skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was just a millionaire. Musk is a billionaire. The first letter in those words makes all the difference.
Studies prove that videos create more engagement throughout the web
What if the chipsat sends the signal to the chipsat behind it which sends the signal to the chipsat behind it which....

So that the signal can be relayed by a bunch of short range transmitters all the way back to earth
Yeah but my point is that reducing our carbon footprint is not even scratching the surface of the problem.
I'm so sorry to be a white male programmer around 40! I'm so much in the crowd...

"Around 4.5 percent of the US population is LGBT, [...] the LGBT population is young, [...] under 34 years of age—and growing." ... ok, it's a typical marketing bullshit: look all the money that you could earn selling to these people!!! Actually, she doesn't give a shit about the people, only about a "new" market.

Moreover, she failed to understand the difference between "being LGBT" and "showing to be LGBT". I don't think that there are MORE LGBT (nor less either)... only that they need less to hide (which is not good or bad: your work shouldn't be where you live your life, only where you earn money anyway).
Apparently RSU doesn't mean "real soon unless". It appears to mean, instead, "restricted stock unit", a form of delayed compensation.
> any benefit over bank-sourced transactions at all

I see a few benefits, but nothing on the order of the full potential of crypto.

1. Your FacebookCoin value is a collection of the world's currency value and not tied to a single goverment currency. It's more likely that {Single Fiat Currency} experiences hyperinflation than {Collection of Fiat Currencies} thus some of your risk is mitigated. Most individuals hold the majority of their wealth in a single currency, or in assets that are sold for a single currency (NYSE transactions are completed in USD, same with US based real-estate.)

2. Transaction fees can potentially be lower than incumbents. This is probably going to be especially true with person-to-person international transfers and could big a huge win for third world startups dealing in digital services.

3. The barrier to entry will, in all likelihood, be significantly lower than traditional banks. I've known people with a credit score so low they couldn't open a bank account. I've meet people with anxiety of using a debt card because of over withdrawal fees.
If you are having trouble, you can use GSM for Gender and Sexual Minorities.
Robert Durst comes to mind. The Jinx on HBO is a great miniseries about him.
Google to invest $1bn to fight tech-fueled housing crisis
San Francisco could be first US city to ban e-cigarette sales
If you put a mediocre male featherweight against a female heavyweight champion in any contact sports the male would pummel her into a pulp we had these experiments before in show matches.

Gold medal women winners would not pass the men’s qualifiers in most Olympic sports, in fact in many of them the world record for women isn’t enough to pass the qualifiers for mens.

Anyone who is advocating turning sports into coed brackets has never competed in their life professionally on at least a national level or they don’t mind women not wining a single match from that point onwards.

Now as far as transwomen (I’m assuming that’s the correct term for M2F gender reassignment) in professional sports this would likely require a separate bracket if we get to the point where there is a sufficient mass of trans athletes, or if there will be explicit proof that it doesn’t matter allowing them to compete in the women’s bracket under certain conditions.

However the doesn’t matter is also a tricky part there is a big difference between someone who transitioned before going through puberty and someone who transitioned 6 months ago.

Humans are a dimorphic species males are stronger, faster have better response time and ironically when trained are even more flexible than females because they are stronger and have better joint stability.

The irony is also that the closer you get to peak performance the wider this gap gets which is why while in say high school track or varsity basketball some females can play in the same ballpark as males once you go into professional sports and Olympic sports they might as well not be the same species.
I really don't want to judge your ability, I agree with your comment about C#, Java, JS, C ,... but COBOL is a completely different animal to reason with.

Been there and ran as fast as I could.
I like to combine Nix with direnv (and direnv-mode for Emacs - there are also similar plugins for most other editors).

Then you can `cd` into your directory and your environment appears.

The downsides are that there is a steep and long learning curve, and that your colleagues will not understand what you've done.

I also use NixOps to actually deploy my code at the moment, but I will probably be switching to Terraform shortly as I need some tools like AWS autoscaling groups, which NixOps doesn't support.

These are probably helpful:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Development_environment_with_nix-she...

https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/Nix

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-language-go

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#python
The Evolving Infrastructure of .Net Core
Thanks. A staff writer for the Guardian. Think I'll
look a bit further for a more authoritative (read logical) number.
Currently most online payments involve a 2% credit card fee. Will Libra lead to a significant reduction in this cost? If Libra can be 0.5% cheaper than credit card payments for consumers then it will become the dominant form of online payment.
It doesn't dodge the question at all. Of course it's a proximate contributing factor, in the same way that voting was a proximate contributing factor to Trump being the chief executive of the United States. That doesn't mean voting is a bad general idea.

I'm pointing out that even though lots of high paying jobs is obviously an input into the housing crisis, 'blaming' companies for that is clearly stupid, because we want and encourage them to do exactly that, and higher housing prices is a predictable side effect of housing supply being constrained, not some out of nowhere surprise that the tech sector foisted onto an unsuspecting public.

We have met the enemy, and they are us.
Because the vast majority of people have personal biases that they cannot completely just put away at the workplace.
I think you might be overestimating the resilience of your food network. It's understandable, everything is currently set-up to insulate you from the origins of your food.

Plants, rainfall, and harvests are susceptible to changes in climate.

Globally, though, I'd be surprised if we could last a single year if every food crop failed. You can already see what this looks like in Africa and the Middle East - famine affects entire countries at a time. Imagine if there was a string of bad years - say 10 or 15.

As a kind-of related example, most of the US would starve within a week if there were no oil to power trucks. Our current globalized food production/transportation network is extremely fragile.
Yes, 100% agreed. I'm just saying it's kind of pointless to invest a lot in more train systems without already having an agreement to densify those areas, because there just wouldn't be enough riders to justify frequent service at current levels of density.
What's wrong with the housing market in Sweden?
A very insightful comment- These big companies have nothing to lose by signing up as a "partner" for the big press release, but have nothing to gain by helping facebook beyond the initial PR blitz and are either going to bow out or act as blockers to FB's ambitious plans.
Do you happen to have a link related to the Las Vegas line of actors experiment?
Huh, that's news to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
From my weird lay understanding, it's somewhat similar to childhood games where people would try to determine who had the "coolest" Pogs [1]. There are multiple "axes" that determines which challenge coin "wins": highest rank associated, most interesting challenge involved (some coins represent specific deployments or activities or actions), perceived rarity (there only three of the coins ever made), etc. To some extent the challenge coins serve what medals/badges always have: an excuse to tell a cool story, maybe brag about something. Similarly the "free alcohol" rules follow the same general principles of "that's a really cool story, I owe you a beer for it", just reduced to simple evocative coin form.

Which "axes" are in play, and who "wins" (or ties, a lot of the rule variations I've heard are set up to optimize towards ties; the most common challenge is just whether or not the other person has a challenge coin of any sort, not necessarily trying to figure out which wins if both people have coins on them) varies a lot between groups.

Also, challenge coins have seeped into some parts of lay culture, especially bar culture (given that alcohol has always been the big bet, it shouldn't be a surprise). For instance, the liqueur Fernet has its own challenge coins that bartenders tend to challenge each other for free shots of Fernet. (Bars try to keep one in reach of the bar at all times in case the bar is challenged, and the number of people that have them that have them that aren't themselves bartenders is supposedly kept quite rare.) https://talesofthecocktail.com/history/part-family-behind-sc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_coin

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game)
Major Taylor – America's First Black Sports Star and Cycling World Champion
I wonder if this man used to post here? There’s plenty of millionaire hackers who are into doomsday prepping here on HN.
Fast 3kB alternative to React (with the same modern API)
It wasn't his responsibility to reward us, and he gave us the gift pretty soon after the program's launch as thanks for the support we gave him and his top producer. I wasn't admonishing him, he was a genuinely nice guy. I only mentioned his fortune to give perspective on how profitable the program was.

A producer at this broker made just over $50k on commission if they busted ass. This program was so successful that he made close to half a million.

I mentioned his gift not because it was shitty but because it was the only form of thanks or acknowledgement we received.

It was actually a great gift at the time because we're located in Little Debbie country and didn't even know what Tastykake was. It contextualize so much pop culture (e.g. Clerks).
GitHub acquires Pull Panda–a better way to collaborate on code reviews
Algorithm puzzles are a good test for the ability to solve algorithm puzzles (which usually means having seen a similar puzzle before or guessing the right trick.)

Which is probably correlated with solving problems in algorithm puzzle (aka "programming") contests.

If solving algorithm puzzles or competing in "programming" contests is your company's core business, then probably it's a good interview test.
He was employing this person, which I think entitles the person to some protections with respect to the work being done.

The particular malice here, I believe, was that he was texted about an emergency, and did not respond in a timely manner.
Let's put some corporate officer in trial and see how jurors react to it! but we never do that!
I feel like I'm going crazy here: why is absolutely no one talking about the fact that $1B is no where near enough money for 20,000 homes? That's only a budget of $50,000 per home. In an area where the average cost to build a home is over $250,000, they're clearly only investing around 1/5 of the required cost, but seem to be taking the credit for all the work.
If the state can't whitelist transactions, FB will likely not be permitted to launch this currency- The state has every incentive to block any banks from doing business with FB in that case, because they'll invoke terrorist financing and drug sales as blocking issues.
'Safer options'? Airbus has always been king when it comes to screwing up automated systems.
Thanks, for some reason I thought they only provided source and not builds.
Still a shithole -- https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/57b0057d-268a-48dd-b4e5-c...
Try looking again - maybe you caught a version that didn't render correctly. There is actually quite a bit of explanatory text, and it's quite good!
That may be the protocol at launch but the protocol can always be changed/hardforked, including (as an extreme example) to just centralize the system into VISA/MC style db at FB after achieving wide adoption.

AFAICT power ultimately rests with whoever can modify the most widely-used consumer SW implementation, which would probably be FB here. Though Apple and Google may have considerable veto power over updates pushed through their app stores, iff FB makes this primarily a cell phone app instead of a web app.
I agree. We should fork it, flesh out those details and submit a pull request. :)
Libra? ... Gemini? This kid just can't let go of the past can he...
It's apparently intentional on the part of archive.is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
"Pride" is not in opposition to shame; it's in opposition to modesty. Honor and integrity are in opposition to shame, but there's very little that's honorable, and much that is outright insolent and deliberately so, about pride parades.

Edit: My comment might seem a bit too negative towards LGBTQ and that's definitely not my intention, so I'd like to mention advocacy of gay marriage as a positive example - something that does clearly point towards a public image of very real honor and integrity for this notable minority group. It's hard to deny its significant contrast to the recurring image of "pride parades".
Mohmud (piss be upon him) was a child raping, slave owning warlord.
Space is called space for a reason. Even in real life asteroid rich orbits the odds of hitting something are very low. Pulp sci-fi asteroid fields like the ones depicted in Star Wars are just not a thing. Outside the inner solar system the odds of hitting anything are so low the risk doesn't really rank in comparison with things like major equipment failure in transit.
This seems to me like a modern version of scrip.
yup, LA beats SF and the bay area by a mile on weather, but san diego edges out LA in both weather and lush greenery.
You assume that any of us ever go outside to see the light on Earth, anyway.
It really is about threading a needle and making sure you pay the appropriate amount of lip service. It really helps to make yourself really hard to fire and likeable otherwise in the organization. Respect starts with you respecting others and the company. If they respect what you do for them, then you get the latitude to push back on stuff.
Well you might forget it or decide you don't want it anymore for unrelated reasons, thereby inadvertently solving the problem of being tracked, that you didn't know you had!

I've been taking you literally, just for giggles, but I actually get what you're talking about. But I only said the solution to being tracked is to separate from the phone. You're saying that's not a good solution to the problem because it doesn't also solve the (I would say separate) problem of making people aware of itself. But most solutions are like that. If you don't know about light bulbs, you can't decide to use them, therefore light bulbs are a bad solution to darkness? No, they solve darkness just fine; they just don't solve "awareness of light bulbs" very well.
We should be colonizing the moon first, then Phobos or Deimos. Then, once established, we can conquer the martian gravity well with local resources.
Apple used to use VME bus, I think. It was Advanced, then. Now it's, technically, Retarded.
Well, there is 1 key difference. The validators can't do that in secret. If they start doing it, then everyone will be aware of it.

The inability to do this stuff in "secret" part is still useful.
No, we really don’t need to question that.

The main reason we do need to ask the question is that Bitcoin is currently effective at preventing governments from blocking Bitcoin transactions. Even if financial laws exist for a good reason, they don't supercede the "natural laws" of cryptography that determine which actions are possible. So the question isn't whether Facebook should have the power to do X. The question is whether Facebook should be allowed to do X, given that Bitcoin is already permitted to do so.
The average IQ is 100. Do you know what someone with an IQ of 100 is capable of? Just about anything except science. The random person has no idea what they know or why and how they know it.

http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/occupations.aspx
Dart 2.0 Date Time (Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you)
To think 'life' can only thrive in an earth-like environment is extremely naive.
Would you say the same thing about privacy, or speech?

It is bad that there are private companies, that allow me to engage in free speech, anonymously, without the government knowning my every move?
And to be clear, "container migration" is nothing more advanced than this "take the failed system out of service and spawn it somewhere else" routine that we've been doing since time immemorial.

Things like VMware's vMotion or KVM's live migration can detect trouble and transparently move the running VM -- network connections, memory state, and all -- onto a different underlying host, leaving end users none the wiser.

That's the kind of thing noobs throw out the window when they come in fired up about how k8s have health checks, because they've never heard of health checks before.

People are trying to recreate container-level mobility with things like CRI-U, which is very cool, very cutting edge stuff, but right now it's so unpredictable even the k8s crowd is afraid to touch it. ;)

Once these things eventually pan out and the functionality gets tangled up into some contrived k8s-ified YAML abomination (aka "blessed by the Great Googly Appendage"), when the k8s fanboys start hailing it as the savior of all computerdom, I'm sure I'll be making posts like "Uh, hi, this is awesome tech, but live migration anyone? We've had this for a long time..."

CRI-U has the potential to open many doors, and while true live container migration may be one of them, it's not really the exciting one, primarily because we've already had fatter-but-functionally-similar support for server workloads through VM migration/snapshots. CRI-U's promise is in all the things we can do with process-level "save states" that aren't just "moving 300MB of RAM at a time instead of 8G".
What a great idea! I can see it being quite a useful thing to run over all sorts of book scans, beyond just these symbols.

Actually all sorts of real world data, like photos of old inscriptions and the like.
one quarter? Who told you that?

Less than 1/10th percent Indians eat beef.
> While finding intelligent life would be great, finding any life is nearly as great.

That would actually be worrisome. If we found and detected microorganisms on nearby planet e.g 12 light years away from earth, then that means we are probably headed for extinction.

The reason is the theory of the Great Filter. Given that we have not been able to observe any kind of activity outside of our solar system, it means that either life is rarer than we think or that entire civilisations go extinct pretty quickly.

If we find microorganism on a nearby planet, the logical conclusion is that life is not as rare as we think but evolved civilisation such as ours simply go extinct in a relatively short amount of time.

The Great Filter may be ahead of us.
I'm curious about the "Don't use Booleans as parameters" point. I primarily write Python and like to use keyword arguments in these cases. So the function call would look like

get_message(full_message=True)

Is this an OK pattern for Python but not some other languages, or am I writing more confusing code than I had realized?
That sounds absolutely awful for anyone who wants to rent.
A particularly miserly subset of C++11.

(Or does "MISRA" stand for something else?)
Of course, google in particular is behind a very complex distributed network. Distributed DBs are mentioned, but it would be cool to know more about how web requests are distributed and routed in this system.
The fact they haven't even provided a very simple admin panel for end users to revoke access is all you need to know about this company's ethics.
I was being gentle. Is the IPCC good enough for you?

> There is sufficient uptake capacity in the ocean to incorporate 70 to 80% of foreseeable anthropogenic CO2 emissions to the atmosphere, this process takes centuries due to the rate of ocean mixing. As a result, even several centuries after emissions occurred, about a quarter of the increase in concentration caused by these emissions is still present in the atmosphere.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/TAR-03.pdf
Of course, but I guess the fear is %99 of people will use the “default” wallet” and be locked into a surveillance system for all transactions online.

To your question, not necessarily kick them out intentionally, but if the companies that back the hardware to validate transactions fold, are taken over or pull out of the venture, then the number of validators diminishes and you can end up with something resembling a 51% attack [1] which gives a single corporation total control.

This is a problem with all crypto’s unless something is special about Libra which is possible I guess. Then again, even in this case, the dominate player(s) could change the protocol to work in their favour removing the need for x number of validators present.

[1]https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp

Given Facebooks quickly diminishing popularity, I’m not sure this is ever going to really workout anyway.
> Bay area voters have made their intentions abundantly clear, in numerous elections and voting: they don't want growth.

That's silly, there are more than two sides to this discussion. Development without allocations for affordable and public housing is just throwing money at developers and hoping for the best.
That could be an issue, but considering the car weighs about four thousand pounds in its stock configuration, it's probably okay.
> If you're still running pre-2005 hardware, is the latest

> version of Ubuntu even really running that well at all?

Ubuntu server and Lubuntu are still very agreeable for older hardware.

> Besides, they can continue to use 19.04 or 18.04 LTS. It's

> not like discontinuing support means existing installs are

> going to break.

After just a few versions of Ubuntu it becomes harder to find archive repositories, especially if you want to do anything like cross-compiling. It basically is a death sentence.
How a 4-Day Workweek Can Help Your Business
Does this resonate as a "Klein Bottle" to anybody else? The illustration in particular.
It isn't purely functional, I don't think, but functions are a first-class thing in Go, aren't they?

I mean, I've returned functions from functions, and passed functions as parameters.. and there's no requirement that a function modify state anywhere.. what else is required to be purely functional?
SB-50 would have just led to displacement and more homeless people, exacerbating how much it sucks to live in the city. We need better quality bills than Weiner's.
It feels like a vertical integration ala a Zaibatsu. If they move heavily into education next they'll have control of their own knowledge worker supply chain.
Great list. It seems odd that we always equate a reduction in our footprint with a reduction in lifestyle, where options like these would arguably be a lifestyle improvement (or at least neutral).

I would also add
- stop or reduce discretionary air travel. Similarly to local meetups, there are often so many undiscovered destinations/events that can be just as rewarding as an overseas trip, without the 20+ hours in transit that are required.
Many people feel the solution to bad products is making better competing products rather than adding government regulation.