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Unlike fireplaces, gasoline engines really don’t last that long. They also tend not to get into crashes very often.

The vast majority of gasoline engines that are produced typically last about a decade or two. While we all think about the hand full of beloved 1960s sports cars that are carefully maintained by their enthusiast owners, the median gasoline engine is installed in a Toyota Corolla and will be melted down 13-17 years after its first produced. If we start electrifying now, the vast majority of gasoline engines will simply age out of the population on their own. This will happen faster if the electric equivalent gets cheaper, or if my hypothesis about gasoline prices turns out to be true.
A note on those sticky traps - don’t use them. It’s as inhumane to trap a rat/mouse in them as it is to trap a kitty.

If you have a mouse problem, stick to spring traps which kill them instantly, without prolonged suffering.
You made me curious about the origin of wiring money. Turns out, it was named after bank transfers carried over telegraph wire. I think it is safe to assume that wire transfers are still carried over wires. So it is actually not anachronistic at all, but is technically correct (the _only_ kind of correct).
But like they said in the article, those 33% of Android phones represent "1-5% of the traffic" of the "large integrators" websites that LE communicated with.
Yes but that's not really the case here
I didn't realize how accessible symbolic execution was for ordinary people (it's just a python library?? of course!) For some reason I had imagined it as something only for fancy and highly theoretical research groups.
That's not what I was implying. They have control over the pull-requests, the wiki, and all the other meta information.
I don't know the doses, but the procedure and effects are described in the linked article. Previous studies have shown human soluble ACE2 can reduce viral load by a factor of 1,000-5,000.

"Nine days after the onset of symptoms, the patient received hrsACE2 twice daily for 5 min by intravenous infusion. Administration of hrsACE2 was continued as scheduled for 7-days and was well tolerated with no clear drug-related side effects. A marked reduction in serum angiotensin II levels with concomitant increases in angiotensin 1–7, angiotensin 1–9, and their metabolite angiotensin 1–5 was observed after the first dose of hrsACE2. These changes were sustained through the observation period. Significant ACE2 activity was observed 7-days after administration of the last dose of hrsACE2. In addition, marked decreases in the concentrations of critical cytokines implicated in COVID-19 pathology to include interleukin IL-6, chemokine IL-8, as well as the soluble receptor for advanced glycation end product, the inflammation marker ferritin, tumor necrosis factor α, surfactant protein-D, C-reactive protein, and angiopoietin 2 were observed. The copy number of SAR-CoV-2 decreased dramatically from 32,000 copies per mL 2 days before administration of hrsACE2 to 2,500 and 270 copies per mL after the first and second day of hrsACE2 treatment, respectively, with rapid clearance from the patient’s plasma during daily testing until the end of the observation period. Furthermore, hrsACE2 injection did not reduce the generation of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgA and IgG antibodies"
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I too tried to follow the progress of Apeiron's APN01 which started to get news coverage at the end of February due to a University of British Columbia press release [1]. This pre-existing therapeutic was created out of SARS-CoV-1 research and I expected a SARS-CoV-2 trial to be accelerated. It never happened.

There is a story to be told here. Either a missed opportunity, incompetence, or a complete misunderstanding on my part of what a promising COVID-19 therapeutic looks like.

[1] https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/pilot-clinical-trial-in-china-to...
>Can someone explain what this description misses and where the harm comes from?

Empathy. Sense of place is real. Home isn't just your house or property values. People deserve not to be priced out of their homes so the sake of profit.
You can DIY refill toner.
Why so much negativity? Come down, this is a funny collection or players - and a _great_ way for them to be noticed. My startup isn’t on the front page of HN.. They are. And I totally enjoyed reading it.

I also had fun categorizing myself.

Thanks! :)
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They propose to install Firefox to work around the root certificate problem on old android devices. But can’t you just manually install their root certificate on most phones?
Draining B into C is consuming energy from the environment.

You most certainly can drain some of the water from B to C so as to move other water from B to A. But you will always do so at a net loss.

The unit of water moved from B=60 to A=61 gains A-B=1 unit of potential energy, in addition to the B-C=40 units of potential energy it already had for a total of A-C=41 units. However, without a 100% efficient (read impossible) pump and turbine combo, it takes more than 1 unit of energy to raise up that unit of mass. This means you need to spill more than 1/40 units of water from B to C to get that 1 unit from B to A. Now dropping that water from A to C would get you 41 units of energy, 1 more than if you had spilled it straight from B to C, but it cost you more than 1 unit of energy to get into this situation.

A is indeed a higher quality source than B, but you are using that low quality source of B to generate your energy, and the efficiency losses there will always be greater than the gains you make on the higher one. To break even the initial height/temperature differential would have to be infinitely high.

Now if for some reason you could not harvest energy directly from B-C, yes you could use water going from A to C to power the pump from B to A, it would just be less efficient. This would be the equivalent of a siphon.
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Small claims court would likely get you your money back
I didn't read the post sorry, just the title. I didn't see it was related to crime, I thought you were asking generally speaking. I can't talk about decreasing crime as Gary has a pretty bad reputation for it, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't a correlation between greenery (nature, trees, plants, flowers, etc) and crime, even if there wasn't any, I know being surrounded by nature is good for us/mental wellbeing.
Ask HN: Did WhatsApp stop in chat showing when end2end encryption keys change?
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Random thought, but why don't Windows & Apple just download all of Google fonts and serve them with Windows/Mac.

The amount of bandwidth saved just from having those set indexed locally is most likely worth it.

Or why doesn't Chrome upon install locally cache all of Google fonts and maybe a few other key CDN files (jquery, etc)?

Just thinking out-loud.
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It was the BBC I was actually thinking about, and it's a part of this article (which also mentions this Let's Encrypt root change):

https://scotthelme.co.uk/impending-doom-root-ca-expiring-leg...

Previous HN discussion on that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23455463
http://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning%3DSterman_CMR_su01_...

The Capability Trap. The core idea is that you have pressure to deliver a product (get "real" work done), but also maintain or improve your ability to do the work. If you ignore that maintenance portion, you end up being able to produce less over time. And the cost to recover the capability increases over time due to neglect.

In the kitchen example, cleaning and maintaining the fryers every (period of time) means that you can get years, if not decades, out of them. But failing to do so may force you to turn them off (produce less food for customers at a time). Then you have to either replace or pay for expensive maintenance and repair work, which is usually more costly than just having someone come in and drain the system, clean it, and give it a once over every (period of time).

EDIT:

I thought that paper had been submitted and commented on more recently, but the last commented submission was from January 2015. So it's now submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25009980
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You ask: "Why Intel would even bother releasing Rocket Lake if, balancing between higher IPC and lower clocks, the performance would be _lower_ than the 10 series chips?"

My understanding from the article is that the answer to that question is that Intel is unable to produce any quantity of chips at 10nm that makes (enough) money. The author surmises that rather than go a year with AMD essentially unchallenged in the market, Intel back ported a 10nm chip to a process that they have better margins on 14nm, so that they could tout "improvements" on an architectural basis while skipping over the question of improvements on a system basis.

For me, what is most telling is the 500 series chip set which seems uncharacteristic.

From a purely speculative point of view (that is code for pulling a wild ass guess out of my butt here) I could see this as having been the design they had done for Apple's next generation Macbooks before they lost to Apples' A14x chip. The factors that lead me to that guess are that it really looks like a 'point' product (specific changes, not a general set of family changes) to me that doesn't fit into thee PC ecosystem as well as other chip introductions (like IceLake) did with respect to their overall roadmap.
moving is not just a reversion to the mean. A neighborhood is more than atomized individuals who live there. There can be a community of people which form a network and a support system that is many years old. Pricing certain people out can rip apart these communities, so it's not just a matter of relocating then continuing as you were.

Then there are the individual-level logistical problems. What does moving do to your commute? Is it easy to find a new job? Will your kids have to go to a different school district?
Strongly agree. It's just trade-offs. Tying debt relief to demonstrable value is good. Refactoring without that is prone to vanity stuff, Chesterton's fence, second system effect, etc.
Maybe I missing something, but I've published several tutorials on Medium, all outside their paywall, and all appearing in google search results. It's a nice blogging platform. Not sure what the issue is.

For instance, this article I wrote is still available outside their paywall: https://medium.com/@alsargent/monitoring-aws-with-telegraf-i...
> Or maybe the definition of "Civil War" is more fluid than we think?

Exactly this. Retroactively, we combine groups and intentions to simplify the narrative of most conflicts. With good reason, following the dizzying array of groups and actions involved in any conflict is impossible for all but the most determined and specialized scholars. The popular story has to be simplified.
My point is I don't know what that means. The variable is the binding changing the binding by throwing away the old one is not distinct from mutating it because the binding "isn't a real thing, just conceptual", just as the variable isn't "a real thing"; unlike a value which is actually a thing sitting in a memory slot in your vm. If you can give me an example of where there is a meaningful distinction between the variable and its lexical binding I am happy to be enlightened.
IME (22+ year career so far) there's a balance to be struck. If you wait to ship till you're happy w the code, you probably waited too long. Successful businesses are often built on surprisingly shoddy software, and time to market matters. OTOH, only ever running in naive startup mode -- "ship it yesterday, add features nownownow, any means necessary, shortcuts be praised" -- is a recipe for disaster. Given your strong feelings on the matter, maybe you could find a way to help surface the costs and help your org to start fixing them. Because some amount of it is inevitable, and things within a given company only get better when someone cares enough to do something about it. If it works, you're a hero and things improve. If not, you can still jump ship, but with a much better narrative: not "I got tired of the intolerable levels of tech debt", but "I did (X) in an effort to address [same], but ultimately couldn't overcome the institutionalized patterns that led to it, so I'm looking to work for a company that cares about software quality".
Was it the source for what got reposted here? https://mobile.twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404...
> Nietzsche cannot honestly substitute his view of nature for the Stoics and fairly criticize them for the contradictions that arise.

His argument is that, because Nature is not as the Stoics describe it, they cannot be living as they claim to be. The contradiction doesn't arise from Nietzsche making that substitution, but from the Stoics having mischaracterised Nature to begin with (according to his view of Nature).

He demonstrates the contradiction by describing what living in accordance with Nature would really look like, and it's not what the Stoics claim to be doing. He’s not arguing in bad faith or from ignorance. He’s trying to show that Stoic ethics are ungrounded because their view of Nature is wrong, which isn't all that different to his arguments against Christianity. Once "God is dead" you don't get to keep the ethical framework that's logically grounded on his existence.
Underreported yes, exaggerated as too much emphasis put on case count and nearly no thought given to the other metrics
When exactly?

As far as I can tell this is a never-ending contest, so are you donating the proceeds to charity on a rolling basis as soon as you receive them?

And are you donating 100% to charity, or using a portion to pay for the website/server/bandwidth/development costs?
> The other issue (the bashrc example) is akin to a bonehead move like accidentally typing rm -rf somewhere important.

I think you've misunderstood the issue a little bit. Dangerous command is this:
scp admin:boring-spreadsheet.ods .

Here, user do not do type anything wrong, however if an attacker somehow replaces the remote with a malicious ssh server which returns a .bashrc that contains dangerous content (such as aliases like alias ls=rm -rf *) then you are basically screwed. So this is a serious issue.

Other security error is quite interesting if I understood it correctly (scp some-local-file remote:'`touch you-lose`remote-file'). It is basically running the command in the remote server. If that is so, why would a file transfer protocol run a command in the remote server? If an attacker manages to put a file with name `rm -rf /` in the directory that one is going to transfer, it may damage the remote system. I think, this part of protocol really needs to be fixed.
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Too logical. Here's what non-owners might see:

"The neighborhood is improving, things will get more expensive". Bad.

"I have to move now." Bad. "This new neighborhood is worse than my old one." Only half true (they started at 3 and ended at 3), but perceived as bad.
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You're right, it's about electricity consumption. However, the Nature article is from 2018, much has changed since. Also, 2% is a rather low estimate.

There's very different data, as well, e.g., from a SIA/SRC report:

> For this benchmark energy per bit, computing will not be sustainable by 2040, when the energy required for computing will exceed the estimated world’s energy production. Thus, radical improvement in the energy efficiency of computing is needed.

https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/RI...

One way to tackle this is reducing the number of bits moved.
While you act as if they made the World worse, think about your post.
What if technical debt happens on purpose ? Clever programmers incur technical debt, then leave company. Debt incurred becomes another bullet point on their resume, and they eventually become Senior Developers. Their debt is paid by someone else. Maintaining an app affected by technical debt is a thankless job and you don't get much bragging rights afterwards. But the programmer who incurred debt can look good in the eyes of management, after all he worked SO FAST and you're the bitter, toxic person who complains.
This is a fair point except that neighborhoods are not fungible and are in short supply.

You’re assuming that there is another 3/10 neighborhood available for the people who are displaced to move to, and therefore they gain a short term benefit and eventually end up back where they were.

In practice it’s typical that older areas which have become run down have ample city services, such as transit, parks, and libraries, which may not be the best quality, but at least exist.

Since neighborhoods are no longer built with these amenities, the best available substitute for someone who is displaced from an old neighborhood may be far less desirable than what they had before - a 1/10 trailer park, or worse, homelessness.

However, if we would continue to build traditional neighborhoods that were walkable, had city services, had transit etc. and built enough of those to keep up with the demand, then it would be much more likely that your scenario would play out. In that case the harm of economic change in neighborhoods would be greatly reduced, perhaps even to the point that it wouldn’t be a problem anymore

But that’s quite far from the reality on the ground today.
> people owning houses

This is the part you're overlooking. People in undesirable communities are renting because they don't have that generational wealth built up

Even if people aren't renting, once the desirability goes up, developers are going to want to kick you out, and will use the government to do it.
Yeah same, this ginger cat has been floating around for a few years now. A while ago if he was at the top of the garden he would be ok with me being in the bottom half of the garden, but once I crossed into the top half he would dart off. Its only been in the past couple of months he has got brave enough to run over to me when I bring food out.

I find it a bit funny because he still doesn't fully trust me, so while he will come running over to me while I'm putting his food out he will hiss at me while running over to me. It was only a couple months ago I would have to put the food out and return indoors before he would walk over to it and have something to eat.

Little steps I guess.
Those are nice if you have high volume printing needs, but at around $200 for the lowest end model, it will take a long time for most people to realize the value there.

Lots of people just need a few pages per month which is why the cheap cartridge printers are so popular and why a lot of people will just cope with HP's $0.99/ month.

I'm not keen on HPs deal here, but it would be difficult for many to justify that $200 up front cost when it'll take 10 years to recoup it and ink jets often don't last that long.
I have thought about how it would be societally healthy for parents to bring their babies and infants to work. In modern times we treat child-rearing as a private matter to be hidden from public adult life, but it’s long been a communal matter.

Admittedly, I’m not great with kids: I don’t have the instincts yet. But I can recognize that childcare isn’t something that someone can schedule as a 4-hour bloc to be one-and-done in the evening (if they can’t or don’t want to hand their child to some hired service): it’s interwoven throughout a parent’s day. Sure, there will be crying and other noises, but I can deal with that. It seems to me artificial to make the 9am-5pm workday so sterile and devoid of organic human activity.

I’m young and was a child of a single working mother not very long ago. I remember it being difficult for her. But I am now grown and — in a nod to my mother and other parents like her — favor a parent-friendly work culture.
My initial thought here would be to sue in small claims court for (based on the new pricing) $0.99/mo × expected lifespan. A small claims judge is likely to be sympathetic given the extremely straightforward advertising, and it would cost HP more to send someone out than to just pay the lump sum.
Maybe they're also including shitcoin mining numbers in the calculation.
Great question! We're aiming for twice as easy to use/understand, at half the price.

Examples –

Twice as easy: Their 500X kit cannot run a 500W device (it outputs 300W continuous) in the fine print. It also uses proprietary plugs so you cannot use third-party panels. Ours just gives you examples of what you can run, and labels things accordingly.

Half the price: Their "medium" (300W out instead of 500W as mentioned above) runs $699 for the generator + $299 for the 100W panel, = $998, while we sell the same (but with better support) for $599.
Yep, someone promoting their site.
Non-white immigration to Finland is relatively recent and has only been in small numbers so i think what you're referring to is just an anecdote. The immigration of Somali groups in particular has led to quite a lot of friction as detailed in this report

https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/sk-tutki-suomalaise...

See this page also - https://multiculturalmeanderings.com/tag/nordic-countries/

In particular,

>The 2020 OECD report about Finland criticizes that their education is unevenly distributed. In an interview with the HPR, Michaela Moua, a senior officer at the Office of the Non-Discrimination Ombudsman in Finland, recognizes racially motivated guidance in schools, especially in the Finnish as Second Language studies: “Black and Brown students are often advised to take these classes even if Finnish is their first language.”

>She adds that “this shows how it is still widely thought that one cannot be a person of color and Finnish at the same time.”

At the heart of the problem is that Finnish identity overlaps significantly with Finnish ethnicity. So yes, i think your anecdotes are the exception, not the norm.
Programming is all about trade-offs. The trade-offs of an implementation can lead to technical assets as well as technical debt. It's just that most of the time the technical profit isn't noticed as much as the technical debt.

And as with regular debt, the "interest rate" can also vary wildly. Some debt just sits there, doesn't change much. The code is a mess, makes fixing bugs harder than it should be, but it doesn't impact new work much.

Other debt is like a credit card, where you continue to pay a price every day, and it can severely affect your ability to implement new things.

Then again the same is true with technical assets. Make good choices and you can reap the benefits for a long time. Implementing new features can become 5 minute jobs rather than taking days.

Sometimes you're aware that you're about to swipe that technical credit card. Other times it can be an inadvertent decision, you went right instead of left while thinking of something else. That's the tricky ones.
The "linear systems" and "machine learning" algorithm paragraphs under "Optimization, Numerics, & Machine Learning" reference a number of resources in regards to currently understood limits of and applications for quantum computers and linear optimization.
> However, can these be delivered remotely without physical access to the hardware?

Yes, most devices (including hard drives) can have their firmware updated from the host computer. Some newer devices support some form of firmware signing, making it more difficult for a malicious firmware to be installed, but they're in the minority -- most firmware update mechanisms are insecure.
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