skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For everyone else wondering about the "slugging", here's an explanation:

http://slug-lines.com/Slugging/About_slugging.asp

edit: And a how-to, and a description of the common NY pickup places.. as I'm reading it I discovered it's an all-around interesting page.
Silently changing behaviour isn't great either, though. Because all the examples you list rely on said undefined behaviour being predictable.
Uh, you should be careful too! There's some error in what you wrote too. Is that nmol/L that you mean?
A lot of those look like traditional British names (also foreign).
From the article: "We gratefully acknowledge support by AI Grant and IBM Global Entrepreneurship program, which made these (sometimes costly) experiments possible."
Author of the post here: it's a re-post, I'm aware of it. It got quite a bit of traction around 3 months ago.

But as of today (and as of a couple of hours), Chrome 63 is being automatically deployed to all Chrome installs worldwide. Chrome 63 is the build that includes this HSTS list, to force .DEV domains on HTTPS.

I'm getting daily mentions on Twitter & via mail that developers lost hours debugging this, because neither the console nor the network tab in the inspector clearly show why this domain is redirecting to HTTPS.

Please help spread awareness & save countless debugging hours worldwide.
Is the IOTA and Microsoft partnership real?
At work, in the scope of a migration from RHEL 6 to rhEL 7, I have spend a lot of time migrating scripts from ksh (pdksh) to bash in order to remove this dependency. I have not seen any advantage of ksh over bash. There are many differences (ksh is less strict), but IMO there is no point in keeping 2 mostly similar but incompatible shells when less and less people are using shell. I think ksh should die. Maybe I am missing something ?
I recently made an effort to groom my addressbook better. This article shows me that I have still a lot room to the upside.

Are there any details what he recorded? It seems to be more than just the contact information:

> One Kissinger card mentions the time when Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in June 1995. “He is not to be referenced as Sir Henry as he is an American,’’ the card said, with the word “not” underlined for emphasis.
> so it looks like the AMD CPUs are likely to be strictly better in practice except possibly on performance/watt.

Cloud scale providers don't care about raw performance (within reason).

TCO wins the day, so if Qualcomm CPUs offer higher performance per watt than Intel or AMD, I can definitely see them buying these like hotcakes.
Aren't those links about "people with naturally darker skin"? I'm not sure how cultural changes can affect that. Rich people may eat caviar, but eating caviar won't make you rich...
Nowhere in my comment is there anything that even remotely condones cheating or protecting people who do so.

If you actually read the parent post post that I was responding to:

>"but there is a widespread public opinion that this was a welcome opportunity to punish a pesky German competitor, by throwing the book at them by the US government working together with the US auto lobby"

It's clear that I was responding to the silly suggestion of there being a conspiracy by the US against a "German" competitor since VW is also a US car manufacturer.
That was in reference to the rstudioapi package for finding the path of the current file, which I've just checked out needs a running Rstudio session to work.
man..many Bitcoin websites and APIs lagging and timing out big time
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Seems like it learned by only playing against itself, and for only 4 hours (for the chess component).
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Hmm... if I owned any bitcoin I guess i would sell at this point. I can not imagine it just rising like this for much longer, but honestly I do not understand the dynamics of why this is happening so I am just defaulting to "what goes up must come down" type reasoning.

Random non-technical people I know are just getting into the cryptomarket this week and last as they have heard it is a good must win investment. But is that really driving up the prices?
Microsoft created ReactXP on top of React-Native, never tried it but seemingly it builds for Windows too.

https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/
An individual car might not be a mass transit system but a highway is (albeit inefficient). I think it's just as absurd to use demand pricing for highways as it would be to use them for subways. (I support HOV lanes though)

The main issue I see with a non-HOV toll option on an HOV road, toll lanes, etc. is that it gives the wealthy an option that others do not have. If there isn't enough commuting capacity (regardless of medium) we need to provide more. The state should not give the rich an option to make their commutes tolerable because that's easier than solving the problems (because we all know that when the rich and powerful have problems with how the state is running things that's when they change).

The wealthy have to wait on the same subway platforms as the poor. The national parks don't have a "skip the line if you're rich enough to justify the insane price" option. The wealthy should have to sit in the same traffic jams as the rest of us. Congress should have the same healthcare options as the rest of us.

The worst part about toll lanes and the other demand based pricing for necessities is that they reduce the incentive to increase supply.

If it were independently verifiable that any given implementation of surge pricing was optimized for bandwidth (people-miles over the time period surge pricing applies) rather than latency (average speed) or revenue I might feel differently but considering how pretty much every other traffic control rule turns into a revenue source of some sort (tolls on I90 in MA were only supposed to last long enough to recover the construction cost) I quite frankly don't trust any government to do it that way unless it's 100% in the open.
It's just a sign that there are technical challenges. This can be solved with adaptations in the protocol (forks) I guess.
C++ is packed with undefined behaviour, complexity and cruft. I find JavaScript and extensions like TypeScript much more pleasant to work with.
> Are there any other interesting complete information games?

Not really, given that they already tried Shogi too. Personally I would love to see AlphaZero playing Arimaa, but it is probably not as interesting because of its short history.
Is it standard for medical papers to write values with four significant figures when they appear to have less than one significant figure worth of precision? This is an actual question.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Whereas this article is the opposite, it has no content. It's just trivia. There's nothing special about crossing $15k, particularly since most trade isn't even denominated in USD.
Yes, it got a set of all legal moves, of which it had to choose one. It was trained for 8 hours where it only played against itself, only using the knowledge of which moves are legal. After self-playing for 8 hours, it played 100 times against stockfish. In those 8 hours, it was apparently able to infer all human knowledge on chess acquired over centuries, and surpass it.

And, when the legal moves are replaced with the moves of other games (like Go for which it was actually written, or Shogi), it did exactly the same thing. Redevelop millennia of human knowledge and go beyond, all within 8 hours of compute.

Makes you wonder what will happen when instead of the rules of chess, you put in the axioms of logic and natural numbers. And give it 8 months of compute.
> My main concern is that with tolls that high that only people with a lot of money can afford them...

Yes, the toll is high, but only during peak usage hours. And there are other routes to take (that low income people presumably have been already using).

In general, progressively pricing services is a mistake. Instead, we should be progressively supplementing incomes (minimum income, negative income tax, commuter cards, etc.) until people can afford market-priced bills, goods, and fees. Until we approach problems this way, end-consumers don't really feel the impact of discrepancies in costs.

Consumers aren't dumb. If they see the bus is $5 but the toll is $20 because that's the actual demand-based market price, they'll change their commute habits, change what they'll pay in rent, the prices of homes, the lobbying of their representatives for more public transportation, and so on.
Please explain how it works in as simple terms as you can?

My explanation:

The 3D printed Wifi device uses plastic and metal to connect to any Wifi receiver (normal laptop or smartphone) using any commercially available Wifi transmitter. 3D device uses it's antenna to send new data. The data is sent uses reflection and absorption of the Wifi signal to create new data of 1s and 0s though at a slower rate of speed. This is all done without the need for batteries or other electronics. There is no special hardware or software besides the 3D device to connect and send data. The device can toggle an electronic switch to either absorb or reflect an ambient signal to convey a sequence of 0 and 1 bits using reflective and non-reflective states. This is accomplished by leverages present Wifi backscatter technology but for the first time instead of using electronic components these 3D devices use non-electronic and printable analogues.

> "embedded on top of the ambient Wi-Fi signals,"

That is how backscatter works and how they connect to wifi and send specific 1s and 0s. It absorbs and reflex a wifi signal out of those absorption and reflections.

It can't work without some signal to carry on top of it and could work with a single 2.4 sine wave. But backscatter absolutely sends measurements to a normal Wifi rx aka a phone or laptop through the Wifi transmitter.
The interesting thing for me (apart from the very short training period) is that this seems to be a more generalised version of their previous AlphaGo engine, which means that in future it should be even easier to adapt and use for other tasks.
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Agree with this. Stockfish is fast enough to run on modern iphone and Android phones. AlphaZero most probably not.

But the fact that a generic algorithm absolutely destroys humans and their human crafted programs is the most interesting.

Yes TPU + GPU army is a huge amount of computation power but I'm sure they'll be research coming out trying to compress the algorithms enough to use the same computation power as stock fish.
JavaScript has many features that have nothing to do with the language, that make it nice.

Big community, with many learning resources.

Nice package managers, with libraries for basically everything.

Since many people already know JavaScript from working as a web developer, they also have a faster start.
What helped for me is build a team around you. The moment there are others that join your mission, everything changes. I started out my service based UI design business (http://fairpixels.pro) as a solopreneur. At some point, I started getting the same feelings as you're describing and realised (from past projects) that having a team for support had always worked for me. If you don’t have the budget, no worries. You don’t have to hire full time people. These can be VA’s, freelancers that occasionally help you out or even a mentor that actively pings you to keep updated on the progress you’re making. Knowing you’re not by yourself has been a huge motivator for me and might be the solution you’re looking for. Good luck & feel free to ping me if you have additional questions.
get some exercise first, THEN start work
No one disputes that it will fall at some point, but obv. no one knows when .

All it takes is for some of the major holders who accumulated before 2016 or so to unload and the price will fall a lot.
Just wait until it drops, most people will not be able to cash out until it is likely worth nearly othing. There will be no automatic breaks (I think) that usually happen on large stock market drops.

I think it may be technically possible for Bitcoin to drop 90% in a single day and with most people unable to sell at any price if they want it settled on the block chain.

It could be Armageddon with nearly everyone holding bitcoint getting wiped out.

That MtGox guy should sell his billion of bitcoin soon, like right now. It is a hot potato right now and I wouldn't want to be left holding the bag with things go south.

I was a student in the first dotcom bubble and it was similar to this. And people predicted it would drop and then it did drop and basically wiped out the whole tech sector for nearly 3 years.
In my experience, Coinbase/GDAX becomes unavailable every time the cost of Bitcoin drops significantly in a really short period of time... it happened again this morning a little before 7am... Not sure if they are trying to control the drops or if their servers can't handle the load.
Amazing achievement. Still, "eight hours" is a bit misleading. That's eight hours on thousands of parallel TPUs.
> Makes you wonder what will happen when instead of the rules of chess, you put in the axioms of logic and natural numbers. And give it 8 months of compute.

How do you score this computation? What's your goal? There's no checkmate here.
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> Are there any other interesting complete information games?

How about axioms of logic as legal moves, and asking it to go from a set of axioms to open mathematical problems?

Or chemical procedures and components as moves, and asking it to tackle a disease with a known molecular structure?

It is not as straightforward as I make it sound, but these are complete information problems.
The story is that it has risen 50% in less than a week. That is an insane rise, and it isn't even fundamentals driven for the most part.
The privileged were already using the road because

* 1) they can afford the ticket

* 2) the probability of getting a ticket is quite low

So it seems more money might get captured from the privileged now.
I'm only a fairly pedestrian chess player, but I looked at one of these games between AGZ and SF and aside from the endgame, AGZ played in a manner that almost seemed alien. It seemed to completely ignore various little rules of thumb which is to be expected in hindsight but fairly mind-blowing when you actually watch a game.
There is always Infinite Chess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_chess and other games with complete information, but unbounded state. (Or even just bounded, but finite, such as Hex.) Monte Carlo + NN seems like a good approach, so maybe it'd be worth a go.

Imperfect information games seem like a much more interesting challenge though.
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What sorts of aches and pains? I'm only asking since my body just effing hurts sometimes, usually my upper back/ribs...especially when I'm stoned :/
Their rates were about 4 BTC to rent 1 TeraHash/s of mining capacity for 24 hours. Some of their pools for rent had 1800 miners, some were solo operations. I was looking into renting mining time through them a few days ago.

At this price rate, the ~4000 BTC could be 1 or 2 days of rental fee for a couple hundred transactions. No idea about their volume of transactions or cash flow.
I lean liberal but a significant portion of my family is conservative.

Their thinking with regards to taxes is that it's spent on one of the following:

- Welfare, which is supposedly rampant with fraud to the point that most people who are on welfare don't "need" it

- Unspecified government waste

Not that these don't exist- it's just that it's the majority of government spending, according to them.

If taxes are cut, they claim welfare will get cut, forcing people to find work, and that government will somehow cut their other wasteful spending while still managing to fund the necessities.

I live in suburban NJ, so it's a bit easier for me to see where my taxes go- police, fire, public transit, a handful of schools. But in rural America, where 911 response times can be around 30 minutes, there's no train to get to a nearby city, and there's only two schools in your town? It looks like that money vanished.
I wonder if now would be a good time to invest in ethereum or litecoin. I mean, when the bitcoin bubble burst, will it drag down the price of other cryptocurrencies or cause a mass migration to them?
People who work outside don’t get skin cancer. People who cook themselves for fun do.

If they did, we would know, because workers compensation would be paying for it.
I've been a professional JS developer for a few years, doing both in-browser and node-based automation stuff (never desktop apps in JS though, thankfully). What I mean is that while new JS revisions are trying to catch up and become somewhat pleasant to write in, there's still tons of baggage of bad decisions from the past that make this language simply awful when compared to basically any other popular language - and those aren't stagnating either.

Just in order to retain your sanity, you need to use several layers above JS to transpile your code - like JSX when you do UI or TypeScript when you do... well, anything.

I believe that JS is considered easy only because you can get your first impressive results very quickly when combined with HTML and CSS, which makes it easy to not lose your focus when learning. That might make it a good language to learn in, say, primary school on IT lessons - of course, only if there weren't other, better suited stuff available targeting these cases specifically already. Anything else actually makes JS harder than, say, Python. Or Go. Or C#. Or Java. Or even C++ with Qt (although C++ is easily second worse). Or Rust. There's just so much stuff you have to keep in your head while writing JS, it's not worth it. But you have to let go of "I know it, so I'll use it, no matter how well suited it is" mentality, and that can be challenging.
Given the algorithm didn't require tuning and it examined less moves each turn I would say it was a better algorithm.

Lots of AI problems aren't solved with current techniques just by throwing more CPU power at them so it would still be impressive even if it required a lot of computing power.
If you love market panics, you're going to love this one.

So many just bathing there with no swimsuit whatsoever.
What about Cocoa with Swift?
Let me reformulate. I'm just saying that there is at least one obvious way in which Google could scale this at least 2 to 3 orders of magnitude if they would want to, for the cost of the electricity bill. Just run it for 8 months instead of 8 hours. And I wonder which problems are feasible when you look at it that way. I mean, they just solved chess in what looks like a warming-up.
It sounds to me like a German name, is he from there? Then how is it possible that the US judges this single person directly in the US?

He should be sent back to Germany, trialed there, and the US can only sue the company. Everything else is a huge violation according to US thinking even.

Think about China would jail and trial a US citizen that is doing on business for Google in China.
I always wondered about this. Since I was very young, let's say after age 14 or so I rarely travelled for summer vacation and was living in Europe and had almost no vitamin D from sunlight (working as software engineer and being a nerd so all my hobbies were indoors).

I have always felt like I missed having a good time at a beach while sun was shining (I remember it from family vacations when I was very young). Since then I have spent couple of months in a country near equator and gotten lots of (hours per day) sunlight. I feel healthier and happier now.

I also used to have deficiency of vitamin B when I was very young. I remember I had to eat lots of fish oil to replenish my B complex (recommended by my doctor).
R is free programming - see the R site above for the terms of utilization. It keeps running on a wide assortment of stages including UNIX, Windows and MacOS.
From the pdf: "AlphaZero searches just 80 thousand positions per second in chess...compared to 70 million for Stockfish"

But even that isn't the important part in my opinion.
They basically created an ML solution that can learn to play these various games, in very little time (hours), while beating other previous engines (by decent to ridiculous margins). They've created a more generalised solution to their previous AlphaGo engine, which may be very useful in future.
As the other comments on this submission imply, if you’re learning R from scratch, start with tidyverse.

You can use base R, but when people talk about how much they hate R, it’s usually because of base R, not tools like dplyr/ggplot2. (I had learned R and used it in college, and nearly quit R entirely until dplyr was released)

And over the last summer, I started using forcats/lubridate, and I am kicking myself for wasting my time not using them sooner and using ugly hacks for the appropriate functionality instead.
Ask HN: If a Bitcoin crash was to occur, what would it entail?
> How do you score this computation? What's your goal?

Maybe give it a list of problems of varying degree of hardness, and tell it to either prove or disprove as many as possible?
At this point its no longer a currency. Steam stopped accepting it, and I doubt anyone wants to buy anything with it. Its just a commodity, but one with no underlying value, perhaps like tulip bulbs. I don't think this is going to end well.

Which is a shame, because the blockchain is amazing technology.
> There will be no automatic breaks (I think) that usually happen on large stock market drops

This is a very, very good thing. There are no breaks going up, therefore there should be no breaks going down. What's even better is that Bitcoin is 24/7 so there's not even the option of "waiting for the train to stop" when you're trying to get off.
Meaningful in the sense that if an AI plays against humans, is it smarter at the same energy efficiency of humans.

We are comparing machine intelligence vs human intelligence.

It can be said that with more computational power, you can raise intelligence. Human brains consume the most power relative to body size than any other animal.
Do not put your faith in whole program optimization. If it can be proven that the function call will result in undefined behavior, the compiler will assume that the function will never be called. If it can be proven that it will always be called, the compiler is free to assume that the program will never be run, and optimize the whole program down to nothing.

That is, undefined behavior propagates not only forwards (if you dereference a pointer, from them on you can be sure that it's not null), but also backwards (if you dereference a null pointer, that's a contradiction since null pointers can't be dereferenced, and the contradiction can only be resolved if the statement is unreachable).
This is awesome. I can't wait for the KDE binding generator to mature so we can finally start using it more properly from Rust.
Right, if the rush hour times hadn't changed (and the other exceptions) the toll wouldn't seem like as much of a money grab.

One interesting thing, is how this might incentivise people to ignore the toll altogether since the price over even a short period of time are likely to be higher than the fines.
It's better but not much better. How do you avoid an arms race? Who gets to decide what problems are important?
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It would correct a lot quicker if it was easy to short it.
Nope, there are several refundable tax credits which can take total income liability below $0; the Earned Income Tax Credit is the best known , but there are several others.

https://www.irs.com/articles/refundable-vs-non-refundable-ta...