skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it is ever found to be profitable to throw bodies into the furnace to keep the wheels churning then many members of a company will do just that

Sorry, that's just crazy. Of the billions of businesses that exist world wide, the only "business" that has ever gone that far has been government, the Nazi's.

This reduction of all business under the sky to a single variable, where everyone is evil as a function of profit is just silly. Also, businesses don't have to be outwardly visible in their kindness like Branson in order to be a force for good in the community. These are stories that never make the mainstream and yet, on the aggregate, are much larger than anything Branson has done on this front. A simple local example: Our largest boat dealer/manufacturer in the area pays for and supports all local aquatic programs for kids.

> This as opposed to non-profit or governments

The day you can name ten such organizations who have lifted billions of people out of poverty is the day this statement stops being silly. Until then. No. It's a fantasy.

Sure, the ideals exist. Great. They have done nothing (or very little) for the billions of people who have improved their lives because entrepreneurs, large, medium and small, have risked life, limb and treasure to chase a dream and, yes, profit.

Again, every time anyone has these thoughts they need to look around the room, what they are typing on, where they live and everything that has touched their lives (and, in some cases, kept them alive) and come to the realization that this stuff was not the product of a benevolent king, government or non-profit. So, how about we are a little honest about this?
You jest, but I believe radial magnets genuinely are costly to make due to their complex process requirements. Granted, that raises the question of whether this is a product that makes any sense at all, but I suppose we'll have to see what the market says there.
That's basically carbon cap and trade. One of the problems is how do you ensure that the oil well remains blocked off forever?
The risk of fraud is pretty high, especially when you consider that the involved parties are these huge practically untouchable corporations.
Study finds 17% of software developers can't feel anything anymore.
Well, it's a perfectly reasonable response.
> It's not mandatory, unless you consider restaurants and travel to be necessities one needs

Have you ever been to France?

Most in the cities live in tiny flats with insufficient space for gathering and dining. The bistro/brasserie/cafe is largely considered an extension of one's own living room.

Travel is also a normal part of life verging on necessity. Families travel for multiple weeks every summer. France even has a nationwide peer-to-peer lodging rental arrangement that predates Airbnb and Vrbo by decades: https://gitelink.com/
yeah. a(n improperly configured) firewall is going to start dropping packets if it thinks a connection is idle for too long, so the system never sees an RST and think the connection’s been terminated.
It is "on" by default, but the user still has to have the 'ssm:StartSession' permission (and probably others) to open the SSM session, and for some(?) operations you also still need to have the appropriate credentials (ssh keypair or a password) to login via SSH.

SSM Session Manager is one of the (if not the) preferred way to manage SSH access to instances in AWS. It's kinda hairy to set up, but it removes the need for bastion hosts/jump boxes for most use cases. From my experience I would say it is quite common.
> But a riot always expresses some politics.

Counterpoint: The 2018 philly superbowl riot

https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2018/02/philly_riots_eagles...
Wondering whether iOS 14.7 also unlocks reverse Qi for other devices, e.g. AirPods. People previously assumed that there was a piece of circuitry missing for reverse charging, but this product disproves that.
> As for lung capacity: I used to play saxophone pretty fanatically and I think that is one of the reasons I got through this with a relatively low amount of damage.

Funnily enough, I used to play the flute and sing before contracting COVID. With my lung capacity halved, my ability is nowhere near what it used to be. Long COVID has taken all my hobbies away from me: running, singing, hip-hop dancing. If anyone knows of any support groups relating to Long COVID, please let me know.
Yes, but the point is that there is an upper limit to the contribution, and even reforesting unrealistically vast tracts of land does not make up for carbon extracted from deeper in the crust. Growing, cutting, and burying fast growing trees deep in the Earth, then replanting them, would not have that limit (although there would be other problems keeping the land fertile).
You easily get like 500% py returns using DeFi.
Trees definitely need to be part of the solution but unfortunately global potential only revereses a decade of emissions.

I wrote a short piece about it (with sources)[0]

[0] https://carbonremoved.com/blog/trees-are-not-the-answer-to-c...
It sucks that corporations get to steal words from the common language.
Any business that creates a product converts labor into a product that is sold to another party. The capitalist uses his position of power in owning the means of production necessary to create the product in order to turn a profit on this transaction, by extracting money from the laborer as well as from the buyer (in most cases, another laborer). So the net result is that laborers work, and the capitalists leech money from all parties involved. How do you think it occurs that the wealth gap keeps growing? If capitalists were equitable, the profit would go mostly into the pockets of the laborers, and we would not have such a massive divide in between working and capitalist classes. But this is utopian and goes against the reasons capitalists become capitalists in the first place- to get richer. And to get richer, you have to extract money from someone else, as it is a zero-sum game.
Upvote for Syntorial. Hands down one of the most effective learning tools I’ve used in any domain.
Please tell us what happened?

Also it is not easy to say no especially to a person who pays you. Over years, I learned that nothing happens to developers for missing deadlines. First, we are in such a high demand, we can easily set our terms. But secondly, it is PM or manager's responsibility to make sure they have enough resources to meet deadline. If they didn't do their job, then it is on them. DO NOT TAKE A FALL FOR THEM. I see many junior devs doing that.

And finally, never ever work more than what they are paying you for. If you don't value your time, no one else will.
The power draw from each to the other reaches equilibrium and neither charge. They just trade electrons back and forth forever.
On the graph Finland is on the opposite end. And Finland is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe with mandatory coverage of tundras.

I think it boils down to good legislation and luck on how our 3 mobile operators compete.
In the context of alerting, I agree with TFA. You should not be alerting on bad request errors, because you might have no control over it. That said you might want monitoring on it so you can check if the rate jumped at some important point (eg, after a deployment) but I wouldn't look at it on a regular basis.

I had something like that on an internal system. The 400 rate would jump all over the place because our edge systems had shitty input validation, and bots would crawl us with broken requests ("can I reserve this item starting last week?" kind of thing) with no rate throttling. After a few years the edge validation (and bot detection) got better, but alerting on that would've been worse than useless.
This is a good explanation, thank you.

>You will be able to detect very small effects, but if there is no difference, you are more likely to draw the correct conclusion with 1,000,000 samples than with 100 samples.

I believe that this is to the tweet author's point where they stated that in the real-world a null hypothesis never exactly holds true. So you can detect even the tiniest of variance with a large enough sample.

>given no actual difference

I think the error here is that there is a priori knowledge of no difference, where the author is stating that in real-life scenarios there will always be some differences even if being too minute to be of practical significance. We can fabricate "no difference" in simulations but in real experimental design there will almost always be variance, even if it's just an artifact of the measurement process rather than being causal from the independent variable(s). Whether or not the differences statistically significant depends on the experiment design, to include sample size.

So while I understand your valid point I think the author's claim was more about the practical application of statistics rather than the mathematical precision as it relates with simulated examples. But I could be misinterpreting.
But what if I don't care about any version history, and I just want a single snapshot held indefinitely? Should I instead go with a service like Google Drive?
Why would I have to accept the contract to obtain the software? I can just copy it off another machine where someone else accepted the contract.
No idea why you're getting downvoted - they have no control group and as you say there's 'depression' in their symptoms they count for. I'm pretty sure 'depression' (which I'm sure they don't count as clinically depressed, but 'im feeling more depressed') went up significantly in the whole population last year.

Also PLoS one is basically not peer reviewed - they accept every paper after a short review.
That’s covered under ‘natural’ solutions, also eligible for the prize. All you need to do is develop a plan to scale that economically to gigaton/year capacity and claim your prize! Should be easy, right? So just do it!
Not something I really have to worry about since, unless I find out I have a fatal disease, FIRE is not a realistic possibility for me.
Yes, this new Apple pack holds less charge than that Anker one, but it is much slimmer and attaches with magnets. It’s meant to give you some extra battery life in a sleek form that fits on your pocket. If you are going to be away from a power source for days, the Anker might be a better choice but if your just looking for some extra juice on a long day of use and don’t want something bulky to carry around, this would fit the bill.
This.

In my experience, 4xx and 5xx are only valuable to find the right place to look, but in no way do indicate if client or server failed.
Considering it's only accessory to a $1000+ device, it seems like it isn't really for poor people, either.
> Most land is private so you can't go around planting willy nilly.

That’s pretty much how we got here, except instead of planting we mined, cut and burnt.

The pathway back is rather harder.
Have chronic Sinusitis from many colds I got from my little one. "Long Cold"
Not so nice.
How do you even get started building a battery? You should blog about it, I'd read it :)
I wonder how YC backed Prometheus Fuels will stack up. They claimed that they are able to sequester Co2 directly from the air for around 36 USD / ton [0]. If they truly can scale it at that price point, it seems very competitive.

[0]: https://www.prometheusfuels.com/on-the-road/happy-earth-day-...
It's mostly because the voltage is assumed to be constant across the discharge profile (even if it isn't), and Ah is taken to the point that you can safely discharge the battery to. So you compare two batteries with the same voltage on their Ah, and systems in terms of Wh (and then the voltages are irrelevant).

One problem here is that what looks like a battery on the outside is often a system under the hood, so the output voltage is not necessarily the voltage at which the battery operates due to for instance DC-DC convertors and other electronics embedded in the battery housing.
I still don’t see a single criticism of the CCP in your messages, you seem constitutionally incapable of criticizing your own government. You easily heap around lots of criticism elsewhere, some of it correct, but won’t apply the same fierceness to abuses of the CCP. I’m sure the Germans thought their camps were justified, the same as the Americans thought rounding up the Japanese were justified. You even rightly criticize American overreaction to the security threat of Chinese espionage, but then go on to justify treatment of the Uighurs because of attacks that killed fewer people than died in US, UK, French, domestic attacks. I mean the Japanese had a NERVE GAS attack on their subways and didn’t overreact.

BTW, I don’t need to Google for insults, I do speak passable Mandarin, lived and worked in China so I’ve encountered enough glass hearted nationalists and 无毛 in online forums to be quite familiar.

There’s been a huge rise of nationalism under Xi like there has been in the US under Trump. It’s dangerous. Relatives I have in China who used to be quite moderate are now ranting and raving on WeChat about every little perceived slight against China, because that’s how Xi and the state run media have focused people’s attention.

Combine that with the new bravado of wolf warrior mentality in government diplomats and it is quite a concerning development as concerning as the rise of fascist/nationalist movements in Europe, like in Hungary, or the Trump phenomena here.

The fact that you are blind to all of this, or only see problems here or in the West, but not in China, with the way the political winds are blowing, is your blind spot.
Download and transcribe YouTube videos in Python
End result: Price of oil goes up, more tar sands are extracted.
laptops are always Wh in my experience.
If you read through the limitations section of the report, you will find they covered this along with several other limitations of the study.
>nightmarish competition of inhuman endurance.

On multi-day ultra-endurance rides there is an issue where your neck will no longer support your head against gravity, called Shermers neck syndrome.
https://sportcoaching.co.nz/shermers-neck-a-guide-to-neck-sy...
One? No. A billion for 1 dime per tree? Maybe...
Inefficiency at several steps.

Battery voltage to charging voltage is a step.

Charging method (wireless) adds a step.

Input voltage to battery voltage is a step.

Plus you have the extra circuitry of Wireless to power.

Nothing runs straight off 5v of USB or 3.7v (nominal) of LiPo. There's little converters for everything, every step of the way.

This is why you'll never see a 3.7-4.2v battery pack delivering 1:1 charge to a smartphone over 5v USB. I did the math a long time ago and the capacity conversion is around 74% to 84%. So if you have a 10,000 mAh battery, expect it to charge about ~8000mAh worth of your phone.

For wireless, it's even worse.
> Kind of hard to tell what this result means without a control or baseline

Yes. As pointed out in

Causation or confounding: why controls are critical for characterizing long COVID

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01402-w

"To address some of these biases, we and others used established longitudinal cohorts recruited at the start of the pandemic for regular testing for antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and thus provided objective confirmation of infection. We asked our healthcare-worker participants about 72 symptoms reported to be associated with long COVID, at a median of 7.5 months after the development of COVID-19, and found that mental-health, gastrointestinal and dermatological symptoms were as common among 140 patients with mild-to-moderate symptomatic seropositive COVID-19 (‘cases’) as in 1,160 control participants who remained asymptomatic and seronegative throughout the surveillance period. Of concern, 40–60% of both cases and control participants reported mental-health symptoms, which highlights the toll of pandemic on the healthcare workforce. We also identified three clusters that included 12 symptoms—affecting the sensory, neurological and cardiorespiratory systems—that were reported by 67% of cases but also 44% of control participants, which emphasizes the ongoing difficulties in characterizing long COVID."
Did you try NAC? Maybe worth a shot - this paper is about „long EBV/mono“ which might have similar mechanisms: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29228057/

> These data support the idea that NAC could be considered as a treatment to alleviate chronic inflammatory pathologies, including post-viral disease
It would take a lot of mental gymnastics to twist this into a political statement. If we "cannot define clearly the psychological and medical definition of a burn-out", why are we even studying it in the first place? That would be like experimenting without a control group.
How likely are these numbers to be accurate? This Swiss study of 431 adults gives a 26% incidence of "Long Covid" at 6-8 months.

But another study that I'm more familiar with that tracked 4,182 people (mostly from the U.K., U.S., and Sweden) says only 2.3% of participants reported symptoms past the three month point. [0]

I feel like every time I look into this topic I find a new study with a wildly different estimate.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01292-y
Does it stand for something? Why the letters 'Sec'?
The 'Plenty' is very key here. I have friends who excercise a lot and are able to get by with less sleep but if you stop working out the need for sleep comes back real fast.
I got CoVid in Osaka at the beginning of November 2019. The symptoms lasted around 5 months. I got it again in May 2021 and this time I was fully recovered in 3 weeks.

I got vaccinated, even during the second infection I felt extremely tired and slightly confused, I want to minimize as much as possible the risk of repeating again.

update: For all the down-votes. Time will say. But "A new study shows that first cases of coronavirus infections could have appeared in China between October and mid-November 2019". It fits with my experience. https://www.dw.com/en/covid-study-cases-spread-in-china-earl...

update 2: I arrived to Osaka Airport (KIX) on 9th November, I had symptoms 3 days later.

update 3: Stop down-voting the people that says that it is impossible. It may be the case, I am just sharing my personal experience in case it clicks somewhere. I can be wrong and it could have been a virus with very similar symptoms. I didn't wanted to start a war of up votes and down votes, that adds nothing to the discussion.
You realize that X equals „work until you have enough to retire“, Y is „retire and find hobby“ and Z equals „pursue hobby“?
Something that is underestimated in messaging systems are incremental numbers, eg. add + 1 for each message, so the receiving end get 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc, and if it then get 8 it knows it missed the 7th message. And it will know if the messages are out of order. And it can pick up if it goes down by requesting the missing messages.
We have (almost) the opposite problem, webhooks are too synchronous for what we need to ship to people. We're experimenting with giving people a NATs endpoint to listen for logs and other events: https://community.fly.io/t/fly-logs-over-nats/1540

Having an ephemeral messaging system and a ledger to reconcile against is a nice, simple way to provide immediacy and eventual consistency (where eventual could be days). It's a pattern we're using all throughout our infra.
Actually what would be really good is instead of looking at carbon capture you could use that invention brain to find solutions to reduce our emissions.

Carbon neutral or negative alternatives to energy production, concrete production, travel (flight), meat and many others would be incredible.

The best emissions are the ones never emitted in the first place.
Yeah this seems like the obvious thing.

If everyone stopped mowing their lawns for 20 years and let trees run wild instead, would that make a dent?

What about that plus turn half of our roads into parks?

Anyone got a link to a good open source interactive simulator?
Eons video about the history of how dinosaurs have been drawn, including the mistakes and why they were made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDnQmBFxIfE
Self-reported symptoms. And now we will have the litany of hypochondriacs that didn't even got tested for SARS-COV-2 but swear they have some misterious long term viral syndrome that in the real world, if it really exists, is extremely rare.

The trash that passes as science nowadays.....
Gah that sucks, I really feel for you. But: you will recover. For the longest time I thought that I wouldn't and then bit by bit it got better. If you can find an exercise bike I would really recommend you find one, it is super motivating to see your distance creep up day-by-day as you regain your strength and wind.
My best friend's dad's boss is named Barry MacGoughener. I wonder if they are from the same place in Scotland?
I’ve seen this happen with farm subsidies in the UK where farmers were paid to leave the land alone. However the farmers would choose the crappiest sections to leave alone and production would be unchanged. Profit.
That part is fine but the part where he instead diagnoses everyone with having been driven crazy by the (by implication misguided) coronavirus response is not really thoughtful in my opinion.
Alternatively, the trappings of fiat are the onramp and the social support that enable the meaningful use cases for the minority of power users.
Wouldn't it break down into methane instead though?
I doubt that building buildings are carbon neutral, let alone a carbon sink.
After hearing from multiple sources in martial arts world (although none first hand) that the performances by Masutatsu Oyama, the founder of Kyokushin (knocking out bulls, breaking ice) were mostly staged (bull was sedated and the strikes were timed to that, ice salted, bricks structurally compromised etc) I have a hard time taking Karate seriously. Also wasn’t there a famous, widely publicized duel between Muay-Thai and karate practitioners where Thai guys dominated the karatekas so much it wasn’t even funny?
I like how it comes in a bunch of colors

I'm not seeing any color options besides white. What are you seeing?
You mean your brain was starved of oxygen for some time? (while still enough to not faint)

Interesting, could somebody more knowledgable say if this is possible?

Wish you a swift recovery in any case!
It's simple, it's not easy.

> other people are eating less and losing weight.
No, they're not, and that's my point.

Look at smoking that you mention. Smoking was unbelievably common a few decades ago. It's now pretty uncommon (in North America). Why? Were people just failing in the past, and now aren't failing? No, we made public health decisions that have dramatically dropped the proportion of the population that smokes cigarettes.

IOW: Treating it as an individual failing may feel good, and may even be "true", but it's not a useful framing of the problem. Treating it like a public health issue is massively more likely to work than just wagging your finger at people and telling them to just eat less.
Fair, though the childcare aspect still holds merit.
I'm building integrations with various marketplaces at a company I work at (fulfilled by seller kind of deal), and I can confirm, it's much easier for us to schedule an HTTP request once in 15 minutes than to create a custom HTTP service responding to specific requests from 3rd parties.

We're in the business of selling things, we're not in the business of building HTTP services. Our ERP-like thing is down for maintenance from 10pm to 11pm, so we can't use it as a platform for responding to webhooks.

I'll hack something together in a pinch when it's the only way to get orders from a marketplace service, but then eventually I'll have to explain to my colleagues how to linux, how to HTTPS, how to python, how to WSGI, and all other stuff our company typically doesn't do, but has to do now, because this particular marketplace wants to POST orders to us.