skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taliesin West is so strikingly beautiful -- it's one of the non-natural places I've been most visually captivated, though of course the surrounding and integrated landscape were of course a big part of it.
It’s a lot of mass to lift; current rocket fuel (RP-1 is kerosene) produces CO2; and rockets occasionally explode and distribute their contents over a wide area. Also, what, you want to leave a bunch of radioactive waste in orbit? Lifting it out of the earth’s gravity well takes a lot of fuel, and then it’s still in a near-earth solar orbit. No thanks.
Does that take into account battery costs and the costs of building up our manufacturing capabilities to build all that? What about the fact that the average lifespan of a panel is about 20 years and solar panels contain very toxic chemicals. There's already a solar waste crisis that's about to grow exponentially and we still don't have a solution for recycling them
It's infinitely closer than being out on the street. It's a foot in the door.
> Just default everyone’s pronouns to “they/them” unless they explicitly change the setting. Doesn’t seem like a big deal.

I fail to see the rational basis of complaining that "default pronouns" are pushed onto a small subset of users, but then suggesting that this problem goes away by pushing "default pronouns" onto everyone.
But also, is one not a fool to just casually give one's competitor advice? I think it must be based on the expectation of an improved relationship - which means a lot for the two companies.
For those of you that are not familiar with Roger Hui, he is the author of "An Implementation of J"[0]. Which is a fantastic resource if you want to know how to implement an array programming language.

[0]: https://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/aioj.pdf
If only their response to 72 poor people dying in the Grenfell Tower fire was as swift and wide-reaching as their response to a millionaire Conservative MP being stabbed.
The US Navy regularly buys small, cheap reactors for submarines and carriers.
There is no precedent in Go. It's been discussed a few times here and there, but real plans AFAIK.
He was sentenced to either community service or 240 days in prison. Presumably the intention and expectation was for him to do the community service. For some reason he chose jail.

Community service seems like a pretty reasonable punishment for attacking computer systems at a university and an ISP...

> The state took away his entire world, his community, friends, all in one swoop.

I mean... it sounds like his entire world/community/friends were mostly bonding over criminal mischief. Oh, and one of those "friends" reported him to the police. Even by criminal gang standards those aren't real friends!

I'm not really convinced that he wouldn't have headed down the same path even without his run-in with the law.

Honestly, at least from the US perspective, the entire thing sounds like it was handled extremely well by the criminal justice system in the Netherlands. A bunch of community service seems pretty reasonable for such serious criminal trespass... and it sounds like they didn't charge him at all for various other criminal acts (e.g., launching DDoS attacks against sites whose owners he didn't like).
Sounds like:

https://gizmodo.com/the-cow-that-proves-you-cant-be-right-ac...
>"He was a threat to society"

No. Society was a threat to this non-violent minor. Whatever "ugly nihilism" a teenager entertains is trivial next to the adult nihilism -- our nihilism -- that destroys empathy, that destroys human lives, discards them in cages.

(By the way, the incomplete capacity to comprehend the negative consequences of actions isn't "nihilism" -- it is "innocence").
Luckily you are allowed and required to wear masks now. But workarounds for this are already arriving - you can be recognized by your shape and walking habit, 5G (AFAIK, or is this a myth?) also makes possible to read your heartbeat and veins pattern.
A HFT that's trading bond futures may only have a handful of trades per day and hold for a long time because it's hard to liquidate effectively. Sometimes they just range all day.

Anyway my point is that it's wrong to think that HFT are going out of business with this change because it's a fundamental misunderstanding of HFT. There's almost always an ML component and always an execution component and these two skills are going to be critical to profiting off the new market structure. Citadel, Jump, Tower, you name it. I promise you they will be all over this new structure.
> we’ve failed

Extremism seems lower than ever to me.
To be fair, the recommendations are based on what you listened to lately in addition to what you've listened to in the past

So each day when my mood changes, I'm suppose start searching for a bunch of tunes and after an hour, I get what I want?

If 70% of folks like popular music, that's the easiest thing to recommend.

"Brilliant AI" ... turns into just top40 radio and victory is proclaimed.

They might want a bit more control, I don't know, but I very highly doubt fewer customers is the goal

This is what I said with a slightly different spin - they're willing to trade control for customers. Whenever companies engage in annoying or abusive policies that drive away customers, it's not that they don't want customers in the abstract, it's that they prefer control and profit margins over customers.
There's definitely some social component. For example there are way more women in STEM in China, Russia and Eastern Europe than in Western countries.

Since these days we're calling harmful gender stereotypes that affect men "toxic masculinity", I vote we call the stereotype that women can't do STEM "toxic femininity". It's time for society to fight against this toxic femininity.
There is typically a reason when APIs are not documented. There are no guarantees given it will keep working etc
Jack Thompson is back, baby.

This story reads like something straight out of the 90s
Python Dill, https://github.com/uqfoundation/dill can serialize closures.
Maybe you're right. Maybe our understanding of "depth and meaning" is not quite the same. Some of us like apples, others oranges. Diversitry makes humanity awesome.
Also relevant to anyone trying this approach to job hunting: https://stackshare.io/
Isn't it about having an equal amount of input during the development of products?
Three tools to profile Django App
It seems likely that their grieving is not why they're laying the blame in such inappropriate places. They've probably had those misconceptions for a long time. Now that their son is dead, it would be rude to criticize them in direct communication, but it doesn't really make them any less wrong.
Cleaning the carpets and floors is also a good way to fill the vacuum.
Women are already over represented in some stem fields. Men are over represented in others. From pew “ Women make up half (50%) of those employed in STEM jobs, slightly higher than their share in the overall workforce (47%). Women’s representation across STEM occupations varies widely: they are heavily overrepresented among health-related jobs, the largest STEM occupational cluster, and underrepresented in several other occupational clusters.”

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/04/01/stem-jobs-see...

The article is clickbait catering to that websites target demographic.
I like to use Obsidian on iOS and then Foam on my computer. They happen to have a lot of the same custom Markdown syntax, and I prefer using VS Code on my computer :)

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
No but they should:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-i...
Grieving by lashing out at all he ever touched and associated with, to absolve themselves from being a failure as a parent in times of need?
No bathrooms. Sink traps (block in the exit side of a ride), roller coasters that fling entire cars of people into oblivion...

Surely I'm not the only one who explored the macabre side of this game?
Interesting that the HMM chapter has been moved to the appendix in the 3ed. A consequence of how deep neural nets (CRFs in particular) have supplanted them for most use cases.
Tried searching up "Elm (programming language)" and it brought up 3 companies near me. None of which actually used Elm. One of them was just some fashion company named "West Elm". I don't think the data is 100% accurate, but still a useful tool nonetheless
I used iTunes Match for years and never noticed anything off, to be honest.
There's an interesting documentary about this subject, describing how as a society becomes more open and women can study whatever they want, the more these women conform to gender stereotypes. E.g. Scandinavian countries having barely any female engineers while in India there are plenty. Let me see if I can find it.

Found it: https://youtu.be/m3tiDr4E4LM

Very interesting documentary, worth the watch imo.

This is also the case in Europe, very surprising statistics where the countries which are less liberal actually have superior female representation in engineering fields. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/E...

I've seen it at my uni too. Only female compsci students where Eastern European or from MENA

"Why are Muslim countries producing so many female engineers"
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/News/the-stem-paradox-why...

"Which countries in Europe have the most women in engineering", spoiler alert: Eastern European countries.

https://irishtechnews.ie/which-countries-in-europe-have-the-...
HVDC is crazy expensive. Solar and batteries are cheap. Local production and storage generally wins.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-...
It’s just electrifying processes that use fuel today. Electric cars. Electric heating. Etc. That means we need more generation than we have today, especially in poor countries.
Do UIs accomplish anything that a terminal doesn’t, besides shininess? Do color screens accomplish anything besides shininess? Why does one need a mouse? It’s surely a solution looking for a problem.
How's the Switch a good example? The hardware (NVIDIA Tegra X1) is generic as can be - also used in NVIDIA Shield/Google Pixel C. If Switch didn't have Nintendo marketing behind it, it'd sink into obscurity as fast as other products on the same hardware platform. Sure it's different, but not in any creative way.
Implementation of sanctions is the end game, and that end game is a national firewall.

The UK should propose the outlaw of all bunny killing videos. Relatively benign you’d think, but as a sideshow it would require some kind of way of blocking the bad guy bunny killers and the way to do that is with a Great Wall of China^WTunbridge Wells^W^W^W^W^Wnational firewall.

Actually, it’s even more meta. The UK establishment has no intention of doing anything as base as constitutionally accountable lawmaking. Far better to allow these US corporations to dodge tax on their UK income, then threaten to crack down on the tax dodging unless FB/GOOG/ELLO bend to the government’s privately (and extra-parliamentary) will.
> Why is that a problem?

Because whether a call should be CTE'd is a decision for the caller to make, not the callee.

> I actually really like seeing if a library function can be cte'd.

That's not what you're seeing with constexpr. It's what you're seeing with consteval. [1]

What you're seeing with constexpr is which functions are prohibited from being CTE'd. Which is pretty useless when you don't intend to CTE them in the first place, and actively counterproductive when you do.

[1] Actually this is kind of a lie too [2], but at least it's much closer to the truth.

[2] Notice that seeing consteval here tells you absolutely nothing: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/bWzd4v6Y1
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
URN - Uniform Resource Name
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier

URI is too generic, "I" in URI means "Identifier", which can be either a semantic/natural or a technical/surrogate key. And in many case it's the same Locator is in URL.

IPFS is a CAS (Content Addressable Storage), so an "Identifier" there is a semantic key (i.e. hash of the content).
I fundamentally do not understand why the .NET foundation exists, and what members gain from joining it. Would someone mind explaining that?
For Uber and Lyft, the Rideshare Bubble Bursts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
That is true, which is why I specifically mentioned "severe" incidents - even if less severe stuff happens and is hushed up, it's impossible to keep radioactive particles blowing across the globe quiet, so we'd surely know of those.
With the GIL, for an int i, `i += 1` is not thread-safe, but IIRC for a list l, `l += [1]` (i.e. extend) is.

Presumably this patch changes the list implementation in some way so that the extend operation remains thread-safe without the GIL.
this is an important story ! you might need to bolster the facts with some non-anonymous details (not here) but if this is as you say - your County officials are certainly not going to be pleased at the portrayal.. so you need to skip them somehow and get to the public.
> Placing a cat in zero-gravity for a prolonged time is just cruel

Do we have evidence they wouldn’t be able to adapt?
Source: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...
if it was slow running on a dedicated vps, not super encouraging.

The thing I liked about the idea of IPFS pinning is that you are paying per byte stored, v.s. per byte accessed, as long as the p2p sharing works. I.e. hosting-via-pinning a website only you read would cost the same as hosting a website that the whole internet reads.
To those who want social media regulated, this is the kind of thing you'll actually get. So be careful what you wish for.
> someone is more likely to try the credit card trick to shim a door open (type in a fake or shared serial key) than acquire lockpicking tools (download a crack).

In theory this sounds reasonable but in reality - no, it's no difference. Serial, keygen, crack - it's all just a minor, negligible variation of the ritual people do when they want an app but are not going to pay for it (because from the perspective of an eastern user all the big apps genuinely look exorbitantly overpriced).
Peergos is an interesting human-friendly project built on top of IPFS. Works great so far.

Of interest: they provide a trustless way to store your data encrypted data on centralised boxes (S3, Backblaze) if you want.

https://peergos.org/
Yes, there is a "right to panorama" in most countries. However this dataset has been recorded with the _express permission_ of all the people involved. Which is different to the imagenet, where they just crawled a whole bunch of images and called it a day.

Second, you need to take the "Argh its facebook, boo hiss" hat off. Then apply some critical thinking. an AR world that is connected to the physical _requires_ this kind of thing. Your device need to anticipate what you are going to do so that it can work out the probability of your need and act on it. Like Jeeves, but less able, and more annoying. As its ML, it need a massive dataset to train on. this is <0.5% of that dataset.

Depending on how things are done, if facebook are first to market with a usable AR system, they will be forced to have anonymisation built in (as in remove faces at the sensor level, unless you have permission to remember). Apple will have a showy "pixelation" layer, that is mostly ineffectual, but will PR it out to make them seem like they've cured cancer. Google, if they ever manage to get back into AR will just make things cheap and let the shitty android marketplace spy on what ever they like.

You will also have to remember that the power budget of these glasses is absolutely fucking tiny. All day screen, SLAM, AI and possibly music will need to all fit in to ~2-5watt hours. This means that virtually everything will need to be on device. (dropping to the cloud eats a boat load of power.)

Now that's not to say that 100% accurate [if thats even possible] "diarisation" won't rip society apart.

There are lots of questions that need to be answered, the problem is, tech journalists are ill equipped to ask them. Most of the teams designing the glasses are well meaning, but their targets and life experience has not equipped them to do a good job at ethics.
It all comes with a price, Germany has now the highest energy price in the World!
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...

and we still have winter/fall times, where renewable energy is just not enough
https://www.agora-energiewende.de/service/agorameter/chart/p...
Yes, the author focuses on a possible shortage of resources as the cause of the problem, but the Forester effect certainly played a decisive role in the case of the chip shortage.
Anyway, we live in a very fragile civilization, and we have to shorten the supply chains or we will have big problems in the future.
I think of it like the UN. You may not like the USSR (the creators of the UN certainly didn't) but if you don't give them a seat at the table the whole endeavor is useless. Microsoft is by far the biggest contributor to .NET in general, and the .NET foundation projects in particular. No organization can purport to have a say over the evolution of .NET unless Microsoft has a seat at the table.
Right, but maybe a military supercomputer could compute such a thing. I know my pi surely can't.
IPFS's design makes it so that it's all of those things, or none of them. Picking one of them doesn't fit the shape of the technology. IPFS is basically the answer to the question "what is the RIGHT way to decentralize the web?". If you think about that question hard enough, then anyone can see that their way of doing it is the "right" way. It's just obvious. The problem is that all of these mutually supporting components need to be bootstrapped in order to make it work. You can't take the storage of content and federate it out across the entire internet without being able to refer to it by a content id. You can't just have content addressing by itself, because then it's inconvenient to find things on a day-to-day basis. So that means you need a DNS equivalent. And you can't assume a decentralized graph of network participants will bother to serve this information unless there's reward in it for them. So you come to filecoin. Etc.

Point being, they didn't just bite these pieces off randomly: they see a picture of how the internet _could_ work, and they're trying to realize it. If they can get it working, then boom! You have decentralized internet, and you also have a ton of bonuses that just fall out from this being the right way to do things: resistance to censorship, better archiving, reduced influence of web megacorps, etc. But you have to have it -all- to actually be better. The sum is WAY greater than the parts.

The trouble is, this statement:

> Right now it does none of those things well.

is true.

So I get what you're saying. To build user-adoption, they need to find a way to deliver an improved experience, not just an improved model that would be better if more people used it. But I object to the idea that the solution is to choose one of those things at the exclusion of the others. The whole idea doesn't make sense if they choose one. If I were advising them, I wouldn't tell them to reduce their scope in terms of "doing all the things", but rather reduce their scope in terms of doing all the things for the entire internet. They should find some kind of sub-network or community that gets extra value out of the decentralization, and prove out the concept there. Maybe it's a big company's intranet, or a network of (paging ARPA) universities?
Baseline is a hard political requirement. The alternative is just turning people’s power off when there isn’t enough sunshine. Literally no electable party will make that choice; it’s electoral suicide. They’ll all choose to produce power with coal before they’ll choose to turn their citizens lights off.
> At a previous company we had someone angrily call in with a bug. We had moved a button several pixels and this broke some automation they had built which relied on the pixel coordinates of the button.

This is part of why Windows doesn't update the old Control Panel screens - the UI is the API for automation like this, and backwards compatibility matters more than consistency.
> if it's outlawed?

It will be licensed. Banks will have a license. Companies will be able to apply for VPN to carry on (and required to monitor employees traffic)
The analogy is just plain wrong.

search for content = it presumes that there's a google-like indexing of content, and then a DNS-like way to retrieve it.

It seems to me that IPFS, in this analogy, is simply a different way to address a web page / document.

note: I am very familiar with IPFS. I just think that this analogy is really poor.
Imagine all the left over arsenic waste.
Wow - TIL. Thanks.

I've been out of the HFT business for a while, so i guess things have moved on.
My own take on this state of affair is that I would trade a localized, visible and accountable (in all meanings of the term) pollution with our current globalized, amorphous and invisible (for now and still...) pollution that will lead to terrifying effects down the line (given some are already there).

Nuclear is not clean per se, but in scale, it is much, much more preferable.
Wind turbines aren’t "safe"[1]. Relative safety matters.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-ea...
Community service usually isn’t that bad, people volunteer to do it all of the time. Just from what I read in the story, it seemed Edwin was more inclined to want to stay inside than interact with others in person. I also assume the exchange rate between community service and jail time is reasonable. I think in his eyes the extra time was a painless and quicker way to pay his debt.
> Basically ban virality.

That seems roughly as feasible as banning maths.
NEPA is the environmental law stating that everyone needs to disclose environmental effects ahead-of-time, before you build stuff. There's no NEPA agency, its simply the law.

FAA, being a government agency, is required to follow NEPA.

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The accusation, from ESG_Hound on this matter, is that FAA is rubber stamping the approval process and that SpaceX is on the path to making environmental changes without disclosure. There were many blog-posts about the deficiencies in this NEPA / disclosure document.

The one this topic is dealing with, is that the emission numbers simply don't make sense: SpaceX seems to have described Starbase as some kind of fracking operation. The estimated emissions are way too high.

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The problem is, if we let this approval go through, then SpaceX would be allowed to do fracking-related operations on Starbase (or at least, they seem to be doing substantial upstream / midstream operations. Maybe not fracking specifically, but... there's a lot of missing details in their disclosure).

There's two ways to think about this:

1. SpaceX's NEPA request is "correct" -- Which means they're really trying to do upstream/midstream natural gas operations (a well known dirty industry) in a federal reserve property.

2. SpaceX's NEPA request is "incorrect" -- Which means they filed their paperwork horribly incorrectly.

I think we're all hoping for #2. Because if #1 is true, then SpaceX is basically trying to become a fossil fuel company all of a sudden. In which case, we need to send the document back to SpaceX and ask them: hey, is this really what you're trying to do here? I thought you were just trying to launch rockets at Boca Chica? What's all this crap about VOC emissions and NOx emissions per year doing in this nominally "rocket ship base" ???
Agreed, probably sub-1%, but you mentioned them specifically :)
Edit: Actually maybe I'm wrong... even if you scope it it won't warn you.
Lack of discriminated unions and single case unions make C# a no go if you want to fully scratch the functional itch