skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every few decades, libertarians need to be reminded why regulations exist. Time passes, and people forget why the SEC, FTC, FDA, FDIC, OSHA, child labor laws, et al were even created.

Cryptocurrencies created a completely anarchic monetary system, which people have used to layer investment systems on top of. Naturally, low hanging fruit scams and cons have arisen, and some form of governing structure will eventually be imposed, if not by actual governments, then by the community. Then more sophisticated abuses and negative externalities will arise, and ever more sophisticated regulations will be imposed by the community to thwart them.

In the end you may end up with something very much looking like a government, where people with connections and leverage in the governing structures get to decide the evolution of the rules, where a few players with disproportionate wealth or hashing power, help elect those people to committee positions. And once again, people will be looking to create systems to escape the defacto control and cronyism imposed on the system.

I guess what I'm saying is, nature abhors a vacuum, and given human nature, most systems will evolve to thwart the worse tendencies of the worst people, opening opportunities for others to capture power. So in the end, rather than seek to bring down our democratically elected government monetary systems via technology, we should seek to evolve them with ideas from technology.

Because booting out fiat currency and rebooting with crypto really just forces a painful relearning of all of the lessons we've learned in the last century of modern finance.
Nassim Taleb on his interactions with Mary Beard:

https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge...
+1 too :-)

I'm using NixOS happily since 2014 after getting messed up in pacman dependencies on Arch and haven't looked back.
But their too radical shift from LSB makes for a less attractive enterprise story. Hopefully GuixSD[1] can plug that hole due to the GNU brand as it has been progressing nicely.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
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Alright, but then isn't that exactly what happened here?
It's their obligation to make sure the line is not blurry. As a user I always want to know the following:

- What does it do?

- Is it needed for core functionality or optional?

- How do you switch it off/on?

- Does it transmit any data, and if so, which one and how do I control the data flow?

- Who are the developers and is the code open source or is it proprietary?

- What are the default settings and why?

If it's optional, then it's an extension. If it's on by default, I better get a very good reason for it (e.g. that it ostensibly enhances security). All of the above questions need to be answered before I install it, i.e., the information needs to be freely available and easy to find on web pages, release notes, Readme, etc. If something is added in an update or upgrade, I need to be informed and given a choice about it.
The algorithm has the ability to remove image parts based on the energy level of each object calculated by a simple sobel operator. So in order to remove an object you have to either localize the object and give a higher energy value or to train a CNN to localize some specific object type, then again increase the energy value. Right now i'm working to implement the face detection part. So if anyone is interested in extending the library even further and to integrate a CNN, it's more than welcome.
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There are actually quite a few secular scientists that don't agree with a lot of the man-made climate change ideas

Quite a few credible experts in relevant fields of study?

I recognize that if there’s genuinely an academy-wide bias that pushes these people out or discredits them it might be hard to give examples, but could you try?

I’d really like the see the other side of an intelligent climate debate.
15 MB seems too small for making problems in any mature editor. Was it perhaps lacking newlines? Pretty much every editor sucks when you have very long lines.
When will Africa realise that they have to learn to look out for themselves because no-one else will?

They declined Europe's "offer" (though realistically Europe really didn't have anything to offer its colonies after being devastated by WWII), but where they that much better off under Soviet influence and are they that much better off under China? It's time they started working towards real independence instead of always trying to chase the next free lunch.
>> planned obsolence.

>That's blatant lie, and you know it.

So you want to say the recent battery fuck up by Apple was totally unintentional?
Of course software updates are designed to slow down your device after some years and it doesn’t matter if you use Apple/Microsoft/Google.
Planned obsolescence is literally the opposite of cancer.
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Probably none of them got it quite right then. There are people who want a lightweight but extendable GUI editor. The fact that people, including me, pay for Sublime Text, when there are powerful open-source alternatives around, kinda proves that there is a demand for such a thing.
I once heard a particular turn of phrase that really stuck with me:

> Price is not really a function of supply and demand; it's a function of how much the market will bear.

(Note to pedants: yes, this is a function of supply and demand, but this is about framing the concept a bit differently)
Github could have notify Gemnasium about their new product. Instead of make them work on a new integration that would be useless just a few month later.
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Are you sure? I can make

(a==1 && a==1 && a==3)

Evaluate to true.

It is reasonable to assume what you say, but don't say "always", when it's not.
I have a feeling that Andrew's fund is much more focused on cutting-edge AI than Phil's. If you take a look at Phil's portfolio, you see can see that the companies are probably using some form of AI but that's not the core of them. Also, in my personal experience with talking to Phil, it seems that for him the "practical AI" part is more important than what kind of tech is used. So, maybe a more consumer-focused perspective (which I like).

I can imagine that Andrew focuses more on companies that have or have the potential to have significant AI themselves. I doubt that Andrew would consider a bot that uses the Google Vision API and Dialogflow an "AI" company. If that makes sense.

PS: I do think that the latter should be considered an AI company. Just like a company using AWS to host is called web company. In fact, probably a lot of companies will be using some sort of AI api pretty soon.
Chomsky seems to use the word "democracy" to mean "the kind of government I like". In this passage:

> For example, in a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you’re getting together to provide resources for the programs you decided on. In the United States, it’s a day of mourning

... he claims that people celebrate taxes "in a democracy". So either he thought there are no democracies anywhere or he thought that in other countries which are democracies, people do in fact celebrate their tax day. Neither possibility seems rooted in reality.
For one thing, Rust has had the benefit of learning from the evolutionary lessons that languages like C++ went through. Another point is that really arcane stuff that's applicable only to very few legacy systems need not be supported, and aren't, while C and C++ don't have the luxury of dropping such support.
Lately I've been having a hard time telling the difference between "unique hash id" and UUID's.

If all your blockchain is, is something akin to a decentralized database using UUID's, then you don't need a blockchain.
What do you find that achieves for you that an X11 emacs running a server doesn't?

I have EDITOR set to emacsclient (and some other aliases) and I find it far more convenient than an in-terminal editor, especially when combined with sudoedit.
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They also befriend RedHat nowadays.They partner with them around MSSQL on OpenShift and RedHat offerings (RHEL, OpenShift) on Azure. They also invite RedHat to their events, let them have sessions and so on.

I don't think that the warming relationships means anything in the way of acquisition, what do Microsoft have to gain from such a deal? I think they are far better to work with them as partners.
The following truly describes the hype, the bubble, or the snake oily aspect of it. Investor beware!

"As investors seek to capitalize on the popularity of currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, a number of struggling companies have reversed their fortunes, at least temporarily, simply by adding “blockchain” to their names or announcing a new cryptocurrency venture unrelated to their previous line of work. (The most notorious example is Long Island Iced Tea Corp., a beverage company that tripled its value overnight after it rebranded itself “Long Blockchain Corp.”)"
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See Brooks's "No Silver Bullet". C++'s complexity is accidental.
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30,000 paying customers after 6 years. How much do they make from each customer, $100?

That's $3M revenue per year justifying a $30M valuation at the high end. How do they come up with $1B with slow
growth like that? Is it because they have a famous founding team? Seems like a small startup with little growth potential, who can raise any money they want anyway, because their founders are billionaires.

Not hating on that, but how do they think of paying back their investors. Is this an ego thing, that they think they MUST build a billion dollar startup even though their revenue and growth is tiny?
Man I love living in the future. In 60 years we can hopefully regrow bodies
Don't blindly apply what works in the US to China.

The difference in population/social structure and a hundred other things, result in different approaches. Just like a pride of lions surrounded by a herd of wildebeest work differently to what happens inside an ant hill.

Sure the ants have conquered every nook of the world, that doesn't mean every animal on the serangeti has to start getting jittery.
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>whenever you send a message in a room

Just to be clear, I saw this behavior without sending anything to any room. Just by being in the room.

If the server interval setting was 5 seconds, it'd literally do hundreds of connections every 5 seconds.
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I don't think you can argue that. Jesus argued it was acceptable for Jews to pay taxes, but certainly not that it was acceptable for Jews to worship the emperor. In any case, only some emperors where proclaimed divine, and it only happened after their death. Tiberius (the emperor at the time of Jesus) was never proclaimed divine. Caligula was the first to be proclaimed divine while still living, and this was after Jesus.
Sure they are, just not on the classical C++/Java style hence the footnote, as I was already expecting that kind of comments.

There isn't "The ONE true OOP way", just like there isn't "The ONE true FP way" or "The ONE true LP way".

Each paradigm has a set of concepts of what they might mean, and many languages cherry pick from there.

Rust and Go implement polymorphism via traits and interfaces respectively.

Rust and Go implement encapsulation via struct methods and modules.

Rust and Go implement containment.

Rust and Go allow for delegation.

Rust allows for type extensions via a mix of generics and traits.

Go allows for struct embedding as a kind of type extension.

Class based inheritance is not a requirement for a language to be OO.

CS literature is full of languages that explored other kinds of OO.
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I am not trying to crucify anyone but Mr CMO is definitely not a good match for the vision I want at Mozilla. As such, I want him to step down from all responsibility at Mozilla. I'm sure he is a good person and means well. I'm sure he is very good at what he does and I appreciate his contributing to Mozilla but I think he'd be more valuable outside a leadership role at Mozilla.
I often wonder these days about the value of telemetry and A/B testing. I think many heavily used pieces of software can benefit from a BDFL-like decision maker instead, especially if the alternative is software specifically designed to use me as a guinea pig surreptitiously. I feel like, in the race for adoption, we suffer a form of the tyranny of the majority with software. Decision making based on principles instead of popularity is the only way to prevent harming some of us whose software preferences are in the minority.

It seems A/B testing provides clear numbers on what's most popular, but you can't quantify what's right.
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All the more reason to shut down all non essential operations, focus on the core, and radically reduce expenses.
Common only in very high-level concept as the implementation details are vastly differing. NixOS is based on the Nix[1] purely functional package manager and configuration language while OSTree is termed to be "git for operating systems"[2].

[1]: https://nixos.org/nix/
[2]: https://ostree.readthedocs.io/
I might be getting lost in the discussion, but I still feel you miss the core point - it's not about liquidity. Even if they could sell BTC for USD without affecting the crypto market, they still seem to have printed out USDT out of thin air and - as I understand - proceeded to buy BTC with them. That is, you could say they literally stole those BTC.

Going from USDT to USD in a roundabout way through BTC doesn't change anything if USDT themselves are bullshit.

RE your EDIT: it is, but deep downthread like this, it's always luck what you get. Also don't worry about the downvotes, everyone gets their share of them here :).
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Yes, I can imagine it from Apple, because there are (at least) three examples of them openly admitting mistakes.

On Maps: https://www.apple.com/ca/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/

On "batterygate": https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/

On customer service in China: https://support.apple.com/zh-cn/warranties (In Chinese)
A related 'trend' in Cognitive Science is called Embodied Cognition [1]. Intelligence develops together with the body that it inhabits, and, as you mention, the environment that this body is living in.

Maybe Dolphins are as 'intelligent' as we are, but having fins instead of hands and living in a maritime environment just make it impossible for them to invent fire, printing presses and automobiles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
Exactly. Google can artificially raise the price beyond their competitors means.
We aren't there yet. Successful projects are building protocols with the goal of developers using them to build next-gen products that people actually want. Current speculation (a16z, polychain, ...) is that it will take another few years for this rollout to really take effect.
> Amazon and Google fund Linux a lot, and many of the products we use and support give money to Amazon and Google for hosting.

> So no, I don't believe what you're saying. If you do, either you're incredibly careful or you're willfully misinformed.

You don't have to believe anything, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. Even if it was possible you've made up your mind and now with your lofty ideals are doing what any zealot does; that is try and browbeat anyone who doesn't agree with you into submission.

How Linux is funded has nothing to do with the issue and is besides the point, more of a straw-man argument as is who pays Amazon and Google; I don't.

> But on topic, data leaks from using digital services is a result of physics, not avarice. While we might try to offer guidance and punish wrongdoers, demands for digital privacy are a fool's errand. You might as well demand blood from a stone. And if anyone thought it was worth anything, they'd just start mining data and reselling it out of the channels you DO use.

Physics? I'd have to take you at your word I'm more included to think incompetence.

Let them do that, as far as I'm concerned this is again besides the point, not my data, only those who sign up to this sort of thing are at risk. If digital privacy is a fools errand then excuse me I need to finish my errand, look this stone I have is bleeding!

> For example, nothing really stops this website forum from selling your IP and browsing habits and even a recognizer for your unique style of writing, other than ethics and economics.

Other than this website not having my actual IP address or browsing habits seeing as I only login to comment; not to mention this account is useless to them seeing as it will be abandoned soon, like all my previous accounts. Actually one of the reasons I like this website so much.

> Your solution is to turn off the computer and flee, or find ways to work within the new framework and make it so that governments and citizens, good or bad, private or public, everyone has access to the same information and information processing capability.

I really have no idea what you are talking about. I have access to the same information as you (provided it's freely available and not in the walled gardens of facebook, google, twitter, etc al). I am clearly not about to turn my computer off and flee... I'm still here, for now.
Congratulations to Asana.

Let's celebrate their success rather than criticize their software.

Everybody here would probably be very happy to have created a company like this. Why be so negative?
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I big part of learning Go, once you've done a lot of Java is to unlearn the things that you had to do as a successful Java programmer. You're used to looking at problems through the lens imposed by the imposing bag of tools and abstractions that is Java, as well as obsolete language design decisions (I'm looking at you, inheritance).

Resolve to look at things and think about things differently.

I have to give credit to Spring for saving Java from itself for a while, but it jumped the shark at some point. I've talked to many devs who've come from teams where only a small number of people understood the magic going on, and they never felt like they could really contribute because they couldn't scale the complexity hurdle of the modern Java environment.
> However, no mention is made of a way to ensure the user attention data reported is legitimate.

Exactly. Looks like a race problem, again. Just looking at the diagram on their site (user gets tokens for attention), I immediately thought "Write and deploy attention signaling bots" ...
They're not however monopolists. My favourite mid- and high-end lines (in color) are all made by Fuji and high-end BW has been consolidating/merging into a big Ilford/Kentmere conglomerate.
C++ is a mess but it's one of the few languages that gives you low-level control of memory and fast code with zero or near zero cost abstractions. So for a certain class of application it's still the best choice. Music software, for example, is pretty much exclusively written in C++. I don't enjoy C++ the language very much but you can build some very cool things with it.

Personally I'm hoping Rust displaces it from most of these remaining niches but even if it does it will probably happen slowly.
So as a silly example, that means about:mozilla or Chrome's dinosaur game shouldn't have been shipped at all?
On the other hand, I find Python 3 much more predictable/less astonishing than 2.
The jump was definitely a mess, but judging by the continuous spread of the language it seems to have paid off in the long term.
In Emacs:

M-x regexp-builder
This isn't particularly rigorous. Like all of these studies that claim to support epigenetic memory in mice, they've started with mixed genetic background mice, so that none of the offspring are genetically identical to the parents. You can't rule out the possibility that genetic differences are responsible for this result.

This is publication bias in action. Studies that don't show epigenetic inheritance don't get published. Where are all the properly controlled experiments using inbred strains?
Only time I've seen "Dean" used was for the head of a faculty within a university (a collection of departments in the same field e.g. engineering).
People want crypto (not just coins: services, software), and some sell them for profit.

I am preparing new products to match this demand.

Instead of bashing an entire line of business, maybe you should too.
They are always free to choose another drug and walk away from this company. The market is free like that, the invisible hand distributing only where demand exists.
> But here’s another: Accept that we’re not always going to be able to understand our machine’s “thinking.” Instead, use our existing policy-making processes [...] to decide what we want these systems optimized for. Measure the results. Fix the systems when they don’t hit their marks. Celebrate and improve them when they do.

If really no one understands how the algorithm works, how could anyone meaningfully "fix" or even improve the algorithm?
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+1: They're really in to it with their OpenShift offerings which are really good and open source too! I really admire them for that.
They are, and there's not a doctor out there that's not scared to prescribe any Opioid.

Plus, in the eighties, we had millions of people in pain. It was really a problem. Medical students, along with dentists were taught to alleviate the pain. It was considered unethical to let your patients wallow around in pain. Now--your doing them a "favor".

I took a seventy year old friend to a pain clinic. He was physically falling apart, and was always in pain. He used to say, "The Golden Years?" In retrospect, he should have been in Pallitive Care, but medicine is still very much an Art.

Well, he did feel better on opioids. His doctor just decided she didn't want to give him the pills anymore, and would only prescribe Tramadol. He wasen't abusing. I really think she didn't want the FDA knocking on the door.

I remember taking him to the "best" pain clinic in San Francisco. After taking an obscene fee; they offered an operation that would cut nerves in his back. He was in terrible health, and they wanted to do a experimental surgery?

He died a year later in his sleep. He was in daily agonizing pain. He used to joke about suicide. I don't think he was joking.

My point is I don't believe the Opoid Crisis is do to Doctors, or even drug companies.

I have a weird feeling it's a combination of factors.

One--Americans are misserable. This is not the country I saluted to on a lot of levels. The uplifting effect of opioids really astonished certain people. It's kinda ironic, that opioid abuse really took off after the anti-depressants were questioned over efficacy? Plus--the media/films have really done a disservice to exactly how the body reacts to the absence of Opoids in the system. I've heard people claim they were addicted after two weeks of opioid therapy. I wonder how much self-suggestion/reverse Placebo? played in their supposed addiction?

My point is some people are in real pain. Opioids made their life bearable. There will be patients who do need opioids, but will end up like my friend--in pain, and misery.