skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was back in 2013 mobile communication had peaked. In one app (hangouts) I could: sms/mms/IM/phone-call/video-call using my phone, laptop, or some library kiosk browser in private mode. All of this and the notifications went to all of my devices whether or not my physical phone was powered on or connected. On my actual phone Hangouts would also show all of my local messages and I could merge conversations. Voicemails autotranscribed and you could even have them sent as emails to you. SPAM call filtering was built in. IMs could send images/videos. About the only thing it didn't do was send files (had to put it on Google Drive and share the link manually).

Now 6 years later there is nobody else (free or paid) that offers what Google offered for free in 2013. Google itself has disabled functionality in Hangouts and put out a deprecation notice. The replacement options have been spread across multiple individual app attempts, some of which have already closed down, none of which actually got to the point of replicating the functionality.

Hopefully some service will come along that mimics what I was able to do in 2013, I just hope Google Voice doesn't get gimped before then.
"I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat."
I'm not you; I don't need the kind of help navigating the Internet that you do, and it's condescending as hell, writing what you're writing. You have zero clue what my mental state is, please don't presume to know how I'm feeling.

And no, I didn't misdirect my comment; you said my comment came across one way, and I replied to that. You are, again, not an objective arbiter of intent, and again, please stop trying to be.
One does not simply drive across the Nullabor.
Well, you need something.

Diversity in renewables, diversity in their placement (it's unlikely for the wind to be zero everywhere), and stuff like energy storage (which Australia is very successfully experimenting with on moderate scales: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/18/tesla-big...) goes a long way.
This seems to have crossover with topological data analysis.
> It is incredibly dishonest, and certainly of ill intent, to join or remain within a company or group whose values you strongly disagree with for the purpose of financially benefiting from that group's activities and trying to undermine said values from within.

Perhaps, but this is why unions should exist even when things are going well, to prevent them from getting bad in the first place.
My college roommate participated in the crowdsourcing aspect of that service and managed to get a few through.

As they allude in TFA, it's faster to read than to write, so people would volunteer to write answers and the good ones would be published. Effectively it was a curated list masquerading as a single entity.
Exactly - gas is better at responding to rapid spin ups/downs, and releases less CO2 than coal. So replacing coal with gas is still an improvement.
>At the moment USA still has the possibility to contain IC ecosystem if it really wants to do that

It's been doing that nonstop since before Trump, Trump is merely broadcasting the actions publicly. Apart from Fujian Jinhua last year, CFUIUS / DOD / USTrade has blocked many Chinese IC acquisition attempts (including EU owned), last month US pressured TMSC to stop dealing with Huawei, ASML held back EUV delivery shortly after. The way things are escalating, the hypothetical shooting war over Taiwan might be triggered by TSMC drama instead of independence.
That pretty much describes governments around the world, it's nothing exclusive to Australia unfortunately.
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Or because they realize that if they prescribe opioids they are possibly dooming a patient.
In 2008, when I was working in geothermal in Australia, I was at a meeting where the 2008 AUD price of a transmission line was quoted at 1.4 million/km.

Multiply that by 1100 or so km across the nullarbor (rough guess; what really matters is the path between closest transmission lines of sufficient capacity) and you begin to see the scale of the problem.

Oh, and Australia has roughly the land area of the lower 48 of the US, with roughly the population of Southern California. In other words, it's bloody empty.
Storage, I think, is where our existing grids will need to invest in heavily. I'm thinking "Batman villain with a warehouse full of giant capacitors" storage.

Or, at the very least, a system where excess grid power is used to store gravitational potential energy in a reservoir.
I think the US is making a big mistake by falling back to isolationism and confrontation in a sort of last-ditch attempt to reign Chinese progress in.

The prevailing quite chauvinistic attitude among many people outside of Asia is that because of their lack of political liberalism China or other Asian countries will always be stuck with copying or being the manufacturing bench. I think this will turn out to be a grave miscalculation and that the trade wars will only accelerate the decoupling and strengthen the Chinese regime's narrative to develop at all costs.

I think many people in the West really are not aware how deeply the resentment goes in Chinese society to not be bullied around ever again, the mentality really is 'better-broken jade than intact tile', and it's hard to compete with that.
Note that headlines are almost never written by the authors of articles, whether in a publication like this or the New York Times. (Something to remember before reacting to a headline.) The headlines are written by someone at the publication who's often less well-informed than the author, or has a different opinion, or is maximizing for eyeballs (clickbait), etc.

In this case, the article consistently uses “[medical] manikin” for its topic, and only once uses “These are not the department-store mannequins familiar to most of us today” to distinguish this from a different topic. It is only in the headline (and thus you know it to be introduced by the headline writer) that you'll find the variant spelling “mannikin” (which outside of this article is more often used for a kind of bird).
Assuming you entered the name of an actor that has a corresponding Wikipedia entry you would be redirected to the actor's Wikipedia page that, in most cases, shows the actor's date of birth and calculates the age for you.

Even when I entered the actor's name plus the term "age" and was redirected to the Wikipedia search results, I could still see the actor's page as the third result and his date of birth in the summary text.

As for why anyone would want to search some things using Wikipedia versus Google, I can think of a few reasons. I cannot speak for other users however.

I have a script I wrote to search Wikipedia from the command line. For those who care, one can strip out "X-Client-IP" from the returned page html before opening the page in a browser.
> They are just saying that that misinformation campaigns run for the purpose of increasing profit at the expense of human lives isn't a great thing.

Sure, no one can reasonably disagree with that. I don't think folks defending opioids are staking that claim. To your earlier question,

> I mean, nobody is suggesting that opiods shouldn't be used to treat pain, are they?

Kinda, yes, actually. Or rather, since regulators and doctors cannot actually tell the difference between someone in pain and someone not in pain, the response to a perceived overprescription crisis has been to swing towards underprescribing — restricting access to and increasing the difficulty of obtaining opioids for everyone.
As light switches and such; PIR sensors don't really work in a shower room, for example.
> I really doubt that the EDA software is really that much of an investment these days

If EDA tools were so simple, why don't the big IC design companies -- e.g., Intel, Apple, Samsung -- just build their own in-house tools instead of paying millions in license fees?

> It's the lithography tech that's the real crown jewel, and it is being protected.

Sure, but lithography tech is useless unless you have access to solid tooling for design verification. In IC design, no one can afford to debug issues after the chip is fabricated. EDA toolchains include complex simulation software that, when combined with fab-provided models, allow you to simulate circuit behavior down to the lowest level.
No doubt. I wasn't really complaining, but that was the one that seemed to cause the most headaches last year. And the text had the problem fully specified, there really was no good way to make it better other than perhaps a different presentation (also a hard problem) or a few extra test cases to tease out those potential misreadings. But you can't catch every error for the participants, coming up with tests is part of the challenge.
Interview with Christian Szegedy, discoverer of adversarial examples
> Unless you call FlushFileBuffers after all writes are finished, Windows makes no guarantee that the physical copy of a file on-disk will contain all previously written data, even if the file has been subsequently closed and renamed.

On *nix you need to sync before renaming as well.
I bow to your superior expertise.
I think the odd part is the weirdly specific integer ratio with large-ish numbers. You expect numbers like 1/2 and maybe 3/4 in fundamental laws, but 16/27 earns a double-take.
Being polite to a customer.
Nice teardown https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/teardown-tuesday-hb100...
> But, you know, there are several (already known, developed) methods of handling this (big batteries, utilities being able to turn off your solar like they can currently remotely control my thermostat).

That was the point of the article: the solar CANNOT be switched off, it's dumb. That's what's causing the problem, all the dumb solar.
The Big Battery of South Australia seems to be working.
I just knocked out a non-recursive solution in 9 lines of python in five minutes.
Are you saying China can look forward to one of the highest qualities of life?
Polytope Model
Missing with the keys to the cold wallets, to be specific https://www.ccn.com/crypto-exchange-idax-missing-ceo-exit-sc...
> That's not a reason to not be open about it!

We're talking past each other. Openness in methods has been around in the physical and biological sciences for a very long time.

> Well if bills of materials are available for your components themselves then you don't need to break them down yourself.

Reverse engineering a piece of purchased equipment to publish its BoM now becomes a required part of scientific publication? Or, expecting a manufacturer to provide it and authorize it for general release? I don't think that's realistic.
I like everything about this except the name.

the word advent is religious.
Hmm, I'd say Australia's mining industry holds a significantly more hefty sway over politicians than it does in other countries, just because of how much of Aussie's GDP is based on mining - plus how the miners have attempted to controk the media there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart#Business_career

> In 2010 Rinehart took a 10 per cent stake in Ten Network Holdings; James Packer had acquired an 18 per cent stake in the same company shortly before. Since then she also acquired a substantial stake in Fairfax Media. Rinehart was a major player in the media and no longer limits her interests to the mining business. In February 2012 she increased her stake in Fairfax to over 12 per cent, and became the largest shareholder of the company. Fairfax journalists were reportedly fearful that she wanted to turn them into a "mouthpiece for the mining industry". In June 2012, she increased her stake further to 18.67 per cent, and was believed to be seeking three board seats and involvement in editorial decisions in Fairfax's newspaper division. Negotiations between Fairfax and Hancock Prospecting broke down in late June because of disagreements over Fairfax's editorial independence policy and other issues relating to board governance; chair Roger Corbett subsequently announced that Rinehart would not be offered any seats on the board. After failing to get board representation she sold her shareholding in 2015.
> You will now get prescription strength ibuprofin or something like that instead of opioids.

That is incorrect. "You will" is not the same as "You are more likely to". They still give intraveneous delotin when your appendix bursts or your gall bladder duct is blocked in the short term. It should come as no surprise, that major medical surgery (eg some pain from open heart surgery), is not mitigated by ibuprofin and the like.
I agree. I've never met a single person that has travelled to Iran that doesn't list it as their all-time favourite country, and number 1 they want to return to. I've met at least a few hundred people that have driven across, spending 2-4 weeks.

(Note: I've never been)
I'm unable to read the full article (paywall), but going on only the title, this is a good thing.
"In this paper, we focus on the following four patterns that appear to us to be trending in ML scholarship: (i) failure to distinguish between explanation and speculation; (ii) failure to identify the sources of empirical gains, e.g., emphasizing unnecessary modifications to neural architectures when gains actually stem from hyper-parameter tuning; (iii) mathiness: the use of mathematics that obfuscates or impresses rather than clarifies, e.g., by confusing technical and non-technical concepts; and (iv) misuse of language, e.g., by choosing terms of art with colloquial connotations or by overloading established technical terms. "

To their credit, the authors actually own-up to doing this themselves in various papers. It seems like a way to describe the situation is that neural nets have become such computational monsters that talking about them exactly becomes very difficult with the language opaque and ambiguous.
With respect to the fact that 99% of my use of awk is done like this:

> | awk '{print $<word>}'

The solution to the first exercise looks surprisingly clean. It will be interesting to see how they continue as the challenges get harder. Bookmarked!
X number of shares is meaningless. You also need a lot more information about this term sheet and the valuation. If you are joint 50/50 split, how did he secure these terms?
Add to that 95% of the population of Australia lives in 5% of the landmass. Yes, empty is an understatement.
> Also, there are natural gas reserves, it just doesn’t appear it’s used extensively for electrical generation based on historical ElectricityMap.org data.

Probably because it's all shipped offshore.
> https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/12/aussie-paying-gas-j...
> We're talking past each other. Openness in methods has been around in the physical and biological sciences for a very long time.

You're listing a lot of reasons why you think it's not worth it!

> Reverse engineering a piece of purchased equipment to publish its BoM now becomes a required part of scientific publication?

No, you mis-read me. I said if it's an existing piece of equipment just say you used that piece of equipment.
I have both PD1 and RavPower 61w. Tried carrying just the PD1 for a while, but got caught twice with zero power and took ~15 mins before I could boot my MBP. If you use any heavy power apps (Chrome, xCode) it drains faster than it charges. Both are great for their size, but I'd recommend the RavPower for any laptop use cases; it's only a little bigger.
If doctor fees are reduced.

Medical schools charge students a lot because doctors get paid a lot, and doctors have to be getting paid a lot to justify the enormous debts medical schools leave them with. It's a vicious circle that will never end without serious government intervention.
Funny how things are a matter of perspective. I view the baseload / coal generation as what is jeopardising the grid. It can't react to fluctuations in demand or supply so it's just not a tenable solution for a modern power grid where demand is intrinsically variable.

Having said that, I feel like some regulation mandating a certain amount of storage be supplied with rooftop solar wouldn't be a bad thing. It doesn't seem responsible to set up generation capacity without the storage to buffer the effect of that capacity's generation on the grid.
Millions is not that much. TCO of six engineers for a year gets you into millions. If it's a solved problem, it's probably worth just buying off the street.
The easy way is to buy a satellite modem. It’s not cheap, but isn’t challenging to setup.

Beyond that, there are variety of ways to do things, depending on what you want to do. I worked at a place 20 years ago that used a laser system to connect two buildings. Another used a microwave system.

An old friend who’s a farmer uses modified antennas and cheap routers to link various barns or other locations on the farm.
Maybe they're not superhuman?

Maybe they applied their time, practice and attention to developing skills that have yielded very big returns?
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The battle of Cajamarca happened during a spiritual retreat after Atahualpa defeated Huascar during the Inca war of succession.

The focus of the Spanish was to offer the "requerimiento" and then kidnap the Sapa Inca in order to ask for a ransom.
Are you arguing that opioids shouldn't (ever) be used to treat pain?
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Bad headline, but this is an exclusive interview with YouTube's CEO.
Solar Panel Sizing: Factors That Influence Solar Panel Size and Output
Google? No, Yandex.. obviously not blocked in Russia, also not blocked in China.

I don't really notice any infrastructure problems for ddg in Europe though, so Finland may be atypical?
I find it kinda terrifying how willing people are to blame pharma cos when the largest increase in deaths has to do with non-pharma opiods.

Availability of illicitly manufactured synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl) that traditionally were prescription medications has increased. This has blurred the lines between prescription and illicit opioid-involved deaths. In one study in 27 states, Gladden et al. examined data on drug products obtained by law enforcement that tested positive for fentanyl (fentanyl submissions) and deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (referred to as synthetic opioids). From 2013 to 2014, fentanyl submissions increased by 426%. The increases were strongly correlated with increases in synthetic opioid deaths but not with pharmaceutical fentanyl prescribing rates, suggesting that the increases were largely due to IMF. In a recent report, fentanyl was detected in at least half of the opioid overdose deaths from July to December 2016 in 7 of the 10 states examined. [0]

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844400/

The CDC describes overdose deaths as occurring in three waves [1]. Normal pharmaceuticals are involved in wave one, starting in the 1990s. Clearly pharma co.s aren’t involved in wave two, heroin. What’s their culpability for wave three, the synthetic opiods starting in 2013? NIH above says not majorly. If pharma cos aren’t the source of fentanyl and wave two’s heroin, why are they the media focus point?

1. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html
In 2005, the large majority of heroin addicts in the US were concurrent or former pill opioid addicts, but as of 2015 or so, it's about 50%.[1]

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28582659
It's possible (and not that hard) to define an integration process that prevents faulty commits from being integrated to the main branch.

> If you insist on no errors on master ever you will kill throughout.

Not sure why you believe this. It hasn't been my experience; just the opposite, in fact. By using CI in conjunction with a process that prevents errors on master, everything goes more smoothly, because people don't get stalled by the broken master.
> Also, the last Mad Max was mostly filmed in Namibia. The older ones were filmed in Australia, notably Coober Pedy, which is north of Adelaide and not near the Nullarbor

The originals were filmed just outside Broken Hill actually. There is a sign on the highway way to Mildura, and there is a big lot where you can see some of the props from Number 3 (notably the plane). I grew up in Mildura.

Also, the latest was filmed in Messum Crater in Namibia, I spent some time exploring there too - (bottom half of this post/pictures) http://theroadchoseme.com/riverbeds-and-craters
Back in the early 2000s I built a web app for a big pharma that was used to compile doctor's responses to questions on survey cards that were mailed out.

These could be anything from multi-choice questions about awareness of drug products, whether they prescribed particular drugs for specific treatments and I think from memory there may have been incentives like prize draws like trips to conferences for filling in the survey (return postage paid as well).

I can't imagine this having changing so much (maybe more online or in partnership with clinic software) as it served as both promoting a drug for a specific treatment and identifying individual doctors responsiveness to future marketing.
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e.g. is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exempli_gratia

which you can pretty much read as "for example, [example(s)]"
This was doable well before the advent of what we call now as the "cloud".

My first company hosted the product on a shared hosting server, this was back in 1999. Availability was immediate once you paid. Since the early 2000s, dedicated servers were often available within an hour of payment. VM-based hosting took only minutes to get started with. Credit cards were the usual mode of payment, but PayPal was also quite popular.

What I'm saying is that cloud hasn't dramatically changed life for startups in their earliest phase of existence.
I was thinking in terms of RF amps. Cree was making SiC FETs several years ago, but I think it’s all GaN on SiC now. There was a SiC fab in CA making RF parts, but I think they went belly-up. All the SiC FETs topped out a 2.5 GHz.

How does the negative temp coefficient help; stability for very high temps? I know the positive temp coefficient was an issue in RF BJT, requiring ballast resistors for stabilization, but those are not needed in any FETs. The positive temp coefficient should be useful for GaN as long as you have temp stabilization in the bias network; all of my amps did.

Good point about the high temp. I know of some oil drill electronics in SiC. I just though SiC was dead for RF.
The Anker box mentioned is £20 on Amazon.co.uk
To be nitpicky: you don't have to multiply by 1100 since Australia has two power networks that are not connected - one for Western Australia, one for the rest
How does a lower baseline estimate factor in when you have a particularly cloudy day or week?
What about native Hawaiian people?
You never lived in a communist state, have you? Do you even realize that even basic things were fucked up beyond belief/comprehension to the average american. (perhaps not, to the average foreigner that have lived in failed states).

Again, I was comparing data from the 50s and early 60s, where computers were just not that wide use yet and the computer industry was not even a blip on the overall economy.

You also can claim: Today's US entertainment output, equals half of USSR's GDP. Then US won the cold war because it's move industry.
Than you can do the same comparison for medical, agriculture, etc... etc..
then you see the trend that due to its failed system, the USSR was behind the US in every field, and tech was just one of them.
Binary compatibility is the Moat that Intel and AMD have.

Try using ARM based server and you quickly realize the pain.

Besides, other Hyperscalers won't use Amazon's Chips. So no economy of scale.

Do you remember Amazon Phone ?
Labourer: £2/year max

7 Books: £5

An average labourer in the UK today would make about £17,000pa, making these books the modern equivalent of about £42,500 or £6,000 a piece.

Obviously this was at a time before mass printing was available, but this really puts into perspective just how absolutely unattainable information was for the average person back then. Remarkable.
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