skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in the NTSB investigation, it appeared that there was literally only about 30 seconds at the outset to evaluate returning, and even then, with immediate returns, pilots were only able to return 7 out of 13 tests. Textbook and theory doesn't always supercede knowledge of the area and novel thinking.
I have been hoping for this for a long time, with Google’s TrueTime system being so unique. Quite a lot more work would have to go into guaranteeing the results all the way into your application, but this is still a great start.
Fake News! Can't we have some trusted institution like ycombinator put these kind of comments through their truth filter before allowing them to be posted? They could even partner with Facebook to do this. /s
Nah, I've never seen them do worse than knock people out. Probably the next thing the centurion said was "Ow, what hit me!".
So it is better not to chase the fame. Build something which lasts:)
He's probably correct, in our current system it should be outlawed.

However our current system isn't going to be fit for purpose for much longer. I'm hoping decentralised currencies leads to more decentralisation elsewhere, right up to the idea that it facilitates direct democracy.
The problem is not having humans in the mix, it's that access controls were basically zero. Anyone could go to the site and get personal data in moments, and all the entry was being done in insecure environments by unknown random people.
what I find kind of amusing about this is that the thing that creates the value of other wall st properties is the supply and the demand, not the usefulness or otherwise. in that the usefulness of the properties is just one of the elements that drives demand, but not a necessary one..

I mean, come on.. 400 million for a painting?!

in a sense, bitcoin is a much purer market. you would think wall st types, of anyone, would understand this better.
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From days of old, I used to play on gamerz.net - http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/ While some of them have graphical views now, in days of old it was all monospace ascii in an email message. The game there that I especially enjoyed was Firetop Mountain - http://www.gamerz.net/fm/Main/
That's an interesting observation, and it's possible to see how different cultures deal with anonymity. For a Brazilian, giving out a personal ID for (almost) anybody is a matter of fact.

In Brazil we have a tax number (CPF) and one or more personal ID numbers (state police RG, federal drivers license, passport, etc) which are roughly on the same level regarding personal identification, but which don't matter for tax purposes.

It is mandatory to give your CPF to merchants when they have to invoice the customer, as you (or your CPF) will be one of the parties in that commercial contract. In the case the customer is present in a retail transaction, the retailer can just give you an anonymous receipt. In some states, the customer can give their CPF in order to get some tax refunds.

In either case, an electronic copy of the invoice is sent to the government to account for the taxes, and the invoice must detail exactly what was traded between merchant and customer.

Besides all that, usually you have to identify yourself with both CPF and a personal ID, perhaps leaving a photocopy of both documents, as the CPF number just says you are a taxable personal entity, but it doesn't positively identify a person, as the tax authorities doesn't store any biometric information. The polices (state and federal), on the other hand, have photos, signatures and fingerprints.
I hear you. I also have exactly 19 years in this industry. I've had "senior" in my titles for most of that time, and I've never received an offer higher than $105k base, even in the Seattle area. I'd get more than that if I returned to Microsoft, but when I started there in '05 they offered $80k.
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Mostly no annual fee in the US, or if there is a fee you are getting some worthwhile rewards or benefits out of the deal.
I think Stiglitz is coming from the position that ALL 'circumvention' is a societal harm. He is working from a position which supports Federal govt first, and individuals second.

Confiscating money from child pornographers is a pretty clear moral good.

Civil asset forfeiture, the confiscating the cash a poor single-mom is taking to buy the car because "it could be drug money" is a pretty clear moral evil to me.

Which one of those happens more often? I'd guess the later is 100-1000x more frequent.

Bitcoin is not moral, it offers circumvention to all, for better or worse.
Bitcoin. I mean, it's in the name.

I think you'll excuse us as thinking that the original intent was to make, I dunno, coins, like a currency.

Yes, it may have evolved past that now, but the intent and the use of bitcoins up until maybe 13 months ago was that bitcoin was a currency. Now it's millennial gold or something. What will it be in another 13 months? Who knows.
I went through triplebyte. I was a little under the impression that going through there, you skip to the final interview. Which is true, but I thought the final interview was the final, final fit-type interview. Instead I got treated to a literal eight hour slog of whiteboard leetcode-style questions with a system design question and a twenty minute lunch in between. Really an incredibly exhausting week of interviews, though some weren't as harsh as I described above, they were with small startups who had coding problems but seemed more interested in culture fit.

for feedback to anyone at triplebyte reading this: had a chance to chat with multiple companies, many of them thought triplebyte was just an online coding quiz then off to on sites. I'm sure management-type people knew the process was more involved, but the lower-level? people definitely seemed dubious about triplebyte's value.
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> so basically democracy doesn't scale?

Doesn't scale "up", but scales "out" well :)

> Maybe it would be better if I rephrased: I don't think it's possible for a large nation to have a well-functioning democracy for a long period of time. Unless the democracy is damn near (or actually) perfect, someone will eventually get the upper hand, start a pay-to-play system or find a way to slide the scales and you'll get on that same old progression.

Yes. I agree. Democracy should be on low(est) geographical regions. And "perfect" is the enemy of "good enough". Some large nations have (had) quite "ok" democracies (the swiss, some of the scandies, and now maybe some baltics as well -- arguably they are not very big nations though).

> [EDIT] - wanted to note that I really appreciate the links, watching them now, thanks!

Welcome. Spread the ideas, this stuff is important. You might be interested in "market socialism" as well :)
Are you referring to “fastr” or “faster”, though? I’d imagine the former is much, much, much easier to google for and remember than “faster rust library”, which could return basically any piece of rust code ever.
time.windows.com, time.apple.com, and time1.google.com are all publicly accessible.

Apple's one is also available at time.asia.apple.com and time.euro.apple.com
Unless you signed up for the loyalty card.
Nope. This is what used to pass for a programmer joke.

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I don’t follow these things closely but remembered debit cards issued as early as 2014. Is the increased utility from more options or ease in opening?
My comment on the register file is this: instead of making it 6r3w (6 read 3 write), just make it 2r3w and plop down 3 copies of it - each copy has 2 read ports feeding a local ALU and writes go to all instances. Then to add another ALU you make a 2r4w register file and plop down 4 instances of it - one connected to the new ALU. This is still only 6 ports total compared to 9 on the one they've got. Routing within the file should be much easier. The tradeoff is multiple instances of it.
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There are federal law limits of 30 flight hours in 7 days, 100 flight hours in a month, in addition to the 1000 hours in a year limit.
Note that they smear time, though (WRT leap seconds), as do Amazon.

You generally do not want to mix "smearing" and "non-smearing" time servers.
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This seems to have a strong "Card Game" bias, with a slightly less strong "LCG/CCG" bias. Are there any game models for it for games that aren't primarily card based?
Considering nearly every adult provides a photo of higher quality to their respective governments it does seem a tad conspiratorial and like a lot of unecessary effort.

Also being a part of the 14 eyes means if the United States wanted my biometrics all they need to do is ask. My country is already moving towards real time cctv identification in airports etc. using biometrics from any issued license / passport.
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> The smaller the market the easier it is to hype yourself up.

Okay, I can accept this. My hunch is that yes, it is easier to hype yourself up for a given company, but if there are fewer companies, you have fewer chances to do so, and therefore you're taking a bigger risk. Smaller cities can be big targets for con men because fewer con men are there and therefore one is less likely to know the given tactic that a con man will try.

This gets complicated into game theory and rationality and such. There's no way to know for sure, it's a good idea to be wise to these concepts regardless of location though. I still think that SV is incredibly overvalued, at this point in time, from both an employer and employee perspective.
"sudo sudo yum erase ntp*"
> Edit: I take back the Vega. While that was an awful car, I was actually thinking of the Ford Pinto.

Turns out a lot of cars from that era had the same problem, and in general subcompact cars of the time were rather dangerous.

The famous cost benefit analysis memo was also misquoted, and taken out of context.

Economy sub-compact cars always have, and always will, meet exactly the minimum safety requirements put forth by the government. That is the entire point of an economy car, to make the cheapest car legally possible.

Want safety without regard for price? Drive a Volvo.
OP did give them a pass pretty much. Also saw Jean Louise Gassee trivialize it by claiming it only affects techies looking deeper!

But ok, fair enough - I think mostly they did get grilled - just bugged me that few people found ways to justify it! :)
That isn't really a counter to any argument I'm making. If anything, it supports my argument. The government that supported that fiat ceased to exist, therefore the fiat ceased to exist. Sounds like a pretty good example of the dangers of fiat, and the advantages of a decentralized store of wealth.
Ugh, sorry. In the Age of the Great Orange One, it's almost impossible to tell joking from earnestness.
You can't just look at the crashes without giving offsetting credit for crashes avoided by human intervention. (USAir 1549 or United 232 as possible examples.)
I think the testable bet is "If the US government outlawed possession of Bitcoin, the black market value of Bitcoin within the US would fall to $0"
Worth noting that "nearly 31,000 AWS CloudFormation stacks were created for Prime Day" [1], so Amazon uses CloudFormation heavily internally. Not a guarantee that it's what 'everyone else is doing', but it's a good indicator of quality/stability and that it will remain a core service within the AWS ecosystem for some time.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prime-day-2017-powered-by-a...
Selling pressure might be coming to cover the income taxes and penalties...
Windows 10 automatically opens things in IE still as far as I know.
I've said this before on HN, but let me reiterate it here: Bitcoin is very easily compared to BitTorrent. Everyone's falling all over themselves, much like people did in the early 2000s. People thought that BitTorrent was going to "change the world" -- and sure, it helped catalyze the inevitable media distribution revolution of the past decade (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, Spotify), but where is BitTorrent now? That's right: it's mostly used to download stuff illegally.

Similarly, BTC and ETH provide no immediate value when compared to fiat currencies. Their main functional (that is, non-philosophical) upside, like TOR, for example, is to do illegal shit. Sure, there are various incidental benefits (like privacy), but this is a misdirection: businesses have been able to hide fiat currencies in off-shore accounts for decades.
Isn't it a central bank-centric issue?
Considering the engineering and manufacturing investment in this product, it's hard to see where they are expecting their ROI. It certainly won't be from the product sales themselves, and since the target market seems to be individual as opposed to corporate developers, I wonder if increased use of AWS is going to generate enough revenue to offset the costs.
Why must you confuse a TechCrunch blogger with "the media?" Answering that question might be more instructive.
Hmm...our data center (bare iron, not cloud) has always provided NTP servers. I assumed this was standard.
Google stock would plummet because people will sell to buy apple that is not following the same policy. So as soon as google does that, the stock dip will lower wages within and hire less.
People need to work not because of inflation, but because they get a fixed amount of money and spend most of it on things they want.

Not only that, but wages largely track inflation so your argument fails.
Amazon has ownership of FreeRTOS.org now, but the good news is that they are licensing it under the MIT license. Even if they hide the official download link behind an AWS login, there will be plenty of public mirrors.

This is actually an improvement over the old "FreeRTOS open source license", which was basically the GPL plus:

> FreeRTOS may not be used for any competitive or comparative purpose, including the publication of any form of run time or compile time metric, without the express permission of Real Time Engineers Ltd.

A strange exception, which ostensibly prevented you from running benchmarks? But the GPL prohibits the addition of such clauses?

But now it's just plain MIT. Super easy.
When is Google announcing TrueTime as a service on GCP? I see them doing this really soon since aws has it now
"roads are not specifically for humans. A robo car has plenty of right to be there"

And there is is. Robots having rights too. As if they are sentient. Next those that don't anthropomorphize machines will be labeled roboist.

Machines are tools. _For_ humans. Nothing more. It's like saying a hammer has rights because I use it.

Making it a autonomous hammer does not change that, in fact it makes it much more important to not pretend it's sentient.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-12/exposed-real-creato...
The very link I posted tells that the union power comes from above free narket rates. I agree 100%. And it does so bu restricting supply. Unions have an arsenal of tools to achieve that.
Won't the compiler be autovectorising that kind of code already?
Upvoted, but is there not some sort of device I could buy to find electronics? I literally have spent 85% of the past half year in AirBnbs and I hate worrying about this.
This is tangential, but I wonder if something like this could be (mis)used to break captcha - by feeding in the disabled-friendly audio captcha and passing the results back to the captcha server.

As voice recognition becomes more sophisticated I think captchas are going to have to evolve to kjeep up as well.
Would you care to elaborate on what you believe makes the GPL a non-FOSS license?
> making progress with ISIS

They follow the same plan as the Obama administration: Build up Iraqi political authority and military effectiveness until they are ready to both drive out ISIS themselves, and to maintain military and political control of the areas on the long term. Under Obama, they built up the Iraqi army from the one that fled ISIS en mass to one that could fight long, difficult battles and hold ground permanently, and they built up the Iraqi central government's political authority. Under Obama were the first few victories and tests of the rebuilt Iraqi army, and they continued moving forward under the Trump administration.

It's based on a lesson the U.S. (re)learned in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: Driving out the enemy militarily is only the first step, and not at all sufficient. Then someone must establish political authority, including military control over the area and its people, or the enemy will simply return to claim it themselves - which is what happened with ISIS. The most famous dictum in military affairs is that 'war is politics by other means'. (Also, it makes more sense for the Iraqis to die for the nation of Iraq than the Americans.)

It's very hard for a foreign occupier to establish that political authority and maintain military control - imagine the prospect of the Iraqi army, no matter what their resources, trying to establish political authority in your town - and it requires lives and massive expenditures over decades, more than the U.S. is willing to invest (thankfully). Note that even the great historical empires used locals to run their foreign territories - overseen, of course, by an imperial governor and garrison.
Wrong. You just need to phrase it the right way. The government bureaucracy considers programmers as typists, and systems analysts as programmers.
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A very good point. A decentralized "free" currency provides many advantages but it does offer to threaten the levers of monetary policy. Some of which (in theory anyway) keep things stable.
I thought modern languages optimized code into SIMD instructions where it could automatically...

I know Java does this.
I'd laugh in the face of anyone who asked me to work more than 40 hours for more than 2 weeks a quarter.
So I buy a future for 1 bitcoin in 10 days with a price of $10k. The future is cash settled, so in 10 days the exchange will give me [price of BTC] - $10k, or I can sell the future before then. Where does the bitcoin come in? Is the exchange required to hold bitcoin = to the net of all futures?
The engineer can buy a similar house and still have significantly more retirement savings.
I have never given Amazon my SSN.
> Because so many of them were the same age, the pilots voted long ago to screw over the younger pilots.

What did they do?
Anyone can provide an NTP server, but that's much different from having an atomic clock powered NTP server.

The servers your datacenter provide are probably clients of other NTP servers, so the quality and availability of NTP servers near your datacenter is still really important.
Sure but his position isn’t “ignorant”. Quite the contrary he’s one of the worlds experts on it.

Disagree all you want. But ignorance isn’t the issue.
Well isn’t that convenient
Oh my god you're being so pedantic.

The robo car has no rights, but the person that owns the robo car has roughly the same right to make use of the road whether or not they happen to be seated inside.

Is that wording satisfactory?

Edit: And I mean, it's not because I'm giving robots special treatment. It's colloquial english. I'd say a potted plant has "the right" to be somewhere too.
> Not only that, but wages largely track inflation so your argument fails.

They might track 'inflation'. They don't track prices.

Wage over 20 years 2x. House price over 20 years 10x.
I thought the accepted term for this was "fingerprint" not "hash".
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The dollar amount isn't the point. The city auctions off many plots like this over unpaid taxes. Would the past owner of any other plot been able to have a senator advocate their case and have the sale overturned? A tax sale has never been overturned in the past.
lol so this is like the modern version of the actual, original namesake mechanical "Turk" from the 18th centruy?[1]

"Um, you pretty clearly have some human wearing a costume and playing chess."

'No, no, I insist, it's 100% machine that happens to be good at this task!'

Now it's:

"Um, you pretty clearly must be using humans to interpret the receipts."

'No, no, I insist, it's all done by our proprietary algorithms!'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
Its common for international shops to use Bitcoin. And its common for people to buy home vitamins and supplements, foods, etc.. from their ethnic countries of origin, because they are difficult to find anywhere else. Who exactly determines what someone buying bitcoin is allowed to use it for? If I want to trade it for vitamins or russian crackers or chocolate, am I now banned? Think about what you are saying -- that Bitcoin should be restricted to merely a speculation vehicle. Coinbase seems to have that opinion opaquely -- they function as more of a gambling/security sales portal in that case. And they should be held to the standards of that sector given their rather overt bans where users state a rather innocuous intention to use the Bitcoin for bartering.
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"ECS product manager" pretty much sums it up. They are gonna tow the ECS line till the ship sinks. A program manager would have been the real convo. Now the EKS product manager's star will shine.
> inaccurate and unreliable in other things

They aren't often though, because they stake their reputation on being accurate.

Bias is harmful, but I think the WaPo and NYT are a much more acceptable level of bias then say, Fox.
Would be easy to implement, but hard to manage (what if govt loses privkey for printing money?) and build trust (what if next congress decides to stop this currency).
Owning a particular currency was made illegal by a government. That government enforced that policy by force of arms. That currency ceased to exist. Ergo it is not ignorant to claim that s government can eliminate a currency & quite the opposite it’s ignorant to say its impossible.
The increased utility is not having the value of the money in my wallet being debased.
Maybe it wouldn't be if people stopped coding everything in node.js.
I agree, that would be the right to do.

But the thing is, what if you are stuck with a given language, and/or its a biggish complex project where different aspects are better solved with different paradigms?
Agree that battlefield games look amazing and play smooth. And I'll allow 50 as close enough to 100.

But the maps are not only smaller (largest I found was 1.5x1.5km), but very different in nature: they are designed for traditional fps gameplay, and incorporate techniques to enable fast rendering (e.g. limited visibility so submaps can be streamed in as you move between regions; mountain ranges seem impassable, again forming a gameplay element and aiding rendering).

The PUBG map is less "designed", and more like a real place. All areas are accessible, and although terrain undulations do eventually close-off areas, they are far larger areas, and they don't seem designed for rendering but for realism and a different kind of gameplay.

Finally, a single figure to dramatize the map contrast: Battlefield 1 shipped with 9 maps.
PUBG shipped with 1.
Its still the right attitude to have or else every hindsight choice is going to be regret, and we'll be talking trillionaires. No one can predict the future. It could have gone down to 0.10 instead of up to 1000. Should everyone buy in now and expect the value to go up to 20k?
Number of user accounts on Coinbase.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/27/bitcoin-exchange-coinbase-ha...
My money is on Linux based RTOS platforms. It's a bit of a surprise that Amazon has backed a non-Linux horse in this race.