skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stringent local laws with respect to competitions.

https://www.thebalanceeveryday.com/why-are-so-many-competiti...
France isn't banned?
Find the size of an array in C without sizeof (2013)
I wonder: why does everybody say it's a "Facebook currency", a Facebook project, if there are +/- 30 corporations in the association?

Does Facebook have more decision power than Visa, MasterCard or any other participating corporation?

Or is Facebook simply the main vector Libra will be promoted with?

Would Libra still be a project if Facebook was (hypothetically) shut down?
who's to say they aren't currently doing that? That's what I'm wondering. Are there metrics for this or not? If there are, then the ridiculous scenario I contrived above is one solution. If there aren't metrics, then why is anyone assuming the worst?
This is a good time for disruption at scale. The current administration has no follow-through and Congress is deadlocked.
It's arguable whether this is legal even if you signed a contract. There are many legal rights that can't be signed away in a contract (e.g. someone has the right to beat you up, etc.)
everyone wants "equal treatment" until it's their car getting ticketed. then suddenly it's harassment because the offender is "marginalized".
Some messages are MUCH more sensitive than others. You might have a default 3-5 year rule (many corps do). That’s way too long for some messages.

especially if sending across an ou boundary where you don’t know the retention treatment this will be great.

Sales teams can be very sloppy w email -> auto import into CRMs, sharing permissions, delegating permissions, running their own optimization apps etc. Because the want to claim credits for sales they don’t like tight retention limits etc
I don't say they shouldn't share the blame. But simply telling a bank that you pay your bills on time isn't related to establishing identity. "Does mikeash pay his bills on time?" "Yes, mikeash pays his bills on time" "Good! Let me open this account for John Smith".
Wow that's pretty paranoid
They should be compared to a reversed bowl where any slight deviation from the center makes the balls move away exceedingly fast. But, if anyone could place the balls exactly on top, they would stay.
Riveting stuff. Let's also talk about how most male gamers pick male muscular characters even though they don't resemble them in real life.
Those services are definitely better in France, but how much are they worth to the median person, in dollar terms?

1. The median person doesn't graduate college in either country. So how much is free college worth to them? Even if you do go to college, the average tuition at a public college in the U.S. is about $40,000 over four years. Would you trade 33% higher income over your entire career for a $40,000 one-time savings?

2. For households in the middle of the income band in the U.S., they spend on average 7.9% of their income on out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures. For the median U.S. household income of about $60,000, that's less than $5,000 annually.

3. Childcare in France isn't free, although it's subsidized. For a median household, it's about 15% of average income in France versus 30% in the U.S. A difference of about $11,000/year at the median, but something you might pay for only 6-8 years over a 35-year working life.

4. Transit is better in France. But average commutes are 50% longer than in the U.S. https://www.oecd.org/els/family/LMF2_6_Time_spent_travelling.... Is the cost-savings from better public transit worth the almost half-hour per day extra spent commuting?

5. The French have state-subsidized pensions, but Americans have Social Security and 401ks. Median income for retirement-aged people in France is about 21,600 euro ($24,600), much higher than in Germany, the U.K., Italy, or Spain: http://www.seniorobservatory.com/in-france-the-median-annual.... The median income for those 65+ in the U.S. is $23,400: https://acl.gov/sites/default/files/Aging%20and%20Disability....

People assume that Americans are just irrational that they won't vote for these things that Europe has. But the median U.S. voter makes somewhere north of $70,000 household income, spends less than $5,000 of that on out-of-pocket medical expenses, lives in a suburb with less than a 30-minute commute, has 3 TVs and 2-3 cars, lives in a 2,000+ square foot house, etc. For those people, the French way of life would yield perhaps more security, but a significant pay cut, not much lower out-of-pocket health expenses, one less TV, one less car, a 35% smaller house, etc.
The human "plains of Africa" brain treats money as food. And prior to refrigeration in most of the world food will spoil sooner than later so you're always mindful of getting more food, which is why some people just can't stop getting more money. On some level they irrationally still believe the money they have will soon rot in the equatorial sun.
They're the direct opposite of secretive about it.
> Now that (part of?) the code has been released, it seems to be little more than a transpiler from V to C, with allowed inlined C, with most advertised features stubbed out.

This is a little off-topic but I feel it needs to be discussed. The term "transpiler" that you've used here is a little belittling, not only to V but to other languages which are translated to C. I don't think its fair nor accurate to characterize compilers which translate code to C as "transpilers". It's valid when languages of the same level of abstraction are translated to each other, but not when one language (C) is low-level and the other is high-level.

All this being said though, V does seem to lean very heavily on inlined C inside its standard library and compiler. So that assessment is totally fair.
> Why is Quebec excluded from the CTF?
Local laws and regulations make it extremely challenging for us to run a competition open to residents of Quebec. We are truly sorry about this, and hope to change this in the future if possible.
The Equifax data breach is itself just one among many data breaches, and small potatoes compared to some others. What distinguishes Equifax and the other CRAs is the crucial role they play in a system where data breaches everywhere cause harm to individuals.

Counting on Equifax to solve this problem is absurd. Equifax doesn't care about individual consumers because those consumers are not their customers. Combating identity theft is a cost center; CRAs cannot differentiate themselves in the marketplace through better tools to prevent an externality.

Consumers have to fight for their own interests because the CRAs will only be dragged along kicking and screaming.
The term "monopoly on violence" does not mean the sole user of violence or even a frequent user, merely that anyone who wishes to use violence legitimately (aka legally) must get permission from the monopoly holder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
Most are still vulnerable to their domain going away, rouge admin, hacked admins, payment issues for a core service etc.
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No rights are being denied. Even Costco will not detain you or your property. The worst they might do is cancel your membership.
Don't need it, didn't ask for it.
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>The thing that annoys me about research like this is: it may be true, but I don't feel it. So to what extent is it really helpful?

I think another important question with research like this is: "does it affect everyone?" Something can be statistically significant over the population, but that doesn't mean every individual in the population has that specific effect, but I do expect an effect like this to be near universal.
Wikipedia pageviews this year for each line of ‘We Didn't Start the Fire’
SASS is non-free software on steroids. If Linux gaming is viable, so is non-cloud gaming.
Petition to Save the Combinatorics Group at the University of Strathclyde
Does this mean macOS users get their Emojis back?
Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors
At least in the idealized, restricted three-body problem — two large bodies in circular orbit plus a satellite of negligible mass — the Lagrange points are true points, but they represent not a destination for the satellite, but rather the center around which a near enough satellite will orbit harmonically, under essentially the same equations that govern a spring (a restorative force linear with displacement). It truly is a stable equilibrium in that sense. No station-keeping is required.

In practice there will be slight perturbations due to the presence of other bodies, but the ∆V requirements for station-keeping are minimal.
No, the L1, L2, and L3 points are like that — unstable equilibria. But the L4 and L5 points are stable.
Apaec - can I encourage you to focus on the post / article and make comments about that rather than attacking other posters?

If you think this feature (which you don’t need to use) is a “trick” that has no value that is fine - explain why no one should use it - give some examples etc

Stop with the whole focus on other posters motivations, calling them “toxic fanatics” etc.

Google has lots of competitors - the big one is exchange / outlook - which has a confidential email mode. For a list of competitors look here:

https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/email-hosting

It’s not unreasonable for them to add a feature to better compete with MS. I didn’t even see Protonmail on that pie chart
Is wisdom relevant to programming? 20 years of COBOL experience doesn't help much when writing Kotlin.

Experience of design patterns would seem to be most relevant to senior technical roles and program architecture... which is where you see older programmers.
Given that the claim was that V was a native code generator with the option for transpiling to C, I think that pointing out that it's only a transpiler is fair
strong irreversibility sounds nice for a financial business of for b2b, but from a common usage perspective it has no benefit whatsoever.
not many comments yet, but i suppose people don’t understand the point of the bag search isn’t to reduce customer shoplifting, it’s to prevent employee theft. employees not ringing items is a super trivial way inventory shrinks.

it’s sad that the pain is borne by the customer. but, on the bright side, it means prices are lower than they would be otherwise.
I've been here long enough, and seen how things operate here.

Sure, it's paranoid. It doesn't make it false.
I think YAGNI is a more common term.
While it's true that with current roads the self driving car software solution may not converge to an acceptable solution, it's also true that as the software gets better municipalities will start to modify their streets and roads to assist the software. At that point the combined solution will very likely converge to a "better than human" result.
Global logging in libraries is not uncommon, especially if you need to trap signals (which can only interact with global state).

COM APIs expose a global class factory as the main interface to a shared libraries.

Embedded systems and drivers require globals in one form or another.

"Globals are evil" comes from the fact that globals have side effects, and side effects make things hard, especially in modern software that utilizes asynchronous/concurrent logic. That just makes them unwieldy, not unnecessary. Especially when interacting with legacy systems that require globals.
I don't think Equifax is innocent, I believe they should be liable for the damage they caused. Regulators answer to the people, it is their job to act in our interest and our job to hold them accountable to this.
From my short experience at monolithic corporations I can only sense the level of corporate bullshit that has and still is going on in that place (Equifax). It seems that when that incompetency reaches hazardous levels this is the end result.

I have been thinking about why and how such systems could be mended and what I thought was, that when the majority of the system (Equifax managers, other employees) act as immovable inertia to any positive change by either obstructing or dismissing it, there should be a system in place that allows single actors to hit the so-called emergency button. But to have that kind of system in place, it requires at least one person at the top to have competency which seems to be a quite unlikely requirement.

It always fascinates me that in many organizations I have been and read about, the regular employees often knew about the problems they have had and knew that something should have been done about it. I guess it's just that apathy that gets you when your superiors don't seem to care when you complain, hence causing a downwards spiral and morale deprivation.
> It's arguable whether this is legal even if you signed a contract

If you ever take Costco to court, I'll follow along curiously.

In a lawsuit-hungry country like the US, I'm not sure how long a large company like Costco can get away with something illegal in their contract.
Google are (only) replacing the kernel. Which I think is the right approach - identify the bits that are holding you back (in this case holding you from taking full control of the os) and replace only those with ones that are as compatible as possible with the existing software.
Right, of course :)
Maybe I'm missing something, but what on earth has this got to do with the parent comment?!
Signing a contract that says "you can look in my bag" doesn't seem like it would be one of the automatically void unconscionable contracts.
Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Further Industrialisation of Food
Stop using it and show google you don't care about their "services" as market dictates.
"they release pure carbon dioxide which can be stored underground or used to create products like...fuels"

sounds really smart indeed

ps. they address this issue citing that they would need more federal funding to bury more co2 underground instead of using it for making fuels carbon neutral..it's so hard to see that for 100$ now we would sacrifice our very own life if somebody doesn't pay us $150 to do otherwise
They offering a very wide range of core counts but only a narrow range of watts per socket.

Question: for single threaded performance (*n where threads are independent) do I want higher watts per core or higher number of cores? By "performance" I mean throughput.
Facebook is simply making another private scrip. They're turning IMF SDRs into a private currency. Prior to this crop of entrepreneurs, when I read about scrip it seemed always to be in connection with alleged violation of law, I think legal tender laws. But, who knows, this may turn out swell.
> C doesn't have linked lists in its standard library probably because there is a myriad of ways of doing linked lists with different performance, stylistic and other trade-offs.

No, that's not why. The fact that there are myriad ways to implement linked lists is a fact independent of any programming language. And yet Lisp somehow manages to offer linked lists as a native part of the language.

The reason C cannot be extended in this way is that its memory model precludes it. You can't add GC to C because of the way that pointers work.

> C++ certainly provides lists.

Yes. Many languages do. Nonetheless, my original claim, that it is easier to work around Lisp's limitations than those of other languages, stands.
If that's true, then you aren't interacting with companies that participate in CRA information exchange and this doesn't affect you. All a CRA would have is public information that's already freely available.
It Wasn’t the Cows After All
This aspect could be the real hurdle:

"Pay a fee of up to 10% of the sweepstakes' value, depending on who is allowed to enter."

So they would need to pay Quebec $3K just to have the competition available there, even if it is a global competition.

It sounds to me that Quebec have got to have some reason for these Quebec special laws. It has nothing to do with France, there has to be another reason. Does anyone have any ideas?
why you are so jealous lol
All of this has been fixed.
Unfortunately guns alone are not enough, china didn't get this way quietly but after a civil war where socialists won. So the future will not be decided by guns but by the portion of people who value freedom, and understand the importance of keeping the government small. Paradoxically this also requires a government providing some social services, because the people who decide that they do not have anything to lose are very dangerous for the society as a whole.

(Note this is not an argument against gun ownership, just an argument for better education and having more children.)
It's not cypherpunk at all, but it's cyberpunk in spades! The world switching to corporate currency is like something out of a 80's/90's William Gibson novel.
You are right that these companies don't pay the "actual costs" on environmental damage, but that's a separate issue, and not really relevant to the initial claim. If you claim that someone is using 7 kWh or electricity, you had better be prepared to show they actually do. (Besides, consumers don't pay for the environmental cost of building and shipping an SSD from Taiwan, either.)

Companies like Amazon may not care about environment, but they care a lot about saving money, and modern computers can handle a surprising amount of connections simultaneously: it's not like those beefy AWS instances are serving just your music.
compilers are still allowed to optimize atomics, e.g. eliminating redundant reads. they are not with volatile, e.g. when you need exactly-once semantics for IO ports.
Do you have to comply if Superstore security asks to check your bag? Seems like the only authority they really have legally is to kick you out of the store, but I don't know that much about the laws surrounding that.
Note how your comment is juvenile and doesn't add anything to the discussion, being a personal attack to boot...
Besides on many of those you were simply wrong like with rand.next() returning 0 and missing _lin.v files.
Found this demo of kOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTrOg19gzP4
Out of curiosity, what tasks do you use those Xeon/thread ripper CPUs for?
They are equilibrium points between gravity of the two bodies and the fictitious centrifugal force. Three are on the line between the two bodies (one one each side and one in the middle) where these forces cancel.
The other two are also points where these cancel, on the sides, but the cancelation is component wise since the forces aren't all collinear at these point. Two because one on each side.
Not everyone who shops at Costco is a member. You can shop at their pharmacy without joining.
POSIX signal handlers don't take an argument other than the signal code, so if you want to handle them gracefully in a stateful app you need a global to communicate the trapped signal to your main loop.
It requires a very savvy developer in order to succeed.
I have seen the massive technical debt this approach can give.
I'm pretty sure they can ask to search your bag, and revoke your membership if you refuse, so I guess you can get away with that once.
Speak for yourself buddy :)
> Libra isn't a cypherpunk wet dream, but it moves us in that direction and thats a good thing

A cryptocurrency pegged to USD and ran by some of the most sliney, privacy-hating, PI-hording megacorps - is that really a good thing?
Emacs 27 is becoming quite a exciting release (at least as far Emacs can be exciting). This and pdumper seems to be a quite nice modernization for the ancient codebase that is Emacs.
Actually I'm wrong about L'Hospital's Rule in this problem; it solves nothing here. I would insert an "[EDIT ...]" into my original post to avoid misleading people, but it's too late to edit.

It doesn't matter how many times you differentiate x^(1/3); you can not evaluate the result at zero. Which is funny, because you'd think you could differentiate x^3 and use the inverse function theorem. But there's that caveat about it not working when the derivative is zero.

I am now revisiting high school calculus and doubting my own sanity. Will post updates if/when I get my head right.
Aside from theoretic advice, one of the key things I've found euros best is _not_ to set out to build a big complex system.

Solve small problems that deliver value in distributed way and then iterate and expand. Doing this focuses engineering on the real problems that need to be solved at the scale you are working at. This delivers real understanding of what is going on, both theoretically and specially within your domain.

The retort to this is often you'll never get to scale, or that your architecture will be incoherent. Basically you need to see the whole picture and build towards it.

The caveat is that solving small problems doesn't mean 'do something quickly or hacky'. If you do, sure you'll end up with an incoherent mess.

If you maintain good engineering practices, and focus them on real problems, my experience is you will scale your platform. These practices will keep focused on solving real problems properly, and doing so will give you an understanding of what the next problem is going to be.
This was a very enjoyable read, thank you! You do a great job in making these concepts understandable.

The self attention mechanisms caught my eyes. Going to look into implementing something like that for a toy dataset. Thanks for the inspiration
Except in this case it is not a company but a credit union. Bankruptcy just means loosing everything for its _members_. Also, sure "here's one million $". Two weeks after this money is gone because someone stole your identity and empty your account. This is the kind of thing that money simply cannot solve.
Singletons still require globals. I haven't really dug into V that much, is there a mechanism to make a singleton? If so, how can they claim "no global variables?"
There is no such thing as too much knowledge or experience
L4 and L5 are like a large frictionless bowl. In a normal bowl with frictions the balls loose energy and eventually go to the bottom and colide. In a frictionless bowl they just keep spinning forever (until they colide by chance, if the bowl is large enough, the probability of collision is small).

Also it's not a circular bowl, so IIRC the orbits are not closed and are difficult to draw.
Demand for bitcoin comes from ransoms. Entire cities are being extorted so this affects the price.
This is the best, least biased write-up of the breach that I've seen. It's still fairly damning, but the upshot is that it took a very serious second attack team to actually capitalize on the flaws that were present: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-29/the-equif...
Wow - I’d heard about the capability before, but actually seeing it in video is like watching Terminator - fun but eerie at the same time.

Thanks for the great link (and also for automatically setting it to the 30 minute mark).
True, but aren’t conservative judges (not Joe and Jill public) apt to be more liberal in the interpretation of the 1A?
Can they actually provide new SSN? I mean, these are government issued, and I'm not inclined to think that the government will suddenly allow 3M people (basically 10% of the country) to suddenly change SSN. I fail to see what the bank can do about it.
U.S. Air Force Unveils Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon
That's actually a very interesting observation. I've taken herbal supplements that (supposedly) increase testosterone in the past. In particular, Longjack extract led to a marked increase in stubbornness, argumentativeness, and using extreme language in my arguments - e.g., "There's no way this ISN'T true!" or "There's no other reasonable way to see it." I had to stop taking it as this was causing interpersonal problems.

On the other hand, this effect doesn't seem to be limited solely to men, so while I may have mellowed with age, I don't think that's the only thing going on here.