skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think simplifying the issue distracts us from the real issues, which are complex. The U.S. uses its military for good purposes and for bad. Sometimes war is due to other country's actions, sometimes due to the U.S.'s (e.g., Iraq), and probably usually due to both.

For example, the immediate causes of many U.S. wars later turn out to be false, such as the destruction of the Maine which precipitated the Spanish-American War, the Gulf of Tonkin which began full-scale intervention in Vietnam, and the WMD in Iraq.

But even wars that are justified lead to bad outcomes, as the author states: What war hasn't had the consequences you quoted? Unfortunately, sometimes, those are the best outcomes available, but it's quite a moral decision to inflict that on others.
Military and intelligence agencies have a stake (and funding) in plenty of humanitarian causes -- weather prediction, food security, space exploration, etc. But as a way of bypassing researchers' beliefs, it simply isn't necessary: plenty of smart people will take military or intelligence money directly. I remember being told that Carnegie Mellon's school of computer science had over 70% of its total funding from military and intelligence contracts.

I don't think most pacifists believe their convictions will directly prevent war, or even make it significantly harder to prosecute. But demonstrating convictions can force people to hold a mirror up to their own, and can change what people accept in ways that add up to big implications. I'm not a pacifist, but I'm grateful to Dr. Kulpers for demonstrating that it is possible to make a CS career outside of the military industrial complex. Anyone who participates in the business of war should at the very least consider their rationale beyond "how else am I supposed to find work?"
I don't know about anyone else but I always remove DRM from my eBooks, which is trivially easy and solves two of your problems.

Not sure if it's permitted to link to it here but it's pretty easy to find the tool that does this.
OP was probably perceived to be a lying troll, hence the silent removal of her post. Highly doubtful there was any impetus to cover up potential national security issues (e.g. report of a remote brain weapon).
The invention that impresses me is the differential gear. The National Museum of Scotland, when I lived there, had a cut-away exhibit taken from a car. I played with it, and for the first time, understood how it worked. Two days later, I could not reconstruct it in my mind! Unclear who invented it.

Here is a link to the Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_(mechanical_devic...

Mind you, this may not be a good answer to the question, because there are a couple of claims for the invention.
>a person thinking "Hmm, I've been eating cat poop for a month now and have not seen any increase in business revenue

probably he has been mistakenly taking BS instead.
The question is probably more interesting if you interpret it as “anonmpys during their time of relevance”.
Deepfake (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake). It has been released in the conveniently same timeframe, when a video was supposed to be „leaked“, allegedly depicting Hillary Clinton in a satanic-ritual abuse video („frazzled rip“). just like the term „fake news“ was coined for the first time in 2016 at the exact same time, the Pizzagate story evolved.
> Case insensitivity is arbitrarily stupid; you're taking two subranges of a character set and making them equal.

I think this is backwards. Languages are top-down, and character sets are bottom-up.

A language can reasonably choose to use the common concept of "the 26 English letters (ignoring case)". This would require dealing with such implementation details as "subranges of character sets" only because that's the platform that computers today present.

It's not unique to characters. Many programming languages say that 2 is equal to 2.0 (and 2/1 and (2,0) and ...), even though their internal bit patterns are usually completely different. We simply decided that this is the semantic meaning that we wish to expose to users, and the implementor has to work out how to deal with IEEE FP and such.

> It ignores the fact that there are semantic differences linked to case: like Pole is someone from Poland, whereas pole is one end of a magnet.

There are also semantic differences from context and from pronunciation -- English is pretty stupid -- but I don't think anyone would suggest appending every identifier in a program with a pronunciation key, or the OED meaning. Just because a word without capitalization can be ambiguous doesn't mean a word with its capitalization is unambiguous, or even that this would be desirable if it were.
You're literally comparing two completely different apps. If you want to compare Apples to Apples, host 5 teams in Slack, in both Chromium and WKWebView
> With respect, that amount to much of the same with different words.

They are describing two different intents; one is to seek to settle conflict through the use of violence, and the other is to accomplish the same end through the ability to inflict violence. The latter does not presume an innate desire to use the instruments of violence, only the will and ability to do so if so instructed.

Deterrence is a real thing and not the same thing as being bloodthirsty.
Our?

I don't recall you speaking for me. And you are presuming you know where the visitors of HN hail from. Guess what, they're all over the world.
Taste for mathematical fashion.
I tend to agree with this point of view. Bullet train is a great example of this - https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704814204575507...
Bitcoin was doing perfectly fine at $100, so I think these predictions are a bit premature and have some recency bias.

The price drop does lower the amount of security in the network, so it becomes cheaper to attack it. However, it also means the payoff to attack is lower.
Maybe Mike Pall? Author of the LuaJIT.
I don't find disk space worth optimizing for in 2018. For $2 you can buy a USB Thumbdrive that will hold every Electron app you'll ever use.
It's very different if you're a developer. Developers are almost always local admins, and unless you work for NASA, you're always going to be using 3rd party code. You simply cannot write everything (or even a fraction of) the things you need for basic applications in the current space. This isn't the 80s and we're not on Commodore64 machines and punch card systems.
The real meat of the racist speech:

>"This month, the site’s moderators received a complaint about Mr. Benjamin, who had risen to fame railing against diversity and feminism during the GamerGate movement in 2014. Mr. Benjamin used the N-word and anti-gay language during an interview posted to YouTube on Feb. 7, Patreon found."

I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression Benjamin used that word to insult white supremacists, whom he evidently does not count himself among. It wasn't very smart of him to think everybody would be okay with it just because he chose the 'right' target.
Drowned Worlds, Jonathan Strathan (Ed) - Stories of climate change. One of the stories will make it real to the reader.

Circe, Madeline Miller - Entertaining and memorable tale with many characters from Greek mythology.
Don't bitcoin costs adjust to a shrinking miner population as well as it adjusts for a growing one?

If so, the answer is never. As people give-up, the costs for the remaining ones reduce so that at some point it's lucrative again.

The interesting question is at what price people will stop speculating on its price and run to an exit? I don't think anybody can answer this one.
Am I the only one surprised that Patreon employs 170 people?
It’s easy to swap out the limited use of printed in this program, which just prints strings and integers, with a short loop and a syscall. Like I said, nobody needs libc; it’s just convenient to use.
https://outline.com/ZsJsDh
Ah, the Bloomberg and TechCrunch bottom signals I’m looking for.
I wish people would stop calling every company a startup and themselves a founder when what that have is a medium sized manufacturing business.
That article really does not support your point at all...

>Squeamish from the start about pursuing profits in one of the darker corners of finance, established firms this year slowed their already halting efforts to make a business out of Bitcoin mania.

So they were slow from the start, and are slowing their already slow efforts.

>“The market had unrealistic expectations that Goldman or any of its peers could suddenly start a Bitcoin trading business,” said Daniel H. Gallancy, chief executive officer of New York-based SolidX Partners, which hopes to launch a Bitcoin ETF in the U.S. "That was top-of-the-market-hype thinking."

So the market (not banks or other insiders) had unrealistic expectations of traditional institutions.

>With regulators offering little clear guidance on how they will classify the broad universe of tokens—as commodities, securities or something else—banks and investment firms are treading cautiously.

Banks continue to wait for regulations and guidance before committing fully.
Ok, now imaging a paperless future, with plenty of surveillance devices and imaging who much can count computing powers to create fake evidence of pretty anything for tons of different purpose including, but not limited to:

- orient people behavior with nearly unverifiable and absolutely plausible news;

- do illegal activities as a large powerful corporation and plausible denying anything with forged proofs no one can really verify (think about what happen inside megafactories);

- false accuse with skyrocketing high effectiveness anyone that disturb big&powerful;

- essentially centralize even more actual society because yes, we automate, but we do not automate simply with open tech in a free market on n-th competing players and open core knowledge publicly granted by public universities but with VERY few super-giant transnational player with universities reduced at Ford-model workers "production factories".

Imaging how easy we can invent a kind of "widespread illness" just to sell a dummy medicine that does nothing but cost big money so give big money to it's vendor. Imaging how easy we can depict a country, or even a small area of a nation as awful just to move people around. All things can be verified, in theory, but if all tools are made by few big&powerful and are closed black boxes our effective "verification power" it became REALLY limited and so it became our ability to communicate since being everywhere more and more "remote workers" with less physical social contacts and no really free means of communication... We do not even need censorship; it suffice suffocating unwanted news under a stream of other news and silently delete them after a certain amount of time. It's super-easy spread FUD against any unwanted news etc.

Nothing new under the sun of course, only at an unprecedented level with too few that can do too much, without the need of a certain support chain like ancient dictators still need.
You should read the book The Slight Edge. It talks about the mindset to achieve what you're looking for.
Since both the article title and the title submitted here ("Inventing a Stair Climbing Dolly Making $583K/Month") are baity, and possibly misleading as well, we changed the title above to something more neutral. This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You mean for an Oliver Reed/Gladiator scenario?
The cost of production (as a function of the hash rate) was much lower than $100/coin at that time.
I don't agree with his choice of words, and I think its kinda weird that he chose to express himself the way he did when there was a much easier way to go about making the same remark, but that said, it's simply amoral to try and cutoff someone's living and censor them just because the way they said something wasn't to your liking (to be clear I'm not talking about you in particular, but just people in general who think what patreon did was ok).
It was probably pretty low.
there are so many inventions. like a scientist has created artificial liver tissue
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Interesting! In the Soviet culture, accountants were seen just that way: as disgustingly boring losers. In part they indeed been, as not being workers (so not belonging to the 'hegemonic class' of Communist society according to Marxism, even working on the same factory), they were paid less, had a harder time joining the Party (and thus enjoy access to deficit consumer goods) etc.

Today, it is totally opposite. In provincial Russia today, only two professions that are guaranteed to make person a living are programmer (because these can work for Western customers so earn a lot) and an accountant (because these need to cook the books and be really inventive at that, as without it, any business will go bust, system works like that). They are just as respected as programmers are. And the job itself isn't as boring as it used to be because it require a lot of trickery because you usually need to be able to scam several parties at once, not just the government, but also the formal owners.
Much advertising is lies, I think people do believe they won't attract as much attention unless they too lie.
Common APIs between operating systems also introduce the common denominator problem: if OS vendor A wants to add some cool new API for third party devs to use, they have to wait until other OS vendors also implement that API, otherwise they risk other OS vendors never implementing it and devs never using the API.
A theory of Math. DNA of numbers and how the mind thinks
How does a blockchain solution solve Goldman Sachs' business problems better, or with less resources, than existing solutions?
A lot of FOSS isn't fun. It's funded, by IBM, Google and other big players. Intel has an entire OSS department at their Portland office, and contributes tons of Linux kernel drivers for their products.

Sure there are some projects that are based on peoples' passions and have a few maintainers, but a lot of the bigger projects are big company middleware. It's a big difference from the FOSS movements of the late 90s. I wrote about it before here: https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source...
I think OP is saying they don't know anything about anything. Which has a point, they claim to know what they are doing, but just have such large capital that there is no way for them to fail even if they did everything wrong. So you can't use success as a barometer for knowing anything.
A good discussion from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11478951
Wasn't it invented by the ancient Greeks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
I felt the same way as you but finally started meditating twice a day for the past couple of days. I have already noticed less stress and anxiety symptoms during my day with an improved focus. Highly recommend.
Smaller gov doesn’t mean a less barbaric / violent one. Nor does it mean smaller gov mean less tyranny or silencing of voice.
it's not the full story. the full story is more like this: media operates on the hypothesis that this kind of material is on demand, it produces accordingly, generates buzz and hypothesis verified! what's next? product more!

I think market oriented media is really nothing about truth/fact/moral, its only job is to reflect what people want. here is the full list of what people want:
- when we do well, tell me it's all my own hard work.
- when we are in bad shape, it's someone else's fault.
Ask HN: How will the OSS vs cloud battle end?
More and more cloud providers like AWS and GCP seem to a threat to open source projects. AWS has managed Elasticsearch, Kafka, etc. GCP has managed Airflow, CockroachDB, etc.

How sustainable is it to have both (1) niche companies around a specific open source tool like a database and (2) cloud providers that maintain their own versions. I worry the future looks bleak for these niche companies, and subsequently for a lot of OSS.

Even now, what incentives do companies have to work with these niche companies vs just using AWS/GCP/Azure? Is it better service? cheaper? Is it easier to not be tied into a cloud provider?

Note: I'm focusing more on tooling like databases and such, not OSS projects like Linux or programming languages, which seem like a different ballgame.

[edit: previously mentioned the projects getting "wiped out", which is not true. I'm more concerned with unerstanding the actual competitive advantage these smaller companies have and how sustainable it is. ]
Our descendants are going to be seriously confused by our practice of limiting or taking away people's ability to earn money because they publicly used a wrong word. Or so I hope, at least.
The History of the Marshfield Mummers (1999)
It's not incorrect to use "our" in this context even though the speaker's audience is international, "our" doesn't always mean "mine and yours" is can also mean "mine and someone else's," that use isn't event uncommon. We talk about "our family" to people outside of the speaker's family and we talk about "our country" to people outside of the speaker's country. It's natural.

our
/ˈou(ə)r,är/
determiner
possesive pronoun: our

1. belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people previously mentioned or easily identified. "Jo and I had our hair cut"

belonging to or associated with people in general. "when we hear a sound, our brains identify the source quickly"

2. used by a writer, editor, or monarch to refer to something belonging to or associated with himself or herself.
"we want to know what you, our readers, think"
The difference is that even if the difficulty adjusts, there will be dormant ASICs waiting to be used. If the price lowers enough and enough ASICs are out on the bench, it’ll at one point becoming economically beneficial to turn them all on and attack the network rather than having them collect dust and depreciate.
Op, you sound delusional. Seek help. Nobody is out to get you. You probably had an LSD flashback.

Your post probably was silently flagged due to sounding like troll nonsense.
Exactly! I don't quite get the sentiment that military is nothing but evil, either. Hasn't history taught us enough? How many peace-loving civilization got destroyed by those who had no interests in producing but looting? Look at Song Dynasty. Look at Ming Dynasty. Look at European cities when Mongolian invaded. Hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered. Hundreds of cities were looted, burnt down, and destroyed. Millions of people were slaved for generations. Trade were banned. Civilization was set back by hundreds of years.

Americans and Europeans may have been in peace and prosperity for so long and got so comfortable that they started to hate everything their forbears have built and fought for. I'm not sure about you guys, but I certainly cherish the literature, the math, the science, then engineering, the philosophy, the political systems (not that they are flawless, but it took us a long time to get where we are), and more.

What a shame.
This could be true, but I don't think it is.

There's a lot of money to be made in making weapons if there's a war. And the US is constantly waging wars, rarely with victory-conditions thought out in advance.

As long as the money-makers continue to find excuses rather than reasons for waging war, I think there's solid grounds for not wanting to participate.
I'm surprised that it only takes 17 of them to moderate. That seems like a very low number, given how big Patreon has gotten.
I had a similar experience. And I usually try to go through books I start even if I dislike them. But this one... it was too much...
Give up alcohol.
This program, as it is written, needs libc to run. It would not run without a libc.

If you wrote a different program, that didn't use libc, then it would not need libc, that is correct. But would that program fit on a post card?
Yea, and VLC is really just a media player. Sure someone might be using it in production at a Kiosk, but that little icon change literally doesn't affect production use at all.
While we're at it with the misleading titles, this one could have been "Sun's micro system turns copper into gold".
Poor guy.. He deserves some sleep.
... and write for the atlantic
Then why did you originally claim it was dominating universities, tech companies, and the newsroom?

Those things are maybe left of center under some metrics, but not far left, and certainly not extremely far left, so why claim that?

Again, if you're now going to claim that the people like Sargon and Milo and co being censored are moderate liberals, I'm gonna say that you're just patently incorrect, and your left-right scale is broken. That you equivocate fox and CNN only cements this. Compare morning Joe (one of the most partisan shows on CNN) to Hannity or Carlson, and there really isn't a comparison.
But your stance is hyperbolic because the original poster didn't say they wanted anonymity so they could commit crimes, they said they appreciated the option to "leave their past behind". Presumably if one is "in the system" they've already been caught and punished for their crime. I totally understand the desire to be able to move forward without the cloud of your past looming over you, and to be honest, I imagine the ability to do so may increase someone's chances of living the remainder of their life in an upstanding manner. Also, as you must know, a disturbingly large proportion of "ex-cons" have trumped up charges on their record or were even completely innocent as our modern judicial systems prioritize efficiency over truth.
Chebyshev distance
> it's simply amoral to try and cutoff someone's living and censor them just because the way they said something wasn't to your liking

Would it be immoral (or amoral, either one) of my employer to fire me employed if I gave a tech talk and started throwing the N-word around?

Patreon has fairly clear rules on behavior; they're not obligated to keep anyone as their client if they start breaking them.
The larger wheel will be made of slightly too thin plastic and held on with a split-pin - how else will you resell it in 2 years - so robustness probably isn't a positive factor from the sellers perspective.
What did he say, exactly? This sounds like a possible use-mention distinction problem to me.
long time since the last Bitcoin is dead article
Yes, so you're not the only one. I don't care to see what stupid news articles and memes my friends happen to like every single day while mindlessly browsing their phone in bed, at lunch, at their workdesk, etc.

I have a wife, a family, and friends. I see these people in real life. When I go to my neighborhood cafe, I talk to the locals while drinking coffee, not "working" on my laptop with Facebook/Slack/whatever in the background and headphones in.

I don't talk to Alexa and Siri. I don't subscribe to Netflix, Spotify, or Amazon Prime.

What's really creepy is all the people I come across that find this out tell me "they hate social media but could never do that".
Can you back up this claim? My understanding is that, speaking very generally about a large continent, most African countries did not implement the economic fundamentals preached by the World Bank and IMF, but failed to due to corruption and institutional problems, including a lack of the rule of law. What African country adopted the rule of law, open markets, stable monetary policies, a significant reduction in corruption, and failed to prosper?

> the countries that did ignore its orthodoxy, from China in the late 1970s to then India in the early 1990s, prospered

China and India did not at all ignore the 'orthodoxy', but enacted it and that is credited with their economic expansion. China and India adopted capitalism, opened their markets, and adopted economic fundamentals such as stable monetary policy.