India, is how much abject contempt you guys have towards the Chinese way of doing things. Unbelievable - considering the cultures are very similar (Buddhist thought has historical played a major roles in both cultures), similar population sizes, etc..

No, let's follow a political system that has had no organic roots/development in the country and pretend all are literate folks who are capable of holding a debate on what policies are good for their country, while the politicians take out everyone to the cleaners.
In your hypothetical scenario, you then optimize whatever is easiest to optimize.
It seems with these "Big Provider" outages its a cascading failure across a few systems as opposed to a single point failure which makes debugging a bit harder.
I'm not really versed in law but how will this lawsuit work? Could this guy who was accused just ignore it?
I can't load it, must be my Coq blocker...
That's relevant in some scripts, where unnecessary forks might actually add up to some meaningful resource usage. Not relevant when typed at a tty.
David Marcus is a Sith Lord.
https://github.com/libra/libra/issues/41
> In Libra's case...why should I ever use it instead of sticking with credit cards?

Given that both VISA and Mastercard are on board, I assume that you might not have a choice in the long run.
Is there ever a reason to not just use unix epoc time?

(besides the year 2038 problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem)
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Facebook will make the money now
r/India leaking.. ?
Well, often the directory and maybe a few actors get big credits on movie posters, while the full credit sequence can list hundreds of other people: clearly those other people will have done most of the work just by their sheer numbers.

Doesn't mean that the directors prominent place is unearned though.
Facebook’s promises are as trustworthy as their record of not breaking them.

They promised not linking accounts between WhatsApp and Facebook, inevitably broke it, and faced triple-digit millions in fines, without a sweat: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/18/15657158/facebook-whatsap...
From the technical paper it seems to be able to be transferred anonymously like bitcoin etc

>To create a new account, a user
first generates a fresh verification/signature key-pair

>The Libra protocol does not link accounts to a real-world identity. A user is free to create multiple
accounts by generating multiple key-pairs. Accounts controlled by the same user have no inherent
link to each other. This scheme follows the example of Bitcoin and Ethereum in that it provides
pseudonymity for users. https://developers.libra.org/docs/assets/papers/the-libra-bl...

I'm wondering if this may create legal problems for Facebook and its partners when the currency gets used for illegal stuff. Bitcoin doesn't get sued when it's used for drug dealing because there is no one to sue.
Depends on when. When the book first came out and Amazon did TV ads about moms in the bathtub reading it, I just thought it was a random popular chick lit book.
Privacy-friendly?

These are just alternatives to Google. Some are privacy-oriented, but others are just not Google. They may, in fact, be worse than Google.

That's not a bad list. Even if the alternatives are not "private", not putting all your eggs in one basket may be a good idea.

Noteworthy is the lack of Microsoft products in that list. Sure Microsoft isn't known for being the champion of privacy, but neither are Dropbox and Slack.
> If your application is future-dating items, like say clients entering appointments in a calendar, this will be very wrong.

Well, the future has problems no matter what you do.

> If a customer enters an appointment 6 months in the future, it will end up at the wrong time due to daylight savings time.

No, becauae that you store UTC doesn't mean that you also convert entries to UTC using the offset on the entry date without looking at the date the time is attached to.

OTOH, no matter what you store, the fact that DST rules and even timezone boundaries can change over time means that you have to store a lot more about the intent than just the time to be certain of being correct for future times. Did you want X time in Y time zone or X time in the legal time applicable to Z venue? The former is often used as a proxy forthe latter on the assumption that tim zones don't change...
It was also a book that was enormously popular among women. At that time, if you were to randomly choose a book from the best-seller list, there’s a good chance you’d land on Shades of Grey.
Not disagreeing with the sentiment of your comment, but the article does say "Facebook, and its partners—two dozen so-called “validators” that will run the proprietary blockchain network—will govern a reserve of users’ funds, on which they will be able to accrue interest."
Usually in these comparisons Visa/MC TPS figures are averages whereas crypto TPS are peak. Big difference.
Seconding the idea of finding them problems that they can solve or things they can build that they find interesting.

Programming to make their homework easier? Great.

Programming a game they can show their friends, that lets them compete to get a high score? Great.

Programming some interesting scripts into minecraft? Great.

Programming to learn to how to reorder a red black tree? ="programming is boring"
The same way everyone gives Elon credit for Tesla, SpaceX, ...
>“My goal is to never own a gas car,” Giertz said. “I’m a part of a new generation of drivers that will only drive electric. I feel like I should pad this a little bit, but I’m not going to. Fuck oil companies. Seriously, fuck them.”

I can appreciate the sentiment, but this comes off extremely entitled and privileged. I do not think most of the drivers just earning their licenses are going to be able to afford electric cars, or have the means to charge the damn things.

Most kids will be getting hand-me-downs or buying cheap clunkers that should probably be headed to the junk yard and not their garage. And we're still many years away from all-electric cars being old enough to be cheap clunkers.

I'm really curious what generation of drivers Simone thinks she's part of, because it has to be the 1% of new drivers.
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Or House of Lies. That show was way closer to the truth about consulting than most would care to admit.
The benefit of using a cycler rather than a ship that travels orbit-to-orbit is that there is no need to accelerate/decelerate the mass of the ship, just the perishables (people and provisions for the voyage)

You would accelerate a small vessel (like a crew dragon or orion), intercept and dock with the much larger cycler, then enter the ship for your x-month trip.

When you near mars, you get back into your dragon, and burn away from the cycler, entering into martian approach.

7 people in a Crew Dragon for 18-24 months would not be pleasant. 7 people in a flying space hotel would be far nicer.

You could presumably look at using a small asteroid to provide the bulk of the "cycler", offering plenty of shielding for the trip, you'd only have to get it into position once - far less fuel requirement.

My understanding though is Musk is planning on using BFR to go surface-to-surface, with maybe a refuel in earth orbit. I believe this is because of the amount of material that needs transporting to Mars for the first 20 years or so, and that mass can be used as useful shielding. Even if Mars becomes self sustaining and doesn't require a large amount of cargo:people ratio, I believe Musk is aiming for a much shorter transit time than 2 years.
The partners accrue interest - not the users.
At my company, we trumpet our best metrics, not bugle them.
This is not a bank. It's an asset and a payment network. Banks are organizations that borrow short to lend long. This is a stablecoin backed very closely 1:1 with fiat currency. There is no fractional reserve, and there is no lending.
One more benefit is, we are looking at very recent past instead of hundred and thousands year past in comparative other planted.
A lot of Russia's armor consists of dated T-72s, a small number of which are being upgraded, but those upgrades are basically "Add a thermal sight, make the turrent turn a little faster, add some ERA brickes". Armata is really a unicorn, T-80s got pulled out of service, and they rely on T-90 variants just like India.

Whether or not M1A2s are equal or inferior to a tricked-out T-90 is a long, long debate.

There is also China, but I personally don't think much of their new tanks.
> I do not think most of the drivers just earning their licenses are going to be able to afford electric cars

You don't have to afford an electric car to not own a gas car.
Flesh-toned and harkening the imagry of many a 7th-grader's favorite bathroom doodle... A bold choice of icon for a software named Coq.
There's also a service now for people who want to check out MULTICS:

https://ban.ai/multics/
Every new simulation is publishable. And every simulation that is more detailed than what came before will receive some attention after being published.

If physics has some bias they polish their models towards, it's on the direction of repeating the findings of the previous ones, not of changing them.
It's surprisingly easy to accidentally be designing a game and not realize it. And designing games is hard. And one can closely approximate the percentage of the population that's put so much as one thought toward how to do so—the limits of the practice, the balance, the ways your rules can be abused or encourage behavior you hadn't anticipated—ever, as zero. That when someone starts to recognize what they're accidentally doing they tend to give up, or abandon any effort to do it well, or ditch it and go with some familiar, proven pattern instead even if it sucks and doesn't fit the situation, makes sense. It's hard, and very few people are good at it.

It's easier to recognize that you're playing one than that you're making one, it seems.
I agree with that... however, there are a lot of people studying programs that are overloaded. Let's say there's 100 positions for Foo Studies program majors, but 10000 people get Foo Studies degrees each year. How many of those people will find jobs in their field? How many will wind up in jobs not paying enough to cover cost of living + student loan repayment? Who is responsible for not understanding that a Foo Studies degree will not get them where they need to be? And even when they can get into their chosen field, because there's so much excess supply the actual job pays even less.
Well then they can get the pork chop
Conception and putting money on tbe line deserves credit. There would be no endeavors if there was no incentive of credit. But yeah nice HN stereotype of silicon valley.
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I think this is a dangerous assumption to make.

I've worked at big companies and small ones. Every place has a small pool of extraordinary technical talent (the 10x or 100x engineers or whatever). It isn't just that these people are geniuses (although some of them def are), its how much context they have around the systems that are critical to the functioning of the Company. They have that context + dedication to have learned about different failure scenarios. They probably have built the automation systems that deploy the services.

When such people leave, its not the end of the company, someone else (either a person or a group) usually are interested and step up to knowledge transfer before the person leaves and then learn the system.

However, if a critical mass of people leave at or around the same time, crucial knowledge that is necessary for the systems to operate correctly is lost. This may not surface immediately, but when something goes wrong, you will notice it.

I'm not saying this is what happened to Google, IDK. But its very much a possiblity, even at the largest companies. Especially the ones that have somewhat centralized systems, so outages tend to affect a whole bunch of seemingly unrelated services.
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> Isn't the point of limiting the power of government to actually help the general population to survive and prosper though?

It might be a lovely side benefit, but no, I don't think it is the point or outright goal in austrian economics and libertarianism. The freedom itself is the goal, which does carry the potential to succeed and prosper but also the potential of complete and utter failure and misery with it. You are allowed to be a failure completely if you so choose here. I might be wrong on the philosophy here though as I have only really skimmed the surface of mises, hayek, rothbard, etc, but that is my understanding.
the design constraint almost 100% matches 'my desktop computer in my house'. please don't vapidly declare some logocentric nonsense and assume people who know better can just ignore your comment.
This has been a thing in the 4x4 world for a while. I've seen a few Toyota 4Runners like this, it's called "chopped": https://www.toyota-4runner.org/attachments/3rd-gen-t4rs/3089...

I am worried that they did this to a unibody vehicle though. Most of the SUVs that people do this to are body-on-frame so the structural integrity comes from a frame that isn't being modified. In a unibody car, the structural integrity comes from the bodywork. Without pieces of the body, it loses the ability to stay intact. Like the article mentioned, they cut pieces out and the car started to buckle: every bit of body work they cut out was 100% required to maintain the structural integrity of the vehicle.

I hope this does not become a trend. I've seen Jeep Cherokees like this, also unibody vehicles, and I've seen them buckle when hitting bumps. Simone and her team knows to reinforce them. I'm not sure most people do.
Isn’t that the entire point of higher order programming languages?
> Solve the problem you have right now. Then solve the next one. And the next one.

Amen to that.
This doesn't follow the same rules as other cryptocurrencies though - its proof of stake, where a select number of parties can mint their own "funds"
The note that it's an old star makes me worry though. If they're older than us, and habitable, were they inhabited?

Many dwarf stars have more solar flares than our sun, while their planets are closer. Teegarden's star is supposed to be very calm right now. I have no idea if that is likely to be true over most of the past 8 billion years. The amount of water they gather may be smaller, and their closer planets may not be able to retain water as well.

So if they were inhabited, what happened to them?

Let's say the origin of life is a million to one filter, and the successful development of sentience is another million to one filter. Those are actually pretty high odds for those two events, and the combination of those two togehter is enough to make it likely we're alone in the Milky Way.

One thing's for sure - if there's really 2 habitable planets, with liquid water, then we've got a hell of a target to point James Webb at when it launches - an infrared spectrum star should mean any plant life is well optimized to towards the redder end of the spectrum - we should see some type of chlorophyll.

Since most of the star's energy is emitted in the infrared, which is a more diffuse form of energy, does this limit the potential of photosynthetic organisms to gain a disruptive evolutionary advantage? (Maybe not. It's still free energy from the sky.)
But that's beer being less popular...
It actually is way worse than being eaten by a lion. Like long torture of varying degrees. There are worse kinds of torture but it is one of the most common, the other being social exclusion, and finally chronic illnesses.

Except this one nobody can really fix. The drawback of invisible poorly understood market processes with many inputs. The only thing you can try to do is make your chances better, be adaptable and adapt.

Even bad illness can often be abated with a few (commonly known as terrible) exceptions.
I do indulge in sarcasm on occasion yes ;)
Freckles looks interesting!

If I may ask, what was the reason for moving away from Ansible and resorting to building something yourself? What kind of issues did you encounter that Ansible couldn't solve?
I didn't, but will try it out of curiosity when I'm back on that machine.
Sure it will be kept separate.

In separate sql-like tables with a key to join on.