skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The impossibility of these beliefs is summarized well in this comment made today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869657 regarding AlphaZero:

> 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.

The answers are more realistic:

> How do you score this computation? What's your goal? There's no checkmate here. (this was mine)

> If you're talking about formal proofs or maths, I'm not sure how this would apply in general as the branching factor for each 'move' in a proof is efficiently infinite.

Also, there was a talk where a Google engineer admitted that a car you can put your kid into to drive them to school is still more than three decades away. From other sources, this is even more likely because the trolley problem doesn't seem solvable and so we would need to drastically decrease potential interaction between pedestrians and self driving cars which requires building guard rails, reforming transit and so on.

Don't subscribe to the hype.

Not to mention Katherine Bailey's excellent article (well, all of them on medium are on AI and really good reads):

https://medium.com/@katherinebailey/why-machine-learning-is-...

> One thing that both the pessimistic and optimistic takes on the Singularity have in common is a complete lack of rigor in defining what they’re even talking about.
> Does this exist for non-diabetic patients? I recently had weight gain for the first time of my life after reaching 30yrs of age and always being underweight. I've been meaning to look into some diet-based approaches that would be supported by science, but Googling it has always been a deluge of pseudo-science.

The Keto diet(s) are pretty popular for weight loss and general health too. The subreddit [1] is pretty active and has lots of people vouching for it. I don't know how scientifically sound or safe it is, because I haven't researched it, but you might find some answers there.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/keto
Proof-of-stake has many problems like nothing-at-stake problem etc.
How I turned $26.24 into $1,000+ of Bitcoin
Sorry, I should have worded that more precisely. I was basing it on this: https://twitter.com/wombatoverlord/status/938849760198447104 and various pieces I've read by creators. It looks like creators were averaging around 89% in net fees previously, where they will now be averaging 95%. So, ~$0.05 more on a $1 pledge.
Cerita Seks, Sekretarisku Yang Seksi Selalu Puaskanku
And yet the NYSE keeps on ticking.
Everyone?

I take it there were no women on your team?
Owning a Bitcoin offers no value to the holder other than the ability to buy something with it, but in almost every case imaginable there is a better alternative to Bitcoin out there. Usually it's much easier and safer to just use a credit card or a check or a bank transfer (or, heck, physical cash), but even in the case of illegal activities, you're probably better off using a different cryptocurrency that's less traceable.

The people who keep buying into BTC because they think it's fundamentally more useful than fiat currency are in a very small minority. Most of the people buying BTC are viewing it as a speculative investment, but the only reason they're buying it as an investment is because it keeps going up, and the only reason it keeps going up is because people keep investing in it. If it starts going down for some reason, even a little bit, the positive feedback loop could easily switch to a negative one and the bubble will pop. All the investors will start selling at once to try and reap their profits before it falls further.

Also, part of the reason the bubble has gone on for so long is that historically it's been difficult to short BTC. This may change with the advent of Bitcoin futures markets....
Legalize amphetamine microdosing, perhaps? :)
> The participants were all given support throughout, including cognitive behaviour therapy and were encouraged to exercise.

I wonder if there's also comorbidity of obesity and mental health troubles which is helped by both of these aside from the diet.
Podcast: “On Interviewing” with Raimo Radczewski
> Scaling solutions will improve the energy used per transaction.

No, they will not. They cannot, because the energy use is directly and irrevocably tied to the market capitalization of bitcoin as a whole.
You aren't making sense. Take a moment to say something substantive, please.
As it stands right now, Bitcoin's energy use isn't particularly problematic. But that's because Bitcoin is really small. The worry isn't so much that Bitcoin is destroying the planet now, but that if it grows to match the scale of a "real" currency (as its proponents keep saying it will!), its energy usage will become dangerously large.
As somebody with no intention of using this, but solve similar problems on a daily basis... I would make it an optional feature, for those who have access.
I was under the impression anyone could join who had the server address?
- The Science of Fasting (Amazon Prime)
Care to elaborate? Genuinely curious here.
I've considered building a small shed in which Amazon could place packages, grocery delivery could deposit groceries in a small fridge, etc.

If the future is Amazon staple deliveries and Uber drivers coming by with my groceries, this might be a reasonable solution.
It's like Kickstarter's version of Patreon.

More info:

https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/introducing-the-new-drip

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704169
Under that reasoning, why bother with the party to begin with?
What happens when a drone hits a plane?
... from 9 to 5, monday through friday, with a fairly predictable load, and decades more experience.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but the amount of growth they have seen is substantial and unprecedented. Nobody could have predicted it, and the rate of increase just keeps going up.

They are clearly new in this space, as all cryptocurrency companies are. I don't think that means that they should just give up and go home because they couldn't keep the servers up during spikes of insane activity...
Well that is the textbook case of 1st amendment rights not being absolute.
I think that you misunderstood what I meant by assumed. If I replaced it with implies would that clear the confusion?
If you consider each engine's personalized echo chamber with a positive feedback loop designed into it... It reads more like a confession.
To anyone else confused by the title: it's a library to create applications that run on Kubernetes. Not an stdlib for distributed systems. Also, things like distributed locks are anti-patterns in distributed systems.
That literally has nothing to do with whether or not Vitamin D is useful.
Probably, but SV engineers are not kids, and these women are not entertaining children in mickey costumes.

Seeing so many people defending this practice is really worrisome with regards to the lack of morals in SV.
> always being underweight.

What do you consider “underweight”?

I’m 28, 5’8”, 100lbs (that’s 1m74cm 46kg). Is that what you mean by underweight?

Also what is/was your diet like? How much exercise were/are you getting? Average caloric intake? what do you do for a living?
Feature request: choose a tax year
I was a long time Postman user, but find myself using Insomnia more and more in recent months.

Nothing wrong with Postman at all, but I just like Insomnia's cleaner and less cluttered UI. However, even as a regular user, sometimes I find the 'Send' button can be a lot more prominent than it is. The green '200 OK' response next to the Send button looks more like a button, and I keep inadvertently clicking on it to send my requests off!

And when starting out with a fresh workspace, the 'Create New' prompt looks like a button that you can click to create a new query, but it isn't - you still have to use the hotkey to do so. Small improvements in the UI like that will go a long way to making this my default 'go to' API testing tool.
The namespacing drives me nuts but it doesn't get mentioned very often in these kind of threads. How are people just ok with loading everything in the same namespace? You can use ::, but then that can have a ton of overhead.
What is Bitcoin? A non-technical explanation
I've been using it all the time for quite a while already. Generating different things like uuid's or dates in ISO format has been really useful. Same for environments. I also really like the UI.
No I'm saying that any reply approximating "its fine guys, they're new to this and won't anticipate everything" is disquieting when lots of coin is on the line.
I need such tools only now and then so never get entirely fluent. Insomnia seems much more obvious to me than Postman.

Intuitiveness is very much in the eye of the beholder ;)
You can get quite a lot of food in 850 calories. Vegetables are pretty low cal. Below is a plan I just created that is less than 850 calories

Total Cals - 836

Breakfast:
2 eggs - 156 calories

Lunch:

2 cups of spinach - 14 calories

1 cup of bell peppers - 39 calories

200 grams chicken breast - 226 calories

Snack:

1 banana - 105 calories

Dinner:

200 grams chicken breast - 226 calories

1 cup of broccoli - 31 calories

1 cup of bell peppers - 39 calories
I explicitly don't want to use Amazon Key, but would like a keyless lock as keyed locks are basically a minor inconvenience for even an amateur lock picker, but a 5 key pin would take days or weeks to brute force.

Looks like a Schlage Touch might be the best option out there. Numeric keypad, no key hole, and has no radio connectivity of any kind to be tampered with.
Why would you reward GoDaddy's shenanigans by buying it from them at the inflated price? It seems like they get exactly what they wanted: $650

https://get.health/registrars
Fasts are so hard on the body and mind that it's not at all difficult to imagine situations in which people can't afford to do it.

I wouldn't be able to do my job if I did an 850kcal fast for 3 months.
How Various Blockchains Are Attempting to Scale
Because it lets them extract a lot more cash from their users under the cover of processing fees.
Because I pay specifically for only the crossword part. I bought a book of 50 (of NYT puzzles) for the same price, and it came with no ads. Much better deal, if you ask me.
90 days, and Apple in fact are a noteworthy example. They have repeatedly missed the deadline and had full disclosure by GPZ, with widespread flaws, complete with exploit code.

Microsoft are the other big one.

The "right" thing is far more complicated than people who have no experience working with vendors to fix bugs like to assert.

There is some game theory here. The rationale is that if vendors know that GPZ will sit on their vuln until it is fixed, they are not forced to take the deadline seriously. For that reason, GPZ must remain firm on their deadlines, and everyone knows that if you try to call their bluff, you are going to lose that bet and have an even bigger mess.
Bitcoin loses that comparison, because it cannot become energy efficient. The energy it has to waste in order to continue functioning necessarily scales up with its total value.
The thing with non-competes is that most businesses realize that their employees could run circles around them and out-compete them without even trying if they were brave enough to try. So they fear that. I mean, no overhead of a radically expensive office building plus its utilities and maintenance, those multiple layers of ineffective management, the executive cherry on top charging an ultra premium to make your company look good? Cut that stuff out and you barely need to charge anything to continue making a perfectly opulent living for a typical technology worker. And it's not like the office or any of those things actually add anything of value, they're all just maintained mostly through sheer force of will and tradition - things proven to fail at any moment.

So if you sign something that severely penalizes going out on your own and competing against your employer, they're going to jump on that and treat it like a lifeline because it very much is exactly that.
Heck, if amd released raven ridge with this option my next laptop might actually be a A model thinkpad.
Yeah, I watched Breakfast At Tiffany's for the first time yesterday. Parts of that movie aged painfully hard.
The problem is moral hazard. If we did the right thing and cut Type 2 diabetics off from health insurance benefits (or at least dramatically increased premiums), the incentive structures would align quickly.

Edit: Mildly confused about the downvotes. I am not suggesting doing this to Type 1 diabetics, or any medical condition that is not the result of lifestyle choices. Having type 2 diabetes is very much a choice.
"Unless <highly probable event>, <extremely unlikely event> is going to happen" might be truthful but it isn't what Sam is really trying to say. And there is a big gap between stalls like the McRib and epoch-defining asteroid collisions.
The article is rubbish:

This happens in every industry where people make serious money. During the finance boom it happened in finance. Right the biotech boom it happened in biotech. Right now it is a tech boom, so it is happening in tech.

In this specific case the "models" are not the likes of Karolina Kurkova or the woman in the photo. At best they would be commercial models i.e. the ones that pose in clothes inside J.C. Penny during the holiday season.

It is also extremely unfortunate that the author of the piece allowed the agency owner to get away with a total puff piece - owners do not reject bookings from existing reasonably vetted clients because the clients request short skirts or plunging necklines ( of course it would be rejected if the client is hookers-and-blow.com ). If a legitimate company wanted two dwarfs to wrestle in jello for a holiday party, they would be found -- it just a matter of price. The price now is just higher. Most of the 'low-rent' market is in China (all over) where they are booked daily for nightclub appearances, 'high rent' in mostly in Moscow, RU.

P.S. Do notice that the agency CEO has a Russian name.

[Edit after the downvotes]: Here, let me google this for you:

http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/34811/1/my-life-...

http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-luxury/article/2120857...

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/7741206-questions-anger-a...

http://modelingwisdom.com/what-is-commercial-modeling

http://moscowdoesntbelieveintears.blogspot.com/
The delivery people are notoriously overworked and constantly in a hurry. But there are other alternatives.

For example, a service I like is Inpost. They have a few dozen of huge post boxes in each bigger city. About 20 compartments in each. The package is not delivered to your house, but instead you have 3 days to retrieve it from one of those huge yellow boxes. It's a little walk, but you can do it in the middle of the night (they text you with opening code). You don't even have to know the recipient's delivery address, just the phone number and e-mail, and the yellow box closest to them. So in a way it protects privacy.
Millennials flocking to 10 US cities to get a job, buy a home, and start a life
If it comes down to that, bitcoin will probably adopt some post-quantum signature scheme for new wallets.

Probably.
I think this could be an interesting post, but I'd rather see it in the form of a longer blog-or-Medium-like post.

If you feel like it, you should write something up about it like that and share it out.
Is it really that hard to google "low carb foods"

Generally people eat mostly fat if a keto diet is higher calorie.

Since OPs was lower calorie it would be mostly vegetables and protein.
The internet ecosystem, and the evolution of similar companies
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xu...

#TabsToolbar {visibility: collapse;}

#titlebar {margin:0px !important; display:none}

#sidebar-header {visibility: collapse;}

#nav-bar-customization-target {margin-top:10px;}

I use this with titlebar disabled
I guess it is an outcome of these things being names based on symptoms rather than causes.

Just look at cancer, depending on where it originates it can have a multitude of causes. But MSM is likely to report every new finding as just cancer, with zero details about the type involved.
Reach out to them through every support network. Twitter being the main target. Go through support agent after support agent looking for the difference in money back. Eventually it'll be easier for them to just pay you rather than losing customers from you making this public.

Prolly your best bet besides getting a lawyer.
Okay, here's the real issue with your comment. You have your units all wrong. You're measuring "watt seconds" instead of "watt hours". Lets fix our units here -

(12000000 (TH per second s) / 14 (TH per second)) * 1372W = 1,176,000,000W/s

Now we need to convert seconds to hours (60 * 60)-

1,176,000,000W/s * 60 * 60 = 4,233,600,000,000W/h

That is roughly 4.23 terawatt hours. Take into account cooling and the fact that not everyone is using the same efficient miner from your example and the numbers look pretty damn accurate to me.
Half a million people are currently using the extension [1] though it's likely true that only a subset use it for multi-row tabs.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/
People may be taking your comment as general knee-jerk electron hate but it really is something to consider.

If you're sending requests that can return very long json responses, Insomnia can lock up and force you to restart it.

Paw is a pretty good native alternative but it's macOS only, doesn't have a free tier beyond a short trial period, and has some UI quirks that made me ultimately go back to Insomnia despite the electron borne downsides.

If Insomnia could offload the request response parsing/formatting to a WebAssembly module it would be perfect.
There definitely was. I remember telling this to my college roommate few years ago after he gradually gained lot of weight and was diagnosed as pre-diabetic.
They do it in Poland.
There should be a checkbox for whether you are a graduate student or not.
An analogous argument would hold in the case of "units of capability". Why do you think the problem of producing capable minds is any easier than the problem of producing intelligent minds? I'm not sure what the point of your chimp analogy is, unless you think I think that brain size is the unit of intelligence. Anyway, I'm also skeptical of the idea that there are such things as general "units of intelligence", but the entire notion of a superintelligence is predicated on the idea that intelligence is a general quality and can be meaningfully quantified. It's not clear to me how we'd even define superintelligence without reference to some quantitative measure of intelligence, although if you'd like to try, I'd be interested.
> Will quantum computing kill Bitcoin by rendering the underlying cryptography obsolete?

No, as even if the current underlying crypto falls (for whatever reason), the ledger up to that point could very likely endure in a new form.

Outside of the blockchain concept of itself, the oft-ignored indirect gift of bitcoin's longevity is the way it is providing us a new digital mechanism for the international distribution of wealth as more people join, the ledger proceeds and mined coins are exchanged more widely.

Full-disclosure: no horses in this race yet
“Diabetes” and even “Diabetes Mellitus” (the latter of which being what Type 1 and Type 2 are modifiers for) are originally just names of symptoms (essentially “frequent urination” and “frequent sweet-tasting urination" [17th century diagnostics were... interesting]) that got adopted with modifiers as disease names.
Let's see you put on a bikini on the beach during winter and pretend you're not freezing your ass off to shoot the catalog for next summer.

Now do it for 12 hours straight. Yes, it's just a pretty face, no skill required.
> But consuming more electricity would produce more bitcoin.

No, Bitcoin is produced at a fixed rate. If more power goes into mining, difficulty increases to compensate.
It's like ice-cream, some people like chocolate, others like vanilla...others (insert your flavor).

I use a lot of httpie [1] and jq [2] - sometimes a GUI is nice to show other humans who might... mmhh... not like the CLI that much.. things in a more "eye pleasing way".

As usual with these tools YMMV.

[1] https://httpie.org/
[2] https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
I completely understand that Google has to retire products that are not profitable.

I'm speaking only of my own frustration.

There are ripple effects that impact Google's other businesses. I wasn't willing to switch to Google Plus for that same reason. I'm certain that I'm not the only one.
Keylogger Found on Nearly 5,500 Infected WordPress Sites
I don't know what diet daeken followed, but the Lancet article described the diet in the study as follows:

"Weight loss was induced with a total diet replacement phase using a low energy formula diet (825–853 kcal/day; 59% carbohydrate, 13% fat, 26% protein, 2% fibre) for 3 months (extendable up to 5 months if wished by participant), followed by structured food reintroduction of 2–8 weeks (about 50% carbohydrate, 35% total fat, and 15% protein), and an ongoing structured programme with monthly visits for long-term weight loss maintenance."
Using the MyFitnessPal free iOS app has been helping me a lot. It gives you a calorie target, you enter everything you eat (and it has pretty much everything in its database), and it will help you get to a target weight.

It will also help provide warnings about sugar, etc.
If both sides really prefer it, then they'll be able to agree to use Dr. Burbank's services for each individual dispute as it comes up. Two sides involved in a dispute never have to go to court. One of them has to choose to do so.
CryptoKitties – blockchain powered digital pet collecting
Well, on a low end they are making about $25/hour after agency fees.

On a high end they are walking away with a few thousand dollars.

On a really high end they just made your yearly salary in a day - there was if I recall correctly a bank in Russia that flew a dozen of currently reasonably well known models for its New Year's party.
Want to try deep learning for your own cheap robot?

http://donkeycar.com is a fun project. Races in various parts of the world at various intervals!
I don't have administrative rights on my work Mac. I tried to install via brew. Got this:

Moving App 'Insomnia.app' to '/Applications/Insomnia.app'.
Password:

I can't find the app anywhere after sudo gave up because I don't have rights. I did get this nice message though:

insomnia was successfully installed!
While you may be right, the difference to me, and the main reason why I originally asked the question, is that USD has the full force and guarantee of the us government. AAPL has a discounted future cashflow. Gold has industrial, sentimental and government consensus value. BTC has none of that, just a consensus of value based on active trades, which (side note) may well be the best thing about BTC.

I recently sold my little stash of BTC because I just realized that I don't understand at all what is happening regarding BTC, why it is happening, and whether it will continue to happen. All this BTC has no where to go but into other prospective wallets. I also had a sudden concern that there is no reason to trust Coinbase, let alone the market or BTC in general, and why would I leave money with people I have no reason to trust and have no means of penalizing should they fail to honor their terms with me.

The reality, as others point out, is that Coinbase has people dumping real money into their system to get in on BTC, and thats what Coinbase use to pay my withdrawal, which is as simple as I could have imagined it. I just dont know why.
I'd also recommend the book Diabetes unpacked and, if you are interested in the deep story of a low-carb vs high-fat trial, the brand new book Lore of Nutrition by world-class scientist Tim Noakes and Marika Sboros
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15479945