skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those evil capitalists are choosing to build offshore wind, without subsidy in the UK. Gas expansion has completely ceased, and based on the last auction round for offshore licences is nearing a point where building new wind is cheaper than keep running existing gas plants. So I expect to see the decline of UK gas start soon. Fossil simply cannot compete on price. It would be even more of a no-brainer price wise, if we didn't have a government stupid enough to cease onshore wind.

Coal is almost completely out of UK generation - the single digit number of plants left spend almost all their time idling as source of last resort. Gas is next. It might survive a little longer as a fill in source used in lieu of battery and storage, again temporarily.

TL;DR Gas is on borrowed time unless it has been given an artificial leg up, i.e. regulation or fossil subsidy.
On the other hand, if you reduced the Federal government's power enough, it wouldn't matter who was President.

The staggering amount of power we grant to the executive branch is one of several elephants in this particular room that no one really wants to talk about.
I totally disagree. I was raised in a family of 8 kids, we didn't have any money. All my siblings and friends have had a good shot at the American dream, most of us have done quite well.

I've also lived in several different states. Haven't seen anything even close to 80% dog crap. Not even close.
My bedside table clock has that.
Go to UCLA in the morning and take Election Walk, and you will find 10+ different student groups reselling KKs, five days a week!
Yes, that's exactly what happened, but there was a massive lineup and waiting list for a lot of rich people to buy tether in late 2017.

I spoke with the exchanges personally, and the delays in being able to register to the exchanges and purchase massive amounts of tether were indeed real.
I don't see how it's different from any of the food delivery services I can use to get Krispy Kremes brought to my house. Not sure KK has a legal leg to stand on here.
100% agree to dismantle patents entirely. They are a hindrance rather than a benefit in today's economy. Show me one small-time developer who earned a little more money by enforcing license fees when Big Corp would otherwise have scooped their idea up, and I'll show you 20 bullshit cases out of the Eastern District of Texas that literally prevent innovating in entire categories of software. It's time to end patents and this bottom-feeding exploitation of the legal system.
The Bioacoustic Signatures of Our Bodies Can Reveal Our Identities
My school system was a mess when it came to their gifted and talented (GAT) program. In my case, I was identified as a candidate, subjected to an absolutely insane battery of cognitive, aptitude and other tests, and then pulled from class once a week to go to another school with other GAT kids. Once there I was put into a room and basically told to go do smart things with no other primer, driver, or material to work with. My own personal interests were ignored. I was told I was disappointing my sponsor teacher by my lack of output, with no particular set of expectations on what, exactly, I was supposed to be doing.

After a year of this I asked to be excused from the program and spent the next year in not a "normal" class, but a remedial class because the school had sacrificed their non-GAT classes to create academic space for the GAT kids. So basically you were either doing some kind of advanced literature analysis or you were being tested on how to spell such challenging words as "ball" and "dog". There were other elements of the GAT program that were similarly discouraging.

I couldn't get out of school fast enough and it was such a damaging experience that I didn't go back to university until years later.
Imagine a system existed whereby you could trade some time from your computer when it was idle for extra juice later. Some kind of credit if you will.
You can get a very good education at a pubic university, for example in California's State University system, for about $6,000 a year. It wouldn't put college out of reach, it would put going to an expensive liberal arts school out of reach. I think that's OK.
Just wanted to thank you and CloudFare for your work in fighting these rentseeking patent trolls. Why some people choose to be drains on the global GDP by stifling rather than creating still baffles me. Maybe you can shed some light on your experience as a lawyer and how one might turn to "bad law."
So many articles about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies today! I've devoted a lot of my career to blockchain, and here is my brief summary:

- Blockchain typically means a tamper-proof, distributed database.

- Smart contracts are like stored database procedures.

- Blockchains allow you to transact valuable assets - even billions! - without needing to trust your counter-party.

- However, you must trust the underlying software! This is a fundamentally different risk from usual financial transactions where you trust the institutions servicing the exchange, but not necessarily the counter-party. This turns finance upside-down!

- People can create financial products and services - even extremely complex ones - without any governmental permission, or if they need a real-world presence, permission from a regulatory body that is very amenable. And once granted, it's very easily to transact globally!

- If your curiosity is piqued, check out my blog post I wrote a while ago on MakerDAO and their decentalized stablecoin. It's fascinating! https://medium.com/@james_3093/the-dai-stablecoin-is-a-game-...

- Cryptocurrency and blockchain are some of the most debated, and IMO misunderstood technologies of 2019. They are interesting from not just a pure computer science perspective but also economics, philosophy, and psychology.
It's not the most liquid market, but don't be fooled by thin books.

If you push the price down with $5M, it will jump right back up.
I’m assuming that if you’re stripping the responses of RRSIGs you’d also deny requests for DNSKEY and DS records, returning no data and no error.
> on average, public-school teachers receive total compensation that is roughly 50 percent higher than what they would receive in private-sector employment. While salaries are at appropriate levels, fringe benefits push teacher compensation far ahead of what private-sector workers enjoy. Consequently, recruiting more effective teachers for public schools will be much more difficult than simply raising salaries.

https://www.heritage.org/education/report/critical-issues-as...
Totally agree.

- there is very little evidence that patents are beneficial

- there is a ton of very evident cases like this where patents are just used to rent-seek or destroy

- patents are collected by companies to inhibit competition across industries. Imagine if Intel, Nvidia, AMD, ARM, etc were actually threatened by competition from newcomers

- patents are the government giving a monopoly on using certain information. Information should be free
Do you worry that an unintended consequence of action like this will be for patent trolls to completely shift away from targetting companies with deep pockets for risk of blow-back such as this, and to exclusively focus on mom-and-pop-shops/startups?
The article eventually says this:

"Almost a third [of the blasts] have taken place in Malmö, scene of a string of increasingly violent gun and bomb attacks that rightwing politicians have linked to the large flows of immigrants who arrived in in Sweden during the 2015 migration crisis."

It does not say what fraction of the bombs were made by immigrants. A country does have the right to revise its immigration policy based on its experiences, so this is a relevant statistic.
>If Apple really cared, they would tell the developer that they won't rent any of that office space unless the development is more housing than office

This is the city's job, and it's the city that is actively pushing the office/housing ratio way out of wack like this.
How do they measure productivity?
I think the parent is just a little behind on the news. Docker used LXC internally at one point. Easy to miss!
What does the Laplace Transform tell us? A visual explanation [video]
I think this article is kind of missing the point. Literally any tradeable thing can be used for speculation like this. The problem with bitcoin is that it seems to be primarily used for speculation.
Wow - never heard of this before. I really like the story behind it. They even did their own clone of Pick OS. Neat!
I work in academic IT. My job is mission critical to the existence of 3 other project manager jobs. The bureaucracy grows to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy is not a joke.
Most of the changes they are touting as improvements sound horrid to me.

Amazon...? WiFi? Every park Ive been to is already crawling with tourists with selfie sticks, or that one guy who thinks I want to listen to his Spotify station.

Now if they were suggesting to surround the parks in faraday cages we’d be onto something!
Great! Depending on geography, one would hope this to be the case...
There is no true scarcity. I can create a clone of Bitcoin in seconds just by cloning a github repository and changing one line.
I think good people try to take responsibility for themselves before blaming others. So, yeah.

But the manager has more power than subordinates, so it's not quite symmetric. -- I don't often hear of managers leaving because of bad subordinates.
"The hope to change the world is a childish illusion. You have to change yourself."

Marie-Louise Von Franz
Seth Meyers' new Netflix special lets you skip the Trump jokes
And in the past East Asian countries like South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.

Back in the 70s, Japan had that reputation. Then South Korea and Taiwan had it in the 80s. Now that these countries produce valuable IP, they vigorously support and defend it.
The fdiv bug in the Pentium x87 unit was discovered because someone was manually checking their Excel spreadsheets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
Googles' WEBP lossy photo format
In that case it’s way less risky to just bounce a laser off the window and decode the signal coming back to hear what’s being said in the room.
I’ve seen all of those movies except “Joker” and they’re largely drivel, certainly of lower aesthetic and intellectual value than the films Scorsese cites. And I’m a huge comic book fan and illustrator. These movies are primarily IP cash-ins on work stolen from writers and artists through shady work-for-hire deals and other predatory arrangements.
Epstein had been convicted of crimes and was jailed because of new charges. But I agree with your overall point.
Voyagers 1 and 2 took advantage of a fleeting phenomenon - an alignment of all the outer planets that allowed successive gravity assists, and so let us send probes out to those planets and then on to escape velocity with a very small launcher/budget. These come around every 175 years, so the next point at which solar system escape will be that easy is around 2150.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour_program

All the ideas thrown around for follow-on missions have relied either on very powerful boosters (on the scale of SLS), smaller probes (New Horizons, a bit over half the size of the Voyagers and on a much lower-energy trajectory, despite a more powerful launcher), or an Oberth maneuver close to the sun in a very challenging thermal and radiation environment.
"This is just how the world works" is not evidence. Since you seem unwilling to present any, I'm going to assume that you have none.
How much of that is skimming off what the grad students do? ...who get a poverty wage adjunct position
You're absolutely right. I've audited over 100 suppliers in SE Asia in manufacturing, the kind of things you see is completely, utterly insane. I've been to Pegatron (Apple supplier) to some shitty PCB supplier where the boards are running off the conveyor belt in a huge pile. No other book captures it as well as "What's wrong with China?" by Paul Middler [1]. Dejavu after dejavu as I read through it. It is amazing.

I think it is safe to extend argument not just for China, but the entire SE Asia. Hell, some regions in Vietnam smells almost like those PVD coating chemical gas chambers in Guangzhou.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Wrong-China-Paul-Midler/dp/1119...
Or buggy. We're already running plenty of buggy code, but at least the errors can usually be found. If an AI overflows on some intermediate calculation sometimes because of implementation error I'm almost sure nobody will find that.
x86 is more complex than a Turing machine.
He said he did bad because he was bullied. Smart people aren't the only ones that get bullied. If the problem is bullying you aren't fixing it by pulling someone out, the bullies will just target other people.
"in 2019" is not a valid argument.
This manifesto forbids moderators from banning users on a forum! It’s completely unworkable. I profoundly doubt whether the author has ever moderated a forum before, say nothing of a meaningful social media site. Why should we listen to any of this?!
How can you be sure that the non profits who distribute Krispy Kreme Donuts in the same unsealed boxes that sell them as fundraisers with Krispy Kreme’s blessings aren’t selling unadulterated products?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/Fundraising_KKD/2015KKCIFUNDRAISING...
Doesn’t work super well when your clock needs an unobstructed view of the sky. How many clocks in your house have that?
I mean, imagine telling that to people living in poor countries.

Please travel or read about the world to get some perspective.

Seriously, if you were born in a country like the U.S. in modern times, you won the birth lottery.
I make wordclocks as a side project[0]. Mine connect to the internet via wifi to update the time. The user only needs to set the time zone offset since there is no location lookup.

The clock has no app and doesn’t require an account. At start up, is has a softAP that you connect to with your phone so that you can give it your wifi credentials via a simple self hosted web server/form.

Why use internet for time? Simple, I couldn’t find a stable RTC on a small, inexpensive, off the self microcontroller board. But I could find one with wifi. My early prototypes used an Arduino UNO. That has awful RTC stability since is doesn’t use a crystal but rather an R/C oscillator for timing.

I don’t think my customers want an extra app if there really is no reason. Why not use a built in web server?

[0] http://www.finewordclocks.com
UChicago 2011 here as well, except actually class of 2010 because I couldn't afford to keep paying the tuition as my parents were both unemployed due to the financial crisis. I remember the financial aid office saying they could use the last two or three years of prior income rather than consider unemployment as a current and urgent condition. They literally said something along the lines of, "Your parents are smart, they will find a job soon, statistically speaking." They also capped my work at 20 hours a week as an employee of the University, which made it really fun for various departments to pay me via bonuses instead.

I feel you, and had a very similar experience academically and socially. It's not easy to get by minimal GPA filters when math professors declared that a C would be a great grade worthy of a good recommendation to a PhD in math. There's no easy way to tell that to an HR screener! I also found to great sadness by the end of my first year that I had more online friends than classmate friends. Looking back, it seems this was the time when the university just started to realize that it needed to prepare students for practical work. And that sort of experience can be gained at a lot of different universities.
Dolby has a 9 hour workday and a Friday off every other week IIRC.
Just playing devil’s advocate, companies will still want to protect their investment and competitive advantage. Without patents do we start seeing even more aggressive pushes towards implementations (ie cloud) that simplify maintaining trade secret? And longer more egregious non-competes?
Better question- if this is so profitable why the hell aren't there more Krispy Kreme spots?
Apparently (and I am no expert), The Laplacian Transform is a superset of the Fourier Transform, and the Fourier Transform is a subset of the Laplacian.

Also, apparently the Laplacian Transform can be used to convert Calculus derivative equations into algebraic ones...

Again, I am no expert; what I've noted is based solely on the claims in this video...

But, some fascinating stuff...
What's up with the Pikachu references? I don't get the joke.
I think TDD is fundamentally appropriate (and a blessing). I see it as generating proofs for claims that your software does X,Y,Z. This is invaluable to me and has given me confidence in rollouts to production.
I wonder if it would be feasible to have some type of patent troll defense SaaS that could help defend you?

It would almost be like a security company, where you have a sign, “Protected by AntiTroll.”
> It is very difficult to explain something which was obvious to you.

I think that's the point. Teaching the kids who are performing well on something on how to distill their knowledge to others.
I got approved as well: https://github.com/sponsors/stared/

It looks like a minimalistic Patreon (intro + tiers + posts for the sponsors). While I like the clean design, it misses the motivating parts:

- Listing the number of sponsors (oh, other people support them too!)

- Goals.

Personally, I don't count to get any suitable income. At the same time, I hoped to get motivation - people caring about my projects enough to pay $2.

I ended up getting hundreds of likes on FB + LinkedIn, I got first nothing (it was disheartening) and then 2 sponsors (well, I am grateful to them).

Meanwhile, a few times I got invited for an open-source project thanks to my other open source project (now I am at CQT, Singapore invited to develop an open-source Quantum Game 2.0)!

So my question is: even within open-source, is crowdsponsoring a viable model?
Lawyer, FB exec, doctor, ... the cohort of my talented and gifted class would beg to differ.
Can you solve it? Would you get into Oxford?
> One thing I find crazy is the very same institutions that are generally very left leaning

Why? Being Left leaning is easiest when it's not your money. Yes! Raise our tuition! More levies! Mommy and daddy will pick up the tab. If not the government-backed loans will take care of it and I just won't pay for it. After all, those capitalist boomer tax payers should subsidize my virtuous leftist existence.

It's just like left leaning policies everywhere in the world.
Banning users from a forum is literally the second right I list.

> Both users and communities have the right to filter and organize the content they consume and host

https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/#right-to-filter
You can help the top 90% by keeping the bottom 10% away from them. And similarly, you can probably help that bottom 10% by removing the bottom 1% (the bottom 10% of the bottom 10%) from their environment.

You can probably get good milage out of recursing this up until the point you're dealing with fractional people.
Yeah, that’s a helluva badass parent.
It's been 3 years since Adobe first showed off their voice impression and editing feature (unreleased): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw

Though this is very impressive, it seems to take longer and longer to make those tiny improvements that make all the difference wrt believability.

N.B. The most convincing TTS I've ever heard (predating Lyre by quite a bit) generated things like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20190803012012/https://instaud.io...
On the topic of crowdsourcing prior art, I found something interesting from googling around a bit that I wonder if anyone here might know anything about:

https://www.uspto.gov/page/roundtable-uspto-use-crowdsourcin...

https://www.uspto.gov/patent/initiatives/uspto-led-executive...

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/0...

In 2014 there was an executive order "focused on expanding ways for companies, experts, and the general public to help patent examiners, holders, and applicants find relevant “prior art”". (The other executive actions on that archive.gov page look interesting too.) But I can't find any info more recent than the 2014 roundtable that the USPTO held. Does anyone here know anything about this?
"Right to be forgotten" can turn into "right to rewrite history" in practice, which I suspect is why a lot of people are against it.
> Nietzche said something along the lines that we get the rights we fight for, and we will lose those we stop caring about. Are you willing to die for your right to, for example, filter?

Whys such extremes? All you really need to be willing to do is to write some software to perhaps scrape data and then filter them locally. Certainly there's no need to die. Or did I miss something?
Your clone of Bitcoin wouldn't be a 'clone' any more than a lead bar is a 'clone' of gold.

You might call it bitcoin all you want, but no actualy bitcoin software would be fooled. (You might trick some people, but fraud has existed long before computers).

It's a lot less expensive to reliably distinguish a fraudulent bitcoin from a fraudulent goal bar.

So even if you hold the position that there is no perfect scarcity because fraud is possible-- the cost, difficulty, and success rate of that fraud matters greatly.
At the time, everybody who pointed out that this was exactly what was going to happen got flamed hard. I hate that cynicism usually proves the correct stance.
But you have to use a middleman or intermediary. The genius of bitcoin was when Satoshi removed that and solved the double-spending problem in a decentralized way.

>Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Tuition rates seem to be rising across the board however. University of Chicago is just the tip of the spear.
Which did they spend more time on: Christianity or Shakespeare? Judaism or Judy Blume?

We got an excerpt from Ecclesiastes, and snippets about whatever "The Church" was up to in different periods of European history. A very low bar.
Obligatory XKCD quote: "When reading that a particular compound kills cancer cells in a petri dish, remember so does a hand gun."
That's exactly the point of the article - the CMB data is far less clear than advertised.
best question I've read so far!
Everyone advocating for forced abolition of private schools and high-wealth public districts needs to read this thread. Hits too close to home.

Bullying and peer pressure cause serious harm, not just emotionally but economically when good kids drop out of society. These harms would be magnified if kids who don't fit in with the crowd had even fewer options to escape.
All things already mentioned in the comments here aside, it’s somewhat personally infuriating to see headlines like this. Facebook recently disabled my account because they can’t make sense of who I am (I wrote about it and posted here earlier). I don’t know what’s going on with their algorithms but they whacked my very legit account while allowing unfiltered political news. Seems the priorities are all out of order.
Having worked with investment bankers: Statistically speaking, bankers develop various hypotheses re: what "adjustments" might be added to a financial model to make the company look better to investors. They tell their junior analysts to run the numbers, this flows down the chain, and many late nights and Seamless orders ensue. Experienced bankers have pretty good priors, so most of these hypotheses make the company look better. Even so, all but the best outcomes are rejected, and the analysts whose analyses ended up being useless complain to each other over copious amounts of alcohol.

Essentially, it's as if p-hacking were codified as an industry standard, which is to say, it's exactly p-hacking.