skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes to all of this. That's the problem.
Which pharmacy? In my experience with all the majors they have standard price sheets for vaccines.
dang, why was this submission hidden? I didn't see it flagged, it just disappeared and there was no discussion link.
It's getting there, just growing pains as it goes through cycles of innovation and improvements.
Why the Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Should Be Approved
Except in this case, this is going against presumably 51% of the miners and changes take much longer to implement and activate on Bitcoin (taproot activation for example will be done over a very long period and needs a very high threshold).

Going from PoW to PoS in such a small timeframe is pretty aggressive no matter how you look at it. As a user, I really hope it works out without major issues.
Sorry, but you're wrong. There's nothing about regular expressions that means you have to use them to search for matching substrings. That's just one particular operation that uses regular expressions. It's not a quality inherent to regular expressions themselves. There are many different operations you can perform with a regular expression besides a substring search.

Python, for example, has a fullmatch method.[0]

libicu's matches() function returns true "if the pattern matches the entire string, from the start through to the last character."[1]

PCRE has various flags that change what it means for a regular expression to match, including PCRE2_ANCHORED and PCRE2_ENDANCHORED. Used together, these options would require a full match with no change to the regular expression itself.[2]

0. https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html

1. https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/strings/regexp.h...

2. http://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2api.html#SEC27
Fire on the metal increases then ‘explosion’ the size of which depends on the metal type and quantity obviously https://youtu.be/tj7S_DNFgEU

Also alkali metals is fun

https://youtu.be/I8tOtZKpi04
I wouldn't call it counter-culture. Sounds more like taking a prominent cultural metanarrative about the evils of social media (which has been authored and perpetuated by many papers of record over the last several years), and embracing its implicit call to action.

It's play-acting rebellion in a pre-aproved manner
Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentina (2015)
There was (is?) a rumour that changing light globes was technically illegal under the letter of the law in Victoria. A quick search shows this may have been a 1998 law amended in 1999. Either way, people believed it which says something.
If you look at what Pieter Wuelle is doing, he's also doing amazing work, but when it comes to make decisions, he goes to the background even if he has an opinion.

I don't see the same thing happening to Vitalik. I'm not saying it's a problem, as Ethereum is a different network with different advantages and disadvantages, but he still looks like the final decision maker to me at this point (which is OK for me).
Watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix[1] was eye opening for me. I say that as someone who is intimately familiar with the technology related to the topics discussed.

[1]https://www.netflix.com/watch/81254224
It is, but the intersection point doesn't track the station. When you push an object retrograde (i.e. throw it out the back), two important things happen. One, you make it spend more time closer to Earth than it was spending before, meaning extra drag, which lowers that orbit's closest point to your orbit, ever so slightly. Two, objects in lower orbits move faster, contributing to drag, but more importantly, meaning that once you do one full orbit, the object will be somewhere else. It may still roughly intersect your orbit, but you won't be there when it does. Combining these two factors, you can give your object enough of a push that the two orbits stop intersecting before there's any risk of collision.
The term of art is being hoisted by your own petard.

Australia is also the country where they were removing aboriginal children [1] from their parents and put into foster care because aboriginal population were not civilized enough to raise children. Of course, the children faced horrific abuse and neglect in foster care. Crikey, mate, criminal.

Australia should reflect before lecturing others.

1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
Yeah! And RETURNING is awesome. No more second query with last_insert_rowid() hoping that no queries were done in between :D.
> Serious question, what are the key differences and tradeoffs between the DRI3 and Wayland APIs?

DRI3 gets you a file descriptor which can be used as a DMA-Buffer to directly render and present graphics. The Wayland protocol never clarifies how the compositor is supposed to implement the rendering but in practice the current implementations do exactly the same thing as DRI3 except in the case of GNOME and KDE on proprietary drivers from NVIDIA which use nvm_eglstreams.

> As a bystander, my impression is that the real issue is one of security and efficiency.

That is correct. As of now X11/Xorg has very broken security.

> Without reworking the underlying protocol to require compositing, how do you properly sandbox applications from one another?

There are many X11 security protocols already standardized [1,2,3] using access control hooks which lets you sandbox any aspect of your application but no client and/or toolkit ever adopted it. Also the current implementation of xinput invalidates many of those protocols.

> And as long as you're making such a significant overhaul, why not throw out a bunch of cruft and split off any extra functionalities into their own standards?

Wayland shows in a very painful way that those functionalities are strongly interdependent and untangling them leads only to more protocol overhead.

> And as long as you're doing all that, why not completely restructure the protocol to handle things like minimized windows updating thumbnails of themselves at an interval determined by the compositor?

That is a very specific problem, however A custom xcompmgr implementation would allow you do that today on X11.

1.: https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Security/

2.: https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xextproto/security.ht...

3.: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/Xserv...
Are the Asian and European varieties different in other important qualities? The article mentions straight grain and rot resistance, besides trunk size.
I will admit I don't fully understand the implications of this.

Doesn't this mean it's essentially game over for running untrusted JS by-default? Doesn't default-deny functionality like NoScript have to become mandatory in browsers for security? If not, why not?
I work in a research organization where I am responsible for crunching data and produce reports highlighting the most "notable" results. Not that the other data is uninteresting, but the volume is such that Excel cannot handle it and even distributing it can be challenging for non-computer-technical folks without dedicated solutions.

Instead, I can dump all of the processed results into a table, create some views highlighting analysis X vs Y, and share links that give others the ability to ask questions I had not even considered. Now the user is empowered to ask anything and they do not need to engage me for "simple questions". Everybody wins. I believe there is also an extension that allows you to generate and save new queries through the web interface.

It is not a tool for a professional analyst, but a means to collaborate with others. There are heavier/more feature rich alternatives, but Datasette is my favorite tool for getting results out the door without hassle (can run it off of a laptop after a pip install).
> Right wing media has been around for decades

Not really, right wing media (as we know it) came about precisely because of this problem. Rupert Murdoch created Fox News in 1996 because it was becoming increasingly clear that the erstwhile media had moved in a direction that alienated a broad section of society. This marked the end of the Walter Cronkite era.

As for why this started in 1996, and why the Walter Cronkite era was so tranquil, I read one theory on a recent interview with Patrick Collison (https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-patrick-collison...) which shows a consistent pattern:

"Culture. As Ezra Klein recently described in the New York Times, and Marc Dunkelman has written about in his great piece about Penn Station, a particular version of distorted, hypertrophic progressivism that took hold in the 1970s may have had (and still be having!) quite significantly stifling effects. We perhaps shifted from placing emphasis on our collective effectiveness in advancing prosperity and opportunity for people to the perceived fairness that was embodied in whichever particular steps we happened to take. Or, to say that another way, we shifted our focus from sins of omission to sins of commission."

This "hypertrophic progressivism of the 1970s" was broadly started in college campuses of the time, and by around the late '80s and '90s, college students from the '70s were beginning to find themselves within the ranks of leadership in most of our institutions.

> So again I ask, what's the problem?

The problem is the perceived impedance mismatch between professional institutions (media, white collar corporate America, etc) and society at large. Because this is an issue that has existed since at least 1996 (the advent of Fox News), the assertion is that the root cause is ideological movements that begin on college campuses that have historically not aligned with the ideologies of broad swaths of society; and adherents of those ideologies eventually going on to run our professional institutions.
If you're going to split a 1x PCIe lane into two M2 slots, you might as well save the cash and get a Pi4 and use two USB3 thumbdrives instead. The performance would be about equal by that point.
Nah, there are clinics and specialty practices even in the smallest third world countries.

ER/Urgent care is the same whether it has its own physical building or is a department in a hospital.

None of this has any impact on pricing.
> Facebook has created a ”playbook” to help its employees rebut criticism that the company’s products fuel political polarization and social division.

In my opinion, this is the core of the story and the title is misleading.
Cosmologists would be rationally happy once the result holds up, but as with most science fields, the folks within the field will be irrationally hostile to an outsider showing them an insight they’ve overlooked, and may spend the next ten or twenty years aggressively fighting against it regardless of its merits.

To provide an IT analogy, imagine being tech support for a bunch of alpha-cowboy engineers. They’ll tell you they did all the obvious things, they’ll object to being asked to perform simple diagnostic tests (“does the problem go away if you create a temporary new user account on your system?”), they’ll resent you for not having an immediate solution, and they’ll resent you when you find the basic step they missed. Yes, they’ll accept the solution you offer, but they’ll fight you tooth and nail until it’s unarguably proven that you’re right.

That’s often what cross-domain innovation in science is like.

EDIT: per comment below, this is a much better explanation: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/how-math-works
>Trained snails learned to withdraw

This is the part I'm not sure about. The alternate explanation I have goes like this:

- Snail A gets shocked a lot, as a result it gets really stressed out, altering its RNA/epigenetics to produce lots of stress hormones

- Lots of stress hormones lead Snail A to withdraw for a long time when touched

- Snail B gets an injection of Snail A's RNA

- As a result, Snail B starts producing lots of stress hormones

- Lots of stress hormones lead Snail B to withdraw for a long time when touched

This doesn't involve what we would typically regard as memory or learning, and certainly wouldn't generalize to a method of transferring memories in the general case. A modified experiment that I think would show genuine memory transferal would be to occasionally show red and green lights, have snails in group 1 shocked after the green lights only and snails in group 2 shocked after the red lights only, inject their respective RNA, and see if the receiving groups are distinguishable in their responses to red vs green lights.
The developer has already clarified that the source will be released and open sourced under GNU LGPL - https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/c...
What I want is a fitness tracker that doesn't require me to create an account or store data in the cloud, where I can just transfer the data to my computer using USB or Bluetooth or something like that.
Apparently I'm the only one because such a thing doesn't seem to exist.
> Assuming you manage to grab a hold of debris without ripping off even tiny parts, how would you dispose of it? You'd need to deorbit it and you need a working engine for that.

meet up with the debris, reorient yourself and the debris such that the debris is closer to the earth (reaction wheels, magnetic torquer bar and patience is all that's required), and then just mechanically kick it down (store up energy from the sun and then trigger a solenoid). the debris itself becomes your propulsion. you get a tiny boost up, perhaps towards your next target, and it gets a (admittedly!) tiny boost down.

obviously it doesn't instantly dispose of everything, but progressively pushing material further down the gravity well is the next best thing.

not claiming this would be cost effective.
To fall into the sun you would have to negate most of Earth's orbital speed which is about 29.8 kilometers per second. To escape the solar system you need about 42.1 km/s of speed. It actually takes less energy to yeet yourself out of the solar system from Earth than to fall down into the sun. If you threw an object from Earth's orbit along Earth's orbital path an extra 12.3km/s that object would be going 42.1 km/s and eventually but barely leave our solar system.

Unfortunately throwing things at kilometers per second by hand is not possible, 1 km/s is just under 2237 mph.

Of course with atmospheric drag for most low orbit satellites things will come down eventually, in which case throwing something the right way could add or subtract from the time it will stay in orbit, but that would be highly dependent on where you started. And LEO is already like 7.2 km/s or about 16,000 mph. Standing on a massive enough satellite using a large stick or like a sling staff would certainly help you get more speed in your throw though. A 100 mph baseball throw really wouldn't be that significant though.
It's still a fork in both cases. One path is taken by almost noone, but it's still an open possibility to keep it alive.
>The #1 complaint about Bitcoin (especially on HN) is its excessive use of power.

And how much power does Google or Facebook consume? How much power does each Google and Facebook click take?

There are good power sources like renewables and nuclear. Power is not a problem.

And I'm not sure POS is a good solution because Satoshi would've used it or would've switched to it.
Chrome Inspector choked on it
I feel liberated after reading your comment.
I get your point, but I think it's worth considering the sheer beauty of a Van Gogh painting. Have you been to MoMA and spent 30+ minutes looking at The Starry Night. Compared to Beeple https://www.beeple-crap.com/archive who straight up says: "Most of my work is complete fucking garbage, but this old shit is reallllllly fucking bad. Seriously. I mean, you can look at this shit if you want to but just know that it is most likely making you dumber and a shittier human being. It’s that bad."
I think a better way to look at it is: people paying to park wealth in the worlds most stable and transferable currency. Even North Korea likes holding US dollars.

We have the most stable, predictable economic environment in the world, and the oldest functioning constitution. Why would we not extract some of the value in that?

Another point: Inflation plays a domestic role as well, as it increases the velocity of money.
Sure, but without something more concrete to support criticisms, it's only a theory, however compelling the reasoning, that this might be a bad approach. Right now it reads like a detailed literature review. Such things are usually the starting point for research, not and end in themselves. I think the authors make a promising start here, but I look forward to further work from them so that if their criticisms are correct the field can turn to more fruitful approaches.
Is there still that weird law that fixes the price of milk based on how far from Wisconsin it is?
Given that "Raspberry Pi" or "RasPi" and its many other permutations are never mentioned alongside "Apple", I think it's going to be safely distinctive with or without "M2" by its side.
A lot of these people were driven by vanity, need, arrogance, ambition, narcissism, greed, ideology, biases etc.

Well, these sounds familiar.
Another big concern is the water turning to steam. It expands 1,000x. 2 cubic centimeters of water expanding to a 2 liter bottle worth of steam. My facility had its own quick response fire unit (production employees who went through fire and rescue training), and I believe the company helped fund a ladder truck for the town of ~600 people which is adjacent to a decent metropolitan area. Fast response is vital to minimize danger to people and damage to the facility.

Factories have been leveled by water hitting molten aluminum. The Hackaday link below does a great job summarizing the dangers.

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/30/water-and-molten-aluminium-i...

Explosion links:

https://youtu.be/sIJmwF1Qs7M

https://youtu.be/jvddrln900Q (last ~20 seconds)

Source: Used to work at a very large aluminum facility.
The GDPR wasn't written from scratch, we previously had the Data Protection Act which offered many of the same rights as the GDPR like the protection of personal information and prevention of disclosure to third parties, the right to access data a company holds on you (both of which date back to 1984), the right to opt-out of direct marketing, the right to removal of data that may cause distress, etc, which while a little dated is still far ahead of what most of the US has today.

The trouble with the DPA was fines capped out at £500k and international enforcement was limited so large international companies like Google and Facebook could treat the law as an optional slap on the wrist while smaller international businesses effectively flew under the radar, the GDPR largely rectified both of these issues while modernising the laws in response to issues that generally didn't exist prior to the mid 2000s.
Jaywalking is an odd example since I've lived in Sydney for 20 years and don't know anyone busted for it. I've seen many people cross at lights like this even with police cars sitting and waiting in traffic in clear sight.

I think what happens is they just get told one day to target it, when they'll stand around and catch people, otherwise they just don't care unless they take a personal dislike to you. I have heard of times they'll descend on Sydney CBD intersections like this in mobs to send a message. The rest of the time, jaywalking is generally very casually done here and not really a big deal like in some US movies.
I'm intimately familiar with syncing, but many of the programs I use have more than just the external assets, they also have internal cache files that represent the states of various projects at any given time. It would be very difficult for me to synchronize these in a safe way especially considering that they're scattered across various hardcoded relative folder structures. And honestly it'll be more of a pain to have to worry about.
I've never felt like my laptop was under significant risk of being stolen, even when I'm traveling overseas. But I'm very careful with it and I keep track of it at all times - putting all of your personal data on a single external hard drive just means that that's the thing that is at risk of being stolen instead.
I also use a combination of automated encrypted back ups via crash plan and bit locker on my laptop. Even in the extremely unlikely event that my laptop was stolen, it's highly unlikely they be able to get access to my actual data.
Having a single laptop lends itself well toward my nomadic lifestyle. It's easily powerful enough even with a mobile CPU and of course there is less heat and power usage associated as well. And I'm pretty sure that I am immeasurably more of a power user than 99% of the general populace (virtual machines, 3D modeling, music recording, video rendering, backend dev work, VR, hell even the occasional triple A game). So if the processor/gpu meet my needs I'm pretty sure that everyone else will be fine too.
It just seems like in this instance our use cases are very different, which is fine.
It's not contradictory. The storage is not being done now not because it's impossible, but because the market conditions that would cause it (specifically, high carbon taxes) aren't there yet. Something like pumped thermal storage requires no new technology. It's just putting together things we can already build.
Chamorro (Guam), Hawaiians, & Ryukyuans/Okinawans to remove U.S. military
I remember working on some correlation-based speculative branch prediction algorithms in college (mid 2000s), and accidentally coming across similar "bugs" with chips back then.

Of course, this was during the race to claim as much gigahertz so it wasn't security (at this level, anyways) that people were interested in at all.
Looking at ETH in terms of wallets interacting with dapps, NFT, uniswap, etc it all honestly feels like magic.

Obviously the high gas makes it feel a lot less like magic when every button click is 30-100$ but really this all gives me so much hope for a better post-mobile app based internet.

I was so cynical for a long time about where tech was heading but this gives me hope that in 10 years we might be in a better place owned by the people and with better monetization outside of megacorps.
What are you talking about, it has the most developers of any project.
When were we ever « friends » with New-Zealand ? It's not even in NATO. The only relationship we ever had was being part of the so-called West I suppose, although that never prevented us from going to war with our neighbours.
Banks and governments are constantly injecting new money into the economy. If you look at how that money flows into the system, you will realize that governments mostly award big lucrative contracts to big corporations and banks loan capital entirely based on existing collateral owned... So it's pretty clear who is controlling the majority of all the newly created currency; those who already control a lot of capital. Then when you compound the returns on those investments, it's pretty clear what's driving accelerating inequality. Some entities are getting easy money and others are not.

An entity which has access to easy credit can throw that newly printed currency on any asset and it will balloon in value over time at an accelerating pace... No matter what the asset is. The value of the collateral will increase faster than their underlying debts; these entities can thus keep borrowing in perpetuity. They can keep it going forever, so long as banks keep loaning them more money...

Banks cannot stop loaning money to big capital holders because they know that it will lead to a catastrophic economic collapse. They are stuck in a vicious cycle wherein big corporations act like governments; constantly taking out new bigger loans to pay for the older loans... Or engaging in credit laundering through the use of shell companies.
Are we assuming that the satellite is going to stay in the same orbit? The atmo drag will constantly be applying pressure on the cubesat so that its orbit will always being decaying.
You can absolutely find subreddits dedicated to pretty much every extremist position to this day.