skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a number of interesting companies looking at fusion.

High Temperature Superconductors change what you can do for Tokomaks.

In the US Commonwealth Fusion Systems are exploring these paths:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Fusion_Systems

In the UK Tokomak energy are exploring ideas as well:

https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/

This video explains why high temperature super conductors can enhance fusion's prospects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk&t=3642s
Driving miles anywhere costs the same. Compared to the annual cost of owning a car making an extra 15 mile trip is absolute peanuts. The problem occurs when 1000 people decide to make that very extra trip just because capacity makes it possible and it's otherwise free to use.
I’ve been looking for something like this for a while for a project I had in mind.

I’m going to spend the weekend looking into this and will be providing feedback after.
My city (Lublin, Poland - about 350 000 people) is doing something similar (if not on this scale).

They introduced long pedestrian street in one of the busiest streets in city center in 90s, it worked pretty well - created lots of restaurants, clubs and shops.

In 00s-10s some of them failed (I blame internet shopping and malls in the outskirts), especially the shops, and mostly banks and mobile phone booths replace them. But the restaurants and clubs remain, and the street is very pleasant, always full of people. It helps that Lublin is an university city (about 20% of population are students).

Recently the city created some more pedestrian streets, invested into biking infrastructure (lots of bike routes, city-funded bike rental system). It's OK, but the city is on hills so biking is quite demanding, mostly young people do it.

Also the public transit is very nice in the city centre, but there are no trams, only trolleybuses and regular buses (because hills). So - public transit waits in traffic jams just like cars.

There's one night each summer when they turn big part of the city center into pedestrian area, put artificial grass on many streets, people sunbathe there. It changes the city completely. I know it's not realistic to make it permanent, but it's so nice.
Is it really AMAZON the company

or are people selling the product on amazons site
I strongly suspect alphazero is easily beatable, once you have your hands on it. This is just from experience that most neural network style systems are weak against adversarial opponents who understand their internals.

Of course I can't be sure, because Google refuses to give out anyone access to alphazero, or a network trained with it. Personally, that gives me more confidence they know there are significant exploitable weaknesses.
> In reality Austerity is defined by tax breaks for the very rich, combined with spending cuts and privatisation

This is objectively false, and a poor atempt at forcing a particular spin on a very objective definition.

Looking at Portugal, the bailout program enforced tax increases exclusively on the middle and upper class, along with publix sector workers who are by far more priviledged than private sector workers. For example, the bailout program saw the introduction of a new tax bracket for the richest taxpayers which forced a 53% income tax rate.

And also privatizations are implemented to avoid additional austerity pushes by providing the government with one-off sources of free cash thus avoiding further spending cuts or tax increases. Therefore, they are in fact an alternative to austerity, not a consequence.

> Austerity is purely ideological.

This statement is so mind-numbingly wrong that it boggles the mind how anyone in this point in time could be so disingenuous or clueless to keep parroting this silliness.

Let's look at Portugal, who doubled its sovereign debt fron 60% of the nation's GDP to over 120% in about 5 years prior to any mention of austerity, and did so by piling a string of yearly deficits of over 10% including a structural deficit of around 3%.

If your state is so dependent on overspending that it needs loans after loans to keep working and pay up salaries, who in their right mind will argue that they don't desperately need to cut spending and/or raise taxes to avoid going bankrupt or even to keep functioning?

If austerity was actually "purely ideological", how exactly would it be possible for Portugal to keep their 10% spending deficits?
Latin or Romance languages and Germanic languages are quite different though. So Spanish/French/Italian have a lot in common in terms of grammar and vocabulary. Same for Germanic languages like German/Norsk/Swedish/Dutch. These two roots mostly only have some words in common.
DC i could understand. But AC ...
TRON has 50+ dApps, reaching 100M transactions in 173 Days – Justin Sun
Interesting that you picked TCP given the fact that the TCP everyone runs today isn’t the original one.
If you do learn the business, you have to explain to management why you wasted all that time. You cant say your application is cheaper in user errors, downtime, maintenance, licences, change requests etc... as that would mean all the other expensive software is garbage.
Our university should once again belong to the academics, not the bureaucracy
Should cell phone users be plugging in 360-693-3111 as an emergency backup in the event 911 goes down in the future?
Pentagramma mirificum
Wow, thank you so much :-)
> Anything useful that is handed out to consumers at the cost of $0.00 will be overused and develop a shortage.

Can you explain how I still seem to have enough oxygen to breathe?

I get the point, but I don't like the absolutism applied in these kind of arguments. Similarly, I can go to a small country town with a 2 lane highway through it and somehow building that road did not induce congestion despite the fact that the article asserts a 1:1 correlation between congestion and building roads.

Obviously these are silly arguments but it still all goes back to the point that we need to figure out how to model these things and each situation should be modeled and engineered on its own merits. Turning the argument into just an alternative form of dogma to what caused the problem originally is actually almost as bad as the original problem.
> the highest electricity prices in EU

The renewable parts of that is bound to go down: As part of the push to renewables, when spinning up capacity, you get prices guaranteed for 20 years. The different to market rates is spread across the whole market ("EEG Umlage", "renewable energy law contribution").

But: that law is approaching 20 years now and so in 2021 the first installations will drop out of that subsidy scheme. Prices and guaranteed rates were dropping ever since, and so will the subsidies - with a delay of 20 years.

> there seems to be no choice for the heavy industry than to use coal

Comparing the numbers in 2000 and 2017 (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromerzeugung#Bruttostromerze...), coal used to account for more than 50% of power generation in 2000, down to 36.6% in 2017. Even in absolute numbers to account for the rise in total power production, coal is less in 2017 than in 2000. Petrochemicals are up from 9.5% to 14.1% though.

Non-regenerative power was 436.5 TWh in 2017, down from 538.7 TWh in 2000.
I don't think that's a market in the sense that you mean it. It's more akin to "curiosity". Something stands out of the rest so a certain % of people will want to try it. And then, come back to normal games afterwards. For example, I know a bunch of people who played Paper Please (including myself) and enjoyed it, and then returned to play what they have been playing for x years before. It did not change their gaming habits.
I still don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Certainly doesn’t have anything to do with how actual systems in the real world work.
59% marginal above 80k, UK at that level is 42%.
How come this is legal in the US? It’s extremely unfair toward other businesses that are too small to coerce the government to make a tax exemption for their individual business. To me, it seems to create inequality before the law.

I don’t think the officials handing out the tax breaks have bad intentions, but the system itself seems corrupt.
With longer expressions, I find the escaping gets tricky. Also gnu parallel has stupid licence problems and the author has told me I can't use it without paying him.
I was on an AWS meetup and most people there weren't certified.

Especially employed devs didn't bother.
> Nuclear is the safest, most scaleable, greenest most reliable power source we know of bar none

That doesn't change the article we have here.
What's your project idea by the way? :)
The Growth-Share Matrix of Software Development
Pushing responsibility upward and allowing escalation should end at some point. The administrators should just repeat what the teachers said, and tell the parents that the only way to get better scores is to invite the child work harder for the next test. It's really that simple.

Now, if even the administrators can't do that then someone in the city government, state government or federal government should be able to draw the fundamental line whether the purpose of schools is to give students A's or grade them based on their actual knowledge and make the student responsible for his/her own grades.
Upvotes don't necessarily mean "this is a good idea".
> this is for a 100,000 euro salary no less.

In Portugal the income tax rate for a €100k gross salary is around 50%.

Then of course there are other forms of taxation, such as a gas tax of over 100%, a rent tax of around 30% and of course a 23% VAT.
This is a mega-comment. Do you blog ?
The articles says that the confetti is biodegradable
Our startup aihello handles everything except payments and we integrate with 3pl as well FBA.

The reason there is no competition to FBA is because it's extremely hard to setup the whole infrastructure especially warehouse planning. It took us two years to get where we are now and we still have miles to go before we can support EU.

Also note that most large organizations have their own proprietary fba-like logistics. I used to lead the ibm logistics project back when they were into PC's and used that experience to create my current startup
> Smaller businesses have less negotiating power. That's where a "business-friendly" jurisdiction recoups some of the costs of subsidies.

And I can’t see that as positive. Take taxpayers money, gift it to the richest companies, then try to recoup a part of losses from the small players.

As the society we shoild somehow strive for being able to correct such cases.
05 List Overlap Solutions
The US government is not printing money as part of its normal funding cycles. Where does this stupid notion come from?

The normal funding cycle is this: government issues bond in exchange for cash now. These are treasury auctions and they happen constantly.

There is no injection of money in this process. If you don’t believe that, ask yourself this. Why did the exact same process work when the US dollar was backed by gold?
The best teacher i've learnt with is an engineer, though i've studied through countless teachers. Which made me ask myself, you couldn't just graduate a Pedagogy School to teach other effectively.
That's perfectly fine too and encouraging your kids to be not overly ambitious probably leads to a better life for them. However, at that point the parents should also stop demanding better grades from the kid and especially stop asking the teacher to do something about it.
Holmes and Watson: Sony reportedly tried and failed to sell the film to Netflix
Shipbob is a 3pl. They don't handle all logistics , planning or fulfillment from platforms
AOE2 is much worse than AOE1, which is simpler, but requires more fast reaction on tactics. The gameplay is always fast, interesting to play and watch.
A remake of AOE1 is much more interesting.
Why does a congressman not step up and draft a law stipulating:

* US telecom, an office of US federal government shall
be founded and it shall serve all federal and state
governments' institutions. US telecom shall be funded
by federal sales tax. Government institutions
themselves shall not be billed.
* Emergency services number shall be 911.
* 911 shall be operated by US telecom and US telecom
shall pay private communication providers in
international rate every time 911 is called.
* Private providers shall not bill
911 calls to their subscribers.
I use www.leanpub.com for this and love them. They make publishing trivial, give you all the freedom and only take a small cut.
If these people write an article like this we would be discussing it as well :)
The concept has no limits, true. The physical world does.
ICD-11
He was previously. The current EWG Chair is Ville Voutilainen.
Good news! You can! https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack/
A few of my teachers who'd used +/- signs added them to differ between a strong qualification of work to the grade and a one step for higher/lower grade respectively, i.e. 3- converts to "almost 2", which is just a written clarification.

I saw once a 2+!
Electronics-Recycling Innovator Going to Prison for Extending Computers’ Lives
This effect was first developed by @thejare in 1993.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=15071

Old discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15828773

More info here:

http://www.iguanademos.com/Jare/wp/?p=2756

https://www.hanshq.net/fire.html

https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/graphics/simple...
I feel like Python is too half baked to be a really good language to teach fundamentals. By "half baked" I mean - sort of supports functional programming, but not really. Sort of supports object oriented design, but not really. Sort of allows type system theory to be taught, but not really. So many sort ofs. It's a great language if you just want to get someone cranking some code. But if I wanted a language to be a base from which I could explore all the corners of computing I'd think else might make more sense (and having written that I can't really think of a good one - Scala in theory, but in practice it's awfully complex to get started in).
Was this included in what you've been reading?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

> One can bury nuclear waste in the Nevada desert, keep everyone a few hundred miles away, and it'll be fine.

Yeah, for a million years. The ideas people have come up with to prevent future generations just blowing it up without knowing what they're doing, and irradiating the whole planet, are quite interesting. If you have a good idea, people will be all ears, because we don't have a plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...

> Because some radioactive species have half-lives longer than one million years, even very low container leakage and radionuclide migration rates must be taken into account.[21] Moreover, it may require more than one half-life until some nuclear materials lose enough radioactivity to no longer be lethal to living organisms. A 1983 review of the Swedish radioactive waste disposal program by the National Academy of Sciences found that country’s estimate of several hundred thousand years—perhaps up to one million years—being necessary for waste isolation "fully justified."

Look through all that. It's ideas and proposals and things we're trying. We don't even have one thing you could call "a solution", and haven't found one in decades.

> From what I learned in high school chemistry class, a gas wants to expand to fill its container

Just plant trees, then store the wood. Okay, it's probably more complex than that, or there's much better ways. But this is no anywhere near the "a bunch of proposals, and good luck to future generations" level that nuclear waste is.

You're basically saying "CO2 is a gas so it will move to me, and nuclear waste can be buried and you just have to stay a few hundred miles away". There is more to it than that. (apart than CO2 moving to you probably being a good thing, because then you can trap it)
This is only for the PSX port of DOOM, not for the original DOOM.
Also see:

https://lodev.org/cgtutor/fire.html

which is part of:

https://lodev.org/cgtutor/
Cars and computers are not investments. They have direct utility. Money does not (unless you burn it for heat).

>the choice to hold a deflationary currency or an inflationary one, let them pick! We'll see if those economists were right after all when people actually have a choice.

We have them already. They just aren’t called currencies because their price instability makes them somewhat useless as currencies. See: gold.
I don't think there is a dichotomy between taking nuclear waste seriously and taking global warming seriously. If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if taking one seriously is positively correlated with taking the other seriously.
In the winter it is too slippery for bikes and it sometimes gets biting cold - or worse IMO: cold, wet and windy.

We pay for bus for our 3 oldest kids in the winter.

Also wolves are returningnin some parts of Europe and while people say wolves are so shy and afraid of humans I understand extremely well why parents don't risk their kids in an experiment to see if the predator that lives off moose actually is afraid of children or not.
The Ghost in the Machine: An AI Perspective on the Soul [video]
But then you pay the cost every single time on startup, unless your components barely interact.
Came here to post exactly that, I really enjoyed that feature back in the days!
A tmux crash course (2016)
>TCP still "won" for a variety of reasons (adoption, good enough, numbers of implementation, hardware implementation, etc)

Agreed

Ethereum is way ahead in the ecosystem race. There are lots more developers using eth and tooling available compared to other chains, and 2019 is poised to accelerate the ecosystem.

The technology still needs work in certain areas (by the way, so does btc). Talented and experienced people are working on it, despite what this tweetstorm says
Even if the engine wasn't particularly amazing, I'm impressed that they could just ask one of their employees to build an engine and he had one working in a month and a half.

> There was no manufacturer that created an engine which was as light weight as they needed. They undertook this enterprise themselves as well. The brothers asked one of their employees, Charlie Taylor, to build them an engine. Taylor built an engine in six weeks with an aluminum block to meet weight requirements. In their rough sketches given to Taylor, the brothers stated they need an engine to produce 8 horsepower. Charlie’s engine produced 12.
> the hard-core among them wearing diapers so as not to lose their spots

Humans are strange.
I used to use bulk sending tools (yeah, they existed as J2ME apps) to send 10-50 SMS (it's been a while, not sure how many it was) and some would only arrive on January 1st quite a while into the day. At some point, it changed and everything would arrive just a few minutes after sending. I think that was when we had iPhone and Android already and I'm not sure if it was because of messengers (were there any back then?) or because the German telcos finally upgraded their infrastructure enough.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but I disagree with you.

A merkle tree is a recursive structure. If you trust a substructure of it, then you don't need to repeatedly re-evaluate that substructure. What that means in practical terms is if the merkle-tree entry summarising the state of the chain as it was a year ago is assumed correct, then you don't need to keep any of the transaction data from before that point.

But this can only work if you don't have to look back. In Bitcoin, every transaction references an arbitrary previous transaction to prove that it has sufficient funds. You would therefore need "checkpoint" transactions that say "This is the amount of money everybody's got now; we can now forget the past".
Wow. Coming from a C++ background, why is it necessary to first dereference, then reference again? That is, `&foo`? And why is triple dereferencing needed? There are some `&foo`. I thought I had read somewhere that Rust does auto-ref/auto-deref...
I guess BSD and Linux were aiming to take the same position as OS where Bitcoin and Ethereum are not.

No one sane would get Bitcoin staffed with complicated features beyond its simple purpose of keeping a decentralized ledger.

Nothing else would go forward if it isn't for Bitcoin running in a stable way.

Bitcoin would be positioned as TCP whereas Ethereum would be regarded as HTTP protocol ready to run apps on top.

BSD's position is more like Bitcoin Cash (or SV). Similar purpose, different philosophy.
I moved here from UK mainly because of Brexit, attractive tax regime helped, also more English spoken than in Spain, more Brit friendly than Spain (not so many drunken UK hooligans), combination of stunning beaches and a safe large City like Lisbon is quite rare, Athens (basket case economy), Barcelona( v high crime rate). Also Great wine food and fantastic infrastructure, only spoiled by insane car & energy prices and totally inept drivers.
Foreign sourced income is easy to get tax free for 10 years via dividends, local income tax is 20% but social costs still high to employ software engineers. Golden Visa also attracted me in case UK crashes out no deal, passport only requires €500k invested in property.
Lisbon Cascais is booming because so many foreigners moving here and spending shit loads of cash on property, renovations furniture, services, schools etc, this has boosted the economy far more than Tourism increase, this also pays a lot of property related taxes and energy taxes and VAT 23%, so for the first time in donkeys years Portugal managed to balance the books last year.
Many very rich successful entrepreneurs and professionals - huge numbers from Brazil, many Scandinavians, not as many Brits as expected (but now increasing), I was also surprised by how many US and Polish expats I have met living here.
[not OP but I can remember feeling the same, also I haven't done a big redux project in about a year]

I haven't looked at the docs in a while but I'm not sure that's where the big problem lies. The hard thing about Redux is that you need to "get" the core concepts (not that complex), and how they interplay with how (and when) React renders component subtrees (very complex - this requires a new understanding of react you didn't need before).

After you learn React and finally "get" it you definitely won't get Redux. Not because of Redux perse, but because the way you structure your application is so different. After that you'll encounter more subjective questions like do we put this (semi localized) state in Redux? And there are no right answers anymore, just opinions.

Also the boilerplate doesn't help.