skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a good idea to use a public GitHub repository for closed-source software support.

If you want any of your “innovations” to catch on, you better make them free. Otherwise good luck with a product almost no one is going to see a need to pay for. Who exactly is your target audience as customers?
With sports performance a lot of the barriers are psychological. Even though this wasn't a real sanctioned race, Mr. Kipchoge showed it's possible for the human body so now I expect he or someone else will do it in a race within a few years.
One potentially huge market is online payments and small transactions. If libra is embedded into the browser, millions of blogs could start charging for frictionless access to their content, and thousands of games would improve their experience and revenue. That s a huge and largely unserved area, unless you think that entering card numbers and private data with every spent penny is a good situation. I think Libra is going after this kind of use cases, the ones that are not possible today. If that works, and it catches on, then yeah, they ll go after the 0.5% because people will want that too.

A blockchain is also a digital signature, a verifiable programmable general purpose ledger for smart contracts. Just giving each FB user a wallet id, even without money, has a lot of potential.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
One thing you can say for Bel for sure is that it will give implementors lots of opportunities to develop new optimization techniques. That's partly humorously euphemistic, but also true.
Payments giants abandon Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
BBC News - Payments giants abandon Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50023008
> Liechtenstein’s law ... covers digital securities as well

L's population is around 35 thousand. It's like City Council of Menlo Park CA gaining a status of a sovereign state and then making venture capitalists from Sand Hill Road exempt from SEC rules. L is trying to make a buck by being more permissive because they have nothing to lose otherwise.

> We speaking the same language yet?

I suppose we do. English that is :)

https://medium.com/@straumli/not-blockchain-f569f288b6f1
> If someone submits a link that’s been submitted recently their submission upvotes the original.

I have done some experiments on that and it's not always the case. There have been times when I have an old version of "newest" loaded, inadvertently submitted the same link, been taken to the existing submission, and seen that the points on the submission haven't changed. So that's not the whole story, even for that part.

> I’d wager that that’s how most links hit the front page.

It would be interesting to know the statistics.
I often start with the new page, I enjoy as much the flagged and dead links which can reveal some interesting tangential subjects to HN that piqued my interest :)
Work of renowned UK psychologist Hans Eysenck ruled ‘unsafe’
I'm surprised that Warren takes this approach. Did she or her campaign really think this trough?

It seems like Trump successfully turned 'fake news' into mush where people can't distinguish between different categories of speech. Even Dems get confused and can't think starting from first principles. They are asking FB to sensor political speech.
You can't sleep when there are enemies nearby. Didn't you play Skyrim, Minecraft, Fallout...

Or more seriously you have messed up bloodwork. Get your blood checked. Vitamin D is necessary during day. Seeing the morning light and end of day sun set can actually help.

Or you didn't exercise enough. Various military organisations have sorted out sleep: they can get you tired enough to sleep vertical. Often while still marching.
That's contingent on eliminating the impossible.
>Isn't the thing to be offended about that you're consuming media that you think is an artistic work, but it's got some propaganda mixed in with it?

No the thing to be offended about is genocide. Art can go fuck itself compared to that. No offence to art or dislike for it.
The growth of CGI technology has made it increasingly possible for filmmakers to make motion pictures about the military without military cooperation.
> this very post ... has only 10 upvotes and was on the front page for me, in between two posts with hundreds of upvotes.

That's common, as the "score" for a post is (very roughly) points divided by time. So a newer post with fewer points can still have the same "score" as an older post with many more points, giving the effect you've seen without the cause you posit.

So what you say about the mixing may be true, but is not evidenced by the example you've quoted.
You’re just showing that you’re not judging on information but on a hinch of what Switzerland is to you.

1) Very conservative and risk-averse population, yes, but also really open to technological innovation

2) Best universities in mainland Europe

3) High profile mutlinationals having their headquarters there

This could go on and on ...
Startups, corporates & technology that are shaping future of autonomous driving
My fundamental issue is simple. Money, who owns it and how it moves around, is fundamental to our society. I don't want that power owned by a company who might decide one day, without warning or reason, to close my account.
Do you in USA have some kind of protection of politicians being deflamed?

In Poland (but just during elections) you can sue other politicians with fast line process that takes I think 24 hours

I think she should aim to regulate ads on social media by some kind of institution, not make FB have more power
SEC requirement is a side effect of the fact that contracts are enforceable in a court of law.
You need a minimum amount of karma to create a poll. If you search you can probably find an estimate of the required level, I don't know it offhand. Then you can search for how to create a poll (probably the same search will give you both answers).

Edit: Here's a start:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3380115

Edit: I don't know why you were downvoted, so I upvoted to compensate. It's a reasonable question, although it is answered by doing a quick search.
>> These rules exist because charlatans bilked a lot of consumers out of a lot of money

The rules are made by the "deep state" to serve the establishment.

On a more serious note these rules/regulations/processes also deny access to capital to startups. It's not really that easy or cheap to go public on a stock exchange.
People should do their due diligence before to invest in stocks anyway, right?
Bel
I believe that when somebody makes a "Show HN" post, this person wants feedback. You can't give it without understanding the project.
I remember reading pg's article on Lisp and startups, and at the time questioned if it was just mere luck. Then having a cursory look at Lisp, I questioned its relevance to the modern world.

... fast forward a decade later and I'm reading books on functional and logical languages for work. After the first chapter of The Little Schemer, I was at first blown away with the content, but then sad after I realised I had put off reading it late in my life.

If you're reading this comment and thinking Lisp and what's the point? Take a deep dive. It you're still questioning why, I highly encourage you to read The Little Schemer (and then all the others in the series). Scheme, Lisp, and now Bel, are a super power... pg's article was spot on.
> he used a team of rotating pacemakers

Many of whom might be considered his competitors, too
That is the first time I've seen anyone even suggest that. The movie has some memorable qualities, but hardly compares to the book's greatness.
The chirplet transform is a discrete-time implementation (i.e uses samples instead of continuous functions) of the mathematical transform i've written

The corresponding inverse transform (the "sum" of the components to get the starting signal back) didn't exist before

This is exactly the inverse chirplet transform, which the guys in the article found a way to compute
Whenever i read those highly derisive comments (de facto banned vaporware) , it's time to ignore those threads. Money truly makes people rage, and it's ugly to see it in written form. Crypto has ways to until its people learn to act civil
While an amazing achievement, this seems quite artificial. A team of human pacemakers and following a car going at just the right speed.

Non paywalled link with photo of laser-guiding pace-car: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/12/sport/eliud-kipchoge-mara...

I can't find anything about anyone doing it on a treadmill before this, though. Maybe that's harder for some reason?

Eliud Kipchoge's world record is 2:01:39, which was 1:18 better than the record before (just 4 years earlier), so it seems pretty likely that <2 hours will happen in competition too, soon.
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For the same reason that when industries were eating the world workers didn't get any respect . Why should programmers be treated in any way better than the rest of the world ? Are we somehow more worthy ?
There is finally some competition in banking so some of these are improving.

1. In the UK at least bank accounts are completely free, as long as you don't borrow money (you can use a credit card for free as long as you pay it off every month).

2. Not really in my experience. The worst thing they do is constantly make new types of savings accounts with decent interest rates and then sneakily drop them to 0.1% a couple of years later.

3. Hasn't been an issue for me travelling around Europe and Asia. The new breed of banks don't charge you insane fees either. E.g. check out Transferwise's debit card.

4. How would Libra solve this?

5. It's actually not too bad now - more and more online shops support 2 factor authentication for credit card purchases. Plus because of the fees merchants pay you have pretty good protection against fraud.

> It feels like banks have mostly given up on making their product better.

Disagree. They finally have competition: Monzo, Revolut, Starling Bank, Metro Bank, etc.
Does anyone else like using your iPad less since the update?

My iPad is my only computer. iPadOS 13 is full of little bugs - especially switching back and forth between Google Docs in Safari and another window.

Often times, sites are frozen and not even a refresh fixes it: have to copy the URL, open a new tab, and paste it.

Using the iPad used to be fun; now it's had a bunch of stuff bolted onto it. I'm not your average user, but I find iPadOS confusing.
> If you really believe in democracy, then trying to influence their politics from afar is ultimately going to be far-less democratic than they influencing their own politics

Giving them money buying their products _is_ influencing, preferring them to hire manufacturers there _is_ influencing, influencing is just not just the opinions you dislike people giving on the internet about the situation there, in reality such comments are near nothing compared to the influence actual money and American (and world-wide) business exert politically by doing business there.

> for the most part they’ve lifted hundreds or millions out of poverty

The genocide or religious groups[0] is a price far far superior than anything any sensible human being would pay to get their country out of poverty, btw are you counting the people living in cages[1] a 'out of poverty'? And are you counting those who died living in extremely toxic conditions near factories as 'out of poverty'?

[0] http://theconversation.com/despite-chinas-denials-its-treatm...

[1] https://i.imgur.com/zlfjiOG.jpg

[2] https://imgur.com/gallery/7CFjIgK
Currently top item on the Front Page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231208
He was playing with Lisp before he was wealthy and also while becoming wealthy. HN's software, which runs on Arc, used to run YC too. It was all one codebase. Only after pg retired did YC move the business parts of the software out of Lisp, and it got a lot bigger and more complicated in the process—as any Lisper would expect.
Where in europe? Banks are vastly different and there is no banking union. and they have failed in the past
You can work around that with Firefox and this addon[0].

The whole Page Visibility API was a mistake to me. Under no circumstance I can think of I want a website to know if I am looking at it or not. In this case, I consider it to be plainly abused and turned user-hostile.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...
Yeah and the other one uses child labor to harvest palm oil (or did until very recently).

The bigger the organization, the more likely you're going to find some bad stuff. Apple's got worker suicides. China has probably harvested organs from prisoners.

None of it's great, but I don't really know how to judge how bad China is proportionally. How many organs would they have to harvest to be comparable to how many children were forced to harvest oil for PepsiCo?
Something like an isolated wifi "dead drop", and a gossip protocol would be all you need, like ssb.
Try reloading. The first request doesn't always work.

Outline had previously blocked (or been blocked by) the NY Times, but now seems to work.
While there are not many Facebooks, there are thousands of cryptocurrencies. As long as Libra is exchangeable , i dont see how they can maintain a stronghold on their users and manipulate them. It's not as if the entire world has adopted libra, its going to be a long drawn and selective process in which businesses decide which cryptocurrencies to support. People don't change their friend's networks, but they re not equally selective with money, they 'll use whats convenient and good.But Libra is probably going to be the biggest onramp of them .
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https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc is a Rust compiler without borrow checker.
Active discussion currently near top of front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231479
The Future of Energy Storage – Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT
Every conceivable agreement, written and unwritten, is enforceable in a court of law. By your rationale, this justifies gatekeeping every form of human interaction.
Would a treadmill be safe at that pace? 13mph is extremely fast especially over a sustained period of time.
The actual graphs on the Tiobe can empirically show it's getting deader.
He did exactly what he said he would do. The Mac was the only product Apple had to sustain itself until they could produce more products.
Wow, the second situation is actually very close to the one in Estonia.

The country with easy ICOs and many guys who became rich after launching coins, and sadly today the pariah of international finance.

The worst part of it, is that literally 99.9% of the population are totally honest persons and get punished for everyone else.

10% live in "absolute poverty" and it's certainly not the lack of money that caused it.

Hundreds of billions of USD are/were in the country.
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Rails 6.0 is excellent. For single developer and small team web apps it's pretty much the pinnacle of productivity.
Dune is old enough to have deeper connections than just catch phrases. It spawned RTS games via the Dune 2 game based on the movie. RTS games then which spawned Moba's like League of Legends via Warcraft III (Defense of the Ancients).

Though as you say “Fear is the mind killer” shows up all over the place.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21228445
American Sniper,:

"Kyle meets Taya Studebaker at a bar, and the two soon marry. He is sent to Iraq after the September 11 attacks. His first kills are a woman and boy who attacked U.S. Marines with a Russian made RKG-3 anti-tank grenade. Kyle is visibly upset by the experience but later earns the nickname "Legend" for his many kills. Assigned to hunt for the al-Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Kyle interrogates a family whose father offers to lead the SEALs to "The Butcher", al-Zarqawi's second-in-command. The plan goes awry when The Butcher captures the father and his son, killing them while Kyle is pinned down by a sniper. This sniper goes by the name Mustafa and is an Olympic Games medalist from Syria. Meanwhile, the insurgents issue a bounty on Kyle."

How this disproves that "Hollwood is unable to record a movie depicting modern US millitary in any critical or non-heroic manner"?

If you have mentioned Generation Kill I would have given you props but it is not an accident that many people in US have not heard about that series (and the book).
Poll: Hacker News Functionality
Did you even know Hacker News allowed you to make polls
Total world expenditure on science projects of any kind at all is downright negligible compared to biggest expenses, such as military, as pointed out...Life conditions, solutions to pollution, most harming diseases etc, could all be fairly easily solved in rather short timespans of 5-20 years probably. The thing that's missing is not the money, it's the humanity's collective consciousness, maturity and responsibility - instead of all I mentioned above, we're still very much busy throwing feces at each other over imaginary borders, or deadly fairytales called religions, and trying to earn more than our peers, so we can buy a shinier thing they will envy.
Not really. The blockyness in JPEG images is from throwing away less significant terms in each 8x8 pixel block to save space. Any lossy image compression method will cause artefacts of some kind, no matter what transform or system it's based on, but JPEG's ones are particularly artificial-looking as they're square and lead to sharp visible edges. Some other methods of throwing away information aren't based on blocks and just make things blurry.
Would you prefer indentations and newlines?

https://chrisdone.com/posts/z/
At first it was not just all one codebase, but all one thread. If HN was busy, all our internal software would run a little slower.
If a company chooses to heavily invest in a nation with limited freedoms, the suicide started when the decision was made. Not when the consequences start to hurt.
I wonder why Stripe followed them? They re positive on crypto in general, and they would have an immediate competitive advantage if they stayed
I know China defenders take whataboutism and moral relativism to extremes but not even the Soviet Union stooped so low to justify any of their actions with "But, Pepsi"
What genocide? This whole thing boiled over due to a proposed law to allow extradition of HK residents to China, which is bad, but it's not genocide.
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What shift would that be?

Until the 1970's or so it was getting better, since then it's gotten worse if anything.

On the Christian side we have whole continents that are following some cliff notes' version of Christianity, mostly centered around money and some opportunistic politics. On the Islamic side a small group of fanatics has managed to divide the world in a way that seemed unthinkable 25 years ago and so on.
Imagine a comparable situation. Someone wins an olympic medal, and makes a political statement in the subsequent interview. Then the olympic committee decides to take the medal away, and ban the winner from competing again.
Apple always knows better. Even if you think you know what you want, you don't, actually. Because Apple knows better.

At least with Windows, Microsoft will never intentionally delete or cause user data to disappear. Bugs have happened (the one where files in the original Documents folder after relocating to a new location would be deleted was pretty bad), but it usually results in an apology, delaying further rollout of the patch and a fix for the issue. Instead of pretending "it's best for our users, they never should've put stuff there in the first place".
Hard to answer, need a 'yes I'd seen reference to it in the guidelines, but no I've never seen one before, and actually I'm pretty sure it doesn't allow me to create them, because one needs somewhere between our karma levels' option.
I'm saying there are less benefits because you don't own your own digital money(except if it's hard cash). The current digital payment system (paypal, visa etc) is pretty much like a glorified Spotify subscription. You don't own anything...just get a license to use it under various conditions. You can't even accept payments without a "processor" and that processor has its own t&c.
Lisp was around decades before "Tiobe", and will be for decades after.
It seems that asking people if they knew HN did polls is the biggest use of polls.
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Nice work. I don't know much about the cryptography to comment on whether this is a good implementation or not, but it's cool to see a VBScript link on Hacker News! :-)
Telegram will not run out of money, Durov has enough money to support it for years.
I don't know how safe it is, but people have done times in that general speed range, e.g. Eric Blake's 2:21:40: https://www.recordholders.org/en/list/treadmill.html
It creates unfair competitive advantage against those who don't want to adhere to state approved propaganda.
I very much doubt it would be suicide, it'd be an economic inconvenience. But even that cause hell to freeze over for their stock holders even if the loss was only momentary.

Publicly held companies will rarely choose the good of the public over the good of their stockholders unless given fiscal incentives through tax increases or tax decreases.

Unless they become as wealthy as Bill Gates and make a non-profit with their enormous wealth.
I'm not defending China. I'm just surprised at how shocked everyone seems to be that media companies are peddling influence for China, because they'll do it for literally anyone with money.
Hi John,

Thanks for your time. Right now syntax is Earnest :Company, Onelogin :Company, and Okta :Company
You can choose from the dropdown. I understand if the dropdown doesn't come quickly ,this is not intuitive. We are working on this issue.

https://researchcue.com/searchTerm?search=Earnest+%3ACompany
https://researchcue.com/searchTerm?search=OneLogin+%3ACompan...
https://researchcue.com/searchTerm?search=Okta+%3ACompany
Because politicians threatened them with increased regulatory scrutiny across all of their business
I see lots of trailers for upcoming Apple TV+ shows that look vaguely interesting, but then I remind myself that it’s Apple and they’d never risk doing anything even remotely edgy, racy, subversive or controversial.

Don’t want to risk offending someone and harming the brand and it’s squeaky-clean, inoffensive values!
It wouldn't be just for web-dev?
DllMain gets called with a reason code. The OS loader calls it by enumerating the loaded DLLs. It won't call anything in the EXE because that's how it was coded, and there's nothing the EXE can do about the loader specifically short of patching OS code.
I don't understand why multitasking works the way it does. Why can't I drag something from the app drawer? Why can't I drag from the app drawer, open the multitask view, open an app there and drop it next to that? Why does it have to be from the dock? What's the expected process? Am I supposed to open the app, then open the next app, then drag the last app from the recent app part of the dock? How tedious.

I feel like nobody at Apple actually uses the multitasking part of iPadOS, because if I wanted something intuitive and simple and easy to use, it wouldn't look anything like it does now.
https://sep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bellanguage.txt?t=157... explains the purpose of the project. It's an attempt to axiomatize a complete programming language the way that McCarthy's Lisp did for computability.

Sounds serious to me. Why can't it be both?
"I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed ..."
Almost every language has macros now. Lisp is pointless.