skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's just no point to living in California these days.

There's an ocean, fantastic and constantly improving dining scene, beautiful people, the best national parks in the country, a gorgeous and diverse landscape, great weather that allows you to go skiing and surfing in the same day, arguably the best/tastiest crops and accompanying farmers markets in the nation, cultural attractions such as a top 5 symphony orchestra, iconic music venues, fully legalized marijuana, high quality illegal drugs from being right on the border, population diversity, high quality meetup groups (specifically thinking of BioCurious), and, most importantly, a high concentration of engineering talent.

That's not to mention the perks of living in a world class city. I get to demo things like Microsoft's HoloLens for free at a meetup at their Santa Monica campus, go to Hacker Nights at Riot Studios, attend a free presentation by Robert Sapolsky, watch SpaceX rocket launches and be a part of a very dense, helpful, and talented developer and entrepreneurial community.

The total compensation for the average engineer in LA is around $150k. I do this and work some side gigs. Maybe I can't afford private jets or a yacht, but I have very little material desires.

There is no amount of money that could convince me to spend the bulk of my time in the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, or any other place in the US that offers tax advantages outside of Florida. (No offense to anyone who lives there, it's just not for me).

I see and agree with your contention if you find most or all of the above meaningless. I did the whole big fish, small pond thing before in Michigan and didn't like it, but I see how others can appreciate the differences. It's downright arrogant to call anyone who chooses to live in California insane just because you're over it.
> It is only good for getting jobs.

Beginner will either want a job or write some simple apps. "enlightening" languages are worthless for them.
As an economist I take extreme issue with your absolute statement that economics is a component of sociology. It might be partly that, but it is also partly a great many other things (including an annex of applied mathematics).
The Desk Depot guy in Mountain View is probably chortling and rubbing his hands together in anticipation.
Most nations have been set up with growth assumptions. I think you're right that in theory a nation with stable numbers for both can sustain itself. However, we'd have to redo much of the infrastructure assumptions in place today [1], and currently I don't see any nations that are ready to take that plunge.

[1] The only systems I see are either underfunded due to growth assumptions they haven't been able to hit, or are funded through natural resources that the country just happened to have. If there are exceptions I would genuinely like to know.
"Disney Fastplay" rings a bell. It's rare we watch one, and I pop the disc in while we're getting ready to sit down. Not great, but they did learn.
Not if in lieu of homes they invest in nothing at all. If you don't own a home you're paying rent. Rent prices have also increased dramatically so it's not like there's money going into savings.

Personally, I pay more in student loans than every one of my parents, aunts, and uncles pay on ybeir mortgage. I pay 2-3 times more in rent than their mortgage. I might be ok but only because of a high paying tech job. Those at the lower end the scale are absolutely fucked.
It would be cool to present both to the reader somehow. They already have it for the writer.
Yes, regular soap is as good as killing bacteria as anti-bacterial soap: https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20070817/plain-soap-...
I think you make failure to quantify error here and can't see the difference in magnitude between risks.

If we had Fukushima every few years and nuclear storage accidents happen frequently, it's unlikely that it would be worse than delayed retreat from hydrocarbons caused by aversion to nuclear power.
I'll be honest: I can't even tell if the moon landing is true. Heck, I can't even tell if germ theory is true or if bitcoin supply really is limited. I don't even know if the Earth is a sphere. I don't even know if I exist in this world.

I am putting trust in a network of people who agree to these 'facts'. I trust the network that agrees on them much more than the network that disagrees on them.

People's beliefs are tethered to their network.
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Isn't it that nuclear power is only ecologically disastrous for the medium term while being mostly beneficial in the longer term?

Here an article about wildlife in Chernobyl - https://www.nature.com/articles/526166a
This is very interesting, could you elaborate on what you mean by information scarcity?
It's not ecologically disastrous, nuclear energy is safe and the best technology we have right now.

> their short term 'benefits'.

Global warming is 1000x worse than a few radioactive waste we can store and no technology can match the CO2/Khw ratio of nuclear. Short term benefits is exactly what we need now.
The map does not claim to conclude on anything else than Carbon emissions. Many other things need to be taken into account when considering decisions, and this is merely one decision (albeit a very important one!)
Humans are terrible at evaluating rare but expensive failure modes. Nuclear power is far safer than just coal mining operations, even taking into account accidents.
Feel free to submit a pull request to update our numbers!
French here. Besides the advantages you mentioned, the downsides the opposants talk about are:

- aging power plants, we haven't build any in a long time and many are now passed the initial lifetime expetency, but can't be shutdown as they should since there is no replacement ready

- price not taking plants destruction into account. None have been fully destructed yet, so we don't know how much it coat exactly but it's far from cheap since you have tons of midly radioactive material to treat

- still no proper way to dispose of the waste. There research etc, but right bow we're basically storing lots of materials that will be radioactive for millennias

- new generation plants project (EPR) is many years late and many times over budget because of critical defects in components.

- probably other arguments I forgot

I am personally undecided on the matter, but what is certain is that nuclear might be the best solution we have, but it certainly isn't without downsides.
Would you be willing to disclose your earnings so we can decide if your anecdote can be considered common for
Silicon Valley or not? Also do you happen to have any dependents?
TL;DR: No, it isn't.
Right now the main problem we have is global warming, not nuclear waste storage, we know how to store the waste in good conditions whereas nobody knows how disastrous global warming will be, unless Germany can match the same levels of CO2 as nuclear, their efforts are pretty useless.
I mean that once you have a token (coin) nobody else can use it.
My boomer bones are radioactive - strontium 90. We'll be a dating keystone for future paleoantropologists.
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So if most of the time you cut usage of finite resources by 20% - what is the down side? They can afford it so what is the harm?
At least now, if a Tsunami hits Germany, we are safe.
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I would say UX. Things like this need lots of people to adopt it to hit critical mass.

UX lowers the friction level. It's more likely to be accepted by the simplest decision maker. This is why companies like Slack do so well.
This is plain wrong. Of course there are people who have a natural talent, but that’s a tiny minority and most people have to do with practice - it’s just the people with many more years of practice that you end up comparing yourself to.

You wouldn’t expect to sit down at a piano for the first time and have the dexterity and coordination to play, without any kind of practice, would you?

Almost everyone draws as a child. Then, they stop, try as an adult and then give up when they end up making a picture that looks “like a child’s drawing” - of course it does - that’s the point at which you stopped learning to draw.
A bigger question is why does the police spend time looking for pornography? What type of society is the UK developing into?
There would be a significant benefit to just being able to reliably get rough numbers plus some examples of the worst pictures for an expert to grade rather than having the task of searching 10000 horrific pictures to see if any fall into certain categories.
Together with the Netherlands. We don't even show as a data point on this map, but it's bad. Lots of NIMBY here with wind energy, new government has just started talking about shutting down a few coal plants, we are far behind our promises.
I'm missing a detail of the US system ...

> Years ago, Coomer and his co-workers at the Tulsa plant of McDonnell-Douglas, the famed airplane maker, were enrolled in the company pension, but in 1994, with an eye toward cutting retirement costs, the company closed the plant.

Did the McDonnell-Douglas company not pay into a separate pension fund, or did they raid the fund somehow?
Great, but this is the other side of the coin:

https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=all-sources&we...

Look at the beginning of the week on 18.December and Wind+Solar are only 5% to electricity production. Over 50% now. 5% then.

What is the end game here? Duplicate the whole infrastructure and have backup coal/gas/nuclear plants for half the time? That is why Germanys electricity prices are so high.

France: 17 cent per kwh
vs
Germany: 29 cent per kwh
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TLDR; article is about new organization called PipedDown trying to convince stores to turn off background music citing bad health effect on employees due to continuous forced upon music.

I myself have wondered how employees of some restaurants and shops survive this day after day. However, marketers have long used music to influence customer behavior:

- Effects of Background Music on Consumer's Behavior: A Field Experiment in a Open-Air Market (2007) http://nicolas.gueguen.free.fr/Articles/EJSR2007.pdf

- The Influence of Background Music on Shopping Behavior: Classical Versus Top-Forty Music in a Wine Store (1993) http://www.acrwebsite.org/search/view-conference-proceedings...

- Using Background Music to Affect the Behavior of Supermarket Shoppers (1982) http://freakonomics.com/media/Using%20Background%20Music%20t...
%20of%20Supermarket%20Shoppers.pdf

- The Power of In-store Music and its Influence on International Retail Brands and Shopper Behaviour: A Multi-Case Study Approach (2002) http://www.semus.lt/medziaga/1.pdf
Man: Is that my wallet in your hand?

Sane Man: No sir. That's my mobile phone.

Man: That is my wallet. I can see my ID!

Sane Man: You need help.
Curious why you don't like a fixed supply currency. Any theories or resources I can read about this?
At christmas we're all sitting on our asses at home and farting. So a lot of wind is actually being produced!
I struggled to get to sleep for years until I realized I could doze off more easily when other people were around making noise. Now I listen to audiobooks and podcasts and fall asleep within 5-10 minutes most nights. Other speech seems to shut down my internal monologue and overly sensitive threat detection circuits :-D Only mentioning in case this clicks with someone else.
If by some oil you mean the largest supply of sweet crude in Africa and within very short shipping distance to the west, then yes they had some oil. And there is ample evidence the US was spearheading the ‘civil war’ using armed mercenary armies like ISIS much in the same fashion we have been seeing in Syria, both of which were outlined in the neoliberal imperialist war plan that Wesley Clarke outlined and which began full fledged after 9/11.
it's actually super easy to make a window take only half a screen in windows 8+ - move it to the edge of the screen. in windows 10, you can also move it to the corner to make it take 1/4th. shortcuts of win+left/right do similar things and also exist since win 8 at least.

now whether these people are aware of that and whether they say that having 2800x1200 window is fine for them is a completely different thing...
I am sorry, but I really do not like this style of naming and self-advertising. Is this common in ML?

"LION is a complex array of mechanisms, like the engine in a car, but the user (driver) does not need to know the inner workings of the engine in order to realize its tremendous benefits. LION’s adoption will create a prairie fire of innovation which will reach most businesses in the next decades."

1. Why is it called LION? There is no reference to a lion anywhere in the introduction. Just because the (real) title contains the letters to form lion is (in my opinion) not good enough (machine Learning plus Intelligent OptimizatioN). I hoped we were done with this style 5 years ago.

2. Even before trying to attempt to explain exactely what LION is, we have this car engine analogy. Why not explaining what it is so that I do understang what you are talking about. This just feels like an attempt to obscure complexity. And in (some bad papers) this is a sign that the authors did not fully grasp the matter and can hence not summarize it.

3. Why this bold claim that this will change innovation and business? If the book holds what it promises it will do that on its own.

To be fair, I haven't read the book but will probably do it. And it might be awesome. But these three things raise red flags for me. I read a lot of papers during my PhD and these are three indicators for bad papers. And the authors of those papers were PhD students will oversell there stuff anyways. But this is a book. Please do not do that...

[EDIT] Typo
And also more biomass than coal!
Still, those dirty coal cancer producers need to close down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_least_carbon_efficient...
HMM and AHA – OH NO, Not ANOTHER NEW YEAR
I keep getting asked this question, this is an article I wrote to answer this: https://medium.com/p/543da352fc49?source=linkShare-229012a5f...
I am surprise the trucks dont have randomly loaded internal shelves like Amazon warehouses. Less compact packaging. But always know where everthing is.
Plus there are near optimal traveling salesmen algorithms for minimizing driving. Exact optimal path are NP incomplete. But you can get fairly close. I wonder if the white Amazon vans do any of this.
I don't understand how these electricity production numbers are to be understood. Neither net nor gross energy production seem to match the numbers depicted for Germany. Why does it say, that Germany is producing 61% of its power from wind energy, when most other sources only report around 40%?

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/l...
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/l...
How inefficient and/or environmentally unfriendly would it be to store the excess in batteries of some sort? I've heard that scheme pitched for solar quite a bit, so why not use the same strategy of buffering for wind?
Blockchain is indeed fascinating, but its pratical usefulness has yet to be proven.
Nuclear is safe, but I'm not convinced it is cost effective vs renewables and energy storage - based on the UK's next gen nuclear plants anyway. 30 years is hardly short term either.
Why don't we just dump the radioactive material into the ocean to dilute it sufficiently? Apparently that's what solved most of the Fukushima problem.
Isn't this specifically intended to identify images of child abuse though, rather than rifle through the average users pornhub cache?
The Silicon Valley television show had the best parody: a deep learning program trained to find hot dogs for a foodie program repurposed for a phallus porn detection program.
Yes of course.
At first I thought that was their entire hp purchase number. Covering laptops, monitors, desktops, etc.

Then I realized that nope. It's 543 million of professional services to build a RTLS system. Wow, I'm speechless.
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The key to understanding is time. Those charts your linked show averages for whole years. However the original link in question here is live data. Based on the charts it seems the percentage is updated every 15 minutes.
Not a great one, but that's not new. We've been getting incrementally more draconian surveillance and laws for some time.
Exactly the opposite. Nuclear is only beneficial short term.

The long term consequences are very long term, hundreds thousands of years. The problem of storing nuclear waste material is still unsolved and extremely expensive. Radiation poisoning is ecologically extremely disastrous.
E.g. the shield in Chernobyl has to be rebuilt every few decades because the radiation weakens every shielding material over time.
For 10M to die, 10M need to show up when the invitations to please attend the war appear in their mailboxes. I, for one, will decline. I'd rather spend my time watching the highlights on TV, between the cricket of course. Should things go bad for "my" side, I'd go camping until it all blows over. Nuclear war is going to ruin my fishing, and probably my weekend - that won't do.
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Ask HN: Does Apple slow down old Macbooks as well?
Has anyone actually tested it properly? If so what are the results
Yes, but we are in fact getting a nation wide porn filter in the near future.
How expensive would electricity be if we could somehow factor in all the environmental costs?
If a tsunami hits Germany, places like Kiel will be screwed. The Netherlands too. Most of Germany will be fine.

Deaths from Tōhoku earthquake and taunami: 16,000
Deaths from subsequent nuclear plant issue: maybe 300 long term
Reminds me of the few months I lived in Santa Barbara, it took over two weeks to find an overpriced room, during that time we also slept in the car close to the beach... It's fun in the beginning then it gets really tough.
Right now it's still much more expensive than nuclear (based on the massive amount EDF spent in France to increase the share of renewables). But I'm sure this will change in the future since prices of renewables are droping quickly.
> but it certainly isn't without downsides

Neither are the alternatives. Governments, and civilians alike, should carefully weight the advantages and disadvantages. What I mainly know about it is from memory from elementary school. Because this is precisely what we did. Each group was tasked to use pictures/photos from magazines, papers, etc to make a collage and a list of the + and - of each of these sources.

That said, can someone ELI5 why Thorium is the future for nuclear energy? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
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Is the talk recorded? Can we find it somewhere?
Co reductions are critical but it's very capital intensive prosess. We don't have time to waste resources for inefficiencies and marginal improvements.
The links would still be blue, "text-decoration: none" will just remove the underline.
This looks great - thanks!
HNI = "High Net Worth Individuals"

(because that's just so obvious)
> Exactly the opposite. Nuclear is only beneficial short term.

> The long term consequences are very long term, hundreds thousands of years.

That differs per isotope AFAIK.

Also, you could regard it as temporary solution between coal, less efficient/safe/fill_in nuclear power plants, and solar/wind/biomass. Because global warming is here right now, and we gotta deal with it right now.
When you travel from The Netherlands to Germany, the sure way to recognise the border is all the wind mills.

FWIW here's a Wikipedia entry on the Dutch situation [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_Nether...
Sure, but my argument does not need perfect correction. I suspect but can't prove that if Arnold had been a better actor his movies would have made more money.

Extend that across all actors and you presumably get more profit without higher costs anywhere which should result in more movies. But, even without more movies higher profits mean actors are simply worth more and collectively would get paid more pushing up compensation for the full range.
Better than batteries is pumping water uphill into reservoirs when there is a power surplus, then recovering it as a normal hydropower plant when there is a deficit.
And look at Guatemala:
https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&countryCode=GT

46% biomass! More than hydro, wind or anything else. This should be a role model.
I have had also wonderful results from CBT. However, the 'sleep restriction' part requires a lot of willpower and determination and was no easy feat for me to hold on. However, after restricting my time in bed to 5 hours for 2 weeks, I had definitely no problem getting to ZZZland after crashing in bed at midnight.

By the way, there is an online digital CBT-I course available called Sleepio.
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I suspect lobbying to be an element.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_Australia
lol! The missing "submit" and only a "reset" button also drove me nuts!!! That page actually does some javascript code, which is not currently working. (you can see this when you click on one of the options while in console/devtools).
Indeed. In a coffee shop, one has two priorities when talking to another person:

- Being heard by the other person easily enough

- Not being heard by anyone else.

The second one is important so that you don't need to put as much effort into self censoring or rapidly adjusting volume when saying something especially private. In a silent coffee shop, there is no volume low enough such that other people can't hear you. Lack of privacy is obviously not a deal breaker but obviously neither is piped music for a lot of people.

The best coffee shop I've been to was a series of small rooms without doors with about four tables in each room. Often you would be the only group in the room especially if you were a big group. Even if you weren't, the walls absorbed a lot of noise. It was nice.
Functional Works "might release the talks soon".

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/7l2z7d/pdf_stephen...
Because that's what this map is about: Live CO2 emissions. Not perceived dangers of nuclear power.

Nuclear power is a highly ideologised subject. In recent years in this area decisions have been made entirely based on fear and political opinion rather than scientific facts (like the relative safety of alternative reactor designs). 'nuclear' has become a hot-button word. Everything connected to it is perceived as negative. Probably some people nowadays would even argue against nuclear fusion because it's 'nuclear'.

In combating climate change by drastically reducing carbon emissions we're facing a huge task, which likely is an uphill battle we can't even really win in the short term. The best we can hope for is mitigating the consequences as much as possible.

Nuclear power is a stopgap measure that can help with that until better alternatives are available. We've been using nuclear fission for power generation for more than 50 years now. The waste generated during that time is there already, if we want it or not. It has to be dealt with anyway. Adding 20 or so more years of nuclear power generation on top of that doesn't exacerbate that problem all that much.

Trying to get rid of coal, oil, gas and nuclear power all at the same time seems like a pretty foolish endeavour.
The Hellaphone was an idea in that direction. They substituted all the Java bits in Android with Inferno: http://jfloren.net/b/2015/8/18/2
May I ask why? Installation is a bit cumbersome but it seems to be an outstanding program to me. I have been looking very long for something like this.

I have not tired yet how it reacts to huge amounts of data. But best thing: NOT written in Java!