skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is arguing that. The argument is if we should have automated factories in high paying regions (like the US). I'm arguing that having automated factories here is better than no factories here.
And they don't even bribe our politicians? Outrageous.
No disconnects at all. I don't reboot the router often at all either. In fact I realized I probably should reboot one after realizing some issues with the onboard RAM and the uptime was over 3 months at that point.

I'm in the San Francisco area so you'd think RF noise would be pretty heavily present here. Before this I had the TP-Link AC1200 and I had all the issues you mentioned with that.
I remember reading years ago about how water utilities were replacing chlorine with chloramine because it was cheaper. From what I understand, chloramine is more corrosive and it erodes the lining in the lead pipes. Does anyone know if it's standard practice for water companies to do their quality sampling at the taps?
Slightly off topic but ZURB Foundation for Email is a nice tool for generation markup that'll work in most email clients

FWIW you don't really know a lot of Foundation to use it.
They've got several years now of being able to operate in illegal fashions all over the globe, and found that governments were willing to just accept it. Why would this time around be any different? They've been almost conditioned to expect it.

For what it's worth, they do have a very active and effective lobbying arm, which they've used to swing laws in their favour (and deliberately against competitors) in various markets.

I wonder if, between the successful disruption of the market, the tech sector and then society all falling over themselves lauding them, and the governments willingly towing the line, maybe they've become a little arrogant?
In Rust, you'd define an `enum` of two types.

enum Either {
Type1(T1),
Type2(T2),
}

let's say you get a value of type Either

then you can match on them:

match value {
Type1(v) => func(v),
Type2(v) => func2(v),
}
And this, my friend, is why starting a [successful] business is hard. Because if it were that "easy" (i.e. the code, the database, etc.) then virtually anyone in the software development world would do it because it would be so much more lucrative to do so. But add in the fact that, yep, your software engineering chops are only so valuable to the extent that you can also provide and build skills (or have the resources to buy) in these other areas that are 100% critical for a business to flourish.
The global market was still expanding so all efficiency gains from industrial revolution and the internet revolution were absorbed. Where as today the global economy is stagnating.
The efficiency gains in the next decade are expected to be a few times the rate of market growth which would put many people out of work making the global market contract further. This cycle could accelerate very quickly.
As jgalt212 noted, putting something into a document doesn't make it enforceable.

However, I think if Google wants to fire you for revealing the menu, that's actually well within their rights. Most Google employees in the US are At Will and can be fired for almost any reason. Moreover, they have this right regardless of whether it's written down.
I used to think that global warming was a slam dunk.

But then I looked at the data... the carbon makeup of the atmosphere hasn't changed much at all, and we have already reached peak oil. If the carbon sinks (oceans etc.) can hold 2x the current amount they absorbed without much trouble then we are in the clear.

Perhaps CFCs and Ozone Depleting Substances present a danger but we have largely reduced their use since the 90s.

So I am not sure anymore than people will mess up the ATMOSPHERE globally. Locally - yes. And that doesn't let people off the hook when it comes to overfishing, logging forests, destroying ecosystems such as rainforests, wild bees and monarch butterflies, introducing new predators into oceans, non-biodegradable plastic, turning the world into farms etc etc.

Having said that, where is the data showing humans having a huge effect on the atmosphere composition??
The global market was still expanding so all efficiency gains from industrial revolution and the internet revolution were absorbed. Where as today the global economy is stagnating. The efficiency gains in the next decade are expected to be a few times the rate of market growth which would put many people out of work making the global market contract further. This cycle could accelerate very quickly.
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What happens to batteries that leak and no longer work?
Uber is one of the most illustrative examples of 'it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission'.

They hope to outlast the laws against them until those laws are changed or entirely new ones are enacted [1], pay any fines -- not that there have been very many -- and all the while continue to offer rides below cost to starve their competition until they all disappear.

In this particular case, it seems they're not willing to let the DMV put them into this particular category (for whatever reason), so they'd rather fight or wait it out until different rules are created in their favor.

Although, I'm not sure what leverage they have over the State of California with this particular issue.

[1] http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M077/K1...
I thought the mention of water hemlock near the end was interesting. Actually, common poison hemlock (which is related) grows all over the U.S. midwest like a weed and it is very deadly. You will see it growing in fields and at the side of many highways if you drive through Ohio. It is commonly mistaken for wild carrots (aka queen anne's lace). It famously was used to poison Socrates, and it kills a lot of livestock accidentally in modern times.

https://www.ars.usda.gov/pacific-west-area/logan-ut/poisonou...
Except it isn't really true. The share of coal in the German energy mix is decreasing too. There was a hike in 2013 and 2014. And the construction of new coal plants in the last 10 years was big mistake but nevertheless, the switch to renewable sources is important and has to continue. In the end it will be cheaper than any new nuclear power plant which might or might not work.

Also renewable energy has a big plus vs nuclear power, while current nuclear plants are huge and build to last 60 years, renewable energy can be small and last for 20 to 30 years. So in 60 years we could have gone through three improved generations of solar panels or wind mills or something else. While the nuclear power plant build today will be the same inefficient one in 60 years.

The pro nuclear faction on HN baffles me every time. Nuclear power is a complex and big machine, the infrastructure and centralised systems you need is also expensive. For example, you need a also a huge grid. Renewable energy makes decentralised system possible, town and cities or even smaller community can produce their own electricity. Nationwide grids might be less important in a 100% renewable energy system than they are today. (At least I hope so)

For me that is an exciting future, which opens up much more possibilities for more people, to get creative, to create businesses, to build new things.

But well, I know what will happening.
I sort of agree with you, but I don't think you completely understand the problem. Yes, it doesn't really "matter" if people are living with their parents or on their own. The problem is what this shift signals.

People are not much different than they were 50 years ago. If it took just as much resources to live on your own 50 years ago as today, there would "not be the same urgency to leave home." Of course no one wants to leave home if it's going to cost them 40% of their take home pay, but if it only costs them 10-20% of their pay, I really doubt you will see a ton of millenials that don't care about living at home.

This shift in housing signals a dearth of resources available to the current generation. Do we think that's a good thing? A bad thing? Or is it completely neutral? Does it have implications elsewhere for our economy? These are the things that are actually important.
Maybe I'm ignorant, but reading the abstract/introduction,I immediately got the sense that this guy (Gwern) was a crank. At the very least, I figured it was some tangentially related philosophical quote, not part of the main body.
"Nuclear power lobbyists and their marketing firms want us to believe that humankind’s current CO2 atmospheric releases would have been much worse were it not for those 438 nukes now operating. How much worse? The World Nuclear Association industry trade group estimates that an additional 1.1 GT of CO2 would have been created in 2015 if natural gas plants supplied the electricity instead of those 438 nukes[17].

Do the math! 1.1 additional GT out of 36 GT emitted is only a 3% difference. This 3% value is not a typographical error. Worldwide, all those nukes made only a 3% dent in yearly CO2 production. Put another way, each of the 438 individual nuclear plants contribute less than seven thousandths of one percent to CO2 reduction[18]. That’s hardly enough to justify claims that keeping your old local nuke running is necessary to prevent the sea from rising." Read more:
https://fairewinds.squarespace.com/demystify//demystifying-n...
Plutonium and Thorium are other options.
Yup. It's all in the name.

Bootstrap - Get something presentable, quickly.

Foundation - We'll help you start but anything above the foundation is up to you.

It's not hard to imagine why one had more mainstream appeal than the other.
But doesn't that have an Intel Iris 6100 in it (https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-2015/)? If so you should have accelerated VP8 and VP9 decoding. Maybe it's not exposed by the drivers on macOS.
I've heard that in (at least some regions of) Spain, it's perfectly common and acceptable to continue living with their parents well into adulthood.

I remember reading that José María Olazábal (one of the best professional golfers in the 90's, with millions of dollars in earnings) was still living with his parents into his early 40's (though to be fair, he was traveling for half the year on tour).

I often think that the "move out from home" pressure is a ploy by the real estate industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Olaz%C3%A...
There is an excellent keyboard that serves the same purpose, available on android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codebutler...

Truly life changing
At $150 a permit, Uber likely did this to get a ton of free publicity. Judging from the number of articles I've read, it seems to have worked to their advantage.
In the video, they mention that the job growth isn't evenly distributed; it's really only happening on the coastal business hot spots, where real estate was already insane, so that portion of the recovery doesn't help at all with housing.

Consequently, is the implication that the rest of the country isn't recovering nearly as well as the average is reporting? Housing might not be shooting up in the rest of the country, but wages and job opportunities are not great, either.
Induced demand sir

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
Here’s Why You Want a Career in Tech
Not with enough batteries or hydroelectric storage.
Or is this a signal that the broad and rapid American growth in the middle of the 20th century was anomalous, not a baseline?

It might not be a "dearth of resources" but a return to the true long-term norm.
Recycling batteries, especially large ones, is very cost effective.
Always been curious about this - wont nuclear plants increase thermal input of earth ? True for fossil fuels too which were never burnt in such vast quantity

These energy sources are outside of solar energy so how much more can they warm up the earth ?
What darkmont and mikeyouse said (Tesla warranties their batteries for 10 years).

And fires?

https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...
80% accuracy for voice is basically unusable. Low 90s will get someone to persist enough to optimise the voice model for them.

For continuous use, you need 95% at least. See http://anewdomain.net/2014/01/28/lamont-wood-windows-speech-...
You can recycle almost all of the Lithium and other metals in modern batteries.
Young Canadian here. Personally, it's just hard to find work, and there's no cheaper place than mom's house. My girlfriend lives with her parents. She has a job, but her family is having a hard time finding work themselves.

I'm doing it because it's free, and it's a chance to find a job. If I had a steady job, I'd be out in no time. But goings are tough.

I'm saying job a lot. Live in rural Canada and you'll find that job is the magic word. Lots of people do contracting work up here, for welding and scaffolding and that sort of thing. Lots of people have known the experience of working for a month and never seeing the paycheck as the company goes under.

There's a lot of fuss about the Cite C dam in British Columbia. I think it will be built, no matter the problems, because it means work for the people building it, and those people are people I know. Jobs jobs jobs.

I know this isn't about Canada, and I didn't even read the paywalled article, but I think we're staying home because the economy sucks and there are no jobs.
I'm presuming it's not a migration as much as a complete makeover/refactoring. Which could be interesting. Does that open the door to Foundation? That is, if you're going to more or less start over is now the time to jump the Bootstrap ship and climb on board with Foundation?
U.S. Navy Shows Off Unmanned Autonomous ‘Swarm Boats’
It most likely does, but blink and you'll miss it.
Is it technically possible to have a global power grid, where solar generated on the sunny side of the earth can be used on the dark side, eliminating the need for energy storage?
The actual electricity is getting cheaper in Germany, what drives the prices are the grid usage costs and other elements. One thing which drives me nuts is a cost sharing scheme for renewable energy. Actually a good idea but it has a flaw.

Renewable energy actually decrease the price on the electricity exchange. So if more renewable energy is supplied the prices decreases even more. And the cost sharing scheme says, that the grid owners get the difference between the exchange price and the the fixed tariff for renewable energy. The result is: this part of the electricity price increases.

It is a flaw in the way the electricity market is designed and it should be fixed. But currently the political is missing to do so.
If I as a business do something illegal but it is very useful to consumers, governments seem to accept it over worker rights for a long time. Similarly, it seems taxes are optional (corp/vat) if you employ lots of people.

I'm not sure about Uber as a company, but I am very sure that changing laws (AirBnB/Uber/Deliveroo/others) has been good for me and this should be the first thought in a startup rather than let's not bother because it seems to be illegal or I have to register as a bank (it's always a bank with the ideas I come up with...) to be allowed to do X. It's probably easier to break the law and ask forgiveness than mire yourself in regulation before you have customers...

I'd love to hear YCs take on this but as ever you only get their advice if you are in the club. Also they probably can't advocate doing illegal things (publicly anyway).
Nvidia Surges in 2016 Using Graphics Chips to Challenge Intel
I don't follow job postings for ML, but I will say this - there is inherent value in being familiar with certain frameworks when hiring for non-entry-level positions. This is particularly true for ML, where it can be very useful to know the optimizations that the libraries do/don't make behind the scenes, etc.

Should most ML job postings require n years of experience in some framework? Maybe not - but I can see why a company might see value in it.
Or maybe a bunch of dogs will entertain themselves by killing the cat.
So all this banter is in response to fake news? Funny.
I think the better word here is recursive mutex, not reentrant mutex. Because contrary to the implied claim on that page,

"The basic pthread mutex leaves a lot to wish for. Support
for reentrancy would allow varying lock granularity on the
call site."

pthreads provides recursive mutexes via the PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE mutex type specifier. It was in the 2004 POSIX specification as an XSI extension, but moved to Base in the 2008 specification. No environment is certified to POSIX 2008, AFAIK. Linux/glibc and linux/musl are the closest, I think. But recursive mutexes, and specifically PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE, are supported everywhere I've checked, including all the BSDs, AIX, and Solaris.
Twitter Is 'Pretty Much Toast'
put a tsp of vinegar in the spray bottle. They learn even faster
Noticing a username is green isn't exactly "doxxing".
Possible maybe, there was a project called Desertec, but it is pointless. The advantage of renewable energy is the possibility of a decentralised energy supply.
As I understand it, the batteries are dangerous also, being lithium or sodium. These are potentially city block-size Note 7s, right?
> then every past player at Borgata and the Attorney General and dealers should sue Borgata

I'm probably missing something obvious, but why would the dealers of all people sue Borgata?
For Evernote, to write in Markdown, I've been using http://marxi.co and am a big fan of it, though it does cost and runs on only web technologies.
The initial estimates for the cost to repair the damage caused by Fukushima were as far as I remember, around 50 billion dollars. According to a recent news article [1], the costs are now estimated at 250 billion dollars. They just keep on increasing. And then there is also the human/environmental damage to consider.

I have been excited about nuclear since my school days, but at this point the downside if something goes wrong is imo just not financially worth it. I would much rather pay 2x for a safer solar plant with similar output than invest something this high-risk. It's like selling uncovered options, with no way to set a stop-loss or to recover if anything goes wrong.

I think it is likely that at some point the global community will also realize that the cost considering the risks is just not worth it and begin to move away from nuclear fission. Especially if any another incident like Fukushima happens in the next decade or so; that could have big implications on nuclear policy.

[1]:http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-17/fukushima-nuclear-c...
It shows up as incompatible but works fine.
I think FLOSS projects do such a bad job at marketing and publicity that you would be doing them an immense favour volunteering your skills in that way. OTOH, increasing popularity increases workload so you would have to be careful about scaling the user community at the correct rate.
Two words: Baseload power... solar is cheap but batteries at scale are not yet.
Coding a Deep Neural Network to Steer a Car: Step by Step
https://xkcd.com/795/
> Speech also cannot cause direct harm

Can it not? It can be used to humiliate people to the point of suicide. It can be used to target someone for violence. In the case of people with photosensitive epilepsy, particular visuals could kill them.

Even if the harm in some of these is “indirect”, it's not less problematic.

Another issue is the Overton window.
Nice to read this among all the xenophobic nonsense.

A lot of people have this notion that welcoming (muslim) immigrants is like asking for terrorism, that they take away jobs, that they don't integrate well into society and they are out to convert everyone to Islam or something like that.

I don't know what makes believe these crazy ideas, but the media certainly doesn't help, painting every terrorist attack as something to do with immigration policy or muslims. Social media plays a major role in spreading all these wrong stories. Unfortunately the vast majority of internet users get their news from social media platforms, where emotional appeal of a story trumps facts, which is something fake news writers have exploited to great success.

I have no idea how people can support policies which actively want to stop helping immigrants. It's a humanitarian crisis and we need to do everything to help people who are suffering. As simple as that.
once you get the basics. the official manual is pretty good.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/index.html

I did not find a very good book on advanced level.
I was on a feeding tube at 17 years old, and the doctor referred to it as "a way to absorb nutrients without eating".
She did, she's had several doctors throughout her medication, one of them seemed very ignorant of the side effects. Thanks for responding.
It wasn't intended as a rebuttal. I'd rather not see increased CO₂ emissions as a result of electricity production.

I was, however, pushing back a little at "It boggles the mind", which in this context carries with it snarky connotations of condescension, which does nothing to solve the problem, and doesn't admit to even the possibility of understanding the situation. As I mentioned in my initial comment, there are reasons why this decision was made, and the first step in changing the situation is understanding why it came about. And changing the situation is the goal, isn't it?

What caused your locale to make this decision while Germany made another?

Edit to add: Please note I'm not saying or even implying you don't know why Germany made the decision to build more coal plants. I don't know the situations in Germany or Ontario. I just think it's more constructive to discuss the situation than dismissing it as startling, confusing, or overwhelming.
There are differences if you know what to look for. I've often collected walnuts from trees in England and thought they looked similar. I don't need to check if the leaves are pinnate - they always are. If I hadn't been forewarned, I might have got as far as cutting the manchineel fruit open before discarding it, thinking it was a related species.

Lack of range overlap makes misidentification by someone from outside the range more likely.
I'm in Australia.

I'm hiring 6 people in a range of roles between "pure" data scientists to more data engineer/SWE roles. The exact mix depends on who we can get.

The ability to find good people is the biggest constraint on the work we do.

Our current team ranges from applied mathematicians (as in they are Math professors) to people with traditional SWE backgrounds. Basically we are a long long way from saturated.
I tend to agree. Aesthetic design is overrated. The average user won't care if they get the info/result they need. As long as you don't offend - and Bootstrap is above that fairly low bar - most visitors will be satisfied.

Furthermore more, Bootstrap made "mobile first" easy to embrace. It certainly helped to usher in RWD.
Interesting, she has been offered that but hasnt tried it yet. thanks for the advice.
What's unique now isnt the "rate of change" but the absolute gap between skill sets.

Lets say youre a truck driver and suddenly you lose your job. You cant transfer your existing skill set to driving a cab for very long because guess what? Thats been automated too.

There arent any other jobs that involve sitting at a wheel avoiding bad drivers and rush hour traffic and pulling all nighters. Simultaneously the chance for that person to find work in new markets becomes low. They have to train themselves.
While it isn't proper poll, Veritasium's interviews[1] with the general public support the supposition that most people lack basic information about anything nuclear.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQmnztyXwVA
Uber pulls autonomous vehicles off San Francisco streets
This is the real problem. While it may be good ecologically for population growth to slow and then reverse, it will lead to what I've long called "planet Japan."