skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just FYI you will only be able to stay for 3 months in most places on a tourist visa.

Most places do offer 6 month visas for artists and for things like what you are doing, but you should try and sort out this plan before you arrive at your destination, because once there you may find it harder to turn your tourist visa into something else.

Either that or you will have to travel to multiple places that do not share the same travel restrictions.
QA testing would be replication.

Peer review is more like code reviews... but the code is hidden and you can only see the comments.
PulseVPN also, without any warnings...

Thanks Apple.
Nudity is not inherently sexual. It's your default state as a human.
I logged in to write the same.

I have never installed Discord because its privacy policies are scary
"The impacts of the climate emergency are now so obvious, only the truly deluded still deny them. Instead, we are at the point where everyone agrees something must be done"

I guess The Guardian reporters don't venture far from their flock.
Caniuse, rather infuriatingly, used to deliberately not track usability of obsolete/deprecated web stuff (it would just say something like "Feature X is obsolete, don't use it" instead of the browser support graph), but it seems to have changed course

https://caniuse.com/?search=blink

thanks, caniuse!
> Why are we incentivising electric cars at purchase rather than incentivising the use of green energy to charge them?

Shouldn't we be incentivising both?

(one of the largest incentives I can see at the moment generation-side is that the levelized-cost-of-energy (LCOE) for solar in particular has become cheaper than most alternatives, and continues to reduce. and that's operational cost, excluding the cost of externalities on nations and their populations)
What happened to Mac build quality? Still using my 2015
MacBook Pro with only one repair (swelling battery). The cost was ~300€ if I remember correctly.
Okay this is just my understanding of the issue. I'm not sure if it's 100% correct.

Cockroachdb slices up its tables in 16 MiB shards. These shards are distributed over three nodes, one master and two slaves. The master gets chosen with the raft protocol. The master is the only server which can write to the shard. For a write to happen all three replicas need to be synchronized, they do this by locking the entire shard whenever a query comes in that writes to a row in the shard.

The problem is that if the latency between the master and the slave node is too large, you are severely limited in how many queries can be executed. For example if you have one shard in the US and one in Europe there might be a latency of 150 - 200ms between them. This means you can only execute 5 queries per second. Any more requests that come in are queued. After a while the queue gets so long that incoming queries have to be dropped.

This implementation is great for consistency, but if you frequently need to run update queries on your rows it's not the right solution. You need eventual consistency like Scylla and Cassandra provide.
Why would that be a valid talking point?
If someone has had to work every day it hardly sounds like a vacation, what sort of arrangement is in place that would have someone put up with something like this?
Most of the paywalled sites posted to HN have simple workarounds, such as disabling cookies and/or JavaScript with a browser extension (works for NY Times, Washington Post, etc.), or submitting the URL to a site such as archive.is (even works for the WSJ).

Here's what the HN FAQ[1] says about paywalls:

> Are paywalls ok?

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...
Rebellion against intrusion into ones perceived personal space.

It immediately reminds me of one of my all time memorable yet confusing quotes.

"Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. In the purely historical universe that they have chosen, rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma: either police rule or insanity." Albert Camus, The Rebel
I hope to live long enough to see TOTAL AUTOMATION (tm) !!!

Joking aside, this is truly impressive. Even if it is just a logical step, it's great to see that a group of independent people (i.e. not paid by a single company) can coordinate at that level... (I come from an age where swapping floppy disks to share code was acceptable)
Thanks for the reply. I imported a PDF with forms and it drew them fine. In Inkscape I also have to clear the kernings, and reflow. It's not perfect, but it's a good starting point. Figma and XD can't import PDFs at all.
> The same group that sued has also blocked new housing in Berkeley. This isn't a good faith lawsuit.

How isn't it a good faith lawsuit? The group is unhappy with Berkeley's growth. So they've tried to block increased student housing as well as increased enrolment. It sounds to me like their position is entirely consistent.

(I'm not taking a position on the issue at hand by the way.)
To all those who keep a long-term journal: what’s your end-game? Trash it? Publish it? Actively gift it to your family? Passively let the family read it if they find it? If it’s an electronic journal, what steps are you taking to ensure or prevent access after you’re gone?
Rogan is not critical interviewer.
Could you name at least two other platforms that offer at least

Decent chat (file sharing, emojis, support for code snippets), decent voice chat, decent streaming and supports PUSH2TALK button?

and I personally prefer when it is not self-hosted due to DDoS risk, but it's not must have.

and is e.g F/OSS?

Because I'm unable to name and that's why I started using Discord
They might be doing a facebook (~ inflating their engagement metrics by autoplaying things)
Here are some references for Markov
decision theory, stochastic optimal
control, stochastic dynamic programming:

Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Dynamic
Programming: Deterministic and Stochastic
Models.

George L. Nemhauser, Dynamic
Programming.

Stuart E. Dreyfus and Averill M. Law, The
Art and Theory of Dynamic Programming.

E. B. Dynkin and A. A. Yushkevich,
Controlled Markov Processes.

Wendell H. Fleming and Raymond W. Rishel,
Deterministic and Stochastic Optimal
Control.

There is more from R. T. Rockafellar and
R. J.-B. Wets.

And of course we should mention R.
Bellman.

IIRC, Dreyfus was a Bellman student, and Dynkin's dissertation advisors were Gelfand and Kolmogorov.
We had a similar thing happen recently in Northern Ireland, people were getting paid to literally burn wood pellets to help the environment, the more pellets burned, the more money they made - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Heat_Incentive_scand...

It was such a scandal it brought down our Government (although some days it feels like a light breeze would bring down our Government...)
There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
They just don’t live in the US
I find OSM pretty good for POI actually. I'm using OSMAnd~ (the F-Droid version), and more often than not I can find directly a shop or restaurant by name without Internet activated. It's also great to find practical things like water point, transport station, etc.
In some rare cases though, I can't find something, in which case I'm looking elsewhere and use coordinates which is easy to do with the sharing system of Android.

Speaking of transports, OSMAnd has a beta transport mapping for a while which is working quite well by my experience (use in combination of Transportr which is also really good, depending on the city where I am, one may be better than the other).

The only important missing thing is indeed traffic information, but depending on where you're living, it may not be such a big deal.
Debacle?
> ephemeral apps

They are not ephemeral. They are far more persistent than anything you could install locally, because all the data now resides on someone else's computer. The "ephemerality" paradigm of web apps has been a strong contributor to that trend.
Off topic: To me they seem to focus on quantity over quality. Can you recommend some of that quality content? I always quit after browsing their catalogue for 20 minutes or so.
RTFA: Big ass text file.
That's why we have the manual human reviewers, you see.
I felt very strongly with this story - and thank you for sharing.

My mother passed away at 59. She was healthy, and thought she had decades to live. Then she got sick, and thought she had years. Few months later, we had a call on our way to the hospital, she was dead.

I didn't have the greatest relationship with my mother and the disease didn't allow us to do more than scratch the surface. She wasn't an open person but I know her mind was rich. She left with it and nobody will ever be able to get the full picture. Maybe that's what she wanted, but almost a year later I know something will still be missing inside me.

A lot of people here are entrepreneurs and I think a common goal is to leave our trace in this world, and make our temporary stay less temporary. We tend to forget that everything is temporary and always think we have time, but really, we don't.

This feeling first created within me a constant feeling of rush and stress, still present, but is evolving in a urge to focus on what is truly essential to me.

I, for some strange/personal reasons struggle to write what's in my head. My thoughts are very disorganized and always feel what's on the paper doesn't reflect the original idea. If you have felt in a similar way, I am very interested in hearing stories on how you overcame this.

I believe we all have a treasure to share, maybe not to the world, but to a few people to who we matter.
> 10 (base 10)

Even this notation assumes base ten for the number written inside the parenthesis. Otherwise it works for any base.
I am curious now can you explain more? As far as I know Telegram requires a unique phone number for every account on registration.
Yes, plenty of water it’s just up north, not in the places where agriculture needs it. I’m tempted to argue it’s a self correcting problem; pipes and desalination will be built when the costs make it feasible. It’s all politics and special interests. That’s the California way.
This seems likely to create a host of unintended consequences and exacerbates the issues caused by a lack of socioeconomic diversity and people working in service jobs. The incentives will push municipalities to only take the “best” jobs, putting further pressure on restaurants etc to find workers. Ultimately the “character” of a neighborhood is a function of the vibrant culture and people more than yhe architecture and density.
Transmission losses are not significant in most cases. Your assertion that electricity from fossil fuel power plants is somehow worse than inefficient ICE cars is completely wrong.
To alleviate that concern a bit, Debian apt can be configured to fetch updates via TOR, so that it becomes (more) difficult to send YOU -specifically- a doctored update.
Your not supposed to stand for anything, you are an individual. As long as you see other as individuals (and not groups) too, everything would be much better (and the US would NOT having just a two party system, it's just to easy to hold the status quo if you can use black and white arguments)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polluter_pays_principle
People predict every outcome. Then the ones that got it correct can boast that they knew all along. Basically the survivorship bias.

Nobody knows shit in advance, even if it seems repeatable.
> Also, you can get the previously supported Xperia devices cheaply second hand

While they are still decent hardware that advice is useful only for purists that don't intend to use Android at all. As I wrote, you get only Android 4.4 on those devices.
rutracker.org
There is plenty of anti science attitudes all over Europe. It simply doesn't manifest in the same way as it does in the US.
> I'm not against political and societal messages in TV shows and movies - that has been done for decades, but not if it takes away from the writing and quality of the show.

I think if you replace the last part of this with "as long as it doesn't bother me" then your statement is probably more accurate. From my experience bad shows are bad because of terrible writing overall, not because one of the characters is a minority.

> We see that in extreme levels at the moment.

Compared to a decade or more ago when you weren't seeing trans people on TV, I guess you could say it's "extreme" nowadays.
> Saying that again leads to no new insight.

I would throw that one right back at you by saying....

What great insight does 200 people posting about 200 different variations of stacks provide insight about ?

Diversity in stacks ? And, erm .... not much else ?

Sure I guess you could try to aggregate it and look for patterns, but would that really be useful ? I'm not sure the sample of 200 or so would be big enough for it to be more than a subjective extrapolation of random answers and you certainly couldn't claim to see trends etc. in such a small sample.
Native apps have access to all your local data, unlike web apps. Web apps can't gather telemetry on things they can't access.
When I saw this was the first comment I knew the study showed natural immunity to be better than vaccine induced immunity without even clicking :P
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11555

Dna doesn't last as long as Jurrasic Park would have us believe.
How to Create a Website?
The vast majority of my income is from ads. It's a 10:1 ratio. Patreon definitely helps, and I hope that it will get so far that I have to rely less on ads to keep the site running.

The nice thing about Patreon is that they do my taxes for me. When I receive my money the taxes have already been paid. I can put it in my accounting software as tax free money. Patreon's fees are high though, so if something else comes along I'll give that a shot too.
My journal is encrypted but I have boxes of old letters, photos of old girlfriends even, and I wonder what to do with it. Contemplating to scan all of it and then get rid of the paper version. Or maybe just put a label for the wife and kids on the boxes: „private, if I die please just get rid of it. Or look at it if you want.“ - I just realized I don’t care that much now and i certainly won’t care when I’m gone.
No, EVs are still more efficient:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2020/03/30/yes-electr...
This broke my heart into so many pieces.
This actually sounds like the right way to go. Individual, warrant based access is comparable to wiretapping in a way that Apple's dragnet approach is not.
I feel the same. I think their content is a sea of mediocrity.

I cancelled my sub and I make do with Amazon Prime which is not much better but does have some good exclusives and obviously the shipping benefits.

I’m also considering a return to piracy with a NAS since a lot of movies (esp. classics) are simply unavailable anywhere, even pay-per-view services like Amazon, Apple or Google.
I actually published a paper on your last point many years ago. To me it's obvious that we need to use electric car batteries as storage for the grid. The infrastructure is already there. The software in the car should allow the user to specify their preference for how full to keep the battery at all times, and when they next plan to drive far, and the car can decide how it gets its battery charge to the required level in the available time. Adding in price incentives to use electricity when it's cheapest (when there's most supply vs demand) makes it even more attractive.
The Clickbait remover chooses a random thumbnail instead. I rarely go to youtube, but when I do, this makes it more bearable.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
There's this list I came across recently about cold mailing, you can check it out to see if it fits what you need

https://www.flowrite.com/blog/how-to-write-a-cold-email-a-st...
I find it disturbing how little information there is, and that the vaccines are being pushed incredibly strongly despite this. It seems to me that the science is not sufficiently explored.

>The data from this study could not have come out earlier; we needed to wait until there were large enough samples infected with Delta to even know this.

The situation should then be re-evaluated while studies are done

>But this study doesn't imply vaccines are not the right answer. It just says natural infection provides stronger immunity. What it leaves out is the price you pay to achieve natural immunity.

How can people be so sure that they are the right answer? You just admitted that the data is only just coming out to begin to study it. Delta has changed the situation significantly
>The extracted CO2 will then be piped from the collector boxes to a nearby processing facility, where it will be mixed with water and diverted to a deep underground well.
And there it will rest. Underground. Forever, presumably. The carbon dioxide captured from the Icelandic air will react with basalt rocks and begin a process of mineralization that takes several years, but it will never function as a heat-trapping atmospheric gas again.

The only use is in removing it from the atmosphere.
It's really hard to make these comparisons because environmental impacts aren't fungible. The emissions from building and running an electric car might be more CO2 overall but the CO2 is being emitted at a few large factories and could be more easily captured than from individual cars.

ICEs also emit lots of other pollution in the middle of cities, including noise pollution. Electrics would cut down on those or emit them around the factory instead of downtown.
My favorite perceptual illusion of all time is the Rauchenberg Illusion: a pure white canvas, when observed intently, is anything but pure white.
Assuming plants are regulated on pollution, they're way better at reducing emissions than a petrol burner in everyone's garage.

But then there's the battery manufacturing, not sure how dirty it is compared to manufacturing the car parts they replace.
WinAPI worked for 25 years. Windows 11 did not deprecate it, so probably it'll work for another 10 years at least.
Alert (essentially) blocks the main UI thread. This means that if you have a while(true){alert} kind of thing, it can be impossible to exit the page since you first have to exit the dialogue before you can take any other action (but of course the dialogue is immediately retriggered). This is better nowadays, but can still cause issues.
My main recent annoyance is that they removed the mentions tab on mobile, and replaced it with some weird feature called stage (some sort of clubhouse ripoff where you do... livestreaming?)
It placed the mentions in under the search(?!?!) tab, which adds 2 clicks, and also added significant time delays sometimes when the search tab has to load for 3-10seconds........
I have a server with lots of discord "OGs" back from 2015, and it's the most complained about change that has been discussed in that server, by far.
Debian is almost like a trusted retail shop. They mediate between you (the producer of the software) and me (the consumer of the software). The quality control they are responsible for, does make them a trusted "shop" for the users - for example, one believes that using debian packages protects from malware.

It's natural the user cares more about this system than the producer - for the producer it looks like hassle and a middleman.

(Sidenote: Sometimes I'm the producer side of debian packages too.)
There is a huge wave of transitions from reddit/ forums towards discord because it offers voice chat / image uploads for free. It's not gonna last at that, chat is a bad format compared to hierarchical replies, hard to search etc. Gaming is their niche but at some point games will want to stop bleeding their community to them. There is also a proliferation of communities which leads to a lot of activity because it's a new platform, but as always, very few of them will survive. Then at some point they 'll also block all NSFW content and more people will leave. The value of their offering is that they re free, but money runs out, and slack already exists. Another case of overfunding for unsustainable growth.
Where is Sutton and Barto?
Australia is a disaster when it comes to electronic freedoms. It might just be a lost cause at this point.

A classic example of why you really shouldn't be giving the government too much power, because even so-called "modern democracies" can and will go bad.

Backdoors in encryption, free for all to hack citizens, etc. What a mess. Hope some people fight back.
Fluid Earth – interactive web app to visualize Earth’s atmosphere and oceans
My feeling that I get from reading comment sections on these things is that it will be prohibitively expensive to scale up to a size that matters and no-one will want to foot the bill.

That, and the idea that it's a pipe dream that is sold as an excuse not to make some really tough choices about decarbonising other things seems to be the prevailing thought about from cynical environmentalists.

Personally I can only feel that those arguments make some sense but I don't understand the potential enough.

Also, a more personal thought is that it seems really hard to collect such a diluted chemical from thin air?
Climate journalists are just the same ones promoting communism. Group guiltyness, blaming a specific group and one should listen to the intellectuals/gouvernement. And alternative voices are muted as climate deniers
Both the cars and the grid need to be de-fossilised. You can't just do one or the other. ICE cars can never be clean, EVs have the potential and when grid catches up they will be cleaner and the benefits from cleaner grid will increase.

Good video to watch on topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzZ1_vH30ko
Organized crime gangs... please. Look at what they're doing in relation to Covid. Crime gangs... Australia is nuts.
The tech industry in Australia has for some time existed in an impossibly hostile climate, with onerous tasks to betray their own users able to be handed out to individuals at any time, with virtually no oversight. [1]

This has all happened under the auspices of the most overtly corrupt and authoritarian government we’ve had in my lifetime, within four years.

If I had the option, I’d pack up and move, but having written this and other anti-government sentiment, it’s entirely possible that they stop me at the border. [2]

Combining this with the political apathy of nearly everyone here that I know, the current vilification of protestors (not entirely wrongly given the circumstances), and the utter spinelessness and complicity of the “opposition”, I don’t see a future for my country that doesn’t involve violent revolution (we’ve tried it before [3]) or tyranny.

But it gets better: the tech industry is not only under attack, they’re complicit. Beyond even the ordinary run-of-the-mill scumbaggery we see from tech companies, a number have recently formed the Tech Council of Australia [4], aiming to make Australia a startup capital of the world. Scroll down that page and you’ll see a list of member corporations, several of which sent opposition to the AABill when consultation was open. Now, apparently, they’ve decided that it’s too hard to beat ‘em, so they’ll join ’em.

[1] https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...

[2] https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/leaving-australia

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion

[4] https://techcouncil.com.au