skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well your not taking into account all the A/B tests they are running, the fact that they have custom experiences for different locations (SFO, India, etc). I can easily see how they would get up to that number pretty quickly at the scale they are at.
Aerospace regulates software and hardware. Software standard is DO-178B. Thanks to it, the systems get great quality assurance. A common thing that emerged from that are partitioning RTOS's that separate critical and untrustworthy stuff. They also usually have trusted boot. The cheapest CPU I saw supporting those was a Freescale one for $4 a piece in quantities of 100 units.

So, yeah, even in softwarw one can do as you suggest. Multiple times it's been done with things improving across the board. In DO-178B, an additional effect is an ecosystem of tooling, reusable components, and consultants sprang up to make each project a bit cheaper and less risky.
Sure, I was thinking of things like lights supporting local control. I guess I'd try to write it so that a phone app talking to the light counted as passing the rule, as long as it worked without an internet connection.

I don't see how it is a problem for simple rules like "Installed lights must always be controllable from inside the premises" to be code.
Amd has modestly priced hardware that supports ecc
$21.22 from Lisbon
True. Still mostly immaterial in the grand scheme of things, I think?

EDIT: Should say, as a point of interest: Even though .zip's were protected back in the Good Old Days, that didn't really matter because we all got corrupted (expanded from .zip) .mp3's because of those fucking RTL3xxsomething cards that would just transmit things perfectly and then corrupt the checksum (or whichever way 'round). Ugh. One of the few times I've actually hated engineers.

(Don't get me wrong. I really do want more of these checks to be pervasive. We start with our local file systems.)
How does such a bleak operation get so big?
A few thousand loonies on the Internet believing something weird but harmless doesn't weigh up to millions of Indians pooping on the street
A one sentence rebuttal to this is that the exponential take-off of human civilization ~= accelerating distributed intelligence.

You can quibble about what an AI is; if you draw a box around human civilization and observe its leverage and rate of change, well, the evidence is that we are riding the superhuman takeoff.
I addressed that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14207953
Check out sdf.org. Users are encouraged to create their own gopherspace.
Residential solar is hard to pin down because it's "behind the meter"; it doesn't look like generation, it looks like demand reduction.
I recall seeing a video of a property owner who has a piece of land with a long, approx 2.5 meter height wall facing a street in a suburb of Delhi. He had a significant problem with the wall becoming an unofficial "designated pissing wall" and the whole place reeked of urine. Problem was solved by first power washing the wall and then hiring a few local mural painters to paint images of various Hindu gods (Hanuman, Ganesh, etc) on the wall. No more pissing problem.
vehicles are (supposed to) be electronically limited to 250kph

It was my impression that vehicles aren't supposed to be able to go faster than the speed rating of their tires. Since 250 km/h is a common speed rating for tires, and higher ratings tend to get expensive fast, German cars are often limited to 250 km/h.

No current Porsches (real ones, not the SUVs) are that slow, and the Porsche tire recommendation guide calls for tires rated for 300 km/h, or "over 300 km/h" (the standardized ratings don't go higher) for all models except the Macan SUV with 18" wheels, for which it recommends 270 km/h.

http://files2.porsche.com/filestore/download/usa/none/porsch...
No no. I really do appreciate your comment. We're getting a person who is going to run through the landing page copy as soon as possible.
You should be able to do this easily. Go consult a trainer and try working out 3x a week for 3 months. Learn how to eat enough and lift heavy stuff safely.
also when you need to develop a new feature and it needs to go through A:B testing frameworks, localization (including Arabic Right to Left text/layouts), phased feature roll outs, 99.999% reliability, integration testing, planning for use cases anywhere from LTE/WI-FI in USA to EDGE network in developing countries, and you need to build the tools that do those things too. Clearly the 100 engineers are sitting there twiddling their thumbs.
No, the point is they can serve up targeted ads using browser fingerprint
Isn't this exactly the sort of thing the government accountability office is for? I'm seriously asking - someone this transparently corrupt deserves an investigation big time.
You may have misunderstood my point. I'm saying that being able to interact with a digital assistant (I only used Echo as an example) the way I would with a human admin and have it take appropriate actions is many years away. It would be an interesting application for many of us, but it's not close.
not only are they allowed to lie, a law enforcement officer has no authority to offer you this kind of deal, and they know it; so they can't say this without lying about it.
I live in a rural area in the mid-atlantic US. My choices for internet are 10mbit DSL from CenturyLink or LTE (with bandwidth caps). I've only lived here for a year but my previous two homes have had at least two options for 100mbit+ internet, FiOS and Comcast, and LTE.

Comcast serves across the street from my house and told me it would be $76k out of my pocket to get service here. For < 1mi run of fiber.

I'm 100% in favor of making ISPs common carriers and making it unlawful for them to track their customers' habits. I've worked for two ISPs in my career. They should be happy with the business of providing internet to customers and compete on delivering better, faster, and more reliable service not on selling their customers' information or eyeballs to the highest bidder.
> Temperature is not infinite [...] There is finite space and time. Finite speed.

Just want to point out this is true, however these things go astronomically high.

> what evidence do we have that the limit is not us?

We can measure the speed impulses travel through neurons, and compare that to, say, the speed of electrical impulses through silicon or light through fiber.

We can find the maximum head-size that fits through a vaginal canal, or the maximum metabolic rate a human body could support, and try to determine if these factors imposed any limitations on intelligence during human evolution.

We can look at other evolved/biological capabilities, like swimming or flying, and compare them to state-of-the-art artificial analogs, and see if a pattern emerges where the artificial analogs tend to have similar limitations as their biological counterparts.
A 51% attack only beats out the other miners.

The network includes all of the individuals and businesses who run nodes but don't mine. They will only accept valid blocks.

So say you execute a 51% attack and attempt to include an invalid transaction. No other node on the network will accept that block as valid. So all of the businesses, including the bitcoin exchanges, will reject your block as invalid and not process it. And any block you try to build on that invalid block will also be invalid for the same reason.

You cannot include any invalid transactions in a bitcoin block even if you had 99% of the hashing power. The rest of the network will just ignore all of your blocks and will accept the next valid block that comes along.
Publicly accessible isn't the same as "public" or "will continue to be usable"
Uber and Lyft have competition. UPS has competition. Most ISPs do not.

And while you might say that it allows them to fund things faster, it also allows them to simply give more money to executives and shareholders.

Please don't also pretend that giving them more ways to make money at the expense of the internet as we know it means that they will invest in their infrastructure. In fact, history shows us that they most likely will not.
$74.73 (Dec 2013) I believe was the public high
One of the big issues with people that talk about controlling super human intelligence, is that any talk of controlling it is fantasy. We cannot control actual human intelligence for good. What makes us think we could control super human intelligence?
Zero success? An outlandish claim requires an equivalently convincing citation. This sounds more like "I've seem Roma people doing unclean things, therefore all Roma people cannot be integrated to be clean" where in fact all that is happening is the confirmation bias at work, because what you didn't see was all the Roma people who were integrated and using toilets like everyone else.
> As with the Brexit referendum, those that lost complained afterward that the public was mislead

And they weren't wrong. The problem unfortunately is that the public, as a whole, just doesn't care.

They'd rather a comfortable, self-affirming, lie than an uncomfortable, intellectually challenging, truth.
At a guess, where the bones are in the ground. If they're in a layer that is 100k years old, unless there's evidence of disturbance, there's a decent argument that they were left that way at that time.
I was particularly thinking of baby monitors during an emergency. It was most important house-hold device I could think of in terms of harm. Maybe turn a freezer off on IoT fridge while people are on vacation then back on just before they return to make meat refreeze or something spoiled. Maybe turn off the power in household with IoT home automation and someone on life support of some kind.

Im only having a few possibilities come to mind that are life-threatening. Most are just annoying or financial drain. If we add painful, maybe make an epileptic's screen on SmartTV blink fast like the attack on the web site. Turn off people's alarm clock enough they get fired and loose health insurance before major operation. Im really having to stretch it here.
Same topic, same conclusion, even more hard facts.

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/you-really-do-need-...
History. History is the reason why they would not go for business model 2.
He mentioned in the very beginning that there are city teams, so perhaps it's a number of people proportional (not exponential, like he says) to the growing # of cities.
> I am spending a great deal of time meeting with all of the beautifully spontaneous and decentralized organizations that have been popping up in the wake of our electoral calamity as well as dozens of candidates at all levels of government.

Does anyone know where (or how) to find these organizations?

I'd love to get involved in some of these organizations that are trying to build a better future for our country, and try to contribute/help in any way that I can.
True. The Ganges is probably one of the most disgusting things on earth. If your religion involves worshipping (and drinking of) a river full of poop and bloated human corpses, I couldn't justify it as civilized even if I tried.
Yes. Everybody reading this should use ECC RAM, and non-ECC RAM should be called "error-propagating RAM".

Random bit flips aren't cool, and they happen regularly. Most computers that have ECC RAM can report whether errors happen. I see them at least once a year or so. For instance, here are 2 ECC-correctable memory errors that occurred just last month.

Cosmic rays? Fukushima phantom? Who knows. You'll never know why they happen (unless it's like a bad RAM module and they happen a lot), but if you don't rock ECC you will never know they happened at all. You'll be left guessing when, years later, some encrypted file can no longer decrypt, and all the backups show the same corruption...

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zndvy3nkv1jipri/2017-03-20%20FUCK%...

[2]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yeoedc7ajzq4u9/2017-03-20%20FUCK%...
The suggestion isn't about what order you do the arithmetic in, but about what order you do the captures in. ++++---- versus +-+-+-+-. The former has the disadvantage that if something that affects the images (temperature, say) is varying gradually, or changes abruptly at a particular point, it's easier for it to have substantially different effects on the light and the dark frames.

It's possible that something like Thue-Morse (+--+-++--++-+--+ etc.; one way to define this is to look at the parity of the number of 1-bits in the binary representation of the frame number) might be better than alternating. If whatever disturbances you might worry about are smooth in the right sort of way, it gives you more exact cancellation than alternating.
"every day" is 2 words in your case.
I'm just not sure how this works. AFAICT there's four networks in Canada. Why would they onsell their network, then have to acquire the company to stop the competition? Why not just not onsell it in the first place?

Maybe there's some regulation saying they have to onsell it?

Just curious because it seems a bit similar in Australia.

I was with Vodafone then discovered a much better deal through Kogan which uses the Vodafone network. I asked Vodafone to match the deal to keep me as a customer, and they couldn't! They wanted me to pay something like 30% more for the same network/data usage. I told them thanks but no thanks.
Ask HN: How important is mobile (for a desktop orientated) web app?
We recently made our app public following a private beta period. It is primarily targeted at desktop users (where it works fine, with a few quirks we are working on); however hits and new trials are predominantly from mobile.

We could work on improving the mobile experience, but we have limited resources and desktop is where our current users are. Thus we are undecided which is more important, the initial mobile experience or the full desktop use?
I was at 3Com at that time. Awesome product, bad timing.

Good luck with yours!
Fascinating article. Did you ever find a reason for the different ios results?
I'm not sure which state you're saying has superior pulled pork, but I think those are fighting words in either case.

I'm fond of both mustard and vinegar sauces. Tomato is good, too (that's actually what's popular where I'm from in upstate SC and western NC).

The last time I ever ate red meat (or large mammal meat) was a pulled pork sandwich 23 years ago. I became a vegetarian a few months later, after having étouffée in Louisiana on my way to Texas. I still partake of BBQ pretty regularly, and make my own sauce, but it's always tofu, seitan, jackfruit, etc.
I'm not aware of any such feature. You can set up a monthly deposit into your Robinhood account, and you'll get a notification on your phone each time it goes through, but you have to manually submit purchase requests each time as far as I know. At least, that's what I'm doing! I'd love to hear of an alternative. Not that hard to hit the sequence of buttons each month, though.
Will this allow providers to simply block website traffic or not allow it? Say, Comcast says "nope, you can't access Google" because Google refused to pay Comcast a premium. Is that possible?
Your citation does not support the "decisively predates agriculture" claim, and in fact refers to early agriculture at the site as one of the competing interpretations.
found a bunch of 115k year old bones from animals that died from natural deaths

I can think of things that might kill a whole herd of animals at once, but I'm having trouble picturing their bones just lying there intact for 100,000 years before people came along.
I actually think the "D's" are equally bad, if not worse. But saying that potentially leads to an argument. That's why it's incendiary, because it leads directly to bashing, skipping civil debate.

Plus, it's condecending to at least half of the people in the U.S.

The parent commenter acts as though they know they're correct and every other person is wrong. The comment comes across very close minded, and not really in the spirit of discourse. They even hint that they don't see the point of discourse:

> Engaging on a level of logic with someone who is seeking an outcome and just says whatever they think will support their view. This is about the exercise of power.

The only thing it added was to discount other views and generalize "R's" as "clown" supporters, which just isn't the case. There was no other addition to the conversation.

Further, I dont even see a way to respond to that comment without seemingly defending the "clown"... Which would certainly lead to a more incendiary argument.
The FCC just released an NPRM to speed up access to utility poles, which is pretty much the only regulatory hurdle Google Fiber ran into. One of the options being considered is allowing new attachers to do make ready work themselves, which is similar to the one touch make ready laws Google pushed for in places like Louisville (the current pole attachment process requires existing attachers to move their own lines instead of letting new attachers move other attachers' lines themselves).
Given that you're mostly doing synchronized video on the projectors, I'm curious: if you did this setup today, would you still attempt to use a multi-GPU setup? Or would you prefer something like a bunch of cheap video-decoding-capable chip PCs attached to each projector/display and then networked to a computer that 1. sent (MIDI?) control cues and 2. acted as a NAS for the devices to stream from?
That post is linked in the first sentence of the submission.
Hm? As long as the error correction technology on your chosen SSD of choice stands up, I guess... yes? What, exactly, are you asking?
BIOSTAR specs list ECC support, but I don't know if it has specific BIOS/UEFI options for it.
A New Approach to 3D Printing Removes the Limitations of Gravity
This is completely silly. Superhuman AI is inevitable because there is nothing magical about human brains. The human brain is only the very first intelligence to evolve. We are probably very far away from the peak of what is possible.

Human brains are incredibly small, a few pounds of matter. Any bigger and your mother would be killed giving birth or you would take 10x as long to grow up. They are incredibly energy constrained, only using a few watts of power. Because any more and you would starve to death. They are incredibly slow and energy inefficient; communication in the brain is done with chemical signals that are orders of magnitude slower than electricity and use much more energy. And they are very uncompact - neurons are enormous and filled with tons of useless junk that isn't used for computation. Compared to our transistor technology which is approaching the limits of physics and built on an atom by atom scale.

That's just the hardware specs of the human computer. The software is hardly better. There are just more unknowns because we haven't finished reverse engineering it (but we are getting there, slowly.)

But beyond that, the human brain evolved to be good at surviving on the Savanahs of Africa. We didn't evolve to be good at mathematics, or science, or engineering. It's really remarkable that our brains are capable of such things at all! We have terrible weaknesses in these areas. For instance, a very limited working memory. We don't realize how bad we are, simply because we have nothing else to compare ourselves to.

Consider how even today, relatively primitive AIs are vastly superior to humans at games like chess. Human brains also didn't evolve to be good at chess after all. Even simple algorithms designed specifically for this game easily mop up humans. And play at a level of strategy far above what even the best human players can comprehend.

Imagine an AI brain that is optimized for the purpose of mathematics, or computer programming, science, or engineering. Or at doing AI research... Imagine how much better it could be at these tasks than humans. It could quickly solve problems that would take the greatest human minds generations. It could manage levels of complexity that would drive humans crazy.
> the environmental impact of large-scale Bitcoin mining is a real problem

This is completely ridiculous. I've never seen anyone supply numbers to remotely back this up. A few people have linked to a blog post that through extrapolation and gross misunderstanding asserted that bitcoin mining used up as much electricity as all of Ireland (lets use our very best judgement).

The truth is the financial industry is 8% of GDP. How much power does it take to air condition all the banks of world?

Beyond that there is the fact that not all electricity has significant environmental impact and the fact that bitcoin mining ends up happening in places where electricity is the cheapest and most plentiful, which means it probably is not being generated with coal or oil.

This assertion is an enormous detachment from reality based on gut feeling.
Why do you like playing moderator? If you want to be a moderator, email dang, dude.
What are your thoughts on RH being mobile only and how that affects your ability to manage this amount of money. Isn't it hard to keep track of your positions, performance, etc with all those taps and lack of ability to export or read on a real device?
VHS tapes had a tab you could pull to make them "read-only". Putting a piece of cello or tape would make them RW again :)
Because the market itself cannot provide decent competition. Even if you got rid of most regulations, you'd still have barriers in the forms of having to tear up roads, and the massive investment in equipment you have to buy up front. That would still keep other players to a minimum. Net Neutrality is there to ensure that we still have the internet as we know it even if most people don't have competition between providers.
PS: Random-crazy thought.. it's curious with reduction of costs via Moore's law improvements that there aren't yet formally-verified, zero-knowlege systems which can end-to-end prove they performed computation/real-world side-effects and/or continue to safely store data. Why blindly trust anyone or any company with data that can be seized, lost or misused when distributed computation, communication and storage can be A2E with only limited participants knowing operations / plaintext? Perhaps: homomorphic encryption, blockchain-similar ledger or proof-of-work and periodic, authenticated hash challenge queries. Mix in relaying and other idle phony traffic to make triangulation more difficult. I think in order to assure sufficient distributed system resources are made available, μpayments a-la AWS but just covering costs would make it possible to have a persistent, anonymous computation and storage collective that would survive outages, FBI raids, single nodes going offline, etc.
To add to that: Lots of people that would like to commit the crimes don't have the skills and they're more than happy to recruit those who do, either directly or through all kinds of obfuscation. The fact that 'someone else would otherwise do it' is absolutely no defense.

If you don't want to come out and point blank refuse you can always say that you can't do it because you're not that good. That's a perfectly valid excuse and one that I've used on occasion. (Long story, maybe one day.)
That's a fine "realist" perspective but it hardly absolve anyone being a crappy person, and seems a bit victim-blamey. Besides, this guy had a signed contract and it didn't help.
Apparently observing objective reality is incendiary?