skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fission also generates a large amount of neutrons, but we still managed to build reactors it just required a large amount of shielding. This is a much smaller problem than finding a way to contain high energy plasma long enough to allow us to produce a fusion reaction.

I also don't understand why you're complaining about the loss of super-rare helium isotopes, but think that we're going to run out of Lithium due to this process, which is orders of magnitude more common.

The bottom line is that even a rudimentary fusion power system can capture 10x whatever energy you put in place. This blows away any other form of power generation no matter what measure you go by. Which is why it's still getting research money even if the result may be decades away.
Shipping durability (plastic instead of a cardboard carton) and ease of machine handling ("sqround" instead of square). Both are covered in the blog.
Vivaldi seems like more of the same, sends statistics information with no way to disable it. On Firefox, all of that is in about:config and easily copied around as user.js.
Airbnb, Uber and Ola Are Considering Using India’s National ID Database
I just don't want to get fired / sued.
The Metaphysics of the Hangover
>> A single binary, less than 1mb in size, that handles GC and cross compiles?

Yeah, me too. I tried reading the Red source code, hmm still couldn't figure it out. Could someone explain how Red achieve this?

Compared to GCC or FPC, Red is obviously very very very tiny :)
I think computer algebra systems can play a role in getting to grips on math. In particular SymPy has a very natural API, with the algebra verbs like "simplify", "expand", "factor", "solve", etc.

Here is a short printable tutorial for anyone interested:
https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...
'One 10gen engineer made this point in analogizing SQL to Cobol, arguing that "SQL is Annoying":'

Why wasn't this the tagline for Mongo to begin with? At least it shows the arrogance, ignorance, and outright stupidity behind the database. This is not an engineer's comment. It cannot possibly be now, decades after SQL has become a de facto standard for some very good reasons (outlined in the article and elsewhere, won't rehash here). It is a marketer's comment, probably spoken by an engineer who isn't qualified to build simple demo apps, let alone anything as complex as a database. Mongo's CTO seems to fit this bill of marketer more than anything else or how would he be able to make the claims he makes with a straight face?

Our industry has a problem with fads and decisions based on feelings. Even if SQL is annoying, it's incredibly stupid to base your tech choices on feelings. It's even dumber to choose a product whose engineers build the product based on feelings. Last I checked, I thought we were an industry of engineers, trying to apply scientific principles and some human ingenuity to build software. Where does 'annoying' fit into that? Or other adjectives I often see thrown around on these boards like 'clean' and 'slick'. I know it's hard to quantify the quality of software and speak about it with any coherence, but this is beyond incoherent. 'Annoying' as applied to SQL tells me nothing. 'Annoying' as applied to the engineer making this incredibly stupid comment tells me that this engineer is either lazy, gullible, or just downright stupid. Have we seriously lost our ability to discern hype from reality that we let people and companies like this dictate our technology choices, throwing out decades of solid research in computer science for what some idiot at a company more specialized in marketing and PR than engineering tells us?

I'm willing and ready to hear well-thought out criticism of SQL and RDBMS. What I'm not willing and ready to hear is some idiot's feelings about SQL or RDBMS. You want to make a claim? Measure it. Present a report with data. But goddamn, if one of my reports came to me with this kind of stupidity, I'd give them a chance, but if they persisted, I'd fire them. This isn't revolutionary thought. It's not evolutionary thought. It's lazy idiots who don't want to learn SQL, a language so easy even business people with essentially no computer skills can pick up.
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Inbox during the Beta.

WhatsApp during the Beta.

Signal's desktop client.

Google Earth.

Google Translate works, but has 3 helpful dialogs telling you to install Chrome.

Google Search on Mobile Firefox is heavily restricted in functionality, and tells to install Chrome.

Under some situations, Google will replace the first 4 search results and replace them with a "your browser is outdated, install Chrome" while also adding a top bar saying the same, and a dialog at the top right.
But other cars aren’t limited to this speed. If I hit a car at 25 mph it might be safe, but if I hit it at 100mph that’s a different story. That other car has no input on how fast I hit it.
Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler
Thanks for writing. I enjoyed your post.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about Nerdwriter1. I loved his Shane Black and Lord of the Rings leitmotif videos but some of the more conceptual stuff can be pretty hard to take. A good example would be his Bon Iver video which mostly seems like conceptual waffle.
What makes dogs so friendly? Study finds genetic link to super-outgoing people
The blog post doesn't make it very obvious which bottle is actually new, I assume the left-most on the first image? The second image have them flipped and the last image is not the most clear.

The first image, second bottle also look "more designed".
Years ago I saw a flyer of Justin.tv, thought it's an amateur college student TV project, and didn't see any potential. Now it's one of my favorite startup stories, due to the wild start and huge impact. Live broadcasting has become a red hot social medium, especially in red China.
It is literally disruption. Disruption to the city, to pedestrians and cyclists, to traffic, to well flowing movement (not sure that applies to Indian cities).
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Microtransactions.
For sure. This is why I question the idea of for-profit businesses helping rather than hurting and say it's a mixed bag. There really are some places that care about helping (especially outside the US and in rich areas in the US), but there are also plenty of places that do more harm than good. For-profit, free market capitalism's goals are hardly ever aligned with the goals of society and humanity.
> That's probably also why we so rarely hear about rich kids with large trust funds accomplishing anything meaningful.

Interesting theory... but could perhaps be due to reporting bias? The trust funded who do succeed are unlikely to highlight that fact when telling the story of their success.
They never really talk about alternatives to the plastic bottle, just variations of it.

I would also think filling and distribution of a carton is a solved problem considering how much milk/juice gets moved in them without too much damage.
Unfortunately, one of the important citations ([5], "Proof of Replication") does not appear to be available. (Or, at least, Google cannot find it.)
Of course the goal should be to educate. (The goal of education should be to educate - what a concept!)

I'm not agreeing with the author, but that's what the author is saying.
This seems like a compiler bug, not a systemic issue with Ethereum. No?
This is a nice illustration that all property in general is a social construct: you only truly own something if the rest of the society agrees that you do. Blockchain is one particular way to set the rules, but our regular property laws are not any different in principle.
Very interesting post. I think the author can head his own advice and could have hosted it on a domain like startuptools.com or something, because this blog post is going to be backlinked heavily and with a touch of SEO this can be a regular source of targeted traffic.

Just add a pdf checklist at the bottom that needs an opt-in (anybody who reads this will have a very conversion rate) and soon you've got a small list. Pitch them the startup tools or whatever you think is best for the list (using affiliate links) and soon you have a site that is making a passive income. It's easier said than done, but creating a passive income is really that easy and if you're doing the effort you may as well reap the rewards.
It's only a bubble if you can identify it ahead of time.
Stating that something became much more valuable over a short period of time doesn't mean you know how to identify bubbles. Bitcoin is 70-80 times more valuable now than when it was at 32, and had you bought it then you would be up a lot. So, to say crypto is in a bubble today is the same thing as to predict that in a few years it will be worth less than today. Do you know that definitively ? I don't
I feel the same way (though I never ran my own startup). On the surface it would make sense for me to start companies. I tick most of the boxes, but at heart I'm more of an artist. Maybe 10 years ago I'd be interested in spending five years of my life for a 1% chance of getting better returns than working for a regular salary.
Also I'm no longer in my 20s, not independently wealthy, and most importantly I don't want the stress of being responsible for a company. But that's just where I'm at right now...
Why things cost what they cost
This isn't rocket scientist and people far smarter than us have already figured this stuff out.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DDD_Aggregate.html

If you look at this from a Domain Driven Design standpoint, you should model your business and think about your aggregate roots and each collection should be its own aggregate root, data access should be handled by one class/microservice for each aggregate root.

If you modeled your Domain correctly that wouldn't be an issue.

On the other hand, not modeling your domain correctly first would lead to an ungodly, untestable, tangle of stored procedures and 10 way joins with A relational database.

The Mongo docs goes into best practices which mirrors basically the concept of an aggregate root.

https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/thinking-documents-part-2
I've never really seen milk cartons delivered towards schools or shops (think juices and milk) be damaged all that often, but I'm not watching their deliveries either! I just imagined it was a problem already solved for non-pressurized drinks.
There's essentially no legitimate use case for crypto-currency. Cypherpunks have been at it for decades and all they have to show for it is drugs, ponzis, assassination markets, and conspiracy theories.

It would be nice to see some sort of casual hawala-type federated micropayments system based on real national currency, with instant settlement, low fees, and no fake money value store. But, that would be a pre-9/11 idea. Nowadays that's basically illegal and useless.

Paypal is more or less good enough, and hopefully regulators and market forces will control the fees and abuses.
You can enable the IOMMU to prevent a PCI device from doing arbitrary DMA.
From TFA:

"So why sqround? Why not a crisp cornered square bottle, you ask? Obviously, a perfect square would be most efficient in terms of packing. Squares, however, come with their own set of challenges. When bottles travel down the manufacturing line on their way to your door, they are constantly moving from single file to big groups, around curves and corners, and jostling into place. A bunch of round bottles will roll off one another and travel smoothly around corners, but a bunch of square bottles have a tendency to lock up with one another, kind of like a losing game of Tetris. By generously rounding the corners of a square (to the industry-coined “sqround”) we solve these production line issues."
Escape hatches are provided by WebExtensions Experiments.

https://webextensions-experiments.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
In retrospect I don't understand either. It's such a simple concept. But it really befuddled me for a while.

My suspicion is that since everything involved pointers in C, even things like string manipulation, it was just an extra layer of confusion in a sea of new to me stuff.
Perfect explanation as usual.
Juice boxes have pretty obvious ergonomic issues. Also the article goes into detail on why they didn't make it perfectly square.
I wish I could see how the op is employing the no true Scotsman fallacy, but I can't.
> People should be forced to take [A financial planning course]

No one should be forced to take such a useless course. Learn algebra and all the non-ephemeral aspects of basic financial planning comes basically for free.

> Knowing how to save money on tax returns

Talk about ephemeral knowledge!

> how to calculate a budget

...is literally the first example used in a lot of college algebra courses.
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> Speed and responsiveness of the UI in general are much better in Chrome. (no bug report link, sorry)

> Notice how that there's no complain about the look of the main UI, still Mozilla decides to redo it yet again with project Photon ...

Are you seriously askong that?

Firefox is doing Photon (like they were doing Australis) because they're replacing their entire UI framework with a faster one.

Australis was the move from native GTK2 to XUL, Photon is a move from XUL to HTML5 for UI.
I agree that DJI is a robotics company, and as somebody who has been keeping a close eye on the consumer drone market, it seems they are practically impossible to compete with.
digital nomadism doesn't mean anything.
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There's no incentive for "ripping it out", but even a prototype Fusion reactor should be, at a minimum, 4-5x more efficient than a nuclear Fission reactor and probably 10x more efficient than solar or wind. I doubt we'd ever rely on a single source of energy on Earth, but if we had to pick one, Fusion would be it.
FWIW that "simple arithmetic and statistics" is the sort of stuff that's taught in college algebra.

We're not talking about teaching everyone Calculus or Group Theory. We're talking about making sure everyone knows what they should've learned in their middle and high school algebra course.
I first read this theory in the book Calculating God, but it has also appeared in the Hyperion book series. I recently saw it in Black Mirror season 3 (for humanity).

Not exactly a new theory. Still has the problem of the exponential population expansion (in any form like probe or seeding or terraforming or colonization) leaving physical traces everywhere...if they were even marginally successful beyond an origin galaxy. The universe has been around a loooooooooooooooo...ng time.
If it was just changing a constant (which is what GP implied), that would probably not constitute sufficient creative output to be subject to copyright.
https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/887781929726038016

"If the creator of Solidity, Gavin Wood, cannot write a secure multisig wallet in Solidity, pretty much confirms Ethereum is hacker paradise."
Why would an alien race, who sees our very corrosive atmosphere as poisonous, care if we do things to it that make it less habitable for our particular species? Small thinking imo.
Tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years
Yup. From what I've seen as a family member of an addict in recovery, you can work your way up to 28 bottles of methadone and do guest dosing, but the amount of planning, waiting, preparation, and willingness to deal with fuckups is colossal. Colossal enough that it stresses me out and I'm not even the patient. And this is traveling a few times a year. Imagine ending up in a foreign country with not enough medicine because the people handing it out are too incompetent to count the days of your vacation and rush you out of there. That's how we found out how much of a difference in compassion there is between clinics in Europe and the US. The ones in Europe really went out of their way to treat the patients with cordiality and to help them, even though the patient was a foreigner. Free of charge. While the one here took dozens of phone calls just to figure out there was a mistake. I really hope attitudes start to change. It's so hard to see a family member struggling with this and of course, that's absolutely nothing compared to their actual struggle. It's great to hear about others doing well on their path to recovery. I wish you all the best!
Does backblaze have a single enterprise client that anyone knows of? That's Sia's target market. They are targeting companies that use S3, not a company that's pretty clearly targeting personal and SMB's.
popularity does not correspond to vetting (see the recent parity multisig vulnerability), and highly reviewed software is not necessarily popular (how many people know about libsecp256k1?).
The idea and implementation has been around a while. Lavarand was an early (or first) one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
It's funnny how, when java first came out, everyone was writing applets and not doing a good job of it (incl myself). This was due to it being way easier to code and deploy as opposed to C/C++ at the time. This gave ppl the impression that java was slow, when in fact the code was terrible (and ms was constantly submarining sun).

Now I'm sitting here with 16GB of really terrible Javascript code running in my browser using 5% constantly of the fastest intel chip you can buy today. No one says it's slow probably because no one knows it's running.

If chrome and ff put a task in the process list with all the Javascript CPU usage I'm guessing things would be way different.

I really do think K&R C should be taught to university level students. It's important to understand pointers and mallocs, even if you don't use it often.
To my non expert eye it appears that the Sybil resistance and hence the entire novelty of the paper is rests on this currently inaccessible citation.
Can you share where you work? I'm looking for someone to audit some Solidity code.
Definitely. Math is typically taught really, really poorly until at least university. It's not uncommon to find STEM phds who "hated math" before making it to or even past calculus.

It's really funny how helpful the "_" or "cloud" trick is for kids. Even high school kids in AP Calculus find it helpful.

There is a "hump" where "_" vs. "x" doesn't seem to help much, e.g. where we start working with polynomials as more abstract things and so on. I think the right approach there is to make a lot more use of computer algebra.

The point is "here's a generic tool that's useful in lots of specific circumstances", but students get lost during hours of practicing the "useless generic tool" before seeing why that general tool is useful. Computer algebra systems can help there.
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Funnily enough, the one feature I need to completely replace jira with trello is the ability to have the same card on multiple boards, but I guess they couldn't handle that kind of relational data.
Unless you're the lead developers and lost money. Then we'll just hard fork the entire protocol.
There's nothing I love more than a chicken or egg argument. Nobody is doing B because there isn't a company that has a scalable B option yet.

But hey, your argument is totally valid, which is why everyone is still programming in Cobalt!
I think you are misunderstanding my point. You say HFT is good and it does good things. Okay... how good? For the sheer amount of money and effort involved it had better be pretty good. (For things this big, yes, they do need to justify their existence.) So we should quantify how good it is. We should know the ROI for all speeds of trading. At what point do the improvements become lost in the noise and it is just a bunch of financial masturbation?

> Efficiency in a market means things are priced accurately and you're not getting ripped off when you buy or sell; if you find that vague and hand wavy, well, sorry but that's what it means and you should be able to understand that without further explanation.

I'm unable to find hard numbers and neither can you; by that metric we understand it equally well. You have a religious faith in finance. I don't. I need evidence. Would you buy my pill that helps you lose weight if I'm not going to tell you how much the pill costs or how much weight you lose? I've based my whole career on selling this pill and can spout endless platitudes, you should believe me.

> So say thank you to HFT, enjoy your cheaper trades and increased liquidity, and go find a real problem to complain about instead of attacking those who make your life better.

More platitudes. Finance lives and dies by numbers. If the most brilliant minds on the planet, moving trillions of dollars, can't nail down a metric for how good of a job they are doing, I'm inclined to suspect they aren't doing a good job.
There is a whole lot of difference between curve fitting and curve fitting with performance guarantees on future data under a distribution free (limited dependence model).

BTW the 'machine learning' term is Russian coinage and its genesis lies in non-paramteric statistics, the key result that sparked it all off was Vapnik and Chervonenkis's result that is essentially a much generalized and non-asymptotic version of Glivenko Cantelli. The other result was that of Stone that showed universal algorithms that can achieve the Bayes error in the limit not only exist but also constructed such an algorithm. This was the first time it was established that 'learning' is possible.
Those are often transported in thick reusable crates rather than cardboard boxes.
Awesome stunt. Amazing talent. Mind-blowing. A must watch
The puja ceremony is part of Hindu culture on any major financial transaction. Even in the US, it is common for Hindu families to perform it after buying a car or home though perhaps not as elaborate. Also you will find in India the stores have many more staff compared to US stores. Imagine Walmart with an employee manning every isle. I guess due to labor cost being much lower.
Could the numbers also be influenced, literally, by survivorship bias? Those that survived malaria likely had a genetic advantage that they passed along, while those that didn't died. Malaria may have far less impact today than in the past.
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I downvoted you because what you said is extremely misleading. Mozilla had a contract with Google to use them as the default search engine. They didn't "tell them exactly who you are..."
If we can design CARs for cancer specific markers or have the technology to create other immunotherapies, I don't see why we couldn't do the same for any antigen including antibiotic resistant bacteria. A quick search shows that there is some work in this area already.