skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are talking about grid-scale transport and storage mechanisms that move power in from "someplace [else]" we are back to a centralized power system.

Moreover, you still have yet to make a case for why a decentralized system is inherently good.

There's a strong argument for centralized systems where they are feasible, and that's that centralized systems are easy and decentralized systems are hard. We all know this from our own experience - it's easiest to use a Single Big Server if you can get away with it, it's tougher to use a cluster of systems coherently (CAP theorem comes into play), and as you continue to decentralize further and further you eventually need something like a blockchain to have any hope of consistency, latency becomes measured in minutes, etc.

Distributed systems are hard and we don't want to make the power grid any more complex than it needs to be. A few big centralized power sources are greatly preferable to many decentralized power sources from an engineering perspective, although perhaps not from your political perspective.
> char pointer array of size X called arr

That does not even English.
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Many of the studies quoted in Thinking Fast and Slow, turned out to be spurious: https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/811952178592026624
Fraud is not a business model.
(As long as you have fast internet) Codepen is so useful for making ui's... it massively smooths out the fiddling process and also convenient to share a ui with the debug / display mode or whatever it's called. I'm sure one could come up with a similar offline software for the creation aspect, but since it's hosted, it takes only two clicks to share a website demo, which seems like it would be hard to duplicate without cloud.
You keep coming back to Stephen. You're so sure that he would have chosen the line of argument that you expect, that you're using that one data point to prove that all of it is false.

But people choose different lines of argument for different reasons. Stephen clearly touched a nerve with the Sanhedrin; it's hard to say that his approach was ineffective (unless you define "effective" as "they agreed" instead of "it hit them where they lived").

"It is extremely unlikely the author was in the room that day."

A bare negation is a pretty weak argument. Do you have evidence, or just a presumption?
I graduated 3 years after you (just snooped your linkedin) and was a Nuke Submariner. I've always been a big proponent of nuclear, even after leaving it, but I'd have to agree somewhat with your statements. Fear drives narratives very easily. The Fukushima disaster occurred 5.5 years ago, and still holds a leading spot in news headlines today.
This is something I've heard, that I can totally appreciate. I've heard extremely talented musicians talk about how Prince treated them like they were kids painting a picture for the fridge after hearing them play. Live performing, and sheer talent on instruments is cool, and I didn't want to take anything away from the man. My only point was I'm never driving down the road and want to jam to a Prince song, like I would Superstition. It's a vibe thing, and I don't feel it with him.
I'm not sure - which part is not clear?
HN converts asterisks to italics and I too couldn't find a way to escape them, except when surrounded by backticks `*`. Not a C-friendly discussion forum :-)
The overpopulation won't happen
I'm not a big reader:

- Elon Musk bio

- Deep Work

- Manna
Lastpass definitely was rough at the beginning, but it's been stable for months for me. And I'm one of the crazy ones running multiple content processes.
Good luck, guys!
Cost to move is only part of the problem, you need to move while losing all your stuff which may or may not include your car etc. Further, this is not limited to housing but includes farms / offices / schools / factory's and infrastructure like highways and water pipes etc.

As to area, nobody lives in the ocean and houses next to an exclusion zone also have huge drops in property values. So, yes some sort of decreasing metric, as a sanity check the property value drop from being within sight of a nuclear power plant is going to be more than 300$. Further, actual exclusion zones may depend on wind so risk really does extend out to 40 miles.

Edit: As an upside, if you included these costs then there would be a push to place reactors in the middle of nowhere to lower costs which IMO is a very good thing.

PS: As a sanity check fukushima is estimated to cost tax payers ~188 billion$ and many people are worse off after the disaster so real costs are higher than that. If the odds are 0.2% that's ~400 million vs your estimate of 300 * 100,0000 = 30 million.
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I am listening to this book now called "The Dictator's Handbook". One of the arguments is that as more people become economically productive, the level of autocracy in a society decreases because it is in governments' interest to liberate productive people to generate wealth. So a society in which many people are unproductive is also a society more liable to become a dictatorship.
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https://github.com/MoOx/pjax is a version that might work.

It's a reimplementation of the library without jquery and with a few extra features.

Instead of working on a single container where all the ajaxing happens, you provide it a list of IDs, and then it extracts the nodes with those IDs from the response and replaces them throughout the document. If I understood you, that's the behaviour you're looking for.
It also has a few extra hooks for animating content in and out.

It's not as widely used as the defunkt version though, and I remember needing to stop using it because of a bug where it wasn't scrolling to in-page anchors properly. But hopefully it would work for you.

Personally, I might just use the defunkt version and write a before and after hook to refocus the appropriate input. When it comes to reimplementing browser features in JavaScript, there are lots of edge cases so it's nice to use widely adopted libraries.

jQuery-Pjax is used by GitHub so you know it's well tested :)
Even finance is being upended actively by automation and AI.

The narrative will follow the "drug war." When it's the poor people (factory workers::blacks), they're just "losers" who need to try harder or should be locked away for decades. When it's happening in upper middle and middle class suburbia (opioid epidemic::white collar automation), then it's a "public health crisis that commands our empathy!"
I strongly disagree with this. I've been on the other side of the fence, trying to hire people for an early-mid startup (5-40 people) as an early employee.

There are more people than you'd expect who can talk the talk but can't code at the same level. In the majority of companies, I'd bet there aren't too many openings for engineers in such a narrow role. If you don't want to work with an 'idea person', would you want to work with an 'idea engineer'?

Multi-day interviews are likely overkill, but a full day interview is completely fair. There's no need to do 4 back-to-back algorithm whiteboarding sessions, but testing other aspects such as data modelling, general architecture, and coding style/ability are all high-signal.
Solar road being tested in France
If you compile the Rust example with optimization (-O) it just throws the result away, which gives the ~0.030 time chrisdouay found.

However, if you add a println!() around it, it has to calculate the result. Here's the running time:

> time ./fib
1134903170

real 0m2.242s
user 0m2.240s
sys 0m0.000s

I tried the C example as well (with -O2) and found this:

> time ./cfib
1134903170

real 0m4.671s
user 0m4.670s
sys 0m0.000s

So.. which one is faster again?

This "comparison" unfortunately seems too naïve to not be on purpose - no analysis, no real discussion, not even some reasoning about the defaults and why the big difference in numbers. It seems to be just looking for views/comments (even if negative) without any intention to produce real content. What worries me are the ones that will take this for a real benchmark and just "share on facebook" and spread more disinformation.
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I thought of that. I can often extract MSIs using 7zip. I was about to download until I read that it can only be used for development purposes. Apparently I have to agree not to redistribute it. No thanks Red Hat.

Elsewhere in this thread I discovered:

https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild

And I already knew about:

http://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/

The more OpenJDK folders I have to test against (on both Linux and Windows), the better. Just change environment variables.
Vindicis, unless you're not working, you probably already work at a place like this.

All Dalio is doing is tying the pieces together and stating the obvious.
That link didn't work for me.
I thought hydroelectric was our storage miracle? You invest solar into pumping up the reservoir and drain it at night to spin turbines.

The problem is that the costs to build such power stores demands broad adoption of solar to justify the investment to build these hydroelectric systems. Their efficiencies are awful on the small scale. But people cannot adopt solar until stable power can be had. It will require state intervention and forward thinking to subsidize some of these projects to get broad solar buildup off the ground.
The Pursuit of Signs of E.T Life Will Reshape Our Very Own Nature (I)
Mencken describes Fitzgerald's increasing skill as a writer as a rare thing.

I would argue that among really good writers, it's not rare at all. The usual course is for an author to keep learning for years, figure out what works well for them, and perhaps lose a little ground towards the end of their lives due to failing health or lack of care.

Similarly, good technologists build a workshop full of techniques that experience has given them, do their highest quality work in middle to late middle age, and then retreat from active building to teach, critique or advise.
I had to take Smooz.io down, messages kept being repeated. Many apps are down, especially those using the RTM API. Other API (Web, Events) are affected, but apparently not as bad.

It seems to me that
- it is another motivation to move to the Events API
- it would be great if Slack could notify issues at the client level. Right now, users are pissed off at app makers, not knowing that Slack is to blame.
I'm a software engineer, about a year into a career shift into data science / machine learning. I'd second the majority of the books. Some were new to me. I did a lot of on the job learning, but Intro To Statistical Learning was my first formal treatment of much of the material outside 1:1 mentorship. I wrote my thoughts here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introduction-statistical-lear...

I'm also halfway through the Deep Learning Book now. I'm really enjoying it. I got turned on to the book because there were a large number of people and reading groups at work (LinkedIn) that had organized around the book when it first came out in the html format a few months ago.
Seems to be related to the title - if I take the article title from the actual page, google's first result works.

However if I take the title from here it goes to the paywall.

I wonder if Google has recently adjusted the algorithm for this? Makes me wonder if they actually like paywalls, as I've always thought Google was against them.
>I mean, these guys forced every app to be able to handle IPV6-only network operations last year.

That's easy to answer. The US government has an IPv6 mandate. They have no such SSL mandate.
(I feel like i'm all over this thread...)

I actually tried this for a bit. I found that it really increased the complexity of the build system for not that much of a gain.

Instead of having a "dev" build and a "prod" build, we needed a "chromeDev", a "otherBrowsersDev", and a "prod" build.

So now you have 3 separate environments for your babel configs which you need to keep in-sync, and you run the risk of the semantics being slightly different natively vs the transpiled version (Which IMO isn't that bad when you go from transpiled->native as the transpiled is normally a subset of the "native" functionality, so you are less likely to hit issues)
I came here to say the exact same thing. I'm pretty much following the same timeline as you where I'm 23 at the moment. I couldn't wait to take on responsibilities of my own. Bills, rent, everything.

I've always wondered if these stats are partially affected by the 'legal age' itself. If it were changed would the age groups for risky drivers, high probability of crime and debt shift with it?
I'm a vim+screen+mosh(+Jupyter) guy, so my environment is "cloud-based" as-is (in that I'm mosh-ing to a dev server). I can see why some people might want more fully featured IDEs, but this works for me. As I get better and better at Vim it gets harder and harder to go away from the keybindings, as well.

I guess it depends on what you're looking for - i.e. some new kind of collaboration workflow or a nice GUI or some other IDE features.
Bridgewater hedge fund is building an algorithmic model from employee brains
Dwelling of the ancestors with fire
What if you do the same calculation for Indian Point? I suspect the cost of relocating everyone in New York City and boroughs would be pretty substantial.
> The downside of solar is approximately 0

1. No sunlight at night, making it twice as expensive and, depending on the recyclability of batteries, not a "renewable" energy source.

2. Batteries can combust ("the note 7 is da bomb"). Doesn't happen often, but neither does a nuclear facility blow up every day.

3. Solar needs a lot more surface area than nuclear. If you fill all the rooftops on the planet, you still won't have enough solar.

I'm not saying nuclear is better, but please be objective.
Bridgewater manages $160 billion, the most of any hedge-fund firm. It has earned clients twice as much total profit as any rival, says LCH Investments NV, a firm that puts client money into hedge funds. Mr. Dalio personally earned $1.4 billion last year, according to research firm Institutional Investor’s Alpha.
Targeting ES6 by default, what does that mean? Rationalize the choice? Is he talking for the developpers? For the users? In the latter case, what not use Babel/TypeScript? I'm confused.

Please add some text to your title when you post on "Ask HN" (context, details, why do you ask the question, etc).
Missing concept here -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conatus conatus, a (very old) philosophical concept that entities seek their own improvement.

Selection bias suggests that most of the things we encounter have grown better over time (to stay competitive). Of course we're biased to view positive change as normal.

Also missing from the article is the case of aging. I've known some 80 year-olds who have stayed themselves and some who haven't. I've known parents who feel like teenagers are 'no longer themselves'.
Short answer to your question, the best option is your Option B.
It's confusing to me that there are not more programs that "convert" biomedical PhDs/postdocs into MDs. The PhDs and postdocs have some relevant background and are clearly fairly clever and motivated.

However, I looked into this after grad school and other than a new program at Columbia, there's not much. In fact, one person told me that since it was more than 5(?) years after I took intro bio, I would need to retake those classes--despite doing bio research for the entire intervening time. It's baffling that a PhD would quality one to teach a class to medical students, but not attend it.
Nice of you to add the "Play as a guest" option.
The type of a string literal is array of char, and like other arrays, they decay to pointers to the first element when used in expression context, with three exceptions: sizeof, taking the address with &, and when used as a string initializer. "test2" in your example is not a const char *, it's an initializer, since this is one of the exceptions to array-to-pointer decay.

http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptrequiv.html
http://c-faq.com/decl/strlitinit.html
Perfectionism Ruined my Productivity
Announcing Gogland – Brand New Go IDE from JetBrains
The way I think of Black Swan is "making money with philosophy" as opposed to "making money with mathematics". It's not mathematical in the quantitative sense; it's more about fallacies and misapplications of statistics.

One thought I've had: If you look the wealthiest guys in the industry and the world, they are more philosophical than mathematical, like Peter Thiel or Paul Graham. An exception would be someone like James Simons (hedge fund guy).

Warren Buffett says he basically just does arithmetic, and the rest of it is critical thinking and controlling your emotions. I was pleasantly surprised to see his partner Charlie Munger talk a lot about cognitive fallacies, which are in the realm of philosophy.
A significant number of people never become truly responsible adults. Even just narrowing it down to political engagement, lots of voters are poorly informed about the issues they vote on.

Even if you disenfranchise young people there will be countless stupid, ignorant and hateful people voting. Even worse, they'll mostly have the biases of old people because you'll have entirely removed the opposing biases of young people.

Finally, on a personal note, I was working and paying taxes from the age of 16. No taxation without representation.
not necessarily. some (maybe most?) black box quants own their algorithm even if they leave the Hedge Fund. And of course they make profits while the algos are used. So the architects of the system are incentivized for it to work well.
Super sorry about that, will get it fixed ASAP! (currently at a Christmas dinner with family...)
1 Fukushima/30yrs? You remember that places linke Fukushima and chernobyl are contminated for the next couple hundred years, right? Not to mention nuclear fallout, endangered species in those regions, groundwater being poisoned, etc
Wow!!! I had not used Zyn for a while and admittedly always the UI kind of put me off. This is such an excellent work, both from a technical and sound design POV. Thanks a lot!
This is why I always have my visualizations overlay both failure rates and usage.

A given failure rate (or even worse, a failure count) doesn't tell you much about the system without also including the totals of both success and failure.

I'm sure I could be more rigorous with this though. Is there a way to express a given failure rate in terms of certainty? As in, we have sampled the failure rate of a component with fixed parameters a, b, c, and we are x% certain of the failure rate? (Maybe I'm wording this wrong - I don't have much of a stats background).
The article content doesn't really do the subject justice. The constant churn of the OS has caused a variety of legacy software problems where now I run older versions of OS X in a VM in order to support software that can't run in new versions. Some of that software I simply don't want to pay for no new features (accounting software), and other software isn't going to be updated. This is software that worked with recent previous releases within the past couple of years. Meanwhile the same software of the same versions still run OK on Windows 7 (and 8 and 10), so Apple's backward compatibility support, API/ABI stability, isn't as good as on Windows.
More information available for the public to make an informed decision seems like it's always a good thing. What's good for Democrats != what's good for the public.
This uses the same engine, however that host doesn't provide any support for 3D. You wouldn't be able to write WebGL in it, for example. This library exposes a WebGL interface to the JS environment.
Strange. Works fine for me with

Google Chrome	55.0.2883.91 (Official Build) (32-bit)
Revision	733808abc67b7fce93430fcb00127707bffe4639-refs/branch-heads/2883@{#732}
OS	Android 7.1.1; Nexus 6P Build/NMF26F
JavaScript	V8 5.5.372.32
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> As tedious tasks are automated, you can deploy people doing new things.

That has not been my experience at all. As tedious tasks are automated, the people who do those tedious tasks are no longer required.

Ultimately we are lowering the cost of our "product" but it's not to enable more people to afford it. We need to do that because less people can afford the service as is and we need to cut costs just to stay in business. It's a race to the bottom, not a race to the top.
The goal for this was a dynamic approach to create and destroy endpoints on the fly. The OpenVPN Access Sever is typically for a more permanent deployment.
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Are you using a VPS or what sort of dev machine are you using?
Tracking of Ukrainian Field Artillery Units
> Even if the hardware was in on the DRM game (looking at you Apple), my ears and eyes are not.

Until they start selling the iEye. People will buy it.
Btw, I see that you are following a Libre Software + pay for the binaries model. How is that working out financially?
Glowing, crackling fire in CSS and html (no JS)
>If it was, you have some serious work to do because your hiring practices are costing you more than you can easily imagine.

Or they would just have some marginal returns for extreme opportunity costs if they improved them to also manage to get such persons.
Higher speed limits for separate highways that would require a special license to enter? I'd support that.
Exactly. Here's an example: I once had a chat over coffee with a hiring manager for a smallish company that seemed interested in me. We talked about my background and accomplishments, went over a few example problems to see how I'd work through them, discussed a little about the company and the project. Everything was going great, and he seemed pretty pleased. At the end was a handshake and "You seem great for the job. I'll put you in touch with HR!" So, what are you thinking? I know what I was thinking!

So HR gets in touch and says "We would like to bring you in for the first set of interviews next week some time, when would work?" I said, "Uhh, there must be a mistake, I already talked with the hiring manager, I thought you were calling to discuss salary, benefits, start date, etc." HR: "Hmm, no, that's not right. Did you even fill out our application online yet?" Conversation was pretty much over from my standpoint at that point. What a crappy experience and a waste of time!
They're referring to Edge on HoloLens, and it's something I've thought a lot about to. Something like `canvas.getContext('webgl-holographic')` to harness holographic space rendering from the browser.
Why Zuckerberg and Chan's $3bn attack on disease just might live up to the hype
Certainly not revolutionary to any real artist or CSS ninja, but a fun trick for the winter season.
>The usual course is for an author to keep learning for years, figure out what works well for them, and perhaps lose a little ground towards the end of their lives due to failing health or lack of care.

I haven't found that to be true, at least amongst successful authors. Certainly not enough to call it 'the usual course.' Most authors who I have seen be successful in early life don't write their best works in middle or late age.