skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in the considered case and assuming a left hand driving system the pedestrian is crossing from the right side and the driver is on the left lane near the middle of the (supposedly two way road). This mean that the driver had very good visibility. Moreover the pedestrian was planning to let the other car pass (as it was considering the case where lower speeds can be dangerous) so the pedestrian is not dashing.

I agree with you in your (arguably more common) case, but in this case the driver must have had good visibility and enough reaction time.
Diffusion of Responsibility
Many tropical countries already buy sand to replenish their beaches which are carried away by currents. Would a country accept sand for free instead of paying for it, especially in a color and with an environmental impact that would make the beach a popular tourist attraction? I don't see why not.
>someone else will come up with a cryptocurrency that's actually useful

You named 8 different digital coins. Why aren’t any of them useful? Why do we need other ones?
I didn't read the whole site in detail so maybe i missed it, but does this plan require replacing white sand beaches with green sand, or would it also work to dump green sand on rocky beaches? I don't see too many countries objecting to more sandy beaches.
Meanwhile the majority of the plastic comes from certain countries that will remain unnamed and that will never do anything about it...
Sorry, I might initially have caused this mess, thinking browsers would fix it sooner than later.
I wonder if that holds for national defence budgets as well. Weapons have certainly improved.
What is "engagement" here? Is it something that is coupled to actual sales, or just likes/reposts?
> You simply cannot call 'http://localhost' from a https domain.

That’s simply wrong. You have outdated information. Unless you don’t consider Firefox, Chrome, IE, and Edge to matter.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/130ee68...

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

Safari still has an open issue I think. But that’s no surprise since Apple has demonstrated they’re suckitude at software security and development in general.
Yes, it would skin the top off their take-home Venmo payments that is currently lacking in legal paperwork.

In addition, they wouldn’t have to orchestrate these deals over direct message and email exchanges.

This criticism is akin to saying Stripe or Visa or any broker platform not adding value. It’s a fallacy of smaller pie slice in a larger pie. These are economic activities not being pursued because of barriers to entry for brands, and the overhead of orchestrating many smaller influencers versus 1 legitimate big contract with a
more established influencer.

And yes, they would get 30% less, because they have to pay taxes now.
The idea of achieving peace by drugging the population reminds me of Stanislaw Lem's book "The Futurological Congress", where this interesting concept was turned into a fun to read and thought-provoking SciFi novel.
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I'm surprised they are so small. They feel like they are everywhere and doing a ton of volume. I always assumed they had 10%+ of global market share of coffee sales.
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What about Libra is exclusive to Facebook? It's not "their" cryptocurrency, they just pitched the idea. The actual power behind libra is the Libra Association, which has a lot more scary companies participating.
They're not creating new content, but Every Frame a Painting was superb for cinematography.

https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting
> most people would rather use an SPA than have to download an app and have to keep it up to date themselves

Citation?
Zebra Stripe Pattern Database
Hum, I'm confused about your rationale, your conclusion doesn't seem to follow from your premise.

Like for me, all my thinking can happen off work, in the shower, when sleeping, etc. So I really don't need to be at work very much and actively working. And beyond 6h my brain can't produce ideas anymore anyways, so crunch seems useless as a developer, at least for me personally it doesn't make me more productive.
Totally. I do get the constraints and I imagine Zoom had similar thinking here. The image approach, although hacky, can even be secure as-is if they need it for backward-compatibility but it needs to check the headers and not honour requests with the wrong value.
I guess with number of APM/delay restrictions this would be the same as what a pro player can achieve. And pro player definitely do this, they bounce over the map all the time to monitor what is happening.
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I have, I'm interested in memes as Dawkins defined them then. I've also read many translations of Nag Hamadi scrolls, so your example sparked my curiosity. Perhaps I need to re-read The Selfish Gene, it's been more than a decade now.

Edit: with reflection I think I understand what you were getting at, that the memes contained in the Nag Hamadi corpus had been successfully suppressed by their memetic cousins which for whatever reason came to be the dominant 'version' of that information, until an accident of history reintroduced the different versions that had been all but extincted in the memepool.
Thanks. I would have thought the large crystals of sugar would be easy for them to differentiate... but perhaps the baking power ia so fine-grained, it coats the sugar.
Fractional reserve banking usually requires some non-zero percentage of deposits to be withheld.
But i thought each libra must be backed by real money? i.e. when they sell 10 libra the 10 dollars go to the libra fund, and cant really circulate (but can be invested)
It's difficult to take an article seriously when it has an emoji at the end of every sentence.... It was so distracting I could not read past the first paragraph.
Ada checks all arithmetic - the compiler can elide bounds checks if it can statically verify that no out of range error can happen, but if it can’t verify statically you get bounds checks at runtime.
The amount staked probably needs to be a % of the target account value to avoid spam.
Rust is also fairly nascent. If/when more people use it for serious projects, it will mature and get more features. I've been meaning to start learning it, but life gets in the way.
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The former
These already happen to be implemented in Toronto as bike corrals which take up the length of just under two car parking spots. They are removed for snowy seasons and reinstalled in the spring.

Picture: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/903d-Parki...
More details: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-tra...

FWIW, I feel more confident in parking my bicycle in these corrals than I probably would if parking on the platform featured in the link, as the bike corral is protected on the three sides facing the road.
While that is probably a factor, most of those places seem more like the guy who raids all the neighborhood trash days to pick up free bikes that will be thrown away, fixes them and sells.
Yes, and banks are bound by incredibly tight laws, including laws around not being allowed to recirculate all the money you get as part of an exchange operation.

If all the Libra association members are willing to be bound by the same laws, then cool: but do you trust Vodafone, or Facebook, or Andreessen Horowitz, to not try to bend the rules so they can make more money?
I think you're over-generalizing. Yes, some people work more than 40 hours for social recognition without getting any more real work done. On the other hand, I know people who truly do work over 40 hours out of a feeling of passion or obligation, completing extra work while not advertising the extra hours they're putting in.
You're being downvoted because every system—no matter how perfect it seems—is vulnerable to downtime. Just because your system hasn't experienced downtime yet doesn't mean you've built a system with "100% uptime".

My laptop's hard drive has 100% reliability to date. Doesn't mean I'm not making backups.
It would be interesting to see if it clicks on the minimap 20 times per second to keep its state refreshed in addition to issuing orders when viewing the correct screen.
Yes, it's a great example of the value of biomimicry.
Facebook Libra coin: why the cryptocurrency is no Bitcoin rival
I was just about to comment the same thing.

Opened it up, saw a bunch of emoji's and subsequently decided this was not serious enough to warrant my time.

It'd be cool to have something automated to de-mojify articles and such, I've encountered this style of emoji-heavy writing before.
been even considering just straight up creating a Brazilian "Yandex/Baidu" clone or something somehow.

That would be truly something. After all your market is what, 200mln people?
>I went to a large university and I don't think a single professor could recognize me as a student

I was in the same situation, and that's where the TAs (Teaching Assistants) stepped in. And most of the time, it made all the difference. Professors for a lot of classes (but not all of them) were just glorified lecture material recital machines, however, the value of TA office hours was insurmountable. The difference between classes that had great TAs vs. classes that had bad TAs was extremely noticeable in terms of the amount of material I learned.

I agree with the rest of the sentiment in the thread though. I didn't need professors or TAs 80%+ of my time, but whenever I got stuck, a good explanation or hint from TA made all the difference. You could easily tell by looking at everyone's scores and knowledge who went to TA office hours and who didn't. Ironically enough, the scores didn't seem to correlate almost at all with lecture attendance.

This inspired me to become a TA myself later on, and I am very glad I did that. It felt really rewarding to be able to figure out that one extra little nudge of information that, if given to a student in struggle, made it click in their heads.
I really can't find a good way to recreate what I have with something like soulver.

With tables I don't see the formulas at glance. Only alternative would be a real programming language but than something like time is a pain again.
You might have a good case, but the way you present it makes it seem very disconnected from real-world development.

Equating the most trivial kind of errors (which are caught by the compiler anyway) with "all sources of bugs" ignores the kind of bugs which are actually hard to prevent and might slip into production. But these are the kind of bugs developers are actually concerned about. Preventing editors from saving a file with a typo in it is a solution to a non-problem.

If you want to interest people in these ideas, you should show how it can solve real problems.
> Why is NBC putting pressure on Boeing? For the clicks?

It's one of the cases where screwing up your product has consequences, even for a huge nation-state-backed duopolist. That happens so rarely it's newsworthy.
I think you could implement that with CORS + CSRF tokens (blocking all types of Cross-Origin requests) but the default behaviour is to allow Cross-Origin writes (e.g. with form submissions).

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...

This is why we have CSRF tokens. So that you can effectively block Cross-Origin writes.
The population density of Montana is 2.7/km^2. Iceland is close with 3.5/km^2, then Norway and Finland (14 and 16/km^2). (Wikipedia)

Iceland has 824 cars/1000, Finland, 494 and Norway, 616.) The US overall has 811. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...)
It is a rack not a shed.
It might whiten after the CO2 has reacted with it.
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It is not looking at the raw pixels. It gets fed a bunch of arrays, but is limited by what is currently on the screen and not in fog. The idea is that this would be perfectly doable with state of the art machine learning and would not measure our ability at making better AIs, merely add a failure point to the pipeline.
I do not understand what you are referring to.

> Do you think more drivers or pedestrians are harmed by incidents involving both?

pedestrian obviously. This implies to me that regardless of the law, pedestrian should be careful when crossing the streets. From the legal side I believe we should adopt the regulations that are more likely to decrease the number and gravity of incidents, this is heavily dependent of local customs.
I kind of like the ingenuity of the approach. Never occurred to me to use non-active content.
Interesting to see this coming up so often here lately. Especially because I didn't get the raise I hoped for this year I went for it and asked if I could cut down to a 4 day week thinking that they would say no because it's quite cumbersome to work around something like that for the rest of the company but they said yes.

I'm starting in august every other week I take the Friday and Monday off creating a 4 day weekend. I'm hoping to use this time to do more music, to prepare food for a better diet (I'm overweight because I never have the energy and time to really take better care of my food habits) and perhaps even work on some interesting home automation projects.

We start temporarily for half a year and revisit the decision end of January. Money wise I'm just going back where I was 2 years ago so that's quite ok. The only drawback I can see is that the work projects accumulate 2 days of changes which I will need to catch up to every other week.
Or go for [1]pypy or [2]graalpython. I know that equivalent code in graal java ee produces equivalent assembly/performance to C+current gcc, which really shows that yes changing to a JIT can pay off. The python in graalvm is early stages but it shows that the old lesson of just write the hot spot in C is no longer true. Chris Seaton shows that for Ruby/C the language Ruby interpreter/C switch is expensive. I think the same is true for Python interpreter/C switches. Something that GraalVM+Python|Ruby can optimize out.

[1] https://www.pypy.org
[2] https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/pyth...
It's the quickest way to get breaking, local, or event-centric news.

It's the preferred means of communication for my utility company in the event of a blackout.

Some companies have contests for free swag; I've gotten an Atlassian hoodie and some hand tools from Digi-Key.
Doing it for fun using traditional methods?
Valid for the purpose of calling the destructor. That’s the only requirement.

The actual semantic state of the object may not make sense.
As a user, I fucking hate searching on mobile google now.

I was trying to find some information on something, can't remember what, and all I got on the first 3 pages were amp links to news sites talking about the thing, but nothing to do with the info I was looking for.

I ended up opening duckduckgo and it was on the first page.

Did google just forget that static article content does not exclusively make up the internet?

edit: I'm gonna re-post the rant I posted last time this came up:

> As a mobile user, I hate it.

> I hate that every fucking google search result on mobile web has its stupid little icon

> I hate that there is no way for me to disable it as a user

> I hate that it has muddied the waters in what the url bar means

> I hate that it has trained users to not question fake url bars.

> I hate that cloudflare so thoroughly jumped on its dick

> I hate that we invented a way to fake the address in the url bar just for this stupid fucking feature.

> I hate that we now have a system where somebody can share a page url with a friend, and that friend can view it on the same device model using the same browser with the same settings, and will get a different page because one was viewing an amp page but shared it's real url.

> I hate that every fucking amp page is lower featured in some way, and almost never works in desktop mode.

> And most of all, I hate that it leads to everybody offloading shit onto google's servers.

> AMP is not fast because it's served from google's CDN. AMP is fast because it's incompatible with 99% of the bullshit client cpu heavy tracking and ad libraries, so they don't get included inside AMP pages.
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There is a business case for a shorter workweek. There are benefits like higher employee morale, less sick leave, more productive employees, etc.

But what about the case for simply hiring more workers to cover the dip in overall productivity?

The CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has increased almost 1000% since the 70s [1]. Surely this is due to the benefits in technology and automation. Don't the workers deserve to see some of those benefits in the form of shorter weeks?

[1] https://www.payscale.com/data-packages/ceo-pay
Product page with video if you have a droid. https://farhanf.github.io/smoovelanding/
You could say the same thing about weekends.

I'd assume there's exceptions for things like "the site is down", though.
Honestly don't get the fascination with AI for Starcraft. Most of the skill when humans plays comes down to who has better micro and macro mechanics. It's not really a "thinking" game like chess or poker.
> Requiring businesses to provide their services to arbitrary numbers of people who are offering them nothing in return is a dangerous and ultimately unsustainable strategy.

The advertising industry has been subject to regulation for a long time, especially in European countries. There is precedent for regulating the quantity and quality of advertising, banning classes of adverts (e.g. tobacco), and the use of personal data for direct marketing (telemarketing). Ultimately they have the option of providing their services within the bounds of the law, or not providing them at all. I don't see why web advertising should be exceptionally unregulated.

The GDPR does not prohibit advertising, and as a website operator you would be within your rights to block access to adblocker users. Advertising without the use of personal data is demonstrably successful (TV; radio; cinema; magazines; sponsorship). Personal targeting of adverts may improve revenue, but so would allowing tobacco advertising, increasing the length of advert breaks on TV, or numerous other regulated practises.
Well he should have. Or maybe it's just for show. Libra can be a great tool to control the rising markets in africa. Perhaps this will end with a compromise that gives Fed control over the network.
Is your frontend a static webapp that communicates directly from the browser to your backend, or another server that talks to your backend?
Even perfectly designed systems can have flaws. In your design you assume frontend part will have 100% uptime - practice shows that your hosting just can't provide it. AWS, GCP, Azure, you name it - all of them have failures.
For anyone wanting the link.

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Plus, if you observe that cultural (economic, political) differences appear to be causing worse outcomes in one society than another, for little to no benefit, then it's silly to just go "oh well, technically people could make individual choices to improve those outcomes, so no reason to worry about it".
It is opt-in, so if you don't like the idea you don't have to participate. I think that's the best of both worlds.
This is kinda offtopic but I really wish that any services that allowed for account recovery also had a way to disable it.
off topic: Regarding Figure 8: "a graph with 10 nodes, each having 4 neighbors and no two shards requiring more than 2 hops for cross-shard communication". This can be achieved with only 3 neighbors (Petersen graph) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen_graph

More about this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_the_largest_known_gra...
That puts the sentence "will add it someday.." in perspective.
I'm really happy for your reply - I wanna ask you some questions, and compare to myself.

1) When did you start exercising(what age)?

2) What shape were you in when you started?

I'm speculating those could affect whether or not you get the endorphin high. Personally, I started when I was 18(I enlisted), and I was very out of shape when I began. By out of shape, I mean I started exercising before I enlisted, and was unable to maintain a run around a city block.
For the last four years I’ve been a data scientist whilst working a 4 day week. I look after our 3 young kids on Friday - my wife is a corporate lawyer who works 24/7 so this arrangement lets our kids have a bit more parent time. The kids and I have a lot of fun going to places in central London that I would typically avoid due to high crowds on weekends.

I don’t think my career has had a negative impact - all the companies (a mix of v early startups and large multinationals) have been very supportive, and I’ve managed to do some of my best professional work during this time.

The work life balance is really great this way. It’s clearly not an option if you need that fifth day to pay the bills, but if that’s not the case then it’s worth considering. One slight negative is not having time to learn new skills or work on side projects in the evenings - I’m too exhausted! - but I’ve also been lucky to be able to learn everything I need on the job, so it hasn’t mattered much up till now.
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Contracts come in several forms. Some are checked at compile time. Some are checked at run time. Some the check is too expensive to actually run but is left for documentation. Compilers are expected to have a switch to turn off run time checking for production (just like assert)
This introduces an element of temporariness into the fight between cars vs bikes parking. I think the issue needs to be dealt with at a fundamental level, do we as a country/city decide to use more bikes or cars? As far as I'm aware there has been a decisive victory by the cars in the US over the past 50 years mainly due to oil companies pushing for it and lobbying against public transportation. Using cars also pushes the boundaries of technological progress, anything that requires more technology (ie. cars more than bikes) will make the society more technological and will create more jobs in the technology sector. Even if the solution to transportation can be solved without as much tech, sometimes it may be desirable to create more tech for the sake of creating more tech and not because of necessity because there will be times when the same tech or expertise in tech can help solve an orthogonal, but existential problem. (eg. we don't need to have a space station but we do, ISS has allowed the creation of technological advances that have provided benefits to society on Earth in areas including health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, energy and environment, information technology, and industrial productivity [0])

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Benefits-Stem...
> Many of the beaches are on islands which are essentially coral heads above the water.

Afaik most Caribbean islands are of volcanic origin. Barbados is a notable exception, it's a coral island.
I think what GP commented is a very common misconception. CORS is not the source of the developer trouble (that would be cross-origin restrictions), it is a way around them. But it is perhaps understandable where the confusion comes from... Browsers always mention CORS headers as part of error messages, after all.
I work three 12s. I love the 12 hour days, feels like I can really get work done. But I do not like the four days of waiting for work. I got a job doing my hobby and my other hobbies are not time intensive so I have lots of down time...
But without Facebook (or any of the Libra association members that aren't already financial institutions) starting a bank, and then for obvious reasons being forced by law to split that off from their parent company as an independent entity, why would anyone expect banking laws to apply?