skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely an interesting point that children have less freedom today. But it's a bit of a stretch to say that this is what's causing the "safe space mentality". The narrator says the good old days of free range parenting led children to be more prone to questioning authority, which is healthy. If anything, you could argue that young people's assertion of their right to "safe spaces" is a form of rebellion in itself.

The video comes from FEE though, so it's obviously got a political bias behind it that explains it's opposition to safe spaces. People on the more socially conservative end of the spectrum don't seem to understand safe spaces and how they are actually a rejection of authority, rather than an appeal to authority. The notion of authority used is simply more subtle.

Some marginalised groups have made a very valid claim that there is a built-in hierarchy in many social norms that constitute acceptable behaviour in mainstream society. And that they tend to be on the shittier end of the deal in that hierarchy. Therefore, rather than acquiesce to the ordinary way of doing things and just accepting the negative effects of living in a world that doesn't value them as it does others, they have decided to carve out a space where they can assert their own version of what should be culturally acceptable. And they ask that others respect their desire for such a space and not enter it without also changing their behaviour and rejecting the toxic standard practices.

It's quite simple, it's like the cultural equivalent of libertarians trying to carve out a piece of land where they can keep the government out and live in their hyper-capitalist utopias. It's inherently anti-authoritarian. Anyone who goes into a safe space is voluntarily choosing to abide by its standards, no one is forcing them to.
With non-consumer electronics companies, good luck. Usually you have to go through a distributor.

Also I don't think the new VLS-128 is shipping to most normal people yet - it's not on their website and the article mentions that it's a preview. Maybe the title is a bit misleading.
Uh, power that isn't used for bitcoin mining could be used to improve human lives in innumerable way - or not used at all and allow a decreased production of greenhouse gases.
You don't know what you're talking about. Social Security isn't earned income for example, so expat retirees get to pay taxes on that in the US AND their country of residence. You also don't seem to understand how FATCA works and taxation from stuff such as rental properties or retirement account income or even ordinary capital gains such as selling a house.

> Since ordinary people pretty much all earn less than this..

Ever lived in Switzerland? Or London?

> I am not an accountant or lawyer and this is not advice..

It's worse than that, it's just ignorant of the tax and financial reality of being an overseas American.
I'm a Naomi Wu fan so I am biased but I want to point out that we shouldn't doubt people as a front because they prepare what they say beforehand from the internet or other sources or even because they have to do research or ask for help from other sources before doing a video.
I'm a programmer and yet surprise I use Stackoverflow. In the end, points of authority are still people and should be seen as such, they are not all-knowing sources of truth or some kind of tech Buddha.
You wouldn't. That's why people use, or include, subjective evaluation.
I feel both your suggested response and the given response amount to the same thing.

I mean, looking at what you said and what they said side by side, and how I read it:

> Admittedly I bypassed WARC completely as I felt overwhelmed by its technicalities in favor of how I knew the web worked.

> I was planing to support WARC, but felt that it was far too complicated to put off the launch of this MVP.

Both mention looking at using WARC, and both mention it being complicated. Both say it's not yet available.

> If I have a better understanding of WARC maybe that can be done, but I make no promises.

> If it's an essential feature to make this product valuable then I will definitely make it a priority.

Both offer up the potential for supporting WARC. Neither promise its delivery. The former provides a bit more justification as to the condition for its inclusion (technical capabilities), while the later hides this fact.

> I appreciate the honesty,

Honesty was the only difference between the response you hoped for and the response provided.
If Bitcoin reached 2 trillion dollars, it would use about 2% of the world's power.

It seems tough to argue that a 2 trillion dollar GDP doesn't merit a 2% increase in power output.
What are you even getting at here?

That is a totally different use case. A display is supposed to always be on, while a cpu should turn off while not in use. When a cpu has no work it slows down to conserve power and reduce heat output. What happens when a monitor has no input data? It goes to sleep. It doesn't just display the last thing and continue processing a stream of data from it's input.
The implications of this for education are huge! I've often wanted a way to write and share tutorials in Python.

If anyone else has access already, here's a tutorial I wrote on generating L-system fractals:

https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=1pftvKmXYN...

(This is the first time I've used colab outside of Google so let me know if it doesn't work!)
You touch on one of the key points toward the end. Many of the traditional anchor stores are dead or dying and there are very few newer candidates healthy enough to take their place.
OK clear now. Thin clients can only verify that a given transaction exists on the chain, but are not able to verify the contents of the transaction itself.

Thanks for the links :)
yeah, 9MiB for a gif is excellent
Keep in mind that in the 80s people packaged up and sold junk bonds - similar to the housing crisis of 08. It was a practice which essentially added no value to the economy but made a large number of people filthy rich.
You'll have to point out where they exchanged monopolies, rather than simply set up a competitor to keep the existing monopoly in check.
The Don Syme article (first link) mentions "the critical nature of the interaction that app domains pose to generics". What interaction is that, and what is critical about its nature?
I wish our local mall would do that. I've asked, and they just flatly say no. They're already suffering pretty bad with quite a few storefronts abandoned. I think our paper said something like 20% are empty.

It'd only be a small amount of electricity used, and a bit of janitors they already have. They could pull in a few non-profit groups doing fun stuff (game club, moms club as you said, techie club, etc.) and drum up foot traffic and business. But given the doom-and-gloom article after article, I'm guessing they're looking for as many ways to cut costs as possible.

I figure our mall has a few years left. There's enough shops like "Lidz", candy stores, some weird smelly pet store, the usual 16-21 girly clothing stores, the goth store (spencers), a Target, and a few others. But the life's certainly being drained out step by step.
recent discussion with the same question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15560766
US Companies do that. You're trying to split hairs to start an ideological argument. It's the US insofar as the US (as a regulatory entity) could stop it. There are caveats to both "the Chinese" and "the US" which are only monolithic in concept. This isn't insight.
Income's value is… diminishing with existing wealth. Receiving 20% of the income and having an amazingly outsized 40% of the wealth is more than enough reason to consider seeking funding from the 1% rather than their far poorer countrymates.
But it also allows a lot more companies to use it in their products.

Overall this seems like good news (unless you align with the FSF)
It's news because China runs by far the largest overseas propaganda campaign, spending over $10bn per year on it. They spend 15x more than the US does on overseas propaganda. What's worrisome is not the fact that they do it, but the sheer scale of their program.
http://www.adweek.com/digital/us-secretly-built-cubas-twitte...
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Solid point. Unless of course we can do it with 1% of the world's power, which is what I hope something like proof of space would allow.
And I'll append an analysis which says that much more is needed because the new rule applies only to the Justice Dept, and the orders come from many places, including state and local governments:

https://www.justsecurity.org/46875/modernizing-ecpa-congress...

I'll add that a rule changed by the Justice Dept can be changed again. A law may be needed.
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/22/506625913/database-tracks-his...
> You don't sign to check stupidity

Right, you use your brain to check for stupidity, and once that check is complete, identity, authenticity and consistency of the message does not matter.

Bitcoin is a trust-less protocol, you cannot and should not trust any node, miner, developer, any online or offline post. Trust is not a thing in the Bitcoin world, and the tradition of not signing communications is generally rooted in this concept.
Yay, after pushing GPU prices into madness, now we push storage prices there as well!
People have, there are many "barcades" in large cities around the US. As the name suggests they combine alcohol, food, and arcade/pinball machines (depending on the location I've seen free to play and token machines)
The graph is wonderful and makes me tune out most of the rest of the article, because the picture in the graph is the same picture you see everywhere: certain areas are booming (the south, Texas, the coastal parts of the west coast), others are slowly declining.

What's unique to retail about that graph?
Believer in strong free-markets here, and I'm fine with private industry competing with the government as long as the government entity itself isn't propped up by taxpayers cough post office cough amtrak cough.
Design != writing CSS.
There was no coup.

And really. People joked about it being equal to House of Cards. But the real facts were way too outrageous to get into a fictional script.
You can always create a token basket which could be made up of crypto's that are more eco-friendly. Systems for doing this are described here https://medium.com/@alexanderwestin/3-crowdsales-leveraging-...
showing me all the naked pictures of ME on the internet is just a null function
I buy on Amazon a lot and I don't think I return more than one or two things in a year, typically. Even buying shoes online (I usually use Zappos) I haven't returned that many.
So, you chose the red herrings of the worst possible ISPs. There are great commercial ISPs too. What's more important is competition, which again is limited by government (government decides who gets access to build-out lines).

I agree, federal government does have the resources to spy, and uses them very effectively. Why make it that much easier for our local governments to do that as well.
I usually detest sites that hijack scrolling, but this article does it quite effectively and usefully.
I doubt it. At least in the society I grew up in, there are gender differences in social expectations completely outside the job market that lead to different incentives in the job market. Any ranking system will have to deal with the results of two different demographics who have, on average, different incentives.
That's sure adding a lot of steel...

"Naomi is a persona, not a real person." is veeeeery far from "Naomi gets help on project", and event still pretty darn far from "Naomi misrepresents her contribution to the her projects"
Can anyone explain what this means?
>But very effective manipulation from very skillful people is something a bit beyond "diversity of opinion".

You've just described the whole advertising industry.
>another monopoly

Comcast won't cease to exist. Other ISPs can form.

>that can use force

When was the last time your water/electric/gas company "used force" against public interest?
Yes, my (well, my dad's, actually) mindset was different, but what percentage of people buying a musical instrument are actually serious musicians?
We clearly have different definitions of the word loophole. They are moving profits around "creatively" in order to pay less than the corporate tax rate. Why should the U.S. have to give a repatriation discount when they have already paid a much lower effective tax rate than many other corporations?
Of course - what happened, happened. But when banks recognize that it is not in their interest to give loans to holdings to purchase companies in order to get loans on them simply because eventually when the loans on the companies default the banks are on the hook again, they will not loan them money any more.

That's the inherent beauty of interconnected and sold loans - no one will be left spared when they eventually default.
The one that feels the need to block Facebook of course is worse. I’ll let you figure out what country is that.
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I have a hard time getting worked up over these acquisitions. If the beer is still good, who cares? If you're really upset about it, there are still literally thousands of other craft breweries to choose from.
I'm slowly curating things like it, 'slow web', and other general anti-whatever-it-is-we're-calling-this websites.
What view on alcohol and gambling? Who is being hypocritical? There's a huge range of views on both subjects, and no single view is going to be used as canon between the many various human organizations that shape public opinion and the institutions that enact laws and regulation.

You're basically personifying a collective of individuals. There is no single 'view' on alcohol and gambling. You're just cherry picking the view of the moral right and calling it hypocritical as if it's the official view of the US.
Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin deflationary by design
The bitcoin protocol specifies 21 million coins as a maximum.

The original paper says only:

Once a predetermined number of coins have entered
circulation, the incentive can transition entirely to transaction fees and be completely inflation
free

Why is it desirable to be inflation free? What are the downsides to this approach?
Move fast and blow shit up (literally)?
JTAG is used as a debug interface, so the implication is that full access to intels AMT (where minix3 is said to be running) has been achieved
A number of countries run these types of programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_Internet_propa...

All promote their own propaganda and many also attack their rivals via sock puppets. As far as I know the only country using trolls to push general unrest is Russia.
I’m not sure think they need to do that now. They own the software, amd from what I understand, the copyrights on all of it, so they could easily license it to themselves under a different license.
And I would argue against those too, consistently.
>The abstinence of pure black doesn't irritate me, but taking design advice from IBM does :)

It sounds vaguely like an appeal to authority suggesting that IBM is not in a position to give advice. Can you expand on that?
Now all of a sudden, I want to go to America just to see how terrible and horrible the shopping malls are.

I'm from Australia which is full of them (though we call them "shopping centres"). And they seem very pleasant to me. They are convenient for many kinds of shopping. I didn't hang out there as a teenager in the '90s, but others from my school did.

Since then they have become more pleasant for socialising -- though perhaps more upmarket and less teenager friendly. They have proper restaurants as well as the old food courts. And my mother's favourite cafe is at a shopping mall -- and it is reallyp excellent.
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Nice sentiment, but it's a bit unnerving to see an industry consolidating like this while ALSO buying out sites that review the beer. Having few large, central corporations control both the market and the medium by which the products are reviewed is not a good thing.
The comparisons fall short.

- pixels are being optimised, with displays going closer and closer to true-off all the time

- pixels: even whitespace is important next to information

- RFC: we're wasting a few bits as a tradeoff for less complicated hardware and less processing power. Not sure if applicable anymore, but reserved fields and consistent parsing saved us some power/materials historically.

- SSL provides security and privacy in your communication at a cost reasonable for the outcome.

It's only logical they if we don't need to spend the energy to mine coins, we should stop doing that sooner then later.
Found this older article informative as background :

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-kaby-lake-skyl...
Bitcoin's total value being 2 trillion dollars is not the same thing whatsoever as bitcoin being responsible for 2 trillion dollars of GDP. There is no "merit" here.

We can have $2 trillion in GDP with paper money, too, and that uses 0% of the world's power.
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Aberdeen, South Dakota. The Dacotah Prairie Museum. http://brown.sd.us/dacotah-prairie-museum/home

Unfortunately they don't have much in the way of documentation about it. I might have to bug them about it when I go home for the holidays.
> If a ripped 6'4" male model called himself @sexyengineer and posted pictures of him building things shirtless, I would roll my eyes and call his legitimacy into question

That's the flaw in your logic right here: rolling your eyes is one thing, call the legitimacy of people who don't conform to completely arbitrary (and historically and geographically moving) social norms is ANOTHER.

You can roll your eyes all you want, that's your problem. You can even decide for yourself that you will not listen to people who don't dress according to some code -- your loss.

But when you decide to project and impose your prejudice to the world then you become part of the problem.
That's a very apt description of an automotive OEM's development model.
I'm getting a 500 "Error establishing a database connection"
How do you know the beer is still good if the manufacturer owns the review site?
so this has been an issue that keeps coming up for a while, but i don't really understand the issue.

* As others have asked, how much is bitcoin supposed to use? What's the right amount and why? How is that number better/worse than the amount of resources spent on existing financial infrastructure?

* We are rapidly progressing towards an era of free (extremely cheap) clean power. Just today (https://electrek.co/2017/11/08/chilean-solar-down-26-as-impo...) incredibly low bids for solar projects were submitted in Chile at 2.15c/kWh. That's insanely cheap. We're not there yet in having ubiquitous cheap clean power obviously, but neither is bitcoin "there" in being able to replace much of traditional financial infrastructure. But the point still stands: will bitcoin's energy usage still matter in the not-too-distant future?
Worse than rooting the computer. A JTAG debugger has chipset-level access to a system. Likely that nothing is detected in the operating system.

Intel has put CSME and DCI in all (?) their chips since 2015. Skylake was announced in 2014, launched in 2015.
Guess ABI got the site too...
Thanks for the feedback + opinion.

My perspective the market is already structured this way. In the freelance consulting world, I see two types of competent programmers:

1) People who can take high level business goals, articulate them into software APIs/specifications, and then implement the code

2) People who can take specifications and deliver code

People in the first group tend to earn upper middle class incomes. People in the second group already tend to earn proletarian incomes. The upside here for programmers is immediate payout for tightly-specified work.

If AI can write an interesting sentence, it's clear that soon enough it will be able to write software. Especially software that is a variation on a typical CRUD app. My prediction is the biggest value add activity will be having the experience to know what is possible and then knowing what and how to direct the AI to write.
Note that archived repository issues aren’t closed automatically. I did so manually but en masse before archiving some of GitHub’s deprecated projects this week so this may have been what you saw.
> I'd rather see communities lay the fiber and then allow private ISPs to be the ones to light it up and provide bandwidth from the nearest meet-me room.

What is the value of that? Wouldn't that be effectively privatizing the gains and socializing the cost?

I believe internet is a utility, and it would be great to see it regulated as such including service level and price.
Taste it?
Brewing these days is uniquely local. When buying craft, you're buying not only good beer, but you're supporting your neighbors and fellow enthusiasts in the craft. When a beer gets bought by the big conglomerates, the feeling of supporting "the little guy" goes away.

I know multiple people who stopped buying Karbach beers after they got bought. Sure they'll drink it if it's free, but why support bean counters and 1%ers when you can give some money to the people doing it for love?
> I’d be curious to see how hardware stacks up against events/second end2end as well.

That heavily depends on which part of the stack you are looking at. (Event ingestion, processing, load balancers, databases etc.). There is a lot less hardware there than one would imagine ;)
I agree with all of this!

(Normally I'd just upvote, but want to clarify that this is my actual position and that I don't hold some ulterior motive from being frank & critical of the story as presented).
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Getting to somewhere in the Midwest from SV is far from 300 miles.
Most government grants are not research grants; they fund the component of domestic undergraduate tuition which is not repayable through HECS-HELP. 'The Australian Government subsidises a CSP [Commonwealth-supported place] by paying part of the fees for the place directly to the university. The subsidy amount is not a loan and students do not have to pay the subsidy amount back.' [1]

This component of government grants is not broken down on the source I provided, but it is explained in the notes to universities' financial statements. See for example those of Australia's largest university, at p 66 [2]. $345 million was provided under the Commonwealth Grants Scheme, compared to $214 million under HECS-HELP and $58 million from the Australian Research Council (research grants are also provided by other bodies such as the NHMRC). The CGS is the means of funding CSPs, not a source of research grants [3].

Your original point, that 'international students make up more than half of the funding-through-fees,' might actually be correct even if you accept that payments under the CGS are on account of 'fees' (which is the language used in [1]). It is correct at Monash, where international student fees generated $653 million, compared to $1.03 billion from the Australian government including CGS, HECS-HELP and research grants. Monash is an outlier because almost half of its students are international or offshore [4], but it leaves me unsure as to the reliability of my original source. We can certainly agree that international student fees are a very substantial source of income, but I wanted to correct the common misconception that HECS-HELP loans are the sole source of domestic tuition funds.

[1] http://studyassist.gov.au/sites/studyassist/helppayingmyfees...

[2] http://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/844508/mon...

[3] https://www.education.gov.au/commonwealth-grant-scheme-cgs

[4] http://www.monash.edu/about/who/glance