skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I qualified "for all intents and purposes" in my first post, and used "governance" in the second one. Walmart very much does govern its stores [1]. And a government is defined as the entity governing a state. States, of course, require physical extent, which doesn't exist on the internet, so yes, there technically can't be a government over virtual space (only over the physical space that the people using it inhabit).

[1] Edit: Within the boundaries of the law. But if that were a problem with your definition of "governance", then state governments (which operate within the boundaries of federal law) would not be governing either.
WSL / Bash on windows comes with apt-get and the entire Ubuntu repository.

As a former Cygwin user, I consider WSL vastly superior for my uses and have switched for good earlier this month.
$50,000 doesn't even get you a stop light installed. This isn't the 1940s where hundreds of dollars could buy something meaningful.
One Small Step for Drones, One Giant Leap for Battle Droids
Or remove the wifi chip?
Because combining an argument with a function call doesn't make sense. They have to do some voodoo under the hood to make it work and this reduces code understandability. The analogy with Unix pipes doesn't work either: one is passing an argument to a function while the other involves writing & reading a file. Finally, it's plain ugly and un-Lispy.
> Anabolic steroids are legal in many countries, like Mexico and Poland

This is not entirely true. You will not be penalized for possessing anabolic steroids in Poland but selling without prescription is illegal. So without prescription the only way to get them is black market and there are tons of fakes on black market. So you don't really know what you are buying..
Swift is like Typescript
Then it's just one-sided censorship in favor of narrative peddlers who run major media corporations, and it has nothing to do with suppressing "fake news".
There is no dispute that Hyatt actually moved to Nevada, and did not, for example, spend most of his time in California after purportedly moving. (If he did, California could just have taxed him based on his presence in the state for more than 183 days a year.)

What's in dispute is when Hyatt decided to do that, in late 1991 or mid 1992. California is saying "yes, you did those things, but you didn't really mean to move until 9 months later." The problem with California's position is that it's totally legal to decide "hey, I'm going to make a bunch of royalties soon, and I don't want to pay California a dime more than I have to, so I'm moving to Nevada." If you have the intent, you're a resident of the new state on day 1. There is no probation period to show you really mean it.
Totally agree ..

> Voice recognition also has a lot less market demand than self driving cars.

Just to expand on your point, today's 'self driving car' technology we may equal to where 'voice recognition technology' was 20 years ago. But 20 years ago, there is no incentive for industry to invest say $100 Billion in 'voice recognition technology', the benefits did not warrant such a huge investment. Where as'self driving car' technology there is potential to reap benefits that is why industry today investing $100 Billion ( all combined investments from all players )

> Technology can be invented that is decades ahead of other fields if enough money is invested.

> That is why I think self-driving cars and voice recognition are not comparable problems.

The huge economic value the can be created with perfected 'self driving car' is in the order of hundreds of Billions of dollars per year world wide combined . Here is an example scenario

In 2025 'self driving Electric Autonomous fleet' vehicles by Uber, Googles of the world offer 'miles plan' ( like our 2005 mobile monthly plan N minutes/month ) that is like 1000 miles per month you can hail any time for a monthly price of $300/month . This is huge economic value for at least 50% of USA drivers and people will embrace it.

Typical USA drivers total cost of ownership of CAR today is in the range of $400 to $600 per month ( CAR price + Repairs costs + car Insurance + gasoline cost) . This is with out counting 1.5 hours/day you have pay attention to drive, the time that can be used for other thing with autonomous fleet
Have you considered, that, in light of the fact that Elon wants to go to Mars, that research in having vehicles perform in a near-vacuum is a possible side-benefit for that goal?
That's an interesting backstory, I was not familiar with the fact Andy Grove made it required reading. It really should be for every tech company management, regardless of it's age.

The farther a company gets from it's early roots the harder it gets for them to recreate the 'early days'. Unless they get a shake up in management. But the typical people good at startup culture would get killed pretty quickly in bigco corporate culture.
Nonetheless, our research team (Dmitry Sklyarov, Mark Ermolov, and Maxim Goryachy)

Dmitry Sklyarov! There's a name I haven't seen in a while... good to see he's still actively doing this stuff.

The immense complexity of the base firmware and hardware in a modern system is astonishing. XML, MINIX, and three(!) complete 486 cores in the PCH.

Given this amazing feat of engineering, and the goals of the ME, it makes me wonder what people would be willing to work on it --- "making the nooses on which to hang ourselves", as the saying goes --- and if perhaps some of those people are actually not too approving of the idea and would, given an opportunity to do it without consequences to themselves, do a Snowden and leak everything that they could...

The fact that such an "ME killswitch" exists doesn't surprise me either; in this case it seems to be an actual feature, but putting such functionalty into debug/test modes is not uncommon. It was only a matter of time before someone would find it.
Have you ever had any experience before with skateboards? Skateboards are one of those things that look so so easy but in reality have a very steep learning curve (however I haven't tried any electric one).
Nginx + Let's Encrypt to reverse proxy some of my personal web services over a single port (443) to punch through some restrictive firewalls.
The exceptional cases can often be the most important, especially when you are talking about moving humans from place to place. I wonder how a self-driving car would react to something like driving in a hurricane?
As a mnemonic: SARADI or SAnRAbDI.
If they're not actively engaged in a naval exercise or actual warfighting requiring them to maneuver outside the Navigation Rules[0], they are subject to the rules the same as any other vessel - and even then, that's a pretty hard argument to make without actual shots fired in anger. Considerations are made in the rules for special requirements for lighting of naval vessels that, by the nature of their design, are unable to comply with the rules. However, the rules regarding avoiding collision apply to everyone, at all times.

[0] https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/navRules/CG_NRHB_20151231.pd...
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Society, and even biology, has invented all sorts of mechanism to reward/punish you for actions. The emotion of shame, for example, is a strong incentive to behave as expected, even among strangers. Shame (and pride) are probably evolutionary adaptions to make the connection between an action and the resulting change in your reputation more immediate.

On the other end of the scale, criminal law punishes you for large transgressions, and sometimes prizes reward you for good deeds (although the latter is mostly achieved via market mechanisms).

Both criminal law and awards also work via reputation, by publicising your actions to a wide audience.

It's also interesting to contrast the discussion in this threat to any number of HN threats on freedom of speech in the last weeks. There, the idea that someone's reputation could be tarnished by their participation in a neo-nazi torch parade was generally considered to be the end of freedom.
I'm willing to bet every town with over 500 people in America has a shitty local diner with greasy food for dirt cheap prices, and any town over 10k has at least one Denny's, so "why doesn't anyone do what Waffle House does" isn't really the question. The answer to that is "plenty of places do", they're just not chains. But really at that price point and that kind of food, if you really need a chain restaurant, McDonalds is going to fill that niche just fine.

The other places are more upmarket, yes, because "greasy food for really cheap prices" is literally McDonalds. Anything between that and a real sit-down-and-order restaurant is called fast casual and you're going to pay a bit more for it.
Compiled gentoo for a week a few years ago - a kid!
The reason we have laws that constrain businesses from doing what Uber is doing is not that we don't want people to have cheap taxi rides. It's that it's fundamentally unfair and anti-competitive to be able to simply lose money on purpose, undercutting a market, driving other firms out of business. And that's because cornering markets by doing that leads to unfair lack of competition.

All Uber wants to do is gain a monopoly then raise their prices once they've trapped the market.

If Uber came along, didn't make much money and undercut the taxi companies then that would be one thing. But they're actively losing money on purpose in order to undercut taxi companies. That's anticompetitive behaviour.

Meanwhile they're also abusing their employees. Again, the reason we have labour laws is that you shouldn't be able to offer a service for cheap just by fucking your employees over. And they are employees, even if Uber claims otherwise.
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Agreed. I would think audio recognition is not comparable to driving, since the scope of recognizing all voices, accents, languages is vastly different than the set of rules for driving and the complexity of the road.

Realistically speaking, even if Tesla or any other manufacturing company do get to that level of a "super advance Einstein-genius" self-driving car it will still be: "not even close" if it's riding alongside the highway with 18-year old Billy-bob speedster with a penchant for cutting lanes and living dangerously.
Most car accidents are due to human error.

If all cars on the highway are self-driving cars, with the ability to learn and communicate with each other through mesh-network or what-not, with predictive capacity -- it will be a lot better than any driving human that can only see what's in front of them. We just need to get to that level where most cars on the highway are smart self-driving capable cars and we can build on top of that. No one should be relying on self-driving cars to do everything at this point in the game because we're not there yet.
> very pricey made in america brands, or very cheap made in China brands

Trek, Specialized and Cannondale all manufacture in China. Waterford and Vanilla don't make electric bikes. Even Stromer, with $10k bikes, only does final assembly in Switzerland with Chinese components.

Maybe you meant that historically-North American-branded expensive e-bikes (with in person support at local bike shops) vs. came-out-of nowhere brands with poor support and great prices? [Schwinn, Cannondale, GT & more are owned by Chinese conglomerates]

The middle path seems to be smaller North American aggregators/assemblers that sell direct or to bike shops that aren't tied to big-Co. exclusives (if thou wants to carry Specialized, thou shalt not carry XYZ) such as Rad Power and Juiced.
The Marine Corps teaches the "rule of three:" each leader should have at most three direct reports.[0] In practice, leaders at the platoon level or higher (~40 people total on the infantry side) also get a senior enlisted advisor who serves as a trusted second-in-command but who isn't a direct report in the same way as your subordinate unit leaders. Additional folks beyond those three should report to one of the boss's subordinate leaders, not to the boss. The structure repeats up and down the line, sometimes with small tweaks: three rifle platoons to a company, three squads to a platoon, three fire teams to a squad.

I always found this approach to be tremendously effective. If decentralized command were applied diligently from a company's earliest days, I believe it would sole a lot of the scaling issues organizations face. But it's difficult for most startup founders to give up control.

[0] See, e.g., https://www.inc.com/magazine/19980401/906.html
Since nobody needs a license to get in a canoe,
you may expect a higher percentage of people who
are unprepared for the risks of canoeing to die doing it

Breaking down the numbers, the skydiving fatality rate is a reported 1 in 101,083 jumps. To normalise that to a per-year rate, we can take the USPA rate of 350,000 participants conducting 3,000,000 skydives per year [1]. That gives a mean of 8.6 jumps per year for each participant.

Given the 1 in 101,083 risk, that amounts to roughly a 1 in 11,750 risk of fatality per year.

The risk of canoeing in the linked article [2] is 1 in 10,000, so according to those reported statistics, skydiving is slightly safer than canoeing, significantly safer than boxing, is roughly 3 times as risky as scuba diving, and 5 times as risky as football.

[1] http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm

[2] http://www.besthealthdegrees.com/health-risks/
The New Engels’ pause
Why the terrible top ranked books at Amazon?
Periodically I search Amazon for new programming related books I may have missed. Lately, I've noticed that books on programming when sorted by relevance have a few terrible choices right near the top. The titles of these texts aren't even grammatical (adjectives used as nouns) and the preview content reveals totally rambling confused ideas about the purported subject. These books have lots of 4 and 5 star reviews buy verified purchasers. How can this be? I've read hundreds of programming books and I can say that these apparently self published books are a total waste of money. This must be happening all over Amazon, very sad.
I came across an interactive applet last month (on Reddit maybe?) at http://ncase.me/trust/

It explores IPD with a few different strategies, and I found it quite interesting. I'd be curious to see how the various mechanics of it would work with ISD.
I don't know about the format but the Xbps package manager is crazy fast, which is nice.
The irony of your statement is that Formula 1 places a huge list of engineering limitations on teams (engine displacement, weight, dimensions, even ECM firmware), and any "performance enhancing" outside of these parameters has historically led to scandals in the sport.
1. There are plenty existing train systems where large trains are formed by coupling together multiple small trains that all have their own engines. That way, train lengths can be varied to optimize for demand. This wouldn't be happening if it were prohibitively expensive.

2. Why would you need to avoid crossings with roads just because it's autonomous? Trains use signals that only turn green when the section ahead is clear of other trains or vehicles. It's not like train conductors check road crossings by sight to decide whether to drive or brake.
Depends how you define self hosted but I use Easy Gmail Scheduler (https://github.com/RayBB/easy-gmail-scheduler). To send gmail messages later without any third party.

Disclosure: I made the app.
I'm not sure your Concorde analogy is instructive.

You're saying because commercial supersonic flight (which caused sonic booms and was insanely expensive fuel and maintenance-wise) required a high altitude, that Hyperloop as a concept is a failure?
Themselves. The logo is an eagle :)

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html
I get your point but to nitpick, written and spoken language are not equivalent. We don't say things like "quote", "comma" and "question mark". We use things like intonation, gestures etc.
I usually have far lower server bills than my colleagues because i don't pick up saas when i don't need too. This is the an optimization that does save money : knowing when to manually setup servers vs going aws/firebase/whatever.

As for the doubled nested loops, as usual, it depends. Data size, boudaries, number of concurrent operations, cpu costs, acceptable loading time...
Unfortunately, that won't work. Oxygen masks only work up to a certain altitude, which is roughly the altitude where airliners cruise. At pressures lower than that, even pure oxygen isn't enough to sustain you.

You don't die instantaneously when exposed to vacuum, although it is pretty quick. I wonder if it would be possible to repressurize the tube (by blowing a big hole in it?) within 15 seconds or so.
Not taking a bribe would help you avoid such taking such decisions.
Good point, I always forget that's built in now. aText would be for more advanced stuff like including dates or customizable fields in the snippets.
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I'm all for getting commuters out and on the road, even it means more e-bikes and e-skateboards. That said it's about the exact same speed. I have a cruiser deck with longboard wheels and ceramic bearings, when you factor in traffic lights I usually wind up catching up with Boosted Board users (talking about SF traffic here). Now where Boost Boards can beat me is a long stretch of road with no traffic or lights, but that doesn't describe most urban commuting.
I don't understand how these coins have value. Surely things only have value if they:

1) have some scarcity, and
2) have some useful purpose.

I can see how these coins get scarcity, but what is their useful purpose? What can I do with FacebookKillerCoin or TwitterKillerCoin or EAGamesKillerCoin? If they're just essentially 'gift card currency' and the company will buy them off me in exchange for their products, why use a blockchain in the first place? Just call them loyalty points or whatever.
By this standard only way to satisfy your question of whether it can be done economically is if it already is being done, and being done en masse. There's no point in discussing any future technology if this is the standard, as there's no way this can be satisfied except in hindsight.

This sort of absurd standard of discussion is super common on the Internet and highly boring as it leaves zero room for actual insight or analysis, as everything that isn't already far in the rearview mirror is dismissed as "unconvincing."
Just buy Bitcoin Today and hold it for a year. Then hold it for another year. Buy it with money that you don't ever need again. Don't do so much that you feel like you woud be in trouble if you lost it all and don't do it with so little that doubling that money in a year would not be worth the rollercoaster that is bitcoin ownership.

The week after I bought mine, it dropped nearly 30% and now it's up nearly 90%. There was a series of emotions because I probably bought enough to be very very engaged but not enough to be in big trouble if it went south.
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> Just to clarify: the A20 stuff was an IBM PC/AT feature in the chipset of the original machine, not a CPU thing.

To quote https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A20_line&oldid=79...

"Support for the A20 gate was changed in the Nehalem microarchitecture (some sources incorrectly claim A20 support was removed). Rather than the CPU having a dedicated A20M# pin which receives the signal whether or not to mask the A20 bit, it has been virtualized so that the information is sent from the peripheral hardware to the CPU using special bus cycles."

So it is now a CPU thing.
In fifty years...
My understanding is that labeling it a vacuum tube is a bit of a misnomer. It should be called a low-pressure environment or near-vacuum. Achieving that much reduction in air pressure will greatly reduce drag and allow for increased speeds. It doesn't need to be in a vacuum.
Because the IP is too freely available for any one company to engage in the rent-seeking behavior the US is so fond of.
MJPEG is a common encoding format for computer vision cameras. The artifacts associated with inter-frame compression is perfectly tolerable for humans, but it can completely stymie a lot of CV applications. High-efficiency video codecs rely on motion prediction to reduce file size - fine for watching Game of Thrones, but a disaster if you're a motion tracking algorithm.

Given the target market for this chip, it's a perfectly logical and highly useful feature.
Australian Government website using a self-signed certificate for another domain
Selling stuff is a better business than making the world a better place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8AMRbqY6w
You can also get a cruiser deck, add on some longboard wheels, and for good measure put in ceramic bearings. It gives you many of the evasive actions of a regular skateboard, and the comfort + endurance longboards have. Skateboards have been able to handle curbs for a long time :) I guess all that's needed is for someone to add an electric drivetrain to one of these setups.
How does a self driving car differentiate between a police officer flagging you down and a carjacker? Humans can make this judgement because we have a context for each of those situations based on our understanding of how the world works outside of just operating a vehicle safely.
DMPs.

Amazon buys (and sells) data to/from DMPs. That data can (and often does) include a hash of your credit cards, all the e-mail addresses you go by, etc. Amazon can basically buy programmable ad inventory that says "I want to show this ad for chainsaws to kmonad" and the DMP resolves who 'kmonad' is through a variety of methods.

Realistically, the opsec you would need to have to avoid this would be astronomically inconvenient. These DMPs work off statistics, so they don't need to know 100% that this browser session is probably kmonad, just 70%. Maybe you have the same IP, OS version, browser extensions, cookie sets...
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If some other CPU architecture were the dominant PC platform, do you think it wouldn't grow such features too?

It's not hard to imagine an alternate universe in which we all have RISC workstations with the equivalent of ME, and Intel/AMD are the minorities who have more "open" CPUs without, but only because they hadn't grown enough.

The underlying reason why ME became popular is the same reason why proprietary walled gardens became popular: because they are heavily promoted as a security/safety feature, and "who doesn't want to be safe and secure?"

Remember that, shortly before the turn of the century, Intel was convinced by the masses to remove a feature that would seem almost innocuous today, a serial number, but only because they marketed it as for DRM/identification instead of a security feature:

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/intel-on-privacy-whoops/
Have the responsible authority submit the change to db
They apparently loosened the restrictions on developer tools. For example, I used to have a Scheme interpreter on my iPhone. The problem is that you can't set the executable bit on a memory page, so you can't compile a form to native code and then execute it. You can still have an interpreter, or a byte-code compiler plus a byte-code interpreter, but you lose lisp's ability to compile and run native code. As others have said in this thread, there are workarounds for that, since most lisp applications don't need it, but there's no real reason, other than politics, and a misguided security policy, to forbid it.