skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a simplistic view. Extend your argument one step further. "If this one human happened to die slightly differently and got us all closer to data nirvana then isn't that a nobler way to go?" Maybe? But it's definitely morally problematic.
There is so much volume and volatility in Bitcoin markets that a whale can sell insane amount of coins (e.g. 10k) in within days without much effect on price. Placing limit orders in front of the best ask and moving them in case the price goes down will do the trick. Bitfinex traded over 100k coins within last 24 hours. it's reasonable to assume that you can capture 1% of this volume on the daily basis using the limit orders. Selling 10k Bitcoins can be easily done within 10 days without pushing the price down. I think it's possible to do this within 1 day.
What's the difference between a government manipulating a currency and a cabal of wealthy individuals manipulating a currency? Or is your problem mainly that businesses have to accept dollars?
Imperialism is not capitalism, they are orthogonal concepts.

You're right, imperialism did cause problems, but the extreme poverty has been shrinking. And now we have the mechanisms for almost anybody to get out of it. I grew up very poor, as in barely enough money for basic food and new clothes once-twice a year. Now I'm in the top 3% of US earners (not counting Bitcoin).
Bitcoin Craze Propels Coinbase App to No. 1 in Apple's Store
Off the top of my head, maybe a maintained "ml-engine aligned" kubeflow setup, to the extent that's possible.

The use case I'm think of is an ml dev team building on kubeflow and proving a system. Then wanting to transfer it to a non-engineering team, yet wash their hands of any ongoing infrastructure ops responsibility.

Knowing that a "ml-engine aligned" kubeflow config would transfer cleanly (including associated bells and whistles) would make that a much more attractive option.

Caveat: I'll admit I'm not keeping up on what's in the managed offering, but I'm assuming there are a number of value-adds of the type that end users like (visualizations, etc).
And Java was designed for toasters. But enough people worked on it made it one of the most popular general purpose language of all times. A lot of folks do not have time to evaluate most appropriate language for a given task at hand and they would rather write code for their needs in a general purpose language and be done with it.
No central control assuming you ignore the mining pools.
The front end is well document, so you can trivially implement a client.
You didn't miss a thing. This is essentially a pay-for-play article promoting one of the many commercial object storage vendors.

Being in the business, it's a game to read NP's postings to determine how early in I can tell who paid for it. If you're looking for dispassionate analysis, that isn't the place.
Handling bugs at Doctolib
Admitting failure is extremely hard for any human, wether it is such cases or infrastructure projects that took decades of planning and discussion: no one wants to admit that they followed the wrong path.
> SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER

I can access it no problem with Chrome. The price seems to be 589$ per chip.

Google wrote an article some time ago about the their TPUs. There are a few charts at the end of the page:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/05/an-in-depth-l...

I would be quite interested in a comparison between Google's TPUs and this Sophon chip, but it seems it's quite new and they have barely started selling them, so we might have to wait.

> 25 ms/batch of 128 is 5120 images/second... Is that correct? Am I missing something?

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about this, so you will have to wait for someone experienced to chime in.
This is interesting but my understanding of blockchain is limited so:
Aren't all transactions 'encoded' in the blockchain?
If so why can't the coins be found?
If not, what does the blockchain "record"?
They’re probably in the wrong company. Are you suggesting there are isn’t an explosion of jobs and applications requiring advance math and machine learning or statistical inference? If so you are off the mark.
The yellow light provides a period when drivers know the light is going to go red soon, all else being equal this light should be set to stay on for just long enough for drivers in properly maintained cars, who drive at legal speeds, to see it and all either come to a stop or pass the intersection before the light turns red. Typically formulas care about the allowed speed of cars, the expected braking capability of a car that's allowed on the road, the gradient (down hill it's hard to stop quickly!) and other factors, plus the size of the junction (a huge junction can't change as quickly because it takes time to cross the junction).

That is, Sally is doing 40mph in a 40mph zone, she sees the light turn yellow, and she's very close to the junction so she just keeps going, everything is fine. Bob is doing 25mph in a 55mph zone, he's some distance from the lights, they turn yellow, Bob stops normally as the lights turn red.

With red light cameras providing revenue there is an incentive to cut that time too short. Now Sally finds the light turned red earlier and she got a ticket. So next time Sally won't make that mistake, as soon as the light goes yellow she slams on the anchors, and somebody goes straight in the back of her - there's a traffic accident even though we invented these lights to reduce accidents. Oops.

Now a _good_ government would resist the temptation. They would set the formula to reduce crashes. But money is very tempting. Shaving a second off the time, getting $1M of extra revenue and oops smashing up a thousand people's cars, that's a good deal so long as you aren't paying for all those car repairs...
We do use multi-factor authentication.

It is based off appliances hosted in Azure.
Totally depends on what problem your trying to solve, what tools your employer have setup, and what data science you know how to do. The field is still not very mature, but as the tools get easier to use and companies understand how they can solve problems using machine learning and data science, and data pipelines are thought of at the beginning of projects, it will be a lot easier to apply more sophisticated techniques.
> Blackstone came along with what it pitched as a better deal, but with an unusual provision: Hovnanian had to agree to do it in a way that would trigger credit-default swaps, which are essentially side bets on whether the builder meets all of its debt obligations. That would lead to quick gains for GSO because it had been buying short-dated insurance contracts.

If this is true, it should be illegal (and probably is). CDS is a derivative, and derivative traders are generally not permitted to manipulate the underliers of their products. It would be like buying stock on a particular expiry date to push a much larger, cash-settled digital option into the money. Expect a flurry of legal action if things go according to plan for GSO.
Here is my experience handling fraud in a very similar situation:

1) Checking the transactions manually only works if you have a very low transaction volume and you have to somehow delay the booking which is not always possible or desired

2) You can code rules like "asdf@" is likely fraud, or every email that doesnt contain a firstname (from a list of common firstnames) increases the fraud-score. But this rules list gets really long really fast and is almost always reactive (latest fraudster used a throw-away email, lets add a check for those).

3) You can use machine learning to convert inputs (name, email, amount, etc) to output (fraud score). That does work reasonably well and limits the amount of coding you have to so (see 2.)

4) The most important thing I learned: The type of fraudster who checks 100 cards with $5 transactions doesn't care (or maybe even notice) if 85% of those transactions/checks fail. He'll try again with the next batch and check the rest elsewhere. So you need to implement a system that bans the fraudster on the first try (or as soon as possible) and doesn't let him try again (unless he changes so many variables that it becomes to much work to outplay your system).

I found a way to do 4. and we haven't seen much fraud since then.
Even more fun if the focus happens to be on a terminal window...
A bill of attainder is an act of a legislature declaring a particular person guilty of a crime and prescribing criminal punishment; they aren't the same thing as this, which is (in effect of not in name) a private bill, which are well established as Constitutional.
Curious, what in your opinion is 'the right answer' in regards to parametric polymorphism?
It'll be interesting to see what happens when a few people own 90% of the bitcoin and everyone else just sort of shrugs and starts using a new cryptocurrency, instead.
As someone near graduation with a PhD in mathematics with research focusing on machine learning / image processing and beginning the job search, this didn't leave me feeling very optimistic. Is this a problem of not setting proper expectations for a role on the company's part or not fully understanding the expected duties of the position before hired on the data scientist's part?
> Monero takes this one step further by having an algorithm that is ASIC-resistant and that can be mined just as well on GPUs as on CPUs, which is probably the best you can get with regard of mining decentralization.

Frankly, it will be interesting to see Monero's distribution. Because I was there when a glut of Cryptonight coins were announced. The selling point was CPU mining was back.

Quite a lot of people abused the AWS free credits to get a leg up and mine tons of coins.

But the most interesting was the guy who worked on a CUDA implementation to the Monero's mining algorithm ie a GPU miner. For a long, long time this mining software remained private. I believe it was only after the BTC crash to 300 and hence, Monero's to lower $1 levels that this got released publicly.
Most self-made million/billionaires tend to get there by being cognizant of the cost and benefit of every monetary expenditure. This doesn't count how assets like a home (especially one used by the owner directly) count very little towards someone's actual liquidity.

For a non-profitable move that is probably not even tax deductible, $6,000 is not a trivial investment.
Talking to Léonie Watson about computer vision and blindness
Whales or sharks?
I don't like the closed culture and the prices they put up for their hardware are far beyond justified in my opinion.

Also, didn't they also had trouble recently?
The idea that everything bad people did is inherently bad is nonsense. The holocaust and slavery aren't the point of the discussion.
Larger (higher capacity) HBM2 stacks do not yet exist and the manufacturing process is pretty complicated/expensive. It's worth noting that all the stacks end up on the same piece of silicon as the GPU itself. Don't assume that they are holding back tech due to lack of competition.

650 GB/s is pretty impressive.
> Miss one payment and you're in default.

I mean this is just factually wrong. Sure you'll rack up fees, it gets expensive quick, and there's generally no good reason to do it, but you're not in default until you're in default - and missing 1 payment is not going to do that.
> But this time it's voluntarily

Gambling's rarely been mandatory. If you were going to recommend your folks to have a punt, wouldn't a casino be better? You know the odds then.
Why are scorned men not as big of a danger as a scorned women? A scorned man might kill you, might go on a killing spree, might shoot up a school (elementary or college).
I sort of agree, but at the same time the way incentives and work function in our society I think it's quite possible that something can both "require a ton of hard work" and be pretty inevitable, barring some huge societal change.
The CIA, FBI, DEA etc are not 'censors' either.

They are law enforcement.

Censorship of US citizens for the purposes of state propaganda is a whole other different thing than anything the CIA/FBI/DEA does. And FYI the CIA may be proactively involved involved in propaganda, like helping some Hollywood movies ... but they are not running around tell you not to say bad things about Trump on Facebook, is my point.
Mutual Funds (the greatest scam ever) - why back when I was young and stupid :-)
Traffic engineering is an area where people will die even when the work is compliant with standards and guidance. Some external scurtiny is exactly what the industry needs.
Market manipulation is a big risk here. Basically "wolf of wall st" style shenanigans, or the stuff that salomon brothers did in the mortgage bond market in the 1980s.

Essentially a few big investors who've cornered the market, acting in concert, can move the market essentially according to their own desire. I read yesterday that the order book for btc was $33 million (don't know what the daily volume is; could anyone enlighten me? Not an active bitcoin follower but have experience in markets). The top 1,000 BTC holders own about $100 Billion at current prices. Even a few of them could concertedly buy small amounts of BTC at rapidly increasing prices, then if that leads to a huge rally and increase in volume (like yesterday) they can sell into that volume and make a nice profit. Lots of other things like that they can do: https://www.girardgibbs.com/securities-fraud/stock/market-ma...

Not saying they do those things, but that is a real risk in unregulated, concentrated markets where there is no real way to quantify value

EDIT: montecarl pointed me to the gdax site, also https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/price/6m/USD?c=e&t=l shows price and vol data (im a noob) and it looks like volume is much higher, on the order of 100-150k BTC / day so over $1B USD volume at $17K / BTC.
Certainly, but most of us have limited choice about what investments to make -- same for any of the non-1000 that's participating in Bitcoin. It's not apples to 747s as far as their money goes.

Which means Bitcoin proponents should really save the store-of-value label for later on down the road when it looks and behaves more like a store-of-value.
One of the biggest issues I have with cryptocurrencies is how elitist it really is.

If your currency needs multiple 'Explain it like I'm 5' posts, it really isn't for the masses; it's for the world's technocrats.
Yeah, mid-to-senior dev jobs in Melbourne and Sydney are going for $150k+ right now.
It isn't illegal to circumvent the cabal by agreeing to use a different currency. The sole goal of currency is a common medium of exchange. If that common medium is being manipulated then the market will perceive that as damage and route around it.
>Moral codes have changed wildly over the years (and by place in any year). Slavery was “fine”, until it wasn’t. The death penalty is a thing in some places today, but seen as repugnant in other

Cultures have had varying definitions of all kinds of things, above and beyond morality. Energy, death, malaise, sun, blood, calx, gravity, atom, motion, heat, mind, vacuum, malaria. But we tend to say it makes more sense that those are real things, and they are not just the cultural beliefs about those things, or that the varying cultural beliefs prove that there is no underlying real thing.

There's a common and unfortunate conflation between (a) whatever societies happen to believe and (b) what morality actually is (if anything), in a normative sense. Sometimes it's referred to as the normative/descriptive divide. Saying "well gee, societies had different beliefs about right and wrong" doesn't necessarily establish anything about morality itself, it's just a descriptive approach to morality, which is one thing. It may just be that morality is normative, and our investigation of morality, our understanding of the natural world, and our societal willingness to face up to certain moral challenges (such as treating races equally or caring about animals) is something that changes over time, while morality stays the same.
I still miss voar.io (now offline, apparently)
Very small transaction outputs can't be used in practice because they're less than the required transaction fee.
" so we self censor."

I don't.

I mean - you'd have to literally indicate you wanted to cause harm to a government official to get in trouble with the US Feds - and it's not unreasonable they do come after you as that is rightly a crime.

But you can say almost anything you want against Trump or the US Government otherwise, and nobody will care.
Is there something wrong with the internet today?
I have clients unable to access my website, but all my monitors are ok.

Now I can't access a couple of websites myself.
How about people stop releasing this sh*t on twitter?
Agreed, it'd be easy if the melodies are already isolated. It'd be an interesting challenge to isolate them out of a combined track!
light generics? C++ has very powerful generics and has had them for a long time, going under the name 'template metaprogramming'.
Effective Java, 3rd edition is coming 28th of December!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-Java-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0134...
Without the mining aspect transactions couldn't happen on the blockchain, so it's pretty unrealistic to neglect it.
If the private keys corresponding to the coins are lost then the coins are, for all intents and purposes, lost. They can't be sold, moved around, etc.
Surprised that HN likes this article:)

I'll start by laying out my biases and stating that I'm not a big fan of most PE firms.

I think most people understand that CDS are a few things.

1) usually bespoke in that each one is different, ie these are contracts that you approach a bank to write for you and not fungible like a share. This means they are generally illiquid and usually don't pay out.

2) These used to be used, and still are, as insurance for bond holders.

3) as everyone how as seen or read the Big Short now knows, they started to be used by third parties to speculate on bankruptcies.

4) They pay out only when the agreed upon terms are triggered

Blackstone, the PE firm holding the CDS's, is trying to get an otherwise healthy firm to "default" on some of their debt so that Blackstone can get the CDS payout.

The problem is that the firm doesn't need to default so Blackstone is enticing them with better funding rates for their debt if they just do a "tiny bit of defaulting".

Like I said, I don't really have alot of respect for PE firms.

This is dirty. If this is allowed to happen then who in their right mind would ever again underwrite a CDS for a companies debt if some other company can so easily force a default event.

I know that 2008 probably soured the term CDS for the average person but they are a very important part of the credit market and risk management.

Just to be clear, the companies bonds are trading at or above par value, indicating that investors have confidence in the company’s ability to satisfy its debts as they come due.
It is generally considered that a foundation that distributes more than 7% will lose all their money in just a few years, while foundations that distribute less than that amount will exist "forever". You can calculate the exact amount, based on various market rates of returns.

That said, if you are in the situation of setting up a foundation (unlikely, you have to be rich) you should probably force it to spend down to zero in ~20 years. That way you can the best assurance that the foundation doesn't change focus to something you would oppose.
No, casinos have the edge, it's almost never mathematically sane to engage with a casino.

I considered what would happen if something like bitcoin would become a global internet currency, and any way I sliced it, the upside was too huge not to try.
I'm sure the cameras are integrated into the control system. I believe problem is with the timing of the yellow light. If I made a light yellow 0.5 seconds on a road where people are traveling 35 mph, it wouldn't be possible for cars to stop.
Bosch is a charity. It makes a lot of money. Check them out and see where it goes.
> The author is way off base in saying software engineering is about assembly rather than discovery.

Depends. The interview process that is the fad these days selects for assembly workers. Organizations using that process are doing so to find people who aren't curious about broadening their knowledge and experience, but to find people highly competent at repeatedly doing their CS curriculum over and over.

> On an unrelated note I don't really buy into the idea of data science as a distinct thing from computer science

How is it not distinct? Data science is closer to a physical engineering discipline than an applied math one. The tools of the trade might be enhanced by application of CS, but the two are quite distinct.
Hey guys, can we correct the title? It should be "Oregon punished man for Engineer claim, after criticizing their red-light cameras. He fought and won". The current title is very misleading.
Everything he says basically feeds into that point. I don't think it was really an article about how -ism word usage is changing.
Umm no. Not all lawyers. They do take time because they want to win. And sometimes they have to be sure as some cases can be complicated.
This can also happen to other things that are commonly seen as stores of value. For example, around 1300 Mansa Musa [1] gifted so much gold that he single-handedly crashed its price:

"But Musa's generous actions inadvertently devastated the economies of the regions through which he passed. In the cities of Cairo, Medina, and Mecca, the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade. Prices on goods and wares greatly inflated. To rectify the gold market, on his way back from Mecca, Musa borrowed all the gold he could carry from money-lenders in Cairo, at high interest. This is the only time recorded in history that one man directly controlled the price of gold in the Mediterranean."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali
>If that common medium is being manipulated then the market will perceive that as damage and route around it.

Isn't that basically the problem with bitcoin though? We can't perceive if it's being manipulated or not.

E: Actually that brings up another issue for me. Wouldn't that just be a run on the currency? So the last people to get out of manipu-coins are the ones stuck holding the bag?
Hey, love your book. I don't remember how far back I purchased it, but it was back in the days where it wasn't done and we were getting updates pushed via email.

Keep up the good work!
Of course it’s a way to raise revenue without using the ballot box.
I'm no libertarian, but wouldn't the fact that you can buy bitcoins with traditional fiat currency throw a wrench in this being a valid experiment?

Since anyone that received an "unfair advantage" with government-issued fiat can turn around and use it to get an unfair advantage in bitcoin as well?
Not going to comment on the legality of this but this isn't the first time BX has done this and nothing happened previously. See [0]. I actually don't necessarily have a problem with this as the underlying company theoretically should see a real benefit from this.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-12-05/blackston...
Hey man, if you're still interested

Just got the report for December 7th - 26k visitors. I'm pleased, but I expected more. Keep in mind this is 26 k total and this article got shared on social media a lot and was posted in about 10 different subreddits. One submission (the one that ended up on the front page) got 30k upvotes - which essentially means that more people upvote than read the actual article. Pretty weird.

Will be interesting to see tomorrow's report, assuming the article is still getting traffic from reddit, which it could be.
Could not reproduce that. For me its impossible to not have the password field focused. Hm?