skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the headline shows unnecessary certainty. Likewise, "world ending" and "apocalypse" aren't necessarily the same thing, especially when it comes to someone with nonconformist religious views like Newton. But I would counter that it isn't "completely wrong," at least based on Prof. Snobelin's commentary, which the article links to:

https://isaac-newton.org/statement-on-the-date-2060/

Here's a relevant quote:

"Since Newton believed that the 1260 years corresponded to the duration of the corruption of the Church, he added 1260 to 800 A.D. and arrived at the date 2060 for the “fall of Babylon” or cessation of the apostate Church. It seems that Newton believed the fall could perhaps begin somewhat before the end of the 1260-year period and continue for a short time afterward. Whatever the precise chronology, Newton believed that sometime shortly after the fall of the corrupt (Trinitarian, Catholic) Church, Christ would return and set up a 1000-year Kingdom of God on earth."

So yes, it would be more accurate to say that "Newton predicted the apocalypse would happen sometime around the year 2060," but I don't think the headline is completely off base here.
Sounds cool, thanks :)! I'll look into some more methods soon!
There is a very simple reason to demand privacy.

We generally speak of organizations, companies, and governments that are seeking the penetrate the veil of individual privacy. And I think that leads people to forget that these entities are made up of people. And people can, and do, do bad things.

A soft example is Snowden stating that NSA operators regularly pass around intercepted nude photo/video from people who had their privacy unjustly compromised: "These are seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions.." But the particularly disconcerting issue is that this information can be used against individuals. This article from the EFF highlights the FBI's actions against MLK:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...

That letter was the FBI, posing as a disillusioned black supporter, detailing various embarrassing information that had been collected on MLK and encouraging him to commit suicide -- stating that it would all be published otherwise. And these couple of examples are only stuff that's being done by the "good guys." Information can, and will, be leaked, stolen, traded, and so on. One can only imagine the sort of things the "bad guys" could cook up.
I know some people will disagree, but I think the solution should be government regulation. Anything that connects wirelessly should have a standard security protocol. The way they make these devices now are laughably insecure. Until there's an actual law requiring manufacturer's to go the extra mile for security, they're going to continue to be lazy about it.
"Innovation is path dependent", and in the case of the World Wide Web, "done" really was better than perfect.
not trying to be that guy, but I swat the fly dead 9/10 times. Mr Miyagi did also train me, but I don't use the chopsticks like my moderated compardre above.
Of course. But Google is currently ahead from what I've read.
I don't really like this article.

Bytecode is an abstraction of machine code.

No, it isn't an abstraction if a few paragraphs later the author gives SuspendGenerator as an example bytecode. Abstraction is the wrong word here. A bytecode is a machine instruction for a virtual machine. In this case, the V8 bytecode is a higher level ISA than is for example, ARMv8; that would be more accurate. System 38 MI is a higher level ISA as well.

Ignition, the interpreter, generates bytecode from this syntax tree.

No, interpreters don't generate bytecode. They interpret bytecode; that's why they're called interpreters. Code generators generate code; that's why they're called code generators. However that said, this must be a strange description internal to the V8 group since it shows up here as well:

https://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/08/firing-up-ignition-in...

You can generate code, bytecode, directly from an AST. You can do that. That is probably what is happening and what is meant here. On the other hand, LLVM converts an AST into an SSA IR and optimizes then lowers that. V8 is a JIT pipeline and LLVM is a traditional compiler pipeline.
Because there's no dynamic to keep things in check. It's natural that one browser has more market share for one reason or another, which results in webpage owners looking out more for things functioning in that browser properly, which in turn leads to more users using that browser.

Same reason why the operating system market and the processor architecture market have virtually no competition and an objectively terrible product in a leading position.
Okay so any leveraged real estate fund would have outperformed the S&P500, without the possibility of a sudden margin call

Any leveraged bond fund should have been able to as well, a carry trade from 2012 in European government bonds should have made many hundreds of percent

A futures fund should have been able to

A commodity options should have made monumental gains over the 85% that the S&P500 gave in 10 years, honestly should have made that in a month

A fund that did what Warren Buffet got rich doing, by buying up bad companies and improving, should still have gotten high returns

And finally, there were simply no cryptocurrency funds around!

The problem, I say smugly, is that these fund of funds were probably all macro funds with too many assets under management, making them hard to manage in the niche markets I proclaimed.

A fund with 1 billion AUM cannot manage that much real estate without eating into the management fees. There is not enough liquidity in the options market, and definitely not enough liquidity in cryptocurrencies.

But this unfortunately influences perception that "NOBODY" is able to make / promise more than 5% a year over several years. This is false but I'm not going to try to change your mind. Consolidating capital with someone managing <500k to around 25 million should be able to consistently take advantage of these less scalable opportunities for great profits. After all, it is how Warren Buffett himself got 100s of thousands of percentage gains in his hedge fund of $105,000.
You really don't deserve the downvotes because this is also the rational behavior. It's not worth anyone's time to learn any UX because the "Trash" bin can contain everything.
ASCII doesn't exist as such.

Characters are encoded in one byte and ascii leaves the highest 128 characters undefined. They are interpreted system-wise, depends on the locale and user settings.
Looks nice. Good thing they included stylistic alternatives for their default curly brackets, because that default would really bother me.

I don't like the weird proprietary licence though. There are plenty of excellent free software fonts out there (e.g., Hack or its ancestor Deja Vu Sans Mono and sibling Ubuntu Mono — all three exist today because of the permissive licensing of their common ancestor Bitstream Vera).
What, exactly, do philosophers do?
The NeXT cube was a workstation, not a PC.

The distinction is important, because workstations were office equipment and never consumer equipment. They had much fatter margins and a bigger industrial design budget.

For instance, here's another workstation from the same era as the NeXT cube:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indigo
Imo: instead of a separate extention this should be a maintained blacklist for ad blockers.
The last time I had to write a lock-free algorithm (in this case, a multi-writer, multi-reader queue), the memory reclamation strategy was straightforward:

Make 2 lock-free queues. Pre-allocate all the memory into message-sized chunks, and post them to the "upwards" queue. A writer would read/consume from the upwards queue, write into the received buffer, and then post the same buffer in the other queue. Everything is passed by reference, so it is zero-copy.

I guess I don't understand the reason for all the complexity. Perhaps for more complicated algorithms than queues?
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If you're looking to make a commercial application with the ESP32 or ESP8266, I'd say bit the bullet and learn C. The Espressif SDKs are pretty decent.

I'm making a commercial product with the ESP8266 with the FreeRTOS SDK, and it's been relatively painless so far.
> Could be related, could be Baader-Meinhof.

You are aware that Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof were (among others) the founders of the terrorist group RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion - Red Army Faction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction), which according to https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rote_Armee_Frakti... (German article) murdered 33 people and did lots of other crimes? And (same German Wikipedia article) "Baader-Meinhof-Bande" ("Baader-Meinhof gang") or "Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe" ( "Baader-Meinhof group") was its former unofficial name? You are also aware that the RAF was the reason for the "German Autumn" (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Autumn&old...), in which there was a giant witch hunt against potential RAF sympathizers and lots of constitutional rights were abolished, which makes the German Autumn a large turning point in history for anybody who is interested about the history of privacy rights an Germany or is even a privacy advocate?
It is great to see a project like this being open-sourced. There are so proprietary blockchain analysis services with closed-source software.

How do you handle forks and reorganizations? Can the software detect these and adjust its database to match?
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Haha... this was hella funny! I get into arguments with anti bitcoiners all the time. I'm sending them over there from now on! :P
Not for XMR. There's quite a few altcoins out there aiming to solve the asic problem with aggressively anti-asic algorithms.
I am not sure the current capacity of mobile networks could handle a majority of people going mobile only. Since mobile bandwidth is shared the experience could be quite bad in population dense areas. Imo wired Internet will be around for a while, unless 5G changes things a lot, but I don't know enough about that.
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Somehow, the ICO craze bypassed the working demo phase.
Can anyone explain to me like I'm a five year old why would anyone need to block coin miners on their browser and why they would be mining there in the first place?
There is nothing inherent to flash that requires it to have security flaws and no touch. The flash vm operates in the same space as the Android and iOS VMs. If it were iterated and improved, and allowed to flourish it could have been a direct competition to native, possibly eventually leading to a flash OS and flash phone, all the pieces are there.
> The question is: OK, you account for risk, now what? You can manage risk by tempering an all-stock portfolio with bonds, lowering volatility. Why pick high-cost hedge funds over that option?

I think his point is that hedge funds may have higher risk-adjusted returns than the S&P 500, despite lower absolute returns. For (ridiculously unrealistic) example, say you have an average 7%/yr return on the S&P 500 with volatility of ~14% and a hedge fund with a 5%/yr return but volatility of ~1%. At the end of the time period, a fixed $1M investment is clearly going to come ahead on the S&P 500 but the hedge fund is clearly the better fund, as matched for volatility (through leverage) with the S&P 500, the returns would be 70%/yr.

You'd pick the hedge fund because matched for volatility (through leverage or bonds or what have you), the hedge fund performs better.
The extension is simply blocking a list of blacklisted domains in blacklist.txt.

Some way to detect that a non-visible page or service worker is using excessive CPU time or GPU assets would be useful.

How long until porn sites start doing mining in the background?
For very low quantities, the price difference won't matter much..

If you're selling hundreds of thousands or millions of something, suddenly that is real money that justifies the incremental increase of engineering effort to use a cheaper part.
Wasn't something happening in 1999 and then in 2012? There's a Wikipedia page on failed doomsday prophesies. Check it out.
If anyone is interested in further reading, I designed one of the smallest known Hall Thrusters while doing a research internship at Princeton University [1].

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qd97lsm5iw3cvt3/CHT_Paper_Kennedy....

Abstract: Electric propulsion provides a significantly higher specific impulse that allows mass reduction for spacecraft when used in lieu of chemical propulsion. For micro and nano satellite applications, plasma thrusters should not only be miniaturized in mass and volume, but also capable of operating efficiently at very low power levels of a few watts or less. Research was conducted to determine theoretical limits and practical restrictions on materials and electrodes for miniaturization of cylindrical Hall thrusters (CHT). Analysis of the scaling relationships for plasma properties and thruster performance were derived and the thruster design, including the magnetic circuit, will be presented.
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They had some really good people, but did seem to be spinning their wheels.

It was completely separate from Autodesk. Xanadu had offices on California Avenue in Palo Alto; Autodesk was in Marin County. Autodesk was quite good at getting working software out the door, but that didn't reach Xanadu.

Lack of an identified market was a big problem. One market that was considered was financial newsletters. There are lots of expensive newsletters you can buy which have extremely detailed coverage of something important to traders, such as what's happening at the Henry Hub or the Port of Rotterdam or in the Bahamas. These cost $50-$1000 a month. ("Offshore Alert", which covers scams run from tiny island countries, "Platts Oil Letter", which is now a big service, and the Dines Letter, for the gold bugs.) There was no centralized distribution for these, and they had tiny circulations. That didn't go anywhere. All of those are now on the Web as subscription products.
I'm not sure I would describe them as big downsides but AWS does have advantages in some areas.

RDS - Amazon's database service supports more database engines; MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle are all available. GCP has Cloud SQL but it only supports MySQL and PostgreSQL at the moment. I'm sure that will change. RDS also has some advantages around getting your data in from an external server.

AWS also has more services making it easier to get up and running quickly. Whether that's a good thing or not is down to personal preference. Those services tie you into AWS pretty heavily. That's fine providing you are comfortable with it. Google are more focused around open standards.
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People are experimenting with replacing ads for coin mining scripts.

Coin mining uses a lot of resources, which costs you electricity and responsiveness (I’d guess).
Well, Nix is probably never going to be usable by non-developers and is very far from production quality for any kind of infrastructure. I mean theoretically you can use it in production if you avoid nixpkgs and make your own package repository with your own packages and your own tools. Playing with it on desktop is fine, although you can't get far without learning the language, reading sources and doing some functional programming.

Still, Nix should be at least an inspiration for next real world package managers.
One could be cynical, and observe that US business interests have the world's largest, most agressive and equipped intelligence and military force protecting its interests - it can be an outlier just as long as a robber baron can...

Or one could be even more cynical, and observe that China appears to be pouring "hard" power behind decades of "soft" power build-up...
That's actually a great idea.
I haven't talked to others directly about letting him go, since that doesn't seem appropriate or fair. I do know though that people have had to wait on him for things longer than they should, and follow up with him more than should be necessary. So while he does have useful knowledge and insights, I feel like he may be holding others back as much as helping them.

I'm not sure that (essentially) the threat of firing would be the best motivating measure. If I've made the decision it seems more fair to just do it (along with a good severance).
Singularity prediction dates are subject to a similar reasoning.

But the deadline guarantees a second public attention in your life time when you can promote a new deadline for the same or a nee story.
Take a look at zero g workstations.
>How long until porn sites start doing mining in the background?

How long have porn sites being doing mining in the background ?

Remember that porn sites are always the front line of innovation on the web, some are probably already doing it
get.out.of.the.equities.market.

this whole study is based on the equities market, and there are many many capital markets out there with much higher returns.

the individual? right, none of these markets are so optimal for retirement, they are optimal for great returns though

this study wasn't about the individual, it was about funds of funds that were picked pretty unoptimally and most likely were also in the equities market.

what is the individual to do? hey maybe your conclusion was right, but I don't find 85% over ten years to be great, even factoring in dollar cost averaging and dividend reinvesting. so there is the possibility for the individual to learn and take risk or find a fund that is more suited to the market you would like to get returns in.
Which one is that? There are only 3 certified so far and none of them are about privacy: https://ballotpedia.org/California_2018_ballot_propositions.
According to ComputerGuru's post below, TPB is switching from ads to coin mining in the background.

Without disclosure/client choice it could slow down someone's computer and and be portrayed as malicious ("If they can mine potentially valuable coins while I'm on the site, what else could they be doing while serving my browser content?")
They claim there are no lock-free or wait-free GCs. But Azul have had a pauseless one for the best part of a decade:
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html
It's theoretically possible but I'll believe it's actually possible when I see it. I don't see volatility data in the linked article, but if they released it somewhere we could perhaps model a stock/bond portfolio of comparable volatility and see how they did. I would be willing to bet the stock/bond approach would win on a risk-adjusted basis, but can't say without data.

Meanwhile, though, a generic vanilla Total Bond market index fund over the past 10 years returned 4.3% annually. A $100,000 investment would have turned into over $150,000 over the course of the bet, higher than the hedge fund collection. So the hedge funds would have to have less volatility than a very steady intermediate-duration bond fund, which, incidentally, had far lower draw-downs in its worst years. So at the very least, in plain language, if 'big drops' are a measure of risk, then the hedge fund set was riskier than bonds and still lost to bonds.
This is not uncommon here in Turkey. I end up using my iPhone as a modem via USB tethering often. Mobile internet is much faster in Turkey (100+ mbs for cheap) than the wired network. It only adds ~10ping and can handle anything.

I'm willing to bet this will be the norm worldwide when 5G rolls out. Here in Turkey we have '4.5G' which is a marketing term for the latest generation 4G infrastructure. We only got 4G last year here, so we have the latest hardware.
Natural monopolies have some natural cause, not created by the monopoly or their customers. The classic example is utilities, where one natural cause of monopoly is the high cost of infrastructure discouraging new players (capex), and another is because nobody wants 5 separate power lines running to each house just so we have some competition (regulation).

When I made up "circumstantial monopolies" I was thinking of monopolies that only still exist via circumstances. Like there used to be some regulation or it used to be a natural monopoly causing it to be a true monopoly, but those external reasons have disappeared and they only remain a monopoly because of inertia.

Maybe "inertial monopolies" would have been a better term. It's certainly more amusing.

So my argument is that journals may have had a natural monopoly in the past, and have had an inertial monopoly since, but there's no inherent reason why they still have a monopoly today. Does that help explain?
I recall that for Bitcoin, the profit was something like a billionth of a cent per user-hour. So it would be hard to be profitable even if all you're paying for is a little engineer time to deploy it.

I assumed this whole notion of browser mining as a replacement for ads was just a laugh, but maybe not. Are there coins where it can actually make a noticeable amount of money?
You don't think they meant the Olivia Newton John vehicle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(film)
What do you think of my solution posted above?
You can get Arduino type boards for a few bucks on Amazon, which can be pretty easily turned into an ICSP programmer for arbitrary other microcontrollers. That helps a lot. Even just using it as an Arduino if you skip the "IDE" is a great way to start.
The Essential Phone, did the same thing with the front facing camera, placing it there, is a nice design choice, but apple wow, do you need that much space?

Also gone is the design compromise that was the home button.
Mining consumes power. If you're on a mobile device, that power is limited and will result in you having a flat battery sooner than you otherwise would.

They are used because the coins that are mined can be sold and the money used to pay for hosting and food.
>>But this unfortunately influences perception that "NOBODY" is able to make / promise more than 5% a year over several years.

This is not what people think. What people think is that you have cherry picked a bunch of asset classes above and neglected others that would beat the US Large Cap index over that time frame, but you cannot guarantee that those same asset classes would handily beat the same index over the next decade.

If you can (Medallion fund type legends), then you aren't seeking my money, typically.
With old-world (and modern low-level embedded) programming, the "usefulness" in having source code came more from having comments and non-stripped symbols. Reverse-engineering is still necessary even to get (readable) ASM.