skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small-town couple left behind a stolen painting worth over $100M
It doesn't seem to be a crazy price, although I think your units need adjustment?

Seems to be $533 per kilowatt of carrying capacity, which is 53.3 cents per W, as you mentioned.

A kWh (1 hour x 1 kW) usually costs between 5 and 10 cents depending on the market, so, how many hours will the line need to be carrying its full complement of electricity in order to say, increase the cost by (a contrived number) only 1 cent per kWh?

I fully admit I don't know the vagaries of load-shifting and transmission, however...
"...the next Unicorn..."

LOL
Some hard truths:

1. The comparative impact of global warming relative to many other global phenomenon (including ecological phenomenon) is still comparatively low, and will continue to be comparatively low for the next 10-20 years or more. The red tide in Florida (which many don't even know is happening) is going to have a greater impact on the US GDP in 2018 than global warming.

2. Until people who make more than $10 a day are impacted more than the occasional brownout or heat wave, nothing outside of normal market forces is going to be done.

3. The current US administration does not accept human influenced climate change, and the current US minority party has decided to die on Mount Collusion rather than point out the many detrimental things that the majority party is doing to our environmental regulations.

I understand people are dying as a result of this. I understand that the dangers to specific parts of the globe are dire. But what's the plan? You can't shame heartless capitalists or devout technocrats into doing something they perceive as being against their best interests. The continued fearmongering isn't going to rouse any bases any more than it already has.
They so clearly titled this "X86 CPUs" instead of "VIA C3 CPUs" or "VIA C3 x86 CPUs" on purpose.

Clickbait title in my opinion, they wanted the casual observer to confuse this with Intel/AMD at first glance.
Did you try to click on it? I had the same button last year when I cancelled. When I clicked, it took me to a page where I'm asked to call them?
I drove by a Home Depot near Utica, NY advertising $15/hr a few months ago.

Utica isn’t exactly a big city or prosperous place.
Only if you can afford to pay them. Otherwise they linger for quite some time.
> Just because something doesn't offend you specifically (even if you are part of the group something offensive is being said about) doesn't mean it isn't offending anyone.

I couldn't care less if someone is offended. This wasn't a serious problem before the internet and with it is even less of an issue because it's just on the computer or your iphone.

Just turn it off, there, problem solved.

> It's very common in countries like the US, for you to have a lot of rights, but their coverage always ends where others' rights begin.

Yes, you don't have a right to not be offended. That is insane.

> and free speech does not cover hate speech

Where in the bill of rights is this covered? Or even the federalist papers?
Public transit fangirl here... Salt Lake City's transit system is awesome. Clean, runs timely, and runs in sensible paths through population areas. The bus system off the train service is a bit less useful, but I've found with Lyft / Uber augments, I can get just about anywhere I want to without a car.
If you just don't have breaking interface changes you never need a major version change.
Large Apache projects, notable widely-used c++ projects like boost, llvm, zmq, cmake, the c++ language standards committee itself, all take their time and rarely if ever release changes/bugfixes immediately. Things go through review, testing, release candidates, and people other than original authors of code provide input before normal users get their hands on anything. The core pydata projects take their time and are cautious about breaking things.
In all of these cases you can add new functions without removing (and breaking) the old ones.
> they tend to, as you mentioned, be worse accidents.

This reminds me of red light cameras. People love to complain that they only exist to make money because they statistically cause more accidents. And it's true, they do cause an increase in total number of accidents. But they decrease the number of serious accidents. You get more rear end collisions, but fewer T-Bone collisions which tend to be much more serious.
I don’t think you realize how cheap most of the US is. If you get 40 hours a week, that’s $2,100 per month. You can rent a 2BR in Des Moines for $700 per month; split that with a roommate and your rent is $350. That probably leaves about $1,300-1,400 which is totally doable for a single person. (I spent less than that after rent while I was in law school, and I went out all the time, etc.)
> it doesn’t matter if your friends are gay or not; the fact it’s a hateful insult that tells gay men they are lesser is enough.

I didn't say that, you said that! Why would you think gay people are lessor to straight men?

> Imagine the young little gay kid who hears “f\t” screamed 20 times an hour

I would ask why a little boy identifies as gay in the first place, a bit young to be making such a big life decision.

> how will that make him feel for the rest of his life?

You tell me, I'm asking for some empirical evidence to stop doing something humans have done for centuries.

> Are you just cementing in his head that it’s wrong to be gay?

Why is it wrong to be gay?

Also you take on free speech is just simply wrong, these tech companies can be easily classified as natural monopolies like bell telecom was.

It's the same problem of the scaling increase of value with every customer but on a whole other level, this is not just a small collection of totally private companies.

You would have to be living under a rock to think google is just a little private company with no strong relationships with the US government.
That's not possible as regulation from government always lags commercial damage. Governments are often complicit in the damage to begin with.

See The Great Barrier Reef [1] for example. The Australian government has done little to protect it while exempting mining companies from damages, approving dredging and generally being climate change denialists.

1: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/explore-...
Censorship has absolutely nothing to do with the government, and I am confused as to why you think so.

Censorship is when any group at all, uses their power, any power, to attempt to silence others.
I have a powershell port, just haven't quite polished it enough to release it yet. But it's coming!
In my experience conducting engineering interviews (about 300ish so far) I much, much prefer pair programming interviews in front of a computer with an IDE and access to the internet and standard resources. This most closely resembles how we work together and engineers and gives candidates the best chance to show off their skills. Whiteboarding code is something people almost never do in their professional careers, and as such, you focus on all the wrong things (is that the name of that library method? is that where that semicolon goes? is that best practice?). It's neither fair nor representative.

Of course I have no problem testing architecture and communication ability in front of a whiteboard, as this is much closer to how these things are done in the workplace.
Quantum is as quantum does.
We've done 13 releases of clj so far. It's pretty stable now.
The problem in Go isn't that the semantics are wrong, it's that the error handling is so prevalent that it starts obscures your logic. I'm writing an app right now where almost every piece of high-level code is:

if err := doThis(); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := doThat(); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := doThisOtherThing(); err != nil {
return err
}
// ...

The patterns in Go code are typically either (1) "call this and bail if error" or (2) "call this and bail if error, wrapping the error in a new error", with a sprinkling of (3) "if the error is io.EOF or whatever, do something else".

The #1 case is so dominant that Go really cries out for a built-in error-propagation mechanism.

The other problem with Go's error handling is the use of multi-value return types. I suspect Go's designers thought this was elegant, but it confuses things, because all error-returning functions return either a value or an error. Never both. It's not two return values in actuality, it's a sum type (aka product type or union). I'd take this over the current scheme:

func GetFile() (io.Reader | error) { ... }

And then maybe:

switch t := GetFile().(type) {
case io.Reader: ...
case error: return err
}

which can have the following semantic sugar:

r := try GetFile()

Rust has a macro that does something like the above, but the type system supports sum types and matching already.

Now you can do:

r := try GetFile()
count := try r.Read(buf)

instead of:

r, err := GetFile()
if err != nil {
return err
}
count, err := r.Read(buf)
if err != nil {
return err
}
It has according to this blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aurora-serverless-ga/

"The service currently has autoscaling cooldown periods of 1.5 minutes for scaling up and 5 minutes for scaling down"
Thank you Alex, for the all the work over the years and brining us this beautiful piece of technology.
A11 Bionic chip: Bypass iCloud Lock iOS 12.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2 Permanent
You can't then make the assumption that they prefer a higher wage over benefits. You can merely take away that they started quitting over having _their wages cut_.
You have one example of a project not providing an API, however there are tons of other GNU projects which do.

Furthermore the GCC decision is well documented in mailing list posts, have you ever seen anyone involved in GPG development claim that they won't allow a library/frontend split for fear of someone writing a proprietary frontend?
This is an interesting move. Mark my words, Valve will acquire Discord soon
I also “paid” for netgate hardware and recommended to many companies that they buy it. So in essence I helped you invest in the pfsense development.

What you did was still dirty.
There are multiple crisis's about to happen: Oil becomes too expensive (affecting infrastructure, transport, plastic production, etc), we use wood more heavily due to lack of plastic and cause deforestation, we can't build enough batteries due to materials demands for electric vehicles (which are needed more as oil cost increases), warmer climate increases need of air conditioning units (with some companies using banned CFCs to cut time/costs), water shortages, food shortages (due to water shortages and failed harvests due to climate)... The list goes on. Any combination of those would probably trigger a global economic collapse too (stock markets in chaos as "stable" markets suddenly become unstable).

We're likely already past the point of no return, we should be considering plan B - which is: How do we live in an inhospitable world as a result of global warming?

I think if we end up in such a state, the two most important resources to have will be energy and raw materials. If it were me, I would consider harboring precious metals (for building electronics, batteries, infrastructure, etc), building renewable energy sources, building nuclear power plants (particularly salt reactors - to take up any additional load), investing into nuclear fusion (it's quite close now) and making sure the military is well funded (you need to protect whatever benefits you have). If needs be, steal technologies to further your own capability as fast as possible. To keep your society in order, you would probably want to reduce any internal resistance, so slowly reducing freedom of speech and freedom of expression to keep things in order (i.e. control the internet). Additionally, you want to protect any area (land/sea/air/space) you have and claim as much additional resource intensive and/or strategic area you can get away with. If you're going down anyway, you may as well cause as much environmental damage as needed to further your own position in the end game.

Currently the only Country that would be "ready" by this standard is China, but the shear number of people may be their downfall. The only benefit would be that as resources run out, you can reduce your numbers by claiming more resources with you military (and mandatory inscription) - with their deaths easing pressure on infrastructure.
I'm honestly not that familiar with Meetup. I thought it was basically just a calendar for keeping track of local events. Do people maintain profiles or personal pages on it?
Yup. I was just saying it is a useful feature.
Startup Equity (2017)
Phone conversations are private.
Forget Bitcoin? India likely to get its own cryptocurrency soon
Looks like the ADL didn't like my comment. /s
How about testing architecture (and implicitly communication) in front of a whiteboard and programming behind a keyboard?
And break your oath to uphold and defend the constitution?
Not the person you responded to but my answers to your questions are no. But it's still unfortunate that things have gotten to this point and hopefully seeing the changes before our eyes will lead to action.

It's OK to point out things are bad even though I haven't done everything possible to mitigate the harm. Perhaps that makes me a hypocrite but the veracity of the claim that it's unfortunate that we've gotten to this point still stands. Please don't let my hypocrisy or anyone else's hypocrisy prevent you from recognizing the growing harm to the environment that humans are causing.

It's unfortunate that as a species we tend to optimize for local min/max rather than global ones when engaged in our everyday behavior. Only regulations backed by strong political leadership will cause a change in behavior in enough people to make a difference. We need nudges.
I feel like you’re trying to make some sort of point. But it’s honestly lost on me.
At some point an adult doesn't want a roommate.
Duckduckgo.com is down right now
In what way does the post remind you of that scene?
Did anyone else read the title as "Docker Bikeshedding", or was it just me?
Always hard to know with science in the news but I thought that there was some good science that showed that even quitting late in life significantly reduced the risk of smoking related illnesses compared to those who did not stop. I thought that was quite interesting that even after say 30 years you could change the odds fairly dramatically.
Nevada, California - more than 20% opt out. Fascinating.

I would love to see hotspots of places where people have no religion - not even atheist... just none.
On one matter there can be no argument: The policies that sent these men and women abroad, with their emphasis on military action and their visions of reordering nations and cultures, have not succeeded. It is beyond honest dispute that the wars did not achieve what their organizers promised, no matter the party in power or the generals in command. Astonishingly expensive, strategically incoherent, sold by a shifting slate of senior officers and politicians and editorial-page hawks, the wars have continued in varied forms and under different rationales each and every year since passenger jets struck the World Trade Center in 2001. They continue today without an end in sight, reauthorized in Pentagon budgets almost as if distant war is a presumed government action.

Except for the mention of the World Trade Center, this could be a telling of the US involvement in Vietnam.

Back then, it was the highly dubious Domino Theory that hawks waved around to browbeat anyone suggesting that such a war was un-winnable, morally indefensible, or just plain hair-brained.

Today it's the equally dubious umbrella of Terrorism.

Having recently watched Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary, it seems nearly impossible to understand the thinking of the war's supporters. Unless, that is, you replace the word "Communism" with "Terrorism."
If this were the case, there would be no need for SIGTERM. The OS doesn't know the application logic and can't guarantee clean termination from the application's perspective.

As others have said, there's rarely reason to override `__del__`, and when you do you know exactly why you need it.
Look at the equator:

http://thwack.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/images-of-world-...

And look at the countries with the highest fertility rates:

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

This is not going to end well. Africa is already a net food importer, so as growing conditions deteriorate, food-growing countries will just cut the continent off.

Best we could do right now is quickly wean African nations off food and monetary aid (making up about 20% of many nations' GDPs), and replace it completely with contraception and education for women.
Completely mind blown by this, lot's of use-cases rushing to my mind!
You have to take a long view of this. Whatever powers we cede to the state or corporations now will remain long after nobody remembers Alex Jones or that Nazi punching bag (forget his name already!)

After 9/11 there was a mad rush to cede civil liberties and deploy surveillance. Many liberals and libertarians pointed out quite correctly that terrorism remained even after 9/11 a fringe activity and a statistically insignificant risk. Was it really worth it to toss the bill of rights (and the Geneva convention) for a risk that didn't even rank when compared with routine low probability accidents?

The same logic applies now. The Nazis are loud and obnoxious but few in number, and those hurt by these clowns number far less than the dead from Oklahoma City or 9/11.

Open discourse, free speech, and net neutrality are more valuable than this.

Gave you an upvote since I don't think what you wrote was that unreasonable. I just think it's short sighted.
Pages 9 and 10 (Appendix A) are a little more approachable in that way.
Love that you are responding on here. It’s great to have your outreach.

Chris and electric sheep fencing sure felt like the core developer for a while.

Clearly he left for a reason. He’s stayed silent about it but rarely does a founder leave without their company being acquired. Feels like he didn’t like the working relationship as it matured.

Personally, I don’t like the change in pricing for support plans that was implemented and I haven’t recommended the products netgate sells since that change. I was helping sell around 10 of your firewalls a year before that.

Nor do I like how OPNSense was treated by netgate. That was dirty stuff.

In any case, you don’t need me to like how you run your business if you have bigger customers that you pivoted to chase. I was small potato’s.
> learly Microsoft knew it was hosting Gab and what Gab was. There's a troll argument that suggests Gab is just "free speech twitter", but of course that's not the case: I've been screenshotting the front page for months, from a random anonymous account, and every time I've done it the front page was full of horrible Islamophobic, racist, and anti-Semitic crap. That and bot content.

This seems to accurately describe "free speech twitter". All the content that would get people banned on twitter is displaced into sites like Gab and 4chan. The few occasions I've perused these sites supported this: there were lots of hateful speech against minorities, but a few instances of hateful speech against the majority. A very narrow minority were the latter, but as far as I could tell these sites upheld their commitment to freedom of any legal speech for all and didn't censor them.
In the USA, it is only direct threats of imminent violence that is illegal.

So yes, according to the supreme Court, those posts are probably legal.

It would only be things like "everyone, let meet up at this specific person's house tonight and attack them" that would be illegal.
> You could wisely point out I claimed there's research, and I could at least provide it. The research I've seen tells me this won't help since people tend to discount research that goes against their beliefs, and use research that supports those beliefs as reinforcement. It won't do you any good if you start out with a strong belief in the unsupported original claim, as seems to be the case with most people I see here making it.

Come on man, I think I'm on your side here, but this is a cop-out. If you're not sure where to find the studies, just say so -- otherwise, why hold them back at this point? (Surely you don't hold the extreme view that everyone is completely impervious to evidence, so you can't just say that the evidence proves itself not to be worth sharing.)

I too remember reading about evidence contradicting the 'sunlight is the best disinfectant' meme -- for example, studies demonstrating that false claims stick with people and continue to affect their thinking, even to the point of being held as beliefs, after they are convincingly refuted (or perhaps even withdrawn by the person who presented the original claim, who admits that they completely made it up). If I have time later, I'll see if I can find some good sources to link to.
The smart thing to do would have been to leave your car outside again, and have the police hidden down the street, so when they returned they could catch the crooks!
There's a major downside to the multi-value returns compared to sum types: They can't be chained. You have to assign the two result values to two separate variables:

s, err := readFile()

There's no way to build something like this:

readFile().then(func(s string) { ... })

Well, you can build it by having readFile() return some object with a then(), but without generics you can't build anything remotely ergonomic here.

(Actually, Go has an interesting quirk where multi-value return values can be passed as arguments to a function, so this is allowed:

func handleErrors(s string, err error) { ...}
func readFile() (string, error) { ... }
func main() {
handleErrors(readFile())
}

Unfortunately, there's no way to build a generic chaining mechanism with this, since you'd have to have a handleErrors() for every possible return type combination.)
You're being either overly generous to Intel or you're underestimating how well funded some of the espionage organization really are. And consider that for decades espionage organizations have been taking advantage of bugs in commercial products. This is so well documented at this point that it's not even worth arguing. Personally I believe this has been going on since the '70's.
I forgot where I heard it but there was a discussion on the radio that indicated that smoking in the US was for a long time was done more by the wealthy... and then the trend shifted to the wealthy quitting and the poor smoking more.

There was also a lot of questions regarding nicotine being used to cope with other issues since nicotine is pretty effective.
I think it's more that it's OK to do creepy shit if you're in a clean, brightly lit, sciencey looking place and you have attractive smiling people advertising your expensive services.

"Rule 1: Be attractive." applies to companies as well as people.
> If only the forces who put the anti-smoking effort into motion

Looking at the consumption/events chart (https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Annual...) it doesn't look like any of those efforts was particularly causal. Some like nicotine medication being available seem to have even slowed the decline.
Please read a government budget sometime and look at current law vs exceptions to current law in the form of targeted tax breaks.

It is called a tax expenditure. Aka an expense or an outlay.

Making up an absurd position that requires redefining financial terms is a poor strategy.

Appying your logic, collecting $0 in taxes from everyone does not create any debt because you can simply reduce expenses to $0.

Please apply your position to your own life ($0 in income and $0 in expenses) and let me know if your position is a real one. I suspect the lack of shelter and food will convince you otherwise.