skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this change has anything to do with the median number of creators the typical Patreon users supports. A lot of angry people here sound like power users, but that might not representative of the overall userbase.
Has it had any effect on you?
You can on e.g. gdax, but Bitcoin isn't intended as a high volume trading platform; it handles about 15 transactions per second, and right now there's a backlog of over 200.000 unconfirmed transactions. I'm fairly sure coinbase / gdax has like its own transaction log, guaranteeing that you will get X btc for Y price at the moment you make the transaction, even if the transfer to your own (offline) wallet could take a while.
I thought was the point of AGI though, that it can formulate (formalize?) optimization problems from informal specifications.
Sam is almost pathologically unable to take responsibility for anything. He's a smart, capable, guy but the mental gymnastics he goes through to distance himself from things is... impressive in its magnitude.

It's a pattern: not just this article.
The card you call "EC card" (which is still called that in colloquial usage) is called "Girocard" officially and by the poster you replied to – you are not disagreeing except on terminology.

It should be noted that what you call "EC card" is a Germany-only thing from its inception. There was another, totally different scheme under the name "Eurocheque" used internationally in Europe but that is completely dead for a few decades. It never relied on cryptography but rather holograms. The logo was then used for the "Electronic Cash" system which never was supported outside Germany.

(I would also dispute the 6% number. Yes, the scheme of the German banks is really popular, but 6% is too low and doesn't match the numbers I know. Which study would that be?)
Hope you know Coinbase is only 8% of the total Bitcoin volume each day.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets
> but it's really hard to replicate production traffic

This times 1,000.
People run cartels from jail cells. Even if an AGI is confined to a machine with no actuators, all it would need is internet access to affect the world. Even without internet access you can cross the gap, as seen with the Stuxnet malware.
Thinking takes energy.

Like actual ATP molecules.

The world is complicated so we evolved these lumps of neurons on the ends of our spines to help navigate it. They are only as large as they have to be, and their primary purpose is to (re-)program the motor cortex and then go to sleep.

There is a strong evolutionary "pressure" to keep the brain in an "idle state".

If it seems like the evolutionary goals of the organism can be met with a simplified degenerate model then the organism will naturally adopt that model.

There is a possibility to notice that you're mostly-robotic and deliberately strive to become real but this is vanishing rare in practice.
A lot of comments are about other solutions (lockboxes, etc.) - these are solutions for a problem Amazon doesn't have.

Amazon wants to own grocery delivery (put your milk in your fridge), they want to own dog walking, they want to own plumbing and other house services.

The article's correct that this is the first step in a larger plan, and I think at least fairly well thought out for that.
This is why the soft/hardware for real exchanges (not-btc) are some of the most hardcore pieces of kit out there.
IBM has 400k employees and god knows how many subsidiaries and divisions, do you really think you can paint them all with one brush because of some negative experience you had with one of their products ?
Another long term goal is making the software job market more competetive so they can bring down expensive salaries.
A wedge product exists in all dimensions but only in 3 & 7 is it identifiable with a unique vector.
That's a nice, detailed status page. Although, some would say that it's a bad sign such a page is needed.
It's just a matter of doing things in a proper order. World conquering super intelligent AI first, then really high quality auto-correct. It's actually what our AI God will spend all of its time on, correcting spelling & grammar for 13 billion people sending trillions of increasingly poorly formed messages.
>No other general came close to Napoleon in total battles. While Napoleon commanded forces in 43 battles

Subutai had over 60 battles. He also conquered largest areas and coordinated simultaneous operations over massive distances.
In other words: They frown on competing. Who would have thought?
>You want me to believe that you'll protect my most valuable asset after I give you free access to it

I mean, Maybe I'm just an old man and you should get off my lawn but jesus, what could possibly go wrong here? You give it away willingly then expect there to be no abuse? Why would they give you the right to sue? You just gave them a key to your house and they assume you'll accept any licence because you're so desperate for the convenience that you won't say no anyway.

If they wanted to install an amazon locker on my front porch, that would solve the problem for everyone. But that's not a cool project to work on with computer vision so . . ..
That makes an assumption that there aren't limits on intelligence regimes and that you can just recursively improve intelligence without much friction. That's a very big assumption that has no basis in evidence.
Where's the added value of Qt's support for multithreading when compared with the C++ standard support for multithreading? IIRC, Qt introduces the irrelevant QReadWriteLock and that's it. In fact, the only upside of Qt's multithreaded support is that they were developed to serve Qt's very particular needs.

Qt is awesome but one of its main problems is its insistence of duplicating standard components and coming up with subpar alternatives which are then forced upon developers.
All the calculations seem to happen here:

https://github.com/nick264/gop-tax-plan-calculator/blob/mast...

Cannot speak to the soundness of the calculations, but there looks to be a ton of guesswork involved, and it does seem fairly simplified in light of the size of the bills being considered.
They are deprecating the app and going to a web application.

There is also a companion extension, but I am unsure what purpose it serves.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/uVCvle...

https://remotedesktop.google.com/
Just my opinion but I think the conspiracy theories are not realistic. Coinbase is essentially a startup that is dealing with monstrous traffic. They are still scaling their infrastructure and when the price starts moving quickly everyone logs in to either get in on the action or take a look. This cranks the traffic up and the servers cant handle it.

I am not excusing their behavior as they need to be able to handle it, especially when their server status affects the bank accounts of real people. But I feel that it is understandable with out condoning it. The simplest explanation is likely correct in this case.

I don't think many of us could have predicted the volume and interest in BTC a year ago and neither did Coinbase's purchasing and infrastructure teams.
Definitely a nice article.
Somehow I would in a real case be hard pressed to distinguish Tutorial and How To.
When teaching a child how to cook, I would do so by showing/helping to cook a simple meal. This would be done in a series of steps. Very much like the definition of howto in the article.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more backlash about Quantum regarding specifically this. Tab Mix Plus doesn't work, so Quantum lacks the killer feature of multi-row tabs. And all this nonsense about userchrome.css as a workaround is just .. no. I am not taking on the burden of maintaining that thru future versions.

I'm stuck at 56.02 and that's for sure not great, and if I roll back to ESR I lose my history. And staying stuck at 56 is so far impossible, something keeps auto updating it even though I turned the update off in config. I've resigned to just reinstalling 56.02 periodically.

For the first time in forever I'm seriously considering ditching Moz. /rant
You are putting the cart before the horse. Neural Networks is just one tool, that is particularly good for fitting a parameterized model to data. Nobody serious is saying that you just need a big neural network and a bunch of data to create a real general AI. On the other hand we can be optimistic about future technologies on the basis of "first principles" (like the existence of the human brain) without being certain how to build those technologies yet.
That doesn't look like an ape either, though. And there probably aren't many naked bears running around the wilds of Tibet.

There are three kinds of evidence in play here:

1. Artifacts claimed to come from yeti. High probability of being fake, whether the people who possess them are aware of that or not.

2. Physical evidence collected in the wild. High probability of coming from a more common animal, like a bear, than something less common.

3. Sightings, whether directly by the reporter, or from a first-hand witness describing to a reporter. Impossible to prove, but there are a lot of reports. Rule out everything that can be mistaken identity or fraudulent, and there are still a lot of reports. There are many consistencies across these reports that can't be explained as simply common-knowledge about expected behavior and characteristics. That's not proof, but it lends credence to the possibility of a real creature.
This was likely the strategy. The board wanted more profit, knew they needed to change some things, and decided to do it before a real competitor made it to the scene.
> It's not that hard

I'm sure they would pay you a lot of money to solve their scaling issues, if you were so inclined.
> I wonder if there have been any studies on trying to speed up the pace of learning for AI.

Isn't there one posted to HN about every day?

> It can teach itself how to play chess, but it takes a very large number of attempts before it becomes good. The rate of learning for a human is still much faster than for an AI.

But this is just a power optimization versus availability problem. AGZ played 44 million games in 8 hours and became better than the best program which is better than the best humans. Optimizing for a human level of power usage doesn't seem like the best method at this point.
A common type of IBS is actually caused by an autoimmune condition whereby the body begins to attack the protein vinculin instead of attacking camplobacter cdtb. There's a blood test you can now get which tell you if this is going on in your system.
And I wonder what if Stripe just offered this kind of service?

Patreon is just an additional middleman.
Two ways to deal with PoS distribution: either start out with PoW, or do a well-publicized open sale of the initial token supply. From the coin purchaser's perspective, contributing funds to a sale is economically equivalent to paying the electric company.

I certainly agree that Bitcoin was a breakthrough that paved the way.
‘I know Kung Fu.’
Yes, The low liability, ups/usps friendly way to do this is to turn that 7 billion into a bunch of little yellow metal boxes with a key pad. I bet a lot of people who want the convenience would let them screw it to the front of the house or down to the deck
Oh, closed systems will use their semi-monopoly position to raise prices? Who would have thought ...
At the end of the day, save yourself something very simple to start with the next day.

There are different stages in the life of a buisness, this stage may not appeal to you. Maybe it is time to start another one?

- The recommendation to stick to the parts of business development that you love comes up occasionally on the http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com podcast. Rob Walling actually does another podcast specifically targeting mental wellness: https://zenfounder.com
Wikipedia says:

> Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.

It is far from clear that humans can answer "how to slow climate change", so it seems like an artificially high bar to set for AGI.
I think that Bitcoin is the Friendster or Napster of cryptocurrencies. It is paving the way, but the fundamentals of how it works are unsustainable. Transactions cost too much, take too long, and require too much proof of work. I also expect that a mild inflationary aspect is necessary to maintain liquidity and discourage hoarding.

I think the South Sea Company or tulip mania are good analogies.
That is why I really, really fear that in five years or so the "tab" feature will be removed from all browsers.
"Because only power users use it."

That argument is used all the time while destroying the tools we need and love...
The issue I have with Bitcoin is that people invest in it thinking that they are investing in cryptocurrencies, which is in your words what everybody knows will "be a thing". The problem is that they're investing in one very specific cryptocurrency, and there is no way of knowing if it's the one that will succeed. It's equally possible that we're seeing the pets.com or myspace of crypto-currencies -- failed projects in a genre that will change pretty much everything. It's the complete lack of understanding that worries me, and what makes me almost certain this is a bubble that will come down crashing hard.
> i hope to keep having a privilege to say "no" about requests not matched to my vision

I totally understand and respect that. I bet it leads to better, more focused software rather than 10 mostly-similar projects that all almost do what you want. Kodus to him!
But what can I actually buy with it? It's not really useful for anything.
I'd love to see more details.

Ultimately, it seems like IBM has managed to make a generalized gather/scatter operation over large datasets in this particular task. Yes, this is an "old problem", but at the same time, its the kind of "Engineering advancement" that definitely deserves talk. Any engineer who cares about performance will want to know about memory optimization techniques.

As CPUs (and GPUs! And Tensors, and FPGAs, and whatever other accelerators come out) get faster and faster, the memory-layout problem becomes more and more important. CPUs / GPUs / etc. etc. are all getting way faster than RAM, and RAM simply isn't keeping up anymore.

A methodology to "properly" access memory sequentially has broad applicability at EVERY level of the CPU or GPU cache.

From Main Memory to L3, L3 to L2, L2 to L1. The only place this "serialization" method won't apply is in register space.

The "machine learning" buzzword is getting annoying IMO, but there's likely a very useful thing to talk about here. I for one am excited to see the full talk.
The shit-eating grin must work for a particular kind of audience. It counter-signals hard to me.

I know some real narcissists, and I think there's a moment before their narcissism is confirm-able that their "power" has more currency than it will later. I guess we can call it "charisma", but once it turns... it can feel rancid. I guess for some people, that rancid-ness doesn't show up.
It does seem almost like he started off just trolling people, then decided to run with it when he realized people were willing to pay and/or have sex with him in exchange for that trolling.
You look at the "Depth Chart" -- it shows you how much people are selling (or buying if you go to the right) in a way that escalates as you get further away from the mid-market price that is currently executing.
Also, I'm going to reply to my own comment to point out a quote from that patreonhq.com post (by Jack Conte, a co-founder):

I want Patreon to be different. I want creators to feel understood by Patreon.

The only way creators will feel understood is to include them in the decision-making process. If I were a creator making money on Patreon, I'd be organizing a new site, co-owned by other creators, where everyone is involved in the decisions made by the company.
sin(x) = x for very small x, this is a useful tool for several proofs.
Note that the shortcut is equivalent to hitting the "Tree Style Tab" button in the main toolbar, so if you're like me and want to show the tabs all the time you don't need to worry about having a keyboard shortcut.

If you do need the shortcut, AFAIK your only option is to edit the extension. Modify the manifest.json file in the root of the XPI around:

"commands": {
"_execute_browser_action": {
"suggested_key": { "default": "F1" },
"description": "__MSG_sidebarToggleDescription__"
}
}

Unfortunately, actually installing your changes requires a decent amount of arcane incantation (particularly if you're not using Nightly) -- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Pu... describes how to do it if you want to go that route.
>They are only slaves and automatons if they choose to; most aren't.

I completely disagree. Most are. In fact we have study after study showing this the case.

You want to focus on the modern automatons, such as phones and social media, but we have plenty other examples. Focus on the clock. Focus on the law. Focus on societal and cultural norms no matter the negative effects that these things have. These things have driven us since antiquity.
Ask HN: Have you ever considered becoming a single parent through surrogacy?
I am wondering if you ever thought about it as an alternative to a traditional family, or as a Plan B in case you are romantically unsuccessful.

Would love to hear the opinions of this community on this topic.
Actually, have you seen matches between SF without opening books vs SF with opening books? This isn't true anymore as far as I'm know.
Computers are tools. Some of the tasks for which we have formerly used cognition can be handled by them, just as some of the tasks for which we formerly used teeth have been largely delegated to knives. This doesn't mean we're merging with the computer any more than we have with the knife, nor does it mean computers can replace our brains any more than knives have replaced our teeth.
Those are just called "market makers". As a market maker you might be exposed to the risk of always ending up on the wrong side of the market over a longer time. For example if BTC is generally moving up, market makers might eventually have sold all their BTC and end up with USD. Sophisticated market makers will thus try to maintain a neutral position to avoid that risk. Some exchanges will even offer market makers a fee rebate to encourage parties to become market makers.
Chess has 16 pieces each in one of 65 positions, so the state space is roughly 65^16. A car has more than 16 parts each in more than 65 possible positions.

There are around 100 legal moves for any chess position, and only a handful of rules. The possible actions and rules for building cars is literally all of physics and engineering.
If nothing is different, you're implying that if someone holds through the next crash, they'll reach much greater heights later.

(But personally I think there is a difference: there's more-advanced competition now.)
It doesn't seem to consider state tax in the calculations.
The contents are important. For years I've been hearing about how people hate these kinds of systems but put up with it because "at least it's only cosmetic".

If Battlefront hadn't made it pay to win, the gambling conversation wouldn't be happening yet.
Why, other than "I just think so"?
If professional help isn't helping, find another professional.

This is actually a real problem when people don't move on when things aren't working, because they assume they alone are the problem rather than in combination with the provider.

Different approaches work differently for different people and it makes sense to try more than one.
You'd also see a lot of new sellers when peoples stop-losses trigger.
> C++ is packed with undefined behaviour

This alone clearly states that you known nothing abou C++ beyond tired old, meaningless clichés about irrelevant stuff you've heard somewhere and are complaining about something you know nothing about.
Naïve question here: since wallet addresses are fixed, couldn't you detect transaction activity unusually repetitive between a few wallets? Couldn't some clever learning algo detect anomalies such as what you hypothesized could be going on?
Impressive that Piro has personally created more extensions than exist for all of Edge...
I think the Married Filing Joint standard deduction for 2018 would be $13,000 under the current Code. Your comparison shows it as $12,700.
DC's been on a building spree and rents have stabilized, maybe even decreased a bit. In the greater Metro area, there are four fundamental problems: 1) new housing and jobs are placed too far away from Metro; 2) Metro is severely under-capitalized due to a lack of a dedicated funding source, so they can't undertake the projects they need to restore the level of service that was unsustainably enjoyed in the late 90s/early 00s; 3) we haven't prioritized bus service with BRT, transit ways, dedicated bus lanes, etc., to serve as a middle tier between cars and Metro; 4) DC lacks autonomy from Congress and Congress has explicitly forbade DC from enacting anything that resembles a commuter tax. If we tolled every car coming into DC (NYC and SF have tolls on their bridges and tunnels), that could be a nice funding stream for mass transit projects; but we can't simply because of Congress.

#1 is probably the overall most important factor. See https://ggwash.org/view/65596/the-best-way-improve-transport..., and check out the link to the actual study report.

There's also an exacerbating problem, especially within DC's boundaries, that the rise of Uber and Lyft at the same time Metro has taken a nose-dive means an individual can be better off using ride-hailing instead of using mass transit, but it puts more cars on the street and makes street-level congestion horrible. Hopefully DC's DDOT will start carving out dedicated bus lanes so that many DC residents are assured better commutes through bus than through ride-hailing.
CryptoPuppies are better, they live in the blockchain.
Visual Studio tools for Python, PyCharm?
Thanks for fman and for the transparency of your whole process. I am decidedly interested in your open-sourcing fman, I'll add myself to the subscription list.
I have a suggestion: why don't you launch a kickstarter (or other more suitable campaign) to collect a fund acting as a payment for the open-sourcing of fman. That could compensate you for the tremendous effort that went in the development till now.
"Everybody should sign this paper and promise to use btc1 instead of bitcoind. We have a guy on payroll who is both project maintainer and lead developer of said software."

Yes, I can see how some people might see that as a bit hostile. It's as if IBM went around all the Fortune 500 soliciting signatures to swap out all Libreoffice for Openoffice.

Except perhaps Openoffice is a healthy project in comparison.
That UV index stuff is no joke. My girlfriend spent an hour "sunbathing" in the canary islands and came back with the most incredible sunburn I've ever seen. I'm mega paranoid (SPF 50 all the time in hot countries) and didn't notice anything damaging but she had to be covered in aloe vera creams to numb the pain.. it affected her sleep, it must have been unbearable.

Not sure what the health qualms are with lack of Vitamin D bit I'm certain I don't want to advocate in favour of potentially harming people as much as my girlfriend experienced.
Can you select multiple tabs and copy urls of the selected tabs?

Sidewise (similar extension for Chrome) and Vivaldi TST (yes Vivaldi now also has TST!) allow this.

Firefox TST didn't the last time I checked.
But it is a really useful feature!