skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are broadly two types of energy storage. Grid scale and domestic. This article is about the latter as it focuses on certain batteries. It's actually pretty interesting but the scope is narrow.

Domestic is important as it can leapfrog other tech in places without a reliable grid. Much like mobile phones leapfrogged fixed lines in Africa. There are lots of options for the grid but only batteries really work at a small scale.

For more on this watch this recent video from Al Gore: https://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_the_case_for_optimism_on_c...

At grid scale you can have exotic types of batteries, pumped storage and other things. For example, there are plans to double Cruachan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35666993
Lots of stuff that isn't related to the tech industry gets upvoted.

I read it and thought it was a good read, so I upvoted it. That's all. No knee-jerking involved.
Yes. Or, wait until some one else does.

This is how open source works. How do you think Node.js and Ruby got the capability? Do you imagine they sprout fully formed from hyperbole like "a dozen others".
$1 per week is not acceptable amount for accessing random Wired content (that would be $52 a year). Perhpas $0.1 a week, or even $0.01 per week.

Or small amount per view (for example $0.01 or even lower, much lower amount), but, the big but, this would considerably put peoples privacy into risk and this would contradict the use case of many ad block users.

So here is the deal Wired - you implement an anonymous payment network and you stop sending data to Google, Facebook and others, or people would just stop visiting your site. Well, this is my prediction and time will tell how much truth is there in it.
Allowing for all the assumptions in the article I'm not sure I'd want to go ahead with it.

Living in a world where you are that much smarter than anyone else could be intensely isolating, imagine been so smart that you would find every conversation with anyone who isn't similarly boosted boring.

> The alternative would be inequality of a kind never before experienced in human history.

That is a pretty chilling sentence and it's hard to argue, if you could engineer children for intelligence and it was fantastically expensive then that has some really nasty potential sociological outcomes (something that has been a Trope of sci-fi for at least a hundred years).
Yes. I'd imagine that they'll work on that in the future as they are just now launching it to a broader audience.
Not to mention the war in 2003 and everything afterwards, as presented by Bush (even if he hasn't personally developed the plan), it was "to bring democracy" there.

Since the US was effectively for years in charge there, since 2003, theoretically, there was certainly enough time and money to finish the second dam.
I wish there were a way to quantify that impulse, because that is often my first thought when presented a click-baity link: "Shall I award my attention to this"?
Has/could someone at least set up some cameras recording 24/7 to document the inevitable collapse in detail?
Start searching in role-playing groups. Seriously. Talk about your ideas to the people who play.
Aha, but if you have at least function 2 calls, assuming none is inlined, you HAVE to use the stack to save the prev LR. I actually think it's one of the default processes at the beginning of a function, but maybe the compiler optimizes in many cases.. I'm really curious if you can find some assembly examples of functions where you don't use the stack. I've seen it on Renesas MCU's and on PPC but only for veery simple functions.

Also, the architecture isn't exactly the one to blame for this, it's more dependant on compiler calling conventions. I see things in the arch that facillitate this, but I see it possible to implement this mechanism with or without this arch support. I've only seen certain registers being reserved for something in the compiler docs not the MCU docs.

Eh, maybe I'm rambling.
Nautilus make consistently good articles, you can excuse the headline this time.

TL;DR: Scientists have discovered some parts of DNA that reflect intelligence and advances in DNA manipulation could lead to being able to create super-intelligent humans.
> I found it pretty surprising that the x86 assembly instruction set knows about the C stack pointer and how the stack in C is laid out. Of course, you could invent your own new smart stack format, but you wouldn't be able to use the callq and retq instructions to call functions.

I find it pretty amazing how modern "programmers" are lacking in knowledge of basic computer science concepts. Let me nit-pick this statement as it is obviously wrong.

The x86 assembly language knows ABSOLUTELY nothing about the "C stack pointer and how the stack in C is laid out". I will now illustrate why the first part of this statement is wrong.

You can have a bare-metal x86 device that is only programmed though assembly and push/pop would still be available. You are clearly confusing the roles of the compiler, operating system, and the language your program is written in. On a modern operating system like Linux, each program, when started, runs in a new process, which has its own view of memory due to the virtual memory system. Each program has its view of memory split into several sections, and one of them is allocated as "stack space" (it's usually the high memory addresses but this is architecture and/or OS dependent). When the program is executed, %rsp would be set-up appropriately by the OS, and on context switches it would save/restore it. Moreover, the actual address of your stack in real memory is different for every program since each process/program has its own mapping of virtual to physical memory, again provided by the OS.

Now, the second part about the "layout of the stack". The language you write your program in (in this case C) knows ABSOLUTELY nothing about the layout of "the stack". However, when you give your source code to the compiler, it will analyse it and, because C is low-level and staticly typed, will infer HOW it actually needs to lay out the stack FOR you. The output of the compiler is assembly code, and the assembly code produced "knows" about the layout of the stack because it has been written that way, generated by the compiler. It is, actually, the compiler that knows about all of this, not the source or assembly language.

Also, the example with python was a bad one - python is an interpreted language, and AFAIK it has no concept of a stack, and even if it does, it is the interpreter that allocates frames for it's own computations, not the program that you are running. And, moreover, even if python does allocate stack frames, they are most probably on the heap since it needs to do so dynamically (again, since it's not compiled but interpreted).
Draw stars and then watch them come down around you?

..and so with the introduction of the TiltBrush, Google enters a new era of VR-enhanced pscyhedelic paraphernalia
Screw genetic modification, I'd be interested to see what wacky deviations we see in a generation or so without it. Right now we've got assortative mating going on at a scale relatively unprecedented in history.
This is one of the best things I've ever read...deserves more attention. What a life.
LG’s Smartwatch Will Save Many Lives
May you share more about the experience?
Yes, we definitely need more mindless wage slaves and worker drones who like being used and exploited.
Donating to help employee retention is still good. Employees leave when the job is bad. If less leave that means less people are working jobs that they don't like.
Better flow batteries under development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
Some as good as li-ion, potentially great replacement for the cars

(someone actually built a car powered by flow batteries, take a look: http://www.gizmag.com/900-hp-supercar-flow-battery/31091/)
Thanks, looks awesome! I'll try it out...
A 12V deep-discharge lead-acid battery is typically 120amp-hours. That's 1.4kWh. Suppose you only 50% discharge it for longevity, that's 700Wh. I'll assume your box of batteries has ten of them, so a usable capacity of 7kWh. 1kWh = 3.6MJ, so 7kWh = 25MJ

How high is your roof? Lets say 10 metres. Potential energy U = mgh. (m=mass in kg). h=10, g~=10, so U=100*m.

So, to equal those batteries, assuming 100% efficiency, the mass of water needs to be 250000 kg, or 250 tonnes. Probably going to need to reinforce the loft.
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This reminds me of a sci-fi book that I cannot remember the name of, in which the Coca Cola company deliberately initiates the supernovae of 100+ stars in order to spell out the message "COKE ADDS LIFE!" in the night sky.
http://change.org is for petitions.
Github? https://github.com/curl/curl
Consultant firms don't want former consultants, they want people with experience in what they consult on, preferably at the kind of companies they consult at.

My wife (working for the government, currently doing an MBA and looking for a career switch) has received offers from two consultant firms that are currently hired by her at the government. They both love ex-government workers, because it increases their expertise on how the government works, and it grows their network at the government.
So you can make a beer, not the beer.

More information.. I feel like they leave out a lot of timing from the recipes. Just two temperatures for each beer? How do they add the stuff from twist? For how long? How do they kill fermentation? etc...
Unintended side effects are the risk here. You can't legally 'test' this out, so it would have to be trial and error by parents. Wouldn't want to be an early adopter here.
I don't know if there is any statistical correlation or not, but (as the article alludes to) it does seem that super intelligent people are more prone to some kind of other deficiencies, and particularly social issues.

Can anyone shed more light on whether this is true or not?

Anecdotally, one of my best friends (extremely intelligent, Cum Laude engineering student) went "off the rails" a few years after graduating. I always had the feeling that he was seeing things 5 steps ahead of everyone else, and had such an extremely deep insight into every day things. I think it just became too much for him to handle.
Playing with PubSubSQL using public server
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As if intelligence per se were some kind of virtue. All it does is give you an edge over the less intelligent, like a boatload of money gives you an edge over poorer people. The utility lies in the difference. If you lift everyone's level simultaneously, nothing changes. When all is said and done, human stupidity will still be infinite.
Time to rethink mandatory password changes
like, with weapons or are those metaphysical, or surreal or why do you ask?
> It won't do much good if you are born super-smart but are trapped in poverty or circumstances which limit your potential.

I'd argue the opposite. If you're in a tougher situation, there's a lot more for you to gain by applying your intelligence.
Is this even charity? Does any kind of employee bonus scheme or pay raise now count as charity?
They really are going too far. IANAL, but I think CFAA [1] applies to trying to detect what setup I'm running.

Also, I suggest using the term content blocker, guess it creates less of an attack surface for pro advertisers.

Plug: I strongly encourage disclaimers like [2] "Don't forget to turn on your content blockers, linked sites might not respect your privacy"

[1]http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/11/you-are-committing-crime-r...
[2]https://anonimho.com/about.html
if you haven't seen it, the film Gattaca covers this very well
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Something else entirely.

HN is not reddit. US political figures are uninteresting here -- unless they've invented a new geospatial-temporal database or something.
I don't have this problem, I got a perfectly clean page without any ads or social media icons.

I'm running the latest Chrome with uBlock Origin (bunch of filters incl. privacy, social and anti-anti-adblock) and Ghostery. I don't know why you're having this problem, maybe try adding a few blocklists?
And it hasn't lost its allure one bit.
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I think the startup model isn't much better than a lottery.

You can have good engineering, good product and good vision and still lose horribly, you can shift the probabilities a little but beyond that I don't think you can.

Of course the belief that you are going to succeed is required as well so you end up with lots of people 100% sure they are going to succeed for which a small percentage do (for a given definition of succeed).

I think the whole culture around SV-style startups is both fascinating and disconcerting.
Surprised the article doesn't mention the theory that Speer is most famously associated with: the idea that future generations judge civilisations primarily by the aesthetic quality of the ruins they left behind. Largely true (and not an original idea, despite Speer's claims), but a surprisingly chilling observation in context.
I think the takeaway is:

Humans assisted with robots are superior to just robots when the variety is high.
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"This siphon effect relies on atmospheric pressure to allow the pressure and pressure potential energy to drop as the water travels upward inside the sealed pipe. But eventually the pressure of the rising water reaches zero and no further reductions in pressure and pressure potential energy are possible. That failure of the siphon effect occurs when the water is about 30 feet (10 meters) above the higher container. You can't use a siphon to lift water higher than 30 feet because above that height, an empty region will develop at the top of the pipe and stop the siphon process."

http://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/askaphysicist/physi...
There'd still be at least a generation before the kids are up to speed. Even if they're of the "finish HS by 12, BS by 13, PhD by 16" types, they still have to accumulate a large amount of knowledge and practice, to actively participate in the science.
> In the Red Dwarf (1988-current) spinoff novel Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1989) by Grant Naylor, stars are deliberately detonated to create a pattern of supernovae spelling out a Coke ad in Earth's sky.

This page has a bunch of similar examples: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/advertising
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Fighting with heavy weaponry (such as artillery) around the dam is probably not in their interest either (potentially flooding their 'capital').

Shells tend to have a negative effect on structural stability.

On the the other hand obviously while they were holding the dam it was apparently free for all machinery looting season, which is not to clever if you plan to establish your headquarter downstream.
I just hope that they watched enough Planet of the Apes movies to not test it on monkeys first.
Sometimes it's nice to get up early and go outside to get a little fresh air before the daily grind.
> That's not how 'Capitalism' (as currently practised) works - the owners of the AI reap the benefits and avoid paying taxes while certainly not taking care of you, why would Walmart AI or Disney AI care about plebs like you?

JabaAI would take care of the plebs. JabaAI loves plebs. I mean wonderful, wonderful people. JabaAI loves them. And everyone loves JabaAI. Because JabaAI is worth a lot of money. JabaAI is success. I hear it every day: "JabaAI, we love you."
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Right now we've got assortative mating going on at a scale relatively unprecedented in history.

What exactly does this mean? Is there a place where I can learn more about it?
can't believe they don't use https for their logins.
Oh right. I wonder if libraries could configure their computers to always be in private or incognito mode?
Why Docker earlybirds Flocker are resisting the Kool-Aid
You would also need some way of re-inducing plasticity in the brain's connectome. This seems less likely to be feasible after adulthood.

Also, IQ is a lousy measurement scale. Ten points means a lot more to someone with an 85 or 95 IQ than to someone with 120.
Interesting! I've grown a bit tired of gameification of real life with apps, but this made me realize that it's really helpful to Kickstart a new habit.
Another interesting lifehack I'm using is "a job".You check five times a week and earn value units, and compete with others "co-workers" this way.
You are correct, it's not illegal, and it serves a very useful purpose, however it's highly correlated with not paying taxes on both sides, and with hiring people who cannot legally work.
I assumed the article was about the statistical language S
The article actually addresses the issue, saying that " observations have shown that essentially all “primitive” cognitive abilities—short and long term memory, the use of language, the use of quantities and numbers, the visualization of geometric relationships, pattern recognition, and so on—are positively correlated."

So, in a nutshell : on average, being super smart at math means you are probably verbally smart too.
Like most words, it depends on what your purpose is.

Knowledge behaves like capital in many senses. You can pay to acquire it or hire someone who has it, and doing so can help you or your organization to be more productive. Thus in at least some contexts it's useful to refer to it as a type of capital.
The apostrophe comes at the very end only when the s has been added to a word to make it plural. You don't add an s to make a word plural and another s to make it possessive. If you write about the wealth of Donald Trump, it's "Trump's money" but the wealth of the Trump family (i.e. multiple people) it's "Trumps' money." There is no singular "Fitt" so Fitts's Law is correct, same as "Laura Poitras's films."

The apostrophe also comes at the very end when "es" is added to make a word plural, e.g. "fishes' spawning ground."
To give some sense of the scale of the disaster that would follow a failure, the US considered bombing that dam and releasing all that water in response to a potential chemical attack on US troops during Gulf War I, according to Colin Powell (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/script_b.html - search for dams).
OP here.

My apologies, was meant to say "search folder and sub-folders". If it is just to find on the current folder, the ls syntax is quite good.
SadDamnit!
I wonder what the file format is... is it open, so it can be viewed by other VR systems, or is it tied to HTC? Can you view the creations in a browser? (Obviously you can make videos, but is there a 3d navigator for non-VR viewers?)
Poverty causes much more than can be helped. Bad schools that are falling apart, a lack of opportunity, and the effects of long term stress on the brain are all things that will affect any person regardless of intelligence.
If those firms knew if the extreme risks then they should have decided not to accept the work!

I think it's pretty much a given that Sadaam Hussein, even back then, was a dictator who wouldn't necessarily put the safety of his people first.
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I know this company. Their marketing REEKS of lame desperation. The whole company is basically like that one old Toyota commercial where the guy equated a Corolla with punk music (or whatever generic car it was).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLhfxI8T2cU
My takeaway:

They are removing robots that are cordoned off into areas to keep workers safe. These robots are not very good at customizing/changing quickly.

What they are being replaced with is people and much smaller robots that work side-by-side with those people. Assisting more than trying to do it all.
Have you looked into NVDA?
Most real-world contracts have a clause saying "if any part of this contract is ruled invalid, the rest stays in effect."
Sweep: An affordable scanning LiDAR sensor
Apparently because it breaks the mental association between being in bed and sleeping, which can exacerbate sleep problems/insomnia and reduce quality of sleep.
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There's a TV show called "Mighty Ships" that profiles various larger ships (mostly commercial, though some passenger or military). One episode focuses on the Tyco Resolute, a cable laying ship:

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/mighty-ships/tyco-re...

The full version used to be on YouTube.
It means dating sites and college preferences are putting similar people together at an unprecedented rate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assortative_mating
> he was seeing things 5 steps ahead of everyone else, and had such an extremely deep insight into every day things

I had a period when I experienced this for some time. I can confirm it's deeply frustrating. You see all the madness very clearly. You see theoretical solutions to everything, know it could have been different. But you also understand you're quite alone and not influential enough. Generally, you're better off being average.
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If I understand the wiki on assortative mating, it supports your statement.

However, in the last couple centuries there have also been greatly increased migrations globally, leading to increased mating across cultures and races. These events will be carried in the gene pool, maybe forever, and repeated. Intuitively, even if they're outliers, these matings will trend the gene pool towards more homogeneity.

Is this intuition correct? How do biologists reconcile the views?
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Flattr has been trying this since 2010. It got a lot of attention back then and is still used today.

https://flattr.com/
Patreon, if you want to fund the habit long term.
That touches on the issue I had with the article as well.

> "But psychometric studies, which seek to measure the nature of intelligence, paint a different picture. Millions of observations have shown that essentially all “primitive” cognitive abilities—short and long term memory, the use of language, the use of quantities and numbers, the visualization of geometric relationships, pattern recognition, and so on—are positively correlated."

Whilst it might have been "proven" in the lab, that's not what is apparent with day to day experiences. If we split 'intelligence' into 'academic intelligence' and 'emotional intelligence', it's rare to find someone who excels with both. It's not just a matter of capacity, our abilities are a reflection of what we devote our energy to.

To explain why it's important to make the distinction between different types of intelligence... to put it simply, academic intelligence makes a difference in abstract thinking, developing new ideas and refining existing ones. However, emotional intelligence guides us on how best to spend our time. Emotional intelligence is a close relative to wisdom. We need it to guide us. If not, we'll end up doing things because we can, rather than whether we should, and with the power of super-intelligence that's something we'll need more than ever.
Or maybe they don't see Drugs as a problem. I don't think e.g. Victorian aristocrats saw poverty as a problem or that the slave traders saw exhaustion or torture and other forms of violence as a problem, far from it. I believe slaves would rather be given coffee instead of food coffee.
Some of the assumptions in this article are very ambiguous and makes the reading quite disturbing.
I don't grasp the author's notions of IQ. Maybe it's me misunderstanding the writing, but IQ is more of a normative scale than an infinite scale. You don't push your IQ to 1000. It's not an anime energy level. This makes no sense.

Then there are things like "Right now we've got assortative mating going on at a scale relatively unprecedented in history" (assumption or data-based fact?)...