skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he had read the article that he linked to, he’d see that duane’s hypothesis is a special case that can be derived from quantum mechanics.

I don’t believe that you can derive the rest of quantum mechanics from duane’s hypothesis.
In government funding you ask that they set the money aside for your specific use. So it’s better to get that set aside for as far out as possible so you don’t have to go back to congress every year and risk political machinations. The 12 year funding is likely a 6 year contract with two optional 3 year renewals or one 6 year optional renewal. There may also be a way to move that money into a new program in 6 years more easily than if you had to go back to congress for a totally new budget.
They will almost certainly build entirely new regions that are air gapped and just for them. AWS already has 2 air gapped regions for the sole use of the US government.
It's not going to cost 34k to install solar panels on his roof. Tesla's claim seems disengenous at best.
I've had mine public for years. The spam filters at Fastmail are good enough that it's not an issue.
The wave/particle duality notion isn't really meant to hold an accurate deep insight into QM, it's just meant to inform intuitions, and sorta communicate it to laypeople.
Last I heard from PSEG, anyone who produces extra energy is just given a credit towards their next bill, there is no redeemable cash value. Not bad though :)
This is the usual bullshit. There is some interesting stuff to be gleaned by comparing the carbon footprint of the whole manufacturing cycle of ICE vs EVs, but they seem to often leave out the global petrochemical industry infrastructure from those sorts of things.

And these people keep going on about coal, forgetting that its pretty easy for consumers to switch to renewable-only electricity suppliers should they wish to* . If you've got an EV, that makes zero-emissions travel possible. If you dont have an EV, that isn't possible. Its as simple as that.

Would like to know who's paying this guy. * *

* Certainly in the UK its trivial to switch to 100% renewable electricity, and I'm told its similarly possible in the states.

* * Oh right he works for Cottonwood Venture Partners who sell IT stuff to the oil and gas industry. Source: https://www.city-journal.org/contributor/mark-p-mills_255 https://www.cottonwoodvp.com/index.html/#portfolio
Funny, I have almost the same https://yabs.io which replaces good old delicious.
My First Time Playing Minecraft, Ever: Testing the Ray Tracing Beta
Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
I've been using fish as my default shell for a long time and recently started using it with https://starship.rs/, which adds some niceties to the prompt without having to go overboard with customizing and configuring your shell.
This is "easy" to solve!

Come up with a really good UI concept, implement it, and see everybody love it.

Avoid patenting it through the nose, and let everyone copy most of it. This is how it will become the standard and win the world adoption.

It seems like you'd need millions of R&D budget spent in a large part for public good, or at least to seriously change the market landscape without a guarantee you'll dominate it.
Democracy in its current form is bound to fail - The greek inventors specifically warned of exactly our brand of democracy.
EEVBlog would like to have a word with you-- are these systems efficient? There are concerns about cleaning, repair, and angle of insolation compared to traditional panels.
The first pros I can imagine is, of course, size. Integer values will store much less space on a hard drive than any string (4 bytes against 8 bytes per symbol for varchar or 16 bytes per symbol for nvarchar).

Uh varchar is 1 byte per "symbol" nvarchar is 2 bytes per "symbol" an int will be larger than a 3 character varchar. Mixing up bits and bytes is not a good sign.

Usually, enums are not having big lists of keys. The biggest enum I've ever seen was 300 key in it. which is only 3 symbols. I have rarely met enum names with 3 or fewer symbols.

If its an int then its 4 bytes not 3 "symbols", if your storing string your using the name not index. Seems like a point is trying to be made about 4 bytes int vs 3 byte varchar names but instead mixing int string size.

When you are storing enums as a string you are not depend on the order of enums in code, so you can easily reorder them without any side affects.
To avoid this you can implicitly specify integer values for enums

The opposite is also true when storing names instead of ints you can refactor the name without changing the data. What do you do more often change enum order or name?

Not a big fan of using enums anyway, I prefer some sort of coded value where you store a short string code in the db that is human readable with a longer description the users see, that way the description can be reworded if necessary, you can also tack other metadata on to the code if necessary. Many times the coded value is in the db as a table or even one table per coded value with foreign keys so it can be modified and joined. Not as simple but more flexible IMO.
Paul Graham: Startup = Growth
Something about the tone of this article seemed a bit off to me so I wondered who the author was - turns out he is a partner in a firm that appears to do a lot of investing in companies that have "oil and gas" in their descriptions:

https://www.cottonwoodvp.com/index.html/#portfolio

This bit in particular seems a bit silly:

"While the EV’s electric motor is simple, its battery is a half-a-ton electrochemical machine with thousands of parts and welds, along with wiring, electronics, and cooling."

Edit: Just for the record, I own a ICE car, I love ICE engines (the sounds made by Ferrari V12s and BRM V16s are music as far as I am concerned) but I also recognise that they are at the end of their time and electric cars are the future (mind you - prices need to come down before I will buy one).
I think of it as a type of supply-side vs demand-side economics.

I think most employers assumed that employees with a 2x faster computer would send 2x the emails (or whatever task) in the same amount of time. In reality, they might send the same number of emails in half the time, then go home early.
AWS already has 2 entire air gapped regions dedicated to the US government so they are already stuck in that hell hole.
SoftBank’s WeWork Bailout Draws Investor Concern
So often lately, Ive come here and left disappointed. Reading about Wasabi and hipster sweaters. But this post is exactly the kind of content we should be pushing. Everyone who reads this will become a better hacker for it.
“Then to cheat all you need is this Byzantine plan that starts with friends making it through the hiring process at a sorting facility that’s monitored, and you may never know when or where they’re passing through cause they are big places and your friend may not be assigned to doing any tasks involving mail in envelopes.”
What do you mean "by coordinates"? If you are asked to show that three points are on a line, having an accurate diagram is not enough, is it? Isn't the task to use the constraints presented (these lines are parallel, this is a right angle, etc) in a step-based reasoning for whatever you're asked to prove?
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Thanks for your comment!

Email is the current approach I decided to _start_ with but isn't the only way to go about it. Voice calls, text messages and maybe even push notifications (if a mobile app materializes) are feasible approaches too.
I was right. Premium roof plus solar. The premium roof shows a pic of terra-cotta.

The title of the article misled me but the Tesla link clears it up. Thanks.
As far as I know this kind of additional charge for dialing within the same country exists in some countries, but this should be not confused with "roaming charge" for intra-country roaming.
In addition to govcloud, they have 2 entire air gapped (network isolated which is why you cannot see them) regions for the US government, 1 for secret data and 1 for top secret data.
Great idea! I was thinking about how to make votes (aka likes) more like real votes. Maybe by updating the number of likes of a post once every 6 hours.
> Would like to know who's paying this guy.

Well, the Manhattan Institute, which owns City Journal, is a big proponent of the Oil and Gas business. They have a track record of denying man-made climate change. So this just fits their usual canon.
Good, though that means destroying the hardware (which may have well been resold insteadm with - besides a small economical advantage - is IMHO the best policy, re-using has less impact than recycling).

As a side note - and to be picky - degaussers are AFAIK not really-really "certified" by NSA, they are only listed:

https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/resources/everyone/...

With what looks like a disclaimer:
> The Degausser EPL (Evaluated Products List) specifies the current models of commercial equipment that satisfy NSA/
CSS requirements for erasure of magnetic storage devices retaining any level of classifed or sensitive data. Listing
on the Degausser EPL does not constitute endorsement of the product by the USG or NSA/CSS; it only states that the
evaluated degausser has met the applicable NSA/CSS performance requirements. Neither does the listing guarantee
continued performance; customers should have their equipment re-tested periodically according to the manufacturer’s
recommendations.
Roofs in my area are 20k for 1200 sq ft. Asphalt shingles. I would love to live in an area where it’s 5-10k.
I think a major challenge that is yet to be addressed is the fact that solar panels lose their efficiency over time [1] [2]. Seems like you're looking at 80% of rated efficiency after 20 years - and I'm unsure this includes failures.

In the UK a 50+ year old roof is very common - most people expect a house to outlast them without anything but minor repairs. If I were building a house I would want something where it's primary power source can be repaired without larger than necessary costs.

[1] https://energyinformative.org/lifespan-solar-panels/

[2] https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticle...
This is wrong on a fundamental level. Containers are nothing more than regular processes that are launched leveraging some of the kernel’s built-in namespacing features.

When we talk about applying seccomp profiles to containers it just means applying them to the process — exactly how the rest of your system uses them. They are about limiting what the process itself can do, not you as an admin. Denying the ability for sshd to run iotop with SELinux doesn’t stop you from running it.

Running containers on a bare-metal host is exactly the same as running processes on a bare-metal host.
Traditional roof PLUS solar panels
Well to be fair, if we take out gas subsidies and ICE manufacturer subsidies, ICE vehicles won’t survive as well.
> boilerplate

There is a difference between "explicit code" (which is mostly a good thing) and "boilerplate". It's saying what you mean vs saying what the platform requires you to say (or repeat, involuntarily). C definitely leads to the former, but not to the latter.

That said. It's a 1 line macro! You are being ridiculous. The amount of insanity we have to go through in so many other languages constantly, not just for setting a good base, is something completely different. It's not measured in handfuls of lines, but in number of hairs pulled out.

Compare:

#define ALLOC_MEMORY(ptr, numElems) _alloc_memory((ptr), (numElems), sizeof **(ptr))

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/include/bits/stl_vector.h

(Not a fair comparison, but I think it makes a very good point)

> for something that even Algol supports properly.

Probably with an allocation builtin, not allowing for custom allocators?

> supports properly.

There is nothing in this simple macro that isn't "proper". There are no ways it can break (although I still feel it would be nice to have expressions macros, not only token macros). The only requirement is you write it yourself. C in general doesn't like to give you canned things. It has made such mistakes in the past (see large parts of libc) and has actually learned from it.

> Plus all C workarounds for "safe" code tend to fall apart when teams scale above 1 team member, as it keeps being proven by endless industry and academic reports.

You could absolutely implement C with managed memory. It just wouldn't be a good idea. Use other languages if you want these tradeoffs.

Some of the most massive codebases in the world are C. (Often disguised as "C++ by experienced devs"). They are maintainable, protected investments, many decades old, and still in working order, precisely because a minimalistic language approach leads to modular APIs. It scales very well, and the "problem" might be mostly that the defect rate per line doesn't go down as the lines go up.

But the best feature of these codebases is that they exist, because C enables independent development of subsystems much better than the intertwingled messes and dead ends that most "statically-systematic" approaches lead to on non-trivial scales.

It's a huge boon that I don't have to think about rewriting interfaces using multiple inheritance or virtual inheritance or template insanity or SFINAE or unique_ptr or move semantics or rvalue references or static assertions or compile time evaluation, or the next fad around the corner, every 5 years.
> remember that deaf-blind people exist [... ...] able to understand language

I got curious if/how deafblind people learn to communicate in the first place, if they are completely deafblind from birth. If humans can learn not just communication but language without either vision or hearing, that seems to suggest either extreme adaptability or language learning being quite decoupled from vision and hearing. From an evolutionary standpoint, I imagine that both deafness and blindness are probably uncommon enough that language learning could have explicit dependencies on both hearing and vision.

I found an old-looking video about communication with deafblind people. At the linked timestamp is a woman who is deafblind since age 2.

https://youtu.be/usaf3bVVvjY?t=840
It depends on your local power grid. Sometimes yes, you can sell it back.
For sure they are not available in a /rest or GraphQL engine neither.

SQL should be only the syntax used to communicate with the backend, the real implementation would be in whatever make sense.
This is so stupid that it reads like a funded hit-piece. To take a few choice quotes:

"its battery is a half-a-ton electrochemical machine with thousands of parts and welds, along with wiring, electronics, and cooling. It’s every bit as complex as—and far more expensive than—the combustion-mechanical drivetrain that it replaces."

Microchips are the most complex objects on earth, and also the most reliable. Lack of moving parts is why.

"Manufacturing automotive batteries is surprisingly labor intensive. Tesla’s gargantuan battery factory in Nevada produces about 1,000 propulsion batteries per year per 12 workers. Meantime, a modern engine and transmission factory produces about 1,000 mechanical-propulsion systems per year per four workers."

Uh, so a 100 year old industrial process is only....3x less labour intensive than a less than 20 year old industrial process. Colour me surprised.

"coal and natural gas still account for 70 percent of electricity generation."

In the US, sure. But France has been generating the vast majority of its power without fossil fuels for decades. Carbon-free electricity is now price competitive with fossil fuels.

"Embracing batteries at automotive scales would lead to an unprecedented global expansion in mining"

I'm sorry, what is it we've been doing for the last 200 years since the industrial revolution?

Can't even be bothered to go through the rest. This is a shill piece, no question.
Focusmate started as a productivity hack and became a community for me
> It also lists $33,950 as the price after an $8,550 federal tax incentive.

There is something absolutely astonishing about the fact that in America the way we have go about being eco-friendly is to give huge tax breaks to rich people to buy solar panels and electric vehicles. To think with all that money we could build better infrastructure and denser housing. Really boggles the mind.
> new roof runs between 5-10k,

That is incredibly cheap if so. That would be a roof on a small barn around here.
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Electric vehicles(e.g.electric scooters) already are ubiquitous in cities. Unsubsidized.
How would you know which slit the particle went through without physically interacting with it?
I find this article quite hard to read (poor writing, grammatical errors making sentences incoherent), but the key thesis seems to be that because psychology has embraced empiricism as its philosophy of science, and not required any theory to explain and interpret empirical results, it is uniquely susceptible to replication failure. In a sense, the replication crisis in psychology is string evidence that empiricism is an incorrect theory of science: if it were, psychology would be doing great—just as well as theory-laden sciences like physics, chemistry and biology. Instead, what we see is that the more a science takes coherent, broad theories seriously, the better if fares as a scientific endeavor. This matches a Popperian/Deutchian philosophy of science. The most interesting thing about the crisis is that it is, effectively, a scientific experiment about the nature of science.
Program learning to play Flappy Bird by machine learning
Uhh, no. Part of the reason JSON is useful is that it's easy to write a correct parser in comparison to most other things - adding a bunch of the complexity of YAML back to JSON seems a bad idea. This makes it possible to use JSON as a serialisation layer for network protocols without introducing too much additional risk of parsing-related vulnerabilities.
I work at Ather. Currently, the customers are loving the product and we are booked till first quarter of next year in Bangalore & Chennai. We have done 5 software updates to the vehicle since launch in Bangalore. Planning to launch in couple of other cities by second quarter 2020 probably.
Sorry, I realize my first message wasn't as clear as I wanted.

You would not expose the internal implementation, you would simply accept SQL queries, maybe against a separate view of your SQL database, or maybe against a custom backend.

SQL shuould be the query languange, not the implementation.
In the US roofs last more like 25 to 30 years for shingles.
Sometimes this is called globalisation.
That is probably the main reason why WebGL has not taken off like Flash for Web games.

It is always hit and miss regarding hardware 3D acceleration.
The author discusses the Tesla Gigafactory and then drops the following sentence “There’s no prospect of creating a domestic EV supply chain anytime soon, regardless of incentives.” I’m trying to understand how the author can come to that conclusion. A domestic EV supply chain already exists - it happens to be a captive supplier to Tesla. There’s no reason GM or Ford couldn’t build a Gigafactory too.

As for the title that electric vehicles won’t survive without subsidies, against I’m shaking my head. The Tesla subsidies have almost completely expired, and each time the subsidy expires, Tesla just lowers the price. Tesla turned a profit, and the vehicle is displacing BMWs and Mercedes.

As for charging off dirty energy, my Tesla charges overnight from the nuclear power plant’s base load.
Hence my very last (caveat). I'm sure you understand my point though.
I honestly (I really mean it) don't know what to think about this...
Corporate proxies and SSL inspection (MITM) are still very much prevalent but you're targeting a pretty niche user base if you're looking at ones that do this and outright block JS.
I wonder if they should just skip comparing it with a normal roof or normal roof + solar.

A Model 3 is way more expensive than the average ICE sedan; people buy it anyway.
Making algebraic mistakes is always a possibility with human test-takers, but the questions are usually designed that the work isn't too bad. They could absolutely do a lot worse if they didn't try to make the math work out nicely. I'm more concerned about trying to teach computers which chain of transformations they should be looking into and how to perform them.
How can a "thought experiment" demonstrate anything?
A lot of EVs simply drive better than ICE cars. The acceleration, lack of noise, and more pleasant charging atmosphere go a long way.
If the worker is paid for their time, they aren't owed anything for it. If they are taking below market - as I said that may be unfair - then at most their investment is the delta to market compensation.

Also, investors puts in all the money upfront; there is a concept called time value of money that applies here, and what it means is that money paid upfront is worth more than a distribution of the same amount over time. The higher the cost of borrowing (cost of capital), the more valuable that upfront investment is.
The solution to the climate problem is actually "sun-to-liquid" synthetic fuel. The whole chain from air carbon capture, creation of synthesis gas of H2 + CO from H2O and CO2 via a catalyst, to finally the production of fuel via Fisher-Tropsch has been demonstrated to work on large scale pilot projects and can be easily powered in some remote dessert with sunlight.

Fuel is the best way to store energy. It has a really high energy density it is not volatile like e.g. pure Hydrogen and it is a liquid which means it can be easily transported because it obviously can take any shape or form.

The longer you think about the concept of electric cars the stupider it gets. The ICE is peak mobility technology.
Yes, though isn't that the same when pronouncing math in English? (So it's a good explanation, but doing the detour via German doesn't give us any extra enlightenment?)
> more than one opinion on the subject.

In my experience, the difference between publications isn't so much in the opinions they express, but in which stories they choose to cover. Go to reason.com for stories of government abuse of power, and motherjones.com for corporate abuses. They can cover their stories accurately, but simply by choosing which they cover, they will paint a very different picture of reality.
Really? Isn't that how all successful technology starts off - highly priced, effectively experimental, but then becoming more and more available to the general public as the price goes down and production increases?
Every few days this Tumblr post comes to my mind: https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/185387711470/bunjywunjy-ye...

bunjywunjy:

> yesterday for April Fool’s my workplace had

> a short training article on recognizing computer-generated

> faces from real ones and one of the tricks mentioned was

> “count the teeth” and I just wanted to say that it’s both

> ironic and kind of horrifying how society has unwittingly

> cycled right back to IF YE MEET A MAN ON THE ROAD, COUNT

> HIS FINGERS LEST YE DEAL UNKNOWING WITH A FAE

If you keep the "fae = buggy AI" correspondence in mind and read the third paragraph from the article, the description starts making perfect sense. All the variation, all the odd behavior. For example, "meting out disproportionate punishment for trivial offences" sounds a lot like automated bans.

Perhaps we should start re-appropriating mythical terms for new tech. It's much easier to explain the dangers of AI-controlled weapons, for example, if you word it as "hiring armed fae".
AWS certainly has numerous US government contracts; however, none of those are from the Pentagon. With the awarding of the contract, the Pentagon specifically has chosen Microsoft over AWS.

Note: Pentagon != all US govt agencies
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Breitbart courted a bunch of white nationalists, including Weev from the Daily Stormer. Buzzfeed has the emails to prove it.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-h...