skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, European cities banning diesel vehicles.

At least in Paris, poor people are not often the ones driving into Paris for work, they're mostly taking the metro in from the suburbs.

Paris has some moderate air pollution problems, often among the worst European or American cities (of course, globally there's much worse), and that effects everyone's quality of life and long-term health in a myriad of ways that we don't fully understand yet, as well as in some obvious ways that we already understand.

Of course there's always a bit of political show-boating with these things, and so the French left-wing do this with their pet issues, namely environmental issues. But that show-boating doesn't diminish the tangible positive effects of the policy...
> If you asked almost everybody [...] what Atticus Finch stood for, you would have gotten some version of "colour blindness"

Eh. I like to think someone might have answered along the lines of "you shouldn't throw people in jail for crimes they didn't commit".
It didn't go well on that episode of The Outer Limits. John-Boy Walton grew eyes in the back of his head.
Is lack of national engineering expertise in the top five reasons for the situation in Flint?
I recall reading somewhere a gas powered leaf blower emits as much CO pollution in 15 minutes as a full sized SUV does over a 1000 mile cross country trip. They are insanely dirty in comparison.
Seconding this. I think the game that most set my world alight as a kid was Star Control II. It was a wonderfully realised world of spaceships, alien races, battles and a sprawling story line. It blew my mind. But if I was presented with a game of similar magnitude today I'd have a pretty muted reaction. (I also probably wouldn't have time to play it!).

I feel the same way about many things, like (to keep on the space theme) all the recent iterations of Star Wars and Star Trek. People love to complain that the new SW trilogy (or the prequel trilogy) or Star Trek Discovery is a load of rubbish but the reality is that we're just older. Things aren't going to spark in the way they did when we first watched. And that's fine.
Tesla’s Stock Tumbles Amid Sales Worries and Market Volatility
This is why my dad dislikes sales people. His job is to pick the best tool for the job, and if 3 competing sales people come to sell him a tool, at least 2 of them have as their sole job making picking the best tool for the job harder.
The question is why wouldn't you want fusion. More options are always better I think.
That’s bonkers!

If you’re somewhere you can’t charge, you’re talking $1500 to do 4 hours of heavy work.

And that’s assuming your small battery pack can even put out enough torque to match a 2-stroke for heavy uses.
You could also use [Protontricks](https://github.com/Matoking/protontricks) as such :

protontricks -s <search_term>

and it will return anything that matches the search query with its appid like :

Found the following games:
Grand Theft Auto V (271590)
I've been (slowly) doing Advent of Code 2019 on an STM32F303 microcontroller. I want all of the problem data to be stored in the binary, with the answers being output on a display. Most of my time so far has been spent on getting the clock working, and compression/decompression. I only have limited space (256KB), and the 20 of last year's problems I solved take up 221KB, so I decided the best course of action would be to store them compressed when possible.

I did consider just using compression library, but decided against it partly because it would be more interesting to write it myself, but also having a quick look I couldn't find one that could do decompression without needing additional temporary storage. It's not that fancy, just LZW with a multi-stage compression to optimize the dictionary.

Because of how many of the inputs work, you can often handle it in smaller chunks (e.g. one line at a time, I called them records), so the inputs have a small amount of pre-processing on my PC to split them up into smaller chunks so the entire input doesn't need to be held in RAM at once.

Of course, not all input data will compress well, some will even "compress" to a larger size, so I've also abstracted over the data storage so that it can handle reading records from compressed or uncompressed inputs.

I've done 4 days so far, and none of the inputs have compressed. Total runtime is 3.24 seconds (that day 4...).

Current state can be found here for the morbidly curious: https://github.com/Measter/AdventOfCode2019 Spoilers are in the mcu/src/challenges folder.
It was the device I started on. I think the limitation was part of its value. At age 11 I felt like I mastered it. I remembered the manual front to back. I could write assembly by “POKE”ing the OpCodes directly into memory. It gave me a sense of accomplishment and a desire to keep learning computers at an early age.

Where to start and what to learn these days is almost overwhelming. It’s a good and a bad thing there is so much that is so accessible now.
What about, tangentially, cellphone standards or HTML standard that have iterated and are now at version X? Your point stands and a simultaneous coevolution of the standard, the userbase, and the (app/thing) functionality does seem possible.
As noted by gus_massa in another thread, the 55% figure for human accuracy is from a different study with a different datasets, so it's questionable how comparable the results are.
FYI there seems to be something wrong with your registration flow. I entered my email on the homepage, was brought to a login page (https://app.procoto.com/Identity/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2F) Click "Sign Up" under don't have an account, created an account, clicked the verification link, brought back to login page, when I try to login nothing happens - page just refreshes, no error message of any kind.
This is very cool, and I'm excited to dig in and try this out for native Windows applications.

The Windows API is daunting, though. I've worked through their examples and reviewed the documentation on Github, but it's a bit overwhelming. If anyone knows of a good resource for learning more (for someone who has not practiced in creating native Windows apps), I would be grateful.
I think what the parent is saying isn't that most production Erlang apps aren't clustered; it's that most production Erlang apps aren't clustered using the distribution protocol. Instead, they're clustered at the application layer, with explicit wire protocols like gRPC. You can upgrade nodes within such clusters just fine, because the ABI of the wire protocol is an explicit part of the application, something that can be stabilized separately from the app itself, rather than being an implicit property of what ERTS version you're using, or about how the application's processes communicate internally.

Note that even in the context of Ericsson, Erlang's distribution protocol was never designed for the use-case of horizontal N-node clustering. It was designed for static-role clustering — where each node is like an organ in your body, with a name and a specific function relative to the "system" that is your body. For example, "master" and "warm standby" roles. (By analogy to Kubernetes, the Erlang nodes of a distributed-OTP architecture are closest to being like the sibling containers of a single k8s pod. Except that Erlang's "containers" can be running on separate machines while still being part of the same "pod".)

If you want to scale such a system (a "pod" of nodes), you are supposed to spawn N copies of the entire distribution set; and then those N system-copies will coordinate with other such clones not via the distribution protocol, but via explicit coordination protocols. (Sometimes this explicit coordination protocol is designed to use the distribution protocol as a carrier — this is one of the reasons that Erlang supports making manual distribution-protocol connections between nodes, rather than forcing a connected topology on you. But such connections carefully avoid passing arbitrary RPC data across them, instead usually having an explicit "peer server" on both ends, where the servers speak a limited and ABI-stable term protocol to one another.)

Yes, the Erlang distribution protocol has been repeatedly taken beyond its design tolerances to accomplish horizontal scaling. CouchDB does this, for example. But many Erlang applications that you might think of as doing this, are actually much closer to static "organs in a body" architecture than you'd think, despite claims of scalability. Riak and Ejabberd, for two examples, both treat their nodes very much like static organs, rather than a fleet.
- no radioactive waste

- no nuclear meltdowns / runaway processes

- more abundant fuel (on earth and the rest of the solar system)

- less pre-processing of fuel

- fuel cannot be used to easily make weapons

Should we use fission right up until we have viable fusion? Of course, we should definitely be building more fission reactors. But I can't think of a single reason we'd continue using fission once we get to fusion.
Good counter-example.

I would argue that Diversity is necessary, but not sufficient.

("E pluribus unum" is -of course- the motto of the United States of America. Not the least of nations!)

"If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation. What's true for the group is also true for the individual. It's simple: Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death. "
Yes I know that extension..
But my purpose is different, for researching and education , there are pages that only exist in the internet archive, and so I do not want to search the same thing two times in two different places..
What about degradation of superconducting materials under high neutron flux which will be generated by a "commercial" load? IIRC modern superconducting materials rely on relatively fragile meta-structures, which can be easily damaged by a sufficiently strong radiation. Changing magnets one-two times per year does not sound good for economic viability of such reactors.
I experience a kind of existential horror when observing someone standing for a full minute with the nozzle of one of these idiotic machines directed toward a single recalcitrant leaf that could be dislodged with a subsecond flick from a rake or a broom, while piles of birds fall dead from their nests behind him. It resembles the sensation that overcomes me when surrounded, at a fireworks display, by a throng of my fellow citizens all attempting to memorialize the spectacle with flash photography.
The chance of that happening with the fission reactors currently being built is almost vanishingly small.

And even the largest nuclear accidents ever did not lead to anything close to that.

This is just fear mongering nonsense. And btw, even with Fusion you still produce huge amounts of high energy particles that can be just as dangerous and can be used to do bad stuff as well.

Fusion is not magic.
> "Blower noise is way louder than cars..."

depends on the vehicle. in my neighborhood, we have plenty of (intentionally) loud cars, motorcycles, and trucks. but the point is that work machines that come with unavoidable noise should be allowed to make that noise during working hours (unlike most vehicles, except perhaps delivery trucks, but they should be using primary thoroughfares, not neighborhood streets).

i also don't report landscaping companies for that reason.
Both the Germans and Japanese were categorically bad enemies we had the absolute right and duty to fight at all costs.
The difference with Elon and McAfee is that Elon (and the paypal mafia) have white collar crime in their DNA. Paypal growth held a 1:1 correlation with online prescription drug scam (or online prescription crime rings, depending who you ask).

McAfee is the lowest amateur compared to those guys.
I would very much like the ability to transfer between services but also completely delete once I've backed up locally.
It is, of course, the regulatory cost they want to attack. Fusion can’t continue melting down. Unlike fission. The fact that it’s much harder to get to work at all is considered kind of an advantage here because it means the reactor can’t accidentally keep producing energy when you don’t want it to. Second, if you get really good at fusion there are some reactions that don’t produce neutrons means you don’t get all this activated material. And that lack of neutrons also makes it proliferation-resistant (and can allow more compact ways of generating electricity than a typical thermal cycle). But even with the low hanging fruit type of fusion with tritium & deuterium, you don’t get these long lived transuranic isotopes. Also, fusion has some important very long term applications in human spaceflight (& interstellar travel). And the fusion fuel infrastructure is much less susceptible to being diverted to making weapons.

But overall I agree with you. Fusion makes fission look really easy, and there are advanced fission designs and processes which address most of the above issues.
Why does it make things miserable for businesses? They'll just increase their rates to pay for the new equipment.
Unfortunately people dont have to be good at something to advocate it or force it on others. Just look at all the 'detoxes, random diets, cultural remedies like trying to cure plague with wisky, bloodletting etc.

Our deductive powers havent improved much, they just moved to areas of our lives that are more nebulous. Fundamentally bloodletting and 'looks like a hippie, and hippies shouldn't work for a bank" are about on the same footing
This study proves that the liberal surprise face meme is real.
Fission has a few unavoidable issues: long radioactive isotope half-life, weapons proliferation, and the runaway scenario. Fusion has none of these issues plus the fuel being abundant. It's the answer to the question "how do we meet the growing energy demands of humans over the next thousand years?".

The only real danger is that of a tritium leak, but the short half-life makes the prospect of a leak less concerning.
I think that conclusion is at least as interesting as physiognomy. It's remarkable that a computer could be more sensitive to it than people.
Do you have data that includes non-voters? I haven't seen any; most polls are limited to voters.
Modern html by definition is not valid XML, unless you are using the xml serialization of html5 which isn't really teccomended and nobody does.

Really no version of the official html spec was valid xml other than XHTML which was never particularly popular.

But i don't really see your point. An implementation having a different idea how to parse html than you think is correct is not the same thing as something being unparsable. Its a tautology that if there exists a computer progran to parse something than it is possible to parse it with a computer program.
> Many run their business with the tools they can afford.

Are electric equivalents of the banned gas tools really that much more expensive?
I still prefer to play a few games many many times instead of a lot of games a little. I've replayed the Dark Souls games so many times I have to backup my save file because I reached the save slot limit. Each time I replay I tend to have a theme or challenge. I also play factory style games for hundreds of hours. (Was up to 4am playing Factorio)

If I've lost anything as an adult it's that I'm less tolerant of games that don't capture my interest. As a kid I replayed certain games because I simply had fewer games to play. Now there are so many free or cheap games available but I find I quit new games quickly unless they capture my interest.
I've been wanting to learn R for a bit. Does anyone know of any good resources for learning the basics?
Both.
Shoot me
They were important to dr seuss as a person and his development as an author, but culturally theyve been eclipsed by his more famous work.

These books arent gone, you can still find them and they are documented for historical purposes, but as a society we have decided that there is no need for them as childrens books. Nobody cares about the hundreds of books that go out of print every year
I guess people are increasingly frustrated with the failure of the current nuclear reactors to cost scale in the modern economy, so they look forward for a fundamental shift in technology. That is, there is no hope in fission, it has not stood the test of time so far, and it there is no reason it will in the near future. If we want nuclear we can only hope for fusion.

Note that this is me projecting. I don’t have a horse in this race. I’d be perfectly happy with nuclear free Earth; with renewables being our primary method of generating energy; a future which as of now looks the most likely. And if people develop fusion at some point in the future... cool.
It's also not the _same_ users, which may not matter but probably does.
My local public library also has popular books listed. I didn't explicitly search the name, I got to it from a link on github, which I got to from a news aggregator. None of these links mentioned anything about piracy.
Outputting vnlog, using those tools to filter, and then plotting using feedgnuplot have covered most of my visualization needs.

https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog

https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
Recent and related:

Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26334516 - March 2021 (309 comments)
> Oh, and you can autodiff everything.

Well, not everything. Julia's Zygote AD system can autodiff most Julia code (currently with the exception of code that mutates arrays/matrices).
Would potentially be useful if you could take advantage of this _after_ you've been excommunicated from a service for whatever unknowable violation you committed.
Definitely going to give this one a spin. I was looking around yesterday for a static blog generator and was frustrated with the complexity of many offerings.
> DTP is still in development and is not quite ready for everyone to use yet

Well, ok then.
Why was my comment voted down? Are the admins of this site so sensitive? Did I hurt anyone‘s feelings or use foul language?
They are already selling full product lines. For example:

https://www.husqvarna.com/us/products/battery/

(I don't remember how I ended up there but I was looking at their battery products a few months ago)
> of the bell curve

There is no bell curve. Political orientation is largely a self-referencing phenomenon. Outside the political elite, who have a high degree of ideological coherence, knowing a person's views on one issue is a loose predictor on their views on another. Gun-toting anti-abortion lesbians and pro-immigration free-market feminists are real, and they aren't some striking minority.
hell, i'd argue being rich isn't even the qualifier. I'd say it's anyone that's not a part of that financial system.

The powers that be in finances are nervous, the things that gave them advantage and the edge, some legit, some not, are all becoming increasingly available to retail.

Mean while we allow stock shorts.. and failures to deliver to constantly roll over or be hidden in sneak behind closed door actions.
Under Roman rule, Reggio Calabria was Regium too. And its original foundation is actually likely to pre-date the Greeks...
And those are all non-genetic factors along the lines of other non-controversial things like "how wealthy you are will influence your political views," versus things supporting the "all political views are sacrosanct and can't be judged, because people can't help themselves" direction that 'plutonorm was suggesting.
Portobucket, a good place to learn about the stock market
> Kubernetes does not solve the issue, it merely has strategies for how to upgrade nodes. The issue is that...

I understand the issue, Gleam/Caramel/et al. (static typing layers on BEAM) are not trying to solve this issue.

> So my assumption here is that they're putting ocaml on the BEAM to utilize OTP and clustered apps, correct?

That's actually not my assumption. I'm assuming that the point of Caramel is to get sound static typing for (some of) the code that we are deploying on the BEAM. It doesn't necessarily have to be for clustered apps. As I said, many deploys of even Erlang and Elixir today are not using clustered nodes. They don't care about those capabilities. They use Kubernetes to manage nodes and state.

> instead it seems like you'd be forced to spin up entirely new clusters and then direct traffic to the new cluster to bypass this problem.

This is exactly what Kubernetes (or Nomad etc.) will let you avoid--they can spin up and spin down nodes within the same cluster.
All for it. Hoping it becomes a statewide ban in the next few years.

I'm really sick of Tues-Thurs having 30-40 2-stroke engines idling/running for basically 3 straight hours. It's noisy, and I can definitely smell it, and it definitely interrupts my work
I realize COVID is still a thing, but consider finding a local art class. I did this a few years back and it significantly improved my drawing ability, I got direct feedback from an instructor, and the cost wasn't too high.

Many universities and community colleges have adult education programs that offer multi-week courses like this for not too much money, or you can find a local artist community.
I am skeptical of this, assuming you need some sort of public support in order to build a nuclear power plant (I'm guessing voters are involved somewhere, even if it's electing their state governor).

Most people are scared of nuclear power, so it seems politically problematic (at least in the United States).

I went to school in Pittsburgh where there are nuclear power plants nearby and people still felt more comfortable with coal being shipped over from Virginia.
I accidentally started reading a manga about two otaku who try dating[1], and otome games are a theme. I realize I didn't see a lot of it in Japan, but I guess that's the power of otaku stigma over there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wotakoi:_Love_Is_Hard_for_Otak...
Looks cool! I use to work with some procurement groups. How is this different from the current rfp software out there rn (Scout, Ariba, Bonfire)? What makes it so that it’s for smb because I feel like theres a lot of similarity in the rfp process in enterprise and smb.
I imagine that the popular view of fusion will be better, because of the impossibility of meltdown and the much easier to manage spent materials. If that translates into less NIMBYism, the regulatory costs should be much lower.

If the inputs can then ever be scaled, it could present a gateway to powerplant "mass production", which would be truly revolutionary. Especially for those crazy rocket concepts!
NVIDIA has a lot of open source. https://github.com/NVIDIA

NVIDIA's business is to sell GPUs. This helps.
I think the opposite might end up being true. With a critical mass of users on Proton, developers end up being pressured to make sure their games work properly in it. When a substantial number of their users have a problem running a new version of their game, even on an unsupported platform, they tend to do something about it. There have been a few instances of this happening already for some high profile games.
> There's sadly no performant autodiff system for general purpose Python.

Like there is for general purpose Julia code? (https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl)

> I have nothing against supporting GPUs (although I think their use is overrated and most people would do fine with CPUs),

Do you run much machine learning code? All those matrix multiplications run a good bit faster on the GPU.
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I define rape as when one party does not consent at the time of the act to sex. You can't retroactively remove consent.

Fraud is a completely different matter.