skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Document 9 is for domestic policy, CPC recognizing Western Liberal values is a threat to Chinese system does not mean CPC is attempting to undermine those values elsewhere. Unlike USSR, CPC hasn't been exporting or competing on ideology.

As for the free trade question, China has a higher mean tariff rate ~2% more, which is comparable to other developing countries. But viewing "free trade" in tariff lens doesn't present the whole picture. In terms of trade barriers US has more protectionist measures than China [1]. Go look up a list of WTO complaints to see who the largest free trade abuser is, a good visualizer [2]:

>China was involved in 63 disputes with 9 Economies from the time it acceded to the WTO in 2001 through 2018. China has been the complainant 20 times and the respondent 43 times.

VS

>United States was involved in 275 disputes with 42 Economies from the time it acceded to the WTO in 1995 through 2018. The United States has been the complainant 123 times and the respondent 152 times.

Or look up some US Chamber of Commerce surveys, Latest U.S. China Business Council's (USCBC) survey tldr was basically US companies overwhelmingly convinced Chinese companies receive (alleged) unfair state subsidies but they don't care because even with the tradewar, 97% of respondents said their China operations were profitable which is UP from 85% in 2015. Overall, business in China is good, select industries face more barriers than others (some technology, many financial services), industries with the loudest lobbying groups that skew the narrative.

[1] https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/pub...

[2] https://chinapower.csis.org/china-world-trade-organization-w...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/08/30/us-compani...
Interesting because I've got a box to just shut off my power. If I don't pay my bill the company can shut off my power. Seems to me that the power company should be looking at ways to handle the free power generation the public is providing and being the storage utility, otherwise the homeowners can just start storing it themselves and cut the power company out of the picture entirely.
Strong motherfucking opinion warning.

South Australia is the driest state in the driest continent. It's the most perfect place for solar power. Australia as-a-whole is a perfect place for solar power.

A university lecturer of mine got one of the first solar panel installations in South Australia, it was mentioned in the local Adelaide paper, that's how much of a big deal it was. This was around 20 years ago. Twenty years!

South Australia (still) has some of the highest priced electricity in the world. There's been talk of privatization as the cause of this, which has been somewhat debunked[0], and the primarily agreed reason for the high prices is what's referred to as "gold-plating of the network" in which there was an agreement that the 'poles and wires' companies could not lose money on any infrastructure investment they committed to - the regulator would allow them continually increase the prices they charge in order to cover the cost of the infrastructure investment[1][2][3].

So, despite how perfect Australia is for solar power, private or commercial, despite the fact that solar panels have been getting commercially installed on private homes for 20-odd years, and despite the networks being given carte-blanche for infrastructure investment, somehow, Australia is un-prepared for a flood of solar power.

The various organizations that are meant to be on top of this shit have been asleep at the wheel for fucking YEARS. This was highlighted by the big power failure in South Australia in 2016 when a number of wind farms shut down due to 'safety settings' being set at overly paranoid parameters, which was a problem that had already been solved in Europe (the frustrating irony of this is that the wind farms were being blamed for the power failure, when the actual situation was that the wind farms could have PREVENTED it, if their configurations were 'best practice' - the problems in the electricity network that caused the wind farms to trip were powerful winds that took down some big-arse transmission lines)[4][5]

Australia's issues with renewable energy are entirely of their own making. And it's far more likely attributable to incompetence than malice. I'd almost prefer it was malice because malice comes and goes. Incompetence is systemic.

Off on a tangent, here's my 10-years of electricity usage / costs investigation:
http://electricity.atcf.com.au/economics/

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-25/fact-check-does-priva...

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-02/senate-inquiry-to-pro...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-25/grattan-urges-consume...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-04/energy-policy-solar-e...

[4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-28/wind-farm-settings-to...

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/19/south-au...
In Canada you have one family that owns almost all the news media in the country and also Reuters. From what I understand they are the 5th richest family in the world.
Their inter-AZ pricing is certainly no accident. I'm betting for a large chunk of custs it nets them something on a par with egress
>> it sure looks like my country is trying to make things harder for China, and is paying the price of making things harder for workers in my own country.

Not sure if you've noticed, but manufacturing is starting to come back in the US. Industrial automation and skilled trades jobs are starting to be a thing again. These are solid middle class jobs that often dont require a degree. Its coming at the expense of some pain in other areas, but it might be an overall positive.

The path we were on was not sustainable. The US lost a LOT of capability over the last 20 years. Getting that back is critical and will not be painless.
Tipper – Baseball Pitch Prediction
Tipper predicts if a pitch will be in or out of the strike zone in real time. The batter will see a green or red light illuminate in their peripheral vision if the pitch will be in or out of the strike zone, respectively.

How It Works
A modified Nerf tennis ball launcher is programmatically fired with a solenoid. A 100FPS camera is pointed in the direction of the launcher and captures two successive images of the ball early in flight.

A convolutional neural network running on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier rapidly classifies these images against a model that was built during the training phase of the project. If the images are classified as in the strike zone, a green LED on a pair of glasses (in the wearer's peripheral vision) is lit. Conversely, if the ball is predicted to be out of the strike zone, a red LED is lit.

https://github.com/nickbild/tipper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkE9XCBSyhw
Probably just vanishingly. Anyways rare enough that a market for illicit prescription opioids would be difficult to sustain.

I had a bone marrow biopsy, where they can’t anesthetize you and sure burrowing into my bone with a scalpel hurt. But whatever. Life is pain.
if this is a religious project, it should be clearly marked as such.

if it's not, why not use a nonreligious word?
eh, but the comment you are responding to had a solution that worked for me for some time. I haven't used privacy.com, but bank of america used to have a way for me to create virtual credit card numbers; I'd simply create one for every subscription I had, and it was really easy to just disable the virtual credit card.

Bank of America has discontinued this service, and I haven't setup a new workflow, which is disappointing. but I mean, it is one solution.
Yep. But the difference between reading the book and just hearing assorted facts about it is a reminder of why I hated history in my school years.
Exactly as I described above - by assuming fluctuations will first be buffered by battery or other storage and only addressed if required by gas peakers and increased coal-based energy production in extended periods of lower light.
Encouraging “Purposeful” Business
I use Brave, which comes with amazing defaults to block ads and trackers. But even Brave seems to have DNT turned off by default.

I have it turned off. I suspect having DNT turned on would actually help with fingerprinting (like you said, only 10% of people have it on, so it's easy to narrow you down).
This issue has been known for quite some time, so it sounds like they basically failed to plan ahead sufficiently.

It would have been 5-10 years ago that GE put out research warning that electricity retailers needed to shift their fee models from charging actual power usage to charging to be connected to the grid (even if you only sometimes used power).

They simply really need speed up investment in infrastructure that can take up any available free power. For example, there are two large seawater desalination plants in WA that run mostly off wind power. You would think water scarcity/security would be a top priority, so building more would be a priority.

There is also some opportunity for pumped hydro (far cheaper to run and maintain than coal-fired power stations) despite the lack of a prominent mountain range. Just needs someone to put up the money.

https://www.arena.gov.au/assets/2018/10/ANU-STORES-An-Atlas-...
This costs £2 per month, while ChessBase 15 costs anywhere from €119.90 to €469.90 and Chess Assistant costs €59.96.
Thanks. That article put me on to this book [0] which I am adding to my list straight away. It's a bit of a daydream of mine to explore some of the more off-beat parts of the Inca road, but it's hard to find information about which sections are still walkable. And passable without the rope bridges that they used to use.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10111087-turn-right-at-m...
Ballpark estimate, how much would you pay for the entirety of your digital life being private? All of it, bar none?
You always get screwed in niche B2B on a single seat license. There's no way the chip manufacturers are actually spending anywhere near that much.

And they really aren't that complex. China has more than enough capability to reproduce them.

I guess I'm not sure how to prove a negative here. What do you think is so special about EDA software that isn't fairly easy replicable? Other than the fab design rules, which if I'm making a litho vs EDA distinction in the first place aren't really a part of EDA.
The localest community college is $5,000 in-county, around $7,000 in state. A cheaper state school is ~$10,000 a year (all numbers are tuition).
Google's search engine is a unique portal into the WWW in that it heavily controls what parts of the web people get to see. Opinions can be shaped, facts can be suppressed, lifes can be ruined by the decisions that go into search result prioritizing.

With the world being what it is today, Google Search is in an extremely powerful position. We depend a lot on information that we find on the web. And these free form search queries are the best UI we have at the moment to retrieve it.

It is a good thing that Google Search is good and is getting better, but that doesn't take away from the fact that they wield a lot of power that needs to be checked somehow.
> Feels like a viral marketing stunt to me.

Possible. But he looked really pissed that there was a camera filming him.

I'm not sure if it was a phone he ordered.
This is exactly right. There's utility in being an as needed source of power as well as storage point. There's so many different types of storage options as well. There's batteries, liquid potential energy storage, potentially flywheel but this hasn't worked out too well, there's adding wind capacity.

As a business model they get to charge for storage maintenance and generation when needed. Storage is a consistent amount of money with extra coming in from power generation as needed.
For a great many years, they were almost solely for people with serious, chronic pain. Cancer sufferers or people with severe diseases. It wasn't until Oxycontin and the marketing push associated with it that it became so widely prescribed as a regular use pain-killer.

That's of course when the addiction rate for opioids went through the roof. Entirely disconnected I'm sure.

I don't know if they should be used for pain. I'm not educated enough on it to make a statement like that, for or against. What I can say with absolute certainty is Purdue Pharama created a disaster on the scale of natural events by selling legal medication. Every facet of that should be analyzed so we can make sure it never happens again.
In the UK that is (and has been for a while) the case:

If you set up a direct debit (allow a company to withdraw money from your account) you will be able to view all the details about it on your web banking (which company, how much and when the last debit occurred).

But most importantly, you can unilaterally cancel the direct debit from within the web banking interface. It will notify the company that you cancelled it on your side and you are guarnateed to not have any money withdrawn from them.

This makes life easier but does not solve the problem completely. Cancelling a direct debit does not cancel any debt you have (obviously) but it also doesn't cancel your account/contract with the company. So there is nothing stopping the company from continuing to bill you. It will just make it harder for the company to recuperate their money.
I don't think that's quite right, bound books were a luxury good but you still had much cheaper vellum, scrolls, and so forth.
The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found
Ah true, i just naturally reach for it in elixir
For me personally, the ability to write custom authentication plugins for HTTPie is the reason I use it. For my use case I wrote a simple AWS Sigv4 [0] plugin to simplify calling AWS API Gateway endpoints during development/debugging.

[0] https://github.com/aidan-/httpie-aws-authv4
I mostly like that it meets my design criterias for a web-based RSS reader. Other than that, the fact that it will let you subscribe to newsletters, and make a feed for each of them, is a cool feature.
I mean, you're not wrong, but also they would gather in groups and have one person read aloud to the rest. So even if you were poor and illiterate you could still learn from written works.
How do we know that classical numerical simulation will match the phenomena... by experimentation.
I didn't say it's insane, I said it's "unconventional".

I'm not sure of the connection between wizards, the null hypothesis, and random chance never being a component of an explanation.

You make me think of this:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Holmesian_fallacy
Gas TURBINE plants can respond very quickly, but tend to be overall less efficient. Gas BOILERS are more efficient, but are slow to respond like coal plants.
I've just downloaded the full set. Searching for some faves.

Actually, feeding these to a fortune-like engine (or dict) might be interesting.

Hrm....

The whole archive is 54 MB of HTML, about 34 MB text. Runs 12,765 pages as text via pr(1). About 52 volumes of 250 pages each.
You're both right.

The healthy mentality is to realize mistakes will happen. This creates a healthier culture when things do break.

However, you should take every step to ensure it doesn't happen. You should act as though you want to prevent all faults from hitting you master branch.
IDK what hyperscalar means exactly but if you just mean who are the big customers of intel Microsoft and Google are probably as big as Amazon, people forget that there is more going on in data centers than public cloud.
Army surplus energy cargo pants that need dry cleaning? I assume these are dress uniform or something?
That would be angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). Read about it here: https://arpes.stanford.edu/research/tool-development/angle-r...

The TL;DR is that you can kick electrons out of a material with light. You can study what comes off and work back to what the electrons were doing in the sample. At the most basic level it tells you "this many electrons were moving in this direction with this energy".
I don't know how it scales at all.

I just cancelled Netflix because I'm also paying for Amazon Prime. Netflix hasn't had anything worth watching for a good few months but it took me longer than that to go in and cancel it. But the trajectory suggests that you'll need to sub with Amazon, Netflix, HBO, Disney, etc. if you want the full range of streaming TV. You're going to have to start micromanaging that if you don't want to throw your money down the drain.

Patreon's another one. Really cool idea, but everyone with a Youtube or a blog or a Twitch stream is pushing it. So it's a case of subscribing to one person for $10 a month or 5 people for $2 each.

After that, you can get a monthly subscription of underwear, shaving stuff, make up, etc. at which point it seems like a purely wasteful cash grab.

The problem is, even with the increased competition, prices are only increasing.
Not seeing UL or CSA approval numbers on those.

That's important for switching power supplies, especially small ones. A switching power supply is always a few milliseconds from being a short circuit across the input. And FETs fail in the ON state. That's why those things are inherently fire risks and need protection circuitry. Really tiny ones make it worse; if they fail, there's not much space to dissipate heat before something blows and opens the circuit.
Financial Crisis FAQ
It requires some luck to become truly wealthy from anything but the top quartile or so in a single generation.

It requires responsibility, dedication, and intentionality to accomplish it in two generations, or to maintain wealth earned more than one generation ago. Luck always helps, and exceptionally bad luck will doom anyone, but it isn't so necessary for the long road to wealth

Intelligence, beyond a certain moderate amount, is not required. It is a significant asset, of course, but the other ingredients are still required
No... that's pure hyperbole.

But 10x faster (or capable) and 2x the cost? That's not outrageous. BTW that's where we currently are.
I have a card with Capital One and can do virtual cards too. There is even a Firefox extension to make it a few clicks to make a new one and input the info.

I guess I should mention that I am poor-ish. Right now I am getting lumber from a reclaimed lumber place and making furniture in a Amish style. Then my sister paints and distresses it. So if a bunch of random five dollar charges hit my account at once and I am not expecting them it could be a problem.
Would it? Big food producers like Nestle buy ingredients globally, ship them in masses between comtinents to produce highly engineered products. Would a company that is smaller do all of the same things? Would less energy be wasted on production in those factorie? Would the products have fewer additives, etc...?

Would smaller farms with smaller fields and a larger variety of crops be better for the environment? Would those farmers grow more organic food?

I don't think that this is black and white. But smaller companies would likely be a whiter shade of gray in some cases.
There are also plans to go the other way and connect WA to Indonesia with the potential to tap into the electricity market of a population 10x larger than Australia's.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2017/11/30/australias-...
Right, that makes sense. I did just test a couple of short Python programs

$ time python3 test.py
Hello world

real 0m0.020s
user 0m0.020s
sys 0m0.000s
The implementation itself is relatively simple. The most popular Python implementation is Tom Cocagne's pysrp that builds on csrp, his original C implementation: https://github.com/cocagne/pysrp. I used this as a guide to write a pure Python3 implementation of SRP-6a some years ago that I needed for protocol testing on embedded devices, and to internalize how the algorithm worked and the complexity of the calculations: https://bitbucket.org/pbleyer/py3srp.

That being said, I would never use plain vanilla Python for cryptography in a system that needs to be strongly secured. Too many side channel and timing attacks possible where you can replicate or estimate the state of things locally once you know the other side is running a Python VM.
Yeah. That sounds like work and me begging business side for better requirements.
Here is my solution to Day 1 Part 2 in Go: https://play.golang.com/p/SQsCdTXk_YH
>Not sure if you've noticed, but manufacturing is starting to come back in the US. Industrial automation and skilled trades jobs are starting to be a thing again. These are solid middle class jobs that often dont require a degree. Its coming at the expense of some pain in other areas, but it might be an overall positive.

My understanding is that most of the really good paying manufacturing jobs aren't coming back; the manufacturing that is coming back is non-union and pays worse than a union job (and much worse, say, than the better IT jobs that don't require a degree.)

I personally think it's super weird that people (especially in the USA) seem to think that manufacturing jobs are inherently better than other jobs, when my impression is that most of the pay advantages are simply that it is a class of jobs that unionized while it was in high demand, preserving some of the benefits of being a high demand job through a time when demand had fallen.
It’s a preference in his case that cannot be solved with licensing. Eric doesn’t want even potential ideas to influence him, and he says he has more puzzle ideas than time to implement them.

Personally, I suspect that he wants something that consumes so much of his free time to wholly be his, and I respect that.
America doesn't need a unicorn, it needs universal health care. The health care market – contrary to cloud services, car transport or short-term accommodation – can never be free and businesses involved exploit that. More precisely, they exploit people who simply have no other choice but to use their services. Only the government can stand up to that greed and actually act in the interest of people's health instead of own profit, while limiting inefficiencies.
I wonder how the lack of pack animals (aside from alpacas) altered the development of both the Inca roads as well as modern highways in the country, which having been on, are nothing to speak highly of (that said, roads in most countries with difficult terrain and lack of funding suck).
> How does the negative temp coefficient help; stability for very high temps?

You can put multiple switches in parallel, and have them self balance without resorting to active temperature compensation which is completely out of question for any consumer grade device.

For power electronics, GaN is nowhere near as big of a bang as SiC, with its current handling being the primary showstopper. SiC can switch 100A loads at one kilovolt and above with ease, and at very high frequencies. There are simply no equivalent GaN part for this comparison.

Second to that, GaN needs a tricky gate driver, and is normally an
n-channel depletion mode device. SiC can still be driven driverless at lo

Second to that, SiC JFETs still have niche uses in audio amps exactly because of their "bad" shallow IV curve.
Looking to build side projects with engineers
Seasoned product/marketing gal (experience at FAANG, startups, etc.) in her 30s looking to partner with an engineer to launch businesses together. Remote partnership, 50/50 share of responsibilities and equity.

If interested, email to: owlet20145628@gmail.com
Good times. I operated a Renegade BBS in OKC, specializing in AI, but still consuming everything I could from FidoNet. Didn't the first versions of Linux (before it was called Linux) distribute over FidoNet?
> The US lost a LOT of capability over the last 20 years.

but in return, the US gained a lot of cheap goods. Cheap goods which then increased profits for businesses.

Unfortunately, the lower working class is unable to reap this reward.

If manufacturing and industry returned, it may mean that cost of goods would become more expensive, and it can slow the economic expansion of the US. Whether you see this as a good outcome or not depends on your personal ideals however.