skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For one, culture norms can change in less than a decade, much less 1964. In 1964 there was still legal segregation in the US. And whatever you think "natural" today might not be considered so in 2030 or 2040, much less 2019 + (2019-1964).

Second, it's not like the terms men and boys don't carry different attributes still today, or just because the anglosaxon culture is going through an Emo hyper-sensitive phase that everybody of the 8 billions in the world will have qualms to use the terms "men" and "boys" in such a matter (more capable, more mature, etc).
So basically his two reasons are: “they gave us money, and I think they’re worthy”
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> software which maybe 5%-10% of the population has the ability to write and maintain

I sure hope you're right about this. I have no doubts on the rest of what you said, but given enough incentives (both push and pull), there may be a lot more latent ability out there than you think. Especially as the on-ramps from raw talent to real productivity keep improving.

From my direct personal experience, I suspect there are a bunch of current Uber and Lyft drivers who could definitely code if they had enough reasons to. A lot of them have better social skills than your average coder, too.
There is a big difference between allowing automatic invites from international airlines, and allowing automatic invites from Russian bot farms linking you to porn sites.

This is the type of distinction that I expect to be an issue for a startup, not one of the largest corporations in history.
What comes up in Google are websites, those websites are from a domain, those domains have a TLD.
Unless it’s planes or terrorism. Why is that?
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I think you should take a look at the Dalai Lama. Seriosuly not trolling. I used to read alot of his books. But, Standford does studieson it. http://ccare.stanford.edu/video/his-holiness-the-dalai-lama/
Ah WiFi radio interference, everyone's favorite! It kills Thunderbolt sometimes:

https://www.akitio.com/faq/301-why-does-my-thunderbolt-3-dev...

> Why does my Thunderbolt 3 device not work with Dell's XPS laptops?

>
Some users on the Dell forum have found that reducing the power output of the WiFi network adapter to 75% fixes the problem.
To summarize your comment, you're calculating that methane contributes around 12% to atmospheric heat trapping (when only considering methane and CO2), and conclude that it is therefore irrelevant.

I don't think your own calculation supports that conclusion.
There is ambiguity. This was specifically mentioned in the RFC for the feature: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/arrow_functions_v2#syntax
> The Internet Society does great work protecting the Internet and bringing it to the people who need it most — work that is way more impactful than leasing domain names. This transaction secures that work's future and independence.

Is “lease” the understanding others have regarding the relationship among a registrar and registrant?

Isn’t the registrar intended to operate the supporting infrastructure and no more? Where does the concept of a “lease” enter the transaction?
And I call your recency bias and raise a "things have always been the same" bias.

Whether exponential or not, we've had more culture-defininging technological, lifestyle, and moral changes in the past 200 years than in the previous 3000.
I have over VNC
That time Benjamin Franklin tried (and failed) to electrocute a turkey
>Am I awful? Can you take one look at a forum post I made in the late 90s and judge me entirely?

The opposite. I'd judge anybody judging a person from a 90s forum post as awful scum themselves.

>Is it okay what he did? No, of course not.

Yes it is. It's not even that controversial. Men and boys, whether one is woke or not, have some different characteristics, age, maturity, strength, etc, being some of them. That was the purpose of the analogy, which was, and remains, a common idiom across the globe.

Is it okay for 2019 people of a particular (woke) subset of a particular (Anglo-Saxon) culture to impose whatever latest retrospective moral panics they have on everybody? No. For one, that's cultural imperialism...
This is a problem in a lot of programming languages nowadays; they borrow features and syntax from other languages without those new features superseding others, and without providing a mechanism to force one syntax over the other.

So that's why we now have half-assed OOP in Javascript, we have Scala which is basically all programming languages ever, etc. Meanwhile, Go is still fighting a lot of requests to add language features, knowing full well the complexity added to the compiler (and more importantly the cognitive overhead for developers).
Uber is the world's largest perpetrator of predatory pricing. They are practically begging for government regulation.
Not sure why OP tosses out 10% price hikes per year as reassuring. Maybe he’s too rich to make sense of small amounts of money like this. Even $10 is a nontrivial sum in some underdeveloped countries as is.

Also, this is just “what Ethos themselves have said about their intentions with regard to .org”, and we all know how good for-profit entities are at keeping promises that affect their bottom line.
The claims about their IP being stolen are not credible.

For one, AMD has an open source graphics stack and none of their IP has been stolen.

Furthermore, Nvidia actually has pretty good support for nouveau (open source driver) on the Tegra line. Nvidia's real IP has not been compromised. Nvidia had to provide good open source support because the automotive industry wants guarantees that hardware will be able to run modern kernels many years in the future.

Open sourcing/upstreaming the device drivers has business value because it means the actual devices sold will be supported by Linux until they are truly obsolete. (Think i368)

Device drivers are not sexy, all they do is setup/shutdown hardware and provide hooks for the operating system to make system calls work. This is not core IP, kernel drivers are the bare minimum to enable hardware to be useful.

The real reason Nvidia doesn't want to open source it's device drivers is because it would cost money to do so. It would likely require a total rewrite, and Nvidias current driver presumably shares code between platforms with a shim that only Nvidia knows about. If everyone used Linux Nvidia would probably have open source drivers for workstations (like they do for embedded)
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> The pervasiveness of these psychological strategies shows that, whether each case was because of a genius decision or an accident of history, they conferred a substantial advantage to their practitioners.

Of course if Cortés burned all his ships then his entire force was wiped out, would news have reached home? And if it did reach home, would the news of crushing defeat and incompetent leadership have been hushed up?

So I'm not sure I consider this 'substantial advantage' proven.
Are you concerned by other commenters who mention that once they were successful the exchange moved in to either stop them or extract a fee?
I've read the wiki page and still don't get what the big deal is about the ackermann function. Can someone explain? TIA
not as authoritative as the nature journal article that OP is based on: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0

it is clearly based on a consensus
> I will never play any instrument as well as a sequencer. I believe algorithms will make beautiful Jazz improvisations in real time, in my lifetime. But playing is still beautiful.

Having dug quite deep into algorithmic music generation of all sorts, as well as having studied Machine Learning as my uni masters, I still believe that you still need an actual artist to make a music generator program.

A machine simply isn't going to figure out "swing" if you don't tell it to. And swing is one of the easiest things. Yes if you look just at note generation, I think algorithms can go a long way. But the subtleties of timing and timbre, it can only imitate in context. Which definitely is good enough for many purposes, and I agree with your prediction that algorithms will be able to generate beautiful music, but I also think there will always remain an "edge" for the artist. If only to discover novel things that are also cool, and then working those out in order to fully express the coolness of that new thing.

I'm also thinking about all the evolutions the many genres of electronic music have gone through the past decades. New and novel "sounds" (or moods, or styles, etc) are still being create/discovered. It is that process, that I don't think we're there yet. Yes the algorithm can probably generate beautiful psytrance, lo-fi hiphop beats and if I'm generous probably eventually also really complex (and jazzy!) stuff like squarepusher.

But what I'm not seeing happening any time soon (barring any breaking general AI type of advances) is if you give the algorithm a TB-303 for the first time and see if it figures out acid house. Yes you can probably teach it the origins of neurofunk DnB (think 1999 Optical & Ed Rush's Wormhole album) and produce super awesome dance music. But I don't see how it could ever develop what happened to DnB beyond that. Wavetable synthesis didn't really exist that way back then, and the bass came from more classic synthesis like the Reese bass. Nowadays, what you can do with a wavetable synth VST like Serum, almost defines what modern DnB sounds like. That particular sound was evolved and shaped through the genre of drum'nbass and became part of it, a new style of synthesis, heavily facilitated through the particular UX controls of these synth plugins, which again caused the author of Serum to amplify by creating his vision of what this UX should be like, is almost like the birth of a new instrument, together with artists having to learn the correct style to "play" this instrument. Which has settled enough now that it is appearing in other new genres. Yet is also still developing. And that is just one genre of music I happen to be somewhat familiar with, I'm sure similar examples can be named in many other genres (for instance I don't know much about the history of dubstep).

Those evolutionary steps, invention of truly novel things, for the foreseeable future, I don't think AI is there yet and artists do still have an edge, even if it's a very thin one.
Real Russian people are called "Rusichi/русичи" in Slavic, literally: "sons of Rus`". They are direct ascendants of citizens of town of Russia. Later, they are assimilated, so they forgot their language and culture. Major part of them are assimilated by Slavic tribes at territory of central and west Ukraine and Belarus`, so this territory got name "Russia" in 9 century.

Slavic people of Russia/Русь are called "Rusyns/русины" (y as in lynx), literally: "they are Rus`", or "Russish/руські", literally: "belongs to Rus`". Name "Rusyns" was popular in Habsburg Monarchy, while name "Russish" was popular in Russian Empire.

People of Russian Federation are called "Russish/руские", literally: "belongs to Rus`", or "Rossiiane/россияне", literaly: People of Russia/Россия, "Russish" means here believers of Russian Church, mostly Tatars, Erzan`, Mordva, and many other peoples, known as "Russificated peoples/обрусевшие народы".

So, Ukrainians are not "real Russians". Real Russians are assimilated and now are called Ukrainians, Belorussians, Cossacks, Russians, Lithuanians, etc.
Yeah, you definitely need a prescription in the UK, though my eye test was free so I don't know about that one. Maybe it's because I'm a student? Not sure.

But he is right about it in Italy - no prescription required.
I wonder why they added the "fn()" thing on the left of the array functions.

Javascript: $square = $x => $x*$x;
PHP : $square = fn($x) => $x*$x;

Probably so that it works inside arrays:

$a=[fn($x)=>$x*2,fn($x)=>$x*$x];
echo $a[1](5); // 25

Well, it also makes it a tad more readable, so I am ok with it.

Since we are talking about new features of PHP: Does anybody else wish there were named parameters?

I think PHP is pretty complete. It is my favorite language and I don't really wish for anything added to it. Except for two things:

1: The named parameters of Python:

def paint(what,color='blue',tool='pen',layers=1)
...

paint('house',tool='brush')

2: The short object Syntax of Javascript:

city={name: 'Berlin', population: 3748000}
Very curious, can you give a few examples of these rules?
I'd say that depends on implementation; a lot of languages will only check types on compile. If anything it's a hint for developers, something that their editor will error on if they try and do something wrong.
Good point. They claim they need the money to further in their mission to improve the internet, but they’re throwing out the one good thing they’re well-known for doing (and I’m doing so, trashing their reputation amongst the public) in order to (so they claim) bankroll other things that most people have never heard of in relation to them. That’s an incredibly shortsighted gamble and reeks of excuses.
You're comparing apples to gnomes.
Incognito is "private" in the sense that it doesn't leave a trace locally, on your computer.

From https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?co=GENIE.Plat... :

> - Chrome won't save your browsing history, cookies and site data, or information entered in forms.
> - Files you download and bookmarks you create will be kept.
>- Your activity isn’t hidden from websites you visit, your employer or school, or your internet service provider.

Your IP, referrers etc are still visible. The only thing is you're perhaps not logged in. It doesn't do much to protect you at all.
It doesn't seem to be his site.
TV propaganda?
And grounding!
In the morning!
I'm talking about extreme delay of the object fading in, too far in the distance to be interactive(that's why I also mentioned LOD for objects close enough to be interactive). Your 50ms is 50ms of info provided by nvidia and a fan of game streaming wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 50ms and 150ms of pressing a button and actual reaction on the screen lol
No, I think I want to be banned. I can't find a way to delete the account. Is it possible?
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Most European cattle are grass fed, it's nothing to do with the amount of people you can feed with it. US and Canadian cattle are grain fed because the US grows huge amounts of subsidised grain and it's cheap. It really is that simple.

Some studies claim you get a sixth of the methane from grass fed cows.
I get what you're saying. But in the context of this discussion, a "real name" would just be whatever Twitter thinks it is. They use the term a lot in their docs (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22real+name%22+site%3Ahelp.twitte...) but I don't know if they ever define it in a way that would make you happy.
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What does that have to do with this? Capping Uber's commission to 10% wouldn't prevent surge pricing, it would just mean that at least 90% of the extra fare during surge pricing would have to go to the driver.

That would increase the incentive for drivers because Uber wouldn't be able to take a larger cut during surge pricing.
Yeah this is a frankly insane take for me.

>For those who might be unfamiliar with the Internet Society, our mission is as follows:

Nobody cares, that's utterly irrelevant as long as operating .org doesn't go against the Society's mission statement (which it clearly doesn't). By the author's own admission "While it's true that running .org provided a relatively steady income stream, it effectively staked most of our revenue on a single business". So you are staked so heavily in a single business that instead of using the income and stability it provides to diversify you just get rid of it altogether? Utter nonsense. That's just greed and short-term gains.

I hope this is naivety and not pure gaslighting.
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Exceptional Atwood's Law example.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
> > We're all trying to make the Internet a better place

> No we're not. Don't be an idiot. Private equity companies are making money from investments they have no interest in making anything a better place and it's insulting to expect people to believe that.

I'm kind of a conservative (read classical liberal) free market kind of guy - but this is a total shit-show IMO. I simply don't see anything that will prevent market failure in this case - there is nothing I can see that incentivises good behavior.
Would you mind expanding on these mistakes?
The author is not naive. He is most likely malicious.
In practice, this says the same thing. There's no reason for registrars not to let their customers lock in the low price for 10 years. There's stiff competition among registrars and their margins on domain name sales are razor thin. They make their money by selling various add-on services. It's better for them if registry prices are low because that encourages people to buy more domains, and thus more add-on services.

For example, Namecheap came out strongly against removing .org price caps: https://www.namecheap.com/blog/ensuring-icann-keep-domain-pr...
> assuming we figure out how to get people from here to there in a space ship for so many weeks in the first place!

Why do you think that's an unsolved problem? Genuine question. I thought that part is a straightforward engineering problem. (A very challenging one of course. I'm not saying it's not, just one where we have a lot of previous experience. I never thought that the fundamental possibility of it is in question.)
You have to pay about $200k to ICANN just to submit a proposal for a new gTLD.
Go to your profile, set showdead to Yes, then you'll see nuked comments.

It was just some silliness about sexism. Mild troll or weak humour, can't tell.
It's actually relatively rare in my experience these days where I live in the US that you need to go to the DMV. And the last time I did have to go to get a new license (vision test, photo), as I recall it was pretty unmemorable one way or the other. If you're a AAA (American Automobile Association) member, you can also get some DMV transactions handled in one of their offices.

Most things have moved online. I needed to get a replacement license about a year ago and the online process was easy as could be.
I think it's worse than naive. His two points are in impossible conflict. He wanted a pile of money for the Internet Society, enough to "secure that work's future". But the only way selling .org is worth a pile of money is if it gets extracted from nonprofits. With plenty of profits left over to feed the investors who put up the initial cash.

If the Internet Society wanted to secure their future, they should have raised a proper endowment. Or they could have kept .org and bumped the prices modestly so it made a profit equivalent to what an endowment would pay. Selling it to a PE company is guaranteed to be worse for .org registrants, because the amount of money extracted will be greater, and a PE firm will be way less accountable. Especially a shadowy one just created for this.

And for those not familiar with the horrors of PE, I recommend reading about what happened to Simmons Mattress once the financial engineers got a hold of it: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmon...
There's a much less nefarious explanation. I'm not saying they didn't manipulate the order book feeds. I work in the regulated trading space. I've written market data decoders. One is in production inside of a bigger trading system I wrote at a customer as I type this.

The less nefarious explanation is simple. You decide how likely it is: there is no mechanism making sure that IP packets sent to all data feed subscribers arrive at the same time. Exchanges of consequence distribute market data via UDP multicast, over physical links that are as identical as possible (think identical lengths of fibre).

Now if you're receiving JSON via Websocket and parsing it using an allocating parser and your NIC driver is in kernel space and you use a GC'd language and if the exchange loops through a list of TCP connections to send a message to them one at a time and there is jitter in packet delivery time in upstream hosts (and other internet weather) and and and ... you simply cannot expect identical order books at the submillisecond timescale.

A fortiori, throw half of that crap away and suppose they were using userspace NICs and no-alloc single threaded C++ that chills entirely in L1 cache. Still consuming TCP over the public internet.
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> Ketones being an alternative fuel for the brain

My understanding is that the brain / neurons require glucose to operate, they don't directly metabolise ketones to a great degree. When in ketosis, blood sugar drops very low and the brain's glucose has to be sourced from gluconeogenesis: an inefficient and minimal conversion of ketones to glucose. This low blood sugar has metabolic effects on neurons (as well as many other types of cell).

The USP of a ketogenic diet is that it allows persistent sustainable low blood sugar, which is otherwise only seen in inherently unsustainable fasting.
Renewing my .org domains now for as long as I can.
Not mentioned in the article is that Caesar himself was inspired by a previous Roman general, Sulla. Sulla marched on Rome about 30 years before Caesar did, thus showing that it was possible. Caesar's march also gave rise to some expressions still used today: "the die is cast" and "crossing the Rubicon" - both of which mean "going beyond the point of no return."

Sulla is generally seen as having set the precedent for Caesar's march on Rome and dictatorship. Cicero comments that Pompey once said "If Sulla could, why can't I?". Sulla's example proved that it could be done, and therefore inspired others to attempt it; and in this respect, he has been seen as another step in the Republic's fall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla#Legacy

Kafka also has a nice related aphorism: "Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached."
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