skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that a bit pedantic though? You argue using "intent" below but I think its pretty clear I'm intending to present the idea that once you believe it to be OK to punish an entire group of people for the actions of some small minority of that group, you're steering straight into Godwin territory.

You can split the hair of identifying them by nationality, religion, race, hair color, or shoe size all day long but it doesn't change the argument.
Doesn't load on Vivaldi, slow as fuck on Firefox. It takes forever to load on my fibre connection .. didn't do a network inspect, but I suspect it's a huge payload. Seems kinda gimmicky, not really a good demo.
anyone else bothered by the (mis-) use of "fingerprint" instead of "watermark"?
There are real bugs that they also modify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCK-mNqhx44
I can't parse your first statement (there isn't any 'stripping of energy' that I can see, the apparatus is converting some of the kinetic energy in the water into plasma.) But the second statement one is exactly right, we have an existing system for extracting energy out of moving water (hydroelectric turbines). That goes through a very mechanical process of rotating machinery to generate electricity and the turbines need quite a bit of maintenance.
That’s a good start, but unless I’m misreading it[1] the range of homoglyphs it checks for is rather small. You might be better off importing the Unicode Consortium’s list of ‘confusables’[2] if you’re planned automated linting.

[1] https://github.com/NebulousLabs/glyphcheck/blob/f6483dd9e97a...

[2] http://www.unicode.org/Public/security/latest/confusables.tx...
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A new 8GB DIMM module has about 1/4 the silicon area of a new 32GB module and the same density (often 1/4 the number of identical chips); only an old 8GB module, made with an entirely different process, would have larger and less dense safer DRAM cells.
Its a good post - but it must be said: the CEO (and board?) fucked up hardcore. They let themselves be tempted by acquisition, and then didn't protect themselves or the team in negotiations.
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I'm not sure that's material to my point, but assuming you're just starting a tangent, I'd disagree. They had replies.

It was not as immediate and exciting as modern technology, but it was way more exciting than what previously existed. People even fell in love by telegraph. See, for example, the 1880 novel "Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes": https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/wired-love-romance...
The GOP credits their disenfranchisement efforts for their outsized victories. You saying they're wrong?

--

So you're saying it's okay for Trump to fail upwards, but HRC didn't make every perfect move, so she deserved to lose?
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> 1) 2m voters were disenfranchised. 200k in Milwaukee alone.

Disenfranchised by Clinton when she never even bothered to visit them

> 2) Racism

How did that work? I've seen that mentioned before, but how did racism exactly help Trump win. He is a white supremacist and so other KKK member sleeper agents joined and brought him to power?

> 3) Electoral college

But how many US presidents won by referendum? Are we saying that Clinton didn't know about the Electoral College. As in she went for the popular vote and then only after the votes were cast, they surprised her with "Oops, we'll be using an electoral college this time".

> 4) $3b free earned media for Trump campaign.

Wasn't Hillary the one who was supported by most media conglomerates. Anything from getting debate question passed on to her by Brazile ahead of time, to Chris Cuomo on CNN telling people not to read emails because they are "illegal" and to come CNN for interpretation.

It wasn't just the traditional media but stuff like Eric Schmidt going around wearing a "staff" logo on Clinton campaign events and designing "winning" strategies for the campaign:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262

> these contests close enough for the GOP to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat.

74 electoral college votes is not quite "close enough". Not a landslide like it was claimed but not a small amount either.

> PS- HRC won the popular vote.

Yes she seemed to have been confused about how US elections are won. What does popular vote officially get her? Maybe there should be a consolation prize like being the head of the Dept of Labor.
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Those companies are trending upwards in respectability, strength, and talent. I think Andrew Ng, sometimes described as one of the top minds in ML, is indication that China has a place for such top minds.

If the only hope you have is that China and its firms have been weak before, and therefore China will be weak in the future, then this smells like motivated reasoning.
That's latency, not bandwidth. This is to help scale out concurrent request counts per box, rather than time to serve a single request (though obviously with request queuing, failure to serve requests fast enough makes concurrency a latency bottleneck).

And sure, most people aren't instagram. This is a python-at-big-scale problem, when the cost benefits of fitting more requests onto fewer servers actually matter.

One of the biggest reasons this actually makes a difference is that, in SoA, internal API scaling against your monolith can become expensive.
cloud mining sites are scammy though but this article narrows down the search for trustworthy cloud mining sites:
https://passivetalks.com/3-trusted-cloud-mining-sites-passiv...
GOG supports this in a limited way. If you link your Steam account in your GOG account, it'll pull in games to your GOG account which are listed on GOG.

https://www.gog.com/connect
I think the usual way: let people buy their tokens with Bitcoin, then sell these Bitcoin, there is no step 3. Or did you mean even more detailed description?
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IQ does negatively correlate with race, that's a fact. The point he (and others) make is that we shouldn't treat low-IQ people as subhumans, just because they lost in the genetic lottery.

There are many other things that correlate with race, both phenotypically and genetically, there advantages and disadvantages to different ethnicities and races. Why is it so radical to say that IQ is different between races? Is it really different from saying that the fastest runners are black?
As Nickodell and PlutoIsAPlanet pointed out, this "issue" was raised by a group of banned Team Fortress 2 cheaters, who are developing obfuscated aimbots.

In all likelihood, VAC's detection is premised on other factors in combination with the username. Like, for example, botting in online multiplayer games.

This may come as a surprise to half the users in these comments, but, for the 99% of gamers who are not malware enthusiasts, banning bad actors is a feature, not a bug.
I'm talking about a different type of user data-- what would be input into things like visual programming languages and devices that Alan Kay talks about-- Grail, light pen inputs, etc. I assume what Kay is talking about is the ability to publish insights, data, and specifications for the languages and UIs that were being developed at the time. So when you see Kay doing user studies working with kids, the stuff he made public was the actual research on what was learned about human-computer interaction during that time, languages used, developed, etc. It wasn't the position of the kids' eye, fingerprint of their typing patterns, mouse movement patterns, etc.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never seen anything Kay wrote from the 70s or 80s that discussed the implications of mining user data on such an enormous and regular basis as is currently done. And I doubt Xerox itself thought of that category of user data as being valuable outside of research, or in any way significant the way "customer data, mailing lists, etc." were. But today, that user data is assumed to be valuable and can cheaply be collected and monetized. So even if some Parc-like team exists today, the results will be practically locked-down to keep a competitive advantage over others. Or it will make much smaller strides with specific goals in mind-- like Mozilla with Rust. Or it will clone and improve upon existing proprietary technology and make it available to the public-- like GNU.

It's a bit like reading someone wax nostalgic about Bitcoin's initial bootstrapping mechanism and complaining that today's altcoins don't put enough emphasis on distributing the tokens to people who aren't speculators. That's fine as a description of a problem, but its a fairly toothless observation in terms of solving the problem. Distributing tokens when nearly nobody is watching is a completely different problem from distributing them when everyone is not only watching but also speculating. Similarly, having a research team do work that is a pubic good when nobody thinks the data generated is something that can be directly monetized is a completely different problem from trying to do the same when the greater part of the economy depends on everybody watching, collecting, and monetizing the data that your software/hardware generates.
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How about temporarily halting copy rights for, say, 5 or 10 years? Then evaluate whether it's been good or bad for the production of cultural artifacts?
There have been related studies. I can't find the reference now, but there was a study done in Poland after the break up of the USSR on how to best aid its economy get going. They found that it was better to give the aid to the already established businessmen (wealthy) than the population in general (which was mostly poor). That these businessmen would invest the aid in their business which would create localized, long lasting economic improvements. Where the general disbursement of aid would help for a little while then fall off.

These guys obviously weren't the 0.1%, but people do try to study these things.
Well, the 1488 types and the alt right are mistaken in their support.

They see a professor making headlines because he's vocal about the problems with the alt left. That's all they know and they're assuming that means he's on their side (the alt left also makes this mistake). But that's absolutely not the case and is clear to anyone that actually watches his lectures.
Privacy? On low-end smartphones with some trojan factory preinstalled?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/prein...
The QQ Browser (QQ浏览器) is also pretty solid. I like its night mode better than UC's, and you can archive pages for offline use. Tencent doesn't seem to be trying to internationalize it as UC is, though.
iiuc simple carbs are main reason of three big ones, heart problems, cancer and diabetes. Seen more research linking it. And no one is talking about yet
Do you have any numbers to back up that 90%?

Do you have anything to back up the link you're claiming between not being technically difficult and not having specific needs? Interfacing with several dozen external services probably doesn't fit what you'd call "technically difficult", but making sure they don't break would count as a specific need.

What is your definition of "technically difficult", anyway? Is it something that links in the Tensorflow library? Something with separate transactional vs reporting databases that have to stay mostly in sync? Something that has to stay easy to update when regulations change? Something like I mentioned above, with multiple-dozen external integrations and contractual or legal penalties if they break? Is it things like the auto-level feature that hobby quadcopters have?
I'm the opposite of this. I spent most of my life up to my mid-20s on internet communities -- first Usenet as a child (8 years old), then SA, then Reddit/4chan. I mostly read Reddit and HN now, but do not read and post compulsively like I did previously. I would easily clear 200+ posts a day on SA and 4chan. There's also the different pockets of people that I met through gaming.

It's been hard, but I've finally broken away from relying on the internet for friends and community. 2017 was the first year that I can remember where I spent more time with RL friends than internet friends.
Was this a closed system? As in: the money was taken from richer members of the community and given to poorer members? Or was the money brought in from the outside?
He does not use IQ to explain how the brain works, in any way whatsoever.

Can you link to (or synthesize) a criticism of something the man has said himself?
No, mainly archival and ability to playback from local media / my hardware player. If I spend hours subtitling something, I want ability to export my hard work.
> This is not something I have completely thought through

Indeed. "Thar oughtta be a law!" is always the least interesting response to a problem. Essentially your solution to a problem is to outlaw the problem.

Then the fun part is always left to committee. "How do we split it up?" "How do we define the thing we are trying to outlaw...?"

You could brand it the "War on Problems". The president could appoint a Problems Czar. I'm sure we'll need a Anti-Problems Department, too.
Usually I go into these things with a fair amount of skepticism but given the linux kernels usual pace of development and the nature of undisclosed bugs we have seen in the past this seems like a large hypervisor bug could be the reality. It must be pretty bad if its the kind of bug that they can't really fix easily, and have to push through an entire new feature into something as old and important as the paging code.
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Thought Andrew Ng's The State of AI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpuX_yzdYs) was a good primer on: data assets, the positive feedback loop, and their value; hallmarks of an "AI company"
The problem is that everything is wrong here. Username is not a signature of malware by itself. There could be a ton of reasons why someone could have an account like that on the machine - be it someone's name, maybe some AI project, perhaps a robotic feline, who knows.

Unfortunately, it seems that Valve's software doesn't bother to actually check whether the machine has any malware installed, it bans anyone who has any account on the machine that matches a regexp. Innocent or not, who cares, right?

How "effective" this approach is is very much documented by the fact that as soon as the botters caught wind of this they have changed the username they use and Valve can play a game of cat & mouse with them now.

It is not the first time Valve got caught by doing dumb/lazy stuff like this. E.g. Steam was known to erase your entire machine (or at least what your current user had access to - so most likely all you data) because of lazy programming and hardwired assumptions (see here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_w... ). Their response has been pretty similar too - "Works as intended, go away, we don't care".

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> all the holes that were black boxed to me in my engineering growth

What were the holes that black-boxed you in your engineering growth?
I have friends contracting in Germany at 800 EUR/day (which comes to about 180k EUR per year). Seems like, as in many other European countries, the good money is in contracting.
I'm excited by the portability OpenTracing offers between APM products if they start adopting it. Datadog has already pledged support.

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> Why is it not ok for tech companies to be big, but a-ok for telecom, oil, banks, law firms, audit firms, and all the other traditional companies to be huge?

The thing which makes tech companies different from every other is the 'infrastructure' effect of software and the absence of 'geographical' limits on monopolies.

Banks, law firms, audit firms are fundamentally limited by geography. A law firm in New York will find it very hard to service clients in San Francisco without having employees there. Tech firms arent 'boxed' in by these limits, which are preset for most traditional businesses, thereby greatly expands their ability to become monopolies and strangle competition.

The other advantage that tech companies have is the fundamentally additive nature of software. Microsoft made a very good OS few decades back, but its ability to keep releasing a competitive OS builds on the work piled on by decades of engineering. It is simply impossible for a startup to release another version of an OS which can compete with Microsoft Windows.

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One extra element I'd add is that what counts as an error in a proof is different than what counts as a bug. In pure math, an error is a strict failure of logic that breaks the proof. In programming, a bug doesn't need to only refer to something that stops the code from working. I've also heard it referred to as something that stops the code from working properly or efficiently, for instance. Mathematicians don't care about that because they have a different goal than a programmer, that is, to prove the truth of something (though some are motivated to produce more "elegant" proofs).
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To those wondering why alt-right/neo-nazi/1488-type people are flocking to Jordan Peterson: this comment accurately describes both Peterson's views and the alt-right view on race. Many alt-right people claim they acknowledge "factual differences" of race, which is the basis for their ethno-nationalist views.

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People names in TF2 and CSGO are all over the place in many languages and get crazy, weird or stupid.

Fucking excuse me for not looking up aimbots to know what names I shouldn't use to not lose access to games I paid money for.

Why the fuck would a normal user know stuff like that and why is that even remotely reasonable? What crazy planet were you born on?
> What receipt is there if dad buys a house or car and gives to his son?

There's the receipt of the house or car; taxing in-kind transfers at fair market value is already done in other contexts.

> Another scenario - never cashes out money from his company and gives a super-well-paid position to his son?

Uh, that's easy, you are taxing the income from the position. The existing tax code, in fact, already covers this fairly completely.

> If you tax inheritance - you tax both original incomes and generational transfer.

The distinction is artificial; there is just income.

> With trust fund, the recipient does pay incomes tax when receiving the money. But inheritance tax is avoided.

Inheritances aren't taxed as income, so you aren't avoiding a tax event that you would otherwise hit by swapping one for the other. Historically the top estate tax rate was pretty similar top income tax rate; you could get a rate advantage by structuring choices that move from estate to income tax since estate tax is driven by the size of the estate and income tax by the individuals annual income, but that's a reason to just have one (income) system rather than two separate systems that you can choose between by structuring.

> Original incomes tax wasn't paid either since the fund itself doesn't pay.

Sure, but that just makes a trust fund work like a tax-deferred transfer at the time money goes into the fund. That is something of a structuring opportunity, and I'd have no problem not having private benefit trusts be tax exempt entities (and they certainly a trivial fix if that is your concern), but it's a fairly minor issue.
The interesting thing is that this "legitimate signature" will just change. Maybe to another basic name, maybe a random string, maybe diceware. No one is trolled.