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Biden has been in politics for 52 years. Has he ever, at any point in his long political career, shown any concern whatsoever for the plight of non-violent minor drug offenders until five minutes ago when it became politically expedient for him?

This is a genuine question, I'd love to be proved wrong.
I would advocate more research into learning how to "encourage" fungi growth to suit our needs without genetically modifying it. We just _never_ know the long term effects of our genetically modified creations (never as in "not in our lifetimes" usually).

I imagine someday there will be a combination of organic growths which will be combined in a creative way to produce something greater than the sum of parts and which also suits our needs. This might involve fast growing things, things which can be grown in a directed fashion, and combinations of organic substances which react in a beneficial way (such as improving durability or strength characteristics).

Hemp grows really fast and has really strong fibers. Bamboo does as well. Fungi grows fairly quickly and is directable. There are probably many more things out there which can be used. Then it's a matter of refining the processes to get the results we want and then testing and developing combinations.
That longevity table is under archival conditions (climate controlled). The vast majority of CD-Rs I had, regardless of brand, were completely gone after 10 years of storage in an enclosed textile bag. CD-RW would barely last 2-3 years.
The ATtiny 2-Series
No matter the material, the storage conditions are crucial (sic). You want temperature, humidity, acidity, magnetic stability.
I suppose the logic is that he delayed his good deed till now so it'd have good media timing, rather than doing it earlier and helping people sooner.

Edit: Not that I agree with this assessment!
I was nodding along at most of these - it's a bit like reading a horoscope. However when I got to the part on heroics I kind of woke from my slumber and I was left wondering if either it was a bunch of BS or I might need to pay more heed. For example I really don't understand the meaning of quotes such as "Tom DeMarco says, can-do attitudes escalate minor setback into true disasters (DeMarco 1995)."
Few fish eat directly unicellular algae or other unicellular protists, which are indeed the main producers of DHA and EPA.

Those unicellular living beings are normally eaten by small animals, e.g. copepods, which are eaten by small fish, which are eaten by big fish.

Thus all of them get the required DHA and EPA.
> We tend towards pointless yelling and cherry picking, rather than nuanced discussion.

Interesting to see your perspective - I see exactly the opposite, and that's why I engage in discussion on HN rather than Reddit.
Ventilation is not HVAC. Ventilation can be as simple as having openable vents at proper locations in a structure which could be manually operated to provide air exchange on demand.
I still dont understand why people keep talking about "House". When 90% of area that needs urgent "housing" are in needs of Tower Blocks / High Rise Residential Buildings. We Need to find a way to quickly and cost effectively build a lot of mid to high quality apartments. Better heat isolation. Network Pipes ready rather than relying on WiFi.

Note: Yes, I know zoning and planning etc are still the biggest hurdle.
I work with Python. It's extremely dull and frustrating.
My Dad once showed me how the moment he opened a port on our domestic router four different attempts to hack us were made. Good lesson for living on the net, here be dragons.
Anyone doing ZIM of news.ycombinator.com ?
Once in a week package would be fine. How to make one?
Megabuild: I Built the Entire Universe in Minecraft
A modern, energy efficient house is intentionally very air tight, and ventilation is achieved using mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. That basically gives you the best of both worlds - a highly ventilated house (so low humidity levels) coupled with very little heat loss - MVHR systems can often recovery 90% of the heat in the ventilated air.

Look at Passivhaus for the most extreme version of this. But even regular new build houses in the UK now have to meet air tightness regulations.
Allergies for many.
Absolutely, as much as any other payment method. Meanwhile there are consumer protections available for them. One phonecall and a form will pretty much instantly reverse a debit card, credit card, or direct debit transaction with any bank in Europe. On more than one occasion this has happened to me and it's taken less than 15 minutes to resolve.
Thank you. Seriously. Thank you. Nicely done.
Space billboards could cost $65M and still turn a profit
Do the Dang~
> This is not a dome.

Thanks for the correction, I read the page without enabling JS on it, so the images didn't load, and every previous iteration of this technology I've seen has been limited to producing domes or arches. Nonetheless, even if you could, in practice, stack multiple floors using this new form, no developed country with any potential seismic activity or hurricane/typhoon threat will let you build multi-story structures like this (or perhaps even single-story ones), and I think you're right to use the word "magic" about using rebar with this, since installing rebar is a very labor intensive process, thus negating the only alleged benefit of this technique.
TiKV mainly runs on top of RocksDB in most scenarios.
It's already solved insofar as a fission or fusion heated steam engines can be solved.

Pumped hydro and caes is scalable at lower prices than fission could achieve. DT fusion will be much lower power density with much more exotic materials and much higher maintenance burden.

It's just that renewables have to live in the real world where customers aren't strongarmed into paying $200/MWh for 50 years to pay for them to do whatever they want. As such work needs to be done to make solar/wind+storage economically dominate gas because governments are not powerful enough to make fossil fuels pay for their externalities.
But they didn’t. Because it cost money. Because the cost of building a new reactor was so large that they decided to take risks and run the old one past it’s lifetime.

Fast forward to today, where governments are now facing pressure to extend the life of old existing nuclear plants past their shutdown date to reduce dependence on gas.
Many quick build and prefab projects are intended to be used to provide rapid (short/medium term) housing for people affected by natural disasters (or man made ones, for that matter).

I'm not at all impressed in this particular one, but in general it matters not what the aesthetics are when it's a survival issue.
An AI capable of replacing human programmers will have to be a full AGI. At that point worrying about your career is probably moot.
I plan to write a blog about this. But the gist is that CloudFlare lets you host a service locally which creates a port tunnel between a domain on their platform and your box. This handles a lot of things, such as 2-factor auth, floating-IPs and TLS. So you visit "home-git.example.com" and CloudFlares routes that to your homebox.
If you look from the outside yes, however there is low we don't know about FB and hidden works not producing a product etc just yet.They are very long term focused and very different from Tim Apple's idea of a company as an operational engine.
He isn’t doing a great job at that. I see him as a rather analytical CEO. Nothing of the charisma or clarity of ideas that Steve Jobs had. Steve Jobs was rather ruthless when it came to quality (source : Guy Kawasaki) and no idea how Zuckerberg is irl, but my impression it isn’t favorable.

What I am trying to say is, with how Facebook is managed isn’t at all like Apple.
Swapping the built in storage, changing the init scripts to start the kiwix webserver, and installing some homebrew apps. It's a Kobo Clara HD.
If these 10x engineers really exist, they're rare. Building an engineering department with this type of employee isn't sustainable.

In 20+ years I've only worked with maybe 2 genuine examples of the good 10x engineer, and far more examples of the bad "10x engineer" who flies around quickly reimplementing patterns that they implemented at other companies, whether they're suitable or not. Once the low-hanging fruit is all gone and only the hard stuff (and hubris) remains, they leave. Usually, after getting pissy because other engineers have inherited their crap have started pushing back and questioning their design choices. I've inherited systems built by people like this and it's not pleasant.

You also better be willing to hire constantly if you want a few more 10xers in your back pocket. If hiring a regular "good engineer" is hard, then hiring one of these is harder. You need to find them, convince them to interview, present them with an interesting challenge, have a great interview process that separates wheat from the chaff. And finally, pay them a ton and don't let them burn themselves out

Oh, and admit that replacing a 10x engineer is going to be basically impossible, not just because it's hard to hire them, but because each one that leaves your takes far more experience and knowledge with them when they go (than the 1x engineer). If the 10x moniker was really accurate, it would be like losing a team of 10.

Sometimes it's better to have a reliable team of 6 engineers in at least 2 timezones who get along well, sync up once a week and have a really good lead/manager. This is sustainable, easier to hire, onboard, retain. And less detrimental if you lose one.
It's not that much time, and frankly you need the time with any method. The last time it happened to me, my card provider noticed the transactions, blocked the card and phoned me to ask if I made them.

The time before, I phoned my bank and told them I had a charge I didn't recognize, they asked me to fill in a form and refunded me within 48 hours.
Biden showed sympathy toward "Defund/Abolish" protesters, but never endorsed their movements. And by virtually every metric, he's increased federal dollars for local police:

Fact check: Political ad saying Biden wants to defund the police is misleading
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-misleading-bide...

Biden to request $37B in annual budget to support police and prevent crime:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3568076-bi...

> I imagine there would be some cases where a real hardcore criminal was imprisoned for simple possession because that's the only thing they could get to stick, and releasing such people probably will prove unpopular.

No matter how popular and light a blanket pardon initiative, political rivals will always blame the president/governor if any of the pardoned do something bad, even if it's a statistical certainty that at least 1/1000 people will get arrested for a crime.

I'm sure the Biden people sussed out the numebrs and tradeoff, e.g. there's not a lot of simple possession convicts, but it's a lot less politically risky to do a bulk pardon for them.
If God's name was 18,506 pages long, this would be it.
These statistics are pure propaganda. The data is not weighted. The one-year time period favours nuclear energy, whose waste has the potential to kill for millions of years. And the most problematic issue is that "mortality rate" can mean anything: If you count only accidents with more or less immediate deaths, you will always get a low number for nuclear; if you estimate prematurely deaths you can dramatically increase the number depending on the limit for "premature" (10 years, 1 year, 1 months, 1 week, 1 day, 1 hour, ...?).

This is the reason why the numbers for the Chernobyl accident range from 30 direct vitims to 985,000 premature deaths.[1] The estimates (for nuclear ar well as for non-nuclear) also vary widely depending on the underlying models, where a lot of uncertainties about causes and effects are located. Just one example: Cancer develops over decades, because a cell needs to accumulate a certain amount of mutations to turn into a cancer cell. Exposure to radioactivity causes mutations. How does that influences premature deaths? Well, the more reputable studies estimate an average value of lost lifetime. As a statistical average it applies to everyone. Taken individually, this means that everyone has a premature death due to nuclear (as well as to any other risk whatsoever).

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
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I haven’t seen a BD-R in my entire life. In fact, the only use of BR I’ve had is on the PlayStation. The technology came way too late.
I'm not so sure about that. Phones are already touching 1" (almost), about 1/12 the size of the sensor in the Fuji. Those sensors are going to advance faster than the Fuji in almost every way, and it's possible that software will make up for the remaining.

> Right now you need to drop ~$6k to get started with digital medium format, but hopefully that’ll be sub $1k a few years down the line.

I think this is fairly unlikely. It's a niche market, and there'll be no money to be made in selling $1k medium format cameras. For those who are buying high-end cameras (professionals mostly), the sensor size is just one of the factors determining the purchase. They care about build, weather-sealing, buttons, ports, write-speeds, battery etc - a $1k camera would have to compromise on all of those.
I usually use Screaming Frog SEO Spider to find the broken links. Works very well!
Due to the economics of Bitcoin mining where it is always the same computation that can be offloaded to specialized hardware, alternatives pay better. Bitcoin mining is only profitable if electricity is nearly free or if you have specialized hardware and worth doing at scale only if you can combine both. Doing useful computations is profitable even with plain old computers paying California electricity prices.
Brand / media quality also matters a lot. I had some cheapo bulk CD-R whose top (reflective) layer started flaking after a few years (stored in their sleeves in a cardboard box in a dry cabinet).

Stuff from reputable brands still look great, but I haven’t hard had a CD or DVD player in years if not decades at this point so it might be a cesspool of data loss for all I know.
because you are comparing in-memory store with permanent storage. many kvdb can be run from memory if needed.
> Each new tool comes with its own set of trade offs

Is the cognitive load this produces still worth the consideration? At what level do you have to operate for the gains to actually make viable business sense to even consider?

Sometimes I am thinking "Well, surely at Google level" – and then I load up one of their interfaces, for example Google Ads, and I have to sit around for 10s before anything even shows up.
I don't how you expect a non-binary example when you've titled your own question "Sigmoid Functions & Binary Classification".
Totally anecdotal but just a month ago I opened a box from my last moving (ended 4 years ago...) and I found a CD-RW labeled "Backup 2001", which survived 5-6 relocations, even an international one.
Well, I put it into an USB DVD player I have aaaand, it starts spinning and spinning and spinning, and nothing shows up in Nautilus. Looking at dmesg I see a few I/O errors on the device.
Then, I try ddrescue [1], start extracting an image, leave it doing its work for a couple of hours and... magic! I have a perfectly mountable disk image!

I got to live again some >20 years old memories, pictures of younger me with my friends. stupid things you would save as a late nerd teen with access to the Internet and a ton of emails in Outlook Express format (guilty!) that I could not open yet. I guess the format is probably not super-hard to parse (most of the content is plain text actually) but since I'm here, if you know of something already existing to convert it to mbox/maildir it would be cool!

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/
Looks pretty, but how about fire, excessive snowfall or wind, rodents and pests, flood/water leaks etc?
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Granite.

Edit: 100 - 200 years is probably 2 to 5 pandemics, some of which may be considerably worse than the last one; and plenty of time for fires, floods, storms, earthquakes, and/or war (civil or other). Granite has a track record. Some stainless steels might be OK too (not for much longer than 200 years, though).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra's_Needle
For many years the max models did have better cameras, but for the 13 and 14 both pro models have identical cameras.
"The connection has timed out"

The link seems to have some trouble loading. I've tried it for a while and it always times out. You may want to look into it.

Also: It's the whole site, not just play.*
Amazon autocomplete recommends suicide kits to teens
I’m sure they are great fun, but I am not very happy about the increasing popularity of eRacers.

Those motors really do make a difference in how fast and hard people ride. And for which trails get frequented by bikers.

Just over the past few years there has been a big increase on my local trails and there is a negative impact for all the walkers, hikers and runners that used to dominate them.

The soft forest paths get turned into mudpits and conflicts arise when people are surprised by silent speed demons in narrow passages.
I used to buy those thick white labelled discs in a spindle, with a green reflective layer, and remember them being quite a bit more expensive. Can’t say I I’ve ever noticed a difference.

The ones that are still playable (I hope so? Last checked maybe 5 years ago) are all industrial pressings.
Experts Tell EU Leaders Plan to Tax Big Tech on Behalf of Big Telecom Is Dumb
When comparing fish with the meat of terrestrial vertebrates it must always be taken into account that the water content of raw fish meat is much higher, so one pound of raw fish does not have the same nutritional value as one pound of raw chicken meat or beef meat.

If the fish is bought frozen, even more of the paid weight is water, so the water content would have to be accounted when comparing prices.

Fish may be much more expensive than it seems when just looking at the price tag, even 50% more expensive per protein content (raw poultry meat has about 25% protein content, while raw fish fillet has between 15% and 20% protein content).
Cyriak would be proud
This is extremely common in the Netherlands. Also very well sorted out these days. My parents' company used to assemble these. A specialised contractor digs and pours a concrete foundation for the walls and once those would be cured a crane, a loader truck and a crew of maybe 3-6 people would on average have a new house ready every 3 days (walls, floors, roofs, wiring, piping), 'ready' being very close to how they're sold to individual owners.

A prefab house design will typically be replicated in several projects / cities, usually with a few customisation options. Different prefab factories have different levels of standardisation and automation. The prefab production lines I designed long ago for example used fully parametric designs to offer standard concepts sized to fit. At the time (~10-15 years ago) a novelty, by now must be pretty standard.
After quite a bit of research into this about a year back I decided to archive everything on archive-grade CD-Rs. 20-50 years is more than enough and realistically in the correct climate (a safe or something that humidity would have trouble getting into along with dessicants, etc) could last much longer. I evaluated magnetic tape, HDDs, and a few other options are CD-Rs are as good as magnetic tape (in longevity) and will likely have readers well into the next century.

But you have to be very careful. There are a few brands, in particular Taiyo Yuden that are the absolute best. CMC Pro is a related brand with the same technology/longevity (and easier to get). You will pay quadruple the cost per CD but its worth every penny.

Avoid Memorex, JVC, etc. Basically any brand you can pick up at your local big box retailer.
Who is building new coal plants? Who does not have plans to close coal plants? Who is exploring for new coal reserves?
How did you get to this part and still think he was serious?

> "I am a Master of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls. I don't think any of you are working as hard as I am to be prepared. I asked a serious question about tactical armor and I wanted a serious response. If you want to laugh at somebody, try laughing at the sheep out there who go to the mall unarmed trusting in me to stand guiard over their lives like a God."

It's pretty clearly a troll based on the first post, but the replies guarantee it.
Page isn’t loading for me, would this be the continuation of eComStation?
I think we can all agree that they should be de-orbited onto whoever commissioned them.
there is no "archive and forget" method.

the library of congress uses contemporary storage media (hard drives), and migrates everything to newer storage media as the previous media becomes obsolete and replacement hardware for that media stops being manufactured.

they have learned that stockpiling old reading hardware and software isn't sufficient to be able to read that media in the future.

they move everything to new media manually and archivists and volunteers work continuously to bring data on hardware more than one generation old into the current generation as everything progresses.

source: I read it in a detailed article about the LoC a couple of years ago and have forgotten where. :(
I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get buy in on config as code.

Instead we have property / yaml files, read into anaemic “classes” which do not perform validation themselves. Validation duties are also foisted onto other parts of the system.

Stacked onto that we sometimes have file name based convention for defining a hierarchy of configs, to save on repetition between environments.
Know thine enemy.
You can't disagree with the parent that blockchain is older than Bitcoin as it predates it by a few decades. However, you are right that what Satoshi did was novel: he used distributed blockchain for a digital currency.

But again, outside of tech circles, nobody cared for almost a decade. I know as I personally mined some Bitcoins and then I lost the wallet with a broken hardrive but I didn't care. Only later, when "investors" entered the game, BTC became a mainstream phenomenon.
The article is great, but I wholly disagree with the conclusion “don’t use -e”.

It’s still much better to use it than not to use it.
(and why) nextest uses Tokio, part 1
> I'm saying this is a deal where everyone is going to lose.

I don't agree - I think there's a win for the Twitter shareholders, for example. There's also a win for precedent here, where a billionaire can't just say "j/k no I don't want it" because they've realised it's a bad idea.

> Like, who is coming out of this deal happy?

It doesn't really matter who is happy IMO. I'm not one for revenge justice, but nobody needs to be happy if one person makes a series of incredibly dumb decisions, signs multiple legally binding contracts along the way, and then changes their mind after the fact due to information that they claimed was the reason they were undertaking the deal in the first place.
Even more: It was about the price per transistor.

Not about transistor size of performance.

So it was an economic insight, more than anything else.
Not many countries in Europe though. You also need a water source like a lake or river, which is where towns tend to be.
They achieved identical results in last year's tests.
Unless you are using some very exotic method i don't know, you are wrong about discrete classifier not having a score. Everything I know extracts an integer from a vector of scores over options, with the most common being argmax over likelihood trained with CrossEntropy
I don't believe B is full of bad-faith actors, at least not in this case.