skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The important thing is that you pay through Facebook, and we get a cut."

> "Right, that gives us a controlling position, like WeChat has."

I feel like this is where the story gets a little lost from reality. If you believe Facebook's own design documents they would have no more control than any other member of the consortium. What Facebook has is the initial control while it's being developed and the public mineshare that Facebook is leading the project.

I wouldn't necessarily say that members of a payment processing consortium taking a cut to process payments is inherently evil -- if if you think it is at least no more evil than Visa or MasterCard.
Except we can out run nearly every animal on earth at distance. I’d consider the species of bird that can fly the farthest special. Why not humans?
It's a global platform with billions of users, with many users follow hundreds of people, some users followed by millions, huge volumes of media tweets, broad distribution of posting frequency... even with those basic scaling concerns, I don't see how consistent reverse chronology could be implemented as naively as "yo just sort by -timestamp".

I would bet "top tweets" improves engagement with the passive consumption audience while saving money by abandoning consistency and improving caching.
Small (non-expanded) color images: total 4.6M

Dithered images: total 284K (but it's only showing 9 images, not the full 11)

Small images, resized from the big source images using Imagemagick's -distort resize (default settings) operator to 16bit per channel PNG, then encoded to JPEG with mozjpeg -quality 70 and default settings: 273K with all 11 images, or only 236K if I make it a fair comparison by deleting the two that are missing from the dithered version.

My JPEG encodings:
https://imgur.com/a/Gi12HRl

There are visible artifacts, but nothing I'd call intolerable. Filesize is significantly smaller than the dithered versions, it's full color, and it preserves details destroyed by the dithering (e.g. the support wires in https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/dithers/wood-turbines-nepa... ). The dithered versions are sharper, but the website throws away that advantage by resizing them with the browser's default resizing. I think most people would call the re-encoded JPEG versions higher quality than the dithered versions.
You're right. In fact I think the ideal is even a step further up the abstract ladder: not every person in the street needs to be able to off-the-cuff explain the evidence for the earth being round.

But they should know how to get the resources they would need to make that explanation.
I don't think it is the syntax that is difficult, it is the overall layout and design of a React app, and the tools that come along with it. When you start a website with regular HTML/CSS/JavaScript, you just open up index.html and start putting in HTML tags, and maybe add a .css or .js file. When you start a React app, you (usually) run create-react-app, which pulls in a million dependencies and tools you use to develop your app. Now in the long run, for a large app, those tools are useful since they make it easier to actually host your website somewhere, but the learning curve is far steeper than just opening up index.html in your web browser.

Also it is hard to determine what the best way to solve a problem in React is when there are so many different versions and additional packages people are using (ex. Redux).
They knew about it in 2015.
Yes, then for their second and third marriage they choose younger women. The average marriage lasts o my 8 years currently.

Again this is a problem for women, not men.
The Epic Failure of the Government Gas Can (2017)
Hey it's not just the EU that is strangely obsessed with bananas. It's a big deal m'kay, governments were toppled and CIA was involved:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'%C3%A...
Additive white gaussian noise is quite well studied and pretty easy to remove with processing. So even if those last few bits are "just noise", if that noise is well-behaved, on the whole image you still have more information.

There's also the effect of pixel well depth. I forget the exact interplay, but I believe this usually ends up being the limiting factor before ADC resolution.
Humans are good at killing what they're chasing at the end of the run.
> Public Key Infrastructure is fucking pointless when the infrastructure is precisely what you can't trust.

This seems a cynical and lazy evaluation of the situation. No solution is perfect, trade offs must be made everywhere. With the right precautions the average person can have his/her communications encrypted. This is a much better situation than the one we were on before.
>dynamic programming that makes people think of current coding interview customs

I laughed. There are real uses for dynamic programming though. It is sad that only the lucky get to work on those types of problems.
How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?
I hate those high pressure sales!

I've tried signing up for gym twice, first time, I gave in to their pressure sales pitch (yeah I was naive) but canceled the contract under WA's RCW 19.142.040 (I have three days to cancel it for any reasons) , second time I walked away after getting tired of pressure sales. They particularly shame you for out of shape, etc, too.

This pretty much this sums up why I absolutely dislike these style of sales...

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/sell_generation
Maneuver or not this corporation would answer to all members of the consortium participating in it. It would be difficult for Facebook to maintain control while other financial behemoths also want influence.
Appears up from here.

Keep in mind that archive.is and Cloudflare DNS play poorly.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...

https://old.reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/comments/8jbjjp/cloudfla...
AWS acts like they can win without obvious lock-in and so far it's working.
I mean GNU Tailer experimented with some ideas to bring crypto above-board but they didn't really have the mindshare to attract any significant attention.
I've got my money on the "We spend twenty years telling adolescents that children are terrible and having them will ruin their life, so when the time comes they have to climb over a mountain of conditioning to even consider the idea" space.
In a world where people eat to much, eating less every day "Shows Health Benefits"?

This is up there with as drinking juice and sugared soft drink causes cancer increases as Captain Obvious?

Compared to fasting which 'might' put your body into a place where it does good for the fast day. Or fasting for some people is an effective way to calorie reduce. These make sense as something to test more thoroughly.
Missiles are similarly expensive.
Many, many opinions here presented as “unavoidable facts”. One man’s observations presented as evidence when the points he makes small right but don’t hold up to deeper inspection.
"Today we’re sharing plans for Calibra, a newly formed Facebook subsidiary whose goal is to provide financial services that will let people access and participate in the Libra network. The first product Calibra will introduce is a digital wallet for Libra, a new global currency powered by blockchain technology. The wallet will be available in Messenger, WhatsApp and as a standalone app — and we expect to launch in 2020."[1]

Facebook controls the consumer-facing side, the "wallet". Other people get to deal with the merchant side.

[1] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/06/coming-in-2020-calibra/
I had ads injected by some European and UK ISPs on my own website. I pushed me to finally get LetsEncrypt implemented and switch everything over to https.
YouTube Just Demonetized 75% of Our Videos
It literally would. Theoretically and practically. Tariffs and trade restrictions make all parties poorer.
is this much different than JSX?

<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row">
<label for="email"/>
<input type="text"/>
</div>

I definitely want to try CLJS some time.

edit Oh I see. You don't need the extra {} to jump into JS mode. And, CLJS requires : to denote keys. I think as long as my editor colors the syntax appropriately I'm okay with either.
Facebook controls one implementation of a consumer wallet -- you don't think everyone in the consortium is going to want a piece of that pie? That Visa -- the people who would brand air if they could -- wont want their name on a wallet product?
Question: do you generate the sketch file from React code??
Would you let your four year old take public transit in NYC by himself? Because they do that in Japan.
Can poetry save the world? An interview with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi
You're not here to convince me, you should explain it to them.
I also have a strange enjoyment for learning about the elaborate revisions people try to make to the world of facts. If you haven't tried reading any pyramidology, I recommend checking it out. Christopher Dunn is particularly good; he's a trained mechanical engineer and uses that expertise in his arguments.
Urban real estate is as small as the market allows and gradually shrinks as each iteration of smaller becomes normal.

Nobody wants open offices or six hundred square foot apartments but zoning laws and the real estate economy are engineered to promote space per human trending towards zero.

Who wants to raise a child like that.

I grew up on more acres than some apartments I've lived in had square feet and the transition has been miserable.
How come math's to blame? That's clearly just some nuts level of incompetence that spawned all of spaghetti described. Lack of any conscious effort. After all, the mathematical thinking mentioned in the article inevitably includes covering the corner cases of the problem at hand as well as of the solution proposed, not to mention simplification and generalization. That's not trying to be smart, that's outright being dumb. (I'm not even sure if you're trolling at this point.)
Dipshits.

They should have moved fast with a sensible crypto and dealt with a divided Congress and regulators later. They’ve blown their chance to be the bank of the internet.
Nope. Light is a 5D wavefront. Each x,y,z of origin in the real world is actually a sum of photons from many directions, scattering to many other directions. So you have two angular components. At times, phase matters too, and frequency, so each photon needs perhaps 7 parameters to capture its state, (x,y,z,θ,φ,ψ,λ).

On top of that, you have diffraction effects in the optics, chromtic aberration, and even some birefringence effects.

Algorithms exist which can detect if an image has been cropped, and what region of the original it came from. I'll leave as an exercise to the reader how that works :) hint: keyword is "media forensics"
This is a false assumption. Governments (executive branch) can be prosecuted for illegal behavior.
I suppose. But I'd think that people would know by now that online tracking is ubiquitous. Arguably there are no "established social norms" online. That's one huge advantage, when it's about accessibility of stuff that's verboten or restricted in your society. Such as, for example, porn.

But it cuts both ways, of course. So established social norms about privacy are also widely ignored. The fundamental business model is based on violating users' privacy. Two of the largest online businesses, Google and Facebook, rely on monetizing the violation of users' privacy.

So yeah, perhaps it's understandable, but it's gobsmacking naive to think that online porn would be an exception.
The addictiveness of bacon might be due to the salt.

Even though I am not addicted to fat (I think), it is vital for the "filled" feeling I have after a meal.
I wish people would stop arguing that democracy and lifting millions out of poverty are mutually exclusive. They're not. Taiwan. South Korea. Japan. Though the first 2 were fairly authoritarian in the 1950s, they all progressively marched toward democracy. CCP is taking China the other way. Meanwhile India, which is the CCP's favorite parrot for justifying their means, actually has lifted out of abject poverty just about as many people as the CCP.
Re: decentralized communities: Is that decentralized, or independently hosted? Does the owner of the site host the database, or is Coral Talk hosting all databases, with a separate instance for each site?

Re: explicit algorithm violation notices: Good, but it does not sound like there's an appropriate appeals process in place, something required even with algorithms in place. Also important to have said algorithm be tuneable, or even more preferably, pluggable.
Why would the rest of the site have to be published under AGPL? I'm thinking other parts of the site aren't the same "work" as the conversation platform?

Is the reason possibly AGPL Javascript? Maybe then server side code, could be AGPL, and Javascript instead e.g. MIT?

However don't one typically place a blog commenting system in an iframe. Then personally I think you wouldn't have to release the website that embeds the blog comments iframes, under AGPL? And a discussion forum, one places on a sub domain, on a separate server? Also separate from your main website?

Background: I'm developing AGPL discussion software that you can also embed in an iframe, for blog comments. https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments. What are your thoughts about using sth like that, if the code that creates the iframe is MIT or Apache2, and the code that runs inside the iframe is AGPL?
This is a well-written and informative post.

But if I were starting an Intercom-like product today, I would consider Svelte, combined with careful use of utility libraries for the reasons described in the post. It has an essential design well suited for adding things like this to a page with minimum possible JS size.

(This isn’t a complaint though - I’m a huge fan of Angular, React, Vue, and friends. As of mid-2019 these are very well-suited for applications that will be the primary thing on the webpage. Angular has changes underway (“Ivy”) to achieve great compiled output size reduction, I expect it will end up competitive with Svelte while still keeping a very enterprise class features that available as needed. The others may have similar strategic improvements underway, I am not as aware there.)
I think, when you are building things that no one has ever built before, age is of little concern.
My guess is they will have to include a few things regarding that in the disclosures.
After the reddit redesign and a twitter redesign I am starting to suspect that annual bonuses in those companies are tied in to the negative KPI.
Could it be made to work into minetest, the OSS minecraft?
MacPadPro with detachable touchscreen announced for 2020
Not! The basic functionalities that you'd expect from the top-of-the-line laptop are still not there. Just crappy touch bar or IOS 13 that you cant even program on. Forced to get a surface book. Out of touch Tim Cook idiot.
Japan is not tiny, and has a fraction of our drug use. They’re also brutal with drug crime.

I wouldn’t execute drug addicts. But their pushers? Line-em right up!
It is the American employer that has no recourse to protest the government restriction on their business!
The copy implies very strongly that comments can be a respected part of the article as a whole, and by implication - of journalism.

My experience in the past has been that comments are not taken seriously by the publisher, seemingly just added to tick the "social" checkbox. But to make a commitment to the dialogue an article can generate seems like a positive development for journalism.
Homepage for Hackers
Since it's decentralized, maybe someone could create an alt-right instance that allows only the highest-quality and most ideologically-correct comments. Then we could see how long it would take for Vox to distance themselves from the project.
I mean it certainly doesn't look like a banking service any more than my matress stuffed with cash looks like one.

There could certainly be banks that hold your Libra but I don't think it's fair to say that the Libra network itself is a bank.
Those are not iframes — they are actual frames in a frameset.

Interesting to see they are still work despite being deprecated in HTML 5. (The pages should have an HTML 3.2 or 4.0 DTD but don't).
Goes back to an old New Yorker cartoon. Empty phone booth marked "Talk in Private - $0.25"
No. I've seen the output and it's just not very usable.

If you need that functionality these days Framer and it's bridge product is nearly magic. You can set up some basic shim wrappers on your React components and things work perfectly.
I don't see how the interest would be deductible. Except for the portion allowed under the mortgage exemption.

And sure, the loan is not taxed. But the money that ends up being used to pay back the loan will have had to be taxed.
I totally get the preference for the JSX approach. Also echoing other commenters, CLJS/reagent and similar tools did a pretty amazing job of this some years ago.

But I think it is wise to consider that there are advantages and trade-offs to a compiled template approach as used by Angular, Svelte, and probably some others I’m forgetting.

* potentially more concise syntax

* potentially more familiar syntax

* do more of the work at compile time, less of it at runtime in downloaded code

* avoid the GC pressure and other overhead of VDOM
Hopefully Starlink will launch soon. Good luck with a MITM attack on a satellite connection.
Countries all around the world make policies to prevent their brighest and entrepreneurial minds from leaving to another countries.

Immigration restriction is the process by the which you refuse the gift from another country. It is doing to yourself what your competitors are trying to inflict on you.
> And now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure Amazon sells pornography, so that's one of the big tech companies at least that is willing to.

Amazon also runs an entirely separate and special cloud staffed only by US citizens to assist the military in running software that decides who to detain, torture, and possibly murder, so it is unsurprising that they have no corresponding aversion to media depicting less violent interactions.
Server side rendering has one big advantage - it's fast. Client side rendering frameworks may be easier and sexier, but serving html is always going to be faster.
I grew up in a suburb and was bored shitless. I had one friend that lived within walking distance, and everyone else was too far away to get to without a car, which meant that I didn't get to see my friends unless it was convenient for one of my two parents (who both held full-time jobs). Cycling anywhere outside of the local neighborhood was out of the question, since the roads connecting neighborhoods were full of fast-moving traffic and no bicycle lanes or pedestrian walkways.

There were "woods" between the endless maze of houses, but all of them were just parts of other people's property. And who was I going to play with in them, except for my one nearby friend?

I ended up just playing a lot of video games.

For all that urban centers are supposedly "hostile places" (according to the GP), I look at the adults and children I know in cities and I see mostly fit, healthy, active people with multiple hobbies and interests. I look at the adults and children I know in suburbs and I see overweight, sedentary people who spend so much of their life commuting between work, school, and home, that they barely have time for more than one day of a week of something fun like an organized sport. The rest is just spent at home watching TV or playing video games.

If I do decide have children, I definitely know what kind of place I want to do it in.
Maybe some y'all remember the CMU exploit. The FBI got their data, and pwned probably 1000s of onion sites and users.

If those onion sites and users had been hitting Tor through nested VPN chains, probably 90% at least would have been safe.

Tor Project folk like to hate on VPNs, but I'm not aware of any takedowns at that scale which involved VPN compromise.
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PL/I doesn't prevent memory access bugs, but it makes it easier to do good programming. For example, parameters are passed by descriptor, so the allocated size is passed allowing run-time bounds checking. On the other hand, there is an equivalent of C type-casting, so it is still possible for the programmer to shoot themselves in foot while simultaneously hoisting themselves on their on petard.
I don’t know go, but it almost certainly lets you write non-idiomatic go code that doesn’t use GC allocated memory? Usually languages not designed for systems programming have these features for interop purposes (ffi, p/invoke, etc).

Although if that’s the case, I personally don’t get the draw. Typically these managed/higher-level/interpreted languages are harder to use than the embedded-friendly alternatives if you’re not using their automatic memory management. But a lot of times people just want to stick to (really weird and distant) versions of languages they already know/use (D is probably the only exception here for obvious reasons).
I don't disagree that they're a major contributor to Linux itself, however RHEL usage is plummeting over the last 5 years as stated in the article. Being a contributor and owning RHEL is really no advantage at this point.
Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube?
I know there are DTube and Lbry.
but those are neither fully decentralized nor provide enough performance.
It doesn't achieve it because it's not used. They cant control what advertisers do with their campaigns.
Pop isn’t a terrible product. The issue, like anything, is overuse.

You can make the same argument for anything, from butter to guns to video games to literally anything that plugs into the wall and consumes electricity.

Use anything beyond reason and it becomes destructive.
Experiment: Convert an Existing MVP to MVVM Without ViewModel Library
I think it's pretty safe to assume that you haven't heard of ML language family and Hindley—Milner type system. At the lowest possible level, I mean, yes, numeric solutions are computed by the sets of instructions that are pretty distant from the mathematical level of abstraction. But in higher-level languages, everything remotely readable and reliable usually looks like formal math from the textbooks. I'd say that the representation heavily depends on what language you're using to write your programs, yes, though not everything looks like Algol 68 nowadays.
try Pingy, it's at pin.gy
Consumer capitalism can not replace culture. I think that’s what your remarks about different bouroughs feeling alive was getting at.
Visa might have a wallet. But it won't be the one that you reach from Facebook posts and ads.
Anyone else using Firefox get a big ol security warning when you try to access brad frost's site?
I believe LLVM toolchains also (by default) exclude debug information, which gc (go compiler) would need to be told to explicitly exclude.
It does take less effort, but it sure doesn't diversify your risk very well.

And if they are giving excellent rates, it makes you wonder if they really have such a surplus of money that they can't find enough good risks to loan smaller amounts to at much higher rates.

I think it's more, as you mentioned, getting in the good graces of someone that is going to be wealthy the rest of their life.
You might want to structure it as a bet just incase
You may be surprised to learn, men need women to have children. If women are waiting later to have children, it doesn't mater how old the man is. Further, even if it were a problem only for women, that doesn't make the problem moot.
Sapper & Next.js support server side rendering.