skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of brainpower in that room is incredible. Now think about it this way: probably half of what was available at the time got lost somehow. Makes you wonder where we'd be technologically if we had not systematically repressed one half of the possible scientists. On the positive side: probably a lot of that research got done anyway, with some guy taking credit for it.
I'd probably do it like this:

socks5_socket([&](auto closed_socket) {
closed_socket.connect_unauthenticated(proxy_addr, [&](auto authenticated_socket) {
authenticated_socket.connect_tcp(addr, [&](auto tcp_socket) {
//tcp_socket.send or w/e
});
});
});
there can be no such a thing by design. Tulips didn't have it but Bitcoin does have a mechanism of self adjusting mining difficulty
> taking away people's ability to earn money

On a single platform. Nobody's preventing Mr. Benjamin from making money; they're just not allowing him to use one specific platform.

He's welcome to sign up for Hatreon, or to use a payment processor directly.
If they’re dormant, by definition they’re already unprofitable to operate. If the price decreases further, only the most efficient miners will remain, not the least efficient of them.
Sounds like a good way to lacerate your wrist, or maybe lose your hand.
A lot of major tech companies employ a lot less people you'd expect. I think tech companies in general try to leverage tech to scale up their business without increasing their employee overhead by a lot, but that can clash severely with the reality that properly moderating a platform is very hard to automate, and therefore hard to scale. It may very well require tech companies to bite the bullet and hire admins en-masse. Would be interesting to see how this would effect the bottom line or if its even doable.
You can do this on Linux using perf, if you want less overhead and less impact on the application-under-test:

$ perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_read -g -- application arg1 arg2 ...

[ application runs while perf writes out a log, recording every read() syscall, and keeping track of the backtrace each time]

$ perf report -g --stdio
[ perf reads the log, writing out the backtraces ]

This is the basic usage. Lots more is available, obviously. This has been available for a LONG time.
The right to free speech protects you from being persecuted by the government. Patreon and any other private company reserve the right to choose their customers (and workers) based on what they say. This has always been the case. There are countless examples, even in the past, where companies have fired employees for saying things they shouldn't have.
Telepathy is the only thorough solution I can imagine.

You'd invent and disseminate a viral "spell" that teaches people this.

The spell would convey the thought-form of communicating with the explicit intent of speaking about nothing that would be censored or put you and your loved ones in danger. One effect of this is you learn to communicate via more and more subtle innuendo, because whenever you do speak about dangerous topics anyway you're contradicting yourself and that can be felt. It's key however to communicate without any innuendo at all, and to not hold onto communicating any specific forbidden thing. That will take practice though, so making sure there's an obvious legal interpretation is a good safeguard.

The first thing you'd need to learn is to express that what your conversation partner is saying seems dangerous or shifty (feedback loop, I suppose one could just express discomfort) or could use a better explanation.

It's basically steganography but you don't even construct any explicit message. You train your communication to be more and more formless. Untouchable.

I'm not versed in making spells but this is how I'd imagine it:

"I will never speak to you about anything that would be censored or that would otherwise put you and your loved ones in danger. I have all the freedom I want and need, and I only wish for China to flourish. Don't you? If so, do you mind repeating my words?"

Putting that in a song would be a good one. It could be felt as a scary thing to be told, and to take away that fear where you notice it in others you could teach what it actually does (a second spell is necessary for this, otherwise you'd have to be explicit and that would put you and the recipient in danger). I'm afraid I don't have the means to construct that however.
Someone already commented [0] on that below the Weibo post linked in the article. The Pinyin system doesn't always represent the same sound by the same letter sequence. There are usually two forms, depending on whether the syllable starts with a consonant or a (semi-)vowel. The combination "iou" is written "you" when it stands alone and "qiu" when the syllable starts with "q". Writing it "qiou" is just to emphasize the parts of the portmanteau.

[0] https://m.weibo.cn/status/4319254188133873
It is a bug for tar to enter an infinite loop writing an ever expanding file of trailing zeroes because the current file was truncated to a size smaller than its stat returned.

It's basically a classic TOCTOU race, tar needs to honor the EOF returned from read() as authoritative.

This is actually a very common trap for junior *nix programmers; treating stat() and a subsequent mmap() or read() loop as if they were atomic with regards to stat.st_size. The size returned by stat() can be used as an estimate, but otherwise can't be applied to subsequent operations.
Certain countries are more open to this than others. It'd be tricky to start such a business in West Africa but Kenya in particular is a big tech hub which has quite many Western expats playing a role in it. Kenya would be my pick for where you could do something like that and not be seen as weird/not welcomed.

In other African countries the racial context would prevent it (Southern African countries) or they're more protectionist(Anglophone West African states).

I could also see Uganda and Rwanda also being quite welcoming of such an effort as they're making big moves on trying to grow their tech sectors. The latter two are repressive dictatorships though politically. Economically and socially however the people are largely free. Kenya by comparison is a deeply messy and perhaps perpetually corrupt democracy.
I just think our bodies are able to adjust to the inputs we give it. It's difficult, no doubt, to shift the schedule our body gets used to sleeping on. But with discipline, I think anyone can shift the schedule from early to late or vice versa.

If you're saying we all have a natural 'early' or 'late' cycle, how would that even work biologically? What would determine that? Is it hardwired into the code of our DNA? Even if this is the case, you would be handed a certain natural 'cycle' from your parents. But we know that gene expression is not static. We know many gene expressions change fluidly throughout our life depending on our environment/ behavior.

So even if I was born with a proclivity to stay up late, I would still expect to be able to change that though concerted effort and practice.
Java:

new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd").parse("2018-12-30") returns Sun Dec 31 2017

new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("YYYY-MM-dd").format(new java.util.Date("12/30/2018")) returns 2019-12-30

java.time from Java8 also affected.

java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("YYYY-MM-dd").format(java.time.LocalDate.parse("2018-12-30")) returns 2019-12-30
They are part of the getting in late group and the lower valuations are most probably signs they are leaving the market.

I remember when the price started to increase I didn't think 4,000 would hold. 2500 seemed like the correct price. The fact that it hasn't fallen below that amount means there are more investors.

Personally I was using it to purchase goods before the runup and the slowness and increased fees made me move to another form of payment. I'm considering going back now that the price[is dropping
We know who invented RC4, but we don't know who told us what it is.
They probably have a system in place that automatically flags pages that look suspicious until a human approves of them.
You forgot the step where you have to pay piotr. :-P
The difficulty adjustment only occurs after a certain number of blocks are mined. If the price drops rapidly enough that most miners shut down, it might never get to the difficulty adjustment.
> Here in Brazil people are starting to open up for the Chinese loans.

I read the opposite. What is that based on?

EDIT: In response to the reply below, a search shows plenty of research out there on this topic. (Sorry, I don't have time to read it myself right now.)
You have 7 years to learn Mandarin (April 2008)
According to what I've heard, those clear rules state that they apply to what is said as part of work that is funded by Patreon. This could be misinformation, though, and I'd be happy if someone corrects it here.

With that in mind, he made the remarks in question during a conversation that took place on somebody else's YouTube channel. It sounds like Patreon presumes that the guy's patronized work includes all public appearances. This seems like a stretch, or at least an ambiguity worth sorting out.
Qualifying for the USAMO doesn't involve proof-based mathematics. It involves the AMC and AIME. At least in the early 2000's, a bunch of people would just get told by their teachers they're taking the AMC math contest one day, and do well on it, then do well enough on the AIME to qualify.
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I know, but featurewise it's on par with VSCode with things like git integration and auto-suggestion etc. so I feel like it's a fair comparison.

Do you think vanilla Emacs with the same amount of packages would be much faster (without getting into tricks like a daemon)?
/r/lowpoly on reddit has a bunch of aspiring "low poly" artists.
I never understood this. I mean, I was in teams that cooperated well and I did not even knew whether they are married. And in bad team with a lot of personal knowedge and out of work time spend.
He's 57. He's not embarking on a lifelong career path, just something temporary to make money for now. By the time self-driving delivery trucks take over he'll be retired.

And anyway, this is a low-skill, low-wage profession. Even if it goes away to automation in a couple decades, there'll still be plenty of others that do not. So which particular one you're working in now is irrelevant. It's not like he needs to get into retail now or forever have that door closed to him.
lol someone should tell this guy about nocturnal animals.
This second point really surprised me. I’ve had 5 indoor cats over the course of more than 20 years and cleaned all of their litter boxes. All were adopted as stray kittens, so presumably they spent some time outdoors. And yet I tested negative for toxoplasmosis. As I understand it, you basically have to ingest the stool of a cat who recently hunted a rodent with the disease. If your cat stays indoors and you wash your hands after cleaning the litter box, that’s unlikely. In fact, you’re more likely to get it from gardening because cats will pee in the soil and you’re probably more likely to touch your face if you have touched soil than if you’ve just cleaned a litter box.
As always, the 2-part "Falsehoods programmers believe about time" is a good read:

https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...

https://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-pr...
That's literally what it means. "Small government" is about limiting institutional power, because only through power can a government impose tyranny and/or barbarism. Opression requires power, which people have the capacity to limit in first world democracies, and to a lesser extent in non democratic nations through various forms of resistance.

Of course this assumes that less violence, barbarism, and/or government opression represents the will of the populace...
I am surprised that the picture in the article is their working environment. Is it really necessary in a tech company that everyone be asses-to-elbows like so?
What if I only have one team and a handful of channels, though? In that case I prefer starting with a lower constant memory overhead.
There's a great old-timey video explaining the differential in a car works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
You sold something of no value to Greater Fools.
A knife might fall under a discovery, rather than an invention; a piece of flint that fell and chipped just the right way was likely the first knife.
I'm surprised they employ that many, not that few!
I think a reasonable amount for a musician to earn is comparable to the average income. So let’s say what... 200$ / day? If they get $50/day total for their entire catalogue from just Spotify that’s pretty damn good and probably puts them at more than $200/day between streaming, song and album sales, and live performances and licensing. And that only takes 6000 total plays. Let’s say double that for dilution amongst other copyright holders or label or whatever.

That’s not that much in terms of plays. Everybody wants to be a millionaire artist, but the economics don’t support that.
Maybe I'm confusing DAME with later mutation engines that had more elaborate ways of transforming the decryptor and payload code. I know there were some pretty sophisticated JIT-type things in the latter part of the DOS virus era.
I don’t think they will be. It’s pretty easy to parse: these users don’t own Patreon; therefore, users whose speech they disagree with are not entitled to their services. This is honestly pretty well established. Patreon does not owe anyone a platform.
I take for granted that in the not so distant future well'see dead actors/musicians replicas performing alone or along real ones. Having John Lennon and Kurt Cobain perform together or John Wayne himself commanding the USS Enterprise (the starship, not the carrier) is just a few years and some lawyers away.
Dead star franchises will probably love that though, so the incentive to perfection the technology will very likely bring us to a point where almost all artists will be machine generated because they cost a fraction of real ones.
Unprofitable to operate in friendly conditions*

If you can flip a switch and 10x the hashrate of a network, all under your control, and you don’t care about killing the chain in your attack, it may be a perfect exit for you if you no longer want to play the mining game.

There’s actually a mining pool doing something like this on smaller PoW bitcoins https://sharkpool.cash (not associated, just think it’s interesting)
The scam was not by all btc pioneers. In the last year, there were a lot of holders creating marketing networks filled with misinformation and half-truths. That convinced a lot of people with little financial education and little understanding of the technology, that growth was imminent.

All the while, the marketeers screaming "buy buy buy" were selling their btc on exchanges at insane rates.

If you're just some guy mining, nobody thinks you're the problem.
Actually Patreon rules had explicitly said they will only kick you off if you violate the rules on their website, so technically Sargon was not even breaking their rules.

The primary distinction between your example and what happened was Sargon was using the phrase in a context that made sense because he was talking to white supremacist, and turning the word against them. There is no such corresponding context for any tech talk.

Certainly Patreon has no obligation to keep anyone. I also don't have an obligation to like how they choose to moderate their platform.
Yea, there are graphics/artists Stack Exchanges for that kind of thing. I once asked how to add a fake cloud to one of my photos and got a really good response:

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/12858/how-...
I've not seen another 3-wheel (well, 6) _fold-flat_ trolley. Perhaps that combination is novel, and maybe it needs invention to make the combination work (?).
You’re incorrectly assuming government is the only source of violence or tyranny.
That's my impression as well.

After visiting China and reading a lot about their society I have to say, I wish our governments cared even 50% about their citizens' security as China does.

And don't even start me on infrastructure and digitalisation.
Smells more like poop-hacking to me.
The Stuxnet worm.
Good question. I've found a transcript published by patreon: https://patreonhq.com/hate-speech-on-patreon-a9026e52c2cf?gi...

It's... pretty vitriolic. I'm not totally comfortable with even quoting the redacted version, but here goes nothing:

>“I just can’t be bothered with people who chose to treat me like this. It’s really annoying. Like, I — . You’re acting like a bunch of n_____s, just so you know. You act like white n_____s. Exactly how you describe black people acting is the impression I get dealing with the Alt Right. I’m really, I’m just not in the mood to deal with this kind of disrespect.”

>“Look, you carry on, but don’t expect me to then have a debate with one of your f__gots.…Like why would I bother?…Maybe you’re just acting like a n____r, mate? Have you considered that? Do you think white people act like this? White people are meant to be polite and respectful to one another, and you guys can’t even act like white people, it’s really amazing to me.”
Clifford Asness sums up my feelings about this article pretty well: https://twitter.com/cliffordasness/status/107775763347229900...
What about if the artist changes the music, like Yeezy did on TLOP. Would you pay again for a new version of the music?

What about in the future, when we add new dimensions to our music, that requires additional remastering? Our current music formats are really great, but I wouldn't be surprised to see another transformation before too long. Maybe downloadable VR concerts, or some integrated rumble data to assist with bass boost. Or possibly holographic versions of the artist performing.

You'll be buying the same music for as long as the industry can keep turning the knob, just enough to bring new interest.
A Storage team to manage MySQL/Postgres. A Compute team to run Kubernetes/Mesos. A Networking team to manage service discovery, load balancing, structured RPC, etc.

Nothing precludes using AWS/GCP in limited ways, where the value proposition is especially good. Just not for the base capacity in your core infrastructure.
I think only someone in the Marines, would truly "Laugh out Loud", which I did.
Doesn't look too different from my current employer's office, in terms of the ass-to-elbow ratio.
>Except for Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Barclays (see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-23/wall-stre...)...

See: bandwagon shirt-losers of 2017

Bitcoin was the largest, fastest, most successful transfer of institutional wealth into private hands we've ever seen.
It depends on how broad of a brush you're painting with when you say "this technology." Neural network based or neural network enhanced rendering techniques are certainly going to get applied to movie CGI. This specific adversarial network only does stills, so it won't. A lot of the recent "wow" research is directly generating images, which I don't think will scale up to realistic scenes as soon as anything moves and rotates, but there's other research in hybridizing 3D model rendering with AI[1] that seems like it could get there. And maybe the adversarial network model in article works with those techniques too.

Also, it's important to consider control when talking about CGI or other creative endeavors. Generating a perfectly realistic scene is useless without being able to control the details of the scene. So the completely end-to-end magic demos aren't nearly as useful as things that generate off of armatures or performance transfer.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18121198/ai-generated-vid...
The issue is Jack Conte said behavior that isn't on "Patreon the platform itself" wouldn't be policed by Patreon.

And here we are.
is anybody really surprised other than people still involved with this blockchain/cryptocurrency nonsense?

The entire bitcoin pump and dump was orchestrated.
They just project a periodic signal onto a basis of orthogonal complex exponentials, what's so hard? (/s)
On another note, this is basically something like Myers-Briggs or the Keirsey Tempermant Sorter. I've never liked these tests as I have no preference for many of the questions, so my personality result changes each time I take it. I also don't like how they make everything black and white. Also, on this site I feel like over 1/2 of the 16 personalities describe me to a degree, so I find all of this highly suspect. In reality, people can be good leaders and still hungry for knowledge and a master of many toolsets. You can be an artisan, but still highly organized.
Does Deno support native ES modules or does it implement a require() shim and rely on TypeScript transpilation?
The danger is related to the centralized power of aggregators becomes close to the power that governments have over a single part of society.
He's not welcome, Hatreon (first hearing of them now) was shut down after the payment processor suspended them.

To the people downvoting: I stand by my statement and I've got karma to burn.
Even then it is still incorrect because it presumes a shared viewpoint with other US citizens. Who might disagree.
The cost adjusts to the resources people want to expend, so a block always takes approximately the same amount of time.
Since it's essentially an one-page app I can do a lot via persistent websocket connections (of which there are usually ~25k concurrently).
They could just give you warnings that the FS isn't supported. Instead the client refuses to run if it's not on a supported FS, even though it would very likely work fine.
The English language is pretty large. There are a good number of alternatives to using the word he did that would be safe. He didn't have to use that word, but either did because he uses it often and is comfortable with it, or purposefully thought it would be a good use there. Both of which are questionable.

I'd also argue that Patreon isn't obligated at all to help him earn money here. It's not a employee employer relationship here, and they can choose to not to continue to help a person that they deem harmful to other customers.
That’s my argument: it probably could; I think it would be a dozen or so more characters.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought mining coins took power as time went on. Thus what it took to do the job in the past isn't what it would take today and thus past mining really wouldn't be comparable.
Top 7 algorithms for scientific computing, data analysis and machine learning
I'd like to just find my passion for this industry again. This year has slowly worn me down to where my interest is now escaping it in my off time rather than exploring.

It scares me that something I've always loved is finally turning into a job. Maybe that's normal though.
I think that the potential issue is that those other options are not realistically viable. In effect private companies have become the public square. Therefore, for all practical purposes, being banned from them is the same as being banned from the public discourse.
> Phreaking was 1337

> Captain Crunch

> Movies were fantastic (minus the pedos who were tormenting the great kid actors of the day)

You might want to read up on what Captain Crunch has been up to the last decade or so
Exactly, this how I meant it to be understood. Sorry if my original question wasn't precise enough.
And when the new payment company bans him, then what? And are you OK if Twitter bans all left leaning people just because of their beliefs?

I tend to favor the smallest government possible, because I think private companies tend to do a better work in many areas (not all of them) so I dont like government intervening. But when you have an almost defacto monopoly in certain areas (google, facebook, twitter) banning people who has not broken the law should be illegal, plain and simple.