skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are mostly a vanadium mining company.[1] The price of vanadium just crashed in the last half of 2018. Maybe that's why the company is promoting this right now.

[1] https://www.cellcubeenergystorage.com/resource-1/
Sounds just like dealing with an airline.
This doesn't sound too different from face recognition systems where you train a network to be able to tell if two faces are the same or different. I don't know what the state of the art in animal recognition is, though.
Google Lens in iOS Search app makes it easier to see
(2007) Moderation isn’t rocket science
A Lego house metaphor for software and hardware failures
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In general, turbines use energy to start up! They need to do this in order to overcome the very large inertia. Imagine a wind that lasts for 4 hours, but to harness that, you need to be spinning up for 1 hour, leaving you only 3 hours or useful energy. Instead, they spin up the blades to the optimum speed and can get payback for that initial spent energy.

Also, you still need energy to run the computer that monitors everything.

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Wind-Power/How-Much-...
Your original argument was about libertarianism and how cities are like landlords that compete against each other.

That idea is ridiculous. This is not compatible with libertarianism, and is a bad analogy.

This is because it is not even close to a free market.

A free market would be one where people actually can truly purchase land and compete. But that's not possible. At the end of the day the land is not owned by you, it is owned by the super owner.

That's all. It is not actually compatible with libertarianism or anarchism, because there was never any choice involved in this.

Nobody can truly decide to pick up and leave, and form their own competing government. You can call this good or bad, just please don't pretend like this is a market.

This is why governments do indeed deserve special thrathing, criticism, and to be specifically singled out, where as private groups do not.
One caveat when deciding on an ARM platform to adopt is the fact that someone needs to maintain a custom Linux branch for each individual SoC configuration.

That means you'll want to choose a platform that's very well supported by its parent company if you don't want to get stuck on an obsolete kernel in a year.

Hardkernel, who design and produce popular ARM SoCs, chose to produce x86 based platforms in the future for this reason.
Whether you chose to be pessimistic or optimistic during that time was up to you and your social circle.

I think it had more to do with body bags and danger than to social circle. It was a bit of privelage to be optimistic.
Last I checked the cash back maxed at 1.75% Did they change this recently?
Of course. And I don't think anybody is claiming uranium mining is a particularly benign industry. The point is that the energy density of uranium is so huge that you need an absolutely minuscule amount of it over the lifetime of a nuclear power plant.

And if we ever deploy breeder reactors and reprocessing at scale, we can further extract about two orders of magnitude more energy per kg of uranium ore. Heck, with the amount of depleted uranium lying around as tailings, spent reactor fuel, surplus military nuclear fuel, with breeders and reprocessing we could power the planet for a couple of centuries before needing to start digging up more.

We haven't deployed breeders and reprocessing because uranium is so cheap it doesn't make economic sense.
> and recall quite well people who used blender and used it well being looked up with awe as if they were Moses coming down from the mountain, lol.

It is a very powerful tool to be able to create anything you can imagine, visually with 3d. Especially back in the day it seemed like magic. And those 3d tools have quite a steep learning curve so it wasn't for nothing.

Software is our modern day alchemy. You can conjure up anything you imagine with it. It should be revered!
I've played with Pharo a bit and have started to learn Red's ancestor "Rebol". All of these technologies are pretty great. I think Red will find that niche where it is super empowering to use and still fast enough with the Red/system dialect, multicore...etc.
Nor interested. Thiel is publicly opposed to democracy.
What is the utility of Facebook if you're anonymous? I thought it was used to communicate with, schedule activities with, and share pictures and videos with your friends. If Tom, Mary, Jane and AnonymousTorUser68292 are all tagged in a photo at Mary's house...that just doesn't seem to have much of a purpose.
They are a driver: a kernel module.

You could've just used DKMS and use the kernel module in 4.18 and such [1] (unless you run Fedora who have the driver baked in the kernel; then you gotta recompile your own kernel...).

Heck, you could've used the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 on previous kernels. It's just that the multitouch wouldn't work. Which is the great thing about the device.

FWIW, the device doesn't work out of the box with Windows either.

[1] https://github.com/robotrovsky/Linux-Magic-Trackpad-2-Driver
My dirty secret is I almost love Amex more than my family. They have bent over backwards when I’ve needed help (stolen wallet outside of the country while traveling), and while I pay $550/year for the card, I get all of the fee back in services while traveling (lounge, airline incidental credits, etc).

Can’t say enough good things about Americans Express.
Posted again here despite its great age because "Moderate by hand versus by statistical inference" debates go back to at least the invention of NNTP[0] but flare up here and on lobste.rs/reddit every September/December/January.

0: See Bellovin, et al, in Steve Bellovin's USENIX award acceptance materials. https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame and https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/07_bellov... for those who are not familiar with USENIX and USENIX's Security conferences.
Their filesystem is interesting but what I find impressive is they're at like a linux level of performance despite having a team of like 10 people because of the way they approached concurrency. I believe they spawned out of dillon disagreeing with freebsd's approach, and it's beautiful to me that they're competitive with linux despite not having a huge team of people polishing it.

I also want to say that Matthew Dillon is brilliant and a wonderful person. I played with dragonflybsd on my laptop for a while and hung out in the IRC, and he was always around and willing to help. I found a couple legitimate bugs and he had non-trivial patches up for me in like an hour.

Their networking stuff is very cool too, I can't really remember the details once, but I remember seeing an article about high performance networking that explained why you wanted to avoid the linux kernel so that you could do x,y and z yourself, and dillon explained that dragonfly kernel just does all that stuff itself.

I wish it got more use because there's so much potential there, but it's quite a chicken and the egg problem, and honestly I feel like the BSDs are kind of doomed unless they add apis that support linux containers.
Medium sized AS backbone network operations speaking: nobody takes this seriously, and not one of more than a hundred individual ISPs we peer with uses opennic. It's dismissed as a bunch of dilettantes by people I know who run DNS services relied upon by millions of customers.
Ugh. So many.

There are tons of different RTCs you can get. Sometimes you don’t really have an “RTC” as much as you have an RC oscillator and a guess at what its frequency should be. A simple crystal oscillator could be as bad as 200 ppm, or five minutes per fortnight. RC oscillators are worse.

Decent wristwatches generally have temperature compensated crystal oscillators (TCXO) which can be calibrated at the factory, often by adjusting the counter values periodically (e.g. every N counts, add X to the counter). NTP is better than this, but only if you run it as a daemon.
In other news, water is not equipped to stop the spread of moisture.
Thanks for sticking with me on this. Your "conservation of energy" argument is clearly correct. If we presume a constant temperature for the moon, the constant incident energy from the sun has to be going somewhere. That which is reflected is reflected, and that which is absorbed is eventually emitted as infrared. But the details!

The first is that the applicable "mirror" question here whether the surface temperature of the sunlit side of a slow rotating astronomical body is independent of reflectivity, not whether the eventual core temperature of a uniformly lit body is independent. Are you confident that the same reasoning applies? I'm not yet.

Next, if we are phrasing our question as to whether one can start a fire with a magnifying glass, we clearly do care about the difference between visible sunlight and low temp infrared. For Munroe's argument to really work, the surface temperature needs to be proxy for the collectible visible light that would be used by a magnifying glass.

There's also the directionality: none of the visible light is going to be reflected toward the "dark" side. The thermal radiation is also directional, but not to the same extent. As we move toward greater reflectivity, presuming a bright full moon, we do get more of the total energy available on earth. How much more? I don't know.

Lastly, which we haven't discussed, there are options for insulating the heated object on earth that are optically transparent (to allow the concentrated light in) but infrared reflective (to prevent thermal radiation from escaping). I think this "privileges" the reflected sunlight so that we might indeed be able to achieve a higher temperature than the reflective moon surface in vacuum.

I feel like you recognize these factors also, by your caveats that you might be able to get "a little bit" higher than the surface temperature. Without committing to a number or methodology, your implication is that this "little" must is small relative to the surface temperature of the moon, rather than small relative to the optical temperature of the sun. While I agree that the surface temperature is related to the achievable temperature for collected reflected light, I still don't think that the exact temperature is a hard limit.

I'll try to bow out here and not take up more of your time. You've definitely helped me to think through the issues here. If you happen to be interested in a somewhat parallel situation, you might enjoy this article that describes a cyclical water collection system based on collecting solar energy through an aerogel during the day, then using a condenser optically coupled to the dark sky at night: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03162-7. Only loosely related to Munroe's hypothetical, but shows a real application of some of the same concepts.

Edit: I just noticed a link on the second page of this thread that had some useful discussion that might interest you: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/370446/is-randal.... If you expand out all the comments on the answer, Shor seems to be making the same argument you are, and Lalinský is making a better version of mine.
Okay, fair enough, I should have thought of that.

https://imgur.com/NKHQ2M6

I think it's one of the lowest aspects of our modern civilization, and engineers and scientists simply cannot be ostriches anymore. Though again, I actually think they may have meant it as some kind of "saving the child" thing... I just cannot imagine them working on a high res version of that photo and just making a funny. I don't think that for a second. But in a way, that they maybe thought this was a nice thing to do, makes me sadder. I'd rather be angry and offended, than just... at a loss, you know?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/saddest...

> "I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey" [..] Being afraid of a blue sky is the inevitable trauma that comes with the recovery process Zubair and his sister are going through — the two were injured when a drone attack hit their home, and blew their grandmother to bits while she was working in the garden.

https://notabugsplat.com/
If you have the option then the country is not your primary concern. The quality of your PhD experience is 95% determined by the quality of your supervisor and lab-mates. So you should judge based on that irrespective of the country. How much attention can they give you, how successful have previous students been, etc?
Touchpads are great for clicking and scrolling, especially if you set it up to 'click' with just a tap. Alas, it's much worse for dragging, so e.g. graphic design is problematic. Even with dragging via double-tap-and-drag, supported by MacOS, it's a big nuisance, especially dragging outside the touchpad area (which you can do by changing fingers mid-drag).

I've heard good things about vertical mouses: they're supposed to keep the lower arm from being rotated unnaturally, and the hand position seems to be more relaxed. But I still have doubts about pressing the thing, as that seems to be the root of RSI.

In my experience, staying away from computers altogether works much better for the hands than any devices I've tried, which is not good news for a computer geek.
If you are interested in qt quick app development, look at the kirigami [1] framework. Make it really easy to create convergent app.

[1] https://www.kde.org/products/kirigami/
Thanks. He is however, _A_ benevolent dictator
I understand why some criticizes the lack of depth of Mickens' presentation.
But, you got to admit that getting people to be interested in engineering ethics is remarquable.
It seems that some people are more prone to getting sucked in.

Obligatory cautionary/curiousity-laden counterpoint to inquire if people are more prone to it now or if we as observers are exposed to more examples of the phenomenon taking place-thanks to social networks and the one-to-many nature of broadcasting our every thought out to the aether?
I enjoyed it.

Is it practical for you to only play the animations on mouse over, and pause them otherwise? I think that might allow us the entertainment value of the gifs, without the annoyance of them looping endlessly while we're trying to read.
Docker WordPress
I'm trying to coin "Postel decentralisation" for things like this: people assume NTP is a distributed robust system, but in practice it turns out to be run by one very overwhelmed guy in a basement somewhere.

(It could have been set up properly to be distributed here, but they didn't do it)
Sure, but that is the default configuration that most Linux users will encounter.
URLs are different, so I'd say dupe detector is working as intended
At the very least people need to be liable for consequences that might occur to the victim company if they are falsely representing themselves as being sponsored by them.

Freedom of speech doesn't cover false representations.
In what way? By telling other twitter users to boycott a twitter non-user?

The only thing I can imagine that will have any effect if some potential employer misguidedly taking twitter rumors for facts. Is that a thing?
I was actually driving through rural Wyoming when on a roadtrip and could not find any store when i needed to pick up some essentials. Luckily we came across a Dollar general store in a desolate mining town where the only other establishments included a few gas stations, not even typical fast food joints.
All I want for Christmas is up- and downvotes being displayed separately. I don't care about the sum whatsoever. Thanks for hearing me.
On Switching from an iPad Pro and MacBook to a Pixelbook
Daftness aside, I think the courts/rights-orgs have just correctly identified registrars as the weak link - see the ease of which a number of right-wing sites had their domains dropped. My experience with registrars doesn’t feel like they’re aiming to provide a quality service (with ancient web UIs for example) - they’re there for the volume recurring revenues. Hopefully domains will have their letsencrypt moment soon.
They do it so that anyone can improve the state of the drivers, not just programmers with apple.com email addresses working in secrecy and dumping a shit binary over the fence
What I learned in the Canadian Arctic
And I can't imagine that the kind of devs who can work on rendering engines come cheap either.
Okay, lets say I am developing a "social network" for a specific group of people, its a pretty closed one so not for everyone. The main revenue is not coming from advertisement, because there is nothing we can advertise to the users. So am I a liar? Or what? I can use social network for marketing without implying that we use and/or sell user data
Something I've been wondering for years: I understand the rift between 2.x and 3.x.. But what is the rationale for maintaining multiple 3.x branches? And how do I choose the right branch for a fresh project? From experience, it seems like it doesn't really matter.
When is project G coming out? Been waiting forever to play that one
Absolutely right. Go tour your potential lab and take the grad students out for drinks, without any professors present. Get them to give you the real story: is the professor sane and emotionally stable? Is the work environment supportive? How do graduates from the lab do, do they get good jobs and academic appointments?
Seattle Impressions, 2018
The race of our lives, revisited [pdf]
I know it's wrongthink so say that globalism has seemed like a bad thing, so: I'm a programmer, not an economist. Could somebody explain to me why trying to effect the US's stance as an economic leader using tariffs is a bad idea?

Naively, globalism seems to benefit the ultra wealthy but this seems to be at the cost of the middle class.

Also: globalism seems to benefit the Chinese middle glass at the cost of the American.
But what is weird is Netflix is not an ad network (yet?). Why would they be interested in "engagement" ie, people watching lots of stuff? That costs them extra money. Their best customer would be someone who pays the $10/month and watches just a few movies/shows.
The value of loyalty programs, for the customer, tends to inversely correlate to the state of the economy.

In very broad terms: tourism is a larger part of the travel market than business travel. When the economy is bad, fewer people travel for pleasure, and those who do don't fly as much. So loyalty programs ramp up the rewards for the people who are still flying, in order to hang onto them. Then when the economy recovers and tourism picks up again, there's less need to desperately keep customers by any means available, so loyalty programs start getting slashed.

On top of that, at all times the big US airlines tend to hand out redeemable-only miles like candy (elite-qualifying miles are the ones that are hard to accumulate¹), which makes them a heavily inflationary currency and requires jacking up the redemption rates every so often to soften the blow of all those outstanding miles.

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¹ Airlines in the US issue two types of miles. Redeemable miles, usually abbreviated "RDM" in the frequent-flyer forums, do what the name implies: you can redeem them instead of using cash to purchase a ticket. They offer no other perks. The other type is the "elite-qualifying mile" ("EQM"), which can be redeemed for a ticket but also contributes toward qualifying for some level of "elite" frequent-flyer status with the airline. Elite status is what gets you free upgrades and free checked bags and all the other perks.

Elite-qualifying miles, with very few exceptions, can only be earned by actually purchasing a ticket, getting on the plane and flying (sometimes this process is also referred to as "BIS" -- "Butt-In-Seat" -- miles). All the "50,000 miles for signing up!" type offers you see with credit cards are denominated in redeemable miles, for example. If you know your way around the loyalty programs, you can generate hundreds of thousands of redeemable miles per year without too much effort. Achieving 100k elite-qualifying miles in a year, however, is a significant feat and typically qualifies you to the highest public status tier (the big three US airlines each have at least one unpublished tier above that, offered by invitation only to customers perceived as extremely high-value).
The Gatsby group at UCL might be up your alley too. But wherever you sign up, make sure you know exactly what your supervisor is like and what their management style is. Some are very hands off, and you need to make sure you're ok with that.
Languages without ADTs and Optionals just feel impoverished.
>"All these comments make no sense. The state police and its agents forced people into logging in to their accounts and then tortured them for what they saw there."

If FB didn't enforce a "real name" policy then the police wouldn't have been able to identify and/or hold those people to account. The comments make good sense.
I'm sure internal political divisions will probably hasten this process. It's mildly comforting to know that we're not the only empire to self-destruct, but only mildly.

The only potential salvation here is China's debt. There is a possibility that China is sitting on a massive load of unmaintainable debt in their municipalities, with authoritarian regimes more capable of cooking the books on debt & growth than a democracy. They might flame out in the next decade, which would let the US retain its leadership.
I mean, how else do you expect them to do it? If anything, at least they're (oddly) up front about it.
From the announcement in the linked page:

>> Python 3.6.8 is planned to be the last bugfix release of Python 3.6. Per our support policy, we plan to provide security fixes for Python 3.6 as needed through 2021, five years following its initial release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q49NOyJ8fNA
Software is our modern day alchemy.

Are you my systems design instructor? My systems design instructor said the exact same thing in college
The UK will be faster, but that does not mean it will necessarily be better. What are you goals post-PhD? Are trying to stay in Academia? If so, then the US is most likely better.

On the average, US PhD students graduate with more, and higher impact, publications than UK PhD students. The reason for this is that US PhD graduation is typically contingent upon producing two or three significant publications in your field. So you might have to stay for six or seven years, but you will have an established publication record when you leave.

As far as I am aware of, no such publication requirement exists for any UK university. UK PhD graduation is contingent upon completing a thesis and viva (defense) but often times the research within the thesis has not yet been published. There is typically a period after PhD graduation where UK students then focus on publishing.
My impression from the article is that solar panels have similarly-severe byoroducts (maybe not specifically radioactive, but certainly not stuff I'd want seeping into my drinking water).

We're already fucking over future generations with a massive carbon footprint. Replacing all that with nuclear would be objectively less bad.
I thought there was an actually arrest made? Don't know about the UK, but in the US arrests are public record.
SpaceX completes its first US national security mission
This country has a massive ego problem. Maybe if we can accept this we can stop posturing and actually do something.
Agreed. I've never convinced that globalism is anything other than a way to sell long-term stability for short-term profits.
I really appreciate your kind words, and thank you for backing the hardcover anthology! Getting the stories out there is a lot of work, and comments like yours provide significant motivation.
Choose the latest 3.x release, unless you have some dependencies that don't work with the latest release (yet).

There are differences between 3.x releases, and things like security issues or bugs need to be fixed. Saying "well duh just upgrade" isn't acceptable.
If a small percentage of people that break a law are held accountable than this abirtarty enforcement is a different type of power.