skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Sublime Text community has adopted Discord as the predominant real-time chat platform. Initially I was skeptical, but it has worked out fairly well. IRC suffered from not being very accessible for many, and not having rich formatting nor history scroll back. It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does.

Granted, I don’t think we’ve got more than a couple of hundred users on our Discord server, but it has been serving the core group of contributors well.
> Chess has 16 pieces each in one of 65 positions, so the state space is roughly 65^16.

This is a correct upper bound, but the state space is much smaller than that, as the only position that two pieces can share is "captured".

Edit: it's not a correct upper bound (or at least, it may be larger than the state space, but only by coincidence), in that while there are at most 16 pieces, the pawns may be in an officer state rather than a pawn state.
I think its also a matter of funding and company financials as well. You have to make money to justify spending money and each company has a different idea on what an acceptable infrastructure spend is. While it might be great to spend a ton of money and build a bullet proof infrastructure, if traffic slows down or revenue dips they are in the very negative position of having a lot of hardware and not a lot of money in the bank.

They have to scale at the rate their revenue or financial backers will be able to sustain. Based on the number of new users signing up to the service the down time is not yet a significant deterrent. If use drops because of downtime they will likely need to reevaluate a large capital spend to solve the issue.
I'm not sure that this change has anything to do with AML.

Patreon already does bundle payments to creators.

I get billed monthly for my various followings. That won't change at all under the new system (AFAIK).

What changes is that Patreon charge me for every pledge instance that I use, which is basically crap as it doesn't cost them any more if a creator has 1, 5 or 10 pledges per month, they bundle it up and make one payment to the creator.

I have no problem with the idea of Patreon charge patrons rather than creators for fees, but the "per pledge" billing is terrible.
I've also decided to stay on 56.02 for a while longer.

But have a look at Waterfox 56: they made it an ESR release and ported many of the security patches from FF 57.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/blog/waterfox-56.0-release-d...
Thanks.

I can't say I'm an expert yet. But the more and more I read about highly optimized code on any platform, the more and more I realize that 90% of the problem is dealing with memory.

Virtually every optimization guide or highly-optimized code tutorial spends an enormous amount of time discussing memory problems. It seems like memory bandwidth is the singular thing that HPC coders think about the most.
That's entirely workable... if you want to not have a job, or a bank account, or a credit card.
There is a reason "gross" is in quotation marks. That subtraction is more or less accurate.
Will quantum computing kill Bitcoin by rendering the underlying cryptography obsolete?
The author sounds like a story teller with no idea what he is talking about. With the current transaction costs bitcoin doesn't even have a real world usage for the common man anymore.
>“knowing when to let your child make mistakes on their own and when to help them”

That can be tested and quantified, based on end state goals.

>The road ahead looks more like a planet with its ecosystems ravaged by resource extraction

In such a world, the savviest and more strategic 1% would thrive, just like they always do. Eventually though, they will need to merge with machines to continue making the cut. It's too advantageous not to.
The longer-term solutions to home delivery are refrigerated and non-refrigerated storage pods with universal app access. These can either be built into a house / garage or be free-standing. This reduces the risks of having delivery people enter your home, which is a bad idea.

Also, in general, in tort-happy America, delivery people and other field workers should always wear bodycams to prove they were in the right because random people can and do make up convincing stories to file lawsuit$.
Because a company still needs some level of protection against having their trade secrets spread to their direct competitors by way of a defecting employee.
As a human, you can imagine the existence of a color you've never seen. However, it's greater than what you are able to perceive as a human. We can only see our slice of the spectrum. Therefore it's impossible to describe or create that color.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the same with AI.

You can imagine an AI that is smarter, bigger, more capable than humanity, but realistically we can't describe that.

We can't create something that is greater than our own limitations, the same way we can't create a color that we can't perceive.

Humanity is bound by it's own intellect, so any AI could only ever be as smart as we are.
I use a smart home security system (AT&T Digital Life). Not without its flaws, and not automated but I can, as soon as I see tracking info in Amazon (or wherever) update delivery instructions with a one time door lock code for their drivers. This works with UPS, USPS, FedEx, whomever. When my company shipped me a fully loaded iMac and Cinema screen, while I was 100 miles away, this was perfect. I got a notification on my phone that the door was opened, I could see how long they were inside, and could verify that it was locked after.
What do you mean by "launch", exactly?

The easiest way to see if people find a list of book recommendations useful or not is to just compile it, put it online and share it! Better yet, do this several times with different formats or recommendations from different people and your page traffic will let you know what is and isn't valued. Asking in the abstract is very, very difficult to get good intel from.

One somewhat related success model is Maria Popova, who has built a massive site called Brain Pickings from reading and writing summaries of books herself. There was no sudden launch to fanfare. She learnt what worked by creating and listening to her audience over time.
It's long enough ago I can't remember exactly what I was trying to do except that it was trivially correct, but yeah I think that was it. Anyway, I'm glad that's been solved; looks like I've got some new weekend plans! :)
If you file jointly as a married couple, you would include both. But if your spouse is a not a US taxpayer, then you'e likely not filing jointly. In that case, only your income would apply.

But take any of these with a huge grain of salt, because expats have very different rules to play by, including some generous exemptions.
Well China is no longer allowing energy plants to sell power to miners which is probably a majority portion of the problem you are referring to.
Could you imagine if Bitcoin was the catalyst for the next economic recession? That would certainly be out of left field.
thank you <3

it's good to see how they're pitching this to the patrons, I've mostly just seen fellow creators running around with their hair on fire about this.
If I were Norvig-like I'd claim I was at the party for my looks.
> What’s more, bitcoin’s consumption won’t necessarily keep rising as it has. Data centers, for example, have gotten a lot better.

That's bad analysis. Bitcoin energy usage is bounded very closely by the value of the coins mined at whatever the most efficient method is at the time. That is, it's worth it to spend electricity mining as long as the coins are worth a little bit more than the energy input.

So bitcoin growth has absolutely nothing to do with hardware efficiencies, and is entirely a function of the outrageously inflated growth bubble it is experiencing.

Basically: cleaner energy and more efficient computing hardware won't save us from this monster. But thankfully the coming crash will.
What's your definition of "force"? Purely physical force? Or are you including brainwashing, emotional abuse, and economic/financial force as well?
> or a database

This is not the best example. Qt has a lot of overhead in its event loop, threading, parallelism and containers implementations compared to alternatives. It's not the best choice as a base for high performance database.
TL;DR Bitcoin uses over 75% of the energy used to mint and print all the fiat money in the world for about a percentage point of the transaction volume, but it's okay!
But how much energy will it use when scaled to the throughput of physical currency?

Probably still not as bad but Bitcoin is still far less efficient than credit/debit transactions at that scale. There are some great crypto alternatives that would use magnitudes less power also.
I learned about `.release()`, so that's something.
> It's really not that hard.

Based on the current research on chronotypes [0], you seem to be the exception, not the norm.

'“If people are left to their naturally preferred times, they feel much better. They say that they are much more productive. The mental capacity they have is much broader,” says Oxford University biologist Katharina Wulff, who studies chronobiology and sleep.'[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype

[1] http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171114-why-you-shouldnt-t...
Free email digest for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
WaterFox 56 ESR is out with the security patches from FF 57:
https://www.waterfoxproject.org/blog/waterfox-56.0-release-d...
Nothing that is a utility should be for-profit (relating to basic survival and quality of life), however the VC model requires such fast scaling (as part of this VC money can help kill what would otherwise become a successful service through copying and scaling faster/competition); this is ultimately why subway systems, which started off as individual privately owned lines, were bought by the public. The issue is always capitalism and competitive factors, people who want to get ahead in the world - to make the world a better place - without having a collaborative mindset or understanding their actions. Facebook would be in the best position in the world to facilitate this, however current leadership hasn't ever shown the compassion necessary to understand and guide this. Part of the issue is that such a platform or ecosystem requires understanding that you need to share - meaning that value created can't all be captured/controlled or measured. Short-term scarcity vs. long-term abundance thinking.
Doesn't have business income or capital gains, which is pretty important to have considering the contents of the GOP plan. The pass-through rates in the bills will have a big effect on small business owners.

Edit: The more I play with this, the more flaws I find. I work at a tax policy think tank and I've been involved with more than a few tax calculators, and this one isn't reliable. It fails basic tests, like applying the standard deduction if itemized deductions are less than that amount.

Second edit: Here's a tip. It's a lot easier to calculate marginal rates on income if you go through the brackets backward rather than forward. That way, you just check if income is >= the current bracket threshold. If yes, subtract threshold from income, add that multiplied by the rate to the running total of taxes owed, and move to the next bracket. Else, just move to the next bracket. Way easier than what you're doing.
You mean like a cooperative or an union?

Filthy communist ! /s
I started volunteering this year to teach students to code. We're halfway through the year, and this couldn't be more apparent. Without a true interest in learning to program, these students won't remember 10% of what they've been taught at this time next year. Problem solving, troubleshooting, (as you've listed) or basic IT/computer literacy skills (why isn't my device connected to the Internet?) would take students much further.

Don't get me wrong - a lot of people can get benefit from learning to write an automation script or small program of some sort to take care of an annoyance. Taking a programming course for one year in HS, and then forgetting about it for 3 years will put you marginally ahead of someone just starting. On that same token, I don't expect someone who took Cal II at university to derive/integrate a bunch of equations 3 years later.

Programming isn't a muscle memory skills like riding a bicycle. It takes practice.
Sorry, what dues SWOT stand for ? Google search is giving something else hence asking you here lol.
I have the opposite impression. The people I've seen be the most critical of C++ are C++ compiler engineers.
>~60% of the developers on my team are women. It's not magic.

How big is your team? 5 people?

It's either a small sample size, or it's discrimination.
If the dollar can be grossly overvalued for decades, so can bitcoin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege

At least the bitcoin blockchain can be audited, unlike the US Federal Reserve, an institution accountable to no one.
How does a plant know the person it is selling power to is using it to mine?
Hackers Use TeamViewer to Gain Access to Your Computer
hey, no offense taken. this is good feedback. for you, some details about how the service works is important not just the end result. i will take that in and iterate it.
There are good biological reasons why there isn't a popular Playgirl magazine. That is similar.
> Stop eating processed carbs and sugar.

If I could pick one of all advices you gave this is the one which I think has more impact. Free yourself from food slavery.
I believe the merge has already started, and we are a few years in. Our phones control us and tell us what to do when; social media feeds determine how we feel; search engines decide what we think.

Someone needs to take a vacation from their devices, it seems. I feel like this overstates and dramatizes the situation to a large degree.
From the article:

> At this year’s holiday parties, however, there’ll be a surprising influx of attractive women, and a few pretty men, mingling with the engineers. They’re being paid to.
Not quite as automated, but once you get the tracking number, go to UPS.com or wherever, and "add delivery instructions".
Stopped reading once they tried to say Bitcoin is green because it uses less energy than modern money production. Bitcoin handles many orders of magnitude fewer transactions that pretty much every other monetary system - the fact that the energy usage is even comparable shows how much energy Bitcoin truly uses.
Nothing like celebrating the year with some community service!
By socialist do we mean statist socialists yes? Towards more of a republic or just buying up votes and voters with promises?

Many unanswered questions lie this way.
Let's also acknowledge that the "sky is falling" proclamations around Bitcoin mining energy use are based on numbers that aren't even close to accurate. Current network hash rate is about 12EH/s, and an Antminer S9 does about 14TH/s at 1372W. Thus,

(12000000THs / 14THs) * 1372W = 1,176,000,000W

Which is about 1.176GW. The article cites 8.27TW, which is off by several orders of magnitude.

QED.

Edit: numbers maybe not so far off after all, as it appears to say 8.27TWh/year now.
not yet. i'm reaching out to restaurants in sf bay area right now. there are some locals that are showing interest. i want to launch the page to see if people would be willing to submit receipts and may be prioritize who to talk to based on that.
Say what now? Why would you think they're being paid a pretty penny? Odds are they're doing it to scrape by, and would much prefer having the evening to spend with their friends and family rather than having to put on a charade.
HUGE ANNOYING problem with OppsDaily is that it FAILS to connect the makers with the "Wanters". See the comments on the top voted ideas for example. Most have 2 or 3 engineers / makers begging for contact info of the requestor / Wanters.

Good idea, terrible execution.
Lots of people unsubscribing apparently, screencap:
https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/93884540533643673...
This may help you understand what people are saying about this and why they're upset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15872605
Hah, that's a direction I hadn't considered. That is indeed exactly why vit D is added to milk in the first place. The milk industry claims it's a good source of calcium, but fails to mention it's generally a poorly absorbed source of calcium. Hence the addition of vit D.

Hard cheeses are generally very low in lactose, by the way, but I guess lactose intolerant societies are unlikely to discover this on their own.
The crazy thing is, very few B&Es are done via picking the lock, even though it's not a difficult skill. It's easier and faster to just hit the window with a rock, grab some stuff, and run.

There is a public perception of these super-smart techno hackers that crack all of these damn gizmos and rob you blind, but the reality is that most all B&E is done by dumbass drug addicts who barely make anything on a haul and get caught quickly. Even the more sophisticated ones use basically the same tactics but also make sure to move to a different county every couple of houses to avoid sitting in a jurisdiction for too long.

It's a high risk low reward game. Only the most desperate play it. Someone smart enough to hack the system is smart enough to have many better ways of making money. Even if someone sells a kit for dummies to do this it's still more work than picking up a rock.
I forgot about that part, but that just makes them even more dear to my heart.
You could check if one of the features that is only available on the home screen is available
Kubeflow – Machine Learning Toolkit for Kubernetes
The parties to a contract may want an impartial way to settle any disputes that come up down the line, without the high costs, risks, and complexities of litigation. It can be highly rational for both parties to agree to binding arbitration.

Look at the NFL and the players’ association. They have an arbitrator, the very capable Professor Stephen Burbank, handling disputes. Both sides (and the courts) strongly prefer this to having to go to court.

Arbitration is more controversial when foisted upon consumers in contracts of adhesion, i.e. the take-it-or-leave-it contracts you sign all day at stores, amusement parks, websites, etc. Also very controversial is that arbitration clauses are now being used to prevent class action litigation altogether. In those cases, the Supreme Court has nevertheless upheld it through a very broad reading of the Federal Arbitration Act.
One of the divisions here is that while Kickstarter is a public benefit corp, they've also had an extremely negative view of adult related material, something that a lot of us on patreon base our campaigns on. This is why a lot of adult product campaigns end up on indiegogo.

I'm sort of suspecting the same will happen with drip. While the sentiment of a PBC is nice, it doesn't really do many of us much good since we figure we have no chance to host there anyways. Even at the current fee structure, Patreon is still far better than past tries at adult related crowdfunding services, like Offbeatr (which you had to pay to even be considered for).
The labs that forge distant planets here on Earth
A number of Cinemark theaters that featured Dunkirk in 70mm listed here:
http://www.slashfilm.com/dunkirk-70mm-locations/
The amount of energy used on heating and cooling is several magnitudes larger than whole mining for bitcoin.

It's not a monster, it just sounds ridiculously big, but Internet uses more. Airplanes use magnitudes more, even cow farts are much bigger than CO2 footprint of Bitcoin.
Regarding (0): I am not sure what mechanisms for penalty would be better way than those currently in play (e.g., disuse/cloning in the case of open source, bankruptcy in the case of closed source, etc.).

I believe Lehman formalizes the dichotomy you imply as bugs in the "model" (you say "specification"), and bugs in the model's implementation. I think the distinction is important in that the model/spec is an evolving/moving target, subject to evolutionary forces. And the number of bugs in the implementation of any given model's snapshot in time is an increasing function of SLOC, and that updating the model can produce more/latent bugs in previously un-buggy code. (Which I take to mean we need minimize lines of code for any given amount of functionality. Less to write, less lines containing bugs, less to modify, etc.)

Regarding (1): I agree that we perform vastly below our potential due to bugs, but also many other factors - though it might be hard to agree on the what those contributory factors are, and their relative contributions.
Yes, but writing a cross platform UI for a single platform use case is a waste of time as well.
Try a Cracked.com article. I left one open for 10 minutes and had 50,000 requests and 80MB transfered.
How do they stop them?
I was thinking about this - it probably won’t be. It’s just a lot of people will end up feeling sheepish.

Recessions tend to bring down economies when they impact on wider economic activity - eg in the Great Depression it was all the loans taken and functional capital misused to play on the stock market. In the Great Recession it was mortgages in arrears, and the huge credit crunch as banks tried to balance their books.

At least at the moment, Bitcoin is probably mostly made up of small investors using small savings (sub 20k USD) that aren’t leveraged up in any way. If Bitcoin collapses, people just lose their shirts, but not their homes and jobs.
What do you estimate is the gender ratio for software developers? And how can you expect every company to go over it? Surely it is not 50% or over. In addition, for every company that goes over the average (perhaps like yours), another company must go under the average.
No one is forcing them to do it. Anyone would much prefer to have an evening with their friends or family. But if they need the money, then it's a job. And it's probably a better job than most jobs.
You can easily explain some months off by saying you wanted to travel, or visit Europe or something like that. I don't see why that is a problem.

In the meantime, start working strictly from 9 to 5, conserve your energy.
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DNA self-assembly scaled up
Ah, well I haven't read the euro regs, but that's not how it works in the US or Canada.
I didn't read it that way. You're essentially reading it as the monkeys will eventually write Shakespeare scenario.

The way I read it was, you have a robot and it:

1. knows it has to build a ferrari (implying it knows what it looks like at least)

2. knows nothing about building, parts, etc

3. can engage in some sort of learning behavior

Once a robot knows it can only connect two parts by screwing them together, it will only try to screw them together, and it might even transfer that behavior over to other parts.

The possible scenarios become much more limited as the robot gets smarter.
The media coverage when they launched claimed they had all the latest movies, but I've no idea what the truth is.