skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I wonder if there's work being done to combine this approach with the modeling done for personalized chemo treatment to determine drug effectiveness against tumor tissues. It feels like combining modeling techniques for the disease + host would provide the best result.

All I got when I started reading papers and articles describing the function of gut bacteria in the body is that "it's complicated". So its interesting to see the words "manipulating gut bacteria".
And the link I pointed at also just punts on sound, for another example of a corner that you can cut.

I actually whacked a paragraph about how said emulator will not be the fastest emulator and it won't be a perfect emulator, but you'll certainly have some running games, and for that all the things I said will still be true. Making an emulator that exactly matches the console is hard, but making an emulator that more-or-less runs a game isn't that hard.
In WWI the US finally intervened as Germany pursued unrestricted submarine warfare, directly ignoring US wishes. However, the US also realized that continental europe ignoring US wishes would be the default regardless of which party won. If Berlin won then the combined nation would be able to gain domination of the seas and therefore global trade. If the allied won, then they would have excluded america from world trade to rebuild their economies.

As for WWII, the US could have focussed on Japan but instead they had a Europe First strategy which involved denying nazi germany european hegemony. However, by the time they actually decided to invade it was clear Germany was already defeated by the soviets and it was a matter of time.
For the Conservative crowd, we need to characterize renewable energy as energy independence.
6 months here, 5 there. Long hours. Definitely not boring, great job satisfaction when you can say you helped build a 100 MW Wind Farm.
Decent pay.

There are maybe 5 major EPC Engineer Procure Construct companies all of them are very similar.

Lots of military types find the field work similar their previous experience.

You get to meet people from all walks of life, rural farmer to execs of S&P 500 companies.

Lots of driving.

More project management then Engineering if you're​ in the field.

I've also been a part of a few large scale solar farms 20-100MW
Same companies and same work situation, but less cranes.
This was the best take-away for me:

I also learned that my best tactic was to reconceive my bewilderment as curiosity,
and give free rein to it. I asked a lot of “why” and “what if” questions,
forsaking the “what” and “how” questions on which most senior leaders focus.
[...]
My beginner’s mind helped us see our blind spots a little better, as it
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While Gentoo supports systemd, by default it will still use init scripts.
> I wouldn't have gained an appreciation for strong typing.

TypeError: undefined is not a function

On the other hand, JavaScript can make you appreciate strong typing, when you eventually encounter it. (Or at least I personally found that JavaScript made me care a lot more about static typing and correctness than Python ever did because it is so easy to make mistakes.)
> 2) Google Books is ruled fair use in part because the book descriptions (and snippets?) are metadata describing the books, information that should not be controlled by the authors.

It would be very interesting if, instead of showing verbatim snippets from books, there was an appropriate, high quality machine generated summary. This would be a genuine transformation of the source material.
Fair point. At first read I thought she was being a bit sensitive, but maybe I was reading too much into her response which could also be read just as a reasonable warning to future applicants.
Solar has a much larger physical footprint than wind and there's no getting around that even at 100% efficiency (which will never be obtained). Footprint that unlike wind, cannot be used for agriculture or accessed by much wildlife; it's fenced in and covered with panels.

Here in upstate New York there are planned wind and solar farms in the region and every one of both brings out a certain crowd of torches and pitchforks.

There's no pleasing some people. The energy has to come from somewhere, and right now coal, gas, and nuclear together make up most of the fuel mix.
Devuan "jessie" is designed to match Debian "jessie" as much as possible, and is a one-off copying of the release name in order to mark the branching point in the histories of the two distros as they diverge slightly over time.

As the release announcement says:

"Devuan is the Debian that was and could have been. Our goal is to provide a viable and sustainable alternative. It is a new path, nurtured with your help and support."

so Devuan could be considered the true inheritor of the "jessie" name, and of the name "Debian", for that matter, although keeping that would obviously be too confusing.
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I would expect it to be ES2017 or similar.
If he graduated college in 2004 then he would be in his mid-thirties and considered by most definitions to be a millennial himself or very close.

I shouldn't be surprised that a business owner would publicly trash someone to make themselves feel superior after seeing it happen so often, but how could he not see how embarrassing this would be? No wonder he needs a communications specialist.
The bitcoin world has a real problem with vanity metrics to call out a few specific ones:

It's full of companies like Coinbase and blockchain bragging about number of accounts/wallets but I've yet to see any of them report MAU.

Companies like Bitpay talking about massive use growth using % figures and no absolutes and constantly changing some part of what they report on so it cannot be compared.

SCI/Rebit regularly talks about how they can't give actual figures to their volume because they don't want to attract too much attention yet spend half their time posting to forums with % increases and bragging about how fast they are growing and how huge they are.

Cointip spent years bragging about growth and how much volume they were doing before suddenly shutting up shop.

The only companies in the space that show any real information are the exchanges and Openbazaar and in the case of the later I'm sure they wouldn't if they could hide it.
Or use the layer-4 load balancer built into the Linux kernel - IPVS (http://kb.linuxvirtualserver.org/wiki/IPVS).

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Google is continually touted as the industry leader in efficient DC design, yet they do wasteful operations like this. I just don't get it.

On the other hand, Yahoo is constantly shat on (sometimes validly), yet they solved this years ago. Their Lockport, NY data center does not need air conditioning because of its design and the cool local weather. It uses 50 percent less electricity and 99 percent less water compared with traditional data centers.
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They also avoid the 'who' which creates a culture of CYA and secrets.
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I think it got mangled during one of their site upgrades in the past decade.
That might just be the choice of MATLAB as the alternate pole. Because that stands out to me as strange for several reasons... starting with it's not really general purpose at all and it is a relatively complex environment in and of itself which has nothing at all to do with programming or computer science.

That method seems akin to expecting a bunch of students who learned Photoshop for web layouts to have an obvious progression to linear algebra or analog signal processing.
While you can find stage3 tarballs for systemd, OpenRC is still the default for Gentoo AFAIK. (And speaking of Arch Linux, I can't really say I miss initscripts)
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I'm still focused on delivering comments from a client side option, so that my site can be delivered using a static approach. Disqus is a bit bulky but does meet that requirement still.
Seems like sklearn pipelines with a more generalized use case + additional helpful features for ETL. Very interested
That's interesting, this is the second miner-to-coder success story I'm seeing in the news recently. There's also Mined Minds in PA: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/couple-teaches-laid-off-...

Coincidence or indicative of people from declining industries switching to tech?
Isn't there a flag to make hfs case sensitive? Programs react poorly because it's rare, but it's available.
Not every house has solar resource. If your house is in the middle of the woods it's not going to work unless you clear-cut the surrounding woods and then you're not in the middle of the woods anymore. Same if you are in the shadow of a couple of mid-rises. etc. etc. Even if there is solar resource it may not replace more than a fraction of usage. Roof-top solar is great where the resource exists, but it's a partial solution at best. There's still a need for the utility grid and something needs to fuel that. It could be utility-scale solar, but it's not onsite rooftop solar.
As a .NET developer, I only use wrappers for unmanaged code as a last resort. Having to introduce a dependency on something as slow and security-bug-rich as Java would be a hard sell in most .NET shops.
Whenever you travel far away, it’s a good idea to “pre-Google” a few important things and physically store the results. And, install a translation app. You just never know if your connection will be reliable or reinterpreted in some way.

It is also useful to have a blocker because occasionally you can deal with problems by blocking offending domain references. For instance, pages might “not load” due to font server access issues but realistically you can kill those and see the page anyway.
Went down the rabbit whole even further and it turns out Andreessen is the first and largest investor shareholder in PandoMedia/PandoDaily with 8%:

https://pando.com/about/

That's the media company that Emil was talking about at dinner. Does it not strike you as odd that one of the most vociferous critics of Uber years ago also has as a primary shareholder, Lyfts's biggest shareholder?

This isn't an excuse of things that have happened at Uber, but I definitely think these conflicts of interest should be receiving a lot more scrutiny since you can make any company look bad by just dedicating more resources to investigating it and painting everything you find in the worst light possible (like what happens with Apple)
> Pittsburgh came back from losing its steel industry.

Not really. It's still down population almost 10% from 2000.

Losing Westinghouse was a gigantic loss--and it didn't need to happen. Westinghouse should have been a source for tech talent during the Dot Com boom to combine with CMU and Pitt students. Instead Pittsburgh was a technology desert in that same time (I remember trying to find WiFi hotspots there in 2000-2002 and people staring at me like I was from Mars).
Not at all, I know a number of folks on H-1Bs, L-1s and other visas that are barely able to do their jobs correctly.

I was just sharing an anecdote.
> Additionally, people may just be 'wired differently'...

That leads back to my statement about not judging them per se. I can't ever imagine work/business related stuff, or even just general stress leading me to tears. But I'm also hyper logical and tears just aren't how I shed that storm cloud. I don't look at it as a macho or manly thing either, some of the most rugged 'manly' men that I've ever met (special forces, ridiculous outdoorsmen, Olympic wrestler), and admire greatly for their intestinal fortitude would shed a tear at all kinds of things I couldn't imagine, I just don't think stress would be one of them.

I also fully expect in most cases that a root cause for an unexpectedly 'over the top' reaction probably has to do more with something I'm either oblivious to or something else that's going on.
Yes, I see what you're saying. I was not aware this was the case.
Given how jobs seem to be dying, self employment may be the wave of the future. It was also something the founders of the U.S. thought was critical as a foundation for a truly free and empowered society. I think this is correct. When I had a corporate job, I worried a lot that they would trip across my online activities and fire me for them for some damn reason. It seriously curtailed my online activities for a time.

I think you see a high correlation between being a founder and having really strong opinions because these people can afford their opinions, both literally and figuratively. They don't have to live in fear that their opinions might leave them unable to provide for themselves and their families.

If the takeaway is "If you want his confidence, then become an entrepreneur," I am very okay with that. There is zero reason we can't create a country of lots of small businesses and consultants. The reality is small businesses provide more jobs and job growth in the U.S. than megacorps do anyway.
COW should do wonders for performance, but COW with no data checksums would make me more nervous about reliability (only one copy of files to corrupt)
That's the way construction happens. It's a temporary thing.

*Except for the Sagrada Familia building in Spain which started construction in 1982 and is expected to be finished in 2026.
FYI - HFS is capability of case sensitivity and is an option during formatting. I believe it even used to be the default.
This post is intended for folks upset and concerned about the state of the climate, that are unsure about how to make an impact, but are very interested in doing something; it does not directly discuss the article (sorry dang.)

First off, I suggest you disregard politics and convincing your friends: Telling the ignorant masses to change their firmly held opinions and way of life is a waste of time. Do not delude yourself into thinking you'll get 5 billion poor folks (there are about that many) to not use coal power, or to not get gas scooters/cars. They will all do it - unless we provide a better alternatives. So your first action is to help make electric cars, solar power generation, and batteries as good as possible, and that means you go work hard as an engineer at one of these companies. Not an elec/mech/whatever engineer? Stop thinking so small; you have the internet, teach yourself enough to do a thesis level project and start applying. You can do this.

The second, more dire action is to help with Carbon Sequestration (taking carbon out of the atmosphere). What you need to do is replicate the Elon Musk model of directing the Human Colossus [0] towards Accelerated Silicate Weathering [1] - That is, crushing and spreading silicate minerals along all coastlines and wet tropical climates. There are two links; the first covers how Elon Musk uses commercially viable businesses to fund research and advanced engineering to create leverage. The second link covers the science behind accelerated weathering; The abstract is that the oceans naturally uptake carbon from the atmosphere by reacting C02 with cations in the water that come from dissolved silicate minerals. This uptake de-acidifies the oceans and produces food for ocean life; for us to collect all the carbon produced in the USA last year, we would need to crush about 60km^3 of silicate rock (which is in abundance) and spread it along coastlines.

To successful sequester enough carbon to save the ecosystem, this might one of the best options we have.

The way you go about this is you copy Elon's model and make a business crushing rock. Thus, you must make mining machines and get into the mining business. Take a software based approach and use electric vehicles if you can. Vertically integrate, hire more engineers, get more clients and build a lot of machines. I think that's a good starting point.

Anyways, I've thought a lot about this and if you are concerned then these are the two things you ought to focus on. Don't try and convince people! We need engineering solutions not talk.

[1]http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
[2]http://www.greensand.nl/content/user/1/files/rog20004.pdf
Double points if it can be automated!
> Waste disposal is a non issue,

Sorry, but that's just a ridiculous position. You can argue that it's a soluble issue, that the long-term hazard and security are manageable and affordable. You need storage that's going to stable over 10s of thousands of years, that will need to be protected for the foreseeable future (unless you want people to have plenty material for dirty bombs etc). That's not cheap, and the is cost that's very likely going to be externalized from the company running atomic plants, since there's obviously no guarantee said company is going to stick around for long enough.

I am perceiving an uptick in lay-people (more or less) advocating for fission power generation over the last 2-3 years. There are some good arguments. But in nearly all cases I end up being unconvinced because all the problems (waste, complexity, massive delays, security) are just waved away with arguments like "waste disposal is a non-issue", "cost overruns are due to political causes", "new reactor designs make the risks infinitesimally small", .... It's obviously a complex problem and just deflecting away the problems that have bogged nuclear power in a lot of quite different countries, isn't convincing unless you're already convinced.
I often try to ask 'why' and 'what if' questions. Maybe I just suck at talking to people but they often become defensive and think i'm trying to question their solutions when i'm really trying to understand how their solution works (i'm young).
The disagreement between you and the parent commenter illustrates something that I think is fascinating about NIMBYism with respect to windmills. NIMBYism depends on the idea that the aesthetic judgments of windmills are objective, shared across people. Windmills really do look bad, objectively.

Normally talking about aesthetic experiences as if they are universal is frowned upon, because the judgment of beauty is taken by many people to have an intrinsic quality of subjectivity to it. But that appears not to be a problem in the community of people that oppose wind turbines.
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Dictionaries both started and ended the need to memorize correct spelling.
> I really think that sometimes people just have a hard time seeing or understanding the sheer scale of evidence that is opposed to their flawed beliefs.

No, they would discount the credibility of that evidence before entertaining the possibility that they might be wrong.

If you created a page rank for ideas, to prove to them how unlikely their beliefs were to be true, such people would dismiss the attempt as propaganda. Just look at how often various points of view on HN (which one would expect to self-select for rational, scientifically minded thinkers) are derided as fabrications, "fake news", the work of shills, disinformation, or something similar.
Ironically, isn't potable drinking water supply an issue for Singapore? It's mainly brought over from Malaysia, right? Read a few articles on the subject in the Straights many years ago.
>>> I wonder if that's not just rationalization for simply not wanting to work longer hours [...]

No it's not. As someone who's had 10 jobs by the time I was 25. I can attest that.

You can be 10 times more productive by picking a solution that achieves the same for 10 times less effort. And that's what you should do all the time.

Whenever you take wrong decisions (let's call that "the design phase"), you have to compensate by doing 10 times the work down the line.

That's where the experiences come in. Whatever you have in mind. Already seen it. Already done it.

In practise, that means I could play ping pong 4 days a week and still be more productive than most people, because they will do work that require a week to be done, while I will do work that require only the last day, to achieve the same result.

The downside is that it's getting boring and irritating to see other people trying to tackle the job in a way known to be wrong (which they can't realize because they don't have the experience).
So because someone simply mentioned using a single chemical to cool the atmosphere, you assume that it would work and that it would work at a large enough scale to fix everything? That sounds like a textbook case of believing everything you hear.
NK having or not having nuclear weapons is a binary choice.

AGW is multivariate. If temperature is rising, how much do we expect it to continue rising? If rising temperatures are due at least in part to CO2 emissions, then to what degree? How do we choose between the various complex climate models (indeed part of the reason we were so ill-prepared for Hurricane Katrina was that nobody considered the model that predicted the trajectory it ended up taking)? Are rising temperatures invariably bad? What if higher temperatures and CO2 increase forestation? Or maybe it increases biodiversity of harmful things, like diseases? Or maybe it decreases those things? Do CO2 emissions affect weather patterns? How so? Do we get more hurricanes? Do emissions affect water availability? How about acid rain? etc.