skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, their business model and pricing is far from competitive in some areas of the United States. I inquired into their services, and when it came to pricing, they were at least 50% over the average of all service providers and plans, and in the bottom 10% as far as price per kw/h.

Also, the home owner has no ownership stakes in any of the hardware. That's great during the service period (10 years if I recall), where they maintain and manage the hardware. However, at the end of the term, you are offered to buy the equipment with a hefty baloon payment. To the point ehere you'd be better off and come out FAR ahead by paying out of pocket from the onset and own the equipment outright.
And let's not forget:

Editor for Middle Aged Computer Scientists

Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift

Tt's still my favourite, though.
I haven't tried Gardein's burgers, but their faux chicken products are excellent so I would expect their burgers to be good too.
That was part of what I was asking. The other part was around whether there have been instances of firms cutting people out like you described.
Perhaps it's just my reading, but this seems like Gruber is really struggling with the cognitive dissonance of "The headphone jack replacement is obviously not a great idea" and "I must shill and worship Apple at all costs".
Being tall is highly advantageous in the right circumstances, terrible in the wrong ones. It just varies based on environment, resources, etc. Athletes know this too, but it does so happen that the sports which make the most money right now thrive on big, tall men. Basketball and American football thrive on giant guys, but it's not the only model.

The best rock climber isn't going to be an NBA forward, it's going to be someone with a better power-to-weight ratio. That doesn't have to be short, but it can't be too tall without wasting weight on long bones that are going to have to support smaller muscles.
The RS/1 statistical system used a table-based approach; it was wonderful! If I ever spend time to design a language, it's going to have "table" as the main non-primitive type, with some "hints" to sallow super speed.

Cool features: tables could be much larger than memory; they were swapped out as needed. Temporary tables would just stay in memory until memory pressure grew too high; then they were automatically spilled to disk.

What in unix are weird-looking files (termcap, I'm looking at you!) were just tables of data.

Unlike SQL table, RS/1 simply let you change tables using a nice editor (or via SQL-like commands).

Also unlike SQL tables, RS/1 tables should be grouped into objects; an XY graph was simply a collection of tables (a data table, a table for options like line color, some ticks tables, and more). Normally you edit a graph using a nice editor, but you could also edit the (documented) underlying tables.

Overall, it was the single most productive programming and data manipulation environment (for it's time) that I've used.
There are also losses from battery charging. I haven't researched thoroughly but some Tesla fan discussion thread puts it at 20-30%[1], which would be vastly higher than transmission losses. Especially since the electricity typically wouldn't have to travel very far at all before it's used.

[1] https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/battery-charging...
No it is purely a hardware peripheral that just has configuration options.

http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-8923S-CryptoAuth-ATECC508A...
There's also not enough hotel rooms available for the tourism industry which is why renting as an Airbnb is quite attractive in many areas.
There's a huge difference, though. Creating a nuclear weapon encourages others to do the same. An AGI, if done right, would never allow the creation of a second one with conflicting values; there should be no second AGI.
Just to be clear -- their video streams are still served up via Netflix's OpenConnect appliances. The surrounding infrastructure -- everything "outside" of the play button -- finished moving to AWS.

Their billing system has now joined its siblings in living on AWS.
Netflix started with their own infrastructure[1] and migrated it all to AWS. Presumably this was more cost-effective for them.

[1] https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-net...
The hurdle is heat - we can do something like this in mobile SoCs, which commonly place DRAM on top of the CPU (package-on-package). But for a TDP > 10 watts, the memory layer effectively insulates the main die from whatever thermal management is used, making it unworkable. Unfortunately, this problem stands to get worse as transistors shrink, since power density will keep going up.
Because causality only seems to be an obsession of "immature" science, the more successful sciences deal with acausal quantitative relationships between different variables. I'm no expert but there is tons of stuff on this if you search:

"The goal of this account of causation in science has been to reconcile two apparently incompatible circumstances. On the one hand, causes play no fundamental role in our mature science. Those sciences are not manifestly about causation and they harbor no universally valid principle of causality. On the other, the actual practice of science is thoroughly permeated with causal talk: science is often glossed as the search for causes; and poor science or superstition is condemned because of its supposed failure to conform to a vaguely specified principle of causality. I have argued that we can have causes in the world of science in same way as we can retain the caloric. There is no caloric in the world; heat is not a material substance. However in many circumstances heat behaves just as if it were a material fluid and it can be very useful to think of heat this way. It is the same with cause and effect."
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/1214/

All I'm saying is that once you start wondering a bit about this causality idea, it is really annoying to see it thrown around like something obvious.
A premium model for gif hosting might have been an alternative.

As it is:

1. I hate gifs (with very few exceptions).

2. I lack a decent place to host images associated with Reddit.

3. Subscription-based services are a risk on several fronts.
The article claims that the following languages are table oriented in some respect:

"TOP languages do exist in various levels or incarnations of Table-orientedness. These include Xbase derivatives (dBASE, FoxPro, Clipper), PAL (Paradox), Power-Builder, Perl (for certain list types), Progress, Oracle's PL/SQL, and Clarion Developer."

A quick web search shows that all of these are apparently still actively developed and used. I don't think any one is modern in the particular sense I understand your question since, apart from Perl, they were all attempts to create the fourth generation languages that were supposed to take over from structured programming.
I think there are more accessible natural resources for cheaper acquisition in the deep sea. We don't need the tremendous equipment needed for lift from the atmosphere. The oceans play a more critical role in survival here on earth, and yet we dont know much about the deep sea. Personal Pet Idea, I'm also hoping undiscovered deep sea organisms could give us technological and medical breakthroughs.
I've read many times that what Trump said about the judge was racist.

IMHO, the solid, primary sources do not support that claim.

I do intend to post to this thread a response to Altman's post where I give details, but to me the Trump-judge thing went through three steps:

Step 1. Trump asserted that the judge made some unfair decisions against Trump. Maybe Trump was just blowing smoke as part of a good defense, but maybe he was on solid ground. I'm not a lawyer. Then Trump asked -- I have a quote -- why the judge was being unfair.

Step 2. Soon it was clear enough that the judge had Mexican ancestry and was active in some pro-Mexican political activities that conflicted with Trump's campaign positions on illegal immigration from Mexico. Then, and only then, did Trump assert that this background of the judge was likely the reason the judge was unfair.

Or, Trump never claimed that a judge with Mexican ancestry would have to be unfair. Instead, Trump claimed that this judge's actions in the case showed that the judge was unfair to Trump and, then, could, easily enough, see explanatory reasons in the judge's background. Or, if want to say that someone is being unfair, then it helps to give an explanatory reason. In law, that's called motivation or some such, right, and is regarded as important, right?

Step 3. Since then, a lot more has come out on the judge. He's close to some groups that are wildly racist, e.g., want everyone in the US of Western European descent to return to Europe. Trump has concluded that the judge should recuse himself from the case. If the judge does not recuse, then the case starts to look just political.

Maybe a judge really is strongly for pro-Mexican political causes and is eager to be unfair to others. So, in that case we can't say that the judge is unfair because of his pro-Mexican causes? That would be a license for anyone with pro-Mexican causes to be unfair without being criticized.
I don't see Netflix and Amazon being serious competitors...yet. For both of them, the main competitor is cable. The more that either/both of them are able to get people to "cut the cord," the better it will be for both of them.

I can't speak for others, but for me, the decision wasn't, "should I choose Netflix or Prime Video?" Instead, it was, "Can I find enough programming to satisfy me for less than I'm paying for cable?" The only way my answer was yes was with multiple streaming subscriptions.
You want something past "attention whore", which connotes only aspiration and doesn't capture accumulated social capital. It's the accumulated social capital that makes these people so harmful.
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I see more geopolitical impediments than technological...
Those being the colocated servers they give to ISPs?

EDIT: yes. [1] [2]

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/
[2] http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/...
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Yes, steganalysis is used to flag material is irregular based on a number of factors:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganalysis
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Even if those are separate phrases they still claim it's "the most efficient way possible" to consume energy. But there are energy losses when going through a battery instead of redistributing the energy in realtime -- much greater than transmission losses. So unless I am missing something, that appears to be a false claim.
Many sources supporting this can be found here:

https://www.tinnitustalk.com/threads/magnesium-for-relief-of...
Yes. There is [1] which is on Yubikey OTP specifically.

And on a lot more that focus on general embedded platforms running common cryptographic algorithms. U2F uses elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) internally -- check out this source for DPA on ECC [2].

[1] http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41284-4_1...

[2] http://saluc.engr.uconn.edu/refs/sidechannel/
What do you even mean when you say: "See welfare." Welfare is designed to temporarily give out free stuff, it's not easy, but it also is less annoying than the Police.

With the police, the entire process for reporting many of these issues revolves around convincing them to do their job. Or rather, convincing them that your problem is important enough, or else an easy enough case to make, that they should devote time to it rather than other crimes in the area.

And then you say "Going to the police is confrontation by proxy"? That sentence, at least in any civilized part of the world, is complete nonsense. The reason why we have police, ideally, is to reduce the number of confrontations by making the cost of both crime and of escalating violence swift and clear. The job of courts and the police is to prevent vigilantism, as well as to protect people. It does more to prevent additional violence both because most criminals (who aren't the best in society) know that you don't try and take on the police and because it keeps the people being hurt by crime from lashing out and escalating.

And then you go on this victim blaming "you must train on self defense" nonsense? If you live in a war zone, or a really rough neighborhood and you can't count on the police, you might have a point. But for most people crime happens rarely, and nearly all of the time there's no way to prepare for it unless that's all you do with your time. Maybe that's how you want to live, but for me and most other people, that's alot of mental and emotional energy to spend on something that isn't likely to happen.
I think you have that backwards. Trespassing is your actus reus. What's at issue is intent, or mens rea. You're looking for firmer indications of mens rea than, apparently, you've seen in CFAA cases to date.
> Even if Amazon can't access the raw data, they could see how you're utilizing it to improve their own video service, and they get the benefit of billing you and potentially using their pricing leverage to squeeze your margins.

So you're saying Amazon is going to risk millions of dollars so they can make a few more bucks on video streaming, which is like 3 levels down from their primary business?

Prove it. I had an argument with my last company about this very issue. If Amazon's primary business was video delivery, then that would make a lot of sense. But where does Amazon's primary revenue stream actually come from? That's right, it's AWS. Amazon may be an excellent retailer, but they spend just as much money as they make on the shipping and fulfillment side to get shit on your doorstep faster and cheaper than anyone else out there. Each person that spends money on Amazon can only really spend a few hundred dollars per year. But even a small company that's entirely hosted on AWS, like 70% of the companies I've worked for, pays Amazon thousands of dollars per month for hosting. There's definitely more people than companies, but shipping stuff to people costs a lot more money than Amazon needs to pay in order to have your stuff hosted by them. Plus they do a lot of R&D into making their own systems faster and more efficient, eventually passing savings down when they re-work their pricing tiers.

Basically, my argument is/was that the whole idea of Amazon stealing your IP to make a few extra bucks on whatever they happen to be doing is totally bunk. Amazon is really in the infrastructure business, and if you're a video startup...you're NOT. And take it from someone who watched a company try and fail to build a competing private cloud with no budget and a skeleton crew...it's stressful and not fun at all.

The main reason to use multiple providers is, as you said, uptime and redundancy...and "not putting all your eggs in one basket", so to speak. It's an engineering, not political, decision. My last company could have probably saved themselves by moving everything to AWS and shutting down their Level3 internet-backbone connectivity and direct fiber from the office to the datacenter (which is the same technology AWS is using anyway, except they have an actual cloud API and not just a pile of servers), but they were too busy conflating this engineering/performance decision with one that must be made for political reasons.
Bitcoin script provides a no elegant way to invalidate old states. There are various solutions to this in lightning network tx but they end up requiring actively watching the network in case an old state is broadcast. If you have a better mechanism for invalidate the previous state, the whole system can be massively simplified.
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This article is incredible. According to the Maslow was wrong. Love from others is more important than food, water and shelter. Is this true? I think so. In a very real sense, these other physical needs won't be me unless there is love. The degree of love in our life and resilience in the face of adversity shapes each person in this world.
how about the item has to get opened in front of a third party such as the post office and confirmed that its ok
Reading the summary[0] I'm led to believe that, as a current private ASEL holder, I simply need to take "a small UAS online training course provided by the FAA" and apply for a certificate. The summary doesn't mention anything about UAS currency, just that you need to be BFR-current for your Part 61.

I'll probably get a UAS certificate just for kicks. (Why not?)

[0] http://www.faa.gov/uas/media/Part_107_Summary.pdf
The article could do a better job laying out the case for asserting that shenanigans are taking place, but I understand the gist of what the defense is claiming, and I hope they get the chance to pursue it. Chain of custody is important, and what Yahoo is claiming does not quite square with what appears to have happened. The crime or guilt of the accused is irrelevant -- if behind the charade is a new mass-surveillance technique, the court and the public deserve to know.

So how exactly were unsent drafts persisted on Yahoo servers, how many snapshots are saved, and for how long? These are straight-forward questions which deserve direct answers. Instead, Yahoo seems to be talking around the core issue and perhaps hoping a technically challenged court will mistake Yahoo's responses as actually forthcoming.

What we know is that law enforcement made a "preservation request" in September 09, and then a search warrant in April 2010. We know that for both the 'preservation request' and the search warrant, Yahoo claims they create a snapshot at that time, which only sees account data at that instant and nothing further. Crucially, Yahoo claims there is no special mode the email account can be switched into by law enforcement to change the logging or retention rules. And this is what makes this case particularly interesting -- whatever data was available in this case, the same retention rules apply across all their users.

At first, Yahoo claimed in a written statement that, "If a user deletes a communication from his or her account, the communication becomes inaccessible to the proprietary tools Yahoo uses to gather communications data in response to preservation requests and search warrants."

In a subsequent statement, Yahoo backpedaled and now claims that in fact, "auto-save drafts remain on the Yahoo Mail server for some time after the draft message is [deleted]." Furthermore, "multiple drafts of a single email could remain on the Yahoo mail server, and accessible to Yahoo’s snapshot tool, even though the user had deleted the final draft.”

Yahoo claims that at some point after a draft is deleted, the auto-saved versions of the draft will also be deleted. They don't describe at all how long that interval is, so for all we know it's 1000 years. We also don't know if there's a limit to how many versions of a draft Yahoo will accumulate over time. Really all we know if that Yahoo says the behavior is exactly the same whether a 'preservation request' or a search warrant has been executed, or not, so we're talking about their general purpose algorithm used across hundred of millions of users.
No, this is the "razor and blade model"
from a game theory standpoint, giving two weeks notice should be considered from the perspective of managing your reputation with your peers in your industry, not about whether we 'owe' something or not to our employer. teamwork, communication, cooperation (see Stephen Covey) are as important as technical competency.

it's a bit like the mark twain quote: "never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
I think another way of looking at what you said is people can feel threatened or diminished by certain arguments, even if they're not directed at them, when certain cherished premises are challenged, and part of learning to argue well is to learn to take those feelings as signals that the argument needs to be looked at closely and seriously, but not as truth. It's not the final word, but more checking needs to be done to see if one's own premises are close to reality or not. Of course, that always needs to be done, but from what I see, many people are not equipped to deal with an argument that hits a nerve, much less to listen to ideas that don't agree with each other, and consider the argument based on its content, not on attitudes ("What it sounds like or feels like").

Since "fast and slow" have been a part of the discussion here, perhaps what I'm describing has to do with the relationship between "System 1" and System 2?
it is WAY more cost-effective when you get to that kind of scale to use someone else's battle-tested APIs. the best part is that when that stuff breaks down, it's not your job to fix it.
still running.
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The engineering math curriculum has issues, yes, I agree. I thought a lot of topics were taught in the wrong order and their usefulness was often not made clear until much later. At this point, though, I think I've used techniques from pretty much every class (even ones I thought were irrelevant when I took them) I took.

But really, the engineering math curriculum has (or at least should have) three purposes. The first is to teach you logical reasoning and problem solving -- critical skills. The next is to provide you with a toolbox of techniques you can call upon to solve common problems in your field. Finally, the curriculum should provide you with the mathematical maturity to acquire the new mathematical tools that you need.

The last point directly relates to your second paragraph. I don't know very much about data analytics. If I (somehow) got hired into a big data role, the senior engineers will lack both the time and the desire to sit me down and give me the background on statistics, machine learning, etc. that I would need. However, because I have spent a lot of time studying other mathematical topics and have a background in linear algebra, probability, etc., they can point me at good sources and I can learn myself. If I came in just knowing single variable calculus from high school I would have a rough time.
Needs a 2007.

"(And by the way, if you want to see a really, really outrageously perfect sphere, check this out.)"

Assume it's -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAhfZUZiwSE
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Plus, no pricey salaries to have event response teams on the payroll.
I have been so desperate for an expert-crafted standardized tree-hash. Hallelujah!
Where is the intersection between HIPPA and a back-office customer billing system?
>Lactaid makes lactose-free versions of many dairy products that usually contain lactose, including ice cream

Despite the label claiming that, it isn't actually the case. Rather than removing the sugar, which is quite difficult without affecting the milk, they simply add lactase.
If we had loss of technological knowledge (say due to climate change induced conflict), it might not be possible in the future for the surviving humans to re-bootstrap back up to our our current technological level.

We have exhausted all the easily accessible minerals and fossil fuels (i.e. those resources that can be extracted using stone age tools). Any break in our current technological systems might make it impossible to recover for 10s of millions of years.
It didn't. Eating meat did. It has nothing to do with being picky.
Meanwhile, science is trying to determine what thing causes what other thing.
You are right, except most of these are applicable to narrow AI and don't need to wait for AGI for their application.
Might never want to allow, but may not necessarily have a choice in the matter. Nobody really knows how singularity AGI fooms will play out.