skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, and it's pretty close in this case: for a 50% chance, a sample of 1178 containers with 6-digit numbers (assuming a uniform distribution) would suffice.
https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/wiki/Use-LiteX-on-the...

Not equivalent to the Pi 4, but still runs linux. (the Acorn CLE is a rebadged NiteFury)
I don't think it does. So I think we actually honestly agree that the current situation is probably fine and that neither mandatory breathalyzers built into all cars nor mandatory loss of driving privileges are desirable outcomes. :-)
I couldn't finish Ministry for the Future; I found it just too depressing. And I like Kim Stanley Robinson but I just couldn't believe in the solutions he proposes for climate change. I think the problem is too big for us to solve and that humanity is almost certainly in for a few rough centuries while we adjust. A lot of people are going to suffer.
Except we have millions of devices now that rely on hydrocarbons that will have to be transition... somehow?

And the infrastructure used to sequester carbon from the air can be turned around and deployed later when we want to sequester carbon without creating hydrocarbons.
"be egod" ?
Why do you not believe in synthetic hydrocarbons? What else do you believe is a better alternative then?
My apartment mate in NC, took bible study group as a last resort to meet some ladies (and with the end goal of getting laid)

Too bad they loved Jesus & chastity
I was also really excited about The Wheel of Time series that came out on Prime (especially since Sanderson was consulting on it), but it really disapointed for the same reasons. The Expanse was spot on though. I hope someone picks the show back up so they can finish out the series.
Yup, excellent way to save money if you’re looking for a product that just seems to be cloned to death and without any big reputable brands having a superior version. I bought 3 automatic cat feeders from Ali for the same price as 1 from Amazon. Exact same product besides the logo being different.
Many years ago I worked for a major cellphone service provider in Europe - cellphones with duplicate IMEI numbers were an issue (the IMEI number was meant to be unique per cellular device much like a MAC address). This occasionally prevented an IMEI block on a stolen phone.
You underestimate the power of external accountability and expert opinion in driving decision-making.
Except for carbon monoxide, soot, etc., that contribute to a variety of health problems.
I bought a laptop case off Amazon with the brand name "unik" on it. I think it is supposed to read "unique" but I always see "eunuch".
I just finished recent Clark nominee Skyward Inn and it was such a disappointment that I've gone back to golden-age mysteries to read something I know I'll enjoy - The Eight of Spades by John Dickson Carr.

I'm in a bit of a lull unfortunately, it seems like every recommended book I've read recently is a dud. I read every day so my demand is high.
Energy storage
It seems plenty pointless to finger point a community when a case pops up after 20 years and ignore all the other cases in the country popping up from foreign travelers and other communities.

It seems even more pointless if you don't want to say what you want to do to prevent that specific case. Just complaining to complain? Or singling out a community because you don't like them?

Simply put, what would you like to do?. Let's not side step around your intentions because you can't back them up morally.

Left leaning communities like this one are the most vicious towards Orthodox Jews, Israel, and religion in general.

It's really sad and predictable at this point.

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Explain your diagnosis of my "persecution complex".

Define what it is and how you think I have it, doc.

Then I should have enough info to diagnose you.
Check out Earthships for inspiration: https://www.newmexico.org/earthships/

There is cool documentary episode on them on Amazon Prime, show called Off The Cuff and episode called Earthships.
>So they running this port with pencil and paper? No database? No sanity checks?

Or they simply don't run those queries until they need to. i.e. "we don't give a F unless there's a hiccup"

The point isn't to track containers. The point is to get goods to where they need to be and when. Unless two of the same container shows up thereby causing a WTF moment there is no problem because there is no ambiguity in the container handling process and therefore they don't care.
Interesting but 18 minutes long? Sheesh.
Clarifying the Complexities of Cookies
How do you know this container isn't the same one you saw before? You need to have them at the same place at the same time to know they're the same container.
I literally looked at the domain and exclaimed out loud "container news dot com?!?!?!"
There's 8 billion people on the planet and a large proportion of the world is poor or relatively poor. If you can think of some trade that adds value to interactions and network effects of people, then you can produce added value.

I journal ideas everyday, I am up to 450+ computer and business ideas. I journal my ideas in the open on GitHub and hope people do something with my ideas or engage with me. The state of computing could be drastically improved.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4
Unless that number is the only thing they're using to route the container, it's more like having two guys named "Joe".
Ah, that's a very good point. They _did_ refund me so I guess they did satisfy their AirCover policy! I'm glad you noticed that detail. Thank you.
Nice to see some Tetris news here! I've been a little obsessed lately with Tetr.io. For those who don't know it, it's a version of tetris where you can play against other players and send them pieces when, for example, you do a tetris or a combo. It's pretty impressive to watch the competitions :
https://youtu.be/A4SFWfXZsks
The reason these are called "portable computers" and not "laptops" has to do with the electromagnetic radiation generated from onboard wireless COMMs (e.g. WiFi).

As this type of machine should already NOT be sitting atop a human, I do not see an issue with directing the excess heat to the exterior shell/heatsink.
I've been using bash since the early 90s and I'm now in my 40s so I think at this point I just have to accept that I will never use another shell.

On Macs, the current version of bash can be installed from Homebrew and you can set it as your default shell in the SysPrefs, in Users > Right-click you > Advanced
I wonder how beaver activity impacts evaporation rates versus human reservoir-building? Does lots of small ponds (perhaps mostly in wooded areas?) work better than a few massive reservoirs?
I used fenwick trees in a smart contract because space/time costs money.
I highly recommend the *unabridged* original audio books, especially the later stories narrated by Stephen Briggs or Celie Imrie (Witches series). The earlier stories narrated by Nigel Planer sounded like he was still in his "The Young Ones" [0] character and grated on me for many years although now I find him easier to accept when I re-listen (which I do frequently!).

Unfortunately (for me at least), the recently re-recorded collection (by the Pratchett estate) using different voice artists (Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Steven Cree) don't capture the same 'magic' as the original voices and often fail to recognise and pronounce the subtle double and triple entendres (e.g. of the Nac Mac Feegles) - which suggests they and the editors don't fully appreciate the humour Pratchett intended.

Don't miss the "The Science of Discworld" series (book I (1999), II:The Globe (2002), III:Darwin's Watch (2005), IV:Judgement Day (2013)) where the chapters alternate between stories of the Wizzards (voiced by Stephen Cohen) of Unseen University accidentally creating Roundworld (Earth and our universe) and then tinkering with its evolutionary timeline in a battle with the Elves, eventually leading to humans leaving the planet using a Space elevator, and serious explanation and exposition of the sciences by Jack Cohen and Professor Ian Stewart (voiced by Michael Fenton-Stevens).

Those make a great introduction to science for kids young and old!

"The Folklore of Discworld" and some of the loosely related stories such as Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (voiced by Penelope Keith - a skit on the Victorian era "Bradshaw's" railway travel guide [2] and a spin-off from "Raising Steam", featuring her travels on the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway), "The World of Poo" (Sam Vimes son's fascination with collecting poo specimens) and, unrelated to Discworld but written in the same tongue-in-cheek style "Dodger", a tale set in Victorian London featuring a lovable Tosher discovered by 'Charlie' (Charles Dickens).

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00glhzn

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Discworld

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradshaw%27s_Guide
Using the formula on wikipedia and checking random numbers it looks like the number required for 50% chance of collision is around 1200.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1-%28999999%2F1000000%2...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem#A_simple_expo...
So my understanding here is that the largest consumer of water in most (all?) of the places served by the Colorado River is still agriculture. The article hints at fallout from this around 2/3 of the way through, when talking about grocery prices going up due to water scarcity (the hypothetical $14 head of lettuce).

Why do we still do so much farming in regions that have such marginal water supplies? Are there no better-irrigated places in the US to grow all these crops? Obviously all these farms can't move overnight, and presumably the owners of the farms wouldn't be happy with their revenue moving elsewhere, but it seems necessary.

Has farming been slowly (too slowly?) moving out of these water-strapped regions? Or are they just all sitting there, expecting someone else to bear the brunt of the problem? I know there have been shenanigans with farmers deliberately growing water-hungry crops because the water allocations have always been a "use it or lose it" system. That is apparently changing (far too late, IMO); do we expect this to have a meaningful impact?

Either way, I would suggest that it's a lot easier to move farming activities to regions with a more stable water supply (assuming such regions exist) than it is to move hundreds of cities of people.
I think the vast majority of popular quotes are misattributed. Most quote websites are terrible about sourcing and full of fake quotes. Thank god for sites like Wikiquote.
Tech Burnout – A Retrospective
First of all, he's probably not an engineer. He's a computer programmer.

For some reason, Computer Programmers think they're experts in every subject.
But Neutral < Negative.

Capturing CO2 is not ‘energy cheap’ and therefore it is best when and where possible much of what we start capturing to rid it from the carbon cycle rather than re-introduce it.
I'm surprised it was "buried" that deep.
The 7th digit is a checksum digit, as previously noted. So only 6 "free" digits so a million is correct.

You can read more about the container numbering standard here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6346
I do visual work, as well. And I think by the end I just got a little worn out by the overall "which laptop is right for me" research process and said, "well, I'm sure the monitor on this laptop will be much better than my T440s click"
There's nothing inherent to these vendors (as people) and/or
(most of) their products that would mean that they shouldn't be allowed on Amazon, no.

The problem is instead with the shell game these vendors are playing — creating thousands of temporary brands, pumping them or "brushing" them with fake reviews, and then discarding those brands at a moment's notice when things go sour for them, only to replace them with another brand selling the same shitty products the next day, with the same people behind it.

Amazon's seller reputation system was designed to function under an assumption of "one persistent brand per group of people who work to sell a thing." But people noticed that Amazon uses "one legal company with a trademark" as a proxy for "one group of people"; and so have created thousands of distinct "legal companies with trademarks" with the same group of people behind them. Which Amazon's reputation system has no way of coping with.

If Amazon could deduplicate brands — i.e. require that the same group-of-people sticks to selling stuff under the same company/brand — then there'd be no problem, because then their reputation system would work: if the stuff was crap, the company/brand would get a bad reputation, and then nobody would buy their stuff any more.
My (albeit limited) experience with companies like this is that their interview process is far more hurtful than helpful. The processes are so long and so narrow that I can't see how it wouldn't be more effective to just say "come work on this thing for a day with me" and we'll see how it goes?

They must be leaking so many great makers arbitrarily. I assume that this helps the kind of work they do in some mysterious way?
Assuming competence with humans involved is terrifying
The vaccine is vastly effective to prevent hospital stays and death by a very high margin.

Yes, it is true, it does not prevent spread, as we thought it might. But it prevents the worse outcome of it, which is a big win.
We could also cover all the roads with PV, invest highly in saltwater batteries, the global grid , small, modular nuclear reactors, solar desalination, developement help for poor countries by building up a local solar industry etc. etc.

But the world is rather focused on war. Now in the ukraine, but taiwan is building up. I mean, a nuclear holocaust would also reduce CO2 emissions, but seriously, it is so frustrating that there are technological solutions to real problems, but they are just not seriously implemented. We could, but we don't. At least not on a global scale.
Vex: Permanently Silence False Positives with Vulnerability EXchange
I think it's a typo. \int_a^x f'(t)dt should be f(x) - f(a), and that would be the fundamental theorem of calculus (or some corollary of it). It looks like either f(a+x) should be f(x) or the upper limit x should be x+a. The rest of the post deals with Taylor series, which are often written with f(a+x) for the function being expanded, so that might have mixed the author up when writing that. They don't directly use that expression elsewhere as far as I can tell, so it doesn't affect the rest of the post.

If it's f(x) = f(a) + \int_a^x f'(t)dt, then you can think of f(x) - f(a) as the area under the curve of f'(t) on the interval from a to x. For example, if f(x) = x, f'(x) = 1. The area of a function with height of 1 from a to x would be x - a, which is the same as f(x) - f(a) = x - a.
A lot of sci-fi. I keep a couple things in flight all the time, go where I feel moved. Currently: Stand on Zanzibar, (Brunner, 1968) 88% through, 2 months. Babel 17, (Delany, 1966), 66% through / 1 month. Also, Revenant Gun, (Han Lee, 2018) about 15% through / 2 months. Also, Catcher in the Rye (Salinger, 1946), 60% through, 3 months. Gnomon, (Harkaway, 2017) 40% through, 4 months.

Cheating here accounting other recent reads, but I've finished a couple others in the intervening time. Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Chambers, 2014, reread), Dark Tower (book 7), (King, 2004). Pattern Recognition, (Gibson, 2004, reread). Revolution Business (Book 5 of Merchant Prince, Stross, 2009). Aurora (Stanley-Robinson, 2015).

I have some other stuff I read at a more leasiurely piece-by-piece pace, mostly materialistic philosophy / nerdery.
Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
C1.fi – on server encrypting email service (IMAPS/Activesync)
C1.fi is a simple Finland based email service which supports using standard IMAP and ActiveSync clients. We encrypt all messages with account holder specific keys before storing them on servers mass storage. -- antti@c1.fi
The question rather is, how much pumped storage do you even need when you do geographical decoupling through HVDC interconnections?

Similarly, how bound are you to the local topology? The longest already existing HVDC line in China is 3,293 km (2,046 miles). That brings you from the Rockies to any location within continental US.

Utilize renewables to have bidirectional flow compared to traditional hydro.
The blitz (maximize score in a set time) all-clear runs are pretty impressive, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWETj11LmMw&t=7s
The OA mentioned someone who lost an eye due to improper product design and the vendor was safely hidden behind several layers of false-front entities.

I don't know how common that is, but buyers should be aware that many Amazon sellers, including domestic ones, operate in the way the OA explains.

Biggest annoyance IMO is that they clog up the search results and make it harder to find products you'd actually buy. Many sell the exact same item, which you then have to skip over, over and over again. Someone at Amazon must be bonus'd on adding new vendors.
In days of yore, I worked for a company where the product basically did "sell itself".

Over 90% of people who did a demo/trial run bought the product.

Sadly, technology progressed, and the entire market went away. The same "Magic Quadrant"/Market space that Gartner made explicitly because of that product was retired some time back due to not being relevant.
> Data storage and querying

Storage + querying is vastly underutilizing a tool that is designed to help you safely manage the entire lifecycle of your data – From defining that data (DDL), making it accessible (queries, indexes), ensuring consistency (checks, constraints, types, etc...), managing cascading data events (triggers), and more!

It's a fool's errand to try to (poorly) replicate these things elsewhere when there's already a battle hardened system with decades of investment that allows you to do these things declaratively and consistently for free.

And it's much safer! The DB will enforce that validation even when services are doing massive migrations or new clients are mutating the data in ways you didn't anticipate. It's far less error prone than ensuring that all of your services are validating data the same way.

> Validation should be done in the application layer for security and scalability.

Input validation, for sure. Sanitize as close to the perimeter as you can. But for consistency and integrity of data, let the database do what it's great at.

Your application server will probably not do it as efficiently as your highly-tuned database. There's no reason to assume that pushing that work into the database isn't a better scalability strategy. And it's certainly a more robust strategy from an organizational perspective.

Fixing slow things is frequently trivial compared to fixing bad data or tracking down subtle data bugs. For example, borrowing from a real world scenario in an Elixir service that uses Ecto to handle data mapping and validation, our code assumed a key in a JSON blob was a string, but in a handful of old rows it's a number. This inconsistency only existed in ~0.0005% of rows, and only in old data, but it surfaced in all sorts of weird ways. And was difficult to track down.

Using the RDBMS to handle validation would have never allowed this to happen.

> "Premature optimization" is the rallying cry of people standing in the corner of a room with a painted floor holding a paint brush.

That strikes me as an uninformed opinion. Optimizations usually work by making lots of assumptions on the nature of your problem and then implementing something that depends on those assumptions always holding. This leads to more convoluted and fragile code, but in return you get performance.

Writing optimized code frequently involves removing optionality, which is the equivalent of painting yourself into a corner.
Hydrogen. This is my neighbor: https://hoermannsolar.de/wohnen-im-wasserstoffhaus/
Reminds me somewhat of getting two pieces of network equipment from a very cheap vendor that have identical Ethernet port MAC addresses. Have seen it more than once.
I don’t think that was it: they advertised themselves as a bookstore.
Just curious, which hi sec systems?
I'm a huge space nerd, and it's amazing to me that SpaceX has managed to make first stage recovery almost boring, it's so routine (still, I try to watch every one of those launches/landings).
What behavior? If the boss isn’t a programmer, then it sounds like the boss is doing a good job here. He went and hired a programmer to build an app they needed. What am I missing?
Some could say extreme capitalism.
Good healthcare is paywalled behind expensive insurance and good job.

The college fees are on average $40k per year for private, high quality colleges.
For public out-of-state colleges, average is $23k and for public in-state colleges around $10k per year. [1]

On average in 2018, the degree cost was around $100k [2]

[1]: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...

[2]: https://www.us.hsbc.com/value-of-education/
Sorry to side-track this, but does anyone know if there is a reason why we make homophone spelling errors? Do we sound words out as we write them? Neurologically, what is happening? It doesn't sound automatically the case that the pathways for concept -> word -> write actually flow through a concept -> word -> sound -> write path. It's not a confusion of the word since this user clearly knows SKU is not SKEW.

And /u/linuxlizard, if you don't mind saying, were you using speech-to-text to write that comment?
Because there is an XKCD for everything, here is an XKCD guest post on Bill Gates' web site that shows how it is totally solved by vaccinating against it https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/XKCD-Marks-the-Spot.
People living in terraced houses in the middle of my home town would be rather surprised to hear that I think. Many of the houses in question are at least a hundred years old, they were there and the roads they are on were there long before "public transport enabled limiting the space required by traffic". And anyway the remark is not about traffic, it is about where the cars sit when they are not in traffic. And who is going to decide that your house is an "excess" house? It's not as if it is easy to find a place to live in some parts of the UK.

> In some other parts of the world, similar situations have been resolved by removing excess houses, making more space for traffic.

Such as?
nice.. it's just "low code" :-)
[x] Goober
> Surveillance has made it easier to prosecute and encamp "unwanted" religious minorities such as the Uyghurs

Who said they weren't? My discussion is why the _average_ Chinese citizen doesn't care. You're talking about a minority group, which by definition is not average.

> life getting better for the layperson has nothing to do with China's strong surveillance and media control policy.

It actually does. The reason being that the government can do this without the layperson getting upset. Why isn't the layperson getting upset? See my above comments.

> Chinese people trust their government due to a strong culture of nationalism.

Which doesn't appear out of nowhere. It isn't happening because race. There are plenty of Asians that live in democracies. It isn't just historical culture. There are plenty of Asian countries that were previously ruled by... China itself.

I'm fine introducing new topics to the discussion but please don't put words in my mouth. I'd take your own advice and not make a lot of bold generalizations. I happily noted that there was far more nuance than what I wrote, but let's recognize the constraints of our platform. I can't discuss everything nor can I know everything. But if you're going to come at me and complain about a lack of nuance you shouldn't make the same error. You should also participate in good faith otherwise we're just going to end up in a fight, which is unproductive.