skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t say it should or shouldn’t I said that currently they do not offer any sort of a built-in credit system.

And if you do fractional reserve off the blockchain then your crypto isn’t currency but rather closer to say what gold was during the gold standard era.

And yes Chase can “print” dollars that’s what the fractional reserve system means for every dollar they store in the central bank they can loan X dollars.
When you ask for a mortgage Chase essentially creates most of those dollars out of thin air.
Yeah, I wanted to say exactly this. There's a different between specialisation in a market that still provides competition and consumer liquidity, and monopolistic centralisation (even when the monopolist is effectively benign).

It's like there's a middle-ground between everyone building their own automobile, and there being only a single car manufacturer on the planet. So long as have you have a few players who are genuinely competing, and you have the option to switch between them without paying an excessive penalty, then it's a good thing that a certain subset of people are working hard on building better cars than you ever could tinkering away in your garage (although you should still be allowed to do that, if you so desire).

What this requires is for governments to provide a framework of standardisation, access-to-data, data-transferability, and antitrust enforcement that allows a healthy competitive environment to emerge and persist, without either allowing a monopoly (or a cartel) to evolve, or overburdening everyone with regulation.

It's a difficult balancing act, even in more traditional industries, and anyone who presents a too simplistic "more regulation!" or "less regulation!" answer to it isn't being honest. Tech presents additional challenges because it's newer, and because it's evolving rapidly. I think it will take many more decades for the necessary level of technical understanding to metastasise through policy-making and civil administration realms until you get effective control of tech markets, although laws like GDPR are an interesting start.
Where should Star Wars go after Solo’s box office disappointment?
Reinforcement Learning Tutorial: From Zero to State of the Art
Alternatively worded: Facebook let RIM build Facebook for Blackberry.
I think what happened to Skype is a case in point. It doesn't matter who's running Microsoft, after that disaster I don't think anyone's going to be trusting them.
Or Quad9, but this could be intercepted.
> Gulag-style camps and secret police already existed in the Russian empire. USSR managed to have an "industrial revolution" over 20 years and beat Nazi Germany, then was the first country to space and was one of the world's superpowers right up until the end.

You either deliberately choose to ignore all the atrocities that Lenin, Stalin, and subsequent Soviet leaders committed against Soviet citizens and the complete lack of freedom, or are completely ignorant of the topic.

"But the previous guy did it too!" is not an argument. Also, the famines caused by the Soviet policies are unmatchable in World history, especially considering the timeframe.

Not to speak about the many violations of basic human rights, such as the abolition of private property.

Life was hard for most people around the globe at the time of the Russian revolution, however, those countries that chose democracy and capitalism managed to improve considerably, while those who chose Marxism have today much to regret.

One might argue that Marxism can't be possibly blamed for this, but (and this is something many have a hard time understanding) Marxism does inevitably lead to these conditions. Karl Popper's "The Open Society and Its Enemies" is a good start at why.

> Cuba has done OK considering the embargo. Cf Haiti.

Comparing Cuba with Haiti is the equivalent of comparing Southern Europe with Northen Africa. Very close to each other but still two worlds apart.

Pre-Castro Cuba was, by most standards, far ahead most of Latin America and the rest of the world. [1][2]

[1] https://ascecuba.org//c/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/v08-30smi...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNixpGx4AV8
In which page of ISO C++ it is described?

And on the C++ compilers that support such language extension, how does it work with binary dependencies?
What does that mean?

I'm not versed in economics, and generally find it overwhelming to look into, because of deeply-set political opinions and implications buried in all of it. Is "economic school" a political choice (differing goals) or a choice of tooling/methodology?
Imagine you invested all of your retirement savings into "the index" a week before black Friday and then describe how the results are mathematically inevitable.
Embracing Push Forward Combat in DOOM [video]
As I pointed out in another comment in this thread, fractional reserve is just as possible with Bitcoin as it is with cash, it's not like banks increase the money supply by printing cash.

If you give your money to a bank it won't be sitting in an account you have the key to, it'll be the bank's to control and they'll be free to lend it to other people.

This might even be a desirable state of affairs: money which you don't give to a bank collects 0% interest.
Pretty sure he means that just seeing symptoms of Embrace is not enough to sound the alarm that it's going to be extended and extinguished.

After all, what's the point of building software, if it's never embraced, aka, used?
Oh crap.
Transcode lotsa cat videos in parallel !

But seriously, my reading of Intel's announcement is that Optane modules are a form of SSD and not dynamic RAM. Thus the access times are orders of magnitude longer than for "real" DRAM based DDR4 SIMMS.
Arcentry: Upcoming 3D Infrastructure / Cloud planning tool[video]
I have been intrigued to learn D for a long time now but I never had the time to tinker with it before learning other languages that are more widely used.

Are there any reasons - in your opinion - which should make one start tinkering with D before spending time with rust or go ?
>Eh... it's mostly fine. It's just that when something doesn't work, you're screwed if you're not technically confident enough.

As opposed to Windows or OSX where you're just screwed.

There are rough edged in Linux on Desktop but people seem to be completely house-blind* about Windows and OS X. If you spend a lot of time on Linux and go back to Windows or OS X the rough edges in those platforms become immediately obvious.

* If English isn't your first language, house-blind is where you get so used to something being out of place that it becomes part of the decor. e.g. a jumper on the back of a chair that stays there for a week+.
An idea for GitHub: subscription based paid repositories
Rust isn't as expressive as SPARK, which got merged back into Ada 2012.
Case in point: ads in Windows 10.
Code splitting with SplitChunksPlugin in Webpack 4
Looks like no charge at all if you satisfy the noncommercial terms at https://www.musicscreen.org/royalty-free-music-faq.php. Commercial licenses are inexpensive and royalty free at https://www.musicscreen.org/licenses.php.
- if it takes less than 5 min do it now

- sleep on it

- identify your cognitive distortions when you're upset[1]

- assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't (from Peterson's book[2])

- when working on a task write down all the milestones. Strike through when you're done with one

- in the middle of a bug switch to curiosity mode. Be genuinely curious why that bug is happening. Useful to avoid frustration

- if you have to wash dishes and not in the mood, just start with the first dish

- ask myself "What is the first thing can I do to avoid resentment?" in situations when resentment might occur

- sleep 8h

- regular exercise

[1] https://www.zuzuconcept.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/HO15_T...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/03458...
As I pointed out no where was stated that it’s not technically possible but that it’s not practiced or supported by current mainstream cryptos.

If anything some of the larger blockchains “naturally” move towards a “central bank” like model.

Say you have a blockchain that requires you to sync 100’s of terabytes if not petabytes of information to setup a new node and 100’s of gigabytes a day to keep it upto date.

It’s not going to be feasible for individuals to talk to it directly.

Now you already have exchanges that keep ledgers other than the blockchain and that already do most of their transactions off the blockchain these are your banks.

In this model the blockchain essentially offers only value store for the exchanges and keeps only the exchanges honest this is essentially your central reserve.

The blockchain offers also a consensus protocol where either the miners if it’s PoW or the exchanges if it’s PoS hold the important seats, that’s your board of directors.

So yes I don’t think that current crypto is incapable of mimicking the model of banking we currently use some already do it unintentionally to some extent.

But currently there isn’t a single crypto that offers a built in fractional reserve and credit system as part of its blockchain its off possible to implement it.
Lookup MariaDB MaxScale.
My parents have five siblings each, but I only have a sister. I know it sounds bad, but I wonder if having less kids makes you worry more about keeping them safe. Perhaps my parents just sort of continued with how they grew up, but limited me and my sister a bit more, and I'm limiting my kids even more? Or it could have to do with media, where my grandparents wouldn't get news about abductions in the US and walk around worrying about that in their small Scandinavian village. Or it could be a time thing, where my grandparents just didn't have time to supervise the kids full time, so the older siblings had to guard the younger. Now, me and my wife will take turns to bring them to the park, and if we don't have time, the kids (at least the 5-year old) will have to stay indoors.

I try to give my kids more freedom than I'm comfortable with, but I just know that if something happens, people around me will think I'm a neglectful parent if I let my 9-year old stay out until 8 PM on her own. I want to give her the opportunity to explore the neighborhood on her own, and learn how to navigate the world. I mostly worry about cars hitting her, because I've almost been run over a couple of times where cars should have stopped, but she has to learn to look out for herself.
Why would it be "harmless" if you weren't even aware it was happening, let alone give you consent?
I imagine the thinking is not that it's more or less likely, but just that it's possible. When you have something that is infinitely valuable to you, even slight risk is a factor.

Historically, someone might've had 5-10 children and it acted as a form of redundancy. I think that feeling has changed significantly!

Conversely, I think there is a greater emphasis on extra-curricular activities now. These days, there is a feeling that you're selling your kid short or failing to set them up well if you don't have them enrolled in swimming lessons from maybe two years of age, in dance or sports or kinder-gym classes around 3-5 years of age, and then in after-school sports programs once they start school.
The NYT article is definitely overblown. It’s popular to hate on Facebook about privacy, and yeah, they’ve made mistakes in the past, but that’s largely because they’re just engineers trying their best to do the right thing. IMO they need more non-engineer types to inform them what “the right thing” actually is, when it doesn’t align with the typical attitude of “Oh, there’s a technical solution to this problem!”

> the BlackBerry app had access to all of the reporter’s Facebook friends and, for most of them, returned information such as user ID, birthday, work and education history and whether they were currently online.

User ID and birthday are both public information, and people typically share work and education history as public (or at least “networks” thereof, for finding friends). AFAIK online status is the only thing that’s usually friends-only, but perfectly reasonable to share with a device messaging app.
Daniel is not responsible for the decisions made by other Mozilla managers who already used their powers to deliver an unsolicited ad to the millions using the means presented as having apparently other purposes.

Daniel’s own decisions aren’t in question here. If he works for Mozilla he is not more powerful than the whole company.

Having “off” and “off when selected by user” but not other variants still points to the intention of the default state not remaining off. Which is not problematic. Problematic is however naming the state that will obviously be changed “off.”
Codeplex died because GitHub won. There was little point in keeping Codeplex around especially after MS decided to move their open source stuff to where the developers were, i.e. GitHub.
If centralisation only occurs due to government enforcement, then how did government itself come into existence? It's the purest example of centralisation, after all. There must be something that incentivised centralisation even in the absence of government.
Some people missed your sarcasm.
Oh, right. Yeah, that would make sense. I think it's largely due to the ever increasing range and sensationalism of reporting - 50 years ago you'd only hear about the rare incident in your own hometown, and maybe particularly lurid events nationwide. Now a kid comes to grief on the other side of the world and you hear about it, leading to a grossly inflated perception of the risks.
I'm a little more optimistic than you. Former sceptics/deniers are waking up and significant mitigation action is taking place, both on a personal and global level. More people are realising they can reduce their carbon footprint significantly without seriously affecting their quality of life.

The frustration is that the action we're taking isn't proportional to the scale of the problem. We aren't going to come through this unscathed but we still have some room to maneuver.

Here's some better news: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2148684/comin...

I certainly wouldn't assume we can innovate our way out of trouble, but we may be able to solve some of the problems climate change is going to cause us.
> Bullshit.

Literally from the post you linked to:

> Founder allegations. The investigation found Tom Preston-Werner in his capacity as GitHub’s CEO acted inappropriately, including confrontational conduct, disregard of workplace complaints, insensitivity to the impact of his spouse’s presence in the workplace, and failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office. There were also issues surrounding the solicitation of GitHub employees for non-GitHub business and the inappropriate handling of employee concerns regarding those solicitations.

> After being presented with the results we felt Tom could no longer be an effective leader at GitHub. He offered his resignation and we accepted.

The article linked is from Tom, who turned down an offer to join Microsoft, and went on to become CEO. My comment was about Tom then using his position as CEO to harass a female employee, which GitHub admitted he did, and Tom admitted by resigning.

So, which part of it is "bullshit" exactly?
Bisqwit on Youtube has a nice series called "How to Create a Compiler": https://youtu.be/eF9qWbuQLuw
Not the original commenter, but my wife and I have had several pairs from http://zennioptical.com and been very happy with them.

(And speaking just for myself, I'd prefer not going through Amazon if it can reasonably be avoided.)
De Blasio Proposes Changes to New York’s Elite High Schools
In a few years, we might look back at this period and think: oh, it was at the time when we actually thought correlation studies had any value.
Interested in learning more if you have time to expand. Cheers
IT's been obvious they do exactly that since the Zuckerberg hearings. But all of the politicians asking him questions seem to have missed that subtlety and kept asking about "selling data".

Facebook hardly sells any data. It just shares it for free with a ton of partners (and without freely-given user consent).
This is your superbowl/worldcup/elections night/etc! Good luck!
I lost all my data stored in DigitalOcean Spaces
Visual Studio 2017 15.6 shipped a new feature called "Navigate to Decompiled Sources" in March.
Ever wonder why your phone doesn't have an FM radio tuner?

Mine does. Many do:

http://nextradioapp.com/supporteddevices/
Governments are never going to adopt a currency controlled by foreign entities.
One move from Microsoft that really disappointed me recently was to prioritize advertisement over user privacy, for example in Windows 10. I read big chunks of the terms and conditions myself and was horrified.

There are many articles covering this, for instance:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-b...
> Git was built to be decentralized in the first place

Git was built to track changes and resolve collisions, if I get it right.
I use GitLab.com's CI/CD extensively. I guess the downtime was when I was asleep or something because I've never seen a day-long outage.
Not all. I don't think parents worry about mild injuries to their children (many are learning experiences, after all) as much as they worry about the death of something that, to them, is priceless.
I've been working for weeks on backing up the whole thing. Working with that much data on a budget is a challenge.
Now, on a more serious note, I think the way IE3's News and Mail Explorer extension dealt with custom views for filesystems was nothing short of brilliant. I wish we had something like that for Gnome now.
This is a steady trend that is down to numerous factors the least of which I’d ascribe to overprotective parents.

I saw a map a while ago showing the reducing radius from the home children could range over the last 100 years. And a lot of it boils down to overpopulation.

1. Cars. There are significantly more and faster cars on the roads. As a child I could play on my street without a car passing in a couple of hours. Now a car passes down our street every few minutes. And there are more congested intersections for kids to cross these days.

2. Green spaces. We used to have multiple green spaces to roam and cross through. Nowadays those are all built up with property developments.

3. Crazy people. The amount of violent crime against children has increased.
Linux 4.17
And in some countries, they give antibiotics for viral infections because patients just want them!

Got the common cold? Here's some Amoxicillin!
> Everything we can do, helps make it less bad

Well sometimes.

Recycling turns out to be more energy intensive than deposit and reuse.

All the moves to efficiency, LED and CCFL lighting, and can be offset by permitting a single additional fracking or shale oil site.

Makes it difficult not to logically become a pessimist who gives up when the idiots have orders of magnitude more leverage.
>It's not like Chase Bank (or whatever non-central bank) can just print more dollars.

Yes, it can, that's what fractional reserve means. Banks create (most of) the money they lend. This is regulated by the central banks but carried out via ordinary retail banking. When you swipe your credit card, buy a car, etc. money is being created out of thin air. The universe remains balanced because it corresponds to your obligation to repay; as you do, the money ceases to exist.
1-3 is generally true for ORDTs (in archagon's terms).

I wonder, how much metadata noms needs to achieve those features?

CRDTs brute-force all those distributed/concurrency issues by adding some metadata. With CRDTs, two hard topics are (1) metadata size and (2) gc.

So, how can we estimate the overhead?

P.S. I think, I will elaborate. So, imagine a real-time collaborative editor. Assuming every edit (1 char) is also a git-like commit, you have to mention its hash and its parent hashes. noms trims hashes to 20 bytes, that's reasonable, so we have at least 40 bytes of metadata, incompressible by definition. That means 1:40 data-to-metadata ratio or 1:200 if we count compression in. That is more or less the reason we did not use hashes in one our project some time ago.

What is your perspective on that?
You can sign in with your Github account to gitlab.com.
Judging by how MS damaged Skype and LinkedIn I certainly won't be using GitHub for future projects.
The reference implementation of PHP, Zend, is objectively not good (blocking I/O) and encourages server side templating, which is basically something you can perfectly do in the client and serve on a CDN at much lower cost (orders of magnitude lower, for processing, memory and transfer).

That being said, doing server side templating in node.js is even worse since it usually wrecks the entire event loop with long lived CPU-bound operations flushing your server performance doing the toilet.
I met some of their team at an academic seminar and what they're doing is pretty ambitious; and goes beyond probabilistic programming. It sounds more like they're building traditional modelling tools on top of a PPL [0], where the PPL helps with the model calibration.

[0] https://github.com/deselby-research/
> What if they made a Github open source module and would let you federate your content?

Wow, that's optimistic! I'd be happy if they just keep it neutral.

Fact is all the big vendors publish and collaborate on github, this purchase threatens that ecosystem. And we are more likely to see a message of private code hosting sites, than a solid federation system for source control.
I wish it was Gogs that became this popular instead. Spreading Java and Oracle's influence even further is going to be a bad idea for the future.
"They" do.
generates interest off of unused cash?

use unused cash for low risk investments?
>USSR managed to have an "industrial revolution" over 20 years and beat Nazi Germany, then was the first country to space

That's just half the story. Space exploration was built on slave labor (everybody knows Gagarin, but who would remember Korolev and Ghlushko?) and all the industry largely rots because it proved to be not competitive after USSR collapse, so eastern block is poor in the end and still has to bear the cost of forced aspect of it.
Really? In many parts of the world (outside of the US, e.g. Georgia), dollar is used/accepted even for taxes.
The Green Promise of Vertical Farms
Companies have financial incentives to put out huge amounts of marketing and lobbying for those other things.
Khkj
Certain segments of software startups aren't novel enough these days. It's pretty hard to start a new consumer web company or mobile app and make any money off it.

Software has the dubiously nice property of its foundations being invalidated every 5 years or so, though. You can still make a lot of money in crypto or AI, for example. Ethereum is full of smart contracts that are doing the same things microcomputers did 40 years ago, millions of times slower, that nevertheless have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for it because they redefined money in a way that somehow convinced people to pay for it. And now all of the nice properties of software like "can process more than 15 transactions/sec" have to be rediscovered, which provides plenty of fodder for entrepreneurs.

Hardware doesn't usually invalidate the laws of physics on a rolling 5-year basis, by contrast. That gives firms an ability to build up large stores of domain knowledge which can't be easily replicated by startups, so it's correspondingly harder to get a new hardware startup going.
If is true, this is one of the saddest news I've heard in the last 5 years. Please Github don't allow this. Look of what crap Skype became to be... look at what crap LinkedIn became to be...

Time to move to gitlab.
apt-get install unbound