skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't decide if you're just trolling us or if you truly believe that your duplicitous position of both "helping society" and "pay off my student loans" is valid. What if we don't pay your student loan, but pay for those who are in default? You seem to be managing quite well, so let's help those who are less fortunate than you for the common good, but since you're doing fine, you can continue to pay your student loan, and maybe an additional 5% take to help those who are less fortunate.
Unicode support for URLs came only late (and the encoding looks ugly), so most popular websites even in countries with non-Roman scripts still use ASCII. E.g. Baidu's Chinese address would be 百度.中国 http://xn--wxtr44c.xn--fiqs8s/ but they didn't even bother to register it, instead still using http://www.baidu.com/

So internet users will be at least somewhat familiar with the alphabet.
phish.ing
phis.hing
phishi.ng
etc
Yeah, they don't let you withdraw or deposit any. You have to convert it back to fiat to withdraw.
It's not one-or-the-other. This is still America; you'll get both. There will be more wars, more corporate tax breaks, and more bank bailouts. You can count on that.
I wouldn't believe anything coming out of Project Veritas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe
This plan cancels all student loan debt; It does not matter what percentage of income-earners hold the debt. God forbid something nice happen for the middle class. It's really tiring to have scraped by, worked hard to get where I am, and be told I'm JUST privileged (white, male, income) enough to not qualify for any sort of government assistance.
> That such financial regulation is being politically decided

It's not being politically decided, but multiple senior members of the parlament in the committee on Budget and Finance have publicly expressed their concerns.

I agree that there is a lot of general inexperience in the entire system, and I don't believe that Lithuania would be able to regulate Revolut properly, as it's based in the UK.

The point was, that Revolut was more than welcome in Lithuania, and they didn't need to try to influence anyone. The politicians and regulators were even proud that one of the biggest fintech startups in Europe chose to set foot here.

They also saw that N26 was successfully granted a license in Germany, Monzo in the UK, and Bunq in Netherlands. Therefore, it wasn't seen as such a big risk.
Not to mention protobufs have awful performance compared to more modern alternatives in use today like Flatbuffers, Thrift, Cap'n Proto, SBE.

In the case of Google's own Flatbuffers, the layout is going to be far more performant.
Climate change is probably inevitable, but we humans will adapt to it; we will solve the problems that come from it; I actually see a high chance we will get basically unlimited free energy from renewables before we destroy the world.

Capitalism will get changed/fixed. At a local level, move to a sane country ;) At a global one, first realize we are much much much better globally than at any other time in history; we will keep improving.

Even in the USA, we're arguably better overall that at any other time in history; yes, Trump is a step back, but it's just so we can get impulse
The interesting thing about early 20th century is the wild swings in the suicide rate, a much more extreme series of swings than any time later. It seems like an indication that during that time, some greater degree of "contagion" was going on relative to later time (not sure from what). Another factor might be spottier records and a smaller population. The suicides from the 1929 stock crash were fodder for much literature and the seems to show an increase up to 1929 and then a steep decrease.

I know that during the 19th century, Goethe's "The Sorrows Of Young Werther"[1] was reputed to have provoked a rash of suicides.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther
> 20 years paying no more than 10% of your disposable income and it gets wiped out.

That's not quite true. The part that gets wiped out counts as taxable income for that year. In other words, if 100k of loans go away you now have a 10-30k tax bill depending on your income and state. I support closing that loophole, but otherwise I agree that it's a pretty fair system.
I think it might be orthogonal. The problem exists for everyone but is only visible in this demographic because it is balanced out in the others by improvements from recent social change.
Oh that explains it. guess they could add it world wide
Manually. However, I have had the luxury of implementing relatively small APIs. If I was doing something like the Google APIs, I'd probably consider automation. That said, I'd probably want to write the automation, myself, as I'm an inveterate control freak.
Just imagine if that amount of money was spent on updated infrastructure. Effective country wide mass transit, better ports and airports. And the money spent would flow right into the economy and circulate over and over, would push construction companies and techniques forward.

Or towards clean energy generation, storage, and use. How fast would oil and coal be completely replaced? And again, money pumped into the economy to do so.

Or scientific research, space projects, could make large leaps, and again, that money flows back into the economy and multiplies.

Instead we want to make it so the people who hustled through college, picked a cheaper school, worked on the side, paid down their debt if they got any as soon as possible, that those people get the same outcome as someone who got a huge loan and played video games and got drunk every weekend, and spent $200,000 on a degree that only gets you a $50,000/year job?
You need the FakeSpot extension :) https://fakespot.com
That's the story of the millennials right now. Too many people then before and nobody building houses for them. I think most non-millenials know of it and there won't be any changes until there is an offset of the generation controlling policy around home building.
"The circle of trust"

Please.
Oh I take it back... the README page doesn't look too lispy, apart from some of the constructs, but not in syntax.

This however:
https://github.com/wasplang/wasp/blob/master/examples/webgl/...

Definitely does.
Not much different than .com and .co, which already existed before the new TLDs.
Instead of spending money on a redesign you don’t need, make your service cheaper. Now that’s something I’d celebrate.
Anticipated Effects of Artificial Intelligence and 5G
I have had no contact with GS for 25 years, but KDB is unaccountably popular in other places on the Street.

The specialized time-series database lost much of its reason to exist when disk seek times went to zero. Nowadays you stage onto an SSD, and spool to rotating storage later, if at all.
Women struggle too, but get scared away by creeps and being put in scary situations. Women need to feel safe, not fear rape, and not feel treated just like a sex object.

Just don't be creepy and respect women.
oh, fack this research! u serious? why don't u run a research about how many black people are killed by gun in China every year?
> we could make TLDs affordable.

As long as we throw out the whole 'memorable' part. Which has both branding and security implications.

We need to either commit to a limited set or unlimited set. Being stuck in between in the worst of both worlds. If it's unlimited we can treat domains more like phone numbers and rely on 'contact book' style systems for personal reference instead of memory. Which would help solve both branding/security issues.

You could even diff the URLs against your URL "contact books" (I'm trying not to say bookmarks), to warn against possible phishing too.
Not that I know, but it uses ETS to handle state, and the global process registry to store peer information, as far as I know.

Also, be aware that OP mentioned riak-core, which is a different thing from Riak. riak-core is a library to build dynamo-style distributed applications, which gives you virtual nodes, consistent hashing and data migration as building blocks.
The World's First Solar Powered Train
Finally I can have friends who think just like me.
Although PCs have traditionally had closed-source firmware, this firmware has not typically been used to implement malicious functionality (aside from cases such as the Thinkpad example above), making it historically less of a concern (though this is changing). Vendor lockin doesn't magically become acceptable because kids (nor is it ethical to teach kids that DRM is okay/normal).

Also, define rpi clone - rpi did not invent the SBC genre. Many more open products precede it.

FYI, AMD graphics drivers are fully open now.
Quick Googling [0] revealed VideoCore VI might have at least some support for Vulkan and/or OpenCL. If this turns out to be true, then yes, VideoCore VI might be able to function as a crypto-coprocessor.

We'll see.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Broadcom...
"If I suffered then everyone must too!!"

I didn't get any student loans when I went to college, but I see the economic benefit of freeing up that revenue to be spent else where. This is just an indirect way of saying that turning education into an "investment asset" for banks was a mistake.
Do you live in a high COL area? There are plenty of places that are not "extremely rural" that you should have no problem owning a home. I'm an hour outside of Chicago living your Dad's 90's lifestyle on a solid but not spectacular IT salary that was a lot smaller when I bought my house eight years ago.
this article is hilarious and ridiculous
I highly suspect this article is written and published to attract those who have prejudice against Chinese.
Maybe the editor never been to China or met any Chinese, but if the researchers do researches like this (set an experiment without concerning about the different conditions), will there be any of their researches be reliable?
Why do you assume this question related to marketing at all? A company founder should always have an idea of what kind of people would most benefit/need the product, and target that audience first.
I highly suspect this article is written and posted to attract those who have prejudice against Chinese.
Maybe the editor never been to China or met any Chinese, but if the researchers do researches like this (set an experiment without concerning about the different conditions), will there be any of their researches be reliable?
> It seems to be based on this benchmark[1] which encodes a huge repeated int32 stuffed with random numbers

However, if your entire world consists of pushing around images to GPUs/TPUs, that's pretty much the only workload you ever need to optimize from your larger ops system.

Edit: not sure that this particular use case is exactly what's going on in that benchmark, now that I look more closely. Also, I wouldn't want to assert that it's a use case that matters a ton.
New method for developing tracers used for medical imaging
Verizon FiOS outages in northeast and central US
I imagine that once a majority of people are using the google dns servers that everyone seems to advise these days, that google will simply decide to ignore most of this and serve whatever domains they like.
I don't know if this is better!
I think some commenters don't understand the challenges of reviewing code contributions as an open source maintainer. Many people already feel like they're doing you a favour by contributing any code. This is amplified if they've followed "best practices" and broken it down into many tiny functions and objects. As a maintainer, having to review and maintain code that is abstracted in the wrong way is a major headache. Trying to tell someone that their code is over-abstracted risks starting a debate on the code review and generally derailing the process.

An article like this at least sets some precedent and gives you something to point to.
"We're sorry but web doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue."

This appears to be a static content site after I enabled JS. Why can't the site display static content without JS?
There's no real point in using a hostfile to block much of anything these days.

It will be something you constantly have to fiddle with - especially if you do it at a network level (PiHole) and share a home with other people.

IMHO, just stop using Google services and use Ublock Origin on Firefox (desktop and mobile) to block Google trackers, and try to prefer websites to apps.

ProtonMail for encrypted at rest, and E2EE to other protonmail users, mail.

Etesync for E2EE contacts and cal.

StandardNotes for E2EE notes

Tresorit for E2EE "drive"

Wire and/or Signal for E2EE messaging.

Firefox for a browser.

DuckduckGo for Search.
I think this will definitely occur. In the same way that organisms could not work with wood fiber's lignin during the carboniferous period, we're seeing it play out in a plastic period of our own construction. The Earth will win, but whether we will see that happen depends on all of us.
For the 4GB model, my very usable if somewhat low-end IBM Thinkpad ~15yrs ago had about 1/10 as much memory. Probably similar on the processor—I bet one core on this is something like 3x as fast as the single-core Celeron I had in that thing. Video capabilities are so much better it'd be hard to even compare them. IO's much faster—5400RPM spinning rust on that laptop, the SDCard's probably a lot faster even, let alone the USB3. The only reason this thing might not make an excellent desktop these days is all the bloated web shit we use.
Epidemiology was in its infancy during that time period, I wouldn't compare or analyze those rates too closely. This is during the time of Freudian hogwash, before DSM, before knowledge of genetics or any current understanding of neurophysiology. Cultural awareness of psychology has also changed vastly, and broader awareness leads to broader diagnosis in many disorders.
You're taking a global view of a very narrow position, and ignoring enforcement. I can take a photo of you every time you leave your house, or drive in your car, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. The government would have to overcome monumental constitutional issues to prevent me from taking your photo in public. On top of that, how do you enforce such a measure? I think as a thought experiment, tell us where you live and maybe someone will come and take a photo of you every day, and you try and stop them. Heck they might already be doing that now....
You haven't identified the "bait" bit of the bait and switch. At no point has Google promised to respond to pings on 8.8.8.8, nor are they obliged to ever do so. Rejecting ICMP isn't "a new standard".
Considering the amount of changes this article is extremely light on details.

Does "new website" mean marketing website or a redesigned web based mail app? I'm assuming this is just marketing/branding changes given it's written by a marketing person.
All those things you mentioned are worthwhile investments. Erasing student debt is also a good investment. It's a bubble waiting to burst and wreak havoc on the economy. We should do both.
There is no "ridiculously favorable tax treatment" for flipping, only long term ownership.
So what about the moral hazard in this.

This doesn't seem to solve anything for prospective students, except to suggest they too may get their debt cleared, so load em up?

Surely you should be looking at future rules, then retroactively applying them if appropriate, rather than bailing out a cohort.
I think it's more akin to multiple suppliers not multiple tenants.

1) There's a single unified storefront
2) Supplier of a product is transparent to the customer shopping experience
3) The checkout, payment, and shipping experience is singular and unified

The unified and efficient experience is amazon's strength, and I still make 90% of my purchases there. But yes, they should police and be held accountable for bad suppliers. It is amazon's store they are being sold at.
In China, people do not connect with each other by e-mail. God, are you guys from ancient?
It's been ~4x since 1999. If whatever "it" is were only affecting males, the ratio would have changed. But female suicide is also going up. The article shows a spike for 15-19 females around 2012. 20-24 females have been steadily going up since 1999 but no similar 2012 spike. I don't think this study and the New Scientist article are using the exact same data, but the drift is similar (US young people are killing themselves more).
* A 3B+ running the UniFi controller for my home network.

What's the unifi controller?
Apparently I have designed a few production "LInK" systems over the years (now that someone else has named it), with relatively sophisticated algorithms for load balancing and replication. These architectures are great for fast-twitch mixed workload use cases, rapid mutation rates concurrent with relatively light, low-latency analytic queries. Think operational real-time data models.

Conceptually, these are similar to the simple database kernels used as caches inside BI systems like Tableau but extended to support write workloads and scale-out. These may have a large amount of storage in them but only to increase the quantity of data each server can handle (i.e. swap space). Storage is not for durability, other systems handle that. The primary advantages of this architecture is it dramatically reduces data motion and wasteful computation, and you can often push complex data model logic to this layer since it implicitly contains more application context.

All "databases as a library" (e.g. SQLite) are designed around a much simpler set of constraints. The combination of high write rates and continuous background resharding/rebalancing across servers requires low-level architectural support that you can't graft onto a database kernel that was not explicitly designed for it. To start with, any query execution has to have sophisticated topology awareness in a system where the topology is constantly changing due to resharding/rebalancing and you can't rely on global consensus for everything. The library you are linking into your application contains all the clever algorithms for navigating a data cache that behaves like this, you don't want the app developer to have to reason about it.

The level of dynamic data model "fluidity" in the underlying organization and algorithms means that a mature design has little in common with traditional in-memory databases even though there are many superficial similarities. This isn't something you grind out over the weekend, there is a lot complex and non-obvious theory behind robust designs.

(I agree that the paper is not very clear about what they are talking about. This is my interpretation of the paper based on my recognition of the claims and architecture.)
So I wonder how much of a backlash against plastic will bring about other issues like bacteria.

Plastic has had a big advantage in ensure consumables and devices are clean but granted the cost has been high in the sense of pollution.

Would there maybe be a middle ground like what happens with plastic bottles in Germany and Norway where they give money back to the person who recycles the bottle,can,glass bottle etc.
> Tell them there was no going back, no push-back would be permitted, and have the CEO in the room to confirm this.

I'm sure this is great when it works, but it's also reminding me of things like the TSB switchover disaster which lost them hundreds of millions of pounds and a lot of customers when their systems were down for a week. Apparently rollback wasn't planned for.

"No pushback" also means "do not tell us how this is going to go wrong, we aren't going to listen".
This looks like it is trying to build a technical rationale for keeping user data on servers, in contrast to the privacy-centric approach being pushed by their main competitor in the mobile space, which advocates keeping user data local to the user device for privacy reasons.
The info page suggests connecting two 4k displays (one to each of the two HDMI ports).

However, given that there are also two USB3 ports, couldn't I drive a total of four 4k displays ?

I don't know if USB3 can drive 4k @ 120hz, however ...
> by converting the problem into a logic-based mathematical equation, it can be proven with mathematical certainty.

This, of course, assumes that the math is sound.

There's an analogy to unit tests. You can write a unit test for a function, and the test can pass, but if you've made a mistake in the test itself, it might give you a false sense of assurance.

I have no doubt that Amazon is very rigorous with this, although if they're explicitly touting these tools in terms of allowing clients to meet regulatory compliance obligations, it would be cool to have some sort of third-party audit of the math.
"I paid my bills so everyone must too!".

Should we wipe out credit card debt next? Surely that's more of a burden than student loans since you can't defer payment and the interest rate is higher. How about mortgages, hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt is definitely "suffering" levels.
Please show your work that infrastructure spending would generate more growth than forgiving over a trillion dollars of student loan debt.

I don't discount it might be possible, but I am asking you to prove it if you're stating it as fact. No imagining.
Sort of the point is that it’s not needs based. It doesn’t matter if you make 400k with 100k of debt or 36k with 6k of debt.

Fairly clear one of those 2 is getting a much better deal.
Oh, for sure. The person I replied to made it sound like it was always a bad thing (to have a computer in charge), though, and that's certainly not the case.
I thought that was the idea behind the current bank-mortgage-realtor system?
Sure, I think the point of measuring CPU speed is not to say that it suffices for a fast boot, but to say that whatever it takes to boot, the CPU should not be a limiting factor.

When I think of all the things necessary to booting; discovering connected devices, loading drivers, setting up memory and permissions, loading filesystem data, starting up the graphics hardware, ... I struggle to think of many things where ‘a few milliseconds’ is not plenty of time. For sure, you might have electrical limitations, spinning disks might take multiple milliseconds, and loading dozens of megabytes of data is not instantaneous, but, really, you've got 16 whole milliseconds in a frame at 60Hz! Is that so much to ask for?
In China, we have lots of Lost and Fund Offices in hotels/rail stations etc. When we find/lost something important, we would go there. BTW, almost no one in China use emails to inform other people. Even for those needs email-check, we would use other ways(such as phone or WeChat)to connect the person to check the email, rather than just sending an email. Because we won’t check emails everyday
"Forgiving privately held debts" sounds an awful lot like "taking (stealing) from the lender". That probably would not pass a Supreme Court review. (No taking without just compensation.)