skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm open the idea of various forms of drug legalization, but someone pointed out that the opioid epidemic (which is behind the decline in life expectancy) is arguably an experiment with legalizing heroin. The analogy isn't perfect, but that gave me pause.
I am a bit fascinated by the "Fin de Siècle" epoch. Those people were CORRECT in their pessimistic expectations. WWI and WWII happened soon after and killed many millions of people.

Then again, without history books and museums, you'd barely notice today that those ever took place. So maybe even that was not as much of a doomsday event as feared.
So do your machines just idle or do you have a way to put them to sleep and only wake/poweron if someone actually wants to watch a movie?

I had a Plex server running on a spare machine, but I found I only used it once a week or so (Friday/Saturday nights) and the rest of the time it was just wasting energy.
The real problem with talking about slippery slopes in tech is that we're already on an unrecoverable slide into the unknown. So the question is just "does this new thing make the slide even faster?" Not, "we're on stable ground and we need to be careful about beginning a slide."

There's no going back and we have no idea where we're headed.
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So basically, economic power translate into geopolitical power. Or vice versa. Is there a highly developed nation that isn't ranked highly on the visa-free list?
I was expecting the cause to be obesity - just imagine how much healthcare costs would go down if the 40% of Americans who are obese, weren’t.

I’d imagine life expectancy would go up a bit too.
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MySQL is a decent nosql option with mature replication. If you care about your data, expect MySQL to be your foe rather than your friend.

Do you expect your triggers to fire? You are SOL https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=11472

Do you expect to be able to insert utf8 into utf8 columns? Don't be naive. Read the docs and you'll discover utf8mb4 or as I like to refer to it: mysql_real_utf8.

How about transactions? Surely a real SQL database supports transactions right? Or at the very least if it doesn't it would complain loudly when you use a transaction where not supported right? Once again this behavior is helpfully documented https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/commit.html

Do you expect to be able to put a value into MySQL and get that same value back out? You are SOL. But it's documented.

I can honestly say that the only appropriate time to use MySQL is when you can't use postgres and you are willing to move from a RDBMS to something that requires significantly more work to prevent data corruption.

I respect the hell out of MySQL engineers in terms of raw performance and the engineering of Innodb. I'm sure they aren't happy there's a million broken applications relying on defaults they can't change. I'm sure they aren't happy that fundamental limits in how pluggable storage engines work make ACID transactions not possible in the general case.

Postgres, for all of it's issues, feels like a database that has your back.
Nuclear already accomplishes the power requirements though.

As far as I can tell it’s more about having a working option and then paying for it.

But even if we aren’t betting the planet on it...this is akin to a poker game where all of your money is already in the middle. Folding the hand just means you lose.

There is literally nothing to gain by giving up. Nothing.
I love these kind of issues, here are two classics:

- Open Office won't print on Tuesdays: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...

- Can't send email more than 500 miles: http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
The conceit is thinking it's possible to sequester. Ok if you're a totalitarian monster over your children and have complete control of their inputs (which extend far beyond the at home networked devices) then theoretically maybe. That's probably got disastrous lack of socialization written all over it though since you can't allow even the potential of interaction with a stranger at say a grocery store who might say or do something to influence them off the straight and narrow. Religions are amusingly realistic about this even when they preach a particular straight and narrow ideal, since it's basically a given some wandering will happen, so there's a whole multi-feedback system to help admit the error and return.

It's just the eternal struggle of order and chaos and finding the right balance for a situation and your level of control. I might put up some white fences (nothing as blatant as a 'no trespassing' sign which might as well be a 'cool stuff here' sign) for the kids but I've no expectation they won't be jumped if their curiosity takes them or some influence encourages them. And there are always areas I'm going to be ignorant of where I might have put up a fence if I knew about it.

I wish people retained better memories of their own childhoods and could easily share them in arbitrary detail to see common threads. What does "12" mean for you? When I was 10 I had a laugh at "pikachu must die" on a school machine some classmate showed me, when I was 6-7 I learned about 1-800 and 1-900 numbers and had fun trying random ones or numbers spelling naughty things. (And prank or joke calls in general lasted some years as a social activity with a couple friends -- we kept calling Nintendo's hotline asking when Mario Party N would come out, with N being anywhere from 3 to 17. These things extended into 90s/early 00s internet chatroom amusement; my best memory was when a friend and I (couldn't have been older than 11) pretended to be a woman on a chat site focused on dating.) When I turned 9 an older cousin gave me a cd-r copy of The Slim Shady LP. When I was 13-14 all I wanted to do was play video games (alone or with the few friends I still had) or hang out on a forum centered around a particular game and chat with other fans of the game, some of whom were younger, some of whom were much older. There's probably even a copy of a picture of me as a shirt ninja from around that time on someone else's computer when that was a thing, whatever. Sure the increasing use of the net made it easier to learn of some weird stuff, encouraged sharing things that have a higher likelihood of sticking around forever (unlike prank calls or mooning something) but a lot of that's hardly different than a group of ~7-10 year olds going to look at a dead animal body. I don't have any idea what it would mean for there to exist "mental ages" when any of that would be certified "appropriate" or "low risk", it just was.
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I’ve considered this, however Bluetooth cases seem like a huge hit-and-miss swamp. Can you recommend any in particular?
+1. I'm a musician who has released albums and I'd never use something like this, because who wants to manage distribution for every platform?

DistroKid/CDBaby are a much better way to do this.
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> 2. People who like to pirate content like its their job - setting up Plex and all the newsgroup/torrent apps to auto-pirate shows and movies. For a 13 year old, that can be cool. For an adult who clearly has the cash to spend on non-essential items and in a world where time is money: I do not get it.

It took me about an afternoon or two to set up, was fun to do, and now my favorite TV shows just appear in Plex for me to watch whenever I want to. Half of the time they're not available on Netflix either, so I'd have to figure out what streaming provider they're on, deal with their special websites, not get notifications when a new episode airs, etc. It's just a better experience.
Creator here. Please let me know if you have any questions! This was a lot of fun to build.

I scraped SEC filings to track how 500+ mutual funds voted on proposals related to climate change. The raw data is 376mb, which I parse and filter down to 2.5mb of JSON files. Gatsby creates a GraphQL interface with that data, and I query that to create 1600+ pages of static content. The build is pretty fast: 40s locally, 90s on Netlify's free-tier build server. I'd definitely recommend Gatsby and Netlify for anyone considering a similar project!
Citymapper just shut down their shuttle service in London. It's really hard to make this model work in a place with decent public transport.

https://medium.com/@Citymapper/ending-ride-to-focus-on-pass-...
Ha, your parenthetical definitely anticipated me.

If I could RELIABLY score a solid 8 hours every single night, I would call $600/mo steep — but worth it.
It's probably somewhat preferable to the company that the employee sees their job as their entire purpose in life, but realistically most people beyond their 20s do not stay in that state of mind and an experienced 40 year old "9-5 with kids" probably brings some benefits to the team that the "fully committed" 28 year old with no extracurricular interests does not.
That's exactly it! The list is so focused on country counts that it doesn't account for things that make visits interesting, such as population, area, or even economic development of the countries with access to. It would be easy to augment this index with this info though.

It even falls flat on being a decent mobility index--I'd take a Schengen passport with full rights of abode in the EU over a UAE passport any day.
In my experience "free" healthcare stops being a thing once you get above certain income level as the service provided by the public healthcare facilities is subpar (waiting lists huge, best specialists often work at private clinics, etc.) so you end up going private but you still end up paying a huge chunk of your income in tax.

Eg. impressions of Germany is that it's a nice place and all but they insist on paperwork/formalisms too much (for example apartment rental process is ridiculous) and it doesn't seem to be very upwardly mobile (you get taxed a lot so it's hard to accumulate capital when starting from mid level income for eg.).
Don't do that. Your ESTA application can be 'randomly' selected for further inspection, which will cause a delay up to a couple of weeks before you get it.

This happened to me, I was happy I applied well in advance of my trip. IIRC, it took 3 weeks before I got the confirmation email.
It's a power ranking. The score is based on _travel_ ability. Living and Working isn't factored into travel, because that's not the point.
Despite the nature of his crimes, my understanding is that if you're not a permanent resident, you're not eligible for minimum security.
Because men can have children later in their careers. Women being forced biologically to have children by their mid 30s is often during the time they'd have made the most advances. It's not at all uncommon for men to be 5-10 years older. And then the parental roles elected are often asymmetrical. I'm guessing that you'd gladly attribute this to internalized misogyny, but unfortunately not everything can be written off as a social construction.
"Urban–Rural Differences in Suicide in the State of Maryland: The Role of Firearms"

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2017....

> Conclusions. Male firearm use drives the increased rate of suicide in rural areas
Presumably, though, other surrounding places will be more radioactive than before?
no lawn mowing? what else are boomers going to do with their lives every other morning?
[1] is google's paper on their implementation of a setup similar to this for identifying songs entirely offline without using much power at all.

You are correct that the actual processors that are "always" listening are fairly limited (They describe it as a DSP, so that should give you an idea of its capabilities), but when layered the way they are in Pixel phones, it makes it possible for the DSP to detect "something" interesting is happening, then wake up and pass the information to an "AI processor" (they call it the "Pixel visual core" but i find that a misnomer because it's a pretty capable TPU on it's own) which would then do the transcribing, and go back to sleep.

I'm making some assumptions that I haven't researched myself, but I'm assuming there are patterns, frequencies, and other simply detected "signals" present in most speech that make it easy to detect "someone is speaking", and from there can wake up a more powerful (but still surprisingly efficient) processor to do more work.

And Google also has some simplified and compressed neural networks dedicated to transcribing speech which are designed to run on lower powered devices[2]. I don't know if they are actually using the PVC in the Pixel phones to do audio transcription or if they're just using the general CPU for that, but I have a feeling that a TPU would be able to scream through buffered audio very quickly and would go back to sleep very quickly leading to minimal power draw.

In fact I'd be willing to bet good money that an "always transcribing" system could be done today with current generation phones in a way that wouldn't impact battery life enough to be obviously noticeable or cause the user to start looking for what was draining it in most cases. And considering how often I'm personally actively speaking in a day, I bet it would have virtually no impact on my personal device if implemented this way.

(and man did it feel wrong to type that last paragraph out!)

[1] https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46522

[2] https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-sp...
There are some great youtube channels[0] on rewilding the land where you live and developing a permaculture garden. I have always found the obsession with lawns to be so strange.

[0] e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/BealtaineCottage
Part of this story is told beautifully in “All the lights we cannot see”
I bet you people would use it if it was their last resort to getting a good rest.
That's kind of how it works. He may have friends of friends or met someone from a professional's organization that learn either what kind of business he's in or what kind of resources he has access to. Contact is made and a relationship is formed to the point where the guy feels comfortable doing all of this for a big stack of money. He might be lied to and told everything is on the up and up (or at least told it's a legal grey area) or he might be in on everything and know that he's breaking the law.
Thanks, was wondering what was up.
1) Malta - 1.3 million euros. Half of it is in investments so reedeemable. 1 year. No physical residency required. European Union, Schengen Area

2) Portugal - 350k euros OR 500k euros. All in property so reedemable. 6 year. No physical residency required, but property counts as residence and gives EU visa for all 6 years until citizenship and passport is possible. European Union, Schengen Area.

Can also employ 10 Portugal citizens for work. Likely as low as 90k euros per year. Obtains EU visa and by year 6 you an get passport.

3) Cyprus - similar to Malta and is EU but not Schengen Area. Might take a little longer too.

4) Austria - informal kickback process, but follows due process. 10 million euro+

5 - 10) Caribbean countries that are not EU so I don't care. Low 6 figures. Known to revoke purchased passports when indicted of a crime somewhere else in the world. Long after having a clean background check and being approved and not being accused of any crime.
When it whas really quiet, I could hear sound from my old cellphone when the screen updatet (Moto G4).
I set this up 4 or 5 years ago, has it gotten easier since then? Specifically TOTP was rough.
Ugh, I thought there were a few in there to trick me. Like on the "check" one, there was a pen hovering over a checkbox but it was unchecked, so I didn't think that counted...
Both Xiaomi and Oppo shared videos of the in-display cameras working, but the videos are too low quality to make any kind of image quality determinations.

That coupled with a lack of even controlled lighting, best case sample images probably tells a lot about the image quality.
Doesn't mean it's not true.
I realize my comment hit a sensitive spot but it's really not meant to be negative.

It is 100% legit to give that up, it is 100% legit to go with the clear winner in your mind (it is the same in my mind too), but the technical reasoning is weak IMHO.

if you wanted to support both, you can, but you clearly don't (and that's ok too).
^ this is good advice. I've introduced a few friends to marijuana for their first time, once of my friends had a very similar experience to the OP on a deep indica.
I presume you quit working on Windows after you read the ReactOS source code, offered to you under the GPL license only? Or is Microsoft planning to release it under a compatible license?
I don't understand what you mean. Do you really think they should hire a less-qualified person because of her sex? "we are going to hire _another_ man" - if he's the most qualified, why wouldn't you?

What is this equitable hiring practice? Fire your team over and over until you get more women? What if your ten most qualified applicants are again men? It seems very possible.

And what is this unfair hiring practice? How do you know the most qualified weren't all male? You are using the term "equitable" over "equal", and I'm assuming you understand the difference. I don't believe a company ought to disadvantage men to the advantage of women, because I don't believe discrimination is just.

As for your "nobody said you'd lose your job", yes, you did. Your assumption is that at least one man will lose his job for a woman.

You did not answer my question - would you, personally, be willing to quit your job to allow a woman to take it? Even were she less qualified?
>Public schools have their problems. But most can be mitigated by "voting with your feet"

I would like to note that this is tantamount to voting with your wallet. Areas with more expensive housing will have better public schools.
What a terribly cynical thing to say. A yard whose flora aligns with the local ecosystem will be much more hardy and just as beautiful than a sterile lawn and some flowers that will die within the season.

For some pictures in California for example, see the California native plant society [0]. After visiting a native plant garden in SoCal I can't help but find the idea of a grass lawn absurd.

[0] https://www.cnps.org/gardening
> You're still assuming it's not like sleep, and that you wouldn't be floating in a vat of chemicals/equipment that had an impact on your mental state.

I'll point out that the current two-process model we have for sleep pushes the brain towards waking up after a while; Process C (circadian) on a periodic basis and process S after the brain's need for sleep is satisfied. That would need to be counteracted. I'll also point out that there's some evidence that even a few months of sedation will cause lasting cognitive damage, e.g. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1301372, yet sedation for years, if not decades, would be necessary. The brain is not a machine; it does not shut down when asleep or sedated.

> And you still shouldn't assume that death is preferable to solitary confinement or sensory deprivation.

It is, of course, a personal decision and it might even be said to be the ultimate personal decision. However, not understanding the implications of one's choices, as best we know them, is unwise, don't you think?
I don't think they need to. The OP blames ReactOS, the burden of proof is on him, if he thinks it's an issue. Otherwise it's called trolling.
Why is such a major change implemented in a minor version?
The unreliability of distribution brokers as artist allies.
Really? I couldn't seem to prove that I was human. I thought it just threw you into an infinite "prove you're human" loop at the end.
Disney's New Lion King Is the VR-Fueled Future of Cinema
> if you made $100 selling drugs and claim you made $100 selling used TVs (and pay taxes accordingly) they'll likely be able to find some felony statute violation if they want to dig into it.

And in fact, the article mentions the crime that you could be charged with for lying about the source of your income: "making false statements to a government agency".
Just because we know it inhibits one specific enzyme does not mean we know that it will not inhibit any other enzymes.

Enzymes and other parts of biological systems often share similar modalities, and if glyphosate targets a shared modality, it would affect any compound that uses said modality.
I massively don't get /r/homelab. I can't imagine having literal work as a hobby. Low-power stuff like Synologies and NUCs are cool, but all I see on the sub is huge power-wasters, and people even brag about it!

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/bshlr9/the_real_co...
> we haven't gone on a busting spree this generation, we're awfully close to [..] break[ing] up companies like Google and Facebook

Source?
They have to engineer their software for the highest-scale cases it’s going to be put to by people running it in a particular configuration. Just because Gitlab works without partial indexes for you doesn’t mean that Gitlab works without partial indexes for everyone, and software that doesn’t work for the 1% of users who use it most heavily (and probably pay GitLab the most money in support contracts) is also known as “software that doesn’t work.”
When you've read and understood some piece of code, you're more prone to replicate it, even without realizing it. And ReactOS developers have obviously some extensive experience with Windows API, and it should be not suprise that any attempt to rewrite Windows will fall into the same trap.

I'm not saying that their code is "clean" or is a "rip-off". Obviously, I don't have a clue about it. Maybe they were just lazy and they did not care.
In my experience "free" healthcare stops being a thing once you get above certain income level as the service provided by the public healthcare facilities is subpar (waiting lists huge, best specialists often work at private clinics, etc.) so you end up going private but you still end up paying a huge chunk of your income in tax.

That's not true here in the UK. People do use private healthcare but they're in the minority and it's usually for expediency rather than quality. Many very rich people still get treatment on the NHS. It's very, very good.
I'm starting to think these huge valuations and buyout prices are basically ensuring this will happen. Is Corel really gonna generate a billion dollars in profit for this company when free cloud-based alternatives exist to almost all of it's products?
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