skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it would be logical to conclude that you support doxing Apple’s employees.

But your comment didn't just say such a person would conclude it's justified. You said the logical conclusion would be them participating in the doxxing. Those are very different things. The list of actions that I think are justified but don't participate in is enormous.

(And by "mandatory for everyone that believes that" I meant that logic would mandate it, which is the same as it being the logical conclusion.)

But even with your new version, just talking about it being justified, well that's not necessarily the logical conclusion. One reason is that their participation is at a different level, so the justification might not extend to them.

And if you go by the motive in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24738218 then identifying the police is being done for a very direct purpose to level the playing field on the ground. Someone might reasonably feel that this reason doesn't apply to Apple employees, even while saying that Apple employees have blood on their hands.
A nuclear plant costs the same to run at full capacity all year round as it does to run it at partial capacity. Just run the plant at full capacity all year round, and save money by building less solar.
Of course, since these often take months of up-front effort it’s obvious why they’re not as common :(
> The primary idea -- that a product will make the consumer's life better -- is what is being repackaged and resold over and over again.

I wish.

What’s being resold and repackaged is telling other people how to make money by telling other people how to tell other people how to make money by telling other people how to make money.
While this argument holds some merit for intermediaries in general, it provides no argument why boring a $300M hole in a mountain for a 3ms speed improvement adds any value.
Yeah they've been on the "Twitter path" with their developer tools..

As they mature and double-down on value extraction from their existing customers, they are cutting off more and more interesting third-party services that helped them grow but are now seen as competitors or detriments to their revenue.
> autogenerated output useful for debugging by programmers

Nit: not necessarily autogenerated, we can implement Debug by hand. It's just that, as the name indicates, this is aimed at debugging output rather than the possibly-user-facing output of Display.
Altering the pH with baking soda or vinegar has an effect, though:

https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/12/the-food-lab-the-best-ro...

https://www.seriouseats.com/2011/01/the-food-lab-real-french...
Further down it says:

>For the visuals, Canny AI specializes in video dialogue replacement, which uses an actor’s mouth movements to manipulate someone else’s mouth in existing footage. The actor, in other words, serves as a puppeteer, never to be seen in the final product. The person’s appearance, gender, age, and ethnicity don’t really matter.

So I could argue it either way. If the gender and ethnicity didn't matter in the Nixon case, the writer/editor should probably have indicated that on the first mention. (On the other hand, they also wanted someone who sounded a bit like Nixon which would tend to lead you to a white male.)
So it nuclear costs as much as offshore wind, but it's not intermittent? That's very strong advantage: non-intermittent generation avoids the need to overproduce and store energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iFYaeoE3n4

Sure. Iran is the uncivil one in the region.
It's at least a few orders of magnitude away from ever plausibly getting there. For all intents and purposes, such a concern is imaginary.

And even then, one doesn't preclude the other. Retrofitting power distribution to have less energy loss, buildings with better insulation, more efficient logistics networks for food delivery, these are green new deal issues. None of that is anti-nuclear - they simply aren't related.

By "sucks up all the resources" you'd have to have all humans efforting to do things like this that nothing can be allocated to anything else. That is simply not how reality works.
The policy is to drop charges that do not involve violence or destruction of property. 70% of charges resulting from the protest were for city ordinance violations such as trespass.
Cycle lanes are a trap for those who do not know. What exactly are the skills that you need to ride your bike in the normal road that are not needed when you ride on a bike lane?
I'm not sure I can come to the same conclusion from that page. 100 years later 4 major branches are still competing with the largest of those being <50% the value of the group as a whole seems like an ENORMOUS difference in competition compared to 100 more years of a Standard Oil monopoly. That's not even counting the dozens of minor company spin offs.

Even if they all merged into 1 again in the near future I'd still count that breakup as having massive long lasting impact.
> because you aren't doing huge numbers of repeated operations (as in ML)

In ML precision doesn't count so much. It's often possible that we train on 32bits and deploy the model on 16bits. In fact stochasticity is useful and we add it in by dropout or other things. You can drop any connection (or millions of them) in a neural net and get almost the same result. There have been papers that showed that reducing the number of bits used to represent weights might even improve the network because it has a regularising effect. The real brain is also stochastic.
OSMAnd+ has great live navigation if you care to check out alternatives.
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APIs: The Digital Glue (a short history on APIs)
I think it is essential that Google undergoes a transformation process through an anti trust case.

Chrome is the 100% least important problem.

Since every other browser now is based the same foundation,
it is trivial for Google to point out that there are many alternative browsers.

Breaking up search, ads, and other integrated pats of Google should be the highest priority.
When I looked at a semi-detailed analysis of one version of the GND, $14T was for the green part and $2T was for the new deal part. I think of it as a small bribe to get more politicians on board.
I've worked on a few things over the years. And it makes me happy to sit down and look them over sometimes. The ones which I kept to myself are mostly gone, perished in data loss. Many of the ones which I shared and published are still around, without me having to do anything. If you care about lasting software, follow Linus Torvalds advice, back up to public FTP and let the world make copies.
Air Canada reaches new agreement to acquire Transat AT at a reduced price
Their website says what they intend to do, but not what they're up to lately; the last blog post is from July and is fairly meta (process for discussion, not ex. "we're working on firmware this week"). Similarly, podcast last posted in February.
At first glace, it looks like it generated 300 million dollars in revenue for the construction, tunneling, and telecommunications industries. Which was a real value for the companies doing the work. Was the end result useful for anyone else? Probably not, but the companies and employees who made it possible took home a tangible value.
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> They're trying to convince corporate gatekeepers to adopt it

This is definitely the "enterprise sales" area where they seem to be doing a lot of work now, but a few years ago it was much more about finding an evangelist on a team somewhere with a company card, the pricing was structured so that you could get to critical mass on a typical pre-approved expenses limit.

> re: the google docs sharing thing - I really hate it, because I'm pretty much always asked this question, and I say 'no' or remove the alert

Yeah I absolutely get this, but I'd say that in wanting to solve a repeated annoyance like this we're already in the minority. Most users would treat this as a feature – they don't need to find a solution because it just asks them every time and it's easy to click the button to make it do what they what it to do.
I think you generally need to either assume or establish that your testing environment tends to be sound, just like you need to assume or establish that your programming language/compiler/computing environment tends to be sound. Your application code and test code itself probably shouldn't be compensating for or attempting to avoid known or unknown flaws in your testing environment.
Also I find that drivers behave more aggressive towards me precisely after they build a bike lane. Because of course they expect you to use it, that's why the built it, so that you get out of their way.
Isn't the market more liquid if new prices come in every day rather than every week?
With liquid salt and Thorium reactors all of this is far less "bad" plus the amount of land used for nuclear over solar/wind is exponentially less. You cannot have green new deal and nuclear deal at the same time, we do not have unlimited funding. Plus the amount of harm to the environment and economy from green new deal is incalculable.
I feel like I've searched for sketchy stuff before and it's almost always in response to something on twitter or reddit where someone claims something that feels ridiculous and so I go on google to see if it's legit or not.
Hey man, if you can't contribute tips and research to help me on my 30 day coffee fast then maybe HN isn't the place for you. May I suggest Reddit?
Well that's quite ironic haha. I mean, Chrome has more built-in tracking to deduce you're a human.
1,200 slide decks =/= 1,200 slides
Lots of my friends went into pro acting. In that field, your body type is extremely important.
Liquid Salt and Thorium are the best wins we have today until we figure out fusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yALPEpV4w

Simple facts.
Are you saying that when you need to add a space character to the beginning of your strings you write it yourself?!
Interesting. Certainly pretty scary!
I had one of those that a programmer that worked for me sold me.

It did cost him something like $6000-9000 new.

The image was incredible, but it had lots of drawbacks:

1. It was huge and heavyweight. Most people that say "people obsession with flatness" has never expirienced having an screen that is as deep as long and tall. Attaching it to the wall was a nightmare.

2. It had problems with magnets. I put a big magnet like 1 meter away and it affected the screen.

3. It emitted X-Rays directly to your eyes. Not good.

In the end replacing it with LCDs was a great decision. Much better for the programming or CAD that I do.

OLED is great, as the article says, if you can buy-recover the cost somewhat.
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Clocks are dominated by causality and ordering. This is why physics doesn't recognize "time".
Not if Google is broken up.
Target date funds have existed since the 1990s. The age of current TDFs is skewed by the fact that they are created with a specific time horizon; Vanguard's 2065 fund was only created in 2017, for example, for obvious reasons.

TDFs are just funds-of-funds, so you only need to know the characteristics of the underlying funds to understand their makeup and performance. Vanguard's TDFs, for example, are composed of some of the most highly respected index mutual funds in the business.

There are other arguments for not holding target date funds, but generally speaking I think they're the best investment that your average retail investor can make.
> I feel they could have included a clause that would let a designated third party access the extracted data on the requester's behalf in an automated way.

Yeah, this would have been nice. I am not sure if legally you could enforce that as automation itself is vague and depends on the source and target both.

> I don't think data format fragmentation is a big issue (just implement adapters for the top five competitors in your market...), but rather the impossibility of doing it in a quick and seamless manner on behalf of someone wanting to migrate their data to your service from some other service.

I think if companies were being honest in their efforts for data portability, as a first step they would not try to reap the benefit of the 30 day window by as much as they can.

For most, it should take mins or hours to get the export yet the best turnaround I have seen from any service has been from Tinder, it was I think 3 days.
I started hearing a hum in March, coinciding perfectly with my shift to working from home during lockdown. Glen MacPherson (who runs the hum database) has also reported a surge in hum reports.
I've jumped on plenty of hype trains of new languages over the last 20 years. Rust is the first one that made we actually worry that I might have to eventually switch back to different language in the future. In addition, it's the first language that doesn't have me use Python for quick shell scripting or small prototypes. It's a pleasure to code in.
Facebook Workers Sign Petition Demanding Hazard Pay for Content Moderators
On the flip side, how much more science is possible because entertainment dollars drive GPU development?
> the entire far left’s agenda

Or as the rest of the world calls it, center's agenda. The actual far-left is pretty critical of the GND: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/05/deal-m05.html
It sounds like you have Portland-itis:

https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1919
The users are paying for it with their privacy.

CDN providers are not charities: they sell traffic metadata.
VA panels have by far the blackest blacks of any LCD technology. Viewing angles and uniformity aren't as good as IPS, but they're the best option if you care about contrast.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tests/picture-quality/contras...
As long as Nuclear Power costs don't include the long term waste storage it's dishonest about the real costs (just like the oil industry).

Also - current nuclear power plants need cold water for cooling - france had to turn of plants due to heat [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-heatwa...
These types of blanket rules are useful to ensure a 100% accurate test case. If an error in production costs me $15 Million I don't really care if the engineer wastes a few days to follow a dumb rule.

Also I can employ a $75k - $100k/year engineer and say follow this protocol for testing. If I want someone who can optimize test case 100% of the time with zero mistakes ever then I might have to pay $150k - $200k / year.
That is one part, yes, but the bigger item is it's banned city wide. Not just police and government, but businesses, schools, etc.
Did not think about the interpreted languages use case, thanks for pointing that out.
> Exactly. Because it doesn't generate real value.

Better price discovery generates some amount of 'real value', though.

Whether or not this particular investment generated 300 million dollars worth of real value is... A bit up in the air.
That's a pretty big shift of the initial question, but it's an important shift!

If you look in the "most free" markets for energy in the US, where there is the most possibility for independent companies to come in and provide generation and other energy resources, we are looking at ERCOT in Texas and PJM in the north.

In these free markets, we are seeing huuuge amounts of storage resources in the interconnection pipeline over the next few years [1].

So where indecent investors are allowed to participate in energy, we are seeing massive influx of capital to build storage, from people that are profit-seeking. Meaning storage, at least this first chunk of it, is already likely to be economically efficient.

That said, when we talk about renewables, wind and solar are largely uncorrelated, and where we have good wind resources we tend to get good wind at night.

And when you look at load on grids, such as Texas' independent ERCOT grid, you see a sinusoidal pattern too [2]. And for ERCOT, with a sinusoidal amplitude of about 20GW, by sheer coincidence there are about 17GW of storage projects in the pipeline. And I'm pretty sure that doesn't include the solar projects that have storage directly on them, which is happening with a huge chunk of solar projects. And though Texas has been good at building wind resources, they have left their solar mostly untapped up until now. So as they start to deploy solar, they are going to get a ton of storage deployed with that too.

The challenge is not longer the technology or the costs, the future challenges will be entirely about regulation, and whether entrenched interests will use regulatory capture to prevent new entrants that can supply cheaper low carbon energy to consumers and industry.

[1] https://rmi.org/clean-energy-is-canceling-gas-plants/

[2] http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/loadForecastVsActualCu...
Great post, especially for the embedded crowd. I'm looking to start using Rust in FW development but hit a couple pain points.

* First, bit field descriptors is a huge pain - where, in C, you would define an enum for the task, there isn't a real equal in vanilla Rust, other than a litany of constant variables.
* Second, the over-reliance on nightly is a tough sell for - having inline asm gated makes it very hard.
* Third, while format is great, it's also very heavyweight. Not having (AFAIK) variadic arguments is hard, and there isn't really an equal to printf.

I would love to be proven wrong, because I have an OS to write, and would love to use Rust.
Greek/Hebrew/Latin letters in mathematics: Explanations and examples
Nope, not an ADR. These are cross-listed shares trading under the same CUSIP.

Lots of cross-listed Canadian banks, railways, resource companies and telecoms. Usually I use something high priced to minimize spreads and avoid earnings seasons.
The entirety of the United States' nuclear waste from power generation occupies a volume the footprint of a football field, and less than 10 yards high [1]. The main draw of nuclear power is it's waste: there's so little of it!

1. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
The book flash boys is an interesting read on this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
I see what you mean, but from my perspective what this argument is missing is the context that a large and important subset of the scientific community has never moved to Python to begin with.

In other words, there is an even crankier and older community for which Julia may be the first actual change in a very long time.

This is particularly the case in HPC, where everyone still uses Fortran, C, or C++, and has never moved nor ever will move to Python because Python is fundamentally unsuited to these workloads. But in some cases, Julia is [1].

The best differential equation solvers (e.g., SUNDIALS [2] for a modern example) have been written in FORTRAN for the last 50 years. If Julia can challenge Fortran as the go-to language for this type of work (e.g. DifferentialEquations.jl [3] and SciML), that would hardly count as excessive churn.

[1] https://github.com/jeff-regier/Celeste.jl

[2] https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/sundials

[3] https://github.com/SciML/DifferentialEquations.jl
Sure, but the article doesn't make that point. They just dump it there as if it's obvious why it needs to be said and then move on.
You have to pay off the initial construction costs. Throwing away half the energy you generate means that you're wasting the large up-front costs.
I guess the problem is that the arms race needs to reach a bottom at some point. Sure if prices lag around the world by a few hours, then I can see how it's bad. Here we're talking about boring holes through mountains to shave microseconds off.

Then you see articles that these ones that make my blood boil: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/global-wa...

> Melting Arctic Means New Undersea Cables for High-Speed Traders

Amazing!

I can't shake the feeling that there can't be a simpler and more elegant solution to this problem, such as settling all transactions on some global discrete "tick" on the scale of a second to let the time for all exchanges to settle on a shared view of the market. The problem is that the incentives right now are not to create such a system, but rather to lay wires in the arctic to trade between Tokio and NY few milliseconds faster.
Using it from other interpreted languages is pretty great though. I got a JIT for R ODE solving up and running in a day: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/gpu-accelerated-ode-solv...
They could make them even more expensive without the spying features. But nobody would pay for it.
I cannot resonate more with this argument. Everytime we had some issue with performance with Python, instead of rewriting from scratch, I wrote it in C and created Python Wrappers for it. Its much better to extend the existing ecosystem, than rewriting things from scratch over and over again.
Recently joined a company where everyone has a touchscreen, not everyone has a pen. But even still, this factor alone has made technical collaboration easy, haven't tried the one in zoom, but the whiteboard built into teams has been very useful.
Whole point here is to avoid forex brokers that charge more money than this method.

If you choose a thinly traded cross-listed share, you could end up in trouble.
The market is already liquid and also more liquid.

Strategies that had less efficacy at $100mm position sizes now can scale to $10bn position sizes.

I like the growth of liquidity.
I would have used an alternate source if one was available but this is the first hit that came up when searching for the verbatim quote from The Spectator's video interview which it also links to here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8oH7cBxgwE&feature=youtu.be...
power storage
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weird! on firefox this does the job:

details.footnote > summary { list-style: none; }

but doesn't work on chrome, not sure why. updated the code to include both, thanks!
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There is also the mining and purification of the fuel which uses energy and water and generates waste in itself.
Interesting! Thanks for clarifying!

Edit: And your brokerage doesn't force the settlement funds into your local currency at an exorbitant rate or anything? (I am deeply amused by your backdoor currency exchange)
The vast majority of modern high-quality monitors have flicker-free backlights without PWM dimming.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tests/motion/image-flicker
There are 3 ways to make ROI:

1. Dividends.
2. Liquidation.
3. Speculation.

“Fundamentals” focuses on the first two. Unfortunately an expanding money supply creates capital inflows that will never be matched by returns. So everybody has to focus on speculative returns, which seem to be more about marketing.

I wonder if someday there’ll be a Benjamin Graham equivalent for speculative hype investing. Maybe a Bogle for the vast array of tech synthetic derivatives.
Couldn’t this end up being disaster with a large codebase and even a small amount of turnover? Are you really advocating that someone should write all their dependencies themselves even if they can afford it?
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