skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read the paper yet (and forgive me if what I'm about to describe is exactly what this is).

It'd be cool if you could harness changes in temperature by filling some large vat with a liquid that can freeze at relatively low temperatures and some sort of device that, when moved by the shifting of the water generates electricity.

So if something is like

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After freezing it might look like

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The distance the objects move could generate electricity, and then as it returns back to its original position as the ice cools it would also generate electricity, in other words, electricity as a result of freezing and thawing! And while we're basically talking science fiction, if said vat were filled with water you could basically get water storage for free!
I still have a Sony minidisc player. I haven’t used it in years. Exquisite piece of mechanical engineering.

Then came the iPods and the rest is history.
I was talking about the innumerable "long COVID" media coverage where some ordinary person is invited to tell the whole story of how they got ill, felt terrible, and still feel terrible, but nowhere did they actually go to the doctor and get a formal positive COVID test. They are just guessing that they had this disease that was going around. And now dedicated Facebook groups etc. are popping up whose membership has complaints and claims that are extremely similar to the "chronic Lyme" groups that flourished just before COVID.

I was obviously not referring to actual scientific studies of long-term COVID effects, but as I said, those studies don’t say quite what the more sensationalistic mass-media coverage is saying.
How is this a government problem? People frequently lose access to social network accounts and email because of broken algorithms. Google can blacklist a business and send it broke. Insurance companies, credit bureaus and banks can make a wrong decision and deny credit.
I assume GP means ISO8601 Date Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601. Default behavior of javascript date json serialization

> JSON.stringify(new Date())
'"2021-02-22T20:34:53.686Z"'
You still need enough reserve power at the end of a flight to do a rejected landing/go around, or you won't get certified. If you are relying on some kind of catapult, rail gun, or rocket assist to take off, not sure how that happens.
Between Gitlab,Gitea and bare-git repos, which one should I use for personal (1-man) projects? Here are my thoughts:

Gitlab is resource-hungry but provides CI solutions and is kind of a setup-once-then-forget solution.

Gitea is light weight but for any additional functionality third-party utilities are needed.
If the only vulnerability that was exploited was an unsuspecting user installing a software they thought was clean, it should just be classified as "30K macs have compromised software installed on them"
Sure, but that's not how negotiation works; both parties are trying to get as much out of the deal as they can, assuming it beats both parties' BATNA.

Also, that you had multiple term sheets means you... ran an auction. It's wonderful that most of the terms were similar, but getting multiple term sheets is effectively generating a bidding war. You don't have to pick the one that is monetarily best (we didn't, because we preferred the partners), but that's why you're doing. :)
I don't find this comment useful in any way since you are so weakly-informed and strongly-belligerent.

Elixir and Erlang are strongly- BUT DYNAMICALLY- typed. Next time, please check yourself before you wreck yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Group 1C is pretty much "everyone".

To take directly from the CDC [0], "Other essential workers, such as people who work in transportation and logistics, food service, housing construction and finance, information technology, communications, energy, law, media, public safety, and public health."

Doesn't that cover pretty much everyone on HN ?

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...

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Second, shouldn't the focus be #1 - stop deaths; #2 - stop hospitalizations; #3 Stop the disease (which is what "spreading" actually is)
By selling an insurance.
I've got a couple of these bad boys in my retro tech collection. I've only got a couple "books" and fewer in English. The books are much harder to find than working players, at least in the US.

If you're thinking of getting one I don't recommend it. Finding a properly working model is non-trivial and once you do finding content is harder. At the end of the day you've got a hard to use dictionary.

I didn't find out these details until I owned them. However I have a soft spot for Sony's industrial design from the 90s. I've got a couple of these, Pyxis GPS receivers, and some Hi-8/Digital-8 pieces. I think they just look cool and some I lusted after when I was younger. It's way more techno looking than their 70s and 80s ID and way cooler than their post-2000 retro-esque ID.
And there's a number of students who graduate from there without being able to code? Having completed an Computer/Software Engineering degree?
تحميل DS4Windows لاستخدام وحدة تحكم Playstation 4 لألعاب الكمبيوتر
An Atom Pushed to Its Speed Limit
That description makes it sound like it's going to be pitifully weak per square meter. First blush is that it's going to be too expensive and weak to be practical for general use. There might be some edge cases like distributed sensors were it could make sense, but even then a battery backed solar install is going to blow it away unless they've figured out a way to manufacture it almost for free.
That's a great opportunity to learn to say "no" and how to demonstrate in various degrees of politeness that your time is not free.

The most liberating moment was when I learned to say "I don't care about that" to people with flyers, while keeping on walking
> cowardly politicians

They aren't cowardly; they are responding rationally to a constituency that hates "criminals". Prioritizing fixing discriminatory systems (such as this software, or "stop and frisk", or the death penalty) is bad electoral politics for "tough on crime" politicians.
Read the opening comment on the issue

It's reasonable to expect an attacker to have a SHA256 ASIC given Bitcoin making those a commodity

Potentially this can be offset if your server has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions but if you're running on cell phones that's not there

See also https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/36253/what-minin...
> I tend to believe it actually happened because engineers with enough political clout decided they wanted everybody to change to their preferred language, not truly because of technical reasons, but because they just wanted to be paid to write in a cool language.

I would say it's cool _because_ of the technical reasons, though! You make it seem like people are inventing technical reasons to make rust seem cool. I could make a long "technical reasons" list why I would personally prefer to work in Rust, but it boils down that it makes me more productive, and the code more performant with fewer gotchas and less sacrifices/compromises (compared to say C++ or C). Do I think Rust is cool? I guess... But that which attracted me to Rust was there already; I didn't have to make it up[1].

I understand not every language is for everyone. I've had colleagues dismiss rust simply because they prefer C++ (and we work with C++). Some will even agree Rust is better when presented with technical reasons, but still not like Rust "just because."

> I wonder why they didn’t try doing things like putting the LRU cache into foreign, unmanaged memory to avoid garbage collecting it. Easier said than done, but why not?

I write Go intermittently since I participate a little in the Kubernetes ecosystem, and haven't dwelled that deeply into it. How would this be done without reaching for C, though? Or would it be fitting to swap languages in this "subset" of the implementation?

[1]: I feel like "make up" is the wrong phrase here, but I can't think of a better one right now. I guess what I want to say that Rust's "cool" reputation is well deserved. I don't think the technical reasons are made-up to serve as office-politics cannon fodder.
Like the old saw goes:

The Graybeard engineer retired and a few weeks later the Big Machine broke down, which was essential to the company’s revenue. The Manager couldn’t get the machine to work again so the company called in Graybeard as an independent consultant.

Graybeard agrees. He walks into the factory, takes a look at the Big Machine, grabs a sledge hammer, and whacks the machine once whereupon the machine starts right up. Graybeard leaves and the company is making money again.

The next day Manager receives a bill from Graybeard for $5,000. Manager is furious at the price and refuses to pay. Graybeard assures him that it’s a fair price. Manager retorts that if it’s a fair price Graybeard won’t mind itemizing the bill. Graybeard agrees that this is a fair request and complies.

The new, itemized bill reads….

Hammer: $5

Knowing where to hit the machine with hammer: $4995
How to start with your LinkedIn content in 2021?
I believe LinkedIn is among the top two social media platforms which is great for organic reach as of right now. You should be taking more seriously. For me LinkedIn is one of the top performing channel in terms of conversions.

Here are few tips on how to start with your LinkedIn content.

- Repost your tweets as Images on LinkedIn. You can screenshot it or use any other free tools.
- Make more Twitter threads then repost your twitter threads into a carousel post. Here's how you can do it
- Have a blogpost? Repost it on LinkedIn as a long text or carousel post. Companies like Mailshake repost their blogpost on LinkedIn as a carousel post to drive more readers through it.
- Have a podcast? Share five important key takeaways in a text, photo or a carousel.
- Turn your small tweets into animated text videos. Export them as a GIF. This format also works well on LinkedIn.
- Share memes/GIFs related to your niche, but don't over do it.

The reason I'm recommending carousel posts more & more is because LinkedIn algorithm have something like dwell time in which if someone spends more time on your content. Algorithm will push that content more. It's great for any long form of content.

It's more about distribution than the creation.

Just repost the same content but in different post type which works for that social media. You can copy this exact same strategy for Instagram as well.

Let me know what would you add?
Here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.16.21249950v...

Hundreds of thousands of people. Average age mid 40s and sliced by hospitalized or not. Controlled against people who had the flu during lockdown.

Double digit percentages have issues 6 months on. Unsurprisingly not very different from SARS 1 and those people are still sick since 2003.
It feels like they're also prime candidates for making a tour with them as actual robots (or holograms), so they wouldn't even need to tour themselves.
> Because purchasing digital stuff is done within the realm of capitalism, which uses scarcity to guarantee value. If the scarcity is removed or reduced, the price goes down approaching to 0. We saw cost reductions happen with music with Napster, and movies with Bittorrent.

Yes, I believe this is why they are called “micropayments.” Its expected that the price will approach zero.

> And the way to enforce scarcity with digital stuff means anti-user encryption and rights-reduction with DRM.

I’m sorry, this seems like a non sequitur. Why are they trying to maintain scarcity again?

> And without DRM, a single user "buys" the content, breaks the connection with transclusion,

Then how would people know the version of the content they have is the same as the content they want?

> and uploads it for cheaper than legit,

You misunderstand. There is no such thing, they own the content, the price they charge for transcluding their copy is their decision. They’re allowed to charge a low price.

> Then you're making money on copyright violations

So its clear that either the law would have to change or people wouldn’t be using this for copyrighted works. This could replace copyright by giving content creators an alternate means of distribution.

> and do you really think the powers that be would allow

No you’re right, might as well just give up and go back to facebook and youtube

> and do you really think the powers that be would allow this system with anonymous accounts/payments/withdrawal? (And there's your user tracking, user attestation, and anti-privacy tech

So basically no problems with Xanadu that you can identify, but a lot of assumptions about society and politics that you believe would make it untenable. Got it.
Interesting. We are researching Elixir for an online transaction ledger (thousands of payments per second) along with kafka. So far thats the technology that seems more suitable. That discord article was really appreciated to understand some of the intricacies of using Elixir.
Here you go: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/perseverance-and-mars...
Spanish is spoken by more than 4% of the US. It is an official language of New Mexico, the dominate language of Puerto Rico, and has a significant number of native born speakers in states bordering Mexico (which at one time owned those states). There are also a lot of immigrants (mostly from Mexico - both legal and illegal) who speak Spanish.

If you squint hard enough Portuguese is a dialect of Spanish, as is Italian. Native speakers will disagree with that statement, but most non-native speakers who have learned Spanish and one of the other agree that once you know Spanish it isn't a big deal to learn the other.
For me this model looks insane, so you can save a few hundreds of bucks per year in electricity costs, but when extreme events happen (and they certainly will), you will wipeout decades of "savings".
You either need some insurance or hard price cap. People are bad at estimating risks...
You are right. The problem with the article is that the author is confusing two separate somewhat independent failures here:

1) Variable rate plans based on wholesale market resulting in customers getting massive electricity bills during the wholesale market price spike.

2) Due to lack of regulation, little to no spending on winterization of generating capacity, with the purpose of ensuring lower prices for consumers and higher margins for generators. Both of those objectives were accomplished by the system, but the tail risk/cost management was not, and therefore it was effectively socialized.

If the tail risk (at least the risks we can see) were addressed through regulation (the only way to do so), prices would rise for all plan types to pay for the winterization, irrespective of whether they are variable or flat rate.

That regulation and associated price rise has been up to the moment unpalatable to Texas voters.
I often observe that I am he slowest climber on the mountain, but I do not think I am the least fit. There's a good chance it's the technique.
A couple of friends and I (back in London) tried to work on this exact same problem, we built an allergy-log app which in theory was going to sync with the doctor's office so that they could recommend a therapy (or even skip the visits with docs and specialists). Our monetizing strategy was to ship you the "therapy" and take a cut - we worked on it for 6 months and then..life threw us some lemons. Definitely a good idea and a missed opportunity!

As an allergy sufferer, I am super happy that you're pursuing this, going to bookmark it - good luck!!
> You listed off a bunch of nonsense - do you really think people actually believe that crap or are you the one fooled into thinking someone actually believes that? The more outlandish they sound, the better case for censoring, right? These cases just sound like a reporter went on 4chan, decided they dont like this so they must be the 'other side'. And it was enough to convince the majority that censorship is the way.

I personally know someone who believes about half of that. It sure doesn't feel unusual.
I don't think so. There's simply not excess vaccines to go around at this point. I imagine this might happen more in the future when a larger percentage of some nations are vaccinated.
When something with ~30-50% mortality starts doing a COVID there won't be room for anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown people. With COVID you can get sick and live. With something like ebola you get sick and die, or you go through the most traumatic event of your life. It doesn't leave a middle ground of disbelief. So I think there would be the political will for a second lockdown if our next global pandemic looks like ebola. A second COVID probably might not be scary enough though.
The only thing that completely solves for removed items is constantly polling, or setting up a webhook/callback of some kind.

Padding the offset would solve for the problem mentioned where deleting an item would mean some non deleted items are not included in the paging results because they got moved up a page after that page was requested, but before the next page was requested. For example If I request 100 items at a time but set my offset to be 90 more than what i have received so far, i can expect my response to have duplicates, if it does not then i know my offset was not padded enough and i can request from a different offset. Of course you would adjust the numbers based on knowledge of the data.

Edit:
If you used the ID of the last item instead of an offset, then you could get errors if your last item is in fact the one that was deleted.
Imagine being someone in this experiment. You awake still 100% sure that you wont be a copy as you were before going to sleep. Then you find out you are the copy. It would seem to me that the reasoning which led you to believe you definitely wont be a copy while you indeed find yourself to be one must be faulty.
I'm confused, 2^14 = 16384 is slightly more than 4 orders of magnitude, where did you get 20 from?
> if they are pressured by "loved ones" to end it with dignity, and they agree, who are we to disagree?

Well, my Dad for one ;) Family dynamics can get very ugly. If a family is emotionally manipulating any of its members into committing suicide, he feels that is wrong. I tend to agree, this feels wrong to me, even if everyone involved is saying that they're happy with it.

At the moment, all of this behaviour is legal, right up until the parent commits suicide. There's nothing the lawyer can do because there's no expressed intention to commit suicide (just the repeated "I don't want to be a burden" I guess - I'm never witnessed this myself). I think we could incorporate language into a Euthanasia bill to cope with this situation better than it is currently, but Dad disagrees, citing his experience of how manipulative families can get.

To summarise his view: families can be evil to each other. Some families already manipulate aging parents into suicide, which is wrong and should be opposed. Making assisted suicide legal and giving it a framework will encourage it, and any procedural hurdles won't stop that.
Probably fewer, since much of the population (at least those under 16) isn't eligible.
Not sure where you're getting this, but the Fed has already signalled ZIRP through 2023, and there is little to no inflation showing up in headline measures. Medium to long term rates will likely rise this year, but historically cheap capital is likely here for a few years at least.
Terminology descriptions aside (I believe what you are describing is a worm, not a virus), knowing how something spreads is important.

Obsessing over motivations of the developers without providing useful mitigation steps or any kind of even vague description of who is at risk by this is frustrating.
Joe Biden So Mentally Incapacitated He Dropped a N-Bomb in Speech – Direct Link
You're making the implicit assumption that synapses === binary bits, and that synapses are the only thing important to the brains computation. I would be surprised if either of those things were the case.
I have a controversial theory that society would be better off if we made sure no one technically had to work to survive. Working would provide income to improve your conditions (serving as motivation), but food and shelter would be made available to everyone no matter what.

Under these conditions, anyone could study what they wanted and volunteer to do things like this, and institutions could provide support to them at little cost.

I imagine we accomplish this by making the necessities of life as cheap as possible, not by heavy state subsidy.

Our need to squeeze profitable labor out of every person seems actually counter productive. Anyway total aside...
We know how to land relatively small things on Mars landing humans will be a much larger craft and because of that a harder task.
I wonder if they'll initially synthesize the HiFi data from their current sources. e.g. generate 24/32-bit 96kHz predithered data from 16-bit 44.1kHz.

[Sorry if the post covers this, I didn't read it because it wanted too many domains whitelisted for js.]
Why It's a Mistake for Publishers to Treat Player Complaints as White Noise
>PAKE still require storing verifier on the server, which is basically a password hash.

No, there is an important difference: leaking this verifier does not let an attacker to impersonate user at will. See my other message [0].

Is my understanding correct that you derive two keys from user password, one used for authentication and one for decrypting encrypted content which does not leave the user's computer? In that case, yes, it's somewhat better than the typical scenario, though I personally would still prefer if a proper PAKE was used for authentication. It may not apply to your service, but leaking encrypted data can still result in exposing certain meta-information, which may be important, so it's better to be extra-safe in such matters.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26230200
Meaningful as an effect. Not as energy generation solution. The probably optimistic future estimation of 0.5W/m^2 doesn't look too great to me. There is only so much energy to be gathered from delta of a few degrees...

I wonder if this would ever reach parity during lifecycle of energy input to output.
> I agree with you on that but this still makes me question the problem they are trying to solve can't they solve in Go instead of switching to Rust.

High performance systems in GC languages often preallocate or use object pools to reduce time spent in the garbage collector. LMAX's Disruptor, for example, allocates all memory at startup; no additional memory is allocated so the garbage collector never runs. Generational GCs make this strategy more effective because long-lived or large objects are traced rarely or not at all. Another option for trading systems is to run garbage collection after hours when the market has closed.

Go's GC is conservative, not generational, and has a hard coded collection interval of 2 minutes; you pay for a GC even if no memory has been allocated. There are only a few configuration options for Go's GC; if it doesn't work for your use case then you can either fork or use a different language.
Similar idea perhaps? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42452-018-0139-z
I've posted elsewhere but

Here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.16.21249950v...
HTTP Pipelining, S3, and Gg
Nono. the master-key never leaves the device.

Via the master-key, the program derives(locally) the key to encrypted the data and a different secondary key for authentication against the server. without knowing the master-key you can't decrypt the vault even if you were able to trick the server into sending you the vault.

The vault is decrypted locally
Cool idea. I might work on this.
most mobile browsers actually use low resolutions like this by default