wiggler00m

Thanks for the book! A++ would read again.

https://www.amazon.com/Rust-Programming-Language-Steve-Klabn...

"What carmakers are doing with the collected data isn’t clear."

Carmakers will reduce the mortality rate from motor vehicle accidents to almost zero (with full autonomy), using the collected data.

There were 37,133 MV deaths in the USA in 2017 (more than 0.01% of the population) according to Wiki.

Ask HN: Markov Chain book recommendations?

Earplugs solve this for most locations.

I use: Apple Books, Kindle, Play Books.

Will check out Calibre - thanks.

How is the market pricing this if the quantum has not been disclosed?

Backwards compatibility is a good thing for a technology with (a) potential to dramatically improve an industry and (b) insufficient adoption.

For example: Square.

Renewables already supply a similar amount of power to nuclear, its growth rate is higher, and its cost curve is improving faster.

As for plant capacity, the largest power plant in the world is renewable (Hydropower):22.5 GW. Compare that with the largest nuclear plant, the Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant (currently closed due to safety concerns): 8GW.

If you limit "renewables" to only solar and wind, there are already 1GW+ wind and solar PV projects operating, and more in the planning and construction phase. There's no theoretical obstacle to building 8GW solar PV projects, though it might be unnecessary, as they can be deployed in a modular fashion. There are several 500MW solar thermal projects operating and more planned.

The downsides of nuclear are not comprehensively understood. The consequences of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear disaster of 2011 may be with us for decades or centuries. The interactions between radioactive material, the atmosphere, the ocean, the human body, and other organic matter, are complex.

Renewable energy is cheaper than nuclear, or will be imminently.

Proponents of nuclear tend to ignore the long-run costs associated with nuclear (eg. waste transport and storage), and the potential for cost blowouts due to acute disasters like Fukushima (estimated cost to taxpayers: USD $100 Billion).

The fact tax money is going towards Fukushima highlights another problem with nuclear power: the agency problem. The individuals and organizations that planned and built Fukushima are not directly shouldering the full cost of the problem it created. You can extrapolate from this to many other problems and risks associated with nuclear power, because the timeframe is long relative to the life of a human. If the average human lifespan was 200 years or more, maybe this would be less of an issue, but as it is now, profits now will inevitably trump responsibility tomorrow (and by tomorrow, I mean 30+ years from now).

There's also the risk of weaponization, which increases as the number of plants increase, particularly if those plants are built in countries which currently do not possess much technical nous. It's not a technology that should be disseminated, because the risks are real, and catastrophic in their consequences. If this sounds paranoid, Warren Buffett had this to say about the threat of cyber, biological, nuclear, or chemical attack on in the US:

"“What’s a small probability in a short period approaches certainty in the longer run. (If there is only one chance in thirty of an event occurring in a given year, the likelihood of it occurring at least once in a century is 96.6%.) The added bad news is that there will forever be people and organizations and perhaps even nations that would like to inflict maximum damage on our country. Their means of doing so have increased exponentially during my lifetime. “Innovation” has its dark side.

There is no way for American corporations or their investors to shed this risk. If an event occurs in the U.S. that leads to mass devastation, the value of all equity investments will almost certainly be decimated.

No one knows what “the day after” will look like. I think, however, that Einstein’s 1949 appraisal remains apt: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”"

[Source: 2016 annual letter to Berkshire shareholders]

Scientists etc are probably smart enough to find ways around this (or already have access). For example, there was a Twitter convention to request journal articles, and researchers with free access would retrieve them and send them via email as PDFs. Of course, I am not suggesting you do this if it contravenes the law.

On a brighter note: cosmic rays are coming at you; and Elsevier and Springer are making bank.

A startup in Japan is building this.

Suggestion: require "skin in the game" ie. make predictors risk something of value (with commensurate chance of gain if their prediction manifests).

This would likely increase prediction quality/accuracy.

Sonic the Hedgehog knows what's up.

Yeah was referring to the slogan. No shade.

China now owns the front page of the internet.

what?

We should tip shoppers with Venmo, Cash App, Paypal, etc, when the shopper delivers.

Instacart won't see this transaction and therefore won't reduce their wages.

Less convenient. But this policy is unfair.

Build app to receive tips anonymously.

Integrate seamlessly into checkout experience (like Affirm does for micro lending).

This could prevent Instacart etc from reducing hourly rate based on tips (because they don't have access to that info).

"Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it."

Did this guy spend 17 years building a decentralized platform, then launch it on Ethereum (which is centralized), and quit?