skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was mostly a failure of human psychology. The over-regulation was simply a manifestation of that - democracy working perfectly.

Blunder 1: war. We dropped a nuclear bomb before we ever made a nuclear power plant. Nuclear became inextricably linked with sickness and death instead of power and prosperity.

Blunder 2: broken heuristic risk assessment. Radiation is scary because it's "spooky" - it's undetectable, and it kills you in a nasty, body-horror kind of way - a long time after exposure. (Although many environmental toxins also fit this bill and aren't so "spooky", so I'm not sure what's going on there). Fossil fuels just aren't "spooky" in the same way, even though the numbers show them as far more dangerous. Chernobyl is enough to put people off nuclear entirely, but even a hundred Chernobyls would not be as bad as the environmental damage wrought by the carbon industry. A bold claim? We're in the middle of a global mass extinction. A hundred Chernobyls wouldn't be a blip in Earth's biodiversity. Even Chernobyl itself is practically a wildlife sanctuary now.

Blunder 3: Status quo bias. Sure, fossil fuels are terrible in many ways. But better the devil you know!
Teslas do this just running off of the battery pack. In my experience it doesn't use a ton of power to do it.

A solar panel to make it net neutral energy to keep cool would still be nice.
In fairness the latency of an amplifier with no filtering is less than 10 microseconds. Coherency between the amplified and unamplified signal is preserved. I’ve done some personal work on custom IEMs with ANC and the lowest latency controller I could find was the teensy. Even in the fastest round trip time you would be adding 5-10 ms of latency. Speed of sound / 16 kHz = 2 cm. A whole cycle at 2cm. If you want coherent wavefronts then low latency is essential. If the latency is fixed and less than the distance between the speaker and the eardrum (very short) then you can do some DSP tricks to fix up destructive interference.
I'm late to the party. But let me offer first the finite-differences linear equation

A[n]=A[n-1]*k

For A[0] = 1, the solution is the sequence

1, k, k^2, k^3, k^4, k^5, k^6....

If we let k be the complex number i, this becomes

1, i, -1, -i, 1, i, -1, -i, 1...

As you can see, the introduction of imaginary parts extends the original idea of powers-of-k (which if real go exponentially to infinity if k>1 and to 0 if k<1) to an alternating oscillatory pattern both in the real parts

1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, 1

and the imaginary parts. What you're seeing there is almost the celebrated relationship between imaginary exponentials and sine functions.

Now: that was the finite-differences linear equation. If instead we take the differential linear equation

f'(x) = kf(x)

we get the exponential function. Again, if k=i, you get oscillatory behavior.
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Problem isn't designs, problem is generating power, without subsidies, at a rate competitive with renewables. (Particularly, wind.)

Point is, the problem is financial, not technical. Nuclear, any nuclear design, is just expensive. As opposed to the bunches of a thousand windmills that T Boone Pickens wanted to slap up on whim in place after place. Those windmills start generating revenue a month later. It's just hard to compete with that. Which would you put your money into if you were the greedy energy investor?
What a madman. Cats > birds.
People were told the EU was the cause of all their problems, obviously it's not.

Migration is one of the bigger issues, but it's not the EU that waved the limits on migration in the early 2000s when Poland and the other eastern European countries joined, that was New Labour.

It's not the EU that fails to enforce the rules that are available to remove EU migrants. All you hear about in the press are the occasions where some regulation stopped a person being deported (likely for a good reason).

Brexit is a combination of nationalist propaganda and a scapegoat for the Tories and New Labour to blame the inequality they created on someone other than themselves.

It's sad that so many of the people that will loose the most from Brexit (should it happen) fail to see this.
It's far more efficient to share resources then to buy. That is why Uber makes sense. If you own your own car, it might get used on average 40 minutes per day. With Uber that resource is used at least 10 hours each day.

By the way, I think baby boomers are the worst generation in history. They're incredibly selfish and have caused huge externalities (climate change, national debt, global destabilization). The greed of the baby boomers has meant that the average standard of living and income has dropped for those coming behind them. We should eliminate benefits these people voted for themselves including Social Security and Medicare. No one else will get them later.
Perhaps each new plate issued should include the state abbreviation in one of the corners (such as CA for California)
I've never had to do that. Maybe because I live in the U.S.
I've never heard an American refer to nuclear power as "nukes". This wording is pure clickbait.
Anyone can build the appearance of a successful company by taking out a lot of debt and burning it slowly. Most people are hating because it doesn’t seem sustainable.
Writing an emulator was on my list of “wizardly things beyond my reach” (along with compilers), but I highly recommend burning down that list.

While creating a complete and shareable emulator is a big undertaking, making a simple one for fun is surprisingly not too bad. You start with the CPU emulation, and there are tons of comprehensive tests, so you just fix those until you’re done.

You should expect to do a lot of reading though, and you’ll become very familiar with how the system you’re emulating works :-)
Yes. Rather famously, the US tested this with a jet smashed directly into a concrete wall, resulting in the video in this article about it. https://interestingengineering.com/crashed-jet-nuclear-react...
How are you using LDAC with a computer? Windows and macOS don't support it, there's some fork of pulseaudio that has it for Linux but I never figured out how to get that working.
It's not rape. and the legalities of things like breaking a condom, lying about skipping contraception, lying about who 's the father etc ... are very complicated
That's why you should self-fit. It's absolutely possible - check my comment below for details.
> The top income earners pay a majority of the income taxes. The lower income earners pay a much smaller part of the taxes.

This is a technically true but extremely disingenuous and misleading argument, which is probably why I hear talking heads on Fox use it all the time.

Imagine the world consisted of a flat income tax, one multi-trillionaire and 8 billion people living on a dollar a day. That person would probably be paying the vast majority of income taxes, yet this is clearly not an equitable system and it would be absurd to suggest that person is somehow being wronged.

Note also that if the incomes of top earners increase while everyone else's remains stagnant (which is what has been happening since the 1970's), then mathematically the share of total income tax paid by them must increase. Again, it is ridiculous to claim that this is evidence that they are being treated unfairly. Not increasing the top marginal tax rate in this case would be a regressive tax pretty much by definition.
One nice speed improvement for linking C++ (and I imagine C as well) with GCC and Clang is -gsplit-dwarf which does not link debug information but instead only references the original object files.

This of course only makes sense for development where the object files are still available for GDB to load the debug symbols from but it is a nice feature.

The MSVC linker has /DEBUG:FASTLINK as well.
Peek

e: oh no, I've been using peek and peak wrong my whole life...
> Something with "hundreds of tiny feet" either has to slide or "walk."

IIRC the Neal Stephenson version was tiny feet mounted on wheels - not walking or sliding but rolling. But better than rubber pneumatics at evening out curbs or other obstacles.
I made a rendition of this in Factorio, though it doesn't simulate the individual marbles like this does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgnJ_5y5uhM
The fact that homes appreciate and value is a bug in our system. If we allowed homes to be built freely and with less regulation, then old homes that actually decline in value compared to new homes.
> What you're talking about is basically a surveillance based internal border. It can work that way for people if you have massive levels of internal surveillance (otherwise how do you think the government can catch employers of illegals with any efficiency)

What you're talking about is called law enforcement and it has existed in this country for a long time. Until you clarify your point (what are "massive levels of internal surveillance"?) and justify it (why isn't the current investigative toolbox enough?), this is nothing but FUD, and ridiculous FUD at that.

> it doesn't do much for goods or people who cross the border without wanting to get a job, like gang members, dealers etc.

To the extent that this is actually a real problem, why do you think these people are crossing the border? Are they just coming up here because they feel like it, or are they responding to some kind of demand?
Has anyone found that recently Google search is becoming more and more useless?

Google tends to ignore what I actually type in, and tries to search according to some weird NLP machine learning inference on what it thinks I'm actually trying to ask.

Top results will include maybe 50-75% of the words I actually typed in, and it will treat the rest as mere hints or related words.

My queries end up looking like this after several tries and fails:

"something" "another phrase" "also" "this"

If I type the whole phrase without quotes I just get a bunch of ads, blog spam, and irrelevant stuff that is pretending to be useful.

Hell, most dev-related queries will return shallow medium-style blog articles instead of SO / Github.
Self fitting is definitely an option - check out this link:
https://forum.hearingtracker.com/c/hearing-aid-self-fitting-...

Alternatively, let me know and I can walk you through the process.
Yeah 100%. I'm in my second job out of school working at a big bank in tech. It's mindnumbingly uninteresting to me. And I also don't think it does anything to help society. Though sometimes the technical problems fit the bill of being interesting, it doesn't come close to filling the gap.
The investigation was only closed because it was believed that he'd be holed up in that embassy for the rest of his life and there was no realistic possibility he would be brought to court. As soon as he wasn't holed up there anymore, the investigation was reopened.

The accusers never withdrew the charges.

And putting the word rape in quotes really isn't a good look.
Obviously an old person sick of dogs. Probably mixed up pigeon shit into bacon grease and left it out.
We live in an abundance of want, we work to fulfil these pointless desires, but our basic needs (shelter, water, food) we keep limited in order to control people. Our basic needs come from the land which has not increased, genetic modification promises abundance of food but in reality has only been used to copyright and control food production.

> The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance.

Do dogs think of their masters in this way? We know what happens to dogs that don't want to live out of their masters hand, they are put down. Will the same thing happen to humans without masters?
That trait is common, possibly ubiquitous. I think that wealth may be the more important discriminator here. Without it, a man might find it difficult to attract a woman half his age late in life.
This is pretty cool as a trompe l'oiel, but it's just plain dangerous to put deceptive markings on a roadway.

The should have called the project "let's train our drivers to ignore raised obstacles on the road".
>It seems like the situation is exactly the opposite. Heidegger was considered a leading throughout the 20th century and it is only in the last few years that the intensity of his NAZI affiliations has become evident (as well as the degree to which he mix philosophy and politics), leaving his philosophy much more suspect.

Nope. His Nazi affiliations were very well known before, during, and after the war, and very widely talked and written about.

He was still one of the most celebrated thinkers in the post-war Europe, including by intellectuals of jewish ethnicity (intellectuals of course tend to know better how to draw a distinction between the person and their work, they're not little children).

And most of those celebrating him, had also touched upon the issue of nazi affiliations, so it's not like they celebrated him hiding those...

The so-called "black notebooks" didn't reveal anything unknown about his collaboration or thoughts, they just got published in much more touchy-feely era, with far less philosophers that had actually lived through those eras alive, and so the scandal was mostly a media one...
Google Leaks
Why so many pixel4 leaks and no effective countermeasures? it's just their game?
And posts like this are exactly why women are uncomfortable and unwelcome in tech spaces.

Violation of consent is rape, period.
I wonder if UK citizens can frustrate this data collection by overwhelming it with junk requests. E.g. search for a random dictionary word, click on some of the results, clear cookies, repeat. We'd need some sort of browser plugin to automate it.
I completely disagree. You believe skepticism is just as bad as blind trust?
> What it cannot do is faithfully reproduce natural sound in a way that is subjectively satisfying and moving and true.

Gahhh. This just makes me want to cry.

Look, sonney-me-lad, you might want an analogue amp in your ear, that has a terrible frequency response, is prone to feedback and will most likely destroy what frequency range you have left, but lets not blame this as a technical problem. (don't start me on battery life)

You like the "warm" sound of "analogue". Hand in hand with this claim, is that somehow one can have the ability to tell digital recorded sound from analogue. As an ex recording engineer, I can tell you, you're full of crap. I could[+] make a very convincing "analogue" sound using a mackie D8b digital desk and 24 track digital recorder.

I can tell you now, that if I played a cd, housed it in a box that looked like it had tube on it, then attached a record player, Piped it into a decent amp with some NS-10s. It would sound great. To convince you of course I'd need to clip off the top frequencies, (8k+) add some clicks and hiss (raise the noisefloor) you'd then be espousing the wonders of its "warm analogue sound".

Why have digital hearing aids concurred the world? because they are better. One can steer the microphones, they use less power, the frequency response is trivially tuned to your hearing range, there are limiters in there to stop damage, The speaker can be calibrated, as can the microphone.

you can add a directional handheld mic so you can point it at people so you can hear them talking. You can add background noise reduction trivially.

All of this can't be done with frankly shitty analogue hearing aids.

Don't fuck up other people's lives with your nonsense.
I see the same behavior. I think it's time to assemble a list of examples.
Well, dogs are proper carnivores who can eat raw meat or fish stored at room temperature for days, without any problems.

If they come across enough food, they will eat until they puke, sleep for an hour, then eat their own vomit.

It's no controversial statement that dogs and humans have different preferences in food.
Binary view? Hate? what are you speaking about? I am just pointing to you the fact that you are mixing current politics with a principle of law and order which derived from any civilization. The conclusions you extract from it are all yours.

You should listen Palmer's interview in the podcast someone suggested in this entry. There is no humanity in the security arc or control of any airport, or in the form of any bureau and, even if there is a lot of margin for improvement, and there are methods effective than others, I do not believe that by denying these "control elements" their role and purpose will just fade away as if the civilization never needed them in the first place.

As soon as you recognize we need to have these controls in place, why not make them more effective? The humanity towards infractors of a bureaucratic process is regulated in a separate term, and it should not be left to a physical exam to the ones who can skip a control. And regarding humanity, these methods do not imply the judgement of a human person on individuals, it just will multiply the effectiveness.

As said I did not want to get into the current political discussions on the topic, just to remark that these things exist because they are necessary and negating them is negating the reality of the world.
If I want to get feedback from people I work with I don't think I should have to go through my manager to get it. 360 feedback isn't a good system for performance reviews and the feedback should be for the employee's eyes only.

That's why I built 360 Degree Feedback Pro. It lets you get feedback on your own terms without having to involve your manager or HR.
I think there is a fine line a lot of major companies have to go through to ensure they are not inadvertently doing fiscal fraud (and other types of fraud) while maximizing their main goal, which tends to be profit maximization. If the government punishes too hardly, individuals and corporations are more likely to shy away from that market due to increase in operations cost (E.g. More lawyers + accountants) and implicit risks. Customers would also move away from those products and services if the cost became too high.

Part of the governments job is to ensure that they react to potential loopholes faster, decreasing the competitive advantage that a non-conforming organization may have. A harsher punishment may even put some companies out of business, impacting unemployment rates, supply chains, medium-long term government revenue and the services they provide.

How would you go about increasing the punishment while considering the possibility that the corporation inadvertently did that? Would you punish larger companies more harshly? How would that impact the market place?
As I understand it, colorimeter expect the display to output a particular colour or shade and measure it precisely. You probably couldn't run colorimeter software on a GBA, but you could write homebrew that let the user manually cycle to the correct patterns at the right times.

Some issues would be:

- There's at least three models of GBA display: the original front-lit display, the GBA SP back/front-lit display, and the later GBA SP backlit-only display, and they probably all have different profiles

- It's probably not possible to use a colorimeter on the original front-lit GBA display, because with a colorimeter clamped on top of it, it would always look black

- Colour-correction software that works with ICC profiles is typically built for print/still image work, so it expects a single high-resolution image with high-precision output, not a 60fps stream of very-low-resolution images. Maybe it's fast enough to run in real-time, who knows?
No, and I generally agree with the sentiment that poor UX is bad for the user.

I just disagree with users pushing their palate onto others. That's not how it should work.
Because we're restricted to O(1) extra space by the problem statement, regardless of the number of cards we're picking. We could be picking all 2^64, but definitely don't want the constant in O(1) to be 2^64!
The science of decision making: why smart people do dumb things
You can trust it's label when it says it's capable of 5G (or at least you can as much as you could before USB4). It's possible that it will perform better, but unless you have a use case where it needs to be slow I'm not sure why this erodes trust.
It'll also pretty quickly become useless except to people who're experiencing it for the first time.. and for them it'll just be a terrifying surprise

And now you'll get surprising behavior from random cars, and normal behavior otherwise, which is probably more dangerous than whatever speeding was occurring in the first place
Infinite Missiles: A Missle Defender Game in 13kb of JavaScript
So that shows fares bring in about $150 million a year. Spread that across the 2 million people living in King County and that's $75 a year for free transit. I feel like that would be a pretty easy sell (considering at $3.25/day for transit you already top that in 30 days regularly) -- especially considering ST3 passed and increased taxes by $300 per year per taxpayer.

Edit: Even if you ride the bus only 20 times a year this saves you money. Not to mention it would likely increase usage and stop delays.
Because in the real world the consequences of your actions aren’t confined to yourself.

Reckless behavior increases the impact on anyone involved in an accident with you, mentally impacts anyone that might see your brains splatter, increases insurance premiums, uses hospital resources, etc.
That code doesn't work as written (there is an off-by-one error in the first iteration of the loop). But the intended algorithm (starting at the end of the list, swap each element with a random predecessor) doesn't produce a uniform distribution anyway; for instance it will never produce an output where the last element is unchanged.
Well this is good news that the probe finished rather early and the fine amount will go into the state coffers. It also sets a very good precedent so this seems to me lile an absolute win.
How would one go about making a Twilio like product?
Hello,

I have some ideas about an sms service, the would losely be like Twilio. I would need to get access to SMS messages from the user. Of course, this would require some sort of LOA, SMS Gateway, etc. I am wondering if anybody could explain the steps I would need to go through to get authorized to preform such steps, and if its even feasible. If it's totally out of question, does anyone have experience with using Twilio's LOA to grant access to user's SMS lines? Sorry if any of this is wrong or vague, not too familiar with the space.

In summary, if someone today were to start a product like Twilio, how would one go about it?

Thanks!
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Thanks, I've made a note on my phone which reads 'Let things burn', to review frequently. My employer refuses to set up an on-call rotation, probably to save money, but they will and frequently do call you 24/7 expect you to work immediately, for no additional compensation. This after a week of constant task switching plus a 3 hour total daily commute is just too much to sustain.

I still need to figure out how to deal with the frequent 'can you work next Saturday and Sunday?' with a thank you as payment.
Hacker's Manifesto (1986)
Wasn't the conclusion that his fear response is greatly attenuated?

http://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-wor...
Pique.
> It is fundamental to the purpose of a web browser that it should prioritize the wishes of the end user over those of the server.

No it isn't. It's fundamental to your preference. Your preference doesn't supersede others'. Don't use a website if you don't like it.
You comment is toxic but from a technical aspect, really cool. I choose to overlook it.
I think there are plenty of people who are trying to get their loved ones to quit smoking.