skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parties do _not_ have to trust each other to work in a permissioned or consortium block chain. They just don't. They do have to be non-anonymous to each other, and they might have to sign up to a legal agreement between each other (brokered by the governing entity convening the ledger, who issues certs to organizations so they can participate). But they don't have to be trusted. All you need is intrinsic interest in being on the ledger - some kind of pain (be it staked value, getting kicked out of a market, etc) if they are found to be a bad actor, which would be pretty obvious, and many bad actions can be prevented in the first place (e.g. prevention of double spend).
At what percentage would you allow an AI to consider a game unwinnable? While an AI that behaves erratically when the odds are low might be worth allowing it to be considered forfeit worthy, but the thing about humans is we make mistakes. Therefore an ideal AI that can continue to execute reasonable moves should have a lower percentage threshold where it decides to forfeit. See this match[0] for an example of a spectacular comeback that I feel an AI might have considered forfeit worthy if not well defined.

[0]: https://youtu.be/LwSQv_sNZBI
Are there any examples / screenshots available anywhere?
Well, it certainly would signal something the day these government leaders stop flying private jet planes to climate conferences or even start having video conferences.

That should help. History has a number of examples of how far people will go if their leaders go first.

But as long as leaders say one thing and do something completely different? I say no wonder uneducated people don't buy it.

Note: this is not to be taken as defense for the current behaviour but as a suggestion for how to improve the situation.
Making the whole system effectively worse, just so some dolt who is not up to the trivial task of taking a bus or a taxi reaches this monumental achievement is not a good value proposition at all, no.
These are awesome. Android is slowly catching up with iOS in this regard.
not sure I follow; what's so interesting there? Wouldn't a continuous output ultimately have to be translated into a discrete action anyway?
My journey with Kotlin – Part 1: How I came to dislike Java
> Education is what needs to be innovated. We need more kids becoming scientists.

Some people cannot just "become scientists". Without the intelligence, even an infinite amount of education would be pointless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jZENi1ed8
I would highly recommend the 5 minute journal used in combination with the Pomodoro technique. The former will help you with the vision and the latter will help you with any procrastination.
Thunderbird is a great email client but I don't trust it when it comes to calendars and contacts.

Syncing with CalDAV/CardDAV or Google Calendar/Contacts has always been problematic and apparently this is the very first version where you can edit single entries of an recurring calendar event. This does not help in building confidence in Thunderbird as a PIM.
Quantopian funds over $50M to a single strategy
Thank you! Folks are working hard to get deployment and management via Kube (and Helm Charts, etc) to be first-class supported and consistent. It's about where one would expect a 1.x level project to be, which means improvements like you point out are needed. Lots has happened since November. :) Hope you consider coming back and contributing.
I've canceled a gym membership because it was too crowded at the times I wanted to go.
Except they're targeting vulnerable people. To some extent, it's not very different from spammers who do on purpose to write full of typos, so that most "smart enough" people will just delete their emails, not bother investigating/reporting it.
I cancelled this weekend: surcharge for a two-week old not-exactly-blockbuster was annoying, but meh.

On Saturday, the app listed a theater showing something I wanted to see, I drove there, and then... couldn't check in and was no longer listed when I refreshed the theater.

I'd expect them to keep playing this kind of game.
JRE7?
Which is unfortunate, since learning is the compute intensive part
Mind boggled that this article comes up now. Been working on similar tech recently, and the question of non-linearality arose right away. The discussed conclusion was "impossible". Yet I was able to design a crude NAND gate. So there has to be non-linearality it the quantum nature of diffraction and interference.
The 99% Is a Myth– How It Breaks Down
S.A.M.I.R.A
> We partnered with DeepMind on a feature called Adaptive Battery that uses machine learning to prioritize system resources for the apps the user cares about most.

You know what mind I would like to control what apps get more resources?

Me
Mint and Quicken have legitimate reasons to access your banking data though, and provide you value in exchange.

I wonder what kind of value would Facebook provide you if you give them their financial data though.
I find crypto currency identical in difficulty as using foreign currency.

Once you convert Fiat to crypto, its easier to spend than using a debit/credit card.

Getting it from Fiat to crypto is the hard part. After that you literally scan a QR code or type in an email.

Its my preferred way of paying because I always have my phone but I dont always keep my wallet in my pocket. I dont need to add my address and birth date. I just send money.

Also, to clarify, I'm not a fan of alt coins(at the moment) only Bitcoin I believe is useful. Between coinbase Email, Shift card, and the usual on-chain txns, Ive basically made the change to Bitcoin lifestyle.
This is the key part of the article for those that don't read.

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In early October 2008, the Dutch had suggested pooling the collective resources of the European Union’s economies to bail out their banks and guarantee deposits. The French, British, and even the boss of Deutsche Bank all supported the idea of a joint effort. This made sense, since most European banks had significant operations in neighboring countries. Regardless of whether their headquarters were in Paris or Amsterdam or Frankfurt, their exposures were pan-European. National borders should have been irrelevant for deciding who would bear the burden of saving a tightly integrated financial system.

Then the German government and the ECB made one of the greatest policy mistakes since the 1930s. They insisted on national solutions led by national governments. French President Nicolas Sarkozy claimed German Chancellor Angela Merkel had told him, “Chacun sa merde”—she would not clean up others’ messes. This decision led directly to the European sovereign crises and to a lost decade for hundreds of millions of people.
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Even so, it is still weird to pretend that everything in the Fediverse is Mastodon.
> If someone is an asshole online, you ban or ignore them.

Who watches the watchmen?
You can get them from https://podtail.com too.
On concessions, not on the movie tickets. Most of the price of a movie ticket goes to the studio/distributor for the first month. By the time the theater takes >50% of the price of the ticket, the audience has dropped to the low single-digits per showing.

The MoviePass customers that most used the service (aka >3 movies a month) were also the ones least likely to buy concessions. Thus, theaters had no incentive to give MoviePass a share of their gross (meaning total) concessions revenue in lieu for increased ticket revenue.
You're right, but Samsung features go beyond UI changes. I am locked into the Samsung ecosystem by a few of these intangibles.
Like: Samsung Pay (works on credit card readers) Samsung DeX (Chromebook in your pocket) Samsung Pass (auto fill with Iris scanning)

Some of these features are made by other companies like, Huawei makes a Chromebook style UI too, but Iris scanning and Magnetic Payments are exclusive to Samsung platform.
Interesting use of VR! Anybody have a download link?
except for that whole email address thing. I need DNS for that, and current DNS requires centralized root servers.
Are you talking for all of us XL 2 users ? Not a single slow down on mine, thanks. Was on beta the first day it was available.
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Im pretty sick of websites asking for my home address, phone number, and (most importantly) my email address.

This is easily one of my favorite parts about Bitcoin. Scan the address and you are done.
Not most people though. There was a time when in MacOS, one could manually limit the amount of memory a program was launched into by setting the required and preferred memory footprint.

But that kind of low-level stuff isn't something most people care about or want to do. They just want the damn thing to work.
In war games, soldiers usually die quietly, instantly, and in one piece. Reality is still too brutal.
This spring, Facebook committed to ending their third party merchant data integration with advertisers.[0]

Now they are directly partnering with the banks to gather this data and more, with the stated purpose of offering products based on this data.

Why is it OK for Facebook to use this data to sell things directly, but not when they partner with external advertisers? Why should the public trust Facebook with this highly sensitive data?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/29...
Make android apps without java
Great, system navigation looks like Palm webOS...
Your "post-truth" is my Narrative Collapse
Two names does not a convention make.
How to use your money wisely to gain wealth
One potential vulnerability per 4 KLOC of Android С++ source code
It holds in survey results but has not been conclusively demonstrated in treatment data. It does not hold in Medicare data, but those could be limited for this population.

"In a Stanford study, 88 percent of responding physicians said they would avoid invasive procedures and life-prolonging machines. But a newly released comparative study of Medicare recipients, as well as a longitudinal study and separate analysis of Medicare data published in January, suggest that the actual differences between end-of-life treatments that doctors and nondoctors receive are slight."

The other data point is the story of "La Crosse, Wisconsin," which "spends less on health care for patients at the end of life than any other place in the country, according to the Dartmouth Health Atlas" [2]. The cause? "Some 96 percent of people who die in La Crosse have an advance directive or similar documentation" while "nationally, only about 30 percent of adults have a document like that."

[1] https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/at-the-end-of-life...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/03/05/286126451/livi...
Are we interpreting the bailout of a global US-created financial crisis "saving the world" now?

Here's what happened:
- The international market, particularly the Asian market, burst.

- Investment went into the tech industry, which also burst.

- To keep investment rates high, the Fed coordinated changes to regulations so that private mortages could be sold as investments.

- The Fed pushed for other countries to adopt the same practices.

- This new regulation regime was inherently designed to push investment earnings as much as possible, and new financial instruments were created to centralize risk from individual risk toward systemic risk.

- It started to become clear that there were inherent structural issues with the investment scheme.

- The Fed continuously lowered regulations to feed the market in an attempt to prevent it from crashing.

- When no more regulations could be cut, the entire global market crashed.

- This was all based on a philosophy that investment is a key indicator of economic health, and that driving up investment
would drive up the health of the overall economy.

- Regulators decided to distribute the costs of the mistake, and loan tax payer money to banks that had collapsed.

- With rate exception, people in the financial sector made hand over fist.

- Congress even evaluated making it legal to falsify accounting information in an effort to save the banks.

- The U.S. and European economy is still recovering.
This is similar to IBM's "millipede memory", isn't it? Could they speed things up using an array of probes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede_memory
Don't ask me how I know, don't believe me, but its Wells Fargo.

I'm asking anyway because a statement like this absolutely demands more than what you're offering for anyone to take a statement like this, in this context remotely serious.

Not even an article or something published from WF to support the claim, that the rest of us may benefit from?
Algorithmic Game Theory [1]

Going into CS as an undergrad, I didn't anticipate the depth that the field had in other domains -- and for some time, I wanted to double major in {math, biology, economics} to supplement my education.

However, while in the algorithms course, I stumbled upon a connection between linear programming and 2-player zero-sum games (the minimax theorem [2]). Up to that point, I had never considered the idea of using a computational lens to view problems outside of CS, such as "what is the complexity of Nash equilibrium?"

It turns out Algorithmic Game Theory can be applied to study theory of auctions (Why does Ebay use 2nd-priced auctions?) [3], tournament design (Why would a team purposely lose?) [4], or something as basic as routing (Why does building more roads lead to more congestion?).

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax_theorem

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_theory

[4] https://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/f13/l/l1.pdf
Dead Cells review: the best Castlevania game in years
You're relying on a third-party community effort to disable their coproprietary processor, which neither company seems to have the will to so by themselves.

The best outcome would be to have AMD provide a first-party, auditable option to disable it, otherwise the community will have to do it themselves, which will probably take longer if there's less people using them. Until then, the main focus would be the buy the best performing product, because that's the only real differentiator.
Seriously, my app hasn't showed anything all week but I'm also a pretty heavy user so I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing something fishy with that
Well lets put it this way: thanks to the government I have a bathroom and kitchen. Slumlords don't need to get re-elected.
draw.io is an open source project [1], you're suggesting we hire a team to implement the AWS icons?

Asking for others to contribute to open source is a generally accepted concept.

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
Ah, yes. I interned in the Database Administration team of a Fortune 500 company. I definitely learned a lot as a developer under the tutelage of some old school mainframers (I was primarily targeting DB2 on OS/390).

I learned a lot about query optimization in my 3 years as an intern. I also caused a few issues along the way, including a number of PR reports to IBM. Some of which were benign, like incorrect documentation. Others were more problematic, such as semantically identical queries returning different results (e.g. coalesce vs case when null in a column spec) to knocking out the entire development LPAR on the mainframe with a simple select statement (hit a bug in the query optimizer and it crashed not just the DB, but the whole LPAR).

Still, those 3 years were invaluable to me. They developed both an intuition on how to write optimal queries, but also the knowledge of how to utilize the tools to identify problems, measure and fix them. It has served me well as a developer in the 15 years since I left my internship. I don't get into fights with DBAs since they recognize I know as much or more than them about optimizing queries on datasets I work with.
wow, that is nice, go thunderbird!
MA, particularly the Boston area has spent just shy of 400yr embracing micro-managerial busybody government at every level (several other New England states exist because living in MA was too onerous for various groups). Local governments have a lot of power. They use this power to implement self-serving bylaws and zoning rules that cause the cost of living to skyrocket relative to cities/towns that have more of a "you want to have an adult entertainment store two blocks from a high-school, ok fine, just don't forget to pay your taxes" attitude. It's a tragedy of the commons situation. Everyone wants to zone the strip mall, the lumber supplier, the mechanic and the big box store out of existence or relegate them to some small commercial area. Every town thinks their a special snowflake that should be able to embody picturesque New England town in Yankee magazine. Well actions have consequences and all those things all have to go somewhere and if every town makes doing business (or at least the kind of business that doesn't fit their vision) hard and expensive those costs get passed on down.

You can still be a homeowner, buy good groceries and keep your fridge full of beer on a single entry level tech salary in MA. The catch is you just have to do it in one of those "bad" cities like Worcester, Fall River or Fitchburg.

I welcome the SF problems in the Boston area.. You reap what you sew.
I was pulling for (unbranded) Petit four

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_four
>Manchester and Nashua New Hampshire (the two largest cities in the state) are both less than an hour drive from Boston.

I know Google says it's an hour from Manchester to Boston, but that must be in the middle of the night.
Quoter: Minimalist quotes saving app for Mac OS
UK Streets Full of Youths with Mental Health Issues
Is Prolog the next good idea?
Are you referring to Bitcoin pump and dump?
>Aside from the unnecessary jargon, this irks me how it portrays the user as some passive consumer. It really drives home how Google is, first and foremost, an advertising company.

It's amusing that you're taking a quote from the Android Developer blog (a blog, you know, for developers) and trying to misconstrue it as a public facing comment for users.

Here's their public facing comment that is aimed at users:

Android 9 also helps you get things done faster with App Actions, which predicts what you’ll want to do next based on your context and displays that action right on your phone. Say it’s Tuesday morning and you’re preparing for your commute: you’ll be suggested actions like navigating to work on Google Maps or resuming an audiobook with Google Play Books. And when you put in headphones after work, you may see options to call your mom or start your favorite Spotify playlist.

https://www.blog.google/products/android/introducing-android...
For a single launch, sure.
What happens if there are regular launches?

Logistically, to me it seems that it would be a great idea to have a refueling station in orbit which is supplied by BFR cargo ships ..say.. once a month.

Launching a BFR for each launch of BFS would require a lot of transportation and duplicated effort.
Is this intuition wrong?
Why would you need 50 new certs a week for a single domain?
No sorry, you might have gotten lucky. But a few major YouTubers have reported this slowdown and I really have no data to back this up.

I'm glad the Pixel 2 XL works for you! I just have a personal grudge against the pixel line of phones are they compete with OEM's directly without bringing good hardware to the table (except that god tier camera of course)
There aren't any new delegation features since 1.0 unfortunately. That said, if it worked this way, delegation would become part of a type's public API, such that changing the delegation details internally could break callers.
How can something new already need maintenance?
> "Chronic" conditions don't get fought off--they persist. That's what "chronic" means.

Well, of course. Fighting off the creation of chronic conditions.
Do will this replace Escher? Or do they serve different purposes? (UI vs 3D)
This has no nonlinearities, this isn't a neural network, it's a linear classifier...
I see your point that most people don't want to dig into the nitty-gritty details, but I don't think it'd hurt to be able to mark applications as High, Normal, or Low priority for memory and CPU use.
Ok. But if they use Cloudflare, which MITMs traffic, all their users data is in plaintext to Cloudflare. Which leaks not only history, but also logins/passwords of site users.

My beef with CF is that I can not see which sites are behind CF.
I've been to a lot of village council meetings. Village of ~2,000 people, I've attended biweekly meetings for ~6 years.

Most (By hours spent) of the debate and dissent came from two lunatics, who, having nothing better to do, would show up to every single one of them. The year after I stopped going, police had to be involved twice.

Occasionally, there would be an interesting conversation, for questions dealing with a lot of money, and non-obvious trade-offs, that were discussed by adults. Most of the time, though, the matters were routine and uncontroversial - or, if they weren't, the councilmembers' minds were made up long before the meeting started.

Nowadays, I hear that they've cut speaking time for members of the public, and restricted their speaking privileges to asking questions. As anyone working at Google or Facebook knows, though, statements disguised as a question are still quite common.
What kind of competitive advantage do you have compared to other similar companies (e.g. Hubble [1])? Is contact lenses just a race to the bottom in terms of pricing? Other than cost, are there any other elements that differentiate you?

[1] https://www.hubblecontacts.com/
Pointing out that ToS violations aren't being handled consistently is entirely on topic.

The guidelines mention:

> Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle.

We should allow discussion of hate speech, regardless of ideology, on a thread about how hate speech is handled online.