skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, the reason it hasn't taken off yet is because smart contracts are limited to tokenization. Smartcontracts are an amazing idea, but unfortunately they are limited to centralized oracles or interacting with on-chain data only (such as creating ERC20 tokens).

There's a few projects, such as ChainLink (which has done a PoC with SWIFT to handle bond-interest payments from blockchain->swift message), that can pass data to the blockchain in a decentralized and trusted way. It's not quite ready for primetime yet, but the PoC worked.

I believe that once smartcontracts can access off-chain data in a trusted way, we will see an explosion of usecases we cannot even imagine right now.

Think a smartcontract that automatically portscans your infrastructure using multiple oracles in a decentralized way. If a majority of oracles ever detect a port other than 80 and 443 open, the smartcontract can notify an insurance company insuring your business and revoke your policy. The benefit is, you can pay way cheaper rates assuming you never deploy a machine with an administrative port open. This whole process can happen in a decentralized and trustless manner that neither party can tamper with.

Truly exciting stuff. The whole "replacing cash" is to me, the least interesting aspect of cryptocurrencies, but is the one most people seem to focus on!
Religious cults start out by asking you to just come to
their meeting; then they gradually ask you for more and more
time and eventually money, too.

Is the person or authority using mind-control tricks or
manipulation? Is he or she using emotional reasoning?
Pushing an “us” vs. “them” perspective?

How truthful can you expect this person to be? Does he or
she have a vested interest? Does the authority,
institution or publication have a hidden agenda?

Ask these questions anytime someone suggests buying from the supply of databases like Bitcoin, Ethereum, IOTA, or any of those things.

When you get down to the details, cryptocoin advocates need you to buy in so they can cash out.
Yes, if you change all references of "gvim" to "nano".
> hundreds

lmao ok like this is an all or nothing situation. my response should have been prefixed with if you care about promoting alternative networks you could... (which is what OP was asking for), mastodon is the largest one right now.

i think SSB has a brighter future, but it isn't production ready quite yet.

"practical" as in, what you think is best. it is practical for me to invite people to promote decentralized social networks because my community is competing with the facebooks of the world for attention. your "impractical approach" is my "guerilla marketing strategy".
> Looking back, if I had understood what was happening, I could have used Facebook correctly and worked WITH the algorithm.

I wholly disagree. You used Facebook correctly. It's Facebook's fault for poorly interpreting how you used it. Anyone who's ever been stuck in traffic behind rubberneckers creeping past an accident should understand that bursts of attention don't at all mean that you have long term interest in something.

> Facebook eventually needs to introduce a self-curation tool, so that people can promote the things/people they want

A million times this. Facebook desperately needs matched like and dislike buttons, not for the purposes of voting content up or down, but so that it can learn what you actually want to see. Most music services grok this concept.
They don't need to catch rockets, they can just link up and make a floating utopia.

Well for that, you'd want to change the hull type from a barge to a spar buoy. Given that, there's no reason why they couldn't do both.

http://www.technip.com/sites/default/files/technip/illustrat...

(Permanent structures in the ocean need to be spar buoys, or some other architecture that are largely immune to Rogue Waves.)
Only if the total operational cost of that system would be lower than the amount of cash falling from the sky.
It already is. Twitter is not sorted in chronological order.
It doesn't have as much nasty as Shuttle. The TEA-TEB takes care of itself by combusting when vented, but that's the only hazardous material. Shuttle had hypergolics on board which F9 doesn't use (just kerosene, oxygen, nitrogen, and helium.)

The rest of the passivation will mostly be purging the engines, closing valves, and releasing pressure in the various tanks and vessels. LOX venting might take a while as it all boils off.
I remember reading about this post on Quora two years ago. A Raytheon Engineer who went by the name of Jacob Vanwagoner had posted this. Pretty impressive fella.
Fwiw, we did the math ourselves when living in London: Eurostar to Paris was a no brainer time saver, as was (pretty much) Eurostar to Brussels. But we opted to fly to Amsterdam - time lost at the airport was gained by the short flight.

This was influenced by us living in South London (Brixton). If we'd been closer to St Pancras / further from the airport, the math may have differed.
It is not often the case that someone actually knows why a hyperparam or architecture choice works. We pretend, sometimes, but frankly, it's mostly made up junk to cover the fact that most ML research involves a huge amount of intuitive guesswork and trial-and-error.

And the loss surfaces vary. Even just changing the dataset or even the input size alters the loss surface and can easily break a model.

It's not called Gradient Descent by Grad Student for nothing.
This is wrong. You are not forced to give your whole address always to buy something, especially on digital goods. In fact e.g. giving only your payment information like your debit/visa card is actually enough for buying stuff legally online as a normal customer in EU (b2c).
Haha. Your position, then, is that recognising consciousness is so hard that we don't even know it when we see it?.

That's fair, and in some ways I agree. But I think a certain amount of that is implicit in "I know it when I see it." The phrase implies that there may be significant divergence of opinion.
On some university projects (to be delivered in C), as part of my edit-compile-debug loop, I was usually writing additional functions just to navigate the data structures using the GDB expression evaluator.
The same suckification cycle is happening (increasingly intrusive ads, algorithm tweaks, "here's a pic from someone you don't follow", etc.). The user decline happens later on in that cycle.
Bittorrent has kind of given me real sparks in life that I could have never attempted to experience.

This is in terms of amounts of books that I have downloaded! Most associate torrents with audio/video downloads. But any books lovers here - should check out the wealth out there.

I sincerely want to 'buy' all books I have downloaded after I own a house and a dog.
Yep. I stopped using it when realized it was broadcasting comments I was making inside groups to everyone I was connected to. Even if they removed the feature, I wouldn't go back. The fact that they started doing it with absolutely no warning was a pretty good sign that I couldn't trust the company.
The good news is it seems like a fairly easy thing to fix going forward. Not really an engineering problem as such, but rather a miscalculation
Probably both, particularly with the main booster now lost.

"This was the pair of boosters used on the historic first flight of X to Y" looks good on a museum plaque.
Both of the side boosters were re-used for the Falcon Heavy launch. So stock F9s to some extent.
They also had to use TEB to re-light after an unstart [1]. I think 15 is abount right but it seems like a very small margin to deal with considering how common unstarts were.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstart
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> Oh, I didn't mean him. I mean, surely if this is so routine, it must happen a lot, right?

It's pretty routine for 'real estate moguls' to do real estate deals.

> Except the buyer immediately tore down most of the renovations.

So if this was a bribe, why did Trump even bother renovating? Why not just let it sit for 4 years?

> That's funny, the link you provided says he hasn't yet turned a profit. Where did you get the number you specifically cited?

From the article I linked. He hasn't turned profit because he is still sitting on 1/3rd of the subdivisions - the estimated profit was based on previous sales prices and current market conditions.

This is only shady because people, like you, hate Trump and basically think that he is guilty of everything he is accused of.
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They look a little more complicated than just a sheet of metal.

https://img.purch.com/h/1400/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1...
For those unaware, the name came about when a competing civilization to the Culture complained that the Culture's powerful warships "ought to have names with more gravitas", and the Minds made a joke out of it.

I wonder if the same thing happened here. Maybe Elon saw someone complaining about his irreverent ship naming (both the ASDS and the "BFR") and decided to respond with this.
Exactly. Due to the ever-increasing friend list, I now consider posting to facebook effectively the same as posting something publicly and non-anonymously. Which I never do.
I think that this source suggests that this idea may have been a mis-representation by Michael Gove [0] during the course of a referendum (I was interested, as I wasn't aware of any such decision).

Then again, all's fair in love, war and referendums :)

[0] https://infacts.org/mythbusts/ecj-isnt-using-charter-fundame...

To be fair, the Google front page was split between two sides, which suggests that this may be an issue with some emotional salience.
If you can't think of a more wasteful and inefficient way to do that, you need to hang out more with government contractors. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Also, this is unlikely to be more than a trickle. He talks about spending a day every three months responding to correspondence, as well as rather making a point out of refusing to respond to unsolicited emails. Chances are that his secretary also simply deals with a good deal of the email in the way, you know, a secretary does.
> That's the 5th most populous city in California so it's not exactly the middle of nowhere.

It really is the middle of nowhere, despite being the fifth most populous city in the state.

But, you say, how can that be: the bigger cities are all embedded in even bigger urban clusters [0]. Fresno is, well, in the middle of nowhere.

[0] And even the smaller central cities; Sacramento, is a little smaller than Fresno if you look at the city itself, but the metro area is a time and a half the Fresno metro area.
The GDPR does not allow international players to store data on EU citizens without conforming to the rules. So if FB leaves in order to avoid conformance, then they have to delete all EU citizen data.
I don't think it's comparable to Amazon's mark-up. The alternative to Amazon is walmart.com, ebay.com, etc., all of which can be directly compared. Instacart provides a delivery service. It's comparable to Uber Eats or Eat24. I agree with the others that it seems shady to provide a delivery service but obfuscate how much you're charging for delivery.

I know Uber Eats bans restaurants from marking up orders placed through them. You can look at your phone and decide exactly how much extra the delivery costs and then decide if it's worth it to not have to go pick up the food yourself. I've never used instacart but if you're telling me that the price of the service is a secret from me I have a problem would that and would not use it. I don't want to pay $50 to have someone pick up my groceries. But I'd gladly pay $10 on certain days. But I have to know beforehand. I'm not going to sit around and hope Instacart doesn't screw me over today.
Considering you have to get to the airport, go through customs/security, fly, go through customs/security again and get to your hotel I think Eurostar is definitely a good alternative.
I would guess the letter sent to Bjarne is just one part of the essay. As you can see from this snapshot: https://archive.fo/mMrs1, the essay starts with, "I strongly dislike the "wildly popular" computer language C++. My experience with it has been nothing but a disaster...".
I strongly suspect that for an average consumer, latency is driven by the TCP stack on every piece of hardware close to the edge (local machine, router, modem, ISP point of presence) to a much higher degree than the transmission medium or backhaul. Consumer internet has a long way to go before it becomes HFT backhaul-grade.
Consumer advocacy is inherently leftist politics.
Parent claims that Facebook will not "ever be compliant" and "in the worst case the withdraw from these markets".
> Also, surprisingly, both Amazon and Apple aren't really known for prolific OSS contributions according to their size.

I can't speak to Amazon, but Apple has quite a few prolific OSS contributions. Off the top of my head there's llvm/clang, cups, swift, GCD, and webkit.
It's because there are very high penalties for carrying excess weight in aerospace, and the environment is uncontrolled. Imagine trying to calculate how much gasoline you need to drive from A to B which is 1,000 miles away, but for every extra fluid ounce of fuel you have at the end, you have to pay $10,000. You have to deal with varying weather, wind speeds, traffic and so on. How would you do this "precisely"? Let's remind ourselves that this rocket did 99% of its mission successfully, but didn't seal the deal.
They have ~300 employees. So 33M is not a crazy price to pay. ~110k USD/employee/year. Considering the industry they're in (information and tech) this is totally reasonable.

Otherwise no big deal that it may or may not fit your values to donate to Wikimedia.
I've only hired one person like that and it was my fault. I was bedazzled by his color printouts of his UI. It was probably fine, but he was super lazy.
First of all it will help if companies simply make it strict policy that train should be preferred over flights when reasonable (I think this is the case already in many companies).

Second, the more flying is taxed for emissions the more it will make the train price attractive.
You're comparing humans to horses, which isn't a good comparison in this case. It assumes they're both equally adaptable, except they're not, humans are infinitely more so.
This proposal would still select against fuel inefficient vehicles, via fuel cost. Consumers do look at MPG, and will choose cars that are more fuel efficient over cars that are less so.

As the article says, the 45 MPG target would require 61% of all vehicles sold in the United States to be electric in slightly over 10 years. That target is so aggressive as to be ridiculous, and that's for a gain in fuel efficiency of about 1/3.
Exploring even a tiny, tiny, tiny part of the hyperparam space takes thousands of GPUs. And that is for a single dataset and model---change anything and you have to redo the entire thing.

I mean, maybe some day, but right now, we're poking at like 0.00000000001% of the space, and that is state-of-the-art progress.
Elon mentioned that it’s heavier in the post launch press conference. But of course they would have used that information in their calculations...
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They’ll learn and move on. All told it was a very successful mission and they got the money shot of the two other boosters landing back at the space center + putting the car in orbit. Very impressed with everything they’ve accomplished and can’t wait to see what’s next.
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They only put 1 atom there, and it's in vacuum. It can't be anything else because of that :)
And yet you met your wife at work ;)
But...but those aren't JS frameworks or used by web devs, so obviously they don't count! /s
You're free to think that, and possibly some less important companies could get away with it.

However, in reality, the content owners really aren't that dumb and incompetent. There are very punishing legal implications to breaking the contracts, especially your relationship with others. And the content owners don't just do nothing; there's quite detailed questions and requirements they give when you renew their content, and they very often discover things they want to change after.

It's obviously a problematic enough relationship that netflix doesn't want to be a part of it anymore. More power to them; I wish this could be done for all industries as easily/well.
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"Zero cost abstraction" is like a sarcastic joke at this point in web development. If you pull up performance comparisons for web backends, a lot of the popular ones based on interpreted languages are absolutely abysmal when compared to c++ or Java code (Node is a good example). Many definitely have streamlined development workflows and have nice, high-level abstractions, but at a cost to performance. I don't mean that Node is useless or something, sometimes it makes sense, but it still forces you to compromise.

Front-end frameworks are even worse. A lot of older (but not "ancient") PCs are unusable on the modern web because of poorly-optimized JS or Adobe Flash (a decent portion of this issue is also due to the inherent inefficiency of JS and Flash as well). Fortunately, Google has been making strides with V8, Mozilla did awesome with Firefox "Quantum" and everyone is slowly ditching Flash, but performance still seems to be an ever-present issue.
Laying off people is just a tool to get rid of low performers and cut costs. From the article:

"A manager in one unit making cuts said his team was briefed that Bezos and the Amazon brass wanted to put more pressure on managers to weed out lower performers and enforce spending discipline after the rapid growth of recent years."

Layoffs seem kinda shitty, but it's usually better than firing with cause. The worker will still qualify for unemployment benefits, and the employer doesn't have to go through the time and expense of a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan).
This was the original tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/963107229523038211 that the article referenced but not linked.
From the same dataset:

Hours of sunshine during winter months (Dec + Jan + Feb):
Boston: 464
Seattle: 235 (-50%)

Annual hours of sunshine:
Boston: 2615
Seattle: 2019 (-23%)

so it's accurate to say that Boston is sunnier than Seattle and much sunnier during the winter.
They are doing ok AFAIK, but are almost two orders of magnitude smaller than FB, user wise. I don‘t think Xing is even doing that well, they have started very aggressive monetization tactics recently, like forcing people to purchase a pro account in order to view incoming friend requests.
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Comcast recently upped my speed from 75/5 to 150/5. My downloads still top out around 40 on non speed testing sites. I’m looking for something else that has better upload speed; I started with 20/5 on Comcast and over the last 5 years the speed has been going up on paper. I have a 32/8 channel modem attached to a ubiquiti gateway on gigabit Ethernet, so the bottleneck is on the Comcast side. Advertised speeds only match reality for a select few sites that are used for speed testing from my experience.
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I think Chalmers is the one who started calling it (for better or worse) the "hard problem". And that means he might be one of the first (in the modern age) to clearly distinguish it from the other problems of consciousness. Though of course some people (zombies?) like Dennet claim there is no distinction.
Three Body Problem is the most boring, badly written and overhyped book that looks like it come from somewhere min-70s where any kind of pulp fiction would work.
Time constraint.

Features constraint.

Quality constraint.

Pick two.
> I think someone could recreate early FB on the blockchain

wtf does this mean?

I'm asking only because this sounds exactly as loaded and buzzwordy as "I lost control of my feed to arbitrary ML algorithms attempting to maximize shareholder value whilst alienating the fewest users" you've just gone the opposite direction with the hyperbole.
I assume if all you're building are command-line apps, that might be true. Generally speaking though, I think most Ruby developers are smart enough to move where the market and ecosystem is, and are not constrained by syntax.
I live in NYC and only have a single option over 15Mbps.
> The following was shared as a twitter thread. Here’s the medium version.

I'm wondering if this could have been a much more accessible piece of writing if it wasn't 44 tweets copied-and-pasted together.
Firstly, $4 a gallon is not expensive. Secondly up until 2008 Europe produced pretty much the same amount of oil as the USA, parts of Europe are incredibly oil rich. Thirdly there are huge negative externalities to having such a ridiculously high volume of carbon emissions per capita[1][2]. You can't throw your arms up and say "oh it's just the American way, sorry environment/health, there is just no damn way we can stop the ridiculously disproportionate per-capita CO2 emissions! Sorry world, but we like our big ass trucks, what can we do about it? drive more fuel efficient vehicles? pffftt". I mean in what world is that a defense.

Because people like something doesn't mean it's OK, or action should not be taken to curb that like for the greater good.

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S0SwXvk1C0D_VWLPlU2C...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2009/mar/01/carbon...
Сhaushesku considered that people doesn't need a TV at all, so blackouts became usual thing.

By the way, I don't think it's all about monopolies. It's just expenses, companies should invest huge amounts of cash just to reach last mile. Who will take such risks after some company already built infrastructure which you can just double and hope for underbidding your opponents?
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One big flaw in your argument is that the payload was delivered safely and successfully. They're making great strides towards making components reusable when they never really were before. That they're not perfect right out of the gate isn't reason to give up hope it ever could be.
Do you have links to back up your claim? Palm's first touch screen smartphone effort was released in 2009 [0]. Not that it matters considering the original discussion was Google vs Apple.

Anyway, PDAs were a different device category from smartphones and many of them required a stylus for input like the HP iPAQ which ran Windows Pocket PC.

IIRC, the iPhone keynote talked about how they did away with the stylus because people frequently lost them so I wouldn't equate stylus-input PDAs with finger-input smartphones even though both device categories technically use touch-screens.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
> Where I grew up (on well water and a septic tank), people couldn't believe that city folk pay for their water, and what's more, that they pay to have it go down the drain!

Where I grew up, people with the choice invariably chose "city water" when it was available, and the network of its availability is continuing to expand outward, as quickly as substantial pressure and money from the suburbs and exurbs can make that happen.

I don't know whether the same is true of sewer service.
Good question, I'll have to read up on it. It looks like it's possible to share out of the middle of a string with MRI, but it requires certain compiler options that aren't on by default.

Thanks for the comment! <3
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