skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty much back to normal except for the unsettling thoughts about alternate consciousnesses in the same being. Like you say, why wouldn't different parts of the brain have a will - the limbic system certainly has sway.

Do you know if there have ever been experiments done to investigate whether alternate subconscious will can 'show itself conscious' by way of asking a person for a demonstration? Of course, this would require the subconscious to both observe the instruction and follow it, and have some method of conveying action. I tend to think that only the main consciousness would be able to execute direct actions. So I would guess the experiments would be very hard to perform without some clever setup.

It sounds almost silly but I really do wonder if the other decision making / executive functional parts of the brain have some level of understanding about their relative capacity to influence the body they reside in? Sharing a mind seems like such a silly "alien body snatchers" kind of idea. But HTM seems to hint at it.

https://discourse.numenta.org/t/oscillatory-thousand-brains-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory
That is awesome and you are able to buy a house like that, especially a brand new build (to your liking). However, I want to mention it seems you are in the right place at the right time. Your case is an outlier in my opinion and I'm happy you are taking advantage of it. Especially considering that it is in a great school zone. I just felt that this isn't normal, even for the Midwest (which is where i can only imagine you are).

That is a neat 'home warranty' thing you have though. I've never seen that before. Whenever I own a home, that sounds enticing to have.
1) How to communicate with people. Master that and the world is your oyster, minimize/ignore it and you're setting yourself up for a lifetime of subpar results and hand wringing.

2) cli tools (make/awk/sed/etc, getting just a base proficiency pays huge dividends in time savings over a career)

3) excel. Nearly all things business start and end with a spreadsheet, be able to at least stumble through one and understand the information it contains and the functions being applied.
This is what I came to find. It was so refreshing to see some charming imperfections that make the design so much more personal, feeling old school while still maintaining a modern flow to the page.
It really depends on the local price:rent multiple. In some places the price gets driven up because landlords are counting on future capital appreciation rather than cash flows from rent.

" The gross rental yield on the average London property last year stood at 3.5 per cent, according to research from Deutsche Bank. In other words, a landlord buyer at these levels, according to the bank, will typically require 200 years to pay off their mortgage after tax and interest are taken into account using only the cash flows from their property, assuming a 65 per cent loan-to-value ratio, a 35-year mortgage term and a constant rate of interest."
https://www.ft.com/content/922574d8-5cc4-11e7-b553-e2df1b0c3...

In other words - the landlords are taking a levered risk that renters are not.
As someone who works on the team that built this feature, thank you for saying this.

As for feedback, we've had 4 years of it and welcome more.
Check out the FAQ and if you have something constructive to say, leave a note on the talk page.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews#FAQ
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The compromise was identified on January 14th, and the announcement took three months? That's a pretty appalling timeline.
I have a prediction for this: Dead on arrival
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Everything implementation idea you touched on could be done without blockchains and would likely be better for it.

None of the drivers for why that doesn't happen today are technology caps. It's entirely the perceived (and real) value of data ownership and the lack of desire for universal integration not only from business leadership but also constant 'I know better' ecosystem fragmentation from developers.

Blockchains are just bad and inefficient tech right now and that deserves criticism but the endless naivety of the tech industry thinking that socioeconomic problems can be solved entirely by an implementation of a technology is just infuriating.
I'm not OP, but I also unfollowed all friends years ago. I basically use Facebook as an instant messenger, nothing more.
> zip is just as good

A major problem of zip is the "codepage hell" (it has been almost eradicated in browsers but still lives in zip archives, e-mails and non-.Net Windows programs). With 7z you just always know nobody is going to have problems decoding the names of the files inside it, whatever languages those are in, regardless to the system locale.
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Jason Hughes has done some battery teardowns. He actually powers his house with solar and an array of Model S battery packs. The guy's a bit nuts with the EE.

http://skie.net/skynet/projects/tesla/view_post/20_Pics+and+...
It is important to note, that here in Germany, wind and solar does not quite reach 100% of our energy consumption yet - I think it has done so only once on a public holiday. The more frequent overproduction comes from high wind/solar output combined with the output of power plants which can't be shout down quickly enough, that is coal/nuclear. If those would be replaced by gas plants with faster reaction times, a much higher amount of reneweable energy could be used without requiring storage.

But indeed, as the amount of renewal energy production increases, more storage is needed. Perhaps less so for wind which has a more smooth output over days, but for solar, which has a strong peak over noon and of course shuts down alltogether in the evening. Distributing the solar curve over more time of the day would be very useful.
I think it will come as RAAS or Robots As A Service. The features or enhancements will be enabled by service provider. There will be monthly fee plans based on how many functions calls are invoked on it.
Perhaps you had enabled the beta feature and when the feature went to production the setting was kept enabled? Check under Preferences>Appearance>"Reading preferences".
Cmd+F "seriously"

"We take the protection of our customers and captains’ data very seriously."
How American Racism Influenced Hitler
The US has 30 yr fixed rate mortgages which is only made possible by the presence of government sponsored entities like Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac in the market.

The very low interest rates charged for short fixes that we see in most of the world reflect current low borrowing costs for banks. American interest rates reflect forecast borrowing costs over the length of the loan. That's why they're much higher, they price in the expectation that over the 30 year loan period, base rates will revert back up to historically typical levels.
"We better get a bigger gorilla."
the biggest difference here is I cannot tell if your link is amazon or if its gonna send me to a spam site or use your referral for amazon.
This is a political problem, not technical. If my doctor were willing to store my info however I want them to, the problem is solved. And if they were willing to store it on a block chain, then presumably they'd also be willing to just put it on a thumb drive for me? Or a piece of paper? A centralized solution, centered on me.
Open the website and press Post a Job.
Ah yep sorry I did get it. There's a bug in the string in the email though:

"Hi! Welcome to TravelOffers! Starting now, you'll receive a mail every month with the best offers from London for less than 300undefined. How cool is that? ️"

Notice the "300undefined"
I started doing freelance work when I was about 24, and didn't really start my company until 26. But now that I am in my early 40s, I feel a lot more confidence and patience. But I can say that if I hadn't worked on my own business during those years, I wouldn't have the experience I have now with people, my area of expertise and business in general.

But I do wish I had had some experience working at a larger corporation though, but I feel that it would have made me complacent, and it would have been harder to justify being "poor" to build my own company. Absolutely worth it though. I hope you keep going and do well.
I think your point often gets missed in these conversations about rent vs buy.

You have two choices that masquerade as purely economic ones while ignoring the enormous lifestyle differences.

I rent a tiny room in the heart of NYC for the cost of probably a monthly mortgage payment on a nice house in upstate NY. For me there is really no alternative because my entire life revolves around my immediate walkable neighborhood.

The economics of rent vs buy matter but lifestyle and future expectations are too often downplayed in comparison.
They technically dont, but if youre an engineer like me who is working full time, having someone work for you to do all the annoying parts of buying a house for free its a no brainer. If the seller is paying why wouldnt I use one?
I don't think it's the question of technology, it's the question of economy, incentives and investment costs.

Even if the clean energy becomes cheaper hydrocarbons can have comparative advantages and when their price goes down it's creating new uses and new demand.

Even if EROI (energy return of investment) of hydrocarbons turns negative, it may be cheaper to use clean energy to extract hydrocarbons from existing sources than transfer CO2 to back to hydrocarbons.
I love these little stories, they always make me want to go out and buy a proper oscilliscope so I can start my own adventures.

I'm surprised by how simple and easy to understand the data serialisation is on some bits of hardware as in this case.
They also have only said when they figured out the breach, but not when the breach was. It could have happened a day before January 14th, or 3 months before January 14th. The difference is how much trust I would give them.

Interestingly they said the breach was done by "online criminals". Do they know, or do they automatically assume that people illegally accessing systems are criminals?
We're very transparent (I work for the Wikimedia Foundation).

You can see the specific dashboard for the Page Preview feature here (Last 6 hours):

https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/eventlogging-sche...
Rent is theft.
They're milling electrons ;-)
> Facebook chat is very popular and has remained the same since launch, I assume.

No, they added the compulsory Snapchat features (smart filters, 3D masks, I don't know how they named it: http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/facebook-... )

And it went through a few changes, that made it ... more irritating, as usual for apps that want more attention.

There's also this Secret Conversations thing: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/facebook-completely-encrypted-... ... I haven't enable it, because .. please, like it matters, our collective OPSEC is so bad, even using the term makes me cringe .. :| But usually people don't plan ahead with the intent to have successfully deniable communications, otherwise we'd use something self-hosted.
Heptio launches Gimbal, a multi-cluster Kubernetes L7 load-balancer
Apparently, once this made the rounds, other people realized that customers were willing to pay for something so rough and dirty, and so why not create such a service themselves?

This idea of getting "permission" to do things after seeing someone else do it crops up in my thoughts a lot. A lot of new fads in technology aren't necessarily that novel in any technical sense but are simply people realizing it's OK to cut a corner, "misuse" something, or otherwise take an unorthodox approach.
Denominators don't apply here. We're talking about ratios, not fractions.
Also, I recall reading that if you run undersea cables with AC, the sea water sucks out energy from them.
With AC transmission, there are a couple of small loss terms that are not present in DC transmission. To the extent that the world surrounding the lines is conductive, there is a parasitic transformer between the transmission lines and the world. The parasitic transformer is particularly bad in salt water, which is why you see so many HVDC links crossing bodies of water. Also, the capacitive reactive current in the lines adds up over many kilometers.

HVAC distribution wins hands-down for short to medium distances, or when there are many places where you need to step up/down the voltage. It will always be cheaper to step HVAC up/down in voltage at any single point relative to DC. But HVDC transmission wins over sufficiently long distances or when crossing major bodies of water.

So I don't think we'll ever see a complete overhaul of the US distribution grid using HVDC. But we might see long-distance HVDC distribution to do things like ship solar power from the desert southwest to the west coast, or ship wind power from the Atlantic to the east coast.
I think the article's point is that you don't restart script.py again and again but start it once, then modify it while it's running, and once you are happy with the final debugged version, the script.py program saved on your hard disk is that final debugged version.

You can sort of do something like this with REPLs, by copying code around between an editor window and a REPL window until you are satisfied that it's what you want. But you have to keep the REPL and the editor in sync manually. For example, if by experimenting in the REPL or debugger you find a bug that requires changes to three functions, you must either change them in the editor and copy all off the changes to the REPL to test the new program state; or you can redefined them in the REPL's less-than-ideal editor and then make sure to copy the updated versions to the real editor to save them in the source file.

I've worked with a few systems that were not REPL-based but more notebook-based, and it's very cool if the system keeps track of stuff for you. In particular, Coq and Isabelle have such environments.

(I've never worked with Jupyter, but I think I should give it a try.)
Training a Simple Linear Regression Model from Scratch
Why Russia is openly violating sanctions against North Korea
Why Business Owners Are Documenting Their Daily Lives for All the World to See
Compared to the rest, which are much more static in terms of cost, energy storage will continue to drop in cost almost as much as solar panels will over the next 10-15 years.
Amen to this. And even if an idea is unique, novel, or new, it can immediately be copied by just about anyone, so there's typically not a lot of enduring competitive advantage in just an idea.

I'm in my 40s and have started a handful of successful companies and from what I've seen at least, the miracle 20-something entrepreneur is close to a myth. Obviously there are exceptional cases, but it often takes a couple of decades of learning (and failing) to figure out how to create and grow a successful business.

Part of it is because there are many different stages of growing a business, and each one has unique challenges. You go from "we built something sellable!" to "we have paying customers!" to "we are self-sufficient!" to "we are expanding our market share!" to "we are trying not to slow our innovation!" to "we are under attack from the competition!" and so on.

A pretty solid idea + excellent execution + real business model = really good odds of success.
The Future of Software Is No Code
i hate actually writing code in Jupyter. part of it is just that my muscle memory is all emacs. but its not just the muscle memory, its all the features missing that I usually use but are common in an IDE or good editor. Does anyone know whether emacs ipython notebook is still viable?
Some restrictions pertaining to integration would help.

Being able to speak the language within your first year in a new country helps integration and lessens the us-vs-them feeling. Ideally people wouldn't mind hearing a different language, but unfortunately we're not that tolerant yet.
They're talking about generating the shorter link just by looking at the first one (e.g., in your head).

How do you get your link out of https://www.amazon.com/Red-4TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00EHBERSE... without using a tool?
Is Apple not handing over all their user data in China not an example of Apple already doing this?

I meant if they did not they have to leave China like Google chose to do. It was for a buck versus Google thought the bucks to give up their users data not worth it.
I think Google is just shedding GDPR risks where it doesn't hurt revenue.
Exactly what I did when I opened the page.
> mediawiki on the other side is horribly undesigned spaghetti code

But like my mom's spaghetti, it's my favorite. :)

Think you can make it better?
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us

I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, but this subtle snark is my own, and may not reflect the views of the Foundation.
What Snowden stories? You mean how Google's SREs were pissed[0] to find out what the NSA was doing? And that then Google started encrypting all their inter-datacenter traffic automatically[1].

As for a reddit discussion... that is such a poor indicator of use of a service. I don't see any statistics gathered there about usage by country. That is such a tiny sample set, it is basically useless. There are groups out there that gather SMS (and chat app) usage by country, but I think all those reports are paywalled.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/6/5072924/google-engineers-...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-en...
Use a canvas and render the component directly? You’re rendering a circular progress bar, that should be easily doable in microseconds if not nanoseconds. There’s no need to use the overly bloated DOM for everything.

I suggest taking a look at Android’s views or even Flutter.
They are under concerted attack by Russia, that bankrolls nationalist/anti-immigration movements to strategically weaken intra EU relations (and intra NATO). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/10... presents a decent summary.
I am hopeful the cost of entry will be greatly reduced in the near term with so many developed nations turning to renewables.

By helping ourselves, we are lowering the barrier for less developed nations.
Running an URL shortener. So effort. Wow :-)
My guess, having done some things like that at the time, is a motherboard, hard drive, and power supply strapped to a steel tray with no enclosure at all. The sides look like they may be plywood or 2x4s. Noisy and fragile, but easy to work on and dirt cheap to put together.
Pushing is different than reality though.

"Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud users"

Apple sold all their users data in China. Should that not count?
With significantly less environmental oversight and regulations. The pollution could perhaps end up crossing over to western countries at higher levels than any domestic, well-regulated, production would emit.
He did say marketing, sales and PR but your point still stands.
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Yes looking at the raw data would be interesting. My hunch is that that there are many more 20 year olds starting companies (and going for moon shots). The opportunity costs are much lower when you are younger. The success rates might be higher in the older group but the younger group just by virtue of a larger sample (and going for moon-shots) might be why you see these outliers of multi-billion dollar public companies founded by 20 somethings
Yea....you didn't read the whole article or you misread it. The author literally says what you are saying like 10 times.
As far as being an outlier, it's not that our case is just an outlier, so is our house. We had to move further out into the suburbs to get that price. It's not a bad commute.

I'm not endorsing this particular provider. It's just the first one that comes up when you Google "Home Warranty"

https://www.ahs.com/home-warranty/

Average price is around $850.

https://www.homeadvisor.com/cost/inspectors-and-appraisers/p...

When I was a landlord and owned three rental properties they were worth every penny.

Let me emphasize that buying one is statistically not a good deal and it usually makes more sense just to "self insure" and save for repairs. But it is more of a convenience thing.
* So I just randomly came to your website because I slacked off and should actually do work.

* I know that I will forget I even clicked on that link. The page has 3.5 seconds to convince me to stay longer.

* I'm mildly intrigued and form, in my head, a price I'd be willing to pay for the product.

* I scan the navbar for a pricing link to see if my expectation matches reality. I find nothing.

* The site obviously doesn't value my time, so why should I stay?

It's disrespectful.
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Yes, but in that hour you could also make something that does not exist yet which would help hundreds of people. This would arguably be worth a lot more than $5.
I would agree with this. I've been trying to start companies since I was 12 years old and now that I'm in my late 30s, I've finally hit on a success. It took a lot of tries and failures to figure it out.
Oh wow... Like my sibling commenter, I'm both horrified and... looking around the shop for spare Thinkpads :D
I left it running in a background tab and forgot about it, and suddenly my computer got REALLY slow haha.
> In most (but not all) legitimate e-mail, they will be the same.

Just to be clear, most automated emails from major providers have them different. This is because, while the From header is shown to the user, the envelope sender is sent bounces.

So companies like Google, SendGrid (used by GitHub), and MailChimp set up special "bounce handler" addresses as the envelope sender to detect if there's a problem sending you email.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_pat...
You can check data from ERCOT, SPP or MISO, and see for yourself that at least as yet, wind power in the US is not overwhelming local distribution and transmission capacity.In a lot of the Midwest, just automating the operation of water towers is enough to slurp up excess juice from wind.
Emissions continue to go up because relatively speaking renewables are still a small portion of the global energy use and the need for more energy is still rising fast (renewables or not).

I assume just the fact that companies (and consumers to a smaller degree) can install solar power and then generate "free" electricity plays a non-insignificant role in getting them to use even more electricity.

However, I don't think that's what causes most of the rise. It's all the planned obsolescence electronics we use and throw into the garbage every 2-3 years and other stuff like that. We simply need more energy to build more stuff. At least if we go 100% renewable power and electric vehicles, that will minimize the impact on the planet, even if we double our energy use over the next 50 years.

There will also be new energy efficiency technologies that will at least slow down our increase in energy use.
Forking an existing browser ins't exactly writing a new browser, it's modifying one. That process very likely limits innovation in the space.
Huh, this is something I've never had to deal with or even knew existed. But yeah that makes sense. Appreciate the response for future reference I ever need to do this. I also agree that's not much of a fee and this would be a super rare scenario.
Came here to say the same thing about Wikiwand.

I've been using it about a year now, and it has radically improved my experience reading Wikipedia.

As you point out, it's had a smoothly working link preview feature all along, as well as a beautiful, usable reading experience. Not flashy or over-designed, just clean and elegant. I get a little caught off-guard now when I see a Wikipedia page without it.