skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it means that that accountability is worth less. The argument goes the same way against big corporations - the more difficult they are to control, and it's easier to conceal corruption. A small government breeds free corporations - free to grind their employees to a pulp in the company towns of not so long ago, free to send thugs to the ballot box to make sure you vote for the right person, free to pay you in company dollars only and then gouge you in the company store.
I think this is too cynical; to the point of being harmful. This argument resonates with me like the argument to not vote because your individual vote doesn't matter. You say that you're not trying to dissuade people from their principles, but the implication of your argument is that Dr. Kuipers' approach is too naive. We do what we can with the knowledge and resources we have. And if people are inspired to action (or inaction in this case, perhaps), then the world changes, even if slowly.

If the military is creating organizations to "launder" money to make it look like it's not going to the military, then it seems to me that Dr. Kuipers has been successful in shifting the culture around military research. And that is no small feat. It may also bring about constructive conversations about the balance between hard power and soft power in international (and human) relationships.
Bitcoin will rise again.

Bitcoin removes the need to trust a bookie/agent to move money offshore.

Whenever flow of money is possible between a safe haven and a corrupt/socialist big country with high tax rate/more population burden.

Money flows to the safe heaven.

Bitcoin is one such way to move money from african nations/india/china to safe haven like Switzerland, Singapore, UK etc...

I am talking about illict gains/unreported assets which can't be moved through official channels.

Moving your unreported assets to a different country might not be illegal in that country if a deal is structured correctly. That's where lawyers/accounts/consultants come into play.

Bitcoin will rise again once a need to move money to save heaven rises again.

It's an efficient medium to move large sums of money without trusting a bookie.

I can buy coffee loaded in container from an african country where inflation has killed the local currency and banks do not have infra for international settlement or take much bigger cut or simply aren't trusted by local people. For this i make simple bitcoin transfer from Hong Kong and get my coffee contain undocked in Hong Kong.

Edit: it's haven not heaven.
Do you understand the DFT? The FFT just calculates that faster.

There is an intuition to it, something like this: suppose we want to calculate a 2048 element DFT. If we instead calculate a pair of 1024 element DFT's over halves of data, we have all the same high frequency information there in the two windows. What we're missing is the lower frequency: the one that goes through just one cycle over the 2048 window. But we don't need 2048 points for that; the low frequency doesn't contain that much information. The FFT reveals how it can be obtained from the two halves. The two halves have the necessary information in their lowest frequency component; we don't need to sample 2048 points of the signal; we just look into the half-sized FFT results and put that together.
Nah, vim's modal. True, one of those modes is 'break everything', but the other mode is 'beeping furiously', so I generally notice I'm not in emacs pretty quickly.
It’s those evil computers! Pay no attention to the central bank behind the curtain.
Surely you can’t call something a scam unless lying was involved. Plenty of bad investments or financial choices don’t involve lying.
> I didn't think 4,000 would hold. 2500 seemed like the correct price

How did you arrive at the 2500 figure? Is there some sort of fundamental analysis that could be done, or was it all technical?
wow! Thanks for taking the time to explain. Your idea of stateless apps gave me a new perspective, something to try on next project. The article you mention should also be an interesting read. :)
Haha, then “PoW is for security” is a myth. If you are correct (which is arguable), then you don’t need PoW, you just need an elected federation of validators. And validators won’t attack because of the counter-incentives you describe.

So either PoW has a security hole related to dormant ASICs or it’s useless. Either way it’s not a good look.
If the EU is at fault then it’s all our collective faults, as Europeans, for having failed to make a success of this extraordinary period of peace and prosperity the European Union has fostered for us. The economic problems are less a fault of the EU and more (in my opinion at least) the result of having slowed the construction of a truly federal super-state. Had that been accomplished earlier, we wouldn’t be in this quagmire we find ourselves in.
I’ve seen so many hilariously bad workarounds for this in old shell scripts from lazy engineers who apparently can’t read a man page and don’t realise the delimiter character is substitutable with more or less any character you like.

This is one of this extremely useful features that a surprisingly large number of users don’t seem to know about.
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It doesn't sound horrible. I work in a lab environment most of the time, and I hear my coworkers' conversations, and I don't really care about their lives outside of work either. The ones my age are always talking about stuff like their yards or home improvement projects, which I don't care at all about, and they have zero interest in hearing about my foreign travel. The younger ones are better but only so much, plus the generation gap makes it hard to really relate.
When you flip the chart upside down, it sunk 300% over 2 years!
Sounds more like an undergrad thesis.
I agree with your underlying point, but distribution cost absolutely matters when determining price.

Competition for time is a great way of framing why I pay for many services. I pay $10 to Spotify to avoid hundreds of commercials each month, it is absolutely worth it to me. Same with Netflix. Would do the same with Gmail if it was an option.
If one of the most enduring popular songs of the last 20 years makes $90K in one day and its a very seasonal song. How much would the average artist make?
Launch it as a daemon and instantly connect via emacsclient.
My understanding of AAA game engine coding concurs with this analysis. It's become increasingly common to get more frames of graphics rendered in the same time span by kicking off the next frame before the first has finished, which can be extrapolated to a preconfigured buffer of many frames latency, similar to what is seen today with digital audio. Since game programmers already have to breathe concurrency problems just to achieve real-time stateful systems, and even more so to give an online multiplayer experience, this isn't a huge leap: many issues of this type have been resolved from the beginning with a double buffer or an intentional frame of latency.

That said, the benefits of scaling up runtime game performance are diminishing as asset costs increasingly dominate the discussion: the extra scene detail comes with a price to the production cycle, and that may be what breaks the games-graphics-tech alliance before any fundamental limits to the technology are reached.
Does it matter? They designed, manufactured, and launched a product that sold profitably, doing millions in revenue. They're supporting multiple people full-time.

The vast, vast majority of startups aren't inventing anything new that didn't exist before, either. You don't need to come up with a novel invention to have a successful business; it's usually sufficient just to do something at lower cost, or do marketing better.
At least this might provide pressure to reduce the environmental impact of mining, if only to reduce costs.
But what happens when Patreon, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitch and PayPal all work together to create collective censorship? Is your speech being limited if you're functionally blocked from the meaningfully accessible parts of the internet?

Yes, these are all private companies. In fact someone already tried to create an alternative Patreon (called Hatreon, iirc) that was shut down by Visa. Allowing censorship by private companies doesn't work if private companies control who gets to exist on the internet.
You CAN do mobile, but those platforms are not well supported (Work is ongoing and improving, but not good enough to rely on yet, imo)
I looked at the metrics on my dashboard. You were trying to flip through multiple pages quickly-- as in you went in with an intent to 'surf the web capriciously' and not with an intent of really reading the book. I'm sorry that initial mindset to glance through headlines quickly will have a significant impact on your overall reading experience when it comes to books.

The back button isn't hijacked either. It remembers the page you're on exactly as it is, as you progress through the book from one webpage to another. Other things like animations and page flipping etc. can be turned off, so those things are customizable but on battery thing I'll check again even I remember that the pagination interface with full animations run on 60 FPS or higher. There are probably some areas on the renderer where we can improve or may be use Houdini instead to achieve native level of performance but I'm yet to explore those paths.

Unused real estate -- I agree with you here. The new iPhones are significantly longer than the previous generations, and this exacerbates the problem. But I think it's not unfixable, thanks for the feedback!
Short it.
I remember reading this in the physical magazine. Super interesting article around physics and harnessing the wind.

Spoiler: They went almost 5x faster than the wind propelling the craft
Our ancestors took away people's ability to earn a living, and sometimes much more than that, because of their ethnicity or sexual orientation. People can control what opinions they voice in public. No one is forced to make racist statements. I see nothing wrong with punishing people for their choices when those choices bring harm to others.
Look into Evil.
>If you're impressed by a webserver being able to interact with the OS for things like accessing files or databases,

I don't think anyone is "impressed" by it. It is just useful. The point of electron is being able to write javascript applications that run on multiple platforms.

Using Lazarus (and Pascal) means you need to learn another language to write native applications from the one you use to write web applications.

I'm not taking a position here, I am just pointing out the pros and cons. I am neither a javascript nor pascal programmer so I have no dog in this fight.
I wrote my post with complete awareness of the fact that neo-nazis, and others like them, exist. I don't really see what your comment adds to the discussion.

Yes, some of the ideas are objectively bad. That doesn't mean there isn't a growing censorship movement, which incidentally often uses "nazi" lingo as an excuse to selectively silence people.

Also note that I gave a nod to, and firmly believe in, not inciting violence as a core tenet of free speech. Nazis can believe whatever vile shit they want to, as long as they don't act on it.
https://medium.com/@andrewhayes/correlation-does-not-imply-c...
How are the people in the boiler room "lying"? They're not drug researchers. They have no idea if what they're pushing is a good investment or not; all they know is that it's weird that they've somehow got their hands on it, rather than JPMC or GS. The situations strike me as fairly analogous.

We have no trouble calling penny stock pushers dialing for dollars exactly what they are, but when it comes to "cryptocurrency", we're all supposed to keep our mouths shut. That makes no sense to me. What's scary is, the instinct in a lot of places will be to take the analogy and unwind the other side of it --- maybe we should reconsider the morality
of the boiler room operations! Maybe they're doing a service after all! Caveat emptor, after all!
Good CGI tools in the hands of a talented human can make for good results.
I've speculated before that the Chinese government may use this to sow confusion in the event of an altercation, "hot" or otherwise, with the West - in which case, the profitability of a miner is moot, only the ability to spin up a majority of the network.
Should whitelist Battlefleet Gothic armada 1. Works out of the box.
Exposing Kubernetes services on custom domains
Perhaps not part of ECMA standards, but browsers/node have Intl.DateTimeFormat as the standard library

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
The only thing I have to say about this is, meow!
I never was in the marines, but I definitely did laugh out loud.
I won't be speaking for all Europeans, as all this craze you labeled as "American standards" certainly has it's influence, but I can confirm all these stories are pretty funny to read for a person, whom I'd label as a "sane European".

But I don't think it is the issue here, anyway. I might not feel the righteous rage reading the quotations from these Benjamin guy, but I might on the other topic. So imagining that I do feel offended by his words (and there's plenty ways to make it so): is it still ok to ban him from the platform? I'll leave you to decide for yourself, but either you want the freedom of speech or you want the society where everybody thinks and behaves exactly as everybody else.
There was a time when the Bitcoin price was zero, yet people spent computer time mining it.

So the answer to your question is never, a Bitcoin death spiral can not occur.
The difficulty (amount/cost of power required) goes up over time when the price goes up because more miners join the network as it becomes more profitable, which means that on average new coins are produced more often. The network targets a certain rate of production and it does this by increasing the difficulty.

If the price drops and miners leave this will happen in reverse and coins will not be produced fast enough, then the difficulty will reduce (meaning less power is required to mine a block). The network would be fine even back at $100.
I don’t think it’s ridiculous. I think it simply says that people with stringent ethics cannot serve others and cede control. They may bootstrap their own businesses, become their own bosses, or find another way to operate independently.

For some, control is relinquished to VCs. For others, it is the funders of their research, or their bosses.

Most people are not as picky about their ethics as they are about their diets.
We Are Not a Dashboard: Contesting the Tyranny of Metrics
Leaks, Mold and Rats: Why New York City Goes Easy on Its Worst Landlords
Some additional stories I enjoyed about this “feature” (which I’d never heard of):

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/20/iso/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/05/13/dates/
Thanks for sharing. I couldn't find any commitment on Samsung's part which is weird -- if you're doing the work, brag about it!
Finding a bug in GNU tar is not hard... just ask Jörg Schilling.

One of the first things I do when I download source code is decompress it and then de-archive it with GNU tar, then promptly re-archive it wit a real, AT&T UNIX System V 4.0 tar, because it's a known fact among us old UNIX folks that GNU tar is buggy as hell and only GNU tar can correctly read GNU tar (that wasn't the point of a tape archiver, but GNU people didn't get that memo).
Oh, yeah, that's bad. He's not even mentioning the words, he's just using them against white people instead of black, but the way he uses them is still meant as an insult. Oops.
In my opinion, MBTI has a few key shortcomings:

1. It creates dichotomies where it ought to create distributions. A slight J is going to be much more aligned with a slight P than with a strong J. Most people are distributed near the mean on most factors but MBTI tends to exaggerate the strength of traits.

2. people misapply thinking-v-feeling and don’t understand intuiting-v-sensing. I have talked to people who wear the label of “feeler” as an excuse for not thinking.

3. You would think “introversion” was a disease from the way some people talk about their “inability to socialize at parties.”

4. MBTI projects static personality, in the sense that an individual won’t adjust their behavior under different circumstances. I believe the creators allowed for some variability at work vs home, for example, but when you hear a person talk about their type they will inevitably say “I am an INTJ” as if it were some immutable fact.

Lately, I’ve found the Enneagram to be a more useful tool. It opens the door to explaining “healthy” vs “unhealthy” tendencies in the way people tend to respond. (I score as a 5 on enneagram and INTJ/INTP on MBTI)
I don’t know anything about this particular case, but it is certainly possible to be a Nazi while claiming to be anti-Nazi.
by the way, Techcrunch CEO was all in crypto last year
Flutter doesn't use Chrome. I think you're thinking of Carlo[1].

[1] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
Centralization isn't the problem here, if you look back at history there are more platforms for people to speak their mind than ever before. Before you the internet you had to deal with the three major networks to get on TV and most exterme speech, on either end of the spectrum, was relegated to the fringes.

There has always been a realm of discourse that society agrees upon and that we use to set the boundaries of conversation, just a few decades ago anti-Semitism and racism were allowed and now it isn't, overall this is a good thing.

There are more platforms than ever available to you if you want to express your fringe ideas, each of the platforms has the right to ban you if it goes against what they stand for. Everyone who uses the platforms understands the risks, I don't understand where all this pearl clutching is coming from.
You mean, like pension funds trading the stock market?
A year ago, I was explaining to family why crypto was a thing. This year I'm explaining why it crashed and why it's to be avoided. Also, why blockchain and crypto are not the same thing.

There are many who participated in the 2017 speculation that will actively avoid and advise against participation this go around. The bubble popped and it will be many years before we see worthy investments take shape.
Fire.

Think about it, nobody knows who invented the ability to control fire, and yet it is still, by far, the most important technology in our lives. The largest economic sector is oil and gas, in other words, finding things to set on fire. All of our technology is powered by electricity, which is still predominantly generated by setting things on fire. Rockets are powered by fire. Guns are powered by fire. Cars are mostly powered by fire. Even if we switch to renewable, GHG-neutral sources of energy, that is only possible because of millennia of fire. Hell, we only evolved big brains in the first place because we unlocked tons of extra nutrients by cooking with fire.
There are tons of interesting failure modes. The simplistic one won't happen, but that doesn't mean that it isn't teetering on the bring of a death spiral.

What happens when the market is flooded with cheap miners? A 51% attack is suddenly affordable.

What happens if the price drops off a cliff right after a difficulty adjustment? As hash rate falls, difficulty adjustments become farther apart than the two weeks they're supposed to be.

What happens when smaller miners close up shop? Bitcoin mining is already very centralized. Falling profitability would move it even more into the hands of the biggest players with the most efficient hardware and the cheapest electricity. Read: China.

A falling price is a huge problem for the security and stability of the network. Bitcoin is teetering on the brink of complete collapse.

>people still want to transact Bitcoin

No one uses Bitcoin. The transaction fees would have to go up by a factor of over 100 to equal the current block rewards. And, if people don't use Bitcoin now, why would they when transactions are 100x the current price?
Since 'the left' isn't a monolithic entity, it's hard to describe a singular solution that we all agree on, or even name everything off the top of my head, but in my view, a good start would be to stop overthrowing people that do not open markets sufficiently to our interests, try to limit trade in USD/EUR etc. or otherwise do not align with 'our' interests.

More favorable terms would also certainly help, so would actually listening to the local populace, instead of handing money to a corrupt central government. Corruption itself mostly stems from lack of sufficient resources and progression for everybody, which is not helped by pouring more money into the very machine powering it.
NGOs can also be incredibly corrupt and wasteful, see Haiti.

Instead of sending in money, fund concrete projects to build infrastructure and provide good paying jobs by having locals build it. Work with local communities to set up small businesses and help them set up networks to export their goods etc.

There's plenty of failures to study from and some successes that need to be expanded. The big problems with such projects tends to be that even when the "grand goal" is good, if you will, locals are not consulted, farmers are displaced etc. which only breeds hatred towards the people telling themselves they're helping.

Stop being arrogant and thinking that we "know better" than the people who actually live in the area. Might be a good starting point.

What is the right's solution? Repeat what was done till now and expect a different result, do not participate at all...?
These are only images. Theoretically it is possible. But I guess we are still years away even with exponential improvement in the field.
wolco's point, I think, is that BTC "was supposed" to be a payment mechanism, not a store of value. Those who used it "as directed" ended up no worse for it, while those who "invested" lost their money, but "it's their fault".

Please note the ample use of quotes on my part.
A Tester Walks into a Bar: Reviewing Test Techniques
Would the fact that I can never seem to select all of the images with a street sign count as plausible deniability?
Assuming you play a brass instrument, I suggest to try this experiment: Blow air through your lips and purse then together, but do NOT buzz. Basically the "buzzing" without the buzz. When you do that, continue to and press your lips against the mouthpiece. You will make a note!

This was something my instructor showed me because use way too much of my lips when I play (a very common mistake with amateurs), and a lot of the power you use should be through your diaphragm (large versus small muscles).
Oh yeah don't misread me, I'm not asking for fancier tech. Movies != CGI, far from that. I cry when I compare old movies that had flesh to the hyper hectic pixel fest of today..
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