skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I'm hoping FF mobile continues to receive performance improvements, but personally I'd put up with a lot worse to avoid adds.
Just in case anyone is still following this thread, this is the sort of insanity I'm referring to:

https://www.businessinsider.com/westerdam-cruise-ship-denied...

The Westerdam has been in effective quarantine for two weeks, no one on board has the virus, and they are STILL being refused permission to dock just because they came from Hong Kong.

We are still en route to Singapore, scheduled to arrive this afternoon. No hint of anything more going awry for us so far, but I'm not going to count any chickens until I've cleared customs back home in the U.S.
Leslie Kaelbling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_P._Kaelbling

Interview on AI podcast: https://youtu.be/Er7Dy8rvqOc

Maybe doesn't meet the "sound-bite" condition, but a really impressive human none-the-less.
> It's also not clear under what law their customer funds are not treated as company assets, in which case if they're bankrupt, the creditors get first dibs.

Insolvency events are covered by section 24 of Part 3 of the Electronic Money Regulations 2011.

"24. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), where there is an insolvency event—

(a) the claims of electronic money holders are to be paid from the asset pool in priority to all other creditors; and

(b) until all the claims of electronic money holders have been paid, no right of set-off or security right may be exercised in respect of the asset pool except to the extent that the right of set-off relates to fees and expenses in relation to operating an account held in accordance with regulation 21(2)(a) or (b) or 22(1)(b).

(2) The claims referred to in paragraph (1)(a) shall not be subject to the priority of expenses of an insolvency proceeding except in respect of the costs of distributing the asset pool."

So, these funds would be kept secure from other creditors and paid out as a priority.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/99/part/3/crosshead...
The ECMAScript Ecosystem
it could be as simple as Huawei refusing to install a backdoor for them.
Brave ads are entirely opt-in. By default it only blocks ads in the same way that Firefox's tracking protection does.
This is getting cause and effect totally screwed up.

People want to work on cool stuff (in the sense of rockets or in the sense of making the world better, or both). They will accept lower pay (per hour) to do that. Therefore, working on cool stuff demands longer hours and lower pay compared to less glamorous things. It's not an inherent requirement of the field; it's a side effect of human preferences.
There’s an experimental mypyc that can compile typed code to extensions, it’s not complete but it is used in mypy itself if I understand correctly.

More practically, I’ve found that it’s much easier to translate well typed code to cython. It still requires work, and ymmv.
That position is used by extreme elements to justify their pet issues. The founders distrusted the risk of tyranny, not government.
I couldn’t agree more. Building that “radical candor” is the most important element to have any meaningful conversation or even relationships. I’ve personally found One on ones as a great platform to build such relationships and like coaching active listening and powerful questioning can help. What have you found working in building strong relationships?
> I've definitely had the last 4 digits printed out on a receipt. While it is conceivable that those were transmitted separately I find that somewhat unlikely.

I noticed this too. Some merchants print the last four of the device account number (DAN) and some print the last four of the actual primary account number (PAN).

I asked about it on /r/ApplePay [1]. /u/martialplum provided this explanation:

> Although the card number sent to the reader from in the transaction is the device account number, this gets de-tokenized along the way to your bank (either by the payment network or some third party) and the actual card number is the one used for authorization. Some issuers use the actual card number in the response they send back to the merchant (data element 2 in ISO 8583). Depending on how the card reader formats the receipt, it's not uncommon for merchant copies of the receipt to show the full device account number (expected), but show the last 4 of the actual card number for convenience when someone shows them the card on their device, which will show the same numbers.

The "ISO 8583" text in that was a link to this [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplePay/comments/bnedl7/receipts_a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8583#Data_elements
It's up to the issuer to support the service, not just the company charging the card.

https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vau
Gives those who get a kick out of war and conflict something to do that isn't lob nukes at each other.

Same reason you want layers of government with progression at a small scale available to many. So all the people with political ambitions aren't all trying to start their own governments and revolutions.

Busy is stability.
Yes, any creative expression in the recipe might be protected by copyright.

And dish names might be protectable as trademarks, especially if they are not merely descriptions of the foodstuff.

The ingredients list and preparation steps, or any other text which is purely functional and without a creative component, is what is not protectable.

Interestingly, computer code is generally copyright protected, despite being literally steps a machine follows to perform a task. Courts have ruled that, because there are so many different ways to express any software of nontrivial size, the way the code is written (including comments, variable names, organization, etc ) represents sufficient creative expression to be protected.

I'm actually somewhat surprised that binaries still get the protection, especially since with modern compiler optimizations, it seems like any creative expression your code would be gone by the time the compiler was done with it.

But hey, as I said above, law is strange
Can you point me to your review?

A few years ago (circa 2010 or so) when I was seriously working on epidemic modeling, we tried to look for an effective seasonality model, based on temperature, humidity, etc that worked globally and failed miserably. What seemed to work in one country or area failed completely in others, and vice versa. I'm curious to see if things have improved since then
Where would you get some free assets for making a game on this? I want to do a side scroller with some plants and mountains the background.
Do you really think there is any possible fuckup that won't happen sooner or later?

Will staff of a nuclear silo forget to lock the door, and then fall asleep? Because that happened in US

Do you really think someone will put a plane in production with a single safety critical sensor with no backup or fall back?

Do you really think someone will pour dissolved uranium down the drain, starting a nuclear reaction and dying horribly?

Do you really think someone will crash a spacecraft into mars, by mixing up imperial and metric units?
Quick note about your functional examples - there's already a built-in version of `take` called `prefix` available on all Sequence types.
SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus and COVID-19 is the name of the disease it causes.
“Laelius on Friendship” by Cisero
Given the currently staggering inequality of wealth distribution on Earth, I would wager that the average revenue of Apple customers (arguably at least half the richest, trickling down to upper classes) is more than enough to make said customers' spending several times that of the average credit card owner (also increased purchase frequency).

That's what the story of Apple's market shares and image around the world seems to paint, anyway (the US is really an outlier, no other country buys anywhere near as many iPhones except Sweden, Japan and Switzerland iirc).

Apple is successfully pivoting into a luxury brand + service provider (let's call it the Porsche or Vuitton of consumer devices), and I think this article / thread goes to show that they've now effectively conquered their customers' wallet — as in, the product category.

Well played, hats off, but the genius really was in developing the strategy itself: suppose you have $200bn sitting in cash offshore that you can't bring back easily, and you also happen to have the 10-20% richest people on Earth as customers. Well, what can you do with those? ... Offer a financial service maybe, like payments? Tim Cook: hold my pad

I really do think the 5% figure might be every bit as real as the price tag of the latest flagships, as real as the kind of global wealth that allows casually spending ~4 figures on a phone in 2020.
Thank you for making the effort required to put all this together.
That's one approach.

Another is to occasionally take a break from your own interests, and help someone (or something) else. Making a difference where you are not directly and personally involved can itself be its own kind of rewarding.
I've come across this in the Stripe API as a standard feature of a lot of cards. I haven't had one do this myself, but I also haven't lost a credit/debit card.
The name is correct but vague, we've had coronavirus spreads before (like SARS) and will have in the future, so it'll be confusing whether we're talking about this one or something else.
They recently released it on macOS (via a Catalyst port of the iPad app)
179 'days' (4296 hours total). Missions vary in length though.
Despite thinking Brexit was a mistake, this is indeed a chance for the UK to modernize and improve its financial and banking industry, to make it even more attractive for non-EU capital, and to make London an even more international city. Assuming there is a will for that. After all gov.uk initiative was a success and still continues to improve.
At that time, he noted that the Space Shuttle software was the one area that didn't show deficiencies.
It's only OK when the U.S. does it... /s
In the US they also are not testing people who came from China even if they have mild symptoms.

Unless you have a fever and a cough they won't test you. According to the latest research out of China there are many people who when admitted to the hospital had no fever but tested positive.

Frankly a lot of cases are likely not being caught in the US and elsewhere.
> Radia Perlman - Invented the Spanning-Tree Protocol.

Thanks for posting this. I've even read the STP poem before, but I never had any idea about the person behind it.
YC's Internship Program, Summer 2020
CTA in Chicago takes Apple Pay, as does Ventra (the commuter rail app) and WMATA in DC is supposed to soon I think. Surprised Canada hasn't caught on to that.
You are not build a rubber mat for car stereo controls.

The screen is made of glass, and is about a quarter of an inch deep.

You want immersion, staring into a portal of glowing welcoming magical world.

You will be better off incorporating music. Much more emotional bond.
Maybe if Gnome's default theme didn't make window title bars half the size of the screen, people wouldn't be so eager to theme. Seriously, I have a huge, hi res monitor and the default theme makes it feel like some child or elderly specific thing. Nobody uses Gnome on a tablet, give it up!
Clojure for the Brave and True is a very fun project-based book. As someone who struggles getting through technical books, I found this one a real joy and it kept my attention to the very end.

https://www.braveclojure.com/
Wild. She taught me about partially observable Markov decision processes, didn’t know she invented them.
Ugh. Why braces ( { } )? That's the biggest tiny pain of using awk. It's an odd stretch for my fingers to type them and I have to look down to be sure I hit them right.
4. Tamagotchi !!!
Metaculus is reputation based, not real money. They have a market for coronavirus, https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3529/how-many-human-infe...
Currently has a 3% chance of infecting more than 1 billion and 50% chance of infecting more than by 865k by 2021
NASA states that the first goal of Planetary Protection is to "Carefully control forward contamination of other worlds by terrestrial organisms and organic materials carried by spacecraft in order to guarantee the integrity of the search and study of extraterrestrial life, if it exists." [0]

It does seem that unintentional interference is the main concern, but intentional interference almost certainly won't be considered on the relevant timescale, which is now until the first Mars landing, since aggressive terraforming was posed as an alternative to unsustainable Martian colonies.

[0] https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection
https://archive.phong.com/tutorials/metal/
Probably the same thing it does now randomly. The reader says "Please use chip and PIN" then you follow the chip and PIN flow which automatically unlocks your card.
> If they go bust with the former you’re out of money

This isn't strictly true. By law, electronic money institutions are required to safeguard customer funds. In the event of an insolvency, customer fund claims would be paid out in preference to all other creditor claims and there's various other safeguards to ensure people get their money back.

Specifically, Section 24 of Part 3 of the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 covers this:

--
24.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where there is an insolvency event—

(a) the claims of electronic money holders are to be paid from the asset pool in priority to all other creditors; and

(b) until all the claims of electronic money holders have been paid, no right of set-off or security right may be exercised in respect of the asset pool except to the extent that the right of set-off relates to fees and expenses in relation to operating an account held in accordance with regulation 21(2)(a) or (b) or 22(1)(b).

(2) The claims referred to in paragraph (1)(a) shall not be subject to the priority of expenses of an insolvency proceeding except in respect of the costs of distributing the asset pool.

(3) An electronic money institution must maintain organisational arrangements sufficient to minimise the risk of the loss or diminution of relevant funds or relevant assets through fraud, misuse, negligence or poor administration.
--

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/99/part/3/crosshead...
It would be nice to have the progress bar like "XX% of C++ code was rewritten in Rust" for every new Firefox release.
I had the opposite experience a few years ago, where SMIL performed better than CSS animation but it likely varies depending on what is animated. Problem was only that certain browsers at the time (old Edge for ex.) didn't support it. Thankfully Chromium and FF continue to support it. It has its place and also has supported features CSS has only fairly recently begun to see equivalents for (eg: motion paths).
People have been complaining about Boeing management for years, and if it seems like "years" to me, it's probably 20+. When people have been ignoring a problem for a very long time, and it finally gets to a tipping point that has dramatic public consequences, you can expect it to get worse for at least as long as people are coasting on the inertia from their previous assumptions everything was fine.
I had extreme response time issue on my old phone. I recorded my screen, and I measured a reliable 3-5 60Hz frames between the touch indicator and the page scrolling. Chrome reliably had just 1.

Things got a bit better over time, but unfortunately the thing that eventually fixed it was when I got a new phone. Now I get around 2-3 90Hz frames, which is still worse than chrome, but far less noticeable. I have not measured "New Firefox"/Fenix/Preview yet, but it does feel like it's a bit closer to chrome.
As it should be; I dislike when books are dogmatic a out setup. Those pages are usually out of date at by the time the book is in print.
It will tell the terminal to demand a PIN, just as if you had inserted the card. It happening regularly will make the flow non-weird, at least.
What's the alternative to high approval rate = rubber stamp? Low approval rate > prosecutors wasting time on shit that won't get approved > prosecutors figuring out what shit will get approved > prosecutors do that > high approval rate?

Damned if you do, damned if you don't!
Presumably you only need internet for the compilation step, which would be as seldom/often as pushing to a git remote repository, for example.
Think it's a limitation of the issuer. I use my Hong Kong contactless card all the time for transactions up to 100GBP (the HK$1000 limit set by my bank) and the terminals just accept it.
"what's important is that they know all the right people, and they're "too big to fail""

Nothing is too big to fail, because as long as it's prevented from failing, the failure continues to scale up.
> Do you use a tiling window manager?

No.

> Do you use a non-standard to your distro window manager?

No, it is one of the offerings: Fvwm2

> Why?

Because it does its job, without much fuss, and is infinitely configurable. It does what I want, when I want, how I want.

> Are you strictly full screen terminal?

No. rxvt or xterms, one with a screen session inside with several terminals in the screen session.

> Do you use regular old floating windows?

Yes. Very few windows ever get maximized, those that do only stay that way long enough to accomplish whatever it is that needs the area, then they get put back to floating.

> Who's gone full "ricing" of their desktop

No. Never saw the point myself.

> And finally which of you are monsters that leave a litter of various icons all over your desktops? Yuck.

You've revealed an opinion of your own there.... :) But, I've done this on the win work machine before. I'm also primarily a visual-spatial learner, so to me it is not a litter, it is the icons just where I left them.

What used to p* me of about the work win machine was when the screen would resize (external monitor vs. laptop panel) and win would rearrange the icon locations. That screwed everything visual-spatial up related to the organization. And what p* me off even more was that when the big monitor would be reattached, no one at MS thought things through enough to put the icons back where they were the last time that screen was attached.

Eventually I just turned off the desktop icons, since having them randomly move around was worse than simply not having them visible at all.
> Do you use a tiling window manager?

I have been more than happy with xmonad, my current tiling window manager [1]. I have been wanting to give sway [2] with Wayland a go as well. I like using it due to the lack of distracting animation and having great keyboard support, allowing me to be more productive — or at least feel like I am.

Besides servers, I didn't really do much with Linux until a year ago or so. I ended up picking Arch after seeing Jon Gjengset's stream [3] and it having great documentation. Still, it was a bit of a surprise to be met with a blank screen after installation.

1. https://i.imgur.com/TwiH6ks.png

2. https://github.com/swaywm/sway

3. https://youtu.be/ycMiMDHopNc
Using Vim requires you to understand how the data it operates on is structured. The same applies to Git. Plain text is just a lot simpler than a VCS repository.
What are you implying exactly: that there are no problems with present day currencies, or that Bitcoin doesn't solve any of those problems?

> ML was solving real problems from day one

No, machine learning developped slowly over decades before it could be fit into practical applications.

Bitcoin's launch was more than the launch of a product, it was the first time the ideas in its paper were actually put together. If we put cryptocurrency on the ML R&D timeline, we'd be in 1970 right now.

Of course, in the present day it solves more niche problems than ML which everybody uses through Google, but the fact that it's already used by real people at all is remarkable.
The Texas business owner who is literally eating his own dog food
Generally, the human applies creativity in choosing the location, angle, exposure settings, and timing of "pressing the button"
Wayland is "the future", but I don't bother with it. It has too many warts and lack of support. Screen sharing support is a hack that kinda works, except for Electron apps. X 'just works'.
The explanation I've seen a lot is that once men realized computers could be used for more than trivial math they took over the field. It's obviously more nuanced but I do think it's mostly out of sexism, which is why organizations like Girls Who Code are so valuable.
Tangle EE project joins Eclipse to bring distributed ledger apps to enterprise
Usually Kleenex or Coke or Xerox when it gets to this point start suing around loose usage in the media to avoid watering down their trademark.
This doesn't mean that there's not widespread abuse of secret warrants/NSLs.

It could easily mean that they've developed a formula to ensure that they meet* the standards set by the FISA court.

Maybe every single one of them has some kind of magic phrasing that's technically true, but kinda bullshit if you're able to view it from a wider viewpoint. Maybe all it takes is to say that this person has a connection to known terrorists. The connection could be incredibly distant, but hey - there's a sworn statement from some analyst/agent/whomever saying that there's a connection.

Because the courts are secret, there's no opportunity for those outside the intelligence community to review things and see whether there are routine abuses or other questionable situations.
No, the US Constitution essentially lays out all the things the people entrusted the government to do.
There was, IIRC, a campaign doing this a few bad wildfire seasons ago.
> productivity skyrocketed

Was the increased productivity due to Awk or was it due to Perl?
It isn't different without taking a moral stance on both China and the US' intelligence habits over the years.

The simplest answer to all of this, seems to be - when it comes to technology, international trust is at an all time low, and we need systems that are trustless.

However, these standards are intentionally kept weak, so that any determined actor can break a door down if they don't have their own. (ala stingray).

For "national security" reasons, and if that doesn't work, to catch pedophiles. Because both of those force politicians to not stand against whatever is being proposed.
Repl.it open-source alternative with Maven support (for Java and Clojure)
Welcome to the Era of Fake Products
People on HN and elsewhere frequently slam Ada (on the rare occasion it comes up) but I really liked it, in the one college course I took that used it. That may have to do with becoming fluent in Pascal before doing much with C, and considering the general appearance of similar languages to be more pleasant.