skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with your assessment, but you are dancing around an important point.

Most people in the world don't live in a first world democracy. Today, many of these countries are stable and providing currency for their citizens. But ask a Venezuelan if they can see a reason why we might want an alternative to a state backed currency and I feel like the answer is self-evident.

Vitalik saw this use case and talked about how disheartened he was by the ICO boom because it was use cases like this that he believed in, so it isn't at all an afterthought.
The fact that electricity or head trauma (i.e. blunt instruments) have improved creative output in some individuals suggests to me that many of us may be unwittingly inhibiting our creativity. If so, how and why?
Another similar context:

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902105

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9189096
Having lost my own father to Parkinson's Disease (PD), my mother-in-law to a different progressive neurological disease and now watching my father-in-law walk through PD as well, your comment caught my attention. So I wondered if clinicians are doing fecal transplants to restore function in PD patients? A bit of searching and scanning found the following review

Gut microbiota: Implications in Parkinson's disease
Parashar, Arun et al.
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, Volume 38, 1 - 7 [1]

Key passage

"This autonomic input from the gut is connected to the limbic system of the brain, which includes the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the limbic cortex. Limbic cortex is of importance since it regulates motor functions, which are impaired in PD. The connection between the limbic system and ANS is a critical factor underlying between gut health and brain & behavior [77]. Recently, it was found that fecal transplant from PD patients exacerbated motor impairment with reduction in Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococceae in recipient mice model of PD. Interestingly, same genera were significantly reduced in fecal samples from PD patients [27] link below [2].

Several case reports of patients with PD, multiple sclerosis, myoclonus dystonia, Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and autism have shown that FMT and/or antibiotic regimen was helpful in treating GIT symptoms like constipation, ulcerative colitis, and bowel disorders. Further, the therapy was helpful in relieving several non-GIT symptoms too"

[1]https://www.prd-journal.com/article/S1353-8020(17)30036-6/fu...

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mds.26307
BBC News published good article about the event too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/bM5diyl48K/alcock
http://libgen.io/search.php?req=slaughterhouse+five&open=0&r...

http://booksdescr.org/ads.php?md5=B238DC565A4E2BB3FA5FBA8D9E...
What those people actually mean is "I can't wait for AI to be so good that it'll be obvious that it should run all the aspects of our society". The current state is irrelevant, nobody wants to put those in charge.
This causes disruption to not just one airport but many. Diverting planes and generally making a mess of flight plans is most definitely putting lives in danger.
Social media alarmed over Google mistranslation of sentences about Hong Kong
How to get clang++ to find link.exe
Don't forget manufacturers of "long release" versions requiring prescription of fewer higher dosage pills instead of more smaller and incidentally cheaper ones.
The premise of Mozilla's Servo is that there are major performance and security issues in all the current browsers that are very hard to fix without a full rewrite. Because we have multiple competing browsers and solid standards, instead of a single widely used reference implementation, it's possible that Servo may succeed at this.

If we switch to an open source browser engine monoculture we lose competition among rendering engines, and may never get something much better than what we have now.
No? Never saw videos like this one?
https://youtu.be/i93Z7zljQ7I
Ownership of significant portions of Western States (close to 85% in the case of Nevada [0]) has long been a complaint but is unequivocally constitutional inasmuch as many of the Western states were created from Federal land and the Constitution explicitly grants the Federal Government the right to regulate and dispose of the land as it sees fit. Also, a positive aspect to Federal land ownership is the creation of massive National Parks in many of the states where the Federal Government is a significant land owner. Such parks would have been unlikely if ownership of the land had been vested in the states themselves which traditionally have lobbied to have the land deployed more "productively" (agriculture, mining, etc). This is an ongoing issue in such places as Utah where local state officials have lobbied, and succeeded, in having the the size of Federal lands reduced.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8046349/federal-government-lan....
There should be, I agree.

But I think it comes back to the old adage that “there’s a time and place” for it.

I think that forming a community around roleplaying extreme satire has proven problematic and is not the way to carry it out.
YouTube Censors Tim Pool Video on Pinterest Exposé
I thought it was pretty obvious that it was generated automatically based on how much it depends on the exact keywords you search for.

I think that given a certain set of products, the algorithm actually seems to do a pretty good job of making a recommendation for the best product out of the set based on the ratings or whatever it looks at, but the bigger problem is that if you aren't searching for exactly the right keywords the choice of the best product becomes completely meaningless, and blindly tacking on the "amazon's choice" recommendation obscures the fact that your search is too narrow to provide a meaningful recommendation in the first place. (I'm sure there is some filtering based on ratings but because of how common fake reviews are, if you're looking at niche products they'll almost all have fairly high ratings anyway.)

It's probably better to not provide a recommendation than to recommend a bad product, so maybe they should try to narrow it down to more common categories.
Western society can be extraordinarily oppressive.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/introducing-the-scarlet-e-...
Per capita, which seems like a more fair comparison, plenty of Western countries produce more CO2 than China; the US and Canada each produce about twice as much.
Vector instructions or GPGPU.
This touches on an interesting change in the trend of conspiracy theories. To quote an article from The New Yorker:

>“Classic” conspiracy theories, according to Muirhead and Rosenblum, arise in response to real events—the assassination of John F. Kennedy, say, or the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Such theories, they argue, constitute a form of explanation, however inaccurate they may be. What sets theories like QAnon apart is a lack of interest in explanation. Indeed, as with the nonexistent child-trafficking ring being run out of the nonexistent basement, “there is often nothing to explain.” The professors observe, “The new conspiracism sometimes seems to arise out of thin air.”

>The constituency, too, has shifted. Historically, Muirhead and Rosenblum maintain, it’s been out-of-power groups that have been drawn to tales of secret plots. Today, it’s those in power who insist the game is rigged, and no one more insistently than the so-called leader of the free world.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/whats-new-abou...

It's almost like society in the US (mainly) has become so fractured that some in-power-groups actually think they're the underdogs.
AFAIU Muller didn’t even investigate that. His investigation was solely based around the campaign.
I won't say I didn't miss anything, but it seems that function is used for 3rd parties, and the real ip is still stored in the database anyway at least until deletion of a post

$query = prepare(sprintf("INSERT INTO ``posts_%s`` VALUES ( NULL, :thread, :subject, :email, :name, :trip, :capcode, :body, :body_nomarkup, :time, :time, :files, :num_files, :filehash, :password, :ip, :range_ip_hash, :sticky, :locked, :cycle, 0, :force_anon, :embed, NULL)", $board['uri']));

>poster_id is probably called with the hashed IP address.

But even if the database was wiped, as far as I can tell, poster_id still uses the old method posted below. So as long as the secure_trip_salt hasn't changed, which probably wouldn't unlike $hashSalt which was meant to rotate, and you could get the threadid and postid from a screenshot or archive, by running the range of ipv4 addresses through the function, you would get due to the uniformity property of sha-1, approximately 256 aliases of which one is from the poster.

So if I was the FBI and 8chan was not able to provide IP addresses, I would ask what the secure_trip_salt was and generate the table and match it to all the posts in that thread or at least the most significant ones, then trim down the matching IPs. After that I would query to isps or other entities who own or monitor the remaining IP addresses, and using the timestamp, get the identity of the person, if they weren't using a secure VPN that does not log and I could not deanonymize.

------------------------------

Poster id still is used as follows:

The files:

templates/post_reply.html
templates/post_thread.html

Contain:

{% include 'post/poster_id.html' %}&nbsp;

And poster_id.html contains:

{% if config.poster_ids or (mod|hasPermission(config.mod.show_ip_less, board.uri)) %}
{% if post.ip == config.tor_ip_hash %}
<span class="poster_id" title="This user is posting via the Tor hidden service.">000000</span>
{% elseif post.thread %}
<span class="poster_id">{{ poster_id(post.ip, post.thread, board.uri) }}</span>
{% else %}
<span class="poster_id">{{ poster_id(post.ip, post.id, board.uri) }}</span>
{% endif %}
{% endif %}

Which still call the poster_id function in https://github.com/OpenIB/OpenIB/blob/master/inc/functions.p...

which returns:

return substr(sha1(sha1($ip . $config['secure_trip_salt'] . $thread . $board) . $config['secure_trip_salt']), 0, $config['poster_id_length']);
I think if they just added coupons to your cvs card and emailed you a summary it would be a better customer experience
Stimulous seems pretty nice, and can beused without a bundler :-)

https://stimulusjs.org/
That saying is wrong.

Newton’s Laws are absolute in a typical human context. A better model must explain everything covered by newton and more. Discovering that better model doesn’t make newton wrong.
Naturally my tools are not comparable to React, because by targeting WebComponents they support everyone on the browser instead of the React developers silo.

And best of all, they are even usable from React.
Except what would really happen is people insisting that there's no actual racism involved, because software cannot be racist, rather the purely technical and politically neutral fact that black people do (chromatically speaking) resemble gorillas more than white people, meaning the algorithm is correct to make the association.

And once it was changed, people would complain that it's just another example of Google being run by extremist far-left ideologues who are ruining the meritocratic purity of tech with their social justice agenda.
For one, where is the assumption drawn that OP determined they were his enemy?

OP described traits they carried and presented to the world, nothing more.

In my case, I wouldn’t consider that kind of person my enemy. I pity them, though. I think it’s sad, and it the traits come out of pain and a life not examined with honesty.
Good to know. For small personal things that need JS, I too tend to just go for jQuery, or increasingly stick to vanilla JS. React is ridiculously overcomplicated for small projects[0] IMO. I always thought that Vue is just a React competitor/copycat, so never bothered to investigate it. Since you say it offers more lightweight vDOM with no JS NPM tooling bullcrap, I'll look into it, so thanks!

--

[0] - I used React a bit, and I can only stomach it when working with ClojureScript, which gives some sanity to the syntax and language - but that's another pretty large and very complex dependency to be included in the pipeline!
> Irony is currently used as a conscious strategy by the extreme right. They know that it gets a pass from ordinary people. While permitting the sincere to organize in plain sight.

I have yet to see any platform that falls under the scope of "the far right" that hasn't been heavily criticized by every which way, no matter how ironic. What are you referring to exactly?
What are the people thinking who say they can't wait for our society to be run by humans? The most common state of human government capability can't even put human suffering before numbers in a virtual bank account, can't prioritise truth over falsehood, can't restrain themselves from bribery, can't reliably turn up to hearings or ballots, can't organise projects and complete them, can't compromise when millions of people depend on it. We want to dismiss alternatives which haven't even been developed yet for not being good enough?
> democracy .... is ... deeply flawed in every permutation.

> striving to make it better

And you are going to fix it... But voice you have does not have enough punch... And desperate situation requires desperate measures...

Still f*k you.
Ya, good point. Probably should have said "owned & run by govt or worker collective". OTOH, depending on how it is run, the worker collective could be just effectively local govt. Seems we're getting down to splitting hairs...
Scan down the page and look at the dates.
>A blockchain isn't necessary because there's no double spending to prevent.

A "chaining of hashes of the previous blocks" has other uses than preventing double spending of currency. It also acts as a "incrementing clock" of record-keeping that's resistant to tampering.

E.g. The "blockchain" started by Surety[1][2] in 1995 in The New York Times published hashes that depended on previous hashes. They could have published hashes that were independent of previous hashes but they didn't. It would not provide the same anti-tampering guarantees.

(I'm only replying to your assertion about blockchain's "double spending" use case in isolation and not commenting on whether the thread's article is a good idea.)

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17865168
An annoying and tedious game, played often by physicists...
This is my current view, too.

There is no "double spend" possibility. There is necessarily a trusted source. Why not get the benefit of that centralized source and have the government host a plain database?
Very broad question. But broadly, it would be:

Find out what "it" does, then change it so that it is:

1. Faster

2. Cheaper

3. Less likely to break
This goes back to the ambiguity of the definition of orbit. If I have a system with two points involved in some sort of rotational motion, then there isn't a "best choice" for which point should be considered the origin of my coordinate system.
To be nitpicky, isn't that a Merkle tree?
>There is no denying they were hate filled racists.

And you know this how, exactly?

To the left, everyone with a different opinion is a racist or Nazi. It's losing all meaning.
Intent definitely matters. Freedom of speech protects satire, but doesn't protect threats.
There’s no reason to trust Amazon’s Choice
The thing you are missing that what UNIX devs rely on the command line for, is easily achievable by scripting, REPLs, and IDE integration.

For example I can do everything I need from Python or PowerShell from inside Visual Studio, just like Xerox PARC devs used to do with their REPLs on Lisp, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar workstations.

Naturally I am forced to drop down to old style command line every now and then, but that is forced upon me by tools I don't create, and most of the time they are ports from UNIX tooling.
Well, from what I've seen some of the following are common patterns too (with almost any failure story):

- Thinking your idea is some million dollar unique concept that others are desperate to 'steal', and only talking to people if they sign an NDA.

- Not knowing the audience your projects/products/companies/services are for, and making someone no one actually wants or needs.

- Copying other companies without having any real way to differentiate your product. This can in theory work if you can do things for super cheap (I think Rocket Internet or someone like that in Germany does it), but most copycats tend to fail.

- Expecting others to do all the work while being the 'ideas guy'.

- Relying too much on people who you don't know, who don't live nearby, who aren't being paid and have no loyalty to you.

- Getting stuck in an endless cycle of feature/scope creep, and not putting out a MVP. This is probably my own biggest issue, for pretty much everything under the sun.

- Launching at the wrong time, especially if your market has moved on. Actually, these last two points kinda go hand in hand really, you spend so long working on an unproven idea with no hurry to get anything done that by the time it does get released your 'audience' has long since left and moved onto other things, and the rest of the world has left you behind in terms of tech, aesthetics, design, etc.
There are a lot of citizen science initiatives you can participate in including folding at home and so on. Your best bet is going to be to find a field you love and find experts in the field to work with and learn from - theres definitely a lot of lack fo software talent in some areas that you'd be able to make a dent into but outside of citizen science initiatives, you need to start with understanding the problems that need to be solved which can be much more technical and difficult to understand than they ultimately could be to solve. Good luck!
>I love playing easy pieces.

Yes. And playing easy pieces well enough that other people want to listen is still hard.
Mozilla files FTC comments calling for interoperability (2018)
May I assume then that you consider Bell helicopter corporation to be equally sleazy?

They leased a Eurocopter for 'evalaution purposes' and then built their own helo with the same patented (CA 2207787) landing gear.

The Canadian court even awarded punitive damages in civil case 2012 FC 113.

Note that there a) is a claimant with an actual localised patent number, and b) who cared enough to open a case.

I'v yet to see both in a complaint against Chinese companies.

Which is not to say it doesn't exist, but where are the chinese patent numbers, and where are the case numbers?

Let's have the data.
>by the extreme right

Just to clarify, 8chan is the one with the /leftypol/ board.
Well, CO₂ is also a fine little molecule that's crucial to most life on Earth. The problem with CO₂ isn't the molecule, it's the amount of it being released, and that despite the dangers being widely known, the market is greedy and just doesn't care. It's the same with JavaScript - the language is what it is. But the ads, the trackers, the Node tooling, the ever-increasing frontend bloat, the user-hostile design stemming from it - these are the problems.
Provide funding for high school students to spend a summer working in a research lab? The amount of funding doesn’t need to be high and it may pique early interest for the next generation .
It doesn't matter which party is in control, no action will be taken. Any action that takes a significant bite out of CO2 emissions will either cause a major decline in standard of living, or have an enormous financial cost. The people who answer that poll don't understand that. When they find out it will not be pleasant for whatever party is in power. The politicians from all parties know this. That's why they make lots of declarations and promises to do things by 2050 but take insignificant actions like banning plastic straws.
This is actually the best rebuttal I’ve seen so far, thank you.

I still think it’s unfair to compare a drone inside restricted airspace (and notified well ahead of time) to an explosive device in the terminal.

But I can certainly see how the two things can be put in the same category by many people.
Regarding the last point: try applying libraries like Quantum espresso [1] or CP2K [2] to real world problems and apply machine learning with the solutions they provide to a given problem. There's a tremendous amount of academic research being done in this direction but try and take these libraries and make them useful for real world applications.

[1] https://github.com/QEF/q-e

[2] https://github.com/cp2k/cp2k
It's only a joke till there aren't enough supporters
For anyone who want it: Apple includes the full WWDC keynote, unedited, on their YouTube channel, including the moment in question (at https://youtu.be/psL_5RIBqnY?t=6118)
The Scarlet E
Keras for Beginners: Building Your First Neural Network – Victorzhou.com
I am one of those who doesn't like to be forced to do anything. I believe in freedom, choice, and competition. Whenever a Fortune 500 company IT department literally pushes a particular piece of software to all their machines, (e.g. Chrome) you can be sure that it's the worst possible option. So I use Firefox instead.
A raspberry is quite an overkill for an environmental sensor. You could achieve the same with an Cortex M4 (minus the microphone).
> Even if it was a paid ad, any sort of endorsement from Amazon would certainly "fool" all the middle aged parents out there who can't be arsed to do extensive research on third party reviews.

What is surprising that educated people are more aware of marketing/advertising/capitalism?

I only had to see some fake business accounts for large companies(Aldi) acting like real users to put my on high alert for anything on the Internet.
Is this your first day in human society? A user asked for an explanation of a highly nuanced aspect of rural English culture and I gave an answer based on my actual life lived in that culture.

There is no way to get from my comment to your comment without bringing a mountain of your own pet grievances and preconceptions to the table.
Big Media is dying and they are desperate to shut down competition. This is a political article and nothing more.
I think the article is forgetting that the "tech industry" includes startups. Sure bic companies are rigid top tldown structures, they need to be to accomplish what they want to do. But those companies aren't the ones we look to to break new ground in technology. The market as a whole Is not hierarchical and those who participate in the corporate structures are free to leave AMD start their own structure. That's what makes California the 5th largest economy in the world and while the Soviet union is dead.
There was this lady that encouraged some weak boy to commit suicide, for the sport as well, and succeeded. It's tricky to find the line between teenage shitposting (hey TSA, my new song is da bomb!) and premediated psychopathic enticement on weak prey to commit something horrible.
Creativity as in non-incremental, real new creativity, is about connecting things that are not connected. You connect a boulder going down a hill with a Piece of wood a friend carpenters into a table- and you got a wheel.

Now the brain is ruthlessly efficient when it comes to not do things that are not rewarded. Beeing creative means having tons of such connections missfire- and if you do not reward that process over time, by following some of the more plausible misfires- your brain will reduce that behaviour.

Conciously rewarding these missfirings, and not supress them by filtering out "irrelevant nonsense because we already have a ideal procedure" is a way to train for more creativity.