skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For nuclear power to be feasible, we need different kinds of designs than the historically common ones.

1. Passive safety features are a must, period -- especially in a world full of hackers and terrorists (or at least terrorist wannabes). Obviously, they don't protect against all human error, accidental or deliberate as the case may be. But they sure could lower the risks.

2. We also need truly standardized manufacturing. It seems that the buzzword there is "SMR" -- Small Modular Reactor. This is for multiple reasons. Cost and general safety are the most obvious. Further, site-specific safety analyses would actually have a chance of being correct.
The forked from OpenWRT in May 2016 and are now already going back. I guess there's not much to gain from the code merge for end users except for a few bug fixes (https://lede-project.org/faq#were_there_any_technical_reason...).
SQL SERVER – Testing Database Performance with TSQLt and SQLQueryStress
"According to the Sanic author’s benchmark, uvloop could power this beast to handle more than 33k requests/s which is just insane (and faster than node.js)."

I keep looking for excuses to focus on Python instead of Go and claims like this one make me happy. However, when I check the benchmarks I get confused:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r13&hw=p...

Of course this looks amazing:

https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/

But, even if in the request/second area Python might be doing great now, won't there be problem down the line with the GIL? That is, isn't async/await an island of good performance?
For those of you suggesting solar as a better solution read this article [1] about the toxic waste (silicon tetrachloride) produced in solar panel manufacturing. Add to that the storage problems [2] [3] and impact of land use of massive solar installations [4] and it's no longer a home run even if the price is coming down.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03...

[2] http://www.npr.org/2015/08/04/427734398/when-relying-on-the-...

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/renewable-energy-storage-prob...

[4] https://carnegiescience.edu/news/solar-energy%E2%80%99s-land...
Exactly that. For this reason in order to merge something I don't just need to like it. I also need to understand the code base line by line otherwise when there are changes to be made is a nightmare.
Only superficially. Deep learning has little to do with biology, and even if a future AGI was running on a NN, it's structure would be very different from our brains.
Which country are they leaving and where are they going?
There was a thread about nuclear power on here during the year, and some commenter had crunched the numbers on how many nuclear power plants we'd need to fully power the planet. It was in the tens of thousands. Even in the best case scenario, at this density we'd be looking at a Fukushima style disasters occurring regularly, not just every 30 years. That's best case scenario.

Worst case scenario is that it gets more cloudy and our solar doesn't work as well. But lets not forget solar power still works on a cloudy day, just not as well
> In many cases younger voters vote "better"

So in your opinion, there was a "right" choice to make, and a wrong choice? Why let people vote, then? The fact that a group I'll name "L." thinks they're plain right and the others are plain wrong worries me at the highest point.

> trusting the evidence

Can't you just absorb that older people voted rationally, based on evidence and distinct life choices that aren't necessarily stupid? In another world where their vote would match your vision of "right", you'd praise the elderly for having more 70 more years of experience, saluting their knowledge, etc. In the present situation, the "L." group presents older people as too senile to make "the right choice". You belong to this L. group.

One point which tips the votes is the "L." group is so dictatorial about their vision of right, and that makes a huge group tip for the alternative, the Trump/Brexit vote. The L group generally uses the "right-vs-wrong" attitude, like you just did, but also weighs the supposedly "correct" vote with plenty of dubious things: If you vote Remain in the brexit, you also vote for a huge increase in London's size which is against countryside's interest – Maybe people don't want that? Maybe a huge London also increases inequalities? If you vote Democrats you also vote for plenty of leftish/liberal laws which aren't right at all (including bribes and murders at the highest level of the government, including plain war and suffering of kids in the Middle-East using blind drones and pure horror, including the militarization of US police). Neither the Democrats nor the Remain planned to do things that convinced most of the population.

Definitely, there wasn't a right and wrong choice in Brexit and Trump. There's just a democratic choice, and people like you, at the end of the year, who still are in denial that their opponent might have a rational reasoning. Which is exactly the lack of listening that is killing our democracies. The ball is on your side.
When looking at effective tax rates, one might want to include the cost for all the experts employed to get to the difference between nominal and effective tax rate, and the brain drain these careers impose on more productive disciplines. But you will have a hard time finding a country where people are not convinced that their tax system is the worst, so maybe the US is not particularly bad in that way either.

The observation that a complicated makes the big guy part a lower effective rate than the small guy should be much more popular, I wish someone established a good name for it.
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This article is part of a broader spotlight casted upon declining economic opportunities. Raj Chetty and company released a great deal of research about this, which journalists have been slowly summarizing for the public: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/
>Moreover, if it works on Firefox/Linux, how can they prevent someone grabbing the video from X and the audio from Alsa? What is the usefulness of DRM in the first place, in this case?

This is such an important flaw in all DRM. At some point all this digital wonderment has to be turned in to light and noise. This is the weakest point in the chain and it only takes one person with a decent re-recording setup to create a copy and then distribute it for any DRM to be bypassed. A £50 mic setup in a home studio will allow a good enough copy of most pop music to be made. Even if the hardware was in on the DRM game (looking at you Apple), my ears and eyes are not.
I think what Fukushima taught us, is that profit-driven companies will always be looking for ways to cut costs. Nuclear, like oil, requires extremely tight regulation to keep the companies involved from cutting corners and creating unreasonable safety problems.

Also, doesn't nuclear also still have a storage problem? Storing electricity is mostly a solved issue: batteries. We just need to do it cheaper and on a larger scale. And it doesn't even have to be centralized: a Tesla Powerwall in every home will also solve the problem.

I think it's a bad idea to take perfectly working nuclear power plants offline, but it's really only a temporary solution during the transition towards full solar.
It's not that convenient an untruth seeing as these are probably some of the first things you learn in C, and some of the first gotchas that'll getcha.

Having said that, the article was well written.
This is a missing part of long stories about AI and automation. I too work in servicing of industrial equipment that is now being connected. The algorithms can be simple - after n running hours a component needs servicing. No fancy AI or automation, no over-hyped 'predictive maintenance' machine learning, just a 'connected machine'. As a result, the number of service engineers can be reduced significantly because they no longer over-service. This is not a robot taking someone's job, but a 10% efficiency gain in servicing equipment is a lot of people. It's across a skills range too - we have customers that range from minimum wage floor cleaners to PhD-level scientific equipment engineers.
I used flexbox for a site (done, not live yet) and used flexbox without noticing this problem. I did look for it, though, but even on GPRS the site loads fine, no noticeable relayout.

Perhaps the difference is that the site I redid has a geographic target, and the median page needs to load 18k of HTML, CSS and Javascript before the final page layout is complete. Retrieving 18k from a server <200km away is not a strain, retrieving an average of 4k for the second and subsequent pages even less.

The "slower connection" animation in the article is completely unrealistic to me. What is it meant to display? Loading a megabyte of Javascript and CSS before the layout is done? If so, then I suggest that there is a problem but flexbox isn't it.
Arcan: Dating My X (and early signs of Wayland life)
You might want to watch incoperated to get a feel :)
I feel like this is solvable using binary to assign which bottles to which prisoners, but only if there were 16 bottles. For example, bottle 11 dec = 1011 bin. So bottle 11 would be tasted by prisoners 1, 3, and 4. Then if 1, 3, and 4 die, we know bottle 11 is poisoned. Every combination of prisoner deaths would point to a unique bottle.

Except 17. Fencepost error on my part maybe?
I don't know how this is a lie or untruth, even in jest. In a language that exposes memory management directly of course you can manually traverse an array.
Probably. But some people are acknowledging both films, and remembering that when they saw the Kazaam publicity that it looked like a crappy rip off of Shazaam.

I have no truck at all with this being mystical or a conspiracy, but I'm enjoying the idea of it.
This is an interesting case study in how science interacts with sociology. Biologically, "fluid" intelligence (raw, general-purpose brain power) has an average peak in the late 20s:

http://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/125555/frym-2014-0...

So, for example, an average 10-year-old will have the same fluid intelligence as an average 80-year-old. (Not the same knowledge, of course, but the NYT is talking pure brain mechanics here.) However, in our society, children have low social status, and the elderly have high status. Hence, in a 10-year-old (or, per this article, even a 22-year-old just a few years from their lifetime peak), lower average intelligence is a sign of being "immature", "undeveloped", or "not an adult" (= a person competent to make their own life decisions). Meanwhile, no one would ever dream of (say) revoking the voting rights of anyone over 80, because their "brains don't work anymore". It's acceptable to take power away from the low status, but never the high status, so the scientific data is "interpreted" through that lens.
A lot of people are talking about the political cost only in a Western context, but let's not forget that the rest of the world needs electricity, even if its political stability is poor. I know talking about nuclear proliferation is unfashionable, but this is the reason Iran's reactor got held up for decades.

Solar can be deployed incrementally down to the level of individual watts, and it works better the closer you are to the equator. It doesn't need the same level of political stability or security as nuclear (although you do need to make sure nobody steals the panels). It's the obvious first choice for large areas of Africa and South America.
Effectively Deep Work is not bringing much if you already read Flow. This is just a complete book just to tell you that you need to correctly schedule your time to have "Flow/Deep" time and try as much as possible to remove distractions (News, social media, etc.) from your life.

It is even, for a part, totally self contradictory, where he claims that journalists can switch to deep work for 10 minutes at time. Because journalists are super humans not suffering from context switch where the coders are suffering from context switch if they do that.

So, this one is not on my recommended list.
Mm... I once came across an interesting definition of intellectual maturity:

> It is the when you no longer take your dreams for reality, and instead take reality for your dreams.

Perhaps you crossed that line a few years ago?
These books were my favorites this year:

- Alibaba - The house that Jack Ma built by Duncan Clark https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25817524-alibaba

- Shoe Dog - A memoir by the creator of NIKE by Phil Knight https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog

- Originals - How non-conformists move the world by Adam Grant https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614523-originals
Trends of 2017 for Your Supply Chain and Business
You can play with CSS grid today on most (all?) modern browsers, it's just locked behind a flag. I'm extremely excited about it. As I understand it, it should go live on all major browsers next year. This means that hopefully there won't be spec incompatibility issues like we saw with flexbox.

If you want to learn more, css-tricks [0] has a great guide for grid.

Once CSS grid is available, you might be able to start using it everywhere if you're willing to ship the polyfill to legacy browsers. Right now there's a polyfill for an older version of CSS grid [1], but the author has said [2] on Github they expect to get a new release out by around February 2017!

I've only dabbled with CSS grid and one of my concerns is performance. I'm not sure what level of performance we can expect with the initial release. I recall reading about mobile performance with flexbox not being great. Hopefully history won't repeat itself. If anyone has more experience with grid, I'd love to hear your insights.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

[1] https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill

[2] https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill/issues/37#...
At the ER?
I haven't finished these yet but I'm a college student so it's par for the course for me to be last minute.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [0]
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [1]

Both are fantasitc. SICP on a technical level and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress on a fiction level.

[0] - https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Harsh-Mistress-Robert-Heinlein-e...
How common is it to need to restrict a cats eating? I always just keep dry food constantly available for my cat. She is around 14 years old and is a dainty little thing. I've never had any issue with her overeating or anything. When I'm away from home for a couple days, I'll just fill a really large bowl and leave it for her and there's usually a bunch left when I get back. Is this terribly unusual?
Ever heard of a guy called Lance Armstrong? How many people routinely mess with their brain chemistry to fulfill self-imposed (via career expectation) performance expectations?
When Code Duplication Is Acceptable
Depending on the type of cell and on the type/severity of overcast, power generation might even be better than that of bright unhindered sunshine.
National Mathematics Day: Interesting Facts about Ramanujan
Mini.css – The story behind the CSS toolkit
1 simple change will speed up your site by 20%
>Right, which is why it's silly for us to look at the technology we have today and say "welp, that's the end of human employment."

And why it's also silly to look at the past and say "meh it worked out last time, everything will be fine".
Because some people doing design can't code, they know color theory and design. Photoshop is already known, bootstrap would need learning.
I have the opposite dream right now: I've spent almost my entire life in large cities and now that I'm in my thirties, finally have a career going, and am no longer obsessed with my sex life, I'm longing to move out of the city and somewhere a bit more suburban. I don't want kids or a wife — I just want space to be able to walk around half naked if I want to, sing at 4 in the morning if I feel like it, and indulge my own weird rhythms. I'm a software developer, and my company actually allows me to work remotely, so I'm seriously considering making the move. I seem to become more productive when I have more space, so even from a productivity standpoint the idea probably makes sense.

I actually love going on long walks, so the thought of walking a half hour to buy groceries if I don't buy a car seems ok.

I've spent the last decade or so in San Francisco, and none of the local scenes really attract me. There used to be some cool artists around, but a lot of them got priced out. Maybe some other city has a more thriving cultural life, but San Francisco's isn't doing anything for me. I just have to figure out where to move.

Well, I hope that we both manage to figure out a way of life that is good for us.
Marx speaking...
* The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. The prose was a bit purple for me but fascinating book about the progress of cancer treatment including recent advances. Second half of the book is more interesting in my opinion so don't give up if you find the history of cancer a little do dry.

* Tuf Voyaging by George RR Martin. I thought this was a stupid premise (guy travels the universe in a huge ship with cat companions?) but a friend strongly recommended it and I found it stupidly readable and very entertaining.

* Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh. Deeply interesting and humane book about the work of an eminent brain surgeon.

* The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes by Steven Pinker. Strong persuasive central thesis even if though I didn't agree with all his arguments. Very wide-ranging book with many ideas from philosophy and history.

* Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. Informative and scary book about zoonotic diseases. Like a non-fiction cross between the detective, horror and sci-fi genres.

* The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela. Read this because I felt I should rather than out of pure interest, but it was a good decision: fascinating biography and startling how intelligent and occasionally ruthless Mandela was.
Demonetisation is spreading around the world
Microsoft Zo – Social AI
Yes we have to support nuclear over-production during summer and store it with dams. Yet this winter we'll be under-capacity, lots of reactors are currently shutdown because of maintenance.
Zappos is struggling with Holacracy
The only thing I _really_ dislike about Signal is their CLA. If it included "... under a FSF-approved license" or something similar that would enforce a contaminative license instead of an OSI-approved license.

That's the only thing that prevented me from contributing so far, I wonder if I am the only one.
Yeah, can't wait for them to try bringing manufacturing back to America. Hopefully California will shut anything like that down.
> ...by prioritizing the acquisition of reward signals above

> other measures of success.

This is also true for humans in poorly designed systems. For example, kids become experts at passing tests irrespective of mastering the material. In the workplace, employees become skilled at clocking extra time without finishing additional work. It's reasonable to say that this would eventually emerge in systems which approximate human behavior.

The video shown in the article could just as easily have been a human who just discovered the bug, and wants to troll a bit. The key difference is that a human would soon get bored. Our algorithms don't know about boredom outside of the domain of the reward function.

After playing with a bugged state, A human would lose just enough interest so as to keep playing the game, but without any further interest in the "bugged" state. A human is smart enough to know that there are various microstates of such a "bugged" state, and to ignore those instances as well.

The algorithm is smart enough to find the hack, but it's not smart enough to say "Hey, this is a non-solution, and I am not very happy about that". What is it that makes a human decide to lose interest in such a bugged state? Are these factors locally contained or are they due to external influences?
It gets worse. Unless we develop viable (and affordable) grid-level battery technology, the intermittency problem of renewables makes most of them a non-starter from a cost perspective. To cover 'always on' baseload demand, you need about 5-6 time that amount of maximum generating capacity, optimally geographically dispersed to ensure at least one or a few are producing sufficient power while the others are essentially 'off'.

This also means you need 5-6 times the amount of transmission infrastructure compared to if you have centralised power generation that can be rapidly scaled up and down. Burning coal is one such solution (obviously a terrible one given climate change). Gas is good for intermittent 'peaker' plants, but it's not exactly cheap nor co2 free.

Contrary to what's being said above, I think fission absolutely must be explored to avoid a climate catastrophe. Our current fission reactor tech is basically the same tech we had in the 50s and 60s, which manages about 3% fuel efficiency (mostly due to the use of solid fuels). Despite this, it's still at least 'in the ballpark' cost-wise, and also the second safest form of power generation, according to the IPCC, over its entire life-cycle (from mining to waste disposal and remediation). Incidentally, hydro is the first.

If we could invest even just a little bit of money into furthering fission research, we could very well end up with an abundant, cheap and safe method of generating baseload power. Or we could yammer on about the cost of 'political capital' and accept a much higher probability of extinction because a section of the population are either misinformed or just flat out ignorant. Yeah, let's do that.
So Firefox includes the ability to play DRM-encumbered content. Is it implemented using proprietary software? Do all Firefox builds include this?

It seems similar to Encrypted Media Extensions, which I thought wasn't a web standard yet.
Multivariate splits in decision trees
Progress - Jonah Norberg
About why the world is really getting better.
https://oneworld-publications.com/progress-hb.html
Solar can be ramped down pretty trivially, we just don't currently because we want to use solar in preference to other power sources for environmental reasons and the contractual and communications structures to do it aren't there yet.
Is this article a sign that C has fallen out of mainstream use?
Yes, and young people have little property and therefore don't have that much to lose from change. Old people are conservative because they have property - the less change the better.
Except that Clouds are the actual big unknown in climat change equation. You can found a lot of articles about that I'll quote this one but you should look and document by yourself.

http://m.nautil.us/issue/25/water/the-hidden-importance-of-c...

Increasing of earthquake on the other hand is a far as I know a scenario you just made up, but feel free to elaborate.
I was surprised to learn that vim started out on the Amiga. Back in those days I was using DME, by a certain Matt Dillon (of Dragonfly BSD fame, not the actor ;-) ). At the time it was the only editor that could drag me away from Emacs. Ironic that Vim later seduced me away from Emacs again...
Nokia suing Apple over alleged patent infringements in the US and Germany
> "The toxicity to humans, though, that’s a mystery. “There really isn’t an evolutionary answer to its being toxic, other than to just say it’s a biological mistake because it certainly doesn’t gain anything by being toxic to humans"

I am quite puzzled by this quote, in evolutionary terms, humans are very recent. I highly doubt that humans have been around for long enough for plants to evolve to suite humans specifically, rather than mammals in general.