skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked into it a little more. It switches into night mode when it gets dark out (or they pushed an update), and the performance is much better. My subjective impression was that it was usually getting a decent framerate when panning, but with some stuttering. I took a profile of it in Chrome, and that's what's going on. A lot of the time, it will run at 120-130Hz, but drop down to 50Hz for no real reason. (They sleep a bit between frames, they aren't just maxing out the CPU. Probably tested on a 60Hz monitor, and they don't play enough games to be able to pick out the drops to 50Hz. And I guess they didn't use the profiler, or look at the fps profile that's provided.)

They are doing some weird things. The Javascript console is littered with CORS warnings -- for making a cross-origin request to example.com every time a map tile needs to be loaded. That is probably an accident. They also seem to make HTTP requests for the map tiles whenever they enter the screen; they appears to be no caching whatsoever. (Maybe that's the right approach. The tiles do end up being served from the browser's cache. The network inspector claims they take about 1ms to load, which is probably slower than a lookup in a data structure in the Javascript program... but I didn't test it and I don't really trust that a "1ms" in there means "we timed it and it was exactly 1ms". It probably means "0 < time < 1", which could be anything.) Finally, they are serving this all out of what appears to be Azure blob storage; it's HTTP/1.1 so I guess we are opening a new TCP connection each time a tile needs to be loaded.

My TL;DR is I don't really do frontend stuff or performance stuff, but the site seemed especially slow. I bet they could clean it up in a few hours, so probably will.
That is a whole lot of energy being used on an underlying issue of nation states conveying benefits to people that support each other and tying that to a religious concept of the same name called marriage.

Decoupling those concepts removes the whole debate.

The reasons for the state incentivizing men and women getting married are gone or at least no longer prerequisites. So since we like the financial benefits, even though the reasons are gone, just expand the state-sponsored concept to any combination of humans that want them. Any opposition is clearly religious people viewing their government as an extension of their religion, or just completely conflating the concepts that coincidentally have the same name, and they out themselves making it easy to ignore.
It's very likely I'm out of touch but from everyone and everything I see this is definitely an American thing. More than half the country is on some type of Apple device
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
The key issue (pun intended) with normal keyboard is that you use your weakest fingers for ALL of your modifier keys. By shifting that responsibility to your thumbs you greatly reduce your little fingers’ workload (and hence chance of CTS)
I am not, do you consider legal wiretaps bad?
Is this a postlight creation? Heard them talking about something with the MTA on their podcast.
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I've been using and building computers for 20 years. Every time I have to use a windows machine I give up. Every year they redesign it (how many different settings panels are there now?). Usability is terrible. There's no consistency with anything except with how inconsistent everything is.
You can go deeper, but in most regions you'll be into impermeable rock by the time you get usable temperatures. You need the rock to be permeable so brine can flow from your injection site to the extraction well.

Companies like Eavor claim a closed loop in impermeable rock will work, but then you're limited by the thermal conductivity of the rock around your pipe. You can only pull out as much heat as can flow through the rock around the pipe. Our simulations on Eavor's system showed they would work for about a couple months before they started dropping off.

Fracking seems like a more promising avenue, and it might work. A ton of political challenges there though.
If you want a laxative, go for it, independent of a colonoscopy.
FYI - not sure if this is your website, but when I press escape I'm taken to a Squarespace admin login page
This is done by some publications and many funders. Of course that models fits certain types of research better than others.
Hey Charlie, just wanted to thank you for posting such a vulnerable and funny memoir. I'm so glad everything is okay!
More info, including download links: http://ma-la.com/tsugite.html

GitHub: https://github.com/marialarsson/tsugite
Call to arms: Sweden raises defense spending by 40% in 5 years
What does this mean for Signal?
Thanks for that I really appreciate it
They mention in the article that a live map of the trains themselves is minor and more of an afterthought.

The main purpose is to show live updated route information.
I’m not sure I agree. If I chose to build an impenetrable fortress in which to live, and the police wanted to stealthily bug it, they’d have to figure out how to do it, and if they couldn’t get in, tough shit. Or they’d have to ask me nicely or someone else to give them what they wanted.

Furthermore, I don’t think they could really require my hypothetical fortress builder to intentionally build in weaknesses into each fortress they built so that they could get in “just in case”.
isn't that already the status quo? Most governments I'm aware of have the right to engage in surveillance of individual homes, albeit with strong requirements. But all guarantees you have right now that no intelligence is bugging your home is the promise (and legal protection) that they don't do it arbitrarily.
Not sure if your "never" statement is true, but it seems that more frequently than size, it's density or lack of it that makes the difference
FWIW, Switzerland has a higher GDP per capita at $82k as compared to $62k for the U.S. Swiss per capita defense expenditures are closer to ~1/4 (28%) of those of the U.S. as compared to ~1/5 (21%) when judging by GDP percentage. (Conversely, France and U.K. have GDPs of about $42k, so they compare much worse by that metric.)

But more importantly, Switzerland isn't a NATO member.
I have millionaire asshole neighbors who drive their firraris at 50mph through my 15mph street. Their kids leave their litter on the street where they drink & do drugs.

Not being an asshole does not take effort, it takes basic respect.
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Biggest thing for me was the IV needle. Little versed cleared that all up.
> This is also why fiber lines should be owned by cities and leased to ISPs.

In Vietnam, even in smaller cities, there are at least three different ISPs with citywide GPON FTTH. The fact that they weren’t forced to share a government lowest-common-denominator physical layer means that we are now seeing some competition around improvements to that physical layer, with one ISP offering much faster speeds made possible by incrementally improving their physical network. The others will be encouraged by competitive pressure to do the same, or maybe even do better.
the bowel prep is easy and painless

Bullshit. I've got Crohn's, and have had more colonoscopies than I can count since age 13. About 75% of the time, I'm throwing up due to the prep. The prep is the WORST part.

It has gotten better over the years. If you go for one, do NOT let them give you the jug full of powder. I've had much better luck with prep-o-pik.

The other PITA is they generally won't let you go for the procedure by yourself, since you're under anesthetic and don't trust you to get home OK. That means you have to find a friend who is willing to wait 2+ hours for you.
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It seems like a natural pivot for Alberta, and we spent a lot of sweat trying to convince the government that it was good for drillers. Good for pipefitters and welders and millwrights too. No dice though, if anything I'd say the government actively sabotaged our company (retracted a $7m grant from the previous administration, for example). Just too green for them.

There is a lot of talent available, and one of the drilling companies (Beaver Drilling) has made themselves the spokesman for the geothermal industry. That's what got things moving with at least the government paying lip service to the industry. I left just as Beaver was stepping in, though.

As for costs: so many of the drilling costs are fixed - material costs for casing, consumables like drill bits and drilling slurry. Labor might be down but it's still several million dollars per hole.
Does this sort of thing show up on an MRI? (nerve inflammation/mobility)
What a colossal waste of money on a lazy, uninspired, and half-assed concept. Always so frustrating to see hundreds of millions blown on nonsense like this when there are truly innovative startups that would do so much more with that money.
Yes, extraction can easily exceed renewal rates. Good resource management is key to longevity.
It's not just 'shitty' science -- it's good ideas that didn't pan out, which also get repackaged as 'breakthroughs.' You can propose a good experiment on a relevant/interesting topic, execute on it well, and still get results that aren't sexy -- that's not failure, it's life.

Unfortunately, you can't get published in high-profile journals unless your results are sexy, but you need to do that if you want to keep getting funded. So, instead of just publishing honestly, you find some way to 'spin' your research.

For instance, a paper on perovskite solar cells might claim that they have the best-in-class efficiency of any inorganic perovskite cell, but you have to buy the paper to find out that they sacrificed longevity to do it -- it only lasts 20hrs. Meanwhile, mixed organic/inorganic perovskites have even better efficiency AND better lifetimes simultaneously -- but the article can still claim a breakthrough b/c they qualified their claim with "of any inorganic cell." Why is that relevant? It probably isn't.
Yeah, I got excited about it because of an HN post and jumped in for the "It's just like the Raspberry Pi but more!"

For all my disappointment, it has served as a useful lesson on early-adoption and expectation management. =) So I'm not regretful, just cautious.
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Unfortunately this webinar is at my 4AM. I have a question about the drive data here - I've downloaded the Q3 data and it looks like there are 59 drives listed as at 2020/9/30 for the ST16000NM001G (and the same at 2020/7/1).

I compared it with the April 1 data set and it which appears to have 60. Serial number ZL202NFZ appears to be dropped in the later version and serial number ZL202400 seems to not be reading as at April 1 but is available at a subsequent date.

Just curious what's going on here! I recently received one of these and the backblaze drive data was very helpful with my evaluation.
Couldn't the frequency of profile information itself be considered a uniquely identifying attribute? Couple that with something that's harder to change on every request (such as IP address) and I imagine you can confidently build a profile out of that.
Yeah, I never liked how in TOML once you start a [table], you can never go back to the top level, just start more [tables].

What it means in practice is that if you want to use [table] syntax because it's more readable for this one key, you have to move it to the very end, away from the keys it was related to.

Wasn't impressed.
You could also just get Finmark.
> "Competition is only a click away"

I must be crazy! The competition (bing, duckduckgo) is exactly the same service down to the same shitty interface minus the autoscraped crap on the side. If there's competition it's not on the internet I have access to. Where's the search engine I actually transact to use? That's what real competition would look like.
I too do not begrudge someone trying to make a business model work, and I'm happy for anyone that uses that model to stop using the same username/password combo for everything. However, due to the sudden and unexpected loss of all income thanks to pandemic, I have totally given a re-think to my old saying of just throw money at the problem. I'm now one of those old farts that looks past the "affordable" monthly fees to how much extra it's costing rather than owning out right. The big exception is if the monthly expense allows me to make enough money the monthly expense makes sense.
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But is that performance difference actually important? I can accept a minor impact as a tradeoff to support a more diverse ecosystem and weaken the Google monolith just a little.
For work stuff my habit for maybe a decade or more has been to have work buy me hardware and the work hardware does work stuff, so this conflict never arises. The closest is maybe a previous employer paid me a retainer and obviously they didn't buy me a special laptop just for like one conference call a year on retainer, so I did that from my PC.

But yes, in a Foo container, all the various Google things (Docs, GMail, their Cloud offering, Youtube...) are either not logged in at all or they're logged in from some Foo context.
Good job for trying something new! Did not work out this time, better luck in the future.
Yes, in whitespace significant languages whitespace is significant. I could complain that my editor doesn't figure out how to fix all of my braces if I hit a button, after all I got the indentation right and can visually see the structure of my code should be correct no sweat.
> It's designed to scare away open source hobby programmers? And users?

Just giving my two cents: I don't have any trouble contributing to AGPL projects. Mind you, I haven't contributed much in general, but still.

As for using AGPL projects: Well, I wouldn't want to offer someone else's project as a service and poach potential users for the maintainers in the first place. But if I did, I wouldn't mind contributing back any modification I made.

Now, using them as dependencies—for just one part of an application that you want to keep otherwise private—is a little trickier because I'm neither a lawyer nor has the AGPL been tested in court as far as I know. The crux of the issue lies on whether dynamic linking makes a piece of software derivative; the FSF thinks it does (at least from what I read in their FAQ), but that also hasn't been tested in court (again, AFAIK) and one's interpretation could be entirely different. If it isn't derivative, then there's no problem with using AGPL software strictly as dependency. And, if it is, well, in the world of microservices you could just create a thin wrapper over the AGPL library, run it as a service, and release only that.

Then again, if one assumed that linking doesn't make a work derivative, then there's not much difference between the GPL and the LGPL (once again, AFAIK). It's a nuanced issue, to say the least.
I'm old enough to remember the 'Look and Feel' and Microsoft vs. Netscape suits. By the time the antitrust actions against Microsoft and the whole SCO/Linux fiasco worked their ways through the system, the judgements were largely irrelevant or moot (in the colloquial sense). I think an additional value of actions like this are to enter some of the issues that the modern information economy---which operate on scales at least an order of magnitude faster---into the legal record and provide basic arguments and interpretations that can afford the development of new law and precedent. Even bad or silly decisions (hello, 'right to be forgotten' and cookie warnings) provide a foundation for legal challenge and new laws (viz. Section 230, although that last has also been serving as an illustration of how ignorant (hi, Donald) or cynical (hi, Joe) legislators can be about the law.)

Minor dig at the generally very good article: complaining that something has become politicized in 2020 is almost quaint. Ya think?
I wonder if US sprawl is still structurally different from European sprawl. In Europe even suburban areas seem more likely to have a small mixed-user core on which residents can easily walk to a train stop. The US seems to frequently deter that with zoning dividing residential and commercial areas
It's an interesting analysis, although much of it I already knew: WeWork did stupid things largely because they had too much money, and had to spend it somehow. But what I guess I hadn't really fully comprehended before, was that SoftBank did the same thing; they made far-too-large investments in companies like WeWork because they had far too much money from Saudi Arabia, and they had to invest it somehow.

And really, come to think of it, you could say the same about Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia). He had to put the enormous amount of oil money to work outside of oil somehow, and couldn't take the time to learn how to invest it wisely, because we're probably never seeing $100/barrel oil again. Too much money with too little time to spend it, basically guarantees you will spend it unwisely.
Yeah, let's instead worship on the altar of a random HN poster such as yourself. /s
It was very bad. I am a stubborn old fart and did not want to change, but it pushed me over the edge. I was using Windows at the time.
Not generally, but there shouldn’t be government microphones preemptively planted in everyone’s home, Stasi style, just waiting for a warrant either.

It’s one thing to have the ability to wiretap selectively and with some cost which makes it prohibitive to do on a massive scale; it’s another thing to require vendors and service providers to deliberately sabotage their customers’ products for them.

I mean there’s just potential for rampant abuse here. What of the right of political dissidents or other persecuted minorities to communicate safely? What of the possibility that this could be used to target a politician’s political adversaries (the way we see frequent mention of today)? There’s a whole history of abuse here, in the US and across the world, and there’s no need to facilitate the potential for such abuse on a scale we’ve never seen before.
Why punish people who prefer to remain single then? Why can't everyone have these extra financial benefits?
That’s not a very discerning application of that word.
I know that dyslexia causes people to get letters rearranged, but I'm now curious if it causes words to get rearranged as well. Off to look that up now...
You still have a critical section; the cacheline is in an exclusive mode during the change. LL/SC operates on top the cache sharing protocols, just like everything else. Your wikipedia link even refers to that: "Typically, CPUs track the load-linked address at a cache-line or other granularity [...]". MESI and friends are that mechanism.

What lock-free means in this case is that an OS level thread freezing doesn't prevent global progress. That's true on the abstraction level of typical programming, but grandparent is very much correct:

> Really, "lock free" programming is just locking critical sections with lower level hardware primitives.
Shortcomings in Outlook (or any of the Office apps really) seem like the kind of thing Microsoft would be in a position to fix with a little time investment - particularly if they're going to have those same apps on the Pro X not running in an emulator.
That's helpful, thanks. Now I'm curious to learn more about embed security as it relates to 3p cookies.
Yes. It’s almost never too early to build a financial model. As noted in the original article, your model will always be wrong. However, the exercise of creating the model and using it to build out strawman scenarios is enormously helpful to let you understand how internal burn rates, customer acquisition costs, COGS, recurring revenues, etc all interact and how those could line up to different fundraising timelines. I’m not sure how you can reasonably start working full time on a business or idea without at least a rough model to play with.
Older accounts may have fake names but newer ones require identification documents, even selfie videos to prove you are a human. It wouldn't surprise me if they start combing through older accounts eventually.
The Washington, DC wastewater treatment plant figured out how to generate methane from sewage, which they then burn to drive turbines. They get 10MW of net electricity out of it, which they use themselves (sounds like their electric usage is 30MW). It would seem that a lot of industry installations with waste heat sources likely also use a lot of electricity and could benefit from doing something similar.

https://www.dcwater.com/whats-going-on/news/dc-water-leverag...
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I'm happy Jio did it. They singlehandedly brought about the digital transformation in India. It's truly amazing.
Elon had made a similar promise while I was still working there (2017). I’ll believe it when i see it
Intel 600p was a disaster. I'm curious why they designed such product for first NVMe drive.
The laxatives make you puke? Is it from the flavor/consistency or something else?
oh man I agree. Most of the content was utter crap. A few shows were really excellent but there was a ton of hapless “big star” plus cheap comedy or lame variety shown. T-mobile gave it for free, had it not I would not have paid a dime. The Shape of Pasta was an outstanding travel/foodie show in same vane as Anthony Bordain’s show. A few of the thrillers were good and that’s about it.
Intel has NAND fabs in China.
Quibi cost $5 a month with ads. 8$ a month without ads.
Right, but the article, top comment, and my comment talk about one thing, and your response is about something completely different. That's a frustrating way to conduct discourse.
Good advice, and I've edited my comment above to clarify. I've only had to two rounds of bowel prep so far - albeit on two different types of prep stuff. Had the jug the first time. I'm sorry to hear about your experience with it.
I wonder the same about the GeoWorks DOS version of America Online
I just had a colonoscopy a few weeks ago because of some minor bleeding. Ended up just being hemorrhoids and a small polyp. Definitely worth having the peace of mind.

The worst part or the prep was not sleeping much that night because I was up until 3am. Watching TV most of the night was relaxing, though. After the procedure I took it easy all day while the propofol effects wore off.

Don’t wait to have a colonoscopy. The prep isn’t that difficult!
Someone also pointed this out in another thread, but generally speeding isn't a misdemeanor; it's an infraction.
In China you can zoom out and see that wages / household income is quite depressed, both to keep the exports flowing and power the reinvestment, so the larger point stands fine.
My prep was a stimulant, I think Bisacodyl, followed by a gallon of polyethylene glycol solution (they had me use sport drinks that weren't red).

I didn't particularly enjoy it, but it wasn't a problem.

I think people will have different tolerances to different protocols.
I think the key is finding an intuitive way to grasp the subject matter, and then it doesn't feel like such a grind.

If material like this had been available 20 years ago it would have made a huge difference.

https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY
Thank you. Almost teared up at the end when I read it was Stage II. Big congrats!
This would push the dial in the direction of incremental, very conservative research and discourage novel methods.

What if this was in place when someone performed the first open heart surgeries?

"To reproduce these results, put the patient to sleep and make you've got lots of towels..."

Even interviewing techniques, specific cell lines, access to patients with a rare disease, none of these things are easily transferable but they are among the sources of the greatest new discoveries.