skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, the article also describes patients in the trial having positive effects. Yes, it's not an efficacy trial, but if it was specifically used on patients who have exhausted all other clinical options, there were no significant adverse side-effects, and there were beneficial effects for some substantial number of patients, that sounds pretty hopeful to me. Of course it's possible issues will still be discovered, but this is a long way from a top-of-funnel lab result.
Interesting that there are a couple cables directly connecting China and Taiwan. I wonder how those agreements were worked out?
> there is simply not enough information in a 2D picture to get 3D distance information, even with parallax. Our eyes also can't solve this problem.

That is certainly false - perhaps with extremely limited amounts of parallax yes but that isn't how this setup is working. Humans certainly use heuristics not only because our brains are capable of it but also because a face only has a few mm of separation, with enough parallax you can get phenomenal 3d information out of a visual system. Replacing a single sensor here is certainly not too general for good performance but also my point again was never to say this was an optimal or perfect solution only to say evolutionary arguments are stupid here because we build machines and algorithms every day that operate better than evolution does.
Honestly a generic PC would probably be best, because it may be a bit harder to find power, etc, but you will have infinite amounts of replacement parts.
You often need to have your code close to the database or api servers for requests/queries that depend on each other.
I mean... fine, but IMO it's not the number of pardons issued that made this top of mind, but rather the constant controversy around people given pardons, gossip about people who requested pardons, and speculation about the legality of a potential self-pardon.
I don't think the voting system matters as much as we think. The main attack vector that interest groups use against democracy is shaping the public opinion in the direction that benefits them. Certainly, some systems may be easier to game, but ultimately interest groups will do neither more nor less than the minimum required to win. If they only need to make 30% of the population rabid in order to win, that's what they will do, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking they couldn't make 51% of the population rabid if they needed to.

Basically, if people's stated preferences are ill-thought-out and/or manipulated, then even the perfect voting system that perfectly reflects the people's preferences will yield bad results. Voting reform in this case would be fixing the symptoms, not the disease. The disease, in my view, is that given the sheer complexity of the issues, the poor attention budget of people, the outsized influence of media, the impossibility of directly interacting with decision-makers, there's basically no way people can make an informed decision.

Personally I think we should ditch elections and just pick representatives purely at random, and then pay them to think about their preferences full time, discuss them with each other, directly interview candidates for executive positions, and so on. The basic idea is that I think collective decision making probably reaches an optimum around Dunbar's number and falls off precipitously beyond that.
For an assistant prof, sure, this makes sense. But the people I had mind were lecturers - non-tenure track, non-core faculty who didn't do research and had almost no room for upward mobility.
Can remember geeking out with a record store clerk in the mid 00s about all sorts of ear splitting trash, and when he went to mention LRD there was this awkward moment when it became clear that neither of us had ever actually uttered the band's name out loud before, and didn't really know how to say it. Even though their star has been rising for some time now, it's still a bit surreal seeing a NYT article about them—with a helpful pronunciation to boot.
> With that in mind, Twitter's moderation is actually pretty lax compared to how tyrannical they could be while getting away with it.

True, they're not as censorious as, e.g. Reddit.

Anyway I suppose we'll see if Musk's commitment to free speech was genuine, or just him doing his usual bullshitting for attention.
So how do you learn “system design” - infrastructure, proper data storage for the problem domain, balancing the trade offs between costs, RPO and RTO, security, caching, sharding to handle scale, scaling, disaster recovery or the stereotypical “how would you design Twitter” System Design tech interview.

Coding has little to do with handling ambiguity.

While I have never been through a BigTech coding interview, I have been through (and passed) a BigTech system design interview, it has little to do with coding.

Designing (and redesigning) systems for large organizations is my $DayJob where I have to be able to explain those concepts.
Desal, like wind, keeps hitting opposition from locals. This was a factor in the Coastal Commission's vote against a Huntington Beach plant, earlier this year.

No comment on crops.

Such a tax break was just signed into law, AB 2142, which will be in effect through 2027.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/28/california-is-making-it-ch...

https://openstates.org/ca/bills/20212022/AB2142/

Reclamation projects are ongoing! Orange County has been recycling water since the 90s, and down here in San Diego, we've got a new system coming online in a few years.

https://www.ocwd.com/gwrs/

https://eastcountyawp.com/
Doesn't it not remind you about Windows 9 jump? :-)
Agreed. My gf was recently asked to attend 5am meetings on her thursdays and Fridays. Her stance is a little different than mine, I would’ve outright refused but she accepted. Her boss said she could go back to sleep right after the meetings but we all know that’s not as easy as it sounds
> I believe every single shit teacher I’ve ever met used that excuse.

What does that add to the discussion? I had a shit teacher once, so every time a student accuses a teacher of being shit, they're correct? There also exist students who make up dishonest excuses for their poor performance, too. We're talking about a specific situation, not vague generalities. At best we can consider the questions raised, because we aren't going to be able to successfully litigate which side is right and which is wrong.
There’s a lot of negativity here about MBAs. Perhaps some of this is merited, but I think MBA programs can be beneficial and aren’t as “cargo cult” as some commenters have suggested. I am a principal software engineer working on cloud projects, but decided to get a MBA in 2017. I learned a lot of valuable skills such as accounting, finance, negotiations, and HR that I had little to no exposure to in my undergraduate Computer Science program. Knowing how to read SEC filings and how to sell projects and ideas to executives has only helped me in my career. The MBA program I was in helped me get exposure to many business fundamentals. There’s a lot of negativity, but if you look at many MBA programs, most of them focus on the fundamentals.
For me, I could care less whether or not my apt has power for most of the day or night. It's pretty well insulated; even with our wide temp swings (104f peak in the summer, -32f in the winter) it takes a while before it moves either direction. The big conveniences are hot water, washer, dryer, dishwasher of course but if push came to shove, I'd be ok, especially knowing I was given the finger to the Russians.

This certainly isn't an option for every structure, especially free standing older homes built before 2000.
Fewer in number, but much higher in corrupt intent, even compared with the usual bunch of ~sketchy pardons for donors and friends.
I'd generally agree to this. The most recent job I've worked at have amazing management buy-in and empowerment by management to just "get things done fast" that ends up working amazingly well because the freedom we've been given translates to great results.

This is a little catch-22 in getting started though. A great team held back by management hesitation can demotivate and cause attrition. Management buy-in for ineffective teams will run faster by bypassing many org hurdles fall over by their own inability to execute solutions that pass the test of time. It seems like these rare "10x" teams are hard to form in companies that can't consistently attract and retain very talented ICs
Ah, would that we aspire to achieve and accomplish even a fraction of such glorious, brilliant failures.
Also, cases can be brought on a state based jurisdictional level and be dropped cause of this federal act.
I mean would a refill of valley residents be disproportionately (compared to other metropolitan areas) holders of H1B visas.
I'm coming from a side where people are nowadays literally working with their own FPGAs to get more performance though haha
Circa 2003 I carried around a pared down copy on a Pocket PC. Dropping a few chosen categories (who needs Sports?) allowed it to barely fit on a 1-GB SD card.
It's not a monetary system problem, it's a banking problem. The cryptocurrencies themselves are fine. The problem is people keep reinventing traditional banking on top of them. Everything started to go wrong as soon as exchanges showed up. All of the drawbacks of centralized banking with none of the regulatory benefits.

This isn't decentralized cryptocurrency, this is sending coins to some centralized corporation and expecting that everything will be fine.
One thing I've heard is that under 40, people died from trauma (car crash) or suicide. After 40, the body really starts breaking down and people die from anything. Cancer, heart problems, lots of stuff out of the blue much without prior causes like smoking.
Well, I do watch movies with others in VR on a fairly regular basis and it’s great. Could be better, headsets need to be more comfortable and pass through has room for improvement but both of those things are on the very near horizon.

Look at the cambria demos, they’re already doing mixed reality by blending the room with the experience. No reason that can’t be used to put your couch, coffee table and SO in the virtual theatre. You also have to consider that a lot of the younger people using these won’t have dogs or kids to worry about.
I think you've missed the point as well. Nobody owns anything with crypto. When you give your crypto to Coinbase, there is no $250,000 FDIC insurance that comes along with it. You don't even get to know what wallet it's in, and if Coinbase decides to go sideways, they can snatch up your money with no legal consequence. You're right that part of the problem is the US failing to regulate them, but there's nothing to regulate. A public ledger does not a currency make.

Your parents will never have a custodial wallet. The fact that traditional banking is easier than 'doing crypto right' should give you all the adoption metrics you need.
Seriously. The "nerds" aren't the ones dumping their keys into other peoples custody to yield farm obvious ponzi schemes
> RCV makes auditing a lot harder due to centralization,

I'd argue that the algorithm is far more complex. It is `while no winner: pop(min(candidates)); reallocate(min(candidates))`. This while loop is quite a problem. Cardinal systems (except STAR) are `argmax(sum(candidates))`, which is actually identical to Plurality. The difference is that Plurality requires a one-hot vector. This algorithm is trivially parallelizable too. STAR doesn't require a while loop but is more complex because it does have 2 phases (which RCV is almost always going to be more than 2 phases given that while loop).

The trivializes of cardinal systems tallying algorithm makes statistical audits also trivial. I just can't imagine the mess we'd be in if what happened in Arizona happened with an ordinal method like RCV. It would be much easier to create a narrative of fraud.
If I was at work when the murder occurred, two or three discussions between police and my boss and coworkers would prevent a murder trial in the first place. Prosecutors don't like defendants with solid alibis.

Probably FTC has already done equivalent investigation, which calls the subpoena described in TFA further into question.
Anyone have a link to the actual report?

Only report I found appears to say that 3-hours downtime a year is an acceptable downtime — unable to find anything about intentional blackouts as a power management strategy.
If you dig deeply you’ll see that a large fraction of that is actually employees at big companies, universities, and governments. In other words it’s subsidized. Any on the clock OSS work is a subsidy. It’s not pure volunteer.

This tends to be done when there is a strong common interest, but it’s almost always for deep tech and dev tooling stuff. I have never seen an open source consumer product subsidized in this way because consumer lock in is where the money is.

You will never see an open Uber, Ring, or Alexa unless a way can be found to charge for it. As it stands free means “as in beer” more than freedom and nobody would pay for such a thing.

I have played with stuff like Home Assistant. It’s not bad if you are technical. A non-techie could never deploy it.
all other projects that have failed on Bitcoin you mean? web3 landscape has been growing steadily on Ethereum in recent years.
I second The History of English - every one of them, especially the ones around the Great Vowel Shift, is a genuine joy- of-learning experience.
They do apply a subjective sharpening (literally like an image processing sharpen filter) to the entire field of vision, and they also enhance pattern recognition, and so details that might be more difficult to see stand out. But on the other hand, they also make it more difficult to concentrate, and they also make you see patterns that don't actually exist. So it's difficult for me to imagine anyone using them for immediately practical purposes successfully.
The number is in the 4 digit range, if I am not mistaken.
I believe this correlation between wealth and SAT scores explains the distribution of SAT scores by ethnicity.
It's more like there were tasks that were previously so unproductive they couldn't be done at all, and now they're productive enough you might be able to be employed doing them.

Automation creates jobs rather than destroying them. What destroys jobs is mainly bad macroeconomic conditions.
AMD Downgrades Q3 Revenue by $1.1B, Cites Weak PC Market
> 2) the US said Russia is not really allowed to use nukes, because they're too big or something, but these particular newfangled Himars bombs the US is giving to Ukraine can devastate 'huge' areas (i lost 'huge' in the original post). so, i'm curious what the rules are for how big Russian bombs are allowed to be. and, are those rules different for different participants?

The Russians and Ukrainians having been using weapons with a bigger explosion and area of effect then this since the start of the war.

The Russians levelled an entire shopping centre the other month with a missile designed to take out US aircraft carriers.
Since you are obviously having trouble comprehending what I've written, I'll break it down real simply for you: leave me the hell alone or I'm going to contact the admins about your harassment. Is that clear enough?
Not even just time-of-use metering. If you lack net metering (e.g. you can't use the grid as a battery) then using a battery when your solar is not producing (enough) reduces your overall consumption.
Since you care more about cost and don't mind building it yourself, just build it yourself.

ffmpeg -> MPEG-DASH -> nginx + MPEG-DASH -> your own video player.
I enjoyed reading your level-headed perception of this.
That's not quite right. In ranked systems you're saying that your preference of A over B is the same as your preference of B over C. This is often not the case. In fact, this is why ranked systems almost always fail the favorite betrayer and monotonicity criteria. I explain more with examples in a longer post below.
> In many ways Biden is more progressive than Obama

As is society as a whole.
This kind of subpoena is boilerplate. No one actually expects SimulaVR to provide all this information or to show up for a deposition.

This is actually how it will go down:

SimulaVR-Lawyer: Hey Meta-lawyer, I got your subpoena. We're a tiny company and this is overbroad. What do you guys actually want?

Meta-lawyer: Totally understand. Can we get a declaration from your founder about what your company is trying to do, who their competitors are, and few info about your financials? If you have pitch decks for investors, we'd love to get that as well.

SimulaVR-Lawyer: That seems doable but can the financials be filed under seal and attorney-eyes-only?

Meta-lawyer: Yeah that makes sense.

SimulaVR-Lawyer: Lemme talk to the founders and follow up with you. Let's talk later about what the declaration will look like.

Meta-lawyer: Thank you - appreciate it, and looking forward to hearing back soon.
Oh no please politicians stop doing things your constituents want you to do in hopes of success in future re-election campaigns!

Oh, wait, isn't that how it's supposed to work?
NDC Keynote: How do our ideas about coding affect the software we create?
> Also, you should completely avoid having Remote Desktop and instead use ssh + an editor that works with remote files.

That's kinda stretching the definition of a 'desktop', isn't it? The sort of tasks someone uses Remote Desktop for seldom overlaps with what someone uses SSH for. Also it doesn't seem to be the point of the article:

Article: > I'm also going to restrict this discussion to the case of "We run a full graphical environment on the VM, and stream that to the laptop"
Well, if they didn't get a bonus for underperforming/not hitting the target, that's totally fine. Which is what is happening here, the target bar simply got raised.

As for an employee quitting on their own accord before the bonus dispersal date (which they otherwise hit the bar to receive), every tech company I worked for or have friends working at, they have pretty fair systems for dealing with it.

Generally, there is a cutoff date (which is usually about 4-6 months before the bonus disbursal/announcement date). If you leave at any point after that date, but before the bonus announcement/disbursal date, you still get your bonus in full. If you quit before the cutoff date, it gets prorated based on how many days you were an employee between the previous cut-off date and the upcoming one. There is also usually an extra nuance in math for people who just started working at the company and been there less than a year, but that detail is largely irrelevant.

For a specific example, at MSFT, they had a cut-off date somewhere mid-june. The bonus got announced early september and disbursed in mid-second half of september. If you quit at any point after that date in June, you get your full bonus. If you quit exactly 2 months before the cutoff date, lets, say mid April, you get full_bonus*10/12.
To the popular imagination, it is easy to make a popular misconception linking renewable energy to rare earth minerals, because for good or for ill electric cars are a dominant facet of green technology. There is a not uncommon narrative that "electric cars are actually bad for the environment because they require scarce metals." News stories abound.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-metals-autos-neodymium-an...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2022/02/06/the-f...

Rude pedantic ill-tempered dismissals of conversation as "carping" discredit a good cause more than a thousand fusion startups do. Perhaps if you want to win hearts and minds, engaging in both education and a little empathy would do wonders for your position. And to the betterment of the discourse hereabouts.
Putin would never leave Moscow and himself unprotected. There have always been missile installations and mobile missile systems near key infrastructure in Russia, and those have not left the country. There are forces guarding the Kremlin, the oligarchs, and key facilities. Those were not sent off to Ukraine. It makes zero strategic sense to leave your homeland unprotected. There are still substantial forces left in Russia.
How convenient that every problem is the fault of your political opponents.
Roblox sued for allegedly enabling young girl’s sexual, financial exploitation
.82 is an insanely high correlation in any kind of social science
On what basis? In the US, the tenth amendment allows states to enforce their own drug laws regardless of what the federal government says.
> We're to think every other professor has lowered standards so far that the only one refusing to do so is routinely handing out tests that garner 30% class averages?

The only one who got into the news.
It's funny, I talk about checks and balances a lot when I'm talking with the designers of modern decentralized networks, because often the idea is to encode some limiting factor on the ability of one element of the node, to prevent it disproportionately capturing the value or goal of the whole network. And "incentivizing people to plant trees" is basically the challenge of producing public goods, which at the very least how a lot of folks view the ongoing work of these networks. (See https://fundingthecommons.io/ )

There's no golden road to public goods without norms, laws, and technology to support it; and there's no sacred system that doesn't have a road to power concentration within it. The incredibly oligarchical Roman Republic and Empire (from I think your quote comes from), had a system of public goods provision that depended on those oligarchs, who personally bankrolled them, but which lasted a very long time. The United States is the system that most deliberately implemented Montesquieu's checks and balances theory, and depending on how you look at it, is either the most successful capitalist/liberty-driven society ever, or a terrible inditement of how oligarchy can prosper within a constitutional framework built on that system.

The hacker culture of the 70s, 80s, and 90s relied on access to computers, but for a sizeable subsection was a ticket out of (a somewhat relative) poverty and social exclusion for many of them. There were a lot of rich kids too, but I don't think many of the excitement about the global power-distributing abilities of access to knowledge, and access to personal computing power was, or is insincere.

One of the directions you can take that goal is as you dsay: to create a governed, constitutional, environment of laws online. But the challenge here is: how would you do that? In a global space, it either requires the rigid and drastic national division of the existing world network, or the development of a world governance system with global reach and enforcement.

There are some routes to get there, and people I know are working on it, but I don't think it's a path that's particularly guaranteed to lead to a democratic system free of oligarchs.

It's a tough problem, and I wish I had your confidence about what the right ways to solve it online are.
> With ROCE like that

There are several businesses in the chain.

The manufacturer (GE), and sometimes component manufacturers, the project lead/developer, financiers, insurers, the engineering lead, and sometimes specialists, the subcontractors who do the physical work. And probably more.

It's not uncommon for some of these to be financially stressed at times in PV. Not the financiers, though.

Jérôme Guillet has a series on financing offshore wind[1]. On-shore is along the same lines; I'm sure you can adjust.

1.https://wfo-global.org/financing-offshore-wind-part-1/
You were the one who brought up plasma fluid dynamicists! Then please, write plainly, and be clear as to your point to those too slow to follow.