skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism
We pride ourselves on being unbeholden, but it's mostly self-deception. Take a look at this, and realize that even in the west, we aren't that far removed in the way our power structures operate.

https://aeon.co/essays/this-is-what-slavery-looks-like-today...
It's always been like this for chat applications; the API being discussed is for VOIP calls.

For chat apps, you use push notifications to alert users and wake up the app, that can do its own downloading through its own protocol. You don't need to use pushes to actually deliver content unless it's relevant to show to the users
unstable and unusable. next-gen pyramid scheme
So I'm wondering whether this HN exposure will be enough for some sensible humans to review these takedowns. I mean, is it embarrassing enough? I recall that Facebook reacted rather quickly after its "AI" took down videos inappropriately.
I'd hardly call a few sentences spelling it all out.

Your point is one I hear often, especially the "what's the point if the heat death is coming anyway."

Basically your argument lies in the "virtue ethics" category of philosophy which argues that man-qua-man should be the best man possible. Eudaimonia in the Stoic tradition and all of that.

Either that you keep your ideas to yourself mostly

Yes this is the case.
Gold wouldn't have this role if there was not substantial consumer and industrial demand for it.
There was another Chronic Fatigue Syndrome post a few days ago that has some interesting comment threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14896255

(Not a dupe, just a different article)
That looks like a white-labelling (i.e. custom domain) of SendGrid's click tracking feature.

As db38x noted, SendGrid is likely encoding a bunch of data in the link to keep things simple/fast on the back end. Possibly it's the actual target URL and some associated data like the link text.

It's also likely that they're conservative on the encoding they use to prevent issues with different email clients (looks like Alphanumeric, dash and underscore only).

That saves them tracking all that data in a database, which I presume at SendGrid's scale is quite a lot.
There is an interesting discussion between Hal Finney and Satoshi in 2009 about the possible value of bitcoin. This is back when it was just a random software project, and had zero value: http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/142207

As an amusing thought experiment, imagine that
Bitcoin is successful and becomes the dominant payment
system in use throughout the world. Then the total
value of the currency should be equal to the total
value of all the wealth in the world. Current estimates
of total worldwide household wealth that I have found
range from $100 trillion to $300 trillion. With
20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of
about $10 million.
Why not set off all nukes on the planet? All species have to "fight for survival", it'd just one more thing to adapt to, so no actual change.

Why did you even respond to my comment? I mean, electrons are buzzing about all the time, this just another configuration, nothing changed.

> If there's anything that is the largest danger to humanity is humanity itself.

Yeah, and thanks for not helping.
The context of the discussion is large websites acting as platforms. Their users are bound to have conflicting views about what's "objectionable". So when the moderation mechanism is deletion instead of letting users just filter then the website has to preferentially treat one group instead of being a platform for everyone.
https://github.com/openai

While not everything has been opened, they do have a bunch of things they've opened up, particularly the simulations for training AI in.
unless you can make the "jump" in total seclusion

Not sure if this is possible, but I think we can get pretty close.

there will always be people with guns to have a word with you

Yes, well it helps to already be one of those people. I spent 12 years in military intelligence and remain a reserve adviser to the Joint Chiefs and SECDEF on emerging technology.
I am not sure why you feel Servo is a huge mess. I have worked on all of Gecko, WebKit, Blink, Servo, and Servo is distinctly cleaner. (I think it's mostly because it's newer.) I guess it is still huge.
consider some of the up and coming alt coins instead. you can triple your investment in a week. Very unlikely with bitcoin.
You need a TV in every room so you're never left alone with your thoughts.
Agreed, which is why I think patriarchy is a bad term for communicating with conservatives or people who aren't used to feminist discourse. I prefer "gender roles".

reddit.com/r/Menslib is a good subreddit on these issues
I'll see if I can break this down a bit and keep it reasonably concise.

At a glance, the sort of thing this is doing is key frame animation of vector graphics primitives.

Vector graphics primitives tend to be simple geometric shapes (polygons) or curves (lines, arcs, bezier) that can be described using a small set data which are needed by an algorithm to draw that particular shape. For example, a triangle is described by its three corner vertices, and a circle by its center and radius. In this case, it appears that the circles may described by a set of bezier curves. This is different to raster graphics which describe an object as a set of pixels (a tile, or sprite), as was used for early video games. For display, vector graphics are rasterised from their mathematical description before they can be displayed on a screen.

Key frame animation is animation where an animation is described by a series of frames called key frames. The key frames are displayed in order at a specified time, with all other frames between key frames generated by some assortment of transformations or interpolations of the objects between frames. Key frame animation lends well to animations of vector graphics where the graphics primitives are described primarily using vectors, as vectors are easily manipulated using linear algebra, allowing an assortment of transformations and interpolations of primitives between frames.

A simple animation might work something like this:

1. Define key frame 1, containing 10 rectangles
2. Define key frame 2, containing 10 different rectangles
3. Define a one-to-one mapping of transitions between the rectangles in both frames
4. Specify a time interval for the transition from frame 1, to frame 2
5. At time t, interpolate/transform the corner vertices, and colours of the rectangles in frame 1 toward those in frame 2 proportional to t to create a new frame.
6. Rasterise the new frame to pixel data into a frame buffer for display.

There is a lot that goes into this. I recommend you do some reading on linear algebra, for the math. Particularly transformation matrices. You will be doing the majority of your work with linear algebra. Some existing technologies like the SVG standard will help with concepts, and potentially Adobe Flash will give you some idea of the keyframe animation (it used to do this very thing, but I haven't looked at it in many years).
"What if something goes wrong? What if its broken? What if there is a security issue?"

these are genuine concerns and you should do everything you can to minimize them.

"What if no-one cares or uses it?"

this, not so much. did you have fun making it? did you learn something making it? will you learn something launching it? if you can financially afford for it not to be a big hit, and you learned and enjoyed yourself and made something you're proud of, it's not a loss.
this is probably immediately evident as soon as you start going through his site, but fabian is a phenomenally smart guy. every one of his blog posts is gold if you care about things like graphics or compression.
https://fridgg.com - Fridgg lets you create a gallery to show off your own food photography, as well as discover other amazing food photography, delicious recipes, and great food bloggers.
It sure can be, especially when your lungs feel like they're going to burst and the surface appears to be minutes away. I had to dive to 53 feet for my free diving certification and it's very dark down there (seemingly more so than when you have tanks on your back:).

For anyone free diving at that depth, I'd encourage you to ensure there's always someone nearby that is capable of rescuing you.

Shallow/deep water blackout[1] is certainly dangerous with a buddy, but it's deadly if you're alone.

[1] http://divewise.org/science/physiological-causes-of-freedive...
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Citing one study (meta analysis or not) and claiming debunked is not a serious argument, especially with respect to diet where there is data all over the place.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721724/

There was an inverse association between soy food intake and sperm concentration that remained significant after accounting for age, abstinence time, body mass index, caffeine and alcohol intake and smoking. In the multivariate-adjusted analyses, men in the highest category of soy food intake had 41 million sperm/ml less than men who did not consume soy foods.
You're on a dangerous road. I asked these questions once, got a couple of books. Decided I needed to enrol on a couple of courses... 7 years later I had completed a math degree. :)
I don't understand the logic. Why should humanity go peacefully into oblivion with the advent of smarter than human machines? Do you feel like all the other species on this planet should have gone extinct with the arrival of homo sapiens?

Your argument is that since B is better than A, only B should exist. But why can't both exist? And what makes your valuation of B objective and universal, such that our grandchildren will go peacefully into oblivion?
Or, considering that these are almost surely zero-sum pump-and-dump scams, you can also lose your entire investment.
Is Mark Zuckerberg Killing Silicon Valley?
This is what happens when parents indulge far-fetched academic haziness because they don't have the strength to confront the obvious: their kid is depressed and lacking the social skills to cope with life.

Give that 33 year old a beautiful woman, money, and an executive level role at a tech firm and watch him suddenly only need 6 hours a day of sleep.

Mystery solved.
I thought I had CFS for years. Until I started exercising and eating right and stopped abusing coffee.
"Last week, Google fired a software engineer for writing a memo that... made statements about women’s biological suitability for technical jobs."

It's frustrating that our intelligentsia parrots this misinformation.
Last one out holds the bag.
I really don't think this is a big accomplishment. Dota 2 is a team game where 5 players all work together. I went in thinking I would see a 5v5 against bots. They promised a 5v5 against bots next year so we'll see how that plays out.
The same reason Lycos was worth $12B and Global Crossing was worth $50B.

Bubbles don't have to make sense.
Steemit is a social media platform where everyone gets paid for creating content
Bypassing financial regulations, extortion, llicit substance trade and many other forms of small-time illegal activities. If you strip speculative value and all the technical gloss, what's left is essentially Liberty Reserve 2.0.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Reserve

P.S. Fees has actually got lower since the worst back in May, but there is no telling it won't happen again. Paying for anon hosting is not a bad idea but fewer providers are willing to provide it now - Vultr still accept bitcoin but require to have credit card on file as well due to abuse.
This. I just bought 0.007 btc and sent it to a friend, and it cost less than 10 cents in fees overall.
> To the extent you can blame anyone for ultra efficient hyper capitalism, blame programmers.

This is as ridiculous as blaming serfs for the feudal system. You're conflating a symptom with the root cause.
In the words of Roger Ver - it's never too late. 5 years from now people will be kicking themselves for not getting into bitcoin when it was at $4000.
> If they always chose the top scoring best thing to do, then their lives would be too mechanically optimized, lacking in whimsey and spontaneity, and anything the user told them to do would deviate from the optimal path, making their lives less efficient, more miserable.

Couldn't they add a "monotony" factor to the SimMotive struct that increases as their daily life becomes too uniform, which in-turn leads to greater overall unhappiness if it's too monotonous, or greater overall stress if their days become entirely unpredictable?
Not sure how you came up with 5 cents but I get $1.36:
4000 dollars/btc * 10^-8 btc/satoshi * 150 satoshi/byte * 226 bytes/transaction = $1.356 per transaction
I remember reading the proof of his incompleteness theorem (or the portion of it that I had time to between classes). It's surprisingly approachable. AFAIR, he came up with a way to encode proofs as symbol sequences. Proofs that actually exist have finite representations. He then proved the theorem with that somehow. (Granted, I read it over a decade ago...)
Your phrasing is perceived as passive aggressive. If you wanted to be educated a better phrasing could be: "what makes this event important?", or "can anyone explain why is this on the front page?"

The phrase "why should I care?" Is most often used simply to say you don't care, kinda like a rhetorical question
Poor you having to interact with your environment and acknowledge briefly another human being. Perhaps we can invent an app for this.
That's... Not how any of that works
If you wanted to get confirmed in the very next block you could probably use 25 satoshi/byte at this point in time. Personally, if I were sending a non critical/time-sensitive transaction right now I would use about 5 satoshi/byte.
Wait for a crash. Buy bitcoins. Sell at this bubble high. Get rich quick. Repeat...
You can't have it both ways, either no-one cares or someone will find an issue or ten. But that's just a consequence of code(?) seeing wider use, the only way around that is to not share the code at all. Which unfortunately means stagnation and wasted life in the long run. I know you're not the only one who's torn between the urge to share and the issues involved. But then I remind myself that I mostly regret things I didn't do and get on with it. Speaking of: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis.
And why, exactly, total value of currency should equal total amount of wealth? What exactly is the contradiction, arbitrage or other mechanism that sets total value of currency to total amount of wealth?
Add Big Oil there too.
Is it legal to announce a funding event like this ICO in the press? Especially in a PR piece?
It's a strange corporate culture thats for sure
Yeah, but the method of learning is interesting - unsupervised training in a VR world. As CPUs become faster, than these type of problems will fall much faster.
Godel's incompleteness theorems are explored by many of Raymond Smullyan's books in a way that an inquiring high school student can understand it.
I maintain a Mastodon instance for those who are interested in functional programming: https://functional.cafe
> But that's the thing: You don't skip it. You spread it to every user. They both have to deal with whether or not they are willing to host the material and whether or not it is even legal for them.

> How many of us sympathise with the idea of running a Tor exit node, for example, but avoid it because we're worried about the consequences?

Tor isn't the best example, because exits don't cache anything. So mainly, exit operators get complaints. And the exit IPs end up on block lists. Operators don't typically get prosecuted. Maybe they get raided, however, so it's prudent to run exit relays on hosted servers.

Freenet is the better example. The basic design has nodes relaying stuff for other nodes. In an extremely obscure and randomized way. Also, keys are needed to access stored material.

However, nodes see IPs of all their peers. Investigators have used modified clients to identify nodes that handle illegal material. So users get busted. There is "plausible deniability". But it's not so plausible when prosecutors have experts that bullshit juries. So users typically plea bargain. Or, if they use encrypted storage, they get pressed for passwords. Like that guy in Philadelphia.
Sort of like Beanie Babies
One thing worth noting is the soil, if memory serves, the moon soil hs been described as being very sharp and clingy with some properties of asbestos, as in its very problematic. This is because there has been no water, winds etc to grind the sand as on earth.

Now on Mars the soil has been moved by winds and other natural phenomenon, so it should be far less problematic to just brush it off, not to begin on the more useful composition of it, I can imagine the iron will come in handy when the habitat gets to the point where they can start refining and producing.
at the very least, it's better than western union
He's being fed intravenously and can't speak. Read the article.
He speaks very well compared to a few years back where it was awkward to watch. Also, that's a nice prediction from news a day or two ago.
> I did read your comment as a touch condescending, just FYI.

Sigh, yeah, I need to watch that. Good of you to let me know.

My take on the not-listening thing -- of course I'm not Aron -- is that if you've heard a faction hector you a lot, and you don't think they're listening to you except maybe to match some of your words into their standard bingo cards, then it's natural to tune someone out the moment they say one of that faction's shibboleths. From this POV, telling the speaker how their rhetoric failed is actually reaching out to them a little. That's not the POV I aspire to: I try to consider more words that piss me off than I really feel like, because I meta-want to be less biased. Sometimes I do, and sometimes they even get through.

Re: social psychology, I'm just starting on Haidt's The Righteous Mind in hopes of learning some basics.

(Since many more people might read this, I guess I want to make it completely clear that I didn't say what brand of words piss me off.)
Avoid Directly Manipulating File Descriptors in Shell Scripts
Bitcoin wouldn't have any value if there wasn't demand for it.
> before we explored mars for indiginous life first!

We already have. It's a liveless rock. How much more do we keep moving the goal posts and beating that dead horse?
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IO language is a language that is similarly easy to extend. You might call it a language prototyping language in the sense that it's easy to test out language features (or whole new languages) in IO.
eh I already sold enough to cover my initial investment back years ago, it's smooth sailing for me since then :]
or Slate politics podcast reads Hacker News via the future, steals their thunder
Not to mention the fresh water consumption requirements for cattle are obscene.
Bitcoin adjacent companies like Nvidia are riding the craze and would be less susceptible to a tulip mania style crash if that's your concern
I suspect many Internet users are unaware that Google also owns reCAPTCHA.
Looks cool, but didn't you learn that we don't know?
The human species will end some day, as most species have. Historically speciation happens through slow pseudo random environmentally pressured transition. My position is that the logical next evolutionary transition will be engineered rather than "natural." And engineered in a way as to accelerate the next transition and so on.

So it's less so that one should be dominant it's that the progression would effectively end speciation for sapiens.

It's not related really to other life. However in effect, our acceleration of extinction of species, through resource use etc tells me that it would likely happen to us similarly.
The "dark" side of the moon is shielded from earth's considerable RF emissions. It's a great place to stick a massive radio telescope.
The finite bag of 21m coins? Vast majority of which are likely lost from when it was worth a few cents?

If bitcoin has utility, its price will reflect that.
Well, for one, the doomed endeavors (if it actually is) are often worthwhile for the following reasons:

-The technology that stems from attempting to answer the problem.

-The unforeseen consequences - i.e. Maybe someday we'll reach technology that can detect signals in a more advanced way than we can currently and, through recording data from the past, have captured a signal years before that technology exists.

-How many people buy into lotteries despite having awful odds? The odds may be bad, but it's non-zero.
Volume-wise, the biggest use case is speculation and store of wealth (just like gold in the physical world). By number of transactions it is gambling (eg poker), another one you forgot to list.
I'm baffled what people are finding offensive enough to downvote here. Did you see the words "feminist" and "patriarchy" and stop reading?
I know right... Everywhere I turn, I hear people preaching about "blockchain technology" and it's ability to "increase privacy" ... I die a little inside every time...
So did the rocket that came back. Quite a bit of mass did get left behind though.
I'm sure the world learned a thing or two from the agile movement. But like all movements it got twisted into semi-religious caricatures of the original message, like this post.

Event Kent Beck admits skipping tests when he feels like it, no big deal.

I hereby confess; I don't give a shit about icons, worship and obedience; I am creating.
I am madly in love with this mans writing, but MAN was that a tough read. With clockwork rocket (and the 5D sequences in Diaspora) I had to take some time with pen and paper to understand what he was saying, but Dichronauts takes this to another level entirely. I'm not sure I'll ever fully grok this one...

His more far-out books are fully recommended though if you want your mind blown with some exotics physics..!
CFS is a controversial diagnosis.
Only one intelligence left standing is an outcome that most people would find negative. It's like if Skynet was the last survivor of the Terminator franchise. Why would anyone want that outcome?
The original assumption was just world cash supply (M0), include all m3 supply and you in for a surprise.

Who creates money is the best answer to your questions.
Since when is destroying web standards acceptable? There are so many internet and intranet pages from 1994+.

In the name of security the change way too many moving parts lately to push their hidden agenda.

Using HTTP in local LAN is fine. Using HTTP for non login-pages is fine. Using "basic authentification" (user:pwd@IP) is fine for certain use cases. Stop breaking things.

I am not using a Firefox anymore, they went insane lately, they don't bother about their community anymore. I am worried about Chrome too, TLS only for HTTP/2 is the wrong signal. So many times I couldn't open a HTTPS sites because the browser thinks the cert is broken - it was just a trivial page were I just want to read some text (not input anything) - just some me the page - something that wouldn't be a problem with HTTP.

If Firefox, Chrome or whoever want to destroy access to 1994-2017 websites, go to hell. Name your forked off thing TheMicrosoftNetwork (or what not) and see it tank rather quickly.