skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's at best a temporary situation though. If births are below replacement rate, at some point the population will also drop. People aren't going to age indefinitely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate

The blue countries are below replacement rate, and represent most of the world. Green countries are at replacement rate. The rest is above, and are all in Africa except for Afghanistan and Iraq.
You’re not aware of all of the literature, then. Vaccination results in fewer reinfections, less severe reinfections, and of course doesn’t require you risk a course of the virus upfront to get said protection.

Maybe reach out to an immunologist. There is a lot of literature and you shouldn’t trust my or anyone’s take, but expecting you’ll have a better take than several actual career immunologists based on some google scholar research is ill-founded.
I completely agree that we don't want to end up being the next Robinhood. One interesting technical aspect there is that our customers don't manually trade securities, instead they provide us with a strategy that we then execute when we need to automatically buy/sell their investment. I think this will implicitly guide our users toward choosing a long term investment strategy (like mutual funds) instead of doing day trading.
I have a slightly different manifestation of the same problem. I have a google alert setup for the name of my website (to see when people write stuff about it). Over half of the notices that I get are from spam/malicious sites who copy a sentence or two and make a spammy page. I would have thought that google would be filtering this spam out.....
People give Amazon flack but they offer solid support with reasonable escalation when you have an issue. Imo it's a bit sad Elasti Co couldn't out compete ES on their own product.

When AWS released ES you couldn't even dynamically scale cluster nodes and you had to use Amazon's special library to sign requests for IAM

There are other companies that run curated & managed SaaS on providers like AWS, GCP, etc that offer better services than the native ones. For instance, MariaDB SkySQL offers DBAs with their product and will help tune the DB for the workload vs AWS where they offer limited app-level support outside suggesting things like Performance Insights. When I looked, SkySQL was also a bit cheaper than AWS RDS for comparable hardware
that sounds like a ton of fun!
> In terms of your claim that "western countries have reduced carbon emissions" it is important to realize that increasingly developed countries have been outsourcing most of their high polluting industries. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/4/18/1533104...

If you attribute to the US all the emissions that were outsoureced to other counties, the US has still reduced it's per-capita emissions: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

It's still way higher than India, but the claim that we've achieved the drop via outsourcing is wrong.
You can't imagine other ways to protect data beyond such a dehumanizing denial of liberty?

These workers seem forced to accept these conditions by the fear of losing their jobs. This isn't a free choice but an imposed one.

Advocating for any form of forced surveillance of a persons home and family for the sake of consumer quality/safety is disgusting. Why is the threat of consumer data loss more important than the threat to their personal freedom? Do they not have inalienable rights too?
Well, if you receive the url using gmail, google will visit the link, and execute the JS code. If you don't have a grace period, your secret will be unreadable before the human as a chance to get to it.

Just saying that because, while at 0bin we have a 1 day default expiration delay, users can chose burn after reading. But we had to add a small grace period to allow for user to check the URL, reload by listake, send vua gmail, etc.

I thin ots burn after reading by default so it could affect you.
I completely agree, what a nice summary :) I also agree that this is not for everyone, and honestly one thing that's on our mind is making sure we give the users the tools to know what kind of risk they should and should not take on. We are not there yet, but we're hoping to have some very cool modeling tools available that help with this.

But I'm also curious, what other steps could we take to make sure people use this in an appropriate way?
a 2400 year old basket is neat too tho
To elaborate, the customer's liability on unauthorized charges is capped by law on card transactions, so the merchant has to eat the cost of the alleged fraud or the cost of disputing the alleged fraud (plus the cost of the alleged fraud because their dispute will almost certainly fail).

Moving the cost of fraud to the buyer will change the buyer's behavior in a way that the seller wouldn't want, so this is just one more cryptocurrency solution in search of a problem.
Next thirty to sixty years?
You are absolutely correct, with some caveats. Browser client can generate keys on clientside and allow to offload them as a file to be used on other devices. Our own web XMPP client does that. But Protonmail does not work like this.

Verification is very simple: if you log in on a new device and see all your content while using only login and password to authenticate yourself, then the content stored on a server is NOT encrypted and is readable by server owner.
Boycotts and import duties.
Each one takes about 10 seconds, so not even 5 minutes total... You're lucky if it takes less than that filling up, actually. Having just one person in front of you will easily double that time.
Do you fail to see why, or do you fail to agree? There are many people out there who would be happy to tell you their reasons before you even ask.

> why is this the hill so many people are determined to die on?

As someone who hates emoting facially, I love the mask norm. However it's also important to remember the popular phrase "those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." This phrase is popular because it expresses the way many Americans, including myself, treasure freedom above all else, so any sacrifices of freedom should be done slowly or not at all if possible. Compulsory mask-wearing is as anti-freedom as compulsory haircuts (Chinese queue, Russian beard tax). Your argument is insincere or uninformed because it can be used to justify huge changes in society by singling out a minor facet of a larger issue, calling it a tiny hill that's not worth dying on, then moving on to another minor facet, until the whole landscape has been traversed.
It "felt like" some common ground between the wyden and portman (and its successor) amendments would be found. It was complicated by Senate procedural votes that made amendments much harder, and an overlying concern about CBO scoring of the budget impact of the bill. It can still be amended by unanimous consent (all 100 senators)but wyden or portman will have to blink and all the bill-haters will have to acquiesce.
I'm no expert in this area, so I'm just going to ask: suppose you implement the entire 4G standard, but alter the used frequencies to a range you can legally transmit on (say, the 2.4GHz or 5.2GHz range), would the technology be different enough that it couldn't be adapted into a real 4g modem by changing the frequency range the device operates at? Is there some inherent technical challenge that makes the technology operate around 1600MHz but not around 2400MHz?

LTE has some advantages over WiFi (i.e. the IoT features, the roaming features, the endpoint management features) so I can see a 2.4GHz LTE network being quite useful in some edge cases. With open technology, private LTE networks can probably serve quite nice business use cases.
You forgot Irish disease, French disease, German disease, Italian disease [0]. Why do you think the toponym of the point of discovery of a virus or strain is relevant? At this point, it has been circulating on multiple continents for 18 months, your most likely source of infection is in your neighbourhood, not another country or person whose ancestry you believe to be associated with that place. Systematic names have been increasingly common for influenza strains for a decade now, and if anything the systematic name SARS-2 gives you more useful information about the virus. To the extent that the choice not to call it something arbitrary [1] like Spanish flu is political, it is to protect people from ostracism and hatecrimes, which is an actual problem that happens in such circumstances and has since December 2019 [0,2].

If we were making name choices for inherently-parseable utility, we’d be calling every respiratory virus Coverface Washhands Stayhome.

[0] https://jmss.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Racis...
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805838/#!po=1....
[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12103-020-09545...
Luckily we provide a GUI so they can look at it in context.
> It’s just so hard to know what actions have what impact on CO2 production

To a first approximation, every time you pull out your wallet, you're emitting carbon. The bigger the $ sign, the more carbon you're emitting.

New car > used car

New furniture > used furniture

High energy bill > low energy bill

High grocery bill > low grocery bill

Big house > small house

Long commute > short commute

Expensive vacation > cheap vacation

After you've gotten past the big stuff, there are nuances. Burning your trash is cheaper than paying for trash removal but obviously worse for the environment (better yet; generate less trash). A diet of Twinkies is cheaper than a diet of leafy greens but it'll cost you on healthcare in the long run, so likely worse carbon emissions.

Try to run your household budget as lean as you can, and vote for politicians who support collective action against climate change. I think that's as much as any individual can do.
In your static example how does the turbine get back to the front of the vehicle? Does the force of the wind push it there? If so, if the wind is blowing at 10 knots but the base of the vehicle is moving at 20 then as far as the turbine is concerned it is actually being pushed backwards, no? Or is the idea that when you lift the anchor the vehicle slows to below wind speed while the turbine gets pushed?
Is...this a nuclear explosion joke?
The internet causes much more. It facilitates turning millions of houses to hotels, cheap flights, cheap rides, high speed intercontinental trade and a relentless behavioral treadmill of selfies in exotic backgrounds. The internet is the biggest driver of consumerism and its biggest beneficiary as attested by the exorbitant valuations of related companies
The difference is now every government knows too.

They can't pretend they don't have the capability.

And if they can scan for CP, why can't they scan for "whatever" else instead.
I would like to hope that they wouldn't, based on their origins. Xiaomi was once only a small software shop, making a skin for android devices that was easily installable and actually quite good for the time. They had a huge community, and nearly all major devices had it, and I believe almost all of them required an unlocked bootloader.

If Xiaomi went ahead and locked bootloaders on their own will (instead of gov't requiring it), they would be crushing the same thing that allowed them to become successful.
Just like the drug war is used as an excuse to empower fascists in government, strip citizens of their constitutional rights, and disrupt leftist and minority communities.
Whether it's an electric fan or your own lungs, it's pulling energy from storage (a battery or your own chemical energy storage) and converting it to kinetic energy. It's no different than if you put the fan or your face in the water facing backwards to propel the ship.
Do you have a Google Form or something where people can sign up for an email notification when you open your shop?
High risk of what? We all know you can get covid if you are vaccinated, it's a matter or the impact to you. If you are vaccinated, your odds of not getting severely ill and/or dying is significantly reduced.
This is a really sad reality. The internet has empowered us as a civilization but also emboldened a lot of folks who haven’t the expertise to digest immunology research.

Joe Rogan and an afternoon on Google Scholar isn’t a replacement for a couple decades of immunology work.
It has been a pendulum historically speaking, but people that use this argument usually forget just how bloody bad it gets before the pendulum starts swinging back.

And there is nothing that enforces the swings... It's entirely possible for it to stop swinging for hundreds of years, as that's been the case historically as well.

It's usually pointless to argue with religious people though. They have their opinions and there is little you can achieve with logic.
off topic: This post seems like an inappropriate one for HN. Scanning through the comments here, it seems like some kind of downvote brigading is happening on this thread. Comments, replies to comments and their replies are all being downvoted.

Edit: I’ve now flagged it.
It's based on looking at the ElasticSearch commit log; some details in [1].

Lucene is not included in this; as far as I can tell it's just imported as a dependency. I mean, obviously Lucene is an important part, but by this standard something like "Jane Doe wrote about half of Docker" would also be "wrong" because we'd have to count the people who worked on cgroups and all the other Linux stuff Docker uses, all the Go dependencies, etc. Realistically, almost everything we do is based on various things other people did. "To make an apple pie from scratch we must first invent the universe."

Maybe that would be fairer/better to also count Lucene, but that's a different discussion and wasn't really my point, which was that almost all code in the ElasticSearch GitHub repo comes from Elastic employees, that Amazon never contributed all that much code, and that based on this plus the severely reduced levels of activity of OpenSearch vs. Elastic don't really paint the most rosy long-term prospect for OpenSearch vs. ElasticSearch.

[1]: https://lobste.rs/s/qtsjh1/elasticsearch_does_not_belong_ela...
This is exactly how Canada's federal carbon tax is structured.

Citizens get rebates based on income, so poorer individuals get larger rebates as a percent of income and can actually come out ahead even with rising prices due to the carbon tax.

More wealthy citizens will (due to lifestyle differences) pay more in taxes than they get back, but they also have the means to change their lifestyles/make different choices, so they could end up in a spot where they use less carbon and so also come out ahead.

It's a very simple mechanism to modify behaviour and does do in a relatively equitable way.
This is brilliant.

This is absolutely a painpoint for me and other individuals that prefer to hold as much of their assets as possible in the market. The amount held over in checking for day to day transactions feels like little more than "cash drag" once you have enough saved that you can weather a market downturn. Right now I do expense tracking and budgeting largely so I can figure out how much balance I should keep in my checking account, then transfer the rest to investing. Combining the accounts like you propose would save me substantial time and missed market returns.

A problem you may run into in targeting bogleheads is that they like to see that you're well established before committing their life savings. Putting a substantial amount of money in a non-FDIC insured financial institution without a track record could be a non-starter. Advertising on your landing page that you base your services on top of Fidelity might lower that perception of risk.
No, I believe that once you allow end to end encrypted free speech, you allow many dangerous things. Including cryptocurrency transactions, silk road sales for all kinds of bad things, sex trafficking and child pornography… you also allow terrorists to plan their activities, etc.

Yes I think that is just as dangerous, if not more, than monetary transactions.

Therefore, if your position is that people should not be allowed to have self-hosted wallets (“unhosted” wallets) and app stores should have to ban them from the stores, then you should consider whether the same position should be applied to E2E software across the board, and for the same reasons of opening a dangerous pandora’s box.

See the sister comment and my reply to it
From the comments section of the article:

> Our apologies for not making this clear. The photovoltaic effect was increased by 1000 times compared to previous output achieved from cells made of ferroelectric crystals, not from prevailing solar cells made of silicon or other conventional materials.
>Some men may have liked that electric cars’ limited range meant that the independence granted to their drivers was tightly constrained.

This kind of gratuitous editorial speculation, based on precisely zero evidence in an otherwise factual article, is why I tend to avoid The Guardian.
You framed Chinese development as compassion for Chinese citizens. I pointed out that the Chinese government doesn't much care about the welfare of its citizens.
3000$ for 200fps? Am I missing something?

Maybe I just played too much Instagib and have impossible expectations when I see gauss rifles or railguns?
Where I live it's less than 60% vaccination for adults. Most of the 3rd world is not vaccinated. Vaccinating the entire planet was never a solution to a respiratory virus that will mutate quickly.

The vaccination campaign was always going to be a failure.

> My guess is that you couldn't be less qualified to make such an evaluation.

I'm as qualified as the president or any governor. I'm capable of understanding facts and making a decision like any other person on the planet.
It's a bit clunky, but Amazon's fork also comes with security by default. ES open-by-default has caused breaches for years. Amazon's is a bit clunky to setup but at least comes with defaults where you are less likely to leak your data
In the US, any party that takes the issue seriously does not get elected in an meaningful capacity. Maybe a city representative, even state representative here and there, but that's about it.
It is most definitely the cheapest way to heat houses and run cars. At least on raw economic costs; some utilities inflate electrical costs relative to natural gas costs in a way that makes a heat pump more expensive than natural gas heating, but that's just a distortion of the underlying economic costs, and only for some people.

We don't yet have electrically driven steel or concrete production methods, but this is a great opportunity for startups and new technology.

Steel will be more straightforward to decarbonize, but even if decarbonized steel is 50% more expensive, it will have negligible impact on the cost of downstream projects. And the industry can then apply their profit margins to a higher base cost. It's likely that either electrolyzed hydrogen, or with more direct electrical application with new methods that are more like aluminum refinement.

For concrete, it will be far more difficult, as a base chemical reaction to produce concrete releases carbon. However, there's significant room for improvement and new chemistries other than Portland cement, but worst case we will need to do carbon capture and sequestration. This will be more expensive, but it remains to be seen by what factor.

In any case, the extra expense of these most difficult to decarbonize areas will be offset by new opportunities from abundant, cheaper electricity.
If you believe that sailboats can beat a drifting balloon downwind by zigzagging, then there is a very good explanation in the original Veritasium video that shows that this is essentially the same thing. Here's a link to the section of the video with that explanation [1]. Watch about 2 or 3 minutes starting there and it becomes clear.

[1] https://youtu.be/jyQwgBAaBag?t=404
I’ve been surprised to find that search.brave.com is par with google for almost all my queries
You're not wrong, that is a maximalist interpretation of the language. Portman has tried to clarify, but there is always a gap between legislative intent and what the rulemaking process (i.e. Treasury) ends up doing with the statute. It's terrible language but not the end of the world (yet).
Doesn’t saturation of the projectile mean that further increases in field strength increase acceleration roughly linearly instead of quadratically?
Running Go Application on Bare Metal
> I agree with the comments that point out that not knowing about shift operators isn't really that surprising, but believing you have a reason to want 42 bits of a 64 bit value without knowing about shift operators is.

Come to think of it, the article doesn't say why they wanted to do that in the first place. At least one comment mentions having stuff (booleans) encoded in bits and extracting those that go together, and of course that could be it, but we don't know. My own first thought, on seeing the variable name "snowflake", was something along the lines of "What, does the Snowflake database store integers as 42-bit values or something?"
We require about 80% vaccination or recovered from COVID to achieve herd immunity. Right now we have 50% vaccinated and 10% confirmed cases. The more infectious Delta variant has skewed it more towards a 90-95% requirement. This means that before we reach herd immunity we need to either vaccinate or infect an additional 20% of the population at least.

I think a big factor was July 4th. Summer vacation kept cases low until now. Then the big family gatherings really ramped things up. Now we're going back to school soon.

Vaccination reduces transmission but not 100%. Notice I said 70-80% and not 100%. I don't think anyone expected it to be 100% effective at preventing breakthrough infections.

I'm hoping we don't have to eat that additional 20% with regular infection. Delta is NASTY.
I think the "you've got nothing to hide argument" is basically a failure of imagination. If you're immediate response is "what's the big deal?", you likely haven't thought about it much. You have to look at all the implications.
The best ref on _primitive_ Iron production I've seen is acoup.blog ... also textiles, food, etc
The video looks like a parody but I'm sure the creators feel like real manly men and are dead serious about it...
SpaceX Launching Satellite to Display Billboard Ads in Space
> Since the initial wind was enough to overcome the static friction

I’ve seen this idea in a couple of comments here, but I’m not sure what it means, can you elaborate?

Rolling wheels are still under static friction. They don’t become dynamic friction unless the wheels are in a skid. Unless what you’re talking about is the static friction of the oiled axle, but I assume that’s not what you meant?
That's a good point, but just covers the case where your bank fails. In the event of currency depreciation, your (e.g.) dollar-denominated account can lose a lot of value. Of course this may be accompanied by a crash in the same stocks they're proposing you invest in.
> I mean of course Java is slower if you're including JVM start up time…

So what time did you measure for those tiny Java programs using JMH ?
The last year has shown that the value-add of many jobs is the same as sending the individual a government cheque.

Much work has been suspended. An astonishing amount of that hasn't been missed at all.
> I cannot believe that was done just to be cool.

No, that was just the DWTF being sarcastic.
Even Apple Music has gone to shit. iTunes keeps managing to get worse and worse, and they're pushing hard to pretend you don't have your own collection to get you to buy into the subscription model.

At this point I'm going back to owning a seaparate dedicated music device that is totally divorced from the computer. There's just something intentional about walking over to a CD player or record player, picking out an album, and putting it on compared to mindlessly browing Spotify playlists.