skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Esports" typically refers to professional competitive gaming, not to video games in general -- the focus is on viewership, not participation. There are some related side industries which might fit that description (like esports betting sites), but the industry itself isn't particularly "addictive", at least no more than traditional sports.

The classification of sex and pornography as "addictive" has been controversial, and all I'll say about that is that there is no scientific consensus that they should be considered as such.
I've just discovered Coinbase Commerce [1], it's an awesome way to quickly start accepting cryptocurrencies, they offer hosted payment pages, payment buttons, webhooks, everything you want. It took me a couple of minutes to sign up and configure a hosted payment page to start accepting donations for my projects.

It's rare that I'm excited about a service, but this one appears to come with no strings attached, the wallet is even generated on the client-side.

[1] https://commerce.coinbase.com
Switched about a year ago, very satisfied with that decision and the whole experience.

Everything just works great, I never need to worry about stuff randomly slowing down or my battery dying midway through the day (mind you, my previous device was a flagship android phone Galaxy S8+, so it isn't like I am comparing my iPhone to a cheap entry-level android device).

First week or two were a bit confusing, because the UI/UX shortcuts and flow are so different from android. But after that, I found things to be more intuitive and efficient. The phone displays zero signs of battery degradation or slowing down, everything is just as blazing fast as it was the day I bought it. Battery lasts me easily over a day of normal usage, almost 2 days if I use it lightly.

OS updates arrive fast and to all phones at the same time, without me having to wait 6+ months for my manufacturer to finally push them. With Android, it was extremely annoying to see all those cool new features that people got, but I have to wait many months for (not even talking about security patches). And that's assuming I will ever receive any kind of OS updates on Android 2+ years after the release.

Also, App Store experience is definitely more refined than the garbage pile that Play Store is.

Switching out iPhones is painless too, as all your session data is included in the (encrypted) backups. So you don't need to log-in again into every single app and set up all your custom settings again when you get a new phone. You just wait until the restore from backup completes, and you are set.

I realize that my take might sound a bit biased, and it probably is, but I am just very glad I've made the jump. My last iPhone before going all android until the last year was iPhone 4, and imo it is miles ahead of where it is used to be in terms of overall user experience.

tl;dr: if you want a solid device that just works well and performs exactly as you want it to, you won't be disappointed. If you want to fully customize your phone, sideload a different OS, do some hacky stuff, then Android would be a better choice.
I think the vendors are often reluctant to move to systems like this as well, because a lot of their business model is of the form "subscribe to this thing" and put a recurring charge on the credit card in the hopes that the customer will be reluctant or embarrassed to cancel.
I think you're missing a key part of my point.

> This is why there are different levels of security. But my GitHub isn't so sensitive that if I lose access I don't want anyone to ever get access. Yet at the same time it is sensitive enough (and GitHub is attacked enough) that I don't think just a user name and password is sufficient.

Yes, there is stuff people would rather have destroyed than get into the wrong hands. But I personally can't think of any. But I do think we all agree that a password alone is not secure enough. What I'm saying is that there shouldn't be two choices. There should be middle grounds. SMS is not a great recovery tool for 2FA because it is trivial to fake. Specifically with my GitHub I'm okay with my security not being invulnerable to nation state actors. But I don't want it to be hacked because of a dictionary attack with some modifications. If someone has a copy of my passport then there's much bigger problems that I have than my GitHub being hacked.

The key part here is that there should be varying levels of security. The two levels we have (no 2FA vs 2FA) is too small.

* as to the IP: I was suggesting that it was being used in combination with other stuff. Not a standalone verification. Just like your phone number should never be a standalone verification. We're talking multifactor.
In case it wasn't clear, I am not suggesting ALL data must be signed/attributed.

Entertainment, for example, can be safely consumed and have little impact on your day to day regardless of the source. Provided it's clearly meant for entertainment purposes.

However once you introduce some dependency of trust into your process (monetary transactions, health related data exchange, etc), I believe most people in this crowd would agree that they want crypto identity and attribution applied to the data at every stage of transformation.

And then there's everything in the middle... which again, I think should be left to the individual. Norms would eventually develop that would guide best practices.

Pipe dream stuff I know, but I don't see another way out. Open to other suggestions. And especially open to criticism about this approach. I don't want to be the one with the answer.

I just want an answer.
Hey, MD here... You are right that these tradeoffs are difficult to engineer.

However, it's easier to make it work on top of a more radical shift in hardware. At the basic level, we are just using simple random matrix-vector mults. Of course, the photonics or other analog low-energy approaches have to win in the market for this operation, and that will be tested empirically (though there has been a ton of investment into this kind of processing going analog as we discuss in the paper).
Really? We're the #2 consumer of cars, about half of the annual car sales of China.
I'm not very knowledgable about db internals so sorry if this comes off as ignorant, but in an era where cpus execute billions of instructions per second per core, is 10000 jobs per second supposed to be impressive? Is this kind of problem bottlenecked by memory?
You can only learn from the mistake if you're alive at the end.

Revolution doesn't only lead to improvement or no impact. It can also make everyone's life much worse.
PostgreSQL never ceases to amaze me.

The great thing is that it is a mature tool and you don't need to bring another beast to the zoo.
I'd guess it's because the actual profits come from loot boxes etc, i.e. gambling. The 'esports' side of the games is a sales tool, not the product.
Try this:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2014/12/quantum-teleportation-de...
https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/editorials/stres...

https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/09/nj-is-facing-a-12b-publi...

Even by 2022 the NJ pension is in trouble. It's not hard to read about these as many journalists are covering the pension time bombs in numerous states. State's which happen to be some of the most taxed states in the country.
Or it could be about protecting employee rights against exploitative corporations who flout the law for profit.

Edit: and society for that matter. See Al Capone, a murderer, being finally arrested for tax evasion as an example.
ADT. We're just a business.
> I think the fact that pornography is viewed negatively, at least in public, is a good thing.

I'd love to see your thoughts on this expanded. I don't have a particularly rigorously formed opinion on this, but my gut disagrees. I'd settle for some links to articles/etc. that reflect your viewpoint.
> I still think having a fast path using TSX could be useful

That’s what TSX is intended to be: a path that runs faster when possible.
Before the smartphone era, the only possible way to ensure availability of personal transportation was to have a functioning taxi & livery industry. The use of medallions was actually to protect the public, ensuring all drivers were at least accountable and traceable and thus somewhat safe, just like today's Uber riders expect the company to perform background checks on drivers. Yes it benefitted embedded interests, but eliminating medallions would have been worse.

Also, tacking on taxes to hotel bills hurts them, by making visits more expensive and thus reducing demand.

But really nice hot takes.
So he can get a car with doors that go up like this
Relatedly, here’s some cool visualization work that comes from genetics data viz.

http://scalable-insets.lekschas.de/
Memory corruption bugs + UB + logical errors >= logical errors
In my experience (as a physicist), the dagger is much more common in physics literature to represent adjoint; A^* for adjoint is confusing because it could just mean complex conjugation in many contexts. Overlines are practically never used physics notation.
How would you pronounce that? "star star star, star star star star"?
Yes and no.

You can build centralization on every layer of the network stack. Facebook is centralization on the application layer. The problem is that with IP addresses being as rare as they are in the ipv4 space you have a lot of tricks that you need to use and ultimately you go through someone using a real ipv4 address.

Ipv6 doesn't have that, so it lets you decentralize further down the stack. While this is good in its own right, currently we don't have issues with ip address monopolies, unlike application layer monopolies.

And that's the problem we have. Doesn't matter how many open layers you have, someone can always build a closed system on top of them.
The generic AI could be "playing" in a thousand virtual environments at once. Killing one of them doesn't really have a parallel in human life, or ethics.

I mean, yes, you killed a sentient being. But if that sentient being has a thousand concurrent lives, then what does "killing" one of those lives even mean? And if it can respawn another identical life in a millisecond, does it even count as killing?

I suspect that having sentient virtual entities will provide philosophy and ethics majors a lot of deep thinking room. As it already has for SciFi authors.
Good. Porn is poison to society
Yeah I've read that CA is fairly nervous about another big tech crash as so much of their revenue right now is related to IPO's and stock awards that are worth a lot.
I'm very curious how this CPU performs for Elixir compilation.
Small touch, but my office recently starting 1Password in large part because most of the competition only offer USD billing. While we can pay for services in USD, it's unpalatable given none of our own income or accounting is done in USD.
And yet, somehow, Python manages to be a bigger mess than than both of them combined.
I believe you are missing the point a bit here. Postgres is not the optimal tool for queueing. No one is arguing that position. However, it's also true that for a very large number of use cases, it is entirely sufficient.

If you already have tooling and knowledge for managing Postgres, and Postgres is sufficient for your queueing needs, then why would you incur the cost of introducing a new service? Most situations don't require the best tool for the job, and in that case, you are well served to use a tool you already have.

If you are using an abstraction layer over your queues (you almost certainly are) then you should be able to easily change to a different queue implementation later, should the need arise.
> On the npr program I listened to about Bolivia this morning, it seemed to be the previous president had basically violated the constitution by running again.

The situation is more complex than that. First, historically the racist far right in Bolivia was just aching for a reason to kick the indigenous president out (there is a now deleted tweet by the now semi-legally acting president outright stating she doesn't like "Indians". The far right Camacho, one of the key instigators of the coup, vowed to "never again let the Pachamama in the government"; the Pachamama being an indigenous and non-Christian deity). Second, while it was legally dubious for Evo Morales to run for a fourth term, it was deemed legal by a court from Bolivia and it was accepted by the OAS (yes, the same OAS which later claimed there were "irregularities" with the voting -- so this isn't an organization that particularly sides with Morales). Finally, before being kicked out (er, "suggested by the military to resign", which in Latin America carries ominous undertones), Morales had finally accepted to have completely new elections, as suggested by the OAS. By this point the instigators of the coup had already seen they had the upper hand and accepted nothing less than the president's resignation.

So no, the re-election of Morales was not the cause of the coup. It was merely an additional argument they used to force him out.
The brussels effect[1] is a good argument for this. People said the same thing with GDPR, labour laws and enviromental laws.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
Consumer Reports puts Tesla Model 3, Model S back on its recommended list
I just checked again (on mobile). It does show the sign-in prompt (was just less obtrusive on desktop). It doesn't show app prompts or cookie prompts.
Sounds like a great opportunity to start another payment service. PornHub already has a strong dev team, from what I understand, and it would probably be relatively easy for them.
Maybe if you stated what city/region, your anecdote would be more convincing. NJ is a small state but that's still nearly 10,000 square miles.
by getting a linux phone?
Which until someone had to ask the question on the forum, having been unable to find any word, was not revealed at all on their main site, which was all about getting you on the sub. You wouldn't normally download the next (unlicensed) version on the off chance the buying mechanism has been quietly put in there instead. The former significant discounts for buying both phone and desktop, or Mac and Windows at the same time are gone too.

Hence it's there, but intentionally dark patterned to near invisibility. They would prefer everyone on the pointlessly expensive sub.
To go to such extreme measures to avoid the glass-and-steel look... do you think architects will take the hint and switch to a different style?

Ha ha, of course not! They will invent some contrived justification for why people are wrong to dislike it. (Also everything is subjective, but you're still wrong to dislike it.)
I'm hoping that someone brings to market a simple usb-c extension cable that has a magnetic middle bit that if pulled splits the table in half.
Actually, redis makes several guarantees. Just not as acid as rds. Source: https://redis.io/topics/transactions
This is interesting. I've never experienced the absolute aversion that other people seem to have to drinking when Orange Juice after brushing my teeth (though I'll admit that I won't willingly combine mint and citrus.)

But I also specifically use toothpaste that doesn't has sodium lauryl sulfate because it aggravates canker sores in my mouth. I wonder if this is why.
Well, that is what application servers are for.
well, if you work it out, please write it up. I'd love to read an explanation that made sense ;)
AWS co-branding guide forbids mentioning multi-cloud
Apple have had that since iOS 11 with iCloud Keychain. It suggests passwords for websites on signup, and offers to save them if you log in. It even correctly offers the password you used on a website when logging in on the native app equivalent for the site.
The concept of property is highly important in terms of giving us a framework by which we can resolve conflicts over who has legitimate use or possession of things. Without the idea of property, you devolve into a might makes right scenario where the strong or sneaky can steal from anyone without recourse. That doesn't sounds like a society anyone would feel motivated or happy living in. Why try when someone can just steal away your hard work? It's why countries or communities that have gone down the road to socialism and communism have always invariably collapsed. Every anti-property proponent I have ever asked about where the vague lines of what counts as legitimate "use" or "possession" has never been able to provide a clear and consistent answer. Where does my use or possession end? For example, I trade two sheep for a bicycle which I need for transportation to get to my job. Can someone come along and take my bicycle any time I'm not using it? If so, how is this theft justified?

As a side note I'd like to add that I agree with your assessment of intellectual property. The arguments defending IP law are indeed weak, but when it comes to real things like money, goods, and land, property rights are a necessity to keep humanity from devolving to barbarism.
NSA has stopped collecting location data from US cellphones without a warrant
Water/power are utilities and are regulated differently than other industries.

But your general question is an open debate. If you run a hosting company do you have to host things you disagree with? If you run a transaction company doy you have to exchange with parties you disagree with? What if a certain type of transaction is too high risk, do they have to do it anyways?

Personally I'd like to see things lean more towards being agnostic to avoid amplification of the popular opinion but it isn't a cut and dry topic without corner cases or hard to define regulations.
> If anything it would exacerbate the shady behavior because consumers would have no recourse against fraud.

Cryptocurrency works quite a bit differently to credit cards. "Fraud" in the usual sense isn't possible: it is not possible for the service provider to take your money merely by falsely claiming that you authorised a payment. Payments can only be initiated by the client.
"who met on 4chan"

nooooope. Not touching any company involved with this with a ten foot pole.
There's an amusing quiz concerning gay bars that sound like steakhouses:

http://www.steakhouseorgaybar.com/
Nah it's ok. Everyone here lives in a privileged position where they will never end up working less than minimum wage for uber so the only thing that matters is a slightly lower cost no matter what the cost to others is. Also uber is a hip and trendy startup so they can do no wrong!
Curious, in which world has taxation ever been for the benefit of the employee?
In terms of feature-richness, I'd choose Python 3 over 2.7. Pre-3.6 it was slower, but at this point it's more memory efficient and generally faster, so it is in fact better in basically all applications.

The problem we have where I work is some very clever 2.7 code that isn't easy to redo in Python 3. For any new project I do, I use Python 3.
but it would add latency :(
but maybe an L4 cache, off core, as additional chips!
Improving their loneliness? Making them more lonely or better at being lonely?
I'm making it a hobby, at least: https://lists.sr.ht/~sforman/bladders-announce/%3C2019091116...
We have huge wind farms here in Minnesota and Iowa. They're in the middle of crop fields. No problem at all.
orthorexia - what a fascinating word!
This is true for major manufacturers that have been around for decades or even centuries. Small start-ups have a much harder time finding funding.
Indeed, I don't think humans themselves model the world realistically, I think they model the world close enough but are able to adapt their prediction process for situation when their prediction don't work and/or their knowledge is inadequate. To model such a "satisficing" process, you don't need exact simulation.
A quick answer. I will expand later if I have time.

(1) Finding VCs: Research online. Nowadays most VCs want to be known, and they have websites and blogs and Twitter accounts. Find the appropriate VCs and send them a short email with a link to your deck. Join founder communities such as YC's https://startupschool.org or https://openland.com.

(2) What to prepare: A pitch deck. https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/

(3) What to avoid: Inexperienced startup investors. Also, in the United States, unaccredited investors. Before taking money from an investor, you might talk to a founder of one of their other portfolio companies. Also avoid complex financial agreements: learn about SAFEs and convertible notes beforehand. Overall, you should just review all of YC's latest Startup School materials. https://www.startupschool.org/latest If that's not the way you like to learn, get a copy of Feld and Mendelson's Venture Deals book -- they also run a free online course twice a year.

(4) Common mistakes: Contacting VCs who were not appropriate for the business, location, and stage.

(5) The number one way to increase your chances for getting a VC investment is to not need the VC's money in the first place. A business that is growing exponentially creates its own gravity. Barring that, each investor will have their own priorities. For me, it is the speed of the founder's iterations and progress. That often means I meet the founders long before any serious consideration of investing (e.g., https://bothsidesofthetable.com/invest-in-lines-not-dots-611... )
In that case they will compliment each other well.
I agree with everything you said and can confirm that in our (translational vascular bio) lab the bulk of effort spent on paper drafting was concerned with creation of high quality figures. Many scientists (myself included), will read a paper abstract and then head straight for the figures as they usually contain the highest density of data for the reader.
They already do?
I just tried that and that is super uncomfortable to me. Having all my fingers on the home row. My pinkies are much shorter than my index, middle, and ring, so it is pretty easy to hit ctrl with my pinky. I think your suggestion might be better if all your fingers are very similar in length, but I don't know a person like that.

I do use most of those ctrl commands btw. I didn't know about ctrl-o, so thanks for that!
> the broken programs would still be broken in either language.

You need to slap a decode anyway on reads from subprocesses in python3, and files open in Unicode mode by default. Wouldn't that fix the majority of silly UTF-8 compat bugs? Or am I missing a class of bugs that's not avoided automatically by python3 strings?
Is the corner that great? I wouldn't go out of my way to get there, but maybe I'm missing something?
Financial deplatforming is a monster, long-term trend to watch over the next decades. Deplatforming happens with sex workers. It also happens in the US marijuana industry. It happens with perfectly legal political content.

The number of ways in which someone, somewhere will be offended by products or services for sale is growing, driven by a rapidly improving worldwide communication network and delivery system, and by people terrified of the change that brings.

The response by PayPal and many others has been to cut service. With each case, the circle of people finding themselves cut off from the traditional economy grows.

Bitcoin is often criticized for its lack of use cases. I find a very high correlation between the strength of this belief and lack of awareness of financial deplatforming in its many guises.
It's almost like they could have used some sort of specialised tree data structure where each tree node was assigned to some spatial region on the map, where successive levels were assigned to increasingly smaller regions.
I'd like to do a Show HN post, but I once made a web page with referral links to buy all these gadgets, and it never really got traction before the web host (rhcloud) closed down/removed their free tier. It's also still a work in progress, and I keep trying to find ways to squeeze in more. If I could get some short SD female sockets like on the original Raspberry Pi, I can free up a few more mm.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KeV4g_ztCD4--aaHtbLTWTN5AU...