skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am surrounded by books I hardly ever read, because I can get instant access to information without moving, thanks to my screen. But there are problems: 1) my screen also gives me instant access to an amazing vastness of distractions, and 2) the quality of information in the books around me is often much higher than the quality of information I can get instantly. But because of 1), I don't appreciate 2).

I think it would be interesting to experience a screenless office. Obviously I would think more deeply about things. Some of that thought would be "wasted," in the sense that I would be working things out I could simply look up on Stack Overflow. But I think there is a cognitive difference between working something out yourself and copying someone else's answer. In the former case, it feels like you are sort of exercising your own capacity to think, and in the latter case you can remain somewhat disengaged. The former is like walking a path, the latter is like watching a video of someone else walking it.

While paper is a renewable resource, this project is more of a thought experiment. Are we happy with the way we have become dependent on screens for computing? Every technology brings some tradeoffs—are we happy with the tradeoffs we are implicitly accepting? If not, what are we willing accept in return for change?
In this particular context, maybe, but in general - who cares if you can't explain all the values in the neural network, when it is demonstrately safer than a human driver.
Same holds true for machine code: Anyone can run their C trough minifiers or compile to machine code right now. Machine code donesn't move needle of obfuscation much at all. The binary format can be turned into textual asm representation directly.

Currently, difference in performance between asm.js and WebAsm is about 5%. It doesn't looks like performance gain or portability are main reasons to select WebAsm over JS. IMHO (I'm developer myself), main reason is better obfuscation of the code.
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Subsidies are justifiable as long as there is a need to counter-balance existing subsidization of the gasoline car ecosystem. In other words, a subsidy that one should be able to do without in a vacuum is still needed in an environment where extraction, transport, refining, etc. of fossil fuel is all more or less subsidized.
The cookie law makes perfect sense: most uses of cookies don't require any notification, only "invisible" tracking cookies need that.
Thats the whole points of kosher salt. That makes it great for canning, but it isn't recommended for your daily use.

Similarly, people going for trendy sea salt are likely to be missing the recommended iodine.
https://signal.org/blog/standalone-signal-desktop/ :-)
Cant determine whether this is a PR piece or actually sound “investment advice”
Isn't there something about you can't sue for damages incurred during the commission of a felony? Or is that just TV cop shows.
> Citron would not be pounding table if not appropriate,” he wrote. “Thank you for the 70 percent profit.”

So Bitcoin is up several 1000%s on the year and he is beating his chest from a 70% profit on the short side?
> It is not Javascript per se, but the so-called "modern" browser that creates problems for so many users.

I think that it's both-and, not either-or. JavaScript itself is a terrible, horrible, no-good language; the modern browser environment is also a terrible, horrible, no-good invasion of privacy and destruction of security.

I do not believe that there is any purpose for which JavaScript is a suitable language (absent considerations of popularity, e.g. as on the web browser), although I could be wrong and am open to counterexamples.
Speaking as a manual transmission fan I agree fully with your assessment about current automatics. My BMW 328d xDrive ships with an 8-speed automatic transmission that shifts at least as well as I can myself under normal road conditions. It really changes the equation for manual vs. automatic.
the CNIL brief:
https://www.cnil.fr/en/facebook-sanctioned-several-breaches-...
Yeah, I tried that, but couldn't find a backend that would work seamlessly. And besides, it still can't do the transcoding/mobile app stuff Plex can.

I love the customisability of Kodi but there's something to be said for a front-to-back, opinionated solution. It works a lot better (...even though my original complaint is that Plex can be flaky...)
My understand is in general in the United States it's not enough of an issue to require you to buy iodized salt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/well/eat/should-we-be-buy...
Sorry, IANAL.

My guess is that there are probably some legal protections in that situation, but not enough to shield you from criminal charges or lawsuits. But I don't really know.
Tracking won't accomplish much, they run transactions through mixers/tumblers, and you quickly lose track.

Here's the money from the NiceHash hack two weeks ago (or "hack") getting moved out, in plain sight:

https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/1EnJHhq8Jq8vDuZA5a...

You can kinda see what's happening (how it's being laundered) but you can't pin it on a given entity or idividual, unless they make a mistake.
No, you're awesome.

Looks like we can probably do at least one blog post a month, we'll discuss it internally.
This should be the law everywhere. The US, on the other hand, believes it is OK to provide ALL your personal information to big companies, see the debacle of Equifax that exposed data from most Americans to hackers throughout the world.
OT, but there's another really interesting, related problem at the intersection of mathematics and politics, which is apportionment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap...). The US House of Representatives has a certain number of seats (currently 435) and, based on the results of the census, those seats are assigned to the 50 states according to their populations. But the proportions don't always divide evenly, and you can't give a state 7.35 representative seats, so you need a method for determining the fairest division of representatives. And it turns out there is no optimal solution in the general case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_paradox).

I point out this problem because it is one of the few times you will find Supreme Court cases and writings by the Founders on what algorithm to use. A bill changing the apportionment algorithm was subject to the very first presidential veto. The first proposed amendment to the Constitution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am...) was on the subject of apportionment. When else will you find the highest levels of government debating the merits of algorithms and mathematics?
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Yep, doesn't scale great to huge repos, sadly.

I hadn't thought about the prev/next preview missing hotkeys, but you're right. I realized what I do is go into preview with space, leave preview with space, and then use the arrow keys to select the next commit I'm interested in. So in effect, "space, down, space" is hotkey for next commit.

Bummer about the remote freeze thing. I think the dev is reasonably responsive to bug reports.

I've got a list of things myself I think could be better, but I've been too lazy to attempt any of them. But I do try to proselytize in the hopes it'll pick up a bigger community. :-)
>You cannot seriously just increase a number in a computer somewhere or print a few notes and expect the economy or living standard to suddenly improve.

You sure can. Mild inflation is useful on the macro scale (even though I'm a bit of a skeptic when it comes to a lot of macroeconomics). It increases aggregate demand which increases production, which improves the economy. A simple example is real-estate. There's inflation in the that market which is why it attracts investments, which increases demand with the developers, who then hire more people to build houses, etc etc.

Further more, on a currency level, devaluing your currency makes your exports cheaper. If I was exporting my product for $2 which gave me 10 Franks, and now I get 20 Franks because of my currency being devalued, that's awesome as long as the devaluation happens slower than the inflation.

Anyway, these are well established, and well understood economic concepts. Certainly, there is more nuance to them.
That seems unlikely. Pumpkins were as rare as potatoes, chocolate, and chili peppers in the Roman Empire.
did you look at the already existing playing MTG AIs: https://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/List_of_MTG_Engines

I thought about writing my own MTG engine for a while and I believe the key is in modeling the game state (and the valid/possible transitions/rules - which one could argue that are still part of the game state).

I believe exhaustively trying out all decks is not going to fly and deckbuilding should be centered around synergies + looking at what currently works (top decks).

I would personally settle on an AI bot that plays perfectly that I could feed decks to test.
Well... read the reactions... It a cross platform electron app, works really well. I agree, it is a must have imo as well.
In the EU you would need the explicit permission of the user to share their data with the new parent company.

Which isn't a huge issue since most users will accept any data privacy declaration.
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The foundational problem of PPP, is contained in that it attempts to do something remarkable and then doesn't actually do it at all.

Is it a really great idea to have an accurate comparison of the standard of living and economic capabilities (both have a high correlation to non-PPP GDP), on a relative basis, between nations? Yes! Ten times over, yes. Do the annually published PPP numbers actually do anything like that? No, not even close. PPP is a nice idea, that's all it is unless you want to expend extraordinary sums of money and labor to be on the ground, with extremely objective and well trained experts doing the comparisons in an extremely scientific manner (rather than a clown at the IMF throwing darts based on hamburger prices).

What's a better measure? This is where the laziness of common PPP numbers comes into play. The better measure is to get into the mud and get really dirty, in volumes of accurate data, tracking, observation, experience. In reality we don't even have mediocre access to accurate, detailed economic data for the majority of the 195 nations. On that single fact, PPP collapses as it is.

How accurate is the economic data that we have for eg Brazil (207 million people), and how intricate can we get while maintaining that accuracy? In this case, Brazil is reasonably representative of the global median. We have low quality vague guesses at best. Below Brazil, it just gets that much worse.

It's extremeley difficult and expensive to do a nation to nation comparison which is then adjusted subjectively to measure relative condition. So many things would inherently come into play that can't be easily measured. It would require immense on the ground effort and measurement, on a constant basis, along with ideally at least semi-accurate wider economic figures from the national/regional/local government structures inside a given nation (only a few dozen nations have anything like that).
A quick google turns up the doctrine of 'unclean hands' but not sure what that it.
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RIP Flash but long live everything it allowed us to create and everything it inspired.
Some people already reject iodized salt because of the taste. Most of the recipes that call for "Kosher salt" do so because it is uniodized.

People get away with iodizing salt because the recommended dose is so small, so it can be almost undetectable. If you started adding iron and zinc to salt, it would start tasting like a multivitamin.
Per European Privacy Law, you only own the data for the specific use-cases that you asked it for in your terms of use / privacy policy. I agreed to that when signing up. If you change that in the future, you have to ask for my consent again. If I deny, then you cannot use my data for your new use-case.
"Miscellaneous security updates and bugfixes" is not useful information.
I have a huge extended family 20+ kids my generation and while we aren't all close and kids will beat each other up sometimes there's no bullying. Blood is blood.
Children of Time was one of my favorites this year as well.
You can do of the above. Indeed, you personally did some of the above! Thanks! But many just came in and posted about it being wasteful and impractical, apparently unaware that the source material had already readily admitted as much about itself. To me, those comments don't add much to the conversation.
My advice would be Xmpp with OMEMO encryption. On mobile, you can get the Conversations App for Android via Fdroid (no google play!), for the iPhone there is Chatsecure and on the Desktop you can use Gajim.

The advantage over Signal would be that 1.) you don't have to share your telephone number and 2.) you don't rely on a single service provider/accounts are decentralized (there are various services for free and paid accounts and you could also host your own server)

e: Dear stranger, I'd be very interested in an explanation for your downvote. thanks!
Does anyone know of tools I can use to convert simple .swf animations to html + .js?

I did a thorough research and found Swiffy (discontinued by google) and Shumway (discontinued by mozilla). All the other tools seem to require original source code to be available, which we don't have... (Context: educational animations for early childhood, e.g., cool numeracy animations with sounds and colors for kids to learn to do math. There is some great content, but would have to be abandoned since Flash is no longer supported.)
Correct. It is very similar in Slovenia and it is enforced.
E-ink would actually be a pretty neat practical version of this kind of stuff. You get the relatively static display geared towards focus, without all the waste of printing out paper. I've felt like it's a really under-utilized technology. I know it's used in some displays for advertisements and information, but more research into it could bear a lot of fruit in low-energy-consuming electronics that don't use constant input. I'd love to see more software geared towards its use (and to be honest this thread is kind of inspiring me to go off and develop something) and more personal devices that use it. Especially when we're talking about environmentally conscious design, I don't think you're gonna get a more low-energy display than that. Hell, even the paper printing probably uses more energy.
Assume PR. The investor has already locked this position and by others doing so, the spread will become tighter and he will profit.
In that case, thanks for the correction. I suppose I made my original comment with a lot of assumptions that may be less true than I would have thought.
This is a scam and a stupid one too. Each exchange creates a new wallet for you when you sign up. When you buying Bitcoins they go to your wallet and you can verify the transaction on blockchain.info. Remember that the blockchain is public!

An exchange who works like a normal eWallet, so your money are stored in their database only, is seriously suspicious. I understand there are people who will fall for these scams, but there are scammed people everywhere in the world.

Also, a serious bitcoin trader/buyer should always have the bulk of his Bitcoins on a personal wallet not on an exchange.
He's not "on the short side". If you read the article, he's talking about an arbitrage opportunity, which if executed properly, should not be net long nor net short.
The 64s are occasionally available, the 56s, no shot. Glad I got 7 close to MSRP when I did. There are actually more power efficient alternatives that hash better per dollar assuming that the price of a Vega is $600+, which it easily is. Just requires some heavy lifting.
Indeed, Signal is nice, a bit lagging in features with respect to Telegram for example, and there are no Group admins which can lead to annoying situations (someone gets a new number, you keep getting error messages until the owner removes himself.) But it's minimal, fast and you have end-to-end encryption with no one storing you phone book (afaik). Self erasing messages can also be handy. I must admit I use that mainly to communicate to myself... for password or wallet public keys etc (desktop app to mobile and vice versa).

I have also noticed that even phone calls to the other side of the world are crystal clear, really nice.
It is, thanks.
I think 4 hours is on the long end, at least from my usage. For our car 20 miles of highway travel(most taxing for EV) is about 1 hour of charging.

With off-peak rates and people having different schedules(I'm home at 4pm for instance) I don't see why everyone would be hammering the grid at 5pm.
This is actually why I am so concerned with (as in: working towards) the elimination of all jobs. "But what will people do?" I am often asked, as if the worth of someone is determined by their job. They can write bad poetry or watch TV, but I suspect and hope that a lot of the time will be spent with others. Humans are social animals.
Meh, is this getting picked up by every news outlet?

What important news is getting buried? ;)
I recently bought a 2017 BMW i3 REx edition and love it. Considering you can buy a used i3 in Denver for 20k or less it's by far the best deal in EV's right now.

The only downside to the pre-2017 models is the range on pure battery is something like 60m; the 2017 edition roughly doubled that to 111m on a charge.

So far I have not need the range extender and have run it on electric only the past 2.5 months.

Also, it's exceedingly quick off the line - the fast BMW ever made 0-30 which is mostly when I need that capability. Also fun to see the look of shock on Raptor drivers faces when I zip by them in the blink of an eye.
"Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco. I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home." ~Sam Altman 12/14/2017

China is systematizing, really appifying, inequality and privilege. The public in the US is starting to push back on that same privilege. To me, Sam's quote, this article, and Erin Griffith's other recent piece[0] all make sense together in a way that really concerns me.

[0]https://www.wired.com/story/the-other-tech-bubble/
No problem, thanks for being open minded. It won't last forever... probably. However, this is a lot different than BTC mining due to memory hardness.
Why shouldn't it be valid? As a European accessing US servers I also have to comply to US anti-hacking laws. The only limit is enforceability.
Then Blackberry should get started on providing individualized downloadable .bar files for users who have purchased software from them.

Either that, or get ready to provide a lot of refunds.
K-anonymity provides very little protection, if any. A few brief points:

1. I've never seen a formal definition of security that k-anon supposedly satisfies. While I personally really like formal guarantees, maybe one might argue this wouldn't be so bad absent concrete problems with the definition. Which leads us to...

2. K-anon doesn't compose. The JOIN of 2 databases, each k anonymized, can be 1-anonymous (i.e., no anonymity), no matter what k is.

3. The distinction between quasi-identifiers and sensitive attributes (central to the whole framework) is more than meaningless: is misleading. Every sensitive attributes is a quasi-identifier given the right auxiliary datasets. Using k anon essentially requires one to determine a priori which additional datasets will be used when attacking the k anonymized dataset.

4. My understanding of modified versions (diversity, closeness, etc) is less developed, but I believe they suffer similar weaknesses. The weaknesses are obscured by the additional definitional complexity.

(Edit: typos and autocorrect)
Citron's entire business is shorting investments and then trying to cause a panic with negative PR to move the market in their favor. It is shocking that what they do is legal.

This doesn't mean they are wrong here, but I wouldn't describe them as a trusted source either.
For sure. And one notable exception to this is Sweden (sort of). While they are in ERMII - and are obligated to join as soon as they meet the criteria - they are intentionally avoiding meeting the criteria as a means of staying out of the eurozone.
We desperately need to get away from the hyper-partisan, two party system. An Either-Or system was not what the framers had in mind and is damaging. While not the most popular position, I ALWAYS vote for the 3rd party candidate with reasonable policies for the sake of our country.
Just because it's PR doesn't make it wrong.

Yes, he profits if you do what he says. But... so do you!
PR but it's no more PR than any other pro-bitcoin article that's been on the front page.
I think the parent comment was referencing "wash trades", where you trade between your own accounts to create an illusion of active trading (or movement up or down - whatever your objective may be).

Currently this is very easy to do. Such trades are local to the exchange, so they don't register on the blockchain. If you execute them as "maker" (limit) orders, there aren't any fees either. So you can fake significant market activity for free.
For reasonable cost you can get 22.5% panels. A Camry is 193 inch x 72 inch or ~9 square meters. However, you don't get to tilt the panels and need to deal with shade, but can add cells to the sides which helps though at lower efficiency. Still ~6 hours of full sun equivalent x 9 * 0.225 ~= 12 kwh for a fairly normal shape.

Tesla Model 3 gets 310 miles on 75kwh so call it 4 miles per kwh that's 40-50 ish miles per day if you can stay in the sun.

Current records for solar panels well over 40%, so a fully solar powered car may actually be possible even if stupid expensive.

PS: Those solar challange cars are getting impressive. http://solarteameindhoven.itility.nl/ is a 4 seater doing 60+mph though far from street legal.
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It is much more practical to fly to pretty much any destination in Europe, or to drive their by car, than it is to take the train - often it is cheaper too.

However the trains still run, so you can absolutely do it.
No, he's beating his chest because he's making a 70% profit and he's covered so can't take a loss.
I imagine that they will have to invest in things that will keep people there longer.

For instance at the moment in the UK many supermarkets are putting mini stores in petrol stations.

However with electric charging taking longer, I can imagine that McDonalds might start buying up petrol stations.
Writing in general began as accounting practices. Put your grain in the common granary, get some token (pebbles) for each measure you put in. Redeem them later. Then they started keeping the tokens in a box. Then they wrapped the tokens in clay envelopes marked with your family symbol. But they had to keep breaking them open to count them, then re-wrapping them, so they started putting hash marks on the outside of the envelope. Then they finally realized they didn't need to put anything in the clay, just the hash marks. Voila, writing!
30k physical servers. 512GB to 1TB ram each.
If you go to one of the referenced sites: http://www.vegasworld.com. It asks you to enable flash first then will fall back to the html5 site. I wonder why that fallback is configured.
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No big deal. Just get an affirmative checkoff.