skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the case around a lot of SE asia. Bangkok has plenty of massive shopping malls, and they're very often busy. It's a great place to hang out when it's 34 degrees out at 80% humidity :)
How do you suggest they begin to bridge the gap between their entry level skills and those of someone with four years of studying and many (I assume) of work experience?

Or would it be better to simply have a go to person to help create and optimize these programs?
> When learning Chess or Go, playing whole games with myself would be too tedious. Do people really do this?

Chess World Champions Robert Fischer and Magnus Carlsen notoriously did as children. Magnus Carlsen even recommended it as one of his top 13 tips to improve :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMaaHd7aFIs
> Look and Georgia and Ukraine know -- both these countries started in a similar position as we after the breakup of USSR, the key difference was that they haven't joined NATO and/or EU.

Semi-seriously: Ukraine at least had a treaty securing its borders by the US, UK, and Russia. If the US and UK aren't willing to act on that treaty, what makes one think they'd act on a NATO Article V invocation by them if they were NATO members?
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I followed npongratz's link. Interesting read.

Seems the point of it is to enable easier porting of assembly between architectures, by providing a consistent syntax.

I was expecting something akin to LLVM assembly language, but no, they're come up with their own bizarre high-level assembly-language intended to map fairly directly to various different instruction-sets. It's not an abstraction layer in the usual sense; the exposed register-set and instruction-set are faithful to the target architecture.

It's a finite register machine which isn't just faithfully exposing the underlying architecture. Not something we often see. iirc SPIR and GNU Lightning are both finite register machines, but, to quote Douglas Adams, this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

How is it compiled? Presumably it doesn't get translated to LLVM as an intermediary.

It strikes me as an awful lot of work. Does their high-level assembler really outperform LLVM? Would've thought a project of that sort would deserve to exist in its own right, not just as an obscure component of Go.
> Schneier is a so-called expert who has testified in front of congress

Schneier has been around for a long time, knows the industry well and has made significant contributions. Not everyone get's things right all the time including Schneier.

Credibility wise he ..

- has a master's degree in computer science

- was awarded an honorary Ph.D from the University of Westminster in London

- is chief technology officer of BT Managed Security Solutions

15 publications, 6 notable books -

- Applied Cryptograph

- Cryptography Engineering

- Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World

- Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World

- Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Schneier
probably a (big) incremental step over a previous breakthrough
I have no sympathy for anyone who ends up screwed by "investing" in bitcoin or the like. There will always be a significant percentage of our flawed human race out to get something for nothing. So long as it's legal there can be no real progress. Making money out of money - be it bitcoin or any other currency - without contributing anything of real value is the root of all our economic problems.
It's not all black and white though. Pirating torrent site realistically don't care if pirated stuff is from copyright hoarder or content creator. It's easy to say "those corporate money grabbers are evil" but in reality nobody cares who to pirate from. I've seen one writer who was relatively popular, beg his readers to buy his books instead of pirating it, because publisher was going to end his contract, because it was just not very profitable with all the pirating. I fail to see glory for pirating in that.
One programmer I knew decided to do shareware in early 2000-s. His program became pretty successful in several months (2-3x times larger revenue than average salary in the country at the time), he could live off it. First time he got cracked and program went on pirating sites his sales were damaged considerably, he added some protection, new features etc. After some time he got cracked again and sales were damaged again. This time he said "screw it", stopped working on the program and got regular job. I fail to see glory for pirating in that.

Of course I understand the appeal of pirated content, sometimes it's the only usable way to get something, especially for some old movies/series. And it put pressure on large media companies for content delivery technologies etc. But it's not all fun and giggles, it's a complex issues requiring global discussion and compromises.
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Given that he himself is a creator and someone directly affected by piracy (in this case software cracking) I assume he knows what he's talking about.

As a creator as well, I am aware that my software is out in the wild and people are using it for free and so far I've yet to notice any harm coming from it, quite the contrary. Even if we live in a connected world, we still don't live in a fair world, having a credit card or a PayPal account is still a hard thing to obtain in quite a bit of countries and so it happens that from time to time I receive emails of users that are using cracked version of my software offering to snail mail me checks or asking me for alternative payment methods, in these cases me knowing that they get enough joy of my apps is payment enough.

In my case I do believe this is free marketing, in the end a good chunk of users come back and buy the apps if it's truly useful for them and counting the others that wont buy it as lost sales is stupid as they would not spend the money anyway.
Yes, but at the same time you hear 30-100% gains in the span of one day and people going "I just bought a lamborghini" - survivorship bias and all that.
> Edit: AFAIK there is no de iure annexation of those territories

You know wrong, this issue was settled in the 2+4 treaty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement...
Unlikely that there is a public list, but a node operator could certainly compile such a list based on angry letters they receive.
Few more years and 'made in China' will be synonymous with top quality and best engineering. Same thing happened to Japan after WWII
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And yet they introduce a lot of new problems too - problems that have been solved by traditional currencies a while ago. Problems like exchange security and protection to citizens. If my bank goes bankrupt for whatever reason, the government has an insurance for up to 100K for me. When mtgox went down, everyone lost their money.
What value do bitcoins have other than their price?
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It’s pretty clear that open access is the way things should be. Particularly as now publication and reproduction costs are essentially zero.

It’s interesting to note how we got here, and how we remain here. Academics mostly universally complain about the current state of affairs, with reason.

However, we’re here because academics gave up control. Because the journal system, which was originally run by academic volunteers was seen as a hassle and has given over to businesses to run. Slowly, the businesses became to extract more and more profit...

The solution is probably to return to a less profit driven publishing model. But current publishers and academics pretty well locked in.
The thing is if you know exactly what you are looking for, like in your example, or a QR code, or a barcode, it makes sense to tailor an algorithm. But you may not want to have to maintain a complex algorithm every time a small change happens (say new kind of ships appear). Or you might want a generic approach (recognise any objects, including objects that did not even exist at the time the code is written, but will appear in the data). In such case I can see ML being a good choice.
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Thanks for the pointer, although that's not what I'm looking for.

The fundamental difference between reactive state management (Mobx) and the Redux approach is that Mobx has some automatisms that are vital to what I'm looking for:

- automatic recognition of actual value dependencies (i.e. minimal update chains)

- automatic determination of the order of updates (so you don't have to think about and design your reducers along their dependencies ... because this is an annoying task which can and hence should be automated ... it is prone to inefficiencies, and sometimes errors, when done by hand.)
American box office results are far from the only source of revenue for movies. Their is foreign box office, DVD/Blueray sales, digital sales, digital rentals, streaming fees, and broadcast fees.

In Blockbuster's heyday their revenue alone surpassed American box office sales.
I thought the Pineapple Fund donated bitcoin, not dollars?

Same criticism to the headline of this thing - it's an X amount of bitcoin, not a dollar amount which will be outdated within the hour.
I'm no AI expert, but I won't start to worry about AI being used generally (the last point of the article) until it beats a really complex game like real time strategy title StarCraft.

Even if we all agree that AlphaGo is the DeepBlue of Go, we are still having a few more layers to take before humans need to worry.
I was sort of joking a bit but I do know that german node operators block some traffic.

However, it's on a purely notice-and-takedown basis, which is the DMCA of germany but more broadly applicable; if you are made aware of illegal activity on your network you must stop the activity and take reasonable measures to prevent future abuse. They can also fall under the network operator laws in which case they are not responsible for the traffic at all but I'm not sure if that is applicable to tor nodes or not.
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What do you mean by lack of security? Do you feel you're in danger of being robbed in a mall?
Not a speed bump, a trip wire.
Isn't that also mandatory for them to ask from the government / IRS point of view?
Providers in my country are already doing this. But they simply send an informal letter to notify the user that with high probability his household is part of a botnet.
The "disproportional resource allocation" of the police and authorities begs for further investigation.
A friendly note: 'cut and dried'. As an aside are these kind of remarks welcomed or seen as pedantic?
Since then NATO countries in Europe has lowered their military capabilities quite a lot, haven't they?
Isn't that as bad as downloading via torrent? In many countries the sole consumption is not considered illegal (only sharing is), so violating iTunes terms could be even worse theoretically.

And as a side note it could open you up to getting your main account blocked by Apple if they start cracking down on that.
The article is just: Trump is evil. The creator of Dilbert supports Trump and by proxy must be an evil racist. Also Adams has opened a dialog to the ALT Right so he must be an evil racist. Adams changes his comics overtime so you stop reading everything he's ever done.

Addendum: I must have touch a nerve. Instead of flagging my comment why not reply with a well thought out response?
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Because not invoking NATO Article V would immediately render the whole alliance useless (as this article is the whole point of NATO) and I'm sure no member of it would risk that. Russia pulling a similar trick as in Ukraine on any NATO member without serious consequences would be an achievement comparable to the victory of the Cold War.
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Spare change if you've got $100 million to throw around. Or whatever the current btc price is.
This article was originally published in Undark Magazine:

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But that does not excuse knee-jerk reactions.

>China or Russia would be my first guesses

Why? If this is just based on it being a massive attack, then there's no basis to automatically blame China/Russia. Have you not noticed this trend? Every time there's a big attack or new strain of malware, it's always China/Russia/North Korea, and that finger pointing is before any concrete evidence?

Honestly, it's xenophobic and will cloud judgement as you'll be looking for evidence that it is China/Russia/North Korea rather than looking for facts.

Even if there's a good chance it is them, should we not believe in innocent until proven guilty?
That would be my approach too, but I was wondering if this would be enough to stay out of trouble.
What do you mean by again? Was it blocked by your ISP previously, or do you mean that it used to redirect to others like .se? Because I'm pretty sure the .org domain has continuously worked for me since 2004 when it was registered.
> Proportional fonts help pack letters within a word, not pack words within/between sentences.

I was probably wrong to try and fuzzily remember an anecdote rather than look it up :) but my understanding was that in a proportional font the combination of a period and space was good enough to show the end of the sentence clearly for whatever reason.

> It sends a signal to me that a person looks for bizarre ways to feel superior to others, instead of trying to understand why someone behaves differently.

This is fair. Though I promise I don’t feel superior to pretty much anybody if that helps. Learning about this actually came from wondering why some people used two spaces after sentences, not starting out judgmental. I think I was mainly thinking of formal contexts where you would already be judging somebody's choices (resume, professional portfolio, publications) more so than just random language use in comments or whatever. But I didn't put my finger on that last night!

I had this uneasiness writing my own comment and reading your comment, and did some actual reading this morning, and this turns out to be one of those things where the story I absorbed about it was too simple. There seems to be ongoing debate about this just like everything else, and even though most publishers and editors prefer 1 space after a sentence. I had though I heard that spaces after periods actually render a little wider anyway but that seems to be wrong?

I knew I worded my comment kind of badly and probably shouldn’t have made it in the first place. But at lest posting it helped me get corrected on my assumptions.
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>Even larger organisms like humans aren't powerhouses, we only need about 100 Watt (25 Watt for the brain), imagine you also had to power a 20W lightbulb. You'd have to suddenly increase your daily food consumption by 20%.

This sounds like it could be an amazingly healthy diet product.
> In France for instance if you accept credit cards, it is illegal to add a fee for accepting it.

Are you sure, that it is by law, though? In most countries, it is a contractual obligation: when you make a contract with your bank or payment processor, one of those terms & conditions is not to discriminate against the card payers. The purpose is to force the processing fees on the merchant, otherwise the cards would be at a disadvantage and would not get popular. For a case study, see Southeast Asia (1. cash rules there; 2. you can pay with a card, but you will have to cover the fees too; 3. as a consequence, everyone uses cash, see also point 1).

In the case of taxis, I would understand if they voluntarily had terminals for their own protection (so they would not get mugged for few banknotes), but forcing them... that sounds wrong.
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Legality aside, whether sharing copyrighted information is amoral or not is determined by one's own values. Some people, myself included, see a person's right-to-share to be far more important to humanity than the authors ability to employ an ill-suited business model to profit off his or her work. There are many ways to generate profit other than to infringe on others' right to share. Humanity does not owe you a successful business model, and certainly not at the expense of it's right to share.

> What gives you the right to take someone else's painstakingly created artistic creation and give it away for free to thousands of people, depriving them of the exclusive right to sell their own work.

Users sharing copyrighted work does nothing to prevent authors from profiting off their work. Conflating sharing and business is what got us in this mess in the first place.
"SPD and Greens were those who sent troops to Yugoslavia"

Both the SPD (Schroeder) and Greens (Fischer) where right dominated past then. Both parties are left dominated now.

"Here is a statement by them supporting the sanctions"

I thought we were talking about the NATO case in Germany when NATO is attacked by Russia, not sanctions.

The quoted article states 58% of Germans would not support Germany defending east European states when being attacked by Russia. 58% looks like a majority of people to me.

"They are still losing big money there every day and they are stuck just like in those other regions at the end of the world you've mentioned as signs of strength."

Repeattly annexing parts out of other countries without a military response looks like a sign of strengh to me.

"Besides that, both SPD and Grüne and SPD and Linke are far away from forming a government without CDU."

Why are you not providing a source for that?

"They are still losing big money"

Why are you not providing a source for that?

"Greens had some values back then."

Why are you not providing a source for that?

"above and covers pretty much the radical left and right party voters/members. "

Why are you not providing a source for that?

Stupid game, isn't it?
> Their TOC needs to be collapsible

Not sure what you mean. In the lower left there is a working collapse button.
> It must have been the introduction of the typewriter that brought the idea of "two spaces" instead of "wider space".

Come to think about it, why not the movable type printing press as the starting point?
> WHATWG's standards

I my opinion one cannot call something a "standard" that changes every few days.

EDIT: In this sense W3C's HTML 5.x can be considered a rather badly authored (cf. other comments here) standard, while what the WHATWG releases is not something that even measures up to a standard, but it is the daily version of how HTML is supposed to be today.
I agree. And this is why I no longer pirate stuff, if I can get it legally in a reasonable way. For me as a non-american though, there is a serious lack of content available to me, which means that if I want to watch something, sometimes the only available option is to pirate it.
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Don't forget product placement, in film advertising, endorsements (both in film and around its marketing)...

Oh and merchandising... that's a big one!
I think you're making an assumption about lumens/watt that may or may not be valid.

Who knows what a Light Emitting Daisy could achieve?
First, we should accelerate building better robots to do the work of humans, then send thousands throughout the solar system. This will be cheaper and faster than manned space flight...

Anyway, I went through this a few years ago on HN after the Virgin Galactic accident. People argued that it was only a minor setback. Any setback that involves humans costs a lot of money and time.
Link to the PDF that this story was based on:

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/EHIB/CDPH%20Do...
Definitely a SE Asia thing. Malls in Asia are closer to amusement parks with shopping than straight retail with a cineplex attached. In the Philippines the SM mall chain, run by the Sy family from China, is still on the upswing with no end in sight. Always busy on nights and weekends, and filled with kids hanging out because it's so damned hot and humid outside all the time (and the average age in the Philippines is 23).

Another factor in SE Asia is that most people (esp. young people) do not make purchases with credit cards like they do in the US and which makes Amazon's dominance assured and hastens the decline of malls. Mobile is huge, and mobile payments and cash are still king. Lazada is big in the Philippines because they accept mobile payments, e-wallet funds, and COD.
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>People love to call out the Model 3, but Tesla makes almost 2,000 cars a week. They obviously are having a problem with the battery for it. As a general problem, they are past making a few hundred cars a quarter.

They always overpromised by a few months. It's been a pattern since the start. Apart from the delay they have delivered on their promises after a while.

I mean you can think of their estimations what you want. It could be a bit too much optimism (although can there be too much optimism for a startup?), it could be a marketing tactic. But they've consistently beaten the skeptics until now.
> merge into a company called U2

You are waiting for another Copyright suit, aren't you? :)
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Actually it's illegal to lock the housedoor, because of emergency situations. In case something happend and the people need to flee, they could be trapped in the house.

Also technically it's not illegal to leave your car door unlocked, Police just handles it that way. The law demands that the car cannot be misused.
It’s ironic that the blog post is an earnest response to Jamie Dimon’s comments about cryptocurrencies. I always assumed Dimon himself was testing his ability to influence pricing of cryptos with those comments. It’s an old game played by Wall Street: talk a good play down in the press, buy on the downward pressure, and then make money on the correction. This happens during almost every AAPL earnings cycle, for example.
Plus, cities are thriving so main streets are not going anywhere -- the shops probably change to reflect the online shopping trends though. More cafés, definitely.

Small town main streets are going away sure, but those towns are slowly emptying anyway.
> Churchill guesses it will be five years before a StarCraft bot can beat a human. He also notes that many experts predicted a similar timeframe for Go—right before AlphaGo burst onto the scene.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-declares-galactic-war...

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That sounds right. My family and I used to go to the mall every Monday night to grab food at hang out. I'd always hit up the book stores, game stores, and electronics stores.
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