skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i just dont buy it. hypothetically, there is a nuclear power plant design that is perfectly safe in that it will never melt down. but there is no nuclear power plant that produces no waste. as long as you are producing waste, you are depending on bumbling bureaucrats to properly dispose of that waste and manage the waste often for extremely long periods of time. its just not an ideal situation. the government cant even keep the water potable in certain places.

meanwhile, solar is safe to set up, safe to operate, and there is no radioactive waste to manage. if flint michigan has a solar array, then the worst that can happen is that their lights go out. this is a small but critical advantage in my eyes.

and then look at the bigger picture. there hasnt been a nuclear reactor that is perfectly safe to operate. its still hypothetical. solar is growing every year, the battery market is growing every year. panels and packs never truly retire, just decline in capacity. solar wins.
In a system without short selling they would have never carried out the investigation.
> API, CLI & Web App for analyzing & finding a person's profile across +300 social media websites

> could help in investigating profiles related to suspicious or malicious activities such as cyberbullying, cybergrooming, cyberstalking, and spreading misinformation.

It will much more likely be used to aid cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Those types love digging for more information by finding their targets' profiles on other social media sites.

Those types of trolls are much more adept at using randomized usernames, disposable e-mail addresses, and VPN clients because they know what they're doing is potentially illegal.
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Yeah but that's just spending money, not investing.
Well, tell that to my chipset's SATA controllers (Sandbridge generation).

Intel messed up their life expectancy calculations, and thus they died after 2~3 years. I think 2 are still alive.
All recordings of me as a kid were made on a similar 3 piece unit. The camera was much easier to use than integrated units because it was so much lighter.
So nvidia is releasing a line of crippled cards that will mostly only be used for one year amd then trashed? That is horrible! Glad it may be over soon I guess.
IMHO the most important endpoint for ETH2 isn’t ETH1 under the beacon-chain, or greenfield projects under the beacon chain, but rather major projects that have already been in development for years, and already had a testnet targeting some alternative sub-chain substrate (e.g. Polkadot, Near), re-evaluating their alternatives at mainnet launch time, and choosing to use ETH2 as their mainnet substrate chain instead.

That could create a lot of momentum/adoption for ETH2, very quickly. And it wouldn’t take much: all these substrate projects are intentionally architected so that you can just develop for them as if you were developing for an ETH1 side-chain, and defer all the operational questions to network launch time. They’ve intentionally commoditized themselves!

So, as long as ETH2 is the best choice for a substrate when these projects go to mainnet, it’s what they’ll pick. And, for many reasons (that all mostly come down to “lifetime cost of bridging to either ETH1 and/or chain-foo-where-DEX-foo-lives”), ETH2 may be the best choice.

(Imagine if you developed your project against some Postgres-ish-DB-aaS cloud provider like Greenplum Cloud, but only used regular Postgres features; and then, when you went to production, you looked around and decided that Amazon RDS was good enough—and on top of that, required no re-engineering, since you weren’t doing anything fancy.)
A contradiction (A ^ ~A) is the point at which reductio ad absurdum is achieved. It proves that a false assumption was made.

A counter example to a universal proposition is but one means of finding a contradiction since the universal allows you to assert the positive. A proof that no examples exist would contradict the statement that some do, just as effectively achieving reductio ad absurdum.
Yes, and that’s normal. Let’s say you’re in court for murder. If you argue “I was elsewhere fighting my old enemy Foo”, Foo may not want to confirm that, but a court can still force him to make a statement in court. It isn’t different between companies.

Also, technically, it’s the court that subpoenas, and not “to back up your claims” but to get a good enough view of a case.

They will allow questions, insofar they give more insight to the case and aren’t too damaging to those being subpoenad.

The USA bends that “it’s the court that subpoenas” a bit (I guess because it loves its lawyers) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena#United_States):

“court rules may permit lawyers to issue subpoenas themselves in their capacity as officers of the court. Typically subpoenas are issued "in blank" and it is the responsibility of the lawyer representing the plaintiff or defendant on whose behalf the testimony is to be given to serve the subpoena on the witness”

So, yes, it seems Apple’s lawyers, acting in their capacity as officers of the court, can directly issue subpoenas. They’re not acting as Apple’s lawyers when they do, however (in theory. Feel free to think whatever you think about the ‘in practice’ part)
I suppose at some point if they continue there will be a rocket. Just wonder how relevant it will be when SpaceX has already landed a Starship on Mars. I really wish them some success but I'm of the opinion at this point that Blue Origin is just a play around company and am surprised NASA even considers or takes them seriously.
Whenever people complain about their pay, like the author, I always ask them what they want to buy. Most people don't have an answer ready - they just believe in some general sense that they will be happier with more money. Sometimes they say stuff they could afford already, other times it's something that really requires time, rather than money.
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Cool.

Won't need it for me, though. Just Google "ChrisMarshallNY."

Most of them are placeholders, though. This is really where I participate. I do little bit on Facebook, and almost nothing on Twitter.
While it seems obvious that you are not interested, What downside do you see about people with higher mobility and choice?
Well so what? I said people did it as a hobby. They see it as 'investing' like Fantasy Football people are 'playing football'. It's not some mystery!
So I need two machines to used this GPU? Thats even worse. I know some trickery with an onboard CPU maybe works and thought you meant that.
I'm with you. I feel like all actual business problems have a lot of applicable CS solutions.

Maybe if you're building UI-heavy stuff, there's less theory required there?
Curiosity Stream. I will give it another go but honestly, the level of quality on Youtube doc's is incredible.

However, it looks like the going trend is to create a streaming version for the Youtube channel so I assume the quality and content will become more of a gateway to more content than the full deal.
Well for 1, that won't affect Bitcoin mining since it hasn't been profitable to mine on a GPU for years, and 2 that will just force mining overseas to locales that don't have this tax (possibly to locales that have less carbon efficient energy sources).
The bottom line is that their transmission lines were built in conjunction with power plants.

They weren’t building power plants in the middle of nowhere without any plan to get that energy back into the grid, to where it needs to be. There wasn’t an excess of power plants sitting idle with no way to send their power into the grid until Bitcoin came along to consume it.

Mining is, however, negating any potential environmental offset of those plants by consuming the energy before it can be sent to other locations that are still dependent on fossil fuels.
Extremely shallow criticism based off of little more than personal anecdotes.
"The last time I looked, Estonia was not allowing anyone residing in the US to enter. A reasonable plan seems like it may be to travel to the UK/Ireland and then enter Estonia from there."

Oof, planning to circumvent procedures that countries established to protect their people. What a dick.
I don't do work beyond the bare minimum to not get fired out of a sense of nobility or self-sacrifice. I do it in part because I enjoy it and I do it in large part because it pays quite well for me and my family.

By all means, if you're being inadequately compensated or exploited, quit and find a new employer (assuming you're in software).
Curiosity Stream. MagellanTV was one, or a similar sounding one, that I also considered but was immediately put off paying for the streaming.

I honestly feel like the over abundance of choice is what puts me off.
How many new business-models do we see, really, on a yearly basis?
If you want something mature, with libraries for everything, solid backwards compatibility and basically the best "boring" choice, go with Java. And if your devs want to mess around a bit, mixing some Kotlin in is basically harmless and easy to reverse if needed.
If it worked it wouldn't be happening, the fact that it is happening, and to well known country's proofs they don't work and is profitable for country B and C for it to continue to not work.

This not withstanding the obfuscation of country of origin that can happen If country B and C really wanted to work together.
Agreed. I once owned a 30 year old two stroke moped. It was very easy to fix. In fact I fixed it almost every week.
Exactly.

BUT, this may bring awareness to regular folks. You can also use it to remove your own stuff from said networks because people do not catalogue their online activity and it can be hard to remove your digital footprint.
TSCA grandfathered-in thousands of chemicals without safety data. The issue is that dangerous chemicals in America are a game of Whack-a-Mole since they have to be proven unsafe in order to ban them, rather than proven safe to use, and leaving harm, pain, disfigurement, disabilities, and deaths as collateral damage in their wake.
> I do not understand this argument. The fact that bitcoin mining is profitable inherently means that society has already deemed it useful, no? Users would not pay for it if it were not useful.

Just because there is a market for something doesn't mean that "society" as a whole has decided that it is useful. There's an underground market on taking out hits on someone else, that doesn't mean that "society" has decided that murder is good.

> Who should do this evaluation? If not users freely allocating their own resources on the free market, then who?

A public body that is democratically constrained.

> Please define useful.

Welfare enhancing for humanity. Sometimes, a welfare enhancing step will involve losers and winners, you're right. For instance, if one person held $200 billion and the rest of humanity held $1, redistributing that money would almost certainly be a welfare enhancing step given diminishing marginal utility of the $.
I imagine they have a basic design in verilog with various tunable parameters (memory size, clock speed, how many instructions to issue at once).

They also have a way to run that hardware in a simulator and see how quickly it could train some network.

The ML optimization problem is to come up with a bunch of constants which performs well, but also compiles into a manufacturable chip. Clearly setting the clock speed to 9999Ghz isn't that...
Look into target mutual funds. They meet the retirement investment needs of many people who don't have the time or inclination to do a lot of research or active trading.
I predict Go and Rust will eventually return to shared libraries, partly due to these reasons, and partly because a single application will eventually take up a gigabyte of space. The performance impacts of this will make systems so slow that they'll have to go back to shared libraries.
My aversion to this as fiction is there is so much attention to the fictional science and so little to the fictional people. I could just go read futurist prognostications to get the tech part without having to wade through what reads like the proceedings of the IEEE. It's the typical glaring fault of bad sci-fi: it paints the tech photorealistically but paints the people like cartoons. It bores me to tears.
I'll have confidence in the vaccine once governments start saying that vaccinated people can walk around without masks and travel without being quarantined. Until then, I'll wait to see if there are any surprise side effects that we are yet to discover.
Is that not the same with Youtube? I'm looking at your Monday.com with the incessant pre-roll ad's over and over again. Scrolling through movies feels like the new-era of watching ads sometimes.
> So I need two machines to used this GPU?

No? Why would they need to be in different machines? You can stream from one GPU to another, whether they're in the same machine or not. One GPU may be a cheap little one built into your motherboard. You probably already have it anyway!

And even if you did need two machines... again that's how gaming streaming services work. Cheap end-user machines or iPad or just TV, and then a gaming system streaming video output somewhere else.
You are correct. It was the next comment I made (so I removed that smartass line).

I apologize.

They have had a Swift roadmap forever. I think it's now kept on swift.org. I'll see if I can find it. I think it's a fairly sparse one. I really only cared about the evolution through ABI Stable. All I needed to hear, was that was a goal.

You are right. They tend to eschew roadmaps, but they did a "hard-sell" with Swift. They knew it would be difficult to build momentum with.

"Full System API" is the native frameworks; UIKit, AppKit, WatchKit, etc., as well as things like WebKit and MapKit.

When Swift was announced, they had APIs for most of that stuff. I was pleasantly surprised. I had a full app, working within a day or so (using beta Xcode, of course).
Maybe we should do both.

I take an issue with the argument that bad actors can make their own tools. Bad actors can also build their own nuclear weapons, genetically engineer their own deadly diseases but there's certainly value in not making this any easier. If you take the time, money and effort away from bad actors by forcing them to reinvent the wheel, that's a good thing.

Granted, this logic can't be viably applied to most things, but there are projects where you can assume that most of the use-cases will be shady.
my point exactly! The only reliable indicator of whether btc is good or bad overall is time. I was of the latter opinion, but what am i compared to the Great Musk? (judging by past experience, the answer is nothing).
How much experience do you have working with JS?
> Transmission costs are not the only reason why people in different regions pay different prices for retail energy. Retail prices include far more than the pure generation and transmission costs. You can’t use those numbers to assume transmission is the primary driver of cost.

You're right, although an alternate source shows that the same difference exists for residential to large power (50,000 kW+) customers. Presumably for large power customers the cost of electricity becomes a bigger factor compared to other expenses.

https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/compa...

>> The cost of high voltage electricity transmission (as opposed to the costs of electric power distribution) is comparatively low, compared to all other costs arising in a consumer's electricity bill. In the UK, transmission costs are about 0.2 p per kWh compared to a delivered domestic price of around 10 p per kWh.

There's selection bias going on here. Power is expensive to transmit over long distances, so power authorities opt to build local power plants, so that the expensive long transmission lines aren't built and therefore aren't being factored in.
I keep hearing this repeated in threads about Bitcoin, and it's just flat out wrong. Bitcoin's energy usage does not scale based on the number of transactions. Its energy usage scales based upon the value of the block reward and the efficiency of mining operations.
It's not quixotic, it's capitalism in it's purest form. They are literally destroying the planet for money and don't give a fuck.
I thought some US prosecutors were going after Tether? What ever happened to that?
> I have never understood why "reductio ad absurdum" is popularly considered a 'fallacy'.

> It seems like a perfectly logical argumentative technique,

It's both. The strong form of the valid argumentative technique involves what amount to a series of valid syllogisms, where each step from the premise to the false conclusion involves a true premise and a logical (and therefore absolute) implication. The false conclusion drawn through valid implication and and a series of premises all but one of which is accepted as true thereby disproves the premise that was in doubt. There is a weaker but still valid (though not in the logical sense) form, where the steps aren't logically necessary but contingently true, with both the intermediate premises and the inferences with high enough likelihood that the conclusion is very likely true if the questioned premise is true.

The fallacy has a similar shape but involves intermediate premises that are false or at least unjustified, or intermediate steps that are unwarranted, or consists of steps that are a likely enough individually but which in aggregate are not sufficiently likely to justify the conclusion that the premise is false.

Most commonly, the fallacy form rests on what reduces to the reasoning:

1. If A, it is most likely that B
2. Most likely A.
3. Therefore, most likely B.
Any worldly institution that operates this way will implode. Establishment academia has lost a great deal of clout, deservedly so. It's going to collapse sooner or later because people aren't intoxicated by the mirage of establishment academia like they used to be. Eventually, new schools and institutions will emerge that will better conform with human nature and human needs that will replace these obsolete and failed institutions of today. The example of the Benedictines is probably especially meaningful. When the Roman Empire fell, it was the Benedictines that preserved what they could and around which new communities formed that hunkered down for the long winter. European civilization then sprang from these Benedictine communities. And frankly, not just academia is collapsing, though academic rot is often one canary in a coal mine for other manifestations of cultural and social rot and itself a symptom of rot higher up the chain.
While I don't disagree with the latter statement, perhaps we shouldn't be giving tools to bad actors in a silver plate or perhaps a git repo.
> encouraging a trained cadre of nuclear engineers who can manage nuclear power sources

Ignoring the context of the rest of your comment, it should be noted that the US Navy has a near-perfect record in nuclear safety. This is often attributed to them not working for a profit motive. If we're going to use nuclear power on other solar system bodies, and I expect that we will, then most likely that knowledge will come from US Navy expertise.
Most of the times reads like opinion now, if you haven't noticed.
Thanks for sharing that. I think we need more of these stories of how a team was able to use the boring tools they mastered to implement amazing things.
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I probably would have stuck with the 720p historic LCD sony flat screen but I can't use a chromecast or plug my Xbox in either. So new screen was needed.
I absolutely blame our government for being too risk-averse. We absolutely could have given the mRNA vaccine makers funding to build up production capacity before the efficacy results are in. There would have been a risk of spending a billion euros on nothing if the vaccines turn out to be ineffective, but that should be a risk worth taking if the success case has you save many times that money (and that's before we talk about the psychological impact of a prolonged crisis).
One phenomenon I know is electromigration, changes in the material structure that modifies its electrical property.

Another less related to electronics, is simple heat cycles.
Meanwhile, I'd guess this will be branded a "bad apple", but of course the worst apple in the bunch is more of a sign of issues in the whole farm/system.

Of course colleges are overloaded with managerial vampires that are supposed to be overseeing this better than the old days where there wasn't as much tuition/loan money flowing through the system.

Higher ed administration is broken, financing is broken, research is broken, phd programs are broken, adjunct professorship is broken, there is corruption everywhere.

Edit: and I totally forgot... college sports.
No, because as soon as you click on "large" browser window, the smaller one will drop to the background immediately. It won't stay on top.

You could of course move the window next to your main browser window - but, you would need to first open a new window, move your tab into that window, resize and position it manually... it's tedious.

with TabFloater it's just one click :)
The goal should be to maximize the amount of solution space that can be explored, and them maintained, for a given amount of effort.

Use your spiffy new stuff to prove something is possible, to build that MVP. Then use something reliable to implement production version.

You can use a fancy million dollar CNC machine to build the engineering prototype of a gear set... but you're going to end up using some old as the hills Gleason or Barber-Coleman machines to make them in production quantities.

The CNC machine lets you iterate through the design space almost instantly... the gear cutting machines take a few hours each setup, but then produce gears much, MUCH faster than the CNC machine in actual production. They've been optimized to do so.
The risk of falling debris actually killing someone pales in comparison to the risks of it perhaps doing more damage onboard the aircraft. A loose part near/inside an engine is no longer doing its job and could cause more damage where it is. And the ground is a big place. Drop a random pin in google maps. Then zoom in to see if it is actually on someone's head. This is lottery odds territory.

Objects drop from aircraft all the time, daily. It isn't generally newsworthy unless part of a larger story. And even then, only if the object is found and recognized as being from an aircraft. Small rocks also fall daily from space, probably more by weight than aircraft-related objects, yet virtually nobody ever gets hit by space rocks.
Most comments, on any subject, that aren't praise fit that description.
Even more difficult after you've been exposed to Clojure but I'd rather have Clojure any day than Java, .Net, Ruby or whatever.
It really does seem that this time, it wasn’t the United States that was responsible for the coup. If we were responsible you would see a lot of high level politicians on both sides saying that they were pleased that the people of Myanmar had overthrown a terrible despot (we do this even when, and especially when, the previous “despot” was democratically elected). And then you would see previously unavailable resources being opened up to the west. But this is not what is happening here; it looks to be just a power play by Myanmar’s military leadership.

Interestingly, Costa Rica went as far as to disband their entire army because in a poor and unstable state, having any military can actually be a big liability in terms of having frequent coups.
Plenty of second hand mining cards changed hands from miners to gamers two years ago, for the most case the price was very competitive.

Depending on the card some would have been run underclocked and even undervolted. I personally know friends who purchased mining cards that are still up and running.

For miners they're not being sold becuase they're not useful but because they don't have the cash on hand to continue the scale of operation when mining is no longer profitable. It's not that difficult to run the numbers yourself to verify this.