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I've thought long and hard about the automobile and it's allure. As much as I hate the inefficiencies, I still believe that for a vast majority of humans, the automobile is their private abode, that takes them to places. We are explorers by heart and ever since the invention of the wheel, we have coveted vehicles. They are our private sanctuaries that propel us from one location to another. No other mode of transport, be it a bus, train or god forbid a plane, provides this level of comfort. We covet our automobiles so dearly that we have decided to ignore the perils of air pollution and traffic stress on our own health. If this is not a testament of our love for the automobile then I don't know what is.

That being said, it's quite clear that the automobile in it's current form is highly space inefficient. The 4 wheeled structure has not undergone any change since the dawn of chariots. I think a change is coming, not sure when, perhaps with the advent of flying cars from Sebastian Thrun.
“Match up really really well” is not that impressive if you consider that you deduce the distribution of the dark matter from the observations. So it just means that in most cases you can find a distribution of in all other ways unobserved matter that explains your observation. That leaves you quite many degrees of freedom to play with.
I read that some miners operate right next to hydro electric stations where electricity comes cheap, that would mean they are using excess energy that would have been lost in transit?

https://news.bitcoin.com/how-big-hydro-power-partners-with-b...
Trump’s Letter to President Erdogan of Turkey
I don't think anyone is abolishing the suburbs just yet and I don't think most urbanites care that much about how you live your life out of the city.

It's most that for those who choose a fully urban life, when do we start to deemphasize these vestiges of auto centric culture that sort of took over before cities understood what they were doing.
My license dropped out of my pocket when I was visiting a friend in a town 2 hours drive away. Didn't even notice until I got home. 3 weeks later it shows up in the mail. A stranger went through all that trouble to mail it back to me.
It wouldn't be too remarkable if they stopped there. It's not unusual for enterprise-targeted application databases to return nothing when one queries sys.foreign_keys.
However, they've done the extra credit work to redefine double entry bookkeeping for some indiscernable reason.

> In fact, for the ease of modeling we relaxed how we reason about it and we don’t stick to standard Double Entry Accounting which has debit-normal and credit normal books which determine the sign as we prefer to consistently treating debits as positive and credits and negative.

Surely some of their customers have competent accountants maintaining the business's books. This unasked-for effort will make their job harder.
The image of God as a big man in the clouds comes from two sources: Renaissance paintings and The Simpsons. I'm not kidding. I've thought a lot about this.

Another "in his image" interpretation I've heard is that it's something of a mistranslation. That it's more like "in his imagination" or "he imagined/conceived us" than "we look like him." That's the one I've always gone by, but I like your take too.
Not getting divorced sooner. Too much misery for too long.

Not raising capital when it would've been easy.

Not understanding my customer despite having a #1 market position.

Not spending enough time with my daughter when she was younger.
> For example the gravity between two objects depends on the relative speed between them (since gravity is proportional to energy, not rest mass). Are we calculating that for each and every sun orbiting in a galaxy?

Disk stars in the Milky Way only have velocities on the order of a few hundred km/s. The relativistic contribution to gravity from such velocity is negligible.
Which is zero in many (most?) cases, because you don't get caught.

The expected number of years served is gonna be something like, say, 80% chance of 0 years, or 20% chance of 10 years, averaging out to 2 years (I'm making these figures up). So if you get $2M from that, then you're averaging two years.
what are your thoughts on how federated learning might change the HW landscape for edge devices?
If by novel you also imply compatible, then sure. The moment you create a machine that's incompatible with the conventions adopted by the most popular compilers and architectures, you break a ton of software built upon those conventions, and sink your hardware in the market because it's a portability nightmare.

Specs don't matter beyond the conventions they inspire.
This is a really important point, a lot of comments in this thread seem to think the article is related to proposals for new laws of physics.
I think the answer to that is “not very much.” Telescopes use a lot of highly specialized parts made of rare and expensive materials. They use a lot of gold for various components and the mirrors are made of gold or platinum. The tolerances in the fabrication of the mirrors are EXTREMELY tight in order to reduce aberrations as much as possible. This sort of high precision manufacturing with exotic materials simply doesn’t scale.
Your intuition that there is an limited observable distance because is correct. But because of the expansion, that limit is bigger than "speed_of_light * age of universe" .

I don't know enough General Relativity to give a solid explanation. But here is a rough over-simplification: Imagine you've spent the last 5 seconds blowing up a balloon, but there is an ant walking on that balloon, starting from a marked spot.

In the 1st second, the ant moved 10mm. But in the next four seconds you blew up the balloon, so that 10mm of rubber is now 70mm long. The total distance from the ant's starting mark to her end-point can now be well over than 70mm, even though she only walks at less than 10mm/second.

As the ant, so the photon.
Countries that don't have reliable currencies are countries like South Sudan and Somalia. Do you really expect illiterate people (3 in 4 women in Somalia are illiterate, 1 in 2 men) to use Blockstream?

You can tell that Bitcoin, and its advocates, are from developed countries. No one who has lived in a developing country and seen crushing poverty would make such arguments.
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I came to this discussion just to say something similar. Algolia doesn’t seem to be great for HN, and off late I see it not loading search results (maybe something to do with my network, browser and the site) or being quite slow compared to say, Google Search.
In Casper proof-of-stake (Ethereum 2.0), staking on the "wrong chain" will result in part of your staking deposit being slashed on the winning chain.
> whose residents do have motor vehicles with full access to the city; they just happen to run on separate waterways.

You think everyone in Venice has a boat? No.
I'm not claiming anything "post-hoc", because I have never supported retroactive laws. Have you? Or were you ignorant of their unconstitutionality and projecting that ignorance onto me?

I voted for Obama in 2008, but I didn't endorse everything he did or stood for. If you voted for him, were you at that time lying in bed with his rejection of marriage equality? Answer honestly, and by your own phony standard! You don't get to claim "post-hoc" that you were clairvoyantly counting on him to "evolve" in 2012.

Your reply is deeply dishonest.
> my point is even chronological order can be exploited

The question is, how easy can it be?

The straw man, is indeed, that you can filter such, client- or server-side. If you see the same shit the whole time, you ignore it all. Easy; even IRC clients with scripting had such features in the 90s. Here is a list of techniques used in e-mail filtering [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_filtering#See_also
But that is my point. You won't know until you do it. It's a constant experiment, you just have to start somewhere.
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> Someone could have built the Rift in mid-to-late 2007 for a few thousand dollars, and they could have built it in mid-2008 for about $500.

That's not true. The thing that enabled the Rift was the rapid improvement in cell phone screens in the early 2010s. I know because in 2011 I was trying to design a VR headset that was basically the Rift. Readily available screens at that stage were nearly, but not quite, good enough (most were around 720x480 iirc). I spent ages playing around with lens and mirror setups and fixed foveated rendering etc. and came to the conclusion that it wasn't doable (yet).

My failure of imagination was not realising that, while screens in 2011 were inadequate, they were improving in resolution and response time rapidly and were about to cross the threshold from useless to useful.

A year later 1080p screens were the norm and the Rift was a reality, but in 2007 it was a pipe dream.
Only if they choose to do so by selling their investment if I understood the previous comment correctly.
It's great to know other people are also trying to tackle this problem! I agree, the titles of news stories are often to grab one's attention rather than convey the true contents of a story, and we're still trying to solve this problem. Perhaps some feature that visualizes the mood/ topic of a story based on the full text, but it's a difficult problem to solve. We're open to suggestions though!
It's much better than Apple not hiring people based on their political views expressed online.
It isn't a hunch, though. Physicists have known since the 1930s that the math is wrong because they are using averages in non-linear equations.

The problem is that no one knows how wrong.
I love Chouinard and Patagonia. Chouinard is one of the early heroes and giants behind the rock climbing scene in Yosemite.

That being said Patagonia is as a company that manages to perfectly brand itself as a sustainable company in order to get all the PR and hype coming out from it. They are surfing on the climate change and greenwashing wave more than ever. Yvon has been out of Patagonia's management for a couple of years now.
Radio, TV, and newspaper are each a better analogy.

Postal service is more akin to the infrastructure of radio/TV/newspaper (which differs, and is rather not one but various, e.g. cable, FM, and paperboys).

The analogy with Internet would be transit providers. The undersea cables between US and EU, for example. These are heavily logged, e.g. by UK. Imagine all your post be scanned, that'd be GDR-esque.
This article glosses over it but I think the answer is cooking. Cooking took pressure off our digestive system which allowed us to stack it up vertically.
Yep - I kind of understand that. Thanks.
I think you misread. Sabine is arguing that maybe dark matter is just the error term in our approximations of real matter, and pointing out that no one yet has actually taken the time to disprove that Occam's Razor theory.
There is no programming in FPGA at all. You describe your hardware using hardware description languages like VHDL or Verilog.
Suicide rates tripled for US children age 10-to-14 across a decade [pdf]
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Because it is a paid-for app instead of a gratis one. People expect they "paid off" the privacy invasion that way. Turns out, they did not.
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Dude. That $2 trillion is all of finance. Finance is a hell of a lot more than preventing double spends (which don’t exist outside of bitcoin). On a per transaction and even global domestic product basis, the cost of our financial system is tiny. By comparison the cost of bitcoins financial system by any metric is astronomical.
> realize how many layers of hacks are used to build the desktop experience on Linux.

Still a better experience than Windows.

> Keep adding layers.

Coup is full. Instructions misunderstood.
That's like saying a water bottle factory has only an output of N water bottles per day while the Three Gorges Dam can output N million liters of water a day with the difference that the Three Gorges Dam actually produces something useful, electricity, while doing so.

Just because it's a higher number, it doesn't mean it's equally useful.
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Thank you for sharing that strategic information. This sounds like the way to report a problem with a Google product!
Isn't it the same nowadays? And for many countries in general.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3099092/the-cia-nsa-and...
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I think recently there was observation of galaxy with very little of dark matter. I think it makes the dark matter harder to explain as some sort of theory glitch not the real object.
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It's an observation, not an accusation.

And you missed the part where the airline makes most of it's money from passengers paying to be moved around, whereas Niantic makes nearly $0 from anything players give them money for.
If you're in an area where discrimination against LGBT people is still widespread, then keeping politics out of the office most likely benefits LGBT workers.

In San Francisco, almost everyone expressing a political opinion will support gay rights. In rural Mississippi, many of those workers will be bringing out their anti-gay inflammatory baggage when discussing politics. I'm virtually certain that far more anti-LGBT vitriol occurs within political discussions than the average non-political conversation.

This isn't unusual either. Throughout history oppressed groups have very frequently found refuge in the apolitical world of commerce. Just look at the history of Jews in Europe. Even when surrounded by a bigoted culture, trade and business ties encouraged tolerance and cooperation. The worse periods always tended to be the points where some ruler decided that politics all of a sudden needed to be injected into every sphere of life. Just look at the Spanish Inquisition or the Nuremberg Laws.
No, it's observed as 93 billion light years. That's why we call it the "observable" universe.

There is no meaningful spatial boundary at a point that is currently at a distance of 13.8 billion light years from us. We can detect (severely red-shifted) photons from beyond that point perfectly fine! The actual boundary is 46.5 billion light years away in both directions, hence the "observable" diameter of 93 billion.

But of course the meaning of "observed" is kinda strange here, since we're not directly measuring the distance but estimating it based on from other observations.
It was that one from late last yer. Might have been https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl... . There wasn't anything there that was particularly scandalous; it was just a really interesting that this was the state of affairs inside Google.
What is your academic bg or experience that you are getting such amazing offers?
I’m imagining this thread if it were particle physicists and cosmologists arguing about the difficulty of the traveling salesman.

I’m not convinced we hobbyist physicists have anything to add to this topic. ;)
We were an early adopter of Stripe’s Bitcoin integration. I even was sent a Stripe t-shirt for finding bugs in their docs. In the entire time until Stripe ended the integration, we never received a single payment using Bitcoin.
The Microsoft Bot Framework is a code-first bot creation tool: https://dev.botframework.com/
The learning curve is steeper than other similar solutions', because you actually need to write code, but if you are familiar with C# or JS, the possibilities are much wider than with the others.
The official docs are pretty good, in the design section it also explains some base concepts of conversation design, not just how to use the SDK-s: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-servi...
Goodbye Ray, Hello Asynchronous Search for PySpark
To my entirely untrained eye, dark matter and dark energy always looked wrong. Like a hacky way to patch our incorrect models. Not at all unlike Aether [0] later rendered unnecessary by Special Relativity, or the Cosmological Constant [1] later rendered unnecessary by, precisely, dark energy.

I find it very arrogant to believe that our current model is the model. New physics are discovered when the model is found to be broken at the edges, and a new model emerges whose explaining power is a superset of that of the previous model.

I guess we're coming to the end of the "normal physics" stage of Kuhn's cycle of scientific progress [2]. I wonder whether the current incentive structure for science will let us progress to the next phase, or trap us for unnecessarily long in the current one. I hope it's the former.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
That could be solvable with something like cross-over: https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-chromeos

Of course, in the context of low income, ideally the district would provide standardized choices or offer crossover as a supported alternative.

I’m not familiar with this program, but it seems like Google has made efforts in this direction: https://edu.google.com/products/chromebooks/
I'm currently trying out https://covve.com. It has some of the features that I need like reminders, deduplication and CRM-esque features. I don't like the UI much but it's not that bad either.
Price is the only main reason I see which drive this migration.

About Oracle Database (not Oracle company), I am very much in agreement that (PL)SQL can be used as one language to take care of Relational Algebra, Row oriented, Column oriented, Document oriented and also Blockchain oriented disk persistent tables with local node partitioning and distributed sharding, Graph traversals queries using recursive CTEs, auto tuning of indexes, streaming materialized views, distributed topic/queues.

Oh by the way with little effort you can accomplish almost all what Oracle does with PostgreSQL and its community extensions.
>The joke being "oh theres more student accomodation being built"

Ha, we have the same here in Aberdeen.
I missed that part, and I think that is a rather necessary assumption.
In case you forgot, Hanke was already working for the biggest advertising company in the world when he had that brilliant insight.
This is fascinating. Software can now simulate natural motion, including realistic bipedal walking animations that react to simulated forces while continuing to stay upright. I remember seeing this in Endorphin years ago and I believe these techniques are now used in games. What's interesting to me is that, we still don't exactly know how that works either! Genetic algorithms, deep neural networks, etc. are black boxes in the end.
The linked website attempts to quantify the impact with some stated assumptions. You’ve stated some alternative assumptions, but haven’t quantified the conclusions to determine if they hold.

I’ve been long on Bitcoin, but I am exiting my position over concerns about the environment impact. I don’t think it’s plausible that a proof-of-work based blockchain can be anywhere near as efficient as centralized ledgers are. If any of the proof-of-stake based solutions ever gain traction, maybe I’ll participate in those.
At least in the US, I've never heard dip referred to as chewing tobacco. Only actual chewing tobacco, like the kind that usually comes in pouches.
I think that in Algeria and the UAE if you have spent the amount of money it takes to get a STEM education you don't divert into a different field even if the conditions are difficult, in the developed world the calculations are quite different.

This is something I can attest to personally to a certain extent.
Agree, Microsoft has transformed itself recently in terms of great engineering and innovation, even though I still refuse to use Windows 10 and stick with Mac.
It's the same but even more stringent due to modern medicine. Good luck immigrating into a country with universal health care if you have any number of chronic conditions..
The military has been wrestling for years with the problem of troops broadcasting their movements to the world, intentionally and accidentally.
Because Walter wrote a native compiler. I could see the same fate for nim, Walter writing a native compiler for fun that is.
I wonder if that's something to do with the number of tourists? Londoners have a reputation for being unfriendly towards strangers, but having lived there a few years, I can understand the frustration when walking around the streets.
Cannot the bitcoin developers put in a massive difficulty jump at this point? Just make mining useless.

It won't solve the transaction cost, but I thought sharding was supposed to help that, although I never bothered to learn about lightning network.
You have left the meat of your position unstated. Are you arguing that states should admit all applicants, regardless of the threat to public health(ebola, smallpox etc)?
Oh yeah- and it's an entirely different matter of if the existing states would want to even offer statehood...
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