skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using that battery power does not 'let' anyone buy into the pyramid scheme. People buying monero or not is orthogonal to Salon mining it in your browser. Salon mining it does not in any way facilitate people buying it.
Gee..I got maybe 1/3 through. Half of that was breathless warnings of how revolutionary what was to come was, how I needed to be ready etc etc.. Then every sentence was a reference to some book or other, mostly dragged in with no good reason, except that the cloth of this writing is woven from other peoples' thoughts, as you're reminded once or twice every sentence, with exactly who that is and where they said it—so very tiresome. Too much reading, no thinking. And mainly some 1980 book on fossil fuels? I was once deeply into the critical theory guys, and many of the others mentioned, and this seems like someone from that place trying to peer far out to a position..that's virtually mainstream these days, but he's so covered in books it's hard for him to see anything. And he thinks it's all so sophisticated and advanced because every sentence refers to another book. Nuh-uh.
As for me and for many businesses the most important question is what is easier to engineer, support and run on different platforms.
I meant, reading physical books as a recreational activity because you're living on a farm with subsistence wages and lack the income or time to do so. China was a country with 750 million people living on less than $2 a day in 1990.

Not to mention the burning of books and disdaining of intellectual pursuit in the cultural revolution.
I'm sure as soon as that micro-payments model evolves Salon will be happy to switch to it. People have been saying that for 20 years, though, and this is the closest we've come.
> Is an eerie similarity between two online groups of people going to mean you abandon attempts to bring about equality of the sexes, races, classes, etc.? [...] And if you will abandon it, what will you embrace instead? Conservative racism?

Can you really think of no ideology that can live between the poles of intersectional/postmodern feminism and "conservative racism?" What strange times we live in.

There are a lot of articulate people out there fighting the good fight. Their vision of the world rejects extremists on both sides. Check out Helen Pluckrose, Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, and anything on quillette.com, just to name a few.
The software (script) itself is not malicious, it's the way it's used in a lot of cases. It's similar to how torrents are usually used for piracy, but has some legitimate uses.
Pushed to the Edge
not using UMatrix or NoScript in 2018, kek.
Well there have been some other articles that talk about using Qt, python's built in browser or Python+GTK over electron/HTML5 apps. There are a lot of people out here sick of things like Slack/Discord/Atom which each have the entire Electron framework that weigh in at 80 ~ 150MB.

I'd be all for using GTK or QT if there were just better well supported bindings, with good documentation and examples, for languages like Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, etc. I know some people love C++ and the newer C++11/14 seem to have cleaned up a lot of cruft (although GTK is in C unless you use Gtkmm), but I think the barrier to entry would be easier if their other language bindings had better docs.

All that being said, this does feel very ad-like. Qt is commercial. I wonder if they're trying to push this stuff and make it look organic.
pyramid scheme? Are you sure what we are talking about?
“our algorithm could distinguish the retinal images of a smoker from that of a non-smoker 71% of the time.”

Wonder if smoking would decrease if people could see the change over time
Ancel Keys study which started the low fat craze was absolutely bad science. The way John Yudkin’s career was subverted is certainly evidence of conspiracy.

The article doesn’t make a good job of refuting those claims, especially considering quotes like this one:

> the sugar industry convened a panel of heart disease consultants, including a National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientist, which debated a possible “anti-Yudkin” effort because “although British scientists are critical of him and his flimsy data, he does have the interest of the press.”
It's not though because the effects on the rest of the web are negative.

Cryptojacking will become more common the more legit websites use it as a source of revenue. And this specific company / team of developers have been doing very little to stop the malicious use of their javascript. Why support them?

EDIT: By "why support them" I obviously mean, why should a publisher support a team with such wanton disregard for security of the net that they depend on to publish their stuff. I won't read the articles. But their decision to use such a thing isn't a good one and I can criticize it.
A cursory examination and comparison of our anatomy to other mammals makes plain to any impartial observer that we, like other apex predators, are naturally hypercarnivores, if not obligate carnivores, but for reasons of pragmatism, this simply cannot be countenanced, for we cannot feed everyone on meat and animal fat.

Indeed, people practicing a carnivorous diet have found relief from all manner of reputedly incurable conditions and diseases, particularly autoimmune and metabolic disorders.
Articles like these are there to simply confuse the reader.

Have a read of "The case against Sugar" by Gary Taubes.

That will surely fill in the missing blanks for ya!
You're reading an article that they provide... you're paying for a service. Ads promote tracking, third parties, uncontrolled CPU usage.

A coin being mined is controlled, handled entirely by first party, provides no incentive for tracking, etc.

This seems like a huge win.
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While it is tricky with fats, sugar is never good for you (unless some genetic disease where you die if you don’t consume sugar?).

Fruits are to various degrees beneficial but not in unlimited amounts. Fruits also don’t have a lot of sugar, see the watermelon comment in the other thread.

The problem with sugar is how easy it is in our diets to consume ridiculous amounts of it and how nobody understands that even a little of table sugar is already a ridiculous amount.

P.S. even bigger problem is that people don't understand that all the flours and starches are for all intents and purposes sugar, so it doesn't matter that you only have one teaspoon of sugar with your coffee if you consume it in large quantities in other forms.
Apart from requiring everything but the blood type to read the whitepaper, the whitepaper itself is trash. Self-aggrandizing and condescending even if there are grains of truth here and there.
I am completely fine with this. The entire question of "How does a web site providing content 'for free' make money?" still seems to be in flux. Yes, people might push for some sort of micropayments thing, and The Guardian is making their method work, but I don't know if that's the exception or the rule. At least, not right now.

Given the choice, I prefer a background miner over ads. Even on a laptop that's running on battery. For one thing, removing the ads (and all the annoying JS they load) should make the page much better to load & navigate, meaning I can go through the content faster. If I don't want to use up my battery, then I'll add the site to my Read Later list, and read it then.
If you're in the US or Europe, you don't have access to fresh coconuts. The oil you buy comes from far away (do you even know from where?), was processed under God knows what conditions, likely melted and resolidified several times as it changed hands in transit, only to sit in a store for who knows how long and what corners they cut. And this is healthier than eating locally-produced oils that your body is more genetically disposed to eating -- how exactly?

Edit: don't want to rag on you too much, but modern healthy eating trends are saturated with all kinds of insanity.
Because it's harder to orientate when you can't see the street markings, see the street signs, when your cameras are snowed over. If you tried parking a new BMW after a snow storm and looked out the rear camera you know what I mean. Basically they have to do all they normally do but just the equipment they need to keep cameras and lidars without snow either costs an extra fortune, OR the passengers will have to start their ride by carefully wiping all sensors. If there is heavy snowfall, you'll probably have to clean them during the trip too.

Roads that are usually 2 lanes become 1 lane when snow accumulates enough. People improvise to get where they want anyway - the 2 lanes at the traffic light which are normally one lane for turning and one for straight - is now just 1 lane for both turns and straight because of accumulated snow. The AI would need to observe other drivers (and pray they aren't all AI drivers) because stored map info will not work.

As a driver you have to be able to guess whether something that looks like a 1ft ridge of snow is actually passable drift powder snow, or a frozen barrier of ice that will damage the car or get you stuck if you drive through it.
Well Said
I don't think you understood. The name "CoinHive" is essentially synonymous with cryptojacking. A name change and a refusal to pay out to anyone using the version which does not ask the user are probably good steps for them to take (but obviously they won't do either because $$$)
When I read the article, it doesn't seem to say that Chinese cash is propping up real estate prices.

Rather, Chinese drugs get smuggled into Canada, the Canadian proceeds from selling those drugs then get loaned to homeowners who don't have Canadian money themselves, and then when the home sells, the Canadian money goes back to the lender. If the lenders can be paid back, they don't get paid back with Canadian cash or Chinese cash in Canada. They get paid back with Chinese cash in China.

Of course, the question might arise how did the homeowners get enough money to buy the property in the first place. Well, that's probably Chinese money. Getting enough money out of China for a down payment should only take a few years with a $50,000 per year limit.

OK, so maybe Chinese money is paying a lot of down payments, and maybe drug money is being loaned out to homeowners. But where does the money to buy the home when it's later sold or foreclosed come from? Drug money, Chinese money, or other? That's the real question for figuring out what's causing real estate prices to soar.
I've said this elsewhere - this is a terrible thing, it's an environmental catastrophe.
I've been wondering for a while now why Electron isn't separate from the application bundle itself. Having an app simply declare its supported version of Electron and downloading one version for all apps to use would make a lot more sense in terms of disk space.

I guess disk space is considered one of those "commodities" nowadays. I disagree (typing this from a 64GB SSD Mac) and HATE Electron apps for this reason. (Xcode, too, because it eats up disk space, but that's talk for another day)
I've done both and the real answer is "it depends". If performance is all that matters, the yes, it's Qt hands down. But Qt is also significantly harder to develop and maintain, especially if you want optimized application for minimal hardware.
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Ah, fair enough. I didn't mean it that way but will be more mindful next time. Thanks, Daniel.
The article doesn't say that drug money is used to buy properties. The drug money is loaned out to people who are already homeowners. What they've done is created an unexpected mechanism to launder drug money by loaning the money to homeowners and as part of the process getting a builders lien on each property, even though the lenders are not actually builders. They target borrowers that have a high need because they don't actually have a significant amount of income or cash in Canada. All their cash is in China, and they can't get it out of China, so it's a financial marriage made in hell or heaven, depending on the perspective.
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So why is a kilogram of watermelon better than 75 grams of sugar?
According to this, they don't seem to care at all: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbpbz4/creators-o...

>The team don’t specifically track domains, so if a user’s email address is not, for example, “contact@website.com,” Coinhive often don’t know where or how the service is being used, though.

So they don't keep track of who uses the software (perfect for malicious users), and yes they offer an AuthedMiner but why are they still offering payouts to people who use the version which runs without user consent?

It's like me selling illegal firearms in the back of my store and people saying "Hey, he is really concerned about the negative effects of illegal arms dealing, that's why he sells legal firearms in the front of the store!"
Better to evolve a micropayments model that works

Only problem with that is that the web is decades old now and so far nobody managed to do that.
Because adblockers can (and do) block all scripts and sites that mine without consent. Specific legal and consent-only domains will need to be whitelisted, which is what CoinHive is trying to with authedmine.com
I used to call Qt ".Net for people who can't have anything better".

When you code in Qt you rarely, if ever, are exposed to the hairy parts of C/C++. If anything, it feels like coding in C#. Nesides UI there are a gazillion helper and utility classes for everything from networking to threading to string handling. And with QML there's even less C++ :)
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The industry maliciously amplifies our innate tendency to find a "one-fits-all" solution. The bogeyman used to be fat, now it's sugar. Soon, people will realize that getting 90% of your caloric intake from protein powders is bad, the industry will get ahold of the new trend, and they'll start going back to "healthy carbs" or something stupid like that, and people will forget the meat rush of the 2010s and move onto something else that's equally retarded.

Nutrition isn't a solved problem and it won't be for many decades. There's one piece of advice that holds for a long time, and that's to eat a diverse diet and exercise within reasonable extends. Interpretations vary, but giving up on fruit or grain and starch is obviously not part of it.
And I answered with “what he could do to support the under privileged”.

In some contexts, my suggestion could be used as a political platform, but it isn’t here. It is, however, obviously, politics. How could it not be?

It is strange to me that you contextualize this way. It is no less than obvious, to me, that politics, as a field so concerned with the livelihood of society members, is a (if not the) topic at hand. I am open to other avenues but the success of such efforts remains grim, hence the concern in this post, which is anything but new.

An effort to logically separate politics from the needs of under privileged society members strikes me as a questionable pursuit at best and a damning moral quandary. Can you explain what the point is?
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GNU Emacs is a text editor, extensible in Emacs Lisp.

A Lisp Machine usually is a real computer - one with an OS written in Lisp.

GNU Emacs OTOH is hosted on an OS and doesn't even have multiple threads. It's more an application development and execution environment, for applications based on Emacs text-buffer abstraction.

The actual Lisp operating system user interfaces were not built on a text-buffer abstraction.
The case against saturated fats is far from conclusive. Let alone coconut oil, with is mostly MCT's (medium chain triglycerides) as opposed to the more common LCT's (long chain triglycerides).
More "team management" than hiring in particular https://leanpub.com/agileforleads/

But the process and team environment that I'm encouraging in the above playbook will attract and keep the best team players. At least, that's been my experience.

The book is also Free.
CoinHive has assumed that all instances of sites directly using the CoinHive software have been or are going to be blocked, and so have deprecated direct use of the CoinHive JS. Authedmine.com is now the official way to do things, and it operates only with consent.
This is probaly the best article that you need to read after reading another one of those 'detecting sexual orientation with dating profile pictures/prison inmates/etc' papers:

https://medium.com/@blaisea/do-algorithms-reveal-sexual-orie...
I'd be okay with it if choosing to do this on your website wasn't going to obviously incentivize hackers to inject this software maliciously on unsuspecting websites to steal money from unsuspecting users.

The more legit websites do this, the more cryptojacking will wreak havoc on the web.

And for those who say they ask for consent so it's okay, why do the CoinHive people still pay out for versions of the software that don't ask for consent?
Well, assuming the data isn't good — no, obviouly. What "beating humans" would even mean in that case? Imagine you have a dataset of dog and squirrel pictures, with "dog" and "squirrel" (or, actually, "elephant" and "shark") labels assigned quasi-randomly. You make humans and NNs to compete in what label you assigned to them. NN beats humans. Now, what the fuck that result even means?
>A coin being mined is controlled, handled entirely by first party, provides no incentive for tracking, etc.

Yeah, also a haven for hackers and malicious actors...

EDIT: I guess you weren't aware. CoinHive doesn't track the users who sign up for the service. It doesn't collect any information except email address. So malicious actors can easily sign up for the service and deliver the javascript through an XSS vulnerability for example. I thought that's what you meant by "no incentive for tracking".
Flight sim group put malware in a jet and called it DRM
> Why support them?

If you object, then by all means, don't support them.

The appropriate way to do that is to not read the article. There's no mining if you don't visit.
The book might show how big FinTech houses were behind this but the article is light in that regard. The moments where people feel they can ask inside their own bank 'can guy move the LIBOR just a few thou' and not realise that's an otfense, breaks Chinese walls, breaks bounds.. and then institutionalization sets in...and you're off and running.

Those moments felt to me like 'its not a conspiracy, it's Lowe grade decision making by people who aren't reminded of their obligations' so maybe the book tells it better.

Always a bit of a sad moment, when the journo realised they like their subject. How do you maintain objectivity once you humanize the devil? Gitta Serenyi had that with Albert Speer.
That's not relevant to this situation. Waiting for oncoming to traffic to clear, then turning while the light is red is legal, and orthogonal to whether "there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection". If there isn't sufficient space to turn, whether the light is green, red, or yellow, then you can't turn and are violating the anti gridlock law. If you entered the intersection before it turn red, and there is space to turn, you can turn on green, yellow, or after it turns red.
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water and fiber are great for you
Yes, I know that. But public perception doesn't really see it this way. It's more like torrent == bad && malware == bad
Simple JSON query tool
The body has a much harder time digesting sugar (and other nutriments too) without fiber, the refining process removes the fiber from the plants that contain sugar.
When we say "sugar is bad" we refer to the 'simple sugars' found in ultraprocessed foods, not the slow absorption ones.
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In what way? I consider this a security win. Instead of a third party delivering unknown, unscreened content (ads), I get a mining script directly from the site that I'm visiting.
Direkt link to the PDF behind the registration wall: http://content.cdntwrk.com/files/aT05NDQwMzEmdj0xJmlzc3VlTmF...
It totally depends on the company.

If you know you won't be profitable for a while and require outside investment, then you need a longer runway as it can take a long time to raise money.

If things are going well, but you've built your business on a channel you have no control over, like facebook (and one change to their algorithm / one even cyclical change in costs can screw you - this happened to a 'previously' successful side project I created) then it's best to save as much as you can - at least if you want to / think you can find another channel.

If you're working on a startup and aren't planning on raising money, then sometimes a shorter runway is a good thing - i.e. you don't want to dedicate yourself to 'the wrong' project for years.

If you've found a growth machine and output currently equals 2*input, there's not much point saving money huge amounts today. Best to continue investing.

Sure there are tons of other scenarios.
Monero itself is worthless for Salon until they exchange it to USD, either directly or through a chain of other cryptocurrencies. Either way, for them to get the USD, some schmuck somewhere needs to buy the coin.
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If you want an optimized application for minimal hardware then surely HTML isn't an alternative anyway?

Not sure I agree that QT is harder to develop and maintain, it depends on what you are used to.
direct link via view source: http://content.cdntwrk.com/files/aT05NDQwMzEmdj0xJmlzc3VlTmF...

To absolutely nobody's suprise native code is more efficient and thus allows lower spec hardware. Going for native/QT totally makes sense for a fixed hardware target.
Expensive optimizations like what? Can you give a before/after example of something such a tool might do?

(Note: I'm glossing over the case where one is using bleeding-edge syntax that a JS engine doesn't yet know how to optimize. In that case preprocessing out the new syntax is of course very useful, but I don't think this is the kind of optimization the GP comment was talking about.)
You can fill it with garbage there are no checks.
choosing to do this on your website wasn't going to obviously incentivize hackers

How does this work? Why would hackers needs this "incentive"?
So people who don't run adblockers should just suck it up and get gut-punched because CoinHive doesn't want to lose money? CoinHive has the ability to just not pay out any versions of the software which aren't authmine. Again, what a bad look to partner with such a crap team of people. There are surely other providers of the exact same service.
I seriously doubt that, just reflecting on how smokers so often remain unswayed¹ even by far more brutal prognostications about the habit's effect on their longevity.

¹well, unswayed about actually quitting now
Why did we evolve to enjoy the taste of sugar?
I did. I like it, for its wandering off the beaten path.
I'm in. Just add me on LinkedIn :)
Real link: http://content.cdntwrk.com/files/aT05NDQwMzEmdj0xJmlzc3VlTmF...

While this does read a bit like an ad I find the points to be valid. I also think interface quality can be achieved to be better with Qt Quick than with HTML.
Unfortunately there is a somewhat higher entry barrier, but that shouldn't be a problem for a company this large.

I am glad one company didn't follow the hype of putting web technology everywhere (though the cost of doing so will probably drop).
If you can't tell the difference between the fundamentals of bitcoin vs FAG maybe you should stick to ETFs.