skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The United States is a mixed economy with aspects of socialism and aspects of capitalism. We are far more capitalist than socialist.

You can have a mixed economy with a lot more socialism than the US and still have a great society (see Europe for examples).

Now the Soviet Union was pretty horrible, and it’s a shame we’ve decided that it should be the poster child / cautionary tale for any socialist policy in a mixed economy. It’s a shame because I think the Soviet Union was actually a poster child for some things far worse than, and not necessarily intrinsic to, careful application of socialist policies:

- Command economy where production was governed by a combination of ideology and information systems (human and technological) that were comically ill-equipped to attempt such a thing.

- Horrible autocratic leadership. I’m open to the possibility that an economy, past some hypothetical ratio of socialism, results uniformly in autocracy. But... in the Soviet Union’s case, I think we need to consider the proud, nearly homogeneous, legacy of horrible autocratic rule and horrible living conditions in Russia.

But maybe we will soon have the IT capability to efficiently run a command economy. Imagine a world in which Amazon captures an even larger share of global sales... eventually handling the vast majority of all economic transactions: Amazon insurance payments to Amazon networks of doctors. Homogeneously decent quality inexpensive Amazon Basics cookware, clothing, televisions. Amazon News Network. How would that be different than a command economy?

Maybe no one corporation would ever capture anything like the full economy. But maybe an oligopoly of corporations could...

I actually think we need to figure out some form of (partial) socialism that is compatible with a democratic society, because the capitalist economic end-game starts to looks rife with potential for exploitation. If Amazon and Walmart carve up the world’s economy and resources, I want damn sure I can have equal representation in electing their leadership.
Do you use any sort of ML? I've wondered for some time now if one could train a bot with ML to trade with better results to humans due to patterns recognized with ML, so historic data = better results which fits ML quite nicely.

But it's just a shower thought so far.
There's a challenge finding the right headline when posting to HN. My last few posts had very literal headlines and went nowhere. I amped this headline up a bit while making sure it was still honest and, looky here, it got more attention. Now I have to decide how I feel about the difference.
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For this reason, I'm curious how much the headline change is a change in concrete goals versus a change in terminology.

It feels like I know a lot of people who think "socialism is evil, and therefore we need a market economy made safe via government regulation and state control of essential services."

And then I know a lot of other people who think "capitalism is evil, and therefore we need a market economy made safe via government regulation and..."

At a certain point I just shrug and ignore the words; they often end up predicting more about team allegiances than what actual system someone wants to see established.
Ecclesiastes 4

The whole book is good for people exploring the whole "what's the point of life?" question.

It's worth noting that it's a selection in a compilation that is deeply skeptical of humanity while being clearly pro-humanity.
Cancer is a complex, heterogeneous disease caused by varying degrees of interaction between inherited and exposed risks. It's just not as simple as you make it out to be.
Sun exposure != skin cancer.

It's like avoiding eating food altogether because you might became obese, or worse (given the odds) choke on it.
Rationality is the logical and empirical pursuit of a value system. The values are the axioms.

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them" - David Hume
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At the Kubecon demo yesterday they cracked a joke about promising to support more architectures. They seem to sincerely want to, which is why they donated the project to OpenStack. Honestly it seems really cool, the spin up time is damn impressive.
Also, Stockfish was denied some initialization data that it usually uses:

The player with most strident objections to the conditions of the match was GM Hikaru Nakamura. While a heated discussion is taking place online about processing power of the two sides, Nakamura thought that was a secondary issue.

The American called the match "dishonest" and pointed out that Stockfish's methodology requires it to have an openings book for optimal performance. While he doesn't think the ultimate winner would have changed, Nakamura thought the size of the winning score would be mitigated.
I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
In real life, you cannot depend on encapsulation or especially documentation. Interesting behaviour is left undefined or not documented. (This including such hairy things to test like thread safety and reentrant behaviour.)

Like C++ itself it allows implementing freedom.
The result is that you get to actually test any assumptions you make.
As a C++ developer, stuff like that is what keeps me up at night. Undefined behaviour optimizations, i.e. optimizations which are undertaken because the compiler proves that a variable cannot have a specific value, since if it did, that would be undefined behaviour, should probably only be undertaken within the scope of a single expression. Reason being that first, I shouldn't be afraid that editing code in one end of the function can change the semantics of unrelated code somewhere else and second, the code is always written with a specific physical architecture in mind and being unable to reason what it would actually do is very problematic.

Said undefined behaviour is also always only undefined within the scope of the C++ language, the machine defines the behaviour perfectly fine. I can, for instance, install a segmentation fault handler and catch places where I dereference a null pointer. In fact, the null page could even be mapped to some hardware device, making null pointers valid. Right now I don't have a way to communicate that fact to the compiler. Worse, we don't have tools that can tell us when code changes semantics from what a trivial -O0 compilation would produce.
You could have regional fuel charges. However, you don't want to discrage driving in a specific place you want to reduce it everywhere to reduce pollution everywhere.

PS: People often say you can't out build congestion, but the data in no way supports that argument. D.C. Metro area for example has horrible traffic, but just looking at road layout the failures are obvious.
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Bitcoins? Here's a better analogy:

Say the public grid is notoriously unstable. Electricity is on maybe 50% of the day. (This is in fact true in some countries.) Now the government (who pretty much has sole domain over running utility wires) offers a "deluxe" service, with 100% availability, for the low-low price of a week's worth of food for one day of service.

Congratulations. Now you've stabilized a scenario in which everyone with money and power is sated, and the government has little reason to allocate any resources to improving the service to the remainder of the public.
I know a former Qt dev who pronounced it 'cute', so I think it's a bit of a Gif vs Gif type situation.
...platforms it can run on to a fraction of what it was...

The plan, of course, is that everyone will be on ChromeOS.
It’s in his profile.

https://youtube.com/cheveedodd
> ...gave me the impression of that zebra being very stoic...

Shock serves a purpose in nature.
Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword
Right now there are hundreds of billions of corporate "profits" sitting offshore that can't be brought back into the US because of tax avoidance. If Congress does something to soften the blow, corporations will re-patriate those dollars and put them to better use.
Benatar says the bad outweighs the good for everyone. If you're refuting his first principle, are you really even talking about the same issue?
I'm not scared of AI, I'm scared for it.

I'm imagining a world where creating an AI that can suffer is inexpensive, and then 4chan discovers it.
Remember 2013 and 2014? What's different this time?
I believe your first paragraph is naive. There are lots of examples of bad actors in capitalism that are never punished by the market or the government. Your belief in the wonders of the market correcting abuses is especially hard to understand when not everyone has perfect market information. As an example look at De Beers and how many people bought diamonds from this company that willingly did business with the hand choppers.
I think it's a bit superstitious how we think that being good at math means you'll be good at programming. I'm not complaining, because that superstition helped me. Like I said, my math degree did give recruiters an initial good impression of me. Other than that, I don't think it translates into much of a benefit when writing code. I have personally witnessed many mathematicians write the most atrocious code, myself included.

Also, if it really were about that kind of structured thinking, maybe just teaching chess to kids would be just as well.
Care to share some source?
bitcoin obv
Yes, that's the argument in the article: that the RDA is far too low.
I'm saying that it will be obvious which they are talking about from the context.

I called my mom on Google Go.
Probably not Golang, 99.9999999% of the time
>It’s like they have forgotten how bad things can get if you let political ideologies like communism run amok.

They haven't forgotten. They grew up in a world where the US was hegemon.
Huh? They are failing right now - their unsustainable bubble will burst within a year or two, to the horror of everybody. Their money is in so many places, everything will turn to shit.
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> Their claim here is they can on the fly determine how important different samples are, and make sure samples that yield better results are in the chance more often than those with less importance.
Isn't that the exact same idea as in active learning?
$16k lol wtf

bitcoin solved a problem..A few weeks ago I could not login to my paypal account due to verification BS, so I was able to pay instantly with Bitcoin. problem solved.
On the other hand, we can detect atoms, nucleons, quarks, and even, in so called empty space, vacuum fluctuations. Maybe it's more accurate to say nothing doesn't actually exist.
It can also be called grass reinforcement mesh or grass pavers. Another cool approach is doing pavers with grass joints.
I would love if they did that.

Developers always have the computers of the future on their desks. If Intel wants Phi to be part of that future, they'd better put them on developers' desks.
When the burn time is less than 10 minutes, you need to cover them up or have them play in the shade. The UV index for tomorrow is just shy of 14 and we are a month or two from the time of year when it’s highest, you would need medical treatment for a child who played in that and was uncovered all day.

Related: I found the old measure (burn time) much easier to use than the new UV index, and while having it standard across countries is good, it’s not straight forward to convert.

https://www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/online-services/uv-and-o...
I was wondering the same thing about GDAX/Coinbase. I've been seeing "partial" outages both on their portal and their API side. Partial outages are the worst, as they only leave 'some' of the participants unable to act.
I used to work for a media production company that was hired by various non-profits to pitch their "story" to local TV news departments (nationally).

We would create a Betacam tape of B-roll, have a written synopsis and other relevant details, and after cold-calling news editors (we had a book we purchased yearly with their contact info), we would FedEx them the package of content, and follow up w/ an additional call after delivery conformation.

It worked well. Although this was some time ago.
To play devil's advocate, young americans have also seen the worst of capitalism run amok in America, coupled with tax policies that are skewed towards age cohorts differently. I'm not saying things would be better under socialism, but people really need to understand that A) the current system has failed young people and B) it's on capitalism to either correct these failings or people will seek alternatives. This just boils down to basic human psychology, adapt or die.
What about:

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Yes. And E.g. Ayn Rand style capitalism and capitalism without proper regulation.
One public key contains 1.8B USD, but take a look at the address again:

3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmcMDDHYoqkyNVsFk9r

See how it starts with a 3? Most normal bitcoin addresses start with a 1. The 3 means that it's a pay to script hash address, which means that its likely a multisignature address.

Multisig addresses require multiple signatures to send funds. This could be two out of three possible signatures, seven out of seven possible signatures, fifty out of one hundred possible signatures, it all depends how it is configured.

In short though it kind of works like nuclear weapons where you need multiple keys help by different people to authenticate a transaction.
Thank you, I was looking for just that kind of perspective from someone who uses go and thinks they are getting something better. It's understandable of course that neither of languages are perfect.
Hard to make, not use. It is because it is. Maybe I should have said "It's not supposed to be easy"
How is this better than using rkt with an lkvm stage1[1], which also uses the work done by the Clear Containers team? It looks like Kata packages QEMU as well, which seems a bit overkill.

[1]https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/running-kvm-stage1.html
Most likely it was Tab Mix Plus. Nothing in Firefox lets you choose individual fonts for UI components. It's all or nothing: either content or whole UI.
few VPS scattered around the world, python and the API from your stock broker... initial setup very cheap + a lot of time to develop and test...
100% agree, I held out for so long before being forced to upgrade my Firefox because losing multi-row was like cutting off a leg. I don't know why there isn't a simple checkbox to make tabs create new rows, if I don't like the loss of space, I'll close tabs, but now I can't seen what tabs are open because of these dumb left-right arrows and no space! I miss Tab Mix Plus!
Yes! Remember, FORTRAN survives because mathematicians still use it...
Why are you making this about native vs non-native? You can write bad native apps with bad UIs that hog memory and CPU. If a company is happy shipping a bad non-native app they're not likely to do a good job of a native app either.
they forgot the one that pisses my wife off the most calorie burning. hehehe...
An article claiming bitcoin's a bubble? Wow, hadn't considered that before!

Just yesterday it came to light that the ECB was purchasing fraudulent bonds that are now worthless. The Bank of Japan is directly buying ETFs. The Federal Reserve increased the money supply to levels never seen before using QE, and has yet to reduce its balance sheet even slightly. Housing is more expensive than it's ever been. Stock markets are more expensive than they've ever been. Everyone knows the official rate of inflation is well below the real rate. Our savings accounts have effectively negatively interest rates. But bitcoin is the bubble.

Bitcoin is the only safe haven asset available for purchase right now. It's the only asset that doesn't require me to trust an institution or an individual. It can't be confiscated. It's rules are known.

I'll trust in Bitcoin, thanks.
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I had a vasectomy two years ago at the age of 29. I don’t know if I’m an anti-natalist, as I try not to wax philosophical about my personal choices and feelings. People are diverse. I am close friends with people with kids, and sometimes I go to their softball games. I’m happy to see the kids’ triumphs and sad to see them struggle, but these feelings must pale in comparison to the roller coaster a parent must feel.

Not to mention I have this Catcher in the Rye mentality of wishing childlike innocence was forever preserved. Which I know won’t happen. Then again I’m sad when I see adults with childlike naivety suffer because reality does not discriminate. I’ve also done my fair share of taking care of old people. They are usually not the wise happy people that I imagine comes with aging - they are lonely, impatient, anxious, stubborn - basically human but with declining faculties. I’ll always be haunted by the image of my grandmother wandering around in the dark, confused, holding a diaper in one hand, with wild hair and unsteady gait.

Watching people eat is also sad. Hunger... oh the humanity. The humanity of everything, really. Life is just suffering punctuated by the briefest moments of relief. I’m not depressed... I don’t think.
It's not false machismo. I'm stuck a lot. I just don't have any expectations that it's someone else's fault.
No, AZ does not use tree search similar to conventional chess engines. That's an actual surprise. Neural network is used for two things: evaluation, yes, but also much more importantly, search selectivity.

In AlphaGo Zero paper, they show that selectivity is so important that playing solely from selectivity (that is, ask neural network which move one should search first, and play that move without searching at all) results in professional level, see Figure 6b. Fan Hui level, not Lee Sedol level, but still.
All depends on what problem you are trying to solve.

IMO, the problem is "how do we allocate road so that high utility use gets precedent over low value use, without defining high/low value as 'rich/poor person wants to get from a to b'"

Expiring credits is an idea, as are a lot of options. Designed markets are a devil-in-the-detail endevours. A market is a good tool for this job, that's why economists and wonks like tolls. But, not every market needs to be the market. In this case, The Market is probably worse than the no market free-for-all.
Buying 4.16 bitcoins in 2015 for $240 a piece.
It feels like this question wants to be saying "what price did you buy bitcoin"? :-)
I find these types of articles massively deceiving, if there is a simple explanation for something, a complicated explanation isn't required, ie. the human psychology. Here is one reason why the drivers reaction makes sense, when previously people were disallowed to use the toll road it wasn't about money when you charge them $40 it is all of a sudden a question of money. Previously people were perhaps understanding of congestion problems and it's natural when you have so many cars on the roads that the government should disallow some and they understood that otherwise the traffic wouldn't move. Now when you make it about money, it's no longer arbitrarily decided who gets to ride in the toll road, it's about who can afford to ride on the toll road. (or to the extend that it was arbitrary before)
I read it differently - that is, even those living the best life by modern standards still suffer enormously. We age, we must deal with biological drives, we must deal with the loss of loved ones. The best we can do (since we didn't ask to be brought into existence) is to try to strive for a better world for those who are also alive and those who will inevitably be born in the future.
Nothing is different. I said back then it would hit $1M in 10 years, I will say the same now except perhaps now 2 years.

People are really underestimating what a shit storm Bitcoin and other crypto will cause in finance.
The other under-reported issue is that they expanded the window that these tolls are in place vs. the old HOV model. Lots of people used to drive in at 6AM before it was HOV, or at 9AM after it was over, and now there are heavy tolls during both those periods. So there are lots of people that were legally driving in for free and now cannot do so without leaving even earlier or later.
Slightly offtopic, but this is so funny:
(From today’s “money stuff” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-07/shale-sha...)

Happy Bitcoin 13,000 Day.

I mean, that was yesterday. A few hours after I sent out Money Stuff saying Happy Bitcoin 12,000 Day, which was also yesterday. At this rate we'll have Bitcoin 25,000 before my "Bitcoin 25,000 Before Dow 25,000" hats get here.

Happy Bitcoin 14,000 Day.

That was also yesterday.

Happy Bitcoin 15,000 Day.

That was this morning. See what I mean?

Happy Bitcoin 16,000 Day.

That will be this afternoon, probably.

Happy Bitcoin 17,000 Day.

Just in case, why not.

Still more bitcoin.

Bitcoin futures are set to start trading next week at CBOE Global Markets Inc.'s futures exchange, with CME Group Inc. following the week after that, but some people object:

The Futures Industry Association, whose members include Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc., detailed its concerns in a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday. The association said there should have been more discussion about margin levels, trading limits, stress tests and clearing before the contracts were given a green light.

For clearing members of futures exchanges, the worry is that some bitcoin futures trader will blow up, and that bitcoin is so volatile that the trader's margin won't be sufficient to cover its losses. That will leave the members of the exchanges on the hook for losses. This seems like a ... totally reasonable worry? If you collected 25 percent margin from someone who was short bitcoin on Monday, they would have blown through it by this morning. Also the standard fate of bitcoin exchanges seems to be to get hacked and lose their customers' money, so if you are a customer of a futures exchange I can see why you'd be skeptical of your futures exchange turning into a bitcoin exchange.

Meanwhile, here is a nice profile of Coinbase, a bitcoin exchange that hasn't been hacked, much. (Though: "In May, the company was criticized by a customer who could not reach anyone at the company after his account was hacked.") It "runs an exchange, called GDAX, tailored to larger investors," overseen by Adam White. "A year ago, his Wall Street outreach was difficult, but 'it’s all inbound now,' Mr. White said." Indeed.

Oh and another bitcoin thing was hacked:

NiceHash, the marketplace for cloud-based mining of cryptocurrencies, said hackers breached its systems and stole an unknown amount of bitcoin from its virtual wallet.

Some $60 million worth of bitcoins may have been affected. Elsewhere here's a guy who lost the password to his 40 bitcoins.
I guess it was quite a good investment to adopt my dog. But I think by now it cost me over $1000 so it does not qualify anymore.

This question is actually quite hard because so many things cost <=$1000, but it is hard to pick one that is the best.
I mean, it does. The "fairy tale" that one hears in high school doesn't, but we put aside fairy tales when we became adults.

If you are done with the "undergrad level" of Popper and Kuhn it is worth reading Imre Lakatos's work on philosophy of science. It contains a moment where one realizes that research programs live or die by this "impact factor" and that this living or dying is a key part of the overall methodology of science. The gist is that science is actually participating in a survival-of-the-fittest evolution with certain foundational ideas as the "genes" which "reproduce". So scientific ideas are actually good or bad in no small part due to their ability to create further scientific research along similar lines. A low impact-factor therefore directly says "along this particularly important-to-science axis, this journal sucks."