skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two financial disasters I mentioned were the US's attempt at standardized design, and it failed miserably.

The best bet for nuclear in the US seems to be to have South Korea take over entirely. But they will then have to manage a US construction force, with all those risks. I really don't see how the industry is ever going to build a new big reactor ever again in the US. That's why nuclear fans are looking towards small modular reactors, an idea that in the past was considered less economical than the big ones.

The other risk of putting all your eggs in one basket by large deploys is the same design is what's happening right now in France with the "carbon segregation" problem:

http://www.powermag.com/frances-nuclear-storm-many-power-pla...

20 plants are down, on the suspicion of a potential problem in the future. These types of problems are expected for any technology, but by having a very little variety in generation, any such small problem gets hugely amplified.

In general I have not found anybody who sees a path to building new nuclear in the US that does not simultaneously require a huge advancement in new tech. Solving the construction problem and the bad management problem is something that's swept under the rug and ignored in order to promote a favored tech.
>economists have inflated opinions of themselves

The author, Leonard E Read, is not an economist nor did he get an economics degree. He's a college dropout.[1] He was a businessman but his extracurricular activities included writing. (E.g. the essay "I, Pencil").

We might call him a "social commentator".

[1] https://fee.org/articles/leonard-read-the-founder-and-builde...
That's not worse than doing any purchase at all.

If anything ATMs are the safest and best option available, well, aside from malicious hardware modifications done to them.

Having access to my bank account with all the history is another thing entirely.
Source, please? I was unaware of this sentiment.
She's currently in hiding after Elsevier won an injunction. There's one company I'll be very happy to see the last of.
> But I think this is what people want: Developers can control and fork the code at will.

The only reason the blockchain was invented is to avoid having a centralized authority.
Though an iOS user myself, I was on board with the logic of your comment until this point:

> … or rebuild every 7 days on iOS.

By tossing in a flippant remark, you undermine the legitimacy of the other arguments. I don’t think a reasonable person would conclude that you actually believe the above statement to be true. This type of rhetoric, in which reality is knowingly distorted to make a point, may be less effective than you consider it to be.
Korn Shell has trap as well.
FUD. Insufficient liquidity on some exchange might cause the price to fluctuate briefly, of course. But it quickly corrected back to $1.
Thank you.

even worse because of the compounding frustration and lack of understanding for why coupled with the feeling of not having eaten a proper, hunger satiating meal.

In the case of the current prison population, it is even worse than that because they are simply assumed to be violent, maladjusted etc and no one at all wonders if their health impacts it, even in cases where they have a diagnosis of being HIV positive or having TB. When a middle class person is having a health crisis and acts out, the odds are good that people will cut them some slack and hope they feel better soon. When a prisoner does so, hey, he is just a criminal with no redeeming value and we should lock him up and throw away the key.
> Aaron had some political aspirations, and a felony conviction would've precluded him from running for certain offices. Maybe that, combined with his internal issues, may have made him feel like less of a person. I don't know.

If you don't know then don't speculate.
You are probably a cunt
i had no idea he was your brother. sorry for your loss.
There is no hot reloading in the toolchain, but the compiler is very fast. I am not sure what you mean by xcode plugin, this is a js application, Reason is syntax for ocaml using bucklescript backend.
He did not die for a good reason.
All the years e-ink displays have been available in consumer products and we're still only talking about 5 bit greyscale?

I gave up my Kindle as soon as 5 inch displays were available. I thought the market would have made more progress by now.
People are decapitated, because they're the direct object of "decapitation" – the verb describing the removal of the head from the body.

I disagree that "we mostly consider the head when talking about people". We might mostly consider the face when talking about identity, but what specifically we consider in a person is context-dependent.

Also, "decorporation" would indeed suggest the removal of the body – but from what? "Decapitation" makes sense because the head is a part of the body. "Decorporation" would require the body to be removed from a larger whole, if it's to follow the same latinate prefix pattern.
I would argue that someone probably deserves to be fired for this. It's obviously not the guy that pushed the button nor the guy that wrote the software. However, there was, probably, a guy that several years ago didn't do his job well - his job was to make sure that this kind of errors cannot happen, unless there is an intentional malicious action of course.

We see it all the time in IT - people totally misjudge the 'risk'. 1% risk of breakdown quite often seems acceptable to decision makers until it actually happens. Then all hell breaks loose.
Tether gets criticized for having no released third party audits that they actually hold the hundreds of millions of dollars that is backing their token. They say they have frequent audits on their website, their transparency update that they called the Friedman audit, in the same paragraph states that it does not constitute as an audit[0].

In the same “audit”, Friedman stated they did not evaluate if tether owned those accounts, had access to the funds, if those funds represented anything else besides the backing of tether[1].

[0]https://tether.to/announcement-transparency-update/

[1]https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Final-Tether-Co...
Just install busybox.exe from https://frippery.org/busybox/ to some directory in your %PATH% or in C\: and run 'busybox sh'.
I think Joel misinterprets what happened in the first place:

It turns out that using ML to optimize for immediate engagement has two unintended side-effects: 1) it produces junkier content, 2) it decreases long-term retention. For obvious reasons, building a model to optimize for the long-term engagement is way harder and takes way more time.

While in the long run new model is more profitable (due to increased retention life-long engagement goes up), it decreases immediate engagement metrics. When this happens, major accounts start to call in and ask why now they are getting less for their dollar, thus this preemptive explanation by Mr Zuckerberg.
It's possible they lost the source code and literally can't. They've done it before:

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curl may not have the greatest CLI, but it's a huge step up from doing the equivalent tasks with powershell.

not to mention this brings windows closer and closer to nix. windows making itself more familiar to nix increases the number of ops folks that are willing to transition from nix shops to windows, increasing windows share in the server market

plus, as others have pointed out, curl handles protocols besides http.
> http://www.madisoncountyema.com/nwss.pdf

That is classic cold war stuff. Before you even get to the foreward by Edward Teller you get a preface stressing (among other things) that low doses of radiation are "healthful."
Putting the button behind glass.
I don't know which part you think is a shtick. If you genuinely believe that millions of people are all wrong about how they feel and that you are right, I think it's likely that there are elements of their experience that aren't yet visible to you, i.e., that you haven't yet fully explored their perspective. This skill of perspective taking is also known as cognitive empathy.

I have no doubt that some are wrong about how they feel, and that would have been an interesting discussion. If I've been misunderstanding this whole time, I'm sorry. Best wishes.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mother-of-s...
I'm sure it's written somewhere, tucked away, that keeping prisoners, captives or other types of incarcerated criminals and POW's on a bare minimum diet (2000 calories maybe?) sets a certain sort of tone to either get a desired effect out of those locked away or make them vulnerable to questioning if not reduced to only having enough energy for one short burst of energy in the event of a physical altercation.

Of course this has to be against all sorts of laws and conventions so I doubt it's publicly traded knowledge but the whole idea reminds me of the grey area psychologists and interrogation specialists tend to talk about when topics like water boarding and other torture / effective interrogation methods are questioned.
People forget that in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where no one ducked and covered, there were long-term survivors 200-300m from ground zero simply by virtue of where they were located when the bomb went off. A protective posture is at least somewhat effective much closer to ground zero than I think people realize, especially if you have a bit of warning.
Once while perusing our main codebase I came across the following: "Please only use this for testing. Please."

It's been there for years.
This is both a native (as in binary) and js application. It compiles down to binary and uses OpenGL for native targets and WebGL for the web
Pizza cost as much as it in US but people earn 1/10th of US income. So in India unless you are in top 1% of economic pyramid even a chain pizza has high aspirational value. Think of it as <1% people in India earn more than $25K per year. And 25K in salaries are at places where $200K apartment is normal thing.
>Headless fragments regenerated from familiarized worms displayed slightly shorter feeding latency compared with headless fragments from unfamiliarized worms ... However, the effect was not statistically significant.

So, no. But they do better with the refresher course than other worms if I understand correctly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16138106
Of course they will make more money from this change:

It turns out that using ML to optimize for immediate engagement has two unintended side-effects: 1) it produces junkier content, 2) it decreases long-term retention. For obvious reasons, building a model to optimize for the long-term engagement is way harder and takes way more time.

While in the long run new model is more profitable (due to increased retention life-long engagement goes up), it decreases immediate engagement metrics. When this happens, major accounts start to call in and ask why now they are getting less for their dollar, thus this preemptive explanation by Mr Zuckerberg.

Then, when the dust settles and prices adjust, increased retention will compound and profits will go up.
Tbaggery – Effortless Ctags with Git
My guess is that: after eight dimensions in a [cross]linked neural network, it becomes very difficult to draw conclusive distinction between the operation of synapse in the observed brain and simulated synapse. I shall have to catch up on the domain reading before providing you with a thorough answer on "how did we arrive at 8?"

Edit: Go to 6:01 in the video. There's a graph.
Nuclear War Survival Skills [pdf] (1987)
You might be working 24hrs a day, but most people don't and they can take that time out of the rest of the day just like for taking a bath, chores etc.
So the body grows a head back. Does also the head grow a body back, resulting in two worms?

I know totally nothing about these worms, but my armchair guess now is that the brain in the head is a visual center for those eyes, and the nerves in the body have the memory.

I hope they'll figure it out! And that they'll be able to map individual neurons like the 302 neurons of a Caenorhabditis elegans. And finally that they'll be able to simulate those neurons in software
Yes, at least it was the thing when I was in college or working there.
In the boring fusty old world of law, where the past lives but still somehow operates pretty well, there are two concepts that render this tractable.

The first is process serving. To start a lawsuit you need to be able to identify and notify the other party (except in very special circumstances). If you transact with anonymous counterparties, you won't get much help from the courts.

The second is a nexus. Basically, it's something the court has the authority to reach out and grab. It might be property, a passport, a right, money, accounts, whatever. So long as the court can make an order and someone, somewhere will enforce it, there's a nexus. Without a nexus a court's order is just warm paper. Wave it all you like, the other guy won't feel any heat.

If you don't have a nexus -- if trust and authority is totally distributed, relying on code you hope is the first bug-free code you've ever written in your life -- then it's pretty hard to go from starting a dispute to receiving compensation or enforcing retribution.

Distributing trust sounds really cool, but it turns out that the unit economics suck. There are economies of scale involved for both malicious actors and those who want to punish them. In the current ecosystem, the adversaries are few and their interests highly concentrated. The defenders are many, widely dispersed and poorly able to coordinate their efforts. This is the sort of situation centralised trust is much better at sorting out.

I am of course not a lawyer and nothing here is not legal advice.
Thank you for the links, this was really eye opening for me.
>They just don't want to have to support WINE users //

Couldn't they just respond to support requests with "we don't support non-MS users" rather than actively preventing the use.
Why would you as a founder want any kind of accountability? Maybe you can raise more funding that way. In the current environment that's not really the case, but things have to change eventually.
Very impressive. Please note this was done with magnetic resonance imaging.

A more invasive approach was this: "Reconstruction of Natural Scenes from Ensemble Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus" (1999).

- http://www.jneurosci.org/content/19/18/8036

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http://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/19/18/8036/F2.large....

What is a bit concerning are the applications, e.g: forcibly extracting thoughts from non-collaborating people.
This is actually a problem that will fix itself in time. Soon the customer won't be able to run your quickly shipped product because his computer is not powerful enough to run more than 5 electron apps. If we take a browser, a text editor, and chat software as a given, only two more electron apps will be able to compete for the customer's remaining resources.
Are PowerPC and ARM real alternatives? Most server software is developed for x86 only, if you only offer ARM and PowerPC machines, who will be your clients?
If web developers would be so kind as to consider my compute resources as scarce that would tremendously please me. This sort of thinking is important, you just need to be selective about when and where you apply it.
I see what you did there ;-)
Decentralized trustless systems are always going to be less efficient than centralized ones.
I've been to jail, and it is worse than in Africa
Thanks for all the wonderful, insightful replies! I’m pretty sure I had never reached ten top-level replies. Cheers!
> Would it really have been so terrible to leave the old directory alone and call the new one "Program Files (x64)"?

"Program files" is localized so it's not even "Program files" in all languages. Installers that looked to that folder were doing it wrong anyway and wouldn't work on non-English machines.
This is an unsubstantiated claim, see the comment above that referenced NIH studies discussing a genetic link between diabetes w.r.t. a subset of Indians.
Has nothing to do with N64. It's just basic software renderer and a .obj/.bmp loader. I made one of these when I was 12 after reading "The black art of 3d game programming" which was designed for dos games.
As I explained here, they will make more money from this change:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16142137
The point is that cloud computing costs are small compared to labor costs, so it's a waste of time to make a 0.005% cost optimization that takes a week of work.

I would also love to see some examples of a 2G (!) library that people are casually importing. Where have you had this problem?
This looks like a great example of insecurity through security.

Given that Apple is not trustworthy and you need to be able to change and/or inspect a device to have a chance at security, this is a solid strike for a human-thought-free insecure world.
Just a clarification, there were not dozens of cities of refuge, only six on each side of the river (well, more after the return of the messiah), and they only applied to people who had been found guilty of accidental homicide (what we’d call manslaughter) and not murder. That ruling had to come from a Jewish “court” and the killer had to be outside of the extended family unit. The killers were not protected by city leaders, but by tradition and scripture, until the death of the high priest, after which they were free to leave unmolested.

Of course travel in those days, especially fleeing for your life, was hardly easy. Complicating matters for the killer, was the Go’El Haddam, “The Redeemer of Blood” who’s duty it was to kill you unless you were in a city of refuge.

Mind you, indefinite banishment would have been a slow death sentence for the average Sumerian or Cannanite Joe. Being cut off from friends, family, community and the ability to travel beyond the city is rough, but as you say, not jail. Remember though, that all of this is discussion of a form of religiously mandated execution.

Curse your parents? Dead.

Break the sabbath? Dead.

Plant the wrong crops? Dead.

Prisons came about because socieites started to offer something other than the need to flee, or die. Initially prisons were just pee-trial holding areas, but as more people lived together, that changed. As the expectation of s fair trial spread, jails which could safely hold people for more than the few days between their apprehension and execution became necessary.

Anyone who by violence causes a death must be put to death. If, however, he has not planned to do it but it comes from God by his hand, he can take refuge in a place which I shall appoint for you. But should any person dare to kill another with deliberate planning, you will take that person even from my altar to be put to death.. Exodus 21:12-13

http://www.agapebiblestudy.com/Joshua/Joshua_Lesson_9.htm

https://gradebuddy.com/doc/2330783/the-release-of-homicides-...
> I'd daresay that most interconnection with external systems in the modern mobile environment is primarily used for social media, tracking and other privacy suckage. (Ghostery output can be quite surprising, for example.)

The web has become a very frequent path for machine-to-machine communications through APIs, besides other, more direct pathways for internet traffic on ports other than 80/443.
>However, the effect was not statistically significant. //

AKA - there's no effect as far as we can tell without further experiment.

Correction: the paper (http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2013/06/27/jeb.08780...) is talking about the worms before re-familiarisation. They claim significance for previously "trained" worms being faster at picking up the training post decap+regen.
My desktop PC is Skylake with all fairly high end, popular brand parts that people use in gaming rigs specifically made for running Windows and I have to keep a folder around with about 20-25 things (drivers, chipset drivers, nic drivers, yadda yadda) everytime I boot.

Reinstalled a few months ago and forgot to install Samsung Magician for my NVME drives and so they were capped at something like half their speed.

I don't expect Microsoft to keep up with every vendors drivers but it'd be really nice if they let them tie into Windows update/device manager to tell you "Hey, swozey, I see hardwareID XYXYASUhF12 is running a generic driver, do you want to update to your vendor proprietary driver?"

Maybe they do have that and hardware manufacturers just don't utilize it.

After dealing with that 3-5 times over the last year (migrating to NVMEs, realizing I couldn't encrypt mine, migrating back, yadda yadda) I finally made a Veeam restore ISO which hopefully next time I do this will handle all of it. But I feel like it shouldn't take that to get my system up and running from a fresh install.
The potential consequence of being unfairly persecuted is that you can completely separate your perception of yourself and anyone else's.

The individuals that did this to Aaron are the ones suffering from a mental condition. The transitory struggles of life and emotions are universal and fundamental to living. Systems that embolden constructs like federal prosecutors are what is systemically flawed. Not the individual.

Carl Jung said something interesting about the importance of the ego:

"It was only after the illness that I understood how important it is to affirm one’s own destiny.

In this way we forge an ego that does not break down when incomprehensible things happen; an ego that endures, that endures the truth, and that is capable of coping with the world and with fate...

Nothing is disturbed – neither inwardly nor outwardly, for one’s own continuity has withstood the current of life and of time.”
Caloric restriction
In a non-startup world (established business), imagine if you went to the boss and said "If you give me 3 or 4 weeks for optimization I believe I can cut our Azure bill by 15%, year over year". You'd get his attention pretty quickly.
At which point the customer blames Microsoft for making Windows too slow. The chain of events between your app and their computer’s speed is sufficiently nebulous in the mind of your customers that it’s impact on your success will objectively be zero. I get that you hate Electron apps, and I understand why, but the reality is Slack and VS Code and others have been wildly successful. You might not use them, but millions of others do, and they were fast and cheap to develop.
Are you kidding me? 50% of the seats at IITs and every other government institution - including civil services - are reserved for people whose parents were also eligible for these reservations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India
What is up with this cunt?
I enjoyed this Partially Derivative podcast where two of the podcasters discuss their experience with imposter syndrome

http://partiallyderivative.com/podcast/2017/03/06/badasses-f...