skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magnesium helps with that as well [1] (see my comment above in this thread). In general, magnesium is involved in lots of biological processes, but especially those involving hormones.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33030273/
Fusion could be nice as a future-fuel, perhaps it could power carbon sequestration efforts

Agreed, that seems like the biggest opportunity for fusion to fit into climate change.
Stream Processing vs. the Data Warehouse for Real Time Analytics
The for loop in python is a try/except catching StopIteration in a trench coat.

Also, EAFP, and the context manager protocol.
The author can want whatever the author wants, as I say repeatedly, it's just not of interest to me as a reader if the author is backed into a corner by a series of bizarre lines in the sand on his part.

The author is responding to a discourse that says "You should serve your website SSL-enabled" in a passionate enough way to write a blog post about why he shouldn't, and it turns out the reason why he shouldn't is more or less that he doesn't want to. OK. Cool.

The choice to want to control everything (except all the things you don't fully control, like the domain name, the DNS system, and probably the SMTP server) means that there's a little overhead setting things up. This is known. It's not particularly interesting.
Android – HiltViewModel code generation explained
It could probably be argued that Bush would have lost the 04 popular vote if he hadn't be thrust into the Presidency in 00.
> I find the attitude of ignoring "petty crime" very worrying

This is nothing to do with facial recognition, though. It's a question of how the police allocate their time and effort, and how effective the processes that they work within are.
I wonder at the time limit to edit/delete a comment on HN. I try to think carefully about the things I say and often have a change in heart about saying something long after the change window has expired. Is the logic behind this limit explained anywhere?
SPARC is going to be relatively small in size. If they can make the commercial reactors as small as SPARC then they can be created in a factory. Which will make roll out and cost much better than fission.
Wow! Prior to reading this, I was not aware of "Zero Cost" exception handling. While I am only a Python developer, I always assumed that in any programming language, exception handling, regardless of whether an exception is raised or not, cost some CPU cycles. I work at an HFT firm and they test their changes in equations in Python programs on crypto rather than C++. So I resorted to using try-except blocks in Python to reduce "branching" i.e if-elif-else blocks. I would just add all the different conditional functions in a dictionary and manage calls based on keys and handle exceptions. I don't know if that's the best way to improve speed, but I would like to check if this has any impact on it.
The wording of the article is strange, implying that China is to be emulated. Of course a one-party state will more effective than the U.S. in reining in algorithms used in the private sector. The state will use even more invasive algorithms to control people to maintain its power, for example with a "social credit" system. The article begins as follows:

"TAIPEI—A sweeping new plan to restrain the algorithms that power tech platforms has thrust China to the forefront of a growing movement to curb the influence of giant internet companies.

Launched last week by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the campaign aims to establish a comprehensive system to regulate the use of algorithms within three years, part of the ruling Communist Party’s effort to rein in what it sees as unscrupulous business practices and exert more control over online discourse.

Regulators called for algorithms to be fair and transparent, while adhering to China’s Communist Party ideology.

The campaign puts China a step ahead in policing tech platforms, as governments around the world grapple with how to respond to automated technologies that are rewiring business, social interactions and politics."
> the market isn't equipped for the entire American Midwest (for instance) to suddenly begin growing beans, potatoes, and other staple crops at the frequency that they were raising beef cattle.

Subsidies won't change that. Yes, it takes time to shift an entire economic sector to a significantly different distribution of production and consumption. That just means we need to get started on the shift now--by stopping subsidies. Shifting the subsidies to something different just makes it take even longer to get to the only really sustainable state, which is nothing being subsidized and the free market determining what gets produced and what gets consumed.
It provides context for why the opinions might be biased, even if they were genuine and independent.
But this can be disrupted, here it is a startup idea but probably Google and Amazon are already working on it

1 offer all shops free surveillance hardware, you will offer them notifications when a suspect enters the shop. You need some PR stuff with big numbers where you claim on how many of your partners/clients are marking suspects that commited theft and how many billions are saved with this AI tech.

2 collect all the videos, do face recognition and connect the people n the image with real identities , infer more personal data from the person facial expression, posture, clothing, stuff they look at

3 profit!

4 collaborate with NSA and FBI to make sure the government will not have an easy job shutting you down.

bonus , you can extend to clubs, schools,parks, bars. You can rent the hardware for private owners with a discount if they mount at least one camera pointed at the street.
> "Freedom" is a cold comfort when it's your freedom to die of exposure and hunger on a street corner.

This is a common argument, which is odd, since it doesn't make much sense. If your government were replaced by a libertarian one, would you stop caring about the poor? Would you be okay with folks dying in the streets? Of course you wouldn't. Well, luckily, one doesn't need a government to take care of the poor--you can do that by donating to a charity.

Could charities feed and house the poor? Yes, and easily. In 2019, the Federal government spent ~$45 Billion on HUD (housing for the poor) and ~$85 Billion on SNAP, which only amounts to ~3% of the federal budget! This could easily be raised via private charities--especially considering that taxes would be far lower, leaving folks with more disposable income. Not to mention the sense of social responsibility which would come with the knowledge that taking care of the poor is your responsibility, and not something that you can ignore under the assumption that "the government will take care of them".

> Nobody in that position consents to that, and no libertarian ideology I've encountered presents a compelling justification for such a sorry state of affairs (much less a solution).

Let's consider this argument carefully.

Say we've got two people, Person A and Person B. Person A is poor, and Person B is not. Say Person A wants money from Person B, and Person B doesn't give it to them. What does it even mean for Person A to "not consent" to this arrangement? So what if Person A does not consent to not having control over Person B--does Person A have some divine right to control Person B?
> If something goes wrong, it just stops.

That's not true actually. A fusion plant can leak highly radioactive tritium, poisoning anyone in the plant or relatively near. A magnetic containment plant can lose plasma containment and get a pretty giant explosion, definitely destroying the extremely expensive machinery, and likely also killing many inside the plant. This explosion would also throw parts of the radioactive reactor all around.

It's definitely nowhere near Chernobyl risks, but "if anything goes wrong it just stops" is not as guaranteed as is often made out.
Yes, this is the obvious part of the charade. I do disagree with one key part of your analysis.

>...backed with just one worthless platinum coin.

Platinum is a precious metal and far from worthless.

Let us pretend there are people involved in this charade who would allow that initial wealth to be extracted via Cantillon effects, but still desired the coin to act as a backstop at a later date.

Given the current rate of spending and outstanding obligations, what would be a reasonable weight for a trillion dollar coin?
great advice, and i would even generalize this to suggest that you should toss any fasteners that come bundled with low cost products (obviously there are exceptions with specialty fasteners and such). you can get a package of drywall screws or drywall anchors (into which you can drill screws) of decent quality at any hardware store.

i have saved a lot of blood, sweat, and tears by not dealing with stripped screws, flimsy drywall anchors that shred, etc.
Ah yes, professional sports people, always finding a way to not do hard work.
The more bitcoins you mint, the more carbon you can capture! Perpetual money machine!
> Modern fission plants are totally safe

Unless there's a war. Unless corruption leads to poor management of the plants. Unless nuclear waste is mismanaged. Unless there is an earthquake or tsunami of completely unexpected intensity.
As you said, the coin will be deposited in the treasury. It's not being circulated, so it doesn't debase the dollar.
> Obviously this is absurd

Default seems a bit more absurd. Gotta keep the machine running one way or another.
Presumably over-shooting to some degree in the middle of the day is good, since it provides a cheap form of energy storage.

Obviously you'd want a cut off at some temp though, for safety concerns.
That seems to be the same Indo-European root found in Greek μέλας or nowadays "melanin", meaning dark.
>I suspect that building a CPU from scratch

Or you mean designing an ISA from scratch? Which is precisely what ARM have done to ARMv8. And further refined in ARMv9.
jQuery wasn’t a flash in the pan, it ruled for a decade and its “death” is because many of its features got merged into browsers.
I guess if you have access to a build server that you might spy out some access credentials to other venues. Not impossible at least or perhaps some sort of service account was compromised that had access to both. Doesn't mean there was an immediate proximity of these system, although that might also be possible.
exactly...I regularly see arguments about how technical compliance with laws or user wishes as 'its hard' as if 'hard' is a counter argument to compliance...
Maybe? But sometimes people don’t see “obvious wins” for a very long time.

Look at Musk’s electric car story: there were a variety of electric cars that companies killed off (like the EV1) years earlier than the Tesla was released. It’s unclear if anyone who had the capital would have seriously entered the space if Tesla as a company did not exist. Maybe we’d be exactly as far along, but there’s a good chance the lack of “electric car infrastructure” and internal company incentives would basically keep anyone from going far enough before killing their project.

When the path to profit is only a short journey from where we are now, you’re right that some other company will probably adopt it. But add two or three hard steps that they need to overcome first, and it’s pretty common for human progress to stagnate in a local maxima for a long time.
I'm hard boycotting Facebook now. I've never had an account with them and only used WhatsApp, but stopped using that a while ago. Used to enjoy my Oculus Rift, sold it when the forced account merging was announced and bought an Index to replace it. I was at a conference today and skipped a talk by a Facebook engineer. As petty as it sounds, I'm staying clear of anyone or anything associated with FB. Everyone working for them is complicit.
> If the technology is so spot on that 99% of the time you commit the crime you'll get caught

And in 1% of the time[1], you are an innocent who had nothing to do with the crime. Now you have to spend your time: getting arrested, spending time with lawyers, getting people to collaborate your alibi (<- In the best case! Otherwise you're f'ed).

If you want to make a case for facial recognition, criminal justice is one of worst possible cases you could make for it.

[1] I don't accept your claim of 99% accuracy when this is applied on a massive scale. Maybe I'm wrong, so let's go with this number
> He's not trustworthy, he's a horrible manager of people

Do you have any examples of this?

> And he never pays off on what he promises

Are you speaking about his campaign promises in particular? If so he lost so I'm not sure what you were expecting.

> YangGang social media

Eh. The "but some of his supporters are jerks" argument is emotionally potent but doesn't contain much substance in my opinion. Jerks are often very outspoken no matter what their opinions are. I'm not sure why that has anything to do with the person they're supporting. I remember people doing this with Bernie also.
> if my API had a different input type for each country's tax ID

Like you just add a new field for every country you support? I can imagine quite a few ways to break that.

For instance, my system has users from USA and CA, and I just send you everything in the SSN field, because I didn't consider the CA users when I wrote it. The simple way would have just worked, but now the API is broken for me.
Syniverse Hack
Browns are dark oranges. The only color you won't find in the spectrum is purple, which is the combination of red and violet. Take a look at the "CIE color diagram", all the colors on the perimeter of the curved line are single wavelength colors. The straight line at the bottom requires a combination.
> I really wish they'd release a Pi with eMMC storage instead of just the SD card.

Theres an NVMe interface for sd-cards now. That'd beat the tar out of eMMC. Downside, the sd-card might use as much power as the cpu.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16938/silicon-motion-sm2708-s...
I’ve had enough trouble with SD cards and regular drives that I ended up replacing the storage for all my important Pis with external SSDs, and I’ve been pretty happy with them. I’ve found that it’s worth the price and portability trade-offs.
I'm not sure this has been demonstrated academically. https://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+selec...

"Most significantly, they found that the number of reported cases of child sex abuse dropped markedly immediately after the ban on sexually explicit materials was lifted in 1989. In both Denmark and Japan, the situation is similar: Child sex abuse was much lower than it was when availability of child pornography was restricted."

(I must admit I haven't looked into it much however, you will have to decide for yourself how much you trust Diamond M et al).

However, anecdotally, after I masturbate to pornography my desire to engage in real-life sexual activity markedly goes down. That is the point of masturbating to pornography, isn't it?
Who manages the organization? Where does the buck stop? The statement is "more so than" the individual, not the binary option you provided.

I get that you're offended by my complaints, I don't want to be a messenger of total cynicism and I apologize if I haven't framed my experience in a way that's more helpful to you. I like Andrew personally, I support the majority of his ideology. He's a bad manager and my experience working deeply within the campaign, the volunteer orgs, the SM accounts, the Discord, etc, has proven this to me to my sincere displeasure many many times. Hell - he's written about it over and over again himself.

That doesn't mean he's not worth supporting if he's who inspires you to engage with the political structure of the nation though. Whatever works. There are WAY MORE good people out there than there are good managers, and Andrew's just a plainly good person individually. His institutional aptitude isn't great though.

Hope I got my intention across, apologies if I'm fumbling. I don't mean to be a grouch, but I've seen reliance on the central pillar of "Andrew Yang" waste so much of the energy his ideology inspires.
I would stop giving subsidies to companies.
>And so what if it is? Why shouldn't someone be able to run a website on Temple OS, or a 68K Mac, or whatever, if he wishes?

Absolutely. Or even a gopher site or a Fidonet BBS.

The technology mainstream moves on, and if you don't stay with it, you have to expect that there will be implications. At this point, the technology mainstream is moving towards TLS as table-stakes.
There is no thermostat for the PV panels. The summer power output of the panels comes into equilibrium with the heat loss of the tank at 80-85C. I did add a 93C thermal fuse to augment the safety of the PTV value.

I have a mixing valve on the output of the water heater to mix with cold down to about 50C. This lets you get around 2x the nameplate capacity of hot water out of the tank so there is enough to bridge a cloudy day.

To get the full capacity of the panels, it necessary to choose a water heater element that matches the source impedance(Vmpp/Immp) of the solar panel array.
There is no difference. There is no difference whether you are alive or dead. If you are dead you wouldn't know it. See, fatalism and moral ambiguity works in all different ways. Fun!
Google translate seems to think those are blauw and cyaan, respectively. I'm not sure why it decided to translate into Dutch though...
I donated to a few candidates and the same thing happened. Not sure if it’s from the campaigns individually, or via the Act Blue platform that they all used.
Yeah, you're right. I forgot about the heat efficiency. Even if it generated the full 500 megawatts, it wouldn't even be close to practical.
I totally get that you want to catch the thief that stole your stuff - I get a bit angry hearing about it from here.

But what I really would not want to happen is some poor soul to get collared and have to defend himself because his face (mis-)matched some random street camera.

Despite all the hype about "Artificial Ihtelligence", this technology is nowhere near intelligent, nor even reliable. sure, being able to make a lot of matches sometimes, on white male faces can seem impressive, and perhaps even be genuinely useful in some situations. But the databases on which these 'tools' have been trained are known to be full of garbage (remember "GIGO") and biased, so badly that the results are lawsuits about bad results from the tech. e.g., [1].

The EU is wise to start down the road of banning it, and frankly, this is just desserts for the industry that over-hyped this stuff. We already had one 'AI Winter' because of this, and apparently no one learned the lesson.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/05/uber-faces-legal-action-ov...
The latter bit is eminently reasonable; there are limits to how much political bodies should be capable of restraining private action, but the rules by which the police discharge their duties is something completely under political control.
wow)) didn't know there is such functionality. Thanks
Fission already lets you generate zero-Carbon power from cheap fuel, at the cost of constructing a monumentally expensive plant.

Fusion sort of looks like it will give you that dynamic, only more extreme. Fuel even cheaper, plants even more expensive and time-consuming (and risky, given lack of track-record)

Solving the waste problem is nice, but not climate-relevant (and you will still be generating a bunch of activated metal due to all the fusion neutrons)

I agree with you that humanity wants to be fusing a lot of hydrogen in 100 years. I don't think it's super relevant to the challenges of the next 20, though
Yes that’s a good point, clear communication is hard in any field. I want to say to everyone, at least make an effort, though, please?
But that’s not the difference. Any single process can run in a container without much issue. I think volume storage isn’t a solved issue yet, but it is better.

But running a database in K8s is implying (and it’s how the article sets it up) as a cluster. This is a big difference from running a solo instance on bare metal, in a VM, or in a container. That’s the point I was making to the parent comment.

To go up a level (comment), running Postgres in K8s doesn’t really get you much that you can’t also get from a VM (I’m thinking mainly about migration and setup). After that, the benefits come from running a cluster, which K8s can make easier to orchestrate over bare metal. But that’s a different architecture entirely.
Actually, allowing gay sex between women was a 2007. revision of a British law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Singapore

>Singapore law inherited from the British Empire prohibited sodomy regardless of sex. As such, heterosexual and homosexual anal or oral sex was illegal. In 2007, such sexual activity was legalised for heterosexuals and lesbians, but not for gay men.

Indeed the law was reviewed in 2019 and the government didn't see anything wrong with gay sex between men being illegal.
There are some weird performance optimizations in Python, e.g.,

item = some_dict.get(key)
if item is None:
# key does not exist

Versus

try:
item = some_dict[key]
except KeyError:
# key does not exist

When I tested these (admittedly, a while ago), which one was faster depended on how often the key was missing. If “missing key” was an expected case, the first one was faster. If “missing key” was uncommon, the second was faster. It sounds like the fast path in the second case is getting faster, so this performance gap may be increasing.
> The first fission reactor was in activity 10 000 years ago. Well, probably not even the first.

What are you referring to?
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This is patently ridiculous. The biggest boards on 4chan, particularly /pol/ have widespread support for the genocide of Jews, black people, Muslims and women. Well maybe not all women, a more common view is instead that they should be enslaved to men. This kind of correction should give an idea of what kind of ideas are popular there.
I rather enjoyed the short essay: https://web.archive.org/web/19970614230544/jubal.westnet.com...

In my Lovecraftian phase I imagined an infinite winding black pagoda with brail inscriptions on its walls. If you're very lucky you would wander up or down until you died of thirst reading nothing but nonsense. If you weren't you'd find the necronomicon or worse. Unlike the library the text would not be finite and there would be no limit to the eldritch horrors you could find within.
You have to wonder if people working with dyes had (now lost) terms of art to describe colors.
No, that is still banned.

The problem is not whether it's private or government.

The problem are multiple, but the main two problems found in an experiment with public facial rec. in an Italian city (Como, and now in Udine, too) are:

* municipalities should not have the power to conduct an investigation. That is a clear breach of the separation of powers. At least in Italy every access to information for investigation must be logged, from why it was collected to who requested access to it. Most of the initial deployments of facial rec are way too broad

* Our laws require consent before gathering information on people, and biometric has even stricter rules. Just going around in public is hardly giving consent
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>If it were really that valuable to human progress

The issue here is resting that value judgment on a small number of people (in this example, one person: Edison) to determine if it's valuable to human progress. They could be malicious or simply wrong about their estimation.

But also, no, markets aren't efficient, so they won't necessarily be correct on value-for-human-progress.
Why is this even an issue? Is it harder to pass a "raise debt limit" motion than it is to pass the budget? Did people who pass the budget a few months ago get buyer's remorse?