jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
All recent Intel Core-i microarchitectures require using full vector width loads to max out L1d bandwidth, because the load/store units don't actually care about the width of a load, as long as it doesn't cross a cache line (in which case the typical penalty is an additional cycle).

Only using 128 bit wide instructions on a core that has 512 bit hardware results in 4x less L1d bandwidth.
They also delivered a vaccine in record time. Mean your alternative is what, pagan rituals and bloodletting?
Not after accounting for load balancing. Depending on the situation. Weather, load profiles, etc. Hence cheap energy storage being a big deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_renewable_energy#Comp...

I remember my department had a few very large grants for solar and wind integration studies. There is always some x profitable level to integrate into some portion of the grid. Before you actually start to lose money. Used to be around 30% in most cases a decade ago. Imagine it is bit asymptotic without improvements to the cost of energy storage. I would guess 40% in most cases now.

Found this: https://www.iea.org/articles/will-system-integration-of-rene...
There are tons of third-party services like Cafepress and Redbubble that let you slap your logo on anything and handle all the ordering, payment & shipping logistics for you. (For a hefty commission, of course, but $1 is better than $0.)
That's what I'm questioning.

We can't assume a proposition is correct if we're trying to figure out if it's correct or not.

The post I'm replying to was in effect "coal is cheaper since they're building coal plants". I disagree, and show why the logic is "illogical".
Consider what the BLM protestors were protesting in the name of: the human, inalienable rights of black Americans.

Consider what the so-called "protesters" yesterday were protesting: the tenets of democracy. They were waving flags with a single man's name on them and planting them at the capitol. That stinks of monarchy, dictatorship. after protocols had already been followed to reverify election results (Georgia had 3 recounts for god's sake!)

To echo a phrase of the insurrectionist's holy savior there were "rioters on both sides".

Where were these impassioned "patriots" in 2016 when there was an election with evidence of manipulation by a foreign power. They were nowhere to be found, you know why? Because their allegiance isn't to the country who's founding and raison d'etre is the rejection of rule by a single absolute power, their allegiance is to an incompetent fool who wants to turn one of the only successful democratic countries into a dictatorship.

Think about intentions. Think about (idealized) American history. Which sounds more American to you?
If you break ground today on a nuclear generator, you will not see your first kwh generated for at least a decade, and that kwh will not be cost competitive with anything else on the spot market.

At the same time, you could replace all nuclear in the US currently operating in around three years (even compensating for capacity factor), solely from PV manufacturing capacity in the US. It is plainly obvious why nuclear is not included when renewables and at grid parity and the cost of utility scale storage is rapidly declining. Even if the cost decline of storage takes longer than expected, you can compensate with overbuilding, curtailment, transmission and demand response.

You ask why nuclear isn't being talked about. I can't fathom anyone thinking it's a real option compared to solar, wind, and battery storage, all of which are cheaper unsubsidized than nuclear today, can be manufactured and shipped where ever needed, and scaling up production is trivial (in comparison).

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019 (Lazard Levelized Cost of Energy and Levelized Cost of Storage 2019)
I agree with this. And as an author and teacher, I really want to use iBooks Author for that reason, but it's incredibly limited in both what it allows and who can use the books. There's an opportunity for an authoring tool for these kinds of books where media can be easily managed, and interactivity can be easily integrated.

ePub has some potential, but again, the e-readers handle it poorly in my experience.

What options and tools are out there to solve this problem? I've looked at SCORM, I've hacked some web page stuff together, but those all seem to require you to sit in front of an actual computer, not in a self-contained book format. Some friends of mine have done amazing things with iBooks Author, but the reach is very narrow from what I can tell.
I actually read IJ on a Kindle and found it significantly easier for the most part than reading it in print because of links to endnotes, which removed the requirement to keep two sets of bookmarks (if you haven't read it, some endnotes in IJ are a sentence are two, some are 40 pages). There were some occasional issues with going back to the main text (IIRC the back button's stack wasn't saved across sleep), but overall it was much better for me.

But no, I'd never read a textbook on a Kindle. Can't flip around.
Fast since it has been taken seriously you mean.

Main researchers and leaders were still laughing at us for worrying on Monday evening.
A contract of adhesion, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract
Exactly, right now dropbox is 9.95/month for 2Gig and frankly overpriced. I would love to have that right now at 1.99/month. Maybe unreasonable... but I like competition.
Right now, posts with lower than -4 karma are displayed as -4.

Before that, there was a -4 floor on negative karma for a post. Before that, there was no floor. I think the current solution is intended to be best of both worlds.
I have an idea to help address number 2. If every startup/investor in Pittsburgh area would put just 1% of the cash they've raised into a single pool, governed by a special interest group/association, whose sole purpose was to make infrastructural & social investments in their city, make it more attractive, parks, cleaner, help open restaurants, clubs, etc. Arguably some entity like this already exists in Pittsburgh, but if not, create it.
It would be nice if it the game also did HSB, which I think is a more natural way to work with color.
I'd get in touch with an associate at First Round Capital and ask for introductions - Philly is their neighborhood and they might know of something interesting. I personally know that AdCopy has a decent engineering office there.
Thanks, if I remember to run this script next month I'll use that.
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Shipit can be an Ansible replacement, but there is no command abstraction to Shipit. Shipit is designed to quickly deploy a project on a set of servers not to configure an entire server.
http://archive.is/YfVzW
I'm moving my blog to GatsbyJs coming from Wordpress and it's been great so far. Significant performance improvements, great plugin ecosystem and utilizes common front-end patterns with less context switching if you have front-end experience using JS/React as opposed to Python, or Go based alternatives.
It depends on the industry vertical. If you have heisenbugs in your software, let alone poor design / lack of unit and functional tests in one industry, it may not matter. But it may end up killing someone in another industry.
> What in life is not a competition?

The examples given in the post are not competitions.

The bus ticket collector is interested in old bus tickets, and is not competing with anybody.

Ramanujan obsessed over series, and was not competing with anybody.
I believe genetics is more important than work ethic for being a pro soccer player.
I went to Amazon Go because it was cool but the food was absolutely inedible.
No, frankly I can't stand anything other than a Macbook. I heard the new XPS 13 is supposed to be really good, but I haven't been able to try one yet.
In small scale you are 100% right. Leave them to their natural behavior and they are perfectly able to eat the right amount of grass, insects and small rodents that their egg and meat will taste great (some support grains is needed). Force them to eat only the cheapest animal feed and pick breeds that wouldn't survive in the wild, and the resulting egg and meat will have a distinct worse taste.

For small scale, chickens really are one of the most useful and easiest going animals one can have, and it is one of the things I miss living in a city.
What reason do I have to assume that DuckDuckGo is not collecting data about me? How can I be sure they're going to forget we ever met after a few minutes?
> so they're already contributing an order of magnitude or more than I am

Are they _really_ doing that? I don't like how hoarding assets is seen as 1000x more contributing than someone working 8 hours a day.
My deepest condolences.

I think it's pretty hard to stop incoming spam when the number itself has been made public.

The only options I know would be:
a. Play whack and mole, report the number to the authority in your country that handles this kind of spam activity.
b. Use some kind of mobile application that filter out the spam SMS. This one is kinda hit and miss, since the number data is coming from community reports, so some spam might pass the filter. And there might be some false positives from the spam filter.

I also would like to hear if there's alternative solution for this problem, other than changing the phone number itself.
Regardless of whether he created the movement, the FSF has IMO largely been on the wrong end of the movement for years. FSF has been a poor so-called leader of the open source movement for many years.

This entire focus on his supposed personal failings is a distraction. Even if RMS had completely reformed his behavior, he should not be running the FSF —- someone with a vision for the FSF that is still relevant should be in charge.
I've had the same phone number for somewhere around 17 years. I kept this number even as I moved across the country (US).
Reverse it? Watch video and check if you can remember the podcast?
Yea ignoring unknown numbers from my home state is fairly effective at blocking spam calls.
Uber is also good if you have a 25 hour a week job which pays better than Uber but you need to get some extra money and those 25 hours come at unpredictable times
Yep, XPS is a very clean format. And it seems to be easy to add support for it because of this simplicity. E.g. I normally use Sumatra PDF viewer on PC and MuPDF on Android and they both view XPS just fine.
It's a work truck if that's what someone wants to use it for.
This design is just strange. When the Model S was introduced, Tesla specifically stated that it was designed to look like high-end luxury/sports cars instead of following the funky/future design that hybrids always had until.

Interesting that they reversed it with this truck, and I wonder how it'll affect the market of potential truck buyers.
> the people 'serving' have more rights and privileges then everybody else

I was told the difference between a policeman and a citizen (via citizen's arrest) is that a policeman can arrest someone for a misdemeanor.
It seems to me that most of the engineering is in the 'skateboard', There's no reason they can't sell the same chassis with two different bodies.
- The cybertruck for people who want that.
- A more conventional body for anyone else.
No, not really.

We are talking here of the first time a short burst of only a few minutes was detected from a source not previously known.

Distant galaxies with super massive black holes in their center are a well known source of this kind of gamma radiation. Known as active galactic nuclei and especially blazars
Thanks! I had hoped the original article might provide approaches for balancing the positives and negatives of metrics, but didn't find any. The "Building Less Flawed Metrics: Dodging Goodhart and Campbell’s Laws" paper you linked is exactly what I was looking for. :)
Please don't be that EV owner that mooches off of "free" sockets. Or at least ask first. RV parks aren't expecting people to use $5-10 of electricity overnight, and they'll get upset at EV owners.

Just get the 200kwH model (my est for the 500 mi range), plug the RV into the truck, and go boondocking for a week with A/C, fridge, induction cooker, and no propane. Extra bonus if the truck supports charging from the 2kW array on the roof of the RV.
The US did poorly in 2014 Press Freedom Index, falling 13 places to 46th in the world: http://rsf.org/index2014/data/index2014_en.pdf
+100 this; SymPy is the best!

One of the coolest things about SymPy is the Live Shell, that let's you try basic calculations (without plotting) in the browser: https://live.sympy.org

There is even an option to send the entire session encoded as URL querystring which makes it tweetable, emailable, etc.
e.g. https://live.sympy.org/?evaluate=factor(x**2%2B5*x%2B6)%0A%2... (to generate the session-as-querystring for your current live.sympy.org session, use the thumbtack button below the prompt)

I use this very often to send calculations and solutions—not only do you get the answer, but you see all the calculations.
(Thoughts from someone who works in this space)

Exposing _all_ order entry traffic on the public market data feed is not great, especially the part where they expose client generated order uuids on the public feed. This allows market participants to potentially identify other market participants' orders based on their client order uuids e.g. if they are using a uuid generator that incorporates the MAC address.

I think I understand why they are doing this. They want to have a clean REST order entry interface, but still allow participants to know immediately when they are filled (via the websockets feed). Ultimately, they should implement a websockets order entry interface and stream accepts, fills, cancels, and rejects only to the involved participants. They should not expose any client generated ids on the public feeds, and only non-marketable orders and trades should hit the public feed. This is how it works literally everywhere else. Also it wouldn't hurt to have time-in-force (IOC, etc) and support for non-displayed orders.
McDoubles were popular with skinny guys who had a hard time putting on weight. One would stuff their faces with calories and hit the weights in order to do get bigger and it would be very hard if a guy didn't get in enough calories. So that's why a calorie dense item like a McDouble would help. However, that's changed with McDonald's increasing prices such that you aren't getting protein bang for your buck. Now, as one poster had already stated, you get a better deal (monetary and nutritional) with chicken, milk, lentils, beans, whole wheat pasta and eggs.
>I doubt that you need a dedicated "government relations team" in countries other than China.

yep. A bunch of engineers got together and certified all these MS products with Russian Federal government on pure technical merits. Have you checked the place of Russia on the world corruption list?

http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/...

The China actually is listed as "cleaner" than Russia corruption-wise. And politically - well, Russia doesn't censor Tiananmen square, so on this one specific point Russia may be scoring a bit better :)

>As for ordinary public relations, in Russia they are executed by women more often than not.

So, you don't see any difference between governmental and public relations in Russia? You aren't kidding, right?
The most surprising thing for me: python was much more stable then java at the time.

Checking wikipedia, python was released 4 years before java. I always just assumed python was a more recent language.
Also, writing down passphrases can be a good thing. Just not on a post-it. Keep it in your wallet, or in a safe.

Personally, I like diceware passphrases, written down. The Sign Up screen on this site rolls a random passphrase:

https://loom.cc/?function=folder&new_folder=1
"Then, some of the defendants found banks willing to flout the law for a fee.” Watch for charges to NEVER be laid against any bank involvement in this.

Everyone should know that gambling is the domain of the government, and if people are going to lose their savings from it it should go to valuable causes like waterboarding, bridges to nowhere, killing journalists and children with Apache gunships, and bailing the banks out of their atrocious management of client funds.

When private individuals run gambling operations with the full consent of all parties it removes precious resources that the government needs to deprive people of the rights endowed to them by their creator.
Are you saying that the V8 JIT won't catch this? What if it optimizes _any_ function/module/etc. that is later changed? The optimization should be discarded when the reference is reassigned. If it's not, then V8 has a bug that should be manifesting everywhere.
A virtual machine means nothing. There exists chips that natively run Java and you could in principle run x86 on a PPC with a suitable virtual machine.

And realtime Java does allow you to specify drivers.

The Symbolics Lisp Machine ran everything in Lisp, top to bottom.
"Socialhome allows you to build a rich profile that federates across the federated social web. Your content will be available to millions of users that you can also follow and interact with their content."

I think this is the product pitch.
Succinct, but straight to the point.
I'd be curious to know whether that's a wifi problem or a "your IoT devices are run by very small computers running very unoptimized software" problem.
I recently strongly considered a System76 Lemur but ultimately opted for a Thinkpad X1 Nano instead due to reports of QC issues with Clevo (and thus System76) laptops. It's too bad because I think they get a lot right with bringing Linux to the general consumer market, and Pop!_OS gets a few things right that plain Ubuntu gets wrong.
Ironically I wish you launched a bit later; my laptop is only 3 years old and it would be rather ironic were I to throw it out to move to something more sustainable. I'll have to hope you succeed enough to still be around when it's 5-10 years old (or something breaks that I can't fix with the appropriate application of hot-air).
That's a bit too far. Ignore unions; and amazon fixed traffic congestion leaving their complex. If a unionization effort is reliant on an unnecessary traffic jam to form - it's destined to fail.
Would love to hear what you're thinking! We've prioritized commercial office as it's great bang-for-buck for our business, but we'd love to expand to other verticals in the future.
People forget Sun's marketing campaigns or of the other commercial vendors, which sold tools and support for a platform that badly needed it.

The marketing around Java contributed more to its success than anything else.
> Chrome DevTools is close to a functional editor.

Yes, we need this badly! Can't wait to see what we can do with the devtools and make something similar to Brackets!
The issue is not poverty-it is intelligence (not saying that bad home lives are not a factor).
Somehow I still occasionally get Experts Exchange popping up in my Google results. I didn't realize they even still existed.
> You can teach them to do it yourself by bouncing back from Quora and going to another result.

Isn't that what a lot of us are already doing? Quora used to actually be OK, but it's been total trash for the last few years and I can't think of a single time I've found a good answer through that site.

Maybe Google doesn't deindex them because it will seem anti-competitive? After all, they've publicly stated that they're more interested in providing "answers" than being a search engine.
I was thinking about it in a remote context. personally I find sitting in discord but not playing the game is a lot more boring than being at a bar and not drinking.

at an irl event with games, it's not weird at all to socialize without playing.
Precisely. I've never had a problem and I only used it for one-off answers, usually to look for links to authoritative content. I don't think I've ever felt the need to click on a link on their site...
I see it more as not letting constraints stay because they simply weren't possible in the past. Previously surgeons considered chest cavity surgeries forever out of reach because of the foregone infection risk even with clean tools - antibiotics changed that.

There are still good reasons to object. Not going mind diving willy nilly has many other reasons, said invasiveness is both horrifyingly abusable and unduly stressful to the subject.
Nearly all of it
I feel like my life is going in this direction. I have a vague plan to get out of this through startups. Don't know if it'll work.
I’ve hand written thousands of sql queries, including a year spent writing nothing but PL/SQL stored procedures. I’d fail your test, not because I’ve never used it but because I’ve not had to use it in years and, importantly, I rely on Google to remind me of syntax trivia when moving back to a language I haven’t actively worked in in a while.

I HATE trivia questions and I’m convinced they are a sign of a lazy interviewer. If you want to test someone’s knowledge of sql, give them a sample schema, an internet connected computer and five minutes to write an appropriate sql query for your use case.
With the caveat that I am but one very insignificant person with regard to all this, here’s my take:

I broadly agree with the utilitarian goal of maximizing the efficacy of one’s aid. But the reason I can’t fully co-sign is that I feel there are some things that aren’t really quantifiable. Example: a classic response to BLM is that police commit relatively few murders compared to murders overall. My feeling is that the people entrusted to protect and serve have an additional responsibility; that violence + abuse of power is somehow “worse” than violence on its own. But how do you quantify that? How many “normal” murders are equal to one “police” murder? I don’t even know how to begin answering that question.

And I don’t think BLM should be immune from pushback because some of its goals can’t be objectively measured! But I do think a lot, if not most, criticism has been from a place of prejudice. That we’re going to look back on this in 50 years the way we look back on the Civil Rights Movement now, where some of the goals will have been achieved and basically everyone pretends they would have supported it all along (even though they oppose the contemporary version because they’re not protesting nicely or whatever). So when people see shallow dismissals, I think their guards (justifiably!) go up, because they know where it’s coming from more often than not.

I’m not trying to deny Scott the grace you’re talking about. I know it was a mostly throwaway paragraph in a longer essay. I’m just noting that his whole thing is supposed to be about digging into the strongest versions of uncomfortable arguments to get at the truth. Straw manning is supposed to be anathema — so when he does it, I think it’s worth questioning why.
> So he didn't consider that Corona has quite a long incubation period, which is why you should normally quarantine for a fortnight.

The one thing that I still don't understand (and that, probably, we don't understand at a scientific level) is: if the virus levels are that low that a PCR test is negative, can such patient infect others?