skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most likely, those experiences wouldn't be as remarkable as those who missed it imagine. Still...
I would be nice to have a document we can rely on and refer to, in case of subtle breakages and bugs. Alternative implementations could also be a possibility down the line. Having a formal spec would also help with code verification, i.e. you basically can't do it unless the language is specified.
Very cool, however now I found out I am apparently someone who looks unusual compared to the average person.

In particular, I have naturally blond (very blond) hair, blue-green eyes, but a black beard.

This seems to confuse the AI. None of the pictures it generates look even remotely like me, and I even got a broken one (long-haired ones, where the hair fizzles out into AI artifacts).

Now, just to figure out how I can use my AI-breaking power face to mess with facial recognition technology?
;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultras
It is well possible to capture complex structures in a set of tables. For example, the fossil SCM uses sqlite to store file contents, commit history, deltas and metadata, issue tickets, user access info, custom ticket formats if any, and wiki documentation all in a single file, driven by a single executable. Most applications don't have more complex structure than that. Furthermore, parts of the application can pull the exact bits they need at a given time instead of having to parse all the data, since sqlite can run full fledged queries. Total win IMO.

The argument for this has already been made very well by the sqlite creator.

https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
What a comment! (Tips hat)
If nobody had nuclear weapons the second world war would have lasted longer and the invasion of the Japanese mainland would have cost far more lives (on all sides) than the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did. The cold war would probably have gone hot, Europe would have been a battlefield and might have ended up under Soviet rule. As to how the conflict between China and the Soviet Union would have gone I can only speculate, that there would have been one is rather likely.

Nuclear weapons have kept the large powers from direct confrontation since the 50's, their existence has saved more lives than their use has cost. As long as they are not acquired by (in our eyes) irrational or suicidal actors they can be used for this purpose. As to whether a nuclear armed Iran would use them as a deterrent or otherwise - which includes providing nuclear weapons to third parties for use against common enemies - I can only guess. My guess is that a weakened theocracy - which is what Iran is - is an irrational actor and with that not to be trusted to "do the right thing".
2020: The Year of Fake News, Covid-Related Scams and Ransomware
Right now, Tasmania is 94% renewable for production, and 83% in consumption.

The 6% non-renewable production seems to come from natural gas, and it imports a large amount of energy from Victoria.

It is good that they've achieved this, but their carbon intensity right now (for consumption) is 196g/KWh which is more than double the consumption for France

Source: https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/AUS-TAS

Screenshot for production: https://imgur.com/8sBZ0Tx

Screenshot for consumption: https://imgur.com/ryvAT2d
Some cert learning platforms do that. They aren’t fools. The ones who care about learning provide you with sandboxes where you need to create different environments and they validate your work. Do some shopping beforehand and see which platforms have sandboxes for learning specifics.

I learned through LinuxAcademy.com (dunno if it exists in the same form anymore).

I was hired to help a group of linux admin seniors who knew a ton about their work, but had pretty terrible AWS knowledge. After 2 weeks (!) I was able to improve architecture of our environments enough that I made thousands in savings per month and make our product more resilient at the same time.

All this gain just because they hired someone who learned how and why to so things through a good cert course. Instead of using the platform as a pure KVM alternative I showed them the APIs that make things easier for us.
I thought that on Mars and Moon we could just stay underground as much as possible. And shield ourselves with stuff we carry along the way.

And probably treat cancers as they happen, accepting the risk of shorter lifespan.
> People use the word 'collapse' to predict problems in healthcare, but then we never see it happen, as health systems don't 'collapse' - medical professionals just work in increasingly degraded conditions.

I don't get it. We do see problems in healthcare. The excess mortality we're seeing at the moment is a combination of deaths directly caused by covid, but also deaths caused by reduced access to healthcare. When we change long-established norms (eg 1:1 nurse:patient ratios) this is system collapse.
"I goat certified!"
It's only gross because of our primitive brain. We wouldn't blink twice at gutting or rebuilding a computer.

If you say, "it's not the same". Why, just because a pig was created by God (or grows in nature) and a computer tower is created by humans?

Once either are mature, they're both owned by humans. One has more advanced motor functions and an integrated bioreactor, but the other can also do things that we can't.
I think we'll have to have nuclear power on the moon before we can ro anything properly industrial there.
Could you look the details? How many people, where they are, what the project is called so we can see the project stats?
Yeah. I happen to have been looking at this problem in my spare time recently. I tried a bunch of abstractive AIs and approaches, and none produce consistently usable results.

I'm sticking with extractive approaches plus a bunch of hard-coded general and domain-specific rules for now.
https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
> And that's why languages such as C and C++ are not a reference implementation from a vendor but an international standard.

Is that true though? I mean the spec is so "loose" that most compilers don't even work with the same code if it has any level of serious complexity. Normally that's put under the rug of 'undefined behaviour' but imo it's a "vendored version" of the language, the most common variants being MSVC, GCC and CLANG, and even projects which make efforts to be agnostic or have many eyes (linux) can't support GCC _and_ CLANG easily.
Maybe it's the use of these specific molten salts to dissolve oxides rather than melt them?
>> The public was never in any danger, the source said. The device created by the defendants was deemed inoperable and not a threat to the public.

Yet one of them got 30 years and the other one got off lightly with 8 because he pleaded guilty [1].

That sounds disproportionate to me. Reading a few more news items about the case, it seems the man who got the 30 years was clearly coockoo but despite his occupation ("industrial engineer") didn't have the means to produce a "weapon of mass destruction" (he was convicted under a law targeting "dirty bombs" [2]). I find his lawyer's defense that he (and his co-defendant) was entrapped by the FBI plausible.

In any case, is it really illegal to work out elaborate ways to kill people? Can you go to prison just because you have an overactive imagination? Or because you are really a bit of a cunt and don't care about other peoples' lives, or you hate a particular group of people, even though you've never actually harmed anyone?

Do we put people in prison just for talking shit?

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[1] https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-man-gets-30-years-in-pri...

[2] https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/new-york-man-gets-30-years-in-p...
The 25kph cutoff is the legal limit for this category of ebike in the EU, 20MPH in the US.

I think some of the price of the carbon comes out of the marketing budget. In a way, the difference between a 4k ebike with cheaper looking parts vs a 4.5k bike with "premium" parts comes down on the side of spending the money.

I'd estimate that bike would sell for ~2k without the electrics. It's nice, but it's not super speccd. High end carbon rims are expensive, but they're not _that_ expensive compared to aftermarket aluminum rims. Niceish rims are basically 80-100 now. Carbon is probably 150 or so. (That's retailish, but not MSRP, what I could get them for, not what a bike co could get them for wholesale)

OTOH, it's lighter than my gravel/commuter, which doesn't even have electrics, so there's that. But I'd need rack/panniers for the commute, and I'd have range worries there.

What I'd like to see is a lightweight system that adds ~100W to my output for ~ 4hours. Something that's not painfully heavy if it's off, but makes the last hour of the commute better. (I do 2hrs each way when I do it.)
Does this require government intervention/meddling though? Or said differently, “what are the downsides of banning this?”

Plenty of people prefer to work long hours (I know I did for two decades before having kids, as in genuinely enjoyed (almost all of) it.)

I’m glad the government isn’t here with a clipboard telling me what I can and can’t do with my life at every turn.

(I’m all for setting a max beyond which overtime must be paid to hourly workers (as now) and for setting reasonable caps that can’t be required by the employer to be exceeded, but if a worker wants to work long or hard, they should be able to choose that, IMO.)
Sleepy secrets (memory) & coffee, circadian rhythms, wearables, nightwalking, I
I signed up with no indication that it was a paid service with no free tier. Felt a little played tbh.
Mishima is unfortunately pretty popular in the alt-rightish kinds of circles too (one of the few articles I could find about him in English were published on Quilette, for instance), but don't let that colour your impression too much. There's worlds of difference between the kind of nationalism and militarist creed that Mishima was espousing, and whatever people latch onto his work. (Which is not to say that the appropriation is not at least in part understandable.)

Nevertheless, I think Mishima is best interpreted completely on his own terms, as he essentially gave a blueprint for his life in his work - and vice versa. His personal life story and the themes he engages are both equally as fascinating and deeply intertwined, and I personally feel there's lots of beautiful and unique insights about the sorts of questions that are timeless.

I can only recommend Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (curiously not mentioned in this article.) It's obviously a rather poetic/movie-style retelling of Mishima's work and story, and I did go into it rather sceptical, seeing as its context is rather removed from Mishima's, but it actually holds together really well, and I never felt that at any point the movie did not give the material the time and depth it deserved. Check it out if the article piqued your interest.
It cancels non-renewable power that was not produced, when you also subtract non-renewable energy that was produced you are doing double counting.
Agreed, but fit is more important for hospital and laboratory staff. For general public unfitted N95 like this is still better than some random cloth mask I think.
I wouldn't consider this as a formula for success but a sounding board. Most times we are lost in complexities of life and choices, articles like these enable us to get back and re-think, provide clarity. They should be considered as triggers or questions that we should be asking ourselves than a formula.

This is philosophy, should be treated as such.
Seemed to be fine at Walmart.
Off topic - somehow I’ve never heard of the register.com. Looks interesting, is it worth reading?
Don't get distracted by the OP's nostalgia. The point they are trying to make was that older OS's had much more decoupled concepts for things like changing OS, applications, and settings. Decoupled enough that everything was accessible to the user through a small handful of concepts. You had to understand a disk drive, how to move things in a file manager, and how to run things... and that was about it. Our current systems are the opposite: tightly integrated to the point where every action can cause an avalanche of secondary effects, and flexibility is greatly reduced. The short list of main recommendations are not crazy at all on this community:

- boot from a read only, immutable OS on easily-replaceable media. (Ahem containers, nixOS)
- applications should be encapsulated in a single object which can be executed from anywhere in your filesystem. (Flatpak, containers)
- applications and the OS should be designed for offline by default. (Any user of EA games would back this idea)
- only persist user settings across boots, ideally in an OS neutral format (containers)
- expose less to zero UI configuration to the user (core design concept in Apple land, I gather)
- single user no login by design (many linux distros, windows until recently...)

There are more but you should read TFA. These are not radical concepts, they're the norm in other contexts.
I grew up in the city I think you’re referring to I still remember approaching the city from the south and seeing the whole valley choked with smoke .
I think the UK government realised its mistake, and is trying to unwind it as safely as possible.

"From 3 December to 9 December, which will be known as the ‘student travel window’, students will be allowed to travel home on staggered departure dates set by universities, who will work with other institutions in the region to manage pressure on transport infrastructure.

The student travel window will mean students can travel having just completed the four-week period of national restrictions, reducing the risk of transmission to family and friends at home.

Universities should move learning online by 9 December so students can continue their education while also having the option to return home to study from there."

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/christmasguidance-set-out...
Same. I decided to implement death memes/jokes in real life. Mostly in reply to dumb comments like "vaping will kill you faster than cigarettes" (to which I say "Oh, man, I really hope so!"). The reactions are hilarious or at the very least, it shuts them up.

People seem violently afraid of dying, it's like they reject the thought of it happening to them. Which is funny, because that is one thing that will happen to literally everyone alive today (perhaps future generations could become immortal, but imo not anyone who is alive right now).
I thought Iceland was self sufficient for electricity with all of its geothermal power.
Spot on. Certs are great at enforcing habits and validating what we know.
I live 1500km (its a rather long distance) from Chernobyl and we still have to measure radiation in wildlife to check if its edible.
It's unclear what you mean by progress.

Due to improved security nuclear plants have gotten more expensive, and as a results almost no new ones are being built in the Western world to replace those that are shutting down. The industry is slowly whittling down.

Now you can start inventing excuses why this is happening (popular ones are the greens, and the governments, and scared people, and also people who don't want to pay for the transition off fossil fuels). But it IS happening.

There's a fair amount of hype surrounding nuclear tech, e.g. in the form of small plants, but so far that's all vapourware. They are not competing on commercial terms, or even close to.
Guido also worked at Dropbox from 2013-19. Python's shortcomings probably can't be attributed to its lead struggling to pay rent.
Might be referring to this, in part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25236522
What we noticed delivering products in the field for the last seven years is that we had different profiles:

- Some of our members could go through the whole thing: meeting client, understanding business problem, write code to connect to data sources, get the data, clean it, set up training environments, train models, set up serving environments, deploy models, write the application (web, mobile).

- Some of our members could do a subset of these: feature engineering, training models. XOR build applications and deploy models.

This has put us in a situation where those who cannot "do it all" relied on someone who can do the part they needed. For example, asking someone to deploy their model, or setup their compute environment, etc. The person might be working on something else, or deploying that very person's earlier model version. Blocking.

We wanted to lower the frictions, so we built our "machine learning platform"[0] to allow people to do things that have higher value and impact, and allow people to be independent. For example, our people who are great at training models but cannot deploy them now can with the click of a button. The platform also takes care of setting up environments, scheduling long-running notebooks, automatically tracking experiments (parameters, metrics, models) because we used to rely on people being consistent and remembering to do that, and then we had a divergence of methods to do so (ad-hoc processes).

It also allows people who can "do it all" not to waste time with these tasks that are blocking their colleagues, and work on more valuable things. Just because they can do it all does not mean they ought to be setting up training or serving environments.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
If you as a job seeker aren’t given a chance to show your knowledge of a platform even though you have no cert then that’s not a company you should work for.
Portable, DIY, open hardware retro-gaming console
> And docker on Linux doesn’t support all the features that docker on Mac does. Specifically kubernetes.

This is nonsense. We invested multiple man month this year to create a local k8s dev environment for our company. Our devs use MacOS and Linux. Me and my colleague evaluated various solutions for running k8s locally, all of which worked fine on Linux out of the box, while the process of setting them up for MacOS was riddled with issues (mostly around performance).
Joe McCarthy says Hi. Did you forget about the horrifying legacy of both literal and figurative witch trials? How about the US only very recently abandoning the idea that one person could own another?

The idea that patriotism is a necessity makes me nauseous, particularly given the ghastly scars of full-on repression and brutality the US wears on its face for anyone with the temerity to speak the wrong opinion.

Frankly I struggle to comprehend any other interpretation of history. Unless, of course, one is some kind of revisionist shitbird with blind spots up the wazoo.

The infantile whinge about “Eurocentrism” is characteristic of the kind of petty-minded, reflexive, and ultimately inaccurate dismissal of outsiders I’ve come to expect from authoritarian demagogues and the wannabe bullies that defend them.

All of which is to say, the fact that in the US, it’s possible to criticise the government, occurs despite the ludicrous brainwash theatrics, not because of them; and until very recently, only for a few.
The problem will be solved in time, and in the meantime, we can solve other problems (like in-situ resource utilization, closed-loop habitation, etc.) in parallel.

> How are we going to deal with this?

I don't have an answer for the journey to Mars itself (and I'm also not sure if there's a consensus on how big a danger would such trip pose) - but you'll definitely want to keep the fuel between the passengers and the Sun. It would likely also be wise to pad the whole vehicle with some dense material - but to do that, you'd really want to have some sort of manufacturing capability in cislunar space, to avoid having to lift all that mass upwell.

As for bases on Moon and/or Mars, the best solution is probably to dig in - find a cave or make a tunnel, set up there, and develop underground. Ground is a very good radiation shield.
Lol, such certificates are only good for body-shops like TCS/Infosys/WIPRO/Accenture etc to market their employees to clients. Folks already in product companies should know how to use cloud technologies in general & not just one specific provider.
I agree with all that, and indeed it would be wise to ask that employee to go through other/more appropriate channels first when they have "bad news". What bothers me is the "trouble" part. Completely unnecessary imho.
We can start by sending nuclear reactors up there, like the ones NASA is developing for spaceflight[0]. Kilowatts electrical + thermal should be enough to do some basic, very small-scale industrial operations, and expand from there.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower
You know China doesn't refer to themselves as China, right? China is Portugese in origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_China
> What is the best way to organize a liberal democracy of >100M citizens?

I like to take working examples from nature or existing problems. The email spam filter was discovered by applying how viruses work. Road Traffic problems have a lot of common ground with Computer Networking.

Break the problem into elements and study working solutions, examples of those. For example, to learn social media marketing, I have been learning network science, work of A Barabási

- Find an inspiration around your or nature.
> Upload your photo and discover look-a-like generated photos.

No thank you. I would rather use https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ instead. I do not want to expose myself to protect myself. Please think about it, it is absurd. You do not protect your privacy by first giving up privacy by trusting total strangers with your photo. Probably could use https://generated.photos/faces as well.

Such an anonymizer. You probably use your IP, you upload a photo of yourself to someone's server, and God knows what happens to all this. Just to... anonymize yourself. First step to anonymize yourself: do not upload a photo of yourself to random websites.
Yes. It has a rather unique style, as you'll soon find out, and sometimes its own lingo, mimicking UK tabloids, but it's quite worth reading.

Their motto used to be "Biting the hand that feeds IT"
What about neurodegeneration?
> what the hell did we think we were doing between August and November

I assume our political leaders made a decision with the following inputs:

0. As someone with a degree in classics, I don't have an intuitive understanding of how fast exponential growth can get out of control.

1. The death rate dropped from 9500/week in mid-April to 300/week in mid-July. And stayed below 300/week until the end of September.

2. Our scientific/medical advisors say we should keep things locked down - but it's their job to be cautious, they're medical advisors not economic advisors. I have to weigh up their advice against other interests.

3. Compared to at the start of the first lockdown, we now have more testing capacity and PPE. Face masks are now available for everyone not just medical staff, for example.

4. There are loads of industries saying if they can't re-open they'll need a government bail-out and we've already spent an eye-watering amount of money on the furlough scheme.

5. Some of these industries, like gyms and universities, point out that having them open is good for the nation. Keeping schools closed seems to be widening the performance gap between rich and poor children. People avoiding hospitals is leading to more cancers going untreated.

6. Countries like Sweden and America haven't locked down at all.

7. We're going to keep a lot of restrictions in place, with restaurants and theatres running at a fraction of their normal capacity, so it's not like we're going completely back to normal.

8. The prime minister's own chief advisor is breaking lockdown rules because he's bored of them, and punishing him isn't an option, so it'd be a lot less embarrassing if we could make what he did allowed retroactively.

Between these inputs, our leaders convinced themselves that lowering restrictions was the right thing to do in August.
Well, yes, if Intel had no competition at all they might have been able to force whatever garbage on the market.