skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i used to work on the trading desk of an energy company that had hydro resources. the bid for hydro to clear the stack was always something like $0.10 ie, essentially free. Note: the clearing price was _always_ set by the last generating units offer price which tends to be coal/gas (here in NZ). If there was no clearing price, the offer price of hydro/solar/geothermal would go up to something like the Wighted Average Cost of Capital but there would competitive pressure from the other players to keep a lid on it. to a first order approx. in a _really_ complex industry/market it is absolutely OK to say installed wind/solar/hydro is free to run.
But many people have no public education, and they don't get a break on their property taxes.
It's the NYT playing to their audience, who would be surprised and put off if there wasn't at least one insult in an article on two red states.
Bad and hard to grok code can be created in any language. Even more-so in languages that have more syntax complexity than C.
Locker rooms and showers full of men who are both overweight and are trying to prove their manliness.
Hello!

I work at Optimizely so happy to answer any questions about our tools. We have a solution for the Web, as well as developer SDKs to A/B test in code.

You could also look into open source tools like Facebook's Planout: https://github.com/facebook/planout.
Those are not rare at all. Every lawyers office has this problem, every journalist, every banker, every insurance company, every notary public, every administration and so on.
If you could implement a human brain in silicon, its information processing would be faster than its wet brain equivalent. It would think faster, learn faster, and therefore be more intelligent.
This sounds like part of the bigger problems of literacy and education.

Solve those, and the toilet problem will disappear by itself.
Thanks for writing this up, even your description had me laughing.
>I really don't see any point in trying to exhaustively account for public goods at the individual level

I certainly agree that funding for public education cannot be considered a repayment for some personal debt, which is why I objected to the comment I first replied to.
I predict that SpaceX and SolarCity will eventually roll out vast solar cell arrays in space, because the sun puts out an unthinkable amount of energy that misses earth entirely. ie The sun is already a spectacular fusion reactor. Use it.
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The exact quote is "Intelligence is a product of information processing in physical systems."

It's the scientific definition rather than the colloquial definition.
I think you are wrong, blocks will not be mined 3 times slower just because the global hashrate dropped by 70%.

Think of it as a race, many participants are running the distance with slightly different speeds. You randomly remove 70% of the runners, and your new top runner will be likely just a tiny bit behind the previous top runner, if at all.
It has a bug but it's only an out-of-bounds read, not a write. So you might be able to make it crash, but why would you want to? Crashing might make it reboot and continue mining. Instead, send "false\0" and it'll stop dead in its tracks.
I don't really come to this site for jokes. I come for the intellectual stimulation. If a stimulating post is entertaining that's great, but the post above wasn't stimulating in my opinion. I have no idea what they were referencing when they implied San Francisco is having a sewage problem because they gave no citations or statistics. They just posted something for an emotional response to gain upvotes, which is not good for this site in my opinion.
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We already have a solution to all our energy needs. Funny to see people come up with outlandish suggestions. I am not sure what I am missing. Because logic points to only one direction.
This issue should have been called Ant-in-the-Middle.
NASA inspector says agency wasted $80M on an inferior spacesuit
> would also be nice if the data could be stored in a human readable structure in a normal filesystem, so your ability to use the data isn't dependent on your ability to run the tool.

This is really important yes!

> Overall I think it is an interesting project but the commercial potential is limited.

Indeed. This kind of tool is mostly limited to hackers, and it is not a big enough market to create a business model I suppose.

This would have to be done for the love of open-source :-)
Snack
- Description: Web-based react-native playground. Snack was previously called Sketch which led to much confusion.
- Built by: Expo

Sketch.app
- Description: Most popular native mac app for designing UIs
- Built by: Bohemian Coding

react-sketchapp
- Description: Convert a UI written in react-primitives to sketch. react-primitives is a subset of react-native.
- Built by: Airbnb

I want to say Snack has nothing to do with react-sketchapp, but unfortunately they do share a couple of things. The developer/user of both tools will write code that is largely compatible with each other, basically a shared subset of react-native. Then, there's the whole confusion with the name Sketch. Snack used to be called Sketch. react-sketchapp uses "Sketch.app" as a rendering engine and editing interface. "Sketch.app" is basically the next program in the workflow for the user of react-sketchapp.
No, legit emails end up there every day for me.
Not sure exactly what you're looking for in a Robinhood API, but I work for a company that provides a brokerage API (the sort of API that would power a Robinhood-type product). Might be relevant: https://www.thirdparty.com

We've got quite a few things on the roadmap that exceed Robinhood's offering.
Ah, then I've misunderstood the intentions of your comments. I honestly just thought you were looking for suggestions on how to get more involved. Apologies for that assumption.

I think you can choose to define your communities any way you'd like. I don't much care where you draw your lines. If you're investing in your (maker space?) community that's amazing and more than most people do.
Are even thinking about pollution from storage technologies.
Jokes I'm fine with, I just don't respect authors who go out of their way to insult folks. I think clock_tower's comment has quite a bit of truth in it. I would imagine the doctor from the story didn't find the whole subject ridiculous.

> And yes, in an article about prop 64, a similar remark might very well be found about California.

I very much doubt that.
"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it." – Dune
Not sure exactly what you're looking for in a Robinhood API, but I work for a company that provides a brokerage API (the sort of API that would power a Robinhood-type product). Might be relevant: https://www.thirdparty.com
One of the things I like about Capital One's Eno chatbot is that it is explicitly gender-neutral.
> The app reviewer spelled out three changes we could make to be approved. We were torn. Two of the changes were flat-out impossible, and the third would require huge amounts of ongoing developer labor while providing a worse experience for users.

Really wish they would have expanded on this....
> I swear there are not enough classes about numbers.

Yes. This is one thing that irks me about these fads in programming, they all solve problems that have long ago been solved and then re-introduce all the bugs that were already discovered, fixed and forgotten about ages ago. Old software is a very nice repository of information about edge cases and real world complexity.

A $0.75 accounting error turned out to be named "Markus Hess". Precision matters. If it works good. If it works but you don't know why it works: bad. If it works, but has a small problem and you don't know why: bad. If you run a $1M budget and you're off by $0.75: bad. And so on. You really don't want to store anything to do with money in floats.
It's interesting who made /r/btc and why.

It's interest who made this comment and why.
We're all getting very tired. If this doesn't pass today, it will pass tomorrow. The slow entrenchment of government over our freedoms and rights as international sovereign beings seems relentless. If we cannot push for high-order legislation outlining very clear rules for our digital rights soon, we won't have any rights left to claim. And then we can only take them by force. I would prefer to avoid that.
It also help with user experience. The more confidence we have that user is actually the real person the less challenges we have to use for authentication. If we see a new device, we're going to present more challenges(MFA,KBA etc) to protect our users from account takeovers.
51% attack would require a collusion of the large group of the miners, and, if successful, will likely cause a massive price drop. Which is the last thing miners want.

P.S. And btw, it's >50% attack, not 51% attack. You don't need that whole extra percent.
>In a non-net neutrality world, faster == expensive, and there is no business model for ISPs where they can provide cheaper services AND provide faster delivery.

Wait... but ISPs CAN charge consumers for faster speeds. There are most definitely price/speed tiers of service. Net neutrality was about not allowing an ISP to artificially throttle the speed of individual services going over their pipes, not about throttling total connection speed for an end user based on price.

The complexity seems to be that ISPs have 2 customers - end consumers, and content owners (to keep it simple). Comparisons to UPS aren't accurate because UPS contracts with ONE party - the shipper - for service. ISPs are contracting with both ends, and unless one side is neutral, they will be allowed to sell one thing but not provide it arbitrarily because some other party didn't also pay up. I can pay Comcast for gigabit access, but it isn't required to provide it to me at all because it can throttle any service it wishes. It's contract with me is purely to the curb.

Imagine this scenario: I pay for access to a toll road that runs for a few miles through Houston, TX. However, because my final destination on my trip is Florida, and Florida doesn't pay the toll road operator a special fee, my car is magically restricted to 15 miles per hour. The toll road provider provider sold me a pass to access the road at full speed 75 mph, but can arbitrarily (and magically) limit my speed without notice or consent based on information that is really arbitrary to the toll road's existence: my final destination.
Swift architecture at Uber
1. It took too long to start.
2. Navigating between specific pages of the app was slow.
3. It would sometimes get into a bad state if a podcast failed during streaming, requiring a restart of the app.
4. More generally, the audio stack seemed a little bit flakey. Very occasionally switching between music and podcasts would crash the phone.
Who is that "large intact miner"?
No, the advice, insofar as it applies, applies to all law enforcement; the narrow exceptions may be more likely with local LE thna federal agents, but the general principle is the same, as are the considerations that go into deciding whether an exigency that creates an exception applies (including that you must apply extreme distrust to any statement by the LE agent, local or not, that seems to suggest such an exigency since they can and will lie to get you to believe such a situation exists.)
There's a fundamental material difference between Uber/Lyft/UPS and ISPs -- the initial costs to get into business for people/package transportation services are orders of magnitudes less than for ISPs.

The minimum cost of a transportation venture is extremely cheap -- a working vehicle and its operating costs (petrol, insurance, maintenance). Of course, it won't be as profitable as UPS and such a venture won't be able to out-compete UPS nationwide but there certainly are small local courier services that provides faster and cheaper service than UPS for limited use-cases.

There is no equivalent of a public national roads network for ISPs -- stringing up fibre is expensive as all hell and involves having to get permission from land owners, municipalities, and utilities. National-scale incumbents (who can easily afford to throw a few million dollars here or there to put in fibre of their own in a new region/market) currently are not subject to real competition from local ISPs (who don't have a comparable ability to throw cash around).
Holy fuck, get a load of this asshole.
No, neither of those were what they were saying.
This article is gold in so many ways. It contains interesting bits of information on ECC, company history that I didn't know (Sun's and Google's namely), filesystem reliability (I never knew!), the physics of RAM (50 electrons per capacitor)...

It's a must read, even if only to get you thinking about some of these things.
This turned out to be a more marketing/consulting post than I expected. It says 101 on the tin box, I expected to see a small demo or links to documentation.
Is it that hard to imagine that a machine can do a better job than at least some people, particularly if the machine is trained by experts and/or Big Data and/or even Mechanical Turk? There's a reason we have terms like "fashion-challenged" after all.

Also, even if its judgement were about as good as a person's, it might be helpful in being able to quickly render that judgement vs. people to-ing-and-fro-ing. A machine might be able to even provide explanations for why it thinks something looks better than others, e.g. "While this outfit fits you well, it does not look as good on you now as it did 5 months ago -- its light colors make you look very pale, possibly because it is currently winter and you are not as tanned as you were then (or perhaps you just have a cold) -- better to save it for summer months".
Literally in the linked Wikipedia article:

"Although cast-iron cookware is known to transmit iron to food during cooking, the cost to obtain it is prohibitive for most of the individuals living in poverty in rural Cambodia, who earn less than $1 per day."

In what world would a cast iron pan be cheaper than a small ingot?
> I just wish they would expose a better API

IIRC Robinhood just uses another service's API to transact a trade (can't remember the name), so you'd be leaving pennies on the table when you could just go straight to the source.
> Because property tax is an awful, dreadful way to fund public education.

I don't think the property tax is the issue. It's doing school funding at a sufficiently granular level that's the real issue—poor cities / districts won't have the same sort of tax base, be it collected via income, property, excise, sales, or somehow else, as do rich districts.

What you want is some sort of redistributive system. Really large districts (like entire states or countries) accomplish this as rich areas within the district subsidize less wealthy ones. Grants from higher levels of government, paid for by taxpayers in other parts of the jurisdiction, also accomplish this.

That said, money isn't everything...San Francisco has a tremendously wealthy tax base and an unusually small student population due to the city's demographics, but the schools aren't anything to write home about.
How to Better Classify Coachella with Machine Learning
Does it sync with more devices besides your laptop?
Did you read the article? It's potentially a big minefield for normal people.
Have you used an IDE besides Xcode? I've found Xcode to be one of the worst IDEs I've ever used. And in fact, a bunch of xterms is even better.
The point of capability-secure design is that it's possible to prove that a chunk of code, regardless of its nastiness, cannot take certain actions.

In particular, in this case, it sounds like the offending code:

* Makes outgoing connections with sockets
* Alters the flow of execution outside its scope

Both of these flaws can be mitigated if the ability to do these things is closely-held and not available to all code.

It's true that object-capability languages like E, Monte, Pony, etc. cannot stop you from writing bad code. But they can automatically prove that your code only is as bad as it appears to be, and not any worse via skulduggery.
People don't seem to like your names, and perhaps the names do need more work, but I wanted to commend you for trying. Whenever I see something named "Group" I cringe a little, because it is so abstract and meaning-free. It is barely better than names like "Thing" and "Entity". So I appreciate your attempt to be more concrete and creative!
It becomes a bigger issue just because that conflict is so infected. No room for honest mistakes, then.
The answer is yes, I ran one for two years buy purchasing well-known compatible hardware. But you're still at the mercy of OS X upgrades, which require fiddling and downloading of newer NVidia drivers, etc... So, still not worth it, IMHO.
For the record, I use 'bullshit' as a technical term[1].

I can imagine why someone might dislike 'clownshow'. Frankly, I find it accurate, or I wouldn't have written it, and I didn't use such terms in the past to describe pols I disagree with - it is specific to what I see as a historically bad outfit.

"Clean up the mess" is "uncivil"? Sorry, that's silly, and another demonstration that politically correct language policing isn't just for lefty college-kids.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/0691122...
This is what I would do as well. Coming from a hosted mail solution (one of the earliest in the Industry as part a of the initial Dotcom bubble) that cost 10000x5+thensome as much to run, albeit with higher send rates and clusters, It totally makes sense to use ec2 for these needs today.
PRIVAT the new security smartphone
I hope not. From a business point of view, Bitcoin and hardware are both risky; putting the two together is exceptionally so. From an ethical point of view, the environmental impact of large-scale Bitcoin mining is a real problem.
What would you consider reliable evidence? I'd say the Bay Area GDP and tax base alone would point that way.
Thanks for writing this. I am not sure from where this solar lobby sprung up suddenly. If people are so eco conscious, that they support solar. I am not sure how they are ok with have huge parcels of land be covered with panels. We are not even talking about pollution from storage technologies.
> The number of people who religiously check PGP signatures/SHA256sums or whatever is miniscule.

• If you transfer things around using BitTorrent, it'll ensure you always end up with a file that hashes correctly to the sum it originally had when the .torrent file was constructed.

• Many archive formats (zip, rar, and 7z, at least) contain checksums, and archival utilities validate those checksums during extraction, refusing to extract broken files. "Self-extracting archive" executables that use these formats inherit this property.

• Some common disk-image formats (dmg, wim) embed a checksum that checks the whole disk-image during mount, and will refuse to mount a bad one. (I believe you can then try to "repair" the disk image with your OS's disk-repair utility, if you have no other copies.)

• Web pages increasingly use Sub-Resource Integrity attributes on things like .css and .js files, protecting them (though not the page itself) from errors.

• ISO files don't embed checks, but all the common package formats (Windows .cab and .msi; Linux .deb and .rpm; macOS .pkg) on installer ISOs embed their own checksums and often signatures.

• git repos are 'protected' insofar as you won't be able to sync mis-hashed objects from a remote, so they won't spread.

Really, looking over all that, it's only 1. plain binary executables, and 2. "media files" (images, audio, video)—and only when retrieved over a "dumb" protocol, rather than a pre-baked-manifest protocol like BitTorrent or zsync—that are "risky" and in need of explicit checksum comparison.
> I don't want to get things done

Exactly. This is a really, really difficult and essential observation to make. Humans are built to procrastinate because it conserves energy.

Do an experiment: Sit down and start doing what you are supposed to do. If you're not able to work or start, don't find excuses. Don't go looking for physical reasons like "Hungry", "Cold", "Tired". Don't procrastinate. Don't walk around. Don't work around the issue. Don't change the project. Those are all excuses.
Just accept that you are not able to start and keep sitting there until you start.

When you stop finding excuses or looking elsewhere, you will realise the immense stress that's building up inside you. That is the mountain you have to scale to stop procrastinating. A kind of stress that's not always there, luckily, but it's definitely built into humans.
The problem with your worldview is it leaves you totally unprepared for the scenario when the other side genuinely elects an evil or destructive person. It presumes there's always a rough moral equality between the two sides.

We have historical examples of evil and destructive regimes being legitimately elected. It's not impossible.

Sacca claims we are observing another example, right now, in America.
Either way, it'd be fine on SSDs, then?
If you run Firefox on Android, you can use the NoScript extension there as well.

Sadly, Firefox for iOS is just a wrapper around WebKit, so Firefox extensions do not work there.
> If there really had been pre-Clovis settlement, we would already know it and would no longer be arguing about it.

I do like Jared Diamonds' books, I read... a lot of them, perhaps all of them.

But his reasoning - quoted above - is just plain wrong. He fails at grasping at how the basic logic works.

Example: "We did not find it so far" - which, according to Jared, rests the case -- does not mean "it does not exist".

As per that logic, the discovery of Denisovans and Homo Florensiensis can be ignored, because they came up after
the Jared's decree that "we did not find it so far".

That's just silly.
> Generalizing to all property markets, particularly ones not as supply-limited seems a stretch at best.

Oh, absolutely. But so many of the cities in high demand are supply limited. I wouldn't expect this to hold in a Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, or a rust belt city.
I'd like to know this, too.

I am guessing it's because, if RAM errors increase linearly with the number of computers, then RAM errors will be a greater and greater proportion of total errors. This assumes other kinds of errors don't scale linearly. Someone looking through logs is looking for errors, they'd like to find fixable logic errors, not inevitable RAM errors.
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Totally agreed. Here's a picture of it in action for anyone (not unreasonably) struggling to grasp this concept: http://www.riscos.com/the_archive/rol/productsdb/images/risc...
Because non promotes completion, not hinder it. Not all regulations are bad.
Interesting collection of ideas/graphics, but the first graphic has a person doing 9 hours of stuff between getting off of work at 5:00 p.m. and going to sleep at 11:00 p.m., just 6 hours later. If I could do that, I wouldn't have any time management issues ever.
I'm at a conference right now. The serendipitous side conversations, the ability to get face to face with vendors and experts (even if it is just you listening to others ask questions) and the ability to sit and focus on learning (as opposed to being distracted by other work) are the primary reasons to attend in meatspace.
Sorry for nitpicking, but it's not the cosmic rays, it's the cosmic rays secondaries cascade shower (produced high up in the atmosphere when a cosmic ray interacts with a particle there).