skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are silver linings to the total fabrication of images and audio, whose veracity and presumed authenticity due to the threshold for forgery is perhaps only 100 years old, and soon to disappear.

One, people will be less swayed by emotionally charged imagery, and that's a good thing. That means less #FOMO and less rage at the perception that everyone is having fun but you. People can feel normal, just being normal again, because of the soon-to-be-wide-spread understanding that any and all photography, video or audio can be fabricated.

Two, media is manipulative regardless of who holds the keys to the castle, as most trusted information source. It's not a conflict of fake versus real. It's a conflict of one group of large personalities versus another set of polarizing characters, and external players fanning the flames. That one group can shout down another isn't great, because even if there is One True Narrative neither side presents it to us, and most of the smarter folks among us are already aware of this, and digest all information under such a context implicitly.
It's imaginable, especially with WebAssembly on the horizon, but I still don't see non-web developers ever being able to use a web IDE without making sacrifices.
> terrible law, incredibly vague, overly broad, poorly written,

Or it could be a well meaning law, that has been drafted in good faith to incrementally extend an existing directive, one that IMHO has worked rather well up to the point that organisations outside of the EU have felt they can ignore it, even when acting in EU countries. GDPR is certainly making overseas firms take our laws seriously now...

It has been mentioned a number of times, but EU law is principles-based not rules-based like in the US. I can see how it might appear vague to US eyes, but to my eyes I see a flexible law that will live on while the technology changes. I also felt it was written in plain, straight-forward language, and not poorly-written at all, I personally can live without 'here-on-ins'.

I guess if I lived in the US and had a similar law, and had US prosecutors I might be scared, but the law of European countries has survived on being principle based rather longer than the US has existed. I once had to compare and contrast both systems for an exam, and of course they both work in practice! I note however that Europe is a much less litigious place than the US, and I personally prefer that.
Not exactly. The savings and loans crises of the 80's was driven by a sector of traditionally small, community banks, fueled by deregulation.
Users will still have to consent for ML treatment of their data if they want to use ML based services. Base whatever service you offer around it, and they'll have to either accept or get no service. The only ones losing on this are the intermediaries who up to now could slurp whatever data they wanted and sell it to third parties, while now they'll have to offer something of value to the user or get no data.
Wondering outloud: given what facebook did to snapchat, would one assume that you have to "beat" snapchat (and anyone else) without resorting to a legal defense? In other words, if you can't beat snapchat at your own idea (assuming your idea is good enough to warrant their interest), are you doomed whether or not you signed a non-suit agreement?
It's great if you own NVDA!
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Emulation sounds like a cool project. Mind sharing some tips on where to start or any helpful links?
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Pity the biggest abusers of our privacy - credit reference agencies - will slip through the net. How this racket can be classified as legitimate interest is beyond me.
Your brain may be telling you that you need to shift your point of view and focus your energy on different activities, but you may not be clear on what those activities are, or feel like doing them.

Have you launched a product before? Do you have any pre-launch users/customers? Have you done customer development on this product, or just built a thing?
I could be very wrong but the reasons you gave were all scenarios where you end up successful. That probably makes me think that you are just scared of the failure and judgement that comes from putting yourself out there.

For me the solution has been to know that whatever I create is out of the need that it has to be created or it will bother me to no end. So even if it is criticised the other option would have been to not create it which would be much worse.

Also if you are not on point when it comes to your diet and exercise there is a lot of room left for you to feel better than you are at the moment just by doing that. The difference can be night and day.
The compiler won't care unless you "#define true 0".

The "for(;;)" loop is easier and faster for the human to parse. It stands out in source code.

With the "while(true)", you have to pay attention. It could be "while(tnie)" or "while(trua)". Whenever you see it, you have to read carefully.
What's an "official statement"? Sounds like it's probably any public statement.
How's that novel coming? Almost done, I'll bet.

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/12/how_to_create_motiva...
That's pretty cool - can you share the video with me as well when you're done? I'm a potential buyer for a content creation portion of an enterprise.
Sure but who regulates it :)
Most of us in Europe don't find it especially vague, poorly written or overly broad. I think most of us are firmly in favour of it, and not especially concerned by the effect on our companies, especially when we've already been doing some of this under current data protection.

Personally I think it's an excellent attempt to bring some sanity back to our online privacy. It's perfectly readable and understandable by an individual. Though of course it's not perfect. What is?

It's been fascinating and extremely educational to see in the numerous HN discussions how many from the US are managing to view it from entirely the opposite point of view.
But they could implement that tomorrow if they really wanted to?

Was this a joke that's gone over my head? :)
I feel that we have spent 30 years replicating Bash across multiple computer systems.

The further my clients move to the cloud, the more shell scripts they write at the exclusion of other languages. and just like this, I have clients who have ripped out expensive enterprise data streaming tools and replaced them with bash.

The future of enterprise software is going to be a bloodbath.
24th of May 2018 might not be the best time to choose to launch anything while intentionally having ditched thinking about your T&Cs and Privacy Policy...
I almost exclusively use my computer to view video content (in my case, mostly streaming sports but some Netflix as well). About 70% of the time, the thing I'm watching can be "cast" via Chromecast onto my TV. So I'd argue that my laptop is indeed the TV/PC hybrid.

I would also argue that the "smart" TVs that have Netflix and Amazon Movies and services like that built in are also candidates for the "TV/PC Hybrid" moniker.
The Polgar experiment had at least one major bias -- they were the Polgars' natural born children, not "average" people. Also, Polgar's own hypothesis was that it required to begin study by age 6. Has anyone tried taking a 30-yr-old adult, and funding a 20year intensive chess curriculum for them?
I'm currently in a somewhat similar situation, although with a smaller open source project, and that's exactly what I've been struggling with the last few weeks. There are some great points in the comments here, here are my 2 cents and what I'm currently doing.

Like someone here said already - the second 90% are no fun. The first 90% are fun, launching is fun, people using and loving your software is fun and eventually getting filthy rich is probably fun (I really wouldn't know), but the second 90% are usually just a giant pain in the arse. Accepting that does make it easier.

Plus, when you're making something you care about and you really want it to be good, it's particularly hard to say no to features, even more so when you expect to get paid for the whole thing. And a case can certainly be made that one should probably be careful not to launch an MVP with too strong an emphasis on the M, no second chance for a first impression and all that.

That being said, as Joel Spolsky once wrote, shipping is a feature. It's your most essential feature. If you cut a few things here and there and add them post-launch, it probably won't kill you. It may even turn out that you don't need them or that you could do them better.

If you keep pushing a deadline trying to get everything in there, getting it just so for the launch, losing more and more motivation along the way, maybe deciding that you really need to rewrite this or that but it'll take you another month or something - that could kill you.

So I think this is the time to brutally cut everything you can cut and just get the damn thing out the door. Half a product is better than both a half-arsed product and no product.

Once you're done butchering your todo list, you apply the age old universal recipe for all things that you don't feel like doing but need to do, trite though it may seem - you take it one step at a time. You don't sit down at the computer thinking "I've got to launch this". You sit down thinking "I've got to implement this thing", "I've got to fix that bug", etc.

You've worked on something continuously for two years. This already puts you ahead of the overwhelming majority of people who want to make things. In the words of Captain Reynolds:

https://youtu.be/xbbj2o0yUI0?t=17s

I should probably go and see about following my own advice now.
It would be funny if it worked that way, but alas, it doesn’t.
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Do you have any substantive argument for that?
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So you are arguing that US firms operating in the US are in competition with UK firms operating in the UK? I don't see how they are in competition at all?
Actually, the colon is consistent here: `val x: Integer` means x isA integer; `class Dog(): Animal()` means Dog isA animal. They mean the same thing within their respective contexts.
I can't wait to issue denial of service requests to every EU company when it comes into effect. I am going to send a nightmare letter to all of them.
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Normal developer behavior has gone from "optimize everything for machine usage" (cpu time, memory, etc.) to "optimize everything for developer convenience". The former is frequently inappropriate, but the latter is, as well.

(And some would say that it then went to "optimize everything for resume keywords," which is almost always inappropriate, but I don't want to be too cynical.)
What group? USDS Defense Digital Service? Would be interested to know of such initiatives.
I'm currently going through a phase of setting up a games room, and acquiring a bunch of slightly older video game consoles and games to populate it. I've settled on PS2 and PS3, and Xbox/360 as the sweet spot for this. Partly due to price (they're not old enough to be worth much, but not new enough to be hawked at retail prices).

But a factor just as big as price is how, from about mid-360 and PS3 onwards, gaming stopped being a case of 'buy a disc and play the game' and became 'register online, tie to a service which will be withdrawn at some point, and pay extra for bits of the game that would previously have been free'. All of that stuff transformed gaming media from about 2007 onwards from something that you could put on a shelf and return to at your leisure, into this ephemeral thing that you must buy into at the peak of the hype cycle, or it won't exist in proper form (if at all) when you do get around to it.

That said, this phenomenon is mostly limited to commercial games. There's an incredible grassroots movement of indie, modding, and retro gaming that everyone is free to immerse and engage in, where this issue just doesn't exist. My reaction to cutting-edge gaming for the past decade or so has been largely to turn away from commercial games and find entertainment via other gaming channels.
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It’s a very well written article and talks about an aspect of racial disparities that isn’t talked about much in the public sphere: culture. At some point negative aspects of poverty culture in general and black poverty culture specifically needs to addressed and talked about. The impediments caused by negative cultural aspects are real. With regard to education, the only real way to improve schools is to improve the culture toward learning.
Yep - the more obvious interpretation was "Hey look, hoodoof forgot to switch sock puppet accounts!
Migo doesn’t seem to have Bird. Transit has all three: https://medium.com/@transitapp/welcome-to-scootopia-we-now-a...
Huh. Well look at that. It's apparently hard to find, and it does appear that you're limited to splitting a "fullscreen" view - i.e., no menu bar, dock, or other windows - but it's better than nothing.
Those are some really great and interesting points. However, I think there is a resource you didn't mention that combats such attacks: time. If I'm a vendor, e.g. I pay cash for bitcoin, then I can tune the amount of time the transaction is held in limbo or escrow based on the vulnerability of the network.

For instance, I can decide not to finalize the transaction until I see a chain with 12 new blocks added after the transaction block. So an attacker has to control 51% for 2 hours to successfully scam me. Or I can make it 24 blocks (4 hours), or whatever.

Not sure this can mitigate the attacks and market forces you discuss, but it might. I see Bitcoin moving toward an intermediary system where you have a "Bitcoin balance" with a "Bitcoin bank" that allows you to make immediate transactions and takes on the risk and time delay of settling these transactions on the blockchain over the course of the next day or two.
https://inthemoment.io/
Why not just use gcc or clang?
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I run around 630 sol/s per 1080ti GPUs, each costed me around 950$. You'd also need to add the electricity in there, I think the challenge is to control an infrastructure being able to do over 15 MH/s as opposed to having the capital.
Problem is that x86 segmentation support is lacking, which is important for things like the BIOS.
All the more reason for Apple not to let that ecosystem burn to the ground, just because they're making lots of money from iOS.
Are there any AI battles with more normal Civ 5 settings?

Like maybe 8 civs, bigger map with varying features etc
No, because transactions are reversed in double spend attacks. It does not increase the supply.
Yeah — not to mention the lack of keyboard controls like Windows 10. Sigh!
So this would require an attacker to pay into the exchange with BTCg, have the deposit clear and approve for trading, trade it for another currency, and have that trade settle and be clear for withdrawal, and then process the withdrawal, all in under 4 hours. After which point the attacking miner surfaces a longer chain they had been keeping which doesn’t include the original BTCg deposit.

Alternatively, if the exchange isn’t smart enough to pay short-term withdrawals with inputs that link back to the recent deposit, an attacker could just deposit and then withdraw with no trade and the withdraw transaction is valid even if the deposit is double-spent.

An exchange that lets a trader deposit millions in one crypto-asset, exchange it for another, and clear a withdrawl in 4 hours... got what was coming to them? Where’s the KYC process for a million-dollar deposit?

There’s a reason new deposits in a brokerage account take a few days to settle / be cleared for trading. And again after selling before funds can be withdrawn. And that’s a currency where most transactions can be reversed!

It would be one thing to allow 10 block settlement for Bitcoin main-net. It’s another to allow it with a thinly mined alt-coin.
I think I'm one of the few who liked the site. It loaded extremely fast on my horrible internet. I was able to get the information I needed, including which questions I should answer if I wanted to sign up.

No excessive photos, videos, and other nonsense. I found the font chosen to be adequate and easy to be read.

About the program, it seems to me that they saw a limit point on the content that people are creating on their platform. It is clear that they want more quality productions that serve as an anchor for users.

I've never been a heavy Snap user, but I always visit to see how it works when someone reports a change. It seemed to me that the new design was meant to divide my friends from the artists or the content produced by companies.

You in the middle, being able to choose, your friends on your left and content to spend time on your right. Few people debate this, but other social networks want the exact opposite. They have always gone in the direction of merging the two.

Thus, this incubator could facilitate the creation of content to its right. But she could also demonstrate better ways to consume this content and how to interact with your friends, who would always be on your left.
I don't know any accountability processes for the moderation on hackernews, but I'm sure you've considered that already.
I'll usually have my bluetooth headset connected to my mobile phone, assuming the phone's reception is strong enough. That makes it easier to do a phone interview on an OK-not-great connection. When screen sharing over a connection w/ a modest upload speed, it's can be OK if the interviewer doesn't get super fast updates on the video. But if you're chatting over the web & the audio quality gets impacted by a slow upload speed, the interview grinds to a halt super fast.
The top right corner didn't end up being dominated by one Civ until quite late in the game. The bottom left was the only corner who wasn't equipped to take advantage of that, at the very least by the fact that a portion of the military capacity of the region was turned inwards instead of towards the regions neighbors.
The API call that analyzes what's going on in an image will get sent to China and analyzed there by no-name state owned mega surveillance corp and the result sent back like "35/m/$50k income/55% criminality likelihood/60% likely homosexual/Woman standing next to him is 35% likely to be mistress/subject is currently engaged in 30% flirting behavior 20% shopping for clothes/Target with ad for greek vacation/" and they'll all say it's just a model. Pinky swear there's no personal data that was used to look that up in China.
Legitimate interest or not, if a UK based credit reference agency loses data in the same way that Equifax, for instance, did I think they will find GDPR has the teeth to deal with them.
it is a waste. Bitcoin is an unqualified environmental catastrophe that is literally erasing any progress we've made to combat climate change. Burning away the future, turning useful energy purely and directly into waste and profit by shouting numbers into the void, not even leaving any artifact of value in its wake.

There's not anything wrong with having a central monetary authority. There's not anything wrong with having institutional trust.
Someone dug up the filing of the corporation in California by one of Musk's associates: https://twitter.com/meharris/status/999372255237832704
> the browsers language would be Scheme

And the world would be 10000 times better off for it.
Pretty weak line of reasoning.

How much energy do you and everyone else waste doing things that don't add value to my life or society?

Using your own comparison, why is it a big deal if little Jimmy can't afford a graphics card to play some Counter-Strike? Is gaming a better use for energy?

Seems weird to pick on cryptocurrencies if you actually believe your premise, which I don't think you do.
I think what jhpriestly is saying is: As the market gets efficient, the price of renting mining capacity will approach the profits earned from transaction fees. So renting mining capacity will almost pay for itself, i.e. is almost free. But then you might as well rent a lot of it, like 51%, because it's allowing you to attack the chain almost for free.
It’s the 80/20 Pareto principle. The last 20% of the work feels like 80% of it. And honestly, maybe it is. Have you considered that maybe you aren’t as close to the end as you think? Often that last 20% doesn’t contain any major challenges, but rather a mountain of small and tedious tasks that you’ve “left til later” throughout the project. So although it feels like you’re almost finished, because you’ve eliminated all major challenges, you actually have a lot left to do because the sum of those smaller tasks is greater than you estimated.

If that’s true, it’s better to be realistic about what work remains. That way you won’t lose motivation when you’re spending so much time completing the project, because you’ve consciously recognized there is still a lot of work to do.

And TBH I’ve been in the same boat, and in fact am in that 80/20 area on my current project. We’ve all been there I think. It’s part of software. Best thing you can do is recognize it for what it is and deal with it like you would any challenge.
A ground-up rewrite for... window snapping? :-)

I joke, but it's important to remember just how far behind Windows in basic operating system architecture Mac OS 9 was when Apple launched OS X. Apple absolutely had to replace Mac OS from the ground up. It had no choice.

Is macOS (the artist formerly known as OS X) in the same position today? I would argue no. Most of the "problems" with macOS are either UI complaints like window snapping, or ugly bugs--which are more likely the result of development workflow issues than fundamental shortcomings in the technology of the OS. When Microsoft made the big shift to address their security issues, it was mostly a sea change in how they developed Windows, not a ground-up rewrite of Windows.
Is it possible to cover GDPR requirements with another line in an EULA that specifies consent?
Actually, I wouldn't call it 'bones', it's more like puke. Pre-chewed for you.
> AWS is already a large and fast growing business.

But isn't AWS the same as Amazon, just instead of selling a new vacuum, its selling cloud compute? Its still e-commerce, just rebranded as "cloud provider."
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I don't care about innovation on macOS. I just want it to be as fast and bug free as possible.

I have minor gripes with it, such as new installed apps changing the file icons, but in general most features introduced since Snow Leopard have been mostly noise for me.
Anyone well versed in this topic care to comment about how these attacks might/might not relate to the 'proof of work vs proof of stake' debate in the wider cryptocurrency world?
In 5 years both sharding and Plasma would be implemented on Ethereum. NASDAQ would probably run its own Plasma chain or sidechain and wouldn’t be beholden to the main chain’s throughput.
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I am exactly ten years older than the internet and here is what I would say:

Another oldtimer here. My internet use predates the web. I've been using it since the late 80's.
UK Internet is actually not that bad. I pay under £25/month for unlimited 80/20 and most households can achieve almost that speed.
Death threats?
For many it's not the completion that causes the dejected feeling. It's the thought of starting something new, knowing many of the daunting tasks that will lie ahead. And further knowing that you cannot know all of them.
Our list is public so you can do this. Correct - people are paying us to handle the hard work so they can focus on other things.
I want to believe, but instead it will be javascript-driven blockchain at the command line