skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel's Larrabee actually ran FreeBSD with a proper filesystem and everything. You could telnet into your GPU, install your own API implementation, pretty cool stuff: http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...
Still needs to be said. And lots. I'm a crypto investor, but i know what it feels like to have an 80% correction over the space of a year. There are a lot of people who don't even think that's possible.
Who is Matt Gaetz
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Not all mandatory service involves the military. I believe Singapore has/had one where you are part of their civil service (firefighters, etc).
The only good ideas about tiles were lifted of opera and better implemented in extensions.

Serving ads is never a good idea, and no, ads are not the way we fund the Internet, commercial ads is what is destroying the WWW and the Internet.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/adver...

https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/06/09/pirate-bay-founder-weve...
Yeah, lots of interesting stories about the neighborhood and your typical "just rolled into the shop" horror stories from people's commutes. Lots of banged-up people coming through there. He also does a big business with bike messengers, and if you end up chatting with them you hear all sorts of interesting stories. Many stories involve running from the cops for traffic violations as if it's just a routine thing. It's true though ... bike messengers don't get tickets as they won't let themselves be caught, and the police aren't going to start a dangerous car chase over a ~$200 ticket.

It's also hilarious how often people waiting for the Chinatown buses try to use his bathroom (and how good he's gotten at rebuffing them). I think he should start charging for bathroom access.
This would be easier if We and Them simply differed in arbitrary preferences. But I fear that when We and Them disagree on basic epistemology, we simply sound crazy to each other.

And this irreconcilable difference, if it exists, will eventually always come out if you talk long enough.
>This comment is ignorant of the reality of black military members, both during the war and after.

As I mentioned in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935787), this is because it was not voluntary problem solving. In the military you follow orders.

Research generally shows that working together voluntarily to solve a common problem, where each side needs the others' skills, really does reduce polarization.
Yep. If you want to get your transactions tracked by the chinese government, it is cheap. Like PayPal. If you want your transactions to be private, you use a decentralized blockchain like bitcoin.
The 2d assets when very far away is called billboarding.
Why did they laugh? Often the job posting even asks for one...
Here's the Git log on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/twitter/vireo/commits/master . As of this writing, it consists of a single commit with the commit message "first commit."

I'll give the devs here the benefit of the doubt that the original project repo has more history than that, but what might be the reason it wasn't preserved when the GitHub repo was created? Copyright reasons? Or someone just couldn't be bothered?
That said, the Horizon engine is solid and the Death Stranding visuals we've seen so far look incredible.

Just look at this rendition of Mads Mikkelsen: https://youtu.be/H2Hy96sOnq8?t=200
No, this line of thinking leads people to blindly trust the peer-reviewed process, which is fraught with plenty of political landmines and corruption.

Homeopathy is crap. But bodybuilding/powerlifting/athletic training often finds the answers well ahead of peer-reviewed science.
The chinese government wanted a crypto they could track, because they want to own all of the mining infrastructure, all of the nodes, all of the code base and the payment gateway to it. So that's what they got. Bcash.
> Why would an ordinary consumer ever want to pay for retail goods in a currency other than the one that their salary comes in?

You are thinking of Consumers in the West, almost all of who have Bank Accounts, Credit Cards and in these cases, your statement makes sense.

However, a large majority of the developing world still works on Cash economy. And in rural areas in these regions, most people don't have bank accounts, credit cards with with to shop on Amazon. They do have mobile phones with internet.

So it would make sense for Amazon to use crypto-currency to allow such people to make purchases on it's site.

Do you know that Amazon in India has a COD feature (Cash on Delivery), so the dude delivers your package and takes cash from you for your purchase from Amazon.in.
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Or, for that matter, Japanese-American citizens...
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> . Given that that current American society is hyper-competitive,

There is slight snag in there I think, because the level of competitiveness is also determined by culture, media, propaganda, education etc.

In other words it is not something that's just there, perceptions of competition is easily manufactured. Think of telling black people that illegal immigrants are taking their jobs. There is all of a sudden a politically motivated competition presented which can be used to make the two groups hate each other.
Anyone got a link to the project's website? I'd like to read an actual technical description. Anything MM is involved in is gold in my book.
So then you get fired, and get another job. Or found a company that ends up dominating the company you got fired from, as the heads of IBM, Apple, and Pixar all did.

American business culture is the same as social culture: association is voluntary, and once either party no longer finds it worthwhile, bye. The flip side of that is that there's relatively little judgment attached to being fired. Future employers may ask a few extra questions to try to determine whether the factors that got you fired from your last job are likely to impact your performance in the next one, but if it really is a matter of cultural mismatch (like a difference in political opinions would be), then you can basically be sure that there is some company out there that doesn't care.
non sequitur. either it’s right or it’s wrong, whether or not you like the org as a whole doesn’t change that.

even so to briefly chase your point, do you believe they are doing net good, and some things are looking more positive, like the servo work? my only point is that criticism works on a relative scale. i agree there are things they could do better, but i still prefer they exist.
In one of the MGSV trailers there was a scene with Big Boss and Miller on horse back overlooking a canyon. That was the first time I ever mistook a video game scene for actual video.

I mean, on closer inspection sure you can tell its not video, but at an initial glance it wasn't immediately obvious to me. The Ground Zeros trailers were great but everything had a 'gloss' to it, MGSV tuned that up and the results truly were exceptional to me.

I don't watch or play many games, but so far MGSV is the only game that has done that to me and the results in the trailer matched the final product which is a feat of its own.
site: https://www.mobilecoin.com/

whitepaper: https://www.mobilecoin.com/whitepaper-en.pdf
> Marginalized people with any kind of survival instinct are wise to give a wide berth to anyone giving voice to open hostility to their kind. Such people can have a great deal of power to help them into the grave without ever lifting a finger to commit violence, sometimes simply by not lifting a finger to help when they need it.

This makes no sense. Avoiding people whom you perceive as having hostility in their words is not a good strategy for finding a support network. A good strategy to is find people who have demonstrated that they are willing to 'raise a finger' and including them in your life. While there is a negative correlation between those two groups, excluding the former group from your search for the latter will limit your ability to build a strong support network.
Same, and it's all the more frustrating with the realization that what is effectively a tablet should be able to sleep for an inordinately long time, especially in "airplane mode" (mine has a SIM card, but there's no reason to be running an AP or Bluetooth when off), rather than cold booting, off a car battery.
Was encouraged but disappointed that proponents still ignore the risk that cryptographic hashes are reliant on unsolved mathematics
> “I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.”

I don't follow Sam's life, but has he lived there for at least a few months to be able to say that? Or he just went to a conference or two there?

Even so, it may be easier for an American or other foreigner to "speak their minds" in China, especially if they are known to have a lot of money. But if he was a Chinese, I think there's a much higher chance something like this would happen instead:

https://archive.is/20171208003957/https://www.wsj.com/articl...

The only thing you may have to fear for in SF may be your reputation, but not that you will go to prison for saying the "wrong thing". Not yet, at least.
I guess there is a skilled team, but they use him as a brand, because that sells better.
I find it beyond belief that local homeowners are being so short sighted.
Do they not worry what their children/grandchildren are going to do for accommodation when they are property hunting? Or is their assumption that screw them, that's their problem?
This is the major (technical - plenty of political issues) problem I have with Bcash. It’s cheap and fast because transaction volumes, and price, are 10% of BTC, yet blocks are 1.5x the size (roughly, looking at a block explorer). As soon as they fill up, they’ll have the exact same problems down the line. Increasing the block size doesn’t scale long term and is a bandaid solution at best.

BTC was fast and cheap when adoption was low.
Really, it's only $50,000 if they realize the gains. In gambling what OP is referring to is "free rolling".
> It's poor for small transactions, but works well for storing large amounts of value as it is significantly more secure in terms of PoW than anything else out there.

This is only true as long as Bitcoin is worth more. But with it becoming more unusable, while other coins are growing in popularity, this will change and Bitcoin won't have any use case left.

> The small transaction issue may be overcome by something like the Lightning Network, but in the short term, you can just use other cryptocurrencies with lower fees or other features that are important to you.

The Lightning Network has too many problems to solve Bitcoin's scaling issues by itself. Including:

1. No decentralized routing
2. Hubs need to bind up large amount of capital
3. Nodes need to constantly be online and monitor the state to prevent fraud
4. It is heavily dependent on the network effect: for it to be useful the ones you want to transact with needs to be there. Kind of a chicken and egg problem. And why use it as long as other cryptocurrencies fulfill the users need, with a better user experience than LN would provide as well.
5. Settlements do not work reliably with full blocks (or they need to pay huge premiums)

LN might have a usecase for providing microtransactions, such as paying for every X second of a video or similar, but it will not solve Bitcoin's scaling problems.
Also could be that Obi-wan is secretly a Sith himself.
> "Nobody actually transacts in cryptocurrency," Goldbard says. "So making something that people can actually use is our first goal. And then we want to find additional ways that people can implement it over time. But initially all we want is to make it so people can actually complete transactions."

Amen. Too few projects have this focus.
>still I find it strictly better to have a part of the population with access to life extension than nobody with access to it.

But that's already the case. There are people right now who will live longer than others because they have access to better healthcare.[1] Why should it be strictly better (addressing only your point b) for the situation to change from "people with an average lifespan plus people who live 10 years longer" to "people with the same average lifespan plus people who live 20 years longer"?

Or in other words, is longevity some sort of unalloyed good? Is arithemtic the only tool needed to judge the merits of life extension? Another comment asked us to consider what would happen if Einstein were still alive; maybe there are some other people whose continued existence would not have been a net benefit to humanity?

[1]Yes, as mentioned elsewhere in these comments, people on welfare have access to some healthcare, but after going from a premium employer-paid insurance plan to what's available under my state's Medicaid expansion, I can guarantee that the former has a higher standard of care.
The soil is not supposed to be a growing medium. The soil is supposed to be a microbiome.

Sure, nearly-dead soil can work fine for growing plants. But it results in less healthy plants and runoff, which then has a cyclical effect. The byproducts of petro-fertilizers end up in the environment, which then ends back up in animals and plants. By not relying on healthy bacteria and fungi to naturally infuse plant roots with the nutrients and water they need, we are only getting short term benefits of reliable production. In the long term we will end up slowly poisoning the ecology that we absolutely need to keep agriculture sustainable.
Thanks, strange Google didn't bring that up.
Like impregnating a girl with a bomb?

This guy surely runs circles around us...
Oh yes. I'm this close to canceling my Sirius subscription because some of the music channels are 32kbps or even 16kbps.
As someone who was present in the so called "Silicon hills" (Austin, TX) and "Telecom corridor" (Dallas, TX) it was hard to find a tech job during the 2008 recession.

These places look great from the outside (cheap, plenty of space, infrastructure etc.), but the job prospects during a downturn are radically different as compared to the Bay Area (I'm only talking about 2008, not the dotcom bubble).
People perform services or produce goods for their community, and they are given resources in exchange for their efforts (aka "return").

Unfortunately, we are now tainted with a lust for more. And then we ask how to get 10x more (aka "return") before we even think about what it is we are providing.

We all just want to be "rich", and all we can think about is the end, not the means. Then we must read articles like these - the likes of which do not provide any practical insight on how one should live a fulfilling life.

It's all about just waiting for numbers get bigger.
There's still competition among the wealthy for limited resources. There will always be limited resources (for example a promotion, a love interest, dominant market share, a political position, etc).
except when you can throw away your $150 bike and replace it for the cost of its repair ;)
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Yea I saw that. I think they just put the site up and hasn't been indexed yet.
I completely agree. The mathematics behind the argument are so boring and obvious, yet explained in an extremely convoluted language. Fascinating how you can describe 10+1=11% to otherwise intelligent people here and get to the frontpage of HN, just because it's about VC.
>>Eliminating inequality is neither necessary nor even desirable, but the floor of our economies must be such that those sitting upon it enjoy a certain minimum acceptable level of comfort.

Behavioral economic research shows this isn't how humans think, particularly Americans. They are naturally competitive regardless of their base level of comfort and "fairness" is inherently very important to them. If one would get 1 unit of free utility and another person gets 5 units of free utility, but the person who gets 1 unit has unilateral control over whether or not anyone gets anything, a startlingly high percentage of people in the 1 unit group will completely axe the deal entirely despite being better off.
Crypto is the new cyber.
The scientist, artist, and philosopher have contributed jack squat. Actually, that's wrong. The scientist has contributed the appearance of knowledge where none exists. I.e. a delusion. The delusion is that modern science understands color. It indeed understands optics, but not color.

The Problem of Color is a subset of the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Both are uncharted territory. Maybe one day we'll have a half-decent theory of color. When that day comes, it will probably bud-off and begin a field of study distinct from "philosophy proper". Just like math and science budded-off. In the meantime, the only thing we can do is imagine and philosophize. Because we don't understand how to even investigate the problem, let alone solve it. We're still at the stage analogous to when the Ancient Greeks were debating whether matter is continuous or discrete. "Nobody knows for sure, but matter sure feels continuous to me."

The least we can do is demarcate our ignorance. Which is why blogposts like this exist. So when you (essentially) say "Our current theory of optics sounds perfectly satisfactory", you are defending the delusion the blogpost meant to correct. My two previous comments aren't meant to contribute a theory of color, but to make obvious that optics and color are not the same thing.
> It's not any better now.

Well, of course. Sirius XM, where's the competition?
I don't live in SV, but I've worked remotely for SV companies, and have spent some time there.

I think you're underestimating the gap. I wouldn't call every other city a wasteland, but it can sometimes feel like it's hard not to have a tech job in the Bay Area.

It's also possible that people in SV are over-estimating the gap, but I think the reality is closer to the extreme they imagine.
Dismissing it simply because it is Facebook isn't really helpful. The article linked to several independent studies to back up their claims.

It also doesn't just say engagement is the answer, people clicking on clickbait are engaged but the article calls that out as bad engagement despite the fact that clickbait is incredibly profitable for Facebook.

The interesting part of the article is that it actually calls out some of the biggest problems with how people interact with Facebook. It shouldn't all be taken at face value but it is an interesting well documented article.
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/127537/Steve_Jobs_Atari_...

At least that was his job at a time.
what about otter ? waterfox ? uzbl ? poseidon ? netsurf ? falkon ? k-meleon ? Iron ? Iridium ? Liri ? Min ?

To cite some of the browsers you overlooked in your snarky comment.
Here is a year old paper from Imperial College and Cornell where they implemented trustless transactions using Intel SGX.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/papers/teechan.pdf
I'm sorry but your continued comments in this thread are just play wrong.

> If you want to get your transactions tracked by the chinese government

That's such a stupid thing to say as with an open ledger everyone can track your transactions.

> If you want your transactions to be private, you use a decentralized blockchain like bitcoin.

You don't even know what a private transaction is. Bitcoin has an open ledger and all transactions are exactly as traceable.
Wow. MM is really going all-in on for Software Guard Extensions (secure enclave) on the server.

What does HN say? Do we trust Intel (motivation and implementation) that much?
This is interesting. Did you pay for your conversations? I mean yeah you generated them but I don't expect to get conversations I've had via phone back and I'm paying for that service.

I think the idea of ownership is interesting here. I don't disagree that you should own it but then wouldn't you need to pay for it? Or did you pay for it by letting them sell your data to third party vendors? In that case, yeah you paid for it. What about Hacker News? Can you export your conversations here? Should you be able to? Meh, sorry mid-day musings.
> Probably didn't sell a lot of those to DND players, except perhaps GMs.

GM's don't have to show their dice rolls and can overrule the outcome if it fits their storyline better, so the rolling is mostly ceremonial anyway.
Really Odd. I don't hate it man.
As with most issues, what does the future have to do with today?

Most people don't want to take the risk of a huge hit on their property value today in exchange for a chance at avoiding crisis some day in the future. Ideally, some other chumps would take a huge hit on their property values for the future, and mine would remain high.

I don't actually live in SV, but that sort of thinking is everywhere.
poor argument. ostensibly the only reason to separate business from pleasure is out of practical concerns. without stating practical concerns there’s no way consider the validity of your comment.

who knows, you may totally change my mind, but as it stands it makes it difficult to disagree or agree with you.
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> Don't talk the ethics talk if you're not prepared to do the ethics walk.

Exactly.

> "The experience does not collect or share any data," Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, chief marketing officer of Mozilla, said

Looking in the sources of the extension, it adds additional HTML header to every HTML request to https://www.red-wheelbarrow.com/forkids/ pages. The activity of the users there could of course be tracked and the data dependent on the extension being active collected. Good try Mr. marketing officer of Mozilla delivering Mr. Robot ad using the mechanism for the "studies."

> "Firefox worked with the Mr. Robot team to create a custom experience that would surprise and delight fans of the show and our users."

Obviously fail. Surprise, yes. Delight? No.
I've used Coinbase since 2013 but I had a very important transaction simply disappear about a year and a half ago (despite being confirmed 10s of times) until I showed support that the transaction definitely went through. No explanation whatsoever. Just showed up a day after they replied to me.
Sure, why not?

I'm a patron of a number of people who have full-time jobs and do what I know them for on the side.

Another option is librepay too. Check the recent Patreon thread for alternatives and comments.

Why do you think you can't or shouldn't?
This coin uses Stellar, which is not a decentralized consensus like Bitcoin, but rather federated. It's not really surprising that it has performance advantages.

Also not sure how I feel trusting the fate of a cryptocurrency to the strength of Intel's SGX.