skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU contributions do not lead to any flagging requirements, flags on public buildings are state decisions. (E.g. here in Germany, even different federal states have differing policies on flying the EU flag - some do it if there is space, others only if there is a specific EU-relevant event going on, similar to UN flags)

The funding programmes generally literally just require you to put a poster up for smaller contributions, for >500k€ you need a "permanent" sign if its a building etc, for projects a mention in info material. If a single "this building was supported through EU fund ABC with XXXXXX €" sign (AFAIK the amount is allowed to be listed but not required, and anyways far from your "present in classes" claim, and far from the level described in the article) leads to people thinking that's all that was impossible otherwise, that sounds like an education problem. And is not that out of the ordinary for funding contributions - here it's not unusual to see that sign grouped with equal large signs of other (state, federal, ...) authorities providing funding.
The devices and services I use are sufficient for my threat model.

All I can do is mitigate the risks that I'm worried about the most. Those threats aren't such that I'd need to not use those devices/services. If they were I would simply not use them.
> Is there a more complex queuing service? No. There’s only SQS.

Actually, there is, it's called AWS Kinesis.
or paraphrased in this quote from ‘the incredibles’ movie, “when everyone is a superman, no one is…”
You are probably right about the 80's marketing gimmicks, but in the mid 70's real Thai stick was being brought in by Vietnam vets and it was good. The 80's brand was probably based on memories of good Thai stick
I will be curious to know the racial and ethnic composition of this town.

I have no background but the reporter seems to be trying really hard to vindicate the prince and it’s not clear that’s justified from the contents.

“Even real estate agents love it” I mean yeah they love any monstrosity of a building if it sells, especially to white people.
Try googling ASPR. And you can always file FOIA requests if it's not listed.
The novelty is that they want to use feces as a universal currency. This idea is very precious indeed, if you look close enough.
If the larger size of 48” isn’t a deal breaker, the LG CX/C1 make amazing desktop displays- 4K120 + OLED response times.
written in Zig, neat.

wiki has one of the best lists of base Wayland utilities I've seen: https://github.com/ifreund/river/wiki/Recommended-Software

gonna be hard to pry myself off Sway but I ought to try it.
LN isn't actually used - the way it actually works is: Strike holds dollars for the user. The user wants to send dollars to someone. Strike buys btc using dollars (from itself), sends btc via ln - to itself - and then sells btc for the same amount of dollars, again to itself, and credits the receiver.
What's actually happening is that Strike is a normal payment provider like Paypal, Venmo, Revolut that fakes the btc transfer process because pretending to be only a btc wallet means less regulation than a full payment provider.

They don't actually spell it as directly - they just claim an absurdity that buying btc and then selling btc is somehow cheaper than a direct transfer, which of course is impossible because it means taking the ask and then selling into the bid, and the actual spread on most liquid btc markets can be observed on biggest exchanges like Coinbase or Binance, and that's ignoring the fact that one part of the exchange is supposed to happen in a local illiquid market in El Salvador.

The whole thing would be less convoluted if stablecoin tokens were sent directly using a payment channel without a fake trade step - using btc is a completely pointless for anything but marketing (Strike to btc holders and marketing btc itself).
That's how I remember them brought in by Vietnam vets in the 70's, which was probably over in the 80's (I stopped smoking then because the Navy invented piss tests shortly after I joined)
This is valid but potentially a slightly different issue, insofar as I don't believe that the work we're doing at Ethyca affects the moral compass of a company.
There are certainly many businesses we actively choose not to work with and I won't start a war here but I think that's a vital point - trust and integrity are part of building anything that's safe.

Otherwise how do we know a bridge is structurally sound enough to walk across? We have to trust in the checks/balances, systems and people that work on that infrastructure. The same should apply to any software that affects large numbers of people.

If a company is setting out to do ill, that's a societal failing we should all care about and hope to prevent, but it won't be solved just with technical measures.
Hmm, interesting, this reminds me of recent research where they used electrical currents and magnetic fields to enhance tomato plants, I wonder how the two findings are linked. (here's the article I saw: http://horticulturejournal.usamv.ro/index.php/scientific-pap... )
I like that Process Hacker has broader set of features, but what I am missing compared to Process Explorer is the the ability to quickly identify the process by using the "sniper" and the integration with VirusTotal.
I wish there was a single tool with all the bells and whistles :) Maybe I should start contributing to FOSS.
It's really strange how different people's approach to technology can be.

I find that free software is generally better, more solid, more stable, and more useful on its own merits than commercial alternatives. There is a clear point where this breaks — new hardware, new hardware interactions — largely because hardware vendors do not do their jobs with regard to Linux / BSDs. But in terms of pure user-friendliness? it's not even a contest.

To me, user-friendliness implies that software is moldable to my workflows, and that other users' stuff is easy to integrate. Also, disruptive change is evil.

This concept of user-friendliness necessarily implies that software should be end-user programmable, and the pieces of the environment should be composable. Most commercial end-user software fails at this. There are clear commercial motivations why it should, given a need to sell 'apps' for every workflow, and the need to work in corporate environments (where limiting users' ability to interact is a necessity for the people who make software buying decisions).

iOS is especially bad at this, given the appification of everything. There seems to be an effort to do at least something good in Shortcuts, but it's very much not enough.

I do most computer stuff in Firefox, Emacs, and xterm. Or WSL (xterm and Emacs) on Windows when I'm on a Windows device because something requires it. I'm actually typing this on a Raspberry Pi, where I only have those three installed as graphical apps. I also occasionally need Darktable (which needs a GPU for any kind of performance) and Office, for which I power on a different computer. Which I would find extremely hostile without WSL.

You can also track how Linux things are percolating into Windows / macOS. Virtual desktops were a thing in Linuces for years and years before coming to those two. Tiling just begins to arrive. UNIX terminal environments are such a pain decreaser that even MS now has a way to use them. With my xmonad setup I live in the future, and that's the future that has been available for a decade.

Browsers are probably the most important user-facing applications right now, and are all opensource-originated. Whether corporate capture of KHTML did any good is a question; I don't think it did.
The fact that UTF-16 is bad doesn't mean you should necessarily get rid of it. We keep all sorts of bad stuff around, like C strings (and C).

You can certainly decide you don't care about any existing code, and that anyone using UTF-16 based platforms (Windows, .NET, Java, JavaScript) should get a bad experience, but I don't think the case for that is as obvious as you believe it is.
It scaled fine in India and China. That's exactly what Buddhism was. They worked though, just not in lay jobs.
> 1 is halfway between 0 and infinity

That would be true if "infinity" meant 2.
At what point is that mantra pushed by a state to keep their holes active in existing crypto libraries?

Maybe it should be "never roll out your own crypto without independent review and verification as well as thorough testing" .
you'll be wanting a SpectraLogic Black Pearl.
Had a long series of mini strokes. Each one leading to days to weeks of being functional but reduced mental capacity. When I started blood thinners it was like waking up after being in a drunken haze for 3 years.

A technical problem at work that had alluded me for a year became an easy afternoon project.
You might like this: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
There's another analysis (and a better explanation) on this blog - including a section which looks solely at what happens "If you remove the Elgazzar paper from their model..."

https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on...

"There’s no benefit seen whatsoever for people who have severe COVID-19, and the confidence intervals for people with mild and moderate disease become extremely wide."

Later there's another section in the blog post - but it's not that he removes a second paper. Since it's supposed to be a meta-analysis of all the available studies, "If you include another study that was published after the Bryant meta-analysis came out, which found no benefit for ivermectin on death, the benefits seen in the model entirely disappear."
I’m sure Christ didn’t figure it out on acid though.
I was referring to that bit specifically.
Yes, and that's a conservative lower bound (their web application servers likely draw much less than a kilowatt each and constitute a healthy portion of the fleet).
How important is white fear?
> ... I couldn't help but notice something trying to load from localhost as I opened the page ...

Fixed now. Thanks for the heads up.
I wonder how the Vietnam vets got them home in the mid 70's when I smoked them? I know they were premium and better than what else was available. They were so good, someone who knew I had them them into my house in '76 and robbed me of them. The idiots somehow knew where my stash was.
Why empty offices aren't being turned into housing, despite lengthy vacancies
Pot legalization in the U.S. seems both inevitable and impossible
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27899918
Realistically speaking, you can't "switch" AssemblyScript to UTF-8 unless you also decide it only can run in UTF-8 host environments (i.e. not web browsers). Right now it uses UTF-16, which is what the web uses. If you move it over to UTF-8 now every operation that passes strings to web APIs has to perform encoding and decoding, and you end up with a bunch of new performance and correctness issues. It's a very complex migration.

P.S. the web will never switch to UTF-8. It would break too many web pages. Most browser vendors won't even accept breaking 0.1% of web pages, unless they're doing it to show you more ads (i.e. Chrome).
We learned our database (Redis) can only handle 65,536 concurrent players
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there are certain patterns that have been true with communication media over a long period of time. You can see that all electronic forms of communication follow these patterns. There is immediate/delayed, one way communication, two way communication, communication with a single person, communication with a group, written, spoken, and visual. You can form combinatorics with these options and find historical examples for all of them.

1) written one way communication to single(e.g. mail, email)

2) written one way communication to audience (e.g. newspapers, blogs, online news)

3) written two way communication - immediate (e.g. notes passed in class, telegram, instant message, slack)

4) written two way communication delayed (e.g. mail, forums, reddit)

5) spoken one way communication to one - delayed (e.g. message passed to a friend, answering machine voice message, voice mail)

6) spoken one way communication to many (e.g. speech, radio, podcast )

7) spoken two way communication to many (e.g. meeting, talk radio, phone party lines)

etc etc
Actually, he is acting as a journalist, and operating out of his specialty (Radiology), and is not clinical with Covid patients.

So, as far he goes, the most he does is sees scans of PTs, or diagnose the damage, through radiological means. Radiologists diagnose, they don't treat Covid.

Internal Medicine (less severe) & Infectious Disease (more severe) specialties treat Covid patients, supported by pulmonologists, hematologists, and the other clinical specialties as problems arise (vascular, cardiologists, etc).
On the other hand both YouTube channels and podcasts have found a spoken audience. And YouTube is often just someone(s) talking (eg PBS Space Time) that could easily be a podcast.
>The common Linux interfaces are very easy to decipher and have a good usability

The most common interface is bash (or alternative bash-like languages). Which is pretty much required if your a hardcore linux user. Applications push users towards command line interfaces. This is NOT easy to decipher. You are lying to yourself.

>Of course, usability always depends on the specific task you have to do in a given context. It's possible that for the specific software you have to run for that task, that Windows or Apple software has the better usability. But that's far from the norm.

How about the entire gaming library. The entire CAD field. What about 3D modelling or graphics programs like Photoshop. Or how about Audio production? Open Source choices are lacking while industry standards Don't even run on linux. These are huge and NORMAL aspects of computing that are inferior in a major way.

>Compatibility Linux wins though in general, it supports way more hardware and software. If you think proprietary software is better there: Get out of your bubble :)

Have you tried steam on linux? I've had Linux supported games fail to even start for me. I've had my computer restart on linux games. Not even getting into the steam compatibility layer here.

These are huge issues. A crashing OS is just something that rarely happens with Windows or OSX and I have to say that I've hit this on the regular with Linux on many many different pieces of hardware. This isn't a bubble, I believe the opposite is happening here. I'm a hardcore linux user who's realistic and you're the one deluding yourself into thinking FOSS is superior in every way (It's not).

I am not SMEARING FOSS. That is a dishonest AND personal accusation. There is a huge difference between SMEARING and just stating my opinion.

Look at my original post. There are aspects of FOSS that are SUPERIOR to closed source, but FOSS in general is INFERIOR from a usability and compatibility perspective.

What you are doing here by accusing me of smearing FOSS is starting a witch hunt. Likely you're unaware of the gravity of what you're doing and you just have a biased mob mentality right now. Read your own post, is there anything.. anything at all said that is negative about linux? You are not able to approach this from a fair and balanced perspective. Windows and OSX and Linux are three pillars in the OS world and failing to mention even one positive for Windows and OSX is pretty biased.

What's your distro of choice? I use NixOS, prior to that I was into Arch, and prior to that ubuntu and mint. So I have a very good view of the ecosystem.
Scientologists already figured this out over half a century ago with their E-meters
If you’ve already got it then it makes sense to use it, but this doesn’t remove the cost of building and maintaining separate infrastructure at all.

In some cases it might be worth it or necessary, in others I think the process of processing & delivering potable water could be made (or is already) so efficient that building & maintaining separate infrastructure for non-potable water would be a net negative both in terms of cost and environmental impact.
What annoys me about YouTube videos
Fair - but I'm not sure we've made it technically easy on ourselves as developers to be "respectful". Right now it's expected that a dev might understand enough about the myriad of privacy laws that might affect their company's tech, the policies the company has and then design models that always enforce that safely.
That seems a big ask - again, I agree with you that on the surface it might seem the average dev isn't as "respectful" as you'd think, but we should start by providing a set of tools/way of implementing privacy that make it feasible.
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I am not an accountant but presumably any material issuance of some sort of scrip that could be exchanged for goods would be seen as tax evasion.

It's not. You just have to pay taxes on it.
> Their actual engagement numbers across the general population are quite good.

I got to see how teenagers were spending way too much time on their smartphone this summer: it was all tiktok and instagram, some twitch, and absolutely zero FB. To them FB is their parents' platform. Their parents are my friends and in my friends group nearly everybody stopped posting on FB. My father (74 y/o now) was at some point relentlessly posting on FB. He got tired of that and never uses the site anymore.

I remember when FB was big, really big, among my friends and family. Now it's a complete wasteland.

I don't dispute that their numbers "across the general population" are good but I just don't see where it's coming from. What's the age group still using FB? For what? Doing what?

WhatsApp and Instagram, sure, people are using that a huge lot: I see that all around me. But FB? Who's still using FB? I just don't see it. Among my friends and family across several groups of age it's as good as dead.

Once in a very rare while (once a year?) I log in to see if I got a private message. Then I check various long lost friends to see if they posted anything new and I see the same old picture they posted years and years ago: nothing new since. If anything people actively remove old pictures.

I don't see people around me just abandoning FB: I see them abandoning it in drones and covering their tracks by deleting past posts / pictures.

Now I'm not worried for FB the company: with WhatsApp and Instagram I'm sure they're doing fine.

> This sounds more representative of your bubble using different platforms

Sure but we're quite some to have our "bubbles" behaving the same way.
Not at all. The peripherals that work with Linux also will (likely) work with Windows or MacOS.
1983. USAF dorms had beer vending machines. Cans, 50 cents.
Also in that time period, at "locally owned" establishments, a DD-2 (your ID card), was all it took to buy a drink. Even if you were 18.
This hasn't really been a problem on Windows for 99% of the applications for years now.
That's a good reason why archaeologists are so keen on digging in garbage. Garbage doesn't lie as much as the written word.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
“live butterflies don’t look like butterflies in pictures, you gotta use dead ones” is like in the Simpsons: “Cow's don't look like cows on film. You gotta use horses.”
@atoav - this is awesome to hear! I'd love to know more about where you work and how you guys have done such a good job of helping devs understand and drive privacy.
It doesn't really matter if the software's end-user is internal teams or customers, they're all people and privacy matters across the board.
>He said a lot of them tried to hire people for less than full time to avoid having to provide benefits.

There needs to be naming and shaming of those that perpetuate this practice. I know retailers (Tractor Supply) for cashiers.

If you're doing warehouse work, you are part of the logistics backbone, you deserve not to have your chain jerked around. Arguably, no one should be getting their chain jerked around, but I'll call it a win to purge this pathological HR hacking from another business layer.
That cost-effectiveness discussion was enlightening. I find you have a knack for explaining what people don't see, by the way.

Open question, which maybe you might have info about, I'm just curious if maybe anyone crossed something on this; I wonder if that characteristic is inherent to specific energy storage tech; for example in Li-Ion IMR/INR batteries, this might be in part because of the voltage sag and discharge characteristics? In other words, a battery that sagged less under load and had a flatter discharge curve would have a wider range of acceptable durations? For example : https://www.richtek.com/battery-management/img/battery-disch...

This graph gives a general idea of how battery performance degrades the more load you put on Li-Ion batteries, the kind in flashlights, vapes, etc. The ICR18650s of the world et al.. They are not great for energy storage, long term, frankly. The harder you discharge them, the more the voltage sags, requiring even harder discharge to maintain a proper power output, leading to more heat, and power loss in spiky demand conditions. Leaving them on but at low-power for a very long time seems to be more efficient, but by the time you hit that low of a power-delivery, they become less cost-effective, because you could do the same with a hydro plant, a reservoir, and pumps. Li-Ion batteries need management circuits, balanced charge, can be overcharged, can be drained 'till they turn into a brick. They're far from idealized batteries that discharge at all rates consistently at equal voltage all along their Wh rating. A Constant-Power drain on Li-Ion heats up and degrades way worse at low charge or low battery condition, etc.

In other words, kWh is never the be-all-end-all of energy storage. If you want long, sustained power in tiny sips, I'm pretty sure nothing beats these ZnO batteries for hearing aids that use oxygen (or is it air?) as fuel. What seems to really matter is the ability to push out kWh on a consistent basis is, as far as I can tell, and we have no really good solution for this?
True that. The guy was top notch indeed and is now CTO of Azure.
We know he can't. Talking points from talking heads on TV
Perhaps look farther afield?

Eg race relations were pretty bad in the US, but in the UK, culturally still pretty accessible, a black person could always use money to buy status.
3 more anecdotes isn't going to make the data any better :)
It sounds like you're saying that this is currently not possible because it's currently not implemented that way? But of course! I'm saying they should change it so that the application asking for a custom tab can only request "please give me a custom tab".
I’m not interested in a 2A debate but I find it really interesting how much public misunderstanding about firearms and firearms law comes from movies. One of the biggest is the concept of the “unregistered firearm” used in a crime. There is no firearm registry in the US, so all firearms are unregistered. However, the fact that this is prolific in crime movies leads many to believe such a registry exists. Another is the “Hollywood silencer.” Guns fired with a suppressor/silencer are still quite loud, but movies have people thinking you can have a shootout in a mall and no one will notice.
My time at Abertay as a newly found GC
Good old e-meters and all the hippies that gave speeches at school about how plants have feelings and it was scientifically proven