skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the government would need (or even want) to limit the number of advertisers for a given product. Its more like the registry that contractors sign up to when they want government contracts. Here's me and here's what I can do.

Having the government control it would at least remove the profit motive behind the advertising service itself. A non-profit could potentially play the same role if having a government do so caused problems.
Even when you're using a bidet, you still need toilet paper.

Also, if we're talking about less common alternatives, women can use menstrual cups instead of tampons and pads.
Can we please try to be generous and empathetic in our discussions with each other?
Faster speed is great, but what about bumping the data caps?

I was able to hit ~70mb/s over 4G several years ago (in ideal conditions). That's enough to burn through most bandwidth caps in a couple of minutes!

Even most "unlimited" plans still throttle you after some point.
Once LN is established, I expect that this is going to be opaque for an end user. Example: Today, you don't need to specify http:// in order to use it in a browser.
"Discredited old ones" like, say, Marxism?
Thanks for graciously pasting this link. I might read it.
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J. Random AirbnbHost has a much wider range of likely utility functions than your average large hotel corporation.
Refactoring a simple loop into a pipeline in JavaScript
Funny, considering Tim Ferris himself is superficial marketing masquerading as profound insight.

Really: the guy hasn't answered a single sentence that isn't either obvious, unactionable, or wrong.
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What is the Shadow DOM anyway?
Someone who writes “The purpose of the rape crisis movement seems as much about vilifying men as about raising ‘awareness’,” and who says that apartheid was effective, is not someone whose views on equality should be emulated, regardless of their other activities and political leanings.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/peter-thi...

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/03/50...

EDIT: Updated post to summarize the links, as it seems that some people believe the very presence of conventional news sources to be a reason to disengage from a discussion.
I think you're misunderstanding what the Request network is doing. Their goal is exactly what you described, a payment gateway for existing (all) cryptos (including fiat). The Request token ($REQ) is only used to collect fees for using the request. The REQ tokens are burned as part of the transaction, and in the end goal the end user themselves won't have to actually ever buy any REQ tokens either, it will automatically be done by the network. REQ tokens are actually only ERC20 tokens (meaning they're using the Ethereum blockchain).

The end goal is a decentralized payment gateway that will accept any crypto or fiat and payout in the desired currency. Request will handle the swapping of currencies and everything else in a decentralized manner. Obviously, likely quite a ways away from that, and there are a lot of scaling issues that need to be solved with blockchain tech itself before this can actually exist in a usable way.
Maybe he just takes the rules here seriously, and a big one seems to be avoiding politics and political flame wars.

Looking at this thread, it’s degenersting into predictable armed camps. This is the polar opposite of satisfying intellectual curiosity, it’s stultifying and boring and predictable and tiring. It’s this kind of discussion that poisons a site and its community.
This is exactly what “memory-hard” hashing algorithms like scrypt, Argon2, and ballon hashing already do.

You can tune their parameters to use GBs of memory if you wish.
Jehoshaphat!
If had a similar issue (in C) that took me at least an hour to find:

switch (whatever)
{
E_START:
// code
break;
E_PAUSE:
// code
break;
E_END:
// code
break;
}

i.e. accidentally using labels instead of "case E_START:". GCC at least had the decency of generating a warning about unused labels, while I suppose `javac` does no such thing.
> how many towers currently have the bandwidth capacity at their base to support this new throughput at scale? All this may do is shift the bottleneck

Expanding tower capacity is part of the 5G build-out. There's an upgrade spending binge going currently. The US wireless market has enough competition now, mostly thanks to T-Mobile, to force all of the carriers to properly upgrade. They're not wasting any time, all of them are aggressively pursuing it as a competitive advantage.

AT&T and Verizon have been losing customers to T-Mobile for years now. If they make the mistake of claiming 5G, when it's not, T-Mobile will just use it as an opportunity to hammer them. Competition, it works.

This also gives the large carriers in the US an opportunity to go after taking more broadband business from Comcast.
Why even bother? All this comment you've replied to actually does is prove Thiel's point.
It still amazes me that the irony is so lost on them..
Yes, and these highly paid employees displace lower-income people. It's not low-income housing that's needed; it's new housing for highly-paid employees so they don't outbid low-income people.
What topics, exactly, are so taboo? McCarthyism was about a specific ideology. And, mind you, people were getting dragged into court over it, which Ferris is certainly not at risk of. In fact, this is in a thread about a guy who shut a media outlet down. What is Ferris worried that he can't talk about?
Agreed. Just getting on a store shelf doesn't mean you have a good product, it just means that store believes customers will pay for that product.

Like you said, Walgreens, a major pharmacy specializing in real medicine, sells homeopathic crap. They also sell very unhealthy food and alcohol. They also sell cigarettes. Not because they believe the product is good, but because that product makes them money.
,,Nano's design can handle something like O(2^n) transactions per second where n is the number of nodes''

Wow, we should stop trying to build quantum computers, this Nano thing sounds much better in theory
That's hardly definitive. People really should be more careful about throwing around these extreme labels; it completely dilutes their impact when you apply them on a whim.
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians -have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron.

http://www.azquotes.com/quote/597528
it looks like the single character was made up of 4 utf8 code points. so might have been trickier to detect from fuzzing than it looks.
The worst humans alive aren't okay anywhere.
They could have gotten permission.
What do you think you're actually achieving by posting leftist media sources?
They were in the same league as the British Daily Mail. Trash journalism and it's better they're gone.

Completely agree -- I think most people hold it against Thiel that he supported Trump getting the presidency.
> "I would surely like there to be more women in CS. There are literally no women at my office, and the only women I met for the last six months are from HR. I am single, and so is about 50% of my coworkers - this is not a particularly good position to be in on the 'relationship market'."

The workplace shouldn't be your dating pool...
Analogue wired cameras come in at a few dozen mW. And those aren't actually low power or anything, I bet you can get cameras using far less than that.

Cameras with built-in DSP and WIFI probably won't fit into that power envelope, though.
So basically Thiel is crying and running away because he now gets a little taste of what is means to be a minority?

Ha!
15W chips use ~2% of a HP each, and 150W = 1/5 horsepower worth of parasitic load. So using several high end chips should result in significantly worse fuel efficiency.

Are they really necessary or just cheaper in R&D terms?
> If it wouldn't on average it's reasonable to assume that there is a bias of some sort. You can decide if this bias desirable or not.

This doesn't answer my question. Is equality of outcome in the NBA a desirable goal or not?

If not, why is it one in science or tech fields?

> Because they don't seem to care.

I'm sure many do. Many women "don't seem to care" that they took nursing jobs while many men took software engineering jobs.

How many Hispanic men have to feel like they'd rather be famous millionaire basketball players before we get the NBA to start with racial quotas?

I don't mean to be pedantic. It just seems obvious that American black culture puts a heavier emphasis on basketball, and that results in more world-class basketball players. That in no way implies anything is wrong with basketball or the NBA, and therefore taking measures to bring about "equality of outcome" would be unfair and undesirable.

...and that's why policy attempting to create "equality of outcome" is not inherently desirable in science / tech (or anywhere else).
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Not only that, it's purposefully written in a way that minimizes direct references to the original blog post, to make it seem as though Space.com actually took the time to do the interviews or any investigating for their research.

This quote from the article that quoted the astronomer makes it seem like they were the ones who took his statement personally, instead of ripping it off from his blog post.

"Andreo spent hours trying to figure out why he couldn't find it before giving up and heading home. 'By 5:15 a.m., I felt it was enough. Twilight was coming soon, plus I wanted to avoid the rush hour traffic back home, so I packed and left,' he wrote."

This is extremely slimy.
> One thing all these fields have in common is that they are more intellectually rigorous and harder to succeed in than the computer software industry.

Can we rank these fields by day to day... sociability? Or how solitary they are?

Say, by the number of coworkers you talk to on a given day for a given number of hours. Or the amount of time you spend not at all speaking, and staring at a screen?

Can we approximate these somehow?

~~~

Can we rank these fields by prestige in the eyes of the median person? E.g. If you are a biologist, does a guy on the street think its more interesting and glamorous than being a programmer? Or less? Why?

From the people I've talked to about why they didn't go into computer science/programming, a lot of them see programmers as essentially overpaid janitors or hi-tech sewer workers. They make Facebook/civilization/the internet run, but just how isn't important, and it probably isn't fun. The people I talked to have no idea what the pay scale is for programmers (actually many programmers I've talked have no idea what the pay scale is for programmers either). So they don't consider a cost-benefit very clearly when rejecting CS/Programming.
Yup, people forget that the Mediterranean was the middle of the known Earth, not its southern border.
Conservatism is tolerating racism, tolerating police shootings, tolerating Nazis, tolerating inequality, tolerating the poor dying of curable disease while the middle class goes bankrupt from the expense of having a baby, tolerating the destruction of wilderness and national parks, tolerating ever growing climate change, tolerating school shootings, tolerating sexual harassment - but refusing to tolerate (LGBT) love, refusing to tolerate women being equal, refusing to tolerate trans people peeing (anywhere at all).

Conservatism is morally bankrupt and ethically untenable.It shouldn't be tolerated.
The cost of building a nuclear reactor in the West is in the ballpark of $10 billion these days. It's not a trivial expense.

If we're going to soon need dozens of nuclear reactors to power cryptocurrencies, that's worth discussing at least. You can't brush it away as something insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
Silly me, being tolerant of everything...
Attempting to call 'fake news' on actual journalism is why the right wing is such a total incoherent screeching mess these days.

Don't be that guy. Be a better guy.
From a corporate perspective: we are just scared shitless to implement v6 internally.

Keeping (private) v4 working is hard enough.

Even drafting a project budget for v6 makes management go balistic.
- firewall & IDS upgrades

- firewalls rules

- accountablity

- dynamic DNS

- employee education

- toolchain updates

- upgrades of software

- functionality tests

Not all companies employ NY or Google level engineers who "just roll out v6" on a Sunday afternoon.
> He was intolerant of Gawker

Gawker outed him, and leaked a sex tape of Hulk Hogan (and did a bunch of other really terrible things). He was lucky enough to have the money to bring them justice.

I've honestly never heard of anyone taking Gawker's side in this.
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There's conservatism, and then there's white supremacy. Thiel firmly belongs in the later.
What was the problem with ARP anyway? Why Neighbor Discovery is better?
It goes beyond the general political mindset and what parties people in respective cities vote for. In SV people will blacklist you and even publicly call for you to be fired/ostracized if you are a conservative, as Thiel himself experienced. I have many friends who are moderates - not even conservatives - and they can't speak their minds among coworkers because they fear that their careers will suffer. It's a weird echo chamber where only the most radical left gets to dominate the conversation.

In LA, I mean entertainment is a fairly liberal industry, but it's not the only game in town. Plus Orange County is nearby and that's the last bastion of Republicans in the state.
Equality of opportunity a way of saying "fair treatment by some measures, unfair by others". You are picking which traits inequlaity should happen by and, huh, imagine that, they probably happen to be traits that overall benefit you.

"Equality of opportunity" is a phrase I no longer trust, because it obfuscates the true differences in moral ideology. Just be explicit about which factors you think should create unequal outcomes, and which ones shouldnt, and a real conversation can happen from there.
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And this is how it all starts..
At least at my workplace I tend to assume that the women are on average a little more competent than the men because they have to really want to be here to have stuck around.
I'm by no means against fixing inequality and agree that public policy is probably the solution, but the problem is if you just start increasing money the poor too fast it will just increase inflation.

And if you don't fix the monopoly/cartel problems prices go up and profits go up to offset the increase in taxes.
Next up will be SQL compliance, and we'll be back to a relational database. I'm curious as to what the impact to speed will be, and what the use cases for these types of databases is now that the major SQL players support JSON.
If it is "mature and empathic" that you want, SV is not the place to be looking for them, with or without Thiel.

It is always somewhat amusing to see that for "voices of diversity" to win, diverse woices need to be silenced.
Sure, it's second hand information, and the author may have had reasons to play up Thiel's dedication to the cause. But still, when white nationalists are calling him "fully enlightened" and having meetings with him it certainly suggests at best a willingness to work with an assist white nationalists to achieve his aims, which is bad enough.
Dana Rohrabacher still hasn't told Trump his 'earth-shattering' Russia news
I'd add that in this celebration of diversity, SF has become intelorant toward poverty. Being poor is now almost impossible due to astronomic rent. I might be wrong, but I assume you find very few working class people having anything to say about the tech utopia being built. Unless you talk to your uber driver once in a while.
Diversity of opinion is one of those facile concepts that look good on paper until someone uses it to prop up support for shit like white supremacy and trickle down economics. Not all opinions are equally informed, or equally valid.
"Yes, neither car mechanics nor pre-school teachers have prestigious, 6-figure salary, PhD level positions, and yet they have a big impact in the perception of gender bias in adult labor when children are growing up and unconsciously cementing their views of the world."

Seen from that perspective, I agree.
Still, in the eyes of those being referred to in the argument I criticized, fighting over high level positions likely promises higher returns - or at least appears to do that. Whether this then actually turns out to be true is a different story. Right now it doesn't even look like it, as pointed out in the article. Maybe indeed, starting at the bottom, with low level tech jobs, would be a better way to go. However, it would also take much longer. Some are impatient. Considering the accelerating progress in tech, I can understand that impatience.
Sexism* is rampant. It is not merely present in threads where the link is about gender studies. You cannot "block it out" like you would any other topic. It is not a "topic of discussion" but an issue lurking behind other topics.

*Sexism has can take many shapes others than direct attacks on women.

Edit: Interesting how this went from +5 to -5 in minutes. Very controversial topic, eh?
There are a tiny minority of liberals who, rather than embracing breaking down barriers and a hunky-dory co-existence like the rest of us, erect barriers of purity and constantly call people out.

They're annoying.

On the other hand, that's the dominant mode for the entire right half of the spectrum so take their complaints with a grain of salt. And who gives the above-mentioned annoying liberals their biggest platform? Right wing media. Gotta feed the wurlitzer.

It's not a "differing and diverse political opinion" to think people of color and women are inherently less worthy, it's just racist/sexist.
FWIW, this is effectively what tech companies already do with the Terms of Service. They state that you must agree to them to use their product, and then state that they can amend them at any time, often without notifying you.
The earth is a pretty terrible conductor.
To be fair when people talk about equality I think very few people think it through this far.
How are you going to bring about diversity of political thought? Quotas? Positive discrimination? Stiffing liberal political speech?

The marketplace of ideas is against you: deal with it, or turn to 'liberal' solutions :p
The page wasn't very clear, is it Mpeg-2 Video ( H.262 )? Or All Mpeg-2 ? Because AAC is part of Mpeg-2 as well.

And just wondering, is it possible to extend H.262 to support 4K resolution, different size Microblock, call it something else rather then Mpeg-2 without hitting any patents infringement?
I would hope that after all the character-crashing-everything bugs that have hit iOS there is a team dedicated to replacing the text rendering code with something more fault tolerant.
I got excited thinking this was the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Please don’t make baseless ad hominem attacks.

It wouldn’t matter if you were accurate, it would still be rude and inappropriate, but note that tptacek is about the last person in the world I would describe as having had an underwhelming career working on boring projects (although I’m sure he’s done his share of those, too), so you got your facts wrong on top of everything.
There could be an entire line of Dyson electric cars
First define what "amateurish" does look like.
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I understand the grievance against McCarthyism was mostly about preventing people from getting work if they held the wrong political views. In that respect what Thiel complains about isn't too dissimilar.
From my experience it works. Sometimes I wonder if it works mainly because most red lights are pretty dim.
James Damore was fired from Google for posting his opinion on a private company board that solicited said opinion. I'd say that what he said is pretty taboo in SV.
> If software is eating the World, it's important the people building and operating it are as diverse as possible

> TL;DR: Bye! Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out!

The cognitive dissonance in this comment is astounding.

This bizarre drive to purge different points of view is really grating. Not everybody has to share the same values as you. Respecting that is exactly what diversity means.
What you mention is also referred to in the article itself, and it does make sense - true emancipation and gender equality is IMO more about equal opportunity, and the freedom to choose. The push towards getting more women in STEM and specifically CS feels like it tries to take that freedom away in a sense; you SHOULD pick CS, here's all the money we're investing in getting women to work for us.
That's what I was wondering too. It feels like SQL and NoSQL will meet in the middle: JSON with SQL support, SQL with JSON support.
Is there some actual proof of that?
That's not irony, that's the paradox of tolerance [1]. An open society can tolerate all opinions except for opinions directed against an open society.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
yes, but it's still a bad store :(
That's actually an apt comparison, at least in regards to the prescriptive parts of Marx's writings.

One remaining difference was that Marxism was at least well-intentioned, whereas Ayn Rand basically turned enjoyment of other's suffering into a philosophy.

And, luckily, it seems we will be spared any attempts to implement Randian cruelty, since it has turned from an actual political force to no more than many people's college embarrassment, even in SV.
The History of Rome podcast talks a lot about present day Turkey and the rest of Asia Minor, as well as Carthage and Egypt and other North African places as they were all parts of the Empire.

I don't have anything more specific about later history, but the spice trade and the Orient Express are two (I think) fascinating pieces of history that tie Western Europe to North Africa and eastern Asia. The history of the Crusades is also integral to understand the mixing of these areas... Europe wouldn't have cared if they didn't think east Asia was "theirs" in some way.
I haven't had a problem with bedbugs but bought a powerful ozone generator a few years ago. It seems to help with dust mites, oder and generally sanitize. It's run a couple of times a month while at work. My understanding is these can kill bedbugs if you get the concentration up high enough. Be careful, especially in an apartment. Ozone can be hazardous. It degraded back into breathable oxygen pretty quickly but you don't want to stay in the room with it or have it bleed over to the neighbors and damage their lungs or anything.

https://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Commerical-Industrial-Air-Deo...
Literally never used the MS Store
No one's been able to give me a straight answer to this very simple question (I live in the Bay area).
I spearheaded the Lincoln Initiative study referenced in the article.

If you're interested, you can see 5 key findings here:

http://joinlincoln.org/viewpoint-diversity

We have a comprehensive report coming out in a month.
Reading through the release description I'm really glad for the thorough hard work the Bitcoin Core team is doing (and the fact that they didn't disable full verification by default). I still don't understand people putting billions of dollars in a system that crashes and hard forks multiple times a year while there's a stable alternative.