skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No more do I. In fact, I live in a country where I do not speak the local language well enough to even _understand_ broadcast TV.

This is more a matter of general cultural awareness, I would say. Gaiman's writing career goes back to _Don't Panic_, a book _about_ the Hitchhiker's Guide some 30 years ago now. He is a lot more than just a comics writer.

Anyway. I hope you try some of the books and enjoy them. I would say that he is perhaps more of a fabulist than a novelist -- a lot of his novels to me strike me as being akin to fairy tales, myths or legends, but with a fine modern sensibility.
sounds like a desirable feature to me
You are thinking of "discreet":

* careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage.

The word they were using was "discrete":

* individually separate and distinct.

120.15 is/was not used for anything else at Denver, so people could talk about the situation on the ground without effecting the operations elsewhere. Once the problem was 'contained', the rest of the airport could go back to operating 'normally' on the other runways.
> In my experience, they're always wrong.

In my experience, if someone claims that someone else is always wrong, then he is wrong.
Octopuses Have a Secret Sense to Keep Their 8 Arms Out of Trouble
What trash is this
When some people leave, the community improves and the site gets more popular as a result.

Now, are those the people you're talking about? No idea, I haven't seen who you're referring to and it'd be case-by-case. But point being, the existence of "ex-Redditors" isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Does this make Firefox's containers unnecessary?
Came hear to also say "I remember that". Glad to see fellow Ice-Stormers here. We were in Maine, on the coast. We were lucky enough to have a wood stove for heat. And we were close enough to the ocean that the kids (me) would go down to the ocean at high-tide to fill up 5-gallon buckets with sea-water. We used those to flush our toilets for a full week. Oh, And I had to walk to school in that ice storm - up hill, both ways ;-).
>18.5M of bitcoin has already been mined of the maximum 21M. So the amount of remaining future inflation from increased supply negligible. That the remaining 2M will be mined asymptotically over many years is not important except for purposes of incentivizing miners to run transactions.
> One of my friends traveled to 11 states, ate out regularly, etc. and never got it. Crazy.

I think the mix of asymptomatic or mild cases has been really bad for a coordinated response. It’s not hard to find people who were lucky, and there’s a constant chorus of people saying that’s all anyone healthy needs to worry about. Then you talk to a doctor, nurse, EMT, etc. and hear what it’s like on their side with unlimited overtime and patients ranging from the expected older / comorbidity cases to young people previously in good health.
What social effects does this inform us about?
AWS: Perseverance lands on Mars, cloud-ready to explore
I think the fact that it runs on dx12 is very cool, because it could potentially allow me to run gpgpu stuff on a laptop with only integrated graphics. Does anyone have any sense of whether or not that would be worthwhile? Is the parallel efficiency of an integrated gpu worthwhile to develop for?
That’s unfortunate, the 45-54 age range has less than 1/6th the risk of death of a 75-84 year old, but that’s a long way from zero.
Yeah, I was assuming it was either that, but I do notice that "backup" takes a long time. As soon as backup is done it is on the order of 4-5 minutes. But then again, I store something like 5 TB worth of files on my Nextcloud, so it could be me as well to.
They're still going with a cable, not sure how feasible full wireless was.
Probably won’t catch COVID from a doorknob either:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00251-4
China was able to hijack Covid virus too perhaps?
> They’ve also spread an idea that money printing is the singular source of inflation, which isn’t true at all. Bitcoin, for example, is an inflating asset due to hype-driven demand.

Uh, I'm very much of the opinion that your average BTC fan isn't exactly educated about macroeconomics, but this sentence makes absolutely no sense.

Inflation isn't a thing that happens to a currency, it's a thing that happens to an economy. It's a systemic increase in prices across a basket of assets that demonstrates the devaluation of a currency, as a single unit of that currency effectively buys less.

Bitcoin, if it had been a usable currency over the last decade, is very clearly deflationary, as its rise in value as a currency relative to USD has dramatically outpaced the rise in the price of goods and services as denominated in USD, meaning that had prices been denominated in BTC, they would have dropped.
Oh yeah. The lack of self-awareness is boggling.
>Look at what is happening with electronic circuits production. There are what, 4 state of the art producers? TSMC, Samsung, Intel, I'm probably forgetting someone.

what of it? We don't have hundreds of airplane makers.
Are circuits less efficient/compact then we need them to be? are they overpriced? if not, why should we need more than a handful of manufacturers to do the job?

Make cars less necessary, do away with half of the legacy brands, (which are anyway owned by the same company) problem solved.
This beautiful post is missing a last section called "Gron: do away with json altogether and print something actually readable". That would be a good punchline!
> if you have fewer humans each human will be wealthier

You have no historical evidence that the wealthy will better distribute the wealth once the population shrinks.
Very interesting. I wonder how stable it will be vs USD over the long run.

I am interested in someone making a CPI coin, that tracks some value of a basket of goods instead of another currency. I think that would be sort of the ultimate inflation hedge because ideally the value would not change at all over the long run.
> Besides some places where the atmosphere is getting thin, and getting skin cancer is very normal, like Australia.

I thought the ozone situation had been getting a lot better since the 90s?
Not the OP, but I'll take your questionnaire

> So this is how you justify it to yourself?

I don't justify anything. In my opinion, a first world life as it exists today is unjustifiable. But that doesn't mean it's my fault, or that I can do anything about it.

> It seems you acknowledge the legitimacy and urgency of the problem but are unwilling to make changes due to it being social suicide?

It would be impossible for me personally to make meaningful changes. I live in a city with no infrastructure. The USA has so much inefficiency baked into its supply chain due to globalism it's ridiculous. Everyone is anti-nuclear, no politician represents me or these interests. I recycle, I carry my own bag to the store, etc. I drive more than an hour every day even though I would like to not own a car. I can't ever not be employed because losing the insurance would literally kill me due to a medical condition.

> Do you have kids?

I will probably never have children because I don't really believe in the future.

> Will you be able to tell them you did something positive about this problem? Or greedily stayed complicit due to the inconvenience? Are you prepared to tell your daughter you were the part of the people killing all the wildlife on earth?

Here's the deal. All of our carbon footprints here probably suck, but you're playing into the hands of the real evil by framing things this way. Counterintuitively, pushing for individual responsibility for pollution and environmental degradation is exactly what big corporations want because it enables their destruction more than any other single thing. If I had a child, I would educate them not to make this argument but to push for structural reform and deprogramming of this mindset.

Have you ever heard of the Keep America Beautiful [1] campaign? It's where a lot of this sentiment comes from, and it was funded by Coca-Cola in response to a rise in sentiment supporting legislation to reign in environmental destruction on the part of big corporations. Greenwashing campaigns have been very effective at shifting public attention away from corporate responsibility and towards the individual. I'll 'do my part' to consume less, but I refuse to put responsibility for these corporate / government structures on myself. Especially after they've gone to such lengths to gaslight us all.

> This stuff goes through my head for myself, so I'm curious how you address it?

One thing I've brainstormed with a similarly-concerned friend would be to create a series of localized handout materials tying politicians that people in the area can vote for to specific environmental atrocities directly in an easy-to-understand fashion. That would be a pretty non-trivial effort though, would require cooperation from a lot of other people, and could get us in a lot of trouble. Maybe one day.

[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_America_Beautiful)
We're on the road to that.
All fair points.

Dhall is new to me. Would you tell me more about other configuration languages you seen? I often use TOML myself.
Remind me, what percentage of Bitcoin trades happens in Tether, again?
A one-mile race. Most HN readers couldn't finish.
Hmmm, the naive combinatoric guess would be:

1 - ((329500000 choose n_connections) / (330000000 choose n_connections))

right?

That comes out to about 14% of American should expect to know someone who died of covid if everyone knows 100 people and its completely random who dies. With some clustering of social networks this seems like a pretty unsurprising number. It mostly depends on how people defined "knowing" someone. I would have guessed the percentage would be higher personally, but then, I don't know anyone who died from COVID.
It's not, at least not in ML for a lab as prestigious as Google AI. They probably have several hundred researchers with excellent publications that would be willing to drop everything and get a FANG salary.
Does this also break add-ons communicating from other site to another using a background script?
Researchers study whether one vaccine dose is enough after Covid-19 infection
Which sites don't work for you?

Even GSuite works better for me in Firefox. Slides stays smooth even when scrolling through large presentations and it never locks up (like Chrome does).
I worked at a Best Buy which was the most easily-accessible location to residents of one of the most affluent majority-black counties in the country (that is to say, most of the county is not particularly affluent, but that it attracts a small proportion of extremely well-off individuals and families who want to be near DC and aren't spooked by the demographics). We apparently had several celebrities come through the store - some that I even directly interacted with or sold products to - but 99% of the time, I didn't even know they were famous until after they'd left (it happened enough that I developed a reputation for overattention to customer service, to the detriment of my ability to be aware and suitably star-struck).These included:

> A famous actress, who was just the warmest person ever

> Several rappers

> Several championship-winning athletes

> Michael Steele, who was apparently a Geek Squad regular

My favorite was probably the gentleman who I believe had been on the Cosby Show: he came in twice, both times to drop 5 figures on TVs. Dude singlehandedly saved my job.
Of course. Especially to expect all that to be in each individual published paper.
He also would rant about jeffrey epstein years before the media caught on.
We wouldn't tell Google engineers to mess with his Google drive in prod... why should he sacrifice data availability and integrity?
Short description: RAI dampens volatility (goes up slower, goes down slower) of its collateral (Eth). All thanks to some straightforward control theory tricks!
Totally understand your point about making it visible -- shows people where their money is going instead of a smooth but obfuscated transaction -- but it's also onerous to have to do the math all the time.

I used to live in one of the richest counties in the US, and they had different tax rates in my city for eat-in, vs. takeout food. Also different tax rates for certain consumer staples. The solution was to carry an extra $20, not to do the math. And that gets abstracted away when you start using debit or credit all the time -- just lines on a statement.

Meanwhile, living in Australia, when I saw something in the store that said $5.50, I only had to make sure I had $5.50 in my pocket.
True, but that is changing. Inverters are not very expensive anymore, provide cleaner power, and can match the frequency of the something else allowing you to put several generators in parallel and disconnected one for maintenance. They also allow running lower RPM which at lighter loads can save fuel/money. (A constant rpm generator often uses more fuel at 50% load than at 80% load!)

Inverter generators can also sell power back to the grid. To pay for the fuel you need more than the typical retail price of electric, so this is only worth it if you have a need for a backup generator anyway. However if you have this need talk to the power company, they often will give you a discount because when there are load issues (See Texas last week), and the ability to add power to the grid in this time will be something they are interested in.

Today most large generators are still constant RPM, but I don't expect that to last.
That's very true. I run quite a few services on my local network for my family (wireguard, nextcloud, homeassistant, frigate, pihole, jellyfin, bitwarden, ...).

While I enjoy setting up and playing with these service, I need to think about managing all these services as little as possible as I don't want to spend all my free time being a system admin.

Also, often a new release is not just a system admin task. Sure, it may not be _that_ hard to do a full backup, pull new docker images, spin them up and verify everything. The time sink comes from keeping track of all the releases of all the different projects, reading up about changes, how the upgrade process works, and so on.

On top of that, my family has become reliant on several of these services, especially nextcloud and bitwarden. The last thing they want are major changes to it. Long term stability with minimal changes can be a feature!
With all of the cookie protections and in app privacy settings, is highly targeted advertising becoming less effective? If targeted advertising is less effective, will the advertising giants need to provide a disclaimer when you try doing it? Will it lower ad prices?

Or will it take regulations to remove targeted ads?
>Teflon will always be scratched

AFAIK this is a non-issue because teflon is inert in its finished form. It's only an health risk during manufacturing and when it's heated too high.
Well, if you use S3 then it has to be, because what this person says HAS to be true. So, yes, you can use S3, so we need to carve out external services to say we don't need to run those services personally. So, what if you have a separate business unit that you don't share code with that created the service? Well, I guess we will make an exception for that too, but they REALLY need to make sure their stuff works. Ok, what about the group on the 4th floor? I don't really want to run their code because wow that's a hassle and it is on a completely different stack and test system. Well then just treat it as external. Same with J's service, they sit next to me. And it's really the same stack but it's still hard to run it as a complete system to test. Well that's ok too then I guess. Ok we are back to microservices and why they are useful.

All that said, I agree with the sentiment of the post, testing the system as a whole can reveal issues before they get to prod. But maybe that means you need to harden your contracts and internal SLAs.
Yes! Value producing assets produce value regardless of the nominal price of that value. It’s insane that people don’t understand this.
> Maybe we need PSAs and cheesy slogans with mascots to tell us that "cool kids don't dopa-meme!", and hip celebrities kids can identify with (Youtubers?) to casually mention that they don't use gamified social networks, etc.

That's not likely to happen. The real secret of the gamified social networks is that they've found a way to keep you participating in the economy 24/7. Even when you're not doing anything, you're creating value in the form of metadata that gets shuffled off to Google and Facebook. Even when you're off work, you're "working" in the sense that you're contributing to the economy.

If we cut all of that off, I would expect a drop in GDP as people revert back to having large periods of time when they're not active in the economy.

I'm with you, I think they need to go away, but it won't be without it's drawbacks.
Interesting news, I think a lot of people were under the impression that Sony had given up on the technology. The PS5 is certainly powerful enough to deliver a decent VR experience, hopefully Sony has some fresh ideas to differentiate themselves. The VR industry desperately needs some innovation to move it forward.
Hyundai unveils Ioniq 5 electric car: Out-of-the-box EV
How do you compare with Magnax?

Also: We're developing high energy density battery packs (cells of 400wh/kg+, packs at 300-350wh/kg), might be interesting to team up.
Hit me up on LinkedIn: Bernd Rietberg.
The main causes of heart disease in the US are sugar, excessive carbs and smoking, not Saturday morning bacon.
What sites are people visiting? I've used Firefox for over a decade and yet have to run into any kind of issue like this.
There is a rumor that Schumman ruined his hand by getting surgery to free up his tendons but there doesn't seem to be any proof of that.
it is not about physics, it's about security.
Internet Occultists Are Trying to Change Reality with a Magickal Algorithm
Do you have your units mixed up? Wikipedia seems to have a different range:

>While PTFE is stable and nontoxic at lower temperatures, it begins to deteriorate after the temperature of cookware reaches about 260 °C (500 °F),

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene
U.S. citizen, but have lived and traveled abroad extensively.

Each time I return, the barely letter-of-the-law scams that permeate our economy and culture are a huge aggravation and disappointment.

I know a lot of other people who also do extensive, long-term travel and who express similar sentiments: "The whole society is organized around financially draining you" etc.
Also far from a 50% chance that the statement is correct.
Maybe they're challenging themselves on things that interest them more...and just want a functioning Nextcloud instance?
It's a shame because local storage and friends aren't quite as secure (no way to block all JS from accessing it like you can with cookies).
Here is another later study that shows no correlation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5303122/

There is a lot of speculation and no confirmed mechanism for a milliwatt microwave transmitter to damage human sperm.

Would you be worried about a blinking led light near you? Thats the power levels we are dealing with and the visible light has much higher photon energy closer to ionizing being in the terahertz range.

Meanwhile go take a nice walk outside under the 1000 watt per square meter nuclear fusion radiator that includes many watts of actual cancer causing near ionizing radiation.
If your data is too large to replicate locally then downloading a subset of data is better than nothing.
I'll hold off on my order of the new Impossible Boner from Burger King.
Life finds a way.

Within the boundaries of the space is a solution, we just don't know where the boundaries are most of the time.

A bunch of years ago we were under a similar predicament, we needed to tune some software that was data dependent, yet we were cut off from prod data, and the test data as hot garbage.

It took weeks to get new software into production. We had one code push left before launch but we still needed to tweak with production traffic. So we did what everyone does, ship remote firmware updates. In the last code push we included `eval` and the ability to POST code to an endpoint. We were just doing some query rewriting, but the code could have run anything.

Once the last build made it through dev and test, we had a serverless deployment platform that allowed us to dynamically update the code in realtime.

yolo
Firefox 86 Release Notes
> If you take an intellect so impressive that they are one in ten million, there will be still be almost eight hundred of those people in the world.

Intellects aren’t fungible. Even if there are 800 Fabrice Ballard-level minds out there, I doubt most of them have honed their brain on the exact problems he’s worked on. You can’t just find another one-in-ten-million mind and put them to work on the problems of another 1/1e7 mind and expect comparable results.
Congrats on the launch, Jorge and Julio! The fintech space is crying out for better, easier experiences that lead to better decisions, faster. Your UI demonstrates that you've thought through the domain to its primitives and is well-organized, so well done!

One of the big challenges is onboarding customers and their data. The integration toggles and menu item for data mappings are thoughtfully organized, but how much of it is self service?
I believe so. That is what ad tech companies are now doing to get past the improved privacy measures.
HRCloud2 has built in backup capability. https://github.com/zelon88/HRCloud2

Full disclosure, I'm the developer.
When someone you know dies, it shakes you up and changes your perspective. This process has happened to 1/3.
I’ve had a miserable time with Putting Google in a container and switching over SSO.
What sites does it break for you?
In US it is very regional, socio-economic and political.
I knew 0 people who had it from March->October.
I then knew 30+ people who had it across 4 different outbreaks between Nov 1 and Xmas.
Broke down to -
- Working class / front-line workers who had to physically report to work

- People with kids in college who came home

- People who were more right wing (its all a hoax)

- Extroverts who refused to stay home / went to bars as much as allowed

And the commingling of above.

Fall/Winter wave was crazy.
Of the 30, 1 went to hospital, none died. Most of them were on their ass in bed for a week, and some have not had a return of normal taste/smell after 2 months.

I do have an indirect "know of" relative-of-relative who died, as a frontline nurse in area that took few precautions, during the summer wave sadly.

People still don't understand how quarantine and testing lag work, so I know of multiple scenarios like this:

* Person A feels off but tests negative in first 3 days so socializes with Person B. Then tests positive 2-4 days later.

* Person B starts to feel off after 2-3 days, gets contacted by Person A that hey I got it

* Person B goes and gets tested and pops a negative in first 3 days ...

From here if Person B quarantines and keeps re-testing until positive or clean for 14 days (unlike Person A) it's over.

However lot's of Person Bs kept going out and spreading..
One in my family turned a single kid coming home from college into 4 entire households sick in a week, and the guy who ended up in hospital was a Person C in this scenario.