skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saving man-hours is a far worst concept than wasting time on social media.
KDE Apps Update February 2022
In a different write up I read that the wallet he had on the cloud drive was encrypted but the feds were able to Crack the password
As Automakers Add Technology to Cars, Software Bugs Follow
Grid assets are usually measured by the size of their grid connection. These are lithium ion batteries, and in the 100+MW power capacity, you will usually have 2-4 hours of duration, as the economic use case for something that big usually requires replacing gas peakers to some degree.

Prior generations of lithium ion on the grid were more used for frequency regulation, and would be far smaller and have far higher power/energy rations, like 15-30 minutes. Though this was an extremely profitable market for a while, once people figured out how easy it was to get batteries to do it the market was flooded and frequency regulation does not take a massive amount of battery to accomplish.

Though lithium ion is generally viewed to cap out at 4 hours of duration, I'm thinking that it may get cheap enough per kWh of capacity to install undersized inverters and go to 8-12 hours of capacity. This could compete with other emerging battery technologies targeting that length of duration. An early test of this will be the "long duration storage" component of the replacement package of Diablo Canyon; I dont think that a particlular vendor has been chosen, but most people seem to think that it will be non-lithium-ion that will win the bid. There are other early stage battery startups with ~100 hour duration chemistries. All of these vary based on round-trip efficiency, cost per kWh of energy capacity, and lifetime over cycling.
It doesn't need to be on a US FB server
Zoho is even worse. They require that a phone number is used exactly once. Which is a bummer if you want to have non-personal emails, like "support@example.com".
computer science is not programming though it often involves doing that. it's a math degree with many different topics all related to computing and math. So yeah if they wanted to learn how to program java that's a completely different track. they generally don't teach you much programming or other practical things at a university track. you need to know it but it's ancillary to the degree.
What I'm bringing to the table, is helping everyone notice that these posts bring nothing new to the table.

That's the problem with these analogy posts. People like them but they don't offer anything of substance. Think about it. You identified a connection between two things, yet nothing new was introduced. You get this artificial euphoria of seeing a connection but that's it, it's just an illusion.
There was a case in France about a couple who was awarded a compensation because of the noise of a windfarm close to their house.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/french-couple-...
Listening to me does nothing. I still think local representives pay attention to when many people express concerns.

Lobbying seems to be more of an issue in central government in the UK, not so much at the local level. But I do agree they have outsize influence.
I managed to successfully register a Twitter account without having to verify myself with a phone number. Not sure how I managed to do that, but I have a number ready to provide them if they randomly decide to ask for it.

You can get away with using the same number for about five accounts (at least this was my experience).
> Unique among universities, it has something called a "precept", which is a small group meeting once a week, led by a grad student or sometimes a professor, to debate and discuss the issues.

How is this at all different from the concept of a "section" that AFAIK exists in most every other university?

> Most of my friends at Princeton were considerably smarter than the professors who taught us,

Seems like a very confident, insufferable and non-falsifiable statement to me. Maybe this was more true 40 years ago than today.
For your first part, you don't need to take over. But you should find a way to contribute. At the very least if there's an expectation that you drive meetings, but you want to defer because someone else has more knowledge in a specific area, you need to make it clear why you're deferring.

For your second part, it seems like the questions are you asking are not stupid in themselves. Rather they are uncomfortable and/or threatening to the audience. Like your question is driving at a real point which is that likely no one actually sat down and tried to rationalize (quantitatively or however) the cost and benefits of their course of action. The "stupid" part is poking at this sensitive topic in ways that don't give people a graceful way to interact with it. Most people do not want to admit that they're just autopiloting a decision that might have made sense as a quick heuristic based on assumptions (which are okay!) that have since provided to be wrong and have just been running with it ever since. Or that no, they've never actually sat down and quantified (ballpark) how much company the strategy is costing them, and that they're just making stuff up.

To back up to your original point, uncontrolled curiosity can definitely be harmful. You absolutely need to temper and control it, especially when interacting with human systems. That doesn't mean that curiosity is bad though. I do sympathize that the usual formulation of "there are no stupid questions here" is almost always misleading, and encodes a pile of unsaid assumptions.
nonono. exchanges trade against their customers and have to change banks after their previous ones get so full of money they can't make room for any more.
My wife and I have Google maps location sharing turned on all the time. It's not stepping because we agreed to it. Last night I got home from a motorcycle ride and the garage door opened as I pulled up because my wife knew I was coming home from a movie and saw I was almost home.
Wow it’s possible I could have been playing against myself.
I enjoyed playing it, the 3D graphics were pretty amazing for the era. I think it came out around the time the video game market imploded, so it could have been general panic inside Atari that triggered someone to dump it prematurely. Loading them onto a cargo ship and pushing them off the side seems really extreme.
I'm fairly confident that data encrypted over the wire and only decrypted locally on the user's machine, shared willingly with the intended recipient, would not violate anything of interest (clearly, European companies can serve pages to the US). Of course, there are many more ambiguous cases than that (like, where exactly can metadata about which Europeans are allowed to view an American's posts be stored? Is that PII?), but the specific case of serving a post is not really all that complicated.

For those downvoting me, I'd love to hear why you think it's more complicated than that. Contrary to popular belief, the people who wrote the GDPR are pretty technically sophisticated and understand that data on the internet has to move between countries from time to time.
It's the power savings that are the real goal. If you can create and (re)train a network for incredible sparsity you can fit inference in some pretty low power envelopes. I think to that end the work required to get to adequate perform is justified
There is more to it than that one bar. One example, note (from Table 1)

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Unvaccinated (n = 657)

Death while hospitalized

¶¶ Denominator excludes 129 patients who remained hospitalized as of January 27, 2022

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Approximately 20% cannot be assigned either way for this outcome yet.
This is a trivially false generalization.
> Much like 70 other EU and US companies, we are identifying a business risk resulting from uncertainty around international data transfers.

Funny how they try to spin it like there's some "uncertainty", the regulations are very clear, they just need to apply them.
Were you drinking all day every day? I have a glass or two of bourbon most nights and can do a week break with no sign of withdrawal. Alcohol is definitely very addictive, but you do have to go pretty hard to get withdrawals.
You can just add a link to you homescreen, and it will behave like a native app.
There is also Dyson Sphere Program with similar reviews.
I don't think hosting your own node allows you to interact with contracts for free. I can (and have) played on the devnet, but you're limited there to interacting with contracts hosted on devnet. Can you elaborate what you mean?
I'm frustrated because these types of opinions are everywhere. Especially factorio:

https://www.google.com/search?q=factorio+is+like+programming

There are tons and tons of these.
Research professors who have 0 interest in teaching and farm out the actual teaching/grading to grad students has been going on for decades.
A huge amount of additional energy seems like an overoptimistic take on the impact of this.

See eg this article telling how 14 (smaller, admittedly) reactors are due to decommission in the same timeframe. https://apnews.com/article/9db52eeef7ea47a76f64653c2a854b17
Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times
"This “selfie” was created using a specialized pupil imaging lens inside of the NIRCam instrument that was designed to take images of the primary mirror segments instead of images of space. This configuration is not used during scientific operations and is used strictly for engineering and alignment purposes."

So they weren't telling the whole truth when they stated that JWST didn't carry any cameras to monitor deployment. Good on them for finding a creative solution.
Also horses. I wouldn’t envy a soldier with a stone/mica blade facing a mounted, armored cavalryman with a steel sword.
In the USA, the cheapest option I've found is Tello (T-Mobile MVNO) - $5-6/mo for the absolute basic tier, real SIM with a real (non VOIP) number. Accepts number port-in after initial activation.
By talking on the phone.
Gambit: Play Chess in Your Terminal
Then create one in the Sahara or the Atacana desert at 5000m elevation. Still way easier than Mars.
It is certainly tidally locked.

So it has a hot side, a cold side, and an intermediate ring at the terminator.

Probably not very comfortable.
You mean like Stackoverflow?
survival bias skews IQ in certain fields. taken to the extreme, you're essentially saying that the IQ of field's medalists are not skewed.
What are you talking about? It's completely clear to someone who isn't coming at this issue with an axe to grind. Meta's ability to serve European customers is under threat. In other words, the regulatory framework is making it hard for them to do their jobs. Meta is not threatening to leave. They couldn't be clearer.
As I recall, printing for a typical hardcover was about $2 per copy to which you can add some for warehousing, shipping, returns, etc. (A qty 1 softcover print on demand book is <$5 shipped.) But leaving aside distributor cuts (which in the case of Amazon applies to both physical and digital books), most of the cost is in everything a publisher does and its cost structure.
Are they really morons if they're working their dream jobs? I don't understand why people think that an undergrad class is the only way to learn about something. There are far better resources nowadays on the Internet where you can learn something from scratch at your own pace, without the stress of deadlines and grades. That's the unfortunate truth.
Sure, but I would suggest that we also encourage reading the linked articles before commenting. In this case, there is nothing in the CNN article that suggests the decline in literary magazines has a connection to "literary critique and interpretation in many Universities becoming more radical." It's awfully hard not to see this as the commenter just taking this as a stalking horse to bring up an opinion they already held.
How do I learn more about all of this? Where do I go to work?
If that were the case, how would any global communication medium be allowed to operate? Can't you provide the same service while not moving PII out of the EU? As far as I know this is not about a user in the US viewing a EU citizen's facebook page, this is about where the original data resides, is it not? Playing devil's advocate here, can't you just figure out what jurisdiction the user belongs to and route the request to the right server?
https://principiadiscordia.com/book/45.php

> WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

> "But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it."

> OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
I hear you. I'd have already bought two more if buying the first (post-Microsoft-acquisition—family has two from before that already) copy hadn't been been such a pain in the ass.

My alternative isn't switching to the non-Java edition—it's finally getting around to looking into open source clones. I'm riiiiight on the edge of pushing my kids into one of those instead.
I think a large part of it has to do with the print aspect - printing costs have been going up from supply chain issues over paper, binding material, etc. And if the outlet needs to pay staff and pay writers, that adds another layer of pressure. If it's subject to budgetary and other administrative issues because it's tied to a university, even more pressure.

What this article glossed over far too quickly, in my view, is how there are thousands - literally, thousands - of online or primarily online journals and magazines that are doing just fine or better than fine.

I can vouch to that because I started one last year. Granted, our editors are all volunteers and we don't pay writers, but we've had no problem pulling in all kinds of accomplished writers (and, no, they aren't "quirky" like the article somewhat dismissively referenced, whatever that means).

Our largest operating costs come from submission platform fees and trade organization memberships. Grand total, around $500 per year. For everything else, free resources like Netlify hosting for the site.

These types of articles could be a little more nuanced. Conventional publishing has serious issues, but it's just one piece of the literary landscape.
In terms of this discussion, stored doesn't mean on an end user device, nor in ram on servers, or temp caching, while serving content.

You guys are just playing with semantics.

In terms of this context, easiest way would be to shard db infrastructure. Not even a remotely big deal for Facebook, with their size.

Hell, they should already want this, to avoid costly, and high ping time, intercontinental links.

But oh nooos, so hard to do. Absurd.
I'm sure a good chunk would be fine with it. Facebook only maintains their social media dominance because the product is sticky: when your friends, family, municipality, favorite businesses, and clubs use Facebook and only Facebook for announcements, you kind of have no choice but to participate unless you're willing to work around inconveniences. Most users barely log in, maybe once or twice a month to check their direct messages and waste a few minutes on the feed.

It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma: if other people use Facebook, they get to see things you don't and have an advantage in some domains. So a lot of people "use" facebook. But if all of the businesses and groups get forced off of Facebook they'll just find another way to make announcments.

Same thing with car ownership: if everyone stopped owning cars, everyone could happily get around with bikes, feet, and public transit. The world would quickly restructure to accommodate it. Sure, some things would be lost (it would be harder to go to remote places to hike, for instance), but other things, like the ease of getting around your immediate neighborhood, or easy access to stores, or polluting the air with less CO2, would balance that out in many ways.
is it possible that if they go through with it, it might open up the entire continent to an alternate / competitor, which can then threaten them globally ?
thinking a bit more, it seems that there might be a fine acceptable line of action between the scylla of share everything (which mean no privacy) and charybdis of share nothing (which means no internet), and it might (unfortunately !) be upto the politicians to draw it...
If you're going to interpret every risk disclosed to investors as a threat, that means companies can't be honest about the risks facing them without making threats.

Since public companies get sued for not disclosing risks to investors, there is no winning this.
Hah, same here
serious question, why isn't facebook still dying? please god, I think we have the right to see this in 2022.
Quote: "I realize I sound like the worst wife ever, so let me explain. It was for journalism.".
Meta should leave Europe. The EU has been anti tech but pro China, why does these rules only apply to American companies?
Traveling multiple light years is out of the question. You can think about some concepts but it’s simple not doable at this point no matter the budget.
I mean, what do you want them to do? Invest resources in splitting up material into multiple courses when they should have learned it before even coming to college? It's not their fault public schools suck.
The only value of a university math class are the problems and their
solutions. Lecture is worthless.

MIT does this right. Students can boost their grade by submitting
revised solutions after the initial marking.
For me "beating" those type of games isn't the point. I've got nearly 1,500 hours on Rimworld and I've never beaten the game. It's more interesting to me to create different scenarios and see where they go and what stories come from them than to try to optimize for racing to the end.
> 1. HTTPS relies heavily on DNS. It’s as secure as DNS is. Nuff said.

I don't think this is true: HTTPS (and TLS >= 1.3) provide a suite of protections that mostly address perceived weaknesses in DNS (ECH, ESNI, CT logging, HSTS, etc.).

As for DNS itself: DoH and DoT is widely available, and my understanding is that all major browsers currently support one or the other. I've been using outbound DoH for at least two years at this point via Pi-hole.

I interpreted "law enforcement doesn't seem to care [...]" as a claim that domestic LEO has meaningfully broken HTTPS on general traffic, which I don't believe is the case. But if you meant that they don't care because they have legal access mechanisms that already suit their purposes, then I agree.
This is an astonishing article. After reading this and following up with a few of the links it seems as if it's Hertz people who should be in jail.
I'm in the US. I started using MMS quite a bit in 2003, about the time I got my first 3G phone. It was quite handy for sending photos with family, and I had several friends who also could receive MMS without issue. At the time the carriers in the area counted MMS messages the same as SMS messages, so if you had a texting plan you usually could also use MMS at no extra cost. Thus it was easy to share photos from our early camera phones with each other, before Facebook or Whatsapp even existed. And then when Facebook did exist but before using a Facebook app was a thing you could upload photos to things like Facebook through MMS gateways as well. Most of the original photos I uploaded to Facebook were things uploaded from a camera phone through MMS messages as it was quite easy to do.

I used to use the MMS email gateway a decent bit as well. It made it really easy to get notifications for things before I got a Symbian phone with IMAP on it and could just use my regular email on the go. I still get some notifications through the MMS gateway from some services.

I still use MMS a decent bit. Its still the least common denominator between everyone I know for group messaging, and for the most part is a somewhat seamless experience between Android phones, iPhones, and non-smartphones. I do tend to do most of my messaging through an app, but probably 10% of my messages still go through SMS/MMS these days for those people who I don't have an overlapping app with, usually because they only use iMessage or they don't have a smartphone.
The First Photo Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
Their whole function is letting people send data to other people. The EU saying that it's illegal to send data to a US company is a pretty unsolvable problem for them.
This is precisely what first year students are not.
> I feel like games are actually a good example where OOP makes sense

Intuitively, yes.

In practice, I think once you actually use an ECS for a game you won't want to program them in the traditional OOP way.
Not on their servers though. If the data is in your browser, it's not trivial for e.g. Facebook to then go an do nefarious things with that data at scale. This is how I understand it.
I've been involved in hiring decisions on teams I've been part of for a long time now. Blatant plagiarism, obvious embellishments and more subtle BS is literally part of the game unfortunately. This is particularly prevalent when dealing with (almost) any consultancy, large and small.

I will not specifically call out names, but the some of the largest and most well known consultancies do this as a matter of practice after they overbook themselves for projects for which they do not have staff on the bench to fill.

It's sad, but honestly the prevalence of these practices (and perhaps growth of them?) only makes the genuine among us more valuable. Those who actually posses technical talent and experience will be needed more and more by companies who get burned by the frauds. Onward and upward I guess.
What a great life story you are still pursuing. 80 years young and still rocking it. You are an inspiration for sure. When did you start learning Python?
Oh, I like that one. I'll think about it for a bit, but maybe I'll take it. Thanks!
It’s not semantics, though. If I saved everything I ever read onto a database, indexed uniquely by website schema, how does anything change? The point is the same.
Headline: We are not threatening to blah.

First paragraph: We don't want to blah.

Second paragraph: But if we don't get what we want, we will have to consider blah.

I guess it's time for an update to Betteridge's Law: The more emphatically a press-release headline denies something, the more likely it is to be true.
"clever one liners"

That's exactly it! It's basic clean coding style where it's better to use meaningful names and sometimes write something in 2 or 3 lines that is more interpret able than to write a perfect one-liner that no one will be able to unpack.

In this regard I almost wish we had a de-facto standard in math of presenting the 'condensed' perfect form of the equation and a more chunkier version.

What I like is that recently I saw some researchers annotating the symbols in their equations [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/sibinmohan/status/1480583840858996743/ph...
We do the same.

We realized we were calling each other too often asking where the other is and just decided to let tech solve the problem. Now I can push a button and see how far away from home she is.

If I decide to do something sketchy, I can turn off location temporarily and just lie to her about what I was doing if she checks while I was crime-ing. Same as the pretech way. :-P
The problem isn't EU law but US law.

The EU doesn't care if Meta gets the data of its users but that there is no possibility to prevent that the intelligence services get them too.
That killed Safe Harbour.

So blame Patriot Act and Cloud Act not GDPR.
It would be pretty arrogant if they had never considered this possibility. Hard to feel too bad for the robber barons losing a bit of profit.
Facebook will figure it out
If stop operation is the only alternative to stop collecting and sending out data, then let it be.

An if that happens, if Facebook really gets banned from operating in Europe, I'm pretty sure “good enough” technical solution approved by the EU administration would be found pretty quick.
We need more founders like Ryan Breslow. This cis-male club of the Valley are full of world class jerks like Marc Andreessen, Garry Tan, and Justin Kan.