skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget 3-2-1 Contact and the Canadian Acme School of Stuff.

I remember reading a comment years back when someone smugly proclaimed that PBS was a waste of taxpayer money and that "Discovery" and "History" channels had better content. Now have a look at the garbage that's on those channels. PBS is a beacon of knowledge the cesspool pockmarked wasteland that is "Entertainment". God help us all if it dies.
Anyone who suggests that your reasons/traits for not wanting a dog (or children) makes you a worse person needs to shut up and mind their own selves, which are likely filled with a lot of negative traits as well.
It's definitely weird when you think about it. It seems like a relatively new model.

That said - what are you going to do about it? Our major cities and culture are not setup for addressing these issues at all. We have a hard enough time trying to pass anything through congress. Trying to get some huge child care bill through is nigh on impossible. On top of that - it will, of course, not do anything for people who live in the more expensive regions of the USA because paying for child care is expensive - sure - but the price of housing those children can be just as expensive if not more.
> I don't think that Binance is wash-trading

Given most of these exchanges are completely unregulated and typically go to great lengths to conceal their identities.... you know they aren't wash-trading how exactly?
You're breaking the site guidelines by posting like this. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop?

HN is not for political and ideological battle, and certainly not flamewar. It's for intellectual curiosity. Those things can't coexist; flames will quickly take the site over completely if allowed to, so we can't allow them to. Please use HN as intended.

That's not a statement about political and ideological concerns being unimportant—on the contrary, they're more important than most of what gets posted here. It's just a statement about what kind of website this is.
What differentiates 1 electric car manufacturer from another? Superior driving dynamics? Superior ride? Superior batteries? Superior motors?
Yes? But to replace O(2n) with O(n), you only need that it's a subset.
Transputers weren't dataflow. They were parallel processors. The Transputer had a program counter (instruction pointer). Dataflow machines don't need one: when an instruction has all of its inputs, it executes on the next available processor. Only a few experimental dataflow machines were ever built, e.g. the one at Manchester University.
One (Signal) is a replacement for texts, and one isn't. "Overlap in features" wouldn't cover it, but rather how much you want it to be like texting.

Thomas Ptacek is a big Signal advocate, as am I, but he doesn't like to think of it as a drop-in replacement for texting, whereas I do (because that's what it is and where it shines). I move texting onto Signal whenever I can.
Sure, but that just makes Bitcoin's market cap smaller, and therefore its expected trading volume relative to similar assets even smaller, and therefore the original commenter's point even more accurate.
In C, comparing boolean-like variables to true and false constants is bad practice.

The comp.lang.c FAQ touches upon this:

http://c-faq.com/bool/bool2.html
Fair enough, although I think it's unavoidable when you're talking about what I think to be essentially made up terms.
Yes, but they were among the very first things meme-ified on the Internet. Pent up anger?
Cool, I’ll say it. HN News? Yeah, fuck it. It’s become an echo chamber of a bunch of useless rich SF fuckboys.
Ed: whoops, not Pratchett, Neil Gaiman in Neverwhere:
"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel."

Xxxx xxxx

Terry Pratchett realized this... I can't find the quote now, but one of his books (Good Omens?) starts "The sky was the perfect blue of a television tuned to a dead channel..." (can't recall if "over the port" is in there).
"Behind one end of the bar sits Jefferson Peters, octopus, with a sixshooter on each side of him, ready to make change or corpses as the case may be. There are three bartenders; and on the wall is a ten foot sign reading: 'All Drinks One Dollar.' Andy sits on the safe in his neat blue suit and gold-banded cigar, on the lookout for emergencies. The town marshal is there with two deputies to keep order, having been promised free drinks by the trust.

"Well, sir, it took Bird City just ten minutes to realize that it was in a cage. We expected trouble; but there wasn't any. The citizens saw that we had 'em. The nearest railroad was thirty miles away; and it would be two weeks at least before the river would be fordable. So they began to cuss, amiable, and throw down dollars on the bar till it sounded like a selection on the xylophone.

(The Octopus Marooned by O. Henry)
That’s how Brave works—using zero-knowledge proofs, it uses your browsing history to inform its opt-in ad network on what ads should be shown to you. That info doesn’t leave your device.

And if you opt-in, you get paid using their cryptocurrency Basic Attention Token: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20962085/brave-beta-1-0-...
Reading this blog post I get the feeling the author is attempting to solve a problem that doesn't really need to be solved in rustc in my opinion. unwrap() typically wouldn't be in any application you actually care about errors beyond initial debugging. In production you'd either deal with the error in a sane way or fail gracefully (panic-persist or panic-reset make a lot of sense in those scenarios). For actually doing a log like format on a arm cortex-m I'd be looking at ufmt as mentioned in the post.

That's not to say the post isn't enlightening. It is, the cost is unexpectedly high in space. That's not to say that the goals of making unwrap and panic more space efficient are good ones as well. I don't think they're a concern I personally have with rust in an embedded system though.
About 5.7 percent. So not all that much. For comparison, binary is about 42 percent more efficient then decimal. See [1] for more numbers.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy#Comparing_differ...
Certain operations are, such as static variable initialization (which I believe is done during program startup in C).
How does one find these stay-at-home communities? By gods, we've tried for years.
It doesn't seem to be able to annotate embedded PDF's which is a deal-breaker for me.
>but because it requires the bitcoin network to make confirmation

It doesn't require the Bitcoin network to make confirmation at all. Two users could do millions of txn/s between each other. The only limitation is their internet speed. The bitcoin network does not need to confirm or even know about anything other than the initial deposits. It could even happen entirely offline in a closed network, though that would be insecure. That is the whole idea behind lightning so I am not sure how you missed it. The real limitations of lightning/state channels relate to liquidity.
That’s not misallocation. House prices are not meant to be uniform. It’s based on supply and demand.
Why not look at the macro issues here? The environment is overtaxed. The future is doomed anyway. Why not return to the Roman system where the father has the right to kill the child up until a certain age? Incentives this with a cash payment for every child put down coupled with a requirement to be sterilized for five years. Say a one time payment of $10k per child and a tax deduction of $2k per year of the five years sterile. You can solve global warming, cost of child take, and student debt.
McAfee Considering a Combination with NortonLifeLock
Wow, this is a $2B mistake. Funny thing about very wealthy people, they think because they had success in one area that it will translate to success in another. Most likely their timing and luck were perfect early in their career. I don't think timing is on his side here.
People meet partners at all sorts of places. Sure, some meet them in high school, but I don't think that's the norm. College is far more common a place to meet, and homeschoolers still go to college. Or work. Or parties. Homeschooling just replaces most of your school years, which to be honest, isn't a great time to be making decisions about choosing life partners.
> Each VLA antenna uses about 18kW just for cooling.

That’s likely at minimum partially proportional to the size of each VLA antenna, no? Each VLA antenna is larger than any antenna ever put in space I believe.

> If they're free-flying, it gets a lot harder to know the precise relative positions of the different receivers.

That’s exactly what I thought would be one of the biggest challenges, but wasn’t sure if we’d solved that problem or not yet.
I'm unfamiliar with the literature in this area. May I ask why? (Also, why does Euler's constant appear all over the place?)
Yes. This is why I exclusively write polyglot source files, so you can choose to compile my code in either c++ or php or bash or whitespace.

Jokes aside, polyglot source files are pretty cool, and generally things like abuse of the c++ preprocessor are really neat to see, if completely unwise to do in production.
Because they don’t want you to reproduce you dumb fuck.
Zero doesn't sound right, given the suspicious timing of it being four days since a devastating expose on the old CEO that demanded such an action. The timing and circumstances could certainly have been influenced.
Are you including the time it takes to open a state channel in this? That's an infrequently incurred cost that can be amortized pretty easily. Not really a reasonable comparison here.
You reallocate a million dollars from cash to property, it’s not spent.
Scala breaks binary compatibility approximately every 2-3 years, which is fast by JVM standards but slow compared to most programming languages (e.g. Python releases an incompatible version every 1-2 years). You can blame Scala for at most one incompatibility in that long list; older versions of Scala are incompatible with Java 9+ (this is true for many JVM frameworks too, as Java 9 made breaking changes).
If it was treated as religion instead is science I would be open to that, but the papers churned out by "experts" today become policy tomorrow that effect everyone.
The math already worked out for them to get a Camry. One without a massive powertrain component replacement looming after 10 years.
Transmeta Crusoe
For all of my problems with Neal, The Big U is an amusing read.
>Companies existing to scam people are necessarily marketing-heavy.

Consumers can absolutely that.

I certainly have.

If you're screaming in my face and hurrying me along to pull out my wallet and buy something ASAP, 99 times out of 100 it's a scam.
Google Brings Incognito Mode to Google Maps App for iOS – MacRumors
The idea of paying minimum wage to a child care provider also seems wrong too. Your child is spending more time with this person each week than they are with you. I'd think you'd want to pay more than minimum wage, to get quality caregivers.
When did societies become modern? ‘Big history’ dashes popular idea of Axial Age
Thieves Are Using Bluetooth to Target Vehicle Break-Ins
For real, buying this kind of business in Montana is extremely risky. I lived for many years in an area that's very popular with tourist/sportsmen including quite a few famous Hollywood types. There are many lakes with lodges around there. My family got to know many people who would by a place like that and it ruined many of their lives. Divorces, bankruptcies, the whole gamut. It's very hard.
Am I so out of touch for thinking that I wouldn't want devices with internet connectivity running at all times in my home, especially in children's bedrooms?
There is a strict set of conditions that a Kickstarter donation should meet:

1. The product should require relatively large upfront costs such as design or tooling. If I'm ordering a pair of hand-knitted gloves there isn't much fixed cost so it should not be a Kickstarter.

2. The excess value of the product to the donor should be more than the expected loss if the delivery fails.

3. The product should be on the "bubble" of being produced so that the donor's contribution makes a material difference towards the product actually being produced.

4. The team should be qualified to deliver the specified product with the funds raised. Qualified teams can fail but unqualified teams will certainly fail.

5. The money should not be significantly impactful to the lifestyle of the donor.

6. The product’s market should be small enough that it will likely be produced in one “batch” with no opportunity to buy it on the open market afterwards with the execution risk removed.

An example of such a product for me would be a display platform for one bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku fountain pen ink, made out of Japanese cypress wood (hinoki). The ink bottle is beautiful and I've always thought it should have a hinoki stand (just a thin board of wood with a small depression routed out of it). The product would need some CAD and CNC design work, but not too much, there is not that big of a market for it, and I would be happy to pay $100 for such a thing even though it should only cost $5-10 to produce. Let's say it sells for $30, I'd be expecting $70 of excess value so I could accept even a 50% likelihood of failure.
Signal has had the ability to export chat backups for a long time. I'm not sure why people would complain other than the export is local and you have to manage migration to new device by copying files instead of it being saved on a server and uploaded to your new device after you lose an old one.

Also, identity is persistent since you're using a phone number and signal attaches the name you list to that phone number with a registration passcode that must be entered intermittently to keep receiving messages.
Any time WSJ or Forbes writes about the bitcoin I get the feeling that their actual frustration is that they (the Wall Stree speculators) cannot control it the way they are used to.

Always feels like sour grapes to me - for some reason that pleases me. Bitcoin is an equalizer in that respect.
> But it's unethical behavior to be a contractor who intentionally under-bids with the plan to later (repeatedly) charge exorbitant amounts for modifications and fixes.

If the ethical alternatives all ensure that someone else gets the contract, then that particular ethics in that situation is rather good for nothing.
I don't say I know, I say that I think. It remains a possibility that they are wash-trading.
I'll agree when there's a good replacement.
> 2) jealous, insisting that every OS and extra-linguistic dependency has to conform to their way of doing things

Not really. Language-specific package managers are usually capable of integrating with "system" dependencies from outside the language (certainly maven has decent support for this) - they kind of have to be after all.

> 3) fundamentally, not very good, particularly with regard to multiple versions of the same package (technically, OSGi could do that...), repeatable builds, and the desire for do-what-I-mean behavior.

How so?
Yeah you're not wrong. What a jerk.
Superior marketing
There are a lot of reports on this, but this one is the most comprehensive:

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...
> Admin stuff is a piece of cake with today's technology

Do you mean something like deploying every client with the same stack which is easy to admin?
I noticed I started this freelancing thing not giving a second thought about how I would mantain systems running for my clients. I should at least include some kind of monthly fee... (otherwise documentation so they can admin it..)
> What are you going to do about it?

Have lots of kids and encourage them not to move so that there is a large support structure in place foe their children and their children's children.
I think it's better phrased as that it has active controller feedback loops. If there is room for more specialization, if it can get away with less energy used, less neurons, or some other kind of optimization, then it seems it will do that.

And there are loops that work against these to prevent breakdown, forgetting too much, slowing down too much, etc.

Of course it's not really known yet what these control system are exactly. (At least I'm not aware we have good data and theories about this aspect of the brain.)
Hashing is a technique used in databases also.
> I wish a non-Google search engine would offer a bookmark manager that integrates into its everyday search

Isn't this the purpose of Awesome/Omni bars: to integrate local, browser, and web results?
Building an online community around learning from incidents (2019)
Its quite a large number of them but not any of the ones you can get from a store anymore. There are loads of them floating around ebay second hand. Just look up the serial number checker and you should have no issues snagging one.
I haven't yet read the article, but just from the name it brings to mind something I've been seriously considering lately:

I've been thinking about leaving my job fixing computers, networks, and servers at an MSP-like business, and getting a basic factory job.

Why? Because in my town, factory workers are making more per hour than I do, they get overtime, and they get full benefits and good vacation packages. Meanwhile I'm overtime exempt for a decent wage (but compared to what these "simple" factory jobs are paying, it's peanuts), no benefits at all except a small stipend to help with health insurance, and a shitty vacation policy (normal-ish by american standards, however).

Sure, they work 12 hour shifts, yeah that sounds hard. But: I work 10 hour shifts so it's not that big of a difference.... and they also work four days a week where I work my ten hours M-F plus an extra 5 every other Saturday (running a storefront with a small number of employees sucks). The exception is when they're in crunch mode and working overtime, but they're getting beaucoup bucks for those overtime hours where I get zilch extra.

The kicker here is that this is all something I could do without leaving where I live. To get a better paying IT job, I'd have to move, which at this exact moment, I'm not able to do.
The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies.

It does cover a history of SETI, but goes into a lot of the theory that is generally beyond a bit of what I've seen discussed before in popsci. I thought I knew the subject very well, but learned a lot of new things.
It's about location.

Anybody who's heard or increased the rent like that must be in a rather prime location, definitely not in the country side for sure (little jobs and little tenants there).
> is a choice, not to mention a huge responsibility.

Actually, i think these two are inversely correlated. The demands from parents have become crazy for no apparent benefit. It's illegal to raise kids as they did 2 generations ago. It would become more of a choice if people at large relaxed a bit and let kids be kids or learn by themselves, or in tiny neighborhood groups.
Yes, I did mean a physical calculator, but I appreciate your comment nonetheless -- it's all good to know :)
It has been used that way, but not here. Here, it's a disorienting non-sequitur that makes it sound like the information was never really lost.
Assuming you're talking about the Android app, but you can actually force sending with SMS. The option to do so in a conversation/thread can be found by long-holding the send button, which then pops up a context menu to send via Signal or SMS.
Robert lost alot of credibility with me after the yellow rain incident. https://current.org/2012/10/search-for-truth-results-in-radi...

Jad's defense of the story was also meh.
I'm not saying it's a good guarantee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language
Taxes are one reason. You have to earn Y where Y >= X * 125% (vaguely speaking) just to break even.

If your first thought is something like, maybe we shouldn't tax X spent on daycare- well, that's a subsidy.
The market cap for UNH isn't calculated using future cash flows. The market cap for any security, by definition, is price-per-security * number-of-securities. Similar valuations also exist for gold-funds, which also have no cash flows.

You can argue that asset prices should be derived from future cash flows, and hence, both Bitcoin and gold should be almost worthless. But that has nothing to do with the formula for computing any entity's market cap
That depends entirely on your definition of a progress.
NAT for IPs may be everywhere, but NAT for MAC addresses is inconceivable.
Market Capitalization: The amount of capital allotted an asset in the market.

This can be computed as number-of-coins x price-per-coin.
Do you work for/with Apple regard to this issue? I followed discussions with WebKit devs and had an impression that they don't really care about the ecosystem but only Apple users. It seems they had never reached out to publishers/advertisers in the design phase of ITP. Later, they prepared a crappy conversion tracking mechanism to compensate the loss, but this design also had never involved the ecosystem.
The economic cost in lives for Afghanistan is either incredibly high, or incredibly low, depending on how you look at it. Afghanistan is ridiculously poor. We spent $3 trillion dollars, invading a country that has a GDP of $2 billion. Life is cheap in such countries, both economically and figuratively. Pre war Afghanistan had a pre-war per capita GDP of $112 or about $10,000 lifetime earnings per person. At 250,000 Afghan lives lost this is about $2.5 billion in lost productive effort by a mixture of insurgents and civilians who are hard to separate out.

Post war Afghanistan has a Per Capita GDP of $600. Economically speaking Afghanistan is about 5 times better off. Whether that means they are actually better off is a matter of opinion. Is that worth the lives of a quarter million of your citizens? Is it better to be an independent but poor country? Or to be a country dependent on aid from a richer nation that invaded you?
> Another issue is that employees jump around companies these days making companies less likely to invest in employees.

Alvin and Heidi Toffler predicted this with profound accuracy in their 1970 book Future Shock. I highly recommend reading the chapter on Adhocracy, or for a TLDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy
i know you're just being needlessly flippant, but, givenmost hs curriculum don't cover classical philosophy how is a student supposed to know they're interested in the field if not exposed to it during higher education ( i know I personally got into Foucault during conversations I had with classmates after snubbing the field like many an edgy teen).

Plenty of people meet their co-founders, find their passion, pivot their lives entirely during the time; even if the only activities a student takes are "drinking/sex/video games/partying" they're probably out making connections that end up serving them pretty well interms of employment/relationships.

Restricting access just so some group youve determined "doesn't deserve it" is elitist to the extreme. I'd much rather have 5% ( or more)of my income go to funding state run education rather than subsidizing my extracurriculars (which ironically are way more drinking/sex/video games/partying than I ever had time for in college).
> I think back to the 50's and all I see is things like alcoholism, racism, parochialism, and insularity.

Good thing none of those exist any more!
Would you mind letting us know where you are? I just curious what area has that level of imbalance between factory and IT workers.
This is not true at all, every large Silicon Valley company hires new college grads by the boatload every year. Literally thousands and thousands every single year. It’s mostly only the smaller underfunded companies that refuse to hire new grads because they don’t have the resources to indulge someone who can’t hit the ground running and needs time to ramp up.