skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Because you can doesn't mean you should." -common sense.

But then again, since 2017, anything that can happen will.
Like so:

http://vision.princeton.edu/projects/2016/SSCNet/

There's similar work at (at least) Berkeley and Stanford.
Nothing is free. WordPress is also a blogging platform first and foremost.
said in all sincerity.

I would urge you to spend a little more time looking into nuclear you would be quite surprised of how wrong your view of it is.

New reactors can use used uranium which makes the problem even smaller. On top of that, the actual footprint needed to store it is absurdly small if we even had to do that.

In other words Nuclear is the safest greenest form of energy we have (greener than wind or solar etc)

Here is a good primer on some of the myths you probably believe in.

But don't take my word or even the artcles word for it. Investigate and I am pretty sure you will soon see that your belief about nuclear is misguided.

https://thoughtscapism.com/2017/11/04/nuclear-waste-ideas-vs...
Yeah but in practice today they are far from sustainable, and have done significant environmental damage due to their ridiculous energy consumption.
It's not a "loop hole" if its a purposeful design. Countries make the deliberate decision to tax individuals instead of corporations because its easier (and related decisions like taxing capital gains at lower rates). Even countries like Sweden focus taxation on the middle class, with lower corporate taxes and a much less progressive tax structure than the U.S., because it's easier. It's a deliberate fiscal policy.
This comment is factually wrong (as pointed out by other responses) and evinces sadly vile sentiments.

The US corporate tax rate had grown until 2017 to be much higher than it is in Western European countries (and remains relatively high). If you, like many anti-Republicans, think that Sweden is an interesting model -- please note that Swedish corporate taxes are much lower than in the US. [1]

As for the notion that profits, or their increase, are "obscene" -- this is the essence of the anti-capitalist mentality.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/how-scandinavian-countries-pay-the...
Google Accused of Showing ‘Total Contempt’ for Android Users’ Privacy
I don't prep, FWIW, though I often think I ought to at least on some minimal "survive for a few weeks" level. I think I will finally look into that.

> obsessed

Do the smoke detectors and fire extinguisher(s) in your house mean you're "obsessed" with your house burning down?

There are degrees of prepping.

You could set yourself up to survive at least a few weeks "off the grid" with a few hundred bucks' worth of nonperishable food and water and shelter. That wouldn't get you through total societal collapse or a war, but it would get you through a lot of Hurricane Katrina-style disaster situations where help, in some form, is on the way but the food supply is disrupted. That's not obsession by any measure.

After that, yeah, things ramp up pretty quickly. If you're trying to survive a governmental collapse you need a pretty massive stash of food in order to survive months or years and if things go longer than that you'll need to start producing your own food at some point because AFAIK even MREs don't last forever.

Whether or not long-term doomsday survival is a realistic option or not, that's up for debate.

Being self-sufficient like a settler in the American West from the 1850s is absolutely not enough, not by a longshot, because if things collapse tomorrow in America there are going to be 350,000,000 million desperate people and some of them will be hostile... not exactly something they dealt with in Little House on the Prarie. A person would either need to stay completely hidden with a few years' worth of food stores, become a refugee, or.... I guess, band together with others in some sort of natural or man-made fortress. The latter option's a bit laughable unless you're truly dedicated to becoming a regional warlord with the biggest fortress/army in the region. (Good luck with that)
It’s a dark forest problem. If one group has nothing, but peaceful intentions, then the group with other intentions can just crush them out of existence. It takes tolerate each other, otherwise you’re just talking about abject surrender. I can’t think of too many countries that would be satisfied with a life and let live pattern of behavior, and certsinly not China.

Co-existence requires the “co” not a unilateral decision.
So called "Mutterkuh-Haltung", where the calves are kept with the mother, is increasingly popular. This occasionally causes problems, as hiking paths often intersect grazing ranges, and cows will defend their calves aggressively from perceived threats.
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Once we compile Chromium to webassembly, we can run Qt in Chromium in Chromium in Slack!
You're way undercounting the effects of growth. It's 342k/year saved at 8% growth: http://www.angio.net/finance/calc.html

(See the one for regular contribution required for target).

8% before inflation is reasonable historically for 25 years.

You still need a 400k+ salary to do it, but that's not out of reach in the Bay area, particularly for a couple.
Replying from Turkey, and oh boy, I can't even load the Wikipedia website.
Thing is, RSS needs to change to become more user friendly. Yes it's really easy to understand, but it's a hell of a lot easier for someone to type "fa"<enter> in their browser to get their 'currated' news than some specialised app.
The same as everyone, I. e. a protein-coding segment of DNA?
Gnus in Emacs :)
Not Ethereum, but using HyperLedger fabric:

"Last year, Yiannas asked his team to trace a package of sliced mangoes back to their source. He says it took them six days, 18 hours, and 26 minutes. After Walmart used the software developed with IBM to track mangoes from a farm in Mexico to U.S. stores over a 30-day period, the same exercise took a mere 2.2 seconds."

https://newfoodeconomy.org/blockchain-food-traceability-walm...

If you don't think immutable distributed ledgers won't help improve food safety, among thousands of other use cases, you probably haven't been paying attention to the current E. Coli outbreak in the US where the FDA has no idea where the contaminated food is coming from:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
Employed to what end is a question you seem to not be asking at all

Continue piling onto the stash already very wealthy people have is primarily all this economic activity is accomplishing now as they crater retirements, cut healthcare or inflate prices out of the reach of the majority (which globally ~80% lives on ~2.50/day.)

What’s the point of 40-50+ hrs a week for me now if some whithered old geezer can change a law and flush the effort down the drain

How about meet basic utilitarian needs of food and healthcare, common ones of all humans, in the domain of the government

And what we spend on time on otherwise is up to us. Let’s all punch a clock to make earrings and baubles to support the ephemeral economy? Why does one need to be compelled to make consumer garbage? Oh cause stock prices or we can’t anger a small portion of the population: rich people

They have no divine right to wealth you know?

It’s self eating shitshow of stupid ideas that reinforce stupid ideas.

Steve Jobs is right: none of the rich are any smarter or more capable than your avg college grad. They just got lucky sooner
Have you tried Newsblur? Its training feature is very powerful to trim down large feeds to only the topics you are interested into.
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On the one hand, I find it funny that people are using bloated electron to avoid writing Qt code, and now you can write Qt code even on the web!

On the other hand, if you already do have a Qt application, then you can maybe get a webapp for almost free?
Java is also demonstratably not pass-by-value (for objects). It is a false dichotomy to prove it is one by proving it is not the other.
Yet the US lingers at the bottom of the OECD in terms of key criteria like healthcare, education, poverty, mobility. [1]

The bulk of OECD have far stronger social indicators and spends. Perhaps a tax cut before achieving higher ranks on key criteria is misplaced.

[1] http://www.sgi-network.org/docs/studies/SGI11_Social_Justice...
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> that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs.

Worse than that is Chrome's way of animating tabs long after you close the tab. You close your tab, go back to what you're doing, and then the tab row animates to slide into a new position after an unnecessary pause. It's extremely distracting, because my brain sees the motion and interrupts my new task, thinking that there might be something happening in a different part of the screen that I should investigate.

It's a serious problem with UI animation in general that keeps getting worse.
> ... but to share the simple fact of going somewhere with our networks and getting validated by them. I think that's the bigger issue here.

This isn't a new phenomenon. We see this in the form of companies branding strategy. The more you see the brand on the people you respect, the more likely you are to buy it.

A couple of examples.

1. Michael Jordan and Nike. Air Jordan's became the shoe to own in the 1980's.

2. Apple gear. Apple chooses their gear to be instantly recognizable. If you buy a mac book pro, say, you are extending their brand, unless you hide the apple logo somehow.

You also see this with brands like Abercrombie and Fitch, American Eagle, Hollister, and RVCA, where they sell clothing with the brand front and center on it.

So in 2018, the game is being played on Instagram and Facebook instead of college campuses and high schools in the 1980's.
But this is hardly unbiased. You effectively are choosing to feign cultural superiority by co-opting a native-voice that shares your criticism. Rather than sharing a non-biased perspective, your hiding your voice behind a native face. This isn't sincerity in debate, it's cowardice clothed in tolerance.
Complete opposite - A centralised system requires you to trust the single party operating it, but that's super transparent. Either you trust it or you don't, but it's clear what you're getting yourself into.

Meanwhile, blockchain networks advocate a functional network that doesn't require trust - it's kind of predicated on the fact that you _can't_ trust anyone. But if a single party obtains 51% power, you have to trust them anyway. If you're going to require trust, you may as well just do away with the whole complicated setup and be explicit about it.
Firearms alone do not a civilization make.

If you are investing some portion of your income/wealth to individualistic self-preservation in the event of societal breakdown, one should, from a purely rational perspective invest in the prevention of such a breakdown, which means the social safety net, democracy, community engagement, etc.

To not do so is, in fact, a bet against civilization, which is, in my humble opinion, literally barbaric.
I learned/was taught technical analysis and charting and so have always been used to making trades the manual way. I've looked into automating this a couple of times but as I read more into each automated solution I come across I end up finding issues that people have turned up through their own testing. It seems a lot of these bots don't quite yet have the AI smarts we are hoping for to allow for full automation. I guess if they really did work we'd all be using them.
I found a while back and gave it a whirl. I thought it was awesome. I am happy to see you have continued to put time into it. Thanks!

I'm trying to centralize the 2-3 todo/misc apps I use daily by using a bujo/bullet journal. The other day, I was telling my bujo using coworker that I was going to commit to using your app if I didn't dig the bujo.

Thanks again for making meditations. I think the UX flows well for habit tracking.
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My essay on this exact topic: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
No it's not because you never know what other data is quietly hidden somewhere else in that monstrous opaque file. MS Word used to silently include deleted text to help it save/open files faster! You really need to look at all the bytes in the file to be sure, which means export to CSV, or I suppose unzip the XLSX file and hope there's no binary data. The same goes for metadata in images, and any other complicated opaque file format. It's automatically potentially full of things you don't know about unless you're an expert on that particular format and software, which no government Excel user is.
Academic papers are written in a difficult to read style. It's more than being precise, the use of jargon, and latex at work. It's a deliberate process of puffing up the difficulty of the work by making it hard for someone else to understand. Part of this is the nature of scientists - they are not educators, nor do they worry about teaching others (ironic given the roles of professors in universities).

A well written paper takes a sympathetic view of the reader and helps guide them to understanding. This is not how academics are taught how to write. It's like a form of handed-down abuse.
> You and your wife chose to have five children, and chose for her to work as a childcare provider, which we know is a low-paid gig.

They didn't choose to have their saving set back by however long because their child got sick.
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>You are lying.

No, I'm not. Do the calculations yourself.

https://www.calcxml.com/calculators/trump-tax-reform-calcula...

I get that it's hard to believe at first how insane this new bill is. I was in absolute disbelief when I first did the numbers.

A single person earning $100,000, claiming the standard deduction, will have a total federal tax liability of $15,410 for 2018, or an effective rate of 15.4%.
What I found interesting about this talk is that Ng is very explicit about the fact that companies like Baidu launched products simply to collect data with the intention of monetizing the data (through AI). I know this is obviously the case, but I've never heard it stated so explicitly from someone in his position of influence.

He also mentions that ad targeting is probably the most profitable application of AI
I am a finance professional, and I will give you a tip. The same tip a few different ways.

Businesses go insolvent because they run out of cash, not because of profits and losses. It is perfectly possible to make a loss for years if you have the cash. It is perfectly possible to run out of cash at a profitable business.

Learn the basics of forecasting your cash flows, and outsource your accounting.

Burn-rate and runway are short-hand terms for chatting with VC's, but are no substitute for understanding your cash flows.

Cash is king, cash is the lifeblood of a business. The finest Financial Controllers specialize in optimizing cash-flows.

A cash-flow forecast is a great way to view your business, model expansion plans and work out your funding requirements.

One last time learn about cash flows. Depreciation, amortization, taxation etc are for accountants.
Do you believe that people hold accurate beliefs about the gender and race distribution of bike thieves?
If fake videos become ubiquitous, people will not believe videos any more.

Only complete idiots will riot over the content of a video. (The little problem there being that we have complete idiots.)

There is one main problem with videos losing their credibility due to faking: namely that videos are a good weapon for documenting some nasty shit done by bad people.
Platforms corrupt; absolute platforms corrupt absolutely
Tencent Music gets ready for IPO; valuation could cross $25B
This is great actually! Thanks a lot for implementing a quick preview feature, perfect for reading an article in one sitting without getting distrcted with side tabs.
> Facebook and Twitter are, by comparison, cancer.

How are FB and Twitter comparable to RSS? And how are they trying to kill it? Like they're not supporting it on their platform? If so, why should I care? Or do you mean "they're conspiring to kill it across the Internet", in which case please elaborate.

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted; I can only assume people are interpreting my comment as vouching for FB/Twitter, which couldn't be further from the truth. I can be (and am) confused by his wording without supporting big social media companies. :)
This is Morrowind, not Skyrim. Stealth archers are not a thing here. In fact I'd say magic-based characters are much, much better than combat or stealth-based ones.
Wow glad I have great internet the footage was great/visual is more direct.

Those turbines appeared to have an upward inclination, curious why that is. Also interesting that the trailing edge near the hub isn't as sharp as the tips probably due to slowest rotation.

Good stuff, those things are seriously massive.

I also like that giant wall monitor with all the 'stats'?
See, this is what I get for procrastinating.

I've been asked by a customer to port my recent Qt app to iOS. Got the equipment, was about to get the development environment set up, got XCode installed....and now this.

This is pretty exciting if it all works as expected.

EDIT: aaaaaaand after trying some of the demos at https://github.com/msorvig/qt-webassembly-examples using a brand new iPad (iOS11/A10 Fusion core) using Safari, half the examples run out of memory, and the other half aren't touch enabled. Hmm.

EDIT2: Firefox iOS, same set of crashes.
There already is an open standard: XMPP
> if Apple doesn't include it as a standard for their mobile phones it's not going to get anybody anywhere unless all carriers seem to care to implement it at all.

It's a GSMA spec, and according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMA) the GSMA like 800 operators as members so pretty good chance this is going to get implemented (apparently Sprint already has?).

Sounds like this is a carrier lead charge, most likely in response to folks ditching SMS for more flexible/featured alternatives.
Except the last tax holiday on corporations resulted in them reinvesting almost all of it into stock buy backs and dividends.

The myth that lowering taxes on corporations results in economic growth needs to die.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/business/worldbusiness/24...

"A 2007 academic study by Roy Clemons, then a graduate student at Texas A&M University, that was based on earlier data, found that the tax break did not stimulate investment in the United States economy and that repatriated money was often used for disallowed purposes, like stock repurchases."

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40178.pdf

"While empirical evidence
is clear that this provision resulted in a significant increase in repatriated earnings, empirical
evidence is unable to show a corresponding increase in domestic investment or employment"
Perhaps you should read the paper in detail before arguing. Eq. 7 makes it pretty obvious there's no discriminator.
Yeah, we need a new way of monetizing content on the Internet.
Google counts them differently. When I worked there a few years ago, it was 65k FTE, and 65k TVCs (Temps, Vendors, Contractors). TVCs included the shuttle drivers, janitorial staff, etc. but also included some part time / temp "typical FTE roles" like UX researchers.

My guess is that this 85k is just FTE
> The main causes of lead poisoning back in the day were all from inhalation

In addition to those mechanisms, I think another popular one is cigarette smoking. If you were handling lead, it could get absorbed into the cigarette and inhaled that way.
Doesn't testing this on unemployed people only quite silly. I mean the answer to the question "would poor people benefit from more money?" is quite obvious. The real question is whether people who already are employed would stop working had they received "free" money. I'm so disappointed in this glaring hole in the methodology!
The obvious solution here seems to be to configure your feed to only provide excerpts? Like the most common default is anyway...
This brings up some very interesting question:

What exactly are human rights? Who gets to define them?

The current view of human rights and individual self-determinism is very recent and generally very local to the US, Canada, and Western Europe. For much of history, and indeed much of the world geographically, where you were born, who your parents are, and whether you were born as male or female pretty much determined the role you had in life. Your goal in life was to perform your role that you had been assigned in the great cosmic order to the best of your ability. China had that with Legalism and Confucianism. India had that with Dharma. Europe had that in the past with the Divine Rights of Kings.

Right now, it seems to me that there is no real consensus on the underpinnings of human rights other than "the UN decided this was a human right". It worked in the past, because the UN was thoroughly dominated by the West. The US, Britain, and France are 3/5 of the permanent security council members even though they are around 5% of world population. If you really put these human rights up to a vote of the entire world population, I wonder how many would pass a majority vote? Remember, everyone would be voting across China, India, the Midwest of the US, the Middle East, South Asia, etc. My guess is that these liberal values are embraced most heavily by elite westerners. Now that their influence is waning, my fear is that right now may be the high point of these values, and going forward, we will revert back to a society and culture where where, to whom, and what a person is born as will play a far larger role in shaping identity and role.
TL;DR - We respect all cultures and viewpoints, except all those which we judge wrong and sexist.

Disagree. Your values are universal, or they're not. Are you saying you're better because you subject yourself to values you consider superior, and yet don't expect others to do the same, because they won't be able, or they won't comprehend?
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> Or maybe I’m just the only one

not just you - I didn't have a name for it, but my brain pretty much does free-association in that phase. On more than one occasion I've jolted awake because I've had a earth-shattering revelation, only to realise my idea was already invented (hot air balloon) or pretty ridiculous (like having your toaster burn the day's agenda on your toast).

I can't help but wonder: how many multi-million dollar ideas have I had and then promptly forgot as I got into deeper sleep?
The claim that energy usage peaks after sunset comes from the diagram[0] in the OP's link[1].

In the diagram, you can see that solar power peaked at around 3pm on the graphed day, then declined to near-zero by 6pm. Meanwhile, the total load rose steadily throughout the day, peaking at about 9pm before declining.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duck_Curve_CA-ISO_2016-10...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
My experience with the view on modern liberals is that many of them try to be accepting of other cultures but are intolerant of views that they think are hurting other people. Many people who aren't liberal themselves don't seem to realize that the tolerance is generally conditional. I would argue that this view is a good one overall but it leads to a lot of issues because what is harmful or not harmful can be unclear and neither people inside a culture nor people outside a culture can generally see it clearly.
Really, if it' only for poor people it's not basic income anymore, it's welfare.
You are falling into the same trap described by @chiefalchemsit. Saying normal people should have common sense only makes matters worse