skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using Signal isn't all that inconvenient, it's just not a pretty app. It does what it advertises, it sends messages, photos, voice memos with a few extras like disappearing messages. Sure, it's missing the 'frilly' features like Samsung and Apple have in their messengers but it gets it's job done considerably well. I think Signal is actually a better example of an application where the privacy/convenience trade off is rather mild. There are no requirements to authenticate each time you open it, you can choose weather or not to allow in-app screenshots, it still sends SMS (on Android) so it can replace your built in SMS without having to switch between secure and non-secure apps for messaging.
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One day you might respond to an ad like this but insist on a corp-to-corp and/or 1099 arrangement and charge $350 per hour.

If you have the right specialty, attitude, and connections in Federal Government contracting, you can make FAANG money. Only with good w/l balance.
If there were enough electric cars for everyone who wants one to rent one on Saturday and Sunday at a reasonable price, they may as well be used as personal transport during the week instead of left idling during the week, right?
> Renewable energy sources needs to be supported by power plants that can produce constantly.

Varying power sources need to be combined with adjustable power sources. So do constant sources, unless you want to force consumption to correspond to availability. Shutting off nuclear plants and going fully renewable would require bringing more adjustable sources online, though. Hence the quest for better storage technologies.
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Many people here will hate on your charging money up front. I think it's fine. I won't use it and so you will miss out on users like me who want to try it out, but if we don't want to pay upfront for it then maybe we're not your target audience. Looks interesting, sad I can't try it out!
Dropbox.com
https://www.bookdepository.com/Super-Thinking-Gabriel-Weinbe... ?
Are we talking about SF or mountain view? 40 minutes north of SF is beyond Marin. Remember that this is about living comfortably on $5,000 per month for rent. That should get a pretty incredible place anywhere north of the golden gate bridge.
>At an unfamiliar complex intersection (greater than 4-way), sometimes you can't figure out where the GPS wants you to go. A quick pinch-zoom before the light turns can give you the visual queue you need to avoid having to make a last minute decision as you enter the intersection.

Seems like a usability problem. Google Maps displays what lanes go in what directions so you don't have to zoom in on the map and will speak it to you so you don't even have to look at your phone/Android Auto/etc.
I like the phrase, too. I'm on the "sick of programming languages" side, and I like go, for the things I'm using it for: CLIs, simple debug web-servers, calling out to RPC services. (Read a CSV file, run everything through translate / grammar parsing / etc.)

I'm in that age of folks that did pascal in high school, C and Scheme in college, C++ and python in grad school while futzing around with ocaml and common lisp and sather and other fun things. Programming languages are fun.

But, oh, I have so much other stuff to pay attention to. I write C++ a few days a week, which is barely enough to keep move semantics in my head. I also write SQL and analysis docs and internal DSLs and configuration files and python.

At this point, C++ is barely earning its keep, in terms of mental complexity for reward. Go feels a lot nicer, since I can just get in, do my thing, get out, and it'll at least work and give me a compile error if one of the APIs change when I don't look at it for a year.

I'm not about to jump into rust.

So, at least for me, go hits a pretty good sweet spot.

[Edit: I'm not trying to point fingers at rust in particular. It looks fun. If I weren't still working on getting my hobbyist-Haskell better, I'd probably be playing with it. But that would be at home, for fun, not where I have to have the thing in my head for production issues.

It reminds me a bit of the old statement about perl, that it was a fantastic language if you used it every day, but not if you don't. And I don't get to use these things every day any more.]
Everyone who has watched an episode of CSI: Anywhere knows this about mobile phones. While you can turn off the phone or leave it behind easily, the same cannot be done with a module built into the car.
"Hack": notify others of a potentially beneficial resource

What is the greater conspiracy theory behind this statement, which suggests malicious intent? Without the theory, it's unfounded.
Securing Certificate Issuance Using Multipath Domain Control Validation
Depends on who that someone was, doesn’t it?
Ironically for bombers they probably would have achieved better results by stripping off most of the armor and all the defensive machine guns (and gunners). The weight reduction would have allowed them to fly higher and faster, making them less likely to get hit in the first place.
Something fun to start in might be GreasyMonkey kind of stuff were they can manipulate existing sites. That could introduce them into a lot of programming areas while still allowing small changes to have big results.
Climate change and weather patterns change coupled with over a billion people in a country (roughly) the size of Argentina is bound to have water problems as per capita consumption grows with wealth.

Conservation + Desalination is the only way here.
You can’t mandate that banks must give loans to all student applicants regardless of collateral, and at the same time permit bankruptcy of those loans. Those two things are in direct conflict. Literally every graduate would simply declare bankruptcy (Since anyone who is both a graduate and borrow would by definition be broke). You’d be a fool not to. There’s literally no downside to bankruptcy if you’re a broke 22 year old with a brand new $250k debt and a degree in anything.

Your choice are:

1. everyone can get a loan regardless of wealth, but they can’t file bankruptcy

2. Let banks only give student loans to qualified applicants (i.e. rich kids with co-signing rich parents) but permit bankruptcy.
Taking Google Cloud Run for a Spin
Always wondered why Apple hasn't opened up iMessage to every platform (not just Apple devices) and gone properly into Alipay territory with payments. They don't have much growth left in hardware, seems like the obvious thing to do
You clearly have strong points of view on the subject, but did you read my comment? France's physical borders with all neighbouring countries except Switzerland are open. You just drive, or walk, or ski across. The Italian one is notionally open but police pass in the trains and the police presence near the border can be noticeable. The Swiss one is notionally controlled but tens of thousands of cars pass every day and hardly any are stopped. A brown friend skiing out of a French resort wasn't aware of crossing the border, but still spent his whole day in a Swiss border post.

Nowhere do I, or would I, try to absolve France or any other country of its responsibilities. If you're in France with no legal basis, you can work. You can sign a regular work contract. Moreover, a work contract or the promise of one, will (at least in theory I've never tried it) let you get papers to stay. The instructions are [here](https://www.legalplace.fr/guides/promesse-embauche-sans-papi...). If you apply for asylum, you cannot work for 6 months, but you will receive an allowance during this time. Instructions [here](https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2741). France has at various times taken in "lots" of refugies. Most recently returning colonists from Algeria, but also Spanish, Portugese, Russian and Armenian, as well as "poor" immigrants from a string of places. France, unlike some of it's neighbours, operates a "droit du sol" citizenship policy. Immigrants and/or their children can become French.
CVE-2019-7406 in TP-Link Wi-Fi Extenders Can Be Exploited Without Authentication
U.S. solar installation outlook brightens on falling costs
Tomcat. Still remember the detail description of it in 1960s read digest and then top gun. But it is very hard to fly. A lot of Taiwanese pilot die.
Stripe and Paypal are examples of tech companies that already appear to have learned quite a lot about the financial industry.
> Some of the people I work with are really smart but manipulative and generally not great human beings.

Amen to this. If anyone here believes that those who possess high intelligence are naturally more ethical or good-hearted than the average, try getting between any of them and their next bonus / promotion at a FAANG or in academia and you will rapidly learn otherwise.
The Java team could use EditorConfig, CheckStyle, FindBugs, ErrorProne, or other tools to enforce team rules similar to how the Go team uses tools like gofmt.
I think that there will always be better options than genocide. Killing people only buys some time until you have to switch to a sustainable way of life, eventually you still have to do it. I think an all out war for extermination will always be more expensive than just killing the leaders who prevent change.
Peakon glassdoor reviews on the other hand are the worst. How a company in HR industry can have such review and still offer such weak explanations for employee engagement across different industries, at the same time be compliant to GDPR (i.e.: not have any insight from the data but highly aggregated stats?)
Great work. Just ordered. Thanks for putting this together. I saw Charlie Munger and was sold.
What matters is the implementation; if they can put the following together:

- Fully programmable smart contracts

- Fast cheap transactions

- Easy onboarding

- Default support for fiat currencies

- Nice end-user interfaces

Plus a strong push to their existing user base and a number of established businesses.
Isn't the most obvious fix for this never connecting the TV to the internet in the first place? If your TV works the day you buy it, why do you need to connect it so it gets "firmware" updates? in some respect, isn't the user still capable of making their SmartTV a "dumb" TV?
Marking Required Fields in Forms
Efficient String Concatenation in Python
LUMI: The smarter way to learn and play music
It's an enormous continent, but a lot of it is covered by deserts and other inhospitable environments
> Interest on the reserve assets will be used to cover the costs of the system, ensure low transaction fees, pay dividends to investors who provided capital to jumpstart the ecosystem (read “The Libra Association” here), and support further growth and adoption. The rules for allocating interest on the reserve will be set in advance and will be overseen by the Libra Association. Users of Libra do not receive a return from the reserve.

Forget about the cryptography and "blockchain" this system will use. The real innovation here is financial in nature. Only it's not really an innovation.

I doubt today's race to negative interest rates will be kind to Libra validators, who will be demanding a fat payout sooner or later for the loss of business on highly lucrative credit cards.

There's only one way to fund this beast: fractional reserve and ever more risky investments. The temptation will be enormous. The justifications true and well-intentioned. The outcome predictable to anyone who has paid attention.

Think Tether, but orders of magnitude larger.
Well, if an army of HODLers develops who buy into this Facebook coin think they can make profit off of holding it - then there will be a growing body who promote it and speak positively of it, and not care about Facebook's other wrongdoings because money. Those big name brands also already buying into it means quite the global powerhouse of marketing ability to onboard people into something that is relatively unknown of what could unfold. It should be democratic governments working together to develop this and not private entities who aren't elected and are known to lobby and influence politicians/policy for their own good. There's a reason financial regulations developed, and because they're poorly enforced currently doesn't mean the solution is abandonment.
Ferries in the Irish sea or the North sea can't use unrefined bunker oil because of the Emission Control Area:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_Control_Area
Spring and Java aren't junk.

I like Go for some things, but when using it I miss many things from Java:

* I can connect to the running JVM and change log levels, and other parameters live.

* I can debug a Java file that has compilation errors in it and fix them as I go in some cases. (In Go you can't even compile a file with an unused import)

* Java libraries and frameworks are mature. Some have been around for decades with all the testing and refinement that implies.

For some applications, like a REST server connecting to a database, why would I use Go and use all it's brand new, limited libraries when I could use dropwizard instead and get an easy to deploy JAR file?

Sure Java has some esoteric features, but you don't have to use them.

If you can't keep your team from being clever in Java, I doubt you'll be able to do so just because they use Go.

I've seen many Go libraries attempt to use introspection and backtick 'annotations' to very confusing and buggy effect.
So we have one actual backdoor attempt, one OpenSSL bug that may have been a backdoor attempt but was more likely an honest bug, one tongue-in-cheek attempt mentioned by Linus, and that same attempt repeated seriously by his father.

Assuming Linus was being serious and not facetious, I would say that's one attempt. And if the NSA really wanted Linus to backdoor his kernel, I imagine they would have approached him in-person and asked (as they have been known to do), so I'm not convinced that the two other attempts were them either.
Many european countries eliminated unleaded gasoline during the same time. And crime rates dropped much sooner.

I'd say unleaded gasoline is not the most important factor. For Europe, I think it was drug use.
More of a meta comment than a criticism: there's been a real explosion in interest in mental models this last decade. Mental models have become top of mind in the SV community (and its associated thought leaders), from Farnham Street, Naval, Tim Ferriss, Patrick Collison and many others regularly talking about them and their creators such as Buffet / Munger / Kahneman etc.

What's happening here? Is there some kind of fundamental set of truths we have stumbled upon that make these models timeless and universally useful, or are we just at the top of the hype cycle? Are there cons to internalizing these models, or is this always-relevant wisdom that should be imparted upon all of humanity?

One could also wonder if there's anything new at all to these mental models, or if these have always been universally valid and applicable principles that the community has repackaged in a more polished and condensed format.

Disclaimer: I love this whole subject and immediately bought the book, BUT I'm also somewhat wary of everybody drinking the same koolaid, including myself. Are these truly valuable, or are they purely fashionable, and so people are cargo culting famous SV personalities? i.e. is this the wisdom version of Jack Dorsey meditating and fasting?
Argentina what? How are the two comparable?
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They're also concerned about your PowerPoint skills

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq5zy/the-pentagon-has-t...
Existing payment networks already are fast, cheap and I'll also throw in secure. (In Europe ATMs and bank-to-bank transfers are free.) They could easily be made simple to use given the requisite will.
It does seem life is imitating art here [1]

[1] https://www.e-coin.com/

[2] https://mrrobot.fandom.com/wiki/E_Corp
How common are "life-friendly" planets (Let's say: on a ratio of Life-Friendly Planet:Non Life-Friendly Planet)? And is there any way to check if life-friendly planets contain life without actually going there?
I like Java and Spring, but I don't use Spring boot.

Note that just because the recent tutorials out there mention Spring Boot, doesn't mean you can't wire together a Spring app either through config files or programatically.
I'm in favor of a steep carbon tax. That would allow people who currently have no alternatives to still do whatever they need to do, but provide a strong incentive for finding alternatives.
Yes but if we are honest 95% of the positive "feelings around Bitcoin" are for capital appreciation/speculation or at least a hedge against perceived government fiat dilution which are not relevant in a stable-coin context. The remaining 5% who value a decentralized system outside of anyone's control won't come to a corporate Facebook led system. I don't think many anarchist types wake up thinking "man do I distrust Jamie Dimon but that Zuckerberg fellow is the bee's knees."
Cloudflare aims to keep HTTPS certificates from falling into the wrong hands
How Libra (Facebook-Backed Cryptocurrency) Would Work for You
I scored 54% and all of the cases that I err'd were due to the reality being slightly better than I thought. That makes me think that to pass this test you do what I am not going to tell you now...
Ban e-cigarettes until they're reviewed by governing bodies. Continue to sell combustibles that've already received a negative health review for both those who consume them and those in the general inhalation vicinity by said governing bodies.

Makes sense.
Argentina 2 766 890 km²
India 3 287 263 km²
It's more complex because you have more control. If the Go scheduler does something pathological, you're going to be digging a hell of a lot deeper than you need to in Kotlin.

You can just use a shared executor with a growing pool if you don't care.
Because as some have found out, US law kinda applies everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Weil
Yes but could be a dystopian positive for the people...

How long until someone uses this against the “oligarch“ validators?

E.g.: an AdBlock browser extension is on unless they send some microfunds to your account / transfer Libra funds to you.

If you’re not familiar with display ads it’s a literal bidding war per space per user by the advertiser. Platforms don’t care they just get a cut.

Now, I could see this: turn it around and have this “central authority” by having them bidding for you to turn on your ads based on their data’s understanding of likeliness to click.
Is this really any different than your ability to buy things in-practice gated nigh exclusively by MasterCard and Visa?

It sounds less like a dystopia and more like the tech sector and payment processors have been collectively itching to escape the current banking system.
They are roughly comparable in area - though India is a bit bigger.
A cruise ship emits as much pollution as 1,000,000 cars per day[1]. Name calling people while turning a blind eye that most pollution is shipping, air traffic and heavy manufacturing which profits by not having to pay for its own externalities, is totally mean-spirited and unhelpful.

Would you have a problem if driving a sports car for fun included a mandatory carbon-sink tax that covered the car's pollution - if it became more expensive to make, buy, and run a car, but still permitted?

[1]https://www.euractiv.com/section/air-pollution/news/daily-em...
"Can't wait for a cryptocurrency with the ethics of Uber, the censorship resistance of Paypal, and the decentralization of Visa, all tied together with the proven privacy of Facebook."

https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/11394299139229573...
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Looks great! and something I'm more or less obsessed with myself (abstractions of any kind, really). Will definitely buy one!

Somewhat OT, but I'm confused by the pricing on Amazon: Hardcover is $19.60 (20 used from 22.65, and 34 new from $14.00), paperback $28.92 (2 used from $34.32), Kindle 23.27, and more.

Maybe I'm not used to Amazon, but this seems weird. How come so many used copies of a new book for example. And the prices are all over the place. Has something gone awry?
Concurrency with Python: Hardware-Based Parallelism
Book Review: Dignity by Chris Arnade
Is this similar to Jama?
Rubio Seeks Legislation to Invalidate Huawei Patents in the United States
I finally learned Javascript after hating two compsci classes that used Java. I really like Javascript or Python for beginners, I think other languages are too strict and are not "fun" to learn for beginners
Last year there was “Rally for Rivers” aimed at addressing some of the problems India faces - https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/pr...
Facebook banned my previous company from asking users for their FB data to perform ML credit risk evaluation. Some weeks later they registered a patent for credit risk analysis using historical FB data.

They know very well what they do.
Beyond Meat trades at $190. 660% up from $25 IPO price
Raj Rajaratnam[1] would be a fine example. He got 11 years for insider trading.

There's also Matthias Krull[2]. Sentenced to ten years for money laundring.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Rajaratnam

[2] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/criminal-conviction_former-swis...
This is the killer feature of Go, and it's what so many who clamor for various features-of-other-languages miss.

Go is designed for simplicity. It is easy to write, but more importantly is easy to understand, even far in the future. For a given problem, n programmers will generally coalesce on a small number of possible Go implementations, whereas other languages will often yield n divergent solutions.

I've had Go solutions that I built years ago that I can get into and maintain in seconds, even when I hadn't touched Go in months.

Go isn't my primary tooling (my life today is mostly Swift), but as a comparison where a language has gone awry I'd point to C# -- as Microsoft has tried to incorporate whatever cool thing every other language has added, C# projects have often turned into write-only projects where the original author barely can grok their code a month later, and everyone shrugs and says "rewrite it" when confronted with another programmer's C# code. Rust is much the same.
Wait, wait, wait...so...

if "Satoshi Nakamoto" == "Mark Zuckerberg":

print("Whoa, mind blown!")

else

print("Carry on. Nothing to see here.")

jk
They're going to end up in the same situation as banks where they're vaguely intertwined with government interests.
It's not that hard to make programmable / re-assignable physical dials and switches to interface in a tactile way with changing software applications.
I argue that my or anyone else's right to choose and decide whether we want this feature in our cars is more important than lives saved by making this technology mandatory in all new cars sold.
It all seems very fast for me. I also see no problems with hint databases... maybe check the JS console for errors?
I've often equated proper dogcare to childcare-lite.

Want to go out after work? Gotta go home and tend to the dogs first

Weekend getaway? The cost just increased by however much it's going to cost you to board the dogs or hire a sitter.

Surprise! One of your dogs has developed a thyroid condition and will require daily medication for the rest of its life.

Time for that annual teeth cleaning ($$$$$)

That said, next to fatherhood, it's one of the more rewarding things in my life.
Very diverse.
In my opinion, its not any more magical than any other framework.

What it is though is something that solves problems and has a great ecosystem, instead of reinventing the wheel.
> punch cards

Is hanging chad a 0 or a 1?
I would suspect India also has a lot more arable land.
Happy to see some things I learned the hard way with 15 years... Man, I wish I had this level of knowledge when I was 20...