skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I have been saying, its not enough to be a payment system anymore, banks are catching up and people will always sacrifice security for convenience, it is simply human nature.

I think where is messing up is by not allowing more nodes. The brave project is dispensing enough money for people in third world countries to pay for their internet connection.

The true value of crypto currencies is exchanging computational abilities into social mobility, and I don't see where facebook coin does that. Telegram's coin won't, either, but payment/messaging system is big business right now.
Also, hard to take these concerns seriously when glass/plastic bottle deposit swaps are common in, say, Latin/South America.

How often are people getting sick drinking caguamas/garrafones?

The reality seems obvious: single-use plastic is cheapest and cheapest always wins.
You're seeing a photograph of the screen anyways. Of course the camera will wash out the screen.
Google is a pain as there's no way to talk to a human. I have lost access to an old Gmail account as my phone broke. Without authenticator I can't get in. I can't set up authenticator anew because I don't have the password anymore. I still have same phone and plenty of emails - just no way to get in.
If it is known as ETH then it is the main chain, not the fork.
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Cross-shard distributed transactions in MongoDB 4.2
As a frequent vi user, I mapped my 'caps lock' key to Esc long before Apple started shipping a Touch Bar, so I have been puzzled by people lamenting the Esc key placement.
That makes sense. Thanks for clearing up the confusion.
When you get to be an old person you start to notice patterns.

Whenever people start sayin "what if [cyclical bad thing] actually never happens again and the happy times are permanent because of [tenuous reasoning]" loudly and in public then it's inevitable that we're about to see the problems currently being created in secret by people who've had that delusional point of view for awhile.
Insulin is not an antibiotic. You're straw manning. There are conditions patients have that, due to years with it, they know more about than the doctors and people should not be beholden to another by law to obtain the medicines they know they need to live.

It's wrong. I need a doctor's permission to live. I'm forced to pay someone else to remain alive.
I'm super curious as the rest.
Wild guess, are you talking about Brain of the firm?
They have gotten harder due to the feedback loop induced by having such a poor proxy for fitness be so ubiquitous.
Georgia Guidestones (2010)
You could even say it was genius.
Yeh and they all fuckin suck. I wonder why? Its because they compromise on the quixotic properties that make bitcoin valuable.
> Better architecture, but bug-for-bug compatible" probably isn't the goal of the rewrite.

Why not? From there you proceed to fix the old bugs.
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It's hard to convince the upscale NIMBY crowd that the .00-whatever parts per billion of nasty stuff that get past the filter system of a modern incinerator plant isn't gonna give everyone cancer and make the frogs bi-curious. Then you have to figure out what to do with the waste and you'll face the same problem.
You realize that we reuse cutlery, glassware and dishware each time we eat in a restaurant other than KFC, right?

Another example would be beer bottles and marmalade/peanut butter/pickles jars.
>I’m not an expert on the four color problem, but I assume the proof is true. However, it’s not beautiful. I’d prefer to see a proof that gives insight into why four colors are sufficient.

P. Erdos
If it looked squished on those CRTs, they were probably badly mis-configured.
10 seconds is still an two orders of magnitude too slow given many use cases and the technology which is currently available. I should be able to tap my card on a subway turnstile and have it open immediately such that the subway faces zero fraud risk.

A centralized system should be limited only by RTT and there are ways to overcome even that via caching layers or cryptographic techniques. You want something sub 250ms.
I think I know why the screenshot for SCREEN mode looks odd with aspect=1. The documentation at https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf mentions,

> Do aspect correction. It only affects non-square pixel modes like VGA Mode 13h, which has a resolution of 320x200 pixels and is used by many DOS games (DOOM, etc).

However SCREEN 2 mode of GW-BASIC has a resolution of 640x200 ( http://www.antonis.de/qbebooks/gwbasman/screens.html ).
Is it? I’m still driving the same car I bought 10 years ago so I’m genuinely not sure. At the time, I ordered it from the Honda fleet manager at a dealership and getting a base model was no problem. If you’re walking into a dealership or want a car ASAP then you’re probably right, but I feel like if you can wait a couple weeks getting a base model is still relatively easy.
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I’m a full stack web dev from Ireland and I’m based in the Bay Area. I recently left my job at a startup and I need to find part time work (21 hours per week) to satisfy my OPT visa.

I have 3 years experience building web apps (Rails & Django) and some experience managing a small group of engineers.

I’d appreciate any help/advice you have for me to find work.
If the person is insisting that their arguments come from an innate moral authority

That part of their argument can simply be ignored.

Cook doesn't seem to be doing that, though.

I never said he was. I was specifically responding to the notion of "whataboutism" itself. That notion itself is philosophically bankrupt. Ideas should be judged on their merits, not on who has advanced them.

simply an ad hominem tu quoque

Ad hominem is another example of ignoring the message and nonsensically diverting attention to the messenger.
Well, I have, and I would.
The word "years" suggests they aren't just talking about the new arrhythmia feature.
Microsoft releases Hyper-V Server 2019
>build proper bike lanes

Strongly agree.

>This is just classic luddism.

Strongly disagree. To me, the common "luddite" accusation often seems like a disconnected, elitist framing of issues that have important pragmatic angles.
Right. That's my point. Even though ETH hard forked to undo transaction history, the fork is still considered "ETH" because that is what the leaders decided (and the community agreed to that decision). If Vitalik had made a different decision then the "ETC" chain would still be called "ETH" today.
It seems you're conflating cryptographic hash with a digital signature.

Digitally signed updates via pre-boot environment with a read only post-boot environment is an effective way to solve the problem being discussed.
> several (maybe most) state universities in the US publish the salaries of their professors.

I'd expand this to state governments. It depends on the state, but for some states you can find a lot of detailed salary information.
?? Touchscreen interfaces almost always have contextual displays. So no touching it doesn't always do the same thing every time I press it. The space where a spacebar is on your phone is the same space that is sometimes the camera button. I think contextual design does not suit important interfaces.
> several (maybe most) state universities in the US publish the salaries of their professors. Some state universities publish comprehensive (creepy?) granular data, e.g., a spreadsheet with each row displaying professor name, professor salary, rank, department.

My understanding is this is practically a requirement for government employees, so if the university is public, this data must be provided. Similarly, you can look up the salary/pay for most other government employees, although they're usually strict to scales.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237966
That BUG_ON is a full up kernel panic? That's a pretty severe issue if so.
I've never heard of a single person in this specific scenario getting into any legal trouble whatsoever, let alone enough people for me to reasonably worry about the likelihood being high enough to register on the list of things that could actually happen to me.
It's not malice. In some places (I believe my state is one), even normal lawyers are required to periodically serve as a public defender. These defenders are just handed cases and required to handle them, period. Now what if it should take you a whole week to go through the facts of the case to properly defend the accused, but it turns out the court handed you about 10 cases that week, and they all have the same issue?
You can download VisiCalc from Dan Bricklin's site at http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm and run it using dosbox. Tip: a formula is something like "+A1" instead of "=A1".
Vudu is an excellent service for a number of reasons. They absolutely run on anything for one. They're 100% platform agnostic and Wal-Mart doesn't own a tech platform, so they're not favoring any given streaming player or operating system over any other, and nobody's got any reason to block them or play games with them, unlike if you buy from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc.

Most of the creative new ways to getting your digital copies started with them like Disc to Digital and Instawatch. Others have dabbled in it, but Vudu really made these things happen and they've continued to be the biggest in these spaces, though Best Buy has recently dabbled with giving out digital codes for preorders in advance of physical releases.

And on the front of digital ownership, they've continued to support issuing UltraViolet rights on every single title they're allowed to do so by the studios, and seem to plan to continue to until the last possible moment (Whereas Fandango voluntarily dropped it for all MA-eligible titles pretty quickly) and were immediate to grab into Movies Anywhere as well. Most digital copy codes for titles that aren't UV or MA are also redeemable on Vudu.

In the buying digital video space, they've really stood out as the safest best to ensure your purchase or digital copy will be available on any device more or less in perpetuity, and that makes them my default for it in the world where video still hasn't won good DRM-free options like music and ebooks have started to.
You do you? I would lose that ridiculous phrase. It's super condescending and not needed. No one needs your permission to be themself, or even a 'reminder'.
From the legal documents I skimmed, it looks like the state hospital association, state medical association, and american medical association were on the side of the defense. The SC chief justice and an associate justice dissented. I mentioned this to a friend who is a doctor, and he doesn't believe the AMA would take a position.

Edit: Nevermind. The AMA's interest is that it is against abusive legislation against physicians. They felt the facts were recited more favorably to the prosecution.
iTunes revolutionierte Apple und die Musikbranche. Nun ist es überholt – NZZ
This is in the FAQ: we don't count submissions as dupes if the story hasn't had significant attention yet. In other words, reposts are ok until the article has had a significant discussion, or at least significant upvotes. This is to give good articles more than one chance at getting attention, since it can be pretty random which articles get noticed on /newest.

In this case, we actually boosted the submission into the second-chance pool (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), which lobbed it on the front page. The reason we picked this post rather than yours is that it was the first submission of the article. (It doesn't look like it right now, because the timestamp was adjusted to be the resubmission time, but you can tell from the ID in the URL.) In the future we want to do some sort of karma sharing so multiple submitters can get credit, but that's not implemented yet.
We are so violently opposed to car alternatives, it makes me wonder what other better worlds are within reach that we simply can’t or refuse to see
Site isn't closed just yet; they'll stop taking orders 7/2:

https://www.thinkgeek.com/help/
If you mean MinWin, they did not only attempt it, it powers Windows Core.
There is a big difference between your money sitting in a single file under the control of a single party and your money sitting in three files under the control of three parties.
> Why do people use Uber Eats?

I live in an area not very walkable, can't drive, and can't cook to save my life
I use andOTP, which is compatible with Google Authenticator and actually allows backing up the private keys (one of the key missing features of Google Authenticator, though maybe they've fixed that).
Hasn't this always been the case already? Explorer.exe is just an executable. It has always been replaceable and therefore independently updateable.
That's only $120 new from the publisher.
We do the same, the AppleTV is really the only device with the right apps here in Denmark. We had to get a SmartTV, but we simply don't use that part, the TV is not allowed on the internet.

The Philips remote have a big ass Netflix button right in the center, but we just use the Netflix app on the AppleTV, because using any of the apps on the TV is an unpleasant experience.

I can sort of understand the idea of a smart TV, but the TV manufactures do not have the organisation, infrastructure, developers nor the hardware to deliver good and up to date apps, so I don't understand why they keep insisting on building smart TVs.

Companies like Samsung must know that their app suck.
Why not? Again, the people who could make use of this are the very people who don't fit into my threat model.

Is there some rash of private recordings being used as blackmail via compromised devices that hasn't hit the news yet?

I'm worried about actualized threats -- I'm willing to gamble that I won't be the very first target of an entirely new kind of attack, and that I'll have time to respond if such a thing ever does actually come to pass.
Glass is literally molten sand. It will break down just like the rock breaks down. It's not toxic or hazardous, except when it's freshly shattered, but these super sharp edges weather relatively quickly, after which they aren't any sharper than natural found rock. This not to say that we should just don't care and throw away glass anywhere we want, but it's really not a huge deal, unless you hate seeing glass pebbles among normal rock pebbles.
There are historical markers in New England that are 100+ years old themselves. I don't think there's a meta-marker yet.
Back before phones we had things like fire safes that would hold your "precious memories" so when your house burned down you wouldn't lose them. That is so much harder to do these days.

One of the things I do is periodically spool off ephemeral data to BD-R's (write once Blu-Ray disks). At 25GB a pop they aren't super dense but I don't actually generate more 'new' data than that in a given month. It was something I do because when I started in this business I made backups because crappy disk drives would lose data. But these days you can get crypto ransomed and poof all that data unavailable?

There is no doubt a market for some new 'best practices' for data security. Perhaps No Starch Press will get someone to collect those ideas into a book.
Ships & boats only make up 3% of transportation emissions in the United States: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-06/documents...

Does anyone have the numbers for other parts of the world?
The authority on the subject:
https://youtu.be/lJXwRdbbQ50
I have a 40" 4K PC monitor for this purpose. Works reasonably well.
ARRuler
The point is that its "trustless", they don't have to trust zuckerberg, they can see the code themselves and where the payments fee's break way to, he isn't the only one running nodes from what I understand, I believe the partners are as well, which I imagine is the only way they agreed to this.
How much were you paid to post this? Serious question.
The 2017 Subaru I have has freewheeling software knobs for most functions and all of the info is displayed in the near-windshield display. Even when I have to take over from full auto control, it's pretty quick and close to my sight-line.
I live in an area exactly as you describe. While stuff might be technically walkable, it still could be 20+ minute walk each way to the "close" places I want to go.
Yes. I saw a Fed Reserve big-wig say in a closed room that they'd conquered the business cycle ... just before the dotcom bust.
These were quite common across many cities and towns in the USSR. The purposes were quite varied: get people to an attraction, offer a scenic route, serve as a shortcut between a residential and an industrial area, serve as an alternative route to public transport.

Here are the remains of one such road in my home city of Chisinau, Moldova: http://wikimapia.org/7913907/ru/Верхняя-станция-канатной-дор...
ARRuler allows you to measure distances using augmented reality. Shockingly, this app was developed before Apple added a measurement feature to the operating system. The code is written in a way in which any developer can easily follow, and if you'd like, you can contact me with any questions you might have :)
> It affects performance too -- SQL wants storage locality by table, but applications often want locality by user.

This problem gets substantially worse in geographically distributed databases, like Spanner or CockroachDB, where joining tables whose data is stored in different localities can incur a significant latency penalty (in the hundreds of milliseconds).

They both offer an interesting solution to the problem called interleaved tables. CockroachDB docs on the subject are here [0], and Spanner's docs are here [1].

Interleaved tables don't fix the fact that SQL will hand you back a flat table when you have hierarchical data, but they do fix the spatial locality problem. Here's an example, from the CockroachDB docs, of how users and their order data can be interleaved, exactly the way it sounds like you've wanted:

/customers/1
/customers/1/orders/1000
/customers/1/orders/1002
/customers/2
/customers/2/orders/1001
/customers/2/orders/1003

[0]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/interleave-in-pare...

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-and-data-model#...
The US was gearing up nicely to require deposit and reuse schemes in the 50s or 60s. Vermont was about to require drinks be in reusable bottles.

Pepsi, Coke, Budweiser, Philip Morris and others got together, conceived the idea of, funded and launched "Keep America Beautiful". Vermont was lobbied and the deposit scheme died, consumers were blamed for the whole problem via campaigns on littering, and industry could do whatever the hell they liked.

Greenwashing was born.
Things I miss in modern spreadsheets:

- Formula references (to be used as function references)
- Formatting formulas (directly in formula section, not via conditional formatting)
- Format-querying functions (as isBold, cellFontFamily, textcolor)
- better non-macro controls
- in-cell controls (instead of floating control objects)
- dynamic ranges (ie. you can paste any number of input values and all connected ranges will expand to the needed size)
- better external data handling
- serialization formats native support (json, xml) - no more error prone string pseudoparsing and manual concatenation without proper escaping
- HTTP(S) client for executing API calls from formulas
- (above requires selective manual re-evaluation instead full-auto/all-manual options we have)
Also, Dartmouth bulldozed the Kiewit Computational Center (one of my favorite building names) several years ago, so no marker there. My college in Vermont had a ASR33 teletype hooked up at 300 baud to Dartmouth's Time Sharing System, and because it had 'talk' and 'mail', we were connected to students at a dozen or more schools—a great, mind-expanding experience, chatting in text. And, yeah, we cobbled together strange not-particularly-useful programs in BASIC and saved them on paper tape. This was...1975.
If you want some real data for computer science, there is a survey conducted every year on this topic: https://cra.org/resources/taulbee-survey/

This is broken down by region, size of school, state vs. local, seniority, title, etc.
Man, If you have any clues about where this could be found or any other info I'd really appreciate it. I'd love to read this.
Raymond is an avowed and weirdly obsessed racial supremacist (and, at times, an advocate of political violence). That's not an appeal to tribalism but rather a recorded fact; both conservatives and liberals alike would find his stated beliefs horrifying if laid out in front of them rather than scattered throughout his various discursive blog posts and comment threads.

There is a general and valid concern in our industry about a liberal orthodoxy that makes it at least socially unsafe to express political thoughts. People who share that concern should have an even bigger problem with Raymond, who is an attention-seeking caricature of conservative or libertarian belief. People who have couched their bigotry in far more careful and subtle language than Raymond have found themselves ostracized from conservative circles, and for good reason.

I think the better way to engage with Raymond is on his manifest deficiencies as a professional engineer and technologist, and wouldn't want to start a rebuttal to his request for donations with his politics. But I also wouldn't want to let stand the idea that the opprobrium he attracts is rooted in orthodoxy or tribalism.
It's not for you or the compiler to decide that 2^32 makes no sense. It is using ^ exactly as intended and is neither misleading nor ambiguous.

Stating that 32^2 should not trigger a warning while 2^32 should shows that this proposal has not been thought through.

It's not desirable or sensible to raise a warning on the premise that the expression might mean something else in another language, which is what this would do.
Mayor sues Barstool Sports alleging violation of Massachusetts wiretapping law
... perfect is the enemy of good
Honesty I just never connected mine to the internet and attached a Roku which I did connect. Smart TVs are anything but that, I rather have a dedicated media player than one bolted onto a screen.
The proof has been formalized and verified in the Coq theorem proving system, which is good evidence it is correct.
While I basically agree, one of the arguments in the episode (as I remember it, it's been a while) is that since we ship it away, we don't see the negative results of our lifestyle choices, making the problems created easier to ignore.

Also, they argue that modern landfills _can_ be pretty damned "green", capturing the heat/gases created and using them to generate power.

But since we've prioritized and financially incentivized recycling (shipping everything somewhere else) we haven't prioritized responsible ways to manage waste locally and once our waste gets rejected we'll likely to be playing catch-up.

I guess we'll see. Or we'll all die before then.

Shrug.
Bitwarden, pretty much my whole family and circle of friends uses it. Great UX, mobile apps, security, and not expensive at all.
Shoutout to Heartbeat for featuring this post.
Yes, this is unconstructive legalism. Is anyone out there checking whether he's written something about Iranian agents attaching strumpet mines to his car which he then successfully demagnetized with his Aikido?

Apropos of nothing at all, if someone were to gather his greatest hits into some sort of collection, it should probably be named Bearin' Load
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Thanks for sharing that resource!
Hmm. I wonder what the criteria was. I assumed they had donated machines to most of the local schools. Seems they did not.