skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's scary. Not enough isolation between the line side and the output side. Classic cause of electrocution and fires. The standard for this is UL 1310, Class 2 Power Supplies. Not sure if this design complies.

There's a lot to be said for split-bobbin transformers, where there's a solid plastic barrier between the two windings. This just has wire insulation and some tape.
The typical supercharger stop doesn't recharge from 10 to 80% either.

Tesla's official marketing has a 10% to 80% charge at 40 minutes, and 10% to 100% at 75 minutes. https://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger

For a 90 kWh battery. I guess the Model 3 will have a smaller battery and less range, but practically speaking, filling up from empty is 5 minutes with Gasoline, and 75-minutes with the Supercharger (all the way to 100%)

You can get more efficient by filling up only to 80% charge over 40 minutes of charging... but that's still very far away from your claim of 15 minutes.
I have a question for any Legal Professionals here.

Reading these news stories it sounds like warrants can be very invasive but that there is no advocate for the target of the warrant involved in the process. What protections for the target are there in the process of obtaining a warrant, given the serving of one can be so invasive and damaging?
Although I agree with you, but if I was on trial, I wouldn't want to trust a judge who brought in "his friend who knows a lot about computers". I'd want to make sure they were vetted first.
Are activations still their own layer? Or are they moving away from that?

I'm brand new to Keras and online tutorials say that "everything, even activations are their own layer" but I can see that all the layers have a activation argument.
I have personally evaluated madgigs website and business model. I found it extremely well designed and well conceptualized end to end solution for all staffing and execution needs -- from recruitment, interview, managing client list and following up on timesheets. A total ERP system for staffing companies
It didn't seem to be mentioned in the article, but Merle Haggard was there when Johnny Cash played ""Folsom Prison Blues" at San Quentin. That's what inspired him to be a singer:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/inmate-merle-hagg...
Impossible I-1: first new Polaroid camera in 20 years
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Cool. It sounds dumb but just shaping the inputs was a problem for me. I wanted an LSTM/RNN but epochs, batches and recurring sequences didn't click together for me. I also had trouble plotting the learning curves.
Buy anything from Amazon? Because they're infamous for treating their non-engineer employees terribly, yet I and most people I know still buy from them because they're cheap and have great customer service.
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This. This. This. So many people also lack fundamental skills that you learn formally, with structure, in a formal education system. I would also argue that the learning process in school helps you develop your process for learning later on, which you need to be good at to survive.
If only time was the only thing lost by going through the system. The cost of college was the biggest reason why I personally did not go to school. The cost of not only having to pay back loans, but also the loss of 4+ years of savings and investments. My brothers have both completed degrees; yet I currently make more, have much more in savings, have none of the debt, and have been living independently for longer.

However, I would certainly agree that not having a degree means you have to work much harder to find opportunities and prove yourself. Degrees certainly open doors more easily, but that doesn't mean you can't lock pick them given enough time.
So glad I was able to get out of web development. So, so so glad.
Agreed, but there is definitely a trend towards pushing devs to think more about ops. We internally use chef/kitchen and get devs to run their code on kitchen unit tests before it can be considered ready for a PR. Previously, we only did unit tests, and it's a great improvement. But, yes, the bar is much higher from that to actually running in production.
Most anecdotes about pop culture are bullshit. But the one about the implosion of country & western music is very real.

The number of country acts that actually still create music different from pop/rock is so staggeringly small it breaks my heart.

The vast majority are a caricature that play pop with a twang.

That reality makes the loss of folks like Merle Haggard much more pointed. There hasn't been an effective passing of the torch.

It's akin to the loss of the last generation of traditional folk artists in the late 50s.
That's not necessarily true in discrete systems. For example we can cache results of common interactions for reuse. See HashLife and relatives, for example: a vastly more efficient way to compute game of Life without considering one cell at a time, but giving identical results.
Thanks. It was the threat of torture from the police that I remembered.
> First, I normally take pen and paper notes and then scan them in for posterity. Second, I normally don’t post my notes online, but I’ve been inspired to try this by Jamie Brandon’s notes on books he’s read. My handwritten notes are a series of bullet points, which may not translate well into markdown. One issue is that my markdown renderer doesn’t handle more than one level of nesting, so things will get artificially flattened. There are probably more issues. Let’s find out what they are! In case it’s not obvious, asides from me are in italics.

This is a problem that would be overwhelmingly solved by org-mode in Emacs. Writing the summary in org-mode means you're a 'C-c C-e' away from exporting to HTML or LaTeX.
Are we living in a computer simulation? No.

Can I prove that? No. Is it false even though I can't prove it? Yes.

Not everything that cannot be disproven should be taken seriously.
> All other things being equal.
There is no such thing as a perfect computer that runs eternally or that can simulate something with an infinite degree of precision.

If we lived in a computer simulation, we would have noticed unusual meta-physical glitches as discrepancies within the 'order of things'.

For example, if the simulator used floating points, we would actually notice that numbers end up loosing precision after a certain amount of decimal points. We would probably have tons of theories about that and wonder why the metaphysical rules that are involved in counting suddenly change at specific precisions. etc.

no glitches = no simulation

There are many more problems with this premise but to me, these types of questions are a waste of intellectual energy so I'll leave it at that I guess, have fun.
Careful, I don't know about you but anytime I have a thought that ends with "let me just open IDA real quick" nobody sees me for 2-3 weeks minimum.
> a) sometimes the same sentence is used in two areas and has the same translation in one language

I suspect it's not that rare of a thing, it would explain at least some of the bad translation cases I've seen, that are the reason I never use software in my native language if I can avoid it.

> b) if you change the text wording later, you have to edit it in the source code instead of in a separate English locale file.

And, if I understand correctly, in every other locale file too. This tingles my DRY sense in a bad way.

> You're doing something horrendously wrong if your application spends even 0.1% of its time looking up strings to put into GUI windows.

True. Though you can use this reasoning for pretty much every single thing in the source code, and this way lies Java and XML. Premature optimization may be bad, but I still try to always pick the faster option when it doesn't require too much work :).
This is so true. Thanks for pointing this out.
I actually used the Mean Absolute Deviation at work to good effect. When you're testing variance over very large sample sizes, it's a lot better than using something like Chi-Squared tests, which nearly always yield a significant result over a certain sample size (maybe 20,000 or so).
A mighty prolix way of saying "what is the meaning of life?"
I don't know if that would work as well as it sounds. I mean, I'm not observing what's going on in China at the moment, but it will certainly impact my life in some way, if only through the butterfly effect. In the worst case, my actions one minute into the future may depend on something as far as one light-minute from me. That's larger than the whole planet.

And there are more problems. One of them is computers: in a sense, every computer created by one of the entities you simulate becomes a new "player". You have to fully simulate these computers all the time, lest you want the players to notice computers only work when they look at them.

I mean, ultimately, it seems to me that the only way to efficiently simulate a universe without arbitrary restriction on motion or glaring artefacts is to build a 1:1 model of the thing: store the data in 3D so that things that are nearby in simulated space are nearby in physical space too, and process the data locally.
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Good question :) SRE-written system are never or almost never written in Java. However many SRE teams support Java systems.

Literally nothing at Google except third-party code (like Linux kernel) is written in straight C. C++ is very common, though.

Python sucks and is useless. Most things that were written in python are now written with Go.

I guess your question is about what happens if a C++ expert ends up on a Java team, but I don't really know. I happen to have landed in C++ world, which suited me.
We need a Nye/Tyson/Sagan/Feynman for computers.
Is that Scientific American bringing up some sort of science/philosophy on a "creator" (a.k.a. God)?
something like bitcoin is an excellent match for a high level language (altho not necessarily python). the performance demands are all in the hashing algorithms (which are done by dedicated hardware, not software). it's way more important the control layer be correct than it be fast
However, the supercharger spots aren't everywhere like a gas station. You have to plan your trips to stop exactly at a supercharger.

I drove several hundred miles away to North Carolina without any planning, knowing that any ol' gas station could fill me up. But there are only 7 superchargers in North Carolina, and only 5 superchargers on my projected path (including the superchargers from the other states I passed through on the highways)

I'm still leaning towards the Volt, which would be effectively electric but the gas-generator is a good idea IMO. The one time a year I drive outside of my city will be gas-based, but that's a lot better than a 100% gas vehicle.

I will say that I stop for 30+ minutes to sitdown and eat with my family... no where close to a supercharger. We have a few restaurants that we as a family meet up at on these long trips as a family tradition. I dunno about the excuse "Hey guys, lets meet somewhere else because the current location isn't close to a Supercharger, and my 90k+ Car demands that we stop there for our trip".

Plenty of gas stations in these random small towns across America, but still very few superchargers.
Why Robots Need to Be Able to Say 'No'
I think we're going to need a bot to tell us when something that shows on HN is back online :-)
Some of us might have made them ;)
now i'm getting 502s :-(
Instead of rejecting this argument out of hand, as "language-lawyering," allow me to suggest a different approach. It sounds like you and I agree that Putnam's argument doesn't actually tell us that we are not brains in vats. I think Putnam would agree with us as well. So what's the real point? Any discourse about whether we are brains in vats is hopelessly defective. Even if we accidentally issued the right string of symbols, or made the right sequence of noises, our statements would be objectively meaningless, because they are not causally related to the phenomena they would otherwise describe.

What's the use of this kind of thought? Here's a candidate: any philosophical debate that can be made the target of this pattern of argument is an argument that is not worth having. It cannot lead to real knowledge even if the disputants happen to arrive at what would be the right answer. This argument takes as a premise that the conclusion "I am a brain in a vat" is not causally related to the actual brain or the actual vat. This would seem to suggest, among other things, that there can be no concrete evidence for this claim--and Putnam is telling us that if we indulge in such a debate anyway we are not merely unlikely to hit upon the right answer, but that we are doomed to talk nonsense.
Which is odd, because supposedly a 30 minute stop will only get you 170 miles of range.

So 15 minutes gets you 85? 90?

Versus 3-4 minutes getting me 450 miles in my Audi, for example.

So the complaint is that the article implies that every 3-4 hours you might need to stop for 30-45 minutes, while the reality is that every 1.5-2h you might need to stop for 15 minutes? (assuming there's a supercharger there)?

Not sure that's better.

Also not sure that you can correlate "how long an average driver uses the Supercharger for" with use cases, as those are unknown. Do they need a boost to get home? Or are they more content with stopping every 90 minutes on a longer trip?
If we are simulated, it'd be interesting to know how optimized the simulation is.

Maybe the simulation is reminiscent of The Matrix in that reality is essentially an elegant artificial abstraction that acts as glue tying together the perceptions of each simulation participant.

Perhaps a proper, low-level simulation isn't computationally prohibitive, but simulating the rest of our universe is. In that case, the cosmos itself may be an illusion despite an otherwise interference-free simulation.

Or, perhaps the entire cosmos is simulated just as we are—including the hundreds of billions of galaxies present in the observable universe. This would heavily imply that computational resources are not finite.

I'd argue that regardless of whether we're in a simulation or not, the sheer vastness of the observable universe heavily suggests that space may in fact be infinite—which by extension creates the potential for simulations to exist at grand—or even infinite—scales.
Is it a joke?
Meet the Star Behind HBO's Silicon Valley: Richard Hendricks
He didn't grow up in ENY. He says he grew up nearby, in a much more stable neighborhood run by the Mafia.
I encourage everyone to join your local political party, work on a campaign, help with endorsements, lobby for some policy change, and even run for office. Heck, just pick an issue and attend every relevant public hearing, just to see how policy is forged.

Once you see the game up close, you'll see that most everyone's acting completely predictably, rationally.

Mostly, the problem is the politics of attention. So many fires, so little time. Whoever screams loudest gets action. Bad things happen on the down-low when no one is watching.

I also learned that politicians and bureaucrats do not play to win. Rather they play to not lose. A real-life version of Survivor. No matter what they do, or not do, it'll come back to bite them in the ass. So the pack only moves when it's "safe", like responding to "overwhelming" public pressure.
This is standard statistical terminology, where "average" is a general term used to describe a central tendency of data. Canonical example averages are arithmetic mean, median, mode.

In popular usage, this has become muddled because the arithmetic mean is also an estimate of the peak/center of a Gaussian distribution from a sample distribution.

Note that "arithmetic mean" is what you colloquially call "average" and think of as "the mean" but it is not in any way the only "mean", either.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
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was this written by an adult?
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I skimmed this twice and I didn't actually see footage of an F-15 landing with one wing, just sappy reenactments of it. Is there a time marker I should look at?
> Your tone is critical, aggressive, and makes no attempt to do anything other than express your personal experience.

(a) it’s not just my experience – it’s an issue that affects many people – most places outside of the US or large population centers look like this

(b) after complaining with hundreds of other people, some of whom have complained for a literal decade trying to improve the situation, could you be calm?

Especially when people then say "look how awesome this is", and you yourself know how bad it really is?
I have no problem with people calling out other people. I just see problem with some guy with lack of experience should be giving out an uniformed and incorrect advice to people who also have no idea.
A 15min stop feels a lot longer when it's 1AM and you just want to be home already.
Layers have always had an activation argument, this is not new. And yes, there is still an Activation layer. You can specify an activation function via either option.
I suspect that the proof against would be along the lines of:

'The theoretical minimum computer for simulating any 1 particle at realtime is at least X particles big. If it would be 1 particle it would not be a simulation. If it would take less it would not be able to capture all possible states. Eventually, every realistic simulation of a universe will either be orders of magnitude less complex than reality or will be orders of magnitude slower than realtime. In both cases realistic simulations of ones universe own past will never be possible and hardly worthwhile and thus we probably don't live in one.'

This also says that computing power cannot grow indefinetely.
A little too self-indulgent for my tastes. Any time someone refers to humans as upgraded monkeys I have the same reaction ... "yeah, I get it. Now get over yourself".
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Are there any motherboards that are not made in China (or Taiwan)? Serious question.
What is tech stack of HackerNews?
what is tech stack of HackerNews?
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> Rather, he is saying that we cannot form accurate and meaningful statements to that effect if we are

Since no one has any trouble uttering or understanding such a statement, I question the value of this viewpoint.
The author doesn't seem to realize that electric power produced by even the dirtiest coal power plant is far less harmful (in terms of CO2 and particulates) than a gasoline engine per mile travelled.
If you run it in a DC, don't you risk exposure to someone cloning it and getting the data you have stored on it?
No, you shouldn't keep sensitive data on it, I know, but still could be cloned/compromised without you knowing, right?
I was anticipating this one: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2535
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
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Off topic - this might be the single most uttered phrase in crypto reviews in the last year.
To be fair, the electric model assumes you have a home charger for your vehicle.

Unless you're driving cross country, the super-charger network isn't a major issue. Unfortunately, most people I know drive cross country at least once a year (beach trips across State lines, vacations, etc. etc). So its definitely a concern.

I think a pure electric vehicle makes for a great commuter car, since you charge at home and never have to go out to a gas station.

But for long trips, the lack of gas stations becomes a flaw, as opposed to an asset.
Yes, there is. See Franks v. Delaware:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks_v._Delaware

The instant case is one of material omission rather than false statement, but there is a substantial amount of case law recognizing that material omissions should be treated the same as false statements.
Don't these things generate a unique key for each file?
Arc (http://www.arclanguage.com/), I believe, running on top of Racket (https://racket-lang.org/). Unless they changed it since it was made public.
You don't need to be convicted or even charged with a crime for police or the feds to steal all of your computer equipment and never return it.
Google engineer Benson Leung tests a bunch of USB 3.0 cables/chargers and has generally found Anker to be good. Spreadsheet of results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wJwqv3rTNmORXz-XJsQa...
This is showing that I'm logged in to Facebook but I don't have an account there anymore.
The Congressional Democratic caucuses in the years 2009-2016 obstructed the Obama Administration's legislative agenda?
There were a couple different movies that explored this theme around the time The Matrix came out. eXistenZ is another one that I enjoyed a lot, where video games become completely immersive, but there's still a few tropes like vapid NPCs and generic place names that kind of give it away.
Yes but how do we know they aren't just simulating your or my relevant particals and those around you/me?
Author here, half an adult i'd say. It was meant to be a stream of consciousness unloading exercise, my first one at that. I have no idea why people are upvoting it.
There is a brief History channel ad in the middle of the video....so just play through that.
Here, Clive looks at an Ikea USB power supply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRe9w5PKmsE&nohtml5=False

Much better made.