skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh interesting. We tend not to really have variations like that across the UK (not having different states in the same way), so beyond remote islands etc. (by post code) and things like Uber/Deliveroo rolling out city by city/town by town, it's all just the same.

Amazon uses various couriers to deliver and return here (even me being in one location, in London, but also the same in the country) but when you select a return only Hermes offer pick-up. (Otherwise there's Amazon locker, Royal Mail print label, Royal Mail drop-off, various other drop-off places of the kind that are a sort of 'side gig' for a grocer or newsagent, etc.)
Really? Their UI/UX within a call is the worst of the major video conferencing tools, IMO.
I think a lot of it is that everyone has heard of Zoom, and Zoom works pretty well for calls with a lot of people, so it became the default for group video calls.

The “UX” in this case was “fixed” by being less crashy than the competition for long enough to earn a reputation.

As someone with a security background myself, I really hope organizations use it less and less, because the competition by now works just fine. But as a human living in the world, I don’t refuse to use Zoom, I just use it on my iPad and assume the conversation is intercepted somewhere.
Oh right, they're just planning to get voice and video working over matrix natively in the semi near future
Well, Scottish king Alexander III. died in 1286 when his horse fell off a cliff with him, but that was after sunset, and this kind of death was weird enough that we still remember it.

The # of important people who died in a car after a driver error is much higher.
Menards is great for this. The stores tend to fullfill orders and ship. Also, you have flexibility in how you get it shipped. Also, they tend to show live POS stock counts. (Expect 1 item to be 0 left)

They're not the best in shipping.. but I haven't see the garbage resellers on their platform.
> how could they possibly unilaterally launch anything related to this, beyond tiny experiments?

My suggestion is literally that they not unilaterally launch this across every region.

> The position of the CMA is that other advertisers need 3p cookies but Google doesn't. [...] They will demand there to be some mechanism that gives small ad tech companies more data than FLOC did.

I disagree with your connection of those two points. Google's job is to convince regulators that the removal of 3rd-party cookies won't advantage them. There are multiple ways they could attack that problem, including limiting the amount of data they collect. The UK's position is not that it is fundamentally important for advertisers to track users, the UK's position is that is important that there not be one advertiser who can track users.

It's particularly galling for Google to ignore this, because it assumes that of course Google can't possibly collect less information about its users or use less information in ad targeting, so the only solution is to make sure everyone else has the same amount of information as Google. But that's a false premise in my mind. I'm not advocating to remove 3rd-party cookies because I want Google to be the only entity that can target me; I would be perfectly happy if Google removed 3rd-party cookies and committed to tracking me less to reduce its dominance in the market.

In fact, I would argue that it would be better if Google went down that route. I don't trust Google any more than I trust any other 3rd-party advertiser; it's just as problematic for Google to be collecting this kind of invasive data. The assumption that Google's business model or data collection can't possibly change, and therefore we can't make any privacy improvements for anyone else... I just really strongly disagree with that idea.

This is also true in the US. There are some probes happening in the US that cite cookie removal as a possible anti-competitive indicator. Notably, there are other policies and actions that these probes cite that Google has not scrambled to avoid in the same way as it has for cookies. But whatever -- even in the US, regulators are not saying that advertisers need this information, they are saying it's unacceptable for Google to have this large of a disparity with other competitors.
General rule of thumb is that if it's a Californian tech company that isn't FANG, it's unprofitable.
And providing job security to testers and testing companies.
GitHub Discussions is out of beta
Have this strategy ever worked? Doesn't the "wider audience" of not "opinionated techy" people usually end up following those who are more passionate about the thing?
I recommend Firefox for every pc/mobile device of the people who rely on me when they need help with their expensive trinkets.
You can afford to forget your base audience only when you have already won the market.
Sure insects in general will be "fine", but ecosystems will have to be rebuilt over time with the different dynamics.

Take bees/pollinators. Another species could evolve or otherwise step in to fill the gap, but it could well result in many other plant and animal species also going extinct in the process.

Similar scenario with climate change. The earth will continue to exist and there will continue to be weather. But that weather could be a lot more inhospitable to our very narrow definition of habitable.
I'm sure it is standard practice. That still doesn't make commercial web font licenses more reasonable for anything except advertising and marketing campaigns.
> Instead of trying to catch them in transit, catch them at their destination.

Because i have an interest in X but i frequent sites for topics X, Y, Z, A, B daily because i'm a complex individual. Maybe X is the most "valuable" topic to profit off so now A, B, X, Y, Z all show ads on just X.
Still, on the other end of the trade the capital remains parked or "hoarded" in gold. It is removed from circulation.
Vaguely related and humourous:

> Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants. My friend expressed surprise that you could get ants sent to you in the mail.

> I replied: “What’s really interesting is that these people will send a tube of live ants to anyone you tell them to.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
Is there not an issue of “dry sex”, where men prefer unlubricated partners which without protection can contribute to a greater likelihood of transmission?
It's not unethical. It's a deliberate choice by Microsoft to suck people into GamePass at a great price. If it was an actual loophole they would have closed it long ago.

For those not in the know: There were offers of "upgrade to GamePass Ultimate for $1 for x months" which when applied to an existing XBox Live account extended GamePass for the length of your XBL subscription, for the same $1 (flat, not monthly).

Sounds like those offers are still around.
Immutable Database Beta Testers
I need SQL developers to help test our immutable database.
>> There's also a firing rate issue. Even if the system produced net power, significant production would require many shots per second. Currently, the laser flash lamps are expendable and it takes on the order of a day (and lots of money) to prep for each shot.

Oh, but then there's this part:

>> Further experiments will require the manufacture of additional fuel capsules and hohlraums. These may not be ready until at least October, Herrmann says. The nanocrystalline diamond-coated capsule that was imploded in this month’s event took six months to grow at General Atomics, which has long worked with LLNL on fabricating capsules. The spheres have to be polished and the core’s interior etched with tools inserted through a 2-micron-diameter hole drilled into it. The tritium–deuterium mixture is injected through a tiny fill tube just prior to the shot.
jitsi is exactly that, been using it for the whole pandemic for meetings for my team of 10 ppl, never had an issue.
Gds
The secret ingredient is copyright infringement
I found a beach here in Florida that is completely untouched. There is about a quarter mile of dunes covered in sea oats and fruiting cacti, filled with Common Ground Doves and Cardinals before you get to the water. I like to go birdwatching there. I have never seen anything like it since i’m used to the flattened city beaches.
Alma seems more of a corporate thing compared to Rocky being community supported. I have both deployed and they both work fine. Alma seems faster to update, though this is RHEL, not Arch.

Alma also has a shell script that will convert other RHEL based distros to it automagically, which is pretty cool.
Anything by Originator (Endless ABC, Endless 123, Reader, etc). You can get them as a bundle.

Teach Your Monster.

BusyShapes although they have some issue lately and the game crashes for us.

Sneaky Sasquatch as an adventure game. Both my kids got hooked on it and it has a ton of interactions and education value on what people do.

Monument is something my five years old is hooked on.

Atlas teaches them about the world.

YT Kids with a careful selection of channels.
Yeah, totally feel you about the data and downloading the app, that's actually a really good point that I didn't think about! Unfortunately as the boxes are made from food-grade stainless steel, they are worth more than the 2 euros, maximum 5 euros that we would charge as deposit. The risk of people keeping them and losing the 2 euros is fairly high. On the other hand, making it more than 5 euros would deter people from paying, so it's a dilemma at the moment.
No i mean that a single person or small group can’t make a general-purpose language that would beat TS, Rust, Java, Swift, Go, etc.

All these languages are supported by huge groups. They have hyper-optimized compilers or JIT, IDE integration, libraries, and adoption.

If you can form a huge group, then you can beat these languages. Or if you target a niche. Or if you can use existing tooling (transpiling, LSP, effective existing libraries), and spend a lot of time and effort. Imba seems to be taking the third approach.
there is evidence that Tcell based immunity remains for more than a decade [i.e 17 years] as evidenced by competent immune response of sars survivors when challenged by sars2 [covid19]

the real concern should be the inverse of your question, ie how long does it take for the sars2 to generate variants that will escape a contemporary vaccine.

there are other considerations such as the neutralizing antibody criterion . there is a sweet spot of prophylactic vaccination; a span of time exists post innocuum where neutralizing antibodies are at the greatest titre and the best chance of destroying a viral agent before infection can occur will exist. this is a good bullseye to aim for, however unreasonable to expect high degree of accuracy or timing regarding titre and pathogenic challenge.

the thing with non-neutralizing antibodies are that they are lables flagging a foriegn antigen these are referred to as opsonising antibodies and lable antigens for phagocytosis by macrophages.

roughly 6-8 months is the official endorsement regarding duration of naturally aquired immunity; this is probably somewhat longer in duration however the virus changes quickly; at this point one should expect roughly 12 monthes before "boosting" is absolutely required. I suspect arbitrarily that boosting will soon succumb to a reformulation in order to match vaccine closely to novel viral epitopes.

this is the same sort of dynamic that "the cold" follows, thats why we always catch it often very mild sometimes very bad due to variation of previous challenger, and cesation of antibody production.

[adndm] here is a short piece regarding the above:

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2021/august/...

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(21)00308-3
Something else could be more gold if it looks like another stupid asset bubble.
Well, yes, obviously the money doesn't vaporise. My question is whether these companies are taking a bearish position by investing into assets (instead of employees/new ventures), and whether this could be a sign of an economic storm approaching.
> The Data From Text wizard lets you easily import the data... but if you do that then the first row no longer defaults to headers. So if you open it that way and want to filter or sort the data, your headers will disappear. You have to go into full blown Power Query to do both prevent reformatting and use column headers

You don't, because while the wizard doesn't default to headers, the first screen of the wizard has a checkbox for it, so the option is there without Power Query.
The data cited on the summary page of the study does not support the conclusion that those units are unoccupied, which I think is the key question here. It does say that 64% do not claim a residential exemption on property tax, but [1] indicates that could just mean those units are rented out since the exemption only applies to owner occupied properties.

[1]: https://www.boston.gov/departments/assessing/filing-property...
I agree, could you imagine doing something like Java Spring without maven or the equivalent? It wouldn't be possible.
> Previous partner count correlates with likelihood of divorce.

Neat! People have a better baseline for what's acceptable in a relationship, and don't settle for "at least they're not beating me" out of ignorance.
IIRC, they're not particularly long. The deep level tunnels are something like 20m below the subsurface tunnels, I'd guess 30m in total from the ticket hall?
This was about 10 years ago, so I no longer have it.

Looking through the shared decks this one looks promising: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1377287053
That's exactly the mindset why baremetal code is so horribly buggy.

Creating a mock is still better than not creating a mock to test against. With the mock you can create simulations, unit tests, coverage tests, static tests, formal verification.

Without mock you can just test on actual HW a few selected test scenarios you think of.

Emulation: The lack of qemu support for arm chips is mindboggling. avr/atmel is quite good in contrast. renode is far better.
This is America, whilst technically possible, the average american adult has unlikely walked or even considered walking this distance in their adult life to date. On PBS food desert (comical from outside perspective) documentary the average interviewed person considered five miles / twenty minutes on a bus too far.
> There's also a firing rate issue ...

The NIF goal was ignition, not continuous power production. The original spec was one shot every four hours. Achieving one shot per day is close.
Unfortunately I don’t see it used in most of my starred projects (developers don’t even activate it)
I still hope there will be easy way to disable these when the time comes for humanity to fight to survive. Please don't make them fix each other.
The video I wanted to see (the two robots actually doing their thing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk
It's mostly a question of population sizes. The world population in their age was around 15% of what it is now, and only a fraction of those people would have had access to enough of an education to be noticed as a top mathematician. So it would be astonishing if their top mathematicians beat our own.
I don't understand what you're saying.

If Palantir buys $50MM in gold, they are not removing $50MM from circulation. They are giving $50MM to another entity, and receiving a piece of paper that says they own x number of gold bars in a vault somewhere. The gold doesn't move. The gold isn't doing anything different than it was before Palantir owned it.

The fifty million dollars continues to flow and buy goods and services. It is not removed from circulation. If you go out and buy a bar of gold do you think you are removing money from circulation?
Ok CSS sucks but what are the alternatives? What I see on other platforms requires some sort of WYSYWYG, which you can sort of do in the browser as well. They all generate XML, which I doubt is any more writable than CSS.

What I’ll forever complain about (as a front end developer) is that there’s no distinction between a document and an app. You can start from a blog post and turn it into a rocket just by throwing more JS at it.

I think only Google can fix it at this point:

- come up with a better alternative for apps

- reward websites that are content-only (or are guaranteed to support Reader view)

Now you could start to have simple documents and a powerful app platform.

Unfortunately this is hard to do as most developers will call bloody murder. So let’s enjoy CSS for the next hundred years, shall we?
My late friend who was a BFF of Peter Thiel because they were Stanford chums, used to describe Palantir as an evil company wrapped up in Harry Potter metaphors despite taking money from them as a consultant. I see nothing but confirmation bias here. Commence the downvotes for even mentioning this.
Thanks for trying it out, glad to hear you liked the tech!

We're continuing to improve and expand both the technical capabilities of the pronunciation assessment, as well as add more varied & exciting content that a user can go through.
I'll take that bet - say, $500 in 2021 dollars, that a fusion power plant is selling energy to the grid? I'll even make it easier and halve the time you suggested to 25 years, so we can settle the bet in 2046.
I think the main reason for making a humanoid and human-sized robots is that all infrastructure is made for humans. So keeping a similar form factor is an advantage if you expect it to work in human spaces.
I'm not so sure that I sympathize with your example. Why not a type for even numbers? Odd, prime, not-prime, etc?

You really are asking for a type that is "valid data." Commendable, but not a static property of data. As a fun example, what is a valid email address? Once established as valid, how long will it stay that way? If invalid, how long until it can become valid?

Do I think better typing can be a boon? Absolutely! Can it also be a burden? Absolutely!
Mostly in who controls it. Rocky Linux has no corporate backing, while Alma is controlled by the CloudLinux people.

Rocky also has one of the original CentOS founders on board, it seems in spirit a lot more like CentOS before it got acquired by RedHat/IBM.
In an excessive heat wave, blizzard/ice storm, other severe inclement weather events being able to power homes directly is frankly all of the points.

Out of all the users of energy that you listed perhaps the industrial sector is worth mentioning, otherwise street lights are essentially in the same magnitude of lights-per-capita so that can be a constant tacked onto the # of homes metric. Not to mention the fact that quite a substantial portion of them now use LEDs. The others are a magnitude less significant in comparison to homes, whether those homes are rural through urban.
The reason it’s so upbeat, is it is written by a phd candidate (in philosophy, not epidemiology) for a “think tank” called The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.

That think tank publishes gems like “colleges and universities are hostile to conservatives”, and has pushed back against COVID-19 mitigation efforts in the past. Not to be trusted.
Inter_netuser: That Frontiers paper is about as reliable as Big Foot hunters claiming they finally found him. The authors Brian Fallon and Monica Embers have been trying to prove chronic Lyme beliefs for many years.

They are funded by their antiscience movement:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4489928/

The Frontiers paper is a single case report that admits that the woman's Lyme ELISA (and hence total antibodies to Lyme) was negative when she started experiencing dementia. Without antibodies against Lyme, it would be a mistake to claim that she had "chronic Lyme" (which isn't real regardless.) The paper is consistent with someone who had lyme disease (a not-uncommon illness) and then years later was diagnosed with dementia, but you can't say Lyme caused the dementia.

There is a scientific consensus against chronic Lyme based on decades of research.

It's disturbing that chronic Lyme has become a dangerous social phenomenon based on conspiracy theories, fake diagnoses, and fake treatments.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/what-happens-when-lyme-diseas...
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
I use both sites for shopping. Walmart has free (roughly) two day shipping if you spend $35+. For bulkier items and (frequently IME) better prices, I prefer Walmart to Amazon Prime.

I have major concerns over fraudulent or quid pro quo reviews on Amazon, and the prices generally aren't the best around. Free (or rather included) next day shipping is great though.
Why isn't shares in the top 100 world companies an option?
Burning Buried Sunshine (2003)
> I love how now the fatalities are an undercount and the number of cases is a certainty so it fits this shoehorned argument.

Cases are a certainty basically by definition (now, if you want to do the usual thing and argue that we should look at IFR and not CFR, that’s a different story, but I’m not the one who introduced a false claim about CFR.)

> an enormous amount of cases without any symptoms go undetected.

By definition, if an infection goes undetected, its not a case.
No, it's not. Some people are just annoyed that Ubuntu stopped trying to be MacOS and is now into enterprise and cloud things to make money.
He's at school so I can't just ask him.

But if it comes to ants, I'm willing to bet money that he knows it.

I remember being at a bug fair with him a few years back. There was a grad student with a display including some fossilized ants. My son came over, looked, identified the genus, began pointing out the identifying characteristics and named multiple related current species. The grad student's jaw dropped open. The only things that the grad student knew which my son didn't was how old the fossil was and where it was found.

And here is some fun trivia. If you look, between the thorax (where the legs grow) and the gaster (the bulb at the end), there is a very, very skinny petiole. The only food that can pass through that and keep the ant alive is high energy fluid. So a major problem for every species of ant is how to turn the world around into such a fluid so that they can eat it.
"Does Fusion produce radioactive nuclear waste the same way fission does?

Nuclear fission power plants have the disadvantage of generating unstable nuclei; some of these are radioactive for millions of years. Fusion on the other hand does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste.

Can fusion reactors be used to produce weapons?

No."

https://www.iaea.org/topics/energy/fusion/faqs
No argument there. It is just that I ‘arrived’ now to the scene so I wanted to know what I can help. I thought I enquire here, maybe someone has a good idea.
I think they moved to Denver Colorado
If updates are a priority, you might actually be the right audience for CentOS Stream.
I have two friends under 40 on beta blockers due to long haul Covid-19 symptoms. Another friend who had a stroke after infection. Lots of other less serious long terms affects among friends and family. My sense of smell is still broken a year and a half after recovery.
Debt wouldn't be zeroed out if it was made on external markets, right?