skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're fair questions.

1, Realpolitk) Because our democracy gives states power outsized to their population through the Senate, and because there are several purple states along the coal belt.

Consequently, their voters (many of whom are miners or employed because of downstream mine revenue) possess to the political power to force people to listen to them.

2, Moral) In 2014, per capita income for the region was $37k, or about 80% of US. Poverty was 19.7% vs 15.6% for the US [1]. From personal experience, there are still places that feel like 1950. (Also, per capita, the area has been and is disproportionately over-represented in our armed forces)

3, Economically Practical) As others noted, there isn't exactly a humming engine of economic diversity in the region. Heavy industry and mining is vastly overrepresented, which generally means if "the plant" closes the town dies.

4, Cultural) From music to speech to food, there's a distinct culture there. So moving "elsewhere" isn't just a geographic change, but more akin to uprooting thousands of people from New Orleans and dropping them in other cities.

As another commenter suggested, "Why not just move people away?"

Honestly, I'd be fine with this, if it were done humanely.

But screwing people isn't going to win votes (or feel particularly morally righteous). And short of that, we aren't going to get the environmental change we need.

Hell, we could have probably transitioned the entire region off coal for a fraction of the budget we spent on the Iraq War.

[1] https://fahe.org/appalachian-poverty/
I'm surprised they don't pack up and head to Midland Texas where they can't hand out high paying contract jobs fast enough.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/looking-for-a-job-these-ci...
You had ONE job, Facebook!
Unikernels can be difficult to debug. All the tools that come with your operating system are missing.

A big chunk of managing distributed systems at scale is trying to figure out what's wrong with them when they don't behave. Most operators will gladly trade some performance overhead for access to a suite of tools they're accustomed too.
> It promises a secure memory handling enabled by its principle of zero-cost abstraction.

I thought memory safety comes from enforcing proper memory usage through ownership rules (borrow checker), not through zero cost abstraction, which simply indicates that high level language features are translated into efficient system level code.
Come on... Using Python doesn't mean you can't have a sense of humor, too!
If someone builds a really easy way to slap a django app/rails app/node app "into" a unikernel, and an easy way to deploy that with perf gains over VM/Docker, you might get some ears.

I think the hardest part is like you say, docker "works well enough" and the pressure isn't on to deliver the unikernel solution.
News flash: science can be boring. Chill out.
I doubt they're going to use fans if they are pumping the air out of the thing.
Sure, familiarity matters. But I believe in the rational reasons that brought me back to this tool over and over, until I built familiarity indeed :)
I posted an overbloated discussion on it on Reddit, feel free to read as little as you need ;)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8p1o8d/r_p...
I use them to bookmark something I want to evaluate for use later and don't really use them for any other reason.
https://github.com/ryanml/Github-Game-of-Life

Something fun I did with the contribution graph a couple of years ago. Lets you play Conway's Game of Life (sort of) with the graph. More crowded contribution graphs make for slightly less interesting generations. You can enable/disable cells if you'd like.
>the coal industry is a racehorse with a broken leg and it should be treated as such.

Seems like you are insinuating we should euthanize coal miners.
Even before this proposal, Wikipedia would be flying very close to the wind on copyright were it hosted in the EU. "Fair use" is a US principle that isn't necessarily echoed in EU member states (the UK, for example, has a much more limited concept of "fair dealing").

It's notable that OpenStreetMap, which is hosted and governed in the UK, refuses to take data from Wikipedia because it believes it's tainted. (Specifically, Wikipedia says "you can get co-ordinates for articles by deriving them from Google Maps"[1], to which OSM says "nuh-uh".)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic...
Don’t dream, find opportunities to contribute.

I myself am working on transitioning out of security engineering into renewable energy/utility storage deployment.
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What's the use for unikernels you'd like to see considered more? I suspect the lack of traction is the lack of a mission statement: When would I want a unikernel over xyz? What am I missing out on if you go with xyz instead? (e.g. performance, security, ease of deployment, etc.)
If I take a video of jimi Hendrix improvising guitar, then he owns the copyright on the music, but I own the copyright on the recording
I checked out the provided links. It is weird. Even if it were a wrong conclusion, it seems fishy.
Many projects are ironically this way. Gitea, gogs, yunohost, sandstorm to name a few.
The Web has all of these issues and yet importing JS libraries this way has worked just fine.

Obviously it's not what you should do if you are publishing a library for others to use, but for local use, and the kinds of exploratory scientific computing he was talking about, it sounds perfect.
He's a CEO-to-be, not the tyrant who can make all the decisions and know all the answers months before he even starts the job without consulting anyone involved.
And then people continue to wonder why Americans would prefer private vehicle transit to public mass transit
Oh, they understood it, top tier mobile devs, they just thought it was trash. Drastically preferred to do native. I went to bat for them, and we shipped a beautiful app on time.
You're missing the point. Blockchain tokens are worse than centralized alternatives in most ways, so if the integrity of a financial security is codified through law then there is no need to pay the expensive costs to also have it codified as a blockchain token, especially because the law is the ultimate arbiter of the security's qualities and capabilities not a blockchain. A blockchain is useful when it can establish consensus rules around a system that is not controlled by a centralized authority, but if a centralized authority is already necessary to recognize the asset, the cost of decentralized consensus is unnecessary and thus wasted.
A few people resigned and they're trying to limit the damage because people like being outraged at things that don't matter. It's the same thing that got James Damore fired.
Exactly. I think a LIDAR could see the obstacle in this case.
Linux Device Driver, by O’Reilly
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That design has been in place for over 10 years. I don't think modern design is on anyone's radar. At all.
I found this video pretty good asking the question about baseload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-5VkFo-fsg
There's already one, next to your location bar.
As someone who manages a number of remote employees currently and dozens over the years. Hiring someone with no remote experience can be painful and a gamble. A lot of applicants on their first go or two, think its a ticket to screw around all day and work in coffeeshops and other such "4-hour work week", "digital nomad" type fairy tales. Most don't realize its just like going to an office, you have to be available, communicate well and get shit done. Frankly, I expect more from my remotes then I do my in-house because they have fewer distractions and no commute.

Yea, its hard to find a position, and if someone takes the gamble on you... try to take it seriously. Blowing it off makes it harder for those that will come after you.

good luck with the search.
> During the 18-minute 55-second segment, the vehicle provided two visual alerts and one auditory alert for the driver to place his hands on the steering wheel. These alerts were made more than 15 minutes prior to the crash.

If your hand is always supposed to be on the wheel, why is does the car not constantly alert you when it detects that your hands are off (similar to how cars beep at you if your seatbelt is unbuckled while driving)?
> Icon discoverability: our users aren't tech-savvy, so we'd have to create a new button with the word «Refresh» on it, because they could easily miss it if we use an icon (also: screen real estate)

Wait, so pull to refresh is more discoverable than a circular arrow?
The funding model is completely different. Entitlement programs are funded by employers as a cost of doing business and taxpayers, and they’ve been providing intergovernmental loans for years to keep loan costs down. Meanwhile shoving billions to cover miner health programs and re-shore busted pension funds are paid by the taxpayer, who maybe gets lower coal energy costs, but probably not. That’s before we get into the uncalculated, externalized costs of coal on the environment.
I accept your apology.

I still do not agree with "it's none of your business to sayt what questions should not be asked on a reddit community". With that line of thought, none of this is our business to be on the internet and providing opinions. Instead of focusing on what's someone's business and what's not - I recommend you state why asking, what I believe to be useless questions, would be beneficial. What insight does it provide? I understand it could be fun and quirky but literally, every thread on reddit...I mean every...single...thread... on reddit starts with a joke.
I know an acquaintance who works at a federal lab here in NM, writing Fortran that runs on a 20,000 CPU super computer to support scientific research. I think he makes something like 200k.
Coal industry not coal miners
People should never be compelled to work on producing weapons or munitions, except in times of war.

Google, specifically, like Facebook, should be invited to explain itself and generally describe its activities a bit more transparently for the public to see. At this point Google is effectively a utility, so there's plenty of good reasons to regulate it like one. Right now, it has benefited from almost no oversight and has grown a bit too cocky and self-righteous. Silicon Valley CEOs need to be cut down to size. Almost no other industry has this level of smugness and self-righteous belief in their superiority over the American people.

Here is a quote by Louis Brandeis, an erstwhile Justice of the Supreme Court, that pretty much captures what I have to say:
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
the distribution of distributions that you find in textbooks is power law distributed (or pretty close, iirc). at the top of that power law distribution is, ironically, the gaussian.
In the demos we include touch emulator by hammer.js, that's why it's breaking it; it's not meant to be used like that.
I would expect them to have better security than containers while having a lower resource footprint than normal VMs.
There’s a Firefox for Android add-on that’s using this script:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/pull-to-refre...

I guess it just injects the script in every page, but it works nicely, just like Pull to Refresh in Chrome.
I wish Tesla would update those numbers more frequently, but it looks like they stopped doing that in 2016. However they did enough updates in 2016 that allow us to estimate a trend of something on the order of 1 million miles per day.

4/9/2016 - 47 [1]

5/24/2016 - 100 [2]

6/30/2016 - 130 [3]

10/7/2016 - 222 [4]

11/13/2016 - 300 [5]

This rate continuing linearly would put us at roughly 900 million today. A linear accumulation of miles ignores that Tesla has roughly twice the cars on the road that they had in 2016 when those numbers were published. I have no idea their current mileage total has reached, but I feel safe in saying it is over a billion miles.

[1] - https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/718845153318834176

[2] - https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/24/11761098/tesla-autopilot-...

[3] - https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss

[4] - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/784487348562198529

[5] - https://electrek.co/2016/11/13/tesla-autopilot-billion-miles...
> Anecdote: I'm starting to learn Rust, and just for fun, wrote a dumb single-loop Riemann sum to compute pi in Rust and Fortran (as the area of the circle) - and Fortran code ran 2x faster. When the computation time is measured in days, this kind of difference matters.

I'd love to use Rust for numerical heavy code, like Fortran Rust is no-aliasing out of the box which is great for code gen, but Rust also has many of the niceties of C++. Still no integer generics in Rust though. :(
Perfect time to attack, really. Take advantage of the MS+Github hysteria and hunt for some exploits while people are scrambling around to migrate elsewhere.

Probably a bit of exaggeration there, but there's a good chance that whatever was used to exploit Gitea has been there for quite a long time. A leaked personal access token for the bot account that was there for the taking all the time, if someone cared to scan their CI logs. Something like that.
I think they solve different problems. Gogs is amazing for a self hosted git repo. Not so much for collaborating with thousands of people around the world. Centralization can be a very good thing if done by an ethical company with the right incentives. The only reason decentralization is useful is when you can't trust anyone for anything. I'd rather live in, and work towards, a world where that's not the case.
This is something I’m interested as well. How are you making the transition?
According to our user research, yes. But YMMV.
Which links ? Because if I host my projects on framagit, there’s no link to gitlab except maybe for documentation
>>Unikernels can be difficult to debug.

This is an irrelevant objection that seems to get massive traction.

Just like some politicians have scathing criticisms of other politicians, which despite being not true, are easily and widely believed.

It's not even a relevant point. Nothing I ever did with Unikernels hit this as even an issue on the horizon. If you want to knock down the technology, this is the most effective way to do it because it very effectively frightens off people considering the technology.

The origin of the "Unikernels can be difficult to debug." is from someone who works at a company that bet everything on containers. Nuff said.
Converting a running physical machine into a KVM virtual machine (2013)
Learning Numba will likely be a better pay off.
Most embedded systems are really unikernels - so yes, certainly they are very widely used. Though the more recent developments of running traditional server software on unikernels have not gained that much traction.
When I moved to gitlab a couple of years ago, I created a commit in each repo which deleted all files and replaced with a single README file pointing to the new URL, pushed those up to github, and then locally undid the commit.

I guess they count as mirrored.
I happen to be in favour of a model based on WPA to tackle unemployment in general, but coal doesn't have any special claims and should not be afforded any.

I am aware that is essentially dooming West Virginia, but people will then simply have to move. No that is not easy. But if we allow one particular group to claim special rights, then all other groups will have similar requirements and we will end up in a situation where we will never be able to advance the state of the country, or the world.

If we had chosen the "Luddite solution" back in the day, then instead of being obese we would have been starving. Essentially nobody would have learned to read or write, and we would have been happy to have two sets of clothes.

No special rights were due then, no special rights are due today.
>> Just try to think of a famous saying by Boudicca.

Well, there is that thing she used to say as she went into Warp Spasm just before ploughing into the Romans; "grrraaaaAAARRRGGGGHHH!!".

Historical fact.
Protocol for computation verification in P2P networks
Forget FORTRAN: http://mmbasic.com/
Please note that I'm taking this position (or any other) myself. I'm merely trying to clarify what I think Damore's memo said. While I think it's entirely fair to say he's wrong, I think it's deeply unfair to mischaracterize what he wrote as so many have done.
>> If someone builds a really easy way to slap a django app/rails app/node app "into" a unikernel

I solved this in my research, but it's still not enough to get unikernels any real traction because containers have won the battle.
The identification of a person wearing a suicide vest isn't a racial or emotional problem.

Declaring that a person wearing a suicide vest in an Arab market is inherently bad does play on racial prejudice and emotional appeal. It's impossible to separate that statement from a decade and a half of propaganda, and the trauma caused by the numerous suicide attacks on civilians in the western.
Hmmm ... your job is to cover the actions of 540 people elected to DC, many of whom you already recognize, and you can't remember what they look like? I'm not a journalist, but that seems like an essential thing to memorize, along with some minor metadata (locale, party, a bit of bio). Spend a weekend and do it.

Every profession has things you can look up and things you just have to memorize. 540 people isn't much - can sports journalists recognize 540 athletes? Otherwise you'll be in situations where you don't have an opportunity to look them up (e.g., can't get a photo, no time, etc.), and you'll have many false negatives: If you don't know what they look like, you won't realize it's a member of Congress at the party with the coke.
Massive Genetic Study Reveals 90% of Earth’s Animals Appeared at the Same Time
That is naive. The GDPR is structured to require processes that favor implementation by the management structures already in place in big businesses, leaving the little people scrambling. Being good for the consumer is just a cover story.
Watched a show recently that indicated that it's likely that Mars encountered a similar event to the presumed Earth/Moon collision, but Mars didn't fare so well. Mars was left lacking a singular large moon to protect it and a fairly unstable wobble of its rotation. It apparently moves between a global ice age to a far more temperate climate around every 120K years. Coupled with a lack of a magnetic field to protect its atmosphere, it's been stripped of most of what we think of life harboring facilities such as atmosphere and prevailing liquid water. This is mostly a recap of what I saw a Science Channel show, so don't judge me too hard - just trying to recap. Definitely not my area of expertise.
Eh... for a small organization sure but I think relatability from big wigs is more used as a way to hand wave controversies than being used for actual good?

I think the president analogy really holds. A president who you could have a beer with can get away with a lot more crap then one who has to prove it through policy.

I’m definitely being a bit nit picky, just saying it’s not a good metric.
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." Groucho Marx
I don't personally know Rand, but I've been following his former company (and his personal twitter) for a long time. He seems to be a genuinely thoughtful, great guy with really good intentions...however, this post felt like a little bit of a humble-brag (nothing wrong with that).

It's great that he is sharing his documents, however, the chances of anyone who hasn't already raised $20M+ from VCs (and/or created popular videos for 10+ years) ever following in these footsteps are slim-to-none.

If you really don't want to raise money from outsiders, just don't raise money. Many people launch businesses with very little money. Some of us win, some of us lose. If you're in a position to raise capital from 30 "somewhat" high-profile entrepreneurs/investors, congratulations! You should probably do it!

But if you're not in that position, do it like Rand did from the beginning. Work your butt off and make things happen. Then someday (hopefully), you can post your own humble-brag on your blog.
All of your questions demonstrate why the President should never be in that situation in the first place. That Trump wasn’t instantaneously impeached for enormous ongoing conflicts of interest is a stain on Congressional leadership.
This is true about a lot of regulations, e.g. slaughterhouse regulations in the USA. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have those regulations, or at least some version of those regulations.
That's roughly true. And there's a good reason behind it: Its very difficult to tell when someone will be a good CEO. Hell, its really difficult to tell when anyone will be actually great at the job they're being hired for.

At least with an engineer, you can be hired by someone who could more-or-less do the job you're being hired for. Senior engineers hire entry-level devs. The CTO hires team leads. Who hires the CEO?

Often, there's no one in the company who is adequately prepared for that role, because the role doesn't have a job description. It doesn't have bullet points of what you do every day. Your job is to lead the company, set the expectations, set the results, for everyone else. That's the role of the c-suite.
Apparently burning petrol releases about 2.31 kg of CO2 per liter. At 100 USD per tonne of CO2 it would cost 0.23 USD per liter of petrol if we captured every bit of CO2 released. That's within the realm of possibility.
It cannot see small details. So it probably "sees" another car as a blurred spot and only when it is close.
I find it helpful to look at how other countries handle nuclear, not just the US - particularly China and Russia, where "safety" and the usual fingerpointing about those treehugger liberal regulations simply don't apply. Did they scale out nuclear much more than we did? How much? With what technical innovations, if any?

And if their nuclear ambitions, in the end, didn't come to a whole lot more than ours did... well, why not? It wasn't "regulation", so there must be other structural factors at work, which may or may not be the same as ours.
It doesn’t really matter, because we’ve already done it and we won’t be doing it again.
And it's difficult (not unlike with the armed forces) to untangle respect with support for expansion.

I respect the hell out of anyone who mines coal for a living. It's gotten safer, but it's still a tough job that I'm glad I don't have to do.

I absolutely oppose anything that expands the coal industry.

So how do I square those? Personally, I feel like we as a country owe the folks who did that work maybe a bit more than we would others.

And if that happens to also be a more a practical approach to transitioning our economy off a toxic energy source? So much the better.