skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too many words, I'll use fewer.

1. Ad spend last year was over $100M in the US alone, ~$300M globally. Heading toward $1T globally. Users subscribing or paying out of goodwill won't cover this if we block it all and corner the market. We are doing anonymous and private ads (also donations and subscriptions, note well), no conflict with user in data or revenue share. Read my comments here, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841558. For you to claim a conflict, you have to show we make more than the user, cheat the user, or somehow steal or leak data to our advantage.

2. We are in the middle phase of a multiyear roadmap, where the last phase will distribute domain verification to many oracles, if we can't bake it into validators on-chain. If you know of an existing blockchain solution, please lay it on us. Also for handling OFAC and other KYC regulations (where we use Uphold today). We cannot intermediate ad revshares, and no blockchain today can either. We do not censor, our test for domain ownership or channel control is objective. If you think we won't get on to phase 3 of our roadmap, fine -- but don't use your speculations as if they were facts.

3. Here is a chart from end of 2017 showing relative volatility. BAT was 2nd least volatile above USDT, we beat Bitcoin and Ether. But we also have other advantages via BAT, including our user growth pool. If you discount that then you are arguing we should find a billionaire to replace it with Ether out of the grace of his or her charity. Who might that person be? Your argument here is cheap unless it's you.

https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/942921951252709376

I don't find these to be objections based on reason so much as misunderstandings or hostile speculations that we will fail. You aren't required to agree with us, we're not imposing any system on you. If you don't like BAT, just use Brave with its default settings. If you don't like Brave, there are lots of other browsers. If you have rational arguments against any bug or design flaw in our intentional work to replace surveillance with privacy tech for donating and advertising, I'm all ears.
As with anything nanotubes, scalability and yield are the bottleneck and have been for the last ~20 years. Not sure we've made much progress in the 10 years since I was a great student in the field?
Those who want to read the paper

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones-ben/htm/A...
Titanic Text Messages – A Streaming Log of Distress Transmissions [video]
Alps are mechanical switches, and they're still used in some modern keyboards. Vintage Apple Alps keyboards go for quite a bit on eBay.
Go for it bud!
The point is, if you care about performance use asm.js. If you don’t then just use whatever standard path browsers provide and any optimization they do is gravy.
Some great comments here. If you are focusing on Python, here are a couple other suggestions that you might find useful:

Functional Programming In Python free O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/functional-pro...

Composing Programs, which is somewhat based on SICP, but for Python: https://www.composingprograms.com/
The funny part about this is that if we are to believe Trump is a Manchurian candidate, they already did this with the trade war.
Bitcoin SV is an entirely protocol driven ecosystem with the Metanet
> What could they possibly need to consult me about in real time?

Your kid had an accident and needs new clothes. Your kid fell and is headed to the hospital by ambulance. Your kid has a headache, can we give them ibuprofen? etc.
“principal”
Bitcoin SV is taking this approach while building out the Metanet
Targets in the trade war’s latest fallout
No I think you are very right. It's just all too easy for us, who inhabit a mostly secular public sphere, to apply our own mental/linguistic concept of "religious || non-religious" when thinking about cultures that probably did not apply such a rigid sort of filter to the world around them.

I guess that is a challenge in any kind of historical context.
CRISPR gives us an editing mechanism. But you still need to deliver it to hosts. Perhaps via some kind of viral vector:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356701/

But... it's not clear to me that this will work. You'd have all kinds of issues with the viral population mutating. I'd guess the virus would in most cases not kill the host before their natural defenses kick it. Not really spreading in the population etc.
Imagine if you were an intelligence agency and you were permitted to surveil American communications, and there was this pesky congressman who didn't want to support your organization, so you collect lewd photos of him from his phone and post them on his Twitter repeatedly.

You could effectively use the data on Twitter to control the leaders of the US. "Hey, remember that congressman who didn't like us and then accidentally tweeted his own sexts? That was hilarious. Anyway, we'd really like you to increase funds and be more permissive about what our agency can do."

Apropos of nothing, here's an interesting interesting website: https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/23162/anthony-wein...
But all of them evaluate to true except for zero, thus one code for success, many for failure
Thanks for that, Brendan. More data is always helpful, even when small-N like this. We're going to continue participating and monitoring it for PortableApps.com and see how things shake out. Also, the login page caching and editor issues seem resolved over the last few months so I updated my post in our forums.
Would you find it racist to say that people living closer to the equator have darker skins? While there's no evidence for any complex adaptive differences between groups of people there are certainly adaptive responses to specific environmental hazards that we can see. People's levels of melonin in their skin balance skin cancer against vitamin D deficiency against folate deficiency, at least for their ancestral environment. Some groups of hunters living in the far north are harmed less by a nearly all meat diet than most people would be. Many groups living at high altitudes have higher quantities of red blood cells or similar adaptations. And since Guns, Germs, and Steel came out we've located genes influencing the immune system that trade off resistance to parasites versus resistance to contagious disease and found that Native Americans tend to have genomes that make the former trade while settled peoples in Eurasia tend to have genes pushing more in the later direction. So Jared Diamond's assertions about disease resistance have been entirely born out.
I'm no biologist, but I think you're missing some causes of aging.

DNA isn't the only thing that has to stay mutation free for an organism to not age. Lots of the cellular machinery will propagate error to future generations. For a simple example see prion diseases. Sure they seem big scary and rare, but I'd suspect in reality this sort of thing happens way more often than we probably realize just in ways that can't be spread person to person even via cannibalism or that has much lower consequences.

Keep in mind also that ending aging is striving against not just entropy but evolution. Cancer cells are selected for. Obviously not on a species level, but if even just one cell messes and starts reproducing out of control it will quickly take over. You can implement more checks along the way and repair damage as it comes up, but the point remains that if even just one cell somehow isn't effected, it will be selected for among all the cells that make you up.
Huh, what?
The dude is mentioned every single time Vantablack comes up. People reward his actions with free marketing and lots of notoriety.
> The card feels great in your hand. It has a beautiful white finish. The letter and logo detail is impeccable. The way the magstripe seamlessly integrates into the titanium structure of the card is beautiful, and probably required some extremely precise machining.

Do you realize that this is pure American Psycho material? In fact the whole paragraph seems almost lifted from this scene:

https://youtu.be/aZVkW9p-cCU
If you read the article, Fort Collins had to issue $143 million in bonds to finance the system. The US is enormous, and the cost to deliver fiber to everyone will be high (versus Europe or South Korea).

Arguably, as a muni utility, you don’t care about turning a profit versus Comcast and other for profit enterprises. And you have local governance over the infra and how it’s operated through local government. But it still takes a lot of effort; effort that can be distributed across the country, but effort that needs to be expended nevertheless.
Update: we are paying more than $5USD in some regions now. Today we sent a new rate card to affiliates, ranging from $7.50 down to $1 (BAT equivalent). This is to close arbitrage gaps in different regions. We'll update at most quarterly.
None of these examples are about being good, exactly. They're about being a good fit for another thing.
The "not a team player" case.
How is that Waldron's commentary and not the original parable?
Yeah, that's a reasonable way of looking at it. Convolution would be a partial differential equation in this view.
I've never read an English translation of any classic Russian literature that didn't require re-reading of at least 10% of the sentences to figure out the meaning.

On the one hand, it makes reading such books feel like an arduous undertaking. It took me about a year and a half to finish Anna Karenina, and I just gave up on The Brothers Karamazov.

On the other hand, using two dozen words when five could suffice has the effect of drawing out each moment of the story, giving it a texture and flavor that would not otherwise be possible.
The ramp hauling needn't be uninterrupted, as it would be easy to have flat rest spots or hand off to other teams partway up.
A book about The Troubles doesn't seem like it would be terribly apt today, would it? I don't know. No mention of one of the more (genuinely) important political novels, Submission by Houellebecq.
"Self sufficient" is an extremely individualistic term that doesn't apply in a society. "Pulling your weight" is more balanced.
It's hard to see most dark cars at night. You can see for yourself if you come across someone who forgets to turn on their lights. There are two things that help the most:

1) Their own lights

2) Your own lights bouncing off various corner reflectors [1] on the target car

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector
Working paper version of the one in the article:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24489.pdf

Interesting tidnit from the discussion section:

V.D Venture Capitalist Behavior
We also see that venture capitalists tend to bet on relatively young founders. Given that
younger founders have substantially lower batting averages (see Figure 3), the founder age
tendency in VC investments may be surprising. VCs may thus be seen as making bad bets, which
may be consistent with empirical findings elsewhere suggesting that VCs have earned low
returns (Kaplan and Lerner 2010). However, it may also be the case that young founders are
more in need of early-stage external finance, thus leading to this relationship. More subtly, and
noting that VCs are seeking high returns, which is not identical to high growth, it may be that
younger founders tend to sell their equity at lower prices, and thus VCs are making optimal
return decisions. Teasing apart why VCs bet young is an interesting area for further work. We
can say now however that venture capital, a major source of early-stage financing that can help
drive creative destruction and economy-wide growth, does not currently appear allocated to the
firms with the highest growth potential.
Game not over: Japan's amusement arcades tap community spirit to stay relevant
And this:

"One conclusion is that we should not expect success to be evenly or randomly distributed among individuals, groups, institutions or nations in endeavors with multiple prerequisites—which is to say, most meaningful endeavors. And if these are indeed prerequisites, then having four out of five prerequisites means nothing, as far as successful outcomes are concerned. In other words, people with most of the prerequisites for success may nevertheless be utter failures.

Whether a prerequisite that is missing is complex or simple, its absence can negate the effect of all the other prerequisites that are present. If you are illiterate, for example, all the other good qualities that you may have in abundance count for nothing in many, if not most, careers today. As late as 1950, more than 40 percent of the world’s adult population were still illiterate. That included more than half the adults in Asia and Africa."
Saying we should explore Mars doesn't explore Mars, building rockets does.

Adopting a document doesn't improve human rights, that's mostly up to the economy and government.

It used to be that what's said and done are in tandem with each other. Today there're way too many sayers and not enough doers.
Wonder if they're also doing creepy stuff with the other apps they bought (Instagram, Whatsapp)
City of Flies
I just gave examples:

1. of the executive branch by and through the US Department of Defense, among other examples

2. the legislative branch, by and through committee hearings and acceptance as fact of nominations not yet formally made, among other examples

3. and the judicial branch, by and through accepting as fact the arguments of the DOJ through the solicitor general that statements by the President via Twitter are "official statements of the President", among other examples

That's not wink wink, nod nod. That's just fact. The federal government, in its three branches, accepts as fact that the President issues official edicts through Twitter.
Your frame of references are different.
He compares it against the entire suite of Google's $12 pricing. You compare it against a coffee.

I feel the comparison with Google's pricing is appropriate.
This is true for “successful tech companies” but not for “mega successful tech companies” (e.g. Top 10 of all time, like Apple Google Microsoft Facebook Amazon Netflix etc.) There you will find the median age closer to 20 than 30.
In my country there have been quite a few accidents like that. People here like to wear dark colours, and in-general take a lot of risks on the road (cars, pedestrians and cyclists). There are jay-walking laws, but most people don't pay much attention, and pedestrians will walk into a cross walk without checking for cars, as cars should give way to pedestrians.

A law was passed last year requiring pedestrians walking at night to be more visible to cars by wearimg reflective material. I don't think anyone has been charged for not doing it, however when it came into force the police started giving away reflective armbands and then companies started doing the same for promotion. Basically anyone you see with a bag or rucksack has one of these attached.
Sounds like the old p=0.05 problem!
The Approximation Power of Neural Networks (With Python Codes)
Covering the every single branch of code isn’t enough. One needs to test that every single branch isn’t vulnerable to an overflow attack.

It’s kind of testing every possible valid, invalid and malicious input the program can take in.

Gets even crazier with race conditions and such.

Testing is really hard. And given how many companies skip on testing I am led to believe security is a myth. There’s gonna be someone somewhere with an exploit getting your info.
The United States bay be big, but it still has double the population density of New Zealand and yet New Zealand has high avaliability of cheap gigabit fibre.
That would be a completely different project, with totally different outcomes, though.
Precisely. Do you think this is a feature the WebAssembly team should standardize or is it a bad fit for the language?
Good luck deploying your vendored, air-gap-built binary.
And that attitude is in my opinion what will increasingly get in the way of science being disregarded
It was an installation from scratch, no leftover files or configs. And I actually did a manual refresh in the preferences.
Note that this mess isn't created by Rust. The difficulty of building arbitrary C libraries on all platforms comes from C.
A decentralized platform similar to reddit with more autonomy and control over subreddits is sort of what I envisioned the parent poster's comment to be referring to. Something that more easily allows a custom format, likely with easier media uploading capabilities and a higher level of segregation between disparate subreddits.
Recruiting high-tech talent with learning opportunities
The Europeans want their own Vision Fund to invest in tech
> They were built 2000 years before Plato. Maybe 10 or 20 generations before the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Seems more likely to be contemporaneous with the Epic of Gilgamesh. According to Wikipedia:

> The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Bilgamesh (Sumerian for "Gilgamesh"), king of Uruk, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC).

It's true that 2100 BC is a few hundred years younger than the pyramids, but I find it unlikely that (1) the oldest written sources we have for Gilgamesh just happen to be the first ones ever written; and (2) Gilgamesh was invented out of whole cloth for those poems 2100 years ago.

For comparison, the Iliad is known to draw on an oral tradition about 400 years older than the written one.
Keep in mind it was meant to be hackable by young, non-English speakers with limited literacy. Starting with Linux and heavy suites of apps meant and built for/by technically inclined westerners would not have been a better fit, IMO. Especially within the resource and budget constraints they had to work with. A mid-oughts, sub-$200 device just didn't have the capacity for layers of legacy software.
He is clearly stating the substitution assuming time is reversed.
What about the agency of NPM to not accept packages that are objectively inferior because they contain ads? If I submit purposely crappy code to a public repository should I be outraged if it gets rejected?
New ways to make vertical farming stack up
What's a good way to diagnose optimzation/deoptimization performance issues? The Z80 emulator I use for http://8bitworkshop.com/ has some long pauses while it's spinning up. It uses a huge generated switch statement, which I'd assume is hard to optimize if type info isn't complete. (I'm replacing it with a simpler emulator which works much better though)
To clarify a couple things since I never expected this to be a top comment... the visitor numbers were overall, we don't know how many monthly Brave users we have by design (Brave blocks Google Analytics and uses a Chrome user-agent). I could possibly come up with a way to specifically identify them anyway, but that kinda goes against what said user is trying to achieve by using Brave, so I don't want to do that. I do roughly calculate page loads that block Google Analytics server-side (anonymized) so we have a better idea of overall visitor numbers than GA alone provides.

Brave fixed a few of the complaints I had in the last few months with logins, header editing, and verifying with Uphold, so I've updated my linked forum post to reflect that.

I think it will be interesting to see how Brave's concept/tech will continue to evolve as it matures and has some traction.
John D. Rockefeller was 31 when he founded Standard Oil.

Andrew Carnegie was 57 when he founded Carnegie steel.
A scientific study has established that there is no “gay gene”
I actually read a book on Functional Programming in Scala [0] as my introduction to FP, so I had a little understanding of concepts in functional programming already, but in terms of just Haskell my recommendation would be that Get Programming with Haskell book by Will Kurt that I mentioned, which is targeted at beginners. Someone else added the Learn You a Haskell Book for Great Good! book online which is a good free online source as well, but since the original version was written in 2011, it might be a few versions behind on the GHC compiler compared to the Kurt book which was released in 2019.

After going through an introductory resource to learn syntax and concepts, other good beginner resources I have used are the Functional Programming Discord [1], the free Data61 course that Brian McKenna goes over [2], and the Tsoding series on YouTube [3]. The Practical Haskell book I mentioned is good too, but I found it a bit higher level than these other resources.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Programming-Scala-Paul-Chi...

[1]: https://discordapp.com/invite/FvT2Y5N

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

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_D4P-KRNKs
Yeah it’s great, they also don’t mind self promotion which is likely what this thread may become. I can’t resist either, if you’re looking for the best way to report and manage test cases and test results, especially automated, check out my profile :-)
Hey, free-ekanayaka, a few more questions for your FAQ if you're still paying attention:

Does this store the entire log for all time? When you bring up a new node, does it replay the entire history? If not, how do you bring up a new node without data?

How does backup/restore work?

How do upgrades work? Is the shared WAL low-level enough that it's 100% stable/compatible between sqlite/dqlite versions? If not, what happens if half your cluster is on the old version while you're upgrading, and sees things it doesn't understand yet?

Is it possible to encrypt node/node traffic? Or can you easily send the node-node traffic over a proxy, like Envoy? How about over a unix domain socket or "@named" unix domain socket (which we use for Envoy here at Square)

Looks awesome, by the way!
> The problem is that many of the supposed adaptive phenotypes were conjecture or based on poor science.

What phenotypes? It’s been a while since I read GGS but as far as I remember the argument of the book lies directly on the environment, not on human adaptation on that environment.

Since reading the book I’ve seen a lot of comments claiming racism on Diamonds part that to this day I can’t understand. I’ve seriously considered the possibility that there’s two different editions of the book, because I find it hard to justify any racist view using the book.
Wisetechglobal
The US was already in a trade war with China by the time the US decided to act.
I would have sworn a thousand times over that the combobox was impossible.

I've been pulling select2 into every project.
The reason that the GDPR is so expansive is that 'voluntary' consent means nothing when your only alternatives to not 'voluntarily' consenting are moving to a different city or going completely without a given service. See how, for instance, literally every major internet provider in the US have contract clauses that amount to 'we can do whatever we want with your personal information forever, neener neener'.
The point isn't that all markets work like that, it's that it can, in a way that outsourcing can't. Even if outsourcing results in lower prices which increase demand, the additional jobs then go to the country the jobs were outsourced to, not to the original country.

You're also looking at the overall market rather than a single company or country. If you automate before your competitors, the result is that you can produce onions for 20% the original price because you need 20% as many workers per kilo of onions. Even if people buy exactly the same total number of onions at the lower price, they now buy 25 times as many from your company and your country because you have the best price on the world market, so you hire five times as many domestic workers.

If other countries do the same thing then you're back to parity and everyone requires 20% as many jobs to produce that many onions, but you still have more domestic jobs than if they automated and you didn't, because in that case you would end up with zero flat rather than at least keeping 20% of the original workforce.
Solving Math Word Problems with Double-Decoder Transformer