skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with Ruby for about 10 years before diving into Erlang. I liked a lot about the Erlang ecosystem, but the syntax was a bit challenging. About a year later, I found Elixir. It provided all the joys of Ruby for me combined with all the things I loved about Erlang. This is completely subjective, obviously, but I've worked with a lot of languages over the past 30 years and Elixir has been by far my favorite. I hope to finish out my career doing Elixir.
I have been using ThinkPads (T, W and P models) with Windows since 2006 and seldom had anything to complain about.
what "additional functions" are you referring to? I haven't set foot in a bank in a decade, I need someone to refresh my memory.

How can you consider my point "void" if it does provide some of the functions?

I can't understand how you can acknowledge the "ecosystem around regular money" and ignore it in the very next sentence and resort to your narrative of "1000 times the cost of printing a dollar", lol!

And you complain about hand-waving? italicizing "doesn't" isn't really a way to convince someone about what's missing.
There was quite a lot of openscad replacement going on in 2011. I even made a lua based alternative.
It's like Quicktime VR.
11% of Taiwanese have studied/worked overseas: survey
Thanks. I actually confused myself when I was writing it. I should have taken that as a sign to change the names. (I was going for a reference[1], but that shouldn't muddle things!)

I hope the new names are differentiated enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_%26_Dave
Searching for the Terrifying Mongolian Death Worm
Aren't a lot of brown eyed people also born with blue eyes, changing a few weeks later?
I am confused. I live in a country with "banking services", but almost nobody here uses them. We get paid on debit cards, and then we immediately withdraw the sum in cash. We pay for everything in cash, why would we ever switch to something different? I can only see the negative consequences: the usual privacy implications (some guy can see what I spend my money on); the danger of not being able to spend money at all if they decide so (like the famous Visa/MasterCard WikiLeaks fiasco); fees (2-3% on every purchase? No, thank you.)
It's pretty well known in white hat circles that Zoom has a paid private bounty program through one of the "big 2". I know several who have got paid. Say what you like about non-disclosure, but it is the reality for most programs. We can disclose for pay, or disclose for fame, but usually not both.
Would love to know if there are statistics about this from other countries.
By that logic you should litter because nobody pays you to use trash bins. The exact argument you use, I use as an example of American stupidity (or perhaps you'd call it an American viewpoint). You want faster self check out or not? You want them to be able to lower prices across the board? No? Alrighty, keep ruining it for everyone out of some misguided righteousness that you should be paid for it.
Interesting, I really like the approach! Thanks for sharing!
I often see this pessimistic prediction, and I don't get it.

What benefit would someone have to not pass on cost savings to consumers if they had a super effective robot to do something? And regardless of their motives, how would they stop it from happening? Patents have limited lifetimes and and techniques developed will be quickly replicated/democratized.

Perhaps someone could corner the market for a while, but not indefinitely.

In the end, the result of automated production will be downward pressure on prices, with consumables trending towards $0.

With this in mind, it strikes me that the pessimistic predictions stem from the idea that there is a secret cabal of the "wealthy" who take great pleasure* in keeping their fellowman down. Today, by many measurements people living in wealthy countries have a standard of living so far superior to that of kings of old. Has the secret cabal been just lying in wait until now to strike?

* sure, some percentage of billionaires are probably sociopaths, but I'm sure most are not.
If you do this audio-only there isn’t a telltale LED on the camera to give away that you are doing it. I’m way more worried about audio bugging than a webcam (which really only has the user’s face)
Have you seen bad content and now know that you've become a worse person? How are you worse now? If you haven't watched that sort of content then how do you know it would make you a worse person if you did? It sounds silly to me.
These ones?

https://pragprog.com/screencast/v-dtrubyom/the-ruby-object-m...

Sample: https://youtu.be/io34q2G4eOU
Move "with aligned," to it's own line and you don't need visual alignment at all, it's all semantic. Surely the extra line feed is worth elimination a whole category of alignment in code.
Lots and lots of people have proposed replacements for IEEE floats that fix (or claim to fix) various problems with floats. 90% of them are utter nonsense, so many people default to assuming that any new one they encounter is also utter nonsense, and they usually turn out to be right.
> the additional problem of not wanting to read books that parents would buy for 4-year-old kids.

There are actually a couple of startups that are trying to address this problem.

One is early-stage and is focused on this specifically [1]. Their content is crowdsourced via student writing competitions.

The other startup is very well-funded and uses a team of editors to ratchet down the vocabulary and sentence structure of news articles, which they provide at several reading levels [2].

1: https://www.storyshares.org/books

2: http://www.newsela.com
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Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
SMS are sent between devices via a message gateway server.
Amazon staff will strike during Prime Day over working conditions
It's fine to repost after that much time has gone by. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Interesting that, when you compare the MBR and COM versions side-by-side in a hex editor, the only changes (apart from the required few bytes at the end of the MBR version) are in what I assume are memory addresses: a 7D byte in the MBR version ends up being 02 in the COM version. One higher than 7C and 01 in the respective starting addresses.
> will break naive min/max calculations which start accumulator with +/-inf.

Wouldn't the equivalent pattern just be to start at +/- typemax(Posit) or whatever? As you would for integers, which lack infinity.
It's NOT pretty absurd to use access point information to gain location knowledge. Google Street View has done so.
>Can you use the dollar to buy food at a foodstand in Germany

I don't know about Germany, but most places you can easily convert it to local currency right around the corner. Not many currencies can boast of something like that.
Looks like an elaborate and well-thought through take on zeroconf overlay networking.
What is premature and what is not? Is choosing fit for a job data structures a premature optimization? I don't think so. But I've seen people arguing against it.
That's a hard problem to solve. An audio alert that the microphone has turned on would obviously be rejected by consumers, unless maybe some fancy processing were used to remove that alert sound from the recording. But even so, an audio alert would presumably only play once while the indicator light remains illuminated the entire time.

On the other hand while an indicator light is good for the camera, it's not sufficient for audio. If the computer is facing away from me, then the camera can't see me so my inability to see the camera light isn't that huge of a deal. But audio goes around corners so I could be recorded by a computer not immediately in eyesight.

If there were some reasonable third sensory channel to available for "out of band" communication, that would be ideal. But consumers will reject smell-alerts.
This stuff has been said for years, but it's almost 2020, when do you consider soon? If anything, more jobs will be created as we can mass produce goods at home without going through China et al. In fact in my country, they can't find anyone to pick the fruit even for very decent wages (even if the picker sucks).

On the issue of skilled work, if i was a male with no skills or family, I'd be becoming a truck driver right now due to all the doom and gloom which already has led to shortages. The truth is, a lot of these automation problems are very hard to solve.
Was just wishing I had a tool like this tonight. Thanks for sharing.
I don't envy native english readers, as my teacher said, "I wouldn't be surprised if one day English write Manchester and read Liverpool".

I am not sure of all Slavic languages work best with phonics, but one I learned seems it does. Like if you just read the sound of each letter fast after the other, you are 80% saying the word :)
I'm pretty sure that there is enough incompatible design between the platforms to make a cross-platform UI using native widgets infeasible. Between Windows, macOS, and X Windows, I'll guess that one of them picks a different meaning of (x,y)--is it the center of the pixel or the upper left? I'm guessing that Cocoa/UIKit's constraints are incompatible with Android's gravity, and what do you do on Windows, which has nothing at all (at least for Win32). Do you re-implement Apple's constraints for Android? Vice-versa? What do you do if you have limited space and you can't fit Windows' large edit boxes but macOS's svelte edit boxes fit snugly? Windows' control expand into their frame, but macOS's controls frequently have padding, which means that for Windows you need to add padding between the controls, but on macOS you put the controls next to each other and the internal padding does it all for you. And for some platforms, it's not even clear what the native widgets are: is Win32, WinForms, WPF, or UWP the native widget set for Windows? Is Gtk or Qt/KDE the native widget set for Linux?

> but really, what’s more important, code aesthetics or usability?

Well, if you want software developers to write using it, code aesthetics is pretty important. Code aesthetics is usability to software developers. End-user usability does tend to trump code aesthetics if you want to get money out of the software you write, but even then, code aesthetics is still a consideration.
Paper at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.9b02331.

Paywalled, so I can’t whether it addresses how the water cleaning effect affects longevity (chances are the stuff it removes from the water will stay in the aerogel, likely eventually blocking water transport)
The notion that this life is not really that important is the only rational conclusion we can make
For web they create them on 1A, but directly in 1A PSS, not going through 1A GDS (and therefore not paying the GDS fee, just a PSS fee). This is the case for all direct channels (websites or airline call centers) of all airlines
Polymatter - mostly about company / nation scale economics. Possibly too high-level for the average HNer.

Mustard - great videos about the history of notable vehicles - mostly planes, with a couple of trains. Mixture of historical footage and great animation.

Journey to the Microcosmos - very new channel, basically little nature documentaries about microorganisms.

Robert Miles - really great videos about AI safety - why it's important, what the cutting edge of research is etc.

Captain Disillusion - VFX breakdowns of hoax videos and some explanations of video technology. His channel also hosts videos of a couple of his talks, which are excellent.

Tom Scott - five minute videos from interesting places, plus some layman level programming topics.

Jay Foreman - mostly maps and politics combined with British humour.

TechAltar - Tech company strategy discussion - some normie topics, but some interesting insights as well.

Internet Historian - very well made videos about significant events in 'Internet Culture'. Famous/signifant 4chan raids, cons that went badly and other misc stuff like Fyre festival and the launch of Fallout 76 that spawned a lot of discussion and memes. Definitely not for everyone.

I'm not sure whether you'd consider review channels educational but if you do then I like:

LinusTechTips, MKBHD, Dave2D, Jenny Nicholson, Ralphthemoviemaker
Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant which one of father/son is the news article about? Is Mikhail Paramonov (the one who stole all the money) the father?
Same for some of us, that are born with gray eyes and color starts appearing weeks after birth. And eye color can change during childhood, from blue to green or hazel for example.
No amount of security features can rival a small piece of black tape over the camera.

It also makes crypto-phishing (you've been recorded doing X, pay Y BTC) much harder to fall for. Where software could (and eventually will) be compromised, the attacker would have to physically access the machine to remove that tape.
Do you also litter to support low skilled people to be able to pick up your trash in service of the municipality (or whoever pays for that in the USA)?
As a millennial/gen z music person, the problem is that your son is a guitarist. Guitar rock is dead. Foo Fighters, Qotsa,tool offshoot bands are all too 2000's. Sample and synth based rock is alive. We can simply sample any guitar lines and warp them to fit the beat. No need to hire a guitarist.

Rock has moved on. It moved on in 2000 following the releases of Radiohead's Kid A, The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, Outkast's Stankonia and the Avalanches' Since I Left You. All are rock records that have minimal guitar use. Factor in that the Neptunes, Just Blaze, Kanye West, and Madlib dominated 2000's production styles moving them towards sampling. The 2010's is even more towards this style with the emergence of vaporwave and the new jazz rap fusion that Kendrick Lamar, J Cole and Thundercat make.

I cannot think of the last time a guitar centric artist hit #1 outside of Post Malone. I don't even think Post Malone plays guitar on any of his hits either.

Lastly your kid is not deeper than the other kids lyrically. Get off of your high horse and stop leading your kid towards a path to hell.
"...demanding excellence in all that we do ...steals from us one of life’s greatest rewards — the simple pleasure of doing something you merely, but truly, enjoy"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/in-praise-...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6231039
I thought unsigned in 64 bits, holding the number of nanoseconds since the Unix 0 time (which might be 1970, but i forget).
That was my thought, what does "successful" mean if not "being happy". Someone living comfortably and loving every day is more "successful" than someone stressed out and crying on their private cruise liner.
ELI5 can I buy a laptop with Ryzen 9?
Taiwan, Japan succesfully replicate ancient sea migration
It isn’t an Official Facebook Announcement though. Think of it more like a Medium post.
I learned to read from ”100 Easy Lessons” shortly after its publication, completing about 80 lessons before starting kindergarten. I never ended up finishing all 100, however, so perhaps there are some phonemes I have yet to learn.

One key element that the article misses is that a direct instruction approach to phonics means that the learner is not just learning to say phonemes fast and winding up with words, but is learning what it feels like to construct new knowledge from smaller bits. As a four year old, this meta-lesson was known to me only as the incredible sense of joy and accomplishment in seeing my parent’s face light up after successfully sounding out a difficult word. To be able to read a word without anyone telling you the answer first is something truly formative for a budding intellect. I believe there is no way to progress through “100 Easy Lessons” without also learning to some degree that one can tackle the unknown.
The ebikes sold where I live go no faster than a very low speed (think ~20km/h) and have very robust brakes (double, not sensitive to weather conditions). They are in every way safer than the racing bike people who frequently go 40-50km/h and have brakes that are sensitive to weather conditions. And they are actually fine also.
It is straightforward though: NATO is an organization for collective defense. The set of territories covered is well-defined, but does not include all territories claimed by each individual member states. For example Hawaii is not included, nor is the Falkland Islands, which is why NATO was not invoked in the Falklands War. But Greenland is included.

A response to an attack is decided on by the NATO council, not by the individual member states. So unless NATO is dissolved (which could of course happen one day but which is certainly not in the cards currently), Greenland is defended by the NATO alliance.

Taiwan is of course not a member of NATO so that example is irrelevant.
Agree, language acquisition is so cool! That we just ”absorb” the language, or even languages, around us at early age is just amazing. Steven Pinkers 1994 book “The language instinct” gives interesting perspectives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_Instinct
Kyocera to roll out new Li-ion battery in 2020
Zfp is lossy compression just FYI. Fpzip (an earlier invention by Lindstrom et al) has a lossless mode. They really push zfp more though as it has nice features like random access decoding and (except on my data) higher compression ratios.
I think this person is saying that it should break existing code not the pattern.

The solution seems simple to me though. Whatever syntax programmers are using to initialize floats to +/-inf, make that ensure to posit min and max as well.
It's called Embedded SQL, and is part of an ISO standard [1]. At one point an embedded version of Informix translated ESQL/C to ISAM calls, without any SQL parsing and query compilation at runtime. Though I don't know what this has to do with metaprogramming as we know it today.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL
For the non bash users among us?
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611651

C2 page: http://wiki.c2.com/?LawOfDemeter
My first attempt was using the Blender API, you can take a look at https://github.com/akloster/blender-vraag

Currently I am trying to reimplement the "construct" part with Pymesh and Shapely, but I haven't published it yet.
Large parts of the world have no access to banking and can never convert from cash to digital currency. How easily can you transfer money to random individual in random developing countries who might offer their digital labor?

If they are paid in Libra, and can pay in Libra, they become part of the global economy.
You too can post anything you want on... Facebook.com
Re: splitting a backup across several drives - this has unique UI requirements that aren't compatible with bvckup2's core Engine/UI model. The engine runs all backups autonomously and the UI merely shows the progress. Conversely, split backups are interactive - eject A, insert B, etc.
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Once Jobs is back and Macs are put back in order.
Assuming they wanted to prevent large transactions, how will they? Is Facebook planing to be solely responsible for clearing every transaction?

Because the article literally says they plan "gradually transitioning to a permissionless state" and "Facebook will not control the network".

And, not that this is their plan anyway, but how could they prevent Libra's from crossing borders if it is permissionless?

And even if there were a limit on transfers somehow. A limit, by the way, on an automated system that presumably will involve large sellers with large volume. A limit which the word "permissionless" makes impossible. How will they prevent multiple wallets?

For laundering generally: you buy a thing with cash or the like from an incurious seller and sell it again. To grease the wheels, you could buy at over market value and sell under. Realestate is very popular, even driving up urban prices. But Persian rugs work just as well[1]. It's not currency change that is interesting but the erasing the origin of the purchasers money and replacing it with a legitimate origin: the sale of a condo.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-manafort-and-t...
Thanks, it's a very nice compliment.
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My immediate gut reaction to this entire thing (and again, this is only a personal viewpoint not held by others) is along the lines of: What could go wrong with giving one of the most shady corporations on the planet the permission to print its own currency?
The Provacyl Reviews Contain a Detailed List of Ingredients Used in the Supplement

We learn from the literature available that "Andropause" is something that men experience which is akin to menopause that women go through without the problems of menstrual flow. They profess the same mood swings and erratic behaviour once they pass their thirties. Subconsciously, their waning sex drive and weak erections make them behave in this fashion and this could be due to the hormonal changes that are taking place.

The Provacyl reviews are quite informative about reactions to the product from customers who have used the supplements. The suppliers recommend a daily dose of 2 tablets which may help men not only increase their sexual drive but enable them to have a better quality of sex. Worry and doubts about their failing libido need not be a major reason for concern if they can recapture some of their stamina and harder erections to boost their virility and performance levels.

Before investing in a product that aims to increase the length of the penis, stamina and sex drive, one should carefully scour the internet for maximum details about the product, be it a pill, topical cream or medical gadget. Reading the Provacyl reviews will give you an inkling of what is in store for you when you go on a recommended course. Some users, in the testimonials claim that they felt younger as they had better hair growth, lost belly fat and felt increasingly virile.
https://sleepingsupplements.com/red-fortera-review/
Every salary in the US should be prefaced with "this sounds really high, but to compensate if anything goes wrong you will literally live in the streets forever". Thus, comparing a US salary to another country's salary should be taken with a mountain of salt: In most other countries where you'd want to live the height of the salary is modulated by the necessity of providing the less fortunate a liveable existence, including potentially you.
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> Modern x86 systems use SSE registers

Are your sure of this? It's my understanding that SSE registers require the use of a special API and standard floating point operations do not use them.

But the last time I worked with them was writing a SIMD vector library 7 years ago.
This seems doable without Libra. I'm in Australia and my local transfers from the bank app (ING) are both free and instant. At least to banks that joined Osko. That sorts out pretty much all simple/tiny transfers. If Libra can guarantee international transfers for free, I expect that fee will also go away from the banks.
I distinctly remember that being how I learnt to read. By sounding out the words, I couldn't imagine any other way?
And all efforts to curb money laundering, and all AML compliance laws are just to invade your personal privacy and nothing more too, right?
Language is something you can conduct a dialog in. In most of the computer languages you can't.

I'm not saying that C++ (or any other) is in any way inferior to Erlang because of human-readable error messages. But this property to communicate back and forth in the same language is definitely interesting.