skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that's a particularly libertarian answer. But whether your views belong to a particular political label or not is not my main concern.

My question was whether you think such identity claims are true.

Now maybe you don't think it matters, and that we should use preferred pronouns regardless. But at that point you are saying that people should lie for the sake of politeness. The request isn't just "Please don't say that"; it's "Please say this other thing even if you don't believe it's true".
> If you really want to talk shit about Bitcoin

I don't. And I don't think many people do (perhaps those buying put options might). That said, it's not hard to see the cost in power usage, and thus waste heat, that is/will be spent computing hashes that match ever-growing computational requirements.

You're right that I could spend a month of my time learning more about this tech that does obviously have solid implications in the form of distributed untrusted consensus.

That said, it took me maybe 30 minutes researching to understand the huge global power requirements, and in years of observing the tech, nobody has been able to quickly and easily dispel this concern. If it takes a month of in-depth research to make people feel better about bitcoin and dispel years of observing the currency and its ever-growing requirements, then maybe something is wrong. It could be that after a month of very hard work, you have an unconscious cognitive bias because nobody likes to waste a month of work learning something they decide to throw away.

I'd be glad to find an article that, in less than 30 minutes, can change my mind about the waste that bitcoin generates. It's happened plenty of times with other tech (not necessarily waste, but other misjudgments), and often in closer to 5-10 minutes. I don't expect Bitcoin would be any different, because I have no horse in this game. In fact, I'd be really excited to be proven wrong, because of the potential benefits that the tech has to offer.
I've found that contacting directors and explaining politely, but bluntly, why you are upset at the service their employees are providing, works wonders. No need to be rude.
If electricity and environment-pollution would not cost anything this would be maybe true and since mining is done mostly in large pools and the blockchain is already quite big (regarding having the whole bc on disk) the social scalability is not really there.
And the computing power you need does not really sink because of the adaption of the network so that the hash-rate is kinda stable, so it does not get cheaper.

What makes me really wonder is this talk of corruption robustness when the blockchain world is basically a wild west without laws and regulation where the only reason to behave is financial incentives which obviously brings in more scams than anything else. This would maybe work if it would not be even better to slightly misbehave, you don't need to make a 51% attack, controlling 25% of the mining power already gives you an edge to steer the whole network. [0]

You don't trust Paypal and Visa where laws apply but you trust enormous Mining-Pools in China that were already caught forming carthels?

[0](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/selfish-mining-a-25-att...)
Tradeoffs: RCNN has better accuracy. YOLO is faster.
There's games that have less kingmaker impact - where your choices restrict the choices other players can make, but not to the extent that Settlers does. Consider just about any worker placement games where, say, five players compete for three three worker spots on a particular resource tile.

It sucks if you were one of the two players who didn't get a chance to place - but it doesn't feel quite as shitty as when someone occupies the only worker spot for a particular tile, just to spite you.
Bitcoin doesn't solve this, but there are plenty[1][2][3][4] of cryptos that realize this failing in Bitcoin and others and are trying to address it.

1. https://www.civic.com/

2. https://stratisplatform.com/identity/

3. https://whycardano.com/#social-elements-of-money

4. https://neo.org/
> A future where you'll need permission to cross "internet" borders.

Yes, a natural (if slightly delayed) consequence of the internet becoming an important part of the real world is that governments treat information moving across the internet like everything else in the real world.
Typically the corporate environment includes many "line of business" apps, which are often a simple web interface onto a custom application. It's not common for these to have Gmail-level hardening, and so security is provided by restricting access to the underlying network with a VPN.
> It's difficult to install trojaned Signal on an iPhone, since you can't sideload them from random websites.

FWIW, you definitely can do this (you go to a webpage and it asks you to install a product) with an "enterprise" certificate, but the idea (true or not) is that Apple then knows who the developer is; so, so if you someone noticed and reports them, Apple is supposed to be able to do something about it (again, that's the theory).
Your assumption is wrong, that is why you do not understand. The inventor could, or could not receive money. This is the beauty of an open and decentralizes invention. The inventor is not the owner.

But people who participate and invest from the start can make money if the project succeeds. So the economic incentives for those involved are greater than the incentives in a walled garden.
The weird part is that there's not exactly a toll plaza - it's totally integrated into the city.

I presume they made some argument about rangers not being available or something, but there was really no reason it needed to close. It's on a public street, and in a city with emergency services.
That seems like a weird example. I just searched for the last film I watched - “Hud” - and Google gives me four options to rent the film, one of which is Google and three of which are not. It is hard to see how Google is harming consumer access to films.
Not only are OnePlus phones easy to flash, but doing so doesn't void your warranty. You just have to revert to OxygenOS before making an RMA.
The AI Arms Race Between China and the United States
It would seem like it. In terms of innovative research, it doesn’t seem like, say, Google Research is so much more productive than your average prestigious research university (albeit possessing perhaps a different set of focus areas). Similarly, when it comes to improvements on technical infrastructure, it seems Google plays a large role, but not an exceptionally large one, which makes sense by virtue of their massive deployments and having the capital to hire good engineers. Still, this doesn’t seem so outsized—Meltdown/Spectre weren’t discovered solely by Google, for example.

On the other hand, when it comes to product innovation, it definitely seems like the bulk of it happens, as you said, outside titans. Again picking on Google (sorry), V8, Google Docs, Google Maps, YouTube, and Android were all acquisitions! And though Google acquiring them might certainly have given them large amounts of resources to expand (e.g. subsidizing YouTube), there is definitely the question of stifling innovation and competition. Consider TinEye, who first published reverse image search; later Google just poured engineers onto their own reverse image search platform and copied it.

I think you can see the same dynamic with Facebook copying Snapchat features. It doesn’t seem like a healthy market.

EDIT: V8 might be better characterized as the product of an acquihire, actually. It might not fit with the rest of the list, which were all literally acquisitions of products developed outside Google.
I can definitely follow this article, but I still don't feel like I have an intuitive understanding at all the way I do with traditional processors that use plain old electron flow. It makes me wonder if that's how people felt when integrated circuits were first being seen in the world.
Here is more information on Dragon's Lair/Space Ace/etc. than you knew you wanted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPOQr1pxY8
I'd add a fourth bullet point, "This person probably won't have a job in 3-6 months".

If you consider that and budget in the costs of looking for a new job, and account for the frankly non-trivial chance that the salary will end up being a lie, given the skeeviness of this space (I'd bet the first paycheck shows up, but my confidence in that goes down rapidly as the weeks wear on), it may not look like such a great offer.

Obviously, there are things that can be taken into account when you know more specifics (i.e., "it's VC backed by a reputable firm" would score some points on the "they at least have some money" front), but absent those I wouldn't start from a high degree of confidence.
Yup, I kno of baremetrics and the like; hence I would use them to check on general, actionable SaaS metrics and am wondering about the perceived value of Saascast for customers of those tools that already have a feeling where their business might be going in the next one to three months.

With changes in the product I'm not sure whether longer time horizons make sense.
The center core is new, but the side boosters are both recycled. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_...
I am familiar with some sections of it.

I don't remember that particular one, but there are odd bits of humor throughout his work. "MIX is the world's first polyunsaturated computer."

Browsing through it again, I see a reference in section 1.2.8 about Fibonacci numbers, problem 37 references a paper by R. E. Gaskell and M. J. Whinihan. I worked with Mike Whinihan in a previous lifetime. He got his PhD in economics at U of Chicago in just three years, to the dismay of his classmates. He wrote that paper "Fibonacci Nim" when he was in High School. And looking at the beginning of Chapter 2 "Information Structures" he mentions structures in "algebraic language like FORTRAN, C, or Java" (third edition). In the first edition, neither C nor Java had yet been invented.
> AR or something like it

Just simple passthrough video for now - no vision. And mono, in a bid to reduce eye strain from long hours of use.

> do the passthrough cameras do edge detection with motion compensated infill (more pixels come through the closer/faster they move) so one doesn't feel cut off from the outside world?

Do you mean making "big vision-occluding windows" more transparent when the world behind them changes and/or head spins?

> expensive, doesn't make sense

Existing small high-end market; immature big low-end market; limited ability to do market segmentation; no HomebrewComputerClub-like market-bypass; lack of incentives to avoid collateral damage to rate of progress.

My hope is Xmas 2018 will see both finger and eye tracking get products priced for consumers.

> [color] glove

Yeah. Sigh. They did a startup... and were bought by Oculus. I don't know of an open source release. So here we are, literally a decade later, and you can't easily get one.

It's been interesting to watch VR's widespread innovate-startup-acquisition-unavailable dynamic, and contrast it with say the ferment of HCC. It attracts investment, but devastates the market ecosystem, and cripples research.
Bitcoin is limited in the number of on-chain transactions it will allow but effectively limitless on-chain enforceable transactions. So yes, it can handle millions of transactions per second:

https://medium.com/@melik_87377/lightning-network-enables-un...
> Which is the sentence that got this rant on hacker news

And yet the title of the submission is "Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons". That's a good suggestion that the moron quote is not "what got this rant on hacker news". Perhaps it's on hacker news not because the form is inflammatory, but because the content is insightful.

Maybe—just maybe—the fact that the Linux project lead publicly accused Intel of not having their shit together is newsworthy and would end up on the front page of Hacker News no matter what tone it was written in, because that is newsworthy enough in and of itself.
It's a new technology because it enables a new human behavior.

With your logic, everything is an old technology.
It wasn't really an IQ test, it was the mensa "IQ test" where they tell you if you might be able to join mensa based on your results. Apparently it's within my possibilities. You can see it here:

https://www.mensa.lu/en/mensa/online-iq-test/online-iq-test....
> You say that a counterparty can "present a proof" but to whom?

It's a hash timelocked contract[0]. You "present the proof" by spending the UTXO. I was reading up on this quite a while ago so I'm fuzzy about the exact details, but the hashes are created as part of the LN transaction.

The transaction can be broadcast immediately by a malicious party, but won't be spendable until 1000 (?) blocks have passed.

If you can prove that there was a subsequent channel state signed by both parties (i.e. the tx that was maliciously broadcast was not the most recent state of the channel), then that can be used to spend the UTXO immediately instead of waiting for the 1000 blocks.

Like I said, do some research before asserting that it can't work.

[0] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-light...
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>huge twitter thread with tons of gifs

Ugh, kill me.

But this doesn't line up to me, unless there were real estate companies and banks eager to unload their houses? I didn't think there was an excess of housing built that needed to be sold, but I could be wrong, because that would have pushed prices down. I thought the key failure was people being unable to pay their mortgages, and a bunch of financial products built off of expecting people to pay their mortgages, and ratings agencies giving incorrect ratings for those subprime mortgages.

The only connection I can see is people making dumb financial decisions, which is why a rubber stamp for subprime led to a ton of people defaulting. Houses don't really have the same faults as PT Cruisers.
I'm trying to work this one out in my head ...

You've left a smartphone lying around and you want to read accelerometer data to determine what was said in proximity. Just turn on the mic instead.

You've left a smartphone lying around to remotely read light bouncing off it ... accelerometer not required. Also, just turn the mic on instead.
If I take all the pollution or greenhouses gases that we would dump in a 100 year period and dump them all today, it's possible that the impact from that would be unrecoverable.

Total emissions isn't the only important measurement.
Nah not like “pal” but the “p” is distinctly audible
Thanks for the response. I am actually enthused by the idea, in that I can help someone out, and close the end to end software development loop using the first customer as the feedback mechanism. Your question is a good one..I don't have any other ideas currently, or much that I am enthused about to work on.
No, it didn't. Blockchain technology is perhaps the biggest recent example of a solution in search of a problem. It's interesting but still not clear at all what it would be useful for over what already exists:

>"Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain"

https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...
How does the fact that he works for SAP have any bearing on his moral stance regarding blockchain?

Ad hominem is a fallacious argument.
That looks to be a recent interpretation of an 1884 law that could be reversed by the current administration, if it wanted to make shutdowns smoother, as easily as it was adopted in the 1970s.

(And, if there were a general consensus/expectation within an agency/administration, it could be a 'dead letter' law even without explicit re-interpretation. OK, so you "break the law" by answering an email, sending an official tweet, or staffing a booth during the shutdown. Which of your fellow federal employees is going to prosecute you once the shutdown ends?)
>Get angry at banks?

I've found in many fields that are as complex as finance, that when I think something in that field is stupid, unnecessary, or onerous, it is I that am wrong because I simply didn't understand the why of how that thing came about.

So I find it fascinating how many people/groups in history have gotten mad at banks/finance, tried to make a "better" product, gotten stung or robbed others, only to eventually re-invent many of the things safe, efficient banking requires.

>I'm all for calling bullshit on hyped trends ... doesn't mean that there might not still be great opportunities to do good engineering and have huge impact

The problem is that as a field gets flooded with bullshit and scams, smart money (and people) turn their talents to other areas the world can be improved, avoiding the crap.
People can be fooled by an entirely different sounding person and a glib excuse...
Why does anyone care what this particular programmer thinks about Blockchain? I would use it as an opportunity to learn everything I could about it.
I'm the first guy to defend the need for multiple languages but how then make it safer? Maybe highlight which characters are unicode in the url string...
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Or maybe listen to your conscience and stay away if it does not feel right. Working in tech is not completely detached from the rest of the world, so when some people decide not to work for a company with connections to military, maybe you could also stay away from Blockchain jobs if you see more harm than benefit for the world in it.

Blockchain right now is a mix out of super hot and interesting and absolutely shady, so maybe it's not that bad to be cautious about being associated with it.
No one has seriously mined Bitcoin using GPUs since like 2013. By 2014, everyone was using FPGAs or ASICs. Now, only ASICs are used.
Your not the first person to worry about our mandatory education. It varies enormously depending on the resources of the surrounding area, and I am sure there are some schools that cover modern politics.
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> Same goes for the wage gap. We know there is no gap.

I'm curious how you've come to this conclusion considering the preponderance of studies that say otherwise.

This article by the Washington Post examines a few claims regarding the wage gap if you are interested:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/women-...
My favorite thing in the world is hearing Scots pronounce "squirrel".
Don't want the castle sinking into the swamp (it's on 300+ feet of silt[1]).

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England."
That actually happens in the UK too. sometimes its just people using a shortcut, but sometimes it’s very pronounced
I had both an HTC One M7 and an M9, and while yes, unlocks are easy, that is only true if you buy directly from HTC.

OTOH, if you wanted to use them on Verizon's network, you needed a Verizon-branded HTC One, which had a locked bootloader. Getting around that usually required paying $25 to run some tool called Sunshine that could abuse an exploit to unlock the bootloader.

So where the OEM's allowed flexibility, the carriers swooped in to fill that void.
I 100% agree. I even catch myself thinking I didn't know what I was doing when looking at code I wrote years before. I'll jump into rewriting it and discover it was written that way for a reason. I've learned to trust my former self wasn't an idiot.
Listen to this guy / gal ^ take the money, learn as much as you can, move on when you have learnt all you can.
patio11 would not be surprised.
^x^y^

Is that third caret necessary? I've never had to include it. Although that may be zsh taking a shortcut on bash syntax.
They could have used the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster. Instead they used their one opportunity this year to do that to get the tax bill passed. If they hadn't insisted on forcing through a (historically unpopular) tax bill, they could have passed a funding bill over any Democratic opposition.
Depends, looking at Google specifically, Spanner is pretty cool, and Google Brain has been a huge source of innovation for a while. There's a thread about BeyondCorp on the frontpage right now. As far as I know, all of those things were not acquisitions.

I personally find the whole "companies don't innovate, they acquire" argument weak at its core. You hear about the acquisitions obviously, and can see them develop into products.

Sure, there are apparently 5 or 6 acquisitions involved with Google Docs, but the existence of an acquisition doesn't mean that the acquiring company wasn't able to innovate, or whatnot, it may mean that they had complimentary technology, or were working toward different goals, or its simply a buyout of a potential competitor.
>Go figure out ways to remove custodial risk, so that we may not need as onerous financial regulations that stifle innovation.

Demonstrating the value of, and rationale for, those "onerous financial regulations" has been the one actual good result of this blockchain nonsense. The endless tsunami of scams and fraud that has been the blockchain space has been useful in wiping away the original idiot libertarian impulses that drove the scene.
Masked and Animated Corners in iOS
It is a just so story, but we also should ask ourselves, do we want to be encouraging women (or men for that matter) into a life of misery?
Reading back, my post was confusing. What you wrote was what I actually meant. Each app may have it's own non shared DB.
The absence of any condemning of the policy itself in the article is super conspicuous. I assume the commenter below guessing it's for the protection of their correspondent is correct.

Still, it's too bad they couldn't put a lampshade on it - "we at the CBC are not in a position to comment on the merits and flaws of this policy". But even that could draw ire, I guess.
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Continuous accounting
That would be quite epic, but considering how the whole NSA thing played out I'm not holding my breath :)
It's actually a /64 at Vultr.
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Wow - that's such a high-tech solution... No way someone can manipulate that...
I don't think anyone's done popcorn, but perhaps you would care for some delicious (filthy) rigberries?

https://twitter.com/a_man_in_black/status/639287717705089024
I would even subscribe a recurring donation via patreon or something similar if only they at least promised to get calls working in at least one model.
Maybe it makes sense, but Vladimir Putin has superpowers if everything people blame on him is true. And Mr. Hearn's article nicely illustrates how shaky the foundation is for a lot of claims of Russian influence.
Benchmarking Tensorflow Performance on Next Generation GPUs
It is not unusual for a device to be laggy because of storage issues. This can compound any problems from download speeds.
Something that helped me is to think of side projects as projects where you try and go as far as you can. Not as projects where you will revolutionize the world.

Keep in mind that most projects do compromise one way or another. If you're looking for an idea that's 100% good and ideally feasible, then yes, you'll probably never get to it.

That said self-skepticism is useful as well...
Cheaper? Do you have a source on the claim that the per-kg launch cost of a rideshare is really an order of magnitude larger than the primary payload?
The "elected delegates" or "trusted parties" you are describing are the Certification Authorities in a certificate chain. We have this already and we don't need blockchain for that.