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I've enjoyed that as well, I used to read it when I eas younger. Now I've just read the ESV2 version of the last few chapters in parallell with my native language during the last few days. :-)
There was Veertu Desktop, but seems that it's dead project now.
I've got quite the "rabbit hole" going over at https://twitter.com/cdbattags/status/1016430657550077952 but to summarize: I think this concept is the next "relativity theory" that we're on the verge of cracking

> so how many of y'all ever worked with protobuf or the concept of (de)serialization? let's think of the human brain as a payload of protobuf who's containing `.proto` schema only ever exists inside of the payload itself the same way that AI can mutate it's "rule-set"

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other recommended reading: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
Most companies built on the TCP/IP protocol dies.

I really don't think this is very meaningful metric for anything.

Sure where there is a lot of money there is a lot of people trying to weasel their way in. But so far the usage has grown.

Much more companies will fail just like on "the internet" but the blockchain just like the TCP/IP protocol is here to stay and the coming generations will adopt it as if it's the most natural thing in the world just like we did with the internet.
> Soooo, buying drugs and illegal gambling? Sure, I'll give you that one.

Yes, although also remittance payments, and some usage in places with unstable currencies like Venezuela. Hard to gauge how much, though.

> My argument rephrased: "Because cryptocurrency investors have repeatedly made claims that don't pan out, we can be reasonably skeptical and concerned about their energy consumption until they actually fix it or at the very least provide peer-reviewed scientific analysis on how it will be fixed."

While that is, in the abstract, a fair argument I don't think there are actually that many examples of it in practice. Vitalik didn't claim Ethereum would be a world computer right away. He's always been clear and explicit about the scaling roadmap. I don't think the promises of the core devs of Ethereum or Bitcoin have been overstated or unmet. If you believe otherwise though, i'd be happy to listen to your argument.
I know this might be a radical proposal but have you considered, when encountering a bicycle blocking part of a sidewalk, moving slightly to the left. I admit its a crazy proposal but it might help you while you’re waiting for the state to implement the death penalty for scooter infractions.
Honestly, I would say that with all of the recent improvements to the emulator over the past few years that Gradle is actually the sluggish, horrible part of the Android development experience. The emulator is actually pretty decent now.
Yep. This sounds like a trap to me. But OP sounds like he's not using it that way. Phew.

If I were asked to do it on my own laptop, it might be way more obvious for me to set up some watches or debug certain lines right from VSCode which I already have set up to integrate with Chrome debugging. That's how I most often debug. I've never learned to use those tools on Chrome directly because it's way more convenient to set a break point from my editor. On someone else's laptop, I'm going to reach for console.log because it's a tool I know is there no matter what the browser and what the dev env is on a stranger's laptop.

I've worked really hard to never use anything that could be a trap when I am interviewing a candidate. I'd rather do a sort of pair coding for 30 minutes and collaborate on solving a problem together.
The damaging effects of consuming a food loaded with fat, protein, and hormones meant to grow a calf as fast as possible is not a good argument to stop consuming it?
Geez sorry for outlining both sides of an argument in response to a question, hivemind downvotes are strong today
Irrevocability is not the same as trustlessness. Your transaction is still being intermediated by an entity that can choose to appropriate your funds otherwise.

Personally I trust those entities much more than some shlocky fly-by-night crypto exchange.

To each his own, I guess.
The biggest growth in expectations I've seen are in UI, Analytics, and Security/Data protection. 2 of those are primarily backend, and they aren't something you can just plug in unless you are solving very trivial problems.

And pulling requirements out of business people who don't really know what they want, then turning them into sensible data models that can produce reliable and actionable business intelligence is still where I spend most of my time.
FYI v55 is quite old by now... a quick check at chrome://version on my Mac shows that Chrome Stable is running v67...
Prioritizing “Non-Feature” Work and Continuous Improvement
The F-35 is not a multi-role aircraft, period. It is at best a platform, but there is only about 30% commonality between the different aircraft variants (A, B, and C).
yep, we in fact link to this work...

"Even 5 years later, no pure RL algorithms have cracked reasoning and memory games; on the contrary, approaches that have done well at them have either used instructions <link> or demonstrations <link> just as we mentioned would make sense to do in the board game allegory."
I generally agree with you, and as a front-ender-first that feels kind of uncomfortable to say. In my personal projects I do often go for a more conservative server-side first approach.

That said, it really feels like a chasm that quite often I choose to cross simply because it'll be easier down the line. I've been bitten more than once by server-side-first projects where going full-on client-side with the server-side as an API would've probably been better.

Whether it was because I needed a mobile app to communicate with said API, or whether the complexity ended up being more of a client-side thing, the result was often that I had to focus on the back-end as as API and go for the full complexity of a front-end app anyways.

I'm enough of a fan of my preferred back-end languages (Ruby, but mostly Elixir these days) that I try to find ways to keep the complexity there, but truthfully I often opt for going for the full complexity of a client-side JS/TS stack because I'm likely to end up needing it eventually anyways.

I've looked into things like Drab (https://github.com/grych/drab), but ultimately there are many reasons why 'going with the flow' seems like the better solution (even if just because it's so much easier to find JS devs than Elixir ones).

So far I'm not confident enough to make any sweeping statements, but from that lack of confidence I tend to opt for the 'safer' option, which seems to be the SPA route much of the time.
Correct, [Simple|Fast]: In That Order.

The above is definitely the correct algorithm. Surely you don't think it is wrong! Come at me, bro!

If you aren't trying to make your representation correct, then why bother? Correctness is either the telos or closest of these in the pursuit of the telos (the assumed intrinsic purpose). To make it simple and fast are the instrumental (and heuristical) means to increasingly correct versions of that correctness end(s). You can only ever simplify a representation (hello, Kant!) because you never have complete (hello, Gödel!) access to the thing-in-itself directly.

The representation is the only thing you can consciously (the Daseinic emergent result of the non-conscious [that you know of: problem of other minds, OOO, dualist's hard problem of consciousness, etc.] aspects of your brain using language to talk to itself) attend to; it's the only way to tell and retell these stories to yourself. How correctly can you recursively represent correctness? I can only begin to meaningfully compute by starting with a meaningful notion of correctness as my foundation (however flawed it may objectively be), else it is meaningless. What does it mean to correctly tell yourself about an object if you don't assume the concept of correctness in how you tell yourself about an object?

In a sense, you beg the question of the Ontological Proof (hello Kantian idealist vs Gödelian realist in dialectic!), the reality of the possibility of the goodiest good of your program (and I suggest even beyond), in thinking about the telos of your program (and, clearly, you change your mind about what counts as that).

Simplifying and/or optimizing a representation already begs the question of having something to be correct about. "Simplify" according to what standard? The pursuit of correctness is the necessary precondition to having a reason to take the means. Epistemic justification in coding computers (be they silicon or brains) is inevitably tied to this telic processs and metanarrative. We do not escape the chain of sublations. Be a transcendental coder! I believe in you, folks. I know you care about correctness, deep down. Don't you want to be correct about this code too?

It's dangerous to go alone! Take this: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialetheism

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https://philosopher.life/
> If you want to make the case that they are in fact central

End financial services users repeatedly choose convenience and risk guarantees over self-management. This isn't something which can be papered over with a saucy UI, particularly when the tangible benefit is difficult to describe. ("Decentralization" isn't a benefit, it's an attribute.)
I don't know Chrome debugger because one of the first things I did was to get VS Code to control Chrome debugger so I can set breakpoints while looking at code with the font and highlighting I'm familiar with.

Weeding out applicants is dangerous if you're not trying hard to disprove first impressions or wrong answers.
> Personally I trust those entities much more than some shlocky fly-by-night crypto exchange.

You aren't trusting an exchange when you send a transaction on the blockchain.
I'm a very happy red moon user. My main problem is that sometimes it is on or turns on by accident when I am outside and I don't manage to turn it off because I cannot see the screen. I would love to have a way to turn it off without needing to be able to see the screen, although I can't really think of a way that could be done...
More of a Charles Strauss thing maybe?
I've read the NIV version multiple times (as well as the equivalent in my language). thanks for the reminder to check it out again :).
I've actually worked on such things, too, and in my experience, "I'm too busy programming to let you know my company is still around" isn't a particularly good excuse even at tiny two- and three-person shops. When I've seen that happen at cottage software companies in the past, it has never been a sign of health: more often than not, when they finally communicate again, it's to tell us that they're closing shop.

And more to the point, tiny two- and three-person shops probably aren't doing ICOs. If your company is big enough to undertake a public offering of any kind, it's damn well big enough to have someone on staff whose responsibilities explicitly include some kind of community relations work.
Enjoyed the article. But I'm a bit confused by the Venn diagram; neither StarCraft nor DOTA are deterministic or fully observable. And they are discrete only at such extreme resolutions that they may as well be continuous.
> Don't you need to trust nodes that they'll pass down and/or include process your transaction, and that they'll do so in a timely fashion?

Yes, but their incentives are structured to align with yours in that scenario. You are trusting them to act in their own interest.
That's an interesting idea. A "so simple it can't have bugs" design would never win over the mainstream-market, but it might be able to find a niche among extremely security-conscious users. This might be a great project for the open-source community to take on.
To be fair, in the article itself we wind up criticizing "Pure RL" (defined as the basic formulation that is typically followed, in which all learning is done from just the reward signal) and not RL as a whole. We call out a lot of awesome non-pure RL work in the second part and suggest this deserves more attention and excitement over eg AlphaGo.
No, that's false. He put a standing limit order on the market weeks ago in anticipation of the market correction you're stipulating. It doesn't matter how quickly you can respond to the news; his order beats yours.
Crashing Facebook Messenger for Android with an MITM Attack
That "empirical evidence" is a load of garbage. Contrails occur differently at different altitudes due to temperature gradients. Anyone who's been up in a small plane or who's climbed a mountain knows this. Planes are also "stacked" at different altitudes (flight level) to simplify controller operations, anyone who's casually observed local airport activity knows this.

You really need to read up because this YouTube junk is poisoning your ability to think rationally.

Now multi-billion? No. For chemtrails to be real it's a multi-trillion dollar undertaking. Nothing in aviation is cheap. Everything is unbelievably expensive.

In order to produce "chemtrails" that have the same volume as contrails you would need to have an equivalent amount of whatever loaded into tanks as there is fuel. Do you have any idea how much fuel is loaded into a passenger plane? It's tons. A 787 contains around 33,000 gallons of fuel, or about 162 tonnes.

Now you're telling me they have to sneak on another ~160 tons of chemtrail stuff somehow without anyone noticing?

And why? For what? Who benefits?
The best genetically engineered algae is over 90% oil by weight.
All that stuff is in part two! https://thegradient.pub/how-to-fix-rl/

"In part two, we’ll overview the different approaches within AI that can address those limitations (chiefly, meta-learning and zero-shot learning). And finally, we'll get to a survey of monumentally exciting work based on these approaches, and conclude with what that work implies for the future of RL and AI as a whole.
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So, I said there are plans for solving the energy consumption issue. And your counter-argument is what, exactly?

"I'll believe it when I see it"
Thanks.

"[quoted text] is a subtle jab at my intelligence." -- No it's not. It just means the initial post was very simple and wasn't intended for readers who're in denial when experiencing reality.
thank you very much, I suppose we can all agree that 1x1x3 (Width x Height x Color) convolution would have been a lot clearer.

again, thanks for succinct and clear explanation!
to be fair, chrome's versioning means that that's probably just like 2 weeks difference.
Yeah, maybe iterative as a concept is too facile a concept to contain what is meant here. Maybe "fractal", or recursive is better. Maybe though that's the point, it is hard after "multiple rings" to make code simple anymore, so better start off trying to optimize for simple first. Correctness requires exposure to cases you didn't know you didn't know (unknown unknowns).

This is one of the reasons why I am suspicious about the long-term saliency of so-called "smart contracts" on the blockchain. The immutability of code, while super amazing for digital assets, seems like a horror-show of a liability for dApps.
I am getting an "NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID" error when trying to view the article.
I think this is exciting. I'm curious whether Oasis is still using SGX in their design (the Ekiden paper seems to be super SGX focused but I'm unclear as to whether they have moved away from this).

Dawn is super smart so it's hard to bet against her.

Edit: Oh maybe they're using some ZK stuff now: "Our platform achieves scalability and integrity with its novel architecture and protocol design, without relying on any trusted hardware or central party. "
Which is funnier: tech bros innovating their way to public transit, or bitcoin folks slowly reinventing financial regulation? -- Joseph Fink, Apr 2017
If GPS satellites were to cryptographically sign their signals, would that be sufficient to prevent spoofing of GPS signals (assuming the receiver of the signals treated the signing appropriately)?

Like, I can imagine maybe there could be an attack where one could record gps signals at some nearby place, and then play them back in slightly different orders/rates to try to fool a receiving device into thinking it is somewhere else (nearby).

But I don't know how much of a time delay would be needed in order to do that. Could a timestamping service do timestamping quickly enough to prevent this attack for internet connected devices?

I tried looking at how the signals for GPS work (like, how frequently it sends time information and how detailed it is for civilians) but it seemed complicated and I got confused and/or didn't try hard enough, so I didn't arrive at an answer for how long it would take to spoof positions if one could only delay real signals that one received.

Edit: the purpose of making the gps coords unspoofable would be to make it so that even if the screen-in-front-of-camera attack was done, it would have to be done at the same location and time as it would be claimed to have happened.
Hi Atef. Nicely done. Good screen designs.

I'll check out your code soonest. And I'll try to dig up an android device, so I can try your demo.

I just wanted to acknowledge your effort and good taste, since everyone else got distracted by the framework wars.

Without revealing too much about me, since this is my anon account, I work in a nearby field. If you wanted to pursue this domain (fashion), I encourage you to focus on product discovery. Either something novel, or excellent execution and refinement of current solutions.

I don't mean personalization, recommenders. (Unless you have something awesome.)

Rather, I mean UX for better forraging behavior. By analogy, the digital equivalent of wandering around in libraries, museum, or retail. Whatever that looks like.

Happy hunting.
Solar radio physics from the chromosphere to near Earth, topical issue published
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/europes-.... Who can resist Gasworld magazine?
JavaScript Weekly Digest #2
Isn't that the same with credit cards, wires, etc.? They make money from your transactions too.
all of this makes sense to be but what happens when someone hacks your grandmas cellphone then they own her house title and she cant open the front door?

I guess you could have a 3rd party that has to verify everything ( government ) but then you are basically back to just doing it with a paper deed at the courthouse.
Oh, I totally agree. That's actually how I learned this stuff. Years ago there was a company called Slicehost that was very similar to what Digital Ocean is now. It had a treasure trove of great documentation and articles.

Eventually they were acquired by Rackspace and folded into the Cloud Servers line.

Great company though.
Censorship on Reddit, banned from r/cancer; banned from HN; rsrch form this week
Sometimes I find wordcloud visualization to be very trivial. It has always bugged me to see many people using wordcloud just because it can look cool sometimes. Using font colors, size and clustering is a great way to visualize meaningful dimensions.

Since most of my analysis is document level, I create content and relation based graphs of documents and use Gephi to visualize word and document clusters in a meaningful and beautiful way.
Another day, another Decentralized AI Privacy Blockchain project raising a ton of money from people who don't truly understand the intricacies of the problems trying to be solved. What's new?

I hate to be so cynical and this teams background does seem solid but I feel the same way when I see this as when the Prince of Nigeria personally reaches out to me for a loan. With all the other failed crypto projects these announcements feel like spam at this point..
I'm more familiar with MNRI. Masgutova reflex integration.
The Tamarin prover for security protocol verification
Here are some of the latest tutorials from the official DevTools docs, if you're looking to learn new workflows:

CSS basics: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/css/

JS debugging basics: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/java...

Console basics: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/cons...

Finding ways to improve site speed: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/spee...
"Contrails occur differently at different altitudes due to temperature gradients."

Thanks. I'll look into this.

"Multi billion?"

That's the budget.

"For chemtrails to be real it's a multi-trillion dollar undertaking."

That's a figure you've pulled out of your behind.

"A 787 contains around 33,000 gallons of fuel, or about 162 tonnes."

Naphtha-kerosene's already a blend.

"And why? For what? Who benefits?"

Are you going to verify the phenomena for yourself?
Neural Network from synthetic DNA able to correctly identify handwritten numbers
Formula 1 cars use a much simpler method to recover energy from exhaust gases - a generator attached to the turbocharger.
A valid question, though the answer may not be quite so glib as you suggest.

Mindshare itself is certainly one factor. De facto standardisation another. Monetisation and tech recruitment, from both a positive aspect and from crowding out other challengers, is also a large part, I suspect.
> When they want to, they are capable of blocking the entire internet, monitoring all residents, manipulating global raw materials. Why else run a dictatorship?

Efforts to enforce regulations on CFC gasses need to work all the time.
Efforts to censor the internet only needs to work most the of the time.

The tolerance for failure is different.
Ethereum-Based Blockchain Betting Platform Augur Just Launched
Cloudflare Workers is 4.6x faster for CPU-bound tasks than Amazon Lambda
In which respects?
Jesus, thank you haha.
Active Discussion => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17492884
The site guidelines ask you not to post shallow dismissals to Hacker News, so could you please not? This comment doesn't clear that bar.

If you're right, then the thing to do is drop the snark and explain some of the "intricacies of the problems trying to be solved" instead of just vaguely alluding to them. Then we could learn something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a fallacy. Generally regulations tend to protect consumers or vulnerable groups from harm. The recent global trend towards deregulation and austerity moves in the opposite direction of social democratic movements in Germany, Scandinavian countries and much of the EU. The end result being more of a wild west free for all that results in something more like the Gilded Age of the 19th century than a well-optimized free market like imagined on the Jetsons.

That said, there are certainly cases where financial market regulations have hurt the middle class. For example, a pattern day trader rule was imposed in February 2001 which required a $25,000 minimum balance to trade on margin:

http://www.finra.org/investors/day-trading-margin-requiremen...

More about trading on margin (in the most basic sense - potentially doubling your gains but wiping you out if your total stock holdings equal what you borrowed, triggering a margin call):

https://www.investopedia.com/university/margin/

The pattern day trader rule was introduced after the dot bomb with several stated goals like protecting inexperienced investors or limiting volatility. But it was really yet another tactic to keep the most lucrative forms of trading in the hands of wealthy/institutional investors and leave the masses in the slow lane of trading with their own money.

It's extremely important to know the nuances of regulations and their unintended consequences. But instead we only generally hear about deregulation from politicians, because they know that insiders (their base and lobbyists) will always win over the masses in a fully deregulated economy.

P.S. I didn't downvote you, because the sentiment you expressed is widespread and needs to be addressed