skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you really believe facebook will ask users to manage private keys instead to authenticate with their facebook account?

Yeah, I know that your private key will probably be your Facebook username&password tuple, but this is still better than credit cards because the merchant will not need to know this tuple to be paid.
It's almost as if you've built your garden right in the middle of their habitat.

But seriously, I come from a family of farmers, and I know that the things that farmers do to animals is way worse than anything you've described here.
America Loves the Idea of Family Farms. That’s Unfortunate
>1000 transactions per second seems low. This doesn't feel very scalable to me.

Yeah, this seems like an issue to me too. It doesn't seem like they have gotten around the problem of "every node needs to verify every transaction". Than again it might not matter if every node is a beefy data center.
If that's the case, why do banks consistently push to loosen regulations? Can you point to an instance of banks lobbying for increased oversight and restrictions?

Making a bank should be hard. I don't want some unknown startup to come in to "move fast and break things", because "things" in this case means "people's savings".
> I've always found it frustrating that such an ecosystem was built around docker when it could have been done with VMs all along.

I think you underestimate the issues with that. Why do you think VM companies haven't jumped on this bandwagon?

The closest thing I see to that are the restricted micro-VMs like Firecracker. And a big part of the reason they exist is to support the needs of containers.
We could all use some more Coq in our life.
I wonder if "kept separate from" is meaningfully differently than "unable to be linked to". Ie, if Facebook can figure out how to link their data to your LibraCoin data then this statement is moot.

Keeping data separate is not interesting wording by itself, imo.
Python is the closest in experience to the BBC Basic I grew up with, I think.

The only challenge/disappointment vs. BBC Basic is that you need additional modules (and complexity) to output any sort of graphics; if this is of particular interest, I would highly recommend checking out processing [1].

[1] https://processing.org
I fear that this kind of passion is now harder to achieve, because kids are shown that computers can do amazing stuff from very young age but anything that you can produce yourself will be woefully behind. Back in the day a game copied from a magazine was worse than what one could buy, but not _that_ much worse.

This is why, I think, we see people "coding" in Minecraft and Roblox. They have all of the environment set up for them and can do cool stuff which they can immediately appreciate.
Well, they don't actually say it's "not centralized." They say it "will not be issued by a central party," which it won't--it will be issued by 28 central parties.
I'd go with turtle initially as suggested by another. Until they can wrap their heads around concepts like loops and the basic cause and effect of code = an output. Wrong code wrong output etc.

Then python. Though keeping that interesting for kids is going to be a challenge I think. Maybe if they can control some sort of LCD array or a motor or robot of sorts?
Imagine being the child born on the ship on a crash course to this new planet.
The exchanges aren't market makers, they're exchanges. Totally separate concept. The NYSE isn't a market maker for stocks, for example.

Your confusion seems to be that the exchanges are coming up with the prices, which is not at all how it works. Again, the price is set exactly the same way as it is on the NYSE, by matching bids and asks.
It first exhibited a lot of blank calendar pages for the end of 2019 onward, though June and July 2019 were still there. Then complete 404.
Then what about decisions from corporations who do not even consider you as a person, or a citizen, but as a consumer?
I suspect they are using different definitions of "information", "share", "separate", "Calibra", and "Facebook" than a naive person reading that sentence might expect.

I don't mean that as pure snark; I'm dead serious. The legal definition of all those things, the definitions they can get away with using, and the definitions that a normal person would expect from reading that sentence are probably three very different things.

Plus, along with general lack of confidence in Facebook keeping its mitts off of juicy data given their checkered history, I have even less confidence that the promised wall will be there going forward, and that there won't be an excited, breathless announcement in a year or two about how ecstatic they are to bring you awesome new services powered by the data they're going to get from tearing down that wall and isn't it all just so wonderful.
It turns out to be hard to do concurrency in a library, if you need both absolute correctness (e.g. works with all system calls) and scale (more threads than the OS native threading will allow).

Afaik only Go and Erlang currently meet (at least my) criteria. No JVM solution currently does.
Status pages are not driven by automation, they are driven by PMs. Amazon, Google... all of the big players work them this way.

And I'm not surprised, since actually reporting it as down has a lot of political blowback (not to mention contract blowback) within the company.
I was obviously not writing about poverty but about our impact on the planet and the environment...
As a professional Lisp programmer, this is quite readable and well-structured. Lacking in comments and documentation, but I was able to infer things well enough.
Having worked with SAML, ADFS, etc., in substantial depth, I will opine that this article doesn't contribute above and beyond the same introductions to the technology from 10-15 years ago. It's just enough info to get a naive reader into trouble.
404 from India as well.
Now I'm curious when the last time Google search went down? they must lose a lot of money everytime that happens. or is that one of those services where they spend ridiculous amounts of money and talent on making sure it never goes down?
it's there now.

https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=cc...

> We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Calendar. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are unable to access Google Calendar.
Well, at least it's down completely. Not like the Google Webmaster Tools Search Console API where they just stopped updating / delivering correct data - without notice - any more. https://twitter.com/JohnMu/status/1138355023245713408
You can be sure they are using circuit breakers etc. to avoid that.
> There will very likely be a thriving 3rd-party industry upgrading the battery cells in old used EVs using the latest 2030s technology.

I have doubts that third parties will be able to do much work on modern vehicles at all, due to proprietary software and vendor lock-in.
Thank you. I meant to ask for others than the authors. Probably the repository is the best resource...

... I notice now that it uses the gas mechanism from Ethereum. Less interesting than I thought.
404 in India too
Hmm, I don't see anything there yet for me.
For me the 'magic' of BASICs line function helped me a lot to start coding because I could 'see' the results and was blown away by the graphics.

Therefore I would go for Processing, which is a kind of Java. Or even the online version https://p5js.org/ which integrates the HTML DOM.

And ofcourse follow The Coding Train with Daniel Shiffman. Fun to watch and he has video's for starters and experienced coders.
Estimating marginal carbon intensity of electricity with machine learning (2018)
Looks like a mix of alternatives picked from some site and collated here without verification.

Some may not exist/work — checked some random links and found privateemail throwing an error on registration and bravos having some statement about working on something new, with the old one unavailable.

I’m also not sure if Discord, Slack, etc., really count as private alternatives (well, there are people who diss Telegram on privacy).
eh. I disagree. I find that with Slack there's this expectation to reply right away. And if your boss Slacks you, sees you're online, and you don't reply, it's perceived as not doing your job. And even if it's not perceived that way, we've developed our own fears that we'll be judged as being unavailable/ un-responsive or simply not doing our jobs well enough.
It may be cultural and not just app-based, but when millions of people are using a specific app, its hard not to draw conclusions...

IM is really useful lots of times, but I definitely think it's one of the main contributors to our 'workism' problem and what so many of u have issues disconnecting and eventually burning out.
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yes, we should explore (and eventually exploit) all forms of propulsion and decide between them based on physics, not politics
Recently, government of India, started to look into this problem, some part's of India get too much of rain, and others live in drought.

They are trying to link up all Indian water bodies.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/a-wish-list-on-water-fro...
Counter-example from Apple: I spent 4 years there getting good performance reviews without a single refresh grant, and left on my 4 year anniversary. Most of my peers claim to have gotten one small refresh grant in that time, but certainly not one every year. Maybe it varies by team.
برعاية رائيس مجلس الوزراء سعد الحريري
First months after July disappeared, then it went 404 in NY area.
exceptions exists everywhere, do I have to introduce a disclaimer for the 1% of everything or can we have a discussion of the general case without people having to nitpick every word?

heck, I even didn't use an absolute

> for the most part
you are not alone
> If we had the political will

It takes more than that. We need political maturity and stability. There is no way we can send people today on a 200 years journey and be sure they will both make it and be able to create a somewhat stable society on the other side.

Also, that would be a earth level effort, another thing that is seriously irrealistic right now. The very best we can achieve right now is the ISS and that's pathetic even compared to current tech.

The biggest push in recent years has been around privatisation of space exploration. It is going to take decades, probably centuries before a commercial model of space settles down and non-profit utopist project like that would be conceivable.
Divert to Ganges and make it a sewage too?

This idea is bad in so many ways. It's gross hatred due to mass propaganda. First rule for sustainable water management is having local water supply used locally. We need better water management at individual city/village level like reviving lakes have a good ground water recharge etc.. Diverting rivers and desalination ideas are going to have huge ecological cost even if we forget about the economical possibility of them.
Assuming 200 years for people on earth, the traveler would experience 199.4 years

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+dialation+at+0.08...
What is even more terrifying is that this is being done by Facebook which has a person like Mark Zuckerberg, who has again and again shown that he has no moral compass and has complete disregard for people privacy rights and by extension other rights, as its dictator, with no real board oversight due to how stocks are structured.
So the Apollo "earthrise" photos are just "earth"?
I agree with almost everything you said. However, there is one point where I think you're wrong: the only advantage Go still has over java (as it exists today) is the size of the runtime - you can get a Go container serving an HTTP server in ~10MBs of size and similar amounts of RAM - this is still a far cry from what I've seen Java achieve.

This is not important in many use cases, but if you are planning to run a microservices architecture, this can help a lot with horizontal scaling costs.
This is dumb branding that masquerades control with false decentralization. The biggest opportunity it has is to become a fad amongst teens for a month, or a leech on the poor who don’t have banks. It’s going to fall on its face.
It also has the issue of calculating negative externalities to add to the "cost" of fossil fuels without attempting to understand the positive externalities.

The reasoning is "we will eventually have to pay for climate change and air pollution, so let's add that to the cost calculation for accuracy." This is reasonable (depending on the accuracy of your estimates) but it has to be accompanied by another calculation -- what would we have to pay for in the absence of fossil fuels that we're not paying for now? Likely quite a bit, at the very least in the loss of tax revenue caused by the economic slowdown. An estimate that looks at the cost of consequences is meaningless if you don't include all the relevant consequences of both action and inaction.
I'm confused at the part of how is Facebook "Anti-establishment?"
I didn’t read this so much as a critique of formal program analysis so much as a good excuse to talk about an interesting CS use case for linear algebra.
These pages at Google/Amazon/Netflix are updated by the incident response team, so it's a manual task.
It's called Ethereum.
Project Orion – Spacecraft propelled by atomic bombs
So Mark Z. wants me to buy his Chuck-E-Cheese(c) tokens, then see where I spend them. /s

In all seriousness, are they offsetting the coin generation with windmills, sea turbines, or geothermal plants? How much power is being consumed by FB and the small handful of banks that are cranking out these tokens?
I'm guessing that Google search is easier to distribute over a larger set of machines, since the data it uses is static to a large degree and less bound to specific users.
FB: A New Digital Wallet for a New Digital Currency
Well, dynamic queries by end users is the main goal here. Your static
helper functions are completely unusable in that context. Analysing a
query and generating code at runtime is easy and idiomatic with
uniform syntax (and accompanying language support) and the claim is
that solution is not only speedier but implementation in CL is
qualitatively simpler than the alternatives.
I'm curious how people still consider BCH a viable currency after the 51% attack done "in good faith" by a major mining pools BTC.top and BTC.com [1]. What's to stop them from doing it again the next time it's convenient?

[1]: https://twitter.com/TheCryptoconomy/status/11319624478232780...
I work at google. I am pretty sure google calendar data is not used for ads targeting. The same is true for gmail.
Start with purpose. My son only really went for it with Java, because he needed it for Minecraft plugins.

Attempts before with Scratch weren't too successful, but once the Why was there, setting up Eclipse and all kinds of silly things Java makes you do weren't a lasting obstacle.
> In contrast, Spilled.ink fetches all related images on
> server as soon as the email is received and encodes them
> into the message. This hides your location, and whether or
> not you opened the message, from trackers.

Wouldn't this expose the validity of the email address to every embedded tracker, since it's going to hit the tracking URLs to load the tracking images for embedding into the email?
Argentina Blaming Hackers for Outage Makes Smart Grids Look Dumb
And with the chrome/adblock mess it feels a lot worse.

My opinion is worth nothing but Google feels like a crumbling cookie now.. it used to be a cool addition to one's life.
I'm all for equalling the playing field. But Libra doesn't expand the choices on the menu: Would I rather eat curry that tastes like shit, or eat shit that tastes like curry? Sorry for my lack of enthusiasm.
require(‘left-stick’)
This is especially chaotic for business GSuite users. Wonder if there's an offline/local cache service available for cloud-hosted systems, that would be a good middle-ground between local control and cloud-backed scale.
> "Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people."

Command line demo/testnet. yea everyone can use it /s
This is why I always advocate for the use of specialized negative binary using 0 and -1 for weight-sensitive embedded products. For optimum weight characteristics you flip all unused storage space to -1. Careful though, too much empty space formated this way will result in negative gravitational pull and something like an Arduino with a high capacity SD card will float away.
I'm using a cheap Hostgator webhosting as a pretty good alternative to GMail, Calendar and Contacts.

I synchronize my information between Thunderbird (Windows), Android (DavX and GMail app) and of course, they provide a nice web interface (Horde)
>The safest speed limit being one that the overwhelming majority of people would naturally follow were it not posted is basically considered fact in the civil engineering world. There is study upon study backing it up.

It's too bad the civil engineers working as traffic engineers absolutely refuse to actually follow the recommendations of these studies. Honestly, I can't think of a more intellectually dishonest profession than civil engineering (specifically, the traffic engineering subset of it; the guys who build buildings and bridges are OK).
Well, there's the possibility of liquid water under icy moons.
I love how this always pops-up and how I always reply with these 2 links:

- https://prism-break.org/

- https://droid-break.info/
My definition of a good database design is that it models the domain well and will be flexible to support the user experience that you want.

The one constant is that your idea of the ideal user experience will change -- changing the database design is expensive once you have data in it, so you want to design it so future changes won't be hard.

I take inspiration these days from Ruby on Rails and Lotus Notes; in fact I am working on a "Lotus Notes in the Age of A.I." using arangodb as a back end and python asyncio on the front.
Acoustic Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging
12 cents is a lot, since it is static regardless of the transaction size. Small transactions at 12 cents fee are ridiculously expensive. You need low fee + 0-conf for small transactions (e.g. BCH). 12 cents is negligible for large transactions, hence why people call it a store of value. And since bitcoin doesn't scale, transaction costs will skyrocket again to crazy transaction fees of 50-100$ easily if it starts being used.
Yeah, as if all the instability in the region didn't have any bearing on it.
For chat, consider setting up your own Murmur server [1] and use Mumble to do voice and text chat. It is not has happy-clicky as Discord, but the sound quality is great and you can have thousands of people on a tiny VM. It is very easy to deploy. It looks like people have created ansible playbooks for this too. [2]

[1] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page

[2] - https://github.com/systemli/ansible-role-mumble

P.S. use their 1.3 RC version. It is very stable and much better than 1.2.
Basically I think our civilization is default dead.

As Paul Graham put it in another context:

"Why do so few founders know whether they're default alive or default dead? Mainly, I think, because they're not used to asking that."

People aren't used to thinking of civilization in these terms. We make retirement plans etc divorced from the projections of change to come. If we rationally considered priorities, you'd see much more popular support for actions designed to address the problem, such as increasing carbon taxes, cutting other taxes, and making an international framework to get other countries to do the same.

There's a scene in 12 Monkeys where the protagonist is in a mental hospital in the past, before a virus takes out the civilization. The psychologist asks if he came back to "help" them. The protagonist looks confused and says "how can I help you? You're all dead".

We have such a flurry of concern and activity aimed at the present. I can't help but have a similar feeling when I observe people making plans and not accounting for the predicted future, even if they claim to "believe" in climate change.

If people truly believed in it, you'd see much different political priorities. Right now effective action tends to be unpopular. Income taxes (taxing a good thing) have much more political support than carbon taxes (taxing a bad thing). I find the situation baffling.

More from Paul Graham's article:

"There is another reason founders don't ask themselves whether they're default alive or default dead: they assume it will be easy to raise more money. But that assumption is often false, and worse still, the more you depend on it, the falser it becomes."

We assume it will be easy to solve problems in the future, with future technology. Or that we will have surplus resources in the future, when worsening conditions cut crop yields, cut water, increase civil strife, and when the global population is larger and total emissions are higher.

http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html
For both the free and paid plans. I look forward to my tens of cents refund!
Honestly, if one minor bad experience prevented you from ever contributing to wikipedia again, you're not the type of user that would become a long term editor.

Wikipedia is rife with conflict due to being an open, easily anonymous platform frequently targeted by astroturfers and troll.

It sucks that your first contribution was reverted, but to write off the entire community as a result... It's not like wikipedia is a corporation with a strict PR front for external communication, the editing process consists of flawed individuals just like any community.
Sure, China great firewalling the protest, which is very expected.

Ever noticed that none of the articles so far has actually articulated what's bad about the extradition bill? The reporting language is typically either "Beijing-backed extradition bill", or some form of "extradition bill opposed by Hong Kongers"

https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr18-19/english/bills/brief/b201903... is the older version of the bill, which did not contain the concession that bumped the minimum prison sentence requirement from 3-years to 7-years, before the protest started, from one of the news article I read.

SCMP, which is basically the English language newspaper of record in HK, has this infographic https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/hong-kong/arti...
The two have nothing in common. Many people have trivial useless office jobs.
I worked for Lockheed Martin for more than a decade and I have many of the qualifications listed, including VAX experience and a special access clearance. Of course, Lockheed laid me off fourteen years ago and I retired three years ago, so I guess I won't be applying.
> If this succeeds, it will be a data collection tool the likes of which the world has never seen

I'm pretty sure that this type of data collection tool is in use today by the Chinese government.
Count your blessings. The vast separation between stars means that star systems can have stable planetary orbits for billions of years, which is important for life to develop.
Typical comments from them. It also says they will comply with all AML and KYC requirements and will work directly with governments as required. In other words, to get this crypto you must give them your government ID. The fact that the complete Calibra profile of you will be in a different database than your complete FB profile is meaningless.
Well, that's quite an insulting comment for the calendar team at G.

I'm sure they are fine, this product is not a personal page with guestbook for your 20 friends and gifs on shared hosting plan.
NASA exists to be the civilian side of the US’s aerospace ventures. The military side is the Air Force.
Feels like we're playing the first round in "Master of Orion" when you start scanning the stars around you ;)