skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not what it’s about now. Obviously these digital tokens are a great medium for speculative gambling.

Among the many problems of bitcoin as money, is the speculative aspect increases price volatility, which reduces utility as currency.

The bizarre thing to me is that bitcoin is a (less than) zero sum game. Meaning the funds for someone’s new Lambo came from others, who instead of having a new Lambo, or shirt, or food, now have “ownership” rights to a digital token.

I have a hard time believing that non-owners are going to be happy just handing over real wealth to those prescient enough to buy bitcoin.

On the other hand, the mania of speculative bubbles can drive insane valuations, ultimately resulting between transfers of wealth.

In the mortgage backed securities, the losses to the losers were so catastrophic, that they were socialized to a degree, and taxpayers wound up footing part of the bill.

If you think about that, that every loss for someone, is a win for someone else, the winners in the MBS game truly made out like bandits.

This bitcoin mania can run a long time, but the higher the price goes, the less likely it will be adopted for its ostensible purpose.
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Estoy usando el MSPY de los últimos 6 meses. estaba muy contento con el servicio mspy. pero desde hace 15-20 días, mspy actualizó su interfaz web. después de esta actualización, se vuelve peor y hay muchos problemas. no registro de inessge, registro de llamadas, (casi todas las funciones) actualizando y perdiendo los mensajes. doy ahora cero calificación de inicio. me pongo en contacto con mspy técnico. Lo siento, pero lo infectas, están dando una respuesta muy estúpida y poco lógica. https://www.espiaparacelular.com/opiniones-y-analisis-de-mspy/
Political schema:

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VALUES (culprit, event);
If you really wanted to achieve this, write some politically charged Stack Overflow answers.
I cannot confirm this. I have Pro and get the same Popups and shortcuts to Candy Crush etc. They usually get installed during your first setup.
https://www.espiaparacelular.com/opiniones-y-analisis-de-msp...
If people accept 1 company doing it, would 2, or even 3 or 4, be so bad? Whatever rules limit it currently could be relaxed instead of eliminated completely; competition-wise, going from 1 to 2 is a much larger step than going from 5 to 10. Regarding power—as a matter of fact, I've had some power outages recently. I think 2 would provide some nice redundancy.
If you had Windows Spotlight on (like the changing background image for lockscreen), they used to show occasional ads there. It could be they removed that.
Basically by being extremely cozy with reporters. Reporters who report on government happenings build contacts with people in government for leads. of course there is a quid pro quo in that the person helping them has their own motives, either on an individual (e.g. political) or government level.

If your government buddy in the State Dept. (who may himself just be a CIA agent) essentially does a lot of the "investigative work" on a major story for you by serving it on a platter, and there's an implied understanding that reporting against your buddy's narrative would end future help from the buddy, you're going to do write what he wants.
Did Magnus play against this? Is there a way we can see the game?
It's a rather silly question on the surface: all countries have different cultures. Often very different. That alone is enough to answer the posed question.

Much of the world might copy it. It's not going to get copied overnight, that's not how big change occurs in a culture. Portugal was culturally ready for it. Things like this always start very slowly and then gain momentum.

The US might even copy it given enough time, it will probably take two decades though. The US notoriously tends to slowly get around to things (although it did legalize gay marriage before ~96% of the rest of the planet). It goes back to the old joke about the US trying everything else first before finally doing the right thing, it's a partially accurate assessment of US history.
You are being disingenuous because you are a power user who has admitted to carefully reviewing your settings and running a third party cleaner, but you are acting like you are the kind of standard user we are talking about.
This is horrifying. Left and right already read different news, different fiction, different philosophy, and different scientific papers. Are they also supposed to read different O'Reilly textbooks?

Granted, Kissinger should be a war criminal, but how does this press the case against him? It just creates another degree of separation in the divergent realities constructed by the two groups.
>it only takes 4 hours of training to beat Stockfish

In that time I figure they used the equivalent of about 1000 cpu-years. Imagine the things we'll be able to achieve as we can do more and more computation in less and less time.
You would have to make it punitively expensive for that to sway me. I pay $10 for a giant bottle of shampoo from Costco, if it suddenly became $10 + $5 plastic bottle tax I'd probably still just pay the $15 rather than refill the bottle.
"Intelligent life" as we know it requires multi-cellular heterotrophic organisms. That depends on an abundance of resources (energy et al) able to give rise not merely to life but to a robust ecosystem. Without enough ecological niches there aren't enough ways for life to diversify significantly. Without enough energy and other resources you won't have either the generation cycle time or the carrying capacity to enable evolution of "advanced" multi-cellular life. There are environments on Earth that support life but could not support the development of intelligent life, they just lack the resources to do so. That might be true for some environments throughout the Universe as well. There might be places where some life can survive but is constrained from advancing beyond simple single cellular organisms due to lack of resources.
Jokes are what is called comic relief - a psychologic tool to ease the acceptance of the content. I find it hard to imagine a political topic fitting the same function.
But who am I to judge the author o his choices of examples. The only way is through not buying the book and maybe giving advice not to buy it either.
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Most of Asia has even harsher drug laws than the US does, that includes China (you know, 1.3 billion people and the world's second largest economy). Their enforcement budgets are nowhere near as large per capita and they don't have the idiotic mandatory minimum sentencing laws that the US implemented a few decades ago (which is largely the cause of the huge prison population increase).
It briefly became popular in the otaku culture from an anime called Hunter X Hunter.
"2666" by Roberto Bolaño.
I do.

I also hope internet bandwidth grows to the point where hundreds of megabytes takes milliseconds to download, and that computer memory increases until hundreds of megabytes is trivial, and that the economics of ISPs mean I get truly unlimited data without incurring charges, but when all that happens I definitely do hope we're utilising technology in ways that includes embedding complex neural networks in webpages as a normal, typical thing we do.

That particular future will be awesome.
No he didn't play it. As far as I know, computers are already far ahead of humans in chess, so a further progress in this wouldn't really make a difference.
Not necessarily, you could tax the production/sale of goods that usually contribute to garbage.

For example in Germany, it's mostly the producers of goods who have to pay for disposal of corresponding (packaging) waste, thereby creating an incentive to reduce packaging or rely on reusable bins etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_(symbol)#German_dual...
> I've seen more string implementations in C than I can count. Most of them were bad.

I've written them over and over, myself. They're all bad, because the problems are nigh insurmountable:

1. C string literals don't know or care about your string package.

2. Once you step outside of the string package, you're incompatible with everything else.

3. C determinedly and resolutely devolves arrays into pointers. https://digitalmars.com/articles/b44.html
The FCC is only broken in the sense that its leaders are dismantling it.

The most recent successful dismantling was getting rid of ISP customer privacy protections. ISPs are now allowed to collect data from customers without even notifying them, and sell that data.

Without a strong FCC, ISPs are quickly becoming a new "Big Brother", with similar abilities to diminish individual privacy and trust by collecting and profiting from their customer's data, and stifling competition between internet services.
Forever?
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> trite and wholly conventional political opinions

It's weird that you judge political opinions on whether they're "conventional" or not, as if you're looking for only the most novel, original politics.

I'm imagining a stereotypical hipster sipping kombucha, going "Ugh, tax reform used to be cool before all the fucking college kids got into it. I've been into legalizing meth lately--it's so real, y'know?"
The issue is you can’t evaluate positions that fast in AlphaZero (currently).
On completely different hardware.
I'm not in the OEM industry anymore but I'm aware that 845 has been in development for months. It'll be interesting to see how Project Treble turns out with 845.
In sweden, yeah, two things: there has been much, too much, batshit-insane anti drug/prohibitionist propaganda for decades. And the fact nations are bound by the UN Convention that mandate prohibition. Politicians are retards who rather see people die than legalize...
I smell a rat.

The paper says:

'AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi'

In the first game Stockfish's, 9. Qe1 is one of the strangest moves I've ever seen, which would never be considered by a human, let alone a superhuman.

11. Kh1 also makes little sense, but is not as bad. My Stockfish sees it as losing 0.2 pawns, which makes it highly suspect in such a position.

35. Nc4 is also a deeply puzzling move that my Stockfish sees as losing half a pawn immediately, and a whole pawn soon after.

50. g4 also suspect

52. e5 is insane.

This is bullshit.

Edit: bullshit is too much - see comments below.

Edit: Oh dear. We're doomed.

https://lichess.org/study/qiwMCyNQ
I don't see any issue with that at all. Imagine how many potentially high achievers flounder away because they aren't surrounded by the right people and influences to succeed, because they couldn't get into university. Even freeloaders are going to learn something and be better people for it, and university might be free but everything else isn't, they will still need a job and be contributing to society.

Not to mention, money shouldn't be the barrier for entry to keep admissions in check if you want one. Viability should be. Universities already screen for good candidates. Change the screening to suit.

On top of that, you still have to be succeeding in uni to stay in uni

If a few freeloaders get a degree they don't need. Would society have lost anything but money?
I barely know who Kissinger is but the fact that the author admits it's controversial (in contrast to say calling Hitler a war criminal) is enough for me to avoid this guy's books at all cost.

If I read a technical book I presume the examples are objective. If I would have read it without knowing anything beforehand I would take it literally and all of a sudden become a Kissinger hater without realizing it's actually a subjective political opinion.
Yeah, that game was kind of different from the others - in the other games the feeling I got was that over time AphaGo's pieces got increasingly effective while Stockfish's pieces would get bottled up and lose their mobility.
Same here. I had a movie available to me on Prime but I couldn't broadcast it to Chromecast and I didn't want to watch it on the small phone screen, so I had to buy it on YouTube.
hi Bron, thank you for this response. Much clearer and I think this is what everyone wanted to see.

Can I just clarify some things for peace of mind?

1) When you say regular support staff cannot alter security-sensitive details. How is that done? Do they only perform changes through a limited set of UI?

2) When you say if 2fa is enabled it goes to senior security team, is that an automated process such that support staff don't see that ticket at all? The support ticket interface doesn't seem to have anything that helps to automatically route password reset requests.

3) Was the security incident involving ghouse through support tickets?

4) Do the senior security team have direct data access? i.e. do they also change things through a UI or do they have capability to directly change data?

Thanks
I think in a way it’s an opening that rewards preparation and theory. With near perfect play expected on both sides, what seem like sharp games to humans are quite easily navigable.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop. Tossing this sort of flamebait into an HN thread is vandalism, let alone going full Hitler once people take the bait. We're trying for an entirely different kind of site here.

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It searches fewer positions because it decides where to search using 4 TPUs, which are 180 teraflops each according to Google.
Pro has the same ads as Home.
If your only negotiating leverage against Google is going with Yahoo/Verizon then Google will call that bluff all day long.

>I forget, is Yahoo search based on Bing, or is it the other way around, or is that deal dead?

Both Google and Bing.

>"Yahoo disclosed the details of a new search deal it's formed with Google after releasing its third-quarter earnings results today. Under the terms of a new arrangement effective October 1st and lasting until the end of 2018, Google will provide Yahoo with search ads, algorithmic search, and image search services for both desktop and mobile. And according to a regulatory filing, Yahoo will also get to decide which search queries to send to Google and will not have to meet a minimum requirement of queries."

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/20/9577519/yahoo-google-sea...
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That is a fallacy because I have seen Go code with _ everywhere , thus not handling errors at all.
I have no problem energy increasing in price if people think it is an issue. It will have little effect on the architecture of bitcoin. If anything, it will benefit it by increasing decentralization.
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Totally agree, we need to find middle ground on Kissinger so as to not offend special snowflake liber... er, wait.

There is only one reality. The rest is politics and self-delusion.
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Yeah, it takes me about 20 mins to de-crappify windows 10, and then I get this.. https://imgur.com/a/SaphU
And Motorola.
This is exactly correct and the agencies you mentioned are among the largest lobbyists against drug reform.

The US has a higher percentage of its citizens than almost any other country, and the majority are in for non violent drug related offenses.
> Gay marriage is a prime example, as it's something that has been legalised in a lot of countries now.

Unfortunately that's an exaggerated claim. The world is still extraordinarily backwards when it comes to gay marriage. 70% of European nations for example don't allow gay marriage. About 90% of the world's population live in a nation where gay marriage is not yet legalized.

Only a little over two dozen nations allow it, out of ~195.
Net neutrality supporters too.
Biggest proponents for net neutrality are the biggest offenders.
'...but your trouble with it are more anecdotal than the rules.'

Hence why I said 'for me at least'.
I am so scared at the direction things are going. Vendor lock in, DRM, anti neutrality...

I should be able to use a laser to project a video on the back of I spoon if it's the way I want to watch it.
I can’t see any reference to whether Stockfish was configured with an endgame tablebase. It’d be interesting to see results then, as you’d expect AlphaZero’s superior evaluation to give it an advantage out of the opening, but later in the game Stockfish would have access to perfect evaluations. Obviously there’s nothing stopping you from plugging a tablebase into AlphaZero but that feels wrong.
Boy I love when people use the phrase "virtue signaling". It's the new "SJW", in the sense that it's a bullshit phrase used by a political side in what is almost always the result of projecting more than anything else.

It's so much easier than when the same sentiment is disguised and dressed up, so I know more immediately to roll my eyes and move on. Thanks.

edit: Sorry, I shouldn't have replied. Didn't realize this person had negative net karma.
Yes, that's what I did after leaving my last job and read up more on IRAs. For retirement savings, the plan is for index funds. I was more annoyed by the max on IRAs since a lot of the companies I've worked for have either not offered 401ks or just had poor options.

This Bogleheads post had some good replies about why this is the way it is in terms of contribution max:

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=115303

It is what it is and, until I find something decently high-paying, doesn't really matter in the short run.
> I recently moved to Canada and I am astounded by how little politics are discussed here, even those places where they should be discussed

If you're in Ontario, take a look at The Agenda with Steve Paikin. It is the gold standard of Canadian political discourse. It fills some of that niche you refer to with well-moderated interviews and discussions with various experts and stakeholders on political topics of regional, provincial or national interest, airing five nights a week on public television and the web.

But, speaking as a Canadian looking in on the US, I often get the feeling that Americans hate each other. I'm glad we don't have as much of that dysfunctional political animosity here. Our conflict-avoidance has its own issues, but we're definitely getting a lot out of the values of peace, order and good government.
I've visited Lisbon last week. I had at least 15 different guys offering me heroin, cocaine or LSD in various parts of the city. This never happened to me before but I didn't realise it used to be such a big problem. The point is, if someone wants to get drugs, he/she will just get drugs. I think the best prevention is awareness and I think this policy might have gotten them this far but they seem to need a different approach to go further.
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This could again be a consequence of the amount of knowledge out there in both fields. Math is a very mature field compared to CS, though of course CS inherits some of that maturity due to how closely related the two are. First year grad students are publishing CS research because there's still a lot of "low hanging fruit" out there. Lots of open problems have the right lack of popularity, ease of solving, and importance (coupled with the fact that IME many CS grad students actually aren't that good at higher proof-based math) for this to be occurring. Over time the portion of problems that are easy to solve and important will decrease, and I bet theoretical CS's research landscape will look more like CS.
Y'know, if you take "a few" to mean 3 instead of 4, then do that same transformation twice, it lands right on 5 years...
I'd recommend to choose one of these two books:

Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Ed., Bjarne Stroustrup
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Principles-Practice-Using...

C++ Primer, 5th Ed., Stanley Lippman
https://www.amazon.com/Primer-5th-Stanley-B-Lippman/dp/03217...

For a very brief introduction:

A Tour of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup
https://www.amazon.com/Tour-C-Depth/dp/0321958314/ref=sr_1_1...
Hey, go for it! It's a fun problem. Shoot me an email if you'd like to chat offline - email in profile.
> It’s very possible — the full source to an older version is on github.

What makes reddit "reddit" is the millions of users, not the code (which is open and very basic).

> there is nothing inherently stopping everyone from having a shitty one man version of reddit, independent of everyone else’s shitty one man reddit.

There is: usage. My one-person reddit is useless if you and 100 million other do not use it actively.

> For the New Yorker example, everyone must work together — if I cut my neighbors line putting mine in, there’s crosstalk etc, the whole thing falls apart.

Exactly, everyone must converge on a single reddit. There can be a very long tail of similar sites but none of those will come close to within an order of magnitude of reddit. They "fall apart" if everyone doesn't "work together".

> The point I am trying to make is that the ISP does one thing only

What would that thing be? To me it looks like they do several things. Digging up the neighborhood, installing fiber, installing routers and switches, operating the network, connecting to the internet via bgp, etc. And what has the number of things you do got to do with the issue of nn?

> Reddit does lots of things, but cooperation is not integral to those things. Granted, it wouldn’t be worth a whole lot, but that’s not the issue.

It's exactly the issue. It is technically possible for me and my neighbor to dig up our street and make a private network among ourselves. Is it in any way a substitute for internet? It isn't. Just like a shitty one-man reddit.

Of course this is applicable to facebook, youtube and other such service, not just reddit.

> As to the price discrimination point, Facebook/YT/reddit do not, as far as I'm aware, solid control of ad pricing, although I'm sure they would love to. Your ISP, however, exercises significant pricing controls, especially if they are the only game in town.

I didn't understand your point that's why didn't respond to it earlier. Care to explain again?
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I’m not trying to complain, and I don’t disagree.

My wording is used.

If the GA144 can actually be better than existing solution, there’s thousands of engineers who would happily try it. But until GreenArray can demonstrate a compelling use case, an unmet need, something — the product won’t make it very far.
I used to tell people this when they ask me how to buy Bitcoin but then one day I helped a friend and no, Coinbase can be really unfriendly sometimes. We tried to verify his account 20 times and even though it sometimes said it was OK it actually wasn't. The page kept bugging out, getting stuck and all kind of nonsense. In the end we had to give up.

Fwiw, this was outside the US.
Does Candy Crush not come back for you? It always did for me.
You're right that it's pointless. The paper has the game with Stockfish so that's good enough for me.
Instead of the speculative market, why hasn't any of the coins been pegged to a currency like USD or Swiss franc so that it can actually be used more as a currency?

I've read a little about Tether, and that some of the others in this category have failed. Is it a difficult space because it needs some sort of regulation / management vs the decentralization that is promised by cryptocurrencies?