skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some generals would certainly think that. To them, they are thinking of battle rattle as a knapsack problem where soldiers have demonstrated the ability to carry 80+ lbs of weight and 80+ liters of pack size. 10 more lbs of bullets means more fighting power.

Other generals are thinking that going from an 80 lb pack to a 70 lb pack means fewer injuries, so your fighting readiness increases without changing anything else. Fewer injuries means more fighting power.

The bean counter types are also considering that they can ship the same amount of electric energy to the front line with fewer shipments (assuming that they are weight constrained, but they are often volume constrained). This frees up logistics capacity for getting other things to the front lines. This means more fighting power.

No matter which lens you view it through, this thought process is what leads to military leaders salivating at the thought of new technologies. If you want your startup (or academic research team) to make big bucks, then seek out government contracts for small businesses or technology development contracts. These contracts are very favorable to your company, as you almost always get paid for your work even if you don't deliver the promised product. As long as you're willing to accept some stigma from Silicon Valley you probably have a much higher probability of success.
Alright come on. If you want your engineers to pour their souls into your dumb startup, you need to align their incentives with yours.

There's a very simple way to do that: give them ownership

Otherwise, why should I care? I don't get paid a single cent more for coming in and kicking ass everyday vs. just showing up and phoning it in.
Goodbye AWS: Rolling Your Own Servers with Kubernetes, Part 2
Show HN: Reverse Geocoding API – Get city-level details from coordinates, fast
By that standard, there are no carbon-free energy sources.
Lithium batteries are at best a bridge technology - meaning something good enough to get us until the next thing comes.

The issues with Lithium batteries is, a finite lifetime, a shortage of the materials needed to make them, toxic byproducts of manufacture and recycling or disposing of the the batteries when their finite life is used up.
Your list is totally disingenuous. Are you actually comparing the environmental issues associated with creating a solar panel, to a nuclear facility melting down and making the entire surrounding area uninhabitable and unusable for centuries? Not to mention causing a huge uptick in cancer in the the surrounding areas as well?

I think nuclear is our only real option moving forward (due to wildly increasing energy consumption) but we need to look at these things honestly. Any damage caused by solar or hydro is wildly incomparable to more nuclear meltdowns or current fossil fuel emissions.
Yes when one group starts to control too much. I feel like that's the primary purpose of antitrust regulations.
Most studies focus on how safe the therapy is. The questions are will it cause lifelong issues, how does it affect life expectancy, etc. You would need a study that begins before a diagnostic to be able to have any significant data. Any trans person who is denied transition will likely not be available to participate in such an experiment. Those that were denied that do make it to a scientist or expert would instead promptly begin to transition. It would be unethical to deny them transition for a longer period just to see how it goes.

There's a few that focus on how it increase quality of life but I don't know any hard comparaison.

"The present study suggests a positive effect of hormone therapy on transsexuals' QoL after accounting for confounding factors." [1]

"evidence suggests that sex reassignment that includes hormonal interventions in individuals with GID likely improves gender dysphoria, psychological functioning and comorbidities, sexual function and overall quality of life" [2]

"Psychological evaluation has shown that sex reassignment increases the well-being of transsexuals, but it should not be considered as a cure-all; it is rehabilitative relieving gender dysphoria, but some transsexual subjects may still experience other problems (e.g. comorbid psychiatric problems, social isolation, troubled relationships, prejudice, and discrimination)." [3]

"A clinical protocol of a multidisciplinary team with mental health professionals, physicians, and surgeons, including puberty suppression, followed by cross-sex hormones and gender reassignment surgery, provides gender dysphoric youth who seek gender reassignment from early puberty on, the opportunity to develop into well-functioning young adults." [4]

"Using data draw from the follow-up literature covering the last 30 years, and the author's clinical data on 295 men and women after SRS, an estimation of the number of patients who regretted the operations is made. Among female-to-male transsexuals after SRS, i.e., in men, no regrets were reported in the author's sample, and in the literature they amount to less than 1%. Among male-to- female transsexuals after SRS, i.e., in women, regrets are reported in 1-1.5%. Poor differential diagnosis, failure to carry out the real-life- test, and poor surgical results seem to be the main reasons behind the regrets reported in the literature." [5]

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[1] "Is Hormonal Therapy Associated with Better Quality of Life in Transsexuals? A Cross-Sectional Study" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22145968

[2] "Hormonal therapy and sex reassignment: a systematic review and meta-analysis of quality of life and psychosocial outcomes" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19473181

[3] "A long-term follow-up study of mortality in transsexuals receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21266549

[4] "Young Adult Psychological Outcome After Puberty Suppression and Gender Reassignment" https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/134/4/696

[5] "Regrets After Sex Reassignment Surgery" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J056v05n04_05?jo...
Considering their mission statement about making the worlds information universally accessible and contemporary goals around literary archival it’s not a stretch to believe they had history on their mind.
Yeah, you can't picture "Disney's The Handmaid's Tale" or "Disney's Castle Rock."
> market fragmented and force you to subscribe and pay for multiple services. The cord cutter dream of a la carte being cheaper and easier to control is dead.

That's exactly what "a la carte" means. It seems like what people really want is the opposite of "a la carte" service--a one-stop-shop for everything, like cable, except over the Internet.
Still waiting for an answer what to do with the waste. Beside

A) dumping in the ground and hope for the best

B) some magic tech will pop which will solve the issue.
Sure, be prepared for a cavity search and your name on a "he thinks he's a smart ass" list.
Yes, if it becomes a monopoly.
Lithium batteries can be safely recycled (the DOE is funding a lithium recycling research program at ANL in Illinois [1] to further improve materials reclamation processes), and their cost will continue to come down rapidly as manufacturing for them scales up (hundreds of GWs of battery manufacturing are coming online over the next three years) for the millions of EVs that will be sold each year as internal combustion vehicles are outlawed [2]. Lithium is an abundant resource, is not constrained by geopolitics, and the use of cobalt (a conflict mineral) is being phased out as research permits.

If they're a bridge, they're still a better bridge than nuclear. Tesla had the Hornsdale Power Reserve installed (in Australia, from Nevada) in 90 days (100MW/129MWh installation). It takes 10 years to build nuclear generators. Maybe you reduce that time with streamlined reactor designs and regulatory processes, but you're never going to approach the speed of renewables and battery installs.

[1] https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/doe-argonne-lithium-i...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...
Biggest take away from me is that NBC is raking in $500MM a year on their catalog, wow.
That's exactly what the climate change deniers say about the IPCC studies. In this case, I am quoting UN groups of scientists and you are throwing up wired articles. There is some level of respect for scientific consensus that we need to have. Certainly, skepticism must be considered, but people who keep throwing up fringe skeptical articles on highly politicized information eventually appear to be lacking good faith.

You have to understand that pro-nuclear people are lambasted with popular culture that's highly anti-nuclear. Simpsons, MacGyver, Captain planet, HBO, Peter Paul and Mary wishing we had more wood stoves, everything. You can see why we might be a little more sensitive to misinformation. We have more work to do to get the science out there.
>How can you even compare what you just said with an enormous nuclear facility meltdown?

That's how an analogy works. You're comparing the difference between two pairs of things that are not comparable.

> measured right behind fukushima and chernobyl, as the third most serious recorded event.

Trying to use a failure at a 1950s Russian nuclear facility as indicative of nuclear safety today is like considering a medieval scaffolding failure as indicative of modern construction safety.
Makes me rethink my use of plastics....
Chernobyl was a Gen II reactor. Three Mile Island and Fukushima were also Gen II. [0]

There has never been a meltdown of a Gen III reactor, which is the bulk of the fleet in France.

Gen IV are being designed to be impossible to melt down, and, to use waste from other plants as a fuel source. They do not emit radioactive waste.[1]

[0] "To date, there have been five serious accidents (core damage) in the world since 1970 (one at Three Mile Island in 1979; one at Chernobyl in 1986; and three at Fukushima-Daiichi in 2011), corresponding to the beginning of the operation of generation II reactors. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant

[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...
The biggest issue, unintended I assume, is that CO2 certificates are not rare enough (or expensive enough). The result is that coal is actually cheaper than the most modern gas plants. That is based on variable costs, so. In that regard the renewables are basically "free". Which means that renewables are fed in first followed by coal. Which leaves not enough demand for the cleaner and more flexible gas plants. Obviously CO2 emissions go through the roof.
Thanks for your comment. I was disheartened to see the downvotes. I'm glad it was of some use to somebody!
>It’s beyond question that Google manually intervenes in Search results in some cases.

If it's "beyond question" then it should be easy for you to provide evidence, right?

As with most conspiratorial arguments, you're trying to protect your opinion by using a false premise (and prevent people from questioning it).
Sctb is a mod, there is a dead comment he is replying to that is not displayed by default.
Google might have thrown out some old pages, but the internet keeps growing exponentially. I highly doubt that Google is indexing less pages than a couple years ago.
Furthermore, museums curate what they hold whereas YouTube probably has far more i can haz cheezburger videos than humanity will ever need
Nice. Yea in Rust I use Diesel for this as well. I imagine any ORM worth its weight basically handles this same thing. Even code generation from DB is basically a verification of the schema.
I'm sure that most of us that will opt-out of this type of thing are already on that particular list.
Benedict Evens' newsletter this week made a good point in regards to breaking up tech:

"anti-trust theory, on both the diagnosis side and the remedy side, seems to be flummoxed when faced by products that are free or as cheap as possible, and that do not rely on familiar kinds of restrictive practices (the tying of Standard Oil) for their market power. The US in particular has tended to focus exclusively on price, where the EU has looked much more at competition, but neither has a good account of what exactly is wrong with Amazon"

I think this is salient...what is Disney doing (so far) to BLOCK competition?
Binary Search Trees for JavaScript/TypeScript
As someone who has spent thousands of hours archiving documents related to certain old computers and writing a few emulators, I have to admit your comment is irritating to me.

Of course, emulation is going to lose something compared to the original experience; nobody knows better than the person writing the emulator. But nobody is stepping up to build the exact reproduction that you are holding out for. Even if someone came along and built reproduction controllers and cabinets, would you be willing to spend the money for them?

It is far better to capture the ROMs and 90% of the experience than to let it all slip away because of purity issues.

Besides, part of the TRS-80 experience was unreliable behavior. I'm quite glad that emulators don't attempt to reproduce it.
Fuck em - just buy overseas knock offs. If they're going to abuse the system I have no qualms about abusing it as well. China is happy to make generic knock-offs and sell them at a fair market price.
220 acres of pasture, contained by physical fencing (could be used to mount hardware but does not have 110VAC access). The pastures are interspersed within a larger area that also contains woods and swamps. The biggest pain point that good location tracking would solve for us would be the 6-8 calves we lose each year when they wander off and get hunted, killed and eaten by coyotes.

If I could a) get an app-driven alert when an animal leaves the area of pasture she's supposed to be in and b) have a mobile app that shows me where she is in relation to me so I can more easily find a 30-pound dark brown calf hunkered down in the woods at night, I'd be pretty stoked.

By the way, there is good LTE coverage where I am, and a lot of farms don't necessarily have great cell coverage, so bear that in mind if you're trying to get a feel for what the larger market might want. What I mean is, there's a mobile-only use case here and there's also a use case where you have a combination web-based UI (farmer's desktop) and an OEM handheld homing device for finding loose animals. If you want to get really fancy you do a Twilio integration and trigger a robocall to the farmer's landline so she wakes up in the middle of the night and logs into the web app to see what's going on.
1) Remote.

2) Money.

3) Demonstrate that you have half a clue how to run a project.

4) BONUS ROUND: No hours-long puzzle-question-memorization interview bullshit if you're not paying FAANG money and providing FAANG levels of résumé prestige.
> But the Energiewende actually changed Germany. Suddenly everywhere you go you have solar panel farms and many houses have them on their roofs and there are wind turbines. It was a cool time to live in germany to see these projects realized everywhere

Does it really matter to see all those solar panel farms if the end result is they were not much helpful? The money which went into this is absolutely massive and could have been used in a better way to fight climate change.
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From my limited Telsa knowledge they were user initiated and your able to decline them. Meaning, you wouldn’t be stuck at the store if you come outside and all of the sudden your car has to update.

Perhaps some updates need to be done overnight?
And yet, who introduced the plastics to begin with? Plastics that find their way into the hands of consumers are intended to land deterministically in the the garbage.

Manufacturers of plastic packaging and products are the origin of the problem. It is the source of the plastics that is the root of the problem. Where plastics end up is the fault of those who profit from their production.
That's a horrible idea.

1. The surrounding text depends on the number it contains. By blindly replacing numbers in every language version, you get garbage like "Town A is the most populated place on the region at 10,000 inhabitants, followed by Town B at 11,000."

2. If you look at multiple language versions and they disagree, you know one of them must be incorrect and you should watch out for bias and outdated information. Forcing them to all have the same data takes away that feature.

3. Bias is rarely a problem with objectively checkable data. When the PRC publishes an encyclopedia, the issue with it is not that they'd get the date of Tiananmen Square wrong.

4. Requiring people to use and read some sort of placeholders instead of ordinary text greatly increases the barrier to entry.
Yep. IMO, it really should never have been pulled into core in the first place, for exactly these reasons.
For comparison, the "worst case scenario" for fossil fuels is the planet cooking up, crop failures, widespread famine, death of the oceanic ecosystem, and the end of civilization as we know it. (Yes, that's the worst case scenario, but since we're comparing worst cases...)

It boggles my mind that we are still burning oil while opposing nuclear because "it's too dangerous."
We have enough land in most part of the world that if we lost, say, 10,000 - 100,000 acres a decade due to meltdown, we'd still be pretty okay (and I dont think we'd loose that much, given Generation II reactors that are in service, have a failure record which is something like 1 every 100 hour-years of actual operation) - that said the risk of nuclear meltdown is actually really really really low - even risks of moderate leaks are really low. The larger issue is long term storage of the wastes of the plants, which adds a huge cost to the energy generated.

I'd also consider hat with generation II reactors most of the failures were systems failures, not failures of the reactor itself - we know how to engineer around systems failures.
Did anyone really expect anything different? These are the same companies who took tax breaks in return for a promise to build out a fiber optic network and then never did it while pocketing the money.

At this point AT&T and their peers aren't fucking society, we are actively asking them to
Make your complex database error resistant. Write documents for what it means when references are missing. Do Garbage Collection rather than ON_DELETE triggers. Do everything that SQL doesn't want you to do.

SQL requires defining integrity in advance, and if your database gets corrupted, there is little hope of recover. Cleaning up your data is nearly impossible because your schemas and logic are tightly coupled.

Writing garbage collection scripts is easy if you make a practice of it, and makes you think about your schema in the ways that are important and that the ease of triggers hides from you. You can monitor and metricize it in ways that you can't with triggers.
Are you a paid account? I feel like I've noticed more political-campaign related shilling in the past couple years.
Honestly, I just want to work for a company that is honest, it does not have to be the most exciting work, as long as hours are flexible and at least some remote work is offered.

I'm tired of recruiters try to hype up the company. If employer said, "Our product is not exciting but we offer great benefits, you just have to put in 30-35 hours a week, come to few meetings and meet reasonable deadlines that we agreed upon" I'm sold. I don't need ping pong table. I want decent salary, decent benefits and kind/honest coworkers.
There are lots of not-so well-known nuclear disasters, such as the Santa Susana Field Lab, just a few miles from Los Angeles, circa 1960 that was covered up.

I'm not sure it has much to add on modern reactor design. However the human drive create disasters and hide mistakes is alive and well.
Are any odroid SBCs affected?
I think the author does a pretty good job of highlighting that there are imperfections and shortcomings while eliding over those details. They may have slipped up in some places such as your quote but I'm definitely not concerned of anyone taking any of this too seriously and extrapolating on it dangerously.
I don't think pickups fail to exhibit typical pricing behavior. The big difference here is scale. Pickups have traditionally healthy profit margins, and as such, the dealerships (and manufacturers) have the most flexibility in deviating from the MSRP to move product.

My guess is that manufacturers enjoy and encourage this margin and the apparent rapid inflation of pickup truck pricing. In other words, if MSRP keeps going crazy, even though savvy shoppers can purchase a truck for way less than MSRP, the general consensus is that they are more expensive than before, and you'll have to spend more than you did last year and the year before. People throw around "spending $50k on a truck" all the time, and while it's true that you can probably get a brand new crew cab with decent trim for $35k (and feel like you got a super good deal), the perception of truck prices has been inflated over time.

But back to the original raise/lower prices, we still see the same thing with trucks as with other classes of car. The price is increased each model year. The trim levels are tweaked. Options are bundled. Rarely does a manufacturer announce a big drop in pricing, or a spur of the moment increase.
In deduplication, we check to see whether a block has been seen before. If it has, we don't write it. If it hasn't, we write it down and record that information for next time. Checking if a block has been seen requires looking in an index, which is large and expensive to check, but recording the store can be amortized.

So, a bloom filter can tell you whether it's worth spending the expensive check to verify that the block is a duplicate, or whether you should skip that behavior and move on directly.

Same is true for malicious site detection. Google offers this feature in Chrome, but we don't want to make an expensive network request for every URL we visit. And we can't really have a database of all malicious URLs downloaded and updated to everyone's computer. Instead, they can distribute a bloom filter of malicious sites. if the bloom filter says it's malicious, we can afford to check the network for the final answer. If the bloom filter says it's not, we know we don't have to check (and that's the most common case, too!)

In my opinion, the intuition to extract is this. If you need to check membership, the set is expensive to check, and getting a definitive NO is valuable, then you can consider a bloom filter (or another probabilistic structure like a cuckoo filter).
In dedup, we need to check membership, the index is big enough to not fit in RAM so it's expensive, and getting a definitive NO means we can skip the index check.
In malicious site detection, we need to check membership, the answer requires a network round trip so it's expensive, and getting a definitive NO means we can just move on to loading the site.
Agree, one thing I want to clarify:
- D+ will not host rated-R content, while Hulu will. Any R-rated original content produced or contracted by Disney will go directly to Hulu.

Less sure about the separation between Hulu's live sports play and ESPN+. It could just be a timing thing as Disney has only had a controlling stake in Hulu for a month (officially). There will likely be a lot of integration and cross over between the 2 eventually.
MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs
Mastercard Discusses How to Fight Fraud with Artificial Intelligence
Read more here
https://beth.technology/mastercard-artificial-intelligence/
Rockstar Acquires Dhruva Interactive for $7.5 Mil
Breeder reactors reduce the waste by more than 95% and leave only isotopes that decay much faster.
Yeah, but it would essentially still be more of a "string id" rather than a URL, e.g. you can just make your ID to look like "person-12345" and "pet-52435" without tying it to URL. Showing as valid URL can be a "nice artefact" to remove the need to lookup API docs for collection names.
No phone jack? Next..!