skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not 1.5GWh energy stored, it's 1.5GW output from storage systems (output is the key metric because the storage systems aren't very rapid discharge, and the key factor in adequacy isn't how much energy is stored but how much power can be delivered from storage when other systems aren't delivering. And it's not just about meeting current targets but the rapid pace of new storage coming online.
That’s only part of the API gateway pricing, but it is still much much cheaper.
I'm not American (like many people here). In my country 82% of teachers are women according to the ministry of education.
What’s the best RSS reader service these days? I was a big user of Google Reader but never found something I liked after, that I could access from all my devices. It’s been a few years since I last asked, though.
I spent 3.5 months backpacking in India and Southeast Asia. I saw incredible places and stood in a hundred postcards. For me though, people are what had the most impact.

Tens of thousands of Hindus come to die in Varanasi each year. If you die and are cremated there, you are freed from the cycle of rebirth and can attain salvation. I stood with an Indian friend on the edge of tears as I watched them burn the dead. He asked me why I was sad, and I told him I was sad for the dead. He said do not be sad, this is the way they wanted to die.

We were warned never to get a train ticket on Indian Railways below 2nd class. It wasn't safe. There were only enough 2nd class tickets for my friends, so I went to 3rd class alone, in the middle of the night, and went to sleep in a top bunk, the warnings echoing in my mind. When I awoke my 5 neighbors were speaking softly to each other. They shared food with me they had brought from their homes. We showed each other where we had come from and pictures of our families. I didn't speak the same language.

Cambodia had 25% of its people starved or murdered less than a decade before I was born: Year Zero. Anyone educated was the first to go. We hired a tuk-tuk driver to take us to the temples around Siem Reap. He was the son of farmers. At one temple we came out the entrance and snuck up on him while he waited for us. In his lap he held open a book in English, and tucked into it a smaller book. It was a Khmer-English dictionary.

I had a lot of good times meeting people at hostels and going to bars with other travelers, a few of whom have become dear friends. You could easily stay with tour groups, never leave the westernized areas of anywhere you go, and take lots of selfies in incredible places. It brings money to the local economy.

It's up to you though. If that's not what you want, getting away from it is as simple as walking 2 blocks in any direction.
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Thank you, I feel this needs some explanation.

>You are aware that we have a global pandemic right?

It would be a very difficult task to avoid noticing.

>So if even you won't treat everyone as a possible threat, the chance that 'guests' bring in the virus is high. Since Japan is an island, most people will fly there by plane and most people will be inside the plane for at least 6 hours+. Even if at half capacity the chance that there is 1 infectious person/ person becoming infectious is high.

The virus is there already, since quite a while.

>All Tests are snapshots of whether or not your infectious at time X.

What kind of tests are available that can show if you're infectuous? That would be really helpful to tackle the situation.
So far, I just know about tests that can detect the presence of the virus or antibodies.

>Quick tests are only valid for 6 hours since they only check whether you are infectious.

What quick tests are you referring to that are able to detect if you are infectious? Again, that would be extremely helpful information and I would be really surprised if this existed but not be used. The quick tests we (my country) have and use, 'just' gives you the information if the virus is present.

>PCR Tests are more accurate but take some time to get the results. Thus there is a chance to get infected afterwards and before the flight.

They are accurate in terms of detecting smallest leftovers of the virus, but not in detecting if someone is infectious.

>Furthermore, to protect your own country from a new outbreak is it really a wise decision to add another thousands of people into an already overcrowded city?

I fail to understand how a 'foreigner' is a bigger threat (in terms of 'protection from a new outbreak') than the locals already carrying the virus and being responsible for all the recent cases (there is a staggering 22% positivity rate in Tokyo today - without these 'dangerous' foreigners).

But more importantly, and referring to my statement:

Is discrimination okay, if there are 'reasons' for it?
Is discrimination okay, if a majority agrees with it?

Or more generally, when is discrimination okay?
> A bit obvious, maybe, but I've met many people who insisted on only eating Western food[...] At that point, why even bother traveling?

Whenever I have a guide (either professional or a local friend), this is often strangely a lot of work. Particularly the tour companies I've gone with in China insist on trying to get me a Western breakfast. If I wanted pancakes and sausage I would have just stayed at home and cooked my own! Give me the stuff you like. I may not end up liking it, but there's a pretty decent chance I will.
Although you have to be careful in some places, the world is scarier on TV that in real life.
You might be thinking of Halons, which are CFCs that depletes the ozone layer? They are mostly phased out worldwide but existing installations might still be in use.

FM200 is something else that is often used in modern builds (not just datacenters).
Yes, mostly due to two reasons:

* overall high energy density (lots of current flowing everywhere)

* the batteries for backup power are dangerous, and can easily(ish) overheat when activated.
In a large company I once worked for I suggested a ticket prioritisation scheme based on assigning a numerical value to each staff member (e.g. CIO = 1000, lower values for lesser deities) and calculating a value for each ticket based on the sum of the values for each person standing behind the person actually fixing the problem.

This was based on observing 4 people (CIO and managers from intermediate levels) standing behind some poor helpdesk guy while he fixed a problem with the CEO's desktop background being the wrong picture or something....
Can you point me to the place in the article where it actually talks about radiation impacting the health of locals?

All I could find was complaints that the acceptable-safe radiation limit had been raised, and that a few selected locations within the area had levels that were slightly above the previous and well below the new levels.

Nothing about actual health damage from radiation.
Lou Ottens, inventor of cassette tape, has died
They already work this way. If you swap almost any part on the iphone it either refuses to work or shows a warning about a unofficial part. My suggestion is simply to make this functionality only target stolen parts instead of just refusing to work at all if the apple store hasn't used their software to bless the new serial number.
Maybe “first sold” as the CGI spec in C came out in 1993 [0].

But this seems more of a marketing spin as PHP was out earlier and was the first, I know of, to have that easy “scripts in a folder that are interpreted by the http server” thing going where there was no compile process needed.

My memory of the time was that CF was one of the many commercial web software companies that were selling to companies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
Also, 3 years ago they had an outage in Strasbourg, and the status page was down apparently as a result of the outage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15661218

They are not the only ones though. All too common. Well, it's tricky to set this up properly. The only proper way would be to use external infra for the status page.
Well, it sucks to catch fire and I care for the employees and the firemen, but if their status page is a lie then I have a whole lot less sympathy for the business. That's shady business and they should feel bad.

I can appreciate an honest mistake though, like the status page server cron is hosted in the same cluster that caught fire and hence it burnt down and can't update the page anymore.
Set TTL by machine learning methods. Learn the pattern of connections. Smart TTL. Btw, hell is not exist.
Was also thinking the same. Security cameras should be used where there is an incident and additional information is needed to clarify what happened. Then you check the security camera footage to figure out what happened. If there were no incidents there is not reasonable need for anyone to look at that footage.

edit: not talking here about active monitoring security cameras used by guards.
I have a similar setup: I recreate everything for every major kubernetes update.
Well, as a joke it isn't a very good one in a "news for nerds" discussion like this, where someone could have been mistaken, or have been making the very valid point that many surzhyk speakers use jezyk in this context.
Maybe I'm missing something but why is this interesting? It's not related to cryptos at all. Isn't this just a public database owned by one entity?
Thanks, my question was most inline with comments here about double spend.

Detecting double spend is easy as you said, but I am curious about the consequences.

Will this system will be somehow connected to real IDs? Who will in the network will have access to this data?

If so what is the process hiding my real ID from my identifier? I did shopping at the market, what will prevent them to see my all spending history?

If it is not connected to real ID somehow, what is preventing me to create a new identity?
Are their any actual legit studies that have shown if hosting an olympics is worth it for the overall economy or not?

Lots, probably hundreds. Most of them conclude 'it depends, but basically not worth it'. But the gist is that if you are already a functioning city and popular tourist spot (like London) you'll get close to zero benefit (at massive costs). London actually significantly had less total tourists the year of the Olympics compared with the preceding and following years.

Some cities, like Barcelona, Seoul and possibly Rio de Janeiro saw some benefit in terms of raising awareness of the city as tourist destination and better infrastructure for handling tourism. Both led to increased tourism the years following the Olympics. Barcelona and Seoul where also however cheaper events than current Olympics so it is hard to compare.

Also only the Summer Olympics has shown any sign of positive benefits on tourism. Winter Olympics has basically no effect.
Thank you for this great datasource!

Do you think this is suitable for bibliometric research? (We don't need citation-graphs). We use Scopus and Web of Science, but I really don't like that we are not able to publish helpful datasets that we extract from these databases.
> She wasn't in a position to lose a job at the time

This is an example of what universal basic income is intended to prevent.
It's sad the difference between expiry and eviction isn't explored more fully. There are plenty of posts describing cache eviction strategies that barely touch on expiry issues, and a handful of posts about cache expiry that barely touch on eviction.

Regarding the decorators, there's a reason it's popular: it saves boilerplate. The good news is that it's python, so you can do something like this:

from pyappcache import RedisCache

@RedisCache
def get_slow_thing_v3(thing_id):
thing = get_slow_thing_from_a_database_layer()
return thing

def update_something_slow(thing_id, new_thing):
get_slow_thing_v3.set_cache(thing_id, new_thing)
set_thing_in_a_database_layer(new_thing)
unless Switzerland happens to be in South America!
The video referenced in the article - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKlpCG367AE
Well expressed, and I largely agree with your assessment.
But certain Japanese politicians/authorities/corporations aren't exactly neutral, disinterested parties in this matter either, so I think some adversarial discourse is helpful here, and at least the best we'll get.

For clarification, I'm mainly reacting to the headline rather than the thyroid cancer survey. I don't have an opinion either way about that without seeing much more background, and that seems more complex than I'll have time to dig into today.
My ~£300 Tannoy powered subwoofer for my home theatre failed recently.

They refused to honour the 10 year warranty because my proof of purchase wasn't in the right format or some such. Surely proof is proof? I paid the same money as everyone else.

Well, luckily for me, I have a degree in Electronic Engineering, so a week or so of reverse engineering and a few hundred £s in test equipment later I replaced the 20p Schottky diode which has failed and I have a working sub.

First manufacturers need to put their money where their mouth is regarding warranties, not have stupid obtuse get out clauses.

Secondly, fuck Tannoy, and all associated brands, they just lost a customer for life over this, so much for buying "British" as a Brit, I'll vote with my wallet.

Taking brand suggestions for future purchases who treat their customers a little better.
Of course it's serious.

You are entierly missing the point by quoting the compliance programs followed by AWS whose sole business is being a third party hoster.

For most business, what you call sensitive data is customers and orders listing, payment history, inventory if you are dealing in physical goods and HR related files. These are not state secrets. Encryption and a modicum of physical security go a long way.

I personally find the idea that you shouldn't store a local backup of this kind of data out of security concern entirely laughable. But that's me.
You could do the polymorphic return with an enumeration. But those are distinct types with very different semantics: you can’t just say “it returns a function that you can call once or maybe a function you can call more than once. Shrug”.
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I just recently started moving some services for my business to one of OVH's US-based data centers. Should I take this fire as evidence that OVH is incompetent and get out? I really don't want AWS, or the big three hyperscalers in general, to be the only option.
That's update on write, not never invalidate.
Another one for the vanlife. It seems that fitness centres are paramount to this kind of living, providing hygiene basics. I wonder how long until we get some type of institution that focuses on the great showers and storage facilities over large amounts of diverse exercise equipment?
They're separate buildings, with separate power systems, just standing next to another. Next to SBG2 are also SBG3 and SBG4.
I moved to Feedly after Google Reader shut down and have been using it ever since. No complaints.
The author doesn't state what RDMS he's used, but I think Microsoft's SQL Server Platform covers a lot of these, and third party tools, such as Redgate's amazing suite of DB tools, fill in a lot of the gaps.
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I know only about this study about the costs, without any consideration about if they are worth it or not: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2804554

Living in Munich I have to say that the amazing park and infrastructures (widely used nowadays and close to the city center) left after the tragic 1972 Olympics are definitely worthy of the $1B spent over infrastructure
Primary differences between Soviet and US Sub designs during the cold war (2016)
Maybe because of safety?

From [1]:

> An ICSD smoke detector is composed of a housing made of polyvinylchloride or poly-styrene plastic, a small electronic alarm horn, a printed circuit board with an assortment of electronic components, and a sensing chamber and reference chamber, each containing a pair of electrodes and the radioactive source material.

[1] http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Smoke-Detector.html#:~:text=....
once organ donation ist opt-out, it is very hard to deny the economical incentive to "not find the opt-out", withold treatment or prematurely declare death especially for patients of lower status/rank/credit. i don't think this is a path any scociety would want to go.
Lockdown_hotdog_meta
for supporting those who are suffering through psychological conditions due to the extended lockdowns.
Next time that happens ask him/her to bring you a coffee, works most of the time...and you can have e little "secret" chuckle.
Highly skilled? I don't think so. You just have to be very careful, and pay attention to the right things (ESD, cut the power, short circuits, etc).

Secondly, the diagnostic needs to be correct. Multiple faillures is unlikely if there is no external cause (surge, flooding...) or cascading failures.

Both of the above points can be solved with good documentation. I've seen very good servicing manuals, this is part of the reason I prefer thinkpads these days (though they could always contain more details...). With good servicing instructions, I've been able to perform repairs in no time on things I didn't know much about.
> "Go bankrupt" is not a plan.

Yes it is. (Though it's better, as GP suggested, as a final layer of a plan and not the only layer.)

> Becoming insolvent might be the end result of a situation but it's not going to help you deal with it.

Insolvency isn't bankruptcy. Becoming insolvent is a consequence, sure. Bankruptcy absolutely does help you deal with that impact, that's rather the point of it.
Adjust for PPP. Russia is poor but not that poor.
Good point and new case distribution rings true based on what I heard.

My exasperation mostly comes down to nonsensical norms/regulations where a person safely not wearing a mask outdoors to get fresh air has to fear being judged (or having police called on, I suppose) by the very people who semi-daily engage in active airborne fluid exchange with random strangers sharing the same cafe as their group of friends or coworkers. If I had a say in this, either the former has to be recognized as socially acceptable (2m distance and so on, of course), or the latter has to stop being tolerated. It almost physically pains me to see people getting outside to enjoy a clear day with great AQI, and everyone must be either wearing a mask or smoking.

Oh, and the measure with the parks seems absolutely ridiculous. Never been one to hang out in a park, but seeing groups of friends virtually being ushered by signs from outdoors into a cafe to talk is bizarre.

Good for the country on the testing effort and having things more or less under control, though.
Halons are being phased out because, being CFCs, they deplete the ozone layer.

Other gases like argon or FM200 are not Halons.
Interesting article, which shows quite clearly that the trouble the fishermen have is not with the effects of radiation, but with the perceptions of the effects of radiation.
How does one rotate keys, in the event of compromise?
I kind of disagree here. 50 thousand years — it doesn't matter if people are biologically alive. You, your friends, family, society, relationships — would all be very, very different when you come back.

If you just meant "see friends and family", yeah technically you could see each other I guess. Practically, might as well be an alien.
When I started interviewing I used to do that, until I realised it would eliminate about 20% of all useful candidates. The killer is c++. The industry is filled with people who have vague memories of trying to use C++ in the 90s before switching to Java or c# as quickly as possible, but still put C++ on their resume. In reality they can't even do basic tasks like reading a file into an array. Knocking them out because of this exaggeration would have just throttled the candidate stream unnecessarily and it didn't seem like a consequential exaggeration.

Other lies on the other hand, do cause me to drop people. One guy claimed to be an expert in the internals of hotspot. Unfortunately for him I actually am such an expert. It turned out he hadn't even read the user manual. That sort of lie is a problem because it's the sort of thing that will sound impressive to a lot of people who can't verify it, and he surely knew that.
The biggest difference is in the waistlines. As reported just the other day[0]:

> Of the 2.5 million COVID-19 deaths reported by the end of February 2021, 2.2 million were in countries where more than half the population is classified as overweight

Japan is not one of those countries.

As someone who lives in Japan I can tell you that the general population isn't wearing high quality, fitted masks in controlled conditions and using their clinical training to avoid disease transmission, which might provide the conditions that any study done on masks could have the possibility to back. No, there's plenty of cheap, reused, badly fitted, incorrectly worn, regularly touched and inconsistent mask wearing by people who've not had any training in how to limit transmission, which would explain the frequent flu epidemics[1][2][3].

[0] https://www.worldobesityday.org/assets/downloads/COVID-19-an...

[1] https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00386/japan-gripped-by...

[2] https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2018/01/e609ee653721-flu-...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28668446/
I did it back in 2014. I was kind of burned out, I decided to quit, I bought a ticket to New Zealand (going from EU), booked a bed in hostel for 2 nights and thought I'd figure out the rest on the way.

It was an amazing experience, I spent around 11 months traveling, I attended a few conferences and meetups, met tons of people, faced my fears (I am afraid of heights and deep water, so I did bungee jump and picked up scuba diving), made me deal with a lot of uncertainties.

Eventually I got tired of it (I traveled too fast, it was more of backpacking than nomad-ing) and decided to find a job in one of places I visited - I ended up moving to Singapore for 4 years, where I met my current wife.

Overall if I was about to do it again, I'd do it differently, but still it was one of the best decisions I made in my life. I wouldn't say it really changed the way I see the world or something, but it resulted in so many fantastic memories.