skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a lot of ways to store energy, is the problem.

Consider the Hornsdale Power Reserve- the big set of Tesla batteries in Australia that everyone uses as an example of storage working. Very successful project. Storage for 129 MWh of energy.

Ontario's baseline need for energy, at the dead of night, is 11GW. This means you would need 85 of those facilities to handle just one hour where there's no wind (nor sunlight, given it's night time). In the winter, we have 15 hours of night per day in this province, so we need nearly 1300 of those facilities. And that's very dense energy storage.

Others have proposed pumped-water, which is actually a great fit given the number of dams we have, but is a problematic choice during times of drought when there's simply no water to pump (which are more and more common because of climate change). This is made worse when drought correlates with hot days when everyone wants to use their air conditioner.

To me, the ideal solution is a baseline of nuclear, along with solar + wind + batteries.
Sadly this is how most British rags are making money these days, with sponsored advertorials.
Ukrainian leaders feel trapped between warring Washington factions
Colonialism predates capitalism and feudalism. It's not caused by it.
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Uber and Lyft are vastly superior than the existing taxi system and better for everyone. It got rid of the medallian system that prevented many people from driving a cab and used technology to make it very convenient to find a ride at any time.

Good things won't last forever. The taxi cab unions are already fighting these companies back in many cities.

They kind of remind me of the record industry and file sharing in the 90s: fighting technology, so they can keep their outdated and expensive system in place.

Most unions are like this. As another example, they will fight automation and force companies to hire multiple, overpaid workers, for a job that can be done by a single person. This only holds companies back and puts them at a disadvantage.
Well, removing or not implementing such features because of security is always a big fat sign of something sneaky or even worse, outright incompetent going on. As such security risks of features can always be addressed through some sort of authorization mechanism.
Ding ding ding. Dedicated read replica and an ETL gets you to a point where queries don't bring down prod. If you have an analyst org running wild making bad decisions about data that they think says things it doesn't -- that's probably a good sign that it's time for a dedicated data engineering team, and potentially a BI flavored data science team as well.
Sure. But it could always return.
UPRN's are allocated by local authorities; Royal Mail uses UDPRN's (unique delivery point reference numbers).
I think that one advantage of sending humans is that we can gather data about how living in space affects human beings.

We know what zero-g is like from the ISS, but what about the moon with 1/3rd g? Etc

How do we deal with the radiation problem? Is there a way to tunnel underneath the surface of the moon? Etc
Linear or stack allocator are other common terms. Just a memory arena where an allocation is just a pointer bump and you free the whole buffer at once by returning the pointer to the start of the arena.
According to the poster, at some point during the purchase, they logged into their Verizon account.

I’m guessing that’s the trigger that caused this but I’m not sure.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/warning-iphone-upgrade-...
>Where are you coming up with this nonsense? Let's see the numbers.

Where do you think all the people working in Amazon gulags come from exactly. You think people work 12 hours shifts pissing in bottles because they enjoy it.

>Oh, well if you say so then.

It's like you're too stupid to use Google or something. Here you go little buddy:

>Here's another number that may surprise you – to be in the top half (50%) of all earners you need to earn more than $29,999.99 a year. The number of people earning less than $30,000 accounts for 48.06% of the population.

https://wallethacks.com/average-median-income-in-america/

here's another simple chart you might be able to comprehend https://i.redd.it/pg5w8ws3b0o31.jpg
This is rather misleading. The RTL8366 pictured in the tweet doesn't have an 8051 in it which is why it's absent from the datasheet. I don't see anything in this thread that contradicts this. The RTL8367 does have an 8051 in it, and it is covered in the datasheet. As near as I can tell this entire claim is based on reading a RTL8366 datasheet when the part in question was a RTL8367.

I'm not seeing anything nefarious here at all, the RTL8367 is designed for 'smart switches', the 8051 is there to run the webUI. In general, 8051s are _everywhere_, it's one of the most used IP cores in the world. I'd bet the average household has a a few dozen of them in various devises.

EDIT: Looking through some older tweets from the same author, I think the claim is based on pinout similarities between the RTL8366 and the RTL8367. My guess would be that these two parts are the same die and the RTL8366 parts are the ones where a defect was found in the CPU core which would be a likely source of manufacturing defects.
As someone who use pens with
0.38mm tips, most touch screens and graphics tablets I've come across simply don't have enough resolution to write comfortably. Reading this review made me go down a rabbit hole of various E-Ink tablets but it's becoming increasingly frustrating to find that literally none of them list the LPI of the touch screen. I can't even find any measurements on how big the nibs on the styluses are. Can anyone else who uses fine-tipped pens comment on the writing experience for this tablet?
40 yr anniversary
To give an idea of the balanced nature of the article, I've pulled
a few select quotes: "the peril of cloud-provider parasitism", "open-source code cobblers – Confluent, Elastic, MongoDB, Neo4J, and Redis Labs", "ward off predatory cloud titans".
This makes about as much sense as being intolerant to intolerance.

You’re free to privately believe that privacy shouldn’t exist. That is materially different from trying to eradicate privacy to cement state control over a populace — in an age where the State has almost immeasurably great power to track, monitor, and police its citizens.
I had the same problem. Was I trying to drag pieces the wrong way? I'm using a MacBook touchpad and not a mouse.
This was a really nice demo! It can even be used to understand concepts used in the HTML5 canvas, such as aliasing. Hell, it could possibly used as en entry to learning how to program ray tracers. At the bare bones, construction of complex bodies in POV-Ray was used by Constructive Solid Geometry hearkening back to the basic union, xor, intersection, etc, operations done in the demo, at least on a conceptual level.
Solving captchas to keep their rankly old bits flipping..
There's apparently one exception where it was used as the basis for a production system: https://github.com/liwenhaosuper/t6

Pretty interesting as it's still in use today: https://www.trustkernel.com/en/
> It comes with SSH running and you have the root password

Is the password different for every device? Is the ssh daemon updated regularly? Seems like a massive security vulnerability otherwise.
Kinda sounds like people going through trade school.
The US is only 15% of total emissions. Even if we had 0 emissions, countries like China and India would still be ruining the planet.

The problem is that many ideas for curbing climate change will destroy the economy and other countries will just use that to their advantage, not caring about it at all, only to seize power.

This is why the Paris Accords need to have punishments involved for countries that pollute the planet with excess CO2 emissions.
I use OCaml for my everyday development. The main thing OCaml really needs is modular implicits.
That’s a good point to expand on: I wasn’t thinking that everyone on every inch of the coast is rich but rather that those interests align. It’s usually politically risky to pass something which only benefits rich people than something which covers the entire state, which just happens to include that high-value property. When a relief or insurance measure is coming up, they’re just going to make sure it has no or generous limits and make sure that it goes through.

Similarly, tourism related businesses might not be plutocrat-level wealth but they tend to be well-represented politically because they’re visible and employ a fair number of people.
Well, I was talkig about literally "the brain". Even for language, you need a mouth attached to that.

My point is that having a brain is not enough to communicate - you also need some kind of transmission medium that connects you to other brains.

So even if you would agree to the opinion that any and all communication must be monitored (because terrorists), that would still no allow you to monitor the brain, because the brain itself is not what enables communication.

Monitoring a smartphone would be more justified because you legitimately need access to it to monitor an end-to-end-encrapted connection.

(My "devil's advocate" was to note that brains and smartphones are not equivalent, not that monitoring brains should be allowed. On the contrary, my point is that even if you were ok with monitoring smartphones, there are still arguments against monitoring brains.)
Australia?, why?, America planning to build off planetary prisons now?
Says who? I hold them long-term at it works out very well. The only problem is the volatility tax you have to pay. Formula for volatility tax is:

actual returns = return - var(r) / 2

If the S&P 500 has a Sharpe ratio of one and say, a 10% mean yearly return and 10% vol, we first need to turn it into single day returns and volatility (since these leveraged products rebalance daily) so we get:

S&P 500 Daily Returns = S&P 500 Daily Vol = 0.1 / sqrt(252) = .006299 or ~6 basis points

Before the volatility tax, thix means that our leveraged product should get 18 basis points of returns and volatility daily. In our annualized we get:

3x S&P 500 Annualized Returns = Annualized Vol = 29.99%

Now we factor in the volatility tax:

actual returns = .2999 - .2999^2 / 2 = 25.49%

Now comparing with actual market data: https://www.etf.com/UPRO#overview

PERFORMANCE [as of 09/19/19] 1 MONTH 3 MONTHS YTD 1 YEAR 3 YEARS 5 YEARS 10 YEARS
UPRO 12.19% 7.41% 64.68% 1.13% 34.64% 22.78% 31.97%

The annualized return of UPRO is 31.97%.

If we look at:
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...

We can see that the S&P 500 3x leveraged is an excellent investment on a non risk-adjusted basis. On a risk-adjusted basis it's worse, the S&P 500 in the example having a Sharpe ratio of 1 while the 3x S&P 500 having a Sharpe ratio of 0.8499. But since you can't eat risk adjusted returns and it's going to be difficult for retail investors to get significant leverage to actually invest in good risk-adjusted portfolios, the 3x daily levered S&P 500 is a fantastic investment.
Three.js implements their math this way.

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/src/math/Vect...

You can see most operations act on the Vector and there are some shared temporary variables that have been preallocated. If you look through some of the other parts you can see closures used to capture pre-allocated temporaries per function as well.
And before someone says “funding”—on a per passenger mile basis, Amtrak receives similar funding to the French rail system, and over three times as much as the private UK rail operators.
Echoing that. I was looking for several jobs as a senior dev. 15 years of work experience in corp. environments do not necessarily result in much GitHub activity -- I discarded every opening that required linking your private repo.
I was curious how much coherency would help, thinking perhaps it's just the postcode that goes in the barcode too.

Apparently they also use a field "Delivery Point Suffix"

"A postcode is not always sufficient to uniquely identify each delivery point in the UK – for example, in shared buildings.

Some postcodes relate to only one delivery point, while others may cover up to a hundred. The average is 15.

For that reason a Delivery Point Suffix (DPS) has been developed. The DPS is a two character code (a number and a letter) which enables each delivery point to be identified.

The DPS can be created by extracting the postcode together with the house number or name using Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF)."
Bald eagles have found themselves a new home: Suburbia
This reads like a teenager’s angsty speech, or the death-bed fever rantings of a socialist parasite.
I believe in Free Software, but I also believe if software is being used to turn a profit, there should be a cost to that.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 with the adaptive display on is just better than any book IMO. The lighting is always perfect, the text is clearer than paper.

I will be heart broke then I eventually have to replace it.
To do anything but read on it is a sin.

Reading on paper, I am just slower than reading on the S 8.4.

2560x1600 on such a small screen is what is needed to beat paper.
True for some recreational travel, but Northeast Corridor is still pretty good for business travel where it would mostly be competing with driving for the DC-Philly-NYC portion. It's comfortable, plenty of room to work even in coach, and you can easily rebook tickets if you need to reschedule.

Outside of the Northeast corridor, yeah it's pretty impractical compared to almost every other alternative.
A Blue Collar Slob’s Introduction to the Rare Oakland Manzanita [video]
Assuming OP is correct, I learned something new today. I knew running g++ on .c would produce different results based on differences in the language like sizeof('x') and differences in extern. A quick google didn't turn up any differences between warnings between g++ and gcc. I'll have to look into this.
No, what I'm describing is using a heat source to produce mechanical energy (step 1) and then use that mechanical energy to power a heat pump that works as you described (step 2).
The article seems a bit pessimistic to me. Ok we neither know how the brain stores information, nor are able to make a human level AI currently, both of which would have to happen before uploading was feasible but research is progressing rapidly on both fronts. Personally I'd expect it to be possible before the century is out.

There's already a YC startup working on the stuff https://nectome.com/ who seem to have had some ups and downs but it's early days. Here's the Daily Mail on Sam Altman signing up https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5503045/Tech-billio...
Like the review says this device is most useful for reading PDFs. Tablets aren't an option because 1) too heavy and 2) not enough battery life, whereas most e-book readers do a poor job displaying PDFs because they're too small. There's only a handful of large screen e-ink devices and this tablet is one of them.
I'm going to write a couple of things about the first point.

Several years ago, a knowledgable guy told me that the most compelling reason for choosing between PostgreSQL and MySQL was the expected I/O: "for read-intensive workloads (e.g. blogs), choose MySQL; for mixed workloads (e.g. forums), choose PostgreSQL".

But I honestly don't know if that may still be valid as of today.

Nowadays, I think that for basic things, it doesn't really matter; but for peculiar things, Postgres may have some advantages (both technically and not). Also keep in mind that, for some popular scopes, SQLite is likely everything you really need.
> And all this is in a context were fewer and fewer developers are interested in desktop development, and fewer and fewer companies are interested in investing in desktop development.

Which could make X11 the last linux/unix desktop thing. Anything new would have to come with the whole desktop paradigm shift.
Why worry? Facebook's Privacy Police says they value our privacy. And Neuralink's home page doesn't even have a Privacy Police. And Neuralink's paper [1] doesn't even mention the word privacy once.

My point is, we will never have privacy from tech because tech's most valuable field is ourselves. So we all respect others people privacy but we need to harvest every data point we can because otherwise what will we do, kernels and drivers?

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703801v3.full
Amtrak delays are terrible even on the northeast regional, which doesn’t share with freight rail.
They did a pretty good job shepherding it, although I'm still not too fond that the current trend is fueled by the Javascriptification of all the things.

Sadly, meanwhile "Standard" ML is languishing in academia...
Any support for Microsoft office apps (even if via third party)? docx, pptx and xlsx?
You should look into that. You definitely present that site like "i know what I'm doing and this is good information."
What evil can you imagine?

Dump trash or chemicals wherever it's most convenient, reduce product quality because of margins, read emails of dumb users who reuse their email-password for your social network site (Oh, wait a minute), work conditions that border on indentured servitude...

There's plenty of room at the bottom (as Feynman said in a completely different context).
They could have video surveillance of the package from delivery to being opened.
> You're claiming that the presence of cheap surveillance systems increase the occurrence of theft?

No, that’s not at all what I’m saying. I’m suggesting cheap surveillance systems might increase the reporting of theft to law enforcement.

Increased reports of a crime does not necessarily mean that crime has is being perpetrated more frequently.
I remember in the 90s IBM started packaging and selling Apache web server. Some of my colleagues thought this was bad. But I went to ApacheCon and they were totally cool with it. There was a good talk, I think by Jim Jajielski, explaining that the purpose of the Apache license is to allow this.

I don’t get these articles because it seems like “duh, that’s the point.” Either the press is stupid, or the companies are acting in bad faith, or the founders didn’t understand OSS, or something because cloud giants are doing nothing wrong. It’s permissible under the license of the named software.

It’s like complaining that Apple and Google sell phones with Unix stuff in there without licensing it. There’s no requirement to pay and no expectation.

Separately weird is that these cloud giants make tons of contributions to open source.
What will it matter? You'll still be dead. Will your machine likeness be anything like you, except in simulation? Or will it simply be an empty Chinese room, giving your loved ones a doll-shell to hold onto, like in a cruel Harry Harlow experiment?
The real reason is politics: Amtrak has never had the funding needed to provide decent service but if they ever talk about reducing service they’re going to hear about it from every member of Congress whose constituents use the affected service. If we invested in capacity building (as climate change says we need to) they might have enough traffic to support those routes, and if we formally dropped the political angle they’d just drop the unprofitable route. As with the USPS, this in-between status is forcing a lot of visible symptoms which people rarely look beyond.
I can imagine we could have a new kind of shell programs (process) communication via pipe. In stead of reading line, reading [cartesian]product (record). awk/sed/cut sort of doing column based processing already. We could try record as interchangeable data (don't make it hierarchy (e.g json)).
CIA Photo Taken Just Before Its Operatives First Entered Afghanistan After 9/11
A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe
Sometimes you get stuck in long conversations; sometimes the other person doesn't even know the answer; sometimes the other person can't even understand the question.
> What's the use of a nuclear weapon - a weapon strongest of them all, if the enemy know you will never use it?

The only reason to keep nuclear weapons is to keep other from using them. It’s called "mutually assured destruction" — "you nuke me, I nuke you" nobody wants that. I.e. the _reason_ to keep nukes is to never use them.

If only one side has nukes, then mutually assured destruction is not possible, and hence there is no safety against nuclear way.
Or people who never have to rely on it. My wife and I took Amtrak daily for two years between Wilmington and DC. It totally soured me in rail and government.
Caprica is actually a very good series, often forgotten in the shadow of Battlestar Galactica. But then it doesn't really feature cool spaceships. ;)
I'm originally from Australia, and I went back to visit family a few times while I was driving around Africa.

I would always say "Australia has had more Coups than the Congo", which gets some interesting reactions.

With seven Prime Ministers in ten years, it's no wonder Australia has done absolutely nothing in ten years.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
A postcode never refers to a single delivery point (i.e. address), except in some specific, rare cases.
95 percent of the world's oceans and 99 percent of the ocean floor are unexplored
I'm still waiting for the ability to quickly share my drawings/writings with others over the internet. Really wanted to use it in architecture/design meetings instead of wonky jamboard.
In principle this makes sense; where the line around “your thoughts” is drawn is much more difficult to define in practice.

What is a thought? Is it the words you hear inside your head as you think? The images? Do those even have a concrete biological representation? Are we just talking about patterns in neural signaling cascades? If so, I doubt that “thinking about a tree” looks the same from one person to the next. Which means that these patterns will have to be learned from training data (once the sensing technology exists).

Brains exist to decide to take actions. In the above case, companies with an interface to your brain will only “understand” your thoughts insofar as they map to actions you can take through their services, or “API”, so to speak. In that sense, It feels like we’ve already crossed this line.

Let me be more concrete: unless there were, say, a bomb manufacturer with a brain-API that you “trained” and used regularly, nobody will be able to decode that you think about bombs in your spare time.

Unless, of course, a (hypothetical) brain computer interface just translates your thoughts into “stream of consciousness” strings of words - but if that were the case, how does that add value over a speech-to-text google search?

TL;DR, if you’re worried about the thought police, look around you - we’re already there. Your “thoughts” are just the actions you decide to take using technology.
There are also apps for toddler books. If it's not about the price or usage scenario (pro tip: Don't give your electronic device to your toddler), there is still the overall feeling of a book. The comparison between a scrollable, zoomable digital map to a traditional atlas is the perfect example. For recreational purposes, I love the beautiful art and feeling of large and bulky picture books and atlases. Even a 12" IPad doesn't come close to that feeling.
Do you have a specific philosopher or type of philosophy that you think contributed most to the better control of your emotions?
> Where do you get that from? It seems incorrect

Personal experience. I've opened bank accounts online with credit unions. Never had to show them my ID, even when I went in person to withdraw cash.

If I was a third party reading these comments, I wouldn't trust a *.com website, but instead some law, or official govt website.

There's a lot of things in this word that "seem wrong" but are perfectly legal.