skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use basically the same process, but use a very simple programming problem at the end - simple, but amenable to discussing optimization and edge cases. I let the candidate choose the language (or just use pseudo code) and don't care at all about the syntax.

I find that this is very useful especially when interviewing juniors who don't have many projects under their belt for the first part. It's also useful when a candidate has good verbalisation skills, but poor programming ones (which happens).
2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Global Report [pdf]
I've made a rather hacky system that I carry everywhere, and allows up to 1 TB of backup in my pocket. It's not SSD-based though, it's only SD card, so it's slower. For backups I don't really worry though, because the incremental size is small.

I've got a SanDisk 512 GB SDXC card, into an SD female to microSD male ribbon, into a PQI Air Card (same firmware as Transcend, hackable with Ubuntu [1]), into an iFlash Dual, into an iPod 5.5G.

Usually I just use it for listening to music, but I can also use it as an SD-to-WiFi adaptor. Airport security thinks it just looks like a normal iPod.

Photo on Reddit. [2]

[1] https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=15.%20Transcend%20WiFi...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ipod/comments/9ldj8g/wipod_ipod_vid...
It’s like Rust is child of Python and Ruby but the real father is C++.
The main reason numpy isn't used in NN implementations is that it does not, natively speaking, have GPU support. Tensor structures in PyTorch and TensorFlow have the most solid backend support for GPUs (TPUs) and have a good amount of numpy's ndarray capabilities. There is recent work to put numpy on the same footing for deep learning. Check
https://github.com/google/jax
The companies using it has statistics that it works. They have no reason to publish such statistics since it would help their competitors.
I decided to stick to it anyway :D
My God, what a lovely post.
Flash handled responsive layouts a decade before the term even existed.
Unfortunately Plusnet does the same
…so your point is that ordering take-out every day of the month is too expensive and that you have to cook for yourself to make ends meet? I warmheartedly welcome you to the club.
< At this level of CO2, reducing it is not a very pressing goal to most of the people.

If it takes 30 years for 'this level of CO2' to stop climbing, it will be a very pressing goal with no non-drastic solutions.

Given that we still can't all agree that we've already f'd it up severely (derp) I see see no reason to think that people will feel secure with 'fooling around with Mother Nature'. The potential for these experiments to go wrong is real, unlike our confidence in our wisdom. Doesn't seem like an opportune time to potentially create more ways to screw ourselves.
For one example, the recent mass shooter of Philadelphia police was an African-American Muslim.
Like the comment below - started with Symfonator UI.

Generally I started learning symfony for new work then I keep playing with it more and more and.... then I started to have some personal issues where I have more things to do, to manage, to remember about and so on.

I couldnt handle it on my own on that point so either I solve my problem or will suffer.

I decided to solve my problem :)
Yeah Polish :)
Tempest for Eliza – Computer Monitor Am Transmitter
Feel free - some people already did it and I accept their changes.
Building ages in the Netherlands
My Precious Compile Time Bool (Long Introduction to C++ Move Semantics)
2013 was 6 years ago.

Meanwhile, I am confident that the point wind energy becomes cheaper than fossil energy was within reach much earlier than that.
Note that without peer-reviewed research - which I am not providing here - this is just my opinion. But I hope it counts.
No problem - it's changed already. :)
Between wind, solar, and storage, you would be hard pressed to “run out” of energy in a well designed system. Stating otherwise is nonsense.
Most software (including Python and Numpy and Go and pretty much every Rust program) runs on your computer's CPU. The CPU is good at running programs with a lot of different instructions and if-statements and loops and stuff.

But for neural networks, people often prefer to use special hardware like graphics cards, since graphics cards are really good at doing relatively simple math on many pieces of data at once. So they create special libraries like TensorFlow that can send commands to the graphics card instead of doing the math on the CPU. (And they don't use Numpy because even though it's highly optimized, it's highly optimized for CPUs, and graphics cards are a lot faster than CPUs at running neural networks.)
It’s going to be interesting as wind and solar gets consistently cheaper than even the marginal fuel cost of gas. i.e. even if you already own a gas plant, it would be cheaper to build a wind farm just to be able to reduce fuel use. We’re approaching a world where the primary energy drivers will be renewable, and fossil fuels will be competing with energy storage.
Gobliins was a great series of games, fond memories of the humor.
Loss of cultural song diversity in a declining Hawaiian forest bird community
I was thinking about this for looooong time - just now it happened that I feel fine to do this when I know what code style to avoid, how to manage project and so on.

We learn all the time so when I write new modules I feel like - damn I could do this also the same way in previous module.
Single people earning more than 110.000€ p.a. in Germany for example.
> The extraordinary real GDP growth in these sub-industries, in turn, is a result of the adjustment of price indexes used to deflate computers and semiconductors for improvements in quality.

Gag
> comparatively tedious languages like Rust will never attract data science practitioners.

Well, fast.ai is using swift now.

... I think it's fair to say 'never say never'.

You're probably right, rust isn't really the sweet spot for this stuff, but its also a case that python has some down sides that are pretty severe, and well acknowledged.
>Almost all formal verification in industry uses model checkers and sound static analysis.

But does it happen because it is the only option or the best option? Also, encoding semantics specs is hard, so proper verification of algorithmic side is usually not an option anyway.

>I don't understand why you think it's inferior.

Because it absolutely is. It forces me to use an additional tool when I don't really need to with good enough type system.

Ugh. Look, example: memory safety. For quite some time memory leak needed to be tested for. We have a set of tools for that. Than memory control discipline in C++ arise. And then we have linear types in Rust. With Rust we don't need a separate checker: everything needed to ensure memory safety is embedded into the language type system.

Similarly, with linear algebra basic constrains can be expressed in current GHC type system. However, promoting input values to type level is awkward at best, so Haskell needs a small advancement here. Again, I don't need separate model checker here, moderately advance GHC type system works just fine.

> Of course FOL allows quantification over predicates

Wiki disagrees with you. Oh, well.

>If you are, however, interested in theory (as I am), you can read my series on TLA+.

As I said, at best I might be interested in HOL Isabelle. And even that is doubtful, so far Agda and Coq appear more useful for what I'm interested in.
i forgot sao paulo was the city with no advertising until after i visited..

but the most vivid memory i had in sao paulo was when we were in the subway and as we're exiting the subway my friend had his phone stolen while his hand was in his pocket touching his phone. my friend was upset and had to take time out of our vacation to call his banks and cancel his cards, etc.. but i was actually pretty impressed how they pulled it off (definitely a gang, and most likely everyone around us was in on it). the city seemed fine otherwise.

actually the other memory i had while in sao paulo/brazil was lots of people wanting to take pictures with four asian dudes? anyone in brazil shed light on this? i know there is a big japanese community in brazil so i'm curious what their curiosity was with us.
So all the telemetry that Windows collects from the VM's you're running are sent to Microsoft through nested VPNs over TOR?

I don't think Microsoft minds or cares that your Windows VM telemetry gets send to them that way or any other way?

How are your VPNs and TOR helping you with the Microsoft you don't trust?
It‘s not based on facts but on feelings.

The facts show that GB had way more rights and power to decide than Germany (exlusions from certain EU rules everyone else accepted etc.)

Germany is also by far the single biggest financial contributer to the EU.

The GB politicians used to blame the EU for all their own problems. There will be a hard awakening coming at the end of the year, but I‘m sure the EU will still be their scapegoat somehow.
Why is this comment being downvoted? These are all valid concerns, and even though the tone is a bit negative, they need to be addressed. We can't just ignore the viewpoints that challenge our views. I'd be much more interested in comments explaining how these problems with consistent energy supply can be solved, than downvoting this question. In fact, I'd like this question to be encouraged if it helps inform me of solutions to the storage side of the grid...
I wonder if these guys are a bit quick to give themselves credit.

There's a lengthy (and depressing) series of posts by Ben Recht[1] that basically outlines all the reasons that model-free RL is effectively bunk if you have access to any model of how the environment evolves. These guys (as far as I can tell), haven't made any attempt to disambiguate how much of the improvement they see is down to having a model of the environment _at all_, as against the specific model they propose. I think there's probably more these guys could do to prove that they're actually onto something and aren't just confusing throwing compute at the problem with a genuinely better solution.

[1]: http://www.argmin.net/outsider-rl.html
I dislike parallel’s confusing options, but xargs does not report on progress.
CUDA is an important part of the story.

I think the industry is moving to 'MLIR' solution (Yes, there is a Google project called exactly that, but I am referring to the general idea here), where the network is defined and trained in one place, then the weights are exported, delegated to optimized runtime to be executed.

If such trend furthers down, then there will be very little reason to replace Python as the glue layer here. Instead it will become that everything is training in Python -> exported to shared format -> executed in optimized runtime, kind of flow.

Rust's opportunity could be to replace C++ in this case. But do mind that this is also a competitive business, where the computation is pushed further down to the hardware implementations, like TPUv1 and T4 chips etc.
really impressed by your work! Best wishes for the demo day!
You'll receive emails from copyright owners of they detect torrenting.
But that doesn't mean you have to act on it.
I don't understand how to design such a system.

The sun doesn't shine in a lot of places for less than 12 hours a day. In the winter, a lot of places have much less sunlight.

When men needed wind to sail the sea, there were situations when the wind didn't blow for weeks.

How much energy would your "well designed system" need to store and what is possible?

Yes, I read about that Tesla battery in Australia. Then I calculated how many Tesla walls a city like Munich would need to be able to survive for 1 week. I don't believe it is possible.

People rely on electric power. If the grid goes down in places like Germany like once every month, there would be uproar.
Or pssh
Lower availability of guns does not influence murder rates (much?).

Murder is when one human wants to kill another and that's not hard, humans are as dedicated as they are fragile.

What availability of guns influences most are homicides. Where you don't necessarily want to kill another human but you want their stuff or you want to teach them a lesson, also accidental deaths and I think suicides (probably quickness and decisiveness draws people).
Windows Defender is a superior AV solution for the same reason first party map solutions are superior to third party.

When part of your core functionality is dependent on coverage and total install count, you're never going to beat someone who leverages control of a lower part of the stack.
Smart plastic incineration posited as solution to global recycling crisis
Parallel is written in Perl, not a compiled binary. That may be what he was referring to. I also wish Perl (and ruby, and Java) would go away.
Why do it the hard way?
Ironically those are the same people who will install 2 or 3 different virus scanners simultaneously ("just in case") thereby making their PC as unusable as it would be with even the worse virus.
At the moment you just maintain a gas backup infrastructure. Depending on how large your grid is and the intermittency and variation of its sources of electricity, you can assume a certain level of output, then the gap between that and maximum demand needs to be maintained as backup. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, gas plants have a low up front capital cost, with a high marginal fuel cost, so having plants available but used less frequently is not a serious economic barrier.

In the long run energy storage techniques will come in which will displace some use cases for gas, how quickly that happens depends of technological development. As you say long term storage isn’t likely to be achieved by Lithium ion batteries, it’s more likely to be Flow batteries or Hydrogen production. Although Lithium batteries can shift storage throughout a day, and also balance the grid on near instantaneous timescales, which is useful.

Another possibility is overbuilding renewable generation, if solar is very cheap you could produce twice as much as you need in Summer in order to produce enough to meet demand in Winter. That can drastically reduce the need for long term storage, but depends on the properties and cost of the renewable technology in a particular location.
QE is made for Southern Europe, the North has argued against it for years (especially Jens Weidmann). Draghi is Italian.
Agreed! Blender is so good and widely used now that it makes perfect sense to tightly integrate with it for your assets creation pipeline.

The most popular Blender-connected game engine around right now is Armory3D. There is an early WIP successor to that being built in Rust by a former Armory developer: https://github.com/katharostech/arsenal
So why is the Hinkley Point C strike price about twice that, at £90/MWh?

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_Strike_price_deal_for_H...
Google Translate isn't banned in China.
Storage is very important, but there are many places in the world where wind and weather are pretty constant.
As a side note: If that would happen here in Flanders, not even Dutch speakers would be able to translate it. We have so many local dialects with their own pronunciation, and region bounded words, that only local people would understand what is written.
I see you got downvoted.

Your comment touches on topics outside the current article and its discussion. The reason is that Electrical grid balancing has been commented elsewhere; the economic operation of plants has also been commented in other discussions; if wind is blowing - there is energy left on the table without it being used; if operating a plant on fossil fuels, those fuels still have to be delivered. Wind energy is variable input, but review data on its variability over span of days.

Overall, having variable input of energy in an electrical grid is not the blocker. It is also an extensive - and ‘done enough for now’ area of research.

The variability is not what has slowed down wind energy deployments.
Have you made simulations or calculations to this effect? (or alternately, point me to the analysis of those who have). I'm not sure hand-waving it away as it'll wash out on average should be a valid response to something as critical to modern life as the power grid.

Some questions that might be interesting:
What is the current downtime of electricity. What would be the desired goal for the new mixed / renewable grid?
Given existing patterns of wind and solar generation, how much storage needs to be installed to reach this goal?
How much would this storage be expected to cost at today's prices, and then with projected future savings from scaling (this could be used as a higher bound)?

The reason "running out" might be a valid concern is that the power grid is currently reasonably robust. Turbines are massive, with a great deal of inertia, meaning that even if something drastic were to happen, they can often cope with spikes in load long enough for extra production to ramp up. Wind and solar less so. Batteries presumably would be pretty great for ramping up, assuming we get enough of them on the grid. But then the economics needs to take into account the price of not just the renewables, but also generation.
For anybody interested in these, Erlang has an implementation of both sets and trees apparently in its standard library. The documentation claims that they perform better than AVL trees.

trees: http://erlang.org/doc/man/gb_trees.html

sets: http://erlang.org/doc/man/gb_sets.html

source for trees: https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/stdlib/src/gb_...
They're never going to "get all users" because you need Apple hardware. And unless they plan on selling $50 iPhones that's never going to happen.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

OP is just saying we can't prove it doesn't work.
Quantum noise does not automatically mean quality randomness

These discussions about randomness have the tendency to get too philosophical. In practice technical details matter more. For cryptographic or statistical applications you need steady quality.

256 bits of random state that gets slowly updated with few random bits from physical source (thermal or quantum noise), is enough when it's fed into PRNG process that whitens it.
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I’d say that at heart they’re a utility company rather than a tech company.
This is pretty confusing. You mean you don't get replies to your cold emails? If that's the case I'd say your real problem is figuring out a way to actually get in touch with relevant people. Only they can answer your question.

No matter how unfeasible your product is, getting someone to talk to you is always possible.
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

If you don’t have enough brand awareness to get your PR out there just latch your story onto someone that does...
Some years ago I found Mcafee Enterprise doing something similar, where it added a unique ID to the user agent string on Firefox. It didn't inject it tlat runtime though, it actually modified your Firefox profile files to set it.

I presume this wouldn't allow tracking in private browsing mode (I guess Firefox doesn't use the standard user agent), but still not good.
Tidy your room ( and keep it that way), C++ Builds, Ubisoft, Reboot Conf
Privacy for average people will never be a fair fight in limited democracies. The people need to demand a more direct democracy to be able to draw tighter lines.

FTFY
I wouldn’t call Swift a tedious language.

With type inference, immutability, etc, Swift is far from tedious:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift_cookbook.html?topic=stri...

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift_cookbook.html?topic=dict...

It’s not quite as nice as Python but it’s an enjoyable language.
> Take all the money spent on ineffective things like paper recycling and disallowing plastic bags, and put it towards the technologies that can really help, like cheaper solar power, cheaper wind power, cheaper batteries, and carbon sequestration.

Isn't this a false dichotomy?
I'm not underestimating anything: traffic and revenue data is publicly available for most of those sites. Only a tiny fraction of content creators earn any significant income. Everyone else in the long tail are just picking up crumbs.
That's what some people seem to think about Pocket belonging to Mozilla or Mozilla owning part of Cliqz... it's OK if they have a business relationship that loosely looks like control
At our (NZ) BP pumps we drive up, open the “BPMe” app, choose our pump number, enter a 4-digit PIN, fill up, replace the nozzle and drive off.

Another retailer (Z Energy) has a new “Fastlane” service where you drive up, fill up, then drive off. It uses a camera pointed at your vehicle’s licence plate to figure out who to charge. (I haven’t used this, though. I’m a staunch BP customer.)
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Wasn't the argument you're responding to that Defender is the superior solution so that you don't have to trust other vendors than Microsoft, of which the trust point is moot if you've already chosen to run Windows?
Yes, 90's were Wild West for Romania. We had no legislation hence a lot of stuff could and was done by ignoring the state. Those in charge were more busy selling stuff to fill their pockets then legislating. And all those neighborhood networks eventually merged so right now in Romania, on any given city, you can have a maximum of 3 ISP to chose from. We still do have good internet but we are starting to fall behind and soon I'm afraid I'll see here the same situation that is in US as in one ISP on any given zone and crappy internet speed.
What do you mean by producing twice as much in Summer to meet demand in Winter? Because much of our energy consumption is immediate, and can't be easily stored (e.g. heating, cooking, browsing the internet etc).
The Chromium based edge has not been released outside of Insider/Beta previews currently so the GP’s experiences aren’t relevant to the current chromium based builds.
There are different reasons to try things, this is worth trying because we have so many roads and using even a part of them for energy production would have an enormous impact.
Michael Moore is about to release a documentary essentially arguing that what you stated is largely a hoax. I don't have an opinion because I don't have the knowledge. But Moore is pretty credible to people on the left, I wonder what the impact of this will be.
Messages should be sent from client to client. The server layer can be skipped. But the client could of course be a cloud based email solution. Messages would need double opt in, which would be baked into the protocol. Id's would be a random hash. Personal messages could be trust based eg. "Do i know this person" and corporates could use certificates. Once a user has opted in to receive messages from a id/hash the receiver would generate a challenge at the start of each session, either using a shared secret or public key crypto (also baked into the protocol). The protocol should have a standard for sending simple text. But then allow extension protocols, for example implementing voice/video. With capabilities eg. Client tells the other client what formats it accepts.
Very impressive visualization, works smoothly even on a mid range Android phone.
Mozilla has a proven record of remotely installing extensions on your browser to advertise TV shows[0] and sending your entire browsing history to a third party ad company[1]. A clean record indeed.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
Why can't people who study to get good at algorithms also study to write better code? They've already demonstrated their aptitude for learning difficult things.