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The cultures wars are stoked by the 0.01% because they want working people divided against each other.

If "blue state" workers think their red-state brethren are incorrigible racist assholes, and "red state" working people think the blue states are full of virtue-signaling effete hypocrites... then capital wins because, even though 75% of the American public likes socialist economic ideas (when stated plainly and without a "socialist" label) they are all fighting each other over unrelated stuff, like whether J.K. Rowling's latest misinformed comment means we should stop reading her.
LMAX Disruptor is a really powerful abstraction if you are trying to build something with consistently-low latency. I've been using a variant in .NET Core for purposes of processing UI events.
Identity politics and group thinking are the cancer of society. Everyone can be oppressed, everyone can be an opresor. Just give them a reason.
I didn't understand a word :(
> they are still downloading and copying the file, regardless of what for or how much which is exactly what the RIAA is claiming. you can cite whatever it is you want, the fact is that youtube-dl is DEAD wrong in what they are doing.

This doesn't make any sense to me as an attack on a fair use defense.

Fair Use is, by definition, an affirmative defense against copyright infringement. To invoke it, you assume (even if arguendo) that the copying did take place. Fair Use is a legal justification of the copying, not an argument that copying did take place.

So, pointing out that copying took place and spiking the football as if that's the end of the conversation is nonsensical if you're arguing against a Fair Use defense.
I have started using Tailscale for this purpose. No beacon box required, super easy.

https://tailscale.com/
I mostly agree with you. An important qualifier is that these libraries are meant for games, especially games that package their own font files, and especially games that are on locked-down platforms like consoles and mobile phones. On console games it makes sense to exclude bounds-checking your own data because you want to minimize load times. But yes, bounds checking should have been included and have been on by default with an option to disable it.
Are we talking about technological screens, like LCD screens here?
> Until they renounce violence, that seems fair. Is a subway station a military target?

So you are basically removing any ability for an oppressed minority to fight against a powerful government. The protesters should only go against military targets, you know like tanks, because we all know how that turns out.
Why didn't they use the term "privileged" then? I'm very happy to acknowledge my privilege, but I'd have to push back if someone was asking me to declare that I'm racist. I'm also happy to hear about times I was unintentionally so, but to lump me into the same boat as the people that were screaming in my face that I'm a race traitor for holding a black lives matter sign doesn't feel fair.
> The point is that we should reconsider giving (temporary) monopolies to companies that are based public research.

Now we can disagree on term length, but, a temporary monopoly to a company is what a patent is defined as and lasts 20 years.
Any diverse media ecosystem is going to have a wide variety of quality and stance of writings and media, the issue is: is our populace well-educated enough to contextualize and understand it?

What if we levied an information fee -- any entity which dispenses information for profit must then pay into public education tax funds to enhance the discerning capabilities of the populace.
That's not even slightly what "racist" means, though. The accepted term for what you are describing is "privileged". 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".
White zoomers and media studies professors didn't start racism.
In case of need, VS Code currently has extremely good accessibility. Use it if Emacs-speak is the only reason to use Emacs.

Generally, language servers currently are rather good and can help with braces, so if you are already proficient with certain language and technologies, double on them to avoid the extra learning curve. Switch something only if you really need to. I know lots of people who happily use PHP, C#, Java, and so on, so do not limit yourself unnecessarily.
OTOH, if you spend sufficient effort to curate your lists, you can enjoy a BETTER news feed than from major media, who even if they aren't straight-up biased, are full of their own constraints to fill airtime, not offend sponsors, etc.

It takes work to filter out the noise, (& there's plenty of noise to avoid!), but one can select the actual scientists diong the research, who will link to their key findings & papers, answer questions, etc., or direct to current & former officials, key industry/govt players, the journalists themselves and get their comments directly, without the scaled editorial slant. (private lists, to avoid the algorithmic feed is the key; I don't think it is possible on FB)
They belong to a publicly funded research institute that was given the right by the public to sell it's research to private enterprise.

The 'public' wanted that by voting in the lawmakers making that possible.

That's how democracy works.

Also we're not talking about physical things, but something 'intellectual' like software, so the comparison is inaccurate.

More accurate would be IT research done in a publicly funded university.
A blockchain solution is probably over the top for this and does likely have major problems with regard to all kinds of regulations.

Just content based addressing (e.g. ipfs) is good enough to be actually useful and allows local hosting and sharing caches at the same time.

Still neither of this would fix the privacy problem. Through with something like ipfs emulating network delays on access could work, but would be VERY hard to get right and make immune to statistical timing analysis.

It's also one of the view ways how to get some (imperfect) degree of censorship resistance without running in direct conflict with laws to e.g. hinder access the child pornography. Note that this is just imperfect protection working for countries which do not officially have censorship in their law and have no effectivish national firewall. I.e. it wouldn't work for China, it also wouldn't work if the political situation in some western countries get worse. But it does work for "non-official" censorship enacted based on not-so-legal pressure and harassment. Or corperate censorship enacted by companies supposedly on their own will.
No worries. I don’t think it works on trolls.
Pretty cool.

Disclaimer : Not regarding the demo itself.

It is not working on firefox version 81.0.2. It works fine on chrome though.
This is quite a good explanation of transformers that gets shared a lot. [link](http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/)

And here's a super simple implementation of GPT by Andrej Karpathy. [link](https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT/blob/master/mingpt/model....)
Wow, that's great! Thanks for letting me know, I'll definitely take a closer look!

Incidentally, do you know why they choose to keep such a restrictive SDK license when they seem otherwise FOSS-friendly?
So the first thing you do to combat racism is to make a negative generalization of people based on their skin color? I can only imagine how effective this program is.
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> The kids of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are getting a miniscule amount of their fathers' wealth

Define "miniscule".

> how is that possible if supposedly they have a right to it?

Tax evasion 101
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Exactly. The idea that the public funds research, but corporations can monopolies the results of that research for profit, is just disgusting. Non-exclusive deals are fine. Exclusive ones not, at least not within the country/countries that funded it; they already paid for it, and denying them access is basically theft.
Since NPM is now the predominant way of distributing packages, they don't usually have a /dist folder so individual packages would again need to think about this. This was one of the reasons that bower is not really used anymore.
Sure - I am above my quota for politics posts on HN but since this article is about problematic tail behavior I'll go ahead anyways. You are right that probably a very small minority of Trump opposers are actually stealing yard signs. However, a larger component are advocating for censorship of opinions and facts that disagree with their worldview, and many more will readily shut down any opposing discussion about immigration policy or international trade, supporting police, or even simply wearing a red hat, with strong and viral accusations of "racism" - signalling to their allies that this person should be punished, and many of those allies are happy to comply in whatever way their position in society allows them to. These attitudes and behaviors are pervasive and malignant; the yard signs are only a visible symptom of a larger problem.
That's because you're paying for an extremely small-run PowerPC machine for dedicated fans who absolutely want something that can run latest AmigaOS4.

For those who "just" want the cheapest way of running Amiga software, and don't have any particular reason for wanting one of the PPC boxes, an x86 PC with UAE (Amiga emulator) or AROS + UAE is a far cheaper option.

For those who wants something closer to the "classic" hardware, there are a number of FPGA based options with various degrees of advances over the classic hardware.
Let's not go too far to one-sided cherry picking.

https://intervention911.com/common-signs-of-drug-seeking-beh...

- laiming they need more drugs to replace a lost or stolen prescription

- Misrepresenting their symptoms

- Frequent visits to multiple doctors, including a willingness to travel to a different city or state to see a new physician – a phenomenon called “doctor shopping”

- Unwillingness or inability to provide a complete health history or contact information for previous physicians

It's possible for a non-addicted person to do this, but actual statistics matter.
This is a bit too late, but for future reader's reference: I meant "mass produced software", regarding its benefits. I highly doubt that Facebook's ad network is comparable with mass produced pharmaceuticals or refridgeration. Mass produced mustard gas maybe.
I'm in the priority group for a flu jab and I managed to get a jab from a pharmacy no problem. YMMV, though.
The negative effect is probably overblown; keep in mind that subsequent visits by the user to the same site can still use the cached version they loaded previously, and the odds of a cache hit in that case are relatively high.
I think the writing is on the wall for completely djfferent reasons:

1-Lack of funding and development progress. After 24 years, they're still not even close to version 1.0.

2-Microsoft is working toward Windows being freely available (zero cost). This dampens the motivation for an open source alternative.

3-Drivers for the latest hardware will always be an issue due to #1 above.
> Some of the longer term effects are scary though - I suspect that younger people might not be so blasé about chronic illness.

There's not a single peer-reviewed study showing a significantly higher frequency of long-term adverse effects in healthy individuals compared to other respiratory illnesses.
This is not a good argument.

We are talking about a company providing a service. They might not have invented the vaccine but they are providing the means to bring it from proof of concept into mass production. The commenter seemed to think that this isn't worth money.

I argue that you get quite a bang for the buck.
I suspect the government will magically be much better at logistical efforts when there's a clear economic pay-off. Neoliberalism might not be great when it comes to helping the little man, but I suspect it can swiftly get its act together when it comes to a short-term solution to economic malaise.

Or at least I hope so.
Couldn't bug nets have achieved the same effect without poisoning the biosphere?
Let's get down to the core of your argument, which to me seems to be that white privilege doesn't exist. I can spend five minutes on google and turn up a cornucopia of studies that demonstrate otherwise, so why deny the exist of racial privilege?
Considering the hundred billion stars in our galaxy, it’s hard to imagine if there were threatening alien life anywhere in the universe that it wouldn’t be in our own galaxy.
The alternative is hardly declaring people such based on skin color.
1. Saving human lives may not be the best metric (given that even this metric is evolving in time, and I claim unknowable)
2. The green revolution benefits were several orders more significant, and will be seen as the spark that enabled climate change. Responsibly using technology is our biggest task.
OR we could look at it as if the pandemic has already cost us 4.5T based on your figures, and that's enough. We come together and defeat the virus without anyone profiting - we all lose, we've all lost already, ffs, let's let people profit off of the death, because why not?
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Suggest trying again with your GP. I'm also in a lower-priority group and didn't get the jab during the first round, but my local surgery contacted me later when stocks had been replenished.

Aside: It was, for the NHS, an exceptionally efficient process. I was given an exact time slot and was in and out in less than three minutes.
REAL San Franciscans love tents on downtown sidewalks.

Wish I could be as cool as them.
Would you also say that a painful cleaning of an infection is also a moralizing judgment against a patient who wants to avoid short term pain?
Not when it's a monopoly. That means the company gets to exploit the results of the research for their own profit, without any competition to keep prices reasonable. Non-exclusive deals are fine. Exclusive ones are not.
> they have one of the most powerful industries siding against them, with nearly unlimited funding

The music industry through RIAA are aggressive and may be punching above their weight class in litigation and lobbying, but remember that they are not really that large in the grand scheme of things. Certainly not in the class of juggernauts like oil, medicine etc.

https://www.riaa.com/reportcat/sales-revenue/ says the US music industry had $11.1 billion in revenue for 2019, a fraction of many large tech companies.
I'm not saying it's certain, but it's what I'd expect. It raining on one day out of 4 is the most common case.
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That’s a faulty parallel. The road belongs to the public, while only the building is tendered to a private (in a presumably competitive market) to maximize quality and price ratio.

In this case the building is publicly funded for a profit AND the final result donated in “perpetuity” to make it a private TOLL road.

Double dip?

(I’m ok with subsidizing the research, and even negotiating a bulk manufacturing contract with an agreed margin... but a patent? Isn’t that bending too far?)
You send all the calls to invidio.us servers, period. Problem solved.
As a VC investor, the majority of pitches we get sound a little something like this...
esp8266 does not have bluetooth, the esp32 does and that is what makes it more more interesting.
> Depends on the JVM being used

Is picking a jvm not tweaking a parameter?
Hi, Dylan (Figma CEO) here. You can use local fonts in Figma via a local daemon helper, our native app or by adding the font to a shared library on our Org Plan. (Assuming you have an appropriate license for the font.)

We're also hopeful browsers will expose an API for accessing a list of local fonts / font metrics with the user's permission. (It's a fingerprinting issue to expose this info without the user opting in which is why browsers haven't built something like this in past.) This is gaining traction on the Chrome team, which is really exciting! https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=535764...

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039956894-Use-Lo...

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039956774-Manage...
> Legality is not an option. It is a necessity, by definition.

Publishing the software anonymously on hidden servers (say, Tor onion Services) is not an option. It is a necessity, by definition, because the legal system will f*k you up.
ZGC is at 1-2ms max pause time in JDK 16 and is expected to reach <1ms max pause time within a year.
It's not DRM. It can't be DRM, obfuscation is never a valid measure to restrict access. The purpose of obfuscation is the opposite, it makes sure that you can still for example run the obfuscated code, but it's just hard to understand what's going on.

The reality is that there is no "circumvention of protection measures", like RIAA is claiming. Youtube provides a javascript to decrypt their cipher, youtube-dl runs it just as intended and that's it, that's just what a normal browser does.
Wow, did that dig up a memory that I haven't pondered in a long, long, long time!
> I'm losing confidence that most western governments are capable of any "logistical efforts for the history books"

Oh, they are. Just don't ask too many questions about money disappearing in the darker corners of such effort.
> This is an unrepentant member of a terrorist group who advocates the use of violence as the means to resolve political & religious disputes.

You might want to look up the violence against civilian targets that the government is using, which could be argued to be terroristic. We aren't exactly talking about someone using violence against someone else they disagree with. We are talking about about two groups using violence, one of which is vastly more powerful than the other.
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Do you think it make sense to include a character type that is basically a variable-size utf8 extended grapheme cluster?
Developing or developed, basically every country engages in questionable environmental practices. The developed nations have the current edge, since many of their offenses occurred in the past and they are less accountable now...just like these DDT barrels.
Minor nitpick, but inline and weak are not the same thing. Weak linkage is a property that is resolved by the dynamic linker (at runtime startup); inline linkage is a property that is resolved by the static linker (at compile-time linking.) GCC calls inline "vague linkage" and it only uses weak linkage if the platform does not have COMDAT support:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vague-Linkage.html
I think I actually saw these folks present at JavaOne a couple years ago? Either that or there's more than one shop branding itself as "HFT" that uses Java.

I worked in the industry and it's always a little funny to see who calls themselves HFTs vs quants.

Basically, there's a bit of a spectrum of fast vs smart. In general it's hard to do incredibly smart stuff fast enough to compete in the "speed-critical" bucket of trades and vice-versa there's barely any point in being ultra-fast in the "non-speed-critical" bucket because your alphas last for minutes to hours.

Just from this read, I feel like these folks are just a hair to the right of "fast" in the [fast]---------[smart] continuum. I mostly make this appraisal based on these paragraphs:

>To gain those few crucial microseconds, most players invest in expensive hardware: pools of servers with overclocked liquid-cooled CPUs (in 2020 you can buy a server with 56 cores at 5.6 GHz and 1 TB RAM), collocation in major exchange datacentres, high-end nanosecond network switches, dedicated sub-oceanic lines (Hibernian Express is a major provider), even microwave networks.
>It’s common to see highly customised Linux kernels with OS bypass so that the data “jumps” directly from the network card to the application, IPC (Interprocess communication) and even FPGAs (programmable single-purpose chips).

That's nice but that's where the cutting edge of the speed game was in 2007ish. Everything mentioned here is table stakes at this point (colocation, dedicated fiber, expensive switches, bypassing the kernel in network code, etc). The fact that "even FPGAs" is listed as "even" is the biggest thing I focus on. FPGA's and/or custom silicon is where the speed game is right now. Similarly, "even microwave networks" is also table stakes at this point (you can get on nasdaq's wireless[0] just by paying).

This is the kind of game where capex for technology is dwarfed by the margin you're slinging around every day in trading, so you see some pretty absurd hardware justified.

[0] http://n.nasdaq.com/WirelessConnectivitySuite

Edit: Also shout-out to a different comment in this thread mentioning ISLD, a story I considered telling as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24896603
> I could not help but thinking at the end, this is really awesome but s-expressions are kind of hard to read and reason about for my brain, it would be cool if we could generate them from more readable syntax, maybe something like javascript :D

Little known fact: The people who came up with lisp wanted to do this, too.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/M_expressions
Man I wish there were graphing tool to make graphs (eg 3D bar charts/over geo data) to look this cool.
Don't make fun of libertarians on Hacker News.

The entitled, privileged, incapable of empathy, ignorant of the reality of the world around them, libertarian Tech Bros will get very angry with you.

They will then try to eradicate your impure thoughts by downvoting you to the point that your comments are flagged or hidden-- while simultaneously criticizing this tactic whenever it is used against them elsewhere.
Free speech has limitations. If code is speech, then don’t those limitations also apply to code?
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The possibility of them 'being able to do that' is because of laws that got passed by democratically elected officials.

If you don't like that, vote someone in power who regulates that more.

The problem with these discussions is that nobody tells their opinions to their representative, they just blurt it out into the 'aether' on a rando internet forum.

True change starts with calling your representative. If they don't do what you ask them to, then have other people ask as well. Finally, have them vote them out of office if a sufficient ammount of people want the same thing that the representative won't do (eg. represent their constituents).
The taxes still paid for it twice
> "As for affirmative action being an effort to keep out Asians...have you been to Harvard’s campus? There are many, many Asian students there. In fact, nearly one in five students at Harvard are of Asian descent. The idea that elite schools are purposely excluding Asians is absurd on its face. The people pushing the idea have an axe to grind and it usually isn’t actually in the interest of Asian-Americans."

If you're Asian and you're reading this, never forget that the above is what progressives believe about how society treats Asians: transgressions against you get simply waved away. Think twice about supporting them.

For the record, I am Asian and a liberal but definitely not progressive.
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Humans create a problem, try to solve it with human effort, and either prolong the problem or create a bigger one. We try to kill starlings and yet they are still here, all we've done is waste time and resources murdering them. We try to kill japanese knotweed by pulling them out of the soil or by applying herbicide and the knotweed spreads further because it thrives in a disturbed environment. Asian longhorned beetle, gyspy moths, garlic mustard, etc. Whether plant or animal, it's all the same. All wasted efforts because we're collectively unable to think on the same timescale that nature does as it works to achieve equilibrium again after the disturbance.