skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initial windfall can only be spent once. The important difference between distributed finance and traditional finance is that the former has no gatekeepers that provide their controllers with recurring economic rent. Both mining and staking are competitive industries that require productive activity by their participants.

A central bank can extract 2-10% of the money supply's worth of economic rent every year in perpetuity, and the beneficiaries of regulatory barriers to entry can extract similarly enormous amounts of economic rent on a recurring basis (e.g. the Big Three auditing firms have profit margins of up to 50%, thanks in large part to regulatory barriers to competing with them) and public choice theory tells us that this economic rent will be disproportionately distributed to the political and professional elite who control government budgets, manage banks, navigate the regulatory process, and most importantly of all, know the right people to pull the right strings.
-s- This is America, where Uncle Bob can legally teach me how to drive, and you can keep your dang ugly government driver's ed schools and regulations outta my life. And I don't have to actually be that competent because insurance makes all wrongs right. -s-

It's seriously this stupid. There's no driving test after you're initially licensed, nor any recurrence training required. All you have to do in most states is pay a fee to get a license renewed, and you can do it online. They just want the money. Some states will want your vision retested, in my state that's only once every 10 years.

My elderly aunt could teach me how to drive, start to finish, exclusively. That's legal. Her view is that driving is a right, not a privilege. The government's role is only to prove that you're incompetent to hold a license, otherwise it's between you and your insurance company.

I don't see this worldview changing very soon. I'm not confident autonomous vehicles will take over any time soon, but whenever I think of the reality of car driver incompetency it makes me wish it could happen much sooner.
People also seem to forget that the Bitcoin whitepaper is pretty clear that Bitcoin itself is an experimental idea. I have never understood the "fixed supply" fetishism.

Fortunately there are many other blockchain projects out there. Bitcoin will have its position in history as the first and most influential, not as the most useful.
Speed bumps have proven to be undesirable tools in many situations. For instance, it is often the case that motorists will increase their speed after a speed bump to make up for the time lost because of the speed bump.
Yes. This is called an "ICO".
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If you spend one year on applying deep learning, you can train a net on a 100 different data sets. That's where the intuition comes from. You'll debug a lot. People with zero experience with deep learning have ended in the top 10 for Kaggle computer vision competitions. Applied ML does not require a PhD in Computer Science. It is not like you are debugging Cuda as was the case a few years back. Even then, a PhD in statistics is unlikely to help with that. Really, one year of Python experience and you are good to go.

How rare is it to find a new problem domain these days? Most if not all problems tackled with deep learning have already been done in one form or the other. Deep learning is not yet much of an academic discipline, but accessible to anyone willing to put in the hours of study and practice.
I'm not aware of any public discussion of the ongoing incident. This[1] is the thread on the ACME WG mailing list that lead to tls-sni-02 being introduced.

[1]: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/acme/s8gaZ6ev-iqoSQjOZ...
The answer was: (1) speed limits, and (2) infrastructure

Are you saying local governments can't do those things?

When I look around San Francisco I see lots of space to build dedicated bike lanes, etc. In the Americans I see:

A) A lack of faith that anything can get better.

B) A willful disregard for other people (lack of empathy).
Your missing another big one which is the cost to hold the house. If you're an average flipper that investor money is going to cost you about 1% per month of the purchase price so you can probably assume another 3% or so there.

After that you need to factor in your time as the flipper (time to do the purchase analysis, acquire the property, fixup the property, market the property, sell the property). Ultimately for flippers a 15% spread between purchase and sale would usually be a sizeable loss
Wait for the package to be ready there: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/i/intel-microc...

( the version of your OS doesn't matter, it's working for any Ubuntu / Debian release )
Ian,

I'm not sure why you think you know what the absolute truth about "the point of FxOS", but that doesn't matter anymore.

The way they played the "platform can't cater to all needs" story is a shame. I was naive enough to think I could trust people in MoCo to not just lie to my face but they acted like any corp. No real justification was given (I asked for numbers, bugs, etc. for months with no answer), 2 VPs did the dirty work for their CEO and the top level module owner declined both to support a community led project around b2g and to write down that they declined (exercise left to the reader to guess who this is. Hint: Brendan Eich was not top level module owner anymore).

Read [0], watch [1] and tell me if you are proud of your leadership for not even engaging a discussing on the topic.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/k...

[1] https://air.mozilla.org/b2g-os-announcements-2016-09-27/
A guy who was an expert in big cats was featured on a shark show. He commented on how polite and well behaved they were. It wasn't a feeding frenzy. They got in line and took turns.

Which only makes sense if you think about it briefly. If sharks were not well mannered, they would all be missing big hunks and covered in gruesome scars. If two sharks fight, someone is going to get maimed.

I have no doubt these are very polite, well mannered things. But not because they live in fear of being disagreeable. Instead, it is because if someone on the board cocks an eyebrow, people tremble.

Kind of like military bases where people mind their manners because lots of folks there know how to kill you. So, no, you generally don't go around being a blatant disrespectful asshole for lulz.
Why would I care about individual rights if there is no government ?

I mean if I have enough power and there’s no one to stop me, I may as well take your property AND your person and make you work for me.

It’s just a matter of who has the most guns, and my willingness to cheat on the rules of the game.(you assume individual rights, I don’t)

Do note this is more of a tongue in cheek question, than a serious one.
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What also seems to be missing in Google's metric is that of Page Size.

That is, by also having less bytes in the page, then less bandwidth is used. Since less bandwidth is used, less energy is used.

Unfortunately, Google doesn't measure, nor seem to care about energy consumption, as GoogleBot only cares about response times. (Of course, there are energy concerns regarding that too...but it's only every about speed with google and punishes everyone else for not evangelising it)

Using Page Size as metric has important benefits that Page Speed deliberately undermines. It also resurrects the notion that using external cached css and js is a good thing.

Did you know that in order to get 10 urls (the thing that you and I actually want) from google, you need to download 500K? It seems ludicrous to me. Each search result is chock-full of css and js that doesn't change.

Thankfully HN is old-school and uses external files and good-ol' minimalism.

2c
Last I checked, Siri's privacy policy was very clear about the fact that Siri data is used only to improve Siri. I was pretty surprised to find that; maybe I read it wrong.
The 16 year old was not explicitly targeted. And I find the response by Gibbs in this piece to be unconvincing and also idiotic. But the more convincing argument isn't appeals about a 16 year old, it's about the negative efficacy of that program.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-tea...
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Weren't we talking about businesses? Not really seeing where the FOSS community model applies.
Then you are missing the point of AMP.

Increasingly, phones are the dominant computing tool accessing Google search results. Optimizing for phone experience is key to serving the largest growing demographic of searchers.
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Google _can_ predict the speed of any webpage to any user. Google Analytics data is enough. Your whole thread is predicated on Google having that one product (crawler). They have everything.
No. In basically no other industry does "performance" double every two years. Agricultural output doesn't double every two years, drugs aren't twice as effective every two years, and cars aren't twice as fast every two years. Semiconductor manufacturing is the exception, not the rule.

As for the different constants point -- you can model anything as an exponential function with a small enough coefficient. Moore's law is significant because it doubles every two years.

Economies of scale is in reference to mass production (scale). Making 1000 widgets is cheaper than making 10 widgets on a per widget basis. This is fundamentally different from the predictions made by Gordon Moore.

It's also like to point out that Moore's Law hasn't applied for a while now. Ultimately, we'd be at >5nm, and that's nowhere near ready.
Barbarians at the Gate is a - surprisingly good - movie about the hostile takeover & leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. The events depicted became the poster child for the corporate greed of the 80s.
We have a few intersections like this near me, and as a cyclist I can assure you that you really don't see anything. It's crazy. But luckily they are all traffic controlled with full on signals so there's no ambiguity about what one should be doing.
The problems of political relations are shaped by the dynamics of the system, not by the inherent character flaws of the people operating that system.
They sat on it for over quarter and gave no indication that any sort of trouble was coming up. The CEO even sold stock and made a profit after being made aware of the issue, but before having the issue be announced publicly. I would not classify that as clearly owning up
> Density necessitates lower speeds and smaller roads, and good luck regulating US cities into that state.

Most European cities dream of having the same amount of road space US cities have.

Yet, many European cities build dedicated bike lanes... It takes serious political will-power to close of roads from cars.

It's lack of "will" do something, nothing more.
Been planning on buying EPYC for our upcoming OpenShift deployment already - now I’ve got a smoking gun to get management onboard.
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I was Rob Dubbin's teaching fellow for a computer science course he took in college. He was pretty sharp!
I'm pretty sure they don't lend the equipment out for free. Does it work differently in other countries?
Presumably the launch date, Intel lists launch dates for all of their processors on ark.intel.com [1]

5 years is Haswell, so Haswell and newer should get the microcode fix. A 3 year old computer is likely to have a CPU no more than 4 years old, but you can look it up to verify. (Both Windows and Linux can show the CPU model, and Intel's Ark site gives the release date.)

[1] https://ark.intel.com/products/series/75023/4th-Generation-I...
They removed data from the Korean exchanges which have always had higher prices due to Korean exchange controls - once you've changed money to bitcoin you've got it out of the country. That data should always not really have been included if you wanted a fair idea of value.
>We must note that there are two parts to the definition of dangerous driving. Firstly the standard of driving must be “far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver”, and secondly it must be “obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous”.

The longer I use the road in any function (cycling, driving, walking, etc), the more I am convinced that the vast majority of people are not competent drivers. So if one is interpreting the guidelines as whether an average person could have made the mistake, then they will surely come to an incorrect conclusion, as the average person is absolutely terrible at driving.

I'm reasonable good at controlling my car and I'm fairly aware of what is going on around me. I never drive distracted or drunk, and I follow all of the rules of the road. However, I don't consider myself a particularly good driver. I am lucky thus far that none of the mistakes I've made have resulted in harm to anyone. My skill in handling the car and my general attentiveness have prevented accidents (or perhaps even deaths), but there have been plenty of times where I've had near misses due to human error.

I've often wondered whether other people are fundamentally more competent drivers; whether they had a trait that I lacked. The more rides I take with other people, the more I am convinced that most people are fundamentally terrible drivers. Human nature and human perception are not suited for driving. It is nearly impossible to be a competent driver, regardless of how much care you take. Some of the worst drivers I know are the most careful. They diligently check every mirror and every blind spot before making a move, yet do so at such a slow pace that all the information they gathered when they checked each of the prior locations is irrelevant. Their caution can only go so far, as they eventually need to move to reach their destination, and at a certain point their hesitance is a danger to others, as massive differentials in speed one of the biggest hazards in driving.

Humans are just astoundingly incompetent drivers on all levels. Most people I know can't even adjust their mirrors so they can be used without moving their head substantially. How can a person be a competent driver if they have deprived themselves of easy access to what is happening next to their vehicle or behind it.

According to the World Health Organization, traffic deaths are the 10th leading cause of death in the world. There is no more likely 'accidental' cause of death than a car accident; each of the nine causes of death more common than car accidents are diseases. In 2013, 1.4 million people died from road traffic accidents, and 54 million people were injured.

I love driving. I love the open road, and the freedom that comes with it, but the truth of the matter is that people are terrible at driving. The sooner we have an alternative to people driving cars, the better.
Yeah, it's a known property that batteries degrade. But it's still a problem when you underprovision the battery. If you build it to last, it will last. Just because Apple spun it as good for the user doesn't make it true.
Everything is too complicated
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What a nonsensical article. Similar to Malcolm Gladwells revisionist podcast (episode: My Little Hundred Million) these awards predominantly go to well connected faculty at elite schools who are already well funded and who don't need the money (other than to add to their palmares). Many of these awardees are already millionaires. They should just split this award into smaller grants and give it to faculty/teachers at smaller unknown schools in the midwest. You don’t have to be a genius to see this would do more good.
> The author overlooks this fact since the “pilot training” to avoid this problem actually does not work very well.

This is critical in the context of the author claiming that drivers should be expected to recognize the risk in this situation. Pilots are required to undergo significantly more training and expected to be much more methodical about operating their vehicles than drivers. In spite of all that, they're not very good at watching for this kind of scenario either.

Instead, a combination of air traffic control, transponder-based traffic warning systems and the fact that air traffic is vastly more sparse than road traffic make collisions between aircraft rare events. If a particular intersection design causes collisions, the primary fault should be considered to be with the intersection rather than the drivers.
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Predatory animals, probably including humans, innately apply CBDR as a mental heuristic for catching prey and other objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze_heuristic
A 4 way stop is unnecessary, simply requiring one direction to stop would work fine.

In New Zealand, with rural grid roads, they usually have 2 way stops (or give-way/yields) which will alternate, so you get priority at one intersection, then stop/give way at the next, and so on.
I never said otherwise. But they don't randomly shut down when you have a ton of battery left.
Even then, they're still not treated like stop signs. Drivers blow past the sign up to the farthest possible point and only stop there, if at all. In particular they speed right over the pedestrian crossing without looking.
China has a K-9 program, education isn’t compulsory after the 9th grade is completed, high school is optional. Whether you get a good education or not depends on your hukou, it is far from universally good, first tier cities having the best, rural villages having much much worse.
>What is more dangerous on highways is differential speed.

That sounds like an extraordinary statement to me, by which I mean that you need to support it.

First, let me make a distinction between crashes where drivers lose control after the collision, either due to shock to the driver or damage to the car, and crashes where they don't. In the latter case, I agree with you; a freeway scrape where both cars can slow in a controlled manner is probably pretty safe. And you are more likely to have that sort of accident when you are going at similar speeds in the same direction. But it's not a certain thing;

Cars are complex systems, and designed to operate without colliding with other vehicles. Cars are also much more likely to lose control when they are operating closer to their speed design envelope.

However, in the case where either the car or the driver is incapable of continuing to control the vehicle, at that point the car continues to hit other things until it's stopped (and is often hit then by traffic that isn't stopped.) At that point, total speed matters a lot.

There is just a whole lot more energy involved when you are moving fast than when you are moving slowly, and when energy is dispersed in an uncontrolled manner near people, those people tend to get hurt.
> You mean you can get voted out of office for implementing these policies.

Probably... There is nothing reasonably stopping the US from being nicer, only it's voters.

Maybe the problem is that US voters don't care much about the body count (probably an issue in most Americans politices).
If I can draw a handful of gates, an FPGA eval board is almost ALWAYS easier.

I can have a MAX10 evaluation board on my desk in less than 24 hours for probably less than Osh Park charged him.

The real question is how much software is required. Once I have to start writing software or Verilog/VHDL, things slow down.
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Are you sure?

From Wikipedia:

> On 19 May 2017, the Swedish authorities dropped their investigation against Assange, claiming they could not expect the Ecuadorian Embassy to communicate reliably with Assange with respect to the case. Chief prosecutor Marianne Ny officially revoked his arrest warrant, but said the investigation could still be resumed if Assange visited Sweden before August 2020. "We are not making any pronouncement about guilt", she said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_sexual_...

I don't know much about it, but I thought he was worried that the UK would extradite him to the US for whatever reason they can manufacture.

Also, I'm not so sure about some of those facts you listed about the case. I saw a TV show about it, and the Swedish rape laws sound very odd, if I remember correctly a woman can consent at the time, then subsequently (the next day) can revoke consent, and that's rape under their law.
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I think I found this link from another HN post. In any event, "A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads" discusses this:

If you get to a junction and move your head right and left
to look for oncoming traffic, you need to understand that
you cannot guarantee that you have seen approaching traffic.
It is entirely possible for our eyes to ‘jump over’ an
oncoming vehicle during one of the saccades. The smaller
(and specifically, the narrower) the vehicle, the greater
the chance that it could fall within a saccade. You are not
being inattentive, you are physically incapable of seeing
anything during a saccade. Remember the ‘Think Bike!’
adverts, where a driver pulls out into the path of a
motorcycle? I am convinced that it is the phenomena of
saccades and fixations that is most likely to lead to this
sort of accident.

From http://www.slobc.org/safety/documents/road-survival-guide.pd...
All tls-sni has been disabled. The one production API, and two staging APIs, are affected.
As one such pedestrian, this near-miss happens all the time, although half the time it's because drivers aren't even trying to look (e.g. a driver turning right will only be looking to their left while rolling through a stop).

So I find A-pillar design very aggravating -- though not as aggravating as drivers who roll up to and through stop signs at a constant speed approximately equal to my running speed.
You can make this page! Start curating HN posts and comments and the other resources relative to your essential needs and see what magic falls out
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Whoever manages their networks could tell you
To the contrary, I often experience such disappoints during design reviews in my day job.

I think we both can agree that the discussion has clearly digressed into unconstructive pedantry territory.
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Could you produce collisions using only non-visible/zero width characters?
There are stop signs now (as of June 2017) and STOP markings in the road. Streetview shows old imagery from 2015 when viewed from the offending road but Beaulieu Rd. is newer.
He should say "It's not a fraud, it's just in a crazy worldwide bubble".