skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indigenous peoples have always suffered this problem. The difference with superintelligent AI is that (unless the problems are addressed) it will make the global elite suffer, too.
I expected a lot more. I found this: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmlfirststeps.html
I suppose everyone has existential crisis at different points in their lives. When I was younger I became obsessed with global warming and the danger it presented. Sometimes I forget not everyone has had that crisis; hopefully you found the purpose or direction that you deeply identify with.
I have no idea why I care about the NFL, but I have been going to profootballtalk.com daily for years. NBC partnered with a bunch of independent sports blogs like PFT a few years ago. They then rolled 'em all out on a new redesign. I stopped visiting after the first couple tries, then PFT backed out of the redesign and went back to their previous (crappy, old) layout. The other blogs I used to go to (pro hockeytalk and pro basketball talk) didn't and I've never returned.

What I like about reddit and HN (more so) is the minimal, fast, low overhead experience. It's like the original slashdot.

I hate the new animated, ad heavy slow web.
It depends. for everyday regular stuff, I don't mind mass produced because I am too lazy to spend time on letting someone measure me. But for things like Suits etc that are more formal and for an occasion, I wouldn't mind custom tailored.
> In terms of "what I expected to happen" - well, I expected an actual 4K resolution (like 3840x2160) to work. Maybe not by default, but at least when I enable it, it should be able to auto-scale the appropriate parts of the system and application UI in a consistent manner.

That's what it does. OS X will by default render at the panel's native resolution. But it scales everything to a lower effective resolution. Say you're running a 5K monitor at "2560x1440" (as in the iMac 5K). And the app displays a 32x32 icon at (0,0). The OS will see that you're running in 2x mode (real resolution = 2x effective resolution). So it'll pull a 64x64 version of the icon from the app's art assets. It'll take up 32x32 on the virtual 2560x1440 display, but a 64x64 image will be what's copied to the frame buffer. Text glyphs, and images, likewise, will be rendered at full resolution.

When you bypass the default setup and tell the OS to run at 3840x2160, you're not telling it to render at that resolution. You're telling it to size things as if you're running on a standard definition monitor of that size. So when the app displays a 32x32 icon, the OS will see you're running at 1x mode, and pull a 32x32 icon from the art assets. The result will be a tiny icon.
How long before you can buy an "RNAduino" kit online?

You plug into your USB and launch the RNAduino IDE, import some receptor nucleotide patterns, some expression nucleotide patterns, type in a little glue code, hit "compile", and you're off to the races with something innocuous to turn your pet mouse fluorescent green or a simple virus that can wipe out half the planet.

Exciting and scary times.

Edit: rnaduino.com is still available! Go for it!
Maybe with WebASM you could ship a QML viewer.

Single code base to create rich Android, iOS and browser app?
[video] MBP Touchbar vs. Function Keys Compared (video from YouTube)
The moment they make reddit less of a bulletin board is the moment I imagine I'll end up using it less. Partially because it will be less useful for finding what I want on there easily, and partially because it will be less useful for what everyone else wants, so they'll post less, so there will be less to find. The subs that want more graphical options seem largely able to do so with customizations for their subreddits.
That's a hard question. I certainly would not support replacing our nuclear plants with coal plants, I would prefer everyone stay with their current system and we go as fast as possible to replace them with something worth it : trying to replace a bad source with an other bad one, but a bit better, costs time, money and human resources.

But the article kind of make me raise an eyebrow when they say that for highly radioactive wastes, we just have to find deep burial sites that will know no geological activity for one million year. Certainly doesn't sound as easy as implied, especially if all earth starts using nuclear power as main energy source.

That being said, I remember reading a few months ago about a breakthrough in Germany in nuclear field, where no rare material (like plutonium) was needed, and wastes were greatly reduced. This could be a global way (and then, we may not even need renewable).
It's not a 'law,' it's a humorous adage—relax! It's understood to only apply to yes or no questions in the first place.
Your own post confirms my assertion that the magnitude 9 earthquake was an exceedingly rare event and did not necessarily need to be designed for. It had been at least one hundred years since the last earthquake of that magnitude. Same for a >10 meter tsunami.

Large scale disasters almost always present as a conglomerate of smaller problems; multiple failures during 100-500 year disasters once again do not indicate poor safety standards and/or corruption.

Safety design is expensive, and there is always a balance between cost and risk, in literally everything that we as humans do, individually and collectively. Hindsight alone is not enough to bill this reactor as unsafe. There are thousands of BWRs operating globally without incident, and they have been for decades. It is ignorant to presume that they are all time bombs.

Edit: I'd like to kindly remind the community that down votes are not for communicating disagreement.
> They are happy memories of event, not proof of skill.

Aren't photos and videos sufficient to capture happy memories of events? I thought trophies were given out for proof of skill / accomplishments. Maybe that's not how it works in the US. I wouldn't know, wasn't raised here, but everywhere else in the world, Trophies are not given out to all participants. Cos then doesn't it diminish the accomplishments of the winner(s)??
But according to that statement, Digg lived long enough to become a Reddit?
This is interesting; I once tried to create my own ANN library for Go, but didn't get far with it (one of those half-baked projects). I even had a branding and naming of things, but somewhere along the line moved on to something else.

This is nice to see.

I do wonder where the activation function is in the code, though? I looked it over, and maybe I missed it? If it's in there, it's gotta be something very simple (binary or relu?) - enough to overlook it easily...

Or maybe I'm looking at the code wrong - is this really "a perceptron" - that is, an implementation of the McColloch-Pitts model (basically a single neuron, and basic activation)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron

Hmm - what I recall of the code, this does look probable...

Interesting.
Something that isn't a counter attack like "Is your shirt inside out?" may also work.
The most pressing problem facing humanity today is "using fire" - that is, CO2 generation from fossil fuel.
Can't tell if this is an especially dry joke or not, but HTML
You can use geography, I assume this is meant to measure ROAS.

I've worked on a similar problem, and some very large retailers we worked with wanted to measure ROAS. They turned off all adspend in a certain large metropolitan area, while we turned on in that area. Measuring the sales lift/drop, gave an idea of the platform's effectiveness.

Any other demographic data point could also be used, not just geo. You don't necessarily need to link people directly.
You don't understand? It's like this: valuation is based off how many users x how much each user is worth (in terms of targeted advertising).

Reddit has a lot of users but it's hard to build user profiles for targeted advertising as there's a lot of anonymity and shot posting.

Teen snapshot sites are worth more because because its real people, posting real things. That data is valuable.
I'm not surprised about the total rewrite at all. I've mentioned before about how reddit appears to only be hiring for Node.js and React.

I am not enthusiastic about the redesign at all. From what I've seen so far, it will be uninspired, blocky, and slow.

There is a preview of the direction here, on the new profiles page [0]. This may be because I'm not logged in at the moment, but it does seem a little faster than it was when they first launched it at least, but it is still slow. As an example of the slowness that is to come, click from 'Posts' to 'Comments' and watch it blank out before loading in new content.

They "improved" something else (user reports) recently [1], and again the redesign is uninspired, blocky, slow, and more painful to actually use. What really gets me about reddit is that in a thread like that they get tons of (free) feedback, and don't bother responding to any of it. The admin that submitted that thread is down in the depths of those comments replying to a meme post instead of any of the feedback. Many mods are against the change, and they don't get a reply either.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/spez

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6oi3jw/improvement...
You send it to Yucca mountain or you treat it for reuse like they do in France.
A propietary format? I don't think so.
I'm talking more of PSX and PS2 era.

Some games on PS2 like Fatal Frame or Haunting Grounds are impressive even by today standards and could pass for double A games nowdays (entire 17 years later). That's just impressive. And their hardware specs read like a real spec for a gaming machine (the EE's 2 VPUs, the PSX in PS2 for compatibility, etc.), not just "bunch of PC CPUs and GPUs from AMD in a box + blueray drive". Ironically, first original XBox prototype was actually (I think or maybe its a rumor) made out of laptop components.

NES was a bit weak in comparison but very cheap (Pegasus costed like 50 PLN in the early 2000s).
Exactly. The best subreddits on Reddit are the ones heavily moderated like /r/science.
Hope it will be on the moon or in a nuclear shelter. Otherwise all that fallout may ruin your trip.
I get the crypto fatigue because I feel it as well, but it really does apply here. Trustless voting is one of the more interesting possible applications of blockchain tech, and if properly implemented it could very well do away with voter fraud.
Why you probably don't want the $35,000 Tesla Model 3
The motherboard form factors are still closely related. ATX is an extended version of the IBM AT standard.
Is working 40 hours a week for an employer worth it

Yes so long as that employer is really changing the face of technology or changing the economic forcing functions that drive the activities of humanity

No if it's twitter or the government

Yes if you plan to start a company but don't have enough runway, so you can accumulate runway at your job

No if you have greater than $50,000 USD in cash and want to start a company
Is the end goal to allow people to donate computing power for training? (a la Folding@home or SETI@home except just by visiting a webpage)

If so that's amazingly clever!
^ found the libertarian
I've found that PayPal's business practices are enough reason: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes...
I'm just deeply bothered by the amount of tech talent we have that works on, frankly, dumb things. We face real, tangible problems and existential risks in the next 1 - 5 decades that will not just "solve themselves". So here I am, looking at these massive problems, while all us rich web developers tell ourselves "it won't happen in my generation". It's really bothersome.
I suppose, but if "come after" means "try in a court of law and assign a reasonable punishment in accordance with the crime committed" then I guess I'm OK with them "coming after" almost anyone.
Meanwhile LinkedIn was happy to scrape its users' email archives and contact lists. It would appear there's some karma at play here...
As far as I'm concerned, if the information is publicly visible on a site (not behind a login) and as long as the scraping doesn't cause performance issues or generate costs on the site, then it should be perfectly fine to do.
"I think her disclosure was adequate, as it assumes those reading her story understand that columnists' jobs are to give their own commentary."

We might have to agree to disagree, then. Without an explicit disclaimer (as is common/conventional for opinion pieces like this), the only reasonable assumption here is that - by allowing this article to be published on its website with its branding - the Washington Post endorses this article and the opinions thereof.

None of what you've linked/quoted contradicts that assessment in any way. In fact, it only reinforces it.
This might be a dream come true for me. That Visual Studio integration is awesome - I did not know about F# Type Providers but I'm clearly overdue to learn about them.
You could pour your life force into avoiding the apocalypse, you know? That's what I mean - Help us get out of the mess we've made.
I'd say Facebook has done a decent job with redesigns, given the new features they roll out to such a huge user base. The advent of the timeline in 2011, and then the single-column simplification a couple years later, seemed to me to be pretty successful https://www.dailydot.com/debug/old-facebook-profiles-news-fe...
Close roads so children can play in the street
The outermost layer of the Sun ends at 0.1 AU [1]. To put that in perspective, Mercury orbits at between 0.3 and 0.5 AU [2]. (It costs about 13 km / s to get to Mercury exiting from LEO.)

It's much cheaper to fling things out of the Solar System than into the Sun.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Atmosphere

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)
Thanks for sharing this Avinash.
Somehow I doubt it. The shrinkage must be dependent on geometry/density and their method of compensating can't possibly be good enough to hold tight tolerance over an entire complex part.
He says exactly that in the post: "Why couldn’t I think of the snappy response? Because I can’t do verbal processing and emotional processing at the same time!!!"
Please cite the section of the article that "collectively blames all men with some universal gender sin".
That's interesting about the touchscreen? Do you feel any need to get a 2-in-1 or is he simple touchscreen sufficient? I'd interested in a 2-in-1, but they don't run Linux real well and there are other issues, including cost. But if the touchscreen is useful enough, then maybe an XPS 13 along with a tablet would be a good idea.
I suspect the opposite argument could easily be made (if going big into nuclear somehow caused human extinction, which is easy to envision).
Well, it may not be very dense, but... It's still big, right?
I guess WebGL is now the "good enough" cross-platform vendor neutral replacement for CUDA.

Tensorflow should add a WebGL backend that runs in NodeJS.
In 2013 I co-founded an experiment with a similar goal: test the maximum number of tables (empty tables, btw) that you could create on a PostgreSQL database.

The answer lies in the "Billion Tables Project" :)
https://www.pgcon.org/2013/schedule/events/595.en.html
I think if there's a mass exodus from Reddit and the choice is Voat or something not Voat, the majority will choose not-Voat. If Voat hadn't absorbed much of the subreddits rejected for extreme and hate speech, then it would have a chance at growing with a more natural makeup. As it is now, any community that moved there would have to accept that there's a much higher percentage of extremist views there than present in reality. Initial adoption of a larger more general set of communities will be a hard sell for those communities.
I suppose that could be true but I kinda doubt that in the case where all the workers were meek, that the company would altruistically pay everyone a bit more.
> Some of the recently-touted small reactor designs try to omit a containment vessel on the grounds that their design couldn't possibly melt down. That's probably not a good approach.

Agreed, but, fail-safe and walkaway-safe designs coupled with moderate containment vessels seem like a good medium. It is all about mitigating risk. I don't think we should ever accept that a design has actual 0 risk for meltdown, but, if you design with a goal of having 0 risk of uncontained failures and then design containment for a moderate level of failure, that seems like you have a robust overall solution.
I'm freelancing and bounce between working full-time and working on my own projects. I just mention this as an option because if you're up to working a full-time schedule for stretches, there's a fair amount of this sort of work available.

Financial discipline is important, as is time management. I have a routine that doesn't change much whether I'm working for other people or working for myself. I disconnect the internet at night so I have a block of time without it.

With the extra time I've accomplished a lot of reading, and exercise. I think my coding skill has improved by leaps and bounds because I'm able to experiment with new things. I'd like to start travelling for part of the year.

What I would have done differently and am trying to do differently: do a better job of sourcing work.
Of course my original state was an over simplification, but I don't think it is like selling tickets, more like someone using a picture of the painting in the window to market their own products, since one person selling tickets to view the painting wouldn't do very well since they don't really 'block' the view for anyone else. I can still walk up right next to their queue and look at the painting. LinkedIn is arguing that no one should be allowed to walk by and take a picture, which is a right of panorama issue with all that that entails (in the US it would suggest that they don't have a case if they tried to use that argument by analogy).

edit: didn't see the sibling reply which makes the same point
"Treating code and data" doesn't specifically require eval. Lisp macros avoid eval. Dynamic extensions to a running Lisp program don't require eval, but rather load.
Also wrong, most browsers stopped supporting <blink> and <marquee> years ago (as well as many other outdated features, or plugins such as Java or Flash)
Arguments for nuclear power tend to ignore a few things:

- They talk about ideal power plants, but not actual power plants. Are they assuming that when the world switches to nuclear, that every country will build these ideal types of plants and maintain them well?

- Pro-nuclear arguments don't talk about inevitable wars. When nuclear power plants are scattered across the world in countries that will eventually become unstable, the potential outcomes look different. We are living through an amazing time for peace in many countries, but it isn't a given that things will remain peaceful like this.

- Radiation has a cultural effect as well, and those plants and storage facilities make likely targets, since radiation disasters tend to cause people to panic.

- After there is no more power from given plants or fuel, there is less incentive to take care of the waste and cleanup.

I'm not entirely against nuclear power, but I think that it's more complicated of an issue than most nuclear proponents claim.

Energy efficiency and use reduction are two other areas to consider. If it's possible to change behavior and opinions around nuclear energy then it should be possible to change behavior and opinions about efficiency.
Unpopular opinion: when you make a HTTP request you're asking the server to give you information. The server has the right to say no.

IMHO, LinkedIn doesn't have a right to stop scraping after the fact, but they have the right to take technical steps to stop scrapers from accessing their site.
Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers
VICE has a good documentary on what this actually looks like: https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/garbage-island/563b9c912a...
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People are using Fukushima to rationalize their fear of nuclear, just like we did after Three Mile Island and and Chernobyl. As someone else confirmed by posting [1], the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 15 meter tsunami have not happened for at least 100 years. We can tear the plant down in hindsight, but it was designed to withstand probable events, just like any safety standards. It may not be pleasant to speak of human life in this manner, but there is always a cost/risk balance in any human endeavor, and this failure does not necessarily indicate recklessness.

1.http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-...
Facebook, Google & others aren’t committing to testify on net neutrality
> Elm's type system will not catch this bug at compile time

This is completely false. Elm's type system will force you to handle the decoding failure at compile time. The `decodeString` function has the following type:

decodeString : Decoder a -> String -> Result String a

Which means that when you call `decodeString`, it will return a Result containing either the decoded value or a String describing the error.

This is not a "runtime failure". This is the compiler forcing you to explicitly spell out what you want to happen the case of a decoding problem. The difference between Typescript and Elm is that Typescript's compiler will happily let your program crash when this type of issue occurs, whereas Elm's compiler won't.
Personally, I'm pretty OK with just writing standard HTML, CSS (with Sass), and using JQuery.

React and Angular and their ilk are too abstracted for my tastes. Too much tooling required.
Good. Its about time for reddit to wither enough for a more user focused platform yo take it place.

Its the ol model I see time and time again. Site pulls in users by being generally awesome and doing things like not advertising, not censoring, etc. Then the site grows. Businesses start astroturfing because they can't advertise. Then the company slowly starts walking back on everything that made it special, for example, advertising, all while rapidly expanding the personell while hardly doing anything to improve the site for users. Aaaand right when advertising dollars are the best, try to capitalize or take public, followed by a big sale/buyout, and finally within finite time users feel betrayed and it withers and dies, but not until a competitor starts where they did, and usually follows the same path.

I stopped participating in reddit about the time sockpuppetry really started killing my favorite sub's, and personally I think the first and most greiveous mistake was moving away from text only.

The problem as it stands is none of the competitors stand out. I think hn is best, but scope is limited, /. does something's interesting but failed and lost its user base. Voat is too much of a reddit clone, and I just don't get the appeal of steemit etc.

Personally, we need to sit down and figure a better way to measure user worth. Right now I am leaning to a Slashdot style moderation/tagging system, along with a limited input per user at varying thresholds. Something that really interests be is automating logical maps of comments too.
Venmo already works pretty seamlessly with Splitwise.