skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Putin needs a way to back down and save at least some face so he doesn't go crazy.

I think this neglects that:

(1) Putin has painted himself into a corner from which there is no way to back down and save face, period.

(2) The most likely reason for this is that his entire regime is dysfunctional because he has already gone crazy, specifically in a way repeatedly seen in authoritarian rulers where paranoia over disloyalty results in punishing unwelcome news harshly as disloyalty, punishing welcome news that turns out to be inaccurate later harshly as disloyalty, punishing excessive visible success which leads to others achieving a personal following as disloyalty, an punishing failure as disloyalty.
Yeah well.
Community edition is the same version as pro and cost zero.
Would it matter if they effectively acted like one?
> you can't really use woks on induction.

I found a flat-bottomed induction compatible wok on Amazon when I got my induction cook top. I'm not a master stir fry cook, but it woks for me!
Maybe progressives aren’t willing to support their “own” unconditionally? These aren’t sports teams. Bad behavior hurts us all and should be called out regardless of it’s on your side or not
YouTube Autodeletes Comments with Links
I haven't been able to post this link <https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/197397/misconceptions-about-the-universe-hubble-sphere> in a youtube comment, youtube deletes it in ~30 seconds

Though I did manage to post an answer-link here: (first comment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q67vH0SKahU&lc=UgyQizABsao1A9EWtlF4AaABAg . But I haven't been able to replicate this

Anybody knows what's going on?, why that one got posted and the others didn't?

I rarely make comments, less than once a month, and I never use insults, I think I'm very polite and conservative when I critic something, so I don't think is related to my account
The issue is, that in a traditional electrical system, you need both base load and dispatchable power plants. And while nuclear power plants work as base load, they're really bad for dispatchable power, both economically and in how they work.

So if you want to base an electrical grid solely on nuclear power without additional fossil fuel plants, you need either a lot of often unused (and thus very, very expensive) nuclear capacity or some kind of .. storage. It's similar to renewables in that regard, although much more predictable and reliable (with exceptions, such as france this winter).
People are not purely products of their parents behavior. You have not only genetic variation, but a lifetime of all the incredible complexity of life experience that happens outside the house and with all other humans. I could imagine these factors moving each person backwards and forwards along any scale of “progress” we chose to measure people by, generation by generation, at times overwhelming the positive or negative influence of their parents.
An iced or fogged up door is a maintenance issue, not a glass issue.

It's like saying I like glass better than a broken lcd...
I agree despite using DNS blocking myself. DNS blocking can easily be mitigated against with DoH or DoT at the application level. It's only a matter of time before advertisers start using either to bypass DNS blocking and serve ads.
Why advertisements are legal at all is incomprehensible.
We can get close enough to absolute zero that very weird quantum effects being to happen which one could argue are associated with information loss.

Cooper pairs is one such example, where at very low temperatures electrons pair up and begin to behave like a new combined particle with integer spin. Thus they morph from fermions to bosons which are no longer subject to pauli exclusion and can all occupy the same state. The information required to describe such a system decreases substantially as the potential state space is now quite limited.

This manifests in physical phenomenon like superconductivity and superfluidity.
Is the Pi-Hole even reasonably effective these days?

> Nearly 70% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles were found to contain hardcoded DNS settings - allowing them to simply ignore your local network’s DNS server entirely.

https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole
> Without including storage and overbuilding of solar and wind

There's also the aspect of "how much sun is there?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy_in_Finland

There are a number of issues with photovoltaic solar cells that close to the Arctic Circle.
I always feel out of my depth whenever something happens in the Middle East or Europe. Wouldn't mind getting a few classes on all the conflicts between these groups.
links

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/197397/misconcep...

(look first comment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q67vH0SKahU&lc=UgyQizABsao1A...
If I recall correctly, there's less a concern about Google than there are of malicious third-party data harvesters that gain full access to users inboxes by offering their service under the guise of being an email client. Edison Mail, Slice, and Rakuten are among the many offenders.
it is not just the cost of the unit, there are alot of other costs that would go into converting to elec from gas, including running a new outlet, and if you have an older home could require upgrading your entire electrical service.
Instead of arguing, why don't you educate? You're clearly passionate about this issue. We've covered the importance of thin carbon steel. Why is the round bottom so essential that without it we can't call it a wok?
Probably because C doesn't have a garbage collector or interpreter. And despite all the evidence suggesting that bytecode interpreters on top of JIT compilers with generational GC is plenty fast enough for a huge number of applications, with additional benefits like memory safety and lower development time, devs are still convinced that big == bad and slow.

Maybe. Probably not as bad and slow as you think it is. .NET and Java really don't have the performance overhead that everyone thinks they do, but a corollary of that is C and C++ aren't as fast as you think they are. All that GC tuning you see on JVMs is the same work you do converting to data oriented code in your favorite systems language, you're just fighting the memory wall. While GC's can do it smarter than a human can, they just can't do it for free.
You have to actually prove someone is an extremist beyond Communist Party membership. This isn't the 80's, the accepted argument isn't that one proceeds from the other anymore. It's rare that the same organization retains extremist character for generations, I'd expect modern extreme leftists to found new organizations, not join stodgy old Communist Parties.
I'd like to understand more about the difficulties with running an FDB cluster in production.

Running it locally seemed pretty simple, and AIUI there are kubernetes operators for deploying a cluster. Can anyone provide some insight into where the difficulties lie?
Wow, this looks really helpful for designing new levels. Especially to ensure some place is reachable with a certain move (regular jump, long jump, triple jump, etc).
I don't understand where you see complexity here. That was a fairly simple setup actually.

About the use cases and motivations, some of the drivers were commercial -- e.g. clients with content they considered too sensitive to be hosted off-premises; clients distributing content to places with limited connectivity; also, integration with custom access control systems.

The list goes on.
Unipolar is dead, long live multipolar!
I like how they threw Steve Balmer under the bus

> Like many .NET myths, this one originates from the days of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer
I recently used kestrel as a public facing server and it feels goods.
Sounds like we also need a list of IPs to null route
The quote isn't about his temperament but his knowledge, so I think that interpretation is a bit of a stretch.

I think the same kind of quote would absolutely apply in exactly the same way to temperament though. The 14 year old thought his dad was a jerk who mellowed out by the time he was 21, the reality again being that the biggest change was actually the child's temperament.
Awesome, I think your use case would make a lot of for Tensil. Looking forward to chatting more!

The core technology will always be free and open source, so to commercialize Tensil we're planning to offer a "pro" version which would operate under a paid license and provide features specifically needed by enterprise users. We're also working on a web service that will let you run Tensil's tools in a hosted fashion, with one major feature being the ability to search across a large number of potential architectures to find the best FPGA for your needs. Extra paid support and other services will also be in the mix.
Exactly. I heard these modular ones are meant to be cheaper, but they also produce 10x less. Can easily be replaced by a wind farm.
> All of the opex is in maintenance, staffing, safety and reliability

Does this include the higher security needs around nuclear facilities?

I left out the construction costs, the Arkwright Summit farm, $125 million.

The Solar Star project was $2 billion.

This Finnish Nuclear site appears to have cost $12 billion.

That makes wind look really good, and solar at least on the same order (and still safer).
Why do we have to bring Native Americans into it? This seems at best a non-sequitur, and at worst whataboutism to hide China's many issues with suppressing minority cultures. No one claims states in the Americas have a good history with this, why bring it up when it has nothing to do with the conversation? Both China and many other countries need to do better. Bringing up complaints about other countries does nothing but trying to distract.
> How someone so unable to speak plainly could forge a career as a professional journalist I have no idea....

Minimum word limits throughout college, for starters.
To back this up - I went through the oral exam experience on both sides (student and TA) with two different German professors and it worked incredibly well. We offered oral exams as a remedy for a few situations:

- suspected/known cheaters
- students who missed exams due to illness
- times in the course where we needed to get a good grip on whether our students understood the coursework the way we'd taught it

It was scary for a lot of students, especially the ones without great English, but it was always, in my view, incredibly fair.

edit: based on your comment history you're also in Australia - I have a feeling we might be talking about the same place :)
Yeah, meant Instacart. Autocorrect
I've implemented/maintained several. Call centers are one of those things you try to keep as simple as possible. Generally speaking, you've either got one big ole call center where anyone could take any caller at any time, or more specialized deals where the call center is divided into teams who are partitioned across the set of dial in numbers you prearrange the phone company to route.

To get your metrics right, you don't want your queues doing weird things, because it's hard enough making sure you have enough bodies to keep the queue times short enough your customers will even bother.

I put particular emphasis on getting my Call Center people exactly what they need to do their jobs quickly, because I don't see them as sunk cost, but an incestment in customer goodwill. Present a good face to the public, and be able to handle their problems, and they will either stick around or come back.

It's an interesting piece of technology to set up and QA. The meeting of telephony and Internet is a section of tech I like to dabble in, because phones are cool.
No commercial one given the legal situation. Self host something on a vps
"Comparing the level of these traits present in online moderators to the level of these traits present in SEALs is inexplicable."

As some of the traits noted are binary - either present, or not - the concept of "level" is not applicable.

The commonality of the traits is a valid basis for figure-of-speech.
I have one but find it frustrating to use.

The hob is big enough to fit a large pan but only heats a 10cm circle in the middle. (And I have tried it with many induction-safe pots and pans.)

Rather than physical buttons, it has touch sensors that react to moisture. So a few drops of water spilling out of the pot cause it to turn off or stop working.
Grad students usually take 1-2 classes at a time, and the problem sets are spread out over 2 weeks.

A problem like the above would be given as a single problem for students to solve over 2 weeks.
Suddenly having deja-vu’s from when Covid-19 emerged.
I didn't see any reference to a frame rate limit in a quick search. I'm worried that it's just using all the CPU all of the time, even for simple demos.
While 23 years to build the thing are already bad, it now needs to operate continuously for at least some 30 years selling electricity at a price that is even today not competitive with renewables to make financial sense.

Essentially, building a nuclear power plant in 2022 means you are betting we won't have workable storage for renewables by 2052.
Other than price, are you happy with it?
That's okay, a bunch of crooked politicians who became super rich on insider trading and other shady deals said increased gas and food prices was a sacrifice they were willing to make, and only traitors would question their generosity.
Was China Betting on Russian Defeat All Along?
> without having to go with tons of boilerplate I keep seeing in a very much DDD-oriented project my team is responsible for.

And that's the unavoidable reality. My team are extremely open-minded, but I have no idea how to bring up this subject with them.
Democracy is easily defined by not having the same leader self appointed for life. You can't dance around that China is a democracy. It's ridiculous and adds nothing.
The author says:

>"The status quo provides marginal individual benefit to the person making the decision while also causing marginal harm to society as a whole. Doing the right thing doesn’t really provide much tangible short term benefit."

This explains exactly why the majority of people living in a dictatorship don't try very hard to do all the things that they need to do if they want to change their own government.

They need to do things like finding out what is the truth about their government, and telling other people what that truth is. But doing that requires individual self-sacrifice, and most people, most of the time, don't what to do that.
Totally disagree with you. The parent you are referring to is framing the debate desingenously. Uber, and Uber insiders, are free to ponder all the intricacies and challenges of running Uber in its current form. As long as they recognize that drivers are not in practice independent contractors, with all ensuing legal consequences.

If they still insist on saying drivers are independant contractors, none of their whining about "tragedy of the commons" is anybody's business. Just provide information to market participants.
It's simple. 90% of people feeing know English to at least some extent, but almost no one know Chinese.

Also regardless of what Russian regime propoganda trying to sell we all grown on western culture and want to live in western world. People who wanted to live in Asia moved to Thailand / Vietnam / Bali long ago.
Oh yes. Totally different based on whether a company's execs hate customer service.

I'm not one of those of those though. I like my CS people to be able to do their jobs to keep the inevitable discruption to a customer's day minimized.

In the place I'm at, my Call Center is one of the happiest groups in the company. So many other places I've been that wasn't the case, do I made damn sure to deliver the best impl possible when I got the chance to oversee it.
You can create port forward firewall rules to redirect any outbound DNS port 53 traffic. This will not work for DNS over HTTPS, which is going to be increasingly common for IoT I'd imagine.

edit: method for this on pfSense: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/dns-redir...
Eskom is in disarray because of affirmative action policies that prevent the hiring of qualified engineers, and ensure the creation of corrupt suppliers that do things like charge USD$18,000 for a broom. [1] [2] It has little to do with actual infrastructure and is more related to huge knowledge gaps and political corruption.

[1] https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/eskom-must-suspend-a...

[2] https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2021/11/16/eskom-bee-affi...
I've never managed to post a comment with a URL that printed off of YouTube. It's such a huge spam magnet, I don't completely blame them. Maybe direct people to "Misconceptions about the universe - Hubble sphere on the physics stackexchange", or just some search terms to get people there.
I've setup firewall rules to redirect traffic from some devices to avoid that, but some are starting to use dns over https which is more difficult to deal with
There are four big categories of ML accelerators. You already familiar with CPUs and GPUs; then there are FPGAs, which offer better performance and efficiency while remaining flexible. Finally there are ASICs (of which the TPU is an example), which offer the best performance and efficiency but retain very little flexibility, meaning if your ML model doesn't work well on an ASIC then your only option is to change your model.

We chose to focus on FPGAs first because with them we can maximize the usefulness of Tensil's flexibility. For example, if you want to change your Tensil architecture, you just re-run the tools and reprogram the FPGA. This wouldn't be possible with an ASIC. That said, we'll be looking for opportunities to offer an ASIC version of our flow so that we can bring that option online for more users.
Makes one wonder about the cuisine of past centuries. Once upon a time there was a delicious meal prepared from the finest local ingredients. Many enjoyed it's hearty unique flavor, but it was 1,000 years ago, never recorded, and we'll never know about.
It probably depends on your use patterns. I have a console and a TV in my apartment, but I spend much more time on personal computers than I do on either. My Pi-hole instance is still reasonably effective for that, and I'm sure I could (eventually) be motivated to do the workaround described in the post you linked.
Taxes basically. The motivation is to avoid paying taxes but every country that's a country has to pay taxes, it's just too obviously necessary. Same thing as pooling money for a party, even investing is pooling money.

I can't recommend you be as tax-docile as I am, I don't spend any time recommending it to anybody, but come on. "Taxation" is considered such a bad thing but there's just no way for eg. an orphan to have a dignified existence without it. Donations just don't work, depending on them is too degrading, the orphans end up having to forcibly write thank-you notes if they want the less-bad food (thank-you notes on a good day, there's much worse).

That is bullshit. I'd rather pay taxes (in my case way above what is mandatory) and have those orphans write fuck-you notes instead. To whom? To all the people in society who want to benefit from their vulnerability.
Rumours are that this is retaliation from Iran for the American seizure of Iranian vessels a few days ago, as well as for Israel killing 2 Iranian servicemen in Syria (supposedly, Israel is operating on the Erbil base).

The more interesting thing however is that the US SAMs failed once again to intercept the SRBMs. If really US air defences can't intercept SRBMs reliably, the US Navy is in gigantic, perhaps even existential, trouble.
HN dupes are by value, not by reference
Threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1502075252989382664.html
So you close the schools altogether, then make them wear masks when they get back, then complain when they are not all right?
Why would you think that parenting skills would improve in successive generations? Historically that doesn't seem to be the case.
Here's a really popular video that touches on many of the contentions: https://youtu.be/QM1iUe6IofM

My personal tipping point was the realization that OOP forces you to first figure out how you solution maps to OOP, before figuring out (or iterating on) how it maps to code. It creates nothing more than accidental complexity: https://emangini.com/2021/07/05-accidental-complexity/
You are participating in the HN community and can't see how regulated to the ground are all tech companies there much like state companies? That Xi abducted the CEO of Alibaba? You are also confusing ability with intent. Yes the CCP wants to but can't monitor everyone. So that's good now? How simplistic can this viewpoint be really.
https://archive.ph/t6yUb
You cannot depend on nuclear 24x7x365 as we’ve been able to see in France and Germany the last few years. Hot temperatures in summer cause the temperature of the rivers to increase so much that the water cannot be used for cooling and so these plants have to be shut down. That’s only going to become worse.
He's a hero imo
Building a Google Calendar add-on and publishing it in the marketplace
As someone who rarely uses Twitter but scrolls through Facebook every now and then, I strongly disagree.

I read a joke once that went something like "On Facebook, I spend half my time deciding if I want to debunk pseudoscientific bullshit, or if I want to have friends." Point being lots of times I'll have friends or acquaintances post shit where I think "Did this person just suffer a head wound?", but if it's someone I want to remain friends with, I just scroll by it. I often wonder if that person noticed they usually get tons of positive emojis with other posts but it tends to be crickets when they post their "I'm just doing my vaccine research" posts or whatever other bullshit.
It's true that inference is still very often done on CPU, or even on microcontrollers. In our view, this is in large part because many applications lack good options for inference accelerator hardware. This is what we aim to change!
Does $59 trick still works? I see Apple still doing it. But when I see such thing I round it off to closest decimal ex: $60
I learned to program, and only later read a book on metaphysics, and was rather surprised to find that the book was entirely about software design, although the authors did not seem to be aware of this.
The Value of realizing we're always wrong
You know how it happens: we want to achieve something (intent) so we put a few actions into place, according to our plans of cause -> effect.

But reality is the ultimate feedback mechanism, and things don't work out as intended. #Failure.

And then, we start looking for ways on how it's not our fault, whose fault it was, mitigating circumstances... you know the drill.

But, what if the post-mortem staring point were: I was wrong, 100% wrong!

I am not talking about playing the victim, quite the opposite: playing the main actor, who.. well, failed. And chances are the root causes of the failures are the worldviews and the habits that drove the reasoning of cause -> effect and therefore the actions.

And if we look at the actions as software, the habits and worldviews are the equivalent of the Operating System.

Starting with the presupposition that we are 100% wrong allows us to re-writhe the OS, and then, in the future, make better cause->effect evaluations and therefore put into motion better actions.

I've been doing this exercise for a few months now, and - after the initial show - it's quite eye opening and good personal development tool.

What does HN think?

P.S.: Along the same lines, we need to stop sugar coating the word "Failure" and just embrace it for what it is. A failure. And failure are necessary steps on the way to greater means; failures are not terminal, that's death. Death is terminal, and it's not a failure is, life.
Raviolis seem way too big tho lol.
The nuclear deal was killed off a few days ago when the US seized Iranian oil tankers.