skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I was talking about reputation explicitly. Buying a small car instead of a big one is generally perceived as environmentally conscious by most. Most international colleagues I deal with, and got my anecdotes from, are from France, Switzerland, Norway and the US. They are frequently amazed by all those little things we do that they consider proof of that. Whether we actually are environmentally friendly in a measurable way is an entirely different topic. :-)
Which were enormously popular in retrospect, once the alternative was on display. The LNP were destroyed in two subsequent state elections, primarily around lockdown and border policy. Literally wiped out in WA.

The alternative angle to "lockdowns that looked like China" is "public health measures that weren't corrupted by corporate interests". Both are highly arguable, and as usual the truth is in the middle.

That's the main advantage of the Australian system - it keeps us somewhere near the middle (or is at least more difficult to shift away).
It seems unlikely that terminal velocity of a bullet would be terribly dangerous.
Well there’s always pneumoconiosis… I’m not sure schoolchildren are cutting concrete mixed with graphene in industrial settings. Probably should take appropriate precautions.
Kosmos 954 crashed in northern Canada with parts of the nuclear reactor still intact. The Soviets did eventually pay part of the bill Canada issued for the clean-up operation. It's the only claim so far made under the Space Liability Convention. [1] And yes, I believe the Russian Federation did inherit liability for orbiting Soviet space junk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Liability_Convention
A water splashdown is the highest probability. But I think even with the 52 degree envelope, Russia is still probably the largest landmass in that envelope? So I take ironic pleasure knowing it’s more likely to smack back into Russia than any other country.

(I’m making an educated assumption about the geography, but could be wrong)
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> List my titles: no you first

One of the cardinal rules of argumentation is that the burden of proof is upon the person making the claim.

You've made it. Now back it up.
Add: got it working with simh ("brew install simh; pdp1") using the instructions in the linked zip file. It is _really_ delicate, but I finally got fib working:

(rplacd (quote sub) (quote (expr (lambda (a b) (plus a (minus b))))))

(rplacd (quote fib) (quote (expr (lambda (l) (cond ((greaterp l 1) (plus (fib (sub l 2)) (fib (sub l 1)))) (t l))))))

(fib 22)
5030

Why yes, it's all in octal fib(18) = 2584
Tritium is itself radioactive and used in watches to make a luminescent material glow. I think zinc sulphide was common and it would probably glow if lit up enough. Not sure you want to be near something that makes your watch dial markings glow visibly more than the radium or tritium that's in the paint, though.
Also, turbos. Lots of sound reduction there.

Some economy cars don't even have mufflers anymore - the turbo is enough.
> Or, hear me out, devise a concrete that reacted with atmospheric co2 to produce something more benign. That way it changes from an emitter to being a passive remover

Good propertyy. It would be even better if the material acted as a good insulator. And be re- or upcyclabe when we need to tear down the building. And while we're at it: it would be nice if the product would just grow...

That sounds like a tree to me...
Jim Grey is always worth reading. (I do wish he were still around. His disappearance Jan 20, 2007 coninues to be a mystery.)
Replying to just your 1st paragraph:

The process is: Raw input pixels (8 or 10 bit) minus predicted pixels (8 or 10 bit) -> residual pixels (8 or 10 bit + 1 sign bit).

You take these residual pixels and pass them through a 2D DCT, then scale and quantise them. At the end of this, the quantised DCT residual values are signed 16-bit numbers - you don't get to choose the bit-depth here; it's part of the standard (section 8.6). For every 16x16 pixel input, you get a 16x16 array of signed 16-bit numbers.

The last step is to pass all non-zero quantised DCT residual values through an entropy coder (usually an arithmetic coder), then you get the final bitstream.

The key point is that it didn't matter if the original raw pixel input was 8-bit or 10-bit; the quantised DCT residual values became 16 bits before being compressed and transmitted. This is also true for 12-bit raw pixel inputs.

This seems impossible; for 8-bit inputs, you've doubled the size of the data (slightly less than double for 10-bits), so you must be making things worse! The key is that after scaling and quantisation, most of those 16-bit words are zero. Those that are non-zero are statistically closer to zero so that the entropy encoder won't have to spend a lot of bits signalling them.

The last part comes when you reverse this process. The mathematical losses from scaling and quantising 10-bit inputs into the transmitted 16-bit values are less than the losses for 8-bit inputs. When you run the inverse quant, scale and iDCT, you end up with values that are closer to the original residual values at 10-bit than you do at 8-bit.
Don’t blame the sanctions. The sanctions didn’t bomb the wheat fields of Europe into shit and blockade all the seaports in Ukraine
Almost 1/3 of San Francisco charging stations are broken
High school is also a very similar experience for people all over the world, which is not the case for university or work experience. If you are interested in understanding underlying interests, social dynamics and attitudes in a global pool of applications, then you are interested in things which are similar globally even if the connection might not be obvious.
> Truly brilliant. It's a new type of composite building material.

[It's been around since at least the 1950's](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978184569... ).
> In order to achieve increased math processing speed, Intel broke mathematics algorithms down into part algorithm and part lookup tables - that is instead of having mathematics algorithms complete the whole task (which is the logical way of doing things).

This is nonsense. There's no functional difference between "lookup table" and "algorithm" (whatever that means) when it comes to a circuit design. Both are perfectly valid ways, nothing inherently wrong with either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty says they inherited the USSR’s entry into the “Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies”, which, among others, states states shall be liable for damage caused by their space objects, so they should fess up.

Depending on where it falls, in today’s political climate, they might say it’s part of a special military operation against nazis, though.
Compiler in JavaScript using ANTLR (2018)
Do yourself a favor and do not look up “rolling coal” online.
No, it's even worse, it went from one idiot to a scam artist that will use the money to build more scams.
Studied photonics/laser physics in college, and my understanding is that lasers took a long time before being useful also. Only with the advent of laser diodes did they really take off for digital media and communications.
A small number of the names in the IAB Task force and secretariat list are still active. I recognise a few of these from IETF, and related activity:

Applications Bob Thomas BBNCC
Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures Dave Mills M/A-COM
Interoperability and Autonomous Systems Robert Cole UCL
New End to End Services Bob Braden UCLA
Privacy Steve Kent BBNCC
Robustness and Survivability Jim Mathis SRI
Security Ray McFarland DOD
Tactical Internetting David Hartmann MITRE "
Testing Ed Cain DlEC

LAB officers are:
Internet Architect Dave Clark MIT
Deputy Internet Architect Jon Pastel ISI
DARPA Program Manager Dennis Perry DARPA
TAB Secretary Chris Perry MITRE
The Man in the Lineup
I don't think there's a double standard. People often jump to that conclusion after they see a few data points they dislike, but this is fraught with bias because data points you dislike stand out more.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I would happily give up all those washing machine features for one that just kept working for the next 50 years
The economy won’t stay depressed; you have time during the recession to build up, get ready while there is less competition or your competition is very weak. When the market moves up again, you can go full in. It is just a lot cheaper to do the startup part of the startup (building the product, market research, hiring, or, marketing, sales, getting first clients, etc) part of the startup. After the recession, you are the one ready, the ‘old ones’ are licking their wounds (they lost trust by alienating clients with sudden price hikes or policy changes and alienated employees by firing large portions of them etc) or gone.
Genghis Khan had many children: https://www.grunge.com/187878/how-many-children-did-genghis-...
Too bad the scans are so lo-fi. I wish historical documents like this were preserved in better quality.
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg25233622-900-can-bul...:

“If you see a soldier shooting into the air, run for shelter first and cringe later. Falling bullets cause injuries and deaths.”

I expect a great difference depending on the size of the bullet.
To be clear, we are hiring lots of people every month now. We have 10,000-20,000 applications per month, it's just that we have a very high bar, and we are rigorous about it which takes time and effort.

Also, our process doesn't work as well for some roles and some locations, so we continue to evolve it.

But on balance, I am very happy with the growth of our teams and the calibre of our new colleagues.
Can anyone explain how it's possible for the apogee to reduce so much, while the perigee barely changes?

Wouldn't the air resistance that lowers the apogee also affect the perigee?

Or is it specifically because the object is being slowed at perigee, that the apogee lowers, while the perigee doesn't change much because the apogee is in vacuum?
The whole section on "What's the difference between Web Server and Application Server?" is not very precise. I wouldn't say the difference has to do with content type being served. I think it would be better to talk about responsibility in the stack. A quick google search yields this page from IBM ( https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/web-server-vs-application-se...) which IMO provides a clearer explanation. There is also something called reverse proxy which I think is important but is missing.

Another diagram has the app + web server within the same physical server. While it gets the point across I think it would be better to use an example where this is not the case. From my experience it is usually not the case.
Why crypto’s bruising comedown matters
And would not be acceptable in any other country than Germany legally. Got bitten by that while searching for industrial plug…
https://archive.ph/jSk8M
This is exactly what firewalls are for. Your "layer" of defense is the defense. If you want another layer, then set up another firewall further along the network.
Exactly. Also, a craftsman would treat their screwdriver with respect and care, too.
They support .jxl! <3 I’m so psyched to see this out in the wild
Nice article and idea. I've used TBD comments for years but it was always up to me to informally circle back later and deal with them. An automated commit/merge-stopper seems like a good way to approach it.

The observations about maintaining the context of what you're working on in your short-term memory, and how much faster you can do things that require it while you have it are very true.
Drinking too much water can cause a fatal electrolyte imbalance in your blood. Breathing too pure of oxygen will seriously, perhaps fatally, damage your lungs. Many metals are simultaneously important in trace amounts and debilitating or fatal in larger (albeit still small) quantities.

That's just for things that you are supposed to do, only too much of. Graphene is not useful or an important part of your body's functions; doing things you aren't even supposed to be doing with it (breathing it in, for example) can only have a negative effect.

Speaking of pure carbon, carbon nanotubes are known to cause lung tumors.
This is what is wrong with media these days. Writing every article with a title which makes it suspenseful and click worth and sensational.
Or, it allows for the conversation to start naturally from that point. "In your written interview, you observed that... can you expand on that?"
Then you haven't changed nearly enough obviously. What are we supposed to do in this situation - feel sorry for you?

Do a university course or move to a new country and learn a language, start a business. Apply your ability to handle adverse situations and think your way out of this.

If you are lonely then spend your time helping other people to solve their problems their own way rather than yours. Take up gardening and devote your ability to that. One can go on and on.
Not necessarily. I've seen managers that don't have a software engineering background succeed managing teams and even whole engineering departments and products. It will help though if you develop a close relationship with the tech lead(s) to help make up for technical deficiencies. Trust them to make technical decisions that are best for the team.
Funnily enough there is another, much older book also called Soul of Japan, that may actually capture its essence.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12096
https://librivox.org/bushido-the-soul-of-japan-by-inazo-nito...
Looks like a story about someone trying to recycle plastic by using it as an ingredient in [polymer-concrete](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_concrete ).

As for polymer-concrete's history (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978184569... ):

> The history of the research and development of polymer concrete is relatively short compared with that of conventional cement concrete. The early research and development of the polymer concrete was done mainly in the Soviet Union (currently, Russia),1 the United States,2 Germany3 and Japan4 in the late 1950s to the early 1960s.

The idea of making polymer-concrete with recycled-plastic has also been around. For a random review article (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978085709...):

> Abstract: [...] The volume of polymeric wastes such as tyre rubber and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles is increasing at a fast rate. [...] The majority is just landfilled. This chapter reviews research published on the performance of concrete containing tyre rubber and PET wastes. Furthermore it discusses the effect of waste treatments, the size of waste particles and the waste replacement volume on the fresh and hardened properties of concrete.
The only vehicle sound I notice day to day is the god awful reversing drone of my neighbors Tesla backing into their driveway. I believe this sound was specifically engineered to be as repulsive as possible. Give me a rumbling (muffled) V8 over that any day of the week.
>Java and Python

Just lost your credibility lol.

Python is alright but... seriously? Java?
I have no idea if I’d be a good manager. But I don’t think this is a fair connection to make. I’m currently in a similar situation of being the built it all does it all go to designer programmer. And I have desperately tried multiple ways to make this not be the case. But if the company doesn’t support your efforts to do so, does it prove I’d make a bad manager, or that that company I work for has some shortcomings?
The US just passed 1,000,000 dead. It's not over. Declaring a victory and going home doesn't work. Did that last summer, remember? US case rate has tripled since April 1. Deaths lag that by about a month.
We can get graphene by literally peeling it off graphite using a scotch tape.

> That's where Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov came in. They took a hunk of graphite and used Scotch tape to peel off layer after layer after layer. Geim and Novoselov then analyzed what they had left, and found graphene. For their discovery – which was published in 2004 – they were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

https://science.osti.gov/Science-Features/News-Archive/Featu...
Well said, this always bothered me
In a vacuum, maybe

But in the real world

1) Python is the lingua franca for ML. You WILL need to learn python. All other resources are in python. Matlab you'll likely never use again, so it's kind of a waste.

2) Probably more people have existing python knowledge than Matlab knowledge. And if you already know python, and you know python is the lingua franca, it's annoying having to learn Matlab knowing that in the real world you'd be better off with python.
> pvc is being used to replace ageing copper or lead piping across the world

PVC for water pipes seems to be a relatively US-only thing as far as I can tell. I don't think it's legal in the EU, for example; plastic piping here is PE-HD.
The iPhone 13 Mini improved battery life significantly. The A15 series is significantly more efficient and they managed to increase the battery capacity. It should last somewhere in the range of 30% longer than the 12 Mini.
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I'm also on an X1 Carbon 6th gen! I will try this out. Thanks much.
Climate change has a definite impact on crop yield. The recent impact on wheat crop in India is a case in point:

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-india-wheat-crop-snags-export....

> An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields [...] Climate change has made India's heat wave hotter, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at the Imperial College of London [...] "But now it is a much more common event—we can expect such high temperatures about once in every four years," she said.

> India's vulnerability to extreme heat increased 15% from 1990 to 2019, according to a 2021 report by the medical journal The Lancet.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220520053310/https://thebeliev...

https://archive.ph/YLTmY
A lot of people nowadays lack responsibility.

Society keeps encouraging a lifestyle with less and less responsibility.

The government takes care of you (until you start bringing in profits), your employer takes care of you (with no raises). Everything seems engineered to coddle people without making them realise what they're missing. I feel most people are basically unaware cattle, happy to stay in their comfort zone and to keep producing what they tell them to.

Sexual promiscuity is cool, relationships don't last, having kids is a suicide, you're a victim.

A lot of the shitty parents have way deeper problems than this. The ones doing ok are probably glad they get to use their judice and they enjoy the freedom that comes with responsibility (without forgetting the obligations).
So why is your default position that they are right and this is a new paradigm?

Surely the onus is on those promoting such schemes to convincingly explain their workings; if you can get 20% a year the explanation had better be good...

This is just the last resort of a scoundrel who knows they can’t explain their scam.
Good setup, excellent payoff. Thank you.
Those who were already working with companies from abroad have largely left. I’m wondering about those who were working with Russian orgs their entire lives, those people are a lot less mobile, they can’t speak other languages very well and usually feel like ‘nobody’s waiting for them out there.’
I have to imagine that plastic in roads would get shredded into microplastics and wind up all over the place.

Wouldn't that depend on how the plastic is used? Roads are complex engineered objects made up of many parts. Putting plastic in the top layer where it would be subject to wear might not work, but putting it into one or more of the substrate layers could still make the road more durable, recycle the plastic for a second life, and capture it so it doesn't end up in the environment.
That is about it.
Fake Journal Club
> Nobody believed the Crimea was taken?

Nobody in Crimea believed it was being taken, until it was.
By that time, the Ukranian government was beheaded, whatever left of the army was demoralized. There was literally a few thousand dollars in the state's coffers. Insurgency in the east was ramping up; a few volunteer battalions were formed overnight, financed by neighborhood donations, and sent off to fight the (covert) invasion in the east. It's actually a miracle Ukraine survived in 2014, so fighting the Russian regular army (with a big Naval base) in Crimea was not on top of the list.
What I understand from other write-ups of Orkney, it was in many ways a centre of ritual, and was not perceived by the people who lived there as remote or peripheral.

If you re-center a map on Orkney, nowhere is really very far away once boats are given. No local timber? No problem. We need what you have, you can have timber from us.

(I loved visiting back in the 70s. the stones of stenness and maes howe were lovely, as was the italian PoW chapel out by Scapa Flow. I cycled around. Orkney was the last place in Scotland with glass bottles taking inside-screw stoppers: all the home-brew fanatics, the headmaster of the Stromness Academy included, hoarded them, to keep local beermaking alive and well)
I don't think we had a famine in the last half century that was caused purely by production. The beauty of a working free market is that starving people are willing to pay quite a lot for cheap food, and so it's virtually impossible to starve just by being poor. The problem was always that the food couldn't get to them. I'd bet on a half-half mix of regulatory issues and fighting.

But yeah, production issues can increase price, which will create a whole lot of issues downstream - for example even if people won't literally starve, some of them won't be able to both eat and make rent. Which will predictably piss them off, and this is how you get Arab Spring as a consequence of corn ethanol.
It’s because a lot of the people with loud motorcycles are cops or former ones.
52 degrees pretty well lines up with Russia's southern border. Virtually no overlap.
My assumption -- with the initial infection the body creates antibodies to fight off that original strain. As it spreads to more and more cells and churns out copies, it mutates slightly every time it replicates. And then each of those instances replicates and mutates a little more, becoming a bunch of different strains. And while initially the original antibodies will be effective to start with those strains, eventually they'll muttate enough to where you have so many different strains where suddenly the antibodies aren't working anymore and that's probably the point where the immune systems gets overloaded trying to produce antibodies for all these different strains, and as soon as it catches up it all becomes worthless, because in the meantime a ton of other different strains have mutated in the meantime, and so on and so on.

tl;dr snowball effect
> If you say so. I don’t know too many porn stars.

I don't either, I've just read the pay is surprisingly terrible. Like a one-time payment of a couple hundred bucks.
I had a class that "strongly recommended" Latex - it was for formal proofs (CSP was one thing we learned - I can't remember the others now).
This guy is saying that it's a redundant design, and the spacecraft is healthy. I figure they must've burned the other ones a little longer?

>In a post-launch briefing, NASA’s Steve Stich says a couple Starliner thrusters “failed off” during the orbit insertion burn. Also, a sublimator was a “little sluggish” during ascent, but working fine now. Overall, spacecraft is “doing well”.

>Boeing’s Mark Nappi on thruster failures: the system is designed to be redundant and it performed like it’s supposed to. Have a safe vehicle and it’s on its way to the ISS.

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1527456220839391232
Yes this is the life of a 10-100x dev. Sounds like your team and company suck. Find a new one with smarter people.