skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you read a bit too much into all this. The guy is a journalist and his wife as well. I suspect they don't make much money from their job so they have to be a bit careful on how they spend it. And knowing they pay a bit more compared to some other Western guy in their apartment complex ... well, I feel most people would feel better about themselves as well given the circumstance. I feel it's just human nature. From his story it's clear it's hard to figure out the "proper" amount of pay, there are no clearly set rules.

I did find his writing compelling and added the book to my Amazon Wishlist.

In the past I visited Egypt once through a more adventurous travel agency. It was still an organised trip, but I was happy to see quite a bit of Egypt which included sleeping in the desert, sleeping in an oasis, have a small boat trip on the Nile, eat dinner with a Nubian family, visit the archeological museum and most important mosque in Cairo, as well as an important coptic church. And did see all the well known attractions such as the pyramids, valley of kings, Luxor, etc... It was fun and I'd love to visit it again in the future, but I feel it's currently probably too unsafe. Even back in 2005 when I visited there were military escorts with out travel group as we travelled to the south.
Really? "Many users" buy a laptop from a niche manufacturer who puts their libre OS front and center and then they just "put something else on"?

I mean, if "something else" is another Linux/BSD, sure, I'll believe that. I imagine that people can also do the same with the Librem phone though!
Capitalism is the only way to raise people out of poverty.
>no, the marriage between capitalism and democracy is over

Žižek's critique here is not unique to China (or Asia). The relationship between capitalism and democracy, one that is taught as doctrine in Western economics classes, is being stressed around the world.
Democrat leadership.
Highest temperature fission reactors are the gas core (vapor core) and ion core reactors. They are fluid-fuel reactors, but not demonstrated. Currently solid-fuel reactors hold the record for highest temperatures.

Fusion reactor runs hotter and again fuel is in fluid state.(Fluid: Liquid, gas & plasma.). But only runs for 10-100 minutes. Demonstrated fission reactors run for thousands of hours continuously.
This is bizarre, I’m in non-car autonomy but I talk daily with car autonomy folks. Everyone has been expecting a consolidation of companies through acquisitions but drive.ai showed us that it’s probably not going to happen. At The Information mobility event last month one of the SoftBank fellas said that autonomous cars will be ‘won’ by those who can outspend everyone else. Looks like backing up billions with more billions might be the playbook for now.
I just can’t understand why you’d want to go through that trouble when the internet is full of the credentials you need.

Scihub obviously isn’t concerned with the law, there’s no reason for them to make this any harder than they need to.

Putting people at risk by letting them donate their personal access would just be silly.
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> I'm honestly not sure how effective it is.

Personally, I think that's the right question to ask, and I'm not sure either. Did the Change Through Rapprochement policies help changing the Soviet Union, or would that change and the eventual dissolving have happened anyway?

What's ethical depends on what you value more highly, I guess: principles or outcomes. Start a world war on principle or do shady realpolitik but keep the peace? The same is true here. And sure, money is a factor, but conflict is good for business, too, so I'm not so sure that it's only pulling in one direction.
This is a bit random, but I have a cameo appearance in Counterfeit Monkey as my rockstar alter ego 'Nexami Engeo.' Cool to see the game being mentioned on Hacker News
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At the end of the day people everywhere just want to live meaningful, fulfilling lives. Having the right to vote has no essential bearing on meaning. Most Americans try every means available to get out of jury duty, and last time I checked, turnout rates for NY and SF are below ten percent. If these sacred democratic rights were really so personally valuable to people, how come so many of them don't even bother to exercise them?
I had a couple of sudden bouts of unexpected unemployment (altho it didn't take me long to find new work) & I (mostly) managed to see it as temporary vacation.

Of course I had the advantage of earning enough that I was able to live off of unemployment benefits and savings for a couple months without much worry or compromise to my quality of life.
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Surely tobacco should only be available by prescription, by the same argument?

I mean, what argument is there for e-cigarettes to be banned or heavily regulated when anyone can go buy cigarettes?

If they ban both, fine. If they just go after e-cigarettes, this is the work of the tobacco lobby, end of.
Gathering wild fruits and spearfishing are my favorite things to do when I'm needing some reassurance that I am going to be okay.
AT is my go to solution for quick database needs for prototyping. very simple to share “auto created” documentation for external devs to connect via its marvelous api. plus 1200 row free (infinite tables) is good to start
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Inspired by a comment thread yesterday [1] I made this mini site:

https://excel.secretgeek.net/

Reason:

I often want to share Joel Spolsky's famous "You Suck at Excel" video tutorial with "important" business people inside the large enterprise where I work.

But it would be easily misconstrued as trolling if I sent a business customer a URL that literally tells them, right in the heading, that they "suck" at excel.

So, as advised by user @TuringTest (in the thread mentioned above) I created a mini site, on its own sub-domain, that is palatable to a business mindset, and brutally overlaid a heading that says "Secrets of Mastering Excel" right over the top of the "You Suck at Excel" heading.

Now I've got something I can recommend to business people without causing disharmony. And I can leave a link to it in my email signature at work, to nudge my colleagues to improve their Excel game.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20418313
It's funny because ransomware is simply DRM coming in from the other direction.

I can't help but laugh because it's such a clear demonstration of everything that's bad about DRM, except for the fact that, well, the message gets lost amid a tide of egotism and indignation.

Oh, what fools these mortals be!
> In 2014, she wrote a letter that was published online, requesting anyone to come to her home to be her helper as her "health is waning".

I wonder if anyone came
Stein is completely open-source itself, and the documentation includes instructions for self-hosting. It consolidates all such features in a single API.

Find it at https://github.com/SteinHQ/Stein
Almost nobody does that, because solar + batteries would need so much batteries for winter that it is completely unpratical. The only people that I know doing that are extreme ecologist in remote places. And grid access is so cheap like 10€/month.
As in "no longer inhaling combustion products", certainly. I'll admit it's still a damned silly thing to do... unless it's compared to sticking dead plant matter into your face-hole and setting fire to it.

I started smoking at age eleven (it was perfectly legal, and I'd been buying cigarettes legally for more than half of my life by that point - it was as much a normal part of an errand as picking up a quart of milk or a loaf of bread), and can't say I put a lot of consideration into it at the time. Over then next four and a half decades, I tried quitting, unsuccessfully, dozens of times. Vaping means I haven't been inhaling burning plant matter for years. I'm happy with the harm reduction. The "quit or die" attitude is what needs to die.
In Rhode Island they actually prosecute addicts and mentally ill who commit crimes, and offer them the alternative of drug and rehab courts that entail mandatory internment in decent facilities and rehabilitation. They emerge with no record, and no debt to be paid. Many going through the process say it saved their life.

The same drug courts and facilities exist on the west coast, but they are underutilized because there is no incentive. No criminal or civil justice funnel. People are just set loose.

Intervention helps those who are beyond helping themselves. A free place with no strings attached does not do nearly as much to help those who truly need help.
Not at all. "Concatenative"[1] is a property of a language syntax; broadly speaking, it holds that an arbitrary expression in the program text can be understood as a sequence of words, and any subsequence is in some sense meaningful; that is, the semantics of the expression as a whole is derived by "concatenating" the semantics of each word, and this semantic "concatenation" is consistent in that it can be used to provide a semantics to any subsequence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_lang...

This all works well for untyped languages (FORTH is untyped, as an example), but once you add in reasonably complex types you can't really use "sequences" alone, anymore; the directly comparable property is instead true of string diagrams. And once you add some more complexity, you even have to deal with, e.g. proof nets. There are ways to simplify textual syntaxes like e.g. typed lambda calculus along 'concatenative' lines, but mostly these are simple tweaks (De Bruijn notation, and/or De Bruijn indexes) that don't really create a "different" language.
>Well, you'll have to excuse me if I don't take the allegations of a publishing industry mouthpiece like SSP seriously.

Just read some ezproxy mailing list posts then, there’s a plenty of edu sysadmins who have discussed this and don’t work for the publishing industry.
Good to know because I don't want to have an account on Strava or similar services. I didn't notice that import functionality when I created my account, only the prompts to connect to third-party services. I'll create a new account and check it out.
The Chinese and USSR both decided to switch to capitalism at the same time, but the Chinese economy was (and is) funded by the west while the Soviet one wasn’t.

The leadership and military of the USSR were no longer willing to violently suppress demonstrations in the 1980s.
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Judging by the quality of his writing, I’m going assume he felt it like a calling, stronger than any other.
> But that would cost money and require competent management/oversight, instead they'd prefer to pass a meaningless fiat that won't do jack.

It is cheaper that way. :D

https://dilbert.com/strip/2002-05-11
Certainly in the UK there is talk of trying to wean people off of using gas to heat homes.(1). Options to replace it are electric heat pumps and/or hydrogen-based systems.

Most people I know have abandoned gas hobs and replaced them with induction hobs - they feel a lot like cooking with gas (unlike halogen or ceramic ones), but are a lot more practical (e.g. cleaning, extra space etc) and better for air quality.

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/13/hammond-...
Yes, your calculations are correct. I was just wondering if we use all of that Li to store energy or we need it in car batteries, laptops, mobile phones, etc. You also leave out details about the production of batteries. Purely from the energy point of view you are right but what about the manufacturing and maintenance point of view? Would not be there some additional limitations?
As of 2019, we have 4% of the world's population, and 81% of its opioid consumption.
No, it's a fair question. The word "enclave" has a general meaning in English as a state surrounded entirely by another, or metaphorically a zone with some degree of isolation from its surroundings.

So the legit question is, can insecure systems (e.g. ancient mainframes) be wrapped by a security layer (WAF, etc.) to get better uptime than patching an exposed system?
> NVIDIA strategically releases

You are giving too much credit to their competence to release any smaller sized model.
But doesn't Shannon rely on symbols and alphabets? What if the information is presymbolic?

Smolensky's pdp paper modeled presymbolic processing with the harmonium, the first restricted boltzman machine.
What is the performance of this?
That is exactly how I feel.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20216073
Quora has become more “question centric” than “answer centric” these days
It seems everyone is hell bent on asking others questions, I'm getting questions at the rate of like handfuls per hour!

And yet, not a soul seems to be reading the answers that I post to them (based on the views and upvotes I'm getting on the answers I've posted).

Does it have anything to do with their new policy of rewarding some chosen quorans depending on how many questions they ask as I've heard?
That’s the point: if you can’t profit off my personal data while simultaneously protecting it as a “low margin,” your business doesn’t need to exist. Fines relative to revenue hurt every business a lot, which is how it should be. A massive data breach should be cause for going out of business, not “oh, we’re taking X% of your profits this year, but we totally trust you to do better next year.”
> The Chinese and USSR both decided to switch to capitalism at the same time

This is just wrong. There wasn't anything comparable to Deng's reforms in 1980s USSR - indeed the Brezhnev-era folks and their immediate successors were pushing for more socialism, not less. Even Gorbachev didn't exactly start out as a pro-West social liberal!
If you're comparing vaping to smoking then obviously vaping is many times safer. So, if smokers convert to vaping we don't mind, we're pleased.

But if you're comparing vaping to not vaping, in young people, well vaping is going to be a bit more harmful (because everything has risks) than not vaping.

We don't know what the risks are for young non-smokers who take up vaping. We do know that there is some risk they'll become addicted to nicotine, especially because some companies have focussed on making their product more addictive.

This, combined with pre-frontal cortex development in young people, makes it harder for them to make an informed choice.
Unrelated, but does anyone know how many electric cars have an autonomy of more than 700km, while also charging fully in less than one hour? Is that even possible with the current technology?
One benefit of approach I mentioned is that there's nothing to host. All just client-side code. Although I do see the use for hosting: latency for loading data from Google Sheets isn't great and adding a cache helped in my case.
I assume you are referring to audiobooks?

Definitely reading as it enables you to go at your own pace, skip back a few words if you didn't catch a meaning, or stop and stare out of the window for a few seconds.

Also the reader of an audiobook imposes their own interpretation of the text whereas if you read there is nothing between you and the author.

You can sort of do these things with an audiobook but it's fiddly.
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There are other technologies coming along too. For example NantTech claim to have $100/kWh with Zinc Air https://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDes...
"I don't think powerwall has that functionality"

From wikipedia

"When originally announced in 2015, two models of Powerwall were planned: 10 kWh capacity for backup applications and 7 kWh capacity for daily cycle applications"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Powerwall

I take it the daily cycle applications include that functionality.
As a thought experiment that might point you toward why some people say not: if you make an atom-perfect simulation of two 1kg spheres orbiting each other in an empty universe, would that produce any gravitation?
You could use that same logic to argue that they should never write any new code, just live forever on the existing code.

But customers want new features, so Stripe does changes.
Because it's illegal in the USA, thanks to various court rulings in (IIRC) the 1970s.
Market information in China flows freely. It is information about government mistakes and policy failures which is restricted.
That depends on how hot we're talking. I'm not up-to-date on the latest hot fusion work (so I might very well be completely wrong here) but I'd have naively assumed that containment would be a significant limitation of having stable hot fusion reactors. Most research fusion reactors I've seen online only run for minutes at most -- and that's with net-negative fusion.
And thank you for the answer and for being open to outsider input.
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Doing good in other respects doesn't nullify their crimes. I'm not saying the substance should be banned; I'm saying this industry needs vigilant regulation.
I agree this is an awesome post and a really great example of how every Root Cause Analysis needs to be done. I am also impressed by their incident response.
"Argo AI’s focus remains on delivering a SAE Level 4-capable SDS to be applied for ridesharing and goods delivery services in dense urban areas."

Perhaps naive question from an outsider to the AV world: what does "SAE Level 4-capable SDS" mean?
Ah genesis lib. My saviour :-)
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Well, sure, storage costs depend in part on how long you have to store the energy, and how often. But surely someone has computed some kind of curve about how much storage is needed for PV to displace increasingly large percentages of peaker and baseload generation, assuming no demand response or other stabilization measures like rolling blackouts?
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Because people are suffering and its the right thing to do.
>Yes, but it's one big thing. Fixing one big thing, usually, is much easier than fixing thousands of little things.

I agree, but in this case may mean wait for the hardware to be powerful enough to be able to handle all the inputs in real time.

>is distracting from the actual issues.

What hardware/software more important issues are you referring ? Non related to that the bigger issues is the hype IMO, I only seen bad sentiments for Tesla and uber but not for the others that self driving companies.

I personally really want self driving to be ready as soon as possible, I can't drive due to medical issues, I live about 10Km away from the city and having the mobility of a car would help me a lot(I am not exaggerating)
I appreciate the frank comment. Thanks
ESB is dead, long live ESB.

I think i’m getting old... was telling coworkers that their fancy micro services existed 15 years ago in the form of EJB and service bus was a thing. And look, here it goes again
Does PISA support faceted search?
There are too many stupids who are hooked by their own lies. Finally they will die for lies.
Get a motorcycle in the class of Honda Goldwing, convert it to electric power, and replace all of the luxury fuffle on it with batteries.

I don't think this will match your expectations, but this is the best take on what you want I can think of
I working with big graphs. Over 1 bln entities & 40 bln edges.

Best open source graph database is ArrangoDB they have master to master cluster.
Fastest and best technology for graphs have commercial TigerDB, but you must pay >300k annually.

Networkx is great but loading full model - but for what you doing should be enough. :)
> The leadership and military of the USSR were no longer willing to violently suppress demonstrations in the 1980s.

So why weren't they?
Exactly, this is why I shared this video. Hearing concepts explained by those who pioneered them really brings them home, because it highlights the context in which they were created, with a description of what was the trouble with computing back then and how it was solved, and the excitement of the achievement.

For instance, he situates his breaktrought in a timeline where the main milestones are, first, getting computers to work at all, and, then, high level languages, to make them much easier to program (Fortran, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsWTyLEgbk). Then, time sharing made them much easier to use.

The birth of the terminal, no less, which is still around and which we all take for granted (I know it's deeper than this, multiprocessing, but this is the most visible manifestation) ...

Judging from this video, it also seems that he was a very good communicator.
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I was surprised it was not less.
Sure ... as long as we still have a second amendment.
I think the most likely explanation is that they never thought of it.

Are there official routes designated by local/state/federal government? If so maybe you could contact the relevant authority and ask them to ask Google to add them.

Google maps often has topical information, eg road closures, so it's obviously dynamic rather than just an online equivalent of a paper map. The technology therefore exists to do what you suggest.
I thought the whole point of things like docker is they gave native performance? Isn't docker just a combination of cgroups, network namespaces, pid namespaces, fancy filesystem mounts, etc.

The overhead should be zero by design.

What am I missing?
it's not the tobacco per se, even if it's a factor, the primary cancirogens are the other shit they mix in to get it burning easily, reliably and timely
Geo-fenced with some limitations (ie unable to drive in severe weather). So it'll only work in some areas, and will likely have further limitations like avoiding alleys, roundabouts, and whatever else it finds difficult but it not necessary to navigate from point A to point B. All of this is fully driverless and you can sleep in the back of the car.

SDS stands for Self-Driving Service. SAE stands for Society of Automotive Engineers.

https://www.sae.org/news/press-room/2018/12/sae-internationa...
Currently - none that I know of. Tesla is currently approaching that number with 592km(370 miles) of range.

As for charging _fully_ - that's rarely done in practice, because over 80% li-ion batteries charge much slower. Bjørn Nyland recently beat the record[0] for longest distance travelled in an EV in 24h (2781km) by stopping to charge from 10% to 50%, because only then he could use the full power of superchargers.

[0] https://youtu.be/R-2Yj-uVeB0
good point lol
There are alternative ways to consume tobacco too
Mozilla's reasoning is that these programs like to think of themselves as not malware. Configuring the user's computer is much easier to claim as "honest behavior" than patching or replacing executables.
It seems to me that the simplest reactors tend to be the most dangerous. I'm thinking of the Windscale fire and SL-1 in particular. One of the theories for what went wrong at SL-1 is that it was a murder-suicide, caused by the man tasked with physically manipulating the control rods of the reactor. I think robotic control is better for something like that. Robots are more predictable.

One of the aggravating factors at Windscale was their inability to perform maintenance tasks behind the reactor. They had canisters of radioactive material smashing open behind the reactor and it took them ages to even notice. That was a very simple reactor design; basically a nuclear pile. It was also an awful design that was irradiating England even before it caught fire.
What's wrong with electric heating?
These don't even sound as ad site:

self.events.data.microsoft.com, activity.windows.com.

Maybe you are blocking some legitimate traffic, forcing it to retry many times?
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