skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has to be equal information, equal negotiating power and recourse for both parties. There are many cases where there is a huge disparity in information between the parties : Doctors and patients, for example, is an obvious case, or between lawyers and their clients. I would argue that Amazon has far more negotiating power and information in any contract with the average consumer, and therefore the law should be heavily biased in favor of the consumer. Even if there was no binding arbitration and Amazon does screw up and harms the consumer, will the consumer even have the resources to prevail in a lawsuit? Binding arbitration stacks the deck even more in the favor of the more powerful party.

If Amazon were signing a contract with Google or Apple, I assume that they both would have relatively equal negotiating power and access to information. With you or I? I highly doubt I can afford it.
Not really. Unlike stocks and shares which are traded on regulated exchanges, bitcoins can be traded anywhere on any terms.

If one exchange implemented circuit breakers, people would simply move their trading elsewhere.
The domain industry is corrupt and backwards. I just had a domain locked for 60 days while trying to transfer it out of another registrar. They only have the right to do that if the ownership has changed, but the ownership obviously did not change, since it has been in my account with my billing information for the entire time.
Opinion piece written by "a blockchain engineer at... a financial technology company in San Francisco."

The premise is simply that Bitcoin uses less energy than physical cash production. Obviously this implies that Bitcoin will replace cash. If it doesn't -- if say the primary use case for Bitcoin remains currency speculation -- then the argument falls apart.
It's tough not only to cut back the calories, but to pack needed nutrients into the few calories remaining. Over several months you could accidentally end up with a severe deficiency of something.
None of the gameplaying AIs that have shown superhuman performance recently have needed to be conscious or aware of what they were doing in order to perform at that level. They likely don't experience qualia but they can still trounce human players. Similarly, Google's amazing improvements in machine translation haven't required consciousness or qualia.

There are certainly lots of people in Silicon Valley who are fascinated by the prospect of making machines with conscious experience, as you think is impossible, but few indications that this would be necessary to make non-conscious forms of AI into a factor that powerfully affects our future.
I don't need to tell anybody what my former employer was working on, and doing so would not even benefit me. I do need to be able to work in my field though. More often than not, one's skillset is sought by similar businesses.

Imagine a physician signing a non-compete. What's he supposed to do then? Not practice medicine and go be a consultant or something?
None of this is surprising.
Corporations, like people, tend to think of themselves in the noblest of terms, even when they are clearly pushing their own agenda. And in this instance, they are pushing all the right buttons - "Children", "Education", and "Jobs". Who can resist?

But having said that, who should resist? What is the actual downside of this push? Programming is exposing children to math and science, it improves problem-solving skills and allows kids to create something on their own. Not all of them will use these skills as adults or get any additional education in the area, and that's totally fine.
Which of these assumptions leads you to be different than them by 4-5 orders of magnitude? Their numbers are only 3x higher total hashrate estimate and 3x less efficient GH/s over the cutting edge Antminer, which seems reasonable. I'm confused where you diverge so much.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption#assumpti...
> Bugs in syscalls in FreeBSD aren't unheard of though, even if less commonly found than Linux.

Dangerous assumption.

More likely, there are fewer people looking for vulnerabilities in BSD than in Linux.
the cornerstone of lean is "flow" removing of waste is to the end of achieving flow (time it takes to get sales to delivery).

Toyotas system is predicated on the idea that for manufacturing THEIR product the touch time is way less the than the buffer/quueue times ( ie, the time spent adding value is small compared to the the overall time to get an order and get it delivered. Eliminating waste is a means to an end to cut into unecessary buffers and queues and increase flow based on the constraints of the system.

In software there's a lot of applicable ideas, but it's not exactly the same and requires careful thinking around what your revenue model is and how you deliver software based on that. But the focusing idea is not the practices of lean but how to increase flow and build (reuse) practices around that.
Forget Soylent; our biology merged with our technology millennia ago.

Our ability to cook our food has rendered large molars obsolete to the point where some people require medical intervention to remove them, lest they crack their teeth and jaw, resulting in infection and death.
NREL Develops Novel Method to Produce Renewable Acrylonitrile
It's a splashy headline. "Sneaking" is unnecessary. Replace the word with "Hiring", you don't sneak atmosphere models into a party, you hire them and they show up. There's also no point in calling out this year's parties, this has happened at a bunch of parties for at least the last two decades. It's not even exclusive to Silicon Valley!

Tradeshow models, booth models, and atmosphere models are also not the same. Tradeshow models must at least know about the product they are representing to discuss it with a potential customer. Atmosphere models must be very sociable and capable of carrying good conversation with anyone, you cannot just turn a cold shoulder to someone you don't find interesting. Booth models are mostly there to look pretty and maybe help with generic marketing tasks like passing out flyers.

Pointing out that the practice isn't new in the article doesn't mean the article itself transforms into something new and becomes a breath of fresh air. It's still a rehash of old ideas made to feed off current events to produce a bit of ad revenue from people looking to keep their outrage up to date.

So yes, I'm saying this does perfectly fit into current events. It was designed to.
The protocol (proof of work based system using wallets and addresses) doesn't define the implementation and the implementation defines limits. The protocol especially does not define the implementation of other layers built alongside it, so this is a straw man.

If your argument is "any improvement to the current system" "isn't bitcoin" then that's a no true scotsman sort of argument and I don't think it holds much water.
> I'm surprised there hasn't been more backlash about Quantum regarding specifically this. Tab Mix Plus doesn't work, so Quantum lacks the killer feature of multi-row tabs.

Hardly anyone actually used this or even knew about it, that's why there's essentially no backlash. (Which is to say thousands of people used this, but that's just not many at all at the scale of Firefox.)
One time, while playing Risk, two defending armies killed off 18 invading armies, while losing only one, and caused my opponent to immediately ragequit. That general must have been incredible.

The probability of accomplishing such a feat by pure chance is .00004 . But then the campaign was over, and that general never fought another battle, with a total WAR (according to the article) of 0.99996 .

Do you see my problem with the article? It rewards generals that fight unnecessary battles, completely discounts the decisiveness of the victory, and assigns a nearly arbitrary value for average replacement general. It is clear to me that the metric is measuring belligerence and battle prowess, rather than overall efficacy. The article even says it discounts strategy.

If, for instance, the general lured the rival's army away from the capital, while suffering a decisive defeat, but married his son to the widow empress during the battle, so the son could order the execution of the rival, the battle tactics were completely irrelevant in the face of the instantly-winning strategy.
The more I think about it, I really doubt that piracy plays much into it because, like I said, that already happens with post-theater movies. You can offset the piracy damage by increasing the ticket price or by selling more tickets.

I would imagine that you could do both. Having to go to a theater is a real blocker. These stats from 2014 said on average 3.7 tickets were sold per person, per year. https://www.mpaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/MPAA-Theatri... That means on any given weekend there's less than a 10% chance that someone will go to the theater. I would imagine having movies available at home would at least double that number.

And since presumably people will watch these movies socially you could charge much more for them; $50 or $60 per movie doesn't sound unreasonable at all, that's assuming between 4-5 people are watching it together. I wouldn't be surprised if it could go even higher.

Consider going to the theater where you're probably going to buy some food before (either at a restaurant or concessions, or both), with only 2 people you are coming close to, or exceeding, that $60 figure anyways.
If someone wants to steal from my apartment or trash it, there are a million better ways that don't involve them being employed or contracted by Amazon, being tracked and having video of their entry into my abode.

As long as Amazon knows their name, has them tracked and my Key takes video, it seems like there's near zero risk of that person doing something illegal. It's just too easy for them to get caught.
Intercom on the product implications of AI and machine learning
Just out of curiosity, why only BCash and not the other "big" forks of BTC (like Gold)?
Presumably models are also real people who have an interest in being there (their interest is in being paid).

If consenting adults are being treated fairly, I don't see any moral problem here.
> Closer would be: Here's a car. Here are all the tuneable parameters. Make it as fast or as efficient as possible. But that would still be inordinately more complex then groking chess.

Reminds me of BoxCar2D from 2011: http://www.boxcar2d.com/
As for the impact on theaters, I'm not sure why studios should care. They're just middle-men, right?
You forget about states like Texas, which have lots of people taking substantial property tax deductions.

This is a "soak everybody not wealthy enough to make substantial donations to us" plan, basically.
If it's AML, then Patreon should come out and say it's AML, and point to the rules they have to comply with. Not write feelgood fuzzy bullshit that actually ends up with them taking a huge slice of the pie.
IIRC, Google Play has billions of dollars in non-ad revenue. People are willing to spend money on (or in) apps and games.

Ads still make more, but at this point Google is not entirely just an advertising company.
It's not comparable.

A programmer spent a lot of time honing their craft, faces every day challenges, has growth opportunities, can aspire to higher salaries through tough work, has growth opportunities, can influence the world around them and create new things. Coding yields power.

While modelling may require difficult labour, it's mostly just "congratulations for your face".
When I first saw this the headline was shrunk to "Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into..." and I assumed "the workplace" to be the logical conclusion of this. People paid to look pretty and sit at a desk and pretend like they work to adjust the workplace ambiance? Seems like a logical direction for this to go in.
One would think that his company would be first in line to implement the new 2 MB limit then. But no, they're last, and they still don't batch their transactions or implement a proper fee estimator. Their customers still overpay for transactions, often by several hundred percent.

The reality is that they don't care much about fees, they just pass them on to their customers.
why not just have 2 doors with some space in between for deliveries :p
My friend went through this, and went to court over it.

In court, he claimed the hospital never provided proof of debt. The hospital claimed it did. The judge asked if they had proof of debt with them, right now. They did. The judge asked my friend if he was willing to pay it with proof of debt presented. He said he was.

Done and done. Orders were guarantee the debt is deleted upon payment, bunch of other weird legal stuff protecting my friend if it should appear on his credit report ever, etc.
> there are solutions thousands of times more efficient for all of the problems Bitcoin tries to solve.

No there aren't. Just because you don't agree with the validity of some of the problems bitcoin tries to solve doesn't mean it's not trying to solve them.

I don't actually know what you have in mind, but if you name some of the more efficient alternatives to bitcoin, I'll tell you which problems they're failing to solve.
“As we have learned, scientific advancement eventually happens if the laws of physics do not prevent it.”

The dinosaurs probably disagree. Eventually they might have developed tools and then technology but then planet-scale comet destruction and/or volcanoes got in the way.

We however don’t need a cataclysm to delay or indefinitely defer scientific progress...we have various self-inflicted ways to impede progress: religion, dictators, racism, consumerism, spending money on bombs vs. education, denying climate change, tolerating genocide, electing crazy people to run nuclear armed nations, taxing graduate students, the McRib, etc.
Tax Games, Roadblocks, and Glitches Under the New Legislation [pdf]
TIL: Andreessen, Thiel, Cuban, IBM, Intel Are Against Net Neutrality
I haven't see any friends, Democrats, or Republicans (including comments on Fox News Facebook posts that I've seen) that weren't pro Net Neutrality. Curious, I searched to see who was against it beyond AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast.

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#Arguments_against):
Individuals who oppose net neutrality include TCP/IP inventor Bob Kahn,[172][173], Marc Andreessen,[174] Scott McNealy,[175] Peter Thiel,[168] David Farber,[176] Nicholas Negroponte,[177] Rajeev Suri,[178] Jeff Pulver,[179] John Perry Barlow,[180] Mark Cuban[181] and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

Corporate opponents of this measure include Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Nokia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Juniper, D-Link, Wintel, Alcatel-Lucent, Corning, Panasonic, Ericsson, and others.[85][166][167]
It's a trade-off between time to market and risk of vender lock in. Also, typical tech stack got fully or partially rewritten every a couple of years.
Billionaires, lobbyists, and Christian extremists behind Trumps Jerusalem move
Yes, of course it would.

Since sooner or later, biological systems would be inferior to manufactured ones.
not gonna happen anymore. Unless you want to mine new crypto hopping their value go up.
I'm a pilot customer; my company is an early (seed) stage software startup, and I use to do my bookkeeping by hand... and I had no idea what I was doing. "dubious thoroughness" is a great way to express my bookkeeping.

Pilot basically solved that problem. I just do my normal business and their integrations with my banks, expensify, credit cards, etc handle all of the transaction classification, and at the end of the month I get all of the statements I need to run a business. If there's any questions they reach out and help me address them.

I went from basically 4 founder-hours a month to zero, and I know my books are good. Totally worth it.
> Where is the "In SV we're supposed to be innovators, why aren't we leading the way towards a more equal society?" narrative grounded?

Mostly in the minds of people who are still trying to convince themselves that their advertising and surveillance code or "social" skinner box is "making the world a better place".
The Long Road to Passive Income Part 2: From $100 to $1000 in Monthly Revenue
>meaning there is some finite intelligence cap for any such bootstrapped mind

This does not preclude an intelligence explosion, this cap could be many (say, 100) times higher than human intelligence. We could still see many features of an explosion in that case.
> I am still unclear about what the regret is

The regret was it was a pain in the ass, and cost a lot of money, and in the end didn't even work very well. It was a waste of time, and money, and effort, for no gain.
Where is the corporate entity based? Do you plan to ignore any cease and desists from Facebook? Or are you going to fight them in court?
This is probably a good criticism if it turns out that the right level of abstraction for most problems is Physics. And it seems like your argument would apply equally well against the idea of human intelligence. Luckily, our minds have developed other abstractions that allow us to solve problems much faster than if we had to simulate them as physics problems. For example, I don't need a physics-level simulation of my friend's brain when I want to predict how they'll react to a gift I'm giving them.
The paper says:

> ... total diet replacement (825–853 kcal/day formula diet for 3–5 months), stepped food reintroduction (2–8 weeks) ...

That sounds to me like participants were given a professionally prepared formula to consume instead of food, so the calorie counts might be that accurate.
> the community expectation

I consider myself a member of the bitcoin community, and I absolutely do not believe it will increase 100x within 2 years. I think this bubble is going to crash.
> It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does.

Fyi, it is gated by Discord and (for instance) I'm unable to create an account under this psuedonym.

So, I (personally) will never use Discord as they locked my account when I attempted to create one.
> all in a decentralized system of masternodes.

That's assumed and not proven. There's a lot of dislike for Dash on r/CryptoCurrency for a reason. One of the biggest issues is where its creator, Evan Duffield, instamined/premined a ton of coins "by accident" and didn't start over for a fair launch. In the first two days, he mined 1.9 million coins (10% of the supply).
Both chips have similar (within an order of magnitude) die areas, frequencies, power dissipations, and external pin bandwidth.

If the GPU were truly 1000x more efficient than the CPU, then the CPU vendor could just take 1/1000th of a GPU and squeeze it onto their own chip to double their performance.

(In a sense the trend since the late 90's has been to do exactly this via vector extensions.)
Discord's come a long way on this stuff. About a year ago they started getting used by hate groups for organizing and I was worried the platform would get taken over by bad people. I don't know that they've solved all the social problems but at least they're making an honest effort.
No. This is how major retail stores do these days... Maycs' Best Buy.
Kinda wish Postman had support for other protocols like Thrift & gRPC
> Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack

I see several reasons.

1. It's impossible to not be in a public channel. Yes, you can mute it, but you can't ever leave it. In a large company with thousands of channels, this creates cognitive overhead.

2. You can create private channels, but this requires the ability to assign permissions. This has two problems - one, if you have a lot of teams that need to have private rooms you're going to spend a lot of time juggling permissions, and two, if you need a quick ad-hoc room that you don't want littering the general list, you need to be able to assign permissions.
Type 2 diabetes is a solved problem, but pharmaceutical companies have yet to find a way to make money from a water fast, so no one tells people about it.
Infinite Loops
If the health care costs in the U.S. were the same as the next most expensive OECD country, health care costs would be $1 trillion less. The trump tax cuts amount to $150 billion a year, so just by bringing health care costs in line with the second-most expensive country they could probably meet all of the shortfall without anyone needing to lose anything. It's possible to make smart cuts to medicare and medicaid spending without affecting quality of care or coverage.

Now, knowing republicans that's not how it will pan out though. They aren't known for making smart cuts, they typically reduce benefits/expenditure while keeping profiteering in place.
These guys are doing some interesting work around this - https://www.virtahealth.com/
Summing multiple measurements will grow the noise at the rate of the sum of the squares (also called the 2 norm) because noise is hopefully uncorrelated. The signal, because it is correlated, will sum simply so that with enough measurements your SNR will increase. These measurements can be done in space or time.
I self-paid for a handful of labs a few months ago, including Vit D (and thyroid, and blood related stuff, and cholesterol, and a few other related things).

I went in, the nurse drew some blood and charged me $150. A week later, they mailed me the results.

None of this was done online, and insurance never was involved. I found a lab in town, asked their cash price, and they told me, and it was fine. Specifically the lab was associated with a larger medical facility, so call around to any local hospitals to see what they quote you.
The person you are replying to has discovered multiple exploitable bugs in Illumos via DTrace from inside zones:

Here are the first two that pop up if you google his name.
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-168/
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-274/

He gave a talk at DTrace conf 2016 about all the security vulnerabilities he personally found in DTrace in SmartOS. Here are the slides: http://slides.com/benmurphy/deck
"to your neighborhood"

Wait, was this a translation error? Did you mean "neighbor?" Or is there some "neighborhood representative" in every neighborhood in Germany?
I doubt very many artists would be interested in spending their night having awkward forced interactions with random brogrammers and Kalanicks at a corporate christmas party. There's a reason these companies have to pay women to show up and pretend to be interested in what their employees have to say.
This is exactly the confusion that I am talking about that stalled nuclear power technology. Nuclear weapons are bad to have floating around and getting the current stockpiles down to low levels would be great, but building a nuclear weapons is very hard to do. Separating out U235 from U238 to make and easy to build gun-like nuclear weapon takes a nation state level of power and dedication. Getting enough pure plutonium 239 is at the same order of difficulty and building a plutonium bomb is very difficult and dangerous.

Fuel in nuclear reactors do not have to be a weapons grade levels and only a few research reactors are (or were, as they are being phased out).

Also, one or two (or a dozen) of small nuclear bombs set off by some small group is not going to wipe out humanity and most of the worlds ecosystems. Horrible, massive death and destruction for sure, but not an existential threat to life on the planet.
I think the term you're looking for is a 'vestibule'
Bitcoin has had plenty of speculative bubbles and plenty of crashes, the reason it keeps on working instead of being abandoned is because it is actually useful, regardless of how much of the market cap is driven by speculation.

"Bitcoin is a tool for freeing humanity from oligarchs and tyrants, dressed up as a get-rich-quick scheme."