skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Based on the data, I think we can conclude that opacity and user hostility are insufficient criteria for a DTC play.

DTC at a 40% discount from "I can buy it walking into a show room staffed by a dozen salesmen in a Manhattan shopping district" is not enough of a discount. Make a discount 85% of that every damn day and we can talk.
That was funny, but in fairness can you imagine how expensive and long drawn a real study into this question would be?
Show HN: Online tools you use every day, but butter
>Are you buying bottom of the barrel PSUs?

If you mean that "standard" OEM PSU's (think Asus, Fujitsu, IBM/Lenovo and a few - mini-ITX Shuttle cases) are "bottom of the barrel", yes.

Then, since often an used, original, non-standard (say) IBM/Lenovo PSU can be found for a mere 100-150 € on e-bay, I started getting el-cheapo (though not el-cheapest) ones with no appreciable decrease (or increase) in durability, putting them externally and re-mapping the cables.

For the mini-ITX cases (that use a not-very-common form factor) I gutted new 1U server PSU's and managed to fit them in.

The PC I am writing this with (ASUS) is 2008 and I replaced a PSU in 2012 and one in 2016 or 2017, cannot remember.

Out of the four IBM/Lenovo's I have at another office, dated 2010 or 2011, two have still their original PSU, two have the external adapted ATX, no other parts replaced.

All in all (and for whatever reasons) I would estimate that over a 5-10 years lifetime of a system[1] there are:

1-2 replacement of PSU's

1 replacement of hard disk(s)

No replacement of other parts, let alone the motherboard.

Sice 2012 I am at the third Fujitsu ThinClient (used as router) with PSU failing (in this case they are so cheap second hand that I change the whole little machine).

[1] the mini-ITX's (there were three of them) before being decommissioned) lasted 2003-2018, i.e. 15 years, running NT 4.0 or 2K 24/7 each with 2 PSU replacements, the last one, being a server grade PSU most probably would be just fine for another five or more years.
Do you know of Firefox Multi-Account Containers?
Sharing the burden does not mean free. It's like ad hoc insurance or freezing the situation.
the flash crash?
Only as long as you remain employable and work is on offer.
Italy has a population of 60 million.

The WHO reports "Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died".

If 50% the population gets infected, and if it's not 3.4% but "just" 3% mortality rate, that's already 1 million dead.

And according to some experts, even 70% infection rate is predicted.

Second, this 3.4% percentage of deceased patients, is at the early stages, with fewer patients and preventive measures (so that most patients that needed hospital treatment got it).

A 10% or more of patients of COVID-19 will need hospital treatment and ICU. As the number of patients rise, there wont be as many ICU units (and doctors are getting infected themselves at an alarming rate).

In Italy with ~ 7000 cases, "hospitals are scrambling to increase the number of beds available in intensive care units. Some have closed entire wards to dedicate them to severe coronavirus cases. Others have transformed operating rooms into intensive care units. Doctors are working grueling shifts to cover for colleagues who fall ill".

Let's put it this way, they have 9,172 cases and 463 deaths.

Now imagine with 100,000 or 1,000,000 cases -- still very far from the predicted 70%.
Xilinx Unveils 7nm Versal Premium ACAPs, Up to 7.4M Logic Cells
> The UK essentially got rid of crazy 100% mortgages. You can still get a 95% mortgage, which is pretty desperate, but the rates on them are punishing, I haven't seen anybody say "Oh I saved 5% for my deposit now I can buy a house".

I can think of 3 people off the top of my head who have a 95% mortgage.

It's far more common than you think, especially in areas in the North where you can get a decent property for less than £200k (95% loans are capped at £400k)
You might want to read up on what it's like in Italy right now. The issue is not the death rate, the hospitalization rate quickly overloads the healthcare system:

https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753...

"We’ve stopped all routine, all ORs have been converted to ITUs and they are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like trauma or strokes. There are hundreds of pts with severe resp failure and many of them do not have access to anything above a reservoir mask.

"Patients above 65 or younger with comorbidities are not even assessed by ITU, I am not saying not tubed, I’m saying not assessed and no ITU staff attends when they arrest. Staff are working as much as they can but they are starting to get sick and are emotionally overwhelmed.

Meanwhile, lots of people act like nothing is happening:

https://twitter.com/figgyjam/status/1236982564503486465
I would'nt be so cocksure as that. Much of western peoples view of Soviet Union is coloured by the cold war propaganda still.(Witness the recent HBO series Chernobyl, even West based Russia-scholars feel that it gives a very inaccurate portrayal of Perestroika era Soviet Union. Even it was made with no Russian/Ukrainian talent either in the front or rear of the camera.

Imagine a drama of Three Mile Island, made entirely by Russians, with a wholely Russian cast and crew, how preposterous it would be.).

There was much incompetence surely, but pure malice, I think is yet debatable.
Creating Clarity for Remote Teams
It also targets "string like buffers" with arbitrary nulls, appends, splitting on a delimiter, and tokenizing. Yes, it works differently, and isn't readv/writev centric.
A new Firefox release, a new reminder that Firefox hasn't implemented native context menus in macOS for 20 years.
The upside is that all the workers are female so you only have to pay them 70%.
I don't think you are using "overreact" properly. If it's the appropriate response, then, by definition, is not overreacting.

In line with what you are saying, a problem, is that the proper reaction, if works, looks like an overreaction later. So, politically, there is an incentive to do nothing.
> For every 100 men promoted and hired to manager, only 72 women are promoted and hired.

Oh no! We should fix this by promoting under-talented women.

> For every 100 women having relationship more than twice in their lives, only 68 men did.

That's just gender difference. What do you expect?

> For every 100 men killed in the workplace by an accident, only 8 women died.

Genders have their differences, and if you don't accept it you're a misogynist.

> For every 100 dollars earned by men, women earned only 82 dollars.

Oh no! This is America's worst discrimination! We must fix this by overpaying women.
Isn't that what the back button is for? We read too much shit anyway. My preferred method for handling theses popups now is the back button.
In Florida individual HSA plans (with a large network) are still available, and they actually make sense for families with chronic health conditions. It's still a jaw-dropping amount to pay, but you pay even more any other way without a larger employer sponsored plan.

Source: I spend >$30k each year on my family's HSA plan premiums and deductible, and I run the numbers on every option that has the network we need every year, and this really is as good as it gets.
It might be under embargo. Links up until MFSA2020-07 work.
They made a change in 73.0.1[0] only targeting one bank website[1].

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0.1/releasenotes/
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613943
Examples of API Tests Using Rest Assured and Okhttp – Java
Because you have not cared to clarify your ethical view in the last 3 responses to me, nor in your ethics statement of your project.

Your system is designed to download and save information in an unaccountable manner on behalf of anyone, "unaccountable" literally is a doorway to "for any further purposes", so it's a very safe assumption.

The lack of clarity also comes from ignoring the bulk of my previous message. Ball is still in your court. I am inviting you to make this exact clarification (plus far more), when all you seem interested in doing is dodging, delaying. The worst action you could possibly take is accusing me for assuming in order to fill in the very deliberate blanks you are leaving behind.
Then you just jubilee again. Its a lot less complex/fuzzy if the king or church are the major lender.
A dnscrypt-proxy setup with https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/tree/master/d... goes a long way!

For anything that is not blockable on DNS level one should use uBlock Origin from Gorhill.
Colonize the top of Mt Everest first? Even closer to Earth. Similar challenged. 250,000 miles closer to resupply. Very hard, a good test of colonizing technology.
> The weak gravity—similar to the Moon’s—combined with the thick atmosphere would allow individuals to aviate with wings on their backs.

Sign me up.
Yes, this solution appears to be pure cherry picking. A more general solution would simply involve increasing unemployment benefits and make unemployment benefits available to quarantined people.
Fake HIV Test Results Spam Campaign Delivers the Koadic Rat
Yes, those are the ones I'm talking about.
Is it impractical to protect space colonizes with powerful superconducting magnets to deflect harmful radiation?
Honestly I think stopping this thing is a huge challenge. But I think it is a challenge most countries are up to, once they care about it enough. But it seems like no one is very good at responding to this virus before it becomes a crisis.
See my answer to the parent comment.
EEStor was claiming 385 for that particular metric, over a decade ago. Has yet to pan out.
Original plague story: Thinking of the Masque of the Red death
OSU Cancels Classes, Highlights Need for Robust IT in Public Health
https://en.wikichip.org/w/images/thumb/5/5c/7nm_densities.sv...

Because their 10nm is denser than tsmc's so called 7nm?
That was in the novel 2312. Highly recommended for the scope of ideas, however far fetched they're presented well.

I'm currently struggling 200 pages into Blue Mars. Great series though (I'm struggling with it due to life getting in the way, as opposed to it becoming a grind - although there's a bit of that too, but it's three 700-odd page novels...)
You can create a solution for the knapsack problem using Excel Solver.
Firefox 74.0 released and shows large ad for Facebook container
Technically, that's "Australia exiting Facebook"?
Anyone can get the flu, even those with flu shots
I watched the first 3-4 episodes. It was a polished show and the realistic take on science was a breath of fresh air, but it seemed like the story stopped going anywhere.
Post-it notes around the perimeter of your monitor
Like the YouTube video says, this sort of thing is really as simple as tea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwvrxVavnQ
Notice how that page has Google tracking
What would your solution be to people not paying their water bill which helps recover the various costs of providing it? Let everyone eventually realize they don’t have to pay and go bankrupt so then nobody has access to it?
Not disagreeing that water is a human right, but you need to draw a line somewhere, nothing is free.
Mercury has a very low axial tilt, and substantial surface cratering. Any crater close enough to the poles is going to be in perpetual darkness, and thus very cold. Any volatiles vaporized elsewhere naturally travel until they form deposits on the very cold inner surfaces of such craters.

Based on MESSENGER radar data, the Mercury south pole probably has more water than Mars. The temperatures at most of the craters would also support CO2 ice, although our current data can't prove it's existence or rule it out. Nitrogen supply would probably be rough.

One of the interesting reasons to consider Mercury for colonization is that a colony on the inside rim of a crater would have very easy access to energy in many forms. Want natural-ish lighting? Raise a diffuse reflector on a pole. Want to melt something? Raise a mirror.
Honestly we are more careful with cattle and pets, than with people. It's going to be hard to change the entitled attitudes. Nobody can stop me from visiting anywhere I want!
Congrats on the weight loss. Similar story here. Having sweets on occasion, even if it's just to reward yourself, is great! They taste far better, are much more rewarding, and way less guilty with weeks or months in between.

Everyone seems to have their crutch when making that transition. For me it was chocolate. Certain brands of dark chocolates really helped.
Facebook Container by Firefox Mozilla
> whenever I click a link on Gmail that goes to Github, Github opens in the Google container and I always have to copy/paste the address to a new tab.

You can right-click links and open them in a "New Container Tab" (including "No Container").

Edit: You can also right-click on the tabs and select "Reopen in Container"
I’m curious why they did this? Unless I read the article wrong the space lettuce had fewer microbes on the leaves.

Unless it’s just a replacement for traditional rinsing since you can’t do that very well in microgravity?
What are the false-positive/negative rates of this technology?

What if I grab two items with one hand, and then put one back? Will the system correctly track this?
I wish they’d fix Lockwise on iOS. Not really working. In my case takes ages to open when set as default, and never auto suggests login for the active site, either from Firefox or any other app.
We use LastPass in our company and it's terrible. Avoid it if you can.
Not the first time Intel is pushing for tighter VRM integration.

Haswell had FIVR, which I think was pretty revolutionary, the die itself contained VRMs for the CPU, IGP, memory and more.

Sadly, they gave up on it, probably because it made the processors run hot as hell.

There's not enough die area to cool all of that plus the processing cores and multiple controllers themselves
While I don't know the exact component that needs 12V, you have to keep in mind that your typical computer draws about 300W under a small load. 300W/12V means 25 amps. Reduce the voltage without lowering the power consumption and you need bigger wires to handle the increase in amps.
Not related to Bornholm at all, but it struck me how the "Map of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, 1914" emphasizes railways (the thick black-and-white lines) over roads (the much thinner dashed lines). Of course, those were the heydays of the railroad, and road travel was still largely by horse-drawn carriage...
I think the table in that paper is just confusing. The parenthesized numbers are for portion of the total number of people, rather than the portion of that category.

For instance, there are 137 current smokers. 108 are listed as non-severe. 29 are listed as severe. This means 108/137 = 79% non-severe, 29/137 21% severe.

Never smoked: 927 total, 793/927 non-severe (86%), 134/927 severe (14%).

Hope that makes sense. That table confused me too. Don't start smoking!
Related: https://news.yahoo.com/bill-gates-backing-plan-to-stop-clima...
Makes sense - half of the Trillion-dollar budgets for middle-east wars was 'fuel to air-condition tents'.
> But every other point has nothing to do with statistics or scientific analysis. I really can't say definitively that he died on his way to titan, but the evidence is fairly overwhelming. It wouldn't have been hinted at so much in the movie and the movie would not have ended with that quote otherwise.

Do you have anything else that points to this? I've watched Gattaca 5-6 times I reckon, and never picked up on a hint that Vincent dies.

For the heart beats, I've always interpreted it as the world won't give him a chance because _statistically_ he has a low likelihood of success compared to the "guaranteed" success of genetic engineering. To me Vincent and Eugene are a rejection of this – showing that humans aren't just statistics, and that the guarantees are no such thing.

As for the "never saving anything for the way back" theme, I've always interpreted that as a part of this too. The idea that statistics aren't everything, going for the "guaranteed" outcome might limit your upside, etc.

I'm pretty sure that "going home" isn't a reference to death. In the context of the few lines it's in, he's talking about how maybe he's not leaving because the atoms in our bodies come from stars.

Finally, for me, there are too many references in Vincent's relationship with Irene that show an intent to return and an expectation that he will. Being gone for a year and that being "just one trip around the sun", lead the audience to see his trip as bittersweet because he's achieved his goal but will have to leave Irene temporarily, but ultimately a positive ending for him as he embarks on a new stage in his life. The gift of all the samples from Eugene, enough to last a lifetime, backs up this idea.
Which one? PoliMi for one uses Teams (glad to know someone is using OSS software though)
We recently chose 1Password for this purpose. We also evaluated Dashlane but gave it up pretty quickly because of bad UI (not that 1Password is stellar) and some basic requirement that was not met - I forget what.

Security wise, we looked at the 1Password CVE history[1] and it seems pretty ok.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=1password
It’s “Scientific” American yet they quote negative 300 degrees Fahrenheit. Use kelvin for low temperatures or, if you have to, at least degrees Celsius. For the benefit of the reader -300 F is 89 kelvin or -184 Celsius which is about 10 degrees c above liquid nitrogen’s boiling point.
> The first step should be to show that the github dataset can be used to say anything about quality and productivity of things like language choice.

The dataset can be used to say how defect rates compare across programming languages, that's important given that in CS and PL research these things are usually claimed left and right without any evidence. What the dataset can't say is how that translates to quality and productivity, as that would require a lot more than just commit messages. But at the same time it's something people already have some rough ideas about, like that people writing in low level rigid inexpressive languages are less productive than in high level flexible expressive languages.
And rail was several orders of magnitude more efficient at moving goods. The 'roads' were tracks made by repeated wagon traversal. Bumpy, muddy, rocky, eroded.
> Firefox has added support for the new JavaScript optional chaining operator (?.)

Cool! This sounds like something all programming languages should have had decades ago.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
We've been using CorporateValut[0] at the small non-tech company I'm employed at. Sadly it has not been updated in quite a while, has a few bugs, and uses flash (to implement copy-to-clipboard), but it is a straight-forward uncomplicated on-premise solution. I've considered writing a replacement but it's never been enough of a pain for us to bother allocating the time.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/corporatevault/
Same for me on iOS. Commented above. It’s also annoyingly slow.
Just wish these articles would address the amount of content and utility we get in exchange for our data (instead of our money) and speak to the trade-off. Until we find a better way to financially support all of the things we consume on the web, I'm not sure I see anything changing.
That is a serious concern, but is not an indication of panic.

I live in the third most populous country in world and there have been extremely few cases reported here, though that number is growing. Even still people here are hoarding toilet paper and hand sanitizer like there is a zombie apocalypse. There are already memes about black market back alley toilet paper at $10 per single roll.
Once your 2.5y old turns 3 or 4 you will understand what folks are talking about :-)
Shielding Mars is possible with current technology.

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...
HN is ycombinator, which are the people who helped make reddit happen. Is it really that big of a surprise they're doing stuff like this?
What about "accept cookies or pay" like some newspapers do? Is that okay?
Surely nuclear submarines must dump their heat into the surrounding water - it has to go somewhere?
>We need more people on HN to take a stand like this, downvotes be damned.

As the funding dries up the community will close ranks even more so. We are already getting to the point on this forum where anything not outwardly positive (not even "negative") said about certain subjects is instantly donwvoted. Being as how downvoting is something that requires 500 karma, these are not bots or spam accounts; they are veteran members, preventing balanced discourse from occurring ("slow down").
the money is not from other entities. it is literally made up based on a fraction of the reserves the bank holds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
Sure, but it's not as convenient as doing it automatically.
You are right the user experience is chunky and not self explanatory. But what you are trying to achieve is possible. Play with the settings a bit. I have it in a way that if I type a domain that is assigned to a container, it will ask me first if I want to open it in its default container or a different one.
Many browsers support some formats that are favorites of some vendor, but the new formats are not supported cross-browser, so the benefits of switching formats are reduced and the costs are raised -- in particular, one benefit of smaller files is reduced storage cost. If you have to support JPEG for legacy and then something else for Microsoft's format and something else for Google you are increasing your storage cost, encoding complexity, etc.

I looked at alternative image formats for a photo site I was working on and never convinced myself that the benefits of switching formats was worth the trouble.
He doesn't save anything for the trip back. But he gets back. Every time.
> and not solved already by dozens of other startups or even free software

That used to deter me as well. My line of thinking was: if the problem X is already solved by N companies, why should I launch yet another competitor? Now that I'm wiser, my answer is "because people are familiar with the problem, are already paying for the solution, which means there's a market for that". I can't stress the last point enough. The market that you choose to serve will determine most of your growth (some markets are harder to get into than others, though).

In essence, you swap an idea validation challenge with a sales and marketing challenge. If all you're looking for is building a small, independent, and sustainable business, I believe this is the most optimal approach to take.

For the context: I run a B2B SaaS in a competitive market.
Hmm. I have always considered low-gravity to be quite a big issue for any planetary colonization. Unless some cure is invented like a genetic mutation, it would seem that there is no way of coming back to Earth after spending a lifetime in eg 0.2 G.

This in mind I have always thought that Venus would make the best candidate in the solar system. With 0.9 G it would be as close as we could possible get to Earth yet however I have to admit, having no magnetosphere would be a giant pain in the ass. But since Venus already has a thick atmosphere, it would seem that after the required amount of gas has been removed, it would stay stable whereas in Mars you'd constantly have to offset the escaping gas. Possibly though that would not be an issue, since we are pretty great at the green-house gas generation.

But yeah, Mars would definitely be the easiest to terraform. But you wouldn't come back to Earth from there. And you'd mostly spend your life in bunkers underground to avoid getting beamed to death by the solar wind, same as with Venus. Unless we some day find a way to achieve immunity against it.
I wish Firefox had a good multi-account support like Chrome has. That, and the fact that iOS 14 might allow to set your default browser would make me move to use Firefox everywhere.