skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had self-driving vehicles commercially available for decades now that work in certain locations. When someone says that it is more than 5 years away, they're talking about level 4+ cars that can operate everywhere and are actually for sale, not running a closed circuit trial. Five years still seems optimistic.
Exactly. Profits lead to dividends, but also to taxes. As an investor, it is preferable to reinvest and keep growing the business. The trick is that mature companies have a very difficult time achieving double digit growth. Amazon (still) doesn't have that problem.
90's? Still doing that in the 2010's!

https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/24/color-com-was-acquired-for...
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It is almost a punishment to try to better yourself in America, and our society will certainly suffer from it.

Why try to get a degree that doesn't guarantee any sort of employment, but does guarantee a large financial burden that follows you even beyond bankruptcy? It is absurd how short sighted our higher education system is here.
I believe DisplayPort 1.4 with DSC would already support this, though I think it's pretty close to the maximum.
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How are they going to fix it without some performance penalty. If the memory is in cache isn't there going to be a timing difference? or an extra check will have to be made which is going to have to slow down the lookup?
Well the author was also pointing out that currencies like the Barbados Dollar exist, whose exchange rate is pinned at BDS$2 = USD$1.

A quick search for pinned currencies brought up this nice list: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/061015/top-excha...
Did the Lightning Network solve the routing problem now or are they still emulating banks by requiring permanent online super nodes?
Let's stop and think for a moment about how practical it is to promise everyone free and instant transactions.

If they prevent spam with proof of work, why couldn't someone just do the proof of work and constantly spam the network anyway?
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Saying they turn companies around is being generous. They typically don’t buy companies that are in the dumps, they buy companies that are humming along and might have room for improvement, cut expenses by firing employees, raise debt, and try to put the company in a good enough position to meet debt obligations. I wouldn’t credit them with turning too many companies around. If anything they are “turned around” from the debt laden messes that Bain creates into something the company looked somewhat similar to before the buyout.
That's a property of the network (if it works, that is), and not an intrinsic value.

The answer to "What is this item [the bits comprising your private wallet key] worth on its own?" is "Nothing" for cryptocurrencies, much like a 5 Euro bill is worth essentially nothing on its own. A gold bar or a bucket full of copper cents has an intrinsic value: it's metal that can be used for many engineering purposes.
You've conveniently linked Intel's chip fab plants where as your parent poster said nothing about Intel.

Here's a list of chip fabs beyond just Intel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
Ask HN: Who is your programming (ideally open source) guru / role model?
I'm preparing a talk about open source and general contribution to software (in terms of development). How it may help us to get a better job, become a better person or just feel good in terms of self-realisation.

I've asked about it my followers on [Twitter] (https://twitter.com/zajkowskimarcin/status/974203034216665089) and I noticed that people are either not having their coding 'gurus' or are not admitting / sharing info about them.

So...

Who is yours #opensource (and maybe not only) guru / inspiration / authority / role model? Do you have one? Do you find inspiration in someone else's code?

I'm gathering GOOD (and also BAD - feel free to share both) examples of companies and people in the #oss movement for my talk. But here, maybe go one step beyond open source and let's speak about general peogramming and programmers.

Any help appreciated. Looking for an amazing discussion and some more inspirational and like-minded people to follow and learn about their life stories.
I don't really see why this is necessarily unfair, unless there is literally no other way to reach consumers other than through Amazon: shouldn't their own product pages show up in Google search results, for one, not to mention other online stores?
Or, just use IEEE 754 decimal types? That's what they were built for.
I had Blue Apron and at first loved it, but ultimately, their calories where far too high and didn't have any offerings for people on a diet or other health conscious concerns such as low sodium and such. Their food was tasty but by missing out over health conscious options, they missed a growing niche, and once Amazon or someone comes in with more options they will be done.
Also the West has decided that cities were basically a bad idea and they should stop dead in their tracks at about 1960. Instead our productivity should be spent on artificially expensive housing costs because we can never build anything ever again.
This actually looks really cool, curious how it works under the hood. Sort of disappointed there's no WebCatalog Lite version for Windows, would love to avoid using Electron - is it a mater of building it, or are there OS-specific the Chromium build requires?
Since the change to Vista/Windows 7 required all new windows drivers for all printers, (many of which were old, outdated, and manufacturers didn't want to redo them) Linux has seemed much easier to print with..
Being Google, I am betting that they reboot the complete userspace as they did with Brillo.
Not only is it plausible it's completely common. It's just a textbook description of how trusts work.

The upstart can't lock in contracts when another well-funded monopoly company is engaging in predatory activities. The monopoly has market power which it can use to put competitors out of business and extort profits from suppliers.

It's really just econ 101 and a pretty settled concept. Now there is certainly an argument to be made about the degree to which Amazon is actually doing this, but from a theoretical standpoint none of this is confusing at all, and there are numerous real world examples of this in action.
And now, instead of us having to actively install them, they're just forcing them on us every time we go to a page! The EU and their stupid cookie warning laws don't help either. "Close this footer bar so you can see the next footer bar"
Do you want to make an "eye contact" with an elevator to make sure it won't crush you by closing the doors?

Your behavior is a hedge against crappy humans that tend to be distracted and not see everything.

If self-driving cars can't avoid hitting people, they are failing the most basic scenario and can't be allowed on the road.
don't worry, we don't need your stupid content and if people stop following like retard U.S it would be good to everbody.
> Of two futures, which would you prefer?
> 1. Where your descendants/relatives are alive but have little in common with your values (eg compare bronze age to now)
> 2. You have no genetic descendants/relatives but whatever exists (robots, aliens, planet of the apes) shares your value system.

That's a false choice, based on these flawed assumptions:

- That genetic descent somehow diminishes the transmission of culture (or "memes" as you call it).

- That we don't have many bronze age values today. We do have them, evidenced by the fact that many people follow values of religions established in the bronze age.

- That the inevitable result of what you call a "meme-centric" direction of progress is genetic extinction for humans.
It is a logical fallacy to think of America as in competition with China for "technological hegemony". We are all humans, and should work to share knowledge with each other. It is true that manufacturing has become cheaper to do in China. This may or may not be a passing phase, just as manufacturing used to be done in Japan in the 80's. To think that we as a continent need to be "better" than China in some competitive respect, or worse still, "hold back" China, is utterly stupid. This view creates a notion of a zero-sum game out of something that clearly benefits everyone, has positive externalities. Who among us has not ordered a component from alibaba? And many of us hold Chinese equities in ADRs, or vice-versa.
A lot of curriencies are hard pegged to another (e.g. HKD to USD). However, to maintain the peg, central banks must carefully ensure that it remains true in reality, otherwise someone can make money on arbitrage.
>It's pretty much frowned upon to be in any way proud to be a pale skinned European; mainstream media demands we feel shame for all the oppression we did in the centuries before our birth.

It's Paddy's day on Saturday - how does that celebration square with your claim?
yea that's clever. that way you don't have to track just identify. still leverage arkit/arcore to do the tracking.
It quickly gets very expensive to do so.
That's why there is a saying "peaked in high school" in North America. From my experience, even though I was not a geek, its the geeks that end up becoming the bosses past 30.
Just how attractive? 5B?

For a company that does 177.87B in sales each year?

I think they would pick the structurally best city regardless. They just also want gravy from it first.
The override may not be guaranteed to be useful in all possible cases, but surely you can think of situations where you'd really want there to be a steering wheel override available?
From this viewpoint, how is China in the 2010s different from Japan in the 1970s? I'm not implying that Japan executed corporate espionage to the same degree, but there was quite a bit of hand wringing, particularly when DRAM production moved almost entirely out of the US and into Japan.

It is still the case, in my view, that there is an edge granted to the actual inventors. They get first crack at monetizing their invention. Both Japan in the 70s and China today are presented as threats, not through innovation, but assimilation of others' innovation.

I'd be interested in seeing some indication that the US position in innovation is being credibly threatened. One area that does seem at risk is genetic research involving human genome. China does not seem to have the same queasy reaction that the US does to genomic experimentation on humans.
Correct, and I certainly don't reject it at all (although I have a feeling some on HN would).
The English innovated on this with a strong legal system protecting the nobles from the depredations of the State. This was only possible because the English was separated from the rest of the continent so it wasn't ever seriously threatened.

Every other country in Europe progressed without these innovations and as such they're always only a few steps away from fascism / dictatorship. Except the Dutch. The Dutch were reasonably well protected and they also created a commercial empire. The US Constitution is modeled after the Dutch one.

The difference is that the English weren't able to build their commercial empire until after the legal reforms took place, while the Dutch couldn't make their legal reforms until after they built their commercial empire.

No such legal reforms exist in other nations. These laws are instrumental in allowing a class structure other than ruling class-peasants. Other countries can vary in the amount of wealth they can spread amongst their peasants, but the peasants don't really participate in the governing.

The big caveat here is France. The French mechanism for making demands on the ruling class is social unrest. Nothing like a good French riot. The spectre of a second French Revolution scares the everloving crap out of the rulers and that forces them to the negotiating table. This has the unfortunate effect of making them uniquely vulnerable to fascism. But enterprise in France is just as state-intertwined as it is everywhere else, because there aren't any strong institutions there to counteract it.

Only in Anglo countries can industry and state compete as equals. When industry bands together and cooperates, as we used to call monopoly / cartel, only a coordinated state response can check it. This is enshrined in law and a bedrock feature that our capitalistic society relies on for its competitiveness.
Ideally:

1. Use logging SaaS that takes GDPR seriously (e.g. Sumo Logic where I work).

2. Avoid logging sensitive data (e.g. log id, not the address), use joins when you can reconstruct them.

3. Keep logs with reasonable retention.

4. Use logs for debugging and operational aspects, don't use those data for marketing, profiling as it is causes a lot of pain (e.g. right to forget).

GDPR is generally vague what it actually means and there are a lot of interpretations. E.g. can I log IP of my visitors without consent. Possible answers:

1. No you can't. Never.

2. Yes, do whatever.

3. Yes, If you use it for security or system troubleshooting. No, if you use it for marketing, sales, etc.

The majority of interpretations, lean towards 3, but some ppl claim 1.
This is a surprisingly large scale example of a very, very common problem in small businesses. People forget to invest in the appearance of their place of business.

You'll see Joe's RV dealership with a sign out front that's mouldering and falling off of its post, trying to advertise a million dollars of inventory. You'll see a restaurant with greasy, disintegrating tables and chipped floors, but the food is amazing, and the kitchen is decent and clean.

Your tools and stock are not the only thing you need to reinvest in, and if your shop/store/site isn't clean, professional, and pleasing to visit, you cannot justify drawing a paycheck from the business, because the ship is going down.
China does have immigration-friendly policy, but the policies were mostly active in the 90's, largely targeted at Chinese-speakers. These policies included major tax breaks for Chinese speakers with advanced degrees if they established permanent residence (green card) in China, including being able to use that tax refund to buy real estate.

Many who took advantage of the policies had left to study abroad in the 70's and 80's, but got jobs in their new home countries. Others were a generation removed. It looks different from US immigration, but if anything, I believe the expectations of the "sea turtles" (pun for returning ex-pat) have spurred a lot of the systemic changes that have been improving China.
It certainly does work, and I did that until I discovered the "Five zero" trick. It's just "Fifty" that it has a problem with!
I was able to get Inoreader to visually look very similar to Digg reader. I do not want to use Feedly yet because the free version seems to too restricted. I'll try using Inoreader for few days before I make a decision.
On the "Delusion <-> Con Artist" continuum, I'm inclined to think she's more on the delusion end. If your intent is to defraud, you'd want to avoid a domain that's 1) scientifically accountable, and 2) subject to heavy oversight and regulation. She seems smart enough to know that.

This Vanity Fair piece provides a fair amount of character background: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-the...
One vote for #4, not sure how related it is to Redis but I always have fun showing how much snappier flatbuffers is vs protobuf because they don't need to allocate/copy/etc when reading data off the wire.

I feel like that knowledge needs to be shared around a bit more.
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I believe that this [1] is the oldest thread in HN about Theranos. There are two sub-threads that are negative and one which seems quite spot-on in hindsight. But the top comments are all quite positive.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349
I dont think vr is iphone1. Its more like first non-smart phones lets say nokia 6110.

Its quite possible that with progress made in brains wavelengths readings, the true vr in form of iphone1 will be a head cap you put on and your view/smell/touch perceptions are overwritten by cap’s sensor. That would trully be regular vr/phone versus true vr/smartphone/iphone1
Oh my god, TechCrunch's site is annoying. Wtf the fuck is with the check mark and removal of contrast when you get to the bottom of the article? It's like "Oh for the last 3 paragraphs we're going to make it slightly harder to read this."

Man why can't companies just let us read text without trying to make some big stupid extra functionality?
Rational arithmetic is not a good choice for money, since applications that deal with money probably involve user input and so can be trivially DOS-ed. Money should use decimal arithmetic, like COBOL. If it's good enough for banks, it's good enough for you.
Outdated judgementalism.
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Airtable gets $52M in funding
From the big picture perspective brexit might just be a fluke...

The Euro sort of makes EU a pretty permanent thing. Sure it could change (probably very slowly), but isn't that what democracy is about :)
Thanks for sharing. That's fascinating, I would have never expected that.
That's a nice idea, although I suspect it would garner much opposition if it were workable at all. One of the main reasons for accumulating wealth beyond a certain point is, I would assume, to gain power :)
Vapor - Swift on the server!

If you haven't heard of it, check out https://vapor.codes. It's an absolutely amazing framework that is non-blocking in version 3. The performance you can squeeze out of it is unbelievable.
So, basically a SEPA wire transfer just without using actual money?
I was on the fence about whether to suggest it, but I don't think you should dismiss it as being a weeks-long course.

Instead, think of it as 12 mostly-independent projects implementing a small part of a computer's functionality: the set of logical gates, the ALU, the CPU, the computer hardware, the assembler, assembly programming, stack op implementation, a compiler, and and OS. Any one of those will be only a few days.

(I'm in the middle of the Coursera course for it and have done 1-5 and 7-10.)

http://www.nand2tetris.org/course.php

It only has up to chapter 6 online, but there's an old version of the book available for free but I don't have the link handy.
Never is a long time. Screens can only get so good before they're pointlessly higher resolution, and at that point GPUs will keep increasing in performance.

At some point your GPU runs out of things to do.
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We're being shown a marketing video as part of a PR campaign at SXSW that says that everything works perfectly. Yeah, please forgive me if I am a bit skeptical.

This company is closely related to Google (who has, arguably, the brightest and smartest engineers working for it), a company who just recently knocked all of their own bigtables DBs offline for an hour by a "no-op config change".

Show me a third party using one of these cars for a year solid with no software maintenance, unexpected behavior, or human intervention, and I'll happily shut up. I'll even let them do that solely in AZ.
Holmes' lab lead / advisor and orignal bizdev lead was a Dean of Engineering at Stanford. It's not just a sophomore not doing her homework; it's a $$$-eyed senior tenured professor at a premier research university who perpetrated and perpetuated this.
It's not really about whether it's unfair. It's about whether it's against Japan's democratically defined laws.
Seems like google goes way beyond what the AudioSculpt was able to do [0] which seems largely like using the exact waveform of one input to modulate the other in a number of ways. Feels a world apart from what Google did in Magenta.

[0] https://youtu.be/w24YKVsS-fA?t=98
Is the goal or intent not important anymore if the outcome is always disastrous for the company?
It's almost as if... as if... people like different things and have different opinions, isn't it?
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Just websites? Static HTML and assets, served from Caddy.
> How can these bond or loan companies afford to lose so much and stay in business?

Scale. The same way VCs only count on one or two wins to pay for the rest of the losses.
> The horizon isn't actually any sort of surface (nothing bounces off it) but you should sure feel the lack of nerve impulses returning from whatever bits of your anatomy are on the inside if your brain is on the outside.

Would your hand even be connected to you at that point? The bonds holding the molecules together wouldn't work, right?
Ask HN: What tools do you use to take learning notes and organise them?
I would be interested to hear what software stack you use for learning and related note-taking.
Some example questions that might help: what note-taking software do you use? How do you search and organise your notes for revision and reference? What are the pros and cons of your choices? Do you wish there was a software that solves a particular pain?

Context:
I have noticed that I always struggle to keep consistent track of notes I make as I learn new topics. I have tried OneNote, Evernote, and some more open-source ones, but each lack of something that makes it complete. For example, I find Anki really useful and use it every day, but its interface is stuck in the 90s and it doesn't easily synch with my other, more expansive notes.
As she long is able to dodge criminal charges, I think she got away with a slap on the wrist. A $500,000 fine and returning most of her Theranos equity is hardly proportionate punishment for a supposed-$700M fraud.
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He repaid investors in his hedge fund with millions of dollars in fraudulent consulting contracts from a different company that they weren't investors in. This is a breach of fiduciary duty at minimum and likely criminal fraud. He also repeatedly produced false financial statements to cover up his massive losses.

He was convicted by a jury of his peers on Federal charges and was sentenced using the Federal Sentencing Guidelines which are universal across all cases. Shouting in all caps doesn't make something unfair...
My son will be born into a world without Toys R Us, and that blows my mind
Several - those who've tackled the business model problem with at least some innovative success. Starting with the MySQL guy.
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> BCH’s approach of not neutering the block size?

Because increasing the block size is an inelegant approach that will only work briefly and then there will be more demands to make the blocks bigger again, eventually leading to centralization.

Increasing the block size doesn't solve the problem, it just makes the problem bigger.

other "coins" with larger faster block sizes are already running into storage issues.
I have come to think that the EU would work much better if the Council and the Commission got dissolved at once, were replaced by and actual "Government of the EU zone" and all the legislative power went to the EU Parliament.
Step One: Get low level developers to upload evidence of major corporate license violations to your server.

Step Two: Sell evidence to legal firms.

Step Three: Profit.

This seems very risky from a company perspective.
I think the whole point is to get away from "Android." The average Apple (iOS) user will see "Android" and not bother to give it a try. They see "Wear OS" and they might try it. The audience is not just tech users.
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