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Researchers say there should be 30 active civilizations in our galaxy
By golly, I agree! And I would agree even if I wasn't working on technology to achieve this.

Unfortunately, the article does not say how the zinc oxide nanoparticles will help with being able to use solar/wind power to produce syngas.

In fact it is not clear how these nanoparticles could actually be used to make an industrial catalyst. Current catalysts also use nanoparticles - on a substrate with enormous surface area/volume ratio, but these nanoparticles are created on that substrate.

I am curious about what the researchers plan as the next step.
The point is that it encourages centralisation, and where mining is centralised, miners can play games like blacklisting wallets if they want to. Particularly if, say, most of the mining capacity ends up somewhere with an authoritarian government that might take an interest.

(I am willing to admit here I don't know enough about monero in particular to grok whether the mining blacklist thing would work on that chain. I'm pretty sure it could for BTC)
Thanks. I think the new app coming out next month has a better UX. As for comparison with the default Weather app, I think the underlying forecast is more accurate. [Note, I work not on the app, but in back-end data. I'm happy to forward feedback to the people who work on the app.]
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Guessing it's related to a bug on the platform from last year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-05/robinhood...
Such issues can appear everywhere. But if such bug will be found in widespread framework or CMS, zero-days will be exploited immediately by automated scanners (Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress had some in the history). So, protection through obscurity is some kind of protection too.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/most-popular-tv-shows-highe...

Looks like the original show only (at #2, after NFL). New Orleans is at #22 and Los Angeles at #28.
I just wrote my first program in Basic with my dad's help...
I still remember that, guessing numbers from 1 to 10. It was great fun!
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I collect every book that I come across, and I can't count the number of times it's been helpful (one month, or five years later). It doesn't matter if you can't remember the book after a week, fzf is here to help you. If you got interested in a new topic (like the aforementioned Rust), press Ctrl+T and type "rust".

Or you can suppress the impulse and skip getting the book, then either forget the site altogether, or visit it five years later and find that it got shut down four years ago.
> Can the industry even make 30-year parts any more?

Absolutely. Will they make it, absolutely not.

Planned obsolescence is not a conspiracy theory, its a widely popular business strategy.

Spare part business is a additional revenue stream for car manufactures. They fought hard and dirty trying to monopolize it, via lobbing harmful to public laws.
So they at least wrote an article about it to salvage the time spent.
The insurance company isn't a math problem; they are offering an explicitly bad deal. They are offering insurance on the basis that they will make a profit. Making that explicit in the contact is reasonable.

If somebody thinks they are making money out of their insurance contract it is probably fraud or very close to.
Same in sweden some time ago around 2007. I wonder why they didn't picked like C, BASIC or Pascal or something. C++ feels very unforgiving as a starter language.

10 years later when I worked as a substitute teacher it was PHP instead which felt more odd as a starting general programming language ...
Except for the case where you have bet your house on your team...
I think the issue here is that Kaggle's statement that the top teams broke the rules is just very opaque. They stated they broke the rules on external data. The article then goes on to talk about what data the teams used and what licenses it has, and what data the teams were asked to provide. But it really is almost impossible to know what the concerns of FB/Kaggle were without them specifically stating them. Clearly whatever the issue was it didn't effect every team - so it may be there were details of the licenses that the disqualified teams used that weren't good enough. As I say though, it's very difficult to say and it's kind of hard to think of a reason Facebook would arbitrarily disqualify teams for no good reason. It's perfectly possible FB were concerned about image rights or something else, but people seem to be perfectly happy just assuming some grand conspiracy.
//node/directory was pretty common in network file systems, I remember using that on SunOS in the early 80's. I think it was called 'remote file system' on Sunos at the time
Just move to Seattle or Minneapolis for anyone that hates police so much. They won't be there anymore so you'll be safe.
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> Has amazing VOIP integration.

I was never able to get this working!
She could not have actually gotten on those flights unless she had fake ID, so then entire purpose was to claim insurance for flights she could not get on. Surely that is fraud just about anywhere.
Also that would be extremely lazy from Facebook, who have plenty of sources of this data without having to scrape random YouTube videos.
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In Portugal we just give our NIF (fiscal number - VAT Number) every time you buy something. All invoices will have your NIF. And all invoices are communicated to the government by the software that make your invoice. All invoicing software need to me certified by the government. This is mandatory. When you need to make your taxes they are already filled in. And business can't avoid taxes because they are communicated to the government.
> We should reject

Who is "we"?

You can't "set aside" something which a free market has chosen to accept. If you're upset about PoW, invent a superior replacement which the market would prefer over PoW.

However, I suspect you cannot. I'm doubtful that such thing can exist. Bitcoin is now an essential commodity because there is no replacement for it when it comes to saving money or evading warrantless (illegal) surveillance. The central banks and governments around the world caused this, and they aren't capable of reversing it.
UoPeople has given me an opportunity that the universities here in my country would never have given me. I really appreciate it in the sense that students are given the opportunity to assess their peers. I have really picked a lot of ideas from assessing my peers most of the time. I can also confidently say that I have gotten the opportunity to meet new friends from different countries, which has given me the idea of how they also relate to issues or how they approach things in general.
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I'm pointing out a literary source which contradict your claims. Not that the viewpoint of Plato was necessarily shared by everyone - Greece was not monolithic. But you specifically mentioned Plato.
You're right. The first stage (4 conical shaped boosters hanging off the sides) and the second stage (central core booster) all fire together to lift-off. When the side-boosters are depleted they jettison (and perform the Korolev cross) while the second stage keeps firing.

The third stage also starts before the second stage is completely depleted; this is why there's an "open grate" visible in photos of the rocket (about half way down the stack, see [1]), gives the exhaust somewhere to go before the previous stage is jettisoned. Hot staging is advantageous as you don't need extra ullage motors to deal with propellant being in the wrong place inside the tanks in microgravity. The Soyuz (and other R-7 variants) are brilliantly engineered; There's a reason they're still flying nearly 70 years on.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/So...
She probably wasn't super accurate about it, because the article also says she would try to get the tickets refunded if the flight ended up not getting delayed.

Maybe the insurers didn't have sophisticated algorithms, and her prediction was something like: For example on Flightradar24, etc, you could see that a particular plane on a particular date maybe flew New York - Austin, then Austin - Boston and then Boston - New York. On the next day it might be the same or a different plane. On the next day you'd just have to see if the NY - Austin flight is delayed, and you could deduce that since the airline usually uses 1 plane to do the 3 above routes, that plane will be delayed for the Austin - Boston and Boston - New York routes...
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Someone should make a PoW algorithm based on useful things like game theory; for example a chess bot competing against other chess bots, the top winner forges the block and gets the rewards. This is still not extremely useful, but better than just hashing useless strings.

Ideally, PoW algorithms should be focused on real science and/or economic problems.
Also most women find most men unattractive or average looking. Most men find most women average looking or attractive.
2009 disagrees.
Would you report your fellow in company that e.g. goes late to work? Or uses corporate assets (printer, laptop) for personal things?

This is similar, if you know someone you have less incentive to report on one.

The better you know them, the higher is the bar for reporting.
>This competition should not be about scraping and tagging skills

Competitions that allow external data are at least partially explicitly about that. If they weren't they wouldn't allow external data (which is not exactly uncommon on kaggle).
> As a black man you are more likely to be killed by a cop than it is likely a cop dies in the line of duty

Same goes for criminals. And this is the mistake in your argumentation. Around 2.2% of black men were imprisoned in 2018 in the US (https://www.statista.com/statistics/252871/imprisonment-rate...). It's not per se outrageous that 5% or so of criminals die in the hands of the police, in a country with major social issues and easy access to dangerous weapons. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
This is part of why Windows is my main boot OS on my desktop. Remoting into Linux (whether it's my SBCs, laptop, or a VM) from Windows is easier and works better than the opposite.
For those who aren't aware, many Kaggle competitions allow external data (this one did) but require disclosure, and often there is some back-and-forth to clarify the exact details of what is used.

In this case the disqualified participants are well respected and haven't previously been involved in any dubious behavior. They properly disclosed what they were doing and despite there being other clarifications there was none that person releases for CC-BY data would be required.

Obviously this is a ridiculous requirement. There's no way for that team to be able to do that, but they did take proper care to use data that Facebook could reasonably use. It's unreasonable for FB/Kaggle to expect participants in a data science competition to suddenly know what Facebook's data ethics department is demanding this week outside what is legally required.
I'd agree that of course "real" programming is gonna be able to cover a lot more cases than "building blocks" programming can ever cover. A bit like comparing only using libraries vs writing your own code, can get you far but will never allow you to do anything.

> and you're back to writing code

My point was more geared towards the people who can't write code. So this is not really an alternative for them. So something imperfect that kind of does what you need, in most cases, is most of the times better than nothing.

I don't think anyone is selling "no code" as a solution that works for everything and any case. But it does work for a lot, so us "real" programmers can stop implementing the same boilerplate over and over, and people who can't program, can build automated workflows for themselves, which is nice.
1 is a pretty big flaw. As a trivial example, the "Date" header changes for every request on most web servers. News websites have minute to minute updates.

The problem statement in the blog post covers these issues and sticks to validatation of a already-downloaded cache.
So you think this task is learneable without any labeled data ("scraping and tagging skills")? After all, that's pretty much how FB, Google et. al. do it as well, throw more data & CPU power at the problem.
The rules seem pretty clear that consent is required from any persons appearing in any external datasets that are required. The winners scraped data from Youtube videos so I am not not sure the issue is.

The more worrying takeaway is that the winners scraped videos from people who clearly had no intention of their videos being used for a deepfake detection algorithm. Yet they did not think of the ethical considerations of using that data (did everyone in the video even have a say in the video being uploaded?). I think Kaggle disqualifying the team is the right move (even if it's a painful one for the winners).
Nope! The[0] blockchain necessarily has use on the order of half the (non-dedicated) power generation capability it's host civilization in order to achieve proper security; otherwise the other half of said power could used to mount a 51% attack. It's less in practice, both because it's not worth that much to attack, and because it's not fully secure, but in theory, a Kardashev 3 civilization would need a Kardashev 2.97 or so energy expenditure to secure it's blockchain.

0: and it is a definite article, like the internet. There by definition can't be more than one at any given time.
If the insurance companies were so consistently mis-pricing their contracts, instead of calling the police they should have hired this woman and used her expertise to design dynamic pricing algorithms.

The article says the insurance companies have now closed the loopholes she exploited. To me, she deserves every dollar she made for making the insurance market more efficient. I'm sure those errors would have cost these companies much more than $400k over the long run.
Very good job!
I wish I had this when I was introducing algorithms to kids!
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I think you're overestimating the amount of space we have realistically available for renewable energy. At some point I did the math for Germany.

The average German needs around 144sqm of solar panels (located in Germany) to meet their primary energy demand of around 48MWh per year (taking into account average production of solar panels in Germany). Germany has a population density of around 4300sqm / person. So in the ideal case with no storage losses you need to cover more than 3% of Germany with solar panels if you want to meet primary energy demand with solar power. (Wind energy is slightly more dense in Germany, but I haven't done the math there).

Realistically you might get something like 1% of the land area without huge resistance of the local population. Probably less, which is why offshore wind is popular. 100% renewable generation is only realistic because you can safely assume that large parts of the primary energy consumption are wasted. For example internal combustion engines are at best 40% efficient. Burning things for heating also only gets you 1J of heating per Joule expended, whereas heat pumps get you 2-3J. You just can't get away with losing another factor two to generate syngas, or even more if you want liquid fuels.

Of course you can justify some inefficiencies if you're willing to transport energy from far away (say solar power from the Sahara), but that is ridiculously expensive compared to more local generation.
Insurance is gambling that reduces your risk, rather than increases your risk.

That's generally the reason for why it's treated differently, by law.
Strapi, I guess, can create APIs when you create models via Strapi's own UI Modeller itself (much inline with traditional API frameworks) and it does not generate APIs automatically on existing database schemas.

With XgeneCloud, you can point to 'ANY' existing or pre-built database schemas and your APIs are ready in seconds. So XgeneCloud introspects the underlying database schema automatically and then generates models, controllers, relational controllers, auth & ACL!

And to stretch the fun factor a bit - you can also point multiple databases as input - we will still manage to generate APIs for all databases together :) - happens within seconds.

Strapi ships an UI to create-edit models, but then I am guessing it is not a complete Database Client. They are targeting headless CMS space - so their needs might be much geared to provide richer datatypes in content management rather than to provide a fully featured database client. Also, I am not sure on how they manage SQL schema migrations (if somebody can help answer that). With XgeneCloud, your schema migrations are automatically generated as and when you make schema changes - this makes the process of backend database design a really seamless and enjoyable experience. What this means is - our desktop tool can be used by any database admins to manage schema migrations easily.

And finally, XgeneCloud's APIs are also Hybrid Serverless functions : which means without changing a single line of code - generated APIs can be deployed as Serverless functions across any Cloud Platform (AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure Function App, Alibaba Function Compute and Vercel Now)!

Two major-major benefits from this :

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2. Then those Serverless Functions are not cloud specific.

So the same code will work on any Serverless Cloud Infrastructure. Your code is not locked in with a Cloud provider.

Plus, we have a built in API client - where you can debug and perform test generated APIs (much like postman)

So with XgeneCloud, you can cover all aspects of API lifecycle management (Database, REST API Server, GraphQL API Server, API Client and Serverless)
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Is there a term for the type of response that, instead of furthering the discussion, just tries to overwhelm you with questions?
I'm not neccessarily considering him an intellectual, I just find the points he makes about the instinctual reaction to be outraged compelling (and pretty common sense). What he's saying on the subject is not deep, but the current discourse is so off the rails that we need someone to pause and talk about the basics (realities of arrests, police violence statistics, how people interpret videos etc.)
Even for the Mac Pro workstations? I bet Apple Audio and VFX shops will not be happy
> If you want to create a list for this cause, at least make it good, make it solid. Don't fill it with random junk to inflate the numbers.

What I read is: If you want to create a list for this cause, at least make it perfect and unassailable in every possible way. Because I only need to point skeptically at one thing to dismiss the whole lot.
Wouldn't mother be sexist? ....
In the context of Git, "master" is not used in the sense of a master/slave relationship but as a master copy. Are you hoping for a blanket ban of the word "master" regardless of the context?
IMO the real issue is that Facebook wanted a commercially-usable product, and they thought Kaggle had all the safeguards for that, but no:

Because of RGPD and friends, Facebook can't store those photos, even though their license are permissive, and respects Kaggle's rules.

This clearly shows what Kaggle is: It is a way to get very cheap and high quality data-science work. It's not for hiring people, not for truly helping the research community, not for to help people learn. Nope, just cheap workers.

It really feels like Facebook have there whole deepfake detection strategy here! They put like 2M$ on the table to solve an issue that will(?) plague their whole multi-billion platform.
When we hire IT contractors who work in house, then we supply everything. I am not letting you plug your computer into my network. You use our software, so when the contract is over, and the next person has to maintain it, it is easier.

I have worked a remote contract where I was supplied everything. Laptop / SW / libraries. When the contract ended I returned everything. When the contract restarted 5 months later, guess what I received in the mail.

In IT, so much is 'unique version' that having contractor provided items causes a version control nightmare.

Construction uses more standard items. Although an individual might not own a XYZZY the contracting company should. And if not, they can usually rent it for a day or two. With SaaS this might become more of the case with IT.
Some Intel Atom processors die after sending more than a few terabytes over USB over their lifetime. You can easily kill a laptop by leaving the webcam on for a few weeks, and then magically all USB stops working and there is no fix other than soldering on a new CPU.

I wonder if this is the reason?
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Stuff like this can save hours to teachers and kids.
Frankly... among my generation of roughly 30 year olds, I'd expect Avatar the Last Airbender to have higher cultural impact than 1984 (which was written in 1949).

Most of us were forced to read 1984 and didn't really enjoy it. ATLA however, is something that we organically grew up with through high-school / college and actually paid attention to.

My group of friends would be aware of 1984 concepts... such as "Big Brother is Watching" (phrases / concepts which have escaped the book and become a thing of their own). But I don't think we'd recognize the phrase "At War with Eurasia".

Honestly, the only reason why I remember "At War with Eurasia" is because I was a quiz-bowl player and was forced to memorize key phrases from many books I barely read. Even if I did read 1984 in my high school classes, it never actually stuck with me.
Then why draw the line on race? That just leads to divide and conquer between the poorest of a nation. Because

> that might be something like defining how much to spend on schools based on the taxable income of residents.

is purely economic discrimination. Frankly, I think the recent redefinition is lacking.
I don't think people are as attracted to novelty as you think. Sure, everyone has a gadget (or garment) or three that they buy just for novelty, but the vast majority of household items and appliances are bought just to fulfill their purpose. And they won't get replaced unless they break, deteriorate, or reveal design flaws or something else that makes them unfit for the purpose.

What most people do care about is price. And what most suppliers care about is.. yeah, it's a race to the bottom.

I would assume that people would also care about quality and durability if it were something they were informed about. Like, if you're buying a toaster, one sells for $30 and the label says that will break in two years.. the other sells for $40 and the label says it will last for five years or more. I'm pretty sure most people would pick the latter, unless they're exceptionally poor or there's some other major aspect of the design or functionality that draws them to the cheaper option.

Of course, this is not the world we live in, and toasters in $25 to $100 range can last a while or not. Quality or durability is not on the label, and price is not an indication of quality. The trend seems to be that lots of "race to the bottom" companies fill their lineup with premium priced products that are made of the same crap quality as their bottom tier, but they have some silly gimmick (bluetooth in a toothbrush? goodness gracious).