skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0.5 mg of melatonin? or 5.0 mg? 5 to 10 mg of melatonin is the amount in most all doses sold on Amazon. I've never seen such a light dose.
>They had the ability to monitor all of your transactions and if they didn't like you they could roll back or block your transactions.

Unlike, what, my established credit card company which still blocks me randomly when I'm traveling overseas even when I explicitly call their 800 hotline, sit on hold for 30 minutes, and tell some unempathetic worker "I'm overseas, don't block me"? Yes, thank goodness libra is dying, otherwise there might actually be some innovation against the exact things you just mentioned which perfectly describe the current state of affairs.

(Edit) I think it's fair to not trust Facebook with your currency, but keep in mind the players in the current system (governments, Banks, and credit companies) have hardly proven more trustworthy.
There are also relatively-modern tribe rules which provide some protection. For example Australian tribes use a split into subsections where you're allowed to marry only 4 out of 8 (or some other configuration) which provides a minimum of some number of generations before people with common ancestors can marry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship#...
The loss of wbai recently is another landmark going or gone.
Fascinating, have you ever changed addresses since then? Curious if the packages still found their way to you after a change of address.
I have been following these rules for several years and I find that the hardest thing is convincing my coworkers not to hate me for rolling in at 10:30 or 11:00am everyday because I don't go to sleep until 2am or so.

I really enjoy not getting that awful rush of stress hormones every workday morning and I feel like it helps me to stay more calm and relaxed. I feel healthier as a person so I think it is worth it overall for my employer.
Mind manager is still available
Doh, yes, system 6 was current for quite a while. I wonder what other thing from that era I confused it with. I swear something around that time skipped a 6.
Yeah, that absolutely poses a threat to government-controlled fiat currency - but it poses another separate threat that shouldn't be understated: If a company like FB or Telegram becomes in control of a pseudo-currency, now individuals' right to use their currency are under the control of a for-profit corporation. We've seen recently just how bad that can get for people's rights - perhaps even worse than what governments already do. When the US government steals your shit you can at least sue them because there are laws on the books prohibiting it, but is the law going to protect you when Telegram invalidates your tokens? Maybe?
This is the hermetic principle of polarity in action, but notice that technology and people living their lives are also not separate.

As humanity becomes more conscious it will begin to dawn that none of the life here is separate from any other life and we will move toward Love and unity.

You can see from globalization that we are moving toward a more unified world, it is inevitable if we can survive the consequences of the shadow side of stage orange.

Edit: To clarify, unification of the globe will help to prevent weaponizing technologies, and will lead to unified efforts to preserve and rescue our planets ecology from our excesses. But we have to be high enough on the spiral to implement that, if we're down at the psychological level of totalitarians and then try to implement marxism, we will end up with a totalitarian marxism like Stalin. Stalin wasn't a liberal you know ...
This was covered a couple months ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20655017
For Go users there is https://golangnews.com
So you are saying Facebook should declare itself as a (virtual) country and then try?
This sounds worse than modern ActiveSync - which Apple introduces support for in 2010 (2009?). You also didn’t have to send all of your email through BlackBerry’s servers.

With ActiveSync, my email will usually reach my phone/cellular watch/iPad before it reaches my computer.
News: as written in https://www.wikizeroo.org/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcG...

"Due to legal reasons, the domain name 0wikipedia.org will be closed. We will continue with new alternative domain names.

00wikipedia.org / 1wikipedia.org / 2wikipedia.org / Zwikipedia.org

Example;
https://tr.1wikipedia.org/wiki/Türkiye
What filesystems would they like to be using?
Imagine FB announcing plans to drop Libra and work with Bitcoin because it cannot be crushed
Every company peaks. Apple is even showing signs of weakness.
I guess that's supposed to be cute. I think it sucks.
If you block Telegram from the Play store, suddenly most of them.
facebook would better service itself by help small businesses in timely transactions of cryptocurrencies. With the government debt project to go to $30 trillion within the decade there will be alot of people hedging against the dollar with cryptocurrency and whoever is able to help in transactions with mom and pop stores will make a fortunes. Also it does help you aren't _directly_ competing with the federal reserve. People have been killed for less.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w12777
http://freakonomics.com/2007/01/06/is-the-endangered-species...

I think they found that areas that were going to be designated as protected areas experienced accelerated development over a one year time horizon.
Apple and Microsoft have basically proven that you can jump major version numbers and no one will really care.
If your 'decentralized' cryptographic currency can be brought down so easily, it deserves to fail.

Pre-mines like this are entirely orthogonal to Bitcoin and other legitimately decentralized networks; it's pointless to discuss them as though they were anything alike.

Crypto will fail or succeed based entirely upon how useful people find it. That's how it always has been, and always will be.
Big capital costs in setting up the number of parallel writers required on one end and readers required on the other, though. And presumably human "IT teamster" labor, hooking and unhooking drives.
That statement also surprised me. In Germanic inheritance customs the sons took precedence before daughters and it is obvious that this leads to the sons taking over the farm and land and to take care of daughters they had to be married off (instead of inheritance they got a dowry from their father).

Edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilocal_residence
IMO they're on the same level but I think it's just my style of how I manage my Node.js applications down my try/catch blocks, exception handling, and primarily process isolation.

> usual ad-hoc JS nodejs server

Yep - that's the key why I feel they're on the same level. I heavily rely on the cluster module and IPC to get my work done which gives me true process isolation/safety however I admit it's more code in Node.js to make it rock-solid ;)

Anecdotal, but I find that the typical Node.js developer is 100% "single-process" with weird supervisors like PM2. I also see over-engineered fleets of EC2 instances behind ELB/ALBs with health checking kicking bad instances out + a way to replace them... this is also stupid common in Docker/docker-compose/K8s as well.

For the record I think that development pattern described in the above paragraph is total crap and I put it on the same level of idiots giving modern PHP7 a bad name. Devs who practice like this completely blew the content from their CS100/200 level courses out their butt (yeah yeah I say this as a dropout myself whatever ha).
To me, this represents a fatal flaw in Vault's architecture. What it does should be table stakes/standardized and operate in a distributed fashion via integration into the underlying secrets engines. I'm honestly surprised the CNCF hasn't found a project out there to challenge Vault, we desperately need alternatives.
it's unfortunate, but worth not shooting the messenger on this topic.

He's talking about our transition from orange to green on the Spiral Dynamics model of psychological / spiritual evolution.
This quote is eerily prescient:

> I suspect the biggest source of moral taboos will turn out to be power struggles in which one side only barely has the upper hand. That's where you'll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them.

It's especially powerful when paired with this question:

> Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

Combining the two yields an odd idea. The group likely to have the most things they're afraid to say out loud will be the group that was recently strong enough to enforce taboos, but is not now.

One such group is white, straight males in the US.
But they didn’t become less popular either, and instead continued to rise and grow in popularity. That’s the point, outlawing it won’t stop it.

If bitcoins were illegal then I imagine they would probably only be used in illegal transactions.
>there's no payoff for getting better with the language, and nobody ever really gets up to speed.

Or maybe it's an indication that I should spend less time playing code golf and more time building what I actually set out to build.

I'd imagine an expert could write a better, performant database than a novice and the fact that can be achieved in language that will effectively communicate to a novice is arguably a good thing.
Something like that. The institute bills itself as the link between the two, so we do a wide range of things. I got hired to do image processing work, but as things tend to go am now being leveraged anywhere they need software. Can't complain though, interesting work with a world class team.
Chimpanzees, our closest relatives, send females to other groups.
Except that ethereum and eos basically get a pass by the SEC.
Binary Arithmetic in the TypeScript Type System
Instagram engineering,

Why can't search handle two keywords?
There's a black market for drugs because people like taking drugs. On the other hand, people only like receiving cryptographic tokens on the assumption that they will be able to exchange them for something in future, something considerably less likely if giving away products and services for alphanumeric strings is illegal... and unlike drugs, the supply of cryptoassets doesn't shrink when the government makes them more difficult to sell.
You achieve the first by having a distributed, decentralized, fully censorship resistant base layer in which the rule set is more or less like the current Bitcoin rule set.

You achieve the second by building upon this base layer. Just like how in the real world the base layer is physical transfer of cash and assets (not very reversible), and we have a financial and legal system built upon that (to simplify, it's doubtful how relevant physical transfer is any more).
I have created a dashboard tool with Electron. And I would like to introduce it
The name of my tool is "okadash". I am a Japanese beginner software engineer.

My name is "okada" and this dashboard tool was created by me. That is all.

https://github.com/konoyono/okadash

All the information written in English is README in GitHub. I'm not used to writing English, so there will be strange expressions.

https://qiita.com/okadato623/items/c2f1ba554af0103bef91

Since there are many images, I think you can understand even if you are not used to read Japanese.

If you have any feedback, I'd be happy if you could comment!

If you think it looks good, please star on GitHub. I am really overjoyed!!!

And pull requests are also really welcomed!!! Thanks in advance!
I feel like you’re reasoning is biased, I’ve seen cocaine usage for adults 18-25 reported around 0.8% to 2.0%, and it sustains an illegal industry. I unfortunately have no figures on bitcoin participation and couldn’t find anything decent when searching on mobile, but I imagine it would be a similar niche.
Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15
same here. Older android version.
I was a Perl dev a long time ago, and I think it made me a stronger coder. I still miss it, and I've not coded Perl for real in a decade.

You're correct about "over-the-top cleverness and arcane constructs" being a problem, but it's also about using code as communication. We code in _languages_, and on one extreme is coding newpaper style - lowest common linguistic denominator. On a good day this is a common, understandable language, and on a bad day it is trying to communicate with stilted baby talk. On the other extreme is dense linguistic cleverness. On a good day this is nuanced yet clear and informative, on a bad day it is James Joyce.

As coders we like to talk about using the right tool for the job, but in code we so often assume that the most stilted repetative pattern is always best. It often is - like newspapers, we can't (or shouldn't) assume our audience is well-versed in our material. But we have other constraints as well. I often argue in favor of _skimmability_ over _readability_ of code. That means that the attention/focus of the eye is important. Stilted languages with minimal syntax give you almost no control over that. More fluid languages like Perl give you a lot more flexibility. Learning to use that flexibility to increase clarity...for MOST people, not just for yourself...is a skill that most of us have only limited practice at, and none of us have mastered.

But it's a good idea to work at it, and when done well you communicate MORE with LESS, and it's something people notice because it's not buried in the midst of visual noise.
nil when you’re not expecting it.

panic when there is a bug in your program; ie program not behaving as expected, all bets off.

return err when expected conditions fail: bad data, service down, whatever — handle gracefully.
It just seemed ironic to me because I once naively thought that the wilderness was an area where nobody did anything, and the government didn't enforce any rules. Then I got some handout with a big list of forbidden activities and realized, the government puts a lot of rules on the wilderness.

There seem to be far fewer rules on the national forests. As a result it feels less wild because there are more people there doing non-wild things like riding ATVs.
A fair question.

I don't know of many instances where scripting and concurrency would be needed in the same application. But if you wanted to use single language both for scripting tasks and applications that require concurrency, then Raku or Elixir would work.

One instance I can actually think of, that would be specific to Erlang/Elixir, is if you have a long running service that you sometimes run batch jobs against (like importing data from a CSV). An Elixir script can hook directly into an Elixir/Erlang service and interact with it using message passing. It's a heck of a lot simpler than RMI, and avoids the need to expose new HTTP endpoints specifically for such tasks.
I was sick the other day and slept in our guest room to spare my family. I only get OTA TV in that room. I realized MeTV was back in our area on a different channel. When I used to live alone, I would sleep with the TV on for background noise to make me feel like the place was not empty.

Anyway left the TV on MeTV overnight Friday and woke up Saturday to ALF. Really hadn’t seen an episode since it was first aired. Going to Wikipedia, I was blown away that it was on for four seasons, was cancelled at the end of the fourth, and the season four finale was never intended to be the last episode. Years later they tied up the ending of the show.

I swear up and down it felt like the show was on for more than four years. I also remembered my first dog died during one of the episodes of Alf I watched as a kid, so that wound was opened again. :(
I've looked into Vespa a bit lately. It looks pretty good!

I'm a little disappointed in its data type support, though. With ES you can throw deeply nested data structures (maps, arrays, arrays of maps, maps of arrays, etc. ad nauseum) at it and have them be fully indexed and searchable. But Vespa doesn't really do indexing of nested structures.

This means that if your application's schema is already dependent on such nested data structures, you need a mapping layer that flattens your structures. For example, if you have:

address: {
streetAddress: "1 Bone Way",
city: "Boneville",
state: "WA"
}

then you have to flatten it to something like:

{
address_streetAddress: "1 Bone Way",
address_city: "Boneville",
address_state: "WA"
}

And then, of course, you have to unflatten when you get the results (unless you only use Vespa for the IDs and look up the original data in your main data store).

Same thing with arrays. Vespa doesn't really support arrays, whereas in ES, all attributes are technically arrays. (I.e., a "term" query/filter doesn't distinguish between the two: {term: {foo: "bar"}} will match both documents {foo: "bar"} and {foo: ["bar"]}.)

Another oddity is the system for updating your schema, which includes not just data model definitions, but a whole bunch of files which you upload as a batch. The programmatic API for updating the schema is a little impractical, much less practical than with ES where you can just do "curl -d @mappings.json" and you're done. Also not at all a fan of their use of XML.

Overall, Vespa feels more than a little antiquated. It's an old project, after all. That said, I'm probably willing to deal with the warts if it's more solid. I like that the core server is written in C++, not Java.

What has your experience been in terms of clustering? With ES you can just boot up a bunch of nodes and, on a good day, it will self-organize into a pretty nice and scalable setup. (On a bad day, your cluster will become "red" for unpredictable reasons.) Is Vespa as seamless here?
Facebook recently explained that it does not intend to send politicians’ posts or ads to its third-party fact-checkers.

In a letter responding to the Biden campaign, Facebook said that politicians are not allowed to share a previously debunked viral hoax in ads, but their direct speech was ineligible for fact-checking.

“Our approach is grounded in Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is,” Facebook’s head of global elections policy Katie Harbath wrote in the letter.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-facebook/bid...

facebook/twitter, even mainstream medeia/media in general love characters like trump. runs their numbers up and in addiction to reporters incentived to post fake news/clickbait as much as they can
I’m curious why the good jobs don’t spread our from these areas.

A good job by definition makes more money for the corporation than it does for the employee.

You’d think that the constraints of places like the Bay Area would cause corporations to employ people in other places.

Why is this not happening?
That's probably best discussed on a platform that doesn't have ties to Epstein. He was their largest source of funding for years:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...
> Suppose in the future there is a movement to ban the color yellow. Proposals to paint anything yellow are denounced as "yellowist"...

This made me remember the essay "Against Murderism" by Scott Alexander. If someone would like to read a somewhat similar article to what's posted here, written by (in my opinion) a devastatingly better essayist than Graham with a lot more knowledge about human psychology and understanding of how culture works, I definitely recommend it and Alexander's popular blog, "Slatestar Codex," in general.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/
Using PNG file size to get the thermodynamic entropy of a system of gases
From what I understand, the two tools have some very significant differences at this point. They may be the same codebase in a broad sense, and may share a lot of code, but I bet they are using something like Copybara to synchronize them.

https://github.com/google/copybara
I'd argue the outcome of this will be that Facebook will launch their own payments infrastructure on top of WhatsApp. There was no need for crypto or a Libra association to begin with.

According to the leaked Facebook all-hands audio, Facebook is already planning to launch payments in Mexico by end of 2019 (https://qz.com/1719731/zuckerberg-confirms-facebook-payment-...).

I wouldn't be surprised if this goes extremely well for Facebook and WhatsApp payments becomes WeChat Pay / AliPay for the rest of the world.
It's not that I think the Libra product is going to be fantastic per se. I just think that competition will force all the companies to make their products better. I don't want the government to prevent companies from making products, I want to be able to choose of my own free will whether it's a good product or not.
It's been like 3 years since I worked in a WeWork location but it seemed like they were doing a lot of wheel reinventing, they had their own social network site, their own room reservation system (actually something that makes sense, but it sucked), probably their own printer manager, chat app, mobile app, billing system and who knows what else. I could believe they employed a hundred programmers to just clone popular apps, and thinking they were "providing value" but the actual software was classic shovelware.
I do want a for-profit company to run a global currency. I would rather there be hundreds of global currencies, with me free to choose which one I would rather use, if any.
Meat grows in space with 3D printer on International Space Station
Astronomers spot ‘cosmic web’ that sticks the universe together
Not from any book in particular, mostly from hearing stories from older Chinese (60-80+ year-olds, mostly diaspora in Malaysia, Singapore, and U.S., though also one or two younger mainlanders[1]), and reading various articles on the internet, plus Wikipedia to help piece things together. I did take one or two Chinese culture classes in college, but that was long ago and it would be hard to untangle what I learned then from what I've learned since then.

Here's an example I just Googled which I don't remember ever reading before but echos what I said almost exactly:

> Like other Chinese, Hakka practice surname exogamy. Marriage traditionally was arranged, often village exogamous, and also patrilocal. Hakka marriage ceremonies suggest the transfer of women from one family to another and the incorporation of women into their husband's household and lineage rather than the establishment of bonds between two families. Wives are included in ancestral worship of their husband's lineage. Many Hakka claim that polygynous marriages were rare among the Hakka, yet until recently polygynous marriages were found among poor Hakka villagers in the New Territories of Hong Kong.

-- https://www.everyculture.com/Russia-Eurasia-China/Hakka-Marr...

Hardly a reputable source (seems like it was pulled from an older Wikipedia article), but such agreement would seem like an unlikely coincidence. A bibliography is provided at https://www.everyculture.com/Russia-Eurasia-China/Hakka.html

[1] Some aspects of traditional Chinese culture are better preserved outside China, as the Cultural Revolution literally and figuratively killed off parts of the cultural memory. Nonetheless, the reverse is also true; some aspects of the culture are preserved in the mainland but not in the diaspora. Perhaps only the historians really have the full story, even for relatively modern (e.g. early 20th century) practices.
Will Zoffix return?
Try buying a house and selling it for a similar or lower price without walking away in debt.