skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The police want to avoid this scenario:

IDIOT ANCHORPERSON COVERED IN MAKEUP: Breaking News: We've just learned that the bombing that killed 152 people in the Podunk Shopping Mall today was known in advance to the police, but they did nothing to inform the public! Now to our reporter on the scene.

LOSER IN A SUIT: Hi, this is Rob Harasser, coming to you live from the Podunk Police Headquarters. This is Detective A. Buser Skeptic. Detective Skeptic, I understand you got a call this morning before the bombing?

WIFE-BEATER IN A MUSTACHE: Yeah, someone called me this morning. It was hard to hear them, but they said a lot of people would die in the mall today. I asked who was calling and they hung up.

LOSER: Did they say they were going to bomb it?

WIFE-BEATER: Yeah, they did say something about "a bomb", but I couldn't hear them clearly.

LOSER: Did you trace the line?

WIFE-BEATER: I did. You know, people think that if they hang up fast enough, we can't trace calls, but that's not true anymore. Even though they called the non-emergency number, I knew where they were calling from in ten minutes. It was a payphone outside the mall. Did you know there are still payphones outside the mall?

LOSER: Why didn't you warn people?

WIFE-BEATER (looking sad): I thought it was some kid playing a joke.

PANCAKE-THICK MAKEUP FACE: Well, there you have it, folks. The police knew, and they didn't tell us.
Untraceability sidesteps getting courts or lawmakers to give you legal status as money. I don't see why governments have any motivation to extend this protection to cryptocurrencies as it would seem to mainly facilitate crime without providing any benefit in terms of encouraging adoption of government controlled currency.
> With experience it should become rarer and rarer to encounter some things that makes so little sense that you feel like a noob, and you certainly shouldn't feel aimless.

Then you're not pushing yourself or trying new things. Noob == newbie, so it applies even to experts who are learning things in an unfamiliar area.

I felt like a noob when I learned about functional programming. Then I felt like a noob again when I started learning Haskell.

I read about Coq yesterday and felt like a total and utter noob.

I read about the `nom` lexing crate for Rust recently and felt like a noob getting up to speed.

I still am a noob when it comes to using every unix utility: I recently learned about gnu parallel and read about xargs more finely.

I never want to be in a situation where I never feel like a noob, because in computing alone that's basically impossible unless I'm not challenging myself.
Facebook Source Code from August 2007
They do happen in the west as well. It is faster/cheaper to print crowns/etc, but I don't believe it's generally on par with an expert Dental Technician yet.
The near ubiquitous camera coverage in city centers has done nothing at all to decrease the amount of late-night assaults and robberies. More foot patrols when the lager palaces turn out would help, but we can't have that, it would make sense.
I’ve had hardware failures/loss at a mercifully low rate of one a decade. I learned long ago that storing work on your own computer is a recipe for disaster. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth uploading to the network.

I can tell not everyone feels that way when I tell others that my computer died and they offer sympathy like I just lost a relative. It shouldn’t take more than three hours to set up a machine with your work stuff, or somebody isn’t doing their job.
Trains and isolation are great. But gas still produces net carbon emissions. So if you adopt it, you have to move away from it very soon anyway. Seems like wasted effort from my point of view.
Sometimes tips are given by the same people that place the bomb, with a desire to reduce casualties.

I don't know anything about the situation in Russia, but that definitely happened in Northern Ireland.
SpaceX succeeds with a key pressure test in its Starship program
I think the original comment meant that a 9% interest for a loan is quite steep and might be signaling Buffett's lack of confidence in media as an industry and its ability to generate value in the long term. However in a deal like this 9% might not be unusually high since the article mentions it is mostly being used to "refinance existing debts" so the high interest is probably a premium on that part
Thanks. I decided to install Arch Linux for the first time in my life (over 20 years of Linux usage), and give KDE a try once more.
"If you write about your passion, you will never lose enthusiasm because you are creating a little corner of the internet that’s yours, you made it, you made it beautiful, and now it’s also available for everyone else, but even if no one shows up, it stands on its own."

One of the most inspirational statements I have seen in a while.
This would correspond to a height difference of about 1 km between upper and lower reservoir right?
Layer 6 exists, it’s just that most layer 7 protocols “fix” their layer 6 protocol. E.g., JSON/RPC requires JSON; SOAP requires XML; etc.

But Layer 6 is where the difference lies between ASN.1’s representational encodings—DER, BER, XER, etc. You can switch out this “presentation layer” encoding without either your application layer caring (it just sees an ASN.1 codec library) or your transport layer caring (it’s just transporting an opaque octet-stream payload document.)

One might also describe Avro, Parquet, etc. as “presentation formats”—they all have canonical input ADTs, but multiple possible wire encodings depending on the schema supplied at encode time. But all such schemas decode back to the same input ADT.
> iPhones are wildly better devices for lots of work, creative and otherwise, than a "real" computer

I think we will need some examples to support that claim.
iOS 13's Music App Sucks
I'd argue that the root cause is that they have any value whatsoever.
You mean a builtin, like panic().
I opted out of Google advertising a long time ago, I think in the end it was Instagram/WhatsApp that did the dirtywork.
I've had this issue with other contracts as well. People act like you're a crazy person for reading a document before you sign it - "Well it's just the normal stuff".

I always pause, make strong eye contact, and go "Oh, so you normally sign things without reading them first?"

That usually causes them to go quiet.
Not so sure about that. Messages on LinkedIn are mediated in a single place, and you have a measure of control over how your profile shows up in searches. If your CV is scraped, you could end up anywhere and now you're getting recruiter spam from all over when you're not interested.
Sounds good. Let me know if you have any questions =)
> Are you sure about this? I am not a lawyer, but I believe that the Terms of Service applies to all users, not just those that explicitly set up a user account.

How would that even work? If I browse to any random public page of your website, it's served to me before you've even transmitted the terms of service. How could I be bound by those terms of service when I haven't even seen them?
Boeing announces first annual net loss since 1997
> There are extremely moral and extremely immoral people. Some of them are dentists.

Absolutely true. However, it seems that other areas of medecine have better systems in place to prevent abuse, and dentristry would do well to follow suit.
I'm interested in hearing your take on "organizational transparency". Like please push the concept / idea to its 'full' realization and tell me that picture, even if it implies a little bit of "sci-fi"¹.

Digging this because I think that domain / paradigm will see unparalleled evolution in the next few decades.

[1]: I mean, don't stop at current law / values / behaviors; like people from the 1940s wouldn't have dared speak about their idea of the 1970s because they'd think their belief "impossible". No flying cars though (Clarke-tech), because that's not a decision of the individual.
My problem is that I don’t know who to trust.

Clearly I can’t trust Googles marketing or Sales copy after how it handled this initial launch.

There are a lot of videos and reviews that mark it as a poor product I.e. it’s launch title Destiny having an impossibly small player population for multiplayer activities.

And then there are people who give it shining reviews such as yourself who seems like a reasonable human but is still only one data point.

So I’ll wait and remember this consumer experience for every google product that gets pitched to me.
Berkshire moves up in the capital structure: from equity to pretty seriously junk debt (which is still above equity).
While noting what the other commenters have said, I don't recall running into any blocks, though I don't visit the sites they mentioned.
Here's Facebook's business help link for how to upload and use point of sale and other offline data: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1142103235885551?id=5...
PII data require optin and non PII have one opt out starting on firmware version 4.1
I was specifically discussing Youtube.
“If I ever become a bilionaire, or frankly just get a little more than I have now, my next move is: RETIRE.”

I am in the same boat but that’s why we (and a lot of other people) will never make that money. These guys seem to really enjoy business and it’s their favorite thing to do. They have the freedom to do whatever they want but they choose business. Looking at my CEO’s published salary I would retire within one or two months of making that much money. But I will never get there because I am not willing to put that much energy into work.
Considering the motivations from the various points of view....

As an investor, I’m going to discount anything I can’t invest in and just focus on the numbers of the open fund. These closed flagships are a common marketing approach. Like concept cars, they grab attention and help sell the more mundane models that are commercially viable. This article being a good example. Clearly it works in this role and I can understand why they would do this.

As a PM, I’d always prefer to have my own capital in a closed flagship where I can cherry pick the best strategies, charge myself less fees and make use of the latest tech and R&D subsidised by the open funds. My reporting requirements are much less onerous so there is plenty of scope to massage the numbers too.

As a regulator, I’m underfunded and politically motivated to focus on high profile cases where large numbers of everyday public (voters) have been ripped off. I have little time for institutional investors who should know better and so closed funds trading internal money are way down my list.

As a regTech founder, I’ve seen plenty of examples of creative methods to get around regulations. Or they just being blatantly ignored. Compliance are usually colluding and helping coverup. Insider trading is one of the higher risk methods, to get these sort of returns it would be easier to simply get access to the “dumb” order flow from the open funds. Using lots of fancy looking algos etc. to hide simple front running.

Given they are closed and trading their own money we are only going to know what they choose to disclose. Personally, I’d bet on this being legit, given the figures while great, aren’t impossible given the privileged position they have in terms of access, information, tech etc. And the existing distribution of performance for low capacity HFT strategies. People abusing the system would be making even more and keeping quiet about it.
There are different types of fundings - some encourage you to find matching sponsors, some forbids you to do that explicitly.
Which translates to listening to everyone. Once they expose data of one user they will get requests for others.

Patriot act which supposed to protect population from terrorists not only failed to accomplish it, it was used in war on drugs.
Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
he's getting old and it shows sadly :/
5 Optimizations to make your page run faster
That’s the point. If someone is never a noob, that’s bad, and if you confer greater credibility to noob-averse people, you’re not thinking optimally. Fight the urge to assign greater credibility to those who are afraid to be noobs.
Wobbulator
I'm not sure how to do it scalably, other than by becoming the host for that data, which is why I included my second option. It seems much easier (and much more profitable) than figuring out how to access the data in its existing format.
What I dislike is a situation where I feel like I _ought_ to be a noob, or feel like a noob, or be acting like a noob, but other people treat like an expert who doesn't realise that he is acting like a noob.
Sorry, I didn't make the point I wanted to, which is that GP (on my reading) seems to think that breaking changes are necessary and unavoidable for the long-term health for a PL. I'm saying Clojure seems to be perfectly fine even without any breaking changes in over 10 years, and that it seems like it'll continue like this indefinitely.
Microsoft issues second 'final' Windows 7 update
The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics (2017)
bitcoin related privacy features are getting much better [1]
as are ethereums [2]

[1]https://news.bitcoin.com/how-to-obscure-bitcoin-cash-transac...
[2]https://medium.com/@tornado.cash/introducing-private-transac...
Would you be able to expand on what your setup looks/looked like? I've long wanted to get an iPad to do development work, but haven't been able to find a great setup for JS/Go development.
I don't know, but when it comes to editing photos out of my DSLR, I want the biggest screen possible (and matte), not some kind of tablet size glossy screen that reflects everything around.
AI-powered robots will be the next big work revolution in warehouses
Thx. The VP Growth of Angellist once called it "SEO for hackers."

I by now sold a few thousand copies as Ebook and print. Mostly in the German spaeking markets. 5 Stars based on 22 reviews an the german Amazon.

Currently mostly doing other ventures so very very happy to give it away and make SEO agencies (and myself) redundant for good.
Well, that in my eyes is a very solid advertising in favour of ProtonMail.

And it's not like Russians, Chinese and generally people in countries whose governments are in the habit of censoring the internet aren't used to using Tor and/or VPNs to dodge censorship.
The On-Demand feature is amazing. It just works and it so smooth.
BTW in English the word for "isolation" in this sense is "insulation".
It was "legal" to kill Mormons in the sense that a jury might decline to convict the killers. They had a pretty brutal time at Nauvoo, Illinois, as well.

Much the largest part of Scottish emigration to America was from the Lowlands--there were just a lot more people in the Lowlands than in the Highlands. And the German emigration mostly wasn't of refugees or the starving.
Your usage case seems like almost any tablet device could have worked though.
> - isolated within a module

This only exists in fairy land. In practice, mixing code from different versions is always the root of subtle bugs and ABI/API mess. For me in front of a big chunk of legacy code, I'd rather wrap them in a separate process and communicate with the remaining part through RPCs if possible.
Well, first of all, he created this whole site. This would be enough for me to be of interest.

Also I enjoy his books and essays, in particular the ones about LISP.

I don't know about his financial situation. And frankly I don't care.
I do this to adapt it, to make code more secure and serious. I embrace other features in Go but not this one. This one makes Go some like a non-serious language.
I can't say I share the feelings that PG is describing.

I don't really mind being a noob at something I see as useful to learn. The feeling that I get in that case is a drive to find out what is up with that thing. In programming it is not always clear, though, that the new thing is that great or even that it should exist in the first place. This makes me then feel not to great. But it is more of a feeling of irritation at the thing that I suspect of not needing to exist.
You are absolutely right, I failed to note that the increased specificity means you lose the broad spectrum effect.

I still think in the cases you describe that they could stand to replace e.g. Vancomycin - BEFORE that fails. The side effect profile for that drug is horrendous: GI bleed, neuro/sensory damage, liver damage, retinal damage etc..

It seems like a blend of phages with slightly varied activity could also reproduce the broad spectrum effect, and CRISPR is going to make that pretty easy I think.
On StackOverflow I have twice as many answers as I have questions. But yeah, same.
Comparing worst capacity factor (for cited reasons) with best CF without saying it is offshore in some of the best location is misleading. Also is comparing dispatchable and intermittent/fatal. There a other factors to consider like reserve ratio, or how the production can cover the power needs over the year, it gives hints at how you need to scale seasonal storage.
> Of course, if your "work" depends only on a single application, then you will be happy with pretty much anything.

But why are we saying that this isn’t ‘real’ work? Why are you putting ‘work’ in scare quotes?
"As economies mature and flourish and people and companies begin buying legitimate versions, they usually buy Microsoft because most others already use it. It’s called the network effect."

There's no interoperability with news. And these economies are mature. This is just theft.
Can someone tell us non-Facebook users what this looks like?
I think a company with Google's resources would have hired people with the necessary experience to run the project.
Who Says Tcl Rules?
If anything, shortening to "SML".
100B is what Medallion made during those years, the money have to come from somewhere...
Why not z-cash?
Then it's now my turn to call your numbers misleading ;) I don't think you can directly compare the two that way because a) The French government heavily invested in nuclear for strategic reasons, not directly economical ones. The EDF still is essentially state-run. We can't really infer cost arguments from this. b) Practically all nuclear plants in France are decades old, and had many years for recouping initial investments. Current market prices for energy are therefore not a good argument for costs of newly built plants.

If we look at the costs of constructing new nuclear plants (which the article we comment on is about), France is a particularly bad example, with current costs already at $11B for 1600MW of capacity for the Flamanville project. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-edf-nuclear-flamanville/e...
He already owns the business... he is selling and financing the sale.
I have my doubts about 3. I am not sure if these guys really “generate” wealth but more concentrate it on themselves even at the expense of others. I am sure e-commerce would have taken off without Bezos and we would have computing without Gates. Maybe in a different shape but not necessarily less or worse.
And even in this case you can't rely on your domain registry not to change your DNS without your consent. And there's not really a big chance you own a dedicated IP address.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVphFkaX1gg (Restoration of a C64 left outdoors for over a decade)
That's a big gamble. We know fracked natural gas emits vastly too many CO2 molecules per kWh generated for decarbonization, and it also leaks methane through the pipelines.

Nuclear has been a boogeyman to fossil fuels for a long time. Intermittent renewables with storage are awesome, but when backed by gas they're antiproductive to decarbonizing.

France deeply decarbonized their entire grid with nuclear in 15 years by standardizing plants and building in serial. This is a good success story.

Building gas now and hoping it goes away in 50 years is a terrible solution.
There's a long, long history (probably hundreds –if not thousands– of years old) of selling aggregated or processed publicly-available information.

I'm not particularly thrilled with it, but enough people think of it as a valuable enough service to pay for; even if they know they could get it themselves, for free.

LinkedIn users (as opposed to the company) might actually like what HiQ is doing, as it may help their own prospects.
> What is this silly ‘real work’ gate-keeping? I guess the author means their work.

So... are there any web developers here (since it's a common occupation of many HNers) who do all their work on an iPad without any kind of desktop or laptop?
As I recall, there was at least sometimes a system of passwords so the police could verify the caller was who they said they were, and they'd take the threat seriously.
Damn, you must be going to a good one then.

None of the local colleges teach either!
Lee is already the manager of the company. He worked for Buffet.
That's the likely explanation. The Yukon has ~40k people. 30k of them live in Whitehorse. It's _very_ empty.

The remainder of the people generally live near the ~2 roads or on a river
Thanks! I am pretty sure nobody does direct optimization on the mesh quality because it is hefty. I did come across a PhD thesis which was doing it for fluid structures interactions and his conclusion was it was inferior to other techniques. I have a few tricks which will hopefully make the problem more tractable.

I use FEMAP at my day job have found Laplacian smoothing and FEMAPs other built in tools have been wanting.

I am currently thinking that my goal is to try and use reinforcement learning to build high quality meshes. In order to do that you need a loss function and if you are building a loss function you might as well wrap an optimizer around it.
Could this reinvent team's time tracking
The key to unlocking a glacier’s past is a chainsaw and some quantum mechanics
How can you launder something with a traceable serial/transaction number? I don’t think it’s possible. The best you can do is mix it with enough other transactions that it becomes murky as to the final destinations.

Ex: If half of the bitcoins used to buy a car were fraudulent, would you need to return half the car?
Please don't pull fake facts out of your anus.
In addition, there are some buildings and landmarks that you can't simply take photos of and then resell

https://www.rd.com/advice/travel/eiffel-tower-illegal-photos...
http://www.photographers-resource.co.uk/photography/Legal/Ac...
This was one of the Puzzlers on Car Talk back in the day...
European colonialists are definitely a type of disaster.
I'd like to do the exact opposite. Many a times have I hoped for a good article about a good language, but got presented with a memefied statistics article.

At least on HN I still know what NLP stands for…
Oh, I see. Thank you for clarifying.
This a million percent.
What does "backwards compatibility" even mean? That you can combine new code with old code (a.k.a. ABI compatibility)? That you can compile old code with a new compiler (modular compiler, old frontend + new backend, should work)? That you can mix old code and new code in the same file (why would you want to do that, presumably new code is also better, otherwise what's the point of changes in the first place)?
Fundamentally not trustable.
Digital art.
> Real work involves lots of files

No I just gave examples of people doing real work who don’t need lots of files.

An outdoor instructor may just need a single file - their map. A train engineer may need a single file - their reference manual. They’re still doing real work!
any successful academic in economics making money in the stock market? Or I am missing something? Maybe a Nobel winner from Chicago?
Dan Grossman's "Programming Languages, Part A" (In Coursera) made me fall in love with SML. Highly recommended.
also it means giving money to humans to do the policing which is a Bad Thing(tm) according to Tories
I would assume that Monero isn't being used because Bitcoin tainting hasn't become a significant issue and Monero doesn't provide sufficient liquidity to allow extorting at scale.
Authentication is completely different from legally binding a contract.