skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything that isn't a (: happy comments :) is a FLWOR:

<users>
{
for $user in //users
let $comments = //comment[@uid = $user/@id]
where count($comments) > 0
order by $user/lastName, $user/firstName
return <user id="{ $user/@id }">
<name>{ concat($user.firstName, " ", $user.lastName) }</name>
<comments count="count($comments)">
{
for $c in $comments return <comment id="{ $c/@id }" />
}
</comments>
</user>
}
</users>

It's the bastard child of SQL and XPath 2 lol.

http://www.stylusstudio.com/xquery-flwor.html
I have a guy in my team who hasn't produced anything meaningful. 3 months ago I told my manager and the product owner that I can not include him into our sprint plans since he can not deliver anything. He still shows up in the scrums and tells us he is "working on errors". No one has any clue what he is supposedly doing. We wish our manager would just fire him.

Currently our suspicion is that he is related to some higher up.
Self driving??
>He's a frickin genius because he found ways to break the law with impunity for his own profit ?

Obviously he did not break the law, finding holes like that is the number one job of a tax-lawyer.
Who like to get their monthly groceries to be free?
Hey, We are building a grocery delivery platform (Glist), where you could get up to 100% discount on groceries, vegetables, meat & fish.

But when I talk this, that we can provide up to 100% discounts (I mean free), no one is ready to believe it.

We do that through invitations (referral marketing). When you invite your friends and when they make a purchase through us, you get a percentage of the sale, as wallet balance. It's not 1 time, but whenever they purchase you get a referral percentage for the sale. We provide 1% of the total sales as referral commission, which is not huge at all. But when the volume increases, that becomes big for the customer.

For example: let's say you buy $400 worth of groceries every month.
So when you refer, one of your friends, who also buy $400 worth of products through us, you get a $4 (1%) instant discount on your next purchase.

If you were able to refer, 100 such customers who buy $400 worth of groceries every month, you will be able to get $400 discounts every month, that's a 100% discount for your monthly groceries.

100 referrals might seem hard to reach. But we help our customers through educational content/videos to reach that level using simple social media and online marketing techniques, by providing all their customized marketing materials.

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I would like to know what's your take on this idea. It's a simple idea.
People walking around without loudly shouting every private thought that enters their head, and without having conversations through megafones, could prevent detection of child abuse, authorities say.
> use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter

I'd rather not support the ecosystem at all if they pull stunts like this.
Are you even paying attention? This isn't true. You can be censored from social media for all sorts these days. This last year we had a UK media organisation banned from YouTube for questioning the UK COVID response. People in the US are no longer allowed to question the legitimacy of their elections on most social media platforms. Even US media outlets like the NYPost were censored for running stories Twitter didn't like during the US election.

Yeah, sure you can be banned for questioning if an untransitioned man wearing a wig is really a women, but this isn't what most people are concerned about. The censorship has now gone far further and in many cases to simply disagree with mainstream narrative on some politically charged subject will be enough to have you removed. One of my favour YouTubers "Mouthy Buddha" was banned for making some videos about Epstein and paedophilia -- the guy produced "conspiracy" content but it's really high quality stuff with no hate at all.

I mean even the US president was banned for "violence" despite asking rioters to go home, being acquitted and the FBI finding that there was no coordinated insurrection plan.

I'm not coming at this from any political position. A lot of content social media platforms censor I don't like, but that doesn't mean I think it should be censored. Things like racism have been deliberately defined in a very loose way that practically anything can now be considered racist and used as an excuse to censor. A popular comedian in the UK got banned during the world cup for saying, "all I'm saying is, the white guys scored". He was mocking how the UK media had been running stories for weeks about how the "diversity" of the England team is what made them great, but that wasn't allowed because "racism".
It already exists, it’s called a scooter.
Corporations do not so dissimilar things with teams of accountants and lawyers. Via tax planning, international subsidiaries and all other sorts of loopholes.
They selling points:

Vim like

VsCode Extension

Not an electron app

Btw, I'm not try it yet.
Yes, but some img formats are valid even if the end of the file is garbage, meaning you could display a fully functional image, and still host a hidden content. Not easy to check.
Very helpful, thanks.

It sounds like you're saying the banks get a special carve-out to provide this service simply because the regulator is different.

On a fundamental level though, I still don't see the difference.

I do have to disagree with the last paragraph though. Consulting with relevant regulators when the legislation is unclear (or non-existent) seems like the opposite of a red flag.
Oil is mostly traded for dollars because everyone is selling/buying in dollars, so the best most liquid prices are in dollars, not because the US government forces it.

You can sell oil in whatever currency you like - Iran settled in Euros before (and probably after) sanctions, there's physically settled oil futures denominated in Chinese Yuan and oil producing countries often make deals directly with other countries in currencies that offer less fluctuation.
While it's a carbon neutral-ish way (except launch options and production of the satellites) to get power, the energy that the solar panels beam down is going to heat up the Earth as well.

The better the efficiency of the solar panels, the worse the shadowing effect. Even worse, the solar array in orbit also reflects heat back at Earth! If the size of the array is significant enough to shadow Earth from the sun, it's obviously significant enough to impact this flipside of the balance of radiative transfer. Keeping it on the day side always would offset that ... maybe - but for that it would have to be in solar orbit.

Any energy you transfer to Earth (fusion reactors in orbit, off-planet solar arrays, whatever) is part of it, the form of energy does not matter much, almost all of it is heat in the end and affects the thermodynamic equilibrium of the planet.

As an exaggerated example, if you put a giant solar array into solar orbit and beamed the converted power to Earth, it's like Earth suddenly having a larger surface but just for receiving solar radiation. For the purposes of Earth radiating heat back into space, the solar array does nothing.

Sure, the effects wouldn't be multiplied as with an atmosphere with too many far IR-scattering molecules that we have now but the power wouldn't come for free.
Remote follow don’t work as good as hardcore users would like it to. Federation mechanisms would have to have kilo- to mega-posts/second bandwidth but not happening.

Also that federation choice being in hand of instance owners makes an account on each instances a must. You are going to have a person or two that your instance owners don’t like, or instance or two that don’t like yours.
Not only that, democratize would imply that the general public has influence on the project through voting, for example.
And that go-to solutions / golden hammers like REST / JSON are very much suboptimal.

I mean I'm still going to use it for client/server communication and the like because I don't have serious performance constraints enough to warrant something that will be more difficult to develop for etc, but still.
And how can they know that this [0] is illegal ?

[0] : https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/article/484c1e1a0c41d4482f6fc121132...
Vast majority of the general users of Electron apps don't know what Electron is. Neither whether the apps use it. It's better to have an official support through electron than to have none.
Have a look at NASDAQ ITCH, OUCH, and RASH
(these are the real names, the story I heard is the original author of didn't like the usual corporate style brand names and wanted certain people to squirm when talking about them).
> Because progress is mostly done on value and not absolute costs.

Oh.. am I reading you correctly? You don’t see the value in creating $1,000 cars that have subscription packages for self-driving, heated seats, navigation, etc?

> the definition of what makes a computer “super” is what evolved, not their cost or other burdens.

I feel like you’re intentionally deflecting. Clearly my point was that “we get significantly more, for significantly less”. There is no reason to assume we won’t do the same with cars, or all
manufacturing with time. I’ve laid out some points why/how in a different response.
Note: Go here is the Game of Go, it's not about Bignums in golang ..
It's a huge market in term of sales but not profits. It's a terrible market to operate in - capital intensive, cyclical, cut-throat competition with low margins. It will suck billions to produce (maybe) a tiny fraction of the profits they make on phones.
Who the fuck thinks it's a good idea to run database on networked storage?
Did you seriously just reinvent Winny there!?
Cite? Prevailing building code design criteria[1][2] suggests otherwise.

[1] https://cdn-codes-pdf.iccsafe.org/bundles/document/new_docum... 2017 Florida Residential Code Fig 301.2(4) Ultimate Design Wind Speeds V_{ult}

[2] https://cdn-codes-pdf.iccsafe.org/bundles/document/new_docum... 2020 New York Residential Code Fig R301.2(5)B Regions Where Wind Design is Required
Unfortunately no one gives a shit about native UI. Look at apps like Spotify and other Electron apps
Focusing on a small but important detail that some have already mentioned but with a more aggressive tone... was your "loophole" system tested in an actual litigation at any point?

What I mean is that this:

> The IoM server would call the Swiss server every time a hand was dealt

might seem like a clever loophole around the laws in IoM, but in reality it sounds to me like the kind of technicalities that wouldn't really pass the reasoning of a human judge, who in their duty of interpreting the law and its intended spirit, would probably consider this an invalid trick and thus that the RNG of the system still resided in IoM, even if technically it didn't.

But of course, none of this matters if the casino never had any legal battle to fight where this idea could be tested in court, which is the equivalent of not being "caught".
This is such a good explanation.

It made me understand that this is all about protecting the customers investment, and, if nobody is protecting it, then it would have to be the SEC who does it, but they can only do this if it is a security. If it isn't a security which has to be protected by the SEC -- like Coinbase is claiming -- then who is protecting it? This appears to be what the SEC wants to have answered. Coinbase instead wants the SEC to tell them what to do about it, but that they don't want to set it up as a security. Yet Coinbase would be happy with just proceeding without any protections in place.
"You don't have permission to access the URL on this server."
The modern ones are quite impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTok6imfgoM

Still very expensive, but with tech it's just a matter of years
I'm quite optimistic about this too. Sure, we have to reduce our impact on the climate and be responsible about it, but even in the worst case scenario, I'm confident that we'll just find a way to deal with it.
The current apocalyptic scenarios we see on the medias is too extreme and pessimistic.

"If the Earth can't support seven billion people, then all seven billion of us just have to figure out a way! That's how science works!"
Will imgur be able to detect this and remove it? Because it looks that many parties might try to abuse it: "free hosting".

If anything is provided for free someone will come and ruin it...
Interesting. You mean support the use of the SYNC_IN and SYNC_OUT pins? I could break those out. Looks like they are still working on support, but I could break out the pins.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4151
Thank you lokedhs, I avoided putting a link initially, but since you asked and this whole thing is in order to help this person that lost their job due to covid, I'll link it here: https://www.etsy.com/it/shop/NerdyGeekyThings

I completely can relate to your feeling: when I was 10 I had a ZX Spectrum, and it was my whole world. Back then my mother had heath issues (later resolved fortunately) and was in Milan while I remained in Sicily with my grandparents. What saved me from thinking bad things was going to the room at the 2nd floor, plugging my spectrum in the TV, feeling it's rubber keys, and even moving the cable in order to make sure the image was stable. And then doing this so magical things: coding or inserting a cassette where new incredible world, in form of games, would emerge.
>>> I'm not angry, I'm hostile.

Hah! This made me laugh. Ok so not FOMO..(trust me, wasn't worth it except for the thrills).. why hostile? I was born in a Vegas family. My uncles all worked as blackjack dealers and pit bosses. When I was 7 they used to leave me in a corner of the casino for hours and tell me to stand there while my parents went and gambled. I taught myself to code there on a TRS-80 Model 100 in basic and practically the first thing I wrote was a slot machine. My view is that adults want to go gamble and that's their decision. I never took a dime from anyone I saw with a gambling problem... I would ban them from my site if they seemed addicted. I like to gamble myself. I count cards. Like everyone on my site... because my decks were single shuffle. So don't be so judgmental. I didn't do it for the money. I did it because I love the games.
It's not anger. It's jealousy.

The same jealousy that's called "opinionated" in software development, but really means "Doing things differently than how I do them threatens me, because my sense of superiority is rooted in how I do things."
This has all its place on hacker news because it is a fun hack, but it's not at all practical. Not only it doesn't work in all browsers even fairly recent ones (service workers), but even when it works it necessitates javascript enabled, and imposes a non negligible additional load time. And more importantly, with the way it is recommended to use it using 404.html file as a "catch all", it means all your pages are served as 404 errors, which can be a problem for a lot of things (starting with search engine indexing).
definitely they weren't mocking you then!
Yup, Neovim has become very interesting again due to LSP. Still requires quite a bit of config though.

For anyone interested there's also vscode-neovim [1] if you like what VSCode comes with out of the box but want a full-on nvim instance interpreting your keystrokes.

I'm currently using a combination of terminal nvim and this vscode plugin depending on language.

[1]: https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim
I remember that compared to the usual NASA graphics, the graphics for the MOL were oddly empty inside. No attempt to sketch out the "science" payload(s). Shoulda figgered it was spook stuff.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we ban that sort of account because we're trying for a different sort of website here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Personal attacks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436072 are particularly bad, so please don't do that any more.
You need to spoof the Referer (or just copy the link and open it in a new browser tab).
Unlike vim, this is not open source.
Programming Languages and “Small Core“
I'm disappointed, would've been cool if it was done on the fly
Agreed, a single-pole IIR filter would be cheaper and have a better frequency domain.
Linguist Overrides
Are you trying to make an argument?

I'm equally hostile to corporations doing that. I don't recall the HN comment threats about Google doing the kind of things you describe being full of replies congratulating their ingenuity.

Big corporation doing bad thing is bad doesn't mean much smaller corporation doing bad thing is okay, it means we should work on preventing that bad thing and if we seemingly can't we should reconsider the underlying systemic conditions that enable it.
I don't know about "everything" but they for sure share a platform and stuff such as air vents, etc.
Just like with anything security, it's not about eliminating 100% of the risk but making it harder for enemies to attack you. Crypto might not be the holy grail solution, but securing your lifeline for living in society (money), is a pretty good start.

> Now this rogue nation state targets your landlords, your water company, your kids' school.

Without access to money you can't get any of these things. With cash, you can manage to find lodging, food and education for your kids.
Sorry! Fixed entirely.
Why doesn't it matter?
Yes it is. If only it had Australia's sunshine!
Yes, but as you said it's fun, and it would actually be practical if you'd put the unpacking server side, as a way to save hard drive space. Or with a cli tool. It could even shard the content among several images as well, or create a FUSE driver for it. Combine it with webtorrent or a p2p webrtc cdn for additional coolness.
I used to be. I got a web design job in San Francisco when I was 18 out of high school but I burned out and quit when I was 21. Drove a taxi so I could write and play music. Did it for a couple years. It was a good education. I feel old. Taxis don't even exist anymore.
>There's an obsession in the programming language community with having a "small core" of the language and a large standard library/vocabulary of things built from it. But over time I've come to think this is a mostly academic thing that users of languages don't care about as much

Yes, but what's important is not whethet they "care about it" but whatever they should care about it.

In other words, whether it's a good language characteristic, and users are misguided in not caring for it.
Could you perhaps qualify what makes that image illegal? I don't want to open it not knowing what I'm in for.
What was your favorite game back then?

For me it wasn't the ZX, it was Vic20 and then C64. I wrote my first program on a C64, and then many others. Back then I thought that BASIC was the only way to code.

One of my favorite games was "Assedio", written by an Italian programmer, a simple but powerful strategy game. And then, of course, many others.
But at least Credit Suisse is proud to be an LGBTQ+ supporter since a week, but be aware they spy on you like china would do.
Logically identical is not legally identical.
Requiring javascript is fine in my opinion. Almost everyone has javascript enabled. And the few power users without javascript will enable it if they want to.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but yes, it does make it tricky to hold the line against this sort of egregious interference while also imposing this kind of egregious interference.
Example of ECS that was published on GitHub before this patent was even filed: https://github.com/jonascarpay/apecs.git
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Skripal

The FSB also seems to get to (try to) assassinate certain crown subjects on British soil without consequence if they want to badly enough.
>> I wish HN would chill out with the auto-editorializing

> Manual editorialising, too

This is a classic sample-bias situation. The bad changes you notice stand out a lot more than the good changes you notice—or more likely, pass over without noticing. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If any of you know a strategy that's applicable in general, which would result in a better-quality front page over all, I'd love to hear it. This is a global optimization problem, though. You can't judge it by local failures, and (much as I wish otherwise!) batting 100 is not an option.
imgur is already providing free hosting, and as FUSE over gmail driver have shown, it can be abuse, although it's not very practical, and it probably is.

I mean, if you gotta serve a malware payload, you are not going to host it yourself, so hidding it in an image on a public website is a good strat.
i run a mailinabox for almost a year now. had initial trouble with gmail. now its all fine and i have no trouble connecting to anyone.
as i said, when you pay with crypto, the VPS provider has what data on you? you obviously wont use your real name to sign up for vps or domain so what can they give besides access to the server? even if that was done, won't you know?
> with the way it is recommended to use it using 404.html file as a "catch all", it means all your pages are served as 404 errors

That's due to GitHub Pages not having any rewrite mechanism other than the 404.html hack. You can host the same thing on Netlify/Vercel/any other host with proper rewrite support, including a server of your own, and not have this problem.
In a sort of odd way it's an interesting playing field leveler, attractive people are often given more leeway in life. Who's going to complain to HR if I turn up to work and I don't actually look like the lead man from a black and white film.
Can you name some? Never herd of such thing…
I don’t think it’d hold up in court. This is the same as saying: “I bet you ten bucks when I mail my friend in Switzerland, he will mail back a ten.” The random part is being done in another country, but the betting is still being done wherever you and your friend are.
I own one, it's a true three star experience. It's completely unique in its class as it's a true e-ink display at A4/Letter scale and even has two monochromatic backlight sources, one without any blue light. That rocks.

It's a near-perfect reader and digital notepad and that's what I use it for.

The software however is bad. Did I say bad? It's laggy, it's supposedly Android but not really. Lots of apps only work semi-well if they use colors or greyscale. It feels like using a tablet device from a decade ago.

In the end, I'm still rather happy, but it's hard to justify the price point.
I have asked to visit there before making up my mind and the company has agreed to send me over for a trip - which is awesome.

Just gotta wait for these borders to open back up.
We need a facecoin or traincoin or deepcoin
Your computer can use software output as a webcam source instead of a hardware device.
Thank you for that first link, a really interesting read and timely for me. I will probably buy the book
Yes, they traded in USD. But they did not use the Fed's accounting systems to do so.

Similarly, if I send you 1000SAT through the lightning network, I am trading in bitcoin, but not using the bitcoin blockchain to do so.

Sure, Lightning relies on guarantees offered by the bitcoin blockchain to promise payment security. But it's not the same thing, and the Lightning network could become compromised even if the bitcoin blockchain remain secure For example, if Lightning accidentally started adding an extra 0 to transactions, if I send you 100 SAT over the LN you could see that you are receiving 1000 SAT and send me some products. Later, when the channel is closed, the bitcoin blockchain would refuse the final transfer, but it may be too late.
And this is the foundation of the Second Amendment despite the intense opposition to it. The Second Amendment creates lines that even the government will be unwilling to cross.