skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though not so nice, there are ways to "stabilize" sovereign foreign countries to ensure energy stability. Just look at US middle eastern politics. Not saying we should, but I'd rather have the effort got to solar power in the northern Sahara than extracting fossil fuel from Saudi-Arabia
Indeed, we got 100k from GCP recently, and it will change a lot for our bootstrapped company.

It basically makes us "ramen profitable"
I take it you didn't even click the OP? Because that's exactly what this is about, and nothing else.
She is not a physician, she had phd in psychology or other soft sciences. I have no trouble with this, but this sounds like another one of those life coachs. Ew.
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This is a very good example of why so-called "intellectual property" (and "private property" as a sacred right) needs to be abolished entirely. It's just a tool of social control that prevents people from sharing/studying things, and makes people die from diseases that we know how to cure (pharmaceutical patents).
I did not claim Macromedia birthed Flash! :D

But I also didn't know about FutureSplash Animator. Thanks, learned something new.
The entire point of computers is to make things easy.

The Apple question "why isn't this easy" is missing from 95% of UX in modern software. Stop acting as if software devs are the only users of software. And even then: computers should do work and not produce work or mental overhead.
Ah but you forgot the key premise:

Alcohol cannot be illegal
Yeah, I guess I am. It's adding whole layers of complexity and configuration to the system. I understand that those layers of complexity and configuration are designed to make the system more resilient, but it depends on everyone getting everything right all the time. The "screw-up surface" is huge.
I don't think that answers the question. The question was "for which kind of…". Naming one specific past product doesn't answer that, because surely you don't mean that no future candidate warrants can pose similar risk.

Contergan (thus spelt) is thalidomide, BTW. Thalidomide is the name of the active agent, which is used in products named contergan (as well as several other names).
Then you need the land to install a roof of solarpanels on, which may not be available.
> Everytime you go to SO, it hits one of these 9 web servers and all data on SO sits on those 2 massive SQL servers. That's pretty amazing.

I don't find it amazing at all. Functionality-wise, StackOverflow is a very simple Web application. Moreover, SO's range of 300-500 requests per second is not a mind-blowing load. Even in 2014, a powerful enough single physical server (running a Java application) was able to handle 1M requests per second[1]. A bit later, in 2017, similar performance has been demonstrated on a single AWS EC2 instance, using Python (and a blazingly-fast HTTP-focused micro-framework Japronto), which is typically not considered a high-performance option for Web applications[2].

[1] https://www.techempower.com/blog/2014/03/04/one-million-http...

[2] https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/million-requests-per-secon...
the fact that you have to blend them is what makes them expensive and for what? Less than 20% of our energy need is electricity.
Reminded me of Fabrice Bellard's Pi digits record[1]

The previous Pi computation record of about 2577 billion decimal digits was published by Daisuke Takahashi on August 17th 2009. The main computation lasted 29 hours and used 640 nodes of a T2K Open Supercomputer (Appro Xtreme-X3 Server). Each node contains 4 Opteron Quad Core CPUs at 2.3 GHz, giving a peak processing power of 94.2 Tflops (trillion floating point operations per second).

My computation used a single Core i7 Quad Core CPU at 2.93 GHz giving a peak processing power of 46.9 Gflops. So the supercomputer is about 2000 times faster than my computer. However, my computation lasted 116 days, which is 96 times slower than the supercomputer for about the same number of digits. So my computation is roughly 20 times more efficient.

[1]: https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/faq.html
Highly sceptical of this if we're talking about the non-animal part of the diet.

Hadza ate only 4 non-animal foods, which is much less than what's available at a supermarket.

Hunter gatherers would've had a more diverse diet when it came to meats, eating the entire animal including most organs, but that's more cultural than what's specifically available at the supermarket (it's pretty easy to get organ meat at the supermarket and especially the butcher, but most people don't opt-in).
I had same thing done in US for prostate surgery.
Another guy install Postgres on his machine, runs a git clone, connects to the VPN and initiates the jobs?
I know plenty of folks using those. Most people do it by choice because the hardware is more reliable and the battery more durable, but some also do it because their planned-obsolete smartphone broke down.
Can I ask; what about a zdd?

The seem similar to closed languages with a disjunct and conjunct

Though I don't think I will, I was considering adding zdd or bdd to a PEG, to provide that conjunct

ofc, sat solver can represent a regex with conjuncts, but is this a good way of going about it, particularly with unbounded strings??

Would love to hear your thoughts on that
> Brazilian soybeans rely on genetic modification to survive in the sweltering climate. Monsanto is perhaps the best target here.

Something I did not know, and definitely a really important consideration here.
Bolsonaro stole the election. He had his more popular rival falsely imprisoned. They are battling it in court right now.
Consider the USA’s position as nuclear police, then put yourself in the position of a third world nation on the receiving end of this “gift”.

Here are some of the very valid questions a poor country would have to ask.

“Do we really want America’s unreliable foreign policy to effectively control our ability to generate electricity? What if we piss off the wrong diplomat, hire the wrong leader, or if our people believe in the wrong god? What if they decide to destroy our economy via embargoes? Where will we get our fissionable materials? Will they pull a stuxnet on us ? Will they assassinate our top nuclear engineers?”
It would be nice if thermodynamics weren't such a harsh mistress.
CBD sublingually and exercise.

I have something wrong with my HPA axis resulting in Cushing's syndrome that causes extreme anxiety, high hr & bp persistently. It's usually an adenoma or hypertrophy on a pituitary or adrenal, or metabolic syndrome.
I did this for a few years with cobbler (https://cobbler.github.io/). cobbler, pxe, bootp, tftp, ansible and friends pretty much solve this problem. In fact, if you know the mac addresses (or ranges) you can fairly easily designate groups of machines, roles, and the like.

Years ago I did this to "rapidly" provision a couple of thousand machines we bought for the stock exchange. You can do most of your testing locally in vagrants, even simulating the networks you need to provision.

You can go a step further and trigger api updates at the end of your ansible runs so that cobbler updates collins
(https://tumblr.github.io/collins/) so that you can track inventorying, cm changes and the like. At one point in time we reimaged entire subnets when they lost power - and ran tests against the hardware to ensure the machines functioned post-provisioning.

As far as I know the boursa still uses this system.
Nuclear is expensive because we haven't invested in it like we have with Solar.

Obviously costs come down when you start mass producing things, which we've done with solar but have not even really tried to do with nuclear.
Public transport still doesn't cover all the use cases of a car, such as hauling things and going out into nature. Which is something everyone needs to do.
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> Watch your compile times though

And your error messages. ;)
What has Covid-19 taught us about remote work?
Oh yes I know about uservoice and I have direct contact with MS also because I work with O365 :)

I think PTT is already there in some usecases but only when you're talking to people with galaxy phones (walkie talkie mode).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/walkie-talki...

As far as I've heard there's no plans for push to talk in regular meetings for now.
I'm not really sure this guy ever actually lost £400k. The 10 BTC are from when he bought in 2017 (for £40k and he'd cashed out that original investment already) and I don't see any plausible reason someone like this was actually planning to cash out at the current price. It's not like the £400k was money he had earned and plowed into BTC.

In many ways this is a facet of being an investor in BTC and should be a message to any BTC investor sitting on top of what has become an astronomical sum- take a look at your portfolio. Take a look at all the risks of being invested in a single product like BTC (scam risk, risk of hack, risk of adverse regulations, extreme volatilty, perfect correlation of your entire investment portfolio), take a look at how much of your portfolio is invested in that single asset, and decide whether you should rebalance. Because no offence, if your savings are 90% BTC, you're not investing, you're gambling on BTC.
Thank you. I'm signing up and buying that book.
Stop prioritizing feedback, start prioritizing problems
Because it's newspeak that treats innocuous language like evidence of thoughtcrime.
Antique software is often preserved better on pirate websites than through official channels.

Earlier this week I was setting up an iPod Touch 2G for a friend, maximum iOS 4.2.1, made in 2008. I wanted to install Springtomize, a paid tweak. The Cydia store has shut down, so there's no way to legally buy it. The pirate sites were no longer hosting such an old version.

In the end I emailed the developer, and he was super excited and encouraged that someone is still using his code! He sent me the deb file for free, which installed perfectly of course. He's now working for Apple as a security researcher.

I'm glad that the Internet Archive tries hard to allow people to upload antique data, and endures the DMCA troubles that come with that. Hopefully WinWorldPC will prevail against Adobe in this case too; and I wonder whether the EFF can help.
Many years ago, I used to think that Scala was going to be my "next Java".

Now, guess it's not Scala, by Kotlin. Why?
- First class citizen for Android development. Yes, most of my works is on Android.

- Not to foreign compared to Java. In general, Java devs should be able to Kotlin in relatively short time. Not sure about Scala, which is influenced by Haskell/ML etc. At least in my circle, not many folks familiar with functional programming.

- Of course now Spring also supports Kotlin :)
Cricut Wants Users to Pay Extra for Unlimited Use of the Machines They Own
TypingDNA is launching a new typing biometrics 2FA solution to replace SMS OTP
Why solar not an option? The Sahara is really big, has plenty of sunshine. And population in a lot of upcoming economies are already used to supply limited energy grids. Maybe they can more easily adapt/grow into a power grid that meets demand 95% of the time, but sometimes not. Would be vastly cheaper than guaranteeing to meet demand 99.99995% of the time. Just like developing countries that never got around to landline POTS don't really miss it now. They just skipped it and went straight to mobile. Supposedly Mpesa makes it easier, cheaper, faster and safer to transfer money in Kenya than any system available in the US.
> SMS 2FA costs money per message.

This is only because the telephone cartels control the networks. The same is more or less true of Internet. Operators have advocated for anti-open-wifi laws across the globe so they can sell their internet access plans (xDSL/3G), when we could have free networking for all in all places.

Seriously though, why couldn't we have FREE privacy-friendly networking as a public service?
Ref: https://inspiration.cricut.com/new-features-and-updates-comi...
<pedantic>

Is this a license violation or did Reuben Thomas get Vladimir Lanin's permission? The mmv license is rather strict:

Mmv is freeware. That means that the entire package of software and
documentation is copyrighted, and may not be distributed with any
modifications or for any charge (without the author's explicit written
permission). Other than that, it may be used and distributed freely.
How do you make someone shut up in a social network?
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You cannot automatically conclude that rasdaman comes on top because the author is also involved in its development, although it may be suspicious. I am also one of the authors and contributed to doing the benchmarks: our goal was to configure and implement the queries in the best way for each system and achieve comparable results. Note that this report was done almost three years ago, the results may be getting out of date.

This query language that looks like SQL is an official part of SQL now [1]. Surely there is place for integrated DB solutions that let you work with both relational and array data in one place? There are more benefits in this than just performance/scalability. Think of building services on top of big array datasets, beyond one-off data science experiments.

1. https://www.iso.org/standard/67382.html
I don’t know how true that really is.

I have never used backup for WhatsApp but just the other day, out of the blue, every conversation from late 2017 to now that I had deleted popped back into my inbox.

Can’t explain that one easily
The problem with the reverse argument is that that cat is out of the bag now. We've tried banning alcohol in the west, and it's not gone down too well in the past.
Scaling is another factor that comes to mind, also resilience.

If one part in the monolith goes haywire so will the entire application. If you can decouple and split the software into 4 applications with their own concerns, at least you have 3 applications left running (assuming they are decoupled).

If app 1 wants 5000% more CPU than app 2, maybe you can have different instance types running and save costs/resources.
China built a 1100 kV / 12 GW line with losses of 1.5% per 1000 km. I have no idea if that's cost effective or not.

https://asian-power.com/power-utility/news/chinas-thermal-co...
There is often no "perfect" ligand because benefits somewhere cause harm somewhere else since evolution reused so many substrates, or the means of regulation similarly ups or down regulates anti-target activities.

Furthermore, compounds that will work are often constrained by many factors.
Xarray is absolutely sublime by the way, thank you for your work there. I stuffed around with multi-indices in pandas for a good while before finding Xarray and instantly having all my problems solved :)
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1) Alcohol is actually worse than X for almost all X

2) Most people don't think alcohol is bad enough to be illegal

3) Therefore logically those same people should agree that X shouldn't be punishable with criminal sanctions, as its use is no worse than things we already tolerate.

I.E. The argument presupposes that alcohol should be legal because most people think it should be. This is often used as a form of argument because it hangs off ideas people already have about the world and asks them to think logically/consistently. "If I can have a beer and not ruin my life, and objectively X is less bad than beer, maybe my opinions on X can adjust".

If you want to talk about alcohol being a pretty evil substance, I'm not going to argue.

I think this is something that's often lost in the debate too - you don't have to wholeheartedly approve of the use of something to want to see it legalised, just acknowledge that applying criminal charges to use is both unjust and deeply unhelpful to society and individuals.
NZ has a similar problem with urchin ("Kina", in NZ) barrens. The urchins in NZ urchin barrens, as in CA, are malnourished and are subsequently difficult and unproductive to eat as they contain very little actual meat.
I’m an Australian that was in India for the last year (just arrived back, up to day 2 of my 14 day quarantine). Anything that has needed to verify me through SMS (e.g. filing my Australian tax return via myGov, paying for things with my credit card if they used the fancy security thing, like most airlines do and Amazon apparently does, and logging into one or two things) has required me to contact my parents to turn on and check the old phone I left with them, because roaming for a year is expensive and otherwise pointless (I barely use a phone), but transferring my number to a prepaid Amaysim SIM let me keep it alive and mine for the year for $10.

Actually, the myGov thing was a real piece of work. They offer secret questions as a second factor that you can opt to use instead of SMS codes (and yes, secret questions are stupid), but when I did that, it silently unlinked my Australian Tax Office account. I tried to link it up again (a bit of a pain in its own right), and it told me that ATO has decided that it won’t let you link it up if you use secret questions as the second factor technique. Seriously. So I had to switch back. Oh yeah, they do also have a third option, an app of their own that can generate codes (not TOTP), but that app had something like 2 stars on Google Play Store, with many reviews saying it didn’t work at all, so I didn’t even bother trying that.

When I’m in Australia with my phone handy, SMS verification seems not too bad, but when out of the country and not roaming, it may vary between very inconvenient and completely debilitating.
I've started to just apply this to IM too — as in, if I'm busy with deep work I'll snooze notifications on Slack & may put a status message "available at 2pm".
Interesting, I never thought of it that way. Do you think this applies specifically for junior developers, or do you think junior developers are exempt from this (allowed to ask about anything)?
All or almost all electric cars already have regenerative braking. The energy recovered from braking has to come from somewhere. I'm surprised someone is doing this with a car but I've thought it somewhat feasible for a van with a large flat roof. I do wonder if the solar cells will be a theft and vandalism target if the car is left parked outside in public all the time.
I can live off a bunch of years in Spain for that money.
That's awesome. I missed that stretch of years when DOS games were sold with PDF manuals stored on disk, but not everybody was launching them from Windows 95...

My pre-teen self didn't get to run games from CD-ROM before 1997 or so. :-(
Cute! Major props to the two for the execution :)

Sadly, these days Safari is the only engine that does TCO. It also keep track of a decent number of frames (currently 128). For more details on the implementation (called Shadow Chicken), see https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-....
Or a metal album recorded in the last 10 years.
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I like the idea, even if it only replenishes a small range over a week. However this marketing site is too loaded with exaggerations (Sweden is central to Europe?) and feels like a giant ad, cryptocurrency-token-like pitch, trying to hype vaporware. Are they trying to IPO next week via a SPAC?

Anyways my fluff-meter is triggered. Would love to be reassured otherwise because I love the idea even if it's unlikely to live up to the hype they're presenting.
AstraZeneca boss is in the “hot seat” over vaccine delays, France says
It has also grown substantially vertically: single-core speeds keep going up (about 10x from a decade and a half ago), even as core count increases. (and M1 is not substantially faster than the top x86 cores, the remarkable thing is how power efficient it is at those speeds).
As I pointed out in another thread about these vehicals, the USPS still operates mule trains, hovercraft and helicopters for some deliveries. That's the most extreme examples, and I imagine there are many journeys that are somewhere between in terms of range and difficulty. People have a very narrow view of the world and forget that not everywhere is urban or suburban, or even just farming country levels of density. The USPS has to service them all.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/False_dilemma

It might be that neither is the correct answer.
The pharmacies allowed people to buy almost any medication without a doctor's prescription?
The problem with banning alcohol is that anyone can make it with basic household ingredients.
I tend to "learn by doing." I don't really like pointless academic exercises. I need to be shipping stuff.

When I want to learn something new, I'll set up a project, with a definite ship goal, that uses whatever I am studying.

It may not be perfect, when it ships, but it does ship.

Shipping is also learning. There's absolutely nothing to compare with releasing finished product, and supporting it. I've learned a lot of the "soft" skills necessary to ship and support. These are different from simple algorithms or debugging exercises.
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I was prescribed Cipro for a urinary tract infection and the doctor didn't once mention anything about dangers or side effects for the drug, just said he's 'prescribing an antibiotic'.

After the very first pill I was feeling pins and needles in my extremities later that day. I stuck with it for a few more days, each pill feeling even more pins and needles, more intensely and in more places on my body. Once I started feeling it in my face, I called the doctor and they got me on a different antibiotic.

Then I started reading horror stories about the drug and it made sense. I also didn't exercise for a year afterwards out of fear that my achilles tendon would snap, one of the biggest warnings that was on the box and one of the things many of the online horror stories said happened to them.

The neuropathy (pins and needles) lasted for six months before it started going away, and it comes and goes periodically, years later (it's mostly gone now, thankfully). I've had other health issues since that are known possible health issues from Cipro (it's so invasive and effects so many systems of your body). One of the more annoying ones lately is the onset of Tinnitus, which Cipro is known to cause. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I'll never know for sure since most doctors still don't treat Cipro toxicity seriously or know how to test for it.

I don't think it caused brain fog, but who's to say? I don't feel as mentally acute since then, but I'm also older.

Not really looking forward to any future health problems it may lead to, and I only ever took like 5 pills of the damn thing (it was over 7 years ago now).

I'm so pissed off I wasn't even warned about this, and that it was so casually prescribed without warning. I've taken other antibiotics before and only had to worry about my gut biome getting screwed up, so I wasn't expecting to have such a terrible reaction to the meds.
I'm pretty much an utalitairian, and I agree that that should be the objective. But it does raise an interesting point. Do people in "civilised society" produce more than they consume? Some, maybe. But the average person? I have no statistics to base it on, but I'm not convinced.

Yes, we extract a lot of value. From the earth, from others (directly, or indirectly). But perhaps the depressing fact is that in terms of raw creation of value, perhaps "playing even" is not even such a bad "score"?