skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof of Steak mearly gives power to whomever has established wealth.

It is a marginal improvement over PoW, when the PoW algorithm is not computationally useful outside brute force hash lotteries and capital infrastructure race speculation.

Both PoS and PoW implementations should have heavy scrutiny on the distribution and minting rules for the base supply.
Imagine the end of the world being caused by a crypto currency.

If you think about it, if one can transform energy into money, humans will end up capturing all the energy they can to do so.
How does it change the world?
Practically speaking it'd probably require an ip ban
That is the beautiful part implemented correctly, they wont have the chance to object. Heaven help all of us should it come to that.
I basically agree - but in my case, instead of Lotus, it was Framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_(office_suite) - I think I used versione III and IV, mostly.
>>That's why companies don't base their decisions on random posts or comments.

Customer feedback on Cortana has been nearly universally negative. You don't need my post or comment to see this. Google around and see what you find.
> including a little javascript widget

This is great. You can make any model say anything you want by tuning the parameters, so we needs researchers to stop forcing their preferred parameters, and let consumers check the robustness of the conclusions against ranges of parameters

> if somebody you loved was killed by a self-driving car, would you be comforted in knowing that the technology was in aggregate saving the lives of other people?

and if somebody you loved was killed by a human-driven car, would you be comforted in knowing that the technology was in aggregate was being held back for further testing?
Glad to see some open source work benefiting everyone, especially coming from the likes of Amazon.
How might the perverse instantiation of a blockchain-based superintelligence play out? (The simple case, of a Bitcoin-mining superintelligence run amok, converges with the classic storyline of a universe turned to computronium.)
Since we're talking about energy consumption, you can get the same result without involving dozens of servers by typing this in your Unix terminal:

$ units -v "15 TWh/year" "GW"
15 TWh/year = 1.7111933 GW
15 TWh/year = (1 / 0.58438752) GW
The speech recognition of Cortana was pretty excellent - which is what the guys at Microsoft Research care about. The rest just seems to have got messed up in politics.
> If Ajit Pai continues to obstruct investigations, I would consider it obstruction of justice. That's something that an Attorney General should seriously consider in the current light.

My recurring thought as I read the fine article: "you're an attorney general, a lawyer who has asked politely, multiple times and been ignored; why TF haven't you filed for a subpoena yet?"
Why should it be legal? Your phone service doesn't work that way. Your water or power doesn't work that way.
Climate change, I guess? :D
Leaky oil pipelines, industrialized agriculture spraying under-researched poisons on their crops, factory farming of animals leading to anti-biotic resistant viruses, mining operations which destroy the land. Fractional reserve banking and predatory lending allow consumption in excess of production.

Hell, the state department spent taxpayer money to promote fracking to the rest of the world.

This is only possible because we allow so much concentration of money and power (and thus they can buy their way around the law and avoid paying for externalities). Concentration of capital is the root of all evil. Modern banking system is built to concentrate capital, and has been dangerously successful in the past century.
I haven't really seen the issue of equality dealt with explicitly, but it appears that you can extract the bounds of the interval implied by a given unum. Essentially, it seems like an alternative to interval arithmetic with potentially tighter bounds and faster computation.
Nope not that. I don’t know anyone who would accept the cash to work on products with such a bad reputation.

If MSFT offered me £100k right here, right now I’d turn it down.
This is awesome. The Bad Guys already have all my credit history and personal data from the last hack. Soon they'll be able to add my medical history to complete the profile.

Because fuck me.
That sounds reasonable.

Though I don't think your (B)(A) regarding the Soviet public was that important. Rather, if the Soviet public were influential, would there have been the gulag system, which ended less than a decade before Powers was shot down?

But the US response to the Soviets shooting down Powers was to lie to the public. Surely the US could have remained silent or non-committal, rather than construct a cover-up, and walk into Khrushchev's publicity trap. According to Wikipedia, Eisenhower said to his secretary "I would like to resign."

That leads to the obvious question - how often does the US government lie to the public?
> Doses over 50 grams (1.8 oz) can cause severe diarrhea, plus a significant increase in nausea and stomach rumbling.

... and that's "just" 50 grams.
Interesting idea. Thanks for sharing. Did you have any issues with attempted break-ins in the car at night? Or was it generally safe?
This is good for Uber and their employees in the short term, but I can't help but think it's bad for their ideals in the long run. There are a lot of scenarios that look very bad for Uber economically and it would be a shame for a culture shift to coincide with the realization of one of them.
You might want to report the site for unfair practices to the domain registrar, and also inform adwords and Amazon as well..

Or you could use the hack on your own sites..
For younger children (that is, children who can't read yet), you're going to have to read that book anywhere from once to several hundred times, out loud. Look for books that have interest for an adult, even though they are children's books.

One of my favorites is "The Bravest Ever Bear". I think a 7-year-old would get a lot of enjoyment out of it. It's not STEM at all (though an interesting engineering problem does show up).
Balancing these kinds of constraints - how much and when to DRY vs. copy - is a big part of what engineering is about.

It also needs to take into account factors like available budget of time and money, capabilities of the team working on the code, etc.
Interesting but not surprising. Pharmaceutical companies, for instance, don't publish or cancel studies that show unfavorable results all the time and no one makes a fuss. Who knows the loss to the community and consumers at large in terms of knowledge and health?

Beyond that, the take away is yet again: If it's a shortcut or if it's delicious, it's bad for you. (gazes longingly at holiday cookies on desk)
And an API that lets data be used in other 'real' applications
I'd be really interested in seeing a double blind test, to check if people really can tell the difference between the two.
This is too excellent for me to have missed! Thanks
Pretty sure the most of what you're talking about is the executive branch. They're in charge of enforcing the rules - e.g. deciding who to prosecute for drug crimes and which prisons to put them in to serve their term.

Likewise, the executive branch is the one that decides to go after offenders based on profitability over public good (although you could also lay that on the legislative branch for allowing the executive to fund itself using fines in the first place).
I think the UK allows this as well.
It's not a special case in law, it's allowed because the U.S. does not have particularly strong competition law (anti-trust) compared to the EU or pretty much anywhere.
You don't get it, you have to factor in the hours worked.
What do you mean by "efficient"? That word is usually used to describe the fraction of energy that goes into a machine and is then not lost to heat. Since the purpose of a heater is to produce heat, it's pretty much impossible for it to waste energy.
> What would be exciting about going back to a guy's van?

So she can tell her girlfriends that she did it in a Van. Jokes aside, isn't it true that most women just wanna have fun / adventure? So it might be a new thing, depending on the lady in question.
Whenever I see one of these “parties purport to disagree on this issue, but neither is actually for it” I wonder if it would be a good keystone for a new moderate party, built on consensus.

The idea being, taking a principled stance on the aspects of those issues on which there is consensus, while not taking a stance on the part which does not have agreement, would expose the other parties as frauds and give you a rhetorical advantage over them.

I wonder if states rights is one of those issues.
Consumers have become the testing grounds for unsafe technologies since the invention of the Model T Ford.
At least there is some competition and variation in plans. For example, I have a 2GB plan with unlimited voice and text on T-Mobile. Not bad.
Because energy is routinely priced by the watt-hour.
Do you think PDFjs could be extended to write new text inside the PDF, all client side? At the moment I’m only aware of PDFBox from Apache to do this, but that’s server side JAVA...
> In other words, a person using ethereum's POS will need to turn on their computer once every 4-6 months to sync to the network

That only works if you were already bootstrapped to the network. But if this is your first time joining the network, how can you tell?

Weak subjectivity more or less becomes a proxy for letting the major players decide. If your friend says that they've been on the chain for years and chain 'X' is the true chain, but blockchain.info is saying that chain 'Y' is the true chain, what happens? How can you tell if both seem valid? If a Proof-of-Stake system had an NYA-style agreement to perform a hardfork that benefits major players over individuals, would you be able to fight it?

I think it would be much harder in a Proof-of-Stake system than in a PoW system, because in PoW creating an alternate system costs hundreds of millions of dollars in electricity.

> an attacker's addresses will be known and the protocol will slash their funds for most types of attack

This only works if you can get a transaction through to prove on-chain that the attacker has been double signing. If you can't (which you won't be able to because the attacker has control), you can't slash their funds.

> If there was a successful 51% attack against bitcoin, the hashrate would drop precipitously

The hardware doesn't magically stop existing. It may turn off, but many miners have contracts with electrical companies that require them to use the electricity. But even with that aside, the hardware would merely turn off. Buy some more hardware, and then you can coordinate with the existing honest hardware to resume mining, now outnumbering the 51% attacker.

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Another issue with PoS systems: they traditionally have very low participation rates. A 51% attack in a PoS system is often more like a 10% attack, because only 20% of the people are actually staking their coins anyway.

In a market as volatile as modern cryptocurrency (remains to be seen if volatility would drop), it's very expensive to stake your coins for 6 months in a row because that means you can't be doing any trading on those coins, or deploying them as any other form of capital.
> Every spreadsheet shared in a business is an angel announcing another SaaS app still needs to be built.

Really? I am working in company which is not handling super-sensitive data (i.e. not a Bank, for example) but I can assure you that if went around proposing to adopt a SAAS for what Excel is used internally I would not get very far.

No matter how good you are as a SAAS provider, our data stay in-house. End of story.
Programmers seem allergic to the idea that they would have to go through and update several functions that do the same thing. This is mentally a very trivial task though, much preferable to trying to alter some 'clever' dependency. In a super agile environment especially I find DRY practices will quickly build a huge web of garbage.
ooh thanks!
Gold meets your requirements, except for working online.
I'm convincing myself that a lot of cases of procrastination, especially at work, are just from bad management. There's a lot of bad self-management too, but for those of us in organizations with explicit management, I think there's a lot of productivity gains that could be had by having more competent management... Software really needs someone who gets Deming's management ideas but who can fully integrate them with the unique differences in software development... For "this project is so big, I don't know where to start": if you admitted that to some managers, they'd think "oh this person is incompetent" instead of "how can I help them start?" (to which there are many answers)
I expect that it'd be difficult to get people to switch...

Perhaps you might offer a self hosted cms or something for FOSS projects..?
Why only alpha numerics? Totally fails me because of that
The idea of a re-releasing a classic game with running commentary is interesting, but I can't imagine that there's much of an appeal for commentary during the gameplay. Conversely, I did enjoy watching "We Play Doom With John Romero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUU7_BthBWM
It's all in the spin: ‘Drivered cars cause 70% of road fatalities’ is not a good headline for drivers.
Firefox with uBlock does not display it either.
another major key factor is to maintain majority of [voting] population in the mental state impossible to penetrate by voice of reason. Such state is typically initiated by low quality education and maintained by local and global populist hysteria (that includes religion) based on anger, fear, envy, ...
It's a liability thing. If you get hacked after "addressing" all the vulnerabilities, its not your fault - its the scan tool's fault. Utter bull shit, but hey.
We are open to any platform that provides free resources for running experiments. Of course, any funding will be acknowledged in papers we publish. :)
Building a Twitter Reader with a Serverless API
Thanks, another interesting number would be number of people employed in each industry. I found for US banks it is about 2 million: http://www.usbanklocations.com/bank-rank/number-of-employees...

I have no estimate for bitcoin in the US (I'd guess 1k - 100k?). Also at the end you slip into comparing worldwide vs US numbers. So both energy and transactions/s will be higher for the correct comparison.
This would be cool if it could filter for certain events like people subscribing, etc... there used to be something like this that played a "cha-ching" sound but I forgot what it was called.
He says he’s given Microsoft access to his inbox
Which way do you think most people think it has settled on?
2019 Aston Martin Vantage – WORLD PREMIERE TECH REVIEW
And if/when they cann't get a job, the state then revokes their credentials. Hilarity ensues.. Oh did I say hilarity? I meant the spiral of loss of job/homelessness/garnishment/destitution. And it's then illegal to use the credential to try to make money to recover from.

Talk about being sold a bill of goods - Come get a degree from here, and if you can't find a job, we'll garnish you and remove your ability to use the degree you're being garnished for.
There IS a magic search tool, I've been using it for years.

https://everything.en.softonic.com/

"Everything" is a fantastic lightning-fast system-wide search that's tiny and can run standalone.
Version control matters, too. Ever seen a whole bunch of Wordpress content lost forever due to some sort of site failure? I have. Editors matter. I'd rather use a good professional editor like Sublime for large-scale writing, than some wonky web page thing.

Web sites are software products. If you think like a coder, you want to run them like a coder. If I were just a writer, I'd probably think very differently.
Domain experts are not the best people to build databases (says a domain expert who's failing miserably at that task right now), but database experts are sort of terrible at understanding domain problems.

It seems to me that many programmers don't appreciate that industry practices or regulatory requirements impose quirky requirements on domain specialists that everyone knows are far from optimal but which need to be complied with anyway if the business is to turn a profit or retain its licensure.

Someone mentioned a health insurance example above: there's 50 states, with 50 different sets of insurance regulations, and then some additional territories, federal regulations, and then wird business practices of healthcare providers who are subject to their own 57 varieties of regulation, and there are powerful economic and political interests that get in the way of burning it all down and replacing it with a single system designed by a committee of one patient, one doctor, one nurse, one pharmacist, one lawyer, and one economist.

And even that highly simplistic requirements committee went through 3 versions while I was writing it up.

The domain experts already have lots of complex knowledge and experience they need to automate. They don't want to learn about databases. Unfortunately, the reverse is equally true.
That book is something I wish I'd read when I started my career. This is a holiday week so all the management types were out, but I had planned to have management buy a copy for the office library next week. I still need to finish it, but most of what I have read, I've been able to apply to projects in the past. I should probably actually reread it because it's been a while.
Much like the uproar over that ISP privacy law that was never in effect, I feel like this battle was lost 10 years ago and nobody cared until Trump did something.
Seemed to work fine with me in Atom? What text editor do you use?
Well, it seems odd to me that anybody would want "exactly 80 bit floats".

1. In the case of "doubles", it seems like its more important that your code works the same on all platforms. So you can enable precise IEEE754 behavior, to ensure that your rounding errors and whatnot are the same from platform to platform.

You'll still need to somehow ensure that all of your operations occur in the same order however, IEEE754 only specifies when and how 64-bit numbers get rounded. So sorting your numbers, adding them up from smallest magnitude to largest magnitude is important still.

2. In the case that 64-bits is insufficient precision, you should be using something more precise but also consistent across different platforms.

In case #1: its usually more important that all code "makes the same rounding errors", as opposed to "some code rounds more poorly than other code".

In case #2: you'll want ALL your code to have better rounding behavior. And "Long Double" is still implementation specific. Its probably best to go to a pure software solution (ie: BigNums of some kind) if precision is important to you.

The case #3: some people don't care about the precision, and are willing to have lower precision as long as the results are "nearly correct". Video Game programmers are far more interested in speed for example, so the "fast inverse square root" barely even has 10-bits of precision for example, but the far greater speed wins out in most video game situations.
Less than half of the world uses a smartphone, which I think would be necessary for BC transactions, would it not?
Even with "copy on write" there would still be the problem of wether to copy before write or not: requirements for usage A change because someone recently thought hard about that part. Usage B is most likely not on anybody's mind right now andchanging that is quite some effort. It's a problem no matter wether you copy, DRY or something in between.

Maybe some of our processes, language and experience from the version control space (branch, merge, rebase, upstream...) could be ported over to the reuse vs duplication problem. But when you layer that with the conventional use of those concepts in version control, the result would be quite the multidimensional mindbender. With that as a hypothetical baseline, simply guessing a good compromise between abstraction and duplication and then dealing with the consequences suddenly does not seem that bad a fate.
That's an extremely short sighted way to look at things, which gives a complete pass to a bunch of bad actors in the system.

Why is it always "personal responsibility", but never "corporate responsibility"?
This CFO should talk to CIO - before making such a blunt statement. So one silver bullet to solve all the problems.
> I'm also convinced that they haven't thought it through very far. The type of user who wants ads blocked is highly unlikely to click on one, and has been done a great disservice if forced to view the ad.

No, they thought further than you. If they don't punish adblocking, they risk that eventually it becomes default in browsers, and then no one will see ads, not even those who would click on them.
i don't get it. isn't it just showing the text in a variety of fonts with different backgrounds and sometimes like a shape next to it?
>She’s still staying in a shelter at night and still panhandling during the day with her daughter, who’s now 5 months old and has her first tooth. Police officers walking past stopped at the alarming sight, but couldn’t do much other than buy her diapers and formula.

>Doudney said her shelter stay ends Dec. 12, at which point she plans to visit her mom in Nebraska and then maybe take a road trip. She said she’s thinking of going to school to study early childhood psychology.

You have a mom you can stay with in Nebraska but instead choose to panhandle with a newborn in SF? There's no reasoning with these people! This is not only idiotic but definitely child endangerment.
Thanks. Not at the moment, sorry. It's something that I have on the back of my mind but I haven't made a decision yet.
I have wireless Internet from a local ISP delivered to my building by point-to-point microwave. They have to get a license from the FCC but they effectively "own" their own pipes all they way up to the ISPs that they peer with.

Hopefully the silver lining in this is this will result in more wireless ISPs popping up since they can bypass the incumbent wired phone/cable providers.
I, for one, am a bourgeois and happy to be. I'd be in deep shit if any communist or socialist inspired group hypothetically took power in my country.
Why We Need the Ritual of Holiday Meals
https://reddit.com/r/TronScript will kill off Cortana and all the telemetry "features"
Understanding disabilities and impairments: user profiles
By which you mean reliance on someone else's system? The marketing copy for Bitcoin is really big on a democratic trust-free distributed model but from the user's perspective it doesn't seem like there's all that much of a difference between “trust this large financial company in your town” and “trust this collection of mining consortiums in different countries”, other than that the transaction fees are considerably higher and there's no recourse in the case of fraud or errors.
Required viewing if you are interested in the Politics of Sugar. => http://sugarcoateddoc.com

Saw it on Netflix. Thought I saw it on youtube also for free, but can't seem to find the video.
> I personally think that a lot of notoriety from Perl stemmed from insane overuse of regular expressions.

The problem was that Perl's performance on builtins(sorting and regular expressions in particular) was stunningly good while its performance on anything else was stunningly bad.

The idea that you would Decorate-Sort-Undecorate an enormous array because the overhead of passing a function to sort() was so much slower was ridiculous.

In the case of regexes, breaking apart the regex into readable chunks and processing the data multiple times was so much slower that everybody piled everything into the regex. Named captures didn't appear until 2007.
What's your cross-industry metric for defining "mediocre"?
Laziness is about doing what you want to do, not what someone who calls you lazy wants you to do.