skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most optimistic cost projection I can easily find for seawater uranium extraction goes as low as $360 per kilogram of uranium.

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

If extracting gold is only 300 times harder, that puts the lower bound cost at $108,000 per kilogram of gold. That's significantly more expensive than the market price of gold.

Indeed, extracting uranium itself from seawater is not cost competitive with conventional terrestrial mining at present. But the process has been demonstrated on a technical level. Either terrestrial uranium deposits will have to get closer to exhaustion or seawater extraction will have to be much more cost optimized (or both) before seawater extraction of uranium is economically competitive. I was only addressing your technical claims about the exhaustion of seawater uranium, not making economic claims.
Rich Hickey has a talk on this
(The Value of Values) here: https://youtu.be/-6BsiVyC1kM
OneDrive lets you set an expiration when you share a photo with a url, I usually pick a month with the assumption the other person will download the photo to their own collection.
Quora as others have mentioned is useless. Stick with subreddits or niche forums. I think anyone that markets themselves as a Q&A site will have this issue of attracting spammers.
This looks like any of the “build your first neural net” tutorials online that do the same task. The only difference is that training this one was a lot more work.
i suppose it's possible but it seems unlikely to me. i've never heard of anyone being disciplined or expelled for this, and in fact this link is the first time i've ever seen any indication that a publisher has tried taking active measures against people exporting content (as opposed to going after sci-hub itself)
Not a physicist, but I've been studying QM as a hobby for thirty years. The problem with superdeterminism (SD) is that if QM is true then SD is not falsifiable. SD says that all experimental outcomes are deterministic but derive from hidden state, i.e. some sort of "Cosmic Turing Machine" (CTM) calculating the digits of pi or something like that. So now what? The CTM has to be perpetually hidden from us, otherwise we could examine its state and predict the outcomes of quantum experiments, and that would violate QM. So if QM is true, then the CTM necessarily has the same ontological status as an Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU). In fact, the deterministic calculations underlying SD may well be carried out by a literal IPU. If QM is correct then there's no way to determine this, even in principle.
Would that be competition for IBM TrueNorth [0] (if made from some kind of rewriteable material to be able to reprogram it)?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNorth
Shrek (2001) – A Marxist analysis [video]
From the Aspect’s piece I linked to in another comment:

“Yet more foreign to the usual way of reasoning in physics is the “free-will loophole.” This is based on the idea that the choices of orientations we consider independent (because of relativistic causality) could in fact be correlated by an event in their common past. Since all events have a common past if we go back far enough in time—possibly to the big bang—any observed correlation could be justified by invoking such an explanation. Taken to its logical extreme, however, this argument implies that humans do not have free will, since two experimentalists, even separated by a great distance, could not be said to have independently chosen the settings of their measuring apparatuses. Upon being accused of metaphysics for his fundamental assumption that experimentalists have the liberty to freely choose their polarizer settings, Bell replied: “Disgrace indeed, to be caught in a metaphysical position! But it seems to me that in this matter I am just pursuing my profession of theoretical physics.” I would like to humbly join Bell and claim that, in rejecting such an ad hoc explanation that might be invoked for any observed correlation, “I am just pursuing my profession of experimental physics.”
Re-Living the Past Digitally
> Copyright is historically and pragmatically connected to several power struggles in society. The ones that come to mind are surveillance, free speech, personal control and freedoms (e.g. DRM), sharing and spread of information.

Isn't that just about gaining more power over people, not really a power straggle.
I was fortunate to learn a lot about organizational failure in my teenage years from it. Saves me from blindly trusting higher-ups as I'd otherwise have done.

I can recommend a bit of the game to learn politics, because it's relatively cheap to do that in the game (vs. in normal life, where it quickly affects your bottom line).
There was a response here (sadly since deleted), that said something to the effect,

>What makes you think this was designed as tracking system rather than anti-abuse feature?

Which goes to the crux of the problem: the way "online abuse" is defined presently, it enables platforms to introduce virtually any measures in the name of preventing abuse[1], and people gobble that up, heck, even cheer for it. "Think of the children" got an internet-era make-over, and it seems to be working.

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[1] off of the top of my head: requiring real names & verifying them via governmental ID; automatic take-downs upon automated requests from 3rd party; automated limiting of posts' reach based on language analysis; requiring posting under your own login; pervasive tracking that jeopardizes people under repressive governmetns.
We do not need nuclear for any of that.
This is interesting, but the readme doesn't say much about use cases. What is a big application that could benefit from this?
* mid-timbred

Although, apparently "timber" is a less common variant of timbre: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/timbre
Would be helpful with practical examples in code. As a self thought programmer I dont know what all concepts are called, but when I see code I can usually recognise them. The actor model as described in the article becomes less painful when you have an abstraction layer. The question might be are you going for horizontal scaling or vertical scaling, although you are best off implementing the simplest solution in order to avoid premature optimization (and overengineering).
Also, energy efficiency of the AC unit is very important... I halved my energy bill by switching to a new unit that is a lot more efficient.
I’ve always thought that a more reasonable model for academic publishing would be to disconnect the availability of the content from the peer review / “publishing”.

Couldn’t the PDF’s be hosted in the open, in a repository similar to arXiv, and then be “published”. Being published would then just basically mean that your paper gets tagged in the repository as “Published in Journal of X”, almost like a Twitter verification mark but more granular [0].

Some publishing fees would remain, and pay for the curation and costs associated with the peer review.

[0]: Of course the journal could still be compiled and published separately as well.
There was a period where Ubisoft was putting in a lot of effort in their games (Splinter Cell/Assassin's Creed are what I know) to justify every little piece of UI in-game. And not only that, they'd let you disable bit-by-bit to have the experience you wanted[0].

I don't know if they're still doing this. I haven't played an Assasin's Creed game since they made it an RPG in... Syndicate I think? And Splinter Cell, well... Maybe in 2023 or so if/when they release a new one.

[0]: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/StanislavCostiuc/20160303/26...
I mean they could just provide a link and a code and non-google accounts require the code... It should probably at least be an option.

I guess once you've shared those photos it's only trust that protects them anyway and in a group where you don't have full trust, you should assume that the photos are essentially public with only security by obscurity.

I mean the hash lengths and the blocking of people hitting random hashes is probably more significant and I imagine Google have considered it.
Startups fail all the time. Just say it didn't work out - you don't need to give all the details.
> What are the easier alternatives? Emailing maybe? But then you've moved the bits into someone else's account and they are there forever and can be forwarded anywhere. Maybe print a physical copy? Then that copy is around forever and can be handed to anyone else.

The problem is that it acts differently from and less transparently than a similar Google service for no apparent reason. You disagree with the offered solution that the behavior of Photos should match that of Drive, but do you agree there's a problem?
> Didn't physicists basically invent the internet to make collaboration easier?

You mean the Web? For the Internet, no they didn't. It was created by a US military organization.
The ancient romans had implivium, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impluvium, to do the same sort of job. The water in the pool would cool the surrounding air and air drawn in from the opening in the roof above would circulate it through the surrounding rooms.
95% of the global population lives at latitude less than 50 degrees.
I was confused about the intended use case but there's more information in the docs folder: https://github.com/microsoft/bistring/blob/master/docs/Intro...

Apparently it's for machine learning where you want to pick out a span/substring in the original text but your model can only accept normalized text (I am guessing for stuff like transforming out-of-vocabulary words into UNK/unknown tokens). This solves that problem by keeping track of the index mapping between the original text and transformed text.

(picking out spans is very common task in NLP, for example see the SQuAD dataset: https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/explore/v2.0/dev/...)
Author of the blog post here.

Cloud TPUs are designed to maximize performance-per-dollar, so you are right that pure performance comparisons at maximum scale don't tell the whole story.

The most straightforward performance-per-dollar comparisons would be among several different hardware configurations across the major public clouds. However, we haven't yet seen any other public cloud MLPerf submissions at scales comparable to Cloud TPU Pods, so there isn't currently a strong baseline available for comparison. It's also not clear whether public cloud networking will ultimately be able to match the performance of the network hardware that was used to produce the largest-scale on-premise MLPerf submissions.
> Copyright is first and foremost an attribution

are you sure about this?

It seems to me copyright as it is in common law countries is first and foremost about _controlling distribution_.
It's literally the right to make copies.

AFAIU, there is a difference from common law countries, for example.

E.g. in Italy an author cannot ever lose the status of author of a work, even if the the distribution rights are owned by someone else.
I don't expect 4K content to my phone over my VPN. (I've been able to get 1080p content across my VPN without problems.)

I'm measuring Plex on my LAN against Plex on my LAN. Some of my clients accept 4K streams with no problems. Other clients buffer an unwatchable amount even on 480p from the same server.

My purpose of bringing up Netflix was only to show that the client devices that are choking on 480p from Plex are capable of handling 4K streams.
Very well written article from a reputable firm.

Patrick O'Shag's podcast is pretty good too: http://investorfieldguide.com/podcast/

> One should not underestimate the role of regulation in how the Age of Technology plays out.

Yes. The US government needs to step in and enhance privacy and the right to be forgotten... following in the footsteps of our EU brothers.
Here's a graph showing the clustering mentioned in the article [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_flaccid_myelitis#/media/...
Agree with the existing reply, and I appreciate that the effort is significant for you. But it's also worth noting that everybody would have still gotten your meaning if you'd swapped that 'i' for a 'u'. In a technical document a subtlety like that is important; in a forum post, things can slide around a bit. I'm a native speaker and I'm sure I make mistakes like that. Certainly I do in speech.
> Sounds like everyone at UC is going to use SciHub now

Plenty of people already do.

It's much easier to use than any kind of library proxy service if you're not on campus, and it's also far more reliable. Even if you have access, sci-hub often has things that the library doesn't.
I used the generic 'time to move on' response. You don't owe anybody an explanation for anything.
True hermits are as rare as true Scotsmen.

It's fascinating how emotional people get over an individual pilfering a few supplies.
> I have had to publish in journals that are not open access

Why is that?
What I've seen in tech is that a patent is a straw asset to make the bean counters feel more comfortable. The value of non-capital-intensive tech companies is almost entirely ephemeral. Even for capital intensive ones most of the value is usually not in the physical capital but in the brand, ideas, collective employee knowledge, and customer relationships. A patent looks like a physical asset on the books so it makes accountants and investors sleep better even if it doesn't actually mean much of anything.

It'll probably fade away for the most part once a new generation that is comfortable with the dematerialization of value takes high leadership positions.

Copyright is a bit of a different beast as it covers a specific work, not an "idea."
Took me a minute to comprehend (that the substring bit is the whole point was not obvious, because all string operations in Python are non-destructive regardless) but this is exactly what I imagined given that note. Glad that thought lined up with reality
https://dotty.epfl.ch/blog/2019/06/11/16th-dotty-milestone-r...

implicit -> delegate for Y, given

https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/6649

https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/contextual/given-clause...
> I agree, that the tools and practices used today are crude and in many cases unfair,

Was this ever not like that? I'm pretty sure copyright was never even meant for people to have useful enforceable rights to protect their creations, it was always meant for corporations, i.e. the usual business of them pushing legislation to have more power and protection against competition for rich to get richer and all that.
Startups failing is nothing new, if anything it would probably be seen as a positive by most reasonable employers. Definitely leave out explanations as to exactly why; "it just didn't grow fast enough" should be enough.
I worked for a startup that went out of business. There is a whole of detail, but basically the last client canceled the project and they ran out of money. So I was laid off.

That is what I tell people. They understand that as companies run out of money all the time. The important thing is that in my experience people take it at face value.

What I don’t do is air the dirty laundry about how the company got into that position in the first place.

Maybe a few years down the line I’ll tell people about it over beers as we are exchanging war stories. However it is not some that you need to mention while looking for another job.
Through something called Unsupervised Learning[1].

Have you ever noticed something in the world, and then later someone gives it a name, and you immediately understand how to identify it?

For example, did you know the little plastic table in the middle of a pizza is called a "box tent"? Now you know its name, but you've noticed it before and understood what it was just by seeing it, and combining those experiences with a bunch of other real-world knowledge that you've accumulated.

Same thing for unsupervised learning.

edit: and to underline how that can be scary, remember that people are uploading tons of personal photos, and so google's neural networks can learn to identify anything in those photos, add them to knowledge about who those people are, who they talk to and say over email or hangouts/video chat, where they go every day with their phone, the things they read about on the internet, etc, and someday (when the algorithms further improve) end up with a more complete understanding of who that person is than even their family members can possibly know.

And they are a publicly-traded company, so they have a "fiduciary duty" to use all that knowledge for profit, and we can rest assured our "the internet is a series of tubes" legislators aren't going to come up with reasonable rules about all this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsupervised_learning
I don’t see the app on F-Droid – the listing on https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/32/index.html skips from “Microchip” to “Microphone”. I can’t find the app’s website or code by searching the web either – all I found was this C++ project from 2012: https://github.com/candycode/micromath.
FWIW, I started putting together mockups here: https://mocks.treespree.io/
She's a single mom who has a son.

It doesn't seem to me that she has an understanding of how much more picky females are than males when it comes to sexual selection. Her son needs to compete hard in his life, whether she likes it or not.
If everyone is on the list, then no one is on the list.
I have a lambda polling the sheet every 5 minutes and save that to S3. Cloudfront as CDN on top.
It doesn't have soundness.
People leave every state. How is that news ? The long time propaganda and perception has been that California has had a net population loss. But that is a myth, because domestic folks are being replaced by higher paid foreign workers. Even domestically, the people going out have a median wage of 50k, and those coming in have a median wage of $100k
I've had run ins with people like this. What worked for me in the past, was speaking sternly to them.

Once a place I worked, a homeless guy was running towards the building with a chair, ready to smash the window with it.

I stopped him, just by yelling "no, stop" and then when he asked if I wanted to fight him, I just said "no, but I'm going to call the police if you don't leave." he left.

The key is to establish dominance: you are telling them to stop, not asking.
The easy answer to your actual question is "job ended because company went bankrupt". It happens all the time. It doesn't reflect poorly on employees.

The longer answer is the nature of your post makes me think you might have some self work to do, which could be more helpful to your future prospects than the fairly simple issue you're asking about. I don't know you, but using the terms "psycho" vs especially "retard" to describe people in public makes me think you should think hard about your communications patterns and your internal mindset. And while being inside a failing company is stressful, to the outside world, it's not a big deal. Don't bring that negativity with you when you leave the company.
The question was "how does it feel?". Not a really useful or interesting question, but there it is, at the top, and for a lot of people here, the answer is "exactly like what you're doing".

> See what gross inconsistency is tolerated. I have heard some of my townsmen say, “I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico;—see if I would go”; and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute. The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards and sets at naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it differed one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment. Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.

-- Henry David Thoreau
The political and cultural role of universities has existed from the beginning, though it mostly serves to reinforce cultural hegemony, not challenge it. Universities are a part of that battleground though. John Stuart Mill commented on this in the 19th century:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x7u6a/on_the_...

For a recent example of this leaning the other direction, there is author T.J. Martinson being fired -- before he could begin teaching, from Olivet Nazarene University, over the contents of a book written outside his proffesorial duties, for including swearing, a lesbian protagonist, and a character choosing hope over prayer:

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-university-alle...

For a more substantive instance, there are the Lewis Powell memorandum and cooption of many university programmes (particularly economics departments) by right-wing libertarian ideologues:

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

https://time.com/4148838/koch-brothers-colleges-universities...
At least with most DOE-funded research, we're required to retain the copyright to the official "release" copy of papers. This allows us to redistribute the official paper ourselves.

Even if you don't retain the copyright to the camera-ready version of your paper, you can just redistribute a preprint version that is almost identical (on arXiv and/or your website).
Do you have any basis for your swipe against activists?

It's hard to trust your judgment when you freely admit to being ignorant of even the basic terminology of the field of study.
I really hope this ends up permanent, may will dust off my accounts if so. Don't think I'd like anyone currently playing mind you.
Seems to me that having the label gives you confidence that if you think you understand something then you are probably correct. You can then build on that to learn the next thing quicker.
Some more story co-op games to add: Guacamelee (co-op metroidvania), any of the Lego games, Trine
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, or snarky ones. That only makes this place worse. Instead, if you know more, please share some of what you know so we can all learn something. You're broadcasting to thousands of people when you post a comment like that, so your audience transcends the user you're replying to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's your job... publish or perish. It was especially true more than 5 years ago. Most academics have been working 20years or more.
In a world with 7 billion people, we have to find ways to make it make sense for some people to create content and some people to distribute it, etc. If people who are creative have no inherent right to control and benefit from their creations, they have inherent disincentive to actively refuse to add value to the system for others.

The system doesn't work if we can't solve such issues.

If you can come up with a better answer, awesome. (No, I don't accept "UBI" as a better answer.)
Maybe, but lightning only occurs in warm months. If you are going off grid anyway, wouldn't you want something that works year round like wind or solar?
Out of curiosity - did you ever work with neural networks? (as in - the algorithms, not the high level abstractions?)
Some of my clients accept 4K streams with no problems. Other clients buffer an unwatchable amount even on 480p from the same server.

Sampling all the way down to 480p is definitely odd behavior on a LAN--can't say I've run into that. Have you had much help from the usual spots? I'd be curious to help troubleshoot this sometime, sounds like an interesting nut to try cracking, or is it something inherent to the clients with the way they're decoding?
Node.js Implementation of the Elasticsearch Query DSL
Try this one: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2435...

I believe the old binary is there and you can revert using the same mechanism