skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It just means that reputation, verification and insurance become critical to the coffee market and that friction makes the coffee market way less liquid.

That is true, but generally everyone wants commodities markets to be low friction and liquid. Your point is well taken that maybe some governments would rather cryptocurrency markets be higher friction.

Also keep in mind that governments put regulations at points that tend to attract problems. Pawn shops in many places are required to keep records that other private buyers and sellers are not required to keep for the very same items.

> Now, legislatures and courts may choose to

Yes, and how this currently works now depends on what choices they have already made regarding stolen property.

In a lot of places the distinction is whether the property is absolutely identifiable as the stolen property. So in the case of a car, iPad, piece of jewelry or similar it is clear. If Malory steals the iPad belonging to Alice and then sells it to Bob then Alice can legally take the iPad from Bob if she can find it. Getting the money back from Malory is Bob's problem now. On the other hand if Malory steals and sandwich from Alice, sell it to Bob, and Bob eats it, then Alice cannot legally force Bob to compensate her. If Bob sold the iPad to Charlie Alice has to take it up with him, she can't make Bob hand over the money Charlie paid.

> I would not be surprised to see laws in the not too distant future

That may happen or may not, but right now the status quo is that once things have been disposed of by an innocent party the innocent party isn't forced to make restitution. Again, I am not going to claim this is how it works in every country on earth, but it is in the places I am familiar with.
Tcl's syntax is sufficiently simple that you can write something that parses it in Tcl, and there's examples of doing that to do more complex metaprogramming all over the wiki.

Plus things like uplevel let you jam a lot of meta trickery into commands without needing AST manipulation.

So, yeah, you do get both capabilities, it's just done atop the very simple baseline system, if that makes sense.

(look at e.g. 'snit', a pure Tcl OO system, as an example of what can be done with just Tcl itself)
I'm always scared of these headlines for companies who aren't greenfield.

Shopify is a perfect case for RN. Write once deploy both platforms. The issue that gets glossed over is for existing apps that have to do the data and abstraction layer on top of native codes. It starts to become prohibitively expensive to maintain the native, RN, and data layers unless you're willing to rewrite the native side.

Airbnb fell into this problem[0] and so did my old company.

I love RN for what it is and can do, but big companies that hop on and then are forced to hop off because of internal politics makes it a difficult case for RN because then it becomes "look, RN didn't work out for Airbnb or Shopify..."

I hope for the best of luck and success to the RN engineers.

[0] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb...
This is so cool! You've basically made a different, better version of r/findasubreddit. Which led me to think...

https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=findasubreddit

Super interesting!

So many small and unknown subreddits, and one of the main connections is another subreddit called "Somebody Make This".

I'll take a peek under the hood later, but this on the surface is very cool.
Look at what other countries pay for insulin and you’ll see why this argument holds no water. What’s going on in the US is captive market price gouging, plain and simple.
The link here goes to a page that provides just the very beginning of the essay and a bit of context, along with a link to http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2016/02/oxford-uehiro-p... where you can find the rest of it.
My problem with Spotify: some bands aren't there.
We should start open sourcing for meds.
I don't think that shallow dismissals and conspiracy theories add much to the discussion.
This article is really poor. I don't even disagree with the point they make since I don't think nuclear is scalable at all, but this article has mistakes or bad reasonning like in every paragraph!

I'm on my phone so I won't list them all, but come on!
Faster than C years ago, nowadays it may be different because of all the optimization work put into C compilers. Long compile times though.
I read this as "We should take moral advice from the people who program the computers and not the other way around"
That makes perfect sense. Renaissance has always been immune to the claims that it's a Ponzi scheme, because Medallion is closed. But if you used the wormhole techniques to move money from the open to the closed, and voila, unbelievably high returns!
Microsoft’s Project Tokyo helps visually impaired users ‘see’ with AI and AR
Don’t Ever Ignore Reinforcement Learning Again
Banks race to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO
I thought that native mobile would be out 4 years ago and not much has changed, my only conclusion now is that I don't want to do android/ios apps for startups, but I'll do it for large organizations that are actually leveraging all the technology.
Women Founders – Discord community for startup discussions
Desktop apps are (in)famously Electron.js

iOS is native: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/931599784137363459?s=20

Android is native, too (no source)
Headline should read "Illinois governor and legislative body do not understand basic economics."

Prepare for insulin shortages IL. Government intervention / price fixing has NEVER worked.
Curious to hear more about their deep dive into Native, Flutter and React Native as possible technology choices.

Hopefully, React Native is not a nosedive ;)
James Simons had a funds for tech startups. But it wasn't nearly large enough to support the kind of profits that happened.
i think that due to the fact all humans carry imperfect information, their opinions on good/bad/ethical varies, and that will ensure that never a system can be made which 'behaves 100% ethically'. it might behave in such a way with respect to the opinion of the person claiming that, but to another person it can seem completely unreasonable/unethical...

since you can't create an AI which takes into account all the flaws of all humans present in their knowledge and consciousness, a system which has such perfection is impossible to make. (even these flaws are often just perceived flaws and them being a flaw is an subjective matter based upon other subjective matters.)

it's not about having all the data for an AI, it's more about understanding what lack of data means to humans and how it affects their decision and interpretations, and about how the same data can be interpreted in many ways.

Even if all humans were exposed to the same data as each other exactly, they would likely still carry different opinions and interpret the same data differently leading to a completely different decision making process... I think this at the moment is inherently impossible to create within or take into account in current computers or programming.

If you would reverse it, and have humans take all their morals and ethics from computers, what is left of humans? Isn't that what makes a human? the ability and/or inability to do this themselves. i think no one is looking for a world or working towards a world where only 1 human exists in multitude. i think the work should be focused on preserving the uniqueness of identity while maximising its potential within that uniqueness. That also makes me of the opinion that AI should thus be specialised within domains of operation, and not attempted to be implemented in a general fasion.

perhaps an AI system could exist which comprises of many specific AI systems, which would make it more generally applicable based upon many input from specialised AI systems, who knows. But 1 system and 1 data set will never be able to cover inherent uniqueness within humans.

you can argue about some rotten apple humans who have 'bad behaviour', but even the good people you know, are wildely different from you. admit it. you are not them, and they are not you and that's how it should be.
Agree with some points there Drangus. I am stoned to the bone and 'shiiiiiittt' that was some deep stuff. What if being a noob is better than being pro??? Maybe that idea works for some cases , but i definitely want to work with professional software devs not noob coders. What do you think Dingus? (hope you are a T&E fan. might as well just take your sister to prom ya dangus she's a girl too!)
Here is my attempt to draw an analogy.

There is a large banner next to the highway that shows some weather information that if properly organized (lets say monthly almanac) you would find people to pay money for it. The banner owner does not make money this way - he ask you to go to his website and signup for an account. But you drive the highway (internet) every day, look at the banner, write down the weather updates, and then offer them on your website as a sale. The owner gets angry and sue you. The court decides you are free to drive by the highway and you free to put your eyeballs on their weather banner, especially given the banner is available to everyone (LinkedIn profiles are avail to view without needing an account) and you are free to use the information you obtained for free without interference with said banner in a form of a monthly almanac that you sell. At the end of the day, the banner owner does not own the weather information that someone else put in there (for example a weather meteorologist).

I think personally its a healthy decision. Otherwise it would be similar to prejudice of who should be allowed to enter and browse a street store that by law is available to everyone.
Hahaha ahaahah

gee what happens when Android Fuchsia hits oem devices this year? CES surprise coming..
One blog post per day? That's crazy. How do you come up with so much content?

Here I am, wanting to start a blog for months already but not having any ideas on what to write about. lol.
> Are many looking to read what the Waltons say?

Have you ever been inside a Business College?
I'm a co-founder of kosmos school (educational VR games) and froggodoggo (side-gig platform for founders). I would love to have a very informal place to talk to other women (or else, see below) about startup-stuff, discuss what we are working on, motivate and help each other... that's why I just opened this server.

Note: Even if it says "women" in the name, it doesn't exclude men, trans or non-binary folks, everyone welcome as long as it stays friendly, safe and inclusive :)
Note also that while Perl's Tk.pm is based on an ancient fork of Tk, if you use Tcl.pm + Tkx.pm then perl embeds your "real" Tcl/Tk and talks to that so you get properly modern functionality.

This is how the tkdocs.com examples in Perl maintain parity.
Still needs long term disposal in the end.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/index.html
Or it could pass argv directly to the execve() family instead of relying on the shell to process arguments. (They effectively do exec on sh -c 'cmd')

I am going to guess they will be smart enough to redesign this for the next major release, and the current patch is just that, a patch for the old design.
You can read my other comment [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22127805] about my experience at a pharma-hosted dinner for my wife's former internship mentor (a doctor).

Given that experience, I'd not be surprised if pharma spend a ton of money on direct-to-doctor marketing.
It shows that idolizing is universal.
It’s not misleading for anyone with a bit of programming language culture, which is probably the majority of readers here.
Ask HN: Does anyone record themselves while programmming?
It's a good habit to keep worklogs when programming, some don't and their commit log and perhaps code comment might be it. But lately I have been thinking, what if I recorded every time I programmed, both myself and my screen session and spoke to the computer and captured my thought process. Sort of like folks do when screencasting but just for personal reference. I'm curious if anyone does so and if so, what are the pros and cons you have noticed?
This is neat, and I didn't spot any mistakes in my first very light skim through.

One practical nit is that the position of the "forward" button moves around depending on how long the section title is, so you have to keep chasing it. Possibly it could move to the left of the section title, so back and forward buttons are clustered together in a fixed place?
The company I've been contracting for lasted just over a year on react native before heading back to native. Even though the product was still a prototype, we were spending way too much time updating libraries and trying to decipher all the breaking dependencies. Some easy, some very cryptic.

On a side note, I'm not a big fan of people shoehorning stateless web development patterns into application environments that support stateful development. The solutions appropriate for development inside a web page are often not helpful inside an application binary.
> Patients can quickly become more expert than GPs with regards to their own diseases, especially if they have months to research it.

Waking into a 15 minute appointment with months worth of research seems like a bad way to approach collaboration with healthcare professionals. Or do people still have personal relationships with doctors outside the appointment window?

It seems like GPs have become dispensers of medicine rather than care.
I'm disappointed it doesn't explain why IBM stopped working on it.
It's a good thing those wishes can't delete MP3s.
The official wouldn't make the decision on a whim. He'd have risk assessments, policy documents and what not to back him up.
I feel like Music.app is a pair of similar apps squished together, when they share no common frontend functionality and work far better apart:

• Apple Music (the subscription service)

• iTunes (the library with syncing and an optional digital music locker subscription-service)

Each of the two has its own obvious top-level navigation. Each of the two has its own independent backend services (e.g. the recommendations in Apple Music; the iTunes Store and the cloud music locker in the iTunes app.) They would also share some backend services (e.g. the object storage of songs that are streamed in Apple Music vs. “matched“ in iTunes) but other iOS apps share these services too (e.g. Apple Podcasts, Apple TV.)

Why are they the same app?
> The only way you can get it out is if you put it in. And if you put it in, you can’t get it out because the DAC is no good in the MacBook Pro

you get it out digitally grandpa. Neil keeps repeating "quality" during the interview, but when asked about home setup he started with turntable ...
The medallion fund had 20 years of performance before the other funds existed.
Top Blockstack Dapps
If you are rich, get cancer and can pick any country to get treatment in, which country do you go to? Obviously it would depend on the specific cancer, but I think the US would be the best bet in aggregate.
I have not seen one good app for android that has been written in react native. Can anyone show me one that doesn't suck in performance?
Telegram is blocked in Russia, but WhatsApp still works. Why?
Sure, but that's a different issue than fungibility.
It was a perfect language for the web in a lot of ways. With some other guys, I made an Apache module that let you do PHP type scripts, back in the day: https://tcl.apache.org/rivet/

For a while, I know that https://flightaware.com/ used it fairly heavily. Indeed, their careers page still shows an interest in Tcl skills.
> I now do Spotify.

I have this dark suspicion that that this is a perfectly acceptable outcome to music steaming concerns.

I'm not saying that Apple or anyone else is intentionally trashing libraries to encourage streaming. Just that they have no good reason to care about your carefully curated library, and in fact have something to gain if it went away.
Cool! This feature was not available when I last used Spotify, which was admittedly years ago.
What's missing in these tests is that they do not capture the required knowledge by the developer to achieve those results.

If anybody has actually checked C/C++ examples, one could see that they use non-trivial techniques/libraries to achieve superior performance.

What would be REALLY interesting to see is breakdown of the performance by the years of experience of people that submitted working code examples.

I have a feeling that a developer with one year of experience in Java, will probably beat developers with two years of experience in C/C++.
Yeah I agree advertisers would rather have their ads next to quality content. Publishers don't always have the same incentives while it's easy to fill lots of inventory with at lower prices but make up for it in volume. A fine dining restaurant might make more money per diner than a McDonald's, but your average McDonald's probably makes way more money.
Just like the neighborhood drug pusher, big pharma companies give away free samples. Turns out that in the case of opiates, your neighborhood drug dealer and big pharma coincide.
PrimaHealth Credit – Patient Finance Reinvented
The marketing may be effective and still unnecessary. For example, consider a simified world model where drug A and drug B are identical, and are the two widely known solutions to a given condition. In a world where no marketing is done, people with the condition will randomly buy A or B, with roughly a 50% chance of either outcome, assuming they cost the same amount. In a world where A spends half their revenue on marketing, people start buying A more than B. If B responds by also spending $50 on marketing, we go back to the world where each is purchased roughly equally, but now the marketing budget has to come out of the pocket of either the company owners or drug purchasers.

If you pass a law banning drug marketing, you may be able to get the same health outcomes with less overhead. Of course, this ignores all the hypothetical cases where marketing helps, like increasing awareness of a beneficial treatment that was not previously well known.
Most news websites load trackers regardless on paying so you can be both the customer and the product. This is also why I will never subscribe to a news website. I'd rather let them try their luck with tracking rather than just hand them in all my personal & payment info on a platter.
I dig it. Problems don't have to be world-changing to be interesting.
> hiQ argued

That does not mean that hte court agreed.

The judges said that CFAA doesn't apply.

In other words, the judges said that LinkedIn couldn't use the US legal system to force HiQ to stop. Judges didn't say that LinkedIn was barred from using technical measures.

The court did allow a preliminary injunction against LinkedIn, due to the possibility of "monopolies" (to be determined in Court later), pending resolution of that latter question.

LinkedIn might still win their claim to their right to block scrapers via technical means.
Well, parametric polymorphism in the case of go would probably just be a performance optimisation over function taking interface as parameter, right ?

i usually see monsters when you combine generics with objects and inheritence, but you're right that since go also doesn't provide those...

i think when talking about generics in go we also mean struct accepting generic components. Not just functions
But why not state that rather than question begging? To everyone else, it seemed you were hammering away at some important point but without any context.

Honestly, though, so many ads for insurance say you don't need a doctor visit, or health checkup, or whatever. I could easily see customers getting confused thinking they wouldn't need to give over health documents because the ads are deliberately misleading.

Just because a business's practice is obvious to itself and those in the know, doesn't mean customers can get fleeced because "they should have known better". Caveat Emptor is kind of bullshit with such high information asymmetry.
The bad guys are the citizens who work to maintain their own ignorance and do nothing to maintain and uphold the rights they enjoy; who don't demand freedom of press; or understand the consequences of these policies, policies eroding their rights to congress and converse freely without fear of suppression.

I don't judge the government for exploring facial recognition technology - there are motivating utilitarian arguments and they have the tools right in front of them. They are doing /something/, even if I think it's deeply wrong. But I do judge those who stick their head in the sand, or sit on their laurels, and that includes myself. We also have motivating arguments and the tools to express them.

I don't want to be part of generation of citizens whose children will say they learned nothing from history - beside the Nuremberg defense.
Hyperparameter Tuning with Keras Tuner
Work and hobby-wise, being noob is pretty much my life so far. On the rare occasions where I first think I know everything I do begin to worry as things I tend to work with rarely are that simple, really.

Same with people at work. It's often better to be the dullest pencil in the box because if you end up being the sharpest one yourself you know there's likely nobody left to challenge you.
It's a game changer for students who need to take notes, mark up PDFs, store textbooks to lug around campus, etc.

It's the perfect machine for use on campus for most students. Of course, the regular iPad gets you 80% of the way there too.
That's what he's doing though. Change flows from discontent. Complaints are the fuel of improvement.
You're clipping the wrong part of the sentence.

Parent is primarily disputing: "To stop climate change, renewables must replace fossil fuels." and if renewables fail, "this will cause global temperatures to rise over 3°C"
Do you have difficulty reasoning through conditionals?

Meanwhile the semantics of objects, especially one named “Output”, are super obvious and easy to reason about.
Why is gradle/maven significantly different than Nuget as far as dependency management goes? The only major difference is Gradle and Maven also handle a lot of the build management as well.
I haven't been to doctors, or taken any type of medication in 25 years. Rarely do I sick, and it's basically the sniffles that I can sleep off. I take long hot showers.
Please read the linked decision before putting words in judges' mouths:

https://parsers.me/appeal-from-the-united-states-district-co...
> What's missing until regular websites have parity with mobile apps in functionality?

Performance. But we're beginning to approach performance parity - not by the web becoming an faster, mind you, but by apps becoming slower. It used to be only cheap/poor-quality apps that felt like glorified web pages, but now even many high-profile apps are just parts of a web stack embedded into an app.
Reminds me of all the scenes from the movie "The Big Short."
Odd trick: if you have HQ MP3s, and you want them to get “matched” instead of “uploaded”, transcode them to iTunes Plus (256kpbs constrained-VBR max quality AAC) format. iTunes will then be far more likely to get a fingerprint match, for some reason.
Tcl is single handedly responsible for billions of dollars of damage in the EDA industry
Probabilistic Programming Possibilities
Was this post inspired by the US presidential impeachment trial and political immolation of senators who dare to dance before the news cameras?
There's no reason to believe that.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted: just because ProtonMail allegedly refused to cooperate with Russia, it doesn't mean they must act similarly when the request comes from a nation that can leverege more diplomatic pressure.