skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll need some electricity and that's a mere heat generator.

The Carnot heat engine efficiency is not nice at a cold side of 2000K and the working fluid will be a problem. Maybe gaseous helium or argon to reduce leakage, I guess.

The only place I found EU-610 was a Russian thermal rocket. Which is kind of like saying all you need for a coal electrical plant is a lightweight pile of charcoal.

Its a different type of technology, sorta like the difference between burning in a cast iron stove to boil tea, vs using a microwave oven to boil tea.
Are they still collecting data for Common Voice, or is it both projects that they're terminating?
> Publish and do what with it? Collect kudos from strangers?

To give you an example, I once sold a small, single screen app to a local business for about $2k.

That’s not great money, but at least is was something and still better than working a minimum wage job. Once I was done I knew 100% I could give them a Windows installer that would work for a very long time.

With the App Store model I don’t think I could have said yes to doing that work because the risk of not being able to deliver. The risks there would be eating the cost of the development and loss of reputation since they’d be annoyed at spending a bunch of time and getting nothing out of it.

Now things have come full circle and LoB apps would all be web apps.
https://pharo.org/success
And you're a liar. Show the early upvoters for each post and prove me wrong once and for all.

Statistically what this company does here is impossible unless a corrupt person like you is complicit.
It’s less about the product to me and more about the content.

YouTube has the content I want to watch, creators that use YouTube rely on it for their revenue and recommendation algorithm.

Until that problem is fixed the alternatives won’t work.
Tbf, the cessna and the 747 will behave very differently. I do think some jerkiness is added by the head camera effects that have been added.
Excellent page discussing the physics of colonizing mercury: https://einstein-schrodinger.com/mercury_colony.html

"Colonization of Mercury appears to be a very real and practical possibility, whereas colonization of Mars or the other planets, moons or asteroids is really more in the realm of fantasy."

A big advantage of Mercury over mars is higher light intensity: "One very important advantage is the high solar light intensity, which is stronger than on Earth by a factor of 10.6 at perihelion and 4.6 at aphelion"
I’m with you on the SPAM protection, but I find the tabs and threading to be god awful.
I’m lucky that I don’t have any of that at work.

If I did I would need a google account just for that purpose.
This! I’ve worked with several 30 under 30 folks, and the majority were so busy building their personal brands that they didn’t get much work done. There are some exceptions, but I’ve generally become suspicious of people too into brand building. (This is separate from being helpful or part of a community, and separate from using social media to advertise a company)
Looks like original research required 4 years for FDA approval:

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Cure_for_AIDS

https://southpark.cc.com/clips/164373/they-found-a-cure-for-...

"about $180,000 shot directly into the bloodstream"
The response of various countries mostly follows pre-pandemic approach of the respective governments to science, public services and making hard decisions. Personally, the only major surprise here is the level of defending the stock market.
That can't possibly be true surely, a whole industry of people can't have failed to notice that they are losing money over time.
Where does it say DeepSpeech is on hold? I don't see that anywhere.
> The neurophysiological concept of “understanding” as most understand it is orthogonal to the way the algorithm actually works.

This is not obviously true and it's exactly the core of the debate. A GPT-3 proponent might say: We don't really know what "understanding" means, so it very well might be nothing more than complex rehashing of conditional probabilities. This isn't implausible. Consider Friston's "free energy principle" which leads to the conclusion that brain function is determined entirely by prediction.
And MS is the third largest company...
What's new in Istio 1.7, a quick walkthrough
Hey all - GitLab's 13.3 release is live today. Quick preview of what is inside:

Coverage guided fuzz testing: You can now run coverage-guided fuzz tests against your Go and C/C++ apps!

Kubernetes Pod health dashboard: In GitLab 13.3, you can view the health of your Kubernetes pods in the new out-of-the-box Pod health metrics dashboard (personal commentary: super excited about this one!)

Merge Request Approvals shows who participated in the review: Code review often involves multiple people and multiple iterations. It can be hard to know who has been reviewing the merge request, and which of those reviewers has approved and who hasn’t.

There is much more included in this release, so head over to our blog post (linked: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/08/22/gitlab-13-3-rel...) and check it out.

As always, let me, and our Product Team know what questions you have! (link to feedback issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/239761) -LO
Hasn't firefox been defunded and likely to no have a future?
I don't know why this keeps getting brought up. Humans may be a factor in the maneuverability of an aircraft but the days of dog fighting are over. There are effective countermeasures against guided missiles that don't involve high G forces.

Today it's all about spotting the enemy first and then the usual logistics of deploying as many weapons on the enemy as possible. An aircraft that can carry 4 missiles and runs out should head back so that it can sortie tomorrow again with a fresh load of missiles instead of starting a desperate dogfight. An expensive plane that can only carry 2 missiles but is guaranteed to return home is more valuable in a war than a cheap one that carries more missiles but gets shot down frequently.
Overall maybe, but I'd say the jury's out on the flight model vs X-Plane, and it (currently) doesn't model airliner systems quite to the level of the payware X-plane airbuses or the Zibo boeing. It really crushes X-Plane on weather currently.
Calling software "trash" is uncalled for, but squatting on a namespace is a real thing and not something that you can justify behind the usual "someone did this for free and owes you nothing" because this make the landscape worse for everyone else.
Rust's semantics are:

* in debug builds, you get a panic on overflow

* otherwise, you may choose to panic, but if you do not, it is two's compliment wrapping

It is defined this way so that someday if checks get cheap enough we can enable them in release builds too, but at least it's not UB!
Loads times don’t bother me, it’s the really buggy aircraft systems that do. Multiple times I’ve gotten the avionics bugged out where they flat out don’t respond anymore. Autopilot also flys like a drunk.

First thing you should do though is disable live traffic and no online players. It greatly improved performance for me. Visuals are amazing now.
the good news is that it should pass the turing test; most humans have no idea what they are talking about, too. Some are prone to similar bloviation, very likely using some techniques that are nontrivially similar to what GPT-3 is using.
This is a huge shortcoming with HDF5 and I’ve personally been bitten by not understanding this, and in spite of telling others to not get bit by it, I’ve seen other people be bitten by it. Glad to see someone doing some harm prevention, I hope it gets adopted and mainlined.
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I received many documents in that format in the past. Actually that isn’t the case anymore. I just have thousands of legacy documents in doc/x and xlsx format on my computer. Other than that I don‘t use MS Word to create documents anymore. I prefer Emacs/Org + pandoc.
A Show HN can't be a landing page with a wait list. Please see the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
> Until a proper decision is being made regarding the future of the project, we will “keep the lights on” and try to address existing issues and review your contributions to the best accommodation we can in the scope of our new roles.

You could say that "keep the lights on" is the same as on hold.
you summed this up rather nicely, I was coming to post something similar.

His premise "things are things, not strings" things as he calls them, become more than strings in their usage, not transport, so things aren't "things" until you attempt to use them, until them, they are just data being transported from one place to the other, and the sender can not always know what system will accept them, so strings are a safe bet, if both sides are aware, and account for it.
Is there a history of Google de-activating accounts arbitrarily? I agree this would be a huge problem, but I'd be similarly devastated if my ISP stopped doing business with me, or any other email provider if I wasn't on gmail.

True, if Google deactivated my account I'd lose a little bit more than just gmail, but any company I do business with arbitrarily cutting me off would be on the same magnitude of problematic. That seems like a risk you take just by doing business with third-parties at all.
No, they're currently terraforming Earth¹ to have a CO2 level that is better for their metabolisms.

¹ through influencing politicians and the rich and powerful to keep poisoning the Earth with extreme pollution.
Lots of folks here saying “it’s impressive but...”

The game was probably released faster than what one would expect from a super polished title, but the game is still extraordinary. The visuals are superb, the detail is spectacular (I can see my real house with our pool as I fly over), the mechanics are incredible for a base flight simulator (lots of stuff you’d normally pay extra via addons for), and the game has been out less than a week.

They’re going to make the game better, and if you’re into flight simulators it’s a super easy purchase.

I went into this week with high expectations and my expectations were greatly exceeded.
Should African entrepreneurs target affluent or low-income consumers?
Helpful tip to anyone not able to access TPB over the clearnet due to any number of issues is they host an official tor onion:

http://piratebayztemzmv.onion

Edit: Just want to reiterate. This is an actual official tor onion mirror. TPB has had problems with an assortment of proxies over the years doing nefarious things, such as while hosting a copy of TPB, the malicious proxy would inject JS/start crypto-mining in your browsers background. The link I included is from TPB official site and doesn't have said issues.
Yep. I'd love to degoogle my personal stuff, but my work stuff has to be Google (I'm a teacher, and all our stuff is run through Google). Plus, my university alumni account is through Google, which would be annoying to change as that's how I've gotten in touch with a lot of useful contacts I've made.
I’ve been running the task manager on a separate monitor to see where the bottlenecks are. Those long load times appear to be, for me, GPU bound. It’s probably pre-rendering something. I'm running a 3700X, 32GB RAM, M2 SSD, GTX 1070, gigabit internet.
Was anyone else tickled by the part where they say "Summers-Stay, who is good with metaphors, wrote to one of us, saying this:" and then they proceed to detail a simile? What irony, especially after that section on non-sequiturs!
In practice this isn’t a problem. Take a non-software example:

Driving instructors typically have their cars on a 3 year hire purchase then return instead of buying. Why? Way back when, my driving instructor actually bought one of the cars. 3 months later, the engine failed and it was out of warranty.

Because of that, he realised that paying a monthly fee meant he had no surprise failures, he returned the car just as the clutch was burning out (learner drivers don’t have great driving technique, weirdly enough), and had a fresh car every 3 years for new learners.
DDG works well enough for me on anything but programming. The moment I need to search for anything programming related, Google works much better for me.
This list looks closer to r/selfhosted and that is not what most people want.

To de-google quickly, you can just pay a different vendor like iCloud or FastMail or whatever Microsoft offering is.
Well, if business model is what you are worried about. If people are fine with paying for email services, you can even pay for Gsuite and then no ads on even Gmail and even custom domain support. I am not sure on this but I doubt they would be mining any paid Gsuite user's data. Also, even in free you can turn off personalized ads and they would no longer be related to your data.

The thing is as you mentioned, with something as personal as email, docs or drive, I would trust a big company to keep it safe. Specially one that has historically has had a very good track record of it. Google hires some of the best offensive security guys, some of them you can see in Project Zero.

My experience with DDG hasn't been good at all with anything other than simple term search or website search.
That sounds more like putting lipstick on a pig. It's trying to inch towards the idea that these are legitimate business transactions rather than an essentially comoditiesed transactions.
Made HN account just to comment at this post. Mad respect for your brother. I wish health to your family.
Maybe, but there is also this:

As of 2006, simulations indicated that the Sun might be brought near the centre of the combined galaxy, potentially coming near one of the black holes before being ejected entirely out of the galaxy.[11] Alternatively, the Sun might approach one of the black holes a bit closer and be torn apart by its gravity. Parts of the former Sun would be pulled into the black hole. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...
A Plan to Modernize the Power Grid Disappeared
Newpipe and Freetube are YouTube frontends, so all the content is there just without having to sign in. If you only really use a subscriptions list and directly related videos as your way to find youtube content, it's a drop in replacement. If you want to use google's recommendation algorithm though,I don't think anyone is going to be able to recreate that experience any time soon.
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If that was the case I‘d fall back to Safari. Even though my browsing experience wouldn’t be the same anymore (using a dozen addons in Firefox).
It can be OpenStreetMap again (like the obelisk).

There's a tag for museum aircraft, 'historic=aircraft', but the tiles rendered for openstreetmap.org don't show it, so people add a tag saying it's also a building.

It's only a theory, I haven't correlated a picture from the game with matching data.

Here's an example from the USS Intrepid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/277980026
Also: ignore the 8GB minimum RAM requirement. Whoever built that chart ignored the fact that Win10 needs a gig or two of its own to run. And FS20 needs about 7.5GB to boot.

Get 32GB and give yourself some breathing room.
For one, Google could identify you since on Chrome you might have your name, address, and phone number saved for auto-fill, and sell your information to companies. They could sell your information to a certain company if their AI identifies you, for example, as a left-wing elderly male. I think the recent documentary that got deleted off Youtube explains it.

Google also censors results a lot compared to Yahoo and DuckDuckGo so you'll mostly get popular sites. An example is how when I searched "youtube deleted documentary" Yahoo and DuckDuckGo got the right results but Google didn't.

For Youtube, it dominates video uploading so it can delete and censoring things easily and all you can do is complain.
> Posted it in an other thread [0] but do we really want to go back to the medallion system?

No, but that doesn't preclude us from stopping Uber and Lyft. We can have a different system where there are no medallions, the number of cars aren't artificially constrained, but the companies running them need to obey existing laws.
Since the project hasn't been discussed on HN before, we changed the URL from https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad/releases/tag/v1.4-00 to what appears to be its home page.
The whole point is that the source of randomness is coming from rolling physical dice, instead of a potentially flawed (pseudo)random number generator.
Yep, there’s just the usual post launch bugs from complex systems. If you’re just flying GA then it’s for sure the best out.
Ah, but you need to compute to make that happen. More compute comes with greater trade-offs in terms of potential side channels to exploit. You're absolutely right.

It's just another step in the arms race ladder.
As far as I can tell they canned most of the Firefox teams driving new features, so that’s how I read the situation.
It seems like Bender & Koller's argument can just as easily prove that humans don't have representations of meaning either. Our brains get input from multiple "languages"---conventional natural languages as well as the neural codes that represent our sensory inputs. All we have access to is the form of these inputs, and so we can never learn the underlying "meaning".
It may have started that way but not anymore. You can viably replace car ownership with ride-share and spend _less_ money each month than being a car owner. Many people do this, it not just luxury.
Okay but the title is worded like Dropshipping is inherently wrong and thus "poisons the well".
Why would this not be a good domain for image recognition?
I signed up for Xbox Game Pass and downloaded this yesterday. I ran into the problem with the app hanging during the initial download ("update.") I had to restart it once, then it downloaded all 91 gigs. I'm not sure what it was doing the first time... I figured it was just a glitch.

The game does load very slowly. This is on a system with 32 gigs of RAM and NVME SSDs.

It looks amazing though!
We've changed the URL now from https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad/releases/tag/v1.4-00.
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We've changed the URL to that now from https://github.com/arnholm/angelcad/releases/tag/v1.4-00. Thanks!
> this may change this school year.

I think it will increase. A lot of teachers are posting pdf worksheets for kids to print and complete at home.
What if an AGI’s intelligence has exploded to a point where human intelligence is insignificant?
> Don't just say 'move to Linux if you're really worried about security or privacy'.

In China Linux rocks exactly in security & privacy like "lone star". Windows - shitload of telemetry by design; macOS & iOS - there's no secret anymore about Chinese iCloud & Chinese government.
Is anything different this time around other than the usual incumbent advantages?
Regarding the prime directive as a mushy human emotional idea. I don't think it's unreasonable for some advanced society to see preservation of newly encountered life as a worthy goal even as a selfish motive. How many new ideas and ways that nature solves problems are we still learning just from the life on earth?
So they don't make their own power supplies? Who is making them? Is there a better power supply brand that manufactures their own?
I think the rationale is that the primary way SARSCOV2 is spread is via droplets in the air. The most effective way of doing that is coughing and sneezing, i.e. being symptomatic of a respiratory infection. Children are generally asymptomatic with SC2 and likely remain infected for shorter time frames as SC2 never really gets a strong foothold. These factors make the spreading of SC2 from children likely.
They processed $50B is perhaps better way to put it, 50 B is not their actual revenue yes.

However using GMV[1] as a proxy for revenue is fairly common practice in retail industry. Walmart's revenue in similar sense is not really $500B, while it bit more complicated as Walmart buys from producer/ wholesaler and sells to the consumer (less so by Amazon as significant chunk of their inventory is owned by the sellers directly however revenue numbers are counted the same way).

The revenue for their operations is only the difference between selling price and buying price, profit is after you remove the cost of operations from that number. Ecommerce / travel/ delivery startups etc have for long time used this as somewhat misleading metric.

This practice used to particularly annoy me few years back, during fundraise pre-series A especially angels used to somewhat blindly compare retail statups "revenue" with SaaS startup numbers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_merchandise_volume
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I don’t know what is going to save Mozilla, really I don’t. I just wish there was a way to “reach” them and discuss how we the internet community could come to an agreement about what they could do to derive value we would pay for.

It’s not for a lack of trying on their part for sure, but it feels like just using their browser isn’t all there is to it any more
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Once a civilization is capable of building Von Neumann probes, it would be silly for them not to do so. They are basically free, since they are self-replicating. Of course a civilization is going to want to control and harness as many resources as it possibly can. We may not be able to imagine what they'd want to build out of whole star systems, but I absolutely don't believe that civilization will ever run out of things to build.

If there's any competition between civilizations, then it's even more obvious that each one will be racing to claim any star system that isn't already claimed. But even with no competition, it makes sense to spread rapidly.

If you don't find that intuitively obvious, consider this: In 4.5 billion years, the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda. This presents us with a literal galactic-scale single-turn prisoner's dilemma: If intelligent life exists in Andromeda, they may already be preparing to conquer the Milky Way. If they are, and we don't prepare to fight back, they will obviously win. We won't have any ability to communicate with Andromeda to find out their intentions until it's too late. The earlier we start preparing, the more likely we are to survive.

So if I were a spacefaring civilization in the Milky Way today, I'd be doing everything I could to mobilize every star system in the galaxy in preparation to beat Andromeda. There's just no reason not to...
I guess if Uber and Lyft had to compete fairly, RideAustin might have stuck around.
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (2006)
What's fascinating about nuclear reactors is that you can do them in so many ways that are very different.

If you think of combustion engines, there's only a few viable cycles or configurations: otto, diesel, brayton. Some small variations on these with supercharging and valve timing etc. Wankel engine as one different configuration.

But for nuclear power there's hundreds or thousands potential ways to produce energy. Different nuclei to start with, different fuel cycle, breeding. Neutron speeds, moderated and unmoderated. Fuel can be solid, dissolved, molten, gas. As can moderator. Pebble bed.

As far as I understand, even traditional reactor rod scheduling is a hard computational problem that a lot of resources is used on even by today's massive computing standards.

There's so much "blue ocean" left in fission reactors.
It's not a question of receiving that many emails an hour, but only having to spend an hour to process 1,000 emails that you may receive in a day. With spam filters many have already passed a threshold of processing that many emails a day, the challenge is managing and responding to the "non-spam" portion.
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None of those things affect my life. They may be moral or principle concerns for you, but they're not for me.