skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but it depends on how you (and the people of the future) view Patreon. It's true that Patreon does not owe anyone a platform, but neither does Facebook, or Amazon, or privately owned bank or ISP or mobile network operator. And you wouldn't really view an ISP or a bank just as "somebody, who sells you a service", right? There's only so much alternative when you choose an ISP in most of the regions, and pretty much no alternative when you "choose" Facebook. In fact, even if I don't want to have any business whatsoever with the banks, I can't avoid it. My employer just won't pay me in cash. And in some countries you won't be able to pay in cash for most services either.

And, by the way, although I'm more fond of thinking of Patreon as "just a guy, who sells a service" than as a necessity, there's not so much of an alternative for it either. AFAIK.
> Is there an actual project calling itself that, or is that just a figure of speech that the writer of the article used (inaccurately)? Because abandonware, unpublished or reverse engineered software is not automatically open source, which has a very specific legal definition.

Open source does not have a "very specific legal definition". Many different people use that term to mean many different things, the chief commonality tending to be "can you read the source code". Yes, OSI has a specific definition that goes beyond that, but OSI is not a legislative or judicial body, nor do they have authority from any such body to be involved in regulatory activities (contrasted with, say, the Amateur Relay Radio League, or Civilian Marksmanship Program). And personally I hew more towards the FSF's views on the matter than OSI's.

Anyway, it's pretty common in the open source world for a specific name to be trademarked, or assets to be copyrighted, while still making the source itself open. Some examples include SimCity vs Micropolis, Chrome vs Chromium, and Firefox vs IceCat. I'd argue that such projects still count as open source, because the source itself is open, even if you can't use the name or non-code assets. Non-code assets like names, graphics, audio, and documentation are commonly available under different terms or licenses anyway, e.g.: https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Wesnoth:Copyrights Pretty much everyone (OSI, FSF, etc.) agree that code-specific licenses like GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache don't make so much sense when talking about things that aren't software, hence the existence of things like GFDL, CC, etc.
...to be clear: I have not and do not ask the latter. I think blockchain-based assets are super risky and I simply don't know enough about investing to advise people either way.

I do, however, know enough about the tech to conclude that this is a time of great excitement and progress; I'm sad that these feelings aren't more widely shared here in our lively discussions every day.
My point was that you are assuming some sort of libertarian viewpoint where nation-states trying to tax your money are fundamentally corrupt/socialist.

I personally tend to think that in the vast majority of cases govt spending of tax money does more for the greater good than whatever a self-appointed authority would. There are many exception to this, but I still think this is largely true in democracies. But then again I tend to identify as a social-democrat.
>Those using bitcoin for payments saw a utility not provided by other solutions.

Almost no one as few will take btc and that number is shrinking.

>Those investing are a different class of users. Most purchased after hearing get rich stories.

Pretty much everyone who owns btc.
Actually, I'm in UK, I can't recall exactly what but the other day I read advertising copy and thought "the ASA have completely given up then". They're pretty toothless it seems. Other places definitely have it worse.

When practised one does get to spot the key phrasing used to "lie within the regulations", the doublespeak like how people felt this or that our something appeared to be better or more lustrous when [paid] users were asked.
You’re building a Pirates With Attitude?
Incidentally, he also works at Pixar --- and I'm not sure if he was the one who popularised using SDFs there, because I don't remember seeing this stuff before he first put up those webpages explaining SDFs.
I don't see how that's different than what I said? The only difference is that there's now a middle man. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the middle man can't make copies of the work and rent them out, right? They're just passing the rental to another person, who definitely can't make copies of the music.
Watership Down animated films: 2018 vs. 1978 [video]
A lot of times in these discussions folks like to abstract the actual instance that causes a controversy like this and instead change the conversation to rant about political correctness, centralization, and free speech.

If you wrote what this guy wrote in an email at your job you would be fired on the spot, it doesn't matter who you worked for or what industry. No one would be able to get away with this kind of speech on a public forum because it's so outside of societies agreed realm of discourse and deliberately involves language used to justify literal genocide.

Too often online the actual details of controversy are overlooked so folks can get all high minded about free speech. In all honesty it seems like a form of appeasement to me. Take a bit here, take a bit there, and eventually you end up with a gunman shooting up a synagogue and a woman being run over at a white nationalist rally.
I was reading some tangential article the other day which suggested that porn services had difficulty with Visa not doing business with them.
Why are you using negative terms to describe something you seemingly have no experience with?

I wasn't talking about running on fumes at 2am to pounding pounding pounding techno music. I'll have days where I do not feel fully awake until it starts to gets dark. Given many mammals are nocturnal, I would presume there's some bona fide physiological reason for this rather than a deficiency of something else.

At any rate, there's a huge difference in stating advice in a personal-constructive way (for instance, I'm fully aware I presently need to detox caffeine cold turkey, and am waiting for the opportunity to do so), and pushing paternalistic "one size fits all" social mores whereby people on later schedules are assumed to just not be taking responsibility for themselves.
Because I'm not convinced that the benefits outweigh the downsides.

Again, any excessively too high/low (part of a) piece you can transpose in octaves to get it within a reasonable level. Then everyone can read eachother's sheet music without having to adjust.
How machine learning is revolutionizing sales
None of the projects you list have been “wiped out.”
Were they any BTC pioneers who objected strongly to the hype? If not, then I'd say they were at best complicit.
It took me a long time to realise, but these people really do believe in bitcoin/blockchains.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18755360
>You can still torrent films, but you could get prosecuted or fined.

You could, but national laws still vary a lot, and in some countries, the MPAA simply has no power to do anything. Routing BT traffic through those countries with a VPN makes it pretty difficult for them to take action.

>but regulators will understand how the tech works eventually...

Maybe, but they have no power over laws in different countries.
The 1 minute can just be 5 seconds 12 times, which is pretty easy to accomplish with autoplay while scrolling Facebook while never deliberately watching anything.
IDK, is it? "Speeding tickets can catch up to you..." Those only "catch up to you" if you're not paying them. INAL, but I'm not sure there's many situations where having paid speeding tickets is affecting your life that greatly (unless you're trying to commit insurance fraud by misrepresenting your past).

Again, I get the idea that there are people who are failed by the system and the way they're forced to right this wrong is by pretending to be someone new. I'm not even opposed to the idea! But OP is doing a terrible selling the idea to people who aren't on board by framing it that way. I don't even think you need to pointedly obtuse to construe his statement the way I did. If you're going to say "this tool is helpful because the system itself is problematic and possibly corrupted to the point that in the near future the best solution is to circumvent the system rather than reforming it" you need to work pretty hard to pitch that to a mainstream crowd.

Edited addendum: While OP didn't say they want the ability to commit crimes, it took about 20 minutes before a different poster literally said he did, so the intent/desire is out there and pretty obvious.
I'm not an "expert" but that feels just as insane as the npm argument people make. I'd love to hear from someone more in the know as to why they aren't the same.
Did you sell any?
>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.

In fairness, that was actually DS's fault. They went and said "everyone else has banned us, but cloudflare hasn't. Cloudflare agree with what we stand for".

Cloudflares CEO responded by saying "It would be an objectivly bad thing for the world if I used my position as CEO of cloudflare to censor information and opinions. However, if DS's public standpoint is that if I'm not against them I must be with them, then I'm /definitely/ against them".

I think that's reasonable enough, it's pretty cheeky for DS to attempt to usurp cloudflares good name, and totally appropriate for cloudflare to push them under a bus as a response.

>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 wrote a long version of an answer to this, but it started to ramble a lot. Short version: once someone has 50% of the planet as a customer base, as facebook does, they're not a private company any more, they're a public utility. Even with a much smaller userbase, a company could be acting like a public utility in some countries. We should drop regulation and auditing on them like a tonne of bricks, same as we do other de-facto monopolies like the tax department. If companies don't want that, they should work to generate a marketplace of options for customers.
> The result of US society following this advice would be the subjugation of the US, and possibly all western democracies, by other countries.

This seems to be a common sentiment in the USA. Perhaps I'm naive, but you're saying that without your grossly overpowered military the USA would be overtaken by... Mexico? Canada?

I think it's a bit reductionist to simply say "less army = we die". Things are more complex than that. And perhaps you're missing the other side of the coin: "more army = more death". The military industrial complex is very real and this narrative benefits them a whole lot.

There is always a middle ground that doesn't result in the world burning or the USA spending 50% of it's discretionary budget on weapons.
Yes, this sort of tech is likely to make its way into CGI. Some relevant resources if you're interested:

1. This post shows how GANs were used to replicate the Princess Leia scene in Rogue One. The scene in the movie required a team of special effects artists, whereas this required access to lots of images of Carrie Fischer, a GPU, and this technology: https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-video-uses-the-power-of-deepfak...

2. I wrote this popular post on this topic (first page on Google for "deepfakes") that explains how it works, and where it can go for commercial applications: https://hackernoon.com/exploring-deepfakes-20c9947c22d9

3. If you prefer video, I gave a humorous talk on the same recently. It is designed for lay people, and has lots of examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajS0XHzfpU&feature=youtu.be...
Sorry but I don’t buy this anarchist ideology. Evidence shows that these are the most peaceful times in human history, and governments are bigger than ever. Sure, we need to be smart about keeping leaders in check, and progress is jagged, but overall, aren’t you much happier to be born now than 3000 years ago? Would you have preferred to be born at any other time? Because if not, then you must realize that we’re here due to our capacity to unite and form a government that on average contributes to our progress (even if that progress is, admittedly, jagged rather than linear).
Who knows,but I bet some sweet deal was involved. When Netflix started using AWS it wasn’t a thing, it was pretty bad datacenter. Even amazon.com wasn’t using aws (contrary to their marketing material).
Node disagrees. You can `require('./a')` without knowing if its `a.json` or `a.js` or `a.node`. All you need to know about `./a` is the interface it exposes.
The easiest person to fool is yourself.
>> ... types who are generally skeptical of government regulation of business.

Isn't businesses deciding what they want exactly less regulation?

The line they are walking is pretty thin at Patreon but my image of the company is mostly supporting general content creators in the non-ideological spectrum of content. If these people do not fit with their point of view (specified in general in the terms) they may simply be polishing up their image to what they want to look like. It is their choice as they throw away some, at this point still marginal, income. Though as stated in the article, the people leaving could use it as a rallying point and maybe even get out better in the end (subscriber/monetary wise).
Being a daily TS/Node dev for a while now, I'm super excited about Deno. Any idea of when it will be production ready?
> If someone owns 10s of millions of dollars worth of miners that are temporarily turned off, do you think this entity would want an attack to succeed?

Well that depends on how much they're holding and how deep they are in the hole at the given time.

> No. They'd want to protect their future investment in mining equipment.

Unless they were in financial trouble and an attack would get them some cash, fast. The sort of financial trouble that can happen when a company invests, say, millions and millions of dollars into now-unprofitable hardware.
Sadly, the first use will likely be creating lots of more realistic shill accounts on Twitter.
But three different masters of the same song is three different pieces of work, right? A remix is different work, right?
As I understand it, resellers will often put used books up for ridiculous prices when there aren't any other listed used books, just in case someone REALLY needs it.

It's usually something more like $400-500 for a book like this, but I guess $1000+ isn't too farfetched.
How have those so-called breakthroughs had an effect on the world outside the cryptocurrency bubble? Who has used them in industry?
I worked at a company where they hired a new marketing VP.

After a year the CEO stood up with the marketing VP to talk about their amazing marketing accomplishments. I was confused as still nobody really knew our company other than existing customers, our marketing was awkward, social media accounts even more awkward and dumb, and so on.

So they rolled out their big marketing accomplishment. Old youtube advertisements (also way awkward / looked like a video of a bad power point presentation) had been skipped by users at a high rate. Now, ZERO of our youtube ads had been skipped in the past 6 months. This of course made little sense as someone, somewhere, had to have skipped an advertisement right?

Turns out they shortened the ads so that they were below the time that allowed a user to click skip.... and this was their big accomplishment.

It was a non real accomplishment as far as I was concerned ... but they got all the high fives and bonuses, so I guess it was real.
You can do this now with Lambda Layers and the Lambda Runtime API, right?

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-use-any-...
Given that the author or me does not have power to force everyone act the same, it is more reasonable to act with assumption that other people do their thing.

So, if there is already more support for military that I find optimal, it makes sense not to support it altrough in different situation I might decide differently.
PS... how did you find it? Keen to learn from my failures...
Part of this is that we haven't quite figured out what "publishing platform" means. It's not like a printing press (renting time on machine which applies ink) but also not like a magazine (with an editor pushing a view, his name on page 2). Facebook certainly carries a lot of peer-to-peer communications, but wades deep into deciding what's acceptable. Yet unlike magazines, which were always numerous, they have something close to a monopoly.
I also think most software doesn't run for example 32 independent algorithms at the same time, so some of them will have to be parallelised to use the large number of cores we're getting.
Should have phrased it as a joke!
>This individual recommends that society do nothing even though there are other military powers.

Based on the below passage, I do not believe they are advocating for military abolition at all. Your comment implies they want to rid the US of any and all military force but his argument is against the violence that stems from militarization.

He wants more peaceful solutions while maintaining military security.

>A true defense of our country would require both resources and research into non-violent conflict resolution methods. Both of these exist, but are starved compared with the technologies of warfare.
> [...overblown marketing rhetoric...] instantly hurts credibility so much I wonder why it is that it even works, how are most people not turned off by this kind of stuff immediately?

Only a very small fraction of people hear that kind of "revolutionizing your life" message and get turned off to the point of rejecting the vendor completely. And only a small fraction will hear that drivel and actually believe it.

Most folks, I think, just ignore the lofty claims and accept that that's the kind of BS one hears in advertisements and they set their expectations accordingly.

Does it work better than making honest realistic claims (eg "This product is, at best, marginally better than a regular portable dolly and you probably don't even need it.")? I think that marketing folks have something to say about that, that's their job after all. It doesn't matter what you (or I or many people on HN) think.
"The big risk is this: when only a few entities funnel so much societal discourse or control our communication infrastructure or process payments, those entities making arbitrary decisions about who they serve has similar impacts/risks to the government imposing similar restrictions through the law."

So the problem isn't kicking haters off a private platform, it's that corporations have grown to large.

I agree.
The last time I read about this [1] was while working at a Silicon Valley startup with a small team of bright software engineers.

Most were perplexed by the problem as the URL spread, and the article, in my opinion, did more to confuse than explain. The newer article linked here, which I only skimmed briefly, looked to probably make the situation worse judging from its visual aids.

I thought it was obvious and simple to understand (and explain) how this worked:

The wind pushes the vehicle via simple drag forces, this alone can accelerate it, eventually approaching the speed of the wind.

The vehicle also drives a propeller via its forward motion through a mechanical drivetrain.

By spinning, the propellor acts as a forward motion compensator, and the wind will exert force against it even when the vehicle travels at speeds >= the wind.

Introducing sailboat-based analogies does not help understand any of this in my opinion, it only serves to confuse the audience. The folks behind developing this vehicle come from a sailing context, which explains why they're approaching it from that perspective. For the general public, sailing is not a natural model for reasoning about this stuff.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/06/downwind-faster-than-the-wind/
What happens is what's already happening: These platforms start becoming less and less diverse echo chambers where only Silicon Valley approved opinions and world views are allowed, and people who do not hold those opinions or views go off and find alternative services, further isolating people from each other, into their own ideological rabbit holes.
This is a somewhat weak argument. I could say the same thing about door locks.. no lock is perfect and an attacker with sufficient resources can successfully subvert pretty much any lock. We don't depend only on locks but on police, neighbors, security-alarms, etc. This does not mean that locks are useless.

PoW provides some amount of security but in order to pull off a double-spend you have to not only gain majority hashrate, but also somehow actually spend/cash-out both 'copies' of your coins. This carries substantial risk as you first have to be long those coins (not smart when you are attacking the network). Then convince exchanges to convert both 'copies' while hoping they don't have systems that notice the massive increase in hash-rate nor the unexpected fork you are creating.

Simply shorting a coin, then attacking as more of a DoS may be more feasible but still carries risk as a successful defense could positively affect price.
GoFundMe Says All Donors Refunded in Alleged $400,000 Homeless Scam
You can refuse customer. You can not breach already written contract.
True - not wiped out. Just a bit lost as to what is the advantage of using one of the smaller companies' premium products vs AWS/GCP managed versions, and how sustainable that advantage is. I'll update the question.
> 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 people who run the platform?
and half a dozen image formats, font formats, bits of PostScript, I think there is even some XML lurking in there.
Banana Pi to Launch 24-Core Arm Server
> aren’t you much happier to be born now than 3000 years ago?

Indeed I am - this is the most exciting time I can imagine being alive.

And I agree in full with everything you've said.

However, I think that governments, which have been essential for many of the developments we've enjoyed so far (and this is despite their reliably selfish and monopolistic tendencies), have largely run their course and are less useful with each passing day.

I am thankful even for my own government (in the USA), despite it being run in a completely childish fashion at this moment. But recognizing the importance of something doesn't mean that I want it to live forever. Indeed, I think it often means being willing to let it go.
The Living Wage: On Robert Heinlein and Universal Basic Income
Then you're screwed I suppose. To do that they'd likely be performing some sort of replay attack, in which case you should be mitigating against this. There's no magic bullet anywhere.
I would love a wonderful world in which France generally supported democratic leaders and encouraged democratization. Such a world would likely prove the death knell of Francafrique. But it is a complete falsehood that France has that vision, it still supports scores of tyrants in the region, and has looked past the way quite a number of times in the last three years alone.

You seem to think this is still “colonial history”. It is very much still modern history.