skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This meme about Apple products deriving most of their demand from being status symbols is a decade or two out of date. For many years, iPhones have had comparable tech specs and pricing to competing flagship smartphones. Also, even if they are status symbols to some extent, they almost certainly are not Veblen goods. Do you think Apple would sell fewer iPhones if they dropped the price of every model by 25%? No way.
Intel Accelerated Webcast July 26th: Update on Process Technology and Roadmaps
I edited my post to be more explicit, but the batteries in the CoBattery case were swappable. That was the killer feature for me.
I don't really know much about the agent. I'm not super concerned with keeping it updated though.
But recent UK data is telling us something different:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Page 16-17

Delta infections:

Vaccinated with 2 doses - 10,834, died 118 (only 2 in below 50 age group).
Unvaccinated - 71,932. I'll add half of those with "unknown" vaccination status, so the total is - 79,111, died 257 (26 in below 50 age group).

Mortality rate for vaccinated: 0.01089
Mortality rate for unvaccinated: 0.00324

So apparently vaccinated have a 3 times higher probability of a lethal outcome. Not exactly what you'd want to see.
Yes, it's called bamboo and it sequesters 3x the carbon and grows to maturity 10x faster than a normal forest (3 years vs 30 years). And bamboo has some of the qualities of rebar, so should mix nicely with concrete. Of course it is best grown in tropical regions, hence why most of the talk here is about trees.
GCC and clang developers already do regularly compile and test a limited number of open source packages, and investigate any newly occurring failures. For now they ignore failures if the code does not conform to standards (except for notifying upstream developers). In principle, in such cases they could expend effort to find similar (possibly simpler) optimizations that do not change the existing behavior of the code. Alternatively, they could disable the relevant optimizations at -O2 (and maybe -O3) level.

I believe MSVC developers do put more effort than GCC/Clang developers to maintain source-level backwards compatibility. Alternative development strategies are certainly possible, but I understand that the GCC/Clang developers do face pressure from a significant subset of users to maximize performance at any cost.
From p. 12:

This could serve as a method of generating acceleration without modifying the total energy on the hypersurface. One could start with a finite energy distribution highly concentrated and uniformly distributed in a spherical shell around a spacecraft. The energy density is then increased
behind the spacecraft and decreased in front, without destroying or creating any additional energy. This increases the shift vector magnitude in the region where the spacecraft is located, transporting it to non-zero speeds relative to faraway observers. If the energy density is sufficiently concentrated behind the central observer, the relative speed becomes superluminal. This then operates as a tuneable solitonic configuration capable of superluminal speeds.
I had employee stock options in two companies that had a high growth rate. I lived very simply and saved more than half my take-home pay. I did have a high salary.
That's not how the math works out, at least in theory. There are several principles going on:

1. You defer consumption today to instead spend it tomorrow. If you create $100K in value in a year, but only spend $50K of it, shouldn't you be able to instead spend most of that $50K in the future? Our whole retirement system is predicated on this.

2. If you take some of the wealth produced today, and instead of immediately consuming it, you "invest" it in something that enables more wealth produced tomorrow than otherwise would have been possible, you should be rewarded with some of that extra wealth produced.

3. Time value of money. Loaning your money or investing it carries a risk. If there is some chance that you may not get it all back, then there must be a premium charged to whomever wants to use your wealth today. Otherwise, you might as well spend it all as soon as you receive it.
Elon is such an amazing force in the world. This prize is great, and overdue. Not surprised to see Elon involved.
Because the entire comment is clearly phrased to be antagonistic? "de facto criminalization of social activity"? Are they trying to troll people? Because that's how you troll people.
Yes, but is it even correlated to Covid? This study lacks a control group, so we don't know.
I'm talking about the fees charged to a someone returning a lease for any damage, which would be less than the cost of a new battery pack. When you return a lease you are obligated for any damage/repairs not caused by normal wear & tear or covered by warranty. Tesla shouldn't charge a lease return customer for such things unnecessarily by replacing a battery pack when a repair is possible. If I return a leased Honda and the exhaust system needs to be repaired with a new muffler, they charge me for the repair, not to replace the whole exhaust system.

In this case, Tesla under-equips service centers so local battery repairs aren't possible. Shipping it back to the factory is necessary. So I can kind of understand if they charge the customer a $1200 freight fee + the cost of the repair itself, but that would still be > $10,000 less than the cost of an entire new battery pack.

Although I think it would be much better if Tesla actually enabled their service centers to do repairs like this. They can get away with it right now since they're more of a luxury/prestige brand and have minimal competition in that EV segment, but if you buy a Cadillac you don't deal with this type of thing:

As other manufacturers are catching up with offerings that compete on the lucury/prestige side of EV's as well as entry level cars. These are manufacturers with more experience in engineering their cars for decentralized service, with customers that expect that: Honda knows that their Civic customers won't buy a comparable EV if a little road debris will either cost them $10k out of pocket or raise their insurance by getting a $10k at-fault claim that raises their insurance costs. Tesla may have a hard time facing such competition without changing their model.

Currently the extra price of an EV makes attracts customers where price is not as much of an issue. As manufacturers significantly larger than Tesla enter the marker with their economies of scale and lower prices, the target customer for an EV will change, as will their expectations.
Higher antibody levels and more antibody targets aren't the same thing.

The mRNA vaccines cause one protein from the virus to be present, so you get antibodies against that specific protein. More traditional vaccines use dead/weakened virus, which will trigger production of antibodies against multiple parts of the virus.
I can take a hot bath + cold shower and feel fresh as if I slept 8+ hours. There’s definitely something beneficial to getting your blood pumping.
ImrpovMX.com handles this nicely too (for free)
It may be a personality thing. I was in that situation and I didn't find it having "absolutely no meaning whatsoever." It was a time to learn, research new technology, experiment, etc. I was in that situation for at least two years before the company went under.

It was before widespread internet, so I can imagine that if I had the net in my pocket it would only have been so much better.

[edit]
I had forgotten about this, but ironically, a few years earlier the company started selling a software package that was written by an engineer in a similar situation. He worked at a water plant and his job was basically to sit there all day occasionally checking some gauges to make sure everything was OK. Since he had essentially all day free with no one caring what he did, he wrote a complete software application.
Innovation Moves to Middle America
React Hooks and UseState
Let me google that for you:

https://www.google.com/search?q=legitimate+uses+of+cryptocur...

example:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/305859
Naturally (without human influence) a combination of biosphere (decades) and geosphere (millenia) would keep CO₂ levels in check.

We (humans) have accelerated emissions (by burning, thus reversing, geosphere capture via oil) and destroyed the biosphere through deforestation. This has also been accelerated as raising temperatures thaw permafrost & destroy ocean life (among others).

Anything we can do to reverse this is beneficial.
I would bet that the EULA covers that too by saying that if you copy it and give it to someone else, or allow someone else to copy it from you, that person is also under the EULA.

Just checked: the Windows EULA [0] does not allow you to copy the software. And since it is a contract, that clause does not need copyright to be in force. So the person copying it to you can be targeted by Microsoft, and if you copied Windows without that user's permission, you are probably going to be charged with a violation of the CFAA. [1]

These companies have been practicing law for longer than you. Don't underestimate them.

Also, in my opinion, you are not really arguing in good faith. That is probably because my arguments really tear your article apart, and you are trying to find some way to discredit what I am saying. You can try, but I guarantee you that companies have a lot of experience protecting their closed source software. If copyright does not apply anymore, I also guarantee you that they will find, or probably already have found, a way to protect their software without it.

Edit: The Windows agreement specifically says that using the software is an implicit agreement to the EULA, and Adobe's [2] says the same thing. Thus, even if you copy from someone else's computer, you are under the EULA.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/OEM/Windows/10/UseT...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

[2]: https://www.adobe.com/products/eula/tools/captivate.html
If you want to transform IT, start with finance
> “Because I'm not a complete idiot.”

yah, it’s the partial idiots who are hard to discern. complete idiots are the easiest to dismiss out of hand.

many infections have long lasting effects. you’d need to systematically rule them out/in via testing to be as certain as you claim to be.
Megadose B3 2000mg per day does seem to be commonly effective. The theory is NAD+. Gives me a headache so an aspirin is needed as well but was one of the first treatments that pulled me out of fatigue.
With a "normal" viral cough, the infection itself lasts that long. With Long Covid, the viral load is gone from your system, and symptoms still persist

Previously, the general public wasn't very interested in chronic, unspecific symptoms that people have or had (google Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; it's a collection of people feeling fatigue, have concentration issues etc. similar to Long Covid, many long before COVID-19 was a thing). With Covid, there are too many to ignore, so such things are now getting more attention.
Did you consider tarsnap? I've also been using AWS but was looking at migrating to another service. Curious if you or any reader here has experience to share on that.
Is there any android app you would recommend for call recording?
I made one critical mistake: it hurt a lot to try to sleep so I tried to sleep on my back one night, and that cost me dearly: the active area of the lungs is not symmetrically divided between front and back, the back part has a larger active surface. Fluid then migrates from the front to the back pooling there leading to less gas exchange. I suspect that this was the lowest point and after that sleeping on my belly at least kept me safe. The really stupid thing: I knew this already (had double pneumonia when I was in my 20's).
> Google's position is ... Everyone else's position is...

I don't think this categorization is accurate. For example, Apple built https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att...

> if the data isn't required to operate, you don't need it

This is simple, but it's also wrong. Some counterexamples:

* Learning from implicit feedback: dictation software can operate without learning what corrections people make, or a search engine can operate without learning what links people click on, but the overall quality will be lower. Each individual piece of information isn't required, but the feedback loop allows building a substantially better product.

* Risk-based authentication: you have various ways to identify a user, some of which are more hassle for them than others. A login cookie is lowest friction, asking for a password adds more friction, email / SMS / OTP verification add even more. You don't want to ask all users to go through the highest-friction approach on every pageview, but you also don't want to let a fraudster who gets access to someone's cookiejar/leaked password/old device/etc impersonate the user. If you have a small amount of information about the current user's browsing environment, in a way that's hard for a fraudster to imitate, you can offer much lower friction for a given level of security.

* Incremental rollouts: when you make changes to software that operates in complex environments it can be very difficult to ensure that it operates correctly through testing alone. Incremental rollouts, with telemetry to verify that there are no regressions or that relevant bugs have been fixed, produces better software. You're writing as if your position is Firefox's but even they collect telemetry by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid

> the position of every non-Google-browser is that they want to give sites as close to no data at all as possible ... Every single browser developer that doesn't own an Ads and Analytics suite is opposed to Privacy Sandbox.

I cited Apple's conversion tracking API above, but another example of this general approach is Microsoft's https://github.com/WICG/privacy-preserving-ads/blob/main/Par... I don't know where you're getting that they're trying for "close to no data at all", as opposed to improving privacy and preventing cross-site tracking?

(Still speaking only for myself)
I'm no expert on any of this, but I think the theory is that many of these don't have a single strong directional effect like most single-compound pharmaceuticals do, but that if your body is short on something, and that's causing an issue, it can grab something from the cocktail of compounds, and that can help. If it's not, then it doesn't.
Show HN: No-3rd-party – A list of sites which do not load any 3rd party content
Wikimedia Foundation Releases FY21-22 Annual Plan
Symptomatic or not if you carry the virus you should still pop hot on an antibody test. You would think.

I had a Covid positive coworker last year cough around me and directly work very closely with me immediately before taking sick time. I still continued to fail the antibody tests indicating either no viral contact or no immune response of any kind.

I don’t know if there is a correlation here but in a six month period last year I caught the common cold three times. The second of those times was a month before my coworker tested positive and the third time was a week after they tested positive.
Same here. Had a terrible, terrible flu (?) back in 2017. I was weak and couldn’t smell nor taste anything for months.

It took a long time before I was the old me.

Maybe it’s common with virus diseases and we have an attention bias now and it might be additionally more common with COVID.
Having read Taleb’s Bitcoin Black Paper this guy’s words make total sense, and he puts it really well, very concise, unapologetic writing
Binary Clock JavaScript Article
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> As an example, turns out I really enjoy building dams.

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but this really has me wondering. How big of a dam are we talking here? Is it actually legal to build a private dam?
civilization may perish because it falsely worshipped technical advance -Niebuhr
Full quote; "Modern technical civilization may perish because it falsely worshipped technical advance as a final good." - Reinhold Niebuhr

From: The Nature And Destiny Of Man Vol. II, published in 1943.
Wiki page on the book; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_and_Destiny_of_Man
This sounds cool from a tech-nerd perspective, but of course it all is pretty futile if we don't get emissions under control. The video says 10 gigatons/yr by 2050. Our 2019 emissions were ~36 gigatons. I.e. even if capture is successful, it needs to be accompanied by aggressive emissions reductions for us to even get to neutral, let alone reversing damage.

I'm guessing Musk had some thought process around the expected marginal impact of funding this vs more on energy storage vs energy production. And perhaps capture/sequestration is under-explored.

But I wonder what could be achieved with $100M of funds directed at research to intentionally changing and shifting culture towards consuming stuff with smaller footprints? Tesla made some people want an electric car really badly. For some, very small houses are becoming attractive. But so far this stuff mostly arises from ad-hoc marketing efforts around particular brands, products, influencers. What if we need systematic memetic engineering, to make lower energy consumption actually feel desirable?
The worry isn't that their health is always bad. The worry is that if they do happen to have something happen, whether that be disease or injury, they won't be able to afford to go to the hospital or visit their doctor. And death isn't the only negative outcome from not getting medical attention, it could be permanent effects like constant pain or reduced physical ability.
Unfortunately, I think you are 100% right. I thought they could help with easy-to-do tasks which they were competent enough to do, but not only they failed with this, now this happens. This is not just incopetency, like you said, this is fraud by all means.
The article advocate for long-polling
The energy density of LiFePO4 shouldn't be an issue in that application, unless you're having to carry a lot of them on foot or scratch on weight limits.

Regarding the motor, I'd suggest to look at enthusiast RC hardware, which tends to be efficient by necessity: great power density at these sizes is a question of cooling, which is easier if the components are highly-efficient.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket (I imagine the prize will be a net good) but I want to talk into the void about something I've been befuddled by...

I feel like I see/hear a lot of uncritical faith in (techno|market|competition)-solutions, with little discussion of what Nth-order effects may travel with those approaches. Just some scattered thoughts:

- The best case for progress is probably technology that leads to profitable unsubsidized capture, but incremental technological progress may give the industry that springs up around it profit motives to overshoot.

- Profitable capture would, if fossil-fuel producers get in on the action themselves, shift their break-even points around somewhat.

- Even if this operates at a loss and depends on public funding, if the work is done by private industry and not the public sector, a few decades of capture may avert/blunt the crisis but leave us with yet another powerful lobby. It'll likely be flush with good-will and hard to regulate, let alone wind down once it has served its use.

- As @knodi123 puts it: "I can not-pump 100M of oil in my own back yard. And you wouldn't believe the rate I can not pump it at!" If all of the operators depend on subsidy, there will be a decent incentive towards graft/corruption/fraud. There'll have to be some amount of administrative overhead going to verifying what is captured, that it isn't double-counted, that it actually gets sequestered, and so on. A deepening crisis could mean more of this money sloshing around and less will to build the compliance mechanisms that ensure it accomplishes the goal. Rampant graft could be enough to sink the program.
I think this is a great comment. It's possible to overthink things (making charts with arrows, etc.) In the end, just going with the flow works out better than having a plan. YMMV. If you really want to do something, you'll keep thinking of it.

I've been retired 4 years now. I wrote one novel ("Inventing the Future", on sale at Amazon!) and finished the first draft of another. But I didn't have any plan for this when I retired. I just started doing it and it felt right.
The tools are slowly catching back up to fill the void left by Flash. Not quite there yet, but I'm optimistic about the next 5 years.
Are you talking about N-Acetyl Cysteine? Something like this?

https://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-premium-nac-n-acetyl...

When did it become illegal? I've used it before and was unaware of that.
Mullikine's GPT-J and prompt edits for NLG is very important for us to create social rescue tech.
macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
I love when people complain that Tik Tok is just teenagers dancing. That tells me you haven’t really spent time on the app or the algorithm has determined that dancing teens keeps you engaged.
Why should they sell USB-C power adapters then? Shouldn't they be lightning adapters?
A 20% hospitalization rate immediately throws their sample into question. Here in BC (Canada), for instance, the overall case hospitalization rate is 5% [0]. And, FWIW, in BC we performed far fewer tests per capita (around 0.6) [1] than, say, the US (~1.3) [2], suggesting that we missed cases at least as often as they did in the US (per the CDC, which estimated only ~1 in 4 COVID cases detected [3]). So a 20% hospitalization rate is beyond generous (likely by an order of magnitude), and it wouldn't be crazy to figure the same goes for the rest of their stats.

Add to that the lack of control, and the self-reported (and potentially psychosomatic) nature of symptoms...not to unreasonably diminish the severity of COVID or deny the reality of Long COVID or anything, but it's frustrating that people are going to read - or the media is going to report on - this uncritically and imagine catching COVID leaves you two coin flips away from permanent disability.

I suppose the damage has been long-since done, and with most of the west well on its way, blessedly, to being vaccinated it's moot anyway. It's just hard not to be sick of the hysteria.

[0] http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_sitrep/...

[1] https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s...

[2] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_totaltests

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Matt Levine: Elon Musk Never Wanted to Be CEO
Thank you. Yes Niacin (vitamin B3) megadoses are seemingly very effective for a wide range of ailments.
At that scale, the price per ton would probably drop by a factor of 5-10 or more, so it looks quite doable.
The Future of Remote Might Look a Lot Like Open Source Communities
I don't really see it the same way. I mean, as an independent project, maybe. Most of us are basically told what to build and largely how to build it too. Someone else invented it and we just build it - we're basically factory workers.
Is the market for this software gone or is it that Mr. MacKichan is ready to retire and there wasn't a buyer for the company?

I could imagine being tired and ready to close up shop after 40 years as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_Station
I view exercise, sleep and quality fuel (healthy food) are all part of a cycle for health and performance optimization.

Military, school, work, life in general. Keep those three going, and you are operating at peak performance.
Roller blades!

The snow here in Northern Tasmania wasn’t real good so I only went up the hill once.

But we bought roller blades in the warmer months, and I go for a run in the morning before work.