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If he invested using this logic he wouldn't be the richest person in the world. This is one of the gambling fallacies of "Oh man, if I hadn't folded I'd have won it on the river! I should remember that next time I get dealt 6,9 off-suit".

And yes, it's gambling because there isn't any metric to assess the value of the asset beyond some arbitrary price. Investments in other instruments can be measured by looking at balance sheets and cash-flow and other performance metrics of the entities that are receiving the investment (how is my investment being used to produce ROI?).

Not so with crypto, all the data is basically about a computer network and it doesn't produce an actual product in the real world... because it's not a real currency and it's not a real investment vehicle. They're just casino chips that play one game - buy low, sell high.

The big mistake people are making here is thinking that Buffett/Munger and real financial investors are gamblers like everyone else and they're not, they are old-school and who invest in actual real world products that serve a real-world purpose that they believe will produce a measurable return with a measurable risk.

In 2009 all the talk was about changing the world and making transactions seamless and the world was going to be buying coffees with crypto and houses/cars with crypto and we'd start the digital utopia. Based on that investor deck, they passed, and they were absolutely right looking at how it has turned out. Just because this startup pivoted into a global slot machine with an energy cost the size of Ecuador and lots of people have hit it big doesn't mean it's a real world product, serving a real world purpose.

When the bubble bursts and lots of everyday people lose their shirts, the backlash is going to set back any actual plans of a crypto-topia decades if not more and probably send a shock-wave through the venture capital market (and beyond) putting many in Silicon Valley (and elsewhere) out of job (with many into bankruptcy). They are predicting that too since this same article mentions that they believe venture capital is a bubble as well.

If I were heavily invested in crypto I would take this news as a (yet another) sign and would move out of crypto and into whatever safe vehicles will be robust to a venture capital / crypto collapse. And if I were a Silicon Valley employee anywhere near blockchain, I would be diversifying my skill-set and updating my resume.
They probably make their money from people who don't use all the flights they booked. Personally, I find that business model horrible and it's what you get with race-to-the-bottom markets like cellphone plans, electricity and credit cards. It screws over people who misjudge their own future usage but give hope that you'll save money if you get it right.

I suppose it's still a good option to have since customers are effectively being paid to do the work of planning their use in advance which no doubt reduces costs for the airline.
Electrino was a great idea, but the project was more of a POC and I haven’t seen any new development.

So until someone can build a production ready, cross platform, JS desktop experience....Electron will live on.
I hope that before the end of my career I get to write code with just my thoughts. Add a method here, a loop there, refactor this block out with, etc.
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I’m wondering.

I also have a new project to work to, and I want to try laravel, as I am not using frameworks generally, despite some Magento work.

I played with VueJS and it looks like the good combo to start with.

And then I found this [0], benchmarking PHP frameworks. Of course we can’t tell (or I haven’t found) if the tests were in production mode, and if it’s relevant.

Do you have any experience with this ? Because in my project, the routing aside, it’s just a CRUD app.

Thanks if you can answer.

[0] https://medium.com/@asked_io/php-mvc-framework-showdown-7-1-...
Ask HN: Any mobile pico-8 consoles other than pocket chip?
I just wanted to know if there is any pico-8 console besides pocket chip (https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip).
Is there something in development (something that can be bought, not DIY)?
>How to use WhatsApp on Android or iOS.

From the EFF page you have linked. :D
I think they're talking about marginal cost of electricity only, assuming the hardware, location, and tech support costs are negligible. I'm not sure how valid that is as an analysis of total profitability. It depends how dominant the electricity costs really are.
I think I'll wait for like... version 5.
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Transmutable – immutable objects that pretend to be mutable
Of course it does, that's exactly what a fork is.

Or, maybe the question is what is the bitcoin blockchain? The truth is there is no such thing.
Visio had a line of TVs that we're almost this - they had no TV tuner, minimum UI, a tiny simple remote and just a Chromecast built in. After I had mine for a year it got an automatic update giving it a horrible smart TV UI and they forced you to order a new remote. It's such a shame because it was pretty much perfect for me before this happened, and now they've lost me as a future customer.
Yeah, this is is actually one of the reasons I used Electron for a screen-recording project...because most browsers didn’t implement the experimental screen recording APIs yet but Chrome already had it.

https://github.com/styfle/magnemite
It wouldn't be faster: coding is not input constrained, but thinking constrained. So just being able to connect your thoughts to the input method wouldn't change much, instead the computer really needs to augment those thoughts instead. The trick would be using this tech to create a much tighter feedback loop with the computer, but just having it isn't sufficient.
Why would I learn something which doesn't offer me any value? CoffeeScript is literally syntactical sugar, which I believe, adds levels of indirection to the code and makes it more difficult long-term to support, read, and develop. Not only that, but JavaScript's evolution has made nearly every reason to use it moot.

Also FWIW-- I've done vastly more native and server-side programming over the last... oh, seven years than "web." So... I don't think this is something with "web developers."
Exactly. Whatsapp "saying" they use e2e encryption itself is a suspicious thing. I don't know what algorithms they are using. I don't know they're not taking fucking screenshots of the chat messages and piping them to Zuckerberg's personal machine. Talking about encryption in a closed source app in istore or android play (which don't allow you to even verify binaries yourself) is just like discussing how well the infotainment system works on a flight with a burning jet engine.
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Ya most people's brain signals contain nothing of value ;P
You can get a private pilot's license with 40 hours total time. (Most people do it in around 60-80.) I don't have as good a feeling on the stats on time until solo, but the average is almost surely under 20 hours.

Agree that this isn't going to be a hobby for the average unmotivated teen.
Turns out nested virtualization is a thing. Jesus.
One of them requires a smaller investment upfront and produces dividends quicker.
They say you can estimate the maturity of a group's culture by how easy it is to commit heresy.

Less Wrong fans seem fairly mature by that metric, since they don't blacklist their apostates.

The Yudkowskites actually seem one step ahead of academic culture if you're looking at groupthink indicators.
I don’t think you can blame Microsoft for the advertisers building their own grave. I think it’s just as valid (...if not obvious) to assume that users do not want to be tracked.

However, from what I understand Microsoft is also the absolute worst in terms of lowering ads to the window manager level, which is beyond disgusting for a company selling a tool.
> It wouldn't be faster: coding is not input constrained, but thinking constrained.

Well, it depends on how bad your RSI is. For some people it is input constrained.
Is there any good literature that makes it easy to learn this aspect? How much does a put option cost typically?
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There are more entities we have to trust in this matter. For example when I download whatsapp on my phone I trust that Google hasn't injected its own spyware into the binary, because there is no way for me (as an end-user who doesn't want to hack my own phone to get root access) to verify that the binary came directly from whatsapp.

As much as Jobs revolutionized the smartphone industry, this is the long-lasting legacy we will have to live with for decades (or forever?).
Congratulations.

Especially if there are serious competitors in this space, governments could enact laws that speed up safety requirements (and maybe speed up innovation too).

One thought: Governments could force driverless companies to share their data, in some inter-operable format (think a 3D map, or 6D if you had speed information?) that could be read by other cars nearby. For instance if there is a stroller with a baby in front of the car in front of you, or if an accident happened in the street you are about to enter, you would be able to read it from the information emitted from cars that are closer to the danger/obstacle. Current technologies allow this. My guess is that sensors will gain substantially in terms of robustness. (Imagine what you can do with one set of lidar/thermocamera/visial cameras; now imagine what you can do with data from 10 of these sets from different locations!)

Smaller players (such as Voyage, although it seems you got there far already!) would probably benefit from this and it would benefit competition/innovation. Governments would likely be happy to force this into law because if it makes sense for safety.

Anyway, congrats for the real-life launch
CRUD is what php does best. Framework overhead is not significant part of the request time so unless you're serving millions of requests it doesn't really add up compared to i/o and dB. So I think benchmarking is meaningless.
I don’t think the person you replied to is complaining about Sourcegraph. He is talking about how he dislikes GitHub code search, and it seems that he likes Sourcegraph.
> We are partnering with an amazing company for our second generation vehicle that will go a long way towards this, though. In general, we are excited to see LIDAR sensors become slimmer.

I bet I can guess who this is

;)
Sure, but perhaps the reduced mental load from having your thoughts instantaneously actualize would free up capacity for a higher quantity and quality of ideas. The somewhat faster feedback loop should also improve reward seeking behavior.
Can this be run without docker, somehow? It's nigh-unusable on OS X with it.
Fits the standard narrative (and I love to hate Yelp), but is there any proof?
reminds me of News of the Weird's list of story types it would no longer accept because they happen often enough to not qualify as weird ... cat ends up 300 miles from home, super slow high-speed chase, couple having sex on co-workers desk after hours...
Great question. I don't recall precisely what the research code I used then did. The velocity fields for constant mass density incompressible flow need to be divergence-free. But other variables and other situations do not have the same restrictions (though they might need to satisfy some other conditions). The code might have introduced noise in the the temperature field.

I recall that there are algorithms for generating divergence-free random fields, but I'm not particularly familiar with them. In another code I worked with more when I was younger, I recall discussing with a much more senior researcher than myself this issue, and if I recall correctly he said to not worry about the initial condition not satisfying the divergence constraint (the divergence was non-zero but known), as the numerical method will enforce the divergence constraint for all future time steps. Presumably one could modify the algorithm (this was a "pressure projection scheme") to take an arbitrary velocity field along with the desired divergence field and correct the initial velocity field to be divergence free. This may not preserve the desired statistical properties of the noise, however.
The entire point of DNT is to relay an explicit user decision to a website. It has no other meaning.
While there is a candidate recommendation, in reality, the decision about what to do with it is entirely up to the website.

Faking it like Microsoft does makes DNT loses its meaning entirely.

Note that there are 3 values to DNT: null (no explicit decision), 1 (do not track), 0 (track).
As much as I hate facebook, their social messaging products (IG, messenger, whatsapp) are top-notch, truly a cut above anything else.
I came across a nice video/presentation from some guys at SpaceX on using GPUs to model and visualise the fluid flows inside rocket engines (specifically the Raptor engine) and around spacecraft during reentry, as well as a good explanation of how they do it efficiently using adaptive grids. Their explanations are quite approachable as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txk-VO1hzBY
I am hopeful that at some point the "Next stop Mars" stories will end
I launch instances of neovim all the time. So often that I have a keybinding for it (super + v). It launches and is ready to use in under 500ms.
It requires Docker for now. A lot of people use it on macOS successfully. What are you seeing?
I disagree. Many times coding is input constrained—common refactoring patterns are one obvious example. You enter a pattern of tight input-evaluate-respond-repeat loops where you evaluate the refactoring change at every location where the text would also change. Very few problems worth solving can be solved without a better editor than pen and paper, and thought controlled ast aware editors are the logical conclusion of that.

Hard problems would not be better aided by better input. In my experience, very few money making products deal with hard problems, just boring problems.
USAF’s 4,602mph HYPERSONIC warplane?
Wow thanks for that.
Competition for the cheapest energy in the world.

This will spurt R&D efforts in renewable energy once there is parity with mining chips.
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In my experience from solid mechanics, generally no. I don’t know exactly why, but my guess would be that there’s a significant lag time in development of these packages. They are conservative and heavily favour accuracy to speedy new techniques.

Often they use back-end solvers that are very old. For example I use FEMAP professionally and it’s essentially a pre- and post-professor over NASTRAN, which is way older than me. Adding GPGPU to it would be difficult indeed, and no one will pick a less accurate new solver without it having been robustly proven (it’s a chicken and egg problem, in a way).

Also, GPUs aren’t suited to all problems. You still have the memory limits of GPUs which aren’t as Large as traditional RAM (I see no GPUs with 32-64GB RAM). They’re not the silver bullet people sometimes hope for.

Lastly, the people who do this are surprisingly less overlapping with the flashy new IT development-aware crowd than you’d expect. They’re not Silicon Valley types with their finger on the pulse of the latest and greatest. Most just use PCs as a tool and wouldn’t know the benefits GPGPU could provide. To them, video cards are just video cards.
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You are absolutely wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

In 2014, the IPFS protocol took advantage of the Bitcoin blockchain protocol and network infrastructure in order to store unalterable data, remove duplicated files across the network, and obtain address information for accessing storage nodes to search for files in the network.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ipfs-protocol-selects-ethereu...

https://mobile.twitter.com/Alex_Amsel/status/778440701902139...
I'm not sure how this would work in practice. Thoughts are incredibly noisy. Any mechanism that could filter out the noise basically can decipher intent. I'd argue intent deciphering is the actual problem trying to be solved by these devices (e.g. I wish I didn't have to type. I wish the computer just knew what I wanted to type, not that I wish the computer simply typed out what I thought). Solutions like "oh, just keep on thinking of the same thing over and over again" is highly error prone and will definitely be slower than typing. Say you wanted to type "[the quick brown brown quick the quick brown quick the brown]" a strategy of repeatedly thinking of the phrase to be typed will be error prone, regardless of any ML techniques you use, simply because it cannot be known in advance what you wanted to type unless you knew the intent.

Perhaps it'll pick it up as "the quick brown", or "quick brown the", and so forth.

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Another problem can be illustrated below:

Say you had your brain device on now. You're ready to reply to this.

Horse poop.

Oh, I guess you read the above and now have "horse poop" typed. Well, you can just remove that ---

"add comment"

"submit"

Too late.
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I used to share your reasoning that a straightforward technical solution must exist but this article really opened my eyes to the various tradeoffs involved in districting and how finding a balance is indeed a political not a technical problem: "Gerrymandering isn't evil" https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/could-gerrym...
Didn't the WSJ just have an article today about China shutting down bitcoin mining? Seems like there is a bit of disconnect in the reporting...

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-quietly-orders-closing-of...
I think the PDP books are super interesting, have you read Jeffery Elman's Rethinking Innateness kind of a successor to PDP. Elman did some of the first work on recurrent neural networks I think

Geoff Hinton, some of who's work was in PDP, was an experimental psychologist by training.
> Edit: Yes, the indigenous peoples also cut down trees for agricultural purposes, and even practiced forestry-by-fire. They did so at a radically different scale, however

If you don't know how Australia and Scotland went from heavily forested to... not, I have bad news about indigenous peoples.
Mainstream news articles are making this hype train go much more faster. Feels like a bunch of PR firms are hyping bitcoin and I don't know why. I even saw another Bloomberg post that has the opposite conclusion today. Someone is ordering a bunch of submarines. (See http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html )
You say isomorphic almost like you dismiss it.

I structured my site so that, in the worst case, the user has a plain old site of HTML + CSS and lots of hyperlinks that work just fine. My drop down headers default to pages that show the drop down content.

The embarrassing part was I had a simple bug affecting a sizable chunk of my user-base. In a certain browser, no code would run. But I never received a single complaint, because no one noticed. Sure, some fancy extras didn't work, but they are used to that with that particular browser. The information and required functionality was there. And I didn't have to write it in both PHP AND Javascript.
Installed it, configured it, pointed it at the public cpython repo, it said 'cloning' and then pegged cpu for about 15 minutes (with about a third to a half of the usage in 'system') and eventually kernel-panicked.
Sure, but then this becomes niche to RSI sufferers and other people who can't type easily like voice input.
I could outrun you using Webflow...
No, just that the effect on safety seems minimal compared to other factors.
I guess it's anecdata, but near me within 10 miles of downtown Boston there is a substantial area of forested park land which used to be farms. You can tell it was farm land by the remnants of the stone walls, which themselves only became prominent somewhere around the Revolution when people had cut down so many trees there wasn't enough for building fences entirely from wood. Source: my recollection of reading https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1581571658
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I'll keep an eye out for translations of Eduado Galeano's work, thanks for the recommendation!
How much per hour should a business pay a 19 year old single person working who lives for free in their parents upper middle home?

How much should the business pay the single mom working full time in the same job to support two children?

Which one does the business layoff when your minimum wage makes them cut expenses?
A pirated copy doesn’t need to equate to a lost sale in order for it to be stealing. You took something of value that was created or owned by someone else. Whether it’s a physical or nonphysical good is completely beside the point.
If they wanted to prove the design, why can't they offer package delivery services with the drones and ramp up volume to at least 100 flights a day until it's proven?!

If they've proven it works, they should get the money necessary to test it and deploy it. They need to get to market and see if it sells.

I think the problem is crashing over populated areas, even if it's not occupied? Hard to make deliveries if you can't fly over actual people.

But in any case, let me know when they are doing at least 10 flights per day (no days off for bad weather, they should be testing in multiple locations and climates too).
On android I think both Chrome and Firefox supports installing a website as an icon on the home screen.

It might already hide the address bar when opened in this mode. I personally expect that it's just a matter of time before this becomes an install mode for desktop apps as well.
Thanks for the kind words, it's definitely on my plans to write such a post.

I'd like to improve the speed of the Wasp Shen port too, it's pretty slow compared to the other ports. Still useable though which is good. I used it in a couple of projects, using the FFI to call Wasp's concurrency routines and it worked well.
If it's not about physical traits (which is good) then why does it matter? You realize every company does in fact discriminate for talent? (which is also fine).

We all want smartest, more capable and most reliable people, not a mix of smart and average and dumb just to "represent". Picking the top schools aligns for that, as long as your competitive enough to hire them.
Ask HN: What Was Intel's Isolated Computing Environment Called?
I recall reading briefly about the capability to set up an isolated region of memory at boot time that gets locked down after creation and can run independently, at a more isolated level than a hypervisor etc. I can't recall the name of the technology to go dig into it.
If the price drops significantly, then that would decentivize people from mining, which would lower the difficulty.
I don't see why you couldn't do the HTTP validation, but over the existing HTTPS cert you have, without having to accept non-TLS connections.

To be honest, I just don't think the SNI challenge has any place here. Although I totally recognise it is an easier option where you're more restricted, the fundamental security concerns are more important.
Why not propose changes to the RFC instead of creating a new standard?