skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another poster already mentioned deepmind and starcraft2[0]. I want to mention it uses python and is a pip package.

> pip install pysc2

StarCraft BroodWar also has a more mature AI scene[1].

Facebook even tried their hands at a bot this year ending 6/28. Only 2 teams made the top 10, with 15 entries being from independent developers[2].

[0]: https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2

[1]: http://www.starcraftai.com/wiki/Main_Page

[2]: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/facebook-cherrypi-ai...
> For whatever the reasons, Google has been pursuing the minimum viable user

Probably because this covers 95% of the total user base. Most people are not developers and only get confused by extra features. In fact, most people I've seen using the browser have no idea what browser is and find even basic tab interface complicated.
I went back to Firefox for Quantum after a very long hiatus — mainly Chrome then Opera (Blink) — and TST was a main factor of my switching. Once it's customized to my liking, it's even better:

https://imgur.com/gallery/CdhN4

On a MBP, it looks like the sidebar rests on the side of the screen, embedded. Looks very neat, seamless
Naivety and gullibility.
All this was thought about the last time bitcoin spiked. Bitcoin is 9 years old. The iPhone wasn’t even around when it was born. If bitcoin was gonna revolutionize money, bookkeeping, governments, and life in general, it would have happened already. The truth is, all bitcoin is at this point is an advanced form of gambling....
I watch accounts get popped all the time in cloud providers. Is it a good idea to bridge such risks to your home physical security?
Quantum Computing Is the Next Big Security Risk
When the USD collapses, you're going to wish you had a rare Gen 0 kitty to trade for ammo and rice.
Examine.com does NOT sell vitamins/supplements.

They collect and analyze available research, and the result of that process is their product (in the form of guides etc).
I'm interested, and signed up. Thanks for offering to do this.

Just as anecdata, I've tried out Qt w/C++ a bit earlier and what I tried, I found good. And I wrote some simple wxPython GUI wrappers for my xtopdf toolkit, that experience was good too.

I've also tried out PyInstaller a bit for both simple CLI and GUI (wxPython again) apps; that worked well too. It's an interesting piece of technology; I think it must be doing a lot of stuff.
Vermeer compost?
A very weak sense of sarcasm.
https://medium.com/@mkogan4/proof-of-stake-vs-proof-of-work-...
Well the industrial revolution was not a bubble, but it's pretty late in general to get rich at the industrializing your local handy-crafts. Not that I have an opinion on Bitcoin not being a bubble.
For a large enough sales volume, the transaction fee might be negligible, but I don't know the numbers.
I'm not sure why this is being down voted as this is a matter of opinion - an opinion that many agree with.

In fact, in the US there is nothing in the constitution that supports the taxation of the people for these programs.

I'm all for UBI actually but this opinion is still valid.
The question is about working there, not being a customer.

If you’re paid in cash and willing to deal with some job volatility I see no issue with working at one. I’d suggest vetting their idea / angle first though.
The big concern I think, is the insane use of electricity, which is manageable for now, but could really go overboard in a hurry.
Those look like any other sign that is routinely ignored by most drivers because they assume they aren't applicable - like: "Over 13 feet must exit" "No trucks" etc...
Your people are idealists.

I'd like to see a programme where some of these young kids get sent to Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea in a kind of political exchange programme and see what they think after a year of existing in those governments amongst the locals.

For most the fervor would become flat, some might double down, but for most reality would become apparent.

That's not to day we can't improve our own system. There is much room. But at the same time, the grass is brown on the other side, while you just have some weeds you gotta clear.
No one can answer your question as no one knows what the next recession will look like. In the scenarios I described, bitcoin is an obvious safe haven. In which case, I'd expect the price to go higher.

Bitcoin has never lived through a recession yet. No one knows how it'll behave. It was born in the flames of the great financial crisis. Hopefully it solved the problems that it was created to solve.
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I haven't heard the podcast, but I can see the argument for being anti-natalist and against suicide. Anti-natalism is ultimately about avoiding human suffering (or any kind of suffering). Even if a suicide is painless, it will still cause suffering for the ones close to that person. Even if someone reaches the conclusion that life is meaningless and not worth living, it is still very difficult to decide to commit suicide for countless reasons, starting with one's instinct of self preservation.
Why and how will they cause a shit storm in finance?
I'm guessing it'll be this:

https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards
That makes a lot of sense, and probably the road that makes adoption easiest. Thanks!
Calculus on Manifolds. I'd recommend Hubbard and Hubbard over that as it's a little easier read with the same material.
Seems like an easy answer to this would be to just let Stockfish use its opening book?
I don't think so. It seems to me that the whole point of AI is how many real world human years it saves by mastering and executing things fast. The fact that it can learn this well at all, after any amount of time, makes it impressive, and the fact that it learns quickly makes it all the more useful.
Wow. This is amazing! Skills look so difficult to monetize. Couple of apps I checked seem to interject ads between the skills.
Tell that to all the paper millionaires I knew in the late 90s who lost everything in the dotcom bubble. They were 'rich', too, for a few months.
Would it help if the static analyzer were folded into clang itself and enabled with a flag (-Wanalyze?) rather than using a separate tool? That way it could just be a slight tweaking of build flags, and left enabled if it performs well on a given code base, rather than requiring extra work and thought.
Not familiar with shadowsocks

How is it different/better/worse than using a "normal" ssh tunneled port as a SOCKS proxy?
GPGPU is basically "single instruction multiple data" SIMD at thousand cores. Supercomputers have been doing this for decades.

Quantum computing architectures are a whole different beast.
Another way of looking at it is that it would be inappropriate to give Stockfish an opening book but not AlphaZero, and I'm guessing the latter doesn't have one since that goes against its whole premise.

With that said, whether it's fair or not, I am curious to see how Stockfish with its opening book would compare to AlphaZero in its current state.
This is the first/alpha release of a new HN reader where I'm trying to solve a lot of the issues I have when reading/following stories on HackerNews. This is a very small subset of the features that I'm working on - but I wanted to get something out to hear what people think.

It's called "Elastic" because I'm a big Elasticsearch fan and much of the backend will be powered by it. This version just uses the regular firebase datastore - but that is temporary.

Please let me know what you think. I'm sure there are many cross-browser/device issues - I only tested on chrome/ff on OSX for this.
When it comes to UBI, there's an interesting psychological phenomenon.

I believe that McDonald's and similar establishments could have automated away the vast majority of their work force years, maybe even decades ago. And yet there are still people working there. In fact, McDonald's is often viewed as many people's first entrance into the work force, and as a safety blanket if anything goes south (well worst case at least I can go work at McDonald's or something).

In other words, I believe McDonald's and its kin are a form of social welfare.

We see this elsewhere, in less subtle ways. Tons of jobs that shouldn't exist, but which are kept afloat by regulation designed specifically to preserve those jobs.

We pay either higher taxes or higher pries to achieve both of these forms of social welfare.

And yet, support for these jobs and social actions is generally quite strong. Hence why restaurants haven't fully automated themselves; the market would vomit at the idea of those thousands of jobs being replaced by machines. Regardless of whether that would save people an incredible amount of money, they are willing to accept those sacrifices in exchange for those jobs being available.

In that light, what's the difference between what we have today versus UBI? Either you're paying someone to do functionally meaningless work, or you're paying them to do "nothing". Under the former, their work is _truly_ meaningless. Under the latter they at least have the chance to do something beneficial for either themselves or others.

Personally I haven't formed a real opinion of UBI. Even in light of the above arguments, the complexities make it a problem not so easily reasoned through. But I suppose my point is that UBI isn't as drastic a step as many imagine it to be. It would be more of an evolution of our existing, de-facto social welfare programs.

EDIT: Addendum: When I use the term meaningless here I'm really just using it for the sake of argument. Obviously no one's work is meaningless. Just because a machine could do the exact same job that a human can do, doesn't mean that the task, as performed by a human, is meaningless. The true thrust of my argument is that a human performing the task subtracts value from the economy relative to a machine doing the job. It's sub-optimal.
So are your dollars stored on Coinbase.
$18M
BTW, here is the equivalent South Parallel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37th_parallel_south

Argentina and Southern Chile in it. Buenos aAires looks ok. Bu
D3 is the more active form that's more readily absorbed. I've found the Metagenics brand to be the best.
Thanks for the recommendation - I've never heard of Lakatos and have only read Popper and Kuhn. Do you have any other recommendations?
many people will run from bitcoin to ether.
many people will run away from cryptocurrencies all together . which crowd is bigger determines the price.
this is applied to the 1 year period

from my understanding, if bitcoin went down 50% based on the value you had invested in the beginning of the year, you pay nothing of taxes, because you had no profit. and you only pay taxes if you sell it.

i frequently trade in the stock market and that's how it works there though.
In the case of HuffPo, their writers contact businesses asking for money to write stories. The stories are not marked as paid features.

Not giving details on HN but happy to send a bunch of email proving this if you're from a noteworthy publication.
Coinbase's USD wallet is FDIC insured, so it's much closer to a bank in that denomination.
I don’t think that the drug regimes of the Soviet Olympic Teams should be held up as a good example to follow - a lot of damage was done to a lot of people. On a related note, the Russian team just got banned for trying that crap again.

http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/news/russia-banned-from-2...
You may not be in the news business, but this post is equivalent to posting cracks of software or exploits for gaining free access to SaaS offerings. Yes, it may be within your technical ability to do so, no it’s not what HN threads are for.
> I suspect that small businesses either fly under the radar

Off topic, but this is what I dislike about the GPDR, the subjective enforcement. Do I as an SMB stop selling to EU because I can't afford the potential fine (risk management of course, never would intentionally violate)? Or do I trust arbitrary selective enforcement?
A UBI of $12,000/year given to every adult by the goverment would double the annual government expenditure.

That is fine, but we should have a talk about how the program is funded. This is one of the reasons I prefer talking about negative income tax. Yes, the concept is more complex, and has a worse acronym, but it is largely self-funded.
Maybe using a resource based UBI rather than a money based UBI could help avoid this problem?
Instantly? I thought the transactions took an average 10min. Am I wrong?
My brokerage account and bank accounts also display the balance. Sometimes at the top, sometimes in the middle. It's a UI decision, more than a FOMO game. With that mindset, capitalism itself is a FOMO and the balance at the top of your head (your net worth) the FOMO machine.
There are non-probabilistic solutions to the byzantine general problem. Those could work as a replacement of proof-of-work.
It's not madness. I think you're dismissing it as "insane" without understanding some critical issues. It's [proof-of-work] the only way to do that [what bitcoin does], or rather no one has yet suggested an alternative that preserves those qualities.

The work done for the bitcoin network has utility, that much we can agree on? And you think perhaps that the utility provided by the network is not a net benefit considering the cost of the PoW? Well, unfortunately that much is subjective and there's enough folks out there willing to spend resources on it.

However it's not madness. Proof-of-work is required in order to have a mechanism that has bitcoin's qualities.

If you want to fight against what you might perceive as waste or madness, it seems like tilting at windmills IMO. But the best thing you could do is build a better mousetrap -- or invest/promote one of the non-PoW coins out there.

EDIT: clarified some uses of "it" in the first paragraph.
Show HN: Pilot: Bookkeeping for startups, using humans and software
Hi HN!

Pilot is a bookkeeping company that specializes in startup companies. We started it because we really struggled to find a good bookkeeping solution in our previous startups (Ksplice and Zulip).

Amazingly, the state of the world of bookkeeping has largely been unchanged for the past 20 years: you hire a bookkeeper who buys a copy of QuickBooks and does a ton of clicking around and hand-entering to bring everything up-to-date every month.

Which is a little crazy because the underlying data is quite structured (dates, amounts, memos), and 90% of the work is effectively “Execute well-defined rule X on data Y”. The first-principles solution to this problem would definitely not be “Hire a person, hope all the rules fit in their head, and make them click a lot”— it would be software.

But our feeling was: people don’t want more bookkeeping software—they’d rather not worry about bookkeeping at all. So we started Pilot: a bookkeeping service powered by our expert team of (human) bookkeepers in San Francisco, who, under the hood, use a bunch of software we’ve written to automate the most tedious, error-prone parts of the work. Every month, we deliver up-to-date accrual basis books for you, in QuickBooks Online.

We’re currently doing the books for a bunch of startup companies (ranging from pre-seed all the way to Series B), including 30+ YC companies, but we're just now starting to tell the story more broadly.

We’d love to get your feedback! I’ll be around all day watching this thread, or you can just shoot me an email (waseem@pilot.com).
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Point of order... iPhone June 2007, Bitcoin January 2009
Think of my comment as two separate statements. First, "overwhelmingly" is silly. Second, and more or less unrelated, it would have personally affected me. The second wasn't intended as support for the first.
D3 is the more active form, agreed on adding K too. Worth paying a bit more for higher quality controls.
It seems everybody has different goals for UBI. Getting unemployed people to work is not one I've encountered before I think. I fail to see how giving everybody free money is going to get unemployed people to work. For them, nothing changes.

> The taxes will come from the same places they are expected to: automation increasingly taking over the creation of most of the wealth in society.

I think this is the "lets tax automation!" argument? That's another one I haven't seen convincing arguments for. Why do you think companies would stand for such a thing and not oursource their automation to a country that doesn't do UBI?

> that's the theory.

I think there's a lot lacking in the theory, and I'm not hearing any convincing solutions for the problems UBI presents from anyone. It all seems to be built on hopes and dreams and best wishes, with little accounting for actual real-world considerations.
I think it's false to equate determinants with "determinants computed by cofactor expansion". One can compute determinants efficiently through Gauss elimination, too.
Communism is some good-ass shit and all capitalists need to be rounded up and shot.
I agree: it's only because you need them when you fail over.
C is for sure. You can avoid most of this in C++ by using the standard library and some of the newer language features.
Everyone can answer my question because I asked for an opinion, not a fact. Your answer was good enough though.
> Vegan cuisine?

Yes. Let's call it plant-based. As veganism is much broad and often based on ethics. Where plant-based diets mostly based on scientific findings. Especially the whole-plant (WFPB) diet seems to have a lot of scientific backing in being the healthiest diet.

> I hope that beans and veggies can provide for all your nutrition needs.

Thanks. But this is more then well proven by studies now. And I did my checkups, only D and B12 were deficient (now fixed). I never felt healthier. See "the china study" and "the adventist studies". Also the nutritionfacts.org website/YTchannel and MicTheVegan will give you a good overview of the scientific evidence behind the health benefits of a whole plant-based diet.

> Not that it wasn't obvious, but you should still disclose your bias.

We're all biased. I'm not paid say this, or paid by big-broccolli, thus no conflict of interest :)
You need to understand common cryptographic primitives as well as computational complexity. Those concepts are at the core of “blockchain” systems.
IIC, Amazon pays for skills with sufficient engagement: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards
Just use the '<-' all the time, except in function calls.
If you can use '<-' with an easy key press you will not be tempted to use '='. And the problem is greatly reduced.

But yes, the problem is still there.
people thinking " Oh I just get out when the price starts falling" are utterly mistaken:

Transactions now taking several hours might then take several days.

Already getting Error 520 on Kraken
Ask HN: What was your worst $1000 investment?
Similar to r0rbits thread, and inspired by SmellTheGlove. Let us learn from past mistakes and ask: What was your worst investment?
Also waiting for a TabMixPlus replacement. I've updated FireFox on a few of my other systems as experiments and used userchrome.css to tinker but my main development machine will stay at v56 until I can properly replicate my workflow in 57+
That place has some sad history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Chagossians_fr...
if everyone's costs go up everyone will be forced to raise prices.
FYI, you need this at the top of your userChrome.css:

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See more details here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserChrome.css&pri...
>But taking assets from people and giving them to another person is wrong, no matter how good the outcome is.

This describes "profit" equally well as "taxes."
Bitcoin came out in January 2009, and the first iPhone came out in June 2007.

Other than that minor detail, I generally agree with your comment.
It is silly to go through the trouble of including a map, only to reinforce the imprecision of the parallel approximation. Obviously People in Denver get more sunlight than e.g. people in Nashville, given the altitude and weather patterns. More detailed maps don't limit themselves to drawing a straight line.
Take it out of the 576 Billion dollar defense budget that makes up more than half of all federal spending?
> It is designed to be architecture agnostic, run on multiple hypervisors and be compatible with the OCI specification for Docker containers

In what sense is this "OCI compatible"? Do they implement the runtime, image format spec, or both? My understanding of containerization and OCI runtimes is that they're fundamentally different from hardware-level virtualization.
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You aren't complaining about UBI, you are complaining about taxes (yes, I get how they are related, but they aren't the same thing).

We've long ago decided that we as a society are OK with taxes. If you don't want to pay them, go somewhere that doesn't make you pay them.
The gaggle of articles on the Bitcoin bubble is amazing.

Most interesting thing is, at least for me, that these are not doing a great job convincing cryptocurrency supporters that there is a bubble. The logic goes - If everyone thinks it is bubble, it probably is not a bubble.

I wonder how much of this record rally can be attributed to the upcoming Futures market. Anyone has theories on this?
Maybe, but how are they supposed to hire employees to build and run the infrastructure and rent datacenter space / cloud VPSes / etc. if they do it for free?

I'm not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious - hey, the fees seemed high to me, too. Luckily the appreciation of the coins made those icky feelings disappear quickly.
That's not 3 trillion dollars.
It depends. If you send me a signed transaction that spends some of your money, you can simply put that into the blockchain.

The issue is that you might send multiple such transactions spending the same money. If I want to guard against others trying to spend the same money I have to wait until the transaction is a few blocks deep. Generally the advice is 6 blocks which should be about an hour.
UBI is a fancy way of saying "take from the rich to give to the poor". It has to be combined with a progressive tax system to make sense.

This isn't even a bad thing from an economic standpoint. Capitalism has the problem where wealth tends to accumulate upward naturally (rich get richer just because they're rich and have a bit of financial sense) and eventually starves itself of demand. Re-injecting cash in the low end keeps the economy moving despite this natural tendency. UBI has the advantage of low administrative overhead too, so more of the money gets used on goods and services. Also, unlike Welfare there is no perceived disincentive to work.

That said, UBI has its problems. Prices at the low end are likely to go up simply due to lack of workers. If you have UBI why would you do backbreaking manual labor all day for minimum wage? To really work well it has to be paired with increasing automation of low end jobs to offset the labor imbalance, otherwise you end up with inflation as people are forced to pay higher wages to fruit pickers, fry cooks, etc... in a competitive job market. Or more likely, those jobs will move overseas at an increased rate to countries where the labor market is skewed towards employers and they can pay people well below the value they generate.
> There would be still be very rich and poor people, but we could eliminate fear, suffering, and existential panic for a substantial part of the population. #6m28s

I actually laughed when I heard them say this, given their videos on things like the Fermi Paradox.
It would have been worse than that. I had a II+, and my memory is that the ability to use 80-column text on screen required a video card that took one of the slots (the main difference between the II and the II+ was that this card was included in the package). If you only had two slots, you'd be done as soon as you plugged in the drive.
Real time and parallelism makes the computers job easier not harder.