skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can really feel for people who were offended by this memo. Who were the target of this memo, or the "butt" of it. I'm really sorry that this is where we are at. But the parts of the memo that I read were hard to paint as non-factual if read with a clear head and objective mind.

Every one claim I read that pointed at a specific part and said the writing here was putting forward a horrible opinion that nobody should hold, let alone express in company of others; those clauses were cited with sources and facts to show that the author's expression was of fact, or of research that justified policies and not of a personal opinion. It is vitriol and easy to read "wrong," and as I read and re-read the parts that are most quoted, I can understand how people are so offended. But it is text, not violence, and it is through text and honest discourses that progress can be made! "You don't have to apologise for your feelings," I want to tell them, "but put those down for a second so we can get something done alright?"

The part I read that in isolation, I will agree wholeheartedly is a terrible sentiment, I was able to step back and read factually instead and see where he was saying, in not so many words, "it's not my idea, this is what the research says, and that fact plus inequality is why we got these also sexist policies, a new kind of the old kind of discrimination."

You can't simply punish a man for living in the time he was born, and call it fair; expect that nobody should address the facts on paper, a discriminatory policy, the elephant in the room, or whatever. "Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining." Please note I did not read the whole memo, but that was the gist of it that I got.

We will never get to a time where we can talk about how "now we are in perfect equality, and there's no more injustice, though it was not always so;" if we can't freely talk about the ways in which we are not, equals, including honest and full discussion of programs and policies that enforce and perpetuate that inequality.

That being said, it seems that lines are being drawn and certain justifications or arguments are on that side of the line. I can fully understand how one on the receiving end of this kind of fire and vitriol might rightly react.

I do think he has a case for slander at least against the leadership. He has been smeared, I have no doubt of that from just reading the CEOs statement, but with the caveat that I don't know him personally and he could really be all those things. I'm just going off the document.
totally apolitical here, I thought the same. Archaeologists are often studying bronze age and later sites off mediterranean shores in 10 meters of water...which used to be shoreline, so the sea has risen in a few thousand years more than current doomsayers are discussing. because, you know, yay politics, whatever the science and data happen to be.
I overheard a good-'ol-boy businessman at a hotel bar a few months back. He bore an eerie likeness to Bosworth from Halt and Catch Fire, and was telling a younger gentleman about a project he worked on. "...so Watson comes in and they Algorithm the whole thing..."

I'm pretty sure he thought Watson was a person.
Virtual RAM is what your OS gives out to your programs. Hardware devices will also have addresses mapped in this space.

Physical RAM is just that - the physical RAM in your PC. Virtual RAM uses this entirely, and then some. There is a file that maps virtual address locations to physical address locations. The addresses which are in use by programs, but not frequently used, are "paged" (written) to memory addresses in the swap file on the storage device. In this way, programs get the safety net of having every version of every possible library ever written in any permutation of the universe loaded into memory, while the OS can conserve fast storage for other active programs.

This is why 32bit OSes present a variable amount of RAM (less than 4GB) on systems with 4GB of physical RAM. They can only address 4GB of virtual memory, and each device has to use a few of those addresses for their Hardware mapping. So 32bit OSes with more devices actually had slightly less RAM available to programs.

This only scratches the surface. If you want real fun, delve into the Windows 32bit 3GB user mode checkbox.
I love it when I win because it misinterpreted my paper as scissors.
My team and I were able to build a pretty good chatbot with Watson two years ago. We used Google for speech-to-text, however, as we found IBM's to be behind in that area. We had to use a Node.js proxy with a couple libs to parse out some natural language features (like time)...but overall it worked pretty well. At the time, it was the only open system I knew of to write things like this. Today, of course, there's the Alexa API from Amazon and Microsoft's LUIS, which are probably vastly superior for this sort of thing.
I actually got really excited about doing that, but it turns out that apple keyboards are only reliable for a total of 2 simultaneous.
> If the TMT costs X, then the 100-MT should cost about 11X, and with the 15% doubling factor, its ~15X for only a 3X increase in radius.

The Thirty Meter Telescope cost $1 billion. So the 100 Metre Overwhelmingly Large Telescope would cost ~$15 billion using your ~15x multiplier. That's large, but for perspective: The F-35 fighter jet program cost $168 billion.

Like with the Large Hadron Collider, if the extra cost means the difference between being able to crucially measure the atmospheric spectra of nearby exosolar planets and not being able to, then the extra cost is worth it.

I'll take getting definite answers to humanity's most pressing questions, over new tools for killing people, any day.
Cool, I've used that site, nice reference.
Thanks for this. Its frustrating when a science article doesn't contain a link to the paper
Unrelated, but it still blows my mind- that the creator of this cryptosystem thats now worth $50B is still unknown.

He has to have been lived somewhere, gone to school somewhere, studied, worked somewhere, left some track somewhere about who he was.
I mean for everyone in the US not just those on Medicaid. Replacing insurance but still able to use Medical Savings Accounts to purchase my share of the drugs.
He who pays the piper picks the tune.
I was shocked to see this comment as it rang so true for me. I worked at Oracle for many years, and I think it's a pretty well run company, but this theme of "the smart people leave, the dumb people stay and promote other dumb people" is very true. Mark Hurd is the current CEO, and I think he's really good (even though all the people on www.thelayoff.com absolutely revile him), but there is a reason he came from outside the company.
A friend showed me that one of those NCIS crime shows already did this.

https://www.themarysue.com/malware-uploaded-from-bone-bones/

Malware is 3d printed on to a bone they scan in or something.

Reality imitating art I guess.

What a world we live in.
Its probably because business insider reports roughly 50% disagreed with the firing.

This will only get worse because of the extreme polarization.

Plus Bannon is out for googles blood.
The hiring ratios for Google track the ratios of the applicants, so that could only be true if the female applicants are better than the male applicants. This may be true, but I've seen no evidence of this.

That the vast majority of incompetent people you've worked with have been men can be explained by the gender ratio at Google. If most workers are men, then most incompetent workers would also be men, if men and women are equally likely to be incompetent.

My impression is that female workers at Google disproportionately work in the less technically hardcore jobs, which may actually be easier to be competent at or you may interact with those workers differently. So this may also skew your anecdotal observation.

Damore may have been worried about an increase in pressure to hire women leading to hiring women for the more technically hardcore jobs, which given the few female applicants for these jobs, could then lead or may already have led to worse hires then if there had been no pressure by the company to have pro-female gender bias.
FWIW, the site design is really nice. I like the brown, and the use of all-caps for the site name.

And of course 5 seconds is how fast it should be :P

EDIT: Wondered what constructive criticism I could add, in case it was useful.

I guess the one thing I'm thinking of that isn't there is a cert tree breakdown, showing the cert structure in an easy-to-read format (which can be done xD), showing the trust root used, etc etc. I'm also reminded of all the little incidents that have happened with different SSL providers, and wonder whether people would appreciate seeing "you're using XYZ cert provider, here are controversial things about them". A feature like this would require careful presentation to work at scale though. Now I understand why you took the "go/no-go" super-simple route!

I also discovered (after noticing the fun URL query approach you use when you type in a domain) that disabling JS results in a white screen. That's common nowadays, so no comment.
As a pseudo-engineer, I am somewhat worried about modern AI because you can have no idea when or how it will fail.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Out of curiosity, do you genuinely believe the people building and intending to operate these haven't thought of these problems?
What kind of home automation projects are you working on?
Good book. My only problem was that I felt the breadth of the information minimized the depth. Seemed like each page could be its own book.
Construction cost is not the real criteria that should be used to evaluate power.

>...The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a measure of a power source which attempts to compare different methods of electricity generation on a consistent basis. It is an economic assessment of the average total cost to build and operate a power-generating asset over its lifetime divided by the total energy output of the asset over that lifetime. The LCOE can also be regarded as the average minimum cost at which electricity must be sold in order to break-even over the lifetime of the project.

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

According to the chart in the wikipedia article, Hinkley Point C will have a strike price of about £93 per MWH. In comparison, ground solar is 80 onshore wind is 62 and offshore wind is 102.
The sun does not shine 24 hours per day on a given piece of earth.
Is there any evidence this is a good idea? The whole point of the article is that social programs based on intuition are not effective.
I just can't stand the idea of walking around with an extra keyboard with my laptop. And the few small keyboards I've tried still don't place all of the special characters in easy to remember places.
I wanna be fuzzed by you, just you and nobody else but you.
The site has always skewed left of center for as long as I can remember. But you don't even need to go that far to the right to reach dissent. The shift towards identity politics over the past 10(?) years has been pretty insufferable.
I know some people have avoided the blue for a number of years and others have given up on the site altogether.
Yes and no. The limit is something like 4 bars I believe. That may be a sensible limit for the traditional 3:20 minute song on the radio, where such a snippet can often capture the central motif of the song.

But most of what makes SoundCloud different are the 3-hour DJ sets that can draw on hundreds of different sources, including other songs, or movie dialog, or noises recorded in nature.

There's no absolute truth how to value each and every contribution to something like that, and it may well be fair to keep some royalties flowing to many of these sources. But as far as I understand it, the current regime is somewhat lopsided in the original creators' favour.
Thanks for the link. From what I can read it seems that there needs to be some concept of pausing or stopping and resuming a stream.

This is one of the outstanding issues with promises too. That there is no standard way to cancel them. I hope TC39 are considering this as part of the spec.

It's less of an issue in the client, because you are less likely to encounter big firehoses of data. But I have had the issue with webrtc data processing, and some flow control / back pressure mechanisms would be awesome. We were able to just use node streams, but would be nice if there was an elegant solution for async iterators too. Node streams are good, but also add a lot of complexity.

And debugging back-pressure issues can be very tricky in my experience, as they can manifest themselves in a variety of different ways.
"You're looking at capital cost"

Yes, as is the Google model. They suggest that if a 24/7 carbon-free energy source could be built at a capital cost of $2200/kW, then it would displace all carbon emissions within 27 years.

My point is that capital cost of nuclear is currently far above that level, which is why little nuclear is getting built (in most of the world) today.

Also, the operating cost of nuclear is high compared to most renewables! Particularly when you account for substantial end-of-life decommissioning costs, and the cost of secure waste storage far into the future.

(The decommissioning costs for the UK's MOX reactors is close to $100 billion)
This is pretty cool.

My "project that doesn't make me money" is https://transitfeeds.com

Currently it archives a ton of static schedule data, and some basic GTFS-realtime archiving stuff.

My longer-term goal is to archive all the GTFS-rt feeds every 30 seconds to provide similar analysis to what you've done here.

Obviously this requires even more storage than I'm already using and a ton of data processing, which is probably above my pay grade.
Your library has terrible policies. Good libraries have policies in place for allotting computer time fairly in order to adequately serve all members.

Your library may also be underfunded. This is an issue for a lot of libraries.
Its a nice excuse.
50% of googlers disagree with the firing of damore.

This will be a shitstorm for google internally and out.
You get my vote for most humorous! I'll be checking that url again one day, and hopefully there's dumbass parking photos up.
That was always my argument. I think that to look at it holistically, you also have to consider people who are adding an EV instead of replacing a normal car with one. Rich people love tax breaks, and they're happy to drive a Tesla with $7k paid for by taxpayers. If you do replace a car, factoring in not just the EV but the effects of that otherwise-serviceable car being scrapped or whatever. Consider also that EVs becoming popular creates more demand in general for cars, so someone is likely to purchase a new EV when they could have just kept using their normal car.
On this layout "@" is as easy to type as "A"
That's what I was getting at :-).
> I met Don a handful of times, and he was extremely kind and generous to me. He worked at Bletchley Park and died aged 91 having hit a bridge at 120mph going the wrong way up the M11 at 2am sitting next to his wife who had defected to Russia thirty years before. Don was driving, at the time he had been blind for six months.

Wow, what a rollercoaster of a paragraph! Thanks for the story. :)
Lithium based rechargeables are unlikely to be recycled in the near-term. Doing so is hard, and there are a variety of chemistries used, so you don't have the economies of scale like with lead-acid, where recycling one lead-acid battery is much liker recycling another.
Any support for RDS? :)
This reminds me of the William Gibson short story, "New Rose Hotel", for some reason.
And the moment that insane regulations are lifted.

http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2017/08/10/the_nucle...
There was a thread a while ago on HN where someone mentioned they design EMR and EHR systems and for a particular module they design they couldn't put in autofilled dates because the nurses union saw it as a slippery slope to them being out of a job. Considering good spectrometers embedded in the cameras of smart phones are only a few years away, perhaps full blood panels coming just from the camera of your iPhone, can't say they are wrong.
Regulations:
http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2017/08/10/the_nucle...

Comparative costs:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-as...
North of 4th North, just east of the tracks? I saw that all the trees disappeared there, and didn't know why.
I've been on and off with Dvorak since about 16 years.

The feeling is consistent, when I do a lot of typing during the day with QWERTY my hands ache, with Dvorak they don't. So as you say, as long as the typing speed is ok, there's a huge win in how comfortable it is. For me the best way of separating between the two is how the motions are as well, with QWERTY everything is clustered and with Dvorak each key is on each hand, so much more of a hand dance, which in itself is quite nice.

I do remember the first time I introduced myself to it though. Removed all the caps on the keyboard and placed them accordingly, found myself unable to find the correct letters even though I searched the keyboard. Turns out every letter was under the hand that still rested on the keyboard ;) Took ages just to write common sentences, while the brain went crazy. Worth it now though!

The software support is better nowadays, used to be horrible with VNC and the likes. With NoVNC catching wind all those problems are gone though, even on things like IPMI with HTML5 consoles! RDP still blows my mind by changing the keyboard layout to whatever is running on the target machine.
serious, measured tone "all of these projects are of no benefit or value to anyone, otherwise they would be earning money."
It may not necessarily be in active development, but it's a project I'm very proud of. It's a legitimate text editor built from the ground-up in Objective-C including its own parser and lexer, and the ability to read theme configuration files. I'm very happy with it and I think it stands on its own as an interesting project.
It's not just interesting, it's C-O-M-C-A-S-T-I-C!
> Given that the vast majority of incompetent people I've worked with have been men (if not all of them), I'm surprised to see less attention to this phrasing of the problem. Maybe it is too politically incorrect to bring up?

I downvoted this.

Given that there is a fair amount of incompetence in tech; that there is also a significant number of women in tech; that you are not a junior person and that men and women have similar abilities, I find this statistically implausible. Please consider the possibility that you have a subconscious sexist bias against men.
Enduro.js – minimalistic, lean and mean, Node.js cms for professionals
Can we have a moratorium on shitty throwaways created to brigade comments on stories about Google?
From speaking with Indian colleagues I got the impression that talking about politics is the most common water cooler topic, is that true everywhere? In the end I got bored hearing about Modi all the time.
A project I work on has time series stats in postgres--it's essentially an interval, a period, a number of fields that make up the key, and the value. There's a compound index that includes most of the fields except for the value. It works surprisingly well, for tens of thousands of upserts per second on a single postgres instance. Easy app integration and joins are a huge plus. I'm really curious to check this out and see how it performs in comparison.
Panels are nice and quiet, we have plenty of roofs, and don't kill birds or bats. Wind Farms are a bit noisy, kill birds and bats, and have one heck of a bad failure condition if you've ever had the misfortune to be near one when things go bad. Also, the wind farms that don't float seem to make much better fishing spots, so bonus.

Also, the conditions at sea make me think that wind farms would have a bit of advantage. It would seem that during conditions that require the greatest energy to stabilize that wind has more power than solar.
Love the layout, and the video production, in terms of clearly presenting salient information. Even where they show diameter with lots of pointer lines towards radius-of-one-blade (and a bit of another).

Nit-picking -- exclusive use of upper case overlays may look hip, but reduces clarity. M/S means either miles or mega-somethings per something. Whereas m/s means metres (only Americans spell them meters for reasons that aren't clear) per second.
If kids are in dire need of entertainment, they can read a book or something. There's no obligation to provide people with any form of entertainment they desire.
You make some good points, but I don't think you have had a 2 year old.

It's not about enriching their lives, or encouraging their development by moving them away from material things...yet. Those goals come a little later.

My kid is actually 1.8, I was rounding up. He likes Moana and watches it every day. He can say ~15 words. The movie's chicken and recognizing songs he has heard before result in pure joy.

He likes to watches the Mickey Mouse club and also likes to point out the characters he recognizes. This is intellectually rewarding to him, because it is at the absolute edge of his abilities.

But I think like you. Disney is evil. When he turns 5, I will throw a brick through the TV and hand him a copy of WALDEN. For now, I'm fucked, at the mercy of a vicious corporate Mouse.
> The article perniciously misrepresents the nature and significance of known sex differences to advance what appears to be a covert alt-right agenda.

Good grief. I'm all for people offering argument and critique, and I feel like there is a lot of useful stuff in this article, but claiming that a carefully worded essay (by a "lay person") on the subject of diversity from a non-radically progressive point of view is really covert fascism makes OP look like a political hack.

No mainstream conservative or libertarian is going to take that statement seriously. I'm still going to finish reviewing the arguments and evidence provided, but who could trust that the OP is really giving us, the audience, the whole picture?

For a saner discussion of the matter, see the debate between Scott Alexander and Adam Grant[0].

[0]http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
New “Smart Windows” go from transparent to black in seconds, 5000+ cycles OK
Using Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing Recurrent Neural Network
Morse code player: https://epxx.co/morse

Koch method to learn Morse: https://epxx.co/morse/koch.html
We're talking with them...and you can help: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/65
Full paper: "Dynamic Windows with Neutral Color, High Contrast, and Excellent Durability Using Reversible Metal Electrodeposition"

http://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(17)30001-6
I suppose I should be flattered that you liked what I said. I don't approve of you presenting my exact words as your own, though...
Could You Get Hacked?
Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
Please stop tormenting me. This looks like exactly what we need (I was looking into manually partitioning the other day) it's just so annoying there is not yet Amazon RDS support.
I'm not sure you even realized you changed arguments when you switched from "there aren't as many high-IQ women" to "there is a higher variance in the distribution of male intelligence as there is in women". I'm curious to see how you'll rebut, and, if you do, will use your rebuttal to gauge how detailed my response will be.

(Obviously, there is a [weak] rebuttal that preserves the original claim with the new distributional argument).