skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the causality is more likely to go in the opposite direction. A slowdown in China provokes a slowdown in capital flight via crypto which triggers the crash. It might actually be the canary in the coal mine of a global recession. Barring significant positive reform in Chinese capital markets as an alternative explanation, I am going to start getting scared when I see a crash in the Vancouver, BC real estate market coinciding with a crypto crash.
So does your NPC. This is what the whole point is about. How does the fact that it lives in a silicon chip make it any different?

It suffers like you and I. That's the whole premise of this discussion.

You didn't answer my second question. Would you be willing to torture the above mentioned being?
Well, it depends on the game genre.

For example, In real time strategy games, AI is unbelievablely horrible.

AI is so horrible, that even though it could play starcraft with a million actions per second, it STILL sucks.

I agree that an AI auto headshotting you in an FPS wouldn't be fun.

But we arent even close on the RTS front to get anything passable.
ART isn't a JVM. And Objective-C isn't as fast C. There's a reason all of the games and apps that require high performance are written C/C++ on both platforms.
The article mentions a probiotic pill. I think that the microbiome is the place to look for answers, but not with pills, just with better fuel. I managed to lose 70 pounds (from 215 pounds down to 145) and keep it off so far. At the moment, I have to make efforts to get more calories now, not less.

- I think of food as fuel that goes into a fermentation-based engine. I make sure to add the right ingredients for proper fermentation.

- I only eat high-nutrient, whole foods that I mostly cook from scratch. The staples are vegetables, legumes, fruit, nuts, seeds.

- No meat or dairy except for fish (salmon, herring, and sardines).

- I eliminated: refined foods, alcohol, grains (except small amounts of brown rice and grain-like seeds like buckwheat), sugar, sweeteners, oils (except small amounts of coconut oil and high quality olive oil).

- I don't eat nightshade-family vegetables (including potatoes), but I do eat sweet potatoes (the regular yellow ones and satsuma "yams").

- I say, "I don't eat those foods", not "I can't eat those foods." (self identity vs. permission) I view junk food as a recreational drug. I don't eat junk in the same way that I don't smoke cigarettes.

- If I'm out, and there is nothing on a menu that I can eat, I don't eat, or I find some fruit or buy nuts and dried fruit at Berkeley Bowl.

- I restrict calories on some days, similar to the calorie restriction in the 5:2 diet.

- I eat a lot of fermented foods, often homemade: sauerkraut, pickles, water kefir, etc.

- It's sometimes difficult to get enough calories, but I often eat one avocado per day, plus a few handfuls of nuts.

I've also experimented with 2-5 day water fasting (very difficult) and alternate day fasting (too difficult for me to continue more than a week).

I don't know if those methods would work for anyone else, but maybe there is some information there that other people could find useful. (I'm not making recommendations -- just sharing my experiments. Check with a doctor before trying any unusual diets.)

The plan is based on thinking about the body as a farm of microorganisms. Different foods cultivate different microorganism. As far as I can tell, things like refined carbs and animal products (beyond small amounts) are not beneficial. It isn't "paleo" though -- I don't think that paleo is a good idea.
If you read the thread you find out that the Venezuelan guy lives in the US has never done what he described and knows no one who has used it as he described.

He gets called out by someone in Venezuela here https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6d2w1b/bitcoin_is_...
Of course! Billions of people are interested in politics, just provide them some classes.
No, it isn't. The point of sale system is about taking payments. If your core business isn't 'the processing of financial transactions', then buying that is the sane thing to do. IBM being able to field a POS system doesn't make them a competent retailer. But they handle regulatory rules for you and let you be a competent retailer.

Airlines aren't just responsible for flying planes. They are responsible for the planes. It's not enough for the plane to show up in Chicago by 5pm, it has to be there and all of the necessary maintenance and safety work has to be done by 5pm. Anyone who could figure that out for them would simply go into business for themselves and compete.
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They're still old. Newest prerelease is from February.
> How does the fact that it lives in a silicon chip make it any different?

> It suffers like you and I. That's the whole premise of this discussion.

No it doesn't. I set some bits to flag it as suffering. Its suffering is very different from our suffering because it does not experience it in any real way. Bits change in memory, maybe some get flushed to disk, but it's still just executable code and memory, that's all that happens. It doesn't leave that. It suffers in the same way that your tomogatchi suffers, not in the same way that you or I do. Its AI "conciousness" does nothing to change that, just because it thinks in a way more comparable to a human does not make its suffering more comparable to a human. We frequently farm and slaughter non-human animals which experience suffering in ways a lot more comparable to real humans.

I'd gladly set some suffering bits. Heck, I'd probably do it for fun just to argue with people who feel like it's torture.
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It seems like everybody is desperate for Firefox to finish the process architecture overhaul so that we can have a fast alternative to Chrome. It's getting urgent at this point!
To be honest, if you're smart enough to be doing software engineering, then you're smart enough to learn linear algebra, statistics, and maybe a little calculus but not even really. That's all the underlying mathematical foundation you need.
You think shooting at them is bad? What about quitting the game?
Well, I was gonna say factorization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenstra_elliptic_curve_factori...), but I didn't see applications outside cryptography.
Where "some people" always means "those just a bit richer than I am", right? ;)
https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf is one source.
I'm not hearing a no...
Only 1 share can be bought or sold every 5 minutes. In some fairly naive simulations this system was ran against, it would take weeks and months to fall below the 25k mark.

Voting weights can be introduced to mitigate spamming and round lengths can be adjusted to mitigate other issues.

It could turn out a complete disaster, but it will be a disaster in slow-motion.
Ah, right.

I may fork hub tonight and let Travis build a newer version.
The best AI competitors, today, still would get taken apart by the best human players.

How many generations before that changes?
>> Also did you read the comment you just replied to?

Sure. Did you read the posting guidelines?
What if instead of simulating someone who is afraid, what if you instead simulate a really good actor who is only pretending to be afraid, and loves being in a video game?

Moral quandary solved!

I mean, I could certainly imagine myself having a good time pretending to be the bad guys who fight the player character.
Another way of looking at it: effective creativity is the result of tension between a generative process and a filtering/selecting process.

You need both, but people vary widely in how much they emphasize on or the other: too much on the filtering side, you may end up a critic, but not an artist; too little on the filtering side, you may end up a crackpot; too much on the generative side, you may never get anything done; too little on the generative side, you may never come up with something worth working on.
It's just a ridiculously massive urban area spanning about 1.5 counties.

I guess you can say it isn't highly populated anymore.
> internal private block chains

What are the possible use cases for something like this?
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this inspired me to write similar code for julia.

https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/2eca5fe5854ca6ef1154c896d79...

One of the really nice things about the julia is (I think) that it should allow you to seamlessly use the same code to transition to finite fields by overloading the / operation.

Also, each time you build a new EC, the typesystem will JIT the A & B constants, so instead of a lookup, it's an immediate constant in the machine code.

The tradeoff with julia is that all concrete types must be leaf types, so you can't overload the standard EC point with the ideal (zero point). On the one hand, that does make your code a bit convoluted - you're effectively unrolling the type checking that python is doing behind the scenes. On the other hand, the performance implications for not having to muck around with complicated type graph traversals should be fairly obvious.

edit: indeed it's fairly easy with a trivial prime field implementation.

https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/c74ebd8a968e5fc7826762bf6a4...
> Seriously, who in their right mind would accept this? That you pull some data in a ... what, app? Provided by whom?

Exactly the problem I have with the system - MERS [0,1] - that the banks have been putting in place over the last 20 years. I think having to file, in paper, with local property appraisers may make the most sense as a check on large-scale manipulation, but having some kind of independent, incorruptible single source of truth is desperately needed and isn't especially there right now.

> In the real world, there is a chain of trust made out of lawyers, notaries, various government agencies and so on.

And in that real world, there's plenty of manipulation in which houses get taken from their rightful owners. See, for instance, 'Chain of Title' [2] by David Dayen. Again, some kind of independent, incorruptible single source of truth is desperately needed and isn't especially there right now. I wouldn't want to replace multiple, independent parties checking the validity of transactions, but having an accessible, reliable, incorruptible reference would help everybody, I think.

[0] https://www.mersinc.org/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_Electronic_Registrati...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DV1YERY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Justifying bad action (hiding or misrepresenting data, allowing untruthful hyperbolic statements, ad hominem attacks) on the basis of hypothetical bad action is hardly helpful.

> climate-deniers

I've never heard anyone deny the climate.

I've never actually heard anyone deny climate change, except those who assert there was no significant change before the 19th or 20th century.

Very few even deny anthropogenic climate change - most just question the magnitude, relative attribution, or whether it will be easier to adapt rather than attempt to prevent.

You probably meant "catastrophic anthropogenic climate change denier", which is just an intentionally offensive way to say, "Someone who disagrees with the consensus position so we hope you'll ignore them".
There is a team at Carnegie Mellon who build little toaster-sized automatons that play soccer. Their end goal is for the AI to eventually be good enough to win the world cup.

Their site:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/small/#Overview
The idea is that we catch trends while they are still nascent, before every random person in the mainstream does.
Have you played around with Numba (http://numba.pydata.org/)? It's speedy.
All of those were either additional plugins that had to be installed, came with a huge vulnerability surface and/or were closed standards.
Coffee, strawberries, and chocolate are the foods of the gods.
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> And they see more and more American consumers willing to spend $8 or $12 for a cup of joe, which would offset their high costs of production.

A single pound of coffee makes about 50 cups. Who seriously pays this much?
I think you're right mostly but missing a key point. Crypto's value is inversely proportional to faith in government backed currencies in places with high internet penetration. So in the US, it's actual value is quite low because we have an extremely strong currency and well developed payment systems. In China, faith in the government-backed currency (renminbi) and the investment options available in that denomination are relatively low. Coupled with reasonably high access to internet connections and government restrictions on expatriating capital, crypto becomes a valuable alternative denomination.

Crypto has no inherent value except as a policy failure. At least so far. I have yet to see a large scale proof, but potentially at least block chain tech has value for reducing transaction costs in shipping or other fields.
Isn't there still a correlation between status and size these days? Tall with good hair and you're already leadership material...

It's amazing how much of that story could have been written yesterday. Tunneling is still used in the middle-east as a war tactic. North Korea tunnels to South Korea. The value of engineering ;) Embargoes are essentially siege tactics.
And I'm always glad when they spend it :)

We should be encouraging rich people to spend money, not shaming them for it.
The article talks about superpowers, which I take to mean the technology can do some general thing that could not be done before. In that case people can invent a great many specific things to do with it, and so in is likely inevitable some of them will be great successes. So the fact that when it is first invented a given individual can't think of a specific use that would be very valuable doesn't mean much.
Lattice wasn't discussed on HN, but they were acquired two weeks ago by Apple.
It's not really a 'AI headshot' problem - computer opponents can have 100% shooting accuracy right now, and everyone can see that it would make games no fun. It's more that improved AI would make the enemies cleverer. In a realistic world, you stand no chance of taking on an army single handed. You could try to even out the balance by making the enemies even worse shots, but that might also be no fun. An army of ineffectual storm troopers who can't hit anything wouldn't be much of a threat :)
So, we do agree that NATO is a thing of the past and that the US, as well, can lower their payment to the organisation ?

[the answer to this question is of course "no", European countries still want the US to be paying for their "protection".]
The problem is not the quality of interaction, it's a question of what else an AI needs to pass the test. Living organisms have evolved to go about the process of life and avoid pointless death etc, but Thinking and Self preservation are separate. Even people chose to die for various reasons, so AI could be really strange.
> But we don't do the same thing for things which have full dependence, fetuses for example

I dont think a fetus is exempt totally because of its complete dependence. Its because a fetus, while a human being, is not a person.

But Im less interested in the legal reasoning and more interested in the moral one. If the AI is sufficiently advanced enough that it develops a synthetic consciousness and can experience suffering, does that make it ok that it suffers for entertainment?

If there were a god responsible for the creation of the universe, many people find the notion of a god that allows suffering without good reason distasteful (often, this is the 1st step tiwards atheism for those raised in religious environments) despite. Said god's omnipotence is no justification for them
"There are roughly 800 coffee farms in the Hawaiian Islands producing as much as nine million pounds of unroasted beans a year; California produces only hundreds of pounds."

California coffee production would have to increase by five orders of magnitude to compare with Hawaii.
I think this is a repost from a few days ago?
Err, there are over 7B people on the planet right now.
Sounds like a great opportunity for startup capital. Is 10x growth every year for 4 years that unreasonable to you?
Fruit, nuts, seeds, fish -- sounds at least in the "paleo" ballpark.
Me too - thief was a fantastic game and stealth is an entertaining way to play. But even here, the AI is dumb and deliberately so. If the guards in Far Cry were more realistic, they'd spot you far more easily, or would notice things like half their buddies have gone missing, perhaps they should investigate?
Is there a word for "I was researching an obscure topic and then a couple hours later a major publication writes about it?"

I was just researching boutique coffee growing farms in tropical Australia and wondering if in the future people would pay double what they pay now for coffee. And then this shows up on hn.
> A 2017 study found that obesity now drives more early preventable deaths in the U.S. than smoking.

Well, smoking has declined a lot in the past few decades. So it's not surprising that something else has taken the lead in causing preventable death.
As with everything else hackers do, the way to learn would be to just do. If I were to do it, I'd start with a website and an outreach campaign. Sign people up to a mailing list, then create a membership structure and dues. Set some goals, and put governing procedures in place. Some endorsements from existing outfits like YCombinator itself and more traditional unions would help.

Eventually once you have enough money, you can create professional certification bodies. This is when you can really start ramping up your dues because then you'll be solving an actual industry problem. You could probably take a lot of money from big tech companies to help you out here once you're established.
> but what reasons would I want to consider Javalin?

I'm not really trying to convince devs whose main language is Kotlin to use Javalin, it's made more for Java devs and Java devs who are looking to switch to Kotlin.

That being said..! Ktor Hello World example isn't very pretty, and I can't find the docs. All I found was a mostly empty wiki. Where are the official docs?

By the way, pull-requests for other embedded servers would be very welcome in Javalin.
Wouldn't the macro-expansion phase be run until it reaches a fixed point? That way all macros could be fully expanded before proceeding to the next phase.
If they would be so advanced as you say, they would probably be conscious enough to be able to play any game asked. If that's the case, we could just create them outside of a game and ask them to play against humans. They would, sort of, role play as NPC or as an adversary. That would solve the problem of acting violently against them. They wouldn't get hurt, since they wouldn't be the suffering characters per se. They would just play the same game and understood the implications.
How is Taiwan a good example for that?
You say you eliminated sugar, but fruit has lots of sugar in it.

I actually think there are lots of different diets that can work. Mine is rather different than yours (keto, with tons of meat and fat) but I've lost about 60lb on it and never felt better.
For one coffee plants take half a decade to produce.
Hey folks, author here. My phone is exploding.

I hear you on the Facebook login issue. I misconfigured the Facebook SDK and it's falling back to a web view rather than using native login.

I just pushed an over-the-air update to remove Facebook login entirely for now.
> on 32/64 bit CPUs clocked over two orders of magnitude higher

... with monster GPUs.
Good harbors happen to be full of wetlands. The current reality, where there are practically no wetlands near large coastal cities, is very artificial.
People get so sensitive about the word and weather it's paleo or not, but eating like that clearly works.
I was in Starbucks the other day and someone ordered an iced latte with 11 shots. At about $1/shot plus cost of the latte it was about $14.
Those citizens were not the majority in no countable sense. And many of them were in big charge in fact.

I'm not sure where this goes though. Our thing not meant to be understood good, nor bad. It is just a fact.
> a reserve/settlement currency" - Why?? certainly not for stability

Bitcoin volatility year over year shows a very strong downtrend. I would not be surprised at all if this trend continues. Here's a nice graph:

https://www.lombardiletter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bi...
CPython is of course slow. PyPy is fast-ish (and higher memory).

CPython is trivially easy to integrate with fast C though.
Thanks for mentioning this — I've removed FB login until it's configured correctly to use native login!
Yeah I agree with you, the value in this case is probably pretty small.

I think it comes down to two things, how useful it is to understand the detail of the geometry, and how much easier the printed model makes it to understand.

It's hard to estimate how much being already familiar with the geometries in question helps as well. If you've studied them a lot then a physical model probably adds little. If you're trying to explain to a designer why they need to move a component it probably helps a lot.

A physical model also has an extremely intuitive interface. The value probably comes more when introducing someone to the geometry for the first time, rather than for the person making the print (though I can still imagine situations where it would be worthwhile).
Macros are absolutely not a way to get around the type system. The things macros let us do are mostly orthogonal to types and there is no contradiction to having macros in a typed language. In fact, that's exactly what Template Haskell is—a macro system for Haskell. It just happens to be awkward to use for a variety of reasons.

I would go further: a typed language needs the sort of metaprogramming macros provide to avoid having too much boilerplate and noise. You can either do this with a simple, general macro system or with ad-hoc features addressing narrow usecases a macro system would cover. Haskell's deriving mechanism, record system and syntax sugar like do-notation are all great examples of things that would be obviated with a solid macro system, making the language simpler.
I'm pretty sure that one crosses a comfort vs density threshold.
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Bits cannot suffer, they simply simulate suffering. Just because your tamagatchi is a really good tamagatchi that can simulate a human brain doesn't make it immoral to torture it - it's still just a simulation. It takes biological matter to suffer.

Many animals experience suffering in a way much closer to humans and we by and large don't even concern ourselves with their suffering. Concerning ourselves with the suffering of AI seems so much less important to me. I'll sooner concern myself with killing a mosquito than an AI.
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I don't really agree. I think inclusivity is actually part of the problem - when society welcomes anyone and everyone, people sometimes end up feeling alone or alienated because they aren't around people like themselves, who they share a common culture or upbringing with. This leads to less of a sense of belonging and community among people at large (not just depressed people), which leads to a more suspicious and distrustful atmosphere in general.
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Eleven shots??
Ask HN: What are your goals – what matters to you?
What is really important to you?

What are you aiming for?

What are your goals, short term through long term?
I would rather there be less rich people looking to spend frivolously and more regular people able to spend for basic needs.