skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My impression is if anyone has 51% of all bitcoin they can write whatever they’d like on the blockchain and validate it at will. Is this wrong?

Completely wrong. There is a set of rules which define whether a Bitcoin block is valid or not, things like "the block's hash has this many zero bits" (simplifying a bit here, the actual rule is a bit more complex), "all transactions have a valid signature" (simplifying a lot here, it actually runs a sort of a small program) and "no transaction spends outputs which have already been spent". It doesn't matter how much Bitcoin you have or how much hash power you have, even if you have 100% of all Bitcoin and 100% of all hash power, if the block doesn't follow the rules it will be ignored by all validating Bitcoin nodes.

What having 51% or more of the Bitcoin hash power gains you is only that you can rewrite history. You can present a chain of blocks to other nodes, and later present a different "longer" chain of blocks to the same nodes, and they'll accept the "longer" chain and discard the older one. All these blocks, however, still have to be valid to be accepted.
> The type of the function completely determines the operation.

Really? I must be misunderstanding what you mean by "operation", or maybe this is the part of functional programming that hasn't clicked for me yet... my understanding is that the type signature tells you what kinds of things the function works with, but it doesn't tell you how the function maps the input to the output. When I hear "operation", I think of the latter. What are you referring to?
Right, because intentionally designing a harmful product to appeal towards kids and get them hooked on nicotine is perfectly fine, just as long as we eventually crack down on the ads.
This is now one of my favorite videos :)
Where is it being marketed? I've never noticed a Juul ad before.
Did you start feeling terribly for them before or after you were publicly shamed on social media?
Tell us how you successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage
Sure, but office jobs are a fairly small portion of the overall workforce. Based on [0], it looks like the "Information", "Financial activities", "Professional and business services" and I'll assume 50% of "other" and the government jobs could be done remotely. I'm sure this is missing some jobs in the other categories, and there are certainly many, jobs in these categories that can't be done remotely, but so goes. That leaves < 30% of jobs that could be done remotely.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
Facebook to give data on hate speech suspects to French courts
It would be really nice to be able to coerce/validate incoming data (JSON I assume) at runtime against an interface definition. However, I feel like something like this goes against most of TypeScript's other stuff that aims for low cost abstractions on top of JS.

That said, even if I have to write type guards at the edges (which I'd do in JS anyway, just because you aren't using types doesn't mean you don't need to enforce schemas), I think being able to rely on compiler typechecking inside the codebase boundary is really nice for making module interactions more predictable.
there are times youtube (or the uploader) wouldn't want old versions available. Copyright/privacy violations, ToS violations, or even just unintentional misinformation can be edited out, but leaving the old version accessible could be a liability issue for youtube
They were huge for me when it came to games.

Another poster made a comment about the aisles dedicated to video games. You would pull out a paper slip and bring it to some off-to-the-side area where you would get your selection fulfilled by some back of the house magic. I can't remember if that was before or after checkout and I think they were all a bit different in how they did it but I seem to recall a long conveyer belt being involved. Later on, my local store cordoned off an area called "R Zone" which, on top of additional security, had everything out in the open as well as many kiosks and demo units.

To me, Toys R Us and games go hand in hand.
What’s yours called? I’ve been wanting one for a while, but never been satisfied with what I find.
Yes so much.

An integer can represent all sorts of things, so forever programmers have been using integers to represent all sorts of things.

If instead of “int age, int size, int color” you have “age_t age, size_t size, color_t color”, and a type system that helps keep these apart, so much confusion can be avoided...
> I lost out on those long term friendships, prom, senior year, graduation, and the collective preparation for college, as well as missing out on freshman year OF university, etc.

The importance of these "experiences" is garbage baby boomers feed young people because they're the decadent generation. Most generations prior to them never had those things. (It wasn't until WWII that more than 50% of Americans graduated high school.) I skipped senior prom to go to a robotics competition. I assume I attended graduation, but I couldn't for the life of me tell you where it was or anything that happened. I have plenty of friends from college and law school. I missed my 10-year high school reunion because my daughter was born the same week, but as far as I can tell from the pictures it was in a large basement of some sort.
Permethrin is an insecticide that's applied to clothing, tents, packs, etc. It's effective for a month or so depending on exposure to UV and number of washes. Picaridin is a repellent that's a applied in lotion or spray form.

Use both for best protection.
I expect there would have been a warning given in that case before assessing a fine.

What makes you expect this? Unless you and I have read entirely different versions of GDPR, no provision of GDPR requires any warning of any kind prior to issuing fines.

Edit: the downvotes on this are coming in fast. Because you are downvoting it, you must know of a specific section of GDPR that requires warnings to be issued (otherwise you wouldn’t be downvoting it, right?). So, along with your downvote, please reply to this comment with a link to the specific section that requires warnings, and I will be happy to say that I am wrong.
The "queers hate techies" thing is all over. While walking down Valencia once and checking out ATA's window gallery, I got the impression that the vandalism might be coming from them. Or someone masquerading as ATA.

[1] http://www.atasite.org/
If you're going to go down memory lane, take a detour and read John Carmack's plan files.

It's a daily blog of progress / lessons learned on whatever he was working on during the listed years.

The whole archive is at: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/tree/mast...

The 1990s is when it was most active.
I am calling it smoking, "vaping" is a euphemism that just recently entered the language in an effort to rebrand the action of smoking because being "a smoker" now has a negative connotation. "Smoking" has never been a literal description of that action - the literal description is "inhaling tobacco" which is still occurring. The fact that using e-cigarettes is viewed as a more healthy way for smokers to continue their habit sort of puts the nail in the coffin in terms of word meanings.
Foreign doctors still need a US residency. The number of slots for residencies is capped. I could imagine a world where the US signs reciprocal agreements with EU countries to honor their medical professional training without a residency. I cannot imagine the same for India or Argentina.
Kelp: An open-source Golang framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency
> This is disingenuous, data you either don't know exists or lack the tools to parse is useless.

If what you say is true, then we are failing our students far far earlier that when they are making decisions related to college and it's futile to address this problem before we address why they lack these tools by ages 17 to 18.
Good, this some Joe Camel all over again.
I know what you’re saying. Our company settled on a well known cloud app for ERP/CRM and daily I deal with copying and pasting something from it that invariably brings along extra text/ui elements that I didn’t want. Sometimes it’s just extraneous space, sometimes it’s extra text I don’t even realize was highlighted.

Another example are tables that have selection boxes for records or “action” links in each row like print or view. If I could select this table without those columns coming along for the copy ride I’d cut at least one if not a few steps out for every time I copy/paste something.
Sigh... with all the real and urgent problems the city (homelessness, housing shortage, vehicle break-ins, etc.) has they somehow have time to enact garbage laws.

We need new blood in our city government.
They always finally had to be exchanged to gold. Current dollars have no such peg, hence inflation, "quantitative easing" and other things only possible with fiat money. No king ever dreamed of monetary power like that of FRS.
"having less kids and many less adults smoking cigarettes is such a huge win for public health."

It's not about quitting anymore though. It's way beyond that.

Vaping is incredibly addictive, and because it's 'not smoking' and Juul is marketing it as 'cool' - it's massively taking over.

While vaping is obviously better than smoking, it has odd side effects due to the fact it's not, for example, I found myself vaping all the time, as opposed to just 'smoke breaks'.

Understand a few things:

1) Marketing works
2) Trends are real
3) Young people are very impressionable
4) The earlier addiction happens, the more life-long issues it causes
5) Critical masses are real: 5 kids in a high school doing it may not flip the school, but 25 might be enough and flip it into 1/2 the school
6) Supply and Demand is real. Make things harder to get, more expensive, higher barriers, the less people do it, the less likely there is to be a 'tipping point' collective behaviour.

I don't think they should have banned it, but they should totally ban all forms of advertising and promotion, there should be relatively high taxes on it, health warnings, and they shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a school. At least if the kids can go all day without vaping, they might not fall into a hole.

In Canada, vaping among teenagers has increased 75% in one year this is quite a substantial thing to worry about. [1]

[1] http://www.cancer.ca/en/about-us/for-media/media-releases/na...
The "cult-like fanbase" is mostly around declarative configuration, and a community of System Administrators that can implement complex rules and page layouts without any code.
Infinite.
Soliciting a bribe?
But how is that different from any of the other privacy violations that are regulated? I doubt many of us could prove any damages from Amazon listening in on conversations made by our kids, or Google not properly disclosing that its tracking our search clicks and GPS location for better ad targeting.

In fact, I'd argue that leaking an email that exposes a private association with a mailing list to other unknown people has much clearer potential for damage than any of the privacy issues that big companies get fined for. And yes, CC leaks do happen (not a lot, in my experience), but I'm personally upset about it every time - much more so than when I find out Google didn't get my consent before recording half of my internet activity. Just because the violation is something that "happens a lot" because it can be done by accident by a careless individual doesn't mean it's less serious.
Real Estate, Investor Relations, HR, Anything with an Approval Process... If you ever have a chance to attend a “Salesforce on Salesforce” session, take it. Or better yet, just ask for one if you’re a customer and want to see how they do a thing.
> So you are basically saying trading is a bad idea.

For most people, yes. Active management of your own stocks in an IRA is almost always a losing proposition. That is, most people who do it will end up worse than if they just parked the money in a boring ETF.

> Doesn't that mean that all these Discount- and Non-Discount Brokerages are basically just selling us bad ideas?

YES. Especially the ones that advertise technical analysis tools during network prime-time. Those that are knowledgeable in that kind of trading aren't using some E*Trade web-based chart widget. They have a Bloomberg terminal or similar.

> Yet it seems many people make their living by doing trading? Are they all just gamblers who will lose in the end?

Some will. Those that make a consistent living at it spend a large chunk of their day exclusively focused on that task. They're unlikely to be doing it inside their IRA, and they're certainly going to be more sophisticated than the layperson planning for their retirement. This is kind of a tautology. The market is a zero-sum game, except replace "zero" with the performance of the overall market. For every trader that beats the market, there is another trader that under-performs by the same amount.

The traders that are beating the market are more likely to be the hedge fund managers or other sophisticated investors. That leaves the average Joes and other retail investors on the other side of the line.

> Are brokerages like ETrade etc. basically selling and advertising something like cigarettes, bad for your (financial) health?

No, I think that's a little too far. Cigarettes are an almost unmitigated bad. Tools that help investors participate in the market with low friction are amoral. But to the extent that their advertising glorifies the pretty charts, I think it's pretty bad.
‘The Office’ Is Leaving Netflix, Coming to NBCU Streaming Service in 2021
Telesoftware: Adding intelligence to teletext annotated/explained version
This reads like such a recursive mess of "why is that any of anyone else's business" that I have a hard time sympathizing with anyone involved.
Maybe it does help reduce weight? Seriously the old cheese grater was absurd
> With a modern GPU, we should be able to detect objects in high-res videos at several frames a second.

How much power does this thing use?
I vape, used to smoke 20 a day quit for 7 years, started again and then switched to a vape.

JUUL absolutely should be banned from marketing at children, it’s blatantly obvious they know what they are doing.

I’m generally not in favour of legislation because it often either doesn’t work or has bad 2nd order effects but this is one of those cases I’d make an exception for.

Over here in the UK they limited the max strength of vape fluid to 18mg (previously 24mg was common) and reduced the max tank size (I kept my old one as the they are where interchangeable).

It remains to be seen what effect if any that has though.
> I think going to Stanford for CS will open more doors than going to Oregon State.

This concept stops being applicable the minute you get out of the HYPS tier of colleges. If you're cut out to go to HYPS and want to work in finance or top-tier consulting, then you should go. I understand the situation is similar these days with FANG companies. Once you're outside that tiny range of schools, save your money and go to the best in-state school you can get into.
Except we see just the fine. We have no idea how many attempts and warnings to get them to comply were sent first. It wasn't one email, it was multiple emails, multiple times over months.

This site makes no mention of warnings and escalations, and ICO at least doesn't normally announce that for individual cases. Though they do put out aggregate stats. When they have fines are clearly shown as arising in a small minority of cases.
> But, I still 100% recommend Salesforce to companies when they ask about it. Why? Data liability. Yes Salesforce is expensive - but you are outsourcing the responsibility of dealing with sensitive data to Salesforce.

This is precisely the reason why my organization, a large Canadian FI on the commercial banking side, decided NOT to go with Salesforce. They couldn’t rationalize giving up the data and went instead with a MS Dynamics implantation. This was 10 years ago.
You obviously are not familiar with the USA's Constitution. Please re-read it. In particular, Article Two, Section Four; "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." This means that the President may be removed from office in certain circumstances.

In the time when the Constitution was framed, and in many times since, there is the meme of "checks and balances". [0] The overall idea is that no one branch of the Federal powers may be unilaterally or universally unabridged in its ability to act; other branches have powers which may check, veto, review, or otherwise neutralize certain actions.

So, why is the President sometimes called "chief"? Because, as Article Two also states, they are the "Commander in Chief" of the armed forces. When it comes to military decisions, yes, there is no office above the President's; however, note that the President's military powers are neither unilateral nor unlimited. Crucially, the President isn't able to declare war or allocate funds for military use without Congress' approval.

Hope this was informative. The USA's Constitution is a fascinating document worth reading, even for those not from the USA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#Checks_an...
The real reason this ban is good is because e-cigarettes cause lots of plastic (cartridge) and battery pollution. Regular cigarettes believe it or not are not as bad for the environment (even the filters break down after a while).

I don’t think this health issue really matters because if someone is addicted to smoking regular cigarettes that only affects them. Pollution from e-cigarettes on the other hand is bad for everyone, even the non-smokers.
Check out Geoshred[1], developed as a collaboration between Jordan Rudess and researchers at Stanford University.
Its using a physical model for the guitar as well as audio FX (which tend to be easier to get good sounding than acoustic instruments).

In the domain of pure research, Kurt Werner's work in physical models of 808 circuits is also pretty cool [2].

[1] http://www.moforte.com/

[2] https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kwerner/
Sometimes there's only one possible function of a given typing.

For example, if a function's type is `a -> b -> (a, b)`, there's really only one function fitting that shape: cons. What else could a (pure) function possibly do, with that typing, other than "exactly what cons does"?
What about String -> String-> String ?
This code takes a Sem monad with a State effect in it, and turns it into a StateT monad with an inner monad of Sem and al l the other effects.

I have never user Polysemy, any effects library, or type-level lists before, but I'm reasonably sure my guess is right, despite not understanding any of the code.
As "bad" of an idea as it is, it's still better than "give up and die".
How is it designed to appeal towards kids? It's just good design that's dirt simple and works. If you look at their previous product, the pax, it's right in line with their design language and philosophy.
Oh heck yeah Cameo team, ya’ll are killing it!
Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire
I have a strong preference that if you were to do this, you keep it on your blog.
Made a site to find streamers to play games with
3 things:

1. Call the function
2. error
3. infinite recursion

Technically correct - there are infinite possible error messages.
There's a question on YCombinator's application, "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage."

Idea: I think it would be a great idea to take all of the past answers of this question, audit them to make sure they are legally and publicly acceptable, then get permission from the people or person making the submission to make their answer to this question public, then publish all of those answers on a web page where users could see them/compare them/vote on them, much like HN...

I think this could become a great resource for

a) Systems Theory Generalists

b) People who want to understand systems better

c) People who want to understand how some systems can be and are gamed;

d) (Non Computer) Systems Engineers/Systems Security Experts

e) Generally creative people who are interested in observing how other generally creatively people think and approach problems.

Comments?
KitSplit is a New York company.
f(+’,1,2) = “cookie”

For one.

Now tell me: are types the best documentation?
I did this in North Carolina. I’m still not sure if it was a good decision or not - the degree I received is useless and counts negatively towards “prestigious” schools (didn’t get into any and it haunts me to this day)
I'm not actually that sympathetic. If you have a processor that does not want to sign a processing agreement, you have to stop using them. There is no leeway on this issue in GDPR. You are responsible for ensuring that third party processors you engage agree to handle the data lawfully. There's not a lot of context to go on, but it seems to me that the company in question is just stalling. I literally can't think of a legitimate reason for their opinion that the service provider "does not act as a processor". Either you are sending PII to them or not. If you are, then they are a processor. If not, then it's not related to GDPR in any way.
There's a significant tradeoff between taste and waste. Modern varieties are bred primarily for long shelf lives and durability during transportation. If you want fruits and vegetables year-round, they're inevitably going to be blander than local and seasonal produce.
Why Wealthfront over FZROX and FNILX?

I switched from Wealthfront to these Fidelity index funds since they're free and seem to do basically the same thing (also convenient to just have everything in one place and Fidelity is where my 401k is anyway).

Wealthfront also added a 'risk-parity' fund which was opt-out that does not follow the same low risk index funds idea (and caused me to trust them less) https://www.pragcap.com/wealthfronts-risk-parity-fund-raw-de....
I've heard the reason that honey crisp apples are expensive is because they spoil easily in shipping. Those red delicious apples that nobody likes are easier to ship. So if you want to optimize produce for taste, buy locally.
In the original idiom, the "begging" is for acceptance of the speaker's claim on its face, rather than by "earning" agreement with supporting evidence and reasoning.
Not really. If you decide to smoke then that’s a personal decision. The bigger problem is littering from spent e-cigarette cartridges and batteries. That is a problem that affects smokers and non smokers alike. So the ban is a good idea, but unrelated to any health issues.