skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But social-media platforms don’t have to be organized around shareability. Instagram, for instance, doesn’t allow links, except a single one in each user’s profile. This dampens self-promotion and slows down the spread of information from the rest of the internet on the platform. It doesn’t have native reposting tools, either. And it is, by pretty much all accounts, a nicer place to spend time online.

While it may have that going for it, wasn't Instagram recently considered the worst social media app for mental health? https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/health/instagram-worst-social...

I'm not convinced that dampening self-promotion and discouraging reposting are sufficient conditions for considering one platform to be better than the other.
The Darwinian nature of international violent struggle selects against ‘souls’.
Yes. You can only buy this if you can show income over 200k USD for the past 2-3 years (or meet other criteria which are less common for people on HN).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp
> How would you feel if you could not have reviewed your father's files?

This is subjective. My dad has zero assets, and oodles of debt.

People are trying to use economics as a way to avoid uncertainty, it seems.

It's like hoarders that store decades of Readers Digest. "Everything has a potential value!" fingers tips rapidly tapping against each other "Yes it's so obvious! This Beanie Baby collection is mine!"

The reality is, things only have economic value if you can sell them. And they only have personal value if the people in question give a shit.

There's no law of physics here.
not that it's needed, but JSONschema has this kind of crazy part where it lets you do multipleOf for floating point numbers. Of course 2.7 is not a multiple of 0.3 in IEEE-64-bit FP.
Despite being a coder, I almost desire tech work to become replaced by machines at some point, with the only options of retraining to be prohibitively hard and leaving us in the dreadful position of these workers, just so I can watch people with attitudes like this get it handed to them.

The attitudes we have towards the unskilled, low-skilled, or those who are being replaced and made redundant by the systems we develop is sickening.

Describing someone spending extensive amounts of time and money retraining and having to abandon a career they've done for decades as "pivoting". Will you provide for their family in the years it takes them to be proficient at a skill that they can use to replace their income and support themselves? Or are we just all snidely sitting here with our tech know-how preaching to those who grew up in a different time, or with different opportunities, or who couldn't have ever predicted the scale to which their livelihoods would become obsolete?

"Hurts us a bit". Don't even speak like you're in the same boat as these people.

Don't get me wrong, progress will happen, but we need to make it socially aware and compassionate progress, not tough luck you didn't pick a the right career and now your life is fucked progress.
There are many people ("traditional" hedge fund managers) outside of the crypto world that want "exposure" without having to figure out which ones to pick.

This seems like a perfect product for them.

But from what I understand.. If $100 in invested into the index fund, $67 of bitcoin is bought, $27 of Ethereum, $7 of Bitcoin Cash, and $4 of Litecoin.

Bitcoin - 62%
Ethereum - 27%
Bitcoin Cash - 7%
Litecoin - 4%

Doesn't that make it so that the market favors incumbents?
Did you go through yc?

I've gone through techstars and I worry the new yc format will be more if the same.
Well, presumably that’s why we have a social safety net.
With a 0% maker and <=0.25% taker fee on GDAX [0], I'd be surprised if you ever came close to paying 2% of your total holdings in fees over the course of a year.

[0] - https://www.gdax.com/fees/BTC-USD
This is interesting too. A less detailed class of records, but older.

http://www.medievalandtudorships.org/database/
The lack of core maintenance isn't meaningless (it's true someone else could step in, but it's not clear they will in any substantial way.)

More importantly, the fact that major libraries are dropping Python 2 support is not meaningless. (Again, I suppose, it's possible that people could fork IPython, NumPy, Django, etc., from the last Py 2 supporting version and extend support, but that seems even less likely than the core language getting solid support by way of a community fork.)
You can still buy crypto through decentralized exchanges. Different investor types prefer different avenues. This is just one of the many that will be available in the future.
I love websites I can only escape on my mobile by pressing the back button multiple times in rapid succession...
The public stuff gets mirrored by the Internet Archive, so it will hang around after I stop paying for hosting, even if a bunch of URLs break. If it disappears from the world, so be it. I would honestly prefer that my social media profiles disappear entirely, but I'm fine if they just become stale and forgotten.

The private stuff like bank accounts should be hackable for someone with access to my computer. That's not particularly pleasant -- like digging through a dead man's pockets -- but the important parts will be worth the trouble.
I like those things too, except for the crying baby and teens that won't put their bright cell phones away.

those are the things that keep me out of theaters. it was happening often enough to be an issue. (larger city)
So give them the support they need to retrain. We're creating so much value with these automated systems - who is the beneficiary? Surely the compassionate thing would be to use some of this resource to help those that have been trodden on by progress/
The upside of crypto currency is the amount of agency it currently gives to the holder. The downside of crypto currency is that as personal agency increases the protections from making bad decisions usually decreases. Ulterior motives aside, of which there are a few, the historical reasons that Joe Average is blocked from certain types of investment is because he was making enough bad decisions to warrant aid. Whether or not it's right to impose restrictions on Jack Everybody to protect Joe Average depends largely on your political outlook.
Practical Go benchmarks
Because JSON's spec defines a "number" as an arbitrary-precision floating point number, no limit on how many digits can be before or after the decimal or on what positive or negative integers you can put after the "e". Despite the name "JavaScript Object Notation," it does not inherit JavaScript's traditional interpretation that a "number" is an IEEE 754 double.

(JSON also does not permit infinities or NaN, which JavaScript does permit.)

http://json.org/
Is that not already digitized and shared with family?
$8 per tx seems like a very high fee for cryptocurrency transactions.
The index they track reabalances annually [1].

[1] https://am.coinbase.com/documents/cbi-methodology.pdf 6.10
The latency is the insurmountable problem. The bandwidth could be immense with modern storage tech.
Google Maps was basically pieced together from smaller companies they acquired. From Wikipedia:

Google Earth was originally developed by Keyhole, Inc., a Mountain View-based company founded in 2001. Keyhole, after being spun off from Intrinsic Graphics, received funding from the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in addition to smaller capital from Nvidia and Sony.
By the scale of the developed world, the US barely has a social safety net, and the current governing party at the national level is actively pursuing dismantling what little there is.
Kind of sad when a major player likes Coinbase invites the pure speculators in. Yes I know that 99% of people were just speculating before but at least they had the possibility of transferring their crypto assets off the exchange and using them for something. Now it's just some magic number you can root for. It's no more interesting or decentralized than any other financial instrument.

When you think about it, crypto currencies may have been too successful. The market got so big that it has to start looking like every other financial product instead of something different with a chance to shake up finance.
This is a somewhat debated topic in cryptocurrency. IMO what you said is not the case.

If gold and silver aren't treated "like kind", and facebook and google stocks aren't treated "like kind", why would bitcoin and ethereum be treated like kind?

I'm not a tax professional, but I did consult with one, and they confirmed my hunch.
Downtown Salt Lake City. It had a huge screen with touch controls. You can drag planets around run the simulation to see if the system in stable.
While he may not be a "bad programmer", it concerns some folks that people are so against moving forward to something the industry is in strong support of. I wonder what other kinds of singular opinions (or very minority at best) that could be affecting other aspects of his programming.
Pardon me, the construction is as transparent as something like this can be, i.e. generally, whatever their committee feels like. My qualm is with the word “balancing” which implies diversification as this term is used within portfolio theory. You can’t balance a book of correlated assets. (You can track them, which this index tries to do.)
For those that don't know, Fabrice Bellard is the author of ffmpeg [1], the tiny c compiler (tcc) [2], linux in the browser [3] among many others [4].

Does anyone know how LibBF stacks up against GMP? [5]

[1] http://ffmpeg.org/

[2] https://bellard.org/tcc/

[3] https://bellard.org/jslinux/

[4] https://bellard.org/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Multiple_Precision_Arithme...
If this pisses you off, definitely don't read their C++ guidelines, which are straight up from the Clinton Administration.
How the Germans flood you with these diesels? Do they drop their used car right across the border or is it organized at state level? And why they take out particle filters before that?
Wow, I wish my Portuguese was that bad.
Actually, the USPS' primary financial challenge is a 2006 law that instituted unique pension funding requirements. It is otherwise unsubsubsidized.

https://www.21cpw.com/paea-the-most-insane-law-by-congress-e...
Hello! I'm a fan of this latest publication, distill.pub, and your previous work.

I have three questions:

1. Flexible interfaces based on the kinds of grammars you describe in this post feel like their time have come, as an important part of scientific communication, but also as a tool to create, test, and update hypotheses themselves. Entire experiments could be written in the language of these grammars, where transformations and operations directly produce the artifacts that support scientific conclusions: things like means and variances, distributions, statistical tests, scatter plots, and the like. What are your thoughts on that? Is that a direction in which Lucid is interested in going?

2. I'm interested in how to automate the creation of such linked interfaces, whether they be for convnets, language models, seq2seq type models, etc. The idea would be to have the user write a query in a DSL that explicitly connects specific interior activations (on a given axis/axes) with gradients and visualization techniques to produce a linked interface. I haven't yet played around with Lucid -- is Lucid already such a DSL for tensorflow? Or does it rather collect various instantiations of the general grammar that have proved useful?

3. What are the best examples you know of linked interfaces and grammar-like approaches to visualization inspiring important discoveries? Within deep learning, it feels like the slam-dunk example is OpenAI's sentiment neuron, although that was a fairly simple form of visualization. I'd be curious to find more examples, both inside and outside the field of deep learning.
EU consumer rights specify many (types of) terms that are considered unfair in various common contracts, so if they're included in a standard form contract offered to consumers, they're automatically considered null and void. I.e. it's a general legal principle that because such contracts aren't negotiated, there's one-sided leverage, and certain classes of terms are inherently abusive to consumers, therefore even if a consumer "agrees" to them and signs a contract including these terms, they shall not be considered binding.

GDPR extends this concept also to consent for processing private data - there are some ways how that consent can be granted and received, but contracts of adhesion are not (will not be when GDPR comes in force) one of them. In particular, GDPR specifies that anything included in such a "take it or leave it" contract is not considered "freely given" consent and thus such a contract does not and can not give you any rights to use that data, no matter what is written there.
I hear this a lot, but a standard step in filing a patent is a patent search. You deliberately check to see if there is prior art.

Similarly, if you have a patent pending, you are required to advise the examiner as soon as you come across something that appears relevant. When I had one under examination by the USPTO I sent in a patent that I saw here on HN (which the examiner decided was irrelevant).

The point is that you have intent. Reading something and not recognising it as prior art is very different from reading something, recognising it as prior art and not disclosing it.

The rules you see about "don't read any patents" come from the professional paranoia which is universal to lawyers. It is a much tighter defence to say "it's impossible that we had knowledge and chose not to disclose, because we did not have knowledge, because we have an ironclad policy of avoiding reading patents" than it is to enter into detailed argument about who read or understood which patents on which dates.

The distinction is important. A corporate policy of "don't read patents" is not the same as the law. It is a pre-emptive defence tactic intended to deny a hostile litigant from using an expensive line of argument.

Again, I am not a lawyer, this is by no means advice. I just hope to convey that the law is generally far more comprehensive, sensible and subtle than telephone games give it credit for.
Amen! I read The Millionaire Next Door when I was 22. Bought a house in a low-cost but appreciating neighborhood. Started working with an accredited financial advisor. Saved double-digit percentages of my income. Worked hard, made a six-figure income.

At forty? Here I am tens of thousands in debt, all that hard work gone. I did all the things society told me to do if I wanted to live the good life, but life can come at you in unexpected ways. For some people it is poor health, others a crazy ex and a truly unfair divorce. Businesses succeed, but sometimes they also fail.

Much like the founding story myth discussion here on HN, we might do well to hear some stories of personal financial failure as vehicles for learning.
Why do people only talk about weapons of mass destruction and dominance in these discussions? Why is Big, Bad & Heavy seen as the only way to win wars and worlds?

I'd say the first group who thinks outside that box would have a major advantage:

– Artificial viruses and other biological/nanotechnological infectious agents that only your side has an "antidote" or immunity for, to "cleanly" wipe out everyone else but you, without causing physical damage to cities/infrastructure/terrain.

— Insect-like drones the size of flies or mosquitos that you remotely control to inject poison directly into individual enemy leaders, shutting them down before they can form or command a military opposition.

– Having a permanent presence on the Moon so that some of you can survive in case of the whole world going tits up due to events you cannot control or plan for.
Please keep generic ideological flamewars well away from HN, and religious flamewars well awayer. Scorched earth is not interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16531067 and marked it off-topic.
Awesome to hear you had a great experience with Shogun. What features do you wish we had, or think we should build next?
It's the diet, but probably also the confinement.

It's like putting people in jail. It saps your will to live.
I'm hoping for a future where the machines do all the work required to provide everything human beings need to survive, AND where we've figured out a reasonable way to distribute resources in a world where not everyone will be able to "contribute to society" by spending huge amounts of their waking time doing something they'd not otherwise do, in exchange for tokens that can be redeemed for food and shelter.
Coinbase also confirmed on CNBC that their transaction volumes are lower compared to the peak in Dec/Jan - matches up well with lower transaction volumes in Bitcoin and Ethereum (despite transaction costs going down), fewer new wallets created daily, and fewer searches (Google Trends).
I'm getting a "Something went wrong. Please retry in a moment." error when trying to submit a domain to Security Guardian (tried different domains and email addresses). I assume you're being hugged to death.
Almost all of that blog post was complete bullshit. Recursive neural net? I don't understand why that post was written.
However, if you want to distribute software, it's reasonable to pick a language which will make your programs easy for others to install and use.
I don't get it - what is the problem with the cover?
I think what counts is the trend and that doesn't look good.
Nope. We were invited for a previous startup but had no plans to raise. But I have close friends who have gone through YC, one of whom actually did something pretty close to a natural before/after experiment re: fundraising.

(Ironically: we have no plans to ever raise for Latacora, but because the YC alumni network is basically our entire customer base, we'd probably do it this time.)
From this post :

Coinbase Index is a measure of the financial
performance of all assets listed on GDAX,
weighted by their market capitalization.

Methodology : https://am.coinbase.com/documents/cbi-methodology.pdf

The index level for CBI is calculated by dividing
the sum of the current USD market capitalizations
of all constituent assets by the Divisor

I don't see how anything is weighted, it's just the sum of capitalizations expressed in USD divided by a weird divisor they control to keep the index smooth
The documentary The True Cost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGp5_Sfbss covers many of the problems with fast fashion -- the pollution, exploitation, and more, but especially the pollution.

I stopped shopping those stores since watching it. I recommend it.
When did private businesses ever not assist the state in killing people?
> Any company with lots of Python 2 projects that are not going anywhere soon (Google is one of them), is probably also starting new Python 2 projects alongside them, they won't add 2 different versions to cater to.

Citation needed.

Edit: Oh and Tensorflow for Windows is made by Google and it's Python 3.5 or higher.
2% fee is pretty high, I don't think so.
From their Twitter Account. I wonder what kind of "broader digital assets" they are talking about here? Tokens? ERC721?

"We’re working on launching more funds which cover a broader range of digital assets. Stay tuned."[0]

[0] - https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/971156625951145985
I sure hope he meant ‘incorrectly kill people’ otherwise that’s pretty macabre
I did, yes, fixed.
(petty quibble: one of the weird grammatical quirks I really loathe is the use of "baby" as a singular proper noun.
"For the baby's brain..." or "For a baby's brain.." are both perfectly fine ways to start a sentence, but the article-dropping form is everywhere on parent blogs and it drives me up the wall in ways I had not expected. )

That aside: I've increasingly come to understand the urgent need for public libraries for young families. The children's room in your average US public library is probably the most used and most important room in the building, just as a way to provide everyone with access to diverse reading material -- both for your child's sanity, and your own.
Agree.

HackerNews seems to quite resilient to such clickbaity condescending articles, but this one still made through.

I think there are many outside India who want to understand it genuinely, but are deluged with agenda based news with no other source of information they can rely on.
>I must have missed the democratic discussion about private businesses assisting in killing people at all, a duty traditionally exercised by states.

I'm not sure if you're criticizing that this happens at all or if you're criticizing it as a new development. Either way, it's generally been actual killing that's reserved for the state (or its mercenaries). Private organizations building and refining weapons for the state has been a thing in America since the old west.
Google is on cpp11?? Impressive. Last time I read their guidelines, it read like a more conservative version of Bjarne's book from '98.
I once got a two week survey course in the history of mathematics. I can confirm it was riveting the whole way through, seeing the evolution of the toolset laid out.
You seem to be confusing transaction costs and management fees
Yes, by design! The most traditional way of deciding index weights is by market capitalization: if the world has thus far allocated more to Bitcoin than Ethereum, the index will too. Besides concurring with past "wisdom", this method minimizes management overhead. If Ethereum doubles in price tomorrow, so that by market capitalization it should have similar weight to Bitcoin, the index will already be "in position" because the value of it's eth holdings will have doubled alongside.
>I must have missed the democratic discussion about private businesses assisting in killing people at all, a duty traditionally exercised by states.

...what? This is America. Private industry makes all killing machines. Last I checked, Colt, Boeing, Lockheed Martin - all private companies.
Where is the actual updated RFS with descriptions of the new categories?
This whole regulation is unneeded. You can bring your money to a casino and put it all on zero. Or buy a thousand lottery tickets. But investing in risky businesses needs to be walled off to the wealthy.

What we really need is the real consequences for fraud / false financial claims.
I think my personal favorite is exception chaining. Makes it so much easier to debug issues, especially for newbies.
Not that I downvoted, but I think the downvotes are because your statement reads as a criticism of the USPS's internal competence and ability to run a successful operation. "The USPS is required to suck by external forces that we will not realistically be able to get rid of" is I think a pretty different position and one I'm more likely to agree with.
If you could transact in a basket of Crypto assets dealing with your brokerage instead of Coinbase, that sounds like you would be able to get better support if an issue occurred.
> That problem was already solved by catalog and QVC.

This is like saying that playing video games over the internet is nothing new, because hey, people already played games over distance in the form of chess by mail.
Actually a lot (or at least a not insignificant amount) of MICs are burners according to the book Stealing Fire
simply put its “Most Advanced Yet Acceptable” -- Raymond Loewy

I'm guessing its a user acquisition tactic for people who traditionally invest in mutual funds, ETFs, etc. this way they feel like they "understand" what they're buying into instead of actually needing to suffer through the learning curve of how blockchain works.