skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The developing world are and will benefit from cheap oil. This is a fact. Not a matter for debate or discussion.

> Several countries in Africa are suffering from wars worsened by climate change driven migrations.

Now only if these african countries used more oil to develop and get rich so that they wouldn't have to fight over scraps. Are you seriously saying that a continent where a significant portion of the population lacks reliable electricity won't benefit from cheap oil and development?

> Countries like India have a mix of cities running out of water, cities flooded by water and cities drowning in pollution which is almost certainly gonna erase years of people's lives eliminating any improvements caused by better medicine.

A country with a per capita income of only $2K? Where hundreds of millions of its citizens live in poverty. You are claiming these people won't benefit from cheap oil and development?

The only people who are against cheap oil for africa, india, etc are privileged white liberal parasites who are already rich from a century of cheap oil. It's pretty pathetic to try and deny these people are chance at a better life because you want to help bankers enact a carbon tax on the world.
You mean FreeNow or whatever... Don't understand that rebrand at all, MyTaxi is a great name. Not sexy or enigmatic, but it's a challenger brand.
A friend had one in college, turns out a 8 year old pick up truck was dramatically cheaper to insure and repair than a similar sedan. Seems like just about everything about the truck was designed to be rugged and reliable. The engine was tuned for less HP, the interior was less attractive, the suspension was less comfortable.

It wasn't fun to drive and was loud on the highway, but it was cheap.

I think there was a break on registration as well.
> Ironically, the global economy is contracting [...]

Where do you take that from? A Google search says that global real GDP is forecast to grow about 3% in 2019. Not great, but also not contracting.

For comparison, global population is forecast to grow by about 1% this year. So we even get a bit of growth per capita.
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Clickbait title rescue: It’s the ⁝ - U+205D tricolon character, present on the drawing accompanying the original patent for the QWERTY-layout typewriter. Its actual use is obscure, and still unknown, although theories abound.
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It should simply not be the company’s responsibility? You have no obligation after sale. Anyone can walk into any store, buy a box of donuts, the turn around and resell them on the street.
>So maybe the total amount of computing power is equal?

Probably not. Those 18bit words likely contain 2 bit parity to prevent space radiation from making this go bad. Plus, it's only one machine, not two, the two always run in parallel (for the CSS, the FDS only has one running at a time and AACS is turned off if not needed) and redundantly in case on fails, so in total you're running about 180'000 instructions per second, not 360'000. The memory totals 34 kilobytes (18bit words in two of the memories, 16 in the third), with a simple redundancy like the computer itself (ie, each computer has it's own memory).

The CCS is also responsible for managing the memory of the other two systems (MEMLOAD), so their realistic instruction speed may be limited by slower memory access in memory heavy applications.

Even all systems combined, I don't think the voyager is faster than an Apple II within an order of magnitude.
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Highway robberies also make complete sense when rationalized from the robbers' perspective, but it doesn't make them any less ridiculous from everyone else'.
When I read about something like this, I can't help but wonder, how do you deal with error analysis and such? I personally would not be able to view such disturbing and revolting material. And if you don't do error analysis, how do you know this stuff actually works?
Great update to this educational robot
Good points - esp on the axle. Didn't realise that's what solid axle meant.

> So, a vehicle that weights twice as much has twice the friction when the brakes are locked

At full lock (or near) the limit factor is likely tire/road. A bit of googling suggests the effect is give or take 10-20% [0]

Regarding bumpers - the plastic used is flexible exactly because of "the audio method" of parking. It bounces right back in most cases. Frankly I just don't see how a chrome finish bumper is going to work out cheaper than plastic.

Maybe if I spend some time living in the US I'd understand. To me the trade-offs, especially on safety seem less than ideal.

[0] https://www.arrivealive.mobi/stopping-sight-and-driver-react...
It's about how magazine pages were created before computers. A veteran of the London Review of Books demonstrates the meticulous, manual process.
Scientists’ warnings about climate change have intensified
Given that there is a financial incentive on stamping something "Accepted", it's not surprise they act in this way.
The customer of a pick up truck is typically much more cost conscious than a SUV. The reason car companies push people towards SUVs is the profit margins are MUCH higher.

Generally you get MUCH more for your money with a pick up truck over a SUV.
If they could they would. Who do you think is more powerful, the billionaire, or the politician who asserts his will on the billionaire? Case (s) in point:

1. Amazon/AWS losing the Pentagon cloud deal to Microsoft [1]

2. Amazon driven out of NYC by AOC and co. [2]. And still people think Bezos is the powerful one.

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business...

[2]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syracuse.com/politics/2019/...
Date should be updated to (2019), the latest fixes are from POSReady updates from May this year.
Someone tried to install Gluu? It is like the hell and very hard to get it working well.

Yeah, you will tell me "just pay for support", but I get Keycloak working with a single Docker command.
Damn, America is so rich it just invents problems. When I was a child, you worked hard in school or your life was going to suck. By American standards, your life already sucked because you defecated in the fields. So you did everything in your capacity to not keep it that way.

I'm in America now. Did it the hard way. It wasn't as easy as showing up to class and having the choice of working hard to apply to some of the best educational institutions in the world.

Bloody hell, it's no wonder everyone in America is terrified of immigrants. They're going to eat your lunch because they will go through all these things that ruin you and instead come out resilient and able instead of reduced to just smoking weed all the time or whatever other activity you've decided to blame on society.
Finally, democratising open source monetisation.
windows xp running on modern hardware is lightning fast.
Oh, I can think of many reasons why vendors would want to do it. But that doesn't make it less ridiculous from the perspective of everyone else.
From the title I thought this would be about the fact that the QWERTY keyboard has 104 keys vs 105 for the AZERTY keyboard (used in France and other countries in Europe). QWERTY has a really wide SHIFT key at the bottom left, whereas AZERTY has an extra key there.
I wonder how well would Table Tool [1] perform with your large dataset?
This is an open source CSV editor for Mac from the developer of Postico, my favorite PostgreSQL client for Mac [2]

[1] https://github.com/jakob/TableTool

[2] https://eggerapps.at/postico/
I'm curious about the economics of this - is it big enough to not be worth redeveloping when you consider over the income over say, 3-5 years?
Every transformation will lose energy. Electrolysis isn't lossless either, hence the possibility for efficiency gains (or real-world cost reductions) through a combined approach.
> With Tether, the beneficial owners are USDT holders.

As far as the bank is concerned, USDT is a valueless token and potentially empty promise by Tether Inc.

The beneficial owner of the money is Tether Inc, not the USDT holders.
What kind of rinky-dink operation are they running?

- A old tool not used since 2017
- Had been many changes since then
- Not put through QA process

Who OK'd this?
Wow, that is one of the most inspiring comments I've seen on this site lately.

(I fix "everything" at home, including things that doesn't make sense to fix and I justify it by saying to myself it is a hobby and I'm learning, but fixing an 80 year old fridge is something I haven't even thought of..!)
> But I rather buy Bitcoin than WeWork shares (assuming they list).

Depends on the price. Thanks to limited liability, WeWork share can never be worth less than zero. And just liquidating their existing office supplis is probably worth at least a few thousand dollars. But, of course, you'd have to pay off creditors first.

If WeWork lists and doesn't go under, and assuming even a weak version of the efficient market hypothesis, the price their shares trade on will be about 'right'.

> Until a government defaults. This doesn't happy every week, but ruling out that it doesn't is not the best investment strategy.

Agreed. Though in the developed world, inflation is usually the bigger worry. (Unless you buy inflation indexed bonds.)
The food automatically becomes dangerous once imaginary lines are crossed.
105 key qwerty keyboards are very common
Nah. Winning the lottery is being born in a country with free health care and education. Being born in the US is OK at best.
I was part of the "gifted crowd" from 5th grade (9-10 years old) up, and not all of my classes were of the "gifted" variety.
What's with the constant attacks on testing, achievement and merit? It seems like every other week there is something attacking the SAT, scores, testing, achievement, etc.
> for better or for worse we are the only animal that uses and controls fire

Just to nitpick on that one, some wild animals seem to use fire to their advantage, such as birds of prey spreading wildfires. Some others were trained to be able to cook food, and light fire with tools. That said, to my knowledge, none are able to start fire with tools they crafted (I am not really either, to be fair). So this might be true for now, but I do not take it as a given.

I like your last paragraph, though, especially the ending. Nicely put :)
Is this reputable / trustworthy?
The playbook applies to what people do after they bought a product? I would think the first-sale doctrine (or sale rights exhaustion) applies; once Krispy Kreme has sold the product to the college kid, they exhaust all rights over him to determine what he does to the donuts.

He's not their employee after all and the playbook does not apply. If there is a food safety issue, it will be on that kid, not the donut shop.
Marketing yourself as someone who fixes bugs in unrelated projects is a noble cause. But the realities of oss are that you will likely get a fixed income job while some large corp will make loads more money off of your fixes and projects. I for one praise monetisation of open source and hope licensing will become more restrictive (i.e. if your company earns more than X$ then then you need to pay a license for it). Great engineering should be paid in freedom from 9 to 5 not just praise and contracts.
Solution to Minesweeper Number Glitch is to do a system restore
Great research by the author of this article.
I'd love to have Windows XP with security patches and modern drivers.
It could also imply we don't really know most of the mundane details and intricacies of past cultures. Tricks and techniques lost to time forever. Like the difference between the many small things you experience when you are traveling somewhere compared to what's left in the pictures.
So I've tried to use OpenStreetMap but it's hard to ditch the business directory that Google Maps has built in. Are you aware of any open source / crowd sourced directory of physical businesses? It seems like such a thing could exist but I don't know what all is out there.
> can't afford to do it right

The simplest way to comply is to not obtain and store personally identifiable information at all. Luckily this is also the cheapest. So I don't really buy that you "cant afford to do it right".

If you want to obtain and store personally identifiable information, then you have to mange it properly, just like selling food, medicine, financial services etc. need to follow certain regulation.

Note that all the competitors in the space will have to follow the same regulation, so it is not like it put you at a disadvantage.
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A Reputation protocol for open collaboration
Maybe I misunderstood Sabine Hossenfelder but she wrote:

> They just throw away data that don’t look like they want it to look.

If I take white noise and an assumption about how my data should look like I can basically prove anything.

If I take two white noise generators I am pretty sure I will still be able to find a signal which more less appears at the same time at both generators.

I hope they did more than just select the data which fits their assumption.
Experience matters - a lot! Recently I got new phone and it was bit of an adventure just to login to Uber. After that I'd to add CC numbers manually. For Lyft it was simply taking a photo. There are several other small things, for example, I want tips to be included in single charge for easier receipts for business trips. I want review to be annonymous. I want app to ask me landmark if it detects poor GPS in places like NYC. I want some sort of negative reward for driver if they cancel on me. In my trip to India I learned that there was 50% chance drivers would cancel on you in Ola and 20% in Uber. All these are complex issues and neither Uber or Lyft has solved it perfectly. My money will go to company which provides greatest experience, not the 10% difference in price.

Both companies are doing right thing to invest heavily in new businesses + experiences + new markets - despite what pundits say around here and that wall street wants to suck out all growth for short term "shareholder value maximization".
The inevitable cost is zero security. Most desktop OS are not designed with security in mind and are vulnerable in different ways, but it's safe to say that Windows XP's security is effectively zero at this point.

Personally, I only use Linux and BSDs on my machines, haven't use Windows for years. But I keep a Windows XP VM, I only need to use it for not more than once or twice a month, sometimes it's ancient hardware supporting program, sometimes it's ancient government program. There's no confidential information in the VM.
You're getting downvoted because you're incorrect: it doesn't matter where a company is from, if they're conducting business with people in the EU, they're bound by it. Which is why several non-EU companies have paid fines and plenty are implementing GDPR-based privacy measures (and I speak from experience here).
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Should I stay out of team slide?
I got top results in school and uni but in english literature and archaeology in a good university in Ireland. We don’t really have Ivy League Unis there anyway. I taught myself to program, competed in and won prizes in many hackathons, worked as a business analyst and now am in a startup where I am co-founder. I did some of the programming at the beginning but I'm now doing most of the research, connecting with accelerators and VCs, angel investors, etc. some of the technical, while the main founder is doing most of the technical work. I don't quite know to capture myself in the best way possible for the purposes of the team slide of the slide deck and I know this is critical. Can anyone advise if I am even best to stay off the pitch deck given my lack of credentials (no former big company, no ivy league uni, etc.) in case I put some investor off and just work in the background and let the lead founder who is more technically able and accomplished than me, and our business side team member pitch instead?
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> Noble in thought, weak in action

I might be tempted to agree, but the impact was all too predictable.

In general, complying with regulations often has economies of scale.
I feel the need to remind people that going bankrupt is the worst thing you can do to yourself financially. It will set up back a long way in very basic things.
Dragging a large data structure through the cache only once rather than twice can be beneficial. Also, GC will clean the intermediate array, but (depending on the specifics of the language and the data types involved) it might first have to make yet another scan through the data structure. So yes, it's linear, but possibly 2-3x slower.
If you know mass distribution between and around probes, could you account for it? or is it a case where we can only know the mass distribution by observing the curvature?
> He's not their employee after all and the playbook does not apply. If there is a food safety issue, it will be on that kid, not the donut shop.

Some people would still blame the donut shop.
If they can't keep a cache of your recent locations, it would be difficult for them to apply optimization of your location, prediction of your car's path, etc. and Google Maps would be a much more jarring experience, akin to a GPS device. I think they do need the client to send recent locations per request if they want to deliver an optimal experience.

For example, what if I wanted to implement loading automatic nearby locations? Naively, I could fetch the results within a radius R of the current received location. However, that's not good if I'm on the highway. The smarter algorithm would take into account the car's position, velocity, and angular velocity to calculate a better spot to query around, or perhaps a different shape to query in other than a circle with radius R.
Yeah, I use IntelliJ, Chrome, Photoshop and a few other smaller apps and sometimes even run Win10 on Vmware but I never see any noticeable slowdowns. I do tend to quit apps that I don't use as I hate cluttering my alt-tab list.

Call me old, but these days everything including people are so ram hungry I cannot believe the days when things were being done with less than a GB ram.

People talk like having more ram feels like a champ but as developers you might as well want to think about how things can be achieved using less ram.
Why should talented kids be forced to sacrifice their progress and happiness to help the poor kids (or rather, for the odd chance it might help some poor kids)? That is tyranny, right there. The government is using their bodies, against their will.

If society wants to help poor kids, it should use tax money to pay for people to help those kids. Forcing other kids to give up their possible achievements is exploitation.
Well, if you have a few billion years to send the probes to the required distances, would likely be possible. But I don't think there is an RTG capable of powering even a laser based system short of feeding matter to a black hole, which kinda will make it difficult to build a probe around it.
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India Decides Not to Join World's Largest Free Trade Agreement RCEP
I was in gifted classes for a couple of years from like 5th-6th grade but was eventually separated. I had perfect standardized test scores, but my grades were average due to many reasons. Some of my teachers didn't like me, and I guess they decided to kick me out. Later I ended up dropping out in high school but still went to college later and now work at one of the big tech companies. So in the end I ended up alright but others may not be as lucky.

I'm not going to lie, being separated from the "smart" kids felt bad. I knew I was just as capable, but someone had the power to decide who is gifted and I guess they didn't like me. I was placed in classes where the teachers were of lower quality and the material was even less interesting. One of the teachers who didn't like me while I was with the gifted kids was my science teacher and that made me dislike science as a whole. I had a couple of math teachers who were extremely supportive throughout my early education and that made a world of difference. I decided to study CS in large part because I could avoid a lot of science courses and focus on math.

I also have a sister who was indirectly affected by me being in gifted programs. She later admitted to me it made her feel really bad that I was placed in those programs while she wasn't. I think this really hurt her self esteem and had a negative impact in her education. I could imagine other kids feeling similarly when some of their peers get labeled as gifted while they don't.

Looking back, the biggest benefit of being in gifted programs was simply that the teachers were better. So the kids who didn't necessarily need better teachers got the best ones, while the rest got packets to read through. The kids also weren't that different. The main difference was how much the parents of the gifted kids were involved in their education and they were generally wealthier. Overall it seemed like an unfair system that told kids who were just starting out whether they were smart or not. I think we really need better and more teachers, but they aren't paid enough. School is more of a place to put children while parents work than it is a place to educate.
So do you think OSM servers are free to run and won't have to be paid for?
> McDonald's also lacks network effects, though it does have some brand loyalty

McDonald's is top 10 most valuable brand in the world. It has massive brand loyalty & defensibility through it.
By your logic complying with financial regulations is a large compliance burden too that kneecaps small companies.
> Anyone can walk into any store, buy a box of donuts, the turn around and resell them on the street

And when something goes wrong, anyone could blame the donut shop. It doesn't matter if those people are right or wrong -- the donut shop could lose business either way.
Is it worth becoming Blockchain Developer in 2020?
So isn't this what we want? For Google to charge for services instead of funding them with our data? Or is the surprise here about just how much it costs to run these services?
Last time I seen news on this, I was factory resetting a PC and could create an offline account.
I need to setup another windows this week's, I will see.
And the donut shop can do absolutely 0 to stop that. They exhausted their first sale doctrine, they can't stop someone from selling a rotten donut (the law can, not the donut shop).
It's because FB has enormous power in influencing who becomes part of the government.

Keeping aside the question whether FB should be broken up or not, having such power is incredibly dangerous. And they brought it upon themselves, by making a big push for being the primary conduit for all aspects of people's lives, Friends, Family, Events, News, Opinion, Shopping, etc.

edit: Spelling
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> * we do not need passwords

Probably the opposite. All passwords are machine generated/stored. Everyone uses an HSM.
There was before gpdr. I think it’s obsolete now.
> This pseudo caste system was probably beneficial to you in the upper caste, but I don't think students in tier 3 and below saw their lives improve.

It is hardly a child's responsibility to suffer from the violence, bullying, and general disinterest in any academic achievement by another group of children.
Perfect. Twitter have been ignoring my request to delete my data.
Not really - you need a way to scrub user data on demand from backups and they should also have limited duration.
Really there just needs to be a much higher teacher/student ratio all around so that every learner can get the unique attention they deserve.
You would need chisel off the chips, Smart TVs have been caught doing whatever they like and everyone should have known this because printers are even worse.
I am still convinced fines will, but big investigations take a long time. There's an ongoing case about Google's real-time ad auctions for example.