skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the state should seize mom and pop shops when mom and pop dies? Then what? Try to sell it? Have it as state run enterprises? Now every generation must completely pull themselves up from zero, and the state seizing all value every time someone dies? Parents die accidentally - too bad for kids, the state seized all value and sent the kids into some state system.

Countries that seize this much property don’t do too well economically.
Oh god this almost echoes my last dozen projects exactly. I get too fixated daydreaming on the end result I suppose. I also lose interest if I see someone else working on something much more interesting.
To be clear: the domain registrar has been cut off.

I doubt that Paypal is going to be consistent about this; _I suspect that_ illegal content and hate sites can be found in the registries of many major registrars.

Still, it's a concerning development for anyone who may be using the same registration service as a future target.

Edit: I missed that they are alleged to be laundering money.
Oooohhhh this looks amazing! I might be able to redo my in-terminal video player...thing. [1]

[1] https://github.com/kiddico/lit/tree/master/video_playback
Trump Had One Last Story to Sell. The Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Buy It
Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations (2009)
Probably, but looking at that chain of comments I think the emphasis was that you need _something_ like tensorflow to do inference client-side using pre-trained models, not that you need _tensorflow_ specifically to operate on tensorflow models.
To be fair, it did both.
Nice one!!! Never thought of it that way. On the other hand I now feel more isolated, knowing our civilization is just a flower in the desert that most probably no one is going to notice.
I think the key desire is that the intellectual property, built from publicly funded research, should not be owned by a single corporation. Production and distribution are of tremendous value and these companies should be rewarded for providing that value. But the vaccine itself? Why not let others invest capital and try to produce & distribute the vaccine?
Drug companies also fund their own research, to the tune of massive expenditures. What you’re suggesting would incentive these companies to disengage from partnerships involving public funding. Whoever pays for the research, each company’s goal is to profitably sell a non-generic treatment. If the only way they can do that is to eschew public funds, they will do this and the result will be less cooperation and a far reduced ability for the government to influence the direction of private sector research, and more importantly shape private sector manufacturing and the quantities of specific treatments supplied to the market.
I appreciate RSS for that reason. Information is opt-in.
See also the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm_for_linear_s...
at what point you know (or will know) if you were given a placebo or the actual vaccine?
I'd like more math professors to make recordings of their courses. E.g. here is a pure gem [1]. This is a recording of a real analysis course from Rudin's principles of mathematical analysis (aka Baby Rudin aka the architect of many beginning mathematics students' misery). Anyone that's worked through this book knows the world of pain you're about to enter. I'd love if there was a similar recording for say, Charles Pugh's real mathematical analysis. I mean he's still alive, dunno if he still lectures from his book, but why not record one of those? It would be game changing for those who self-study.

Here's another request: Terrence Tao does a recording of a measure theory course.

Personally I find the Khan Academy, 3B1brown stuff to be a waste of time. It's too elementary and cutesy. That is not anything like what I've experienced real mathematics to be like. It is a continuous painful struggle.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab41LEw9oiI&list=PLun8-Z_lTk...
Without Visa, Mastercard or Paypal on the other side how can it survive? Cryptocurrencies as the current niche are hanging on, I suspect for as long as VMP permit them (ie buying bitcoin with a credit card). Everyone else, even Apple, go through them.
That was my assumption, considering how dominant Java is in finance. Also, as the article notes, Java has a pretty great runtime ecosystem, allowing devs to choose between hotspot, azul, graal, etc. depending on their runtime needs, while dotnet devs are more-or-less limited to Microsoft-controlled offerings of Mono, dotnet 4.x and dotnet core/5+.
It's tricky, because it's difficult to separate the things we remember with a feeling of nostalgia but that do not really matter from the things that were genuinely useful.

I keep wanting to build some libraries and tools to experiment with this, but a lot of it is about culture, as I mentioned, which is often harder than the tech.

One simple example is the AmigaOS ReadArgs() call. It provides a standard mechanism for parsing command lines. An important consequence of it is that auto-complete for Amiga terminals that supports it can do typed auto-complete for any application that uses it without anyone having to write auto-complete script or specifications.

It's not a hard thing to do. The ReadArgs templates are really basic. Probably too basic. There are tons of good open-source command line parsers. All that's really needed is for people to settle on one with a suitable static spec format, and a mechanism for making it easy to extract that format from an executable.

But it serves very little purpose unless you convince a lot of people to do it.

There's a chicken and egg scenario there, in that it's a lot harder to find people prepared to spend time creating "standards" like that and pushing them than it is to find people to work on solving an issue with a more immediate payoff. Especially when you really need a critical mass of applications that supports these specs before the benefits starts becoming obvious.
I think it’s more complicated than that based on some of the diversity books I’ve read.

For example I wasn’t even “white” until I moved to USA a few years ago. Took me 6+ years to even grok how “white” works and what it means but I’m told I was racist all along.

And yeah sure I want the system to change, but honestly I have enough work with being an immigrant without inherent rights. Hell I’m technically a visitor so I don’t even have immigration rights yet. This is not my fight to fight ... but folks say that makes me racist and privileged and how dare I.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What the heck is the "solidarity economy?" Why did Richard Stallman feel he had to make a formal statement about it?
You say that now, but if the political winds change in future and progressive ideals and orgs are then labeled "hate speech", promoting violence, I suspect there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
A lot of protein folding work is brute forcing folds. A 35% heuristic is probably pretty good.
So whether you’re racist is determined by whether you are “working to change the system”? What does that mean?

If I do yes to BLM does that mean I’m not racist? What if I speak in support of BLM? Is that a blanket dispensation against being racist?
This is an incredibly problematic number to report, bordering downright deceitful, because it ignores that we have not been able to use CDNs (because we have had to bundle our many JS files together, first for CommonJS, then for an ES-Module 1.0 specification with fixed/non-modular import addresses). But just recently, we have finally begun to pay off the technical debt to let us once more build web pages that use many different JS files from CDNs[1]. We are finally emerging from this long dark sad road to return to the glory of using CDNs that can cache our assets for us, let us share widely across the web.

And just just just before ES Modules finally get good & modular & helpful, we destroy the shared cache that would have made them helpful. We have been on this voyage for 10 years, starting from the pre-modules but cached days, through the long dark & violent seas of modules-but-no-caching, to finally finally get to modules-that-cache-well. We finally have standards & tools in place that would allow us to begin to cache modules effectively, across sites. Except no, not any more.

Whatever numbers you see for this, they are lies. They don't represent any honest truth. They portray only a poor reflection of a bad place that we have been desperate to escape from. We have wanted to cache modules effectively with CDNs for years, but ES Modules had not been suitable to the task. To judge the impact based only on what we can see, without projecting to what the web we were all trying to make happen: that's incredibly sad. We'll never know. All possibility is being chopped off and cut down. This is an incredibly sad, incredibly tragic culmination to a long long struggle to make the web better, and frankly, I am disappointed beyond words that the teams have taken such an aggressive change of defaults so casually for such minimal proven harm. If there is a real security issue here, it should have been dealt with via more Content Security Policy flags, not by unweaving the web & making each site have it's own view of the world, unique from every other site. The security atmosphere is paranoid & delusional, & nothing tops their inquest for absolute security.

[1] https://www.bryanbraun.com/2020/10/23/es-modules-in-producti...
> > How did “we lost the paperwork” turn into “well you look foreign so leave your country”?

> You should have seen the despicable "Go Home" vans that were circulating for a while.

How is losing the paperwork for legal migrants comparable or even closely related to telling illegal migrants to leave?
For me the first thing that comes to mind for "multimedia Swiss army knife" is ffmpeg. I think that right keywords here are "web", "media" and "download" (although it can do things other than downloading, like extracting stream URLs or just querying available formats).
Money is speech, so says the supreme court (Citizens United). Impeding the transfer of fiat (infra which should be a utility) is a violation of constitutional rights (arguably) if you're not breaking the law. Even if I disagree with the speech (I do! Vehemently!), rights must be inalienable.

Maybe this should be patched in Section 230 legislation versus 18 USC § 1960, would have to read more statute to provide a proper opinion on which statute should protect money as speech transmittal (IANAL, would like to hear a JD's legal opinion).
That is not my opinion. That is a way in which somebody who is an "extremist" could reasonably answer that question, and magically be converted into a centrist.

tl;dr: If you go around with a survey that asks "Are you an unreasonable extremist?" and mark everyone down who says "No" as a Brownite centrist Democrat, you're going to find a silent majority of Brownite centrist Democrats.
Will they be significant economies though? Gab and Epik are mostly about culture wars and conspiracy theories. How many people are actively involved in those?
How does an automated test suite that downloads a mere few seconds of data simply for the purposes of software testing constitute infringement and not fair use? We've allowed this to go way too far. There is no way the RIAA can prove any sort of damages from this. This is an abuse of the copyright system for the sole purpose of attacking a tool they are unhappy with. Given the RIAA's history, are we in any way surprised by this?

It is extremely important to recognize in all this that as a country formed during the enlightenment, the founders of the US understood the importance information sharing holds for a free society. Copyright is intended to protect against wonton plagiarism and illegal redistribution. Fair use provisions exist to prevent abuse of this system and allow for legal redistribution and derivative works. These concepts. Patents and copyrights are at their core, systems designed to encourage distribution, not restrict it. Groups like the RIAA, Disney, the MPAA, and others are chipping away at this.
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You are forgetting that under high load availability of local servers is likely to degrade and serving non small parts of you content via CDN can noticeable reduce the load and as such improving local availability potentially improving total availability.
Please don't, inline code in headers is the single reason why C++ compiles so slowly, and besides: the inline keyword is also available in C (since C99), but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to use it:

The IMPLEMENTATION define cleanly separates the public API declarations (which are required in each source file where functions from this library are called), from the implementation code and any implementation-private declarations.

If you put all the implementation code into inline code, this code is parsed over and over again in each source file which would only need to include the declarations.

This is the main reason why C++ projects compile so slowly, and what gives "header-only libraries" such a bad reputation in the C++ world.

"STB-style single file libraries" don't suffer from this problem.
Not sure honestly. That might have something to do with the vHDM theory mentioned in the paper. I didn't really follow a lot of it, but I think (major grain of salt here) it's saying that that theory predicts some very light neutrinos exist and tend to collect inside of galactic clusters, but not galaxies themselves and that it's those neutrinos that make up the missing mass at universal scales that general relativity explains using dark matter.

Either case seems pretty hand wavy honestly. When it comes to galaxy and universe level physics it all seems pretty weak compared to the sort of particle physics and classical physics that we can actually measure and test on Earth. It's all just a bunch of theoretical math with relatively few actual measurements to pin it all down. I don't think we're anywhere near having a solid theory of the universe so it's mostly an exercise in trying to prove which theory is the least wrong at this point, rather than which one is correct.
I was able to get the flu jab easily in Scotland (as was my wife and my daughter is getting it tomorrow). It was incredibly well organised.

I think if you are unlucky it can be hard to get, but it is rolling out fast and many people are thankfully able to get it.
I think it would be better if there was more understanding of what people were talking about when they said "racism". I personally think that this definition of "racism", is more useful, but it clearly causes misunderstanding.

I personally don't think individual racists are that big of a deal anymore. Systemic racism is much more harmful.

I even think that a little bit of the prejudice-type racism can help people overcome racism. More on that: https://qz.com/398723/slavoj-zizek-thinks-political-correctn...
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>If you're going to assert that every white person is "racist" regardless of their beliefs, you render the term meaningless and might as well just say "white".

Sure, but that'll get you temp-banned from Facebook, so you have to spell it wypipo.
I think GP had that covered mentioning a [fast]<--->[smart] continuum.
I don't see how the technical point of view is relevant.

I listed three examples that should make it obvious. You refuse for some reason to accept the obvious, that these kind of tests try to alter real world behaviour and not behaviour with regards to the product.

There's a big difference between changing a button's color in a page to see how user engagement changes and trying to find when teenagers are in a more vulnerable emotional state to serve them ads. If you can't see the obvious I'm afraid there is anything more to say.
No worries, and glad it wasn't a total loss! Yeah the registry solution is something we've been very happy with.
This is exactly the kind of question the trials are designed to answer, yes. We know roughly the background incidence rate of diseases, so you can expect some percentage of participants will be affected by those diseases. It's also important to remember your basic statistics fallacies: the question is not, what are the odds that any of our participants come down with MS, which is a very tiny chance. The question is, what are the odds that any of our participants will come down with _any_ background disease, which is a much larger chance. It is very likely to happen, and indeed it does. They still pause the study to run the numbers and make sure the new diagnoses are not outliers from the background rate.
A sting of nostalgia and coincidence perhaps, was thinking about Java and HFT only a few days ago.

I worked as an offshore employee for E*Trade back in 2010 - 2012. Their desktop app for HFT was written in Java Swing and their web client too was running on the JVM but the 'services' layer the one that interacted with the database was written in C++.

Four years ago heard that they were re-writing the desktop app in JavaFX.
How to set up a dogcam with Tailscale, a Raspberry Pi, and Motion
I agree so long as you're talking about the new 2020 model wherein they moved towards the magic keyboard.
I think they are referring to fast reactors (Referring to the fast neutrons used to induce fission) that can burn high level nuclear waste from standard PWR plants as fuel.
High accelerations require bigger heavier engines, or more engines, so they chew through fuel quickly. Essentially your trading away some of your payload for the luxury of burning your engines for a shorter period.

Burning your engines continuously during a long journey isn’t practical with most of our propulsion technologies as they can’t carry enough fuel for that long a burn. The exceptions are mostly electric propulsion systems such as Hall Thrusters, which are very low thrust and aren’t useful for quick transits.
As much as I am fond of MOND (hu hu), is this going to get any traction? It seems like the MOND and lCDM worlds have stopped trying to interact with each other, covering their ears and going "bla bla bla" while building parallel and non-interacting lines of research.
Going back to something that's not REPL-driven takes some adjustment, but I try to find and focus on the advantages the other language has, instead of on what it's missing. For example, when using OCaml (which incidentally does have a REPL, but I don't use it often), I get a lot of value from the type system and the module system.

Even Java has advantages in terms of tooling, and from Java 8 on, you can write code using some Clojurish idioms with streams. Though for immutable data, you need something like Lombok + pcollections.

JavaScript, on the other hand, really doesn't offer anything over Clojure, so I can see why you'd struggle going back to it. It's just a downgrade.
They chose to not participate with PayPal, and invent their own currency, and in exchange, PayPal stopped dealing with them. Their questions were fairly basic KYC form-letter questions anyone selling a financial service should be able to answer - if they couldn't, they might be in trouble with the SEC, not just PayPal.
I've never heard of this one before, but it's remarkable how many similarities it shares with the Goiânia incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
SCOTUS has also ruled companies and people have a right to free association, with the exception of discrimination based on a protected class.

Proud Boys are not a protected class.
There are free GC's now that is on par with C4, ZGC and Shenandoah, improving vastly on the latency of the G1 default GC.

Here is a good article on them.
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/understanding-the-jdks...
Yeah, tailscale does look nice, only one user on the free tier was a deal-breaker for me though.
I use Blender and Ian Hubert’s recent work is what got me into it. It’s an excellent tool when it comes to the kind of motion-tracked work he does (and which I hope to get into) but for quickly cutting together motion graphics I have not found it to be as handy.
From The Guardian, a not-insignificant player in those culture wars.
Among my many random roles in my job, I do export technical licensing review. I can assure you the industry practices on ITAR have only tightened in recent years, and the only language clarifications that have affected my review policies are over 4 years old.

Small arms researchers and manufacturers who are inside the US should not be affected by ITAR nearly at all. The only restriction ITAR / EAR places on a US company is to not sell or share technical assistance (any kind of design, etc) with any foreign persons (which includes public disclosure).

What he may have done is change the classification of certain small arms technologies. But that does not affect the "ITAR" process or its "looseness".
Much of this is the reason for every laptop of mine has a docking station
> But do I agree RTFM is frustrating advice for a lot of things. Especially if you aren't going to use such information often enough, so will keep forgetting it anyway and have to start over with the manual each time.

This is related to one of biggest frustrations in the last ten years. We used to master the tool set. But now there are so many tools. Some of them we don't used them often enough. I find myself doing a lot of guessing whereas before I knew what was going on at every step.
> Two commonly used extensions (for emacs, vim, vscode, sublime...) are paredit and rainbow.

In Emacs, you may find Lispy and Prism even better.
The Dell XPS line from this year looks really solid. I would go for the 15 inch and use Windows + WSL2 instead of native Linux.
It was not "debunked" in any way. We know 100% they colluded with Russian agents. They just couldn't prove criminal intent. As far as Trump's obstruction of justice, correct me if I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure the Mueller report basically said "He did it, but we couldn't come up with solid enough evidence that we would be confident we could indict a sitting president" and the last line saying something like "this absolutely does not absolve the president of wrongdoing". Basically if Trump was anyone other than the president, they would have charged him.

Without 100% rock-solid evidence, the legal complexity of trying to indict him (and him potentially pardoning himself) would have likely caused a constitutional crisis, and who knows what might have happened then. It wasn't worth the risk.
>I think the main culprit exacerbating this is the main stream media.

I understand your argument but I also in no way want to distract from the culpability owned by social media companies, their product designers and managers, and the people who wrote the code to implement their desires.

They are ultimately guilty for the damage they have wrought on our societies. Traditional media companies may have exacerbated the issue with their participation, but they didn't create it.

>Unfortunately, I don't think we can roll back on the constant need for more 'breaking news'

We can't, but just like smoking cigarettes or shooting up opioids we can recognize it as a source of damage and addiction and start changing things to combat it.
Impeding the transfer of money by government law might be a constitutional violation. So they could use the postal service to take cash.
I do the same thing, it works great!
As science fiction is speculative, I do not fault any of those listed media however I feel none of them truly captured the sociopolitical insanity that would occur, the sheer level of ignorance and incompetence which causes anything that could go wrong, to go wrong.
Up for revisiting if another case makes it to SCOTUS once it tilts conservative with Barrett's confirmation.
I would guy a product that did that in a second.

I really want a 4k television for my HTPC but I can't find one that isn't some crapware ridden pile of shit.