skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so I made my comments not about the UK in particular, but at the level of reports from IEA or EIA or Lazard's. At the napkin math level, ignoring baseload (which is nuclear) or dispatchability (which is not really nuclear), PV solar blows away nuclear. But then, so does nearly every energy source. Nobody builds a nuclear plant because its profitable or cost effective.

We need to watch for when solar and wind beat natural gas for electricity generation costs. (And then we need to start watching for power to gas costs....)
> If you were paranoid, you might think that the 'fake news' push served two objectives:

>1. As a psyops to stop the potentially very damaging allegations against powerful senior Washington DC political operatives on the eve of an important election.

If you're referring to "pizzagate", if you were paranoid you might also think that was the psyop. Paranoid people think a lot of things.

>Both of these objectives have been successfully achieved however you perceive it.

I'm not certain that's true. Damage to the mainstream press hasn't been repaired, and the people who believe in pizzagate still believe in it, and it was covered by the mainstream media, albeit briefly and as an example of, ironically, the fake news phenomenon.
I thought the same - started out using PICK as well. Wow, I thought I was one of the few on HN. Nice to know you!

I felt the same way when "NoSQL", document dbs, etc. came out. Ok, yeah, now we are distributed and massive scale with better tooling... but.. same/similar concepts.
Quibbles with your word choice aside, I'm not denying that it's possible (it's worth noting that we've yet to see actual, hard evidence for it) or even probable that they did (though the thought experiment works much better if you think they wanted to embarrass a President Clinton, not the candidate...seeing as how everyone else outside the US thought she'd win too). I'm simply noting that this is normal behavior for these countries stretching back half a century and, personally, I don't think it's worth starting WWIII over John Podesta's shitty password habits.
Geoff Hinton has deep roots with the rival University of Toronto and the surrounding ecosystem. His role and influence undoubtedly played a large part in this decision.
Not everyone that demands a fax wants it through fax. Making someone's job harder socially won't get a business, organization, or agency to change their ways.

If you want places like healthcare to stop using faxes, propose a secure solution that meets their needs and fulfills government requirements / restrictions.
Docker hacks: Prune those unwanted stuff
Yes, tCL is a round trip time for accessing an already open row, and it puts a sharp upper bound of ~5ns on propagation delay. Random access time, approximated by tRAS, is still ~50ns. You contend that tCL is the bigger problem, I contend that tRAS is the bigger problem. The key statistic is <#CAS/#RAS>, which I haven't been able to find easy values for.

I don't understand your argument that the L2 and L3 caches tip the balance in favor of <#CAS>. If anything, I'd expect them to do the opposite, because the SRAM and DRAM both aim to exploit locality, meaning that better L2 and L3 caches would reduce #CAS faster than #RAS. Of course, armchair reasoning about such complex systems as memory controllers and caches can only go so far, so I wouldn't be shocked to be wrong, but I would certainly demand actual statistics before changing my view.
> Right? This is an odd choice.

Why? UofT / Hinton are doing the AI here...
his website tho: http://www.rayfleming.com/
Expo Sketch → Expo Snack
It looks like that is the actual working directory and some files were not saved properly. The #BushOnGrass.tex# files with # at the start and end are backups made by Emacs, and usually deleted when the file is saved correctly.
True, but only if you don't use Turbo Tax.

My first year after graduating (and dabbling in stocks/ETFs) I had a painful time filling it out manually on H&R Block. Last year, Robinhood's integration made it so easy that I was both simultaneously pissed that I'm pretty much locked into Turbo Tax and amazed that it's so nice with all its integrations (e.g. also works on Lending Club, Wealthfront, etc).
I don't think they are just using the money for preventing Apocalypse. As Andrew Ng says worrying about this is kin to worrying about overpopulation on Mars.

Openai will probably use the money to hire world class researchers and give them tools necessary to advance AI in a meaningful way that benefits humanity.

The other big labs from Google, Facebook and MS seems to be driven by gathering as much data as possible from users, learning from it and presenting click bait ads to make more money.
Just in case, there's Linuxbrew (http://linuxbrew.sh/), Homebrew for Linux.
I have my doubts that playing with the stock market is in any way conducive to "financial health" for the average consumer.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/
It's part research center, part marketing expense...
> Nobody builds a nuclear plant because its profitable or cost effective.

This just isn't true.

Solar and wind power have failed disastrously in Germany, to the extent that they have to now cut back on wind power and start building coal fired plants, because they were stupid enough to turn off their nuclear facilities.
Except that is what it means. The term is used mainly in certain contexts these days, so you might have gotten the impression that it only applies in those contexts, but 'fiduciary' has a broader meaning.

To quote from Wiki (I know): "[t]he distinguishing or overriding duty of a fiduciary is the obligation of undivided loyalty" and I'd argue that taking on capital imposes just such an obligation, such that trying to hire the people most likely to maximize your investors return is indeed a fiduciary duty, one that implies other duties.
Unless a sandboxed version can be run on site within a private network, OR they make a secure HL7 service, I do not expect healthcare to adopt this over other products like RightFax.
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"People are being funneled into "ideological bubbles""

I'm not as convinced they are being funneled. I remember back in high school, my friends and I would sit around in a circle, in meat space.

"War is wrong"

And we would go around the circle: "yup", "absolutely", etc

"Some other liberal talking point"

yup, of course, so true....

I feel they are self selecting. Look at the election, when liberals were 3x more likely to unfriend people. [1] And I think they have been self selecting since before the internet. Also there is a geographic component. Rural areas vote red, urban vote blue. We have had geographic filter bubbles for decades.

1. http://fortune.com/2016/12/19/social-media-election/
Vector Institute
I use Robinhood in tandem with my traditional online brokerage and love it.

The Robinhood iOS interface is really excellent, though they provide way less technical tools and analysis than my traditional online brokerage. However this is to be expected since Robinhood is targeting non-pro/power users.

Trade execution time and preference has actually been solid on Robinhood, though untested in a highly volatile situation where liquidity could be an issue for non-institutions and professionals.

Shameless plug (I've posted it before), but here is a blog post I wrote on leveraging capital using Robinhood Gold (margin) for those who are interested:

https://justink.svbtle.com/leveraging-capital-using-robinhoo...
Holden's dedicated a huge chunk of his career to moving hundreds of millions of dollars to alleviating poverty and disease. He's one of the founders of the effective altruism movement. You may disagree with his decision here, but to dismiss his efforts, saying it "sucks" and isn't "effective, or even altruistic", while ignoring the extensive public writing he's done on the subject that led him to these views and strawmanning his position as nepotism, is just awful.

"I disagree with the arguments presented, for these reasons" - cool.
If you think the grant isn't a good idea, make an argument for that.

"This person who has dedicated their life to doing as much good as possible is close to other people who also want to do as much good as possible, and their work has led to convergent viewpoints, therefore this isn't altruism" is cheap character assassination.
> Another decade is going to make storage extremely cheap, as in 2x-10x cheaper.

It might, or it might not; in the mean time people go on using electricity at times when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining.
THANKYOU. Drives me nuts when people mess that up.
where $1B is good, $1.03B is better?
No, it's better. I basically got burned out writing the same code for 5 different financial companies so tried something new. Loved Linux, loved the CLI, loved the power it gave me. I've literally saved a startup when paged in a nightclub at 3am and having to type very carefully to fix their database replication.

You need to pivot in work, especially as most of us will be working for 40 years+. I'm getting into the security stuff now, which I think is the new hotness.Only thing bringing me back to programming is golang which is absolutely superb for server-side stuff.
"Disclaimer: FullCalendar is great for displaying events, but it isn't a complete solution for event content-management. Beyond dragging an event to a different time/day, you cannot change an event's name or other associated data. It is up to you to add this functionality through FullCalendar's event hooks."
You're not allowed to print fake money that looks like too much like real money. See https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/10/business/tricky-busin....

From the article: "Essentially what this law says is that bills must be either 75% smaller than or 150% larger than the size of a real bill and one color, one side."

So printing fake money could be a crime even if you don't attempt to pass it as real.
AFAIK, the digital interface of the physical layer (PHY) of the Ethernet stack are pretty much standardized (MII/RMII/GMII/RGMII). Most SOCs implement their own MAC layer, but are usually compatible with off-the-shelf PHY chips. The function and interface differences in proprietary MAC implementation is where the complexity of the kernel driver comes from.

Suppose that we also standardized the interface between the MAC layer and the kernel and add an FPGA inside the existing PHY chip which is opened to real-time programming, a ton of optimization can be done. For example, DDOS packets could be thrown away well before reaching the kernel space.

Previously I had done that with some low-cost FPGA kits, with less than 1K of HDL codes, it could get out only the IP packets wanted and then pass the packets directly to the application layer via the memory interface between the embedded CPU and FPGA logics.

I think a programmable network interface is well worth the money if we care enough for openness and efficiency.
For anyone interested in developping applications for FPGAs in a high-level DSL embedded in Scala, this project (https://github.com/stanford-ppl/spatial-lang) from a Stanford Lab might interest you.

Disclaimer: I am part of the lab.
I wasn't too surprised. If you look at the Vector Institute website (http://vectorinstitute.ai/#people), you'll see many additional well-known researchers involved, in addition to Geoff Hinton:

David Duvenaud, Sanja Fidler, Brendan Frey, Roger Grosse, Geoffrey Hinton, Jordan Jacobs, Tomi Poutanen, Daniel Roy, Raquel Urtasun, Richard Zemel.

there is a lot more momentum at UofT in this specific area of research, more than there is at Waterloo.
> Or maybe I just don't think the government trying to support 158,00 libraries and museums at an average of $1,000 is worth it.

We both look at the number and shake our heads, only you think it's far to high and I far to low.

>For example, if the local population is too stupid to fund it because they just raised $60 million for a new high school football stadium, then that's their problem, and I don't think I (or you) should have to pay for their ignorance. (I'm referencing a town in Texas that built a massive high school football stadium because they think it's more important that their education investment.

Just like with the "die poor, don't have kids you can't afford" argument, it may make you feel morally superior, but it actually makes you a short sighted dick.

The kids who will suffer because of it didn't decide to build that stadium or neglect the education infrastructure, they just get disadvantaged by it.

tl;dr - sometimes you just need to suck it up and pay for things you don't want to like an adult because it's better in the long run.
That's because our computers continually destroy and re-create bits, instead of reusing them. Google "fredkin toffoli conservative logic reversible computing".

Edit: I am aware that claim sounds hilarious when expressed in this simplified way. Don't fret, it's hard science.
"We have to defuse this bomb or it will destroy the city in one hour!"

"But there are people suffering right now!"
I didn't realize HN was so filled with black women looking to discover hairstyle inspiration.
Well, one can dox "violent harassers".
This objection is pretty much stated and answered in the article, i.e. that's the theory, they looked at the actual numbers and found the theory wasn't holding.
I'd love to see some concrete examples of what you're referring to.

Also, I can understand the team apprehension. I don't think lisp syntax is so bad as compared to the general amount of inertia required to do clojure well: emacs or similar, proper reloading, componentized services, etc...
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Not sure, 6-9 months ago. Texting always worked for me, but audio & video were hit-&-miss.

Actually, thinking about it now, I haven't used video much lately, but audio has been much better the past 1-2 months.
LastPass release fix for DOM manipulation vulnerability
Canada will benefit from the brain wall Trump has erected.
Leiningen is a pain in the butt compared to cargo or mix, and it's verbosity and package setup can be truly painful at times.

On the other hand, boot[0] is simpler, can do everything Leiningen can do.

Leiningen kept me from being effective with Clojure. Boot got out of the way.

[0] http://boot-clj.com/
It's not rocket science, and it is obviously a loan. How is margin shady? This claim that it is somehow predatory or that consumers need to be protected is nonsense. This assumes that people can't do research and due diligence. If you aren't informed to make financial decisions than you probably shouldn't be trading. If you choose to proceed, do so at your own risk.

All brokerages offer margin and typically this is how they make their money, not commissions.
It's illusory to think that we have a choice. Engineers are "dev-ops" now and sysadmins are "site reliability engineers." Everybody has to do everything.
Related bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
Yes, it gives you short circuiting on nil values. The post mentions `some->` and laments its inability to handle varying function signatures.

You can combine `some->` with other threading macros to make it achieve the desired effect, and you can also achieve the desired effect with `if-let` as the post demonstrates, but I believe the b/cond approach to be more readable than both.
Indeed this is due to missing options in the installer: with some manual fiddling, it's long been possible to make grub boot from encrypted disk (thus removing the need for a separate /boot and its space issues): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1062623

You could probably fix this on your system without installing from scratch, but it would take some careful planning (mostly wrt backups!). You'd need to boot from a recovery cd or such, copy /boot into /, edit /etc/fstab accordingly, and then follow the last few steps in the bug report above (from the chrooting onwards). I'd probably test this in a VM first.
Lots of interest in Microkernels since everyone got tired of kernel vulnerabilities. So who won the Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate? It is too soon to say (Zhou Enlai said that of the French revolution - almost 200 years after the fact)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...

The article says that the focus is on 'PCs, tablets, and high-end phones'. Wouldn't a more secure OS be relevant to server environment? Is the performance cost of a microkernel considered to be too high for a server OS? Is it too difficult to do?
47 states (New York, Washington and Illinois the outliers) have passed an Uniform Electronic Transaction Act that confers electronic signatures with equal weight. A federal law has existed since 2000. Unfortunately a self-fulfilling prophecy of people not accepting the validity of electronic agreements because no one else does has kept usage low. Even faxed contracts are often followed up with Fedex delivered versions. The only electronic agreement I've done is FAFSA's PIN blessed submission. The recent high profile payment card breaches and politician email doxxing have further decreased public confidence in all things computerized.
> It’s not very fast, but it’s surprisingly easy on the resources, especially memory.

Open VS Code and then Sublime and be amazed.

Atom and VS Code can never be 'easy on the memory' because they have to load an entire Electron instance just to idle.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server / OpenStack (ClearOS)

-HEADLINE: Embedded "cPanel" alternative.

-DESCRIPTION: Like ClearOS, focusing on easy server administration though web , Ubuntu Server could have an embedded alternative to it. All the free thirdparts alternatives (ZPanel and others) are painful to install, have super bad UI and deliveries some inefficiency tools due to OS. Even the payed ones have this problems, but most of them on a smaller scale. I've mentioned OpenStack because it deliveries some nice virtualization tools though webadmin.

This tool will drastically increase the usage of Ubuntu Server inside home servers/small hosting providers, since cPanel is payed and . Ubuntu Server already has one of the easiest installation. This tool would allow non-serverAdmins to use it in small website hostings.
"And then, the only response you get is... "that's not right!". And that response is somehow given equal weighting?"

I noticed this long before the internet became this popular. Its more about the anti intellectualism than it is technology.
I noticed there's a lot of RISC-V cores today implemented in Berkeley's Chisel (https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/). How would you say they compare?
This is great. It's been a long term goal if mine to do a successful kick-starter robot. This give me confidence that a hardware noob has some chance of making this work.
What are the risks? Apart from a margin call? Meaning they sell your stocks..

Is there any risk related to avoiding the 3 day settlement?

Many amateurs using robinhood do so knowing they could loose their investment. So long as they don't loose more they'll hopefully be fine.
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FLAVOR: Fedora

HEADLINE: How Ubuntu is terrible

DESCRIPTION: dpkg, apt-get, and more commands use ambiguous names (apt-get update && apt-get upgrade for example). The package manager on Ubuntu and Debian should be consolidated into a single 'apt' command, such as 'apt install' or 'apt update'. Ubuntu and Debian default settings are configured like someone didn't read documentation and doesn't care about consistency. Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, and other RedHat-based distros are far superior in every way imaginable.

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That Clojure code looks like what I would write: non-idiomatic and procedural.
EDIT: greyrest's code looks more idiomatic and thus way shorter but still understandable.
I agree that "that's Pascal's wager!" isn't a reasonable response to someone arguing that, say, a 1% or 10% extinction risk is worth taking seriously. If you think the probability is infinitesimally small but that we should work on it just in case, then that's more like Pascal's wager.

I think the whole discussion thread has a false premise, though. The main argument for working on AGI accident risk is that it's high-probability, not that it's 'low-probability but not super low.'

Roughly: it would be surprising if we didn't reach AGI this century; it would be surprising if AGI exhibited roughly human levels of real-world capability (in spite of potential hardware and software improvements over the brain) rather than shooting past human-par performance; and it would be surprising if it were easy to get robustly good outcomes out of AI systems much smarter than humans, operating in environments too complex for it to be feasible to specify desirable v. undesirable properties of outcomes. "It's really difficult to make reliable predictions about when and how people will make conceptual progress on a tough technological challenge, and there's a lot of uncertainty" doesn't imply "the probability of catastrophic accidents is <10%" or even "the probability of catastrophic accidents is <50%".
Yes, I do exactly that. Also, all of my meatspace professional writing is private, so the chances of stylometric outing are minimal. Mirimir is currently my online professional persona, and I generally don't get into arguments using it. There are other personas for that.
> offering parental leave is an excellent example of the kind of thing a union would negotiate, and is also pretty well related to how attractive a company is to women (who are more likely to have childcare responsibilities).

This is an excellent example of how women make different choices to men driven by the special rights that they are afforded. Giving a women more maternity leave sounds laudable but it creates a perverse incentive where they have to take on those childcare duties.

My wife and I are going through this at the moment and she will be entitled to 5 months of full-paid maternity leave. No employment contract I've ever signed has even come close to that for paternity leave. The only rational decision is for her to take care of the child.

I'm much more in favour of some sort of system where that leave is allocated to a family and how they choose to divide it is up to them.
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Back in the day, it was standard advice for n00bs.
Does Robinhood sell retail order flow on? I've read conflicting views both ways, but can't really see how they'd make any money if they didn't.

I think the way it's being promoted is a bit dangerous though. It seems like they're promoting to the exact market that really, really shouldn't be flipping stocks (and promoting use of margin to do so). Interactive brokers is what, a few bucks a trade anyway?

Something aimed at a similar market that I like a lot more is 'acorns'. It just rounds up any transaction you make to some number, and invests the difference in one of a few ETFs. I think it promotes a much healthier view of investing for the average young joe/jill.
> I do think nukes are the primary reason, much like with Iran. But you see a trend with Iran, Russia, China, NK- when the country is too legitimate to invade (compared to little Serbia or Somalia), isolation and sanctions are pursued.

Stuxnet was (in a sense) a much more interesting topic than this leak. It showed that the retaliation is pursued not only by isolation and sanctioning, but with (subtle & undercover) direct attacks too.
I think more accurately in your analogy horses = those who derive their income from labor. As automation increases, the returns to capital will accumulate, whereas the returns to labor will decrease. But that capital will still be owned by humans.
Are you asking about VMOs or VMARs?

In general: it gives a process a huge amount of flexibility in terms of how it sets up its own address space, communicates with other processes, and in how it can communicate with the kernel.
Sign me up :)
Will see if I can get BillForward (YC S14)guys to contribute!