skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulations increase the cost of entry, which means less competition, which means it hurts the free market. It really is as simple as that and you can most definitely group all regulations into the same category in this case.
Let's hope the shark fishing boats don't find this spot. There's still a sizeable market for shark fins in China, even after Yao Ming's brilliant campaign there.
Kilauea Volcano’s Lava Fields Offer Scientists a Mars-Like Environment
> Speaking from a German perspective there is such a law. They will cut your unemployment benefits if you can't prove you're hunting for a job, or just go around quitting them.

Then doesn't the same thing happen to the person who loses their job to a minimum wage increase? You can't spend all day learning a new trade if you have to spend all day chasing jobs you're not qualified to do yet.

It seems like your quarrel is with the unemployment rules, e.g. maybe they should be replaced with a UBI.

> Low income customers? We have a minimum wage now remember? If at all it's gonna hurt richer customers who are now a little less rich compared to the rest.

Your argument is that raising consumer prices hurts rich people more than poor people?

> I was speaking of the burden places like Walmart etc. create because of indirect government subsidies.

I have a hard time faulting a company for hiring people who would otherwise be unemployed. And the subsidies are ostensibly there to help the employees. Who do you expect it to hurt more if we got rid of them, the company or the workers?

> There's a lack of logical connection between those two sentences, probably a third sentence missing in between?

The premise is that regulatory overhead is increasing unit costs. In response a company can do one of two things. If they don't raise prices then they maintain their customer volume but have reduced margins. If they do raise prices then they maintain their margins but suffer reduced customer volume. In both cases they make less money and the smaller company may no longer be making enough to cover their fixed costs.

> The point I seem to fail to bring across is that you're paying the higher prices for goods produced fairly RIGHT NOW. You're just not paying them at the counter, you're paying them with your taxes.

The direct cause of that is social assistance to low income people. It makes no sense to at the same time have a policy of providing assistance to the working poor and prohibit them from working at those wages. At least one of them is wrong.

When the alternative to $5 wages isn't higher wages but higher unemployment, the company paying the $5 wages isn't a drain in society -- it's reducing by $5/hr the amount of social assistance needed to keep those people from starving.

The real source of the problem is that there are people whose labor is not worth a living wage. But minimum wage doesn't change that. If there was someone willing to pay $20/hr then they wouldn't be working for $5/hr. Prohibiting them from working for low wages just makes them unemployed and even more reliant on social assistance.

If you want an actual solution, try policies that reduce the market price of necessities like housing and medicine, so that the wages of unskilled labor are survivable without the need for social assistance.
That is a really, really poor and flawed metaphor. It is completely arbitrary and there's no logic or reasoning behind it.

The "filtration system" that is talked about here is not comparable to a root system, or, in other words, any life-sustaining or life-promoting system.

Rather, a malignantly overgrown filtration system is the root cause of feelings of disconnectedness, deprivation, and subsequent depression, that are so common nowadays.

A societal tendency to bulk up the "filtration system" to pathological dimensions is the reason why there is an opioid epidemic in North America right now. Thanks to our massive filtration systems we have filtered out most that is good about the human race, and have managed to build a civilization/economic system that is so dehumanized, cutthroat, unfair, lifeless and ultimately unfulfilling and meaningless, that most of us subjects walk around in a daze, in states of deep emotional deprivation, just looking for something, anything, to either anesthetize those painful feelings (opioids and other downers), or distract us from them (social media, porn, television, VR..."entertainment").

Like everywhere in nature, balance is the key to a healthy state. We have erred, for centuries, on the side of boosting the filtration system through whatever means were available, and have managed to build very effective and tall walls within ourselves that separate us from our fellow men, from the environment, and even from deeper strata of our own consciousness. Now, we are reaping the harvest of that - a mankind that is plagued by mental illness, carrying out environmental destruction wherever you look.

But I digress. What I really wanted to say is - please, don't draw parallels between the "filtration system" and a root system. Really, most of us would benefit from downsizing the filtration system a notch or twenty...unlike plants, where cutting away roots would be of little benefit.
I'm somewhat distrustful of any ideas that require payment to access the white paper. The general premise appears to be using Bitcoin Cash to facilitate a store and send infrastructure to incentivize the operation of decentralized servers where the sender foots the bill and everyone uses E2E public key encryption.
It is not just Europe and GDPR. You should block users from every single country where you are not ready to take responsibility to comply with the local laws. By providing service/content in international scale you are doing business with real physical people there, regardless of your own or your server's location. Seriously. So Cloudflare (and all other CDN/web service providers) should really have country-based opt-in instead of opt-out, so you at least think a second before clicking the tick.
Where are you seeing the above-quoted text? Is it a ZDNet/CBS or Microsoft website?

Would love to share your outrage, but can't find it on either.
Young french developer here (1 year experience). I earn 45k€ (52k$) per year "good software developer only €2500 per month" is a bad joke you should not tell.
Speaking of Comanche, there was a discussion on it 6 months ago when I posted the link to "Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772065
Thanks for mentioning filters. I'm just in the process of designing an ITX case specific to a board/CPU and plan to partition it so the CPU fan is also the case fan. I hadn't thought about dust. Good point.
The point wasn’t if the laws are compatible with DMCA or not but that we had the ability to influence them.

If you as a Swedish person are blaming the US for Pirate Bay then you are wrong you have had full control over your copyright laws and enforcement and some of it is actually stricter than in the US.

I’ve also that the EU will deputize the giants not that they’ll block services to the EU resulting in even more consolidation and less freedom for EU residents.

In fact that is the expectation of many MEPs.

Combined with a government run one stop shop for data accesss like those that already exist in some EU countries the actual prospects of GDPR can be quite dystopian.

People would say that it would be better than it’s now and that companies would stop abusing your information but I have no doubt that the existing business models will not differ even in the slightest the only thing that would differ is your ability to compete and operate within a free market.
Should I use capitalization when mentioning a domain name?
The comparison, jump from peer to peer to centralized, skipping Federated services, for example, like Jabber protocol. Is true that Google used it first, and then killed it. But, maybe it is a path to explore.
Another design input:

If there's lots of humidity inside the room you'd probably prefer negative pressure in the room.

Reason: positive pressure can pressure moist air through walls and ceilings and when it hits the cold air on the other side of the insulation it condenses in thr construction and causes rot (or corrosion).
They call it that though. My whole family is hardcore Republicans. In their mind, lack of rules from the government = free market, period. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they still think the US has the best healthcare system in the world because it isn't run by the government. Seriously.
What do we already know about Generalization? What should we ask next about it?
This is a good article. One gotcha I ran into using fnil is that you don't get variable-arity functions for free from it in Clojure (YMMV in cljs).

This caused an issue when I was using (fnil + 0 0) in a reduce function - as it would barf on an empty collection - I got around this by providing an init value to the reduce call, but it caught me off guard when (reduce + []) works
I enjoyed this article, and I like the author surveys several ways to handle `nil` before giving his preferred.

I'm curious: Do any of you use the Cats library? Do you like it?
I know this is old news on this thread, but I created https://www.kinkbnb.com after AirBNB kicked one of my dominatrix friends off their site three years ago. Making a profit off AirBNB's posturing - they just posted a "dominatrix experience" too, making themselves look especially hypocritical.
Static linking vs. dyld3
It's interesting to consider what happens to the sunbathers!

In the article, sunbathers are treated as a passive, uniformly distributed part of this game-theoretic setup. If the sunbathers are active participants, however, the game changes. Once the vendors move to the center, sunbathers will too (except for those that value privacy, quiet, etc. more than ice cream (!?)).

Suppose that this "tourist clustering" effect has taken hold, and now some new vendors set up shop. They have very little incentive to set up anywhere except the middle. Gradually, you get a cluster of largely indistinguishable ice cream vendors, all vying for the custom of a large group of tourists...

...and you've effectively arrived at a beachside ice cream market where advertising is essential for success. (You've also potentially created a market to sell a more "authentic" ice cream experience to sunbathers who would prefer to avoid the tourist cluster at all costs, so that as the ice cream vendors in the middle consolidate another vendor can come along and set themselves up as the "alternative" choice.)
In Buddhism, compassion is practiced more because, every person you deal with is someone you either have been, or someone you will eventually see in yourself. So there's no point to criticize because you always work towards mutual understanding and compassion.

You don't have to practice the inward neurotic obsession of identifying flaws or the external compulsion of alleviating the burden of knowing yourself - because you'll focus on them when you do. Every person you meet knows you and every person you know is you.
Hourly contractor, so you don't get any of the social safety net, you have to arrange your own pension, no pay on holiday, no sick days, no company car, no company laptop. You have to take care of all that yourself.

A little calculation for your average senior developer in a corporate for-profit environment. On average you can do about 1850 billable hours a year, which means you are taking 7 weeks off for holiday, illness, courses, certifications. At an average rate of 90 euro per hour, that is €166,500 per year. With VAT added you can bill the customer €201,465 per year.
This just seems like a crazy amount of micro-management when often the answer is to just set a goal and complete it. Categorising and reducing tasks in this way is surely not healthy long term. Sorry! No more shallow work today. Can't do that. It simply can't work for most people.
In Paris, the cops don't get to use the FAMAS, but German (I think) assault rifles. But in the end it's still the same. And there are not a lot of cops with rifle, it's usually reserved when they are a lot of people in the same place (protest, music festival...). Most of the cops in France will have just a handgun and even then, not all of them.
> I'm not sure what the cheaper option is once figuring in your own time-cost to hack openwrt in, but it's hard to imagine it would be some dollar-sum that really deserves this much angst.

WTF? Angst!?

It takes minutes to install and configure OpenWRT on supported hardware. You upload the OpenWRT firmware like any manufacturer-provided firmware update, and after it's beeen flashed the router reboots into OpenWRT. The added time cost compared to learning and configuring any other router OS is negligible.
> kombinierki

In Slovak, there is "kombinačky", which is shortening from "kombinované kliešte". Basically more or less the same item as as "combination pliers".
Does the serialization work with bytecode though? Doesn't it stream just data members, not method implementations?
Pity they want money to access the doc. I've spent years on a distributed, zero-knowledge sync service so would love to see what they've done. I should probably add the polish and make mine public, because as per the article I also feel this is the only way we'll ever get past the centralized giants. My test app is a document editor where multiple people can make and sync up changes to a shared doc without leaking anything, i.e. what's in the document, that it's a document, who they're collaborating with. Of course the client will be open source. It won't matter if the server is closed source or not. Not going anywhere near a blockchain with mine though, because if a user wants to delete a thing (anything that user created, including the user's account) it must (and will) be deleted.
> Many losses which don't seem differentiable can be reformulated as such...

agreed, especially with policy gradients.

> If the dimensionality is small, second-order methods (or approximations thereof) can do dramatically better yet.

i have not seen second order derivatives in practice, presumably due to memory limitations. can you point me to examples?
>I don't get the "there's not enough engineering available", this is just not true, reality is that people will earn a lot more in London

Not by much [1][2], and rent is worse in London[3]. I think income tax is fairly comparable.

From personal experience the same salary goes further in Paris and quality of life is better than in London, although I never officially worked in Paris so can't comment too much. The nightlife is certainly better. Also Switzerland is crazy expensive so even if you're earning more it won't matter, pretty much everything you buy day to day is about 2x as expensive compared to anywhere else.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/london-software-enginee...
[2] https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/paris-software-engineer...
[3] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Yeah, but moxie is mostly wrong. He's only seen worst-case scenarios and assumes everything is lile that, so he builds his centralized stuff instead.

You can easily move forward with a federated protocol as well if you've got cooperating people, guarantee only 6 months of support for a protocol version, and have a versioning and feature flag system.

Hell in one project I contribute to we've kept protocol compatibility since 2009, we've got mamy third party clients, everyone hosts their own server — and still we can introduce new features without breakage in a matter of days (at least into beta, QA and translation take a while).
So, is naming of the natterjack toad related to adders? Do they wear "adder jack[ets]"? The skin patterning is not completely dissimilar.
Let's stop peddling the misconception that the EU operates significantly differently than any other Western democracy. The civil servants answer ultimately to the MEPs, who are elected. Most people either do not vote or do not engage, as is the case to a lesser extent in their national elections. You can still lobby your MEP when an issue was not part of their platform.
The OP is promoting his own post hoping to make money off of HN. Flagged.
Decentralization is when you need to hide something. Torrent, etc.

Decentralization did not work for Napster.

Decentralization is not a magical trick.

Money, specialy when he come to your retirement are better centralized. Because it's for your own security, gouvernement to don't let you starve.

Decentralization for money only mean, no security, no rules, nothing. Like a punk anarchy.
it is absolutely generally considered a psychedelic. like I said eat a few grams of hash and tell me it's not. it has been used that way in world religions for thousands of years.
An Extensive Examination of Data Structures Using C# 2.0
Why not look it up before you assert someone is wrong? It's explained in detail in [0]. It's clear that visa is used as a past participle, not as a noun, and it's applied in the singular. There is no support anywhere for the use of visum as a singular and visa as a plural. Which is what I believe I said above.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/visa
Yes.

Using the Newtonsoft library you can configure it using `JsonSerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling`, and with with protobuf-net you set `AsReference` on your class's `ProtoContractAttribute`. I don't think MessagePack-CSharp
or msgpack-cli support cyclic references tho.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1168

I think my dad still have it in the basement, but i recall he never got much out of it.
The Clang and Swift compilers use Visitors for just about everything AST related.
That’s why the communists practice it
> you’ll need lawyers earlier than otherwise

The EU is not the USA - the majority of small businesses will never need a lawyer at all!
Having experienced gut related issues recently that needed medical diagnosis I appreciate this direction of research wholeheartedly.
I think it really depends on which start-up (and investors) you look at. I work at one that has two developers with no university degrees, and it wasn't an issue recruiting them, and I don't even think investors know about this. Implementation details, sort of.
I just starting to invest in ICO, https://besticoinvest2018.com/ Is anybody invest in ICO or not?
First I heard brainstorm, then green needle and then brain needle, ha ha! Yeah that was weird!

Found a related video that talks a bit about this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiXQl7grPQ

Also related is this one that I remember seeing on HN or Reddit a while back: https://soundcloud.com/whyy-the-pulse/an-audio-illusion. There is an article about that one as well at https://gizmodo.com/this-audio-illusion-will-make-you-never-... but I never bothered to read the article because I think the audio recording is sufficiently interesting in its own right.
Well, that’s a dumb feature. Very counterintuitive, requires you to stop and think, and there’s a high probability that it’ll be misunderstood at first glance. I hate things like this - you’ll read it, think you understand it, experience a bug, spend hours debugging, then finally look up the documentation for ‘else’ and see that it means something different from what you thought.
I bootstrapped a 6809 assembler by hand. That took a while :)
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I prefer to expect nothing to be nil and assert for this rather than write defensively in case it is accidentally nil. This requires a more structured approach but is a better solution for me. I don’t like nil and prefer not to think of it as a valid value at all. Too many null pointer exceptions has ruined my appreciation even for the bandaids described in this article. It’s the only pain point I have in Clojure. I just think nil is a terrible idea in any language, and the way it is overloaded in Clojure is among the most troubling among languages, in my experience.
I think an even bigger issue was the internal incompatibilities between 68000 variants, while Intel kept on maintaining compatibility all the way to the present day.
Only for "niche blogs" that are relied on to generate ad revenue.

I don't know how many those are.

Most blogs I see seem to be run as a labour of love or for content marketing. Anyway, nobody expects to make money directly off the blog.
Euclideon are scammers not because they have nothing, but because they don't have what they claim they have. They claim to have revolutionary technology; they have something so well-understood that even I, merely an interested layman in the field of graphics, understand what they have just fine, very nearly well enough to just sit down and implement the core data structure right now, with no sign I've ever seen that they have anything beyond that. They claim to be able to animate in realtime, despite the fact that one of the tradeoffs of the tech is that becomes impossible in the sense we mean it. (You can animate much like a cel-based cartoon, but it can't be very interactive except on very restrictive conditions, ones that virtually no modern graphics user could accept.) It's delta between the rather pedestrian tech they have and the wild claims they make that is the scam, not what they do have.

I've heard it claimed that the whole company is basically a Germany-specific tax dodge method. I have no independent verification of this, but it fits the facts I have about their behavior.
Sure, but then you don't use just Voxels, you use voxels organized in an octree. That way your voxels have information on their neighbors and can compute lighting and reflection for each such Voxel.

http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordO...
Egypt written in the Hieroglyphics that the Children of isreal indeed Exist
Detected the Forth programmer.
If it’s placed under the ceiling - to blow outward because warmer air rises up and would be leaving the room through that opening if there were no fan.
I always use `or` because it's IMO most readable:

(or x 5) ;;=> returns x if x is not nil, else 5

E.g.,

(-> {:a 1 :b 2}
:c
(or 5.5)
inc)
How would we know that the difference between this being a place that the sharks have always migrated to versus this is just one place that has happened to escape large scale commercial fishing?
I remember an account by a French SWAT equivalent (The RAID). In that story, it was an hostage situation, with the hostage held with the knife in an appartement. The officer in charge decided to try to negotiate, all the while the RAID team was waiting next to the door.
Check out Curtis Yarvin's work on this, he problably solved it in an interesting way with how he's configured the current Urbit node system.
Fun site. I had to open in incognito as it seems to block HN traffic.
No it seems to me he's making a totally different argument which no one here is actually addressing. Why should we care about intention? The purpose of a system is what it does[0] so if Intel's 'hiring and firing' system systematically removes older people who cares about The Reason that managers give?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Put the input to the TV modulator into something like this:

https://sewelldirect.com/composite-rca-to-vga-converter
Reads to me like they used voxels for the grunt work and then painted the result on some otherwise unimpressive polygons at the end (aka voxels plus as they put it themselves).
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Decentralize does work when state doesn't matter. Look at tor for a example. When state matters federation is a better match such as emails. The real problem with executing decentralize/federate is it runs on the backbones of a centralized design network. IPv6 helps with that problem, but still at the end of the day dealing with all the complexity, headaches, and unknowns it is more simple to build a centralize solution then spend the extra time and effort for a federated/decentralize solution.