skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fundamentally a lot less concerned about killing people in the process

That's rather flippant, and I'd like to provide a counterpoint. Some neuroscience researchers held a town hall discussion in a major US city and also in a major Chinese city (on two different occasions) about bioethics, and one of the topics discussed was whether it was morally right or wrong (in the case of IVF) to screen for IQ, assuming we had reliable markers. So, same parents, no edits, but out of N embryos, instead of randomly selecting one, you choose one that's likely to be the smartest. Assuming it works reliably, is that wrong?

The U.S. audience was split approx. 50/50, with most of the objections about how it was going against God's will, or that it was "unnatural." The Chinese audience was all for it, and expressed surprise that the U.S. audience was split. Because if you could, and the technique was reliable, why wouldn't you?

Sometimes, it's useful to take a second look at our cultural biases.
The synchronous replication is a difficult from a performance point of view.
The number of emails I get from Americans (across multiple jobs) on a Saturday and Sunday afternoon would argue differently.

Obviously, this is anecdotal but no company in the world is going to release any figures saying that their employees work longer hours than they are employed for.
N different services still come out cheaper than cable. I pay for Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime (which comes with Video) so let's say ~ $30 a month. Compared to Cox Cable, it's not even close -- $30 is Cox' entry level cable offering (and I can't share it with my family, nor watch shows at my own leisure).

My bet is that there's plenty of cash still left. Until cable companies wise up (which is probably never), Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video will continue printing money.

Edit: almost forgot that with cable you still get ads lol.
Okay, it’s worse than I thought. It’s hard to understand why people keep falling for this.
What I don't understand is why Netflix never released a "white label" streaming service for studios. Yes, it's a crappier experience for the consumer to have to subscribe to N different services, but Netflix could have made a ton of revenue hosting everything. Maybe they still could.
A mischievous person renting a domainname can list any public or private IP addresses in her A records; and she can list any nameservers, including ones with which she has no relationship. She can list an IP address that the user may be utilising or renting.

I use a fast DNS resolution solution that only queries authoritative servers and stores IPs in constant, perfect hash databases, then in kdb+. No caches. I see the IP addresses that are returned in DNS packets not as ephemeral and inconseqential, but as entries in a database that need to be validated before insert.

If I see some nonsense like 127.0.0.1 in an A record, let alone a public IP address that Im using, it is rejected. I have seen NS records with 127.0.0.1 as well.

Are there DNS rebinding attacks that do not use iframes, Javascript or some other way to trigger automatic lookups without user interaction? In theory perhaps. But every attack I have seen relies on triggering lookups automatically.

Its too bad the popular browsers make automatic requests for resources, automatically follow redirects and do not allow users to disable this default behavior.

However users can make use of less complex HTTP clients that do not make such automatic requests and where redirects can be disabled. These can be used in tandem with the popular browsers to give users more transparency and control.

Also isnt it possible to use SSL/TLS for localhost JSON-RPC? Theoretically couldnt users make use of client certificates?

Just a thought.
Mappings that admit inverses are bijections. An isomorphism is a special kind of bijection in which, if two things have some relationship before the mapping, they have some other relationship after the mapping. e.g.

if a*b = c, then ln(a)+ln(b) = ln(c)

EDIT The isomorphism is the mapping from x to ln(x); the two things before the mapping are a and b; their relationship before the mapping is that their product is c; the two things after the mapping are ln(a) and ln(b); and their new relationship is that their sum is ln(c).

In this example, it's not just "some other relationship" after the mapping, but involves c, also mapped.
So people with enough bitcoin can generate more bitcoin. Meh.
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HBO is owned by WB, DC is leveraging WB to build their streaming service. Disney and WB both have a stake in Hulu.

So the realistic remaining players after the dust settles would be Disney+Hulu, CBS, Netflix, and Amazon. And of those 4, CBS lacks the capital or content to compete with the other 3 and given their relatively friendly relationship with WB, I can see them integrating into the Disney/Hulu heavyweight.
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Models (should) abstract any data, providing services, and reside on the back end...
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Just found out about Filecoin which is an interesting concept, you "mine" by storing and serving files people save to the network.

Stuff like this is a much more interesting use of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in my opinion, instead of burning electricity for PoW you can do meaningful work while collecting a reward.
Thanks for making me look up the term "grognard". I knew it from gamer use, but didn't know that it means "grumbler" or its military history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Guard_(France)
IIRC the BSD license doesn't say anything about trademarks or patents?

(EDIT: Obviously, this doesn't invalidate your conclusion, but your conclusion doesn't follow from the premise, at least.)
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The difference seems to be that rather than using third-party escrow, his idea uses code running on the Ethereum network to allow investors to vote on the release of funds (because we know that complex smart contract code of this kind worked perfectly in the past and certainly didn't have bugs so severe the entire Ethereum protocol was forked to undo them).
this is a fascinating fact, and I guess I should have assumed everything was even worse than I thought.

I guess it’s the flip side of civil forfeiture, departments funding themselves like businesses.
Gmail is not minimal.

There is no quick fix for this.
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As someone living outside America, the thing that makes this seem the most unreal to me is the fact I've never seen it on any TV show.

Like, there are plenty of shows about/involving (fictional) police and corruption, looking the other way, giving someone a free pass, etc. but I don't remember ever seeing any where someone used a card like this.

Does anyone know of any? Or is it some sort of open secret that Hollywood has just agreed not to talk about?
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Pretty sure quantum tunneling starts to come into play under ~6 nm (hard limit of usual consumer processor)
Do these do anything different to be able to aim for 7nm so fast ?
> if I were a politician that will be a sure way to lose my next election, I guess

Would it be? You sure as hell would get my vote.
There are two problems.

First, you would not describe a web application as “isomorphic” if it’s an abstraction over a client and a server which both share the same code. The proper way to use this term would be to say that there is an isomorphism between the client and the server (and again, that web application is not the isomorphism), or you could say that the client and server are isomorphic with respect to one another. A thing cannot be isomorphic, it can only be isomorphic with respect to another thing. But it cannot be isomorphic because it is a morphism between two things in an isomorphism.

Second, and more importantly, the client and the server do not share an isomorphism under this paradigm. An isomorphism describes two objects which have a mapping between them such that, for all intents and purposes, they are equivalent. “Equivalence” is a specific mathematical term distinct from equality: 5 and 7 are not equal, but under a function that outputs the same number for all odd inputs, 5 and 7 are equivalent.

More precisely, you cannot tell two objects apart using only their properties if they are isomorphic to each other. If we were to define a client and a server in a category theoretic sense, the client and the server would have to have all the same properties that can be used to draw morphisms, which means a bijective function could be drawn between them such that they have equivalent outputs when used as the inputs for other functions. In other words, it must be possible for the client to be the server for this web application and vice versa.

This is obviously not the case just because they share all the same code, for a variety of examples. Let’s say a client and a server share an isomorphism. Then a web application hosted by the server is also hosted by the client, and all the users of the server could equivalently (in the mathematical sense) log in to, and interface with, the client as if it were the server. Then the client and the server are not equal, but they are equivalent. But this framework does not enable that capability.

It’s just not a correct use of the word. I personally don’t mind the use of mathematical terminology in a colloquial sense, but only if that terminology is used in an audience-appropriate and correct way. Here’s an example: in a peer to peer file transfer relationship, two peers share an isomorphism via their peer connection if they both have all the same properties (i.e. same file transfer protocol, same internet speed, same files, etc) germane to a particular morphism (which we’ll in this case define as a function to get a download from a peer). Then Peer A and Peer B are isomorphic with respect to one another; you could drop in Peer A’s IP address to download the same files, at the same speed, etc as if you dropped in Peer B’s IP address.
I'm not sure I understand his position on Spectre, but he's been pretty clear that for the most part he's been talking about Meltdown. Honestly I'm not familiar with how much of a perf hit the Meltdown patch alone causes, because I always see the bad perf numbers with their combination, but I suspect it's bad. Since Meltdown has no JS exploit, there's no reason to worry about JS. Given that browser exploits are out of the question, the threat reduces to the normal threat of running untrusted code. I see no reason to worry more about Meltdown specifically than I have to worry about any application I run sneakily running `xinput test-xi2 --root`, so given the choice, I'm not going to apply the Meltdown patches on my desktop machine and suffer a perf hit for no good reason. Spectre patches, maybe, but I might not if the browser situation is confidently dealt with.
What's the advantage of the term "isomorphic" in contrast to "full stack framework"? I acknowledge that, using go, this is another paradigm in contrast to what people call a "framework". But it feels like inventing cool terms.
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>right now there are no blobs running in the userspace. Firmware blobs are needed for Wifi for example.

What about kernel space?
"Since nobody saw it all the other evidence can be summarily dismissed?"

What evidence is there proving that new species morph out of old ones? There is none. New species are created by symbiosis and Darwin knows nothing about symbiosis.

"Then again, this isn't what Darwin's theory is concerned with in the first place."

Darwin's theory is an academic dogma. It has no meaning because it has infinite meanings.

"Darwin was concerned with how animal morphology changes to fill in ecological niches. His answer was Natural Selection - which is something we've actually seen."

So you chose to select this angle of Darwin's theory. What is natural selection? Don't try to answer because it has as many definitions as there are biologists.
Not in the least. There are still plenty of areas where there is only one option.
Military too.

In my younger/less scrupulous days when I got pulled over I'd hand over my license, registration, and Army ID. If asked why I included it, I'd pass it off with a "I'm sorry, it must have been stuck to my driver's license". But it seems like every officer has a brother, cousin, or some other close relative who's first infantry. They'd mention it and you say something like "those guys are awesome, I really wish I could have worked with them more" and you'd usually just get a warning.

Nowadays I feel guilty about having done that, and I don't use anything of the kind.
> N different services still come out cheaper than cable.

For the US which is used to pay triple digit sums a month for basic TV yes, but for Europeans? No way. For Germans, for example, it's the (mandatory) public-broadcast fee of 18€/month/household and maybe 20-30€ if you really really want pay TV (add another 30-40€ for the premium sports but these can be streamed all over the net). So basically the delta between public TV only (which covers private channels, too! Lots of stations here are OTA) and pay-TV is Netflix+Spotify+maaaybe one additional service, that's it.
Compiled code generally runs faster than plain-text interpreted code, even with no compiler optimizations. How about those tools? The whole point was that text parsing is an additional overhead that will make things slower. It's trivially true.
Rocketry's synonym to that is lithobraking.
In France Netflix acts as a limited 1-season preview to tease me into torrenting the full series. House of Cards only had season 1 when the 4th was out in the USA.
You could use something that is not e-mail. From uploading the images to a shared/cloud folder and/or a messenging protocol to notify you.
All You Need is Kill/Edge of Tomorrow covers the worst case scenario, for the receiving planet. I think they left out the explanatory chapter in the novella out of the movie since that required an omniscient narrator or Jeff Goldblum's character from Independence Day.
My friend made an app that lets you peek at the State Checkbook and see what ISP's are getting checks.

http://www.porkcast.com/
Maybe the idea is that the oil companies have to get in line behind all the other awful people paying exorbitant prices to have their entire delegations stay at Trump hotels and resorts? "I'm making so much money from this new classy phenomenal corruption that everyone is talking about, that I can't even be arsed to worry about that other corruption that the Washington insiders like!"
Laws (unjust ones aside) are made by representatives of the populace; flouting them is therefore a moral infraction against your fellow citizens, not against police officers.

(That said, many laws are unjustly/unevenly enforced. If I was pulled over for what I knew to be a legitimately BS reason, I'd have no qualms flashing one of these.)
FWIW, China was on silver
247 * 365 * 0.0025 = 225,387,500 / year. How is that 1B?
> Well, it seems logical that biotech would boom in a country with less regulation than the US.

If that was the case, biotech would be booming from the congo to nepal.

Biotech is booming in china because they have the resources ( money, people and infrastructure ).
Are more people going to subscribe to Netflix because of this? Will they be distracted from the core business? Building a streaming video service is very different from building games of any sort, do they want to dilute their talent by going out and hiring for this?

Sorry but I just don't see how this in any makes sense other than, "hey Netflix is doing really well, why don't they pull a Google and start throwing spaghetti at the wall".
Are you always this eager to douse someone's enthusiasm for trying a new technology?
> I pay for a ton of stuff on Newegg using BTC

Do you cover the transaction fee or does Newegg?
It seems like Waymo is well ahead of everyone else, but they had a mass talent exodus 2 years ago (many went to Nuro, Aurora, Otto, Argo, etcetera). I can't imagine that many smart engineers, already making good money even by Bay Area engineering standards, would quit to compete unless they really thought they had a chance.

There's just so much about the competition in this space I find fascinating.
for sure it could be done, however it is more complex and resource intensive. probably not good for laptops etc.
> Netflix however produces no material return for investors

Speak for yourself. My brokerage account looks much greener since I bought it.
Indeed. Only 5% of police officers in England and Wales are Authorised Firearms Officers, and AFOs are only issued arms for specific operations.

I was surprised that there were only 10 incidents where police shot their firearms in year ended March 2017 (although multiple officers might use their guns in a single incident). I guess some of the use of firearms is deterrence - a lot of police wandering round waving submachine guns at airports and stations when the terrorism threat is high.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-use-of-fir...
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That would be asset, not revenue.
It's an ad!
I don't really agree with that. Maybe that's true if you try to come up with a positive and universal definition of true enjoyment, but I think it's totally possible to rope off areas that are clearly not it. Those areas would include slot machines and much of social networking that resembles them.

I think arguments against drawing distinctions between good and bad (e.g. "who are you to say that slot machines aren't true enjoyment") often tend to just serve to distract people from confronting real problems. I'm sure they're well-liked by the gambling industry and others who profit from those problems. Not to say that was your indention or that you were approaching this in bad faith.
Out here in California there is something called the 11-99 foundation, associated with the California Highway Patrol. If you donate enough they give you a license plate frame. I've heard rumors that this sometimes confers similar benefits on the driver of a car displaying the license plate frame.
It could be people receiving netflix capable devices (smart TV, appleTV, etc) and deciding that the cost is now worth it.
It’s plenty easy to crack down on them. It’s conspiracy to commit wire fraud of the intangible right to honest services variety. That’s a RICO predicate. The entire corrupt PBA organization could be rolled up. It won’t be, but it could, and should be. Just need a US Attorney for SDNY or EDNY with the stomach for taking on the Blue Wall.
> They can buy old processors without the fix.

Tell me where you could buy old processors in sufficient quantity today and please explain how a modern motherboard with sufficient RAM would hold such an old processor?
... and hosted on sourceforge, of all places!
Buy high, sell higher. Some stocks trade purely on growth and momentum.
I know about those, but family cars, at least here, usually have some kind of indicator they're a firefighter family.
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Unfortunately, some founders will then see any valid criticism of their methods and/or business practices and frame it as China-bashing. It's bad for everyone, including investors and the world at large, and I really wish the racist nonsense would stop.
Something similar exists in California with the 11-99 foundation (associated with the Highway Patrol). Donors receive a license plate frame and I have heard rumors that cars with those license plate frames are not likely to be ticketed.
It is very hard to gather statistics on this, but my intuition (casual observance) is that torrent seeding has been declining for the last 10 years, and I suspect streaming services play a non-trival role in the decline.
Actually, most of the "transplants" that go to Montana or Idaho are those who are going because they believe the state is "too liberal" or that there's "too much crime".
> The hilarious thing is this is going to drive people back to engaging in piracy on various levels

People aren't "driven to piracy". Piracy's a conscious decision to take what they want without paying for it.
"I do," in that there's a fee for me but there's also obviously one from Bitpay that they are assessed as well.

Some sites cover the tx fees or offer discounts, which are effectively the same thing, however.
I admire his courage and I congratulate him for speaking out against all these academics who try to fit nature to their scholastic master's sacred text.
Where are you looking? In Berlin startups often have english-speaking engineering teams.
I have always thought this to be true. I find it ironic when whites complain about programs like affirmative action when through laws such as Jim Crow, Red Lineing, etc... they have been receiving affirmative action for hundreds of years. What whites are really saying when they speak out against programs like that is: "We deserve to be the only protected class of people".
What you 'see' lacks a lot of understanding.

- CBS remains the dominant power in network TV, shows like NCIS, Big Bang Theory, etc.

- CBS has always been the standout in refusing to offer their shows over Hulu, feeling they have enough independent value of their own.

All Access has it's weaknesses, but it's also one of the cheapest offerings ($5.99 to watch with commercials), and CBS easily has the content to work with. Discovery alone is worth the cost of admission, and for anyone who also watches CBS' network shows, it becomes an easy sell.

Again, at the end of the day, these businesses are based on a $100 a month cable package model. All of this content is not going to keep being made at $10 a month offerings. Either you're going to end up with ten services, or the three or four services you see 'consolidating' will end up costing $25 a month each.
AFAIK there is no other work-around for one-time charges that have variable pricing. The $.01 quantity add-on is what's recommended by their support.
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One wonders if Solyndra would have become such a political controversy if it hadn't been such a trainwreck as a business? Some might say that any firm that receives such gigantic government support will have similarly poor results, but at least Tesla seems a pretty good counterexample.
> Many members of the Ethereum foundation have made large profits from the price of Ethereum going up.

So what, many early adopters and sellers of Bitcoin have done the same - and heaven forbid Satoshi decides to cash in, that person / group alone is a billionaire (on paper though).
There's always usenet, with retention rates increasing every day.