skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The half hour or a hour a mentor takes to help Plato for free and you can't bother to even assist them by allowing to send a share of the profits to a charity of their choice. If they want Plato to send money to Alzheimer Foundation you should let them and not limit it to some 'improve Eng Leadership'.

Also remember that a mentor could also just arrange this themselves by getting an open office/walk-in hour via Calendly and spend its one hour a week better. One hour can reasonable represent a $175-250+ hour rate. Close to Plato's monthly fee.

Personally, I would go for the latter, or help the local school with teaching kids through something like Codeclub. Codeclub was really lot of fun
If atomic clocks coyote be miniaturized/commoditized that has some pretty big implications in solving distributed transaction problems.
What if it pulls poor countries out of the dutch disease trap?
I have nothing good to say about digital services in Germany. At best, you get a digital version of the old paper form.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States

Nationalized healthcare which you’ve previously stated you're against, for example, would likely be payed for by a tax. If you remember, the Supreme Court ruled the penalties within the ACA amounted to a tax and were legal. Article I Section 8 also outlines Congress’s ability to regulate commerce, despite your claim that amicable interactions of private individuals “minding their own business” are outside its jurisdiction. You can be against all of these as policy, but that doesn’t mean they breach the social contract or are somehow immoral.

Your Rugged Constitution[1], while old, is interesting because it frames each Article in terms of both what you give and what you get from the social contract, the former part being lost on many people. For example, regarding the aforementioned clause, you give the federal government additional power in exchange for the ability “to take care of the needs of the country at home”, I.e., general welfare.

[1] Findlay, Bruce Allyn, and Esther Blair Findlay. Your Rugged Constitution: How Americas House of Freedom is Planned and Built. -, 1919.
The USSR went from being a feudal society to an industrial society with a significant lead over the US in a number of areas, including rocketry and space, within a couple of generations. With a devastating world war in the middle.

There's a lot to criticise about the Soviet system, just as there is any in totalitarian culture - but in science and engineering, "hammering everyone down to the bottom" is simply not what happened.

You could make at least as strong a case for "hammering most people down to the bottom" in the US, because easy and affordable access to high quality education certainly isn't considered a public good, and plenty of talented people are excluded from it.
To be fair not everyone would count Belarus among civilised countries.
The US openly reserved the right to do so though.
The best use case I see for this is when you inherit a testless codebase. It's a way to get bootstrapped, and go from there.

Sometimes you have to honor bugs as part of the (undocumented/evolved/inferred) interface. It could help to discover these, walk through them and see where they can be fixed or where they need to be honored.

It could also help prevent the "rewrite from scratch because I don't understand it" problem. Heck, I've even done that to myself picking up a codebase I haven't touched in 3+ years, sometimes validly, sometimes notsomuch.

I'll have to see how it works next time this happens to me, because this is pure conjecture.
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This sounds great but will be counterproductive to any progress EU wishes to have in digital technology.

India have UPI and while that also on the surface sounds great it's filled with all sorts of wacky rules for implementation (on thing is that you have to show it prominently on the first page).

The primary issues is that it will basically be competing with a lot of private companies and thus once again hinder the ability for many startups to get off the ground because they are in competition with the government.

The never ending problem of the EU, they try to solve problems politically that the market is perfect for.
Swappable batteries. If the industry creates a standard you could swap full battery packs in seconds at existing gas stations.
Agreed.

Half a decade seems too optimistic to me though - lack of charging facilities at residences, current power grid cannot support any significant usage of electric cars, little space for charging stations in cities etc.

Though if fuel taxes & prices continue to rise in current fashion, ICE might become too costly to use.
>Besides the tons of batteries that are needed?

They are inside the car and that is pretty much the point.

>Well besides the times where you drive your car. Also the car's batteries wouldn't last very long due to constantly being cycled.

If there are people that want a 200 mile range car, then there are people that want a 600 mile range car with 66% degradation.
> I was shocked by the 54% of younger people wanting to make money being an influencer comment

Honestly, I think it just seems to most like the current 'easy money' route. I'm in the UK - I can remember reading an alarming statistic 15 or so years ago, in the hey day of "Nuts" and "Zoo" magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuts_(magazine)), regarding the number of young girls who wanted to be a Page 3/Topless model when they were old enough. Because at that time, they were always in the red top papers, with footballer boyfriends, etc etc.

In 2021 you can be a no one, spend a few weeks on "Love Island" and end up with a million followers on Instagram. Your feed is then full of expensive clothes and shoes (#gifted), and there's an article every week about how "[name] from [show] gets £xx,xxx for a single Instagram post!"

Why bother working in an office, or building a business, or learning a skill or a trade - when 20 minutes a day of revealing photos can make you more money than your parents earn? (See also: OnlyFans)

Ironically, I think (and the article seems to show) the bulk of the really successful influencers are the ones that treat it like a business and actually work hard at it and creating content.
shrug they're very much out there financing and building power infrastructure and roads and selling electric bikes to the locals in Kinshasa.

China wants access to their cobalt of course.

Capital is perhaps not quite as easily available as it is in the valley and theyre not buying Teslas on credit but they're still transitioning to electric vehicles.
The coupling between the smalltalk language and the environment has become mildly interesting to me recently. I’d tried to see if I could find any of the old Tektronix Smalltalk workstations recently, but sadly they will likely become just another very rare item in my list.
Where are you travelling? I feel like I see Teslas all over the place, no matter what city I am in, big or small.
What is an "ent"?
I think that's the point. The education for working-class people does not encourage imagination, writing (or even reading) for pleasure. The state school system is designed to turn out conforming factory workers (literally - that's what it was founded to do).

How many Einsteins spent their lives working in a coal mine because that's the only thing that their entire upbringing prepared them for?
I think the keyword is "civilized country".
It's not a "however," overweight can be a contributing factor for sleep apnea. More soft tissue, more restriction. Weight loss sounds like an excellent first action.
For you, who probably are energy rich already, and can afford as much fuel as he needs, like most of us in the developed-ish world.

Think of someone in a village in Africa.
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I use public transport or bikes for local trips, the car is for all the exceptions.
> If more states ban covid-passports, I wonder if the EU would rather not have tourists than allow visitations.

I assume people coming from non-vaccine-passport countries will require additional documentation (ie they'll have to prove vaccination, just not in a standardized way)
I'm paywalled from the article but it's pretty well known that both Russian and China have subs close to, or even in, US territorial waters on a fairly regular basis.
Anecdote: tried this years ago and found the bite guard intolerable. The one I had, which looked just like the picture, was big and bulky and uncomfortable. CPAP in my experience was much less annoying. Obviously YMMV.
Even if it's very conductive, it still has to dump all that heat somewhere, so it will get very hot or just melt/burn eventually.
Problem with e-gov services is actually getting your DigiD account. I have been trying for many years without luck and still don't have it
We will let the application bots and the application scanner bots fight for dominance
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"It’s currently required to enter any restaurants or public spaces and has been very successful in returning some degree of normality to the country.", there seems to be a link between the app and the normality in this statement, but there actually is no link between the two: an app like this may have some impact at some longer term, to lighten another wave, but it doesn't have any effect on the current re-openings.
At least here around I never read that argument. Given that it's initially valid for only 6 month I don't think that's really an issue.
Couldn't these drones be drifting in orbit until ready for operation? No fuel would be required until after reentry. Info beamed back to the "mother ship."
> Sometimes the code behavior might be intentionally ambiguous, not expected to matter in the real world and behavior that will likely change in the future that you should not depend on today.

That is a bad thing and should be addressed. It’s code like this that will inevitably cause you pain later and very likely become significant code debt.
Many people working in the US today would disagree.

The fact that the forcing is done with debt and threats of homelessness and not at gunpoint is just an implementation detail.
Those IDs became accessible to Berlin's immigrants around a year ago. Even then, you only get it 2-4 months after your residence permit application, which might be 0-3 months after you land in Berlin.
The author is treating friendship as a transactional exchange.

You obtain friends.

If you're well connected, you obtain many ..

.. however, it's difficult to keep hold of them.

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The issue is friendship and human relations—while transactional during an exchange—are not transactional in the way recent app based culture has lead us to believe.

We maintain relationships. We need to tend to them. They change as time moves forward. We can pause; and pick things up later.

The best friendships involve high degrees of honesty, and because of that we need to be vulnerable at times. I'm not sure writing a blog post or tweet is displaying the necessary levels of sensitivity (at least on an interpersonal level) to meet this criteria.
They aren't unlikeable because they can't get laid. They can't get laid because they are unlikeable.
They are building their very own doom.
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Belarus would not generally be considered civilized in the sense you're probably thinking of; it's essentially a rogue state.
The big disadvantage is that you'll have a very limited selection of mentees. They might be the ones most in need of help, but it's a bit overkill for some unicorn founder to help random people at a maker space, there are plenty of people that would be just as qualified to help people at that stage.
Indeed, that’s why we need to build decentralized services. Like Usenet /s
Reminds me of a relative with autism who jumped into a card game in order to talk to her sister. It was clear she had no idea what was going on and it just pissed everybody off, but she got her noise in.
Yes you are correct, that's an important thing to look at. Apparently the main energy usage which causes the 1.5kwh number is drilling, I'll see whether I can find some sources.

If it's actually drilling that makes a big difference because drilling might not be done where the oil is raffined
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Looks like this is the first stable version with their renewed UI? Downloading.
"When it comes to solar energy per acre, a photovoltaic solar plant which on average produces 1 GWh per year, will require around 2.8 acres of land. Therefore, we can say that for every acre, the plant produces an average of 0.357 GWh or 357 MWh of energy per year." [1]

[1] https://greencoast.org/solar-farm-land-requirements/

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> But then people never updated their os/software and we ended up with lots of vulnerabilities. <

Seems like we have a fundamental security issue that results in having to keep fixing vulnerabilities across most software, which sounds like applying bandaids and treating symptoms rather than coming up with a more secure approach.
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How do you assess that increased consumption?
Many years ago...maybe 1994... I had the opportunity to play with a GE Talaria "light valve" projector that works on the same principle. The image quality, at least then, was by a large margin better than anything else on the market. The main issue we had was heat. We had 3 Talarias (Talarii?) in a smallish room. In the end we had have a dedicated HVAC run out to the roof. I believe many touring music acts would use these outdoors or for arena shows...but inside, not a great idea.

http://www.one-electron.com/Archives/GE/TalariaProject/GE-Ta...

Want to buy one?
https://www.recycledgoods.com/general-electric-talaria-large...
My reading of Feynman says he was thinking of physics all the time .. even when pranking, womanising and bongo playing.
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Reducing and replacing gasoline/diesel usage.
> And how far is the radar range? Can you truly detect ship signatures with radar without the CSG being out of your range?

yes.

> Anyway, let’s say you launch missiles. Ok? Ships move. Ship missile defense shoots down some missiles, etc.

ships move means nothing at all, the missiles are tracking the ships with radar. missile defence shoots down some missiles yes, but usually the idea with these types of attacks is overwhealimg air defence systems with volume of fire, so you fire on the order of 30 missiles at once, and use a probabalistic attack to ensure one or two make it through

Overall, you seem to be the one that isn't very up-to-date. Missiles have been around for almost 80 years, but people are saying things are different now - maybe have a look into why. Hypersonic boost glide missiles can manouver sharply, travel at speeds of up to mach 5, have next to no radar signature, and can time their attacks and manouver such that they come at a carrier group from all angles at once. Many people in the pentagon are sounding the alarm - the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering recently said that such weapons hold carrier groups at risk, and ordered a review into how to defend against the threat. The department of defence has said several times that hypersonics are their "top priority". Just because you don't hear them besides themselves in the media doesn't mean they aren't seriously concerned, but this kind of thing naturally tends to be kept muted in order to not make it obvious if they are defenceless.

The biggest saving grace is that the current systems of this technology have on the order of 1000kms range. terrifying, but can be worked around. However, that range will inevitably increase with time.
"If I die, that's my problem." — if it were that easy, I'd be fully on board with you. I am not a fan of being told what I should be doing. In a society (like they say, no man is an island), however, it's not always that clear cut. Once you're infected, the disease does not only affect you and your body. You pass it on to others, you may have an unexpected reaction (which can now be said with quite some certainty, is at the very last the same or worse than whatever the vaccine would do to you) and that reaction means you may use up unexpected resources provided by society. If you live on a farm out in the desert all by yourself, don't need a doctor or hospital, and end up dying or being fine without other people affected, then sure, you do you. That I fully support.

Seeing you post here in HackerNews, I'd guess you'd actually enjoy reading up (and are qualified to understand) on mRNA technology, including the Pfizer "disassembly" for it on GitHub.

In terms of your attitude being mainstream, that'll depend on how many people end up getting the vaccine. That sort of thing tends to change quickly (in both ways).
> something that probably never going to see any real use

Loads of venues and events in New York are requiring an Excelsior pass. Some will allow persons with out-of-state IDs in with paperwork inspection, but that’s a slower line.
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The F-150, the most popular truck and vehicle in the US, is going electric with next year's model. They're advertising 300 mile range, 5 ton towing capacity, and 4 AC outlets in the frunk capable of running power tools.

I think many people will be surprised just how fast electric trucks are adopted by suburban and rural folk.
The "World War 2 in Real Time" series follows the events of the war 79 years after they happened. Midway happened 79 years ago this week, so this week's episode should be good..

https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldWarTwo/videos
The reason this works is often skipped in computationally oriented writeups:

Rotations of 3-dimensional real space form the topological group SO(3). Naive parameterizations of that group do not form a cover [1], but the group of norm-1 quaterinons, Spin(3), does.

The failure of naive parameterizations, like the Euler angles, to be a cover manifests itself as gimbal lock.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_space
My dentist told me to get a "mold-it-yourself" bite guard for bruxism that only covered the upper jaw.

This stopped the damage right away and helped my sleep right away. I still have some TMD symptoms that may improve further. (I make my own "meal replacements" by grinding up a bag of frozen vegetables, maybe some fruit or nuts or a piece of pork into a soup and don't feel bad getting a shake at Burger King.)
There are similar posts in comp.lang.lisp.
Psychological caused by 24/7 fear porn news coverage.
Mind sharing the model? Mine does annoying noises too.
Ugh this article was a total bait and switch.

Kasper Lund has a lot of my respect for work he did on V8 and Dart so I was hoping this was going to be super interesting article about trying to struggle to.... make V8 run on a specific microcontroller!

I think I feel more cheated because of his background and that it's highly featured on HNews.
Yes, this should mean much more efficient use of both the grid and nuclear power, both can provide continuous fixed supply for 24 hours but have had to be overbuilt to match up with the demand curve, which up to now has been extremely uneven.
I should point out that the industrial bit of the USSR was the bit the Germans invaded first. The Soviets had to move their entire industrial heartland a thousand or so miles east out of harm's way and rebuild it before they could start producing stuff.

When they did, they produced vast amounts of war material, and possibly would have beaten the Germans single-handedly given another year or two.
Do you actually get heavily fined or does the cop say "you should really get a new license" and let you go on your way (assuming he has no other reason to really screw you)?

My US state would give the most authoritarian parts of Europe a run for their money when it comes to blind worship of and adherence to rules for the sake of rules and on paper you must obtain a license as soon as you become a resident with no grace period. In practice they just want you to drive with a valid license from any state. No part of government really cares about you getting a state license from this state any more than they care about any other law that mostly gets used for power of arbitrary enforcement.
Isn’t that mainly due to process nodes?
Again, you are discarding a change of paradigm.

Local sourced generation using a rooftop solar panel means you don't need the grid as much as you'd think. Because the energy source is next to your car and your neighbours who could also provide it.
War time effort = create new vaccine factories when needed, share the know-how, do what ever necessary.

And when did they start to ramp up the production?
Subsistence farmers tend to have both land and homes, yet are desperately poor, eking out just enough of a living to survive.

Some go into debt, hoping there'll be opportunity on the other side of the border. Some lose their lives when they aren't able to pay those debts back to the coyotes.
I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t get a cpap machine now and try to lose weight. Lack of sleep makes losing weight harder.
I am in that category. Few months ago I went to Egypt because they do a cheap PCR tests on the border and masks aren't really required there. For my next trip in few months, unless things relax, I am planning to go either to Zanzibar or Mexico. I don't want to bother with these apps, getting certifications, tests, quarantines.
I don't think it's been possible for years. A person can write a cutting edge tech demo but it's not really usable as a general 3D engine. A small team might be able to write a limited 3D engine that would be state of the art in some circumstances.
Fun fact: You can buy cpap parts in some truck stops. Because that's a legally monitored condition for truckers.

Fatigued driving is a killer.
Okay, but one of those is a transition phase and the other is steady state.

Anyway, do you have a source for that?
>Why should a civilized country just revoke certification once you're fully vaccinated?

My assumption was that the revocation facility was there to support the standard PKI revocation use cases.

For instance: subsequent discovery of errors in the database that resulted in issuance of the certificate (we discovered you didn't actually get your second shot), loss of control of a signing key, etc.
Rereading my comment does indeed sound very aggressive. It wasn't intentional and I'm sorry for that. I have to work on that.