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Origin Protocol Launches Decentralized Marketplace Beta on Ethereum Mainnet
A year ago, I watched YC lecture for raising capital where Sam Altman or somebody else recommended startup founders NOT raise any capital from unaccredited investors because it may create problems with raising next rounds. In other words, current regulatory environment also promotes discrimination of unaccredited investors.

Employee compensation is different.

P.S. It's amazing how much Hacker News readers are against cryptocurrency, in favor of very big government, very high taxes up to 70% as their Piketty, Krugman suggest to enforce equality of outcome. This community became total opposition of what Paul Graham might thought back in 2007. The only thing is left is to change Hacker News icon to Che Guevara emblem.
James Schmalz on the History of Digital Extremes (Warframe, Unreal)
> There is much research (once you sort through the partisan fluff from research institutions with obvious bias) that supports the positive impact of revenue per student on academic achievement on standardized tests.

The article's methodology looks at academic achievement directly, so there is no need to use spending as a proxy.
Wouldn't dark silicon help with both yield and heat though?
It already has eaten the lower ends of programming on the web side with centralized services and templated web development. You can keep defining software engineers as those who haven't been automated away yet -- but I'd wager many already have. For example most companies are not spinning up their own hardware anymore, and less and less of their own software.
I have several thoughts on this:

The race adjusted performance is interesting and useful but they're basically using it as a proxy for wealth. Why can't they just use some metric that directly represents wealth?

If Massachusetts schools are efficiency with money than the system nation wide is far more screwed up than anyone is willing to admit.

That state ranking depends in part on money spent is abhorrent. That should be tracked for reasons that should be obvious but not part of a composite score meant to represents results.

The bit about unions lines up with my anecdotal experience. I worked with the education department in college and they did not hold teachers unions in high regard. If your unions are so bad that college professors at a state school in a blue state gripe about how they hold back progress then I think it's fair to say your union is pretty bad.
As is often brought up on the internet, it's the distinction between basic freedom and freedom from consequences. When you buy a CD, you have the basic freedom to put it in any CD player, rip it, back it up, re-encode it, share it with your friends, or put it on your MP3 player. There would still be consequences if you were to use it in a TV commercial. With DRM you do not even have any basic freedoms.
I think you have that backwards, unless you mean to say the the power draw is proportionate to the square root of frequency at higher clocks.
I'd say down.

And I wouldn't recommend anyone try to time the bottom on this and dip buy: you had 10 years to get a long position if you are trying to buy and hold.

Long dated bonds are erratic now, stocks have been dumping with them, and dumping even more when they are being bid.
There are also some long term employees like Scott Guthrie who have nudged the corporation in a better direction for many years.
if this had been about LA instead of Ann Arbor, the title might as easily have started with "A French Fry truck," "A Banh Mi truck," "A Po Boy truck," "A Poke Truck" or "A Gyro Truck"
Homelessness is overwhelmingly caused by economic issues[1][2], even in the Bay area[3], which are certainly exacerbated by mental health issues.

[1] https://www.nlchp.org/documents/Homeless_Stats_Fact_Sheet
[2] http://homelessresourcenetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/0...
[3] https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-2...
Jobs are a way to exert social control, though. The dystopian solution is to reopen gulags and labor camps to re-educate people. Oh, wait...
It's possible that you are right. That said, tools are already better than ever before, and yet demand for software engineers has only increased. That's because most tools which are powerful enough to do all the things we need aren't simple enough to be applied without human-level intelligence. Not to mention—the tools themselves are software that also requires programmers.

Personally, I'm of the opinion of the commenter above you—automating most software jobs will require strong AI. Replacement of those might happen someday, but it's sufficiently far away to not think about as an imminent threat to your job (though I agree we should be doing high-level planning about how as a society we will cope with strong AI).
The Question is if Robots should pay income tax? Robots replaced humans that paid tax. The society still needs income.

Tax wise do you replace the replaced workers with zero tax robots or do you tax robot workers?

When a company do not pay tax or pay lower tax they do not pay for schools and roads. That is not cool. We still need roads and schools to build a future society.

Ie the bigger question is that of income distribution. Do you give all the money gained from the robots to the very few percentage who owns the store? What if a majority of worlds work are automated by robots.

How do you tax for the global warming that the store new low cost labor produces?
In other words as products starts to almost cost zero to consume but we are having global warming. How do we price so that we do not over consume cheap meaningless stuff?
What do you think about answer-set programming vs more general solvers like SICStus.
With images it can definitely add up. On S3 + Cloudfront, I was paying about $85/mo for coolbackgrounds.io
There were other rails which ran between NYC and Boston which have since been shuttered, but were far more efficient. Problem is that there isn't a populated, straight line between NYC and Boston. So the curved rail road won out due to where people live. But that's not even the real problem. The real problem is that passenger trains do not have right of way on these lines. That belongs to the freight companies. So, on average, even Acela ends up averaging 65-70mph.
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The other thing they don't teach you in Econ 101 is that treating corporations as obligated to keep and preserve jobs prevents them from creating societal value, and treating workers as entitled to a job disincentivises the invention of new methods of creating societal value. It causes stagnation of the economy.
I know a few companies who use flatbuffers instead.
Well, you can fight the power monster with dark silicon.

Packing things in more tightly lets you spend less time in transit, which might let you squeeze more gates into a cycle, or do the same things a little faster.
Legal systems are basically as old as, depending on how you slice it, writing. If you mean a specific US-centric model of a legal system, it dates back about a thousand years or so.

Copyright dates back to about the invention of the printing press, so about 600 years old. Common law has a good 400 years on that (and law itself, a couple thousand years on common law). Copyright is a baby by comparison. And given that it was functionally co-birthed with the printing press (since before that time, every copy was a blessing---a work of hand-crafted art someone had bothered to invest substantive human toil into because they thought a thing deserved to be recorded in more than one place), I don't think I have the tools to divide the benefits to society of copyright law from the benefits to society of mass, cheap reproduction of writeable concepts. It may have helped. It probably helped more in some spaces than in others. But by-and-large, it provided a system for a person to go live the "life of the mind" and exchange art for money instead of something else, and it's unclear to me that copyright did more than, say, the patronage system to that end.

... all of which is divorceable from the concept of, God help us, exclusive rights to perform a work, which is the weird space music lives in. Because we don't even charge by the written copy there; we often charge (to the best of the ability of the copyright holder) for every instance of "reading" the record and re-broadcasting it into someone's ears.

Yes, I think one can build a case that the cost of upkeep, overhead, tracking, and maintenance to move money around in that system offsets the benefit to society. I think it's incumbent upon the rent-holders and copyright owners to explain how, absent their Byzantine system of moving money around, our public spaces would be silent and dead, devoid of creative works.

The history of humanity and our simple desire to sing makes that strike me as profoundly unlikely.
‘You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet’: Reagan Returns to His Library as a Hologram
There's still a token handful of us around who believe in individual rights first and foremost. Not many, but we do exist. And we will win in the end because we have better principles. Don't despair.
I just had the time to find the timestamp, it starts about 57-58 minutes into that second video (The Cantrill Strikes Back)
>It metastasized into a somewhat 'too big to fail' situation before they had time to react properly.

What harm could come from indicting scammy ICO pushers too quickly, or those who had crowdsourced too much money?
In the real world you can't evaluate every argument. It just takes too long. I definitely filter by people who I know usually have good ideas vs. others whose ideas never make sense.
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The conversation is rarely about his actual techniques, but his popularization of that particular approach to communication with the public.

So really over-simplify: "If you want people to do X, don't just tell them to do X or order them or try to convince them, use psychology to understand which Y's and Z's you can tell them about that will statistically lead many people to do X".

He was just the guy who said "Hey, this emerging scientific field can be really useful in manipulating people even though it is early days!"
Strictly playing devil's advocate, but is the lifelong employment of their staff uniqlo's problem?

If you found a cheaper supplier of milk, would you feel obligated to reimburse your milk man? (may be a misplaced cultural reference, but in the UK 20+ years ago a chap delivering you milk to your door every morning on a rolling contract basis was the norm - generally they do other stuff now)
Churchill was an alcoholic, not a drunk. It’s a fine distinction, but that distinction is exactly this. Churchill continually drank just enough alcohol to prevent withdrawal symptoms but rarely got truly drunk.
In then last 68 years less than half of them (30) had _any_ down days of more than 3%. So those days of 3%+ losses are clustered most closely in bad years.

Six of the 20 biggest daily point losses in S&P 500 history have been this year, the same as 2008 so far. I know as the index rises, a given point loss accounts for a smaller percentage loss, but none of the top 20 were last year and only one was in 2016. It's really not looking like a good trend.
I believe a large part of these pirates are in the increasingly connected world outside of Europe and North America.

I consider myself a pirate, without shame. My first games on C64 were pirated and since then I've been involved in piratbyrån and the swedish pirate party.

But I make enough money now to use Google Play Music and rarely pirate music these days. Mostly movies, shows and audiobooks.

So since this article specifically mentions music I make the assumption that it's not talking about my world.

A vast majority of people around me use streaming services for music today.

But I have friends in Thailand and Vietnam and there it's quite common to see pirated movies playing on long bus rides with VIP bus lines for example.

I also have friends on Croatia and Bosnia and there it's also still very common to go to a neighborhood pirate who will provide you with CDs of your favorite artists.

So I would be much less surprised if they were still pirating music in these places rather than using streaming services.

So there's a big world out there with an ever growing connected population, Africa, Asia, South America, and I'd speculate that they're driving up those numbers.
Helium leak from MRI disabled all Apple devices in the facility
Picard uses voice print identification and very bad passwords. And a lot of magic, like the plot sensitive doors that open just as you’re done talking.

It’s a tv show.
> I liked the article! But I don't think that Rust has static gc because it would imply that C has it too. I

Could you clarify how C would count?

From my understanding of the article's premise, a key part is whether the memory management is automatic or not. In C, everything on the heap is manual, you have to explicitly free and ensure it lives long enough for all owners and borrowers

C++ adds RAII. Going by the article, you might be able to refer to this as gradual automatic memory management except it only helps with the owners and not borrowers.

Rust has owner and borrow tracking, it just verifies it all at compile time and not runtime like traditional GCs (unless you opt-in to Rc). This puts it in a weird middle ground where I can see it being referred to as either automatic or manual, depending on how you look at it.
I have a feeling this is neither open, nor inventive, nor a network.
> No, it's based on extensive geological evidence.

We don't have accurate enough geological evidence to support the kinds of "positive feedback" claims that are being made. Hansen's book lays out a partisan case.

> we're already seeing things like polar ice melt and emissions from permafrost.

What were these things doing a thousand years ago? Five thousand years ago? Ten thousand years ago? We don't know. And that means we don't have the data to put what we're currently seeing in proper perspective. And nobody is claiming that we do: as I said, the claims of possible disaster based on positive feedback are based on models, not data. And the models have been falsified by the data.
It's not just 'freedom'. It's a practical matter given the vast distances between even individual houses in certain parts of the US. Europe, as a whole, is large, but European nations individually are not very big in relation to a lot of US states. People should absolutely be able to travel within their countries however best suits them.
After 15 years of front-end dev, I now work in retail. Some of my other peers are scraping by with Uber/Lyft. Some are muddling through as housewives or substitute teaching.

And, yes, Bay Area tech hiring is needlessly hostile for men over a certain age as well.
If I were the Russians, Chinese, or North Koreans, I would heavily invest in offensive hacking capability. Oh wait, they're already doing that.
The term "AI" is over-hyped. What we have now is advanced pattern recognition, not intelligence.

Pattern recognition will learn any biases in your training data. An intelligent enough* being does much more than pattern recognition -- intelligent beings have concepts of ethics, social responsibility, value systems, dreams, ideals, and is able to know what to look for and what to ignore in the process of learning.

A dumb pattern recognition algorithm aims to maximize its correctness. Gradient descent does exactly that. It wants to be correct as much of the time as possible. An intelligent enough being, on the other hand, has at least an idea of de-prioritizing mathematical correctness and putting ethics first.

Deep learning in its current state is emphatically NOT what I would call "intelligence" in that respect.

Google had a big media blooper when their algorithm mistakenly recognized a black person as a gorilla [0]. The fundamental problem here is that state-of-the-art machine learning is not intelligent enough. It sees dark-colored pixels with a face and goes "oh, gorilla". Nothing else. The very fact that people were offended by that is a sign that people are truly intelligent. The fact that the algorithm didn't even know it was offending people is a sign that the algorithm is stupid. Emotions, the ability to be offended, and the ability to understand what offends others, are all products of true intelligence.

If you used today's state-of-the-art machine learning, fed it real data from today's world, and asked it to classify them into [good people, criminals, terrorists], you would result in an algorithm that labels all black people as criminals and all people with black hair and beards as terrorists. The algorithm might even be the most mathematically correct model. The very fact that you (I sincerely hope) cringe at the above is a sign that YOU are intelligent and this algorithm is stupid.

*People are overall intelligent, and some people behave more intelligently than others. There are members of society that do unintelligent things, like stereotyping, over-generalization, and prejudice, and others who don't.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...
> Despite map fields being able to be parameterized, no user-defined types can be. This means you'll be stuck hand-rolling your own specializations of common data structures.

What a pain! Well, at least Google won't make that mistake again!
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Thanks. I guess I could hardly desire for a best illustration of my point. I suppose you're a Russian millennium, right? The generation which will be defining Russia for the next several decades. Rephrasing a well known saying - Russia doesn't look into the future and the future doesn't look into Russia.
My issue isn't whether or not it's possible for hardware to be insecure or whether or not it's possible for exploits to exist.

My issue is this Chinese undetectable super chip creating unpreventable wide-scale vulnerabilities.

For what it's worth, I've worked in hardware security and I own a hardware quality control startup.
Not at all. All they have in common are comma and dot, and even the semantics is different for these.
> Laplace transformations are differential equations so I fail to see your point.

What I mean is that typically an electrical engineer will convert L and C elements to complex impedances (which depend on the frequency through s), and will then compute as though the elements are ordinary resistances. The expression "d/dt" isn't used in the entire analysis.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasor

Quoting:

> the phasor transform thus allows the analysis (calculation) of the AC steady state of RLC circuits by solving simple algebraic equations (albeit with complex coefficients) in the phasor domain instead of solving differential equations (with real coefficients) in the time domain
My experience with educational research is that researchers find per-pupil expense is directly correlated to improved achievement on standardized academic measures across all areas and for all variables in race/ethnicity, gender, age, and (obviously) socioeconomic status.

I don't know what variables the authors are talking about when they say "we ran multiple regression analyses on our data, which included several other variables", so I hesitate to make a claim on what their outcomes could be. There are so many things they could be looking at; it's almost impossible to know what they're really evaluating without being able to look at the data.
They're not using race as a proxy for wealth, because the two things are different. There are unique challenges faced by minorities compared to white americans of the same income level. (Remember, Trayvon Martin was a middle class black kid whose dad was a white-collar government worker. A big part of #blacklivesmatter is educating people that black folks face unique problems that aren't subsumed within the larger issue of income inequality. And as to Hispanic students the challenges there are obvious--they're much more likely to be in families that are English as a second language, and also much more likely to move around a lot.)
Wouldn't this mainly just be a problem if there wasn't much competition in the market? If cost savings aren't being passed on to the consumers I would blame lack of competition before I consided blaming automation
A "robot" usually replaces multiple meatbags.
First a point about bias. They are quick to point out the bias of traditional scores. But they do not point out that their bias is for libertarian causes. Had they not found that more libertarian states perform well by their measure, they would never have published this.

Removing graduation rates is definitely troublesome. Any school system could then improve its numbers by encouraging the worst students to drop out. Problem students both take more resources to educate and produce worse scores. That's bad for efficiency, but it is not obviously bad for society.

I am also troubled that they are using measures of performance in grades 4 and 8, but not something like SAT scores. I understand that SAT scores could be hard to get. But a lot of what people care about in an education system is how well prepared you are for college, and not how far along you were in grade 8.
> it was forced to embrace OSS these days

And they're still not really doing it.

Skype for Business on Linux? Not happening. Good luck trying to install Linux on Surface Books/Laptops and the like without lots of screwing around as well -- and it probably still won't properly work.
See also "Chainsaw Al"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J._Dunlap
Yeah but thats how most of the projects look inside of microsoft as well.
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"Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?"

Probably because people got sick of a guy with a formulae lecturing them about how human's aught behave as opposed to developing functional models of how humans do behave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game

The Nash Equilibrium of this game is to offer the other person $0...unless you incorporate the idea that humans may care about more than pure monetary payoffs in their mental gymnastics.

Kinda like when that friend from undergrad studying business told you that paying anything more your minimum tax bill was 'irrational'
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a fish replicator...
Socialists generally tend to favor starvation, I believe.
Depending on your goals, Cap’n Proto is excellent.
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It depends on what question you're trying to answer.

"How well does the average student do?" vs "If you raise a family there, how well will your children do?"

For the former question, you don't want to control for racial mixture. For the latter question, you do. Most parents should care more about the latter question than the former.
your typical consumer will receive very little or no direct benefit from this change

Eh? I've shopped at Uniqlo in SF. Compared to buying clothes at hipster boutiques, it was shockingly affordable. I'd say whatever they are doing is unquestionably offering a direct benefit to the consumer.
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I've heard good things about https://capnproto.org/ but the author of this piece may strongly disagree, since I think their objections are rather more fundamental, and also because Cap'n Proto went with banning the concept of "required" fields.

I'd also be interested in what alternatives the author might suggest.
In order to maintain that 5% grit & determination bar while realizing your goal of 3k annual graduates, you will need to attract more applicants than Harvard does.
This isn't true, most democrats do not support redistribution of wealth, where leftists who do support the redistribution of wealth are generally in favor of gun rights.