skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot recommend highly enough Vaclav Smil's Energy in World History (1994), or the revised edition released just this year, Energy and Civilization. It follows pretty much precisely this metric, which is also, incidentally, far easier to calculate than you'd expect. In fact, you can pretty much plot out human development levels, from hunter-gatherer, to agricultural, to empire, to early industrial, to modern industrial, based on per capita energy consumption and availability, ranging from a low of about 10 GJ/capita to a peak of over 350 GJ/capita in the US (in very rough numbers, I don't have sources in front of me at the moment).

See generally: https://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/03/12/world-energy-consumpti...

There's some very interesting work going on in this area, in particular Steve Keen's recent integration of energy into production functions:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BAjN6bG7XzM
No, we are actually not homogenous at all. Even Arabs are pretty culturally divided, especially the Middle East vs. North Africa. We do have a sizable population though.

I would argue that the main barrier between Arabs and unity is authoritarianism.
Rephrasing the above post, sans adjectives: "building up foreign markets" - isn't that how globalization happens?
That's a big part of it.

The other thing the government has done (at least in the last couple of decades) is a big push in to transportation infrastructure - bridges, highways, high-speed rail. All of these things help in opening up the economy of previously isolated regions.
Inevitably, someone will make a comment about how Dropbox is overstaffed and could do this with ~10 employees since 'they just sync files'. To save you the trouble, consider that they also need to hire support, sales, marketing, and operations staff beyond the engineers and designers it takes to keep the product(s) running, especially as they shift into an enterprise-focused business.
There already a bunch of sites out there like that.
AlgoWiki: Repository of resources on different topics of computer science
Both suffer from way to much binary bloat, for small performance hit we can shave off a whole 4Kb.

Is anyone going to take a stab at an enterprise edition?
TBF, I suspect GP is referring to reducing the gross
weight of trucks (vehicle + load), rather than the net of the vehicle alone.

That's possible too, but would be tremendously less efficient as you'd have the same air resistence (or at least a substantial amount) but without the same cargo capacity.

Railroads tend not to develop potholes.
Alot of good recommendations even if they may not meet strict personal definitions of either "hard" sci-fi, or "AI" sci-fi.

If you haven't read the Culture books, by Iain M. Banks, I'd recommend them (as others already have). I'd also add, the "Murderbot Diaries" (2017), "Infomocracy" (2016) and Lightless (2015).
Do you need to access source code in order to analyze software for backdoors? Shouldn't you be looking directly at the compiled machine code?

There's no guarantee that the source code you are looking at matches the binaries that are being distributed isn't it?
I'm having trouble finding any information on the issue, but I did find one paper that refutes your claim[1]. That info was gathered from British people, and didn't show any difference in weight between homosexuals and heterosexuals.

Whether or not fat is what's being detected depends on the dataset I suppose, though.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11911936
Nothing. But they will push the idea of a deeper connection because European governments are scrambling for historical and cultural justification for the massive third-world immigration which is quickly turning many European countries like Sweden into Islamic war-zones, along with all the social and economic problems you would imagine that entails.
Doesn't look too happy to me -- maybe because I'm over 30 and would be dead. Also, I loved my mother (who is dead) -- but at least she didn't die in childbirth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
Firstly, the researchers seem to have a cracker jack box understanding of the fields they're claiming to upend, what with claiming PHT is widely accepted. Secondly, it's not clear to me that they controlled for enough variables and only doing it on white people is strange. It could really be that gay people use better photos, who knows.

They're claiming to be able to detect gay people but it seems like the system has to be coaxed very carefully into doing that and seems very limited. They built a purposefully inflammatory tech demo that seems to do more to betray their distance from the topic they're studying than it does bolster their reputation. At least from my perspective.
Hi! I'm the author of ARA and just wanted to thank you for mentioning it :)

Full disclosure: I'm a Software Engineer at Red Hat.

Tower has a lot of great features but I hate to concede that it does come with some of the drawbacks you mentioned.
I think it comes down to weighing the pros and cons, making sure you are aware of the cons and putting measures in place to avoid problems.

It also heavily depends on your use case, Tower provides things like RBAC/ACL, auditing, scheduling, online editing and execution, an API, etc. If you happen to need none of that and you're perfectly happy with just using Ansible from your command line, there's probably little incentive for you to use it.

If all you need is reporting, ARA is simple, easy to install and setup, doesn't get in your way and just records things transparently.

I figured I might as well take the opportunity of posting to leave a video demo [1], even if a little outdated, as well as an example of live report that ara provides [2].

Let me know if you have any questions !

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3i8VPCanGo
[2]: http://logs.openstack.org/21/474721/7/check/gate-openstack-a...
Wow, I was sure you were wrong when I read this but it looks like you're right. Though the reasoning here is a little different from how I interpreted your comment. It's not that the heaters concentrate minerals by, say, evaporating some of the water, it's that hot water simply dissolves lead from pipes more easily than cold water.https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/health/29real.html
We run all of our companies like China runs its economy. It’s funny to realize sometimes how dogmatic we are about this or that type of government being objectively best. Democratic republics have become failed states too. Sometimes I admire their ability to actually get shit done (transit systems etc).

Of course, if I were a dissident I’d rather be in the US.
For those wondering i'm assuming it's this repo: https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

It looks like it requires a local copy of the original Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 to work. Why is that?
Consider reading the paper itself and the authors' notes before throwing various objections around - they address many of them.

Paper: https://osf.io/zn79k/

Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11oGZ1Ke3wK9E3BtOFfGfUQuu...
The settling of the country started many decades before the founding of the United States. The Pilgrims arrived in 1620, 156 years before independence was declared.
Ah, so, this raises an interesting question: what do people use yes for?

One answer (a bad answer) is "generating artificial load".

This makes the I/O strategy oddly relevant -- different strategies result in different numbers of syscalls and (potentially) kernel lock acquisitions.

Couple this with someone trying to benchmark something's behavior with an antagonist load, and the story gets downright painful to contemplate in terms of confusing results.

Source: in my younger years, I did this. In more recent years, I've seen other engineers do it.
Most Roman cargo moved on ships. Roads were for unavoidable overland transport, where rivers didn't suffice, and largely involved personal transport or local movements.

Though the Romans didn't make heavy use of them, one of the first major inland cargo transport systems was canal networks. Canals are almost the equivalent of railroads (trading speed for bandwidth), and have the useful property, I realised a while back, of not requiring roadbed maintenance or resurfacing. Canals don't develop potholes, get muddy, or suffer from the carriage of heavy loads.

The canal boom in Europe began proper in the 1500s, though there were some earlier instances.
I think most posts receive very few votes in any direction. You may be merely looking at a few downvoters, which I feel is a different population than HN at large, since many people can’t even downvote.
I am 42 and got married (for the second time) a couple of months ago. After getting a divorce I worked my butt off on okCupid to meet my wife. I made it a full time gig and I am happy with the results.

Besides finding a great life parter, one of the most surprising results is what is hinted at but not really discussed in the article. She brought a completely new social circle into my life. Although we are the same age (Roughly) and have lived in Boston for the last 20 years, the Venn diagram of our circle of friends didn't overlap.

My perception is that my social life is much more interesting at this point because of this, rather than my College friends, many of whom married their college parters.
Hey do hope you heck back and let us know how things went for you & your family.
"Insurance in the limit of perfect information" – that would be the title of my talk if I were ever invited to give one at an insurance company as part of a hiring process or something. I think it's a cute game theoretic problem.

See, if an insurer, in the extreme case, can make a perfect prediction of whether the presumptive customer will get the disease (or whatever the insurance is about), then it would offer insurance to the ones who won't need it and not offer insurance (or offer it at a price that is too high to be useful) to the ones who do need it. The customer who is offered insurance will thereby learn that he doesn't need it, and will decline the offer!

Is this the end of insurance? Insurance is of value to both sides. Is it really reasonable that we can't extract this value if one side can predict the future?

I think the rational solution might be for the insurance company to introduce some randomness when making their offers, so that the customer can't for sure know, by looking at the offer, whether he will be sick or not. I haven't calculated more precisely what the optimal strategy of the insurer would be. It would presumably depend on the utility functions of both parties.
Singapore is often shown as proof that China's model will work. But look at it from the perspective of China.

To be like Singapore they would need to have a much more regular and neutral justice system and expose their politicians to much more democratic oversight (though still not to western levels). They would have to engage in a much more subtle and limited form of censorship.

If they do become like Singapore, then what do they get? They get to be about as rich as western democracies.
Sorry, I didn't want to sound like a jerk, but my criticism still applies and I mean it wholeheartedly.

You are right about the up-to-debate value of the thing, so what I've said is my part in the debate.

You are also right that I didn't read everything, but perhaps a superficial view of the thing is missing from your perspective, since you've clearly devoted long hours thinking about this :P
The male zebra finch, like many other songbirds, purposely attempts to sing the same song over and over without any variation, including in pitch and volume. This is because singing is primarily a courtship ritual, and females are attracted to high song stereotypy in males. A random song can be selected out of the hundreds sung daily and 80 to 90 percent of the other songs will be pretty much exactly the same.

While the research is of course impressive, it's a bit premature to extrapolate it to humans, or any other animal.
The masses have even installed Arch.

https://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux
They still have to pay rent and buy food...
Nothing good can come of naming a project `cthulhu`.
It also looks much better than a typical office chair.
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99% of my clothing are pants, shorts, underwear, t-shirts and socks, and I've never felt the need to sort them - everything goes into a washer, then a dryer, then gets sorted into dresser/closet. Are your clothes significantly different from mine, or is there an actual benefit to washing your socks separately from your pants?

(Or are you talking about separating things like sheets, towels, etc?)
The ABS language is another interesting language stuck in academia: http://abs-models.org/documentation/manual/
> SELinux can't tell which of those accesses were intended, and which were actual security violations it should keep preventing. That requires human intervention.

Right, it requires intervention by a person who doesn't actually understand the minutiae of what the software is trying to do, so obviously they can make a properly informed choice as to what is and is not a security violation. Modern operating systems are so broken...
There seems to be a global correlation between people with power and reluctance to lose any of it. It's practically down to a science now.
"Brevik" is a strange name for a boy from syria.
This is a pop-science view of biological and psychological drivers. The reality is more complex than "everything is a thin veneer over 'let's fuck'"

"Let's fuck" is vital for continuation of a species, but it not the only reason why species might show a behaviour.
> Cantonese, a language with 60 million speakers in China

Most of cantonese speakers can speak mandarin as well.
Especially when facial lipoatrophy is a well known side-effect of anti-HIV drugs [0].

0. https://www.poz.com/basics/hiv-basics/changes-face-body-lipo...

Edit. I never complain about downvoting (who cares it is just HN), but what exactly are people downvoting?

It is a well known side-effect of the older anti-HIV drugs to lose fat from the face (it tends to be deposited around the belly and organs). Even if you controlled for overall weight, then you would still need to control for facial fat separately.
just bring back my goddamn group tabs, and no I don´t want to install an extension.
Looking this more carefully, I guess the pointer to the STRRET always remains valid but whoever implemented the decoding of STRRET didn't cover all the cases of uType, and the GodMode had a different uType than others that the developers tested? In that case instead of the pointer to null the API actually returned an empty string (uType STRRET_CSTR actually then means that what would be a null pointer are actually the bytes of the string, and being zero, the string is empty, saving one allocation), but the returned structure wasn't properly understood by the caller.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...

That would mean the API behaved according to the specs. See an example here, it's impossible for the call to destroy the pointer to STRRET:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb7...
Now you've got me wondering what it would mean to try and enforce the copyright on an empty file. You'd think there would be some prior art, right? :)
It's going to change everything about the future, because it's going to change everyone who lives in the future.
In a few generations, everyone will have ancestors who met through online dating, and therefore would not exist without it.
Upbeat is the major innovator in PR today, no one else is even close.
> “Deep neural networks are more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation from facial images”

I don't think the comparison to humans is the interesting thing here. The thing of interest is what can be said at all, by human or by computer, by looking at a picture.
the best time to water your plants is in the morning ...
There are several elements of Roman wealth which aren't captured by GDP (or alternatively, of the overreporting of modern wealth by GDP).

One element is infrastructure depreciation. As you note, the materials and construction of Rome tended to last. Stone and Roman concrete both in particular don't degrade with time (though they may suffer earthquake damage). Things built tended to remain built over timescales we are not familiar with, at the very least, centuries rather than decades. Depreciation expense was far less.

Another factor was a much smaller natural capital expense. Not an entirely absent one, and there were problems with deforestation, salinisation, and cropland depletion throughout the Roman empire, as well as hazards introduced by commerce of plague and disease. But the major capital depletion of the modern world, the draw-down of fossil-fuel reserves at rates millions of times greater than their formation, was not present, nor various consequences of such actions, including of course, greenhouse-gas induced global warming and ocean chemistry changes.

(Among the issues Rome did have to deal with was heavy metal pollution, particularly lead and mercury, and particulates emissions. It wasn't all roses. But by relative magnitudes this was a very small fraction of present capital expenditures.)

Vaclav Smil's Energy and Civilization is an epic exploration of the role of energy in history, including the Roman Empire.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/vaclav-smil
Too true. Seattle is an incredible city. Fantastic people, plenty to do, lots of opportunity but still livable. Except for the god damn weather. I grew up in the high desert in California and just couldn't deal with the constant overcast. I left my job, my career and my friends to move to Hawaii. Couldn't be happier.
More likely the scion died and the root stock took over. It wouldn't have grown the same plum or flower.

You didn't coppice it when you removed it. Coppice is when a tree is "topped" like a haircut and then it grows back.

Not all trees are suitable for coppicing, but the ones that do grow back vigorously and are great for firewood / lumber.
But that's not concentrating anything at all.
No, it's just some sugar over plain old functions.
> Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't drink tap water now

What changed your mind?
Well, they've got a warehouse full of books. Seems like a great way to de-clutter.
Excelsior guy here.

Overall, I would say that AOT suddenly becoming kosher helps our business way more than competition hurts it.

Then, "JDK9 has AOT out of the box" is a bit of exaggeration. Oracle AOT is only available for Linux/x64 ATM, yields huge binaries and may be a bit cumbersome to use: http://mjg123.github.io/2017/10/04/AppCDS-and-Clojure.html

The main difference however is that a binary produced by Oracle AOT is to a big extent just a pre-populated HotSpot cache, whereas Excelsior JET has been AOT-centric since day one. In practice that means that with Oracle AOT you have to ship both the native binary and the original class files to your customers, and with Excelsior JET you only ship the native binary, which makes reverse engineering your application more difficult.

I recall us being quite surprised when a customer survey had shown that IP protection is more important than application performance for many of our customers, even though it was just a byproduct of our optimization efforts.
I can't edit my post anymore:

Another amazing aspect of our ability to categorize is that we only need ONE example of a category before we can identify other members extremely well. Compare this with a machine learning solution, which needs a massive training set to be half decent.
Because a calendar reminder was already not helping himmer send out the greeting.

Source: doesn’t work for me.
I've always found the most joyous part of consumerism is the researching for a particular product pre-acquisition, rather than the product itself post-acquisition.
To go even further afield, Roman coins have turned up in the ruins of a 12th Century castle in Okinawa.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/science/japan-archaeology...
The minimum might be a non-zero positive value.
Also keep in mind that usually in the US, college students can sign up for any class as long as it doesn't have specific prerequisites - at large schools that means you'd be able to take just about any intro-level class you wanted to, regardless of your major. I'm not sure it works like that in the UK.
I gotta believe that drinking tap water is really low on the list of reasons people get kidney stones. I'd think drinking virtually anything OTHER than water is a more likely cause..

I still drink tap water regularly although I lean towards the fridge water dispenser and the cooler at work because I like cold water.
It sometimes amazes you how little you need to be happy yet everything we do is to get as much as possible.
> Secondly, it's not clear to me that they controlled for enough variables and only doing it on white people is strange. It could really be that gay people use better photos, who knows.

Are these two sentences meant to be related to each other, or am I misreading your comment?
Ask HN: What are you reading? (October 2017)
> This tacitly implies that women are sex objects and that men only seek them out as such. I find that offensive, but more so than that, sad.

I find it ridiculous that you are offended and sad. Your assumption is leaping to a cause that 'women are sex objects' for these men because they have higher date counts. Maybe they are more picky because they can be. Or is that so surprising more attractive men have more sex partners? And even if so, what is wrong with wanting to have sex? And why is this a bad thing for men here? I know plenty of women that at some point in their life who only want flings for whatever life reason.

Sorry a bit of a rant but I find this judgement about people having sex so archaic.
Girls have been a part of the Venture Scout program (usually 16-17).

This change adds girls to Cub Scouts (8-10), Boy Scouts (usually 11-13), and Varsity Scouts (usually 14-15).
> the context in which the statement is originally made could be very different than the context her

The context I replied to was gaining from the injustice (and suffering) inflicted on others, and being smug about it. What could change about the "context" - what one considers injustice? That's factored in already, and gloating is, as I see it, being passive and worse.

It doesn't matter who said it anyway, I bet you I could find you a lot of wise people who said it in different and expanded forms. He put it succinctly.

It takes guts to stand up for yourself when push comes to shove. When you water down the wine of what even you yourself consider just, subjective and restricted as we all may be, it will fail you.
When choosing a language, framework or “platform” there are only three things that matter:

(1) Time to market: how fast can you implement a “ship-able” feature, app

(2) Resource cost/availability: can you find delivery resources easily and cost effectively. Sometimes this resource is you, metric appropriately.

(3) Scalability: as you grow and features change, how do the other two things change. Do they change for the better or the worse.

The weighting of these depends on longitivtiy expectations. If your short sighted for immediate reward weigh (1) and (2) higher if your confidence is high on the outcome of what your doing then weigh (2) and (3) higher.

For this discussion Swift wins on almost all fronts. The exception might be legacy maintenance , and even then it might be a knife fight of when and how.
Problem is, the God Folder dates back to Vista and it is the Windows 10 Creators Update that began setting that field to NULL. Apparently the author of that change did not foresee any backward compatibility issues.
Dishwashing and cooking became automated after I got married.
SpaceX has flown its third “flight proven” rocket