skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks great! I’ve been interested in playing with a voice assistant but prefer not to give my data to amazon. Will definitely be giving this a try.
DeepMind’s new project aims to prevent hospital deaths
You're probably right. I just heard that Stripe is using BCH and not BTC.
Possible business opportunity here?

I think $10 for a windows/mac/linux desktop app, $5 for a android/Ios version. (Maybe get all versions for $20)

You drop in an S3 or Azure storage key, it lists the files, create containers, lets you upload/download to whatever device you are on at the time.

Not necessarily a dropbox killer since you'd have to have a cloud storage account and no how to use it, but it would definitely serve a certain niche.
If it's proscribed, then you probably shouldn't be doing it. :)
Oh, I was merely commenting on the use of the unqualified "state machines" as referring only to finite state machines. Wikipedia indeed claims this is the default meaning (i.e., finite unless stated otherwise), but I am not familiar with it being the default, and, in any event, don't think it should be, as that would be confusing.
It's been around for a long time and nobody is using it as a currency yet. Not a lot of confidence of anyone using it as one in the future.
You can see the whole history at https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-confirmationtim...
With ASD, social ineptitude doesn't go away when anxiety is sorted out. Autistic people usually have it the other way round: it's their ineptitude that inevitably causes anxiety due to repeated failures.
Capitalism approximates meritocracy, but democracy certainly does not.
> Final question -- do large mining operations network their miners so that they don't overlap their hashes.

There is no need to do it -- if each miner has a source of true randomness, then it's enough that each miner randoms large number (how large, depends on the number of miners, see the birthday paradox), and slap it on to "salt" their block. If the number space is large enough, it is unlikely that two different miners will get the same salt.
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Hi Eilene, interesting questions, but I don't have anything to share except for a few questions of my own.

Have you done any of these drugs listed in the responses?

Would you ever try any of them and why/ not?

What is your understanding and general ideas on things like addiction, the war on drugs and the typical taboo impression of these substances and culture?

Thanks.
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I was recently locked out of my gmail account despite getting my password correct at a semi crucial time. This was despite not having set up 2FA. I am trying to use my cell phone less but if I can't use my email without it that might become an issue. Are there any alternative email services that don't require you to have an cell phone number?
What kind of food do you eat on a "clean" low carb ketogenic diet?
Golang laws of reflection
While monoids are explicitly identified in some functional languages, they don't have to be. Monoids just exist whenever the axioms are satisfied.

A monoid is a set, and an operation for combining elements from the set, that satisfy a few properties.

Closed: For every combination of elements, the result of combination is in the set.

Identity: There is an element of the set that when combined with any other element, results in that same other element.

Associative: For any elements a,b,c a+(b+c) = (a+b)+c

Examples are helpful here. I'll list a few as (set,operation,identity)

(Integers,+,0)
(Integers,*,1)
(Strings,&,"")
(Lists,&,[])
(functions t->t, function composition, identity function)
(Bool,and,True)
(Bool,or,False)
(Bags of candy and the empty bag, dumping bag a into bag b, the empty bag)
Can you outline the specifics of my life and what you know about me?
It really makes you realize that 8GB (or bigger!) games these days are simply not really trying procedural generation at all.

Even most mobile games at something like 50MB are a huge waste of space!
So must be some other incompatibility between the two.
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This is for educational purposes. Thanks for the tip on seeing how much time is spent on different stack frames. Your response has helped most definitely. However, we want to take a deeper dive and be able to access nested async functions. We would like be able to specifically identify each function, and the time spent to execute each function, whether it be async or a nested async function. This would help for debugging purposes to be able to see which function is taking a while to process. Do you find this to be a feasible idea?
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I get what you are saying and I feel the same way. But can't we at least toss some ideas around and see what comes of it? After all, for those in the US, all it takes from doing okay to bad situation is just one illness, hospital bills can screw someone's life faster than anything else. These things can happen to anyone.
I don't think it's as cut and dry as you describe. With the MSB-first approach, sure the "current" bits are at the end you don't want, so you need a shift to move them into the low bits - but this (logical) shift does double duty since it zeros all the other higher bits which you usually need to do before using it as well.

With the LSB-first approach, where the current bits are already the low end, you usually can't use them directly (e.g., to do arithmetic on them, or use them in an address calculation) since you need to mask off the higher bits[1] - how do you do that? You can use two shifts: << then >>, or generate a mask and AND it, or ...? If the number of bits read amount is a compile-time constant it's probably as simple as a single AND, but the non-constant case seems a bit worse for LSB-first.

You say that the current bits just naturally fall off the end after shifting in the LSB-first case, but the same is true in the MSB-first case: they fall off the left side after a left shift, instead of off the right side after a right shift.

[1] Yes, there are exceptions such as if you want to use say exactly 8 bits and your hardware has some efficient way to refer to the bottom 8 bits of a register (see: x86) or if having garbage in the high bits doesn't matter for your subsequent operations (or perhaps you can amortize the zeroing over several bit reads: e.g,. you read a bunch of 7-bit fields, add them, then zero the high bits).
I'm curious about something.

Now we have something called a "memtransistor". We also have something called a "memristor".

But invariably in these discussions, there's another device that exists that almost never seems to get a mention. It's called a "memistor":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memistor

It was first developed in 1960, and used for a couple of related hardware neural network architectures - ADALINE and MADALINE.

What is also interesting about this device, is that it can be relatively easily built by a hobbyist, as shown by:

http://www-isl.stanford.edu/~widrow/papers/t1960anadaptive.p...

Strangely, though - the memistor is hardly ever mentioned; it does have some downsides (mainly difficulty to miniaturize), so maybe that's it? Maybe somebody here can play with it...

Interestingly, on a side note - it's possible to homebrew a memristor as well:

http://sparkbangbuzz.com/memristor/memristor.htm
> ... I grew up in a bad urban area of a Midwestern city ...

I recall one trip, going through the Amtrak section of Penn Station in NYC. There were at least four kinds of armed folk wandering around: 1) National Guard with AR15s; 2) NYC police with AR15s; 3) NYC K9 teams; and 4) Amtrack police. But at least no shotguns :)
You're more likely to achieve the American dream if you live in Denmark
I wish Intel would make their compiler free, or work harder on integrating their optimizations into free compilers. They can't be making much money off it, and it just feels counterproductive to charge customers extra to get the best performance from their own hardware.
Infrared? No. It uses HDMI-CEC for power commands, so your TV has to support that (most do). Volume control and seeking is done directly through the Chromecast.
Oh yeah, I'm a google drive user and I agree, google drive's apps are so clunky and slow
You're the author of the linkedin post. Why are you asking us what it stands for?
This is of course not surprising - in the long run all difficulties (for similarly hashed coins) should trend towards equalizing profitability lest they create an arbitrage opportunity. The driving factor in the grandparent's case was the short-term spike in BCH after it was listed on Coinbase.
I've come across benchmarks claiming a 7x speedup if you build Tensorflow from source. So you basically don't want to install using a binary wheel.
It's not just about modifying the data, but also about anyone on your network or between you and the end-host being able to determine that you visited that site, and what pages you visited, and when.

The common refrain is to think about repressive governments and what they can (and do) do with this information, but even here in the States think about your ISPs selling your browsing history to advertisers. Or think about ISPs being required to report to the US Government whenever you visit some informative but http-only page about terrorism / chemistry that happens to also be used in explosives / infosec topics / etc. Consider being put on a watchlist simply for having viewed StackOverflow questions relating to XSS or SQLi vulnerabilities.

If you determine the word "insecure" to mean that security or privacy expectations held by the average user are being violated, then all HTTP-only pages are insecure -- not because you may be viewing modified information or because you may be submitting sensitive information, but because the fact that you visited that page while alone is something that the average user likely suspects is secret and/or private, but isn't. To put it bluntly: would you browse an HTTP-only porn site? I wouldn't.
> Does this mean that the second block from a random point in time is, on average, 20 minutes away?

No, under the assumptions in this article the next block is on average 10 minutes away.

The paradox is that at any random point in time the previous block will also have been, on average, 10 minutes ago. Meaning that if you pick a random point in time and wait for the next block then on average you'll wait for 10 minutes, but the block will have taken 20 minutes in total to mine. Despite the fact that blocks are only supposed to take 10 minutes on average.
It's a little clunky though, the UI parts are not so graceful visually or performance wise.
The company made $100M/Year in revenue. Unfortunately I think the founders felt they where in over their heads or got bored and where convinced to take on a new CEO. I met him, he was clearly not a good choice in my view. I have no idea how he was selected. He brought in people from his old company. It was downhill from there.
It's no secret using Little Snitch (or an equivalent network monitor) - it's interesting to see iCloud services connecting to AWS etc. No real surprising considering Spotify etc all do the same, but one would imagine Apple could run their own data infrastructure by now...
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For Mac, Transmit app works pretty well for me. Their transmit iOS app was good also but sadly discontinued.
962 pages. It'll be a while I guess.
Even with a salt you can still tell if a password is reused. You just have to use the same salt.
> But for defending yourself against major players? Absolutely

The point is that you have no chance to defend yourself. Can an indy developer afford a legal defense of the scale required to "defeat" a major player? If they can will it even be worth their time and energy?
Who determines the 'real' value of an asset, and how?
I don't even think the US would go to war with China over an invasion of Japan.
I hate Taibbi’s style. He is a descriptive writer, but after the 3rd or 4th argument you have about one of his articles you realize that it lacks the single most important thing: it’s not revealing. Two different people can read the same Taibbi article and disagree on what he meant.

At the end of the day description without clarity is a bad thing.
Yes I agree. This eventually made me quit and start doing startups. I never wanted to work for people like that again.
Well, they started sitting at tables with people of the opposite sex at least. By that measurement at least, I presumed so.
Hey! I'm the creator of xstate: https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate - a pure, functional, declarative implementation of statecharts in TypeScript. It has zero dependencies, is frameworkless, and fast (O(n) state and transition look-up time for most cases).

I have some important updates to announce at JSConf Iceland, including the ability to translate to/from SCXML, and an improved visualizer.

Let me know what you think!
You can self-select yourself away from them. Most people probably don't grow out of that by high school, but then most people aren't worth your time anyway
They could move to the city and work retail. Even if that gets them a higher minimum wage, they would still be worse off due to the cost of living. They would also be in an unfamiliar environment without their friends, adding stress and reducing safety.

It was obvious 25 years ago that Detroit had no economic base, at least relative to the population. Lots of people are still there.
Ha! I was just thinking about this ‘HN collective consciousness’ the other day. Not sure if I’m just more aware of it now or if it is actually occurring more frequently.
It would be a shift, not an end. The world is essentially dividing itself up into the three regions described in 1984, to an almost eerie extent. The US will maintain its own power base through increased control over North and South America.
Market correction does :)
To add another datapoint, I first made this observation as a cyclist. Delivery truck drivers are notorious for blocking bike lanes. I spoke with people at the regional offices of FedEx, UPS, and Amazon Logistics. I recall that UPS and Amazon Logistics said their drivers are not supposed to block the bike lanes. (I can't remember what FedEx said.)

I started talking to the drivers. Often the drivers would park in the bike lane when there was a legal parking spot 50 feet away, and this made no sense to me. The impression I got after speaking to a dozen or so was that seconds matter, and they'd rather risk getting a ticket and save 5 seconds than park legally.

It doesn't help that the delivery companies consider these tickets a cost of doing business. As the saying/article states, "a fine is a price". So, basically, the company explicitly says they don't like bad practice X while also implicitly saying they're okay with bad practice X by paying for it.
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Yet another piece of evidence for why we should implement Land Value Taxation.
The notion that verbose == easy-to-read is a myth that needs to die
https://picscout.com/
The timing of block arrivals also greatly affects the guarantees against double spending, so this paradox may have some security implications.

Accepting transactions blindly after 5 confirmations/blocks throws away the information of the amount of time it takes to generate those blocks

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/040
When I was in school I noticed I was off and completely not up to other people's magic sauce - whatever they did that I wasn't able to compete with. As for school it always left me a bit dizzy by cramming in all the subjects and leaving out all the cool details at a pace that just blurred everything for me.

I only got to know fun with people in various subcultures, and the more off people around me were, by looks or by spirits, the less I needed to worry about fitting in and learned to simply enjoy myself.

Until I realized what the actual problem was. Most people tend to make life hard for themselves by needing to fit in and pretending and aspiring. It's okay. Let go and drop your misery and do whatever the hell you happen to think is best.

If you want to build a UFO and take over the world, please go do it. Autism is a terrible name for whatever slight - or not so slight - imbalance of mental traits, and seeing the shit that regular people mutter you're probably better than that anyway - because you wouldn't believe what an autist's mental hygiene is like.
I think there is an opportunity for the amazon / BH / JPM JV to use its scale, visibility and "outsider" status to create a standard that is simple and easy to understand by consumers, and actively market that standard in a way that medicare, startups or industry coalitions have not been able to

most quality standards are not even well known or standardized within the healthcare industry, and there are so many competing interests that it is hard for providers, payers, other stakeholders to align on a standard, useful and enforceable definition of quality. the JV is already insanely visible / high profile without anyone knowing what it does; if they create a quality rating system it will certainly get more attention than any other one created to date

also, amazon / bh / jpm in theory is better aligned with society in terms of what they want out of healthcare: 1) lower cost and 2) customer satisfaction. that group cares about making its employees happy, whereas other stakeholders dont have the same direct accountability to employees / patients: payers are only accountable to patients through the employers they serve, and providers are in theory accountable to patients but in reality more influenced by the health system that owns them or the payer that pays them
Yes, what you said -- you gave me two options, I gave you an answer.

Not sure why you thought I am sitting here waiting to "debate" you. This is just my opinion. Please don't take an abstract opinion so personally.
The recruitment process is not the place to address economic inequality.
> That's it, if your doctor recommends to do this operation, then if it's not covered by your insurance this is what you'll pay for the procedure followed by a standard per-day inpatient fee for however you're required to stay during recovery. It's up to the hospital how to split the amount among all the involved specialists labor, equipment, drugs and supplies required.

But this exactly the same in USA too. I got shoulder surgery in USA. Doctors office took my insurance information and called my insurance provider and told me how much my insurance covered and how much I am going to pay for it. I paid exactly that amount out of pocket post surgery.
Thanks for the reply!

Now as to my request... Any particular essay or other resource about infinite state machines you'd care to suggest?
Warning alarms have been ringing since the start of the last US election, warnings won't be enough to stop it from happening.
In the Netherlands (and probably other countries too) this effect is used the other way around - there is a large tax on savings, from 1.6% to 5% depending on the assets, that actually incentivizes moving cash to more speculative investments.

Regarding futures, I was under the impression that's how it works - if a contract expires on your hand, you have to take delivery. There are a few funny stories around of that happening accidentally to paper traders.
Continuation Passing Style in JS
It absolutely does. This survey doesn't aim to answer, "what is the best language", it aims to understand how Go should improve and to gauge whether Go is improving. Specifically, comparing annual trends for the "prefers Go over other languages" question can help inform how Go is improving relative to its peers. Similar insights can be derived from annual trends in other questions' answers.
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Inheritance considered harmful. Go got this right.
Fast Forward..

or..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FF
Thanks! I have some awesome updates to announce very soon!
My view was cultivated by the evidence of the experiments. The experiments exhibited certain outcomes. The conclusions by those scientists did not match the results they obtained. For me, that was the start of questioning the model in the first place.

In relation to consigning both views to the realm of religious discussion, I have found that proponents of both sides tend to dogma. I especially find that evolutionists tend to the ad hominem mode very quickly. When this occurs, I tend to the position that that person is incapable of holding a sensible discussion about the subject and is relying solely on "authority".

When the proponents of a particular theory or model will not get involved in reasoning discussions and simply wave away the question raise then yes they are in some sort of cartoon theory of reality. This applies across the board to all discussions.

I don't have a problem with natural selection nor do I have a problem with transfer of traits. What I have a problem with is the model of evolution (or its variants). Those who are proponents of the theory and model do a lot of hand-waving that does not match the evidence at hand.

In terms of active research, if you look at anyone who demonstrates odd data or finding that oppose the general evolutionary theory, they are treated as pariahs and infidels. This is a characteristic of religious thinking and does not bode well for any science.
> i guess i just don't see as much explanatory power in that one variable as you seem to see.

I respect your skepticism, but at least I have an explanation. You point out problems but no solutions.

Immigration policy if not the entire answer is at least very plausibly a big part of the answer. Relatively open borders means that your nation draws upon the entire population of the world to attract the best and the brightest.
I've only played around with Neo4j, but it looks like Neo4j 3.0 could handle your node and edge count (although not earlier versions).

Your app likely would have been easier to write with python/Neo4j than python/SQLite due to Neo4j's query language (incidentally, Neo4j also prefers to use bidirectional BFS for shortest path, and executing the search is a very simple query similar to an SQL query). Neo4j would possibly perform better as well (I'm not sure about that, given SQLite is pretty optimized for reads).

However, as the neighboring comment states, Neo4j is quite resource-intensive. It wouldn't work on any kind of micro instance, I'm pretty sure.
So what if you did away with "is-a" and used "has-a" instead? Add "Weapons Skill" objects, including those which represent incompetence.
I would still trust a PhD in any field over some commercialized "artist". At least he went through the rigorous process of obtaining that degree. It changes people for the good, in my opinion.
Go from the very beginning has irritated me, for these reasons and more. There is already a lot of Rust love around here, but I would recommend giving it a chance over Go.
Well yeah, in practice, we can say an asset's value is what the buyer and seller agreed upon for the price, but I'm asking about valuing it while it's being held for taxation purposes. This is easy for stocks, etc, which are homogenous units that have other sales going on all the time, but for a house, for example? Comparisons are hard in practice! No house I've bought/sold has come in at the government's valuation.
I really hope scientists figure out how to resurrect this species! https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/thylacine-genome...
That's a really cool concept. Write a medium article about it.
You know that Trump is planning the same with his red vs. blue states. We all know he's got revenge planned for California.
and composite utility. Ie location, size, amenities, etc. A home near a good school will always have a higher value. Aka hedonic regression and valuation.