skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your premise is refuted by the fact that China is the primary customer of Middle Eastern oil today

No, it's not, because the US concern outside of a major war, again, isn't who buys it but pumping and pricing policy.

If we were in a major war with China now and that was true, it would suggest that the policy had been unsuccessful in achieving a key goal, but even then wouldn't refute that that had been the policy goal.

> And when it comes to enemies, neither Iran nor Russia have need of external oil supplies.

Perhaps (though maintain any kind of optempo in a major war requires more than just adequate supplies for peacetime consumption, even after the inevitable rationing of non-militart use) but even so they do have an interest in having supplies denied to an external enemy like, say, the US. Which motivates a desire to influence other exporters.
Matrix has a big community of people with a lot of active rooms to chat in, and beyond that it has bridges to other networks like IRC, Gitter, and Slack. See voyager.t2bot.io for a graph of a whole lot of public Matrix rooms (created by a crawler bot).
The "Pax Americana".

That term isn't right, since there are a few other countries involved, but it brings to mind the right associations.
I'm not sure what your definition of best programmer is, but to create your own language in order to solve a problem is an extreme measure in my opinion, very rarely justified.

I like code that says "does this, then that, then that etc" (as opposed to Eg. the misuse of the concept of abstraction in Java development). Easy to read, naturally follows into a better mental model of whats going on, which is especially important if you are reading code from somebody else. This is not a test of intelligence, as some programmers may be inclined to think. Its about using what solves the problem - easily, even if it is "this then that" style.

I don't want to come into work and fight to de-tangle the inner minds of a crazed developer. I'd rather come in, and use my brain to add value. (Reading simple clean code, and using my brain to add to it).

Goodness. If we had to learn a language just to be able to consume a fellow engineers mental model, we would all be in trouble.
Pinker is much more nefarious (and you can know that by going to his talks, as I have, where he's more loose-tongued than in his books). He places such emphasis on the fact that the world is getting better as a rebuttal to "complainers" and political activists. The problem is not with his premise but with his conclusion. The world has been getting better (to the extent that it has) because people complain and are dissatisfied, and because they take political action to make the world better. The world has not been getting better on its own; people have made it better through political struggle.
I thought it was broadly understood that personas were just for slide decks.
Check voyager.t2bot.io for a big list of different public Matrix rooms. There are lots of active rooms, as well as bridges to the biggest IRC networks, Slack, Gitter, Discord, and more.
I think the fact that liberal democracies don't go to war was the main reason - at least amongst western democracies. And even among non liberal democracies (eg China and Russia) as long as there is enough wealth and quality of lifestyle at risk amongst the ruling elite, there's not going to be much appetite for war.
Canada Govt. (with Accenture) to pilot new blockchain digital id for travellers
IANAL, but I have been following this case for nearly all of it, and I've learned a lot in the process.

Summary judgment can happen when there are facts in dispute. It means that, even if you give the other side their claimed facts, they still don't have a valid case, and therefore the whole thing should be thrown out now, before we even bother trying to figure out what the real facts are.
A better comparison might be a C++ library like Eigen that is intended for use on these small systems, that should optimize out function calls in a similar way, and that uses intrinsics.
From the source document https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4340162/Xcel-Soli...

"Pricing is provided in $/kW-mo terms for those generation types that can be viewed as dispatchable and likely to provide high levels of generation capacity credit. Pricing is provided in $/MWh terms for those generation types or
resources that are non-dispatchable or that include a storage component with a non-dispatchable base generation resource."

They're paying for whatever wind and solar can provide but require fossil fuel plants to produce what actually need.
The fact the small print relieves them of any contractual obligation to ever redeem USDT for anything doesn't mean they don't claim - almost certainly fraudulently - in the middle of their home page that "Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency held in our reserves. So 1 USD₮ is always equivalent to 1 USD"
UK to fine companies up to £17M for cybersecurity lapses
The world isn't short of homicidal maniacs. All that is needed is a perverse ideological motivation and a single person could, theoretically, cause unprecedented harm.
That is just digging your head in the sand.
If everyone starts using adblockers, ads will no longer be blockable (say, just a dumb image).

Accept it or not, ad revenue is how the internet runs at today's scale.
If you can highlight a plant that is not a "tax farm" I would be interested to read about it.

"we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit." --Warren Buffet

This illustrates the reality of every "renewable" facility I've heard of to date. If the business case has changed just now, that's great and I look forward to the future. But most of what I've seen has been very silly industry propaganda.
Funniest headline of the day award...
> that's not saving the world?

Not even close. The world's GDP -- which is closely correlated with energy consumption -- is growing at >3%/year. So a one-time 9% savings buys you three years. That's not insignificant, but it doesn't qualify as "saving the world" in my book.

> I'll take a few percent here and there wherever we can get it.

So will I. But I don't think it serves any constructive purpose to exaggerate the extent of the benefit.
New York Attorney General to Investigate Firm (Devumi) That Sells Fake Followers
Spectre v2 affects AMD less drastically than it does with Intel, because of the architectural differences between Zen and Intel's processors.
Nothing prevents anybody from selling solar power. Lots of solar farms are live and many more are being built.

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

(note how the biggest ones are all new)
In my case I wash outer garments once per month (button down shirts, pants, etc). But I wash under garments weekly: white t-shirts, underwear, long underwear (esp in winter). They protect my outer clothes so get washed more frequently. I hang up my button-downs immediately when I get home. I don't like having to wash and iron a shirt every week, which does not get dirty anyway. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who does this but I would imagine they did huge batches of clothes back then that got dirtier more often, to save time, and didn't really wash their "Sunday best" as frequently.
If you think tax subsidies have anything to do with EROI (i.e. EROEI) you are very confused. This is calculated on the basis of Wh/Wh. Simple dimensional analysis shows that $ doesn't show up at all in the calculation.

Of course tax subsidies are useful to bootstrap on a $ cost basis, but with current costs and rate of falling costs even that will soon become unnecessary (let's get rid of fossil fuel subsidies to make this "real world data" comparison fair though).
Iowa House committee approves ban on traffic cameras
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Command-Query Separation in Elixir
SOC 2 compliance for startups
Your quote says "traditional currency", but now you are claiming that it is dollars and euros. That's not what they said. Maybe they mean gold coins.

As an aside, I decided to google "traditional currency" and found that Google has absolutely no clue how to do searches any more.

https://imgur.com/a/3I5Ok

https://www.google.com/search?q=traditional+currency
> they would be going up without tax subsidies.

They don't even build Walmarts without tax subsidies these days.
> The idea that property sits empty, while prices and rents continue to increase, definitely indicates that something is wrong.

Does it? People still have to pay taxes on that property, there will still be a mortgage that has to be paid, that means there will be fewer people living there, which in some ways makes it better for everyone else who lives there. Of course, it is in some ways an "artificial" restriction of supply.

However I question how many of these places actually sit "empty". I can't imagine owning property, not living there, and not renting it out. Of course rentals offer their own hurdles, but there are plenty of property management companies out there that would do it for a fee. Seems like a totally missed opportunity cost to me that would be economically foolish. It wouldn't be the first time a wealthy person has done something economically foolish, but it could be the last for that person.

>It’s not unreasonable to think that the free market has failed in this case, and that perhaps preventing speculation through regulation might be an effective approach.

Ultimately with speculation, people are taking a risk by buying the property, while it may be a hip and cool place today, will it be that way in 10 years? Will there be more housing built that will undercut any kind of appreciation you might be accumulating. Real estate has historically been a pretty good investment, however it isn't like it has never seen a downturn.
That is incorrect. It just depends on Windows how you call the Win32 API and what parameters you specify. Many options there - in the end it's just an object in the NT kernel space.
Yes, the price in USDT terms will rise as everyone holding USDT sells it and buys something else to transfer to another exchange. But that's only in USDT terms, not in USD terms. So let's say the BFX price doubles as people come to this realization. You pay $20k BTCUSDT and send to an exchange where it's still trading $10k (or rather, you just start marking it in BTCUSD terms). That's an instant 50% loss. And that's assuming that BTCUSD doesn't sell off as people get spooked.
MinwWin was an early stage in the development of what became OneCore, which is the foundation for Xbox, Windows Mobile, Hololens, UWP, etc., today.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/information-tec...
LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware
The author covers that. (More details and argument for why he thinks that is in his book)

https://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-ab...

The explanation for the decline of violence in the second half of the 20th century is obvious: The bomb.
The theory of the Nuclear Peace is evaluated in chapter 5, pp. 268–278. I think it’s unlikely. World War II proved that conventional warfare was already unthinkably destructive, so the superpowers were already deterred plenty from provoking a third world war. Also, since the destructive power of nuclear weapons is so disproportionate to any strategic goal, its threat is for all practical purposes a bluff, which is why so many non-nuclear powers have defied nuclear ones since 1945. Finally, the Nuclear Peace theory can’t explain why non-nuclear powers have avoided war, too—why Canada and Spain, for example, never escalated their dispute over flatfish to a shooting war.
Why the Dell rumors might have substance
Does this include wear and tear and replacement costs on the battery storage cells?
Please post other suggested resources - especially for SaaS type companies and valley based resources.
There's been a number of suspicious reporter deaths with vehicles malfunctions, possibly due to hack (https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=suspicious%20rep...).

The most recent high profile one being Michael Hastings(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...)

Could be paranoid nonsense. But white hat researchers have demonstrated a disturbing number of attack vectors that could be used for this sort of thing.
One place where voice might prove very useful is to get a generation of illiterate people onto the internet. This article by WSJ talks about uneducated porters in India who rely on voice to search, including a job ad app that can be used by voice: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-end-of-typing-the-internets...
Twin Galaxies' Dragster Dispute Concludes with Banning of Todd Rogers
A note about one of the comments there related to Aspirin, namely, this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16102328

There's an alternative solution for the stomach lining issue:

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

Which reminds me, this testicle study seems to fail to distinguish Dex(tro)ibuprofen from Levoibuprofen. That seems rather disappointing, as we've known about the difference between the two for quite a while.

This continued ignorance of medical science when it comes to (stereo)isomers never ceases to amaze me. I mean... You'd think they'd have learned their lessons by now.

(Then again, we also still fail to employ multi-compartment models of pharmacology in the vast majority of studies. And... ugh. I'll avoid ranting on how shitty medical science seems to me and just leave it at this.)

[btw., if you wonder why you can't get your hands on Dexibuprofen in the US:

"Open committee discussion. The committees will discuss new drug application (NDA) 20–373, S+ Ibuprofen (dexibuprofen, Sterling Winthrop/ Bayer) 200-milligram caplet, indicated for the temporary relief of minor aches and pains associated with the common cold, headache, toothache, muscular aches, back ache, menstrual cramps, minor pain of arthritis, and for the temporary reduction of fever for OTC status." From the Federal Register, from 1996. It never got approved, and one can't even find the application on the FDA page, thus one can't find out more about why it never made it to market!]
I guess that is phrased incorrectly, and should read ”if this kernel wasn't compiled with a compiler that supports the retpoline mitigations”, as checking whether I have one, even if limited to the boot device, wouldn’t be fast, and quite convoluted to do from the kernel.
Only if you have a phone AFAIK.
Thanks for sharing! FYI you may find resnet18 or (better still) densenet a good option for that dataset - you shouldn't need so many training images then.
I never said I agree with what Apple does. In fact, I strongly disapprove of the decision to drop the headphone jack from new iPhones, and it further alienates me from their platform.
I recognize that premise about 3 being an optimal radix from https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/10...
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Can you review this [1] and ELI5 why solar seems to work in China, but the Sun doesn't shine enough to make the economics work in the west according to your research?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China
The Snickers people have spent billions to help you answer that questions for at least 40 years. Snickers satisfies.

The very words chosen to ask the question speak to the effectiveness of that campaign.
The trick is that the ER is financially incentivized to treat as many people as possible. How many businesses do you know of that regularly turn away customers to competitors with cheaper solutions?
I've heard that there was a sign at Oak Ridge National Labs congratulating them that their work had kept the peace for decades.

My first thought was that they ought to have a monument to the Rosenbergs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg), if that is the approach they're taking.
Not one. At least not privacy-preserving. It may be an opportunity for European companies to take over in some narrow segments but that would be due to ordinary protectionism.

The GDPR is not really a law in the conventional sense. It's better understood as a political maneuver. I've been researching it lately as it may affect the company I work for (which has a presence in the EU, well UK, but EU for now).

First problem - the GDPR is so vague that it's impossible to know what it really says, what it bans and what it allows. With just months to go before enforcement begins there are still 50/50 splits amongst legal professionals about basic things like how it affects backup strategies. For instance if someone invokes their "right to be forgotten", do you have to restore and rewrite all backup tapes? Or can you filter out their data at restore time? If not then what if you start getting a constant stream of forget-me requests - do your backups have to be now constantly rewritten and if so, are they still really backups? What about if someone emails you from Europe. You now hold their "personal data", so what if they ask you to delete it? Do you have to erase not just their email but any email that quotes or forwards that email? If so, how exactly can you do that given that no email software supports such a feature? What if you're hosting email and someone emails one of your users, then demands to be forgotten - do you erase their email right out of your users inbox? These are just a few obvious questions of hundreds.

Second problem - the new regulator being set up does not issue binding decisions except in case of cross-border disputes. If you want clarification you're meant to ask local data protection agencies, or the new regulator, but the answers you get back might be wrong, or too vague to be useful, and there's nothing you can do.

Third problem - the potential fines are so vast they could instantly bankrupt most companies. So not only is there a law you can't ever be sure you're in compliance with, because it's so badly written, but if the EU decides you are in violation, that can be the end of your firm.

The cynic in me looks at this terrible low quality law and frankly doesn't see a law at all. He sees a political project - namely a clever way to sidestep the EU treaty's ban on the EU levying a corporation tax. With increasing euroscepticism across the continent the chance of the EU being given direct tax raising powers is now very low, but the EU is stuffed with true believers who want to turn it into a new country ("Europe") that replaces the existing countries. To become the new de-facto government of Europe the EU must be able to fund itself and not rely on member states or their pesky votes .... being able to fund itself by "fining" i.e. taxing foreign tech firms for endless violations of a law they cannot ever hope to understand is an ideal way to do this.
That article you link to is based on the Ferroni and Hopkirk 2016 paper, but that has been discredited somewhat, I believe.

The paper below revised the EROI figure from 0.8 to around 8.0.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...
Further info from NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre):

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/introduction-nis-directive

Detailed response to public consultation - [PDF]

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Neal Conan covered this in an episode of Truth, Politics and Power [1]. Can't say I completely agree with everything discussed but it's definitely a good listen. Both authors are on the episode and, as usual, Neal does a great job of giving them plenty of time to discuss their book and get their points across.

[1] https://truthpoliticsandpower.org/897-2-2-2-2-3-2-2/
FCC Chairman Opposes Government Takeover of 5G Wireless Build-Out
I found this fastener free laser cut case maker last week:
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Yes, but...this is the case just for the first-order cost basis.
The supply of raw battery materials (e.g. Cobalt) is limited in price and quantity. If we don't invent new battery technologies, we don't have sufficient accessible supply of raw resources.

I also wonder how mid term artificial manipulations to the market of these components (i.e. China subsidizing solar cells, America adding tariffs) will keep us on a general decline in solar power costs.
Yes, I've provided a step by step walk-through here: http://forums.fast.ai/t/howto-installation-on-windows/10439

This includes setup of fastai, pytorch, cuda90, cudnn, opencv, bcolz, and much more!
If that is true (costs include just 4-10 hours) then the cost comparisons are absurdly misleading.

The reality is that the grid needs to work when there is no sun or wind for days or even weeks.
Still, a robot that would remove the remaining hassle of dealing with clothing would be fantastic!
I've really enjoyed using zyn in lmms. New UI looks pretty cool
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Note this:

"On the employer side, the lower cap favored larger firms with greater experience navigating the bureaucracy of the visa program and with in-house legal teams that could handle the paperwork...

... Smaller firms simply could not afford to spend money applying for visas when they were not sure whether they would obtain one."
> I repeat: if it worked the plants would be profitable and they would be going up without tax subsidies

Right, so on that basis these bids below the grid rate indicate that they now work?
Somehow, sometimes, this happens
> Torture was recently brought back in the leading liberal democracy of the world.

Isn't this cherry-picking data? I don't see how the extent of torture could be said to be a valid measure of progress unless happening on a massive scale. Besides, on a global scale, I would not be too wrong in saying that torture has declined. During the investigation of 1993 Bombay blasts, the police didn't balk at interrogating and torturing even the suspect's relatives[1] who didn't have any role in the act. The probability of this happening again has certainly declined.

Picking a narrow trend doesn't refute the global one that the world is getting better in every aspect.

[1]: http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-convict-s-journal-alle...
I was part of a layoff once. At first I was kind of in shock. As soon as I started walking out the building I actually felt happy and excited. I saw it as a new opportunity and beginning of a new adventure. I have no idea where I might end up. It's made me open my eyes and mind to moving to other cities, learning technologies I'm not familiar with, applying for and considering other positions and the types of companies I'm willing to work for and meet new people.

Look at it as an opportunity. A new adventure and be open minded. That's what I have done and am actually feeling much happier. Find something you want to do and no longer are miserable every day doing.

The only part I do not like is the interview process that many companies have developed for software engineers. It can be extremely stressful and frustrating, but I guess you have to play the game.
I literally posted a bls link where they discussed how bimodal at least a couple of those types jobs are. Did you bother to ctrl+F "bimodal" in that link? Furthermore upon a quick glance at your source, nothing in your source seems to discuss any of the jobs I had mentioned. Were you hoping your gut feeling was evidence enough?
Zen is not anywhere quite as vulnerable to Spectre v2 as Intel's CPUs are, due to architectural differences, according to AMD, so that's something.
> I know, but I meant how NAT with IPv4 was deployed by ISP (at least in europe), which is a single IP with all inbound connection blocked.

The single IP does not prevent inbound connections. The stateful packetfilter does. This has nothing to do with NAT.

Also, NAT is not usually done by the ISP, but by the customer's router.