skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair question. From the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

As I've learned over the years, what's off-topic for me, isn't necessarily off-topic for everyone else. Lots of articles on HN that have left me bored, but turns out they work for other people.

I posted this because I found it interesting to finally understand what the fainting game was, and how dangerous it could have been. I suppose it resonated with other people too.
Perhaps? I suspect they would have outsized influence being the senior partner. There isn't really enough detail at this point to say much more than that.
YouTube Barnacle goosling. What you’ll see are small chicks jumping off a cliff and trying to fly with something like a 40-60% survival rate. Those chicks descended from thousands of generations that jumped off cliffs without the benefit of nets. That doesn’t mean that nets wouldn’t dramatically improve their survival rate!
> old.reddit.com

It doesn't put a big red "GET NEW REDDIT" in the upper left that does a single-click update of your account settings? What region are you in?

> reddit.com/.compact

I just tried that and the top 40% of my screen was spent on a banner telling me, "You've been invited to try out Reddit's new mobile website!" Clicking that lead me to a page where both the top bar and the bottom section harass me to install their mobile app.
OOP made for great tool sets, training seminar and other products. But the mentality of "circle the nouns in your requirements" is stupid, and serves nobody. Programmers analyze they're requirements into code and data, and those things have little bundling to one another or the requirement domain.
My apologies. And thanks for the reminder about the allcaps.
Feminist.ai
I wholeheartedly disagree. Your assessment is a popular false narrative that was invented recently by the "alt right", by professional disinformers (paid think tanks, troll farms, etc.) and by clickbait producers. I'm not claiming that you belong to any of those groups, just that these groups have influenced many people to parrot this false narrative. Unfortunately, people are easy to influence and repeat such kind of phrases.

Two other points:

1. People are even more biased than you think, including you. It's impossible to have no bias, journalists have always been biased. Nothing has changed in that respect. If at all, journalists were way more politically biased in the 1970s than they are now.

2. Another thing has changed. There are now more people who think of themselves as journalists - all those bloggers and vloggers - without having learned the handcraft, and there are more parties interested in discrediting actual journalists than there used to be.

3. Unfortunately, people have started to loose understanding the distinction between editorials and news. That's the real reason why this false narrative is so successful. Even though all major newspapers clearly mark their editorials and opinion pieces, people ignore this and complain about "biases". I've seen this over and over again. At the same time, they are unable to state the main traits of news and the differences between news and opinion. To me, that's more a sign of increased illiteracy due to more visual media consumption than having anything to do with the quality of journalism.

4. Last but not least, basically everyone I've ever heard complaining about modern journalism think they know better what's going on in the world. How would that be possible? There is no way for them to know. And basically everybody who complains takes US TV network news as a kind of "lost gold standard" of journalism, which is plain ridiculous. The complaints are insubstantial, by people who do not consume the actual products like daily news or weekly newspapers any longer.

In a nutshell, more people complain about weaker standards in journalism, because they know less about journalism.
Sounds like a great premise for a sci-fi movie.
What do they do if you don't have a phone? Serious question.
Don't have to believe them, the governance and cryptoconsensus in the whitepapers is enshrined in law and math, and in addition there are competitors in the Libra Association that would easily decry other members if they tried something to subvert the operation of the currency.
Lina Khan is one of the leading proponents of the idea:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/technology/monopoly-antit...

The consumer uber alles idea is actually pretty new in the history of antitrust law.
I wonder if multiple people of low incomes may someday pool income together and use it to buy housing and food that they can all use to live comfortably. I feel this may be the only way to solve the inequality crisis.
Eye Tracking Demo in Neos VR (Vive Pro Eye)
I recommend ignoring transducers unless you know you really need push-based iteration, which probably isn't the case. Generators are generally a superior approach otherwise.
It would be nice if we’re going to claim the moral high ground, that we actually were capable of inhabiting it. As it is, both the US and China appear to be on a muddy slope, flinging whatever comes to hand.
Even if Libra was blocked due to regulations in the US, Europe, Japan, and China it would still be a massive win.
Factoring is one of the few quantum algorithms that is odd man out in terms of noise/implementation/scaling/etc. This should be indicating something about the structure of factoring that we don't understand.

Out of all the "classical" problems that we might find another algorithm for, "factoring" would be my bet for the one that we are missing a better algorithm.
FYI: Footwm is my little window manager written in Chez scheme. It draws one window at a time and supports EWMH status bars like tint2. https://github.com/akce/footwm-chez
BQP doesn't exist: there are no quantum computers. Saying BQP is like saying "magic fairy dust perfect unitary transformers that effectively encode a perfect complex number in the same sense a protractor theoretically can solve NP-complete problems by encoding real numbers."
And Klingon too. Also, the perl parser can be changed to support not just keyword differences, but grammar too.
Huh? Why would losing your Facebook account mean "you totally lose your ability to do business, get paid, or just participate in the economy"?
3 SpaceX Starlink internet satellites lost, comp. seems pleased with first batch
And that period to get assimilated and become net positive might be a period of +- few decades which is an insanely long time in today's world of super fast moving money and economic conditions and 4 year hyper partisan election cycles.
New Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Lowers Temperature by 3-5°C
That seems to be a reason to think that the median (real) income will not increase.
You don't have to keep it private after 2/3 months. Just make the algorithm public and no one will kidnap you.
No, of course not. I'm not talking about how the US govt should react. I'm saying that armchair critics on the sidelines (referring to the grandparent) painting China as evil for some corporate espionage is pretty naive given that the US is guilty of far worse.
hasard is in fact the French word for random chance.
Maybe because traditional OOP is already well represented by popular languages with large ecosystems? Creators of new languages want to do something new.

There is Elixir / Erlang which many consider to stick more closely to the original idea of OOP.
Security Advisory 2019-06-13 – Reduced initial randomness on FIPS keys
No? Look, you can say things like that, but there is no evidence thus far to back up this being a data play, and every piece of evidence says it is exactly what they say it is.

- Facebook wants to make more money, they stand to make the most money if this thing works they way they say it will. Surely we can trust their greed?

- You don't need a Facebook account to use Libra.

- The thing is built so Facebook doesn't have full control, enshrined in Swiss law and math.
I have no idea if they use the same protocols and network, but a brief read at Jami features seems to indicate there is some sort of decentralization.
My experience with it when it still was called Ring wasn't exactly positive though, I hope it got better in the meantime.
We could make a lot of progress
on right to repair without ever
coming in conflict with existing
TPMs.

Maybe not TPMs - but the iPhone Secure Enclave is going to crop up pretty early in any such discussions, after iOS 9 disabled iphones where a third party replaced the home/touch id button [1] - often because a broken screen had been replaced. A later apple update walked this back to merely permanently disabling touch id and apple pay on such phones.

[1] https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/iphone/what-is-iphone-err...
In Switzerland, subtitles are on TT page 777.
No, they've done the same as other countries, which is follow the so-called ecology-oriented organisations and kill nuclear because that's what the population is asking for, not because it's the best thing to do. Again, if priority number one is to reduce CO2 then renewable won't be enough. If the priority is to find something quick and cheap, then sure, a solar panel is cheap. Except if you need a sustained production for more than 30 years then it's actually more expensive than nuclear. Again, in France it's not replacing fossil, it's replacing nuclear, the second cleanest form of electricity.

If you just want to please the masses and don't care about the environment, then sure, that choice was the good one.
I known it’s not the main point of the story, but the fact that this legislation was intentionally held up by a congressman (a die-hard Ohio State fan) in committee who relented only after meeting with a famous former Ohio State football player who turned his life around after prison is really interesting given the blowback athletes like Kaepernick have gotten for getting political.
Unpopular answer: pure fashion.

There's nothing wrong with object methods (that's 100% pure syntax vs. a function call) and an implicit "this" scope for symbols (which is just a limited form of dynamic scope[1]). They don't make code hard to understand. OO can be abused to produce bad designs, of course, but that's not an indictment of its syntax.

Non-syntactic aspects are maybe a more involved discussion. For an example, I personally think traditional OO lends itself very nicely to runtime polymorphism. And this is something that more modern languages have really struggled with (take a random new hacker and try to explain to them virtual functions vs. trait objects). Now... polymorphism can be horribly abused. But, it's still useful, and IMHO the current trends are throwing it out with the bathwater.

[1] Something that itself has long since fallen out of fashion but which has real uses. Being able to reference the "current" value of a symbol (in the sense of "the current thing we are working on") is very useful.
It absolutely would! The US, Europe, etc. aren't the big target for this thing, they would be the icing on the cake.

I wouldn't count on it making it to China anytime soon though, WeChat and Alipay have that locked up and I doubt Libra makes it through the Chinese Firewall given China can't control it.
Last time I checked you didn't get DOM manipulation, so you'd still need to use JS for that.
I wonder if there is any scientific evidence of human organ systems that operate without much input from the brain.

I read somewhere that that the human stomach also has a ton of neurons. So perhaps being an octopus is like being a human with eight gut instincts instead of one.
This seems like a way for supra-national companies to arise like in cyberpunk fiction. I think Bitcoin was the beginning of the end for government controlled fiat currency even if most people have no idea how or why.
>If you live in a first world country and your skill set is worse than somebody in the developing world, you’re going to have a bad time.

Even if your skill set is greater, your cost of living is higher. So you'd have to be more than marginally better.

Also, the logical conclusion of where this seems to be headed is that if you're a low-skill person living in a first-world county, voting for protectionist, isolationist policies/politicians is a rational choice.
(Matrix lead here) The core problem is: empirically most users want an app which works like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram etc and tells you which other users are contactable. If you’re some random installing a comms app, you want to know if any of your contacts are on it already. It’s nothing to do with whether your long lost cousin is on it.

However, there are then folks hyperfocused on privacy who declare this ‘toxic data exfiltration’ and vociferously object.

We’re trying to get the balance right, and it’s worth noting that the bug you linked is still up in the air. We don’t have the final UX yet, but the idea is to even more explicitly warn the user that their contacts are being uploaded to a identity lookup service if they want to discover people on the network. An alternative/complementary approach is https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/10093.

(edited due to accidentally hitting submit...)
Bitcoin miners tap in to Iran’s state subsidised energy supply
>Alright, let's say these people do have money to spend.

They DO have money to spend, they've just been ignored by the digital economy. The "let's say" part of your comment shows why.
Someone else could use the published work to roll back your upvotes.
Unless you can provide actual legal documents as opposed to whitepapers, your argument is unconvincing. Nobody trusts anything Facebook says, which given their past actions is completely reasonable.
Space miners race to an asteroid worth quintillions
I'm a mechanical keyboard fan, but the wired fullsize Mac keyboard is the best dome/non-mech board I've ever used. It is really nice to type on and I believe the keycaps are PBT, they feel great with the brushed aluminum case.
I think those who are defending Gates here naively believe they are of the same natural position, instead of realizing they are so far down they are more realistically his prey.
I might have exaggerated, but even this phrase doesn't necessarily imply they are fundamentally evil

You might know all about morals and actively go against them. I don't think that's what's happening here
Well, somebody should.
> Inflation does not increase the real return from stock markets. Inflation erodes also capital. Capital must work just to stay still.

Actually, it is not so. What we call 'real return' in the stock market is stock prices as a percentage less consumer price inflation as a percentage. If inflation causes stocks prices to inflate more quickly than wages, then it will appear to boost real returns in the stock market because we aren't very good at measuring such things. To state the same thing in a different way, there is no special reason why consumer price inflation and asset price inflation should be the same thing.

Modern methods of money creation (ie, post what has been happening post 1970) focus on money creation by lending people money to buy assets. It seems quite unlikely that the inflation indexes in common use are the right adjustments to make to the stock market, house prices, etc, etc.

Look at the price of gold for example - according to the BLS [0] $165 dollars of gold in 1975 should be worth about $811 today. It is actually worth double that. Gold is a pet rock with no prospect of a real return, and also out of fashion as an asset. It is certainly not the sort of thing people borrow money to purchase - and that makes it a great indicator that asset prices are inflating much faster than the official inflation statistics, because even with those headwinds it is acting as though owning a pet rock is a productive long-term decision. It is quite likely that inflation is reallocating resources from workers to owners of assets.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

[1] https://goldprice.org/gold-price-history.html
In that case, there is no immediate threat when publishing. Unless you area afraid someone else can improve on the constant factor, this won't break crypto.
It's a matter of ease of use. All these people in the 3rd world have Facebook already on their phones, all of a sudden they will have a neat crypto currency wallet too and it's going to change everything.
I don't disagree with you, Facebook should be trusted with a grain of salt when it comes to privacy right now.

This isn't relevant to the Libra discussion, because of the way Libra is designed. You don't have to trust Facebook to trust Libra.

They built it this way because they know we don't trust them right now.
It wasn't meant to do anything but solidify chinas continued domination over western markets through our reliance on their cheap labor.

Politics isn't debate club. It doesn't work that way especially not when you are dealing with a mafia organization like Chinas ruling party.
Similarly though, I don't think any programming language is really "based on English" or "captures the core of the [English] language", in any meaningful way. So isn't the situation basically the same between English and Polish?

Just like Polish noun cases, I don't see how any of the interesting distinctive features of English are captured by programming languages.
Anathem [1] is another book which could be turned into a script for a movie or series. It has a host of colourful characters, scenery varying from something resembling a medieval abbey to space ships, a fairly linear plot line and enough action to keep a modern audience from reaching for their mobile comfort devices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
You guys are awesome, thank you. Im not a coder, but i like it to read stuff about. The world is changing fast and there are some problems which only can be solved with humanity and ethical oriented rules. Like your work and the options you give to other people. In the end, all institutions in our world, from governance to industry are nothing without you guys. There is technology which is made for freedom they said, for defense they said. But in the end, its for killing people. Fast and efficient. They hide technology to earn money and get might and rich. But they destroy our Planet in different kind of ways. And then they started to tell us lies, to keep us dumb. Now i think a point is reached, where some individuals realized what they have done to our all enviroment. Theres panic behind the curtains, cause something went wrong.(dont wanna go in detail) Here in the news i saw:US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must. They blow out different kind of materials. Also there are so many experimental fuels in use, which have realy bad effects. While whole world is fearing climate change, the US military sees climate change as a “threat multiplier,” or a condition that will exacerbate other threats. I mean, WTF is wrong with that guys? So i beg YOU guys here, never help them coding for doing shit like this. No more code for threats on people. Theres no defense needed, when u avoid war. And theres no war needed, when all would do research in science for good things. Not how to kill or control people. So many time is lost, money is wasted, knowledge and technology hidden and unused, cause its in military use. For all programmers of unethical stuff, tell your bosses: its the wrong way! This imperealistic, capitalistic warmachine thinking, has to end. You guys can change the world, cause no one knows her codes better. Thank you for your work.
I'm guessing you have an older HVAC system. Huge advances in air source heat pump efficiency came in the last decade. If you own the place and plan to stay there more than ~5 years I would look into it. Could save you a lot over time depending on local climate.

Gas heat is cheaper than ever. But as long as you're not in an extremely cold area heat pump is probably cheaper. In your case, it might make sense to keep the furnace for days too cold for the heat pump to work efficiently. Use it as supplemental heat.

In days when temperatures are >40F the heat pump would be ~6X more efficient at moving BTU than gas heat. You can use online calculator to work out the BTU of gas used vs electricity cost. There's definitely a lower temp limit where gas is cheaper, but also a good chance your climate doesn't hit that temp often
It's far less trivial that you are implying, there's way less data about a Libra account on the ledger than there is on your web browser when you visit a page.

But I'll grant that it's not impossible, just wayyyyy more expensive and more trouble than it's likely worth. Especially since most Libra users (at least at first) will already be using Facebook app or Whatsapp as their Libra wallet, which they can of course get data from.
Game theory.

If everyone takes a 20% haircut, everyone retains roughly the same relative competitiveness.

If you individually / manually drop 20%, you're disadvantaging yourself.

Basically, spending money is losing. No-one wants to spend money. That's why we have taxes, to force redistribution.
Cryptocurrency is the Internet of money, period.
I'd also recommend Apollo if you're on iOS and are happy using an App to get your reddit fix.

Fast, reliable and well designed. I really enjoy using it.

https://apolloapp.io
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1972/
> Facebook doesn't need an ulterior motive to make a buttload of money off of this, if it works. I don't know why "experts" are looking for one.

I would guess that it's because Facebook is a company with a history of selling toxic things and trying to convince people that it's good for them.

In this case, the question is essentially what it means to be one of the other 27 members. If the remaining 27 groups aren't free to take the currency in a direction that undermines Facebook's business, then they really don't counterbalance Facebook. If Facebook can unilaterally shut down the ecosystem, then the other members don't counterbalance Facebook. Etc.

Every major cryptocurrency I'm aware of is essentially controlled by one or two entities. Even Bitcoin's development direction is controlled by a small number of companies, and the business goals of those companies influence what features Bitcoin supports.
"int" doesn't really make sense from a mathematical perspective, since ints in e.g. C are a finite set that is not closed under addition or multiplication.

So I think it's actually a good example of your broader point, that the meaning of English words as programming keywords is often very different from their meaning in other contexts.
Travelers such as myself do some of things all the time like use Paypal as a bank. Without credit history or a good score you can't do much either, and that's pretty frightening. In Vancouver you need a credit card (not debit card) just to park your car.

So yes, I'd love another competitor to all the holes that the existing system has. A lot of these comments just seem a bit... sheltered. Like wondering why people go to Mexico for dental care because your stellar white collar insurance covered 100% of your dental surgery.

The current system has major issues. And btw, I'd gladly compare mortgage terms from my bank vs from Zuckerberg.
Since we're discussing this, I'd like to share my work with this community: a programming by demonstration system, which doesn't use text [1]. One of its advantages is that people of different non-English backgrounds can be part of (say) the same introductory programming workshop, as long as one person can learn and orally convey how to use it [2].
[1] www.blockstudio.app
[2] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3174196