skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is interesting and the author has some good points about the lack of small non-burstable instances in AWS. There are plenty of things to gripe about.

But the headline assertion is ultimately unsupported except in terms of simple comparison graphs of paper numbers about the raw CPU and memory numbers. Are the CPU units comparable? Is the networking what it's cracked up to be? How easy is it to autoscale? Is the capacity you need available when you need it? How long do instances take to start? What are the dynamic storage options? How does disk IO performance compare?

I'd be really interested to read an article that attempted to break these down and do a real comparison. But this article doesn't even attempt a real world comparison.
Probably speaking from general experience with Google customer support, which is generally opaque. The few times I have corresponded with Google customer support it's been bad.
It's such a fascinating thing, how many people were part of that wave and yet collectively don't acknowledge it publicly any more.

It's one of the first times I've seen people en masse avoid mentioning a shared thing from the past, not unlike the stereotypical "playing with dolls" of being very young.

(Mandatory reference to people huddling around metaphorical campfires as various livestreaming services had people who had managed to load that 80MB monstrosity before it went down sharing it, and people sometimes streaming those streams as the per-stream viewer caps got hit, and various free filesharing sites went down as AH uploaded it there...)
This is considering IoT from a semiconductor company's perspective; There will not be much revenue from the chips for this market. How much can they make per smart light bulb? You also have to note that Intel doesn't have semiconductor IP for nearly any radio protocol (BT, BTLE, Zigbee, they have wifi but not low end) necessary to build SoCs to win those markets.

IoT will be a big market, but the profits won't be going primarily to the semiconductor companies via chip sales. We won't likely see an "Intel Cloud Platform" or Intel selling IoT deployment services.

The FPGA tech is interesting, but mostly irrelevant to IoT. FPGAs can really benefit from Intels leading edge manufacturing, so that is a smart acquisition (even before considering IA integration possibilities).

Intel does not have much of a presence in networking, and there are a lot of competitors there who are more invested, and further, design their own silicon (Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, brocade maybe). Maybe if they are able to productize the silicon (as opposed to more exotic materials) optical transceivers they have spent a ton researching they would have something huge here.
Not sure what "physics" exactly means in this context, I presume that gravity, EM or nuclear forces are just products of some supreme alien technology? Isn't that just the same, and equally as (un)likely, as the concept of God that rules the Universe?
Oh sure, yes AI will also be baked into products sold to poor, no it won't be for their benefit but rather to control, manipulate and rip them off. Kind of like advertising and surveillance now.
That thing is amazing!
The concept is known as "vaccine escape" and is present in some viral diseases but not others. I confess I don't know how between-strain viral dynamics of HIV work, but it was definitely a concern for HPV, though it does not appear to be happening.
The Boy Scouts have been doing this for quite a long time - do you have any citations of Conway's having invented this?
Coincidence, or life maybe, is just incredible. I bought "A guide to the good life" a couple of days ago, and started reading it 2 hours ago. I finished the first two chapters, and checked hacker news for the first time today, this post was in the top 10...Good article, even better writing. Cheers.
One could theoretically charge for a cure a little over the cost of the lifetime supply of drug cocktails, and it would still be slightly worth it for the buyer.

Of course, in practice, doing so would lead to severe media outrage, calls for regulation, state-sanctioned patent breaching all over the world, etc. So the practical price is capped. Investors know this.
Thank you- I honestly thought I had (temporarily) lost my sanity for a split second when it flipped.
> This means over a foot per side for cars and more than half a foot for trucks.

I drove in a place like this (Dominica) for a while ~15 years ago. It was rare to see cars that hadn't been dinged up by minor encounters with other cars... If your mirror struck a pole or another car, well, that's why they're on hinges, right? Right?

> I don't want to drive 50 miles an hour next to a truck on a 10-foot wide lane, but that's not a city or a suburban speed, that's highway speed.

80 MPH is a highway speed. 50 MPH is definitely normal suburban speed; non-cul-de-sac suburban roads are often posted at 45.
Government Spending Is Bad Economics (2011)
After those areas have been detected and a pattern emerges what are the resulting action items? Can building models actually help mitigate the losses?
Shane Carruth, the guy who gave us Primer and Upstream Color, wrote a screenplay for a movie that would have been called A Topiary. It's essentially an exploration of this idea. It starts with a traffic engineer in the 80's finding strange patterns in accident data, and ends with a group of adolescents building a device of non-human design. The key idea is that spectra are the manifestation that ties it all together. The screenplay is available online and would make an excellent SF novel.
> Even 1/3rd of Clinton voters don't believe the media anymore.

What's "the media," exactly? Would it include the most watched cable network? Because no, I don't believe Fox News blindly, but let's not pretend there's a monolithic single mainstream there. Even it is certainly more accurate than the shit you'll find online most places.
Oops, you're right. Thanks for the correction!
> It requires constant reflection to short circuit this tendency.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/dhamma...

Don't give way to heedlessness
or to intimacy
with sensual delight —
for a heedful person,
absorbed in [concentration],
attains an abundance of ease.

When the wise person drives out
heedlessness
with heedfulness,
having climbed the high tower
of discernment,
sorrow-free,
he observes the sorrowing crowd —
as the enlightened man,
having scaled
a summit,
the fools on the ground below.
Does the Oberth effect really apply when your propellant mass is always zero?
There's virtually zero chance we'all have level 5 autonomy within 3 years.

The tech is impressive but it has to be absolutely bulletproof. I like Tesla but I find it annoying that Musk doesn't deliver anything on time and it seems like Tesla delivers way more demos than real products.
I am not kidding about this: there are places in the Midwest where people have been required to remove trees from their front yards in order to make things safer for drivers who might drift off roads.
Making driving more dangerous forces drivers to focus harder, and focusing harder makes drivers less likely to screw up. The thing the article fails to address is the stress this adds to everyone's commute. The stress of a daily commute can have a serious impact on a person's health. Deliberately increasing the stress associated with driving without considering the ramifications is irresponsible imo.

http://time.com/9912/10-things-your-commute-does-to-your-bod...
You should grab three or four bags of playground sand to add weight to the base. For less than $20 you would not have to worry so much about movement while planing. For a little bit more you could get some dumbbells and not have to lose all the flat space under the bench.
bugs

better keep your programmers happy
McCulloch's papers aren't very well-regarded because he was originally a biologist, not a physicist, and his theories (accompanied by blog posts) are very unconventional. I'm not trying to slime him or anything, just explain why he isn't cited often - I'm not well-educated enough to understand his work.
I assume this is how we will achieve IP over Avian Carriers?
Safety tip. Especially if you are starting with routers or jigsaws, get decent goggles+ facemask since stuff are flying everywhere.

I'm surprised most of these sites don't mention this.
> It's evidence that prosecutors are motivated primarily by the scorekeeping of their professions: convictions and successfully-sold sentences.

There's surely some truth to that, but it doesn't justify dismissing it as counter-evidence. You could just as easily rationalize any other vague, unsubstantiated reason to do so, such as claiming that there was some entirely personal grudge that Sessions was holding against him. People act on a variety of motivations. Selectively dismissing evidence based upon one hypothesized motivation is intellectually dishonest.

> Since these are all pretty straightforward observations, the attempts to "rehabilitate" Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III by pointing out his conviction of a KKK leader are pretty telling. As in, that's the best argument you have? (I'm sure there are in fact better arguments; you should find them and use them instead. Fair warning: "Sessions once shared a hotel room with another black lawyer", an argument that has actually been advanced on Twitter, is not one of the better alternatives).

This is not a logical argument. You are taking evidence counter to your assertion and twisting it into a counter-attack in which, by even uttering it, a person proves himself wrong. This has been dubbed a Kafkatrap. It begs the question and is a bare attempt at emotional manipulation.
> (1) It doesn't let you have multiple progress bars that all advance at their own rate.

It does.

> (2) It doesn't work at all for custom-progress-bar elements added dynamically to the document after the timers for the first progress bar finish.

It does.

I think you're confusing the "library" code with the "user-land" code that drives it (the latter was copied from the example in the original article). Here is a version with two progress bars where I separated the "library" into a separate box:

https://jsfiddle.net/pd0na425/4/

(3) It makes the children of <custom-progress-bar> actually appear in the DOM, which means that code generically walking the DOM will see them and might mess them up.

This part is true. However, if you have code that generically walks the DOM and screws stuff up, how do you expect your website to operate anyway? The real issue is overly broad CSS selectors, and it's not really something specific to custom elements. Everyone has to deal with it for all CSS and all elements. In this case, it's actually easy to mitigate. Since all the inner elements are custom, I can easily add a prefix that will effectively prevent them from being styled by other libraries. That said, I wish W3C actually solved CSS scoping properly. That would be way, way more useful than any component API and it would be useful for every website in that uses styling.
We can get to Mars in 90 days with chemical propulsion, today.
Australia is kind of interesting in that it has a lot of preconditions for success (relatively high IQ & conscientiousness, high levels of social cohesion, stable governing institutions, good education, high social & human capital in general) but just an enormously spread-out geography, both internally and externally, and a relatively tiny population.

It ends up with a really odd economic dynamic where they have to leverage their internal resources because, eg, it's simply too much of a PITA to get a particular rare part shipped from a hemisphere away (from a supplier that isn't really set up to routinely ship to them anyway because it's not a huge market), and yet they actually end up being pretty good at it.
Nice! I made something similar in case someone likes your work and would benefit from another example. https://zjost.github.io/bayesian-linear-regression/
When you're done value-signaling to each other, google it and see for yourself.
I guess many fans of Homestuck today feel that it went downhill at some point. That's not unique, it happens with fandoms all the time.

Have you seen the latest update BTW? It goes a long way to rescuing the ending, I didn't know that was possible.
Godlike power is a function of technology and what the universe allows. The universe allows for splitting atoms, and thus we've packaged that ability into a bomb that's l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶L̶a̶n̶g̶h̶o̶r̶n̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶R̶a̶k̶u̶r̶a̶i̶ a bigger direct display of power than almost anything the God of the Bible did post deluge.

Or consider we've fucked up the climate change problem and Earth suffers from runaway global warming. We all die. 500 years from now, an alien probe from Proxima Centauri passes through the Solar System. The aliens would see Earth and wonder how a Venus-like planet formed in (what we call) a habitable zone. Maybe they'd end up reconsidering their models of planetary evolution ("Surely it couldn't be aliens", they'd say, "that's ridiculous! There's no proof of other life out there except our own!").

Maybe the wide-scale manipulation of what we today consider fundamental physics is possible. Surely, a lot of popularly accepted sci-fi technologies would be able to do that if one would follow them to their obvious conclusions at scale (one shovel can dig you a ditch; a thousand shovels will dig you a great canal). And if it is possible, what's to say it hasn't already happened?
This is pure speculation, or fiction. What is the real meat here?
> And while the amounts in each phone are small – 0.034g of gold, for example – they quickly add up when you consider that around 42 million tonnes of e-waste were generated in 2014 alone, and the UN Environmental Program estimates that figure is increasing by 3-5% each year.

What are the economics of this?

> In Sahajwalla’s vision of the microfactory, pre-programmed automated drones are used to pick out items such as circuit boards from a pile of smashed e-waste. These boards are then put into a tiny furnace which uses selective temperatures to extract the valuable resources, such as copper alloys. The glass and plastic can also be combined in this high-temperature smelter to produce silicon carbide nanoparticles, which have a range of industrial applications.

How?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12985974
What kind of liability do you need to insure for? Software development contacts usually don't have a warranty of fitness, and should include standard hold harmless and third-party indemnity language. A malpractice or damages claim would be unusual in the software dev business. Much more likely is breach of contract, if you are late or fail to deliver according to the contract.

You will have a hard time finding any company willing to insure you for breach of contractual obligations. If you are worried about that you should form a corporation to clearly protect your personal assets and engage an attorney.
Due to political and environmental concerns alone no modern terrestrial reactor design would be allowed to fly. That's usually not what nuclear propulsion proponents argue for.

There are several other reactor designs that have been researched over the last half century that can operate in a closed loop with much smaller amounts of nuclear fuel and more manageable radiation emissions. Designs like the nuclear lightbulb, which was researched by United Aircraft Corporation and NASA for almost a decade before the plug on the Mars mission was pulled in the 70s, are much better suited and are what proponents of active nuclear propulsion most often have in mind. Once there is some political will, we have decades old research to start from to build a flight capable nuclear reactor.
It's about ∆v, so I'd say it does regardless of how you got that ∆v. I don't see a reason it couldn't work with solar sails, for example.
The potential of being a competitor in an as of yet unproven market wouldn't be a good reason to acquire them. If that market becomes very very big AND Nvidia wins it, Intel could buy them in cash if they wanted, they certainly have it on hand.

Why they haven't acquired them in the past, Intel clearly doesn't think they are worth it and preferred to compete against them directly on graphics.
I don't know where you lie on the political spectrum. My comment was an observation of current trends, of which your comment seems to be an example. :)

> Genuinely curious: what word would you use to describe Steve Bannon?

Person. Respectfully, I reject the question, which implies that anyone can or should be labeled by a single word. This is part of the problem with American politics. It degrades discussion into "Is not!"/"Is too!" back-and-forth, which is useless.

Here's my bottom line: this election has shown how extremely biased the media is. Despite a few columns here and there calling for the media to examine itself and change its ways, the media has not changed. One should take everything one hears about Trump and his administration with many grains of salt.

For example, I watched Don Lemon on CNN excoriate Bannon, taking the default position that he is a racist, sexist, anti-Semite, and demanding that one of his guests (the other two of which were anti-Bannon) prove that Bannon was not any of those things. That is not journalism--that is libel.
Maybe he just introduced it to Mathcamp? We teenagers can be a bit quick to make claims sometimes :)
This would all be super easy to end, for so many smart people in here you guys are acting pretty dumb. Guess making up conspiracy theories is better than actually finding a solution to get PoL.

According to the previous photos from Assange and the data that I could find publicly, he's most likely in this part of the embassy.

https://www.google.de/maps/@51.4991122,-0.1612139,3a,53.6y,2...

A Vanity Fair article says:

"Assange’s living space, a former embassy office, is located on a ground-floor corner overlooking a small dead-end street.His window sits above one of the hundreds of thousands of security cameras."

That is also the part of the building where he talked to the press, and his cat is sitting most of the time.

Now that we have established where he is most likely to find we look at how far the office he is staying in is from the building on the other side of the street ( what would be our observation point, I'll come to that later again.)

According to Google, that is surprisingly accurate for measurements the distance is:

Total distance: 19.67 m (64.52 ft)

So let's say about 65 ft or 20m.
Now how does that help us to find out if Assange is still alive?

There is a technique mostly used by the military called "TTWS" (Through-the-Wall Sensors). The portable devices in the price range up to $80k have a range up to 65ft.

While this does not deliver a clear image of Assange if you had this running from a window in the observation point across the street, there is a pretty high chance you will see if someone stays / lives in that room.

The better devices also can give you a "signature" and work up to 230ft (70m), so setting this up for a few days you will be able to track pretty precisely who stays in that part of the embassy and if he left and came back to that room.

So if you really care if he lives or not, if you start a crowdfunding or find someone with such a device / willing to spend about $150k for a new device, a ticket to London, and a few grand to bribe someone in the building across the embassy to let you stay for a few days you could make a pretty good guess if Assange is still in the embassy / alive.

P.S.: Just letting you know that this is a gray area and you'd most likely get arrested if the Ecuadorian embassy finds out you do surveillance on them.

Also, I think Assange is well and alive, it plays into his cards greatly to have people believe he got kidnapped / killed / exfiltrated.

At least I had a good laugh reading all these bullshit theories. Thanks for the entertainment.
And if I may add, how often did you think about math ? daily ? monthly ?
Apologies. I thought you took the previous comment as a definition for what is stoicism.
An extensively researched talk. I hope people like
Boredom and ennui. What are you going to do when
Most labour is done by robots, and you sit at home
Collecting a monthly cheque from the government.

I know this is provocative, but many occupations
Are simply busywork.

I do think robot armies can be hacked, so try not to
Centralize everything.
The purpose of the bill of rights was to restrict government. So, the framers did not want their list to limit rights of the people. That is the purpose of the 9th Amendment (especially read in light of the 10th Amendment). Yes, there are ways to add rights: the states can add their own rights, and there is a process for amending the Constitution to add more rights. However, judicial interpretation is not one of them.
Nobody has told Geoff Hinton or Rich Sutton.
> It does have a standard for indentation, which is roughly "however emacs would indent your code" but that breaks down when DSLs get involved (see how different people indent LOOP for an example).

It actually makes me think that there should be a standardized way for including indentation hints. CL's &body in macros is not nearly enough for any kind of complicated DSLs.

That's minor aesthetics anyway. There are always some degrees of freedom in it, but Lisp has historically much less of those than C-like languages.
Can you enumerate these inaccuracies, please?

PS.

I enjoyed articles about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron .
I'm referring to a poll which asked Clinton voters whether they "trust the media." Take it for whatever it's worth to you. :)
What docker is and how it's used
Your assumption here:

>Obviously, the vast majority of non-citizens would vote for Clinton.

is false, obnoxious, and signals how overwhelming your bias is. If the participation rate among noncitizens was that high, my mind would be blown, because it would mean they're 5 times more likely to vote than the average US citizen.

When you're done talking about how Donnie may have actually won the popular vote, when it's been plainly fucking obvious for a week that he lost it by more than 1%, come back to HN and make a useful contribution that isn't peddling Alex Jones conspiracy theories.
But with the case of HIV (and other infectious diseases), the treatment and the cure are the same drug. E.g. they could have treated people early to avoid the epidemic before it started. But instead the pharma companies lobbied the government to wait for the epidemic to take hold first, so that they could market the treatment later instead.
Out of curiosity, have you ever driven a box van on roads with 10ft lanes?

I just looked this up: an ambulance is 9' wide. A pumper truck is 9'9". A ladder truck is 10'.
It makes me wonder if patient Z258 is gay and if that'll have implications on who uses this therapy.
I've found the older cities I've lived in with much tighter roads have much better drivers as a result.
People know their distances and are hyper-aware of their surroundings because it is a necessity in order to avoid minor collisions.

In cities that are more 'designed' by traffic engineers there is ample room so people don't know the dimensions of their own vehicle and travel at greater speeds while letting themselves be distracted more frequently. The accidents that result are usually frame-bending as opposed to bumper replacements.
If you don't have a full kitchen, by which I guess means a sink, hob and oven, perhaps others (or others for other readers) nearby are also in the situation?

Would it be feasible to team-up with 4-20 others, and create a shared kitchen?
Hijacking a User's Shadow: Affiliate Fraud via Malicious Extensions (July 2016)
I've said it before. Putting sidewalks right next to vehicle traffic is stupid. I suggested to a friend that putting walkways through the back yards in a suburban neighborhood would be a better idea. You'd also have half as many because they'd run between two properties. He said oh yeah, they do it that way in... I think it was Texas?
Well, he did say "into itself", not "onto itself".