skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's largely because of the free market. There is not really a nuclear "industry", nuclear plants are more of a government thing worldwide. Governments aren't as good at the ruthless cost-cutting and decision-making that is needed to be competitive with the private sector. It's hard to imagine an Exxon-for-nuclear when you consider that nuclear fuel is impossible to acquire privately.
> Nietzsche once said that a man who has a why can bear almost any how. But a man who has a tungsten cube can bear any object less dense, and all this talk of why and how becomes unnecessary.
This reads like they're allegorically throwing shade. At what I'm not sure.
Rather than looking at entire countries as a whole you should consider the urban vs rural split. Major cities in Eastern Europe or Korea or even third world countries are still going to be a lot more expensive than, say, some random town 200 miles outside of San Francisco or New York. First decide what kind of lifestyle you are looking for.
Several.

I already use Fedora Workstation and am familiar with the environment, install, and setup process. CoreOS' "happy path" seems to be cloud (or at least hosted in a hypervisor) -native, and that was not the target here. There seem to be external dependencies on installing it to bare metal I didn't want to mess with[1]. I installed Fedora Server from .iso almost exactly the same way I've installed Fedora (workstation) many times.

My "day job" uses rhel, and with the recent CentOS end-of-life debacle I'd like to stay both FOSS and .rpm-compatible with rhel. I don't know for sure, but I think CoreOS is a different "vertical" than the fedora/rhel/centOS family.

I'm generally wary and suspicious of "automatic" updates, preferring to control when/how updates are applied to my machines. $ sudo dnf system-upgrade is a well-known quantity to me.

I have a complicated LVM setup, and significant time/effort already invested into LVM. As of F34 LVM/ext4 is still first-class.

CoreOS seems to be targeting cloud/kubernetes as implementation characteristics, and my "one man shop" gig is the anti-that. I'm pretty old school - only just started learning Docker about a year ago. I've recently bought into containers as packaging/deployment aids, and using docker-compose to keep deployment in version control. I guess all of this is to say I'm trying to "keep it simple / stupid" and re-use what I already know. Unless CoreOS can give me order-of-magnitude performance gains, I don't know the value prop beats the cost to pick it up.

[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/bare-meta...
Yes, in Anbox: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
Axel Springer's biggest newspaper is BILD - and it's like the German version of The Sun in Great Britain. The reception section in BILD's Wikipedia article has some interesting "highlights" from the paper's history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild#Reception

BILD recently launched their own TV channel. Critics call it the German version of Fox News:

https://uebermedien.de/63042/wie-fox-news-wird-bild-live/

Even Axel Springer's other big newspaper Die Welt is more or less like BILD but with a more serious layout:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Welt
Not a downvoter, but I'm sceptical of your conclusion.

I took a look at the contents of the report, and it is denser than most. I was looking for some idea of the magnitude of difference that you are seeing, and wasn't sure that I was looking in the right place.

Beyond that I wonder what your premise amounts to. Waves of covid come and go in masked and unmasked states. What does it mean to say that masks slow growth at infection minima when a wave comes along and cases grow to a maxima despite the masks?

I'm still chewing on this, but thought I'd throw this out there since you asked.
Here's a good explanation of why.[1] There are several intranasal coronavirus vaccines in test. There's only one approved nasal vaccine now, for anything: FluMist. It's not recommended for people over 50. There have been previous failures. Intranasal vaccines are hard to make work.

Think of the current mRNA vaccines as a minimum viable product. The basic formulation was computed days after the virus was sequenced and they made it to market fast.
They do the basic job. Serious side effects are rare. They require two doses and later, boosters. They're a pain to store and ship because of cold requirements. They're hard to manufacture because putting fragile messenger RNA into a liquid carrier envelope requires exotic equipment. They have reduced effectiveness for virus variants.

Expect later-generation products that solve some of those problems.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/scientists-debate-potent...
Rapid sinicization efforts in Tibet & XJ will probably be wildly "successful". There is increasing demand for models that can rapidly integrate minorities globally. The Tibet template will be emulated, but _poorly_ around the world. Emphasis on "poorly", the cost of propping up of restive regions and TINY* minorities with massive infrastructure, a variety of subsidies to artificially inflate GDP and drive up living standards and quell dissent with combination of political works and ubiquitous surveillance is not one that can be replicated or sustained by most interested parties. Most will stop at ubiquitous surveillance state, with technology likely sourced from PRC vendors who already use XJ/Tibet as advertising campaigns. It's also going to make west model look foolish in 15 years when new integrated generations in Tibet / XJ live fairly normal lives in well developed cities. I don't imagine minorities right in the west will make substantial headway despite all the free speech discussions. The gulf between performance vs performative systems is becoming increasingly self-evident.

[*] Very few countries are as homogenized as PRC with only 8% minorities, of which realistically less than 1% will be subject to heavy sinicization efforts. Diverting disproportionate national resources to integrate restive frontier regions is not prohibitive at PRC scale. This model simply doesn't work for countries with 10/20/30+% minorities that must all be integrated simultaneously. So ironically it will work best in increasingly nativist wealthy countries that rely on managable amounts of immigration.
> But is there a way to build this service in a legit way on top of any existing music services?

One could always build an AI that train on the youtube data to provide background music that take a suggestion from discord and then fill in music that is generated with portions that are recognizable from copyrighted music but then does not do provide the whole song. User can then rate the background music and provide input to the AI.
Seems similar to a leasehold purchase which is common in commercial real estate.
Just imagine if woke people invented a time machine. How would they figure out who's the oppressed that deserves to be saved?
Employers are setting rules on home offices. Yes, the one in your home
I'm sure someone is legitimately buying eg the 55 gallon drum of lube.

...that said, had I organically encountered the tungsten cube on Amazon, I absolutely would google around to make sure it was, like, real.
Honest question: if you’re a long-term visitor, do you get affected by the organised crime at all? My general impression is that tourists are fine, but business owners are in the receiving end of the nastiness.

Digital nomads feel like something in between.
> If your opinions are anywhere right of woke, you get banned straight up.

I hear this from people on the right, but there are plenty of right-wingers in there every time I visit.

Go into a thread about Afghanistan, and there will be people blaming biden arguing with people blaming trump.[1]

Go into a thread about Isreal and Palestine. People are arguing about which one is the true evil.[2]

Go into a thread about climate change. People are openly downplaying climate change.[3]

The subs I most often see suppressing speech are generally on the right, so it sounds a lot like projection when I hear people making these accusations.

[1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pbzuye/large_exp...

[2] - https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/nimqkg/tens_of_t...

[3] - https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pbkpqt/atmospher...
Curious about Pakistan. Are you from there? Which cities besides Murree would you recommend?
TSMC has Bitmain as a low-priority client, and the first one to be cut when demand is high like earlier this year[0]. Bitmain itself is having even bigger reduction in orders to TSMC currently[1] so again, that's the wrong place to look for increased chip demand.

At any rate, I was mostly responding to claims about 'GPUs are profitable for mining' in the parent.

0. https://www.chinamoneynetwork.com/2021/03/05/tsmc-reportedly...

1. https://techtaiwan.com/20210628/bitcoin-mining-rig-bitmain-t...
Kinda sorta.

The more reasonable explanation is they have an effective domestic propaganda apparatus to shape domestic atttudes and a large diaspora that's well represented in tech. It can take quite some time for those attitudes to mellow.

Add to that Westerners of various stripes that get defensive when foreign imperialism is discussed.

No need for some kind of government run downvote ring.
I think a lot of it has to do with Doctors relying on old knowledge and not investigating too closely.
how's the internet in those areas?
> Well, you would be wrong.

You're overly confident for an assertion that relies on your belief that someone with decades of medical experience would be ignorant of these basic statistical pitfalls. Not that all doctors do research but I learned that stuff in my first year in the health industry and I can assure you that doctors are in general very knowledgeable about their patient base and the diseases they treat.

A symptom with a 1 in 100 000 occurrences would result in about 800 cases in my country. Arranged according to demographics, divided by the number of phlebologists in these areas, and the baseline prevalence of these symptoms you can start to make an informed guess as to what amount is "normal".

I don't know if we use VAERS at all being in Europe. I know there was some talk of our reporting system not being interested in non-severe symptoms because of the labour cost of evaluating reports. In truth I don't know exactly what they meant, drugs aren't my domain of expertise and they didn't elaborate. But assuming this doctor is trustworthy in their assessment and intent when they speak of troves of patients with these symptoms and complain of this lack of reporting, it's evidence of a dysfunction somewhere seeing as those side-effects aren't advertised on official channels.
Looks like a great idea! but I will read this later..
No one asked why other fbi agents accessed his data ? Maybe those fbi agents were cia snitches ? :) Maybe it's a feature not a glitch
Cool let me know when its available so I can buy one.
Mutation fingerprints encode cellular histories
"the imperial family were also devout Buddhists."

Do you have a link for this?
I was mostly responding to this statement

> We did not observe association between mask mandates or use and reduced COVID-19 spread in US states. COVID-19 mitigation requires further research and use of existing efficacious strategies, most notably vaccination.

Googling turns up lots of articles like this:

* https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

* https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm

The statements made seem compatible, but I think reading just this article you could come away thinking mask mandates are a bad idea. They might be, but a quick google does make that seem more doubtful. As another commenter pointed out the impact is probably pretty small though and easily swamped by other factors. Who is better controlling for those factors isn't something that's clear to me.

Covid also isn't the flu so I'm not sure how relevant masks effectiveness against the flu is to covid. I think influenza has a lot more surface transmission than covid for example
I wonder if anyone is manufacturing tungsten dumbbells. Would be very pricy, but also super cool.
https://archive.is/7lrVl
that makes no sense, didnt you already do that?
This is important and equivalent. Forced sterilizations of minority ethnic groups by the majority ethnic group is a crime against humanity.
Ring avulsion is pretty scary too, and can happen with any metal ring.
Honestly, the only way for grassroots efforts to do anything is to become less dependent on these doubleplus ungood corporations. I think your work is incredibly valuable, and given the quality of the Guardian recently I wouldn't be surprised to learn they're criticising your work because it encourages people to consoom less.

Bit of a technical question for your AMA, how do you see the tradeoffs in carbon footprints if supply chains shorten? There's efficiencies of scale balanced against cost of moving materials that I assume means the smallest carbon footprint for a given lifestyle requires some extended supply chains, but probably shorter than what we have today. Any thoughts on that?
I have plenty of samples of explosion bonded metals that I fidget with in a similar manner. Samples that combine metals with different densities feel unnatural in the hand.
> Qualitatively the vaccine alone does not work well enough to lead to an R0 < 1

I honestly haven't seen any evidence of this.

With Alpha the attack rate for 80% of breakthrough infections was zero and the other 20% were only 1-3 cases. That's enough to drive the r0 down below 1.0 in a 100% vaccinated population. Nobody has done similar studies against delta breakthroughs.
I linked "half of wikipedia", because that's in how many countries changing majority ethnicities has been state policy.

I'm not one to often bring whataboutism into arguments involving China, but I think it's an important point of context that many of the world's now-stable countries either perpetrated same or were victims of it.

It doesn't begin to excuse or justify it, but it does provide some perspective on the darker parts of our own history.
That 6% tax is... complicated. Bug fixes are not innovation IIRC - I just end up paying 19%, which isn't that much anyways.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...

That is not "just responding to demand," it is actively working to inflate demand. Oil companies have worked hard for decades to keep people in their cars, including participating in the conspiracy to dismantle electric streetcar lines across America (along with GM and several tire manufacturers). You say we need to make oil less competitive, but oil companies are actively working against efforts to do so.
I mean, yeah, like how the cops feel comfortable to do whatever they want to people like me without repressions. My worst experiences living in this country has been with cops, not with "lawless people".

So yeah, I do believe state sanctioned violence is worse for the majority of people.

Oh and if I try to defend myself from an attacking cop I go to prison for decades.
Ah nice, short and concise and the link looks like what wanted, perfect
One thing I'll mention for US citizens. Aetna's Mobile Healthcare Plan seems fairly reasonable. I'm paying around $300 a month total for coverage for my partner and me (most comprehensive coverage, highest deductible). Apparently it's still valid in the US so long as you spend the simple majority of your time outside of the US (i.e. 6 months abroad).

https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/individuals/health-pla...
Cutlery manufacturers absolutely deserve blame for historically making it extremely easy to accidentally cut your fingers with their knives.
Some past related threads:

Investigating the Galileo Satellite Navigation System Outage with a LimeSDR - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20464852 - July 2019 (41 comments)

LimeSDR Now Backed by the European Space Agency - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16493727 - March 2018 (38 comments)

LimeSDR Mini – An open, full-duplex, USB stick radio for femtocells and more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15318233 - Sept 2017 (46 comments)

LimeSDR funded, some hours left to still get a discounted SDR - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11946239 - June 2016 (10 comments)

LimeSDR GSM Base Station Demo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11931072 - June 2016 (27 comments)

IoT wireless hacking – LoRa on the LimeSDR - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11882491 - June 2016 (1 comment)

Digital Video Transmission using LimeSDR and GNU Radio - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11856912 - June 2016 (8 comments)

LimeSDR: Flexible, Next-Generation, Open Source Software Defined Radio - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610521 - May 2016 (28 comments)
Korea is something I have on my mind for so long. I would love a detailed blog post regarding your experience living in Korea as an expat with breakdown of cost and how you ended up there. Seems like an interesting journey to know about.
If you are in this situation, don't cut the ring, crack it. Pure tungsten, and some alloys like tungsten-carbide, is somewhat brittle.

https://www.larsonjewelers.com/can-tungsten-rings-be-cutoff
A worse, and more likely, possibility: What if the money spent reversing climate change could save more lives if spent adapting to climate change?
I think this article overthinks the issue. There's a preponderance of marketing/corporate seminar buzzwords that makes me much less receptive to the overall argument. I have noticed that there seems to be an endemic issue in the tech industry with failed management. However, in my experience, I can usually sum up the issue in a few words. And they're broader in scope, often having less to do with management "styles". There seem to be a handful of contributing factors:

* Management often is not sufficiently well connected to the problem they're trying to solve. Sometimes they don't even have a problem they're solving. They just have a personal entrepreneur/idea person brand that they're selling to investors. In the extreme case, to that kind of person the right choice of turtle neck can matter more than actual hands-on experience or customer need.

* Management and founders tend to be primarily motivated by exit strategies. This means that they necessarily become less concerned with the problem they're solving and more concerned with how they talk about the problem to investors. There seems to be a fundamental trade-off between pleasing investors and actually doing meaningful work.

* Management nowadays is often composed of the most highly-motivated yet most unqualified individuals in the talent pool. I've noticed that there seems to be this notion that grit alone is enough to go out and change the world. This means you end up with a lot of go getter types who are highly motivated to do something but have no practical management or business strategy experience. The problem gets especially bad where management experience is lacking. You end up with people using lots of subtly coercive tactics to motivate their employees, often without even realizing it. Part of this comes from the fact that coercion seems to be the default strategy for most humans. After all, we're all basically just animals with a recently developed neocortex. In my experience, when push comes to shove, most people revert back to force or threats.

* The glut of tech workers means that companies can go through them like paper plates. There's very little incentive from a labor market standpoint for companies to develop healthy relationships with their employees.

Anyway, there's my brain dump take on it :).
I believe the system was adopted in the old days with very high interest rates (~10% was common) - landlords could easily expect to make enough return.

It's actually greatly favorable to landlords. Just think about what happens when one side is out of money. Under the monthly rent system, landlords can't get any more money until they evict the renter (which is a lot of hassle, anywhere in the world). Under the "jeonse" system, if the landlord becomes bankrupt, the renter is suddenly out of a large portion of their total wealth, and will be evicted by the new owner - without any money to find the next place.

(There are insurances to protect renters but the risk is still there.)
false. if you configure zoom correctly, it is infact encrypted.
Tim Cook about to get $750M richer with final payout from big award
Could Covid-19 have wiped out the Neandertals?[2020]
Sure but using the past tense implies that the thing does not happen anymore.

That's why the Mitch Hedberg bit is funny (I used to do drugs... I still do but I used to, too) is humorous. It subverts your expectation that the thing you "used to do" is a thing you no longer do.

The US used to do horrible things to Natives... it still does but it used to, too.
what on earth? why can't Tibet be free? why must to belong to west Taiwan or India? and why can't west Taiwan just let it be autonomous region under west Taiwan?
Another curiosity related to this one is why <h5> and <h6> have smaller default font sizes than <p>, given that they are headers and should therefore "head" a section of text [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55696808/why-do-h5-and-h...
Easiest is probably Mexico or in small town usa in texas.
Nowadays, all major platforms follow IEEE754, which specifies exactly the results of elementary operations (+, -, x, /). You must get bit-for-bit reproducible results across different runs, compiles, libraries, OSes and hardware. Any difference is a bug.

However:

1. As the paper emphasizes, math library functions (sin, cos, log, etc.) are not covered by that standardization, at least not mandatorily and not in practice. This is the problem that the paper tackles.

2. In the bad old days of the x87, the FPU carried out computations on eight 80-bit registers. The problem is that whenever those registers spilled out to the stack, precision was truncated down to whatever type the language actually meant (64-bit double or 32-bit float). Because the register-spilling decision is mostly taken by the compiler, it was largely unpredictable. This resulted in code that was not reproducible, even across compiles! Since x87 was deprecated in favor of SSE/AVX, the precision of operations is always that of the type used in the code. Lower than 80-bits but much better in practice because of consistency and reproducibility.

3. The bad old days are making a comeback with FMA instructions (fused multiply-add). This is a single operation (a x b + c) and so it is correctly rounded to the closest representable number. This number can be different from ((a x b) + c) in which two roundings occur. If we give the compiler freedom to decide whether or not to fuse such expressions, we will again see non-reproducibility across compiles. Unfortunately, gcc and icc both do that by default at -O3 (see -ffast-math, and more specifically -fexcess-precision). Specifying a proper language standard (for example -std=c99, -std=c++14, etc.) restores sane behavior.
alabama or mississippi. it's not all bad if you know where to go.
You perhaps missed that you get the whole deposit back. The landlord doesn't keep it. You could buy the property outright, or you could live somewhere for essentially free, as long as you don't value the interest on that cash more than you value the place you're staying.
The average American thinks they have a 10% chance of dying if they catch covid. For many people this is off by almost 1000x!

What kind of misinformation are people being fed to be so very far off? Why aren’t we doing anything about that?

https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/
Absolutely -- there seems to be tons of real people very eager to equate criticism of the CCP to 'China bad!' and this is part of the problem. The CCP (like all major governments in history) has / is / will do things that are worthy of pushback and scrutiny. Please stop cheapening the debate by attempting to reframe critique of a major government's policies as nationalistic prejudice.