skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wondering why a centralized authority for a stablecoin needs to use a blockchain at all.

This is classic company scrip / money transfer business: keep a ledger of transactions, publish your fees, register as an EFT company, follow the regulations.

Facebucks.
Interesting, why does FB need a speech recognition system?
My impression is that Brave's current model actively hurts small creators that would otherwise get some of that money sooner on the donation services they have signed up for, without waiting for Brave's $100 withdrawal threshold to be reached, if it ever does.

I'd be surprised if this will be deemed legal, once more people will find out that there is a company collecting donations in their name and without their consent.

Contacting creators as soon as they receive their first tip may help. Otherwise it just looks like they're capitalizing on our content and keep the long tail of donations indefinitely, while also making it less likely that we get contributions from Brave users on other payment platforms, since as far as they know, they are already supporting us through Brave.
If anyone's wondering what got Tom Scott so upset, it was probably this page in the UI flow:

https://twitter.com/JTremback/status/1076213808706641925
There are algorithms and research of cryptographic cash that predate blockchains by decades.
Why would it be more legal / legally easier to set up a service in Peru that turns WhatsDubloons into soles and vice versa, affiliated with a multinational company that converts WhatsDubloons into USD, than an entity that directly transfers soles and USD?
No mSecure either.
They don't seem silly, they are silly.
Devops makes this worse. When the cycle between issue discovery and new code deployment shortens enough everything becomes an emergency.

If it’s possible for a minor change to go into production within 24 hours, everything needs to be this fast. http://www.cc.com/video-clips/1myllo/the-miracle-of-flight
I was curious about this so I opened google earth, panned over to Germany and zoomed in on a random brown patch on the satellite imagery. The environmental devastation is absolutely awe inspiring. They have mines around the country but particularly south of Berlin, the earth is scarred with dozens of massive active and refilled mines. That group of mines also continues into Czechia and a number of refilled mines can be seen on the Polish border as well.
“Math Is Forever” – Talk with NeurIPS 2018 Best Paper Team:
Because of their many products that support voice features? Messenger, whatsapp, etc...
>The dungeons were also procedurally generated, and so labyrinthine that you could literally spend hours exploring a single dungeon. This is something that some people hated

This right here is actually probably what I liked most about daggerfall. One of the things i've found most disappointing about both oblivion and skyrim was their dungeons. Almsot all of then are just a straight path through, i'm not sure if i've ever found an item worth finding and then, especially skyrim, they all seem to have a convenient escape back door that brings you back to the beginning of the dungeon.

I've always felt exploring large winding, mazelike dungeons full of traps, monsters, puzzles and weird things to be one of the staples of a good RPG. Tabletop or computer. Daggerfall's dungeons feel more like the scope of a tabletop RPG dungeon.

I've always felt dungeons should almost be little mini adventures on their own. They should be dangerous and tough to explore, there should be things worth finding, it should feel like you need to explore, like it's a dangerous place few save monsters and brave adventurers have tried to go through and by then end you should feel like you've accomplished something, whether you're more powerful or you've found some kind of cool treasure. There should be some kind of sense of accomplishment and reward for completing them.

I never really felt that way after the later elder scrolls dungeons. They were just places to go to complete a story objective or side quest, get to the end, get a cut scene or some item worse than something I can probably craft already, take the back door back to the beginning then move on to the next one.

I have to admit the 3d fallout games had slightly better 'dungeons' than the elder scrolls games, mostly because they tended to be kind of unique and kind of winding sometimes and there was usually at least useful things to find.

But i'd still like to see a modern open world RPG that focuses more on creating a good dungeon crawling experience to go along with it.
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This. Tabs on the side has been their number one feature request for quite a while now. They're a pretty small team.
This is excellent. Modern free speech recognition software is hard to come by. Everything except Kaldi has laughable error rates, and Kaldi is a huge pain to set up.

Will be interesting to see what people can do with this and the available data sets.
For the economy as a whole, which means for most people.

For those employed by the inefficient business that will no longer be subsidized, well, it may not be better for them, at least not in the short run.
We are computing the answer to the ultimate question.
Excuse my ignorance of DNS, but isn't the resolver a software component in most people's computers? For example, in GNU/Linux, I thought it'd be a part of libc and what read /etc/resolv.conf. What do you mean by connection between client and resolver?

Or are name servers like 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 what you mean by resolvers?
Crazy thought here: You can like subsidies for certain industries (e.g. renewable energy subsidies that are supposed to aid a restructuring of the power supply market towards reducing emissions, are time-limited, and decentralized) while disliking subsidies for other industries (e.g. coal mining: a legacy, toxic industry with few people still employed in it)
Is WTFPL in Debian? Given the unclear legal nature of that license I'd be surprised.

Frankly, I'm fine either way. People seem to have assumed from my reply I'm strongly against this Weboob being in Debian. I'm not. I don't really care, but I recognize why an organization might want to distance itself from that kind of humor.

I just really, really, hate bullshit arguments. And claiming that the "boob" association is accidental like the parent is 100% that.
worse than that. SC/CIG started from scratch at least two times.
The Future Book is here but not what we expected
I am on the business team at Brave. We want people to collect and get paid. It's a huge part of why we come in to work every day, to work on stuff that helps creators get paid.

I'm sure there's UI/UX stuff in Patreon that could be better. That doesn't mean they don't want creators to get paid. It just means there's room for improvement.
Yup, I'm very aware of the ongoing legal battle. I was trying to side-step discussion around it as Paul/Ritchie appear to present a very warped view of history/reality via their blog. (For example, available data suggests P/R didn't actually substantially contribute to SC1/2.)

A slightly better armchair take can be found at the UQM wiki [1] with actual lawyer commentary [2]

Not taking any real sides here, I feel everyone involved is greater than I regardless of outcome, but do hope folks keep an open mind.

[1] http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Stardock_Systems_Inc._v._Paul_Reich...

[2] http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Stardock_Systems_Inc._v._Paul_Reich...
And can you say for certain that you didn't break a law today?
> they said "we'll see what we can do" and that "refunds are impossible".

If a judge finds they've established themselves as a trustee, this argument won't fly. In fact it will make a quite spectacular and expensive thudding sound.

The trustee-beneficiary relationship arises from the situation and does not require a contract to be formed. If you are the legal owner of assets "for the benefit of" someone else, congratulations, you are probably a trustee.

Why does this matter?

Because trusteeship comes with a fiduciary duty. Fiduciary duty is a heavy burden. If it's applied to Brave it will create merry havoc: a pile of money that they cannot touch, under any circumstances. A pile of money that they must return, if it cannot be forwarded to the intended recipient. A pile of money that cannot be mixed with anything else in any way. The requirement to put the interests of the beneficiary ahead of their own. And on and on.

It's an attempt to be clever at marketing, to create an incentive to sign up. But as a legal situation it's a swamp full of unstable turd grenades.

... of course, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Maybe Brave found a friendly jurisdiction or a quirk in trusts law that they can squeeze through. But given the history of startups wishing that law doesn't real, I kinda doubt it.
(3) services for work. (1) service for an activism project. (2) personal projects. All have been an absolute pleasure. I will note that puppeteer was difficult, Testing documentation has much to be desired, and we are still figuring out monitoring that works for us. 10/10 would recommend... and very interested in Cloudflare's Service.
It's complex and a calculation that you have to do carefully. To start at the most obvious point: what is the subsidy subsidising? The largest cost item of a coal power plant is in building it and the matching infrastructure, then costs continue mainly as salaries of those running the plant and raw material, disposal, repair, ...

Setting up wind power plants will necessarily also have the building phase as the highest cost, but then direct running costs will be much lower as there's no raw material and much less personnel.

The subsidies that you are looking at currently for coal are essentially spent to avoid the mining operations and coal plants from making a loss.

The subsidies for wind power are primarily to finance new turbines to be built (& infrastructure). But you don't actually subsidise the operations.

In other words, if you look at current wind subsidies they are mainly to add capacity, if you look at coal subsidies they are to ensure the previously built capacity is used/available.

In addition, you have to remember previous subsidies- those of building, renovating, etc the coal mines and plants. If you do count those and calculate them eg per year of lifetime you get much higher amounts of 'real' subsidies, it's just that that money has already been spent.

A big downside of it all though is that Germany lost most (all?) of its wind & solar power manufacturers - so it's buying stuff from China, rather than supporting local industry. That is an element the government urgently needs to address ..
No, if I understood right, this thing is a quantum computer solving NP-complete problems in linear time. And the article claims to have a simulation doing the same, but they are not sure whether this is actually only a special case scenario.
Reminds me of a Subaru Forester I owned. It had a badge 'pzev' which apparently meant 'partial zero-emissions vehicle'. Which meant what? not zero emissions certainly. It was a regular gas car.
> How much did they save the health service compared to coal though? Air pollution kills.

Killing people can be a net savings for health services. The dead consume no services.
Really? Is that a known issue? I haven’t experienced that and I’ve been using containers on Firefox since they were introduced.
Maybe not. But giving money to those who are too inefficient to compete, even by the standards of the private sector, seems almost certain to be wasteful.
Hah, I guess I'm trying to do both! Either way: Pricing is now on the main landing page together with the sale messaging :-) Thanks for the feedback folks!
To be honest as a person who played Elite and Elite 2 ( Frontier I think was its full name) extensively in my childhood and adolescent years they were always "wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle". And speaking of Elite 2, it wasn't kidding. I still marvel at how 500kb of a game (I distinctly remember it was only a single disk and a disk to hold save files) contained entire galaxies and planets not only you can land but traverse with your ship. Sure they were procgen but still it was really breathtaking to see all those vistas I would never see - barring a wormhole

They were all about creating your own story, I think there wasn't a base storyline. It was like "here you have a kestrel with some equipment including atmospheric shielding and some pulse lasers. Now do whatever you want" But because I knew the trick trading route between Barnard's Star and Sol carrying Luxury goods and industrial stuff to and fro I could amass a huge amount of money in no time to buy me a Cobra MkIII and do military and imperial missions. And this was my story, a lot of people have different experiences with it. And even though it doesn't have any deep, life changing experiences it was fun and I think current iteration of E:D is faithful to that legacy. It is you who make the game deep with your experience I think. I don't play it, because me and internet-is-required games don't get along but from what I've seen I can make that claim.

Wing Commander and to an extent Freelancer can be seen more deep compared to Elite. But it lacked that free spirit Elite conveyed. Also on an unrelated tangent I still think a game with Freelancer controls (actiony rather than simulationy) with X-universe freedom can be a thing still.

Thanks for reading.
Probably a larger group that do immoral things, such as pretending to be religious.
Most people mean "alien spaceship" not "something I can't make out" when they say UFO, despite the literal meaning of the acronym.
That's a great article even if the results were a little inconclusive due to unanticipated uncontrolled factors (bullet length). I'm just happy to see someone showing how the worlds of firearms and hobbyist hacking can fit together.

It's unfortunate that everything related to firearms is now viewed as political. There are just so many interesting things unique to thos subject matter that inquisitive and mechanically inclined people, like those on HN, are missing out on.
> if you're in a job that involves using your brain, you're not working more than 3-4 hours/day max.

There are stream online of people doing mental work for 10 hours (with 5 min bathroom/snack breaks). I don't know if it's genetics or training, but some people can do it.
I am very thankful for a resource like Wikipedia which is a natural home for noting these quirks of culture.
Fog Waves Are the Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years of Experimenting
Something Quite HUGE Is Abt to Go Down Martial Law, Military Tribunals or Both?
Unfortunately, 1Password may find its engineers compromised by their government, by virtue of being Australian.
Have you ever worked in government?
I always got the impression they needed a lead programmer.. After Roberts initial crowdfunding round (based on the visual demo he made in Cryengine with contractor art assets)
The 1st thing he should have done is hire one really good programmer who could have planned out how to make this, what engine / technology stack to use.. The core architecture for its main features, and then slowly build up a team to work towards that plan.

Instead he just seems to go on a mad hiring spree of artists, throwing more and more complete AAA assets on top of the POS visual demo he had made in Cryengine..
What boggles my mind is that it seems they never veered from this strategy, 100's of millions of dollars and 8+ years later, and it appears they are still throwing stuff willy nilly onto that original dumpster fire.

Seems like one of the best examples of the sunken cost fallacy in action that Ive ever seen.
I also understand this critique but feel it's a bit hollow. Or at least I feel that despite billions of dollars in available funds the big software producers failed to create a solution that is better. They are simply unable or unwilling despite having the resources and a lock on the top engineering talent in the space.

I wish and hope that MS moving Edge to chromium is to provide a single host level run time for PWAs. It's a space they have flirted with and seem to be inching towards more quickly.

Also note that there is nothing keeping developers from adhering to Mac UI conventions that I know of. That's not a fault of Electron at all.

tl;dr - If Javascript and electron are winning it's because others are continually _failing_.
So does this mean that there is a polynomial solution to the Traveling Salesman problem (and by extension, every other NP-complete problem)? Or does this mean that the amoeba is just really good at approximating a solution to it, so it's either not a complete solution, or just solves the exponential problem really quickly?
I"ve had two separate mortgages sold without my consent to Wells Fargo. It's been pretty difficult to avoid them.
Cost bit should hopefully be a bit more clear now, put on the main landing page along with the December sale section :)
I noticed that, too. I tried to use Brave on mobile, and it ran about 5 times slower than Chrome. It's just not worth switching from Chrome IMHO.
If this interests you, Springer just published an encyclopaedia on ‘Unconventional Computing’, which includes a chapter from Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman

https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-1-4939...
Honest question: Why do you suspect that? (I work at Brave. We're all very, very nerdy here. It'd be helpful to understand why a fellow nerd suspects we're up to no good.)
Brave is open source where Vivaldi is not. Vivaldi seems to have some performance issues as well.

Aren't the Brave ads opt-in?
Venmo has been doing this forever: https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/217532047-I-paid-a-...
I believe you're missing a few things, considering taxi medallions are basically impossible to come by, and that what taxi driving laws here in the US allow are not incredibly unlike what Uber does to its drivers.
Is there anything Apple could have done to protect the privacy of its Chinese users better (whilst still having some)? You could say they shouldn't have Chinese users, but that's a different argument, I believe.
Wow, this was a fascinating article and of deep interest to me as both a shooter and a geek. I'm glad to see this type of content on Hacker News.
Yeah something like that. I'm sure lots of teams do it, seems like a worthy practice to help build a culture of continuous learning when you're at the scale that you can just build "extracurricular"[1] features on your platform, provided you have product managers who can balance that with meeting core product objectives.

[1] there may be a better phrase for this which eludes me right now
By way of disclaimer, I've watched this segment for years because I've sometimes intended to enter it myself on a similar-but-not-identical business model. But being aware of the concept of a trust, I've avoided this idea entirely and watched previous failed attempts (eg Readability) with great interest.
WHOIS Privacy on the website wasn't a consideration on the table the company used. Maybe it's not important in 2018, or is enabled by default, or an oversight, or they're using the spam filtering. But:

It’s at the bottom of the page.

So why the discrepancy?
When talking about this, I usually mention the utility cost vs straight cost. Not all hours are created equal! How many employees are as productive on friday as they are on tuesday? The employer may be losing 20% of the hours, but maybe only 10% of the productivity. I could see this actually breaking even, as employees rested from their three-day weekends become ever more productive.

And it's a tremendous hiring and retention perk, at least as long as it's not standard practice. "Work for us, and you get three day weekends every week!" And that turns into "So, recruiter, does this new gig you're trying to hire me for offer a four day workweek? No? Well okay then, bye."
No, and it never was. The frame rate was limited by a large in-memory working set, high CPU load from tracking too many entities, and lack of multi-threading.

Those issues were fixed in the 3.3 release earlier this year.
Why would you need voice recognition for them? What is the use-case?
I must be missing something. How would this relate to Knuth?
It's fascinating how (at least in the US) support for coal mining has become a conservative position: you now have people who claim to be staunchly against welfare payments demanding taxpayer money to prop up increasingly unnecessary jobs.

It's the Protestant work ethic, I guess: work is inherently virtuous and deserving of reward even if it serves no purpose, and not working deserves punishment even if there's nothing useful for you to do.
Ok, I look forward to when his friends come forward and say they selected the actors at random from their Christmas Card list.
Many accidents are.
> because it redefines wasteful

how do people write shit like this and not realize how blatantly user-hostile they are??
In terms of gameplay E:D didn't deliver. I ceased keeping track in mid-2017, but by then it was inferior to FFE.
Nope. The amoebae found solutions, but not optimal solutions.
I was really impressed by an article [0] linked by the original, which details the philosophy of Robert Lighthizer, the current US Trade Representative. I had little to no knowledge of of history or motivation of the current tariffs, and had mostly viewed the US administration's approach to the WTO and multilateralism as foolhardy at best.

I am more and more becoming convinced that West v China is going to be the single most impactful issue of this decade, if not century. One would never be able to glean that based on what the western media reports on, however. I don't know if Lighthizerism is the best approach, but it is at least a different approach. I'm not sure if I agree with the article's apocalyptic ending tone, though.

[0] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/06/you-live-in-robert-ligh...
Favorite ones / I've noted something similar:

"An expert is one who knows everything about nothing; A generalist knows nothing about everything. In an argument between a specialist and a generalist the expert usually wins by simply (1) using unintelligible jargon, and (2) citing their specialist results which are often completely irrelevant to the discussion."

Just a little addendum: 3) ego (in particular, flattering) can persuade most of the conversations

Most funny one:

"For more than 40 years I have claimed that if whether an airplane would fly or not would depend on whether some function that arose in its design was Lebesgue but not Riemann integrable, then I would not fly in it. Would you? Does Nature recognize the difference? I doubt it!"

Looks like a big that will be very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing!
> available data sets

Reminder that Mozilla's Common Voice project accepts voice donations! https://voice.mozilla.org/
Speech-to-text i.e. dictation? One of the most common use-cases.
In fact, many/most computers these days have 8GB of RAM.

And in any case, less RAM usage usually means less cache thrashing which in turn means acceptable performance.
We're always trying to make the verification process better. On the one hand, it's a pain. On the other, we don't want to let someone other than you pass themselves off as you. The DNS and HTML snippet methods are similar to how verification works for many of Googles publisher and advertiser services, for what it's worth. Sorry this has proven frustrating but I hope DNS updates for you soon!
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The second one.

You can also do approximations by letting a soap bubble film collapse.
He means a recursive resolver. A stub resolver is also referred to as a client, so it's clear from context. When you connect to 1.1.1.1 you're using DoT, but not necessarily from the recursive to the authoritative.
data input that doesn't involve keyboards..