skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seem to underestimate how efficient regular power lines are.
The continent-spanning european power grid has a total transmission loss of about 6% using 19th century technology (transformers and copper wires). Modern high voltage DC lines can perform even better. The main limitation seems to be that people don't want to have power lines in their back yard. Not something that superconductors are going to sove.
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Part of what discourages interaction is toxic behaviour by a small group. This drives out most folks, and creates a validation gang that all reinforce their shared toxic behaviour. This has been observed and studied from the earliest days of online forums.

I feel the solution is to aggressively enforce rules against toxic behaviour in order to keep the broader user base from leaving. The users remaining are ones that interact online the same way they would offline; in a more human manner.

The problem is platforms often follow the models of popular platforms before them. Toxic validation gangs, "edge lords" who depend on anonymity, are a measurable target market because previous platforms provide figures on how much engagement they bring in. What I think isn't accounted for is _how much engagement they drive away_, and how much more engagement could be gained by removing them rather than attracting them.

Reading your question, it's slightly unclear whether you want more in-person interaction, or whether you see this as a means to create better digital interaction (or perhaps bridge the gap both ways).

In-person or otherwise, platforms should stop seeing themselves as just turn-key operations--a bunch of code that automates everything. Like a physical venue (hotel, bar, restaurant, etc) has rules and security, a good social network should take on more responsibility for ensuring comfort and safety.

Arranging meetings between online strangers is risky, and those aware of the risks won't show up. People with malicious intentions will. Consider Pokemon Go: they place attractions not in the wilderness but at churches, restaurants or parks. (Even this system is imperfect. I've had unsupervised pre-teens hang around and chat with me as we caught Pokemon in a park. Predators could easily do the same.)

So I guess the short answer is: you should do more than create an app, you should ensure safety. I've seen innumerable meet-up app ideas from new-comer developers, students and entrepreneurs. The successful ones are Meetup.com, "Tweet Ups" and Pokemon Go because they at least ensure public places and groups (rather than one-on-one).
The pupil in the eye. The sun through the clouds. The craters after an impact. The waves when you drop a rock in water. The section of a bamboo stick... And it gets more evident when you go to microscopic world. Some eggs are perfect spheres, as small bubbles in water.
I think circles are a real natural shape. Not an invention.
Nature brings us all kind of shapes, some of them are discovered studying living creatures, like the scutoid.
> It will be suspicious to bring no devices

Just like the Chinese government's Integrated Joint Operations Platform surveillance software. "Not using a smartphone" is one of the 36 data points which mark you out as having "suspicious behaviour":

https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/chin...
I also really don't like the taste of UHT milk (called "H-Milch" in German). For me it's undrinkable. I can also taste the difference in a cappuccino. Interestingly, like the_mitshuiko already said, UHT milk is not very common in Austria but extremely common in Germany. When I'm in Germany, I have a hard time finding a coffee shop that doesn't serve coffee with UHT milk. It is basically impossible and to be honest, it says a lot about the German food culture. In Austria, not even McDonald's uses UHT milk in its McCafes but in Germany, even the most expensive coffee shop with coffees for 4 € and up cheap out on the milk.
A previous company was using it and I think it was largely useless. The manager knew it and was quite vocal about it, but we still went through the tool in our 1-2-1s.

It tells you what the reality in Git is - how many commits, how many lines of code changed, how much refactoring etc., so there's nothing really wrong with it. If that's what you're interested in, that's what you get.
While many of Musk's endeavors have huge claims/visions behind them, it seems to me that the people behind them are actually good at testing them in a smaller scale and relatively quickly getting to a point where they are generating money, instead of staying up in the ivory tower.

Take the Boring Company which after a couple of prototypes landed actual contracts. Working momentum is powerful, even if it takes several times as long as people hope it would from the onset.

Who knows, maybe they'll even end up with a hyperloop in twenty years.
They cannot _legally_ deny entry.

But what exactly are you going to do about it? If you have a lot of money maybe you can pay lawyers to go to court to demand you be allowed to enter, but there's a good chance the court will be persuaded that since you're not there there's nothing to discuss. And why aren't you there? Because they never allowed you to enter the country.

The "No fly" list allows them to make it essentially impossible to enter without even the inconvenience of actually turning you away at the border.

Unlike Nature's laws, our laws are not facts. Writing that "We hold these truths to be self-evident" did not make them so, Americans are free only if and to the extent that all Americans make them free, and in the modern era I'm afraid there's precious little sign of that.
Accoding to https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers/ there are more than 2.6 million passengers a day. So even with 1e-6 you get a handful of falls alarms each day.

When dealing with large systems, even small probabilities regularly occur.
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Thanks for answering.

> This tool is likely to create confusion and yield poor results in the hands of someone who isn’t already an expert (either through studying human vision or long practice as a visual artist)

Where can I study human vision. Could you point me to some books/ resources ?
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More recently, Unreal Engine's Blueprints too (and UE's Kismet before that). 3D modelling tools and texturing tools also often use visual languages for shaders, and, as you've mentioned, in audio its also relatively common. Lustre/SCADE is my favourite example though (and is used in a lot more than just avionics too, according to the ANSYS marketing material: transportation, energy, etc)
They do.
http://www.hemsleyandhemsley.com/assets/Screen-Shot-2014-04-...
Coulda, woulda, shoulda. We're here now, we can't change the past, and blaming previous generations is a waste of time when we need to act now. Most of us know what to do. We just need to start doing it.
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Why don't you just use Java + IntelliJ or one of their sister IDEs?
Keep in mind that a fairly significant section of the community (anything sex-positive, adult-adjacent, or associated with either) got swept out along with the porn, and a larger portion followed them ("community" bites both ways, especially if you break trust). I'm not sure I can think of any social sites that have survived and rebuilt after such a large exodus - after all, you've already alienated the populous most interested in and willing to discover your product.
Wet-bulb temperatures exceeding 35°C are deadly to humans. Already with the current +1 degree warming we see some heat waves reaching close to those temperatures. So a few degrees more in humid climates can actually feel very bad to humans too.
If it's easy enough and faced with the ever-growing concern with surveillance and dark patterns, it might not only be the minority that is motivated.
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>How do you want to instruct Google to delete your data if it cannot tell what's your data?

If it has enough information to append to a shadow profile, it has enough information for me to request that the entire shadow profile get deleted.
It's far from the same thing. For all intents and purposes the Schengen Area works like a big country, regarding border control. That's like being surprised that Iowa doesn't check your passport when you head over into the neighboring US state :)
Can you share a good example of the kind of interesting thing it shows?
Well, the kernel side cache is not much of a problem. The kernel is free to evict those pages at any time to respond to memory pressure etc. Linux treats its file system cache almost like unused memory in that it is normally the biggest pool from wich memory allocations for processes are drawn. Essentially, keeping the pages around in the cache is an optimization, because explicitly overwriting them too aggressively is just unnecessary work.
No. They just copied the US and UK showing them how to do it, immediately after 9/11.
Let hope they don't deprecate GCP as they usually do with financially not too lucrative services.
What do we need to do? I don't see how we can reduce carbon emissions by 18% per year for the next ten years. Right now we don't even get the second derivative right, emission rates are still on the rise. It doesn't really look like our politicians worldwide will start an effort comparable to ramping up the WW2 war industry to decarbonize the economy in the next decade. On the contrary, conservative climate denialists are on the rise.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1070717050430070...
My criticism is that the real reason why these people aren't going to use their real name is because their opinion is rooted in hatred. That's why it's unpopular.

Other thread have pointed out unpopular opinions will have get mob that's why they hide.

Well let see three unpopular opinions.

1. The earth is flat.

2. A religious person going to a university with signs saying, "Gays are going to hell."

3. Bunch of people with Tiki torches chanting, "Jews will not replace us."

Which one do you think will get a mob? All 3 of them.

Which one is more likely to get into confrontations? The 3rd one and it's because it's coming from hate. It's the degree of hatred in the unpopular opinion that will get a rowdy mob.

What exactly do these people that take these hateful stances expect?

> try doing something radical like criticizing the U.S. war machine, or Israel, or endless neoliberal regime change and see how that works out for you...

I have no idea what you're definition of these subjects are.

But okay I'll go for it.

I don't support USA being involve with the current conflict in Yemen. I know I'm a begger that's choosing, but I've recently have tried my best to not apply to companies that are directly involved in war.

Israel occupation of the West Bank is wrong. UN have recognized it and it hinder the process of peace between Israel and Palestine.

I have no idea what this neoliberal regime is. But it seems like you're trying to get me to spit out some radical unpopular opinion.

If these things I've stated aren't unpopular to you. Then perhaps the reason unpopular opinions being unpopular is because, well, the majority of the people don't support it or hold radical views.
Speaking for myself, no, that statement is entirely serious. Women are not now and never have been a direct threat to any government. They don't fight wars.

Would Trajan have known this? Of course.

Compare your descriptions of suffragettes' terrorist activities with the research on how effective terrorist campaigns are at even getting their favored policies implemented. (And then, of course, ask yourself whether Trajan could have been aware of a 20th-century women's movement.)
Any country can try to extract any tax from anyone it likes, and in general the US does.
This is probably the only thing that could work at the 11foot8 bridge https://www.youtube.com/user/yovo68/videos
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if you regard hashing as dimensionality reduction, there's certainly hashing involved -- some machine learning pipeline will consume high dimensional raw image data and map it into a lower dimensional feature space

on the other hand, for cryptographic hashing we want very similar but inequal inputs to be hashed to wildly different outputs, so a useful hash function should be highly nonlinear / discontinuous, small changes in the input leading to huge changes in the output.

if we're hashing in machine learning, we probably want the hash function to be (crudely) continuous functions -- with "similar" inputs hashed to similar values, so we can operate on the hashed values to cluster or classify things. we dont want a bit of "noise" in the input to produce a massive difference in the lower dimensional feature space.
And he is also no physicist:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Kauffman
But there is no perfectly circular orbit around the sun. The mass of the two bodies causes the center of mass to be slightly off center from the sun, and both the sun and earth orbit around this center of mass in a fashion that AFAIK loses energy.
Its amazing how quickly sites can fall when management makes a bonehead move and the community turns against it, reminds me of Digg.
not necessarily, consider e.g. https://medium.com/value-stream-design/introducing-one-of-th...
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Check out my library DOM Expressions(https://github.com/ryansolid/dom-expressions#readme) It's almost exactly what you are talking about. The libraries I've written on top (Solid.js, MobX JSX, and KO JSX) are among the fastest on the JS Frameworks Benchmark(https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...). The future is already here.
I would argue if it didn't do clustering then there was some sort of pattern/bias at play that caused it.
Yeah we (Australia) are super inconsistent on this. The same brand eggs, in the same supermarket chain, in neighbouring suburbs, are stored differently. My local Coles they're refrigerated, the suburb over they're not. It makes no sense.
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It's also worth noting that nationality can bring people together in a common cause who would otherwise be divided by personal, family, religious, and local community concerns. The collapse of nations has caused havoc and suffering throughout history.
Seems quite complicated.
My go-to library for parsing in Python is https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar -based https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parser_combinator library. I generally find it much easier to get my head around parser combinators than parser generators.
That would depend on very accurate cloth physics simulation as well. This is way beyond what the article is showcasing, it's not even in the same ballpark.
I'm totally with you here. One should not try to get rid of these quick form of prejudices, because they exist anyways and they might be useful.

To make them less "dangerous" it's good to be aware of them and stay doubtful about them to give anyone a chance to proof you better.

Reminds me of how I handed my phone to a couple once and wasn't sure if they'd scam me, but I willingly took the risk of loosing my phone to be able to help people when they ask.

They where honestly quite sketchy... I still wonder if they maybe just spontaneously decided not to scam me because they felt I was prepared for it.
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I think this article doesn't provide much value over the original essay [1]. And of course, all excitement from the article is now highly obsoleted.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
So last time I visited the US I was fingerprinted and this time I guess I'll have my phone searched.

Nothing says Welcome to our Country like being treated like a criminal.
That's interesting, because I had a different experience. What Europe are you talking about here?

In the Netherlands, a patient should not expect from a doctor to conduct any tests at all. I had no experience with the Dutch healthcare myself, but I've heard horrendous stories about it, for example how Irish expat went to a doctor with a problem of pain while swallowing, received nothing more than an advice "well, swallow less, then" (like in a bad joke about doctors), went home to Ireland a got diagnosed with a throat cancer there.
I enjoy seeing foreigners/Americans reactions to this. Fordlandia looks like a playground to them, generally. Even a bit like fiction. They don't understand that it was real, with real people. Slavery isn't even mentioned once. Just "anti-semitism", to make what really happened just blur in the background of this story.

It's all fun and games, if your family wasn't part of this abuse.

Basically they mention "Amazon" as if it was a country on its own, it is actually in Brazil. It as if I had trillions and the US would let me explore their population and relax their own laws in order for me to invest on it. I bet Americans would feel mad about it. This happens frequently in Brazil, with big US(and also other companies) which can get away owing billions in unpaid taxes etc.

The US constantly throughout history has intervened in Brazil, let it be by politics or markets, thinking that they know better, lobbying corrupt politicians, or helping on a coup. It is kind of sad.

In the end the author mentions about in the end of WW2, they filling the city with military personnel. It is a very soulless article.

All that for pure entertainment of some.
you think that the thousands of NSA employees whose mission it is to collect and analyze that data just sat around and declared defeat after they started encrypting it? lol
... NOt really.

Candles exist and are great sources of light. I can do pretty much normal stuff, albeit with less noise. I just make more artwork.

Fire exists and you can cook on it. Refrigeration, however, doesn't. Showers suck because they are cold, but for 48 hours, most will just skip it. Otherwise, heat up water on the fire for washing up.

Depending on where you live, you might not have water. I've lived a few places on a well that absolutely required electricity to have running water.

Besides, what you are talking about is ... relaxation and vacation. Folks do this all the time when they go camping. Or here, stay out in a primitive cabin in the mountains. One doesn't need to go full nomad to experience benefits from a relaxing vacation weekend.
Physics is at the end of a day a human construct which quite obviously reflects reality, but is not equivalent to that reality, and is useful to the extent it helps us understand and predict natural phenomena.

Their choice of terminology could be better, but strictly is compatible with the definition of physics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/falcon-heavy-laun...

What kind of culture do you think could pull off such a complex, high-stakes mission that lasted not even fifteen minutes? The entire mission was Livestreamed. It was amazing. History was made. The doors were literally blown off.

The points that the author made in the article are represented in a body of academic study and were validated at companies such as Google some time ago. These aren't her own novel findings, but she does a good job summarizing into a single article.
Where are you in the world that the level of sophistication of the work being set is such that this heuristic holds true?

I suppose a BSc thesis or design report etc. is supposed to be more of an exercise in demonstrating some understanding and creating something, but beyond that I would expect some fairly novel impact from an MSc and definitely from a PhD.

I'm very surprised by this as the quality of MSc theses and PhD theses at the universities I attended were all fairly novel, and even if the supervisor had suspected the same conclusion, the amount of work to arrive at that conclusion is non-trivial when doing research.

I fear this devalues the contribution of what these young researchers are doing. I know many people who went on to very good research positions and even founded companies based on their Masters or PhD work.
Most of the noise a car makes at residential speeds is tire noise, modern ICE engines are startlingly quiet already.
Catastrophe today vs. extinction tomorrow, I fear.
This is excellent and gets me excited - many of those "ideal" principles were important to me when I designed and wrote my own iOS app Mindscope, basically a Workflowy-meets-Scapple app for visualizing your thoughts hierarchically. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindscope-thought-organizer/...

It's an app I wrote primarily for myself, but it's been great to hear from lots of people who really "got" the vision themselves and use it a lot.

I simply love apps & sites that make immediacy and the feeling of "control" core values of the UI. Wish I had more time to give Mindscope more development love than I've been able to lately...working on that.
Make inaction too expensive to contemplate by causing enough ongoing civil disruption.

https://rebellion.earth/
Household budget, a couple of old bank statements, some Github clones...?
- high pressure sales tactics convince management its cheaper to "buy off the shelf" than build your own

- but we aren't selling you a finished product (didn't we mention that?), just a base framework that needs customization. Cue fly-in-fly-out consultants for exorbitant daily rates.

- to lower costs, why not send your own staff to our "university" for thousands of dollars for a 5 day class?

- hire said staff to become consultants after customer pays for their training. They don't appear out of thin air!

- when customer finally ditches product, blame them for lack of investment and use contacts to complain at highest levels of bureaucracy.

- rinse and repeat.

A tried and tested formula.
If your load is fairly constant, maintaining your own servers is cheaper from the moment where you need two physical servers. And even at Netflix scale "maintain their own datacenter" might mean renting a few racks in a data center of your choice.

The arguments for cloud look different: services offered by the cloud providers, higher flexibility, no capex (though at small scale you can rent and at Netflix scale capex is presumably not an issue) or better scaling in highly variable loads.

Netflix encoding servers probably have very variable load since releases vary depending on season (like the flood of films for Christmas).
Am I the only person who looks at Jeremy Kun's output and thinks "Nope, this guy is not actually a gifted communicator dedicated to sharing knowledge, he's just a postdoc on an annoyingly self-aggrandizing narcissism trip"?
>Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)[1] is also inherently spyware, an increasingly popular feature as surveillance capitalism[2] infects our economy.

Sure, but it's how business in the real world works as well. You can't enter a shop without being observed or even recorded, either by cameras or the shop personal / owner in smaller ones. Your behavior during a conversation is analyzed in realtime and reacted to, that's the basics of selling. There is no invisible commerce in the real world.

That's a fundamental reality that you can't just omit, doing so would be irrational treating the web as something purely abstract, which it isn't. It's an abstraction / extension of the real world, because it's part of it.

What the web needs is obvious boundaries and private spaces that are basically extensions of your own home and those of your friends, make it clear that you can't do x or y (going in public) without being observed and analyzed. Right now the only real indicator is the tracker count of adblock plugins.