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> Goodenough's batteries are good enough

Not really for cars. For cars they still need to become cheaper, safer, lighter, more sustainable, more recyclable, better energy density for more range, better power density for recuperation and faster charging, and more cycles for greater life span.

This aluminium-ion battery looks interesting:

https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/gmg-graphene-aluminiu...

The power density and duty cycles are there. They say the energy density is there once they increase the cell voltage.
“Control” and “Influence” are not the same thing. These words are often used interchangeably, but there is a technical and literal difference.
What’s the difference between gain of function research and engineering? My understanding is that gain of function research accelerates the natural selection process to intentionally produce i.e. engineer desired mutations, like the capability of infecting human cells. Seems like a distinction without a difference.
Misinformation is another word that has become extremely popular in the last year or two.

I don't think very many people think very deeply about the meaning of words, and how subtle changes in the ones that are chosen can influence the collective consciousness. A lot of people even seem to strongly dislike the topic being mentioned.
They’ve been slowly appearing in stock at my local computer store. (Microenter)
I’ve kept my library on an external hard drive and recently abandonned Deezer and Spotify because of the same issues mentioned in this thread. Plex (on a VPS) has been a godsend, and hype machine for discovery is top notch, check it out if you want to find obscure but great music
What a board game taught me about the pandemic
Yes, it will land you in deep trouble with most Asian cultures. They may glower and not say anything, but you can expect that mentally, they would have crossed you off. This is unfortunately the reality.
> From the @WhiteHouse event today: "Rewiring America and Coalition for Green Capital report released Monday found that by switching to heat pumps for space or water heating, 65 million U.S. households could save a total of as much as $27.2 billion a year."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/05/17/...
Plus they can't testify. You can't cross-examine or dipose a dog.

That's all I need to know to feel strongly that dogs should not be used to establish probable cause.
Apple is pretty closed lipped about their hardware, with the possible exception of parts of the security processor stack.
I've come to believe in conservation of nuance where translation goes, where it's just always hell in either direction. Mad respect for translators.
or solar orbit, where the fallout will be efficiently dispersed throughout the solar system and beyond.
I would say more specifically: if you have any SSH keys that are associated with non-career nyms (which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do) then keep them separate and only include them for known associated hosts, perhaps by using IdentityFile in Host blocks in .ssh/config.
There are definitely other problems with signals; for instance you can't fully implement a signal handler in most languages except C, because you can't write async-signal-safe code in them.

This is reasonable in a memory-safe language, but means you need some other way to interrupt a read from stdin with ^C.
Is shuffling large playlists still broken on Android for Tidal (only shuffles the first 30 or so and then nothing)?

That problem got me to unsubscribe even though I was loving the HiFi streaming. It was broken around Christmas 2019 and still was broken months later. They're Android app receives little to no support.
I have learned to demand a very high standard of evidence for conspiracy theories, so...let's see the evidence that there is some conspiracy between Google and Israel to hide what is happening there. For that matter, I am not even sure what you think Israel is hiding -- Netanyahu is not at all shy about settlements, the IDF calls people up to tell them when a bomb is going to be dropped on their building, and there are reporters and international observers all over the Israel and the Palestinian territories.
They’re Vaccinated and Keeping Their Masks On, Maybe Forever
Why not? Google correctly made that decision a decade ago. Is it really worth compromising yourself? Apple should not be beholden to an authoritarian regime by putting too many of their eggs in that basket.
Australian Researchers Estimate That There Are 50B Birds
Why do anyone follow the dow jones? When I learned about it I was pretty surprised that it was only a handful of cherry picked company.
Triple a
Surely epistemology and logic must be part of scientific curriculum, no? Maybe some scientists don't take it seriously.
Do you have a FLAC of that around or know where I can buy one? I'm quite curious to try it myself, and see if I can figure out what happened. I wonder if it's an encoder bug, a real format limitation, or a problem with the original song (e.g. a clipping ISP issue, which would be solved by slightly reducing the volume before encoding).
Hard hitting journalism from the New York Times...after Pfizer has made their money.
> because Rybka is an algorithmic engine with hard constraints like "must try to win in 50 moves to avoid tie"

That rule isn't the engine's constraint, that's a rule of chess. 50 moves without a pawn move or piece capture (basically "irrevocable progression of the game") is a draw.

The chess engine thought it was winning, so it wanted to avoid a draw, even if it meant putting itself in a still winning but otherwise worse situation. Unfortunately for the chess engine it was mistaken, in the original position it wasn't winning, but drawing, and in the new position it wasn't still winning, but losing.
Well said. These drug laws are criminal, not innocent users.
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Are Convolutional Neural Networks or Transformers more like human vision?
The video addresses it.

1. We have strong suspicion that the virus was going around in early December, away from the Wuhan wet market.

2. If the source was natural and zootonic, we would have expected to find the intermediate animal by now. For Sars1 and Mers, we found that animal within 4 months and 9 months respectively. It's been 18 months since Covid19, and we have no clue what that animal despite better science and astronomically more investment.
Sure, but that's one particular dog. I'm asking about the statistics for all of the drug dogs in the US.

I agree if a particular dog is wrong more than 10 - 20% of the time, the dog and/or the handler should be taken off of the job. And I agree that they probably shouldn't be allowed to be used by police unless they already have probable cause through some separate means.
Hey, I'll bite: they are a thousands-year old country who has seen nations like the US and protectionist strategies like IP law come and go for centuries. They probably know what the US is going to do before the US knows what they're going to do, and certainly before the US knows what CCP is going to do.
Gardening is a fun hobby my wife & I have taken up over the past several years. You probably will never grow an entire meal, and that's fine. You'll still feel satisfaction in going outside with a bowl and coming inside with what will become a salad or a side.

Pick something easy – when I started with zero knowledge I tried some of the harder plants like asparagus and celery and managed to get nothing, but I stuck with it after I realized I couldn't kill my Swiss chard or lettuce or collards if I tried. And don't start off trying to grow from seed. Get starts from a plant store - more expensive, but less likely to die off.

Many of those easier plants are also amenable to growing in a five gallon pot, which is perfect for when you don't have a ton of space to work with, or if you just want to dip your toe in.
The other reply to this comment misses the fact that an nonce is used in the client authentication process. Thus, one server to which you successfully authenticate using a public key cannot replay that against a different server that accepts the same key. There is a unique value that is sent to the client, hashed, and then signed with the private key.

Anyone can download your public SSH keys from GitHub (github.com/<username>.keys). The Ubuntu Server installed uses this to make setting up a mostly headless server easier.
The challenge is that there are often many choices to make; the choices often benefit one party over the other; and either the choices themselves or the possible ramifications of those choices are not well understood by the parties. No two (separate groups of) parties are identical, and to an extent, no two projects are identical. So there's no single "right" answer that can be defined that works in every case, and it very often comes down to bargaining power and subjective risk aversion. I think there's more room for standardized or even automated contract provisions for less complicated transactions, but there are still some dangers. For example, a lot of real estate purchase agreements have been standardized by various state real estate associations that publish forms with various check-boxes for choices. The real estate agents in this case would be the ones "whose job partly involves interfacing with" software (or in this example, paper forms with physical checkboxes in many cases). From experience (I did real estate litigation for a few years), I can say that this didn't always work out so well... because the agents and the parties have to both understand the meaning of what they're choosing and the potential impact of those choices, and that requires an understanding of the law which is complex and not static. Relying on the form is nowhere near enough. This difficulty is vastly greater in areas of the law that are shifting more rapidly, like IP.
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/03/gores-5-best-lines-ab...

There are some good ones there. Actual quotes.
Tesla on autopilot slams into Snohomish (Washington) County deputy's patrol car
Highly subjective given the prompts but a GREAT test for the design team or graphics personnel you hire
If you didn’t know, car accidents are the leading cause of death for anyone under 55 [1]. That’s a big number regardless of its absolute size.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index...
You should be able to get close to that with "real" Kubernetes, by only running etcd, kube-apiserver, and kube-controller-manager (without any kubelets, or kube-proxies), which should get you most of the way there (all Pods will just get stuck Pending, but most other stuff should work). Of course, that means that you're still running etcd and managing multiple servers, but at least you don't have to give it any global system access.

If you're testing something that depends on pod lifecycles then you should be able to get most of the way by updating the status yourself from your tests.

Fake logs may be a bit trickier, but I'd be fairly wary of anything trying to machine-parse logs anyway (unless you're testing a log aggregator, I suppose..).
If they can only hear it way above the threshold of physical damage, that's a good anecdote but it's definitely not relevant to music playback.

Sensitivity to audio falls off a cliff as you approach 20KHz.
Study: One million cancer cases undiagnosed in Europe due to Covid restrictions
This is something that’s much easier in the suburbs - if I wanted to, I could stash three giant trash bags in my garage, eventually toss them in my minivan and drive the 5 miles to the recycling center, which is about the same as my ordinary commute. I can imagine that that’s basically impossible to do if you live in SF.
Stockfish does plan around the 50-move rule. Here's a quick demo (it is silly):

https://lichess.org/analysis/8/1p3K2/kPp5/2P5/2P5/1p6/1P1Q4/...

It's not visible on the board itself, but this position's 50-move rule counter is set to 98 ply -- two ply short of a draw. (That's the 2nd-to-last-field in the FEN representation -- the editable text field just below the board, and also in the URL). The only way to avoid that draw, as Stockfish does in fact suggest, is to a sacrifice a piece in a specific and ridiculous way, to compel black to re-capture on the 100th ply (captures reset the 50-move rule). If you edit the 50-move counter down, Stockfish instead shows you the simple mate-in-3.

Nakamura famously tricked a different chess engine, relying on this 50-move draw avoidance (as one component of the hack) -- a sibling thread is discussing that example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27189718
It seems like legal bills somehow are often considered exempt from common sense like that. Perhaps it has to do with so many politicians also being lawyers.
It would be interesting to archive this and see what holds up 15 years from now.
It takes time and commitment to build up the trust.

And the list of people whose judgement I trust is short indeed.

One of the better strategies is to locate a wise person and make a regular commitment to meet with them and give them permission to really dig into your motives.

The spouse is an obvious choice, but someone to whom you're not attached is also useful for this sort of thing.
Nope, the last time I engaged after you descended to name calling was totally unproductive.
> He stated "modern policing," which I would guess is since the 1980s and the drug war, then 9/11. All this is fairly new, and started within my lifetime. This is "normal" to the younger generation, but it's horrifies me.

Yup, the US incarceration rate started rising to these insane current day levels around the 1980s [0]

Interestingly enough, the incarceration rate kept rising even while crime was going down, but crime going down wasn't a US exclusive phenomena, Canada saw the same trend without mass incarcerating people. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

[1] https://youtu.be/wtV5ev6813I
It absolutely could be. Don't get me wrong; I'm always skeptical of claims like these, especially if they have no supporting explanation. The reason I think it's plausible is Bellingcat described how they did it here: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...

>Much of the information we used for our investigations could never be found in most Western countries, but in Russia, is readily available either for free or a fairly modest fee.

They tracked FSB agents' geolocation positions using this data. Note these are just random private citizens with no special access to anything or anyone.

From the GQ article:

>The most compelling evidence, however, came from publicly available data. As has been widely reported, mobile phones track people’s movements, and location-data companies accumulate this information and sell it. Using this sort of data, CIA investigators were able to deduce the whereabouts of Russian agents, and place them in close physical proximity to the CIA officers at the time they had been attacked when they were in Poland, Georgia, Australia, and Taiwan. In each case, individuals believed to be FSB agents were within range of the CIA officers who had been hit in 2019. In two of the incidents, location data apparently showed FSB agents in the same hotel at the same time their targets experienced the onset of symptoms.

>When I asked Polymeropoulos about the CIA investigation, he said that it was conducted after he retired and that, because he did not have direct knowledge of it, he could not comment on it. He did say, however, that it would not be difficult to use the same techniques, analyzing publicly available data, that had been used by organizations like Bellingcat, which have employed similar methods to expose Russian operations in Europe. “Anyone can buy the cell-phone data on the open market, and you can see where people went,” Polymeropoulos explained. “And perhaps the reason why it seems to have worked is because, just like you saw with all of the GRU activities, they’re sloppy.” GRU machinations were discovered because officers had made several embarrassing missteps, like leaving behind taxi receipts that showed their starting address as GRU headquarters. In the case of the microwave attacks, it seemed FSB operatives had brought their phones with them while carrying out their missions—typically a no-no in the world of covert operations. “There’s ways intelligence officers cover their tracks,” Polymeropoulos marveled. “If I’m going off to do something like that, I’m not taking my phone. It’s insane. It’s so sloppy.”

Definitely could be CIA propaganda. But as Polymeropoulos explains, if Bellingcat could do it, the CIA definitely could, too. Maybe Bellingcat could even retroactively try to confirm this, perhaps.
Field sobriety tests are actually pretty reasonable. They're basically a collection of physical and mental tests that can pretty accurately determine impairment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_sobriety_testing is pretty good, but the TLDR is that they use things like the ability for your eyes to smoothly track a moving object, or the ability to stand on 1 foot for 30 seconds while counting. They aren't perfect, but they're pretty reliable as a way of screening people.

IMO the bigger scam is the number of baseless infractions that cops can use to pull you over in the first place. If a cop wants to pull you over, they can find a reason if they follow you for a few minutes.
If giving people millions of dollars also lowered crime, then I would be all for it - improve the economy, lower taxes, and reduce crime! What a score!

The only real reason to object to it would be problems unlisted in this analogy - like the obvious incentive to murder. But we're axiomatically handwaving those intuitive signs of a bad choice away due to a "those turn out to not be an issue".

The problem here is your conclusion ("yes this may look good on paper but your gut instinct clearly tells you this is a bad idea regardless") is based on using your gut instinct, in a hypothetical that axiomatically requires you to ignore your gut instinct. In other words, you're breaking your own rules.
without paywall: https://archive.ph/rm2eG
You can tell yourself that, but it just isn’t true. It really depends entirely on the subreddit itself. There are plenty of Reddit subreddits with high quality content, discussion, etc.
There's a line of can't/won't/shouldn't here though. The AI systems probably could drive in these conditions. Most of them utilize GPS to navigate. But they don't because that's a high risk activity. I'm not totally convinced that even now, the average accident rate of a self driving car wouldn't be lower in adverse conditions compared to a random driver- if the car were just told to do its best and let loose.

Not that I'm advocating this is a good idea.
I'm completely surprised by the negative reaction to my comment. I think people are misinterpreting my use of the word hacker, and I don't even mean to imply that God exists - only that the universe is intricately clever and whether by intent or by emergence this frameshift exploit on which some viruses rely for reproduction is an absolutely brilliant trick. My comment was made in reverence. Or perhaps it's the implication of intelligent design that upset the downvoters/flaggers?

>I read your comment as a reflection in the hideous cruelty of life, anyone studying biology or medicine beyond high school confronts the cold indifferent ugliness of nature

Perhaps my comment came off callously then. I made no value judgement, it was only the design that I meant to describe. Nuclear weapons are terrible things, but they are still technical works of art.
Human language, and therefore laws and court decisions written in human language, work because members of society share an enormous amount of tacit and background knowledge and share similar value standards based on their cultural history. The fact that all this information can be assumed and does not have to be explicitly specified is what enables us to communicate efficiently in the first place. If you had to specify the actual knowledge content in order to fully understand facts and draw computer-aided conclusions, the effort to write or read these texts would be almost infinite. The idea of writing laws and contracts in a "programming language" thus misses (once more) the real problem. And beyond that works like those of Gödel or Wittgenstein showed other limits of formal systems long ago.
How was I supposed to pass the “button caption tracking” test on mobile or anywhere

I guessed and got it right but thats what was being evaluated?
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From the empirical side of that too, for all the media attention anti-vaxers seem to get, I’ve yet to actually meet one. The scary part isn’t so much that they’re common, more so that there’s just enough of them to cause a problem. So if there is a big difference between UK and the US, it won’t show up until we get into the long tail of vaccinations.
I just tested out https://www.kasmweb.com/demo.html

They use a custom web VNC client with WebP. Definitely they have higher perceptual framerate and slightly higher responsiveness (actual lag) but the responsiveness is about the same. The real difference is the higher perceptual framerate. I think this is because of how VNC works by sending rectangles of only the changed region instead of the entire screenshot in WebP as I do.

When you compare the framerate on scrolling, or on full screen video, there's not much difference between the Kasm Web demo above, and my demo. With that said, there's definitely room for improvement in my framerate. And I could improve responsiveness with geodistributed endpoints (right now, I'm just using a server in Ohio).

So in future I could add support for checking the changed region, and sending only that region (possibly using the chrome LayerTree to only get and send the changed layers). So I could do that to increase framerate, while still getting all the benefits of my approach, such as full control of browser UI, seamless text pasting, file upload, co-browsing and seamless working on mobile. None of these things are supported by Kasm (at least in the demo above).

However, my focus is not on improving framerate right now. It's on building other features on top of this platform (such as the co-browsing support I added recently), and marketing.

Also I noticed both brows.sh and the Kasm web VNC demo take a long time to load. My app loads basically instantly, and has essentially the same responsiveness, making it highly useful for all kinds of work, as long as you are OK with the lower framerate.

I could also easily "increase" framerate by decreasing the image quality, and I'm considering adding a slider for that.

One thing that really impressed me about the Kasm demo was the audio was instant. I haven't been able to work out how to get rid of the 3 - 13 second lag I get with my pulseaudio / parec / lame setup. I wonder how Kasm is capturing and sending audio !! :P ;) xx
Sensitivity vs specificity. The dog that always indicates drugs is always right when drugs are subsequently identified.
I would say that inhaling smoke, especially tar-rich smoke from burning organic matter, is bad for lungs. The presence of any psychoactive substance in it changes little. There are several other ways to consume THC, though, somehow less destructive.

By the same token, drinking alcohol in shots, cold and concentrated, is about the worst way to consume it, because most of it is then spent ruining the liver, and little actually reaches the brain. Sipping a glass of wine does not compare.

AFAICT a lot of health problems that even heroin addicts face do not come from overdoses, but from the unsanitary ways of intravenous administration of it, and the wear-off of the veins from constant injection.

Comparing drugs by just their chemical properties, and ignoring the ways they are consumed, is not very productive, alas.
The linked article includes a concrete example of such a case wherein a GM underpromotes to a rook to avoid a stalemate against another GM.

https://media.chesscomfiles.com/videos/wide/My_Best_Move_Ale...