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Exactly my question. I have yet to see real use cases for blockchains beyond speculation and some light crime. And I think true self-driving cars (SAE Level 5 in specific) are 10-30 years out. But I think there's enough value to be had in lower, more achieveable levels that I expect some of the companies investing in those technologies now will be long-term financial winners.
Getting well with a genetic disorder while the world harangues me and accuses me of making that up.

Next up: Figuring out how to talk to the world about it effectively. I'm not sure that's solvable. "Curing CF" seems easier.
No, its only negligible for small molecules. Making proteins/biologics is much more expensive, and this is where many new drugs are headed. Plus the investment required to design the process and build facilities is far from negligible either.
So what is your claim here? That most companies haven't learned these lessons but those that have will assimilate or destroy the ones that don't? What would that look like in the statistics? Are there particular companies that you think are doing this successfully?

The post you originally replied to mentioned Google and Facebook neither of which look like companies that have learned this lesson well enough to beat the trend. They both look to me like they have passed their peaks in many areas:

- Innovation

- Developer, public and political good will

- Creating (rather than buying at great expense) successful new products

- Self awareness
And remind me, which manufacturer of s/w is responsible for on-the-fly mis-encoding datastreams as latin1 and other misnomers (up-converting '...' strings to the more pretty versions which demands randomly converting code from 7 bit to 8 bit, but mussing up the encoding hints for instance, or doing the same in cut-buffers passing through Word/Excel) .. Redmond I'm looking at you...
FUD. Even if all the electricity was generated with petrol, it would still be a win because EVs are way more efficient than gas cars, typically 100+ MPGe.
That sounds tough. You also have a code size/speed trade off that must be managed. Where did yours land?
Maybe you push out the profitable tourist and leave the sort of stinky dreadlocked backpacker who changes his baby's diaper on the airport gate kiosk and makes their destination a worse place than when they arrived.
I was working on a calendaring system. We supported recurring events, and each event could also have a piece of equipment associated with it (one or more). Events could also be changed, either the current event or this and every event. Event start/stop times were stored in UTC, but the event was displayed in the users timezone, and could cross daylight savings time boundaries. This was done with a mix of javascript on the front end and ruby on the backend.

When first implemented, the equipment was reserved for the entire time of the event. A feature request came in to allow for partial reservations of equipment (we want to reserve space A for four hours, but equipment B for only the last hour and equipment C for the first two hours).

Solving it on initial event creation was pretty easy. The UX was difficult. But handling updates, especially across recurring events, in a way that was maintainable and correct was the hardest technical work I've done. I wrote a lot of tests.

The difficulty was compounded by the fact that this was a startup and I had no technical peers to discuss the issue with. The code implementing the work wasn't the cleanest either. I could have reached out to friends, but they wouldn't have had the understanding of the issue.
Even if you're using an offset from CMOS time, it's still UTC internally and in the filesystem.
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From the tonne of money it makes doing so.
for drugs you usually patent them about 10 years before you can have them on the market. That would be not very compatible with the current requirements of regulatory bodies.
I don't like how these Scepter mitigations are being rolled out with no cost/benefit analysis. On a client machine, I'd rather just disable Javascript than pay a 30-50% performance penalty for mitigating these vulnerabilities.
So there is no such thing as cornering a market. Its just party-cle physics, all behaving according to some quantum-physics of the codex economitas? This right here, is one of many market failures in all its glory.

Why not be scientific for once and just call it that?
They aren't paying the same people. If I sell my own brand, and they make their own brand and pay someone else to make it, they're competing with me on a platform they control and they give themselves advantages - such as showing up ahead of me in search (Google got fined a lot of money for this exact practice), putting links to their products on my product page saying "buy our brands instead" (yes, they really do this, see https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/amazon-is-testing-a-new-feat...), giving themselves exemptions from policies they apply to third party sellers like review manipulation bans (see Vine program), etc
Tax the tourists and companies like AirBnB.
>This isn’t to say that the US should care less about a non-US person, but that the issues with violation of state sovereignty (aka Westphalian sovereignty) are too grave to advocate action.

If this is the issue, the US should not start/participate/assist in wars that violate international law, should not run a drone strike program that allows an arbitrary death sentence without any trial, should stop their policy of regime change and interference in foreign governments, and the countless other ways we usurp sovereignty.

In theory I completely agree with you, but this bridge has long since been crossed, and I doubt that it is the reason the media only cares if there is a tie to the US.
Those looks like some good ideas, because currently I do use just mtime base (for programs with multiple files; many of my programs are only one file and so don't need to deal with stuff like that).
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Thanks for the reference. Espresso doesn't support recursive records. Does system in your paper allow for those? Is there anything particularly tricky about supporting them?
It is unlikely the branch prediction heuristics that is the problem (that in the Intel's microcode).

The problem is in the mitigations necessary to make it impossible/more difficult to exploit these side channel attacks. And that is costly because memory and needs to be moved around constantly. So that adds a ton of extra overhead whenever a context switch is made.
To me a "script" is a piece of code that runs in response to a thing to do a thing. Either manually or automatically. Arguing that it's "basically the exact opposite" is completely non-illuminating.
Same thing happens with my phone (using the K9 email client) whenever I get or send email over a cellular connection.
"Hey, I worked on a project for a few hours, give me funding"

Please folks - we need new terminology.

This initiative is all fine and good, but maybe we need new words, because these are not startups.

This seems more to fit the term 'Hackathon' than anything.

'Microstartup'?

'Microproject' ?

'Microfab' ?

'Micro-op' ?

Ok maybe not so great ...

Something that communicates that it is authentic and innovative, but at the same time, that it's a small, maybe individual, project oriented effort.

Someone on HN has the power to make these memes stick :)
In case there are any newcomers, it's probably worth noting that just the core framework is written in Typescript, and compiled to normal JS - you are not forced to use Typescript in your own Vue code unless you want to.
Ugh, these "* considered harmful" blog posts...

the only message I read is that someone wants to believe they're as smart as Dijkstra. /s
Exponentially increase patent holding costs? First year 1000 $, 2000 year $, 3 year 4000 $, and so forth
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Nice period substitution. ¬¬
I worked on a similar car trip detection algorithm for a company aiming to stop texting while driving. Not easy at all!
Save up, take a vacation. Stay on the vacation until you start getting the itch to work on something. Oh, hey, look. Here's your list of cool ideas you had when you were busy! Nah, that's a dumb idea, that one's super expensive, ooh, this one looks like fun.
The old definition of kilogram (with IPK) is no good, so it is very good that they are correcting it.

Of course you can still use imperial and other units in whatever context they are useful, and so SI units can also be used in the context where they are useful. But still I am glad they change it, because the old definition of kilogram is no good.
Actually close to none. And the socialist/communist countries do way worse in caring for their actual population so the only hope is with the West. Its a miracle to see what we already have now compared to 50 years ago.
So they've got cash and no ideas? If I were an investor I would be livid.

How is this different from blowing your funding round at a blackjack table?
> hauling armloads of old laptops from the IT shack to my cubicle, a small Leaning Tower of Pisa forming under my desk

that sounds more unrealistic than properly protected Windows systems tbh. New marketing employee hauling lots of laptops, no one noticed? Like, people that work nearby might've noticed that?
I have no information other than the timing but it seems like that spate of firing he did enabled both the starlink redesign and the focus switch to bfr.
I've always liked Steve Blanks definition: "a startup is a temporary organization used to search for a repeatable and scalable business model"

https://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-prin...
Thanks for such clear examples to demonstrate your point.
Amazon has a lot of warehouses and call centers in small towns. Not nearly as many in walmart obviously, but definitely more than a few large metro areas.
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Seems like an asset that would be liquidated to pay failed co's creditors, preferred stockholders per liq prefs, and common if anything is left.
you are getting a lot of "Image not authorized" on your starter kit page
Thanks, that's what I assumed (because it makes sense). For metric you often go two orders of magnitude smaller, but I'm thinking a good amount of the reason to usually go straight to millimeters instead of also using decimeters is that decimeters just can't easily represent many common fractions of a meter (1/4, 3/4, 1/3, 2/3), and a base 10 system can never represent some of those perfectly without resorting to a mixed format.
They're investing in the entire economy. If you believe that super voting rights for minority owners is a systemic weakness in the economy then this is absolutely a problem for S&P500 index fund investors. Likewise it a relevant concern if you're only relying on the economy for you (and your dependents) to obtain food and shelter.

If on the other hand you believe the minority with special rights are actually superior managers of the assets and totally deserving of super voting rights to keep the assets out of the hands of others e.g. management consultants and bankers who've got no frigging clue then you'll take the opposite point of view.

Both points of view are reasonable and need to be supported with evidence by those arguing for them.

The idea that you can't have a point of view by any means other than exercise of the decision to invest in facebrick or not is a little simplistic. Systemic issues are a thing to consider carefully. The global financial crisis did happen, banks did have to be bailed out. (The decision to pursue prosecution and to exempt ratings companies and such from ramifications /may/ have been moral hazard and adverse selection but whatever). Total de-regulation of the financial system has a history of ponzis, tulips, south sea, etc. etc. that caused vast misery well beyond those who were direct victims of the frauds. It's worth remembering that if the financial system genuinely collapses millions will starve to death. The decision to regulate to protect against systemic collapse has been hard won.

Now should super voting rights be regulated away?

I'm kind of less interested in a power struggle between funds managers and Zuck, seems we should treat that as noise on making a good policy decision. But just what is that good policy decision?
Light crime, as in buying drugs, is one hell of a market. I don't have solid data, but it seems that 90-95% of all drug-related transactions go through bitcoin nowdays, at least on the consumer level.
Maybe simply "defensive mode" might be reasonable (since it defends against stuff other than weapons); I don't really know
Yeah, this is roughly where my thoughts lie. When my partner and I were travelling around Europe, many of the popular cities charged a bed tax — usually only a euro or two a night, so not enough to put us off in anyway, but in aggregate allowing the cities to invest in facilities that could support the tourist influx.

Back home, there’s been debate about doing this too. I hope the pro-tax side wins. Our country is suffering under the annual tourist load, and we need more money in the pot to support it — at the basic end of the spectrum, there are lots of popular places that desperately need toilets and rubbish facilities for the tourists (and the locals) to use. Private industry cannot fill that gap (or, so far, has not) — and while the public are profiting from the visitors, more of that profit needs to be diverted to public coffers to enable the government to fix the problem. A bed tax is a great tool for helping that to happen.
How would you differentiate a local vs. a tourist?

Edit: is that even legal?
If you don't like the PR, just call it ReRAM. Few people actually care about HP's grandiose claims, a lot of people care about the actual performance of the devices.
To illustrate your point: if I paint an unique painting of myself sitting on the toilet, that's quite a scarce item, there is only one in the world, yet, it's utterly worthless.

Purely social forces somehow came to the (in my opinion, debatable) conclusion that ladies with square faces painted by Picasso are art, while a representation of defecation by me is not.
Very interesting question because once you solve it, it doesn't seem hard anymore.
How many urban issues are poorly identified?

Does increased surveillance do anything to improve the score?

At what direct and/or indirect costs?
Nah, I've worked with some banks here and there. Amazing lack of security. Can't talk specifics, but yeah, just wow....
Of course it depends on the alternatives.

Less central management == more costs, right? you need more people to administer disparate systems

Most corporations view IT operations as an overhead. What do you do with overheads.... you minimize them :)

That said from a security standpoint, all those little disparate systems aren't really any easier to secure, in fact they're likely harder, it's just the consequences of compromise may be lower
Thanks a lot! I totally overlooked the lecture links
Can we disable Management Engine entirely in order to don't waste energy, in addition to not having stuff that you don't know so that it will not run all of the stuff you do not need.
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Thanks! I might end up reading that
I'm a great fan of 2FA for all administrative access. It's not a panacea for sure, but a definite good layer of defence
Lighthouse, big internet companies don’t care about performance because they don’t need performance to get better SEO they are too big for that. Smaller companies do that.
In the US cities use things like hotel tax to target areas skewed towards tourist spending.
In Norway until recently even with 2 kinds the assumption was that the family needs to move to a suburb either to own house or to rekkehus, a terraced house that shares walls when few others (hills and mountains made that a good fit). This was much more expensive than an apartment in the city.

What newer apartment blocks brought was an option to stay in the city. Surely a 3-bedroom apartment with a big living room and a kitchen costs more, but prices are comparable with own houses in far away suburbs. That gives an option to stay with kids if not in the city center then at least within a short ride from it in public transport.
I'm a computational scientist. Do ML problems not deal with problems that are sensitive input precision? Is it too naive to say if they don't, does one really need ML for said problem over just plain old fitting and stats?
It was in the middle of the night after even the cleaning crew left.

Tho, I don't know how he managed to carry 30 of them in one go, or what he did with them after he left. I guess the number is a bit dramatized.
Automatically summarising a 550 word article into 2 to 3 lines using machine learning.

Tried many libraries and eve saas solutions like monkeylearn, etx but couldn't do it to what was required.

Had to switched to a mechanical turk like solution in the end :/
Hi, author here, yes your paper was a huge inspiration and I really should add a references section in the readme. The row types in Expresso use very simple lacks constraints, similar to the old Hugs TREX system, and don't permit duplicate/scoped labels. I felt this was also a pretty good sweet spot.
It specifically mentions that he waited until late at night after everyone went home.
for the UK? you got a citation for lower rates == increased revenue?

the only close example I can think of in the UK is the higher rate income tax band bit and that turned out to be clever accountants banking on the fact that a change in gov. would lower the rate so they time shifted income into the period where it was lower...
Glybera was never sold in North America and was available in Europe for just two years, beginning in 2015

The patent will expire within a few years, setting the stage for generic manufacturers to step in, but the article doesn't mention it.

In the US, patent protection extends for 20 years after the earliest filing date for the application on which the grant is based. There can be adjustments to the term if the grant was delayed.

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

The article is fuzzy about the timeline of events, bu has this quote:

The stunning results of the mouse experiments were featured on the cover of the journal Human Gene Therapy in September 2004. The cover image showed how, week by week, the mouse blood changed from milky white to a clear, transparent red, illustrating just how effectively the gene therapy was working.

So it seems like a good first guess to put the patent filing at or before 2004.

If so, then the Glybera patent would expire sometime after 2024. At that point, generic manufacturers can step in to sell their version of the product, assuming regulatory approval.
Software support (I took an IBM workshop on them) was atrocious. If they had a way to share parts of the SPU memory with a small block shared between adjacent units, it'd be much easier to build a GPU-like thing out of them. The way they were delivered, it was just torture.
cairo is for custom drawing — if you're looking into that kind of animation, sure. If you want to animate GTK's GUI widgets, cairo probably won't be super helpful
Big win for AMD!!!
>He bonded with Kabila’s son, Joseph, who was his age and was running the Congolese army. Within a few years, Gertler had paid $20 million to secure a monopoly on the country’s diamond exports. When a bodyguard assassinated the elder Kabila in 2001, Joseph became president—giving Gertler a direct line to the palace just as global commodity prices were starting a decade-long surge.

Bad bodyguard. That will not look good on the resume.

I wonder if the palace guard was a branch of the army?
That's a really inefficient way to fund health care. A well run centralized system has massively better buying power and no requirement to provide ever increasing profit margins to shareholders.

I'd prefer my money went to a central budget and was used effectively at a country level :)
There's probably a profitable use case in there somewhere for level 4 cars. I'm thinking office parks and corporate campuses. But I share this belief that self driving cars are way over-hyped and aren't going to be here any time soon.
Google takeout offers mailbox format, & address stays active as long as you log into once in few months..
> At the end I was able to convince the management that some bugs were too serious and required fixing

This was the hard problem you solved, right? How did you go about it?
back in the day, the number of hotel rooms in a city was capped to a reasonable number that was somewhat in line with the amount of available tourist services. Counting AirBnB listings towards the hotel cap would go a long ways to preventing "overtourism"
Speaking of which. About 8 years ago I casually mentioned the diet coke and menthos thing to one of my closest friends. He had no idea what I was talking about. I got really excited and told him that we were going to go buy some immediately. He seemed really confused and sceptical for the whole trip there and back. In the end we had a wonderful time.
I think your language is overly combative, but I appreciate you bringing to my attention this Mozilla initiative. It's clear from that article and this report [1] that Mozilla is supporting the building of web tools to suppress speech. They may repeatedly stress the value of free speech, but tackling "hate speech", "fake news", and promoting "inclusivity" will take precedent. Of course, once the tools are created, these definitions will expand and become political weapons to silence speech.

The author of your linked article, Katharina Borchert, is clearly a far-left progressive activist based on her twitter feed [2]. She is also the "Chief Open Innovation Officer" at Mozilla and formerly the CEO of Spiegel Online. She retweets Sleeping Giants [3], a progressive activist organization which orchestrates campaigns to bully corporate entities into silencing right-wing outlets. It's not surprising that a former journalist will look at the internet climate and come to the conclusion that people need to be sheltered from alternative media and inaccurate reporting, while ignoring the fact that the trust in mainstream media is at an all-time low.

Knowing that this person and her values are at the helm of Mozilla is disappointing. The fact that they're trying to integrate technology into the browser which may ultimately be seized by organizations like Sleeping Giants to control online speech is terrifying.

I think Net Neutrality has been a colossal ruse in a power struggle between Silicon Valley and the ISPs. The tech giants warn of a hypothetical threat posed by ISPs, all while showing signs of how dangerously unchecked their own power is. They act like they're sticking up for the small businesses, when in all actuality, repealing Net Neutrality probably makes small businesses more competitive. They warn about how power would keep getting consolidated, when their modus operandi is to snatch up every startup the second it shows promise.

[1] https://internethealthreport.org/2018/

[2] https://twitter.com/lyssaslounge

[3] https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1046944600152129536
What all is different about the BFR heat shield compared to the shuttle? I assume there is much newer tech since the 70s, is it easier to refurbish?
It was after hours...
On the other hand, using "Azure DevOps" for CI/CD is just plain misleading.