skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does scale amazingly, and it is much cheaper than existing superconductors.

It does require rare earths, but China has the capacity to scale up production tremendously and supply is not really threatened as of now.

YCBO is indeed brittle, but that's not a huge issue for maglev.

It's pretty much superior in every way to existing materials, from supply to scale.

The biggest issue with YBCO is the low critical current, but actually the higher the speed of the train the lesser the required current.
Seems we're more in tune with how many people die on average and why. I don't know that I've seen anything discussing the variability. But I expect that now that this information is being compiled, and analyzed, the media will be able to find lots of opportunities to alarm is whenever deaths are above average (and ignore whenever they are below average)
Just curious, but how many dentists do you know personally? I work in a field adjacent to dentistry and interact with many dentists daily.

It’s shocking to me how many of them are deeply passionate about dentistry and teeth/gums/etc. This may be a situation where I tend to mostly work with successful happy dentists, but the same bias may exist w/ you and developers.
Is there life on Mars?
Generally, deteriorating civil engineering structures is a huge looming crisis for the U.S.

Sprawling suburbs dependent on perpetual growth to fund repairs to their streets & utilities, small economically-contracting towns dependent on highways and bridges that are falling apart, 15,000 "high hazard" dams to maintain: we are going to have to either give up on some of it, or pay for decades of missing upkeep.
I don't know about memory palaces, but the technique I describe involves no memorization; the association isn't that strong. Once it's served its purpose and I no longer need to remember it, I quickly cease to do so, and I haven't noticed problems with overhang from past uses of the same objects.

For the same reason, I wouldn't expect this kind of - I dunno, "mnestic nudge?" - to last very reliably over significant spans of time. I can do it over spans of a few hours to a morning-and-afternoon day, but I don't recall having tried it overnight and I wouldn't want to rely solely on it if I did. I don't really know whether or how well it parallelizes, either; if I've tried that before now, I no longer recall how it went.

What I'm describing really isn't like a "memory palace" at all, even if I mentioned it in a thread about those. That concept claims quite a general and systematic sort of utility, while this is just one among a set of tools that for me also includes a pocket notebook, phone reminders, a diary, and so on. When circumstances preclude immediate access to any of the others, I use this one instead, and also by choice because without at least a bit of practice it might not work when I do need it. (Also because it's really convenient, with less friction even than pen and paper - and besides, my phone can't "remind me of something the next time I pick up my diary".)
This is a really wholesome thread... You guys are great.
I disagree. Paternity tests for every birth are unnecessary. That girl he met at the club messaging him on Instagram that she’s pregnant with his boy versus The woman that has moved in with him and he is married to before having kids. Every situation is different and to some this honesty test doesn’t matter.

What’s the gene pool loss if the kid actually isn’t his? Seems to me that that his dating pool will then expand from zero to many. A rational male may think that offering more than 18 years of his life is more significant than not offending someone once.
This says 18 deaths in all of Canada for June 30th.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/canada/

Edit: I misunderstood the parent comment.
Given what I saw in my grandmother when she became ill with dementia, I don't see a much worst case. Maybe if she had survived for longer in an even slower decline... but heart meds already gave us that.
Installers for 10.10 through 10.15 can be downloaded here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683
I find it unlikely someone is going to make a better app store in terms of preventing the "bikini ad in a kids game". People like free apps, free apps are funded by ad networks, ad networks are going to push the boundaries.

If Amazon App Store banned all ad supported apps would people use them more? Seems unlikely to me.
Seems to be a nice UI around QtWebEngine which is based on WebKit or blink (chromium), with quite a solid effort through the years.
Why not just abolish patents? Who or what would oppose this?
So to tie this back to the examples he gives, you think mentioning that "black men are much more likely to commit crimes that might bring a call to the police" as a possible explanation for the disproportionate police killings, is akin to giving flat earther views equal weight in orbital mechanics?
Sometimes large organizations are less efficient than small organizations due to bureaucracy, and sometimes they are more efficient due to economies of scale. In this case, a large country is more diverse than a small country, but it also has a better access to the necessary expertise.

Coming from a small European country, I'm familiar with a failure mode that does not exist in the federal government of the US (but can be seen in smaller states). Sometimes the government performs badly, because it would need expertise that is not available in the market. Everyone who is good at a specific thing already has a job and is not interested in getting a new one.

I believe the root issue here is that efficiency is not a fundamental value in the US in the same way it is in many European countries (I'm thinking Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, and the Nordic countries). Meanwhile, decentralization is a fundamental value. Americans on the average do not want the government to be efficient, because it would require a level of centralization they would be uncomfortable with. For example, with centralized reporting, it would be reasonable to expect that 80-90% of people do not have to file taxes in any particular year, because the government already knows every relevant piece of information about them.

Another issue is that the US is already far more centralized than the EU. The federal government is a major actor, with an almost 20x bigger share of the GDP than the EU. There is an uneasy balance of power between the federal government and the states, with neither party clearly superior to the other. Nobody has an indisputable authority to change things, which I guess is another reason why American bureaucracy is so inefficient.
Looks like bullet hell games took some design inspiration from fireworks patterns.
I heartily welcome the trend, if it is long-term. Politics does not matter so much that it becomes difficult for family members to sit at a table for dinner. This is a problem not only in the US, but all over the world. We need to step back.
Google Says H1 Headings Are Useful but Not Critical
> An Android App Bundle is a publishing format that includes all your app’s compiled code and resources, and defers APK generation and signing to Google Play.

> Google Play uses your app bundle to generate and serve optimized APKs for each device configuration, so only the code and resources that are needed for a specific device are downloaded to run your app.[1]

So a unique .apk is generated for each device configuration on demand? Goodbye to the days when a single (or a couple) .apk worked on all devices, which was easy to rehost, redistribute etc.

Is the toolchain needed for compiling AAB -> APKs open source atleast? And will Google Play let end-users download the source .aab file?

1: https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle
Corruption: Diffused Harms but Concentrated Gains
Some HSM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_managemen... ) tools and know-how may be pertinent.
I don't know the figures, but post 2008 elections, (as soon as Obama's inauguration got over) there was an immediate ramp up of tea party politics, which started occupying a lot of the air time on TV etc. I am not sure whether it led to increase in traffic.
I think they meant, "in all", not just the last two days
This is priceless:

>Dow, acting through the manufacturers' association it controls, argued the people of WV [West Virginia] could absorb more poison than the national average because they were much fatter than the median American, and when they drank, it was mostly beer, not water.
The number of covid deaths I listed is the total to til now in BC. From the beginning.
It's clear to me that it's too easy to be Panglossian about our material conditions. Just thinking about the time frame I grew up within(1980's-2000's US) there were a lot of things that I now see as definitely bad and that have, in fact, all started to change in my adult life:

* The omnipresent nature of sweetened food and drink

* Car-dependent culture

* Mass media culture

* Simpsons-style dysfunctional nuclear families

* The whole array of corrupt policies and programs, cults-in-disguise(e.g. "troubled teen" schools), and ideologically driven movements; while we're hardly free of those things, and there are plenty of new or intensified versions of them, I believe there are also more ways to find a sustainable path outside those frameworks these days.

But if you asked me if life was good in 2000, I would be mostly in agreement, because my life seemed pretty good - I was told it was! But then I look back on it and it's like, nooo, actually, there were all these pieces that traumatized me, removed my agency, were bad for my health or made me settle for less. And I believe the same would be true if I had been experiencing life in 1970's.

Like, sure, in 1621 I'd probably have died at a young age. But I am on the hedonic treadmill with respect to life quality too. It doesn't matter to my feelings that now is the best time, if better is still possible.
Yes, as a dev with important data is was kinda "nails on the chalkboard." That said I'm all up for more fun. Just not with the biz critical data.
That's the total number of Covid deaths during the entire pandemic. I assume they were making a point about priorities. However the low number of deaths was the result of strict lockdowns and regulations.
I don't think the Trump administration had actual controversies and crises any more often than past administrations--the presence of Trump in the White House was considered a crisis in and of itself by many, which is probably what made otherwise mundane government drama seem more newsworthy.
Ah I misread your comment.
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Sounds like the argument made by Lenore Skenazy and https://letgrow.org.
AWS Infinidash
Well I think the version with CSS looks moderately better. It feels less haphazard. Such a small quantity of CSS is not really going to impact loading times significantly either. </shrug>
SoTA in 2021 is the bespoke transformer model you implement yourself based on the idiosyncrasies in your data. Unless a lot of money is on the line, that is overkill for most situations though.
Just reread the claim after went home. Some fixes below.

All processors are the same. Each processor has the following required components: multiplier, arithmetic unit, arithmetic logic unit, and a bit manipulation unit. Each internal component has input/output ports which connect to the input/output ports of the processor. The ALU and bit components can run concurrently to the other components.
Based on the blog post's FAQ my impression is you can still do that. My impression is it's only for apps in the play store (and the corresponding export play store AAB to APK feature) that you are required to giving your keys to Google.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/the-future...
Gotta love the webpage with the commit/issues updates every week.

Well done boys.
Ya we briefly corresponded in a mailing list some time back... he liked the multiplayer version, but wasn't interested in opening the source code yet. Maybe one of these years he will--I should reach out again... until them I have some pretty well annotated IDA file
Second colossal LinkedIn “breach” in 3 months, almost all users affected
TL;DR: the federal reserve board did away with a requirement on the classification of certain bank accounts, causing savings accounts and checking accounts to be reported as the same.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...

> In any case, it seems that the modification of Regulation D in late April has effectively rendered savings accounts almost indistinguishable from checking accounts from the perspective of depositors and banks. Accordingly, the composition of M2 between M1 and non-M1 components conveys little economic information.
> the Biden administration has felt like a welcome return to normalcy, in the sense that there’s not a controversy or crisis every day.

What we’re seeing is just how much many people hated Trump.

On Biden Admin, how can you tell the difference between “there is just no news” and “we don’t want to attack him”?
The news itself is not boring - the world is wilder and crazier than ever. If the news broadcasts and publications are boring, it's their fault. Stay relevant or lose your readers.
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I will still encounter many of the issues that they also mentions.

In my experience, writing a static site generator is very much a continuous trade between flexibility and ease of use.

I also agree with most comments that it is often easier to write your own static site generator rather than finding the one to use amongst all the available choices.

That is why I made my own, and obviously I ended up writing a whole bunch of documentation because you can't escape the need to clarify how things work.

If you're interested you can check it out at https://yassb-foss.github.io/
I had six apps on Google Playstore several years back. They were free, no adverts or in-app tricks... Google removed them, since I didnt keep creating new versions. Oh well. But the API churn has become explicit neo-monoploy strategy. Google and Apple should be broken up. Two companies control all mobile software distribution - and restrict and block independent developers using all the classic tricks of monopolists. It's just nuts. No other industry is this concentrated. There is no innovation happening here. 15% smaller size? So what. This whole exercise is to maintain and extend control. Regardless of where one sits on the political spectrum, this is just "company store" monopolist tricksterism, and the solution is to dust off the old Anti-Trust laws and break this abusive entity into three or four seperate companies. "Trust Busting" is something both the Right and the Left can agree on. Break Google up. If - as a developer - you want to distribute your code as an .APK, then you and your customers should be able to make that choice. This current economic model is not only bogus - it is actually contrary to black-letter US law.
> I’m not doing that under any circumstances. I’d rather get audited

I’ve run into issues with the IRS over incorrect filings.

I am not a tax attorney or an accounting professional, but I strongly advise you to rethink your position.

Under no circumstances do you want to get audited by the IRS instead of complying with the Federal Tax Code.

Once the IRS begins its investigation, you will be obligated to pay the costs of complying with their requests, which costs may very well dwarf the costs of complying in the first place.
That is certainly not true, as CEO of failing companies also get paid.
IBM lands hybrid cloud deal with telcos
AND I WELCOME IT!!

Bring me back to the days when a tan suit caused a media storm.
Depending on your build, you have a choice between:

- QtWebKit: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_WebKit

- QtWebEngine: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine

(I realized I replied to a previous version of the parent comment)
Those things don't have to be inherently slow and e.g. external IP don't need to block bring-up.

I've worked on KIND and on clusters on clouds (at Google, but on multiple clouds) and both can be very quick, if anything there's still low hanging fruit to make KIND faster that I'd expect a production service with more staffing to handle.

KIND is Kubernetes, typically on much weaker hardware :-)

Within a few minutes is a perfectly reasonable expectation even for "real"-er clusters, see e.g. under 4 minutes:

- https://kubedex.com/google-gke-vs-azure-aks-automation-and-r...

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53839292/is-a-3-minute-g...
It's not at all boring. There's a lot of very massive policy shifts taking place. The question is, why do partisan media /claim/ it's boring?

Usually when I see that claim being made, it's more an indication that A. The partisan media is loathe to show what's happening, and B. They want to give their readers/viewers a plausible excuse for looking the other way.

Media is based on retaining your attention. If they claim news is slow, there is something they are holding above their well-being. Figure out what it is, and start looking harder there.
I don't think minds are mere pattern repeaters. There is unlimited complexity if you just follow a simple cellular automata [0]. So not sure where the idea that creation is the fuel for the fire of imagination comes from.

[0] http://atlas.wolfram.com/01/01/31/
I was going to comment the same thing.

the non-obvious excess mortality from air pollution, extreme weather, cold & heat, add on effects of flooding, fire, draught etc are far worse.

But just as with covid, even when ones family starts getting sick there is still a significant chunk of people who just don't care or maybe psychologically their brains react and go into crazy mode.

What scares me most is how little we are doing and how little power it feels I have. IDK maybe start a constitutional amendment drive in liberal states for a binding green bill of rights and regulated emissions + capture. Focused only on climate not a liberal social dream.

I find it hard not to dive deep into /r/collapse type rabbit holes (which btw that sub is only like 10% good, 90% crazy people planning their bug out but they can't even run a mile lol).

I have been thinking lately of changing my few years housing goal. Wanted to get a stand alone house and rent my condo. But lately have been looking online at high elevation property in the mountains. would try to be totally self sufficient. But I think growing enough food to live up there long-term would be really tough (colorado).
> it’s a long, slow process

Genuine question: why do it at all? For obscure legacy apps that no longer work on modern versions? For nostalgia? Is there any reason outside of these?
There was a huuuuuuge jump in polarization when Obama was elected. Which is exactly what we would expect historically, as that is the usual trend as soon as there is any progress on our anti-black racism. Though there was a brief expansion of democracy in heavily black areas after the civil war, the Reconstruction was fought tooth and nail, leading to the rise of the KKK and incidents like the insurrection in Wilmington NC that overthrew a democratically elected, racially integrated local government. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1... After Bush, electing a black man was the basis for a huge rise in white supremacy activity and recruiting, and this was exploited by partisan media in order for partisan media to gain influence and audience.

My education included little history between the civil war in the 1860s and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. But I think that the history of that era is essential for understanding our current politics, as in many ways we are reenacting the same social forces that happened exactly a century ago in reaction to ending slavery.
The walled garden's walls heighten. However, sideloading will still function with other avenues. But still, this barely adds anything, and even though it can be more optimized for devices, that's not much compared to the large ramifications.
> I'll read those claims a little later this evening.

I'll save everyone the trouble and tell you without reading them: they're bullshit and so are most software/computer patents. We really need to come together as an industry and fight this crap. Huge props to SparkFun for taking on these bottom feeders.
When he was a baby, I had to manually put and remove clothing on my baby boy. Now he is 7 and can dress/undress by himself, I am very proud.

He is learning about the world and for now I am manually putting my beliefs over him so that he can make some sense of the world.

I am going to be proud the day he manages to remove them and and put beliefs in his mind by himself.

In my opinion deconstructing the opinions you were given as a kid is part of the process of growing up. Thing is, it is an optional part and too many people grow up without going through that stage.
BC ambulance services have been severely underfunded and even before the heatwave there were delays of hours for 911 calls.

No doubt that was a major contributor as heat injuries just added to an already overtaxed system.
I went to CNN daily for 4 years to see what disaster the Trump admin was creating.

I basically am back to my pre-2016 involvement with politics which is “I don’t care”. This os why I will never support far-right or far-left politics: too frothy and requires paying attention.

I dont want to pay attention. I just want things to work and continue working.
Ayahuasca relieves depression and anxiety, finds study on nearly 12,000 users
IIRC, an AAB is basically a set of APK "dimensions" (base, screen size, screen density, ISA, and so on), so you end up downloading one APK per dimension and install them as one transaction.

This is also possible to do through both the CLI (adb shell) and Java APIs. However, it does indeed make sideloading more troublesome (the regular graphical installer has no idea about how to do multi-APK transactions). However, you can still distribute monolithic APKs for that purpose...
I think the Overton window has been shifted so much in political media that it's disconnected from what "mainstream" is. It seems like the simplest answer given the overwhelming corporate pandering to left leaning causes over the last few years - the corporations have more actionable numbers and are following the money when forced to choose a side. The media is just a decade or two behind on their targeting.
Who doesn't want to attack Biden? I would think the same forces that attacked Obama over, say, wearing a tan suit or other polarized nonsense would love to do the same to Biden. Surely they could fabricate them same attacks if they wanted?
Climate change isn't coming. It's already here.
Alternatively, lock-downs are easing and it is summer. Plus, I know I now visit difference websites / podcasts that are more inline with my interests; as opposed to corporate media.
> And while they may not have wanted to work, the work was nonetheless something that both they and society felt was useful: something purposeful and appreciated.

I have begun fearing we live in a world that actively hides useful, meaningful work behind bureaucracies, licensure, advanced degrees, and other mechanisms. I believe this happens as a type of nepotism...a holding onto a nugget of meaningful work/knowledge until someone like you can grab hold of it and complete it to your liking.

Why are so many business deals hidden behind golf rounds and clinking glasses? Because business/work/utility is power. If I rely on you, you have power over me. So I better make sure I approve of the who and the how of that power.

It's fear that drives this. And my fear of the world it creates is stifling.
I’m quite proud that I have not watched any national news, or cable news networks, since the election.
It sounds like you have conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories.