skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot definitively rule out the magnetic field driving the jetstreams & even some of the temperature changes.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/42492338.pdf

Space weather is being used to forecast Earth's weather.

http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/ZA689IO20.pdf

Would space climate have a similar effect on Earth's climate? I'm not aware of any studies. Does the lack of studies mean the phenomenon simply does not exist or that we have not modeled the interactions between space climate variability & Earth's climate variability. We have only had satellites for less than 100 years.

The late Quartenary had a Geomagnetic excursion, with mass extinction of large megafauna, & weakened jetstreams causing equitorial/polar vortexes.

Other planet's atmospheric pressure dynamics is affected by magnetic field fluctuations.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045...

There simply is not enough data to accurately & precisely model the dynamics of the climate. Nobody has created a control system that mimic's Earth's climate. All attempts have failed the test of time of a decade or two. The climate is very complicated, with a multitude of cycles, some lasting > 10,000 years. We have had modern measurement tech for about 50 years. Our sample size is too small to understand the dynamics of this system at this time. We will be surprised.

Even if there is a correlation, we don't have agreement of what the driving changes are. Does temperature drive the magnetic field? Does the magnetic field drive temperature? Are they mutually exclusive? Does temperature and/or magnetic field drive changes to the jetstreams? Does ionic activity coming from the Sun or cosmic sources affect the jetstreams?

We don't understand the Sun & the multitude of ways that it's variability affect's Earth. We don't understand the Solar System's position in space & the effects that that the local climate has. We are now observing how the galactic current sheet affects nearby stars. We have not yet fully modeled how interplanetary magnetic field dynamics (e.g. the 4 major gas giants clustering which is also occurring now into the near future) affect the climate as well.

Now back to CO2 driving the climate, I'll leave with an quote...

"the grand underlying principles have been firmly established...further truths of physics are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals"

- Albert A Michelson, ~1900
The Value of Undefined Behavior (2018)
Wondering when Rafensperger is going to get arrested.
Transformer all the things
It seems like the author is advocating for the sabotaging Microsoft Copilot by creating GitHub repos of misbehaving code.

This could be seen as a form of protest or as a Luddite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite) reaction to AI automation of coding.

James Micken's warning against connecting machine learning to the Internet of Hate still apply: https://youtu.be/ajGX7odA87k?t=1206
It saddens me how people still put so much value in diamonds given how prevalent they are on Earth and across the solar system.
IoT for Beginners – A Curriculum
Not at all. I have three now-adult children. Children can give structure and purpose to life. Raising children is not for everyone and it’s a big responsibility. Anecdotally very few parents I know regret having children, but I know a few who admit some regret, often expressed in terms of missed opportunities, which sometimes sounds like selfishness.

My mother had seven children. She once told me that every one of her children reminded her of mistakes she had made (in hindsight). She didn’t regret or resent her children, but she did regret the opportunities her children may have closed off for her.
Survey Revealed Top Countries with Highest 5G Speeds in the World
That depends how much the applications depend on specific syscalls, file locations or DBUS based IPC.
You are missing my point. Japan is a highly secular country nowadays, but Christianity in particular was banned and persecuted until not so long ago. Christmas means nothing to them, so the fact they celebrate "Christmas" with KFC is not very interesting.

My country is supposedly overwhelmingly Christian, but most people including myself don't care much about Christmas in a traditional sense anymore. In fact I have celebrated Christmas with Asian food a few times. So you would expect a non Christian country to care even less.
This feels like a problem that doesn’t need to be solved. Solving it might even be worse than not solving it. Do we really want our food production system to become “just in time”? Delivering exactly how much we need exactly when we need it. Overproduction feels like a safety net for when things go wrong. We really don’t want a food shortage the same way we had toilet paper shortages or gas shortages. Food shortages topple governments and empires the way other shortages don’t.

The obvious solution is to keep production at say 150% of demand but if we are going to do that then we are going to be ‘wasting food’ just like you waste time with all those database backups you never needed. The only difference is we went though all this hoop jumping to make the end user not waste so much food just to push the waste back down the line to the producers (which as the article points out are already throwing away a bunch of food themselves under the current system.)

All in, I would say this issue is close neighbors to the US switching to the metric system completely. Just not worth all the fuss and cost of doing it even though it has some feel good reasons for why getting to the other side of that big initiative would be worthwhile.
Why It's Hard to Innovate in Construction
Since when do Google make money from people choosing to use their tech?
That's great, I'll give it a try then. Thanks.
It's true. From my own experience, Starbucks in Japan is far superior than in the US, too. 7-11's are _wonderful_ in Japan.
The real story here is how great the internet service can be now in a civilized country if you don't let Comcast have monopolies and ban local internet cooperatives and coast along selling the same service for 15 years while raising prices.

25Gbps symmetric for about $70/month. That's significantly less than I pay Comcast for its crappy 900Mbps down/40Mbps up service.
It appears that their software is riddled with issues and will need a major rewrite. Why anyone would continue to use it is beyond me.

Current commitment is to restore services tomorrow:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27788058
> "In 2019, Fox News was the top-rated cable network, averaging 2.5 million viewers."[1]

Be that as it may, cable is also on the way out [1], and 2.5 million viewers is just over 1% of the voting population in the US. By contrast, Facebook has 258 million MAU in the US and Canada [2].

> They've not only become as popular, but the most popular with TV. Why are you confident that this can't happen with social media?

It totally can. However, as awful as Fox "News" programming can be, they neither call for nor coordinate violent insurrection. The minute they do is the minute they lose their FCC license.

> You're right that Parler never reached the popularity of similar non-insane services, but they didn't need to have the majority of money and users for a mob to come less than 100 yards from lynching members of congress.

Parler has since been forced off of AWS, and has been forced to block hate speech as a condition of being added back to the Apple app store [3]. I don't think Google has added it back to the Play Store. This was possible because there are no laws on the books requiring AWS, Apple, and Google to unconditionally do business with Parler, as long as their decision isn't based on discriminating against a person in one or more protected classes (and political affiliation is not a protected class).

I'm not saying that this is an ideal solution -- I don't think Big Tech acted swiftly enough, and I'm not convinced yet that they've learned their lesson. Ideally, platforms beyond a certain reach would be required to have a fast and effective content moderation mechanism to prevent their distribution channels from being weaponized as they were. But, I don't know how to codify this into a law that is both constitutional and not also weaponizable by big players to prevent competition from arising. Maybe the law could require a ratio of human moderators to human users, or something?

[1] https://deadline.com/2021/06/cable-news-ratings-may-fox-news...

[2] https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebooks-daily-active...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Return_online
Is it implied that the different phase transitions of - say water - are related to the various ways symmetry can break? This makes sense intuitively, I think: Ice -> liquid you are changing size a bit but liquid water still has some transient structure at the molecular level; liquid -> gas you are changing size a lot and gaining rotational + translational invariance? These symmetries I think make sense if you think about water the individual water molecules are doing during the various phases.
Like this a lot, congrats guys!
Harvard-led physicists take big step in race to quantum computing
I paid in VND which was how I got confused.

What I recall is that the meter didn't cut off the last three zeros but rather just two. Maybe it was a faulty meter (or maybe it was me). I was just off the plane, it was middle of the night and I was exhausted.

I should note that it was me who suggested the wrong amount, and he just accepted. I don't think he set out to swindle me.

Overall I found the country to be mostly free of people trying to take advantage of foreigners - Unlike Thailand and (especially) Cambodia. I also felt very safe there.
Unfortunately the people with disposable income to pay for premium services is exactly who marketers want to advertise to.
It is, though one thing apple could improve is the feedback on errors- it’s routing thinks some major streets are one way here and that others aren’t which seems hard to fix.
It does the job so well that in latter releases of Apple, Google and Microsoft OSes, the new networking features aren't available to classical POSIX sockets.
It was a cinch when I had an always-on Windows box. I'd make a request via Takeout, save it on my Drive, and the Backup and Sync app would automatically download it to my local copy of the drive. But that box is now running Ubuntu, and I haven't gotten around to replacing Backup and Sync with one of the other (non-free, non-Google) options.
I wish they would unpack their buisiness jargon acronyms. What are SOHO, ROBO and SMB in this context?
https://www.pgcli.com/ is an amazing tool. Has autocomplete, Vim mode, and warnings for destructive commands. The REPL experience is amazing as well!

Additionally, postgres's psql CLI supports an rc file, one you can use for awesome configs. Put some time into that as well.
No. I was very nervous about it before I had kids, but I’m very glad I did. It’s not always easy raising them, but it’s also not nearly as hard as I thought it would be, and it’s much more fun than I imagined.

FWIW being around other people’s kids isn’t a good proxy for what having your own will be like. With other people’s kids you see a lot of the more challenging stuff (managing them during “grown up” activities), and miss most of the fun, which happens more in the quiet day to day.
Having a background in electrical and software engineering I found this post very fun to read and was nodding along with some of the conclusions
No, but the fewer pandemics we go through, the better. This past 15 months has been tough!
it's amazing that it has come to this...
"By the end of this series, students will have [...] learned the basics of the Internet of Things including how to [...] analyze telemetry"

I'm not surprised...
Really nice 1st1 - congrats, all your resources look so clean.
It's likely only profitable to mine on a ps4 if you're getting free or stolen power and the PS5 is harder to get a hold of right now that graphics cards so it's a rare cross section of people that it'd be profitable for.

For context on the PS4, it came out in 2013 and as with most consoles it's comparable to top of the line graphics card from a couple years earlier (in this case generally compared to the Radeon HD 7870 from early 2012, so it's a nearly decade hardware.
cement scientist here, two postdocs in the field for 4 years.

while this co2 curing seems interesting some points should be noted:

1) polluting industries greenwash with no shame, further inspection of claims most of the time reveals that either the technology is impossible to scale up, or is simple PR with of scientific value.

2) i had the opportunity to work with some of the best cement scientists on earth. cement is so complex that it's basically not understood at all. we typically know more of a neutron star a billion light years away than a piece of concrete. this is arguably the most complex material known to man. we don't even know how various phases cristallise individually.

3) any effort to understand the fundamentals of the material in a scientific context will result in little to no funding. writing a proposal for "nano-smart-bs-concrete" you'll get millions of funding and make the front page of Nature/Science with your fancy article.

4) co2 isn't the only issue, by far. resources extraction is a massive problem, search "Holcim Eclepens" to see the scares it leaves. sand is even worst since desert sand doesn't work, and many places are running out of it.

5) yet another issue is comminution, namely the process of grinding clinker to dust, it is a process (ball mills) that has less than 1% efficiency. it's estimated that humanity spends 10% of electricity to make powders. there are other techniques but usually it's very hard to get a particle size distribution (PSD) with good properties.

6) it's in the end a cultural thing mostly. you can build most of the building with crude soil + straw + wood. slightly more expensive but materials readily available on site most of the time and have much better thermal properties.

7) why not using material that Life developed during 4 billion years. mushrooms are promising for instance.
At my job people tend to post silly things in slack, like an "I love ponies" giphy image, when they see someone else's computer unlocked and unattended.
Ask HN: How to Read the Golang Documentation?
I am learning the go language and how do i figure out what are available interfaces? Is there a guide to read the golang documentation?
Vitamin-R. It was Mac only, I think.
> I wonder if we would have done better to keep the schools open the first few months, but as boarding schools until most children have had it. Once nearly all children have had it, school goes fully back to normal.

A few problems:

• Parents have to agree to not see their children for several months.

• Adults need to be present to supervise / teach the children, and they will be at risk from COVID.

• Early on, there was debate about whether contracting COVID led to immunity. (I personally thought people were being overly cautious about this, but even so.)

Taken together, I just don't see it working.

I am surprised we didn't see any college campuses (which really are boarding schools) attempt to isolate themselves. Both students and staff (!) are not allowed to leave campus or invite guests, and must quarantine for two weeks before arrival—but in return, you get to live a normal college life. It would be a huge commitment for professors with families, however.
It's not holding up so well in RCT's, like this one[1] that was just discussed on TWiV 778[2].

BTW, I've joined the legions who are addicted to TWiV. It's a time commitment for sure, but it's fascinating how different the perspective is on important topics (like delta variant) than the mainstream press.

[1]: https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s128...

[2]: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-778/
There is a great documentary about the Finnish cave divers. "Diving into the unknown":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_into_the_Unknown

"Last breath" is also a really good documentary about rescue under water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Breath_(2019_film)

Both of these I rate 5/5
Where can I see those numbers?
I am using a home server with the same CPU and I am using it for SQL, storage server and virtualization. In order to do that I changed RAM to 32GB DIMMs, 64GB in total was not enough and the CPU works just fine with 32GB DIMMS. The platform is quite limited by the number of available PCIe lanes, but without moving up to Threadripper (a lot more expensive) there is no better option, Intel is in the same place or worse. The good thing with Intel is that you can use a CPU with integrated graphics and save the PCIe lanes for the graphics card.

My previous build (Ryzen 2700, 65W) had a great feature until it was gone with a BIOS update: after installing everything it worked with the graphics card removed. As I always connected only remotely, it was not a problem but a benefit. You can try and see what happens.
> Really it was a lose-lose situation. Ignore it and you stack bodies in a freezer truck like in NYC.

I can't tell whether this is sarcasm, but in the unlikely event that it's not, how do you explain every place that didn't lockdown having dramatically better numbers than NYC?

Surely there's no remaining possibility of regarding lockdowns as a success?

What data can possibly conclude this experiment if not the data which already exists?
The Future Dystopic Hellscape Is Upon Us
I was wondering how far they had to dive as soon as I started reading, and then when they finally revealed it I was like "holy hell!"

It was mentioned that one of the drivers damaged his gear going in, and that's the case where it's something attached to your body, which you can develop a fair amount of feeling for, like you get used to driving a car and just know how wide it is. I can't imagine how it must feel to drag along a sedated human when you can't see anything. There must have been situations where you accidentally hit some obstacle with one of the kids and then this dreaded feeling of not knowing if you displaced the mask and are now dragging a kid drowning in it's sleep across the mud for another hour.

As cheesy as it might sound, this is one of these rare stories that restore faith in humanity. Absolutely amazing.
It’s 240V/400A split-phase service, PNW, around $0.11/kWh. Air conditioning is a big part of it when the temperatures are high. Also charging multiple bEV, a lot of 24x7 loads: half-dozen fridges, a couple large freezers, wine cellar, about 1kW of IT+AV equipment, etc.
The three body problem is more magical realism than scientific really.
Clean and does what it says. Love it.

Unsolicited feedback:
For the use case you call out, it might be nice to create the notes with an "alias ID" or "pathName". Something that will redirect to the note id.

Or the id space is a combination of dictionary words.

Looks like those ids are 8 characters long so it might not be too bad!
Yeah, over here most Yelp reviews are utter crap. Maybe 1-4 reviews and the average is around 2 stars for really good places.
I'd definitely consider it one and would've dropped the book if someone had told me just when I started it.
So Japan has Christmas traditions from KFC's marketing and the US and Europe from Coca Cola's marketing
I don't think you read properly. Simply blocking GA domains won't do anything. Open the website, there isn't a single request to GA. The data is collected when the game starts and sent to the game server which sends it to GA. The 11% is not caused by client side blocking.

Also, I don't care if you don't want some VERY basic info about your browser collected. If you're connecting to my servers, you already gave it to me through the headers, I'm giving it to GA too.
> What we need is a policy of absolute honesty with a one-strike-and-your-out-forever punishment for any health authority that engages in propaganda, even if they had good intentions.

Won't work, unless there are multiple health authorities – but the average person isn't going to keep track of the reputation of multiple small health authorities, so the authorities will have comparatively less reputation at stake.

You are onto something, though. Consider fleshing it out a bit before reading what other people are talking about. (ROT13: cerqvpgvba-onfrq zrqvpvar)
No. However, the person I was before having kids no longer exists and isn’t coming back. I think people unprepared or unwilling to accept this will possibly regret having children.
I always love hearing stories about long forgotten computers / servers that just silently hum away in the background for years. Kind of reminds me of the story about the old Novell server that ended up behind a wall after some construction [0].

Great image by the way.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...
“Those whacky Japanese” is a perennial category of bus-plunge journalism.

It only seems odd if you don’t think about it much. Americans don’t think Honey Baked Ham or Boston Market on a holiday is weird though both are franchises and Boston Market was formerly a McDonalds brand.

Try to book a table at Outback on Valentines (or even get seated at Applebee’s).

And while Americans have good cause to celebrate Benito Juarez saving their bacon by stopping the French while Americans were busy killing each other from fixed positions in the Civil War, Taco Bell chalupa combo boxes with a forty ounce no ice Mountain Dew doesn’t really align with Cinco de Mayo any better than extra crispy at xmas.

Every body is whacky.
What effect did the sedation have? Were they still conscious?
SMB is Small-Medium Business; ROBO I don't know; SOHO I don't know but I think is Small & Home - meaning in networking is essentially 'not enterprise'.

Edit: Having now looked ar TFA, Home is listed before SOHO, so I might be wrong about that. Also in fairness SMB at least is defined on, er, second use.
Hey, I'd give anything for more people to be interested in space! If saying something like it rains diamonds on a planet to make people at least mildly interested in this kind of thing, I'm all for it, even though such a thing is banal at the cosmic scale
Indeed, I was trying some avenues to be less introverted. Those shut down. I became worse off, but it really is a matter of what we consider the baseline
Except I said the solar system and the sun is quite close to the barycenter of the solar system
I prefer the driving and lane instructions on Apple Maps.

With a few notable exceptions it has gotten me where I'm going every time.

The few exceptions are places near me where the address is a bit wonky on Apple Maps and the driving instructions are either completely bonkers (routes around a house through a parking lot instead of directly) or off by one street. The address is correct, but the access road doesn't have a name, so it gets confused.
> ConnectX-3 cards off ebay.

Those cards are so good. I got a few after seeing them rated in r/homelab and haven’t looked back. The Synology took one and it was about 1/10th the price the official Synology one was.
Oof

Makes sense!

I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature.

If App Runner ends up supporting private deployments then we can have a true Cloud Run competitor.
There's a link to page 2 at the bottom https://archive.is/o/j6410/https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2021-0...
I've been using pcloud which has a lifetime plan which is a pretty good deal. I recommend waiting until black friday or August 1 (Swiss national day; they're a CH-based company) when they severely drop the price.
and if you click the link to the second page you get to ... the second page.
I don't think so, towards the end the diver stated:

> If need be, we were to give them another shot of ketamine in case they were waking up.
It redirected to a paywall when I clicked it. (But it was that exact link, before the redirect. Strange.)