skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s my point, if I lose a more paltry sum like my life savings, nobody will lift a finger to bail me out. It’s only if my losses are massive will the developers trigger a hard fork on my behalf.

“Code is law” only turns out to apply to those with small balances and poor connections.
There are many things short of reading the code in full you can do to lower the chances of this happening. A lot of half-assed libraries have obviously incomplete APIs that you can notice if you think about the interface provided and the nature of what the library claims to be doing. You can also look at repo activity; was it all coded in one week 8 years ago and never touched again? Does it have lots of outstanding issues?

Some things may slip through the cracks, but filtering out most of the chaff can be done without reading every line of source.
The big deal here is security by default as enforced by the runtime (deno) itself - there is afaik none other doing anything remotely as cool anywhere. It in effect makes it super safe to run code since you have to explicitly allow the various levels of system access.

Also makes the system fundamentally unattractive to malware authors whereas installing modules via node.js is like leaving your front door open and taking a chartered holiday while hoping for the best.
Pseudoephedrine in Canada has to be mixed with acetaminophen, which is difficult to separate back out for meth cooking.
And we can't overhaul personal identification in the US, because there's a non-trivial quantity of the voting population that literally believes giving people unique identifiers is a step towards the apocalypse as described in the Christian Book of Revelation.

It's maddening dealing with Americans sometimes.
xz would be an example of the latter kind.
Exactly. Unless you are one of the founders or you have a significant percentage of shares as being one of the first employees, it's not worth it.

Although from a recent startup experience, it's usually the salaried employees that usually become so committed and loyal and eventually end up working such extreme hours, while the rest become a little bit more relaxed. It might be the whole surrounding mentality and belief that you might be working for the next unicorn or the "family" thing that is often being sold in interviews. Just to find out that you are working on just another company of a smaller size.
Okay okay, technically it didn't apply since there was no authority, though it shows the haste involved in producing the list. It also appeared to include a plastic toy-grade BB gun, because a PMC once imprinted a similar name on a private batch of firearms that were never sold or imported into Canada.

Furthermore, apparently the firearm used in the shooting that prompted this sweeping ban was never sold on the Canadian market. It was illegally purchased, illegally smuggled into Canada, and you know, illegally discharged to kill people.

There is no connection between the Canadian domestic market for semi-automatic rifles and the shooting, and yet the resultant rules target only the Canadian domestic market for semi-automatic rifles.

https://nationalpost.com/news/trudeaus-gun-ban-appeared-to-b...
All of them, I guess?
Well, no. I wish that was the case but no. You would be surprised how invasive BSA law is. The main reason banks basically gave in on SARs was the legal protection they have for it. This coupled with little average teller is trained results with suspicious activity report stemming from customer saying 'none of your business' to a teller.

And I assure you that when auditors ask an officer question why SAR was not filed ( most recent Moneygram case ), BSA officer is sweating bullet.

So based on current setup in US, it is banks' responsibilty. And just to add to this, this scheme is being actively copied across the world.

FinCEN case link: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-assesses-1-...
Sure! Here it is: https://github.com/983/FileDownloader
Not seen anything with both free trades and an API in the UK. I would like to do this to implement simple strategies - for instance mirror indices but with user defined filters (S&P500 minus hospitality, airlines and oil, as an example).

Freetrade, 212 Trading and soon Robinhood offer commission free traedes in the UK but no API
I agree that you describe a trend in our society, but I believe in this case you are misapplying a heuristic. You don't have enough information to declare that this is the intent in this specific case.
Or we could go back to resource-efficient and lightning-quick native apps, like the good old days.
Uh, do a google image search on brown recluse spider bite, they certainly aren't harmless and could cause serious damage if let wandering around.
Only the UK.
The person your replying to is talking about percentage.
Tomatoes being vegetables isn't even overruling 'science', anyway... it is just because vegetable has multiple meanings. Tomatoes are a culinary vegetable and a botanical fruit.
Twitter has replaced RSS for all intents and purposes.

I miss Google Reader and RSS too, but the world has changed. Another reason RSS is in the past is because it was a means of delivering long blog articles which only a small minority of internet users has the interest or attention span for.

You miss RSS because you miss 2007.
Thoughtful and useful response! I also agree on the need to build a dictionary for effective learning
Page 638 of the PDF has a footnote that says:

"We chose $102 because our pilot data correctly suggested that there would be a point mass of WTAs at $100
and that it would maximize statistical power per dollar of cost to set an offer price just high enough to induce those
participants to deactivate. We chose $170 as the top of the uniform distribution because it was the maximum that we
could pay participants without requiring ­­tax-related paperwork."

(The $170 refers to a small percentage of their sample which they offered a random amount between $0 and $170 to, presumably to check there were no odd effects from the exact amount.

WTA means "willingness-to-accept")
It sounds like you and I are in agreement then. This is the same way I manage my projects as well. I think this is the best way to handle it. It gives respect to others without accepting disrespect from them.
While at the same time, often the same people support he patriot act a 100%.
> "That's why you use a binary transport like gRPC."

Unpopular option but it's true. Binary protocols are both bandwidth efficient and processor efficient. Back in the day, when a 25 MHz processor and 8 MB RAM was the spec for a powerful UNIX workstation with GUI, stuff like XML and JSON was simply not an option.
Not a geologist, but I rember reading something about this a while back, so this might be BS. I believe it's because the water being pulled down at the subduction zones (where one plate gets forced down under another) help lubricate the whole process. I think that without that water I think the mantel becomes too stiff.
It seems that most problems in the US come down to this issue. See how ignorants refuse to wear masks because of "ma freedums".
I strongly agree: Atom is technically substantially superior to RSS, and in regular feed readers is supported universally (with fewer issues, e.g. fields like title and description are definitely plain text or HTML, as specified, rather than the RSS approach which leads to clients guessing all sorts of different things so that you can’t safely use things like angle brackets in titles).

However, the podcasting industry seems to have ignored Atom, which is stupid. Podcast feeds are exclusively RSS, and from information found, most major clients probably don’t support Atom. But the area is a mess with no good documentation anywhere on what works or doesn’t (and all of the even-halfway-decent content of this sort is from 2006–2010).

————

People colloquially refer to feeds as RSS, even when they’re mostly Atom. Reminds me a bit of the SSL/TLS situation (where I think the name “TLS” is finally more popular than the name “SSL”).
The problem with looking at it this way is that we can see what will happen in the first months or years of the new tax system, because values take a while to change.

But what we really care about is what the system looks like a decade in, after property values have massive changes. And what it looks like 50 years in, after cities have been remade to reflect the shift in tax costs. I don't think any modern day Georgist argue for "single tax." Remember that income tax wasn't in place in the US when Henry George started writing!

So any modern plan will Lokey include shifting tax bases, over time, to rely more heavily on LVT and less on sales tax and other regressive taxes. This will require adaptation and policy change over the years and decades, rather than saying ahead of time that they can predict the future with absolute certainty.
Java on Android compiles to native code just like Go.

Google is writing Android from scratch, is it called Fuchsia and Go also doesn't get to play there.

The few parts that were written in Go are scheduled to be rewritten in C++ or Rust, with Dart being the main userspace language.
'Star Trek, not Star Wars:' NASA releases principles for Moon exploration pact
Right, but we live in a world where we can hold the guilty accountable for their actions, not the victims. If you want to blame someone for those emotional ramifications, blame the people who cause it in the first place.
> and when they moved to pay only (or they closed? i can't remember)

The incident you are thinking about, would be when they said they were going to close the service entirely, because of the volume of signups they had in the aftermath of Google Reader closing. https://blog.theoldreader.com/post/56798895350/desperate-tim...

In the end they did not do that, but realising any service I sign up for might close just as readily as Google Reader put me off RSS for years. (I am a paid The Old Reader user now.)
exp(-infinity) = 0
If it has network problems, kubernetes can take out that instance out of serving traffic.

When your doing rolling upgrades it can signal your app is ready to take traffic.

Those are the main uses.
Arthropods
When I was a kid, I borrowed Jean Texreau's How to Make a Telescope from the library and read it from cover-to-cover many times.[1] I never did have the resources as a child to go ahead and actually build a telescope, but by reading the instructions I had the opportunity to live out the experience in my imagination.

This might make for an interesting quarantine project today ...

[1] https://www.willbell.com/tm/tm3.htm
I'm going by memory of what I read in the book and would be happy to have any misunderstanding on my part clarified. Put simply, I think the book described things this way. (I'll use all convenient numbers and fanciful descriptions.)

A buy is tendered from Timbuktu. The offer will need to travel from Timbuktu to the NYSE. The Flash Boys find out about this buy offer before the sellers using the NYSE system do, so they insert themselves.

The buyer in Timbuktu sees a price of 100 dollars. As are all prices, this 100 dollar quote is "historical." The price will be what it is when the trade is actually effected. The buyer offers 101 dollars. The Flash Boys get ahead of the game, buy the stock at 100.50 and resell it for 101.

That's boiling it down to the essentials. I could be wrong about what the book says. The book could be wrong in its characterization of what goes on. Please, you tell me.
It's almost certainly "echoing" off of a comment in the "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs" thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206784

I saw the "No One Goes There Anymore" post last night while trawling through the "new posts" page, read it, realized it was from DoreenMichele, and, having read and resonated with the aforementioned comment, upvoted it just to make DM feel better.

YMMV
What if the resulting code was open source and someone paid for the effort out of their own pocket. Non profit 18F style. Might even be able to distill requirements from existing code if that code can be retrieved with a FOIA request.

I can empathize with not wanting to work directly for the bureaucracy. There are alternate paths to success.

https://18f.gsa.gov/
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23117614 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089041.
This is the optimistic scenario!

There's no shortage of reasons why there might not be humans at all in 300,000 AD.
Just goes to show how much of a net negative the parasitic banking system is on society.
Protectionism is anti-consumer
Which government contractor do you trust with that information?
Makes cleaning the garage seem a bit futile.
On the same coin, there are those saying that requiring id to vote is racist because of an extremely low bar of expectations that they have set for that demographic. No one wins. Everyone loses in this argument.
Because the “War On Drugs” is moralistic signaling...
I had two inaudible sounds play while reading the article too.
I'm not refusing to respond to you there is just no possible way for me to respond to this in a reasonable way. There is nothing either of us can say here to be constructive or gain "the high ground" as long as you make it about this. It's just trash-talking someone else behind their back. If you do have some real problem with another person you should take it up with them and not me. And if you want to have a reasonable chance of them responding in a friendly and non-hostile way, you should probably not go in with guns blazing and assuming bad faith. Assuming bad faith is a sure way to keep yourself mad and frustrated at this person, instead of getting the conflict resolved. I will assume from your declining of my offer that you never wanted help and just wanted to complain. So, you too have a nice day. My offer still stands.
Other commenters gave great answers, but I'll add that a comment like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23212386 on a submission is a good sign, since it shows just the sort of intellectual curiosity-gratification HN exists for.

There was a similar-but-different discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087284 if anyone wants more.
Ask HN: Most interesting trade-off phenomenons in your field?
As I talk to different folks from different domains, it's always interesting to me to learn what they're optimizing for and what the variables are.

Usually there's a sweet spot between two extremes.

Examples:

- Bias-Variance trade off from statistics and machine learning

- Freedom vs Security from philosophy

- Explore vs Exploit from computer science

I'd love to hear some other examples from e.g. anthropology, chemistry, physics, bio, marketing, etc.

What I'm really hoping is that this happens as much as possible:

- person from field A posts

- person from field B replies to field A post: hey! that's kind of like X from field B

- person from field C comments: Or like Y from field C!

etc
Why is it so hard to enforce banks to report such transactions? Doesn't the US force foreign banks to report balances of US citizens residing overseas? Oh the double standards.
> Making unemployment benefits more tedious to claim is politically risky

Any change (resulting in potentially reduced benefits) to any social service results in the following headlines in the next days news:

"President X yanks benefits for the nation's most vulnerable"
Beijing announces wearing masks outdoors not necessary
How is personal identification an issue for unemployment but not for buying medication?
Economies don't serve anything. The economy is the way we measure productivity. People really must stop thinking of it like some kind of mysterious beast from another dimension that we must tame into subservience
I tried TamperMonkey for a different project, but it kept deleting my scripts, so I haven't pursued it any further.

Bookmarklets are executed in the context of the currently opened website, so downloading images from the same origin is usually not a problem. What can be an issue are remote images. I tried setting `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`, but then other downloads would fail, so I left it as it was since it worked for the websites I was interested in.

Here is the code: https://github.com/983/FileDownloader
> there's a non-trivial quantity of the voting population that literally believes giving people unique identifiers

There is also a non-tribal quantity of the voting population that believes requiring people to verify their identity to vote equates to disenfranchisement.

And we already have a de facto unique identifier — the social security number.
> Instead its more like number of days since epoch * 86400 + seconds since midnight. Which is 27 seconds different than simple seconds since epoch count.

Yeah, the people who decided to do that were Wrong.

Fortunately it only really matters during leap seconds, and nothing stops you from doing it the right way and having your timestamps in actual seconds since epoch and then converting to "Unix time" or anything else you need. See e.g. libtai:

https://cr.yp.to/libtai.html
If I had an insurance policy that excluded insect infestation, then I had a spider infestation, and the the insurers said ... "Oh, we meant bug infestation, spiders are really a sort of insect", then I would genuinely be outraged.

That's what's happened here, and I can't help but see it as another case of insurers once again not paying up because they can get away with it.

If they meant "bugs" they should have either have said "bugs", or should have said "insects and other small lifeforms." I'm sure their lawyers could find a way to be more precise, and it seems reasonable to me to require it of them.

But, well, I'm neither a lawyer nor an insurance expert.
What's the evidence again that universal masking compliance works and is necessary? It seems that some jurisdictions like California (or, hell, Wyoming, way lower than any country in Asia) have had very low transmission rates without it.
Just to add a little to the fire: When you go to the airport do they check your ID before you get on the plane or after?

IMHO implementing a 2FA or a ID verification wouldnt be a burden on anyone but the bumbling bureaucrats. This problem isnt limited to UI, its a major problem (10's of billions) at the IRS. Who will send a refund before they even check the return or the income.

They send the refund to the first filer, with no verification! But when it comes to collecting the funds, they will hunt you down if your EIN doesnt match your entity name on the most obscure forms...
"You can't invent", AI might.
The Pentagon Is a 900-Pound Crybaby
I do that partially by focusing explicitly on a single objective like performance or test coverage.

In reality you need to compromise, but by keeping the scope of learning projects artificially small you learn a lot about that one aspect and the trade offs involved.

For example when I wanted to learn more about testing for front end applications in Angular, I wrote all types of different tests for a small sample project. By doing that and reflecting on how I could incorporate all those tests at work, I learned a lot about structuring my code to be more testable, when and how to use mocks, Angulars built-in testing utilities and much more.

By going very narrow it's easier to go deep. You won't learn about all the side effects and interactions with decisions in other areas, but at least you know more options and can try to find a better optimum.
Software has indeed become inefficient, both from a compute resources point of view but also bandwidth and information density.
Looking at the future of humanity section:

> 10,000 - If globalization trends lead to panmixia, human genetic variation will no longer be regionalized, as the effective population size will equal the actual population size

> 10,000 - Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct by this date, according to Brandon Carter's formulation of the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that half of the humans who will ever have lived have probably already been born.

So in 10,000 years we're either all going to look the same or we'll all be dead? Yikes.
Can’t believe you’re comparing my achievements to being an onlyfans user. Disgusting.. thanks for ruining my mood even further!
I was always looking for some “realistic” SciFi for the next let’s say 500-1000 yrs. I couldn’t find anything that didn’t include some stuff that was clearly coming out of the Fantasy domain
Separating investors from their money is a problem more easily solved with blockchain that a run of the mill database.
Thanks for the info. It makes sense in that case. Though the JVM can be very performant when written properly, and especially now with ZGC, Valhalla, Panama, etc.
The UK is not part of the EU anymore.
It's not a child. It's a hammer. Somebody put it in the community shed so others can use it. If it breaks or somebody needs a nailgun, that's not their problem. I'm glad if somebody lent me their hammer so I don't have to buy one, even if it's not the best.
Which is nice as long as you have work.
Hyperledger Besu Private Network Using Docker
Sharing the article that details the setup of a private blockchain network using the docker image for Hyperledger Besu and verifying with a sample transaction. Here is the link: https://www.polarsparc.com/2020/05/17/hyperledger-besu-docker/
Is there a decent browser (or other GUI framework) in Deno though? It has a wrapper for zserge/webview but I haven't used a webview in ages.
>You can't keep inventing novel technology and art at current pace for a million years.

Or can you?
Value vs. Reference in JavaScript: A Complete Guide
I don’t know what about “200 year period” is particularly exciting. For us humans, maybe... but the 4.5 billion year time-span suggests you’re taking a wider view. From the planet’s point of view there’s just a mass extinction going on whilst the anthropogenic climate change gets into full swing. It’s neither exciting nor unprecedented.
Most of them willingly accept SS and DL numbers. I think it's when you get to subdermal identity solutions that the "mark of the beast" scenario you describe is triggered.

I have also observed people with objections to lists in general, and this massive fraud is just one manifestation of what those people perceive as the inherent problem with lists. I don't think there is any getting around a list by its existence carrying the threat that it could be used to target individuals for nefarious acts.
Mostly on the right? Just the simple act of requiring someone to show an ID to vote causes apoplectic fits from the left.
+1. A slow, naturalistic movie that's also conventionally entertaining. Plus, as a timely feature, one of the protagonists spends a bunch of time standing on crowded trains, sitting in a crowded office, and eating lunch in a crowded canteen.
If there's a problem with this, it isn't in the use of a common meaning for a term rather than the technical meaning. It's our worry that if the shoe were on the other foot---if it were a policy that covered insect damage, and an insurance company were trying to wriggle out of paying---that the court would gleefully say "ah-ha! spiders aren't insects! insurance company doesn't have to pay!"
> there is afaik none other doing anything remotely as cool anywhere

Any operating system with "capabilities", "namespaces", "privileges", etc.

That includes Linux, Windows and many others.
No problem -- I didn't take it that way at all!
France is the problem and I doubt you'll be able to earn much more there. The problem isn't your skills or even your education credentials - software engineering just isn't that well respected in France even if you are the best developer with both excellent experience and education.

The solution is to either go freelance/contracting, ideally for foreign companies, or to move abroad in a country where software engineers are paid more.