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Notably Democrats and their zeal to oppress those who believe in their freedom of speech. (See Twitter saga and US government's lack of control over media of commoners, aka digital public square)

Only China does it better ... the oppression, of speech, that is, as evidence by a video of CCP police roaming subway trains, reading every subway commuters' cellphone for social media content. As if CPP's ability to monitor centralized servers isn't cutting it anymore.

https://mobile.twitter.com/caro4ontario/status/1597588741371...
In a recent past life, I was a HPC (high performance computing) administrator for a mid size company (just barely S&P400) who was in the transportation industry, so I had a lot of interactions with the "data science" team and it was just a fascinating delusion to watch.

Our CTO did the "Quick, this is the future! I'll be fired if I don't hop on this trend" panic thing and picked up a handful of recent grads and gave them an obscene budget by our company's standard.

The main problem they were expected to solve - forecasting future sales - was functionally equivalent to "predict the next 20 years of ~25% of the world economy". Somehow these 4 guys with a handful of GPUs were expected to out-predict the entirety of the financial sector.

The amazing part was they knew it was crap. All of their stakeholders knew it was crap. Everyone else who heard about it knew it was crap. But our CTO kept paying them a fortune and giving them more hardware every year with almost no expectation of results or performance. It was a common joke (behind the scenes) that if they actually got it right, we'd shut down our original business and becomes the world's largest bank overnight.

At least it finally gave the physics modelers access to some decent GPUs which led to some breakthrough products, as they finally were able to sneak onto some modern hardware.
I don’t understand what you mean by JSON was not invented. It was invented by Douglas Crockford. Before he invented JSON, we used XML to pass data around the web. After he invented JSON, it took quite awhile to catch on. There were many years of transition where some web services would only send xml and others could send xml or json. Eventually all web services gave you the choice of which one it would send. And then, gradually, xml was transitioned out and everything was json.
Why? Because I love(d) meat. It's the closest thing I can find, while still being vegetarian. Does that make sense to you?
> But that also necessarily means that each unit of currency does in fact have value.

I don't dispute that. But the value of each unit can be complicated.

> So if you invest it in scams, you can call that destroying wealth.

Colloquially I might say that, but the wealth isn't actually destroyed, it went to the scammers.
Exact opposite. I ask them to please not bring me a mashed vegetables patty and call it a burger. It is not.

The idea of a lettuce tomato onion burger stack on a bun is that there's a taste and texture contrast between the stack of vegetables and something that's not another stack of vegetables but mashed. (Doesn't mean it has to be Beyond or Impossible, see last para.)

I suspect displacement happened because folks paying $25 for a "burger" when out are less interested in the garden mash, want something a little edgier. FWIW, before Beyond and Impossible, at any restaurant or diner where I took time to explain the difference in alt-burger types, they were willing to try ones I mention below, and they reported customers preferred it. In many, someone had just told them "have a vegetarian burger" and they just got the mashed veggies patty or mashed beans cake since that's what most products are. Not being vegetarian themselves, they weren't aware of other availability. By contrast, Impossible and Beyond essentially went door to door "educating" them, so they switched.

While Impossible and Beyond displaced the meat alternatives, that doesn't mean you have to go meat in a vat at home, you can do products such as Morningstar Farms Grillers Original, or maybe Boca All-American Flame-Grilled Burger. Those taste stack more reasonably with what goes on a burger than the mashed vegetables patties, without the weirdness (fake blood look, why?) of Impossible or Beyond. Your local diner will probably be happy to stock them as they're simple frozen goods.
yes but the upgraded/replaced transformer will be much cheaper than the battery, so it would take some other circumstance (an impossible to upgrade transmission/distribution line) for it to make sense.

our grids will start to grow batteries at pinch points, already are, but it will be an exceptions/corner-cases thing, the economics don't work for the broad-average.
Your quote from the article explicitly says converting a gas appliance (e.g. a water heater) to electricity increases electricity consumption, which is obviously true so I'm not sure why you take issue with the article?
I did the math for California awhile back, assuming a complete replacement of ICE vehicles with EVs, given the current state of the EV art.

We would need 43,000 GWh/y of new electricity generation for CA alone (15m cars * .24 KWh/m * 12,000 annual miles). For reference CA has a yearly electricity generation capacity of just under 200k GWh/y, and imports another 100k GWh/y.

So it's not just rapid charging load concerns, but overall generation capacity which will need to be addressed.

ref. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...
I think your comment acknowledges that we're not running this experiment. These "fake meat" products are still way more expensive than actual meat. If fake meat actually drops substantially below the cost of meat, we can see what happens, but as you suggest there's really no sign they can compete on price yet.

I do think that if the target market for Beyond really was meat eaters, they've been deluding themselves. Maybe they can shave off a few meat eaters due to the ethical issues, but how many? Ultimately, I have to assume the only way to win many over is on cost, which would have to be a high volume low margin business (if it's even possible to get the prices that low).
Amnesty for previously banned harassers, unbanning of Trump, and now this all seem like a way to stir even more controversy and ideological keyboard-warrioring on Twitter. Short term it is going to drive "engagement" and produce a few charts with lines going up. Combined with decimation of anti-spam and anti-bot teams, Twitter is going to boast record numbers of posts.
Glad to see ClamAV is still actively maintained and doing feature releases.

Obviously using up to date software, minimizing attack surface, and using secure configurations are the first line of defense.

But this is a great second line of defense, and it is great to have the code publicly available. Many antivirus programs are actually just spyware.
Ublock on a PC and whatever replaced Vanced (ReVanced?) on android.

Have not figured out the smart tv yet.
You would need to hardcode the IP address everywhere it's needed and you would need to release an update every time you want to make changes to it, right? That doesn't sound like a thing anybody would do. Also, people using DNS level ad-blocking are rare and loosing that kind of flexibility just to make life harder for such a small amount of people doesn't really make sense.
In a game like dnd, you can't trust the player to pick a random number. So two sides who don't trust each other can generate a random number together.
The Rise of the Roundabout
Orientin, flavonoid found in bamboo leaves, may promote longevity (in bugs)
> Orientin Prolongs the Longevity of Caenorhabditis elegans and Postpones the Development of Neurodegenerative Diseases via Nutrition Sensing and Cellular Protective Pathways
given how it dismissed that model, it seems odd that this article then immediately starts talking about the ‘electron gas’ and throws around an analogy of voltage to a pressure difference in the gas.

Apparently the pneumatic model is preferred over the hydraulic one.

Personally I think the problem with the ‘hydraulic model’ is that people visualize it with wires as fluid filling pipes, with pressure as the driving force. I think you get a lot further if you imagine your circuits as water running in open channels with a free surface. The water needs to be able to slosh.
Yes. Lots of people and companies working on this problem.

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

NREL FAQ
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/74426.pdf

Tesla's approach
https://www.tesla.com/megapack

Form Energy, one of the best funded startups working on novel grid storage batteries
https://formenergy.com/technology/battery-technology/
I used to love the Morning Star Chipotle Black Bean burger. Then they changed the recipe and now it tastes horrible. It's lost the fresh, garden flavor and now it may as well be burnt bean paste or mush. At this point I'm moving on to my own patties.
It was definitely not staged
If I work my ass off and my model recommends a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?
I prefer to use good old fashioned CSS modules for React etc. Tailwind is basically just a way of keeping your styles co-located with your components. For me, having `Component.tsx` and `Component.module.css` is good enough. People talk about jumping between multiple files when you're tweaking things but I just split my screen. TS on the left, CSS on the right, and go to town. In my experience, Tailwind makes React code really messy because now I have some potentially massive string on `className` instead of `className={styles.component}` or whatever
I think we need an application of Hanlon's Razor here. I agree with your 1st paragraph, but let's put it down to over exuberance. The message is the same, do at least a little work first.
Yeah, Having built a web application serving 100K+ users in Go. First 2/3 weeks were spent on making sure we were a framework. So new Modules could be added. New external calls were abstracted and also dealt with lot of circular dependency.

This was all fun and learning, but wouldn't mind having a "Flask" or "Express" version of a Golang framework which took care of all the boilerplate out of the box.

We did try some existing solution to no avail like Tiny etc.

But ended up building a non-framework framework anyways especially to support new features/modules and new devs coming it.
> Native access to SQLite databases

I'm excited for this. May there be a nice database CRUD mode in the future.
As soon as I got to the first example, ANIMATION, I stopped reading. If this guy is trying to figure out how to do animations and is getting mad at Tailwind, he shouldn't be using Tailwind, he's not the target market.

The call sign of a happy Tailwind user is someone who doesn't want to use Bootstrap anymore, switch tabs constantly to their CSS file, ever have to learn how the fuck animations work, and who instantly falls asleep when trying to learn the proper way to do CSS, even after having to deal with it for 20 years. SCSS? God no, just give me something where I don't have to think and I can make it instantly do what I want. I'll try random stuff for an hour until it works before I have to try and understand and take in something new, the resistance is real. I don't care if it's ugly, I don't care if it's MORE WORK, because for ME, it's not, and I can read the classes quickly and know what is going on and adjust it in real time alongside my content. Do I augment with regular CSS where needed? Yes, because the limitations can be frustrating, but I've only got like a handful of extra classes I need.

I'm one who hates to say I like it, because I hate the hype around it, but by god it works so well for me compared to anything else I have to do and I'm able to deploy and edit sites that look decent without being or having access to a designer, and those sites make money for me and pay my living.

Can I ever hope to compare to a proper designer or someone who has a solid command and understanding over what to me amounts to the most boring and droll thing ever: CSS? No way, they are wizards and they should hate this impure garbage, but for the rest of us it just works good and gets results with the least amount of thinking, which is all we really wanted.

I got shit to do, and it's the fastest, least resistant way to let me do it in the way I know how. It's not for everyone, but it fits the way I currently work, think, and how I value tradeoffs in speed, effort, debt, cleanliness and results. YMMV.
i am just reading this and thinking "but why?"...

there are different flavors of DS, there are people who are doing diffusion models, doing top stuff that may or may not yield anything, but they are doing it because they know math well and enough code to put new maths stuff into new products. deep knowledge. so called ML engineers. maybe they are even good at coding at the lowest level, but in their point of view, why? these people are at huge companies that have vast resources downstream, they make people like OP work their work actually..

there is T shaped folks (unicorns, everybody wants one even if politically not ready [most arent]), where they know some concepts of many topics, perhaps so called full stack DS, which i consider myself to be... and i wouldn't be able to read thru most scientific papers, but I can put stuff together from start to finish including deploying it as an API that's scalable to top performance because of cloud. i do go back to basics often and I think its only natural! i think its like being a pilot, why not check the basics that actually, if forgotten, will take everything down lol... and you will use that the most as well!

i think also many people who are too much into one thing, math, code, whatever it is, start to call non basic things that are basic to them, well --- basic... BUT THERE IS NOTHING BASIC about multi linear reg and how to set it up all proper and how humanity spent thousands of years getting to this point..

there is also DS thats like data analyst on steroids, knowing middle basic and middle tier algos and stats well and can deliver mad value with a bit of business knowledge. hell, they could even use excel for their stuff, but proper understanding of the question at hand will most likely allow you to downgrade to lower, simpler tools. and simple is awesome! people often misinterpret complicated for advanced, not the case whatsoever.

once you know the land you accept your weak points and strong points and points you need to know enough to put stuff together. at the end if you know how to make sure stuff works and it works, hey, it works. and the only thing at that point between messing around and science, is "writing it down"... ;) push that code up , make it reproducible end to end.
> I mean, honestly, aren’t most cheap burger meat patties in that uncanny valley?

Yeah what they need to imitate faithfully is the fastfood variety. I'm sure that's slightly easier than imitating the "proper" thing. What they have now is the not-quite-a-fastfood-thing even.
I got my entire immediate family on Matrix without too much difficulty. The only big issue happened when my mom got a new iPhone and it cloned the old Element install from her old iPhone, causing two devices to have the same set of identity keys and we had to reset them.
I'm vegan. I became vegan because my partner is vegan, and I started eating vegan food (like Beyond) when I was at her house, out of respect. I gradually transitioned to a non-strict vegan diet for health reasons (my Dr. said she's never seen such a turnaround in Cholesterol w/o statins), and then became fully vegan for environmental and animal welfare reasons.

None of this would have been possible without meat substitutes like Beyond and Impossible, as I would not have had the discipline to stick with the diet. I've had previous generation veggie burgers which tasted like fried cardboard. I think these nasty tasting products of the past have left people with the impression that vegan food just tastes horrible, and vegans have to be crazy to eat them (Boca, I'm looking at you). I certainly expected the worst the first time I had a Beyond burger, and I was very pleasantly surprised. I even evangelized it to a guy at the next table who was asking the waiter if it was good. I think once more people try these products, they'll really take off.

I think part of the problem with Beyond uptake is the way that these fast food restaurants test their products, and the way they package them. These chains are national, and they assume that demand for products will be similar across locations, but that's just not true. Like it or not, Vegans live in mostly "Blue" metro areas, not fly-over states. So if you're McDonalds, and you test your products in Dayton OH, or middle-of-nowhere Alabama, then you're setting them up to fail. They should be tested in LA, SF, NYC, Miami, Chicago, etc, and they should gradually spread out from there.

The other problem is how fast food chains package their plant based products so that vegans can't eat them. The Impossible Whopper is an example. Since I'm vegan, I can't eat eggs and dairy, which means I need to order the Whopper w/o cheese and mayo. This means that I almost never get an Impossible Whopper, since I like cheese (and mayo) on my burgers. I'll instead order from a local vegan place that actually offers vegan mayo and cheese. Similarly, McDonalds in the EU has a plant-based chicken sandwich, but the BREAD contains dairy. So I have to order it w/o the bun, meaning I almost never order it, and instead order something fully vegan from a local place. There's a Qdoba just down the street that has an Impossible Burrito. But again, no vegan cheese, so I tend to order from a smaller local place.

My feeling is that once these 2 things are corrected, vegan meat alternatives will take off. I talked to a grocery store manager a few weeks ago in a middle-sized US city (Richmond, VA), and he said that Beyond products are flying off the shelves, and often backordered. After that conversation, I invested in Beyond stock. I figure if they are doing well in Richmond, then there is a huge market opening up.
> The problem with your ban/blacklist option is that they first require users to be exposed to that content in order to personally ban it.

If you actually read my comment properly you'd notice that I explicitly said there should be a default ban list blocking that

> Either you yourself will have to watch the beheading video in order to know to ban it, or another group of users will need to tag it as 'disturbing' and you will need to ban 'disturbing' content'.

That's orthogonal problem; If you wanted to get rid of that entirely you'd have to pre-screen every content and that's just not feasible, nor any of the media does it aside from some automated filters on keywords.

Nor it is actual problem if you don't subscribe to people that post that; random nobody deciding to post that won't be featured in any feeds anyway because of how algorithms work so there is very little chance it will land on accident in someone's feed.

Of course someone could play the long con and get popular only to start publishing disturbing stuff, but none of current systems stop that and I'm not sure you even could.
Try twirp! Same protos for contracts, but everything is much simpler , saner and slimmer , and just uses standard http. It’s great.
The signature works fine over HTTP/FTP because it needs to be combined with a public key you already have (e.g. a distro package manager will already have the public key for all the packages), or a public key you will go get from a different source, e.g. https://sks-keyservers.net, and it's hard for a middle-man to compromise both.
V2G [1] sounds relevant:

> Vehicle-to-grid (V2G), also known as Vehicle-to-home (V2H) or Vehicle-to-load (V2L) describes a system in which plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) sell demand response services to the grid. Demand services are either delivering electricity or by reducing their charging rate. Demand services reduce pressure on the grid, which might otherwise experience disruption from load variations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
Yep :) Big performance related bonuses sound great until you realise it also means you are heavily performance managed and most of your livelihood depends on your pipeline and actually closing sales. You are constantly looking off a cliff.

Maybe you are on $150k per year today, but in three months time you are back to $45k per year because you didn’t make some minimum sales threshold. Might be fine for some people, but depending on your mortgage…
You might enjoy some of the little projects in the second Common Lisp book I wrote that you can read on my web site https://markwatson.com/books/lovinglisp-site/

Most of the book is built around fun side projects I have done.
The tiles would all be the same size - they’d just be sampled from the image at different resolutions.
Not sure why this is confusing, sounds like people think they are the same because they have never worked in the area. It's always been very well defined at Corps I've been at.
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I could have phrased it more carefully : "If it's for fun and none of it feels fun and all of it feels like work, maybe it's time to consider you don't really want to do that for fun".

Of course any creative endeavour is not only fun, but I know the feeling of trying to do something "for fun" and it ends up feeling like work. Some people like to hustle, and that's fine. But just not doing it and finding something else you find fun instead is something to keep in mind.

I thought the "maybes" and several questions made it clear, but I'll state it regardless: there is no one-size fits all answer, and what I said is just a possibility that should be kept in mind. While it happens to be the one that worked best for me, I'm aware it's not the answer for everyone.
Yeah but in the end it’s just code. And even better, just R.

The business value comes from the stats guy.
One of the Android apps for HN, Harmonic, is broken as of the past 24-48h as well. Links are loading fine, but comments are not. I am not the developer so I'm unsure if this is related, but it sure seems like it might be.
> GRPC

Assuming this means grpc-go, that's a framework. Perhaps your seemingly negative experience with it actually echoes that the best Go framework is no framework, contrary to your opening position?
> but it would most likely be making decisions based on layer 4 (assuming it's not an SSL decrypting proxy) so it would affect any sites which have the IP addresses you specify

Not necessarily...if you're not using ESNI, then the traffic shaper could sniff the server name from the client hello message, then use the TCP sequence numbers to track the individual TCP connection.
This is exactly my point. Let subject matter experts in their respective disciplines handle what they know and communicate through the lingua franca of R. Most data scientists/statisticians probably shouldn't be writing production code, I think that's ok. It's a failing of management to think that coding is coding and not understand the value of true engineering ability.
Can you make pretty graphs in Matplotlib and sound smart in front of Executives?