skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"While the normal IPO process starts with a private business who wants to go public, a SPAC is the opposite: it starts with a public business, that is nothing.

A SPAC begins its life when a well-known promoter, like Chamath or Bill Ackman, raises money in an IPO with the following prospectus:

“I am raising money to take a company public. I don’t know which one yet; the money is going to go in a bag until I find one. When I do, my publicly traded bag of money will merge with the private business, and in doing so, take them public. You, the investors, will have your SPAC shares convert to shares in the new business, at an attractively negotiated price, plus warrants to buy more so you can profit on the upside.

Because I’m so smart, I’m going to pick a business that’s amazing and that you’ll want to own. If you disagree, you’ll have a chance to get your money back. But if I’m right, you’ll make a ton on the upside.”"

An interesting sales proposition, to be sure...
Is this also how switching transformers work?
You won’t get a worse price than what the exchange says is the price, but that price Is a moving target; if all competitors could see all orders, the price would move. Idk if it makes a difference on average but it is a difference
Don't necessarily disagree, but the point about what to accrue- I would posit that ground knowledge of both accounting and tech is important. An asset is from a tech perspective is different from an asset from a finance perspective. A given effort towards a specific end may be considered creating an asset from a finance perspective and creating debt from a tech perspective. Conversely, it may be valuable from a finance perspective to classify work as opex that is actually asset building from a tech perspective. The language and semantics don't translate cleanly.

Agree tho they can start in those areas- and of course just talking across domains is infinitely valuable on its own accord. Cheers.
Stupid question, but if it's only 10kw, why not use solar + batteries?

Certainly should weigh and cost less
"the reactor cannot weigh more than 7,700 pounds..."
I find this also holds for Seinfeld.
I think Michael P Frank is one of the more knowledgable people working on the subject, his Stanford talk is extremely informative ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZ_bQbxSXk
Show HN: Video where I talk about GAN in a Tower Defense game (WIP project)
Cerne Abbas Giant: Snails show chalk hill figure 'not prehistoric'
I think the idea is there will be a habitat close by.
That would be good, but I would rather it did not use a lossy format as its output though, but rather raw (lossless) data written to stdout so that you can then use a separate encoder for whatever format you want (whether lossless or lossy, including MP3 if wanted, but Opus is better).
Catholics? Hasidic Jews? They also have large families sometimes. It indicates a lot of love between the parents, in any case!
Seeds are a common e-commerce scam, coz by the time you knew what it turned out to be, it's too late to do anything.
What if the rocket carrying the reactor explodes ?
Reminds me of every time I watched a David Lynch movie.
Along with just about every other deep-space probe, and the recent Mars rovers. RTGs just give so much more power per pound in the outer solar system.

True reactors - not just RTGs - are a bit less common, but have a long history of use in the USSR's radar reconnaissance satellites. (The US only ever launched one, SNAP-10A [0]. The USSR launched more than 30)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A
This has never made sense to me. Just mail an empty envelope if that is your goal.
People take a good listing and rename everything for some fake piece of shit product.

It's incredibly despicable people are finding a way to risk people's lives over covid for a dollar in profit
The user doesn't care about any of that. I should be able to wake up the box by typing the pin. The reality is that i have to press the first letter of it then wait then press it again and then I have to wait and see if a dot appears in the field.

The reason it works like this is that the user is forced to use the software. It should be the other way around. If people are forced to use something developers should do what they can to not make the experience incredibly annoying.

Sure, there can be situations where you need to cut corners but this is the log in screen.

After logging in I mistype an application name in the search box and wait for the dialog to pop up that says "Best matches" with an empty list under it. It can't even find "tunderbird"

If I type a single letter it shows "search teh web for "a".

But it does show Atom! Woah! Technology at work!

I get to chose, I can press the down arrow and select "apps" then press enter twice OR I can press the down arrow twice and press enter! Becareful! Dont press the arrow to fast or it jumps back to searching the web for "a".

No one put any thought into this process.
One of my aunts is a such a specialized teacher; her program is called "emotional support" or something to that effect. From what I understand it's a classroom in the same school building and the students sent to her classroom are troubled in frequently very sad ways which she won't discuss in specifics. She's accountable to the same principle that the normal teachers are.

From what I know of this sort of program, it seems to be a sincere attempt to help kids, not merely brush them off into a corner to forget about them. I don't know how often it's successful, but I think in that school district at least it's well motivated. From what I know of it, it seems like a much better system than allowing those kids to disrupt normal classrooms.
How does this work with the insurance dynamics though? You say no insurance full stop, does that make the cost prohibitively high for some? I feel like insurance in a way is similar to a membership model for the patient in terms of cash flow although definitely not the same for the doctors. I'm not in the US so I don't really understand how medicaid works over there
What you describe is the polar opposite of freedom. It should be immediately dismissed not due to the current political climate but instead because it would establish the ultimate nanny state full of red tape and bureaucracy.

No one should be arbitrating personal activities unless they directly and immediately impact those around you.

(And for the record, I vehemently disagree with sin taxes such as those for alcohol and tobacco. Legally requiring health warnings on the packaging, on the other hand, makes a lot of sense to me. Also note that alcohol and tobacco have much more consistent and severe health impacts than, say, refined sugar.)
A capacitor adder, or rather, accumulator! And analog too, not digital!

I love it!

Just don't load this accumulator with $FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF -- as that will generate a voltage so high it will fry the whole system! <g>

No, I'm just kidding! (That was just an attempt at humor! <g>)

On a serious note -- I think the idea is both fasinating and meritorious!
I made this video cause I think this is something worth exploring, using GAN (Generative Adversarial Neural Networks) to generate strategies of hiring and deploying enemies to beat you in a Tower Defense game.

Just like you would have your budget to buy and upgrade towers, the AI would have a budget to hire enemies to play against you. Also it would choose what kind of enemies would compose a wave.

I'm designing this game experiment in my free time (which is less and less each passing day) but I think it would be interesting.
And civil engineering! They had standard valves and whatnot as part of their elaborate water utility system.

Unfortunately this link was the best I found. But man, as not a civil engineer you could very well convince me those are early 20th century:

https://www.valvemagazine.com/web-only/categories/manufactur...
For an interesting discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/wiki/lag
That's not input processing.

Example of a 9 year old "office" monitor: https://www.prad.de/testberichte/test-monitor-dell-u2412m/6/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panels_on_spacecraft#Ion... might be one reason.

That said, the ISS uses enough solar panels to generate 120kW, so it's certainly possible.
i wonder what the lifecycle costs of battery/panel replacement are vs repair+fuel, none of this stuff lasts forever out there
Will they be moving contributions to GitHub pull requests as well?
The smaller your donor base, the fewer people you have to make happy. My personal belief is that this is why income inequality is inversely correlated with democratic representation.
I'm a big Far Side fan, but I'm not liking the aesthetic of the new tablet medium. The shading in particular looks significantly inferior to the old water color works.
He wants the fun homelab not savings. His particular NUCs are ~$600 a piece, the nas was a few $k as well. Definitely you can get more compute on a single node but I think you'd be missing the point.
Type checking is achievable. It doesn't matter if I need to use external tools; those tools are available.
Sure, that's what I recommend. Wireguard specifically.
I would want stuff that many things to do without needing the web browser, working by free software based command-line operations.

In many cases, I would want to access remote data sources using the SQLite command line, by SQLite extensions which provide them as virtual tables so that SQL queries can then be performed on them including joins with other data sources, copying them to local files, etc (all of this comes "for free" once it is implemented as a virtual table; SQLite does the rest).
Citation needed for what?

It’s obvious speculation.

But it makes a lot of sense.
To me, this is a classic example of a change in medium renewing a creative individual’s creative drive. Similar examples from literature are legion. From Picassos move from painting to collage (giving us Cubism), to the Beatles employing the Sitar in Norwegian Wood.
Dart is statically typed. I still miss the type system in JavaScript, and as much as I like TypeScript after I get it working, it has too many configuration options.
"Other glass coverings, such as fused silica and lead glasses, may reduce this efficiency loss to less than 1% per year."

doesnt seem that bad actually. Perhaps the batteries would die too quickly being charged/discharged so often.
Do Instagram filters destroy battery life?

Because that’s all they need. And even less than normal because you don’t need to figure out bunny ears and exaggerated smiles. Simply whether a person is smiling or not.
Man, I just plopped my work laptop down next to a spare monitor on my dining room table and have been cranking away for the last few months. Approximate cost, $0.

I feel like I may be doing COVID wrong.
Suggestion for anyone who's annoyed by SSH latency - try out mosh[0]. It watches to see if your keystrokes are echoed and if they are, it'll start echoing your keystrokes locally without waiting for network roundtrip.

That, plus the ability to rejoin a session even from a different IP, makes working over SSH doable even from airplane Wi-Fi.

[0] https://mosh.org/
Journey from Israeli military intelligence to VP R&D
Your comment focuses too much on death despite pointing out that the death rate isn’t very high. What you’ve not mentioned, maybe because you forgot or weren’t aware, is that getting infected and surviving could mean long term lung damage, sensory problems, brain damage, heart problems and many other things we’re discovering and still trying to understand them better.

The long term effects of contracting COVID-19 aren’t fully known and fully defined yet. That will take time to figure out. Meanwhile, fighting against every public safety measure (like some people are wont to do) is very problematic.
I believe classes are nominally typed in TypeScript. Otherwise, OCaml has row polymorphic records, polymorphic variants, and a structurally typed object system, in addition to a powerful nominal type system with ADTs and higher-order modules and such.
Maybe their philosophy was to focus on the large latency tasks and not the keystrokes
Not necessarily a problem. You don’t have to launch it with the fuel rods in, if it would be safer to store the fuel rods a different way for launch. Ultimately you do need high levels of safety, but only about the same level that’s needed for ships at sea, since many of them have nuclear reactors.
That’s why the Apple/Google process was setup to not track your location.
TY for the notes!!
The only other book that covers this as far as I know is The Quants by Patterson.
At least on the surface of the moon, you're going to be in darkness for 14 days every 28. This not only means you won't be generating solar power, but your battery efficiency will probably also take a hit due to the cold temperatures (not to mention, you'll have to heat things too). So you'd have to have enough batteries for 14 days.
PHP rocks in 2020. Couple it with laravel or something and you get a solid platform to build a monolith-type web app with really fast performance.
The Four Noble Truths in Buddhism
Exactly.

(Thanks for asking! It's difficult to sustain a conversation here, but I intermittently check comments up to a few days back in case they're in need of expansion.)
May I ask what the “plant study” you are referring to is?
It might fallout.
Source? Or is this supposed to be a joke?
This is quite complete, definitely bookmarking for reference.

I've been knee deep in PHP for the last 6 months after keeping it at arm's length for probably 10 years. It's really quite incredible how much it's improved and I think the type system is the major factor for me. It's not perfect but damn - I can get some stuff done really quick now.
In the interests of making this somewhat productive, what open alternatives are there that we should be using? For instance, is there a commercially available, open source cycling computer that I can put my money towards?

For a different industry, is there an open source e-reader I can support instead of Amazon/kobo/nook?

Maybe I'm stupid as you say, but I genuinely don't know if these things are out there and a quick Google search didn't turn up anything I'd call usable.
Many reactors are envisioned to be launched by chemical means and then turned on remotely. Before a nuclear reactor turns on and starts splitting atoms, you can hold its fuel in your hand no problem.
this is insane. the full cradle-to-grave lifecycle of nuclear energy on our own planet is shamefully underdeveloped given how much we rely on nuclear power.

-plants are run far longer than their lifespan was ever designed. most have posted leaks and accidents of various sizes that could be easily avoided.

-waste is just buried. no attempt at salvage, and nothing can be done to make it safe. the US has 80 sites alone. most will be dangerous indefinitely.

-3 mile island, fukushima, and chernobyl could likely all have been prevented. all include an exclusion zone of some shape or size. none have experienced meaningful amounts of cleanup.

-Nuclear is a one-time thing. one you exhaust the mines on the moon, youre out of power and you've done nothing to embrace renewable energy.

-renewable energy is essentially infinite on the moon. the moon can reach 120c, easily enough to drive steam turbines. there is plenty of room for both terrestrial and tethered orbital solar sails.

the whole effort smacks of pandering to a dying industry.
I've bumped into this when I went back to buy more.

This was a "Ultralight Backpacking Canister Camp Stove with Piezo Ignition 3.9oz!" for about $8. Now it is some sort of headphone jack. Several things like that, where the product that was previously ordered... changed. Most of the comments for this one are still about the stove.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004U8CP88
Quadruple rot13 for enhanced security.
Depends if your name is Jack.
Also look into open crux
I'll add though; the real benefit only comes with heavy use of objects, like in Yii/Craft. If you've got keyed arrays everywhere it's still a hellhole.
Love this part... “Early on, I figured out that while we have awesome technologists, probably among the brightest in the world, no one knew how to manage development, release, and write good code. So I took charge. Part of leading, especially when you don’t have the title, is putting in the work. Initially, at Cymmetria, I was doing my job plus creating process documents, writing training guides, building automation, helping everyone… It worked for me in the army so I did it again.” Don't wait to be asked to solve the problem, just solve it!
Patterns in Source Code Obfuscation
Unless GPT-3 made huge advances since the last samples were publish, this seems like it was done by a real person.

Still, it has something of the "GPT-3" style and I could believe the persona is someone taking GPT-3/GPT-2 output and editing it until makes sense or just aping the style.
That's an interesting report. Thanks for linking it!
The point of science is that by looking at the data you can draw logical conclusions and actions.

By “making his own call”, Ioannidis has thrown that out the window. Instead of presenting the data clearly and getting scientific consensus, he has tried to backdoor the process and go straight to the White House. Even the data he has collected has been widely criticized as skewed. Ioannidis is an influential scientist but he is not a politician or a policy maker, this isn’t his call to make.
On Mars at least there are big dust storms that can really challenge operations.
Go visit a place with a noxious weed problem (e.g the Bitterroot Valley) for positive confirmation of this.
Yes indeed. The SNAP program was the big one really, culminating with an actual reactor in orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A

The NERVA program was one part (mostly for propulsion) with many reactor tests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA

The Soviets had a few dozen nuclear reactors in space powering satellites hunting submarines.
A few seeds don't weigh much. And then why not add some old newspaper in there?
It's called "infosec" in the private sector and "cybersecurity" in the public sector (and adjacent).

"Cyber" can have negative connotations in the private sector only because, well, the best people in this business would never pass a security clearance so the public sector can only hire the leavings...
Windows Terminal Overview – Microsoft Docs
Looks interesting, is there a similarity with MLflow from Data bricks?
How many applications are left that still use Mercurial? I can only think of two big ones, the JDK and Mozilla's entire code base. Are there still others around? Seems like everyone's moving to Git these days, which is great considering I never did get the hang of Mercurial.
Picasa can do it on a mediocre CPU, single threaded. That's the benchmark you should aim at.
Good to know, thanks for the link!
This month in 1939: How dead cattle led to the discovery of warfarin
How do you power e.g. a large (radio)telescope array on the Moon when it's on the dark side? It can be completely robot-controlled, but it would still need significant power.
Nuclear secrets: the Dutch whistleblower who tried to stop Pakistan’s bomb
https://archive.is/EgTF0
Ioannidis was going on Fox News and his coauthors were writing op eds on the Wall Street Journal advocating their policy positions. Then they touted their Santa Clara study in the popular media before it had gone through peer review, which it did not ultimately pass without significant revision, due to major statistical shortcomings.

Your implication is that he be should be treated like a pure scientist that isn't in the rough and tumble world of politics and should be treated more deferentially. It was the Stanford authors choice to directly criticize the lockdown policy in popular media, and they should not be surprised in the least when people who disagree reply in the same manner and the same forums.

Oh, and Ioannidis became famous and was offered the professorship at Stanford because he wrote a paper called "Why Most Published Research Findings are False.", which is in large part about how researchers misuse statistics to report findings that aren't true. It's like an O Henry story.
It's a bit odd that there's such a monoculture around git though, where are the competitors?
Ask HN: What is your favourite fitness and training app?
Pick a spot that's constantly lit with sunlight?

https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071023/full/news.2007.182.h...
His worksheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CUs3HrqstC2oV3CF3_di...
Might it be the case that another party is handling fulfillment and this isn’t an option for the manufacturer who wants to create fake reviews?
You can check Géron's book to know more about data preparation, specifically the second chapter. This chapter details an end-to-end machine learning project (price prediction). Here, the author describes scikit learn's pipelines for automating preprocessing tasks for your dataset.
Here are some possibilities to add:

- Allow farbfeld output (to stdout)

- Allow specifying your own assignment of bands

- Allow to skip the colour adjustment if you want to do that separately

- Ensure it works correctly with a non-Unicode locale
In addition to a regulation’s existence, EPA must also do the testing and prosecute violations. I’m not sure they do here, even before the trump era, especially since for a while EPA was steadily lowering the safe limits. I think instances of that are contained within those articles, but unfortunately they are walls of text and you and I have no reason to greatly trust my memory.

My post was in response to this question:

> I can see the perspective that making, having, or dealing [LSD] is an unacceptable risk of harm to people who didn't consent. Is there some reason that's unrealistic?

My point was that the factors of “unacceptable risk” in regulations are laden with things that have nothing to do with actual levels of harm to people. You corroborated that point with your post; I’m only clarifying here. This is the system we have, and it can be quite bad at actual harm reduction due to cultural factors.

It’s weird to live in a world where a substance that showed great promise in therapy, fighting alcoholism and other addictions etc. has been banned for 50 years, while another substance that makes dish washing and floor cleaning easier but causes cancer and birth defects in people close to where it’s made is broadly sanctioned.
That’s egregious. Why is so hard to find any kind of report button on the page (on mobile)? I’d like to at least tick some box saying something is amiss but I can’t find anything.
Vietnam sees first Covid case in 100 days
Why Elon Musk’s autonomous driving ideas don’t worry insurers
- There were metal coupons placed in the reactors at the beginning that they pull out occasionally and test all the time to see if the vessel is still ok to run. So far so good. Other equipment can be maintained or replaced.

- Nuclear power is the only energy source I'm aware of that internalizes all of its waste. Commercial nuclear sits in dry casks which have never, to my knowledge, injured or killed a single person. C.f. fossil and biofuel waste which kills 8 million people per year (!)

- See fossil and biofuel externalities above. When you consider all these accidents, the safety of nuclear is still on par with wind and solar. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

- Nuclear energy is renewable. There's enough uranium in seawater to power breeders for millions of years, and that replenishes continuously through runoff and plate tectonics for billions of years (~as long as the sun will run). http://large.stanford.edu/publications/coal/references/docs/...

For space, Voyager 1 is still sending nuclear-powered signals back from beyond the solar system. It was launched in 1977

Nuclear energy does have some pretty legitimate physical advantages in space thanks to good old E=MC²