skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The amount of energy used for heating and cooling is extremely huge.

With the additional benefit that it keeps people warm/cool?

Can you please tell me why you are not interested in solving this problem? My guess is that it is impossible to do with Bitcoin, and people dismissing the energy problems want to protect their investment rather than develop better technologies.
Fair, but I'm still not aware of any practical applications for "systems of equations" like the person I responded to mentioned. If you know any please share.

The determinant intuition for me is the signed volume factor for a change of basis. I've seen the combinatorial lattice path application and I'm sure there are more in other fields.

But not much reason I can see to have them feature so prominently in an intro linear algebra class. Better to spend more time with SVD for instance, which wasn't even covered in the first linear algebra class I took.
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Contrary to the claim in the article, I suspect people are much more gullible coming through a social upheaval such as that in 1990's USSR.

"Yurchak says that it wasn’t that the viewing audience was any more or less gullible than they are today, it’s just that people, everywhere in the world, have a tendency to believe what the TV says"
Thanks BYU! The surveillance state thanks you!

It's very patriotic, just like all that top secret work you used to do with the Eyring Research Institute!
Why can't a fish wear swimfins?

A blockchain is a solution to the problem of establishing consensus without relying on an authority. If your systems relies on trust in an authority, adding a blockchain is good for one thing: marketing.
They address that part of the way down the article.

In an interview from the 1980s, Art mentioned that the University of Arizona called his find a “true American Melon” and that he had been told that it was perhaps an ancient cross of different cucurbits native to the U.S., much like the ancient cross of wild maize and teosinte that resulted in corn. This would mean that it is not a true watermelon from Africa, but a look-alike relative

I personally agree with you though. 500 plus years seems a bit too long to store viable watermelon seed, even in a dry clay jar. The seeds most likely originated from old world stock.
Almost every battle Julius Caesar ever fought was win or die. He was outnumbered by the Gauls in every battle, and the Gauls started adopting Roman organizational tactics after a while. And he didn't just fight a few battles with Romans, more like dozens.

At some point it's not just luck. He was a brilliant tactician and did innovative new things almost every battle.

The one battle Caesar did lose was an example of Caesars luck. Caesar only survived because Pompey (another great general) neglected (or was unable to) finish off Caesar's forces in the rout. Pompey still trapped Caesar's forces, who were sure to starve and dwindle if Pompey just waited them out. But his rich backers goaded Pompey into fighting Caesar again, a seemingly easy battle given his huge advantages in men, especially cavalry. But do or die Caesar pulled out another victory through innovative tactics, and that victory made him the ruler of Rome.
Say you want to see a picture of an orange cat. So you send a short HTTP query to the nice computer at google.com, which responds with 700,000 characters worth of instructions, in unreadable minified formatting, with the implicit promise that if you execute the instructions, you will eventually see a picture of an orange cat.

The google search result page's source code is, for many individual humans, already so complex as to be beyond understanding. And that's a computational artifact largely produced by other humans directly!

Say you build an AI, and ask it how to win a political election - and it outputs a simple list of reasonable-sounding suggestions of where to campaign, promises to make, people to meet, slogans to use, and criticisms of your opponent to focus on.

Before actually implementing those suggestions, do you think you could be _very_ certain that following those suggestions would result in you winning the election? Or, would it be possible that the AI understood social dynamics so much better, that it gave you a list of instructions that seemed mostly reasonable, but actually result in your opponent winning in a landslide? Or the country undergoing revolution? Or, you winning, along with a surprising social trend of support for funding AI research?
SSR for your create-react-app, without eject
> You need some automated killing machine of some sort and if it hasn't been built, then an AGI would have to compel some non-AGI entity to build it or somehow takeover the construction of such a machine.

Are you still living the in 50s? A large percentage of our manufacturing capacity is automated already, and will become progressively more automated.

Furthermore, we don't need face to face meetings to agree on specs and sign manufacturing contracts. It's largely electronic these days. AI can do all of these things remotely, but this is neither here nor there, because the Terminator-style killing machine war is a juvenile doomsday fantasy.

A smart AI would just tweak some formulas and contaminate the most common food pesticides and drugs used around the world to slowly poison or sterilize anyone who takes them. One generation later, virtually no humans left, AI wins.

AI is already helping medical treatment and drug design. Are you feeling queasy yet?
That's one way to look at it.
The other perspective is that with shiny 'many' are able to create interactive apps to display and explore data which would have required 5x as much time to make with js +/- d3
Which is why I found this part hilarious: "And there’s still competition: Some markets may have just one cable provider, but phone companies offer increasingly comparable internet access — so if the cable provider slowed down or blocked some sites, the phone company could soak up the affected customers simply by promising not to do so."

As bad as Rogers is, Bell Canada is much worse with regards to NN. And both would like nothing better than than to prevent all the other ISPs from being able to lease the last mile from them.
> Look at the time frame from the invention of the transistor to everyone doing nearly everything online. It's less than the average human lifetime.

Look at the time frame from from the invention of controlled heavier-than-air flight to landing a man on the moon; within a human lifetime and before you were born.

Look at the time frame from the point when the vast majority of the human population lived their entire life within a 50 mile radius of where they were born and when fast transportation and global travel exponentially increased the genetic mixing of humanity; within a human lifetime and before our grandparents were born.

Look at the time frame from the point when information could travel no faster than the speed of a good horse to the time when information could travel across the ocean in the time it took you to saddle a horse; within a human lifetime and almost two centuries ago.

Our progress in the last century is significant, but you over-estimate its importance because you are surrounded by it and have little understanding of the history of technology. Things that may seem trivial or even primitive to you were far more important and world-changing inventions, while a lot of what we currently consider significant advances are only important because, for example, we lived in a time when people played finite games better than machines and were around to see that era end.
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here's why I don't care; FF simply doesn't work. No, really, it doesn't... _for me_.

I'm sure it works for many, _many_ people, I'm just not one of them. I give it another shot every year and it's always something. This year (~5 months ago) it would randomly stutter (freeze every ~5 seconds) and, of course, when a tab crashed, it crashed _everything_.

Now I know they _finally_ have separation via processes between tabs, but WTH? Why did it take so long? Why did my pages begin to stutter? Why could I find no resolution?

Meh, I'll try again next year, but I'm not holding my breath. Safari on Mac, and still Chrome on Windows.
Or if you're small. I'm 5'2, so even adjusting for physical activity my BMR is about 1600 cal. 2000 cal/day means I'm going to gain about a pound a month.
Don't stress out too much about obvious extensions of known technology.
Jetbrains just released a new in-editor REST client in Intellij 2017.3:

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2017/09/editor-based-res...

I think it combines the best of both worlds.
They only need(* depending on TOS guarantee) to keep the full amount of Bitcoins matching your Coinbase wallet. They can take all the cash they've been given, pile it up and set it on fire if they like.

1 BTC at Coinbase is only worth whatever Fiat currency Coinbase is willing to buy it from you for. If that's $1 for all your Bitcoins, tough luck.

They're under no obligation to guarantee a sale price for BTC.
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I see no current evidence to support "The fees charged by bitcoin to relay funds can be significantly lower."

In the world of finance, the effective cost of technical transactions is tiny (<0.02USD for mass straight-through processing transactions that can handle batching and delay, <1USD for real time settlement of large amounts). Western Union and friends won't realize that leveraging the bitcoin network might actually be cheaper than their current network, because it's not cheaper, not even close to it.

The fee for payments tends to be much larger because of everything else bundled with the payment, but an equivalent service that provides the same things on top of bitcoin would also have to charge similar fees. For example, a large part of credit card fees pays for chargeback and fraud insurance, and all kinds of bonuses/miles/etc which customers like, so if a BTC service wants to take over that business, it'd have to compete with that. Bitcoin transfers are irrevocable, but most consumers want most of their payments to be revocable in certain conditions, so a future "buying stuff with BTC" payment will have to include an escrow service for an additional fee. The branches that allow you to hand over your local currency cash for a remittance, those are expensive, so a remittance service that uses BTC will cost the same as a remittance service that does not.
The sugar is mostly isomaltulose.
Yes, totalitarianism can be highly efficient, when all the inefficient people are forcibly excluded from the system.

You need to pay the same as that person, so that the insurer does not have to know every tiny detail that separates the low-risk person from the high-risk person.

Do you really want 24-7 surveillance tracking how often you drink Coke, and tattling on you if you smoke? Or do you imagine that the guy who dips fries in his milkshake is going to self-report derogatory information to their insurer? And do you think that you will be the one deciding which behaviors will be considered high-risk? Do you think that they will all be firmly grounded in science rather than morality or politics?
At this point I'm very happy with VS Code, but would love to see more UI integration points for plugins and rendering. I'm not sure what this would take, IFrames, etc... as right now plugin UX points seem to be very limited.

If the VS Code guys can get that improved, I don't see why most of the features in VS proper couldn't be commercial extensions to VS Code. VS for Mac is such a fragile install that I only finished it once and never used it much.

While this comment isn't specific to VS proper, I just frankly don't miss it, and the VS Mac is so much of an also ran at this point. VS Code may not have all the features, but it's very good and beyond pretty much any other code editor at this point. It just needs better UI integrations imho for plugin/extension authors.
Try paleo?
BTW, most of the insecam cams (so no need to scrape them), plus some more are available in my c4 list. Though it might be a bit out of date now. Incidentally, I had the same idea but never followed through.

Now we just need someone to design a Samaritan-esque UI for it ;-).

- c4: http://git.io/c4

- info: https://github.com/turbo/c4

- Samaritan reference: http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Samaritan
Yes, in the remedial history class.
Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852773
Coltan: Columbite-tantalite, an ore that contains niobium and tantalum.

IPR: Intellectual property rights.

ARUP: I presume the Arup Group, as Wikipedia says: "a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment."
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You could even train it with random theorem expressions run through a conventional theorem prover. And then let it loose on the problems that are left.
One of the undocumented oddities of the peephole optimizer is that it will try to merge duplicate constants. When combined with integer (non-)interning, this lets me do:

>>> a = 300
>>> b = 300
>>> print(a is b)
False
>>> a = 300; b = 300; print(a is b)
True
>>> def my_function():
... a = 300
... b = 300
... print(a is b)
...
>>> my_function()
True

... and I see in the followup posting (this puzzle is from 213) that that was the desired answer, and that it was further analyzed in various ways, and improved upon.
My guess is assuming this will change consumer behavior.
Suppose bob sponsored 5 people at 1$ each before. Now if Bob gets charged a fee for each of the 5 contributions, he might change his election to 5$ to his single favorite creator, so that he is only charged 1 fee instead of 5.
You are one of them, I assume? How much weight did you lose, over what period of time, and what is your weight right now? Are you a doctor by any chance?
Great read on China's influence in Africa:

https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Gift-Story-China-Africa/dp/01...
I switched from Chrome to Firefox on iOS. Firefox is significantly better there. I also switched to Outlook on iOS from GMail which is also significantly better. It wasn't speed. Ads are annoying and they're especially annoying on a 4" iPhone SE.

I haven't switched to Firefox on OSX yet. Chrome + adblock extensions on OSX is pretty good and it hasn't given me a reason to abandon it there. But Chrome+GMail on iOS gave me plenty of reasons.
Completely dishonest title and first 1,000 words of the write-up. That's when you get to the words:

> pointed out that Stockfish's methodology requires it to have an openings book for optimal performance.

I went from amazed, utter shock like "What!! No way. This is unreal. This is absolutely unreal. What? What? What?" to a total feeling that I've been reading 1,000 words of fake news.

I feel cheated by this write-up and flagged it for this reason. They need to mention it in the first couple of words, not after selling that it has deduced 1600 years of human chess knowledge in 4 hours.
The real unstoppable algorithm is capitalism. Capitalism is funding the exponential advancements in AI at Google, Facebook and other places. But it does so for capitalism's purpose, the algorithms get better at grabbing our attention because attention=profit. Profit is the only goal that capitalism optimizes for. The only reason that AI will ever start destroying humans is if there's a profit motive. Which might very well happen at some point, but we should focus on the real motivation not the tools it uses. Capitalism won't give up powerful profit tools very easily. Sam's hope for worldwide coordination has not worked against climate change, capitalism sensed that threat and started attacking our political systems and propaganda channels and so far it has won that battle handily.
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I only brought in the first amendment to highlight the importance of the right to free speech. Contracts are important but perhaps some things should not be allowed in them. Many contracts are unfair, but people enter into them anyway for various reasons.
Arbitration is legal because of the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925. Before that, judges in the United States treated arbitration clauses as unenforceable despite freedom of contract. [1] It’s a bit odd that 80 years or so passed before consumer arbitration clauses suddenly became ubiquitous in the last decade, but nevertheless Congress could easily amend the law if it wanted to.

[1] https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
The property taxes here to me are my main concern. Even if paying for a downtown condo in cash I still have a substantial monthly constantly growing property tax. It seems pointless to me.

It is very bike (although all my friends disagree) and walk friendly. I got rid of my car and have been biking and walking every where (my apartment is downtown). Minus insurance, car payment and parking fee my rent is about what it was in Oklahoma, but in a much better location and quality of life.

I came from Oklahoma a few years ago, where I owned a house in Tulsa and then Stillwater. Home prices are very similar to what you describe. For $200,000 to $300,000 you get a mansion, brand new even, in a very nicely kept up community with little to no H.O.A. fee (for keeping it up and access to the community amenities like club house and pool and trash).

Edit: Do you mean Olympia, WA?
Whew lad, are Verizon and AT&T next? I heard some actual Nazis used AT&T in the past. Surely by that logic all T-Mobile customers are suspect by default.
What? Coinbase and other exchanges go a step further than that, and require the counterparty to have deposited 100% of what they will deliver to you up front. So you will be made whole unless the exchange itself steals your money or gets hacked.
This is really impressive work.

Formally proving programs correct is especially hard when there are pointers. This approach manages to handle them, without even requiring special programmer annotations like Rust requires.

I'm a big fan of the Why3 / ProVal / Toccata approach. Instead of building one tool to do everything, they've broken things down so they can support multiple programming languages (C / Java / Ada / Why's ML variant), multiple automated provers (e.g., Z3, alt-ergo), and multiple interactive provers (Coq, Isabelle). It seems to be a very promising approach.

Cool! Thanks for sharing!
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That is certainly not what I would consider "quite a lot of food"! If I was forced to use your meal plan I'd eat it in a single sitting in the evening and fast the rest of the day.
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It was not a figure of speech. The guy said, numerous times, that Lenin was literally a mushroom (and also literally a radio wave). That was the whole point of the piece!
Bitcoin eliminating the banksters doesn't mean bitcoin will kill them and then become popular. Bitcoin becoming popular comes first; while that's happening there's a period of coexistence before it makes them redundant.

Not necessarily my POV that it'll happen, I'm just arguing that those two views aren't contradictory. (Even if they were, it is not unusual for a community of humans to hold diverse, and even incompatible, views.)
Those are all examples of super-linear progress, so I'm not sure what point you think you've made.

> Things that may seem trivial or even primitive to you were far more important and world-changing inventions

Which has zero bearing on the point I was making, which is that super-linear progress in information technology is all around us. Information tech is all that matters to the question of general AI. Like I said, you're missing the forest for the trees.
This is what I thought as well but haven't been able to articulate yet! It was actually on the opposite side -- a flash rise. I watched this happen and the order book on the sell side was getting extremely thin. The price rose thousands in minutes. I managed an 18k limit sell and bought back in at 16.5k
Intelligence is overrated because non-intelligence lacked the faculties for contributing any offsetting negative ratings.
No you're not, but the people that don't worship the ground this guy walks on tend to stay quiet.
How would you respond to views that arbitration outcome statistics favor the corporation paying for it?
Sure, but first movers have an advantage due to wider name recognition and in this case a large established market cap and mining network. Unless the underlying tech shifts to somthing more stable or more profitable, last movers are at a disadvantage.

The deflation and high transaction fees seem to favor btc bc miners wouldn't shift to somthing less profitable and those using btc as a value store profit from deflation long term.
Add Bulletproofs to the list. I was completely blown away by the fact that so drastic improvement happened to confidential transactions thanks to the hard work of the cryptographers. I just wish Gregory and others would create more videos and maybe even write a book on Bitcoin cryptography, it's our future, but really hard for me to keep up with understanding it.
I must confess to falling for that one briefly (In my defense, I was half asleep at the time), they start off using very cagey language so it seems like what you'd expect in a real interview but by the end theiry're blatant enough to be unbelievable.

A more recent one was a Mermaid mockumentary, even though they are honest about being completely fictional in the credits there are still people that believe they were real documentaries sadly.
>>Competitors from other countries.

And China has another huge advantage: NO income taxes. This means they can pay much lower wages. This advantage becomes multiplicative because those companies and employees can then buy from others in their country who don't pay income taxes either, so every dollar spent goes further, at least in their country.
Ok, that link makes things clearer, and I can understand their position a bit more.

But they missed the BIG OBVIOUS solution: charge a pro-rated "first month" pledge, then combine all subsequent pledges like they do now.

For example, if I become a patron at the $10/month level, on the 15th of the month, they can charge me $5 immediately. Then the $10 gets added to my regular charge on the first of the month, and everyone saves in processing fees.

As a patron, I would much rather get one charge per month on the first. The current schedule works great.
Paying for care has nothing to do with pain and suffering. I wasn't asking the pointless question you imagine I was asking an actual relevant nonobvious question.
hmm, I still don't quite understand. The bitcoin exchange would have to believe the futures market prices if I'm not mistaken. There wouldn't be an actual effect. Am I making sense?
Denial of what? That one chess engine dethroned the currently best one? This happens every second year. And doesn't make sense why the chess community would be in denial, did you mean chess engine community?
I didn't know that so I checked them out and when I saw their featured creators my skin started to crawl.
> The question is usually a matter of compliance more than anything else.

What would Microsoft say if a customer said "we need to see the source code for Windows, Outlook, Exchange and Office applications before we use them, just as a matter of license compliance"?
Not the author, but this is a R Shiny application. If you mean the plots, they are made with ggplot, a package in R.

https://shiny.rstudio.com/