skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robert Lustig is a quack although. Many of the things he said in his famous online talk are outright lie.

He gave an example of Japanese and their healthiness, yet they eat way more fructose than the USA citizen he cites. There's a whole other bunch of misinformation in his speech and his studies are filled with flawed design (no control group, p hacking etc.).
Not sure. One problem is that there isn't another super-AI to compare it against.
Banks offer many services in addition to secure and insured deposits. The same cannot be said for wallet software made by anonymous internet devs with a lower barrier to implant obfuscated back doors to steal user funds irreversibly.

Bitcoin is in a competitive market so energy usage will be more relevant to compare against the decentralized services offering identical functionality with alternative algorithms, like litecoin, monereo, ethereum, and so on.
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.

If the model is pay-per-impression, they are doing their advertisers a huge disservice (and will probably run impression value down to nothing).

Either way, the site is behaving poorly and for no obvious benefit to itself.
I’d like to hear how Snyk compares to GitHub’s recently release vulnerability notification feature.
Only if it isn't a Sinclair Media station...
I'm intrigued by the metaphor, but your referents are not very clearly stated...

By "Optimizing for BTC" do you mean optimizing for the highest number of transactions? You can't mean total BTC outstanding because that's pegged to an equation.

And in terms of the "intelligence" are you referring to the protocol itself, or the human/machine apparatus around it that's trying to make money?

On the face of it, it doesn't seem particularly different the the "emergent superintelligence" optimizing for USD, but I like your idea of looking for emerging fixed incentive structures as a place for AIs to run amok.
If postal packages arrived in milliseconds, there would be no need for express delivery.
That's great (though I'd quibble about a few of them, eg I was doing input validation in Excel 25 years ago, and boy do I feel old now), but while you're learning to do all that great stuff you're not learning anything about the domain you want to work in.

OK, I don't know who wants to work in health insurance but the basic point is Excel is a good tool for people who have specialist knowledge in a particular domain and want to automate their work. Programmers know the best way of programming but frequently overestimate their understanding of other people's problems.
Great stuff, love your work.

From the video also enjoyed the details about how things ran on variety of cloud environments. The google one was funny: kubernetes in kubernetes on borg on hw virtualtization on hardware.
That same thing (Calc/Calculator) happens to me every day. haha. I never thought about how that is probably affecting a ton of users.
> But its energy consumption is only bounded by the perception of its future value. Hash rate growth is fueled by speculation in continued growth in the bitcoin exchange rate.

How do you figure? Miners mine bitcoins and sell them at the current exchange rate -- not a future one.

Mining to speculate on future price increases make no sense. If you believe the price will rise, just buy bitcoins now (no reason to mine them at a loss).
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

- Upton Sinclair
Just because the library has a vulnerable code path doesn't mean the site itself is vulnerable. Especially with libs like jQuery, where there are many many functions.
The information "77% of 433,000" contains the sample size number (433k). "100% of 333,410" does not contain a sample size number. The lack of the sample size number makes the data (and title) less meaningful. I'd go as far saying it makes the data (and title) meaningless.
Exactly. Bitcoin is in a mania phase...on good news, it rises...on bad news, it also rises! Even when BTC and it's infrastructure and supporting entities are subverted...it rises!

It will be too big to fail and we will close a school somewhere to bail out the value of a string of ascii.
> Forks are always possible but, they’re not the solution

The argument is not that we would fork away attacks, the argument is that we can threaten forks to remove the incentive to attack in the first place.

> If the community were able to organize itself to reach consensus on a given transaction history, we wouldn't need a blockchain in the first place.

Well, the idea is that the community can't police every transaction, but they WOULD be able to give input once a year in an emergency situation- And we can show that these "emergency situations" would be infrequent (if they happen at all) due to the fact that an attacker will forfeit large amounts of money with every attack.
Thanks!

There are different markets available, indicated by the white dropdown at the top.

Currently supporting GDAX and Gemini, but many more coming soon!
We scanned 25,000 deals to pull out only the ones with good reviews and near all-time low prices.

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It stores value if properly managed: a BTC stays a BTC forever, can not be stolen, does not degrade, can be stored easily, ...

How much sugar a BTC buys you on the long term is anybody's guess.
The culture here is often contrarian to a fault.
Yes it is company that is larger, more influential, and more relevant than the entire industries of TV or Radio and even print/online journalism at large.

The implications and consequences of the consolidation of this power and influence into one company is a different discussion entirely (and an important one).
Bahrain Pipeline Explosion Implicates Iran
Your last point is one that I find the most troubling. That NN would mean that the freedom of data is being subverted. Imagine the company (YC:2020!!) that could position themselves to be junctions on those disparate networks. I am sure there is a YC app being completed right now!
I agree that this sort of sucks for real designers but this is the sort of crap we are going to be dealing with more and more as proponents of AI and machine learning get their way.

This tool is not useful for generating a great logo, yet. But it does produce a bunch of random ideas that might allow a human to come up with an awesome idea.

For example I worked with a designer I found on craiglist for my logo for Remarkbox (https://www.remarkbox.com)

Her versions were everything up to the purple version: http://www.foxhop.net/remarkbox-logo

I was very happy with her work and help coming up with the idea, I paid her in full and ended up creating my own version which is the one I'm using today.

I think this sort of program could be marketed to real designers to help them get the creative juices flowing.

LogoFox is a very cool idea, basically hot or not or tinder of design, something I was talking to the founders of hatchwise about.
The issue begins when you have the sugar industry funding the research
Interestingly the exceptions to this rule, namely companies with $1B+ valuation, are almost all HQed or originally started outside SV.
Well, the Projected Delivery Date is 25th November 2017.

How do I know?
Took the number and looked it up at ups.

I think, I'm not sure, but I think, if ups delivers on time. Cortana will give you a message, stating the package will arive tomorrow right on 24th of November. Just one day before.

Maybe John David Back will give us an update, when his package arrived.

BTW delivery times in the US are terrible compared to Germany. Next Day delivery is the state of art. Germany is also much smaller in comparison.
Shouldn't you be able to do the same thing R does with excel?

I mean at some point if you cannot teach everyone a programming language, you can at least give them some tool that can do a similar job.

Teaching programming is so expensive, the money has always been into making programming just easier and easier.
"Net neutrality favors giant, centralized entities that have more than enough issues of their own. Net neutrality is, in effect, designed to preserve the status quo of the Internet, as it is ideally beneficial to net neutrality's primary sponsors: Google and Netflix."

You clearly don't understand how any of this works. Not having NN is much closer to what you're describing, as it will stop new competitors from being able to compete, because the big guys can pay to always be faster/cheaper/more accessible/free.
Already in the issue tracker, although the "have to ask my superiors" comment isn't too encouraging: https://github.com/intel/haxm/issues/5
There's an irony in proof of work as means of producing a currency supply to thwart centralized financial institutions when the people with existing capital are in the most advantageous position to take over the minting and infrastructure of Proof of Work.
What would you use now if you needed the same sort of functionality? I find myself with some unexpected needs to build databases whose specifications and scope I'm still trying to figure out, and for now I'm missing about in Google sheets and figuring Fusion tables will probably be sufficient, but I'd be interested in any alternatives as long as they're secure and shareable.
I've been using mitmproxy to inspect HTTPS traffic. Are there any Chrome/Wireshark configurations to allow me to inspect HTTPS with Wirshark?
The reason is that in the 1970s and 80s people started freaking out about fat. Everyone from the FDA to USDA to family doctor was telling people fat was bad.

So food producers started making fat-free versions of everything. Only problem is it tasted like shit. So what did they do? They added sugar. So now you have sugar added to everything from salad dressing to pasta sauce to bread and muffins. The latter probably had some all along but the fat free varieties had a lot more.

Edit: I'll add that saturated fat was considered especially evil, which begat trans-fats substituted everywhere. Turned out they were even worse.

Bottom line, eat minimally processed meats and plants and you can stop worrying about it.
Peter Thiel was a terrible hedge fund manager who lost his clients money. I would not read too much into his stock market investing tactics.
I have a shell script in my Jekyll code that does an s3 sync and invalidates the Cloudfront stuff. Why do the extra step with a Lambda script that also needs maintained?
It may be useful to model it as an agent, but I quite doubt that it is more useful to model it as a superintelligent agent than it is to model it as an agent of some lesser intelligence.

The governments of the world could, at great cost to themselves, but not beyond what they could withstand if necessary, I think, destroy bitcoin.

If bitcoin was a superintelligence, I think it would have dealt with that already?

Just because something can be modeled as an intelligent agent in some respects doesn't mean that it has extreme intelligence.

The agent that is bitcoin is only one part of the agent which is the market. People mine bitcoin because they want to, often because they want to profit monetarily. They profit monetarily because people want bitcoin. People want bitcoin for a variety of reasons, but mainly for either speculation, or for ease of certain types of monetary transactions.

If we say that bitcoin wants btc to be mined, what does gold want? Does gold want gold to be mined? I realize that there are of course differences, and important ones, but I'm not sure why they contribute much to bitcoin being modeled as intelligent.

I suppose that the possibility of bitcoin changing as a system in a way that people agree on might change something, but I'm not sure how much.

If bitcoin were truly optimizing for the amount of bitcoin in existence, and was able to modify itself to this end, why wouldn't it remove the block reward halving feature?

No, instead, the rate of bitcoin production mostly aligns with the originally intended schedule. The difficulty is adjusted over time in order to keep the time between blocks relatively constant.

The incentive for miners is not "If you use more computational power, the (expected value of the) amount of bitcoin produced will be greater, and you will get that extra amount.". It is "If you use more computational power, the amount of bitcoin produced will be the same, but you are likely to get a larger proportion of it.".

It doesn't act by incentivizing people to take actions which cause there to be more bitcoin (uh, on the margin I mean). As incentivizing people is the only way that it acts, it therefore doesn't act to maximize the amount of bitcoin produced.

So, it is not an agent acting to maximize the amount of bitcoin produced.
FB is better than tv and radio because it can give you ads that are more likely to affect you, because it knows you, maybe better than you know you.
A GUI with a 1-1 mapping to command line arguments sounds like heaven. Of course this exists for something like GVim, but I had no idea commercial software of any kind was doing it. That makes scriptability possible!
Not if you want to make $200k.
A battery system would be more useful and less wasteful.
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, switching to your small local ISP won't change things, either. Because they don't own the pipes. They lease them from (you guessed it) AT&T, et al.

And as a non-American, this still terrifies me, because the U.S. is the nucleus that holds the web together. It's darn near impossible to overstate how much decisions in the U.S. will impact the whole world.

This is not an issue that a free market can solve, because when it comes to main lines that connect the whole Web, it's practically a monopoly of the big boys. It's their sandbox.

Net Neutrality hid the consequences of this from us by forcing them to play nice. Scrap it and they have way too much power.
It’s still a huge net reduction in deaths anyway you look at it, and there are huge gains in other areas (speed, covenience). I remain very unmoved by that argument.

I’d rather be hit by software than a human. At least I know we did as much as we could to alleviate the problem.
And the argument that Chairman Pai made that this is what is holding back innovation, we will really see what that looks like when people have to pay for Facebook wonder how that might affect them...
Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO now, not Travis Kalanick... Maybe catch up on the facts before reaching for the pitchforks? :)
I have not heard about it. Could you give me a link and information on those lies please?
Where I come from, if a person buys and eats junk and gets obese, that's their own fault, not the fault of the person who sells junk, and certainly not the fault of taxpayers. Their additional costs should come out of their own pockets.
brave (the browser) doesn't show this message as I tested. Safari + ublock will see the message.
That is the precision of the type, but it does not track accumulated error which quickly gets into the representable range of the type. You need to know both the type, the precision of the data stored in the type and track the operations on it.
> This type of regulation, where particular parties are favored, rather than particular principles, is madness.

It's plutocracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy), plain and simple. Some have been pointing out things like this and calling it plutocracy for a long time, but until now it wasn't so blatantly obvious.
Several years back there was a concept (don't know if it was ever realized) of a "smart bolt".

Essentially, it was a bolt that had an integrated electro-mechanical locking mechanism, plus a microcontroller.

The idea was that these bolts could be used in places where you wouldn't want them to be removed by just "anyone". One example was head bolts on a car (you can imagine how well that went over).

To remove the bolt after it was put in place and "locked" would require a special device that would apply power and a required code to the controller, to cause it to "unlock". Likely this device would be a special kind of wrench or socket.

Now, I could see such a device in certain cases - for example, lamp posts or traffic signs (though how often have you heard of people just removing those bolts?). But the application almost always illustrated had to do with cars; that manufacturers would be able to restrict access to repair to only dealers and no one else.

I'm not sure if this was why they never were created or not; maybe. I tend to think, though, that the complexity of integrating the required locking mechanism into a bolt while simultaneously ensuring its integrity and strength (especially in the case of say, head bolts), probably was more a factor in it.
I still wonder if heating a house with transistor is efficient. Gotta ask a scientist I guess. I mean there must be energy spent switching transistors back and forth.
If it's not actually re-used then it's just making me jump around to see what's actually happening rather than reading straight through the code.
You would still have to fork it though if you need to add missing things, like how now Gnome and KDE implement in different ways how to grab screenshots. The fact that smaller DEs are creating their own libraries and not use Weston indicate to me that Weston is just a playground for Wayland where they test their ideas and experiment and it is not designed to be used or extended, I may be wrong though, there are some blog posts from the authors of Sway and others that work on adding Wayland support to different DEs. Why do you think Sway, Gnome, KDE and others can implement what they want but Canonical or volunteers can implement wayland on top of Mir but have to use Weston or Mutter ? Do you think everyone should Weston or Mutter?
I wonder if this is some sort of lawsuit protection? A way where they cannot get to his money?
25 years ago people/corporations had morals, now not so much.
They do have those, they just aren't a super good idea.

If you care about heating efficiency, spend the money on a heat pump, which will get you 300% efficiency.
The fiber is really important because it slows the rate of blood sugar change, and makes you feel full.

I could easily drink 2 cans of pop, but could not eat 4 apples.
Well that's because most roms ship a customized version of it.. Like crDroid or Dirty unicorns..
Of course there would be a public outcry if during his government appointment he worked to weaken or dismiss regulation that impacts Google directly. It’s the textbook definition of conflict of interest.
So what do I get if I convert? IPhone? Google home?
Well, this is the US, and on top of that, it's most often not sugar but hfcs.
I just installed Greenshot [0] and never really thought about about the internal one. It comes with it's own mini image editor to quickly add annotations and a very nice zoom feature to catch the screenshot correctly first time without having to re-crop.

Greenshot is the one Windows tool I really missed on Linux.

[0]: http://getgreenshot.org/
According to: https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1253/report/OF11-1253.pdf, the approximate energy consumption for mining gold in South Africa was already 26 TWh * 65% = 16.9 TWh in 2005. Bitcoin still has its future ahead :/
Most memes lack the ability to self-modify while preserving the thing they're optimizing for.
Usually not a big fan of regulation, but in this case I wish for gouvernements to stop this madness in a smilar way they stopped use of incandescent light bulbs.
How would this be costing a lot? Through server costs? They wouldn't be too expensive would they?
Until Google has another BGP "accident" and takes down Facebook for 6 hours. Think of the rise in GDP we might see from that!
What about the gov subsidies of corn that got us to the current situation?
> This is sort of like the QWERTY keyboard layout: originally designed to slow down typists so they wouldn't type faster than the typewriters of the day could handle. That constraint is now long obsolete, yet we're still stuck with it.

Except that wasn't really the reason. The reason was to prevent the keys from jamming (by locating common letters and sequences of letters away from each other); the fact that it tended to slow typists down was only a side-effect.
They do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_bvYNWR4k
ISPs want to turn the internet into TV. You tell us what sites you want to visit and we'll tell you what that will cost.

How far can the ISPs go before Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, just offer an always on VPN service to get around the ISP's blacklisting of sites you haven't paid to visit?

Android on Nexus and Pixel phones has a wifi assistant that secures the connection when you're connected to public wifi; which kinda sounds like an automatically initiated VPN.
The sum of all financial transaction services has got to be worth Trillions of dollars. That is a very high "limit".

Banks use electricity too, in order to keep the literal lights on at their buildings.
Oddly, accelerating climate change in such a manner might actually cause a catastrophic event in the near term that would finally force people to take notice and act. Otherwise we are told the temperature will rise by 2° by 2100...and let's be honest, that isn't scaring anyone into action.
Needs some significant clarification on what it means to be 'vulnerable'. As an example, many static sites (such as blogs) can use jQuery, that doesn't necessarily mean there is an attack vector for those blogs or their visitors.
Two things you get wrong:

1. It's actually an EXTRA $100 billion per year - "Because our doctors are paid, on average, more than $250,000 a year (even after malpractice insurance and other expenses), and more than 900,000 doctors in the country" - the TOTAL we spend is about ~$240 billion dollars

2. That is SALARY ONLY. You aren't including the fully loaded cost of doctors: many get large Christmas bonuses, company stock, health care - that could easily be an average of 75k more per doctor
Bitfinex offers shorts and margin trading, but many question their stability. They are still working off their debt from the last time they were hacked.

Possible, but use at your own risk.
Quick side note, noticed a small typo on your website: "Ad networks on free comment systems do more then hurt your brand, they also track, spy, and slow down your pages", that "then" should be "than", just fyi :-)

https://writingexplained.org/more-than-or-more-then-differen... if of any interest
Apathetic? Have you seen Reddit today or yesterday? The top post in 90% of subreddits are pro-net-neutrality posts, even where it makes no sense. I can't think of a time when that much of a stink was made, including SOPA.

The reason it's not working this time around is because you have an FCC chair whose not really interested in what the public thinks - you're not his constituents, and you're not the constituents of the people who put him in power.

Note that the constituents of Republicans are honestly mostly wealthy donors by this point - I doubt they care too much what their voters think beyond ensuring that they don't screw them over directly (e.g. via increased taxes or decreased entitlements)
No no no. Linters. God. I tried them and none of them managed to play nice with all the various libraries... All I got was a mass of ugly highlighted 'wrong' code.

This after I painstakingly made my own linting rules.
I think there's certainly an argument to be made for social health care, the restriction of that health care for certain illnesses, and limiting the ability or capacity of companies to knowingly and deliberately entrap people into a cycle of sugar "addiction". Of course they are only offering goods to sell, but the effects of this simplified reductionist view are seen through society and deserve to be studied and inspected.
It costs me time, basically (which is not to be disregarded).

Hosting is cheap these days. I'm using a Hetzner machine at about 30€/month which is handling load quite well.