skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is needed to really reduce costs is a payment system that eliminates error and irregularities, or which uses AI to handle them.

Perhaps some kind of... clearing house, which could be automated?

In the US we have a dozen startups for you to send money to your friends. In most of the world you just do a bank transfer.

I pay my rent and utilities with ACH, but I know people who still don't have that option and are stuck in the dark ages of checks or credit cards with processing fees.

I have accounts with multiple credit unions, and one doesn't permit online ACH transfers and another takes 3+ days to do it. I'm currently trying to consolidate those accounts but even that's a huge hassle. It's nearly 2020 and the form the payroll company my employer uses wants a voided check from me to change where my direct deposits go! I don't have checks and haven't written a personal check in probably 15 years.

We keep scratching our heads looking for that magic future tech solution to our problems (AI! AI for everything!) when we actually just need to fix adoption of the freaking 45 year old standardized solutions right in front of us.

Checks have always been an almost entirely American aberration and a bad solution on all sides. It took us almost 15 years after Europe to adopt chip cards, and we're still swiping in places and almost nobody requires a pin for security. NFC adoption isn't great either outside affluent areas. We're not lacking new financial solutions, we're lacking proper adoption of the solutions we already have and the rest of the world is happy to use.
Yes. A generated column can be included in a foreign key and be referenced by a foreign key. Nothing too weird happens. It's basically like having every update and insert specify the column value.
Fuck off commie
Special China quietly doubles troop levels in Hong Kong, envoys say
As a Bulgarian living and working in London for more than a year now, I have no intention of going back. The IT sector in the country is booming and the money you can make relative to the cost of living is insane - you can live like a king. To me that is not enough. Money are not enough to make me go back, even though I miss my friends and family. One of the biggest problems for me is that the country is stuck in this perpetual battle between western and Russian influence and that the government on all levels is mafia. There's a lot more that can be said, but speaking for myself and some friends/family that share my opinion that's not going to change soon.

EDIT: mrtksn's comment paints a very good picture.
Are they canceling those flights, or are they not offering them? It's a big difference. People notice when a flight they've already booked is canceled. They don't notice flights that were never shown to them in the first place. I fly regularly between Boston and Seattle. I've noticed that my choice of flights is less than it was, but if I were a less regular flier on that route I'd have no idea that the selection was even reduced let alone of the reasons.
I don't think that's true anymore. I've blocked my Chromecasts accessing Google's DNS servers and then just fall back to the ones from DHCP.
US hospitals turn away patients as ransomware strikes
Nvidia's Linux support? AMD actually has open source drivers these days, just like Intel, Nvidia just gives you a binary module, which means in order to make use of that hardware you have to taint your kernel and aren't free to update it if the in-kernel ABI changes. It's basically on par with the vendors of all those "useless ARM devices out there", none of them with "usable Linux support".
Even in prosperous Germany, the formerly communist East is well behind the capitalist West. One would assume for a nation with less means the problems would be more pronounced.
Lisp machines used tag bits
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Facebook is toxic to adults to, it's like AT&T or Comcast. Everyone who uses it hates it and can't find a suitable replacement.
The stock option feat is moot, but the fear of "experimentation and inevitable failures" is a major thing and very frustrating, especially when looking for customers as a startup.
Similarly have you ever watched a teenager argue "logically" from their limited experience?

It goes both ways (can fail in both ways) because discourse isn't theorem proving. There is no universal set.
Those were also the days when a radio or TV set came with full schematic diagram in the manual, and IC data sheets also contained the full internal schematics of a part rather than just a block diagram or a simplified schematic without parts values.
What are the tech salaries like in Bulgaria?
I've traveled the entire coastline of Vietnam and much of Cambodia. It is entirely covered in plastic trash. There is even plastic in all the rivers way up in the mountains. I can't imagine this just being Chinese ships.
in the uk in 2017, there were 387,000 limited companies formed [1]

in the USA in 2015 in q3 there were 240,000 (so about 960 annually). As the USA is 80% larger, population wise, you'd expect that number to be higher. [2]

> There is much more social status associated to being a higher level employee than to being an owner of a small to medium sized company.

I'd contest that. There is much more status in being posh, rich, attractive, than having a good job.

being a manager at a no-name company is good, being an owner of a cool company is much better.

[1] https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06...
[2] https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/2018-Small-...
Am I getting this right; he learned to act like an autist, people got mad, he stopped and now he is observing autists like Kung-fu masters observing cranes and mantis'to come up with new moves?
I’ve noticed this to. Even in areas where I have domain knowledge and know the article conclusions are accurate, I’ll see dozens of posts saying “That’s not it at all, the real reason is...”.

There are a lot of very confident, but very wrong people out there.
5.25″ floppy drives of the early 1980’s
OK, but when others’ behavior bothers us and we wish they’d change it, or even push to be in an environment where behaviors are constrained to benefit us, are we honoring the authenticity of others?

If the goal is for everyone to be free to act in a way that’s “natural” for them, great. (Sort of; “natural” is a very slippery concept.) If it’s a case of authenticity for me and not for thee, no thanks.
A good system of government is resilient to bad leadership.

Edit: do any of the down-voters care to explain why this is not the case? Stable is generally considered a prerequisite of good and history indicates that not going totally down the tubes when you have a bad leader is a perquisite of stable.
Merge information is incredibly useful to developers (even if only to provide a smart "git bisect"). But would you generate a user-visible changelog from your merges? I personally wouldn't, and that's the point GP was making.
I think it's important to print different things at different scales because smaller printers are more precise.
This statement, given the previous comments and the context of the article, belies a certain depth, a conundrum I find myself facing periodically.

The basic notion being that, that which we believe, is true. This is nonsense on the face of it. Being nonsense doesn't prevent it from being a seemingly fundamental and perplexing aspect of being a human.
40k years is between 1000 and 2000 generations. Why would it be unreasonable to think there could be significant genetic drift over that many iterations?

We have bred entirely new strains of dogs or other livestock that are almost unrecognizable from the starting population in a fraction of that time.

What we have done to plants through relatively unsophisticated selection pressure is even more illuminating.

Why humanity would be immune from similar processes, I cannot understand.
"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't exist."—Jacques Lacan

Generalizable to: Life has no meaning, but we can give it a meaning.
As someone who hasn't "familiarised [your]self well enough with both sides of the argument", are you able to tell when quotes are cherry picked and quote mined in order to give a wrong impression about another's viewpoints?

For example, I've watched the "creation vs. evolution" so-called "debate" for about 20 years. I quoted "debate" because there is no debate, only continued raising by creationists of the same long-settled issues. (I speak here of Young Earth Creationists.)

But for someone without the specific training in biology (which, to be honest, is high-school level science often avoided in the US schooling I went to, in order to avoid offense to some religious belief holders), it's hard to tell that the creationist arguments and objections have no support in physical evidence, and that the creationists are often quote mining evolutionists. See http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/project.html .

To go back to your first comment, "There is money on both sides of the argument though."

There is also money on both sides of the creationist vs. evolutionist argument. And much more money on the evolutionist side. The US National Institutes of Health, to modify your quote, "sprays evolution money at anything that moves and at staggering rates — billions of dollars". Similarly, there are innumerable evolutionist companies which benefit handsomely from evolution.

But that spray, and those economic benefits, cannot be interpreted as support for Young Earth Creationism.

Since those arguments do not work for Young Earth Creationism, they are weak arguments at best, so cannot be a solid basis or proxy for understanding the issues related to global warming and climate change.
Indian ISPs have intercepted HTTPS traffic to inject ads [0]. And DPI is now a thing among Indian ISPs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091900
Those are synonyms by definition.
One problem with plastic straws is they get stuck inside creatures noses and gullets and cause them a great deal of pain. So the tonnage may be small but the damage potential is significant if you are a marine creature.
I came here to write this same comment as well. I think Elon has great insight how to very quickly build from conception to reality, pruning off undesirable paths before they consume resources.

In that one interview with Tim, he explored very deep concepts about cross team collaboration, engineering process and project management that extend well beyond the rocket science I was expecting to hear about
In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains
But I'm really glad you didn't know about it and made yours :) since you really put a lot of thought into the details about color reproduction, resolution and diffusion. It's a very fun thing to play with and anyone wanting to build something similar will now be able to find great resource of info and implementation details on your site.
Underwhelming Generalization Improvements from Controlling Feature Attribution
"If we wait till we're ready, we'll never get started."—Eleanor Roosevelt
At what level are you looking to cause the crash? Some options:

Compiler - insert code and memory usage to show area as free/not-free and check on malloc/free. Data has to be recorded at runtime because the type system does not provide enough information to be sure. Static analysis can only guess with C.

OS - Every malloc would need to be in a separate page

Libc - could do something similar to compiler

They all come with overhead in performance and/or memory usage, unless you change the technology stack in some way. Garbage collection is one approach. Adding extra type information to make it clear from static analysis (so you get something like Rust) is another. Or, some hardware support that gives more granular permissions.
If you have 5 years of experience as a Senior Back-end engineer you can get something between 2000€-4000€ net (after taxes) in the Bulgarian currency lev - BGN. The Lev is pegged to the Euro at 1.95BGN for 1€. In the capital where the tech jobs are located with that kind of salary you can afford anything you want.
My cousin is in his 20's, roughly makes 10,000/ month (~ $5600 USD). That salary is absolutely amazing. The article states the minimum monthly salary is $320 ( which a large amount of people make, given that Bulgaria lacks a middle class). The reason he stays in Bulgaria is because of that, he wanted to come join me in the US, but he didn't want to emigrate.

edit: mrtksn's comment hits the nail on top of the head.
I, like the OP, am referring specifically to African researchers' ability to speak in person at conferences in the West. Africans can and do publish research in English all the time, which is sometimes picked up in "conversation" in the wider global community, but without the social emergent properties inherent in face-to-face communication it's difficult to bring that to wider attention (there's a reason tech companies aggregate in SV, for example).
Right or Entity Framework, but they are just ORM's which is just hiding the impedance mismatch.

I am thinking more along the lines of an embedded db like SQLite but does native serialization, indexing and query optimization against .Net objects and types.

Then to make a "database server" is really just an app server running your c#. If you really wanted to make it like pg then you would have an app server that accepts code snippets, compiles runs and returns results. Of course you would need proper sandboxing like .net fiddle. You could also do something in between like serializing Linq expression trees to send them to server for processing.

In an ideal world where your code runs (client, app server, db server) is a choice based on locality needs not forced by runtimes (javascript in the browser, .Net on the app server, pg/Sql on the db server).

You can pretty much get close to this now with javascript/node/plV8, but again I prefer C#/.Net.
The word probably always make me think whenever the person who write/say it is saying the truth

Probably the best beer the world.... We know it it's not
Can a Federal Judge Sentence You for a Crime Your Jury Says You Didn't Commit?
Portugal’s navy reveals “tech guerrilla” unit creating tech toys that kill
Gen Z Social Network -> Creation does not imply that Creation -> Gen Z Social Network
State rep's Detroit home mysteriously torn down – and nobody knows why
>Do you think the kids in poor immigrant neighborhoods are in worse positions than poor kids in eastern Kentucky?

You have to distinguish affirmative action (in hiring/employment) and race based factors in college admissions.

Most colleges that use race/minority status as a factor in admissions also generally also use socioeconomic status as a factor. However, I am not familiar with any employment/hiring based affirmative action that looks at socioeconomic status.

Just as an example, I went to a top 50 (at the time) public high school in the country, the school is located in a large city (hint: where Jeff Bezos went). I had a 4.0 GPA and was the 50th percentile of the class, approximately #750 out of 1500 kids in my class. Colleges take that into account and I would never have made it to an ivy league (I did get 1 offer, but because I was an athlete and they wanted me to compete for them), but all things being equal if I came from that poor rural area you reference I would be looked at like a scholar, maybe even #1 in the graduating class vs #750, and I might have had multiple Ivy league admissions.
Just wondering if there is any solution to this. If you incentivise people (financially) to return, you discriminate against the local population. You can try to slow down emigration by building up the economy, but the wage differences are still so large compared to Western Europe that you couldn't stop emigration entirely. It's a tough problem to solve.
Up to net 4000-5000 from what I have heard. Rent is 300-400 eur in the city center. Dinner is 15 euros, lunch 5-8 euros. A decent apartment is 100-150k.
Bankrupt poop-testing startup uBiome is shutting down
Computers are quite durable these days. You can easily run a useful, general-purpose OS on a computer from 10 years ago and perhaps more, even one with baseline specs. If that's not enough to be considered a 'durable good', I don't know what is.
One of the possibilities for people who already used sublime or vscode is giving a try "Oni Editor", it is based on neovim and Also have a really nice tutorial section which you can collect some achievements :
https://github.com/onivim/oni
Thanks, I'm really glad I did it too. It was lots of fun and very rewarding to see it improve iteration by iteration.
Just graduated college. Got a job before I graduated (Windows support at a bank), so it didn't impact me at all. However, the company I worked for laid off a bunch of people that year, so people definitely got affected.

Some of my non-engineering friends had a really rough time finding a job, though.
So... Marten DB...
Two problems:

First, it's rarely clear what a specific glue actually is, in terms of chemical composition.

Second, when there is an obvious 'alternative', it might be a different glue (different solvents, ingredients, etc) because of differing regulations. That could mean it handles differently.
Stop comparing SAST to SCA
I switched to vim I was unproductive for days and frustrated. Then I realised I don't have to go thorough this pain there are so many great IDE's out there. 10 years later I am still super productive and don't use vim.
I guess the naive solution would be to walk the freelist/tree on free() to avoid duplicates. I have no idea what the real world impact would be though. Probably very workload-dependent. At least checking for duplicate would be free on insert in a tree, but in a list that's both a long walk and lots of thrashing.
About three weeks ago I struggled to glue a tiny acryl/plastics figurine to a stone. Sadly, stone is missing from the glueable surfaces.
I have many jokes to say because of this title

but all of them are not too funny
At risk of missing sarcasm, a large reason all these vulnerabilities in Intel are found is their market share. Same as when OSX was considered "unhackable" - it just wasn't worth the effort. AMD is likely just as bad, but it's not uncovered (yet).

Supporting the underdog is a good idea nonetheless, but not for this reason per se.
Vine is a video app -- those tend to work pretty poorly without sound
The US business community was very interested in China by the early 1980s.
Ask HN: What are my options for state-by-state DNS geo-relocation?
Are there any lightweight DNS solutions which would let me relocate my DNS to a neighboring market? I'm in CT and my DNS geolocates me to the NYC market, but I'd occasionally like to geolocate to the Boston market. Most DNS relocators I've found provide regional geolocation, but I haven't found anything at a state-by-state level. Is somehow routing DNS through a Boston-based family member's home network my only option, or are there services which could accomplish this as-well?
They are connected, as tfa is about changing your behavior due to sociatial expectation. As much as I try otherwise, I have to accept those pressures mould us with or without our consent and/or knowledge.
We already had this data before the straw bans. They're not based on evidence, they're based on one photo of a turtle with a straw in its nose. Straws are a pretty common type of litter on beaches, and I could understand bans were that kind of litter is a problem. But if you put a straw in a landfill it's not going to end up in a turtle's nose.
One problem with banning plastic straws as well is that many disabled people are dependent on them to be able to drink. AFAIK the alternatives (other kinds of straws) don't work well.
Yeah, we have to start somewhere and we have to have the mindset that we should keep going.
http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Pseudoscience/harvard_m...

Somehow I sense you did not intend irony.

[main stream version: https://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia/]
It would completely defeat the purpose of using a free list.
Sorry but I don't trust anything that comes out of Mark Zuckerberg brain
We need to do both. Push for ships to reduce their environmental impact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi...) AND take individual action.

Saving the planet - an enormous and incredibly complex task, will undoubtedly require quite a bit of individual action and behaviour change. To do without a straw or bringing your own cup can be a commitment to such behaviour change, to accept and act on whatever reasonable measure we find out to be important. Finding out that, say, producing a bamboo straw or cleaning the reusable mug takes more energy than producing plastic straws and cups should not be taken as a reason to mock well-intentioned actions (not saying that you did), but rather to iterate and figure out real solutions.
Fair enough - perhaps I should've simply said that in my opinion, reducing American ability to affect government down to % of population each individual represents isn't the best way to approach our problems
It may be more than what you have to provide abroad (but I would disagree on a few cases, for instance Japan where you need exceptional guarantors like your company, as well as pay a few months of rent that will never be refunded - known as "key money"), but there is a reason for that.

As a landlord in France, I can assure you that renters have extreme protections here. They can avoid paying rent for months on end without being evicted. That's why we have to ask for so many documents, to try to reduce as much as possible the risk for us.

Furthermore, the documents a landlord can ask a potential renter is limited by law, so there shouldn't be any abuse with that.
> IBM PC floppy disks were originally single-sided, with a capacity of 160KB.

Those were fancy assed double density. The original 5.25" SSSD drives like the Northstar held about 70K
It's a relative measure.
> It was always a feel-good hi-viz, low-impact measure given little evidence behind the measures.

I think the EU when banning this had data, they sampled garbage they found on various beaches and decided that straws are both common and easy to replace.
Can it do demo like in this topic. To load fast. Work fast. Even on mobile?

Every tool, engine, framework, has its strong and weak sides. That is why we have many options to choose from.
The concept was fine based on knowledge available at the time. Processor design occurs on a long cycle, sometimes requiring some guesswork about surrounding technology. The issue of having to hope/guess that compilers would figure out how to optimize well for "difficult" processors had already arisen with RISC and its exposed pipelines. In fact, reliance on smart compilers was a core part of the RISC value proposition. It had worked out pretty well that time. Why wouldn't it again?

VLIW had been tried before Itanium. I had some very minimal exposure to both Multiflow and Cydrome, somewhat more with i860. The general feeling at the time among people who had very relevant knowledge or experience was that compilers were close to being able to deal with something like Itanium sufficiently well. Turns out they were wrong.

Perhaps the concept is not fine, but we should be careful to distinguish knowledge gained from hindsight vs. criticism of those who at least had the bravery to try.