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intermediaries fees are often more than operational expenses. In some industries, the fees might be significantly high especially when competition is low.

With blockchains it's mostly about operational expenses. Now, bitcoin transaction fee might be currently high but it is a problem of this blockchain implementation and not with blockchain per se.
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Wow -- from afar, that's a great way to inspire local residents in bedroom communities to fight public transit.
Personal knowledge is the source of these issues; it’s a fallacy that we’re some kind of wise and insightful creature which is only led astray in groups. Tribes, cults, and the misinformation they produce are just the result of our collectivized fantasies about ourselves and our environment. At least as a group we can start to produce something which can be tested.
I've never considered that as an idea before, but now am left wondering why it hasn't been done. Guessing the manufacturers make more money from full-unit upgrades than they'd expect to make from incremental memory unit purchases (even if they made the RAM slot proprietary).
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I was with him most of the way, but the advice about emails seems very user hostile to me.
I’d like to take the opportunity and thank you for posting here. It’s hard enough to find reports of people that are going through a withdrawal, so being able to engage in a discussion is a rare opportunity.
I wish you all the best in that process.
Doesn't Guacamole Client's Apache License 2.0 require you to provide copyright notice / attribution for using it in this way? I don't see it anywhere here.
Mining is part of how the Blockchain remains decentralized; you can't remove it.

In the original paper, the way mining worked was by Proof-of-Work (PoW), which wastes a bunch of energy to make sure it's unprofitable to attack it.

There is research into mining without wasting energy by using alternatives to PoW, like Proof-of-Stake (PoS). I don't think there's consensus about whether any of them actually work.
I read the first sentence and I thought someone knew about the Chinese History, instead the long history begins with Mao's reign.

Yes, China has a long history of doing exactly this but it goes back to as far as thousands of years in all the different dynasty.

The only good thing is with all the surveillance in place, and the Anti - (selected) corruption happening this may actually work. ( Or may be not )
Buggy drivers. I was driven nuts over January with an RX-580 in my sons computer. Replaced it with a GTX-1060 which just plain works. Zero issues. The RX-580 was a nightmare.

Seems AMD doesn't have the resources to produce quality software, much less R&D into new fields such as Nvidia.

Nvidia is not just targeting their GPUs for automotive, but addressing the issues of reliability and safety in that environment. That's a lot of effort. If AMD can't write a driver that does not crash, there is no way in hell they will compete in AI where safety is a concern.
i live in a city with a similar airport situation (santa monica, ca) most of these public fights about land use are just rich people fighting other rich people, because they're the only ones interested/wealthy enough to publicize their 'plight'.

poor and middle class folks either just deal with it or are pushed out.
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The London-Paris eurostar is short and quite cheap. It's really good. I couldn't agree more with you.

The London-Lyon is disappointing. Better take a plane.
How are the stupidest of that bunch the ones that sell them, and not the ones lighting piles of unexploded ordinance on fire?

They are both stupid ideas, but I can't see how a farmer would live past maybe one or two of those burn piles.
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Maybe you're not clear about the actual background. There are no charges against him in Sweden. He was ordered to be questioned related to his vile cheating trick that isn't even recognized as rape outside of Sweden.

I think the guy could be called one of the biggest assholes. But let's not add to be pile of rubbish and defamation that deliberatley has been amassed regarding this case.
What surprises me most are the rave reviews in the absence of stereo (coming later), which I always thought was de rigueur for audiophiles. I look forward to those future reviews.
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Hmmm "One current employee asked that a WIRED reporter turn off his phone so the company would have a harder time tracking whether it had been near the phones of anyone from Facebook."
There is a WW2 shipwreck [1] in the Thames estuary that apparently still has 1400 metric tons of explosives aboard. Remaining explosives include 286 2000lb bombs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
You're being downvoted because your comment doesn't make any sense. To elaborate:

> The housing crisis is caused by economic inequality concentrating capital to a handful of cities

This is a pretty bizarre claim, since by definition a city's housing crisis is a local affair, so what does it have to do with capital being concentrated in a 'handful' of cities? But assuming your claim is that wealth in a city ---> housing shortage, then you need to explain how you make that connection.

> Housing costs rise because that's where the money/power/jobs are

What does this mean? If you mean that you need money to build housing, then shouldn't capital concentration to a city mean more housing? If you mean that wealthy or powerful people benefit from less housing, show your work. If you're trying to demonstrate the above connection between wealth and housing shortage, there are a plethora of cities with high wealth and no housing shortages (Singapore, Chicago, Budapest, Seoul...)

Also, aren't housing costs driven by the same forces that drive the cost of anything else? Namely, supply and demand?

> Instead of slapping a bandaid on it by increasing housing

If the definition of the housing crisis is 'not enough housing for the people who need homes' then why would "increasing housing" - the literal solution to the crisis - be considered slapping on a bandaid?

> which would just lead to further capital concentration and political polarization

Again, this makes no sense. If more houses means more wealth concentration, then shouldn't the wealthy want to build more houses? But in your previous comment, you made it sound like the wealthy don't want to build more houses.

> we need to address capital concentration

This is a altogether different point that you are welcome to argue on your own time but it really has nothing to do with housing shortages unless you want to expound upon the above a little more clearly.
If this actually happened the only signal I would get from this interview is that the candidate is a egotistical asshole. No hire.

- It's always good to not assume that the candidate is familiar with a given question, no matter how well known it may be. Maybe they're from a different country, maybe they're from a different industry altogether making a transition.

- I bet if the question was difficult or complex the interviewer would say "omg that's not realistic, would never use this in real job".

Then again, I'm also in the minority of HN users who like coding/problem solving interviews so what do I know.
Is it private? I know it says it's encrypted, but that's not the same as end-to-end encrypted.
There's no well-known city planning being done in Venezuela, so there was a reversion to more traditional enemies.
I can live without finding a lost book. But yes, the concept does have a hook to it, especially in this age of everything remembered: to have lost ancient knowledge is like a little bit of collective brain damage.

[edit: fixed typo.]
The instant you sign a mortgage it becomes in your economic best interest to limit the supply of housing.

Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment.

Homeowners on average tend to be more politically engaged, so homeowners dominate state and local politics. As for why every prosperous state doesn't have this problem as badly as California you can add prop 13 which hugely limited property tax increases for existing homeowners. This eliminated one of the major checks on real estate hyperinflation. You can further add the fact that the San Francisco Bay Area (the region with the highest prices by far) is geographically constrained and the fact that earthquake risk imposes additional site preparation and construction costs.

It's really a perfect storm for real estate price insanity, specially in the Bay Area. It's less insane in SoCal but still pretty high, especially when compared to median income in LA County and San Diego. SoCal is less geographically constrained.
This might be indeed true for deep learning in its current shape. However, in the long run I think we will see more models that (1) are more composable and (2) better approaches to engineering such models, however, these, engineered models will look a bit different than what your research scientist throws over the fence today.

At the moment we are in a phase were, to stick to the optics metaphor, we stack up lenses until we see the object on the screen. This means we end up with models that are sprawling, instead of having models that were engineered.

Another trend that seems to start in deep learning is that layers become more constrained. I expect, that in 20 years, we will see much more constrained models and much generative models.
> up to them to be smart or hard-working or happy later in life

> give them good examples

As far as I’ve heard, the former largely depends on the latter. You can do a lot of shaping of what someone will become through the examples you expose them to.

I remember ads when I was a kid: “Always obey traffic signals when walking. Your child is learning from you”. This was on every pedestrian traffic light around the first few weeks of school when it is encouraged to teach your first grader how to walk to school every morning.

There’s also that famous anti smoking ad based on the same principle.
Are there any Dell laptops with Ryzen APUs?
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That does not takes the genetic lottery into account.
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Its not very hidden.

July 2016, Microsoft and Netflix make a deal to only stream 1080p to edge users.

November 2016, Intel and Netflix made a deal to only stream 4k on Kaby Lake processors.

So if you want to watch netflix on desktop, Microsoft brags about 1080p exclusivity and Intel brags about 4k exclusivity. Netflix makes bank in these deals as well as saving on bandwidth costs.

I can provide sources if anyone needs them, but you could just google.
Intel has a new chip coming out with AMD graphics and HBM memory: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12220/how-to-make-8th-gen-mor...
>The persistence of the British CPS in pursuing Assange shows how tight the militaries are between the US and Commonwealth nations. AFAIK, Britain had no personal stake in Wikileaks

They're members of Five Eyes and NATO. So yes, they do have a "personal stake".
> I suppose you mean that someone (out of a group G) can commit an instruction saying "the future decision is Y" into the blockchain, and at some time later everyone will be convinced this is the future decision. This is not related to PoS, this will work for pretty much any system that supports smart contracts.

No, I specifically mean a voting protocol in which the "round" will not proceed ("the generals will not attack") unless all voters v in the voting set V come to consensus about the values t in the set of transactions T at the next block height ("the city to be attacked", "the time to attack", etc). Then the voting protocol asserts a proof of stake, such that Byzantine voters are penalized and honest/correct voters are rewarded. Then future decision resolution is provably guaranteed, so long as all activity remains deterministic, the cryptography is secure, all voters in the set V are online and active, and proof of stake is a plausible economic incentive.

The caveat here is - pretty obviously - that it's possible for the consensus system to enter an infinite loop if it fails to reach consensus (just like the original problem). So no, it's not perfect, but it is modeling the Two Generals Problem and compartmentalizing it somewhat, though it can't completely resolve it.

Otherwise, I agree with you - the classical Two Generals problem is an inordinate fault-tolerance ideal.
Here is a pretty exhaustive (Gwern style) overview of SRS:

https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
An absolutely wonderful read. I read three widely recommended books, which diametrically opposed each other on almost everything. So I decided to ignore most of the advice, and rely on friends, family, medical experts, and my own intuition. Anything the books mostly agreed on, I did tend to follow.

The three books I read:

* The Contented Little Baby - https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Contented-Little-Baby-Book-eboo...

* The Fourth Trimester - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fourth-Trimester-Understanding-Prot...

* The Baby Whisperer - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Baby-Whisperer-Connect-Comm...

The most helpful thing I read: "Nobody has been the parent of your child before. What worked for one baby may not work for yours. And remember that every parent develops nostalgia."

Also, an elderly lady in my church who had been a teacher said by the age of 8, you can't tell who was breastfed or bottlefed, who had 'baby led weaning', who used natural toys, etc. But you could tell the ones that received a lot of love from their parents.
How all this juju compares to `kubeadm init`?
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Only about 10% of people who try heroin go on to become addicted.

The first few tries just aren't pleasant.

Cocaine or methamphetamine are probably more psychologically addictive, although not as physically addictive.

And, for addicts, coming off heroin is unlikely to kill you. Coming off alcohol might.
So many people think they are experts on blockchain tech nowadays after reading a few ICO whitepapers. The point of public chains is to automate tasks, whatever that task may be. Stop thinking of blockchains as this limited thing we see in the ICOs today and learn to see it as decentralized autonomous organisations. These organisations are focused on transactions and can be implemented as any market.
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I just wanted to add, my view is while they are not moving as fast as say 2007 or 2010. They are still fast. Certain places may not be growing as quick, but other places like West China and Mid China are moving at super fast pace. ( That is where all the government money at the moment )
Like others have said, folks won't actually stop using the stuff. Keep it illegal and folks have a higher chance of getting bad stuff, not injecting cleanly or properly, and increases overdose deaths.

At least with legalization, you get some science based education before you even try it the first time. For most folks, this is way before they start to inject. You can more easily have physicians and/or pharmacists having frank talks with patients about signs of addiction and have science-based plans to help folks wean off of the prescription drugs. You can have injections done by a trained professional, who calculates your dosage. You can make sure it is the strength on the package. You can be referred to a clinic for addiction.

Maybe we can even use some of that money we saved on incarceration to let folks rest at home after injury/surgery without losing their house or their job so that we use less pain medication and reduce risk. We can offer medicine-based addiction services as well instead of AA and NA being the standard treatments.

And sure, it won't stop everyone, just like cigarettes. But no one currently starts cigarettes thinking they are completely safe - I surely didn't and I started 20 years ago, though I'm down to 3-4 a day now. We can also not use as many of the scare tactics we use today and be honest about the positive effects folks get from this stuff along with the bad. For some, we might have better alternatives (different ways for coping with boredom and stress might help with things like boredom, which is what actually got me to start around 18).

And just to state things: I don't know how it is with heroin addiction, but not all addicts for other drugs are alike. Not everyone is an addict for life. Some folks can be alcoholics but then be completely able to drink casually like everyone else, without re-developing a problem. Others cannot, and I think we do a great disservice to people when we lump them together like this.
Well before tooling is considered, it has to involve people and process. At the highest level, you must have a culture of "blame the process, not the people" or people will do what is natural when things go wrong: try to cover it up and avoid being blamed.

There are procedures in various safety-conscious industries for handling this kind of development. I like that you used the word "systemic" because it is literally a systems issue, not a software, or electronics, or mechanical issue. The entire system has to be considered and analyzed for potential faults.

I spent over a decade writing code for medical devices and while the software aspect of these systems was the most advanced in terms of development process (unlike what many on HN seem to think :-), everything we did had to be considered from a system perspective because even if the individual parts were designed properly, it was possible for the interactions between them to cause problems.
Oh, whoops. I knew it was mostly used with Shoes apps right now; I didn't realize it literally didn't work with non-Shoes apps.
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Oh, that's creepy - where is that area near Berlin? (Berliner here)
Ask HN: Laptop for Software Engineering student?
Hi HN! I bought a MacBook Pro the summer of 2017, the Skylake version and figured I'd be able to use it for a long time, since that had been my experience with their laptops. Unfortunately I'm not satisfied with the computer and I'm looking at getting a new laptop for dev. I don't play games, I just use my computer for writing code, general browsing and watching movies/shows every now and then. I'll be dual-booting Windows and Debian. I'm looking for a laptop that's reliable and has good support for drivers.

Does HN have any good recommendations?
This is why I run Qubes. Trusting all software running on my system is unreasonable. Other OS's need to catch up ASAP.
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>In light of Assange's political activity, and now the astonishing level of CPS persistence in pursuing him, the Swedish charge against him appears: 1) awfully convenient, 2) increasingly implausible (i.e. politically trumped up), and of course, 3) not a crime until his guilt is proven.

It was not "trumped up". It was followed up on disproportionately, but let's not pretend there's no substance there.

And it's hard to hold a trial to prove his guilt when he's hiding in an embassy closet.
My prediction is the same that it has been for the last years: At some point, Assange will leave the embassy, possibly for medical reasons, be arrested and extradited to Sweden

In Sweden he will be interrogated and set free without any conditions. Not "illegally rendered" to America, but "you're free, go wherever you want".

At that point Assange will be able to ponder his need for drama and attention on the one hand. And all those lost years on the other hand. But hey, he got Pamela Anderson!

I would find that ending almost poetic.
Beijing’s air is better because that’s where the emperor is ;). (Or what my Chinese friends call him, Xi baozi - xi dumpling)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8203516

At the end of the App ProRes White Paper released earlier this morn there's an explicit warning about using ffmpeg:

In some instances, unauthorized codec implementations have been used in third-party software and hardware products. Using any unauthorized implementation (like the FFmpeg and derivative implementations) may lead to decoding errors, performance degradation, incompatibility, and instability.

This means Perian and other software that might use ffmpeg in some form. Clearly it's not working with the current OS and causing problems with AV Foundation, which QuickTime and FCP rely on.
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I think the Apache License 2.0 does not require any attribution or copyright notice, unless you redistribute the source code.

https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#WhatDoesI...
Hey HN, author here. This has been running for five years now and been on HN previously, but the fifth addition contains significant changes: as well as yarn and better deploy key instructions, there's now a Cloud Init generator to instantly create instances for your project.

People have consistently asked for a repeatable version but the issue has always been picking a format: there's Ansible, Chef, Puppet already. Kubernetes / Docker has its own files. The reason I picked CloudInit was because it's widely suopported, most folks are running cloud VM instances. You can easily fork https://github.com/certsimple/deploy-node-on-linux though to generate other output formats and I encourage you to do so!
The US passed a law saying "WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors and should be treated as such a service by the United States." No one is really sure how that means they should be treated, but makes it clear the US wants him.
Wow! Steam-punk psycho-history. How cool can you get?
My 1 year old went to bed at 11pm and just got up today at 8AM. We are cosleeping, so our habits matter a lot, but he just likes to stay up later and we haven’t been able to push his bedtime earlier (and if he doesn’t get his 3 hour nap in the afternoon, god help us. I’m not too worried about it.
I am very confused by this explanation. Why was it right place right time? Why not India? Why not Kenya? Why has Bangladesh followed the same strategy but been so much less successful, with wages much lower than in China?
Tangential to the topic, but one of the references in this article is this amusing paper:

http://nyus.joshuawise.com/batchnorm.pdf

... which references an even better one:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kovar/hall.html

We've been having a solid laughfest in the office for the past 10 minutes or so.
> Can you explain to me what particular cases postgresql's decimal type cannot handle properly _and_ conveniently?

I entirely agree that numeric is a good solution for this case.

But to try to answer your question nevertheless: I'd say there is potential for storage density and math performance issues. You really need to have a number of numerics for each row, and a lot of rows to make storage density matter. If you do a lot of aggregates over numerics you definitely can notice the CPU overhead of them over say a plain float. But most of the time that doesn't matter.
Many call the first 3 mo the "Fourth Trimester" for that very reason. The baby is still basically a fetus in many regards. It's around that 3 mo point that they start to really respond to external stimuli in more than basic ways and start to be able to explore their environment.