skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>some of the targeted users say they’re looking forward to Twitter banning them in India, as it’s done with previous 69A demands. All of them described being bombarded with hateful tweets after being misidentified as Pakistani disinfo operators.

Kinda scary how even when the account doesn't seem to have anything to do with the topics supposedly in question and it is there for all to see ... you can still get death threats.
Do you have a specific technology in mind? What do you mean by that impacting things on the individual level?
That's actually very difficult to do with a tax on the unimproved value of land. The LVT has very interesting properties. In theory, it should drive the cost of land down to zero, eliminate speculation in land, and encourage denser development.
He must be thinking of Hong Kong: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hong-kong-parking-spa...
Sorry for the off topic.

Any good recommendations for a Clojure book for a seasoned programmer but with little exposure to Lisps?
> So they hired a 3rd party consultant to write down their values and they had these posted all over the walls.

That sounds like a pretty big statement of the company's values, regardless of what they actually said.
Only part of the 7 extension was completed. They didn’t complete one of the stations because of cost.

You’re doing that thing where you think we can only do one or the other.

It takes a long time to fix existing subways. You can’t simply close them down. Look at the L train.

There’s no reason we can’t also expand the subway. Depending on where you build, it could go a lot faster.
wtf is sketch.sh and why is it so awesome?

really though, this is a comfortable experience and the seamless live-coding environment feels natural. nice work!
Seems long enough that a future AI could connect writing style to other people writing about privacy during this time using an offline copy of the internet.
But your username is “go away please”?
Yeah, this is true in my case as well.

Years ago I built a layer on top of Redis that could also run in the browser, so I could cache data there. Even pull from other browsers with WebRTC, and fallback to server only when needed.

Over time, I eventually made the Redis component a module, so it could be swapped out with other systems. It has always proved to be the fastest, except for an LMDB adapter someone in the community wrote ( https://github.com/notabugio/gun-lmdb ).
The JVM is a kitchen sink environment. The BEAM is very opinionated. I would expect the VM built from the ground up to support a specific programming model to be superior at doing just that.
This is super interesting, brings back memories. We take for granted how easy anonymity is in age when anyone can spoof their MAC address at a public wifi point and be fairly anonymous.

Question: Is there a technical reason the author does not suggest simply using torsocks? (eg: torsocks ssh sdf.org). I thought maybe it didn't exist in 2013 but the github has some files that date back that far.
It seems to me it's to let prospective authors know what they'd be getting into. To provide them with realistic expectations.

The post says "To help you quell the desire to write a book of your own, here are the steps."
How does it compare to Redis threaded I/O? (https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1110973404226772995?lang=...)

Using 4 threads it is simple to get 2x the performances of single-threaded Redis (even if yet the reading part is not threaded).
Really interested in cases where people have taken xDS to user-scale. Presumably you would want to implement the Delta Discovery Service to minimize the bandwidth used by xDS updates, however, then you're maintaining state on the xDS server which adds server overhead.

We're adopting xDS as an abstraction for our service discovery. Implementing it has been relatively straightforward even with the relatively minimal documentation outside of the hints provided by the Envoy specific configuration elements.
Facebook has already wreaked havoc with it's power, it has shown how deceptive it is, it has resisted regulation, it's chief executives have refused to testify to governments.

Now them having a cryptocurrency is alarming. Why does it really need to do this? There is nothing anonymous about facebook. Whatever transaction is done, will be linked to your account.

This is dangerous.

Whether they start or not is irrelevant, as informed users, we must spread word in our circle to avoid such cryptocurrency like the plague.

It will no longer be sufficient to try to prevent FB from going ahead with this plan, because they will, if not now, after a few months or years from now. The only thing that will prevent this from wreaking havoc in the world is to spread awareness of how bad this is and how much more power it will give to FB.
The HN title has a typo. It should read: "fixed in FF 67.0.3" (the latest version), not "63.0.7".
Every E3 presentation should be able to use as much on stage acting and audio as needed but limited to a single still frame of 80s style NES box art of the game.
I have read one. Many years ago, don't remember much about it. But I'm pretty sure it also discussed how all of the "future folk" were disgusted with the smell of the ones that had been traveling in cryo for 200 years. Too much perfume/deodorant...they didn't like the flower smells anymore as I believe they had engineered themselves to not perspire any more.
If you want a Lisp (although there are multiple Lisps for the BEAM). If you want to help build a new language. If you don’t like Elixir’s syntax (raises hand).
> ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc -X 4 -x localhost:9050 %h %p" sdf.org

This will send a DNS A record request for sdf.org and on some platforms, a request for SSHFP records, too. Unless the system is configured to route all DNS traffic over Tor, it may be possible to correlate those requests' originating IP with the published update timestamps.
Will they block an account for spam? Government requests? High usage rates? Etc
In a few years, you may look back and wonder, incredulously, that you ever felt a filesystem might not be a kind of database. Look into filesystems long enough, and you may start to view an RDBMS as a specialized kind of filesystem.
Maybe not :-)

https://github.com/psal/anonymouth
You can replace the entire thing with a compatible and programmable module, if people care enough to develop one. There are now cars from the 80s that are modern enough to have computers, but old enough that the ECUs are starting to deteriorate, and still appreciated enough that people repair or replace them.

Example: (not an endorsement and I have no experience with this product)

http://roguetuning.com/rogue_tuning_ecu
```When an option is chosen from two mutually exclusive alternatives, the opportunity cost is the "cost" incurred by not enjoying the benefit associated with the alternative choice.```

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
Stress, frustration and mental health are costs I have only ever experienced in a car.

Riding my bike to work was one of the best things I ever did for my mental and physical health.
Perhaps you should submit a PR on the repo?
I remember Disney Dollars as a kid that were pegged to US 1:1 and could be used at any Disney-owned property. They were basically gift cards with no expiration date. They ended up not being cost efficient, so Disney discontinued them in 2016.

So, if the Libra ends up costing more to run than in earns (hardware, software, labor, and the cost of pegging it to a basket of currencies), then they won’t continue funding it. Since it’s not going to be a speculative currency like bitcoin, how will they pay or it? Will they take a transaction fee?

I also keep on reading that it will help the unbanked in the developing world facilitate payments. I guess it can be risky and hard to carry a lot of cash around for large purchases in parts of the world. But for this to work do you need better identity management? Or if you hold the cell phone, you hold the wallet? If it’s target is micro payments, then there are already many expanding options.

So that leave cross-border transfers, which is a huge thread to the US’s economic dominance. It is much harder to embark Iran if you don’t control the currency they sell their own for.
I can think of a few reasons: same language between front and backend, extensive standard library, repl driven development, simplicity, brevity, spec.
But... people with professional training around managing exactly that kind of liability, at least in theory.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." - The oft-ignored HN comment guidelines
Seems unlikely they would use this and not mention it. Besides, it reads naturally.

I've read spun spam emails, you can easily tell something's off.
Dr. Pielke’s credentials are a BS in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Political Science. Regardless of what you think of his points, he presents himself very much as a climate scientist in these slides, yet I don’t think that he really is one. There may be more to this than just some ties to Wikileaks, does any one else that studies the climate take him seriously?
The abstract from RFC 7873:

——
DNS Cookies are a lightweight DNS transaction security mechanism that provides limited protection to DNS servers and clients against a variety of increasingly common denial-of-service and amplification/forgery or cache poisoning attacks by off-path attackers. DNS Cookies are tolerant of NAT, NAT-PT (Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation), and anycast and can be incrementally deployed. (Since DNS Cookies are only returned to the IP address from which they were originally received, they cannot be used to generally track Internet users.)
——

At the end of the day, the data can really be any 8 byte set of data for the client part and up to 32 bytes for the server section. Which you could technically use to store anything you want (or the upstream resolver could).

The linked article talks about using it for tracking users, which the abstract ironically says isn’t generally possible.
Rent control is almost always a disaster. It benefits current residents at the detriment to everyone else. Look no farther than SF or NYC. I have a friend in NYC paying 2000 a month to be a roommate to a guy paying 1500 for the whole place. Yeah he's paying more than this guy's whole rent, because the apartment is rent controlled.
It goes even further:

Many kitchens, it turns out, don’t need their own Dishcraft robot. What they do need is clean dishes, so Dishcraft offers “dishes as a service,” exchanging clean dishes for dirty ones and then washing them in a centralized location.
This really doesn't fit the definition of anecdote. It is a counter example. You can see other comments for direct reasoning why the data in the article is wrong. There's things like the statement about unemployment not considering that unemployment doesn't count those who left the workforce, which is also at highs. Or to things like that you can't compare elementary and high schools to college.

I know your comment sounds witty, but it is lacking real value and really adds to the problem at hand. Surprisingly things are extremely nuanced and we try to just point to "simple solutions" we generally make the problem worse. Frankly because we are not considering the system and distracting ourselves from solving the problem (calling it done when we've only just started).
Candles generate soot, which is not good for your health. The soot will also stain walls and ceilings, similar to cigarette smoke. Natural waxes like beeswax candles have a cleaner burn, but they're very expensive.

If you're going to go non-electrical, I think an oil lamp (e.g. paraffin) is your best bet. Very cheap, safer than candles in the right lantern, and clean-burning (assuming a quality oil that doesn't have a lot of sulfur and other pollutants).
Joy of Clojure is my favorite whirl wind tour of the language. I generally suggest also pairing it with Clojure Applied, which deals with the larger "assembling the pieces into a whole" side of things.
That is a very wrong way of looking at it.

It is the same as people deciding not to vote and then realizing that the wrong candidate had won with devastating consequences.
Does ublock origin work with native phone apps?
Ask HN: Is Lokinet Good?
https://loki.network/

I saw this when I was researching i2p and tor, it looks like it's specially designed for hosting decentralized web apps (like Tor hidden services, https://lokidocs.com/Lokinet/SNApps/ )

Does anyone here use this?
We sold Bitcoins at our condo and people queued up an hour for it
Yeah, the key phrase here is “during rush hour”. For CalTrain, it’s hard to justify buying more rolling stock and employing more staff if that additional capacity is going to sit mostly unused for 90% of the day. It’s analogous to paying for extra racks of servers to handle peak QPS that you only really need to handle on weekday mornings. This blog post has a more analytical take on what makes peak service so expensive: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/01/22/base-train-ser...

If the areas around the stations were denser and had a more diverse mix of destinations (offices, retail, schools, etc.) then there would be be enough all day demand to justify running trains all day on a frequent schedule, potentially even on 5-10 minute frequencies like the RER and S Bahn systems, which would also alleviate congestion at the peak.
I'd argue that in that case you store two values:

1. The time the photo was taken in UTC (as usual).
2. The UTC offset for the photo location.
Interesting.

Request access page needs UX work.

It leaves the prompt text in the field when you click on it. No indication of issue / feedback at all when you click submit.
Sorry I didn't realize telling people not to hate others was against the rules. I do wonder why saying not to hate gets that but a comment about sending people to GULAGs doesn't.
Well you are running an unsupported version, so Mozilla doesn't have to concern themselves with backports.

If you still want to use your extensions AND receive browser updates, you should move to a different browser (maybe waterfox?)
Probably requires a surprising amount of short range transmitters to be launched then. I wonder if a formula could be developed that relates the energy needed to place one large transceiver at a given distance versus the energy needed to place small transceivers all along that given distance.
What about possible unknown unknown confounding factors?
I bought Clojure in Action and The Joy of Clojure , both from Manning. I found Clojure in Action to be better suited to me as I too had little exposure to Lisps. Everybody raves about Joy of Clojure but it did not work for me. But now my favourite book is Clojure for the Brave and True -- it is awesome and fun.
I wonder how many developers decide what goes on stage...or what they would show if it was their call?

The indie games I follow are very cautious about what early stage stuff they show. I suspect that is pretty close to what developers would decide.
Take as an axiom that you cannot meaningfully reduce the demand for prostitution.

Given that axiom, I find it very hard to believe that legal sex work which is closely monitored for any signs of human trafficking would have the same amount of that associated with it as illegal prostitution which is impossible to monitor meaningfully. I suspect the amount of sex trafficking associated with illegal prostitution is grossly underestimated.
I couldn't understand what he meant at all, that's why I asked.
I've tried publishing a novel in India (English) and it is much more painful than the 80k limit.

A top editor told me, more like lamented, that they focus on historical fiction or romance because "that's what sells"

I wrote a decent thriller which my friends read in one day because they loved it. Granted, they are my friends so they could by lying, but the publishers just read the synopsis and saw that it isn't historical or romance and ignored. That's what Indian publishers do, they ignore!

And there was this one agent who asked me money so he could "represent me". He then wanted me to sign a contract, which meant that if I didn't publish book to publisher he would get then I'd have to pay him 10k or something. And his mother has a publishing house. I read online that he gets books published from his mom's house.

Which agent asks for money?!

I have 4 unpublished novels, one is about a guy who wakes up at a bus stop with 0 memories and tries to figure out his past, one long fiction about science fiction that spans 1000s of years and one is a satire on the new form of Authoritarian regimes. This satire is a 2 book series.
Thanks!

I thought maybe "HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to." meant our nyms should point to a real person, and that the account mentioned in the article was terminated for being registered via Tor.

I try to find the middle ground with this account.

You can probably find out who I am, but I hope people will respect it's important to have nyms where we can have informal convos. (Also luckily most snoopers are lazy so simply not tying my legal name to this is sufficient considering I'm not expressing anything particularly controversial...)

Kind of like how half of Gotham seems to know who Batman is, but they pretend not to ;)
One of the comments Raymond made I felt was kind of missing the point ““to cut substantial overhead in the browser": I already commented that performance of well-crafted content blocker is not an issue.”

Assuming that third party code is well crafted is not how you build a secure API.

I think many of the comments about how it doesn’t protect users because extensions can still see the request but just can’t act on it also misses a point. If the interfaces are split you can enable the block lists without enabling the extension seeing your content.
Bribes common when vendors sell imaging equipment to Chinese hospitals
High prices are exactly how the free market attracts additional resources to solve capacity problems.

Legislative efforts to limit prices pretty much guarantees that additional capacity will not be forthcoming and that shortages and high prices will continue.
If it works in any way like a permissionless distributed database, you will find it running into energy problems very quickly with every node addition. this is a known issue since the 70s when we first tried this kind of technology.
FWIW OCaml (the linked example is using reason, a different syntax for OCaml) doesn't need a syntax extension for GADTs.

On a similar note i find the OCaml syntax easier to read than Reason's. (There is an option to toggle between the two in the linked website)

The example from your post in OCaml:

type 'a restricted_maybe =
| JustInt : int -> int restricted_maybe
| JustString : string -> string restricted_maybe
| Nothing : 'a restricted_maybe
>Will Libra deposits be covered under FDIC?

That's not Libra's use case. It is pegged to other assets; it is meant to be transactional, not held as a store of value.

>Will it be subject to closures when there is a panic?

Why do you consider that a good thing? Would you really rather have your money held by some bank in Argentina then?

Besides, the idea of cryptocurrency is that the money supply is not governed by policymakers, which will help to avoid the conditions leading to those kind of panics. In the case of Libra, it's pegged and its monetary policy is more decentralized than that of a central bank.

>What rights do depositors have in the event of wrongful transactions?

What rights do you think that you have today? You're being subject to wrongful transactions all of the time in the form of outrageous banking fees. Make no mistake, the cost of "wrongful transactions" is being foisted upon you, plus much more in the bank's own interest of making money.
You have to ask what’s special about geographical clustering. Homeowners have all the power because they are arranged in big, continuous, municipal-government-sized blobs. Renters have none because they are dispersed across little pockets of each jurisdiction. If all the renters moved to one suburb they could easily get zoning power there, but they can’t, because that suburb would never allow 51% rental housing. The next best thing is to push zoning power up to a more aggregated level, where the scattered renters can form a more significant bloc.

Geometry is an arbitrary basis for power, not a principled one. There’s no deep reason why the block is too small to decide and the state is too big to decide and the City of Sunnyvale is just right.
It's still a permissionless distributed database and will suffer those same issues regardless. This is known since the 70s, when we first developed and tested this type of technology. To boot, the majority of power isn't in the mining of POW, but the supporting hardware to maintain the network.
Sorry about that; I need to recalibrate my assumptions. Not everyone reads TFA before commenting. I'm normally not a throw-the-book-at-them kind of person, but I don't think any employer who locks his employee(s) into an uninspected burning deathtrap should get off without prison, regardless of his mental state at the time. There is too much history behind this. I'm also not convinced that this dude actually has any mental problems beyond "asshole with too much money". I already have half of that mental problem...
Just curious--what don't you like about Elixir's syntax?
Its volatile because it is relatively new and not backed by a government. Market forces are having their way.It will stabilize
Why Libra will (probably) win in India
Really? Does the Federal Reserve control the flow of information in those countries?

GP's point is, if Libra achieves its vision of a global currency yet remains under Facebook's ultimate control, then a single entity centralizes not only [all the combined power wielded jointly today by the Fed / ECB / IMF / World Bank over a country], but also [its gateway to news and social life, with the power and evidently the willingness to bend all elections to its will].
So the gaming community reiterated loudly and clearly that it doesn't like being lied to with "gameplay" demos crafted specifically for E3 that share no code with the actual game being developed (looking at you, Halo 2), and the dev's takeaway was "Don't show them any gameplay."

I would hope we could collectively rally against this sort of behavior by refusing to buy such games that refuse to preview any actual gameplay. But I doubt that will work, given that Dead Island sold five million copies[0], based off what I can only assume was due to enamor with the trailer.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Island#Sales
Accesses to special programs.
Gabe Newell talked about this kind of stuff years ago. People are tired of big publishers promising the world pre-release, then putting out an unfinished product that is nowhere near the quality of what was advertised. Here's a snippet of an interview he did a while back:

You have to stop thinking that you're in charge and start thinking that you're having a dance. We used to think we're smart [...] but nobody is smarter than the internet. [...] One of the things we learned pretty early on is 'Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you. They will de-construct your spin. They will remember everything you ever say for eternity.'

You can see really old school companies really struggle with that. They think they can still be in control of the message. [...] So yeah, the internet (in aggregate) is scary smart. The sooner people accept that and start to trust that that's the case, the better they're gonna be in interacting with them.
U.S. Administration Is Split over Arms Sale to Taiwan
>Since it’s not going to be a speculative currency like bitcoin, how will they pay or it?

https://youtu.be/HnXKE0nfAjI?t=41

But seriously, an even more direct connection between ads and what you buy.