skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a joke. Counterexample: another one did not use MVP (By the way, he was not a developer) and lost $50, 000!
Built upon the technology of Germany's AVR[1]. We're still cleaning up that mess. "The total AVR decommissioning costs are expected to be in the order of 1.5 – 2.5 billion €, all public funds, ie to exceed its construction costs by far."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor
Though, as others have mentioned, it is stated policy to leave the ECHR as well as the EU. All part of "regaining freedom"
> Which is also a proliferation risk.

Obviously you haven't looked into the cost of enriching nuclear waste. It is prohibitively high for all but dedicated nation-state actors, who if have the technology to enrich radioactive materials to weapon-grade material aren't going to use nuclear waste.

Worst case for proliferation is being used in a dirty bomb, which just kind of spreads the waste across a limited area. Even then you're looking at alpha-emitting particles that won't cause any radioactive damage unless you ingest it. Take a shower and you'll be fine.
> Never understood that argument, how is it different from your base salary, isn't it a similar mirage? Per year you get XX USD in RSUs vesting, you don't have to consider granted RSUs as being "yours".

If you can/do get an offer that replaces your outstanding RSUs and you're willing to move on, then none of this really matters - you are going to move on and the whole conversation is moot.

However, RSUs are typically based on looking back at previous work, not forward like a salary. If you did a ton of work at the beginning of your career and earned a huge stack of RSUs, you've sunk a cost... but one that is easily recoverable simply by waiting. Even if your output drops.

The biggest problem is that people are very often more productive and energetic in this field at the beginning of their careers, so much so that big companies don't even want to touch older people - built-in Silicon Valley ageism. And that's its own whole can of worms...

So after a few years when their productivity begins to slide and their life priorities change, they get married and have kids and buy cars and homes and pay for private schools... and getting a new job becomes more difficult by virtue of ageism and the sheer volume of outstanding RSUs a company would have to offer you making you a very unattractive candidate, people find they literally cannot tolerate the risk of moving on.

I've heard stories of people willing to accept fates such as being "roofed" (see Hooli on Silicon Valley) for months at a time looking for a new position internally while learning to be a world class barista in the employee lounge, simply because by sitting on their ass and doing nothing, they can afford to buy a house next year, but they can't find a new job because nobody is willing to give them the half a million they feel is owned to them as what is essentially back pay. It becomes a working pension, albeit one where the end goal isn't funding retirement, it's the freedom to move on. This is so common a phenomenon it has a name: Golden Handcuffs.

So yeah, some percentage sunk cost, some percentage risk tolerance, some percentage boredom tolerance.
There's a history of human error and negligence within the industry. That history of errors and negligence is why I am against (nuclear, coal, gas, wind, solar, tidal, hydro) power.

In case it wasn't clear, my point is that this history of errors and negligence is present in literally every industry. Literally all of them.
Companies and unions are in a prisoner's dilemma, the german/nordic model works because both parties cooperate, historically US or French companies have not been cooperative (many a US labor movement or union was put down by private armies — pinkerton was a big one — or even the US army).

If the union cooperates with an uncooperative company it just gets rolled over, if the union is combative it works better (until the union falls below the level of strength which lets them balance the company).

Look no further than Amazon in Germany for a demonstration.
Here are some ideas for the search space problem:

1. Do it in the cloud somewhere. You probably want to do this anyway so you can learn from everyone.

2. Now you can't indefinitely keep everyone's code in the cloud (as kite is learning), so you take the most common use cases and privacy minded coders can download those to their desktop.

3. Of course languages are constantly evolving so the "cloud archive" will always be live and learning from everyone

By the way, you would "learn" a mapping when someone searches for "len, length, .len" and so on but they finally settle on "size" so you would have the input and the correctly labeled target from people's code. You do have to watch them programming in practice though.

For the subtle variations, it would hopefully give you a list of suggestions in order of usage.
There's at least one more distinct set of dry-land points, in Canada, Chile, Kenya, and Australia, which was found by Gram Zeppi in a Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-determine-whether-there-are... . An approximate map, using Nairobi, Santiago, Brisbane, and Yellowknife (Canada) as the points: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=nbo-scl-bne-nbo,+yzf-nbo,+yzf-s... . (My interest is a bit different from Barr's, in that I'm trying to get the points to be near civilization, not far from it.)
First there is strong bias here, so we actually do not know really if it is true.

Second, lets imagine that poor people would prefer whipping instead of imprisonment (they can return to work sooner) or fine.

Should we follow the same logic here then and accept it?
Is that all meaning is to you? Especially the kind of meaning embodied by art?

Reductive definitions don't seem to contribute much to these kinds of discussion.
Maybe it's time for that last one to change. Refactoring a system in a well-intentioned way can optimize a lot of inefficient and ineffective approaches and gives an opportunity to bring things that may be scattered about in to locality for increased comprehension and decreased error in modification.
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I don't know the specifics, but a big reason nuclear is more expensive is regulations. There are so many regulations it's safer per megawatt than even wind or solar.

Thus your argument does not support your conclusion, since regulations come from outside the industry.
There's nothing in principle that stops a machine from creating art. Even, better art than any person could do. So once that happens, where are we left?

We don't have to wonder -- it has already happened: http://the-best-art.computer
I would add to this list Sen. Rand Paul, who co-sponsored the bill, but skipped the vote.

edit: link to donate to the gofundme campaign to purchase the browser histories https://www.gofundme.com/searchinternethistory
Some animals are raised just for their leather while the meat from them is an additional source of income (especially if you consider luxury cars - one that finally got me was the fact that Lexus does not like leather from animals that were raised in farms that had barbed wire....because it damages the skin and hence the leather. I felt that that animals were raised and looked upon as numbers and use instead of them being organisms with feelings for example).
> Clearly, government ordained rights is the only way to stop data from being sold to evil marketing companies! To believe other viable options exist is crazy, you must be a troll

You're from Canada, so your government has implemented strong privacy laws. What you may miss out on is that the usual response to this involves either individual responsibility or a free market solution.

The problem with both of these is that ISPs in the United States are powerful, and in many cases, hold either monopolies or non-competing duopolies is a region. There is no "free market" solution. Claims there are ignore the reality that ISPs will use any means necessary to slow of halt competition. Google Fiber is an example of that. Individual responsibility would require everyone to set up VPNS. For some people, that is beyond their means or their capability. It also is, as I said, an arms race. An organization can detect if you're using a VPN and either throttle or ban you from their service. If you live in one of those areas with a monopoly, you're of luck.
First Magnox reactors had very low efficiency < 20% and their electricity production was not competitive. Their main use was to produce plutonium for weapons.
Could anyone explain why it is impossible for a Gaussian distribution to be anti-correlated with a group of N other Gaussians? This proof clearly implies that fact, but none of the discussion seems to remark on it.
I can imagine a distribution such that the "random seed" puts things closer to the tails based on the measured variance of a group of other normal distributions. Intuitively it seems like that ought to be able to be a normal distribution itself; I don't follow why that is not true.
http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html

About 15 million children in the United States – 21% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty threshold, a measurement that has been shown to underestimate the needs of families. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses. Using this standard, 43% of children live in low-income families.

I am old. The last time I looked at the figures, it was above 50%.

Still, I posit that one of the richest nations in the world having 43% of its children growing up in poverty is some incredibly fucked up, inexcusable shit. Even if it were, in fact, "only" 20-25%, we are falling down on the job in a really big way, imo.

Furthermore, studies have shown that every dollar spent on children under age five saves multiple dollars on things like prison costs. The appalling American record in terms of neglecting the nation's children is directly linked to our high incarceration rates.

This does not meet the test of civilized behavior in my book.

PS: Thanks for the FYI about the word flak.
> E.g. Germany's rush towards decommissioning after Fukushima has had a massively detrimental effect in Europe for this reason.

This says that German emissions from electricity generation were down, but that was offset by heating increases from a cold winter and emissions from increased good transportation:

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-reiterates-g20-...
I think that is because of his dyslexia and poor short term memory
If anyone is considering this, consider fastly and custom VCLs too.
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I thought it was normal to do connection pooling as well, but I was pretty shocked when I saw how much the API at my job was murdering our PostgreSQL server. Every request meant a completely new connection. So while reads and writes were taking up maybe 10% of the server at peak times, creating and closing connections was taking up easily 5x more than that. If I was particularly unlucky, the PostgreSQL server would stall for a few minutes.

Still, I had to implement pgpool-II and do connection pooling that way. It was also a PHP application. :(
> You have to have editors maintaining these pages which (if they are being deleted, generally) are not notable enough to have significant reputable sources devoted to them.

But Wikipedia editors are completely non-fungible. The guy who wrote the page on some obscure 80's movie isn't going to start maintaining the Civil War page with all that extra time if you delete his movie. He's just going to stop editing. So the 'quality control' reasoning doesn't hold water with me. The navigation point still stands, but that's a technology problem that can be solved.
Which is completely wrong. We have no problem with engineers, doctors and skilled people coming to the UK. We just don't want an open door policy where its free entry to EU migrants with no skills at all.

Let me ask you this, if the US or Canada offered you a job, would you refuse it as their requirement for a visa means they don't want you there?
NO edit wars for meeting minutes are a BAD thing any errors or omissions should be addressd in the next meeting
you're asserting that the reason why advertising organizations who are competing to deliver the most valuable advertising product to their clients end up invading people's privacy is a lack of maturity and willpower? You're insane if you believe that this problem is not systemic.
I think this captures a lot of what it going on in an interesting way. In many ways 'machine learning' is yet another high level compiler to convert intent into something executable by circuits.

Consider the evolution of computers;

'plugboards' -- where you physically rewired them to change their program.

'punch cards' -- where physical media held the list of steps to execute.

'programs' -- where a text specification are compiled into a bag of bits which can then be executed by the computer.

'scripts' -- where a textual description activates different bags of bits, depending on what the text says.

'databases' -- where a selection criteria of a which data is important to you at the moment and then fed into the selection mechanism for the bags of bits.

'machine learning' -- where the bags of bits are created by evaluating a bunch of data through a pile of data selection operators and tuning the execution based on a
data you consider 'good' and data you consider 'not good'.

In all cases the basic idea is that you have a machine that you want to do X, and it can do X through a set of steps Y. Coming up with the steps Y gets harder and harder depending on the complexity of X.

It seems like magic but really its just another form of compiler. And that relationship is made even more clear by the article when it points out that a program that can play Go is not the same one that can play Chess. What is more salient is that no one has written a program that lets a computer "play" go, instead there is a program that, after being fed data about what humans did when they were playing Go and the outcomes of what they did, tweaked a bunch of parameters in a bag of variables that when you put in Go moves to the bag it comes out with a Go move that would be a good response.

No, I'm not trying to be silly here, we have yet to create a system where you could simply explain the rules of Go and have it devise a set of steps to play Go at the master level. That conceptualization of the binding between the rules and how those rules affect play and strategy, is essentially the 'code generator' part of a compiler which takes an AST and generates executable code.

Machine learning today helps us write programs to manipulate complex data sets faster than we could before. Just as compilers let us write programs faster than doing so in assembler, and assembler was an improvement over plug boards. It does not get us any closer to having a computer that can look at a data set and tell us what is important about it. That would be a better test of 'intelligence' I think.
This fantasy of hitting it big with the MVP reminds me of a similar fantasy in Hollywood: making it big with a treatment.

The idea -- and this apparently worked in the 80s -- is that if you had a "high concept" script, you could sell it for millions.

A high concept script would be one where the idea was the driving force so, for instance, a man and a dog switch bodies. Or, aliens take over people's minds through drinking water, or whatever.

The values of these treatments fell over time, because the market learned to correctly price in the execution risk.
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It was still their choice to make children together.
But people can make mistakes, yes.
So I never sad they must stay together, and in the case of abuse, I believe there are laws for that.

But others (in general) are still not responsible for a family going down, out of their bad planning/judgement whatever. (Main point is still income btw.)
But (for the 3. time) society still can and should help, because it is nice to be nice, but not if the niceness is demanded.
Absolutely, competition will protect the consumer best. But we need that competition first :)

In the meantime, it seems logical to take some steps to limit the damage that our currently monopolistic telcos can do and give someone power to enforce a rule that: "(1) applies the customer privacy requirements of the Communications Act of 1934 to broadband Internet access service and other telecommunications services, (2) requires telecommunications carriers to inform customers about rights to opt in or opt out of the use or the sharing of their confidential information, (3) adopts data security and breach notification requirements, (4) prohibits broadband service offerings that are contingent on surrendering privacy rights, and (5) requires disclosures and affirmative consent when a broadband provider offers customers financial incentives in exchange for the provider's right to use a customer's confidential information." [0]

I mean seriously, considering the current landscape, does that seem like unreasonable overreach? Is anyone going to go out of business with rules like that?

[0]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...
Thanks. I'm aware of the HN support email, not interested in private dialogs; whole topic of being open, accessible, referenable, etc. is a different topic, and not something I'm looking to cover in the thread unless it's requested.
Still, a salad and a hunk of meat are pretty much what they appear to be.
I just read HN for the comments.
This is one of the best annecdotal posts I have ever read on the internet.

My grandfather was a nuke eng for GE his entire career, built Hanford - he is the reason I got into what I do...

He died of cancer as they didnt quite yet know that radiation was a problem for human health when they started out...

My dads best friend was sec energy under reagan....

I am speechless with respect to how moronic this admin is to nuclear everything
The energy company is owned by Toshiba. And the appliances one by Electrolux I think. So it's not the same.
I seriously doubt you're getting 75 MEGABYTES down over Wifi. Did you mean 75 Megabits (Mb)? There is a major difference between Mb and MB. 75 MB would be equal to 600 Mb per second.
Is there a reason that instead of using a VPN to hide our traffic we don't just have an app that surfs randomly around the net in the background ruining the usefulness of the data collected in the first place?
On Tuesday, Congress sent proposed legislation to President Trump that wipes away landmark online privacy protections. In a party-line vote, House Republicans freed Internet service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast of protections approved just last year that had sought to limit what companies could do with information such as customer browsing habits, app usage history, location data and Social Security numbers. Now call it a poetic justice, less than a day later, online privacy activist Adam McElhaney has launched an initiative called Search Internet History, with an objective of raising funds to buy browsing history of each politician and official who voted in favor of S.J.Res 34. On the site, he has also put up a poll asking people whose internet history they would like to see first. - Slashdot
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Based on the author's misunderstanding of AI, it has not "arrived" and probably never will.

If in the future, authors of such opinions would just let this simple concept sink in first -- that in machine learning application behavior is deduced from data rather than from fixed rules, but that in both cases the boundaries are set by humans -- we'd all be better off because their wild Skynet takes would never see the light of day.

As usual, I am more worried about the humans than the machines.
Was it just Allegro CL? or Did you also use it for other Franz Products? We use it at work for freebsd and it's pretty nice.
I apologize, I should not have been hyperbolic.
That sounds plausible. It has been years since I rendered that video for the web site. I'm sure I did it before H.264 was a thing. I should probably just go back and re-master it. I did put it on YouTube just now but the quality suffered a lot.

Still doesn't make sense to me that it works in some applications and not others.
In my view, this complaint is just one step above an acquaintance who claims to have an amazing idea, and all you have to do as an engineer is make it into a reality and then we'll be super rich

No, this view is exactly the same as the folks that crawl out of the woodwork back in 2010 when they find out you write iOS apps: you build my idea, and we can split the profits. The fact that a startup throws some token amount of money at you doesn't change the formula.

Can't afford a million dollar CNC milling machine? Then you don't get to make widgets. Can't afford the going rate for a software developer? Then you don't get to make shitty throwaway apps for profit. The difference is that the milling machine vendors will tell you to pound sound when you whine that you can't afford it, whereas there's always a doey-eyed college grad ready to believe they're going to get rich writing the front-end for "Uber, only for cats".
>* Even the current UK government doesn't try to argue that the UK has lost its sovereignty by virtue of its EU membership. Its own white paper on Brexit acknowledged that the UK was still entirely sovereign.*

It's not something that's dependent on being acknowledged though. If your national laws have to comply with the laws (or directives if you prefer) passed by a third body, you concede your sovereignty. That's explicit in the very notion of sovereignty -- no matter how politicians might spin it.

>but my position on the sovereignty argument is that for me as a UK citizen, it just doesn't matter since I have such a minuscule say in how things are run either way.

That's a justifiable position one can legitimately hold.

But others can also legitimately feel that it very much matters. And historically and morally, the issue of sovereignty of a national state was never a light one to be set aside with "who cares, we don't very much affect our national policy anyway".

At best it's a stance that's ok for times of plenty or favorable laws, but that starts to matter more when the decisions that are taken go against a countries interests -- and there is no way to overrule them in the national level because even though e.g. 90% of the British are against, 60% of EU policy makers want them.

And despite the talk now being of right wingers being in favor of Brexit, we can very much imagine the opposite: a right wing EU (with e.g. Marie Lepen, the Netherlands guy, some German equivalent etc) that imposes right wing directives and laws upon a progressive Britain. (In fact we don't have to look that far for that: the EU has long impose right leaning labour laws upon more left leaning states).
Given the Union's intimidation and blackmail it makes so much business sense for Audi to move out of Germany to other places in Europe and elsewhere.
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The nuclear industry was already having big issues, so I do not see this bankruptcy changing things much. The decline of nuclear wasn't even related to safety concerns, which I believe are largely exaggerated. Currently operating nuclear plants are losing money and needed to be bailed out in Illinois and New York because they cannot produce power for a low enough price. With that in mind, who wants to spend >$1B to build a new nuclear plant that will likely take >10 years to get permitted and built? For the industry to grow, there needs to be a big change in technology to decrease the capital costs needed to build plants and to decrease plant operating costs. If you cost more than a natural gas plant, you are not going to have much luck in today's market.
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