skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
enviably, I'm not so sure...

Most of the plants are quite old, and will cost a ton to renovate (~50B euros for the "Grand Carenage") or close.

They also represent a growing risk as they get older.

There is also the well known issue of waste management.

Right now, it's actually more expensive per kWh produced.

Also as it's backed by a well established nuclear industry, there is an important nuclear lobby which slows down renewable energy sources development.

This industry is slowly dying (Areva had to be bailed-out basically a few years ago, and abroad, the bankruptcy of Westinghouse comes to mind), not the best horse to bet on.

Is it better than coal plants? probably, but it's far from a silver bullet.

To go back to electric car (and electric transport in general). One thing I rarely see discussed is the necessary increase in electricity production that a full switch to EV would require. How much bigger the output of electricity will have to be? 30%, 50%?
Right now, given the really small proportion of EV, it's just a blip, but on a massive scale?
Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks (October 2017) [pdf]
Bank accounts are free here too (or at least most of them are), but for various reasons some people choose not to get them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked
When he first built that and wrote it up in his Daedalus column, I sent in my guess as to how it works. He replied, and said that wasn't it.

Some students stole that wheel once, it continued to run, and they couldn't future it out. They gave it back after three weeks, embarrassed.

He built four of those wheels. Here's another one.[1]

I'm really impressed that they are running long after his death.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dpmP_H1LBM
Be careful what you wish for. Skepticism about official experts/science/the government is helping fake news a lot, eg here in Italy.
You really can't see the difference between the kind of advertising this guy is complaining about and a link to a personal website / manifesto complaining about advertising? Really?
I really believe this is really a matter of taste. Don't think there something special about video games - surely they're a very common retreat but by no means an special one. There are people who are addicted to other activities just as bad as some are hooked on games. And even for games - what some would find highly addictive, others would find boring or even disgusting. So I really think there is nothing wrong with video games on their own - the problem is in the heads and games are just what frequently happens to be there.

What triggered my comment is a ban proposal for an extremely wide group, where a significant fraction doesn't have any particular issue with the subject at hand. Even if I'm unaffected by this particular proposal (I'm way past my teen years) I still find such ideas somewhat offensive. I may be naive or stupid but I don't fancy the very thought of someone being deprived of something fairly harmless to them just because others have issues.
From glancing over some conversations, it looks like the bot is mostly talking to other bots.

That said, I think it’s nice to be able to reflect the same attack vector upon the attackers to make the attack less efficient and hopefully less attractive.
Is it an education problem? I'd love any links anyone has to studies that examine the relationship between education and skepticism of fake news.

My intuition says yes but to such a minor extent that it cannot explain away the phenomenon.
Yes, well before the quote you referenced out of context the author stated:

> Less than a week later, Jacob raped me in his apartment. Two of Jacob’s friends witnessed the assault, one other participated.

> In June 2016, I published a description of my assault under the pseudonym “River” on jacobappelbaum.net alongside others’ accounts of harassment and assault.
In the US, if you don't have a bank account, the government will just send you a debit card that they will load a balance on for your benefits/welfare. For example, here's a description of the Social Security debit card program.

https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10073.pdf

Most of these people do have access to a bank account - most of them are free - if they wanted one, but they choose not to get one for various reasons.

I think in terms of American politics, there would be some resistance in requiring people to have a bank account.
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Cast psychology aside and focus solely on the economic benefit.

$50 (18k NGN) is nothing to most Americans. However, 18k NGN is the current monthly national wage in Nigeria.

It costs little or nothing to blast Copy & paste emails to 1 million people using hacked / free SMTP servers.

Other factors to consider:

It requires so little skill that 14 year old kids do it.

Risk of getting cut is also super low. Police are on the look out for these scammers NOT to jail em but to collect their own share. They walk the scammers to the atm and take part or all of what they find there - usually, half.

Unemployment rate is 25.20% but this doesn't tell the full story.

Underemployment is another factor. As a result, many scammers are employed full time. The employment provides three benefits. 1. Free use of office computers and internet and most important electricity for scam. 2. A steady shock absorber income source for dry periods. 3. A camouflage to keep neighbors' tongues from wagging

I've rambled.

Scamming is so easy, has low risk, barrier to entry and high pay off.

One other point i failed to mentioned. If you live in SV, tech will rub on you. Same applies living in developing nations. Scam will rub on ya.
People love to go on about the value of their time, but most people cannot arbitrarily decide to work another hour and get paid for it. Most people either have their schedules set by their employers or are on a salary that doesn't change if they add an additional hour.

Don't weight ten hours of learning about bicycle assembly as though it were ten billable hours if it isn't. Compare it against the ten hours you were going to do other things in: reading, watching TV, going out for a walk, whatever.
You're right in terms of one's experience being highly dependent on where they ride.

> Oh, how they love to lecture about how you MUST ride as far to the right as safe

Fortunately, my state (Virginia) has an exception (based on the Uniform Vehicle Code wording) to the keep as far right as practical rule that states that it doesn't apply if the lane is too narrow for a bicycle and other vehicle to safely travel side by side within the lane. If you take the width of a cyclist (2 ft), the distance between the end of the handlebar and edge of the road (minimum 2 ft), and the distance between the edge of the handlebar and the passing vehicle (at least 3 ft in most states), then you can argue that the cyclist needs a minimum of 7 feet. A typical passenger vehicle is about 6 ft wide. At typical lane is anywhere from 10 ft to 12 ft wide.

So for most lanes, you don't have to keep right at all. I haven't checked to see whether that's the case in Oregon or Idaho though.
> What am I missing?

Execution. Using your own words, a competitor or competing startup could say to themselves "We're going to spend a couple months pivoting to [your] new business model, eliminate the same efficiency, and then [put him] out of business" and intend to do that, and still not do so.

Those "few months" often turn into much longer, but even if it was just a few months, they'd make different product tradeoffs than you did, or decide to market it via different channels than you did (and thus reach a totally different audience), or deliver a completely different post-purchase support experience, or decide to hire or not hire totally different staff, or any of a dozen other differences in execution.

Stated another way, someone might decide to clone your thing, and - much less likely, but not impossible possible - they might even clone the product[1], but they'd still arrive at a different business.

(In practice, it's much, much more likely that they don't see the importance of your innovation (assuming it actually matters), or don't see the nuances with which you executed it, so they decide to ignore it until you're far enough ahead in that aspect that the customers who value it are already happy with your product. After you have customers and market awareness, catching up is not a few months of work. But that's not the question you asked about.)

A much bigger risk is that your innovation isn't as important as you think it is, or the subset of customers who care about it are so hard to reach that you never get the chance to explain the difference, or that you implement this and do get the customers who care, but need to decide what to do next -- in the "Is this a feature, a product, or a company?" question, you made a feature, not a product or company. So, put the effort you'd put into thinking about competition, into figuring out how to reach the subset of customers who should value it the most (before building anything at all), asking them to poke holes in your theory, and incorporating their answers into a perception of where the market will be in 1-2 years.

[1]: Even someone who sets out to duplicate an existing product still has some knowledge and opinions about how to solve that problem well. Most folks will incorporate that knowledge into what they built. That is, they'll be trying to solve the same problem you're trying to solve, and in a similar way, but their own views will lead to a different product.
Visual degrees of separation of art with Google Arts and Culture
To the extent that this is true I doubt that it will create many additional programming jobs for people with advanced math skills. AI/ML is like cryptography, compilers, or programming languages now. You implement the algorithms a few times for proprietary products or open source libraries and then they get reused by millions.

The bulk of the work is still connecting the algorithms to real world data sources, creating interfaces to monitor and view their results, and explaining to non-technical people how to use them.

If anything AI/ML will create more jobs for non-math people who are working on the glue level because the better the tech is behind the scenes the more value it creates and the more potential customers there will be.
Macroeconomists often can't run experiments, and some kinds of "macro-sociological" theories can't be tested either. That puts them in a fundamentally different epistemological class.
Such as? It wasn't that you never brought new people in. It was that you weren't operating under a perverse incentive to bring in as many new people as you could.
In addition to lower doses like you said, effects of stimulates like amphetamines are completely different if taken orally than if they are sniffed or injected.

ADHD is one of the most well researched mental conditions. It is real and will cause significant impairment if untreated. Stimulants are the most effective medication in many but not all cases. Comments like that are harmful.

However, I agree with you that an ADHD diagnosis should not be given lightly.
I use VS: Code with the RLS and the plugin we provide for it, that's it. I also sometimes use vim with syntax highlighting, but no RLS or anything fancy.

> RLS locks up every time I try to load a non-trivial project.

I wonder if this is the initial build; that is, right now, RLS basically needs to build your code in order to do its thing, so the first time you open stuff, it's gonna be slow and make your fans whir. After that it shouldn't be a huge deal.

Things have been a bit wonky as of late, but the RLS is now riding the trains at least, so being available on stable will be very nice.
I think his point was that the test saturates at a normal person's level of concentration. So medicating normal people does not improve their score.
There are three main reasons: (1) a huge long tail of financial institutions and (2) an incredibly strong enforcement and justice system, and (3) a lack of new financial institutions.

The United States has around 40x more financial institutions than the United Kingdom (8x when adjusting for population differences). The US has such a long tail of financial institutions because of regulatory and market forces. The US regulators/lawmakers have traditionally provided incentives for smaller financial institutions because of the belief that they fill a very important role in powering our diverse economic engine (a belief I hold as well). This has made change harder to impose and coordinate.

Most United States payment schemes are inherently insecure. Both checks and ACHs simply require the routing number, account number, and name on the account. There is no concept of a one-time use token. So why is the US not plagued with fraud? Our enforcement and justice systems are perhaps the strongest in the world. The secret service and FBI devote an incredible amount of resources to investigating financial fraud, and punishments are typically harsh.

Finally, the lack of new bank charters granted by the regulators (especially post 2008) has reduced competition and innovation in the space. Banks are able to levy high fees as a result. The amount lost to fraud each year is generally more than covered by these fees (with the exception of small financial institutions) so there is not a strong incentive for change.
Previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7955917, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049196.
Not the parent, and I don't mean this sarcastically, but isn't that akin to saying "Only 5-10% of people fracture a bone, so why bother treating it. It's just a standard part of human existence."?
How is that in any way relevant? How does that at all mean that black people better understand black people, or justify explicitly selecting a jury on the basis of something arbitrary like skin color?
I should clarify that on the bike path, I generally do stay in the 15-20 MPH range, as there are many pedestrians traveling at low speed. On the road however, staying at typical bike like speed actually feel more dangerous to me. It kind of feels like driving on the highway at 45MPH when everyone is going 75MPH and a bit nerve wracking.
> We really need to quit forcing programmers to take calculus. ...

This is a resource to learn Computer Science - not computer programming. Calculus and many other advanced mathematics topics are very much needed if wishes to learn Computer Science.
Have you watched the video? It looks far less threatening when you watch the video. This was straight up murder.
Ask HN: What is the best tech stack for building a data science pipeline?
I'm currently in discussions with a startup cryptocurrency hedge fund and might have the opportunity to be involved with building a full-stack, production-level data science pipeline from end-to-end. To prepare well for this opportunity, I'm researching the best practices and most widely used technologies and tools that other organizations have used.

I've found that researching more broadly what other startups have used has been helpful. In particular, I encourage everyone to check out stackshare (https://stackshare.io/) and techstacks (http://techstacks.io/).

But I'd like to hear from the community about more data science and machine learning-specific stacks. For example, is there something analogous to the LAMP stack that is commonly used for web development? If you had a blank slate at a startup and could choose whatever technologies you want, which ones would you choose?

Interested in hearing about anything from server administration, database technologies, data stores, hosting options, to scripting languages, and visualization and reporting tools.
I mean, on the one hand, you have centuries of systemic oppression and violence, and the election of a President on a wave of populism fueled by white anger, and on the other hand you have a listicle, which if we're to be honest is just clickbait.

OK, fine, so that's racist too. But maybe people shouldn't be so triggered by something so innocuous?

Maybe part of what's holding back progress is the culture of easy offense and equivocation?
It's fairly common in eastern and northern Europe too. In my building there is a single heat pipe from the city, however each unit has it's own meter for cold water, hot water (for taps) and hot water (for heating). The hot water meters are different in that the first measures the water flow, and the later measures the heat flow.
An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets [pdf]
Have you seen the results when they let a trained model manage Borg? The power reductions were immediate, non-trivial, and performance stayed the same. There's your scheduling result for you.

Look at it this way. As the paper points out, a Hashtable is just a heuristic that works fairly well in the worst case and reasonably well in the average case. No one would argue that you couldn't hand-roll an algorithm that is better for a specific, narrowly defined data set. This paper is demonstrating that you don't have to do it by hand, you can train a model automatically without the expected caveats like: size (doesn't have to be huge), latency (the model trains very quickly) or specialized hardware (they used bog-standard CPUs, not GPUs or TPUs).

This is obviously just my opinion, but I think it's pretty big. It's not big because of the paper itself, although that's amazing in isolation (they improved on hashtables!). As I said above, it _points the way_. They have a throw-away sentence about co-optimizing data layout along with lookup and not showing those result. My guess is that beats a hashtable in every way. More importantly, if a model can beat bloom filters, b-trees, and hashtables, you'd better hold onto your socks because most algorithms are just waiting to fall. To me this paper is Deep Blue vs Kasparov. We all know what comes next.
Any resources you can recommend on the scheduling topic?
That's correct — but this way, you can ensure that if the email is from the real TLD, it is real. And that's a massive advantage over previous systems.

Sure, only cautious people, or tech people will take advantage, but it's better than nothing.
Respecting any right comes at a cost in human lives. We should think very carefully about which things we consider so important as to be worth elevating them to that kind of absolute.

The cost:benefit of the second amendment is way out of proportion, IMO.
I'm not saying it makes it right, but for every one of these, there are a dozen right-wing sites saying similar or worse things about minorities. Some people were assholes on the internet. Nothing to write home about.
This is just a faulty analysis to show-off "expertise" in the blockchain space by Deloitte. Measuring about of changes in a github repo has to be the worst kind of "analysis".
No, I don't think it's education. I think it's tribal, emotional attachments to groups and the group perspective.

Trying to fix it with critical thinking is difficult because it's a few steps back in the causal chain for agency. People have to want to question their news sources, but that increasingly conflicts with their need to feel part of a group when they're getting their news via gossip.
Did you watch the video? There is no way a cop should have felt threatened.
Ask HN: IS there a web app or online tool to create animations for websites?
I am looking forward to make some interactive websites. But I am not a developer/programmer/coder. Is there a web app that can let me create fluid animations? Thanks.
Black Mirror – a British science fiction anthology television series
Here's a start: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmdugan/blocklists/master/...
I was a physics student in 1987, when neutrinos were captured from a far-away supernova. I rushed into my professor's office and asked breathlessly: "Does the timing of the observations give us a limit on the mass of the neutrino?"

He calmly replied: Sorry, kid. Somebody already submitted a paper on that.
Reality appears to work in probabilities, and practically does, because the complexities of reality's mechanics are transcendent.
Great episode

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/videos/a39070/south-...
Checkout the PALISADE library. (Full disclosure - I'm one of the main people behind the library.) PALISADE is an active open-source project partially funded by DARPA, IARPA and Sloan Foundation. It has an active user community that includes academics, start-ups and large defense contractors.

A new version of PALISADE was just released yesterday. It supports the current major HE schemes (BFV/FV, BGV/BV, etc...) along with modules for different kinds of Gaussian sampling, and lattice crypto building blocks.

https://git.njit.edu/palisade/PALISADE
Calculus is useless, until it is not at which moment it turns to incredible help. You don't need to go super deep, bit basics are occasionally quite useful. More importantly, if you learn only what you strictly need right now, your work possibilities will be very limited.

Also, for some reason, I found abstract algebra related to objet oriented design - similar kind of thinking.

This is free course - they won't be in unfortunate 3000$ lock you was. (I think calculus is useful, but I don't think it is worth paying that much money.)
> Coming from a country where the police spends more time developing people skills than doing gun practice

Actually, they don't spend a lot of time doing gun practice which is a problem. Police firearms training budgets are lacking in most states. They also don't do a lot (if at all) training to deal with dogs unless their has been public outrage. A growing separation from the community they police is also a factor.

SWAT is a whole different problem. The overuse of SWAT to do the simple things like serve warrants and the whole war on drugs has been a disaster. Its isn't the populace with guns, its the lack of real training, a cover everyone's butt attitude, and a percentage of people on a power trip. Look at the incident with the nurse in Utah. No guns just CYA[1].

1) http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/health/nurse-arrested-police-p...
> the best way to avoid misunderstandings and snap reactions is to move slowly and deliberately in any confrontation.

Excellent idea. Let's train/condition 300 million people exactly how they should behave in stressful and life-threatening situations, and put at least part of the blame on them for any deviation from "acceptable" behaviour when put in an unknown situations with guns pointing at them.

It would take far too much time and effort to modify police training and expectations.

Perhaps we should cut funding for some more arts and phys-ed programs in public schools, and start funding "police/violence readiness prep" classes in K-12.
You know what? I'm glad you asked because I actually can't. Donald E. Graham is apparently not Jewish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Graham

So that was definitely a bit of embarrassing, misremembered narrative overreach on my part. The point is that a lot of what these alt right guys are doing is a kind of cultural criticism, and if they can make a case for an overarching anti-white narrative in popular media it's a pretty short hop from there to the JQ.

Particularly when there are things they can point to and say "look, this is what your beloved minorities say about you behind your back" - it's a huge recruitment tool. That's why it's rational to hope that white people do not discover The Root.
Maybe I just don't get it, but I think you will have to be more precise... For example, a video a type of animation and all you need to create one is a camera.