skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Forbes article, and the data it's based off isn't insightful unless we have something to compare. How much do citizens of other nations travel from region to region within their own country? What about beyond the countries that immediately border their own?

If the context is just America yes, you can make the assertion that your typical American doesn't, or can't travel as often as they'd like internationally. However in the context of this discussion I asserted that American's will notice a travel ban, because compared to the rest of the world they travel a lot.
Considering the phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs it's kind of hard to imagine people not despising them. I spend my days dreaming of what I could do to fight climate change but not (yet) being able to find ways to do what seems worthwhile just because I can't figure out how to make it cover expenses. How much more science, art, and simple joy could be produced if we were not forced to compete with one another for necessities? Some things produce natural competition (water in the desert) but we have so much damn wealth it's _absurd_ that anyone even fears that losing their job means homelessness.

Last year I bought a dirt cheap (sub-100k) house in the countryside with good internet because I don't _ever_ want my boss to have the power to take the roof over my kids' heads. I am not quite FIRE but it certainly helps.

"A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well—this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection, and of sociality as a whole."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
I did a small contract involving scrapping pr0n websites (top ~20). Most are using very similar back-end infrastructure (similar/same apis, storage structure, data formats), leading me to believe there might be maybe 3-4 owners and the rest is just branding/business siloing. Obvious one is the titan MindGeek and its pronhub tube8 youporn redtube xtube, but even smaller ones are run in this way like porntrex/shameless. Then there is user facing tech stack, with majority using https://videojs.com/ player, HLS
is very rare, pretty much >90% just serve mp4 files.
> a company cannot do much but pay the wages they demand. That is not a fair playing field. That is a cartel. Cartels are bad.

This would be true if there were no negotiations (there are.)

Or if workers were all paid the same (they aren't).

Workers have a cartel on wage just as much as a company has a cartel on jobs. Companies use their leverage (aka a cartel) on workers - so to combat it they organize.
The fun of an affected machismo and showing up your friends at the target range notwithstanding, there is such a thing as overkill, and there comes a point where it is economically silly to address varmint problems with higher-power, longer-range cartridges. A cartridge that will humanely drop an elk at 300 meters will, without question, ruin a coyote's day just as thoroughly. But why spend $2-$3 per shot when $0.50-$1 will do just as well?
Guess comp.lang.lisp has too many posts with (((code))) in them... ;)
For most people with >$100k across investment & savings accounts Bank of America Premium Rewards card is hard to beat. 2.62 Cashback on everything.
There were anti-mask leagues in 1918. I'm pretty sure those weren't funded by companies pushing facial tracking computers/services.
Counterpoint: does the average internet user want to download a new app or go visit a different website each time they want to get these updates?
Ah sorry, I didn't realize you meant that things were outright timing out, rather than just being slower than when not proxied. That seems like something went wrong. I don't think we have anti-bot measures that would cause API clients to time out. If anything they would get an error back or maybe get served a captcha or JavaScript challenge.
there's a tin foil hat that thinks that Bill Gates wants to forcibly vaccinate them with a nanoscale identification chip under the guise of a coronavirus vaccine

I don't know if that's really rising to the level of a tinfoil hat belief.

Bill Gates is very much interested in a COVID vaccine, as you'd expect given his prior work. The "nanoscale chip" thing comes from this research he funded:

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-invisible-quantum-dot-tattoo...

The idea is indeed to implant a vaccination record in the skin. It's not a chip and it seems they didn't decide yet what the record would actually contain, so the 'tracking' part that gets people worked up might not be valid depending on the precise details of how the tech is used. Done right it could be very cool, IMO.

As for forced vaccination, BillG seems to have gone back and forth on that one. Sometimes he talks about the importance of persuading people to take it. But the idea he wants to force people to take the vaccine comes from this part of an interview he gave:

“Here, we clearly need a vaccine that works in the upper age range because they’re most at risk of that,” Gates said. “And doing that so that you amp it up so it works in older people and yet you don’t have side effects … you know, if we have 1 in 10,000 side effects, that’s way more, 700,000 people who will suffer from that. So, really understanding the safety at gigantic scale across all age ranges — you know, pregnant, male, female, undernourished, existing comorbidities — it’s very, very hard. And that actual decision of, OK, let’s go and give this vaccine to the entire world — governments will have to be involved because there will be some risk and indemnification needed before that can be decided on.”

Note the last part, where he says that in order to "give this vaccine to the entire world", governments will "have to be involved" because it will create bad side effects (they will "suffer") in some hypothetically large number of people and therefore, there will need to be "indemnification".

It's very ambiguous here whether he's imagining governments will need to be involved merely to make vaccine manufacturers immune from lawsuits, or whether they need to be involved to push people into take it, as governments routinely do today.

At any rate, it's interesting you think this is a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. It's really not. Quantum dots tracking if you had a Gates Foundation funded COVID vaccine is something discussed in scientific journals.
1. Right now, we're not monetizing this at all. The current plan (which we haven't implemented yet) is card affiliate revenue. I can definitively rule out repackaging/selling spending data - we would never do that. Subscriptions would likely be the next best option if affiliate deals don't pan out.

2. Great idea!

3. Totally understand - we know it's a big ask to request your transaction history. Out of curiosity, what information could we provide would help you trust us more?

4. We do not.

5. Yes, this is the pain point we've heard repeatedly from our users. Since you mention you are a "miles & points enthusiast", I can see why the value prop of Trove might not be as compelling. Our goal is to help people get most of the same rewards as a credit card enthusiast would, without having to become an expert on this stuff.
I suspect you are a GPT-3 bot :)
Thanks for trying us out. Could you please email us at hello@savewithtrove.com from the email you signed up with?
Clockwork Mandarin:

Russian original:
https://les.media/articles/863622-zavodnoy-mandarin

Englisch translation:
https://bylinetimes.com/2019/11/18/beyond-orwells-worst-nigh...

German translation:
https://www.dekoder.org/de/article/uiguren-kasachen-china-xi...
> They made money, they invested it in better mapping technology.

That’s the part that is illegal and anticompetitive: they didn’t make money from Maps to reinvest to create a better product. Rather, they invested revenue from other different markets for which they are exceedingly dominant, to invest and operate Maps at a loss (I.e. free and no revenue sources.)

>Apple

Apple did not have anywhere near dominant market share of devices when Maps came out. Antitrust cases hinge on that point. This is also why Bing can get away with many of the same tactics that Google uses : because Bing has very low market share of search compared to Google.
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I'm not familiar with how you are using methanization in this context. Are you referring to deliberately pumping methane into the atmosphere?
Native speed.
If you look at how hacking is portrayed in various media, there is a massive amount of dramatization compared to the "real" thing; it's the same with guns.
Thanks, we put a lot of work into the landing page :)

The account registration is just so you can see your results again later. We appreciate the feedback though, in the future we may have a way to use this without having to enter in your email.
> World Games? Never heard of this. Olympic qualifying requirements?

It is apparently an Olympics for sports that do not yet make the cut for the Olympics. Thus the rather specific qualifying requirements.
I wonder how much the possible magnet strength affects the design of a tokamak. There are very clear limits on the field strength you can achieve with classical superconductors, and I know e.g. in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance those limits had been almost hit maybe a decade ago or so. But very recently spectrometers based on new high-temperature superconductors have been delivered, so the technology seems to be far enough for actual production use now. I'm not sure how big the possible increase in field strength will be. Right now it's 23.5 Tesla for the largest NMR spectrometer with conventional superconductors compared to 28 Tesla for the new ones with high-temperature superconductors (actually it's a hybrid with high-temperature superconductors on the inside, and conventional ones on the outside), but I suspect there is more room with the new ones for higher fields.

It would be interesting whether the availability of better superconductors would change the design of a fusion reactor much, and allow significantly smaller ones.
> Explain to me what language has to do with the great firewall.

This is too obvious to explain. The language is spoken by 1.5 billion people who are behind the firewall and why would i have to create a content in that language when i have the option to create the content in English which most democratic country population is literate of.
Dude, 1% of sales is absolutely massive, especially as Walmart's profit margin (I assume), isn't the fattest.
I'm really torn with WSL. WSL1 has far superior performance when performing I/O tasks on the mounted Windows drives, but slower than WSL2 locally. WSL2 is unbearably slow when performing I/O on the mounted Windows, using vim with a git pluggin or FZF is crippling. So I attempted to just use WSL2+vim on the linux local file system, but then when I try to run Windows npm scripts in a folder UNC paths cannot be understood by CMD.exe. It is the only thing preventing me from fully switching over.
Great question! Time series databases are a great solution for applications that need to process streams of data. IoT is a popular use case. DevOps and infrastructure monitoring applications as well. As has been mentioned in other comments here, there are a lot of use cases in financial services as well.

These are all applications where you’re dealing with streams of time-stamped data that needs to be ingested, stored, and queried in huge volumes.
.223 is actual legal for hunting deer in most states. Many of the ones where you can't use it simply don't don't allow rifles at all.
We can prefer a world world without labels, but we have to live in this one. Ripping off the label someone else applied to make room for self-definition is a way to deal with reality.
Make it an iPad app, I'll buy it.
I have two children ️
>> the last six months are a galvanizing moment for Americans on the order of Meji era Japan.

Or how about Sputnik? Or the Great Depression, Civil War, etc. I like to think that the US has changed course when a course change was required. It often takes a crisis to trigger it.
That is totally not correct. I thought I was an anomaly until I heard a podcast by the Breathe author. I've noticed it for years, but I always attributed it to allergies (I attribute everything anomalous to them, because they are such a huge influence in my life).

What is totally confusing is what causes the flip from one nostril to another. I have no idea what the mechanism is.
Why not let me fill out a form that says I spend x on food, y on travel, z on gas, and optimize my results for a combo of up to two-three cards, without having an account?

Even as a demo of how it works and the interface. Then if people want to automate that part, they can make an account and feed their bank data over.

You should also look into the features apps like MAXIVU have. I tell it all the credit cards I have, then if I cant remember my rewards, I can check what card I should use at what store.
Me too. I still don’t understand why it was killed.
Just learned a lot about the different hosted ML options, thanks for the write-up with backing data. How much did this cost you overall?
Not sure if you’re serious or just a Google Simp (maybe they’ll see this and give you a job someday.)

TripAdvisor, Expedia, Kayak...hell even the specific airlines will give me better deals if they know I’m a regular customer and/or cardholder.
Thanks for clarifying. Might be worth shooting them a message to ask for this feature. They've always been good about fixing bugs and at least responding to requests, even if they decide not to pursue it.
That's a smart thought, I haven't had!

Could be testable by turning the stopwatch on and then change the time. I have no idea how these clocks work; if they have a Unix time style counter as internal reference, then this test won't work. Would need a 36 bit memory to run for 20 years continuous counting; 30 billion times bit flipping on the lowest bit. Probably done differently.
It's defense in depth.

Everyone introduces a cache (aka eventual consistency) at some point. Everyone ships a bug here and there. Everyone messes up a rollout eventually.

Just like you should have backups even if you never intend to DROP TABLE *, you should also be confident that the invariants you design your system around are actually enforced.
Thanks, @roskilli! Nice documentation.
that's so, but the legend is "lee and perrins were told to recreate a thing that the governor of bengal's wife had liked when they were in india, thought they failed, let it ferment, then claimed victory", which isn't quite Thailand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce#History
Yup, I tried this too, and it works (for me at least)!
How China uses artificial intelligence to commit genocide
Poor word choice. You're correct.
I'm also a fusion power fanboy but

>nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone

This is just not true, there's no way you can say this. Solar costs are going down massively. Hydro is dirt cheap already. So renewables can absolutely be part of an energetic transition in the near future, while fusion is at best many decades away. So while I think fusion energy has the potential to transform energy generation, and by extent everything about our life, it's wrong to assume renewables aren't probably our safest bet in the near future.

Also there's something amusing about "Here's my sure assessment. Anyway I checked the wiki page on fusion power and".
There's a great book called Bird Therapy - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43804073-bird-therapy - where the author talks about how birdwatching helped enormously with his mental health. He talks briefly at one point about two runners who "birdwatch" while running, and who find the same kind of meditative peace that he does from a long walk with birdwatching points along the way. I've only just started trail running, but I find the mix of nature and running definitely multiplies the benefits of exercise and meditation rather than just adding together. (That is, if there aren't too many people around - I live in a relatively crowded part of the country unfortunately, so despite being surrounded by lovely countryside there are often quite a few people about!)
> There's plenty of oil, gas, and coal out there still.

I was under the impression we only had ~100 years worth of oil left, just that its not talked about because climate is more pressing and normal ecconomic pressures will fix the problem if we run out of supply. Is that wrong?
I certainly will. Cheers
This video covers how you can make garum using a modernized version of a surviving recipe from the Geoponica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7Bb0Qg-oE
> Should I expect the Librem 5 developers to be able to achieve the same thing before they ship Evergreen?

It's unlikely it'll get as good as Samsung or Apple by that time but it should definitely improve. Unless they made some critical mistake in the hardware, they can make continuous improvements in the software.

It's no surprise that this is one of the last things they're focusing on. Idle power management on modern operating systems is hard and is very kernel and hardware specific because kernel interrupt and process scheduling comes into play. Hence why Apple is so good at battery life - they have such unilateral control over the hardware and software stack that they can make optimizations that Linux/Windows/Android really struggle with.
Fuck PayPal SDK, Developer Support and all their business
I liked your example of scientists from history. One of the things I'm minorly obsessed with is the idea that we've gotten better at science itself recently. So not only did they not know they weren't eliminating the proper variables, they had fewer techniques to know which variables to eliminate. This is similar to the application of statistics. We're just now realizing issues with publication bias and how to properly due meta-analysis that can help identify those problems. Think about not knowing how to apply even simple statistics to science.
The placebo effect is magnified by spending one's own cash on the treatment.
Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation on Pandemic
It's a reasonably well established principle of psychology (real science, not pop-sci) that a surprising amount of what you perceive to be your emotional state is mediated through your body. That is, you experience a stressor, so the "low level" portions of your brain activate bodily reactions to that stress, and what your high-level brain perceives as stress is actually the bodily reaction rather than the original stressor. Exerting such control as you can on your body (since it is non-zero, but not total either) is a legitimate way to control your (perceived) emotional state, which then feeds back into the entire system.

(This also factors in to how hard it is for some people to figure out why they are stressed; the part of the brain trying to work that out isn't necessarily as connected to the stressor as you might intuitively think.)

I've been having some low-level morning sleep paralysis lately (it has come and gone my entire life, & it has never been remotely as bad as I've heard some people describe); recently I've discovered an easy way out of it is to just hold my breath (or really, just stop inhaling), which triggers just enough stress to break through the paralysis. YMMV.
The physicists in the article are trying to predict the behavior of Earth, by modeling it as a simple forest, and then adding some secondary terms to account for technology with the potential to improve humanity's access to energy. https://xkcd.com/793/
You can add domain-specific validations that are hard or impossible to capture with database constraints.

For example, I built similar tool that you could write simple rules to validate product data. This would run every night and generate a report for the data quality team. One of the advantages was that you could decide have stricter requirements and then choose if they only applied to new products, or if the team had to go back and fix all the old products too.

Some rules I remember:

- Validating min-length, max-length, and casing of product names. Spell checking words founds.

- Verifying product images existed and where the right dimensions, below a certain file size, etc.

- Making sure that certain product categories had dimensions, and that the metric/imperial conversions were rounded in the industry-norm way (e.g. 3 3/4" was 96mm)

- Making sure that pricing/margins made sense on a vendor/product category level, to try to catch typos like $1 or $1000.

The thing I found handy was to add new rules when problems occurred that fixed historical issues.
It's a bit odd to me that you seem to deem fusion power realistic, while discounting other ways of generating and storing power that are basically available already.

Power from renewables can be stored for the long term as hydrogen. That's well understood technology, scaling up is an engineering problem. When the sun shines and the wind blows, solar and onshore wind are the cheapest ways to make electricity, so there's a huge economic incentive to solving the storage issue.
take a look at AMP for emails...

https://amp.dev/about/email/
That you are wrong about small pieces of this is what makes your comments interesting. :)

I take your broader point that it's unproductive to pin the productivity concerns of the public sector on Republicans; especially in state government, I probably agree with you in sort of assigning good governance and management to the GOP, and expanding public employment and benefit rolls to Democrats.

But, like, I think you'll have a hard time making the argument that run amok policing isn't at least somewhat attributable to Republican voters. It's not "sabotage", in the mostly-mythical Grover Norquist sense, but it's a public policy mistake they mostly own.
Wonder what people will think in a hundred years when they read that everyone believed the universe was made up almost entirely of invisible and intangible matter? It'll be some future generation's flat earth joke.
SLOC the Web
The CA-53W doesn't have it.
The US has a lot of issues that are not the norm for wealthy, developed countries. Some ways of talking about that are more socially acceptable and/or more effective than others.

It's generally not acceptable to say things like "The third world country of America." Most people don't have much sympathy for poor Americans.

But travel restrictions are an issue that will mostly impact well-heeled Americans. So I see this title as code for "Your country is so in the toilet, it's actually starting to hurt the rich people, you fools! Maybe you should finally bother to do something about it!"

It's not PC and not socially acceptable to express ideas like that more baldly. It's much more acceptable to post articles like this one that say the same thing more implicitly about topics people with money might actually personally care about.
> Trove is just a passion project right now.

I left here as well
https://youtu.be/p1av5fG7sOA?t=3031
This is more ancient that many know. Breathing has a direct impact on the body and the mind.
I kind of agree with you, but also disagree somewhat. I think these statements are aspirational in that they reflect Twitter's general principles. But when the rubber hits the road, there are practical limits and exceptions that you make to preserve what you perceive as the greater good and to make sure that the potential harms that come with unrestrained freedom don't outweigh the benefits. I don't think Twitter wants their principles to constitute a suicide pact.
> If anyone here is experimenting with breathing, it is better to stop while there is still time.

Stop experimenting or stop breathing?
I understand you've been offered options at some point, right?