skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First order of the day was a new election that was everything but democratic, so.

We're seeing the groundwork for this being laid by various states passing "reforms" on voting intended to prevent another "fraudulent election" from taking place (intended to both normalize the narrative that such a fraud occurred and legitimize it when it occurs in the Trumpists' favor under these reforms) and attempts to repeal Section 230 protections and have the government directly control platform content (again, normalizing the narrative that social media platforms have been engaged in an organized criminal conspiracy of censorship and making it illegal for such platforms to combat Trumpist misinformation in the future.)

I don't think Trump has a chance of being elected again - he's burned too many bridges even with his own base after the insurrection by not pardoning the conspirators - but it's entirely likely someone else in the family or another, more charismatic Trumpist will step in and succeed where Trump failed.

History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.
Property tax has to be more than that. Even if you don't own your residence, whatever the landlord passes through to tenants is going to be more than $300 a year.
This purism is why we can't have nice things.
hi @tremon, Mattermost PM here, that is the same across all editions.
When it was unusually hot over here, I was thinking about this. We can convert nearly every kind of energy into electricity and back. But for heat, for some bizarre reason, this only works one way. A lot of processes generate it, but you literally can't convert it into any other form of energy. You have to transfer it somewhere where it won't be as much of a problem.

It would be very nice to have an AC where you don't need to deal with that. I thought about many ways to get rid of heat without having to dump it somewhere, but thermodynamics is such a terrible thing.
So that is 3400 Terrabytes of data in a year for 2 billion users.

I used the number 2 billion because it's approximately the number of people on Facebook. Not vetted, just for a quick calculation.
Supposing the speed-controlled road spans 1km, then if you go at 100km/hour, it will take you 36s:

You have: 1km/(100km/hour)
You want: s
* 36

With a second less, your speed would be miscalculated to:

You have: 1km/(36s - 1s)
You want: km/hour
* 102.85714

So not really something to worry about
The difference between Feb and Aug is 500 million(!) vaccinated people. This is huge by any margin.
Yeah, tech company.

Targets change quarter to quarter and are what ever I and my Manager/VP decide.

Typically the targets are technically focused. E.g. product needs in the next 12 months require specific SLO/SLI's being met, in addition to some future customers who we're looking to onboard require us to be compliant in certain security standards. Those are my goals for this quarter.
Most countries with very high pop growth are coming out of more or less preindustrial conditions - subsistence farming, children needed to feed the parents in age, lack of access to contraception, just getting better medical care to do recent child deaths, etc.
As far as I am aware, there isn't much of a consensus among nutritionists as to what constitutes a "healthy diet", other than that a lot of sugar really isn't it. The article seems to define the term based on regional norms, which seems weird to me. No doubt a lot of people are not getting much variety in their food, yet somehow I doubt 3B people would be considered "unhealthy" in that they are so deficient in some mineral or fat that they experience functional maladies.
International Atomic Time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
Interesting point about car PCP financing at the end of the article. I bought a car through a PCP a few years back (a new 2013 Mazda) and it seemed fairly humane:

- Nominally 0% interest (albeit we paid sticker price of the vehicle with no discount).

- Deposit + payments such that the car was never 'under water'. In fact, subject to some heavy caveatting about its condition, I think we could have handed the car back and walked away from the agreement at any time, something almost unheard-of in American-style car loans.

- At the end of the PCP period, there was still a big balloon payment, which is how they get you rolling onto a new car+contract of course. But it was a known quantity that was possible to save up for, and due to the monthly payments, as mentioned above, being of sufficient size, the balloon payment was much less than the cost to buy the same car in same age/condition/etc on the open market, so it made sense to pay the money and keep the car.

There are a couple of things I find interesting about the above. One is that I perceived some benefits from the monthly payments being larger rather than smaller - when considering time value of money etc this is presumably irrational. But people do seem to genuinely suffer from upside-down car loans, where they could 'afford' the payments but find themselves trapped making them on an un-sellable vehicle. I guess what I'm saying is the payments were set at a level where I could actually afford the car. The other interesting thing is how easily the formula could be tweaked to make more expensive cars look affordable, and to incentivise rolling onto another contract. The flip side is that such tweaks let the purchaser have a lower payment, or a nicer car for the same payment, but might not be in the purchaser's rational best interest.
Approaches to Self-Driving Cars – YouTube
Cows can exist without a dairy industry. The works used to use many wild ruminants whose existence naturally helped maintain the ecosystem.
> One field of cryptography that only recently because available is deniable cryptography. Basically how it works is, for every message from sender->receiver, either the sender or the receiver can sign it, but nobody can tell who.

If you mean what I think you do, Dan Bernstein described how to do that back in 2001:

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.crypt/c/73yb5a9pz2Y/m/LNgRO7...
How does that work? reddit speech is not worthy of being heard? Its too immature to be even worth experimenting with moderation?

If people are creating 5 accounts to create a narrative, well then thats the job isn’t it? Stopping those 4 fake accounts.

But that would be censorship. So what is your solution for the problem you yourself have described?

Plus, If your first option is to choose a forum where you self select out of dealing with messy problems, then your experience is invalid for guidance on dealing with messy problems - no?

I can’t seem to see anything but a contradiction of your own purposes here.

Perhaps you see how these things are not contradictory>?
Population Growth is highly correlated to girl's age at time of marriage, education and Infant Mortality rate. These factors are mostly worse in poor countries.
I have the feeling (based on my own observations, so take it with a grain of salt) that education level affects both birth control and healthy diet. Even in first world countries.
This Old House on PBS routinely installs systems over 95%.

There are systems here listed at 98.5 AFUE

https://www.energystar.gov/products/most_efficient/furnaces
Why this vs the mature solution of kops?
From the Keepa addon settings:

> Allow the add-on to gather Amazon prices to improve our price data

I thought it was common knowledge that Keepa uses the addon to gather prices. Though with GDPR it probably needs to be more explicitly said.
> A mysterious, one-letter npm package named "-" sitting on the registry since 2020 has received over 700,000 downloads.

...then a few lines further down the article:

> An npm package called "-" has scored almost 720,000 downloads since its publication on the npm registry, since early 2020.

Kinda frustrating that the same information is being written twice imo... And then two ads in a row follow that
Is it accurate to treat crypto facilities as equity brokers, or more like foreign currency exchanges? (Forex probably have their own reporting requirements, the question is about analogous service, not the reporting/privacy part.)
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Improve incentives in science by developing smart research contracts
Or Microsoft doesn't have a VPN team any more, and hence no project managers to make management decisions for them.

I'm not even kidding that much, the DirectAccess team appears to have been disbanded and all of the open issues were unofficially put in the "will not fix" bucket. I suspect the Always On VPN team is one guy, but probably not working on it full-time.
Another reason to write your own technical content, even if a similar question/answer does exist on SO, especially in examples where you experiment to put together examples that show/prove a point, is that it is practise for yourself.

I intend to get some of my own content out there (it may never happen, the intention has existed for quite some time!) and if I ever find time to do it some of the things I might include are expansions of things I've given as SO answers, expanding on details that might have been too much in the SO/SE context and potentially caused confusion or sliding off into tangents that would be too far off-topic from the starting point. I might not ever point people at this writing, the main point of it will be my own practise (of technical matters, and just the act or writing and organising information). If it comes to be something that feels useful then it might be the start of an online portfolio that I selectively send people to, or feed back into SO/SE (i.e. giving an answer with bits extracted from something I've already written with a “for some related tangents you might find this fuller article useful” link, as I already do for other people's articles like the very useful tomes of MS SQL knowledge at https://www.sommarskog.se/ that I've referenced on DBA.SE before now).
You should record the event time separately [1] from the beginning/end of the measurement period - the first as a time instant in UTC ('wall clock'), the latter as a difference between two values of a guaranteed monotonically increasing clock.

This is something you need to do regardless of leap seconds to handle things like NTP kicking in to adjust your local wall clock time.

[1] - Depending on the programming environment, these might be either different timestamp types recorded separately or converted appropriately to reflect different uses, or a smart combination type like time.Time in Go.
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Elon Musk asked Tim Cook to make him CEO of Apple, new book claims
I print off my receipts and other schedules to hand off to my preparer (who does not accept outside PDFs from a security angle). The actual filings are digital, but the intermediate are paper.
Discarded photo negatives show China in an era of change
Why is this 2,000+ pages long? Why is it even expected from people to make anything out of so much text?
In preinternet times it took me years to know the name of the movie, I watched it on TV when I was a child and years later I could recall scenes but no one knew which was the title of the movie. It's a strange movie one of those that can induce nightmares and/or boredom in a child.
Yes, I think so too. However people still will consume content as long it gives those dopamine hits. The brain makes you think you are doing something, even if its not really comprehending what its consuming.

Which is getting closer to the problem as I see it - the tech infrastructure has out scaled the default biological tools we are born with.
That's a very good point. Blogging as practice for communicating more clearly.
This really matters in the womb until 2 years.

This is when you do brain damage.

It will be in all those 3 billion unless they have had access to supplements until 2 years.

You are talking bringing high IQ's down to average and average IQ's down to below average. Below average to disabled. This continues the cycle.

There's little reason to improving schools and giving them computers until you fix this.
Yah, I know the basic elementary school version of the history of corn, just trying to explain that “tastes like corn” doesn’t mean a backyard corn-on-the-cob. My impression of the latter is that they basically taste like sugar now but I guess my memory of childhood cobs is less vivid.
Vanilla js does not exist. You either make a mess or you write your own, undocumented, untested framework.
>>Healthy diets are expensive

That's absolutely NOT true!
Interesting but I feel that all questions are answerable with another definition of time relative to "solar noon" (some kind of icon with the sun on an arch comes to mind, my Amafit Smartwatch uses this). Also the article does not take into account that our phones may warn us "that Uncle Steve in Melbourne is probably asleep", for example.

The date line? Yeah lets put that in the center of the Pacific.
There is a lot more concensus and knowledge (science based) than people think. The news isn't good at reporting it.

Dr. Michael Greger does a pretty good job at explaining things. He recently did a video on the scientific consensus for a healthy diet. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-scientific-consensus-on.... It's designed for the masses but based on the research. Explanations and access to the research are much more accessible now than 20 years ago.
"China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province, but many Taiwanese people disagree and want a separate nation."
I created tailwind.ink for creating color families that can be interchanged as long as they gave the same numeric label. Interesting article :)
*healthful
I find touch typing with all fingers is overrated.

I type with only two/three fingers. I don't hunt and peck, but I'm no touch typist either. I can type faster just with my index fingers than some people with all of their fingers.

That said, typing speed is not critical. I mean, if you're really slow I guess it matters, but it's no measure of the quality of your work. The brain is the bottleneck here, and all the slowness happens in the design/troubleshoot/think space anyway.
>but since many years now, other countrys get all information about the customers

Or, do they?

>So if an us person open an account, they send all information about it to the us. I think this is at least since 15 .. 20 years now.

And what if a person opens an account under this and that scheme, that ends up sending only irrelevant information about some mediator?
No worries! As far as I'm aware it's a fairly recent innovation in language, it'd be harsh to judge people for using the older terminology especially as top-down language changes like this are often fairly controversial.
Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date
Decision makers don't watch movies and don't read HN.
The WordPress group isn't part of the community? That it's a big org is a distinction you're making, not me. Open source communities are full of big organizations.

And now that the genie is out of the bottle anyone can do as they please with this fairly small rendering library and Facebook can't stop them. So I'm still not sure what the concern about Facebook is?
It doesn’t really matter whether the US planned to kill slightly fewer people. Everything that ensued was their fault; it wouldn’t happen without US invasion.

Also, note that those numbers are only the direct victims. How many people died because of US sanctions?

As for Uyghurs - I’m sure there were a lot of horrible crimes there. It’s unavoidable when doing things at that scale, in a country which still has a long way to go about human rights. The propaganda part is 1. claiming this is a “genocide”, as in something deliberate, rather than crimes committed by individuals, and 2. claiming it’s somehow worse than the US solution to the same problem, which is killing those people on the spot.
It's a vicious cycle, but historically what we've seen is that drops in birth rate follows economic growth, not vice versa.

Poor economic conditions tends to mean parents rely on children for both work and for care in old age, and also correlates to lack of access to education on family planning as well as lack of access to contraceptives.

There are arguments to be made about precise cause and effect, but this pattern has been known for a long time; pretty much every developed country went through it, and almost all developing countries are on their way through the same pattern (almost all have seen birth rates drop dramatically, to the point the world is heading towards dropping population numbers within the next century).
Where do you see this? I'm trying to find a source, and many articles (even from years ago) are calling it a "fake vaccination program", and none mention that the vaccines were real.

Edit: I've done some more research, and it does seem the vaccines were real, but they only administered 1 of 3 doses before moving out of the original poor neighborhood they started in. They then moved to a richer neighborhood more near Osama bin Laden, and I'm not sure how many doses were administered there (maybe none? other then maybe some in Osama bin Laden's compound).

Either way, I think you're also being slightly dishonest here. It was real vaccines, but only 1 of 3 doses, so probably not very effective.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/07/cias-fake-vaccinatio...
On the environment and fauna, animals are going extinct (like the white rhino) so yes, we are running out of stuff.

Trees—like Dominican mahogany grow really slowly and now there are so few of them we have basically run out. I can name several other examples—most notably Guayacan.

There is a bunch of scarcity and destruction. I’m pretty sure we can fix them—but for the trees and the animals it’s unlikely that I get to experience them as was so in previous lifetimes.

It’s a shame we couldn’t manage them sustainably previously.
I use alum to stop any cuts bleeding and also as an antiseptic. Works amazingly well.
Despite having the capital, both of our cars were purchased on finance deals. For my car (3yo at purchase) an outright purchase was the same price as total cost of finance, so I financed. For my partners car (new) it worked out significantly cheaper to finance as they 'match' the scrappage deal of the old (very broken) car.

Whilst most finance deals are scams, there are good ones. In our case double dipping on scrappage and sourcing a second hand car from a cheaper geography certainly played a part; and for once I'm sure I'm not deluded - with a family member running their own dealership we had quite the inside look at alternatives.

That said, an ongoing profiteering racket is servicing and associated consumables. Most independents are cheaper, though it does take work to find a good one - you have to check the quality of alternative consumables.
>It may be a heavily scrutinized jurisdiction and thus not a great tax haven in the traditional sense

Well, between Delaware and Nevada there are lots of unscrutinized jurisdictions...
It's nothing new that Facebook has been destroying their VR platform due to their awful account integration. This part is just hilarious.
There is a difference between gathering prices and loading extra URLs to gather those prices. From that text, I would not assume they are using my computer as a part of a botnet.
Thank you, much appreciated :)
Agile in the Cloud Native Era
Fossil fuel systems 'cheat' a little in efficiently metrics by using the 'Lower Heating Value' of burning the fuel. That's the amount of energy the fuel contains if you assume that the resulting water produced in combustion is released as water vapor.

However in real boilers, there is no need for this - by condensing that water vapor back into liquid water you can get more energy out. That's the 'Higher heating value'.

When measuring efficiency, we always use the lower heating value, whereas we ought to use the higher heating value. Therefore a "98% efficient furnace" is actually more like 88% efficient when considering the higher heating value.
And I'm sure those same dollar store shoppers collectively held approximately 0% of the equity in the locally owned business that was displaced.

But as price-sensitive consumers they do benefit from the substantially higher economies of scale, the productivity efficiencies of management best practices, and the lower cost of capital that comes with a professionally managed multinational corporation.
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The Ethiopian in Israel being injected with contraceptive without consent, while not a vaccine in itself, didn't help either:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/ethiopian-wome...

The COVID crisis is as much a trust crisis than a health crisis. The internet made the people deeply aware of how little the people in power actually cares about the average citizen or customer, and now that we really, really need the mass to have confidence in the institutions, it's getting hard to play the "for real, we are good this times guys" card.
Of course, but that still relies on the SMTP server's support. If a provider goes out of business or simply refuses to forward messages, an email address is still dead. That's why we'd need laws to regulate both scenarios: require operators to forward old accounts regardless of anything (including things like government sanctions) and set up a central email forwarder organization to take on email domains of defunct providers (and the legal framework to transfer domains to it).

An ideal system would of course allow you to truly take your address with you to another provider and sever any link to your old one, just like you can with your phone number. The current semantics of email addresses don't allow that or require you to own your own domain name, which given the sad state of the business end of the DNS, isn't feasible on a large scale either.
Should've gotten the Index instead, really. It works so much better and doesn't come with Facebook's walled garden.
And it will become worse as Chrome will be (even more) key to Google Business after the death of 3rd party cookies, as FLoC will be running out of it so they will need you to use it to be able to segment you.
This has also become my strategy lately. I got fed up with price wars by tons of cheaper software dev shops. I am Indian and have run them myself, but I am an engineer first - the really curious kind. I can not do price war, I do not like writing casual code just for bucks. So I started keeping just good relations with anyone who is attracted to "low cost development shop". Eventually I started seeing myself helping multiple founders with "low cost teams". I think gradually they will start billing me to guide these low cost teams. (Although that might not be happen since I am also planning to go into the founder mode).
Sounds like it would be much easier to reincorporate in a neighbour county. I don't know, of course, if the US law gives a damn about you not being located there.
Since I got a WiFi printer (Brother), I print 99% of things straight from my phone, and no longer procrastinate printing stuff because I'd have to boot the laptop, find the cable, log in to download the document etc.

It's worth it.
Right but as long as GPS satellites are synchronised with each other it doesn't matter all that much how synchronised they are with anyone on the ground, the position they return will still be correct.
I had two BW laser printers in my life and they both worked for >10 years with one cartridge.

One I found in the trash, one I bought for 150€.
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Shouldn't have locked it behind a Facebook login then, eh? It could be the best thing since sliced bread, but it belongs on a trash heap as long as it requires a facebook login.
Hi @villified!

Sad to hear that. It's quite possible that some service providers may be blocking the domain as they would do to most domains which are close/similar to any popular website.

Thank you for attempting. :)

Is there anything that we can do to avoid this? Happy to chat and figure out a solution.