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> New Zealand billboards are illegal.

- yeah right.
In fairness it's reasonable to not want the sort of inevitable flame war that will come of simply mentioning that Trump did anything whatsoever. Much as I'd like to, it's nearly impossible to have a measured conversation on the merits of the case itself when people keep steering it pell-mell into the wall. :\
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Felt frustrated when it took our architect a few days to draw out our enterprise AWS resource estate across multi-regions. Decided something has to be done as we've used other tools (AWS Config, X-ray, Lucid) and it was a pain. Would love for AWS devs/architects to try and give feedback - www.patchduty.com
It is incredible, how HN community (arguably made from some of the lest dumb people on Internet) can turn blind eye to this major concern while laughing and patting themselves on their backs.

I guess, industrial magnates of 1800s would have shown the same reaction, if someone told them about dangers of burning fossil fuels.

"This is ridiculous!", "But Sun was causing fires for centuries!" and "If it gets bad, we can stop burning more coal!" — those excuses didn't age well, yet most replies to this comment repeat them almost verbatim.

Of course, instantly sending all (or most) of Earth hydrogen into outer space is impossible — at the current technology level. But wasting what little water we have to make it is still a bad idea.

Many places are already short on fresh water — the kind of water, necessary for electrolysis. We can make hydrogen from saltwater too — after purifying it, but that's not commercially viable. No one uses "free" energy from solar panels to make new lakes or refill depleting aquifers.

Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water, but we can't even purify enough to satisfy our biological needs — otherwise Sahara would be a major agricultural and economical attraction. To solve world's water problem would require near-unlimited power, and the hydrogen production is not going to do it. At best, a hydrogen boom would result in another round of colonial robbery: stealing water from people, who can't defend it, to power more air conditioners in USA and Europe.
> All of your examples limit or prescribe hours of work.

Well, I guess you should give those examples another read. Unless you consider using a tanning bed to be work. Not to mention "buying alcohol at night".
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> I fail to see how what we have now is inherently worse...especially for cultural minorities. Exploiting psychological weakness to keep people's attention goes back a long, long way. That's never going away

The "attack surface", so to speak, is larger with individualized content consumption. With TV at max we have N channels that can broadcast N different viewpoints with the intention to rile M people up, at most in N different ways. Youtube can rile M people up in M different ways. M is orders of magnitude larger than N.

There is an economical model somewhat analogous to this; price discrimination. Charging the absolute highest price every individual consumer would individually pay yields the absolute maximum profit. In contrast, having a visible price tag that makes everyone pay the same price leaves a lot of those profits on the table. In youtube's case, riling everyone up individually with their particularized content maximizes the engagement. Trying to rile groups of people with the same content doesn't yield the same engagement.

> There would have to be evidence of mental "obesity" that somehow began with social media and did not exist before.

You're right, references to information obesity goes back to Baudrillard. That said keep in mind absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence, even if our grandparents were complaining about a similar phenomena it doesn't mean our intuition about it is as inflated nor the phenomenon are in comparable scales. Not only that, credibility of past grievances go both ways; it took a long while to get cigarettes classified properly carcinogenic.

As for hard evidence, we could use non-work screen time as a proxy, which increases especially in younger demographics. It is still not a perfect comparison because different screens have different information densities and user interaction modalities.

As an indirect evidence I would suggest an increase in intensity and multi-valency of culture wars.

Current phase of the internet is at best a decade old, so there is also going to be an availability bias when looking for evidence.

I also couldn't help noticing you working in high profile media companies like Disney and Twitch in the past, I don't think you would assert it wouldn't ever affect your neutrality on this matter.
I think what you want in checking -- if your circumstances allow for this kind of money-shuffling, at the least -- is more along the lines of 4 weeks of expenses, not 4 weeks of income, which would (hopefully!) be considerably higher. I'm not sure I'd call it a "large buffer," but even if you're not in the "shove absolutely everything you can into index funds and live like a pauper despite the fact that you're making $250K+ a year so you can retire at 35" camp, the more money you have in higher-return places, the better, so you probably don't want it in the checking account. (And probably don't want a lot in a low-interest savings account.)
Bluey is great, and as a parent it is relatable in so many ways. But I don't think your link points at a particular episode. At least, not for me.

Name of episode?
I explained my point of view, and you haven't, so if you ask me what I think without adding anything new to the conversation, what do you expect me to do other than pointing out that I already explained my position? It seems that you don't understand how conversations work.
The F-35's problems as I understand it stem principally from the Navy wanting a VTOL craft. That whole system seems to be front and center when "stuff not working" comes up.
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I was thinking that the average age of death would have that effect but I wasn't sure what it was called, so I appreciate the pointer to QALYs. Your point is well taken that the total economic cost can't be based on an 'average' life given the typical demographics impacted by the pandemic.
I thought this was one of the more important points in the article.

> The Santa Fe Independent School District’s neighbor, the Texas City Independent School District, also purchased AnyVision as a protective measure against school shootings. It has since been used in attempts to identify a kid who had been licking a neighborhood surveillance camera, to kick out an expelled student from his sister’s graduation, and to ban a woman from showing up on school grounds after an argument with the district’s head of security, according to WIRED.
> “The mission creep issue is a real concern when you initially build out a system to find that one person who’s been suspended and is incredibly dangerous, and all of a sudden you’ve enrolled all student photos and can track them wherever they go,” Clare Garvie, a senior associate at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Center on Privacy & Technology, said. “You’ve built a system that’s essentially like putting an ankle monitor on all your kids.”

As a society I think we need to be concerned about what happens when this technology becomes more wide spread and normalized. I’m not holding my breath though.
Perfectly except for random number generation right? The randomness of QM can never be decoded or attacked. If we are talking about fudging/"simulating" randomness with classical pseudorandom number generators and relying on computational complexity prohibiting decoding the patterns, and quantum computers are theoretically able to speed up factorization of large numbers, don't we have a problem?

Isn't there a point where we could say we can't really simulate powerful enough quantum computers because they can "decode" the patterns behind any psuedorandom computation so quickly?

Like no one in the right mind would be using classical computers at that point except for anything except basic computation and word processing. We might as well say humans and pen and papers can simulate quantum computers. Quantum computer capabilities may outstrip classical computers nearly as much as they do humans with pen and paper.

"Simulation" kind of loses it's meaning when taken far enough.
This is explicitly aimed at producing energy in cold environments (high altitude, polar regions), so it's less of an issue (and not exactly the point). Anyway, they seem to aim at 12% STH efficiency and provide some examples (assuming 65% hydrogen fuel cell efficiency):

Then, powering a Raspberry Pi computing device (PRPi = 4W) for an autonomous measurement device year-round at the > Neumayer III station (70.68°S, 8.27°W, Tavg,y = −15.5 °C) would prospectively require a module area of 0.41 m2, whereas at Paranal observatory (Chile, 24.63°S, 70.40°W, Tavg,y = 0.4 °C) 0.18 m2 would suffice.
When did Apple become Microsoft?
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> I vehemently disagree with the insinuation that disclosing the fee wouldn't provoke market forces to lower it to some more reasonable percent above cost.

100% is a fairly normal markup "above cost" for each step in a supply chain; it also makes Apple's 43% markup look modest.

And then you get into unresolvable arguments about what is and what isn't a cost.
Of course they is. If the wieners comes in pack of 8, you need to buy 2 packs of 7 from Hebrew National.
When this stuff fully blooms it won't have a "downside", because that would imply some other thing of which that downside is a side. It will kill any resemblance of humans, and enabling it, nay, failing to fight it tooth and nail, is ultimately more heinous than all the crimes it might prevent combined.

I don't care to speculate about outcomes. Optimistic or pessimistic, it always presumes a lack of agency. I just can't bring myself comment like a bystander or a fortune teller on something that is still ongoing and that I, like all people here, am involved in.
> This is a particularly elegant solution IMO to the company's need to convert users to defaulting the search engine, and not annoy those who've long since done so.

There is no need for prompt, just a text box below search box should be enough. But the way web uses the dark patterns, it's now considered ok to have such annoyance everywhere.
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This or a refined version should be basically mandatory for policy makers
Employers are also human, and prone to the fallible traps of responsibility that befall many people managers and executives, including but not limited too:

* not trusting your team to do their work and by extension questioning whether they are working "hard enough" (or dreaming of ways to extract more blood from stones)

* some flavor of impostor syndrome, needing to prove your value by making sweeping changes to the team process even if inheriting a successful team

* not having either the back bone or clout to question status quo, including demoralizing cultural habits such as stack ranking

There is a reason the majority of employers (including managers) are generally bad and the good ones are few and far between - it's human nature.

I'm reminded of Microsoft Japan piloting a 4 day work week and announcing in 2019 that the trial ended up increasing productivity by 40%. They ended up not making the change permanent. One small company in New Zealand - Perpetual Guardian - did the same trial in 2018 and saw the same effect, they made it permanent.

Most companies operate like Microsoft.
Can you imagine Google turning this on for all search engines and DDOSing them?
Kind of interesting but the good stuff is blurred out.

Makes me wish that these big tech companies would release the full uncensored data for their obsolete products. How nice would it be if Apple shared a huge archive of technical info on the original iphone. Surely there is nothing left on that device that is secret or of any use outside of curiosity.
Maybe you should learn more about Elvis. The sexual content was there.
had to do a double take (as I read your comment before reading the article) and I think its important for me to reiterate (as you said) that this is an entirely different topic.

that intern wrote a very well and modern view of market microstructure, which many people lack knowledge of.
Here is a table of vehicle damage levels by size.

https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...
you can use pip install -r requirements.txt

I don't see a requirements.txt file.
Analysts corroborate rumors that upcoming MacBook Pro will ditch the Touch Bar
I wonder about the storage though. One would need to produce during summer/polar day for use in winter/polar night - is it feasible to store large quantities of hydrogen for 6 months?
When I first read this earlier today, my thoughts were that it was for the user to choose good tools and learn to use them well.

But now I've modified that opinion to:

Not everyone has 'what it takes' (to guard their flow, etc.), but everyone benefits if those who do help the rest.
The package.json should be able to actively ignore vulnerability id's. As id's disappear with audits the npm audit could just remove those, eg a "prune"
While this is impressive, the foundation of the tech was already there for quite some time.

Any modern mirrorless camera is doing the same analysis on the scene with object detection and tracking. So, they're just doing it on a video stream without phase/depth data.

Sony, Nikon, Canon, Panasonic and Fuji have similar technologies built in their cameras, but having this on your desktop for using with your videos is a nice step forward.
Marines not Navy, though they're a sub org of the Navy so a reasonable thing to say.

There's a Rand study on it. They concluded that the attempts at commonality didn't just fail, they proved counterproductive. They did a historical review of joint acquisition programs and found basically all of them hit the same flaw. As appealing as it may seem to congress, it's a bad strategy.

The F-35's problems as far as budget and schedule slippage were largely in the software section, and a lot of that goes back to structuring it as a single source cost plus contract. That incentivized LM to make the project as big and delayed as possible.

LM is infamous for this sort of thing. They turned Aegis into a clown circus of a billion different ship specific variants where they could charge N times to fix the same flaw in different nearly identical codebases. The Navy has been trying to extract themselves from it for like 2 decades now, with some signs of success finally showing up.

In short, LM is behaving in bad faith. This is unsurprising. They basically invented these tactics some decades back.

Back when Ash Carter was Sec Def, he called in LM and demanded they start hitting the promised numbers on marginal airframe costs. Reportedly the conversation went something like "do this or we'll curtail our buy" to which LM responded "by how much?" As replied "how about none?"

Suddenly they started hitting the numbers, surprise surprise.

We're about to have the same conversation about sustainment costs. I hope Austin drives as hard a bargain.

If you've read any of the limited info coming out about some of the AF's new projects like the B-21 or NGAD, it's pretty clear they took the lessons from the F-35 to heart and are using a very different approach, one where they hold the reigns of integration and can create competition at any time.
Why do people hate emoji so much?
CVEs can be used to try and extort OSS maintainers into expensive consulting gigs: https://www.patreon.com/posts/unfixed-security-21250652
Random numbers are random numbers. You can calculate the probabilities (the wave function amplitudes, which are deterministic); or you can use any source of random noise to reproduce the data, once you adjust for the difference between quantum and classical probability.
There was a famous outlier in Denmark, where a new mutation developed among farmed mink, and the government crushed it by killing all the farmed mink in the country.
Australia hasn’t eradicated the virus though and has botched a vaccine rollout. The federal government has relied on border control measures which include threatening Australian citizens with jail time if they try to return to their country.
I personally chose longer schooling because I loved school. Looking at people who graduated earlier I’m envious that they can start a family earlier. I don’t know about money, but with kids I think age is important (doubly so for women).
You're just describing Usenet, which still exists, and is still easily accessible, and has been around for decades on end. Honestly any action to crack down on social media for enforcing their terms of use for their own platform is a solution looking for a problem.
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Funnily enough, Don Quixote, where that idiom originates from, is about a man living out his delusions.
It's very remarkable how Colombo is packed with skyscrapers now, when the war has just formally ended 13-14 years ago.
As someone who's resume looks like one of these jumpers (but really it just hasn't worked out many times), I do see some potential problems with this. Is it not possible that people are leaving because they didn't see a way that they'd land a serious role or pay increase in your company? Are you asking that people stick around despite those things not being present? Seems like a very poor value proposition to me. Likewise, how is someone supposed to find something that they'd stick with long term if they don't play the field?
That already exists, although not quite as interactive.

At least in the uk, there are agent-based models which have been used for policy (although it’s impossible to tell if they were effective in driving policy decisions in practice - the UK media would say no, although it’s a little bit more nuanced in reality).
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Nor was it politically an option in Aus, kinda. They’ve gone to great lengths to avoid using the words eradication and elimination, but Melbourne/Victoria got to zero cases late 2020 and released the lockdown and everyone had a great summer. Except for a couple of scares. The trick was to show people what life could be like with zero after it had been taken away for so long, and now everyone in this city gets it. All of the other states except apparently NSW learned the lesson from afar.

I think you’re right that the ability to pull off zero (as opposed to 10-20/day) rests squarely on the availability of extremely competent and fast testing and tracing. It’s either that or unacceptably draconian measures. Scaling up contact tracing capability To that level in Victoria took months because it’s really hard, so if you don’t see the slow movement on that front, it’s easy to see zero cases as a political impossibility. Maybe that’s what’s going on in NSW right now, alongside people getting used to the strictness necessary to make it work.

You obviously get how these things interact since you built the game mechanics simulating public trust in government in response to measures. It’s no different from the rest of them, it just only works at the small end of the log scale. And to get to the small end and make zero cases an option you have to play the rest of the game like a champ.

Endgame for Victoria is that our leader, who according to large swathes of Australian media is basically a dictator, is probably getting re-elected by a significant margin. There should be a button for answering 90 minutes of press questions live on TV every day for 4 months straight.
you can get direct market access in the equities markets too.

its kind of pathetic that crypto still doesn't have brokers like the structure described in this article, even sadder when you've sat on enough sales calls to realize that there are a couple vendors selling/sold the entire custodial crypto exchange software to many goto exchanges and that software has brokerage, dark pool, and cross exchange smart order routing all built in that nobody ever turns on. Its okay, Uniswap and composibility leapfrogged it and now there is non-custodial cross exchange liquidity.
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China takes quantum supremacy lead.This QC is 60k times faster than supercomp
Good spot. You can actually just run the following if you don't want to use poetry.

pip install git+https://github.com/bsdz/calcengine.git#master

Unfortunately, this will only install the core library without the demo spreadsheet files. Even if you were to add the extras modifier "[demo]", it would only install additional dependencies and not the actual demo code. To use the demo you'll need to clone and follow instructions in my other comment.
That sounds better than a PI that gets their jollies by shoving nitro groups into unsuspecting organic molecules.

Although I still have a deep admiration for the Klapötke "Energetic Materials" group at Munich Uni.
I guess the art of PCB pens, chemical baths and board baking is a forgotten science.
I don't think 'young traders' get news from bloomberg articles quoting dudes in totally sick ascots. It's almost self-parody.
Hallelujah, the rumors and Microsoft's mockery were true!

2021 MacBook Pro ransom leak shows no Touch Bar, details on I/O layout

https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/21/2021-macbook-pro-ports-leak/

'Touch Bar' Trending on Twitter Following Rumors It'll Be Removed on 2021 MacBook Pro

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/15/apple-removing-touch-ba...

Microsoft mocks Apple’s doomed Touch Bar in new Surface ad

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/25/22248238/microsoft-apple-...

This Microsoft Ad Compares Surface Pro To Apple MacBook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYWxxtvIacc&ab_channel=Benja...
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This had the format of a paper but was a blog post? I thought I was reading an abstract until it was blatantly obvious I didn't.
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When I was in school doing electronics late 80's, that was the way to go.

So 80's high school students were able to do it, but average users are not?
Could you post this list as a simple comment here? This would make it more accessible and shareable, compared to individual tweets.

Thanks for posting this.
But the code doesn't speak for itself. It's not meritocratic.

It's amenable to the same social ingratiations as all other institutions.

In the same way that say, homeopathy presents itself as medicine where it is just expensive capsules of pure sugar, the reliance on the extraordinary popular delusions and madness of the crowds has been a well documented problem since mackey wrote a book in that name in 1841.

That's why when barriers were real, in days of inferior computing, only competency could pull through while now it's been supplanted by conformance and orthodoxy.

To what? It's merely perfunctory. The levers to reality have been detached. We have become the homeopaths diluting belladonna in a hope that poison will become medicine. But all we get in the end is merely a sugar high.
I know it goes against every warning label but I use those cotton tip sticks. Being careful to not stick them too far and I have never had an issue. Is there a better way to be doing this?