skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additional investment in transmission lines and sector coupling is politically more viable and cheaper, and already that is stalled. So I'd rather push for that. (Plus we avoid a massive scale waste problem). Let existing ones run as long as possible, and if China or other countries want to go for the nuclear option, great! I'm simply objecting to the idea that that's the only/easiest/optimal option.

The variability of renewables is of course a well studied problem [1] and exactly why, after a certain point, we need transmission capacity (or, more expensive, local storage). The variability averages out on large scales.

[1] I posted this elsewhere already: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.05290.pdf
For those who haven't used k8s, note that `--context` and `-n` are mostly of multi-tenant/RBAC cases, so the command is more like `kubectl scale deploy <deployment name> --replicas <number of containers>`
Intel lost out on the mobile revolution because the mobile revolution was about radio technology and not processor technology. Outside of buying Qualcomm for patents and radio designs, anything Intel could have tried was doomed to fail.
AI as a research field generates plenty of useful applied techniques that make real products possible. The problem, which Watson is ground zero of, is calling AI itself a product -- like something you can just mix in and make business processes better.
Spinning up 100 nodes kubernetes clusters w/ a single button click across multiple public clouds with Rancher is pretty exciting too. You can scale up your worker pool by clicking on a spinner input in the Rancher UI instead of typing the kubectl commands. Heck, its built right into the Kubernetes GUI as well. Pretty cool.
Kubernetes also has auto scale.
There's also the umask, which by default will create all new files without write permission for anyone but the original UID. So now you have to either change your umask or do a chmod after creating a new file.
I can't see how I am going to get budget for "yeah guys I need half a year to provision 100 servers, 5 sys admins" VS "yeah I need 2 developers and a month, we can start selling to customer, just make markup adjusted with price for cloud storage". We have to minimize time to market, make money not build servers, but maybe others have other priorities.
I heard this joke years before working at Kaleida Labs (a joint venture of Apple and IBM), but it rang true while I was living the joke:

Q: What do you get when you cross Apple and IBM?

A: IBM.

While I was working at Kaleida, I gave a wild ScriptX demo to Lou Gerstner using a bouncing eyeball to navigate a map of interactive rooms. After the demo, he complained that "The eyeball was a little too right-brained for me." I was all "Dag nab it, I should have used the other eyeball!!!"

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/1995-apple-world-wide-develop...

"The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision." -Lou Gerstner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner_Jr.
Alibaba is traded on the NYSE.
You can use one of the two container autoscalers to handle the scaling automatically based on any metric(s) you like, and the cluster autoscaler will scale the ASG as needed :)

This is useful for workloads that need to scale on some metric other than CPU/MEM, e.g. request rate, worker queue length...
> you can't completely conceal metadata

You can do it with a very high cost (in overhead, latency, and availability) by having a large number of people all send and receive messages, on a fixed or randomized schedule, exceeding their maximum possible amount of communication with one another. Then someone monitoring the network knows that each of the participants in this system could have communicated with any other participant, but not whether or not the communication took place.
Are people really this upset over Brexit that they have to make stuff up?
Given enough civilisations, it's likely that a few will eventually manage to not wipe themselves out (at least for long enough to become fairly redundant).
I use & depend upon plenty of products that are built upon AI - GMail spam filtering & categorized inbox, Google image search, YouTube & Netflix recommendations, cheque OCR at my ATM, predictive keyboards on my phone, Amazon's "people also buy with this product" feature, Google translate, computer opponents in games that I play, and all of the signals that feed into Google Search.

The irony is that not one of these bills itself as AI. It's just "a product that works", and the company that produces it is happy to keep the details secret and let users enjoy the product. So you may be right that the term "AI" itself is pure salesmanship. When it starts to work it ceases to be AI.

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

Also - humans only look like we're fast at picking up new domains because we apply a helluva lot of transfer learning, and most "new" domains aren't actually that different from our previous experiences. Drop a human in an environment where their sensory input is truly novel - say, a sensory deprivation tank where all visual & auditory stimulation is random noise - and they will literally go insane. I've got a 5-month-old and a project where I'm attempting to use AI to parse webpages, and I will bet you that I can teach my computer to read the web before I can teach my kid to do so.
sadly it's not cheap to built aws on bare metal.
One of the interesting aspects of Foucault's take on power was that it was constitutive.

To put it another way, the company that reclassifies what it does, or uses a new taxonomy may actually be trying to change itself by doing so and may succeed.

The big difference between the taxonomy a company constructs, and the kind that historians construct, of course is that companies have a real measurable output -- profit -- that they have to achieve.
Exactly the point I was trying to make but I did not articulate it as well as you have, thanks!

I would say 'premium' entertainment cannot be displaced by time and space.
What's your definition of extreme in this context? Interested what your basing you opinion on.
As stated, I did continue to work and do what I was asked despite the extreme stress. I did not walk out the door when refused to be allowed to leave for the day. I do agree that as an employee my job is to do what I am directed whether I like it or not.

I agree that they cannot let such a statement slide, and that is why I said it, because nothing else I said in the week before this was acted on. I was ignored in every other plea for some sort of intervention. My manager could, though, have simply asked me if I meant that and I would have explained that, no, I was just upset. We could have walked over to the person I was even referring to and worked it out immediately on the spot. I told him about when I came back to work and he was sad and had no hard feelings towards me.

I agree no company would allow it. They would look for a legal way to get rid of anyone saying such things. I told them as much. That said, listing that as the reason for termination is not legal. I did do my job in a professional sense. Freely sharing what I believe to people who listen is free speech. You cannot legally be fired for your opinions that do not affect your work; at least not as the listed reason.

I could have simply been terminated with no cause listed. That they did not due that is great; but it was not out of any caring for me. That is simply the way the company works; which I agree is a good thing.

The worst part is that my story is not unique. The level of stress and resulting poor mental health is, in my opinion, very high there. I don't think they are doing what is necessary to improve that. ( despite trying )
Is Watson a codebase? Or is it just a brand?

Both, sort of. There is a "thing" called Watson, which is related to the Watson that played Jeopardy. But "Watson" is also a brand which lumps in stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with the "old" Watson.

To illustrate a bit.. "Watson Health" is (or was) made up of a ton of people and technologies who came into IBM as the result of several acquisitions: Truven, Phytel, Explorys, etc. In many cases, they repackaged stuff from those vendors, gave it a "Watson name" and shipped it. And some of this stuff was literally no more sophisticated than linear regression / logistic regression, etc.
I believe one argument is if China owns US companies, it means China is providing capital to a US company.

Maybe it becomes clearer by asking, "How does allowing China to own US companies harm the US (economically)?"
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>some $4 cardboard they sell for $80

I really hope you don't think you're just buying cardboard when you get a Labo kit.

I mean, I suspect you don't, but being this reductive makes it comes across as though it's some sort of scam.
I personally really like the new keyboards. When I did have a problem with it - I had read that very small things get stuck behind the keys, so I repeatedly pressed extremely quickly and hard on the key several times, and it fixed the problem right there and then. Have done that several times since to fix the stuck problem and has worked 100% of the time.

Also, I was looking for the 16gh RAM, 500GB HDD 15" Pro. Something like $3100 from Apple. I went to Best Buy and they were running a $200 off promotion on them. On top of that, I found the exact model I was looking for as an open model, someone having returned it the previous day. Didn't have a single scratch - was discounted to $2150. They respected the promotion and I got a (like) new MBP Pro for $1950.

I chalk this up to the fact that so many other people seem to really dislike these machines.
Until it implodes of course. Like every other social network.
My main gripe is with the concept of "country" which didn't really exist until relatively recently.
> In one case of a company being way too nice, some dude I worked with took almost 2 years before being fired, when NO ONE wanted to work with him. Imagine how many things we could have done with the 150k+ a year he was paid during that whole ordeal...

Sure but you shouldn't consider the 150k+ on its own; you should compare it against all the goood employees who would've been fired in a different system that you ended up saving.

I like to think that it's better to keep one bad person than to fire good people for no reason but I admit that may be more an emotional stance than a logical one. And let me also say that by bad person I mean one who isn't technically able to do well, not one who is a jerk.
The major problem is that with the introdu of progressive web apps, people found easy to implement mobile apps, at the cost of sweating many hours on following React API changes, instead of learning native platforms API. This applies also to who is using Electron instead of native API on desktop.
~~Video killed the radio star~~

CGI killed the video star.
Copyright? Copywrong
Now to be fair, it would be a little absurd to build the most compact possible keyboard, yet get stuck carrying around some foot pedals like you're headed to a lan party with racing games or something.

But sometimes a little absurd is cool when it comes to custom keyboards. I kind of want to build this or the Gherkin posted above!
I've lost weight at separate times in my life doing:

1) Low carb
2) Caloric restriction (CICO)

On both I lost weight. On CICO I still ate "less healthy" foods (processed, breads, fast food, desserts) quite often but kept within a certain calorie range. Neither weight loss involved exercise. I'm convinced #1 was just a fancy way to acheive #2. Were there separate benefits to #2? Yes (less cravings) but not enough to convince me to go back to it. Low carb is too difficult to stick to for me personally, have tried it numerous times (no need to give me advice on how to make it work for me, I'm losing weight on CICO right now and fine with that!)

Why would both work if CICO is bunk?
I agree we should have some recycling capability. One of the things I think it will be used for is cheap panels that have failed entirely through encapsulation failure. If you follow the german photovoltaic industry there have been several large-scale grid feeding power plants that turned in all of their panels to the manufacturer for warranty replacement because the encapsulation failed.

If you have a PV panel that isn't physically damaged and its encapsulation is still fine - it still has value even at 25 years of life... I'd happily buy a pallet load of used, physically fine condition 360W panels that when put on a STC flasher "only" produce 320W, at a very cheap $/watt price.
> The suggested duration is 18 months. Those who have stuck with it have reported good results.

Perhaps being able to stick to a "brutally" difficult task for 18 months is also highly correlated with already having good mental health, or a remission period?
Wow that's expensive.
They don't really say what causes the pain part, which seems a major oversight. I assume it's nothing but sheer tiny size?

Maybe you could tap at it with some kind of pointed thimble on the finger.
> The whole point of hope is that it doesn't have a plausible reason. That's what makes it hope and not knowledge.

This seems a bit coarse. Working hard to move from the lower class to solidly middle class is not guaranteed, so the pursuit of that is based on both hope and knowledge. However, if the statistical likelihood of this move begins decreasing, and simultaneously the rates of people moving in the opposite direction is also rising, one could argue that a natural response would be for "hope" levels to decrease.
EDIT (I work at OpenAI and wrote the statement about the variance of the gradient being linear): Here's a more precise statement: the variance is exponential in the "difficulty" of the exploration problem. The harder the exploration, the worse is the gradient. So while it is correct that things become easy if you assume that exploration is easy, the more correct way of interpreting our result is that the combination of self play and our shaped reward made the gradient variance manageable at the scale of the compute that we've use.
Perhaps I misunderstood the point you were trying to make. I interpreted it as approximately "material wealth is up on an absolute basis, so any relative inequality is just jealousy and can be safely disregarded".
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You're right that arrangements that mostly avoid storage are possible, but might not be cost efficient in a way that leads to their eventual adoption, and any mass adoption of renewables at high percentages of overall capacity requires some kind of major investment beyond the cost of generation itself, to deal with the intermittency, be it storage or transmission (and the latter is really only helpful if by "renewables" you mostly mean wind -- the intermittency of solar is obviously highly correlated over broad geographic areas). Still, I think the more interesting question isn't "could it be done" -- it's pretty clear that it could -- but "could it be done in a manner that's cost-competitive with non-renewable technologies," and there's pretty abundant research at this point that shows that any advantages renewables have in terms of levelized cost of ownership get more than wiped out once these kinds of investments are factored in; see, e.g., https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... From the executive summary:

> Despite the sustained and growing cost-competitiveness of certain Alternative Energy technologies, advanced economies will require diverse generation fleets to meet baseload generation needs for the foreseeable future

with specific numbers in the actual report.

It's easy enough to focus on Europe or the Americas where the rich have the comparable luxury of being able to overpay for generation if the political will is there, but the overwhelming majority of new generation capacity brought online globally in the next century won't be in these places, it will be in Asia, Africa, and South America, as these countries work towards developmental parity with the West. We need to come up with solutions that aren't just possible, but cheap, and deployable in places that are starting from basically nothing in terms of modern grid infrastructure, and where hyper-inefficient diesel generation is currently the norm, to the extent that electricity is broadly available at all (as is the case in large parts of Africa in particular today).

Again: this isn't to say that renewables can't work, or that any other particular technology will or won't be the solution. We just don't know yet, both in terms of feasibility and economics.
Correction: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17394916
I see. It seems like training a model for a hero with only targeted spells would be much faster than training a model for a hero which can cast spells at arbitrary map locations. I don't play DoTA, so not sure how many such heroes exist, or if a team comp of only heroes with targeted abilities would even be viable
Amazon Facial Recognition Poses Big Privacy Threats
The benefactors desired a conclusion, and the authors delivered it for them. They served their purpose. That "academic integrity" was not a purpose reflects the state of affairs in economics.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368493

I'll copy the first comment by fyi1183

> This is basically the TCS version of a clickbait headline. It's a separation of BQP and PH by an oracle. Certainly a nice result, but to put it into context, we also have a separation of P and NP by an oracle. Yet, we are very far away from actually proving that P and NP are distinct.
Is John Oliver any more important than all the other things that China has banned?

Or is this just something that happens to be popular which creates outrage even when it's not nearly as bad as other things that China censors?
My use case is really simple. I just use a script to fetch the latest free episode of My Hero Academia from CrunchyRoll with youtube-dl.
I agree, that's ridiculous.

Clearly, a sip/puff/bite controller would be more convenient, both in terms of compactness and usability.
I'm in the same boat. I'd really love to see something that's a little bit more beginner friendly than Hoogle.

It's honestly why I think avoiding operator overloading in Java/Go etc was a great idea.
Also the data they share online due to security bugs
This is clearly marketing. It's on the manufacturer's website and suggests that their product is the only path to secure password storage, which is demonstrably false. What is this doing on the front page of HN?
What, why? It looks a reasonable solution for a missing 'filtering' feature :-)
The phrase "economic health" looks odder to me the longer I ponder it.

"The economy" isn't a living creature, so the phrase is a metaphor, and different people are likely to have very different ways of interpreting it, according to their own interests and concerns. A hedge fund manager, a real estate magnate, and an unemployed single parent will have very different ideas about what is important for "economic health."

You could probably do worse than to start with actual human health, though. Even if your goal is something narrow, like the opportunity to personally accumulate money through speculation, a high average level of human health is a great foundation for that kind of growth.

Of course, if you accept all that, the news is again very ominous.
The article states the bots are actually rather mediocre at last hitting.
I did not actually threaten anyone. I said that I feel like I want to kill the person. It is not the same... I did not communicate it to the person being talked about. I also in no way stated that I intended to, was planning on doing so etc. It was, agreeably, a stupid admission of how I felt, which can easily be misinterpreted.

It is similar to saying "hey I'd like to have sex with that hot actor". Saying that does not mean you will go rape the actor. It is just a feeling. Feelings don't equate to action.

I agree action had to be taken; I have no problem with them reacting. My problem is that I had to go to that level to be paid attention to. My stress was absurdly high before this happened, and I communicated it was repeatedly and received no help. When I finally said "I can't take it" I was ignored.

I agree it could have potentially happened without the stress. Despite that the stress definitely triggered whatever the cause was immediately. That was very clear. The doctors did though claim there were zero problems 2 days previous. Usually miscarriage does not occur past the first trimester when all other signs are good.
San Francisco has the world's richest companies, but you can't even walk the street without running into a several homeless people every single block. Go figure, very 'progressive'.
High real estate prices is a net win for a few Americans.
The real answer is more along the lines of 'if the pilot has ejected there's some serious issue with the plane and the autopilot has been disengaged in attempts to rectify the problem, either automatically in the case of a stall or spin or by the pilot giving inputs which would disengage the autopilot.' There's no instructions after that because the plane is assumed lost once the pilot ejects.
>While many companies in the US can fire an employee for "no reason"

Side note since you mentioned "firing". The article's title ("facing firing") may unintentionally overstate what Amazon's appeal process is actually appealing.

Based on the text, Amazon's "appeal process" is to challenge the status of being put on PIP - the Performance Improvement Plan. It isn't to appeal a firing. (Although I understand that some see that as no difference if a PIP is ~99% equivalent to getting fired eventually.)

If the employee wants to keep working (at least temporarily) for Amazon, he/she doesn't need to appeal. What a successful appeal does is let them work without PIP targets hanging over their head.
That depends on how much more efficient the new panels are, and how much they cost. You only have so much roof area, so if you can generate enough power with the new panels over the old ones to more than recoup the costs, it's worth it.
The Intelligent Plant: Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora (2013)
Am I missing something? Plenty of restaurants have self serve policies.
Mind giving a condensed explanation of the diet?
Simple design but looks clean. Could add more feature, as you said in your blog, do not saturate your application with overwhelming features.
Great going on your first mobile application.
The interesting thing is that because John Oliver is not really a big deal, the Chinese government shouldn't waste its time silencing him.

And yet they did!
yeah, for sure, looks like HN began hidden advertising :(
Thanks for your review, I would highly appreciate it.
The Soviet Union.

For half a century it was more stable than the west and it's economic advances dwarfed that of it's predecessor, the Russian Empire.

Scientific advances too, it was the first nation to send a man into outer space.

Yet western values were nowhere to be seen. And it's immigration policy was to prevent people from getting out.

You know where else you'd want to prevent people from getting out? A prison.
It's like that throughout the entire west coast, there is a severe homeless crisis that is entirely ignored.

But this is unrelated to the article.