skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider that, on mobile, you're required to use the Android SDK or iOS SDK (or something that effectively "compiles" down to it). You can't use a sidecar app like Envoy Proxy.

On servers and desktops, applications can be built with any language and any framework. To support all of that with a library would be an expensive task that would effectively never be finished. Sure, you could pick the N most-popular languages/frameworks to support, but even that list will be moving target over time. A sidecar proxy there makes a lot more sense, and can work with any language or framework, at the expense of a bit of tighter integration.
Of course it is. We don't ask for names. We don't even have a way for users to give us their name, unless they choose to publish it via their username or the About field of their profile.
being free of Government manipulation while desirable also has drawbacks as a corporate owned currency means it would be subject to corporate manipulation. Think Kong Bucks. Basically, corporate currencies mean not only do you shop at the company store, but you use their money too. I think the original premise of a government less people's coin via bitcoin is a better idea as it means the population takes responsibility for their currency.
Apparently, there are a lot of alive TRS-80 calculators around, but many of them have a defective LCD (due to moisture getting inside). Someone took the challenge and recently (February-May 2019) produced a batch of custom LCDs to fix all TRS-80 calculators in the world.

Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-HfGTCcCk

Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Vagc0FJK8

Part 3 (final):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbvC79ff3M
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> Building enough housing to roll back prices to the "good old days" is probably not realistic, because the necessary construction rates were never achieved even when planning and zoning were considerably less restrictive than they are now. Building enough to compensate for the growing economy is a somewhat more realistic goal and would keep things from getting worse.

https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme...

However, if the political consensus could be developed there are possibilities, e.g. "Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days"

22 units, four stories, four days.

> This new 22-unit project from local developer Patrick Kennedy (Panoramic Interests) is the first in the nation to be constructed of prefabricated all-steel modular units made in China.

> Kennedy notes that the cost of trucking to Berkeley from the port of Oakland was more expensive than the cost of shipping from Hong Kong.

> But the savings haven’t been as great as expected, he said. “Sixty-five to seventy-five-percent of the construction costs are still incurred on the site. In addition to the usual trades, we have crane operators, flagmen, truckers and special inspectors.”

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/08/02/prefab-housing-compl...

(Reminds me of Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House. Factory built prefab homes that were to be delivered by helicopter, installed onto masts built onsite and containing the power/comms/water/sewage hookups.)
Do we know that? I, at any rate, have no way of knowing that.
While the grandparent post may have misstated the threat, there is a real danger here.

It is not just a new style of credit card. And while it will act like a bank, it appears it will dodge regulation and consumer protection (limited as it is) under the word "cryptocurrency" or some other neologism poorly understood by the public and legislators.

Will Libra deposits be covered under FDIC? Will it be subject to closures when there is a panic? What rights do depositors have in the event of wrongful transactions?

So it's great if it allows people under repressive or kleptocratic governments more security and freedom. It's fine if it's just a toy to send money to friends. But it's another thing if it's just a bank with an unstated "depositor beware" philosophy. It'd also be a lot less worrisome if the company implementing it had a bit better reputation.
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I didn't even look at what race the victim was, you are commenting in bad faith. I don't think the guy should get any time at all for doing this, probation would be more than adequate.
Definitely a decade; I’m not sure about two.

In any case it took a big down turn so the industry agrees/agreed with you contrary to the downvotes. Big publishers went off and did their own events at the same time at a different location.

I think E3 is still important, though, because it pulls the industry together. Now whether or not something like GDC could replace it is another thing but I don’t think E3 is any more rote than CES.
On my iphone, I can’t jump to the links, and if I try to select a URL, it switches to edit mode and I can’t even switch tabs because the keyboard is constantly taking over.

I was interested by the title but will skip the article because of poor UI
Ok, we'll change to that from https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/987052536883376128.html.
That’s very cool. I’ve added Clojerl to my list of alternative languages on the BEAM: https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828#alternative-languag...

Given the extent to which the Erlang VM is optimized for immutable data, network transparency, and message passing, I can see why Clojure on the JVM and CLR would not have had the same success with the actor model as Erlang has.
A lot of people in this thread have argued that named parameters mean you can add bool params to functions.

e.g. getUserMessage(userId, fullMessage=true)

While that can help, I'd still argue against it unless your language has some mechanism to force use of name. Because if you can omit the name (i.e. getUserMessage(userId, true)) then someone will omit the name.
or a lead liner? I know lead and aircraft don't mix, but a thin lead shield over just the computing boards shouldn't add too much weight, should it?
Thank you for keeping it this way.
Gets only 1/2 meta points. Zachtronics normally play what they teach, it should have been a game about making Zachtronics games.

I guess that was left as an exercise for the reader.
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> it would be unfair for MV to carry the weight

The fact that it's perceived as a sacrifice to build housing is one of the core problems.

And one of the main reasons for this perception is that, for the city, it is true. Due to Prop 13, CITIES LOSE MONEY BY HAVING RESIDENTS. As long as that is true, don't expect much to change around housing in California.
I live in such a building in San Francisco. At most I can faintly perceive a baseline. I think the difference is mid-rise vs. high-rise, probably having to do with the use of wood vs. steel and concrete.

I also run a box fan almost all the time, so quieter sounds from neighbors are below the noise floor and not perceptible.
Life is essentially a big collection of systems or games, and choosing to play the wrong ones is worse than playing the right ones badly. You can learn tricks to get promoted at some place that has a shitty culture, shitty bosses, etc., but at the end of they day all you'll have done is won the wrong game.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219403 and marked it off-topic.
Thanks.

My case is kinda weird one. I left my job after just 6 years in corporate world, due to various reasons. To cut a long story short, I went through depression, trying various things which didn't work out, etc. I conduct basic cli/scripting workshops at college, so I tried improving my materials - got active on stackoverflow, reddit, etc and started maintaining repos on github [1] It grew and finally last year I got the courage to try and self publish my tutorials collected for 2+ years in the form of books.

'deep dive' is a nice way to sum it up, it is amazing that there's so much to write about a tool. I knew probably about 5-10 grep options when I was at my job, and didn't know regular expressions that well. So, being able to write a book with confidence is such a satisfying experience. I still have plenty to improve (as can be observed from feedback in this thread) and I look forward to writing many more books.

One simple advice I can give you is start maintaining notes for the tool you are interested in. May be blog post or a repo, that way you can share with others and get feedback. Keep adding one command at a time and in a few months you'll have plenty to write about. Good luck!

[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample
I notice a user was offering to contribute one bitcoin to the reward there, upping its value in present-day terms by $9000. At the time, it would have been worth around $135.
There's a reason that basically every auto review comparing a Tesla to something is comparing it to a German "driving machine" in the same price bracket. They're not idiots, they do market research, they know what models people are comparing to each other.

Is HN really to immature to handle the fact that the Tesla demographic is substantially more upscale than the entire new car buying demographic (which itself is leaps and bounds ahead of the overall car-buying public)?

Edit: Don't answer that question.
Also Standard Chartered and Bank of China
Skyscraper town is immensely popular. There should be more of it.
It's possible to have a life outside of work, and find connection with people who are not your coworkers. This is not the purpose of employment.
It would be delightful to hide a Raspberry Pi inside the case of the TRS-80, wired to the serial interface, so you'd have an apparently unmodified model 100 until you fired up the terminal program and connected to a full-blown linux commandline.
Nothing has one simple cause, but many have a single dominant cause. It is probably the case here.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/18/fresh-off-a-2-65b-valuatio.... Thanks!
>beta testing autonomous cars on public roads

Auto-steer is just one step above radar cruise control, which is also semi-autonomous and hugely buggy. Shipping cars come with radar cruise which suddenly turns off below 25 mph, presumably because radar processing is imprecise with position. No one is crusading to ban it.

Furthermore, using a massive training set comparing against human interventions is precisely how you get up the safety curve given the current tech approach, which will never suffice for full autonomy sans humans.
I get nothing useful onscreen at all
> When people are asked why they remain on the fringe of the existing financial system, those who remain “unbanked” point to not having sufficient funds, high and unpredictable fees, banks being too far away, and lacking the necessary documentation.

Unfortunately the reality of being "unbanked" is that government regulations will still put up a barrier. KYC laws require "necessary documentation" which these big providers won't be able to get past. Local options may still be better in these cases.

For example, people who were born stateless may not be able to easily acquire KYC documentation. They may not have documentation of being born. Being locked out of ID options puts a limitation on getting past KYC.

In the Philippines, there are mobile options where you can deal with small amounts of money without having to verify your identity. These options are run by the major telco's here.
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YouTube unveils AR Beauty Try-On, which lets viewers virtually try on makeup
They mention the design being open source, but it's being surprisingly hard to find anything other than just the claim that it is open source. :(
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Much of the Bay Area (and Northern California) was exceedingly heavily lumbered. I don't know for certain that the East Bay hills were heavily timbered though I suspect they were.

There's at least one history of the EBH which might answer your question:

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467137256
The poor, even in developed countries, aren’t well served by the incumbents.

Visa and MasterCard are collaborating on the Libra protect.

For those two reasons I don’t know if it makes sense to say Libra is competing with the incumbents.
> The problem with housing there has one simple cause: NIMBYism.

It's true that there is one simple cause, but it's not NIMBYism, it's overpopulation, and it's a planet-wide problem. There are just too many people. They can't all live in the nice places because if they do, the nice places won't be nice places any more.
That all sounds like college, with dorms and a campus shuttle and so on.

IMHO, one is expected to grow out of that. The next phase of life awaits.

Much later, when you are widowed and you move into an assisted living facility, you can once again have high-density living with few belongings and a shared means of transportation.
Are you sure those are housing skyscrapers and not office buildings?

> Of course, it will still increase traffic

[adjusts glasses]

Actually, building housing near workplaces decreases traffic. Imagine people who used to drive in from Modesto moving in to these units.
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Does a slab of asphalt have the same taxes assessed and upkeep costs as an apartment?
When I worked at an open office in Google, a good fraction of the people had headphones on most of the day. While there was some serendipitous discussion, much of the time we'd book meeting rooms, specifically to avoid distracting those around us.
Adoption is a thing.
After the disaster and outright lies that were the Anthem "gameplay" trailer, vs what actually shipped, gamers don't want to see fake gameplay either.
Tesla driving assistance features work as described. The only thing crazy here is your obsession with that company.
Did you even read the article? If you want to build secret tunnels under your house, employ a licensed contractor and several engineers. Have them sign NDAs even.
There are tons of apartments going up in San Carlos and Redwood City.
Electromagnetic radiation from one star does not repel electromagnetic radiation from other stars. If it did, we wouldn’t be able to see stars at night from the Earth.
I understand the feeling, but it's actually an irrelevant question, much as you still get a speeding ticket even when some other guy was going faster.

If you see comments that should be moderated but weren't, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing all the comments here. You can let us know about it by flagging it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) or by emailing hn@ycombinator.com in egregious cases.
I'm American, and if someone told me they're taking me out for a steak dinner, I'd immediately assume we were going to a steakhouse. It couldn't be any less of an idiom. If they took me out for pork chops, I would be completely and utterly confused.
I think the proper framing here is that there is no ambiguity when competition attempts to select the best human. The ambiguity is introduced by people adding rules in order to select the best human fitting some criteria. And usually this means excluding 'men.' This is usually the only reason to introduce the notion of sex into the rules and is the source of all of the ambiguity. Such leagues used to be about selecting women who are the best at competing but are now increasingly becoming about selecting women who are the most man.
Like HTTP cookies, but that users don't have control over since they're managed by network infrastructure.
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If you want to talk externalities then stress, frustration and mental health need to be taken into account on the public transit side of the equation.

I'd put up with a hell of a lot of air pollution if it made the trains timely and not crowded and I'm not the only one who'd make that tradeoff.
The resources needed to solve homeless & poverty are also collecting there. Tax them. Either the tax rates drive people away and you achieve decentralization, or they solve the problem and decentralization isn’t needed.
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Let me point out what apparently isn't obvious to everyone:

The more housing is built near jobs in Silicon Valley, the LESS traffic there should be there, as people get shorter commutes!
First I'm not offended. This is of course not comparable with athletes because athletes compete in a game with a clear defined goal. In real life there is no goal to win. And if you set your own personal goal to maximize your own wealth (which I have no problem with btw), then at least it's basic economy understanding that it's not a zero sum game, you don't win at the expense of others, that any trade is for the mutual benefit of the parties, and that your wealth also depend on the wealth of the society as a whole (otherwise obviously your money would just be a piece of paper). You earn money because you provide value to people.

But I can understand how working as a derivative trader with one big number to increase like in a video game can narrow your perspectives, to the point of having the pretention of being a winner on top of that.
> And for those who have never used Erlang, learn it once, write something highly concurrent in it, and you'll learn to distaste almost every other language's faulty concurrency idioms almost immediately.

Does learning Elixir do the same?
>This is also the same city that provides copious free and heavily subsidized parking while banning or severely limited 30-pound, highly efficient electric vehicles: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/electric-scooters....

When you say "scooter" images of traffic in Mumbai pop into the minds of the upscale folks who write the rules so of course they ban anything that has two wheels and doesn't cost too much for the blue collar crowd.
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> I sincerely hope this dystopian effort to impose a global corporate currency fails.

By extension, I hope the effort to impose a global governmental currency fails.
Yes the gaming community can be exceedingly toxic at times, but in this case I'd say that developers and publishers did this to themselves.

Biggest case-in-point since Watch Dogs: Anthem.

Here's the E3 reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL5GSfs9fi4&t=330s.

We have since learned[1], after the disastrous launch of this game, that this video was showing even the dev team what the game was supposed to be about. This game did not even exist yet as an official entity until after E3 2017 (heck, it was going to be called "Beyond" until the week-ish before E3), and then the team had just over a year to build and launch it, with predictable results.

[1] https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964
> Always use a Version Control System
Please tell me no-one is writing anything without a VCS in 2019.

> One commit per change
Amen, brother.

> You're responsible for the use of your code
That's a tough one. Code is a tool, like any other. If you're making a gun, then you have to accept that your product will kill people. But if you're making a hammer, it's not really fair to hold you responsible when someone goes postal with it.

> Learn from your troubles
This. So much this. If you're not doing this... the rest is worthless.
If you're running some kind of IT infrastructure big enough for the whole world to use, you're going to want a cut of each transaction whether you are VISA/MC or Facebook's blockchain. Some sort of transaction fee is inevitable, even (or especially) on a private blockchain.
That's fine if it works for you. The point here is there's lots to do outside the city, even a lot of exclusive activities. I'm tired of seeing it said that there's "nothing to do" outside the city. Maybe if your only hobbies are nightclubs and getting mugged.

Besides that, people who would prefer to not own any car, rent bicycles instead of owning them if they're a bicyclist, and wouldn't want to own a house if they had the option sound like a niche minority to me.
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I actually ended up writing a Rust program to change screen brightness through /proc myself. Previously, I used a Python script. Understandably, the Rust program is very significantly faster than Python, and I was surprised by the difference it made for interactive use (changing brightness by a scrolling keybind). For comparison, here are two iterations of the Python code, and the Rust code: https://gist.github.com/FreeFull/1e5873f0b13ec291158176db9d7...
Phobos and Deimos are very, very tiny.

The diameter of the Moon is 2,160 miles. The diameter of Phobos is 14 miles. Deimos is 8 miles.

(For scale, Mars' diameter is 4,200 miles).
I thought it was pretty funny that Mt. Eisenhower in the White Mountains was bald on top. Very little vegetation up there!
Sure but that doesn’t mean it isn’t “bitcoin”. Which bitcoin is the real bitcoin? Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision? Bitcoin Cash? Bitcoin Classic? The fork I just made?
Not only is it drier, but the Diablo range is heavily overgrazed. If it weren't, it'd be the same chaparral woodland you can still see around calaveras dam.
>Many countries quickly moving on to phone based payments. Its much secure (requires touch or face ID) than doing fake signatures.

EMV is a thing, you know. And cards don't run out of battery or get smashed like phones.
From the article:

Scientists later discovered that this bias encompasses the entire living world. Synthetic chemical processes will generate both left- and right-handed molecules. But when nature makes a molecule, the product is either left- or right-handed. For example, all amino acids that are used to make proteins twist light to the left.
Yes there is. You _build_ more so that prices go down.

It’s baffling how much “adding more housing” is always a non starter solution. Everyone seems to understand that if flood the market with something like diamonds then the prices of diamonds will go down, but when it comes to housing then basic economics go out the window.

Rent control is an incredibly pro-landlord policy. In high growth cities, land owners can simply sit on property, never invest in that property (they don’t have to compete) and simply watch their value skyrocket as they never have to worry about new supply driving the market down.
Are these just PDF's? Why do I need Steam and Windows?
Say what you will about Musk, but I haven't heard reports of him installing toilet-buckets in their factories yet and lowering them down to employees with ropes.
disagree, this was 20x more enjoyable to read than on medium's website.
I've always wondered why book reader software didn't have a "hightlight and submit typo feedback" function right up front.

Of course, that might lead to "crowdsourced" editing, which might be a horrible thing to create.
Ripple is backed by euro banks. Libra has nothing on it.
I know you mean well but that attitude is basically equivalent to "be rich enough to pay other people to have the liability or don't bother" in practice.
All those forks are legitimate. Who are you to decide which is legit?
Why would I use this over elixir?
Walmart sells knock-offs? That looks like an original Xiomi and not a clone to me.
I don’t ...
Funny, I sold several at the Sunnyvale swap meet last week. They’re awesome. I saved my teenage summer earnings to buy one and used it to do physics simulations in high school.
> d) Food and life support sustainability

Could we just send frozen embryos of humans and then have the ship auto thaw and gestate them 16 years to arrival?

With another 2-300 years of technological progress this doesn’t seem outlandish mission at all.