skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No vendor for your products is accepting these magical tokens. No one in the economy except vanishingly small fractions accept digital tokens for trade.

MakerDAO has a list of vendors who accept Dai today [1]. The list also contains a number of payment processors that enable businesses to accept Dai. It's true that it's not widely used now, but every product has to start somewhere. I don't think I'm going to be getting paychecks in Dai within my lifetime, but that's no reason to discourage its growth.

> All they've done is create a bank and sprinkled the fairy dust of "tokens" on it so the Fed stays away.

You say that as if creating an automated decentralized bank that generates an asset pegged to the US dollar is something that just anybody could do. Regardless of how Dai is ultimately used, creating the system and deploying it to the public is a successful proof of concept in itself.

[1] https://github.com/makerdao/awesome-makerdao#spend-dai
It is not a question of lacking good alternative, it is a question of lacking good solutions. Games like FPS that emphasize fast clicking can always be defeated by anything that can emulate clicks and keypresses and see the display.

If you take the problem to the limits: a camera looking at the physical screen and a robot actually moving the mouse and keyboard is going to be able to have users cheating.

You simply need a reputation system. Allow people to vote on someone being a cheater or simply refuse subsequent match with them.
Equivalent of a 1960s building being knocked down today.

There are plenty of buildings from the 60s I'd be sorry to see go. At the top of the list is the Marin County Civic Center and the TWA Flight Center.
Should it? What sort of density do you expect? 32 ticks a second, say 16 players. At least 512 state/event points to log per second, plus running game state/events.

As I said, it's not nothing, but it's not bad.
By some measures Flutter is taking off [1], and it's Github repo has certainly drawn some interest [2]. At any rate, Flutter is far from unpopular, and is iirc the youngest of any of the competing frameworks.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11f03_rzbg...

[2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter
There are stats available from porn sites. E.g.:

Now we’re not saying that size matters, but 2018 was an impressively big year for Pornhub and its users. Visits to Pornhub totaled 33.5 billion over the course of 2018, an increase of 5 billion visits over 2017. That equates to a daily average of 92 million visitors and at the time of this writing, Pornhub’s daily visits now exceed 100 million.

2018 saw Pornhub’s average visit duration grow by 14 seconds to 10 minutes and 13 seconds.

https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review

Relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/09/everybody...

Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/...
We usually pick up right where we left off. Most big news are communicated directly through WhatsApp. I obviously check my messages every once in a while.
Nah, a real user would use apple updater software to download the IPSW. That'd involve accepting Apples licenses and whatnot.

You can't find the IPSW download links on Apples websites, they're all sourced by reverse engineering.
I said this in another comment below:

> If you sell the Ether, you no longer have the Ether. If while you're holding the loan the price of Ether goes up, you benefit from that. Of course, if the price of Ether goes down, you're at risk of having your loan liquidated, but that's a requirement imposed by the system to maintain the Dai peg.
Thanks for asking this question... I was just about to ask this and then I got distracted before coming back. As an engineer I have no idea how to actually qualify whether my doctor is good or not. I _like_ my doctor, he's a personable enough guy, and perhaps I trust him because he hasn't harmed me yet, but I also have no idea if he is any good.

The worst graduate in a medical class is still a Doctor somewhere...

This is probably the same feeling business guys have about engineers...
The post is about people wanting to build a product (but who still find every excuse to stall), not for people who want to learn/tinker.
I see how you can find it annoying, but I have a friend that needs this advice (or a slap?).

He spends his energy lamenting over the "right" tools, to the point that he considers it a moral decision and part of his identity. He has trouble keeping work, because he's always looking for a company that uses the right tools instead of building the right thing. I'm sick of him lamenting "I could never work at [x] because they use java, and I never wanna see another NPE".

I personally constantly restart side projects, with different languages, or tools, or whatever because I read something about why {language, tool, whatever} is better than {what I was using}, so sometimes, it nice to remember that if its not a learning process.. it might just not matter :)
That seems to echo exactly what is stated in the article.

"They were promised that the footage would go straight to DVD for wealthy buyers in other countries, in particular Australia and New Zealand, where the defendants come from."
Grief really is weird - and perhaps even weirder for humans than for other species.

Human tool use has primes us to see things that we can control not simply as things we control, but as extensions of ourselves.

Human co and counter operative behaviour has forced us to adapt reflective cognitive structures in which our minds attempt to simulate the minds of others - most accurately for those we best understand, which includes the people that we are closest to.

We use this simulation as an interface by which we can generate expectations for how people we understand will respond to different situations - and we can treat those that we trust as complex extensions of ourselves (unexpected behaviour and especially betrayal in this context invalidates our internal simulation not only of the world, but of ourselves).

And the death of a person known and trusted leaves us still with the cognitive structures forged to deal with them, an orphaned piece of the mind which can never again serve its prime function.

Ironically our inability to cope with the loss leads us to neglect the final cognizant vestiges of the dead.
> Jailbreaks do modifications to iOS but they are legal

As your subsequent comment points out, jailbreaks are specifically exempt.

Corellium performs modifications to crack iOS's licensing, which is clearly distinct from jailbreaking. It's the nature of the modifications they're distributing that's the problem.
My current device, the moto e5 play, retailed for $120. It still works just fine for me for use cases like web browsing, 720p video, remote desktop, etc. Prior to that I had the e4 which worked great until I dropped it down 5 flights of stairs.

Regarding the battery health issue, I have found the biggest factor to be not recharging soon enough. Don't let your battery drop too low and you will have substantially better battery health.

EDIT: The moto e6 retails for $99.
Awesome! If you need any help with your project I am happy to help :)
It's complicated, and I'm not sold on the Lightning Network as the future, but

> Which can be be reneged on if one party is malicious, meaning they'll only occur between trusted parties?

This is not correct. My understanding is essentially each party is tying up Bitcoin as being between them on the blockchain, then trading cryptographically verifiable assertions of each other off-chain about what the latest status of the ongoing "tab" is between them. Either of them can close the tab at any time and reconcile to the blockchain.

They don't really need to trust each other, although this does introduce a dependency on some entity (whether the user's own server or a third party) to publish the latest version of the "tab" if the other guy maliciously tries to publish an older version of the "tab." And of course, that means you need some redundant storage / handling of those cryptographic assertions from the other guy about what the status of the latest "tab" is. But that doesn't require trust--you'd want to do it even if you trust the other party.

Or at least that's my understanding of it. I like the conceptual idea of LN but some of these details seem like dealbreakers to me.
Dude, thank you for this. My team has been trying to figure this out - we know we will eventually need a way to utilize in a low-level context, but couldn't dig up any cases of such an implementation. In addition, we were constantly frustrated by the lack of HW acceleration that created a performance bottleneck. Great work!
There's a proposal that would let video encoding be accelerated without going through the entire WebRTC pipeline: https://github.com/WICG/web-codecs/blob/master/explainer.md

Somewhat tangentially related, for cases when P2P connectivity is not needed, there's also a proposal that lets you send data unreliably, but in a client-server setting: https://github.com/WICG/web-transport/blob/master/explainer....

Both are currently being actively prototyped in Chromium (full disclosure: I've been working on the latter).
Sorry about the wall of text - I haven't been sleeping, and my mind's going weird places.
With e-ink I was expecting a very long battery life, so only 1-3 days suggests the radio is still a huge battery drain.
This is awesome. I had to hack together some scripts to implement workspace building and tmuxp looks like it might have saved me a lot of headache!
It is a wise SW development decision, I see the browser development on Alt-SmartPhone OS like Ubuntu Touch being its Achilles heel; by removing Internet browser you've created more value for your target audience and saved yourself from the perils of browser development!
They do assist English speakers, but it's the usual deal for Japan: If you ask a question in English, they recognize it immediately and call a staff member over who can at least speak some English. If you begin your query with "Ohayo Gozaimasu" and are courteous, they try very hard to help you.
(no disrespect intended to the victims in this story when I say this)

This is a cautionary tale in the world we live in today: Once something is recorded, it could be anywhere. Even without willful intent on the part of the owner, phones get lost or stolen, old hardware gets sold on ebay, cloud accounts get compromised, etc.

Have fun, but be careful.
For about $50 you can (still) get a Nokia 3310.
"This year I graduated"

Stopped reading there. Work in the industry a minute and then your opinion will carry weight.
If you think DotA2's matchmaking is unfriendly to new players, I don't think you ever experienced DotA1 matches. Every single game was wildly unbalanced, and as a result of one or so players, every single game was an absolute stomp where the losing team never had a chance.

The skill gap between good and bad players is ludicrous. It's like putting LeBron James against middle schoolers. There simply isn't a fun game when the game is determined by the singular best player, and the other nine players are being carried to victory regardless of their contribution, or being pounded into the dirt because they're less than exceptional.

I could never go back to random matchmaking after experiencing global rankings.
The most important thing to me is an understanding that the patient is in charge of their health and the doctor's just there to support the patient. For example, if a patient is already on meds from an online pharmacy, the doctor (after ensuring that the patient isnt causing grave harm to themselves) should be willing to write a prescription for those meds.
maybe they want to leverage? take out a loan secured in eth, and use that loan to buy more eth
Yeah, that's probably true. I don't have any visibility over that particular projects ticketing system but I imagine it was never raised given it wasn't fixed until I noticed it.
So how did you get that link without accepting any EULAs? Apple does not make IPSW download links publicly available.
I really love these, there was a story about a modern version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJD-D2uLX70 where African's use plastic bottles filled with water as vault lights.
I'd love to a have a small limited device, but I'd rather not wear an Apple Watch as I prefer analog watches for aesthetic reasons. I suppose I could keep it in my pocket, but that's a little weird.
The issue with this way of thinking is that programming lives in a small universe of grammars and not in the real world where the artist can choose any medium to convey his work. So small is this universe that you don't even need art to design the most optimal program. You don't even need science either... you can use logic to calculate the best program design.

Thinking of programming as an art is entirely the wrong direction. Pattern matching, especially exhaustive polymorphic type checking will categorically reduce the amount of logic errors possible with the program. This is logic over art at work.

The main issue for me with c++ is that its overall design has largely been artistic over logical. So tacking on pattern matching makes it an even bigger mess than it already is...
But you can just buy a feature phone now? There are decent ones from Nokia.
A much better phrasing is “what help do you need?”. This works with people you’re responsible for, peers, and others. This has a better chance of discovering if they’re using you to vent to, or discovering a need that someone else can provide and you can connect them with. Secondarily it prevents the problem from becoming your problem because the question stops being an offer.
Wow, that's a huge effort and codebase! Congratulations for releasing it! I like the consistent coding style, the fact that cmake is used, and that sanitizers are used!

I see the title mentions embedded systems. What systems are target of the SDK besides embedded linux? I looked for some kind of platform abstraction layer which would be useful for that, but couldn't find it so far. But actually not sure whether it would be worthwhile at all to run something like WebRTC on a MCU with a RTOS. Protocols that complex often require a ton of dynamic memory, which is not that compatible with the common no-allocation policies on embedded platforms.
It was my job to look for security problems.
I have serious medical needs and have built long-term relationships with a couple specific doctors at One Medical. Works very well for me — I see my doctors for specialist-y things and a random doctor if it's more urgent.
I actually like this idea, and I wonder how low the cost could be while still deterring the spammers. From what I've read, the cost of domains is a factor that spammers are sensitive to, especially if they are abandoning them after 24 hours, so increasing the cost by just an order of magnitude could be enough to make many campaigns unprofitable.

This article somewhat supports my assertion:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/bad-men-at-work-please-d...

saying "domains in the remaining five [out of ten] Top Bad TLDs can be had for between 48 cents and a dollar each." so I would suggest a one-off $100 fee rather than $500 or $1000 a year.

A more interesting approach would be to make the fee act as a bond, which is returned to the registrant after a year of good behaviour. Unfortunately, determining "good behaviour" is almost as hard as determining "bad behaviour", but perhaps a domain could opt in to having anonymous metrics recorded of how many users visit their site or send emails to that domain. That would put a substantial amount of trust into the hands of whichever organisations were responsible for recording these metrics, but the only harm they could do to a registrant is forcing them to pay their $100 bond to charity.
Whether things happen routinely depends a lot on whether other effective alternatives exist.

It's a thing that enables cheaters to not get caught. They may not need it if they have some other way to not get caught, but you can expect to see it if it is or becomes the easiest thing that works.
I'm waiting until someone creates Alexa for programs skill.

You have no clue how many times I've wanted to program through voice commands.

I think one day we'll get there.
Hydrogen Economy
animations and lessons about “growth mindsets,” “grit,” and “mindfulness.”

Dear God. We have growth mindset and grit here at this regional institution. There are students who take General Chemistry 1 (read: 10-th grade chemistry) three times with three different instructors, everyone with a different teaching philosophy, and they still don't give up. Wow. That's some grit there. This time they failed, but they can always pay more tuition, and try again.

Now if their schoolteachers actually exposed them to difficult material and let them experience that with some effort they could overcome those difficulties, that would foster "growth mindset" and "grit". But instead the students want solution strategies and problem classification that takes away all the joy of discovery, and their teachers indulge them. Once I got bad student evaluation for handing out word problems with more than one step and having them figure out the solution themselves. The poor things.

We'll have to wait for different teachers and especially different students.
I thought the whole point of this phone was to NOT have those things.
This is great, I'm reading the heavily commented linux kernel source code and I was wondering how much can be done in the boot sector (other than call a more sophisticated boot loader) kudos!
How can VPN providers lose money, when a DO Droplet for $5 a month can probably host 5 casual subscribers using things on and off?
One Way to Spot a Partisan Gerrymander
Just got home from a visit to my local Frys (East San Jose) (tonight, around 7pm). My wife and I were probably 2 of 10 customers total, if that.

So many empty shelves. Every isle was capped with stacks of boxed paper reams.

Apple section had one MacMini and a broken Macbook. Car audio section was basically an empty shell, with only a few demo stereos and speakers left. The home theater section was an empty room. Toy section was empty.

The place is dead.

https://imgur.com/a/Ewfphsm
Considering that the lifespan of a Google product is 4 years, would you really invest the time to become an expert on Flutter? Right now about 190 Google products are slated for retirement. They are even going to start killing the Google Cloud after 2023. It's a YUUGE bet.
A lot of these companies are realizing that is the market. A lot of companies put a lot of money into their internal ed programs and, in the scheme of things, adding some more general purpose ed to flesh out their offerings is cheap.

Getting an employee or hobbyist to pay even $100 of their own money for a course. Or making them jump through reimbursement hoops? Not so much.

Actually reminds me I should map out some Lynda courses to take in the new year.
So... the math of knots is... knot theory, and you're correct that it is topology.

How to actually tie knots -- in a practical sense -- would be knotcraft [1] -- not sure what kind of math that would entail? What kind of connection did have in mind between that and the math of knots and programming? (in your original statement)

If it's a mathematical treatment of the strength of knots (physics), I believe that's what the article is about, which is quite interesting.

[1] https://store.doverpublications.com/0486245152.html
"Throwing coal into a furnace" hasn't been a job for about a hundred years now. On other than the smallest scale (say, a home coal furnace) that's been done with machinery for longer than Biden has been alive.

Does he really not know the difference between being a coal miner (which is a skilled trade, if dirty, strenuous, and dangerous) and being a furnace stoker (which historically required nothing but a strong back)?
Operation Blackout Summary of Events
To clairify (because usually noone ever does and the conversation goes around in circles) "compile to machine code" (in the conext of language design, rather than implementation details) means, idiomatically, to compile specific parts of the program to specific and (allegedly) predictible pieces of machine code.

This is standard in C (and allegedly C++ and rust), awkward but somewhat doable in Java, C#, and some of the weaker LISPs, damn near impossible in Haskell, Javascript, etc, and completely impossible in "real" LISPs (with first-class macros and/or fexprs).

It's obviously always possible to "compile" a (interpreter,somewhat-preprocessed-program) tuple for any language (give or take turing-hard/easy-ness) and you can usually inline/specialize/optimise the interpreter a lot for one particular program (Haskell/ghc is a good example of this), but that's not what people mean when they talk about designing a language to compile to machine code.
You shouldn’t worry about a devastating Iranian cyberattack, yet
Flutter isn’t going to get shelved. It is the UI framework for Fuchsia. I agree Dart is its biggest problem but Fuchsia prides itself on not having a single system language so I’m sure you’ll be able to target the flutter framework from kotlin and swift and rust and go soon. Also Dart isn’t hard.
Everybody basically has up to level 1 algebra skills which is not much easier than programming. This was largely not the case in the past. Programming is becoming largely the same thing. Bootcamps are precursors to elementary School classes.
I paid $500 for an unlocked Nokia 6590 around 2002.
What’s your price tolerance level? $600 per month to avoid potential bankruptcy seems cheap to me. You might check your state’s options for affordable care (ObamaCare).
It will be interesting how quickly Amazon Aurora will be able to support newer PostgreSQL versions. With MySQL adding support for MySQL 8 is taking years...
I rather agree. Call them a front-end engineer and let's get back to simplifying what is supposed to be an indexed document delivery platform.

The dewey decimal system is more complicated that the request/response cycle should be.

We invent busywork and it will take coal miners to break this farce, so bring on the coal miners!

Hindsight 2020

(just kidding, Sanders 2020)
Scale here isn't the number of copies of the game sold (which is basically independent and for these purposes fixed), it's the number of games that have strong anti-cheating mechanisms. The more there are the more resources go into defeating them, the larger the community around defeating them grows etc.
What's interesting is that it specifically looks like pre 1.4.0 Roundcube with the Larry skin, and not the shinier Elastic skin.
Old survey, but the average used to be 3x a week: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/6709646/All-men-watch-... Looking at other surveys I'd say single men probably are 70% at least 3x a week, while being married or female are both going to reduce that amount. Although there are also questions about what qualifies as porn, like romance novels. If you have a loose definition of porn then I'd guess everybody in their 20's-30's is going to have seen some porn in the past year, although perhaps involuntarily.
Do you have a S3 + Athena example because when I tried it didn't seem to query adhock json file but rather the S3
file needs contain a array of json documents.
The grade may or may not be a "big deal" as you mention, but it is certainly and with total absolution, a reasonable thing to ask about. Do you agree?