skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another tangential question I've been struggling with is: is there a human limit to a power density we'll tolerate? Any sufficiently powerful battery is a defect or bad actor away from becoming a weapon. We already see defects in lithium batteries shaping airline policy, and the devices we're talking about are peanuts if we want to enable all our sci-fi dreams.
They are trying to get in on the Trump ban of Chinese products before it is over, right after Trump is gone.
Duh.

Still good for them. Hopefully, being the world's next labor slave will lead to them gaining some more prosperity too. And not just getting stuck there, with nets being installed due to people jumping out of windows (aka Foxconn).
I think that is precisely what they are doing. I can run apps that worked on Windows 95 today in 2019 unmodified. Cocoa or not, I can’t do that with osx apps that are even 3-5 years old sometimes.

Microsoft and Linus have a specific fanatical attitude about the installed base of existing apps. Apple simply does not.
Oh, that's a bit scary. Both for use as a file format (in case of attacker supplied db file) and more general.

I see that even with "INTEGER" affinity, I can insert and read back text to columns :/

sqlite :memory:
CREATE TABLE test(
x INTEGER, y TEXT);
INSERT INTO test
VALUES("a", "b");
SELECT * FROM test;

a|b

https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
Yes, Haskell is worse with those "trivial automated" (due to worse tooling, nothing about the language prevents that), but imo better with those "hunting down compiler errors". And I take easier manual work on hard problems over trivial automation any time.

Java and Python are simply not languages that encourage (or even make possible) writing code that is easy under those changes. In Haskell you have immutability (if something is declared, that's its final value, so I can simply move it around), purity (code that is basically context independent), dumb data structures (no "enterprise boolean" with nontrivial internal state and ceremony to initialize), functional (no code attached to mutable data that may implicitly require data to be in special state), no nulls in flow control (that are invisible to a compiler, so yea good luck moving function around that expects no nulls), ergonomic creation of data/types (so you don't have strings/integers everywhere that are opaque to a compiler).

There is no contest, really. Maybe with some modern languages like Rust or TypeScript, but I haven't tried those.
In Germany, §130 ZPO mandates either a written copy (default) or as an exception a fax:
https://dejure.org/gesetze/ZPO/130.html

There are exceptions for lawyers who can also use the new "beA" online service but for the general public communications with courts is either postal or fax.
The question is: What will they do after, when Trump is gone, and his policiey on Chinese imports anf foreign workers are gone with him?

I hope they hurry. Now’s the time!
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I recommend reading "Origin of life. From nebula to cell" of Michail Nikitin. Not sure if it's translated from Russian, but the book is fresh and considers many modern theories in terms of chemistry.
If there is an increase you could probably attribute some of it to the increasing costs of re-spinning. The same bug that will have been fixed in previous generations may not be deemed bad enough today.
Can't disagree with your observations, except the map predicts MA will be near-peak on the 5th, hitting peak the week after and falling post-peak the week after that.
> outer side has helped my right wrist's tendonitis,

I don't have tendonitis, however last week I was typing with the top of the keyboard much lower than the bottom and there was a feeling of relief in my hands. Just putting this out there.
Interesting. How has your experience been with firebird?
Your argument goes as follows:

There has been bad statistics in some completely different case. This argument uses statistics. We can conclude that this argument is also bad.
>Facebook may have an advantage on KYC as it already knows it's clients through their facebook activity and so may be able to get the costs lower which could be a competitive advantage there.

What Facebook might know about someone is completely worthless when it comes to KYC. In the country I live there are even some government issued identity documents that won't cut it.
> These articles and their fascination with Japan. Just like the suicides and the sexless, herbivore men crap that is constantly making the rounds.

The other story that is constantly told is about Japan's ageing society, while very few stories are published about South Korea's situation (ageing more rapidly even if Japan has the lead) or the demographic situation in various eastern & southern European countries.

And the BBC is particularly guilty here. It produces generally very lazy foreign reporting.
Poker returns are not normally distributed, so you can't go from standard deviations to probability of it happening.
really? to me it looks like he's a crook after reading it.

> When Dr. Johnston and his colleagues first published the sugar study, they said that ILSI had no direct role in conducting the research other than providing funding, but later amended their disclosure statement in the Annals after The Associated Press obtained emails showing that ILSI had “reviewed” and “approved” the study’s protocol.
If Wolfram Alpha is right, then 10^11 km is 2 million times around the earth:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10%5E11km+%2F+earth+ci...

Shows the potential of batteries. Charge your one kilo batttery to drive around the planet two million times.
Deep red. There's a legend in the bottom right of the map, but on my laptop it partially cutoff.
Yeah, the absolute limit is c^2 if you've got 50-50 matter-antimatter. The efficiency however is brought down by the difficulty of _producing_ antimatter in the first place. A more popular hard-sci-fi concept is black hole engines; a 600kt black hole sprays out a hundred petawatts of Hawking radiation, and the fuel is whatever you've got lying around. That still has issues around energy _capture_, since the radiation is going to be ridiculously high-frequency. The best way I've heard of to dodge those issues is the 'Penrose process', where the fuel is the black hole's rotation and you get good ol' kinetic energy out. That can at most get you 20% of the mass-energy though, and there's a bunch more small print.
What is a plausible technical explanation for how he is cheating?

A phone in between your legs, though suspicious, is not enough evidence.

And who thought it was a good idea to put RFID in playing cards?
I'm not sure - but if you're in the MS world, you might want to just import that csv file into PowerBI?
You’ve just run into the classical “Prime Mover” paradox of infinite regression.
Would it be conclusive evidence if you saw him cheating with your own eyes?

If yes would you say that the chance of your being mistaken is higher or lower than one in 10^100s.

The widely shared preference for certain kinds of evidence over others has nothing to do with certainty and everything to do stubborn human biases.
Being able to call python code from SQL is super scary!
You vastly underestimate the size and diversity of India.
Their middle class is bigger than that of the USA or I think even that of the entire EU.

The can have a low rate on pretty much every statistic, while still having a higher total amount of it than us, simply due to.the sheer size of people. They could have an entire state, more modern, rich and with more people than Germany, while keeping their current statistics. No problem.

Also: Are you Indian (I think not), or what is your basis for the ”rootless“ statement. To us Germans, Americans appear rootless. But we are not competent to judge that!

Finally, things like this right here ARE how you get Indians out of poverty and illiteracy! Even if just via the resulting businesses lobbying for more education.
You’ll have to accept it either way.
At least in the medium-term future we would at most be able to use is Hydrogen->Helium which would yield 6.45 x 10^14 Joules [1] which is equivalent to 179 GWh which at 200Wh/km would be 8.95*10^8 km.

That's still enough to go 20.000 times around the globe and longer than any car is known to have lasted so far[2]

[1] https://www.phys.ksu.edu/personal/wysin/astro/review9/p4.htm...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_longevity
> For a non-rechargeable battery, I guess the limit is 1kg * c^2.

Assuming it is antimatter-based you can double that capacity by consuming air. But that just turns it into a fuel tank for an internal annihilation engine and hardly qualifies as battery anymore.
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I have a friend in Japan who used to own a small seafood restaurant. At the end of the day, before closing up shop, she would send a fax to her supplier at the local fish market with a list of things she needed for tomorrow. Take a printed form, circle the necessary ingredients, fax it. Got any additional notes? Just write it at the bottom. Only took a minute.

A modern solution for this use case would be a custom website or a mobile app. Now, even if you disregard for a moment the cost of developing/running/maintaining those things, the UX and reliability of paper and pencil for this use case is far superior to mucking around on your phone or PC.
He does not convey anything new and it almost feels like he is milking the limited fifteen minutes of limelight a bit much.....
Citing chronic drug shortages, however, the Federal Aviation Administration has granted airlines exemptions that permit passenger planes to fly without a complete medical kit if the airlines say they cannot replenish the drugs. The exemptions apply to international as well as domestic flights.

...

The medicines include two doses of epinephrine, one to treat severe allergic reactions and one to treat cardiac arrest; atropine, which is used to treat a slow heart rate; dextrose, to raise dangerously low blood sugar in people with diabetes; and lidocaine, to treat irregular heart rhythms but rarely used these days.
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Have you met the growth-twins? They go by Kensho and Satori
Most people aren't even aware that turning pages is a skill at all, let alone be impressed by it.
Simplest explanation would be an inside job.

The article says he worked for the casino as a consultant at some point in the past.

So he has a connection that works on the livestream production that has access to the RFID-provided hole card information in real-time (perhaps through a software backdoor?)

Then he has some kind of device attached somewhere on his body that receives some signal that tells him what other players have, sent to him by the insider setup.

This could be a BLE device connected to his phone that vibrates morse code or some other signal, etc..
They also gloss over the huge productivity killers that are sbt and scalac. Compile times are almost as bad as C++ where I work. Sbt will be "Done compiling." and then hang for 15-20 minutes.
I didn't. I got a job at a plastic factory making $9.55 an hour and worked there for 15 years. I had saved enough to start contributing to an IRA my first year there.
This is ridiculous. If Malaysia is on the verge of surpassing Portugal in per capita GDP why can’t India? They’re each “deeply colonial states”, neither of them having any real connection to pre-British states except as constituent units. More generally India has already done plenty to help its citizens. Even before the end of the License Raj, when the wannabe Fabians we’re running India you had massive improvements in health and education. Since the worst of the economic mismanagement was removed the Indian economy and the general populace's living standards have just shot up and continue to do so.
So now the government gets decide where you sell your products and how much you should make? Would you be okay if the government forced software producers to sell their software anywhere.

And when you have s commodity product - you must compete on price. That brings profits to mostly zero.
Use ANGLE and keep writing OpenGL. It has Metal and Vulkan backends and papers over all the various GL driver bugs.
This isn’t the case of a casino tagging cards without the players knowing it’s happening. RFID’d cards are used because these are publicly streamed games. To provide a high-quality experience for the viewer requires someone (or something, in the case of a piece of software) to know the table state to build display graphics and compute in-hand odds.

I haven’t seen a copy of the video and audio usage release form _Stones Live_ uses but I find it extremely unlikely a player would be unaware their game is being streamed.

A properly locked down network vastly reduces the potential for external actors using the game state information maliciously. It does not prevent insiders from abusing their legitimately granted credentials but that’s a separate consideration.
Could be this? https://grisha.org/blog/2013/05/29/sqlite-db-stored-in-a-red...
So can one of those guidelines be “we don’t advertise streaming services”? Who gets to set those guidelines? Do you want the government deciding everything that can and cannot be advertised?
The discussion here 4 days ago from a Nature article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21121064
Who are "we" and what client/projects are you working on? Are these changes new public XEPs that others can/will implement?
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So should your labor also be a commodity?
Lots of good things coming for the jdk. I'm extremely looking for project loom (fibers) to land.

I expect kotlin to fall off everywhere except android once loom and the rest of project amber land.
Oh no, my consumption figures are from the bill and they have been pretty stable for many years. They have just massively raised the fixed (subscription) and variable (cubic meter) prices.

Why I said I had no idea why, I meant "why the raise?"
Exactly, Japan's fertility rate is higher than Italy, Spain and Greece, at a comparable level to Germany. It is on the low end of things, but it's not really an outlier when compared to many other first world nations.
Do you have a link? It's easier to refute the specific claim, instead of using a generic claim that they are wrong.

In particular, note that one of the current guess is that the first barely living thing was based in RNA instead of DNA, so if they use DNA in the calculation it is probably wrong. (But nobody is sure. More info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world )

The first problem is that we don't know the exact chemical pathway, so it's difficult to estimate how hard they are.

This article in particular is about that, in some conditions (that are similar to a small pond that get desecated from time to time) it is posible to get the four bases of RNA. The probability of the reactions change with the concentration, metallic contamination, and with other molecules that are around, so this article gives a new calculation of one of the pathways.

It's only a small steps, it only creates the bases of the RNA but this method doesn't create the sugar part of the RNA or doesn't explain how they bind with the phosphate ions. There are known pathways, for this, but we probably don't know the scenario where these reactions are easiest. There are a lot of unknow steps, a lot of unknow unknow steps and perhaps unknow unknow unknow steps. I'm optimistic that this can be solved in 200 or 300 years, but it may be more difficult.

The main point is that you don't need a full functional bacteria as the first barely living thing. You need some crappy thing that can almost reproduce itself a little.

(Some guess is that the initial version was a family of similar things with a crappy copy system that produced a similar things instead of the same thing. But nobody is sure.)

I'm more skeptical of the claim of the clocks. If the clock is made of metal, most metal get oxidized very fast. We know this process very well so it's easy to calculate how long it will survive. One of the exceptions is gold, but it is too soft so it's easy to calculate how long it will survive. I can't imagine how the mainspring gets winded, but it's difficult to calculate the probability of such a device. Also it's difficult to calculate the probability to get the shape and interconnections. But the easy part is that it will get rusty and worn out in a short geological time.

The main problem is that a almost (or fully functional) watch doesn't create more almost (or fully functional) watches. So if a lucky watch is created by chance, you must wait approximately the same amount of time to get a second one.

Instead, a short RNA piece may have some enzymatic properties to make the production of copies easier, and may have some properties to be good as a mold for copying. The details are far from clear, but some RNA have enzymatic properties and RNA is good for getting copied. So RNA is a good candidate, but again, nobody is sure.

(DNA is good for getting copied, but it doesn't have enzymatic properties. Many proteins have enzymatic properties, but they are very difficult to copy.)
The only issue I can address is the absent minded: Write it down. I use a day planner. Each day is about half a normal sheet. It has a silly string to mark the current day. Each item I put a little box so I can check it off when done. At the bottom of each page I write things I know of ahead of time. e.g. [] attend webinar on SP. As the day goes on I write stuff on the top going down. Periodically (usually Friday) I review my week to make sure I did not miss anything. Also I use a different notebook for general notes from meetings etc.

I have found this helps with the anxiety of fear I forgot something. As an added bonus, when someone tries to task me, I have a list of other things I am trying to do, and I can understand if I can accept the task. Especially when its my boss and I can then reply 'is this new task more important than that task'
These two mentions...

TEACHER NOTES
Teachers! Did you use this instructable in your classroom?

...

The racquetball that my son was launching in the videos above was partially filled with water to bring it up to a regulation weight of 3 ounces. Water-filled racquetballs make fun projectiles.

I had wood shop in middle school. Imagine a shops teacher assigning this as a final project to his 8th grade students.
What does that have to do with whether or not a wiretap serves a reasonable purpose? Today, it would be incredibly easy for Apple to have encrypted voice calls as well.
> I am asking for the theoretical possibility.

That's a nonsense question then. Theoretical limits on power density will revolve around unobtanium and matter-anti-matter explosions; it's off topic as far as I'm concerned in a thread about Tesla acquiring a Canadian Battery Specialist, a company that is engineering batteries in the real world where practical limitations of materials science and chemistry are the ingredients, not your fantasy of what amount of energy one could theoretically store in a given volume if all of natures laws would be lifted. For reference, just the kinetic energy of a couple of liters of Neutron star alone should also figure into such discussions as well as a whole bunch of other nonsense.
An efficient (power density within factor of ~ 1e6 of the ideal mc^2 power source) EV battery doesn't need to be rechargeable, because the battery capacity will outlast the vehicle.

Approximately same goes for stuff we already know how to build, vehicle applications of nuclear batteries and reactors. Although IIRC for practical reasons nuclear refueling is done ever 10 years or so in terrestial applications.
Whatever baggage China had, France and Japan didn't, and they are criss-crossed with high speed rail. A flight from Paris to Marseille takes 1:20h and starts from $133 and a TGV takes 3:09 and starts from $35 [1]. I would take the train any time.

I personally take the train even if the comparison is not that clear cut. Recently I travelled with Acela from NYC to Boston for journey time of about 4h. The flight time would only be 1:05, but considering the security wait time and the airport to city center time, you'd probably end up around 3-4 hours depending on luck. Oh, and luck is what you don't want do depend if you can avoid it.

Unfortunately, Acela is an HSR only in name. But allow one to dream that Acela could run at 200mp (like the Shinkansen or TGV) and extended all the way to Miami. That would be about 6:15h travel time vs 3h for the flight time. Many, many people would take the train without blinking.

Not sure if we should start talking CO2 emissions, where I feel the airplanes don't stand a chance.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Marseille,+France/Paris,+Fra...
It depends on how easy it is to release the energy. A full petrol tank already contains a scary amount of energy, but you can't release it instantanously since it is bottlenecked by oxygen intake for combustion. Explosives bring their own compact oxidizer to get around that problem.

A chunk of uranium-238 contains a lot of energy but it is only fissionable but not fissile, so you need an external fast neutron source to extract that energy. Comparatively it is a fairly safe energy source for its density. Similarly there are some metastable nuclear isomers that can theoretically be stimulated to release their energy with high energy photons with a precise frequency and would otherwise release their energy relatively slowly through their natural decay modes.

And I think the difficulty of turning a hypothetical portable fusion power plant into an explosive device should be evident from the difficulties of keeping current experiments running for even a few minutes.
> It also doesn't look like a comfortable place for bikes. In fact, where are bikes even supposed to go on this street?

Another issue for cyclists is the permanent danger of getting your wheels in the rails, which means you are likely to either come to a sudden stop or, worse, come off your bike. There were experiments with "self-sealing" tram tracks that would lessen these risks, but no real solution exists quite yet, as far as I am aware.
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I use it as exactly this. I use a bespoke schema for a case where I need to move millions of small files around and be able to access them efficiently. It actually works out to be faster than filesystem access in my case, and so much easier than trying to manage tons of tiny files.

Recent versions of SQLite's CLI also has a "sqlar" mode [1] that lets you treat sqlite database files as an archive file. Unlike some other archive files, adding and removing files to an existing sqlar file is a first class operation, since it's just a database file. It's basically what I'm doing for my "ton of tiny files" case, just with a documented schema.

1 = https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html
Hmm, I've been around farm animals all my life, and if your criteria for not killing them is basic intelligence, many of them are well past that line. I'm not sure about 'intelligent as a 3 year old' as in many ways they're both smarter and dumber than that. But you can't hang around any of these animals and pretend they aren't clever.
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The godfather of a galatic algorithm is the known (!) algorithm that solves SAT in polytime.

However, its runtime is only guaranteed to be in polytime, if someone guarantees that P = NP.
Same here. I never had strong feelings about streaming services or TV, but a year ago or so I realized I was rarely watching Netflix much and cancelled my subscription. Other activities had implicitly filled in the time.