skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no evidence of that, more than %90 of miners are running core, and there are more businesses opposed to 2x than endorsing it: http://nob2x.org

Meanwhile "signers" of the New York "Agreement"[1] are dropping like flies, most recent Coinbase that says they will support the core chain.

Hell the biggest "proponents" of 2X aren't willing to risk their own bitcoin in a swap (eg: Ver who has backed out of such promises in the past too with BCH)

2X is nothing but a scam to get suckers to sell BTC for B2X while people like Ver sell B2X to get more BTC!

Its funny how the bitcoin haters talk about censorship-- reality is /r/bitcoin is not censored, but the entire 2x movement was done behind closed doors, with no peer review, with a heavily censored slack channel and mailing list-- that is if you can get on it in the first place... while bitcoin does all this in public.

2X hasn't had commits or serious work in months last I checked and I really feel sad for the people who bought the propaganda these scammers are selling.

[1] It's not an agreement when only one side agreed with itself.
Why do I not get any response from Telegram DC?
> The question is, how do we get rural economic development going again?

That's like asking how to revive the blacksmith industry in the aftermath of the industrial revolution. These regions aren't declining because of inattention, they're declining because their native industries are shrinking.

Surely there are regulatory treatments that can be applied here to relieve some of the suffering, but "return to the good old days" isn't an option.
Great. Now I have to carry around another pair of these relatively huge, bulky earphones.

The great thing about my hearing aids is I put them in and I can ignore them. Unless I'm swapping batteries, which is infrequent enough, I don't even notice I'm wearing them.

Yeah, my hearing aids were expensive. Yes, insurance doesn't usually pitch in at all for hearing aids unless there's surgery required (BAHA, cochlear, etc). It's worth it. The alternatives are toys that get in the way of just going about your normal life.
This was the point I was making. The first gen can just be rideshare (vs buy the car).
I would rather not give any business to a company that lobbies for inefficiency in tax collection to preserve it's own products and profits.
I remember using the Merlin Microsoft Agent to create speech-based "apps" in 2001, including text-to-speech as well as speech recognition. I made a SAT preparation that would test me by presenting a word and I had to say the meaning. I also made a Spanish learning app using Merlin, where it would read out the spanish word (in spanish!) and I would have to say the english one. It worked really well. Its been 16 years since then, and I have to say that I had expected this area to have been completely "solved" by now.
Not sure why you're being downvoted (+1 from me) but this is essentially the basis of the Netflix documentary 13th [1]. The thesis is that slavery was replaced by excessive incarceration of African Americans, which were then used as cheap or free labour... much like slaves were.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)
> Removing these obstacles crushed local industry, which is why less developed countries ended up with close to zero industrial production after joining the EU (thus starting the social, employment and competitiveness problems most smaller EU nations are facing).

These sorts of talking points exist everywhere, in the West and in the East, state aid is one of the most attacked elements of the EU. Actually the talking point is near identical in the UK, that manufacturing has died because the government hasn't been able to step in (in effect, to prop up uncompetitive industries). Manufacturing has in fact plummeted in most developed countries, and it's easy for governments to pass the blame onto the EU.
... and soon there will be a ban on export of plastic bristle brushes due to national security concerns.
I agree - I don't care how good Google gets it, this is an unsolved problem until I can do it with open source tools operating without an internet connection.
That first article and how it looks when imported into Authorea in one click: https://www.authorea.com/users/3/articles/208068-automatic-e... (just a couple of labels and si units which do not render). Note: it is forkable and can be commented upon.
In US Cities, Innovation and Economic Segregation Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
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The Latin American software engineering gender gap: worse than Silicon Valley's
Apple’s ‘App of the Day’ featuring boosts downloads by 1747%, games by 792%
I paid $30 for a pair of glasses from Zenniopitcal and they are of fine quality, not dissimilar than the $300 I used to pay. My girlfriend has been using them for a decade now and she's asian...
Well the level of conspiracy claimed would never be publicized by the FBI.

IF any of the wildest theories on Tesla are true, then his files would be hidden in places FOIA will never reach.

These documents are probably meant to discredit conspiracy theories.

There might be some truth to some conspiracies, and people will release "noise" in order to discredit them completely.

We all know Tesla went against powerful financial interests, and they paid back real good, destroying his reputation using the dirtiest character assassination tactics there are, involving sex.

Note that sexual character assassination is the favorite method of discrediting someone.

The false rape accusation against Assange should be a reminder that we still live under the same boots that stepped on Tesla 100+ years ago. Back then they spread all sorts of nasty sexual rumours against Tesla. We haven't evolved very much 100+ years later, and we're still bailing out banks.
Absolutely! Frankly I'd argue that feeding your students should be a universal no-brainer anyway, especially when they can't afford it themselves. We know too damned much about the link between ability to learn and retain information, and a good nutritional intake to pretend that schools can ignore it to shave $$'s.

The problem is that public education is public and so it runs into various forms of ideological resistance on that basis. Worse, the power of local districts to shape educational policy leads to predictable deficits, often also driven by ideology/politics.

We have the money, we just choose to spend it on healthcare inflation, and weapons to sell. We don't see an immediate profit in education, so it's sidelined or privatized. We are shortsighted idiots, as a species.
As the seeds are much smaller, this may or may not be the case. The article mentions mills not being able to handle the size, but it could also affect other things.
> That's not true at all. Do they look for that feature on the box? No, of course not. Do they get pissed off when instagram suddenly fails to launch quickly or the device hangs randomly? Abso-fucking-lutely.

That I fully agree with. :)

> Sounds like you haven't ever touched a Pixel phone. Bad apps or confusing settings are not accurate descriptions at all. Nor is a bad UX. The phones are superb for an average user. It's the previous Nexus owners, the ones used to settings out the wazoo and customizations for days, those are the people that are pissed off about Pixel. Not the average user.

I haven't owned it, yes. I got a lot of acquaintances who do. Very mixed feelings from 15+ people. Most of us felt alienated by Google's take; barely any improvements over the AOSP except the all-encompassing Google Play Services. It's quite funny how my ancient S4 had 9 quick-access setting buttons which I could customize and put on the top of the settings panel and Nexii / Pixels never had those.

Again, it's a feeling that builds up over time. At certain point you can't help but conclude "well, I guess they don't care much".

If people tell me 3 years later that the first Pixel still doesn't lag on them, I'll be very impressed. Because 99% of all Androids -- including some of the Nexii devices -- inevitably start to lag horribly after 12-18 months. That's one of the reasons I am moving away to an iPhone X. I can't play this guessing game anymore. As much as I loved Samsung devices, they were huge offenders in this regard.

> Pixel 2? Yes it does. It's IP67. It's not IP68, though, like the S8 is.

Sorry, forgot to say I was talking about the first Pixel. Good thing that the 2 finally added it, though, I am glad!
Maybe because a acquisitions in this phase is rarely a success signal. It's hard to innovate now that they aren't independent anymore.
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Load assignment, with this architecture, happens only when a connection is first opened. HTTP keep-alive means there's a disconnect between when it's opened, and when it becomes expensive.

I.e. it's possible for one worker to first serve ten tiny requests (e.g. index.html), then wait while the clients chew on it, then have all ten clients simultaneously request a large asset.
Xi's China is evil. It props up North Korea, a country that mercilessly starves and punishes its millions of citizens, a country that can soon strike with nuclear missiles at Japan, South Korea, US, Australia, India, etc. It pollutes the air and its neighbors air with reckless abandon. It floods the river and ocean with plastics with no regard. It acts like a baby whenever Taiwan, a small but free democratic country, wants to be recognized by the world. It acts like a bully against its neighbors regarding south asia sea. It acts like a bully whenever dali lama visits other countries. It suppresses muslims in Xinjiang and buddhists in Tibet. It has a massive censorship/surveillance on its own citizens. It props up other dictators around the world in Venezuela, Russia, Laos, Cambodia, etc. It floods the world with cheap shoddy products that destroy manufacturing, communities, and families in democratic countries.

And we are the ones helping. We buy products made in China.

Please, stop doing business with China. Please, punish China with sanctions and tariffs. If you wish for your kids futures to not be run by dictators.
What does it do? The major highways are under nearly constant construction, not to mention sometimes there are accidents, lane closures, and other obstructions in the roadway. I am curious what would need the accuracy of a LIDAR map but is okay with one that's not realtime (and possibly wildly inaccurate).
Actually, Engineering Research Associates (predecessor of Univac) built a CPU with mercury delay line memory using acoustic transducers to create a shift register. It did bit-serial binary arithmetic. You could get two logic gates or one latch out of a dual pentode, so a bit-serial ALU could fit easily in a single rack.

I'm not familiar with the overall architecture, though, unfortunately. I do remember having to do a most-significant-bit first, bit-serial, two's complement adder as a homework assignment that was inspire by the machine.
The natural result of free-market competition is the ultimately the sale of the market.

Usually piece by piece, as we are seeing here, and in congress.
And before that it was the thesis of the book The New Jim Crow. Arguing that the modern incarceration system came into being as a system of control to replace the Jim Crow laws that arose as a system of control to replace slavery.

The most 'aha' connection there was that a shocking percentage of black men have felony convictions of some sort or another, and we deny felons the right to vote in most states. Jim Crow indeed.
Not precisely that. The Core Guidelines are great, but they're attempting to solve a subset of the issues, not all of the issues.
It's being downvoted because it's pushing a false narrative that it's only black people that are being incarcerated, and they're being incarcerated explicitly for cheap labor. There are major issues with regards to race in America, but real life is more nuanced than "it's happening because racism."
Comparison and Benchmarks of Spanner and Apache Kudu
True enough. I'd pass on the third, at least for now, for the first two. But those two alone is a mess.
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You also made note of the highway being unmarked, which is a demonstrable lie. This is a typical NSA redirection tactic. In fact it's one of the first tactics taught (my former USMC and CIA grandfather taught me well.)

I think you better come up with a far better rationalization than what you're currently proposing.
You go from 1000$ to 1500$ if you want a 2-year warranty.

That's incredibly high. Even Best Buy's overpriced warranties aren't that expensive.
> That's not a problem worth breaking all the programs that correctly use std::map.

I challenge you to find a single correct use of std::map to begin with.

Is this severe enough to be worth breaking programs? No. But was it a mistake? Yes, absolutely. And deprecation is how mistakes are fixed over time, so why not fix the mistake? Old things can stay on their old STL and live with the old std::map. Maintained things will get warnings that they can go address in their own time. And new things are guided to the proper choice.
That's why it's done in teams.
I agree with what you said, except for the "greed on scales we've never seen before". I think it's pretty clear, if you look back at the last 5,000 years of history that we've clearly seen greed on the same scale (or greater) than what we are seeing right now. It seems to be endemic to the human condition.
Do you have plans for multi-node persistence / geographic redundancy? We'd love something like this, but right now it would probably be easier to roll something custom on top of either Kafka or CockroachDB…
Trump Administration Deals Another Blow to H-1B Visa Holders
I assume LIDAR is needed since the AI isn't advanced enough to do depth perception? If I can drive with two eye balls, then I'd think a circular camera array would be plenty. Maybe this is what Tesla plans on using (in combination with RADAR).
I found it interesting that 40% of the corn crop goes to produce ethanol. According to the article, that works out to 91*0.40= 36.4 million acres. This is about the same as all the farmland in Iowa (32 million acres). The average power output of this land by ethanol production is about 40 Gigawatts [(13.2 billion gallons of ethanol per year) X (89 million Joules/gallon) / 3.154e+7 seconds per year/1e9]. With the advent of electric cars, taking into consideration the energy used in producing the ethanol and the lower efficiency of internal combustion power, you could probably replace that farmland energy output with ten 2 Gigawatt nuclear power plants.

It would be cool if the environmentalists and the farmers on the marginal areas of the great plains could get together and work on opening up a huge prairie preserve while building a dozen nuclear power plants to replace the lost energy. Bring back the huge herds of Bison. After all, as said elsewhere in this thread, the Ogalalla Aquifer is starting to run dry.
The one thing America has is a high rural population compared to say Canada. Moving more people into cities is a bad approach we need to spread people around the country and raise up small towns instead leaving them.
Even English doesn't work the way it should. Remember Apple had to rush out a patch shortly after Siri was released because it couldn't understand Australians.

Siri still doesn't understand the majority of my Minnesota relatives.
It's always been a puzzle to me that published WER is so low, and yet when I use dictation (which is a lot--I use it for almost all text messages) I always have to make numerous corrections.

This sentence is crucial and suggests a way to understand how WER can be apparently lower than human levels, yet ASR is still obviously imperfect:

> When comparing models to humans, it’s important to check the nature of the mistakes and not just look at the WER as a conclusive number. In my own experience, human transcribers tend to make fewer and less drastic semantic errors than speech recognizers.

This suggests that humans make mistakes specifically on semantically unimportant words, while computers make mistakes more uniformly. That is, humans are able to allocate resources to correct word identification for the important words, with less resources going to the less important ones. So maybe the way to improve speech recognition is not to focus on WER, but on WER weighted by word importance, or to train speech recognition systems end-to-end with some end goal language task so that the DNN or whatever learns to recognize the important words for the task.
Big box retailers are hitting Amazon with restrictions on Whole Foods
I've suspended my 401K contribution and buy a small bit of ETH every paycheck.

What is the rational here? Interested in ETH, however I haven't seen it move past $400 in months.
I would argue that it can't be solved without severe privacy implications. Apple's talk-to-text, for example, should know my son's name by now, but it doesn't. And while I'm mildly frustrated at the fact that I have to go back and edit text messages on a regular basis, I'm pretty glad that Apple doesn't know my son's name. I'd hate for a company like Facebook to have access to all of the proper nouns in my everyday life.
Counterpoint: "Xi Jinping Has Quietly Chosen His Own Successor" http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/20/xi-jinping-has-quietly-c...

I guess these predictions are not necessarily contradictory, because by picking one of his own as General Secretary he would retain a lot of influence (in the extreme case he might effectively retain all power, like when Dmitry Medvedev was President of Russia in 2008–2012). In any case it will be interesting to see what happens.
Thank you for the amazing contribution and for for making it a little bit easier to debug during a time when debugging was even harder. Firebug set in motion the browser tools that are bundled today.
Essentially for free is not “for free”. For example, the best way many people have to communicate with their peers is Facebook. But A) their peers aren’t the ones seeding the discussions, and B) their communication is filtered for signals like “vitality”. More mundane, but important ideas, are a bit squashed on a platform like that.

Picking on Facebook because they’re the biggest, but Twitter appears to be worse on every axis, as it continues to evolve to favor clout.
>your local library might have one to borrow.

Why would you find mills in a library? What else do they have..
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Piracy makes it easier for me to obtain papers that are otherwise behind paywalls, for example because I am at home.

As an academic, my main interest is that others are able to read my work. If piracy is how they obtain access, then that's fine by me.
Bluetooth 5.0 has none of the issues you've mentioned. Alternatively, you can run audio over usb-c if you want to continue using wired headphones. The selection is small at this point but will grow over time.
All of that was coupled with a new law that would basically require companies to have backdoors in their products, either directly or through "ventures" with a local Chinese company (pretty much all major US tech companies have already agreed to this), a more aggressive crackdown on VPNs and encryption, including cryptocurrencies, a recently launched advanced video mass surveillance system, and the soon-to-launch "Citizen Score" system.

All of that meant to ensure Xi will be able to rule with an ironfist with no questions asked (or if the questions are asked, they will be swiftly silenced).

Remember you will be supporting this regime the next time you decide to use a Baidu software framework in your app, or buy a Xiaomi phone. Yes, all smartphones and such are manufactured in China, but at least we can see the end of that road with robotics and automation set-up in other countries. Killing global Chinese brands will be harder, if they are allowed to grow.
The problem here is search. The problem may have been solved, but finding the relevant paper is like looking for a needle in the haystack. It doesn't help that terminology has changed during the years...
I think direct democracy is theoretically possible at least.

But would it be desirable? I don't think so.

If not absolutely direct, then at least having the ability to instantly revoke a mandate from someone you have entrusted could go a low way to limiting the power of an oligarchy, as could entrusting different individuals and groups with a single person's vote, depending on the issue.

The later seems like a very good idea. The former not at all. If you trust someone with a mandate, just allow the time needed to develop a consistent plan. Worrying too much about short term is exactly the opposite of good administration.
Realtime human pose estimation on Macbook using Deep Learning
i will miss you firebug!!!
I loved when i could open firebug + native dev tools... that way i could navigate in html with firebug and make css changes on the native dev.. on the same screen!

Now i can only open the native dev tools and i can only view either "Style editor" OR "Dom navigation" but not both at the same time.

Will miss you firebug as extension!!
> To add to your point, the main reason for "bad HDR" in FPS games is for simulating eye adaptation...

How is that different from what photographs do?

> Furthermore, game development is a race against time. You have milliseconds to render the scene and apply tone mapping.

Maybe I know just enough to be ignorant of the topic, but LUTs are just lookup tables. People working in film apply LUTs to the footage they're watching in realtime on normal PC hardware. Fragment shaders have been common in games for years. Last year I was working on a VR project (targeting 11ms per frame) and I think the post-processing took between 0.25 and 1.5ms--any more an it would have been dropped). For a desktop game having 16 or 30ms to render many fewer pixels is an eternity, comparatively. The only difference between a LUT and ICC profile (which most OSes support out of the box) is that for ICC profiles are mean to be calibrated against either an input or output--they're used everywhere in realtime.

I've never actually used ReShade, so I had to look it up. It does way more than color correcting. Depth of field, ambient occlusion, antialiasing are completely separate from tone mapping and notoriously computationally expensive (not just in video games, but in film as well). I also think since third-parties are writing them, they're not always tuned to be performant.
So, we need someone to show us how to make America great again?
> Making some people wealthier at the expense of killing the planet is a bad plan.

Reminds me of this quote:
"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money."
This seems to be mainly a collection of garbage papers and nonserious proofs by cranks and uninformed people. Not that it isn't interesting, but it doesn't seem to say anything about actual mathematical progress.
Mostly true. Beef liver was pretty common diner-type food though.
(work at cloudflare but not on the same team as the blog author)

I believe the FIFO/LIFO refers to the queue of processes waiting to receive a request. Since each process calls accept()/epoll(), then loops around and call it again, FIFO would ensure the one that just processed a request would go back to the end of the line.
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Oh apologies. I'd expect that's not a like-for-like comparison. Paw is a paid app, and then has team-sync subscriptions, the former is in SetApp, the latter is not.
Wouldn't the pre-tax nature of a 401k mean that an alternative investment would need to return ~25% in the first year in order to break even with a 401k contribution returning 0%?

I'm not arguing that the market is currently rational; just surprised you've suspended 401k contributions because of it.