skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes my mistake with the math. You can live with that if you live with your parents and dont pay rent.
India Bans Chinese Apps, the App Store Firewall, Reddit and the Donald
I was thinking of Roman moneylenders like Seneca as I wrote that. But they didn't lend money for "means of production" like steam engines etc. Everything was all slave power. But even if we allow Rome as capitalism (which I don't agree with, but fine) it still disappeared (again, at scale) for a millennium or two afterwards.
Hard Disk Hacking (2013)
>I'm not aware of any 16MB/s products (16MB/s = 128Mbps or maybe you just meant 16Mbps) but Lewisham, which you gave as an example, has VDSL available at all the consumer nodes, so unless you lived in the £5M penthouse of some mixed use building in Docklands you could have bought faster networking you just didn't.

Incorrect, BT could charge me more but by their own admission they would not be able to deliver the speed.

- FWIW this was eventually resolved in Bromley-by-Bow because the fibre laid by telecity for the olympics was sold to Hyperoptic.
I didn't "take casual pot-shots", I found it interesting that they didn't discriminate against offensive stuff. I'd not want them to, but I expected them to. Have the decency to understand what the other may have been trying to say first, as not all of us are native English speakers. I don't have a problem with that poor person, I have a problem with the idea, yes, but that's irrelevant to this discussion.
Of course the battery sucks. But it’s easy to find a new battery if I cared. Also it’s extremely heavy. Before I retired it early this year. It was a computer that sat next to my work computer to do personal things on - Office 365, Chrome, etc.

It was the company laptop until 2012. The company folded and they sold everything really cheaply.

It could transcode one or two 720p streams simultaneously Witt Plex.
I mean, maybe that is a sign that Twitter should be cancelled.
We know because the most common comment on anything done by any non-American place that is superior to an American place is to remind us that the achieving place is: more diverse, less diverse, larger, smaller, denser, sparser, more homogeneous, more heterogeneous, or whatever.

Fortunately, the reason I love America (the real culture of aggressive exploitation of gaps and inefficiencies) is alive and well in the real world as much as the culture of excuse-making is alive on the Internet.

In time, I wonder if Americans will split into categories of low-agency online commenters who believe that the greatest factors are environmental and high-agency real-life operatives who believe the greatest factors are things they can control.
Interesting but given the low total execution time, the majority of time in the numpy implementation is going to be spent initializing CPython.

I think if this were on the order of minutes/hours you would see numpy outperform.
Tourists tend to mingle as much or more as normal people do, that may be a mistaken assumption, they also tend to get around a lot.

That new test regime + quarantine makes more sense though.
Even if we assume that the production capacity will continuously increases at the predicted rate, think you missed the part where that was just the US's storage requirements. Global electricity consumption annually was 22.3 PWh in 2017, yielding 61TWh per day. And while battery production increases, so too does electricity demand. Even if we assume that battery production increases to 1TWh-2TWh per year by 2030 as per your link we're still taking about decades to achieve even 1/4th of the current (not 2030) daily electricity consumption even if 100% of battery production was dedicated to grid storage. And that's not possible because grid storage is going to be competing with electric vehicles and electronics. And again, by 2030 were going to be using more electricity than we are currently. The necessary capacity is increasing exponentially. Pointing out that battery production is predicted to increase doesn't alter the fact that the scale required is massive.

And this all this is ignoring the fact that batteries lose half their capacity after 300-500 cycles. Even if we're generous and say 1000 cycles that's still just 3 years for diurnal use (daily charge and discharge cycles).

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> I didn't miss that. Why do you think global manufacturing capacity will stop when it reaches what the US needs, and not expand to satisfy the global market? You think the manufactures are going to leave sales and profits on the table for no good reason

I can ask you the same thing: why do you think that global battery manufacturing capacity is unlimited? What makes you think that we'll have an unlimited supply of raw materials? The prevalence of metal deposits does not respond to the market. Increasing prices of lithium will make more people search for lithium deposits, but there's a finite number of said deposits.

And again, the projected increases in in battery production due to increased demand bring down the time to create enough capacity from a matter of centuries to a matter of decades. For batteries that last a few years if cycled daily.

> It also seems reasonable to expect at least one significant breakthrough in battery technology over the next 10-30 years, given how important a problem it is, and how many promising approaches there are already.

So our approach is to keep our fingers crossed and hope for a technological breakthrough. If that's the case we might as well just hope for fusion to work.

But most of us would prefer a solution that we know works rather than bet on the possibility of breakthrough. And right now the only two known means of generating most of a country's power from a carbon free energy source is through hydroelectricity and nuclear power.
> I feel uninterested in R-nought (or R) when there is evidence for a huge variance around how many people each person will infect.

Epidemics are by definition aggregate effects. They're defined by statistical models at all levels. Everyone involved understands that there is variance in individual cases. That's literally the whole point of the field inventing terms like R0!

I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say here. It sounds suspiciously like "I don't understand statistics so I refuse to believe in any models that use them."
I don't think you should give them feedback directly, instead post it to glass door where all the people who do care will look. And it helps me out :D
Honestly it sounds like a terrible company to work at with a CEO that demands the respect of his staff rather than doing anything to earn it.

In what way you would think this is a good example is confusing? His staff seem to be openly mocking his response by forwarding his emails to the press.
Covid-19 is close to losing its epidemic status in the U.S. according to the CDC
It wouldn’t be the only one. Review his archived papers and they’re well salted with snark.
I’m in a heterogeneous setup so it’s a mix of dkms, Linux kernel built-in, and the go userspace daemon depending on OS/Vendor.

For Linux with kernel module, I’ve had the best luck using Arch and dkms.
> This is repeated a lot but if you actually look at the research you find that physical exercise has very little effect(except maybe as a preventative).

This baseless assertion is simply outright wrong, and utterly absurd on so many levels.

* https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7326/0003-4819-133-2-...

* https://www.nature.com/articles/0800499

Please don't spread misinformation.
Apologising to people who would consider it an acceptable political outcome if you lost your job and killed yourself tends to embolden those partifluar people.

Appeasing bullies doesn't work. They want to see you squirm and beg, because it's fun make someone grovel before you. The object-level discussion is secondary.

Some people call this dichotomy good and bad faith, right?
We ought to have a vaccination long before five years, but who knows? We are learning as we go on this one.
This is an absurdly loaded response. I never said anything about America being great. I live in London. I was just making a point for a largely American readership which has a tendency to presume the rest of the world is far better (as you do) without having actually experienced anything else but the US.

There are many small cities in the US fairing very well, just as there are here in the UK. But you’d never read about them because they aren’t sovereign nations.

Sweden is a great example of this. Typically held up by Americans as some sort of utopia, until they became the poster child for cavalier covid handling. Now people just move on and pick some other new comparison.
If you're using distribution packages for WireGuard (whether they're in the official repos or not), they should be rebuilt with each kernel upgrade and so you shouldn't be having any issues with stability. But yes, if you upgrade to a kernel where WireGuard is part of the main kernel package (even if it's backported by your distribution) then you wouldn't have those issues either.
Well, if you have someone determined to go after someone else, the most nuanced approach is not going to get you much. The attacker just rephrases it as they wish.

Which is to say, when you have a medium like Twitter, where the entire world can march in and get involved with conversation X, a proposal for de-escalation seems futile and a bit absurd. Among other things, a lot of media personalities have built their engagement by not letting go of opportunities for kicking whoever when they are down - giving this up would literally cost them money.

It seems like plans for de-escalation would do much better in situations where the participants are actually building a community, a group sharing values, a part of a reasonable forum/medium, not a stand-alone thing.
I think glass door provides the best feedback loop because it gives me an idea of what I'm getting into when I apply.
Made one a few times ago, it was a lot of fun to do. Not really up to date but still fun. Shameless plug : https://elkael.com
Restoration is a consequence. But additionally, I don't think anyone should be morally obliged to befriend someone who did something against their moral code. For example, if I had a friend who I understood to have committed CSA there is no timeline of which I would be okay with continuing to be their friend.
> I feel uninterested in R-nought (or R) when there is evidence for a huge variance around how many people each person will infect.

The USA literally, literally did the opposite. We tried, in the initial outbreak, in a few areas, to reduce infections to a manageable steady state. It worked.

Then most of the country threw those rules out the window and engaged in some combination of "opening up", relaxed enforcement, and what amounts to a straight up propaganda effort by much of the executive branch and the largest TV news network to convince people that no containment effort was needed.

And.... here we are. Covid is controlled pretty much every except in the USA right now. Our outbreak is as bad as it's ever been.
Funny how I get bunches of downvotes on this account but never on other accounts. Time to switch.
An interesting quirk of the US education system is that Latin is the only place most children ever learn formal grammar -- I never learned anything about subjunctives, the accusative case, intransitive verbs or the like in an English class.

To be honest, I probably would have been fine without it (like the vast majority of US students who don't learn Latin). But it was certainly an interesting insight into English grammar structure in a way I would have missed otherwise.
A set of measuring cups and a digital kitchen scale probably cost about the same.

Just checked this with a quick search on Amazon -- most results are in the $15-20 range, with some available for $10 or less.

(I dare say there are probably very cheap measuring cups available, and for a scale you’ll have to fork out occasionally for batteries, if you want to split hairs.)
I didn't miss that. Why do you think global manufacturing capacity will stop when it reaches what the US needs, and not expand to satisfy the global market? You think the manufactures are going to leave sales and profits on the table for no good reason?

The growth in production is being controlled by the growth in the market. New factories can be added at very high rate if needed. You are treating the manufacturing capacity as some exogenous constraint rather than something that can be changed along with everything else.

To respond to your response: a universal aspect of mineral depletion arguments is that estimates are too low. Demand create supply as people are encouraged to go look for more, and to develop new ways to extract materials.

Consider that natural gas used to be though of as rare and limited, so much so that its use for power production was outlawed in the US!
As a father, a husband, a former soldier and an American, this brings a tear to my eye.
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” - Lincoln

As an American I feel we are bound not by our failures of past morality, but are need to fix the. I wish everyone understood this.
Agree. They could probably just have people walk around with blowers to blow the sand off.
Worth noting that the budget for "Gaelic" is part of education, ie 24m or so is spent on standard schooling which happens to be done in Gaelic
> these "side effects" are real. Yet somehow completely unaddressed.

How are they completely unaddressed? The varying state responses and reopening strategies show that they are being addressed, just with different priorities. Some states have heavily favored shutdowns to minimize the direct impact, while others have weighed the second order effects as more critical and pushed to reopen more aggressively.
No longer a Microsoft MVP. 2nd verse
I don't think there's any harm in having an internal all-hands where labor and management can discuss how a company can forward social aims. Having a ban hammer come down like this gives the impression the company doesn't care about employees, and while that may be the truth for many more companies, it's never the impression you want to set. Have a chat, blow off some steam (people are stressed about other stuff too), then keep working.

For one, I really like Netflix's commitment to keep $100M in black-owned banks, so they can farm out loans to under-represented communities. Progress is a state of mind, but I think that one move has the potential for a lot of materially positive change.
> when they were (practically all) temporarily lifted for political reasons, the world did not stop turning and neither did any systems collapse.

I've checked, there's no point:

It "worked"... but only for a short time! Now the number of reported deaths per day reached the highest since the start of epidemics.

And before that short time of "everything's open", the measures enforced were among the strongest applied in Europe.

So the whole episode doesn't prove anything. Yes, after the extremely strong lockdown a small country can pretend for a month or so that "everything's fine" and that is totally unsurprising: look at the shape of all exponential functions: the start always appears so close to the x axis. Only later the exponential property of the curve becomes obvious, especially knowing that a person infected today won't be immediately sick and even less dead -- it takes time. And the spread continues during the time most have no or mild symptoms. Big countries can do all that even longer before the problems can't be hidden. But sooner or later the need for new hospitals for newly infected patients becomes obvious, which is exactly what can be seen now.

No country is going to bluff its way out of this pandemics. More than one tried.

My favorite country is Vietnam: they still have zero deaths in a country with 100 million inhabitants. Maybe other countries should check what they are doing? Also, Taiwan has only 7 deaths up to now, having 23 million inhabitants. Thailand has only 58 deaths, with 70 million living there. These three countries have together 200 million living there and still less than 100 reported deaths.

Taiwan banned the export of surgical masks and lifted it only a few days ago, and produced even 20 million masks per day(!) for its own needs:

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3959712

Think about it: it produced a new mask for every its citizen every day.

Taiwan had around 20 cases total and exactly one death in the last two months.
I've lived in London, Mumbai, San Francisco, and many American cities.

Your original comment is nothing more than the standard "Correlation is not causation" comment of these stories. It's exceedingly low information content and ever-present.
My favorite shared tk example: http://tkfp.sourceforge.net/images/progress_notes3.jpg
> In git in comparison, it is for example much easier to find the parents of a commit than its children.

Sure, but both are really cheap.
The fact that every infinite sequence of points in a compact metric space has a cluster point is sort of like the pigeonhole principle. The grandparent comment in my opinion makes much more sense if the phrase "a compactness for metric spaces" is replaced by "sequential compactness for metric spaces".
I think at the same time there are circumstances in which the acceptable outcome is indeed a loss of job. (And to some moral codes, a loss of life- see advocates for the death penalty.)

EG. A Manager who pressured people into sexual favors for promotions should lose the job of being a manager.
The color of your skin doesn’t make you a better engineer. But a community that excludes a portion of the population does limit the number of great engineers to draw from. Diversity helps improve the community and create a world where people who’d make excellent engineers aren’t pushed away.
The visualizer comes from https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn glad you like it!
Looks like they're borrowed.

https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
Show HN: FAANG Compensation Calculators
Glad you like it! The code’s all on GitHub if you want to take a look: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
I can’t imagine what this implies then about a comment pointing out how common such comments are. Negative value?
Horrific to be charged that much for a tent visit :(
In my experience most professional software engineers don't actually code much in their free time. I feel like that's something that you do more when you're starting out (esp. if you're self-taught and need to build your resume), but as one gets older their priorities tend to shift towards building a family, pursuing other hobbies, etc. It's really tough to spend 8 hours/day at a job coding, and then spend your free time afterwards coding again.
This is implicitly what you are celebrating if you choose to worship the Independence Day.
For the benefit of any who may not know the reference:
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_danegeld.htm
I think there is a disconnect between people in different communities because reasonable people naturally avoid the places where extremists congregate, so you only encounter them if you either venture into their den (which reasonable people rarely have any incentive to do) or you become one of their targets. If neither of those describes you, you may scarcely be aware of their existence.

This also explains why both sides commonly feel victimized. Each only sees reasonable people on their side and not vicious extremists because they don't hang out with the vicious extremists and the extremists on their side are out victimizing the other side and not them. But they can see the extremists on the other side when they come to attack.
I started off using tinc before wireguard existed, and now use both. Tinc provides a guaranteed full connectivity graph with indirect routing, nat punching, and local subnet discovery as needed. Wireguard is much more performant (eg it can be used to secure nfs without kerberos). Eventually someone will write a daemon for wireguard that provides tinc's features, but until then they are complimentary. I use wireguard between routers to carry full subnets, and tinc is setup on individual hosts to provide fallback access.
What a great way to preserve old UIs that one would rarely experience by other ways :)
This is one key comment that fundamentally differentiates software/hardware from biotech: "Overall the power of recombinant technology and its rapid growth in the 1970s/1990s didn’t necessarily translate into success for new technologies." Powerful abstractions and pervasive feedback loops across the hardware and software stack is what fundamentally enabled rapid innovation in tech; those same ideas haven't developed even close to the same degree in the biotech space.
Rice cookers are also covered vessels (though they have a small vent), so even if you are cooking rice on the stove evaporation would have a similar impact.

One way to check might be to try to cook the same mass of water as though it were rice and see how much water you've lost through evaporation. 250mL (1 cup) of water really isn't that much liquid to lose in ~20 minutes during cooking -- if you've cooked soups before you may recall that uncovered soups will lose far more than 1 cup of liquid in ~20 minutes.
Oh my gosh I so much want this for our own internal GitLab instance!!!!
The earth is still flat, the moon landing never happened, Darwin denied evolution.

What I mean is, when a thing is said, a recant usually doesn’t matter. Even if the recant is from a subject matter expert.

(Not debating truths of the above examples, they’re just examples)
Rocket Lab’s 13th launch ends in failure after problem mid-flight
I don't see how the stance that you should never admit a mistake after a mob dog pile means the feature described here would never work. There are plenty of cases where people just straight up make real mistakes and don't feel pressured to apologize out of desire to appease the mob but rather simply have aggregated additional input, and reassessed their original statement in light of new information, and decided it needs correction.
These are all choices we're making as a state aside from lockdown. Poverty and financial distress are a result of choosing not to preserve incomes (or protect those who didn't have incomes) during lockdown.

Our economy was precarious before covid, and we were granted the perfect excuse to juice the economy. Congress held back (although we did far better than what was done after 2008) and spent more on crony giveaways than high-multiplier direct payments to individuals. The replacement that we did for incomes kept people in quarantine.

Servicing people in quarantine was also an excellent opportunity to expand employment by the state that mostly wasn't taken, except by Amazon and big box stores.

And the roadwork we could have gotten done. That one really annoys me. Outdoor jobs without close contact should have been ramped up. We had perfect weather for it in the US.

A real quarantine would have been legitimately over by now in 99% of the country. I've even read that cities who were good at quarantine didn't even see much of a rise in cases due to the Floyd protests (based on positive test rates in people who said they protested) while places that had looser rules are seeing a bump from the protests. To me, that means that places that instituted complete quarantines were pretty much out of the woods a month ago.
Gaelic speakers actually tend to have very clear accents in English (in comparison to typical Glaswegians), possibly because many of them learned English as a second language in school.
It's a separate thing really, the English accents in the western isles are completely, totally different than the one you're thinking of. It is itself unintelligible to many people from Glasgow :)
I wonder how much of the 1L evaporates.