skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
D-ID seems to me quite interesting, if only because their interests are directly opposed to those of several governments.

It's a shame they don't seem to offer a 1-click "buy now" alternative, but I imagine the process might be too time-intensive for that.
Think Star Trek...
I found airthium [http://www.airthium.com/] to be quite interesting I wonder how the efficiency compares with the liquid metal battery at Ambri http://www.ambri.com
> You are technically correct that allowing trading once wouldn't harm other students, but that is quite beside the point. The judge made this decision primarily on the basis that subsequent lotteries have to be held.

I gotta disagree:

Harm in this case is not the distinct action of losing a spot in school.

Harm, as ruled by a judge in accordance with their legal system, is the unequal handling and unequal distribution of opportunity to a legally mandated, tax-funded, government service.

The judge ruled the swapping unfair as it is _discriminatory_. The ESL author used a (highly appropriate!), term that's being parsed to death here based on a north american civil perspective.

Had we seen this ruling in the states we would say the swapping was "unconstitutional under the equal protections clause". Because making some people more equal some of the time makes the rest of us less equal all of the time. The winners are enhanced at our collective expense.
Yeah, you either need to be an investor or make friends with one of the founders and ask really nice
Doing yearly releases is such an obviously great idea that there must be a big reason why they are NOT doing it.
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Are you expecting another Visual Studio or IntelliJ?

I think Electron is a very cost efficient dev environment. Can't really think of writing all this up in plain C++, wiring up native calls for various OSes, leveraging GPU, support rapid plugin dev/prototyping etc., etc.
Once upon a time there was Qt, but now it's also doing qml+js..

Even if a NeoVim version of Eclipse (or whatever you think a 'more native IDE' is) is rolled up, by a small team comparable to oni's, are you going to _pay_ for it?

Oni: 17 contributors, one main dev.
IntelliJ: 249 contributors, Github fails to load stats in one minute.

So why not stop complaining about the IDE and put efforts into optimizing electron-like platforms? There's still a fat headroom for improvements! (WebAssembly etc.)
Compared to the military and law enforcement which back a regular currency, it's incredibly efficient. Especially when you count the human cost of conventional power politics in terms of oppressed minorities and corruption.
Streaming a movie for 0.9 cent is something I would hardly call a steal seeing how Netflix fee is 9 usd/month and a streamed video isn't something you can rewatch.
Also a lot of websites make money out of ads and your personal data but image that build in payment system that I described could be used to pay for my facebook use.
All those annoying ads and data collection goes away.
Facebook/Linkin/twitter are storing systems that present data in a certain way along with a address booking system.
Since they are all storing system that means that they are similar in cost with G Drive that costs 100GB/3 usd/month. 3 usd per month to use Facebook without data collection and ads!? Where do I sign up?
But there comes a point when you realize that you've been funding this on credit

The Germans aren't particularly indebted, certainly not as much as the US or UK.

Daniel Hannan has a deeply Eurosceptic view which colours his thinking on everything.
>You could be an author or an artist or something else, and have far more fulfillment in life than making 10x working at a job that you're good at but that doesn't bring you as much fulfillment.

Those who create might be that, but they are notorious for also being fussy, difficult to satisfy their creative urges, and often abuse themselves, etc.

We can also say that you can have tons of fulfillment without either making 10x at some job, or "creating" -- just by enjoying life, friendship, eating, relaxing, traveling, etc.

So, in that sense "the world belongs" to those who can enjoy it.

(Of course if we extend that to the logical extreme, the world belongs to the easily amused. Which might be a valid point).
DNS66 is super annoying if you regularly use a VPN for anything else.
FYI, Dave Jones of EEVBlog interviewed Stephenson at the Tidbinbilla antenna site recently:

https://www.eevblog.com/2017/04/19/how-to-contact-the-voyage...

Definitely worth watching for anyone who's into this stuff.
Capital has superior access to Research and Politics than a random Joe with a robot.

These won't splinter nowhere near as easily as manufacturing.
Automated algorithms have agendas too, and very unreliable ones.

No, they are perfectly reliable. They exactly mirror the agenda of whoever curated the training set.
> no one told Trump

With his track record of not listening and blaming FBI, NSA, and CIA, I think Trump is just too lazy to listen.

Also I think he lives in an alternate reality, his tweets are riddle with lies and also anger.
Spreading misinformation is what I was taking issue with not just disagreeing and making a stink about it like a troll might.
This is spot on. I share this worldview too.

Here are my thoughts I try to live by:

1. Know the type of person you are:

We are all creatives and contributors at our core. We all measure our self-worth by how much we give instead of how much we take. This is part of our natural human wiring - to want to belong deservingly to a village of individuals who pull their own weight. So, if you are not creating in your natural sphere of strengths, or you don't feel you're contributing to feel worthy of your own esteem you need to sit down and think. Fix this immediately.

2. Be prolific:

To be good at whatever you're creating or contributing, you have to be prolific. Genuine quality comes only through quantity. A shit ton of it. Keep hacking, keep swimming, keep sucking.

3. Judge progress, not outcomes:

Judge your own evolution. Have I done better than yesterday? Do I suck less than last year? Yeah? You are golden. The dangers of comparing your own outcomes with someone else's is that you betray and cheapen your own timeline, your own history, your hard struggles and the victories over your own debilitating handicaps. Appreciating your history as the backdrop of every milestone is the essence of healthy self-esteem.

Just keep swimming.
Not anti-government. Some are as anti all government as anarchist. A lot are for governments to be limited.

What to limit it to is what differentiate different liberal (the original definition, not what your parties have done to it) movements. Some will want nothing, others include only the police, army and diplomacy. Some will include basic infrastructure. Most think contracts enforcement is the responsibility of the government. You even have libertarians who are for a universal basic income.

But using a huge brush of "hurr durr libertarians, tea party, Ayn Rand" to paint libertarians is an error. Which a lot of so-called libertarians do too, like far left people who will parrot concepts while they never read -and certainly not studied- Marx books.

As a side note if the only knowledge you have from the libertarians points come from media (old and new) you should reflect on how they report on tech things you know about and how maybe they report all subjects as badly.
You're describing a cognitive bias wherein you would be turned off from a monetarily beneficial decision because of the foregone gains you would've had had you made the decision to enter the game earlier. This won't lead to the collapse of bitcoin, it just means that those who will profit from mining now and in the future are those who won't fall prey to that sort of thinking.
>> Swift moves, behind the scenes

Translation: we developed better compression algos for uploading your personal data to our servers
Games sales, like movie sales, are mostly made in the first month. I can imagine like Netflix, lots of people with good 18 month old games might be happy to put them on this service.

Further, I might seriously consider using it if they ban in-app purchases (or at least psy-to-win in app purchases), because they are increasingly hard to avoid.
Moreover those resources that are cheap to access are already in hands of major players. You either get to find new ones or new places that haven't been accessed. (In space?)
software agents running on arbitrary machines on the network" never took off, seems kind of foolhardy in hindsight

We call software agents "containers" now and arbitrary machines on the network "cloud" but it is the same thing...
"though should everyone follow this ideology"

I dont think everybody should follow ONE and the same ideology at all. Diversity is key
> Kolman’s death occurred before dawn on November 29, 2011

That's exact time I got married too.
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You can always rely upon economists to exclude any human considerations from the process.

There is no choice here because it fails the 80/20 rule of any hiring system. Any less than 20% capacity spare and there is no free choice.

So since there is no actual choice, why give people one? Is it the same as with toddlers - You can have red juice or blue juice - a way of giving the feeling of control without actually having any.

Giving people a choice and then not giving them what they want causes loss aversion responses. That is worse than not having any choice at all.

Kids want to go to the nearest school and the schools should be sufficiently equipped to cater for all needs in the area.

Every other solution I've seen is more difficult than that one and is based around psychological manipulation rather than solving the problem.

And no the 'free market' won't provide. You're supply side limited by the number of people capable and willing to be teachers. That's why you have to have a mass production system for education.
> significant portion of electricity consumed by Bitcoin is already clean energy

Electricity is very fungible, and hydro locations are limited. This means that when the (very limited) hydro energy is converted into heat to mine bits because it is easier to colocate some ASICs next to the dam than an aluminium smelter - then the smelter will run on slightly-pricier coal instead. The marginal carbon emissions can still be blamed on the coin mining.
Pure BS. Newton wouldn't be able to publish through a modern Harvard because nothing would be new. Recall too that the publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica was completely funded by a private party, Halley.

"Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait."

Again, BS. Newton was an anti-trinitarian. He believed that worshiping Christ as God was idolatry. And he was a fellow at Trinity College. Had he mentioned this, he would have lost his job, at the very least. (It would have been a powerful weapon for the Leibniz side during the so-called calculus wars.) He even managed to get the job requirements for his position changed so he wouldn't have to lie about his beliefs.

Instead, he kept his heretical ideas secret that it wasn't until long after he died that others had an clue about them. In other words, "picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait".

He was used to it then, and he would be used to it now.
How less freedom and choice make us happier
It’s but a tiny fraction of the environmental damage the US mulitary creates, with it’s reliance on oil.
How about a slight shift in thinking? "Self-fulfilment belongs to those who create"... and perhaps try to think "the world belongs to everyone" instead.

Agree with the overall intention of the post though.
> depending on the anti air capabilities on the battlefield

Yes. The use of drones by western forces has coincided with operations in which the west has had total air supremacy. The larger weaponised drones (Predator, etc) have never been flown in a hostile air environment, against a peer force that has serious anti-air. I would be reluctant to fly my drones in such an environment. Smaller throw-away drones are a different issue.
as AI sprung out of humanity it will always have a grain of humanity in itself.
AI doing "creative" things is doing it because we like to watch it doing that.

But still I dont think there is so much special and unique to humans
If you waste 16 hours already you can easily waste 18 hours...
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What can it charge to instead?
23:10: "Cancer is not one specific disease. Cancer is actually many diseases put together. In fact, cancer is many rare diseases -- if you take cancer to the limit, it's likely the case that the same cancer has never occurred twice.

"If you look at the genetic footprint of cancer, even within the same patient -- as I'll explain in just a moment -- you get very different cancers from the same originating source. And I'll explain why that is. That's why this sort of very information-driven approach to curing cancer is absolutely critical."

26:29: "... the genome has syntax. And in fact, it has a semantics. And beyond that, it has an instruction set too."

30:00: "So when you're fighting cancer, you're fighting evolution itself inside your own body."
> Replacing the US government would require violent revolution.

Not necessarily - what Bannon championed for was, basically, the deconstruction of the state. For example, Trump still hasn't filled hundreds of leadership positions,and a government shutdown isn't unlikely given the disconnect between Trump government and Congress, as well as the Democrats opposition to anything Trump/Rep Congress want to do. It's going to get interesting pretty soon.
I suspect it's probably just that "by the time we realised this would be important it was too hard to change it" rather than anything sinister. Though I wish they would pull them out so I can swap or update them externally to software.

"All current iOS emoji will now work on my phone" was genuinely a highlight of the Nougat update for my Galaxy S7 .
To have choice you have to have spare capacity. And we are supply side limited in teaching capability. That's why there are more pupils than teachers.
I believe the current system is already over saturated and the online players Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, Tencent, Alibaba, Facebook and Microsoft are already encroaching on each others territories.
Also a lot of the companies already posses powerful network effects and product synergies that make the entry of newcomers almost impossible. I'm force to remember every time I see a new VC investment that the purpose of VC is not to make the next tech giant like a Microsoft but to rapidly make a exit.
I'm really sad by the current investment in tech but perhaps the real investments in disease treatment/space exploration are being ignored by the mass media.
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They look more like the iOS ones. That's what's important (even though I think the overuse of gradients makes iOS emoji look dated too).

Oddly Facebook Messenger seems to have the best set [1], for my eyes.

[1] https://emojipedia.org/messenger/
I wonder what would happen when quantum computers manage to break Bitcoin.
Verizon wireless being evil is exactly why I stuck with T-Mobile for such a long time even as they keep making billing "mistakes" to the tune of about ten dollars every month for a while. (I believe they're just supremely incompetent but the errors somehow always are to their benefit.) With Verizon or Cingular, I assume it is just pure malice.

I've talked to people about how Verizon is trying to use its network as an advantage for advertising with supercookies and such on one end and Yahoo!/Aol on the other end but it seems to alarm nobody.
To be fair, Trump does do stupid things 24x7
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Imagine school A is popular with rich kids, now I prefer not to go to A because some reasons, but I could put A on my list and if I get A then I could trade with a rich kid(and ask for some extra without authorities to know)
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> Sadly, this is still an Electron app in the background

Same thoughts here. Nevertheless, it's nice that it uses NeoVim as its editor.

I started to use Atom on a daily basis since 1.7 and 1.19 is pretty usable. Got tired of waiting for an open source editor comparable in features and functionaity to Sublime Text, but written in a lower level language such as C++, Dlang, Rust or Go compiled to native machine code. It also looks the same on every OS and has nice and original features such as automatic whitespace trimming that I haven't seen in Sublime, or a CSV editing addon for that matter.

Too bad each app comes with the burden of it's very own instance of Electron.
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The enthusiasm for superblocks is interesting. That's been a disaster in US city planning. It's associated with housing projects. Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan, which is a huge, expensive apartment complex, gets higher rents for apartments which face the "outside" streets than for those which face the interior open space.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but does this mean it takes around 3-4 households worth of daily energy use to confirm a bitcoin single transaction?

https://blockchain.info/charts
I'm curious, is this something you do in real life is it a synthetic benchmark? Either I open code files that are a few kB (needs syntax highlighting) or I open logs (which don't). Maybe your workflow is different from the rest of us but I can attest that for my needs, VS Code is rock solid.
The latter is a path to doom if followed by a civilisation though. Consumption and contemplation do not bring change and that which does not adapt will perish sooner or later.
Right, but to then compare the memory use of ZFS with dedupe turned on against another fs without that feature would be disingenuous since dedupe is optional in ZFS. That was the whole point of my original comment.
So, clean energy incentives.

> That means 1.2% of the Sahara desert is sufficient to cover all of the energy needs of the world in solar energy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/22/we-could-power...

Nearly all other animals on the planet survive entirely on solar energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
> If you shoot a 'dumb' artillery shell at a target, you lose control of the shell the moment after you pull the trigger. If a group of children subsequently enters the target area...

Nitpick: The children would have to move very quickly to get there during the time of flight of the shell (a few seconds). The interval during which you can intervene is actually the time from the forward observer (remember, arty gunners don't see their own targets) making the call for fire to the time at which the shell is fired. If the notional target is assessed as a high priority (target priorities are pre-assigned), and you trust the forward observer to have checked for collaterol damage, this could be a very short period.

If loitering munitions are used instead of conventional arty, and they can accept targeting updates in-flight, then the interval could be as long as you like (within weapon endurance constraints).

[Edit - clarity]
Everybody does live near a highschool, but that way you end with bad and good schools because of economic indifferences.

They are doing this (rather than just basing it on location alone) to spread the pain and more importantly give children born into this world the same chances irregardless of the social economic situation of their parents.

Locality still plays an important role, but we are talking high population density neighbourhood. Most will live near at least three schools in an radius of 30m walk (10min bike ride)
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They have the same meaning, namely the one encoded in Unicode.

Just because different platforms have different fonts does not charge they meaning.

An "a" in Helvetica has the same meaning as in Times New Roman, but the glyph is different. "" means the same thing, even though I inputted it as the Android yellow blobs, I see it as a simple black and white symbol and an iPhone user reading this will see another different image.
From someone who works with Angular everyday, on a multitude of projects... Angular feels far too heavy in comparison to React. While Angular can do the job, there's just too much bloat.
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Can you give a few examples, other than apps, that one could make and reasonably sell ?

Maybe it's just me but I don't see any real opportunity in this.
But the point is the rate is limited (1 block per 10 minutes) and the amount is also limited (by the value assigned to the transaction by the users). There will be no runaway mining, and the miners do not need to 'self-regulate'.
I don't think the OPs statement is all that unrealistic, especially for a single male.

Perhaps an upper bound would be 50% plus his estimate, but even me, who I don't consider a ridiculous saver of time, shower within 5 minutes (from old clothes to new clothes), make breafkast and eat in in about 15m (egg omelettes are very easy), whip together and eat salads for dinner within 15m.

Time savings can be had without a huge reduction in life quality.
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Sure, a lot of time is wasted by quick dopamine hits.

But let's be realistic, for most people who hold a job, and family or relationships, do they have the energy to start something that makes meaningful money in their spare time ?

And in a similar fashion she underestimates the difficulty and determination needed for creating a real business.

EDIT: Reading it again, this article just seems like bragging:" i'm and entrepreneur an you're not, because you're all so lazy".
Or the contrary. In most cases there is something to synchronize between regions, like a replica of the data.

With difficult interconnection of regions, it makes it somewhat harder to do, and it can easily end-up with "meh, AZs are good enough".
The video is very sad. I feel the news in the UK is way way way too soft. All citizens should see the real cost of war. It is so easy to just be ignorant. "oh that, yawn". If people aren't shown it, how can they ever judge (with a vote at the ballot box) to be for or against it.
I'm as disillusioned with the direction of Google and other SV companies as anyone with regards to censorship, deleting accounts, and manipulation of their products to push their agendas.

On the other hand, this particular case seems pretty benign: probably due to the fact that the Spanish equivalent to "American inventor" in English would be "US inventor". The " American" part in Spanish has a higher bias with "African American" than it does in US English.
Misleading title, the BBC's would have been much better: "India court bans Islamic instant divorce" (though it doesn't imply that it was a supreme court decision, yet it was)