skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because humans have trouble accepting the reality that sometimes, bad things simply happen for no rational reason

I believe this and I think it applies to all the lockdowns and moral superiority stuff where people are shamed for not following NPIs that don't seem effective.

It's as though the pro-lockdown side can't accept that sometimes tragedy happens and we're relatively powerless to stop it. So, unable to accept that they point fingers to anyone around them. Who must we demonize? Hunt the witch!

They suppose there must be non-compliant people if the lockdowns aren't working. And so they fight the hidden enemy. As though if there's a minority of people not complying, that population wouldn't have been exhausted through infection after a year.
> Personally, I wish we’d take more influence from their diet (fish! fish! more fish!)

I mean, the furthest you can get from fresh fish in Norway is pretty different to what is seen in most the US. I'm not sure that Fish is the answer there
By that logic, so do governments have the right to exercise their prerogatives...
Does that mean you could be screwed if that voip provider disappears before you have time to change things? Or do you own the number somehow (like a domain name?) so that you can move it elsewhere in that situation?

I know nothing about voip providers and this makes the setup sound scary to me.
You'd be incorrect in that translation.
GDS are clearly aware of this problem and are working on this as well, with "GOV.UK Accounts" [0]

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2020/09/22/introducing-gov-uk-accoun...
Universal rights are only true as long as people don't take their freedoms for granted. The rights we enjoy today were paid for with tears and blood.
As far as I know there's not much incentive to buy electric in Sweden, where in Norway they're heavily subsidised.

Also, small internet, Hello from Caroli, Malmo!

[EDIT: Cars otherwise being heavily taxed and EV's being Tax free, both at purchase time and with annual car taxes (with additional perks such as no parking tolls and driving in bus lanes) is the definition of subsidised]
I agree though. All I've experienced is just feeling tired in the morning.
From a macro-economic perspective there is two very different "gig economies"

- utopian: recognition that humans cannot do sustained productivity, higher experts in short bursts capture peak productivity, everyone works less overall

- dystopian: automation makes more surplus labor, which reduces the incentive of further automation by hiring low productivity but dirt cheap labor. If everyone does this, and it isn't worth it to maintain yesterday's automation, overall productivity can go down.

Unfortunately Americansn live in the second one. We are suburban squatters in the rotting ruins of our past greatness.
The issue isn't the NAT itself, it's the inhibition of P2P connections (to a further extend, spontaneous queries for distributed routing technologies like seen in IPFS, but those are just preventing full decentralization).

Once you have to bounce the data through a hosted proxy, you're forcing no less than 10 ms on to the users (of course there are rare exceptions for users really close to your proxy).
Patents and copyrights in many cases have become a tumor, destroying their original purposes to enable rent seeking from disgusting and harmful organizations.
The first two models are the ID.3 hatchback (which has launched in Europe) and the ID.4 SUV (which has been advertised and is available for pre-orders in the US).

Volkswagen has made massive investments in EVs after their diesel emissions cheating scandal. Part of their settlement with the US was that they would spend $2 billion on emissions-free auto infrastructure to offset their diesel emissions. That's where Electrify America (one of the big EV charger networks) came from.

I'm not sure that VW would have jumped into the EV market quite so enthusiastically if the diesel emissions scandal hadn't forced their hand. But now, I guess they figure they're spending billions on all of this EV infrastructure, they might as well try to become one of the leaders in EV sales.
I would argue that these new regulations are in a way a breach of the Fourth Amendment, which is supposed to protect people from unreasonable searches.

This seems like a search to me...
The alternatives:

1. Bomb them back into the stone age. That would kill a whole bunch of people, who as you point out are basically held hostage by their government and don't get much choice in the matter. It'd also permanently wreck their economy and infrastructure, cost lives on both sides, and usually has follow on effects.

2. Do nothing and allow things like funding terrorism, selling arms, committing atrocities, etc. You would know these things are going on, and therefore be allowing them to happen, and these things would probably be happening to your own people and allies.

Which one would you rather take?
It's the start of the major change smokers notice, if you want more detail find it yourself. Your baseless certainty astounds me.
Fair enough. Some people prefer to buy early and get all software updates on the way though (with lifetime updates btw). It's also FLOSS, so everyone can contribute.
It cracks me up that in 2021 people are still posting fundamentally visual tools without so much as a single screenshot to help understand what it does
>Great tool that, when implemented as part of a larger tool stack, makes performance testing very doable.

In the past, I've leveraged JMeter along with other tools at the same time. i.e. Using JMeter to create a baseline level of requests and then using something else to fill in any gaps to make the load feel a little more "real" or to test specific scenarios that were difficult to accomplish w/JMeter.
In Norway it’s dark and cold as shit half the year and no flat parts of the towns; Amsterdam is flat and always pleasant or rainy
I tried the first couple of ideas:

https://gist.github.com/tomwhoiscontrary/337cb8aaef013327a89...

I only went as far as generating threshold maps, not actually using them. Couldn't see how to do that using ImageMagick, and didn't want to write it manually!

The high-pass filter maps "look okay", but i haven't looked at their spectrum. How important is it that they have a specific frequency response? What is the failure mode if they don't?

The shuffling maps don't "look" so hot. There aren't border artifacts or repeating blocks (and you wouldn't expect these a priori - not sure why you think that), but indeed, it's not very different to white noise.
Norway has been leading the pack in this regard for quite some time. A few Government incentives, both financial and for instance the ability to use dedicated bus lanes (now discontinued in Oslo I think?) majorly helped.

One of the large issues around uptake is simply infrastructure. Here in Ireland, it is still patchy at best. We had an EV (Nissan) from around 2016 but gave it up in 2020 as there was simply too much anxiety around out of service public chargers and lack of backup. Range anxiety is definitely possible to overcome, but it requires the state to back it up with resources: Norway has most definitively done this.

Final thought: no surprise that ID.3 is making inroads in a huge way on sales. It's a sweet spot of a good car at an attainable price that looks, for want of a better word, 'normal'. Some EVs seem to be designed 'differently' almost for the sake of it - and while some will love that, it ends up adding another hurdle for a certain segment of the market I believe.
There are an insane amount of cool space things happening in 2021
I drink 1 cup of green tea something every other day. I've been doing this for a a few years and definitely see some benefits:

1. My dependence is way down, sometimes I go 2-3 days without caffeine and I'm fine.

2. It gives me something to look forward to for certain days (quite needed in the pandemic)

3. Allows me to stop fully without any side effects (I always take January off from caffeine)

4. The caffeine high lasts about 6-8 hours with much higher productivity during this time.

5. For me, the green tea doesn't typically give me an anxious caffeine high.

I think caffeine intake is highly personal though. When pushing this to an every day schedule, I definitely feel more addicted and dependent on it. Once in a while (once every two months maybe) I'll feel like the caffeine high tips into an anxious feeling which I hate.

For the record, I drink Honest Tea Moroccan Mint which has 56mg of caffeine. Obama drinks Honest Tea Green Dragon Tea.
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There are much better ways to reduce CO2 emissions than taxing the consumer. Norway could simply stop pumping as much oil from the ground/sea.
Right, I said you can't buy it _directly_. It's still not a dollar value even when you're buying/selling options for it. Strikes don't need to be dollar values.
Still a huge markup on their petrol equivalents, roughly £14k more expensive. Yes you get a few extra bells and whistles and a small grant to help but that difference still has a ways to go
I came here to say this. Coffee makes me very anxious and makes it hard for me to focus on tasks. I throw in some L-theanine and suddenly everything is ok. Using drugstore capsules makes it really cheap too.

"These results replicate previous evidence which suggests that L-theanine and caffeine in combination are beneficial for improving performance on cognitively demanding tasks." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18681988/
Being similar to SARS is not meaningful evidence to draw a conclusion about COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 virus). His data is from 2015 and cannot possibly indicate that anyone had been afflicted with COVID-19 at that time.

What he is saying is that animal-to-human coronavirus transmission is common - which most people agree upon. ...and possibly implying that there may be cross-immunity protection - also as many suspect.

...but for COVID-19 specifically, there is no evidence that it circulated in rural China prior to entering Wuhan.

...and sadly China is blocking the collection of samples for exactly that sort of serology/antibody analysis.
Intel in particular is famous for having an unproductive culture.

10 years ago it was clear to me that Intel's side projects in areas such as graph analytics were shovel ware.

Today 10nm has failed, 7nm is nowhere in sight. Intel has jacked up pricing on the 14nm generation and got away with it until competitors finally pulled ahead.
So GH has effectively given admin-level repo DELETE permissions to everyone in the organization. Not sure they really thought this one through.

Here comes a new employee onboarding document to sign: no Iranian VPN nor travel to Iran.
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Behold the amazing things that oil buys: Electric cars

https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/production-and-exports/prod...
Zotero vs. Mendeley Comparison
I've been doing self assessment for 20 years now and it almost fills itself in these days - the P60 stuff and pensions etc do anyway. Getting your car taxed is embarrassingly simple and takes seconds as does checking your car MOT and insurance status. I don't have an accountant for SE and I do my wife's as well.

The amount of documentation available is amazing. This is a great example of what's available: https://www.gov.uk/transition . Scroll down to Announcements, hit the first link and you have the full withdrawal agreement in multiple freely open formats.

No it not perfect but it is rather good for this user anecdote.
Are there any suggestions for how to replace lost revenue that would support infrastructure like roads?

In the US roads are mostly maintained by taxes on gas. I would think taxing tires might be a decent replacement, but I haven't seen much conversation on the issue.
There's nothing in the law that says that Github must block an entire company from accessing their company org because one member of that company logged into a separate account that happened to be a member of the company org. At most, the account that was accessed should be suspended.
I have yet to wrap my head around why do-Calculus and Pearl's causal inference is in any way more useful than the many statistical methodologies for causal inference that have existed for a century. Every time I've tried to dive into Pearl's justifications for what makes his methodology superior, he mostly spends time attacking the character of long dead statisticians (and some living ones), and bemoaning how awful the Rubin causal paradigm is, without giving any actual, verifiable specifics. I also have yet to see just about anyone using do-Calculus in a practical way.

If it really is all that, I'm interested and please explain it to me. Because up until now it seems like its basically someone who reinvented the wheel, and has formed a cult following around it by saying "but MY wheel has no death crystals!"
> However, making such changes that are not supported by adequate scientific evidence may ultimately be counterproductive to public health.

I remain sympathetic to the argument that we're maintaining too high of a standard of evidence during a rapidly moving pandemic. The question isn't whether this "may be" a harmful decision (of course it might); it is whether it is likely to be. The FDA's memo fails to convince me the expectation is worse taking the single dose strategy.

This reads like a letter by someone who keeps all their money in CDs rather than stocks, because they might lose money.
Not an expert, but the key thing is usually factoring, e.g. finding which prime numbers multiplied together make a certain composite number. The hard part is finding which are the right prime numbers (there are lots of prime numbers). Finding numbers that are prime,just generally,is a very quick operation already.
Also 2004: SARS in in China. - https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20040423/china-sars-death
If people don't understand that publishing their location makes their location public, that's on them.
Cool idea. Wishing you the best of luck!
I'm jealous. Tennessee (in the US) has no incentives for electric cars and actually charges a high "EV fee" for annual vehicle registration since they aren't getting the gasoline tax.
Would it have killed you to do a simple search on the matter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson_Baker#Non-fiction
Always, a little bit?

I've founded one startup and sold it, and I've been part of 2 others that got sold. I'm currently enjoying being a PM at Slack, but at some point that'll get old and I'll want to do another startup. B2B SaaS is my jam.

I'm technical enough to build as necessary, but I'd prefer to focus on the go-to-market side. I'm always up for talking to folks who are thinking about it. I've got a history of working on developer tools, but anything analytical is interesting.

Twitter is in my profile, DM me and let's have a Zoom?
Is this the reason why top recipe results always contain the poster's entire life story before they ever show a list of ingredients?
You can take the bread out of Hawaii, but you can't take Hawaii out of the bread
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> - quantum mechanics cannot be exploited for exponential computation

As far as we know for now, [a variant of [0] ] this one is the wrong claim: we do have algorithms (Shor's, Grover's) that are faster on Quantum Computers than any known classical algorithm.

Of course, we do not yet have any proof that a faster classical algorithm can't exist, so the possibility remains open that this claim remains true. BUT, if this claim turns out to be true, then it is extremely likely that either one or both of the other 2 claims will immediately turn out to be wrong.

[0] I would note that the "exponential" part is somewhat of a red herring. If there is any kind of asymptotic speed-up that QCs fundamentally have over classical computers, even if it's just quadratic, then the larger point will remain valid.

> In a sense, the sci-fi concept of the ansible, where quantum collapse effects are exploited for FTL signaling, is more plausible than the view where quantum systems collapse instantly, but cannot be exploited for FTL.

This is also what rubs me the wrong way about entanglement, and seems a very tantalizing thread to pull at if one wanted a more fundamental theory. The other thread of course is the measurement problem.
In the end you still need to convert/exchange that last rinse crypto into cash. The exchanger may want to know where you've got that crypto from and the person(s) that sent you the crypted have been subjected to KYC. Just like with real money.
On my specific case I just use language REPLs like:

- ProtoShade

- Pydroid

If you mean a classical shell, I guess something like Another Term might do.
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You should clone your environment and then inject faults into the clone to cause yourself some simulated problems.
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I absolutely love this rendition of the standard conspiracy theory
The primary overriding misconception about Bitcoin:

"Unregulated crypto exchanges are stable, trustworthy and honest --- just like regulated stock and currency markets".

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/attorney-general-james-...
I think almost everyone in the field would reject your third claim. There is a great deal of work being done on applying the speedup afforded by quantum mechanics to classically hard problems.

The current consensus (at least among people I speak to) is that a quantum computer will probably be able to solve some problems which are in NP (and not in P), but will probably not be able to solve an NP-hard problem.

Your intuitive view is appealing, but I don't think one should get too hung up on intuition. Our intuition was honed for millions of years to avoid large wild animals and avoid falling out of trees in prehistoric Africa. It generally sucks pretty badly at making guesses about the fundamental nature of the universe (or at least mine does).

Edit: by the way a faster than light communication "ansible" is functionally equivalent to a machine that sends messages back in time. I disagree with your view that such a machine is more plausible than the view that some ftl stuff happens on the "backend" but is hidden from the "frontend". Having said that my view is that there is no ftl stuff on the back or front end, this is consistent with something like the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is entirely local and causal (no ftl stuff).
I've done that before and yeah it feels great after the withdrawals.

However, it wasn't enough for a permanent habit change. I fell back into drinking coffee after a month.

This way I'm physiologically and psychologically less dependent on the caffeine and the habit.

I'm sure this varies person to person.
I have quit coffee/caffeine a few times. The only way I've been able to do it without feeling like shit for a week or two is slowly ramping down from x cups to x-1 cups until I hit 1 cup then going to two cups of decaf and slowly moving to zero.

Unfortunately I like the taste and "thickness" of coffee much more than tea in the morning so I'm not completely off it anymore but I wish I was.
On Zoom, you can push to talk by pressing the space bar.

Yes, this advice is Zoom-centric but the app calls out Zoom in the first sentence on the page, so I think it's fair.
Artificially reducing supply by whatever means is going to have a similar effect on the consumer as a tax, prices and the cost to the consumer will rise
These are all great ideas, appreciate it. It could very well be 20 and I’m the outlier. And could definitely use the fake it til you make it approach for such an app.

I think this all warrants more investigation!
My personal security metric is "how many bitcoins would I leave in a wallet app on this phone".

Currently that number is about 1 ($30k) on an up to date android. I believe that if I had more bitcoins on a phone, and told people about it, there's a good chance a targeted exploit would steal those keys. Even if I had them encrypted, at some point I have to type a password in to decrypt, and that would be the point they'd be stolen.

However, on an iOS device (which is more robustly locked down), I'd probably happily store 10 bitcoins. (if I had them, hah!)

On dedicated hardware (like a trezor wallet), i'd also be confident up to about 10 bitcoins (far less attack surface, but also a less competent security team than Apple can afford).

On an outdated android, it would be more like 0.1 bitcoins - there are trivial ways to root them from the web browser and any old website can do it!

Considering that for many people, access to all the private data on their phone could ruin their job, relationships, and even put them in prison, I'm sure a lot of people value the security of their phone at multiple years salary. If I have to choose between that and the ability to run an emulated game slightly faster, I'm totally choosing security!
Surely the OP meant that electric cars are still cars, and thus encourage car-centric cities with wide streets and lots of space devoted to parking, as opposed to denser, more walkable and bikable cities.
At least in Norway, what fuelled it was simply that Volkswagen is a very popular brand in Norway. Many people preferred to buy an e-Golf or e-Up rather than a Leaf or Zoe even though the range was poorer simply because it came from VW, a brand that they had bought before and found reliable. And of course many people could not afford to buy a Tesla until the Model 3 came along and even now it is one of the more expensive electric cars.
The link seems to point to a font viewer, not an actual font design tool.
This was the only part of an otherwise great post I objected to. Science may have a side effect of uncovering truth but it shouldn't be the driving force. We should be striving for better predictive ability that doesn't go against our observations. Arguing which is more real is not science.
ACH is free to the user, convenient, safe, well understood, and the energy requirements aren't insane.

Any banks foolish enough to process cryptocurrency transactions will have to meet all the same banking requirements for anti-moneylaundering, anti-terrorism, rogue states, etc. These sort of requirements are part of the reason for delays. International transactions can also get delayed because of shoddy foreign banking servers which may simply be down.

All of these problems remain, but an additional constraint of requiring consensus and hashing is imposed.

This is a version of second system syndrome where even the naive variant doesn't sound good on paper.