skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(CNN) — The news broke last September that a California start-up was working with the US Air Force on developing a supersonic plane which could be used as Air Force One.
Exosonic was handed a contract by the Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate (PE) after impressing the military with its concept for a low-boom supersonic Mach 1.8 twinjet."
Very good reasons all round. Good luck, we need simpler solutions in the cloud space!
NZ population is 4.9 million people. That’s half the size of SF Bay Area.

How is this a fair comparison?
You could get pretty close if there is a way to support embedding Go generally

This shows how to build a SO and use CUE from python https://github.com/philipdexter/pycue
(Note that is a really old version of CUE)
This article was an overly emotional, gross, solipsism infused diatribe.
A worthless spend of my time.
When people claim that a country should have "done it properly", they usually mean closed borders, that end up having to stay closed for the long haul to prevent COVID from re-entering the country. Personally, I find the long-term risks of closed borders in terms of rekindling nationalist sentiment and eroding international solidarity, to be far more of a threat than COVID.

The pandemic will pass soon, but countries walling themselves off could have consequences that even our grandchildren might have to deal with.
One alternative to keeping the bastion off is to restrict access to the bastion by IP address. Ideally, the list of IP addresses that need access to the bastion should be relatively small.

In cloud environments, it's straightforward to update network firewall rules as IP addresses change. Residential and office IP addresses don't change much so it's not much of a hassle in my experience. That said, it can get annoying if you find your self working on a network that rotates your IP address frequently (e.g., a hotspot).
Most of these can probably receive updates from the host OS if it's really needed, but I think what it boils down to is that the manufacturers just don't care, unfortunately.
Yes the French have a better system for nuclear. In the US the military can do anything nuclear they want.

But for civilian nuclear program it is all political.
What did we spend on Yucca Mountain?

Chicago Bridge bungled their South Carolina reactor job so bad that Westinghouse had to take the job over from them.
Complete shambles and Westinghouse had to sell their nuclear division to Toshiba. All one giant mess.
The AP2000 NextGen reactor program is a failure.
South Carolina plant never made it online. Busted budgets and nothing generating power.
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/06/541582729/how-the-dream-of-am...
When I was 12, I found out about `shutdown /i`, which opens up a GUI where you can enter target IP addresses.
Obviously I had to try it out in class. Each computer room in school had its own IP range, so it was easy to target all PCs in the current room.
At the end of the class, I shut down all PCs - it worked!

I told a friend how I did it - of course he had to tell the others in class.. so the war began and everybody shut down their neighbors PCs!

We then invented "defense scripts" in batch, which basically ran `shutdown /a` in an infinite loop to cancel any shutdown requests.

In the end, the administrator disabled the shutdown command - the official reason was potential harm we could do concerning A-levels.

Good times.
'Imaged' is probably the wrong word to use based on its connotations outside the field. What this paper represents is a full 3D reconstruction of the atomic configuration of disordered solid, and so the result is really a point cloud not pixels or voxels.

This sort of atomic scale reconstruction is really hard to achieve outside of simulation, and some very cool things can be done with it. The 'Short-Range-Order' of disordered or semi-ordered structures is really difficult to probe, but may play a signficant role in properties.
Back when I managed a call center, we were just integrating some new messaging software. This was very old-school, IBM 3270 dumb terminals hooked up to the mainframe.

One of the team leads was trying to figure it out, and sent a message to her group saying, 'if you can read this, please raise your hand.'

Of course, she got it wrong, and sent the message out to the whole corporation. No safeguards against that, at the time.

Nothing bad happened, other than severe embarrassment. But I still smile at the thought of the marketing department setting in their offices, hands raised, wondering if it was safe to lower them yet...
the best way to 'solve' self driving is just to build new cities entirely with new transportation infrastructure specifically built for self driving vehicles to be on roads, and in parking spots. not for 'human driven vehicles'.
just to make things simpler , and clear, the cars themselves should not even have steering wheels.

any vehicles that are outside of the city, can be driven onto a self driving wheeled platform kind of thing, and that platform ( a self driving cart ) will drive those vehicles around as needed .

that's actually SIMPLER. than 'solving' self driving in reality.
Musk's updates will not solve self driving . they will abdicate driving responsibilty, for every edge case in which it fails, which , ultimately, requires the driver to supervise the car , at least , while in complex city environments. which means, ultimately, you cannot have fully robot taxis.

if you cannot have robot taxis, you can call 'self driving' whatever you want. but it's not effectively 'self driving' for the purpose of mega profit silicon valley ponzi-nomics.

if you want mega profit, let alone, real world self driving solved. just start building the entire infrastructure from scratch to ensure the system as a whole works.

right now, you're trying to solve 'self driving' for the individual vehicle as if it will be as 'smart' as a human by mimicing human driving styles with complex hardware and software.

not gonna happen. at best you get mimicry of the highest order.
still doesn't work.
cannot mimic persistent capacity to deal with novel situation.

'self driving' is effectively non-deliverable, until at least the next AI revolution in hardware, which is still 15-20 years away from being commercialized as a suite of different asic chips are built out and then taught to communicate with one another by some hyper sophisticated universal buss system.
True.

As for my personal situation, one of the rare diseases that I have is believed to have caused the autoimmunity that caused my T1D. It is a form of autoimmune autonomic neuropathy, and it showed up 6 months before the T1D diagnosis. We also believe that I am susceptible to other endocrine and neurological immune-mediated diseases through the anti-peripherin antibody. It’s the common denominator relating most of my health problems together, but there is no commercial test available for it at the moment.
It's too easy for space junk to destroy it, also a single point of failure or attack. It's a terrible solution as long as we remain a warlike species.
> Do blue LEDs on home electronics bother anyone else at night time as much as it does me?

Don't have home electronics in your bedroom is my advice.
Remember too if anyone rights off your debt for tax purposes, like a credit card company; you are expected to pay tax on the amount they right off—-even all the late fees, and other crap they load on your account.

Now if you are basically insolvent, you can give them a letter, and a rudimentary asset/liability statement.

If you get the right (I guess in a good mood) IRS agent they will disavow the tax.

(Personally, I would like to see penalties for tax violators tied to personal assets. A wealthy guy gets a penalty much higher than a poor person. Jail should never be a punishment too.)
Maybe Ukraine shouldn’t have provoked their very well armed neighbor.
Russia will take the Ukraine if they continue to escalate, even if they don’t want it.
The biggest problem with fission power is up front capital cost. It takes so long to pay off the mortgage that, by the time a nuclear plant pulls ahead over a fossil fuel plant, whoever decided to build that plant is probably getting ready to retire.

We have every reason to believe that a fusion power plant will be even more expensive and slower to construct than a fission one. So, even if you skipped over the additional expensive and slow step of proving that a reactor design works, they still wouldn't be chosen by any energy company that expects to turn a profit.
Why is this rendering so terribly in Chrome?
Someone is trying it your way: https://signed.work/

The problem is that these signatures cannot be traded anymore, since no one is tracking who owns which editions. I can sell my signature to you, and then sell it to someone else tomorrow. The artist intended to mint 100 "prints", but suddenly 1000 people claim to own one.
I don't see anything in the plan about reviving the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. This is a key storage facility that's been used as a political scapegoat for far too long. No one lives near the facility, it's set in one of the lowest seismically active areas in the US, has almost no possibility of leaching waste material into groundwater and the environment. Yet people will fight tooth-and-nail against it for what, to preserve dry cask storage in people's actual backyards, in populated areas, with undetermined contamination risks.
Yes, it's sorted by name in natural order. I haven't decided yet which would work best as default (this vs insertion order) -- feedback is welcome. This works well for numbered book chapters, something I personally find useful. In any case, the defaults will be configurable -- when I implement config :)

(Another thing on the TODO list is adding an optional priority score for each task, and sorting those on top of the list in all tree views.)
Better overview article on this topic: "AI Needs More Why"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderlavin/2019/05/06/ai-ne...
There are ways to tell and stories of people who have enforced AGPL. I do agree it's generally a harder problem, though.
Until someone adds a method called fib (staying with the example of the thread) doing something completely different.
Sounds right. If you're doing floating-point work it's not generally a problem to assume that division by zero will result in NaN. Virtually all C and C++ compilers commit to this behaviour in the name of IEEE 754 compliance (even if the IEEE 754 compliance is incomplete).
You can write vertex shaders in WebGL to massively parallelize calculating the movement of each particle. This isn't possible in canvas.

And that just optimizes the physics—there's even more parallelization with the actual drawing! Drawing a bunch of points like this can be achieved using a single fragment shader that takes a big array of positions. Drawing new positions involves just copying the array of positions from the CPU to the GPU.

But if you're using both vertex and fragment shaders, the GPU might entirely handle updating and drawing points over time (and thus can be parallelized across hundreds of cores), only needing the CPU to set up the initial point positions and get things started.

With canvas, all the work (including rendering each frame) takes the JS main thread, running on the CPU.

Here's a cool demo of how much better WebGL is at rendering a ton of 2D sprites! Be careful turning up the number of sprites with canvas—it might lock up your main thread and be difficult to undo.

https://bl.ocks.org/DevAndyLee/raw/a901617de28912b1e3cbdc6e8...
After a year of the pandemic, public transit is hanging by a thread
and the follow-up, "Healthcare Needs AI, AI Needs Causality"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderlavin/2019/08/13/healt...
> You'd need to fire the rocket to slow down sufficiently to fall into the sun right?

Yes, which is around 30 km/s of delta-v, as compared with only 12 km/s delta-v to boost an object from Earth's orbit (assuming you launch it in the same direction that Earth is traveling) to escape velocity from the solar system.
You could start by datamining /r/covid19positive timelines. There should be over 100 personal experiences there, with symptoms per date
> mapping is most often requested in right-handed patients with left hemispheric lesions

That was the case for my SO.
I mean, we talk occasionally about the "negative interest rate" of owning gold, ie, the cost of securing it against theft.

And you provided that service for free!
I'm going to sound tinfoil-y, but coal doesn't have dual strategic purposes which made it in the Soviet Union's best interests to focus opposition on it. Look into what happened to funding for the CND in Britain after 1991.
> If the government was a willing partner in explicit discrimination based on race from slavery > Jim Crow > New Deal > mass incarceration, then it should be a willing partner in righting the inequities created.

The claim is that slavery, red-lining, Jim Crow, War on Drugs, etc, will have either specifically targeted black Americans, or disproportionately had a negative impact on them. That negative impact will have manifested in specific problems, like low intergenerational wealth.

So if red-lining, for example, resulted in less black Americans whose parents were able to establish a lineage of intergenerational wealth, and were therefore less likely to be able to buy a house themselves, the problem still doesn't need to be framed in terms of race. The government was absolutely wrong to have a policy in place which discriminated on the basis of race, but again, the problem can be entirely addressed by going after the specific problem.

If 10 black people are unable to buy homes because of red-lining, 1 Asian is unable to buy a home because they were an asylum seeker that came to the country with nothing, 1 white person is unable to buy a home because they were born to a single parent who is addicted to drugs, and 1 Latino is unable to buy a home because they started their education speaking English as a second language and struggled through school...I don't actually care what put them in that position. But if you come up with a program that indiscriminately assists people in being first-time homeowners, the black people in this hypothetical become the primary beneficiaries of the color-blind policy. To say, "well, sorry Asian person, but less things were done to historically marginalize people that look like you than were done to the people that look like them, so we're not going to help you," is a horrible policy. It has all of the same pitfalls as any other racist policy. And the color-blind solution not only undoes the negative impact of redlining by helping the people who were impacted by it, but if you are actually concerned with racial retributive justice (which you shouldn't be), it is also allocating a disproportionate amount of resources in order to help the victims of that racial policy. So the government pays for its mistakes either way, but this way it does it without continuing to legitimize the concept of race, and without the massive imprecision that arises from using race as a proxy.

There is no legitimate reason for any decision to be made on the basis of race, period.
on my laptop the shift is smaller than the caps-lock, about 2/3 the size of the caps-lock.
You can't legally gift money above a certain value though without paying taxes on it. The situation depends a lot here, but if it were legal to just gift everybody money without interest nobody would ever have to deal with inheritance taxes.
Being an island that gets all its goods through cargo ships or planes allows a lockdown as strict as NZ’s. That cargo influx involves a small number of personnel. However, that isn’t the case in e.g. Europe, where countries have not been self-sufficient in foodstuffs etc. for long decades, and many people live on one side of a border and work on the other side. That means there is a steady flow of trucks across the continent, as well as commuting of at least workers judged essential.
T is not R though. I want to preserve the static type information such that if I call:

baz(bar(foo(t, f)));

T<A> should go into foo(..) and come out (e.g. as T<B>) such that I can then call bar(..) on it.

But in this case it leaves foo(..) as R extends Fooable, which is not something I can pass into bar(..).
Long term safe storage of the waste. Many regions in the US are fighting attempts to store waste in their town.
That's so -idiotic- short term thinking. 10k years is nothing in the timescale of the universe.
Cirium - London (UK) | Machine Learning Engineer | Full-time onsite [Remote during COVID]

We are a small data science start-up using contextual data (news, festivals, trade fairs, ...) to infer travel behaviour. Cirium, one of the main global data provider in the airline industry, recently aquired us so that we can develop ML products for them.

We are looking for a ML engineer or a data scientist with some engineering experience. Our codebase is in python, we use the standard data libraries (pandas, Sklearn, ...), as well as spacy and a bit of nltk for NLP tasks. Historically we have been doing quite a lot of scraping, and now we also have access to a considerable amount of data through Cirium (and its many friends). The new joiner will be expected to write production code and ideally contribute to architecture choices. So, she/he should be keen to understand and contribute also to the engineering aspect of building data products.

If interested feel free to send me an e-mail including some details of who you are and what you are looking for. You can reach me at `matteo dot pallini hat cirium dot com`

You can also find more details on the job advert
https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/job/United-...
I would call it unwise, but there has been no disaster. Electricity production through fossil fuels went down, renewables reached 50% last year while Germany still has one of the most stable electricity network worldwide:

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...
> The overall sentiment is that they were let off the hook easily and the total cost will be much higher.
Even if it is more costly, who cares. It's national infrastructure that serves everybody, high costs are acceptable in light of the CO2 crisis. And it's not as if that money was burned or stolen by few people - it goes to local nuclear industry which employs many local inhabitants.

This 'nuclear is costly' argument would be relevant if there was a cheaper-than-nuclear replacement for coal energy with similar consistent availability and safety record. There isn't one.

> nuclear plants and waste storage facilities are easy targets for terrorism - fortunately that didn't happen yet, but things like Stuxnet proved that it's entirely in the realm of possibility.

As far as we know from public resources, Stuxnet wasn't a terrorist operation, but a state-controlled operation. And it wasn't a nuclear disaster - it was destruction of expensive equipment due to poor operational security (virus on USB drives hacked the network and destroyed the equipment).

Nuclear plants are NOT an easy target for terrorism, and they are NOT the preferred target for terrorists. When we read about some real terrorist attacks, it's clear they go for large death numbers and best visibility. The newer plants with domes are built to withstand a plane crash, a terrorist would have to be brainwashed by anti-terrorist agency to crash the plane into a nuclear plant instead of big city.

Lots of things are in the realm of possibility, but let's get real. Crazies attacking a nuclear power plant is a pretty small manageable threat, both in terms of probability of successful execution and in terms of potential resulting damage. Yes some people and equipment will have to be maintained to guard the plants, but it's not a big deal.

> -It's trivially easy to use the reprocessing infrastructure to create weapons-grade plutonium.

Yes, but again that is not a very relevant problem because in most countries where nuclear energy would be most benefitial in decreasing CO2 production already have plutonium sitting ready in nuclear weapons and can make more - US, China, India, US, Europe.

> nuclear has some advantages but there aren't enough of them to break the trend of using renewables + gas and storage

Gas power is not something we should prop up at all when we have the option to build more nuclear power plants. Gas burning produces CO2, nuclear operation does not.
This seems like a cause and effect confusion.

Because no one can solve the tech problem, no one wants to stick around for the point where the failure is obvious.

Especially, for a while, self-driving cars have been at the level that impressive demos are possible but actual deployment isn't. So a fine career move is sticking around for long enough to create a demo and then leaving and blaming the failure on your successor.

Reason the tech can't deployed is that while 99% of driving problems involve just a complex, adaptive system, the 1% or .01% remaining involve "understanding what's happening", a far higher bar, one that requires a system well beyond what exists today.
A compact radio telescope for amateur radio astronomy
Sometimes you see an idea so zany that you have trouble even modeling the person who thought it might be a good idea, and went so far as to follow through. This is one of those times, for me.
No basis to sue here: you are perfectly allowed to lend money without interest, you just have to pay gift taxes on it. (If it is really a loan, the gift taxes only apply to the forgone interest. But, keep in mind that if they can’t repay it, they will owe income taxes on the whole amount!)
Yeah, the way I read it this allows them to prosecute tax evasion in addition to theft for all property stolen in the previous years that wasn't declared to IRS as income from illegal activities.

Is that a common practice?
Stop being a negative Nancy, if france can do it we can do it. Who cares what the antinuke people think get some initiaives rolling and lets get going.
> An NFT is like trying to sell art without actually having to create art.

An NFT of a tweet maybe. But actually artists do create art and sell it as NFTs.
So you’re saying that, after living in Taiwan and “sobering up” on his defense views, he changed his mind and reconsidered his position?

To me this is evidence to take what he says more seriously.
He announced that years ago, and is planning to use a century-old invention. It’s why the Starship rockets run on methane, and I don’t even think he’s the first to suggest it specially for Mars rockets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
is it too expensive to send an event log to the client and have it be replayed? i did that for a stateless scrabble bot and it worked out pretty well, the bot got an event log from the server, replayed it to construct a board position, and sent back a move which was added to the event log sent to the other player.
That's not even funny!
As with most websites with obnoxious cookie banners, the banner doesn't show if you don't have JS enabled on the website. The article even reads fine without it, including the pictures, something that can't be said of the new hipster blog-hosting sites that lazy-load images with JS instead of letting the UA do it.
I suppose that as the Gemini network grows, someone will create a search engine. The old-school "?foo+bar" style of GET queries should be enough even on clients supporting only standard Gemini markup. (Arbitrary MIME types are supported, so enhanced or entirely different interfaces are possible.)
Sealed Super Mario Bros. NES cartridge sells for $660k
Sure. Upthread the concern was about rail bottlenecks being one track.