skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't seem to understand that if a broke USA can't pay its debts, its biggest problems aren't getting invaded militarily but economic. Even if it defaults on foreign debt, a) new debt is going to be insanely expensive which is bad in the long-term; b) to avoid defaulting on domestic debt (and likely destroying the domestic economy in doing so), taxes would have to go through the roof... which would also be like taking a wrecking ball to economic growth.

Interest on the debt in 2019 is equal to about 60% of the much maligned defense budget, to put it in different terms.

Re: return on debt, that's really not a strong argument when you consider where the budget actually goes. About 75% of the 2019 budget goes to entitlements (of which the majority goes to retired persons who receive more in benefits than they ever paid in) and military, neither of which really seems like they're going to bring in significant returns to justify the debt.

Sure, there are probably some programs where this argument makes sense but my impression is that most large-spending proposals from progressives are more motivated by lofty idealism designed to motivate the voting base than policies where the cost of debt vs ROI is being carefully considered.

That said, irresponsible spending on Washington is definitely a bipartisan sport these days. And as an incumbent politician, why not? You reap the electoral benefits of lavish spending on the voting public, and neither you nor voters in general care much to think any longer-term than the next election cycle.
In France the historical emergency numbers are also still in use in addition to 112 and are just two digits. 17 for police, 18 for fire department, 15 for emergencies.
I think it looks fine, it’s a recognisable screen and the text is easy to read...
I played the Acorn 3000 port of this in the mid-nineties as a eleven or twelve year old. The early part where zombies are coming through the trapdoor and window were really scary for me at the time, but what a game. Only finished it when I revisited it years later.
People with unusually high IQ, why are you still unsuccessful?
We always get this reply in this (endlessly repeated) conversation. However, as the person you are replying to says, blind and vision impaired people are perfectly proficient readers using Japanese Braille [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Braille
A false dichotomy. One third option: there are network effects at play in America that aren't at play in Europe. Consider the relative market shares of the iPhone. US: ~58%, e.g., Spain: 25%. [1] Thus, when one boots an iPhone in the US, roughly 60% of one's friends already have this functionality. And that market share likely skews towards self-selecting groups such as teenagers. Also note that sending an SMS doesn't have as significant of a historical drawback in the US as it does in Europe. There may be some limitations, but, again, given the market share, it's unlikely one is going to reach one's SMS limit texting grandma. Thus, because US people can be more accommodating in terms of messaging with other phones without a third-party app, it's a perceptively useless install in America. Pretty much apps like WhatsApp are only used by US people with Android devices for communicating outside of the US. Otherwise, it's unlikely a US person needs to do anything other than send an SMS, and, hence, the green bubble.

[1] https://deviceatlas.com/blog/android-v-ios-market-share
Weather is not climate. Climate change will trigger some places to be colder (at times) while overall hotter (on average). If you want to learn more, look into ocean currents, acidification and how fresh meltwater has an impact on currents / weather patterns.

Here is a good Youtube channel for reference: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZdUYUZr493AUh_EInBYxQ
It's not a touch screen. Robust touch screens are difficult.
Hmm, who shall I believe the official publication from NOAA [1] that states in the title July was the hottest month? Or a reintrepretation of their data posted on YouTube by a notorious and discredited climate denier [2].

[1] https://www.noaa.gov/news/july-2019-was-hottest-month-on-rec...

[2] https://tonyhellerakastevengoddard.com/who-is-tony-heller/
Itoi intentionally eschewed kanji so that players would "not read the text by sight, but out loud, cherishing the sound of each and every letter".
If you want to be active, I just formed a non profit to fund litigation initiatives for kids and young adults to sue the government and corporate interests that are responsible for restoring their constitutional right to a freaking future. Consider donating to fund similar litigation.
When you have a piece of consumer-focused hardware which could help bridge the gap for mainstream users into a world of Free & Private, what you should be doing is actively seeking ways to bring them in. Besides that, it's an expensive commercial product. It needs to sell very well, or else it will make no impact where it needs to - in the mind of the average user.

Focus on the high-level person if you want. But have a simple version so you extract as much money as you can.
This is not going to work. Just walking through a cloud someone exhales at you would make you test positive. Being at a party would make you test positive.

Honest question, why can't companies seem to come up with ideas that don't involve violating the rights of people?
> I recommend the book "Inner Engineering".

The book does not teach anything. It's largely an upsell to Sadhguru's cultish meditation programmes.

Meditation instructions in the book are something like: a) pay attention to your heartbeat, or your breath, or your little finger for 11 minutes three times a day, b) eat less food, mostly raw, c) draw mandalas on the floor and place a ghee lamp in it and notice how the energy of the room subtly changes.
This is a joke, right? It reads like somebody who doesn't know anything about meditation is lampooning meditation.

Sadhguru himself is an aspiring cult leader who teaches pseudoscentific twaddle like drinking happy water (because he claims water carries emotional memory [1]), how he can trap evil spirits in boxes with obscure tantric rituals (like Ghostbusters), encountering the frozen spirits of Native American soldiers in a forest [2], etc. He also claims his wife died by attaining Mahasamadhi [3] (allegedly you can meditate really hard and make your soul leave your body). Regardless of the murder charge, having to believe this nonsense to get with his programme seems hardly worth it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C1p4HUHlfE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBKvFnABpcA

[3] https://ksmphanindra.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/the-controvers...
That looks quite interesting!

The idea is that you can set the global "io_mode" mode to blocking, mixed or evented and I/O functions will switch their implementation accordingly. The type of the function will then, if I got that right, propagate up the call stack and turn functions that touch it transparently into either normal or async/awaitable funtions.

Nice way to avoid a bifurcation of the ecosystem into red/green functions. Its a bit magical maybe, any other trade-offs?
Your mobile phone operator likely has no problem just straight up selling your data.

And also it goes pretty much in the clear through the global SMS network.
Roy Spenser is funded by the Marshal Foundation which is funded by Exxon. Do you really think you're going to get credible information from an energy company, one of the biggest polluters in the world? C'mon... this is HN, not Yahoo News.
I had no idea that was still around, thanks!

It seems to get its news from Google, which means that (just like Google News) it makes a complete mess out of Portuguese news coverage by mixing in Brazilian ones...
Would this work on cryptocurrencies, too?
But games don't show you pages and pages of Hiragana. And it's old games -- it's accepted technical limitation.

Have you read pages and pages in Hiragana? Or even paragraphs? It's not fun, and it's take a lot of concentration.
There have been notable Japanese people who argued that the Japanese writing system should adopt Latin alphabets since ~150 years ago.

https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%...

I'm personally fine with both romaji and kana (learning kana is not a big cognitive burden anyways).

I'm even fine with kanji (or Latin or anything) if people learn it voluntarily. What's not ok is kids being forced to learn them in school.
There is essentially nothing of the Falkland's era still in use by British forces. Let's see: rifles, uniforms, destroyers, frigates, aircraft carriers, aircraft, helicopters, missile systems all replaced since then, mainly 21st century. Significant lessons - both in the UK and US - were taken from the frigates hit in the Falklands. Ship design, weapon fit, and uniform materials were changed as a result.

Only thing I can think of from the 80s, is some of the minesweepers, and those were commissioned after the Falklands.
I used to use Calibre and get fresh news on my Kindle every morning, back when there was no decent coverage in the subways...
This question has been asked thousands of times. I suggest to build your own RSS feed, but other than this I read Hacker News, https://freepo.st and sometimes https://lobste.rs.
- Anything outside of int32 must be encoded and decoded as a float. Oh the bugs/crashes this has caused.

- It is way too easy to change the schema and wreak havoc with downstream users.

- Some libraries will encode empty strings as null for instance, some as empty strings. Some will have empty objects, some null. Switch some configuration, change your serializer, ORM or anything that touches your data. Everything will work perfectly in your code, but json output can change and you will again break your downstream users.

If you are designing an API, use protocol buffers. Json maybe as an optional output/input to your service. Keep it as a discouraged dirty optional feature and you will save yourself a whole lot of debugging and time wasting.
As counter anecdata, my perception is people who come from large families and populous regions that are neighborly are much happier and friendlier than those who keep to themselves or ignore those around them.
> Since the characters are idiomatic, it also makes it easier to guess the meaning of a word or character you don't know than if they would have been written out phonetically.

Ideographic, as in trying to portray ideas graphically, not idiomatic, as in using expressions like a native speaker
Fund on going litigation to fight climate change and the damage it is and will do to our economy, free market, and future. There are several nonprofits leading this. One is youCAN. That’s youth climate action now. I am starting a non profit to expand on that idea and fund as much litigation and legislation as possible. Voting isn’t the only venue for citizens to protest and protect their rights.
Nonsense. How can you claim that without having seen or tried it?
Xarchie for me
You think this one was clever, take a closer look at the next couple of posts that blow up here having to do with HN’s favorite category of “privacy hysteria.”

One thing you learn when you start your own side projects, everything on the internet is content marketing. Everything. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing since it aligns incentives. Expecting people to produce great content for you for free makes no sense.

In this instance however, the post is obviously made up and the product this guy is hawking is a scam. I wouldn't have a problem with the self promotion if he provided real value, but he didn’t.
People do this by doing things like testing that their features contain information in both the training and test set. Because they are not exposing the data directly to the classifier they think that they haven't compromised the test set - but what they have done is increased the chances of a chance correlation.
But if you keep an eye on the lucky ones, they should also go back to being noise, if what you're saying is correct.

Is that what happened?
This means very little though.

Take me as English learner for example. I would say I was only able to understand everyday English without too much of a hassle, after I acquired like around 10k words, which as I just checked had a coverage about 98%+.

Noted, it is still NOT enough, actually far from enough. Right now I believe I master around 15k to 20k words, by various estimates, and navigating English on the internet is like a charm, very little context switch in between with my native language.

Still, reading literature is huge undertake for me. I would still need to pardon myself about every once a page that if I stumped upon certain unknown words/phrases and can't move on before fully understands it, my pleasure of reading would be ruined. Such comprise frustrates me still, to this day. On the other hand, I will never have a second thoughts reading most cryptic novel in my own language, understanding might still be a challenge, but unlikely due to my insufficient vocabulary.
Stocks do not tend to go up, that would imply a greater than 0 return average for series. We instead get mean blur and skewness (which is actually often to the left).

The aggregate of the traded stocks, i.e. the market, goes up on average. That's why you make money by holding diversified portfolios.
I have that with my trading account but I can't see banks offering that as standard. There's too much risk to open this widely.
Let's modify the above somewhat: Have you considered not selling to cops in places where marijuana use is illegal? You have a nice traffic safety story for Canada, but aren't you afraid that in the US police will just "randomly" stop and test people (anywhere, not just drivers) they would like to incriminate?
This is an utterly stupid comment because it ignored Pakistan is a Muslim country and India is a Hindu majority one. Trying to ignore religion as a factor makes absolutely no sense. You're trying to equate natural movement of Muslims into Azad Kashmir to systematic Hindu population replacement in IOK.
1 - MSL is a set of extensions on top of C++14

2 - Metal requires MSL

3 - IO Kit is a C++ framework for macOS, iOS, iPadOS and watchOS drivers

4 - Metal GPGPU drivers are written in IO Kit

5 - Metal is useless without MSL and GPGPU drivers

6 - Ergo, Metal requires C++
Still waiting for the proof he actually said that.

Then again, I expect you to just keep on doing the name calling thing.
Tend to agree with you. Context is important.

If I hear something that amounts to "you idiot, get the schmonck out of my way", I'll understand even if I have no idea what "schmonck" really is.
Your example is more like 85% coverage. Not that it changes your point much.
I understand what you are saying, but the equivalent to the Medallion fund would be something more akin to winning that same coin flip 30 times in a row. They have been running approximately 30 years, beating market returns by a significant margin, year after year. The 40% average is net of fees, so the overall return of their strategy has actually been higher than that. The odds that they have accomplished these returns through luck alone are astronomically low.
> As it turns out inflation is not directly connected to the issuance of new money, although it does contribute

Are you saying that because of QE? If so I don't buy it. QE is an ongoing experiment. We'll see.
> Well sorta. In real terms, the price of gold is anchored to the amount of energy required to mine a kilo of gold with a sustainable margin. That quantity doesn't change very much (in real terms) over time.

Could you explain more about why it is the amount of energy required that determines the price? That could get rather circular (what determines the price of energy).

A Marxist would say it is the quantity of labour power required; a classical economist would say it is the balance of supply and demand, but I haven't heard this one about energy.
No, it isn't essentially as you claim.

wahern is correct - free speech is a legal term of art.

As such, it isn't "X ... if anybody could do Y". The ability to do X, and the prohibitions on Y, are decided on "strict scrutiny", which is another legal term of art.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/strict_scrutiny - "Strict scrutiny is the highest standard of review which a court will use to evaluate the constitutionality of governmental discrimination." and "To pass strict scrutiny, the legislature must have passed the law to further a "compelling governmental interest," and must have narrowly tailored the law to achieve that interest."

So the form you should use is: "the right of the public, through their government, to effectively do X = something with a compelling government interest, may prohibit people from doing Y = narrowly tailored action which makes X difficult to do."

"Free speech" cannot be infringed, but not all speech is free speech. Surely you accept that there can be time, place, and manner limits on speech, yes?

Similarly, there are strict rules on who may use the Red Cross symbol, because of the compelling government interest in following the Geneva Convention.
Maybe if you shared the text of the email you're sending, HN users could constructively criticize/make improvements. And how few is 'very few'? Also, maybe it would fit the criteria for Show HN, if you didn't do that already.
Yeah, technically, it'd be very easy. I've written countless spiders, crawlers, etc.

Basically, only index items where webpage.indexOf('google') < 0
So, without a doubt, there is some chilling, mind altering content out there. Videos providing evidence of criminal acts of violence that inspire a deep disturbance of emotion lasting days, even among hardened viewers.

But the truth is that it's all a pathetic joke. You can't police telephone calls, and the conference lines have to police themselves.

This is the price of decentralization and the democratization of content creation. There can no longer persist any such dictatorship of standards and practices.

There's only one maxim that applies: Don't talk to strangers.

End of story.

There are certain manifolds and convolutions that are unhygienic, and if you have a problem with that, don't build them and don't explore them. But, a network is a network is a network. It's a system of passages. Hallways with doors.

In some respects, these policing activities and attempts to moderate a mob represent an obvious over-extension beyond the normal scope of operations. It's silly to even think it's possible.

But hey, maybe Facebook is catching quite the government hand out, just to experiment with some "DARPA hard" problem solving.

Personally, I find it laughable that anyone imagines this problem to be even remotely generalizable enough to fit a statistical model that the current state of "AI" buzzword juicing vaporware purveyors and hucksters might jazz hands a pitch deck with.

Imagine: AI staring at clouds, noticing familiar shapes among the drifting cotton balls. How productive. You could waste an entire nuclear power plant's total output on such a thing, and get nothing for it.

Attack the right problem at the root. These violent, malignant people torturing the animals and murdering on livestreams. Some will get through, and the internet will simply reflect reality.

But make the world a better place. Don't spin your wheels papering over the blood stains.

The reality is that these images videos are going to be shared and shared again. The cat's out of the bag. Accept the bald face of the human condition, warts and all.
That first link about investor interest is entirely his word, which is worthless according to his former employees.
Coke Freestyle is a poor example of good UI. The system is so underpowered it can't reliably detect touch events or even the physical dispense button. It's running CE on something like an early 00's reference PDA platform that can't push the pixels to a big screen and handle all the embedded IO at one time. That's why the 2fps animation is such a joke.

It's funny to watch young kids using quick taps and get nowhere, expecting it to work like an iPad.

The Pepsi equivalent puts Freestyle to shame on UI polish.
Any ideas for organizing at scale?
Using phishing and other social engineering to steal passwords is unrelated to breaking crypto.
Writing Linux Kernel Module in Rust
What are the labels you want to predict? Maybe some unsupervised clustering method would already be suitable? Also you might start with an already trained network and just change the prediction layer, which might save a ton time and effort.
Except ftp is alive.
> everyone knows FTP is plaintext

You mean no one knows that FTP is plaintext except a minority of users which happens to be on HN.

Google is optimizing its browser for the majority, chrome is not a power-user browser. Maybe they'll add an option to enable ftp or something.

> drivers, which I'd say are a significant part of FTP use

I'm not sure how that's true.
Every time I used FTP, it was not for drivers. All the drivers I downloaded were over http(s), from constructor websites.
What do you mean? It's very easy to install an FTP client and even in heyday, noone sane ever used a browser for FTP access anyway.

These kind of comments are so strange... why do you want Google to own your FTP client instead of having an independent one?
paper link: https://mssun.me/assets/ares19securing.pdf
Innovation takes time. We have little time.
The problems with JSON are pretty obvious:

* It's inefficient compared to schema-based formats like Protobuf - you have to encode key names again and again.

* It's inefficient compared to binary equivalent formats like CBOR - both in space and speed.

* It's less reliable than explicit schema-based formats because it can't be validated (yes I know about JSON-Schema, nobody uses it). You essentially end up with an implicit schema that everyone has to recreate themselves from the documentation - especially if using statically typed languages.

* It's a pain to use from statically typed languages. You have to write the schema in your language, whereas with things like Protobuf it will generate the code for you.

* It doesn't have a proper type for arbitrary binary data. Most people (but not all!) encode it as a base64 string which is not very efficient and not actually a different type to a string, so again you rely on the implicit schema.

* Maps can only have strings as their key type.

* Minor annoyance, but trailing commas would be nice!

* Its number type is not well specified. E.g. does it support uint64?

"Human readable" is overrated. CBOR and similar formats can easily be inspected by humans just by converting them to JSON. The Smile format even starts with a :) smilie as its magic number to make it easily recognisable.

Would you recommend not using compression or encryption on HTTP requests because it stops them being human readable?
THANK YOU. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watching everyone eat up the article where HE ASKS FOR YOUR MONEY.
Ask HN: Where Is Dsacco?
I was looking to contact him, and only now realized that he has completely disappeared from the internet.

dsacco/Dylan reported a customer information leak vulnerability to Panera Bread, and published it in April 2018. Shortly thereafter, he completely disappeared from HN (at least in his dsacco persona). His website is gone. His Medium blogs are empty, except for the Panera Bread post.

Does anybody know what's up? Is he okay? Did Panera Bread threaten him in some way? Or may be it's nothing sinister and he just decided to take some time off? And lastly, is there any way to contact him?
More info? What’s your role in it?
Yeah something has got to give. Irrespecitve of Consumer Purchasing Power; Norway has the most expensive food prices in Europe[0].

[0] Norwegian Bureau of Statistics, 06.08.2019, https://www.ssb.no/en/priser-og-prisindekser/artikler-og-pub...
I understand this person is upset and likely bitter, but claiming that she remained "naive" about options after 4 years in a startup, when they started granting them (tweet #15), looks rather odd to me. There's gotta be more to the story than written.