skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But since Libra pegged is to a basket of currencies, it is not actually stable."

A weighted basket of the top 5 currencies by market capitalization should be more stable than the dollar.

The point about taxable income is true, although if I would rather pay tax on income I made from Libra than not had earned the income at all. Unless the dollar crashes hard I wouldn't expect this to be a meaningful amount of income.
I've talked about this somewhere else. What you're seeing is just a manifestation of what I call "the fundamental problem of user created content." Said problem is that warehousing and distributing content scales insanely well but curation does not. Until we have strong AI, curation is a manual process. Moderators just aren't efficient enough at processing content for their output to pay for a full time salary. You can cut costs by making end users into moderators (the Reddit model) but results may vary.

This problem applies to other forms of sites and content as well. The app store gets hundreds of submissions in the game category per day. Hosting and distributing that content is easy. Only a tiny fraction of those games are going to be played and rated enough times to show up in a recommendation engine. The bulk of the incoming content stream isn't being matched to interested people at all (sorting by interesting is the same curation issue as filtering by offensive).

Literally every content platform is going to have some problem similar to Facebook. We can blame Facebook, but the reality is no one has a good solution. Not even me.
A few things that you can't do in the official app, but you can do in the Teslabot: (1) voice control - send a voice messages/commands to Teslabot, (2) find out whether your car can go to a destination such as San Francisco with the current charge - Teslabot figures out location of the car, distance to the destination, battery range and answers that question, and also the bot is available from your laptop/desktop.
They don't actually meet the legal requirements of contractors. In CA, anyway, they'd have to be full time employees since they do the same thing every day, full time, they are required to be on-prem during dictated hours, and the business relies on their work (e.g. they can never finish their project.)
Try setting the source language to German instead of English. https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=de&t...
What a great and inspiring story.

> “Nobody had given any thought to the Latino market,” recalls Montañez. “But everywhere I looked, I saw it ready to explode.”

It's incredible what a new set of eyes with different perspectives can bring to the table.
This is not a problem (for the cryptocurrency "thought leaders" at least). It is literally the primary motivation for its existence. Look at the message embedded into the Bitcoin Genesis block - it's no secret that the entire point was to evade, undermine, and ideally supplant government control over issuance and circulation of money.
Ha! I love the fact that both the hideous JavaScript/functional drivel and the garish, obnoxious font and page layout work together to produce a revulsion that has something everyone can hate.

It's like the web v2.5 analog of an Excel spreadsheet typeset entirely in Comic Sans.

A near total antithesis of "elegant" error handling.
> Over the space of a year, we had a 60% MoM Growth Rate, 35K MAU and a great team!

I smile when I read "X% MoM growth" and the starting numbers are obviously very little. I think it's a BS metric when presented this way.

Besides that, congrats on hitting 35k MAU. Not a small feat.
Slang: A simple audio programming language implemented in JavaScript
I don’t think I believe that healthcare companies lobby to prevent office condition reform from happening
> We can blame Facebook, but the reality is no one has a good solution.

We can take a step backwards and eliminate Facebook, Insta, etc from our societies and enact legislation that will govern the second generation of social networks.
Below a certain level, people don't have any leverage at all.

Most people depend on their meagre income quite greatly, it's a bold thing to say someone could just 'quit' their job and spend 9 months looking for another one, especially if they don't have some pretty hard skills.

So in the realm of talent, yes, it would solve itself, which is why devs et. al. often get 'free lunch' among other things.

For most working people, it's much harder.

"All possibilities are fully encapsulated in very simple dynamics."

Yes, of course, but the incredible power asymmetry between FB and not hugely skilled workers is the dynamic that drives all of this.
> > If minimum wage were $15, they could find another job that paid their basic living expenses.

> Why is this necessarily true?

It costs money to take a surveying class, or buy tools to practice your skills. It also takes having money saved so if there is a crisis, car repairs, etc you don’t have to constantly work overtime to keep your bills paid.

Please reach out to a friend who is making less than a “living wage” in their area and ask them about career development and what they need. I appreciate your question.
> "But exactly which concrete bugs would a programming language and environment with a strong type system prevent?" asked the young student Master Typikos.

"These kind of errors." Master Typikos said - and she told the student the story about the time when a bug in a runtime caused Math.Round to do IO although it's type was `Integer -> Float32 -> Float32`.

The student did not believe this story. Later he was enlightened.

EDIT: refined type
Steel production in China is heavily state subsidized, its a relic of old communist policies focused on heavy industry growth.
So what were the ACTUAL proposals?

The article seems kind of sensationalized without letting us come to our own conclusions by reading the actual proposals.
The term was created by white people.
Sugar tariffs are designed to hurt every single American and benefit a few multi-millionaire sugar producers in Florida.

Since Florida is a 'swing state', this will never change.
I'm the other way around. When I started with Python I instantly fell in love with "format is the syntax". A few format bugs later (people changed code and didn't push/pull a block, or merged two blocks by mistake), and using autoformatters, and now I wish Python used another mechanism.
What Result? Result is a generic not a specific type. It's essentially a shorthand instead of manually writing out the enum yourself.

More fundamentally I disagree that Either makes Result redundant. Result has semantic meaning that's lost with Either.
> Organical systems convey much more, and predominantly analog signals

Lots of evidence neurons encode for both digital and analog signals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron#Neural_coding

https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-your-brain-analog-or-digita...
Funny how Zuck and even Bezos have this worker problem coming up all the time.

Their making a lot of money, can they not at least make working conditions decent? Too much to ask?
"If the adversary is the one who sold you your diode, he might have entangled it in some way with the devices in his own lab"

lol
I'm always interested to hear (well, read) Graydon's perspectives on programming languages, with him having gone from working on Rust to working on Swift at Apple.
The moderators are employees of the contracted organization (Cognizant, in this case). They’re not employees of FB.
> The A11Y Project sounds both fairly authoritative and like it potentially could have been the source of the a11y numeronym. If it's not, it really could use some more explanation on that page.

The explanation is on the about page.
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Specifics matter. Better to do aerobic workouts before you do cognitive work and heavy weightlifting at night because heavy weights help you sleep better. Nutrition for cognition is a tricky business too and there are a few dozen other important factors in sleep.
The unfortunate result of viewing diversity as a performance metric to hit, rather than a real and decisive advantage.
My father passed away earlier this year. Not that old but for the last 3 years of his life, he was unable to get up (body weakened by diabetes and a round of cancer), unable to see (almost 95% blind), and for the last 7 months unable to even speak. I do not live with the family so did not interfere but in my mind the question always was "what is the purpose of living at this point" whereas in the minds of close family and doctors: how else can we prolong life! To what purpose, I could never figure out. Whether we call them death panels or whatever is the current demagoguery term, I think we need to discuss them more because I definitely would not want to linger like that.
Flesh-eating bacteria becoming more common in Delaware Bay due to climate change
For a start it works reliably. It's a mechanism that we use all the time on multiple ELF platforms including Linux and several BSDs. It's also the right thing to do because it is called by the dynamic loader at the correct time, ie. after the library is no longer accessible from other threads via dlsym, but before the library has been unloaded (and the code that would run is unmapped). I wouldn't even have thought to use atexit for running code on library unload.
People who think the government should have the technological power to decide who pays who in the world need to ask themselves this. Do you think that there should be a hardware filter on all internet fiber cables that allows the government to filter that traffic?

Banning cryptocurrencies because they physically allow money laundering is as logically indefensible as banning internet fibers because they physically allow illegal content. The solution is to make the transactions illegal but physically possible. I’ve seen no reasonable people saying that all transactions should be legal, but I’ve seen a lot of people here saying that technology which allows illegal transactions should be banned. This is mind boggling to me and seems like a dangerous precedent.

After all cash physically allows money laundering, should we ban cash? Cryptocurrencies are baby technologies, why would we make innovating on them illegal before we even know what they’re capable of?
As you may have guessed from the downvotes, this is not even close to accurate. It should have been possible for you to realize this was inaccurate simply from how trivial the problem looked to you in comparison to how much effort is being spent on it.
I don't think any US prison can be compared to what they are doing to Uighurs. China is a huge country, and it's not a trivial issue just because of their size. There are still millions of Uighurs being sent to concentration camps for their ethnicity/religion
> my opinion of course is that FB, Insta, etc (any advertising product with push notifications and/or infinite scroll) ought to be illegal. In 50 or 100 years we'll all recognize that social networks are like internet cigarettes.

Well cigarettes are still not illegal, so we have some ways to go...
>"Were are problems?"

What is this sentence? I had to stop reading here.
He is the turncoat that brought down the empire. He was full on correct about Unix though, except that we're not fighting over sub-MIPS resources anymore so the "waste" created by that architecture doesn't affect the bottom line as much (unless you're Google hah -donworrydeyreworkinonit).
>it's been my experience that the most zealous enforcement of class segregation in social contexts is from the bottom-up

You perceive subtle rejection a lot more strongly than you perceive someone else being subtly rejected. The effect you perceive could be explained by pointing out that all of the negative interactions involving you were "bottom-up," while the ones involving the "random lower-middle class friends," were top-down.
I enjoy how it is thinking constructively about planning a life after the 'peak' times. The football player becoming a coach or referee rather than simply sinking into obscurity. My only criticism is that the messaging seems a little dire. It's not like your brain disappears at 50.
It cost less than $5000 to run on AWS. More if you include engineering's time.
That's interesting because even if I agree with most technical points, I went the opposite way for most of the general points.

The big one is: start with the specs, then code. I used to think that, wasting time making plans for an end result that ends up completely different. Now, I prefer to start coding right away. Anything goes, it just has to be code.

Why code? That's because it keeps my feet on the ground. And because it is the early phase, I can still change things. Chances are that most of that early code will be scrapped, maybe several times. No big deal, I may have lost a few days of coding, but I have a much clearer view than if I spent that time writing specs.

As for the documentation vs code, I spend all my experience points into reading and understanding code. I sometimes even force myself not to read the documentation, going straight for the code instead. Comments are lies. For me, documentation will always be an afterthought, for others. For me, I have the code, and if I have trouble reading it later, that's because it is bad code, not because it lacks documentation, and I try to learn my lesson, and maybe rewrite the offending parts.

For the social part (code of conduct, micro aggression, etc...), my strategy when things become unpleasant is to go technical. The bigger the asshole facing me is, the more deeply technical I go. Here two things can happen. Either the asshole is incompetent, and because he doesn't want to look too much like a fool, he usually leaves me alone. The other is that the asshole turns out to be really good, and in that case, the interaction may not turn out to be the most pleasant, but at least, there is something to learn.
Cognizant pays them hourly; they are referred to as "contractors" multiple times in the article, while the word "salary" does not appear.
I really do wish the title was correctly capitalised -- I was wondering if my Raspberry Pi was going to start beating like a heart and slowly drive me to insanity.
I believe this was changed everywhere because glibc maintainers decided that it made more sense to run at library unload time, and then everyone else had to change their implementation to match "what Linux does."

That being said, none of these behaviors really make any sense. If the registered function isn't mapped into the process address space any more, what is supposed to happen?
Because nobody calls people from Mexico "Latin". If someone walked up to me and said "Hey I'm Latin" I'd be really confused. You're... a dead language?
> Fortunately for the rest of the world, Libra may well fail. People prefer assets that hold their value relative to either the local currency or, in an unstable situation, dollars or euros. Nobody wants to receive $10 from a friend only to have it turn into $9.80. But since Libra pegged is to a basket of currencies, it is not actually stable. Like other cryptocurrencies, every Libra transaction thus involves exchange rate risk, and the only way Libra can succeed is if Facebook makes a concerted effort to force its adoption.
You could equally say "Speech, but without US government oversight, is exactly what the pedophiles and terrorists want to have".
Can you rent them by minute?
> After all cash physically allows money laundering, should we ban cash?

Yes, we probably should, now that better alternatives exist. We should have public postal banking, so no one is unbanked. And then we should stop issuing cash.
Random observation:

It seems like games/platforms/etc. that introduce some novel type of user-generated content become successful. I would bet that some web 2.0 version of the game "telephone" would wind up being super popular.
You all need to read the following excerpt from Matt Levine's thoughts on Libra:

> So, first, Libra will be a “stablecoin,” in the sense that its value will be pinned to conventional financial assets. Unlike most stablecoins, though, it will be pinned to a basket “of low-volatility assets, including bank deposits and government securities” in different currencies, so it won’t consistently be worth one dollar or one euro or anything else. “As the value of Libra will be effectively linked to a basket of fiat currencies, from the point of view of any specific currency, there will be fluctuations in the value of Libra.”

> This strikes me as very annoying, but it has some obvious advantages for Facebook/Libra. For one thing, they’ll only need to manage one general Libra, rather than having different stablecoins corresponding to different national currencies. For another thing, if Libra gains widespread acceptance, its lack of one-to-one correspondence will give it a tendency to displace national currencies. If you mostly spend dollars, and Libra is always going up and down against the dollar, that will be annoying and you won’t want as many Libras. But if you mostly spend Libras—if Facebook is successful at making this the main currency of the internet—then that dynamic will reverse. If the dollar is always going up and down against the Libra, that will be annoying and you’ll want more Libras. The dollar will start to seem unstable and useless. If you buy most things online, and if everything online is priced in Libras, then you’ll end up living your life denominated in Libras, and only converting your Libras into dollars on your occasional touristic visits to the physical world.[4] The goal is for Libra to be more useful than any national currency, accepted in more places and with fewer complications; pegging it to a single national currency would only hold it back.
> Why not just hash random strings you come across in that case?

Because your adversary could "come across" those same strings. Your entropy source has to be private (obviously).

> That isn't what the article said

The first sentence, is, quite literally, "Pure, verifiable randomness is hard to come by." And that is both false and unimportant.
> Or throw out the UCI rules and build a fast, comfortable bike for customers who don't care about competing in sanctioned races.

Recumbents are exactly that, but it's still very much a niche market. Furthermore, at any given component grade, a recumbent will cost more - and add a further premium if it's a trike.
OIN still looks like a (currently nice) cartel to me -- if you really want to stop aggression, release all the patents into the commons.

> You too can sign on to the OIN license. Frankly, if your business has anything to do with developing Linux and related open-source software, you need to join. It will provide you, your programmers, and your business the IP protection you need to become an open-source winner.

Statements like this is what make me suspicious -- these companies are going in there for "IP protection", for patents that are questionable in the first place. So what happens to companies that don't join this non-aggression community?
TFA is about wolves? ITT coyotes are also discussed. You're the one with the daft idea that coyotes don't kill things people care about. They do kill cats, and they do kill calves, and depending on the situation they could kill other things too.
Although ML and AÍ sound very exciting the reality is that a lot of the quick wins have been largely automated today.

If you want to be ahead of the pack from a ML/AI point of view you need PhD level education. Even to get a good job, PhDs are often a requirement.

Leveraging your experience I’d focus on demonstrable, practical solutions where you tie together multiple different technologies to achieve an outcome.

Show me how you started with a hypothesis then pulled data from multiple disparate sources, combined it and washed it, created synthetic columns and applied a cutting edge technique to get to your outcome.

Be the guy that can use the tool really well. To be the guy that _invents_ the tools you’re looking at 8 years of study.
Loadsharers: Funding Load-Bearing Internet People
'Starving' Polar Bear Wanders into Siberian Town
> Flag accounts who post bad content too often

Too often? If we're talking about content that is traumatic to view (extreme violence, child porn, etc) then I think one time is enough for a flag, no?

That said, I do agree that shadow banning is the best option. Let them spin their wheels for a few weeks posting content before they realize no one is seeing it.
They’re paying rates that more or less require it.
What legislation? Specifically? What do you want to make law, that they have to hire moderators (which they already do?) or do you want to make it illegal to post "bad things" on the internet?
Not me. Rural was particularly bad and is a terribly difficult word for non-indo-european speakers. The video (I found this in a few words) starts RIGHT on the word (autocracy did this as well). Most of the time this doesn't happen though. I did wish it would default to a specific pronunciation too. Default to US or UK when selecting "All". Router I got UK, Aluminum I got US. Epoch I got (it says US) some weird bastardization of US and UK[0] (though with ML becoming really popular it seems that everyone is defaulting to the UK pronunciation - probably because the spelling - so maybe this should default to UK?).

There also seems to be a bias for Ted Talks. I definitely agree with the parent's point about how speeches are different. But I'm not sure that's necessarily bad. The intonation changes people make when in speeches/talks is one of over pronunciation rather than the under pronunciation that we do in everyday speak. This may be better for learning. Maybe both could exist though. A "proper" and "casual" one. I'd say the casual should bias towards things like videoblogers and probably twitch streamers would be a good/plentiful resource. Might want to filter some of the latter though (stick to good streamers and big things like GDQ). Sports events would also be a good one.

That being said I'm not trying to discourage this effort and honestly I really like it (and wish there was one for Chinese, is there?). English isn't easy and there are a lot of pronunciations (I picked out words that are edge cases). I have already recommended it to a friend.

Good job!

Edit: Friend (native Chinese) already knew about this (extra good job!)

[0] How it should sound https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epoch (You can now tell all your ML friends that they are saying it wrong and win that great sense of superiority. Never mind that language is what is spoken, the dictionary is always right!)

video it linked: https://youglish.com/getcid/19634402/epoch
It uses some extra pin headers only available on that model. I don't have a PoE hat nor a PoE switch handy, but I'd love to measure the output from the hat. Either way, I imagine there's good reason…
I genuinely don't understand how an average Facebook user would encounter videos like those described in the article. Is it some recommender system gone awry?
A dot is not allowed, but they could use a dash or underscore.
I haven't poked around too much but for purposes of discussion http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Cloak_of_Darkness is a small IF used as a chrestomathy
and this is the link to it in Dialog http://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/cloak/cloak-rel1.dg
> IT-security would be achieved only if the output of hash function is truly random (uniformly and independently distributed).

That is the definition of a cryptographically secure hash.

One can quibble over whether or not any available hash function is in fact a CSH. But if you believe that any of the algorithms that are widely considered to be CSHs are in fact CSHs then the rest is easy.
Am I missing anything being vegetarian and consuming milk, cheese, and other forms of dairy products?

Just curious since you seem to know what you're talking about.
The article says 10M daily active users.