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You can go to Three Mile Island just fine as long as you don't go inside the Unit 2 containment vessel itself. The meltdown was fully contained inside said containment vessel. Unit 2 has since had its core removed from the site entirely and has had its electrical generator moved to another reactor (in North Carolina), so it's not like people haven't been going in it either. Unit 1 (the other reactor right next to the one that had a meltdown) has remained a fully operational power station and is used as such today; people go there all the time.

Chernobyl and Fukushima I will grant (especially Chernobyl!) but Three Mile Island has a no-go zone that's far smaller than most people think. And it's only sort of no-go at that.

> which could wipe out our grid, leading to nuclear leaks worldwide

Sorry, but citation needed for the causal mechanism via which the grid going down would lead to "nuclear leaks".
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The value that Earth provides is the fact that it hosts millions of living species.

Mere geological resources can be gathered from asteroids or other planets with lesser gravity wells.

The Alien species would have to determine if Human technology, economy and culture holds any value to them. If it does, they will conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the various billions of humans inhabiting the planet, and eliminate the least-productive in order to improve average genetic quality and bring the overall species back to within the carrying capacity of the planet.

For example, 56% of the Earth's population from the least-productive countries could be eliminated, for only a 6% decrease in scientific output, and 17% decrease in GDP. Doing so would also result in a 23% decrease in carbon emissions.

Of course, if they find that humanity holds negative value, they will simply eliminate all humans, and turn the planet into a giant nature park.
That sounds exactly like astrological signs.

..because they're a Virgo and I'm a Gemini..
I've wondered if that was the purpose of the "probe". To see if anyone follows it, or otherwise interacts with it. Let's say you know there is a habitable planet, but you don't want to land there first, instead send a probe and see if the planet reacts to it. If they do, it would indicate a rather advanced civilization.
Out of curiosity, why don’t you think this is a good fit for the Fromt Page?
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I am the Cubmaster of a large Cub Scout pack (>150 kids). Admitting girls has been a non-issue, except to local Girl Scouts USA activists (long story, and it wasn't pretty). Girls have always been in Boy Scouts: sisters have ALWAYS been coming to meetings. Now they get to earn badges, too. My son still picks boogers and giggles at farts even with girls around.

This lawsuit is but the latest in GSUSA's petty-ness. I don't want to harm local Girl Scout troops, so we've been laying low at recruiting girls at schools with GSUSA presence. But my patience with GSUSA is running thin.
Imagine green and purple instead of red and blue.

If you give a state to green, with the power to turn it back purple any time green threatens your workers, you have the policy leadership in a bit of a hostage crisis.

Ideology is flexible in big tents, and everyone is a pragmatist with respect to their constituency. Ds in hunting states are more circumspect on guns and Rs near DC go much easier on federal employees.
>VAT is tax for consumers, not corporations.

at the end of the day does it really matter? It's totally a tax on the corporations ability to do business. If we taxed the companies causing them to increase prices by 10%, the consumer still ends up having to pay 10% more on the products. Or if we taxed the companies at the point of sale for 10%, it's the same outcome for consumers.
I see, and agree.
even in the wealthiest country in the world, there is going to be a finite number of ambulances and EMTs. you can provision enough ambulances and crew so that it's very unlikely they will be overwhelmed with legitimate emergencies, but you can't guarantee it unless you only want to make ambulances and train EMTs.
More voters voting in the same way (proportionally) doesn't affect the results of IRV.
well, this is well known to be true. and irrelevant to the topic at hand.
You can run the same cores in Verilator, just slower.
Judging by the duster cans I have here [0] it looks like they've switched to HFC-152a which has GWP but does not deplete the ozone layer.

But the point is that they're the same exact substances, given different designators depending on the use. HFC-134a is perfectly legal to vent into the atmosphere, yet if it's in a refrigeration system (and thus called R-134a) it is not.

R-290 is just the refrigeration name for plain propane. I don't know the GWP etc of propane, or the relative amount that would be contributed by deliberate venting of refrigeration systems. But I do know that a $27k fine for doing so is nonsensical - given gas grills, blow torches, and industrial/distribution gas leaks.

[0] I didn't buy them. I personally have never had a problem using an air compressor (the traditional worry is condensation droplets), but if you're paranoid go get something like the Metro DataVac.
This is an Apple iOS App Store link for an app called "Hearshot".

Not sure if app store links are kosher for HN, but I thought I'd let folks know.
It is possible to have a quota in the range voting system I imagine. And, well, it's simpler.
I am not a machine learning expert, but could not these adversarial example issues be resolved by solving an image classification problem by (1)producing multiple non-equivalent classification solutions with adequate accuracy, then (2)fusion (e.g. voting) to produce a consensus classification? (3) Maybe random shuffling of which X of Z solutions get to vote in each classification attempt.

What might fool one solution might not fool another, and adversarial examples seem to depend on idiosyncrasies of a particular solution.
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Indeed, people used astrological signs for this purpose in the past.
You underestimate IRV's complexity and lack of transparency. I gave a talk on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_eMUGCU5U&t=487
My city is already IRV. If I had any clue how to change that, I would.
What languages are supported? Is it only Go?
> But why is it a big deal to anyone else

it’s not. what’s your point?
No. That's not true. Many companies will early exit and we'll give feedback that indicates what broad areas weren't a good fit. We won't say "You should have used a probabilistic data structure here instead of a standard set" but we'll say "We expected a different experience from our whiteboard coding sessions." And then maybe something about the interview process being imperfect but the best that we have available to determine competency. So you'll know that it was whiteboard coding you didn't do well at rather than architecture design or culture fit or anything else.

That's cleared by recruiting, HR, and legal from the SF startup I work at. I did it today.
I think pop-sci fuels overzealous misinformation in even the tech-literate. A lot of innate, unconscious cognition is underestimated despite its complexity. E.g. consider the ability of humans and most other species to approach, navigate, and understand arbitrary space and its objects - you can't do them same with AI without extensive training and covering corner cases. And even then, a flying insect such as a dragonfly will outperform your model.
>I doubt the "overpopulation!" expostulators are really proposing a human cull as policy.

I share a house with two who claim to be. They do shut up about it when I suggest that they go first however.
These already exist. There are darknet firms that independently verify that an exploit is real (staking their reputation that they won't take it and run once shown), and then open it to the market.

The main trouble is that for it to fully work, you need to have the big corps bidding against black hats in this market. I can't see that happening. It'd have big corps dirtying their hands too openly.

The other trouble is that a lot of the damages (or value) of software bugs aren't readily fungible to dollars. For example, to actually profit from the Ashley Madison hack you'd need to blackmail a whole lot of people, which is incredibly time consuming. So software firms would be able to underpay for most exploits: The amount they'd be have to pay is at most what a black hat can profit from the bug, which is necessarily less than the real damages because the black hat has to cost for fungibility.
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If electing the Condorcet winner in Burlington would have looked wrong, then that just underscores the problem of using a ranked voting method. You want a rated voting system like STAR, Score, or approval voting.

by the way, Fargo North Dakota just adopted approval voting for their City elections tonight.
Thank you for mentioning that this is currently Windows-only on your web page.

I've seen so many announcements of programs to do cool stuff that don't tell you anything about their hardware or OS requirements until you try to figure out how to download them.
Probably more likely than that it's a one on one fight where you both agree not to wrestle.
Another instance of the Wikipedia page for a product [1] being more useful than the main site to describe it:

* MemSQL is a distributed, in-memory, SQL database management system.

* It is a relational database management system (RDBMS).

* It compiles Structured Query Language (SQL) into machine code, via termed code generation.

* On April 23, 2013, MemSQL launched its first generally available version of the database to the public.

* MemSQL is wire-compatible with MySQL.

* MemSQL can store database tables either as rowstores or columnstores (The OLAP vs OLTP part I guess).

* A MemSQL database is a distributed database implemented with aggregators and leaf nodes.

* MemSQL durability is slightly different for its in-memory rowstore and an on-disk columnstore.

* A MemSQL cluster can be configured in "High Availability" mode.

* MemSQL gives users the ability to install Apache Spark as part of the MemSQL cluster, and use Spark as an ETL tool.

The main value proposition seems to be the distributed nature, which probably makes it easier to setup out of the box than, say, trying to setup a cluster MySQL or PostgreSQL databases which are not "natively distributed". Also, probably most useful when the data is "big enough" vs resources available on any single server or when reliability is very important.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MemSQL
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I'm thrilled to see Prolog logic-engine concepts heavily contributing to Clojure's core.logic library[1].

Because Clojure plays so well with the JVM, having industry applications leveraging logic engines is becoming beautifully feasible.

[1] https://github.com/clojure/core.logic
I think we do actually know enough about how the human mind does process images to have some idea of what is different. It is not that uncommon for humans to be uncertain about what they are looking at, but the first thing about such occurrences is that the human is usually aware of the fact that they are having a problem, and the second thing is that they take steps to resolve it, such as making hypotheses as to what's going on and checking them out, and/or seeking to get a better view (or other evidence) in a way that is specifically designed to resolve the uncertainty. It is this higher-level semantic analysis that is missing from current image processing software.

In these discussions, someone always mentions optical illusions, but only humans (so far) understand the concept of 'optical illusion', and recognize that they are experiencing them.
Cool.

To clarify: of course we'll need to find some way to keep a check on human population. But it's a generational policy issue which we won't remotely have the global social/political stability to address if we don't substantially curb CO2 emissions in the next few decades.
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Completely missed that. Oops.
That's a great tool. The other day I had a CSV of ML predicted data which I had to analyse. Created a google sheet with the CSV and wrote Query function to generate reports.
Unisys just uses emulation in their newest machines.
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Or just adding a small amount of random noise to the input, which would wipe out the carefully constructed attack.
Vultr has something like that.

https://www.vultr.com/pricing/baremetal/
I admit a little bit of that is pessimism from what happened at Fukushima from when the plant lost power to run the cooling pumps.
from Scientific American

> Pushing water past the core means pumps that are generally run by electricity. What happens when a reactor gets disconnected from the grid?
There are emergency diesel generators. You also have a battery system to keep instruments running, but that can also provide power to safety systems [which prevent a meltdown by cooling the reactor core]. It's all meant to provide defense in depth. First you rely on the grid. If the grid is no longer available, you use diesel generators. If there is an issue with the diesels, you have a battery backup. And the batteries usually last long enough for you to get the diesels going. [1]

All I'm saying is that we have a very short term understanding of cosmic events and extreme space weather events [2] and maybe a good percentage of nuclear power plants could withstain these types of events, but I don't see it as a viable long term option.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-cool-a-nuc...

[2]https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...
When we do that (and we usually do it for accuracy improvements, not resistance to atrack, that happens at the same time for the same reasons - adversarial examples are a misclassification problem), we change the exact attack that breaks the system, but there is no 100% accurate system - and since it's completely foreign, the examples that a machine would misclassify would likely not confuse a human.

The issue is classification currently relies on a very small embedding of the data which is pattern-matched, with no semantics. It has no way of telling that the difference between a dog and an elephant ISN'T that noise gradient, at least some of the time!
That would be really cool!
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Investing in 1968, your S&P holdings would take until 1992 to regain their inflation adjusted starting value.

The S&P has not always generated positive returns relative to inflation.

Sometimes there are 30 year long dips.
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Such feedback, while welcome, in my mind, is so vague as to be unactionable. Unactionable feedback is essentials useless to me as a candidate. If Triplebyte can give good, specific feedback without being afraid of being sued, why can’t employers? As long as the feedback is truthful and only about the technical[0] aspects, there should be no reason others can’t too.

—-

[0]: Granted, there’s always the nebulous “not a culture fit” to deal with, but that’s always going to be a thing.
>> "AI" (read: machine learning) [is] delivering enormous value to nearly every business on the planet

That statement appears to contain two fairly bold claims - could you share sources?
Some of them yeah. There is active research on this. But it is also possible to create adversarial images for soft voting ensembles of the 6 most popular architectures. Those strong adversarial images that beat the consensus, also have a large chance to fool new neural network architectures that the adversarial image creator never had access to.
Likely with different microcode.
"probably impossible for humans"

Based on what?
The good news is that you can probably reduce the unfairness, just not for yourself.
What are those "nice things" that blue states have that others don't? Looking at the two states in the TFA I can hardly see what meaningful good things CA has that TX doesn't.
I'd imagine GP was referring to "humans perceive straight lines to be curved when certain shapes are overlayed", or "humans perceive shapes of the same color to be different colors when filters are applied" sorts of optical illusions.

There are plenty of those, and I personally I think they're probably analogous to how adversarial filters fool AI classifiers.
Then I provide the legally mandated requirements as an optional feature the user can choose to avoid. This way I am still not forcing my (or anybody else's) politics on my users.

This still doesn't answer the question of why I would want to force my politics on my users.
This is not philosophy. This is "apples are smaller than watermelons", "objects must be contiguous to be the same object", "the thing that makes an elephant an elephant is the presence of several large key features (ears, nose, trunk, legs) and not its color". If machines are going to meaningfully process our data, they're going to have to agree with us on certain base facts of reality.
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Especially the websites/branding of bugs, like Heartbleed, SHAttered, etc. It seems like researchers do this to propel their own fame, for probably financial motives. I imagine it's pretty lucrative to have been the "co-founder" of Heartbleed just like it is lucrative to be the co-founder of a well-known startup.
Thanks for the video. It's very educational.
It's a bit simplistic, but this quote from Babylon 5 has resonated with me so much:

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, "Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?" So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

MARCUS COLE, "A Late Delivery from Avalon" (1996)

To be honest, it sometimes does get to me that if I had made different choices or been in different situations, I might be richer/healthier/happier. Of course, I might also be poorer/sicker/unhappier, too.

Most importantly, I also know that I wouldn't be /me/ anymore.
Can't wait to give this a spin next time I'm in China. Streisand[1] claims that Wireguard can jump the GFW and I'm interested in seeing how the performance stacks up compared to Shadowsocks with simple-obfs.

One particular feature I like with Shadowrocket on iOS is the VPN-on-demand feature it offers. I can tell the app to only turn my VPN on when on wifi, for example, since global roaming is itself essentially a VPN back to my home telco. In that instance, I don't want to route my traffic back up from Australia to the US (which I pick for my VPN due to its close routing from China). Can I expect the Wireguard app to feature something similar in time?

[1]: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
You will be able to at least maintain it, fix bugs, security issues. Maybe even start working on new features, promote your fork, revive some of the community, find people with relevant expertise, etc.

Databases are so lock-iny and critical that it's only natural for closed source database startups to be considered too risky to touch.
Oh, this might explain how I managed to cause the host OS to crash while running my homebrew OS when I was in college...
For some martial-arts, it may be necessary to account for the likelihood that bystanders will actually be close enough to be able to intervene before the fight has concluded.
At least, Google allows you to download your data.
> tons of problems with data over-fetch

What is the GraphGL story on caching and closest point of presence redirection?
We build a mobile app that consumes various "enterprisy" HTTP-based APIs. Often, due to how the APIs are designed to support a range of different frontends, we have to either fetch more data than we need, or do a bunch of granular requests where we would prefer to do a single large one. But most of the time that is outweighed by the fact that many responses are cached in CDN (Content Delivery Network). Since our users are spread out globally, going to the origin server for every response would in many cases imply a latency of 100-200 milliseconds, which wouldn't be acceptable.
The issue with regard to self-driving cars is that these cases demonstrate a disturbing level of fragility: we don't have a good handle on where the boundary between acceptable and chaotic responses lies.

You hypothesize that there are comparable examples for humans somewhere out there in the domain of all possible images, but the fact that, for all the countless cases of people looking at things that have occurred in humanity's existence, no-one has found a good example, suggests that, from the pragmatic point of view that you propose, image-recognition software has some catching-up to do.

Maybe a system that seeks consensus among several differently-trained models would be more robust.
Lambda labs has done some benchmarks.

> MIOpen[1] is a step in this direction but still causes the VEGA 64 + MIOpen to be 60% of the performance of a 1080 Ti + CuDNN based on benchmarks we've conducted internally at Lambda. Let that soak in for a second: the VEGA 64 (15TFLOPS theoretical peak) is 0.6x of a 1080 Ti (11.3TFLOPS theoretical peak). MIOpen is very far behind CuDNN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18197988
I think it's more that humor provides a great vehicle to commiserate with the pain of
others, and to explore our own pain semi-safely as well. It's almost always pro-social expression, and is equally so whether it's directed at
vain rulers or fickle rolls as fate. It can indeed drive social change (and usually with less violence than fear or anger), but that's not the only reason to embrace humor.

The universe really is funny. It's absurd in so many ways, and the flaws are so obvious, so persistent, and in such contrast with certain authentically sublime experiences and emotions... Until death and pain are no longer mandatory elements of human existence, it will indeed be deeply flawed.
Until recently I had just taken it for granted that it was what we do, but after thinking about it, what's the rationale behind taking away the right to vote when someone is convicted?
This is one of those things which sounds "obviously true" and but doesn't seem to be backup up by data.

There are plenty of high-population countries with low carbon emissions (eg Nigeria, Pakistan). There are plenty of low population countries with high carbon emissions (eg Australia, UAE).

There are rich countries with high carbon emissions (USA, UAE, Australia) and rich countries with low absolute emissions (Switzerland) or in per capita terms (Germany). There are poorer countries with high emissions (Kazakhstan) and low emissions (Vietnam)

It's almost like what people do matters as much as how many there are!