skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I think I'd get used to the smell and the sight of animal flesh within a few weeks. But I guess the hard part, aside from the normal stresses and strains of low-paid work, would be wearing rubber gloves, plastic overalls, etc, in a humid environment.
> Is it even possible to have a stable priced crypto?

Stable with respect to what? Fiat? Which one?

In the limit you will have a cryptocurrency backed by a fiat currency (and I don't consider Tether to be one. Bitfinex will allow you to exchange $1 for 1 tether, but nobody will guarantee you can go the other direction).
People may see this comment and think it's being standoffish, but it's the truth. What OP wants is a system where you transfer traditional currency into digital money (which you're going to need to use a credit card/bank account at least once to do), and then use that without having to worry about using your card on multiple different websites. This is exactly what Apple Pay/Paypal is, minus the transaction fees. This is not the purpose of cryptocurrencies, nor will it ever be.
Segwit was implemented and lightning is being tested as we speak. If everyone used Segwit and certain miners weren’t playing games spamming the network to promote BCH there’d be no problem. There is solid development going on to improve Bitcoin. All the naysayers who don’t understand the technology and it’s true long term scaling limits are welcome to go to Bitcoin Cash. But BCH won’t scale in the long term to be usable as a currency for the 5 billion unbanked without cutting and pasting the enhancements that Bitcoin is building right now.
It's not anywhere near as simple as "replace heuristic with model". This paper is a good one to disabuse yourself of that notion:

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html

This is from the team at Google with the longest experience deploying machine learning (early 2000's, pre-deep learning).

(Contrary to popular belief, machine learning was basically unused in Google's search ranking until pretty recently.)
Why wouldn't you 3d print it?
We left an Airbnb unit mid-stay due to ongoing construction, no warm/hot water in the shower, and general filth. The host agreed to let us out of the reservation so long as we didn't leave too bad of a review. Because the existing reviews were all rosy ("can't wait to stay here again!"), we fully intended to leave an honest review so that future guests would be forewarned. Unfortunately, the Airbnb system wouldn't let us leave a review, even right after we left the unit.
If the bowels of the animal were separated from the rest of its body, it was eviscerated, by definition.
The crypto money supply is predetermined

No, it isn't. People just have trouble imagining non-crackpot cryptocurrency because they've never seen one.

For a stable price you'd need a crypto that adjusts mining difficulty in response to changes in the amount of demand (or something like that?)

Right, you can adjust the block reward so that the rate of issuance of money tracks the rate of change of demand.

However, the USD-to-Crypto price is something outside of the blockchain, so as far as my understanding goes you can't really use that as an input

There are some projects that use "oracles" to publish price information on the blockchain, but then you get into a bunch of complexity about electing oracles and taking the median price of multiple oracles.

I guess you could try to use transaction volume as an input but that seems like a bad metric because it's a) gameable and 2) does not necessarily correlate with external demand for the crypto currency.

Right. You can also use difficulty as a metric (based on the theory that higher price makes mining more profitable which causes more miners to mine which causes difficulty to increase). https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocur... Note that some of these techniques don't guarantee stable value, just less volatile value.
Would you get paid in Bitcoin knowing it could be worth 20% less (or more I guess) in real terms on any given day that your company happens to do payrole?
and you end up in the neighbourhood of Idris which is, I find, a pleasant experience when doing development
If you budget properly, then it is no problem. If you say you are unable to budget because you are poor then you are just deluding yourself.

I have been well off and poor and if you look at what you are spending you cash on very carefully, you can make changes that allow you to get ahead, even if only a small way.

I just watched a local lady buy 3 packs of fags (30 per pack) and she spent $90+ on those items. That's the equivalent of a week's food for the five of us at home (youngest is 16, eldest is 58).

The process above of buying from a farmer and getting a butcher to slaughter and pack is something we have done over the years. I have even slaughtered and butchered sheep myself, an interesting task but well worth the effort to learn. Best mutton I have ever had.
> "Please don't assume all meat comes from conditions described in this article."

Every time something like this comes to HN, someone always has to point out that not ALL meat comes from CAFO's.

For anyone interested, the top 4 beef producers account for over 80% of the production:

http://www.foodcircles.missouri.edu/07contable.pdf

So yea, you can go ahead and focus on how there is a sliver of meat consumed that didn't come from horrid conditions, but you'd be minimizing the true reality
I don't think entering the cc number is the source of pain but rather it is entering a permanent account number that is thereafter always subject to being stolen. Using digital cash would be a wonderful alternative.
I'm actually surprised at how much bitcoin cash pushing there is. I started thinking it was trolling and spam accounts, but im getting convinced of otherwise by now.

Its like a storm brewing.
Is this even possible ? The number of people that could get affected is staggering
The physics is really a distraction when it comes to understanding the origin of the uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle in physics is really due to the mathematics of whats called conjugate variables.

Consider a particle moving through space. You observe the point particle at some instantaneous time. Since you've only observed one instance in time, the frequency content of the path the particle carves out could be anything. That is to say, the observed position is consistent with all possible frequencies so you can't rule anything out yet. As you expand the time window of your observation, the set of possible corresponding frequencies shrinks. The longer you observe, the more you can hone in on the frequency of the particle. It's like how astronomers have to observe an asteroid over a long period of time to be certain of its trajectory.

But what if you asked where exactly the frequency f of the particle occurred? At what point was the frequency exactly f? The problem is you needed to observe the particle over a period of time to confidently determine the frequency f, and so you no longer can give a precise location of where f occurred. Frequency and position are conjugate variables: as you learn one more precisely, you necessarily lose precision in your knowledge of the other one.
I know. They really hate my sourced comments here. This is just an excuse. I have almost 500 upvotes on my account even though I mostly say things people don't want to hear (but with sources)--since I value the truth over politics. So it's not post quality, it's post content, that they find threatening. Check my post history. You'll find a variety of well-written, concise, logical and sourced comments.

It's okay though. If they're willing to kick me out, they're losing more value than I am. It really speaks more about them, than it does me, that they'd get their panties in a bunch over simple, sourced facts in a comment. But anyone who lives in SF, knows that people in SF don't like hearing data that violate their dogma. It's only about "science" until that science says something they don't like.

I'll put my faith in science, over dogma, any day. The truth doesn't change depending on whether people want to hear it.

Have a good new year!
Are these hospitals private or public? The experiences posted in this thread are very similar to my experiences in Thailand at private hospitals which are really nice world class facilities with mostly very good doctors. The public hospitals, however, tend to be way over subscribed and quite poor quality in service and facilities. I'm wondering if there is a private versus public hospital divide in Taiwan.
Concerning the wheel, it might be useful to look at ancient Mesoamerica. They had children's pull toys with wheels, and other things which were wheel-like, but no wheels used in transport.

The common explanation, for example at http://www.zoesaadia.com/real-smart-folks-but-no-wheel/ , is that wheels aren't very useful without draft animals, and without land which is conducive to road-building (vs, say, water transport).
It's a weakness of empiricism that scientists remain reluctant to consider the role of (unmeasurable) psychological states, such as pleasure or stress, in the context of a (measurable) physiological response, such as raised blood pressure.

My guess is that, together with stress, it is visceral pleasures (arising from our relationship to food, sex, drugs, alcohol, or other substances/habits) that are responsible for high blood pressure. Eating food with salt is just one of the ways it can be made more tasty, and thus more pleasurable, since salt heightens the response of our taste buds.
Tether is always 1 USD so it is stable in the sense that the value doesn't change by 20% in a day which is what OP wants I think?
The "obtained from cash ATM's" part of OP seemed to be specifically targeting a higher degree of anonymity to me, but it is indeed open for interpretation.

Personally Apple pay is the primary appeal of Apple's ecosystem for me. No other intermediary's incentives are aligned to prioritize the customer in the transaction ahead of data mining opportunities.
We do. That's exactly what we do. But honestly the volume of spam is massive already.
> Is it even possible to have a stable priced crypto?

It should be possible to have one with reasonably stable value compared to any identifiable external commodity or basket of commodities that is not itself highly volstile, though it would be more complex than existing crpytocurrencies, and may not be completely decentralized.

Stability, decentralization, and trustlessness together...well, you are pretty much asking can you replace an active central bank with an preset, runs-forever algorithm without a trusted source for real world economic data. I'd say probably not.
Death is a given. If we manage biological "immortality", then the heat death of the universe should come along eventually.
Well, swatting wouldn't be a thing if American police wasn't extremely unprofessional and ultra violent.
This game looks neat. I see you've got some custom aircraft/airline support on the Steam workshop. Do you have any plans for greater mod/plugin support?
It sounds like a useful technique, but I'm saying that what you're claiming is a far cry from what the paper claims. They're describing a fruitful research direction and outlining how you might get around certain problems (evaluating models is slow, retraining on inserts, etc.)

Also, predicting power usage is a different problem than scheduling. It's not "managing Borg" by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not saying that's impossible, but it's not what was claimed.

Also, what did Deep Blue lead to? I'm not saying it wasn't impressive, but it didn't generalize AFAIK. You are making a huge leap and claiming that a technique that isn't even deployed generalizes.

What did Watson lead to?

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607965/a-reality-check-fo...

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/09/18/ibm-watson-not-li...

https://www.statnews.com/2017/09/05/watson-ibm-cancer/
I'm not, it's ALL trolling and bot accounts.
Vizio P65-E1. It has a Chromecast built into it as well.

https://www.vizio.com/smartcast
1. Start shipping my projects.
2. Cut down on binge watching and reading.
3. Finally start writing the blog i have procrastinating about for a year.
I have a similar set up with a Z-wave clamp style current meter[0]. This meter is calibrated to 120v. I use NUT to grab the line voltage off the UPS and adjust the reported current with actual voltage to get power. It's good enough for the girls I go out with

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Aeon-Labs-AEDSB09104ZWUS-Aeotec-Monit...
nope, otherwise all major exchanges and processors wouldn't be switching to it for good
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As far as Google goes, the easiest place to get better end-user latency/performance (2x-3x) is ... fixing the JavaScript.

I'm being totally serious. Backends are generally fast, and the backend engineers are performance-minded.

Front end engineers are not as cognizant of performance (somewhat necessarily, since arguably they have a harder problem to solve). Back in the mid-2000's, Gmail/Maps/Reader days Google had a lot of great JS talent, but it seems to have ceded some of that ground to Facebook and Microsoft.

If you have heard Steve Souders speak, he always mentions that he was a backend guy. Until he actually measured latency, and realized that the bottleneck is the front end. That was at Yahoo, but it's very much true for Google too.

http://stevesouders.com/bio.php

I would like to see a machine learning system rewrite JavaScript code to perform better and make UI more usable. I believe that's beyond the state of the art now, but it's probably not out of the question in the near future.

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As far as scheduling that was just one example of an important systems problem that hasn't been solved with machine learning. Not saying it can't be, of course. Just that this is a research direction and not a deployed system.

It's also important to note that there are plenty of other feedback-based/data-driven algorithms for resource management that are not neural nets. If neural nets work, then some simpler technique probably works too.
Has someone knowledgeable gone through this compilation? Is this resource truly valuable?
It's expensive for the very early stages. Sometimes it also messes with validation.

The biggest problems are so big that customers are willing to pay for an ugly, hacky interface because it's better than what they have.

If the selling point is that something is nicer looking than the competition, it's possible that it's the wrong problem to solve.

UX design can pay off, but usually UX kicks in around the stage where the users need a tutorial. In the very early stages, the features are often too crude and lacking to benefit from UX.
"Candid Camera" did this long ago. They'd simply prepared a tape, with generic responses in it with gaps of silence. Then the salesman would grow increasingly frustrated with it, which of course was the source of the hilarity.
I have a modification to many eyes that makes it relevant, which is many eyes make bugs shallow when the code is simple enough. I think over-complexity is at the heart of the issue here, and the path forward in the future will be in reducing complexity of codebases and increasing readability.

The comparison I like to use, though not completely fair, is that the linux kernel is now at what... 14mil+ loc, while minix is at more like 14k loc. As we have seen with the intel ME debacle... minix is production ready. This is also why I still think a microkernel is going to be the future.

GNU+HURD and half-life 3 release on the same day I think though.
Ignore nifty distractions and work on the important things
I have stopped looking at bitcoin as a currency and have started looking at it as a stock or bond without any backing collateral or assets. The only particular properties are that it trades in a special way (in fractional quantities and round the clock) and that the number of shares is known in advance.

Otherwise it has the same volatility as a stock. It can gain or lose half its value in a few hours. Just like a stock the way to take volatility out of it is to diversify.

The volatility has nothing to do in my opinion with the lack of a central authority distributing it. It has to do with heavy speculation of this particular stock. Central banks can only correct for long term price evolutions, not for short term fluctuations.
There is much better hardware out there. The Ubertooth devices can pick up BLE, and can also plug into basically any antenna you want. It's been a while since I played with it, but a few years ago my ubertooth was grabbing LAPs without difficulty. It's not a dirt-cheap device (150$ all in) but is open and available from a variety of sources.

https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/wiki/Capturin...
Both. The best hospital is a public one and tons of smaller or local hospitals run by both private (usually non-profits) or public. I think the smaller public one do suffer from resource shortage but fair service and quality are still expected and available. (but i live mostly in the city, I do imagine remote area would have some problems)
Wait? You mean you get runtime errors? That's well...good in a way but as you say dangerous on old code.

To get the true benefits of typing you should also run a static type analyzer.
Personally I think it is even absurd that someone needs to point this out in a video! As a kid in South America I used to walk 80% of the time barefoot or on sandals. It is clear that in such situation any faster movement needs to be done toe first. So, fighting, dancing, running, would be done toe first in such cultures. On the other hand, heel-first is more energy efficient, so you do that when walking slowly barefoot. It was modern shoes that allowed people to do everything heel-first.
Also interesting to see previous mentions on HN

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=curta%20calculator&sort=byDate...

such as "Old Calculator Web Museum" | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821248
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It’s disturbing because there’s really nothing good technically to support it and it’s highly centralized. If you believe in the ideas behind Bitcoin and decentralized crypto currencies in general you would in theory be very opposed to Bitcoin Cash. And if you’re not so concerned about tenants of decentralization then you’d be assessing currencies more like businesses or startups: look at the development team, the management, etc. and in that case there are much better alternatives to BCH. It’s very bizarre and sad for the damage it’s doing, really seemingly just to enrich a few.
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> I'd think passive data collection would be more interesting (for nefarious purposes), considering that BTLE is widely used for sensors and in particular for sensors that record very personal data like heart rate.

What nefarious things can you do with knowledge of someone's heart rate though?
Let’s assume that you know that the price of the bitcoin will increase during the holiday season due to many online transactions. Won’t people start to collect bitcoin before the holiday season? In turn it will make price increase earlier. It seems to me that can be a stabilizing factor.
Note that the US does not have a single definition of murder; there are loose common guidelines, but each jurisdiction within the U.S. has its own, slightly different, definition of each form of murder. The specific statutes matter a lot in actual cases even if they get ignored in general discussion, as do the actual charges filed. The fact that another form of murder exists that could have been supported based on the trial evidence will not save a conviction on appeal if the appellate court feels the evidence cannot reasonably support a conviction for the specific form of murder actually charged.
The main thing they need to do is drill 200 ft below surface into bedrock.

But will they? The builders of the Millennium Tower sure didn't.
LOL! Best use of chatbots yet!
Surely from a decentralization point of view almost nothing would beat iota.
Who feeds the current exchange rate? Wouldn't that require trust from a central authority to determine?
Typical for HN, the article got hidden. It's well known YC alumni have some additional HN mod permissions and Docker is YC S10 (Summer 2010 batch of YCombinator).
Spoofing HR and power telemetry for opposing running/cycling/triathlon teams. I'd send it slightly low, say 3-5bpm, so the target overexerts themselves.
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why do civilians have to make those tradeoffs and not police?
Coinbase makes money out of bicoin, I tought this site is against taking open source work for granted, also there are other exchanges that implemented segwit.
So backend-to-frontend latency?

Or are there also plenty server-to-server scenarios?
According to http://openbudget.seattle.gov/#!/year/default

2013: 4.32Billion

2014: 4.72Billion

2015: 5.14Billion

2016: 5:41Billion

2017: 5.71Billion

Tax revenue is increasing enormously.

> Your second link is just a big "data dump" and doesn't point me to the relevant facts, so I'll just share what I saw out of it: tax revenue is growing, even though tax rates aren't being increased. So, amongst other factors, this is likely due to population growth. This actually makes the opposite point of what you want to make.

My point is that increasing taxes is not the way to solve poverty. Increasing tax rates is a proxy to leevying taxes, its not meaning per se. Its not that if you tax 40% you have poverty and if you tax 41% you have equality. What matters is how much money is taking and how much is given from top top bottom.

But lets say we want to talk only in percentages. Its not about the legal increase of rates, its about the effective rate. Seattle gathers most of its income with property taxes, which, even with the tax rules unknown to me, have to have been increasing with the increase of prices of land and properties, I'm confident. To the very least, it shows in the revenue.

> ou provided no evidence for other points I raised, and the evidence you did provide were for mostly for questions I did not ask. In my first post, I clarified that I want data that shows cause and effect you claim:

increases in tax rates (not revenue!) => increases in city spending => increases in homelessness

I did not say that increasing tax rates increases homelessness. I said increasing taxes does not necessarily decrease homelessness. SF and Seattle are examples of increased revenue (and effective rates, considering income and prop taxes respectively) and increasing homelessness.

So to the one that says that a steeper progressive taxation will reduce poverty, I shall answer nay.
It's been done, but you run into problems immediately. For one the tolerances on 3D printing are not as tight as you'd like for a device like a Curta, which is why the example I'm aware of printed a replica at a much larger scale. Additionally, 3D printed plastics are typically not very strong, and they change shape over time. This means that the usable lifetime of a 3D printed Curta is typically not very high.