skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have a NovaDreamer induction device (http://www.lucidity.com/novadreamer.html). Ironically, I was never able to attain lucidity while using one. It's a mask that watches for eye movements (such as those during REM sleep), then turns on leds inside the mask. You're supposed to use bright lights as a reality check during the day - if you see a bright light, perform a test to see if you are dreaming. Hopefully, the led light will be incorporated into your dream as external stimuli sometimes are, and you will hopefully have the habit down of doing a reality check which will fail and you'll realize you're dreaming.
You can't make the purchase through the app. Therefore there's no way for fraudulent transactions to be processed through the app. Refunds are done by Apple, subscriptions are done via Apple, and no mention of any external payments are made within the app. That makes iOS safer.
A bot can check that the link is not dead, but it can't check that the link still has the information claimed by the citation.
Like I said, the UV-5R isn't licensed or marketed as an FRS radio...this isn't a general Baofeng complain-a-thon, it's a thread that started with an unreasonable complaint that FRS users cause harmful interference on the ham bands. You hopped on with Baofeng tech specs, and I humored this, but now I have to say you've completely derailed the thread into nothing but Baofeng specs, a seemingly meaningless exercise given the thread contents. If this thread is going to continue for another week or two, could we at least get back into the proper context?

In fact it's extremely rare to find an FRS user with a radio like a UV-5R. Most of them are using Motorola Talkabouts, or Cobras, or Midland radios.

Another part of the reason for the lack of popularity is that people like to buy brand-name, popular radios that their friends recommend, and another part is that Baofeng does a better job advertising their FRS radios that are purpose-built for FRS. People shopping for an FRS radio like to buy something that says "FRS" on the box.

(The only person I ever met who used a Baofeng on FRS frequencies was a licensed GMRS user, and their use was 100% OK, of course)
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I'm curious; do these host the control plane bits inside the cluster (on the VMs in the cluster, which I presume are not free)?

In AKS, the API server & its backing storage, as well as most of the core controllers are "managed", in that they run somewhere not in your cluster. But then, you hit the issues where they must consume resources, and someone at the end of the day must pay for those.

I'd almost rather they run in the cluster, since those are resources I can introspect & debug.

(In a normal "vanilla" cluster, not a cloud-based one, normally these would all run inside the cluster, unless you configured them differently. E.g., kubeadm builds them into the cluster.)
1. Diesel-electric engines are not regenerative.

2. If you can't get it up, you won't be going down.

A 110 car unit coal train grosses 143 tons per car for a 15,750 ton gross trainset weight, excluding locos. Metric is nearly the same, I'll round to 15,000 tonne.

Lifting that 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) requires about 150 gigajoules of energy, or the energy equivalent of over 3.5 tonnes of oil. You're not going to recover that fuel going downhill.

(Rough numbers for an approximate answer, but it's a lot of energy.)

The highest elevation mainline crossing in the US was on the Union Pacific Railroad, Tennessee Pass (10,240 feet, 3,121 m), built in 1882 and retired in 1997. Today it's the San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad, La Veta Pass (9,242 feet, 2,816 metres).

https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/highest_steepest_rai...
My take from that (great) post (aside from all the Tether "lies, lies and lies," as the article says):

- "Tether now have three months to present a winning story on their reserves."
How large a battery are you planning on carrying?
Seems like indirect sarcasm. I have been seeing more of it here on HN. Unfortunately it lowers the quality of conversations that we are capable of having on here..
It's because CashApp lets you buy and sell bitcoin, that is, CashApp is buying this bitcoin so it can sell it to customers [1]. It's not speculation on the part of Square or Jack Dorsey.

All this speculation about speculation is wildly disappointing.

[1]: https://www.investors.com/news/technology/square-stock-sq-sq...

> Square said revenue jumped 141% to $3.16 billion as more Cash App users bought and sold digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin.
All the health monitoring should hook up to PagerDuty and then my siblings and I could take shifts. (Only half joking)
This is my issue too. Earplugs don't help for idling trucks, or subwoofers. Nothing I've found does.
I have a friend who has lived in the same place for 20 years and has built a family there. They've never missed rent and have been excellent tenants, but nevertheless they're being pushed out and the property is being sold to developers. The developers are trying to intimidate my friend and hoping he doesn't know his rights and just leaves quietly - typical prisoner's dilemma final game betrayal that many property managers pull on people.

Were it not for the eviction moratorium my friend's family would have to up-end two decades of their life during a pandemic when none of them are vaccinated and one is immunocompromised, while juggling kids and trying to find a job. I understand there are some people taking advantage of these circumstances by not paying rent, but the fact is a lot of people are in pretty dire circumstances right now without many options.

Obviously this situation is also terrible for the people highlighted in this piece too and I feel for them - they worked hard and built something from nothing, and highlighting their story is important. I'm of two minds about what to feel about the broader context though, as non-residence real estate is ultimately an investment which carries risks, including unforeseen risks like pandemics. We learned quite recently in the 2008 recession that over-leveraged real estate is a systematic risk, and whether its a pandemic or a financial crisis, it's prudent that investors be able to manage a shock of at least 12 months without rent. Even absent external circumstances, a pipe could burst or another maintenance nightmare could emerge that would make an investment property uninhabitable for a long time.

Its very unfortunate that the US has such an investment-oriented view of residential real estate. In times like these, that approach pits people against each other rather than brings us together to better manage the crisis. Housing insecurity is an awful thing to have to deal with, and if everything is simultaneously quantified into 'how much am I going to make/lose', the fabric of society is going to tear.
And in turn thats just a link to LTT forms[0] what's your point?

[0] https://linustechtips.com/topic/1306757-m1-mac-owners-are-ex...
Sounds a lot like everywhere else, like America. I bet if Americans and Chinese looked, we have more in common with each other than we have with our politicians.
Amazon has another offering called Lightsail [1] with simpler pricing. It might work better for side projects.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
Remember that it is RISC too, so memory usage would be much higher then x86.
My 3 month old 8gb MBP

Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 1%
Data Units Read: 53,339,111 [27.3 TB]
Data Units Written: 49,807,244 [25.5 TB]
Hmm... My M1 Air 16GB from December is an order of magnitude higher than that, but I do usually have 10 VS Code windows open, lots of Node instances, databases, Slack, and LOTS of browser tabs. Should I be worried?

Percentage Used: 1%
Data Units Read: 74,899,871 [38.3 TB]
Data Units Written: 71,233,417 [36.4 TB]
Why would you need more than 128MB? What are you gonna do with it?

Hahahahahahahahahaha....
Maybe you're hearing only "hodl" because those people are loud? Just like Vitalik doesn't give a shit about making money on speculation, so do many people working around this tech, a lot don't hold anything in crypto or purely symbolic amounts, trading takes a lot of time, energy and can drain emotionally very quickly, with more than 80% of new traders loosing money after 1 year not everybody is interested in it.

To put it in other words - crypto trading is different kind of hobby than programming. Many people are interested in what kind of systems can be built and don't give much crap about monetizing it or worry about how many people are using it.

It's a bit like getting upset at Fabrice Bellard because he created quickjs that "nobody is using" - it's completely missing the point.
At the risk of turning this into a Rust thread, is fuzzing less relevant in languages with more strict handling of nullables?

I can see it being very useful in go-land, since it's relatively easy to make mistakes w/ nils that the compiler won't complain about, but I'm curious how far having a stronger type system can go vs fuzzing.
> If I'm creating tax filing software, do I need to spin up a local instance of the IRS to test with?

No, integrate directly with the test endpoints provided by the IRS [1].

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-schema/Portal%20Transition%20Gui...
Sure, but nobody is buying time on your GPU to mine Bitcoin. They are buying time on your GPU to mine some other cryptocurrency. One that uses a different hashing algorithm.
I wouldn't bet on it being just the instruction set itself but it is true that given the chance x86 compilers will often go mental with the SIMD extensions which can lead to lots of fairly long instructions rather than a lower throughput but much shorter block
> do we know the exact effects of certain bee species becoming extinct?

Not, in most cases.

> For example if all X pollinators go extinct, could it not potentially leave room for Y pollinators

Not. We would enter in an extinction vortex. Less pollinators mean less seeds, less plants, and the empty space would be filled by Y, the species that Y pollinators search for. X would disappear. And we would lose Z, M and Q also. Is the same that happens with companies that lose their main customers. They became less attractive, not more. To be rescued by the fanbase of a competitor suddenly moving in mass to your product is not likely.

> Would the Earth just be completely screwed?

Not, you can't screw the planet, but would be painful (Mess with nature, brace yourself for nasty surprises. Nasty and unfixable). If we take in mind similar events from our past many people would probably die.
That coup attempted happened because the powers at hand missed it. In the aftermath Parlor is shut down, and the powers at hand would never allow such a thing to happen again. So at best you can say the censorship apparatus in the US is less effective, but still present.

And yes, the US government didn't do the censorship, but rather the private platforms that wield the power did so.
I worked on a smart home project once that supported recently disabled people towards recovery.

I know they setup a bed sensor that would report when they got out of bed each day. A simple metric for basic okay-ness.
If you're interested in a long read, I found this article informative (though it's not focused only censorship): "Why do Chinese people like their government" https://supchina.com/2019/07/22/why-do-chinese-people-like-t...
I think there's a legitimate difference whether the Fairness Doctrine was imposed as a condition of licensing the use of a limited, public resource (frequency spectrum allocation) or as an attempt to regulate freedom of the speech or press.

Because of the way it was implemented, I believe it was a condition of the use of public spectrum, not a regulation on speech broadly.
Yeah. My 2017 MacBook Pro (256 GB Apple SSD) reports:

Available Spare: 79%
Available Spare Threshold: 2%
Percentage Used: 15%
Data Units Read: 251,550,023 [128 TB]
Data Units Written: 228,761,896 [117 TB]

But this is after 3.5 years of use.
Backprop is not simply about adjusting the weights (as a matter of fact, you can argue that any training method is about adjusting the weights).

It's about computing the amount by which you adjust the weight.

And unless there's been a major development in neuroscience that I'm not aware of, backprop is not the way the brain does it.
And where people speaking dialects were warned to switch to Mandarin for better monitoring... that chills me. So damn privileged to live in the West.
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Agreed. Statements like "On one side are the lords of technology ... and the unseen ones who control them." don't help, either. It raises an antisemitism caution flag whether the speaker intended to or not.
Variant, strain?

The links are in contradiction to each other, the second one kicking off with An estimated one third of the world's population (or ≈500 million persons) were infected and had clinically apparent illnesses (1,2) during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. The disease was exceptionally severe. Case-fatality rates were >2.5%, compared to <0.1% in other influenza pandemics (3,4). Total deaths were estimated at ≈50 million (5–7) and were arguably as high as 100 million (7).

I don't really care to argue about it, my initial comment was measured.
I'm really struggling to find sympathy with the landlords in this situation.

From multiple angles:

1. Landlords already serve no real market function. They're middlemen - literal rent-seekers that offer no real service to their tenants. And somehow I'm supposed to feel bad for them?

2. The bulk of the housing shortages throughout the US (and other developed nations, for that matter) derives directly from the treatment of real estate as an investment rather than, you know, merely space to live/work/play. People buying homes (particularly low-density ones, mind you!) as "investments" are the perpetrators of that shortage, not somehow the victims; not only do they consume an outsized portion of the housing supply, but they have a vested interest in benefiting from the effects of that constrained housing supply, and therefore will logically do everything in their power to continue to constrain it because it pushes their property values higher.

3. If real estate is to be treated as an investment, then the risks of that investment must be acknowledged. Why should I feel differently about landlords who burned their savings on rental properties than I would about people who burned their savings on, say, GameStop stocks or some cryptocurrency pump-and-dump?

Like, if anything the renter demanding $12k from the landlord has a point. The very notion of land ownership externalizes opportunity costs on everyone else in a given area, specifically because land is finite / in fixed supply and therefore land ownership is definitionally zero-sum (one person's ownership of land is at the exclusion of others). Landlords are long overdue to internalize these externalized opportunity costs - specifically, through a land value tax (possibly supplemented with a flat income tax starting above some threshold; Milton Friedman was a proponent of this combined tax scheme), the proceeds of which would fund programs like UBI and single-payer healthcare to make up for those opportunity costs.

I feel for these landlords only in the sense that they're newcomers to this country hoping to find opportunities to better themselves and secure their financial future, and I hope they - alongside the rest of their fellow Americans - can get some much-needed financial support. That doesn't mean they're somehow the "good guys" in this story just because they're poor immigrants.

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And to be clear, the delinquent renters/squatters certainly ain't the "good guys" in this story, either. Refusing to pay anything for the space one inhabits - especially when one has the means to do so - also externalizes opportunity costs onto other renters (who are now excluded from that unit despite their willingness and ability to pay for it). I might disagree strongly with the morality of a landlord extracting rent, but refusing to pay rent entirely is not the way to go about fixing that. Rather, the fix is in actually correcting the circumstances that led to this situation - namely, by forcing the internalization of externalized opportunity costs, and by replacing landlords with housing cooperatives.
It is the same thing. The high power for takeoff shortens the runway from 7km to 400m.

We could do the same thing with cars and equip them with a super aerodynamic body and a 7kw engine, it could do 80kph.
Are you still on social media in 2021? If so, why?
Are you still on social media in 2021? If so, why?
I feel like this overemphasizes the legal angle, while ignoring other aspects of censorship. It's true that the Warren court significantly liberalized things by setting very narrow constitutional boundaries in Brandenburg v. Ohio etc. But there's censorship by law, and then there's censorship by public opinion. When you complain about "wokeism", it's mostly the latter - but there was plenty of that in the 70s as well, only with different opinions considered unacceptable to the point where people could get fired for them, or have trouble finding a platform to address large audiences.
Got my base M1 mini with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD on February 13th. With just simple content consumption (browser, Spotify, messaging) as of now it has written over 20TB of data! That is insane.
>"Those are part of the costs of being a landlord," Weaver responds.

No they aren't. Landlords want to at least cover their costs. If they lose out on rental income they are forced to raise rents to compensate their loss. This will mean higher rents and a subsidy for dishonest squatters. The idea that you can make housing cheaper by making it a bad investment is hilarious. If constructing new housing is a bad investment for landlords then nobody will provide housing as a service. Everyone will have to buy their own house or condo.

>"In public housing, people are paying 30 percent of their income," Weaver told Reason. "What I am envisioning is a world in which housing is owned by a collective and people are paying 30 percent of their income in order to live in their housing. If your income is zero, you pay zero. If your income is $500,000 a year, you're paying 30 percent of that."

What makes her think that rich people can't afford to hide their income? It wouldn't surprise me if they could just start a company and simply keep the funds inside the company and only pay out as much as necessary. This is way too easy to game and the ROI is insane. If you earn 500k you would end up with 350k so by engaging in tax shenanigans you could increase your income by 40%. Who's insane enough to not do that?

>When asked how the federal government could afford such a program, Weaver told Reason that it could "print" the money.

No, the way the federal government will be able to afford such a program is by providing housing at cost. Subsidies aren't the right answer and outright printing money isn't it either. If you really wanted such a program you would spin it as a jobs program first with the additional housing as a bonus. By lowering unemployment you increase the number of people who can afford to pay rent. So it's a win win situation. The slow acting benefit of additional housing would take years to have an effect.
What if they leave the house?
So question for the masses,

I’ve wanted to setup a personal account on Google cloud, azure etc and take advantage of free stuff but I am terrified something will happen and I’ll mess something up or someone will mess it up for me and I’ll be out hundreds on my credit card. Any suggestions here?

Great list.
Magnitudes will always be different, but also irrelevant. If a system allows censorship to happen magnitudes of censorship will shift depending on the threat to established power. If powers are threatened you bet they will leverage more or less censorship to preserve their power as the situation demands.

So a more stable society will enjoy more censorship, and a less stable one may employ more, but that is constantly shifting and pointless to compare.

What is important to compare is the awareness of the participants that the system isn't fundamentally different (both systems allow for censorship, and actively employ it to control and preserve power). The problem isn't where this is more or less censorship, it's that in America we're taught that censorship, propaganda, and such dystopian tools are something unique to the Soviet Union, communists, China, etc, when really it's a universal tool employed by everyone from Donald Trump's office to Kellog's cereal commercials, and yes, the Communist Party of China. Yea sure, we have a million news outlets and China maybe has one, but if these tools are employed by those in power to preserve their power then you can be the people here in power employ them too. At the end of the day our million news outlets don't matter if 99% of the power is concentrated in 1%. It creates an illusion that there is independence when really the only thing matter is who has power and is in control, because they can rally these "independent" players when needed.
The OP is sort of all over the place (their favorite "Pretty JSON" is not actually JSON at all, but SEN, which is definitely not JSON, which has a very discrete specification).

So what they are really talking about is just pretty code. Their favorite examples utilize alignment (tree notation does that better—every tree doc is ismorphic to a spreadsheet and you don't have to align things to the left spine, and their are grid langs that don't do that).

The colors et al are called "secondary notations" and again Tree Notation can't be beat. Adding secondary notations is simple. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn2aJA5ANUc
While it looks dated, SL has a far more intuitive UI, in my opinion. I don't recall any major issues with this release. It seemed to "just work." Big Sur seems like a toy by comparison.

An anecdote, I still remember installing Snow Leopard on my Polybook; it was the first OS update since switching to a Mac. I received the physical delivery since it was still distributed by disc, so I left my house. I was able to install it a few hours later while waiting on an appointment sitting in the car, all while on battery power! It was like magic.
I love it. Too poor to invest in property? Working class.

Have enough money to invest in property? No longer working class.

It’s attitudes like this that prevent the working class from participating in the generation of wealth through capital. As soon as they dip their toe in, they’re now “rich” and get the rug pulled from under them.
Both machines are from Apple, so I'm afraid that this time it indeed is an Apple to Apple comparison.
Here's mine, 8GB M1 Air with 314 power on hours

Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 3%
Data Units Read: 231,234,195 [118 TB]
Data Units Written: 182,951,675 [93.6 TB]
aka Authentic speech. Anything less is gossip, or worse.

One can only guess at the motives of Freedom Speeches™ partisans who conflate trolls, bots and sockpuppets with IRL people.
Yes, you can disable the internal apps it ships with if you don't want to use them and just not install any third-party ones either. Only caveat is during one upgrade I noticed some of them had been re-enabled so now I make sure to check each time.
JMESPath (https://jmespath.org/) is closer to XPath, with the support for the axis traversal, filtering expressions and embeddable libraries in most mainstream programming languages. It also comes with jq-styled processing pipelines; the syntax is the same that AWS use to query AWS resources.
Remember the good old days when everyone was freaking out over Intel exposing the CPU serial number in an API, destroying the world as we know it?
Wish the VSCode extension linked issues #s within code commentary like GitHub's extension does.
"640kB should be enough for anyone" - nobody ever, but misattributed to Bill Gates.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quo...