skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the most part, yes this works. We basically use the same process to refine radioactive ore into a more pure form. The method is generally with giant centrifuges since radioactive isotopes have different numbers of neutrons and therefore different weights.

In general what we call radioactive waste is also fissionable so can be used in subsequent reactors.
Its not just ISPs. It’s part of a larger problem with building infrastructure due to our regulatory environment and high labor costs. In my state, they’re building a tram line through the suburbs that is costing as much per mile as Copenhagen’s new fully automated circle line subway. That’s a public project, but costs are still insanely high.
The title insists on the "living" part but the really exciting one is the "photosynthetic" part!!

It is really revolutionary, as it is a "concrete" that solidifies without rejecting CO2, thanks to its cyanobacterial base.
Yup, it's a well known issue with the XPS line. It's also dangerous as they can start fires..
The quality appears to be very random, which isn't what you want with a high end device. But if you're one of the lottery winners, great!
Greg brockman has said before on HN that if you have a cool use case you can email him and he’ll see what he can do.
Learn the True Polymorphism
I've lived in Japan for a long time too and while the dishes are familiar, I've never seen anything like the knives presented in the article. They look more like novelty items you'd get from the home shopping channel than a staple of every Japanese household (still neat though!).
Well too much free speech on Facebook allegedly caused the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. Either that free speech sensationalized the role of Facebook in the genocide to the point where Facebook doesn't have free speech.
Well played, and it's always pleasant to find XKCD in one's search results. (And an on-topic one at that).

For ref: https://xkcd.com/323/
Would data about excess death vs COVID death prove the matter?
I think this eliminates much of what you learn from history when you study it. Knowing what lead into WW1 and WW2 spanned for decades before, and were much more important than learning the actual facts of the war. History isn't really the study of what happened, rather it's the study of the consequences of what happened. Going in chronological order gives you a sense of what to expect based off what is happening.
Having recently had the pleasure of having to debug JIT-compiled code with an ABI mismatch, I can't overstate how useful `rr` (https://github.com/mozilla/rr) can be to debug assembly. The ability to `rsi` e.g. reverse step instruction is very powerful.

One tool that I started exploring is https://pernos.co/, the ability to do dataflow analysis is super cool. Let's you easily answer the question "How did this value get into this register".
I was actually surprised at how much time my elementary school curriculum spent on the Holocaust (as in multiple weeks).

Never heard about Armenian and Rwandan genocides until college.
Any mass-extinction event for Steam would most likely mean an application/tool would be widely distributed which removes drm from their already-installed games.
AltaGas agrees to pay $715M to double stake in midstream firm Petrogas
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The final digs about Verizon Fios in Hell's Kitchen are pretty fucking rich, if you ask me.

There's no need for "telephone poles." That is complete nonsense, not least because Verizon has the monopoly on underground conduit in Manhattan. They literally own the Empire City Subway, the ostensibly vendor-neutral central conduit system that runs under every single street in Hell's Kitchen.

For some "mysterious" reason, no one other than Verizon can ever get conduit space in the ECS. Gee I wonder why that is. At the same time, Verizon has no interest in using that space for fiber -- they'd rather leave hundred year old dead copper lines sit than admit competitors OR upgrade their own infrastructure

Fios isn't failing to deploy to his building because it's hard to negotiate with landlords -- they are failing to deploy because they do not believe the city will enforce the terms of their franchise. It's more profitable to wire a few high-density buildings, and leave everyone else to rot, assuming the city never fines them. (That looks like a safe assumption from where I am sitting.)

Verizon has ample capability and they choose not to live up to their obligations.
If monitoring is the use case then go for Netdata
How do you deal with multi-line text, Notepad? :)
All media is biased. It might not be as blatant as Fox but it's still there, in the tone the reporter takes, in the types of questions they ask, in the attitude of their responses to answers, in which parts they emphasize, etc...
Yup .. I was seriously considering buying one except for the ridiculous screen options!

The x13 has an almost acceptable screen but non-touch, and single channel ram issues if I remember right.

There just doesn't seem to be a really good ryzen laptop on the market. I'm vaguely hoping the MS surface laptop 4 releases with a nice surprise of reduced bezels and two pcie ssd slots!
Thoughts on Honeywell Forge?
Personally I wish there was an option to swap the behavior, make it default to unformatted text using Ctrl+V, and Ctrl+Shift+V for formatted text.
Tabs are better in theory, obviously.

However people insist on using spaces. Like between words in sentences or between tokens in a line of code.

Spaces are better than mixing tabs and spaces, especially with "modern" (newer than 30 years old) tools. Especially if you use these editors enough that you are never indenting manually with backspace or tab/spacebar.

So the options are tabs+spaces mixed together or just spaces unless you are dealing with tab delimited files with no spaces in them, which is rare.

The tradeoff is you lose the ability for different people working on the same thing to see different indentation levels. In exchange you don't regularly get your formatting confusing messed up because of some kind of invisible control character confusion.
I haven't read either of these, but certainly want to. I'm a big fan of Lisp, and recently started learning some Haskell, too. (First languages were Basic, Java, C, ...then Python, Common Lisp...) Would you (or anyone else) recommend one over the other first? Why?
Really? I use GDB all the time to debug assembly, it's quite good at it. Perhaps there's something much better that I'm not aware of?
Few points:

Picasa was an acquisition, and ran 12 years at Google - during which the overall focus changed away from desktop-first to web-/mobile-first, which now runs under Google Photos (they didn't handle the migration that well, but I wouldn't call Picasa a failure based on that). Chrome Apps didn't feel like a standalone product to me, but a side-feature of others.

I'm not sure the "were aquired" status is that relevant - they've either evolved a lot from them or the basis was not that outstanding. Youtube maybe, since it also brought a userbase.

Google does seem to have a culture that overemphasizes new over iterating on old, which leads to things like the hilarious failure of their messaging products where they launch one new per year instead of having weight and effort behind 1-2 outstanding ones. And that despite messengers being a network effect product. Combined with that likely is the relatively weird business model compared to many other companies: Many products don't make money directly, but only through ads or through binding people into the Google system (which will then show them ads). That likely (outsider perspective) makes discarding and launching products easier.
Yep, I hate when I'm dealing with a system literally comprised of logic and a magic gremlin shows up to ruin my day.

Seems like they though a casual "everyman" type of explanation would suffice, but really who would trust them after this?
Related: Little Bobby Tables (https://xkcd.com/327/)
There is a long and fascinating discussion to be had about how the economics of many industrial sectors are evolving. The short version is hardware differentiation is no longer economically viable, margin is going to zero, and pivoting to sensor analytics and exploitation is broadly seen as the primary means of generating margin going forward. I've had this same conversation across several industrial sectors. Anything tangentially related to transportation (automotive, logistics, telematics, aviation, and all related supply chains) is a good example.

As to what these companies want to do with sensor data, it is often considerably more interesting than what people imagine. Many of the applications have an operational real-time or low-latency tempo. (I can't be too specific here.)

For my purposes, I put "medium-sized" on the order of $1B annual revenue. As to why a company would literally spend 10+% of its revenue on sensor data infrastructure, it is difficult to overstate the extent to which getting this right is viewed as near- to medium-term existential for these companies. The CFO has run the models and this is their best chance at survival.

Here is the interesting thing: to the extent they've been able to put this sensor data infrastructure in place, it has been successful at generating margin. If they could bend the infrastructure cost curve down a bit, most would spend even more on it. I've seen the financial models at several companies, there is a tremendous amount of money to be made in this transformation.
The Onion is available in newsprint, like a newspaper (or at least, it was). It has all the trappings of a newspaper, but everything is not real (but the ads). If that doesn't make it a fake newspaper, I don't know what does.

Weekly world news (is that still in print?) is maybe more fake, but they're both fake.
I'm not sure they could be clearer, which is kinda the problem. I don't think these kind of satire sites should be illegal, or even necessarily removed from Facebook. But given how inevitable it seems to be that even reasonably well-informed people will get tricked, it's hard for me to look at them and see a net positive to society.
Science isn't a matter of simple data. Science is a matter of trust. A scientific cannot "stand on it's own" without the assurance that it was produced by someone with a minimal amount of integrity. There are too many elements in the process of research that can be "fudged" to allow this.
Certainly in my county, many fewer people are dying even though many more are testing positive. Many more people are getting tested, for job requirements, travel, etc. It results in more positives, naturally. In a county of more than 3 million, we have around 50 in ICU, lowest in many months. As positive tests grow. Two things (at least) might be at work: better treatment is one, the other is that there were far higher numbers of people infected than known, earlier in the year. I’m sure treatment now is better, but I would not be surprised if many more people have been exposed, and have recovered, from this virus than is assumed.
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I haven't dug into too much detail, but doing git gc did have a noticeable effect on size and subsequent update performance. I assume, some temporary artifacts got consolidated.

Also resetting the repository once every 1-2 years, and keeping the old one for a while is fine for smaller setups.

Depending on your business size and the amount of resources you want to allocate towards "basic system administration", accomplishing the same task with fewer tools could have its advantages.
It writes an invalid instruction at this location. What ever this instruction, it just has to be invalid.

RISC-V actually did this in a special instruction called ebreak. It can change the CPU privileged mode into Debug Mode.
I like the associated butter tub (frequently bought together section), what are the imperial butter sizes for it at my local American grocery store...?
New Amazon Data: Retailer Wins Sales While Losing to Merchants on Listings
Good point. And last thing you mentioned, that's like firing engineering team because sales team made more money..
no, it merely pulled back the curtain
I completely agree - there's only so many ways to slice the data. The caveat is - the type of data matters quite a bit for the data architecture. There's another thread that mentions sensor data as a source of complexity since the data has a theoretical delay between events (i.e. period) of 0 - something few systems are built to handle, even if you sample approximations at some fixed frequency. Algorithmic trading is a similar domain that still has a huge bar for entry - a sign that _this isn't easy_.

The fidelity of the data is of course important, but I would claim it's not a blocker. Yes, you need to trust the data you collect. That's table stakes - if you can't collect data correctly at all, even without worrying about the past, you're in for a world of hurt. It's P0. That said, a lot of people assume you also need to do this historically - and that's not the case - at least for ML.

Reinforcement learning has been making great strides in recent years. If you're in this situation - you have a flow where you want to use a model without having any past data to train with - use something like VW's contextual bandits [1]. You don't need historical data to build your model, just real-time decision point & reward signals. Once deployed, the model converges over time to the optimal model using real-time feedback.

All that said - baby steps are important. If you're in this situation, start by getting fidelity and then expand scope slowly without sacrifice to fidelity. It's a lot easier to backfill than to "fix" data - get that right and it get's easier from there. You'll need fixups regardless - mistakes happen and requirements change - but you have to start with something you trust, at least in the moment it's deployed.

[1] https://vowpalwabbit.org/tutorials/contextual_bandits.html
Employee Health Benefit Hassles Cost U.S. Businesses Billions
Chinese spends their life finding a way to do things. Japanese spends their life finding the way to do things.
We’re conservative because we’re rich and comfortable. We have the highest disposable income in the OECD: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/teaser/14773.jpeg. The median household income of a married couple with kids is $95,000. And the taxes are extremely low in that bracket. Our unemployment rate in the midst of Trump’s botched handling of COVID is less than what France’s unemployment rate is in a normal year.

Even when you hear complaints about things like healthcare, the debates are more about universal coverage than the quality or affordability of care itself. Americans are overwhelmingly satisfied with their own healthcare: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcar.... (And, Americans being preternaturally optimistic, just assign less value to the security of a safety net in the case they lose their job, etc.)

Americans live in houses far larger than the average European: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7ei5f4/com.... We have more TVs, more cars, etc.

It’s easy to assume that Americans are just ignorant and irrational. But Americans know that Europe has a bunch of services we don’t, and they pay much higher taxes in return. Democrats make that comparison all the time. People are aware of it. But the fact is that the current system works pretty well for your typical voter. A flatter society with more social services would be better for a lot of people. However, your average suburban married couple would take a significant hit to their standard of living if they lived in France instead.
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It might feel like a failure to you but to them - and this depends on the end goal of the product - it probably isn't.

They've had products in the past that they've rebranded or consolidated, for instance. Just look at what they're doing with Google Chat right now.

I remember reading somewhere that different groups will develop products that overlap with each other and the one that performs the best remains alive until user interest is lost or if it's becoming a financial burden. It almost feels like a multi-armed bandit problem.

I have this feeling that sometimes, some products, are just a way of collecting brand new data sets for them to play with and hopefully improve current and future distinct products. They're a very patent- and data-oriented company.

Anyway, their moonshot company, X, actually encourages failure and the team who's working on a certain project is rewarded for it as long as they do it quickly IIRC; so maybe both Google and X share some similarities in that regard. If they don't share then it makes sense to kill products and avoid wasting money on something that isn't producing valueable data.
My first day in Japan, I switched on the TV and was immediately thrust into a program where different designs of nail cutters were being analyzed. The angle of the cutting blades, etc; The cutting of the nail was inspected in slow motion video capture, and an Excel sheet of how far the nail flies, how neat the cut was, etc; was filled and a Winner was arrived at. I've never seen anything like it and I watched all 30 minutes of that program! It was a fascinating demonstration of what I believe is called "kaizen". I really like the attention given to everyday objects in Japanese design.
Kudos to Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, Nathan Mhyrvold, Matthew D. Keller, Bryan J. Norton, David J. Farrar, Phil Rutschman, Maclen Marvit & Arty Makagon! I look forward to deploying this tech to deal with fruit flies soonish. I don’t even need to do a back of the envelope calculation to have confidence this is soon to be a viable first world niche product. I think it’s likely viable at a massive scale (many millions of units) too.
> Tesla has exhausted the supply of uncritical fanboys, and is past being the only good electric car manufacturer. Now they have to compete with BMW and Mercedes, who also sell good electric cars.

What an odd thing to say. The objective data does not agree with you however. Pulling up EV sales in the last 5 years would also say otherwise. BMW/ MBenz are not even in the top 5 in terms of sales. Renault (Zoe) BYD, BAIC, and SAIC are closer in terms of numbers:

YTD YoY Vehicle Delivery Growth: https://youtu.be/K9gk8TMXKQk?t=65

Quarterly Vehicle Deliveries:
https://youtu.be/K9gk8TMXKQk?t=110

U.S. Electric Vehicles Sales by Model (2012-2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsd0yRYk8c

"Tesla was ranked as the best-selling electric vehicle manufacturer worldwide after selling between 367,000 and 368,000 units in 2019. Tesla's sales volume translates into a market share of just under 18 percent. Chinese manufacturers BYD, BAIC, and SAIC were among the runners-up."

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/541390/global-sales-of-p...

People like you have been saying that since 2008-2010 that "competition is coming" https://www.wired.com/2009/10/audi-etron/

Yet here we are in 2020 and the incumbents still don't offer (production wise) an efficient EV that can best the range of the Model S from 2012.

"Most experienced automakers race to put a car together in three years," said Angus MacKenzie, editor of Motor Trend magazine. "I can't see Tesla making more than a handful of these -- if any -- in 2012.

That's not good news, considering Tesla has competition coming to the stage quickly. Nissan will sell the electric Leaf and General Motors is ready to bring the hybrid-electric Chevrolet Volt to market next year -- a year ahead of the Model S."

https://money.cnn.com/2010/06/29/technology/tesla_ipo/index....

"Tesla Motors may have significant competition in the high-end electric vehicle space soon, if Fisker Automotive continues on its current path. "

https://venturebeat.com/2008/09/10/high-end-electric-car-com...
Yeah Amazon JP is great, plus it's handy to already have one if you plan to make a trip to Japan. Both times that I went, I already had an account so it was super easy to order the SIM I wanted from Amazon to my hotel a couple days before arriving.

As far as shipping to the USA, YMMV, but when you can order items with delivery here then it's super awesome and generally fairly quick (aside from during COVID times with slower logistics).
In the 80s, 30+ years ago, license plates were discernible from orbit. Are you sure about that? I'm not even sure about that now. Any credible information on the net, somewhere?

I thought that was movie stuff, like in https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/

I'm aware that this is difficult to prove, because secrecy, national security and so on, but license plates from orbit? In the 80ies?
4chan reveals online voter exploit that can be used to cancel ballots?
That's a key part of it too over the long term. There will never be enough bandwidth to backhaul all the sensor data to a data center. However, there are huge technical gaps that need to be addressed to make edge computing viable, particularly around managing federation considering the compute profile of many considered applications. Ad hoc transient meshes of powerful compute elements attached to diverse multimodal sensor sources without a trivial root of trust is... interesting.

It isn't a solved problem but people are working on it.
I'm so glad you like it! Sometimes you're not sure whether people will get from your words the sense that you had in mind :)
If you look at China, but omit Wuhan, then wouldn’t the better comparison be to the U.S., omitting Louisiana? Why take the highest region in the U.S., and compare to another country while specifically omitting the highest region there?
All of that is false. Do you have an annual chart to back your claim?

https://carsalesbase.com/european-sales-2019-ev-phev/

2019 EV sales Europe

1. Tesla Model 3 - 95.168

2. Renault Zoe - 45.129

3. Nissan Leaf - 31.792

4. Hyundai Kona EV - 21.790

5. Audi e-tron - 18.382

Another chart as a data point...

https://www.ev-volumes.com/
The article should be renamed to “We coded a function that drops database tables and were surprised when it broke production.”
Flexible Consistency: Combining Contrasting Values
There's even an xkcd comic about this <https://xkcd.com/1499/>.
Me too, partly because of the reduced short-term memory (which coding relies on heavily). But more than that, my motivation drops through the floor because I can’t shake the thought that life is too short to fight with computers all day.