skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, thanks for the info.

I was always somewhat concerned about the abundance of critical raw materials for ARC or other fusion projects. I had assumed that the rare-earth elements in the REBCO tape, e.g. yttrium, would be constrained. I didn't suspect that beryllium could be a limiting resource. But I wonder if the lack of supply is related to true scarcity or just to a lack of a profitable market currently.

These are all questions I'd want to ask domain experts in mining and fusion.

But I agree that fission would be a better solution for baseload, at least for the next 10-20 years. If only newer modular designs were actually approved...
After you request early access, you'll be contacted and asked a few questions before being sent the invite link to be able to use it. We do this to ensure there's a good fit between the product, the problems it solves, and the people we want to serve.
What is bad about their track record?
>Since they [YouGov] messed up with Brexit and Trump i have been confidently ignoring every single poll that's emerged.

Please look at the last 4 YouGov polls in the week before the Brexit vote[0]. Two show a very slim majority for Leave, and two had a very slim majority for Remain.

In the event, a very slim majority voted for Leave. Those polls were remarkably accurate for such a small sample size, and well within a reasonable margin of error (2-4 percentage points in that case).

You're confidently choosing to ignore useful data because you will only accept perfect data. But that doesn't exist.

[0] https://ig.ft.com/sites/brexit-polling/
It seems to be somewhat compatible.

I work in the card-payments space, but in the US. We can handle Maestro cards, so long as all parties are aligned to accept them. You need a shopping cart that doesn't scream "This card number looks weird" before even letting the customer submit it, a gateway that identifies it correctly, and a processor that's built to handle it. Probably the merchant account needs to be configured to accept it too, but that's outside my scope.

If the processor mentions Maestro at all, it's usually a corner-case line item in the documentation-- "Send field 923 = AA for Mastercard, and AB for Maestro, but everything else the same."

It's an interesting evolutionary divergence. We had/have "debit only" networks in the US (i. e. Star, Cirrus, Plus). They still exist but they are largely irrelevant for purchases because virtually every checking account provides a Visa or Mastercard badged card. There are a few situations where merchants can try to reroute the transaction to a debit network for lower fees, but it's a narrow interest at best.

They actually went through a legal tussle here because some merchants felt imposed on when the card networks said "If you take Credit Visa/Mastercard, you also have to take Debit Visa/Mastercard" back when the fees for doing so were higher.
So it seems that the root of the whole mess is that the .NET Foundation demands that every project lets a centralized and anonymous committee enforce their code of conduct by banning users from all member projects.

https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/projects/issues/174

https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/code-of-conduct
>> disproportionately taxing the poor since they can’t afford electric cars.

There are many layers to this. Rich people, people who own houses, have a better time with electric cars than poor people who rent apartments. Poor people also cannot afford to replace a car every decade. They shy away from tech such as batteries that have life expectancies less than a decade. Certainly few second or third-hand buyers want to purchase a battery pack with only a few years left in it. So the separation between gas an electrics isn't all about sticker price, but it is about money.
TIL librubberband! So, like

$ mpv --af=rubberband --speed=2 --demuxer-readahead-secs=60 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpNU72dny2s'

Food labeling requirements have to be counted as a success, as far as they go. And, I find it hard to criticize the execution of the tobacco advertising ban. Stringing people up has been seen to work, but most often the wrong ones get strung up.
Australia is also still lagging behind in its vehicle emissions standards[0][1].

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/16/wrong-tu...

[1]: https://theconversation.com/australias-car-industry-ignored-...
Hyperbaric treatment has been pushed for so many chronic conditions and I've never really seen it pan out. I wouldn't be too hopeful about this.
That wouldn't significantly affect the conclusion though, right? They compared the reinfection rate for people with previous infection + vaccine to people with previous infection + no vaccine. Since both groups previously had COVID, shouldn't that cause (in expectation) the same false positive rate for both groups when testing for reinfection?

Edited to add: The authors cite [0] to support their claim that it's not significant, it basically seems consistent with their claim that it's really unlikely to still have viral shedding at the duration that they tested at.

Also worth mentioning that adding an equal proportion of false positives to both groups would cause the study to understate the effect size (i.e. the magnitude of the additional protection conferred by vaccines) by biasing the odds ratio in the direction of 1.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...
This proposal seems to make the assumption that senders need their incentives adjusted - you need to pay some amount to send someone a message.

I can't see anything that stops a perverse incentive being created on the recipient's part: Why wouldn't I create a harvesting mailbox which signs up for as many messages as it can to generate income?

It seems like there would need to be a feedback mechanism so that senders could tell who was actually a recipient worth paying to talk to.
Postgres supports FDW. Also you can use Aurora Postgres in AWS which can take you fairly far. Another option for many SaaS products you can simply run multiple clusters and assign
a given tenant to a particular cluster.
kubernetes seems to have- from what i can gather- ignored the scheduling & priority management systems available in linux cgroups & built it's own management system. from what i can tell, this high crime is responsoble for kubernetes being basically worthless crap at handling multi-tenancy. linux itself has wonderful means to resolve these hard questions, but kubernetes seemingly deliberately ignores what the os gives & rebuilds it's own narrow system, where all allocations generally have to be hard predefined, workload by workload, & there's little way to let tenants be juggled fairly. were i not such an appreciator of hanlons razor i'd say this was sabotage, designed to prevent the effective multi-tenancy cgroups intend to permit, but i permit that it's probably either ego, ignorance, or stupidity. not sure which.
It was reverted: https://github.com/reactiveui/splat/pull/779
Wonder about whether one can deal with it easier by not doing both unity and equation.

Google find this : https://github.com/malik-tillman/Fluid-JS

Might be other better resources. Anyone?
The PCjs machine below starts Microsoft Windows 3.10, using an IBM PC AT running PC DOS 3.30.

https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/

I couldn't get Media Player to start, I guess they don't have the sound card implemented / wired up. But they do have Visual Basic 1!
Almost 3 billion people use Facebook monthly, it's absolutely bonkers.

No one can moderate content or support people at this scale, and of course a recommendation algorithm that touches a third of the world's population is going to have some massive dangerous blindspots.

And this isn't even considering Instagram and WhatsApp!

There's not a diplomat in the world that could lead something like this and some total dork holds the majority of voting shares at a company that essentially measures performance on addiction rate.
We need a mad-men style rebrand of nuclear. “Spicy hot-rox” maybe, could get better PR
The guy who figured out you could crystallize proteins had only one hand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Sumner . My biochem teacher said he’d keep test tubes in his pocket and pipette into them!
Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer
There is no way he wasn't aware this would happen, it's laid out very clearly in the policy:

> If an employee fails to submit proof of Full Vaccination ... the employee will receive a Notice of Continued Non-Compliance stating that the Department will commence a period of progressive corrective action/discipline, up to and including termination/dismissal, against the employee. [1]

[1] https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/5000695/SARS-CoV-2_Covid-19
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Zodiac-Killer-ca...
There's little substance to this statement as 1) the same polling showed a 15% difference from June implying a huge variance - and - that it's likely just a measure of public sentiment (in June, when the result was 15% higher, the UK was doing really well in terms of vaccinations) and 2) it's arrogantly false to suggest 'there are no benefits' to being an independent country, the implication that Norway/Switzerland are similarly 'duped' or that Canada should obviously just be a US State given the much closer rapport they have with the US than the UK does with the Continent, and finally 3) EU integration issues are relatively minimal compared to the much more fundamental issues that the UK and EU face in a rapidly changing world.

The only way to 'judge' Brexit is to stack up the materiality of the issues - all of them - of course trade, finance and services, but especially those we don't talk about so much such as the democratic deficit at the EU, and the giant legal issues with respect to the 'supremacy' of the ECJ, which was never codified in treaty and is still, in 2021 totally unresolved [1], which if you think about it for a moment is not only bizarre, it speaks to a gaping hole in the competency of the bureaucracy itself. The UK has legal ambiguity due to the fact the laws are ancient, so there's an excuse there. But with the EU, it's a relatively modern institution, there's no excuse for basically the total lack of legal grounding at the ECJ level.

[1] https://euobserver.com/opinion/152160
I need to redo my website, just getting into the more public part of my PhD. Papers I would recommend from our collaboration on

control of normalized plasma pressure: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2019/hash/7876acb66640bad41f1e1...

plasma profile transport modeling: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/abe08d/...

hybrid dynamical modeling of gross plasma quantities: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12682

uncertainty quantification for plasma dynamics:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09588

It's still early days for this work and for us but we're looking at pushing reinforcement learning in methods and engineering to solve this problem
So what is a good practice for this kind of thing? I’ve got an app where users create a display name.

Is there a legit service I can use or some actual well tested library that can help me? I’m using node and Go so either languages.
Yeah I cringed when I saw how she kept re-opening the PR the maintainer had closed. No respect.
A few years ago I would say that statement is absurd. But now it doesn't seem to fanatical.
Right, which is why I tried to mitigate that by acknowledging it might only be a seeming on my end due to a bad reading.

As to the context:

(Grandparent) > UK has the highest tech salaries in Europeand trade unions were buried in the 70s.

(Grandparent) > I am fine if you guys seek protection of unions.

(Grandparent) > But never, ever, ever, interfere with my relations with employers.

(Parent) > As a highly paid UK tech worker, this scab does not speak for me.

The GP said that they're happy for anyone to seek the benefits of unionization, so long as they're not forced to participate. Parent simply called GP a scab for this sentiment.

This exchange, to me, seems to imply the parent believes unions to be an unqualified good- or, at least, that the simple desire for individual labor relations is worthy of unqualified condemnation.

Where do you and I diverge in this reading?

EDIT: further, how do I take better care to explicitly mitigate against my biases to ensure I engage with the full goodness of my faith?
Bad, old memory: "Every transaction must have a line written to the printer"

Tracking down "why is the antique system suddenly slow". Power went out, system came back up fine, everything but the one ancient but vital app is fine. Dig, dig dig, there's this old dot matrix printer in another room (because it used to be loud and annoying) that no on has fed or looked at in years.

It finally died with that outage, and it not accepting data was the problem. It had cheerfully printed the ribbon through, then fed out the rest of the box of paper it had, and that might've been several years before i saw it.

The roller the paper was supposed to ride had been eroded. The metal rods the print head rode on had a perceptible bump at the ends of the normal stroke.

The fix was a little dongle for the printer port that held the appropriate "i'm alive" lines up. hardware /dev/null. I'm thinking it was 25 pin rs232 because I remember a lot of cussing over it.
If S3 was down would R2 be down for the customer?

If R2 was down could you re-route back to S3?

Diversifying infrastructure provides additional options to mitigate outages.
Ah, my first tech job. It was an amazing ride going from a few hundred thousand dollars to a two billion dollar company. I bailed when things started to tank.
> The pressure is a convincer.

Hey if that's the game that is being played, you can't complain when people who disagree with this strategy actively work to sabotage you, through a variety of different methods (such as voting for right to work laws, or doing other things).

There are a lot of way to sabotage and cause harm just as much as the pro union people might cause harm to those who do not wish to join.
will repost my comment from the other one:

Papers I would recommend from our collaboration on
control of normalized plasma pressure: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2019/hash/7876acb66640bad41f1e1...

plasma profile transport modeling: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/abe08d/...

hybrid dynamical modeling of gross plasma quantities: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12682

uncertainty quantification for plasma dynamics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09588

It's still early days for this work and for us but we're looking at pushing reinforcement learning in methods and engineering to solve this problem.
France state companies suck their Belgian subsidiaries dry. Energy, banks are the two big ones.
They tried the same with KLM, the Dutch airline, with less success.
>> People lose their metabolisms as they age. Alzheimer's is one possible result.

Except for those with early-onset alzheimer's. And some old people never get it. So it isn't as simple as saying that old people get old. There is a specific disease at play, one that likely can be treated or even cured once we better understand the underlying causes.

>> Most healthy young army recruits can withstand a pure oxygen atmosphere

Who is still doing this? Those were phenomenally dangerous studies that I haven't heard about in decades. Outside of space suits, nobody is puts people in pure oxygen atmospheres anymore. Even hyperbaric oxygen therapy doesn't use pure O2.
At most, subjects breath pure O2 in a mask.
From what I can see, it's an apology for a tiny symptom of the real problem. Being a genuine apology for that tiny thing, with no apology for the bigger issues, leads to a rejection of the entire post. In that context, if it's accurate, I think rejection is pretty reasonable.
Ah, so that's the Word Filter that Twitch directly mentioned as the majority of their effort to fight hate comments (as cited in the main thread on the leak).

Also, Lisa Pedro is not welcome there.
Yeah, that's really not a bad idea at all. It needs a kickass PR campaign.
Ohh, TI stories! Here we go!

"Hey, distantaidenn, I wanna talk to you after class." These were the words of my then high school math teacher. I wasn't worried, I was a good student. Little did I know, this would shape my career for the next 20 years. When after class came, my teacher handed me a brand spanking new TI-83. "We're gonna be using these in class from now on. Take this home for the weekend, learn how to use it, and teach the rest of the class." I held in my excitement, and took the device, along with its 1-inch thick manual.

I pored over the manual. Before I knew it, I had mathematical functions dancing across the screen. All of our current math equations set up to accept variables and spit out answers. I didn't know it at the time, but I was "programming." I began to dabble in TI-Basic -- I had no idea what it was, but apparently, it was the language this giant calculator used, and I'd have to learn that language to make this machine do my bidding. So I learned it. The next year in school, I signed up for an elective Programming class, and lo and behold, it was in Basic -- I thought to myself, this looks familiar, I know this! I finally made the connection that I had been "programming" the whole time. From then I was hooked.

Fast forward to university, I gained a degree that was as far from programming as possible, but I always had my scripts. I was the guy that could talk to computers. I was at home on the command line. And I knew enough html and JS to make a shitty web page, if necessary.

And here I am now, still engineering and managing, and making (I'd like to think) not so shitty products for a living.
I completely agree with all of that. The press release is misleading, it was probably drafted in bad faith with the intent to mislead, and its title as stated is factually inaccurate and directly contradicts the balance of the available evidence from other research. I condemn all of that.

However, it's worth emphasizing that none of that invalidates the parent commenter's claim that vaccination provides significant additional protection against reinfection for people who've already had COVID, as the study linked in the press release finds.
Fucking Bitcoin. Is there any other “technology” that’s so wasteful as-well as it’s completely useless?
Lol. This is not a reason for mandate.
> I think ranked choice is in that sweet spot where it is reasonably simple to use and simple to count.

"Ranked choice" is a range of methods and usually people mean instant-runoff. Recognizing that no system is perfect, I nonetheless have significant worries about instant runoff.

Imagine we have a society that's predominately split into two religions, where members of each religion would love a theocracy of their flavor, would settle for secular tolerance, and is vigorously (sometimes violently!) opposed to theocracy of another flavor.

If we have three candidates, one representing each of these positions, and everyone votes their true preferences then we see maybe 40% theocracy A, 40% theocracy B, 20% secular tolerance. The very first thing instant-runoff does is throw out the compromise, and we chose violence and strife.

If we generally believe that "a good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied" then IRV will never choose a good compromise. I worry that that's a bad way of choosing what we do as a society.
CI/CD, which like I18n is harder to bolt on later. I only greenfield at home though (never get to at work, not in 20 years).
“Sorry you’re upset”
CDK was not used extensively at my org a couple of months ago. I agree it’s light years ahead of everything else though.
And (admittedly depending on what type of housing you live in) you can have your own solar on the roof, set up to still supply you even if the grid is down.

Hollywood is doing society a disfavour by misrepresenting the apocalypse. EVs and bicycles are the true modes of transport when trouble starts.
> So I wrote a very simple program that probably did little more than guide which formula to use in a basic decision tree.
> It was the hardest quiz of the year, it was just difficult content. My class has 1 A, 1 B, 1 C, and about 23 F's. I was the B.

Slightly out of topic but one of the most bone headed decisions I've seen politician do is banning the use of custom software during exams. In France, they created a law forcing all programmable calculators to have an exam mode, during exams (including the national baccalauréat), the calculator needs to be in an exam mode with a special blinking light appearing and during which time students are not allowed to access programs.

What I liked when I was a child about the exams in France is that they tended to be difficult without multiple choice questions and needing students to master the material, With such exams, having previously stored the formula in a calculator is of little value and so this anti-cheat mode doesn't help. It's also a more realistic example of real life when we all have access to Google, yet just having the answer doesn't make all of us doctors, mathematicians, engineers or lawyers.
On the other hand, creating useful little programs to help verify things has value, it helps with learning, it gives motivations to kids to learn how their calculator work and is a great way for kids who are mostly exposed to lockdown platforms to start programming.
Yea, I can't even imagine the furor if Chrome were to do this and make it opt-out. Very unexpected from Mozilla, even with my lowered standards of the last half decade.
Substance abuse raises risks of Covid after vaccination
Will AWS use their dirty trick again and reduce pricing, just because there is another competitor? If so, why didn't they decreased prices before?