skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is uncanny.

I would expect a language model to pull up different person names for each time that one was called for. For a person name to be consistently used through several paragraphs it is not enough to rely on word co-occurrence.

If I had to produce a text like this I would simply take an existing text and replace randomly chosen words with other similar words (as hinted by amvalo). Similar as in - words that tend to occur in similar contexts. So John->Bob throughout entire text. But that would not be a language model product anymore, and where is fun in that?

I should set aside some time to read this paper.
What kind of rates and from which lenders are you seeing on solar loans in 2019? Thinking of it in the next 10 years, wondering about the specifics of cost in the Boston area.
And this goal is laudable when you're teaching basic literacy and numeracy. If you're trying to teach mathematics or professional software development then it's less practical and probably not even possible.
John Preskill – Introduction to Quantum Information (Part 1)
The problem is people in small niche businesses often don't have the money to pay what amounts to a sustainable amount relative to what a software developer capable of striking out on their own could make with nearly zero risk by working for one of those behemoths (or really anyplace where tech is a competitive enabler or differentiator).
How are you defining subsidy? Tesla cars were not cheaper at the price level, a buyer in 2018 and before just gets a tax credit of $7,500 upon tax filing.
This is absurd. Some other businesses might marginally offset the losses, but only marginally.

That being said, businesses, like people, should have equal protection under the law. I amazon gets a sweetheart deal, every other business should too.
Trusting any government to regulate massively-powerful information clearing houses is a mistake, because they will inevitably, eventually, and maybe even (best case) unintentionally abuse it for their own ends, as history has demonstrated.

Trusting those clearing houses to regulate themselves is a mistake, because they have already abused their power for their own ends (profit).

We should never trust any organisation to work against its own interests or those of its members. They must all be required to be utterly transparent in relevant actions and reasoning behind those actions.
I remember you could always tell apps that were written in Delphi by the non-standard Ok/Cancel buttons with the icons.
Yes, but no charts ! No way to chart the price drop of the e vehicle you are interested in buying !

At least you should be able to click on the vehicle you are following and get a listing of running prices all the way back in history since this site came online.
Use i3, and switch the default keybindings from using j/k/l/; for movement to using h/j/k/l like vim. Increase the amount you can move floating windows with the keyboard from 10px to 100px per shortcut keypress. Same thing with the window resizing shortcuts.

Make CapsLock be another Escape. That key is more useful that way.

You can have bash or zsh use vi-keybindings with a simple `set -o vi`.

You can have all REPLs that use readline use vi-keybindings with a simple `set editing-mode vi` in ~/.inputrc.

If you use either urxvt or tmux, you can setup a mode that allows you to control the cursor in the terminal buffer and copy things. This is tremendously useful for when you executed a command and you want to copy piece of the output to use in a new command. You can do it in a few keypresses. Guess what? In both of these you can setup vi keybindings for the cursor movement.

Now that everything's been set to use vi keybindings, get good at using them effectively.

Get creative making keyboard shortcuts. I have a shortcut that toggles the placement of all floating windows in the current workspace to another new workspace. So I can just hit that to hide all floating windows, work on the tiling windows below, and then call the floating windows back when I need them.

You can browse quickly in Firefox using only the keyboard without needing extensions like Vimperator. When you want to click a link, just Ctrl-f and type some unique text from the link, hit Enter until you focus the link you wanted, then Escape and Enter (or Ctrl-Enter if you want a new tab). If you want to use text near the link because the link's text is too common or is an image, then do it and then use Tab or Shift-Tab to select the link you want.

Now, you can put the mouse in your drawer.

Just joking, there'll be annoying sites that instead of using <a> tags for things, they decided to put a click event listener, so you'll have no choice other than refusing to use those sites.
Few years ago they obviously realized this and created free of charge "community" edition (IIRC it is licensed in the "it's free unless you make more than X with this" way, like Unreal Engine).

The target customers for the paid editions obviously are developers of custom line of bussines applications. And in that case the license cost is somewhat justified, as the IDE and it's libraries are essentially directly usable for that, while everyone developing similar things in notionally free of charge Visual Studio is going to buy DevExpress and ReSharper.
This tends to be the bargain for natural monopolies. You’re limited by regulation but you basically cease to have competition (like.. Comcast).
McCarthy:Mueller’s report is for an audience of one,but it isn’t President Trump
Where can I buy a motherboard and CPU, in super low volumes, right now?
Source.com (YC W17) Is 100% Remote and Hiring a Senior Rails Engineer
There are quite a few new companies that are very interested in nuclear R&D. In the U.S. their biggest problem is the NRC.

A couple years ago I got to sit in a meeting between people from over a dozen of these companies, and a former head of the NRC. The reactor people said their biggest problem was that the NRC requires the design to be nearly complete before they'll even look at it. It takes several hundred million dollars to get to that point, then the NRC gives a simple yes or no. If no then you're done, if yes then you've still got nothing but paper. It's a very difficult environment for investors.

They said if the NRC at least went with a more phased approach it would help a lot. The NRC person was unsympathetic, said it wasn't the NRC's job to help promote or develop nuclear power, and was uninterested in climate change.

Fortunately Canada's regulators are more rational. Terrestrial Energy has spoken highly of them, has gotten through the hardest part of their process, and expects to get a molten salt reactor to market within a decade. Moltex has moved to Canada as well, and possibly others.

But it's unfortunate that the U.S. is so difficult, since with facilities like Oak Ridge it could help a lot.
The Virginia agreement actually has a clause to prevent that loophole from being abused to the $20 million/year extent. Jobs that pay more than $850k/year (adjusted upward by 1.5% per year) can only be calculated into the average as being a $850k/year job.

Quoted from page 2 of the Virginia agreement [0]: "If any of the persons holding New Jobs are paid “wages” in any calendar year in excess of $850,000, as escalated 1.5% per year, as shown on Exhibit D, the amount of wages in excess of $850,000, or the higher escalated amount, shall not be included in clause (A)."

[0]: https://d39w7f4ix9f5s9.cloudfront.net/a1/f2/85b7a8db41379e15...
But the internet is international - no local censorship is localized.

You won't want a random foreign government censor your speech.
It doesn't solve any of those issues. If one bank controls the infrastructure to mine and update, they can hard fork at any time. Why would another bank trust that system? The whole point of "distributed consensus" is to distribute the friggin consensus!
As far as I know scalable storage for base-load is not a solved problem. Has that changed?

Personally I find it hard to believe that we can live on renewabls until a european country goes 1 year completely on renewables (I guess Germany is probably the best candidate for that since they are going all-in).
They don't have private networking yet, so it's all public traffic which fits other provider models, although some don't have any bandwidth charges.
Well, if you practice trunk based development, (which at most, is short lived branches that aren't really suppose to last beyond 72 hours for development purposes), its not always best practice:

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

The heart of this being this point: sometimes the workflow of the team demands different ways of thinking about it, and its nice to have that flexibility.

Edit: worth noting also, this does something for those of us using this methodology (I am a big promoter of trunk based development with ruthless purging of short lived feature branches)

Opening WIP PR allows everyone to see several things:

1. what issue is being worked on
2. that it is claimed by someone
3. When that issue was started to being worked on
4. The intentions in solving the issue (if done right)

Those are real wins.

I wonder if the hub client will get a open draft PR option soon.
That's debatable. Your point is that patent would encourage diversity which I'm sure it doesn't change much. Worst it sometimes prevents advances
Child’s play. True capitalists (1) hire wage labor to do the actual work, and (2) enlist the aid of the state to do all R&D and later use any technology that comes out of the research (socialize the costs (risks), privatize the profits).
D-Chain
Shell companies and M&A make this a difficult proposition.
Anti-Vaxxers One Reason for 50% Jump in Measles, WHO Warns
IIRC the control rods were also bizarre and had graphite bottoms, so the first part of a trip (scram) was adding reactivity.

Prompt critical is prompt.
Ask HN: Open Source Self-Hosted FaaS Software
Can anyone recommend a well-regarded open source FaaS solution that I can host myself on Linux? I've ran into some limitations with AWS Lambda (primarily IPv6 support) [1][2] so I'm looking for alternatives and I want to break away from AWS a bit as well, so this would be a good experiment. The ability to schedule the functions to execute periodically (minute, hourly, daily, etc.) and to run tens of thousands (or more) would be required. I primarily use Go and some Python 3 functions in Lambda.

Thanks for any feedback.

[1] - https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=771807

[2] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41694477/how-to-call-a-ipv6-rest-service-over-aws-lambda
If batteries and renewables are cheaper than nuclear, how is it not a solved problem? You still need to build the new renewables and the batteries, but it’s cost effective and can be done.
It does seem strange in this day of cloud databases and connected everything, to differentiate their "Enterprise" product based on local vs remote databases[1]. A very outdated way to do things. I think Delphi has had that model since the 90s. On the other hand, they now have a Community edition that is free until your company reaches $5k in revenue.

[1] See: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions
I thought the reason why "Python is 2nd best" isn't primarily its syntax, but the libraries which are available to use (and big enough communities using them).

e.g. with Python you can find libraries (and decent tutorials/examples) for: a small or big web framework, computer-vision, data-science / reproducible science, machine-learning, natural language processing, web-scraping or website testing.
I honestly feel the opposite is true -- that the case was reasonably strong in the past and it's gotten steadily weaker.

Go back 5-8 years ago, and I might have felt like Facebook and Twitter were unstoppable monopolies. Nowadays I feel reasonably confident that post-millennial generations are going to widely abandon Facebook. And I feel reasonably confident that as Mastadon matures, it will take an increasingly large amount of market share from Twitter.

Mastadon in particular is surprising to me, because I did not think it was going to work. And sure, it's still minuscule right now, but I'm willing to bet that usage is going to steadily trend upwards. Right now, you kind of need to care a lot to switch to Mastadon, but there exists a tipping point where the user base becomes big enough that for certain communities it makes sense to just switch en-mass.

I think people underestimate how hard it is to get a small-to-medium number of users to switch off of a network, and overestimate how hard it is to get everyone to switch off of a network.

I guess I'm willing to bet that the fake news/foreign bots panic will last longer than those platforms, but I also can't think of how regulation is ever going to fix that. Maybe in Europe, but in America 1st Amendment protections are going to get in the way. Facebook has more power to ban hate speech and bots right now than it would if it were a public utility.
13$ for a rpi zero w like thing.. not bad
Ally Bank has 2.2%
For slightly higher yields, Vanguard has VMMXX. It is a money market fund and not FDIC insured, however.
Renewables will replace the most expensive fossil plants before the cheaper ones, which will make the base load price to compete with pretty hard for nuclear to match.
Comparable to rust in terms of type level optimization? I am extremely curious about this and I want to know more, can you provide me with references?
Hacker Who Stole 620M Records Strikes Again, Stealing 127M More
You're missing the point, he could've said brainfuck instead of python and the content would be the same: it's hard to motivate yourself to learn something new when you're already productive in another language and want to get work done.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted but I can relate. There is sort of a fashion to naming projects that I think many people don't understand. To me "cute" tech project names were fashionable in 2000 - 2010 (Shoes gui toolkit for ruby comes to mind) but like any trend, it was overdone and became lame.
https://www.openfaas.com/
But Android is still based on Linux and you need GCC to compile the kernel (yeah I know, other compilers can do it too, but GCC is in some kind of symbiosis with Linux, which is a good thing I guess).

I know about the Fuchsia project, but so-far it can't compete with Linux or other established OSes.
Wasnt the whole point of Virtual coins was to move away from Western Dollars and USD ?
Let us know what you think about the article!
Making sure that scaling is practical for the platform(s) you choose is not the same as focusing your efforts on premature scaling.
Uh, except for some the equation is really

E[winnings] + (entertainment value) + (compulsion) > cost

even if E[winnings] + (entertainment value) < cost
My point is, it would have been clearer and more honest to use the term “factory farming” if you’re talking about factory farming. I don’t know or care much about factory farming itself.
Current Global Trade System is broken and unfair

* USA company makes/invents/creates product

* Product made in china for USD$2 per hour worker rate

* item shipped almost for free globally

* item set GLOBALLY of USA RRP

* Item then converted from USD into AUD/JP/NZ/CA

* them then ADDED tax in AUD/JP/NZ/CA

* Item in USA for USD$200 ends up AUD$400 and NZD$425 and JP$385

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Unless you have a cat and refuse to feed it meat. That’s cruel to the cat, in my opinion.

Edit: Cats are obligate carnivores and can't physically remain healthy without eating meat.
The tl;Dr is that Waymo may make the mistake that Xerox did when it failed to successfully commercialize the GUI-driven PC they created at PARC, while Apple and Microsoft eventually did successfully. The article argues that self-driving startups may do the same thing to Waymo, which has yet to commercialize its (currently superior) self-driving tech.

Not a fan of the clickbait title.
This is why I love container tabs in Firefox. I like putting all of the recaptcha stuff in one container so it can't snoop on my other stuff (I'm too lazy to look into what it's doing with cookies and whatnot).

But honestly, I wish it would just die.
Interestingly, Google disagrees with the EU. So they deny doing what the EU claims they did.

Here's a read of some of the things they do out of legal obligation and other they do for selfish reasons and others for other reasons they believe are worthwhile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#Search_su...

compare an autocomplete search for sarah joeng, robert muller, or roger stone on google, ddg and bing and look at SSE results. Bing DDG show relevant political issues, Google is coy about those.
In context of the criticisms of these people (and more importantly, the interests they represent) that actually matter, they are functionally the same, silly distractions. Ocdtrekkie didn't equate bringing up that cup with body shaming, they simply mentioned that as another result of what I would call the same inability to be serious, even about fires that are still raging, causing suffering, and for which we have no answer and no plan. It's like some kind of pressure release valve I guess, and IMO that pressure needs to find a better route.
I think that's a terrible thing to do... There are real people which might have to find workarounds just to know what your initiative is about.

I'm also curious about the type of your initiatives, are they really local? Programming stuff isn't limited to the US[1].

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#methodology (only 25% of the stack overflow 2018 survey responses were from North America in general)
I found this one by Terence Tao, though I haven't checked it yet: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/115a.3.02f/

Tao is a top mathematician who is well known for his ability to make complex topics seem simple (see his blog https://terrytao.wordpress.com) so his class is probably worth checking if you are interested in linear algebra.
I think "esp32 like thing" is probably a closer comparison.
https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unleashed

You have to get the extension board if you want PCI-E, SATA, and M.2 connections, but it doesn't look like there are any available right now.
Have you tried contacting the developers themselves? http://www.bluez.org/contact/

That page links to a sponsors page (http://www.bluez.org/development/sponsors/) so they seem to accept donations of hardware and money.
Is there an easy-to-implement, simple-to-use alternative solution out there that delivers better UX, does not require i18n treatments and stops spambots just as well?

I'm not seeing any except asking questions about the site, and even that takes effort to translate. Numerical math questions I assume can be easily bypassed.
Riot 1.0, client for IM protocol Matrix with a much improved design
But there was definitely a time where Linux was competing with Minix, which was low price (affordable to a Hacker) and had more features.

However its development wasn't done in the open and it was not "free" (in the FOSS) sense, so it's usage in a specific setting (e.g. commercial) was not possible. I guess Linux open license played a huge role in its adoption and not just the fact that it was free as in "beer" (compared to expensive traditional Unix systems) - and within a short time it surpassed Minix features. There might be disagreements about technical choices made (see legendary conversation about kernel architecture), but in terms of features it surpassed Minix in a short time (and today sets the state of the art for commercial Unices).
The most powerful feature of a team of creators is their idiosyncrasies. The best way I found to build something as a team is to adapt the work to the strengths of the individuals.

Job titles squash the peculiar strengths and differences into a label and make managers treat people as fungible units of work. Too many managers define the work first and then assign it to the individuals, rather than define the work based on the individuals. It's very hard to make creators work on something they dislike.
That is a good point and I don't know enough to answer (if you have any good info sources about this I would appreciate them).

Aside from the Tesla battery in Oz (which is more about stabilization rather than primary supply) I don't know of any large-scale battery storage systems.

I get the feeling that we are ignoring the scaling part here (We Just have to scale-up). Since the battery systems would need to be big enough to cover dips in renewable output in a worst case scenario (brown-outs / black-outs are not going to be popular).

Is there any info on how many / how big / how long to manufacture these batteries and renewables would have to be to cover an example country?
Thanks for this, it resonates with me strongly but somehow I didn't pick it up from the book.
Back in the late 90's this was my favorite development environment. Still have fond memories of it. Back when "Rapid Application Development" was the buzzword of the day, it actually delivered.
Do you keep track of your KWh per month? If so, consider reading this page: https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o... and then plugging in the numbers. That will give you an idea.

For my house in Nov of 2014 the tiers were
Tier 1: 15 cents/kwh
Tier 2: 18 cents/kwh
Tier 3: 26 cents/kwh
Tier 4: 32 cents/kwh

And the baseline allowance is 10KWh a day (our house typically uses 24 - 28KWh per day.

Put those numbers in to your power bill and tell me what the number comes out to.
Plot twist: all the comments on this thread were auto-generated.
The runner-up: https://www.analoglamb.com/product/dual-core-risc-v-64bit-k2...
Why? Why should people have to pay inflated prices for treatments that have been standard since the 90s?

Edit: just to be clear, the price of Humalog, a patented analog, has increased in price by 700% in the last 20 years. This is not simply a case of newer treatments being more expensive.
The Brave Browser (https://brave.com/) is attempting something like this. (I expect compatible plugins for other browsers could be made in the future if its system takes off.)

There are complications that make this not super straight-forward to pull off. Low fees in cryptocurrency currently is usually done by having low activity. (There are several projects attempting to solve this in a decentralized way, including the Bitcoin Lightning Network and various Ethereum projects.) Then there's privacy issues.
The only app that really matters to have in common with the person I'm dating has been a chat app. It's not so hard to install one extra app. Luckily Signal is working well for us (not big Free software enthusiasts though).
I do not get it. If what you are trying to say is: “more data/computation helps”, then why even bother throwing in models, training objectives, and theory into your statement? We have known that more data helps for at least two decades, so saying this is stating the obvious. Are you then trying to say: “Right at this very moment we can push a bit further with more data/computation given what we have for this specific task”, well, then again this is nothing particularly insightful to bring to the table as surely this occurs at least once a month for a given task/model category.

This is not a matter of clarity, it is a matter of form – drop the hyperbole and speak specifics rather than trying to appease both sides of a fictitious divide.
interesting background you have there and yep, i agree on that it is an entirely different challenge trying to restructure the business to handle the bigger spending customers.

Anyway, thanks for offer but I'm not in SF!