skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The growing share of renewables in the mix doesn't mean there's no place for nuclear in the future – it's a false dilemma fallacy. Also, Japan's solar panels may be visually imposing, but they constitute a tiny amount of total energy generation in Japan.

After Fukushima Daiichi disaster Japan shut down all it's reactors and switched to fossil fuels, not renewables, and this is the most tragic outcome of the disaster.

Neither nuclear nor renewables could entirely replace fossil fuels, we desperately need both. Hopefully Japan is restarting it's nuclear reactors (5 reactors were restarted in 2018) and investing in renewables, but I'm afraid it's still not enough.
"more Kms travelled. " might have some value if it means a trip that wasn't taken before is taken now. It has _negative_ value, massively so, if it means people who used to have 10km commutes all move farther out and have 20km commutes instead but cheaper housing. This seems to be what happens.

More people will die horrible deaths in their cars, more people will die walking and cycling, more people will die because their understandable fear of walking and cycling gives them a sedentary lifestyle, more people will die from cancer, lung disease, etc, more wildlife habitat will be destroyed, more sound and light pollution will destroy mental health and disturb wildlife, and the planet will boil a little bit sooner. But those are externalities and not borne by the person choosing to drive more.

But all of this is apparently just fine. Adults matter too of course, but it's striking that cars (drivers, really) are the thing that kills more kids than anything else, and yet people do. not. care. I'm astonished how much outrage there is over kids being killed by bullets but not those killed by cars. People in the US accept it as normal, though. When I pointed out I cared more about automotive violence than gun violence people would look at me like I had 3 heads. And then joke about running over cyclists.

On the bright side, it might encourage those who are able to emigrate somewhere nicer (Netherlands and the Nordics, basically), so I guess it's a gain to those countries.
Thanks, forgot about that, but it doesn't imply he didn't sign such an agreement.
It's been vehiculated that in Nederland, a third party photographer has to sign an agreement, that states the photographer retains the copyright, while the artists retain the right to use the images as they see fit. Giving these pictures away, for promotional reasons, to a small subset of close to the band 3rd parties, like fan clubs and sponsors, sounds to me like fair use of the right the artist has.

About how fair this arrangement is, you should remember that photographers with an accreditation do not pay the admission fee for the event and for a 3 days festival this is quite a hefty fee, I payed about 600 GBP for 3 tickets for Graspop festival.
I trade stocks so I need many charts open. Also another screen to code on. The issue is libraries don't have monitors in general so a single laptop screen is not ideal.
This is actually beneficial for pedestrian safety because it decreases the perceived safe speed for all sensible drivers, versus putting a 25mph speed limit on a wide boulevard where everyone drives 40mph.
> I've always thought that there should be an FPS where getting shot once is likely to kill you.

Real life simulators tend to be boring / tedious compared to mass market games. "Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3" is probably one of the least generous (as far as health goes) games I've tried to play, and it was tedious and boring. That's not to say one example means the idea is inherently as bad as that one game, but it does limit appeal significantly.

(Often the same FPS game will let you scale the difficulty from easy to something where being shot multiple times probably means death/restart/whatever.)
Making the case for changing streets to either not carry cars or enforce extremely low speeds is also difficult. We need fast, convenient transport so we can spend more time on other things, after all.

But I also don't think reality is always walking 10 blocks to get to the park. That may be true in some implementations, but it doesn't have to be that way and it was not for me growing up. And even if it was, kids used to bike much longer distances on the sidewalk to get to their friends' places or a park or whatever.
> What has the Rainbow Warrior III been up to? The Wikipedia entry makes it sound like it's just doing press junket runs.

Greenpeace is a "Raise Awareness" organization. Publicity and a good relationship with the press are it's core functions.
It's funny how the article calls Data Studio 'new'. It's been around for years. When I first found out about it in a Google training workshop I put together a quick report based on our massive BigQuery datasets and my boss was over the moon and so were the clients we sent reports to. I'd say its a lovely tool that competes against Tableau. Hopefully it'll survive :).
No surprise really, the word "socialism" has been used to attack any pro consumer / pro employee policies since the first red scare 100 years ago. Indeed up to the '70s, even civil rights was painted as "commie".
After reading more about stock index funds I'm more confused how their rebalancing works. I now understand that the S&P 500 index is basically the total market cap of the free float of the 500 companies combined. I just don't see why a tracking fund would have to rebalance at all. If you own the 500 stocks at the right proportion it should stay balanced as each company's market cap grows or shrinks relative to all the other companies. The only time you would have to rebalance is when companies are added or removed from the index.
Gizmodo’s source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-gift-for-music-lovers-who-have...
Around the fifth time this was posted I tracked down the study, and the big asterisk here is that yes, more roads do mean more traffic, but part of that traffic is mediated by more jobs and more residents. The way some people tell it, it’s an unmitigated negative. Not quite.
>and load content to the appropriate DIVs

Well, I develop SPA and never did something like that. More work to show button? Oh, it must be React or Vue. I find them very prehistoric. The way I write a button in ExtJS for example is

{
xtype: "button",
text: "OK"
}

That's it, no CSS, no HTML.
When I'm playing music on my stereo from my PC through USB, turning off the lights on my bathroom on the other side of the wall will momentarily kill my USB driver and as a result Spotify stops working.

Electromagnetic interference is no joke.
You just make ranges end-inclusive, and then it's x[1:10] + x[11:len(x)].

The best of both worlds is when a language provides both end-exclusive and end-inclusive slice syntax, as in e.g. Nim: x[0..<10] is end-exclusive, and it's very clear that it is.
Needs a hardware backer, like Asus, about 8 years ago. Looks incredible though, very beautiful UI.
You're describing changing your entire life for getting sick ( living abroad and quitting jobs, so you won't go broke) and act like it's normal.

You seem to describe it as some sort of vacation even.

Again, your narcism for life changing events is astonishing.
That's essentially their value proposition, though. It's an Ubuntu-based distro that has nice (if opinionated) defaults. If you don't like them, you won't want to use it. I played with it on an old(er) laptop recently, and I found it to be fine (certainly more reasonable than Deepin[1] which often gets trotted out as another 'Linux for the masses'), but in the end it was more work to wrestle with it than the benefit of having an almost-macOS, so I went back to stock Ubuntu.

1: https://www.deepin.org/en/
Hmm, that's a good point. I'm definitely more bullish on their power storage business, so if Ellison pushes them further that direction since it's more similar to the kind of business he knows, then maybe that's a good idea. Maybe Tesla is also big enough at this point to support multiple divisions with different customer bases and business models.
I wonder if a battery-inverter setup would give cleaner power for less money? For less than $40K you can buy a couple powerwalls along with a top-rate inverter/charger.
Well, maybe there is a lesson in that. We have to think about what the benefits of each person commuting is. Does it make sense to fill up highways with people going to work in e.g. fast food restaurants?

If the McDonalds employee has to pay $50 in fees to get to their job, it changes their financial calculations around whether that is a viable job. If enough of them decide to quit because of this, the restaurant will need to pay its employees more, subsidize their commutes or shut down.

If the restaurant shuts down, then it didn't make sense for them to be in an expensive urban hub, and the negative externality of the traffic their employees generated is gone. I suspect a lot of only-barely-viable jobs would go this way, and that's where traffic reduction would come from.

If they pay more, or subsidize commutes, they are paying to paying for the negative externality of filling up the highways to bring their employees in. The people who want cheap cheeseburgers in an expensive urban hub will decide if they want to pay more for cheap cheeseburgers to cover the cost. If they don't, it doesn't make sense for it to be there and the traffic isn't worth it.
> You need to be a Belgian to get the government to repay you

I don't expect to pay the same price as you. I will pay more. If it is still less than the US price, so I will buy from your country.

And yes, there are private for-profit insurance in some countries aimed at non nationals.
>Some with more or less government regulation, and with varying degrees of a welfare state.

The existence of government regulation means these countries do not have free markets, and all welfare programs are socialist in that they involve the government taking wealth from the people through taxation and redistributing it to those who haven't earned it by trading their labor.

>That is impossible under any implementation of Socialism, which requires state ownership of the means of production and does not allow such accumulation of private wealth.

You seem to have communism and socialism confused here, and you seem to be failing to see that socialism and capitalism exist on a spectrum, and most countries don't practice one or the other, but a mix of both.
Right :)
I do hope they pay you well.

Basically everyone outside of their little communist bubble know what the Clintons are all about. More power, at any cost. But it's ending any second now, mark my words. The stuff that's been trickling out so far is the tip of the iceberg.
The whole point of MAD is that they are perfectly willing to use nukes on eachother. For MAD to work, the threat must be credible. You can't both say that there's nothing to worry about, and claim that MAD works. [1]

A launch in response to a false alarm, a poor decision, or a miscommunication of launch codes are all possible outcomes of the current way that nukes are handled by Russia and the United States. [2]

Of all the things I am concerned about, 'Terrorists stealing a nuclear weapon and blowing it up ten city blocks from me' ranks so far below 'Some idiot in Washington/Moscow/A radar station in Greenland/A submarine off the coast of Kamchatka makes the wrong decision, and ends the world', or 'A bug in the Russian Dead Hand system[3] results in a full nuclear attack against the United States', it's not even worth worrying about.

> There are rumors that as the USSR collapsed, it lost track of a number of their small tactical-nukes (even if they kept good tabs on their strategic nukes).

Nuclear weapons have a shelf-life, and require constant maintenance. Anything that may have been lost 3 decades ago is more likely then not to be junk.

[1] For MAD to actually work, both sides must have perfect information, believe that their opponent has perfect information, be rational, believe that their opponent is rational, to never make a mistake, and assume that their opponent never makes a mistake. [4] There are fairy tales that are more plausible then this. Every year that the current situation continues, we are taking another spin at Russian Roulette.

[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls - there have been failures of communication, bugs in software and hardware systems, and typical peace-time posturing being interpreted as the start of a war.

In one of these incidents, two out of the three commanding officers were ready to end the world.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

[4] And for anti-ICBM technologies to not exist... And yet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_...

If MAD is such a great thing, why are we trying our damned hardest to destabilize it?
Here’s a few:

- chapters 4 and 5 of SICP

- Fowler: Refactoring, 2nd Edition

- Gehl: Cities for People

- Cohen: The Book of Numbers

- Drnaso: Sabrina
> I think the entire VIX formula should be restudied

https://www.cboe.com/micro/vix/vixwhite.pdf

actual forumula is time agnostic; VIX itself is an application of formula to particular inputs

> The VIX index and VIX futures and VIX futures options and VIX ETFs based on selections of VIX futures all rely on the trading activity of SPX options, and this formula doesnt have the same inputs anymore

from above link:

"In addition to the VIX Index, Cboe calculates several other broad market volatility indexes including the Cboe Short-
Term Volatility Index (VXST
SM
) - which reflects 9-day expected volatility of the S&P 500 Index, the Cboe S&P 500® 3-Month
Volatility Index (VXV
SM
) and the Cboe S&P 500® 6-Month Volatility Index (VXMT
SM
). Cboe also calculates the Nasdaq-100®
Volatility Index (VXN
SM
), Cboe DJIA® Volatility Index (VXD
SM
) and the Cboe Russell 2000® Volatility Index (RVX
SM
). Currently,
RVX futures are listed on CFE and RVX options trade on Cboe. "

but yes, agree, perhaps one should rely on the VIX number itself less readily..
Then you increase the time you need to spend writing your program. You will also most likely end up cutting some corners, and the result will be of questionable quality in one way or another.
Yeah, but this is Larry Ellison we're talking about. Do you want to trust his idea of "good for shareholders"?
in Auckland, NZ killing 1 person.
So quitting a job to get proper healthcare is normal for you?

Serious, go troll somewhere else.
Or, with less insanity, DC powered equipment running from batteries.

Which is still pretty insane. A good quality PSU should be able to tolerate quite a lot of noise. And power conditioners are already a thing.
I live in St Kilda, Australia and our council recently changed one of our iconic streets to almost exclusively be for pedestrians and trams.

Businesses protested for months about potential lost business, however as a resident I feel so much safer walking down the street. It feels like foot traffic has increased there, too. It's such an improvement.

I also like to think tunnels to apartment buildings could help us take more cars of the road and create more green spaces for people in the future.
I'm in the same boat (SaaS app in the health sector) and opted for Auth0 after using it a fair bit in the finance sector with work. I'd say start with that and once your app outgrows it then you can roll out a solution of your own but I'd suggest you don't try to reinvent that particular wheel when you're starting out.
Magdeburg Hemispheres
Very much true. I ended up playing games I didn't even like just because it was a way to meet up with friends from school who all lived about 15 - 30km away
Hah, oops, should have realised that.
It’s all three.
I've written some heap-heavy code and never used unique_ptr, but I don't remember ever causing a double deletion. What's a pattern which you figure makes one prone to doing that? (On that basis, I'm a little inclined to suspect that it may be more of an issue for programmers who came from a deeply memory-managed language like Java and therefore don't build mental models to keep track until when a given allocation is needed.)

(I have of course produced my share of memory leaks - praise be to valgrind - but they were all in scenarios where unique_ptr would have been too restrictive (without a Rust-style complete reconsideration of the code's ownership structure).)
Groceries are generally taxed differently because people need to eat. It is not a human necessity to travel long distances to work. It seems to me, if you subsidize travel for low earner you're subsidizing companies that pay their employees poorly, not benefiting the employees themselves. Maybe a subsidy for low earning jobs that are a public good make sense (teachers, for instance), but why should we give subsidies to private for-profit companies to allow them to avoid covering the externalities of their business?
> I am in Silicon Valley

Within a short distance of San Francisco, I presume? Do you have a family? Kids?

> What "most of Silicon Valley" are you meaning?

Anything not within short distance of BART station, basically. All of San Jose, Cupertino, Campbell, Los Gatos, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto (excluding maybe Stanford campus), Santa Clara, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, etc.

> Is there an element of "what I want where I want when I want at a moments notice" in your statement?

If by "moment's notice" you mean getting somewhere within 30 mins vs. getting there in three hours, if you're lucky and no mass transit failure happens - then yes, "moment's notice".

> Something else I'm not understanding that necessitates me owning a personnel vehicle?

Yes. It's literally not possible to do simplest things - like buying groceries, getting to doctor's appointment, going to work, eating out (and I don't mean Michelene starred restaurants, I mean local sushi joint within 2.5 miles of your house), etc. - using public transit in most of SV unless you are prepared to spend literally hours on commute, and you're good at walking distances. If you're lucky to live in SF, some parts of Berkeley/Oakland, etc. - possible. If you live in San Jose and have a family - nope.
Well, if you are a gun nut, your only options are to support Trump or support his opponents who want to restrict guns in a very serious way. Naturally, you still support Trump even after bump stock ban. This is perfectly rational. Nothing partisanship about it, IMO.
Sure, but I’m not aware of them being used in any significant capacity, so I don’t think it’s particilary pertinent to this discussion.
>no local variables

They're not standard, so don't use them. Instead I often find a subshell to be sufficient. You can declare a function like so:

my_func() (
local_variable=10
echo $local_variable
)

This is also a good strategy for helping you make purer shell functions.

>no process substitution, so one has to use temp files, temp named pipes or possibly joggle fd numbers

I don't find myself doing this often enough to care. It is possible, and if you're writing something which heavily relies on this perhaps you're better off with Go or Python.

>set -o pipefail

I agree, we've been talking to the Austin Group about getting this standardized.

I think we should go further, too, not by attempting to replace the shell with something that tries to do shell scripts better, but by making full-blown programming languages in which shell things are nicer to use.
Consider: drawing a fancy header as a way to clear other things out of your mind and start considering things like "just what the hell do I want and/or need to do today?".

Consider: unique headers and other doodles act as memory aids when you are flipping through old journals looking for a particular thing. "I'm pretty sure it was close to a drawing of a blue cat eating pie."

I won't argue that Western civilization doesn't have a huge problem with wanting to pack every moment full of "useful productivity" though. If one of these gives someone an excuse to get down to some serious doodling then I can't see that as bad.
Cheap data scientist = data analyst with a nice title.
I think that Larry was so far only in Iron Man (http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/G9UGuzVE1g-l.jpg), not in Spider-Man movies => so, sorry, he's most probably not carrying such a huge ethical burden :)

Edit: I would be absolutely interested in hearing Larry's wished next steps, but I don't think that board members usually release statements (I think that they only "steer" the CEO, help "facilitating" whenever issues arise and perform overseeing activities), right?
At what point does it stop being a hobby and turn into mental illness?
That seems to me like a different problem (one of education or enforcement of traffic laws), although I acknowledge that a middle ground helps. I have not had the same experience as you where I am - maybe that is because we have traffic signals in some places, or crosswalks with flashing lights in others, or more courteous drivers for the rest of it (unmarked crossings), but I definitely feel plenty safe walking around.

I also wanted to add one more thought: kids are a lot more capable than parents give them credit for. This underestimation of kids' abilities is particularly prevalent in modern Western societies - if you travel to less developed nations, young children are able to successfully navigate complex cities with much more unforgiving streets unsupervised, with confidence.
I have used Ruby, Python and Node. Built Angular and React apps using Typescript, Coffeescript, Babel. I haven't tried Elixir, but I tried Clojure. It took me sometime to learn the ways of Clojure but now I feel nothing can make me more productive. I simply cannot even think about going back to writing imperative/OOP code and working with no REPL. Clojure makes sense to me today, but if for some reason it stops making sense I honestly can't think of an alternative.
Yeah, I have cheaper and faster access to transit than most drivers can ever achieve—and I still don't use it all that much!

Why are people driving such long distances—and putting up with traffic—in their expensive cars? Is a larger house really that valuable?

I suppose the answer is "yes, it is that valuable", since we are where we are. But, like, what's wrong with people?
Yeah, because if something happens you can spend a year in court abroad as if it's normal.

Your logic is flawed on every post. You should visit a doctor tomorrow, don't forget to fly abroad for a simple visit...
Interesting vehicle, but the design is such a rip-off. Honda Urban EV in the front and Smart forfour in the back.

It would be interesting to know what the unsubsidized price is and if it ever comes to the west.

The e.Go Life has a similar concept but does not seem to be able to compete on price or battery capacity.
The other thing to note is that travel insurance is typically "Only for emergency care while traveling". You cannot use it to travel abroad for non-emergent surgery, nor for anything that might require LTC (long term care).
In "You Only Live Once", a platformer Flash game, if you die, close the tab and return later, you are still dead.
Type script is what will likely take over.
“The difference between a collector and a hoarder is a display case.” -John Hodgman
$100k in equipment, but I bet none of that went to an oscilloscope to actually quantify the problems they are imagining.
Yes, we're saying the same thing. It takes longer for the optimizer to converge when using larger batch sizes, in terms of number of samples pushed through the model. It takes less time in terms of wall clock time due to increased efficiency.