skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freshers weeks for all UK universities are like that. And most teenagers are fine with that, rich or poor. It's an easy ice breaker.

I don't know how you managed to miss this during your university career, but there are absolutely tons of clubs in every university. Sports, political, hobbies, music, etc. Nothing to do with drinking, apart from maybe a once or twice yearly optional social night.

There are 400 clubs registered at the OU student's union:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/life/clubs

Including compsoc, which would have been a way to meet your fellow CS grads:

https://ox.compsoc.net/

And a competitive computer security club:

https://www.ox002147.com/

And they're just the ones I found by searching computer.

You could've packed your calender with different activities meeting new people every night and never have felt the need to drink a single drop.
I spent some time with students in Russia and they were even worse! Most of Europe is similar to an extent, but sure there are people who are obsessed with studying and learning, but there are a lot more who are keen to get away from their parents, spend money on beer and find girls/boys.

Most Asian students I met who had come over to Europe were pretty serious.

Anecdotally some friends from Wales who went on a study year to America were put into counselling and threatened with expulsion for their "drinking problems", they were pretty normal British students really, I think they ended up somewhere fairly conservative.
As parts and systems (cabling, transformers, etc) get replaced, I have no idea if the new parts will maintain this "excess current" (assuming OP really was talking about that), but even if they do, the power still has to some from somewhere.
I don’t have this issue with social media because I don’t really participate all that much. Occasionally one of you guys gets on my case but hey HN are a rowdy sort so I take my punches :)

In terms of job interviews I can see where it would get hard for people. The best advice I ever got for that is to expect one call back for every hundred applications, one interview for every hundred call backs, and maybe one offer for every hundred interviews. If you expect that sort of ratio then it stops feeling personal and just feels like a numbers game.
>would adding a "most" qualifier in there placate you?

Yes probably, there are a decent number of people that see crypto as an alternative to paypal. The SMS/MMS over IP provider I use primarily uses bitcoin for payments probably because paypal did something stupid that made it unusable. There are lots of smaller projects like this where the maintainers just don't want to deal with paypal and bitcoin works very well.
I can't afford to pay for all the stuff I use. FB, IG, YT, etc would cost a fortune. I'll happily watch my ads, thanks.
Most oil companies have already been in the clean energy business for a while
There is certainly no changing your viewpoint on anything.

For the sake of basic human empathy, I hope that the industry starts to see things Osaka's way instead of yours.
I have my Covid shots entered into the WHO yellow vaccination passport and assume that's good enough for the time being until a specific "QR code passport" is released.

edited to add: Why should a civilized country just revoke certification once you're fully vaccinated?
Unless I missing something, there are a ton of open source client side encrypted pastebins around.

E.G: 0bin.net (https://0bin.net/), with a lot of good faith in the FAQ (https://0bin.net/faq/), a basic and open source code (https://github.com/Tygs/0bin), zero JS stats on the main instance and alternative instances already in the wild. It does feature self destruct.
This is an important point, but then "native" iOS has the same vulnerability. Apple arguably has more power to block iOS apps than China has to block the Web, so China just tells Apple to block what they want blocked, and Apple does it.
I think incels attract hate because many of them online become so twisted from their pain that they end up externalizing a lot of the factors that makes them involuntarily celibate, rather than accepting any personal responsibility. Discussions between incels in those communities amplify all the negative things they may be feeling and validates their opinions regardless of how absurd or offensive it may seem from an outside observer.

While placing the blame on external factors can be helpful psychologically for the person suffering, it also signals to others that they are not taking any responsibility for their failure to meet their goal of well, having sex.

Everyone needs compassion and arguably the worst of us need that compassion the most, but for a lot of people, that's really, really hard.
I am from India but have lived in the Middle East ( over a decade) and the US( few years ).

I see very little difference among the middle and upper middle class people of these countries nowadays. With globally connected social media everyone thinks they are unique ( maybe rightfully so ). Just because you are born in India or China you are not going to be thankful for whatever life has given to you.

Western values( or is it global ) as far as uniqueness seems to be the dominant thought process atleast in the metros.

I see the problem described in the article among my friends here. Everyone is depressed, anxious or having an existential crisis.
While semantic debates are undoubtedly a waste of time when we use an ever evolving descriptive language like English, I couldn't help myself. Most dictionaries appear to support OP's usage, and I would argue that it is very intuitive that an alorithm made up of smaller algorithms is still, itself, an algorithm. Google's algorithm for determining whether to ban USENET groups mathematically approximates the problem and computes a solution to that problem in a finite number of steps, frequently involving repetition. Even if it didn't fit those specific requirements, however, it would still qualify under the broader definition of "algorithm" in common usage. See Merriam-Webster's definition of algorithm:

: a procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation

broadly : a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem or accomplishing some end

"There are several search engines, with Google, Yahoo and Bing being the biggest players. Each search engine has its own proprietary computation (called an "algorithm") that ranks websites for each keyword or combination of keywords." — Julie Brinton

"… sometimes you solve a problem by coming up with an algorithm of some kind. But sometimes you solve a problem in a very ad hoc sort of way." — William H. Huggins
I wouldn't be so sure about that, but I tried to look up some numbers and couldn't find any for the capacity planning of last mile delivery. 10 kWH per day is about the average electricity use per home in the Netherlands, so the aggregated impact will definitely be huge. Especially as more an more homes are switching to electric heating and cooking (until recently pretty much all homes here used natural gas). So household electricity consumption will take a huge leap in the coming decade(s), and I would think this will also affect last mile.

Also take into account standard home chargers here are 16A@230V=3.7kW, but 3 phase chargers that can do 3x16A, 10kW are gaining popularity. Only if the chargers remain 'dumb' and all start pulling max current when everyone gets home at dinner time that will be an issue here for sure
If people get obscene bills for charging their cars during peak hours or find themselves having to adjust plans around charging that will stunt EV adoption.
I’m sorry you experienced this. My home life wasn’t perfect but it was much better than yours. I love my wife and children most of all - they are what I mean by a created family as the family we created was the result of my wife and I choosing to do so. Immense contentment and fulfillment come from my immediate family.

I have found it much better to come to amends with past family I have had issue with than it is to hold grudges and become estranged. I’m not saying your situation is salvageable but that is my experience.

I am also a very driven person and work in tech startups at the executive level. My ability to work long hours and succeed is enhanced by the love of my family rather than fueled by past wrongs.
You do have a point there. The EU is pitching COVID certificates as a way to restore travel in the bloc, but I can’t imagine they will be used in places other than airports/bus stations/train stations.

The issue is that maintaining roadblocks along Schengen borders has incurred costs that countries don’t like to deal with long-term, and even with the roadblocks there have been a lot of gaps. I spent last summer cycling across Europe. I was fortunate in that all borders on my route were open, but I met a load of other cyclists who had crossed various Schengen borders illegally, because no one was checking traffic along some minor road through the fields.

So, for people with their own transportation, you might manage an entire European summer holiday without anyone ever checking your COVID certificate.
Any plane that can land missing half a wing on one engine is over-engineered, from a certain point of view.
Graphqurl – curl-like CLI for GraphQL
There’s always the option of creating an account, giving it an impossible-to-remember password, putting that on your ToDo list with a monthly cadence, and getting 80% of the value with ~2% of the work/stress/distraction. LinkedIn especially is easy to fire up IFF you you have a specific company to research.
Coming through successfully, or arriving at the border?
One suspects, on reading the user's comment history, that this is not the case.
We all knew it would happen but free was too convenient. No such thing as a free lunch and all that.
RAM typically doesn't generate much heat.
take a note from Italy!

The SPID system[0] is based around multiple identity providers, which are all allowed to interoperate against the public login systems.

You can have an account with identity provider X and use it to login to the regional health system, and at the same time have a separate account with provider Y and use it to authenticate with the pension system. Currently there are 21M users which is > 30% of the population. It's pretty nice.

[0] https://www.spid.gov.it/
NuScale – Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Nuclear Technology
If we are talking rumors,

> The schematics showed the HDMI port, a USB-C/Thunderbolt port, and an SD Card reader on the right side of the machine. The left side features two additional USB-C/Thunderbolt ports and a MagSafe charging port, for a total of three USB-C/Thunderbolt ports instead of four as we have today.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/14/macbook-pro-leaks-confi...
They literally promote "Freshers week" in every Uni I've ever been to so good luck on ever seeing that change. There's too much money in swindling young people so I doubt it's going away.
This is an open source release of the database with the highest ever certified TPCC result. Horizontal scalability might be a bold claim but they’ve got some evidence behind it.

tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results5.asp?resulttype=all
I have the Tree Tabs extension to blame for enabling me to be a member of the 100+ tab club. What it allows that bookmarks do not is a clear way to swap between dynamic groups of related tags.

A somewhat real-world example: I have 5 tabs open for reference on an Elixir project I plan to return to over the weekend and 12 tabs open for a Python project I’m currently working on. When I’m done with today’s Python work, I expect to have no more than seven of those Python tabs remaining.
Unless your car lacks side curtain airbags does particularly poorly on the partial front overlap test safety improvements have been negligible since the roof strength increases of the early '00s.

Most of the advances since the 2000s have come from cheaper tech enabling things like automatic braking and stuff that makes texting your way into the back of a stopped semi truck less fatal when applied at scale. Is that worth $30k? I dunno, not my money.
With your phone you charge it to 100% and then use it down to low charge. Everyday repeat. It's basically the worst case scenario for a lithium battery. An EV you can keep it a comfortable 70% charge until you need to go long distance. And you don't cycle it daily to 100%
Having swollen nasal passages at night precludes "forcing" the nose to be used exclusively for breathing.

I tried the $3,000 dental appliance - it was worthless, it really IS a torture device.

Those with primarily central sleep apnea must use the mask, hose and machine, since the brain "turns off" during sleep and you fail to breathe, essentially it's suffocation.
Doesn't that creep you out at least a little bit?
Combined with the increase of conditioning power consumption it might happen sooner than later.
E.g https://www.jneurosci.org/content/17/2/697

Homo sapiens have a similar response to seratonin manipulation. I wouldn't call this confirmation, and I'm not sure what I would accept. But I do think it's a compelling association.
I don't know if value system is quite the right description. Sounds like you are talking about celebrity or popularity in general.

I think the obvious thing that different about most generic "influencers" is that they are not "thought leaders" in any domain, but generally just famous for their personality, looks, or "precoital" posturing.
The US as a whole has less than 5% of the worlds population, and even in the states there are plenty of people in places like Florida and California where the threat of getting snowed in is pretty minimal. Most countries with significant snow risk are also pretty sparsely populated, so 95% is not far off.
The counterpoint is "You Don't Need to Micro-Optimise Your PK Type".

UUIDs offer by far the best developer UX. They're first class objects for most of your tech stack, and they eliminate or massively simplify a lot of potential backend issues, from idempotency to merges to sharding.

The main downsides are two:

- They're not human friendly. This is a good thing. Surrogate keys should never be exposed to the human user, because what is a 1:1 mapping today may not be 1:1 any longer tomorrow. If you need to let the user input a unique object reference manually, you're free to design that reference with human UX in mind. Maybe it's a set of dictionary words, maybe it's a code with an expiration date, maybe it's the same code but referring to different versions of the object depending on the user.

The only people who may need to copy/paste UUIDs manually are database admins, and they will thank you so much more for never bothering them with fixing a pkey clash or an accidental join on the wrong key.

- They are less performant than sequential integers. For 99% of projects this is not going to be an actual issue. Once you _do_ find that your queries are being slowed down by the size of primary keys specifically, you have my absolute blessing to add an integer sequence column and make that the primary key.
That has been throughly debunked a million times over. The ocean only renders in wireframe mode because occlusion culling doesn't happen in wire frame mode.
When the new apps and digital certificates were announced, being able to revoke certification at any time was touted as one of their major advantages over traditional vaccine certificates. This way, if a new variant arises that preexisting vaccines don’t protect against, or if a state wants to enforce annual booster shots, they can just invalidate older certificates by updating the database entry to which the QR code points.
PanoTools[0] has been around since 1998 and I doubt that was the first implementation of the idea ;)

Unlike your phone, I'd imagine NASA knows the position and orientaion of the camera for each picture and has precisely measured and calibrated their lens parameters even before launch, so hopefully there is not much manual work to do. Hopefully they can also rotate the camera around its focal point. On the other hand, phones have a continous stream of pictures which can make things easier.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_Tools
TeXmacs used for lecture on Stochastic Quantisation
Not quite the same, but I smoked every time I drank for two years, and then just stopped for no reason. Never had a craving, I just "felt like" having a smoke for two years, and then didn't anymore.

This was during the time when you could go to a bar or club in Florida, show some person with a giant bag your ID, and receive two packs of cigarettes, free. I did this multiple times a week, so I always had a huge stack of free cigarettes and bar matches. That was also how I learned you could make friends by always having either a free cigarette or a lighter.
I plug my Leaf SV+ in a 110v plug and it works fine (I charge once a week, 350km capacity).
Thermal resistance is linear in thickness, so if the Si on top is very thin, then perhaps it doesn't matter too much?
There isn't a "real" standard as per an international organization, but there is already an emergent consensus in marketing around tiers of influencers based on number of followers. For one instance: https://www.tribegroup.co/blog/influencer-followers

"Nano" influencers, according to this particular company, are people with 1000-3000 followers, Micro are 1,000-100,000, Macro are 100,000+, etc. Here's another example with slightly different values: https://www.cmswire.com/digital-marketing/social-media-influ...

Because this is now big business, I'd expect convergence on a common definition some time relatively soon.
Besides environmental concerns, is there anything in EV cars that benefit the car makers? I wonder if EV have some engineering advantages that make them more desirable for the car makers to push them.
HVDC is expensive, solar panels are cheap, so it's usually cheaper to keep the solar panels local even if they're much less efficient than they are elsewhere.

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-...
The UK has ruled it out as a solution for large local events and cultural activities, they haven't ruled out vaccine passports in general.

As far as I can tell they're still very much planned for inbound international travel to the UK, and they're already in use for outbound international travel - the NHS app is accepted as proof of vaccination status at the border when entering quite a few countries e.g. Greece https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/greece/entry-requir...
For some types of 'positional' sleep apnea (i.e. apnea only when supine) you also have non-CPAP alternatives with a positional therapy device.

It's basically a vibrating device that conditions you (while you sleep) for you to turn on your side and avoid sleeping supine.

Disclaimer: worked as a consultant for a wearable in this field.
This happens to celebrities mostly because they have an actual talent and are not necessarily equipped for money/fame (no one is).

Influencers probably don’t have a huge ego. They know what they are and the game they are playing. You don’t often hear about politicians spiraling downward due to their success. They understand the game they play.

In other words, why would a parasite spiral out of control if they deliberately parasitically establish themselves (versus a celebrity who gets there from sheer talent and luck and has no clue what to make of it)?.

Mega church speakers are similar. Nothing about what they do messes with their sleep at night, not an ounce of ‘Is this really who I am?’.

Textbook shamelessness.

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The big problem with this is that everyone in their formative years (sub 30) shares at least one dilemma with Patrick Bateman (and Evelyn for that matter):

Evelyn: Get married. Have a wedding.

Bateman: No, I can't take the time off work.

Evelyn: Your father practically owns the company. You can do anything you like, silly.

Bateman: I don't want to talk about it.

Evelyn: Well, you hate that job anyway. Why don't you just quit? You don't have to work.

Bateman: Because I want...to fit...in.

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Influencers are going to win this fight sadly.
This assumes that if you have driven 160 miles, it will take 40 hours to get the full charge. It does not look like a good selling point for home charging.

To feel at ease, an electric car owner should have a fast charger at home or very nearby. A Tesla supercharger is 72 kW, which is 2-3 times more a detached house can normally receive from the grid.
"Very strong" is not quite right. The winds on Mars can be very fast, but given the low atmospheric pressure, they don't carry a lot of force. Enough to create sand dunes and significant aeolian weathering over millions of years, but they'd never knock you over.
How Do Animals Safely Cross a Highway?
2) what would shorter IDs accomplish?
I don’t think so, because there are plenty of socially normal people who are misogynistic towards women too, and they don’t engender the same level of visceral disgust.
Because all businesses will just leave to those countries where it isn't the case. Such policies should be subtle and introduced gradually.
Have you never travelled to a vaccination mandatory country where you needed to prove vaccination against e.g. Yellow fever?
I think my use of the word 'credit' was a distraction here and that's my bad, but folks absolutely walked around with valuable metals to use as a medium of exchange when moving other valuables was very difficult or impossible. And there were scams then, same as there are scams now. I don't want to type out of the whole history of money as I understand it (Jack Weatherford's book was pretty good), but suffice it to say that history repeats because humans-as-behavior-machines are repetitive.

This article includes some interesting tidbits: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-...
Influencer is the 2020s equivalent to the dream job actor/model/dancer.

When I see the level of delusions on these most unwelcome tiktok ads I get, I need a moment to calm down from laughing.

Stay away from social media as much as you can. I have deleted fb, ig and WhatsApp, life was never better.
People get in touch via call or signal, not missing a thing.
Impact in what? It still releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
> The mental health and motivational/pedagogical thinking is also stuck in the 19th century. Some of this does need to adapt to today's students.

If it adapts to pedagogic techniques now known to be more effective, that’s a good thing. If it instead adapts to changes in the students themselves, I think that’s more likely to be bad than good, or is at a minimum not obviously good.
When I've done web dev the other devs are usually pretty excited to have a Firefox user on the team since they never do any testing with it.

Apple killed personal computing and Google/Facebook are killing the open web.
2 cores and 264KB ram and I/O do you know of anything else competitive for the price?
$70 for a mouth guard??? A Benlee Bite only costs $6 where I live.
> from an ordinary domestic power plug

At night, when there is no solar. I think you're being very optimistic
You can call people who are willing to spend and have access to $10,000 desperate, but I don't know how useful it is to call them poor.

Your last sentence quoted clearly describes people with inherited wealth. In my opinion, that's not describing a poor person, by almost any measure. It falls into the sibling commenter's category description of petit bourgeoisie.