skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we already have a functioning fusion reactor.

Utility-scale PV now costs only $43/MWh. Investing in developing fusion reactors makes very little economic sense compared with capturing the output of the fusion reactor we already have.

The research should still be done, of course. It can have benefits to a future interstellar civilization - but until we're interstellar, PV is far, far more compelling.
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Hmm interestingly they renamed that to Elastic Container Service. It used to be named kinda recursively as EC2 Container Service.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/11/13/introd...
> Are the binary plugs that Oracle did not release the source supported?

Are the articles that Red Had publishes ever proof read?
I don’t think 850nm is a good choice for LIDAR for several reasons. Firstly, the article talks about absorption but that’s not the only phenomenon that they need to be concerned about. The other is scattering and 850nm will scatter from particulate matter in the air (like water vapor in fog) and suffer reduced range.

The 2nd reason why 850nm sources are not a good choice are VCSELs themselves. VCSELs are low power devices and always will be due to the narrow current aperture in their construction, you simply can’t send much current through it because even at low currents the current density is already very high. The 850nm wavelength is also limited in how much output power you can get and still have an eye safe device. Additionally, VCSELs do not work well at high temperatures. Their LIV curve bends over meaning that the combination of reduced slope efficiency and self heating of the junction cause the output power to decrease as you increase current beyond a certain point.

Lastly, VCSELs are relatively noisy devices. VCSELs are not single spatial mode devices and there is mode partition noise caused by the sloshing around of power between the various modes. When combined with RIN, this places an Upper bound on the SNR of the system. Finally, if you are already doing photon counting, you’re pretty much at the limit of this tech already.

To my mind, longer wavelength tech is more promising because it can use higher powers and still be eye safe, has better immunity to scattering in various atmospheric conditions which gives it longer range. Longer wavelengths can leverage technologies like silicon photonics to produce more advanced detectors (coherent detectors which will be more sensitive and improve range). Generally the lasers at these wavelengths are less noisy as they’ve been optimized for decades for use in long distance communication.
Reminds me of how I'll spend an afternoon avoiding a copy in Rust. It's kinda fun, but hard to remain deluded that you're doing it for serious technical purposes.
This is really great. I switched off products that use palm oil a while back, but I always feel so isolated when making changes like this. When a giant company does it, that has real impact. Thanks to the people out there that are making this sort of thing happen -- here's to hoping real good comes out of this.
good excuse to buy some Oreos today...
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Later in the video it shows them using a keyboard and mouse.
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It's not so clear-cut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform...

And that's the point. Anything can add up to PII if you have enough clues. PII is a statistical concept, not a binary concept.
I'm Chinese and I can confirm that I am, in fact, a bloodthirsty monster fueled by vengeance as GP commented. In fact I am building a next-gen killbot in my basement as we speak. My education from the Chinese system has left me with no capability for individual thought and zero perspective of the outside world, and therefore all my fellow Chinese citizens are driven by stereotypical perceptions of Chinese culture, as Western internet commenters describe.
Anyone know someone at Intel or how to actually buy the Myriad X to use in other hardware designs? I have reached out to Intel multiple times with no response.
Your thinking sounds like evil white western thinking.
I would argue that it is closer to being unfriended on Facebook than a website removing itself from your bookmarks.
This is a very cool too but I feel like I'm missing something. This looks like any other PEG parser generator. The only difference I see is that it will automatically handle the case where a valid match starts somewhere other than at the start of the stream. I'm not sure that this constitutes calling it a whole language unto itself.

What separates this from tools like PEG.js[1] or pest[2]?

[1]: https://pegjs.org/
[2]: https://github.com/pest-parser/pest
"Don't change the filters too often"

Thank you for bringing this up ... in industrial settings, filters are "seasoned" for some period before they can be expected to perform at their published ratings.

Many air and water filters' performance continues to rise over their lifetime - the downside being decreased flow rate.

If you are filtering infectious agents with a water filter, I would be reluctant to run them past their lifetime because you could have things living in the filter and filter housing, etc., but if you're just dealing with particles, your filtration should continue rising over time.
> People often ask me what they can do to help the homeless and I always say, "Just look around you!" When someone has so little, it doesn't take much to help. You can start by not judging the homeless.

This indeed where it all starts. There are so many voices telling us that these people aren't human, but deep down these rationalizations are just trying to cover the uncomfortable emotion we feel when we see a fellow human who is down on luck. Even if it's just $1 or a granola bar we can give, it can make a huge difference in someone's day. After all, the crisis they are going through is objectively more important than my comfort.
Any recommendations on gloves for summer use? It gets up to 110F/43C in the summer where I live.
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We should all add our voice to the growing consumer pressure around the world. Yesterday I contacted thrivemarket.com to complain about their carrying products using palm oil.
I should have made it more clear it's not all people, it's many people. And the problem is not the people, it's the system of government control of education, media, and now digital media at every level. You have been exposed to more voices (metaphorical) so you are one of the lucky ones. It's good to hear you find some of these voices to be inside of China still. I imagine being inside the system before encountering more viewpoints (grades 3-8 in your case) it would hard to see anything wrong. It's like being in the matrix and not knowing you're in the matrix.
we might already be there. The common trend to say, "we will solve X with technology" is pretty much the same sentiment as "we will solve X with magic". as long as technology and magic are amorphous concepts that hold a broad array of human experiences.
what about Milka Oreo ?
To play devil's advocate, "which data structures to use for esoteric string manipulation problems, etc" is the kind of thing that interests me (and presumably some others) a lot. If I wanted to go for a FAANG interview I'd love to brush up on the algorithms and data structures stuff that fascinated me in college and I haven't had much cause to think about since. There are certainly other things I'd rather be doing, but it wouldn't at all be a miserable chore like you're describing. So maybe they're looking for people who think about these problems more like I do (and I'm not by any means saying I'd pass the Google interview) and less like you do. They have the pick of the litter after all.

On the other hand, there's the well-known story of the Harvard MBA answering Orkut support tickets so Google probably doesn't need that level of talent. But if they can get it, why not?
Not only do most people not want to be boss, most nations aren't trying to take over the world.

One interesting thing: since most nations are tiny, and they are so utterly dependent on playing ninjitsu against others because they have no hard power ... the though doesn't occur to them. It becomes part of the national identity.

Canada->US
Scotland->England
Nordics (i.e. Norwegian)->Germany/France

We're a little bit more meek (for better or worse) by default, not just in geopolitics, but culturally as well.
China is full of extremely bright, hardworking people. It is not a nation of brain-washed automatons. I think AI alignment is some of the most important work in the world, and I think spreading and translating AI alignment research in China, such as Stuart Russell's work, may well be more important than direct AI-safety research. Because of their huge population and much higher average quantitative ability among Han Chinese, China has roughly 20 times the number of people capable of AI research, at least if you trust their PISA scores.

Should we get human-level AI, there is a good chance it will be made in China. As I don't think the Chinese are a nation of heartless automatons, I think spreading alignment ideas in China is not at all a hopeless task.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdpspllWI2o an ad Iceland(company) created to counter palm oil usage.
Almost 20 years old, and still relevant:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/12/21
Kind of looks like grok. Grok lets you name patterns, then build up larger patterns by those names, and then also name the groups that it matches to those sub-patterns so you can refer to them in the data. It's built on top of regex, as each pattern can be defined by a mix of other patterns and/or regex.

For example this grok pattern (taken from [1] )

%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp} \[%{IPV4:ip};%{WORD:environment}\] %{LOGLEVEL:log_level} %{GREEDYDATA:message}

refers to a pattern called TIMESTAMP_ISO8601 and calls it "timestamp" in the resulting output data structure.

In logstash, TIMESTAMP_ISO8601 is predefined in a patterns file, such as [2], which is made of up of a mix of regex and other patterns like YEAR, MONTHNUM, etc.

TIMESTAMP_ISO8601 %{YEAR}-%{MONTHNUM}-%{MONTHDAY}[T ]%{HOUR}:?%{MINUTE}(?::?%{SECOND})?%{ISO8601_TIMEZONE}?

MONTHNUM is a regex (optional 0 followed by 1-9; or 10 through 12):

MONTHNUM (?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2])

I'm not sure what all of Rosie's base patterns are. This appears to be a valid regex though, from the example: [:alpha:]+ (regex character class and "+" meaning 1 or more). It's C instead of java which is useful in more/different places.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/blog/do-you-grok-grok

[2] https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-patterns-core/b...
A 10,000-line C++ module for transmitting hundreds of different packets to a radio module from the driver, all cut-pasted copies of the same code with different structure name. Bugridden (bad copy-paste-edit bugs).

I replaced it with an 11-line template.
> It's too granular when combined with race and approximate age.

That goes or everything, and that's the problem with the PII concept.

Passwords are (if handled well) unique secret keys. Either you know it or you don't. Close doesn't count.

Personal identity is an amalgamation of dozens of personal facts, and each fact statistically deanonymizes a person.
Really? King St looks perpetually dead to me these days between Spadina and Bathurst, when it used to seem way more active. I've been walking to work and back home nearly every day for most of the year through there, so I saw the difference.

I'm cool with experimenting with reducing cars but this seemed a bit extreme. And King St seemed like a bad choice... it doesn't have a hundred small retail stores like Queen St or Kensington Market.
Likely big companies do this because there are enough of people like you out there who vote with their wallets, so I think you succeeded, congrats and thanks!
> The team is joining DeepMind/Alphabet, and it appears DeepMind promised that health data would never be joined to your Google account.

Ah, good to hear! Companies always keep their promises after all, especially when it is around user-data sharing and it's all left to good faith instead of a written, actionable contract. /s

Throwback to Facebook and WhatsApp anyone?
Mcmaster carr[1] is a wonderful commerce website and I am so happy I found them. I buy all of my fittings and hoses and so on from them.

[1] https://www.mcmaster.com/
For years there have been persistent rumours of an "unfollow bug", where X finds that they're not following Y and Y has no idea about why.
Nostalgia is king.
Thanks, Tom. I am still collecting feedback and trying to figure out the best solution for showing most value to users.
Can it be a zero-sum game if you can usually switch 'sides' from driver to pedestrian/cyclist/transit user reasonably easily?
This man escaped homelessness by winning $50,000 on Wheel Of Fortune.

It seems like he might have an even more interesting story to tell than what's in this article.
Who doesn't have an incentive to misuse data?

A company can sell it to advertisers. A government can use it to run a genocide. An individual can use it for blackmail. Who's left?
What's an "Access setting"?
Just to add that a click can be a mistake as well, or can even not be a human click... one has to be very critical when checking this data.

You can generate interest and just trigger an impression (depending on the creative).
I can only speak for UK contractors/companies, but most of these guys will immediately close ranks on you if you try and pull this. The guys at the lower end of the chain won't want to say anything because it could affect their ability to get work at a later date. A lot of them are on temporary contracts, and these companies talk to each other. If they start making noise about these sorts of mistakes, they could well wind up on a blacklist.
It would be odd if they do. They seem to pushing all their Linux efforts on Amazon Linux 2, which is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise 7.
We are soon adding other forms of signing up to address privacy concerns. Luckily, you dont have to sign up to use the site. Still, I hear you.
Or you can play everything on https://classicreload.com/

Also, why Commander Keen 4, so much worse than the first 3.
Ubuntu is not default at any of the top three providers.

I don't think Amazon EC2 and Azure Compute have a default per se, though Amazon does support and maintain Amazon Linux (in the RHEL/CentOS family) in a way it doesn't do with any other distribution.

Google Compute Engine defaults to Debian.

Of course, all three make it easy to use most of the major distros including Ubuntu (and Debian). Google's GCP support contracts will even support the images for all distros which they publish directly as well as certain partner-published images.

(Disclosure: I previously worked at Google on the GCE team, including much of the work to launch Google's Debian images and collaborating with Canonical to validate and help launch their GCE Ubuntu images. I have not worked for Google since 2015 but am still involved in Debian's public cloud efforts in other capacities.)
Ditched companies and products who don't respect the environment a while back... Just preparing for the future where the others won't have the choice anyways :)
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Hrm. It is different. Google going against fake news is google avoiding the promulgation of falsehoods. That is, in a sense, an effort to change people’s beliefs. But in that sense, anything and everything that google does or doesn’t do would be considered an effort to change beliefs, which makes it a useless statement.
Those restaurants were already notorious tourist traps. The restaurants in the area that were any good still remain.

Cars driving by those places was not where they got their business. The city didn't reduce parking lot numbers in the area. They got their business from theatre-goers and other foot traffic.

One of the restaurant owners (who I won't name) decided it would be a worthy protest to place a large ice sculpture of a raised middle finger to pedestrians in the area, and the city at large. That came back to bite him in a serious way. He was already a disliked business owner. That seemed to seal it.

He drove his own business away, not the city. Another restaurant in the strip serving similar fare is still kicking... probably because they're not half bad and offer a better environment.
Why would you want to keep salt in the air? It will promote rusting.
This is the perfect example of why unconstrained self interest and greed are destructive for the ecosystems that sustain them.

There are no limits to greed and that's why there are serious constraints on all sorts of things that can damage the commons and why the only legitimate force is the common good.

And a lesson for the tech community who have seen first hand the rapid transformation of seemingly well meaning ethical actors into self obsessed exploitative bad actors completely divorced from ethics.
It refers to the practice of changing the conversation (often towards accusation of hypocrisy) rather than answering a claim. Especially when the comparison is different in kind or scope, or just plain irrelevant.

Making comparisons is valid, but it doesn't make you incapable of responding to the original arguments.
I'm not sure why this is being down-voted, could someone thinking of down-voting comment?

EDIT: now I'm being down voted? Could someone explain?
I see that argument a lot, but this assumes that vulnerabilities in binaries that are never executed are magically exploitable from the internet.

It doesn't really matter if a container contains a 5 year old imagemagick binary if that binary is never used by anything. It's the equivalent of a bug in unreachable code.
And they could call it Wubuntu.
Great to see it indeed - but I don't get why now and not earlier. Deforestation of biggest and oldest rain forests due to this is known at least for last 10 years, probably more (that's when I heard about it the first time, with all the controversy that surrounds EU subsidizing this due to bio fuels).

I've been to Borneo 2 years ago, the views all over Malaysian parts of it (and actual Malaysia mainland too, you see it from plane when landing in Kuala Lumpur very clearly) were extremely depressing to me - rows and rows of palm trees in perfect grid where you expect true chaotic wilderness, and basically no other plants around it, just bare soil. That put a pretty sour taste to otherwise beautiful vacation, not sure if I want to visit that country again
This is a really lovely comment.
What you are proposing is simply an indoctrination programme. It is not more ethical than theirs just because this one aligns with your views on politics.
Also how is a smaller competitor going to be on a level playing field. For example existing NY companies paying full taxes are partially paying Amazon's subsidy.
Hey that does seem a bit strange. Can you give more details if possible? What device, os version, etc?
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My company has at least 1861 Ubuntu machines, about 884 VMs, rest being real tin.

Very few are general purpose desktops.

About 250, so 15%, are specialist single-purpose desktops. Rest are servers (i.e. they lack x11-xserver)
This will be an unpopular opinion, but hopefully enough people were paying attention in school when they taught the concepts of mutually assured destruction. Hopefully a percentage of the population have time based countermeasures moving along in the event that the courts get too muddied by poorly defined laws, or laws with excessive intentional wiggle room for interpretation. I am probably fantasizing. It might explain why I enjoy dystopian films. My fantasy is that people will rise above a broken system rather than playing their game.
It may not be the insurance company specifically, but anyone who has been pregnant in the USA can confirm that getting medical care for pregnancy leads to marketing. They even give photography companies access to patients in the delivery ward.
Western boycotts don't affect the palm oil market much because most of the world's palm oil is consumed by India where it is prized for its cheapness, and where sustainability concerns are dismissed as a western luxury.
Figure I would ask here: Have any DevOps or build folks had to deal with compliance audits regarding their docker containers?

It's something certain developers I've encountered seem to ignore, even when creating something that might handle health or financial information.

Did you have to build your docker images from scratch, or did the security audit folks certify upstream images? What about updates?
And there's the new slogan - loud whines save lives
Different layer means you have to carry around that layer in your final image. If you do a multi-stage build, you can copy over just the bits you need into the final image.
it can be even as simple as working for a startup it crashing and burning and resulting in no broadband for years...my case have code out the wazu for android app dev such as this devops setup'
https://gitlab.com/fred.grott/droidktdevops

and yet yc early stage cos once they find out that I have no phone and getting wifi through mcdonalds refuse to take a llok at code...will be homeless shortly
MacOS isn't FreeBSD. They're free to do whatever they want with the BSD-licensed software. Your comments made claims about FreeBSD that weren't factual. I would also emphasize that:

strcmp("bsdgrep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD", "grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD") != 0

Also, I'm personally in contact with Kyle Evans and am familiar with the general interest in making bsdgrep grep. But I also know that it hasn't happened yet.
You nailed it, I hate the tendency of english speakers, specially in tech, to use nonsense acronyms when it would be much easier and understandable to use the word itself, or at least part of it.
I’ve heard a bit about various Police departments and prosecutors burying evidence that could clear someone’s name, so I’m surprised they only ignored it and didn’t just discard the metro card.
OpenJDK is the most "official" Java out there. Oracle develops OpenJDK, and as of JDK 11 all previously commercial features of Oracle JDK have been contributed to OpenJDK, so that now Oracle JDK and OpenJDK are essentially identical[1]

[1]: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/oracle-jdk-rele...
Layers are add only. If you removea file, it still exists in the parent layer, propagating bloat
> but unfortunately camera quality of most phones kinda sucks.

This excuse died years ago. Cell phone cameras are on par with regular mainline digital cameras these days. Sometimes far superior.
Yeah - we're actually exploring how to address the industrial market more effectively right now. There's a lot of interest in moving from 2D to 3D lidar.

Part of that is probably just the resolution you're seeing on the point cloud (i.e. if it were up on a 4k OLED you'd see it a lot better than you do on that screenshot) and part of it is definitely that lidar as a broad category has a comparatively harder time with this type of surface than other surfaces. That's why it's super important when comparing lidar units to see what reflectivity they're quoting. 80% vs 10% reflectivity typically reduces range significantly.

PS if you want to get in touch directly, my email is derek.frome at ouster dot io
If you ever actually get arrested, do not do this. Once you start answering questions, you forfeit your right to silence, and refusing to answer questions later can and will be taken as evidence against you. Just be silent from the beginning.
Gitlab has a bunch of features around this: licensing, package scanning and docker CVE scanning.
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This comment is so incredibly patronizing ("oh it's good to hear you're one of the good Chinese") that I'd be insulted if I wasn't laughing so much.