skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trillion dollar platinum coin has been proposed on other occasions, but never minted.

Last I checked, platinum was trading at around 30-31 dollars a gram, roughly half that of gold. The presumption is that the coin will be 1 troy ounce or about 31g.

Hyperinflation from reckless debt monetization isn't unprecedented. When it does occur, it tends to quickly spiral out of control. Let us assume for the sake of discussion that there are some responsible people within these institutions who would like for these platinum coins to act as an actual asset, a backstop against a total devaluation of the dollar.

What would a reasonable weight of a trillion dollar platinum coin be?
I think Microsoft is just less concerned about hardware now, so it looks like they're doing worse when they're not really.

Like I haven't touched my Xbox One in years, but I'm still giving them $10/month for Xbox Game Pass for my PC.

"In its latest financial results, Microsoft announced that the gaming division revenue was up 50% year-on-year, boasting huge $3.53 billion earnings over the past 12 months. The vast majority of that income stems from Xbox hardware (largely the launch of the Xbox Series X/S), which is up 232%."

https://www.vg247.com/xbox-revenue-hardware-game-pass-boost-...

Okay, I guess hardware is still big for them. Huh.
As someone who sits on the bounds of a lot of fields, I have to say it is surprising what many scientists think are "common knowledge." So having never seen your presentation I would question whether it is even a scientific literate layperson would actually be able to follow.

I distinctly remember being in a room of biologists and having to explain that, your general STEM audience does not automatically know what a protein is. They were incredulous, but I pointed out that I had to just explain that to a computer scientist like a week prior.

For example to you as a physicist I'm sure I could casually drop the word "force field" and you would know exactly what I'm discussing but a biologist or even chemist wouldn't. But it's such a casually thrown around word in my specialty we will just use it without thinking. Similarly Newtonian physics/classical physics/etc.
On making illegal states unrepresentable - this was my favorite post on that topic: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types... (I don’t even write F# myself)
> J2ME, Windows Phone 7, watchOS and Android are arguably the closest to it in mainstream computing.

From my pointy of view none of these come close. The interesting part of Inferno is that it only runs Dis code. It can not exec native code. All the platforms you listed save for j2me (which is not anything like inferno save for being a vm) are OS's which run native code or exec a vm.
It also isn't alternative because it makes one-to-many transactions which can offer lower fees than one-to-one transaction due to pooling
"Okay, we will send all our video surveillance to a third party intelligence partner with whom we own stock and they will do facial recognition and send us a list of suspects." - Most police and government entities.

If the ban doesn't prevent 3rd party data access the above will likely happen.
But ... but ... everyone knows that Nature is linear and Gaussian. Shhhh.
Edit up front to say, it's unfortunate that you read that one line and got extremely nervous rather than take anything else I had put into consideration.

I personally don't care where you post if you're being polite on the sub I moderate. I try to think of it like being the chairperson of a meeting, or the bartender at a local bar: Let people debate and disagree and even say stupid stuff, but if they say something obviously offensive or start name-calling, you get modded.

And if I then look at your comment history and see a stream of vitriolic behavior, that shows me it wasn't "just one time" you got out of hand, but a pattern of undesirable behavior.

I do know other subs, mostly political, that will instantly ban you if you have a different set of beliefs than they do. It's very frustrating. But that's not what I'm discussing here.
Can anyone find the effect size in this study?
When it is missing, I suspect that it is small, and that in turn leads me to suspect p-hacking.
This looks like it would hold against gravity, but would it hold if I pull straight out towards me?
This is already happening without facial recognition.
I emerged into a kind of small plaza — a courtyard might better describe it. It was surrounded by a single building, of irregular angles and varying heights. It was to this heterogeneous building that the many cupolas and columns belonged. More than any other feature of that incredible monument, I was arrested by the great antiquity of its construction. I felt that it had existed before humankind, before the world itself. Its patent antiquity (though somehow terrible to the eyes) seemed to accord with the labor of immortal artificers.

Great story. Aleph is amazing as well.
Turn down the volume. Facebook specially takes "high engagement" content that is politically charged and full of hate and prioritizes it for distribution. They have shown they can deemphasize harmful content around elections, but when the heat is off, they go back to the old way to maximize time spent on platform / ad revenue.

In fact, remove the news feed altogether. It has nothing to do with "connecting the world", it exists only to hook people on low quality / high engagement content and the source of most (but not all) of their problems.
> I want to work for the campaign and it must pay me the same!

Yes. That's rather the point of the concept of minimum wage.
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> make absolutely certain that your USB to SATA adapter has proper UAS support in ARM Linux

How does one do that? I've been bitten with block-level and then filesystem-level errors, so I just recommend always disabling UAS. [1] But if you have a good way to make sure UAS is fully reliable, I'd love to update my recommendation.

[1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/wiki/System-setup#...
.get("key") is enough, as the default is already None.

And if you care about the default value being a particular type, when there may also be None in the input stream, do something like:

x.get("key") or []

or

str(x.get("key") or "") # Guarantee strings and avoid "None"!
I've seen research that suggests that the simple solution to weight loss is "have a gene that prevents it or live in a low-pollution location for ten years".
Heat is extracted to run a turbine, as with any reactor.
Blind is a toxic community, in my opinion.
Writing a “bare metal” operating system for Raspberry Pi 4
Google Significantly Improves Visual Representations via Information Compression
Zuckerberg Responds to Congressional Testimony
Nuclear fission is good enough, available right now, causes much fewer deaths than the alternatives, does not pollute the atmosphere, and accidents are extremely rare and nowhere near as dangerous as they've been portrayed. To wit, Fukushima: 1 dead from the nuclear accident, compared to 10000 from the tsunami.
> Indeed, "estimations" might not be the best word as you're still, in some way, estimating with the Monte Carlo approach.

Not in some way -- literally. The samples are averaged, and as the number of samples goes to infinity, the average converges to some true value. In the case of one of the histograms you plot, you are averaging an indicator function .

> I thought of this differentiation because I consider the MC approach to yield a forecast, while an "estimation" is the typical term used in agile settings for "guessing how long/much work it will take.". I'll think of ways of making this distinction clearer.

It seems to me the distinction you care for is to provide not a single value ("estimate"), but a distribution of values. That's not specific to Monte Carlo.

> As for the misused mathematical terminology I guess you're referring to "confidence intervals"

That's certainly one of them. I even misunderstood what you were doing and said you don't need confidence intervals, but in the way you're using them those again can be obtained by quadrature.

My main gripe remains the language, and the presentation of the method. You could most likely obtain your results by hand, i.e. with pen and paper, and you would still get a distribution at the end of the day. The advantage of running Monte Carlo is that it simplifies this process. You could illustrate this by getting the distribution of the sum of two independent uniform random variables in two different ways: by doing a convolution, and by MC. Wow, MC was so much easier, anyone can do it, and it can handle arbitrarily complicated distributions (in principle).
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Finally I have data to back up my suspicion people use terms like "teal", specially for blue, purple, pink and green hues, almost randomly. It's even worse in Portuguese.
So simpsons predicts it yet again
That's a perfectly good "had wavy" argument. However, once you start attaching numbers to such a thing you will quickly discover reality is not as nice and clean as writing two lines of text.

There's nothing grim about climate change reality. We just have to accept it, clean up our act to the extent possible and adapt. The planet has survived billions of years. We are insignificant. We either pretend we can fix it (which is a mistake) or understand that the planet can make us disappear in an instant.

I mean, look at this pandemic. Had we not developed vaccines so quickly it would have been perfectly plausible for half the population of this plante to perish. Thinking we can control things at a planetary scale is pure ignorant hubris. We cannot. And we stand a far greater chance of killing everything on earth than to save the planet. The planet does not need saving.
Don't be poor. Just don't. It's really draining. Oh, there are other complex systems at play? Hmm... Still though, avoid it when you can. One piece of advice is to make money.
A Clock, in Conway's “Life”
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You can have a government owned database and not send anything to a third party. The way it works with fingerprints and DNA data, at least in my country.
Because the law says that platinum coins may be minted with an arbitrary value and says nothing about coins made of PLA.

Sorry, was your question rhetorical?
Energy in -> blue ball in the sky -> energy out.

No magical vacuum cleaner to fix anything.

Now, go do the math.
Theorypothesis: the pre-Amazon acquisition company had very informal access controls, and Amazon is known for limiting how much change it imposes on acquisitions, so didn't know about this or didn't change to a more corporatey way of controlling access.
The main difference is that you stop worrying about things.

In the past, if you took a book out, you'd have to remember in the back of your mind that you have to return it by a specific date. My kids like to have dozens of books out at a time. In the past there was always the worry that you would take a stack of books back but forget one or two; you'd search the whole apartment just in case.

That's all gone now. If the library needs the book back, they email you and then you go look around for it. Otherwise, you do everything on your own schedule, whenever it is convenient. And if your kid wants to keep a book for 6 months or more, that's also fine.

I'm sure that NYPL will need to buy more books as part of the adjustment. But they can. It's totally worth it.
Perhaps add "slow" to the regex?
What DB are you running?
Yes you can find sources advocating for leading commas and it's commonly used. I have "Google BigQuery: The Definitive Guide" on my desktop, it was written by senior Google employees involved in the steering and use of the product inside, for what it's worth, and it advocates for leading comma and SHOUTING THE KEYWORDS.

I personally disobey both recommendations (I mean, the book is worth it for other reasons) but both those conventions are very commonly used.

I meant more the the "center" layout that the commenter above was describing, it'd seem quite laborious to maintain by hand in most environments, if not using a particular one that supports it out of the box.
Makes sense. Basically it’s zero-cost for exceptions-unaware code. I don’t know if it’s been changed with more modern jits but used to be chrome was unable to jit functions with try statements (similar to functions using `arguments` or `with` I think).
With that they also published a whitepaper outlining their open-source firmware support via TianoCore/EDK, LinuxBoot, OpenBMC, and OpenOCD. They cite their open-source code around the firmware for Ampere Altra and Mount Jade that has already been available publicly while now is set to see a monthly release cycle to see more rigorous updates and we'll see what more they may have in store for open-source firmware moving forward. For many years we have been eager to see more open-source firmware on modern hardware platforms and great to see steps by major server vendors shifting in that direction thanks to increasing industry demand around security and transparency.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ampere-M...
I wrote a Monte Carlo area calculator once. Just draw an arbitrary shape and hit solve. You can increase the number of samples used.

https://victorribeiro.com/monteCarlo/

The drawing area is 500x500 pixels, so if the shape covers the whole area, the result should be 250.000 pixels
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If I find if's and try's looking ugly for a particular use case I try to figure out how to get rid of them. For your first example I would do this, assuming value is a number.

value += dict_.get('key',0)

Though I agree with using an if in the second example, if there isn't a better way to do the iteration to avoid looking up keys that don't exist.
It is not worth investing money in, because it will never supply grid power: http://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-e...

Here is another physicist warning about the hype just a few days ago: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/10/how-close-is-nuclea...
Sure, but how? What physical processes are being used? Most of us can understand how hot fision encased in water turns to steam and runs a steam engine (even if the reality is still quite complex). But how does the thin-plasma get converted to steam?
I just checked your comment history and it appears that you like to troll.

How can I know that this isn't one of those cases? I know some folks in fintech and while obviously they're not _you_, they're definitely not the sort to be wishy washy with data, if anything they're quite conservative when it comes to how the databases are managed.

Any incidental complexity is incredibly discouraged.
Don't you think that the fact that you can use sea water as input and you get hydrogen as output is a huge advantage over fission?

Add to that the fact that there is no fukushima style meltdown in a fusion power plant. If something goes wrong, it just stops.

Finally, contrary to fission, fusion power plants will be able to adjust their power output as fast as gaz power plants. It takes months to turn on or off a fission power plant.

So yes, there is definitely a few benefits to fusion. And take a step back on the numbers. Look at how much we injected in banks in 2008. If it works (and indeed there is a risk they won't make it work and this is probably where the argument should be) the investment would be amortize over thousands of years...

Can you imaging a guy, 3000 years ago in China, complaining about spending money on a kiln to smelt that thing called iron?...
Ignoring the ghoulish suggestion entirely, this misses the point of the debt ceiling crisis. The debt ceiling has zero effect on spending, it's servicing the debt for spending that already happened.

You don't fix what you spend on your credit card by not paying the bill.
8mm: Expansion plug SX

6mm: Universal plug UX

5mm (35mm deep): DuoPower

I tend to stick to the 8mm and 6mm ones, but sometimes I need "short" plugs for e.g. hanging things in hollow panel doors so I have the 5mm 35mm deep for those as things like that tend to have more delicately sized holes for smaller screws. I prefer to use the 6mm plugs for day-to-day stuff.

The 8mm Expansion plug SX can take some really chunky screws - like 5mm or 6mm diameter so I have no doubt about heavy shelves or big mirrors etc.
>Modern fission plants are totally safe. Nuclear waste is basically a non-problem, especially with the most recent technology

Please elaborate on both. And I think we can all agree there's no such thing as totally safe, only risk management.
That works until the day you get charged with robbery because the lousy FR system matched your face with a fuzzy picture of a robber in another state. Trading freedom of other people for personal gain (feeling of safety) is IMHO a much bigger crime than robbery.

Edit. Wrong people spent life behind bars for crimes they didn't commit. With FR it's just going to be more often. Your weak "but this is not me" will be countered by prosecutor's "all criminals say this and this certified FR system is more reliable than humans, your honor, I ask for 10 years for this gentleman" and the strong incentive to close the case paired with political desire to not disprove belief in FR will convince the judge to make the right decision. Important people will be exempt from FR, obviously.
I'm sure there is a way to spend a trillion less on healthcare and get better results. At least other countries seem to manage that. But just cutting spending is not the way to achieve that, you need far reaching reforms that will be heavily resisted by parts of the healthcare industry.
Have they invented a virus that induces prosopagnosia?
I would also argue that enabling capacity planning and drawing a boundary around the scope are also valuable by-products.

Perfection may be impossible, but Brooks' Law being a harsh mistress, and scope creep being a very real thing, having a serious think about how big you intend the project to be to be before you start can make the difference between finishing it in months, and having it turn into a years-long death march project.
-kunde is the German equivalent to greek "-sophy" and corresponds to 'knowledge'. Geography is Erdkunde (as a school subject). Nowadays mostly used in pedagogic context (schools) or it can also sound old-fashioned.
A bit more detail about how catalysts speed up chemical reactions - to get from products to reactants you need to climb an energy barrier to get to something called the "rate-determining transition state". What catalysts do is stabilize or reduce the amount of energy (called activation energy) required to reach this transition state, and by doing so, the reaction goes faster. The stability is achieved through interactions between the rate determining transition state and the catalyst. Sometimes the catalyst causes a change in the reaction mechanism leading to a different rate-determining transition state as well.

EDIT: pretty sure this was Ben List's first paper on this idea: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja994280y

David MacMillan's first paper on this idea: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja000092s
It's a time-space tradeoff. A few bytes less overhead on the stack, a few CPU cycles more overhead when raising an exception. Is it a net win? Show me empirical test results.
Yep.

Next.

After 4 years of non stop lies from the Trump machine, Q and AntiVaxx, you can fuck right off.
Sadly, nuclear fission power that works at scale - both on the technology and social sides - seems to be mostly beyond the capabilities of current human societies.
In the same way. Most proposed fusion systems use deuterium-tritium fusion where a significant amount of the energy is carried away as neutrons, so direct energy conversion wouldn't be possible anyway.

From the article you referenced:

> ITER will not produce enough heat to produce net electricity and therefore is not equipped with turbines to generate electricity. Instead, the heat produced by the fusion reactions will be vented.

So in a fusion plant, the particle energy would turn into heat (by the particles interacting with matter), this would heat up water (or some other carrying fluid), turning a turbine that produces electricity. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Plant which contains some diagrams showing just how that would be done.

More exotic reactions (e.g. p-B11) have been proposed, where almost no energy is in the form of neutrons. Theoretically, you could then use electrostatic devices to capture the energy directly without any of the mess with Carnot efficiency. However, getting p-B11 fusion going is much harder than d-t.
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your pastebin was deleted. too bad
Reasonable weight? Something that won't blow away in the wind.
Yeah I wish there was more of this happening. BTW what happens when your water is fully hot and the sun is shining - does that panel detect there is no load so doesn't generate?
amazon and google both created managed version of popular open source software like grafana and airflow and they are priced at a premium.
If you want to reduce spending, please start with cutting the budget for the organization whose main purpose is killing people around the world.

Your government will have more money to spend usefully, and the world would be a better and safer place.
Mimicking a chunk of sushi is a pretty lame goal for an Isopoda. This female can do it better.

Why to be fish meat when you can be a lava lamp?

https://twitter.com/echinoblog/status/1328974259570532352
I agree, it does disincentivise people from committing similar crimes to a certain extent, but I think what it often does is shift people to different kinds of crime. In the pandemic, burglaries dropped significantly, presumably because people were home and the perpetrators didn’t like the idea of being caught. However, scams have risen sharply.
Deny, deny, deny. Which you'd expect him to do. Of course we don't put profits above safety and well-being. Of course we don't push content that makes people angry... and so on.

But embedded in the denial is a threat to stop doing the kind of research which got leaked and got held against them.
The law specifically refers to a coin of any denomination, minted in platinum. It apparently said "bullion" prior to 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
> Hi. Diplomat working with UN issues here. The issue at hand here is not this resolution in itself. It's the fact that opening up human rights to "new" rights sets a precedent. And that precedent will be used by other countries to shift the language on human rights in a more authoritarian direction - or dilute human rights as such.

You mean sorta like... the past 50 years or so?
> Use torx screws when putting wood to wood/studs

Torx is a type of driver and head, not a type of screw. You can buy 'Torx' screws for sheet metal, drywall, wood, or just about anything else, so just looking at the head is not a good idea.

I think what you're trying to recommend are quality construction type screws like Spax or GRK with Torx heads.