skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, thanks. 50% isn't that much of an outlier, though, as the average over both onshore and offshore farms seems to be 42% for younger projects: http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/wind-energy-factsheet
great UI for this. very novel and intuitive
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I saw this from IBM which doesn't appear to even need a credit card. :0 https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free/ But I haven't checked it out yet.

I think that Azure and GCE have better free tiers than AWS, but I'm guessing the bandwidth metering may work against a vpn use.
Presumably the registry could also have some mechanism of identifying those making the reports (maybe limited to insurance companies), and not just accept random reports of ransom payments. That makes it less ideal, sure, but it could help prevent the scenario you posed.
> My long standing hypothesis on Medallion is that they figured out how to apply gauge theoretic techniques to financial markets.

No. Listen to the Talking Machines podcast with Nick Patterson (who was a senior VP in research at RennTech for a long time). To paraphrase he says that the vast majority of their strategies are no more than simple linear regression. The challenge is that even though regression is conceptually simple it still takes smart people to answer questions like "what should you be regressing", or "should you apply any transform" or "how should you clean your data" or "do you understand the process well enough to realize when results are obviously unrealistic".

The thing that makes a firm like Renaissance a league above a firm like Two Sigma is the same thing that makes Two Sigma a league above a firm like Winton. It's not mathematical gnosticism, it's plain old operational excellence. It's things like expansive reliable curated datasets, deep expertise on market structure, good execution systems, powerful research and backtesting software, good access to markets, economies of scale, talented practitioners, and excellent organizational management.
It's the same concept as public vs private. If you want something private don't blast it publicly.
Insulin is a generic. No one is required to be compensated.

Pharma had their chance to be reasonable. That time has passed.

Not to say that we shouldn’t appropriate intellectual property when necessary (eminent domain or not respecting a patent, as has happened in India and Canada), it’s just not necessary in this case. That doesn’t make us Venezuela, that makes us pragmatic.
> - You cannot inspect the scene in the editor visually while debugging. This is what I miss the most coming from unity. Some things are really hard to debug this way, for example if you use procedural generation.

Does this include looking at the [Server] tab in the editor once the game is running? That shows dynamically created nodes at run-time.
Some hedge funds are good at it, and some are bad it. The existence of a winnable game doesn't mean that everyone who attempts it will succeed. Especially since the game is competitive, so if I have better insider information than you, I can take from you you all the money you take from the non-insider traders.
It only requires a “substantial” likelihood that side will win (not an “extreme” one), which basically means there’s a substantive dispute. The more difficult criterion is a substantial likelihood that irreparable harm will occur if the injunction isn’t granted (irreparable harm is supposed to be a pretty extreme thing — it means you can’t fix it with any amount of money).
Things can and do go wrong with those safety deposit boxes. I prefer a local safe as well as and local and off-site digital storage. I run syncthing on my devices, so all important documents are backed up to at least 2 local devices.
But the offender would be LinkedIn if it exposed personal data, even per GDPR.

The cases were people were convicted by getting certain webpages is addressed here.
The article and Mercer's explanation basically explains Virtu's approach, and therefore makes sense wrt known performance vs. methodology from a more public company (Virtu)
Price controls are usually really bad. But medicine is a different case for many reasons I don’t want to get into now. Lots of countries do control prices of medical care without restricting supply.
Great idea, but I hope they have provisioned for a lot of expensive care and maintenance to keep the living walls alive, otherwise they'll end up with a dead living wall like the one in Paradise Park in London[0].

[0] https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/paradise-park-livin... or https://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-living-wall-of-islington...
I'm a former anti-Zionist Jew, I still have many close Jewish family and friends who are heavily involved in anti-Zionist activism, with JVP and if not now, etc..

On the low end of polls I've read in the past few years a Gallup review of US Jews found "about nine in 10 American Jews are more sympathetic to Israel than to the Palestinians" and "95% of Jews have favorable views of Israel, while 10% have favorable views of the Palestinian Authority."

Polls of how many American Jews are Zionist are not generally conducted, since no one agrees on exactly what constitutes Zionism. For instance I oppose settlements and Bibi, but call my self a Zionist because I believe Jews and Palestinians should have the right of self determination in there respective states.

While I will not attempt to pin down a definition of Zionism, I think we can all agree a Jew who has a overall favorable view of Israeli is not going to identify as an anti-Zionist. I have met almost all the actively anti-Zionist Jews in a small city at numerous rallies and Sabbath dinners and not once have any of them expressed that their view of Israel is favorable.

In theory anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, however if someone told you they were not anti-black they just disliked black people who did not vote for Trump, what would you call them?

It is tragic that I had to write this from a throwaway, but I do not want my career to be damaged by a public association with Zionism.
You can usually get companies to drop the blocked ports though if you call customer service.
He also tends to avoid stocks with volatility. And tech has historically been relatively volatile.

As a software engineer, I also tend to not invest in big tech companies. YMMV though.
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The problem is convincing Americans. There is a significant population of people who would never vote for this because it would benefit those who don't work and pay taxes. They are so stubborn about this that they are willing even to let pharma prices exceed their own grasp.
But where does this stop, legally? (Really asking, I don't know.) If you immediately used these bills to buy a different car, then I imagine that could be reversed. But if you (say) paid your laundromat repair-man his salary with these bills, for the next few years, surely he (and his landlord, and his local grocery store) would be in the clear?

Edit: after reading TFA, this is the crucial point (in English law, I guess): "Banknotes, coins, and other highly-liquid paper instruments have a very special legal status. ... was granted to banknotes centuries ago in order to ensure that ... money remained highly liquid. If every merchant had to verify...". Interesting case.
Ok, now do all other generics that are cheap to manufacture.
Shouldn't the fires be registered by weather satellites?
What you might mean is:

- I want my data to be publicly available

- I don't want my data to be processed/distributed/sold without my permission

E.g. individual use is fine, profit making is not.

Which is my expectation with LinkedIn. I want people to see my profile, I don't want them to sell it as marketing leads!
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None of this is true in modern iOS.
>If Paul writes anything, I want to know about it

Here you go: http://paulgraham.com/rss.html
This is spot on. Lee is gonna do things Buffet wouldn't
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Does this mean Google can take lyrics from Genius now?
Haha this was basically LTCM's publicly stated approach, to be fair.
It certainly discourages lingering in the shower. When I was doing it (cold tap open, no hot water at all, Michigan, winter) when that water hit you you definitely moved quickly. With hot showers 20 minutes isn't uncommon if I'm tired and enjoying the hot water in the winter. With cold showers...5 minutes from turning on the faucet to hopping out. I never noticed any reduction in my cleanliness, but what I absolutely noticed was an improvement in my skin. Hot showers in a dry environment like a Michigan winter leads to very dry and cracked skin. With cold showers my skin was in much better shape. No cracking, no flaking.
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Manufacturers that can't (or won't) sell a month's worth of insulin for $100 will be replaced by those who can.
https://www.businessinsider.com/insulin-prices-could-be-much... : a year’s supply of human insulin could be $48 to $71 a person and between $78 and $133 for analog insulins.

That's well below the $1,200 a year cap.
insulin is dirt cheap to make
> but enough people think of it as a valuable enough service to pay for; even if they know they could get it themselves, for free.

It's not free, it takes time to collect data. Buying it makes a lot of sense as long as you pay less than what's your own time worth to you...
takeda summed it correctly. I'm not contradicting anything.
That's not really a relevant argument here as insulin costs <$5 to manufacture.
The analogy doesn’t hold.

A car with a stolen part does not, itself, become a stolen car, because there’s a clear division between the part and the car itself. The only thing the police would want to seize as stolen property from you is the stolen part—they’d get you to take it out of your car, and be on their way.

Cryptocurrency is less like car parts, and more like gold: putting the crypto through a mixer is like melting some (unknowingly) stolen gold jewellery into a batch of non-stolen gold, forming new gold bars, and then selling those. Is the whole batch of gold now “tainted” by the stolen gold? Does it all need to be seized as stolen property? If not, then what does need to be seized? An equal shaving of gold from each buyer’s new bar?

If it were possible to figure out which mixer recipient was the original jewellery thief, you could just seize their mixed assets, since those assets should be equal in value to the stolen input assets. But the whole point of a mixer is to destroy that linkage, such that you have no idea who any of the recipients are.
The inventor gave the patent away for $1 because it would have been unethical to profit from it. That’s still true.
good info! i actually learned something and i consider myself a pro at this.

terrible video production tho. can't understand why this kind of sober data is presented in a video format for someone with the attention span of a squirrel. it doesn't make it engaging. the speaker is engaging enough. lose the effects.
User data is not theirs property.
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I wonder if this could be used in other languages like go or common lisp?
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> if the industry tries to make an example out of this

Maybe we would all be better off in the long term if they did. Probably wouldn't work out great for them, however.
I don't know why new outlets make the actual factual information for these things so difficult to find. Can't they include the bill number or link to the bill itself? The actual bill text is here [1] and the record leading up to its passage is here [2].

[1] http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name...

[2] http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=667&GA...
This suggests that something is very wrong with the market. The costs of development and production (even ignoring failures) are way below revenue, which means that return on capital should be very positive. Somehow most of the money is going into overhead. One might debate whether the overhead constitutes corruption, but it should be able to be reduced.
That last part makes sense. If you want a different identity, you need to choose a different ID. Better to make you be more explicit about what you are trying to do (multiple accounts), then accidentally split accounts of people who aren't trying to do that.
> It doesn't cost anywhere near $100 to produce a month's supply

Is the $100 indexed to inflation?

Separately, this is a supply-side problem. Why can’t I start a business that manufactures insulin while selling it at a reduced—but profitable—margin? Those barriers to entry are a fundamental issue.
The original development of insulin was nearly 100 years ago, so the patent has expired, and in any case was donated to the public good: https://www.treehugger.com/health/inventors-insulin-sold-the...
Those will be widespread eventually, it's still relatively new, just hitting Linux mainstream kernel dev, so probably 2 or 3 years before tried and proven management tools come out.
This may result in tainting large part of bitcoin in circulation.

If someone buys a coffee with tainted coins, is the cafeteria now responsible for querying the registry to reject the transaction? Or it risks to have whole daily turnover, if spent together, end up tainted?
It's kind of nice to see that billionaires sometimes post obvious shit like the rest of us.
A lot of people need reminding of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So, it is slightly more complicated than a serial number. In some sense, everytime you make a transaction, you burn all the input coins and creates new coins for the same value, each assign to the respective recepient. Tracking them is not straight forward.
Most OTC are not very tech savvy and I can imagine one either being criminal but stupid for bringing it to Bitfinex or simply non criminal but did not do their due diligence and KYC the seller (which is very surprising knowing the space)
My theory is that they use Hidden Markov Models to figure out something subtle about the market -- probably regimes.

I got this impressions from several of Simons interviews, and then the recent book has added more clues.

Note that the Baum-Welch algo is one of the leading algos used to solve the underlying model and Baum worked at Rentech.
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Why is that?

Why avoid a Apple, etc?
Wow, there's a "Remote" button in the scene window which does exactly that. Is this, what you mean?

Thanks! Learned something new!
Comments like this always make me sad. Not just because I disagree with them (I do!) or that I think they are claiming certainty about facts in dispute (I think they are ! [1, 2] ) but because they make no mention of trade-offs. We can vehemently disagree about these things, get our information from different sources, and advocate for different policies, but hopefully we can all agree that there _would_ be tradeoffs? What might be the downsides to the proposed approach ? Do we think this would result in reduced innovation? In fewer potential cures?

[1] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/05/28/wh...
[2] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/11/11/ma...
Virtu financial does this approach, very successful. Its SEC forms explain things better.
I don’t demand my roads, libraries, or other public goods turn a profit. I wouldn’t demand the same of public pharma research (NIH, DARPA).

Perhaps the market is not designed for this sort of endeavor (drug research). Let government stand in where the market has failed.
Online advertising is pretty much always going to be a race to the bottom because everything a website does is just a dog and pony show to get people to watch ads. Why bother putting together quality content when churning out clickbait and low-effort crap generates far more clicks with far less work?
The expansion of the acronym is more an etymology than the language's actual name. Calling it "Standard Meta-Language" would probably cause more confusion for most people. Similar to how nobody ever refers to Fortran as "Formula Translation", or APL as "A Programming Language", or COBOL as "Common Business-Oriented Language", or BASIC as "Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Language^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCode".

(edit: basic, not basil)
It may very well be quite true that the price of insulin is too high but price controls really are not that great. If the price now is to high, $100 probably still is too high. Also, in the more general case (not for insulin, obviously) pharma does need to recover its research costs and who is going to say what is a good price and what not. You know, capitalism actually kind of works and price controls just don't.

There actually is a capitalist solution to the problem of high medicine prices. That is for pharma companies to have to post a price of their patents. And when somebody is willing to pay that price they do get the patent for exactly that price. After that you tax the value of the patents at a somewhat high percentage. This way, if the price of the medicine is to high relative to the posted value the state or perhaps the insurance companies could just buy the patent. On the other hand if the price of the patent is too high relative to the price of the medicine there is no real problem. In the case where both are too high but it is not the case that one is higher than the other the state should just funnel the money that comes in through the tax back to whoever needs to buy the medicine at a the high price.
> Obviously the sites are not getting the benefit

How is that obvious?

Surely sites would eventually stop going through the extra effort to maintain trackers if they didn't get a benefit?
You have to question the assumptions if the basic math at the beginning doesn't even seem right. They claim 440 reactors today need to scale to 15,000. That is a 34x increase.

Yet, https://www.ieer.org/ensec/no-1/glbnrg.html says that 18% of worldwide generation is already nuclear. So, to get to 100% that would be ~5x, not 34x.

So, just that one change pretty much blows most of their argument away, particularly if you assume that simply replacing many of the existing reactors would give a capacity increase due to turbine/heat efficiency improvements now done at modern plants.

So the scare mongering about having to build/replacing a reactor each day sounds like utter bollocks.
I don't get the issue with ;; in ocaml, literally all it does is force evaluation in the repl. You will never write it in code.
yup! More fun facts about a 1 km head height... Off-the-shelf turbines are actually spec'd for a max head height of something closer to .5 km. So the design calls for a double-drop. This design approach is taken from the DOE research linked on our website.
No, for the same reasons the soldier pressing the button at a nuclear test doesn't get the Nobel Prize for doing so.
Akien (project manager) isn't based in Brazil, he's French. And Juan (project manager) lives in Argentina (according to his GitHub).

George however, who has been employed only recently does live in Brazil (according to his GitHub).
Ocaml decided to be on the "large" while sml kept small it seems. I loved that trait (through Dan Grossman's MOOC). To the point that I found it even nicer to interact with than lisp.
The thing is, GDPR has theoretically solved this in the EU. The UK's ICO is about to publish guidance prohibiting scraping public user information for marketing (where the user would not expect it to be used for that).

It's a really easy solution, because companies need to prove how they got your data when asked.

When you track the source of the mailing list you're getting spam from and they say "We scraped it from LinkedIn", they get fined.
Completely agreed. I was surpised reading the article about how fusion (irrespective of being able to achieve it with positive energy output) was obviously a non-starter due to neutron embrittlement.

I think there is a place for this kind of work, however simply looking backwards at technology and propagating it forward with no change isn't it. The author points out many problems that weren't evident to me prior to reading, but also doesn't comment on how any of them are being solved or have progressed in within the past few decades.

For example modern reactors last 80 years not 60 [0] (and can be extended to over 100).

[0] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/whats-lifespan-nuclear-re...
They can’t be I think. No way to opt in. Or even to inform the person.
This sort of reasoning is almost always spurious. Without enough facts about the truth, people try to think about what the motivations of different entities would be, and then assume that those entities are able to pursue those motivations.

Usually, there is not enough information for a 3rd party observer to actually know the motivations of a large group, or know enough about the facts to know whether those groups were able to successfully pursue their incentives.
PowerWall doesn't remotely scale to grid-scale, and 150MW battery deployments don't begin to address the hundreds of 2000+ MW coal plants [1] out there. They're a band-aid that only works in specific use cases. Battery manufacture, recycling and transport, combined with the need to replace most of the cells every decade are seen to largely negate both the carbon offset and cost benefits of solar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal_power_stations
Care to explain?

Unless underlying protocols (OSI layer) OR government policies don't stop WG from working, there should be no other variable to technically stop WG from working.
Many upstanding people—and even large companies like payment processors!—process their received funds through a mixer “just to be safe”, i.e. to escape any coincidental untoward paper-trail that attaches to their funds two or three steps back.

You know how they say that every US dollar bill has a little cocaine on it? Using your suggestion, every dollar bill would be marked tainted as drug proceeds.
Perhaps linked in should switch to flutter . This type of technology will make it harder to scrape .
Brilliant title and of all the titles that you would expect to be clickbait, it is not, and makes perfect sense once the article is read.
The recent WV teacher strike was also illegal. And effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_West_Virginia_teachers%27...
My wife has severe anxiety flying. Having her dog is better than medicating. People whose emotional support animals are not chill are the issue. Chill dogs do not mean any breed or upbringing. It takes the right combination of proper genetics and upbringing to have a dog that fits the bill. And one with a strong bladder. We also are annoyed with those that abuse the system with obnoxious yelpers who themselves are scared or anxious. The human should not be the emotional support for the dog. And those people will ruin it for my wife and others like her.

Also. I need to make another point. On no less than a dozen flights, we’ve enlisted our dog to deal with small children who are losing their mind. Dog is deployed, wailing stops, other passengers have literally cheered. Flight attendants are so delighted we drink for free on the flight. End of flight dog returns a hero. So, before we get the pitchforks our, consider how emotional support dogs serve a purpose. Those with bullshit ESANS can stay away.
That's not really a price control, that's buyer control - collective bargaining reduces the number of buyers of X but not the amount of X demanded.
I'm curious - was that TV edge-lit? I've been on the search for a suitable TV for this project for a while now. Most of the cheap/broken TVs you can find are backlit with fluorescent tubes. I disassembled one and discovered it did not have the lens. And from searching for TVs, it looks like most large screens (beyond about 30") directly backlight with LEDs rather than using LEDs around the sides. Was wondering if the direct-lit LED TVs still had the lens.