skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently finishing up a MVP for an entirely in-browser turn-based gaming platform.

It has a custom game editor/IDE with Google Blockly [1] inspired visual programming tools for implementing the game logic and the game UI. My design goals with the editor are to enable as many non-programmers as possible to make games (there's a lot that can be done here).

Games that are developed & published on the platform can be played online just like any other browser-based multiplayer game. Rules are entirely enforced by the backend game engine, so games can be played competitively.

The format for valid games is fairly open-ended. It should support games like Settlers of Catan, Risk, poker, Pokemon-style card games, go, chess, etc. To be clear, it isn't a 3d table-top simulation, by any means -- just HTML and CSS for now.

There will be forking and modding of games (sort of like github). I have several ideas for how this could work without diminishing the original game designer's efforts [2]. I also want to foster the formation of communities around individual games and any mods that are made.

I've been working on the platform for over a year now, and it's finally close to being ready, at least as an MVP. I'm hoping one more month...

Anyone interested in being a beta tester once the MVP is looking decent?

[1] https://developers.google.com/blockly/

[2] Currently, I'm thinking that a "fork" will only copy over the code & ruleset for the game, and not any graphical assets. It will exist on the same level as the original game, underneath the authorship of the forker. A "mod" can make use of graphical assets, but will live underneath the umbrella/community of the original game. Definitely open to suggestions on this.
For most users though you actually get better security guarantees if you do that stuff on an iPhone/iPad (or Chromebook I suppose).
> Lots of problems to be solved back then, but Bitcoin is just the same now. Nothing was solved. No progress

Oh, it's way worse than that. Now, a small country's worth of electricity is consumed every day to no end at all, except "mining" Bitcoins.
I would imagine it's because, unlike with computerised services, the per-interaction costs aren't entirely consistent and have non-negligible cost. It's also much much harder to hire and retain people than it is to buy a million new blackbox computers.
I'll add benchmarks soon; I'm trying to make it usable first ;).

Right now, it's within 5% of ugly-style explicit SIMD code in the absolute worst case (the example in the README is more like 1%). The hot bit (the body of the map) compiles down to 100% simd instructions in the order LLVM thinks will be the fastest, and the load/store bit has an extra branch per load/store. This is because faster is mainly a bunch of 1-line wrappers around SIMD intrinsics, and a bunch of polyfills which only get used on machines which don't support those intrinsics.

The main reasons you'd experience a perf hit compared to explicit SIMD when using this library would be using runtime feature detection (minimal, and not implemented yet - would add around 2 branches per simd_iter call), getting lazy with gathers/scatters rather than ugly bit-level hacks, and accidentally using operations which aren't vectorizable on your machine (scatters on non-avx512, reductive operations on non-sse4.2, etc) and not realizing it (explicit simd will throw a SIGILL; faster will use a scalar polyfill).
I think it does. Couple of online banks I tried out all needed a short video of my face saying my name, not just photo of ID, that’s not enough anymore.
> Can we confidently say that the database won't ever be hacked in the future?

No, that would be a ridiculous thing to be confident about.

> Are we prepared to face such situation?

I hope so. I have trust in this admin a bit more than previous ones. But long-term, I don't know.

> Would the government let you know if the database ever got hacked?

They are bound to respond to an RTI inquiry.

> What guarantees do we have that the politicians won't use it for their advantage?

None, just like anything else. Just the assurance that we all get to vote them out if we want.
LOL. I remember a previous gig some 15 years ago when someone complained about the long hours on a rather stressful project. The response was "What are you complaining about? We're feedin' ya. Plus you're here most of the time anyway"...

To be frank with all the enterprise "cost cutting" and "Remote Work" - I doubt there would be even pizza.
TL;DR Researcher and team at Yale invent a chip that is similar to a neural network. It's good at object recognition and operates asynchronously.
i save 80% of my salary but still don't feel like much. living in a low cost country, i think i would be able to retire comfortably in 10 years (~40 years old).
No existing Linux-based RTOS that I know of will run on a microcontroller. Not enough Flash for program memory or RAM for volatile storage. Can any useful Linux-based RTOS kernel fit into 1MB of non-volatile storage and use less than ~512KB RAM; would love to know of one if it exists!
Coinbase ordered to give the IRS data on users trading more than $20,000
In this context, what's the difference between 'visual representations of spectrograms' and '2d arrays which encode the same information'? Algorithms don't have eyes. The way they 'see' is by reading '2d arrays'.
Miners aren't a party to the actual transaction, because they are not a part of the cryptographic proof. They are akin to your electricty provider, your internet provider, your computer parts provider, your OS software provider, etc etc.
Question everything you've taken for granted, or the matters that are of utmost importance. Question the big points, then narrow down to every aspect of it. Accept reasoning, but question it too.

Don't be afraid of being wrong, don't be afraid of questioning anyone on anything. The outcome of this realization is always going to be 'right'.

Try it - start with your own faith maybe?
I think this is primarily the fault of the mechanism that handles the... beak(?) movement. I believe opening and closing is a continuous loop on reduced gear motor. Getting that to synchronize is difficult, especially as the echo just hands you back an mp3.
Apple expeditiously patches embarrassing High Sierra bug, regaining my trust
Why was there such a spike in Haskell searches in August 2015?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Doesn't matter, paid shills keep pushing the Russian cart including HN skills like dang and others.
Are you still interested in this? I might be able to help.
thanks, but I was looking for the specific name of the algorithm. I don't even know what to call it, a dependency graph solving algorithm or something?
Go fuck yourself, dang. Paid shill.
I believe that is actually because of the billing period. You're billed at the end of the usage period rather than the beginning.
> In the case of POS, the incentives are aligned and the coin owners

Biggest owner wins. That's why it is not trustless. The only long-term game-theory outcome for the system is a monopoly. Owners own the miners, and dictate the rules to the users. Otherwise known as our world financial system.

> In the POW case, what underpins the value of the coin?

The network effect of the decentralization, i.e. the nodes. It is the nodes that are peers in the peer-to-peer cash of bitcoin. It is they who hold the blockchain, validate transactions, and validate blocks. Because there are so many of them (185,000 and counting) unless you can effectively convince all of those nodes to adopt consensus changes, the existing consensus rules apply.

PoW alone doesn't make something valuable. Its successful implementation does.
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Of all employees in the country, certainly less than 7% actually have ever cast a vote in favor of the company that employs them.

100% of people who accepted a job accepted the job...
Miners use less electricity (~15 TWh/yr today) than Christmas decorative lights in the world (probably 20 TWh/yr, of which 6.6 for the US alone according to US DoE). If we can afford to spend that much energy not even on useful lighting—just decorative—surely we can afford to run a transformative financial system such as Bitcoin.

The "small country" comparison is deceptive as the energy is equivalent to just a single nuclear power plant: 15 TWh/yr = 1.7 GW

http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/
You don't get it. I understand how consensus works in Bitcoin. I argue that it doesn't provide any advantage over other systems in anything and has overwhelming downsides in all of its current applications. Notably, you have failed to mention any counterexample.

Also, the Byzantine Generals Problem was solved multiple times in the paper that introduced it.

You were somebody's greater fool. You believe that there will be more greater fools to come. Eventually, you will run out of fools.
Just stop calling it cryptocurrency already. Call it cryptocommodity and everything about it starts making sense.
AWS Glacier- Data Retrievals Made Easier
No kidding - I worked on a project for a large airline optimizing reserve levels for flight crews and it was pretty fascinating work. The complexity explodes once you scratch past the surface.
Similar things were said about cars.

What an excellent counterexample, with all of the driverless cars that actually exist in real life.
Lending to the poor not only barely happens, it’s a market overrun with predatory lenders. I remember an ad that used to run on late night TV that buried something like 150% APR in the fine print, attempting to avoid US regulation by nature of being operated on a Native American reservation.

Who took them down, you ask? That oh so useless CFPB.

Edit: Here they are. Look at the image of this woman’s loan:

https://www.freep.com/story/money/personal-finance/susan-tom...
New study suggests dogs are smarter than cats
You're correct, in a free market the union could offer better incentives. They could also just say, "Whoops, we messed up the leave schedule. You now have to work the holidays or you're fired." I suspect a combination of the two, some carrot and some stick, would happen without the union contract.
Linux is totally unsuitable for the vast majority of microcontroller tasks. It has way too much overhead, requires a 32-bit CPU with MMU (or a very slow emulator like Dmitry Grinberg made[1], but that takes 6 hours to boot.) Microcontrollers that FreeRTOS is used on are very often 8-bit or 16-bit jobs, and even the 32-bit ones often lack an MMU. Linux on a micro is like trying to go to the corner store to get beer in a C5 galaxy transport aircraft.

[1] http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.+Linux+on+8...
They don't as a rule, but I believe there have been a few who have tried.
* I budget every dime and have automatic transfers into various investments, so I set it to the % I want to save and then base my other expenses around what's left, which is still plenty.

* Max ESPP, max 401k, max Roth. No excuse for not doing these if they're available to you.

* No debt. Paid off student loans ASAP after college, which were not huge, but I also lived on scraps in college, lived in cheap dumps and worked during the summers and holiday breaks to make ends meet.

* Very moderate living expenses. Seattle area. Our rent is $1700. My share is $950 and my fiance pays the difference. Got lucky with the place, but we also don't live in a sexy neighborhood and my fiance is a bargain hunter.

* Excellent compensation package, although not out of band for my experience level.
The amount of dog fooding that happens at AWS is impressive - looks like they needed and built this for DynamoDB global tables (assumes clock sync across all regions) and made it available to all instances.
How do you deal with conflicting ideas of how something should work?

I'm sure there are a set of users who wish your app worked in one way, while another set of users feel strongly that it works in an opposing way. How do you reconcile that?
serious question, other than the glasses that no one is buying, the ads where google and facebook take up most of the space, what do they have?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dItUGF8GdTw
> I am making a decision on behalf of my users/visitors to share that data to parties for whom it will not be anonymous or aggregate, and it isn't a decision I take lightly.

A suggestion: that decision should be evaluated under the assumption that:

1) data doesn't go away (any data collected or sent to a 3rd party is usually permanent)

2) theft and accidental leaks happen, and

3) we don't know the worst ways data - of any type - can be abused, because those techniques haven't been invented yet (powerful analysis techniques are being invented at an incredible rate).

The combination of these properties means that collecting and storing data creates unbounded risk. At any point in the future someone might invent a truly horrific way to abuse the stored data that was collected perhaps decades earlier.

Humans are used to information being transient. Information decayed over time as memories were forgotten, paper/parchment/etc decayed over time. Books had to be copied to they risked being lost forever when the library burned. Claude Shannon's digital signals fundamentally changed all of that as they made it possible to automatically preserve information perfectly. Unfortunately, human intuition hasn't caught up to the idea of permanent data.

The question "Should I trust $THIRD_PARTY with this data?" misses the full nuance of what is actually being risks. A better question is "Should we trust $THIRD_PARTY and anybody who buys/steals/subpoenas/etc it from $THIRD_PARTY with this data? What if they have analysis capabilities far more advanced than current techniques?".
Nah - this happened yesterday (the day before your post). It's unusual for media to be allowed inside autonomous cars, and the conditions are usually controlled. The conditions in this demo were fairly loose (difficult public streets in San Francisco) and also involved relatively little intervention by safety drivers. (Uber did a demo in SF once but it involved very frequent human takeovers. Alternatively, Waymo had a recent demo on a closed course (I think the one at Castle airforce base) and others in Arizona suburbs where conditions are less challenging.)

Fwiw as a human driver I find driving in San Francisco to be pretty challenging/stressful.
There's already a great variety of cheap demographic recognition API's readily available... https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/demographic-recogn... is just one.
In the absence of screen sharing, if nothing else will do, you could guide the user through using their operating system's built-in screen reader (designed for blind people), assuming you can hear the sound from their computer or mobile device.
"My (probably unpopular) bet: blockchain will revolutionize much of finance, but Bitcoin specifically will crash and eventually be ignored."

I'm with you. Just because it's clear a new technology will change everything (the internet, blockchain), it's not clear which individual players will win the race (Myspace, Altavista, Friendster).
I guess so. I hope they QA’ed it better than they did the previous version...
Argh! It looks like it's only an option on Pro, my Home machine doesn't have it. That's lame...

It's under Settings -> Updates & Security -> Advanced Options on Pro.
Replied as a sibling, and it certainly doesn't qualify as useful, but Dmitry Grinberg wrote an ARM emulator for AVR, soldered a SIMM to a board with an ATMEGA1284P and an SD card on an SPI bus connection, and got Linux to boot. The 24MHz clock rate is effectively reduced to about 6.5kHz, but it might be possible to find a use for such a device.
How is Bitcoin even remotely as useful as video games or porn? It's 99% speculation and 1% buying drugs online.
Contrarian view: Instrumental intros weren't ever that popular, we just didn't have an easy way to skip them 2 or 3 decades ago.
No, it provides very slow and inconvenient methods for transferring and storing value. Literally its only redeeming quality is that you can use it to pay for drugs on the dark web.
Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

Red Rising and sequels by Pierce Brown

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

(I read Three Body Problem + sequels in 2016. The first book I thought was ok. I really liked the second book - The Dark Forest - the Dark Forest theory of the universe I thought was quite interesting)
after he gets enough photos he can start a website where people rate and compare two bodies!

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creato...
A better question may be how to mitigate bias.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

--William James
I wonder how that train it? The network is built into the silicon so I don't see how training could occur after its creation... But maybe they build a simulated network and train it then construct a faithful hardware representation
«If the value of BTC continues to rise, you'll never want to buy anything with it»

That's a fallacy that keeps being repeated by those who never thought this logic through. I spend bitcoins. I have been spending them for 7 years. Because the thing is no one knows for sure that Bitcoin will keep rising, or even maintain its value. Therefore spending bitcoins today is actually logically the less risky option.

In fact I can show that your argument doesn't hold in another way: if you think the value will keep rising, you should be putting all your life savings into Bitcoin at this very moment... And I know you are not doing it, because you don't know if Bitcoin will keep rising.
Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak dies after taking poison in UN courtroom
Or shorter... Leap seconds can be negative.
> so it is off-chain then?

Yup.

> Must be the same as leaving your coins in an exchange and converting to fiat when you spend?

Yep. I just transfer bitcoin there when I need it. These days though, I just put the cash I want for the next couple of weeks from a paycheck onto it. I actually have to move bitcoin off the exchange, because it has increased so greatly over the past few months. My beer money is increasing in value faster than I spend it.
Thanks, but I’ll pass... My system is actually working, so I don’t have to sell “predictions” with affiliate programs to make money in the markets...
A CyberPunk themed survey for Developer by developer
Area is the new clock speed.
If you pay in full they don't typically require that. Credit checks are only for credit.
It seems like you've already made up your mind that I'm wrong, so we'll leave it there.
That's exactly what I've been thinking. Of course the inflation target would be arbitrary, but once agreed upon and baked into the blockchain logic it could maintain itself based on some parameter or set of parameters
basically it's "don't worry, people will review the image, but they're 'specially trained' "

when will people stop using facebook?
Oh sure. But the text as I read it seemed to imply that the issue was the library they were using had hugely wasteful flip flops or something, or was unable to route above them, or something crazy. It seems (and I'm not expert or professional in this space) that everyone who's used these EDA tools has experiences like this, and hates them. Seems like a great target for innovation at a lower margin, especially now that ASIC development is becoming commoditized.
Google’s new Android app stops other apps from wasting your data
Also Base32, which has more out-of-the-box support:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32#Crockford.27s_Base32
Tell all the Chinese that successfully expatriated money how useless Bitcoin is.
That's a good start, but if the string is meant to be typed by hand it would be better to be case insensitive. Some kind of base 32 encoding would be appropriate.
Yeah, I totally agree with this. Too often we forget the wide-eyed innocence with which people approach technology, their half-knowledge which secretly terrifies them. They understand, somehow, the intricate pattern they control, and fear messing it up. (Which is actually a very good place to start learning to be a good sysadmin, but I digress...)

One way to empathize with users is to recognize that, to them, your software is a combination of an IRS form and the game Myst. It's filled with inscrutable, unknowable, questions, each of which, in any combination, produce arbitrary state changes in the rest of your program - and perhaps even the rest of the machine (or the internet). What's incredible to me is that this is not an unreasonable state. Real-world software has been forged in the fire of market forces, and contributed by remarkable individuals. Many of them have known computer science theory, but more than a few did not. Indeed, many computer science PhD has gone to his grave without writing a single useful program for other people to use! This, to me, is quite sad.

But I digress.
I'm sure lots of people do that, but it's actually easier with the streaming services to listen to an entire album than it was a few years ago when iTunes 99c/song was the dominant model.

Pay-per-song encouraged playlists and "greatest hits" type mix CDs, but didn't encourage anyone to purchase B-sides or interstitial tracks. At least with services like Spotify et al, you aren't paying per track, so you have the option of listening to a whole album as a single body of work.

Of course, not everyone wants to do that, which is cool.
Hi phkahler, the ultimate critical path is the load data coming back to the register file. Replicating the register file doesn't end up being a win (there would be so much area to broadcast it out to), otherwise, everybody would do it.
Hard sciences are not without politicisation either. Just look at this wiki entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Phys...

There's definitely a trend of scientists from e.g. Russia claiming to have been the originators of ideas that others got prizes for.

Academia in general tends to be very Western-centric and so these kinds of issues - and all the other problems with Western cultural hegemony (patriarchy, racism etc.) - are pervasive in all facets of it.
Apple pays dividends.

Google is paying a lot for talent because of supply and demand - competitors are also paying high rates for the same talent.
They are hiring and getting flagged off Who's Hiring (did they do this to themselves? never seen anything else like it) for mentioning MongoDB:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902743
> There is human-equivalent software?

Did I imply that? I don't see how that's relevant.

> We agree. _please_ explain how to accomplish that.

If you agree with me then why do I have to explain anything?

You're being confusing with all your talk of kinetic energy. Are you trying to imply that robocars inherently make the roads more dangerous? I don't think that's true at all. As an extreme example, even with today's tech you could flood the roads with 20mph robocars and make things safer overall.

> Clearly my empty pre-programmed human carrying drone should enjoy the same lanes as a loaded 777. Lets set aside the distraction about remote control which totally ignores the "skin in the physics game" which transportation of life requires.

If you want to pay the same airport fees, go for it. Seems fair to me.

If you're worried about congestion and road funding when it comes to cars then limit priority to one robocar per person. But when I have exactly one car, my ability to use the roads to drive it to the store shouldn't depend on whether my butt is inside of it.

Why would "skin in the game" be necessary? A taxi with a driver inside can act exactly the same as a taxi without a driver inside.