skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a way to combine search results. Use the search from the Roku/Google TV/Apple TV/FireTV OS. Unfortunately results are varied. I found search results missing from a lot of platforms when I used Roku. The Chromecast with Google TV has been better. I don't how the search is integrated, e.g. on the backend or in the OS via the app. I'd guess it depends on platform.
There are many cases of diseases jumping from animals too humans, I know of Mad Cow Disease.

But it was not an epidemic problem IIRC.
If such laws are put in place, it would handle only foreign buyers. It still wouldn't handle local born rentiers. There should be some kind of robust policy change. It would be hard, since landlords aren't exactly a friendly bunch (just look at San Francisco).
>His comparison to wood is legitimate as trees are a natural resource and their conservation has a similar effect on climate change compared to reducing the burning of fossil fuels.

Thanks for that! I do try and pick my comparisons and words carefully. I sometimes fail miserably but i'm glad you picked up on it.
Absolutely. I see a lot of rationalization for piracy here, even though media consumption has never been cheaper or more convenient.

I can't speak for the Android ecosystem, but the iOS ecosystem's Apple TV app (Netflix notwithstanding) aggregates channels into one nice experience, and the App Store makes these channels trivial to subscribe to and cancel, making it easy to decide month-to-month what I want to pay for.
If I flip my iPhone over 180° today it doesn’t autorotate. I wouldn’t expect it to in the show given the terminals are asymmetrical with the electronics at the bottom.

Plus it’s a cheap belter phone. Poor bastards aren’t getting the expensive feature rich terminals.
Alex Karp is such a genius. Love that guy and his work at Palantir.
mRNA vaccines researchers are working on (that aren't Covid)
Although I personally think there’s way more good than bad on the internet, I think the article would’ve been more focused/useful if it was about ‘gatekeepers’ rather than ‘expertise’
Isn't it just a new way to tax them? They have to figure out new lines of business that eliminate CO2—or just push billions into carbon offsets?
Although very limited in its content, at least in Canada. My understanding is that it's because of old exclusivity contracts with cable providers.

And indeed, our process is: "Can we rent it? No, fine let's fine a pirated copy". Not going to get cable for one night to watch this one movie. Everybody's losing by hanging on those old outdated systems.
Removed all existing ops (channel admins), set the channel to invite-only, set the channel to ops-only. Basically removed all the existing mod team then made the channel mod-only, which kicked all users.
Google launches preview of ‘integrated data cloud’ to help unify multicloud data
"If COVID mutates fast enough it will stay with us forever, with a potentially much higher mortality than the flu."

Most likely not. If C19 mutates in a fashion that allows it to "stay with us forever" it will almost certainly come with lower (cold-level) mortality.

That is one of the trade-offs that the virus genome has to "make" as it mutates. More lethality is a genetic dead-end because of vaccines. Cold level lethality is a genetic steady state that would allow it to thrive.
I find it amusing when reading the docs on compression programs and seeing statements like "Compression level of -9 should be used with caution as it can consume over 8 megabytes of main memory".
The problem is that this is one company in the EU. It won't change how America, Russia, the middle east, or anyone else produces fossil fuels. Shell will desiccate from this action. And people will declare victory. But EU member states will simply import more fossil fuels from elsewhere. And the environment will not be helped.

I agree that we need to cut CO2 emissions. But we need global solutions to these problems. Not one-off court victories in small municipalities with liberal trade policies.
no need to shame everyone, of course if the license is AGPL you won't be asking small users to get a license right away, but it gives you leverage with large companies to justify them doing business with you. I don't think a large company would want a core component to die just because it's no longer mantained, nor they want to dedicate the resources to mantain a fork.
If you are in the windows world I have been using this.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho/files/FileOptimi...

Which contains all of those and just tries them all. Been meaning to pop it all out and make a bash script of them to automate some of my stuff on a cron job instead of using a GUI.
Someone on the equator might divide the orbit of the Earth around the sun into two halves, a north-sun "year" and a south-sun "year".

I have absolutely no evidence that any group did so, of course, but it wouldn't be totally absurd.
Another benefit is that masks help if you’re not in „camp good-looking“ or „camp daily toothpaste“. Also, Years ago, when I switched from public transport to car I noticed a significant reduction in being sick / year. So yeah to (voluntary) masks in public Transit
Check out Nexo and Defi. Those places claim to let you earn 12-20+% interest on USDT.

There’s your Ponzi returns.
> Frankly, I'm glad I have a waning interest in modern movies as I get older, and I'm actually more interested in watching old black and white movies that are "free to air" in my country.

My mother recently gave me a sub-account to Netflix and while I was thrilled to rewatch some shows I liked (like the OA or good old star trek) I was quickly submerged by the sheer amount of YA novels adapted in TV shows or movies that are really mediocre. Now I see there's a lot of content on Netflix but I feel like I am swimming in an ocean of never ending content produced with the same recipe.
I thought I was hot shit (and not just me...my employers too) until I discovered people like Walter, Stepanov, and other boomers who know programming/computing at such a deeper level that it almost feels hopeless that I can attain the same level of knowledge. I'm confident that I will be a much better programmer decades in the future than I am now.
Amnesty International calls for Google to halt cloud business in Saudi Arabia
>I mean, just imagine, you go the the slave market and they tell you that the court ordered them to stop selling slaves on the basis that some laws say that you cannot do so!

Last time they tried this the United States rent itself apart in its bloodiest war.
I think it important to distinguish between pandemics, covering most countries simultaneously, and isolated national epidemics.

Flu is epidemic flu. Hopefully we are coming to the end of the pandemic - assuming new variants don't play stupid
> I was able to get founder access back by asking nicely (through gritted teeth) on #freenode-services and now I am trying to work out how I indicate to users that they should look elsewhere, without freenode taking any further action.

Why do you need to do that though? Freenode and all other IRC servers are full of channels where people hang out and talk about projects without maintainers owning them and pushing people around. This is, after all, the main plus of IRC.

Just leave Freenode and advertise your presence on your website/GitHub or other project channels. Leave people deciding to stay on Freenode alone.
It's called Royal Dutch Shell since it sprung from a merger between a dutch and a britsh company (Royal Dutch Oil and Shell). It's meant to reflect the names of the former companies more than indicate some deep ties with the Netherlands. Not too long ago they changed the dual Dutch/British legal structure that was in place before and become a company fully under british law.
> If they are going to scrape every single link in the channel topics and look for libera.chat links then there is not much you can do

There's a lot you can do, there's a bunch of anti-scraping techniques like printing the "libera" using JavaScript.
yeah i highly doubt it’s true. but maybe over time if prime video gets compelling enough that people buy prime just for access to it, then it could be true. right now it’s just seen as a bonus if you already have prime for other reasons. maybe bezos just believes it anyway
Word of warning that Day at the Races has a "minstrel show" scene that's pretty offensive even by 30s standards. Other than that, the Marx Brothers are easily the greatest comedy troupe in American history, and their films are still some of the funniest ever made
The money quote:

Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
Bridging seems like a big selling point if you're migrating an existing chat channel to Matrix. It seems less compelling if you're starting a new one.
Affecting drivers at the petrol station is exactly what needs to happen. Pricing in externalities is how free markets deal with the effects of behavior.

If prices increase, demand will fall, and the price will fall, and a new equilibrium will be arrived at.

I'd like to recommend taking a look at The Undercover Economist. It can be had for cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Economist-Tim-Harford/dp/0...
I'm a manufacturing engineer. Anyone telling you to avoid machining like a curse has no idea what they are talking about. For small production runs it is almost always the most economical option, and even mass produced parts typically need secondary machining for any applications that require tight tolerance. And even if the things you're actually producing can be made without machining, any self respecting factory should have a machine shop for tooling and fixtures.

I am also dying to know how you made a scooter without any machined components.
That seems pretty reasonable though. If these are the official channels for a given project, then it's up to the project what they want to do with them, not the ops of the network they happen to be hosted on. If Gentoo or whoever want to move their official channel from one network to another, then that's entirely their right to do so, and it makes sense to close down the previous location and leave a link to the new one to prevent confusing people and fracturing the community.

If you want to stay on FreeNode, you can create as many unofficial channels to talk about Gentoo as you want, and you're free to try to recruit users to it. But taking over what had been the official channel, but which is now officially deprecated by the sponsoring project in question, is unreasonable. It's about trust.
3840x2160 really needs to be no larger than 24 inch if you want to be able to argue that it's retina grade; that's why the LG ones sold by Apple were 4k@24" and 5k@27", the same as their iMac displays.

I have 4k monitors at 27 inch because I prefer the magnification faction, but I can see the individual pixels.
> no doubt a useful property at the time

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation#Real_m...
"Garamond is a bad font for the web, let's start by explaining cuneiform..."

For a 10-year old article, it certainly predicted SEO trends.
Early F-35As May Get Axed Even Though Overall Readiness Improved Significantly
Agreed. I often only want to read root level comments. There should be an option to only show root comments; I have been thinking about adding this feature to my reddit/hn clone.
I've always just used this (it's more old school but def solid):

https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush/
I love old movies, especially around the 50's-70's, but I'll admit that you're not gonna see a whole lot of diversity in that era. I'm not meaning to moralize. It's just hard to find movies that say, have an Asian character that isn't a horrible racist caricature.
Airbnb’s CEO thinks the platform can replace your landlord
There are other legal protections and courts are there to weight them.

If a company knowingly cause harm to third parties they must be sanctioned.

Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
I was a fan of GoT, I loved ST:P.

I don't watch that many movies anymore.
Blockbusters used to be really good for this. You could even get a movie for a whole week for less than YouTube will rent it to you for 24 hours.

Maybe they'll make a comeback?
Yes, GB, the dumping ground for "regulatory-challenged" companies and individuals everywhere.

Brimming with pride, mate.
I think that 'most items' mentioned in the sibling comment is the problem. Who decides what's included in that subset?

Practical example: "Mockingbird Lane" was released by NBC in 2012, they decided it was 'not worthy' and removed it from their streaming library.

Can you guess what's the only way to watch it now?

I do understand the concept of 'What NBC giveth, NBC taketh', but that doesn't mean I have to be happy with it.
Depends on the mask and what exactly you are protecting against. The medical masks are good against droplets and protects others in the case of Covid, FFP2 (N95) masks give good self-protection.
Pardon for my misinterpretation. Although I don't use google much these days, but I'd assume it be due to location/preference tailor.

And yes, I don't see the hash in the page too, I should read it more carefully before commenting. Sorry for the confusion.
I don’t think you can make the same comparison to iTunes. No record label had the ability to reach millions of paying users like Netflix already has. Netflix has no incentive to license their original content to a different aggregate platform.
I remember showing a coworker a complexity analysis I did, where I'd written "0.002 n lg n + 3n". I was surprised when they asked "why did you put the insignificant one first?" but then realized... that's exactly right! Even for universe sized problems, 3n is more than 0.002 n lg n.

Basically, as soon as you care enough about constant factors to actually compute them, some of your habits from doing asymptotic analysis can be actively harmful.
Long-Covid or Long-Pandemic Syndrome?
When I tried reading the novels I had a problem there because I thought the books were putting forth explanations for it that didn't make sense. But the TV show didn't try to explain beyond something like "magic future technology" and I don't have any problem suspending disbelief for that.
With N95 you filter a whole lot of things out of the air. I’ll consider wearing a mask in special ocasions as well. Another one is in the winter, wearing the mask when the air is cold and gusts of wind blow in your face helps too. Or when on a bike or e-scooter or running through a very polluted area should help somewhat as well
We have not yet approached the pre-streaming willingness to pay (WTP). People used to pay $150 to $200 plus onDemand for the whole package with their cable provider. Today you can have YouTubeTV, HBO, Netflix, Prime, AppleTV+, Disney+, and Spotify for less than that. So perhaps the average will hover around $100 with many paying closer to $200 a month. We are creeping back up to those numbers because people will pay.
"Better" is gonna take time to determine. I'm not hitching my wagon to Ioannidis as the winner in the end, though, given his track record thus far on failed predictions/modeling.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

> Using these age-specific estimates, we estimate the overall IFR in a typical low-income country, with a population structure skewed towards younger individuals, to be 0.23% (0.14-0.42 95% prediction interval range). In contrast, in a typical high income country, with a greater concentration of elderly individuals, we estimate the overall IFR to be 1.15% (0.78-1.79 95% prediction interval range).

Confounding matters: any currently published estimate is likely to lack data from the current large spike in India.
There are ISPs who provide that information based on agreements with the law firms (what you called the automated process - quite literally there's no meaningful human intervention at any point which goes against every principle). Those cases will be dropped as soon as they receive a counter letter from a lawyer because it's the kind of thing that's supposed to stay in the shadow.

A court order is not supposed to be automated because it's exceedingly simple to make it output whatever you want while still claiming good faith.
Discord is really IRC with a prettier skin. All the weird technical stuff you'll see on IRC you'll also find on Discord. Discord has some additional features, but those are on top of the existing IRCisms, making it actually harder for a newbie to get on board.

But you know, people aren't that stupid, they figure things out -like they did in the 90s with IRC- because they want to join the community.

Back in late 90s/early 2000s, netcafes were full with non-technical people who used Internet just because of mIRC (many called it just "mIRC") to chat with others. We're talking about people who barely knew the difference between a file and a folder and yet became proficient enough with mIRC to simultaneously chat in several channels.

The #1 issue isn't technical, it is social. People do not join Discord because it is better than IRC/Matrix/whatever, they join it because the communities they want to be part of are on Discord.
Or they implement carbon fixing, and the EU implements tariffs on non-carbon-neutral petro such that the environment is helped...
I had only seen TNG until two years ago. I knew almost every episode past season 2, and really loved it. Still do.

But then I watched Deep Space Nine, and wow. I got hooked. I "only" watched about 80 episodes that are the plot arc + a few outstanding solos, but still. The quality of the acting, the more "on the nose" social messaging, the darker side of the Federation, the racial struggles between the crew - if I hear anyone make fun of DS9, I send them on their way (which doesn't happen much like it did in the 00's).

I have some friends who liked SG-1 as kids, maybe I should take the time to watch it. But it can't be better than Battlestar Galactica :)
Strangely, my son who is six, who has exhibited symptoms of schizophrenia and has been formally diagnosed with ODD (oppositional defiant disorder), responds incredibly well to a combination of Niacin/Magnesium.

He becomes a different person when he has taken his vitamins for the day, a more caring person. It's been a profound transition, and one that we didn't expect. We had tried everything - improving sleep, improving diet, weekly behavioral therapy. Nothing has come remotely close to the impact that the Niacin/Magnesium combination. It's probably a 70% improvement in behavior. That dramatic.

I stumbled across the works of Abram Hoffer. That this is probably an issue related to overmethylation within his system, and the B3 helps subside this issue. At least my very basic understanding. I know I am trivializing the domain - I don't mean to.

Not sure how to confirm that overmethylation is the issue, hence why I was asking. Thanks for the insight.

P.S. For those curious, this is the current protocol of vitamins we have been using to help him.

https://aantix.medium.com/my-son-niacin-magnesium-and-the-tr...
Brain adapts when you get an extra thumb
>> Burning fossil fuels is bad. Shell is in the business of producing fossil fuels to burn. Shell needs to leave that business in the very long term. What's the problem here?

Shell doesn't burn fossil fuels. As you note they produce them (or pump them out of the ground and refine them). Telling Shell to produces less in one country means the people buying those fuels will simply get them from somewhere else, probably at higher price.
All quotes below are from that Ars article.

> Contract or no contract, staff and developers of Freenode maintain that it wasn't actually possible to sell the network—the staff is all volunteers, and the infrastructure itself wasn't owned by Dahlskjaer in the first place.

So who did own the infrastructure, and where did they stand on all of this?

> Freenode has been the world's largest IRC network since 2013, with roughly three times as many users as its closest competitor, IRCnet.

...

> A week after Lee's effectively public announcement of ownership and de facto dictatorial operation of Freenode, the staffers who resigned from Freenode created Libera.chat as a replacement.

Is there something wrong with IRCnet? Usually when the largest X does something that gets a lot of users to leave they go to X's largest competitors since those are already up and running and experienced. In this case, though, it seems like the brand new Libera.chat is where most are going.
Dude bought an NFT in 2017, and has now decided the NFT was a proof of ownership.
This is true of basically all platforms, including every major cloud provider.

AWS's playbook can be described as:
1. Provide low level infra
2. Observe what customers build on it
3. Create a general solution and charge a premium for it
4. Repeat, moving higher up the stack.

Not to mention Amazon.com's "Basics" playbook of finding what sells, then knocking it off, releasing their own version (and ranking it higher for search).
I'll be curious to see when nations like Norway or Canada, which are hyper polluters per capita when you include their fossil fuel production and trade, will be forced to cut their lucrative oil industries in half or worse.
It would be great if we could establish, that everyone who has an infect of any kind would wear masks in public. That alone could cut down infections considerably. And of course it is normal behavior in Asia.
"those top 10 causes of death are abetted by risks some of us long ago rationally (or semi-rationally) decided to accept: smoking, drinking, overeating, driving, kissing, chainsaw-juggling and so on."

I wish we could, as a society, rationally work on reducing some of those risks. Smoking is on its way out, finally, with substantial public education, taxes, peer pressure, etc. But smoking mostly only affects oneself, second-hand smoke notwithstanding.

Some risks, like choosing to drive all the time including while angry, sleep-deprived, distracted, etc., or choosing not to be vaccinated, aren't just on yourself, they're increasing the risk for everyone around you.

I can't safely go the store even if I choose to walk or bike because some jackass might decide to pick up a french fry instead of look where they're going and jump the sidewalk or veer into the bike lane and turn me into paste. There's not really anything I can do about it, except huddle in fear in my house. It's infuriating.

Similarly while I'm vaccinated and thus my risk of hospitalization or death from COVID 19 is effectively 0, my three year old son is not. People choosing not to vaccinate are putting him at risk, which really twists me up inside.
New recipe for X Picanha Salad
As a Chinese American, I have families and friends in both China and the US. I don't want to choose a side...
One thing highly underrated in the show is the AI interactions. You ask the computer for something, and it provides the answer. No voice, no conversation, no sass, and most importantly, no anthropomorphism.

Imagine every single time you write a CLI command or perform a mouse click, the computer says "great! Let me do that for you". That's how Siri, Alexa interact. In the Expanse, giving the AI a command is like double clicking on a file. Fast, consise, no fuss.
Create 3D animations on your smartphone
This kind of supply destruction is going to be very bullish for oil prices and oil company stocks in countries not looking to handicap their own companies.
Alcohol prohibition didn't work out very well.
> Just leave Freenode and advertise your presence on your website/GitHub or other project channels. Leave people deciding to stay on Freenode alone.

Because it looks like an official channel? Having a topic telling people where they can find the official channel is not bothering people: most people don't know where to go and are only on freenode because thats where they think they should be.