skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook had already banned advertising other cryptocurrencies in the run-up to this announcement (well, back in January 2018), so the effort to prevent other cryptocurrencies from scaling is well underway.
Be careful with the distraction, Facebook is powerful enough to create the 'alternative' force of gravity.
Yes, but the argument was rather along the lines of "here's why I think (some people think) we shouldn't have unrestricted features" or "I don't want ... because...". Languages don't necessarily need macros (many don't have them) so arguing on the basis that the dangers of macros are an inevitable cost for having them is correct but it works under the assumption that macros are indeed desired by everybody.

It's a bit like arguing about pointers and memory safety.

I do think there is a lot of value to look into these things and research alternatives to macros. For instance the problem I have described could be addressed by a new macro-like feature that has to respect certain boundaries.
They plan to ignore regulations and grow quick enough so that they are too big to fail and thus too big to regulate.
Amusing but insightful
It's a subset of the more technical people on Reddit. The highest floating poo in the cesspool if you will. ;)
I didn't find the article all that convincing. Just a general FOMO smell, and not much substance to back it up. Nothing deep.
Perhaps you didn't read the article, because its main point is that the official UN forecast is for world population to essentially flatten out at 10.9B around 2100, which is 40% more than today, not 60%.
Bitwarden also has an option to install it on your own server
Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House with a Yard on Every Lot
So, is fluorescent lighting in an area with dogs would be bad, or not? Is there method to determine which type of lighting is best? I expect even LED bulbs could flicker based on quality of the line.

Am I wrong in assuming incandescent bulbs would be better
I find it interesting that so many people think they are so important that the CIA would be interested in them.

Or that they think there are enough intelligence agency employees to bother.
They collect personal ID scans already everywhere, and Paypal also (at least for me) worked simply by using a verification 1-cent transaction to my bank account.
both the same. pressing left arrow in insert mode shows "E388: Couldn't find definition", but only in Cmder. Same WSL with cmd.exe - vi works fine.
Cars spend more than twenty hours a day parked. If most parking spots had a charger, keeping the car full wouldn't be a problem.
No, the GP is correct. Data races are undefined behavior, and break memory safety: https://research.swtch.com/gorace
The "wrong behavior" that Youtube incentives is promoting and encouraging clickbait garbage content (just look at the default homepage). The holy metric now is "watch time", the result being that creators stretch out their content to 10 minutes because then Youtube is more likely to promote it (and midroll add = twice the revenue). Yesterday Youtube recommended me a 10 minute video of some guy explaining how he made this simple drone shot that could've been condensed down to a single sentence - "Turn sensors off". What a waste of time.

But hey they're a corporation and thus have no accountability to the public good.
I guess you are right that it's useful for black-market commerce and I suspect that's probably the only reason it has value.

Regarding this:

>Actually most of the energy comes from renewable sources, which would be wasted otherwise. The Bitcoin mining industry is so competitive, it wouldn't be profitable otherwise.

Geothermal energy isn't renewable unless it's used sparingly. Hydro-power requires huge sacrifices of land, usually fertile valleys, in the reservoir lakes. Windmills are loud, huge and ugly. Power lines require sacrifices of land. And everything needs to be produced, with the environmental impact that brings.

I'm not saying renewables are bad, they're not, but they are not so pristine that using them for bitcoins isn't a sad thing.
No, it's not the only way anymore. Now we have decentralized crypto currencies, and some of them are even designed for privacy, like Monero or ZCash.
If this is true, i would be interested as well.
Renewable energy sources needs to be supported by power plants that can produce constantly. The only clean option is nuclear and hydro. Sweden has developed a safe storage which is used to stored used fuel.
Everyone is fully aware of the implications here. Even most consumers know the risks, they just don't care. The sad part isn't that people are stupid, it's that they are smart and just don't care.
The author mentioned that metaprogramming is treating "code as data" which Proxies themselves don't really do.
Someone accidentally used cat filter during parliament Facebook live stream
Such long term predictions have relatively little value due to the sensitivity to the initial inputs. Any small deviation from reality will result in a huge deviation in the longer term and 80 years is much too long to predict with any accuracy.

Typically the only useful info you can get out of such long term studies is the sign of the change and the order of magnitude.
What's "Google-flavored Java"?
The ban was a good thing because the currencies were promoted as investments which is not the case with stable coins/fb coin. Let's separate payment platforms from gambling-like investments, shall we?
I remember a time when typing your credit card number into a webpage was madness.
Sounds like you've had some experience of at least one large codebase in Go. Care to elaborate the sticking points?
Only if the Chinese, Russians, Germans, et al, promise to do the same thing.
Going 'Zero Carbon' Is All the Rage. But Will It Slow Climate Change?
This increase is essentially unavoidable at this point in time. It happens despite the fact that fertile couples now only reproduce at replacement rate. But older smaller generations get replaced by larger younger generations. There is a multi decadal lag in population dynamics.
The book and the movie are very different but share the same philosophical underpinnings.

> pushed her hard against a wall when she apparently wanted to leave. Such an action and attitude wouldn't be acceptable these days.

I am tired of reading such comments where the current moral standards are being used to judge works of fiction written 50 years ago.
Volkswagen is one of the biggest car companies in the world:

https://www.jato.com/global-car-market-remains-stable-during...

They'll be fine. They don't care what drive train they use. They just want to sell cars.
If people continue to call racists, anti-semites, and neo-Nazis “conservatives”, at some point people will believe it.
We're looking for a freelance SEO to help flesh out our landing pages, it's a mix of content writing and optimization. What's the best way to get in contact?
You can always rent a car with a higher range for long distance trips. We could build much more efficient cars if we optimized for normal usage, that is, 1.1 people in the car, short trips, city speeds and moderate acceleration, instead of building 250HP monsters that can tow a house and using them to sit alone in traffic jams. If you have exceptional needs, rent something for the day.
If I'm not wrong giving a quick read to the website is like a FIAT currency, but instead of a Country Government is backed and controlled by a network of private independent
(and sometime competitors) corporations. May not be a bad idea but can degenerate to a centralized currency if the controlling corporations shrink in number.
Faster development time? Lower energy costs? Cooler? Faster?
Go is indeed memory-safe for sequential code, but non-atomic assignment can definitely break memory safety in multi-threaded settings - it's effectively a data race.
Only the CO2. Does not include the rest of the radiative forcing (mainly water vapour). So the 2% is not a measure of climate change impact. It's a misleading fact.
VAX? Like - what? The one introduced on October 25, 1977??
this looks like a libertarian nightmare. The promise of government-free currency fullfilled by megacorps.

Next step ? Will facebook create an artificial island somewhere and declare it a sovereign state ? Everybody can become a citizen with just a facebook id !
Issues to Consider When Evaluating FoundationDB
This is already centralized.

The governance and distribution is hand picked.
A clean & minimal Firefox theme with autohiding buttons
In the long term yes, reducing population is a very effective way of reducing environmental impact. Unfortunately climate change is by now such a pressing problem that we don't have time for that.
RT is a propaganda outlet, this isn't compelling.
From the whitepaper:

> it will be backed by a collection of low-volatility assets, such as bank deposits and short-term government securities in currencies from stable and reputable central banks.

and

> The assets in the Libra Reserve will be held by a geographically distributed network of custodians with investment-grade credit rating to provide both security and decentralization of the assets.

https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/#the-libra-currency-and-...
> it's useful for black-market commerce

It's not only black-market commerce though. Porn, legal marijuana, gambling, auctions are for example considered off limits by most payment processors and in some cases even banks. PayPal even froze Minecraft's account (but it was quickly reinstated due to it's popularity, many others have not been so lucky).

Excellent point about renewable energy.
This is absolutely incorrect, and you have no idea what you are talking about. There is no sensitive chaotic model behind this, it's completely straightforward dynamics.

The fertility rate is about 2 kids per woman now. But the generation of 20 year olds is much larger than the generation of 40 year olds. So even though the generation of 0 year olds is the same size as that of 20 year olds, in 20 years time we will have replaced a small 40 year old generation by a large 20 year old generation.

There are only two factors here: Fertility rate per woman, and death rate. This prediction is not terribly sensitive to either, and both are easy to measure accurately and on quite stable long term trajectories:

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
Vaguely relevant: there's reason to believe that the current Central American gang violence epidemic, which is driving the migrant crisis at the US/Mexico border is also due to leaded gasoline. Central America didnt' eliminate leaded gasoline until the 2000s.
Pegged centralized currencies have existed for years.
That's very interesting. I have only seen those defaults in some... "special" satellite links.
Show HN: Takeabed – The Uber of Travel
Could you buy pre-paid credit cards with cash? then use a different one each month/week/day depending on your level of concern?
Visa, Mastercard and Swift have spent a lot of time and effort lobbying their _de facto_ monopoly, carefully advocating that… for lack of a better phrasing: they are essential and facilities but not “essential facilities”.

The best example of something impressive in that area is the concept of Two-sided markets, that comes with natural, customer-benefiting monopoly and even a justification for aggressive dumping baked-in in the model. I’m personally familiar with several of the contributors to that area and I can’t suspect that was ‘sponsored’ research but, Lord, you have to be lucky to get a Nobel prize to defend you.
Samsung Foundry to Produce Intel's CPU
Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance
> 75w - 1hup sounds good to me. I could power a computer, a light and monitor with it going into sleep mode when I stop pedalling. This is the level of power I like to use most of the time anyway.

There's a pair of issues with that plan:

* 75w is mechanical, factor in the converter and you end up with quite a bit less.

* 75w is what you can produce doing nothing else, you're not really able to use that computer while you're doing that. It's not strenuous exercise, but it's continuous work.

> I might not be able to power a kettle, keep the fridge on and all those things that take 10-20 x 1hup but, most of the time I don't need those things.

OTOH you can't really need a fridge only some of the time. At that point you're better off with some sort of evaporating cooler or (dry-)ice box.

> What I would like on the bicycle is a general purpose recharegeable battery that works off a dynamo and powers the lights on the bike.

… buy one? Get a dynamo-charged buffer battery and plug a USB headlight in it or whatever.

> I would like a battery to be practically structural, so, in the bicycle implementation the battery would use the frame tubes, to be more like an internal layer of paint than something big and heavy.

A battery is big and heavy by definition. And will remain thus until we get an absolute breakthrough.

> to be more like an internal layer of paint than something big and heavy.

Magic, got it.
Do you look at the general public and conclude that, on average, a random person tends to make informed decisions that you would like to be a part of? As an American, I routinely think that half of the country has terrible reasoning and that the other half is technically making better decisions for often equally dumb reasoning. I feel like a borg would be observably similar. Look at the decisions it makes. If you disagree with most of them (strongly), would you join it? It’s not all that different from joining any social group. You just offer it 100% of your salient identity.
What I still don’t see here is a compelling use case which would make a critical mass of users say “this is demonstrably better for me than the existing payments system.” All I see from my perspective as a potential user is I can do what I can already do with dollars except I lose the interest on the deposits I make to buy Libra.
Think about a cat instead ;)

Seriously, dogs are a shitload of work and especially, no matter how fucked the weather outside is, you gotta take the dog to walks so that the dog can take a dump. In addition, many of the larger breeds are working dogs which means that they require massive amounts of attention and daily exercise so they don't literally go mad. Please do proper research upon the characteristics of your desired breed, and don't take in a rescue dog as your first dog either. Rescue dogs can and will have psychological issues.
Libra is pegged to a basket of values. I suspect that this could lead companies to prefer to store liquidity and report on Libra as it could be more stable than any individual currency, including USD.
I’m super curious how the initial governance framework evolves over time.

From the looks of it, it’s not anything completely new and relies on standard human voting and management structures.

>A Founding Member that does not comply with the Founding Member eligibility criteria can be removed by a supermajority vote of the council. The recording of this vote on the Libra Blockchain will remove the member's node from the consensus algorithm.

So given this, the things working in Libra’s favor are an immediate, global social network for distribution.

Against it would be lack of innovation on the governing front (i.e. prone to internal politics) but this is probably more of a long term problem.

[1] https://libra.org/en-US/association-council-principles/#asso...
UNC Children’s Hospital Suspends Most Complex Heart Surgeries
That doesn't solve any of the aforementioned problems.
The tinfoil hat people get more and more correct, being validated at every turn.
Combining it with Keepass Tusk increases the usability for non-techs too.
> There is no sensitive chaotic model behind this, it's completely straightforward dynamics.

Sorry for the poor choice of words, no chaotic model was implied or intended.

> Fertility rate per woman, and death rate.

No, there is also technological development, wars and so on. So any prediction that looks 80 years out that only looks at fertility rate and death rate is going to be found wanting. It's a bit long for a long bet, but I'd be more than happy to take one for a 30% or more deviation from the prediction.

The degree to which people are willing to believe simplistic models without further qualification is astounding to me, given the past 80 years in development of medical technology, electronics and our ability to wage war any predictions about the next 80 years should come with huge error bars. And that's before we get into the consequences of Climate change.
I don't believe it works the way you think it does:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204921
"If you need more help, contact Apple Support. While we can answer your questions about the account recovery process, we can't verify your identity or expedite the process in any way."
“When Facebook notified the acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014, it informed the Commission that it would be unable to establish reliable automated matching between Facebook users' accounts and WhatsApp users' accounts. It stated this both in the notification form and in a reply to a request of information from the Commission. However, in August 2016, WhatsApp announced updates to its terms of service and privacy policy, including the possibility of linking WhatsApp users' phone numbers with Facebook users' identities.”

European Commission, 2017
Since people would presumably not use that extra time to have more children (they aren’t time-limited now), the result would just be a linear increase in population. The important part here is the change from the exponential models of Malthus etc.
Lack of touchscreen won’t be the reason I buy a Mazda, but over-use of touchscreen is one of the top reasons I won’t even consider a Tesla.
Admittedly, my understanding of the problems you describe is superficial at best. But it sounds like you are citing a rather narrow set of requirements (memory safety in network code where protection against exploitation is paramount) as a means to generalize that Go is overall not a good language and should be avoided in new code. I don't think that's fair. As with everything, it may be not suitable for the scope you outlined, but it evidently has its place in a multitude of other uses.
TL;DR; Ben Kenobi had his Darth Vader, who he didn't give a fk about.
Look at the error bars for the U.N. estimates. 95% chance between 9 billion and 13 billion 80 years from now is not exactly a narrow band. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/9...

One extreme unknown is global life expectancy. New diseases, or new cures for existing diseases can make a huge difference. Add in wars, economic growth, and a host of other factors making long term estimates are hard. Just consider how accurate past population estimates have been.
Move – A new programming language for Libra Blockchain
Facebook’s Calibra is a secret weapon for monetizing its new cryptocurrency
The carbon price of cryptocurrency damns it enough. If it weren’t for the lucky happenstance of fossil fuels we probably wouldn’t have had the energy Infrastructure around to develop computers to crunch numbers for this sort of moonshot.
Apple’s China problems have ‘no easy near-term fix,’ says Credit Suisse
Check out the Google Java Style Guide:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html
You use something else. Go does well at shuffling bytes. It does ok at shuffling text. Once you leave those domains it starts to get abrasive pretty quick.

It turns out lots and lots of systems shuffle bytes & text so golang has a lot of room for adoption but for now modeling, business logic, math etc are all better done in other languages.
I'm not sure anymore if it's every shutdown or patch tuesday anymore; but it sounds like every shutdown? Somebody would need to repro.
Ada Colau, which was the major behind the Superblocks proposal, was elected once again, although with some turmoil (basically she's from a left-wing party and got elected thanks to the votes of the previously France Prime Minister Manuel Valls who was running with a right-wing party). More info https://www.thelocal.es/20190616/barcelona-mayor-reelected-a...
- Gas is already a big improvement over coal, so it's not all that bad as an intermediate solution

- If we count hydro as an option we also have to include wind with pumped hydro storage (which comes with the same problems as hydro: geographic requirements and ecosystem disruption).

- Wind/Solar with Li-Io storage is technically a possibility and likely will become cost effective within 20 years.

- Within 20 years better grid-scale storage for use with wind/solar might become widely deployed, like molten salt. Especially if we would be willing to spend equal amounts of capital as would be required for deploying nuclear

- Energy consumption could be much more closely coupled to solar/wind availability by changing electricity prices from a fixed price to a dynamic price coupled to real spot prices. We already shift electricity use into the night by charging industrial consumers less for off-peak use, the same strategy can be used to shift consumption anywhere to any other time of day.
> which is that they have nothing to hide from companies or the government, especially law enforcement

Which is not true when you consider that all your life events are being used to estimate your suitability for life changing opportunities like getting a job or a mortgage or a visa.
Show HN: Honeygain – Consumer-centric IP pool idea
Hello, HN community,

I am Kaiden from Honeygain team. I wanted to show out and discuss our product with the HN community - https://www.honeygain.com

The idea is simple - we do have quite fast internet connections nowadays, but often it is not being used to its full potential. This is where Honeygain comes in - you can set your device as a gateway for data scientists to extract data out of the web with a simple application. You get paid for that cause.

We have been on the idea of having a consumer-centric residential IP address pool for quite a while. However, a month ago we went live with Android application (Windows went live a few days ago)
The main principle - we manage the gateways, infrastructure and partnerships with data researchers.
We do pay a certain amount of money to the consumers that do use our application and consent to let traffic through their IP address.
So this is quite a visible benefit and Win-Win situation for both sides.
We got some recognition on ProductHunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/honeygain
And the application grew in unexpected rates.

This is where we are looking for the HN community to discuss the product in and out. The benefits and the risks we might have to deal with. (DDOS botnet, Certain fraud targets, Cracking/Matching - we are dealing with those via carefully Vetting partners and making sure to add filters for potential risky targets)
All in all - looking to hear your thoughts!

If anyone is interested to try it out - Android app can be found in Play Store and Windows one on the website. (We have not yet been successful in removing SmartScreen prompt yet. In progress tho!)

Cheers,
Kaiden!
11B from 7B is a 60% increase... But that's the usual sterile nitpicking. Do you want to argue about decimal points or address the actual point?

The important point is that this is a large increase when we already cannot manage now.
No-fly list?
after the elections, the mayor will continue being Ada Colau, despite ending in second place this time. the whole situation is much more complicated than that, but there's a clear majority by left-wing parties, so the plan will most likely continue
Ada Colau got elected again, and will most certainly continue with the same push for more green and active spaces for pedestrians.
Except cryptocurrency has been exploited to invalidate it’s recorded value.
We are not environmentalists at all (well, one of the kids is but I am paying) but we enjoy the journey as much as the destination?

For the right price I don't mind changing the itinerary, but like I've said at the moment flying is cheaper then a train ride even sthlm -> copenhagen in some cases.