skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not be surprised if Megapacks are what will power the Megachargers for the forthcoming Tesla Semi. A simple-to-deploy solution for carriers that doesn’t require significant site prep. Inverter power output of 1.5MW would align very well with the stated charge rate and buffering 3MW of energy is probably sufficient for 2 full charges without requiring a massive and rapid draw on the grid.
I still don't understand. The last time they lost money was over 6 years ago...if they make money every quarter how can you say they're losing money?

Can you give me some hypotheticals with numbers to help me understand?
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I didn't claim emergency flight though, I said you can fly to Europe for less than $1800.

Also no wonder healthcare is so expensive in the US - you're actually arguing for it...
Well if this is based on old traditions indicating a gesture of financial commitments then we should expect more to be buying engagement rings now:

Apparently some women are earning more than men, why should I spend my hard earned cash to impress your friends family over a rock? Why not invest the money into something productive.

An idiotic tradition.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/googl...
You can always find debt for profitability in the energy markets, and this seems pretty low risk as energy investments go.
At 900° C, or about 20% of the temperature of the surface of the sun. I actually thought it would be higher!
The "just an app" critique is often repeated and makes no sense. The app is just the interface.
Apparently she used "erratic" as a pseudonym.

After reading through some of the complaint, it seems quite fitting.
Yes. And I get far more value out of the $100 a year Office subscription that is continuously updated than I did out of the pirated Word 5.1 that I kept for years past it’s prime.

It seems like a win/win. Microsoft gets more money from me and I get more value from Microsoft.
Spin-Seebeck device generates electricity from waste heat (2018)
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No subsidy, these are for private ambulances and a result of real competition.

Using an average wage in the US to be double of Europe I'd say $200 for an ambulance ride in the US is a reasonable price.

Also an ambulance ride is like 20-30mins tops and within a day there can easily be 4-5 calls in a larger city - that's more than enough to be profitable.
From what I understand, the system I saw had originally started with good standards. The first few small classes came out of the program fine, got internships and Junior positions at a variety of local firms.

Then had grew bigger groups, lowered the bar for students, increased prices, reduced scholarships, more focus on financing via loans, and then changed the curriculum in response to the requests of local industry.

On paper they all have reasonable explanations.

Bigger groups? Well we just have so many more people applying! After all, they evangelized the hell out of the program, getting both graduates and local well-known business leaders to speak about the wonders of the program.

Lowering the bar and offering loans? Well they're just opening it up to folks from non-traditional and more varied backgrounds. Don't want to be classist or whatever the hell else -ist! I'm self-taught, I sure didn't want to be one to pull the gate up behind me, and what's more I saw folks from non-traditional backgrounds do well. There is some validity to this.

Changing the curriculum in response to your local board of industry advisors? Great idea! The students will be even more likely to land roles afterwards because those doing the hiring are telling us what their actual needs are. Well what it turned into was a tale of too many cooks. You have an already small time frame with which to teach core material further reduced to satisfy an advisor. Teaching Java and Spring? Why not throw in some Android! Well we'd be in remiss to not touch on Scala, oh and Clojure too! Because they need exposure to other languages!

So now you have a three-month camp for someone that needs to learn Java basics of Spring, basics of their build tool, Gradle, so throw in some Grovvy, oh and basics of Hibernate... which means basics of databases. Oh, don't forget this is all being run on their shiny new MBPs so there's the whole systems administration jackassery. So why not then throw in a week of Android, another week of Scala and Clojure, when they barely understand syntax as a concept to further confuse them. So that's 12 weeks minus 4 weeks for the capstone gives you 8 weeks for all that I just listed, only 6 weeks for the core material.

As I write this out, I'm even more amazed at the folks who came out of that and landed anything. Thankfully for a few of my friends and colleagues the front-end courses were a bit more focused and seemed to produce more working candidates.

Sometimes a shyster comes along and hoodwinks people, sometimes you have incompetence, sometimes both. Either way it's the students left holding bag.
Well, on the bright side it's a woman in IT. If only she were being recognized for something good, not bad.
A cryptocurrency address in poster's profile would do the trick
Does anyone feel like this whole thing, including this top post, is just a carefully crafted advert to TikTok? It's no a YouBoob competitor at all! Maybe a Vine or Snap competitor.

You can't host the same type of content on there. Honestly people should just use PeerTube; either set up an instance or pay for a hosted one.
If you took ten seconds to look at the posted source note above, you would see Cloud Custodian has a policy to enforce bucket encryption.
I was there when C1 negotiated that deal with Amazon and they swore it couldn't happen but of course, we all know that's false.
To do that would require them to _become_ a power company in each jurisdiction that they wanted to do this in. Those markets are generally highly regulated - the amount of distraction & overhead this would create would be staggering, _immense_.

I think Tesla already has enough on it's plate.
I have a story about a well-known "best selling" author

Some years ago received a random package in the mail - turns out it was 40+ copies of this authors new book. Had no idea what to do with them so they just sat around, I never even read it

A few days later I notice some blogs running giveaways for the same book - figure they got deliveries of it as well. Go to a conference and in conversation find that a bunch of people also got the same package

I didn't put together until years later that this is all part of self-sales to boost best seller rankings.

Apparently if you know which book stores are surveyed by the NYTimes you can call them up and order a handful of copies of your own book and boost your own sales

It's no coincidence that this author heavily pitches themselves as a multiple-NYTimes best seller. It likely pays off because I have a good idea of what their appearance fee is and it's mid-5 figures+
The whole diamond ring thing is basically the result of a really effective advertising campaign. It's definitely dumb to get a diamond ring when you can get a much more beautiful, intricate ring for significantly cheaper.
>YouTube's problem is their allergy towards using humans. AI technology isn't advanced enough to replace empathy yet.

Not really a Youtube problem, but Google Problem. Google and Apple seems to operate at completely opposite end of spectrum. There is nothing Human about Google's Product and Services, even if they did try, it is as if it was designed by Data Mining and Algorithm. But it was fast, efficient, and instantaneous. Apple on the other hand is far too human, literally having a hand on every step of the process, which means it is very slow, and sometimes bureaucratic. But they do seems to care way beyond what a normal persona and other companies would do.
Saul said had a relative with forested land that he could cut sustainably to make up for the energy he couldn't quite get from rooftop solar of his SF home (if I recall correctly).
What's a man-made diamond?
> I think VLIW might have an opportunity for power-efficient compute.

Well, I think if such advantage is real, it leads to taking over the servers, HPC, and obviously, mobile.

I imagine some hybrid approach will wind in the end. I do expect transparent graph processors to come from VLIW with real time optimization done by software, OoO style. This combo feels unbeatable, but all the real problems hide in the details anyway.
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I think the words "Excellent comment" alone show the parent comment as truly an excellent one. I agree, upvotes for both!
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If your payload is tailored to be launched on one specific launcher - by mass, size, vibration characteristics, orbital inclinations available from the launch pad, etc. - that launch provider finds itself in a monopolistic position.

Often that's not a problem - space exploration started in close cooperation with military which don't have much choice anyway. However more and more the payloads are commercial, or non-profit, and customers could use some competition between launch providers - and, correspondingly, many launch providers would be glad to offer their services to traditional customers of their competitors.

Even more options are available to launch customers if they can split their payload into several smaller parts and use several smaller launchers instead of a single bigger one. Space payloads roughly falls into classes "humans", "expensive hardware" and "bulk materials (most often fuel)". There could be various options dividing a payload for a single mission into several launches. Manufacturing parts in space from material delivered from Earth is a variation of such an approach; assembling spacecraft on ISS by astronauts could be another. In all cases, there could be significant flexibility regarding the launchers used.
Equal but higher. Hospitals will be able to tacitly coordinate on prices once they are all public.
There are nice places to live that aren't on a postcard
> First of all most software developers have no idea what a quality software developer is until they see somebody who delivers 10x productivity and even then they still cannot typically extract what makes that one developer so much more productive. This blindness is often present in organizations that don't know how to hire or who value their subjective considerations over objective criteria.

I don't know that I even agree 10x productivity implies they are good. Or perhaps I should say I don't even know how one measures productivity?

I worked at a startup on the Android team. We had to implement the exact same stuff as the iOS team, and the iOS team was always ahead of us in terms of how close they were to the spec because there was this one guy who was insanely fast at implementing features.

However, I found out later that when we were really close to releasing, the iOS team actually struggled to get that last mile in because they took shortcuts which was how they were able to implement things so much faster. Consequently the Android app was actually able to ship first.

I don't think this is an uncommon thing either though.. Sometimes people make decisions which are terrible for long term sustainability but they get praised for their quick turnaround. The problem is that those people get rewarded and might not even be there when the problems eventually come back to haunt the team.
Not exactly the same problem, though, since once you dereferenced one pointer, you technically don't need its page anymore. So in a truly pathological case, your bar->next->next could be "page in the page for bar, move pointer to register, throw page away, page in the page for next, move pointer to register ...".

Whereas to me, it sounds like this polynomial evaluation instruction needed all the 21 pages within one (very "large") instruction, meaning you actually need to have those (again, pathological case) 21 different pages present at once?

EDIT: A sibling comment mentioned keeping partial state of (apparently) single instructions instead of fully restarting them. So that might be an option, too.
Certainly not joe shmoe polygraph examiners, but I was under the impression that the NSA examiners are sworn federal law enforcement officers.

Now that I say that, though, I can't find a reference to support this.
All it means people know that you voted. Party registration isn't destiny. Maryland has a ton of registered Democrats but Republican Governor Larry Hogan is pretty popular there. West Virginia has a lot of ancestral Democrats, but it's a far cry from being competitive at the presidential level, though Democratic Senator Joe Manchin manages to survive.
A lot of crime would go unsolved if people just kept their mouths shut. There's a human tendency to need to talk about things you've done, I guess, especially stuff that will get you "street cred".
Redis...
Desalinated water is expensive compared to "free" water. At current prices for desalinated water and for produce, you cannot profitably run a farm using desalinated water.

Currently, desalinated water is used in the US only in urban/suburban areas where homeowners are willing and able to pay a bit more than usual for their existing water use.
Wow, thank you!! :)
Perhaps medicine is a special sort of market where buyers shouldn't have to rely on negotiation to get a fair price.
A bit after the battle, but I suggest you should take a look a Daniel Ingram's _Mastering the Core Teaching of the Buddha_ (available more or less freely online, or through normal distributors).

He filled up pages after pages on how to balance one's practice and avoid pitfall like that. The guy is a bit controversial (which I personally embrace), but he sure wrote more than anyone else about all those issues and a lot more. As the subtitle indicates, it is quite the hardcore reference.
I posted it. Thanks :)
I mean besides issues like climate or geography I think cities like Chicago, Minneapolis or even college towns like Madison or Ann Arbor certainly offer a lot more than "a grey/beige house in a suburb" or "strip malls and big box stores." This is from someone who's lived in these places in the midwest as well as in San Francisco.
I hadn't heard about that acquisition. I hope it they don't stop Maxwell's offerings in supercapacitors.
I generally intentionally avoid running the program in my head because that requires too much context: I prefer to think about the change I want to make and the minimal set of preconditions that make the change valid.
It might just be you. I was able to find some info about her with Google pretty easily.
In terms of unit economics, UberX is still (mostly) sound -- the rider is paying a fare based roughly on time/distance, and the driver is paid a fare that's also based roughly on time/distance; it's very rare to see a rider paying less than what a driver gets paid. (Even after taking into account the various driver incentives.)

Where the unit economics get completely messed up is Uber Eats. In my local market (Wellington NZ) the eaters are paying a flat delivery fee of $5.99 to $7.99, while the drivers are being paid $5 per pickup and $1.35 per km. This results in drivers earning anywhere from $5 to $20 for each delivery -- and that's without even taking into account any driver promotions. No wonder Uber had to come up with an "excess driver incentives" line item!

Sometimes Eats will have the driver pick up two orders at the same time. This lets Uber collect two delivery fees from the customers while only paying the driver a single pickup fee plus the kms from restaurant to customer A to customer B. In theory this should work in Uber's favour. But their system all-too-frequently will make insane assignments, such as batching together two orders for customers that live in completely opposite directions. There will be situations where the customers have each paid, say, $7.99 for delivery... and the driver ends up earning $30 from the trip!

So this is cutting very deeply into the 35% commission that Uber charges restaurants on the total order value. They're trying to hide the insane unit economics of Eats by spreading the various revenues and costs around different line items...
For us, I think it's better to buy a PinePhone instead.
It's targeted to be $200.

Not as full-featured as Librem5 is, not as developmentally supported. But that's what the open source ecosystem is for, no?

[0] https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
> It looks like flow based programming is exactly the same thing as functional composition.

You can do flow based programming by composing functions, but - like I mentioned in my previous comment - it is possible to accomplish without any sort of functional programming at all (unless you consider Bash and Perl and C to be functional programming languages, of course!).

> Can you illustrate to me how these two concepts are disparate?

Say you have a connection between three elements in the flow, like so:

step1 -> step2 -> step3

Each of these steps could be defined functionally (assuming that the maps read lazily):

step1 = [stream of digits of pi]
step2 = map { _ * 2 }
step3 = map { _ / 2 }
flow = step3 step2 step1 # map [ map [3 1 4 ...] { _ * 2 } ] { _ / 2 }

Or they could be done procedurally:

step1 = while [read digit from digits of pi] { write [digit] to stdout }
step2 = while [read input from stdin] { write [input * 2] to stdout }
step3 = while [read input from stdin] { write [input / 2] to stdout }
flow = step1 | step2 | step3 # each digit -> digit * 2 -> digit / 2

With the pipe effectively defined as follows:

| = spawn left; spawn right; while [read input from left] { write input to right }

The key thing here, though, is that whether the underlying language is procedural or functional or whatever has very little relevance; what actually matters is that each of those steps can run concurrently, continuously listening for new inputs and sending new outputs. The functional approach does this by lazily reading values from a sequence. The procedural approach does this by more explicitly running the three loops concurrently (whether with preemptive processes/threads or via coroutines / green threads).

This all assumes there ain't any branches in that flow graph, though; it gets a lot harder to represent a branch flow graph through functional means (not impossible, but most functional languages that delve into this sort of thing typically use Erlang-style actors and message passing instead of trying to represent this directly with function composition), while in the procedural case it's just deciding which output stream to use.
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A diamond made in a laboratory
I’ve also read this book a couple times but sadly as a engineer in large and mature company I hardly find any opportunities to actually apply or strengthen the learning, then as time goes my learning just decays.

How are you tackling the issue? It’s not like that one can find distributed system projects easily.
Should the government have waited for another half a dozen “Enrons” before acting? The whole point of regulation is to avoid such occurrences not as an “I told you so”
The Tech Worker Resistance
Since Chinese hackers stole a huge cache of SF-86s, this is somewhat ironic.

If you omitted something incriminating from your SF-86, you are, perhaps, safer from blackmail.
> What is to prevent some future maintainer from breaking that requirement when they bolt on their change on any other codebase?

A bunch of stuff:

* A cultural expectation that you understand what the existing code does before you change it.

* Seeing the tests and documentation for the code when you're in there.

* Having to physically delete some existing code in order to remove functionality, which forces you to reckon with that choice.

I mean, the general thesis of the article is "here's a methodology that allows you to add stuff to a program without understanding what it does". And my claim is that that's bad goal in the first place because it means you can discard behavior users rely on without realizing it.
Tor node IPs are published, so you can just block that list. There's probably a way to detect them too, but I don't think an exit node can be secret.
Actually looks like she worked for Amazon on S3. So there might have been some insider knowledge. From the complaint below, and googling her name you can find her resume

I won't link it here, but here's a screenshot of a snippet: https://i.imgur.com/NezWVKw.png
Does this name have any significance other than what you said here and what they say in this article?
"they know the reimbursement for each procedure"

This is not true.

"There's a requirement to share how much a consumer needs to pay before procedures are done"

This is not true.
I once tried to add a feature to Windows (back in the sd days), and it was a nightmare. I was in the C&E org so it was a side project thing, and I eventually postponed it (but then left MS so never got it finished). I imagine it's gotten much better since then, in large part from the shift to git alone. It certainly was super impressive feat for the shear scale and longevity. I have a lot of respect for the folks who make that beast work. And there are bits of it that are brilliant. But it was an ugly beast.
Miss the LevelMoney folks...

Yeah AWS can’t protect you against a misconfigured environment
In the current media climate, the risks of recommending small channels probably aren't worth it. The moment something dodgy gets recommended and journalists get ahold of it, the loss of advertiser income site-wide costs both YouTube and other creators far more than they could ever get from better recommendations. The incentives are intentionally stacked against you.
I would add Flask too, I guess everyone on that realm of python learned the lesson from werkzeug, which after all these years some functions/classes still doesn't have docstrings and variable names are awful.
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Also, sensors was the first thing that came to mine.

Also some sensors read very fast, like in Linux "sensors -f" returns the CPU temperatures.
I once paid $1000 because my wife had to basically go to the ER for an antibiotic prescription. You know, when you already know you have a upper respiratory infection, but you required to see the doctor. They wouldn’t negotiate with me. So don’t rely on this in the future.
From whatever I read internally they are as oppressive as Iran but they are smarter in the sense that they are not as confrontational as Iran outwards.
I don't trust in the U.S. justice system to handle every crime and person as it should but for us, context is important: This person's Twitter is 0xA3A97B6C, y'all can go there and get a better picture of the situation.
https://github.com/achael/eht-imaging

This python code is responsible for the fairly recent imaging of the black-hole (i.e. imaging, analysis, and simulation software for radio interferometry).

It's extremely easy to digest despite the complexity involved.
The Earliest Farmers Were Also Sailors
It’s just a demo app, but I find the ClojureScript re-frame implementation of the real world app to be the cleanest of the bunch: https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld/blob/master/README....
I hope that other companies will start producing similar solutions instead. We can't rely on just one company to provide essential infrastructure worldwide. Those cells will need replacing in a few years and if there's still monopoly we may have series issues. It makes for a great history book material, but I like my utilities predictable and boring.
But I still agree with your point though, I don't call 2% market share booming. Not to mention the amount of incentives involves in pushing these numbers.

Battery and Charging point is still the biggest issue in most places around the world.
I agree with both of you, cheekily. I genuinely can’t wait for Toyota to do a full BEV. I realize they say mainstream BEVs are a pipe dream still, but I think it’ll happen eventually.