skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pick the peak of everything, my house is from 1806, my bike is from 1950, my computers are 8-core Atom 2017 (server) and Jetson Nano 2019 (client)... no house/bike/computer will ever be better ever in the history of the universe.

With Java I was just lucky. I learned C++ first and then now 20 years later I learned C, you have to go back in time to see the future. I also went back to the C64 to predict the peak of computers.
It's not 1960 any more. We have colour video. We are allowed to highlight syntax with colours instead of the less legible all caps.
Dreamhost, which provides the old school control panel style hosting with Wordpress installation

Also Zoho for email.
Unfortunately, we have no real way, even theoretically of resolving these disputes besides war, or negotiations premised on the possibility of war.
Hopefully (and IMO likely), this will all be resolved by negotiated compromises. All sides are currently developing their credible threats of war to be used as currency at a negotiation table.

There's a pretty real "mutual destruction" incentive to keep the conflict contained. Dams are vulnerable.
What's the purpose of having that picture at the beginning?
I just looked that up, and you seem to be correct indeed, AES-128 is used.
EU rep: We couldn't help it, the study was stolen by pirates!
The credit card angle is unpalatable, for sure.

Yet take a sitcom such as Seinfeld. Each product they joked about, junior mints, snapple, etc were ads.

The furniture is an ad. The appliances, the cereal on the shelf, etc. If no ads, generic boxes and unbranded products will appear instead, nothing is free.

I am not saying videogames should be this way, merely pointing out that this is old, old almost century old advertising behaviour. The trick is to made the product better for it (Seinfeld junior mints was an incredibly funny episode).

Of course, I think the CC thing you mention, was more just a "spam your users", so hardly subtle and non-intrusive.

EG, on TV typically they write the episode, then after marketing says "ah look, he's supposed to drink a soda here, let's see who wants to pay for someone drinking their soda."

This I can live with.
Well, let's consider the cost of a student "room" or flat first. In major cities like Zurich or Bern this would range between 500 and 850 CHF for enrolled students under the age of 28, usually with any additional costs already included.
Now most of these rooms are already furnished (poorly), it is actually harder to find unfurnished rooms.
So I think personally, I would probably not pay over half of the rent itself, so if I had a place for 700 CHF, I might pay an additional 350 CHF a month to get furniture I like.
So if I stayed in the apartment at least 6 months, I would have paid 2100.- which would be about the same as if I had just bought new furniture, considering that a student room is probably small.

I think that at the end of the day, students are probably not your target audience, because they also see furniture as more disposable. So they would sell their furniture too, when they get a new room. Now you could use that opportunity to offer a very cheap rental fee specifically for students and then they could give back the furniture when they move on.

I guess my point is, the price point is okay, the fact that it would take two years to eventually own it isn't attractive to a student. The alternative of paying for some time (e.g. 6 months) and then dropping the subscription without owning anything at the end is also unattractive.
Clearly you have never been in this situation. I once held a job where I had exactly one hour of work to do each day and nothing else to do. If I put my mind to it, I could finish a weeks’s worth of work in half a day. The rest was wasted time and waiting around. Plus, someone else controlled my time. I had to sit in my chair at my desk for eight hours, take a one hour lunch break in the middle of the city, never leaving the office otherwise.

You have no control over the most important parts for the largest part of your waking day. You are asked to do meaningless busywork that wouldn’t need to be done at all if automated even in a half-assed way. There is zero reason for you to sit in the office all day, wasting hours upon hours except for your boss mandating it. 100% of the non-automated remaining parts of your job could be done remotely, by telephone and email.

This crushes you eventually, depending on personality type sooner or later, especially when your mind is accustomed to tackling and solving problems. It grinds away at your sense of self, drains you of energy, it quite literally drives you slowly insane. You try not to think about it but you do. You try to read, surf the internet, stay in touch with others and do all the things you can do somewhat stealthy. Because when you eventually ask for more stuff to do, you get assigned to sorting contents of binders. Because, according to my boss at the time, “there’s always something to do”. Busywork. Got it.

It makes you depressed, severely so. You realize that nothing you do matters at all and there’s no point to your job anyway. Every trivial task eventually becomes an immense burden that sometimes takes you days to complete, despite being a 30-minute task. In a way this means you have come full circle. You feel your mind rotting away. You feel that you have reached the end of your rope and this is what your life will be from now on. But if you raise your voice and speak up, all it earns you is the scorn of the boss and other (really bad) colleagues that want things to stay as they are.

Some companies may well have an expectation of owning your time regardless of outcome and some people may well be cynical and empty enough to live with this situation, I for one would rather be dead.

It took me four years and a nervous breakdown to finally throw the towel, with no regard for what happened to me afterwards. Yeah, quite a walk in the park those jobs are. Relaxing. Quite ideal.
Yet another would say: they are still people and as long as their dick contest contributes to human knowledge and technology, let them have it. Most other dick contests on the planet are far less meaningful.

I for one will reach for my organic, non-Amazon-supplied popcorn and watch the entertainment. Hopefully no one dies, but given that their own skins are at stake, the flights should be safer than whatever the governments in the 1950s and 1960s did with their pool of obedient and expendable military men.
I was afraid it was gonna be stuff like that. High stress levels are bad for forming memories.
Do you honestly think Android and Google are better?
Indeed. Or a robot arm moving the mouse. The analog hole will always exist. However, it may prove hard to make a computer move the mouse like a human, and type like a human. Heuristics will likely be able to separate human from bot input for quite awhile still.

The game makers probably enjoy a large advantage in size-of-dataset vs cheat makers.
Exactly this. I moved to New York in my early 20s, which would seem a bad choice for an introvert, but I loved just sitting and watching it all go by. It was like being in a human circus but you are in the audience rather than in the circus ring.
If this planet had a carbon tax, perhaps those subsidies wouldn't appear so egregious.
I also find that remembering peoples names take some time and effort.

On the other hand i am quite good at relating bits of information, which is useful for problem solving, e.g. where was something similar seen before.

This relation ability also works for words, such as your use of "adept". That relates to Battle Chess and then another old game called "Archon II: Adept", which is a bit like chess.

Granted, it's not always useful things that come up this way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_II:_Adept
Many languages have small counsels of people that act as an authority on their vocabulary and usage. The French Academy, for example, has 40 members.
Forget Climategate: this ‘global warming’ scandal is much bigger (2015)
Residential prices maybe. And only due to a screwed up legislation requiring to consumers to bear the brunt of the state subsidies for renewables. Screwed up because solar and wind are competitive now without subsidies and because industrial consumers are basically paying none of that. To the point these large consumers can make more money from brokering electricity and their consumption than from selling there products in certain periods.

None of that has anything to do with renewables per se.
He's not really going to space though is he?
2CV mounted engines ranging from 375 cc 9HP to 602 cc 29HP

It's a four stroke flat twin (boxer engine).

It's far less efficient and I expect it to be more polluting than a modern engine, but I don't know how to search for objective measures of such pollution.
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> There were some comments in the early days that the Multi-AZ magic for classic RDS was just drbd on top of EBS.

If this was true, then you could support multiple database vendors in a generic way, and gradually add the supported products, without knowing the intricacies of each product's replication details. Hmm. :)
If there is one piece of techno I have my eyes on since some time, and am the most exited about, it’s EdgeDB.
You guys have nothing to prove anymore. I’m using your work on a daily basis: asynpcg, uvloop, black and … python !

When I came across the EdgeDB project, I thought: “damn it’s too good on the paper to be true”. And when I watched the 6th video of “import asyncio” from Łukasz on your YouTube channel, it blew my mind the kind of queries one could achieve, and how flexible was the schema definition with the abstract types.

Although I’ll have to be a bit more patient to push this techno at work, I’m even orienting my personal projects to be a fit for edgedb usage.

Please keep up with the awesome work !

My top features on the roadmap for 1.x:

- LSP

- Query Builders and Schema Reflection

- Fine-grained Data Access Control Rules
I am pretty sure that neither my GPS coordinate information or credit card details are copyrightable works.

And I'm pretty sure I've done none of those things, so I don't really know where this "programmers are the scum of the earth" generalisation is coming from.
Yep. I’ve been trying to delete my @mac.com ID for years, for various reasons this is impossible (2FA, unreleased apps, etc.).
It’s one of the special ones where you can’t change the email address you use to sign in with, you have to use @mac.com.

Annoyed me enough that I burned 15 years of purchases and other history to start again from scratch on a new ID I control completely.

But I can’t get rid of the old one, and it has some link to my phone number due to it using 2FA which cannot be removed, since 2FA is a one way trip. Which confuses the hell out of the Apple Watch (No one can add me for activity sharing since I switched to the new Apple ID).

And yes, every device under my control has been wiped and reset without a restore, no go.

Hotel California…
IDK, but not screwing this up is absolutely crucial.

If ramping up the production comes at a cost of cutting some corners, and a contaminated/dangerous batch of mRNA vacciness comes along as a result, the antivaxx movement will have a field day whose impacts will be felt even fifty years from now. We (as humanity) cannot affort a massive vaccine screw up.
Although there wasn't plain sampling+cut&paste involved, those examples are still a product of human voice actors who gave consent for their voice to be used as the source.
Now I wonder what happens a few years from now should someone produce a new song with a singer who sounds exactly say like Elvis, same tone, same style, although Elvis isn't mentioned anywhere.
Elvis is dead, so it can't be him, and the track wouldn't be a copy of anything Elvis sang during his life. Also demonstrating that Elvis voice has been used to train an AI would be hard (assuming the voice wasn't created entirely from scratch).
A lawsuit from the Elvis Estate would probably follow, but on what grounds?
We might see some deep modifications to copyright/trademark laws when this happens.
I noticed this last time I was in Harbor Freight:

https://www.harborfreight.com/100-watt-monocrystalline-solar...

Not sure if these are much good, but the price seems reasonable for a retail-packaged solar panel. 18-ish volts is kind of an odd voltage to deal with perhaps, and it appears to not come with a battery charge controller like Harbor Freight's older more expensive solar panel kit.

It's kind of weird that it's hard to buy solar panels as an individual person, so good for them for making it available. This is the only place I know of where you can just walk in and walk out with a cartload of panels; perhaps there are others?
Sarcophagus: Decentralized Dead Man’s Switch – A BitOoda Advisory Report [pdf]
https://www.bitooda.io/public-files/Sarcophagus%20Final.pdf
This is very exciting; maybe the first realistic way that we could visit places off earth? I think that Bezos’s approach looks more environmentally friendly (I’ve not looked into it in too much detail, so feel free to correct me). I do think that we should celebrate this whilst also being aware that it isn’t perfect. We should encourage improvements where there can be (e.g. environmentally friendliness)
Difficult market for them, considering that energy prices are switching to be the lowest mid-day due to solar...
I would like some citations on #2. Hangovers, liver failure, and lung cancer do serious economic damage. I don't know of any evidence that pot decreases productivity though there has been plenty of DARE shit that says so. My unscientific study of every human I've ever met as an adult shows that 60% of people smoke sometimes with no ill effects and 10-15% of people I've meet are seriously blunted all day and turn out good work. Some of the people I know that are the best at their jobs consume amounts of cannabis that the average non user would find offensive.
I like WFH. I didn't have to go to the office. In fact, it's great that nobody went to the office to gain the advantage of being in person.

When some shows up at the office and gets to advance their career faster, everyone will want to go the office.

I'll help cough (and whisper why can't I taste anything? oh no) in order to get people to be scared of being a COVID asymptomatic carrier; their kids can't be vaccinated yet. Their grandparents/parents are old and vaccinated, but vaccines aren't 100%.

If anyone is scared, just accuse them of not trusting the vaccine and imply they are anti-vaxx.

These people need to be taught a lesson that your kids can't be vaccinated. Why the heck would you want to come back to the office?

If they are okay with their grandparents/parents/kids increasing 1% of dying of COVID, then be my guest.

I will say it. People who want to commute to office when they can WFH are murderers. They increase the risk of road accidents, and they are killing the planet with pollution unnecessarily.

People who can WFH should be forced to WFH (or go to nearby co-working space if you can't set up home office).

Spread the words. Cough at work. Teach them a lesson.
There are already some DC lines out there. I remember reading about one run starting in South Africa that runs north and it approached some multiple of the wave length of regular AC which would create too much radition (like an antena does).
> Kids like treats, have you met one?

My comment was about what you attitude you teach them about sweets. Nothing in it implied they dont like it. They still should not be used as reward.

Not having sweets is not punishment. It is just healthy behavior. You dont eat sweets as reward for being good either. Being good dont imply ability to eat more sweets.

> Preschoolers can understand conditional rewards and penalties and play simple games

Preschoolers have meltdowns over those super regularly. They actually completely sux at games with rules over rewards and punishments, because they sux at hangling the disappointment.

Have you worked with preschoolers, ever?

> Not sure what you on about here. What situation and what compliance are your referring to? We are taking about the design of a human behavior study, not how people should raise their kids.

The kids did as scientists asked them. That is compliance - there was no issue of kids ignoring doll or going to play chase.
Wow. That's a very good use case I would never have thought of.

It's those unexpected use cases that often become the killer app of advancements like this.
I don't buy this argument. Surely if the rules are the same for everybody that wouldn't harm the industry?!
There’s actually no such thing as a paid gmail account separate from a g suite account- there is only gmail.com (consumer) and @domain (paid g suite/workspace). But it may be possible that you or someone else created a Google account for admin@example.com, and then separately provisioned a g suite account for the same address with a different password. This is not at all uncommon, as lots of people sign up for a Google account with their work email address for use with search and YouTube and so on, and then later their employer switches to Workspace for email and suddenly there’s all these conflicts. There is a process for merging and claiming these, but I don’t remember how it works off the top of my head.

But to answer your implied question - there are two accounts, but only one mailbox. If you chose to log in to the Google account, you would not have access to gmail.

(Source: work on workspace@google. Obviously only my own opinion)
Page didn't load for me, thankfully we have outline to the rescue:

https://outline.com/6XShGU
nope, not in the US.
IMO: those weren't "simpler times." Everyone just seems to let Elon get away with saying a lot of BS on Twitter for whatever reason. Trump was the same way until he became president.
extract.sh is always the first thing I install on a fresh *nix installation https://gist.github.com/crazyhottommy/4115e40a7ba328c771fea0...
Possibly the new 400W panels replaced the 360W for the same unit price. This happens every now and then.
What would be useful is a wider shot that hopefully shows the laser hitting the netting as well as Schmeichel, allowing lines to be plotted back to the stands.

Together with the 3d information at

https://3ddigitalvenue.com/3dmap/clients/wembley-stadium/

this should narrow down the source.
>A nifty little piece I believe to be stolen from the *BSD world.

What does it mean?
Three billionaires fighting a space war. What a fucking dystopian nightmare.
That matters for hydrogen cars, which are a terrible idea. But for grid storage energy density doesn't matter too much.

Hydrogen, with all it's downsides, is awesome for long term storage because it scales sublinearly with capacity.
As a side note, the way the plants and electronics are interwoven is summoning strange emotions for me, an Akira'esqe picture...
There are two main ways these days to do natural farming, one is back to the roots, the other one is this high-tech, putting all advancements we got into it. Straight out of a sci-fi movie if you ask me.
Nope. Both Richard and Jeff are playing with suborbital flights.
Kind of agree with the first half of your comment, but I think the second half seriously sells both the efforts to make things safe and the character of the first astronauts short. People didn't become test pilots through obedience, and I don't think they were particularly treated as expandable either.
I wish they mentioned more what companies are at the forefront of this. I am also curious to what extent innovations in solar panel tech are patented or if they are more open source and therefore treated like a commodity product.
One of the most decadent human endavours. As if there were no real problems to fight on this planet. Ironically, the burning of fossile fuels causes one of the biggest...
I'd be curious to see if this approach could work with targeted marketing instead of mass marketing.

If the criterion collection promoted a rotating wide theatrical rerelease with it's streaming service I think you might have something. Include 4 tickets to the chosen criterion film a month with the streaming subscription as a kind of moviepass lite.
I wrote a piece on that topic too (2019): https://blog.mironov.live/browser-extensions-could-be-spying...
Main difference I can see between all these JVM based frameworks and whatever’s being announced here is that they exist, so maybe wind your neck in a bit.
I always find this comparison strange. Comparing a successful space company with hundreds of orbital flights to two vanity projects that have never gotten a payload to orbit.
I've heard a number of media call this step towards space tourism something along the lines of "a historical milestone in the democratization of space travel", and I think my, my.. OTOH democracy is also increasingly for the few, not the many.
It's still obviously synthesized but it may be good enough for many applications.

Alternatively, voice actors are generally pretty cheap and they're usually not the limiting factor of much at all, though it does depend.

The cost of no-name actors is almost an insignificant part of production cost.

As someone note above - things like the voice enabled stop announcements for bus/rail/subway stops etc. - this would be ideal.
I'm pretty sure Amtrak/VRE in the US uses synthesized voices at some stations, the one at RVR sounds almost exactly like GLaDOS.
This one really ticks me off for two reasons:

I now understand that ads are purposefully nonsensical and annoying because they’re stickier that way. The ostrich in the insurance ads doesn’t have any damn thing to do with their product, but because it’s out of the ordinary my mind is left to absorb it, wondering, what was that ostrich doing there. It’s just straight mind manipulation and I resent it.

And 2, it hardly makes sense to advertise insurance (I’m never in the mood to cancel my current plan) but they have a gargantuan adspend because their profits are capped by a percentage (search 80/20 rule)- This is basically the same reason Coca Cola is famously ad-spendy - since they are locked into a low percentage of revenue, the only way to grow is “make it up on volume”
rich guy masturbates in space. great.
I'm pretty sure what we are seeing in very rapid real time is the collapse of not just the ocean ecosystem but all of them. It does appear that the time to turn around what we are doing was.... a while ago.
Everyday Astronaut did an hour long video on "How Much Do Rockets Pollute? Are They Bad For Our Air?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VHfmiwuv4

I highly recommend to everyone who is concerned about this. The knee-jerk reaction needs to be toned down a little bit, we need to look at the data first.
Computers were for the new, now they are for the many.

That's the way some things start.
The space race of the 50s and 60s was an international dick contest, too. We got a lot of useful inventions out of it.
I think that’s only when you have a new account and you don’t follow many people?
If your kid wandering switching to Minecraft is the biggest hurdle, you can turn on Guided Access on an iOS device and prevent app switching.

It's kinda hard to do programming with just physical pieces, not impossible, but still hard. It's a lot easier when you have a more dynamic input interface like a phone or a tablet.
Kaseya was warned about security flaws years ahead of ransomware attack
During election season I went through and blocked every forward source that wasn't highbrow, ie 99% of them. Unfollowed a few OCD people as well. Cleared things up a lot.

After the latest revamp my favs no longer showed in the timeline. Went in and unlikd then liked again, and now they are listed prominently. Sheesh.
Incidentally, in the US from 1790 to 1880, supplying a working model was indeed a prerequisite for a patent application.