skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I think is most interesting here, and in machine learning assisted mass surveillance, is not what is at the cutting edge in regards to big name publications such as Nature, but what is cutting edge in regards to institutions that would never admit to the blade their cutting with. Do Five Eyes, {Chinese, Russian} military intelligence have access to and usage of machine learning already to determine political orientation based on physical appearance and communication style already? Or are they so beholden to bureaucracy that they will always be years behind the curve? And doomed to always purchase such technology from private contractors whose existence will be public?

It seems to me Big Tech companies such as Google and Facebook hoarding our personal data could be an advantage for privacy here, because their data is at least beholden to the privacy laws of the United States.
We were doing that at Meraki back in the early 2010s (it turned out they were also useful as a heat sink and, because the metal was exposed to air, a radiator). Pretty sure Meraki got the idea from some Apple product or other.
Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
How is it silly to assume that giving unqualified morons the right to take money away from productive individuals is inherently dangerous.

If the idea is to take away from someone just because they are successful that is very much silly. If you would like enforce a recompense for some transaction that can not be captured by the market then yes.
If you're comparing factories to pilots, be aware that factories have a much lower standard of execution for grand ideas.

At least pilots mostly actually do their paperwork and checklists, even if they sometimes fall prey to things like neglecting to land their helicopter when they end up in IFR conditions while, say, transporting Kobe to a game.
So, PoW then.
Exactly. Revlon's creditors received a windfall because they were paid back 100% on a risky debt investment. Citibank, on the other hand, is now an involuntary creditor to Revlon and has taken on a lot of risk because of the mistake.
Some people reject ownership of land. Its good that this is getting more discussion because I think its generally nonsensical and this idea is rather old and doesn’t get debunked because up until recently it rarely made it out of socialist/communist dogma.
s/ACS/ACW/

ACW being American Civil War. I don't know how I made this mistake multiple times.
Or the CMP line will actually fit the needs, and no need for games of whack a mole.
Ha! Maybe I should start a marketing company.
> Blockchain

> The system is embedded with a patented blockchain adapter that enables Oracle FLEXCUBE to interface with any blockchain system. The adapter enables a seamless interchange of information between Oracle FLEXCUBE and external blockchain data setscan work with any version of Oracle FLEXCUBE with minimal changes. The easy configurability of the adapter enables banks to leverage blockchain technologies to solve business problems,improve process efficiency, reduce risk and enhance straight through processing.

I think I'm just being trolled now
Relative time (in five minutes) without relativistic speeds is actually uniform. The is no observable difference to either participant.

And there is no concept of now in a significantly distant location.
Related video: https://youtu.be/pTn6Ewhb27k
http://www.ercot.com/news/releases/show/225369

> the Midwest went into a power emergency of their own, and ERCOT was no longer able to import approximately 600 MW.
> I can get thousands of valid phone numbers for temporary use in 15 minutes.

Not cheaply. Even on cheaper VoIP services, that would cost you $1,000+/month. Not a great price point if you're trying to spam something like a social network or post fake reviews, because each of your accounts is unlikely to generate enough to pay for the number.

Plus, many of the numbers will already be blacklisted because they're VoIP numbers or because they've been used for spam already.

> No one needs quadrillions of anything, thousands is enough to do 99% of tasks.

My point is that there are ~8 billion possible phone numbers in the US, when you account for reserved numbers. Many are already in use, many are blacklisted. Each costs $6-12/year to own through the major VoIP services.

There are essentially infinite email addresses, and each costs ~$0/year.

Which one do you want to use as a point of friction for signing up for your service?
> The market forces already exist.

And that is a recent thing there. The global market is still developing, and technologies don't materialize instantly. CO2 taxes are still low (or zero) just about everywhere.

But hey, I hope you are also not going to claim nuclear will be cheaper in the future, because I could reflect that argument right back at you. And I could observe that, unlike with renewables and storage, nuclear has a horribly bad historical experience curve.

> Maybe one of the proposed storage solutions will pan out. But building out trillions of dollars of infrastructure projects on the hope that a future breakthrough will make storage feasible is very risky.

It's only a $$$ risk. We absolutely know the storage is possible, we just haven't confirmed how cheap it will be. Worst case is we spend a bit more. This is fine. Investments are not guarantees; one is always gambling.
So let’s wait until BTC hits $100k and a generic videocard for any purpose costs $5000. That would be much better than paying extra $200 over MSRP for ML. /s
I don't have much knowledge in this space, so a question...

Is it likely that this affects something more than just mining? Or is this hobbling specific enough to leave the card unhobbled for every other need?
Or to just rearrange the operations so that the detection won't trigger.
Which public services, they're all pretty awful from my estimation that often times optimise for less that optimal outcomes.
Unix Today and Tomorrow: The Languages (2019) [video]
And who spends their $236k salary entirely on gas, groceries, utilities, and rent?

cost of living does not scale w/ salary increases. it's a silly calculation. not essential at all.

Making $236k in seattle is going to be much more fruitful than making $115k in whatever flyover place. this argument is always used by people that need to justify living in their boring towns

every cost of living calculator assumes you spend 100% of your paycheck on cost of living.
There have been a -lot- [0] of MDMA studies at this point, for PTSD and other issues. In particular a common finding is that the efficacy of MDMA+Therapy 1 year post-treatment is far higher than therapy alone (significant reduction in relapse of symptoms as well as severity of symptoms). I encourage you to look at the variety of studies conducted and their different designs and controls and not base your judgement on a single study (this is good advice for any medical research, not only MDMA, as well).

[0] https://maps.org/research/mdma
Thank you for sharing your story, and I'm sorry it sucked so bad! Let me just ask one thing-- are you saying that people had faucets on and dripping and the pipes still burst? We have plenty of shallow-buried (or even above-ground) pipes and dripping all the faucets was enough to prevent bursting.
I really don’t understand how someone could walk around the streets of San Francisco and think that we need _more_ drugs in our society.

With a nearly 6 times as many people dying from overdoses versus COVID-19[0], it absolutely baffles me that drugs are continuously being decriminalized and legalized while pandemic restrictions are some of the strictest in the nation.

Do these politicians really have a lot of public support?

[0]: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-overdose-deaths-outpa...
If I'm reading http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_condi... right there is no power across the DC_L (Laredo VFT), DC_R (Railroad) and DC_S (Eagle Pass) HVDC ties.

for posterity:

DC Tie Flows
DC_E (East) -595
DC_L (Laredo VFT) 0
DC_N (North) -218
DC_R (Railroad) 0
DC_S (Eagle Pass) 0
That's a very blanket statement without any backing. I've been on opioids several times for pain management and haven't experienced any withdrawal symptoms.
Why Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Stock Was Down Today
Except it would increase demand and therefore profit
I did my fair share of psychedelics a few years ago. The community is very diverse and spans a lot of different backgrounds.

One thing I repeatedly saw was those with weaker minds getting sucked into the "oneness spirituality psychic-plane we-are-just-vibrations" bullshit. I watched a smart young lady drop out of university to become a psychic. I watched an acquaintance get divorced because she realized she had sacred powers, saying "my husband drains my energy and he's why could never levitate". I'm struggling to pull my partner out of this hole after she has spent close to $10,000 on building a "vibration healing" business.

I've done just as many drugs as these people, yet I never fell to these delusions. Sure, there are people who get sucked in to this stuff without the drugs, but I can't help but notice the correlation.

My biggest concern with legalizing LSD and psilocybin is that we don't have a good way to combat these delusions when people take them on.
Always. Test. Your shit.

I wish there was more advocacy around this. DanceSafe [1] sells inexpensive kits that people can use to test against most of the bad stuff (like NBOMEs).

[1] https://dancesafe.org/
Absolutely. In trying to save time business wants an off the shelf product that Oracle claims they have. This isn’t a cost saving move (though I have encountered a naive VP who thought so), it’s strictly to reduce go-to-market time.

What really happens is entirely different. Oracle takes the request, foots the bill for an army of contractors to build it, if they haven’t already, and pass it off as we had it the whole time, just like we said.

Then up charge. Shake down street. Lock in.

I’m sure not all of Oracle operates this way, but that’s been my experience.

Homegrown systems are an easy low-hanging fruit to cost reduction.

Software to tackle the BPaaS on top of an Oracle add-on service, requires a pitch deck.
FYI, non-urgent bills like this typically gets processed in one year. So if you are hopeful, the decriminalization can happen on Jan 1st 2022! https://indivisible.org/resource/indivisible-guide-californi...
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You can actually do this with GNU Paral…oh, wait, I forgot that this isn't Stack Overflow and I'm not Ole. But seriously, xargs is pretty powerful by itself; I've seen a number of awkward pipelines using heavyweight tools when xargs would have sufficed.
Do your own DIY Ph.D. then make a startup with your research results. That's what I've been doing. I'm not sure I could pass a dissertation but I'm never lacking in difficulty on my side projects, and I get a pretty penny to boot. Big N doesn't need anymore research-level software engineers (they're already paying all of those that exist a million dollars a year in compensation), they need code grunts from elite universities to be digital plumbers. Sorry to burst your pipes.
Finally! The risk of getting an unclean drug from some street dealer is far higher than the risk from the substance itself. The key is legalization and regulation and quality control.

This is true to alcohol as well. Alcohol is ethanol (C2H5OH). When created unskillfully also you get methanol (CH3OH), which is really poisonous. A controlled, regulated market here is far safer.

Like with alcohol there is risk of abuse with psychedelics, but IMHO that risk is smaller than the risk of bad products from the black market.

Note that I am not talking about opiods. Those are very additive.
I'm far from a python expert, but I'm a user since a long while now.
I never followed closely the dynamic of the community. From my point of view the 2.x vs 3.x was never too much of an issue. The stuff I had to maintain in python were either already dead dev-wise, non-critical, or green-field.

All that introduce my thought while reading : "is it too much too ask?"
If the need for having 3 dialects is all is needed in for core python 4... It's a good place too be, no?
Off-topic, but I wonder if decriminalizing all drugs will kill the cartel profits. From what I can see, they make a ton of profit due to the illegality(risk-profit) and this big profit is how they became so powerful. Food for thought I guess.
Clarification, that is for the old Curiosity rover. The page for Perseverance has some additional information

> 160/500 bits per second or faster to/from the Deep Space Network's 112-foot-diameter (34-meter-diameter) antennas or at 800/3000 bits per second or faster to/from the Deep Space Network's 230-foot-diameter (70 meter-diameter)

for high-gain antenna, and

> Approximately 10 bits per second or faster from the Deep Space Network's 112-foot-diameter (34-meter-diameter) antennas or approximately 30 bits per second or faster from the Deep Space Network's 230-foot-diameter (70-meter-diameter) antenna

for the low-gain antenna, which I believe the first two images were sent through

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communicatio...
He can be kind of a sad sack on the show so “taking up space” really does sound like how he talks.

I’ve heard almost every episode so... yeah.
Employers require employees to pay for health insurance and subject them to deductibles and copays just like healthcare.gov. The government even pays for a portion of most of the health insurance premium under certain income amounts, so it’s not any different than people with health insurance via employers.

Also, bronze level health insurance is closer to $300 per month for young people, or $3,600 per year.

https://www.nj.gov/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcrates20...

Of course, the deductible is massive but it’s the same with any employer sponsored bronze plan, just like a healthcare.gov bronze plan.
That's just an example, there are other ways to indicate that they need to click on that button to review all selections and finalize.
I was unaware I could use the ballot to remove dumb twitter users. Can you point me where I can do that?
How are the highly technical users of HN still this ignorant when it comes to a widely adopted 11 year old technology. The main value coming out of Bitcoin is that it is not regulatable by any party, including nation states. You can take your Bitcoin across borders. No one can stop Bitcoin sales like they did with GME. The whole point is to cut middle men and central authorities out of the picture. There is no other technology that does this.

And don't come back with "you shouldn't want to avoid KYC and regulation" as that's a different topic. Others find those properties useful even if you don't.
I'm sure everyone on this site is capable of opening Ethereum homepage by themselves.
Yes, there was. Supply and demand do have to be carefully balanced. Not an electrician but my understanding is that any imbalance starts to cause a deviation from the standard 60hz line frequency which is incredibly bad as some generating equipment will start to be “driven” by the grid while other equipment will be immediately and severely overloaded.
The most significant cost has been my time, but that’s my pet project in which I get to experiment with new technologies, so it pays off nicely.

Also, you can support me: Recurring (Patreon): https://patreon.com/leafac / One-time (PayPal): https://paypal.me/LeandroFacchinetti

In terms of server costs, it all runs smoothly on a $6/month DigialOcean droplet. Even when I end up on the front-page of HN (it’s the second time this happens). And there’s also the ~$10/year for the domain.

There’s actually a fun story behind this: The biggest constraint is bandwidth (~500GB/month). I was using S3 and at some point that’d amount to $50/month. But DigitalOcean droplets give you 1TB/month, so to save money I rearchitected the whole thing to just use the filesystem. It turned out to be simpler and nicer to maintain, too. Fewer moving parts.

Fun stuff…
> Don't Mess with Texas

Don't Mess with Texas was simply a highly effective ad campaign from the '80s aimed at reducing littering on Texas roadways by the Texas Department of Transportation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Mess_with_Texas
Not a Texan, but stuck in Fort Worth and Dallas since Sunday, making tomorrow the sixth day in a stationary truck. I think it was Tuesday that the truckstop was without power along with traffic lights, but only for 12 hours, in Burleson (off i35W) whereafter no further outages were observed. I finally unloaded today (7 miles north) where the warehouse was without power while a construction crew repaired a broken pipe and the ensuing damage. Many backroads are iced, warehouse lots are skating rinks, but highways have one or two drivable lanes. I'm parked outside a shipper in Irvin which was unattended today but seems powered. Many places seem yet to resume operation. Of course, this is through the lense of a single trucker hauling a 53' trailer which limits where I can go and most notably, park. I'm going fucking bonkers though, and all without a cent of pay. Obviously many others are enduring worse.
Printing money don't lead to hyperinflation unless you also can't sell anything (either because you don't produce or because nobody is buying).

Again, since i don't know why people believe that (even orthodox economists agree on that): printing money alone don't cause inflation to run away. It can cause a big inflation and make people who have money in the bank/ on the side loose a lot, sure. No hyperinflation, not alone at least.

Hyperinflation have confounding factors, one being being unable to sell (Venezuela, Zimbabwe) another being unable to produce enough (Weimar republic in 23). Also my country not invading the Weimar republic for fun and giggles would have helped much more against Nazi propaganda than preventing hyperinflation. Hyperinflation did not cause a famine in Germany. Lack of food caused a famine in Germany, and also in Austria, Poland, USSR, probably Greece and Ottoman Empire (i'm mostly focused in Northern europe history so if someone that extensively studied this area during this time period can correct me, i'd like that, i know a lot of people studied the rise and fall of the Ottomans). Because its what a lack of food does.

Incidentally, my late grandfather was born in august 23 and he was told this was the first good harvest year since 1914. I have to look into it but the French government probably decided to store excess grain to refurbish the depleted stocks, and did not help their neighbors much.

Anyway, printing money does not cause hyperinflation. This is a usefull myth for the masses since printing money reduce "our" asset size (mine too, i'm rich now!).
If Bitcoin Reaches $200k Half the World’s Billionaires Will Be from Crypto
Every time you do something that you do frequently during the day -- for example, pick up your phone to use it -- stop for a few seconds and mentally ask yourself, "Is this real?"

Once you're in the habit of doing that, you'll start doing it in dreams, too. And in dreams, you're very likely to realize things aren't real, and that you are, indeed, dreaming.

That's the technique that works best for me.
> I really don’t understand how someone could walk around the streets of San Francisco and think that we need _more_ drugs in our society.

People opposed to criminalization don't necessarily think we need more drugs, they often just think that the criminal justice system is not a good choice for controlling the adverse consequences of drugs.
UI: A Short Story
Right, I know that, it's just that I've usually heard this called "monomorphic"/"bimorphic"/"trimorphic" (rarely) and then just "polymorphic" for when the JIT stops specializing. I just have never heard of "megamorphic".
That isn't off topic at all.

One of the biggest motivations for decriminalization is to do disincentivize black markets.
What do you mean “abstraction”? The colors that I am seeing look very concrete to me. (Also, the “wavelength theory” of color perception does not explain why TV screens work.)
Wow this would be great.
Welcome to the product space made famous by the disk drive industry for "disruptive innovation".
Study: What Was the Impact of the Iconic Photo of the Syrian Boy?
Nice one

Actually though, I wonder if there's an analogy that could be drawn between the real origin of gold (supernova) and bitcoin (mining a block). Both are created as dense byproducts of a large compression event (bitcoin: transactions; supernova: the rest of the star). ?
>In my opinion this is the result of a mentality that sees the government as the obvious solution to problems, so when you see problems existing in a place where people seem to have a different philosophy of government, its clearly the fault of those morons who don’t realize that all problems can be solved by sufficient application of government force.

It has nothing to do with the government and everything to do with beliefs. Your post is doing exactly that. Pointing out simple facts like that all grids have been under invested in for 50 years, that we need to spend trillions to bring them up to todays standards and that we need to diversity power sources is met with derision and downvotes.
Sure they are. Almost everyone does, to the point it is really hard to compete if you don't make some magic debt too. They transfer money from country X to country Y, then a company owned by themselves build them a new warehouse for more money than the local branch have left and voilà, they are now in debt to themselves and don't pay taxes because of it while they get richer because they were already profitable. The richer the company the more they likely do this.
Some cryptocurrencies, like Monero (XMR) are ASIC-resistant by design, to prevent centralization. They are meant to be mined on commodity CPUs and GPUs
It's unfriendly to the site to write the same comment verbatim in multiple places. Please just use a link or something.

I read the parent comment as grappling with the sort of basic thought I had reading this piece (I read all of it, because it's interesting): OK, NERC doesn't require Texas to winterize to the point of safeguarding against an event like this week. OK, other power suppliers in other states have outages. But none of the other states have giant winter blackouts like Texas had this week, and most of them have worse weather. It's hard to square that with the topic paragraph of this post.
> but it's still difficult for me to imagine that a giant continent-wide blizzard is a sign of global warming.

Of course no individual event is "proof of global warming", but this is entirely consistent with it.

This points out the huge failure in communication about climate change, but this is in fact exactly the sort of thing you would expect (and why "global warming" is such an easy term to misunderstand).

Short story is there is more energy in the atmosphere (i.e. heat) and it has to go somewhere. One of the places it goes is into higher variability in weather patterns, more energetic storms, changes is stable weather patterns. So that absolutely includes lower winter lows, as well as higher summer highs. Most of the modelling shows events like this winter storm growing in both intensity and frequency.

So far from the contradiction you (seem to?) see, it's pretty much what is expected.
I guess as long as mining shitcoins on a gpu is profitable we will have the gpu supply problem.
As another commenter said, NASA uses metric.

During the stream, you can hear the various teams giving measurements in metric, whilst the media gave coverage in imperial.

It's a pretty interesting video from that perspective, as you can hear the two "realities" being translated for the intended audience.
Native vs. Hybrid PWA
Since it's not a bill in Congress, calling Congresspeople is mostly a waste of time.

Call your CA State Legislators to get this bill passed (if you are in CA).

Call Congress if you'd like to see something similar at the federal level, I guess.