skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Germany is very, very keen on preventing powerful entities from acting outside of regulation and similarly, if not more, on preventing a single entity to get in control of everything

If you watched the news some time during the last 30 years you get quite a different impression. The German government parties, particularly CDU, CSU and SPD, are _constantly_ trying to grab power and erode our civil liberties; They barely do anything else. If I had a euro for every law that those three passed that was obviously unconstitutional I'd have enough money to bribe my own CSU congressman.
The only problem the German government has with Facebook Libra is that they themselves don't control it.
Agreed. I dislike how every time we push for the "hot market for programmers" meme that only exists in the SV-like bubbles.

Everywhere else around the world, it's just a regular job people do to put food on the table.

Should we boycott people who work in the defense industry as well?
Strange, I'm living in Germany, hailing from Baden-Württemberg and now been living in Northrhine-Westphalia for almost ten years, and I cannot remember a single restaurant that doesn't accept credit cards. And I'm paying almost everything with credit card.

Sure, the ice cream stand at the swimming pool only accepts cash, as does the local discotheque, but restaurants? Never a problem.
„Recently“ is not that recent really. This tech has been available for more than a decade.
The lack of attacks is an interesting phenomenon that points to a knowledge gap or availability of technology in the terrorist bubbles.
In the context of asymmetric warfare this might not be a significant issue. The offensive side need only be successful a fraction of the time, but the defensive side must be successful nearly all of the time.
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It might not require large technical capabilities as those can be bought commercially. It may not be that hard to fit the "brains" of a commercial drone to a beefier body and communications. Hobbyist stuff really.
> And what the report misses out is that in many other countries patients are not put off from seeking care due to cost either...and they achieve better outcomes. They do this through a mix of private and public healthcare which is naturally intolerable to the NHS.

It's "naturally intolerable to the NHS" because of its key tenets, which are:

* Free at the point of delivery

* Equality of care for all

i.e. There shouldn't be a tiered system where rich people get more. That leads to distortions and incentives to provide more for rich people and less for the poor. There would also be incentives for governments to start shrinking the pot of cash available to the NHS to make individuals pay more.

The ideals I think are correct, and if I don't like them then I can get private healthcare for a significantly lower price than if the NHS didn't exist (because the NHS does all the difficult expensive stuff, like A&E): that means the private providers are protected from some of the worst costs of providing healthcare.
That won't work if you do not have any social media profiles (or if you do, but not any of the ones they listed there).
Doesn't add up to 10M. Or is that your point?
> It completely changes the face of war

These changes are always really, really interesting. One of my favorite moments similar to this is the Battle of Nicopolis [1] between the Ottomans led by Bayezid I and a Crusader force which included many Western cavalry forces. The much more mobile and easy-moving Ottomans were no match for the Western (especially French) forces who were accustomed with using their heavy armor during battle:

> The French knights thus continued up the hill, though accounts state that more than half were on foot by this point, either because they had been unhorsed by the lines of sharpened stakes or had dismounted to pull up stakes. Struggling in their heavy armor, they reached the plateau on the top of the slope, where they had expected to find fleeing Turkish forces, but instead found themselves facing a fresh corps of sipahis, whom Bayezid had kept in reserve. As the sipahis surged forward in the counterattack sounding trumpets, banging kettle drums and yelling "God is great!", the desperation of their situation was readily apparent to the French and some knights broke and fled back down the slope.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nicopolis
I agree with your basic point. I'm just saying you may overestimate the ease with which engineers, whether older ones, those in some more specialized area, etc, can leave one job and start another similarly compensated one (or even one at a lesser but still ballpark salary) in a couple weeks. Or indeed a job in their general area at all.
Ah, it should have got to me, but I'll try another one.
This article gives some nice background.

https://lwn.net/Articles/742675/

It would be interesting for the shell to open a varlink connection to commands to allow progress updates. I could also see shells command completion interface being greatly simplified by using varlink.
A scorched earth approach to working rather than finances, I'd say. Saving & investing only gives you more opportunities and a bigger safety net. You can always decide to keep working.

I'd say the issue with working towards a meaningful career is that sometimes what you want to do isn't (for good reason or definitely not) properly valued by the economy or supported by society.

If I want to be a indie game developer in an essentially dead genre, creating exactly what I want, that's extremely difficult to do. For example, I might have to do Kickstarter or Steam Early Access to raise money and be at the whim of the terrible internet. I'd have to engage in social media as is basically required these days (gross). And so on.

If I want to do this while working, it'll most likely take non-linearly longer and quality will go down because I just don't have that much brain juice or focus after work. And I'd have to sacrifice my health & relationships.

I'm sure there are other examples. Many that are more noble (volunteering, etc).
Insurance doesn’t cover OIT. Perhaps they will once it’s actually a cheaper option vs the FDA approved treatment that they’re eventually required to cover. Currently they simply decline to cover it at all because there is no downside to them.
I'm glad that you live in a country with a stable monetary supply, little to no inflation and no capital controls.
Depending on your bank, it's quite the opposite, particularly when you want to draw cash from an ATM.

With a Girocard, you have to go to a specific brand of bank or hope they are in your "cash group" or else you will pay a hefty fee.

But some banks offer to withdraw from any ATM using their VISA CC with no fees at all.

For years I've been using this to get cash without much of a hassle and pay for stuff I'd otherwise probably pay for with my Girocard.

Makes me wonder if my cash withdrawals are counted as CC transactions?
Ok, so how do you explain the blistering speed at which AWS (not Amazon) releases new services, updates and features.

Not being smarty pants here; It truly boggles my mind how fast they move.
Not in Sweden anymore, most of the lunch places in Gothenburg where I live don't allow payment by cache anymore. If you have money but not digital, you will go hungry nowadays.
I already said I wanted to get rid of software patents, so we're in agreement with one click.
And presumably all the birds will have plenty of other things to eat, right?
I think it will be pretty much impossible to stop fast low flying drones from the ground. Perhaps other drones are the solution.
Thats the legal requirement for organic but I’ve noticed it varies a lot in other aspects depending in the food. In US supermarkets standard food is generally big ag, bland, commodity level junk. I think organic has now become a byword for a subset of consumers who want to opt out of our low quality US food system and are willing to pay to do that. For example organic chicken seems to me to be often a different (smaller, better tasting) breed, free range, not water frozen, better packaged etc, not just organic, so that overall it is healthier in a variety of ways.
Without Iran, there is no Houthi force that matters. Iranian ships provide supplies. Iranian advisors train. Strategy is coordinated by Iran.

https://intpolicydigest.org/2018/04/13/iran-developing-houth...
Super cool. Thanks for the suggestions! Will check them out.
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Sexual Morality has been a slippery slope for a long time; there is no real moral quality that we can asses. Its a moving goal post (in this case, seems like the elite are hoisted by their own petard, though I doubt the real powerful people ever get in trouble for their double standards)

In the end, I am guided by moral principles that increase fertility and increase family unity.

Seems like corporate America decided to kill sex and kids, so that their labor supply is increased and their employees will stay late. (And will eventually be hoisted by their own petard as the labor market shrinks, and consumer demand dries up.)

So it goes.
AWS is great at horizontal innovation (launching a lot of brand new stuff). It's vertical innovation where they struggle (improving existing products). Software architecture helps the latter much more than the former.
Well, Maduro put Venezuela into deep humanitarian crisis already, with looting and starvation abound, so it is pretty normal that somebody wants to do something about that. Even if only for profit reasons.
When it is the majority of the population, it is beyond a personal decision.

It boggles my mind, but "majority" of the German population has a preference to Currywurst ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst ) - is this also "beyond a personal decision" ?

If you have a reference to German government pursuing an anti credit cards policy - please provide it here.
Health insurance subsidies kick in at when insurance costs over 9.5% of income, unless you make over ~$50k/year. I'm not entirely sure how insurance could be 1/2 to 2/3 of your expenses, unless you are saving 90% of your income.
And a loss, for all their predators?
I would call those "scaling issues". Let's see if deep learning advances along the lines of gpt2 can start solving them. I think that we will know the answer in 5 years.
A big part of it is not needing to work. There is a lot of security in knowing that you can just walk away from a bad situation, and take your time getting another job. Also, people who retire early don't just sit around watching TV all day, many of them actually start up something on the side. For example, Mr. Money Mustache is a blogger, which happens to generate income.

The difference is that you don't work for income, you work to give yourself something to do. Some people hang out their hat as a DJ, or do some teaching, but they also take enough time to travel or do other hobby type tasks that they wouldn't have time for otherwise with a 9-5.
Could be just that, but it doesn’t seem that’s what happened https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/117291970014739660...
Anything from retailers that don’t test products for it because they are outside the chain of liability. E.g. Amazon.
Trump (and the presidency in general) is used as a distraction. Its also probably the only legitimate election that happens - its the only one that the candidates are thoroughly scrutinized by the voters and whose platforms, personalities, etc are laid bare in a way most people actually doing the voting are able to comprehend.

Senators and governors might be in a very distant second and third place for legitimate scrutiny by the electorate, house representatives in fourth, maybe in some very rare circumstances someone pays attention to state house or senate races, and maybe you care about your mayor once every other decade.

Every other race is simply pay to win. You pay the most, get the most ads in front of constituents faces, and get yourself political power for as long as you can afford to keep it. The voting public does not have the patience, time, or willpower to scrutinize a dozen+ races per election cycle in a way paramount to preserving the institutional integrity of the government. Its why people are always so pessimistic about government solving problems - they really aren't practically electing the people writing the laws or testing their legitimacy. You vote for judges on paper, but in aggregate the elected judge is almost always the one with the most donors.

Its all intentional and structural, of course. It helps preserves the two party duopoly and lowers the cost of buying legislation for private interests. If voters only had one person to elect whose job it then was to do all the other appointments and elections they would otherwise do, but whom the electorate scrutinizes as much as the president and whose conduct is all over their personal media feeds every day, we might actually have something reminiscent of the will of the people showing up in government again.
Banks don't follow full reserve banking. They follow fractional reserve banking. When you put 1 Euro in the bank, they have discretion as to how to invest this amount and only need to keep a fraction of your money in reserves. With a bank I'm also stuck being exposed to the currency of my account. And European banks often have fees or minimum balances. Libra offers benefits to banks and is safer.

[edit] The idea of a bank holding 1 to 1 reserves is called narrow banking.

> It’s a “narrow banking” model that would back its deposits with 100 percent reserves, located at what is deemed by nearly everyone as the safest of safe locations —the U.S. central bank

Ironically the US Federal Reserve tried to stop the creation of a narrow bank because it would undermine fractional reserve banks.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-fed-wants-to-veto-sta...
Those regional currencies have popped up several times, the Chiemgauer is just the only(?) long-living one.

Official stance IIRC is: illegal, but so small and irrelevant by volume that it's best to ignore it and let people have a little fun and community engagement.
How did you get access to the original w3? I mean where did you get the keys?
Toptal has definitely cut out a brand name for themselves. But most good companies has their in house recruitment team. I wonder how RemoteMore will value add to them. This is one trend I really want to accelerate
Understanding how busy roads affect home values
American southerners endearingly refer to the Confederate States Army as the “rebels.”

Star Wars makes a good fictional counterpoint as well.
Where's the reverse-engineered server for bf2?
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Being successful is not binary. The offensive side needs to be significantly more successful in order to gain an upper hand. Otherwise it's defenders advantage every time.
It's basically the opposite in Sweden, if you don't have a credit card but just cash, you will at least in Gothenburg where I work go hungry during lunch.
Germany is very much opposed to the current ECB policy.
That is absolutely a military goal, and a far worthier one than terrorist attacks against civilians. One might note that Saudi Arabia has been economically strangling people in Yemen by basically shutting down the ports and restricting the distribution of food and medicine and knowingly inflicting a horrific famine (PBS Newshour has had especially detailed coverage of this conflict and this is one of the few contexts where TV news can do a superior job to print analysis).

While it's unwise to apply moral analysis to military conflicts because of the potential for both self-deception and ideological excess, this incident strikes me as richly deserved.
Why was this downvoted?

This is correct, parent provides clearly wrong information. And yeah, I thought this was going to be the 12word thing cryptos use, as well.

Ended up in tears, instead.
Not necessarily better for the developers. If you don't have any recruiters or jobs I'm interested in, its a lot of work to create a profile and no benefit. In fact, it could just create a bunch spam for shady, underpaying gigs.
> Allowing foreign money to be the primary medium of exchange directly challenges monetary policy.

Who said anything about a primary medium of exchange? Should dollars be disallowed as well? How about bitcoin? Starbucks gift cards?
I think this is another area where Apple isn't worried about stealing a crown or being #1, but another area where Apple wants to make products it believes people like. Apple isn't trying to take over the streaming video market.

"But that still leaves it way short of the 700 separate shows Netflix made last year, including dozens in the U.S. list of top 100 most-watched"

Honestly, I'd rather have a shorter list of shows that are completed instead of the Netflix "let's green light pretty much everything and cancel it after a season or two" approach.
Quality over Quantity. So far it looks like over the next year, Apple will do a decent job there.

"It seems unlikely that new entrants such as Apple TV Plus will be able to find a footing given how crowded the field has become."

This sentiment sounds very familiar. Analysts said the same thing about Apple Music (and still do) yet it continues to grow.
On the contrary, you'll get contacted for a bunch of stuff you have no interest in. Just like on LinkedIn if you happened to mark yourself open to offers.

Is much better as a dev to just send an app for a few jobs.
> If Google was the one offering DoH, ...

Related: With Chrome 78, Google is starting to "experiment" with ("an auto-upgrade approach" to) DNS over HTTPS (DoH) [0], as previously discussed [1] a few days ago.

There are some very notable differences from Firefox's testing, however (in particular, they will be "keeping the user’s DNS provider unchanged").

[0]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/dns-over-https

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20929720
> the point of early retirement is to have more time to do what your want, to live the life you want

Pretty difficult to do if you're already dead, right?
Brightness doesn’t correlate linearly to voltage level. sRGB is representative of the final output, so the brightness would correspond to 0, 33, 66, 100, and the voltages would be the inverse application of the gamma to those values.
Independently of the fact that I'm thoroughly against the use of proprietary algorithm for encoding, there's an interesting problem of the implementation of a range of similar problems to which somebody here maybe knows a nice effective solution:

(from their FAQ):

"The JavaScript library is about 2.4 megabytes. Almost all of this data is encoding data about how regions of the Earth are mapped to n values. There are over 300,000 regions. The raw data for the regions is 1.8 megabytes, and getting the data encoded in a JavaScript file raises this to 2.4 megabytes even after compression.

The Go library is about 2.6 megabytes of source code, for similar reasons, and produces executables of at least about 5.7 megabytes.

If you can shrink any of this data or make any other improvements, then please contact us and we will be pleased to use your improvements."
What do you know! Thanks for the link, I guess that means my comment is invalid.
World War II bombing was extremely inaccurate for a number of reasons including heavy losses during daytime bombing unless you went high. Post 1950's SAM really made things fun. It's not until the stealth bomber makes SEAD work and the cruise missile that you can pinpoint things.
This is bit on a tangent but it’s bit amusing.

The term for that is maser. That term came before laser which was derived from it.

And now we have come the full circle and are calling masers microwave lasers instead of lasers ”maser but for visible light”
They can cope.

There is nothing natural about any population size in the mosquitoes we are concerned about. They don't procreate in natural ponds, most of the times, but in whatever bodies of water the Humans provided them through one way or another.

And even then, those populations boom and bust all the time, without further intervention. We'd just rather like them to go more bust than boom, in general.
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There’s nothing wrong with a feminine name, just be aware of the issues. The name Ballet would avoid many of those issues outright, lessen the need to have such a rule, and seems like it might be a better name anyway—it’s shorter and phrases like “I love Ballet” and “we used Ballet” work. It’s your project, of course, it just seems a conversation worth having.
I love it. I spread 8 hours of work each day across more like a 12 hour day (5 AM MST - 5 PM MST), giving me tons of breaks while actually improving my availability to my team worldwide, as I'm not restricted to an 8 hour window. I can be working with someone in NYC at their 7 AM, while still talking to people in Vancouver in the middle of their afternoon. And I still have breakfast with my kids, lunch with my wife, go for a walk each morning, and have as much of a free evening as any office worker. My coding is done on my own schedule, in my own space, with my own music, set up the way I want it.

So I do recommend it, but it depends on who you work for - if they want you to sit at your desk for specific office hours, and be available instantly via Slack... or if they fill your entire day with calls, then you may as well go to an office, as that scenario I just described isn't possible.
They can, but the Iranians are more willing to tolerate pain than the Saudis and so they will ultimately win in the region. Somewhere TE Lawrence is crying.
Oh, yes. "Democracy." You understand, I trust, that the individual voter has around fuck-all power and influence, yes? And the profound level of bad faith it takes to charge a working stiff with the actions of the political establishment as directed almost in its entirety by the moneyed class?

The sentiment you exhibit is indecent and inhumane.
Ironically, Germany generally also controls the Euro for the so called PIIGS countries. For all intents and purposes the euro is just as much as an externally-controlled entity as the Libra.
So now it is ok?
>> The only problem the German government has with Facebook Libra is that they themselves don't control it.

I don’t see why this is hypocritical, a problem, or even an argument. The CDU, etc... are elected by the German people and hence are designated by the people to control state power. It’s their job to control these kinds of things.

Facebook is elected by no one, represents only Mark Zuckerberg’s interests, and is accountable only to him.
Do they move fast? I'm still waiting for Aurora to offer PostgreSQL 11 from last October.

Hell, I'm still waiting for AWS to offer an upgrade path to PostgreSQL 10 from October 2017.
Well the response is natural. Successfull? Hell no.
A succinct and fair summary.
That is really wierd. In the UK we pay a fixed price (£9) for prescriptions when we have the means to do so (i.e. in work), that's regardless of whether the drugs are more or less expensive than £9. Pensioners and people on benefits get prescriptions free.

It seems perverse to do it the way you suggest. Do you have to pay the full price of the prescription?
Which is one reason why capital controls are so destructive. Allowing denizens to keep their savings in whatever form they so choose is a human right. Libra will afford people the option to invest in and use a token that is backed 1 for 1 to a basket of global currencies and government bonds at a low cost.
How is Libra a full reserve bank if investment is how they make their money? It doesn't sound any different at all except there's no regulations and no government backing (such as FDIC guarantees).
No it doesn't, it sends preprocessed files just to not depend on remote env.