skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder would it make any better if Apple is the one which creates their own currency. As we know, the track record of Apple respecting privacy of its users is significantly better than Facebook/Google.
> I went to a presentation and talked with people from the NSA before and at face value they seemed like a silicon valley tech company.

Why is that a reason to trust them?

> They all seemed like they genuinely thought what they were doing was helping people.

The worst people in history all thought they were doing good too.

> As a an extra piece of information that I found interesting, they were pushing the diversity stuff hard

Diversity at the NSA doesn't factor whatsoever into whether I trust them or not. The damage they've done to secure communications and their cavalier attitude to dragnet surveillance is all I need to know about them.

Don't buy into the PR bullshit.
The quoted study that found that productivity may decrease and error/accident rate may increase with prolonged work hours: http://ftp.iza.org/dp8129.pdf
Note, data are on munition workers, engaged in tasks arguably more repetitive and less cognitively taxing than athletic/engineering performance.
I don't think it's fair to blame users. These corporations hire some of the smartest people in the world to design their products in such a way that they maximally retain and engage users. You can't expect a normal individual to stand against billions of dollars worth of investment in a system designed to make them act against their own self-interest.
I get the same feelings reading his descriptions of Xanadu as I did reading descriptions of Google Wave. It all sounds a though it aught to be great and wonderful, but I can't actually visualise how it would be useful every day. What actual value would I get out of it, constantly on an ongoing basis?

I can see how perhaps you could construct interesting use cases, but I just don't see the value as a primary interface. It doesn't even sound all that hard to implement. I know there's a basic implementation, but his description of it is hedged around with caveats. Certainly with modern development environments, it should be many orders of magnitude easier than in the 60s or 70s to get this working, yet it's still struggling to get off the ground. Contrast with the web he is so critical of, which was useful and valuable the first day it was released.

If it takes 50 years and you still don't even have a compelling proof of concept, I can't help suspecting the grand vision is just far too elaborate and heavy weight to be workable in practice.
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They've likely broken many laws, but we'll never hear about it, much like the CIA.
You can take a look at odriod’s x86 board
You do a one time exchange of your Government issued currency for Libra. Then you start exchanging Libra for goods and services in a p2p way == which means Governments can't tax these goods and services == which means Governments will no longer have the power == which means they will not allow it.

(I have not read the Libra papers fully. Im doing a far speculation here.)
This is the death knell for x86 PCs for the consumer market.

No regular user needs more than this. Developers and hardcore gamers will be the only ones left on x86. Intel will be a shadow of themselves soon. They have did such a bad job at diversifying.
Life on Mars gets a test run in Utah
The idea of a corporate currency is pretty unpalatable.

The idea of a pegged cryptocurrency is interesting though, potentially. We really need a lot more/bigger/better institutions that aren't companies or governments.
> The fact that they’re not committing their changes under a pseudonym or front company suggests that they’re okay with the world knowing about what they’re up to.

They are not committing their most secretive and effective tools on GitHub for Christ's sake.
Keeping a function at a given cyclomatic complexity generally also give a good indication whether a function should be refactored.

That's not completely the point of the article, but both issue are interesting metric for deciding the level of factorization.

Also one need more accurate specification when defining a call deepness alarm. Most direct call to any random API will probably already explode a limit of 3, which doesn't necessarily say that the framework is brokenly atomized.
The nature actually thrived because of Chernobyl disaster. Even some endangered species started to rebound without human interference. [1] In Fukushima zone there's been a significant increase of wild boars [2]

[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151008-chernobyl...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/03/the-wild-boars-of-...
A JavaScript countdown which runs on top of Google Maps
...if they could only fix the storage. Using SD cards for this workload is a very bad fit.
... Who did you imagine would have the resources and credibility to create a non - state currency, except for a (large) corporation??
In the original stories Holmes is clearly not (just) a cerebral hero. He is an expert boxer ("He was undoubtedly one of the finest boxers of his weight that I have ever seen"), an expert swordsman ("Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman"), and is described as being extremely strong strength ("Few men were capable of greater muscular effort.")

Holmes is constantly praised for his bravery, physicality, and devotion to country ("The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" or "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans").

I guess I just don't see as much of a gap between Holmes and, say, Odysseus or Robin Hood, as you do.
These kinds of checklists may work for a product like Airbnb but will hardly work for something like Twitter or Instagram where the entrepreneur is rewarded for fulfilling a need that never existed before.
> In Postgres in particular, both varchar and text have the same performance characteristics with varchar effectively being just the text type with a check constraint on the length

Are both pretty much the same from a stand point of being able to change them in the future once they have a substantial amount of data saved?

For example if you have 1,000,000 rows of varchar(50) vs. text with a check_length(50). Which one wins if you want to decrease X from 50 to 25? Does the answer change if you want to increase X from 50 to 100?

This is with PG11 by the way if it matters.
Windows 10 ARM FTW [ducks]

(seriously the ram and video processing updates make me wonder if they were added in-part for Windows)
>If a US citizen in the 1960s sent a leaflet containing some thought crime to the Soviet Union should the US be under any obligation to extradite that person to the USSR?

Only if (a) an extradition treaty between the two countries existed and (b) the actions of the US citizen were a crime in the US as well as in the USSR. In general, you can only be extradited for something that's a crime in the country you're being extradited from.
I don’t disagree that 4 usb-c could have been more forward thinking. But, you don’t NEED to use a dongle, you can buy an hdmi-to-micro cable.
I'm not sure whether geography is a significant factor in this, but I've definitely noticed a trend against such thought on HN.

For instance, whenever I mention the dangers of a single corporation owning everything, including money, and how indistinguishable it makes it from a government, it gets downvoted with no discussion.
You’re forgetting that governments regulate the companies behind Libra, and can and will regulate it.
John Carmack's thoughts on this topic are worth a read: http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...
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I have one with rutorrent that acts our house seedbox / file server. I also added droppy as a simple, user friendly file browser for my flatmates. Obviously, this all runs on docker-compose, because I'm a very weak man (but also, it makes managing the whole thing trivial once setup)
I remember watching Quantum of Solace and being so disappointed the precious resource the bad guys wanted to control was just water. How could that be precious? It’s everywhere!

I feel pretty stupid now.
Even if a large corporation was the one to design a non-state currency, it doesn't imply they would have to possess ultimate control over it. At least several thriving and established cryptocurrencies have been created without a single corporation having control over them, regardless of how you count them.
I think it's really nice that's it's possible to self publish something like this. It would be cool with a blog about creating the product, thoughts about marketing strategy, sales channels, etc. And the experience selling it. I would love to make something like this for a niche topic. Although I'm worried it will be hard to sell.
I like the rule from the Qt API style guide that every bool member or method returning bool should have a name that starts either with Is or Has:

if (listWidget.hasItems()) {
isButtonEnabled = true;
}
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I have no actual data, but I would be willing to bet that a large percentage sold are used to build multi-video-game emulators or video streaming boxes instead of actual hacker projects. Both uses have premade software images and are nearly plug and play and give you a lot more options than commercial offerings like an Apple TV or Nintendo Classic.
Thank you, very helpful resource.
Wow, this is such an bump up in the specs
Nice proof of concept!
Warning: the page has really loud sound effects.
I was also disappointed. This is basically just the following two tutorials combined in one:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/insta...

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-wifi-bridge/

Secondly, I hoped it was about the using the LTE dongle in modem mode via vwdial (or similar) rather than in RNDIS/network interface mode.
> Can physically and emotionally healthy people actually view death as a relief or escape?

I think before that should have come the question whether a person who is only invested in their own life, and not interested in the tapestry or river of life, for lack of a better word, could be considered emotionally healthy?

Yes, I want to see and experience life, my own and that of others, but I'd rather die at some point, and know other life will exist, than live forever and squat on it. We can't be forever young, that is, some things will never be new to us again. Yeah, life is still fun, but not as fun as it could be for someone else. To me, that matters.

from https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/20935/...

> Arendt argues that human action is contained within the notion of plurality as the most basic condition of human life, which in turn rests on her concept of 'natality'. In an almost poetical way she writes in this same essay how the world is constantly being refilled by strangers, outsiders and newcomers who act and react in an unforeseeable manner, in ways that cannot be calculated or predicated by those already familiar and stationed there, who will eventually leave and be replaced by others. The very fact that we come into the world through natural birth shows that the world is continuously being transformed and renewed through birth. Thus, 'natality' highlights this emphasis on the capacity of new beginnings with each and every birth.

I'd say natality more than makes up for mortality, while immortality removes natality, and doesn't even begin to cover the loss.

I'd rather there is something beautiful I miss out on, than something mediocre I get to experience, doubly so if it's made mediocre by my insisting on experiencing everything that goes on. And on top of that, there is the mediocrity of the lens through which we experience things, our own mediocrity, that also should not be increased lightly. New life makes life, the universe and everything better, it just happens to not extend my own life to infinity. But I can't have it both ways, not in an intellectualy and morally honest way, they way I see it. If everybody was truly immortal, as we are now, and for the reasons we want it, everybody will start to suck super badly real quick, and they'll suck too much to even notice it. The majestic and ever fresh river of life would turn into a petty, stinky puddle. Or I could wish for immortality myself, and mortality for everyone else -- but what would that make me, and what about friendship and love?
If they don't like it, governments could block the use of that currency, make it illegal, or force people to exchange it for a state-backed crypto currency. There's no reason to think crypto currencies will make people freer or end any war. Eventually governments and corporations find ways to control all these tools that are supposed to give people freedom.
Show HN: A PyTorch Implementation of Cluster-GCN (KDD 19)
Wi-Fi router could be used to watch you breathe and monitor your heartbeat
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07953
European countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands are at the forefront of submitting themselves to a cashless economy, giving control of the payments infrastructure to Visa and MasterCard. So it's certainly not obvious to all Europeans.
Imagine this situation: you sell online courses. FB says hey, users can pay directly via Libra thus streamlining checkout to a few clicks. Now Facebook takes a cut of every transaction. If I were PayPal I’d be very scared.
Nice thing: The results are reproducible regarding accuracy and performance.
My phone has 6GB
> You’re forgetting that governments regulate the companies behind Libra, and can and will regulate it.

Well... let's say you're a politician wanting to regulate Facebook, and let's say you have an affair with whom you communicate on Facebook or in Instagram DMs. If I were Facebook, I'd simply let an investigation team check if any dirt can be mined out of the troves of data - anything, even the dataset of GPS or other location pinpoints, can be enough to get a first hint. And now I discretely contact you and advise that there may be information around and that it would be a pity if that information were to get public.

This is the ultimate problem with the size and capabilities that companies such as Facebook have.
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This doesn't state the fact that if we stop all emissions now, the temperature will keep rising because there is already too much CO2 in the atmosphere.
I'm not so sure about this on a large scale but my first thought after reading this was to replae my parents' PC with a Pi 4.
Does this make Oracle the Ottoman Empire? I'm suddenly overwhelmed by the realpolitik similarities. Agile is Che Guevara?
In the handful of nanny-states you're reduced to buying online for that kind of thing.

You can't even buy a slingshot at Walmart in my state.
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Cases like these are either solved by giving someone absolute power to steer the project, resulting in squished toes and hurt feelings and potentially becoming a HBS postmortem, or accepting that it's going to take a while to reconcile all of the different fiefdoms.

There seems to be a lack of translation to "what should actually be built." Management wants a unified API, but my first (and probably incorrect) idea would be to develop an ORM + set of functional libraries which can be implemented independently by each of the involved parties. That has its own risks, but getting everyone speaking the same language is a good place to start.
I think it's great to have more options and this is interesting, but I don't think it's that big of deal. Anyone who wants to do any video editing, sound, 3D modeling, etc, or anything that requires graphics or serious software won't have enough with this.

For browsing and basic everyday use sure, but in that space people have been switching to tablets for a while now. So this might help that trend but I don't think it makes that much of a difference.
Yeah, don't buy it on Amazon if you don't literally want to purchase the knock-off version.
Not quite as vibrant, but still startlingly pink.
Large companies thrive in areas where effects of scale are necessary or at least very beneficial, which happen to be most of them.
good pragmatic view, interesting read.
This is incredibly naive. Using cryptocurrency changes none of the incentives nor the power structure. The very network and electricity supplies that cryptocurrency relies on are ultimately controlled by governments. If cryptocurrency becomes an actual important source of power, then governments will fight to control it. There is no freedom in money that relies on the Internet to exist and freely operate.
How to balance budget constraints with cyber security
> We really need a lot more/bigger/better institutions that aren't companies or governments.

So...churches? What are you proposing?
One of the early games I played on either my ZX81 or possibly BBC B was a lunar lander simulator. Really just a timeline and some maths and some dials. You contolled the decent with some thrusters. Burning fuel makes it lighter, which changes the thrust. Don't run out of fuel, dont land to heavy, make sure you land vertically. Good times.

Nope, that's a confabulation.
https://youtu.be/jlS3fr3t4Fg
I wouldn’t expect a VB programmer to really know anything about the higher forms of computing. Maybe I’m being a little harsh though.
It's a civil dispute between the parties involved, not a crime (in most cases) and if it's a crime it's probably most easily prosecuted under criminal negligence or something like that. It's basically lying and lying isn't illegal except in specific circumstances.
> Can physically and emotionally healthy people actually view death as a relief or escape?

I obviously don't have the experience of living an "overextended" life, but I'd imagine that it would depend at least partially on whether longevity extends to the people around you. Seeing the people you knew and love die is brutal, living that through several generations might get you to a point where you don't want to keep experiencing it anymore.
Seems it's a rather old idea, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
> I've been using the RPI2 as my HTPC/NAS

Using the Pi as a file server can be a bit flaky. The ethernet controller was an USB one, and was neither really stable or took load very well. The new PHY on a dedicated link is probably the single biggest improvement with this new revision.

The HEVC is a bit unexpected considering the high license fees and general uncertainties. Let's hope the documentation can be released as well.
I ordered 2 of those years ago and they are still in the antistatic bag..
I really think some
psychological care
should be considered
for anyone refusing them.

You really want to shove your hand up other people's asses, and make them speak your words from their mouth?

I'll never give you the power to decide how long I should live. I'll only grant you the leeway that you should be able to defend yourself, such that others trying to die should not be capable of taking you with them.

That's what this is really about. You're afraid of their fearlessness encroaching on your clingy desire to reside in your meatbag for as long as possible. (not an entirely pejorative sentiment, but let's call a spade a spade)
> .Net full will become stale and legacy. I doubt enterprises will write new stuff on .Net full.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I agree that Windows programmers will eventually migrate to .NET Core v5+. My comment was meant to be limited to the Linux scenario. I should have written "Linux" again in the 2nd sentence so that was more obvious:

- "It seems like the people embracing .NET Core on Linux are using it for writing backend services (scenarios where it competes with Golang usage)."

Microsoft has no plans to include the desktop UI technology of WPF & Winforms on Linux... even in the future unified .NET Core 5+ that deprecates classic .NET Full. Because the Linux side doesn't include all the Windows tech, it doesn't quite have the same 1st class status as Windows. But that limitation does not prevent C# programmers that want to use Linux from using it to write server-side network services (because no GUI required) where others might use Golang.
You can read more about the design changes in their related blog post: https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/system-design-upgrades-c...
That’s why the Libra Association is being set up in Switzerland.
Performance wise, there is no distinction in Postgres 11. As I understand it, internally varchar(N) is basically just text with a character limit. varchar(N) really only exists in Postgres these days for backwards compatibility, and the fact that it is ANSI SQL.
Not sure the warmer, colder thing works.

Shouldn't 5, for example, have been colder, in this example?

https://i.imgur.com/AiKIuDC.png
For me, it covered with a screen asking me to subscribe. I was unable to X out. (Chrome on Ubuntu.)
1 iBuck: $999.
Oooh, this is by the same guy that wrote my favourite anti-OOP rant: http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/object-oriented-progr...

It's worth reading, although your feelings may get hurt if you're not already sold on functional programming. He's not very diplomatic.
"Maid"? Are we in the 19th century?
How does gender of the CEO matter here?

[edit] now I understood. sorry
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Indeed. If you look at their website now they've gone from showing desktop Ubuntu front and centre to hardly acknowledging it except as an OS that a developer might want to run.
Which is why FB tried to pretend that they aren't involved by creating a fictional offshore "foundation" (Calibra). But that won't help them anyway. Offshore "foundations" are not get out of jail card.
It's not exclusively about privacy. At the end of the day Apple is still a corporation beholden to its shareholders.
Most other filesystems don't do checksum at all, so you can't even discover that you have a data loss/or corruption.

Only difference is that other filesystems may have better tools to rescue damaged filesystem after metadata is corrupted.
It used to be common. It was called "company scrip". You got paid in Wonka Wooden Dollars, nominally the same as regular dollars, and then could only spend them at a Wonka grocery store. No matter what you did, the company clawed back a bit more and a bit more, because they had a controlling hand in the entire ecosystem.
WebAssembly Support for Halide
How would this help if the companies behind this can be controlled by US, if you are from country X and US decides that from tomorrow we do not do business with X then you are fucked. So you would have to keep a very amount of value and crypto and transform it in real money , gold or something material ASAP.

Were there any wars fought for money and not for something more material like resources,lands, strategical territories, ideology ? If you are referring that weapon makers need wars to make money then crypto won't fix that anyway
The Ethernet is directly connected to the SoC, it doesn't share the 4Gbit PCIe with the USB ports
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Every serializer/deserializer for nested, dynamically sized blocks of binary data contains a buggy, ad hoc variant of this. I'd already be happy with something like Erlang's standard binary matching library[0] as part of each language's stdlib.

Block deduplication, block reference counting (and the requirement to in-file-GC unused blocks), n:m references are things that arise in some formats that don't seem to be part of this language?

[0] http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/binaryhandling.html
Which is why some professional audio plugins offer a “blind”-mode where all interesting but visually distracting meters, spectra etc are switched off. This is also the appeal of analog gear, where suggestive metering is uncommon.