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by akrymski 5y ago
> all bitcoin miners could be owned by one person and you would have no way of knowing.... Sure, it's entirely possible that BTC is also centralised and controlled by wales. I was merely suggesting that the reason PoS systems haven
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by akrymski 5y ago
Sure, but if the majority of validators are actually run by the project owners it's effectively centralised. And it's easy to maintain this control if you have the majority of coins to stake. It's not Sybil resistant for th
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by akrymski 5y ago
By this argument the only real consensus mechanism we need is FAITH. In PoS we trust. As long as a sufficient number of people believe some currency has value - it has value. If they don't believe, it doesn't have value, and the
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by akrymski 5y ago
If you'd read the article till the end, perhaps you'd understand where the author is coming from: PoS systems aren't getting hacked today because they aren't truly decentralised. You can't have decentralisation and
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Proof-of-Stake Is Unsustainable(pmstudios.biz)
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by akrymski 5y ago
I hated them at first, forced myself to live with them and now I love them. So much more vertical space on the screen.
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by akrymski 5y ago
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692640 Does HN allow multiple submissions for the same URL now?
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Byzantine Eventual Consistency(arxiv.org)
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Most Americans Today Believe the Stock Market Is Rigged, and They’re Right(bloomberg.com)
2 points by akrymski 5y ago|1 comments
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by akrymski 5y ago
This has been the main reason I've switched to Android. My phone, laptop, headphones, oculus and even my shaver all use USB-C. I'm never going back.
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by akrymski 5y ago
Information assymetry definitely skews things in employer's favour. Is there any reason the government doesn't require public salary disclosure? They already do this for stock trading for example, via NBBO. Yet the two largest a
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What happened to the Bitcoin paper? [pdf](bitcoin.org)
1 points by akrymski 5y ago|1 comments
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by akrymski 5y ago
I don't see why processing JPEG coefficients directly as input features shouldn't have similar accuracy to a much larger NN using raw pixel data. In particular I'm interested in the efficiency gains from avoiding convolutions
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by akrymski 5y ago
Using a standard loss function like MSE? Yeah it kinda works when you feed JPEG coefficients into a typical time-domain CNN, but mathematically it seems that if you're using frequencies as inputs, your convolutions should become simple
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by akrymski 5y ago
I'm really interested in training NNs in the frequency domain: - a ton of data (JPEGs, MPEGs, MFCCs) exists in the compressed form of FFT-ed features - FFTs are hardware encoded/decoded & optimised - FFTs are great at separati
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by akrymski 6y ago
Congrats on the launch! Cheaper GPUs are always welcome ;-)
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by akrymski 6y ago
Would love to know the deal you got from them, any chance you can share the numbers?
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by akrymski 6y ago
This is most definitely debt. If these would be ANNUAL contracts, and the factoring company took on the risk (as with Affirm or BNPL solutions) then it wouldn't be debt. But these are NOT guaranteed future cashflows. What happens if a
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by akrymski 6y ago
Yes. In their words: If a customer churns before the 12 month period that you traded, you have two options. You can rebate the capital you received upfront on a prorated basis for the churned period with no penalty or fees. Or, Pipe can au
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by akrymski 6y ago
Market forces will have the opposite effect: leaders in delivery will monopolize further and have even more pricing power, taking ever larger share from restaurants. Instead we could have had lots of delivery companies competing on price. A
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by akrymski 6y ago
Why can Google aggregate websites without author permissions? Data protection laws already exist. I'm not arguing it's good or bad. I'm just saying that since the laws won't be applied retroactively it equates to creati
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by akrymski 6y ago
Assets were sold to friends and family, with massive kickbacks and for a fraction of their market value. This can't happen in EU today.
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by akrymski 6y ago
Yet another law to reduce competition in the delivery space and help existing monopolies. I'm sure GrubHub and DoorDash are cheering. Indexing and aggregating data is already covered by numerous laws. If Google can aggregate restaur
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by akrymski 6y ago
I'm long hydrogen vehicles due to the convenience factor. Convenience trumps efficiency. EVs are great if you own a house with a driveway and get to charge overnight. Outside of USA, how common is that really? Most people live in apa
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by akrymski 6y ago
But then look at FB Ads Manager - it's hard to imagine that such a horrible UX drives billions in revenue and yet no one seems to care.
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by akrymski 6y ago
Marketplaces holding on to my funds for longer than necessary seems like a dark pattern. Why would a Shopify seller want this? If I wanted a bank account - I'd go to a bank. Conceptually this reminds me of embedded messaging: every ap
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by akrymski 6y ago
Why would you provide ticket sellers with their own bank accounts? Why not send their funds straight to their actual bank accounts?
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Making web dev on Windows great with WSL2(char.gd)
1 points by akrymski 6y ago|0 comments
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by akrymski 6y ago
There are two potential paths: 1. Creating web-pages is like creating music, we should create tools that make it as easy as possible for anyone to create them 2. Creating web-pages is engineering, like building a house or a car. We don&#x2
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by akrymski 6y ago
+1 I for one don't long for the days of crappy hard-to-parse pages created by MySpacers and wanna-be web devs on FrontPage. Social media platforms exist because they organize and format information for efficient consumption and discov

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