skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the end, half of everything you pay for anything is labor. 100B / 100,000 jobs = 1M / job. Sounds about right to me! Remember that they will need to manufacture the panels, transport the panels, prepare the sites, build the structures, maintain the system, build power lines, maintain power lines, sell the power ... that's a lot of jobs that have to be done!
Adding certification to the mix won't fix the faulty process at all though.
But in that case it reads like a report from 100+ years from now.
From my experience, it is pretty much down to how much you're willing to pay.

When I was younger and worked in lower quality places, a lot would be purchased through a supplier (although very rare to see premade items purchased), where as now (I work at a fine dining establishment), the current head chef indeed goes to the farmers market once a month - he will go through their produce, and select which items he will want for that months menu (note we get deliveries daily, and check each for quality - anything subpar gets returned and if happens more than once we will find a different supplier).

The same goes for our meats and seafood.

As for those places that order in bulk, optomised for shelf life. They do not deserve to be called restaurants, they are just a fast food joint with a different name.

(Source: 17 years as a chef).
Freescale/NXP i.MX can too. The Novena has no soldered storage at all.
Good catch on the wording, thanks for pointing it out.

To clarify, the past success part of the future colony on Mars is in the groundwork he has already laid with Tesla/Solar City, SpaceX, Boring Company -- all necessary technology for a proper foundation of a colony.
You're correct, IBM is more of a monopoly in the mainframe market now than ever before.

As far as I know, no one else makes mainframe hardware anymore aside from storage racks you can use with an IBM mainframe.
Are you speaking more generally, or about urban centers specifically (which tend to be more regulated anyway)?

The citation you provided doesn't assert anything about cost per sqft of living space; it's mostly focused on the feel and vibe of NYC post-regulation.

And I'm willing to put money on the fact that these particular regulations are no match to the outsized demand for housing in more regulated municipalities.
Einride’s autonomous trucks will be Nvidia-powered, and ship this fall
We have four Internet providers in my area, yet they still pull this crap (better prices only for new customers). We've actually switched in the past just for this reason.
That is, unless you happen to be named Null. Which is a surprisingly common surname.
I went to buy a BBQ brush last year and all they had were metal bristle brushes. I was surprised given all the bad publicity about this. Needless to say, I didn't buy a brush that day. Any recommendations for a good non-metal brush?
> Just because doing it in C is worse doesn't mean the way its done in C++ isn't bad.

Maybe... I hesitate to call it "bad" unless there's a clearly better solution to the problem.
Selling scrap to close allies?
This book is amazing and totally blew my mind. I also suggest the follow-up, 1493.
Think Facebook knows a lot about you? Google is WORSE
Well yeah. It's a territory next to India, which is short on water, has a huge population and the atomic bomb. So it was always about who would get it first without getting busted.
A look at ideas for the future of computing from 1999
Strictly speaking we don't, but we have reasons to believe that on a galactic scale it doesn't. There was that famous example a few years back where we had observed two galaxies hitting each other, and it "looked" like the regular ol' matter (eg, interstellar gas clouds) in each galaxy had "hit" each other and stopped while the dark matter in each had passed through the other galaxy unimpeded.

Which would seem to indicate that either dark matter is sparse and heavy (and just doesn't hit things very often) or diffuse and not-very-interacting with other matter.
I wonder if the poster has considered the cost in carbon of their use of a computer and the internet to visit Hacker News to criticise other people's commute?

One would think that a more green practice would be to offset carbon use instead of using carbon to complain.
I also had no idea it existed. I can imagine that someone had the idea that having an "instagram-like" feed of product content that was tightly tied to an e-commerce platform that allows you to purchase those products was a good idea. But it doesn't seem like they are executing it in a way to get adoption...
Gotta love the "winding down" expression.

Did the employees went to "greener pastures"?
Hopefully this can actually decrease overhead. Go's garbage collector has some short STW pauses that require stopping the world. It you have one thread misbehaving by running a tight loop right now, the rest of the threads will sit there spinning until that one thread reaches a preemption point. With explicit preemption, that period would be much shorter.
CGP grey has a great video based on that book: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/americapox , there is also a follow up on the related subject of animal domestication https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmjnioNulo
Wouldn't higher temperatures and lower humidity due to water vapor extraction lead to an increase the evaporation from the oceans to maintain the balance?

Not saying that wouldn't have other effects, just wondering if atmospheric water is really a zero sum game.

Based on this [0], it looks like the weather systems head out over the pacific after passing China, so should have ample time to refuel?

[0] http://wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com/2012/02/jet-stream...
“Starving children”, or the fallacy of relative privation
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_(demographics)
Potato chipsets?
Very similar story in the Boston Globe on the same day. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/27/years-into-war-c...
I thought it was a hosted offering of Apache Spark which has been around for years. Odd to choose a name like that.
We found the best approach that worked for us is to instead animate the values in the state tree directly, using declarative tween objects that are applied to the state tree on every requestAnimationFrame, instead of trying to mess with the React render process. Declarative animations are hard to do right, but this approach has worked well for us so far with https://github.com/Monadical-SAS/redux-time
In 1Password 7 for Mac we generate a key pair in the secure enclave. Then use that key pair to encrypt the Master Password and then save it to the Apple Keychain. All decryption of the Master Password goes through the Secure Enclave.

The key pair is generated in, and never leaves, the Secure Enclave. It's how this feature was designed by Apple.

Kyle

AgileBits
If you own Ripple, you should hopefully already be aware of how much of it Ripple owns.
I thought London had banned Uber? Did that end up getting repealed?

There are competitors to Uber in London [2], myTaxi seems to be the one that lets you hail London Cabs via an app. And apparently they're offering 33% discount over Easter [1]. (Never used them and I'm usually an Uber fan, but it seems myTaxi could be an alternative to try.)

[1] https://uk.mytaxi.com/EasterDiscount

[2] https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/uber/142333-best-taxi-...
I see the mention of memory consumption being lower, any idea on compute load for ES models vs reinforcement learning?
> If they had, they wouldn't systematically resort to baseless appeals to authority, whose only purpose is to intentionally avoid having to present any semblant of an intelligent reason.

This is pretty much what I was talking about. It assumes the worst about someone before hearing them out.

It’s a pretty unreasonable assumption to count every reference to Alan Kay’s quote about OOP as a “baseless appeal to authority”.

Perhaps the person has given a lot of deep thought about the matter, and have reached some reasonable conclusions. If you dismiss the person, you’re just cheating yourself of an opportunity to learn and engage in intelligent conversation. And blindly insulting the person.
And I quite understand the sentiment, I'm not arguing that unions are great, I'm arguing that increase in educational spending shouldn't be seen as somehow funding unions.
"Facebook is insistent on seeing its failures as harming individuals, never society as a whole. Facebook has been asking the wrong question consistently for more than a decade..."

Upton Sinclair: "It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it."
Neither cigarettes nor alcohol are particularly expensive, if you take out the taxes.
> It's a weird development and I wonder what the long term effects of this attitude will be.

Optimistically, middlemen or automated tools that ease the pain of changing in hard-to-enter markets. In easier-to-enter markets, the emergence of companies respecting simple pricing (we've already seen some of this). Simplicity will win in the long run, again, unless it's a market that can keep competitors out.
I use something like this: https://www.napoleongrills.com/accessories/accessory-details...

Not as effective, but safe.
Decoupling Drupal 8 Core: Core REST, HAL, and Drupal as a Web Services Provider
What exactly is being burned to produce silver iodide?
> This kind of date formatting is really confusing to me

You, me, and most of the world outside the USA. Check out the map here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Based on Guns, Germs and Steel, Europeans had so many terrible diseases because of the close proximity to animals that carried the ancestors of those diseases: pigs, cows, sheep, chickens and because they spread those diseases around much easier due to the geography. Native American (hemisphere) didn't have the animals to do the same thing (just some native turkies and ground mammals I think).

If the first Native American ship had shown up in Europe and then gone home, the exact same diseases would have done the exact same thing.
Snap Cuts About 100 Employees
I spent time in the US, a lot of places in europe, and asia.

You can't compare the situation in China/India and the Europe.

And you certainly can't compare the US and germany. They have the cleanest, most eco-friendly culture I have seen Europe, or the US.

They recycle everything. They have very strict laws on cars. Dropping anything on the floor is regarded as completely uncivil.

No matter if they don't succeed perfectly in their energy transition right now, they are trying hard, and seem to will to continue until they do it.

Hard problem do not get solve easily.

On the other hand, the US backed down on most political commitment to the planet.
Go code is not shared-state safe in the way that, say, Python generators are. And with the -race compile flag, it does a pretty good job of detecting violations so you can fix them.

So I think Go code should be unaffected by this change.
I have now requested to delete the profile and entered the 14 day waiting period so I'm not really minded to reactivate it just to investigate this, sorry!

Thanks again for getting in touch.
I just never clean my grill... problem solved.
Well, the word will come to mind for those of us who use words correctly, rather than twisting them because we feel superior to the people at one establishment or another.

a business establishment where meals or refreshments may be purchased

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restaurant

My impression of the food service industry is that you have big companies like MCD that control their own supply chains, really expensive places where the chef goes to market every morning, and 95 percent of everything else where they serve whatever arrives on the Sysco truck. There's no need to get uptight--it's all just calories with a 1000 percent markup.
The smelted aluminium goes to the market, recyclable aluminium from scrap is recovered and fed into grid scale aluminium air batteries (still in development) and you have got a closed loop of generation and storage.
Just one centered image of a coffee mug. The coffee mug has a goofy child's face only a mother could love.

In all CAPS below the picture, centered on the coffee mug it reads:

YOU ARE MY MOM

BECAUSE I AM YOUR SON

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
emacs is a modern developer tool. Its most recent version is just about to be released. It supports all major and several minor OSes. It's used by modern developers (e.g. the folks at Jane Street …).

And, unlike some of its competitors, it's free and easily user-extensible.
UFO in Arizona? Airline Pilots Report UFO Sighting, FAA Alerts American Airlines
January Windows 7 Meltdown Patch Introduced a Critically Deeper Vulnerability
Snap is laying off 100 employees mostly in advertising and sales
I agree with you. But I also don't think it's terrible to have macro isolates that are chemical-grade. Everyone wants pure water but we never think about purifying foods, only processing them which is a crude process. And I put the wrong link for the vaccine study. It is actually:
http://medcraveonline.com/IJVV/IJVV-04-00072.php
The Santa Fe Institute[0] has some courses, tutorials, and publications[1] mainly, it seems, around complexity science. Complexity science isn't the same as systems theory/science, but most (all?) systems are complex so systems thinking usually necessitates some grasp of complexity. It's probably a good place to start.

They also have short courses on information theory, differential equations, and such.

[0] https://www.santafe.edu/
[1] https://www.santafe.edu/research/results/books
Freaky. Are iron wool scrapers safe? Or do the fibers affect you too?
I'm pretty sure all that flavour during BBQ is from benzene an aromatic hydrocarbon.
No, I’m citing chronology as evidence of non-causation. (A happened before the thing OP asserted caused A to happen.)
Sure, but that's a somewhat self-selecting group of units -- ones that the renters let fall behind and get auctioned off.
Design and Prototype Development Process. Ins and Outs to Know About
My Aging Parent Just Isn’t Ready to Move
That's my point exactly. It's an international audience but it's also an informal social environment where we can't expect everybody to be cognizant of that fact at every moment and make adjustments for it.

As such, you shouldn't be too strict about what you feel is the "logical" way of doing things.

Anyway, according to alexa, the great majority of HN readers are from the US - https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com
You’re the fourth person on a tech site ...

It's not really a tech tool though, and probably isn't marketed to tech people. It's a 6 month old Pinterest-but-for-shopping type of mash up. It's not really out of line for the developer crowd to not know it (or to have read the press release back in July and promptly forget it).

Plus I think there was an article on here a week or two ago about how hard it is to compete with Pinterest...
He’s doing “reductiō ad absurdum”, which is not the same thing.
Yeah, well, good thing we have OpenBazaar so that people like you won't be able to keep me from exercising my freedom to use a real manly brush to do a real manly job. I'm sure that really offends you, but I'm no snowflake. I can make my own bristle material decisions for my self and on behalf of everyone I cook for./s
In 1950 the average home was 1,000 square feet and housed 3-4 people. Today the average home is 2,500 square feet and houses 2-3 people. Meanwhile, average apartment size is on the decline.

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-has-the-average-size-of-american...

https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/us-average-apart...
Facebook, more than machinery we need humanity
> My impression of the food service industry is ...

Once more: this is a very American view.
We ban accounts that attack other users like this. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Awesome, glad you like it!
> What's the point of continuing to deploy something that, by all (unclassified) accounts, seems to have no real utility?

I think the point is that it is better than nothing and may well make a difference. It's not totally useless, like those fake bomb detectors which were being discussed a couple of years ago.
It was archeology.
It’s not _exactly_ the same as how the Lytro worked, but you can achieve a small degree of fixing focus in post with the data captured on any of Canon’s newish “Dual Pixel AF” sensors that are increasingly found in their DSLRs. The technique is not a million miles away from what lytro did, in that there are effectively two photosites at each pixel measuring the light hitting it at slightly different angles, which is what gives the ability to fix minor focus issues in Canon’s own RAW processor. The feature isn’t supported that widely in third party RAW converters yet though.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/photographylife.com/what-is-dua...
Show HN: Coinlib – A New Cryptocurrency Tracking and Portfolio Site
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You should never have loyalty to a company, only to an individual (even then you have to be a bit careful; CEOs of public companies for instance, have responsibilities to share-holders which take precedence to their personal opinions and desires).
The average American is much better off now than four decades ago
Even the Chinese government called Mars One to be a scam [1], and advised their citizens to avoid the organization.

So when you've got China calling you out to be a fraud, then you must definitely be doing something wrong, in order for them to bother issuing a public statement like that.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/24/chinese_papers_bran...
A galaxy lacking dark matter
How to Quickly Drop Seconds from a Site’s Load Time
That's how procurement, and especially military procurement, works in most countries which have some degree of corruption. Or at least: when there isn't any good oversight by the stakeholders. Seems like the procurement of Patriot missiles was driven more by a need to "buy from the USA" than as an actual credible way to thwart actual threats. Which is incredibly surprising EVEN after knowing how this works because presumably the Houthis are using Iranian/Iran-derivatives of missile systems and Iran is supposed to be the primary geo-political rival to the Sauds. (Makes me wonder what else won't really work in an actual war).

Let me say that I'm a pacifist 100%; diplomacy comes first and all that but war is really where you can't lie and all your bad decisions are right there in your face and fuck you up completely if you didn't think hard enough through these things. This particular incident reminds me of when the Pakistanis procured the latest F-6 aircrafts from the US but were unable to use them effectively in a war against India (1971) because their pilots were not sufficiently trained in how to handle the advanced aircraft systems.... oops.
New ways to trade data
> Trump tea leave reading community

Typo or clever pun?
Optimist or pessimist?

You can focus on the failures and call the system useless, or you can focus on the successes and be thankful that occasionally the system works. It's better than nothing, so might as well try.
Is anonymity only related to identity, and which parties are involved in a transaction?

Could there be a way to leave identity and parties involved anonymous, yet track count and/or value of transactions without knowing what they were?

If this were possible, some weighting could be assigned to reviews based on count and/or value of transactions, to somewhat combat a review bomber willing to pay for many small transactions. In a sense it would raise the cost of a fake review campaign.

I bet if you gave users the option to have only count and value of their transactions public, in exchange for some sort of “trusted reviewer” status badge, that a significant number would opt in to it, because people like to earn badges and points for reasons more motivating that we intuitively think.

edit: better yet, allow opt in to have your transaction count and value incrementee on a per transaction basis, so you could earn reputation power or not depending on the marketplace or persons dealt with.

side note: I think the “free sub” episode on Seinfeld may have been the first reference to gamification mechanics on television.
Is there a trade-off between safety and usefulness?

Chainsaws, C compilers, C-4 ...

Certain industries would be crippled without these tools. Safety training helps.
You need to ask questions that let them show off their full understanding of a system. People without organization skills will focus on one area and not explain the whole.

My favorite is to have someone explain to me what happens when a browser makes a HTTP request to a web URL, which has <insert framework and DB here>. Network guys will tell you all about the request and response, web developers will focus on the front end, devOps will tell you how all the pieces communicate, etc. My expectation is for someone to at least be able to give a high level of all those things, while also having detailed knowledge of some specific areas... and seeing how they choose to answer such an open-ended question tells you quite a bit about where their focus and attention lies.
Reinforcement learning using gradient descent, for instance, requires backpropgation and thus much higher memory loads, as each parameter gets updated via the chain rule. ES does not require gradient descent and so each individual agent has much lower memory consumption during training than a deep Q-learning agent would.

You may end up using more memory in ES, but only because you can parallelize with as many processes as your system can handle.
Funny enough, when Mars One launched I happened to be at a conference that was sharing a venue with another conference on Mars planetology. It was great because of all the conversations it allowed us to start. However, I think about half the scientists I talked to agreed with my assessment that it was either a 2012-era social media pipe dream (e.g. Kony) or a scam.
Nvidia to Unleash Deep Learning in Hyperscale Datacenters – Nvidia Blog
Check out this recent Ask HN:

Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508965

It has 177 comments and some good meaty answers.
Online supermarkets in the UK as well. Your first order, you get £10 off, and a free gift. They encourage you to buy the same products again for 'usability' but hugely increase the prices on everything.
It's usually the opposite. More affluent people usually pay less for the same goods and services. If they didn't they would cease to be more affluent.
It's great given to where we are right now on a technological level, but until we get decent artificial muscles, all biomemetic robots will look like a spastic person having uncontrolled convulsions.
Along with Meadows' Thinking in Systems I read Mitchell's Complexity: A Guided Tour, which is just that - a reasonably superficial tour over many examples. It's a very good starting point since it's got a long bibliography.
Neither serpix nor acroback answered again here, so it was someone else who responded.
That would never work. five != 13
Or you could just clean it with old wooden utensils that are on their way out, or slice an onion in half and push it up and down the grill with a wooden spoon.