skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Yankees and Red Sox fans regularly got into shouting matches on the ESPN software development mailing lists, I expect they'd be told to knock it off, and I wouldn't see that as a contradiction of the idea that sports is important.
It's like someone saw bottom tier airline food and said "You know what? This would be great in a store". As far as I can tell, they leverage store location.
I believe it's called a 'Meandered Inverted-F Antenna (MIFA) ' I used the footprint from https://github.com/prasad-dot-ws/ESP32_MIFA_PCB_ANTENNA recently, which is based on Espressif's gerbers for a sample pcb.
which ist completely user hostile, as the original idea (back with certified Z800s, RHEL5 and FX3800s) of a dual-OS-workstations has not panned out.

Today it's basically nagging developers and technical users, who don't want to run proprietary software unsandboxed (but want CUDA...) and have a hassle-free experience into buying quadros.
I can't think of any business-case for that, because cracking down at the shady ML-cloud-vendors works out okish right now for them and at unis people won't notice at large...
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It's an architecture that is specifically designed to maximize performance. I think few people would argue that it is more readable or simpler than most other common architectures.
>do something safe with the potentially weapons-grade plutonium

Reprocessed plutonium from a civilian power reactor would never be weapons-grade, it has too much Pu-240 in it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor-grade_plutonium

It is claimed that it is possible to make weapons from reprocessed plutonium, but the warheads would need active cooling and exotic pit geometries, making them not so amendable to miniaturization.
Hm not surprised, from a country that has special racks to 'cool the toast'. So they don't have to eat it warm. So its properly cold and stale.
It’s solid waste. It just sits there and does nothing unless you get too close.
Yeah, lots of issues came together for the perfect storm.

Personally, I do think that PG&E should have seen a harsher punishment. If some pyro had went in and started the same fire, they'd have been in jail for life. PG&E does this shit and they got a slap on the wrist.

But, your point is very valid. This place was a tinderbox. They were one lightning strike, on cigarette butt, one illegal bonfire away from going up in flames spectacularly.

The federal government has blame for not maintaining land.

Beyond that, they have blame for not aggressively addressing climate change (which has contributed to the level of dryness).

All of this points to a common societal issue. Rather than spend money to fix things, we wait until everything blows up before asking questions.

This shit scares me. How much more of our world is teetering on the edge of catastrophe?
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Acknowledging that there are indeed many hops, I think it might be a bit disingenuous to say 50ms is easy to burn, depending on what p-value we're talking about.

IIRC, a typical round trip service call at my current place of work (gRPC with protobufs, vault/ssl for verification, consul for dns, etc) carries a p99 minimum latency (i.e. returning a constant) of around 2ms.

A cold roundtrip obviously takes longer (because DNS, ssl, etc).

It depends on how many 9's you want within 10ms, but there are various simple tricks (transparent to the application developer) that a platform team can apply to get you there.

As a sidenote on calling other APIs, my anecdata suggests that most companies microservice call graphs are at most 3-4 services deep, with the vast majority being 1-2 services deep.

This doesn't show the call graph, but it does demonstrate how many companies end up building a handful of services that gatekeep the core data models, and the rest simply compose over those services: https://twitter.com/adrianco/status/441883572618948608/photo...
I too want to have this FCC certified.

$19.99 seems a bit expensive to me though.
Well, I guess most people don't, but then again, they don't dispute this in the same way folks say "All politicians are bad!" - and when they go to voting booth, they always pick a particular party of their choice. And they come back, and until the next election they keep saying "Bah, politics! All politicians are bad!"

The majority of our energies are generated by fossil fuels, in most industrial countries. This has to stop - I think that's much more urgent than arguing between nuclear and renewables.
Only one I can think of is https://0x0.st, but it is more limited than either of these, including file size (512 MB vs 10 GB for transfer.sh), file types (executable types banned), blocks TOR exit nodes, etc etc. The person running it seems to want to take an active moderation approach to prevent it from being abused, which could be good or bad depending on your point of view.

Another option (if Bittorrent or Wormhole aren't usable) is to host the file yourself with IPFS, and take advantage of Cloudflare's free gateway with caching to limit the bandwidth needed to send the file to multiple people. There are also pinning services for IPFS that you can pay for with Bitcoin (or usually, non-anonymous methods as well).

For casual stuff, I imagine most people on HN have a personal server that they can just sftp files to. I certainly do that, but there are some contexts in which that's not workable.

Edit: someone in the Firefox Send thread shared https://femto.pw
> To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. [...] If we remember those times and places–and there are so many–where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. [0]

Doesn't sound like a "deeply pessimistic interpretation of history" to me.

[0]: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train, Howard Zinn
I took it to include the EEE era, probably because the question doesn’t track unless you do.
Interesting to see young companies fall into line. There is a reason it is against norms to talk about these things in most companies, because it causes undo conflict usually far outside of the context of what is being worked on.
This seems like a kneejerk response to a strawman version of Zinn. He's a pretty middle-of-the-road academic politically speaking and doesn't get anywhere near what I would call far-left.

As for "pessimistic", well, I'd just say that the facts don't care about your feelings. Powerful institutions are (generally speaking) violent and uncaring towards those without power; ignoring that fact does us all a disservice.
As a registrar they probably pay a very tiny fraction of the retail price so even if only 10% of the registered domains end up selling they still make a profit.
So what competitors are they blocking? Very few.
Search for info on insulated concrete form. Really cool stuff, it's essentially styrofoam lego bricks that are filled with concrete. Tons of insulation, and with 6" of concrete in all the outer walls as long as the windows are high quality it does a shockingly good job for noise insulation. No need to deal with the other issues of an underground house if all you want is noise insulation.
The science output of a given device usually shows heavily diminishing returns. I would say 12 Hubbles would have had at most twice the impact of 1 Hubble, probably less.
What the sign really say is "Dogs and Colored not admitted"
I really want to like, and use freecad. I've tried multiple times, and a couple years ago stumbled on fusion360 and have been using it regularly ever since. Its one of the reasons I still use windows as my primary desktop (along with a couple other piece of software that don't have anything similar quality/price on linux).

Initially I watched a couple youtube videos and since then have created a few dozen things in fusion360 with little effort, rarely bumping into problems I couldn't solve without reading forums/etc to find other peoples solutions.

So, IMHO I _REALLY_ want an opensource solidworks/fusion360/etc competitor but at the moment its just not there yet. From the video's it looks like it should be, but once you start using it, its an endless ball of frustration.
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Empirically, prices are set by the seller.
The New 2DS is the foldable version.
First the broken hook is shown that started the fire, but then it is "conceded" that the fire would have happened anyway because of the fallen tree...

Am I the only one who thinks this is highly unlikely? While every uncontrolled fire is one too much, the fires aren't that frequent that 2 independent fire causes would occur this close in both time and space. If the rate of firestart per year per square mile expressed as a probability would be P then the probability of 2 independent firestarts in the same area and same timeframe would be P^2, so if fires are relatively rare this should be an extremely rare event.

Either the tree fell first causing a fire, after which the hook lost tensile strength because of heat; or the hook failed first starting a fire somehow collapsing a tree.

Either way PG&E should be held responsible both for not cutting trees away a distance of the height of the trees away from the lines, and for failing to replace the worn hooks.
in addition to V-2's point about castling, there are some other rules in chess that depend on the previous state of the board:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_repetition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fivefold_repetition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-move_rule

I guess you could argue these are league rules and not part of the fundamental game of chess.
Why would you be upset by that?

By lowering the price for an entry version, customers who otherwise couldn’t afford the full version still get the option to use a feature reduced version.

(See how I framed that?)
What I meant was that we're moving towards hard dependencies.
Some things you know in advance are obviously going to be computationally intensive, such as games; for those, you need all the performance you can get, so committing to data oriented design from the beginning has a lot of benefits. For everything else, you just have to decide if you think the tradeoff would be worth it. There is no easy answer here.
NP. You may also want to check out Norvig's Paradigms of AI Programming if this interests you. A lot of that text involves creating data-driven programs, and some of the benefits (like creating a grammar lets you recognize sentences that satisfy it, or with little extra effort generate sentences from it).
If they switched to webkit there'd be no more reason to use it over degoogled chromium.
But you don't even own a domain

Whom do you pay for xxx.yyy.name?
The amount of upselling GoDaddy does is kind of crazy; I don't know why anyone would register domains there.

They've also been implicated with a few stories around blocking DNS services for certain whole countries, voiding domains without any proper court order, etc.
I do think there ought to be a way to do good cryptography in email. Email is not going away anytime soon, so giving up on it as a legitimate place where cryptography is needed seems too ivory tower for me.

The “dead simple solution” is to just run the Signal protocol over SMTP, although I’m sure it’s possible there is a better design if you were to think about the specifics.
Well, if your tokenizer returns `impl Iterator<Item=&str>` (as in the OP), every token will in fact be a &str...

In any case, this scheme is pretty limited, since you probably want other info in your token span like line numbers.
Why make GTA 6 when people are still going to buy GTA V for the PS5.
I've lived in South Texas, Washington State, Missouri, and Tennessee, and I don't really recall a difference in overall portion size at restaurants, fast food locations, or typical diners. A lot of the popular chains have standardized their menus, so you can usually pull up the online menu and check out the nutritional data. For international chains, it might be interesting to compare overall calorie counts if the region specific menus are available?
I typed "dyslexia" into Google, and on the side bar overview it says "More than 3 million US cases per year"

Edit: I dug a little deeper. It's 5-15% of the population.
http://www.ldonline.org/article/10784/
> Banning a harmful substance, and banning a platform for communication are not comparable.

OK, consider gambling. That is simply a kind of software that enables people to engage in behavior that turns out to be harmful for a large number of them. And, because of that fact, it is heavily regulated.

> What is the legislation you propose to prevent Facebook, or the millions of other existing or soon-to-be existing apps, from doing harm to people?

I don't know if we know what sort of regulations would help yet. But I do know that if we assume a priori that corporations cannot be forced to change their behavior because it might hurt the poor corporation, then we will never figure out the answer.
I mean, it's another ESP8266 based board with a bunch of GPIO and a relay that looks like it's meant to switch line voltage. It's handy but absolutely not revolutionary.
I used to have a lot of git aliases but then I became dependent on those and forgot the actual git commands that were lying underneath. So whenever I went to a new system I'd have to port my dotfiles or look up the git docs for what the commands were. If a colleague asked me "how do I do X" I had no clue and had to look in my bashrc. Nowadays I only add them if I do it many many times per day. Like "git commit -a -m" for example. I try to keep things as close to stock as I can

This type of alias seems on the fence for me, if was like 10x a day I'd definitely be on board but a few times a day is a gray area
Yep, I'd rather the rosy Disney-fied version of history that hides the truth behind indigenous/minority struggles and keeps the impoverished in their place.
And despite we all know that in Germany, we fight nuclear and support fossile energies (coal and gas).

> https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/
As a revisionist, the great thing about Zinn is that he told the lesser known side of a lot of stories. However it seemed like he had a tendency to put a ton of weight on non-objective primary sources. Just like it's healthy to question and criticize the traditional narratives, I don't think every "fact" in A People's History should be taken at face value.
Most people password-protect this. It's very common. If you contract a webdev for something, he will recommend it for you 100%. Not the basic auth thing, just a shared secret. Something trivial.
Did you even read his book? Calling it “far-left” or “pessimistic” is pretty far off. If you have critiques then present them clearly with evidence.
Their point might be that the ability to read, has a non-zero influence on how intelligence as well knowledge; both of which are what IQ tests try to measure. The two signal values are related to an unknown degree.
Thats what I mean when I say "as long as the trust is there on both sides". They trust that I'm honest and don't sandbag work, and I trust that they aren't going to ask for an itemized breakdown of my time. I keep a very coarse ledger of time and what I worked on, but the invoices are generally just a line item of

"Development: 30 hours"

Again, nothing is a surprise in my relationships because we constantly are in communication, and I've raised issues with them beforehand if anything comes up / diverges.
> What happens when this generated code has a bug?

That's a bug in the generator and should be treated as such. Patch or throw out the generator. It's not sustainable to review and patch "generated code", because then it's just "code".

The only reason I need code-on-disk is if I need to generate bindings into multiple languages.
Why not? There is no reason you couldn't implement data oriented design for a small part of your application, especially a tight loop that's become a bottleneck, without changing the architecture of the entire app.
The biggest/best reason I know for using ESP8266 is the integrated WiFi module, but it seems that this doesn’t expose that or at least capitalize on it, which gives little incentive to use this over something like the Teensy.

Is there any intention to add WiFi support to the dev kit?
Really? I do `apt-get install foo` and later I in a Python script I write `import foo`. This Python script can be put ANYWHERE on the system. I don't need to mess up with virtualenvs and I have one version across all scripts on the system that's regularly updated on system upgrades (after being tested by community in bleeding edge versions of the OS). To each his own I guess.
Sorry, I wasn't very specific with my post. I meant your last sentence is a very optimistic reading - why would Epic have done this if it wasn't to harvest your data?
I can precisely record football in one dimension - in fact some folks over at EA have been making a whole bunch of money simulating football using a linear data stream for quite a number of years. If you dislike the simulation then bear in mind that most people who "observe football" are observing a 1D data stream that's being read in to cause some photons to bounce around.

Saying that you can describe something in X dimensions doesn't make that thing an X dimensional object - or well it might depending on how you define dimensionality, but if you do it that way then everything is 1 dimensional.
Check out "space diving" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/25/358820835...

not from orbit, but from very very very high up.
facebook decides how many feeds each post appear on. it's a not a broadcast system, they dampen the spread with an active decision.
Well, just ask NASA:

> https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/

And looks at this pollution map:

> https://www.electricitymap.org/
Just to highlight this a little bit more! I've used Namecheap for years (a lot of) and moved all domains my company owns over three years ago, and there is a lot of them. All went flawlessly and I have nothing but praise for the service it's amazing.

Only problem in the company settings is multiple users but other than that no issues.
The issue comes when the politician comes back to you and says “Hey, I gave you a great deal on that painting, can you do a favor for me?”

Extracting money from bad sources is good as long as you absolutely positively don’t extract anything else. That’s hard to do in any circumstance. However, in this situation I think it’s fine and worth it.
We went with that plan at my HOA for some of our water lines.

They replaced a corroded and failed section of pipe, repressurized the line and POP! went the next section... Two or three times as I recall.
Some of this blandness may be by design, at least when it comes to political content. YouTube caught a lot of flak in 2018 for allegedly being a "radicalization pipeline", but research[0] shows that their "next video" recommendations consistently direct users away from fringe content and towards mainstream media outlets. One of the authors of that paper made a website to visualize their results[1], which is pretty neat.

The research in question was limited by not using logged-in accounts with a significant view history, but it's still the best attempt to quantify the YouTube algorithm's influence that I've seen so far. Mozilla's initiative sounds interesting, but the fact that they're asking users to only report negative interactions rather than getting a representative snapshot of all YouTube use makes me suspect that Mozilla is approaching this from the perspective of advocacy, not scientific inquiry.

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[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11211.pdf
[1] https://recfluence.net/
> Everyone has to discuss diversity at work because there are laws prohibiting discrimination

How are these two things causally connected in your mind?
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Exactly right. And I agree pretty strongly. Unironically, this is why I think accepting money from the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund can be a great force for good. Adam Neumann may (again unironically) be a remarkable hero, accidentally.
I don't really understand the hate for Zinn by some folks. He tells the truth, a truth not often told. Curious how so many self styled "contrarians" and "free thinkers" dislike his work without reading it. Anyway, it's a good read.
I think one can readily argue (and I'm a physicist, so I really love outward-looking telescopes) that reconnaissance satellites will tend to make the world a more-peaceful place.

Uncertainty can lead humans to make decisions to handle a worst-case scenario that isn't actually taking place. High-quality imaging makes it difficult for nation-states to bluff or to understate the scale of decay/disaster and allows for finer-grained control of military escalation.

We are seeing the next evolution of these effects as ordinary citizens can now get access to imaging systems that were once the realm of the Keyholes. They are journalists and free press in the sky. The internment camps of Xinjiang can't be hidden: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/satellit...

We must, of course, be wary of the societal effects of these imaging systems. If only some have access to orbital imaging, the asymmetry in power can be substantial and the norms for privacy can erode.
Yeah, pretty much. Some of the storage & networking is stolen from other projects of mine which lowers the cost significantly. Almost all of my servers for home projects come with 4TB hard drives which I never use anywhere near the full capacity of.
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Software can also make the same mistake, thousands of times per second or more :)
That's an excellent explanation, thanks!
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When the market's been flooded by Chinese masks purporting to be N95 but do not actually meet the N95 specification... is sticking to a trusted supply chain really that foolish for situations where you really need the product to perform?
In these debates, people seem to pretend that if facebook or others don't stay politically neutral as possible premptively, that pissed off politicians will not do it for them, badly, in hundreds of countries. It's why social media companies have the kid gloves with politically powerful people.

A segment of social media company staff also don't like that reality and want their social to censor the political parties / discussions they don't like and thus they toe the line and give unsatisfying non-answers at all hands and to the media.
Yeah, you're right - I confused m2 with kW. It's 1000kWh/kW/yr or in other words 1000h/yr.

I'm saying it doesn't look like the cost of that is significantly lower than for cleaning up after nuclear power.

Raw solar panels currently cost less than 45 Euros per m2 and since these companies recycle them and still get ahead, it can't be expensive.
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My guess from chatting to some of the people in the stores is there's gonna be a bloodbath. Your average food shop is running on what kind of margin? Maybe 20% at best, 15% more commonly?

I chatted with a guy who says his business is down 90%. The guy at Subway said something similar. Before the apocalypse, the business made sense because of the sheer number of people walking by. You could pay for the food, the labour, and the landlord, reliably, because there are so many jobs based in central London.

Now that WFH has been "discovered" it's doubtful. I mean if everyone works from home just one day a week, that's 20% fewer sandwiches they will need to buy.