skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which don't have everyone running on diplomatic plates, or actual diplomats.

For a diplomatic cover, usually something for missions in unfriendly and hostile states, (shades of Cold War le Carré here) it would be for staff at the embassy -- which is in London. So the airbase would have to be considered a branch or part of the London embassy under the Vienna Convention. Yet Menwith Hill and Croughton etc are supposedly RAF bases militarily shared under NATO deals.

Hence all the controversy currently coming out of the woodwork, and numerous articles quoting QCs and ministers disputing the validity at all, or considering it abuse of Vienna, including the exploration piece I linked above. IANAL. :)
I think the points about accidental vs essential complexity are well made. However...

The title/s are about Silver Bullets, and I strongly do not believe in them.

I've been programming for an embarrassing number of years, and I've seen methodologies come and go. Increasing productivity is about developing a good team culture with a small number of simple tools, not about following the latest Silver Bullet.

In fact, it's very easy to increase the level of accidental complexity by adopting an overly prescriptive or complex tool/methodology (Jira anyone?).
If you are interested, there is a crowdfund in the UK trying to raise money to provide surgical masks to doctor and nurses in Wuhan. Here is the link:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/standbywuhan
From your Wikipedia link:

TLDR: Its all just theoretical.

"TerraPower planned to build a 600 MWe demonstration Plant, the TWR-P, by 2018–2022 followed by larger commercial plants of 1150 MWe in the late 2020s.[15] However, in January 2019 it was announced that the project had been abandoned due to technology transfer limitations placed by the Trump administration."
Yes, thank god we have no head of state questioning vaccines and no federal agencies dismantling health related regulations. thank god

No, health epidemics could never thrive in our amazing country because we have safe meat markets
Yeah, as I mentioned in a sibling comment, erasure of data is an irreversible process that (because of thermodynamics) will always create heat (even of everything is a efficient as the laws of the universe permit). That heat is energy and it has mass. It is actually straightforward to prove it would have the same mass as the initial information pattern.

A string of zeroes and a random string do have different amount of entropy, so transforming between them requires energy.
> Is it just "this is how we always do these things" or is there something else going on here?

That tech is known, well designed, approved and extensively proven through many thousand years manwork experience worldwide. It’s also the most affordable in liberalized markets. Going smaller & modular is the real novelty in the industry, for grid-agnostic coupling and decoupling. FYI: I have been consulting and designing innovative or exotic NPPs for years and I am now pretty confident I will not live long enough to see any one of them built and working, maybe not even at the demonstrator stage... but this side of the story might come good for another post ehehe.
Op had some good tactics but an ass backwards strategy. Should have let the agency do the thing they where paid to do.

> Lesson #1: Test and trim keywords sets before hiring an agency to scale things

This isn't how agencies work. You did the keyword research and testing yourself and then paid some one else to do it again.

I work in an agency, I won't work with you if you do this, because you will get the same results and blame me.

> Lesson #2: Focus on page quality and CTR when doing paid tests

Nope don't do this. When testing ads you should focus on the ads you are testing.

Make as many as you can, test, review and reduce to the winning ads then repeat. When you have found the ads with good CTR it's time to start working on page quality (making your page relevant to the ad).

> Lesson #3: Stick to keywords that you have landing pages and content for

Again no don't do this, write ads to test your keywords build pages for the ads that work, not the other way around this isn't SEO.

> Lesson #4: Don’t assume organic conversion rate will hold true for paid

Different ads target customers at different stages of the buying journey, ads don't dump to the top of your funnel they dump to landing pages designed to convert that demographic.

> Lesson #5: Analytics will save (some of) your bacon
> Lesson #6: Revisit your awareness ladder often to validate and update it

Winner winner chicken dinner, some good advice.
Google issue tracker requires login just to view issues? Strange choice.
Or you could just store a crazy amount of information on one medium that's big enough. Can somebody calculate how much it would need to be before it's measurable with modern instruments?
The job requirements...
Here's the problem, though. Brooks made a certain observation about accidental vs. essential complexity; the author of this post makes another. Brooks made a certain prediction based on his observation (diminishing returns in impact to productivity), and many believers in the power of programming languages found his prediction to be too pessimistic at the time (he lists their objections in "No Silver Bullet, Refired"). Only it turned out that his prediction was correct, except it was too optimistic. So if anyone wants to claim that his observation was wrong, they would need to explain why his prediction turned out to be true, while that of those who believed it was wrong turned out false.

In addition, I agree with the author that the biggest contributions to productivity we have seen were, in this order, the availability of open-source libraries and online forums, automated testing, and garbage collection -- all of which have been adopted at rates we'd expect from adaptive traits in an environment with selective pressure. What is conspicuously missing is linguistic features, also in line with Brooks's observation. And yet the author still claims that linguistic features are the silver bullet. At this point this qualifies as an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence, but I would settle for ordinary evidence, which is also lacking -- strange, considering that a silver bullet, i.e. something with an extreme bottom-line impact, should be easily observable.
I don't like watching toddlers shows. It is maybe odd think to point out, but most adult are indifferent at best and actively dislike them at worst.

I am also no sure what congnitive gain kid would have from me sitting there and attentively watching Peppa the pig too.
Newbie question, would this imply that there's something like an "information particle"?
I don't understand why it ought to be. Surely a company committed to the defense of a nation's border ought to be comprised predominantly (I would argue exclusively) of the native people.

I wouldn't trust a fox to guard the henhouse.
Cancel Earthworms
That's a great way of describing it. I'm a lets focus in what matters style of worker, with status bit flips only when facing clients (the degree of bit flio is so drastic that it catches colleagues off guard).
That's not true

They are getting more increased revenue from existing customers than they lose from cancelling customers, which is very different
When 3G launched, the consumer experience wasn't great, nor cheap. Same with 4G... But over a few years, that changed - things settled down and that will be the case with 5G.
What percentage of active mobile phones in use today are 5G compared to 4G, 3G and even 2G - well you can get an idea here: https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/?file=061ad2d2417d...

Short version is that this year 4G will grow more than 5G. It's about maturity and cost and be few years until 5G gains, same way that 3G and 4G entered the market - nothing flips overnight with consumers and that's down to cost. 4G chipsets since launch got cheaper and cheaper and as that tractions, the phones got cheaper offering 4G, so it gradually got there. 5G will be no different and what you have today, will be cheaper and better tomorrow. Remember - revisions happen and 4G today can do more than 4G at launch. Same with 3G and....5G. Indeed 5G has some changes soon and those will help power usage, that with chip advancements.....give it a few years.
And all that is without GPU acceleration enabled. ;)
google 'github meritocracy'
TLDR, meritocracy is now considered to be a far-right concept.
On the other hand, if I saw "file system as a service" I would also bounce immediately becuase who needs that?

I have a file system, it comes included in every/any os that matters. How does filesystem as a service help me?
it does not work that way because a SSD stores the information by capturing and binding electrons. Presence of an electron in the flip-flop (electric charge) is evaluated as 1 and non-existence of an electron is evaluated as zero.

A full SSD will be actually heavier :) but when you think about it the information amount is the same, a SSD with full zeroes and another one full with files have same amount of information equal to capacity of the SSD. Whether it is meaningful information or not is another discussion.
This is sickening bullshit. I grew dirt poor in Eastern Europe. Some disadvantaged african-american minorities would be considered rich here.
These diseases typically manifest in areas with high populations of religious fanatics. Many of the cases that I have heard of originate in the boroughs NYC. Sounds strange that a large population of religious fanatics would reside in NYC but they are there.
I'm out of my depth here as I've never studied information theory. I suppose there's a larger gap between the theory and the practical aspect of the title of this article than I first imagined!
Couldn't agree more. "Advancement as a species" seems to imply a sort of consensus that doesn't really exist.
My business partner and I have been working remotely with each other for the last 5 years, after a previous 7 years in a shared office.

To make it work, we bought dedicated iPads and put them on stands next to our computer monitors on our desks. We start a FaceTime call at the beginning of each day and literally leave it running all day. We mute when not actively talking, so we can listen to music (and not listen to the other's keyboard noises).

It is amazing. We always can see if the other one is present and/or busy on a phone call. If I want to talk, I just unmute myself and start talking. It is surprisingly similar to being in the same room as someone, without having to agree on the playlist.

Obviously, this particular setup doesn't scale to larger teams, and it does rely heavily on the very high quality and reliability of the audio and video of FaceTime. But I'd recommend it highly for those in the same situation. Made the cross-country move possible without destroying the business.

The dedicated device is key, so that it is always visible and doesn't take CPU or screen real estate on your actual computer. And I can't emphasize enough the importance of the high quality audio in FaceTime. We tried Squiggle back in the day and the audio/video were just not good enough (and the freeze frames were unflattering and distracting in a way that silent video is not, strangely). It would be nice to unmute both sides at once, but FaceTime is obviously not going to add that feature.

We thought about trying to make a product out of our insights/experiences but concluded that it would be a bit like re-implementing MS Word to fix the find dialog (if anyone remembers that issue back in the day).
> Her lawyers in the Arizona case quit in September, saying she hasn’t paid them

Wow, who could have seen that coming?
Same error. Using Firefox for Android.
The short answer is KMS doesn't store secrets.

You can use KMS as part of your own secret manager, but you would have to store the actual secrets somewhere else, like GCS or Datastore. KMS stores encryption keys, and has an API for encrypting/decrypting. For example to retrieve a secret using KMS you would get the encrypted data from where it is stored, like Datastore, and send it to KMS to have KMS decrypt the data. Secret Manager actually stores the secret, so a single API call can retrieve the decrypted value. Secret Manager also has versioning, which is important when rotating secrets. If you were building your own solution around KMS you would need to do versioning in your storage schema, wherever you end up storing the secrets.
Your "product" is bullshit, your "full stack adaptive..." is a bullshit. People are not retarded, they quit tab.
So information has mass for sure, it's just that the sign is unclear.
I remember. It was a huge turn-off to me. COnstantly switching floppies, tiny B&W monitor, etc. I switched to PCs at that point (and was envious of my college roommate's amiga).
everyone is hemmed in by their circumstances. Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer, and all his billions could do nothing to prevent his death. We are all in the same boat, it's just some of us don't really see it.
Doesn't the very definition of "lossless" depend on interpretation? If lossy compression alters its mass, but lossless doesn't, doesn't it depend on the interpretation of "lost" information?

As I said to the above poster I don't know much about this, so hope this isn't an off-base question.
Because it concerns US property (classified intelligence)
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The article talks about trying to fulfill all requisites for all the vehicle buyers. A bike indeed a fast, safe commute vehicle in many cases. On snow conditions, a lightweight vehicle with winter tires will be better than anything else. In that case, forget the bike!
Secret sauce is source control. You can get a matrix switcher and come up with your own controls but smart remotes like URC and Control4 are way more expensive and IMO are less reliable.

Surround speakers need a priority switch if you want matching amp profiles in the home theatre.

I have in ceiling speakers each pair connecting to a sonos amp. Outdoors, in garage, etc. It’s great - for me. I have Play:1s in bathrooms without mics and it can all sync.

Guests can also control it via phone.

What pisses me off:

- Lack of auto firmware updates at night

- Latency with external sources unless you use a sound bar, maybe fixed with port? The connect sucked

- Spotify premium required

- Cost
In case anyone's wondering, Goldman Sachs itself does seem to have pretty decent representation on the board, executive team, and management committee (which AIUI is the real power at that type of company). At least as regards women. I see one black board member and one black MC member, same for Asians, and no indication of gender/sexual preference. You can look for yourself here.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/leadership/board-of-di...
Since flash is based on a charge pump, doesn't it just move the electrons from the substrate or control gate to the floating gate? Or am I missing something here?

In that case you do not have to account for the electron mass at all.
If you are in the data path clear text you most likely have to abide by classified data handling procedures.
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Wow, if they even wanted this to be taken seriously they could have just included everyone in on it. Why just this specific class? Refuse anyone that has <same race><same gender><same orientation> on the board. That would have got me atleast thinking about diversity. This just sounds ridiculous.
Yeah, our everyday technology is maaaany orders of magnitude away from where this would be detectable. However, it is still important topic if we want to design extreme efficiency computing hardware (and already studied among researchers that want to make nanotech).
> As someone who is trying to learn and some day launch something like this, thank you so much for this advice!

Thank you. Just sharing what I learned from the masters in the field. The best of which is Isaac Rudansky. Marketing is made unnecessarily complex these days. It is not rocket science. Anyone can do it.
You're right. Was an interesting sounding role and it didn't get my application discarded before a Skype interview, but I didn't get very far in the process and wonder how much bearing my love of slapstick had on their decision to pass on me.
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Useful info thanks!
Isn’t this a slippery slope? Could the argument be made that anyone who isn’t a U.S. citizen isn’t protected by the constitution then? Not a citizen, you can’t say what you want when you want. Not a citizen you don’t get the right to due process. Etc.
"Between December 19 and January 13, lawyers had just two hours to brief Assange and take instruction. They were granted one more hour to confer on January 13, when Assange last appeared in court."

IANAL, but that doesn't sound normal to me, particularly for such a case.
That's true actually, Waitrose's 'essentials' isn't far off the simplicity of 'no name'; I suppose it's just my lack of familiarity (I'm British, not Canadian) that made 'no name' stand out as unusual and most like this to me at first.

But yes, you're right, supermarket own brands in general are relatively straightforwardly packaged. I suppose in part it's because they cover such a range of products, so they can't pick a more 'normal' theme that might look better for some of them, because it would be so odd and out of place on other lines.
You just go into some deeeeep sleep and never wake up again?
Yes I am not saying it is the best. But it is better than "Full stack adaptive delivery". Can it be improved? Surely. But does it need to be complicated further? Definitely not.
Exactly.

Or if you mix them in a smart way maybe explain that: ("we promote projects that were at least a bit active within the last x month and ...").

Maybe "top lists" could work? most active, most unique, most collaboration
You're probably not a target audience. A "file system as a service" is a thought that would probably pop in your head if you faced the problem they're trying to solve.
In Germany people have rights and that complicates things, yes.
Read the article and I feel like this is an advertisement disguised as an investigation article.
Except that 16 bit Windows was a MS-DOS extender, from the same OS vendor.

Ah, Windows gaming only took off after WinG got introduced, until then games were mostly targeting MS-DOS.
smooth and quiet with a dark theme?
Due to the particularities of how a storage device works, a 1 should be a tiny amount heavier (or lighter, Idk which way it goes) than a 0.
Even funnier, the information lost when a human dies really is their soul!

The real question is, how many bits is a human soul?

(To be clear - this is definitely not the explanation for those experimental results. But it's fun to kid around!!)
It's also a fallacy to think that humans will be able to escape the gravity well in large numbers. And once we do, the ones in space will quickly become a new species as they adapt to a different environment -- assuming they survive at all.

Science fiction is fun and all, but even an ecologically ruined Earth is going to be a much more welcoming environment to live in than anything else the solar system has to offer. Meaningful exploration of the solar system will be restricted to unmanned probes and complex missions that require 100 Earthbound support staff for each human we send into space.

Continuing to live on Earth will require a big reduction in the amount of energy we use per capita. We're already above what the Earth can realistically handle, and the global population is still growing.
Except that this rewritten version is not correct!

They aren’t necessarily getting more new customers than old customers cancelling, but the combination of revenue from new customers and added revenue from upgrades from existing customers is more than the revenue lost from customers who cancel.

Which, btw, is exactly what they say, using standard industry terms, and it’s not ambiguous. It just wasn’t written for you, that’s all.
Crisis response isn't the same as opening a new McDonalds.
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Yes, but for that I think the fact that this article is from 2017 highlights this. I thought at first "huh, why would that be a good place for such a lab now" before I checked the article's dating.
>or claimed that enshrining certain rights explicitly implies that they were the only ones reserved to the people.

Which is the situation we're in. If you don't have a positively asserted specific legal right, it doesn't otherwise exist, except in how limited your behaviors are by law.

"The sky is the limit" vs "the limit is the sky"
Agreed that is a significant gating factor, but the situation is not impossible. Several paths are laid out for moving forward in a 2018 report by a couple of ANL scientists. The report is quite readable, even if you know little about materials science.

[1] https://art.inl.gov/ART%20Document%20Library/High%20Temperat...
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Though I don’t use it professionally, I believe purescript has proven that algebraic effects systems are very useful for granular effect handling.

Things like “this writes to the database”, “this makes an unbounded query”, “this requires a random number generator “, rather than a nebulous “oh this has I/O” is very powerful and useful for maintaining a system
To be honest, I think the way to go about implementing this would be to either use the basic HTML version of the web page (which seems to change rarely) or to build a native app and communicate with something like POP. This solution, as nice as it is, is really quite flakey.

In the same breath, I can really recommend switching to Thunderbird. I run all my emails, RSS feeds and instant messaging through it all whilst being able to keep local backups of this valuable data.
>I think most ordinary consumers like your mom and dad don't care about privacy.

I don't care about most privacy. Will I put a bunch of cameras inside my residence, no. Beyond that I don't much care I mean I use RyanMercer everywhere (here, reddit, forums, social media) and even own 3 of the TLDs which all point to my blog that goes back nearly 20 years to high school where I said some crazy stuff that most people would wish scrubbed from record entirely but I leave them there because that's who I was 19 years ago, 18 years ago, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, last year.

There are 7.53 billion people, no one's singling me out trying to target me for something I said 20 years ago or for some gene I have that may or may not be expressed or for what YouTube video I liked in 2014.

Employers, and potential employers, know my credit history. I have a public bankruptcy. My address is public record as is the LLC I controlled and ultimately dissolved. If someone wants to know I Googled "has anyone microwaved an elephant" or "how many golf balls will fit in your large intestine" then I simply don't care.

It's public record my father died of cancer, it's public record his mother died of cancer, my mother has publicly shared she had cancer. I don't feel bad publicly talking about my alcoholism because I'm sure some record has been sold that my father was in inpatient treatment for his and his father had a DUI (as do 2 of my uncles I believe).

Don't watch me shower, don't watch me sleep, don't watch me have sex, don't watch me use the toiler and that's about all the privacy I worry about.

If you don't like me because of my bankruptcy, alcoholism, drug use as a teen, religious beliefs, my review of some movie from the mid 90's, then that's your problem not mine and if you want to preclude me from this or that because of it then good I don't want anything to do with you or your company/service/product.