skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very easy: convenience, security, and cost. You are right that consumers will care little about the cost aspect, because it is largely hidden from them (even though they pay for it indirectly) but they do care about convenience and security. Online payments are actually not really that convenient. That's why Amazon is so popular because they sort of shield you from having to setup payments with each of the merchants they proxy for you. This convenience comes at a price; Amazon is not a charity and highly profitable.

Copying credit card numbers all over the place is tedious and risky and people are kind of nervous about it for valid reasons. Swiping cards like a caveman is already a thing of the past and also not that safe. There's a huge amount of friction around payments for both users and merchants both online and offline. Even cash has a cost for merchants.

Contact-less payments with cards or phones are rapidly replacing cash payments (more convenient). But of course online you basically still get to copy credit card details around or deal with middle men like paypal or one of the many direct debit systems in many countries.

BTC is nice as a gold alternative and similarly tedious to transact with. It's useless for payments as transactions are extremely slow and rate limited to a ridiculous ~5 transactions per second globally. Price volatility means that it is hard to price things in it because you have to update the prices continuously. Ethereum is useless for the same reasons (in its current form).

Libra will require a bit of selling and educating obviously but actually comes with all the tools needed to make that easy. E.g. micro payments and tipping are very easy to implement on it and you could use that to incentivize users with e.g. bonuses, tiny refunds/rebates, etc. Integrating payments into chat removes a lot of friction for the user. And once there are enough merchants adopting this that incentivize users to use this, adoption could be quite rapid. Having low transaction fees will make this very interesting for merchants.
that's a valid vue from the top of the dollar pyramid, but if your much lower and your local "dollar" doesn't have kind of sway in the world, than this starts making more sense. Look at Venezuela - if the citizens opted in to buy a stable coin (which they can easily do, unlike purchasing physical US dollars, which they can not easily do) than a currency like Libra makes a lot more sense.

everyone seems to think crypto is for the first world, it's not, it's for the third worlds. will it empower the citizens like they claim? i don't know, but they definitely have a more valid use case.
If you're not talking about proof/disproof, you might want to look for a different word.
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Yet your whole refutation, which is quite a small comment, a couple of lines is 432 characters.

512 characters isn't a whole heap. It's more than some, but not a lot, and less than the kind of binary most languages do produce today.

A visual demonstration doesn't need to be nitpicked. (293)
> Huawei CFO is prosecuted and currently in home arrest in Canada awaiting extradition to the US for allegedly bypassing sanctions on Iran.

Huawei's CFO is currently on "house arrest" in a $10 million dollar estate in one of Vancouver's best neighborhoods, but free to move about the city so long as she's accompanied by a minder. As contrasted with the Canadians that China has kidnapped in retaliation and remain in secret prisons 8 months later with limited consular services. [1]

She's under arrest for wire fraud because to be extradited from Canada you have to have committed what would be a crime in Canada, and violating US sanctions is not a crime in Canada. She is not awaiting extradition, the trial hasn't happened yet, and she may well not be extradited if this is in fact primarily case of US extraterritoriality. One of her best arguments, per usual, is Trump's comments on the whole situation.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-08/huawei-cf...
That's pretty common. If I bring up the (rather specific) subject of that link to someone who has been extensively exposed to bad information, they associate it with some other event.

Association, where there is none, is a very effective way to poison the well and change the subject. I'm not suggesting you did either on purpose, it's clear you are being candid and relaying your experience.

Note I said nothing (anywhere... ever) about the unrelated older historical event you brought up. Indeed, I bet we agree.
Status page shows all systems operational 15 minutes after this was posted. Does the status page reflect reality?
I find it unexpected that Windows ME is also missing from the list; it used to be the blunder. See:

- Wikipedia's "reception" section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me#Reception

- An XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/323/
This, there's no safe way to send cash to 3rd world countries... bitcoin has no KYC policies.

I can see a benefit to using Libra for this.
> Microsoft's toxic and manipulative partner program has been used to extract excessive license fees from customers for years.

In what way is the partner programme toxic and manipulative? (asking genuinely)
>Do you know who motivated the US to take on the Manhattan Project?

Perhaps it was more like an austrian boi looking for mehr lebensraum, but who am I to say.
Steve Ballmer wasn't a bad CEO. People keep talking about how he dropped the ball on mobile, but so what? So did Blackberry, Motorola and Nokia and those companies had mobile as their core business. To think a "better" CEO could've pulled it all off is delusional.

Under Ballmer, Microsoft focused on core business and reached into cloud - successfully. As a result, Microsoft is now stronger than Apple. Microsoft doesn't depend on people buying luxury cellphones, a market which is reaching saturation.

That's not a "sexy" story, but it's the truth. A more "proactive" CEO would've just blown more money on Zunes and Kinects to fail in the market.
"Australian surgeons attached functioning nerves above the spinal injury to paralysed nerves below the injury."

How was that done, exactly? Were they just sort of clamped together? Some sort of special bonding device that encouraged synapse formation?
> How is the inverse squared law applied to space fission? Ease of cooling?

If you double the distance, the radiation hazard reduces by a factor of four. This is why the Sun — an unshielded fusion reactor — hasn’t already killed everyone.
The public market of ideas means that the idea of a public market of ideas can be downvoted. Don't talk about ideas being public market and then in the edit complain about someone not liking your idea.
I agree totally. This is one of my favourite points when it comes to reminding management about dealing with technical debt.
The same €3000 limit for cash transactions has already been implemented in Belgium, France has an even stricter limit of €1000.

Starting in January, the ECB will stop the distribution of the €500 bill.

We're nearing the death of cash.
Libel has different definitions in different cultures and can have fairly wide definitions.
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> There is vast swathes of them around where I live in Scotland and there is no bio-diversity there at all.

Um, you do know that forests have stages? Right?

Evergreens tend to be one of the first stages. Evergreens generally grow quickly and tolerate fairly crappy soils. "waterlogged soil with high clay content" (from the article) is a REALLY crappy soil for trees. The littering of needles generally helps add some level of nutrients back to depleted soils (an acidic humus is going to be vastly better than completely leached out waterlogged clay) It's why you plant evergreens on strip mined areas to help reclaim them.

After the evergreens, the deciduous trees start coming in from the edges--but this takes decades.

Now, it's possible that Ireland/Scotland don't have enough deciduous trees (or, in the case of Scotland, the climate may simply not be correct--Scotland has a lot of land that's really crappy for growing anything much at all) to start the process and those trees need to be added to their planning. Fair enough.

However, I don't see any discussion or acknowledgement of any of this in the article.
>> Life-long pacifist and, I've heard, reasonably intelligent human

He was also a misogynist and a xenophobe.

I am not trying to whitewash his accomplishments in terms of physics, but frankly he's a questionable character in terms of morals or ethics.

I wouldn't trust that guy writing the laws for me, for example.
A far smaller moral crime than a land invasion of the home islands would've been. There's a reason five hundred thousand Purple Hearts were manufactured in anticipation of it.
> Interestingly, this is one of my Dad's main complaints about unions these days: That our city trains great carpenters, but then they are recruited away to non-union areas.

Why do they take the offers? I don't want to write anything bad about your father, but I think people wouldn't leave if they were paid well / felt good all around at their current job?
Does anyone else find shower-gel just completely ineffective?

After using it I don't feel clean. I feel like I just rubbed cooking oil on my body.

With regular soap bars you get the "clean" feeling which no other product seems to match.
Ireland was deforested by the British, who needed wood for ships and wood to burn (industrial revolution before coal). It was also deforested in an attempt to quell the Irish attempts at independence. With no forests to hide in, it's harder to fight against an army. Prior to this, Ireland was heavily forested.

With no wood, Irish began to burn peat (their own soil) for heat and cooking. Eventually there was famine and a mass exodus.

The soil is now markedly different, and requires trees that can tolerate the ph.
What are you talking about? Einstein's discovery motivated the project, but he was always against the bomb.

"Several weeks before America dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Albert Einstein begged our government to reconsider."

"After he found out about Hiroshima in the news, Einstein was literally horrified. First, because he mourned for the more than 100,000 people killed at Hiroshima. But also, he and other atomic scientists knew that the promise of “benign” uses of atomic energy had been dealt a cruel blow, if not a fatal one. Einstein believed the decision to nuke Hiroshima would be a public perception disaster concerning his discovery"

https://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/before-the-beginning.html
Most greenfield enterprise apps are WPF/UWP, some still insist on using Forms though.

No one uses MFC/ATL for greenfield applications on Windows.

When C++ comes into play, it is plugged via DLLs or COM into .NET applications (or even via C++/CX, C++/WinRT or C++/CLI).

As for pure Win32 C style, for greenfield apps, only if are feeling masochist.

Not counting 3rd party alternatives here like Qt, Delphi or C++ Builder.
Claiming tree planting is a effective strategy for Ireland is just hogwash! Tree planting is primarily about managing the current carbon excess, of course it does noting to reduce our excessive emissions. It seems Ireland in particular is especially bad at actually combatting emissions, so the tree planting is supposed to provide the fig leaf to hide behind; funny that they go with spruce.

But yeah, looks like pretty bog standard spruce forest, though it seems these are actually tree plantations and not forests.
In the very limit, at full, 100% automation, this might hold true. But right up until that point, there will still be some jobs that need to be done by humans.
And if we don't fundamentally change our understanding/social contract of what it means to be a Valuable (TM) human being and member of a society, there will be huge conflicts arising from this.

Think of all the anti-welfare rhetoric around people just being "too lazy to work."
If this continues to be a socially-accepted way of thinking about people without jobs, then automating away significant portions of the required workforce will be very painful for the victims of the process.
Yes, I've noticed the same thing! With shower gel I'll smell nice for 30 minutes then it's like you haven't taken a shower at all, but soap is much more potent. The feel of "cleanliness" stays with you much longer.
If you do it with multi-stage build (where you would copy cached packages in the intermediate stage and remove it after being done) and copy over the whole root (/) from intermediate to the final stage then docker will make a new layer with the completely the same content and your image size will double -> this is a no go.

And yes, you can spin up an http server and serve the cached packages and setup up all this before using docker build, but hey I can do it with docker run + docker commit much quicker... (I wrote "you almost can not create" and not "you can not create" - so it is possible with Dockerfile, but is not trivial.)
Doesn’t seem fake when the person’s accounts go so far back. Also, the FBI has ignored much tips on terror attacks before they happened, so it would be no surprise for them to ignore evidence in a cyber crime committed by someone far beyond their reach.
Hey remember how the press has been pushing for total control of money and transactions? Under the guise of fighting money laundry?

This is what you get. How do you like the "deprecation of cash" now?

Don't worry, the million/billionaires will still put their money on real estate or other places where there are convenient exceptions for it, make no mistake.
That's true. What I personally advocate is: first, learn enough about programming and language to not do stupid things - so your code is already somewhat performant by default, at zero cost to readability. Second, when you're designing, think a little bit about performance and, given two designs of similar complexity but different performance characteristics, pick the more performant one. Three, when refactoring, if you see something stupid performance-wise, fix it too. All these things cost you little time and make your application overall snappier and less likely to develop performance problems in the future.

Beyond that, measure before you optimize, as such interventions will require larger amount of effort, so it makes sense to do them in the order of highest-impact first.

(Also note that "performance", while usually synonymous to "execution speed", is really about overall resource management. It's worth keeping memory in mind too, in particular, and power usage if your application could be used on portable devices. Which is really most webapps nowadays.)
It’s a signed type so dates before 1970 can be represented
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Is there a docker(-compose) setup I can use to give it a try? I think this would lower the barrier to entry a lot. I have a blog running on ghost I wouldn't have without a maintained docker container. I miss Instagram, pixelfed looks like a great alternative!
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It's not my job to prove your assertion.

If you want me to believe something, the jobs is yours to cough up the convincing evidence.
RE: Furthermore, they were in the 1960s, before the NRC existed and before we worried about ALARA.

"Exposure of personnel to radiation has been held well below permissible limits: the maximum exposure of any individual in any quarter has been <0.5 rem." This is within the ALARA standards.

http://moltensalt.org/references/static/downloads/pdf/NAT_MS...

RE: no real fluid-to-fluid heat exchanger.

MSRE had salt-to-salt and salt-to-air heat exchangers made from hastelloy-N.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/oakridgelab/31537153147/

RE: or power conversion cycle, which is where lots of maintenance troubles arise from.

That's the part which is not highly radioactive. Fluid fuel reactors have simplest fuelling mechanism of any reactors. The fuelling of a fluid-fuel reactor is even simpler than fuel injectors of diesel engine. Where the need for "maintanence" arise in this simple machine??

Only moving parts are the pump impellers and the control rods. ORNL had some difficulty designing the bearing, seals etc. for the salt pump. But, even that is solved today with concentrating-solar salt pumps.
See also: Boeing 737 Max
Same problem Microsoft faced when it added "UAC" in Vista. Admittedly the implementation might not have been the best from a usability perspective but I think any attempt at implementing proper privilege management in Windows would have had many users complaining and not seeing the point.

I guess the lesson here is not to give your users bad habits for the sake of convenience otherwise it'll backfire if you ever want to do things right later. MS had everybody run as root for decades before they finally decided that it might not be such a great idea after all, and then they had to face annoyed users and bad publicity.

That being said I can't really imagine how having a non-intrusive "do you want to start the call" dialog before initiating the call can be considered a deal breaker. I assume you could even reduce that annoyance further by adding a "don't ask me again for this website/user/whatever" checkbox. Do you really think that would hurt Zoom significantly? I've never used their product so I can't really form an educated opinion.

This is especially stupid because I have no doubt that now that it's been made public some people will abuse the vulnerability, if only for fun.
Almost all of your points boil down to homeschooled children not being convenient for teachers used to children who have been in day school since they were of school age. If the only bad result of your reading lots of manuals was poor grades in English for a few years this is of no consequence. Learning to express one’s thoughts about things you care about is a very different skill from imitating research in English literature.

If you want to learn more about democratic and child centred education as practiced at Summerhill I can highly recommend the founding Headmaster, A.S. Neill’s book on the school, Summerhill[1]. You are of course free to believe whatever you want about child centred methods of education but Summerhill’s students are not handicapped in life success or exams by the freedom to attend lessons or not as they choose, not are Sudbury’s[2].

You do not need an “impartial assessment” to know how well children are reading if you can read at the level of a university graduate. You can look at the books they read for pleasure and assess the level for yourself. If the child doesn’t quite get it but they’re close enough to try to read those books and enjoy them that’s a good thing.

The idea that you should take care not to contradict the curriculum is ... Education is meant to be for children, not teachers.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
You CAN NOT mount a drive with "docker build". You CAN however mount a drive with "docker run". So therefore: Dockerfile = docker run + docker commit + MANY unneeded limitations
This article chases clicks by parroting hyperbole from a remembrance service as fact.

This is not the first, nor the worst fire aboard a nuclear submarine. Komsomolets burned and sank with both a nuclear reactor and nuclear warheads on board. The reactor scrammed and was not damaged by the fire; the warheads' biggest risk was leakage of radioactive material.

Losing a nuclear submarine in a fire is a potential catastrophe for the local environment and a tragedy for the fallen crew, but hardly an event that justified the "planetary" scale.
There's nothing wrong with you - I'm guessing you just had, like most of us, a fantasy about shaking up the world somehow. Time to give up on the fantasy and engage with your actual real life instead
I would not trust any unofficial installer. Luckily many problems can be solved with a USB-Ethernet adapter and later configuration of the systen, since the issue usually lies in exotic network hardware.
Er, what? Japan was the aggressor, their allies started the war. If Americans wouldn't drop the bombs, even more civilians would lose their lives.

From the utilitarian perspective, the bombs and quick end of the war actually saved lives, so it was the right thing to do.

If you want to argue against the morality from the deontological perspective, I wonder about your argument. Japan initiated the fight, and unless Americans planned to surrender, they would end up killing even more people. Are you arguing that it matters that they did it all at once, compared to doing it bit by bit?

Also, to shine some perspective - Japan's losses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 250k. Their allies killed 400k Jews in Warsaw Ghetto alone.
"Additionally, if you’ve ever installed the Zoom client and then uninstalled it, you still have a localhost web server on your machine that will happily re-install the Zoom client for you, without requiring any user interaction on your behalf besides visiting a webpage. This re-install ‘feature’ continues to work to this day."

So... what's the best way to really really uninstall Zoom client from our Mac?
A better diagram of the sub here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Ru_Lo...

basically a series of interconnected bathyspheres with a hydrodynamic shell over them.
Performance per transistor has barely budged in thirty years. Posits seem like a very good development in that direction.
> Um, you do know that forests have stages? Right?

Calling you out for the needlessly confrontational tone here. It turns what could be an informative post into an agressive one.
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Wand is great. Thought their latest album was from a different band because it's so different than the random freebie I got from my local record store (their Golem record, it was bent)
That only really compares posits to Float16 in a domain where the paper admits roundoff error mostly isn't really an issue even at single precision.

I'd be much more interested to see how these handle stiff systems with multiple time constants. That's a domain where everything has problems and improvement is going to actually move some things from completely infeasible to actually simulatable.

That's a much stronger use case. And you don't have to worry about implementation efficiency since the improvement ratio is "infinity"--you went from can't do it at all to actually being able to do it.
Not sure if when the knowledge about it's design was made public, but name Losharik gave everyone a hint. It is a cartoon character that's made from spheres/balls connected with a wire. This is a logical way to create a submarine that's intended to go very deep, spheres are the best shape to handle high pressures. So logical conclusion based on the name was that internally it's based around connected spheres.

Submarine itself looks cigar shape, but that is just her outer shell, it's pretty certain that outer shell is not pressure sealed but rather that internal spheres withstand the pressure while the just the shell around it.
This is the new licences available to partners: https://assetsprod.microsoft.com/en-us/mpn-maps-software-iur...

I work for a silver partner and this literally doesn't affect us. There aren't many "good faith" configurations I can imagine that would struggle fitting into this model. I'd be all ears if there's someone affected but I imagine those businesses would be operating multiple arms, one of which is performing the functions of a Microsoft partner and the other is leveraging the free access to tools to drastically cut the costs of operation.
Just look at the ingredients list, it's just ridiculous how many different compounds are in there. Soap is structurally very simple, but all these derivative cleaning products albeit more complex don't even match the capabilities of regular soap. It's an odd price to pay for convenience.
Russians did enough

Is the Churchill the new thing to divert from Holodomor they promote in Petrograd? Been seeing it mentioned by Russian trolls/bots/“patriots” a lot recently