skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extending lines clearly isn't in the scope of the commenter; the 7 already got an extension to Hudson Yards a few years back and the first phase of the 2nd Ave extension came into operation recently as well.

Speaking from my own selfish perspective, I think fixing the lines we do have is more of a priority than building new ones.
Video: Japanese vs. Swiss Watches
IA-32 would imply it'd run in any IA-32 processor, the same as i386 since later versions are backwards compatible up to there, so they're functionally the same.

It won't run in i486 or i386, though, so they're both inaccurate names
The Future of Work Is About Change
Horrified researchers want out of “infomercial” for shady stem-cell clinics
In favor of what?
Reminds me of an El Camino I had once.

A friend remarked "It's not much of a truck. But then again, it's not much of a car either!"
It should read "then compares the generated hash to the hash that was received from the client to verify that it matches"

Or something along those lines.
Gerald Joyce continues to work on RNA, although I don't see specific publication on chirality since then as far as I can tell. https://joyce.salk.edu/publications/
What's the ROI on such rentals (cost of property vs. amount of rent generated per month)?
Yeah, this is where the story took a turn for me as well.
In no way can you trust Facebook to take back control. In fact, in no way can you trust Facebook full stop.
Cloudflare aims to make HTTPS certificates safe from BGP hijacking attacks
Parts of the US Government cared, SCOTUS ruled for them. But the executive branch didn't care and did what he/they wanted.
> I think hackernews has a strong anti-facebook bias

Is HN really more anti-Facebook than the general population? If so, why?
SEC has no authority over France.
Ignore all the haters, you're building something cool that has the power to transform peoples lives. The fact that you're even thinking about your impact on the world puts you above what most people would do. Keep up the good work.
They didn't say all of their colonies. Some were let go relatively peacefully.
I can’t believe the business models that involve targeting kids these days are legal and so widely accepted
That's called crowdfunding. (Perhaps: "world's first online panhandler who admits that they're panhandling.")
A lot of people cannot afford to buy at any price point.
I don't understand. Is your entire point in this discussion to somehow justify talking down to other people?

> If the point is that many people in rural areas are economically struggling, then yes we agree, just as many poorer urban dwellers are (and to whom a random $12k received would also be hugely impactful), but that has nothing to do with example proposed.

My point was that the OP's use of the phrase "only $12,000" is offensive, classist language in the context it was written in. That point is unrelated to the rest of the discussion.

I don't get why anyone would want to double down on defending this language, especially since you weren't the person who used it. But here we are.

But hey, if $12,000/year is peanuts to anyone reading this thread: https://www.patreon.com/ciphpercoder
This seems unlikely - Netflix just finished their migration to AWS in 2016 after 7 years and has been quite public about it, and always has a major presence at re:invent, etc.

https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-net...

They've never used AWS for their CDN.
Did you make this comment to OP first ?
I wonder how the performance compares with pedis [1], which is based on Seastar/ScyllaDB.

https://github.com/fastio/pedis
I always remember the tragedy of Thalidomide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#Birth_defect_crisi...) when reading about chirality.
This will go beyond that by including information typically because of the event of the ledger. Currently, I give my children cash. What happens when that's a ledger entry as well?
Given that Toyota produces the Prius (and has for many years) I think the criticism of Toyota is a bit over the top.
Just a few minutes after he submitted this post, it was no. 3 on the frontpage. It is clear that this was organized. Please check it out even it may be hard to verify.
Does your car parking cost as much as renting a flat/sqm? I bet it does not.

Where I live, parking space costs you about 15€/sqm/month on a single floor/no floor since it's 'public space'. A flat is avg. 22€/sqm/month and buildings in general come with 6 floors: we're closer to 6*22€/sqm/month for living space...
Would you believe it if they said they were going to completely eliminate net CO2 emissions in 5-10 years?
Am I understanding correctly that this is claiming to have placed our world within our known map of math? Honestly I believe something about like that to be the case, anyone actually determining it exactly and proving it however I expect to take awhile longer, this ain't it chief.
I fail to see how does the first part of your statement about climate issues connect with the second part of the statement about security/Pakistan.

It seems that you just wanted to make a point.

For the municipal water issue what has the state government/city done over the years?
Name one payment processor that (1) doesn’t require users link a bank account, (2) takes deposits, and (3) issues a token in their own denomination based on those deposits that’s pegged to a mystery “diversified global currency reserve” to be invented at a later date/altered to suit Facebook’s needs.

It kind of sounds like it’s a money market account to me. Minus all the pesky regulation, of course. Like the required banking license to offer those in the US.
First heard of Sqreen from their SaaS CTO security checklist[1]. Keep up the good work :-)

[1] https://www.sqreen.com/checklists/saas-cto-security-checklis...
> If it's as dire as some seem to imply, we should all switch to nuclear right now.

We probably should, or take other similar-scale approaches (multiple, as it wouldn't do to put all our eggs in one basket).

The lack of response shouldn't be taken as any indication that the problem isn't dire. That would be placing a truly ridiculous amount of faith in human civilization to tackle collective-action problems, which there is little evidence we are especially good at doing.

In fact, what you see in the world is exactly consistent with an extremely dire problem and a very insufficient response.

Why the response to such a dire problem is so lukewarm is left as an exercise for the reader.
Extrapolations from data measured in the present to assume the state of the past is not empirical in the same way as actively measuring the state of the past empirically.
Every car parked on a street in Manhattan is taking advantage of free or subsidized parking.
Sorry, having a hard time making sense out of this. If you understand what this guy is talking about can you provide a coherent summary of the video please?
Similar decisions to what we made at Lucidchart 2 years ago for migrating 600 KLOC of Closure to TypeScript. [1]

(Closure is a venerable JavaScript type system by Google using JSDoc-like annotations.)

Stop the world migration, automated scripts, manual fixes, lots of ts-ignore/any. And thoroughly worth it.

[1] https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2017/11/16/converting-60...
Someone linked this on a great thread about how dns can leak info.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828769

The parent thread is really interesting too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
I wanted to add to this great recommendation.

The blue book and other excellent out-of-print books on SmallTalk can be found here:

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/
Sure, but there should be a discussion about the tech and how it may/may not turn out instead of hur-dur FB bad. This is Hacker News after all not Privacy News.
Because the root cause is not always high demand, it’s also speculation. Real Estate is now cool again (just look at investing forums or subreddits), and foreign investor money is flowing.

Look for example at Portland (OR) how the rent increase correlates with the population increase. The current urban hype alone can not explain these numbers.

Also another example since a few years a lot of high earning people in Paris are actively moving to cities with a better quality of life and climate (like Nantes, Bordeaux), in fact as high than 80% would do it if they could [1]. Yet bizarrely this has absolutely no impact on the market.

[1] https://www.lepoint.fr/dossiers/economie/bac8-saut-secteur-p...
I listened to the Dark net diaries episode mentioned in the thread and according to it, the guy basically lived down there for days at a time.
Show HN: Learn anything by creating something everyday
And more importantly for them Visa/Pay Pal/Mastercard aren't outflanked by their own competitors. There's little noble to this endeavor by these characters.
Perhaps, if they approved the immediate construction of several new nuclear power plants.
I'd believe that they might say it, and that they might even believe it, but reality has sharp edges that puncture wishful thinking.
How Air Traffic Control Works [video]
Cycloidal paths show up throughout the quantum world (hints of which I've posted about before [1]). This is the first time I've seen anyone pose a possible relationship between the cycloid, life and the helix. And in any case, sometimes there are gems buried in unknown papers. As Eric Weinstein states it, many things are "Pre-Correct, Currently Crazy" [2] -- the trick is to find them.

[1] Some interesting properties of cycloids and places they show up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18586144

[2] MIT AI Podcast: Eric Weinstein - Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19458503
I cannot understand why you would want to use Facebook's "currency". I'd just use what we currently have.
Moving away from AWS would be a symbolic gesture in this case, and may make you even less competitive.

Your business is not going to make any difference in Amazon's financial situation, but if you're saving money by using AWS's services, why would you spend even more money by porting to Azure or GCP?
Yes, and that train also causes enormous suffering to people living along the line, cause they are locked out at railway crossings for half an hour at a time sometimes, and ordinary trains had to be scrapped or slowed down. And the return ticket costs as much as one monthly salary. And if I remember correctly the train is not earning profit.

Not saying trains are a bad idea per se - I prefer trains to flying too, but in the imperfect world you can't just look at how magnificent your trip is while it may be a terror for some others.
Right - I believe the whitepaper says it'll be a mix of bank deposits in various currencies plus short-term government securities. Still my point stands: you can have lower systemic risk in a serious crisis by holding t-bills or whatever directly, rather than indirectly via FB or any other stablecoin provider. Plus you'll get the interest payments.

Storing serious amounts of money in any of these stablecoins for any real length of time is economically irrational because by exiting their walled garden, you can obtain a higher return in exchange for reduced risk. Withdrawing is even better than a risk-free reward; it's a risk-reducing reward.
Witchcraft: The magic of math, functional programming, and community
The atmosphere doesn't care about our green paper rectangles. If our rectangles don't care about the atmosphere, then that's an implementation bug.
No, when full-time employees are billed out to clients it is usually at 2-3x their effective hourly pay rate. 60% of their bill rate is more than 1.5x their typical pay rate.
This question is now burnt. Nobody should be using it. (In reality, it was burnt a long time ago, but it’s crispy and black now.)

If you do use it, you’re merely selecting for people who have read posts like this on HN and reddit. Candidates who have memorized any of this will look vastly superior to those who haven’t.

It’s telling that there are already two sibling comments who are arguing that this is a good question - explains a lot about why technical interviews suck.
Uh, ok. The Bay Area has an excessive number of riders on Caltrain already, without more building. We need the building for the planned upgrades.
Google Ads spends $225K in one day despite having a maximum $500/day budget set
Yep. And Mellanox does it too fwiw -

https://community.mellanox.com/s/article/vma-improves-redis-...
It happens. I'm reading a book on Cades Cove that mentions Gregory Bald in the Smokies being used to graze cattle.

Here's an online source:

"The Bald is named after Russell Gregory, an early homesteader in the Cades Cove area. He and other cove residents used the meadow to graze cattle during the spring and summer when cove fields were used for growing crops."

http://www.hikinginthesmokys.com/gregory.htm
The cost of doing nothing is nothing.
So instead of seizing your funds, they'll freeze your coins, then mint new ones to pay your creditor.
>It will allow for a worldwide social credit system. If Facebook decides to remove you for wrong speak or wrong think, your money and many services will be inaccessible.

How is this different than what we have today with banks and credit card companies? The government can already freeze your funds. And now there are examples of people being censored online by being dropped by PayPal, which sets a scary precedent no matter how terrible their beliefs are.

>Further, they have no mandate like the central bank does to increase employment. Their mandate is to make money for corporations. This will lead to global social unrest.

That made me chuckle. The Fed has shown no concern for those who save by keeping interest rates so dangerously low for so long. The Fed is also here to make money for huge banks and corporations by making credit so cheap. In the long run this may not be the best for employment. Even if it is, it won't be for wages and wealth disparity.

>This will put some third-world countries in complete control by Facebook. I mean, whoever runs the currency, is the country.

Not much different than the role USD and the Euro play in developing nations today.

>Finally, the regulations on crypto and blockchain are still new. This is in Facebook's advantage as they can start lobbying to have these laws in their favor. They can argue for less transparency, as they are a bank, and this fits with their new privacy marketing message.

And what laws does Facebook plan to propose that are worse than the regulation (or lack thereof) that exists for the financial industry today?

>On the other hand, under no circumstances will I accept a world where Facebook started the one world currency.

I agree. I hope it is not Facebook that wins this game. But your other comments are very reactionary.
The way I read it, this person wasn't criticizing Google Search but was rather saying that it's stupid to type in www.google.com because you can search from the url bar directly.
You're confusing two very different issues- civil and criminal liability. Corporations protect their shareholders and officers from a variety of civil liability claims, as the corporation itself takes on that responsibility. Criminal liability does not get shielded by a corporation.

Your example about a software bug is a great one- that would clearly be a civil issue in most cases, but in the case that the law was broken in the process (say, a car company explicitly programs their vehicles to have lower emissions during testing than they do in real world scenarios) then you should expect some jailtime[1].

So going back to my example- if people follow the law but kill someone during testing (such as with Uber) then they probably shouldn't be held criminally liable, but if they are breaking the law (like comma.ai did) and kill someone as a result I would be shocked if they weren't held criminally liable.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16743308/volkswagen-olive...
Given that you're comfortable with a shared PHP host, I'd assume this would comfortably run on a single Heroku dyno?

If so, a single dyno running 24/7 is $7 a month. If that's still too expensive, you could use a free dyno and setup an AWS Lambda which triggers it every ~15 minutes, which would effectively be free.

There's also a number of niche hosts, e.g. zeit[0] (FWIW, haven't used it before, not necessarily endorsing or recommending them) which offer free or cheap managed hosting.

If you're interested in a solution which is potentially a little more interesting and also effectively free for low traffic, you could run your PHP application within AWS Lambda[1].

Unfortunately I can't comment on legit shared hosts (e.g. Bluehost, Godaddy, etc.) because I generally try to avoid them.

Edit: You could also put it on AWS Lightsail, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. but from your mention of Heroku and desire for shared hosting, I'm guessing you don't want to configure a VPS.

[0]: zeit.co

[1]: https://akrabat.com/serverless-php-on-aws-lamda/
"In the kingdom of lies, the truth is treason."
Are We Slowing Down?
Those are exceptions, if it was common to get these kinds of questions I would have gotten at least one like that at one of the many interviews I've been in. Getting rid of coding interviews won't stop some interviewers from being jerks. I much prefer being rejected for bombing a coding interview, than killing it and then getting rejected because of the behavioral interview, where someone 20 years younger than me acts like they can figure me out by asking me a bunch of silly questions.
This seems like a surprisingly good idea.
Of course it's copious.

Let's say the number of spaces in an average street is X. Most cars in those spaces are just sitting there all day, so the demand for those spaces is 10x. Okay, not copious.

But the demand for moving down that street is 1000x. Now those spaces are egregious.
Just the fact those people are interested enough to read HN/Reddit for their own sake can't be a bad thing though.

I'm not an employer but I know I'd rather my workmates were the kind of people who are actually interested in computers enough to read about them for pleasure, not just those "straight by the book" types.
My first use of the TRS-80 was a model 100 that was at our McDonald's. It ran a custom program called McBin that was supposed to help manage the quantity of the different sandwiches that you put into the "bin" which was a heated compartment with eight or ten slides to hold food which was prepared in advance during busy periods.

The McBin was basically useless, but I always set it up heading into a lunch or dinner rush because it meant I got to play with the TRS-80.
You know, I would've described Heinlein or Asimov the same way - people using slide rules on spaceships and so on. However, I happened to go back and read a short story and realized that it did in fact present a very plausible space age about 20 or 30 years ahead of time, and it's kind of uncharitable to criticize it for not accurately predicting 50 or 60 years in the future.

Sometimes we look back at, say, the 40s and the 70s and kind of lump them together as being long ago, but predicting a lot of things about the late 60s or early 70s from the perspective of WWII or its aftermath was really an achievement. Of course, as always, a lot of the reason for successful predictions was that the people who constructed the future had read the predictions for inspiration.
that billion would be better spent moving their workforce to more hospitable environments.
I agree, technical interviews suck, and I’d be happy if my technical interviewer skills reached “average” ;-)

But I’m still doing them and my employer won’t let me stop - so help me refine a bit. What question(s) would you like to see interviews ask more?
All forms of energy generation are heavily subsidized, a direct subsidy is no worse than an indirect one, it's just easier to complain about.
Able Health is hiring a junior engineer (1 year experience) in SF
I love a good reductionist deep dive into things we use everyday. This is a great overview to a wide range of topics.

I wrote something similar a couple of years ago[0] which skips the keyboard and display but goes further into the world of IP packet transmission (and HTTP/2). The parent link is better written though.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/10/how_you_are_reading_this_page.ht...
Yep, this is a consistent feedback I've got for my books. I'll try to get them edited, at least the obvious mistakes like missing articles.
The motherboard.
I've also worked with SAML and OIDC as an architect, and implemented OAuth (relatively trivially) for websites, and SAML is not a solution that can be considered naively. The problem SAML solves is if you would like to stand up a federated IdP, or integrate to an existing federation that uses SAML. If you don't know what these mean, I'd argue you are blessed, and it's not a problem you have.

I will say that many enterprise/institutional applications are simple CRUD web pages with gargantuan iceberged identity management problems that developers and project managers walk right into. Identity is a basic unanswered business model question that shouldn't be left to last minute implementation decisions.

If you are building a consumer service today, I don't see why you would bother having your own password database or authentication scheme when you can just adopt any of the major platforms as an IdP using OAuth.

Storing passwords today is dumb. I'd argue if you do not want to adopt an IdP and use their OAuth or OIDC service, stand up a Vault instance and use it for TOTP secrets for users 2FA apps. They are literally better user experiences than trying to remember a never-used password.

If you need to do enterprise 2FA, Authy and Google Authenticator and now Apple's Sign-In and Relay services are great options. Keycloak is another cool package for handling OAuth and OIDC services as well.
I pay $512.84 per month for parking; it's valet parking because they stack multiple cars on elevators in the building basement.

I don't know exactly how you want to characterize the floor space of that, but my gut feel is it's basically a similar cost to rent for an apartment per unit area.
Same reason I hate the MacBook TouchBar. It distracts, requires looking at it, does not give good feedback and is context dependent (buttons move around).
Do you feel the assumption that all countries will follow the same pattern may be incorrect? Would it be possible to achieve high GDP and yet still maintain a high birth rate?
Gentoo also seems to have updated firefox-bin (and possibly www-client/firefox too?)...I ran an emerge update a few minutes ago and saw it install the firefox update
Post an add for a "development editor" who specializes in technical writing on upwork/similar. You get what you pay for.
>banning or severely limiting...

Watching this happen has been one of the most unbelievably frustrating things I’ve ever seen.

I’m in Santa Monica right now, and figures I could park my car away from the beach, in a high density “car” area, then ride a scooter from there down to Venice Beach where my friend lives to say hi to him.

It’s a minefield of seemingly random geofences which shut the scooter off and make you push it a few blocks into the allowed areas, or ordinances that allow skateboarding and bicycling, but not scooters, on what appear to be purpose built bike paths!

The dumbest part is that you can ride a bike, or a scooter, or a skateboard, but none of these things if it has the amazing technology to make it useful beyond recreation (for non-enthusiasts): a motor. Honestly it just seems like neo-puritanical hatred of the idea that the motor makes it too easy.

It makes me just want to say burn the whole then down (metaphorically) and I’ll just drive the biggest comfiest car I can find wherever I need to go.
This is great - no success since 2013.