skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a 100ms startup time really a big deal for something that is either going to be manually triggered or cronjobbed and expected to take on the order of minutes?
You're probably best off moving to a city that hews more to that philosophy. There's definitely a tension. But personally I prefer cities that respect their history to a degree. Obviously individual cases can be controversial--as in this case.

But then I'm mostly not much for very sterile modern cities.
Lol add it to the list

https://twitter.com/Natalia01Mateo/status/117944267721089433...
Eh, I think it's fine if said timestamp starts off as relative, but becomes an absolute timestamp after a while. For instance, quite a few forums I use have the timestamp for today's posts as 'posted today at [time], but it changes to 'posted yesterday at [time]' when its a day old, then eventualy to 'posted on [date] at [time] once it's about a week ago or so.
I have a similar Windows 10 PE BootCD / USB / PXE, built from scripts from GitHub (https://github.com/VulpesSARL/MiniNT5-Tools) which includes WoW64, that allows to run 32 Bit executables.
It certainly did not. System 6 (including MultiFinder if you had enough RAM to support it ;) was active for several years in the early 90s before System 7 came out. The label "MacOS", meanwhile, didn't show up until a few years after that.
That seems like a convenient justification and minor strategic benefit rather than the real issue. This is about PR / image management and controlling the narrative. An outraged domestic and international community can limit your options (look at Hong Kong).
> Changing the signage is an example of how deep the restrictions run.

Not a very good example—this kind of regulation is usually focused on preserving the distinctive exterior look of a building, so including the signage in the regulation is not even close to being an overreach, and it doesn't give much indication about whether the regulations do go too far.
He hasn't really had reason to, none of his businesses thus far have involved media, telecom or social media. Not saying it's particularly likely that he would go against the grain, but its a bit unfair to say he hasn't when he hasn't had occasion to yet.
What?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_6
Well just from experience untangling async calls in python is a nightmare and sometimes hard to reason about. The red/blue function problem is real. Meanwhile dispatching concurrent long-running scripting tasks is basically trivial in elixir (Enum.map over Task.async, then Enum.map over Task.await)
> I'm not sure I follow. Running Elasticsearch on your own isn't that hard

Hah! Please do try, at any non-trivial scale. Once you have got your battle scars, report back.
Cannabis = Increased Passion and Sexual Intimacy
Greenlock v3: Easy HTTPS for Node.js
Are you sure that, existence of separate language and suppression of Catalan culture during the Franco period have nothing to do with the desire to have separate country, and only some strange superiority complex causes it?
What are you talking about it isn't great news.

It is fantastic news for most people, who honestly do not want their money being controlled and monitored by the whims of those who run a social media company, with a history of not putting customers first.

Any financial institution wanting to be on the right side of history should run, not walk from this project.

That isn't to say there is no place in the future for purely electronic currency, but it sure hell better not be this.

Change of this magnitude is hard because frankly... black mirror
Justice for Pearl Harbor: How America Assassinated Admiral Yamamoto
From Discover on Google https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/justice-pearl-harbor-how-america-assassinated-admiral-yamamoto-87041
Show HN: Lambash, a WIP λ-Calculus Unix Shell Written in Rust
The big risk to governments isn't a generic cryptocurrency token. The big risk is a platform used by a huge base of people PUSHING them to be used in the real world. This is the trigger to cause mass adoption.

That is the real risk. That is why stopping them is an emergency action.
There are some situations buffered channels are required: https://go101.org/article/channel-use-cases.html
Very cool I live in the Seattle area, looks like a fun thing to dink around with.

The web site has some broken links however:

Poynting 5.9 GHz 30 dBi grid or 2 ft solid dish antenna
Mikrotik RouterBOARD Metal 5SHPn wifi radio

do not work

but over all really neat.
> Also I love the level of openness. No other bank would do this

Totally agree! I don't have a Monzo account yet, but I find this level of transparency extremely appealing. I know people who work for a few "traditional" banks (RBS, Santander, Lloyd's), and by all accounts the IT setup is an absolute shit-show. I can kind of understand though; they've been around so long that they have a ton* of tech debt and legacy crap to deal with.

* it's great that Monzo are innovating on the IT side, but to woo me they are going to have to do better on the business side - I want a better interest rate for my personal current account, savings accounts and cash ISAs; I want stocks & shares ISAs, with low fees; I want a better interest rate for my business account, along with support for international payments (every traditional bank handles these, even if they do take ~1.8% in interchange fees... grrr).
All SEC does is creating jobs for lawyers, fake sense of safety for amateur investors and a vulnerability in every business so it can be exploited once that becomes a profitable idea. Did you know everything is securities fraud?[1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...]
You might be able to consider their hesitation to take action on Trump's Facebook page even though it breaks their ToS and is exactly the thing they are "trying" to fight right now [0]. Idk if that's something you'd consider to qualify as keeping political figures happy, but I think it's right on the cusp of that at least.

[0] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/9/20906612/t...
I suspect a fair few of the people who do this are trying to trick search engines into thinking their content was posted more recently than it actually was, since a few SEOs did experiments and found content without timestamps/with misleading ones would sometimes rank higher than those with accurate ones.

That or they think it gets people thinking they post more regularly than they actually do.

But yeah, agreed. Especially given that software development is a rather time sensitive field, and what works/happens to be best practice at one point may not be so further down the line.
Something shocking something Germans were always evil patriarchs. For all of time. The study is titled "Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe." I question this study, which is behind a paywall. So the idea is women go off on their own to find mates? And they studied 104 bones(?) using "deep regional approach" to determine this. Seems a very small sample size to make this generalization about the past. How is it that academics always find in the past that which validates their present views?

>"We apply a deep micro-regional approach and analyze genome wide data of 104 human individuals deriving from farmstead-related cemeteries from the Late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age in southern Germany."
Thats a very good answer. Requires one further piece.

Cancellation of competing power occurs as Interconnections Increase. The more connected the world gets the more power bumps into each other.

For anyone interested in addition to End of Power, another good book is Niall Ferguson's The Square and the Tower. It tells the story through different moments in history of what happens to Power(Hierarchies) when they get connected to the Network.
Well, this died.
Most active recent past posting, 120+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18221049
Python Based TOTP Displayer
Omg you just got me thinking! I am already planning on using Redis for this board.

What I could do is keep 1 main copy of my leaderboard, that is used mainly for writes, then I also keep other copies of the leaderboard but in snapshots of previous 30 seconds, 1 minute, 1:30 etc.

This way depending on when you first queried for the initial page, you access copy of the leaderboard at X time.

One edge case I'm not sure about is what I should do if user has a pointer to a very old copy of the leaderboard, lets say >30 minutes or >1 hour, it would be kind of expensive to keep so many copies (or maybe not?).
Okay, I see. You should use what most easily provides the features you want, to be sure, and it certainly has not been battle tested the way, say, Catalyst has. But I think you are still selling it short. Mojolicious is foremost about consistency and practicality, beauty (if you would consider it that) is simply a side effect; and it is probably in more use than you think.
Scons and qmake both predate CMake. It’s weird to characterize them as trying to “overtake” CMake; that’s not really a thing I think happened. As a matter of fact, there was a time when qmake was a better option; it was a fairly complete Makefile generator that had good support for subprojects and out of tree builds.

Then again, this is all irrelevant. What these projects all had to offer at one point is historical. Qt has to leave qmake because of qmake. During that time they evaluated many options, including a fairly innovative design called qbs - Qt Build System. In the end, the choice of CMake makes a lot of sense, as it is clearly the best available choice that had ecosystem support. Qt is unlikely to switch build systems again soon.

This entire argument has happened before, but instead of meson vs CMake it was CMake vs autoconf. The thing is, I suspect CMake will still exist even as Meson inevitably continues to gain traction, just as autoconf (unfortunately) exists today.

There is, in fact, room for more C++ build systems, and almost definitely room for better interop. (Meson and CMake have some interop today.)
EXACTLY. Good luck enforcing it SEC. Pavel and his team have so far successfully eluded Russian agents hopscothching all over the world, I assume any judgement the SEC obtains will be civil in nature, but nonetheless the SEC will likely attempt to criminalize something so they can get a Interpol warrant and make life more difficult for Telegram, in the same manner as Snowden.

Indeed, when the perceived threat is offshore you can always make shit up and get the powers to be to rubber stamp it . . .
Should be "some fringe"
We gave up that right when building permits became a thing.

They were meant only to prevent city-wide fires. As with everything government, once the process was established, the purpose for using it could be stretched and expanded easily.
Yes it's pretty basic. Last I looked it didn't have interbroker SASL, no TLS, can't expand node storage, and the API didn't have configurable broker parameters ...?

Also Kafka and Zookeeper are just about the last things I'd want sealed away in a black box.
The large organizations you want to do business with want confidence provided by large organizations as to the authenticity of your transactions and the legitimacy of your payment method.

Practically every store that took bitcoin used bitpay as an intermediary so they never actually held any btc. They just had someone else turn it into USD and send them the money.
The Price of OnePlus 7T Pro Mskes OnePlus 7T More Adorable
> What about using your money electronically without permission from a large organization?

Does Libra solve this problem?
Well... I don't care?
> We rely on third-party fact-checkers to help reduce the spread of false news and other types of viral misinformation, like memes or manipulated photos and videos. We don’t believe, however, that it’s an appropriate role for us to referee political debates and prevent a politician’s speech from reaching its audience and being subject to public debate and scrutiny. That’s why Facebook exempts politicians from our third-party fact-checking program.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/elections-and-political...

Also yes, I know they have had this in place since October 2016 with the whole "newsworthiness" thing.

To me that panders to any politician who wants to lie to manipulate the public through the surgical approach which is demographics marketing that exists on the FB platform (I'm a marketer - it's an outstanding platform). This is what I mean by "bends over backwards to make major figures in politics happy" - LOTS of politicians have taken advantage of this in their advertising. Anecdotally, I believe I have seen it first hand, and I see it as "kissing politician's butts for more engagement".

I think it's wrong - I think they should hold every advertiser to the same standards regardless if it's political or not. I see "newsworthiness" as a cop-out to say "we'll keep it up if we decide to keep it up". It puts FB in a scary position of being the thought police, and I just don't like that.

I'm not taking a side - please don't get my HN account deleted.
> I'm unclear why people continue to use Perl at all

Because there's a huge amount of applications and websites still built in it, and it's still a great language so new projects are written in it all the time.

source: my very prosperous career, which has been almost entirely in Perl for the last 15 years
Java even got rid of two numbers:

J2EE 1.4 -> Java EE 5

Both “2” and “1.”.
It is a nice tool, however it may not serve certain scenarios. Windows 10 based Boot CD will take too much memory, and if there is problem in memory module, the CD wont boot. Back in 99, I had a PC with multiple SD RAM module. One of RAM module was damaged. Any boot software requiring high memory would not boot on this machine. I was able to boot it with barebone image containing memtestx86 only, and identify the bad SD RAM module. Removing the bad module fixed the PC.
They didn't "skip" php6.

The primary goal of PHP6 was to implement full unicode support and drop mbstring. However, that took much longer than expected and multiple major features ended up getting backported to 5.3, 5.4 and 5.6; to the point that PHP 7 became the new feature version while PHP6 was worked on. They eventually gave up and PHP7 was released with unicode support built fairly deep, but basic string types and the like still being byte arrays.

PHP7 was PHP6, without the native and full unicode coverage requirement.
What about them? ISO8601 supports time zones.
> I dropped Perl from my resume about a decade ago because I just frankly don't want to work with it.

That's exactly why I've never mentioned Java on my resume (or in earlier times, Visual Basic) =D
I support this decision by California. I support a lot of what comes out of California. Its okay if you don't agree with me. Can you point me to your definition of 'substantive comment'?
How do we realize this freedom in practice though?
A city-wide fire is a negative externality created by irresponsible management. I'd rather such issues be resolved by courts, but can absolutely see the case.

A historical building is effectively a positive externality provided by the owner. The state cannot ethically force you to provide such a thing, nor can it do so without just compensation (Constitution.) The takings clause is very clear on this; you are preserving a building for public benfit, so the only Constitutional way to do it is by acquisition at fair market rates.
I find Perl 5 best for the kinds of fire-and-forget text processing scripts that are a bit too complicated for awk but not involved enough to bring in a "real" language. It's a double-edged sword - in a throwaway script it's awesome to not have to bother converting between the number 12 and the string "12", both numeric and string operators will work on them the same way. In a large project that kind of thing is just going to cause a bunch of untraceable bugs due to unidentified invisible behavior. Or you need to resort to weird hackarounds like "0 but true". Also: $_ is like that, only more so.

CPAN invented the software repository, and I'm glad it was there so PyPI/Gems/NPM/etc. could learn from its mistakes.

Every few years I tried an alpha of Perl 6, but it was always too slow and unstable to get anything real done, and it was always a totally different implementation from the previous one I'd tried. Maybe this name change shows they're getting serious now.
I wish them the best of luck, but in my experience rebranding a seriously off track project is often the treatment of last resort. It’s the vancomycin of struggling projects.
“If you take this on,” the letters read, “you can expect a high level of scrutiny from regulators not only on Libra-related activities, but on all payment activities.”

I wonder who paid them to say this?
Insomnia REST Client converts cURL commands into request sessions too.
> What we know now, is that making something illegal, could make it stronger. If Bitcoin becomes illegal in most country, would the price go up or down? Suddenly there is a black market, and opens up a whole other can of worms, so governments might not be able to simply outlaw it.

It's not as though drugs became more popular because they became illegal. Prices may have gone up because they were harder to obtain and there's less competition. Demand was still there because.. well people like doing drugs or are addicted to them.

With Bitcoin, why would a business risk legal action to accept it? There's very little incentive as far as I can tell.
The title states flatly that they're halting the offering. Is that inaccurate? What's the distinction here?

If the title is misleading, the practice on HN is to replace it with a better (i.e. accurate and neutral) one, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
There was something strangely familiar about the word "raku" but it took me a moment to make the connection. In Finnish, "raakku" is a common name for the mollusc species Margaritifera margaritifera, better known as the… freshwater pearl mussel! [1] I'm really not sure if this is an amazing coincidence or yet another layer of linguistic brilliance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_pearl_mussel
Let's not pretend the United States government supports them either.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-broken-recor...
I share your beliefs. I once experimented with a completely rules-free schedule, under the belief that my circadian rhythm was slightly longer than an earth day, and thus my "day" would slowly shift forwards until my day was everyone's night, and then back again. It didn't feel good and I stopped it after one rotation.

As far as the sun as a waking trigger, I believe that as well. With an alarm, it's nothing... nothing... nothing... and then BAM! Time to wake up! The sun rises gradually, and light is entering your eyes before you regain consciousness, so even though it seems like you suddenly wake due to the light, I think it's a more gradual process. That, and I fall back on a naturalistic idea that since that's how humans have woken since time immemorial, that our brains are wired for it in a way.
For me the real frustration is Elastic's close tying of client features to server versions, making it impossible e.g. to buy the latest version of Kibana from Elastic and run it against a server managed by Amazon.
I very much prefer "typeless data with typed operators" over Javascript's "typeless data with typeless operators" or basically any language that was forced to add ===.
Part of that could also be how TV/Netflix can be in the background. I probably watch a few hours of a random Netflix show over the weekend. But I'm also doing laundry, touching up some hobby code, or just spacing out and drinking my coffee. It kind of falls into place as background noise when my brain doesn't need to be fully occupied by the task at hand.

I couldn't do those things while entertaining a guest. That requires much more mental effort.
Again. I don't care. Most of that does not apply to me because it is elsewhere. I have no use for some phone which only works in some far away software and services ecosystem which are not available where I am. And why should i care about being wrong when so many ppl doing something, which i won't?

Ever heard of the prase 'Billons of flies eat shit. Therefore shit must be good!'?
You fail to understand that i dont want to infringe on anyones opportunity. I am saying plain and simply, if a kid is staying a year in this country during the asylum process, trying to integrate them into a system that doesnt benefit them in any way, and doing that on the cost of their education, is just not fair towards the children. This is not an abstract concept, like the kid from my elementary class this is happening already all the time. That kid was pressured from his parents to make the best of the school but he, naturally had to learn the language first. No one ever asked of that 8 year old would not be better off today if he had learned Pashto or English in that year. Thats what we currently do to those kids. Its not racism, its just being horrible. We are in my option not providing adequate education with kids stuck in the asylum process. Instead they, and every other kid whos first language isnt German are thrown in a "one system fits all" system that is grinding them down because they are starting at a major deficit due to the language barrier. And that is insane. Switching the language of you education midway through means in reality either delaying the education, (which is not a problem in Germany where you finish by passing the grade, but it is in Afgahnistan where you are expected to work from a certain age) or forcing more content on children then they can handle. I cant repeat it enough, but our school system is designed in a way to teach kids all you can teach them in that timespan. Everything additional, is putting stress on those kids.

>There is extreme reluctance to put children into "special schools" or classes.

https://sportsmediachallenge.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/...

Where the difference in view might come from, i do care about the people stuck in that horrible system instead of the way it is framed. I dont know what another perspective then "what aid can we offer the people stuck in that situation" really helps anyone but your ego. How anyone can construct an addition schoolyear to learn the language as racism is really beyond me.
Ok, we've edited the title above to make it be the transcription that was lost and found, not the chapter.
For those who don't know, John Brockman, the founder of The Edge (https://www.edge.org/memberbio/john_brockman) was deeply involved with Jeffery Epstein:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...

https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-inte...
(Edit: just to be clear, links like this don't mean that the article shouldn't have been reposted! Reposts are fine on HN after a year or so—this is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Had this repost had been a bad one, we'd have marked it as [dupe] in the title instead. The purpose of linking to previous threads is that readers find those interesting.)

Also, from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952908

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443420

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956884

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581050

Those are the big ones.
The original question was about what would qualify somebody as "our ruler". I certainly don't see how I am ruled by a Credit Suisse executive, or how I would be ruled by such an executive even as a Schweitzer.
I don't believe the article adequately addresses intensive industrial uses, e.g. oil and gas leases[1], which are potentially permitted on other categories of federally managed lands.

It's also fairly disingenuous to claim that human activity is not allowed in wilderness areas: I'll be camping in a gorgeous wilderness area in Colorado this weekend.

[1] https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/oil-and-gas...
Is the only reason we're ok with this blatant design ripoff because OP is "one of us"?
It's basically a clone with only the colour changed.