skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crazy how much just having your location tracked 24/7 shows about you. It can give a pretty good idea of if you're in a relationship and sexually active (where you spend your nights and when/how often), if your parents are dead and if you're married or divorced (where you go for holidays and when you stop going there), what your life expectancy is (your zip code), if you have children (when and how often you visit schools, day care centers and play grounds/chucky cheese), what you do for a living (harder now that more folks work from home), how healthy you are (time spent at doctors/hospitals/fast food restaurants/gyms), etc.

Tracking one person's location history is invasive enough, but if they're also tracking the people around you it gets a whole lot easier. Phones spend time talking to and tracking other phones around them (even when those devices are offline or have location services disabled) along with being tracked by Bluetooth beacons and collecting info about nearby wifi connections.
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Yeah, it wasn't that clear cut. After all, earlier micro CPUs like the 8088 had optional external floating point units. In general, memory management was integrated with the CPU early on in micros whereas it was a separate chip in mid-80s mini designs I'm familiar with. I/O was pretty separated out in both cases at that time as well.

The distinction is probably more around Andy Grove's horizontal stack of "commodity" microprocessors, OSs, etc. vs. the vertical stack of the micros where one company mostly made everything.
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This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. In the late 80s I worked for an engineering consulting firm that contracted out engineers to the US armed forces. I was between tasks, and my boss pulled me into a contract w/Air Force Logistics Command for a database to track parts failures in the field.

They'd had the contract for months, but it wasn't until a rep from AFLC was going to visit and write a progress report that they cared. I coded up a demo in 2 weeks, and showed that it had all the basic functionality called for in the contract (though it had a few bugs). My boss told the rep I was their chief engineered just hired for the project (I was actually pretty junior, but happened to know a few things about databases).

I actually thought it was a fun project. I wanted to finish it, but after the rep left they put it aside and moved me to another project.
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Heat pumps are amazing things, they are more than 100% efficient, since they use only n watt-hours to move >n watt-hours of energy from one place to another. Under ideal conditions they can move 3n while consuming only n.

It's far more efficient to use a heat pump in reverse to heat a space than it is to use a traditional electric heater, which is "only" 100% efficient.

(Perhaps I should have said joules, not Wh? Units are confusing.)
Wow, it never ocurred to me red cross should not be generic symbol for anything health related. It definitely used to be that way in recent past - ambulances, first aid kits, many hospitals had it in logo. I admit this (mis)use is disappearing, but I would never notice.
> What if the merchant was recommended by someone you trust, like how small business has worked for millenia?

Well that’s rather the point, unscrupulous merchants have been a problem for millennia.

> Otherwise, yes, you're right, you shouldn't buy things from people you don't know and/or don't trust, even with the ability to request a chargeback

Goodbye internet shopping then, massive restraint of trade incoming.

Consumers are not blameless, but the power imbalance and the ability of merchants to take the money and run has echoed through time, it is disproportionate. The answer is not to kill trade by removing protections because that benefits neither party.

Your act may have been significant in the US, the UK had a consumer credit act in July of that same year which sets out the responsibilities of parties to a loan, which credit card providers are. However that is not the totality as such systems exist beyond credit arrangements and they exist explicitly for consumer protection from unscrupulous merchants.

(Edit - Tbh in your world I see a marketplace like Amazon emerging, that has clawback contracts with its sellers, and provides similar one-sided refund facilities to consumers as current cards. Little would practically change, except that there would be even less room for competition)
Pffff, several orders of magnitude more energy is "destroyed" by dumb heating, because there is a lot of places where humans can't survive without warmth. It is only a matter of time when byproduct heat generated by mining will be used to heat water and homes.
They don’t work in Chromium 90.0.4425.0 either on the same machine. My bet is that the server that hosts videos on their landing site might be misconfigured in some way.
i haven't found a truly alcohol-free beer. most of them have at least .03% or so. If you have medical reasons to avoid it (pregnancy), it's still questionable
I understand what you're getting at, but having 1-4 vents pointed at the front of your body is not the same as having the cabin air at a particular temperature. Neither is having air blowing on your front side the same as having air swirling about your entire body.
Even black coffee or tea? What about milk or kefir? May I ask why?
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Based on a few anecdotes, managers do not disclose even if the employee asks directly. Apparently managers actively sabotage the employee by telling others to not collaborate with the person on Focus.

So many employees find out by either attempting an internal transfer, or getting PIP papers served.
Windows and game consoles raise a couple of thousands more and pay to see the cards, if we are playing quantities game.

If on the other hand we are playing the quality card, or what everyone else is actually paying for, then down Proton it goes.

Isn't ironic that while most Android games are NDK based, so basically ISO C, ISO C++, OpenGL, OpenSL, Vulkan, they don't get ported to GNU/Linux?

Or Stadia ones for that matter (regardless of its possible future).
Doesn't Graal require that none of Java's reflection stuff be used? e.g. Class.forName, Class.getFields, runtime DI frameworks, and so on. This would seem to majorly limit the cases where it might be used.
Weird thing about the article: it's reprinted in MSN from a Filipino news source. So it reads like this:

Vergeire reiterated that the government’s pandemic response is hinged on scientific evidence, stressing the importance of allowing only safe and efficacious medicines.

“Kung makikita po natin na ang isang gamot ay magiging epektibo para sa COVID-19, hinding hindi po natin pipigilan ang paggamit nito sa ating populasyon,” she said.

(If we see that a drug is effective for COVID-19, we will not stop its use on our population.)

So the "Department of Health" in the first paragraph is the Philippines government, not a US one (which doesn't have a Department of Health, but "Health and Human Services" (HHS)).
Welp this isn't going to help their problem of burning through workers faster than they're being born[0]. Granted that was more about warehouse employees but I imagine they're going to run into some limits finding enough software devs willing to jump in the meat grinder one of these days.

[0]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-turnover-wo...
I think there may be some who appreciate certain idealized notions of the company’s operations and competence in engineering and logistics. Few other companies could offer the same mix of software and real-world engineering at scale.
Most craft I drink is 4.5% - 6% for IPAs, 2.5-3.5% for Session IPAs. DIPAs are generally 7-9%, which I avoid. I normally go for Sessions.
If I downvote someone, I usually do so without commentary, so perhaps my viewpoint will help you see the flip side of the coin. Giving everyone the benefit of the doubt about best intentions, I'm already well aware that they think their comment is a valuable addition to the discussion — after all, otherwise they wouldn't have made the comment. When I downvote, either they're breaching the community spirit/rules/what-have-you, or I simply flat-out disagree with their take. Often this is straw man arguments, picking apart quotes without context and so on, but it could be a number of things.

The crux of why I don't comment is almost always the same: I'm not interested in investing my time in debating them. I already know they think their comment is good, I already know I think their comment is (subjectively) bad, I'm not interested in hearing their righteousness in finer detail. If I want to have a discussion with someone on their comment, I will add a comment myself and usually upvote because their commentary invites further discussion which is good.

In short, I look at (subjectively) bad comments the same way I look at spam email. I'm not interested in wasting my time to be convinced by someone else that their content really is good, when for me it clearly isn't. My downvote will hopefully help save others the time the same way spam filters help save time for everyone.
M1 iPads have 28.65 Wh (11”) and 40.88 Wh (12.9”) batteries while the M1 MacBook Pro has a 58.2 Wh one.

https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/specs/

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/specs/
The "Hypothetical Monopolist Test":

"[T]he question posed is whether a hypothetical monopolist can profitably impose a small but significant and non-transitory increase in price in the product market as defined. If the answer to the question posed is yes, and the price increase would be profitable for the hypothetical monopolist, then the market is correctly defined, and from here the analysis could go forward to determining whether antitrust laws are being violated if the company at issue has too much market power." (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/hypothetical_monopolist_test)
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If they're serious, they would try collecting on every infringement since.. 1992?

https://wl6.fandom.com/wiki/Health_Items?file=Sprite0162_cop...
The latter. In the age of patreon people clicking the 'support creator with reseed' box to temporarily donate some spare resources to creators they like is almost a given.
> I’ve lived in some of the hottest places on earth and indeed on the worst days there would never be a point where you’d feel cool enough without blowing the vents directly at you.

Surely if an air conditioner brings an indoor area to a given temperature (and humidity), it doesn't matter what the temperature is outside. So what gives? Is the air conditioner not powerful enough? Do people not want the inside to be as cold as in other locales, since they're used to the heat? The latter would make sense, but then I don't understand why you'd need to be blowing the vents directly at you.
As others have said they are referring to different things, but what really rubs me the wrong way is the sense of Amazon wanting to have its cake and eat it too.

They want to keep their distance (do it on your own time with your own resources) and still demand editorial control (but use these services and distribute in our app store)
There is a whole world of difference between heating homes across the planet, and running a network that can do 7 transactions a second.

A single home PC from 2004 could run the bitcoin network, but instead, it uses 0.1% of all the energy in the world.

It is by a wide margin the most ridiculously inefficient thing ever created. And it won't improve, because it is built that way by design.
I have a modern Ural, it is more expensive and less practical than a regular motorcycle, which means you get it almost exclusively because it's weird and you are weird.
No, no optional one after. A comma shouldn't ever be used to "draw a pause" in English. It needs to break up logical fragments of a sentence.

If you want to indicate a pause to show how you want it read you can use an ellipses (...).
You could argue that the chaos is already starting.

My faith in humanity is so low at this point that I expect the solution could just as easily end up being global conflict that significantly decreases the population, rather than actually fixing anything. Poor countries will suffer terribly long before rich countries give a flying fart about it.
I like nix. If you dig into nixpkgs far enough back you can find commits from me bumping version hashes on postgres.

The caching and our future plans for distributed builds have some similarities with Nix Hydra and Bazel but creating images in earthly is closer to docker multistage builds than it is to nix.

We are not just for building docker images, though. In the real world a 'build' is more than just building an image. It will have linting, and tests and integration tests and maybe some services need to be stood up and tore down in between to make sure an api contract wasn't broken and you might need different binaries generated for different architectures and so on.

I could be wrong but I think nix is focused more on just the producing the artifact part. I do love how they approach every build as a pure function though.
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San Francisco has had a care not cash program since 2004 where they give you a bed in a shelter with 51 dollars. If you refuse to go to a shelter there id no way San Francisco gives homeless people anything near 500 dollars
doesnt Amazon cap base salary around $180k and only 5% of RSUs vest the first year? my understanding is that, barring a massive RSU package, you cant get to $500k in the first year.
Alcohol-free beer is definitely used as a tool for advertising purposes in Germany, though it also seems fairly popular. It takes up a significant fraction of the beer shelf space in any supermarket.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the spirit of the rule is to protect things like hopsital ships, medics, etc. Saying its use in video games "distorts its meaning and its protective value..." is a bit much, especially for a creative work.
It will never cease to amaze me how absurd anti-abortion rhetoric is. There are no strong cases against allowing abortions from a secular perspective. The ethics surrounding the issue are still up for debate - certainly there are interesting questions about moral status / personhood, and how we assign worth to that - but without the introduction of concepts like a highly valuable immutable soul you can't reasonable make a case for banning access to abortions. At best you can make a case for promoting measures that have been shown to reduce abortions like comprehensive sex-ed and access to contraceptives.

So if secular people can't make a case for abortion, that leaves us with religious people. Predominately Christians in this context. But their texts don't have anything to suggest that life begins before the first breath taken by an infant. The bible even contains instructions to carry out abortions in some cases [Numbers 5:11–31]. So why would religious people so overwhelmingly be against allowing abortions?

Well there we get into the true reasons behind the modern anti-abortion movement. It's a purely political matter designed to secure a voter base. And secure one it has. The religious right is willing to put up with - even celebrate - practically any number of abhorrent things from politicians so long as the politicians claim to be against abortions.

Even if the religious people did have legitimate religious objections to abortion, as opposed to it being a political matter that was sold to them, we shouldn't allow something like that to affect the government. Governments ought to be purely secular institutions, and so without a compelling case against abortion from a secular perspective governments should not take any measures to limit access to them. It's unfortunate that those in charge don't care much for topics like bioethics, and will instead enact policies that lack secular justification as a means to secure power.
Yeah, I honestly feel like the BBC might have been the only thing preventing the UK going full-on culture war in the past ten or so years.

(in general, the legal requirement for TV to be impartial and cover both sides is a much bigger contributory factor).
The planet's climate is a complex system, the state of which cannot be neatly summarized by any one statistic.

I mean, there's a reputable school of thought predicting that global warming will lead to another ice age, because higher temperatures disrupt ocean currents -- particularly the Gulf Stream, which redistributes warm water from the Gulf of Mexico to northern Europe. As the Gulf Stream makes its deposits of warm water along the coasts of Great Britain and northwest Europe, it keeps the temperatures in northwest Europe warmer than in eastern Canada, even though they both are roughly the same distance from the equator. The prediction is that, if Arctic ice melts as a result of global warming, huge amounts of fresh water will pour into the North Atlantic and slow down the Gulf Stream, cooling Europe, and triggering a feedback loop with colder and longer European winters, and more and more ice on the planet's surface.[a][b]

[a] The book "Ice Age" by Cambridge-trained astrophysicist John Gribbin and his wife Mary has a good high-level overview of this school of thought: https://reanimus.com/store/?item=1420

[b] Recent studies of circulation in the North Atlantic already show a significant reduction in currents flowing north from the Gulf Stream: https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/09/new-s...
In this case the environmental permit would be for the operational tanks not simply building some thing that looks like a tank but is never used. I keep pointing out that a chemical permit is not really violated if there aren’t any chemicals, but people in the comments here keep ignoring that point. It is not the building that would be against the permit but the chemicals. In this case the tanks were not used to store any chemicals so again they wouldn’t have been in Direct violation of a environmental use permit for chemicals.

It’s always weird how people seem to assume that Tesla has a death wish when it comes to permits and such when back-and-forth between regulators and large companies doing large projects is pretty normal and not evidence of massive environmental destruction. In any large project you will have some level of miscommunication or simply inspector concerns.

Simply building tanks that are not yet permitted to hold chemicals is noteworthy for inspectors but is not necessarily actual wrongdoing, especially if Tesla is in the process of trying to get them properly permitted for actual use.
Part of the problem is what might seem terrifying to you is everyday for a lot of folks in the South/South West. In Texas there are plenty of nights where it doesn't drop below 100F. In Arizona there are a lot of days where you can be cooked alive.
>Does a child's toy, which is supposed to represent a first aid kit, with the red cross on it constitute a misuse?

The important thing about the Red Cross and its brand is that they are neutral. The Genova convention declared they get a special marker, and a rule against harming them in wartime. A US army doctor presumably does not seek out to treat both sides of the conflict, and does not get the special protection the rules of engagement afford to the Red Cross. Nor would some random soldier carrying a J&J first aid kit get any protection. In particular the risk is that the more common that symbol is, the less distinctive it is, a particularly troublesome effect during armed conflict where decisions about where to point a rifle and whether to pull a trigger are being made rapidly.

> Can a random private hospital not use the red cross?

A random hospital definitely cannot, without permission (and presumably, some covenants). And it'd definitely not be an enforceable trademark on their end so not a smart branding move anyways. It's usually not a huge deal -- in the US the hospital sign is blue with a big H. In video games you can just use red background with a white plus (but thats like, the swiss flag) Or in the case of TF2, a red (or blue) cross on a yellow circle.

It would likely help their cause if there were an alternative public domain recognized symbol. The ISO standard is apparently White cross on green background: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:grs:7010:E003 but pretty much nobody knows that.
I'm saying that justification needs strong evidence and it's not there.

Exploding after a patent expires is because the state has granted a monopoly to one person. The steam engine would have been invented without the patent protection.

Look at innovation in software - it's not because of patents. Patents hamper innovation.
Not true, anything above 0 degrees K will radiate. The problem is that indoors it will get absorbed and re-radiated right back at you. The only way to lose the heat entirely is to have it radiate all the way to space.
I'm struggling to interpret the data on that site, is there any analysis links you can share talking about this issue?
Discovering that I misunderstood the seriousness of an issue is more stressful than being told something explicitly. And a major misunderstanding decreases trust. It would be much better to explicitly be told I'm on a pre-PIP plan than to assume it's a less serious issue and find out when I try to change teams.
Blame it all you want, there's something to be said when the human brain can extract joy from virtual people getting the rough end of it. It's almost like blame shifting the origin of the internal emotions to external pixels makes the vision humans are something other than just evolutionary maladjusted techno-primates and of godly origin and that-thar-pixels is the work of satan and couldn't be otherwise.
That's the theory, but it doesn't play out in reality and never really has.
This is a good illustration of a principle that when your sample contains the most extreme events you will find that measurement errors make up a much larger fraction of them than you would expect.
Another suggestion from your 3 - use an exhaust fan on one end of your home, blowing air from your ceiling out a window(you want to blow the air near the ceiling, it is warmest). Use an intake fan at the lowest elevation possible.

The premise is...cooler air falls, warmer air rises. You want to blow in the low(cool) elevation air, and exhaust the high(warm) air.
Doubling the tax each year will make the tax non-trivial for even the largest corporations in reasonably short timeframe. You may want to check what e.g. my initial proposal (1000 bucks first year, double that annually) would yield in say 30 years.
Looking up escape codes or cutting and pasting non ascii characters takes much longer than typing 5 letters.
You're just restating the problem. I don't understand how "Therefore the value of the Red Cross symbol must be protected as it is desperately needed" follows from "[As an example of an increasingly unstable world,] … there have been 162 fatalities."
The aesthetic is intentionally low-fi. They’re rendered using a retro technique called sprite stacking, where you take 2D image slices and stack them vertically in pseudo-3D space. An explanation is here: https://medium.com/@avsnoopy/beginners-guide-to-sprite-stack...