skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are actually not disagreeing with what I said on most points, where we differ is the conclusion.

First, no where I mentioned current market cap, let alone its link to utility. As an aside, Ethereum and Bitcoin Gold combined mkt cap are slightly half of Bitcoin's, so it's not tiny fractions by any measurement.

As you said, one has to make the distinction between current utility and potential utility. You argued that Bitcoin is valuable because it has the most name recognition, and it has the biggest potential utility via Lightning Network.

I actually typed up more on how Lightning Network in my previous post, but I deleted it because I don't want to stifle the conversation. But hear me out, other crypto currencies have implemented LN and are beginning to use it. Aside from the fact that it would only give BTC 1.7x transaction counts boost, what other features does LN bring to Bitcoin that other currencies can not achieve? Name recognition again.

I haven't even gotten into how long it is taking the Core team to put in a functional LN into Bitcoin. By the time they are done, so would every other cyptocurrencies under the sun.
The importance of state ownership in Elm
> someday somebody will accept their Dunning-Krugerrands in exchange for goods and services

Someone already will, most notably for illegal goods and services.
People are free to take whatever criteria they want into their upvote. Certainly all of that plays into the decisions individual voters make when they upvote a post, but it's not required.

There's no authority granted by being on the front page. You should feel free to question any ideas presented, no matter who they are from (including from people with actual authority... since even smart people are still just people).
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> Or go a step further do what nobody has the balls to do: tax wealth

Heard of this before. Have there been any attempts of that before and how did it fare?

It would seem to be as soon as wealth is taxed, wealth will morph or change shape to avoid being taxed. We'd end up with some new arcane tax scheme where wealth is held in a tropical island nation and the owner of the wealth gets a stipend or I don't know, rents all their possessions from that entity.
So we should stop shopping at Amazon so their workforce is laid off?

Or we should force Amazon to raise their prices which affects low income consumers the most?
Apple moving away from PPC to x86 effectively ended any remnants of PPC in the consumer market.

All that's left now is the server grade POWER, its really hard now for anyone to get access to PPC without getting an expensive POWER setup.

You can see that in the ecosystem as well, ppcel builds exist from Ubuntu, but I don't think their performance is as well tuned as the x86 ones. This is another takeaway, if you don't have hardware in the consumer market, your ecosystem will die out. Nobody will know you.
I was just thinking about how I bought a G5 Thanksgiving weekend back in 2004.

I bought the base configuration. It came with only 256MB of RAM, which honestly was a criminally low amount for that size of machine. My wimpy 12" Powerbook felt faster, because it wasn't thrashing all over the place like the G5 was. I think I lasted three days before upgrading the memory.
Elon Musk May Be the Creator of Bitcoin, a Former SpaceX Intern Theorizes
Love the bug and it's been a while since I've done anything in C++, but isn't your description slightly wrong? There would be one instance per .cpp file that #include'd Foo.h, not one per getInstance() call. I don't think that "inline by default" is an accurate description of what would happen, and I have to imagine that if inline-ing a function caused different behavior, then that would be considered a compiler bug. Rather, I assume you mean it was "inlined" into the file at the #include point (and not once per call). Not that any of that changes the bug qualitatively.
True. There are many more limitations with cash. The most important example might be illegal drug quality. With cash, you can give a friend of a friend some money for drugs. Who the hell knows where they got it from. With crypto, you can buy from an online marketplace complete with thousands of reviews and quite possibly much safer drugs than what you may find in your local community.
It wasn't funny at the time. I helped develop and app + hardware for measuring the force generated when luge / ski cross / boarder cross athletes start. The handles measure the force and sent the data to an iPad which also recorded video.

Worked fine in the office. Every time we went up on the mountain to test, the video didn't work. Go back to the hotel it worked fine.

Whole project was going to fail because of this. Finally it worked once on the mountain, so we proved the system could work.

Finally I found the bug. When setting the video orientation, I was passing in device orientation instead of UI orientation. In my office, I always have my iPad on a stand, so device orientation matched ui orientation and everything worked fine.

When I was on the mountain, I held the iPad flat so I could shield it from the sun with my body, then I'd lift it up when the athlete was about to start. The video would fail to record if device orientation was 'down' since that isn't a valid orientation to rotate video.

I only ended up finding it because I ended up leaving my iPad stand at home one day.
> What it could do is experiment. It could rewire the network, add or take away nodes, change functions, etc. This could potentially be done and evaluated by it at an incredibly fast rate compared to humans.

"Potentially," but let's not get ahead of ourselves here. There are two ways a brain could be "rewired." It could first be rewired by a local process, that is to say, a group of neurons decide how they are to be connected to each other, without influence from faraway neurons except through the normal propagation of signals through the brain. That's how biological brains do it. Or it could be rewired by a global process, a coordinator that can look at the big picture and make minute changes. That would be your suggestion.

My contention is that the latter method involves a lot of hardware overhead: you basically need a global network connected to each and every neuron which can probe their state in addition to the local wiring that lets neurons communicate with their neighbours. You need space for this bus, so neurons need to be further apart than they otherwise would, which means that signals have to travel further and the brain will think slower.

Nor is "rewire the network, add or take away nodes, change functions, etc." necessarily an effective strategy. First you need to identify what to change, which is like finding a needle inside a haystack, then you need to figure out in what way to change it, which is also difficult, then you need to test whether it had the intended effect, and more importantly, whether there were harmful side-effects. Whether humans can do it or not is not relevant: What is relevant is whether this process is efficient enough to beat the baseline local learning method. It is not clear that it would be.

> Regarding the difficulties of it reading its own source code, even the hypothetical ones you cite are many orders of magnitude smaller than those faced by humans in reading their own, as long as the AI is not itself running on a biological substrate.

What makes you think these are smaller difficulties? On the contrary, if you imagine that the AI is built as a very dense, solid 3D circuit, and you need to read the value of a neuron at the center, you might have a much harder time jamming a probe in there than you would injecting one in a squishy human brain. You would need to build it in such a fashion that it can be probed easily, but that may require making the circuit twice as big and therefore slower. Furthermore, in the presence of local update rules, which is likely to be the case, your "source code" is changing all the time, even as you read it, so your self-knowledge is constantly out of date. There is a synchronization issue here.
I like the Centris idea. We might as well call the Mac Pro Performa instead to emphasize its performance.
GDP, as I understand it, is the total value of all goods and services produced. It seems that in order to give someone something, it has to be taken from someone else who has it. But there is no single person or entity who owns the GDP, so how can a share of it be given to anyone?

It seems what Sam is suggesting is using taxes to redistribute wealth and provide a basic income, which, sure I think a lot of people are already on board with that and more will be as time goes on. But this idea of equity in a country is only confusing the issue.

A government is not a corporation. It does not exist to generate a profit. It should not be run that way. There is no "market" for governmental products or services. A government is necessarily a monopoly over a specific geographic area.

This seems like an extreme case of "If all you have is a hammer...". Sam clearly lives and breaths startups and business, so maybe he sees everything through that lens. It doesn't apply here and I don't think it's very helpful.
> Isn't a co-op that's run as a dictatorship basically a corporation?

In double-entry land, the ownership of labor is diluted every time new capital is contributed. Obviously people contributing capital should get rewarded, but the fact that causality only runs in this direction is super broken. Whereas in triple-entry land, capital can get diluted every time you add new labor. This works because the technology allows labor to be viewed as an asset rather than as an expense.

Accounting innovations like this are kind of boring, but economically it's probably still the most important invention since double-entry was popularized in 1494.
I have never been able to stay awake in lectures. Never. Being able to have a laptop in class helped me stay awake, and get through graduate school.

I'll never ban them in my classes. Students know what they need.
I've run experiments/developed on both Applied Micro's X-Gene 1 and Cavium's ThunderX (the original). Both of these have been touted as "ARM servers".

The X-Gene was complete crap in terms of both performance and power consumption. The ThunderX was only really useful for highly-parallel applications that don't require a lot of horsepower, and even then it's a power hog.

I'm cautiously optimistic with Qualcomm's Centriq and Cavium's ThunderX2, but unless they can make a compelling argument in terms of power consumption, I'm skeptical of them making any inroads into the market. Sure, Intel Xeons and IBM Power8s may suck power, but they're _damn_ fast, so you can execute your workloads quickly and then just shut the machine down or enter idle power states.
A bug that occurred only on Wednesdays: https://gyrovague.com/2015/07/29/crashes-only-on-wednesdays/
Do you have a source for the 60% higher rate? Curious to read more about this.
Why you bought a laptop with an i7 then in the first place? There are already more energy efficient alternatives - i5, i3, core m.

I have a theory that probably when Apple will release a laptop with their own SoC it will be more expensive...
You'd be surprised, though.

I work at an Amazon fulfillment center near Austin and I wouldn't say that the people working there seem poorly educated or skilled, at least not less so than average. They're mostly working at Amazon for the benefits and possibility of extra cash during peak. Also bear in mind that, because of what Amazon pays at the bottom tiers, many of these people also have a second job as well, so it's not necessarily the case that this is the only job they could have. There are just too many people working in these jobs for that to be the case.
> The mother planet reaps no material benefits from colonizing another star.

In the book series, without giving away too much of the plot, the handful of countries that acquire and develop spaceflight technology/space bases become political powers in their own right.

If you watch or read "The Expanse", the political shifts are similar. The colony on Mars, in particular, is particularly threatening and powerful.
40 years from now $1.1 million won't feel that much actually.
And then it gets capital gains taxed when you sell it.
Trump considering banning White House staffers' personal phones
HP had to take a write down of $8.8B after their Autonomy acquisition.
> "knowledgeable employees" of private investment firms are allowed to participate in PE deals even if they are not accredited investors.

These people almost always earn more than $200,000 a year and so qualify as "accredited investors" under the SEC's definition. Keep in mind, too, that start-ups can compensate their unaccredited employees with equity just the same.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor securities advice.
Sending funds to family in a different country. It's a use case I have not had experience with but which I think makes sense.
typically there is no dilution, which is what makes this asset class so attractive, but it depends on the individual token's mechanics.

although there are some investors, which primarily help for funding and price discovery, only a small portion of the float is distributed to them. the other portion of the float is doled out to contributors, which would be the video creators in this case.

a way to avoid dilution of the pool would be to price the rewards in USD and give the associated amount of currency

they have to create a demand model to support this, many cryptocurrencies have no demand model whatsoever and just think they can reward people in it
> promise you that your investment will go up.

I challenge you to find a single ICO which says that (or something very similar) in their terms and conditions, homepage, or white/yellow papers. So far, every single one I have read about said it was a risky investment with no guaranteed return.

Now check out lottery advertisement for a different message: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c8/95/f6/c895f66260e1517e2b2437d8a...
So UBI but with the freedom to not cash out annually?
Hello, no I don't day trade, because I cannot compete with HFT - I just don't have the money to do so... Unfortunately I am yet to read a good book on the subject, largely because no one will share a working strategy or method - e.g. if someone is making money, he's not going to write on how it... The one book I can recommend is more for motivation/history lessons and it is called More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Money_Than_God
The United States is not a corporation or a startup and should not be treated as such.
I had a similar one (almost 20 years ago!) where I came back from lunch to a panic about all the sites being down.

The errors on all the sites were reporting a broken sql query - something like "select * from qccounts...". I guess the way ASP worked meant that the code was stored in a common location in memory for all the sites.

I like to imagine some cosmic event millions of years ago flipped that bit...
My point is that "blue collar" is not a static description, and there is no One True definition passed down from the Gods of Social Class.

> Programmers are well paid and have a high social standing compares to real blue-collar jobs

Neither of those is universally true, and it's not even clear to me that they're true often enough to justify your generalization.
I built a similar tool early in my career, only it used facial detection with haar cascade classifiers. It was kinda poorly written in PHP but it worked!
Isn't he missing one of the main arguments that not having Net Neutrality will significantly hurt smaller businesses from competing with larger companies?
Wow that sounds intensive. What does a 2hr seminar usually consist of in Germany?

Could be a cultural difference in seminar style?
You would force people to consume? There's diminishing returns to that. At some point there are fewer worthwhile things to spend on and you start creating an system of make-work with the attendant environmental destruction and resource exhaustion. Free markets are neutral on these questions, it's policy that distorts social preference away from conservation and towards unsustainable growth that exacerbate the situation we're in now.
They work pretty well in Crystal[1]. Some things are certainly a bit harder than they are in lisp/scheme but you can get a lot done with them. In crystal this is (in my experience) due to the lack of reflection support, and thus the ability to call dynamical looked up methods. Add that in and i'm pretty sure you'd remove >=90% of the current limitations, but even without that, you can get a lot done.

[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/
The valuation of BTC is also a derivatives market of illegal activity, something which is not illegal itself.
I see, so even if the SCOTUS finds the police over reached with the data they gathered, Tiny Tim could still have his sentence upheld.
Are you sure that the conviction would be thrown out?

SCOTUS rules all the time to reverse precedents set by a lower court while moving finding of fact to the original venue.
Is this employer-provided health care? Sounds like you're receiving is subsidized. Living on $18k a year would be rough. Are you splitting an apartment? How much would you be paying if you had kids and needed another bedroom? Again, context is key. For a single person in their 20s, who will have the lowest level of responsibility and statistically the best health situation of their life, it's possible. But for other people, $1.5k/mo in a HCOL would not cut it.
Index funds overall returns are closer to 6 or 7%.

The small difference does make a big difference long term.
FRP is purely functional. Side effects can be managed with pure functions using Monads, and Streams are also Monads because of the interface they implement.
I don't need the government to protect me from myself. Adults should be able to make their own decisions
Please note: The author (and submitter) is the author of Keras, so his views on AI / DL are not completely unfounded.

The concept of bottlenecks preventing the singularity are a fair point, but I don't believe many of the arguments that are made here. Using humanity as the basis of comparison is not sufficient, since human life expectancy and other requirements for survival are not a factor in artificial superintelligence.

Humans work for perhaps 60 years at improving themselves and their understanding of the world, but must sleep, must eat, must go and stand in line at the DMV, etc. Having a system that can work 24/7 on improving itself for 20 years will match a human lifetime. After a lifetime, humans start over from scratch, with perhaps some learning that can be passed down between generations. AGI can simply clone itself, and begin from exactly where it left off.
If he pays 2k a month and you pay 700 a month thats $24,000 vs $8400 a year. Given that 120k in the bay after tax is probably roughly 95-100k (guesstimate) the simple question is, is OP's after tax pay comparable to your pay relative to housing? No its not, he pays 2.8 times more rent than you. .8 of that is EXTRA because of where the location is (extra 6k a year). So given that plus OP's family expenses its actually fantastic hes saving 2k a month. That 'extra' $500 you 'could' save is what OP pays extra per month (that 6k/12) just for you to be able to say 'oh but thats the bay area'. To make my point more clear take that extra $500, add it to his take home pay. Great, now you are both making equal amounts compared to housing. OP saves 2.5k a month, you save 3k. Now, have yourself a family and try to save 3k with family expenses.
At least in Firefox 52 ESR there's UI to enable that (so no need to fiddle with about:config):

Edit → Preferences → Network → Settings → Proxy DNS when using Socks v5

But yeah, it's not the default. :\
Generate some electricity to listen to an awesome track
Apple-specific modules would be expensive and limiting
Who will make the SoC if not the proprietary chip maker? ARM does not make this thing better.
>Existing code, like the Linux kernel, and other code, already have a specified license. Can the license on the Linux kernel even be changed without consent of everyone who ever participated? (Some of whom may no longer be living.)

Around the time of GPLv3, Eben Moglen made a statement to the effect that it might be possible because "My guess is that Linux is a collective work…as evidenced by a decade of LKML [the Linux Kernel Mailing List] discussions. That’s my guess." It would certainly be controversial and seems highly unlikely in any case. [ADDED: IANAL and have no opinion on the legalities involved.]

https://www.cnet.com/news/linux-to-gplv3-a-practical-matter-...

This is not a new license by the way. It's a commitment "to extending the GPLv3 approach for license compliance errors to the software code that each licenses under GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 and v2."
The tone taken by the financial press towards cryptocurrencies is interesting. They give plenty of press to the sceptics, the warnings from central bankers, etc. But they also give plenty of positive press, arguably undeserved when compared to the size of similar ventures funded by traditional means.

It's almost as though they're writing about it solely because they feel that they should, to avoid the risk of being seen to be taking a stand. As a result coverage of ICOs gets softer coverage than it otherwise would.
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They called it "Props".

The back of my head kept on trying to read that as "Beenz" instead.

(beenz: "the web's currency", also "one of the greatest dotcom disasters".)
Losing money to get to scale isn't anti-competitive, it's basically how any business with economies of scale gets started.
I don't even know all of the players, and don't claim to know their motivations. I will say that you don't need a mastermind or a conspiracy if your incentives are shared or aligned. Some may have done it for money, some for power, some to prop up W's popularity in order to pass a domestic agenda.
I was in Rome a while back and wanted to go see Michelangelo's David. Searched for "David of Michelangelo" in Google Maps for Android. Clicked details. The main detail photo's aspect ratio is very tall and--because the photo is center-cropped--results in a zoomed in look right below his waist. :) Gave me a laugh. It's still live...
That’s bullshit. I run a small telehealth company and latencies are not “just fine.” I spend much of my day dealing with internet connections for telehealth that are far from just fine, and it isn’t because of raw speeds, but the fact that “everything should be equal” is to ignore the fact that bandwidth is finite. Streaming YouTube is not as latency sensitive as telemedicine. Yet under NN — that traffic has to be treated equally. If I could pay a surcharge to have my traffic prioritized, I would, but under existing rules, real-time telehealth is if equal importance as some kid watching Kinder Suprise egg videos on YouTube, yet if an ISP wanted to prioritize real time traffic, under NN they couldn’t. Now, maybe ISPs could compete on offering things like “optimized for video conferencing or VOIP” or “optimized for large downloading needs” or whatever.

Not all traffic is equal and not all consumers have identical needs.

What the REAL issue is is local governments providing de facto monopoly power to ISPs thus preventing the sort of competition that would make a much more innovative and customizable product for consumers. My needs are more geared around real-time and less around large downloads, yet here in France where I live, all traffic is identically treated, supposedly.

There are unintended consequences with NN that I feel that people don’t understand. The internet isn’t the same as a phone call — some traffic has different requirements in order to be successful, while phone calls are all pretty much the same.