skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a distinct matter, addressing the 'agency' of 'choice'. Above we're considering if 'choice' is illusory, as claimed. Choice presents a problem for proponents of 'mind/consciousness is a side-effect of a brain' school of thought.
I have stuttered all my life. The best explanation to date I have studied and had the pleasure of being apart of is the Stuttering Valsalva Hypothesis. Look it up its a real eye opener and explains every aspect as to why stuttering happens in early childhood and for some persists into adult hood. Personally stuttering has forced me to live outside the box, to question life in a deep and meaningful way and to that extent it has been a blessing.
Elon Musk has a reputation for overselling and underdelivering, so there doesn't mean much.
Phones break. My physical credit card hasn't broken on me ever, but I suppose it's not impossible.
I suppose he refers to the fact that GCP may be cheaper, therefore AWS may be less desirable on the strictly economical side.
i agree with all of this too. i'd also add that sometimes the comments are there before the code, as i attempt to explain to myself what's going to happen next.
> Having a legislative affairs office is one thing, but publishing draft legislation? That seems WAY out of line for an executive department. Why are my tax dollars being used for the executive to write laws?

How common is that already? It seems kinda similar to the president preparing and proposing a budget to Congress.
I think this is mostly a propaganda piece from Cornell's PR. The land of superconductivity is full of over-promising and under-delivering, but truthfully you could say that about most research papers nowadays. The bottom line is that we've seen all these great promises that "X material will help us understand superconductivity better" but we're still pretty much holding the same level of understanding since BCS theory plus or minus some theoretical framework for type 2 superconductors. We have increased the library of materials that are superconducting though.

So the reality is that we haven't really found a new technology with our current library of superconductors, and I think that's the proof in the pudding, we're not there yet but boy is the field set for disruption. The hot application that pretty much every new paper on superconductivity will mention is superconducting qubits, and the search is for one that doesn't suffer much from decoherence, which is where spin-triplet superconductors appear to be candidates for.

I haven't kept up much with the quantum computer world this year due to covid, but at least as of last year everyone seemed to still be using Al as the superconductor instead of one of these more exotic alloys and compounds. That is what I mean by proof in the pudding, if someone can make a technology out of the material, then that's real, that's progress. Until then, most of these pieces released by university PR departments are just hype.

This is of course merely the opinion of an empiricist skeptic who finds peer review to be flawed, and that believes that the filter of time is best for determining what's real progress. Sometimes it can take us 50 years to go from discovery to application.
I didn't find that aspect of Dark Souls too tense or stressful, maybe because I'd played salt and sanctuary and Hollow Knight first and was used to it.

Dark Souls did have some good creepy moments though. The first time entering the catacombs with the giant skeletons, the first time you face the ghosts of anor londo especially if you stumble in there early, seeing the guardian at the top of sen's fortress and knowing you're going to have to face him after you get by the archers and giants after getting through that hellish trap filled nightmare. Going back to the undead asylum and falling through the floor to face that demon. The giant rat before blight town. There's more, Dark Souls had a lot of those that worked well on the first playthrough. The did lose some of their impact on subsequent ones though.
A sky hook might still work for this - an aitship based launch loop or RAM ion engines.
In 1952, due to a combination of weird weather and coal emissions, a smog in London lasting four days killed at least 4,000 people over its duration and possibly as many as 12,000 people over the next few months.

This lead to the phasing out of domestic coal in cities, regulation on power plant flue gas, and so forth, over the following decade. People, and the energy industry, kicked and screamed, but the government (at the time controlled by noted lefties the Conservative party) did it anyway. There were two more incidents in 1957 and 1962 killing 750-1000 people each, but that was about the end of it.

Maybe in a parallel universe the libertarian government of the UK did nothing, and people reduced their emissions on the same timeline anyway. But I think it's somewhat more likely that in that parallel universe people are still dying horribly in their thousands every time the dangerous weather conditions (cold, no wind) repeat. People are notoriously bad at externalities.
Not sure if what you’re linking is the same, but Wikipedia and other Wiki sites also allow you to apply your own css in your user settings. These override any themes you set.

If you add only these two, it already improves the experience with 99%:

To limit the width of paragraphs:

#mw-content-text {
max-width: 50em;
}

To set a serif font for text and headings:

p,
page-heading.h1,
mw-parser-output.h1,
mw-parser-output.h2,
mw-parser-output.h3,
mw-parser-output.h4,
mw-parser-output.h5,
mw-parser-output.h6,
.mw-headline {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif;
}
Yes both of these responses were helpful. Cheers.
> When is electric going to be affordable for the average person?

The average price of a car bought in May of 2019 was $36,718. A Model 3 is $37,990. Given the offsets in maintenance and gas, I'd say the answer to that question is "now".

https://www.edmunds.com/industry/press/new-vehicle-prices-cl...
> Once in orbit, it takes very little energy to go to an asteroid and to launch that asteroid to a parking orbit compared to dredging mountains of soil and rock on Earth. The yields would be extremely high; there's more gold and platinum in some Inner Belt asteroids than we've ever mined on Earth so far, and it's just floating there for you to grab and bite chunks out of.

This is not true at all. This is laughably absurd. Getting from Earth's surface to LEO takes about 9.8km/s of delta-v but then getting from LEO to another destination requires more delta-v. To get to the Moon requires another 6km/s of delta-v on top of the 9.8km/s you needed to get from the ground into orbit. There's a reason the Saturn V was a giant rocket with a teeny tiny capsule mounted on top. Getting places in space requires a lot of propellant.

Here's a nice list of NEAs and the delta-v required to reach them (one way) from LEO[0]. The list is very helpfully sorted by delta-v requirements. You'll notice that the easiest NEA (2018 AV2) requires an additional 3.758km/s of delta-v. The easiest to reach NEA on the least requires more than half the delta-v that it would take to land on the Moon. Once you rendezvous with an asteroid you need to come home which requires yet more delta-v (thus more propellant). Moving an asteroid to orbit Earth is not in any way as simple as you might think from reading science fiction.

So there's nothing "very little" about the energy required to land on an asteroid let alone land on one, mine anything useful, and then return it to Earth. There's also the complexity of the vehicle needed to do the mining. Platinum (pure platinum mind you) goes for up to $37k per kg.

Even if we pretended that all of the technology existed and was donated and we just paid for a Falcon Heavy launch (about $150m to get about 17t of payload to an asteroid) we would need to ship back 4t of pure platinum to Earth just to break even. Even if you assumed that in the best case platinum was a thousand times more abundant in an asteroid than Earth's crust[1] that's still only 5ppm! You'd need your asteroid miner to process about eight million tons of ore (if my math is right) to get that 4t.

If our asteroid miner is 17t or so how long do you think it will take to process that much ore? The loan for the Falcon Heavy would have defaulted long before it would be even close to finished. There's just nothing asteroids have that ends up being worth the cost to mine them instead of mining them on Earth. Don't forget besides raw ore Earth also has lots of landfills literally filled with stuff than can be recycled and valuable materials extracted.

Materials in space are only really useful to an entirely space-based industry and the only way to bootstrap a space-based industry is to launch it from Earth which is basically just lighting money on fire.

[0] https://echo.jpl.nasa.gov/~lance/delta_v/delta_v.rendezvous....
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...
This doesn't really make sense... the person who bought the used car wasn't just going to not drive if it weren't for sale, they'd just buy a different one. Now, there is one ICE car and one electric car on the road instead of two ICE cars.

If half of the world immediately upgraded to electric cars, sure there would be a temporary surplus of vehicles, but it would only last until the old ones broke down.
Just curious, have they done any comparisons with golang?
I'm not saying I completely agree with closing the plant, but to be fair to the argument they make, the agreement does seem to spell out that the plant will be replaced with greenhouse gas free energy sources, including renewables + storage.

IMO the biggest problem with nuclear is the cost and time to construct. I don't think the energy industry would be so keen to shut them down if they were cost effective.
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>How long will it take to build all those nuclear plants?

About 7.5 years if you start them all at the same time.

http://euanmearns.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-nucle...

How long would it take to deploy that solar energy system, as well as figuring out a storage solution to overcome the problem of the duck curve?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
> A late career MBA in most cases has vastly diminished signalling/credentialing value.

That anecdote seems to insinuate the essence of an MBA offers no substantive value, nor does even the achievement of the accreditation itself. It is the timing of the latter which projects the value.

Is that a really low or a really high bar?
I think he's wrong for some commercial vehicles even. Battery energy/power density hasn't plateaued yet and there hasn't been much in the way of vertical integration of raw metal input to cell output yet. Their input stock is an expensive already partially refined material (metal sulfates) rather than raw metal which increases the total production cost. Tabless battery cells will also increase the energy density.
I wonder if it will ever look much like https://libreplanet.org. It’s the only site I’ve seen with a theme that modifies the actual layout (ie. the sidebar and Article | Talk / Read | Edit | View History tabs), AFAIK — I wouldn’t have known it was MediaWiki if I hadn’t happened to click to https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Wiki_Helpers
Personally I don't support it because the plant is on an earthquake fault, the design lifetime of that plant is near the end of life anyway, upgrade of nuclear plants has gone bad in CA before[1], and finally the upgrade resources could be better applied to renewable resources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_...
They don't care, and they don't follow that policy.

Even if that is "just a technical issue", no one cared enough to spend resources to fix their underlying system to reflect that policy.
2035 is still a long way away - by this time the German manufacturers will have gone to battle stations on EVs. VW group's R&D budget is roughly comparable with Tesla's revenue, they may need a kick up the arse to get going but when they do EVs will definitely go up a gear.

I also think SUVs should possibly be banned fairly soon (Bad for cities, bad for roads, bad for parking, emissions etc.)
Homonyms are not typos though.

I'm familiar with both definitions of the word.
Another presentation of the same idea is the Networthify early retirement calculator: https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement?income=50...

The behaviour of the system flips as you go from investment_income < annual_expenses to investment_income > annual_expenses , where investment_income = capital * return_on_capital . Before the transition, capital drains to zero over time, after the transition, capital grows to infinity over time. +/- the model being an crude approximation of reality.
Is this policy move California's response to the federal government gutting vehicle emission reduction policies just this spring?[1]

As a nation, we're not making radical moves. Most of our proposed policies are slow-walked or rolled back before they ever make a difference.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824431240/trump-administratio...
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By then fast charging will be a thing.

(But I suspect charging your car at a public fast charger will cost more than charging at home.)

FWIW: I believe fast chargers at grocery stores and similar destinations will be the tipping point for electric cars for renters. It's easier to just charge your car while you buy groceries than to make another stop at a gas station.

Related: Yesterday Tesla announced that their new tabless battery will support even faster charging speeds. Not sure if it will be able to go to a full charge in 2-3 minutes; but to be honest: Every EV I've owned has been able to finish "fast charging" by the time I'm done pooping in a public restroom.
ESR is basically a stripped and reconfigured browser for organizational deployments where the trade-offs and defaults are geared towards organizational efficiency and management issues, not individual security and privacy. It pretty much says so right on the tin. It's a weird thing to use that as a starting point for a supposedly security and privacy-focused browser. That's before they add their own cruft.

Tor Browser is the browser equivalent of adding sparklers around the gas tank of a Ford Pinto and then claiming you've now got a vehicle uniquely suited for demolition derbies and bank robberies.
> It's a tool of law enforcement to get around "blocks"

yeah like waterboarding is a tool around "blocks" of calling it torture
> "I also noticed the word "disinformation" which in itself these days is rather politically polarising. What's wrong in the world where open and balanced conversation must not be allowed?"

Weaponized Social Media has become a very real, powerful, dangerous and global force. I'm sure there are other materials I could cite, but the recent Netfix film "The Social Dilemma" (esp the 2nd half) paints the picture very clearly.
this is controlled at the state level and some states have protections and provisions for these situations

EDIT: I assumed state. She never says state or federal. Are federal voting records public? I didn't think they were.
The line length has been annoying me for years now. Recently I started to switch to the mobile version on desktops, which is much more readable in my opinion.

Maybe I should write a browser extension that automatically adds the "m." prefix to Wikipedia URLs.
WOW, initially i thought this was some average joe's channel where bots can run rampage(even this is wrong)..

770,000 subscribers
120 million views
600 videos

all gone in 4 days!!!!! keep rocking youtube!!!

Google is now a monopoly with Search, Youtube and probably gmail be right?!
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The explosion happens when you cross the ignition energy threshold. So having a low ignition energy threshold can actually be an advantage as then much less fuel is available to drive the explosion.

Agreed that doing intrinsic safety for H2 is hell. I did once design a LED sidelight for the relevant class with significant current (redundant electronic energy regulation). So it is possible to do stuff, it just takes more work. The tendency for modern electronics to be very low voltage helps a lot.
Only for sites that would want/need S230 protections right?
Facebook does the same with ads customers if they think one of their ominous rules has been broken repeatedly. If the algorithm decides so, you can lose the ability to ever run an ad again by logging in from the wrong IP number.

Only a law that prohibits or at least severely limits automated handling of customer complaints would help against these practices.
Do you know what’s the (current practical and maximum theoretical) roundtrip efficiency of hydrocarbons (gasoline, alcohol, methane, ...)? Could be a better alternative than H2 (and longer lasting than batteries, even if lower efficiency).
I guess you could call shorter ways to write and_then or map code reuse, but it's at such a small scale that it seems more like terseness?

Little abbreviations might be widely used, but when people talk about code reuse I'm hoping to hear about ways to share larger chunks of code, not having shorter idioms.
I only use old.reddit.com on phone and pc as it is much faster and much more intuitive , reddit has gone to hell in my opinion
The parent is saying that you can simply do the hard shadow algorithm but n times, starting from n random points uniformly sampled from a disk around the original point light source, then averaging the result. The bigger the disk the softer the shadow. This is how soft shadows are often achieved in ray tracing.
part of it was who it was.
Here again I think you're correct. :-(
In Europe the situation is even more complicated because many people don't have houses and garages like in the US so you need also to build infrastructure for charging overnight in the street. In Norway they seemed to deal with this issue but how is it going to work in places like London or Paris I am not sure
> Homonyms are not typos though.

Homonyms that are close in spelling can be typographical errors, and, because they aren't as visually-wrong as non-words, are particularly likely to escape notice when they are.

They can also be a different class of errors.

> I'm familiar with both definitions of the word.

You mean “the definitions of both words”, surely?
Yeah, they're credit card sized so I usually carry one in my wallet. Mostly to give to a valet if I need it. Some people have melted them down into fun key chain fogs. My gf has it as a ring.
Resource Ownership for Swift
Hey, wanna guess what international human rights declaration the US is not a signatory of?
I'm an independent consultant and have also been involved in large public and hybrid cloud budget decisions between the 3 big players. GCP will never get my backing as long as Youtube continues on it's current path. That is purely from a Google/Alphabet ethics point of view. Don't get me wrong, the other two players are not certainly not perfect either, but they're a farcry better than GCP in my opinion.
I am not suggesting in any way that it doesn't happen, but I do take some solace in that I have never read a story where this kind of thing wasn't ultimately resolved, whether it made a beeline straight to the mothership via an insider on HN or simply endured the protracted process of the official support channels. I'd like to know more about how often undeserved "crushed bugs" are happening.
No, because reading the book aloud for free on YouTube would obviate the need for people to purchase the book (or otherwise acquire a purchased copy of it). In this case, learning how to play a song on guitar doesn't obviate the need to hear the original artist's recording of it.

It's an argument over the doctrine of fair use, which has four parts:

1. What's the purpose of the use? Is it for educational purposes, or commercial purposes? (These aren't mutually exclusive, which is a confounder)

2. What's claimed to be copyrighted/creative in the original work? Is the creativity in question merely the phrasing of facts, or are there aspects of the original author's own creativity (for music, this one is probably irrelevant; it's obviously a largely creative endeavor, though I guess there probably exist certain hypothetical pieces of music for which it's harder to say)

3. How much of the work has been used? This is tricky; he probably teaches how to play entire songs, but the guitar part of any given song is a small piece of the overall work (and he probably uses very little, if any, of the copyrighted recording)

4. What's the impact on the value of the original work? In this case it's clear that there is essentially no negative impact – if anything, if you're learning to play a song, you're more likely to purchase or otherwise consume the original recording. This is also usually the most important factor in deciding fair use (from what I understand; I am not a legal professional, I just remember this from a paper I wrote in college for some course or other).

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They created 1.5B BAT

"- Once a month, they will split the BATs I earned accordingly by each website I visited(is there proof this happens?);"

Right now if a website is not Brave verified, that donation intent just sits in local storage and re-attempts itself for some period of time.

Brave makes money by being the ad regulator and distributor. If a publisher spends X on ad spend, users get 0.7x distributed back and Brave keeps the delta.

Advertisers can pay in BAT or just send Brave fiat and they'll purchase BAT on the open market as shown here:
https://brave.com/transparency/.

(Not affiliated with Brave/BAT, just a satisfied Brave user)
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The Bolshevik revolution is a bad model and he has the facts wrong about it.

Specifically, the article is wrong that "The first thing the Red Army did was kill the czar and his family, to make it clear they weren’t kidding around."; the revolution was in October and the czar was killed on 16 July 2018. The fate of the czar was one of many decisions that weighed on Lenin at that time.

Also: "nothing got better in Russia for five decades" is not an accurate analysis. Lenin was a butcher; Stalin was worse. Lenin's wife started a school for librarians and the country went from backwater to a nuclear power in 1948, launched a satellite 10 years after that.

Given that Russia might not have survived the wars of the period and put up strong economic growth up until 1970 or so you have to give Stalin at least a "C" in retrospect. In the 1970s both the West and the Communist Bloc faced an economic crisis which the West weathered better.
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Product Ownership for a Service Company
They are expensive and take long to construct because of political and environmental requirements on them. This is not an inherent property of nuclear, and can be solved with a single stroke of the pen. This is not going to happen, though, because people tend to think that if something is "environmental", then it must be good.
Yesterday Tesla described their battery recycling plan in quite a bit of detail.

Short answer: Tesla 100% recycles their batteries and will be able to 100% recycle them indefinitely.
I have no idea how you managed that. My sigmoidoscopy (they do not give you anything beforehand) was one of the most unpleasant experiences I've ever had.