skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We believe it was not just about saving money, but also the fact that he is older (almost 50). He felt they were a bit age-ist, wanting his knowledge and experience and yet not willing to hire someone in his age bracket.
Can someone explain what this provides to users over, say, a credit or debit card?

You don't have the rebellious notions of sticking it to traditional banks, not do you have (completely imagined) anonymity crypto fans have gravitated to. You don't have any of the intangibles crypto fans like.

It just seems like Facebook wants a central bank. Who's asking for that?
Debunking the Self-Esteem Myth
Earlier there was a thread dicussing Roy Baumeister and others dismantling of the self-esteem myth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052173

1. There's no empirical evidence that people such as bullies, violent criminals & narcissist have low self-esteem at all. It has been disproven several times not just by self-report studies (which aren't reliable) but also by studies in genetics, neuroscience and socio-biology.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1139448656455712768
http://teachlikeachampion.com/wp-content/uploads/Baumeister-RE-THINKING-SELF-ESTEEM.pdf
http://homepages.se.edu/cvonbergen/files/2013/01/Dark-Side-of-Self-esteem.pdf
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/bbc00.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=vgHgNsmZ3vsC&pg=PA19&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q=self-esteem&f=false

2. The notion of bullies in particular are driven by feelings of inferiority is Freudian nonsense that makes no logical sense. How are people how bully the poor, ugly and unpopular driven by insecurity?
https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/everything-adults-say-about-bullying-is-bullshit/

The claim that "people with High-self-esteem don't need to bully others, they treat them as equals" is nonsense based on moral biases.

3. Modern Biology (especially genetics & neuroscience) has consistently shown that people tend to unconsciously act the way they subconsciously feel. That's why actions speak louder than words. If narcissist and on other egoistical people didn't really feel that great about themselves then they wouldn't have the will to behave like it in the 1st place.

4. The myth the low self-esteem is the root of evil is nothing more than an utopian fantasy. Its based on the moral fallacy that people ought to be a certain way and if they aren't then there's something wrong with them. Its also based on a denial on Human Nature, assuming that people don't have innate urges & predispositions for violence and egoism.

Any thoughts?
> I don't see a problem with simplifying the exponents first.

Sure, we call that computer algebra. As soon as you start doing that, you aren't doing automatic differentiation, you are doing (at least in part) symbolic differentiation.
It's true that American infrastructure is terrible. I think the root cause is political incompetence, especially at the state and city levels. Often the money is there but gets squandered by people who cannot plan or are driven by personal vendettas that don't correlate with the needs of the constituency.
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There's a lot more to it than that.
Kids in school say "why do I to learn X, I am never going to need it in real live".

And then you end up with adults who don't believe that the earth is round, that vaccines are low-risk and extremely beneficial and think that the existence of snow means that there is no climate change and that homeopathy and essential oils are a valid alternative to modern medicine, etc.
If this project was trying to prove there is a space for a language with the features as described, it was a success. Many people want a magical compiler that has simple syntax, no calling overhead to C, and automatic memory management without the overhead of a garbage collector, etc. I really feel this is an indictment of both Rust, for its approachability, and Go, for its lack of common features. I love and use both languages but it has been difficult for me to get other developers to want to use either for anything more than a utility.
How do you ensure stability? Based on the "learn more" section, I would presume the soft body is made up of vertices stitched together with damped springs. Is that accurate?
Not the OP, but as an engineer I dug into art history too to broaden my outlook with this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280190.Art_History

Not a cover to cover thing, but it was fascinating cherry picking periods in history I was interested in and seeing the art of the time and of course visiting local museums and seeing the art works mentioned in the book.
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The original tweet questions calling an electron app “native”.

Your response is to call that person a troll.

Maybe English isn’t your first language but this isn’t “trolling”.
Supporting Linux also inadvertently helped Google Stadia.
The best part is how he fraudulently gamed the market test.

> So Montañez assembled a small team of family members and friends, went to the test markets, and bought every bag of Hot Cheetos he could find.

> “I’d tell the owner, ‘Man, these are great,’” he recalled. “Next week, I’d come back and there’d be a whole rack.”
mobike and other bike/scooter/whatever sharing apps already turn users into police already. One is encouraged to report a bike that has been parked in an out of reach place, such as in someone's private backyard. I'm quite upset myself when I'm following the map for the only available bike nearby only to find out that it's obviously inside someone's apartment, so I'm torn about my feelings - i don't want to turn into an unpaid vigilante for some Chinese company, but I'm also pretty mad at the assholes who do this and would rather they not get away with it so easily!
Similar program is in use in UAE for years. Anyone can use police app to snap a photo of illegally parked car.
Specially trained police staff review hundreds of photos per day and issue tickets in one click. Far quicker, safer, easier approach.
> If Huawei has truly engaged in a long-term pattern of conduct significantly adverse to national security, surely, some independent security research would have already found and published a paper

Presenting non sequitur as evidence has become par for the course. Let's step back to one day before the heartbleed bug was discovered in ssl libs, when a similar argument could've been made regarding the ssl library's security. Only to be disproven a day later.
> It's not the _data_ that's toxic, it's the misuse of it.

That's like saying strychnine is harmless unless you swallow it.

The credit reporting system is built atop the tortured bodies of the victims of identity theft. Every time an individual's personal data is transmitted, that individual is put at risk. The CRAs profit from the profligate dissemination of sensitive data, but the individuals who were compelled to participate and then came to harm are systematically prevented from obtaining recompense.
Sure, but a lot of the folks making these mistakes inside of companies also don’t care about getting better, just getting paid.

If you wanted every such type of mistake to be susceptible to crimimal or civil litigation, boy, you’d be legislating morality for one (deciding exactly when someone can value money or believe a certain risk is worthwhile), and have almost no way to enforce it (how can you prove a sincere mistake I “learned from” vs negligence I never cared about, without something like smoking gun email admissions or something?), and further no competent people will agree to do these jobs if they feel they cannot have a perfectly healthy and normal process of making mistakes without great risk someone will try to turn it into a lawsuit or criminal charges?

You might say these are all matters of degree, and you just use targeted legislation to make it punishable according to specific guidelines, but it’s just a giant slippery slope, and very susceptible to political subversion for people who have the same malicious intent only operating on the regulatory or legislative side rather than in private firms.

It’s a huge moral hazard problem, but one that can really only be solved by rare, upstanding management, and hardly ever by litigation.
for c/c++ I use Visual Leak Detector and Valgrind. For Delphi/FreePascal/Lazarus there are built-in tools and also MadExcept . Behavior/patterns are different depending on task/language but generally when writing code if I want to allocate anything I first write deallocation code.
This is a textbook case of whataboutism. The US is not perfect, but let's not get distracted when the topic at hand is the forced harvesting of organs and genocide of religious and ethnic minorities.
But that's the simplest union type.

You could have:

type Result = {type: 'ok', value: string} | {type: 'err', value: string}
> ... "rthisewrite fir first with that then delete the second"

I'd be annoyed at this code review comment. "rewrite this `for` loop first, then delete the second `for` loop" is what I assume you intended.
Direct peer-to-peer payments: Those are currently a nightmare when you regularly travel. US: Venmo, Europe: SEPA, China: Wechat, etc. If Facebook manages to sign up enough stakeholders from different countries (that provide gateways between Libra and traditional bank accounts in their respective countries) Libra would provide a viable global alternative to the currently very fragmented market.
Is there a report on bugs.webkit.org? I’m curious what’s going on on the WK side, and that’s superior to the great black hole of radar
Can you please follow the admonition at the top? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20251393
That's the point of the project. It promises a very buzzwordy professional grade language to rival other languages built by full time teams of engineers. Of course it sounds like gold - unfortunately this is fools gold. We shouldn't be promoting projects like this that are raking in more money than genuinely useful in production open source projects by people who are too modest to hawk Patreons.

I'm all for toy projects and beginners writing their first langauge. I object to inflating a project well beyond what the author knows they can deliver while collecting money from people who are hopeful that the project isn't a joke. This is an example of how to take a passion project in the wrong direction. Open source from the beginning, be open with your intentions, don't over promise, don't accept money until you have something of value people can use, don't flame people who are critiquing you when listening to advice could make your project better.
On the HOA note I lived in a couple. Both times a small club of elderly women with nothing to do during the day would walk the neighborhood multiple times per day and enforce every single rule for every neighbor that they didn't like, which was nearly everyone. Car 13" from the curb? Citation. Shrubbery not trimmed? Citation. Visiting relative's car parked in driveway more than 3 nights in a row? Citation. Guest parking on street overnight? Citation. Watering your lawn not enough, too much, or during the wrong hours? Citation, citation, citation. Some tomcat or stray dog in the neighborhood pooped in your flowerbed and you didn't even notice it and thus didn't remove it? Citation. Fence paint peeling? Citation. Repainted the fence the same color as before without getting written approval from the HOA architectural committee, which was never even established? Citation. Got the committee established and got written permission to paint the same color as before but painted your fence a slightly different color of grey from the neighbors' since theirs have faded over the years? Citation. Unapproved lawn buddha statue in the backyard where no one can see it? Citation. American flag in a flag holder on the post next to the front door? Citation.

These types see themselves as defenders of law and order, protectors of good, and take pride in that not a single infraction on any day anywhere goes without a citation. They know all, and see all, and disapprove of all.

And the HOA management association loves them because they bring in tens of thousands of additional revenue per month, and even enables them to confiscate a few houses now and then should the homeowner contest the charges and refuse.

I would never ever ever ever live in an HOA controlled area again.
Earlier parts of this series taught me A LOT about how interpreters work and programming more generally
> police harassment every year over minor infractions.

I'm confused by this phrase. do you think that minor infractions shouldn't be enforced at all? is it "harassment" anytime someone faces a consequence for violating the law?
Again, more whataboutism. The topic at hand is the PRCs unlawful harvesting of organs from ethnic and religious minorities, and the genocide (yes, genocide, read the report) this represents.
> The more money you have, the longer your runway, and the more risks you can take on

This resonates for me. It wasn’t until I significantly curbed my spending habits on frivolous luxuries and learned how to save that I was able to do the things I wanted to really do.

I wish they taught basic book keeping and financial common sense stuff in school. I mean they taught us week after week in home economics how to bake and cook, surely some financial lessons there would’ve been a good idea.
Haha even better: compress images by just recording the dimensions and average color. Very high compression, and it’s correct for mono-colour images :)
Let's add a couple more constraints. The OS and the applications that run on it should be accessible to people with various disabilities and should support a variety of human languages for both input and output. And there are probably more things I'm not thinking of that any widely used platform must have.

To be sure, software does have some bloat. But some of the complexity is necessary for software that can be used by the whole world.
But it would still give them leverage, because cutting FB to size would then hit the USD.
From the article: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
Man this is great fun! I got all scrunched up by the circles of doom.
In the market's defense, from a certain perspective it was right.

There are no significant regulatory penalties coming at Equifax over this (the biggest change is that credit freezes are now free, which is great win but won't have a huge market impact).

Additionally, consumers can't choose not to participate in this process. I mean, if you're wealthy, you can choose not to buy anything on credit, and if you're tech savvy you can choose to freeze your credit with Equifax and force the majority of your traffic through other companies. But again, that's not the majority of the population and it's not going to have much of an effect.

Businesses aren't going to stop relying on social security numbers and background checks, because... well, for a lot of reasons, but partially because that system is really entrenched and it would take more than leaking half of the US population's data to make it change. That's going to be a very, very hard battle to win. In the meantime, that just means its even harder for consumers to avoid businesses that rely on Equifax for credit checks.

So, the market determined that consumers were not going to change their behaviors over this breach, in part because there aren't a lot of reasonable ways for consumers to do anything. It determined that Equifax wasn't likely to be harmed in the long term by the government, and it determined businesses weren't going to change their behavior around identity verification -- and it priced itself accordingly.

If you want the market to punish bad actors, you have to give consumers and people effected by the market agency to move their business or to choose not to participate in systems they don't like. Current credit systems just don't give ordinary consumers that kind of agency.

This also pops up in privacy debates sometimes where people say, "oh, people don't care." That's sometimes true, but it's generally really complicated -- and part of the reason it's complicated is because consumers have been taught over and over that there is no point to caring and nothing they do is going to stop companies from tracking them.
The SW market is saturated for entry-level positions and geography can change things drastically. I don't doubt your experience because I had a similar one that I managed to progress past. But the US is far from developing nation just based on anecdata from someone having a hard time finding a job in a field.
Yeah the visa processing times that immigrants are experiencing now are way faster than the times I experienced waiting for visa processing during Obama's second term.
Slack, Trello, Grammarly, free-tier GSuite, and other tools are gaining access to some highly privileged information at a lot of companies... It's just a matter of time when something bad happens because 'you gave us permissions to all the data in the TOS you signed' or something similar.

I personally dislike all of the above, but am forced to use some of the tools :/.
Can’t that be done through easily through Paypal ? (or Western Union, I just never tried)
You know that child care isn’t free in France, the health system has significant co-insurance payments, and the social security system isn’t that generous? You have to dig into the actual details of these programs, not Americans idealized view of them: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2013/04/17/....
For one - you can unplug someone else's car and take a picture of it...
And a House episode
Francois Chollet has hinted at distributed being addressed. https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1142515054647971840?s=19
> Freeloading couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Exactly this. For example, from Phoronix just today: "Valve Is Funding Improvements To KDE's KWin & More Work On X.Org"

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Valve-Fu...
One of the criticisms of the C++ standardization efforts is how many of the improvements are quitearcane. But those arcane features aren't necessarily for user code but to make library code efficient. Implementations of the standard library are often almost unreadable because of all the weird corner cases and performance optimizations they have to transparently handle.

This can go a long way to improving user code...but of course it's no magic bullet.
That’s great. This is something I’m interested in as well. I found your critical essays repo on github. I have committed time to studying the philosophy of technology and am particularly familiar with the works of the Frankfurt school, some of Paul Virilio’s work, and the work of Lewis Mumford. I’d be happy to contribute if you’re looking for contributors for any critical projects.
But how does the US get there first before china does?
So without having followed the story, some thoughts on designing large frameworks, where a programming language is possibly the among the most ambitious because design choices are so consequential.

In my iterations of learning to do this (in the open source machine learning space), there have been always five phases:

i) Ingest - use existing tools for years, try to build things and understand the subtleties of their limitations.

ii) Build something - if you were right about the limitations and identify ways to overcome them, people will recognize that and want to use what you build.

iii) Maintain and learn how your assumptions live up to user realities.

iv) Realize very likely that your first attempt at greatness wasn't all that yet, even if it becomes popular. Popularity is not a sign of what you building being well designed, just that the need for it may be great.

v) Build something based on the combination of your initial hunches and taste which got you into it to begin with, and your experience on building something large.

Iterate, and given enough talent and sweat, you might create something that is just right.

Being a computer scientist but not a programming language geek and looking at this, the project looks like a first attempt at ii), but is selling itself as a late iteration of v). Tech communities have very high standards and taste on design, so overselling is deadly.
Farming it out to a private company would be worse given the potential perverse incentives. We already see this in things like private prisons lobbying against more lenient drug sentencing.
In cypherpunk terms, what’s dreamy about a crypto currency with no anonymity, that shifts power from international democratic governments to private US corporations?
Like the old xspringies from '93.
I think that was the goal he stated retroactively. Before the attacks, he seemed to legitimately believe he could conventionally destroy the US and unite the Umma with a long series of 9/11 style operations.
> More people have to suffer usually if software ends up long lived without being pushed to upgrade when there are newer technologies that improve the experience - it's a heavy price of others you're asking for a lot of times when choices have to be made between compatibility and improvements that often get discounted unreasonably.

I look at all of the Mac software I've lost and will lose to upgrades over the years, including the offline-only parts of my workflow that held back only myself, and weigh them against this bright new future of low-effort blown-up tablet apps on my desktop that they were sacrificed for. A heavy price certainly has been paid here.
AirMac is Apple’s actual name for their wireless routers and cards, in some markets.
It’s not just “iOS”: the modern (the last few years I think) A-series chips do not have any support for 32bit arm, they are 64bit only.
I think most countries criticizing this don’t have an active organ harvesting and internment camp operation against ethnic and religious groups, though. I would rather compare it to a drunk driver judging a serial rapist, at least if we’re going to look one decade or so into the past.
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This is completely unrelated but nice job that you put me in the same group as flat earthers. Because, yes, if you complain about current calculus curriculum, you are not just a flat earther but also LITERALLY HITLER.

It's not about learning x, it's about the approaches you learn to solve x.
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Stick an FPGA in a digital camera and vaporize whatever you like! Love it.

Laundry Files are a great read. One of my all time favorites.
Sure, what's a good reference?
Will it be distributed like "distributed tensorflow" (which requires to supply all IPs/ports in a TF_CONFIG env variable!).
As long as they don't have a gun and have no ability to kill (plus the seeming ability to be absolved of responsibility so easily) I feel it would be an improvement. That what makes it potentially different than Zimmerman for example. If they can kill then I agree, there's no improvement and it's potentially worse.
Why do you take it as a fact that CRA help with the thing the claim to help with?