skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The new technology *will "be* a significant milestone

> The project *aims to develop* the technology for industrial scale production *within three years*

Still waiting for Elon Musk "next year AI will drive your Tesla" 2016 promise.
I've noticed that I've come to rely more and more on the expandable "Similar Questions" entries in Google, which contain text snippets with the answers to those questions and the linked document which is providing this text.

Search engines without it feel pretty static, like what you get is what you see, and in order to improve your search you need to issue a new one.
What irks me about this is every human experience is reflected in "changes in body chemistry and the functioning of the brain". But that's about as useful as saying that a car breaks down due to mechanical changes. It's not wrong, but it's pretty useless.
A direct link would be very much appreciated
20 years ago nuclear was cheaper than solar.

Today, solar is cheaper than nuclear.

P.S. And a large part of the reason for that is because Germany and Denmark invested heavily in wind & solar while it didn't make economic sense. They really helped bump us up the manufacturing learning curve. Thanks, Denmark and Germany!
Thanks for the correction. I hadn’t heard of that project.
DuckDuckGo publishes daily traffic metrics themselves here: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
Marijuana: Much more than you wanted to know
Myers-Briggs is mostly [1] pseudo-scientific BS. And the results may not even be very stable from one test-taking to the next.

[1] Mostly. MB and more recent variants can be useful for reinforcing that different people have different worldviews and tendencies. There's also some evidence that different groups, such as different professions (like programmers), do tend to test differently as a population and that has certain implications when they're creating products for a different population (like the general public) that tends to test differently.
Yes, stuff broke in the ports collection. Not sure about planes but at least one monitor exploded.
Ah, so it's at least more efficient for the wallet. Makes sense, thanks.
The interesting question here perhaps isn’t so much whether knowing if you are a particular color or 4-letter Myers-Briggs combination helps you or whether there is a solid foundation to the categorization at all. What’s interesting here is rather: what happens when you think of everyone as a pigeonholed category. Intuitively it seems it should be mostly negative especially if the categories don’t even offer any behavioral insight.

But something tells me that there could also be some positive effects from actually wondering about the behavior of others and how you treat them, even if it’s pigeonholing and preconceptions based on bogus research.

A bit like every single diet works (compared to no diet) because the fundamental thing is dieting in the sense that you think actively about diet.

As for this book: It’s a pretty useless book, but I can see how it’s appealing. I can’t see how it being unscientific makes it worse than 90% of similar books in the bookstore. This is a pop book you read on a plane. It’s not a scientific publication. If he claims it’s solid science that’s obviously bad, but I’m sure all the mindfulness and yoga books do too - and all of those are certainly not very scientific.
It's hard to remain excited when so many professors don't prepare for lectures, teach outdated material, rely on question banks for exams, and play the part of ball-breakers. I went back to school for a different degree program in my 30s with a fresh perspective and a much bigger drive from 15 years ago when I did my first two degrees. Mind you that it was during COVID but what did I get? A bunch of "read these chapters, take these exams" kind of lectures. The current education model is shot, particularly the PhD degree where you practically grind out nonsense for years on end only for your advisor to collect the funds and stick their name on top of your papers.
They run ads based on keywords, not the person doing the search. They also earn revenue as an affiliate. (You click an amazon link and make a purchase. They earn a small commish off of it) I've been using duck for awhile now.
Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail
There was an earlier observation that lawn darts were regulated because it turned out they were designed in a way that kids could die using them as designed.

I brought it up because in your comment you quoted the following

>> There are no human beings involved

to which you replied

>Humans created and manage the behavior of the automaton.

The no human beings involved is an explanation why the scenario of Alexa telling a child to do something dangerous is not the same as a human on the phone doing it, because there are no humans involved at the time that Alexa says this. This was considered an important distinction to make because if it were like a human being talking on the phone and saying do this dangerous thing the phone would not be considered a dangerous product and only the person would be considered dangerous.

Thus when you say "Humans created and manage the behavior of the automaton." this in context must function as a saying the use of Alexa is equivalent to the use of a phone and therefore Alexa cannot be considered a dangerous product, however the humans involved in Alexa are removed in time and do not take part in the actual dangerous action (in opposition to the example given of a bad actor on a phone call) and thus that a human created and managed the behavior of the automaton is analogous to the fact that humans created the lawn darts.

If the lawn darts are negligent product design then it at least leaves the question open as to whether or not Alexa is as well.
https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ncj4vz/we_are_the_s...
> The problem of energy storage when the wind isn't blowing, remains.

Any thoughts on trying to exceed average demand & sell off excess at lower costs to services that can be ready & waiting for excess lower cost electricity?

To me this makes more sense than investing in storage resources. Obviously some storage resources would be needed & you couldn't only rely on a single type of generation from one geographical location.
From the epilogue,

>Since this article was published in spring 2019...

So 2019
Thanks for that perspective. I just finished my applications last month and am anxiously waiting on decisions. I always thought 4 years was the absolute minimum.
I agree completely with your last paragraph. If I wanted to be a data scientist I’d be a data scientist. I don’t want my actuarial organisation wasting time and money trying to market us as “data scientists” when we are not data scientists. It’s a completely different job. It’s almost comparable to the profession deciding that we should now market ourselves as lawyers because we also contribute to writing contracts and treaties.

I would argue though that being an actuary doesn’t automatically make you bad at anything outside of Excel.

I’m not a data scientist, but I’m sure if I decided to go down that route my skill set would put me in a good position.

I have a very good grounding in statistics and probability.

I use R/Python quite heavily, regularly building models from scratch.
I work with GLMs, Copulas, Monte Carlo simulation etc.

I deal with big volumes of data and have to write efficient algorithms to deal with it.

Most of my skills didn’t come from the exam path, but doing the exams also didn’t make me bad at all those other things.

Just being an actuary obviously doesn’t mean you have those skills though, which is what I was getting at with my “hit and miss” comment.
Ask HN: Any better alternatives to Google Workspace for a family of five
What do you use to host emails on a custom domain for your family? Not necessarily a DIY hosting but something simpler, economical, and privacy preserved.
Linked article mentions wax, as does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron :

Speculative uses include as a candlestick holder (wax was found inside two examples); dice; survey instruments for estimating distances to (or sizes of) distant objects;[5] devices for determining the optimal sowing date for winter grain;[6] gauges to calibrate water pipes, legionary standard bases,[7] or a coin measuring device for counterfeit detection. Several dodecahedra were found in coin hoards, providing evidence that their owners either considered them valuable objects, or believed their only use was connected with coins.

I'd imagine merchants counting money would want a non-destructive way to hold candles. Tons of great theories though.
Hydrogen only makes sense when you get to around 90-95% decarbonization of the grid.
“ Really intelligent people only listen to science and do things backed by science and lots of data.”

You know _no one_ smarter than you who follows a deity?
I was talking about others that I've seen hurt because of "0 knowledge". Those that won't use an offline wallet.

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Fyi, don't bet too much on it.

When the pandemic is over, i think the gradual decline of crypto will start again.

If they happens, it will take most of these projects with it. Including your NFT dreams :)
I would argue that there should be way more Michelin-star restaurants than exist, but they artificially cap the supply to keep them rare. It's a form of the same thing.
ways to monetize "open" are missing
Prince of Persia is a fun game. I never really got beyond level 6 without cheats, and the time limit always got me.

A year ago I wanted to really finish it the intended way, so I did a challenge - I'd play the game, but whenever I died, I start from the beginning. Took me about two days to get a no death run, but I managed to do it. Had about 18 minutes left of the ingame clock.
I thought the article was very direct and fair about the fact that the system in question seems based on DiSC, and that there's not enough evidence to really say one way or the other.
I agree with this sentiment. I think a dream would be to get a condo in a desert town for a couple months to escape the winter.
I switched to HTML DDG for a week and the search results are worse than the normal version. I had to switch back after a week even though I was really enjoying the lightweight experience.
I’ve worked on systems where data has a 100-126 year retention objective. We had the “fun” of dealing with this looking backward as far as 1968!

When we reimplemented the system from an ancient mainframe, we stored the value as a Unix timestamp and a standard representation of local time. It was derived from an old format going backwards and recorded in the new format going forward.

Having both is critical for our successors to figure out wtf is going on. UTC 1/1/70 is an anchor point, and the local representation is canonical at a point in time. I don’t recall how 1968-1970 was handled. Not only do you have to plan for “Berlin time” going away, but for daylight (or double daylight) times changing. Having both entries allows you to reconcile, so the poor bastard figuring out what to purge in 2090 has a fighting chance!
Thanks for this, I was wondering why every sentence was its own paragraph.
US foreign policy is driven mostly by short-term politics, not coherent strategy
NFT content is 99% of the time already available free. You can think of it as one person paying the cost for everyone else to get free access. They are usually stored on ipfs or arweave so you can just follow the content id for the file you want.
Beyond immediate metadata which you can access the use of the nfts are like keys to services (chatrooms, merch, club memberships) which you cant copy anyway because they are behind the private key of the owner of the nft.

So there would be very little reason to duplicate a chain for that. You can already get the free stuff and you can’t copy the rest because clubs will look at their register not yours.
> My university now requires the use of a school-managed VPN on personal devices to access most student services outside campus.

> They do not and have never offered school-supplied laptops like companies usually do for secure connections.

One solution here, although you may not like it, is to obtain a second "personal device" and dedicate it to use with the school network. I.e., supply your own "school-supplied laptop" that is only used to access the school, and never used for any personal use.

Note -- this does not mean you have to buy a new laptop/desktop, a used/second-hand system that is a few years behind cutting edge is likely still more than enough for school use, while being significantly less expensive than a brand new system.
"Some professionals recognised talk of colours from the infamous Myers-Briggs test, administered by less-respectable management consultants. It built on the mystical ideas of the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, active at the start of the 20th century, whose theories are now mostly of historical interest. The theory of Myers-Briggs was not something modern psychologists took seriously. Since the test had been developed quite some time ago it had been the subject of extensive research and the results had revealed serious flaws."

I didn't know Myers Briggs has a colour component, tangentially: crazy to me how often I see a "Myers Briggs Score" on resumes these days, especially in Korea. I was under the impression most people didn't take it very seriously, at least not seriously enough to put on a resume.
The INTP thing is MBTI type, and although it's widely derided, it's pretty strongly correlated with the much more respectable Big Five personality traits[0]. It's not 100% bullshit, since knowing it tells you a little bit about how someone will act.

I do agree that cutting someone out of your life solely due to a personality test is putting the cart before the horse, regardless of how scientifically rigorous it is.

[0] https://dynomight.net/in-defense-of-myers-briggs.html
They're making more than $100mm a year via ads and have been profitable since 2014 according to this Techcrunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/on-a-growth-tear-duckduckg...

They use Bing's ad network (or at least they used to) and don't expose any privacy details about their users, so advertisers can't target you based on demographic or psychographic information.
1. Too hot for too long (winters are pretty good though), at least in the cold I can get outside with layers on and be comfortable, no escaping the heat
2. I'm legally blind and deaf, Amsterdam is giving me back freedom because a car is not a necessity (it is in Scottsdale/Phoenix, don't let anyone tell you otherwise)
3. I don't necessarily always feel safe there (especially in a car)

Scottsdale does have a lot of things going for it, don't get me wrong:
1. Lots of cool restaurants/activities (I used to go to ifly once a week for training)
2. Airport is very accessible
3. Good nature spots just a short drive out of the city (mini vacations for a weekend are great)
4. Lots of disc golf parks which I've taken up as another sport I can mostly participate in despite my vision loss
5. Rent is affordable compared to the other big cities

Lots of good reasons to move to Scottsdale, don't get me wrong. If it weren't so hot I probably wouldn't have left as readily.
I presume this is the cause (not entirely) of their advertising campaign they did in London recently. Couldn't find a source only a reddit post[0]. They were on buses, the underground and in train stations.

Any other city recently get them as well?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/qyss8g/spotted_...
in the original DOS version you used shift to strike and up to block.
The difference is that gold has useful applications which act as a floor for pricing and moderate fluctuations. Gold bugs can still lose their shirts speculating but a normal buyer knows the value will never be zero.

Bitcoin is in contrast a pure fiat currency with very weak backing. Nobody has a need for it which can’t be satisfied at least as well by alternatives and it requires a very expensive always-on network to perform transactions. The floor is zero and liquidity is a very real concern.
Some parts are perennial but he still uses math that mixes in 15 year old assumptions with unchanging assumptions.
Changing the config enables the RCE vulnerability.
The ground principle here is one of flexibility: that your model of behavior should allow for context dependence, not that it need be entirely context driven. As an analogy, consider a ground principle that your statistical model shouldn’t assume normal distributions or equal variance.
> Renewables and electrification are the primary solution to the climate change problem

Not until grid-scale energy storage is widely available and affordable.
> because I have never once encountered a dependency that was not in its registry. It always has what I need. The same is not true of MacPorts.

This is the primary reason for using a package manager. What you are claiming is extraordinary, that MacPorts has some number of ports that can't build because of missing dependencies. What you are claiming is MacPorts is hopelessly broken, which ironically is precisely the way I feel about Homebrew, that while using it for a handful of ports may be fine, but that it plays fast and loose with UNIX standards and ultimately breaks down. I think it is far more likely that you came across a problem either due to the state of your system, or that there was an actual defect (which is ordinary, and that likely as not had been fixed before long), and you didn't understand and didn't want to bother with it. What I suspect is that you had one single problem somewhere and incorrectly believe, for reasons beyond understanding, a fallacious and sweeping generalization that MacPorts pervasively has missing dependencies. That's what I think because your claim is borderline absurd.

But if you're happy with Homebrew, more power to you. As I stated, I disagree, and personally find Homebrew not merely superfluous but broken fundamentally for it's underlying ideology, which is to ignore the standards on the systems it is targeting, and if not for it's constant desperate and ravenous marketing, and being propped up by unrelated projects, would have died years ago, but the momentum of its hype keeps it dragging its ugly mess along without actually moving forward. I could be mistaken, but that's how I see it.

> Here's a good example that I just found randomly right now:
MacPorts Erlang: version 23.1, from September 23, 2020 (https://ports.macports.org/port/erlang/).
Homebrew Erlang: 24.2, from December 15, 2021 (https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/erlang).

No this is not in the least what you were specifying. Now your newly introduced complaint is not that dependencies are missing, but that the package is not at the bleeding edge, because you need your packages at the bleeding edge in your production for unnamed reasons. You are among those that have apparently not yet been burned by applying every update the moment you see it, have not yet seen your production grind to a halt because of your itchy trigger finger. But it is inevitable if you're applying updates without consideration of the fact that the only possible reasons for applying an update to production (as opposed to development) is 1) new features that are essential to your production, 2) bug fixes that repair your production, and/or 3) security patches which are relevant to your production or system. Without consideration of these, that is, if these considerations make no difference to your production or system, you are applying updates without reason. I never let it get this far with Homebrew, so I don't have experience with rolling back updates or upgrades with it. But MacPorts takes this into consideration, and the method for doing so is well documented in the online manual and proscribed by its listserv members generously if the manual was ignored.
When you're comparing cost, are you comparing the total system?

This means backup + grid + management of intermittence?

Because comparing the cost of a solar panel and a nuclear power-plant is like comparing apples and bananas if you actually want to power-up your computer 24/7.
I used DuckDuckGo yesterday specifically because it doesn't redirect you if it detects you are using Internet Explorer.

I had an underpowered corporate laptop that's MS Edge session was too bloated, but didn't have the ability to add any extensions that would facilitate managing and saving that session. So when it had a BSOD as I was trying to run a heavy application on it simultaneously, I was determined not to run both MS Edge and this heavy app at the same time.

But then, I had to Google something...

Internet Explorer to the rescue! Except if you want to access Google, that is. If you go to it, then you'll be redirected to Microsoft, and then they'll automatically launch MS Edge. Now I have to choose between googling my question, running that damn app, and risking loosing my previous session if the laptop has another BSOD before I click on the "Restore" button.

Out of curiosity, I tried accessing DuckDuckGo in IE. Not only did it work fine, but there was also no silly redirect.
But is solar + batteries cheaper than nuclear or solar + long duration storage cheaper than nuclear. This is the real question.

Solar’s great, but the grid has to be balanced 24/7/365. If we are going to electrify, will we need massive amount of electricity in old wind months when the sun isn’t necessarily shining and the wind isn’t necessarily blowing. We need a diversity of options so the grid is robust.
Big 5 boils down to 5 words, not a scam..
How does this compare to Penrose?

Also, has anybody tried using Inkscape [1,2] or another vector drawing tool for this? I imagine it would be faster and more intuitive than learning Tikz.

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17610717/drawing-an-undi...

[2] - The following appears to be part of a presentation: https://gould.cx/ted/presentations/txlf16/Technical%20Drawin...
In most startups I’ve worked at, the engineers have for the most part been the ones yearning to work on more sustainable strategic solutions to problems, but it’s the pressure from the rest of the business to ship ASAP that forces everyone into a tactical execution mode.

There’s always been an emphasis on the numbers that need to go up, in order to make the fundraising deck look good so that the company can keep existing; whilst focusing on the long term can often temporarily have a negative impact on numbers (or at least stall them), such that those accountable for those numbers will never sign off on it.

Yet these companies ended up as unicorns, so they’re at least doing _something_ right.
Nah people need to go this route just to pass the interview and get the $600k job by answering the question made up for the interview - it always need to scale globally with at least 99.99 availability and development time /other non-tech dimensions almost always not in scope
Quite common I believe [1], but typically Universities will not make their own VPN, but use some OTS component, and often those will have an open-source implementation if you would prefer to use that. If you're concerned, then only install the VPN on a VM and use that exclusively for accessing those services required.

[1] https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/departments/it-services/campus-o...
Bare-Metal vs. Virtual Machines
All over Seattle. Also have been seeing them more and more often online. “Hey we’re following you around the internet to insist that we don’t track you” has been rubbing be the wrong way a lot recently. I stick with Bing.
I think basing what should you get basing on your needs, rather than on your worth is a basic mistake.
This thesis will be obvious to many, but I think it's still worth reading for the concise argument and compelling evidence Hanania brings together.
> Today, solar is cheaper than nuclear.

Are you counting the generation capacity that has to exist to backup the solar? If not, then you are comparing apples to oranges.
which is a step up from sinister