skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it is worth, I think you will probably learn something from trying Ruby, even if you wind up sticking with Python. The community and language design are just very different from Python's: MINSWAN v BDFL, many ways versus Pythonic PEP's, everything is an object versus some things are objects, etc.

All this with the caveats that: I think both languages have advantages and disadvantages and I think knowing more languages is better than knowing fewer or one.
> If quantum computers do in fact result in a couple of thousand orders of magnitude raise in the hashing rate... well then miners will use different hardware the difficulty of the network will adjust each 10 minutes as new hardware gets added, and after the change you'll just have a large army of quantum miners instead of ASIC miners.

If it's a couple of thousand orders of magnitude, the first person with a working quantum chip might entirely dominate the hashpower, long before the chip is available commercially. So you'd end up concentrating hashpower into a couple of BigCorps's hands. Like, if I went back in time to the beginning of BTC with an ASIC I'd probably completely dominate the baby blockchain and outcompete the entire network.
Having said that about focus, you need to keep your eye on the future as you suggest. I've known people who were probably effectively world experts in some company or computer architecture and, when those inevitably went away, they were never able to replicate their success in another way.
This begs the question: https://superuser.com/q/1278277/41259 how the heck do we disable this in the network stack?
I don't see how that's easier. There's `git checkout -b my-new-branch` which is even easier than the originally proposed solution. Followed by `git checkout master && git reset --hard @{u}` or, if you don't want to switch between branches, `git branch -f master master@{u}`.
The standard maximum rate is 2.9% + 30 cents. Looks like they're losing over $2 per transaction for doing business in cash, unless, they make us for this cough somehow.
> On November 25, 1998, during the dot com bubble, the stock price soared from $3 per share to $38.94 on November 27, 1998 and an intra-day high of $47.00 on November 30, 1998 after the company announced an updated website. Two weeks later, the share price was back down to $10. By 2000, the share price had returned to $3.[7][8] Those days included suspenseful times for day traders, such as when the stock moved up 6 points in 13 minutes.[7] During this time, insiders sold hundreds of thousands of shares.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books-A-Million
Also I’m afraid it will be hit harder than before this even begun, because now we know Bitcoin doesn’t scale.
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Yes, and it was extremely frustrating to use (I didn‘t get it to work at all), and it also doesn‘t cover things like testing against multiple servers.
Engineers generally vastly underestimate how much "design" affects purchasing decisions.
NERVA was actually prototyped in the 60s, right? Dirty, but something that was known to work.
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Listen to "The Daily", the NYTime podcast. They just had an episode titled "A Secret U.F.O. Program".

The reporter describes how she first came about the story. Apparently the guy running the program in the Pentagon felt that they had reached a critical mass of evidence and witnesses but the department wasn't being taking seriously and couldn't be talked about.
Two different setups I use regularly.

First is 2x4k monitors side by side. I still think I prefer this configuration. Two flat 4k monitors just works well with how I like to arrange things and code.

Second setup has a Samsung curved 34" monitor (with a little 24" 1920x1080 next to it). The 34" works well, but I find I need to split it into two, and often just use the flat 24" for the IDE and the larger monitor for reference/preview...

Windows positioning shortcut keys do the job. But it just feels a little awkward positioning apps on the curved monitor for some reason.
Things would be different if there were more women in positions of power. Participation and representation are everything.
The tax bill ironically appears to encourage outsourcing by any company big enough to do it by making the minimum corporate rate 10 percent (theoretically to encourage Apple to bring billions home) in certain circumstances and letting companies average their income/taxes over all offshore affiliates.
http://theweek.com/articles/743632/gop-tax-bills-biggest-boo...
What about this scenario:

Mining becomes even more centralized due to high cost.

Next, attackers (mean, naughty miners) simultaneously launch / initiate / pay for a DDOS attack on the others such that they can reach this 51% figure?
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China might be a good place to setup shop?
If that fast function is called enough to "add up", it should show up in the statistical profiler's samples. The likelihood of a function being sampled is influenced by the cumulative run time of all its calls, not the run time of an individual call.
This is not my area but I understand that material sciences see the same kind of potential for QCs - predicting how new alloys or ceramics will perform by accurately simulating atomic interactions.
If Java had default parameters and named parameters I think a ton of the need for Builders and Factories would go away.
Which GUI do you use?
I hear most perpetrators of sexual assault are men, shouldn’t your advice be more effective at prevention/avoidance if directed at sons instead?
Oh, I never even thought to look at that option. Any idea how sound quality compares to headphones like that vs. something like the pixel buds? Though, I'd feel more comfortable listening to music with bone-conductive headphones than the pixel buds.
It's in a browser. It's browser based.
Tips are just a way to trick people thinking items are less expensive than they really are. It's like service fees on your bills. Those should be included in the monthly price of the package, but since that's the price they get to advertise, they want it to appear as low as possible. It's like food prices on a menu. You have to pay an additional 20% fee over the listed prices.
What is an eliminationist ideology, and does it require an offensive to avoid it influencing your cultural values?
Good question, we of course need revenue to serve our customers and grow. The short answer is that brokerages can make money from the assets held in their accounts and from handling customer trades. And compared to legacy brokerages, being digital-first allows M1 to minimize costs and offer our investing service without commission fees.

Our founder and CEO goes into more detail about our sources of revenue in this blog post: https://blog.m1finance.com/m1-is-now-free/. (Look for the section "How We’ll Make Money".)
Care to add sources?
"IOTA uses hash-based signatures (https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/07/18/hashsig.html) instead of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Not only is hash-based signatures a lot faster than ECC, but it also greatly simplifies the overall protocol (signing and verification). What actually makes IOTA quantum-secure is the fact that we use Winternitz signatures. IOTA's ternary hash function is called Curl."
People keep saying this, it's wrong. We absolutely, 100%, will flyby this object, and likely do a rendezvous mission as well.

It may be going fast, but partly that's because it sped up a lot through the inner solar system, as it climbs out of the Sun's gravity well it will slow down a great deal. And the solar system is big. It won't be light-years away in a few decades, of course, it's not going nearly that fast, it'll take nearly two centuries to get 1000 AU from the Sun. So we have all of that time to go out and do a flyby mission. We could put one together today that would reach the asteroid within the next 30-40 years if we really wanted to (at a modest cost of a few billion dollars). If we went wild and spent tens of billions on a mission we could do a rendezvous mission in 20 years. Meanwhile, launch systems are getting better and cheaper so almost certainly we'll get to a point where a realistic 10-20 year cruise timeframe mission is not just feasible but affordable, and then we'll go take a look at it.
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Ask HN: Is buying a cryptocurrency a bet that the currency will be “legitimate”?
With everything happening in cryptocurrency right now, I find myself really, really, trying to see the value behind buying these crypto coins. This is simplified but I was hoping someone here could shed some more light on what the actual value of these coins are.

- The coins are bought with dollars (or other gov't backed currencies, for the sake of argument I will just use USD).

- USD yes are fiat, but at the end of the day they represent time, labor, & goods. This system came into place because back in the day it was very hard to bargain with non-comparable goods. For instance if a coffee farmer needs more cows, the only thing they could do before fiat currency is find a cow farmer who also needs coffee and make a trade. With fiat currency they can sell for dollars (which represent their goods).

- I buy 10$USD worth of bitcoin when bitcoin's price is 1$/coin. So I have 10 bitcoins. Then bitcoin's price goes up to 100$/coin and I now have $1000USD in bitcoin.

My real question is - where is this value coming from? Why is the price of the coin going up while the price of dollars is relatively stable? When investing in traditional securities - investors tie the stock price to the actual value of the company in hopes of dividends, or selling at a higher price later because the company's value grew (having more cash, assets, etc).

So right now crypto's price is high. Does this just mean people are willing to pay a higher premium for a coin because they think in the future it will be more powerful than USD (and will become the de facto standard)?
> use of twitter is not a necessity

This is arguable. Our country is changing massively, and because of the network effect[1], social media platforms condense to only a few winners, currently mostly Facebook and Twitter I believe. This oligopoly[2] means that a handful of sites basically run what is considered the internet for most people.

In America, we have a constitutional right to free speech. If in our country, most people speak solely on one of these sites, then why shouldn't our constitutional rights extend onto them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
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Sorry, my last sentence
> Otherwise, models can achieve very good generalization.

was probably unclear. When we talk about generalization, we typically have to assume a lack of distributional shift. Otherwise, if the "truly unseen data" really is drawn from a different distribution (say one where all cats are now called "dogs" and all dogs are now called "cats"), we can get arbitrarily poor performance.

As for the flat minima part, lemme pull up some papers from my notes.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04836 showed larger batch sizes lead to sharper minima.

> ... and as is well known, sharp minima lead to poorer generalization.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01530 provides a parametrization-invariant notion of "flatness" that counters Dinh et al's point in https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04933. I thought this paper looks pretty promising, although I haven't gone through the math.

>Although flatness of the loss function has been
linked to generalization [Hochreiter and Schmidhuber, 1997], existing definitions
of flatness are neither invariant to nodewise re-scalings of ReLU nets nor general
coordinate transformations [Dinh et al., 2017] of the parameter space, which calls
into question their utility for describing generalization

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.11008 is also a really promising paper on generalization that basically shows another way to view flatness from a Bayesian perspective (they also show the most impressive generalization bound I've seen yet).

And of course, the classic Schmidhuber paper on Flat Minima: http://www.bioinf.jku.at/publications/older/3304.pdf

I think it's clear from these papers that the "flat minima generalize well" argument is a common avenue of research with respect to generalization. Many of the generalization papers I've read recently are mostly related to different ways of calculating flatness, and pretty much all of them make reference and link their work to the 1st and 4th paper I linked above.
How about if someone made a GUI with a console at the bottom that showed the commands being executed along with results?
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Wasn't there a practical design using atomic bombs to propel a spacecraft? Alien artifact would certainly justify the budget and risk. Though if a country determined it was alien, they'd probably not share it until their craft was well on the way.
Gift cards? Coffee shops and such have low denomination ones.
Austin has plenty of poor people, and the white population is somewhat under 50 percent - 47 according to recent estimates. Hispanic population is about 36%. Keep in mind Austin is the core downtown city, and if you’re thinking of affluence and whiteness, you might be thinking of the suburbs.

It’s possible that economically disadvantaged nonwhite people maybe disproportionately represented among rape victims, also there exists a possibility that there is economic or racial bias in the processing of rape kits.
>and having read some of his writings I think I have a reasonably good understanding of what he is advocating for.

In the Dr Dobbs interview[1] that you pulled the quote from, Alan Kay is not talking about protocols for web resilience. Actually, there is no mention of "protocols" in that article at all.

Even outside of that particular article, AK doesn't talk much about "protocols" other than the protocol of "message passing" in Smalltalk which is a different meaning from "internet protocols".

Tim Berners-Lee is a figure that speaks of new protocols for decentralization, etc. That's not Alan Kay's angle. If you think AK is imploring the tech community for new internet protocols, you need to cite another AK source other than that Dr Dobbs interview.

>[Alan Kay] was talking about the lack of protocol-level solutions for resilience of the Web.

That's not what he's talking about. He's complaining that the "web" did not make it easy for people to do computing. One example in that interview was Wikipedia page on Logo programming language not being able to execute Logo programs.

Kay's criticism of the "web done by amateurs" looks to be the same train of thought about his ideal Dynabook enabling people to participate in computing rather than something like the Apple iPad where people just read news or watch videos.

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=240003442&sit...
>There are non sith that also deal in absolutes

That can't be true if "ONLY a sith deals in absolutes" is true.

I think there are only two possible outcomes

1. Obi is wrong - not only Sith deal in absolutes. From a story perspective, this demonstrates the Arrogance of the Jedi.

2. Obi is a Sith.
It's not possible to install Rockbox on newer Sansa Clip models.

They're a nice MP3 player. The Clip Jam is very cheap. It feels a bit cheap. They dropped the colour screen and the case feels a bit plasticy. There's some weirdness if you use a microSD card (playlists go weird, for example).
Probably the single best article I saw recently was this: http://www.offconvex.org/2017/12/08/generalization1/

I think that blog post references most of the relevant papers as well, but if not, check the sibling comments I've made.
These days, iN KOREA, it is crazy!!
Several days, it shows going down tread, but in las weekend it goes up and upper!
you guys, I want to ask you, how long does this situation go?
> or when the world is on fire and a push needs to happen now.

The unwanted reality we live in.
You can't even use the global media keys on Windows to play/pause/skip track when the normal plex isn't in focus. (Basically unusable as a music player).

All the non-iOS apps also feel slow and eat battery on modern hardware.

This app is a solution to all that for music. Cool. But why can't the regular app just be good?
Shane Killian debunked just about everything in Thunderf00t's series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx52A-v65Q8&list=PLZO1csBNKg...
I agree with your last sentence. Furthering that point, I'm inspired to get into something because I've seen someone be really good at it. I would think most people who want to learn guitar do so not because they've never played a guitar, but because they've listened to someone like Jimi Hendrix and immediately want to perform like that.
Even in case of bubble, the market seems to take a temporary hit and rise even stronger.
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> Putting about half of the US population in an adversarial position is not the most effective way to start a conversation that results in pro-Net-Neutrality sentiment.

If you're going to complain about conflated numbers, then half the population (50%) shouldn't be the number you cite, but instead 18% as 82% of all voters support NN [1] based on polling.

It's not a partisan issue except for the fact that the Republican appointed FCC members are pushing this through on a party-line vote.

At some point the Republican/GOP branding has/will become synonymous with corruption and graft.

[1] http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364528-poll-83-percent-...
They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.

These two statements are not contradictory, of course; the primary reason we have government is to avoid unpleasant surprises, whether they be crime, fraud, war, unemployment, sickness or natural disaster. If things go on as normal with tomorrow like today, government is working well enough - unless today is unendurable, in which case it's broken.
What about a personal site using Wordpress then repost on Medium for exposure?
Hmm.. which common music? I like really fast music (e.g. Coltrane, Charlie Parker) and really slow (Rachmaninov 2nd Symphony, Mahler Adagietto).
fyi, this was their previous attempt : https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/05/news-feed-fyi-new-updat...
Sure they can, static site generators can still include client-side javascript.
I would like to see all children get the message. I certainly raised my two adult sons exactly like that.

The problem with your theory is that it is incredibly disempowering for women. I see this over and over and over. Everyone wants to cure "rape culture" for just one half of the equation. I don't think that works.
I've been hearing talk about 1k people own >40% of BTC[1]. I think having that kind of market share gives you that kind of power, especially if you coordinate your moves (like the article suggests).

This article more seems like spammers. Same kind of thing that the stock spammers did with emails. There's a nice DefCon video about this [2]. Basically some people have a lot of the stock (or coin), get people to buy, and dump on them. I think the evidence that people have been doing this with the smaller stock exchanges show that it can be done with BTC. I think if you watch BTCs price long enough, you can even see these patterns.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitco...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytDamqTjPwg
I've had basic Aroma ones currently have a nice Korean one. I'd say the quality is vastly different between those.

The high quality Japanese or Korean ones will be pressure cooked and cooked in a way that allows it to stay warm in the cooker for days. Not a single grain of rice will be stuck/inedible. If you get the cheap rice cooker, it'll burn, cook unevenly, go bad if left overnight in warm mode, etc.

If you eat rice 2-3 times a week, get a Zojirushi or a Cuckoo.
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It is pretty dire when you have a system that incentivized throwing the book at those near the poverty line, so that private prisons could continue to grow.

It is crony capitalism, plain and simple.
I'd love to have a configuration option on Linux that elevates the penalty for evicting executable pages, or just makes them non-discardable. I think it would help a lot.
It’s hear hear.
I think music's appeal is related to the rythmns of heartbeats. Logic being you find comfort in being close to another human, an advantage to be in pairs. Therefore the brain is hardwired to prefer rythmns around that pace.

Just my theory though
I'd also be curious about the end results. And am posting here in case it doesn't make the front page (which is usually all I see)
Maintaining your own server might be hard because there's no incentive to make it easy for technophobes to do. If there were software that was dead easy to use, there'd still be roadblocks: NAT, $ for a domain, ISPs blocking port 80, etc.
Previously on HN, Quantum Computing Explained: https://www.clerro.com/guide/580/quantum-computing-explained
I need to build and run tests on macOS, so I‘d need to circumvent the core principle of Concourse (containerized builds). I really don‘t want to work against my CI system...
I adore seeing the stars, but I do not enjoy the night. Multi-week observatory shifts in grad school burned away a lot of my earlier warm feelings for all things nocturnal.
I kind of agree. Whether or not you disagree with their strategy of blocking foreign tech companies, it's lead to an explosion of major chinese tech companies.

Europe doesn't have a Google, Facebook, or Amazon, because the major US companies got there early enough to dominate the entire market. I wouldn't necessarily say that that's a good result for those countries.
> Of course, if you believe the value will increase at some future point you're most likely better off just buying the coin and hodling it :)

I think this is the key point. If it costs more in electricity than the current value it is cheaper and easier to just buy some.
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The sorts of discussions like that in the article often seem unrealistic to me, especially when discussing generics.

Let's say, for example, some brand name food item costs $1.00. The generic costs 0.75. Sure, I could save 0.25 if the generic is good enough, but let's say it's unacceptable, in the sense that after trying the generic I would rather forgo it than pay for it even if the brand name weren't available.

Then, in a sense, I've lost 0.75 in an attempt to save 0.25.

Soda might not be the best example, but what about other things, like laundry detergent?

Generic drugs also upset me as an example because there have been recurring problems with generics being diluted in dose due to lack of regulation in the producing countries (for example, https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/04/are-generic..., https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/wockhardt-u-s-pla...). In many cases, I can't even find a label for what country my over-the-counter generic drug was produced in, let alone any other details. So is it irrational for me to be willing to pay extra money for a drug sold by a company willing to put its reputation on the line, and furnish me with information about the drug's production history, etc.?

Yes, people can be stuck in their ways, but I think some of these examples aren't as irrational as the authors make them out to be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15862278
OP could not imagine drugs being more expensive, so I helped him picture it.

And also explained that the reason they are expensive today are mostly attributable to the State, which would be the Single Payer.
Personally I wouldn't recommend any type of headphones for biking unless you are on a super safe bike trail. I have been saved multiple times by hearing noises.