skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how Apple will react to this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952
I would think this is the main reason. Borrowing is a lot cheaper than cap gains in a lot of countries and it is legal.
I trust HN community advices almost as much as my grandma ones.
The CIA, through it's funding arm In-Q-Tel, bought into early [social media data mining firms](https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-funded-by-cia-2016...) as well.
I'm not reading that Apple employees don't value OS in OP's message, I'm reading that Apple is banning OS contributions, unless special exemptions are given, and that it is hard to get those.

Is OP wrong in his description of Apple's rules and permission wrt OS?
A note of warning: I'm afraid this topic brings many propagandists. Both in the "Spanish nationalist" side and in the "anti-Spanish" retoric.

The facts are there, search for information, but be aware that for many years the English language narrative of the History of Spain has been dominated by the Black Legend [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_(Spain)
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Lending is a fundamental operation in futures markets. It allows you to establish positions worth many times your collateral.
From what I can discern from their website they are not allowed to offer interest bearing accounts in NY [1] which contradicts your claim.

> Unfortunately we're unable to offer the interest account in NY.

> We're hopeful that some of the state rules and regulations surrounding crypto change in the near future so we will be able to offer our interest account in those states. Unfortunately BlockFi's hands are tied until those rules and regulations change as we take our Compliance extremely seriously.

[1] https://help.blockfi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049344531-Why-...
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Yeah this is the crux of the problem. As the definition of journalist becomes so broad that everyone falls into this category so to does the number of journalists going to prison.

The counter is that if there is too strict a definition of journalism - you put to many controls on the group. It almost feels like you should need some kind of standard to qualify as a journalist (again that has issues with it as well).

It's fraught either way but I don't think I am alone here when I say a lot of journalists around the world don't really qualify as journalists and are actually activists under guise (both on the right and on the left).
Doing this with eBPF is definitely an improvement, but when I look at some of the sidecars we run in production, I often wonder why we can't just... integrate them into the application.
Canadian startup promises homeownership for just $15K, but some see red flags
Pretty interesting project. I'm curious what the data structure looks like that is sent over the network for diffs. I found the part about state-vector, but not about the actual data.

Does it diff the JSON string, or the objects/array themselves? Does it serialize the data or leave as plain text?

I ask, because I have a similar setup, that needs to sync dynamic data structures, but also keep the data deltas as small as possible when sharing them as JSON strings to save bandwidth.
Exactly- that should be a huge networking accelerator

Go out for lunch / coffee / beer

Or come to HN and compain
> people who ... comment on public affairs in any media

I mean... I do that, but I'm clearly not a journalist.
There's no mention of privacy I can find; should you mention anything in the README about encryption? In particular with an SFU.
The article says $1.1 trillion, not $11 trillion.
Is there a readable link on this?
Interested in what gets suggested here...

There are a lot of "CS Course Online" type suggestions posted on HN, which are great - but for those of us with full time jobs and lives it's just a non-starter to approach that quantity of material.

I'm also more of a hands on learner which is how I got to where I am - but at the same time I can appreciate and happily absorb a well written, thoughtful book... In other words, I only have time for high quality, and high information density.

My meta suggestion in answer to the author: Not to downplay the utility in general CS knowledge and fundamentals, but you already sound like you are driven and have a direction - I recommend you ride that wave and buy books or seek out material that's more specific and relevant to what you are doing right now. You will soak it up so easily when you have something right in front of you to apply it to or think about - it's an opportunity, you will work on different things throughout your working life and this opportunity may pass. Personally, I have found CS fundamentals work their way to the surface through research into these more domain specific things - although I still recognise I could have much better awareness if I tackled it head on as you are suggesting.
What? That’s an incredible story if true...
Do you know what the hiring process is like for the CIA?

https://www.cia.gov/careers/how-we-hire/hiring-process/
Based on the description you give, you probably want a Data Structures/Algorithms intro.

The canonical Algorithms textbook is Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al. The MIT OpenCourseware course on Algorithms -- which includes videos and assignments -- follows along with that book: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Note: In your case, I'll recommend against SICP as a first resource, which is mentioned in some other comments. It's more of an introduction to functional programming. From your description, I'm not sure you need an intro to programming. And functional programming in particular is not really on the critical path of knowledge you'll need to muck about in VR land. It's not irrelevant, but it's not the critical path. An algorithms course probably is indispensable for that endeavor, though.

By all means, read SICP if you'd like. It's a great resource. But if you're trying to get from "I can program" to "hardcore hacking on VR stuff", step 1 is probably a decent algorithms course taught in the imperative style.
I don't know those markets much but, prima facie, those numbers seem like hooey. Citations definitely needed.
If you're buying a $100M painting like Guernica - you should probably be an expert...
Having something that can screen calls for spam, something that can stop you accidentally dialling a premium rate number and getting an unexpected large bill, or something that can intercept a call and route it over a cheaper VoiP connection is really useful.

It needs to be a carefully managed feature, but it's certainly not "zero need".
That's scary stuff. Especially because there's basically no going back.

I remember seeing a documentary about orcas, which are basically being poisoned and starved to death by us in certain locations. It was a Jean-Michel Cousteau documentary, and although I can't find the video I remember, he had his children tested for poisons. If I recall correctly, his son actually tested a bit high for mercury, and Jean-Michel Cousteau was emotionally shell-shocked because he is one who perfectly understands the dangers.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seafood-crisis-a-vital-co_b_2...

It is absolutely shocking how we have just completely destroyed the environment and the ocean over the past two centuries. Whales off the cost of Thailand have had to adopt new feeding techniques because the water is so polluted and hypoxic, fish stay very close to the surface to get more oxygen.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/feb18/nop13-hypoxia.ht...

It isn't hyperbole just how moronic humans are with our technology. For every problem we "solve", we create hoards of new problems with often devastating effects.
I'm interested in revenue for infrastructure, high speed rail, social obligations and defense so I'm concerned about tax cheats and money laundering. Might the same technology that is used to implement decentralization also be used by tax collection agencies in kind of a DIRS (decentralized IRS) to track the lifetime of every Bitcoin (for example) and insure the appropriate taxes are paid along the way. Maybe a tax on every transfer.
Professional organizations are extremely effective gatekeeping mechanisms.
I actually have moved since I saw them all time. I'm not far away but not on their flight path anymore. :(
Tesla user here: It does not work.

My Model 3 does not disable autopilot or enables any kind of warning even if you play games with the controller while driving... At least in Europe. Please note that I just tried this once for sake of science and Im not interested in putting lifes in risk
Thats the point
In a sense I think the yields on stable coins are a reflection onto the user of value which would otherwise be captured by the banking industry. There are some assurances lost at the same time, and most would consider stablecoins less safe than a bank, but these are tradeoffs one makes when using stablecoins.
> it might stick around for a long time now

This is the most important financial lesson of the pandemic for me.

There is something deeply wrong with many parts of our economy and financial system, any one who is an expert in any specific area will tell you that things seem weird and don't make sense.

A great example of this is ad tech. I've worked in ad tech for many years and strongly agree with Tim Hwang's Subprime Attention Crisis. Everything is a house of cards, fraud (intentional or not) is wide spread.

However one thing that Hwang (or anyone pointing out that our systems are houses of cards, scams, or otherwise unsound) fails to answer is the question "what makes it fall apart?"

I'm a huge fan of at least the film version of the Big Short, which does a great job exploring the 2008 financial crisis and how unstable our financial system can be. But it's important to recognize that a key part of everyone's discovery isn't just realizing "this is all bullshit" it's realizing precisely when and why reality will come crashing in. There's even a great scene where Michael Burry calls the major banks and realizes that they essentially won't let the market collapse until they get their piece, that they can essentially push back reality a bit until they get theirs.

So crypto may be unquestionably a ponzi scheme, but what will make that scheme fall apart? ad tech might be mostly bs, but what will make everyone stop paying into it? stock prices maybe completely out of line with reality (with inflation and cash injections who even knows) but what will force them to face reality?

We may all be living in la la land, a wild fever dream, but pointing out you're in a dream doesn't always make you wake up. The question is "what precisely will wake us up". And for all the things that seem very wrong with our current world, I have yet to hear anyone give a concise answer or even guess as to what this is. If the pandemic didn't knock over our house of cards, I'm not entirely sure what will or when it will happen. If Wile E. Coyote never looks down after running of a cliff, will he still fall?
"When I developed the Famicom, I put all the basic functions that were necessary to make it as a gaming device. For the Switch, it's inherited all that over the years. All the successes and failures of the Famicom are inherited by the next generation of consoles and onward."

What did he consider to be the failures?

EDIT: Added the first sentence of the quote.

The way I read the quote is he felt there where fundamental designs decisions that have been passed down all the way to the Switch. Some of which he considers to be failures.

I imagine he is talking about the hardware/software stack. OS seems pretty custom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...
That salary is roughly $900,000, post-tax. If you couldn't retire off of that today, let alone use that money to live comfortably for a substantial amount of time, then I simply don't know what to tell you
I feel that there are definitely some areas where currently-available technology is not being fully exploited - things like calculating the weight and center-of-gravity position (would it measurably increase any sort of risk to put a load cell in each strut of the undercarriage?), checking the parking brake is off when accelerating above taxiing speed, and calling for an abort, before it is too late, if the acceleration on takeoff is insufficient.

The inverse of your "all systems nominal" light exists, in many if not all commercial airplanes of any size, in the form of the master caution and master warning lights, but you also need to know what, specifically, is going wrong.
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Like El Salvador!

.....who uses the USD.
So what I hear you saying is that NFT concept only works if everything becomes an NFT, immediately upon creation. Any hold-outs or delays gives room for fraudulent minting, which means you don't have a trustless system.

You can't say that NFTs are a trustless system when the origin of the NFT requires trust. You might as well assume the "+ C" term in all integrals equals zero. It's just factually incorrect.
The network is the base library - that is the shift you are seeing. You make a call out to a network address with a specific protocol.

Also, as an aside, I think WebAssembly has the potential to shift this back. In a world where libraries and programs are compiled to WebAssembly, it doesn't matter what their source language was, and as such, the client library based approach might swing back into vogue.
Are you suggesting a (jailed journalist) / (total journalists in the country) ratio to determine the level of control that the government is trying to exert?
Leaded gas still leaking and in the air from most every prop plane at every airport.

If you live near an airport you really, really should consider moving away.
Java's Deque is mutable (so, naturally, it will be much more performant). Also, I tried adding it to the benchmark but turns out that it doesn't support random access (for no good reason).
I’ve been writing software professionally since the 90s. Tons of software is pointless crap to make jobs.

I’m gonna go with Carmack on this one; you think you have a better understanding of it than him? It’s just ifs and for loops.

Sure some contexts require real nuance. But just because Grubhub IS massive doesn’t mean it needs to be engineered that way, that’s a byproduct of socio-political forces (money).

There’s nothing in any science or engineering book I’ve read that says “all software must be engineered as a large distributed application”. Again, a byproduct of contemporary business goals.

My generative art object app is not sending people to the moon and merely relied on me wrapping some well understood math in machine language syntax; it’s librarian work.

Your preference for adverbs and emphasis where you see fit to place it does not move me.

Accomplish something net new for humans, cause I’ve been sending data grams over the internet since the 80s. Grubhub isn’t all that interesting
> PayPal and Venmo and the like already make this very easy

They make it easy because they abstract away the underlying mechanics. Novi for WhatsApp does the same, but for a much, much larger audience, and does so instantly. While it isn't shackled by the baggage of the financial industry born in an era far removed from the current one, the pace of improvements and deployments can be much faster in face of changing regulations, jurisdictions, and technology itself.
Or if your account is deleted (such as when you leave a company), I could see this happening.
legendary craftsman. rip
It's nice to see Alan Turing honored with a PL named after him, but tbh. the closest analogy to a turing machine is brainf*

;-)
> Well a lot of it is coming from incentives of these protocols

I keep seeing this for DeFi.

- So you put 1 fiat into the magic box, and 2 fiat comes out. Where did the 1 fiat profit come from?

- DeFi collateralized staking algorithms hash
protocol incentives!

- Yeah whatever but no really, it's a closed system so all inputs and outputs need to sum up, where did the new fiat come from?

- YoU dOnT uNdErStAnD cRYpTo!!1!!
Stablecoins will turn into CBDCs and CBDCs will serve that purpose. Bitcoin is down from 68K to 48K in the last what 3 weeks? Stores of value don't flail wildly and incoherently at the whims of a few whales, and given it supports 2-3 tx/sec using the energy of an entire country, it's a crap medium of exchange too.

The future of crypto for anyone other than an anacap libertarian is CBDCs.
Some would say that's the intended goal (solving the over population problem).
Good. Phrases like that are just spammy and annoying and don't belong in app titles.
> at least for those of us who consider them to have value

That’s the rub isn’t it? They have absolutely zero intrinsic value, and any energy expended to mine them and give them value is a literal waste.

> what would it take for you (and others who share similar views) to change your mind about crypto

It would help if we could go a month without another DAO breaking.

Ultimately I have enough faith in the system that I want my money to be centralized.
IMHO many of this stories (around lead but also other thinks) show less how "evil"/"reckless" the industry is but more about how broken the US law is wrt. regulating things.

I most stories which still apply today it's often "oh in EU this is heavily restricted or forbidden or tax wise penaltized since a long time, in some
member state since before the EU was founded..

Not that the EU doesn't has there own problems.

But still especially wrt. chemicals the US non-regulation is often just outright absurd.

The reason I'm so annoyed by this as a non US citizen is that due the the huge influence of the US it's is nearly always affecting many non-US countries negatively and sometimes is outright forced onto them. (But so does the EU, especially wrt. some brain-dead copyright laws, but less often with serious well known health risks).
This is great. My father spent 20 years in Ghana starting in the 1950s and married a local tribal woman. Louis Armstrong was my father's favourite musician, and now I have some idea of how that came about.
This is like expecting politicians to self-report their corruption...

Wonder who wrote... oh wait.
Hell if I know. But it's a definite trend I've noticed.
Bottom up cs is a great resource. https://www.bottomupcs.com/
It might feel very low level at first but once you understand these fundamental building blocks of computers you will be really well equipped to build upon this knowledge and learn higher level concepts. I also think the Rust Programming book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/) is a great resource for general programming knowledge. Some sections e.g. on the borrow checker and lifetimes aren’t 100% applicable to general programming knowledge but I still recommend it. It is more of a 201 level book instead of 101 though.
Likewise when I used to engage with an unreasonable relative,I was occasionally thanked privately by a stranger. There was no chance of changing the mind of the person I was arguing with, but many other people saw such things.
If you think of georgism as a tax on commons-created-value, then yes, lots of other applications make sense. You don't tax land per se - you tax the location of the land, which is given by the surroundings and, ultimately, by the whole society. This is why it can be both very high and very fair.

Labor tax on the other hand is one of the most unfair and with the worst incentives.
19.2 billion is not that much money in the global banking system. There is no reason why bondholders should be guaranteed a return. Bankruptcy is an option.

The broader risk is an unwinding of Chinese holdings by foreign entities who suddenly realize that the Chinese government will have them foot the bill for bets gone bad, or simply bets that the Chinese government doesn't like. China has capital controls to manage these outflows.

Which all leads to the scenario where foreign investors in China's economy are probably going to get taken for a ride at some point. Arguably some companies like ARM are already in this situation but it's in everyone's interest to pretend they are not.
Sounds tiring. Do you enjoy that?
The CIA works through a network of contractors and assets they cultivate over many years and through many layers of intermediaries. There are many levels of involvement beyond directly working for the agency.
Bacteria are microorganisms, meaning that they are life forms. The word ‘antibiotic’ breaks down into: ‘anti’ (against) and ‘biotic’ (life). Antibiotics act to inhibit the growth of, or kill, microorganisms, preventing their spread and multiplication. The first – and still most common – antibiotics come from fungi (e.g., penicillin) and specifically fight bacteria. Before the development of antibiotics for widespread use, about 70 years ago, there was a high mortality rate from bacterial infections, such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and sexually transmitted contagions.

Today, many forms of antibiotics exist to treat several different types of infections, including parasitic infections and some fungal infections. However, antibiotics do not work on viruses because viruses are not living organisms and so are ‘not alive’. Unlike living organisms with their own cells, viruses are segments of DNA (or RNA) that inject themselves into living cells, forcing those cells to do the work of reproducing more of the viral DNA.

This is why your physician will not prescribe an antibiotic for the common cold or flu. When we are sick, we often don’t know the full nature of the infection that is attacking our bodies. We just feel bad. This can be confusing because, for example, while a cold virus attacks our body, our immune system is working extra hard and we become vulnerable to developing other types of infections, such as pneumonia or strep throat, which are bacterial infections and usually treated with antibiotics.
There are good reasons more often than not.

Being able to pick up something generic rather than something language-specific.

Not having to do process supervision (which includes handling monitoring and logs) within your application.

Not making the application lifecycle subservient to needs such as log shipping and request rerouting. People get sig traps wrong suprisingly often.
I imagine it would be easy to add a search filter for ads or no ads, but they don't.
You're out of date. We run to our stablecoins now — the horses are hungry!

Also: Bitrefill.com, and that's without even running a search.

You may be impressed with both the offerings, and the currencies accepted. I know I was.
A satellite dish salesman with a storefront in Brooklyn, New York, was jailed in 2009 because he turned on the ability to watch al-Manar, a station associated with a political party that has made up 10+% of Lebanon's parliament since 2005 (both associated with the Shia organizational group in Lebanon, Hezbollah).

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/nyregion/24cable.html

Germany, France and other European countries have banned the channel as well.
JP and Brighton, nice parts of town.
>Who would invest in Chinese real estate now

The Chinese. Real estate is really the only investment open to the middle class. Property owners have on average nearly three properties, something stupid like that. That won't change.
This still would drive up the value of USD, it just allows for the depreciation associated with the sale currency to be spread out to a degree.

But the issue with this is that there are only a few currencies backed by economies large enough, relative to the US economy, to be able to trade for sufficient quantities of USD without really impacting the exchange rate.

If the impact is large enough, the only good solution is for the fed to agree to a currency swap.
I don't buy it -- GDPR is about protection of PII. Don't collect it, you're done.

OK, slightly flippant might take half an afternoon of training for all staff.

https://gdpr.eu/checklist/
Someone just posted that the ownership rate is 89% (apparently 92% as of newer data): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...