skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think Diem is necessarily in search of a problem.

I think the problem with Diem is not that it doesn't fill a market role, it's that the target market, in general, knows how evil Facebook is, and would prefer a "cleaner" alternative. The problem with doing dodgey stuff with user data for years and years is that you gain a reputation, and then even if a small subset of your massive super organization makes a really good pure product, that product still inherits the stench from the parent. We don't trust the Zuck, and until fairly recently the target market for Diem were almost entirely people tech savvy enough to understand the depths to which Facebook operates in.

Imagine if Google came out with a new crypto-coin, and with all the soul and creativity a bloated bureaucracy can muster, called it "GCoin", a "New way to shop and get tracked!". Now, many normal people would stay away from GCoin purely because they know it would be in the GGraveyard in two years, but the rest of the target market would think," Ya know, Google has been absolutely evil this last decade or so, building their business model around surveiling us and toying with our emotions to get us to buy useless shit, while slowly trading away any uniqueness they ever had for fun primary marketing colors in a thousand different patterns. I think I'll pass on this GCoin bullshit...". That's how we feel about Diem. Except possibly not quite as angry, because at least Facebook has given us a figurehead to hate, instead of the faceless, souless, primary colored evil that is Google.
An alternate history world where technology grew without centralized cloud services and privacy is still a thing.

Their systems are often inferior on a pure ease-of-use aspect, but it's not "strictly worse". I found a lot of it to be just different compromises. It's still possible to live comfortably there without a smartphone. Not so much in other "smart cities" around the world.
Showering before dinner has helped me insert a "transition moment" where I can get final work thoughts out of my head.

Also, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is a fantastic form of meditation for me these days. Nothing like a sunset flight down the coast to clear my mind.
Then apple should focus on improving the APIs to be privacy safe (how they successfully do in their own APIs). But they are not.

It is not about privacy. It is about revenue.
I just happened to come across this fascinating video[0] yesterday that explained the same thing. And he mentioned the crystal as well.

[0] The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats: https://youtu.be/48sCx-wBs34
Perhaps a differentiator is, what alternative the clients-to-be have.

If Amazon denies them access, that’s a huge market out of their reach. If an airline denies to sell tickets, that’s seriously infringing in someone’s right to move around.

If a cake maker in one town says “no”, presumably there’s lots of other cake makers around.

Still not a fully satisfactory predicate but maybe explains some of the variance.
NZ's SAR teams (primarily urban SAR) have repeatedly deployed overseas to assist after a natural disaster, same with our Police DVI (disaster victim identification) teams - most prominently after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

There's a lot of solidarity between countries on the Ring of Fire when it comes to natural disasters. We even had the Californians turn up alongside the other countries.

Likewise, rural firefighters from NZ, Australia and California routinely travel to each other's countries when backup is needed.

It's the implicit reciprocity, and real life training opportunities that drive it. Otherwise your training is all stimulated, like covering a bunch of mannequins in sheep offal...

https://www.police.govt.nz/news/ten-one-magazine/dvi-trainin...
I get it, I was just pointing out that working fewer hours (nominally) for less pay has been an option for at least decades. It's not something to 'hope' is 'next', it's just something to do if it's what one wants.
The non-plugin hybrids are just as environmentally friendly as full electric cars, because they have 10x-20x smaller battery and that makes a huge difference in initial emissions. The OP likely wrote about PHEVs which indeed have batteries 3x-5x smaller than BEVs.

If you count in all the related emissions, hybrids seems to be the greenest cars you can get now:

https://greenercars.org/greenest-meanest/greenest
I call Safari the new IE because like IE, Safari requires specific code and workarounds for itself quite often. Unlike Chrome or Firefox.

You also need an iOs device and a Mac to debug Safari, like you did need a windows computer to debug IE.
> As a professional software engineer I'm not sure the idea of "safe" or "unsafe" programming languages is a coherent idea, or if it is then all languages are unsafe in my eyes.

I agree, though that's not intractable. There's security compliance like ISO27001, which can't say "you're secure", but can say "you've got a threat model and you take measures to address it". It's then something you document and provide evidence for as part of your compliance obligations.

If we applied the same thing to a programming language I think it could be very clear to see the differences between languages.

That's not at all to say that I think ISO27001 is a good model for security, just that we already have systems that handle very nuanced ideas, so a formal definition, or proof, etc, is not really as necessary as it may seem.
> but USD has proven to be a far less volatile store of value than Bitcoin

If by less volatile you mean gradually losing value, I mean yeah.. But is that a better store of value?

> such a thing would be possible in the crypto space as well.

Nope, that is literally impossible with Bitcoin. Hitler could open up a shop, and no one could stop him from receiving payments.
Open the site in Chromium. Yep it works. Open the site in Firefox. Yep it works. Open the site in Safari. Ugh... it's broken.

This is unacceptable from professional developers. Progressive enhancement is a thing.

Apple announced at last year’s WWDC (https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10663) the areas where they improved interoperability with other browsers and that Safari passed 140,000 interoperability tests:

We made a really big effort this year to improve Safari's interoperability with other browsers. One way to measure that is web platform tests. It's a set of tests used by browser makers to ensure interoperability, so your web content operates the way you expect across browsers. So I'm pleased to announce improved interoperability for service workers, XHR + Fetch, pointer events, CSS, SVG, web assembly, and many more areas. Safari passes a hundred and forty thousand new interoperability test cases this year.

And you can look forward to continued progress in this area.
VW and the others have some really cool competition for tesla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfP85iAWD3w
Yes. Imagine the front desk of a retail store, where each employee on their shift logs in, uses the software, and then logs out at the end of their shift. You don't want autofill to build up memory of customers or anything over their login period.
It doesn’t have to be original or be lucrative for the small. Like so many other successful services it is packaged well and just works, while building on established ideas.
Apple's opinions are simple: If they have a good browser, then the app store - their cash cow - becomes unneeded.
The dark pattern is that you don’t know it beforehand, not the paywall itself.
> A newborn foal can stand within 55 minutes of being born and can walk or run within 90 minutes. That is crazy fast training speed. Is it training initialization or is it a form of transfer learning?

Or maybe having 4 legs (as a foal) gives more natural balance than a human or maybe even a cat or dog.

In the same way technically you only need one leg to walk (hop) around but that's much more difficult than having two.
Reminds me of flight MH 370 although unfortunately the plane was ultimately not found.
IE6 was wrapping up development when the US government sued to break up the whole company for giving it away with Windows. Perhaps not a coincidence they stopped work then?
I agree - such a thing would be really, really useful!
I don't think anybody says it would be free (what is free except air and love anyway?). But it is universal and also available if you are not working, are unemployed or retired. If you are not earning any money, then you still receive the same level of care.

You are right that it doesn't cover everything, but in my experience these are primarily things where there is a high level of own influence or electivness (dental implants, lasik, glasses) and or cost/benefit isn't proven. Since a basic level of care is provided I don't mind that.
> Again, I don't care. Just write a native app if you want to do video/audio calls, or send/receive files. The worst native app for these purposes is better than the best WebRTC implementation.

Google Meet and Jitsi are fantastic, in my opinion. Zoom however has had a constant parade of vulnerabilities over the last year.
Assuming your users are also users of Slack, I highly recommend creating shared channels; that way, they can reach out to you in your slack, without leaving their own. Email is great, but there is something about IM that feels way better.

Also, if you are offering your product/service for free initially, I would say, "it's free, but in exchange you gotta give us 20 minutes on a call every week/every other week". This ends up being super valuable.
EssentialFP: Exposing the Essence of Browser Fingerprinting [pdf]
I think this is probably one of the better, more practical ideas that I've seen. If the government has to consider whether the underlying technology has adequately addressed memory safety issues (doesn't have to be at a language level, but that's obviously the easiest way), that puts pressure on them to fund projects that use memory safe approaches.

That's billions of dollars that will get slowly steered in the right direction.
I'm building a public discussion site (https://sqwok.im). So far I've learned a few things:

1) Most people will happily give you feedback. Some of it will be good, some of it you won't agree with, but keep an open mind, and always thank them.

2) I go out of my way to tell new users that I appreciate their taking the time to check out the site.

3) If you get the opportunity, engage with your early users and talk on a human level. Many times that simple act of connecting and having a conversation with another person will spark an increased interest in the success of the project and you'll find that people will reach out to you when _they_ have an idea or suggestion.

4) List your email and/or a phone number if applicable, and likewise if you're having a good conversation with someone, ask if they'd be ok with you emailing them with some follow up questions. I've had a few people whom I got to know a fair bit and have exchanged multiple emails.

5) Lastly, I've made one specific mistake that I'm learning from, which is to _not_ neglect your early users. That is, when people start to show interest in your product, make sure to show up each and every day to interact with them and keep the interest up. I've had a few periods where I went into a development k-hole for weeks on end and wasn't as active on the site, which led to a decrease in overall activity.

Good Luck!
sorry, this is happening sometimes (still need to figure out what's causing this annoying bug), especially when opening the Filters. could you try again pls? here's the map link: https://beachnearby.com/map?ref=hn thxx
the problem is that autofill fields persist regardless of login credentials to a particular site, as long as Chrome detects the input fields to be the same. Like, try a standard form behind a login process... then log out and log in as another user... chrome will suggest what the last user entered if you don't rename the input field.
Silos are so far a apart that single warhead can destroy only one silo.

Arms control experts seem to think that China is building missile "sponge". Field of 120 silos would contain only 12 ICBM's or so. If they build enough silos into the desert and and decoys for the rest, the US must spend more and more missiles to destroy just few missiles.

The US had similar plan at the beginning of the Cold War. It became politically impossible to use eminent domain to create so large missile fields on farmland.
Wow that's amazing, I had seen Zotero mentioned in other 4 comments but still hadn't yet triggered me to do a search for it. Seems like a great way to create a personal archive! Will be checking it out, thanks
Note that after this article was published, a few more scientific articles confirmed her longevity record, as mentionned in her wikipedia page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
Not necessarily agreeing but reminded of the Harvard Bridge in Boston.

I heard that though it was often called the MIT bridge (because it connects MIT campus to Boston), they felt fine with the name “Harvard” after learning it was structurally unsound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Bridge
It's more than that. Part of it is army training, but a giant part of it is organizations like ZAKA (https://zakaworld.org/) whose mission comes from our core religious beliefs. As Jews, we're ideally buried fully - meaning as many body parts, blood, whatever intact, or at least with the body. In situations where disasters occur, ZAKA helps triage, recover, identify, and even do DNA analysis as needed, to help make this happen. This is in addition to training our security services.

In Israel, regardless of political affiliation, religious beliefs or anything else, they're understood to be the true heroes that they are. No one else exhaustively pursues these events to conclusion. There's a reason that their mantra is חסד של אמת, which is best translated as true lovingkindness. Yes, in Hebrew lovingkindess is a concept that is different than "loving kindness".
At the time, and perhaps still today but greatly lessened, Microsoft was used to both becoming the victor by crushing the opposition and then staying the victor because no one dared take a second swing. Anyone else who thought about challenging usually thought against and then went and carved out a quiet niche elsewhere.

Besides, nobody got promoted at Microsoft for staying the course and making incremental improvements. Once there were no more balls to be knocked out of the park, developers moved elsewhere to buff up reviews and get bullet points for major projects.
From what I've heard, MS's whole idea was that ultimately, "the web" was broadly going to be scrapped. What people were actually going to be using, "in a few years", was going to still be IE, but the webpage would just be a thin wrapper that would load in ActiveX controls delivering actual windows apps, in the browser.

Apparently they got close enough to getting this working that a bunch of South Korean banks and such bought into it heavily, which meant you could only do online banking in that country, for a while, on either a windows phone or an actual windows machine.

However, they narrowly missed getting developer buy-in on that stateside, before the whole "XMLHttpRequest" thing went crazy, and we started building javascript apps for everything.
I'm not a civic engineer, but I know some, and that doesn't ring true. I know, for example, that with regards to the NYC subway post-9/11 there was rigorous work to plan and implement safety measures against various terrorist threats. That included modeling the impact of various types of bombs in different parts of NYC's subway tunnels, etc.

This work was mandated for projects that were, in aggregate, likely billions of dollars.
BioNTech is developing a malaria vaccine
I’m very skeptical that someone with an IQ of 80 could be employed as a software developer. I think other explanations are more likely. Your coworker could be joking or lying. He could be mistaken (eg: interpreting a percentile as an IQ score). The test could have been mis-graded. Or maybe he was just having a really bad day. If he took an IQ test again, I seriously doubt he’d get such a low result.

A person with an IQ of 80 usually has trouble functioning in society. It can be difficult to teach them concepts like alphabetization or hypotheticals. For someone with such cognitive impairments to become a software developer beggars belief.
If you are crazy like me, here is what you could do with your mouse: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeyboardLayouts/comments/kpklnq/my_...

It's a layout to avoid switching constantly from mouse to keyboard and remain most of the time with one hand on each devices.
so if I can summarize -- what we think of as a logical transistor starts to have all sorts of physical properties, some dictated by the material, the physical layout, and probably what's near it. Designers spend piles of time simulating this, and a process change requires that work to be redone.

Thanks again!
These are real people with hopes and dreams. They should have every opportunity everyone else has regardless of if people think they are over-quota or whatever.

Lots of discrimination in the past was justified with the argument that a minority group was over-represented in some field. E.g. some north american universities restricting jewish applicants all the way up until the 60s.
I share your “rare grip” precisely and also adopted it to alleviate pinky pain. To add another anecdote to the pile I also prefer UI elements at the top although a toggle in settings or at least a configuration file would be best. I don’t understand my own preferences on this issue though because the arguments for the bottom position are completely convincing to me. (Thumb is closer, top of screen is better used for displaying messages, etc)
Parent organisms do influence the way their children develop, at what extent is a different question (I understand it is fractal spaghetti all the way down).

It seems planaria worms can do something like that [0].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051648/
The same way the accusation of fake record do not provide evidence though, it's just theories.
not op.. I used to use zotero for exactly that, about 3 computers ago. Sitting here thinking, why am I not using it now.

I guess it's just easier to not install an extension and right-click, save page as.. and move on with life.

I can't remember if zotero was that simple - it may have been. I enjoyed using it back when. I can't recall if there was a good backup/export system with it back then.

currently it's easy for me to have docs/webpagesaved auto backed up to an external drive, which gets me through.

I may revisit zotero as I liked the idea behind it and the extra category / sorting stuff that was available / optional.

I think I went through a phase where ffx really bogged down with lots of open tabs (20 versions ago maybe?) then I tried disabling extensions, auto-sleeping-tabs-extension, stuff like that .. and soured on some extensions no longer working with newer ffx, and some concern about spyware and such, and never went back to all the addons / personalizations once enjoyed back in the day..
your product was a public chat? how did you market it/what was your plan for it?
> You can't ask for accommodations for mental illness, is my definition.

No idea what you're talking about because obviously you can.
The UK per-capita expenditure on medicine is very low. It's also hamstrung by the choice a few years back to balkanize the NHS (stopping financially successful hospitals from subsidizing unsuccessful ones).

My feeling is the NHS is a good institution in an unfortunate political culture. The UK is an essentially conservative state (they have been the ruling party for the vast majority of the last century) which is a poor fit for a pretty radical socialist healthcare system.
This is true. But rockets are a tiny bit more specialized. For instance, SpaceX and Blue Origin both build their own engines. That’s not the norm in aerospace. ULA buys their engines from other companies (including, in theory, Blue Origin) while jet engines are almost never built by the companies that build the rest of the jet.

Also, in this case, Blue Origin is only building half of the moon lander. The other half is Lockheed Martin and friends. It might have made more sense, in theory, for Blue to design the whole lunar lander instead of just the bottom half. The NASA reports specifically called out the integration risks from this approach as a problem. I don’t know if it’s actually faster to outsource the upper stage of the lander to LockMart or if they just wanted to take advantage of LockMart’s proven ability to win massive government contracts, but you don’t go out of your way to talk about how many states you’re doing business in unless you’re making an appeal to Congress.
> There's already a congressman on the record complaining about a "native Nigerian" committing code to Rust.

Wow. It comes from the Libra hearing I guess? By any chance, do you have an link to the exact quote?

Edit: as hsod answered below (I don't really get why this answer was flagged) the congressman isn't really “complaining” and it's not about a Nigerian committing to Rust, but to Libra itself.
I've always wanted to do this to record and report on the number of gunshots I hear every night - hundreds go unreported

If I were you, I'd expend 100% of my efforts into figuring out how to move to a safer neighborhood.

Despite all the news reports, in many cities in the USA people can and do live their entire lives without hearing a single gunshot.
Yeah, that’s exactly the point. Billions of people with thousands (millions?) dying each day, leads to a pretty continuous curve, not one with gaps at the tail.
The author states that at 300dpi they cannot perceive any loss of detail with 20/15 vision.

But a higher standard would be if at any distance, they cannot perceive a difference between 300 and 400dpi.

Maybe the result would be the same, maybe that was even tested, but when I hear something is the best of the best I am going to look for even a tiny window of improvement!
The momentum has been lost.

Mediatek is a much more conventional vendor than what Allwinner was, moreover a Taiwanese company without advantage in mainland China.

I think Qualcomm is quite used to competition from such.
A community Discord has worked well while building Print Nanny, which monitors 3D printers using computer vision. https://www.print-nanny.com/

I love that people share their latest projects, chat about experiments. 3D printing is such a creative hobby and I'm constantly amazed with the ingenuity I see. Really helps me stay motivated through the night/weekend grind.

A few stats about my beta program:

* Roughly 2,200 applications for the private Beta program

* 200 beta invitations sent

* 100 actually used the product

* 180 hanging out in Discord

* 6 months of nights/weekends development

* 10 paid Beta spots offered, sold out in 2 days

I do support over email or Discord.

I think event-based analytics like Posthog are more valuable than a chat bubble integration, if you have to choose 1 to implement. People often tell you more with their actions than with words.

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Ex-Glencore trader indicts NNPC officials over Nigerian oil bribery scheme
To be clear, yes. The issue is with how Go's "interface{}"s (and some other types - like slices, etc) work - it's two pointers that can't be written to atomically, which means you can get into a situation where your objects are invalid.

https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m...

Here you can find a POC.

You could argue that this is contrived, but it's also not going to be fixed. This is in contrast to Rust, where there may be implementation flaws leading to unsafety in safe code, but the language retains the right to fix those, even if it breaks code.

Still, I think there's really no question that Go is a major step up over C and C++.
It is 2021, and you can still insert a transaction book along your card in Japanese ATMs. I do it regularly.