skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a scam just a bad investment.

Those using bitcoin for payments saw a utility not provided by other solutions.

Those investing are a different class of users. Most purchased after hearing get rich stories.
Until very recently, cheap VPS providers did not offer private networking between customer VMs, making them a completely different animal.
I read it differently. They are not advocating against the military, just that they will not participate. They are not trying to say that all CS (or any field) should wholly shun military work, just that they have.

Choice quote:

"""Do you try to keep others from taking military funding?

No. Mine is an individual testimony, and each person makes an individual decision about how they will spend their life's work."""
Reading this as a straight white guy, the slurs aren't as offensive as the whole underlying philosophy and line of thinking.

Although I like that the No True Scotsman fallacy leaking through the cracks.
You’re making an assumption I haven’t already learned real native development but that’s besides the point.

Java does solve part of this but some people would rather use JavaScript than Java. Even if they know how to use both believe it or not.

However, if one of your platforms is the web browser, nothing is going to work better than a web view if you want a cross platform solution. Slack for example works almost exactly the same in my web browser as it does in electron. If you want a solution that works on Linux, MacOS, and Windows AS WELL as the web browser then the web view approach is pretty obvious.

Lastly the JavaScript web development experience is great with hot module relacement and Chrome’s developer tools. Not to mention the JavaScript open source community is amazingly strong and there is a lot of innovation going on. To simply dismiss all of this because of personal reasons is fine by me but I don’t agree with your view.
Well here’s the thing though, I don’t feel like parallelism is just about speed. I for one like the idea of being able doing 10 things at once, and all tasks running at the same speed. It’s hard to do with current software, yes. But there a lot of room for improvement, no?
I would in general start being much more sceptical about Western media (especially Western-EU media). Especially in the last few years (e.g. illegal immigration issue).
Thanks, did know about that! https://relays.syncthing.net and https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html .
I forgot about that subreddit. I use to get a lot of pixel art backgrounds from /r/PixelArtWallpapers/, but it doesn't look like people really post there any more.
I read the article. I see how much published work on the problem is mentioned, and where is it published. In this case, not much. If a mathematical problem is really hard, and really important, of the type to reasonably qualify as a "25 year old problem", you will see a lot of partial results, many different approaches, connections to other ares of mathematics, a lot of work by many people. Nothing like that happened here.
Free speech as a concept has been around for a lot longer than the US government.

The problem is if free speech is effectively banned from the internet due to the internet being controlled by a handful of private companies, do we still have free speech?
People in Canada's larger cities feel the exact same. I suspect its a worldwide phenomenon. Its a small world after all. (edit: I am only referring to the income gap, not the environmental conditions or censorship)
A minute is a small time. Small enough that it can be comprised fully of mistaken video starts.

Given that the videos auto-play, I wouldn't be surprised if a significant portion of the count was from videos autoplaying as people scrolled theough.
Lazarus looks quite cool, but I don't see it addressing mobile app development, which makes it a non-starter for me. Electron doesn't support mobile directly, but the web app built for Electron can also be packaged in Cordova (or similar) for Android and IOS.
WebKit is free so you can bundle the library if you want. Or not.
>what happens if some group decides to declare war on another, or commit atrocities,

We don't have to guess - Ygoslavian war in the 90s was exactly that. Atrocities continued until US&UK dropped on the theater. OTOH there is no shortage of situations where US involvement was the atrocity.

So maybe it's not the military per se, it's how you use it.
Not in Europe.

Thankfully we have Advertising Standards that require all ads to be "Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful" or the ads can be banned. All sanctions are published and often end up reported in the news. More serious breaches can be referred up the chain for fines.

Surprisingly this is industry self regulation, at least in the UK, that mostly works OK. It applies to internet claims, ads and websites too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_Standards_Authorit...
Didn't knew about her... Fascinating.
A smaller government means easier to keep authorities accountable. The bigger the government, the more bureaucracy, more difficult to control as a tool and easier to conceal corruption. A small government breeds free citizens. A big government breeds corruption.
>The industries move away and carry the customers away with them.

Um, this doesn't seem right at all. It really depends on the industry/product, and also on the country. The US is probably the largest single market in the world, so it's pretty hard to not do business there and do well as a company, especially if you already do most of your business there. (Obviously, this doesn't apply to local/regional businesses, such as a supermarket chain in Italy or wherever.)

If Toyota was suddenly not allowed to sell in the US, that would be a gigantic blow to their revenues and business. If Ford was in this spot, it would probably be the end of the company. If Trader Joe's couldn't operate in the US any more, that would be the end of them; they can't just pack up and move to China. Amazon can't exactly pack up and move to China and "carry the customers away with them" either; that really makes no sense.

No, protectionism generally doesn't work, but only generally. Lots of countries (all of them?) are protective of some portion of their local industry, usually for national strategic interests. You don't want to tie the very survival of your people to some potentially hostile foreign nation, by relying on them for your food supply, for instance.
I prefer using one editor for every task. This means both coding and quick config edits or jotting down notes. So while I often keep an instance up for hours, I also open and close it frequently enough that load time is enough of an issue.
No its not and no it doesn't; it's extremely clear what the speaker meant, you just wanted to get outraged for no reason.
It used to be the case but even with not too recent CGI tech they can make ~alright main characters (see SW ep. VII). With the most recent siggraph tricks I'm sure most of the population won't notice (if not abused).
Looks like this guy is from Europe. Do they have the same stigma for those words? Are we okay applying American standards to their words? That would be a slippery slope. Some nations consider speech against their sultans or their deens as hate speech. Will patreon take the side of those governments or the vast majority of those populations (who will gladly watch blasphemers get imprisoned)?

On the other hand, should they take a progressive stance on a global scale? For example, should they ban Arabs who use “abeed” too? Should they ban the quasi antisemetic vitriol spewed out by many in MENA? (Example that Kuwaiti “Instagram influencer” who ranted about her Filipino maid)

Maybe neither. Perhaps as a private company, they should do whatever they like. Let competitors fill the gaps if needed.
As others have pointed out, the difficulty adjusts both up and down depending on the total work being done by the network, so no death cycle is possible.

Additionally, even when there are rapid drops in value (and thus mining), people still want to transact Bitcoin, so transaction fees go up and become a significant percentage of the overall value of a new block, thus compensating miners for the reduced value of the block reward.

There is no death spiral; there's just regular increase/decrease in value over time.
Same topic, a very nice and interesting article about Dune II: https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-...

The previous one about Dune I is also very interesting.
Labeling and organizing things (including people and their traits) is not bad.
I don't see anywhere that they're assuming that.
It would be hilarious if dating site scammers developing chat bots end up being the first ones to pass the Turing Test.
Instead of refinancing, it sounds to me like they need to sell their house and buy something smaller and cheaper. Live within your means (or better yet, well below your means so you can handle income changes easily).
From my comment:

>Of course this assumes that less violence, barbarism, and/or government opression represents the will of the populace...

Not at all. However, what you seem to be assuming is that government size is independent of measures of tyrrany and opression. I contend that the the size of government is directly proportional to tyranny and opression.

We should take a moment to define terms here: by size in this context I refer to scope of operations and, by necessity, authority. In which case a larger government is by definition more opressive, in that authoritarianism past some point is itself opression, as it requires involuntary imposition of rules and restriction of freedoms.

Small government is a hedge against authoritarianism and the tyranny that naturally follows when your life is increasingly micromanaged.
We tended to always be labor-short for deliveries, so if we could send a job out with one person we would. A single person can safely deliver most household appliances with just a furniture dolly (up to a side-by-side fridge, which almost always needed two people due to its mass and a set of tools to remove the doors).
The lack of attention to crypto as a serious financial instrument is more damning to crypto than an indicator of its success.
A clip was included in Sargon's first video about this incident: https://youtu.be/4ThPdCicEsg?t=238
never heard of it
And in court they can claim the alibi is a high-fidelity fabrication.
No, the 1st Amendment attempts to protect this valuable thing in the same way that the 21st Amendment protects your booze supply.

Free speech is a much bigger, and older, idea. And can be seriously threatened by many small changes in our public culture, which need not have anything to do with Washington.
Awesome, but the water is still a mess. I am not putting that on Elon. He is just enabling damaged kids.

Right, good thing to do. Many of them will benefit.

As a nation, we are facing a priority discussion, Flint being only one of a painful, growing number of data points, each speaking to our basic priorities being very poorly aligned with "promoting the general welfare."

How can we improve that?
As I see it, a functional democracy requires tolerance of unpopular opinions not just by the government but also by society at large. I don't agree with these sorts of statements, but I believe that censoring them is harmful to society.
> While there are neural structures that are specialized for certain tasks genetically, it is incredibly unlikely that the form of the book has had any significant evolutionary effect that would lead to some genetic predisposition for a book compared to some other form of conveying written information

It's the other way around. The book isn't better because we evolved for the book. The book is better because it evolved for us.

The key difference between books and e-books is that books are 3D objects giving us a sense of location for the information contained therein that varies in a consistent, logical manner as we progress through the information. This allows us to use our spatial memory, which yes, we are hard-wired to have, to help remember the information in the book. We evolved for this kind of memorization and are good at it.

Here's an interesting article on this: https://www.fastcompany.com/3009366/you-wont-remember-this-a...

Some papers:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088303551...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002253717...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144929830891447...
I'm torn about this.

On the one hand, Patreon shouldn't have to do business with people they don't like. On the other hand, at what point do we accept that we have different viewpoints and live and let live?

The biggest one for me in recent history was Cloudflare arbitrarily deciding to stop hosting the Daily Stormer. Sure, DS is vile, but at the point we start enforcing censorship on a whim instead of hardened policies that aren't selectively enforced, I think it becomes worrisome.

I guess I don't have a problem with people deciding what messages they do and do not want to support, as much as I have a larger problem with the rest of the world handing them the reigns.

Centralization is the real evil, here. Why are we giving companies and people the right to silence vast amounts of voices and opinions on random whims?

Then you see counter-arguments, like "well if you don't want to get banned, don't say bad things!" But then, who decides what's bad? The societal norms are shifting to a place where there are certain topics that are not allowed to be discussed at all even if looking at them from a critical lens. So, there are problems that people have, and things that need to be talked about, but they aren't allowed to say anything about it. They can only reference the idea from some distant euphemism.

The ones that do use their voices are banished to the shadows where, not only do they not stop thinking and saying what they were before, but now they dig their heels in further. They spread out to forums that will have them, and incidentally tend to allow hate speech or inciting violence. So we're taking the ideas we do not find palatable and sending them off to a distant land where the other bad ideas go to twist and tear and fester and rot.

To me, personally and anecdotally, this seems to be happening with increasing velocity. We're tightening our grip on what speech is acceptable and using centralized services to force this control on ourselves, over a platform that has always been about the open exchange of ideas.

So what do we do? I don't know. Privately-owned services should be free to censor. People should also continue to speak freely (if legal). I certainly think Net Neutrality is essential at this point, whether enforced via public infrastructure or some kind of over-arching regulation. But, there's not much anyone can do in the current framework of things other than encourage decentralization. And I do, when I can.

Also, for the record, I'm a feminist, left-leaning socialist. So good luck writing me off as another conservative windbag who doesn't understand the first amendment that's crowing about censorship. I think censorship is a problem, whether it's via private platforms or not.
I'm not sure why people expect platforms that have ToS to be robotic about them. Companies are run by people. People get uncomfortable when you become known for spraying around racial epithets, and some are not going to want to work with you.

If I'm using some vendor and find out that I really don't like what their public persona is doing, I'm going to reevaluate that relationship.
You mean a solution that has solved exactly 0% of the problems where it was applied to? https://bitcoinist.com/blockchain-study-zero-percent-success...
> And when the new payment company bans him, then what?

Then he'll learn a valuable lesson about what is and isn't owed to him in life. Why do you suppose that the world owes everyone a soapbox that dispenses money?

> And are you OK if Twitter bans all left leaning people just because of their beliefs?

I'd be miffed, but that's their right. For example, it seems like Tumblr is making almost that exact mistake, as did Livejournal before them. I'm annoyed by it, but in the end it's their court and all I can do is shake my head, take my ball, and head home.

> 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.

Patreon isn't on that list, so I assume that your small-government philosophy allows for them to stop supporting Mr. Benjamin and his cohorts.
I disagree. Knowing what format a module is written in is no different than knowing it's API. You can't blindly start using a module without knowing stuff about it and how it's intended to be used
Yeah, what crazy obscure languages expose a binding to strftime???
> This is the situation we don't want to be in, where the consumer is choosing. The consumer doesn't know. Even if you, a human, read the file, you don't know what the author's intention was.

If I am importing a file URI, then I am the author, and I know what it is. File URI's are primarily used for linking together stuff in the same git tree. If I am using third-party code, it will be a bare module import specifier from node_modules, not a file URI.

I agree that there are weird situations where this isn't the case, but you don't need to worry about those. Why? Because module support in Node is a new feature, and therefore opt-in. The people who choose to opt-in know what they are doing, and are probably running a pure ESM codebase already. The goal should be to make something useful to the 99%, and let the other 1% keep doing it the old way.

If you are already using Rollup, then this will be plug & play. Rollup already assumes that everything you `import` is a module, and puts them in strict mode.

> We really can't though, because its already full of files that are intended to be used with rollup/babel/etc, which have incomplete implementations of esm.

That's a legitimate concern. Even if using "module" itself is too risky, but the approach itself seems solid. If I want to publish something to NPM that supports native ESM in Node, it's easy for me to add something to package.json that indicates my support, without renaming all my files.

My packages on NPM have both CJS and ESM entry points. The ESM entry point is for tools like Webpack & Rollup, which do not understand the .mjs extension. I tried using the .mjs file extension for this, and it just broke things. There is no way we can re-write every Webpack and Rollup config file in existence to be compatible with this.
Didn't think about it.

That's a relevant threat to every coin that can use the Bitcoin ASICs. And probably will even happen to others before hitting BTC itself.
It was really good, thank you! I learned a ton of new tricks from it

Separately, I feel like I could have a full time job submitting PRs to fix the GNU-ism of using `sed -i"" ...` versus the BSD/macOS syntax of `sed -i "" ...`. I don't know which of those two camps broke from the other, but holy hell it _broke_ for sure.
That looks like one mean spam site.
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> 3. Consequently, most of the processing units now deployed in 4-core-and-up machines are doing nothing most of the time but generating waste heat.

While it's true that most of the time a 4-core or more machine has idle cores, I'm not convinced this is a problem.

Yes, most of the time spent on a modern computer consists of doing things that aren't particularly computationally expensive. But our perception of the speed of a personal computer isn't based on some kind of steady state performance on batch jobs, I think that worst-case latency is a lot closer to how we perceive the speed of a computer. Of course, in specialized domains like HPC the steady state performance on batch jobs is important, but this article seems to be discussing personal computers.

Even if they come up rarely, you still hit computational bottlenecks at times when latency is important. Whether it's some bloated web page, some big Excel computation, a compilation for us programmers, or the like, there are plenty of times where you hit some kind of bottleneck in which you can make effective use of all of your cores, so even if 99% of the time you have idle cores, that 1% of the time can shape your perception of how fast your computer is.

And the fact that most of your CPUs are idle most of the time doesn't mean you are wasting power. Modern CPU cores conserve power when idle, via P-States (frequency scaling) and C-States (turning off idle cores).

It is probably true that there is a lot of software out there which could take better advantage of parallelism but doesn't, in some cases due to performance not being prioritized, in some cases due to some essential complexity of parallelizing the code, but also in many cases due to accidental complexity of parallelizing code due to unsafe languages like C and C++ that can make it quite difficult to refactor serial code into parallel without worrying about introducing significant bugs.
Agreed. Calendar/time-related bugs are brutally hard to test for, one reason I was so pessimistic about Y2K.
Hopefully our descendants are more confused by how we failed to get society to a place that allows people like this guy to exist.
I generally agree with your comment, however with the substitute teacher idea, I suspect that being an Amazon delivery driver pays a lot better than that in the US. Teachers in this country are compensated extremely poorly, and substitute teachers even worse.

Seriously, I think trying to be a professional writer these days is a terrible career choice. Unless you get lucky with a few best-selling novels or something, you're probably better off driving for Lyft.
Slack should change their random profile pics to these
Let's stay on topic here; being banned from Patreon doesn't limit his speech at all.
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