skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The source of your randomness matters much less than insuring that your adversary doesn't have access to it, and that you collect enough entropy from it. As long as you have a good lower bound on the amount of entropy per unit time that your source generates, and the source is secure, the physical details of the source don't really matter.
I think you are confusing “statements and policy from available and changing information” with “lies”.
Where are you getting that I'm assuming that "personal working style is the best and only one for every person"? I am recommending what worked for me. It's a bit different than the question the OP ask's but, given a similar situation, it's what has worked.

I suspected you my be projecting a bit of your own insecurities here.

Unfortunately HN has become an increasing hostile place, and I think rather extreme reactionary response to a simple recommendation is becoming the norm.

In a weird way, thanks for finally waking me up to the realization that is community is not what it was and not one where I should be spending time anymore.
> or if we employ them in autonomous driving.

This is not looking to be the case right now.. Companies are doing quite well without explainable models. SDC companies like Waymo are hoping it will be sufficient to:

1. Produce a low failure rate estimate, based on millions of virtual miles/fake cities.

2. Combine several NN outputs in a logical way. That way there are at least some interpretable values that lead to the result. e.g. a separate model that produces candidate trajectories of surrounding vehicles, one to perceive sensor input, one to plan, etc.
The question is not _if_ it will be cheaper, but _when_. Gas is a limited resource. We will eventually run out of it, the closer we get to that point the more expensive gas will become.
But that point - without political intervention - can be many decades away.
> By all accounts, deep neural networks like VGG have way too many parameters and should overfit. But they don’t.

This isn't true at all. You can only make this statement relative to a dataset. And VGG is almost always trained on ImageNet. A standard VGG16 has 138 million parameters. ImageNet has 1 million images each is 244x244 (~50k). There are ~431 input data points per parameter in VGG16. VGG is not overparameterized for ImageNet.

There are plenty of network/dataset pairs they could have given as an example, but this isn't it.
There's similar opposition to the "best practices" term in a 2008 book, e.g., search inside at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_School_of_Infor...

For example: "they are highly unlikely to match the specifics of any particular environment, and so they are inefficient by their very nature"
IBM Board of Directors Approves Separation of Kyndryl
I will try to do so with web account, however I doubt it will work..
What do you use for photo management?
Ignoring the truth also triggers pain... it just comes a bit later.
Most anti-vaxxers I know are far left, and most republicans I know have all the other historic vaccines for school and travel, but are more suspicious of the Covid ones due in part to the lack of discussion about natural immunity in the US context (most of them who already had covid don’t want to get the vaccine since they do t think it is worth their time).
Natural gas is only inexpensive because of fracking.

With fracking in the USA at least the people involved can set up an LLC that dissolves after the well runs out. They are not required to disclose the contents of the fracking wastewater fluid. It gets pumped back down underground where it could dissipate into the rest of the water system. These people claim that it's safe for decades when our computer models can't predict the weather accurately next week.

In California now they're using fracking wastewater on crops because of the water shortages. Without disclosing what's in it. And not testing for if that stuff ends up in the food. These people are using loopholes to take the profits now and leave society with the bills for cleanup and the health consequences. That isn't sustainable or IMO fair or just. If the real cost of fossil fuels was clear up front they would not make sense.

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-drought-oil-w...
Ladies who launch: Women are powering the private space industry
It would be handy to have a bit of explanation about what the term algebraic effect means.
Politically the problem is that voters want action on climate change but aren't willing to pay any visible cost associated with that action. If you put a tax on carbon that raises the price of something by $100 then that's a political no-go. But if you create a cap and trade system that raises the price by $150 that might be politically viable. Not ideal, but one has to compromise with political realities.
Even before Covid, the scientific and medical community, understandably so, decided that continuing dialogue with anti-vaxxers and vaccine hesitant wasn't worth the effort. Communicating the risks of vaccines, however negligible, seems to be seen as enabling the nutjobs. It's unfortunate. I think COVID may force the educated folks to reexamine their communication strategies and hopefully lead us to a place where anti-vax sentiment shrinks to a negligible level.

Edit: Not surprising this is being downvoted. Anytime I suggest anything less than crucifying anti-vaxxers or sending them to a leper colony the HN crowd freaks out. It's that exact sort of sentiment that got us into the mess where a significant portion of the country refuses to get vaccinated. Don't hurt your arm patting yourselves on the backs folks. Your dismissive attitude towards less educated people has the practical effect of killing folks.
Uhhh, voting? What the hell else is there to do, write to my crooked senator? Tweet to the ether about my woes?

Some people decided to vote for some asshole business guy because it was at least something new and different, but that didn't go over so well.
It was, Diana finishing third was ridiculous, but it doesnt detract from Clarkson being the most convincing with the poorest material.
And of course the promotion of quack cures (including at the highest levels of government and some of the highest profile media personalities) came before some media outlets decided to censor some of them. Nobody honestly believes that everybody would have ignored the likes of the last POTUS or Joe Rogan if Facebook et al had amplified that message rather than deleting or fact checking it
Two counterpoints:

- Isn't the current gas shortage just Putin trying to ram through Nordstream 2?

- Isn't it great to have high prices fossil energy sources to drive renewable investment and stop wasteful use of fossils?
A few things to give you some hope:

* The target to reduce the share of nuclear to 50% does not directly imply that nuclear production will decline as much. The reason is that the share of electricity (from nuclear, hydro renewables.. combined) in total energy consumption should increase (electrical vehicles, hydrogen production etc.).

* Most French people still believe nuclear emits CO2. I expect that to change as people get more and more informed on climate change. Once more people realize it's one of the cleanest source for greenhouse gases, I expect a stronger support for nuclear

* The sovereignty aspect (France does not extract uranium on its soil but has well established logistics) is more important in the French debate recently, probably increased since Covid. The lack of wind in UK recently causing price to soars, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline for Germans to get gas from Russia.. are not examples France wishes to follow
> How would that company survive exactly?

Let me distill my thinking: a tool does not have to be a company, or be backed by a single-product company.

IMO,the more successful tools tend to be backed by a maintainer & contributors who work on it in their free time, or by a consortium of companies that do not directly make money from the tool, but are willing to put money into it. Docker-like functionality can be replaced by such models, so we are not stuck in a perpetual cycle of ${ToolName}, LLC
I think you mean automation is very useful. I've worked in a lot of places where we had a single `make deploy` that could compile, test, upload the artifacts, deploy the artifacts to hosts, start the new services, and slowly transition the load balancer to point at the new instances while automatically backing out if error metrics started lighting up. This is just automation, it doesn't have to happen on every commit. Especially when working solo or on a small team, I might not want to maintain a lot of VCS branches and instead, just deploy when I feel it's ready. You have to do all of that stuff anyway, so if you later decide to hook it up to a VCS trigger, you're all set.
The benefits of a car were immediately obvious as soon as supply lines were considered. Feed for horses was something like 30% of all deliveries in a horse-based supply chain.

Railroads run off of coal, but steam-engines were huge. ICE engines were miniature engines that also ran off of a fuel source (eventually settling upon oil, but many different fuel sources were considered in those early days, including electricity).

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Such benefits are not immediately obvious with solar/wind. In particular, USA doubles its electricity usage each day, and then it shrinks down to 50% by nightfall (which does NOT time with the sun, its slightly offset: the 5pm sun loses most of its solar-power but homes are still hot and using a ton of electricity for A/C)

As a baseload plant, solar/wind, even with storage, is a bit unreliable. That's fine, they're a cheap source of energy but you need to consider things like hurricanes: winds too fast so you need to shut off the wind plants (otherwise they'd spin too fast and damage themselves), and the cloud cover so thick you lose most of your solar power.

Since there's no storage mechanism that lasts for days (ex: hypothetical hurricane), you end up needing to build a 200MW gas turbine ("just in case"), +200MW of clean energy.

Note: this is fine. This is probably the best path forward for now. But nuclear is reliable and doesn't need this "natural gas assist". Even if a hurricane sweeps over an area, the nuclear power plants will keep working.

EDIT: The issues come up if someone builds 200MW of solar panels / wind but fails to build any "just in case" energy sources. Which is happening. Their grids will fail when solar/wind inevitably cuts off.
> Germany is firing up coal plants because they're decomissining their nuclear reactors in favour of intermittent energy sources

No they aren't, they are decomissioning coal plants, too, and at a much faster rate than nuclear.

From 2013 to 2020 nuclear as share of Germany's energy mix went from 17% to 13%. https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...

During the same time, coal went from 45% to 23%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

> Germany kwh price is 2x compared to France

The difference is taxes, not production costs. Have a look at price composition for Germany: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-german-house...
Double digit ms in my experience. Not including the fact that V2 will renegotiate TLS constantly when it could just keep the socket open.
The final version of sortNumbers is:

function sortNumbers(array: Readonly<Array<number>>) {
return [...array].sort((a, b) => a - b)
}

And sort sorts in place and then returns the sorted array[0]. So here the newly created [...array] is sorted and then returned by sort and then by the return at the start of that line.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Yes, it's clearly the mainstream media and politicians fault that they had to hedge some of their bets because they're unsure about certain details and the public freaks out when they have to change their statements when facts change or become more concrete. Totally their fault.

And not the fault of the vast network of extremists spreading FUD. Totally not those people's fault.
This clip reminds me of Colbert because different people map their mental model onto her communication to parse one thing or the opposite thing.
Highly regulated how? There was no censorship on people recommending alternative health treatments online until COVID-19 came.

Additionally ivermectin is not a cure, it instead has proven effectiveness in attenuating the duration and severity of symptoms. That the scientific studies demonstrating this are not allowed to be even discussed on major social media platforms is a red flag.
Maybe you live in a cold climate and want to spend winter somewhere warm, but still work.
I have quite a few coins stuck in Coinbase, I've basically given up on ever getting them back.

It makes me incredibly sad knowing that I have a small fortune tucked away but can't access it because the sites support is so useless.
Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
> Compared to other readily available green power sources

1. No power source is green. They all take a toll on the environment.
2. You can't compare nuclear to solar/wind, as solar/wind is intermittent. Currently, dismantling a nuclear power plant means replacing it by fossil fuel. See what is happening in Germany for instance.
> Once it becomes self sustaining one should be able to add more fuel to the pellet to get more energy out for the same input energy.

That's not how ICF works. Plasma, being a gas-like state, will always expand to fill whatever volume is presented. With ignition, the rate of expansion is essentially lower than the rate of fusion, allowing you to fuse all of the fuel before the plasma dissipates and cools down.

In ICF as studied at NIF, you start with an extremely precisely machined piece of metal called a hohlraum, you put a solid pellet of fuel inside at an extremely precise location, then fire a laser with extremely precise alignment to heat the hohlraum until it generates X-Rays that heat the pellet just right so that its outer layer explodes, creating an equal implosion, generating two shockwaves inside the pellet; if the two shockwaves meet just right, at the center of their meeting place you get a fusion reaction, and you hope that that fusion reaction has enough time to heat up and cause more fusion reactions before the initial implosion loses speed and expansion happens.

That initial shock is the only thing containing the plasma - once it has lost its velocity, the plasma dissipates and cools down. If ignition was reached, the gas that cools down and dissipates should be 100% He, instead of a mix of He, D and T. However, there is no way to stop this dissipation, it is a fundamental part of ICF.

The only way to keep an ICF reactor going is to shoot one laser burst at one pellet, capture the energy of the fusion, and use that to power the next laser burst fired at the next pellet.

Of course, after each burst of laser heating the hohlraum so much that it radiates the heat as X rays, and then briefly containing a 1-10M kelvin burst of hot plasma, plus a neutron bombardment, the hohlraum is destroyed. Since machining the hohlraum to the precise shape required to achieve the shockwaves discussed above is never going to be a cheap process, it is impossible to imagine ICF would ever be even a tiny bit close to economical, even if it could in principle output more energy than it requires as input.

As such, ICF is strictly a scientific pursuit, mostly interesting for nuclear weapons research.
My local government seems to be dedicated to the opposite: instilling panic about Covid, particularly with rules around protecting children (who are effectively immune from serious illness and transmit the virus less than adults).
I've made a complaint to the police and my local privacy regulator (in France) more than a year ago, regarding blatant and widespread illegal data collection by Google on probably most Android devices on Earth. I have not yet heard back from them and I doubt they'll even consider this report. Here it is in a nutshell.

1. set up a brand new phone (Pixel, OnePlus or else)

2. do not connect to a Google account at first or if it is required, log out and remove the account as soon as possible

3. create a contact on your phone with any Contact application (with a name, email address and phone number). Do no enable sync for this application.

4. open the Play Store to download any application (e.g one from your government). You'll be asked to connect to a Google account at this stage, of course

5. now, try to log into your Google account to download the application but *not have Google automatically collect all your contacts' details* (stored locally).

You can't!

This is not possible because:

1. by default, adding the Google account will enable the automatic synchronization for all Google-related apps and services (incl. Contacts). You can disable this before login.

2. You cannot stop the sync of these Contacts while connecting Google Play to your account. It is done in the background and by the time you switch from Google Play (or the login page) to the Settings menu of your device, the sync will have started (if not completed already).

3. You cannot do all this in airplane mode obviously, as it it's impossible to log into a Google account without an Internet connection.

This is illegal per GDPR, because at no point you consent to have your data collected by Google. Also, Android does not inform you of this collection so it's up to you to discover this by browsing your device's settings, down a a sub-levels.

It is a massive collection (and fraud) because most people have probably a hundreds contacts or more on their mobile device. Most mobile devices run Android. Google Play is almost impossible to avoid nowadays (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Whatsapp, Signal, Firefox, your bank's app, your employers' apps... they all require Google Play and Services to work correctly). Worst, your contacts' information isn't yours, but your contacts' too. Google simply helps themselves.

With 73% of mobile OS market share, around 99% of Android users being probably logged in just to access the Play Store, Google probably has collected the names, email addresses, phone numbers and lots of private information (birthday dates, home and work addresses, employers' names, job titles, digicodes, etc) of every person on Earth, and probably more than once. Without asking for permission.

This is easy to reproduce, 100% illegal (at least per GDPR), everyone is affected and yet, _crickets_.

If you're in the US and believe this is illegal there too, please contact a privacy organization or any entity that might do something about it, at least if you don't like having all your contact details collected by Google without consent.
I dont understand you definition of valuable? Do you mean in terms of revenue generated? Is that what you mean by valuable?
Thanks for the feedback.

There seems to be some conflict with how to define "counterfactual". Merriam-Webster defines it as "contrary to fact" [1], so that comes down to a statement being either true or false. But the way I'm using it (and the research my work is based off) aligns more with the Cambridge dictionary usage: "thinking about what did not happen but could have happened, or relating to this kind of thinking" [2]. Further, Stanford Philosophy states, "Modal discourse concerns alternative ways things can be, e.g., what might be true, what isn’t true but could have been, what should be done. This entry focuses on counterfactual modality which concerns what is not, but could or would have been." [3]

> If you have word from the police that the driver was not found to have any alcohol or if the cyclist wasn't wearing a helmet, those are simply facts, not counterfactuals.

I do believe these are counterfactuals, consistent with definitions from [2] and [3]. For example, if a bicyclist is hit and killed and the news article states the fact he wasn't wearing a helmet, sometimes it feels like the article is insinuating that if the bicyclist had been wearing a helmet, he would have survived. Of course, we cannot know that without investigating how fast the driver was going, how heavy the colliding vehicle was, etc. Some of those crashes are simply unsurvivable. The article espouses a "what could have been" thought. Please feel free to disagree, but provide links so I can read more.

> You can't logically call a pedestrian hit an accident until other hypotheses have been ruled out

I agree, but it seems that journalists take a different view. They see "crash" as intentional (i.e. you used your vehicle to murder someone), and that's why they use the word "accident". The way I see it, accident implies the incident was unforeseeable and unpreventable. I also think "accident" requires a higher burden of proof: just like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares, I think all accidents are crashes, but not all crashes are accidents. In the absence of a conclusive police investigation demonstrating complete unavoidability, the word accident should not be used.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/counterfactual
[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/counterf...
[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/counterfactuals/
I've had trouble with all the services (MSFT and others) sending texts. I blame Verizon more than the big tech folks though, as their SMS is remarkably unreliable.

That said, my first pass through MSFT 2FA hell left me with the indelible impression that they really didn't understand 2FA. I only reluctantly use their products, and have been hit with various "Temporary problem" when attempting to login. Its worse with SSO, in case you are not sure.

More to the point, every scenario where I'm forced to use a MSFT product, another product exists which does a far better job, with far fewer bugs, far better performance, and far better UX/UI. Its as if MSFT hates users.
Do you have enough historical counter examples to show how people absolutely did end up worrying? To be fair, Australia is a long way from Europe for instance, but I'm pretty sure examples from nearer by might still be available
If they were open and upfront about limited masks and reserving N95 and other PPE for healthcare workers there was a possibility of a social stigma of individuals buying up and using N95 and PPE. Like how scalpers get the stink eye and angry stares when they take all the toilet paper, hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes. Sure the masks might not have all gone to the right place but I imagine it would have been better than telling people you don't need masks.
That, and "go through this traffic light and turn left at the next one" is brilliant.
The link you shared is from March 2021

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum...

From a now-deleted tweet from February 29 2020

https://web.archive.org/web/20200229123317/https://twitter.c...

> @Surgeon_General

> Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

> They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!

From a now-deleted webpage

https://web.archive.org/web/20200229164715/https://www.cdc.g...

> CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19.
An MSRP of $1300 would generate fewer recurring news stories than "PS5 out of stock everywhere, people bidding $1300 on Ebay".

Much better for the company to engineer a situation where it looks like the product is flying off the shelves. That signals to on-the-fence customers that this product is especially worth having.
> I cannot fathom why nuclear is preferred to a safe, distributed, clean grid of solar panels.

Night and northern climate.
Yes, with ICF you do need to constantly reignite the plasma.