skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's no use for people who don't have it (i.e. everyone I know). Those that do have smart TVs use Rokus, but that may be because their TVs are older (likely not Android).

And in any case, it doesn't check all the boxes - particularly the one about "use in motels/hotels when I travel"
U.K. woman bruises banana peels to make stunning art
This article is a syndicated copy. This is the source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
> What if you go bankrupt as a consumer in the US

You will have difficulty getting credit for 5-7 years. You may think "fine, I'll just pay as I go" but credit checks are often part of the approval process for an apartment lease, or applying for a job.
Venezuela Moves Closer to Dollarization with New Bank Rules
Spin? My leaky, fragile, missing important parts, flaky prototype has been sold for a lot of money and is now supporting business decisions.... Spin? Like tail spin....

When the prototype explodes in exactly the way I expect it to management are not going to reward me...

I said it is not ready. Several times. To the point where management stopped taking my calls.....

Manageable amount of bugs? There is a problem of definition here.

The cost of developing a prototype that demonstrates the interesting and cool parts of the project - whilst leaving the tricky bits for implementation is my job. So I gota ask: that cost is too high for whom?

It has been fun....
Of particular interest is that 66% of transactions in Venezuela are now conducted with USD.
This is an outdated mindset. Literally everyone knows the difference between .docx and .jpg in 2021.
I’m more interested in the original registrar (and ICANN?) of bitcoin.org having a name and payment that likely links directly to Satoshi. I would be amazed if nobody / nogovernment has looked at that information.
Reuse like this can extend the useful life of the battery, but not forever. So sooner or later they will need to be recycled anyhow. Accordingly, I don’t think we need to worry about the market for used batteries drying up.
They could, but that wouldn't mean much for a few reasons:

* Cryptocurrency can't really be confiscated

* These malicious miners likely live in a country with a dubiously competent legal system.

* Lastly, it's not worth the money to try to collect.
The problem with the "used EV battery market" is that the damn EV batteries are lasting longer than anyone expected.

So there are no batteries to develop an actual industry around, most are just one-offs.
The fact of the matter is that retail goods and services cost the same whether I pay cash or use a credit card. So might as well take the benefits the card offers.

Every great once in a while I will run into a small business that doesn't take credit cards, or offers a discount for cash. But it's quite rare.
...which is a state of affairs the CC companies have arranged through anticompetitive terms in merchant contracts. Cash never had a chance to compete. The moment people realize they could get effectively twice the rewards points by squeezing out the fat cut taken by the CC companies, they absolutely will. CC companies will fight tooth and nail to make sure the fees stay invisible and unavoidable via cash.
I'm still hanging on to the swollen battery I took out of my MacBook, even though I know it's a fire risk.

Buying a real battery for a 2014 MacBook Pro 15" A1398 isn't possible, because Apple says they're obsolete. (long live laptops with USB-A and HDMI!).

I bought a third-party battery, labelled Simplo but apparently made by someone else. It idles at 12V. The original Apple battery idles at 2V, and "wakes up". The third-party battery killed my logic board about a month after I fitted it, when lifted the lid to wake from sleep while outside.

I tried moving the Compeq PCB from the official battery to the new cells, but in the process, got an undervoltage on the TI controller chip BQ20Z45, which set the PF flag (permanent failure). To clear the PF flag, I need an "unseal" password, which isn't the same as the one that Charlie Miller discovered. I wrote a fuzzer, but it'll take 340 days to run. Be2Works haven't answered their email.

So in conclusion: even when your batteries are swollen, they're still better than the fakes. Trying to fix them can make it worse. Don't throw out your Smart Battery control boards.
But does it have more renewables than Fossil fuels?
>If I was in a same sex marriage I would feel very, very uncomfortable working at a company that "bans politics" when a large number of my peers thinks my spouse is "unnatural".

What's especially important to remember though, is if a company were to limit political discussions, by your same statements/logic, that would also include opinions shared _against_ same sex marriage though, no?

Wouldn't that create a safer environment where 1) people are mostly insulated from people sharing their views against it, and 2) if someone were to share something about their same sex spouse, any publicly expressed opposition against it at the workplace would be considered breaking that workplace norm.
Yep: https://electrek.co/2020/06/06/tesla-battery-degradation-rep...

"Real-world data showed that Tesla battery degradation was less than 10% after over 160,000 miles (257,500 km)"

According to the graph there's a slight dip during the first 50k and then it levels out to a steady decline. There is no data for batteries around 60% capacity, since there are none yet :)
Careful. Many people will claim that you think "wrong"...As in how dare you think critically about "authoritative" sources.

"Author" is also the root word of "authoritarian". "Authors" also create "narratives" to influence the hearts & minds of the audience, presumably for the benefit of the "author". And how does one become one of these "authors"?

Nonetheless, this sort of tech can also be used for "good", as in providing a resource of a variety of different good faith takes on a certain subject so the reader is empowered to understand that nuance of a subject from different perspectives. Since this tech will be used to empower the "authors", we might as well make tech that empowers the audience to move beyond being passive programmable consumers of information. Rather the audience can become the active "author" of their own lives, philosophy, & perspective.
I was also disappointed when the Twitch and Reuters channels were dropped.

Fortunately there's an unofficial "uncertified" third party channel you can add to get back basic Twitch support: https://www.fanbyte.com/guides/how-to-watch-twitch-on-roku-d...

I haven't found anything similar for Reuters, so I just have their YouTube feed now, but I still miss the nicely packaged 15-30 minute segments.
28% in 2014 to 49% today. Sorry I missed the majority by 2%. This is a huge change in a short period of time. Sure it’s slower than liberal acceptance, but it’s happening.

This is exactly why I don’t want these conversations in my company’s chat channels. I am not advocating against gay marriage, but I get downvoted because I say something to the effect of “hey maybe you might have an outdated view of many of your conservative voting peers”. This despite the fact that my personal views are probably more in line with yours than you’d expect. I’m just not willing to toss half the country under a bus before I even have a conversation with them.
Easy: fill the suitcase with cash.
Pandemic and working from home. I wasn’t about to buy a new car.
Batteries will last a good decade in vehicle use, then another decade for grid storage.

VW is already attempting to recycle 95% of their batteries: https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2019/02/lithium...

We've got 20 years to improve our recycling process from that. I'm not majorly worried.
More or less, yes, the regulators have a heavily bureaucratic process that's far more legally rigorous for dealing with large corporate entities and their legal teams than something like a municipal health inspector.
In Italy Germany is Germania, but Germans are tedeschi and German (the language) is also tedesco. (BTW, we lowercase people and languages and weekdays and months, but this is changing - English leads.)

The reason seems to be the Latin word theodiscus from Old German theod / people.
I'm not really versed in the world of filesystems as well as I'd like. I saw one random Reddit comment stating:

bcachefs is (optimistically) a decade of work away from being a realistic alternative.

What does the work schedule and real world applicability (beyond proofing) look like for the future of Bcachefs and why is a completely new filesystem being made versus improvements to existing ones?
We recycle it, with our lungs
Yeah, which the CC oligopoly has conveniently arranged through merchant contracts. The Europeans negotiated around this with legislation and won a better deal.

In the US, I'm sure people would scream and cry if the evil government tried to take their 2% rewards, even if it meant 3.5% lower prices. We don't like math very much over here -- as this thread is proving.
I bet one of the other cheerleaders mom's took her rant as fodder for an agenda to move her own daughter up the rank in the cheer squad. Or schalorship ranks and pressured the school to take action.
Hmm I’m not aware of a way to do that short of fingerprinting a browser and running the same fingerprint on app launch. Would you happen to have docs for that approach?
I’m not sure that argument holds up against a system like this. Who says the context has to be one-sided? It can still be authoritative.

If anything, this highlights the apparent need for such an engine if it can appropriately source such statements to provide additional context to otherwise one-sided pieces.

For example: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/02/24/sprj.irq.memo/index.htm...

> (CNN) -- France, Russia and Germany submitted a memorandum to the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Monday that was meant to counter a proposed resolution backed by the United States, Britain and Spain that would declare that Iraq has missed its last chance to disarm itself of weapons of mass destruction. The following is the text of that memorandum:

> 1. Full and effective disarmament in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions remains the imperative objective of the international community. Our priority should be to achieve this peacefully through the inspection regime. The military option should only be a last resort. So far, the conditions for using force against Iraq are not fulfilled:

> • While suspicions remain, no evidence has been given that Iraq still possesses weapons of mass destruction or capabilities in this field;

> • Inspections have just reached their full pace; they are functioning without hindrance; they have already produced results;

> • While not yet fully satisfactory, Iraqi co-operation is improving, as mentioned by the chief inspectors in their last report.
this is always fun with git-bisect because if you can reliably reproduce the bug it will always leads you exactly to the commit that caused the problem. Nothing worse than tracing for a half hour and... it spits out your name.
To be honest, given Tesla's pricing history and Musk's... claim-making history, $35k is more likely. But I can dream.
Catastro doesn't have a clear license, but the spirit is certainly open[0]:

"It's worth noting the mass download service of cadastral information, available since 2011, that makes it free for companies and individuals said information, including the possibility of it being reused."

Translation mine.

I'd love to hear about the origins of such mysterious Ontario spot!

[0] http://www.catastro.minhap.gob.es/esp/usos_utilidades.asp
Except Finland during elections. Where advertisement with nice white round circles with numbers inside are a standard. Single vote for candidate system where number of candidates can run to over hundred.

No human would think that number next to person is speed limit, but machines aren't trained for that...
It is an extremely poor fit for dynamic languages. Maybe in a few years, once it has some better tooling for things like JIT. At present you might be better off compiling to JS - dynamic dispatch in WASM has some fixed overhead and dynamically generating code has severe limitations, while in JS there's no special overhead for dynamic dispatch and you can freely create as much code as you want at runtime and still benefit from JIT optimizations including inlining.
Researchers find thousands of barrels at DDT dump site near Catalina Island
Great! Do you want to sit in the first city council meeting and bring up this topic? :P
Fair - I bounce around a fair bit and haven’t looked in the US for about 10 years, mea culpa.

Just goes to show you have to do the non hand wavy version of this for your actual situation ; my broader point stands though.
Example: One of the examples was a self driving car driving down a busy road. There was a car trying to cross that road perpendicularly. As a driver you could see that car inching its way into traffic but the self driving car didn’t recognize that as a threat. Suddenly the car drove into traffic and the self-driving car almost t-boned it but the human driver intervened before it hit. That’s something that as a driver I would have caught and slowed down because the car was acting weird.
This is the weird disconnect we're having.

People are SO VERY WORRIED about the emissions from EV battery use and their recycling.

But at the same time digging up fossil fuels and literally burning them up in smoke is perfectly fine somehow?
I have done quite a lot of prototypes and while the initial ones were throw away code, I quickly realized that I can re-use a lot of code in future prototypes. Especially code that involves building user management and database access. Also realized it is frustrating to write repeating code. So I quickly started making code slightly more readable and reusable.

It's not the holy grail of software development but it ain't shitty code either. Also I tend to use only one web framework - FastAPI, one database - mostly Redis or MySQL and one front end React. Saves a ton of time as I can reuse a most parts of the code.

I do think there is a lot of merit in using something like GAE. Saves a boat load of time but comes at a cost and I am willing to bear the cost to save time.
My kids have been coming back from school with the backs of their hands bleeding because they're so dry from being forced to constantly use sanitiser all day. This is because government guidelines have not been updated since it became clear that it's not transmitted by contact. We've had to tell them to use the smallest amount possible, and only on their palms.
There are plenty of jobs where you don't have to touch Java.
This was exactly my point. The amount of cash discount places are dwindling so you're actively losing money if you pay cash.
As if admission into Harvard (and most other elite schools) is solely based on test scores (and even grades). Give me a break.

For reasons folks may or may not agree with, most elite schools look at a wider range of factors than just scores and grades. Does this lead to there being room for discrimination? Yes. Does it guarantee that discrimination is happening? No.

Just as a simple example, there are plenty of non-Asian folks with high scores and high grades that get rejected too, often for similar reasons — namely, being narrowly focused on academics and not even being world-class at that.
Adderall 5 times a week instead of 3.
Interesting. 87% of the 85,000 TBq is from two countries: the Soviet Union (46%) and the UK (41%).
Yes, the European/Canadian way to do credit cards at a restaurant is nice. The card never leaves your posession. I wish that would get adopted here, but restaurants will resist having to buy the handheld devices. I like restaurants where you get the bill at the table but pay at a desk near the front door, avoiding the problem of handing your card to the waiter.
The U.S. Is Not Ready for High Speed Rail
This is a great little package. I added it to one of our back-end services' test suites and it definitely improved issues around tests interfering with one another.

The challenge we had was that, if a test crapped out because one of our CI/CD runners had issues, it would leave the shared database for that runner in an undefined state.

pg_tmp incurs little or no overhead and they just magically disappear the end of a test run.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26950433
New BYU study finds that night shift functions don’t improve sleep
So Uber and Lyft are out. It seems only Didi Chuxing left as the ride hailing services with self driving development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeOz275b_X4
I loved everything about what I read here.

I'm not surprised at the backlash as most of the Ruby community in the west has been extremely political.
I recently compared the number of charging stations for Tesla, Ford and VW here in Reno. Tesla had some, Ford had many, VW had very few. In markets like this that’s gonna hurt for a while.
It's the same in Sweden. The laws are very beneficial for cc holders.

If you buy something with a cc and the company for snow reason later does not fulfill it's obligations, the bank is liable. If you paid with cash or a debit card, you're on your own.
Yes they sold 10%, source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1386821144037236737
It was the initial comment mentioning reuse that said recycling was necessary after reuse. So I'm not sure what that comment added to the discussion...
Their implementation approach is interesting: they have their own custom Forth implementation, with a kernel written in assembly language (ARM, aarch64, x86_64 and ppc64le). Then Strand is written in a mixture of Forth and itself.
Young people with no credit history can get debit cards if they open bank accounts. I'm not really sure it helps their credit score but it's convenient. The first real credit card a young person gets will have a very low limit, maybe only a few hundred dollars, so they are not all that useful at first other than to start establishing a credit history.
The Origins of the Wirecard Scandal
Clean electrification and hydrogen can deliver net-zero by 2050, says report
The 500 mile figure is roughly the range of a modern Toyota Camry. It’s just a useful baseline.

But as it happens, we’d drive 500 miles from Atlanta to St Louis every winter to visit our grandparents when we were growing up. I’m sure lots of people have relatives or friends they could visit who live about that far away.

Alternatively, Birmingham to Orange Beach is a bit shy of 300 miles one way. Atlanta to various popular beach vacation spots in Florida and South Carolina is roughly comparable. Beach vacation territory, IOW, is commonly several hundred miles one way.
Code Quality Metrics
>but it should have happened a long time ago. The cynism here is disappointing. The cynism here is disappointing.

Precisely because it did happen a long time ago. None of what is pointed out is new. It is basically celebrating Apple is an US business.
Makes me curious if clickhouse has already explored gpus
Isn't the whole domesticated animals thing that diseases only rarely cross animals to humans?

I suspect if he had dealt with chimpanzees if the organisms would have been more dangerous.

as to dealing with humans -- infant mortality was cut way down when doctors cleaned up between autopsies and delivering babies. It was a hard battle ("why should I clean up only to get messy again.")
I flew back in to the country in March 2020, did two weeks isolation, and life has been normal ever since. When I visited my mother in the hospital in October, I had to wear a mask. Which they were handing out at the entrance because no one has them. That's it. That is the extent corona virus restrictions impacted me here living in Australia.

Now what they have done is kept me here living in Australia. Which has been a particularly big deal for my specific lifestyle in which I was living overseas in a dodgy visa abusing way, meaning I couldnt qualify for an exception to the international travel ban by showing I was legitimately living elsewhere. Day to day though its like it almost didnt exist except online.
A man who stole a hotel
I know the title sounds cringy, but I’m actually pretty impressed.
The rate at which you post wildly inaccurate facts far exceeds my ability and patience for rebutting them. But this utter gem stands out above the rest:

> The only mild risk from mild warming is rising sea levels. That has been documented to be holding steady at 1 foot of sea level rise per century for the past few hundred years. Much smaller than the meltwater pulse at the Younger Dryas 12k years ago. Humans have continually delt[sic] with sea level rise since we invented agriculture.

That is just completely wrong. Global sea levels have been documented and reconstructed and cross-checked better than radio-carbon dating. There are still extant coastal cities that have existed for more than a thousand years, and they are all in agreement that this claim of 1 foot per century just cannot possibly true. I literally have no idea where you got this, I've never seen anyone even suggest this number. Even documented sea level rise since 1900 has been only 5 to 8 inches. Did sea level rise drastically slow down the last century? It's funny, that number, because since the 1990s the incredibly accurate modern gauges of sea level have noticed that the rate of rise has actually tripled to 3 millimeters a year and is still accelerating! That's funny, that's roughly a foot a century. So you just happen to suggest that the exact, current rate of sea level rise is the average over the "past couple centuries". Uh, no. If we were to project that 1000 years into the past, sea level would have been 10 ft lower! Corals and sediments don't lie. Sea level has been stable for 2000 years, just the perfect amount of time for modern civilization to up and build megacities on coasts the world over. Now, project that 3 millimeters per year into the future. In 1000 years, 10 feet! Goodbye all of Florida, Manhattan, and pretty much every major coastal city. But it won't be 1000 years. Things are picking up. We'll get multiple feet of sea level rise this century.

https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-ris...
What's the point you're trying to make? That irredeemable companies are a nightmare to work for?

Well of course they are. And just like irredeemable relationships, you need to move on and improve your judgement to avoid a repeat. Bemoaning on Slack achieves nothing.
I want this too! How will this service match you with interesting people? Something like okcupid compatibility algorithm with less focus on relationship?
Thats high risk. Registrars like Namecheap even provide whois privacy for free now, and it's peaceful for our inboxes.
SSL/TLS are godawful messes of standards, they are insanely complex to implement which is part of why they have had so many bugs turn up in recent years.
If you have hyper inflation, all the prices are going up. However assets with little to no practical value and no long term proven track record of value will not be where people will go to seek safety.

Hard assets with long track records of value will beat bitcoin hands down.
I don’t think you understood his point. Obviously, those homes have appreciated. His point is that people who own property right now in SF stand to make more money by simply selling their property, and using the proceeds to purchase property in other cities around the country, with better ratios.

Appreciation, by itself, will naturally drive this ratio down because of rent control laws. The value of the home is the denominator in that fraction.