skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked in the places you suggested but none of them seem like cesspools of misinformation.

Political opinions from across the right-left spectrum, if presented in a civil and substantive way and without fake facts, are not against the rules here. Extreme opinions tend to get downvoted pretty quickly, though.
But farmers also have a self-selection bias in them. The average person is not a farmer.
Wait, what's on-demand and predictable? (Not sarcasm, I lost the antecedent for that sentence.)

Nuclear's on-demand ramping does actually seem to be between coal and gas, but my impression was that actually doing that absolutely destroyed cost-efficiency, to such a degree that it's usually better to just run at optimal efficiency and do whatever you can to recoup some money on the waster power.

Of course, we totally agree on the last point. There's room for major nuclear scaleup even in pure base load, and with a nuclear-heavy grid in mind it's not hard to work out a few peak sources.
Just curious, not trying to argue with you at all, but does that mean you’d discourage the occasional consumption of raw garlic (3-4 cloves)? I eat probably a few cloves of garlic whenever I eat Korean BBQ which is probably at least once or twice a month.
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Study summary opens with a political objective then summarizes a mass population correlation study, and ends up strongly promoting that correlation as causative and in support of the author's pet political program objective.

Wouldn't call this science.
We rent an office and the noise is fine unless you have noisy neighbors.
Because we have 100 years of free market capitalist based economic history that it would be unwise to ignore?
Netflix is not a "cable replacement" streaming service. Those services are the so-called VMVPDs such as PS Vue, DirecTV Now, SlingTV, YouTube TV, etc. The key characteristic of these services that differentiates them from Netflix is that they have some coverage of live TV, local TV, and/or sports.
I'm at a school where most classes have all of their materials online for free. Usually a professor will post lecture notes and/or slides online and recommend an optional reference textbook.

When I do need textbooks, I generally buy them instead of checking them out from the library, and most of the reason is that the library isn't open 24 hours a day. 90% of the time I can get by with only using books for class during the day, but if I end up having to pull an all-nighter to finish a paper or a pset, or if I've been procrastinating and need to do the readings for a class after midnight, I'm screwed. It's valuable to me to have the mental overhead free, instead of needing to plan when I'll be able to access the books I need. (As a bonus, it's a good start for building up a reference library, and I can mark up my personal copies however I want, but these are secondary reasons.)

I still use the library for studying, finding materials that I only need once and don't want to buy, and checking out items like USB CD drives. (You can also check out soldering irons and small power tools from our campus libraries.) I also made frequent use of the piano in the music library when studying music theory. But I'd probably use the library a lot more if it were staffed between midnight and 6 am.
I mean, of course there's no official requirement on what constitutes a "big tech co" but my point is more that I wouldn't consider Netflix's business to really be comparable to the others in the existing acronym. It has one narrow business line that currently has a lot of users, but will likely face considerable headwinds with a glut of new competing services from content owners like Disney.
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Well, technically you have a tail too. I suppose a better description would be a spine, stunted in one end (tailbone), extended at the top (head), with two set of limb pairs (arms, legs).
Ludum Dare 45 gamejam starting soon
Is malnourishment a problem among the poor in the US? Looking around, it seems the problem of the poor in the US is obesity.
Pi and its part in the most beautiful formula in mathematics (2016)
What I find especially annoying nowadays is that a lot of shows simply aren't releasing on DVD or Blu-Ray anymore, or if they do, it's in laughably small quantities.

For example; I wanted to buy "Final Space" on Blu-Ray, and it doesn't appear to exist. I then look for DVD, and the only place to purchase that is on TBS's website, and it's been sold out for quite awhile.

I really don't want to have to sign up for another streaming service, I just want to buy the damn show, rip it myself, and watch it on my server; sadly it looks like I'm somewhat in the minority on this, and I suppose I get it, but it does upset me that soon the only way to guarantee that I get to have something forever is via piracy.

EDIT:

I just checked, apparently the DVD for Final Space is back in stock. I think my point still stands, and I think that it's weird that a show that was broadcast in 1080p isn't available on blu-ray.
Geordie Greig: ‘Provocation is a good thing’
Services such as Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, Amazon ("non-Prime") Video, Fandango, etc., satisfy this use case, at least in certain geographies.
- Navigation: A sidebar that doesn't scale with their growing offering. Dozens of services stacked in a scrollable sidebar.

- Hierarchy: A lack of hierarchy concepts and the overall feeling that everything is scattered around. No clear defined boundaries between entities. For example, they have something called API Library, which for some weird reason, seems to be the default path to enable things that are required in specific service consoles.

Also, the way they compartmentalize things. Why is there a section in the sidebar that reads "Products" and then there are other sections at the same hierarchy level like "Compute"..aren't the services under Compute products as well?

-Discoverability: Very poor discoverability across all services. For example, go down the path of enabling one of their flagship services like Google Vision. The expected path would be something like entering the console > going to the sidebar > Finding Vision > Enabling API. Does it work like that? Nope. There's only a link to the documentation that explains how to enable it.

- Visibility: Ok. Staying with the Vision example. Now I want to see my usage of this API. It would make sense to see this data inside that console. Is it there? Nope. You have to go back and start hunting down where to find this information. Apparently they expect you to know that this lives under the API console, but there's no way to know this especially if you used the CLI or one of the "Enable Buttons" within the documentation. Maybe they thought those were useful, but they just break the learnability of the platform.

I could keep going...but you get the idea. This is not usable. I don't blame them either, to be honest. Even Google and Amazon have limited resources and the UX is a low priority for them since the value proposition is coming from other areas (security, reliability, offering range, price, etc)... but I feel as this space matures this is gonna become an area where the legacy of their poor decisions will generate issues down the road.
"The adoption of FPGA technology in the market has always been limited by the severe learning curve required to take advantage of it."

I vehemently disagree with this. FGPAs and their toolchains are notoriously expensive and proprietary. I have no doubt that if tool chains were opened up and an average person could program for it, you would see much more.rapid adoption because then an average person could start the learning curve much easier
Excerpt:

"Euler, the master of us all – who named both “pi” and “e” – realised that e^x also had a dandy Taylor series:

https://images.theconversation.com/files/114601/original/ima...

The exponential function.

Then setting theta (θ) equal to one, gives an efficient formula for e."
I remember that one from school.
I've heard several theories that it was an cyber security failure.

Using phones at poker tables, especially ones without RFID systems, isn't really a risk.
Browsers can also prefetch pages under some circumstances (I'm not sure of the details). In that case, the web server for sketchy-service.com now has your exact IP address (vs. the truncated address encouraged by this extension). In firefox this can be prevented with:

network.dns.disablePrefetch True

network.prefetch-next False
So, there cameras live-shooting the whole thing and another system that overlays rfid readings over it. The resulting footage than gets stored on some system and being broadcasted with a 30 minutes delay to twitch.

There's enough opportunity to leak this information in near-realtime via some previously planted backdoor (Postle is a former employee), or a current accomplice from within the company.
I love this:

A framework to make configs for > A framework that handles devops for > A framework that handles containers (docker) for > A framework of an app
Facebook’s Libra project officially loses inaugural partner PayPal
> I mean if a guy wins a coin toss 1000x in a row is that definitive evidence?

Nope. Just extremely lucky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHU-L3BLd_w (Or just spending over an hour and half trying to get 10 alternating sides in a row for a YT Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=917VgVGVkpc)

But even though its extremely unlikely to happen doesn't mean its definitive evidence.
I think this is probably the primary factor.

There's a reason the autocratic government in Civilization has classically been the most efficient one in the ruleset for military and infrastructure buildout. Having to get consensus is slow and error-prone. Decentralized decision-making is effective at preserving a status quo while making minor tweaks, but not so great for changing a status quo radically.

I think the US has major infrastructure changes pinned largely to wartime, 20s Depression, and other extraordinary events that gave the government unusual flexibility.
It's not quite fair to say the tooling is flat-out awful. Vivado is much better than ISE. The place/route algorithms matured (analytical placement rather than simulated annealing), and the software it's wrapped in grew up (it's now tcl-driven and much more script- and revision-control-friendly.) Vivado was a heroic effort and Xilinx deserves credit for taking software seriously, and getting so much of it right. If you don't believe me, try hiring an FPGA engineer today to work on an ISE project. You'll get an earful.

That said, a solid, open-source, mixed-language simulator with good SystemVerilog and VHDL-2008 support would change my life. Bonus points if I can embed it in C/C++ code a la Verilator. And, while I'm asking, can it simulate encrypted IP too?

This is one of the places where HLS may sideswipe the traditional RTL market: if you can effectively develop FPGA designs in C++, the entire approach to development/testing/integration changes completely. It may sound like a detail, but it touches every single pain point associated with a complex FPGA design.
Another way that nucleobases could have formed were in ice [1].

1. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/did-life-evolve-in-ice
PCI is really rather “good” as far as external auditing bodies go, they give broad guidelines on the kind of policies they expect and it’s up to you to implement policies that make sense and they only seem to care about ensuring access controls and heavy amounts of auditing.

HIPPA however...
There has never been a mobile platform that allowed desktop level freedom to install whatever you wanted. That has more to do with mobile carriers demanding it than the platform companies. Android has been the most open, but even then, the more carriers they supported, the more locked down the device became.

I have no sympathy for the ruthlessness of Apple and its dictatorship about no app can have its own App Store like functionality, but it's also disingenuous to put all the blame on them for where we are today.
As a Canadian, it's definitely hte "remember which show is where" part that has me really disliking where streaming has gone in the past year. Time was I'd open Netflix and my shows were there. Now I have Netflix, Prime, and Crave, and sometimes I'll have the same show on two of them, but different seasons. Maybe I'll start using an aggregator that will launch the streaming service that has my show, which seems like what Netflix was originally supposed to be.
Streaming services are competing with each other, even more aggressively when Disney+ appears on the scene and takes half of Netflix's content. The streaming service with no ads is going to win over the streaming service that has cable-level of ads, unless the show is so good to overwhelm that.
I have had similar experiences with it being arbitrary. I'll push up a quick bug fix for something and get dinged on something completely unrelated, meaning I have to wait for a second review to get my fix in. It's pretty frustrating.
Twin Births in the U.S. Are Dropping, and Experts Have a Theory
Here in the US, I got an MRI at a 3rd party lab (not a hospital), and they gave me a copy on CD-ROM as I walked out. I didn't even have to ask! I was quite surprised, as I assumed the results would just be shared with my doctor electronically. I have no idea if I would have gotten this same treatment if I had paid 10x as much for the MRI at Stanford Hospital. (I'm guessing not).
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Yeah, I buy Bellinger Blac carbon-fiber frames. Hand-made in Denmark. Not cheap, but as a guy, it's about the only accessory I own.
I think that when most people think of basic income, they don't think of the type of society you mentioned. That's something we hopefully will get to in the future, but we're still quite far from it. If we get basic income, then it's probably going to be much sooner than that, which is going to have widespread implications on society. Many of which we don't know.

I even think that most people would have no problem with a basic income type system when most basic goods are incredibly cheap to produce. After all, if it costs a penny out of your paycheck, then would you really mind if that covered the basic needs of everyone? The main issue I could see related to that would be if this somehow encourages population growth.
Do small indie IoT projects succeed at crowd funding?
I have solid experience with cloud computing, website development and I'm currently messing up with electronics. Should I spend my last amount of money and buy some decent tools (modular 3D printer, SMD station etc) so I can start building IoT projects that could get a nice kickstart through crowd funding? The problem is I don't have any kind of public recognition. I'm not a former lead engineer at Google or Tesla and I'm wondering if this whole thing is out of my league. Do you have to achieve great accomplishments and fill your Bio with tons of perks and awards before starting any crowd funding project?
It isn't anti-competitive if you have a choice of comparatively equal standards and quality and you choose the one that doesn't offer the option you want.
Yeah, 20 years ago. Now the landscape has changed massively. The only minorities today who can start a new company, that makes them more money than a job at a FAANG company, are women.
You are mixing 'value' with fighting effectiveness. Value to people for fitness, focus or whatever else is separate and not what is being talked about now. This guy is a political target because he demonstrates that TMA don't work in normal fights.

The other part of your comment about TMA thoroughly integrating large parts of MMA is not true in a large sense, though if someone took a class with lots of full contact striking and submission grappling it would be at least somewhat effective regardless of what it is called.
This. It's not so hard, any competent software engineer could learn HDLs in one or two weeks. The fucking toolchain though? Months...
I believe when the bridge was renovated a few years before, it was re-enforced to be able to take the load of a tram. The approval to run a tram over it came later.

Similar thing happened with the subway that was never built. The station and a few tunnels where already dug because of renovations but the people voted no on building a subway. That part of HB turned into the SZU Station.

The tram tunnels by the Tierspital where also meant for the subway from what I recall. When they converted those for the use with trams they had several issues like the tunnel being not heigh enough. You can see the tracks are very low and the electrical connection on top is almost completely compressed.
Yes, it's almost as though the traditional media likes to paint a bad picture of tech companies specifically.
I run it on a server and use calibre-web as a frontend. Has a nice UI and works well for my purposes:

https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
You can't remove them from FAANG. I mean, you could, but then the "N" would be meaningless unless you could find a suitable replacement that begins with "N". Adding either Salesforce or Microsoft wouldn't solve that problem. You'd need to ignore them in the acronym. If you change the acronym to suit them, then it's no longer FAANG at all. (Well, Nalesforce or Nicrosoft might work)

I realize this adds no substance to the conversation and should properly be downvoted to death. But sometimes you just can't resist.
You just paint a grid.
Slab would be part of main memory, not to be confused with swap.

~10% of the utilization on my system is slab.

[bjames@lwks1 ~]$ grep "Slab\|MemTotal\|Active:" /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 65976620 kB

Active: 6139820 kB

Slab: 605988 kB

That's hardly insignificant.

It sounds to me like slab allocation is specifically used to allocate small blocks of memory (less than a page). Ie a slab might be set aside for integers, then if an application (edit: not applications, see rayiner's comment below) needs to store an integer it gets stored in that slab instead of somewhere else in memory. I'm not a Linux developer, so I hope I'm not spreading bad info. Maybe someone else can chime in.

I assume this would largely be short lived allocations so I can see where optimizations here would lead to power savings.
That's fine, it's their life. But they have to live with the consequences of their choices which may include poverty.
Funny how such blatant propaganda passed right under the noses of millions of kids.
> a library that sometimes looks empty might be a tempting target for administrators trying to maximize the use of space on their campuses,

College Administrators are responsible for much of what is wrong with modern college campuses. Virtually all the growth in expenses go to these dweebs, who sit around dreaming up new ways of feathering their beds while producing a generation of morons.

I used to use the local college business library quite a bit; they sent literally all the books to storage and turned it into a glorified open office plan. One among many reasons they'll never get another nickel from me.
I also disagree. The main problem is much simpler: they cost too much for fundamental reasons. The die-size for an FPGA that would have equivalent power of an Intel CPU or Nvidia GPU would be huge and expensive.
No but what I'm saying is, given other exploits, this could be one additional hurdle for attackers. I.e. right now, if they figured out how to bypass the prompt, I believe (?) they still couldn't install a binary that isn't signed by Apple.
I still prefer that method. With frameworks I'm always worried if it's me or the framework when something goes wrong. You also don't have to worry about build tools or if npm update will suddenly break your application.

I have a personal project that's about 30k lines of jQuery on one page - if you want to see an example of what that looks like:

https://www.superanimo.com/editor
Haven't embrace, extend, extinguish always been used in a malicious way? I can't for the life of me figure out why any front-end framework would want to maliciously kill of javascript / web-design...

Also, I don't know if I'm just not understanding your full complaint properly, but personally I have not found your claims to be accurate, at least in my situation.

I use Vue and I feel like I've only gotten better with JS & general web-dev since. I occasionally startup smaller projects where I don't use any frameworks & I have not experienced any negative repercussions from my framework usage.
I would short Netflix at this market cap...

Even if you don't think Disney is a serious threat, they are losing at their own game to Amazon, which is producing objectively better quality content given their dominance at the Emmys over Netflix (which was nearly shut out).

They have resorted to overpaying billions for old reruns like Seinfeld. At some point people will wake up and wonder why they're paying $15/month to watch reruns and return to actually buying content again for things like that.
This totally makes sense. If the paper shows that A correlates with B, and interprets this as A causes B, but doesn't show it; and if you think B causes A; then this is a great explanation for their result.
> How come this isn't possible in the US?

depends on the course, major, and school. in my CS major you could pretty easily get away with not purchasing the "required" textbook for most classes unless they assigned problems directly out of the book. even then, professors would often distribute PDF scans of the relevant problem pages. everything you actually needed to know for the exam would almost always be included in the monstrous PowerPoint lectures, so you could just study these if you didn't need extra help understanding the material.
the same failed ideas

Saying that the idea of "a primordial soup produced the building blocks that eventually led to all life on earth" has failed because some extraordinarily limited experiments (spatially, chemically, temporally, and complexity limited) haven't produced cellular life is about like saying that the "fusion of hydrogen produces the heat of stars" theory has failed because we haven't been able to produce stable fusion here on earth. The scope of the effect that was likely produced in the primordial environment over billions of years is beyond basic human comprehension.