skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an American expat in Germany. I've never had my fingerprints checked, neither in the US not at any country borders. Could be a privilege stemming from US/EU diplomacy but I've never heard of them checking anyone else's fingerprints.
Shutdowns worked elsewhere. What doesn't work is half a shutdown.
No chance. That level of blur is essentially impossible to reverse. I think lots of people here are a bit confused because they know that all gaussian blurs are theoretically reversible. But they aren't thinking about how ill-conditioned the inverse gets as the blur gets larger and larger.
There are other options for using the sun's energy. We can grow trees to burn, we can optimise windows and window coverings to use solar energy to heat and cool buildings, we can put solar panels in the dessert, or in the ocean, or above roads or in space (but that's not very cost effective).

My go to book on energy is this one http://www.withouthotair.com/ It gives good numbers for all the energy that we could generate from renewables and all the energy we currently use.
Latency your forgetting Latency
I agree that "hide things I won't like" isn't going to work but I think that for people in good faith the proxies I mentioned would be good enough. That however would not afford FB or anyone else control over other's speech, which I guess is what you think should be possible? Can you elaborate as to why you think that would be a net good?
And I guess if the customer pays a lot, they don't want to see you show up with an iPhone doing snapshots of the wedding cake :-)
It probably looks like a circle containing people who know about Permit A 38, because I assume everyone who reads things on purpose knows what a Catch-22 is.

Maybe you could call it "what would happen if Heller and Kafka tried to co-write a novel."
In Germany, there is. At least on per county (Landkreis) or larger city. Also, every / most major airport has one for emergency cases.
In the absence of mandatory shutdowns, the general retail, hospitality, etc. sectors would have still seen collapses of at least 50% or more. Maybe it wouldn't have been quite so bad as the 80% that actually happened, but that kind of crash would absolutely wipe out the industry without government support.
My point is that 300 KW is ~400 HP. I can't imagine that these trucks are always stopping vastly more quickly than they accelerate, so this ought to be able to enough to get the majority of the energy, especially taking into account that the regenerative braking is not 100% efficient to begin with.

It just doesn't seem like the issue of being able to disappate the energy with regenerative brakes would be a real problem with a full EV delivery vehicle. I think the people pointing to it as an issue are thinking of either different battery tech or hybrid delivery vehicles that had much smaller batteries (and thus lower peak regen).
Here's a ten year old art project where they did that: https://artoftheprank.com/2010/06/19/ztohoven-art-collective...

There's a video link in the page.

Our government reacted precisely the same - passport/national id offices now have cameras.
Lot of smaller countries open to back room pressure
It's interesting because I'd expect a certain number of people to be cashing in their 401ks and IRAs, which surely would have _some_ effect on the stock market, but it seems that as well as the recent political situation have had zero effect.
It's about risk tradeoffs.

Slight risk of fatal debris collision vs benefit of Starlink? Probably worth the risk.

Slight risk vs cost of having Starlink design into more burnable bits? Probably worth having them redesign.
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This is extremely speculative.
The epidemiological curve in my state was exponential until roughly a week after the shutdown. If it had continued, then a couple weeks later we would have had more new cases per day than there are hospital beds in the state. What would you have proposed instead to keep our hospitals from completely filling like they did in Italy?
Nice hack, now wondering if you can wear the 'Angelina Jolie' glasses frame[1] for your picture.

Funny story, when my passport was stolen in London I had to go to the US Embassy there to get a replacement, I brought a picture that I got in the tube station from a "passport photo machine". The embassy rejected it, requiring instead that I go to a specific photographer who was located about 2 blocks away. That guy charged me 20 pounds sterling for two black and white photos.

My wife kept that one after it had expired because in the photo I have a smoldering look of disgust :-)

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507542/facial-recogniti...
Adversarial against humans; it sounds like the idea is to take two people who already look somewhat similar and produce a photo which as best as possible looks like either.
What utter nonsense.
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It's good to have some hope, but to date there's been a consistent refutation of that.

I'm among those that believe that the coup is already complete and it's now a matter of them holding on to it.
> But the 2006 law also shifted the burden of paying for worker and retiree benefits entirely to the Postal Service. That came at the insistence of the Bush administration, Davis said.

Davis being the congressman who introduced the bill.
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Yeah, there are a lot of absolutely terrible solutions just screaming to be digitally solved that just don't get solved because the minor road bumps put in place make it juuuuust to hard to bother with the vast majority of exploits.

Look at notarizing documents. It's laughably insecure. It's just a stamp that lists a notary's name. Hiring a notary to work for you and expecting them to notarize documents for you, their boss, is completely normal and not seen as any sort of conflict of interest. Obviously a notary would quit their job rather than agree to backdate a document a day or two for the boss, right? Of course. And, despite the technical ease of making digital copies of documents or recording notary entries with timestamps or something, notaries tend to use a log book, and sometimes they just let the user fill it out themselves. In many states, the log book isn't even a requirement. And then there's the stamp. There's no standard for what it needs to look like, no secret token, it's just the words "notary public" and the name of a notary. And the names of all the notaries are listed on a public website somewhere. You can order a notary stamp on Amazon. And even if everything were impossible to fake, satisfying a notary of your identity is crazy easy. In many states, you don't even need your own ID, you can show up with someone else who has their own ID and have them vouch for your identity. And in many states the notary wouldn't even need to write down who that other person claimed to be. The whole system is absolutely screaming for digital reinvention, potentially including, yes, blockchain.

And yet, the system still mostly works just fine. A notarization is generally seen as pretty good evidence of something. People have some confidence in them. Folks you do business with will ask you to send them notarized documents. That's because most people who'd be willing to forge someone's signature in the moment aren't willing to go through the extra effort of faking a notarization, even though it's not a very high bar. And so it all somehow works, kind of. Weird, right?
What do you mean by this? What kind of black market goods did you have access to?
No coding skills needed is good, but i really need a "Export code" button :)
>is this peak capitalism, a monopoly has a country by it's throat and doesn't pay taxes in said country?

It's not actually true. I'm not aware of any lockdown or shelter in place orders which don't allow people to buy food or necessities, and plenty of essential businesses remain open, and also deliver.

Also, the vast majority of items being shipped by Amazon remain non-essential goods. Amazon may well be helping people, but their necessity in keeping the country running is overstated.
They're wrong though. It keeps their developers at peak churn, not peak productivity. They fill a great amount of tickets, and make a great amount of critical mistakes that become fires to put out later because everyone's focused on covering their own butts than making a great product.

Key developers leave the project for greener pastures, and business people wonder how the project failed despite the fact everyone was working so hard.
Wow I was a little nervous at first but that was really fun!

I did like 6 or 7. For some reason over half were from KSA. Might check that random seed :)

But still fun. Kudos to author.
Have you seen General Fusion?

They spin a large ball of molten lead using pumps and shoot hot plasma into the vortex that forms in the middle, then strike the walls of the lead chamber with carefully timed steam pistons to make an implosion pressure wave not entirely unlike Fat Man’s design, except reusable and for fusion.

The fusion heat and radiation gets absorbed by the lead and they run a heat exchanger on the pump loop for power generation. They also think they can breed fuel with some lithium in the lead.

I love their plan aesthetically but I’m not qualified to judge how feasible it is. It’s very satisfyingly physical though.
What’s the capacity of the system?

For the light-pollution cost, I hope it turns out better than Iridium.
How do you say 'how do I keep my internal organs AND my religion' in mandarin?
picture A of an individual, unblurred, protesting peacefully.

picture B of a blurred individual from later on in the same protest, wearing the exact same clothes, commiting questionable acts, is circumstantially incriminating.
Why differently branded?
speak for yourself, I've seen it first hand and the national guard is NOT a relief. I don't need militarized police in my streets, thank you.
It works on the neural networks inside people's skulls. The point is a passport control officer would wave either of two distinct people through based on the same photo.
I think the poor optimisation performance described in this post is really a deliberate tradeoff made by the go compiler team. Rather than producing highly-optimised code for the best performance in some cases (which is often a fool's errand anyway), the compiler produces good enough code; quickly, and its architecture is not overly complicated by advanced optimisation procedures.

In my experience, go's high compilation speed compared to C++ is a great help to development, and I would gladly give away complicated optimisations for this enhancement. For high-throughput programs, time spent on manual optimisation or architectural work has a much higher payout than the marginal improvements of optimising compilers, when considering the continuous cost of slow compilation.
In "Manually", I can get the URL https://copypaste.me/connect and a secret 6 letters code and in "Invite" I get and a long thing that looks like a hash
https://copypaste.me/ws9k5hr481xv0vns6nk6v7dn1pABCXYZ (I changed the last letters, just in case).

I expected to get the plain URL and the URL with the hash in the same tab.

Also, the countdowns says 4.9 minutes that is fine for me, but it is weird for most people.

And does the QR expire after some time? Why not also 5 minutes and a refresh button?

I think this is good for a snippet of code or something, but I'd be very afraid to use it to send a password.
The standard of the Supreme Court has established for "clearly established" is very hard to meet. For most cases, there has to a prior court cases with facts that match closely with the case at hand. For example,

https://reason.com/2020/05/19/qualified-immunity-supreme-cou...

Plus, I've seen little textual basis for qualified immunity at all.
Yeah, but raw fusion energy to heat is not nearly as trivial as it sounds. And given how tricky it is to sustain a fusion reaction it seems like it will be even harder to do it when you're dealing with moving heat from the source of the fusion reaction to wherever your steam generator is.
This article is about business vans, not consumer cars. The needs and economics are vastly different.

Do a quick search for 'van upfitter' and see. That's the market they are aiming for. What Tesla offers is completely orthogonal. Given the way that Tesla treats 3rd party repair shops, it's hard to believe that they could possibly make a serious offering in this space.
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Tegnell predicted that though, actually he thought it would be much higher, between 8k and 20k. The numbers we are seeing now are much better than he initially thought.

> Uppskattningen att mellan 8 000 och 20 000 svenskar kan komma att dö av coronaviruset är inte helt orimlig.

https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/tegnell-om-dodstalen-har-sa...
> This is not the case now in the largest part of the country, nor is it true in most parts of Europe. In other words, had BLM been around in the 1950's they would have been 'in control of the discussion' as they would have had the truth on their side. Nowadays this is not the case, those claims of 'systemic racism' are unfounded and easily refuted. [...] There are racist individuals, some of those may be in positions of power where they can effect racist policies over a limited amount of people but this is the exception, not the rule.

I strongly disagree with this premise. It's the claims that "systemic racism is dead" that are unfounded and easily refuted.
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Use the mesh which they already need to have to timesync their onboard systems, and have that modulate the rotors according to their ambient awareness. Profit by having an ubiquitous PA booming down from the heavens above...
Time to dust of my old X.400 and x.500 skills and update my cv then.

Sigh I could have had such a cool email address if that had taken off C=UK CN=Nickname - I was third line support for the UK x.400 ADMD and had admin
Q4 this year and Q1 next year just have to be bloodbaths this year - but then again, I'm literally always wrong about this stuff. It really seems like I should be right.

I say this because I think now that callbacks are starting slowly and lots of offices have said Sept - Oct time will when they 'open the office' again properly - the redundancies will be made before then - then belts tighten, budgets get slashed, spending goes way down due to layoffs - and then Q4 and following quarters will be abysmal.

I should probably buy calls on the S&P to be at record highs by year end instead though because we live in clown world now.
That's neat— I wonder if the gains are simply too small for it to make sense in a mass-market vehicle. Either way, seems like it would be a slam dunk for a delivery truck, city bus, garbage truck, basically any heavy vehicle with a stop-start workflow.
Have you given WhatsApp notification permissions?

Your comparison to Windows is probably more appropriate than you think. When is the last time Windows crashed on you (and it wasn't a dodgy third-party driver that caused it)? It works fine for nearly everyone using it. So does WhatsApp.
Obviously the argument in that paper applies to humans as a special case, but the whole point of it is that it also applies to a much more general set of possible minds, even ones extremely different from our own.
> You're castigating somebody for voting with their feet, but presumably mostly because they didn't do it as soon as you did.

No. I'm saying they did always vote with their feet. And "get money, fuck society" was the vote they cast.

Facebook isn't the army, there is no draft, they had and have plenty of other options. It's greed and a general feeling of superiority that sees the general population the same way the owners of factory farms see pigs.
I'm 300 feet from the street in my apartment and I can hear the buses putter along the road and board at the stop, car horns, backup beeping, truck hydraulic brakes, and heavy construction. I don't think an RC drone that sounds like a case fan is going to add much to the cacophony.
The fed's actions of the last few months have taken much of the risk out of the stock market. There's little perceived downside.
Why waste its capacity in places where terrestrial options are feasible?
To play devils advocate here, this was at a time before to no-fault divorce. For a woman to divorce her husband she was forced to show just cause, such as abandonment, insanity, adultery or cruelty. Cruelty is the easiest to claim. he obviously was not insane, he had not abandoned her for a extended period or to the best of my knowledge been in a affair to she would have to claim cruelty true or not to leave.
Probably too late to be noticed, but I want to mention that I've found that HP Premium LaserJet paper has worked very well for writing on with fountain pens for me. I started with 24lb and now am on 32lb [0]

As some folks have mentioned, normal US notebook paper doesn't work particularly well with fountain pens (they tend to show through to the other side enough that I can only use one side of each page). Most printer paper also suffers from this problem. You can get nicer notebooks that address this but they tend to be very pricey and I take notes prolifically (and of things that I don't particularly care to keep) enough that those aren't a great solution for me either--I go through them too quickly, and then I have a collection of random ephemera that I feel bad about tossing. So I use the paper mentioned above with off-brand Levinger rings, which let me reorganize them fairly easily (though it's still enough of a hassle that I'm thinking about giving the good ol' 3-ring binder another try...)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/HP-Printer-Paper-Premium32-Letter/dp/...
In Germany they do as well. So yeah, in person. Don't ask me how that works for handicapped people and elderly not able to move.

They don't safe your prints anywhere else then your passport or ID, so. Theoretically, you can get a passport with your picture for a different person. Very theoretical, and also very illegal. As long as the picture was within spec for biometric pictures, it was ok to bring your own.
I would point to other states that never shut down, like Wyoming and South Dakota, and states with light shut downs, like TX or FL (which did far better than NY or NJ). They all followed the same curve. An enormous amount of the case load was from infected nursing homes. Meanwhile, what was the goal of shutting down beaches and parks? Just to spread misery and give people nowhere to go? To deprive people of essential vitamin D and exercise? Madness, all of it.
SpaceX has good reasons to be compliant with the policies of sovereign nations; Starlink relies on shared spectrum and orbits a shared planet. I expect SpaceX will diligently observe the disparate policies of all nations. Note that the purpose of Starlink is to fund major SpaceX initiatives, particularly the Mars mission. It isn't an egalitarian exercise and squabbles with China or its client states are not a source of revenue.

There is no opportunity for clandestine use either; the ground station is a transceiver. Transceivers are relatively easy to detect when they transmit.
That may be true for a given service, but I'd wager closer to 99% of people have used customer support for something in the past. It'd be foolish to disregard it when you know you've needed it before, even if not for that same service category.
Not quite. Pure nitrogen forms an inert dimer with a very strong bond. The nitrogen that goes boom is the energy released by forming such a bond when you liberate nitrogen from complexes with other things than single nitrogen atoms. Like hydrogen and carbon and maybe oxygen.

But this stuff in the article is pure nitrogen, and isn't a dimer, and certainly isn't inert (it decayed back to the dimer when pressure was released). It'd be a crappy explosive (needs to be kept in a diamond anvil cell...) but it would have released the energy used to form it. In theory there are other allotropes, like octaazacubane (N8) that might be more stable and would be frighteningly efficient explosives.
I find it hard to imagine a world where the eccentric behaviors and personal lives of practicing scientists would receive newspaper coverage.

Really? Such tactics are all over the media nowadays. Read Manufacturing Consent then look for all of the tactics in the western "propaganda model" of operation updated for 2020. The news has never been subtle about this sort of manipulation since at least the 80's. By comparison, what I see nowadays, it seems like journalists think everyone's a mental toddler.

Look for emotional language in articles. Then count up the hard facts. There's an inverse relationship. It's not supposed to be like this!
X.400 tried that didn't work so well I know some of the howlers we found doing interconnect work cough cough Sprint and ICL
Canada is really playing this game badly, if they piss of India next they won't have much of an economic future as a country very soon.
Deno is great ! It makes it possible for us to write TypeScript and execute it really fast, without a build system to worry about!

The only thing that, to me, is a big problem, is that, even though you have types in your TS code, you're basically throwing them away at runtime, wasting huge opportunities for optimisation that even the V8 can't recover. If V8 had support for strictly typed TS code, can you imagine how fast it could get it to run?! I think that's the next stage in the evolution of JavaScript/Node/Deno: Node -> Deno -> Done.
The current answers are simply wrong.

I describe German bureaucracy for a living. Here's a free sample: it's slow and inconvenient.

Distributing part of the process to photo booths means you can show up, hand your documents and leave. This is already more than most locations can handle. Adding to their burden won't help.

As someone else pointed out, some processes can be done by mail. Driving all the way to Berlin to sort out paperwork would put rural communities at a disadvantage.
"Vitrification" is a way to freeze water so that it forms a glassy solid instead of ice crystals, locking the proteins in place and so that the "ice" reflects electrons randomly like water does, and so the only large structure redirecting electrons is the protein particles.
It was not philosophical statement "all defaults are bad". I value defaults - my VIM setup become empty over years. I choose Linux distribution with defaults that match me. My setup worth a lot of trouble and costs a lot of skill. It is not universal.

But some defaults are bad. QWERTY is one of them. I have no experience in Workman but I'm suspicious of design process - author penalized hand alternation and middle column. As long time Dvorak user I can't agree. Just looking at Carpalx [1] and Neo Layout [2] - vowels in one hand home row - it can be good. QWERTY derived layouts best asset is compatibility, yet ZXCV lost to ZXCMV. I can't explain that, QGMLWB makes much more sense.

[1] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization

[2] https://www.neo-layout.org/
Nice watercolors