skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Solar and Wind kWh production doesn't take into account having to store it, which costs additional money. Nuclear didn't become expensive all on it's own... it became expensive after 60+ years of not building new Nuclear plants in the United States and keeping only a few outdated first-generation plants...

Modern Nuclear plants are very safe, and very cost effective... and can ramp up or down energy production on demand. Plus, they can be built wherever people want... not just where sunlight or wind patterns are suitable.

Solar Roof Panel installation is dangerous because people fall off the roof...yet, that alone has led to more deaths than Nuclear energy production.

The U.S. Navy has gone 60 years without a nuclear accident (the entire history since inception of the "Nuclear Navy")... and that's in vehicles (both surface and submarine vessels) designed to be shot, blown up, and sunk in combat.

Nuclear is safe, and cost effective. Particularly when considering modern approaches to reactors and spent fuel recycling and storage practices. We, as a nation, are just irrationally afraid of something most people simply don't understand.
I totally agree with this. You should question if the world is actually a sphere (most people don't), but once your gyroscope says its not you should move on.
Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in graphite
"explosive"

I think we're done here. It's ok to just say you were wrong you know.
It worries me that we seem to equate Amazon with society.
Luckily it's not a critical service, nor is Instagram. WhatsApp is probably the most critical as a lot of people depend on it every day, even for business purposes.
A statistically unlikely pair of crashes or the same model of plane, same phase of flight, same consequences, and similar altitude variations would seem to be enough justification for a prudent grounding.

If a company releases a new version of their software and it crashes twice in similar ways (much more frequently than the previous version), that is also enough reason to rollback the release and investigate, especially if the software has any critical use cases.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/politics/donald-trump-boeing-...
I'm sorry if this comes off as a bit hostile, but did you read at least the title of the article? "DARPA is building", not researching.

The content of the article reflected this - mostly about actually making a system, very little about research on the math behind secure voting on untrusted hardware. It's clear they want to use this.
The use case in the article does not hold onto a few of them, though- it holds on to exactly two at any time.
On the plus side, m.facebook.com seems much snappier since the reboot.
Someone's Going to Get Killed Charging Those E-Scooters
That seems like it would be bad for the US not bad for the companies in question, who got paid either way.
Removing books from a "book" marketplace, that do not break any laws, aren't lewd or pornographic, and simply present alternative information on a subject, is not on the same level as spam.

Censorship is censorship. It doesn't need to be a political body to make it so.

In the 80's, the idea of the corporate ran dystopian future where a megalomaniac controlled society through his mega corporation was seen as scary future.

Now we get the usual boot licking going on every time this topic is brought up as Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and Google (Alphabet) actually put into practice real censorship and attempt to control the majority of online communication, ideas, and a good piece of all information over the internet.

What a turn for the worse we've taken as a society.
> What kind of configuration change would reduce storage but overload the system?

Maybe the increased storage usage was due to wrong kind of load rebalancing? I can easily see that a change to reduce _object_ hit rate in any given location, might just increase the _metadata_ hit rate. If storage is balanced by spreading the load to workers that keep their data nearby (for reduced latency), then an unexpected increase in these workers could also cause an increase in required storage.

If you want to balance the load on these properly, you'll have to do more location data lookups. Oops. Now your metadata's metadata is the chokepoint. Massive read contention on blob store address lookups --> cascading failure.
Don't forget that electronic voting machines can have accessibility features that paper ballots lack - having a glorified form printer is actually a sound design that lets us gain these benefits without the negatives.
Your votes are still probably counted by a computer. In San Francisco, we use optical scan ballots. This system is very similar. It prints out a ballot that you validate and feed into an optical scan machine. Marking the ballot is electronic, which allows for more language choices, assistance for hearing impaired people, etc.
Shallower === cheaper
Kids Have ‘Math Anxiety’ Thanks to Parents and Teachers, Report Finds
I don't have the data anymore, but based on my memory of the time, I don't think reddit saw any difference in traffic when we launched ads (which was more than 10 years ago).

That's not to say that it wouldn't change now, but just throwing out there that it didn't make a difference then.
Regulation is exactly why the problem that you're complaining about exists. Only in the presence of regulation does a company become "too big to fail." That's not an attribute of market economics.

Note that I'm not making a value judgment about regulation in the general case, just pointing out that you've misidentified the problem in this particular case.
I tried, it doesn't display anything than the opening slide on PC, privitized firefox and virgin chrome either.
It just goes to show how golang is poorly designed as opposed to them just putting this stuff in a library, instead of polluting the global namespace with things like "copy" and "append".
As a personal rule of thumb, only one out of 20 people answers to any query.

IMO you simply need to send emails/fliers/etc to 20 times the number of sellers you aim at recruiting.

For the email content: It should be very short (less than 500 words) and mostly explain why it is interesting for a seller to use your platform.

Good luck!
Relax, it works the other way too. I'm 50+ and I was watching my daughter do the GoogleDocChat recently and it made me feel like 35 just for having been near it.
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Although there may be some, such as the same techniques being used to de-extinct other more recent species, I think a certain amount of it is "because it's there", and that the irrational desire to accomplish such an outlandish thing may provide motivation and funding from corners that otherwise wouldn't do so.

I think it was Jack Horner who was trying to reverse engineer a chicken back into a velociraptor and said something to the effect of that he didn't feel that his efforts would do anything to help humanity, but that the science justified itself, because it was what he wanted to do, to see if it was possible.

Of course, with that story, we have a great series of movies to tell us how it probably ends...
Why does this keep coming up? What is the compelling argument against paper ballots? There is no need for results to be known immediately, so how does making voting an exercise done by computers make anything better, particularly when computers are much more vulnerable to remote interference?
I call GC.start() manually in various places. It seems to tame memory usage.
Same, very expensive, but what an amazing meal. It really is an experience.
> present alternative information

Like shouting "fire" in a crowded auditorium that is in fact not on fire? Let's call it what it is: we're talking about lying about things that can and will literally kill people.

Why should Amazon be expected to provide a platform for that?
How do you validate that there are no 'additional' votes? Why do you require a password? Simply give them an anonymous id when they vote.
I was reading some comments on Slashdot regarding the Spotify vs Apple story, and some where saying "Spotify just wants to sell music subscriptions while asking to be hosted for free on Apple's app store. If they don't like paying 30% they can just make their own device and app store".

Yeah, as if you can build an ecosystem as big as Apple from scratch just on the premise of selling music and nothing else. Some people are just out of touch with reality. Microsoft, with far more resources, tried with Windows Phone and it failed.
>Banning snake oil is never a part of a free society. People have a right to delude themselves. Imagine having a child with autism, you are overwhelmed by it, you are unwilling to accept what the doctors tell you.

I don't agree with you because parents are making decisions for their children - if it was your decision to put it in your own body, perhaps. But the State has an obligation to defend the rights of children, and in this case if they need to step in to prevent parents poisoning their kids they should do so.
> We will make software measures to prevent any configuration changes that cause overloading of key parts of the system.

If it was possible to know these a priori, why allow them in the first place?

Or are they saying they will be writing software to roll back configuration changes that cause disruption? ("disallowd")
The last loss of aircraft ETA was involved with, 737-800 ET409 in Lebanon, was also sent to BEA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_409
No Show HN: The RANDOM button on Xkcd has been broken for ages
Assuming that advertising is going to be a primary source of revenue, than you aren't going to have much revenue to lose before you start advertising.

The idea is that companies don't advertise at first to take advantage of the exponential growth and user retention when they start getting hot, and once they have market share they start to target profit rather than growth.
Yeah, but when a soda company, say, tries out one new flavor in my town, and different new flavor in your town, and mine flops and yours succeeds, they don't just stop selling soda in my town. They start selling the flavor from your test in my town, too.

It would have risked much less bad publicity if they had done the 2" experiments in a city they were willing to use 6" trenching in. Do part of the deployment with 2" and part with 6", and if the 2" part doesn't work redo that part with 6".
I agree with this, and I think the general slogan of "broadband for all" could be a winning one for a politician (though they have to actually deliver.) My parents live in a rural area and the fastest internet they can get can barely stream Netflix on a good day, and only as long as no one else is using it. Many people have it much worse. Access to high-quality broadband seems like an issue that could span the rural/urban divide.
It's similar to how prostitution seems more ethical than telemarketing - one involves voluntary exchange of value between two willing consenting parties, the other involves harassing people and, frequently, trying to scam them.
I think since Hongli is the main developer of Phusion Passenger, it's logical for him to want to explore the problem space.

While I agree with you, I also see no harm in experimentations and changes to the status quo for the sake of trying to build something better.
I’m in Salt Lake City and they have the fiber coming to my house strung up on telephone poles, not sure what this “inches under ground” thing means or why it matters. Google fiber has been fantastic for us since day one and it’s sad they aren’t moving forward with it.
> Honestly I don't care what people do.

You can't have it both ways. You clearly care to some extent. Whatever though. Clearly we disagree on how to approach this stuff. I realize you probably don't intend this, but you really come off as belittling others for not being as smart as you. It's not cool.

> Conversely, AC just develops a huge 'root cloud' when the pattern sets get big - increasingly, you're always in a prefix of something. It tends to benchmark well (sorta, kinda) especially if you feed it input that doesn't look much like what you're trying to match. You then just bounce around a couple shallow states that get to be resident in L1 and you look pretty smart.

The OP constructed a benchmark from exactly the task they are trying to do and did algorithm development until they got a better result. That seems like exactly the right way to approach this. Not everyone is in a position to make an extra few hundred thousand dollars by switching from AC to Vomitsauce.

That's all I'm trying to do too. It's going to take a _long_ time for the field to collectively catch up to Hyperscan. It'll take me years, if I keep on my current path.
Marketing and hype are the only things it seems. I came to this conclusion after using golang at my current employer, and reading discussions by people online, as well as talking to them in person.
To me its interesting that they wouldn't redesign the part as it would be admission of causing previous crashes? Kinda scary that the lawyers rule USA at the end of the day.

Its easy to blame Boeing for faults like this but its a miracle that these things fly so reliably with so many moving parts and human involvement.
At a high level it sounds to me like they're paying Complexity Debt.
My favorite tonkatsu was at a place called Katsusen. Highly recommend it, it was definitely one of my favorite meals in Japan along with Narisawa and Sukiabashi Jiro (the one in Rippongi).

But also shout out to Hyotei and Kappo Sakamoto for incredible experiences.
This one boggles my mind, it even has code:

https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/25131
But it's not squandered, just the opposite. Using nuclear (or any other fossil fuel) when you can use a renewable source seems to me like eating the emergency rations on a regular weekend dinner. It only sounds sensible if one doesn't expect us to be around much longer.
Precision. They dont get dirty as often which is a problem. Consistency of pressure and heat that you can make every cup same quality. Longevity - if machine lasts 10 years instead of 3 than its big. You can find cafes with la marzocco machines from like 60s.
> Banning snake oil is never a part of a free society

I mean, sure. But not every trader must therefore carry and sell snake oil. The same free society gives them that choice.

> Who is Amazon, or anyone, to tell someone that they can't explore every avenue, and read whatever they want to deal with that grief?

All they seem to be saying is that they won't be selling it to you? You are certainly free to explore every avenue on your own. But does everyone have to help you with that?
I appreciate the concern. I'm not going to get into a debate about this, nor do I sense you are trying for one. But my toddler is wildly ahead of his peers in almost every measure (edit: wow this sounds pretentious. Not sure what to say. He spells and assembles words he sees around the house. He just turned 2), so I'll give the facts I observe more weight than the massively simplified single sentence prescription that the U.S. medical system likes to give on things.

Heck I bet shipping your child off to daycare every day hinders them more than 90 minutes of tablet time. Particularly in a household of two full time stay at home parents and every conceivable monetary and educational advantage they could want for. But I doubt the AAP goes telling everyone that they're doing it wrong if they pay others to raise their kids each day.

Sorry... I'm ranting. I just don't like highly distilled parental advice from organizations. One size fits all culture we have here in the west, I think, is very harmful.
I think kxyvr's argument is that they didn't do that. (That is kxyvr's grad program didn't, not that no program anywhere didn't.)
or just use paper ballots like other countries do ..
Have there been any competitions to make an open source, highly scalable and verifiable anti-tampering voting system? Maybe even a competition to see how few resources can be allocated to facilitate millions of simultaneous voters? i.e. "did it in 50 lines of python!" like the javascript 1k competitions. [1]

[1] - https://js1k.com/
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Basically, everyone that makes games now knows how insanely lucrative it can be. I am not sure if this is caused by sales/marketing/executives but games now can generate massive cash.

Many games now offer micro-transactions, casino style loot crates where you can open them by buying keys to have a chance of wining something. Even I bought a few things in games. However, many others young or old drop massive amount of cash on some games. My uncle drops thousands of dollar in world of tanks(or whatever it is called) to have the best tank. Plus, those game can create gambling addiction in kids, I think it is quite sad.
Actually there are a lot of things the law says about security cameras in my country...

Thankfully analytics can be blocked if someone so desires.
Very irresponsible behavior. If they have commitments, they should have stuck to them. The way they behaved with Google Fiber is atrocious. Networks can't be built without long term investments and Google knew well about that when they started.
How well does it work for people with motor disabilities? Vision disabilities? Does an X mean a choice or they crossed out their choice? What happens when the pens run out of ink? What if they can’t read English?

Helpers? What do you pay them? Can they understand that dialect of that obscure language? Do you trust them not to lie about what they’re marking on the ballot for someone?

The truth is electronic voting machines have upsides. Having the system fill out the ballot which the voter then hands in seems like an almost ideal use to me. It’s totally verifiable but can help many people who wouldn’t be able to vote without help.
PrivateStorage: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution
1) It's already difficult to predict what an unintelligent, emotionally driven mind might do. It might actually be easier to predict what a hyper-logical, immortal mind would do. Probably start analyzing all radio telescope data looking for a more suitable planet.
And let's not forget the harder-to-quantify but very important negative impact that has had on trust in the Amazon brand.
I think that is inaccurate. One fleet was grounded quickly. The 30 million Kevlar tank linings were underestimated in cost I think dramatically. As for profit, I am not sure the aircraft was ever a profit center. Any reasonable observer saw Non-recoverable Engineering Expenses that the company any could never recover from as a result of having to mitigate a new safety requirement onto an old aircraft that was never designed with modern standards in mind.

I think it is a very good example of how old systems continue to operate while the public believes they are up to modern standards. We see it in civil engineering now too. A bridge collapses in Pennsylvania and the public is told that over 1/3 of US bridges are outside of their designed life span and more expensive to fix than replace with municipalities that cannot afford to do either. The Concord was old and had what we call Tech Debt. It could not be made modern. Risk is just negative opportunity cost. When it crashed that debt was realized and the company had to write it down. One thing for sure is correct in your statement. It is about money driving the decisions, not engineering.
Cry me a river. If the authors want to sell their books, they can open up their own website, set up a table at the local flea market, rent a store space and stock it with all the quackery they want. Amazon is not the only sales outlet in the world. Nobody is stopping them from selling anything.

Amazon is not obligated to carry their merchandise any more than they would be obligated to carry any Amazon branded products in their own stores.

If anything, whenever Amazon is mentioned here, people come in to complain that they need to do more to remove garbage products from their website. Here's a garbage product that literally kills people when they use it. If it were a toaster, it would be yanked from the shelves and the manufacturer would be getting sued for wrongful death.
Decentralized portions of an architecture must have pathways between them. These pathways then contribute their own points of failure, both in isolation and in combination.
as we all know, political violence and coercion did not exist before 2016
This was for a conference. Is there a video of this anywhere I wonder? https://www.webcraft.com.jm/speakers/chris-fritz.html
I've heard of that too, but I believe that only comes to tax software.

In some other countries they mail you a postcard with how much taxes you owe, but if you have deductions they didn't know about you have to correct it... They wanted to a similar system here but the major companies like Intuit and H&R Block lobbied agaisnt it...

Adam's Ruins everything talked about this https://youtu.be/Fj4anUL-LvY
Why is that, is it incidental or based on the features they offer?
DARPA isn't a voting system end user, and things built by DARPA tend to be proof-of-concept things that explore the possibility space and help later users set requirements for follow-on procurement.
Yes, in a normal world it is not bad for these companies if the country can pay their loans back. However, if you follow the logic, if a country is paying back the loans on time it just means that the first loan was not big enough! The advantage for a company to sell more than the buyer can pay is that for the foreseeable future (a decade more or less) it will make A LOT of money. This is all that CEOs really want. And under the logic of IMF, these loans will be paid in one way or another, so the company will not suffer any problem by selling more than the country really can pay.
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I think what's different is typically cable/phone companies have been reluctant to give up on their investment so easily. This is probably somehow due to the past and present monopolies they hold. Google, like the honey badger, don't care.
Why is this such a pain point whenever an internet discussion of freedom comes up? Free speech and freedom are principles. These principles inspired the guarantees the Constitution claimed to make. But that does not mean that the government is the sole arbiter of freedom. The fact that Amazon bans a book means that Amazon does not appreciate the value of freedom and free speech, in the same sense that when the government limits speech, it means they do not value free speech and freedom.

Freedom isn't just with respect to government. When Amazon filters books you can buy, that does mean we have less freedom, especially when Amazon is a filter through which we are able to purchase most goods. No, your first amendment rights haven't been violated. But yes, we have less freedom.
I'd have to look more deeply myself, but it likely means larger allocations up front, to avoid having to call out to the OS to make smaller allocations. So if you know you're going to use the larger allocations anyway it'll probably be almost no trade off but if you aren't sure you'll probably use more than you needed.
Actually, the HGP was on the verge of being scrapped, but then the U.K. came to the rescue with a major investment to make up for the US. If I recall this right, the US enterprise (Celera) wanted to take an algorithmic shortcut in mapping and verifications, by this overtaking the HGP regarding final results in order to provide the data as a paid service. This happened 7 years before the scheduled finalization of the HGP. Eventually, they finished in a tie. (However, this has been some years ago now and I'm not a US citizen.)