skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies are just too risk averse for expensive moonshots like this.

Construction costs alone for ITER are estimated to be $22 to $65 billion dollars. This doesn't even factor in the cost of actually running it after that or the cost of feeding all the scientists involved in it (which receive government funding through their respective countries).

You can probably count the amount of companies with enough cash lying around to finance this on one hand. And then they'd still need the people for it.

Even once ITER is completed you still don't have a realistic product to sell. ITER is of no use besides getting us one step closer to fusion energy.

And at the end of it we may just realize that fusion is never going to be cost efficient compared to other energy sources.

That's no risk any sane company will take.

As always the free market will wait until all the groundwork has been laid by taxpayer funded scientists, and even then only make a move if there are massive government subsidies - as has happened and is still happening with fission energy.

The free market is much better at low-risk and incremental innovation. Stuff like this? Not so much.
No. I'd like to know on a technical level what was done. Anyone can scrape this information on users, they're friends and so on asking as persons made it public. The government does this at scale
Why didn't you?
Secure .. enclave? I'm sorry but I think you're throwing buzzwords around hoping to hit a homerun here.
Sometimes people wonder why progress seems to be so slow nowadays. This is an example of the kind of thing that suggests that regulation is a major brake on progress; perhaps this is why the center of gravity of world progress has shifted from Europe and the US to China.
Harvard researchers create mini polarization camera that shows how shrimp see
I volunteered at a hospital not too long ago, and they required all volunteers to have an up to date physical. Well, I hadn't had one in the previous year. So I checked with my primary care doctor, but they couldn't give me an appointment for about 6 months. Ok, no problem, I can get it done at the hospital's employee health clinic. Oops, they're too busy with new employees, they don't have time to do volunteers. Ok, I live right next to one of the urgent care clinics run by the same hospital so I thought I'd go there. Well, they have never heard of such a thing, and they charge $100 for anything, but I figure, if I'm donating my time, might as well not worry about it. So they do the exam, but on my way out, some manager or whatever buttonholes me and says "oh, we didn't realize you were a volunteer, there won't be any charge". I say, well, I already paid...so they reverse the charge on my credit card, after a couple of tries.

So...a week later, I get a bill, because their system knows I was there and didn't pay them. And I think about calling up and telling them it was supposed to be free, and then I ask myself if I really want to debate this with their billing department and I just paid it.
How to Spot a 10x Engineer
Ben Thompson (Stratechery) Talks about Jony Ive’s Departure from Apple. [audio]
Actually, merchants, acquirers, and issuers can do this. It happens sometimes. When it happens, other limits come into play downstream, such as terminal configuration. There are separate offline limits, and it is unlikely they would set it that high, so a $20,000 offline charge would be declined, even if a lesser charge would be approved, stored, and processed later. As for expired cards, the expiration date is on the mag stripe and in the chip, so the transaction could be rejected at any point, even offline at the terminal. It's also printed on the card so it might be rejected before it's even swiped or dipped.
My experience interacting with homeless people agrees with DoreenMichelle. "They" are not all the same, many of "them" would tell you some food they'd be grateful for if you'd only ask what they like. I would imagine, even if you're hungry or just feeling horrible, that it's too humiliating to simply accept whatever random food a passing stranger offers you.
I’ve seen many news articles against National IDs allude to that Bible verse in an obviously allegorical form, but even as someone who originally grew up in a predominantly Christian town in the American Midwest, I have never come across anyone who genuinely believed that nationals ID cards actually ARE the “Mark of the Beast” as you stated. Do you have any sources?
There probably is. I'm no chemical engineer, but this is a question they would be best suited to answer. From my experience observing the technology from an R/C standpoint, it seems appearant that the maximum capacity you can achieve with a NiCd (nickel cadmium) battery in a 1.2v "Sub-C" form factor is about 2,000 MaH. The max capacity for a NiMH (nickel metal-hydride) is about 6,000 Mah. Anything lithium is capable of anything nickel can do, but with approximately 50% the weight.

Lithium cells are where the technology currently lies and it seems that there is plenty of potential, although graphene is also promising.

We haven't hit the limit for lithium batteries yet (or nickel for that matter, but the remaining potential is no longer relevant) Li-Ion (lithium ion) are less stable than Li-Po (lithium-polymer). Also, since Lithium cells are usually 3.4v rectangles and Nickel cells are 1.2v cylinders there are some form-factor differences to consider.
>[...] is only running with the privileges of the user, it can't modify the Firefox install itself

It can however, attach to Firefox as a debugger and modify it's code as needed (ptrace/writeprocessmemory).
The largest studies of lung-cancer–marijuana-use association were also very surprised to find that the incidence of lung cancer from marijuana was, apparently, statistically indistinguishable from zero.

What you say is common sense. Like the earth being flat and the sun revolving around the earth, though, it just happens to be completely wrong.
The drug war in the 1980s and the focus on money laundering also motivated this - the seeds of the 'know your customer requirements were planted here.
18 is a good age to begin the transition from being dependent on parents to bearing responsibilities themselves. Keeping the kids in the house too much longer than that can make it more difficult for them to adapt.
In most of the US, industrial users pay a fixed price for grid usage, plus a variable charge for energy.

It's residential users who usually don't have a split bill like that.
Strava has done this before. Citation needed, but I recall switching from Strava to a competitor (Runkeeper?) some years ago as minor protest.
You cannot be a liberal and also be in favor of prohibiting e-cigarettes. It's a contradiction.

The tone of your comment — insulting, hyperbolic, and sarcastic — is not up to the standards of the quality of discourse we attempt to maintain on this site.
We could even mobilize some military aircraft for the effort:

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...

This should be less of a labor saving method and more for accessing difficult terrain. Would probably be more successful with human labor.
> UBI will create the conditions for more suicides. Work can create purpose.

I completely agree, but isn't a major motivation behind UBI a lack of job availability due to automation?
The thing that distinguishes human brains from computers is that the software one runs (or is forced to run by circumstance) causes the hardware to change over time.
I think the typical business software could be a great place to start because you have sections of the code that would be very simple to model in a formal methods environment and that really hairy section that could actually use it (but it would be hard).

I hate to say I've never had the patience for it. For me it has always turned out to be painful without much reward.

I think my experience isn't uncommon given the popularity of formal methods. If it was easy and full of low hanging fruit (like automated testing) it would probably be reasonably popular (like automated testing).
I recently purchased a Synology NAS that does automated nightly backups to wasabi. Everything I care about is either on the backed up drive of the nas, or in git repositories. My rule is that I should be able to wipe any of my computers at any time, and pick up where I left off with a few hours of work.
> Teslas are selling like hotcakes.

Tesla is hoping to sell 400,000 this year: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/07/10/tesla-is-about-to-...

Toyota will sell over 10 million: https://www.jato.com/global-car-market-remains-stable-during...

> Or some other reason

ICE cars are a lot cheaper than EVs.
Google Angry After Contractor Leaks over a Thousand Assistant Recordings
What kind of crime though? I think that's a part of it as well. Possession of a little bit of heroin? Camping somewhere not allowed to do so? Trespassing?

I feel like the alternate proposal just says, don't put them in jail for small amounts of time after every small crime, instead preemptively give them a permanent home to stay out of trouble from. In a way, it's a kind of jail, but one where you hope they stay in forever, and go to even before any crime is committed. Would the cost of that be any more then the cost that is currently going to the jail system?

Keep in mind I think the assumption here is that when it comes to mental illness or drug addiction, jail does not work as a deterrent, because the illness or addiction will cause repeat offense no matter the consequence to them. It assumes they can't help themselves but eventually commit a crime again. That's part of the challenge.
I'm totally with you there. But that's VPS functionality. We've been doing that for 15+ years.

I'm talking about paying $7k a year to put data in a cloud based DB node that can only handle 2k transactions a second.

My other gripe is more complex and is about being asked to migrate an existing incredibly complex series of high performance applications which require very complex dark fibre connections to a cloud env.
That is one hell of a way to improve it though.

I wrote lame articles years ago, to explain technical work i did on castle and nhibernate. Made me better over time.
Also, it's important to note that batteries don't generate power. They store power.

Literally. You pump electrons into them and they hold onto them internally until they can be released again. Think of it as a water balloon for electrons.

You create a vessel which is capable of efficiently containing electrons. Then you pump electrons into it and hope enough of them stick to be worthwhile. This is battery technology.

Different battery technologies have different characteristics. Nickel batteries usually have some form of "cell memory" where the cell will store "stale" electrons indefinately, and lose the ability to release them. These electrons can become "trapped" inside the battery and reduce it's capacity.

Likewise the chemical composition of lithium batteries makes them extremely volatile. This means that if you were to completely remove all electrons from the cell it would forget that it is a battery and refuse to store future electrons you try to pump into it. You also have to balance each cell in a lithium pack, else they will become uneven and one could possibly become completely empty (killing the cell).

Likewise, when a nickel cell loses all it's electrons it is still possible to "zap" the cell back to life with a large jolt of electrons. Some of which stick, some do not. Sometimes this results in the battery "waking up" to accept more electrons. Sometimes it doesn't, and a 6 cell (7.2v) nickel battery will have to be dissected to replace the bad cells.
Changing my ssid to xfinitywifi.
Pretty sure AWS is late to the party and just now achieving feature parity with Azure. Azure Event Grid came out at the beginning of 2018.

However, I suppose from an AWS cloud standpoint this great news :)

I would imagine this replaces a lot of SNS and SQS combo architectures in AWS?
I guess I'll get in trouble for saying this again. He is compelling and be speaks Arabic blah blah blah, but I feel these articles are more about him than Sayyid, over which we haggle with him vicariously over Egyptians pounds, approximately seventeen to one US dollar now. I know that feeling, but I wouldn't even ironically brag about paying fifty cents over the other wealthy foreigner a month. I would saying something here ironically in cutesy Egyptian Arabic and explain it, but I'd be my own worst enemy.

I have to visit often for family reasons, and they are the reason I avoid being more engaged about being outspoken over there about what goes on. I feel as a westerner we have passively let Egypt totally devolved and we should feel ashamed; these lip service articles only assuage personal guilt, as I see it. I dreamed of being a Hessler and now ashamed I am part of the clique when I visit old friends.

I know I'll go get down-voted for saying it, but oh well.

I would strongly encourage everyone here to visit, and go beyond what tourist books tell you. You cannot freely write on the details of the place anymore, and I learned the most about life from Egypt.
I think the idea of being able to soon up instances of VPS is useful and some of the deployment tools useful. I find most "cloud native" crap to be so comically poor in performance that I just can't accept it makes sense to burn that many cpus to achieve so little.

Perhaps I'm just a dinosaur
Couldn't the malware replace your Firefox icon with a version that points to a malicious patched Firefox? Or whenever it sees Firefox start, it kills it it and starts the malicious Firefox instead.
I'll have to give this a try!
He didn't anonymize shit by giving that street. It is a very specific neighborhood despite Cairo being a huge city.
I agree. I posted detailed calculations arguing this point of view a week ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20365309.
It would be nice to see WhatsApp becoming a partner.
I think you are misguided in your assumptions about motivations.

Insurance is worthwhile whether you get $0.80 or $1.25 back on the dollar. It's not necessary for people to have a positive expected value from it.
New stores open every minute but at the same time some others close, if you have a good placement in the marketplace listings then new people use the app and if you can keep them, you will grow a decent monthly revenue.

Shopify is missing many things and the apps are there to fill those gaps, Shopify doesn't replicate the apps functionality to drag them out of the game so yea, there is much space left for new apps.

Shopify has a great resource of information on how to get started here: https://developers.shopify.com/app-development

You may find an API library for your preferred language in this list: https://help.shopify.com/en/api/tools/supported-libraries
I will give his China stuff a look bc this is the 2nd Egypt piece he has written that is miffed me. But I will try and keep an open mind.
I'm skeptical that this will even happen but if so, hopefully it's done with an eye towards restoring some semblance of biodiversity rather than just a climate change mitigation technique. The road to hell is paved with good intentions
I liked the idea of UBI, but once people have the ability to vote for for politicians who promise to raise the UBI, wouldn't they just keep raising it until capital exits stage left and the economy devolves into a poor socialist economy? It seems like it could be setting a dangerous precedent. Once you start giving people free money, its political suicide to take it away. Look at Greece and Argentina as examples.
> Ans: 576 Megapixels

I’m skeptical. Since the human eye has less than 150M sensor cells, and our sensors aren’t as good as 8 or 10 bit resolution pixels, that answer is overestimating by at least 4x, and possibly a lot more. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoreceptor_cell
Honestly, though, if you just filter to what could be backed up on paper you'll find that backups are trivial. A pretty big storage room, stuffed with ten thousand bankers boxes, each holding five thousand double-sided sheets of paper? At a reasonably generous 80KB per side you have 8TB. That's one data tape. Even a "library of congress" is only 10TB.
It's acknowledged that there's a housing crisis. There's also an opioid crisis, and a crisis in care for the mentally ill.

I don't think OP would challenge any of that, but he's addressing a much more specific point: if we're to provide housing to people who cannot house themselves, and in particular, the growing number of people with apparent mental or addiction issues living on the streets of downtown city centers, is there an obligation to give them housing in that city center, or even in the city limits?
>x=x still takes 555 steps

That's a typo. It should say

>x=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx still takes 555 steps
Dokuwiki is still around. A lot of companies are using things like Confluence or other integrated SAAS wikis.
Yeah both parents have to work 40 hours plus, maintain a home, eat at least one sit down meal together, spend time with children, time with each other to maintain a relationship. I as introvert have no time for being alone. And I need that. I try to walk to and from work as often as possible now just so I can have a quiet 20 minutes to myself with no demands or obligations on me. I find myself staying up late just to have it quiet.
There are always those potted plant moments. For some reason regular expressions / regex implementations seem to always be in that hole.
> having smoke in your lungs is having smoke in your lungs whether it comes form a cigarette or a joint

This is not a thing that's true, it's a thing you assume. Having different smokes or vapors in your lungs can have different effects, just as drinking different liquids can have different effects. Tobacco smoke causes cancers. The more elements in another smoke that are shared with tobacco (or other plants that cause disease) the more the new smoke should be suspect, and it suggests a direction for initial testing. We can't just treat all odors as cancer-causing; vaping doesn't even involve burning vegetable matter, so even if burning some chemicals common to all plants causes cancer, that wouldn't make vaping suspect.
'Monster bluffer': Poker AI smashes elite human players after 8 days of training
The fact that the stock went up doesn’t necessarily mean the $5B is too small. That is a naive understanding of stock valuations. It could go up just because the uncertainty is now removed.
You aren't really "sending data" though. Each one of the neruons just ends up triggering a circuit. And some of the fire signals are actually inhibitory signals to stop other neurons from firing. Not to mention all of the chemical signaling going on and the different types of patterns/behaviors that get activated through repetitive or limited activity.

So really to calculate bandwidth is kind of pointless. One the neurons use more dimensions than just on and off electrical signals as their state and two, neurons don't really pass information along when you think about it they just trigger circuitry.
The human brain is about as far from functional programming as you can get. Everything is global, referentially opaque, and full of side effects.
I can't tell if all the posts are satire ... or not.
Facebook to Be Fined $5B in Cambridge Analytica Privacy Scandal
They're not. The Audio e-Tron isn't, the Porsche Taycan isn't, the Volkswagen ID.3 isn't. The Porsche Macan won't be and the Audio e-Tron GT won't be.
Not in the US, the price would go up 10x.
The amount of insane people on the streets is a big reason why I wouldn't want to move to the United States from Europe. I lived in America for 3 months and experienced more problems than in the 25 years before.

I truly don't get it why there's so many crazies in United States as opposed to pretty much any other country. Does anybody know? Seems like figuring out where does the discrepancy come from should be the first step before helping them.
I smoked for 15 years and tried all the usual quitting aids many times. E-cigs were the only thing that worked for me, but I’m a bit concerned about the long term affects of vaping.
Interesting, but I’ve never heard of it and didn’t come across it when I was looking for wiki/Evernote alternatives a few months back.

I guess I’ll have to look into it. Couldn’t quite see how it differs from Evernote (which in my few has a lot of features missing which teams might need).
Yes, but see my previous comment.

People have tried it and online poker sites know they've tried it, so they'll randomize images and other data. If you take a dive when the randomizations are triggered and outperform otherwise good luck trying to collect your winnings.
Something tells me you’d have a very different reaction if the same piece of software was used to track “legal” firearms crossing us state borders, for example.
Health insurance in the US generally has large deductibles in my experience, so they wouldn't normally be paying out.

If you have no deductible, it's basically just your employer giving you a tax-exempt bonus, I think.
If you need inspiration you can navigate through the marketplace.

I have released such a 'borrowed idea' app before 4 months and i barely have 15 users on it. It's not much but it's more than nothing, it took me less than two months to develop it and about 6 months to release it (slow app verification procedures and stupid bugs).

https://apps.shopify.com/
Nuclear is never actually cheap though. In practise it costs a fortune to build, a fortune to run, a fortune to dismantle, and then you have to pay to store the waste forever. Even that assessment is charitably assuming that there are no massively expensive accidents along the way.
They only show a correlation between cloud cover and temperature. There's no evidence for which causes which. If causation runs the other way, then that for every 0.11C increase in temperature, clouds decrease by 1%.

The problem with this line of thinking is that, when you do something to a system, usually lots of properties of the system change. So you can always say "Look, properties A and B changed at the same time right after we did X! So maybe A caused B, not X."
Is it the same as Azure EventGrid?
Interesting interview in this documentary, "1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk
That sounds strange to me. If you introduce a bug then roll back very quickly, it will only affect high paying customers. If you introduce a bug then roll back a while later, it will impact high paying and low paying customers equally. Why would you want this scenario? If you flip it it seems strictly better to me.
All my stuff is in Google so my backup is for "what if Google decides to ban me without recourse?" For that I download the hundreds of gigs of Google takeout and upload it to backblaze. I ought to automate it.

I'm mostly saying this out loud for the chance someone will point out an issue or optimization for my strategy.
They can use it to skirt the law completely and you’d never even know.
In over 3 decades of software development, every single app that I wrote which depends exclusively on a third party API or data set has eventually (and suddenly) died a horrible death when the vendor decided to (a) shut down external access (b) change their API significantly without warning, or (c - more commonly) build it within their app themselves after seeing the demand and traction my 3rd party apps were getting.

I still develop optional 3rd party add ons for other vendors, but I will never ever again rely on a single vendor 'lock in' with any of my apps.
listmonk does have unsubscription and blacklisting, although not bounce processing (yet. todo.)

listmonk is a replacement for Sendy. You can connect your SES account to it using the SES SMTP interface.

Integration with in-house DBs was a top reason for us.