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I don't want to downvote articles or posts, I want to downvote people. Especially across multiple platforms. If I downvote a person's blog post, I want their Reddit comments to be less prioritized. I want them to show up less in my Google results. I want that to flow over into the results of people who have upvoted me, creating a web of influence over good vs bad content. I know, tons of pitfalls and shortcomings to an approach like this, but please try to think of an improvement to it rather than shooting it down immediately :)

Of course, 100% accountability rapidly becomes a Black Mirror episode, but I think right now we're at the opposite end of the accountability spectrum.
The worst part: it won't get worse each year. We'll have two or three years in a row that won't set records, or where the records are all set outside the US. And we'll continue to have polar vortex deep-freezes that happen just in the US. And Americans who are predisposed will say, "See, you were wrong about it getting worse every year. It's all just a hoax and you're just an alarmist."

Which is exactly the same as they've been doing. It has been effective so far, and despite the incidents you name, I don't see any reason for it to change.
it comes close, but it's not as visceral to me. I guess it doesn't happen often to me, and considering how cheap storage has become, I can always download what was on the HDD or recover from backups. The data I had on floppy disks were more often than not, the only copy I had access to.
There is no way Horizon qualifies as the metaverse. Zuck should be looking closer at WebGL and WebXR.
ISP's don't ban you from using the internet for saying things they disagree with.

Google, Facebook and Twitter do.
Folks might find the author’s research paper [1] while at Harvard more informative. This is a great high-level description, but if you want more detail, I recommend the paper.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3315508.3329973
Jetpack Compose is now 1.0
That can be said of any loosely typed language. I agree that, overall, I'd always prefer something like TS or Java.
> Currently, roughly 10 percent of those children who test positive do require hospitalization

Does that mean "require hospitalization because of covid" or "require hospitalization and happen to have covid"?
Recognize the monetary value of the civic services they provide! Raccoons should be paid at least half as much as a human "sanitation engineer", right?
If only there wasn't a political party who though legislating who can use what bathroom. Now your shit is political too.
Global chip manufacturing shortage leads to delay is PS5 sales in South Africa
Oooh, the emoji picker is a great idea! I just added that to one of my layers. Thanks for the tip!
My London-hosted site stayed up just fine.

DO's uptime has been extremely impressive to me.
This is going to come across as a nitpick on the title, the idea is taken farther in the article and I think it's an important distinction.

No, we should not build for wildlife. We should only build for people and what is good for people's lives. The only question then is, "what is good for people?". If not harming the biodiversity in a region and having more green spaces are good for people (which they likely are), then we should do it, but it is not the case that, as the article says, "whenever we build something...it's our responsibility to accommodate wildlife that would be displaced otherwise". Our only responsibility is to our own lives and the rights of others, animals do not have rights and cannot even conceive of them. If people want to help animals because it makes them happy, that's great, but we don't owe any moral responsibility to them.
For extreme range the extra weight starts to cost efficiency and you get diminishing returns, but I think my model 3 sr+ is close to the optimal balance. 50 kWh battery gets me 400 km range and weighs right in line with other compact and midsized sedans at 1600 kg. Charging speed is fast enough that long road trips are not a big deal. There isn't a single ICE car in the same footprint with that much storage space or forward visibility.

Tesla happens to be one of the most efficient EV drivetrains out there, but the hyundai/kia twins are right there with them, so it isn't out of reach.

EQA isn't a dedicated EV platform, so of course packaging isn't optimized to take advantage of the space savings available in a BEV.
Growth is the thing cities and business focus on. They may call it sustainable growth but it's still growth at it's core.

If you could somehow prove that wildelife areas generate some sort of growth, short and long term, economically focused.
> Very rarely do people gang up and down vote someone to oblivion, usually controversial opinions are up and down throughout the day.

No, they don't gang up, but they share beliefs, and they downvote independently.

> there is a max amount of karma you can lose from down voting anyway

Even if it is true, it is per comment. And if it is a long thread, like 10 messages, 3 people routinely scrolling down the thread and downvoting all comments without reading the arguments, decrease karma by 30.

> It basically only affects new users who are out of line, or are trying to be provocative.

I'm getting downvoted each time I say something controversial, like Amazon is good for the world, lower taxes for rich people is good, or it was only 19 people unarmed black people killed by police in the last year, or Rust project has these problems: 1, 2, 3.

You may consider it provocative though, as any opinion outside of what is accepted by majority might be considered controversial. And this is the problem. HN (and generally systems with downvoting) promote groupthink and narrow set of allowed opinions.

Edit: I saw the same effect on the other side. There was a thread, where each of my opponent comment was downvoted (by someone else). Obviously I didn't agree with the commenter, the comments were mostly wrong in my opinion, but I enjoyed the conversation, arguments were well presented, and that downvoting was not helpful. Just someone decided the commenter must be punished for holding their opinion.

> I think it's the main thing that keeps HN the best forum on the internet.

No it's not. The best thing it is geek-friendly, only text without bells and whistles, so it deters common internet folks.
So is this similar to XLA?
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Ever felt as if something was too late to start?

"Oh no, I can't start a Youtube channel. It's 2021, and I missed the boat."

"There is no way I can start a blog or write a book now. It's too late."

This is a cognitive bias, a self-imposed limiting belief.

And it potentially stems from fear.

When you find yourself entering into this mindset after generating an idea, know that this is a cue to yourself that this thing, whatever it is, is worth pursuing.

It's never too late to start anything.

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Sure, and each launch will only cost $2 million, and the same rocket will do earth-to-earth travel. In 10 years they'll have 3 colonies on Mars connected by hyperloops, and they'll rescue those kids with the mini-sub.

I'm sure Starship will fly in a few years and carry more satellites at a better cost per ton than existing rockets, but there is no reason at all to believe anything close to the announced timelines, sizes, and costs. At any cost per launch per ton that is even somewhat comparable to any existing rocket (say half of), 42k satellites is far too expensive.
OCaml doesn't have a language standard afaik, and its implementation(s) support(s) TCO, so imho that's more important.

'Emphasis' just means the 'paved path', i.e. default data structures like records and variants are immutable, default list type is immutable. Of course if you want mutable stuff it's there, but it's not the default.
“Avgas” in Swedish means “exhaust”, as in what you get from the tail pipe of a car. But I can’t tell if their use of the name “Avgas” for the product here is intentionally connected to the Swedish meaning of that word or not.
I don't exactly stigmatise it, but I do think it smells disgusting (which I wouldn't say of cigarette smoke, some of which is worse than others, but none as bad as cannabis; nor pipe or cigar smoke, which I typically like) it also somehow seems to travel more? I have to shut my windows when my upstairs neighbour (flats) smokes, I can't stand it.

Not really sure if I actually object to its legalisation or not, but I can't really think of anything legal (incl. bylaws for e.g. littering) that other people can do and unintentionally or even unavoidably impact others.

Noise I suppose? As in really loud music, within your own home, but so loud it bothers the neighbours.

I don't really think that's a good enough reason for it to be illegal. I'd at least like it not to be allowed in public spaces though, and I suppose particularly bad cases in private to be treatable like 'noise complaints' to police or council or whatever people do.
> I know that if I make a comment that is positive of bitcoin it will get to -3 or -4 in a very short time and then in a few days it will get to +2 or +3.

This down-then-up pattern happens on all sorts of topics here. Almost everything I post gets a few downvotes within two minutes or so, then inevitably crawls back upward as people actually read what's said. One change suggestion I'd have for HN is to disallow downvotes within some time of posting, like 30 minutes, give people a chance to read it, and decide whether it is truly not contributing to the conversation.
This is kind of a puff-piece highly upvoted by Elixir fanboys. I'm a fanboy too lol fwiw.
Wrt health effects of gasoline, it is bad for you full stop.

The chemistry should be improved or changed if needed, however leaded (pb) fuel should never return. We are definitely better off.
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As someone that has watched the evolution of open source, it's baffling to see these discussions. Developers adopted those licenses in many cases because they wanted their software to be used in the enterprise. Now that the "permissive" licenses aren't working out, they want to scrap open source altogether.
> Sports fans and enthusiasts are beyond my bar skills

I'll heartily second that! I'd rather plop down next to a guy who can't stop talking about his favorite video game. At least they're sure to be talking about something they actually do and there is none of that ridiculous "we" talk.

And they aren't fooled for a moment that it's all just a game they're obsessed with.
Nigeria Extends SIM Card Registration Deadline
Sure, but if this abstraction layer becomes popular, then it becomes much easier to support other GPUs without requiring client libraries to change, which is a much harder problem.
This (firewalling the IPv4) is actually a great idea, I never considered it before because I use their basic downtime metrics / alerts - but that could easily be pushed to IPv6 (or just another external service entirely).
That is a very American POV. Most small villages around the world are very tight and the loyalty is to insiders not to the official word of law.
Although I agree that downvoting alone is not very constructive, if the comment is obviously spam/troll or especially when someone else already pointed out what is wrong with it, I don't see a problem.
> they write that the more EV the less space

That's because the EQA is built on the same platform that GLA uses, which was designed for ICE vehicles.[1] The newer crop of electric vehicles that are built on dedicated platforms designed for EVs end up providing much more space than ICEs, mostly due to the ability to have the battery in a flat skateboard layout that is not possible with an ICE platform.[2]

PHEVs end up making the same compromises by shoving a larger battery into an ICE platform, which is why, for instance, the RAV4 Prime ends up having less cargo space than the regular RAV4 hybrid.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/467187/mercedes-benz-eqa-repeats-...

[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a36877554/electric-veh...
What should they do? Mourn the loss of some concrete and steel?
>imagine the terminator and the alien merge!

It DID happen... and it was terrible:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112320/mediaviewer/rm35735552/
What, would you have an entire movie with the husband sitting in prison slowly whittling away the time with a rock hammer? Never would get funded.
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This library reads cassandra sstables and turns them in to Apache Arrow format to be used for GPU analytics
Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines
> Any suggestions?

How about we recognize the inherent value of green space and nature to humans?

For instance:

Mental Health Benefits:

* Stress and violence reduction.

* Improved concentration.

Physical Benefits:

* Enhanced health.

* More rapid healing.

* Improved environmental conditions.

Social Benefits

* Crime reduction.

* Increased workplace productivity.

* Safer driving.

* Economic stimulation.

* Positive effects on children.

(Details and citations at https://www.udel.edu/academics/colleges/canr/cooperative-ext...)

People in general are way too quick to reduce things to dollars and cents.
> Sorry about your problems

Please don't be - they are all (or almost all) of my causing, one way or another.

I'm coming up on three-score years and ten (official biblical lifespan) and alcohol has always been part of my life, from my mid-teens. I have given up on tobacco, dope and other things long ago, so it really is my only addiction. And you can't live forever.

I do not recommend this to everyone.
60€ / month plus a one-time-fee of 100€. if you want 25 gbit/s (and if the POP supports it), you pay a one-time-fee of 310€. But the availability is currently very restricted to urban regions
> It's entirely misleading. They don't write 87% of patients tested positive before or early on in their admission.

Well, no, they didn't. They wrote the entirely true statement that over half tested positive after admission.

The fact that you disagree with one possible interpretation of this fact does not make it misleading. It's just a fact.

(I will grant you that the subhead is sensationalized, but the title on this one seems fine to me, and the article is fairly balanced.)

> It's more amazing that 44% tested positive prior to arriving at hospital!

It isn't "amazing"...we've been mass-testing for the better part of a year. I'd be shocked if most people who show up to the ER with respiratory illness didn't have a prior test result.

> But all of that is besides the point because the reported statistic wasn't even labelled or reported by the original source (the NHS) as "covid as cause of admission." The stat is labelled "covid positive admissions" which is not logically equivalent to "covid, as primary cause of admission"

Well, yes. That's exactly the point. Maybe you are not surprised by this, but a great many people are. And when you see that half of those "covid positive admissions" were only confirmed after admission, then it starts to raise alarms.
Thanks indeed for the review! I came across these devices once, and I always wondered if it was more gadget-like, or really useful. Have you tried running Ubuntu MATE on it?
So like...codify cancel culture?
I had that on for a minute to play with. There's a keycode called "Music Toggle" in the Oryx configurator. I don't think I have that on any of my keys right now.
LinkedIn Hit $10B in Revenue
I like the idea of biodiversity on the roof. I would like it better if they'd consulted some roofing contractors about what that might do to the roof.

Like, for example, the rain getting into your house because some animal has forced a hole in the surface.
Thank you! Very cool to hear it's a business model you've seen work well in other industries. What we saw is that this is supply-constrained space – where many folks such as yourself need convenient access to behavioral health services – so anything we can do to increase the liquidity of the labor market (while maintaining quality) will be beneficial to patients. Thank you for the well wishes!
I mean we've managed to stretch v4 for 20 years longer than anyone thought possible. Adding one more bit to the address would have doubled the size of the v4 space, so another 8 bits would have been plenty.
They ARE meant to be a disagree button

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
I'm thinking breed them to chase them... I'm thinking in a manageable way.

Any dog will chase them, and then the dog will also run out into the road. We don't want dogs doing that ;)
Which other hardware vendor provides the level of performance that Nvidia's GPU provide?
Wasnt the benevolence on single (or couple) manufacturer(s) true in 90s, 2020s?
I once worked at a place with pristine bathrooms. Awesome in theory except any time nature called I ran into a “closed for cleaning” sign as they were deep cleaned 3-4 times a day. I always wanted to work with the janitorial staff to improve their timing and “system” as I don’t think they even realized sometimes they had all men’s rooms closed at the same time for significant amount of times. But I couldn’t bring myself to interject.

Anyways I have an appreciation for availability these days. My office butts to toilet ratio is very high and I’m occasionally in a jam.

I really wish people in the men’s room would only use the toilet to sit down. The seat should certainly rise without the weight of a butt on it, it’s the only time it belongs down despite what the women in all our lives have conditioned us to believe.
There does not seem to have been any ingestion in these two cases. Still, they do not involve transmission through air or through casual contact, but see the last couple of sentences here with regard to the former: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27984942
Great question. At the moment, we don't. Our customers can bill using the providers' NPIs. We stay out of that part and just facilitate the relationship. Because we aren't routing patients to specific providers, we also aren't violating anti-kickback.
I can't imagine a surveillance system is going to be functional for 8 years without someone doing maintenance. Sounds like the guy abandoned the house.
Reminds me of the following quote:

> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Anyone who says things like "work together and produce value" is already suspicious to me.
Hi. I made a thing and could really use some feedback.

You can use Perspect to build e-commerce sites that are static in nature, but add checkout capabilities using Stripe Checkout and Lambda@Edge.

There's also an API to manage products, media, etc.

I would love to have folks first try the demo (no signup required).
> My main issue with downvotes is they are almost always used incorrectly. Including here at HN. They are not meant to be an "agree/disagree" button, but rather a way to filter out content that is not relevant to the discussion at hand.

Says who? And why should anyone listen to them? There seems to be a lot of talk about how it's not being used as designed, but absolutely no one provides any evidence to support that there's "One True Way" to use voting buttons.
But they can “ban” parts of the internet. Verizon for example aha blocked its consumers form accessing Mangadex.
It's so simple it's brilliant. Who has all the money and is being robbed? Vending machines. They want to fight back but keep getting attacked in the liberal AND conservative media. Who has all the teeth but no money? Sharks.
I have found writing CUDA code is much simpler than writing correct multi-threaded AVX2/AVX-512 code.
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That's an interesting point. In our case, I'd say that slower would have been fine because we already moved slowly trying to figure out the features that would really get people to start buying, at which point things took off. Given that we're not really pushing new technology and primarly competing on price and simplicity, it doesn't seem like speed to market was a determining factor for us, while having spent some time earlier thinking longer about some fundamental issues could have avoided some serious pain I am experiencing now.
This is called anthropocentrism. When you consider the amount of biodiversity loss and other land-use changes that've happened over the past 100 years, along with the civilizational collapses that've happened in prior history with that view, perhaps you'll change your mind.

Start with learning about the planetary boundaries framework: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-bound...
Yeah yeah you keep the constant notification prompts, thanks.
I've been researching how to make my yard more insect friendly, and a couple themes have crept up:

1. Don't mow your lawn, or mow less of it less frequently. Bugs need tall grasses, and tall grasses hold moisture, attract other bugs (ie prey). They flower and help pollinators. Mowed lawns are like a desert for them.

2. Change outdoor lights to be motion activated, instead of always on. Light pollution interferes with all kinds of bugs, given their attraction, and some bugs like fireflies use light for their own purposes

3. Don't spray insecticides or treat your lawn

4. Turn over part of your garden to wildflowers and native plants, let it get a little overgrown in that boundary. Even a few square meters can make a difference

5. Try to learn to tolerate / love insects more. They're closest thing we have to aliens to interact with! There's of course exceptions (ticks, mosquitos...), but so many of them are beneficial.

And I wish we had vaccines for malaria, lyme, etc so we had to stress about insect caused maladies :(
*Before Pandemic*: rarely remote
*After Pandemic*: rarely remote
*After Pandemic*: partly remote
*After Pandemic*: fully remote
*Before Pandemic*: partly remote
My job was fully remote before the pandemic.
My job was more remote before the pandemic than after.
The FT article I linked is about redwoodmaterials massive infusion of backing.
Solar/wind has serious shortcomings and are not at this point able to store energy 'in batteries' in any volume. Hawaii is making progress here
It seems easy to spot once you see the first one, but it really just looks like a child bobbing up and down until then.
Sounds like a good mentality for a lifeguard I think, probably keeps you alert. And combined with the fact that you are good at spotting drowning people means that you really are a good fit for the job.
> It's fine to vouch the [dead] comments (if they are fine)

How does one do that? Haven't seen any option to do that.
Well, 'valid' is comparable (more valid, less valid, etc.). I don't think it can be said that it's incorrect grammar.

It's just an unusual pairing, and 'extremely' is so much of a 'stronger' word that it's got that humourous edge.

Not in formal writing, sure, but it wouldn't make me think the speaker's struggling with English, if anything the opposite - a good command of it and able to twist it in fun ways.