skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except, SMS is incredibly insecure and can be easily spoofed.
Kind of sad.
I was really hoping that this article was going to talk about some kind of machine-learned model that had been used to improve holiday parties. My hopes, dashed against the shores of reality.
Can't you just combat fork bombs with e.g

docker run --pids-limit=64
I’ve read that paper, and I don’t quite understand how it would work when you need multiple clients to cooperate for a single client to make a payment. I.e. if the funds of 100 clients is at some multi-sig address, you’d save blockchain space, but payment from any of these 100 clients would require simultaneous cooperation from the remaining 99 clients. I have a hard time seeing how this would work in practice.
>Managing and storing/handling/operating cryptocoins is not for the feint of heart.

Given the body count of exchanges and coins that have collapsed due to unauthorized access, your spelling error is actually a beautiful thing.
The reason old browsers don't support WASM is because they can't go back in time... the modern versions do (for instance Edge).
right now, as i'm looking on gdax, the price is 16.3k/btc, and it would take 42m to fulfill all of the sell orders to push it up to 19k. that's not a lot (but it's only one exchange). i think <100m to swing the market by that much across all of the exchanges.
I find "killer robots destroy the world" a lot easier to imagine than "all humans collectively agree to adopt common-sense safeguards on AI research even though they limit potential corporate profits".
I’ve already said too much.
Sam wants to talk about the utility function of a superhuman AI. Ok, what are the likely outcomes?

(For sake of discussion, let's just accept that a superhuman AI will exist soon.)

Asimov's "Three Laws" point out that a utility function is just a program like any other program. It has no inherent moral code. If it prefers "the good of mankind," it is because the engineers made it so.

How long until someone makes one that actively destroys mankind?

Sam seems to accept that a single superhuman hostile AI is an extinction-level event. Friendly AIs are non-events, but a hostile AI is an existential threat.

There are counter-arguments: humans are resilient; our monoculture hasn't wiped out all avenues of escape; governments are still human-dominated and unlikely to surrender to AI control.

I haven't decided yet, but I am convinced there are concrete actions _right_ _now_ that have a strong effect on the outcome.

The real contest, though, is that humans just don't care, and AIs are tireless, flawless machines.
Out of curiosity, which insurance did you end up going with?
Such positions are not interesting to Alpha unless it might run into them. If Alpha would never choose moves that lead to this position, it needn't have any insight into them.

If a Hold'em AI would never choose to bet 72 off it doesn't need to have an opinion of what to do when that bet is raised by the opponent.
This is a specific instance of what LolWolf just said in the grandparent.
Deep Learning Scaling Is Predictable, Empirically
The one that was linked as 14400 BTC. At $15k/BTC that's $216m.
This is basically combinatorial contextless. A method of ranking and sorting the generated ideas is needed.
Nothing new, this has been happening for a long time. They are called atmosphere models.
Let's say you break out of a web app on a VM, then as the local user you exploit the kernel. It's the VM host kernel. You have root on the VM. The VM is running on a full virtualization platform, though, so you'd need to break out of the VM to hit other guests or the hypervisor.

Linux containers run a new environment on top of the host's kernel. It's the same kernel in one container as another and the same as in the host. If you manage to break out of the namespace or otherwise exploit the kernel, you're already in some other container's business. Worse, there's a good chance you've exploited the kernel in a way that you can get all the other containers and the host all at once with one exploit.
Coinbase goes through this charade every time this happens with a major digital currency. It wasn't a legitimate excuse the first time, and it's not an excuse the 7th time.

Scaling is a solved problem. You have AWS, Google Cloud, and MS Azure to choose from with financial institution/HIPAA-level offerings.
> However, a nice geometric interpretation does not nice math make.

I keep seeing proponents of the Clifford Algebra as a much more elegant type of maths that supersedes linear algebra and also makes it much more intuitive, but I haven't really found a clear source on it yet.
This isn’t new.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2014/03/04/the-d...

They’ve been flying women to San Francisco for dates.
My Kids Are Enraptured by Repetitive, Joyless Videos of Subway Trains. Why?
The Vivaldi browser (http://vivaldi.com) has a feature like this built in that works so good I've disabled the tabs altogether.

Window Panel:
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/window-panel/

Note: No affiliation with the Vivaldi browser, just a happy user.
It would be more useful if they made it clear what has been factored in here. As is mentioned elsewhere, the bills have to be reconciled, and there are significant variables remaining. The SALT deduction is still up in the air, as are the details around mortgage interest. For people in some states, these two details could swing things between saving thousands and paying thousands extra.

edit: should have included property tax, which is more of an issue than mortgage interest for existing homeowners.
Do you not use pandas?
This doesn't account for the whole picture. The tax benefit is dwarfed in comparison to the losses in social security people at and below the poverty line will suffer.
A major problem with this analysis is not taking into account the number of battles fought. The article even states this:

"Alexander the Great, despite winning all 9 of his battles, accumulated fewer WAR largely because of his shorter and less prolific career."
Maybe not, I'm just speculating that GDAX or coinbase may have added this as some sort of "sanity-check" in their system (regardless of the insane volatility in crypto right now!)

In the situation with ETH, a bunch of automated margin calls happened because of one large order on the books, dumping the price down to 10 cents! GDAX/Coinbase repaid a lot of people who lost money then, even though they didnt have to. They may now have some dumb heuristics that slow down trades / whatever if a bunch of large orders are going through, or price delta over a short time period goes too high. I remember looking at the charts today on GDAX and the 5 minute candle went from 20k open to 16k close before trading halted! I also heard from others that there were a lot of ~19k sells of 100 coins each on the books and executing.

So yeah, just speculating that this may bave been the case of someones boss at GDAX/Coinbase telling engineering "please don't make us do that again", after they ate the cost last time! :-)
sounds awful

/s
What's 'normal' at your lab? My lab says 50 ng/ml is normal, but my experience with antibodies says it should be between 70 and 100 to see an effect.
You're quite right, and I winced at my imprecision. Thanks for calling that out. I clarified here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15872824
Bitcoin Cash has a much lower blocksize, not larger. It is the maximum limit that is larger. They regularly have < 100 kB blocks. Of course there is no congestion. Nobody uses it.
What is inside?

* Deferred nil func

* Defer inside a loop

* Defer as a wrapper

* Defer in a block

* Deferred method gotchas
"Why have I seen this comment before if it's only an hour old?"

Oh, you copied and pasted it from yesterday...
[video] Scott Galloway Says Amazon, Apple, FB, and Google Should Be Broken Up
New imaging finds crescent-shaped eye damage in woman who viewed eclipse
Have they added syncing yet? I tried it months ago and liked the browser fine, but with how many devices I use it's just not feasible to do bookmarks locally in 2017.
An excellent example of the difference in approach!

The “bullshit” emphasis on form before function is a pretty standard part of a 3 stage learning method - naive and unquestioning memorization of rules/form, unique combinations of the memorized forms, and finally throwing it all out the window and inventing new forms with the newly acquired knowledge and skills.
A run on one bank frequently has knock-on effects on other banks.
> 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.

Are they not using cloud, which should enable easy scaling? Or is their architecture not designed for good scaling?
I don't normally advocate for this position, but to be fair to the discussion, the legality of the business may orthogonal to whether it's a good business idea (cf. Uber, Airbnb). But most importantly, it is incumbent upon the person who desires to work for a "blockchain startup" to decide if they want to inherit the burden of working for an "illegal" business.
Yeah, it's fat soluble so you can take too much (but you'd have to take a ridiculous amount).

The normal doctor prescription to increase levels is a 50k pill once a week for a couple months. The previous recommended level was 20ng/ml, but they increased it to 30ng/ml.

When I got tested mine was 11ng/ml (and this is in the sunny bay area). To have the recommended value from normal sun exposure you'd need face/legs/arms exposed to sunlight for ~30-45 minutes a day which most people don't get. It's very hard to increase D from food.

I'm also not sure how they determine the recommended amount and there seems to be a ton of pseudoscience around all of this stuff so it's hard to tell what's true.
Using Data Science to Explore Software Development
Contentful raises $28m to fuel the adoption of its content infrastructure
Pathetic. The whole point is to celebrate with the employees and their families and recognize the hard work everyone has put in over the year. A stranger not connected to an employee would take away from that value.

If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that.
Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) – Algorithmia Blog
They probably balance the cost of piracy vs. the additional sales.

Sure VoD, streaming, and DVD/BR allows piracy, but it also creates many more sales.

People are already paying $10-15 per person to see a movie in the theater. I'm sure some consultant concluded the new sales from pre-release home rentals won't cancel out lost ticket sales and piracy.

They also have to worry about theaters, which are a key part of their busines model but aren't under studio control. If 50% of customers stop going to the movies because they rent at home, that might make theater unviable or make the theatres demand larger cuts of profits.

And I also imagine they are worried about brand dilution. Movies and TV have never been more similar. TV might even have better overall quality now. But movies can charge 12 bucks for 2 hours and TV is having a hard time charging 12 bucks for unlimited everything.

If Avengers 4 is available on your local TV, is it still a movie? Will people still want to pay 50 bucks to stream it? Or are they going to want to pay 3.99?
Volvos are solid cars.
I think the real reason is they probably want access to your house for other services and to differentiate their own delivery because USPS isn't going to do this.

My point is that the way to fix the stated problem is with a lock box and for people who that doesn't work it's a cost of business (as it is now). But if you bring that number down to 2b instead of 7 with a one time cost of lockboxes, you've solved the stated problem.
In addition to the counterintuitive traffic congestion stuff, you also have to consider cost. Bridges ain't cheap. Metro isn't either... but you could make a lot of improvements to Metro for the price of a bridge.

The 7000 series has fortunately been a godsend for Metro. Now it just needs a miracle for each of: power supply, rail insulators, water leaks, automated control, and the union contract/pension.
Really soon, its in the snapshot now:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/help-test-sync/
Hey, thanks for the comment. A few clarifications you asked about:

3. One of the main use cases for using external databases and stores is that they can be multi tenant. Bob comes up with a really cool market aggregation, Susan and Ralph want to use that aggregation in their models. Currently, is there a way for Susan and Ralph to just hook into that aggregation in memory and allow them to use that as a feature?

4. The main use case is that your streaming framework makes a bunch of cool aggregates, but if you have a customer who needs the question “Should I let this person do this thing?”, you want to answer that synchronously. The alternative is to load your state into an external store and setup a web server that just does a lookup on that store, instead of doing it in your streaming system.
well the door service is helpful - if you have two doors. one front door locked via the amazon lock and a second door - locked regulary. i.e. most smaller aparatment buildings.
Bitcoin blasts through $16,000 milestone as march higher continues
Yeah, but that story got flag-killed quick and I still thought this was funny.

(I actually originally tweeted it, like two weeks ago, but no one reads my twitter, which is to their credit.)
Yes, this practice of models at parties brings back memories. In 2000, a very well-known enterprise software company (Northeast not Silicon Valley) hosted a conference for customers and had a night party for the attendees. The most memorable thing I remember was the group of extremely pretty women on roller skates mingling with the crowd. E.g. they'd skate up and ask random attendees, "Hey where are you from? Are you enjoying the party?"

It's very strange how a logical brain processes what's happening. One the one hand, your rational brain says they're just paid to be there to loosen up the crowd and their smiles and questions to the attendees are fake. On the other hand, your emotional brain doesn't care and you smile and laugh back anyway. It's like the Disney World effect. You know it's a facade but enjoy yourself anyway!
Standing up to the ATF in Waco was nothing short of a suicide mission; dozens of people died as a result.
> Like, how does AlphaZero optimize for “how to slow Climate Change”?

It doesn't, AlphaZero is a domain specific AI. That's like asking: "Like, how does differential equation solver slow climate change?". AlphaZero can learn to play a narrow class of games given the rules, that's all it does.

But I agree with your sentiment obviously. We're n technological breakthroughs away from AGI, where n is unknown. We have approximately zero idea how to move from DNNs to AGI - or weather DNNs are the right approach.
Foie gras is not "normal", because it's very expensive and its production inhumane. And I did not call Natto normal, if you read my comment carefully. It's not that easy to acquire, and as you said, it's disgusting.

Most pills/drops you would prefer over foie gras are mostly made from Natto (MK-7) btw.. there are some supplements with MK-4 but those are rare and quite expensive.
When drawing an analogy to Friendster and Napster, I think the point linkregister is trying to make is that bitcoin is similar in the sense that it's a "first mover" and not a "last mover".

The underlying _why_ for these "first movers" fail are not related at all since it's a totally different vertical.
Read 3x faster by not reading at all
You yourself pointed out a way in which my own post could have been written less pointedly, so I'm probably not the one to be giving tips :)
A Bitcoin address is just the hash of a public key, so generating new addresses is extremely cheap (on the order of microseconds) and doesn't require interacting with the blockchain at all.
I just whipped up a super hacky Python 2 script which will notify you if someone replies to your comment, without requiring your email, and can be self hosted (fill in your HN username in the variable): https://gist.github.com/Decagon/1ef31011d05bf71aa5570f2bddda...

Just run it with: while true; do python HNgetCommentReplies.py | mail -s "new hn reply" me@example.com; sleep 1m; done;

(e.g. check every minute for new comment replies and mail output.) It will output "Reply to comment: hn-url" if there is a reply, otherwise it will output nothing. Unfortunately it doesn't save any state, so it doesn't know if it already emailed you a reply. This can be easily fixed but I don't have too much time right now. Also, it makes one query at a time, which is a bit slow (as it takes around 20 seconds to check for replies.) This can be parallelized to make it much faster.

Benefits of this script is that if it were centralized, n users could be subscribed to get notifications (e.g. a million users) it would only use one query to the hacker news server every 30 seconds or so. It just looks to see if all recent comments have a parent whose name matches yours.

I'll dogfood it for a while and see if any replies to this comment works.
This is not new for sure, but it deserves discussion in light of the #metoo movement. In SV we're supposed to be innovators, why aren't we leading the way towards a more equal society? If our holiday parties are boring because we've hired a masculine monoculture, then maybe the solution is to hire more diverse people the entire year. It's objectifying to women and minorities if the only time we're hired is to make something more exciting for a few hours.
House access. A camera in your home. Automated delivery confirmation. Guaranteed correct address. No more delivery to wrong address because the door won't open at the wrong address.
Oh yes, I remember this. It ends up with prostitutes being hired by the company for the evening, sometimes on a banded scale such that the most attractive prostitutes are only for the senior employees. Used to be primarily in the finance industry, but modern Bro-tech companies are following that path. It's nice that some agencies screen out the obvious requests for that, but such customers will just move on to the agencies that don't.
Interesting piece, though I feel flawed in at least some pretty fundamental ways.

1. Humans have always been "merged" with technology. It is becoming more pervasive now, more powerful and to some extent more intimate, but it has always been the case. For example, the evolutionary advances of homo sapiens were in part a result of our ability to "out source" elements of digestion to cooking, enabling our intelligence to outstrip rival animals and hominids. Other examples: farming, writing, the printing press, telegraphs and so on.

2. For most of human existence humans have believed in forces superior to themselves, whose intelligence, power and strength out strip their own: whether God, gods or other metaphysical forces. Its amusing to me how theological tropes reappear in these writings with a high degree of regularity. Now one might argue that the difference is that AIs "really exist". But crucially the idea that humans have always considered themselves totally "top of the pile" seems radically false. It is at best a very limited notion in human society. Even modernity, increasingly secularised, was quick to assert that human mastery was at best an illusion, e.g. the psychoanalytic or Darwinian revolution.

3. The obsession with AI being the largest existential threat to the human species seems hubristic in the extreme given that a very current and very real threat is already here and it is often the most poor that are already feeling its effects: catastrophic climate change.
This is wonderful. I am not sure why Silicon Valley did not do this earlier. When I was in South Korea and Japan these was pretty much a common thing.
> Surely a proof that you can withdraw a certain amount of bitcoins is more-or-less equivalent to that many bitcoins, and therefore any rational actor - including your suppliers - should accept it as such?

The problem is fees. If this rational actor has 10,000 proofs of payment from as many different people, then the settlement transaction might require the redemption of up to 10,000 inputs, which would make payments prohibitively expensive. It may even be impossible to settle in a single block, since the transaction (including dependencies) might exceed the maximum block size.

A proof that 0.001 BTC can be withdrawn at any time isn’t very useful if the cost of withdrawal is 0.001 BTC.

In other words, LN surely has the value transfer part solved. But I don’t see how it solves the clearing part, that is: grouping multiple payments from different clients into a single, low-fee Bitcoin transaction. I understand how fees are saved on multiple payments from the same client (that’s what a payment channel does), but not how it would work with payments from many different clients (which is what merchants need to handle).
Similar situation here - positive reinforcement helped me.

Every morning, I'd reward myself with something that I like - sometimes I watched a good TV show, sometimes I went to the gym and worked out. I also have a girlfriend but I guess that's a different point. Anyway, I just found stuff I like to do. I eventually associated waking up with happiness.

YMMV. Just what worked for me - try it out if you want.
Just put in the income net of deductible 401(k) contributions as "gross income."
It's cash flow vs cash on hand. If they are doing this as a part of getting positive cash flow, then good for them.
Unfortunately, I think this is because we have stopped questioning whether corporate values really do end up matching human values. I think when capitalism was seen as a competitor to communism in the Cold War era, people took a slightly more critical eye at economic systems, but now there's no competition so there's no pressure for corporate values to align.
A financial institution has fiduciary obligations to its clients to maintain the assets (here, the Bitcoin, ether, etc.) entrusted to them.

However, financial institutions are not currently obligated to maintain their clients' ability to transact those assets, let alone within a specific time-frame. Many people have sued their brokerages for not letting them sell stock in a timely fashion to take advantage of price changes; essentially all of them have lost or settled for pennies on the dollar.
Coinbase down again
> If you statically link to an LGPL library, then the entire codebase (your code and the library) must be covered under an LGPL compatible license.

This isn't right. You can statically link proprietary code to LGPL libraries and the LGPL license does not "infect" your proprietary code.

The only thing you have to do if you go this route is ensure that the people receiving your combined work are able to relink any modified version of the LGPL pieces. This can be done, for example, by providing object files for the proprietary pieces and a script to link them to the LGPL pieces, upon request.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...
I am vehemently opposed to binding arbitration, but one thing I've often wondered is what effect it would have on the courts if it were made illegal.

Would they experience clogging, in the short term?

Would fees increase to help fund expansion (and deter suits until expansion can accommodate the increased number of filings)?
This is news to me. I thought WkWebview used the same internals as mobile safari. So it's just the JS engine/Nitro that's the same?
I wonder if we reach a point where not only nobody wants to buy that crap anymore, but components like ME will become illegal.