skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not that far apart. The challenge with subsidies is the administration and making sure you exhaustively subsidize different options. It’s also infeasible for smaller investments such as radiator foil.

My underlying assumption is that you would reduce the 2k compensation in my example. So the incentive for any saving remains.

On duration: I installed solar for 0.80€ (ex vat) per Wp (which generates about 1kWh p.a.). In NL electricity rates recently spiked to 0.45 euro per kWh. Based on that, payback time is now less than 2 years (that includes everything, panels, inverter and installation, etc.)

but I think we agree the challenge is to find a way to create a good market incentive for consumers and industry to reduce their externalities/CO2.
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Because TLS is already broken with the trusted model. CAs subpoenaed and also hacked a few years ago. PKI is dead.

If you're a threat level is the state then there's very little to hide from them.
Do you have something, more specific than a long now foundation video link, with which you propose that a ~1-3°C temperature increase the atmosphere produces meaningful differences in volcanic eruptions, processes that are generally thought to result from processes driven in the mantle, athenosphere, and below? (Remember that the typical temperatures of these regions are around ~1000°C, and they are generally well-insulated by miles of crust.)

like heck I'd listen to "something something ice sheet rebound" except this is Tonga and it's quite some distance away from any ice sheets

don't make me watch the thing! this is your comment, you do the work and tell me what's meaningful in there and how it's connected
> Ex: When REvil accidentally hacked an oil-pipeline (instead of a more passive target), the blowback was so severe that REvil disbanded and ran away. It caused an international incident, to the point where Russia has caught the attackers and is offering them up to the USA as a peace offering.

On a similar vein: Hackers Apologize to Arab Royal Families for Leaking Their Data

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nw8m/conti-ransomware-hack...
Never thought I would ever anthropomorphize an actual volcano and yet here I am, feeling sad that he never found love.

I have a dream I hope will come true

That you’re here with me and I’m here with you

I wish that the Earth, sea, and the sky up above-a

will send me someone to lava
I think the classes opt for starting with a simple mental model students can adopt, which is gradually replaced with a more robust and nuanced mental model.

In this case he wasn't talking just about frequentist methods tho, it's also talking about doing statistics without first doing science (and formulating a causal model).

I would be wary of jumping to conclusions from that introduction alone if you haven't seen the rest of the course or the book.
Sure, you need to keep up with it the rest of the world. You used to have to include a C compiler with your OS. When was the last time Windows came with a C compiler?
Can you outline how this is supposed to free us from car-centric infrastructure? Unless it's coupled with style kind of Uber-subscription dystopia we would still need room to park all of these vehicles. While downtown parking can be a problem, garages aren't, and neither of these problems is on there scale of the larger infrastructure problems.

The biggest problems with car-centric infrastructure are that they require a huge amount of ever-larger roads to funnel people (in cars) often tens of miles to do anything. Even in the rent-a-taxi scenario you would still need these roads, which would probably need more maintenance, not less. And all of that sprawl has knock-on effects as roads create divisions in communities, and low-density housing, enabled by car infrastructure, means you have and know fewer neighbors.
> Microsoft has a weird culture, […] very passive aggressive between departments.

https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
The one I have does not filter the exhalation, but I seem to remember that the goal of masks were to stop the spread and this one does.
The author seems bright and I'm sure he realizes this, but it is of course true that (what I assume to be) the premise of his article--that individual thriving is most important--is itself a core component of modern liberal ideology.
Proposal to use hyphens correctly
Gee, thanks Trudeau I can't wait to pay more money for goods and services.
Nailed it https://imgur.com/a/WQMr5w9
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai involved in ad collusion plot
The New Orleans City Council regulates them, not the state. Not sure if the city Building and Permits office (which has had its own travails) gets involved in this.
That's a good point. I was wondering about Zig's defer, which has a block scope, and I suspect it's exactly because of this issue.

Go can allocate defers on the heap, but that's a different story.
There are some ideas more important than lives.
That’s why we fight wars.
I think "ironman mode" deserves a separate discussion, because there is such a wide gap between games where it's merely a higher stakes setting and games where recovery from setbacks is a core element, and not just as a lofty goal ("wouldn't it be nice if people played that way?") but made so interesting that players actually play that way, and not just a tiny fraction of the most masochistic.

That difference is best illustrated comparing Crusader Kings and its seemingly similar sibling Europa Universalis: (I'm talking about recent incarnations, I don't know CK1 or EU[123]) CK is full of rebound mechanics that work for both bad decisions and for RNG setbacks, whereas EU is mostly straight-forward 4X where any bit of falling behind ruthlessly compounds.
I agree with most of your points, but I wanted to also point out that you don't need C++'s ctor/dtor spaghetti to have useful RAII: Rust achieves it without even having first-class constructors (and opt-in custom destructors via Drop).
Anything can be a company if enough is said about them. A 2B market cap also helps.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KRO/
The author obviously put a lot of thought and effort into this article. I’m surprised he let that rough calculation be the basis for so much of it. I haven’t looked, but I suspect it isn’t hard to find expected maintenance costs for various types of roads.
Medical devices running windows 7 or earlier are not allowed on networks anywhere. These devices connect through serial and are accessed over terminal servers. The terminal servers are the vulnerable point.
You should be isolating either way. Just because you can go everywhere doesn't mean you should. People going out and about while unknowingly positive is why this thing won't end. Testing positive and deliberately not isolating is even worse.

You're right though: If you look at it only through the lens of individual incentives, the official test has no upside. One of the huge problems with governments' responses to this pandemic is they are not closing these loopholes. People will take the most convenient option, not necessarily the one benefiting public health. To align individual and societal incentives, governments need to make not-isolating when infectious more inconvenient/costly than isolating.
The "economist" proposed a solution: tire cyber-security incidents to the stock market. The approach proposed was something akin to "have someone count and display the incidents of each company and blast radius". I'm not sure if this would actually work.
so instead we have “not banks” that are less accountable?
Adding a statement that would require a dynamic allocation for every iteration of a loop is kind of insane for C.

It doesn't matter what the defer does, if it's allocated in a for statement and doesn't go off until the surrounding function exits, then it's going to have to stuff tons of function pointers and parameters somewhere, presumably alloca'd onto the stack over and over.

That's not C. That shouldn't be C.

There are a dozen languages for doing clever dynamic magical things in code. C is still fairly straightforward. Use one of the other languages instead of bagging down C with complexity until it turns into another difficult C++ variant over time.
The way I see it, Stallman is an end user freedom maximalist with end user roughly meaning person sitting in front of a computer using software. Thinking like this, any obstacle blocking a user from complete control of the computation on the computer is evil.

This of course completely disregards the notion of computers having owners.

Unfortunately, we are currently way way in the other direction, with owners being deprived of control over owned devices by manufacturers and vendors.
I haven't been in a fire alarm caused by an actual dangerous fire. I have been annoyed by several false alarms and fire tests.

Staying behind had actually been the smart move.
The author does seem quite bitter. He makes a lot of uncharitable assumptions.
Here are a few of the goals with this project, because the platforms I'm aware of don't fulfill all my requirements:

* CompSci focus. No "learn React in 4 weeks" nonsense.
* Interactive, you need to be writing code to learn.
* Free to audit
* Modern technologies
* Linear, most people don't know what they should be learning when they go to YouTube or Udemy
Some people dislike windows but haven’t experienced modern niceties like powershell

I doesn’t totally suck
But you see what happens when there is no scanning at all: politicians hook onto this awful crime to argue against e2ee.

Of course, e2ee everywhere (e2eee? e2e3?) would be all fine and dandy if you didn't have these malicious actors. But we do.

Suppose there are three options:

1. Encryption and no CSAM scanning
2. Encryption and on-device CSAM scanning
3. No encryption

Currently we have 1 (more or less). Legislators are increasingly averse to keeping it that way, and are arguing for 3. Apple proposed 2.

What is the alternative? Is there another option?
“All tumblr users are either too young for tumblr or too old for tumblr” - “tumblr teen” argumate (argumate is certainly not a teenager (I think he is probably like, almost 40?) but some news article referred to him as such at one point)

I wouldn’t say there’s nothing interesting on tumblr.

Like, there’s nostalgebraist’s writing on machine learning,
Also other people posting some math content.

It is a social blogging site. People write blogs there.
Mozilla should finance something like this and make an OS. Call it Firefox OS. Oh, wait

But in all seriousness I would use a Chrome OS made by Mozilla with a daring new interface (tabs everywhere!), unixy with a brand new text shell, etc.
There's a book I like called "Stumbling Upon Happiness", which says that people are generally happier with making changes than staying put - even if things go wrong, they are very good at rationalizing them. So that would argue for taking the SWE offer as a tie-breaker.

Re the money, you might well be able to command a much higher salary as a PhD in computer vision / deep learning, which would be an argument for continuing the PhD.

The part that gives me pause is that you are not really excited about your PhD topic. It's a long process, so I think you will want to have that excitement to be able to sustain you through doing a PhD.
>Sysinternal process explorer is the ultimate taskmgr for Windows

The whole Sysinternals Process Utilities[1] is a goldmine worth bookmarking for any windows power user, and the quality of the tools is great.

The only thing I don't understand is why they aren't shipped by default with every windows installation. They're so useful and no bloat, it boggles my mind why they're not there by default.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
Somewhat related: I hacked some macro up in gnu89 C to get a Go styled defer once upon a time. I felt bad for making my compiler course instructor review that code... Very convenient, though.
There was a great little tool that I think used to be in Ubuntu, but possibly another distro, where you could press a keyboard combo, and it would turn the cursor into a little crosshairs, and then if would kill the app running whatever window you clicked on. I don't remember what it was called, anyone know?
there are plenty of places that have their interns there for free, even in municipalities where it is illegal to not pay interns

plenty of VC backed companies still do, and the interns still get the experience they were looking for. its not an endorsement, just an acknowledgment, of reality.
I think the parent was commenting not on the ability of disfavored groups to use encrypted chat to organize, but on how readily the current social elite can be scared into banning anything by telling them that such disfavored groups are using it.
The biggest problem with Bayesian statistics in practice is the frequent reliance on relatively slow, unreliable methods such as MCMC.

The Bayesian methodology community loves to advocate for packages like Stan, claiming that they make Bayesian stats easy. This is true... relative to Bayesian stats without Stan. But these packages are often much, much harder to get useful results from than the methods of classical statistics. You have to worry about all sorts of technical issues specific to these methodologies, because these issues don't have general technical solutions. Knowing when you even have a solution is often a huge pain with sampling techniques like MCMC.

So you have to become an expert in this zoo of Bayesian technicalities above and beyond whatever actual problem you are trying to solve. And in the end, the results usually carry no more insight or reliability than you would have gotten from a simpler method.

I recommend learning about Bayesianism at a philosophical level. Every scientist should know how to evaluate their results from a Bayesian perspective, at least qualitatively. But don't get too into Bayesian methodology beyond simple methods like conjugate prior updating... unless you are lucky enough to have a problem that is amenable to a reliable, practical Bayesian solution.
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> Hardware cost + software cost…

$100 just for MS Windows/286.

May 28, 1991 — "$499.95 Smalltalk/V Windows"

https://books.google.com/books?id=hpmavHER2VIC&pg=PP59&lpg=P...
It took me 7 years to quit nicotine. The first two weeks were the toughest and every minute my mind was screaming at me to go smoke. The next three months were still constant cravings, all the time, all day. After six months cravings were once a day and easier to let go. The entire first six months were difficult.

It wasn't until about two years later until I would have several days without cravings.

10 years later, I get cravings maybe once every few months and they are easy to let go of. Two days ago I got into a Lyft and someone dropped a pack of cigarettes in the back seat. The temptation was moderate to take them.

I think in part the brain hardwires to confuse nicotine as a type of food. Do not eat for two days, and that is what a smoker feels like for the first 2 weeks. Do not eat fir a day and that is what the first 3 months felt like (all the time, constantly). Your mind is telling you that you will literally die if you don't resolve the urge.

I think this is why relapse is so high for nicotine. You have to be consistently strong every time for months to almost be hone free. During that 7 years I had relapses usually after days, a few times I made it a week or two, once I went 3 months, and had gone 6 months twice as well before relapse.

FWIW, a person just has to keep trying. I admitted that 1) I deeply loved smoking. It is amazing. 2) there is no such thing as one last cigarette. Relapse would likely occur, and when that happens, my cessation efforts would continue.
The purpose of the cells in yellow is to turn the patch relevant to this discussion into a still life: it's already got the property of "must exist in gen N-1 if it is in gen N" without those yellows, but this serves to keep it from destabilizing instantly.
(Regie:) 'Not wise nor gods these modern slaves.'

'Controlled, altered, razed... ferventness, limits...'

( um you may enter your possible addiction to individual-ism now )

> (One asking:) 'Somebody surrounding "content-less"?'

(Critics:) [Trolling]: 'It Probably may have been an more aestethic approach to not say anything by now...'

(-;
Well, I don't know about phone conversations, but every Tom, Dick and Harry gets access to web surfing history. Given that highly casual attitude - formalised into law! - I wouldn't put it past them to informally do whatever they like with the rest of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016#...
France abolished their monarchy. I think the other monarchies took note of this and decided to simply live a life of power, prestige, and influence and not get their heads on a pike by ruling like tyrants.

I think if they tried to exercise major operational control in government, it would trigger revolutions, formal republics, etc.

Reality is usually a bit more nuanced than the formal rules on paper. We have all kinds of laws on the books that don't really apply. Likewise with many of the supposed powers of these monarchies. Without exercise, exercising them makes them legal in the same way killing a home intruder is legal. Legality doesn't mean exercising it won't be bloody, won't have cost, won't have risk, etc...legality one way or another doesn't matter that much.
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) led the fight against the OSHA vaccine mandate:

ATA-Led Coalition Sues to Block Federal Vaccine Mandate[0]

ATA Hails Supreme Court’s Rejection of OSHA Vaccine-or-Test Mandate[1]

Supreme Court Stays OSHA Vaccine-or-Test Mandate[2]: "American Trucking Associations President and CEO Chris Spear issued a statement calling it 'a tremendous victory.' ... 'Thanks to this ruling, our industry will continue to deliver critical goods, as our nation recovers from the pandemic and we move our economy forward.'"

Prior to that victory, they had been pushing for an industry exemption[3]: "[W]e formally requested that the Biden Administration exempt professional truck drivers from the mandate"

[0] https://www.ttnews.com/articles/ata-led-coalition-sues-block...

[1] https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/ata-hails-supreme-cou...

[2] https://www.truckinginfo.com/10159451/supreme-court-stays-os...

[3] https://www.trucking.org/vaccinemandate
This is normal for the UK.

It was the current government, well it's previous coalition instantiation that created the nudge unit[0]. A group of behavioural psychologists that use mind tricks to convince people to do as they are told, whether that is to drink less, or stop smoking or to follow COVID rules. A group that has since been spun off as a business to sell coercion as a service, to any two bit dictator, or free democracy that needs it.

This is the same government that deployed it's army information warriors against its own people during COVID [1]. The unit is known as 77 brigade and explains its mission as "modern warfare using non-lethal engagement and legitimate non-military levers as a means to adapt behaviours of the opposing forces and adversaries" [2].

The UK has never had more than a thin veneer of freedom, it's always been an aristocracy lording it over the rest of us. They should just do away with the pretence.

[0] https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/nudge-u...

[1] https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/77-brigade-is-countering-cov...

[2]
https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brig...
Animoca Brands’ Lympo NFT platform hacked for $18.7M
Can I get a simple explanation? Who is this person? What is JOSE? What is COSE? What is JWS? What is JWT? Does "crypto" here stand for "cryptography" or "cryptocurrency"? Why is this person angry?
Could you build a neural network in Lisp and run it on an original IBM PC? It turns out the answer is yes.

I think this shows that all human progress is some form of answer to the statement "Well, that would be cool, but it's impossible"

Then you took the added steps of making it beautiful and slicing it into easy to understand steps.

A truly beautiful hack. Thank you for sharing.
Those non-cryptozoologist have been hogging good word prefixes too long. How dare others use our words….
I also experienced the games on the real hardware but last time that I tried to emulate them purely for nostalgia reasons I didn't notice anything wrong with emulation.
> In the US, that’s overwhelmingly the federal government, not local property or state sales/income taxes.

With the way internal US wealth transfers work, that's basically a way of saying "dense city livers somewhere else" rather than it being suburbs US-wide paying for each other.
Not to mention National Geographic and the Wall Street Journal. Buzzfeed on the other hand has been getting better, from a low base.
Oh, the party will end, for sure.

But Bitcoin is not an answer to western consumerism. Nor will it prevent future debts. On the contrary, imagine what a shitshow it would be if someone started selling "bitcoin credit" to the masses. How would you keep the interest stable?
> To acquire locks in a loop and release them at the end of a function.

that looks like a super big gotcha, hasn't there been enough bugs with alloca() being called in a loop yet to show how risky and unintuitive this is ? block-scoped is explicit and explicit is good
Cryptocurrency is an application for cryptography.
Other way around for me, I've experienced a lot of the original hardware but actually find the emulated experience more enjoyable. Things like save states, upscaled resolution on 3D games, customizable controls, online netplay for games that only had local multiplayer etc. Also in recent years some emulators have implemented features like rolling back one or multiple frames to do an input before you actually pressed the button, leading to lower input latency than the original hardware (can't remember the name of this feature at the moment).
"As you see it" indeed.
> The author seems bright and I'm sure he realizes this, but it is of course true that (what I assume to be) the premise of his article--that individual thriving is most important--is itself a core component of modern liberal ideology.

Yeah, exactly. Ideology is baked into pretty much everything, so when you try to get away from it, you end up just finding the ideology that's so core to you that you don't even (fully) realize what it is.

The other thing to watch out for is people who push "non-ideological" solutions. They're usually just trying to bake their own ideology into that unexamined part of your brain.
He left The Intercept because The Intercept wouldn't publish Glenn's story about Hunter Biden because you're not allowed to criticize Biden because TLAs want Biden. Greenwald obviously is mostly known for exposing the crimes of TLAs.
Yes, we should in theory have an option for a completely secure platform for such critical infrastructure.

Several attempts at creating such systems have been made in the past, but little effort has been put into actually leveraging them in the wider world.
In practice those signatures can get a bit tiresome to write out, but I agree, they fit much, much better with C syntax and mindset.
You may not want to hear this but four years is way too long to reach ramen profitability and it’s not a good signal for future success of that startup.
I am not a great cook, but isn't this true for almost any spice?