skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the more interesting crypto mining ideas I've been exposed to (and it's been quite a few...) is co-locating shipping containers with natural gas generators plus compute at oil fields flaring off natural gas.

The idea was the companies would potentially even pay you for taking it, since most states(?) will charge you some nominal "environmental" fee for flaring it.

I have no idea if anyone actually went through with the idea, but it certainly was discussed quite a bit a couple years ago.

It's an exceedingly interesting use case. Effectively free raw energy, but almost no proper connectivity. Very few use cases for such a situation, but even a 3G modem is fine for mining. I'm not certain what other uses one could come up with for on-site use of this energy...
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The problem that most people have with systemd is not that it's hard to understand.
It's an anti-inflammatory. Helps with all kinds of things - sore muscles, tooth aches - it's not really pain relief so much as it is things-that-cause-pain relief.
I used the Uni-Ball Vision Elite rollerball from 7th grade to my first year of college (1 year ago, when I got a fountain pen). The bold point tip (0.8mm) lays down tons of ink, and the ball glides across paper smoothly.

I don't have a very expensive fountain pen, but to me writing feels just as good with the rollerball as it does with the fountain pen. One can feel a difference between the two, but IMO neither is 'better' than the other, and I still enjoy using the rollerball when I have to do so (they are better for extended journeys due to ink capacity, don't leak if you store them up-side-down, have anti-fraud ink, and are airplane safe).

The Vision Elites feel noticeably better to me than the Pilot G2 gel pens which I see many people using.
There are other projects like Komodoplatform that are make big strides in block chain tech.
600mg per day is the recommended normal adult dosage where doctor's recommend 200mg 3 times a day, although can also be recommended 1200mg. It's not a big dosage.

Doctors can also recommend an even higher dosage of 600mg 4 times a day to about 2400mg a day if needed.

Source:
Https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/ibuprofen-for-adults/
Something something, Goodhart's Law.
Having written a parser for C I can tell you that parameter type declarations are an absolute bear to parse. Wow.
I can confirm a fever can kill, saw and heard about it in SE Asia.
I also admit that I still have no idea what a Kubernet is or what Docker and containers orchestration or any of those things are all about. I mean, I visited their web sites and read a few wikipedia articles. But I'm primarily an embedded/mobile guy and whatever problem space containers solve is something I've just never even remotely encountered.

Same with enterprise software development. It's kind of neat that the world of software engineering is so big that one can go 20 years into their career and be totally experience-deficient in large spaces of the industry.
1. Write a book and sell it on Amazon.

2. Some counterfeiter creates a listing with an infringing copy of the book.

3. DMCA request is filed and the listing is taken down and the account is banned.

4. Someone else buys a legitimate copy of my book and creates a listing for it on Amazon.

What should Amazon do?
The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (2012)
Headline was to reflect totality of article to the best of my ability. They hired a few children soldiers (over there apparently they're considered grown ups) but the article didn't say that most or a large number of them were children. In WWII quite a few volunteer Americans were 15-16-17 years olds. In other countries as well...
When this boom ends, the 40+ should expect to be the first cut. Again. Just like in 1992, 2001, 2008,

In 2001, the dot com bust was just that - a bust of companies with no real business model and no profits. The local tech scene outside of the west coast didn’t even whiff. Corporations were still hiring staff developers to support their internal processes.

Between 2008-2011, I was already over 35 and older than most of the developers that were at the company I worked for. They let go of many of the younger less experienced developers during the time but by then I was the most experienced C# developer, the only experienced C++/MFC developer after they fired the founder, and the only one with the maturity to lead my own projects, do SOWs, and talk to our remaining customers.

Ten years later, I work for another small company, I’m in my mid 40s and I doubt very seriously that I won’t be the last to get laid off if it comes to that. I now have project management experience, I can jump between the three languages we use, and we are an AWS shop and I’m the most experienced (and certified) AWS person. I can also jump back and forth between development, Devops, and netops.

I’m not bragging, after 20+ years as a professional developer working at small companies, you pick up a diverse skillset.
Disclaimer - couldn't read more than an introductory two paragraphs - this may be addressed in text.

I wonder why they don't just start stockpiling liquefied natural gas and wait for the value to eventually rise. Even if prices don't rise sufficiently to sell it could potentially be vertically integrated to substitute for burning coal for input heat in oil refineries. Perhaps it is related to the liquification process costs plus storage.
>I wonder what I should give my kids when they have fevers though

You don't have to give them anything. Ibuprofen doesn't make the underlying infection causing the fever go away any quicker, it just alleviates the symptoms. It's a trade off between reducing short-term suffering and risking long-term defects. Personally my parents never gave me painkillers for fever and I'm grateful for it: fever pain is just a temporary feeling, but some of the uncommon side effects of painkillers are much longer-lasting.

*Edit: To whomever downvoted, I'm curious what part of what I said you disagree with.
Mariko Aoki phenomenon
Apparently the people pouring time, work, and commitment into this project feel differently, which is their undisputable prerogative.
Personally, I applaud such effort. We need fresh takes on things.
Looking back to the early years of the century, what would you have had the Arch crowd do? Stop pissing around, just fork off Debian Sid?
my experience with windows is that it freezes the whole desktop under moderately multithreaded loads.
Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15114055 (16 months ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16670337 (9 months ago)
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A very open ended question.

It really depends on context. Monospaced fonts are more readable for tabular data. Hard to read fonts are thought to increase memorization of the subject. Using italics, bold etc. in the right context will also increase readabilty irrespective of the font. Then you have fonts that are designed for more fluid reading like Dyslexie which is thought to increase comprehension for people with dyslexia.

You really need to define what you mean with "readable" - it it comprehension or memorization you are referring to or that reading it is fluid (think of a telepromper for a presenter)?
Whether it’s Wingdings or not.
Those things can be simultaneously true.
> Saying they caused coal is ridiculous

Renewables cannot practically replace base load at this time.

Name a group that's done more to oppose operating nuclear power plants. Not just planned new construction, GP actively opposes and tries to shutdown operating plants.

If you remove nuclear plants you have to replace base load generation with coal. Other than pumping hydro which has its own environmental issues and won't work everywhere... what else do you expect to replace that base load with in most of the world? Rolling blackouts?

So yes, I'm quite comfortable in saying they caused increased coal usage in their shortsightedness, with all the baggage it comes along with.
Not a doctor: Isn’t fever (objectively, it seems) defined as a rise in body temperature? From what I’ve learned about protein denaturalization in high school, that doesn’t sound good if excessive.
What's the point of this? It seems like it's the same as not including the asterisk in the first place.
The point I was trying to make is that some forms of speech are violence ( in the action intended to cause harm sense ).
This. Just had friends visiting. Their teenage son had had his wisdom tooth pulled last week. Dentist had then given him (as a standard practice?) prescription for Ibuprofen (800mg tabs?) AND some opioid based pain killer! Needless to say, latter they said went directly to trash after they realized what it contained and for ibuprofen they halved the dosage.

To me and his parents this was pain management gone way over dose! But we’re not medical experts and should not be doing clinical decisions since at one end of this rabbit hole you will find anti-vaccination and other nut jobs.

So what to do?
I am left handed, and have no real problems with writing with a fountain pen at all. Smearing is not an issue, I assume because I hold the pen fairly straight, and don't have my hand curled around in a reversed 'U' shape as I notice some of my left handed compatriots do when writing.

I have FAR more problems with binders, with the rings or clips getting in the way - so much so that in school, I used to write on the BACK of the pages so that the rings were to the right of my hand.
Food regulation in Singapore is the opposite of "crazy-lax". Every hawker stall is regularly inspected and has the inspection results prominently posted, and despite being outside, the hawker centres are clean and sterilized to within an inch of their lives (there are no flies anywhere!). If people get sick from eating hawker food, it's headline news.
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I have had issues at times in the past but with things like core dumps on systems with spinning disk and 128gb ram. The OOM on linux can be brutally frustrating. But it's still light years ahead of windows for development...
Some California beaches have been off-limits, but public outrage is changing
The point being: it's a psychological study, in relation to behavior and emotion, which cannot be measured with NEARLY the same degree of ease or precision as sex-related endocrine effects. It's behavior, and thus potentially non-replicable. It's soft science at best.

Is someone being a jerk? Is it some strange long term NSAID side-effect? Why are they being so cold and callous? Is this just an artifact of social biases that have existed since time immemorial? Is it the drug? Good luck with that one. Have fun p-value hacking it.

Meanwhile, is this person on the effeminate side for a male? Immediately apparent in many cases. Does there seem to be a lot more of this gender dysphoria business going around ever since the 80's when Ibuprofen went OTC? Why yes! Is it the drug? Well, we can introduce a protocol, and study it, and know conclusively in perhaps 10 years. But, between then and now...
Any chance you could do better than a one word dismissal?
> The Singaporean lifestyle is one of the most stressful, competitive and insecure in the world.

I'm curious about this. Can you point me to any resources to learn more about that? Or could you elaborate on why it is so, especially the "insecure" part?
Hyperthermia differs from fever in that the body's temperature set point remains unchanged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthermia
See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18787595

The compiler didn't complain when passed a pointer to NULL (ok, not the same as passing NULL.
A group in Portland makes life tougher for the homeless
I live in a country which retains phone location data for 2 years and can be warantlessly accessed by hundreds of government agencies down to tiny local councils and has zero oversight.
Would love to "mitigate" the risks of that information falling into the wrong hands whether legally accessed or not, sadly it's too much effort so I don't.
What was the effect in the first place?
How the Valley treats experienced people
This is so true.

One of my previous professional experience was working for a company that delivered a complete hospital information system that was used in two of the biggest health institutions in the Middle East.

Initial software development was done offsite, but then, the owner and CTO of the company thought it more wise to bring in the developers on-site. On-site here meant that our team was provided an actual area in the hospital where we were given freedom to observe, collect and synthesize as much information related to the system we were building.

One major challenge we faced was that, for example, we have three doctors all specializing in the same category, i.e. cardiologist. All of them would have different ways of wanting how the technology will support their process. One would want information laid out in a different manner, with quicker access to other information he need from other facets of the system. There's just no way to standardize a specific process. This lead to us delivering solutions that allow the doctors to customize as much as they can of the application based off their preferred procedures.

Being there in the hospital itself I would say has tremendously helped the team deliver a lot of innovative functionality that I have still yet to see at this day and age. I was interfacing HL7 data with Siemens and GE Radiology and providing the doctors to automatically perform dictation through Philips Dictaphone - where the recording is sent to an offshore transcription company in Asia, and the data returned and tied to the actual radiology exam it is designated for - all under intense security, compliance, and anonymity.

I've also observed through working in different hospitals, there is a lot of variations in the workflows, hence the necessity for engineers to actually be present and on-site. This provides the developers a real-world picturesque view of what needs to be built that will make every hospital staff (doctors, nurses, aides) become very productive.
Don't have experience with most of the industries that Musk dabbles in, but did spend a decade in construction. I have no doubt in my mind that Musk's roofing and tunneling ventures are sham.
Just last week even the NYT [1] acknowledged a Russian false flag used for political purposes. In Roy Moore's election his opponent funded a campaign that did things such as create thousands of fake 'Russian linked' social media accounts, and then fed this 'Russian connection' to media sites, who dutifully then ran conspiracy stories against Moore. E.g. - this [2] Mother Jones article entitled, "Russian Propagandists Are Pushing for Roy Moore to Win". Roy Moore ended up losing by 2%.

And to be clear this post is in no way an advocacy for Roy Moore, but's just a great extremely recent example of an unfortunately common practice that was exposed.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jon...

[2] - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/12/russian-propaga...
Are there any simulators that would be good for entry level "I want to learn verilog from no understanding of electronics"?
"No one in the engineering community ever questioned whether it would be technically feasible to land a rocket booster on a barge."

I know first hand this statement is absolutely false. In fact, a GNC engineer in a Large Aerospace Organization That You Would Recognize asserted to me that a booster landing on a barge is impossible. And strangely, he said it just a few weeks before it was accomplished and after SpaceX had demonstrated land landing.
You yourself said that the difficulty of Starlink is in operating a large satellite constellation. By that metric, two satellites in orbit tells you almost nothing about SpaceX's ability to actually overcome the difficulty.
Move to Europe where we don't get as many drugs prescribed? I think the only time you get opioids is after major surgery. Personally I don't know anybody who had to take them.
What was the shared platform? Was it targeted at multiple newspapers, or was this an attack on a single platform that just happens to be used by all of these newspapers?

At one time all of these newspapers were owned by The Tribune Company in Chicago. Most still are. During the time they were one company, they operated off of a central publishing platform. When’s few of the newspapers were sold, they remained part of that platform.

“Platform” is a word used in a different sense than in the tech industry. At the production level, news organizations do not operate with Microsoft Word and Adobe Illustrator and other common software. They use specialized software that is tailor made for the industry, and sometimes for the individual organization. Companies from the AP to Sony and a bunch you’ve probably never heard of make these massive pieces of software that tie together news production computers with printing pressed, massive digital media archives, and dozens, if not hundreds, of different types of machines.

If you read the article more closely, you will see the specific type of ransomware that is believed to be used in this attack, and why this is believed to be the cause of the disruption.

As for all the secrecy, sadly that is par for the course in the media industry, and doubly so for what is now Tribune Publishing.
Unrelated but husband and I stopped at an Indian grocery store to pick up some items for a chicken tikka masala recipe we found on YouTube.

They insisted we pay cash, even though they had a machine to swipe a card.

We don’t carry cash and assumed their card machine was broken. As we apologized and started leaving, they suddenly agreed to accept a credit card.

Presumably the transaction costs per swipe are high, although we were spending about $30 and not 50 cents or something minuscule.

My more cynical side thinks they preferred cash because it’s harder to trace. Credit card transactions are probably automatically reported to the IRS by the payment processing company. Cash... well, unless the IRS sends someone to physically to your location, it’s harder to trace and easy to dodge taxes.
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Brushing off TCM as pseudoscience is quite ignorant. There are plenty of legitimate TCM research and verified treatments that have improved the lives of many in the world.
I'm not a doctor, but I run a small, low activity list called Health Techies. Anyone here is welcome to shoot me a join request:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/health-techies
The first blockchain powered freelancer marketplace owned by its users
Trends in fashion are changing since events like the Panama Papers. Ostentatious displays of wealth and luxury are no longer in vogue. Many luxury clients have obtained their wealth through some degree or fraudulent activity or are operating in societies marked by high degrees of inequality.

Demonstrating status to the street pleb is no longer fashionable or desirable. Demonstrating status to your fellow elites is - and they recognise brands and styles.

Luxury brands know their clientele extremely well, and the logo changes represent all this.
> IQ is the single best predictor of lifespan

[Citation needed]
"No one", sure. There were some who thought reuse could be viable. But the "grown ups" in aerospace leadership? Yeah, it's a fair point. The DC-X program was cancelled because the future was the horizontal landing X-33. After that failed, the industry consensus for the "serious" folk was that reuse was a dead end.
Fevers do kill. It’s not common in western world where we have access to antibiotics but in developing world it’s more common.
Lots of people use Verilator in production, as far as I can tell.

But sure, if your upstream tooling produces DRM blobs instead of actual RTL, then your software has to implement those DRM mechanisms to use it; but that's more to do with your specific industry than with anything else.

Your hyperbole is already confusing newcomers, I'd dial it back a bit.
Reasons I like it:

* Non-systemd

* Rolling release, generally up to date

* Supports glibc and musl

* Tends to make software choices I like (doas in main repos, recommends socklog)

* xbps is a nice package manager

* doesn't believe in AUR/PPAs but compensates with massive main repos
Wisdom teeth extraction is a major oral surgery. What was prescribed was not an overdose at all.
OTOH acetaminophen is known to be toxic; is there an alternative here for non narcotic inflammation, fever, and pain relief that is shown NOT to have tradeoffs for use?
On screen, both sides realize the lie. But being a modern actor is just as much about life off screen. Celeb culture, starting with stage names, is all about manipulating how people percieve your realworld persona. The people reading the celeb websites really do believe the lies.
Transfinite does not mean infinite. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfinite_induction
You haven't proposed any alternative. In labor intensive businesses, production costs always increase.
"Outside the US" is such a weird thing. I regularly VPN out through [insert random country] and then poke at "interesting" websites over Tor. Were am I coming from? It's almost impossible to tell, and for 99.999% of all orgs (including government ones), it basically is impossible.
I truly admire your confidence, even it I cannot have it myself.
Anecdote alert: based on conversations I've had with workers on location, there's plenty of energy being generated -- the heat from flaring wells can be felt hundreds of yards away.
> So what to do?

One thing is not to put medicines, OTC or not, into the trash. They are nasty stuff to have in the dump.

As for the drugs: don’t take analegics if you don’t need to; do if you can’t tolerate the pain. Everybody has a different level of pain and tolerance and I bet the prescription said something along the lines of “...as needed”

As for other prescriptions, do your research; odds are you do need it but not always.
Firefox bug for this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226042
Sure, get the Vivado Webpack (which is free as in beer, but not as in Freedom) and use the built in simulator, XSim.

It's multi-language, handles encrypted Xilinx IP blocks, and is more than enough. As a side benefit you'll be getting familiar with Vivado, which is broadly used in industry.

It's not "Free as in Freedom!" but it's actually useful.
Wow, it even has a visible difference for capital ß (ẞ) which is usually barely perceptible.
They are charged somewhere around 3%, it certainly adds up for an already extremely thin margin.

Additionally your point about cash being less traceable is also at play, cash income is far less likely to be reported to the IRS.

Add both of those factors in and it is clear to see why cash is preferred by small businesses.
Really cool. I’ve been hearing for years now in the athletic community that ibuprofen “kills gains”. Thought it was just a fud. Turns out - likely not.
it might be the food though. my wife is asian and I haven't seen any dairy or undercooked meat products in their dishes.
> Inborn in the sense that IQ is highly predictive of lifespan

IQ is only a bit more genetic than environmental (about 55-45, from most of what I've seen on the issue), so even if IQ was extremely strongly associated with lifespan, that would be a weak basis for characterizing the latter as being overwhelmingly inborn.

> Americans would clearly live a lot longer than they do if they spent less on healthcare.

That's far from clear; there's reason to suspect American food cut healthcare costs and do as well or better, but there is certainly no guarantee that blindly cutting spending would do that. If
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