skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is; just move to the cloud.

AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage have Retention Policy Locks [1] and fuse bits in their buckets. e.g. set the retention policy on your backups bucket to 1 year and burn the fuse bit.

Now files cannot be deleted or changed in that bucket for 1 year after their creation. Not even the account root owner contacting support can get it changed. No ransomware, short of breaking into the AWS or GCP control plane is going to compromise those backups.

1. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/bucket-lock#policy-loc...

P.S. remember the write protect tab on old floppies/tapes ;)
How do you figure?

According to [1], Amazon had just shy of 1.3 million employees at the end of 2020.

If by "a few billions," you meant something like $5 billion, that's only $3,846 per employee.

edit: Crap, forgot [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number...
> Perversely, the way property taxes in Texas work, this likely means that anyone under 65 is watching the property taxes climb faster than their income, increasing pressure to sell and move to a cheaper property.

What's perverse about that? When there's suddenly high demand for a limited housing supply, we should encourage those who happened to randomly live in a particular place to consider selling to those who especially want to live in that place.
I don't like your generalization, but this particular article was underwhelming I agree. I'm actually not even sure what point it is making.
I've heard and had similar experiences with imports, but nothing major. Right now I'm only working on a 2D side scroller for personal experience. Creating a TileSet, and either using Godot or the Tiled Map Editor and importing back to Godot, everything is a breeze.

I wanted to try Godot for the simplicity, and the ability to use Rust at a later time to experiment with.
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> just NFT a house/day and then sell it on the blockchain.

And there's nobody there to enforce any rules or regulations.

So you fly down to Mexico and your Airbnb simply doesn't exist, meanwhile your money is irreversibly transferred.

If you try to prevent that by holding the funds in escrow until after the stay then the reverse scam and nonpayment of funds can happen by staying in the house and then claiming fraud.

Shifting the window around just shifts the window from favoring the renter or the client.

There's flaws with having a company acting as the dispute resolver, but the centralized reputational authority means that people have an incentive to not trash the place or fail to pay and cannot list houses that don't exist, and don't rape or rob the clients, etc. It also helps to have dispute resolution via credit cards, and to have court systems. Those centralized third parties also should have taken some time to validate the information of the parties on both sides (Airbnb made me scan my passport to validate my identity, which raises the bar somewhat over creating a thousand different random identities on the blockchain).

Making it all decentralized with no trusted third parties has very significant downsides.

(And that is before we start to consider the fact that contracts as code is limited by our ability to write bug free code, which as it currently stands is incredibly poor)
Is hydrogen peroxide "good enough" such that it doesn't matter? Like saying I'm 10 million times less likely to drown watering a lawn than I am washing a car isn't important, because the odds of either happening is vanishingly small.
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Hey HN,

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How much platinum and palladium catalytic converters in cars [1] consume? There are at least tens of millions of cars with such converters.

Catalysts don't get used up, and metals of platinum group are 100% recycleable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_converter
Children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks
> This is an example of survivorship bias. How many ambitious game concepts have collapsed under performance/architecture issues that lead to productivity-killing refactoring? Impossible to say, but no doubt many.

Probably less than you think. The games industry knows how to wring performance out of hardware. Data oriented design is common in most game engines where it matters. It’s just it’s not usually the gameplay code that is particularly a bottleneck.

There are also plenty of examples of games where the gameplay layer is a perf concern that not only have been released but were big sellers. For example Factorio and City Skylines. It’s just I’m those examples it makes more sense to worry about data model and access patterns for the actual problem at hand rather than try to generalise it with all the attendant problems that causes. Not least slowing down workflows when you don’t actually need it.

Most game engines are also composition based rather than using much inheritance these days.
I'd love a poll of black businessmen to see how many of them think Seven Habits is worthless because it lacks explicit criticism of racism. I bet Covey has given them more of a leg up than a thousand woke hacks.
More research is being done nowadays on various terpenes for pain relief. Unfortunately, because it’s strongly associated the cannabis industry, it’s hard to get past all the noise to the good information like research papers.

Most of the terpenes in cannabis strains are also found in other plants to varying degrees. Pure extracts are available and legal without question.

I can’t say much about their efficacy though, because I haven’t done a deep dive. Id love to hear from anyone who has done the research or has personal experience, especially without THC or CBD along for the ride.
What could possibly go wrong with this legislation?
Here the 10^8 improvement means that if the commercial method kills 99% of the bacteria, this method kills 99.99999999% of them.
This is reminding me of the water purification device in Fallout 3.
To be fair, sliding chain problems are difficult.
> As far as the abi is concerned a C enum is just an integer

In some ABIs this is not true, a C enum is a char if the constants fit. Your code that assumes enums are stored and passed around as 32-bit integers is not entirely portable.
Honestly, I see both as abominations which didn't accomplish what they've been rooting for – a rich text with minimal burden.

*strong*

/italic/

_underline_

-strikeout-
When I can. Not for this reason, though - just because I don’t trust Amazon not to send me something used or a fake or something.
The 2021-07-06 Google Doodle is missing an `o` - it only says "Gogle":

https://www.google.com/doodles/angela-peraltas-175th-birthda...
If I've understood correctly, the denominator being compared against isn't a "best available alternative" treatment solution of H2O2. It's against the concentration that's an "equivalent amount"-- which is actually a pretty dilute concentration (for H2O2), that *isn't* effectively bactericidal.

>"...are over 10^7 times more potent than an equivalent amount of preformed hydrogen peroxide..."

Per fig. 2(c,d), the "commercial H2O2" items are solutions of 100 and 200 ppm (0.01% / 0.02%), and have nearly zero effect (less than 1 order-of-magnitude reduction in bacterial/viral viability).

([edit]: or quoting the paper itself: "These standardized preformed H2O2 samples, produced either commercially or catalytically (100–200ppm), exhibited limited bactericidal activity [my emphasis] against...")

Their actual point is that this H2O2+ROS is highly effective at a concentration at which H2O2 alone is not effective.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352882305_A_residue...

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[edit]: In attempt to find further context, here's some data about disinfection with H2O2 solutions (in entirely different experimental setups which probably have important caveats I don't know):

>"...organisms with high cellular catalase activity (e.g., S. aureus, S. marcescens, and Proteus mirabilis) required 30–60 minutes of exposure to 0.6% hydrogen peroxide for a 10^8 reduction in cell counts, whereas organisms with lower catalase activity (e.g., E. coli, Streptococcus species, and Pseudomonas species) required only 15 minutes’ exposure [657]..."

https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/pdf/guidelines/disinfec... (page 47)

So, as a hand-waving non-expert: it looks like you can get the same order of magnitude of effect (factor of 10^8 bacterial reduction) as the stuff in the OP paper, at a hydrogen peroxide concentration that's ~60 times higher than what OP uses (0.6% = 6000 ppm). (?)
Yes, if you click the link the first section is a brief overview, but if you skip that the second section has an Executive Summary.
What, this is improving your "score", but not actually improving user experience of perceived load time, is it?

It's just gaming the score?

An odd thing to brag about? or am I missing something?
Ph.D.'s are not just bachelor-level. A Ph.D. teaches you the ability to learn to become an expert. A bachelor's teaches you how the field thinks, which is not the same thing. I tried doing research for my Master's, it was (in retrospect) total amateur hour. My professor suggested I write a summary paper of the literature the next semester, and I learned how I didn't know a thing. Recently I've noticed that my dad (Ph.D.) goes about learning things completely differently than me; I just bumble around and read stuff, he figures out who the important people are and reads that (among other things).
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This is a legit solution if your requirements allow it.

I'd advise you to not be too bullish on the universality of this principle of yours. Unfortunately real life is often more complicated than the scenario you describe and I wouldn't describe the solutions smart people came up with (various consensus algorithms or convergent replicated data types) as a waste of time.
Minor note for the unaware: "poo poo" in this post is a forum word filter for "shit".
Did the RMM box really have to be on the open internet? In infra I run, anything with a public IP is behind numerous layers of FWs and VPNs, why not the same here?
I don't think you read my comment.
There's a certain irony that the urbanists who advocate high density big city living are also the kind of people who escape at the first sign of trouble or rising cost, which they themselves contributed to, and run off to suburbs, small towns, and country sides and drive up property costs and price the much poorer locals out. Living in a suburb in NJ I can't help but notice increased traffic in the direction of NYC, even compared to prelockdown, coinciding with the rapid rise in housing costs
I doubt this will work too well with Starlink in particular. The satellite handoff has to be pretty precise. Even without GPS, the antenna (on one side or the other) can probably measure your location within a kilometer or two, and as the satellites improve (larger satellite-side phased arrays), that will shrink.
I wouldn’t say fomenting but it’s happy to give the swing a push.
> It's gone because it worked so poorly for society.

No it’s not. It’s gone because it only works on kulaks and the kulak class is very small now.
>70s through 90s wiped the blue collar middle class off the map, there are no other options outside of non-MD healthcare work if you want income that even begins to keep up with inflation.

Is it? According to the CRS[1], real wage (ie. inflation adjusted) growth is up 6.5% even for the bottom percentile.

[1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45090.pdf#page=9
Pretty sure AI, like fusion, is the technology of the future and always will be.

When we solve the halting problem, AI can write software. Until then, it's Intelligence Augmentation, not AI, and humans will remain in the loop.
What about panic? Could you disable the amygdala real time?
The whole point of deliberately starting a new town with human-scale architecture etc. is to get around that chicken-and-egg problem, precisely because moving to a highway rest stop town would have all the problems you mention.
Considering Amazon was suing over the previous contract, and MS won iy I don't see why either wouldn't bid. The money is huge.
Why it's time to think differently about Covid (UK)
Looks really promising, will give it a try.
>That was caused by a wave of union busting.

Are you presenting this as opinion or fact?
In one of the biggest heists ever (still unsolved) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [1], alarms went off before the theft occurred.

Interesting to hear this being validated as a tactic in another art theft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museu...
So fun fact, Ender's Game was created entirely to set up the character Speaker for the Dead (the first sequel).
On Thinkpad keyboards, the mic mute button is usually Fn+F4 or around there. It usually includes a little red LED to show if the mute is active or not.

On HP Elitebooks, its usually Fn+F10 or thereabouts.

I've seen a few Dell's with that feature but it has been pretty rare.

I guess looking around at models for sale these days the mic mute option is somewhat rare. I'm mostly used to Thinkpads and the recent non-Thinkpads I've owned have had it, so I kind of assumed it was a common feature these days. Interesting its more rare than I originally thought.
>"Outside the Church there is no salvation"

>846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

>Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336

>847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:

>Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.337

>848 "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men.

[1] https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM
Is there any option for folks to do an "I accept all cookies but reserve right to manage them myself" setting - and then skip all the popups? In other words, the site can set what it wants, and I can delete what I want?

I really don't need more setting options tweaks etc. How many people do this carefully on each site? How many are annoyed by this STUPID pop up game that means almost nothing.
RIP internet
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> I don't think the lack of good open source CAD is due to a lack of a decent codebase

I think the problem is exactly that. A good constructive solid geometry (CSG) is a difficult thing to make and there are no open source alternatives to the ones powering the mainstream CAD packages.
> because many of the functions that used to be performed by the family and community are now performed by businesses.

I could see that being true. Do you mean businesses like Facebook and Twitter with their substitution for socializing?

I fully agree with the rest of your post. If you're interested in the subject, I would suggest reading Robert Putnam's research on Social Capital. Bowling Alone is a good synthesis (but I'd personally pass on his other books, which lean more toward polemics).
This is amazing. "Just delete the app" was commonly proposed as a joke solution on /r/wallstreetbets for people who managed to get their account deep into the red with one of the "infinite leverage" exploits.
As bitrates increase, time of flight becomes more and more of an important quantity. Also, it’s likely Starlink satellites will develop ability to do time of flight for military reasons, ie as a backup to GPS.
Sure, but that just means they had multiple methods of ensuring they had created a suitable moat against competitors, the GPL being just one of them.
> What makes you say that most people find dissociatives uncomfortable?

Anecdotal evidence from people who have tried them, as well as reading lots of experience reports. It’s hard to discern from all of that who/how many were taking them therapeutically vs recreationally. Your grain of salt is quite justified.
I don't think its fair to say they are "energy" issues, or that they are bottlenecked by a lack of energy.

When building the desalination plant, we can build a solar farm right next door.

The problems are political. Nobody is willing to go out and spend the money.

My hope is that when automation starts taking peoples jobs, governments will employ and train people to build these big infrastructure projects. Desalination, Green Energy, Reforestation, better Agriculture and Land Management.
What’s in it for you, and how are you paying for these data? What are the license for data from the API, can I e.g. make a paid financial app using the data?
You should meet my carpenter and plumber and ask them about their nice houses with big yards and new cars.
FWIW there is also a ECS implementation for Godot available: https://github.com/GodotECS/godex
Some COVID-19 tests can be fooled. A good article with the scientific reasons behind this. It is also interesting for people who are not children, and definitely for people who are deciding whether these tests are useful.
I would respond better to more reasoned arguments. This is largely a series of assertions.
> Hiding behind processes like scrum will not save you. Even in the best case scenarios, enterprise shops and startups are faking progress by breaking user stories into tiny little pieces or simply working stories over many sprints "are we there yet?", dragging out timelines for simple work to obscure the fact that the teams are lost, the business people are clueless, and developers are disinterested

This seems to be its own rebuttal. If no process can save a bad workplace, why is killing off Scrum going to make things better?
Chlorine is produced with alkaline electrolysis
Most people have no basements in Texas. In the area in question it is simply a fantasy to suggest this is feasible.
This article is bad.
MSPs (managed service provider, basically outsourced IT) are a great source of leads, and they often have customers in widely different sectors. They seem to get a constant trickle of software development work. Maybe one out of ten of these could turn into something big. MSPs will want 33%-50% of total for finding the lead so be up front about how long you pay them that finders fee (first $X thousand). Eventually that small project could turn into something full time. So pre-covid, you could go to Spiceworks (or similar) meetups, not sure best way to reach out to them now.
Well, given the digit pairs include values greater than 60, I doubt it’s arcseconds/arcminutes.
They built their own power line directly to the users.
I don't fully disagree.

Though I don't agree with negative take on software like "sparkly software for management", "inflate its own demand by technical debt" or "organize itself for collective bargaining".

Sparkly software gets you just as far as it is useful usually, less sparkly sells worse but you still need it on hardware to get job done, hardware alone is not enough.

Inflate demand - well people just suck at organizing big projects there is no need to artificially inflate demand it just happens as business needs more and more features.

Software developers are bad at organizing and bargaining - because they all think they are better than others and code of other people always sucks :)

What is my hypothesis:

Hardware has physical limitations as is obvious - even if you build millions of boards - well it takes storage space, you need copper, aluminum, you cannot make transistors smaller into infinity. You can only sell so many phones as there are buyers.

Software on the other hand is limited now mostly by amount of the developers in the world. There is infinite amount of programs that you can run on finite amount of hardware. There is infinite amount of software to be built let alone maintained that is why software developer salaries are going through the roof.

While I can sell 1 phone only once now I can build SaaS solution that I will get cashflow and monthly payments it is not even that individual can capitalize on his own innovation. Basically infinite revenue stream from SaaS model is just so attractive for any business man.
Alert Fatigue.
I just don't believe this take, because I can't relate with it.

I am a very happy and fulfilled person, and I've not had to engolf myself in self-help, sports-worship, celebrity-worship, video-game escapism or whatever else you listed, neither do I engolf myself in religion and ethnic nationalism.

That leaves me that either your explanation is simply wrong, or only true for some individual.

In my opinion, there's a false projection, it's like people complaining about Java versus the number of happy Java developers who don't care to participate either in the complaint or the praises of it online or at every occasion they find. If all you knew about it was the article and comments you'd read online, you'd think everyone dreads Java and become depressed from its prolonged use. Well I feel it similar with America and people's complaints about it.

And the closest data I can find is the world surveys on self perceived happiness where people rate themselves on 0 to 10, with 10 being the happiest they can imagine themselves, and on those surveys, individualistic western countries tend to rank better.

Edit: Not that I disagree with your conclusion, to help people find meaning and wellbeing in their life is great, and should be a goal of society, as long as is not forced on people, but simply provided as options that are made accessible to them to choose from if they so want.