skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CDC says it's safe because they are trying to "nudge" the public into getting vaccinated with a positive incentive - getting rid of the mask.

This whole pandemic the CDC proved that it cant think more than one step ahead. Just like it was advising against wearing masks because it was afraid of them being unavailable to health workers.

So the CDC credibility will take yet another hit after it insisted so hard that if you get vaccinated you can do whatever you want and you don't need to worry about covid ever again.
Also this one: https://www.wsj.com/articles/startup-claims-breakthrough-in-...

(I work at Form fyi)
They are not required when using TAI. The only sensible way to count time is with TAI. UTC and its leap seconds should only be used for display/parsing, not for counting time. That people do otherwise is rage inducing.
If you said "Because of the sexism and discrimination at Blizzard, we are doing X" I would, of course, take it to mean you think Blizzard was sexist and discriminatory. I think that's overwhelmingly obvious - so obvious that I'm not even sure how to argue it. Similarly, it just strikes me as incoherent to say you need a program to address racism in the police, police violence, and murders by the police - but also to say it's an unfair summary to say that you've called the police racist murderers.
But carbon capture is not provable like the energy use from SHA256 hashing. So this is just the 10,000th trashy blockchain scam
Calling get_unchecked on this array ends up as get_unchecked on the slice containing that whole array, which ends up as as get_unchecked on the slice index, and in the end it is...

Dereferencing a raw pointer. One of the three specific things I said unsafe Rust can in fact do.

This is not a "funny syntax" thing, a[6] is the idiomatic and obvious way to express this in Rust, and, it isn't allowed because it's a buffer overflow. Whereas a[6] is also the idiomatic and obvious way to express this in C and the result is Undefined Behaviour.
From what I gather from folks who worked in the first Echo Dot, it was a tire fire of a project rushed out the door.

Apparently the remnants of the failed Fire Phone team decided to Android-ify the Echo software, which was Kindle-based originally.

I've always found the quality of the Dots to be subpar compared to the original Pringles can. Not surprised to discover this fuck up.
For navigation especially, these leap seconds are important so that celestial bodies rise/set/transit overhead at the expected times when calculating longitude.

Lots of critical military devices still use star based navigation, and likely even more will in the future, since it's become obvious we can't rely on NAVSTAR GPS to be working if we go to war.
He left out the level of wealth where you fly to the edge of outer space on a penis-rocket.
> I have never met a landlord that would rather have a building sit empty than renting out to "save on taxes."

Good for you. My inlaws live near several. They suck.
LiFePo are starting to make a splash (pun intended) in the marine sector now that costs have started to fall, but lead acid still rules the roost. I have 4 AGMs and one Lithium in my vessel.
My biggest concern is round trip efficiency, as other iron chemistries are only around 50%, which severely limits arbitrage opportunities:

https://www.alexhsain.org/blog/ironair

This could be super useful for all sorts of backup situations, from homes to data centers to hospitals.

And once they are installed generally, they can be combined together as a virtual power plant and start partially paying for themselves.
The title is ridiculous, they didn't simply buy anything from ebay.

They emailed dozens of companies to find ones that would buy their lies even after being told repeatedly they needed licenses due to sanctions. They gave incorrect serial numbers to hide the fact the machine was in Iran and told people the products were for Iraq and the UAE. The guy in Iran seems to have "accidentally" sent an extra $6000 from a bank in Turkey to have that laundered back to his friend through a check the company sent him as a refund.

It's pretty bad and you should read the indictment: https://www.iranwatch.org/sites/default/files/indictment-of-...
The recent UMN controversy would seem to disprove this.
So funny watching people contorting to strap blockchains on to applications that definitely don't benifit from them at all.
I see. I thought it was just disabled for all users. I can definitely can see how it keeps the rating system intact.
It’s noteworthy that relationships are entirely left out of this article.
> If someone is willing to exchange cash for it then that does not mean Bitcoin is suddenly cash.

So then

A) All the fanbois should stop calling these scams cryptocurrencies; and

B) Bit"coin" should change its name to something that doesn't sound like it's money.
The authors friend is described “Peeing behind dumpsters” on the road trip to avoid accidental exposure—but then goes to a hockey game unmasked with thousands of people.

Sorry, but something doesn’t jive with that and for me. The person who does one at of fear would certainly not do the other. I suspect there is a bit of embellishment happening with this article.
guess we're not going to talk about the effect of e-commerce? it's nothing but hot takes about property owners around here.

it costs less money to have an online store than a brick and mortar. the pandemic has brought about a permanent work from home mentality, leaving office space vacant. people make more from the gov't than working in retail or hospitality - businesses are going out of business at the highest rates we've ever seen as a country.

but it's the landlords.
You should not own one of these, certainly not without it paying rent.
First imaging-genetics study on Same-sex Sexual Behaviour
This is great, you perfectly bridged the gap between having been 25 once and vaguely remembering the math terms mentioned and bringing it back to reality. Really epic how this (at least to me) abstract and arcane math not only explains the behaviors of the subatomic particles, but even predicts the existence of more and their related forces.

The work of theoretical physicists always seemed like the other side of an ocean of math away, but thanks to this explanation it feels like I can at least make out a lighthouse in the distance.
Scaling industrial products is the equivalent to passing phase 3 drug trials. Everyone can do a lot in small scale(mouse models), but it’s a new game scaling it.
If you are focused on arm infrastructure for linux, you can do a lot better than a Mac mini m1, they are limited to 16GB of RAM and booting Linux is experimental at best.

Check out something like the solidrun honeycomb lx2 which can take 2 32G sodimms: https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H08CH/

Designed for linux out of the box, and you can even run VMware esxi for arm and go wild with vms.

https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition
It's not medical personnel's fault that people don't know what words mean. Again, medical personnel were clear that herd immunity would prevent widespread, but not local, outbreaks. It definitely didn't mean, and was never claimed to be, that you had no risk of getting sick.

Even on random fox news article that comes up via searching herd immunity, the subtitle is

"Herd immunity doesn’t make any one person immune"

https://www.foxnews.com/health/herd-immunity-looking-unlikel...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27939083
The /var/log/apt/history.log file should have a full list of the installed packages, which you can copy-paste to remove.

This is likely because by default Recommends and Suggests both prevent autoremovals and there are probably some circular depends/recommends/suggests loops preventing removing things. The APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant and APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant options can be used to disable this behaviour, so you could try the Suggests one first. Adding the Recommends one would autoremove lots of other stuff too though.

Another thing you could do next time is list all packages (apt list) before and after, then diff the lists to see what was added/removed/upgraded and manually revert that.
Because then you'd still need an almanac of the drift in determining celestial location/navigation.

It's easier to just keep high noon at the Greenwich observatory as the defining datum, since most worldwide coordinates ultimately reference back to it, being 0deg longitude.

Ultimately, either time or location would need to be adjusted, and it's easier to do time. Plus it's consistent with what's been done historically.
I suspect there are niches that you could profitably target. For example eating habits. Or exercise habits. Or studying habits for preparing for an LSAT exam.

In all of these cases the niche allows you to go much deeper with the product to address specific pain points.

You can also go much deeper with your advertising and marketing strategy. You can also reach out to specific podcasts and to specific blogs for marketing exposure.
Freedom of inconvenience is what I view ultra wealth and power to grant.
From the above linked article by Scott Meyers;

I’ll begin with what many of you will find an unredeemably damning confession: I have not written production software in over 20 years, and I have never written production software in C++. Nope, not ever. Furthermore, I’ve never even tried to write production software in C++, so not only am I not a real C++ developer, I’m not even a wannabe. Counterbalancing this slightly is the fact that I did write research software in C++ during my graduate school years (1985-1993), but even that was small (a few thousand lines) single-developer to-be-thrown-away-quickly stuff. And since striking out as a consultant over a dozen years ago, my C++ programming has been limited to toy “let’s see how this works” (or, sometimes, “let’s see how many compilers this breaks”) programs, typically programs that fit in a single file. (make? Who needs stinkin’ make?) My living is based on C++, but it’s not by virtue of the programs I write in it.

It’s not by virtue of any intimate association with the language’s standardization, either, because I’ve never been a member of the C++ standardization committee, I’ve never been on the committee’s mailing lists, and I’ve never attended any standardization meetings. My knowledge of the inner workings of the committee—including the things that have had a significant impact on it—is based on what I’ve read and heard from others. This means that I may be ignorant of important forces that shaped C++ as we know it, because those forces may have been felt only within the committee.

Wow! This answers many questions that i have had over the years.
I've started wearing a mask outside again because I've realized it provides some defense against this stuff and they'll probably make it illegal again if people stop doing it.
And yet despite the challenges batteries do get better. There is an economic situation where customers and vendors win from improvements in technology and that can spur innovation. That makes me optimistic.
As far as I understand it, the GPS time will stop for 1 second. This means that between ex. 12:00:00 and 12:00:00' there is a wall clock difference of 1 second.

The first issue has already been found: https://twitter.com/uputronics/status/1418990637299519493
> Lots of critical military devices still use star based navigation, and likely even more will in the future, since it's become obvious we can't rely on NAVSTAR GPS to be working if we go to war.

I pine for a commercial/hobbyist grade celestial navigation system (point CCD at sky, get position). If anyone has any recommendations or pointers, would love them.
I live in a block with around 6000 people and no stores. That what should be the mall was held hostage for decades by a supermarket chain who have a store 10 km from here. They didn't want their competitors to have it. Eventually the entire thing was changed into a giant day care.
Its anecdotal of course, but many people in my age bracket 20-40 would much prefer to be able to say FU to amazon and walk to the local downtown and be able to peruse physical shops. They understand the socialization and 'home town support' that the loss of these shops and the rise of ecommerce begets.

eg. I know many people in this age bracket who would love to take a chance on one of these empty shops and create their own inspired shop of some kind, but the costs are absurdly prohibitive, namely rent and taxes, so instead, the downtown area of so many towns remain empty and desolate. startup capital costs even in semi middle of nowhere are too high to even create a 10 seat specialty cafe or anything like that
It’s worth pointing out that a lot of those “weird” old chips weren’t formally supported anyway, and the the fact that the software worked on them was a convenient fluke, and by design or intention.
I'm curious why you used Divjoy for only billing. If you were to start again from scratch, would you use Divjoy at the start?
Even assuming the proposed mineralization process was effective and consistent with appropriate pre mineralization and post mineralization tests performed...

If you could setup an audit system of the type specified, how does cryptography & blockchain improve upon things? The author seems to acknowledge that question earlier in the article but at the end when it comes saying how this is different, I didn't see a complete answer.
The Novel Material That’s Shrinking Electronics
I thought GPS time didn't have leap seconds?
Tom Cotton: US Has an 'Under Incarceration Problem'
On the contrary, I have 4 daughters and I took them to the grocery store earlier today.
Am I correct that the company has improved the achievable C-rate since the May 2020 announcement of a 1MW/150MWh demonstration project?

Are there any publicly available documents about the chemistry, or how the product compares with e.g. the ESS Inc. iron flow battery?

https://essinc.com/iron-flow-chemistry/
I don't think the need-to-have versus want-to-have distinction is sufficient to kill a product. If you niche the product down to a very narrow market you might find people who need to change their habits. It could be a matter of life and death for them. For example, someone trying to lose weight, or break an addiction, or study for an exam that has life-changing outcomes for them.
Intelligent Crows Can Understand the Concept of Zero
Desalination allows the now unused surface water to be collected and diverted further upstream, slowing the decline of upstream aquifers.

For the upstream cities that use the Colorado River this could be quite beneficial.
Nice, do you know of anything similarly-comprehensive that is updated for Python 3? IIRC, Python 3 simplified things a good deal by removing "implicit" relative imports, but I'm a little foggy on exactly what that means.
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You are on a roll, buddy. Don’t leave us hanging.
I noticed that my LeoNTP [1] GPS time server is counting down to the non-existent leap second near the end of November. I hope that it doesn't advertise this as an upcoming leap second to downstream NTP clients just before the event.

1. http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_in...
But it was, and then sold, by the government to these farmers. And the real issue is, of course, not that they want it back, but that they want it back without paying for it. And people are mad because their water use for lawns is billed very differently, and rationed, because they never purchased the rights to it.

So government did something stupid, not paying for it made the problem get delayed, and grow massively, and now it’s critical. The government, especially now that the problem is so much bigger, definitely doesn’t want to pay.

“The initial purchases would be cost prohibitive”.
Why shouldn't you be able to? Hypothesizing and then seeing if it leads to contradictions is a fundamentally useful technique.
YEP! no timestamp should EVER be in UTC.
Actually it's interesting. There have always been those who believed in voluntary communism and opposed capital "C" "Communism" where the state controls everything. These people have identified as "libertarian communists" or "anarchist communists" where "anarchist" does not mean "chaos" or anything of the sort, but describes a process of questioning and dismantling hierarchy, replacing it with collectively governed voluntary systems.

I recently had a conversation with someone about this who is a libertarian capitalist, and they found a few videos I shared intriguing, so I've just put them into a playlist to share with you. It starts with a 2 minute video that describes things in high level terms and then subsequent videos provide more detail. I think you might like it!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP0dfLFk-anf00e9_YBWy...
Source of happiness: Being able to just say no to any job since I could live quite well without one until 2040.
I kind of assumed from the title, since everyone's talking about Mr Bezos now, that that's the implicit context for this piece. And that the article therefore doesn't even need to explicitly mention it.
I applaud your courage in sharing your failure. You have made yourself vulnerable to people who will play monday-morning-quarterback on your story. Reading your experience is so enlightening. Thank you.
That people weren’t version-pinning critical dependencies was the most eye-opening thing about that whole affair. The tools to make this easy have been available and well-used for years, don’t have a lot of sympathy for them.
Once I implemented DKIK and SPF, I had very few issues with Gmail. The biggest issues I’ve had were with corporate self-hosted exchange servers (my job inquiries at a particular company went unanswered and, when I contacted via an alternate channel, I heard that my mail had ended up in a “clutter” box
Hometown Tax (Japan)
I'm not sure what you're looking for. EM fields so strong that they affect spacetime noticeably?

We haven't observed any Reissner-Nordstrom/Kerr-Newman black holes iirc. That said, _anything_ with stress-energy-momentum is held to affect spacetime curvature in GR.
This isn't great, but there have been states that already use biometrics (e.g. fingerprints). I see this as an unfortunate acceleration of a trend ten some new thing that's begun.

I'm surprised they'd bother with facial recognition as it's a downgrade generally from fingerprints and fails the "twin test." The article doesn't really explain the impetus for using facial recognition.
> Bonus if you calculate all deaths caused by illegal driving and then ask the giants WTF not put the money into first solve the speeding and drunk / tired driving , I bet ANN work better on this problem.

Why would they want to do that though? No one would buy a car with those features. I guess you could get a few people to buy one if the insurance was way lower, but you certainly wouldn't get decent market penetration.
A lot of that opsec material is very dated back from when density was lower and you had a spinning disk. Do you have any that’s evidence-based that such techniques are needed for flash storage? If anything the opsec concerns are different. There’s very little that would force the controller to actually perform erase of specific blocks (eg the flash could blacklist blocks due to errors). To my knowledge that’s the primary concern, not that the data is still somehow recoverable once erased (which used to be true but I’m not sure holds for modern storage).
Whenever I see a limitation on plain-text (and monospace fonts), I tend to avoid that client. K-9 is not one of them. Plain-text works OK with LKML and patches are very readable.
Or any JetBrains IDE with the IdeaVim plugin.

For example, I use JetBrains CLion with IdeaVim plugin.
Elite Romans decorated their floors with garbage
This is what we're saying publicly about the chemistry: https://formenergy.com/technology/battery-technology/
Wait why is this downvoted? It’s a fair point...
Faker PHP cancelled because of carbon emissions
> so not clear how it's going to get traction over a fiat currency.

Everything else in your post was great, but there's certainly a precedent for even obviously unworkable ideas attracting much investment in the crypto space. Having something that could be beneficial is already way better than many crypto launches.
The Unswept Floor mosaic: ancient and modern
>By that logic my iPhone 11, my Android phone, my Mac or my Windows PC doesn't wipe personal content either after factory reset

Your iPhone 11 zeroizes the cryptographic key used for the user data partition. It doesn't have to wipe it per se, but rather it renders it eternally inaccessible; then it creates a new key and sets up a new filesystem right over top of the old one (which now just has random data in the unallocated space).
The whole point of venture funding is to scale though. Once the science is done, it's just an engineering problem.
Timezone and Country Lookup by Coordinates
Sadly, there are 0 (ZERO) iOS e-mail clients that support monospace font rendering. (Having plain-text is not enough for LKML). It would really be a game changer if there was a K-9 port for iOS (or iPadOS).
I tried that, worked for a while then they figured out how to push the rocks/bricks off.

I then tried a short rope which required unhooking to open the bin... they chewed through it immediately.

The only thing that worked in the end was a metal chain secured to a bolt.
I expect that whatever ephemerides the military uses are perfectly capable of handling UTC-TAI offset (and relativistic correction and refractive correction and orbital perturbation and speed-of-light correction for the observer’s location and pretty much any other error you can think of).

Whether the instruments being used are precise enough for any of this to matter is a different story. I’m quite curious whether military clocks correct their own relativistic errors. Military satellites almost certainly do.
> In a way, spacetime itself is therefore the aether.

This somehow reminds me of C.S. Lewis’s “Out of the Silent Planet”, where the narrator says regarding the protagonist

“He wondered how he could ever have thought of planets, even on Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now, with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - the 'earths' he called them in his thought - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.”
For SoCal it could be detained in the Salton Sea and likely have quite a positive impact in improving water quality there.
The highest form of wealth is health. Working eyes, working ears, working arms, legs that move when you want them and where you want them. An uninterrupted night of sleep because you aren't in pain. Count your blessings every morning.
Just to save everyone a Google, you can find it here. https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/ (shameless plug) I actually wanted to write the series in order to answer the question for myself of why the Amiga was so unique, as I never actually owned one. I feel like I found the answer by the end. :)
You still need an accurate clock even if you can use a view of the sky, right? Not sure the best way that could work. Could accept optional updates to time via GPS?

Would this potentially work during the day, or do you need to be able to see stars? If you can see the Sun I guess that should be good enough, if the sensor can even handle that without clipping to hell?

Do you also have to be able to accurately measure angle to the horizon too? I'm not all that familiar with celestial navigation in practice.
> Just like it was advising against wearing masks because it was afraid of them being unavailable to health workers.

That was the WHO goal too. I'm honestly not a fan of lying to the public tu "nudge" them into the right direction, and we should probably wonder why we're at this point. This is, I think, a sign that's something deep down is very broken.