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Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Scaling
Based on the video playing on his screen it looks like he is working on parts of the autonomous driving system, most likely related to the startup that he was Head of Research for, called comma.ai

IIRC, he + the CEO raised a bunch of money to work on his own self-driving car designs, which culminated in a prototype that wasn't as feature-rich as some of the better capitalized players, which had been demoed a few years back in limited capacity over the last few years. He just got kicked out, as reported in TC on the 18th of last month though, so maybe he's making his own new thing.

Search on YT for comma.ai and you'll see some good content.

[ edit: past tense, was Head of Research for. ]
> it's a hobby, not a career.

There at least a third option, which is neither: a chore.

> You're not getting rich.

This is just a matter of degree. The point of the OC was that reloading was motivated by cost rather than ideology.

My point is that, even if an activity saves (or makes) cash, if it's a chore, at least some people will be willing to spend the cash to avoid it. Depending on how much an individual values, in dollars, chore-avoided-time that could have been spent on leisure instead, the activity may not save any money at all.
Yin and Yang. We need an opposing force out there to balance John Gruber.
Both my husband and I let our ARRL memberships lapse. We had some connections that could've helped the HOA issue but were given a stern no thanks by the legislative team. Communications with them always went south and they just didn't seem to want to think outside the box, or accept any help. Not even to hear us out. An organization that won't give its members the time of day and listen to new ideas is stale, and should be upended..
> But if your argument kind of hinges on the idea that these disciplines axiomatically believe in their righteousness due to their lack of scientific data

But that's not my argument at all? My argument is that these disciplines have destroyed the preconditions, the negative feedback loop, that keep a group of people truth-tracking, which includes norms of free inquiry and free argument, a basic understanding of what is and is not an argument (e.g. ad hominem and argument from consequences are not arguments), and have instead fallen into the positive feedback loop that results when these are removed, allowing tribal effects to dominate. I haven't said anything about lack of large-scale data. I mean, yes, large-scale data is important when possible, but it's hardly the most important thing. And indeed these fields often do have large-scale data, they just lack coherent arguments that this data supports their claim (data rarely bears directly on the claim being made, so you still need argument!).
Google up GeoHot. Early jailbreaks on iOS. PS3 stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz

Become a lot more mature in the last few years, smart guy.

Edit: not a must watch individual, but see what he is up to every so often.
He may be a troll but that doesn't discount the point he's addressing that in the absence of subscription model, content will be driven by who pays for it (ie. other than the readers).
The analysis of "Castle" in this article brings to my mind most religion. Religion offers us an absolute truth what you have to do to get saved and there is no room for doubt because then it could not be the absolute truth. If you start asking religious people what we should believe their religion truly claims to be the truth you will discover that they are just individual people who base their beliefs on their shared mirage of there being a single doctrine that is the truth. That is just make-believe but many people believe it and it takes on a life of its own and their beliefs govern their lives because they believe that other people above them in the hierarchy KNOW the truth.

It is not only that religion is a set of falsehoods, the belief that religious people have that there is a single true doctrine of the religion, and that there actually are people who truly believe and "KNOW" what that truth is, is also a falsehood which they willingly want to believe in order to gain some peace of mind in this universe.

So I wouldn't say that Kafka is anti-enlightenment, rather he is part of it, just version 2.0 of it.
> The usual criterion for distinguishing language from dialect is mutual intelligibility.

The problem with this criterion is that mutual intelligibility is not transitive, so it doesn't support an intuitive notion of sameness that one might expect. Consider some language with distinct dialects A, B, and C lying at different points on the dialect continuum. If A and B are mutually intelligible, and B and C are mutually intelligible, it is still possible that A and C are not mutually intelligible. However, this is a property we'd expect if this criterion were enough to say that A, B, and C were all dialects of the same language. In addition to being unintuitive, it also raises some tough questions, like: if they're all the same language today and the last speaker of B dies tomorrow, are A and C still dialects of the same language?

From a linguist's point of view, there's no useful distinction between a dialect and a language. It's more common to talk about "varieties", which is a more general term that includes dialects, regiolects, sociolects, idiolects, &c. Grouping of varieties is done contextually and for utility, often for the sake of convenience, and often according to some guiding principles (phylogeny in diachronic linguistics, for example, helps us to understand the historical relationships among groups).

There's some truth to the quip that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy, though: in practice, the distinction between the two is a sociopolitical one. Some people will be very upset if some outside group starts insisting that, in fact, no, you do not speak Arabic anymore, or, no, you do not speak Chinese anymore, or, no, Moldovan was never really a language. For many people, their native language is an integral part of their national identity, and it's not for outsiders to decide. It won't matter how precise and logical a definition someone comes up with, because it was never a scientific or philosophical issue to begin with. We allow social groups to self-actualize their own identities, or everyone is gonna have a bad time.
When riding in London a few years ago I came off my bike when a car driver - who hadn't seen me - turned across the road in front of me. I slammed on my brakes, and went over the handlebars only a few inches before hitting the car. I landed on the road with my hip and my head whiplashed over into the road. If I hadn't been wearing a helmet I would undoubtedly have fractured my skull, and possible worse. Since then I've been a vocal proponent of helmets - in London - because this accident was nothing to do with my riding. I had a front light on, a reflective vest and light-coloured clothing.

The real issue for me is cycling infrastructure. London is getting sort-of better. There are cycle "superhighways", but they're quite narrow and have their fair share of idiot cyclists who ride very fast and loose, and make it dangerous for other cyclists. If there was better infrastructure there might be a critical mass of more sedate cyclists who set the tone for cycling in general, so everyone takes account of that new paradigm. Until that happens, I don't think there's a good safe way of cycling in somewhere like London without a helmet.
Same in Munich. When you drive a car you know you have to look for bikes when you turn because there are so many. Now that I am in California there are so few pedestrians and bikers that I barely look anymore.
He's the infamous jacket that is know for rooting the iPhone as well as the PlayStation. He also gets press every so often for trolling musk and Tesla with his self driving startup that aims to hack regular production vehicles to self drive. Probably working on code related to self driving.
They don't show what you claim. It's not fun repeating myself, but be my guest and troll away.

If you want to answer the criticism of the ethics of your company, you're free to do that as well.
Why would I want a rectangular screen for something that goes in my pocket? The removable batter and headphone jack might be nice, but as I understand it part of the reason these kinds of things have been removed is to make waterproofing easier, which is something I'd rather have.
I am using Asus A442uq, and the latest update made secure boot inactive. I had the laptop erased.
The leader in making repairable equipment that I’ve messed with is Mazzer. Their coffee grinders are fantastic and repairs consist of opening the unit with standard tools, unplugging the broken bit then buying a new part off the dealer or plugging in some other thing I want. Grinders 30 year old are readily repaired and parts are interchangeable with new machines. Upgrades are modular and plug on to the base chassis. Some units have a security screw but it’s only ever been finger tight when I’ve found them.
I’m some sort of Mazzer evangelist now and live in fear of them ever changing.
He's a young hacker who apparently hacked the iphone and Play Station 3, but now has founded a self driving car system designed for older cars.

Pretty interesting character, this is a [1] good interview about him and his ideas.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdYbwY9vPU
Yer haverin'
Do you have any examples? I'm always curious for counter points.
It's annoying but if uptime is critical you really need to change the settings for that. The reason Microsoft forces updates by default is because of all the incompetent computer users out there (especially older folks) who bitch and moan about how insecure and unstable their Windows that they haven't updated in 2 years is.
iPhones of similar vintage* (1, 3G, 3GS) looked somewhat similar IMO.

(* Technically I guess it's the iPhone 4 that came out same year as Defy, but arguably close enough)
Yes, Argentina is in a really awful spot since we owe a lot of money to everyone and the economy is in resession. It is really sad to see happen again and again.
I didn't know about the standard deduction, I'll look into it. Thanks
Max Brod: When Kafka read aloud himself, this humor became perfectly clear. Thus, for example, we friends of his laughed quite immoderately when he first let us hear the first chapter of The Trial. And he himself laughed so much that there were moments when he couldn’t read any further. Astonishing enough, when you think of the fearful earnestness...

http://web2.law.buffalo.edu/faculty/westbrook/KafkaLaughter....
I didn't sign up when I got my ticket because of issues like this or related to this. It's really a pity. The hobby has some interesting directions it could grow currently.

The other side of the hobby I dislike is the proliferation of proprietary protocols, but that's another topic altogether.
If he is talking about simulation software (FEA) those can be pretty resource intensive.
What if one were to run one of these "privacy-enhanced blockchain"s from a VPS (paid for with these same anonymized tokens)?

In case it's not clear, I'm earnestly asking this question
He likes jewelry
One of the problems of the modern web.

Sure we can add JavaScript and make the web work the way we want, like this example, but many more... but what about SEO?

For example, I had a page for my app, it was very minimalistic and pretty, I targeted the 400 msec cold loading time, instead of a screenshot, I had a very well encoded h.265 screen recording (it's okay, people who can run the app, can certainly see the video), that video didn't cost more than a well optimized JPEG.

But I had to drop the video, and only load it after the JPEG loaded because of SEO reasons. Google isn't smart enough to recognize the video unless it's a YouTube video.
The only one showing a weak grasp of ethics and English here is you -- but that's par for the course, as a quick search for my surname + your handle shows. I suggest you get over your irrational animus against me. Anger by itself is not a justification for slurs or false claims (to the extent they're falsifiable). That amounts to malice, and does not end well.
We run the official Postgres docker image as a StatfeulSet. Very easy to setup, and we haven’t had any issues with it.
Actually "with poets", no?
Maybe this is a dumb question, but it what stops Aviva from publishing new prices every minute or every second?

> prices for the funds were published each Friday, and clients were allowed to switch funds at those prices anytime before the next price was published, even if markets moved in the meantime.

Publishing prices every Friday just seems like a formality, from what I can gather it isn't written in the contract.
All client source is open under https://github.com/brave/.
It’s been decades since subscription revenue drove the majority of magazine and newspaper revenue - probably about the time most of use were in diapers...
Doubtless not, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
That's easy enough to prevent if you peek into the update settings[0][1]. I have restarts blocked from 8AM-2AM, due to not wanting it doing it during the day when I walk away from work. You would want the opposite. Set that to 5PM-11AM and you'll never have a nightly restart again. I've used Mac and Linux but had issues with all of them, worst being desktop Linux with basic things (for a power user), and Mac software issues[2]. Windows 10 is in my opinion the best version of Windows yet, even if it's also imperfect. You definitely need to dig into the settings if you want things to be right for you, but that applies to every OS, including iOS and Android.

[0]https://i.imgur.com/ls2yNMh.png

[1]https://i.imgur.com/T4UTke6.png

[2]https://youtu.be/1AO3L-T14E0
> he claimed that Apple was going to discontinue OS X and switch to Windows (according to his "sources")

I thought something like that was on the table in NT days (remember it used to support PowerPC). That would have been pre Jobs return and pre OS X though.
On the upside, if Dvorak thought 5G was crap, then it’s practically guaranteed to be a fantastic and successful technology.
not German but have ridden in Bremen and Hamburg. the system works. But leisure cyclists in their spandex and too expensive bikes who like to go fast to "get their cardio" would probably hate it.

pedestrians and cyclists have separate lanes on the sidewalk, and pity the fool who crosses over to the wrong one!
Apple Watch Series 4's Hyped Fall Detection Put to the Test by a Stunt Woman
Here's a great lecture about the Scots language and it's history - in Scots. I found I could understand it if I focus, perhaps given my exposure to British comedy.
https://youtu.be/cENbkHS3mnY
> Anger by itself is not a justification for slurs or false claims (to the extent they're falsifiable).

Interesting that they are not falsifiable. Interesting, too, that your lack of ethics is something you have been repeatedly called out for. Most interesting of all is that you don't even understand where your ethics have failed after having been repeatedly called out on it, calling your critics "irrational." Since you're interested in votes and my comment history, you might be interested to know that those past comments are very positive in the vote count.

But you're taking us way off topic. I'm here specifically to discuss the ethics of Brave, which is what this thread is about.
I wouldn't take this as a sincere gesture. So many people say this in the public eye just to save face without any intention to take it further.

I realise I'm replying in context of Sir_Cmpwn specifically (and I have had my own interaction with him in the past on unrelated projects in very sour taste) but it is more common with anybody that promotes an apologetic-but-contact-me attitude. It's an all to familiar trait of people trying to sound good in threads of their topic.
Fifers.
It’s hard to take image advice from someone who seriously goes from accusations of personal attacks to “Change it” in the same sentence. I’ll file that next to taking conflict de-escalation tips from Linus Torvalds. More topically, I have no problem with you trying to strike it rich down the line, only with the thin veneer of altruism you seem driven to coat those motives with.
Yeah Cumbernauld though..
My very favorite extremely short piece of Kafka's writing - just one magical sentence: http://franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php?story_id=kafka...

The other short anecdotal pieces linked in that page are also wonderful. Here's one: http://franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php?story_id=kafka...

And another, which (to me) is one of many counter-examples to the "Laughing With Kafka" notion: http://franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php?story_id=kafka...

That is, the final piece above is truly despairing in a way that DFW, perhaps, could identify with.
Sorry to hear about your accident. May I ask how fast were you going when this happened?

I don't wear a helmet when commuting but I also rarely exceed 20km/h to avoid the exact kind of collision you just described. I have to say a helmet will help when going over the bars, but you could've just as easily been critically injured in other ways, such as breaking your neck, rupturing an artery etc.

One thing you notice about cyclists and cars in Amsterdam is that everyone goes quite slowly and with a fairly high level of awareness.
That's part of the deal when you buy an Apple device.
This could have been where you were located.

My parents have a nano cell (live in the country out of tower range). And while they were on network, they were not connected to a proper cell tower. The alert wasn't conveyed to nano cells and the like that were wifi connected.

I am not sure how that would affect amber and emergency alerts and if they get them.
What possesses a company to offer such an obviously dumb product? The article offers some speculation but nothing particularly convincing.
Perhaps, but the ship sailed long ago on that one

>>> 1 == '1'
False
Twitter's count of "characters" is code points after normalization[1].

I don't know who expects emoji to count as one character, but they'd be surprised by Twitter's behavior: something like ‍[2] counts as 4 characters (woman, dark skin tone, zero width joiner, school).

[1] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/counting-charac...
[2] https://emojipedia.org/female-teacher-type-6/
I suspect the contract is written such that the prices are to be given to the customer each Friday, and the customer has until the next scheduled delivery on the following Friday to reallocate their funds. Aviva could publish more often but it wouldn't change anything.
cmu pushes vim in most of their courses, all the TAs use it too that's why you aren't seeing glorious emacs hacking on cruise control by GeoHot
You don't have to disable cookies, there is Vanilla Cookie Manager to delete cookies set by any but whitelisted sites as you close them. You can also use incognito mode (which starts with no extensions enabled by default) - I use it when I have to view a site that gets broken by my ad-blocking and privacy-enforcing extensions set-up. And there actually are so many Chrome-based sites you can always install one more if the number you already have is not enough and you don't like Chrome's built-in user switching. MS browsers have a long history of being not just outdated from the compatibility point of view but also vulnerable to malware so I personally wouldn't trust them. I would actually love to learn there is a real (using a different engine) alternative browser but I feel skeptic about Microsoft building one.
> This isn't bad advice, but I would add to it. If you're a large organization and building in such a way that large groups need to understand the details of what you're doing, then you're doing it wrong.

> Ideally speaking, implementations can be worked through with small groups. Only the interfaces need to be exposed and documented. Unless you're doing something beyond CRUD, drowning teams in unnecessary details often result in distraction.

This is assuming that attrition is not a thing. The set of engineers that are on your team is likely smaller than the total number of engineers that will ever work on your project. When people want to know six months from now why you chose RabbitMQ over other tech at the time, having an RFC lets you point to an artifact versus conjecture on past motivations.
Yeah the best match I found for this was the lenovo t420, costs under $200 on the refurb market but has a core i5, if you get a refurb they tend to have decent battery life. Kind of heavy but since the hardware has been out for ~10 years the drivers are really stable and its an easy install for most distros.
Keyboards, on the other hand, are now impossible to repair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KuVvb9DTaU

Interesting. I can edit my comment after it was vouched.

Hmm. I could exploit this loophole. But I won't – yet – because I care about HN.
I wish you luck, amigo. If you get traction, the next two challenges will be to prevent people from gaming your rankings, and to prevent experts with undeserved cultural authority from monopolizing results in their area of expertise.

How do you allow for multiple schools of thought and also whittle away the dead wood?

Even if you don't succeed, you may pave the way, and that is no small thing.
Minor nitpick: it would be called Ulster Scots rather than Ulster Irish.
> and you obviously can't have a luxury brand that the less well off can actually buy

I think you're missing something. Apple could very easily make mid range devices at lower prices but there's not much point. Apple's mid/lower tiers are the previous year's high-end models. Apple's engineers are very open about this if you ever get the chance to talk to them. I think it's a pretty slick system -- Apple has to design and manufacture fewer models, everyone gets a high-end device, nobody can really tell you got yours cheaper, and their devices remain luxury goods while being available at low price points.

So for consumers in the market for a secondhand Apple devices I see this change as extremely positive.

Again, I think the right middle ground would be allowing you to whatever you want to your device but at the cost of having it be unbranded.
So _that's_ where the train goes.
Does this work benefit those who are not using AWS?
Nanoscale Pillars as Building-Block for Future IT
Except it's as old as English, so by that definition English may as well be pidgin Scots.
A Controversial Virus Study Reveals a Critical Flaw in How Science Is Done