skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some (generally U.S. centric) suggestions to move away from fossil fuels as fast as possible for a reasonable cost with current technology and with the least economic disruption:

Expand EV tax credits and allow EV conversions to qualify, not just new vehicles.

Electrify the interstate highway system so that EVs can charge while they're moving. This reduces the necessity of hauling around massive and expensive battery packs. Provide the electricity for free for small passenger vehicles that meet a minimum efficiency standard.

Build more battery factories. Especially for lithium iron phosphate cells (or any technology that replaces it), since LFP doesn't depend on cobalt or nickel and is much safer than most other lithium ion chemistries.

Install more domestic wind and solar power generation.

Invest in transcontinental power transmission lines and solar capacity in place like Africa, so we can power North America at night without relying on batteries.

Shut down fossil fuel power plants, but keep some of them operational as emergency backup.

Make an EV charge port required building code for new houses and apartments with parking.
It may change the cost/benefit analysis of viral research. If the risk of a lab escape is presently worse than the risk of a natural virus arising, then there are numerous things governments could do to remedy this. Even if a total research ban isn't warranted, it's probably a good idea to consider banning these labs in cities. The labs could be relocated to remote areas where workers are kept quarantined-by-default.
whose boss
https://docusaurus.io/
“This virus was likely man-made because gain of function man made viruses are quite common in research” - this doesn’t seem a convincing argument on its own (ignoring the comments on conspiracy / sense-making / politicisation).

Gain of function research seems valuable precisely in the sense it is identifying the mechanisms that govern infectivity. We wouldn’t have this discussion on furin cleavage sites without it.

The most likely case if we accept the lab leak hypothesis is that there was a base virus that was modified, with a similar virus that had a slightly different spike protein. This then infected staff and from there entered society.

This gains plausibility from the fact that it wouldn’t be readily distinguishable from a natural virus, as it would just be a combination of the two genomes.

However this is exactly why we can’t say for certain either way whether the source is natural or not - they’d be indistinguishable genetically.

It is more likely on the face of it that evolutionary pressure on the virus to spread and the natural process of mutation and selection caused the mutations in question, simply because of the volume of natural mutations versus artificial mutations.
Could you please post a link to the actual tests being run? GitHub workflows don't give me access to the test logs for the workflow you linked, and judging by test runtime of 1:30 and following the trail of commands it seems this is just spent downloading docker images to run an empty cypress boilerplate?
This is absolutely stellar advice
You are making assumptions here that are incorrect. I use it when hiring virtual assistants. They don't need a specific skill.
I think people who started out as assembly language programmers thought the same thing. Everything gets abstracted at some point.
Aren't they going to be using that space eventually for another distributed file system?
I'm in NZ, and not marked sensitive for me
Also regular devs don't realize but frequently internal IT departments charge obscene amounts of money for managed services.

Devs look at Digital Ocean or Hetzner VM costing $10 for a ton of RAM, storage and bandwidth when the same thing internally in a bank or other big enterprise can cost $100-150. AND be delivered in 3 months, if it's ever delivered.
If it had been a lab in Colorado, under the nominal supervision of some Trump crony, I think it indeed would have been something of “a big deal from a policy perspective”!

I like Yglesias, but it’s pretty blinkered to limit “policy impact” to “what to do about biological threat research”. Maybe this means having unanswerable autocracies around is bad and we should try (however ineffectually) to change that state of affairs?
> This whole chain of comments is a good example of why responding with a dismissive short comment isn't a good idea

This is simply inevitable as long as commenters are willing to make broad generalizations about complex topics. And it's hardly unfair to make assumptions about someone's experience when they do not include it along with their highly reductive comment supposedly based on such experience!
It's super frustrating being a data security consultant sometimes (my trade), due to the fact that playing up danger and fear to close deals has never been something I've been willing to do.

Maybe I need to get over my reluctance, or find a better line of work.
To me it's such a strange argument. Why wouldn't you want CV + additional sensors? CV has made all kinds of progress in current years, but it's certainly not fool-proof, doesn't do well in low-light or extremely high-light scenarios, can be slow, difficult to debounce between frames, subject to motion blur, difficult to get depth from, subject to optical illusions, etc. There are solutions that aren't full-blown LiDAR that can do a great job of depth estimation, collision detection, etc. Wouldn't you want more sensors in the mix? To me it's a really odd 'party line' to adhere to.
This is a good example of why opponents to actions against misinformation oppose it. Nobody should make these calls because the wrong call will be made eventually, and the power to silently mediate and manipulate discourse is very tempting.
Maybe you can run through all the samples to cache them in your browser. Reload the page to randomize then take the test.
Why is George Soros funding DAs who refuse to prosecute crimes?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/20/george-soro...

"Soros-backed DAs in Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco and other cities have fired scores of experienced prosecutors and, as promised, stopped prosecuting low-level quality-of-life crimes such as disorderly conduct, vagrancy and loitering."

"Mr. Soros’ New York Safety and Public Justice PAC spent at least $800,000 in an unsuccessful bid last November to oust incumbent Republican Sandra Doorley in upstate Monroe County."

Is it to create an opportunity for private police forces and security?
I'm not sure about VoLTE.

Either way, I called AT&T and specifically confirmed with them that my phone will still work after the 3G shutdown.
What Are Airdrops and How to Use Them
What I know from talking to former Dropbox insiders is Drew really wanted to be running a consumer company. He really resisted a push to SMB and Enterprise, even though, at least to me, that seems like the obviously better business.

So not sure if it's so much that the product stalled, but that leadership actively didn't want to move in that direction for too long, then lost the advantage.

Instead they spent a bunch of energy on Carousel and Paper. (I don't have any idea how much of their eng team was working on those things)
I support what you're trying to do 100%. (Except all the ANSI escape code and Unicode stuff. I disable UTF-8 wherever I can.) IMO, "popular" is overrrated. What actually works the best, e.g., fastest, smallest, most portable, lowest resource usage, is more interesting. I want to compile the modified runtime crt.S and ape.S on NetBSD. Maybe with /emul/linux it's possible. I've been using shell scripts without shebang lines for decades (because NetBSD's default shell is my preferred interactive shell and I hate typing). It was funny to see that described as "forgotten".
You are probably confusing Chia with Sia
Wait until "Citizen" does this in a state with more guns.
My favorite over the top intelligence claim from that era was that Saddam had a "human shredder" which he used on his enemies. Turns out it never existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_alleged_shr...
Envato Elements Account Sharing
Hello! I'm looking for few guys willing to share the cost of an Envato Elements account in a long-term business relationship.

This will be an amazing opportunity for us because as you know there are millions of unlimited files.

Only serious requests, please! Thank you.
On!y my pride.
Deter Prying Eyes by Locking Your Own Letters
Yup. Browsers used to render all pages incrementally, so you could simply keep the HTTP connection open and add more HTML text to the page, and it would just get tacked on to the bottom. Then you had a CGI endpoint in a separate footer frame (sort of like an iframe but arranged in a Grid-like layout) with a "Read More..." form button for requesting more data. It worked really well and didn't even need to use JS.
No, Bram Cohen has said that will never happen.
On the contrary, actors who are bad at judging what qualifies as a "good" idea should be removed from the filtering process.
Just to elaborate a bit, in CL, numbers are FIXNUMs by default but are promoted to BIGNUMs if needed. CL also has rational and complex numbers, which it probably got from Scheme but I'm not familiar with that history.
It's a little hard to tell because the butterflies are flapping and rotating, but I think your algorithm is sometimes generating dead butterflies.

https://emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
> Bitcoin requires so-called miners to do vast amounts of useless calculations

finally someone calling it like it is
What does this have to do with the article in question?

This seems absolutely tangential and baiting...
> We know how to do this "correctly."

Charge for the "Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches" content?
as crazy as it sounds, there are many large, enterprise clients that have to pay for vendors, they literally are not structured to implement free/O.S. software. i imagine that those large orgs are much more significant contributors to a software company's revenue than the small start-ups that might be more able to implement an O.S. alternative.
NPR affiliate WAMU airs The Big Broadcast every Sunday evening, with 4 hours of programming from the golden age of radio: https://wamu.org/show/the-big-broadcast/ I've always loved listening while cooking dinner. Though, living on the west coast I only get to listen to the tail end of the show.
I've also noticed this with some DJ tracks that I play. I have some old ones that are 128kbps and I prefer a few of them over the higher bitrates. Gives it a lofi feel, as is the case.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/u-s-mille...

You don't have to trust Friends. You can just Google this yourself or trust your instincts. But barring that, it's well established that younger people tend towards cities.

As for jobs following people or not, your article points out that it's a chicken and egg thing, and that high talent people may attract jobs, but they also beget more jobs.

In The Bay Area, throw in startup culture and VC/Angel funding and you add more fuel to the fire.

YC's stated reason for moving from Boston to Mountain View was actually because the investors were in CA.

You could say that initially maybe it was talent from the top local schools (Berkeley, Stanford), and semiconductor research, that attracted the VCs here. Then it created jobs from companies seeking those VCs, but today, in the current state, people are coming here for the jobs. It's a feedback loop but I wouldn't put most people's ambitions for moving to SF being the quality of life offered in the city itself.

Rather than arguing aimlessly in this thread I'll rephrase threwawasy1228's thesis and my rebuttal:
San Francisco is going to be in decline because of lowering quality of life (poop on streets, crime, etc) repelling some talent.

My rebuttal: These were never the reasons attracting people to come to SF in the first place. It was the availability of jobs, opportunities, and VC money and startup networking. If these things disappear, perhaps due to remote work opportunities, then yes SF would tend to decline due to the loss of local advantages. Otherwise, as long as these attractors exist it's going to keep the area a hot-spot. Of course, SF's rent isn't going to rise forever. Eventually it will reach equilibrium where enough people like threwawasy1228 will decide it's not worth the job/opportunity and this cooling down will be hailed as the "end" or "decline" of SF.
This is AGPL-3.0! Thanks for licensing it this way. It's a bit late here, but I'll try this tomorrow!
It is. And we can't.
Ubuntu 21.04 significantly faster than windows 10 on Threadripper
>who cares about philosophical technicalities

The whole argument above is built upon the assumption that everybody agrees with a utilitarian mindset so I’m assuming the answer to the question, in part, is you should care about the philosophical underpinnings.
Even you and your family and maybe a few close friends, doing your absolute honest best, are going to lose and break some stuff. No one else will care nearly as much nor try nearly as hard.

DIY is the best solution, in the sense of "sucks least." Think hard about who you ask to help, too; needs to be people to whom you can confidently explain why they shouldn't touch "that box" or why there's bloodstains on the underside of the table.
"Evidence" is not a person, and can't make decisions. Decisions are made by people, who we hope are informed by evidence. Who are these people and how are they chosen? What mechanisms exist to evaluate their effectiveness and recall them when they fail? These questions are currently being answered by American corporations, which is not confidence inspiring.
> Many companies do not have the operational maturity to run on-prem well.
the offline thing kind of reminds me of MSDN back in those days
There should really be a black banner for this, dang?
If 2024 comes and Musk says it’s coming in 2 weeks will you still believe him?
Thank you for this heads up. I've just dived into a discussion/state of play/essay of medieval medicine by an expert in the field. I'm now in the middle of a personal paradigm shift, if that's not too ridiculous!

This is part of a longer paragraph with some more context but it is indicative of the treasures to be found:

"So, we have a doubly difficult time understanding what medieval medicine was, because the people who practiced didn’t write about it, and the people who wrote about medicine thought practice was beneath them."
With a username like "DeliriumTrigger", I strongly doubt he's talking in good faith.
If people invest time/money mining coins, they're going to promote those coins in order to justify their mining operation.

From this initial organic buzz, speculative markets take over and the whole thing becomes a positive feedback loop.

Crypto is fundamentally a huge waste of advanced manufactured goods, electricity, and time, and enables tax avoidance and money laundering. The correct response from Governments is to simply ban the formal exchange of all of them in the same way that the USA bans online gambling and pyramid schemes.
The XHR contains the URL: xmlHttpRequest.open("GET", 'https://statcdn.net/app/?id=8438fce9-6d9a-45c4-ba2c-e643c129...', true);

Since opening that URL directly in the browser didn't work I tried archiving it and it worked. Then I shared the archive link here.

It seems that they implemented some poorly done access control that is letting archive.is see the contents but not web browsers when visited directly.
If you hadn't heard about it, it was breaking.
No punch cards?!?
I’m talking about formal generics, where there are type system mechanisms for specifying type parameters and constraints. I suppose there are really three things we’re considering here: the generic implementation that operates on some arbitrary type, the concretization that has only concrete types, and a generic type specification which is only required if the compiler emits the concretization instead of the programmer. (I'm ignoring interfaces as they aren't really relevant here, that I can see. And hopefully I'm using the right terminology here.)

What I’m arguing is that for most cases, the implementation and concretization are so easy to write by hand, are safe enough, and perform well enough, that I don’t think the downsides of having the compiler emit the concretizations are worth it. The downsides being the new complex language primitives that have lots of consequences that trickle out to the compiler, runtime, and ecosystem.
Well said. The value proposition is different for everyone. I've noticed a bunch of false or misapplied statements from both sides too.

I went to dinner with my in-laws. They were supposed to get an outdoor table but ended up getting an indoor one since they are vaccinated (I think in an effort to pressure me). My father-in-law was giving me all sorts of nonsense about not being vaccinated even though I'm low risk in both lifestyle and comorbidities. I WFH, only go to the food store or distanced outdoor events, I use an N95 mask (that I had from woodworking). I plan to hold off on the vaccine until I go back to the office. At that point there should be a few more month of data for me to look at (even though the data quality in VAERS is abysmal due to lack of reporting). He thought my plan of waiting was stupid.

Even after vaccination, he has a .2% chance of fatality based on age and comorbidities. Unvaccinated I have a .03% chance (likely very much lower but can't find the numbers without comorbidities in my age group). How can he criticize someone with vastly lower risk? There is a point of diminishing return too. If I get the vaccine I eliminate .0285% risk, while it eliminates 3.8% for him. Clearly it provides more value to some than others.
Brazil really is a great depiction of our current dystopia. The fly in the machine leading to Archibald Buttle's wrongful execution is a great analogy for the people whose lives are thrown sideways when the Google algorithm bans their account.

But another scene that really sticks with me is the one where Sam Lowry has the desk in his room, but some person in the room next to him keeps stealing it from him. The fact that 1 desk is shared by 2 rooms is this nonsensical optimization that really just inconveniences him, but highlights how powerless everyone in this world is. For a real world example, there was a time when I was trying to block Facebook and other sites on my phone by editing my phone's hosts file, but couldn't find a way to do it that didn't involve rooting my phone. While trying to find how to do it, I found some people who wanted to do the same thing but all were met with the response "it's locked down to protect you, why would you want to block a website?" It's a very helpless feeling to not have control over something you own.

The worst part is, most people I know see issues like this situation with Citizen's and think we need more centralization of power in order to prevent it.
It feels refreshing to see cities like Rochester, New York take on a rather large project in 2014 and complete it by 2021. Gives me hope that other cities can follow suit and be reborn as human first and car second.
I didn't realize cars and planes run on tobacco advertisements. Obviously certain things are not necessary and can be removed.
Because without those DAs, put in place deliberately by a billionaire, crime rates would not be rising and apps like Citizen would be less necessary.

If you have a police force who cannot prosecute crimes then it seems inevitable that private or individual security will take over.

If this becomes a multi-billion industry, then spending a few million on DAs seems like a reasonable bet.

Of course, society is a lot worse off, so it seems reasonable to question what is going on.
I2P's Threat Model
> I have no data.

This is my surprised face lol.
You are right.

We welcomed our daughter a few years ago and the amount of stuff that has been invented over the last decade is breathtaking. Monitors, special pillows, all sorts of foods, supplements, and what not. You look at it all and think wtf...

FOMO is huge too, especially with social media nowadays. I can't count the number of times people look at me with puzzled expressions thinking how on earth I don't use x,y,or z service/product. Want to lose weight? Of course you can't just go for a walk. You need a subscription to 5 celebrity weight loss programs, an indoor bike for a couple grand, super 24/7 gym membership, running club, neighborhood calorie watch, lifting buddy,etc.
I can't upvote this enough.

Related: Notice how the public cloud marketing material tends to focus on scalability over other metrics? That's because scaling horizontally for them is easy: They just plop down more "stamps" -- a set of clusters and controllers that is their unit of scale. Need 1,000 more servers in US East? Plop down 10 more stamps of 100 servers. Easy!

Except of course this involves an awful lot of networking, with long cable runs and many hops and virtualisation layers. The end result is that you can't get anywhere near the underlying storage latency.

Azure's Premium SSD has "write flush" latencies of about 4 milliseconds according to my measurements, which is easily 100x slower than what my laptop can do with a now very outdated Samsung NVMe SSD.

Notice that if you go to their marketing page, they talk about "low latency" and "lowest latency", but they have no numbers? Meanwhile the MB/s and IOPS is stated with numbers: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-di...
I think microservices can become a trap where you think you might need one, but actually you don't — a bit like blockchains a microservice structure solves very specific issues at a cost. Not everybody has these issues. Many people seemingly wanted to have these issues so they can justify using that hip tech, while forgetting the tradeoffs involved.

Drawing a line in the sand between parts of your service and creating common interfaces between them is not a bad idea, but I'd argue that doing so too early brings in a cost of constantly dealing with the communications within your service.

It is a similar issue to programmers who try to write everything generic from the start or optimize prematurely: it can get in the way of productivity and make your service inflexible in a development phase where it should still be very flexible.

That being said I believe the core ideas of microservices applied at the right time in the right project would do wonders, but just like with blockchain the hardest part might actually be to decide when to use it and when not to.
> There's also the argument that some of the cloud advantages (such as AWS proprietary services like SQS) simply aren't directly available as selfhosted replacements. You end up needing a whole new team to do HA/scaling for a core service.

It's not limited to some. You absolutely need a whole new team (or teams) to handle your infrastructure, your high availability needs, and also your security.

The nifty serverless offerings and other features are just nice-to-haves in comparison to the core infrastructure work that cloud providers put into your system to keep it running.

Just because cloud providers like GCP and AWS and Azure and etc have everything put together to let you setup your whole infra by running a small script that does not mean nothing needs to be done in order for that to work.