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I've been tweeting about this a bit lately. [1] No doubt in my mind that soon it will be possible to take in a movie script and a couple hundred dollars of electricity later output a full movie. Think of the implications, not just for entertainment but for society (eg. politics & criminal justice) in general.

[1] https://twitter.com/ericfaccer/status/1077463342761951232
Sure, but every framework has full support for CPUs.
Leaves 5% then.
Thanks for that, it's the first reply that's given me food for thought.
This strikes me a bit like a "doctor, it hurts when I go like that" problem.

What's the use case [1] for using a zero-length suffix argument (i.e. editing the file "in place" with no backup)?

It's not as if sed is operating on the file actually in place. It uses a temporary file anyway. Varying levels of reliability/portability can be achieved by controlling that temporary file (or subsequent artifacts) oneself, the first level being just to "rm" the backup.

[1] Assuming this is in scripting, since the interactive situation is easily enough adjusted on the fly
Yes, the US could be "strong" but the US isn't just defending its own soil. It's effectively propping up allies all across the globe.

Also, as a percentage of GDP US military spending isn't all that high. It's just over 3% [1]. South Korea is at 2.6%. In most years, Israel outranks the US (they probably could afford to drop their spending because their regional rivals are having very bad domestic problems and are in no condition to attack Israel). In theory, all NATO countries are supposed to spend 2%.
Worth also bearing in mind that we've been here before in other fields. Alchemy ultimately became chemistry.

Indeed but that might be where the analogy breaks down.

I think one say that we just don't know how far we can take "experimental computer science" - where the experimental part is making "random" or actually "seat-of-the-pants" programs and seeing what they do. This is simply new and one could create a physics on top of this particular kind of experimentation is yet to be seen.
He also talks about putting 100 hour weeks. I cant imagine giving time to a wife, kids and self while working 100 hours a week ... this didnt really sell this as realistic to me.
That's what they all say.

You let one joke in, and the next day you have to scroll through thousands of pictures of Pepe the Frog on a bloated app that tracks your every scroll.

If you want to avoid that, you have to nuke all humor from orbit. That's the only way to be sure.
That's true to a point... latest versions of TensorFlow, for example, have caused a few issues with instruction sets that not all CPU's (even produced today) have.
You made the original claim. Do you have any data to back it up?
Just to provide some context, Jörg Schilling is author of star[1], which is listed among key implementations of tar on wikipedia[2].

One can check the problems he noticed in gnu tar implementation in the readme file of his start project:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/s-tar/files/README.otherbug...

But note that the last version of star was released in 2008 and README.otherbugs file is actually from 2001.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/s-tar
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#Key_implementa...
Please discuss which points are biased and how so. Dismissing a long form, fact-specific write up on some of the positive impacts of Chinese investments in Africa as propaganda and adding nothing to the conversation seems to me as lazy-mans propaganda.
> You cannot argue against people that believe an entire race or an entire people should be systematically eradicated.

I think we can, and indeed should argue against such ideas. The goal is not to convince a zealot that his views are wrong, but rather convince the majority of those on the sidelines that those ideas are stupid and will lead to no good. If the ideas are outlandish, arguing against them on merits is easier, not harder. As long as the vast majority of the society sees those ideas as crazy, arguing them stays pretty harmless.

And what is the alternative to arguing on merits? It is tempting to be able to silence unpopular views, but that can backfire -- tomorrow control could change and someone might deny us the ability to speak. "I know the world is flat" needs a better answer than "No! It is round, end of discussion".
I can only talk for AWS, not GCP or Azure, but there are services that can help mitigate DDOS attacks:

Shield (https://aws.amazon.com/shield/) is AWS's DDOS protection service. It's free and is basic protection against L3/4 attacks.

Shield Advanced (same URL as above) is a big step up in price, but gives you access to 'improved protection' and a global response team.

Cloudfront (https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront) is a CDN with global edge locations.

WAF (https://aws.amazon.com/waf) is AWS's web application firewall service. It's less about DDOS and more about specific application attacks, but is part of the whole solution.

For more detail, you can have a look at AWS's DDOS whitepaper: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Security/DDoS_White_Pap...
To me the key question is whether competitive organizations can form around incentive structures based on a decentralized currency. I think doubts and debate on that question are still reasonable.
There’s a mod around to flag my trolling of OP, yet the mod doesn’t have the ability to address OP’s ghosted brain aneurism post.

Hierarchical power structures are flawed in terms of corruptible asymmetry.

A hive mind such as Google/CIA’s needs work. Or, if you’re comfortable with primitive behaviors like Wolfpacks on omega playing out like kids on a playground, carry on.

It’s clear OP is a delusional omega who has been getting picked on. Boys will be boys, right? “If you talk about what happened on the north shore, you’ll never get another job in this town again”. Roflmao

Guy is crying out and google recommends diapers. It’s sociopath forum fodder heaven, indeed. Ultimate schadenfreude.

Feel free to ignore my warnings, dweebs. Your society’s future has unforeseen dangers ahead.
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Is 24 cores really useful for a home file server?
More cores means more flops. It’s going to take increased core “concentration” to get to exascale.
Doesn’t stable after shipping also mean that if a critical vulnerability is found in the version of electron/chromium that you’ve bundled, the user is vulnerable until you are able to issue a fix? What if the app itself is no longer updated?
back in the day !!
Wasn't missing your point, we're on the same page, hence my point about personal responsibility being the solution.

It's anologous to the web but that is on the way of being fixed - csrf, cors etc.
Wrote a blog post: https://manu-chroma.github.io/blog/ramble/exploration/2018/1...
The platform is not a neutral third party arbitrarily interfering with 2 legitimate parties' desire for speech.

The platform, in this case and many, has its own reputation and business interests to consider primarily.

Are the people in charge of these platforms doing the right thing for society at large? no. Are they doing what is best for their businesses health? There are definitely arguments for both sides in that case...

If their largest demographic is liberal-ish millennials, they have a business interest to take a partisan view, which in the case of a public company can be argued as a legal obligation.
It would be imprecise, but if you only need to sow chaos, you don't care where precisely the drone goes. Plus you've dragged in a host of external dependencies, all hungry and some of them networked: GPS and left_pad and bcmath, oh my!
I hate it , at what point does the word "real" mean when you cant tell the difference? This is not helpful at all
I'm curious if your team is ever able to be together in the same location and how often if you do? I'm a firm believer that remote can work, but by getting a chance to spend some time face to face, have dinner or a beer together, you learn a bit more about each other than you can via phone and video calls. That face time is very humanizing. You don't have to learn all about their family, dogs and cats, but you do learn more about their body language, how they like to work, many little things you just don't get when you're not face to face.
> I fail to see how this is the case. It does absolutely grant the power to regulate speech.

I didn't say it prevented speech regulation in general. I said that it attenuated the previous regime of speech regulation. It does so by replacing it with a new one, where speech norms are determined by a tiny group of people in unelected, unreviewable positions at private companies.

> The evidence really does indicate that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Despite the constant concern over Trump's comments on immigrants, for example, support for immigration in the US is at record levels.[1][2] Despite the concern over explicitly fascist rallies at Charlottesville and DC, these rallies actually cased a significant drop in support for far-right.[3] And lastly, while the Republican has become a party of Trump and has adopted much of his rhetoric the result has been largely bad for the party. They lost over a dozen seats in the midterm election - surprising given that the midterms are when the Republicans tend to do well.

You may be right. But the story is far more complex than you're letting on. If sunlight is always the best disinfectant, then why did these movements gain steam in the first place? Sure, after an adverse event like Charlottesville, support may drop. But these movements just elected a president. Where was the disinfectant then?
A53 is a rather slow in-order core. I am not sure what use cases they imagine for this.
suddenly the anti china and anti us propaganda went from one article every two weeks, to three articles every day.

i wonder how many of us really wants to live the rest of our lives in nuclear winter? if we are "lucky".
Those trying to set up their own local networks - torpedod on every step of the way by the monopolists beg to differ.
I applaud Patreon's principled and value based stance. Hate speech is a difficult thing to address, and building social pressure against it is one of the few valuable tools we have.
Of course they do; do you have a more specific point or argument?
If the difference is so obvious, why do we need to censor?
Sounds like an actual use for a blockchain! One could even commingle others’ checksum streams in order to make it even more difficult to rewrite history.
Very weak article, as pointed out by other comments. There isn't even the beginning of a proof of a connection between wit and exaggeration, and the examples don't help.
They've cornered the market and don't have to care anymore.

A lot of Slack's audience is captive - employees, contributors to open source projects that chose Slack as their social outlet, etc.
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I agree, if not sarcasm, "kikes are ruining everything" was clearly intended as mockery. I listened only the to the first part of the video, and then grabbed quotes from the transcript. If I'd understood the context, I wouldn't have included that one as an example.
I deleted my patreon account last week. I feel sorry for the artists I supported every month, but I cannot in good conscience continue to support any service that erodes cultural free speech anymore.

As I see it, the radical left is on a course to set humanity back a couple hundred years.
> We did not rally optimism and childlike curiosoty from the general public for HTTP or TCP/IP.

Yes we did! It took a lot to get people excited about the internet, and a lot of naysayers made it a dramatic feat. The difference is that I'm hoping not to find this kind of negativity and name-calling here on HN.

> you folks not only took on the technologically inclined people but dragged the unaware general public into the mud took their money and fueled your drug-induced, darkweb fantasies of lambos and Porsches.

Please show me where I did anything even vaguely resembling this. I assert that I've been a reliable, honest contributor and spoken with my code. I've never been part of a public sale, nor ever made any promises of any kind to anybody who was participating in a public sale. NuCypher will not hold a public sale until our network is ready for use by real application developers. Full stop. That is the opposite of shilling.

Why are you attacking me personally here?
Worst of them all, Vancouver, with none of the economy present in other expensive cities.

Fuck this miserable place.
> The government, soapboxes, homes and places of business that are happy to have them.

This made a lot of sense when I was a kid. Since that time, communication has become incredibly centralized - whether it’s the platform (eg, YT), or the infrastructure to keep it running (eg, Cloudflare.)

Today, if one or two private enterprises decide they want to eliminate your voice, you’re effectively barred from the public square. You can’t roll your own cloud flare.

When private resources so entirely consume our public interactions, the old stand-by of “well, private companies can do what they want...” seems to engage in a form of category error. It may be a private organization, but it’s dominating a public good.
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How much is your time worth vs the robocallers ?
You can't write on them or annotate them with visible bookmarks.
The cynicism has been well earned by all the hype with nothing to show for it. The best thing the cryptocurrency community can do is accept the lumps on the head, taste some humble pie, and shut down the hype machines until there is actually something useful to show. Cryptocurrency is the only technology that requires so much vociferous defense.
At first I was shocked by how large a sled he dragged. I use a much smaller sled (just a deer sled). Then I saw how smooth the terrain was at least where the photo was taken.

Then I read that he was out for 53 days. And of course his conditions are far, far more grueling than I have ever faced (all in North America). So then I was shocked at how little he had with him!
The practical real world beneficiaries of IP law in modern time are nigh exclusively international business conglomerates using it for rent seeking. The number of individual creatives who use the courts to enforce their copyrights as a revenue stream are drops from a spigot next to a torrential river of institutionalized copyright trolling, cross-lawsuits between dozens of lawyers from fortune 500s, and the systemic privatization of culture as a means for profit.

Whole generations have had their heritages locked up in corporate coffers for going on a century now with no end in sight, and that kind of abuse will leave lasting scars on humanity as a whole. I would anticipate historians a millennia from now might reflect on this time as having sufficient creative and intellectual death by copyright aside other calamities like global warming, exploitation of third world labor, or nuclear proliferation as the principal sins of the 20th and 21st century.
Although things elsewhere in the world might not be as bad, very similar pictures of poor people suffering can be taken even in the U.S.

This is borderline propoganda when put in the context of the anti-China spew of posts I have been seeing on HN lately.
If they aren't highly unpopular then there should be a demand and market for services/platforms that do allow those opinions.

Even though not as large, another company/service should be able to fill the void.
I am really curious, why isn't there any popular FOSS P2P for live streaming? It's very easy to get any show, movie, game via torrents but you can't just do the same for a live football match, is there a technical obstacle for this?
We did this too, so many reasons. Lots of bugs, no printer support without using private APIs, etc etc.

It’s really not an option. That and you have to rebuild everything for Win/Linux builds. Just makes no sense.

Also you can’t ship your own updated WKWebView.
This is total crap. That norm was long abandoned. Absolutely no one on the right defends freed of speech as a cultural norm. The modern right uses "freedom of speech" as a proxy to discriminate/marginalize and spread hate speech.

Edit:Boohoo, I offended the snowflakes.
It just balances out the last ten years of pro Chinese propaganda.
> Everything you write in Rust is required to be thread-safe

Either you have a poor understanding of thread safety or Rust has solved the halting problem.
Here is a simplified picture.

The propellers are being pushed into a spin by the difference between the airspeed and the groundspeed. (Note that the propellers are locked to the ground by the wheels.) As they spin, the blades generate lift. That lift then pushes the craft forward.

Take away the difference between airspeed and groundspeed, and nothing is keeping the blades spinning. Therefore the system will run to a stop due to friction.

The connection between spin and lift is mediated by aerodynamics, not a mechanical linkage. And aerodynamics allows the vehicle to be pushed faster than the spin. Which is why, if you get friction low enough, it can go faster than the wind. And not slightly faster, but a lot.
Please at least add a HUGE disclaimer that all the NuCoin things are your own products and not some childlike curiosity. It's important that people understand that because HN doesn't allow ads without disclaimers.
Yeah we use graphics cards because they are cheaper per FLOP than a bunch of CPUs. Using cheap CPUs isn't really going to change that.
I'm proud of my work, and that of the rest of our team. I don't think I have ever shilled. If you think I'm morally obliged to be silent about my work, where does it end? Am I supposed to shut down my github account too?
Haha that is a quirk specific to Russia and similar countries. I've certainly never had to cook anything
Colin just accomplished an incredible feat of endurance! His daily Instagram postings have been inspirational to read for the past 53 days. Other info about his expedition:

https://www.colinobrady.com/theimpossiblefirst

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/18/sports/antarc...
I wonder what the price point will be. I always wanted a low cost DIY NAS server with PLEX server capabilities. I tried with a RasPi 3 but had some problems with it hanging up all the time when I ran a SAMBA server concurrently.
Right. "West Point cadet hoping to sort into Slytherin" was amusing, too.

Also: "Army promotion boards for Majors to consider ‘face punchability’"
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Hey now... don't drag Signal into this.
That's how speech works since the concentration of press at the middle of the XX century, and I don't think there's anybody claiming it was a good thing. It has never before been that way.

The internet did break the press oligopolies, and brought some free exchange of ideas, carrying large changes. But instead of staying a platform where ideas can compete as equals, it is consolidating again on the hand of a few all-powerful individuals.
The book Why We Sleep mentions some experiments comparing the difference between 8 and 7 hours per night. I haven't looked into the actual studies, but the book suggests that 8 hours of sleep opportunity is the ideal for most people.
Add it to the already long list of software that misbehaves over NFS.

Ceph/RBD with the filesystem of your choice that supports xattrs is pretty much the only way to get full application compatibility.
There are multiple libraries that give you just that with significantly lower footprint than a full browser engine (which is just a horribly inefficient blob of bloat you're trying to use as a cross-platform shim).
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It certainly does seem to be a "scheme" but I wonder how it compares to other fiat or gold currency when looked at through a "scheme" lens.
It's a great achievement but I don't think framing it as thinking akin to humans is a valid framing.

>AlphaZero gives every appearance of having discovered some important principles about chess, but it can’t share that understanding with us.

No, it doesn't have any new principles, it just has a very good system of weights.

Imagine a perfect computer that plays the game by mapping out every single move. AlphaZero is a series of optimizations that allow for an efficient but lossy simulation of such a computer. Most of the research in this area is about making an oracle more practical/more accurate estimations of the theoretically correct response. I think it's fair to call it brute force with optimizations.
This disagrees with my experience working in this space every single day.

Most projects in the Node ecosystem will continue to use CJS. If you are writing "Node software", like web servers, there is no reason not to just use CJS. It will remain a well-supported and well-used option for as long as Node stays relevant. CJS stays a "first-class citizen" by not changing anything, so you get your wish by default.

On the other hand, activating Node ESM support is a conscious choice. This will typically happen on a project-by-project basis. When I say "project", I mean a single GIT repository, a single NPM module, a single Web site, or something like that. If your organization is big enough to have multiple teams (mine is), each project typically has its own team.

The interfaces between these projects are usually package.json files. This is true even for giant code-bases like Babel that live in a single GIT repo but have dozens of tiny sub-projects. Within a project, people use local file references like `import('./util/foo.js')`. Between projects, people use bare import specifiers like `import('lodash')` or `import('@babel/parser')`.

So, I think it's safe to say that a team decides to switch on ESM support, they know what is going on within their own little world. Their `import` statements can be ESM-only for local files, and they will have zero trouble. Meanwhile, if bare module specifiers like `import('lodash')` rely on package.json metadata, nobody needs to care what the other teams are doing. Any project can enable / disable ESM support at any time, and nobody will know the difference.

This all goes back to an old organizational principle that the boundaries within a company often manifest themselves as boundaries within the software architecture. This has to do with the communication overhead of coordinating changes between teams. It's easier to codify the organization structure into a versioned interface than to face the chaos of just "winging it". In the Node ecosystem, this translates practically into versioned package.json files and bare module specifiers. If your requirements don't take this into account, then I am genuinely curious in hearing what your workplace culture is like.
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At some point, yes, they would. The whole point of the article is that people with the technical knowledge to maintain and improve the US miltary shouldn't do it. Luckily, reaching a critical mass of scientists and engineers with such attitude, enough for basic defense systems to fail, seems unlikely. But there's such an horizon.

I wonder why the Russians are not launching invasions of several resource rich African countries as we speak.

Because the US is far stronger. And still they grabbed half Ukraine, at the border of NATO, way more important than most African countries. Same with China, the South China Sea, and expansion via artificial islands.

If Russia and China can get away with that, the US being vastly superior from a military standpoint, what world destabilization, or plain open war would happen if the US just a bit weaker?

And, BTW, the war has started already, in the information battleground, with US and Western Europe's being ravaged by Russian and Chinese attacks.

The naivete point stands. We need more computer scientists defending Western democracy values, because today, more than ever, they're under attack.