skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>fixing the whole system with an ideal person.

How can non-ideal persons define what an ideas person is? This is just a mental game.
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What I have heard, you do loose energy in transmitting power over large distances. There exist low loss transmission cables, but I don't know how effective that is over very great distance. There is also the question of how to redesign a distributed power grid into a centralized version where all the power comes from a single sources in desert areas.

On top of that there are political challenges. I have a hard time imagine Europe in current climate being happy to rely exclusively on power from the Sahara.
Can confirm, eats up all 8 cores. Seems to be a script from firebasestorage.googleapis.com
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Who is the victim here? The owners cashed out to buyers who were presumably the ones offering the best exit, the buyers funded the purchase with debt, and their longterm plan failed. The banks who lent the debt took the risk and believed in Sterling, which was a bad bet. It seems like everyone got what they deserved.

What is the alternative? Legally forcing owners not to sell? Preventing owners from trying to expand “too quickly”? Outlawing poor management? None of this is feasible.
"we need worth to come for free, and we also need it to be acquirable."

The more I think about this single sentence, the more I feel like it's holding so much more than it first appears to be.
Can't you just use card?
i am not for sure that's more likely than the situation of people eating infected bats or other animals infected by bats. the chinese do not have great hygiene when it comes to food sourcing, preparation, and consumption. the chinese have all sorts of "beliefs" about food and are very stubborn to accept change. for example, thinking hot water as a sort of elixir and cleanser (e.g., killing parasites). oh look, it's served in hot water, so it's fine. also, the shared eating style (i.e., using a lazy susan) is not exactly a great way to contain illness, even if the food itself is fine.
> we're going to produce more and more nuclear waste, and there isn't really any answer as to what we can do with that.

There are several answers to the question "what we can do with it", such as 1) reprocess it and use it again; 2) keep it in the power plant pools or similar storage facilities; 3) dump it to some deserted place where it isn't a big problem (high depth, stable earth crust). In the past, UK just dumped nuclear waste in barrels into the sea, which seems kind of convenient and irresponsible, but if done right (better isolation from sea creatures), this could work too.

It is true that there is no single universally agreed upon answer. But that is the same as with all other waste. Most of waste gets either burned or dumped at some place. The same will happen to nuclear "waste", until people start reprocessing it.
The problem with the related 25 KW of 24x7 waste heat is that'll eventually melt the very heavy several inches of lead unless very carefully cooled or distributed.

Even 20 watts will eventually melt small quantities of metal, think of every soldering iron. The authorities are not going to approve a reactor that melts its own armor if someone accidentally throws a quilt on top or equivalent.

So most designs do some kind of incredibly heavy passive cooling where the required very large surface of the armor only emits a fraction of the heat you'd see from sunlight. Now sunlight as an engineering 1 sig fig estimate is about a kilowatt per sq meter, so your 25 KW of waste heat would require some multiple of 25 square meters of surface area for passive safety cooling. A cube 5 meters on a side of solid copper and lead would have a surface area of 150 square meters, which will be warm to the touch but not as warm as it would get laying in the sun all day.

The problem with a cube of lead and copper 5 meters on a side is that is 125 cubic meters. And metal, again to one sig fig, weighs about ten thousand kilos per cubic meter. So that shielding would weigh quite a lot.

Its the old problem of the ratio of surface area to volume that comes up in so many engineering problems. Yeah I'm strong enough that I could pick up a small space craft RTG and walk around with it, for several reps at the gym anyway, but the scaling factors are such that a car charger would be immensely heavy.

I'm not sure, on a daily basis, what you'd do with 125 kilowatt-hours of car charge anyway. A gallon of gas is about 25 KW-hr (to one sig fig) so that's five gallons of gas. That would be 150 miles of driving per day, around here that would be something like 3 to 5 hours of driving per day, which sounds like a horrible way to live. Unless you're a bus driver, or delivery guy, or similar, LOL of course. Still, I don't think a five meter on a side bus or car is in our future.
It can be both very negative as well as a case for rapid advancement for yourself.
I've heard people say the US constitution lays out limits of what the US government can do, as opposed to rights of US citizens.

So, if the US government wants to hold you in detention, they have to tell you why, not because you have that 'right', but because they are bound by law to do so in all circumstances irrespective of what passport you're carrying.

Again, I've only heard this before -- I'm not at all a legal scholar. Can anyone confirm or deny this interpretation and possibly give more reading material around it?
1640 and, yes, a total stranger, to be precise. I leveraged someone else's research.
Stumbled upon this thing on r/slatestarcodex: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/et12rg/i_cr...

Neat idea, but still needs a lot of polish.
But where does all the nuclear waste go? We already struggle with plastics and tech waste.
Well, the general solution of economists is to assume that every person has their own ordering. This doesn't work for Spectrum Arguments by Larry Temkin, though. A typical argument goes like this: Suppose alternative A gives you an extremely high level of well-being for a month. B brings a little bit less well-being than A for two months. C a little bit less well-being for four months, and so forth. In pairwise comparisons you judge that B is better than A, C is better than B, and so on. Yet at some point, say, Z you will consider A better than Z if you compare A to Z, but you will continue to consider Z better than Y. Therefore, "better than" is not transitive.

People have written a lot of articles on how to solve these types of puzzles, which can be formulated many different evaluative domains. They always involve two or more criteria.
That isn't true. Windows does provide something that other platforms don't. The APIs and program compatibility are supported forever in Windows.

I can run the original Quake and DOOM on Windows 10 without any problems. A friend of mine like playing GTA 3, it didn't work properly with Windows 8.1. In an update this incompatibility (I forget the exact reason why) was fixed.

That just doesn't really happen with Linux.
From Wiki:

"Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility"

Can you point me to an example that is being overlooked?

The probabilities of a successful terrorist attack on a nuclear plant are very thin given the extreme security measures around them, and that's a fact.

Thinking that, despite a basic probability being extremely small, "it's still possible", and thus assigning the event a larger probability than it naturally has, now that's an error.
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I'm using Pocket, though I'm planning to install TagSpaces on my NAS and migrate both my notes and bookmarks to it.
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Yes, you are oversimplifying what is required to make a model explainable. The logical mechanism of the functional form of the model has very little to do with explainability. Explainability involves various kinds of model checking, overfitting analysis, tests for confounding variables, multicollinearity, interaction effects, model misspecification, etc.

Merely decomposing a prediction into say a linear combination of predictors does not, itself, provide any type of explanation unless a variety of more complicated assumptions about statistical model checking turn out to be true.

Even worse, because the naive approach is to just treat those regression coefficients as if they do automatically give explanatory power or feature-wise attribution, people misrepresent things unwittingly and don’t carry out enough robust model checking, leading to wrong explanations that appear to have deceptive degrees of confidence associated with them.
Id he happy if we just focused on social issues and happiness. But might is right and every nation state and company and human being needs all the technological might we can muster in order to “win” (win what!?)
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Is it worth adding that specific applications (High Frequency Trading, Crypto Mining, on-chip support for things like 5G) and the increased focus on special factors they bring (like latency and energy efficiency) mean general-purpose PUs are less and less attractive? I guess that is the other side of the coin of the death of Moores law...
> a mechanical light switch should have different weight when switched on or off.

Well, in principle it should have a different weight to account for the extra electrons moving around when it’s turned on. Every time you have a change in charge you have a corresponding mas change.

My problem with this idea is the fact that not all information is electronic in nature, in which case you would be arguing that the weight of a completed puzzle is different than the total weight of the individual pieces, for example.

In general, this would imply that changes in entropy would correspond to changes in mass...
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It's not, it's one of the selling points. Ignoring the privacy thing there are still plenty of reasons to use it, besides it just being a non-dominant player, which is an inherent plus in my book.
> I have heard from other SAR groups that the beacons have been a mixed bag, and they're getting too many call-outs from people who just got tired and want a ride home. Those people deserve a verbal chewing-out from the local coordinator

When one pays for something, they get more if it.

People should be asked to pay or commit to paying before they're rescued.

Considering the budget of these satellites the cost per life rescued is probably in excess of $100K. As long as the US government can print money with impunity, this won't stop.
It's just visibility. People have empathized with unfortunates (called as such and not blamed for their problems) locally a long time ago too, some were unhappy there are a lot of poor and other wretches. It is what has driven some of the accomplishments we take for granted nowadays.

The relative lack of visibility of people with those problems is rather increasing the lack of empathy. What you do not know you cannot empathize with properly.
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I don't think your taking this to its logical conclusion. Crime is increasingly more and more difficult to pull off with additional layers of tracking. If one uses systems like this to harass people that harassment can also too be tracked.
This is not a credible source. Has there been any reporting from a major paper?
Great points!

Tangent: I wish more games were explicitly collaborative. Some competitive games can easily be adjusted, others not so much. Games like "Forbidden Island" represent, for many, a completely foreign paradigm where everyone's in it together. Shame that's not more common.
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I call bullshit on your comment, not mine.

- http://www.saramitchell.org/achen04.pdf

The functional mechanism of a regression has nearly nothing to do with whether the regression explains the phenomenon it’s being used to model or not.
I had to laugh at this comment, since it’s quite true.

So would you prefer to spend a week driving from Los Angeles to New York, instead of spending 5 hours flying, in a herd-like tin can, crammed full of people, and re-breathing the same recycled air?
> CK2 only working on xorg, HOI4 only working on x11 (or the other way around)

Not sure what you meant, but X.Org is an implementaion of X11 so this doesn't make any sense.
A very popular medication (propranolol) diagnosed for blood pressure control also causes your heartbeat to slow. It's commonly prescribed as a first line approach to acute anxiety, if you take them they slow your heart rate and can cease panic symptoms spiralling.

I cannot think of a medication that doesn't in some way affect your psychological profile, because if you're sick then you'll behave differently.

I think it's a bit of a trap to believe that you are your authentic self only by denying yourself medication, I consider myself from 5 years ago a different person let alone pre-medication. Is it that valuable that you struggle and live unhappy for the limited years you have available?
There is another way. GMail allows to use compact interface. There is option to turn it on: click on 'gears' icon in top right on the top of table/list with e-mails and switch onto compact view.
You can also turn off those "Primary", "Promotions", etc. labels.
Ireland famously survived a six month lock out by nearly every bank in the seventies, with no harm to the economy.

Pubs were local guides to credit worthiness, larger shops cashed cheques so businesses could pay staff (an era when many were still paid in cash), so cash could go round the system again, and cheques were countersigned and passed on dozens and dozens of times -- effectively becoming variable size bank notes.

It's a fascinating story, and quite remarkable how little effect no banking had.
What about when devices come that are sensitive to read people's minds as they walk down the sidewalk ?

Monitoring citizens minds would be a tremendous boost to solving crimes. This rule will be equitably applied to all citizens by a fair and principled government excepting special groups like oppressed minorities or members of the government/military themselves.
Unless his input has already been (mostly) completed? If his contribution was organising, introducing people and getting things setup and running then he can leave and the company will roll along just fine?
> overall progress

This thread is becoming recursive. Is organism complexity progress? Everyone might agree with you, or not. That's because progress is whatever we say it is. It's subjective, in that everyone can have a different view of it, and it's non-constant, in that you can change your mind whenever. Progress is such a loaded word today. I'm hardpressed to find more than a few words with so much cultural baggage. Even someone who agrees that good and evil are in the eyes of the observer, can often say that the definition of Progress is self-evident.
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>both my kids knew the alphabet before 1 year old, and my 2 year old is drawing Chinese characters

I honestly find this hard to believe. Maybe you have one special kid that knows the alphabet before one. But two??

The US Department of Education says [0] by age 3-4 start working simple things, like I love you.

[0]: https://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/reader/part9.html
I don't get it. Is it related to rankings, star systems, etc?

> pervasive assumption

I think whenever "rating" anything people are aware that it's a subjective and probably useless number meant for convenience than accuracy.
I wonder, though, how much we could bring the price of nuclear down if we were to actively develop the technology, rather than letting it languish. I also wonder how much toxic waste batteries will produce vs nuclear. Do we have clear numbers on that?
All this concern about the unbanked/underbanked could be more effectively channeled into making banking more accessible IMO. As an example, the city could provide a free reloadable prepaid card to people who qualify as underbanked (based on some combination of income and residential address).

Does this bill mean car dealerships (more popular in the outer boroughs than most people think) and jewelry shops will no longer be able to refuse briefcases full of cash as payment?
Especially given that the commenter can't even count.

four years in to the fascist Trump administration

Three years and three days, in fact.
I find this highly surprising (in a good way).

NYC is home to an industry that stands to benefit from a cashless economy and home to a government that never seems to turn down an increase in their ability to put people under a metaphorical microscope. I would have predicted they would be one of the first places to ban cash and one of the last to mandate businesses accept cash.

I'm really happy to see consumer protection winning out over private interest for money and state interest for power but damn is that a curve ball in this day and age.
Renewable energy storage is a solved problem, with a number of techniques already in use. It is a recognised part of the scaling-up of renewables generation by the grid operators, along with the knowledge that grids themselves need to be updated. But the idea that somehow energy experts are slapping their foreheads thinking 'OMG how did we miss this' is slightly insulting.
You don't get instant live update of existing variables in a REPL. The programming paradigm described is called Reactive Functional, it's the model popularized by spreadsheets.

However, spreadsheets can't create new objects programatically; new libraries for web development (React, Vue.js) are popularizing the model, but so far they're using reactive components just for high-level components, not the whole line-by-line program execution. Bret Victor's "Learnable Programming" concept (linked at the end) shows how you could apply the approach to a whole textual program.
Not "stuff we're actually seeing" technically, more effects we can't explain using our current theories.

Placeholder is the correct term but people tend to leap from "matter" and "energy" to "stuff" (I'm assuming you didn't intend the implication) without understanding those terms (dark matter and dark energy) are preliminary - if well informed - guesses.
UK govt should be refusing all US extradition requests, and suspending all trials until it is accepted Sacoolas be extradited to the UK.
Yes, you summarized what I feel is wrong with the experiment perhaps even better than me. They are trying to weigh not the information itself, but medium used to convey the information.
Yes, this. With no external (CSS) tweaks my Gmail interface looks just fine, tight and compact:

https://piks.nl/upload/upload/chrome_2020-01-24_13-26-06.png
I solved the Gmail UX problem by switching to a completely different email provider, Migadu.
The Sahara thing is ultimately just to illustrate that there's no real limit to solar energy (because the upper commenter claimed that nuclear is the only energy that is practically limitless). But of course in practice you'd do the easy things first - that is, build solar on every rooftop. No country is anywhere close to that.

I guess in the future we'll use imported solar for hard to solve problems, e.g. turn it into hydrogen or synthetic fuels (which also makes the transmission loss problem much smaller), while our electricity needs will be served mostly by local wind and solar.
Yang is polling at 8% nationally now. That's more than margin of error.
Isn't this just a Markov chain? I did the same thing with a chatbot years ago, trained on emails or chat logs to sound like a certain person. Are we really making any progress?
Would you want to? I also wonder the goal vs the means. Do I want a virtual DM? Part of the experience/journey is the social component/ enjoyment of a campaign.

A part of me hoped he mentioned Skyrim in his article, since it is a landmark edition (and same can be said for the two earlier titles) in the sense that people still create new content and adventures for it almost a decade on. Creating an endless adventure.

Some are working on an open source implementation of it, and it would be interesting to see that work.
The opportunity might be for generic in store cash -> debit card machines that can be used anywhere.
It's bizarre to me that the US constitution's philosophical basis is that it does not create rights but only recognizes natural or God-given rights that people already have, yet the US government doesn't recognize those rights for anyone but its own citizens.
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The first ten amendments are literally called the "Bill of Rights". It limits what the government can do because doing so would be in opposition to the rights of US citizens.

"Rights of citizens" and "limits of government" are two sides to the same coin.

Edit: should have used “person” rather than “citizen”. I was mirroring the verbiage used by the OP and should have been clearer. E.g. non-citizens are still granted Miranda rights
I use https://simpl.fyi/, much more radical.
Unless the law says you can’t charge a fee for the debit cards...
I assumed she was winking at the reader here.
You can watch the recorded video where the quote was taken from and be your own reliable source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwK1tPdaHkY
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I don't think that dark brown is bad at all, it reminds me somewhat of chocolate. I tend to agree with the "unusually unattractive" comment in these results:

https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

Something slightly greener than mustard-yellow is definitely worse than dark brown, IMHO.
yep, it is the current state of things. However, it would be better to have all this huge ecosystem written in a single performant language. People trade perceivable simplicity for things that are more beneficial long term.
This article presents it as very black and white, it's a question you have to ask but it is good to ask yourself what is next first before you ask someone else.
I had no idea that there are ads in Gmail. This is infuriating.

I would be absolutely fuming, but I don't use the web client, so I didn't realize this was a thing. But holy shit! How is that okay?
Those are options but definitely don’t come anywhere near what the author has achieved! I’m actually very impressed with the new interface.

I can’t believe it, but I’m actually at the point where I no longer enjoy using Gmail. I have an easier time using the Windows Mail application at this point... which is really telling I think.
Renewables are not a replacement for existing nuclear power unless you either add fossil fuels or batteries to the mix. Countries which currently are replacing nuclear power do so with a combination of renewables and fossil fuels, with fossil fuels burning when renewables are not producing.

Batteries, usually reverse hydro power, is an interesting future technology. Some argue it is significant more developed than fusion. The bigger question is if its economically competitive compared to fission. There is costs and energy loss in every single step of producing electricity from renewables, transmitting it to the battery, converting it into potential, recreate the electricity, and finnally transmitting it to the end users. With fission you go directly from the power plant to the end user. Reverse hydro power plants also take a long time to build and either use a lot of land or coast. If you build it on land it also release a lot of methane as top layer of the land decompose.