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There are no climate stakes here.

I wish all climate alarmists used their money to bet on supposed future disasters and then invest in tech to save the world, but they'd rather tax and plunder now, either directly or by outsourcing it to the State or the UN.
> It hasn't caught on in the mainstream at all

The value of bitcoin has risen well over 100% for each year of it's existence.

I'd be shocked to find a person in the western world who hasn't heard of the name at least, while plenty of people I know haven't the slightest clue about slack, atlassian, etc.
One could argue that’s not a rust compiler because it doesn’t have rust’s most-defining feature: the borrow checker (”mrustc works by compiling assumed-valid rust code (i.e. without borrow checking)”)
Haha here you have the right title song for this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXc4ilXOLA

* sorry stupid word-play
Their two missions are Signals Intelligence and Information Assurance. The contributions they make to security technology and standards are going to be equally as effective no matter what country you’re a citizen of. If you think the work they release is motivated by an intention to compromise your
security, then you must also believe they are trying to do the same thing to the US federal government. A goal which hardly seems very nationalist.
That's awesome work. The only problem is that it does not properly handle keys which are not valid JS identifiers (like 1foo, @foo, foo-bar, etc.).
The size of a small boat. Comparable to a whale.
People are more likely to fall asleep if they think they have a safety net. Also, autopilot automatically disengages when no input is detected on the steering wheel so if you fall asleep it’s going to turn off.
Yeah - there are three exits :

- IPO : good luck

- Sale on revenue and clients : boring, competitive and comparably low return for founders. Invest 10-15 years at comparatively low compensation with high risk of total failure , and huge opportunity cost.

- Sale on IP and team : quick, high return.

Founders often build category 2 opportunites without knowing, and are removed after a short time, with no compensation and several years of their lives missing!
When I read the headline, my brain first parsed it as a scandal breaking, then I read the article and found that it was not that. I just hope the open source community will be very serious about auditing that code and not accept any blobs coming from people affiliated with the NSA.
What planet do you live on?
He probably meant that merchant would see your FB profile and all the associated data.

Meanwhile when you pay with a credit card, merchant has access to very little data.
There is none.
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This seems to be a bit of a stretch in calling it "full-text search" engine: I only casually browsed the code from my phone so I might have missed it, but I don't see any support for stemming, which is a critical piece of any FTS engine (with support for many languages, which further complicates stuff).

This seems to be a simple word indexer instead, which is quite a different proposition to FTS.
Happy to announce the launch of my first software product.

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There's definitely still a long way to go and many improvements that I still need to make, but super stoked to finally release TribePulse to the world.

Would love to hear your feedback, thoughts and questions!
Related all time classic: Roger Callois: La Pieuvre : essai sur la logique de l'imaginaire.
> I think it's a myth that a person can choose whether or not they're a hard worker. It's most likely a matter of neurochemistry far beyond conscious control.

There's debate as to if free will exists at all. If the future is exactly determined (at the beginning of the universe), then nothing we do is a choice, and no one is to blame, really.
> I am worried that they will eventually figure that out, and then get quite excited for Libra, then Libra will launch and really restrict uptake of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

As someone who holds the opinion that cryptocurrencies don't solve any real problems (and create new ones), this is the best argument I see in favor of Libra. It's 'Blockchain™️' but at least it's not actually anonymous or decentralized. For 100% of the parties I transact with, I want to know who they are so I can sue them if I need to and I want to be able to get my money back if I get ripped off.
Plenty of cobbled streets in old European cities, some of them open to vehicle traffic - here in Edinburgh, for instance.
This hangs on an assumption that people are rational, they are not.
American popular culture does not idolize the state or state related institutions; on the contrary, as a rule it idolizes the lone rebel, the plight of the outsider who makes a stand for personal liberty against some big institution (state or corporation).

That is, American pop culture does not challenge the foundation of the American society: individualism and the American dream. In that respect (in its support of the underpinnings of its home society) it is really similar to Chinese pop culture ...
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What happened was interesting and unexpected. I was building on top of an application (call it H) which had the DOM trees to manipulate, and JS to manipulate it with. I was reporting new bugs in H continuously, 1 or 2 every day.

Because of the abstractions I'd done (it wasn't only tree iterators) I could largely work around the bugs invisibly - I pushed the bug-special-case-handling code down to make it invisible when using my abstractions.

That made it all too viable to continue using an crappy, flaky product far longer than would have been possible - or sensible - without those abstractions. I'd turned the abstractions' value into a liability!

I finally told them it wasn't worth continuing with H, they junked it AFAIK and I walked away.
> ... and trivially pulled into sqlite for ad-hoc queries.

Or spreadsheets, to work out a plan, and then MySQL.
1. unrealistic to expect libra to have zero anonymity given current regulations around know your customer/anti-money laundering rules.

2. Libra is actually operated by the libra association. Facebook only has a minority voting share in that association.

3. Transaction throughput of libra is 1,000 transactions per second compared to bitcoin's 7 transactions per second. In comparison visa does about 1,400 transactions per second currently. In theory, it would be possible to increase the transactions per second of libra if it gains widespread use.
The emergency state management were the ones that knowingly skimped on water treatment chemicals that everyone knew needed to be used, not to mention there are known falsified water tests. If the water was properly treated, the pipes being old or containing lead wouldn't have been a problem and would have been used for decades more without any problems. The previous local government have little to zero liability for their state-appointed forced replacements fucking up. On top of that, both the people in the state and the local city population voted against the emergency manager takeover.

What actually happened is very simple. They changed the water source, knowing full well that it required treatment, and then the treatment was not done, while the water tests were falsified to make it look like it was treated, and pretty much immediately there was complaints. Within a few weeks the local hospital reported their stainless steel sinks corroding from the untreated water, a local automotive plant shut off their local water source and had their own well dug and water treated because it was so corrosive it was destroying parts, among the endless complaints from residents. Some people even contracted legionnaires and died because of the water. Then when the managers got called out, they started partially treating the water to prevent legionnaires, but continued to falsify water tests and not ordering or utilizing pH balancing treatment chemicals.

There was more than a few people that knew 100% what was going on, even if they didn't fully realize the consequences at the time.
Not sure if you live in a bubble or just haven't been paying attention. The internet is now filled with raging PC warriors who often eat their own. The recent Chuck Todd and Cyberpunk 2077 controversies come to mind. On the latter one we have white "journalists" telling a black man that his game is racist because it has authentic creole characters.

The far left has become the new moral majority, and they crucify anyone that strays from their talking points. In these days saying anything they dont like makes you a racist, bigot, nazi, fascist, etc. People are getting publicly shamed left and right for saying things that could not be remotely construed as supporting those ideologies.
Apple Pay enables anonymous spending iirc
LOL! Trusting NSA for UEFI code is like....
I hope cryptographers and hackers better than what NSA has go through that code with a fine toothed comb.
The article mentions that CEOs are not important to a company, if that was true why would they hire a CEO instead of 300 more full time employees. Obviously there must be some huge value to having a single person direct the company.
Capitalism is working really hard to leave all of us -- and everything else on the planet -- dead, all in the pursuit of making the richest 10% richer.
This is my take on it.

The world is a really interesting place with lots of things to do, but many of the most interesting things have a high risk of not paying out, or are just inherently unprofitable, and everyone needs something to eat and a place to sleep. The more money you have, the longer your runway, and the more risks you can take on.

Want to leave your job and go overseas for three months to a bootcamp? Start a company? Start a charity? Get a PhD.? Organise a music festival? Catalog the butterflies in your area? These things are all pretty risky compared to staying at your job - if you were going to do them, you'd want to have a savings account to dip into.
Yes it is true. From what I understand if there is an excessive amount of selling then they simply fund the withdraws by taking funds out of the reserves and simply "deleting" the libra tokens. Same story if there is lots of people buying. They simply put more into reserves to create new tokens. In theory they could actually put surplus reserves (over 100%) into the backing due to interest accumulation.
Suica is produced by JR East. In Osaka, what about the equivalent card produced by JR West?
3.6 roentgen. Not great, not terrible.
> no ill intent exists for now. Later however, the knowledge they gain

The thing is, if there's no ill intent now, there shouldn't be any backdoor to allow them to have any sort of special knowledge later. Unless you mean familiarity with the codebase in general. If they however do insert a backdoor, even without using it for anything now, "just in case", than that in itself is ill intent.
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Well, the question could be asked - "does anyone deserve a million dollars?"
Even if we agree that no one should have a billion dollars, where would we draw a line here? half a billion? 100 million? 1 million? 100 thousand?

I feel such arguments are so superficial. Billionaires are economical human anomalies. While they are easier to point and say that they are the cause of human greed and they need to do more for the society - IMO, the better question to ask is

1. how can we uplift the bottom echelon of the society and fix the systemic issues that put them in the poverty cycle.

2. Would we shit on billionaires and millionaires less if overall poverty in the world declines?

3. How can government programs become more efficient?

I just feel asking questions like 'should billionaires exist' do not push forward the discussion about bringing in systemic changes. Targetting them only gives a superfical understanding of what's wrong and gives an easy way out of the discussion.
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So for (1), not appealing for anyone currently interested in the one killer app for cryptocurrencies.

For (2), I look at it this way: A swimming pool can be 99% pure water, but if it's 1% poop I don't want to dip my feet in it.

As for (3), Visa can do something like 250k transactions per second. The blockchain aspect of this system unnecessarily hobbles it, and it seems like really the blockchain aspect just tacks on a techy buzzword that offers no compelling features that a purely centralized database can't do better.
Libra is going to be a KYC/Anti AML coin. Not really sure how they're going to 100% enforce it though.
I wonder how can one compare mental workload a chess grandmaster experiences to the one of F1 driver.
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That's our perception as Americans. I wonder if the Chinese consider the occasional bad apples weaved into an otherwise savior narrative of the emphatically American superheros any differently than the economist views their heros.

After all, he's Captain America perennially wrapped in red, white and blue. How'd you interpret a captain China wrapped in the communist party red, replete with the sickle, backed by the might of the People's army, saving the world from tyranny?
Just a nit-picky comment... your 'can-go-left?' and 'move-left', etc. functions would probably be more idiomatic by either passing the direction as an argument, (and maybe using multi-methods, though it might be overkill for this).
Well exactly because of that. If your house has plenty of air circulation (that's what "people's houses weren't far off from the outside environment" means) then things might get damp, but they will also dry out naturally too. Now you get a huge plastic bag and wrap it around a building. It will keep out rain yes, but also trap in moisture internally and the damp parts will get mouldy. Obviously nobody will do something as silly as that, but with modern materials it become much easier to accidentaly approximate the plastic-bag-wrap experience.
It is an overall net positive. Just imagine if you live in a country with unstable currency/government. Libra might allow you to protect yourself and allow you to continue surviving (by being able to trade or buy stuff from abroad). Think Venezuela. Only problem is if you don't have a cell phone, internet or electricity.
Who controls what is PC? Now and 10, 20 years from now?
> I'm really curious how she is able to find all of these interesting people who are doing such cool things.

Her popularity in the area probably means that people inform her of relevant things. I believe that's true for a lot of youtubers.
IT infrastructure manager to Data scientist?
T Infra manager to a Data scientist in late thirties, any one tried?
See “No True Scotsman”....

What next they aren’t a “true engineer” unless they can reverse a b-tree on the whiteboard?
> We're providing an incentive to be irresponsible if we reward Flint.

Right, contaminating drinking water with lead and letting them go years without help is "providing an incentive to be irresponsible". Give me a break. Arguments like this help nobody and only "incentivize" people to avoid helping those in need for fear of being "unfair" to someone else.

Giving aid to Flint does not harm the neighboring cities in the slightest.
IMO, I think the only reason corporations have signed up is because they don't want to be left out if Libra goes big.
Code can be verified and audited though.
I applaud this and I think the coreboot team is good enough to be critical and diligent about patches they will receive.
Those complexes are retirement homes. It's a very cool concept - they build a horseshoe-shaped apartment building and then glass over the central courtyard to create a huge indoor park for the residents. The apartments all face the indoor area, of course, which maintains a temperate/mid-terranean climate all year round. To the people living there it's like being on a permanent vacation in Spain. https://bovieran.se
Article sounds self-contradictory.

"...could threaten the ability of emerging market governments to control their monetary supply, the local means of exchange, and, in some cases, their ability to impose capital controls."

Read 'emerging' as 'failed centrally planned economy'. The self-described anti-monopolist is defending an failed state monopoly.

"After many mistakes, we have learnt that we want a central bank to act to increase or decrease the monetary supply in moments of contraction or expansion."

Yet he is railing against monopolies fueled by artificially cheap credit and stock buy backs.
Their MO seems to be to improve the overall IT security of the nation such that it's less vulnerable to less sophisticated actors but still vulnerable to them.

This is likely tacit recognition that UEFI is such a dumpster fire that it's not only vulnerable to them.
More importantly, I suppose, did the company?
Yes but when the competition is completely demolished by Jio they can setup the prices as they please. That's the problem. I don't see the govt doing anything to prevent complete monopoly. It benefits you immediately but not in the future.
Why would it definitely not get published? I found their request totally reasonable. They have followed the scientific process well. Even the journal's editorial team acknowledged that. Then they have an obligation to at least facilitate peer-review. Especially since it will further the science on a subject they have already published.

It is important that we call on such publications and demand an explanation. If you or your organization is a paying subscriber, then demand to know their policy on this matter and let them know what you think. Otherwise they have no accountability.
I won’t be an NSA apologist because in the last 20 years they have in fact made everyone less safe with their undermining of open standards.

But for the purpose of accuracy it should be pointed out that one of the two missions of the NSA is to safeguard American commerce, which they did for many decades prior (see: DES, selinux, etc.).
Your brain was correct...something like 5 years before correct. I bet in 5 years this will be a scandal breaking because whatever NSA code gets adopted, it will be unveiled later as a backdoor.
I've always wondered if it would be possible to create a true decentralized stable coin. Put some sort of mechanics in the code to do proof of stake rewards if the price starts skyrocketing (increase supply) and then maybe increase transaction fees slightly if price is plummeting (decrease demand). The staking nodes would need to have something to check price on non-manipulated exchange though which could be tricky but I find it an interesting idea to think about.
>For (2), I look at it this way: A swimming pool can be 99% pure water, but if it's 1% poop I don't want to dip my feet in it.

Not sure how much you swim but

7.14*10^-6% of every swimming pool is per, atleast.
"In Stockholm, Sweden, where winter lasts 9 months out of the year",

according to what crazy-ass definition?

3.5 months is a common length of winter for Stockholm, according to the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
I'm guessing a proof that a free will does not exist could lead to a collapse of civilization, as many people would just not feel accountable and responsible for their lives any more.
If Elon musk wasn't allowed to be a billionaire would we have Tesla? SpaceX? Would Amazon exist?

Companies like Amazon are efficient leaders in their segment. Was it just the first movers advantage? Or could a random parade of CEOs have achieved the same thing?

I think a more useful question is, should we allow billionaire's that don't produce anything. Seems like inheritances, manipulating the stock market, and related aren't actually benefiting the world compared to Amazon or Tesla.
Aren't they obligated to investigate? If the methodology applied is sound and conclusions are different, isn't that scientific progress in and of itself? The ask here is to send it for peer-review so that they get some different points of view which may guide their own further study. They are ok with rejection but not without peer-review.
Ah no. Chinese economy is much bigger than something a few families can own.
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I wouldn't trust NSA with a "hello world" program. The way they might phrase it could trigger hidden feature in linker which in turn could trigger hidden instructions in CPU making the 3 lines program a backdoor into your system.
Ain't gonna touch on your 1st and last points because I don't know enough about that.

Regarding your second point, of course they're gonna abstract it. There's no way in hell people would trust it if it were labeled as Facebook Libra. The only way for it to get any momentum is by people being tricked into thinking it's some sort of an independent entity that happens to be supported by Facebook and others.

I don't buy it, and neither should anyone else. Even if they make just 5% of the profit that Libra generates... somehow, that's still 5% more than Facebook would receive otherwise. It ain't even released yet, and I already know that I'll go out of my way to avoid ever touching it. I assume most of HN readers will do the same.
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>This is silly when I don't care about speed. If I cared that much about getting items ASAP, I'd find it locally

You assume that truck comes only with your product? It might be 100% stocked with goods.

And if you are talking about delivery guy coming to your place with a box, then if you wanted to buy it from store, you might also have spent as much as fuel to reach the store as that guy did from local fulfillment shop to your place. But how many times the guy comes with a single box? Routes/timings are optimized for max speed/utilisation and lower cost.

Fuel costs environment and company bears the cost of the fuel, to maximize profits, they might as well optimize their costs and as a side effect better environment.

I'd say we all should shop for everything online and it will give company best chance to optimize well.

Also, faster speed doesn't necessarily mean more cost.
For context: Cliff, who designs and sells these bottles, is also the guy who busted KGB hacker Markus Hess in the 80s.

EDIT: I just found out that he also offer the Imperfecto Rulers from Theophilus Measure Co[1]. The accompanying video [2] made my day.

[1] https://www.kleinbottle.com/imperfecto

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUZTTLpDtk&
Great article, surprised this is the first time I’m hearing about this.
Probably just because it's there--you can start writing JavaScript without installing anything, same as you used to be able to do with BASIC on 8-bit micros. Then when you consider how much Visual Basic or VBA code there must be in the world and why that is you can start to see how the JavaScript ecosystem is how it is.