skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe in both BTC and BCH in principle, and think it's good that the two factions are going separate ways because honestly speaking I've been disgusted with how the entire bitcoin community is relying on a bunch of people who do nothing more than tweeting all day spreading propaganda.

These developers really would have made much more progress if Twitter didn't exist.

That said, after the fork I thought things would cool down but I was wrong, it only intensified the propaganda and now I see so many people spreading false information and things taken out of context just for their own profit.

And these people even shit on people who think bigger and say the two should coexist. The only reason people say the two shouldn't coexist in my opinion is either because of their ego or their greed (probably because they sold all their BCH and put it into BTC, and yes I only mostly see this behavior now on BTC people side)

I think it's good for the future of cryptocurrency that two coexist because there's no saying one of the two may fail or go corrupt one day, and not having a strong enough alternative would mean we will have ended up with a compromised future.

But to be honest, I'm getting sick of many of BTC core developers attacking BCH people as well as those [NO2x] and [NOBCH] idiots who just bitch on anyone who:

1. either sees any future in BCH

2. thinks it may be a good thing if the two can coexist.

I think it is an important factor because nowadays whenever I think about building a piece of technology that will help the BTC community as a whole, the first thing that comes to my mind is, "By doing this all I'm going to do is make these assholes--who by the way do nothing but tweet around all day while I'm working on these things--richer, at a faster pace than myself". I hope other cryptocurrency developers learn from this and try to be "nice" so that the community actually thinks that these "early adopters" deserve their worth, which will help with contribution.
Measuring the quality of scientist by how much money they make means that there are no star scientists a universities doing research that's publicly funded. (and making less while they do it.)

Libertarian studies be like: "Money makers making money want more money not less. That's just science. You can't argue with science."
You call it a misconception and then post an example that's extremely easy to understand? I'm confused.
You pump the water from the sea. With free energy. I’m not the first to point this out. There are pages on it. Please google it.
Great guide on react-native and redux with authentication flow
Most Margarine is no longer hydrogenated.
Understood it because it looked like the code for my childhood calc (TI 83 :p)
Finding an objective definition for "star scientists" isn't easy, but the one they've chosen does have the deficiency of being more likely to identify patent trolls than most Nobel Prize winners. Suspect the former group's choice of domicile is much more closely correlated with tax advantage than the latter's.
It's a time problem. Container packaging eliminates the "works on my machine" problem, which is a space problem (environment pinning). It can be used to eliminate the time problem (version pinning).

SemVer is like language (e.g., English), more people speak the common language, easier to communicate. But doesn't prevent others who might speak EmojiVer to communicate. Certainly won't stop people using packages from both worlds.
The biggest problems with this kind of Marketplace is(without the ignored points):

- convincing local Shop-Owners at first (this should be a no brainer but it isn't - many won't see still today any value for this )

- to invest in modern Systems (even if you subsidize the cost of it, there is a chance that many owners dont do/want it)

- bring local shops/stock online (the easy part, because it can be done without further involment of the owner)

- train the local shop owners (it is still a big part in this kind of projects and the costs are high, because many would prefere a face to face training. - lack of PC / Web Skills)

- keep the owners on the marketplace (some local shops will see a increase in transactions but most of the shops will not(they get just more work with no gain), so you have to subsidize some kind of cost(no fees for example) and pamper the shops to stay)

- getting steadiliy new shops into the system (because many shops will leave at the moment you want money from them or - see point above.)

- keeping officials of city/county, VC's etc. involved (with money, press or whatever - subsidizing all of this needs money and manpower)
Thanks for the deeper perspective, very interesting.

Not the OP, but what has happened that is perhaps revolutionary is the hardware capabilities are now unlocking capabilities that were latent in the existing algorithms, but not previously accessible due to hardware limitations. Sometimes quantity creates it's own quality.
Lot of good insights in this comment.
I do the same for Nightly, which I keep alongside the system-installed one in Ubuntu.
Oh I know. People are why we can't have nice things. Like add ons.

Already you can't install the latest versions unless Mozilla approves them.

I just prefer freedom, including the freedom to make mistakes.
the UI is BSD.

The extension is a bit different:
https://github.com/shoutem/extensions/blob/master/LICENSE
People get other notifications that they want to see besides calls though.
Xterm has tektronix mode which is somewhat similar. Try:

xterm -t -e 'curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joejulian/xterm/master/tektests/usmap.tek ; sleep 10'
Positron Dynamics is building an antimatter rocket
I recall Eliezer Yudkowsky once writing that a superintelligence could deduce special relativity from 2 seconds of footage of an apple falling to the ground.
Which Algorithm Watches the Watchmen?
Russian Revanche: External Threats and Regime Reactions
> Do I understand correctly that ... moderate consumption of coffee leads to a reduction in the risk of CVD

You do not understand correctly. :) Moderate coffee consumption is associated with a reduction in the risk of CVD. It is more likely than not that there is no causal relationship here, or that any causal relationship that does exist is significantly less powerful than the observed relationship.
Always a good idea to get your medical advice from internet comments.
China in the past 20 years is basically doing real-world reinforcement learning with substantial fraction of exploration phase while US seems to be stuck in the exploitation phase.
https://amp.azcentral.com/amp/74412576
You can only strip down to naked before requiring external means of cooling. To stay warm you can always just add another layer. Which one is more eco-friendly? (Don't get me wrong, I prefer to be warm.)
Love’s Road Home
> math is always far more intimidating when you don't understand it than other subjects.

In a way it is like a magic trick. Frustrating when you don't know how it works, but when you find out it's like: oh was that all there's to it? However, unlike a magic trick, math leaves you with something that can be actually useful.
Are video games really worth your time? (2012)
Isn't this a violation of the ADA?
I'm sure you could show this post 40 years from now, people will still understand it from programming their TI-83 in high school.
>The paper looks at corporate and income tax but completely ignores sales tax,

Say I make $150k/yr.

Income tax will be taxed on almost all of it.

Sales tax will be taxed on what I spend. I'm pretty sure I'll spend a lot less than $150k/yr.

The effect of income tax for higher income folks vastly exceeds the effect of sales tax.
> this is like politics except it moves way faster and the result impacts these people immediately and directly

This cyberpunk world is scary.
It’s weird that the app they decided to showcase [1] using their product - has one stars as majority of ratings with a main reason of it crashing all the time. If that’s the best what they could have shown, I wonder how bad it can get then

[1] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brides-wedding-genius-5-1/id...
If you are not too picky, there's always JavaScript and Canvas.
If nobody lives in the cities, can the experiments be considered valid?
seriously unable to be serious
That intersection may be the same people who are attracted to anything new that promises something different from what we currently do.
Increasing the blocksize for now will have the effect of postponing any more scalable solution.
> Most of those are small acts in comparison with the power that the US government has, and one of those acts was linked to the MIC that GP mentioned (DARPA is part of the MIC).

Thanks. I take back that bullet point.

Still, you've shifted the argument. If we take the commenter I responded to seriously, then "food pyramid" must be an example of what they mean by a federal program being "subpar." The food pyramid is a failure-- citizens' tax money went to fund a program that delivered inaccurate and unhelpful information back to them.

In response, I enumerated a few federal projects that popped into my head which most reasonably people would deem successful.

So I think we both disagree with the commenter's assertion that everything other than military spending is subpar by the measure their own example suggests. Even in your own assertion about gov't spending, you rely on a well-respected agency-- the CBO-- whose success at their role gives further evidence against the commenter's assertion.

edit: clarification
I wonder what the actual liquidity is of converting BCH in to hard currency? (which ultimately miners need to pay for operations and capital expenditures.)

It was blatantly obvious (to me) that something funny going on at MtGox meant the price was not real. The number of global exchanges, alt coins, and overall crytpocurrency appreciation in 2017 makes it almost impossible to sniff out potential problems. Despite the radical transparency of the blockchain ledger, all of the other trading and exchange activity is quite opaque.
really having high hype for godot 3 web targets, having used phaser so far made me hate the browser environment even more and the sooner an alternative to requestAnimationFrame comes out the better.
>There is no technology end-run around the law

This doesn't mean we should just facilitate pervasive monitoring.
OT: @lightedman you're dead. Apparently due to some heated discussion on the term regression. But from a glance I couldn't find anything that stood out enough to warrant a ban. Might want to send an email and have your account unbanned.
I wasn't as concerned about Windows-only programs as I was about non-open x86 programs in general. While there's definitely more closed Windows programs, there are Linux builds of closed-source tools which are only available for x86.

That having been said, I need to look into QEMU.
Hmm that's very interesting. I just don't understand how he made it through university. When I was enrolled in CS I somewhat got along with Algebra and was completely lost when it came to Analysis and so I dropped out. Back then I was working so hard at my courses I felt that I simply had no time to even consider "other stuff". I would like to know how it was obvious to him what he had to do.
In AI it's not hype is trajectory.

The fact that computers now can learn they way they do, is a very big deal it simply cannot be emphasized enough. We are only a few years in and haven't seen the limits of where it can be applied yet.

It's Moores Law + Metcalfe's law.

With space there are all sorts of hard limits because of physics and the goal is very specific. With deep learning there isn't some hard limit because there isn't very specific goals in the same way and not the same kind of laws hindering it.

On the subject of space I am much more convinced that AI will be traveling the universe than humans.
I've not been inclined to use this browser since they started with pocket, moved to offering a voice and video chat service, forced PulseAudio as a mandatory dependency and eventually enacted mandatory opt-in telemetry in the browser.

sandboxing is great, but if the site is spooky enough im just going to load it in elinks/lynx and grok the text. Chromium also has sandboxing, and if youre really paranoid enough, surf from suckless.org is a webkit style do-it-yourself browser thats fairly reliable.
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I and l looking exactly the same in some fonts is a different problem, really. You're not being asked to pick out a two pixel difference in slope (seriously, two pixels using pretty standard resolution). You use grammatical rules to tell the difference, which is annoying but not visually difficult. And numbers aren't getting freely mixed with letters in text.
I won't profess knowledge of particle physics, but in EM systems where they set c=1, c is not dimensionless.
Certainly, but both are encoded in the energy-momentum tensor and for better or worse that's usually considered to be what generates the metric (or perturbations thereof, if you want to do things that way).

In Newtonian mechanics, kinetic energy is rotationally but not Galilean invariant, sure. But in GR in a local inertial frame the pressure T^{ij}, i=j, i!=0 sure looks like kinetic energy \gamma m(v^i)^2. [1]

Should we really strongly distinguish between the pressure and T^00 just because in a local inertial frame the latter looks like \gamma mc^2 ? Sharpen the question by considering vastly different frames of reference.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_theory_of_gases#Pressu...
I have a strange feeling of synchronicity, I saw this code for the first time only this morning on the 8bit guy's YT channel, looks like this page just pre-dates that video though. https://youtu.be/KAivGLHJzJM?t=18m54s
Information engineering, that is. In his book "Parting with illusions" V. Pozner claims from journalist's experience: no matter what external propaganda will do it can be neglected really. Because internal propaganda will beat it in a big way.
Where did you get such numbers? H1B data and Glassdoors show significantly less.
> "We need redistribution, retraining, a real social safety net, healthcare, etc. so that people actually have better options than exploitative employment situations. Then it isn't even necessary to ban them, because no one would want them anyway."

What we (aka The Market) needs is choices. We willingly got ourselves into this. We bought into the idea that cheaper (and disposable) is best - a la Walmart - and then rotted our communities from the inside out. The local mom & pops replaced by a browser and a UPS truck.

So while Widget X was/is less expensive we're still at the end of the year out of pocket for just as much, if not more, in order to yield all the intangibles the more expensive widget supported.

Yes the solution legislation? It might be. The question is will that help to solve the root problem, or simply create another gov program that creates long term dependency, instead of working towards an enabled citizenship; a society where better individual decisions matter.

It seems to me we've bought into the idea the price is the only thing that matters, and then we wonder why we're treated as human resources.
The “A [?]” iPhone Bug Spread Like a Virus
If someone claims to support industry standards (or best practices), just ask which standard. Is it, for example NIST 800-63B ( https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html )?

Of course, they aren't really following any standard or best practice -- but it will be tough to get them to admit that.
Several years ago I went to a James Turrell exhibit at the LA County Museum of Art. He had this one piece called "dark spaces" that is kind of like the experiment where you go sit an a dark (i.e. lightproof) room for like 10 or 15 minutes and then you start to see this 'blob' in front of your eyes where he's leaked in a really small amount of light. Anyway if you like weird things with light he has a lot of them. Since he uses light as his medium you can't get too much of a sense of them from a photo, you kind of have to see them in person.

http://jamesturrell.com/work/type/dark-space/

http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/james-turrell-retrospect...
The art of the dinner party
The problem with pulling water from the anus is purification before consumption.
How generative music works
I've recently taken to just not having any spread on my bread other than the main ingredient.

Example: toasted slice of yeast bread (my recipe is 50% white, 20% rye, 30% wholemeal) with jam or with a slice of cheese or hummus or fool maddamas or an apple. Just no butter/marge/whatever.

I do now have butter and toast a couple of times a week.
Jeff Bezos’ guide to life
Here's a smaller one:

python3 -c 'while True: print(__import__("random").choice("╱╲"), end="")'
But humans had millions of years to evolve.

The computer is only 70 years old. Give it 100 years and we will make it as efficient as a human brain, possibly even better.

Evolution is a slow process. Non sentient trial and error. We beat that in time easily.
Always followed by wild laughter, when I've seen people get the light.
So I just went to USPS Official Change Of Address Site:
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Privacy Policy excerpt:
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^that returns a 404 for me

With a big blue "Agree and Continue" button... I certainly won't be entering my phone number in that form.

I will assume phone number can be considered part of "address" but it's unclear.
I have lived in Toronto for all of my life. I cannot ever recall meeting an Aboriginal person, except once as a teenager. I was working retail, and they provided their ID card when they wanted me to not charge sales tax. They didn’t fit my stereotype of what I thought they should look like, so it’s entitely possible I’ve met more without knowing it.

Just because Toronto and many Canadian cities are multicultural doesn’t automatically make us not racist. I have some friends that share my skin colour that moved to Calgary, and they have some pretty negative attitudes towards Aboriginal people.

I love Canada and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. But we’re far from perfect.
It’s not a rigorously defined phrase but yes basically.
I teach some AWS courses and that's something I always bring up: if you have a system you are thinking of building it always makes sense to see if AWS has a prebaked solution and evaluate it. The solution may not meet your needs but is likely to be available at a price/performance ratio (especially considering fully weighted operational costs) that will make it compelling if it does meet the requirements.
"I've been disgusted with how the entire bitcoin community is relying on a bunch of people who do nothing more than tweeting all day spreading propaganda."

The fish rots from the head. See my posting about Brock Pierce, Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, and the film about him, "An Open Secret".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15681189

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5icPtmLsTy4

Yeah, THIS Brock Pierce:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155736654012782&se...

The creepiest comment on that photo is "I'd love to see a pic of you shaking the Donald's hand, each wearing your respective hats. And Baron is going to need your advice and counsel. Need to make this happen."
> This isn't a single laptop design: this is a prototype for building lots of different machines.

OK, then it makes sense. The website isn't clear about that.
Yes. But they also charge more because they can. Healthcare is not special. It's like any other limited resources. That is, increase demand and the price goes up.

On the other hand, lower demand and prices will fall.

As it is we're getting older and intentionally living a more unhealthy lifestyle, but expecting prices to fall?

No doubt there are vast disfunction in the current system. However, the biggest - literally - component of that system are the humam seeking / needing care. What's more unhealthy, those people or the insurance companies? I can't see the line between the diabetes dot or the smoking dot and the insurance companies.
"I just don't understand how he made it through university."

The point of University is to improve your ability to figure things out utilizing what you already know. Note that this person stated that they had to work backwards with a lot of stuff, probably building from prior knowledge until they had the proper knowledge base required to tackle the subject.
The old model is a security mess. Even WebExtensions doesn't seem immune to security issues:

https://palant.de/2017/11/11/on-web-extensions-shortcomings-...
It's best to use the browser with Firejail.
Right. Because we now know that synthetic trans fats are bad.

I still love eggs fried in butter. But otherwise, I mostly use olive oil. Or almond butter.
I've recently been considering exactly the opposite. A place where I can take a 'technology vacation'. Perhaps extended. Most HNers probably couldn't comprehend a world without Internet-connected wireless computers, but in that time, one could actually think for hours about a single idea, concept, design, desire or plan without interruption. Or one could just read a book cover to cover. Sure, just 'turn your smartphone off', but just knowing that so much information is flowing through it and that something you may 'need to know' might transpire while you've got it powered off makes it a bit like withdrawal.

Let's build a 'quiet place' we can share with friends and family that is completely unplugged, with one landline phone downstairs in the hall, a newspaper on the porch in the morning, and a library full of books we've always meant to read....

It would be like re-charging your brain from the attenuation of interruption.
I'm not sure why I should have myself forced into another framework, when I could have just imported those components if I wanted them. Also, aren't many such components not available as open source already?
Well in most federations, until there’s a constitutional change.
"Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr. van Dam received a research grant from the Nestec Company. No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported."

Guys, Nestec own the world's biggest coffee machine company, Nespresso.
Sorry, but that's quite wrong:

We have gravitational, weak, e/m and strong interaction.

Electromagnetic has the same range, only most objects seem to be neutral.

"Mechanical" force is normally electromagnetic.

The weak force is weak, but not as weak as gravitation (assuming normal charges)

The strong force has indeed short range but is attractive.
I dunno what the need for using pygame was if the goal was to replicate this you could just use print in the REPL with a loop or recursion
First Deep Learning System of 1991 and Deep Learning Timeline 1960-2013