skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you a native English speaker? It's common for native speakers to be pretty deaf to the differences between allophones. Try recording yourself in Audacity saying "Tell the stellar tart to start stewing a tall stall too," then highlight the two "tell" sounds and listen to them repeatedly. Also the two "tart" sounds, the two "too"/"tew" sounds, and the two "tall" sounds. Maybe you'll be able to hear the puff of white noise that's missing in "stellar", "start", "stew", and "stall". That's the aspiration.
>however, when renewables aren't providing power, something is and that something has a cost.

Hence all that electricity imported from, e.g. France in winter. Some people might be under the illusion that this was free but I can assure you I am not.

There's a reason Europe is super keen on country interconnectors. It really helps smooth out production.

Intermittency of renewables really has become the next Y2k. I suppose we can thank a decade of carbon and nuclear lobby fearmongering for that :/

Like Y2K as a problem it receives relatively too much attention relative to the problems it causes. The rolling blackouts germany was promised ~10 years ago never materialized, for instance:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/23/germany-...
Reminds me of Japan’s “Fifth Generation” initiative/boondoggle back in the 80s.

Apart from the sheer technical limitations of the age, it fell prey to structural limitations. For example I remember when visiting I talked with some programmers. Even there, the developers sat in rows of desks with the manager perpendicular at the end. I asked one why it was like working there and he said “It’s good, I only have to share my terminal with one person” (The terminals of course connected to a KL-20, so they had almost the state of the art equipment). So different from my office in the US where I had a lispm.

10 years later SCEI and Nintendo had a more relaxed, “US style” office, but the rest of the industry hadn’t caught up.

Today though Japan has a demographic need for a big move forward. I wonder if they will pull it off?
It’s a joke my dude
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Worldwide, about a quarter of our electricity comes from renewables.

https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy
Looks like the 1.0 tag is only about the Rust implementation. The Changelog only lists Rust things.

The algorithm itself hasn't changed, which is great!
I don't think it's reasonable to look at every country's society and demand a US-style society
>I honestly don't understand the "If you work hard enough you can do anything" mindset.

I've encountered these people and it's always a case of being insulated from the reality of what the "anything" in question is.
> I have made a name for myself running around to various customers doubling the performance of their core business applications by turning off dynamic power management on their database servers. There's a literal turbo button (in software) on every piece of server kit sold for about 15 years now because of some stupid regulation that was started by some hippie moron in California.

What regulation is this? AFAICT, this one doesn't regulate dynamic power management, it only requires a sleep mode for some computers (and the only mention of servers is "small-scale servers", which are exempted from all the sleep mode stuff)
Comcast owns NBC and directly benefits from cable subscriptions. NBC also owns all the rights and doesn’t have to put stuff on the cable channels it owns. That’s why people are complaining.
I enjoy having it silent so I can keep the volume on while I watch something else. That way I know when to switch back.
I was curious just how much money they printed and found a very nicely put together pdf [0] (page 27 Olympic Broadcasting Revenue Generation) that puts it at 2 or 3 billion USD income for the summer games, and confirms that 72% of Olympic Committee revenue is broadcasting rights. For a global event, getting 50 cents per person seems like a pretty good target, but it’s a shame that a lot of people are unable to watch a lot of the sport since broadcasters pick and choose what to show. I’m sure there’s alternative revenue streams if they got creative but the doc also points out these are long term, stable partnerships where everybody’s happy (except apparently the spectators !)

[0] https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/Olympi...
the language integration/interop could be solved if they migrated to GRAALVM
Lower insulin is good. Some of these proteins are targeted by Rapamycin.

The glucose transports are increased, (GLUT3 is the one that supplies axons) and the rats weighed less.
And if you don't have cable?
> In the course of its years-long investigation, the Justice Department has examined whether traders used Tether tokens to illegally drive up Bitcoin during an epic rally for cryptocurrencies in 2017.

But Bitcoin isn't a security. Is it illegal to manipulate it's price? Why haven't they looked at influencers pumping s*tcoins?
> Birthright citizenship is unheard of in most of the world

Well, unless you're almost anywhere in the New World [1].

> The US is notably the most immigrant-friendly country in the world

I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but countries like Canada and Australia give the US a run for their money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli#/media/File:Jus_soli_...
Cable is unrelated if you have access to broadband internet and the digital video signals are being transmitted via the internet.

Cable is only related if you own a cable company and want to continue making money for being an unnecessary middleman.
There is a difference between skilled and unskilled immigration.

There is little opposition to skilled (or educated) immigration in Europe.
You'll note that the current VP and various MSNBC & CNN hosts & contributors casted major doubts on the vaccine when it seemed it would be released in time for Trump's reelection cycle.

It really is turtles all the way down with the media and political parties. It's time to remove the artificial divides in your mind and fight these issues from a more party-agnostic position. We need your help.
I'm going to wait for reproduction of those results before putting any weight on that study. Especially since (a) that's what the study itself calls for and (b) trivially, I can't reproduce the results on myself (sorry, equally magnetic shoulders here).
The Peacock app from NBC is terrible for a different reason. It has a page for each sport, but the first thing it lists is highlight clips named things like "See <country X>'s win in all angles!". Please don't show me spoilers before you give me the opportunity to watch the event!!
The problem is that you also need backup bank accounts and probably a backup identity after disaster strikes...
The way they cut the transmission live to display commercials, including the live comments and replays, is infuriating. Seeing the same ad over and over and over again while trying to pay attention to the action makes me mad at the company advertising and it's not even their fault.
I suspect one could delete the ads shown on NBC Sports app with a pi-hole, but it hasn't seemed important enough to try.
What you've described is the best-cast scenario of an aging population.

Far worse is the modern reality in most places, which is systems that take growth and a certain demographic shape as base assumptions, and then make promises to people decades in advance based on those promises. That's what we do in the United States (and probably most places, but I won't speculate.)
The hardware products support setting endianness at boot time. It's just a matter of OS's supporting BE mode.

Netbsd releases big endian versions that work on various ARM boards. Here's an announcement showing it works on an Rpi3 and below, for example: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2020/12/03/msg007117....

They said at the time that it's not yet working on the Rpi4 because of issues getting BE mode and UEFI to work together.

I don't know that it's used often, but it does exist.
My first answer to "why do we need alternative app stores and sideloading on iOS" is always NewPipe.
Only a JavaScript thing would say “this is alpha quality” and then a few lines later say “you can deploy a production ready thing with it”

But in all seriousness, this is pretty cool.
Rainway's Master Plan to Help Build the Future of “X”
Hi, someone from Victoria who hasn't bothered to live there for a long long time.

You used to be able to enjoy nice parks with your kids without worrying about junkies living in nearby tents taking up what used to be sports fields throwing used needles into the playground. Now they put up warning signs for parents to sweep around to make sure that this isn't a problem.

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-posts-warning-si...

I'm never going back, it's gotten that bad. I know so many people who have died from overdoses. It would have been a nice place around 12 years ago but after around the Vancouver olympics, the region has turned into some kind of black hole of misery and misambition outside of the wealthy condo social bubble and being on the wrong end of the ensuing wealth disparity. Unchecked money laundering on the housing market was a huge problem leading to this kind of scenario as well. Almost none of my friends who stayed there are the successful and happy ones. Even if you have like two decent blue collar jobs you may still end up living on a friend's couch for long periods of time just for a lack of affordable housing where your neighbors aren't doing shit like moving a stove at 4am because they dropped their flap of fent-adulterated heroin behind it (my own experience in the last apartment I rented before it really went to shit out that way -- that still cost me like 1000/mo)

Nice weather means that the rest of frozen canada sends their local problem drunks on greyhounds to live in the only region where they don't get found frozen to death in bus stops. They do this in the USA, too, quite sadly.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-ho...
Sorry off-by-1 error.

I meant exclusive of 3, not inclusive. So no more than 2.
Everybody shared it with 'the audience'. The WMDs were obviously not there, were they? Hard to keep it up.
Not needed. This is what bankruptcy is for. Just don’t pay back the debt.

If it’s held by investors, well, all investments can go down in value. If it’s held by companies that build carbon emitting plants, even better.
thank you for your community service tracking air pollution in Gary, Indiana!

that data you gather could be presented politically, socially, legally. By preparing a modern data environment with summary and random access, you are doing a LOT of prep ! it is needed now. best from California
Ask HN: What is one thing a startup did recently to grow rapidly?
Usually we can attribute rapid startup growth to one or two tactics employed in the early days. What are some tactics startups have used with success lately? Even if it's a guess, just throw it out here as it might spur discussion.
Antonio García Martínez of thepullrequest.com has been writing recently about Cuba and offering interesting perspectives. I like this article, in particular:

https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/the-contrarevolucion-will-b...

In his most recent article Antonio states that there is a lot of opportunity to support Cubans with improved internet access. Articles like this one from 2014, however, do concern me that any support would be secondary to US political shenanigans.
Yes it is! If you choose to watch the TV channels (there are two) then they show previous highlights when ad breaks are up. Otherwise all events are available on their own and you can just choose whatever you want to watch.
> More immigrants of all kinds are good for this country.

The way a discussion works is you are supporting something like the above sentence with arguments.
> try pronouncing the word “Tamil” from the language Tamil. I haven’t heard anyone who wasn’t a native speaker pronounce it correctly.

(non-Tamil here) Off the top of my head I can think of at least two distinct ways I have heard native Tamils speakers pronounce the name, and both are convinced that they are correct. Plenty of Tamils pronounce it with a retroflex 'r', while a majority consider it archaic and pronounce it with a retroflex 'l'.

The ழ was originally kind of a retroflex 'r' sound, but many Tamils consider it archaic & pronounce it as similar to a retroflex 'l' ள் - when questioned a native Tamil speaker from Tamil Nadu told me that ள் and ழ are pronounced the same.

Consider the word வாழை பழம் (banana), with two retroflex 'r' sounds. I have heard people pronounce it with both (and how its retained in Malayalam), and many will change one of them to a retroflex 'l'. In my restricted sample of asking a handful of native speakers to say the word, at least one consistently changed both to a retroflex 'l'.
A few issues with your two points, I think, are that real estate values don't always go up forever, even in hcol areas. It's not always evident what areas are about to have years and years of high growth.

Now, buying a home for your own personal use and as an investment is a better proposition. But you can only have one of those and you can't get such low interest rates and low money down for investment properties as you can for a personal home mortgage.
I played through that entire game through Wine on Linux last year. Idk if the Steam version works out of the box, but IIRC I didn't have to do anything special to get the GOG version to work.
Why is chess so much more racist than basketball?
What is an example of something published by the NYT, that has been proven false, that hasn't been retracted and removed?
Try a different publisher/ad network, like Twitter, Reddit, or Facebook/Instagram. If you don’t already have data that indicates Adwords is particularly cost-effective, it probably isn’t, and troubleshooting isn’t worth the time right now. Test with whichever publisher makes it easy and convenient.
That's a nice idea, but can you do some similar back of the envelope estimation for how much we'd have to grow the renewable/low-emissions energy grid to meet those other demands?

For example we'll need hydrogen fuel cells for any serious replacement of current oil since light trucks and beyond cannot run on lithium batteries (batteries become the cargo). But 95% of hydrogen production is currently based on fossil fuels[0]. So to come anywhere close to meeting the transport needs we would have to not only radically ramp up hydrogen production, but would need to even more extremely ramp up electrolysis.

I'd really like an insight into how we're going to achieve carbon free concrete production as well...

It's insane that HN downvotes aggressively any basic math of how dire the situation is, and always responds with hand wavy solutions that won't hold up to even the most basic back of the envelope estimates.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
> Cyberdyne's HAL, standing for "hybrid assistive limb," which the company claims to be the world's first "wearable cyborg."

Whether intentional or not, an homage to not one but two dystopian science fiction stories is an odd look for a robotics company.
That's nice, but:

"Coal generates nearly 40% of the world's electricity, close to its highest share in decades. And there are now 80 countries using coal power, up from 66 in 2000."

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants
We would be much better off as a species if we were able to handle the transition to a stable state. On the other hand, population growth is what allows us the enormous specialization that lets us achieve unbelievable technological feats while also wasting time during work on HN.
With which version of Feb 2020 do you not find fault?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200217083402/https://www.nytim...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210724164846/https://www.nytim...
Roughly what amount do you need in order to fund the air quality sensor fabric desired?
> 1.0 is not the last and final version of a product.

Of course, but if you bother to do semantic versioning, it should strive to be a stable one and not a "we are still experimenting" release.

IMHO knowing that something doesn't work, or isn't even implemented yet and will be addressed in the next release is OK for an 0.x.y release, but you shouldn't rush towards 1.0.0, already planing to release it "unfinished" and complete it later on in 1.0.1. That IMO kind of misses the point of the versioning semantics.
One thing I noticed watching some Japanese youtubers playing games like Minecraft is that some of them had figured out how to use the IME to input Japanese kanji/kana into the chatbox, but others just communicated in roman characters directly. So you'd have conversations in text-entry romaji, that they would have to sound out verbally when they received to understand what it meant. e.g.

A: [in minecraft chat] "rapisurazuri kudasai!"

B: [talking to themselves] what is that? ra-pi-su-ra-zu-ri-ku-da-sai... aah, I understand.
Wait, were those not universal?

I’m from Spain and I remember those transaction books from my childhood (I was born in 1991).

By the time I was old enough to get my first debit card they were long gone though.
In the FAQ [1] SSHFS is mentioned a few times and here is the citation where I got this idea from when I read it way back when:

“When Borg is writing to a repo on a locally mounted remote file system, e.g. SSHFS, the Borg client only can do file system operations and has no agent running on the remote side, so every operation needs to go over the network, which is slower.”

SSHFS would be tool agnostic/transparent though of course would result in operations going over the network as it’s not a local repo, but pseudo-local.

I’m curious, how do you use plain SFTP transport with borg using rsync.net?

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html
You're awesome for defending one of your competitors like this.
Tire wear yes, brake pads no. I drive a Leaf and use the friction brakes so infrequently that they get sticky if I don’t switch to neutral and do a hard stop now and then. Regen braking is amazing.
"I am definitely not believing that is has to do something with Biology. People telling “female are just less smart” or some bullshit like that are living under a rock and not in the 21st century."

I'm happy to read that. So many guys have hard thoughts about women on this topic.
I'm nevertheless sad that women are not more present in "guy's stuff". They might reverse this way of thinking and put themselves forward. But the education even in developed countries is still deepening a gap gender. E.g. dollies/ make up/dance for girls, cars/ shirt/football for boys. We don't mix enough "gender interests" and we inculcate this difference in kids even not on purpose. I hope it's changing
Artificial intelligence discovers long-term influencers hiding in noisy systems
Indeed. I installed half a dozen apps on my Ipad to figure out which one actually was the correct one.
We have a phrase for that: “Streisand Effect”.
To be fair, just because you've noticed this user posting the same fact in various places doesn't imply that it isn't useful to _someone_.

This is my first time seeing OPs post on this. I found it to be useful.
No, I didn't confuse them. How, exactly, does a nuclear power plant design prevent being offline?

You understand they have to take the plant offline to do major maintenance, even refuelling, right? In April, 75% of New England's nuclear power plants were offline, for instance, most unplanned.

When a single plant costs billions of dollars and becomes a significant or overwhelming contributor to an area's power mix, it can be a problem.
they just have some weird hangup about buying a $10 antenna and connecting it to their television.

I think this hang up could be the installation. Where I live you need to mount the antenna at least on an exterior wall, if not the roof to get a clear signal. Then you have to run coax to your TV, through walls, perhaps multiple locations or you can only watch broadcast on that one TV. It’s easily hours of work, including trip to the hardware store, and having the tools. Still worth the one time effort from some, but the barrier is a lot higher than a one time $10 expense.
I can see this as being a problem, like you said, if there isn't communication, but I don't think that demanding a "PBFD" expert is realistic or scalable.

But in my experience the PM is technical enough to understand what's going on. (Can write some SQL to answer questions, possibly ex-engineer themselves, etc.) They're in the same meetings, same email threads, looking at the same set of OKRs, etc. It's part of the engineers' jobs (B/F/D whatever) to communicate their constraints and their ideas (both product and pure-tech) to the PM, and it's part of the PM's job to take those into account when advocating for what should be done.

Similarly, the more the engineers know each others' specialties, the better they can coordinate. It's probably more important for everyone to have "a little bit of product" in them, but that doesn't mean we don't need a product-specialist.

When it's time for quarterly planning, the PM's voice is definitely loud, but they're still just one voice in the room. They're the one accountable for the product, which gives them some leverage, but the other voices are there (TLs, managers, etc.)

Now I can see this going terribly wrong if the scale is off (only one PM for too many engineers), or if communication breaks down (PM scribbles a "design" on a napkin and faxes it over), or if only the PM is consulted for planning. But the problem there is that communication broke down, not that it's bad to have a PM.
> Actually, I'm surprised the Olympics themselves don't have a direct subscription for streaming the entire event where people can sign up and stream it.

NBC tried something similar 30 years ago. It was a financial failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics_Triplecast
Probably because YouTube and Spotify are already peppered with such interruptions

“upgrade to premium today to disable these annoying ads”
"Why anyone holding usdc would exchange one for a usdt..."

One possible explanation is that you have more pairs available for other cryptos with USDT than with USDC on some exchanges
Can confirm that ServiceNow and Outlook have the same workaround.
> Instead of constantly hand-wringing about "disinformation" from the shadows, they should be desperately addressing their own plummeting credibility: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gallup-american-trus...

Quoth your link "The shift coincided with the era of Donald Trump’s presidency, when trust in the media was often juxtaposed with trust in Trump’s presidency."

The problem the media has is that it can't please everyone's biases. If it's appropriately skeptical of Trump, the people who hate to see Trump criticized will be unhappy (and in that case there's an ideological media alternate universe willing to capitalize on that unhappiness and turn it into mistrust). If it becomes a Trump love-fest with either muted skepticism (e.g. Fox News) or hardly any at all (e.g. OANN), then a lot of people with mistrust it (because it's arguably not doing its job).

It's a lot like Congress, actually. People mistrust "Congress" but usually like their Congressman. That's because their Congressmen likely to be ideologically similar, while "Congress" as a whole has people who are very different ideologically (and it may be controlled by those people). And to top that off, the electoral strategies of both parties often play up fear and mistrust of the other side in order to drum up votes (which unarguably helps the candidates most of the time, but hurts the institution).