skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partly I think nuclear triggers a cognitive bias where humans will tolerate ongoing low-level shittiness, but really struggle with large catastrophes, even if the catastrophe is far less damaging than the ongoing low-level damage.

However, I think the resistance is also because the nature of the catastrophe is different. Have coal or gas plants ever created a Chernobyl-style exclusion zone? I know that mining/drilling are incredibly damaging to the environment, but theoretically work is done to mitigate/restore the areas. Of course, they're essentially turning the entire planet (or large, currently-inhabited swaths of it anyway) into an exclusion zone, but unfortunately there is another cognitive bias humans have where we under-rate long-term risks.

I've been a nuclear skeptic, but gradually I'm coming around to it. At this point the main questions I have are whether it can be done cheap enough. It seems like price is really driving renewable adoption at this point, so maybe green policies should focus on subsidizing storage and nuclear instead?
There was a gallows humor type joke in Romania, I don't know if it's actually of Albanian origin.

The mayor of Tirana (the capital) calls the police chief.

Mayor: I heard something about some protesters in the city center, how many are they?

Police chief: Not many, only about 4 magazines worth.
Being a Grafanista: A Look from Inside
Do South Africa's digital inequalities affect music artists live streams?
Thanks for your consideration. I used to have a "readability" bookmarklet in my browser that was gold for cases like this. But at some point these stopped playing nicely with the various script/tracking blocker add-ons I have installed, so there's that.
This isn't a system you'd deploy and expect others to maintain. It's a system for developing your playbook and Ansible / Puppet / etc configurations.

Emacs is absolutely suitable for the use case of a professional developer writing these things.

The literate programming notebook approach is very interesting. Better IMO is to reverse it and write copious comments throughout an idempotent script that you can continually edit and re-execute.

In either case, the final product that you share with others are your notes and an actual deployed configuration for a real system, not a config file for an IDE.
Or the employees...

No one is forcing these people to work for and enable this toxic company.
Pretty sure I’m dunnig-krugering this, but is consciousness really that magical?

Nervous system evolved from ability to respond to external stimuli to centralized control of various processes to evaluation of risks/benefits of actions and finally to predictive modeling of external processes. Rudimentary concept of “self” and understanding of surrounding environment exists in various animals, so why is it strange that an animal with most complex brain has the most sophisticated concept of “self” and it’s placement in the ultimate surrounding environment - the universe?
Only if developing a modern flight simulator is free.
I wish one person who mentioned the long game would also mention that nuclear accidents can make a place uninhabitable for thousands of years.

If I had a dollar for every time a pro-nuclear person (not that I'm not) ignored that, or peak uranium...
The state should be regularly auditing hotels and room-shares, checking for fire safety, cleanliness, hidden cameras, and legality of the business.

Businesses don't systematically change in response to a few customer complaints (they just sloppily deal with them), but they do respond to large fines and legal action.
Looks like we had high spike of car accidents this year [1] /s

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Cohort that doesn't believe in science?? I think you need to examine your assumptions (generalizations)
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/if.html
Contained.af CTF
Apollo Landing Sites – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
Where? Send me an email rather than spamming this thread; my email address is on my profile.
My understanding is that higher density leads to greater noise. The prefer to use larger transistors that produce cleaner images.
such an interesting topic. Not faulting this article for staying focused, but other questions here are:

- hybrid model where paid / larger clients get dedicated hardware for perf reasons

- YAGNI -- will you even need multitenancy?

- business + legal considerations; which industries have legal or regulatory requirements not to intermix

- sharing and permissions -- what happens the first time someone needs to share a doc cross-account?

- tools and codebase strategies for verifying permission model on shared arch
Yes. The government should only set the safety expectations and procedures, and let the market decide how they do it.

Innovation in nuclear power is broken because of the difficulty to access uranium and use it safely, but if we had innovated, it might have been made safe by now. There has been pilot projects such as a sealed 1m3 cuve, which, by sealing it, solved a lot of problems about safety and human operation.
I made a live drone broadcasting platform called drohub at https://drohub.xyz based on webrtc. Webrtc is hard indeed even with the help of Janus gateway. Will definetly have a read, as I still consider myself a noob on it. Hope you get good feedback.
Why focus is the new productivity in the age of remote work
It’s unfortunate that often special formatting is done to documentation. I understand for marketing websites and landing pages why orgs want it but docs need to be consumable by many different parties. I find it very frustrating when orgs add js and css that break accessibility of documentation!
Both paths you laid out are built upon the idea that superposition happens. Is there any serious consideration these days that superposition itself is dead end?
Great mindscape podcast about how the magical thinking developed: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/03/04/epis...
> A bodybuilder like Charles Atlas or Arnold Schwarzenegger would not have been caught dead drinking protein shakes in the glory days of bodybuilding

The glory days for Charles Atlas was the 1920s to 1940s; he died in 1972. He had sponsorship deals for dietary supplements.

>Thus, 40 years ago (i.e., 1980), using protein powder for weight loss/body composition wasn't a big market.

It was a large market by the by the 1960s. Many famous bodybuilders from the 1920s through 1950s started advocating protein drinks made with dehydrated and pulverized beef, egg, and milk. All the fitness, bodybuilding, and martial arts magazines were filled with protein drink advertising in the 1960s and 1970s. Hell, even Chuck Norris was hawking this stuff in the 70s. You could walk into any GNC in the 1960s and buy this product.

The only thing HerbalLife added was marketing, finding suckers to sell their products.
To elaborate on the policy part, in the second poll linked, majorities of Republicans are opposed to scientists being involved in making policy.
I would imagine it’s at least a break even right? They do charge for it after all.
First endorsement in the official party platform, which is a specific document released by the parties every 4 years (except this year for Republicans who re-adopted their 2016 platform with no changes...).
It's important to distinguish current rates and worst case scenario rates, but the worst case scenario rate for fossil fuels is astronomical as well.
* Quintillus: Ben Affleck

* Herennius Etruscus: Colin Farrell
Observation: You're not really adjusting your language to the target audience. (Edited away potentially hurtful language.)

Learn from Feynman. Explain things using concepts the target audience can be expected to understand.

Real mastery of a concept is when you can explain it using simple terms to any other reasonably intelligent person.
I used https://github.com/phw/peek but I plan on trying asciinema / terminalizer soon.

I was able to record `present` with asciinema, just need to see how nicely it renders into a GIF!
I'd disagree and say that what we are seeing with all the constant talk about racism and over sensitivity to every little thing that can be turned into an offense of the most egregious nature, is the loudest victim using nasty speech to strongly convey negative-attention seeking behaviors. This is at global scale even if it started from the US social media.
> Now Apple is going to slowly shut off the oxygen in order to take the value for themselves.

what happened was that developers left the facebook platform and all those viral games consolidated into zynga .

Also , with targeted channels closed, ad money will have to flow to non-targeted ads, which actually benefits small publishers who can sell a lot of impressions. It's not like ad spending will stop
This is an RFC describing the ARPANET outage of Oct 27, 1980
Existing already-operating nuclear plants can barely compete with cheap fracked gas in the United States. Capital investment in new nuclear is never going to pencil for a private operator without carbon taxes or enormous price drops.
Loon is not a tech demo:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21315961/alphabet-loon-bal...
> They may or may not have perfect knowledge

At least as I was using the term, no one has perfect knowledge.

> ability to randomly choose participants

Here, pseudorandom is good enough, and I think all we have.
I'm aghast that Noam Chomsky is getting flagged on HN.
> However, I think the resistance is also because the nature of the catastrophe is different. Have coal or gas plants ever created a Chernobyl-style exclusion zone?

Indirectly, yes. I think that rising sea levels due to climate change effectively does the same thing by making once-habitable coastal areas effectively uninhabitable.
>>Heh, the old lieutenant I had in the GR army was always complaining about Greece losing an opportunity to annex Albania at the time.

Good thing Greek culture is quite similar to their Turkish overlord' one, so no learning curve, just back to the old days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansu_%C3%87iller#Deputy_Prime... Turkey sent word those days via a public speech to Greece that should they try to occupy Albania, the Turkish army is ready to march to Athens (Like they did in Cyprus.)

Geopolitically, Turkey is interested in weakening Greece as much as they can, so locally they support Albania. Also Italy has interests in helping Albania but they aren't know for being good fighters so one takes them seriously ;)
> essentially this is just a longer-term tourist visa

As always the devil's in the details. A 2 week vacation will incur far fewer expenses on the host state and its citizens than a 1 year stay, while probably bringing in more money. A tourist stays at hotels, rents cars, dishes out for all the tourist attractions and baubles, eats out every meal, etc. Very little competition with locals for the same resources. A quasi-local is a different story, competing from a privileged position with locals on everything but jobs. So while both visas are time limited there's no real comparison between them. The profiles of the two types of stay are very different.

The fiscal residence usually revolves around the centre of vital interests or the habitual abode. Both would be the place you live in rather than the place your employer lives.

I don't know what the details of the implementation are but I'm guessing that if this type of setup catches up it's unlikely it will always be treated as tourist-like without making life worse for the less well off residents.
And here we come. Google, in the 21st century, is trying to sell us BASIC

- define:
assign:
- array: ["foo", "ba", "r"]
- result: ""
- i: 0
- check_condition:
switch:
- condition: ${len(array) > i}
next: iterate
next: exit_loop
- iterate:
assign:
- result: ${result + array[i]}
- i: ${i+1}
next: check_condition
- exit_loop:
return:
concat_result: ${result}

edit: it's not April 1st yet, is it?
That's not what Apple is doing here, the rules are:
1) don't portray our fees in a negative light if you want to do business with us,
2) don't actively try to subvert us in our own garden where you are a guest.

Where is the monopoly here?

The service Apple has, is appealing to customers because they're aggressively protecting what is important to them, and using their fees to ensure they've got the resources to actually vet software, prevent abuses of customers, and make payment seamless.

If you don't like that, you're free to find software in many other forms.

But you don't want that, you want to have someone provide you all that, but without having to you know, pay for it.

Which is why the internet is an ad supported shit hole, and this is one place that is actually pretty great for customer experience.
I think the best solution would be for Microsoft to allow the public to submit models for review to be included in Bing maps. I don’t think they want FS to become the sort of “game” where you install it, and then you have to also install hundreds of mods to get the proper experience from it (like Cities: Skylines). It would also have the knock-on benefit to MS of having lots of motivated people to crowdsource Bing maps improvements from.
If the numbers about bandwidth per satellite and the size of the constellation are right, this type of service could be competitive in urban areas too where the only alternative is a sub-gigabit cable monopoly.
Thank you for the kind note!
IndieBrew: Free Customizable SVG Icons
You don't need to, as you point out that is the current case, but I think that private ownership would do a better job of extracting economic value from land that we want to put to economic use. Motorized recreational forest and timber production could work well together, but I have not seen that. In some places selective cutting is done, but usually the biggest trees are felled. It would be much better, I think, if parts of the public forest were cut to leave the largest trees to become the beautiful and awe inspiring ones people like to be around. I don't have a deep knowledge of how the forest service does timber sales (and I'm sure it varies depending on local political and economic conditions). It would be interesting to read up on how it works in detail.
But also "NDB is ideally positioned to contribute and lead change in this industry by addressing the primary bottleneck in EV vehicles, the battery, one that can last as long as the vehicle’s does."

It's a curiously convoluted sentence.
The fact that your disinterest for rural infrastructure projects in Ghana mean you don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist. It just tells the reader you haven't bothered to search for something like "Uganda rural internet project"; unsurprisingly for large infrastructure projects in a poor country, it's being done bit by bit and so there are in fact dozens of projects.
1. Not as much benefit for 1-on-1 except that you can guarantee connectivity without a STUN server, can get a bit more predictable network paths from client to server than client to client, and can abstract choosing the best simulcasted stream quality. It won't double the connection count, but it can make you upload unnecessary streams in the case of simulcast, because the client won't be the one determining which stream quality is best, it'll just send multiple.

2. Yup, SFU acts like another client. Some libs do one connection for up and one for down or other ways to handle stream multiplexing, but overall it's the same WebRTC peer connections.
I absolutely agree. It does constantly get used around here just to silence the narrative of something the downvoter doesn't like. I'd posture it mostly gets used for that, and a small fraction of the time is it used correctly or does it serve a "good faith" action.
> They have historically been a bad neighbor.

How's so? With almost half a million Albanians living and working in Greece, you would expect relations to be normalized. There was the recent turmoil with Albanian government revealing its plans to annex the homes of ethnic Greeks of Albania [1], but it was canceled due to diplomatic efforts of the Greek government.

[1] https://www.tanea.gr/2019/03/31/english-edition/tirana-pushe...
Wow, me too! And I also use lots of exclamation marks when I write! You explained it better than I could have. Glad I'm not the only one.
Unexpected differences between curl vs. wget and usage
I'm not a lawyer.

If the equity plan says Uber has the right to accelerate vesting (very, very likely), then the employees probably can't do anything about it.
It was kind of more like coming up with organized snippets and notes while understanding a problem.

I'm expressing the wish that were I better at organizing them better that I could have tangled all of those snippets into a working (if ugly) source file and work from there.

Does that make sense?
How are “natural rights”
defined in this context?
Flight Sim modding was a thing long before modding for other games...

FS engines are basically mod hosts.

High-end aircraft addons use it for little more than a graphics engine - they have their own code to run instruments, systems, engines, and even the actual flight model.
> disagree on the junior dev part and on the god part.

Good lord, some people here are definitely on the spectrum. FYI that was an attempt at humor. In case you want to mimic human social behavior in the future: you don't _disagree_ with a joke, you either find it funny or you don't.

> what you’re describing is called “simulation theory” and it has been proposed and discussed at length

I'm aware of the theory, just like everyone else whose seen the matrix or read Elon's Twitter feed. For the record, I was merely illustrating a point; both our universe and the code we write share certain optimizations that would seem to be too coincidental to be random.
You can get a camera from Wyze for less than 40 bucks that records in hd, does well in darkness, can be remotely monitored and controlled, records sound, and has a speaker (for talking to my cat). You can set it to trigger recording on movement. I have an sd card in it, and it records about two weeks of events at a time. Records to cloud and/or local storage.

Just be aware that security is never guaranteed and they’ve had some issues in the past.
Yeah, and as a way to advertise the crazy cool stuff you can do with Azure Maps.
Why Some People Think 2+2=5
But on the iPhone, I don't buy V-bucks in the App Store, I buy it in Fortnite, and if Epic can go through the trouble of processing the payment, they deserve all the proceeds.
I would actually argue the blame goes to governments for not enforcing their laws. There will always be scummy founders who create criminal enterprises and scummy VCs who invest in them - but governments need to make sure they aren't financially rewarded for it.
This could become a problem if users use Google’s data to create the models they submit to MS.
it's good to hear that people are reaching for these sorts of things which are obvious to most devs (I mean this is something I did once early in my career - with a container, and was told "never do this again"), but maybe not so obvious for ML devs.
Horizontal text in modern Japanese is virtually always written left to right.

The primary exception is where the context of the writing itself implies a direction, e.g. text on the passenger side of a bus, or on a directional sign pointing to the left, may be written right-to-left so that the text "flows" in the same direction as its container. This would never be used for a longer text, though.
Assuming the previous poster was referring to setting up a UK LTD company, you'd need a UK address [0]. If you can get an accommodation address in UK, the process is pretty straightforward; fill in an online form and pay your £12. They'll even accept PayPal! [1]

[0] https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/company-address...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/register-your-c...
Also see this related discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ij0qzl/comment...
My KPI Reflection for July and August
Perhaps I missed the point, but it seems strange and artificial to me that all this article considers when discussing multi-tenant architectures are the database and the app. There's so much more that goes into actually delivering multi-tenancy in production.

Long ago I was the product manager of a complex enterprise platform which had been heavily customized for one of our large banking customers. They hosted the database on SQL Server shared clusters and much of the application backend in VMware instances running on "mainframe-grade" servers (dozens of cores, exotic high-speed storage). The hardware outlay alone was many hundred thousand dollars, and we interfaced with no less than 5 FTE's who comprised part of the teams maintaining it. Ours was one of a few applications hosted on their stack.

Despite repeated assurances of dedicated resource provisioning committed to us, our users often reported intermittent performance issues resulting in timeouts in our app. I was the first to admit our code had lots of runway remaining for performance optimization and more elegant handling of network blips. We embarked on a concerted effort to clean it up and saw huge improvements (which happily amortized to all of our other customers), but some of the performance issues still lingered. Over and over again in meetings IT pointed their fingers at us.

Eventually we replicated the issue in their DEV environment using lots of scrubbed and sanitized data, and small armies of volunteer users. I had a quite powerful laptop for the time (several CPU cores, 32GB RAM, high-end SSD's in RAID) and during our internal testing I actually hosted an entire scaled-down version of their DEV environment on it. During a site visit, we migrated their scrubbed data to my machine and connected all their clients to it. That's right, my little laptop replaced their whole back-end. It ran a bit slower but after several hours the users reported zero timeouts. This cheeky little demonstration finally caught the attention of some higher-up VP's who pushed hard on their IT department. A week later they traced the issue to a completely unrelated application that somehow managed to monopolize a good chunk of their storage bandwidth at certain points in the day. Our application was one of their more-utilized ones, but I bet correcting this issue must also have brought some relief to their other "tenants".

I know this isn't a perfect example, but it demonstrates how architecture encompasses a whole lot more than just the DB and apps. There's underlying hardware, resource provisioning, trust boundaries, isolation and security guarantees, risk containment, management, performance, monitoring and alerting, backups, availability and redundancy, upgrade and rollback capabilities, billing, etc. When you scale up toward Heroku/AWS/Azure/Google Cloud size I imagine such concerns must be quite prominent.
But how would the state regulate this when subletting via Airbnb is already violating the regulations in place?
can you vary the pressure of sprinklers? like max pressure on corners that a perfect square irrigation can be obtained.
Vulnerable version of the Ruby on Rails Framework from versions 3 to 6
I think that ultimately trickle charging tech will be incorporated into all-electric mobile and definitely remote systems. Between intermittent loads and self discharge, you need something for station keeping of charge level.

This sounds like it might not be it, but trying to achieve virtue by association.
All Starlink satellites contain ion thrusters to maintain their orbit. At end of life, those thrusters are used to deorbit them. These satellites are in such a low orbit that these thrusters are required to maintain orbit -- if the thrusters fail the satellites naturally deorbit within a couple of years.

Any ion thruster powered satellite de-commisioning craft would take months to reach a failed satellite, so it wouldn't make a huge difference.
I wonder how long it will be before Apple gets into serious ad business themselves.