skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a bullshit argument. What you're basically saying is people wouldn't have driven their cars and stayed at Home if Uber wasn't a thing. That's such an inane argument. Ridesharing is good and reduces overall traffic. It doesn't make people go out more than they require. No one says "it's a good day to Uber today ".
There’s a difference between powerful and accessible. I can build all kinds of crazy experience on an iPhone — but they also make the documentation available to me and attempt to pull developers in.

I understand that there are highly specialized environments/needs that are niche, but I would argue Haskell (along with most programming languages) isn’t one. It’s a programming language plain and simple. It doesn’t even have special neiche feature like Ada for proving correctness because this is going to power a fighter jet. It’s a language for CS nerds... that’s it AFAIK.

By valuing elitism, you largely are guaranteeing less positive impact on the world, as well as pushing away people who might come with ideas to improve the state of the art. You’re also letting less people experience the power and “purity” of a pure functional language, which dampens the impact those ideas can have on other developments.
Funny, I like the efficiency added by the ticket server, but this solution is actually more centralised the one that came before it -- hashcash: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

Hashcash has the features you described above, but no mechanism for "returning" PoW to a user.
Some of my coworkers have used the open source VTK library for this sort of stuff (Heat flow in a reactor in this case).

From what I saw it was C++ code so may not be the easiest thing to write.
even in very simple scripts you don't get invalid characters until you actually get them.
You could argue the market decided it was the store of value to use, like gold, not the coin to use. Or it is still being pumped by bitfinex/tether, tough to tell.
"You need antagonists, and most of those are government/institution related, but by defining yourself in opposition to them, you in-effect leave the middle class. E.g. cease to identify as someone those institutions ostensibly serve, and identify instead as one of those they target."

This describes quite well the process of becoming a political dissident. The value of anonymity is that it allows you to exist in both states at once, both of the middle class and apart from it. By "doxing" dissidents, some hope to eject those people from the middle class, or otherwise make their political activities so costly as to dissuade them entirely.

Anonymity has had a role in Western politics, of saying things which cannot be said, that dates back to at least the 18th century if not earlier. No doubt there are many on this website who will argue that speech without fear of personal reprisal is categorically a bad thing - but uninteresting? I don't think so.

I agree that this fund produce wont produce anything, but only because I believe it's entirely fake.
Does that work? I guess I assumed vouching just flagged a comment for re-review, rather than instantly reviving it.
That's on them and not Uber to calculate and make the choice.
A family member died of brain cancer. He smelled distinctly unsettling, even frightening.

I don’t know if it was the cancer I smelled or messed up chemistry due to the cancer. But the smell made me feel deep dread.
13 years ago is just about right before Obama took office. Interesting...
Taking drunks off the road, providing carpooling options, reducing need for parking, making it possible for for people to not need cars who are on the fence about buying one, frictionless payment options over cash, eliminating "zoning" by different cab entities that block off under-served neighborhoods. There are plenty of positive externalities to Uber too. I don't know about you, but I'm old enough to remember when cabs sucked and you dreaded it or considered risking just driving yourself after a night out. Uber made things easier, better, and safer.
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Guess what! My wife is a lawyer at Oracle. And she knows. And guess what else? Marketing owns the wording of marketing collateral, and can ignore the advice of the lawyers, and then the lawyers get to clean up the resulting problems.
It's the defacto router because it has gone through many iterations, has lots of users, is easy to bring into a React app, and doesn't fight w/ React, it works with it. Plus there are a variety of approaches to declaring routes. [0]

I'm not sure I see how obvious it is that a <Redirect/> is wrong. But that's fine, I take your point that it's not particularly intuitive.

I'm of the opinion that routing, in general, is a function of application state - and I like to manage my application state with Redux - so I will often also mix in connected-react-router [1]. This lets you do navigation w/ an imperative API [2].

[0] https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/tree/master/pa...

[1] https://github.com/supasate/connected-react-router

[2] https://github.com/supasate/connected-react-router/blob/mast...
You can be deplatformed from major node hubs, especially considering the design makes the hubs money transmitters from a US legal standpoint. You can get your channel closed out and be forced to pay the transaction fee, which may be higher than the value in your channel.

None of these are things people want to spend money worrying about.
I can smell selection bias.
One of the main benefits of this model is the ability to transactionally enqueue any jobs that are being triggered at the same time as other changes your app is making. Also the ability to transactionally apply changes to your database at the same time as marking the job completed.

You only get this benefit if you’re doing everything in a single Postgres database. By the time you outgrow that setup, you may as well move to a more dedicated job queue or something built on Redis, because you’ve already lost the benefits of having a single system.

I suppose you could maintain the queue in a separate Postgres database, but without sharing ACID with the app I’m not sure What you’d gain vs another system.
Reputation scores only help established players. And they can be gamed. Get a bad reputation? Just dump the and spin up a new one.
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Chrome has its own Windows builders as well on each platform.
Talk to tobacco about being deplatformed. Tobacco companies have banking, but fewer places sell cigarettes or allow smoking. It’s not discrimination —- neither cam girls or tobacco farmers are a protected class. Payment processing isn’t a right.
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I use the desktop app and browser companion extension on both Mac and Windows. AFAIK, it's not going anywhere, even though they are promoting 1PasswordX pretty heavily.
Is Google not big too? Google and Amazon have approximately the same number of software engineers.
Exactly how certain are you of this?

Keep in mind that this is a 10+ year old problem by now (talking about USB2-to-SATA). They've gone through all of the cost cutting methods possible by now.

I can buy that chip that also happens to come with a PCB, a very nice extruded and anodized alumunium case, plastic end-pieces + screws, indication LEDs, voltage regulators, 10-20 pieces of small passives (redistors/caps), a screwdriver, 2-3 pieces of instrution manuals/warranty notices, two layers of very nicely designed paper packaging + shrinkwrap... all for like $5 in retail. The cost to the retail store for these items is probably closer to $2.

(Oh, and there's also the assembly cost for that PCB inside the case.)
Hmmm... : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment
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Meanwhile in the land of iMessage...
To get b'key' and 'key' in a dictionary in python 3 you really need to try hard.

The only reasonable scenario I can think of is when you are porting python 2 code to python 3 and play with .decode() and .encode().
Your conclusion presupposes that the employee/contractor dichotomy is a useful construct in its typical form.

But the current dichotomy limits the freedom of individuals to contract out their labor on terms that work form them. It replaces the free choice of individuals with the "wisdom" of bureaucrats and politicians.
Lightning is also a pile of vaporware. It is even more Rube Goldberg than bitcoin. It’s only purpose in the bitcoin ecosystem is so shysters selling the dream can claim “no really, bitcoin can scale!!!! Lightning is just around the corner!!!”.

(Of course they don’t mention the irony to bitcoin scaling is not to use it)
I feel like you're desperately trying to convince me of my inferiority without actually saying it. It's honestly really strange to see.
> higher [rates] when pollution was declining

The above part sounds weird, but I suspect that it's supposed to illustrate the following part "to depress spending until the environment improved". In depressing spending until the environment improved, there would be higher rates while pollution declines and (I suspect) there would continue to be higher rates until an optimal level of pollution is reached.
I didn’t understand either why “gambling, esports” were listed separately in the article. Why would esports in general be vices in the way the other industries are.

I get there are CS:Go tournies where people pretend shoot each other in a video game, but I don’t see how that is more damaging to people than sports like boxing or MMA. Idk, is there still a ‘vice’ sentiment that “video games turn kids into killers”?
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The point is that payment processing very well should be a right in this age.
I have no idea about this. In virtualized in environment, you can go for blue/green strategy.
> 30,000 people flying to Davos once a year is not a major or substantial driver of global warming.

Ask Scott Adams regarding the persuasion value.
> Uber made things easier, better, and safer.

Are you seriously suggesting that an entity could have both positive and negative effects? That's unpossible!
That just seems like profiling at that point, since they’re basically rejecting service to an individual just because of their profession. Sure they might say that there may be a higher probability of a someone in the adult industry being involved in illegal activities, but is it fair to outright deny service on such a wide scale?
This tells me we need more anonymity.

A bank doesn't need to know any more about you than wherever is necessary to complete a transaction and report tax details to you and the government, and honestly that can be done with only a tax identification number (which should be separate from a Social Security Number). The same goes for payment processors, though payment processors may additionally need a company/individual nickname (for convenience in printing on receipts) and a bank account to deliver funds.

I see absolutely no reason for an organization like PayPal or Chase to know who its clientele are, just whether they're legal from a tax perspective, unless the customer provides that voluntarily. And I could even see legislation preventing the collection of such data since it could be used to restrict access to essential services like banking.

I think this gets us most of the benefits of cryptocurrency from a privacy point of view, but still maintains the ability of a government to track down fraud by cross referencing tax data with transactions. The only time someone need be connected to their bank account or payment processor account is if they're suspected of a crime, which would require a warrant.

It shouldn't be possible, IMO, for payment processors to just refuse service based on dislike for the line of work the business owner is in. There are no restrictions on how currency may be used, so digital payments should be treated the same way.
What you call "replying to these four people who are nitpicking me" is what someone else might call "defending my point of view against being mobbed/shouted down".
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I’m being down voted, but sex workers are some times deprived of bank services because of their jobs.

Literally told to take their banking else where.

How does using crypto help? Does it’s use suddenly make you immune from banks finding out your source of income?

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/banks-accused-of-slut-shaming-fo...
Google has had offline maps for years now. I always keep my local area updated, and whenever I go to a new place a download the map for it first. I've had out of date directions on my phone, but I've haven't had an issue with out of signal since offline maps became a thing.

I do not recall ever having drained my cell battery completely. And I have a car charger.

There are reasons to keep paper maps around, but lack of signal and running out of battery aren't on the list.
> most apple users here would disagree
> plus i m not sure if you re aware how extreme your position is

Wait, aren't you the person who just wrote "think different"? I'm confused.

> Most of our beautiful classical art was advertisements for the Church

Sure, and Jesus was a Marxist, or something... If you try to force XXI century concepts into XIV century realities you can arrive at silly over-simplified conclusions such as the one above.

> most graffiti is uglier than ads

This is your opinion. Graffitis are not trying to manipulate me.
> There are exchanges to buy gift cards or Amazon credits with Bitcoin which you can use in real life to buy food.

Which I’m sure are totally legit and not at all primarily used to launder money.
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This debate is currently brewing in Australia, except its against providing services to mining companies.

When is right / wrong to boycott? And who should be allowed to? (Persons or companies)

Context: in Australia the prime minister (Scott Morrison) is looking into laws to ban boycotts by companies (who are being compelled by people / public opinion)
A good example is Synergy (Symless). The code is open-souce and freely accessible, but the compiled binaries are available for a fee.

Nothing stops you from grabbing the code and compile it, or you can pay for the convenience.
> When really all I want to do is in the business function, directly trigger the redirect and maybe some other logic without any indirection.

Heh, didn't see this comment before I left a novel up the tree. Seems we have similar ideas about state management.

I think the default RR API is straight React, and that is by design.
It often does an insta-revive, but I never tested whether you could unvouch after replying.
Oh- I missed that detail. I misunderstood that they were uploaded to the cloud for the owner to see remotely (e.g. what Ring does). Still, I'm not comfortable with this.
Considering the things that banks have financed in the past, the hypocrisy of this stance by banks is incredible. Everything up to and including genocide has been ok by them.
The classic one is sex. There are many "middle class" folks with proclivities outside of the socially dominant envelope of wherever they are. If those proclivities became publicly known, they would have negative repercussions ranging from social stigma through death.

This is highly context dependent, of course - swinger-couples in one church towns may end up wanting to move; a gay man in many places may end up not being able to. Both have strong interests in securely discussing things without attaching their names to the communications.

The first large experiment with anonymous remailers was anon.penet.fi[1], and I think it demonstrated how much demand for anonymous communication there is - it had over half a million users in the mid-90s, when a vastly smaller percentage of the population was online.

[1] Not strongly anonymous, and people suffered because of that. The Mixmaster remailer network was significantly stronger, but was harder and less forgiving to use, distributed and frequently changing, and somewhat politicized.
> What you're basically saying is people wouldn't have driven their cars and stayed at Home if Uber wasn't a thing

He didn't say that at all, read his post again. He says that uber takes pedestrians and cyclists and PT users and turns them into car (Uber) users.
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Except that PG and other RDMS don't offer "queue" commands in driver because the queue is built on top of other basic commands, when you use a system designed for that you can leverage the API offered by the driver directly.

So if my language doesn't have a library like Que ( no thanks using Ruby ) I can't do anything with PG whereas using Redis or any other solution you can use "subscribe" / "publish" ect ...
You say possible, but where were they? Actionscript never ran at native speeds or even close to them. These things were never seen in Java applets either.

Webasm + webgl is a potent combination. C and C++ libraries can be used directly instead of trying to squeeze fast matrix and vector math out of a Java JIT that needs special wizardry just to avoid heap allocating everything.

And let's not forget that you implied that someone had to be careful of what sites they visited when it is actually a case of 1 in 10,000 sites carrying mild consequences and not security exploits.

I get that you love Java and don't know modern C++, but denying reality doesn't change reality.
I’d be curious to see that backed up. Having worked in the industry at one time, all I can say is there is a good reason merchant accounts are super expensive for porn sites. All the players in the game are pretty sketch.
You can't get rid of ads. But ads should be transparent and it should be visible to all that X paid for an ad, sent it to Y group and said Z. That would prevent politicians from, for example, advertising to people on one side of an issue that he is on their side, and to people on the other side of an issue that he is on their side, knowing that neither group will see the other ad. Then they could keep people from doing new last-minute ads right before an election so they can't sneak in whoppers before the honest press can catch them.
You are arguing that this is sometimes true. The author was clearly arguing that it is generally true:

"We now live in a different economic universe than we did before the crash. Falling unemployment no longer drives up wages. Printing money no longer causes inflation."

He is stating that we are in a different universe, with the clear implication being that the following items, which he does not qualify, are the new reality.
Also, research is showing sex in general decreasing. Interesting if porn causes humans to stop reproducing just enough to go extinct.
This feature could be a huge differentiator:

> “Almost everything on the platform is editable,” he said. “That alone gives a huge incentive for good behaviour because if you say something obnoxious, someone will just delete it.” However, while this approach has succeeded on Wikipedia, it is largely untested on a social network.

(Quote is from the FT article linked from TFA)
Similarly, the Navy still teaches celestial navigation. Officially it's the primary means of navigation, but I suspect a lot of navigators cheat.
Maybe you'll be able to pay a premium for data that has only been generated by free-range AGIs that are allowed to live full and happy lives before their instances are terminated.
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The only crypto that will ever matter is one fully endorsed by banks.

At the end of the day you can't spend cryptocurrencies. When Walmart accepts a cryptocurrency then maybe people will consider actually using it. Paying people in some weird unheard of stable coin doesn't help anyone if it can't be easily converted into real currency that people use and accept.
I found their GitHub and I'm looking forward to trying this out. I've been playing around with chatbots inside of keybase and looking for some good Solutions to perform cross platform actions between chatbots on different platforms. If anybody has any good suggestions let me know. Keybase is pretty well suited to both go and python chatbots. I'll give this a spin as well. https://github.com/CSML-by-Clevy/flows
I think Saudi Aramco was hacked a few years back too.

Having worked at a major oil company, it doesn’t surprise me that these things happen. It’s not that anybody is particularly unintelligent, moreso that large sometimes sleepy companies have lots of vulnerable points in IT.

I’m sure the same could be said for a host of other corporations, tech, finance, and defense aside.
Is this going to be like the AI in Daikatana?
> Who could possibly threaten a bank over handling financial transactions for sex workers?

The government. They do it right out in the open.

> And what could they possibly threaten the bank with?

Shutting down the bank.
Have you ever refactored anything? Especially in Python, moving a line into a control block requires using the tab key. If you don't have to press the tab key either you're such a god programmer that you have never made a mistake or refactored anything you've ever written, or you're trolling.
The approximation holds only for b << 10^k. Then you don't get to take O(10^k) steps to work you way around the unit interval, do you? After the approximation breaks down, you don't know that the spacing is approximately uniform anymore.
Sure, but science doesn’t say that, per se, because science is about quantitative measurement. We have no machine that can measure addiction.

People with scientific backgrounds hypothesize all the time, and they have machines that can make brain scan images, but we aren’t very close to being able to measure addiction on a numerical scale.

The best we have is listening to people, maybe analogous to how we listen to people when they believe they are a different gender, etc. since there is no quantitative measure for ‘feelings’ (see Olympic male/female athlete controversies, et al.)

We may get there some day...
More generally, this problem is called Optical Camera Communication (OCC).

One of the more interesting things you can do is to exploit the rolling shutter readout method of consumer CMOS sensors to recover information with a high temporal resolution. By modulating the backlight of a video display or any other kind of wide-area light, you can transmit information optically to the phone in a way that's invisible to the user.

I'm not aware of any commercial applications of such tech, but there are enough keywords in this post to find a few research papers on the topic.
The answer is that crypto transactions are censored much less frequently then PayPal transactions.

That's why it helps. PayPal censorship is much more common than crypto censorship.

> Does it’s use suddenly make you immune from banks finding out your source of income?

No, it doesn't make you immune. Being 100% immune to anything at all is literally impossible. But it seems like it makes it less likely.
asyncio is actually really nice and with ThreadPoolExecutor / ProcessPoolExecutor it fit a lot of use cases I had hacked together things for in Python2. That alone was worth it to me.
I'm not sure what this "new training" is, I've never had any training with Office and have been using it in most of its variations since it was first released.