skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nuclear lightbulb doesn't generate power though -- it's a rocket engine, and "generates" reaction mass leaving at high velocities. So it's not suitable for use powering an emdrive, the whole point of which being indefinite flight without needing to use up any reaction mass, which a nuclear lightbulb can't do.
Competing laptop manufacturers have options for more ram.
Fascinating insight into one of the biggest email operations. I'd be very interested to hear how the other companies in this space differ or are similar.

Question: Is there a curve where pushing this processing back to the phone will become possible? The most powerful counterpoint at the moment is battery life, but I do see that improving to a plausible point where this sort of continual processing is feasible?
Touch bar uses more power than ram.
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At least you're going to figure out which plane+airline tends to have the outlets.
That's a great problem to have.

Pro: Can't make hot cakes fast enough.

Con: I wish I could switch ovens; a white one matches my kitchen's decor.
The idea that your own happiness or suffering is created by your reaction to events rather than the events themselves is utterly Buddhist.

But I wouldn't say that Buddhism was some Indian equivalent of Stocism. I also read about Epicurianism or even Cynisym and say "hey, that idea is totally the Buddhist, POV". I suspect the same can be done for other Indian schools.

Sages of the axial age from around the old world discovered many similar good ideas, and people later built philosophical schools around them combining things in different ways.

This is why I don't think there was much idea transfer between India and the West. They simply had the same good ideas. (But I am sure the Greek Buddhists of Ghandhara had a field day with the parallels. I wish we had written records of their ideas, to go with their art.)
> The only way to have a level playing field is to have everyone's information publicly available.

This is extremely naive, to put it mildly. More people will be oppressed and suffer heavily if this were to happen. All that such a request would result in is a dictatorship where everybody's information is publicly available except for the few who rule.

I also don't understand how anyone could bring about "tolerance and respect" while having all information public, considering what history has shown us for thousands of years, and is continuing to show us day by day. The two put together seem like a desire to destroy capitalism, which is not easy to destroy or replace because of innate human characteristics.

It does seem like you are dreaming of a Utopia that's far more difficult to achieve than better (not necessarily perfect) privacy through technology, laws and culture.

While I do see that privacy erosion happening and increasing, that's not an excuse for saying that nobody should have privacy at all. If you really mean "all of everyone's information" to be public, I can only assume you want everyone's photos, videos, messages, safe locker key codes, banking passwords, credit card numbers, health records and everything else to be publicly available. That sounds utterly ridiculous to me, unless you revise what you mean by "information" and what you mean by "everyone". The moment you start on that revision, you're already talking about privacy controls again.
MacPorts does install the GUI (just finished compiling it).
Can anyone explain reason for down voting me?

I only ask for support to be able to run that movie in my terminal if anyone knows it.
What makes you think this?

In dreamful sleep, we exist at a level of consciousness where what we observe is indistinguishable from ourselves. And yet we rarely notice.
... or the detected civilization will just have died out in the same time span. How much time do we have left as a species? Given climate change and our current consumption of non renewable resources, I doubt any civilization that detects us today would be able to reach us on time.

Three Body Problem sounds interesting. Will check it out.
I never said there wasn't, however; What is obvious is that if taxis and trucks (privately owned or not) are now so cheap to run because there are no labor cost involved in having them on the road, then the next problems we will face are increased congestion, increased pollution (electric cars still consume a lot of power), increased road degradation. The only way to control this might be through increased taxes or car registration fees.

This still means the car problem needs solving.
NPR is definitely propaganda. And don't even get me started on CNN.. they're not even a legitimate news source anymore. They qualify as fake news now.

The amount of anti-russian nonsense coming from DNC/Clintons and liberal is off the charts.

And please point out when WikiLeaks was wrong. Go ahead, I'll wait.
I don't mind the choice of the word, but if you don't then "equanimity" might suite you better.
I've read this thread and see there are people who highly appreciate Apple's products and others who dislike them
very much. Personally, I see plenty of Apple laptops used by my colleagues, and I can't help liking them.

Since I want to run linux though, my question is: is there a specific (older) version of the MacBook Pro that I should consider?
Until the European countries got over themselves and formed a union that could accommodate multiple cultures, the biggest threat any of them faced --- by far --- were each other.

Also: the Muslims aren't coming to kill you. Far more the opposite: they're coming to vaccinate you and to write you prescriptions for azithromycin and to evaluate your MRI results.
Not disagreeing with you there, but I don't see how that leads to free energy from an emdrive. How exactly do you get more energy out than you put in?

And anyway, kinetic energy isn't a conserved quantity. It can be converted into potential energy in a gravity well, or lost entirely in inelastic collisions. Momentum is the quantity that is always conserved, and that is what the emdrive violates directly (though still not in a way that allows for perpetual motion or free power, near as I can tell).
No screen on that.
Tried language through TV with my kids. The experiment with the first kid was an accident. She used to watch Chhota Bheem a cartoon in Hindi. Within a couple of months she was able to understand and speak Hindi though none of us spoke the language at home. She was 3 years old.
With the next kid we sort of experimented. We never spoke in English to him. But he has picked it up by just watching Peppa pig on you tube. He is 2.5 years old now.
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Provided you can provide enough wattage, I'm sure you could. A bunch of 18650s hooked up to a USB-C power delivery controller... I bet someone will hack something together.
According to Roger Shawyer, the inventor of the EmDrive, no physical laws are broken:

>What I would say is that the idea that EmDrive violates the laws of conservation of momentum is itself nonsense. Of course it doesn’t. It wouldn’t work if it did. All that EmDrive is a device for exchanging the momentum of the electromagnetic waves going up and down inside it, with the momentum of the thruster as it accelerates. It’s all actually elementary physics.
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I grew up in a family full of woodworkers where I was the odd one out preferring building in code instead of wood. I like to think my ability to hold large software designs in my head comes from my moms ability to visualise and build large intricate pieces of furniture without written plans. I picked up all the basic skills around using tools living in a house with a large wood shop but I never developed my skills in it. Stuff like this definitely makes me think it'll be something I pick up again in the future as a hobby.
The credibility of the whole story fell to the floor when he said that sleep mode would kill more batteries because they fail when completely discharged. Apple has had top notch battery protection for years. Totally draining a macbook battery to failure has not been possible for many years.
That is already happening. Note, for instance, the (fabulously bogus) narrative about the racial IQ gap, in which it is supposed that "white people" can safely suggest that "black people" are cognitively deficient† so long as they also concede that Eastern Asians are of superior intellect. People should think about that when they read rambling blog posts by people claiming not to be motivated by racial animosity but by concern for intelligence and aptitude. That line around Indian-American, Asian-American, and "white" people is already being drawn.

† Again: fabulously bogus.
True, but that only incentivizes you to avoid funding biotechs entirely :).
The article says: "However, the kinds of tasks addressed by AI systems tend to differ significantly from traditional algorithmic tasks such as sorting lists of numbers or calculating square roots."

Yes, those tasks do significantly differ from the mathematical calculation tasks that algorithms are traditionally associated with BUT the whole idea of AI is to take those tasks and represent them as algorithmic tasks so that they can be solved using computers. No matter which human cognition concept you associate to a computer, the reality is that the only thing that a computer can do is run the given algorithm. Somehow most of the AI community is just fascinated about giving computers the ability to "think" or have "perception" etc without realising that what they are actually doing is "representation as calculations".
Is more CPU cores really better? I thought a bunch of graphics cards would be better. Isn't that the whole point of Nvidia'a Quadro line?
Why do you use Backblaze over, say, CrashPlan, if the latter has a Linux client?
I don't think that is quite what is meant by "fake news" but I take the point.
No, I don't think this is what eximius was talking about. I think the kind you're talking about does not use any symbolic notation.
> Well that's not that exciting or even new. I don't know of other countries, but some of brazilian literature classics from the XIX century were originally published in small pieces at daily newspapers. With intense debate around the paths of the story.

Two questions:

1. What specifically are you referring to?

2. Why did you feel the neeed to express it in Roman numeral?
Hiking, reading, writing, walking, talking, singing, loving, painting, cooking, eating, competing...
Everything that people say "I wish I did more..." on their deathbeds.
Placebo "works" even if the patient knows it's a placebo :).
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> Huggies tried to make a similar sensor to detect when the diaper is full of shit, but it proved impossible to distinguish from normal activity on Twitter.

See this is why we need groundbreaking advancements in deep learning and we need them now.
> The Mac Pro has been the current model for at least two years

It was released in October 2013, so more than 3 years.
How would you expect to receive this warning?
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In practice you're limited to sending information at half the theoretical maximum resolution[1], so 5 fps. Still has some very interesting possibilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency (updated link, s/rate/frequency/)
Keep in mind that this is oil which needs to be horizontally drilled for, meaning fracking. Fracking has destroyed water tables because of the chemicals used and been linked to earthquakes in Canada. Not to mention that it is very intensive in terms of water use.

But of course, while the oil is running there are lots of jobs created, at least until OPEC decides they've had enough and drives the price of oil back down.

Since this is Texas, I'm pretty sure the local community won't worry about this stuff much (I grew up in Texas and have relatives who live just north of this field's extent). Hopefully the benefits will outweigh the costs for them -- it's not clear that this has been the case for North Dakota.
Her last big idea, in 2005, was "green steel", using old tires as an input to steelmaking. In practice, the one company using this replaces about 12% - 16% of their coke with old tires. [1] This doesn't replace coke in making pig iron, the first phase of steelmaking from ore and the big user of coke and thus coal. It's just for a fraction of the small amount of coke used in electric arc furnace steel recycling to assist in getting the non-steel "slag" out of the metal. It's more a useful way to get rid of tires than a way to make steel "green".

So there's a history of over-promotion here.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/waste-revoluti...
[2] http://www.worldsteel.org/steel-by-topic/sustainable-steel/c...
I think this is an area where functional encryption could help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_encryption

This would allow a client to combine a server-provided function that calculates a spam score with their private key such that the resulting function calculates a spam score on encrypted email. The client could then hand that function back to the server so it can perform server-side spam detection.

There are a number of drawbacks, including performance and general questions about the security of such a system. That said, I think this is probably the biggest problem (from the OP):

"The third problem is that spam filters rely quite heavily on security through obscurity, because it works well. Though some features are well known (sending IP, links) there are many others, and those are secret. If calculation was pushed to the client then spammers could see exactly what they had to randomise and the cross-propagation of reputations wouldn't work as well."

Using functional encryption to provide server-side spam detection would still require handing a spam scoring function to the client so they can apply that function to their private key and hand the server a result. This would expose the internals of the spam detection routine to all clients, including spammers.

A difficult tradeoff.
> change some observable properties of the universe (like speed of light)

In your other comment:

> Could the speed of light have changed because of aliens weaponizing physics in past wars?

Because the speed of light is a dimensional constant, it doesn't make sense to say it could have changed in the past. Only dimensionless constants, like the fine structure constant, can hypothetically be different at other points in space and/or time. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionless_physical_constan...
Just 60 days for what? You get full functionality before and after. And you pay less than AWS before and after.
yeah I guess in that sense it's a trick. But serves the buggers right for lying in the first place!

If people would just say what they mean and mean what they say, we would have nicer things ;)
I desperately want this, but live far away and they weren't answering emails.

http://www.benchsolution.com/product/bench-wall-kit/

Would make one but it looks like it would be easy to screw up. Father in law is very handy so maybe I should ask him to help me out
>I'm not sure what the hell to believe anymore.

Exactly. So just bear in mind, when the war against independent media is won, your children won't have to worry about that. Then they will be told what is appropriate for them to see and hear, and by consequence, what to think.

Yes there's a lot of really shit people out there with a website and news headlines. That by itself is not a good reason to throw away the first amendment and grant the government and largest corporations the right to control what people see and hear. What's even more troubling, is there's no evidence that the majority of "fake news" is even what the mainstream media says it is. If you read this and don't believe me:

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/18/the-stark-contrast-betwe...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12997038
> Until the European countries got over themselves and formed a union that could accommodate multiple cultures, the biggest threat any of them faced --- by far --- were each other.

That was about free trade and some movement within the union / not from outside; and a big lie; and turning out to be about the centralization of power at the end.

And now they face an entirely new threat...

> Also: the Muslims aren't coming to kill you. Far more the opposite: they're coming to vaccinate you and to write you prescriptions for azithromycin and to evaluate your MRI results.

The demographics (and illiteracy) of the incoming, the rape epidemic statistics, the destruction of social cohesion, and just about everyone who has been introduced to multiculturalism, will disagree with you on those points.

But when the media brainwashes people into thinking that a "truck" killed 80 people, and not the driver, or that the police are "baffled" as to what the motivations are behind migrants screaming 'god is great' / 'allahu akbar' while killing people, I won't blame you into thinking otherwise.
Given the water situation in most of Texas, I find it unbelievable that anyone is still pushing oil, especially shale oil, as an energy option anywhere in Texas. And, yet, all those old oil barons are still pushing that agenda, and still controlling the narrative at every level of government.

That same desert could house miles of solar panels and miles of wind farms. But, very few people are pushing that solution to the energy problem, even though it is now price-competitive with fossil fuels to do so in places like Texas, where both wind and sun are plentiful almost year round.
There are multiple portions of this project only one of which is rendering. The rest is data acquisition, job scheduling, and some other stuff. I've got to sample a source of data and run a lot of code on it.

> If you're just looking to learn formal methods, then I guess it's whatever. But if you're looking to stand out, you might want to figure out what's important to your stake holders and focus on that. I'd be pleasantly surprised if the answer to that question is formal methods.

I was just joking around a bit. I've been interested for some time.
Typo: decreasing food production
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What is the relevance of the image at the top here of a sub-Saharan African to an article about an ancient European philosophy.

An ancient European philosophy we know of today thanks to written language and a European civilization that developed, preserved and cultivated countless worldchanging ideas.(like the controlled conveyance of photons into your eyes relaying this information)

Written language was never even devised in sub-Saharan Africa!

These agenda driven, Magical Negro juxtapositions are becoming obscene.
That's almost exactly what Anders Breivik said, before he personally killed scores of people in Norway.
I certainly can't see a path to solution, but the excellent talk 'who will command the robot army?' puts in clear perspective the urgent ethical and technical challenge facing this world.

I don't know Jeff, but I too hope he will come up with something good here.
Frankly, I resent the trend to call anything one disagrees with or find some problem with "fake news". Fake news is specific phenomenon and this has nothing to do with it.

True that the 900B estimate is nothing to do with actual monetary value of the deposit - it's just a size estimate expressed in terms most understandable by common person. Maybe it is misleading - though quantifying "a real lot of oil" to make it comprehensible is not an easy task, and writing "well, there's lots of oil but we have no idea if we can get to it and how much would that cost" is a bad headline. But the correction that 900B figure is just a sort of "car analogy" to estimate the size and not the actual worth is true. It does not mean original article is "fake news" - it's true news, just using one somewhat misleading illustration.
Because of Apple's anorexia, that's why.

The 10-15% increase in battery consumption could have been easily solved by having a 10-15% bigger battery.
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Executive summary lesson: don't by a new android phone, especially if it's a google pixel, or Risk getting your account banned. Good job google, great way to maintain your customer's confidence.
It gets even worse with aliens. Our brains have convinced us that they are universal computation machines, but consider that there are possibly true representations of the universe that are literally unknowable to us.
You're preaching to the choir :) I find it totally revolting that the response from the left to Trump's election is to blame "fake news", as if it's possible for an algorithm or even a very intelligent human to determine with certainty what is real and what is fake, and as if the largest media organizations haven't themselves been pushing "fake news" for a long time now.
That FAA thing is bullshit, 160 Wh is allowed in hand luggage just not checked in but who checks a three thousand dollar machine in.
The mental gymnastics these people go through in order to retain some sort of high ground in the face of overwhelming evidence is pretty nuts.
Can't speak to the second part, but I came here to post the first part. tl;dr There's nearly a trillion dollars of oil to sell at today's prices, but it's not "worth" anywhere that much in net because drilling it is not nothing.
So this means middle East will get some relief from wars?
I live in this neck of the woods, Midland is 30 minutes away and I often am in town to work or play. On the one hand, I'm kinda glad that the oil is there, those are big numbers especially considering that the price per barrel is half of what is was two years ago. It will definitely boost the local economy. On the other, we are just now starting to see the area begin to settle down from the influx of workers who came to the area for jobs. When oil is booming crime goes up, housing costs go up, and traffic gets dangerous. Not to mention all the water that gets wasted from fracking. Water restrictions were just lifted but the area cannot support more people for long. Groundwater is being contaminated and soon what little above ground water sources we have will run dry if the area continues to see growth, add to this the fact that the shale formations will need to be broken up (by fracking) to access the crude and it looks like even more water will be used, as well as increase the possibilities of sinkholes and seismic activity throughout the entire basin. This is not going to be enjoyable for the locals.
That's an interesting perspective
There are theoretical problems with any system of voting, everything's a trade-off one way or the other. Vote-by-mail increases turnout, it's easier and more convenient, and the problems you're afraid of simply don't happen in practice.

At the end of the day, I'd much rather have the increased participation in the democratic process than cater to the unfounded/theoretical fears of a few folks.
That's the big question, right there, indeed. This is an artificial limit by Intel, after all. 16GB DIMM DDR3 modules do exist, it's just that Intel put an assert into the firmware to not allow for those.
>If it weren't for the melanin problem, I am positive that "white people," the institution, would gladly grab us along for the ride, just as they did with the Irish and the Polish and so forth. (And, possibly, if it weren't for the fact that having us as a model minority makes it easier to oppress the non-model minorities without looking like you hate minorities in general.)

i'm sorry you have identity issues but it's not the result of a conspiracy to oppress minorities
Gun ownership began after the civil rights movement?

You're entitled to your opinions, but this just makes you sound ridiculous.