skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In bitcoin's case it is a liquid global asset, this has never happened before, this allows it to be used as collateral globally which is what SALT enables. This is one innovation driven by speculation. Without speculation you wouldn't have the liquidity, and it would be a bad collateral system.

The SALT system allows people worldwide to lend to others. Even in sanctioned countries because they can just source lenders in those countries and the borrower has the universal collateral.

And thats just one utility, only possible because of the speculation driving liquidity.
Yeah, even more so since the author works in the industry that would benefit.
I really hope that the lightning network (which had its first successful test a day ago) will end this speculation bubble (by enabling fast microtransactions). Currently BTC is not suitable for general trading, the transaction fees are too high. But I really would like to be able to pay for things using BTC, online or in stores.
It has no intrinsic value, just utility.
I never want to reuse my comments from other thread but this time I just can't resist. No one really anticipated what we all are currently experiencing and Coinbase is not different.

It seems Coinbase struggling to cope up:

$0000 - $1000: 1789 days

$1000- $2000: 1271 days

$2000- $3000: 23 days

$3000- $4000: 62 days

$4000- $5000: 61 days

$5000- $6000: 8 days

$6000- $7000: 13 days

$7000- $8000: 14 days

$8000- $9000: 9 days

$9000-$10000: 2 days

$10000-$11000: 1 day

$11000-$12000: 6 days

$12000-$13000: 17 hours

$13000-$14000: 4 hours

$14000-$15000: 10 hours

$15000-$16000: 5 hours

$16000-$17000: 2 hours

$17000-$18000: 10 minutes

$18000-$19000: 3 minutes
This in my userChrome.css works very well for me.

#TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse !important;
}

There are no real glitches or problems but can't imagine living in Firefox without TreeStyleTab in general over minor issues.
I live in southern Brazil (one of these tropical countries), where sunlight is not that easy to get; also people dress up and cover themselves much more than in other regions due to not only the weather but also for cultural reasons. In fact, the city where I live (Curitiba) has a huge portion of people who need vitamin D supplements, to the point this deficiency became folkloric. I was quite "happy" to learn last year that after a full decade here my blood exam showed for the first time in 35 years that now I need vitamin D supplements too.
The value of something is what somebody will pay for it.

If you disagree with this, I challenge you to give an example of something that fits your description of intrinsic value. That is, something that would still have “value” even if nobody in the world were willing to pay for it.
>Now that Go and Chess are efficiently solved for AI...what's next?

Chess is not "solved." Solving chess would mean knowing with absolute certainty the best move in any position. It would also mean knowing the best first move. We do not have technology with the computational capability to "solve chess." We have technology that can play chess better than any human, but that's not the same as solving it.
> No, it means they've started promoting crap for monetizing and penalizing things that people actually want to see.

Could you explain this part? I thought the whole issue was YT was being more selective about the videos they monetized with ads.

> Given the human scum that are advertisers, I doubt anything could reflect poorly on them.

If that was true boycotting brands wouldn’t be effective. But it is VERY effective. Ask Sean Hamburg or Dr. Laura (among many others).
This is similar to my lived experience. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's 3 years ago. I was lucky to find a great doctor that specialized in it. He put me on 15000 IU / day for 3 months because I was so severely low in addition to having high antibodies. Within 3 months my levels were so much better. I still take 10000 IU / day along with selenium, iron, fish oil and good diet/exercise and all my levels have been in check for 2 years :)
Remembering the Wonderful Little Idiosyncrasies of ‘Good Will Hunting’
When you put it that way, bitcoin could be a weapon from space..
IKEA, Sonos Stay Mum About Smart Home Sound Collaboration
Curious if you have any source links for banks pulling out. It seems like smart risk management to back off supporting a BTC futures contract right now.
What about an Android version?
My doc prescribed me 25,000 IU once a week for 8 weeks then 10,000 IU daily thereafter. The kicks of 25k were what made the diff for me. YMMV
All of this is anecdotal:

These past couple of days, whenever a coin soars a ridiculous amount, on any given exchange, that exchange seems to mysteriously go down. For example: Binance and Bitfinex were down for "maintenance" (or just plain down), while IOTA was experiencing a surge in price (from ~1.10 to 6$). Similarly this happens with Bitcoin today (it seems Quadriga had some issues and Coinbase; not sure about others).

Something is up, and it's weird.

My conspiracy theory: big money institutions are testing pump and dumps for when short contracts come into play. On the one hand, the cryptocurrency world wants to remain as unregulated as possible; on the other, a lot of individuals are going to get reamed by big whales.
It drives me crazy that popular brands of soy and almond milk don't have vitamin D. I've long moved off real milk because its really calories dense and gives me gas. Now I'm missing out on one of the few easy sources of vitamin d.
>> Where are the startups trying to keep you addicted to the internet in a way that improves your life?

> consider the gamifying elements of Khan Academy, Duolingo and other e-learning sites for example

It's worth noting that I've heard a lot of criticism of e.g. Khan Academy from certain components of the mathematics education community. Concretely, they feel that the material there is designed to increase engagement and provide a sense of accomplishment ASAP, and that the learning processes that fit those goals are detrimental to development certain mathematical skill sets. I.e. you might learn how to compute derivatives really well, but at the expense of really understanding limits or the fundamental theorem.

Mind you, mathematics educators have always been an internally divisive bunch, so take from it what you will.
Just say no to irrational exuberance.
That's funny, I absolutely never use '<-'. Mostly because it's 2 characters, and because it's inconsistent with most languages. Haven't ever run into any issues because of '='.

I like your base R point, although like you say, some packages are simply essential.
I did this exact same thing but did not see an easy way to reassign the F1 shortcut to toggle the tree style tabs at a quick glance.

I looked through the source code (manifest.json) where it was defined but didn't go looking for how to have the changes seen by firefox, if I were to just change it.

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

Any answers to my laziness would be appreciated!
Meanwhile, coinbase is down...
I'm not confusing it, I'm going from what Marx and Engels said.

"Only conscious organisation of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal world as regards the social aspect, in the same way that production in general has done this for men in their aspect as species. Historical evolution makes such an organisation daily more indispensable, but also with every day more possible."

"If it should become necessary for communist society to regulate the production of men, just as it will have already regulated the production of things, then it, and it alone, will be able to do this without difficulties. It seems to me that it should not be too difficult for such a society to achieve in a planned way what has already come about naturally, without planning, in France and Lower Austria. In any case it will be for those people to decide if, when and what they want to do about it, and what means to employ"
I hate that Google axes features because only 1% of users are using them.

1% of Chrome’s users are millions of users.
Arable land, antibiotics. The latter would be worth many many times the value of gold in a post-collapse scenario.
I'm well aware. Those that you are talking about are electric though which brings a whole class of issues. I think that photonic might work very well.
> The algorithms that make all this happen are no longer understood by any one person.

I smell epicism.

How did it become chic for women to smoke cigarettes back in the first quarter of the 20th century?
If we're listing smart contract languages, Pact is worth looking at. Check the demo contracts in the web editor for `Hello World`: kadena.io/try-pact

;; Simulate message data specifying an administrator keyset.
;; In production use 'mockAdminKey' would be an ED25519 hex-encoded public key.
(env-data { "admin-keyset": ["mockAdminKey"] })

;; Simulate that we've signed this transaction with the keyset.
;; In pact, signatures are pre-validated and represented in the
;; environment as a list of public keys.
(env-keys ["mockAdminKey"])

;; Define the module.
(module helloWorld 'admin-keyset
"A smart contract to greet the world."
(defun hello (name)
"Do the hello-world dance"
(format "Hello {}!" [name]))
)

;; and say hello!
(hello "world")
I think people forget - Coinbase makes profit in BTC too.

The issue of disbursement might have happened if they were completely USD or fiat business and the market ran away from them during conversion. But btc fees has them covered.
i don't have anything of real value to add here, and have never owned bitcoin (and probably never will), but this is an incredibly fascinating phenomenon to watch as a disintereted, underinformed party. i laughed out loud in amazement (not sarcastically or scornfully, just in amazement) when i saw it passed $16K

it is unlike anything most people in the world have probably ever seen
Many are scratching their heads: "WTF? Bubble!? When will Bitcoin come crashing down?"

The thing is, individuals and institutions worldwide currently own around $300 trillion in financial assets.[a] If as a group they decide to hold, say, 2% of their financial wealth in Bitcoin, say, to diversify away from all nations on earth, then Bitcoin's market capitalization would go up 30x, from around $0.2 trillion to $6 trillion. The number of bitcoins is fixed, so the price would go up by the same multiple. In short, all it takes is for the world to want a tiny exposure to Bitcoin.

Note that before Bitcoin it was impossible to diversify away from all nation-specific risks.

[a] http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-v...
Turns Out Yetis Are Really Just Bears
Same with the Pixel 2. But the Pixel 2 appears to be a bit more powerful than the iPhone neural chip. The PVC is able to do 3 TOPS but we really need instructions supported and word size to truly compare.
Publish your book with Markdown
There is a single rule for pointer ownership in Qt: parents own children. The problem is that it is not enforced by the compiler :p
"As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance." -Charles Prince, Ex-Citibank CEO 2007

This is one of my favorite modern finance quotes on bubbles because it encapsulates so well why there is still momentum in this crypto bubble even after an even casual reading of the news will tell you that everyone and their grandparents believes it's a bubble.

My bet is that heavy regulation in a market where there is heavy trading (e.g. USA, Japan, Korea) will be the blow that bursts this, but as with everything in public markets, who knows?
Until the day the machines decide that the rust problem must be tackeld at its root and that atmosperic oxygen must be eliminated...

L'ennui c'est l'oxygène
qui fait rouiller nos roues
dentées, c'est l'oxygène
qui fait rouiller nos clous
What level of volatility would be acceptable for you to begin transacting in bitcoin?

Imagine you bought a coffee with BTC for $3 in 2014. How much did you really pay for that coffee?
Maybe it would be better to stick to narrow AI. There's no reason a self-driving car or stock-picking algorithm or even a cancer research algorithm needs to be general AI.
Advancement in nuclear technologies was basically shut down since the 1970's. Thiel's thesis is that almost no technological progress has occurred since then. I tend to agree. Computer technologies were only allowed to progress so quickly because people did not think computers were dangerous. Imagine any other new product where you could state that the product is "as is" and claim no responsibility for its functionality, purpose for use, or damage caused by malfunction. I would prefer this concept for most things but our "safety first" society definitely does not.

The one avenue open to tech advancement became so powerful that it eventually began to bleed into the physical world and we are starting to see other tech slowly advancing again. Maybe if the tech wealthy of Gen X and later have sufficient power in society after the Boomers pass the baton (if they ever do), we will let the technology keep advancing and see this merging. There is also the fact that the US is no longer a hegemon. Good luck stopping people in China from doing things banned in the West.
True story: I lived in Tokyo for a while and was once solicited for an interview at MtGox.

I ultimately turned it down because I didn't think this magical internet points fad was going to work out. But I regret it now. Yes, of course the business tanked sleazily, but had I allowed myself to educate myself and buy in (in both meanings of the phrase) to the BTC craze back when it had a two-digit price point… I could be a kajillionaire.
If it's hard to use people tend to avoid using it. Also the wrapped int would have to be private to avoid people to use it anyway.
Is the Amazon Key service available in the UK?
> It is a failure of human imagination and human arrogance to assume that we will never build things smarter than ourselves.

If you define intelligence as “being really good at chess” or “factoring prime numbers”, sure, computers are already smarter than us. If you define intelligence as “knowing when to let your child make mistakes on their own and when to help them”, or “knowing how to conduct an orchestra”, it doesn’t seem so extreme anymore.

In fact, the opposite statement rings just as true:

It is a paragon of human arrogance to assume that we will build things smarter than ourselves in every conceivable way.

The road ahead looks more like a planet with its ecosystems ravaged by resource extraction, with buggy computerized systems we don’t understand running people’s lives in harmful ways (eg see all the writeups about machine learning reinforcing systemic biases) than a world full of meta humans in symbiosis with inconceivably intelligent machines of their own design.
How much money needed to come into the bitcoin market for it bump from 15k to 19k? Where is this money coming from??
Why is gold being ignored then?
food

air

water

sunlight

sex
After reading Advance R I HIGHLY recommend learning Racket (a lisp) and work through "How to Design Programs" it will take a while and it is very dense but this is the best thing I have ever did to make my programming skills better.

http://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index....
Your comment is unfathomably stupid.
I uninstalled the Facebook apps from mobile devices, put it in the blacklist for StayFocusd and just recently enabled U2F authentication. All of that makes it just sufficiently difficult to actually get into Facebook that I only look at it once a day. Curiously Facebook seems to regard difficulty logging in as a serious show stopping bug because while testing U2F I made some failed login attempts. They emailed me several times over the next 24h asking if I needed help logging in. Mo logins mo money..
Sure, most exchanges have an API you can use to automate your trading. The verification is a one-time thing, once you're past that you can trade as quickly as you want.
Blocks take approximately 10 minutes, assuming your transaction is on the first block. In a way that might put some brakes on high speed trading, though it could still be automated.
This OpEd is written by Ken Engelhart[1], former VP of regulatory affairs at Rogers Communication in Canada. He spent most of his professional life lobbying the Canadian government on behalf of their near-monopoly cable and wireless provider. I'm confident that the new FCC regulations are very much in line with what he would like to see in Canada, and not at all in line with the public's own interests.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-engelhart-591a204/
> Could this business be built without blockchain as a technology?

And the answer is yes if and only if the business is lawful.

In other words, you never need the blockchain, unless you can't use the power of the law to enforce your contracts. Every. Single. Other. supposed use-case of the blockchain could be done by using a regular database and real-world contracts. Yes, even money (cf PayPal, Western Union, etc...).

But if you're doing something illegal, then you can't have contracts and the threat of a lawsuit to enforce them. This where the blockchain and Bitcoin in particular becomes useful.
What really scares me is that there is divergence across exchanges. As of 9:30am on December 7th (PT), Gemini still shows $16,100 as the 24 hour peak.
How do you download them? Is this another Scribd?
Just to suggest a possibility: Chrome Remote Desktop is also an Android app and the technology to run Android apps in Chrome on Desktop has been available for some time; it shouldn't take much, if Google wanted, to let desktop Chrome use the Play Store and use APKs directly rather than repackaging them (as via the developer preview ARC Welder tool) into CRXs.
They likely also have gold, but they already bought it long ago.
The purist would say $0 because you paid for it in BTC
Isn't it just the simple explanation that big swings in the market bring insane traffic spikes to market websites?

Add to the fact that people are also DDOS websites (doesn't take a "big money institution" to do that) and it seems the explanation is clear...
As an actual rural independent FTTH provider, I can say you're wrong. It's incredibly hard to go against the incumbent duopoly of cable/telco, and they will most certainly abuse their market power. Though in a sad way it works in my favor, I've had a number of new customers sign up because they don't want their internet throttled. BigCableCo will create 200 Gb packages and they will exclude their service while counting Netflix. Regular people do deserve access to a free, open, and unmetered Internet. I'm super small and still offer par and faster speeds than the cable company in my area. I'm not losing money because someone is streaming two netflix streams instead of one.
Beer giant will add 40 Tesla Semi trucks to its supply chain and delivery network
In addition, the machines didn't have so much control of our news input and conversation the last time around.
What I'm reading: an existing chess engine that runs on much poorer hardware and for some weird reason was deprived of its usual initialization data achieved 73% draw rate against a ridiculously hyped "deep" neural network/MCTS algorithm.

It's interesting that AlphaZero was finally applied to a different game, though. I wonder what architectural changes they had to make. I've read that pure MCTS isn't that good at playing Chess. How true is that?
What does that mean? Brains are their own little worlds of thought, but they also communicate-- thinking has a social component as well. Both are absolutely crucial and trivially present in all thinking. The scientific method, for example, is founded upon a tension between independent and social examinations of scientific ideas.

Clearly there's a good way to think independently and a bad way; a good way of thinking as a group and a bad. How is the line drawn? It's certainly not a line that can be drawn in advance.

In your post you said:

> It makes me think that there must be some really powerful evolutionary processes in place which make it so that irrational idolists have more children and live longer than rational people.

That seems rather essentialist to me: Do you really think people are so transparent that you can not only judge whether they are intrinsically rational or irrational but also that quality is hereditary and also that there is a mysterious force that makes us idiots via natural selection?

Better instead to ponder what social and psychological processes can draw someone into a cult and how those processes play out in your own life. We take for granted how thin the margin is between our own lives and the lives of others. It is almost surely the case that all of us hold absolutely absurd delusions about our lives and how we should go about them.
I think this is also a basic concept of the stock market that many people don't understand as well.
You can't transfer gold at will across the world. Although BTC is claimed to be a "store of value", it can also be transferred around fairly easily (with very little friction). It can also be exchanged for many different currencies.
Vitamin K is found in very high concentrations in almost any leafy green vegetable or tomatoes and countless other vegetables. You won't have any problem getting enough vitamin K.

Just take half a pound of spinach and boil it, when you eat it, it'll be about the size of a medium bowl. That will be about 50 calories and contain 1200% of your daily vitamin K needed!!
I've seen people say this often, how do you envision it working?

What happens to all the employees, assets, shareholders etc.?

If VW is "executed" do you mean all the shares are seized and re-sold or do you mean everyone loses their jobs - discs are wiped, factories demolished etc etc.?
The Gilded Age and the Industrial Revolution, yes. Not really the leadup to the Great Depression, which has very little to do with the Gilded Age and a great deal to do with credit developments, widespread corruption in government and banking and a general productive leap.

If you choose to believe that the US was somehow in a hole for 80 years despite growing massively economically and becoming the banking and investment capital of the world over that time, and if you also choose to believe that people actually paid those tax rates, then I'm not sure what we have to talk about.
I am mostly indifferent to the net neutrality arguments. Not sticking my head in the sand, I just feel that most of the traffic discrimination everyone is worried about is already happening. The internet was always designed as a government/corporate hybrid and discrimination based on size, importance, etc is already happening on a daily basis. See Free Basics by Facebook for a very clear example: https://info.internet.org/en/story/free-basics-from-internet...
Why we can't always stop what we've started
The price of BTC went up by $2k USD in 2 hours this morning. Why would anyone want to use it to buy something when there's a good chance it'll be worth more in a day or so?
Ban ads, marketing, and public relations would be a start. Seems unlikely.