skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a little story: I run a tiny digital agency. Our clients are all non technical. They all want maps of some form. Until Google did their infamous pricing thing, all was well: we could set up as many nice embedded maps on websites as needed, clients all happy.

Then the price / key requirement thing happened. Turns out you have to navigate through the absolute hell hole that is Google Cloud Console or whatever they call it this week. It involves permissions, and users and keys and all manner of layers that only a hardcore Dev can cope with. Google don't let us do it on client's behalf - I certainly can't ask client to do it for themselves. Stalemate.

So, yeh, MapBox here we come.
The Fed is pumping money into the stock market and the businesses are buying back their stocks with it in order to pump up the markets even more.

This was the downfall of Hertz already and it will be interesting in 2021 with the banks...

https://www.investors.com/news/stress-tests-bank-stocks-divi...
I managed to learn QM without reference to cats in boxes, I suspect others may be able to as well.
> “The article is about literal Chinese Slave Labor camps”

> > Actually it’s not... did you read it?

Yes, but apparently you did not. Here's the quote:

> Xinjiang, in the far reaches of Western China bordering Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Muslim-majority countries, is facing a brutal crackdown by China’s government, which has placed more than a million Muslims in concentration camps or forced them to work in factories making everything from cotton to soft drinks to electronics.

Trying to spin this off as some sort of voluntary job thing is extremely disingenuous. Almost as disingenuous as trying to spin paid prison labor in the US as slave labor.
Yes, you run one scheduler per core.
Black tongue comments are really getting tiring to read on here.
That money has to come from somewhere, no matter which system you are using. Even if the government just prints it, there's still a cost.
To add to the "cars" problem: these days there are many more people on the road who are incentivized to drive as a fast as possible to do their jobs. Amazon, UPS, FedEx etc delivery drivers are pushed to the brink to deliver as many packages as they can within a certain time frame, and there are thousands of untrained taxi drivers running around for Uber and Lyft and playing with their phones.
Or nuclear bomb, you know.
Bitlbee + IRSSI. Telegram and Freenode both from IRC? With dcc to fetch files? It's amazing.
> If spending is up, wouldn’t the stock market outperform Bitcoin anyway?

The dollar is way down. It doesn't matter if the DOW hits 1 million if the dollar is worthless.
There's a fixed amount, but it can be divide to very tiny parts (1e-8 of a BTC).

So, there's a fixed amount, but in practice, there quite a lot of it (2.1e15 if I'm not too drunk).
Imagine you're driving highway speed and crossing some slush to change lanes.

As you drive through that slush would your rather be trying to put all the vehicle's motive power through two tires or four?

Do you dispute that doubling the number of tires moving the vehicle forward will drastically reduce the ease with which the vehicle breaks traction crossing over the slush?
She has moderate dementia, which means you can't really trust her to do reasonable things if left to her own devices.
an apology: https://animakumar.wpcomstaging.com/2020/12/16/my-heartfelt-...

much more of the back story: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/retired-uw-computer-science-pr...
Curious - where are you now in TX that has this?

"The city council has been approving higher density housing than the area has had historically, despite some grumbling from the SFH owners. The master plan is oriented around mass transit in an area historically devoid of it." ?

Austin?
> elaborate?

That's all I've been doing.

> Those are with present numbers which have the 1MB limit in place. Clearly those assumptions won't hold if we have much larger blocks.

There is a lot of head room. Anyone can see this. Ten years of transactions has taken up $6 of hard drive space TOTAL while the average fee PER TRANSACTION is almost $9 right now.

> Sounds like you're not denying the anti-decentralization aspect at all, but rather arguing that it doesn't matter.

That's ridiculous. Decentralization is important and none of this has much effect on decentralization at all. You haven't actually explained why there would be any problem with decentralization because you can't. There is no barrier to entry for anyone who wants to sync with any chain so they can mine it or accept it.

> Specifically "Assume good faith".

Say something reasonable that isn't contradicted by grade school math. You haven't backed up anything you have said with anything that makes sense.

> I don't get it which numbers are made up?

Correct, you don't get it. Your idea that someone has to spend $450 on what would be 24TB is nonsense.

Why don't you explain to me what exactly you think will happen if throughput is more than a few transactions per second? Ethereum already exceeds bitcoin's volume. Bitcoin Cash tested huge blocks years ago, what exactly do you think will happen and why? Maybe you just don't want people to realize that there is no systemic reason for bitcoin being capped, because if they do it will become a relic.
Send physical postcards of photos you take with your phone. There are several apps that do this. It's surprisingly charming to receive a postcard by snail mail, and to send them. Take a photo, share a thought with someone, and participate in the delayed gratification that all previous generations have benefitted from.
why was this even voted to the front [page. all of the stuff he is concerned about was addressed 5+ yrs ago. nothing new here. Even if you are not a fan of Bitcoin you have to admit these arguments are stale and he provides no new evidence.
How does this change vs any other method? Paper, blockchain, etc.
I second this. The libraries were actualy pretty interesting
"But if they have some kind of head start, the police advice is to find a secure location from which to call the police. I'll take that over the advice of someone whose seen Home Alone too many times."

LOL why ddo you assume that I'm the latter and not the former?

You can live in your own reality. Clearly talking to you is pointless.
We can do the same model for Ruby (preemption of event driven fibers) and may choose to do so in the future. We are just taking one step at a time.
There was a whole series of campaigns after the pepe the frog thing where 4chan/8chan picked random innocuous shit and decided that they would try to convince journalists that it had something to do with white supremacy. The OK sign is probably the most successful example. Of course, this ended up forming a hyperstition, where this false belief ended up leading to its own truth-hood, in a limited capacity.
Expert disruptive innovators, the Irish Republican Army, repeatedly proved this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=IRA+%22mortar+at...

Amongst other things, shooting down a helicopter, and having a go, separately, at the queen and the prime minister.
What I mean is: I haven't bought anything off of non-FB/IG ads, despite seeing many of them e.g. in the New York Times app (among others). It is indeed true that these are generally also "targeted," they're just not targeted well.
> because ultimately the great majority of their customers do not care, as simple as that. They might care about local issues, wedge issues, but ethical and moral concerns in another country? not so much. Big luxury brands such as Apple pour billions in PR and marketing because they live or die by the reputation. The day their customers start caring more about it, things might change.

It's worth noting that one of the main reasons consumers "don't care" is the market is structured in a way to literally numb them to these issues. It makes it difficult to even learn about these issues (in relation to particular products), have that knowledge when making a purchasing decision, and take action against it (all competitors may be doing the same thing). The PR you mentioned also plays a part.

To give an slightly different example: Xinjiang produces a lot of cotton, and, IIRC, some of it is produced through forced labor. How am I supposed to show I care by avoiding that cotton? I can't, because it's pretty much impossible for me to know if a particular shirt I'm buying is made from that cotton or not, and it might actually be impossible for anyone to know without a very expensive and time consuming investigation.

If Apple put up big signs in it's stores saying "iPhones are made with forced labor," with compelling product storytelling about the forced labor practices involved, I think you'd Apple's sales drop as consumers show they do care. But that's not going to happen, all the market incentives are to obscure that kind of information.
> It [USA] does not have a government because the thing it calls a government cannot tell its people what to do, and make them do it, which is the basic function of a government.

May be at the micro level governments should have the capacity to force involuntary action. But if it is democratic then I think by definition it is the people telling the government what to do.
This feels like Gopher, orgmode, and a wiki had a baby.

EDIT: I think there's an Uncle Webring in there too, somewhere.
It did.

In book "Everything is Now" by Bill Spence writes that research in string theory led to developing new mathematics which led to helping to manage data in hadron collider which led to detecting Higgs boson. It is not direct cause and effect correlation but it helped with due process.
HTML5 geolocation if you ever click allow even one time can granularly identify location based on where you are. It sends nearby MAC and correlates this to wardriving-equivalent scans. You do not need to be connected to wifi.
Is it just me, or does the pictured drone shell look 3d printed?

There is for sure money to be made for any (ABCA based) company to sell minorly tweaked clones of popular consumer drones.
Haven’t looked into it well-enough to understand the details of how it works, but at first glance — would you say that this model for a distributed network might be a good/natural way to connect nodes/content on the p2p internet? (Say IPFS)
https://archive.is/kn3Xj
I might also try a Bookmarklet that uses JS to send the page info over.

Edit: Looks like this is already included in ops solution.

I like bookmarklets because they are nice and simple, maintenance is much easier than a bunch of extensions, and extensions don't work in some browsers (i.e. mobile).
I see this particular dustup as just a regional conflict between sects on opposite sides of the wider conflict - but the wider cold war going on is motivated by people who have strong, largely un-falsifiable beliefs about how the world works, and who are acting with a unilaterial goal of re-structuring society around these assumptions and eliminating views in conflict with them (and eliminating those who hold them from the public sphere, or creating a sufficient chilling effect such that they censor themselves.)

Once you see it as a religious war it's by far the best analogy to understand the dynamics, at least to me. It's also potentially more than an analogy to the point where the underlying belief system ought to be treated as a religion from a legal standpoint, for the benefit of everyone involved, including the believers.
Do you know how much berry/fruit pickers get paid? or pizza delivery people? It will be a LONG time before it's more economical for a robot to do it I think
Guardian Style Guider Checker
I think they're fourth and falling: AWS, Azure, Ali, GCP. I think the IBM cloud is gaining on GCP.

Worse than that, every 1 position drop market share halves: ~50%, ~25%, 12%, 6%.
This article is FANTASTIC. Maximum style points, and worthwhile content - for both entertainment and in pragmatic terms.
The simplest way to think about this is in terms of supply and demand. The supply of dollars is going up, so the price will go down, unless the demand for dollars also goes up. If people are selling stock, taking out loans, doing other things in order to demand and obtain dollars, then we won't see inflation. Yet.
Like clockwork, the "muh tether" FUD continues on HN.
If you think tether is the only reason cryptoassets are increasing in value, you are simply not paying attention.
Well that was confusing
Well, there’s nothing stopping subdivision of a currency by any means available. Bad money drives out good as well, so in practice, people cash in bitcoin and pay with dollars in order to pay small fraction of what 1 bitcoin is worth. In theory, a “sub coin” could handle this but I guess it hasn’t been desired enough for anyone to bother specializing in it. All I am saying is theoretically there is no issue.

Oh and others mention subdividing bitcoin directly so there is that.
That does sound like a flaw, although the paper by Jessica Wolpaw Reyes I often see mentioned that argues lead causes crimes isn't based on measuring lead levels in individuals at all, but on the total lead released by cars during the time studied. That sounds even less robust.

I'm not sure if the paper you linked measures the correlation between blood lead levels in the first 3 years and crime rates because it's behind a paywall.
Exactly. There is nothing you can do about bash unless you are the creators of bash. In which case, now you are dealing with whatever essential complexity it is you are forced to deal with to create your program. The program itself is all accidental using this model (the model initially outlined by the OP, which converges with the original article).

Maybe "incidental complexity" would be a better term. But the model is the same.
^^^ this... What's funny is something a civics teacher said in 6th grade, "If you have the ability to intervene or help, you have the responsibility to do so." .. a few decades later, it's become "don't get involved, get a teacher or call the police."

Plenty of lives are saved every day by those that aren't police, but have the ability to intervene.
That is a debate worth having - but calling cheaply paid prison labor "Slave Labor", or equivocating it to Chinese Forced Labor Camps is disingenuous and dishonest.

They are flatly not the same, even if you believe it's debatably exploitive.
I imagine it would be extremely dire for those hundreds of professors.
Sure, but in the context of assassinating the VIP it does.

Mortar attacks for this are not unprecedented†, but are not terribly effective.

[†] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack#T...
Does working from home make employees more productive?
That last sentence doesn't seem to follow. Why do you place the blame on "the society"?
Absolutely not, you can’t change direction without grip - angular momentum and weight are what cause lateral loads, after all.

The thing is, AWD makes it easier to get going by letting you put engine torque through all four tires. The same set of tires has the same mechanical grip regardless of how many wheels are driven, so if a FWD car would spin taking a corner at X speed due to lateral load so will your AWD car (and the AWD will have an easier time doing it).
So which OS or phone are you going to go with? Google only guarantees 3 years of support. Fairphone 2’s last OS update was 14 months ago, there’s no way that’s up to date with security issues so their track record is looking pretty dicey. After all they’re dependent on Google as well. Even if they do eventually get another update there’s no way a 14 month gap between security patches is acceptable. Fairphone only actually guarantee 2 years of support anyway.

So what phone do you use that can beat the iPhone 6 with 6 years of regular patches?
Your argument assumes the non-Chinese justice system in question is actually just in its enforcement of the laws and fair in its sentencing.

If that system is the US, we can question those assumptions along a few lines:

- racial bias in enforcement and sentencing
- inhumane prison terms in general
- unjust laws e.g. the war on drugs
- the failure of the society to provide entire classes of people with sufficient non-criminal routes out of poverty and despair
My backpack uses birch wood for its internal suspension system. The designers found that, more than just being green, it was as performant as synthetics and just as economical. Wood is a resource to rival modern materials science, or be used in conjunction with.

https://www.fjallraven.com/us/en-us/bags-gear/backpacks-bags...
You can literally buy anything to hedge against inflation. Anything. If you don’t own physical dollars the inflation thereof doesn’t affect you. This is ECON101. Your only job is to pick an asset you believe in.

Then there’s the whole thing of you way overstating the impact of printing money and of stimulus on inflation. Inflation remains on track for a perfect bulls eye 2% per annum. The velocity of money is a huge factor you aren’t considering. It’s dropping and these are measures to counteract its drop. A lack of printing and stimulus would be deflationary and that would be way, way worse than inflation.
I suggest adding Bob Nystrom's "Crafting Interpreters"

http://craftinginterpreters.com/
I'd recommend learning the math/physics from a textbook. At some point, the pop-sci explanations get so garbled that they make the actual idea sound harder and more mysterious than it actually is.

When I first understood what entanglement was, mathematically, I was profoundly disappointed. Years of pop-sci had made it seem like a crazy thing, but mathematically, it's quite.. tame. (Some tensor products don't factorize).

For quantum mechanics, I strongly suggest going the quantum computing route if you have a background in computing. Pick up Quantum Computing since democritus (https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/), Nielsen and Chuang(http://mmrc.amss.cas.cn/tlb/201702/W020170224608149940643.pd...), and learn how to program in Q# (Microsoft's quantum programming language) and solve their quantum katas: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/tutorials/intro-to-....

I've done the same thing as part of a course at university: https://github.com/bollu/quantum-course-exercises

and it made a lot of things click for me.
hacker news readers are notorious for missing obvious value propositions. their comments on crypto will be remembered similarly to their comments on dropbox. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Hmm. I don't want to find myself defending that it is easy. That is not my belief, either.

I don't think a lot of the complexity that goes into graphics is essential, though.

I do think top end will remain top end. However, I also think many games can be done without putting graphics rendering at the top of the budget. Axiom Verge is a recent find of mine that I feel hits this well. Thimbleweed Park is another good one here.

Which is not to say that either of those were easy. I doubt they were.
Maps as a tool for finding your way is just the starting point. In the last month we've seen MapBox release their 3D API and Microsoft show off what they are able to do with Project Anywhere.

Re-creating the world in 3D and making that a valuable product is next on the horizon, and though Google had the upper hand with Google Earth, they never opened up an API to it, and I think they'll be kicking themselves that this didn't get more attention in the future.

I have a horse in this race as the founder of 3D mapping for outdoor sports start-up https://ayvri.com
A drone could be launched with a disposable helium balloon and remain silent until it needed to maneuver. Rotational maneuvers to aim a camera would be brief and quiet compared to hovering. On a calm night you might even be able to get it back quietly.
I love that BTC is supposed to be correlated with inflation - when if you take one second to look at the price chart - it obviously has no correlation with inflation whatsoever.
unfortunately when we switch services(homes) all of our electrical devices(code) now need to be changed to work with the different way the new service(home) is wired. At this point the analogy breaks down.
I think of the closing to an essay by Martin Gardner on once mainstream scientific theories, eugenics, Freudism, etc. Which is when evidence is weak then scientific theory tends to exactly match scientists cultural biases.

With string theory there is no evidence to work off. To me it feels like with nothing better to do everyone in the field is just trying to out math everyone else.
> science always had unethical behaviour, intrigue and politics

Yes, this is part of what I was referring to when I said that humans do all kinds of crazy things for all kinds of crazy reasons.

> In the end the best science always won

I'm not sure I agree. I would agree if you limited your claim to hard science--areas where we can nail down the best theory by lots of data and controlled experiments--but many areas that are called "science" are not amenable to that.

> by the very nature of us speaking about it, it can't be an existential crisis

I'm not sure I agree with that either.

> I believe we as society need to come back to a view of seeing science as a general good, without the need to produce some immediate measurable outcomes

I agree with this, but I would also add that science should be viewed as a tool for finding good predictive theories, no matter what those theories end up predicting. Unfortunately much funding of science now is given with the expectation that a particular kind of result will be what "science" predicts.
(Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson)
Won't someone please think of the tenured professors!
What would need to change in order to make such a determination?
> Perhaps

No, which is the entire premise of the linked article we're discussing.

> And what about 10 or 20 years from now, will your non-desire to shoot people still not exist?

Perhaps, but it will have considerably less to do with video games than other life factors.

> Neuro-plasticity effectively dictatess we are what we consume, we are what we do

This isn't what neuro-plasticity means. It means your brain can perform a task with less work, not that you "become" something because the pathways are optimized for a task.
' ..."violence is sometimes okay" when its literally a crime as an adult.'

Self defense is not a crime.
Isn't healthcare increasingly being considered part of the "minimally happy package"?

Outside the US that certainly is the case.
I recommend "Everything is Now" by Bill Spence. It delves a bit deeper but you do not need knowledge in the field.
The parent comment mentioned sexual violence. Let's just be clear that BDSM is for consenting parties who are turned on by various experiences including pain. That's not what sexual violence / rape is. BDSM or a nod towards it features in many mainstream games. Then again Dishonored did feature a kink scene which turns into a violence/torture scene... it's just not overly sexual.
How does some private company getting labor for 10c an hour benefit anyone but them? It's "compensating" for jack shit. You might have a point if they had to pay minimum wage for each employee to the government to be used on social services.
I think there's a legal analogy to be made with vehicular liability insurance. By choosing to operate a car, you're putting others at some small risk, and you're therefore required to hedge against the scenario where that impacts someone else.
> If people are selling stock, taking out loans, doing other things in order to demand and obtain dollars, then we won't see inflation. Yet.

Isn't it plausible that the dollar supply isn't actually reaching consumer markets, and consequently inflation stagnated because a drop in purchasing power leads to a drop in aggregate demand?
Any news on the 3x3 initiative?