skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This blogger, in a previous post has the intriguing theory that Coronavirus has eradicated the flu, that the 1918 flu may have done the opposite, and introduced the flu as a thing and that any attempt to eradicate Coroavirus will bring the flu back with generally negative impacts.

He talks a good game, but I'm reminded of many, many blogs on climate change and renewable energy that we now know to be wrong. What mechanism is it that elevates eloquent cranks who happen to believe in politically helpful notions of the powerful to prominence.
Very weird to me that so many people think asserting your rights is some magic incantation that will get you out of any police encounter scot-free. We're commenting on a story in which cops literally stole a hapless man’s money. Is that not a tip-off that they’ll happily break the law when it suits them?
By the time someone realizes this they’ve already bought and taken a bite of the burger.

McDonald’s is not the best burger. But for the cost, speed, and effort involved, it’s pretty good.

We could make all kinds of things ourselves but largely we don’t.
How many PMs actually use those features? In my organization, for example, I don't see any reason why we should prefer Atlassian over Taiga, other than familiarity and inertia.
Especially interesting as they intend to support a matrix bridge: https://revolt.chat/roadmap#checkbox40. It seems like it would be easier to just use Matrix "natively" and then you also have a mostly-working Discord bridge for free.

Plus the likely value here is largely the client, so you can consider reusing, or at least building on top of an existing matrix server.
Don't forget that in many ways some real wikis like Dokuwiki are simpler and more user-friendly than Confluence:

- you can edit a paragraph without locking or creating conflicts for the whole page

- it is much faster, and as far as I can see the observe–orient–decide–act loop is a real thing and should be taken into account

- much better wiki syntax (compared to old Confluence)

- trivially extensible so you can create forms and other helpers to make it simpler for users to do the right thing

- if one absolutely need it I think there exist at least one wysiwyg extension for Dokuwiki
There are already so many dying or dead towns / cities in the US that building a new city in a desert sounds like thoughtless, careless waste (not to mention the ecological disaster of displacing / destroying the ecosystem of the desert). When there are so many habitable locations, why build a city in an inhospitable environment - so much energy resource is going to be wasted to make it habitable ...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_the_Uni...

- https://www.businessinsider.com/10-american-cities-that-are-...
But we know society doesn’t value repairability as they don’t prefer repairable devices in practice.
Hyde Park, Battersea Park, join the easy Sunday Stroll at 14:00 every week, no idea about skates, but make sure they're comfortable!
when you do, be aware that locally encrypting mail and sending it over the bridge will not work.
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> although it has never been seen until now, scientists think it might be among the most abundant forms of water in the universe.

Definitely top 10
What is GW? Something to do with nuclear I presume but I'm not sure who you're calling dumb.
What exactly did ivermectin do for you? Did you have covid or did you take it as a preventative measure for a long period of time?
Alternatives are always a great thing but I wonder already about survival of this application. Were you guys thinking about any monetization plans already or maybe you going to ask community for support, or you have other ideas if of course such will be needed?

Also, the scrollbar on roadmap page in desktop Vivaldi version doesn't seem to be doing anything.
> Now you can buy lithium ion cells that regulate down to 1.5 volts, so NiMH is basically obsolete.

NiMH is a lot safer, cheaper, and has slightly better capacity. It's been a few years since first available, but any posters even heard of anyone using 1.5V Li-ion cells? Once you know enough to even be aware of them, you'd be using 3.6V Li-ion instead, so really it's the 1.5V Li-ion that was instantly obsolete, yet still somehow hangs on due to extremely specific circumstances of boutique users that want a flat-regulated 1.5 volts.
Came here to say that we adopted Riot once it rebranded to Element.
That’s been my world. And no, it doesn’t shine. It’s the worst way to manage a complex project that anyone has conceived of short of anarchic project management with no plans and no deliberate coordination. Waterfall is a great way to fuck up a complex system.

It is unresponsive to change. The smallest ambiguity will result in the undesirable outcome of building the wrong thing. The only good thing about Waterfall is that contractors can make bank on the rework, but their customers will be screwed every time.
Since you seem to have a lot of energy to invest in this theory space, why not try your hand at explaining the SDSS-III BOSS results? If you make any progress on that, try SPIDERS and TDSS and explain at least some of the apparent BAOs and high-z = low Tolman surface brightness.

If you're really intrepid, you could try explaining the narrow lines of the Lyman-\alpha forest, and try your hand at predicting it for the background object (or, if you really dig down into your theory, whatever your explanation for the quartet of images at the edge of this structure) in https://research.ast.cam.ac.uk/lensedquasars/indiv/2M1310-17...

Additionally, why is the CMB an almost perfect blackbody spectrum and why is it extremely isotropic? This is a key problem if you plan to retain photon number while depressing photon energy.

While you're there, what is the value of the constant k in your magic equation, and how is it determined? How do you relate this to cosmological neutrino mass constraints in the Mega-Z LRG dataset found by several groups including (slides) http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapola/Lahav_neutrino2016_8...
What is your idea make the hot dark matter vanish and/or fail to couple with your proton mass term?

I don't think that this is a priori unachievable, but it is very much in the land of "show a realistic plan for your work that demonstrates engagement with several public datasets", and is a lot of work for a single author. I would suggest an initial thesis, roughly masters level, with a plan for follow-on work evolving from that initial target. Several widely-cited cosmologists having already had their doctoral dissertations accepted tried their hands at series of individual papers on the back of smaller datasets in the mid 20th century and largely retreated from technical problems in the coupling of emitted photons to specific intervening radiation fields. I don't think their approaches will necessarily help yours, since your equation (your thesis should cite its origin, even if it is a self-cite) does not have an explicit coupling term.

Whether or not you complete this type of project or even have it looked at by anyone else, it is certain that the process of writing it more formally than short Hacker News comments will clarify your thinking. You'll also probably run into some interesting and still technically open problems, and it would be a win for everyone if you helped further resolve some of those.
Or Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running) As a kid I loved that film, as an adult, not so much.
I do not know, but I did not intend to imply anything with my question.

My question was to find out what incentive people have to purchase index funds if they “aren't owners of the underlying shares and don't have any relationship with those companies.”
Then growth must be less than (nonrenewable) energy+material intensity, but it does not mean there can't be growth.
Agreed. This purely materialistic definition of success is a very western concept.

Eastern traditions have gone beyond them a long time ago since they are much older.

Western traditions will eventually catch up.
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yeah, waterfall has its uses. It's not the evil puppy killer everyone makes it out to be
Your concerns are valid but I think you are downplaying this by characterizing it as "swiss police merely pass them to proton". Protonmail recieved a legally binding order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice.

I'm not saying Swiss laws are infallible but this request was not simply "forwarded":
"Swiss authorities will only approve requests which meet Swiss legal standards (the only law that matters is Swiss law)"

As they mentioned in the blog post, they do challenge many of these requests but it was not legally possible in this case.
> 6. (obsolete) A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.

from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fellow
I am far from a subject matter expert on this, but I have been doing my best to read up on this lately. It seems like we’re globally diverging on fabrication expertise at a process level i.e. nanometer scale [0]. The bulk of leading edge chip manufacturing (currently around 7nm or below) seems to indeed be slipping away to Southeast Asia, but as you said the U.S. is holding their own at larger process levels (Cree is mentioned in the article as well) and still producing at a volume that may be surprising to many doomsayers. It’s worth noting at this point that, according to the article I linked below, it is estimated that five larger process chips are required for every leading process chip produced. So this doesn’t seem to entirely be an accident on the part of U.S. companies. Sure, some companies like Intel have simply failed to innovate in the past few years, but others seem to have made a calculated decision to avoid massive R&D expenditures that may or may not pay off as we begin to approach the limits of Moore’s law. The reality is that leading edge chip fabs are extraordinarily expensive. I read a podcast transcript recently with a prominent professor who is an expert in this field [1]. He mentioned that he did some consulting for the U.S. Govt., and when they asked him for his estimate for how much it would cost in subsidies to catch up with or outpace the rest of the world in fabs his response made the guy who asked the question practically fall out of his chair. Have we reached a point where quantity (at an average level of quality) is now more important than having the fastest and the smallest IP?

[0]: https://semiengineering.com/can-the-u-s-regain-its-edge-in-c...
[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22648372/willy-shih-chip-...
It's not a huge leap from a tax evasion charge to something the Swiss would help with. Money laundering maybe.
Veterans don't tend to be wealthy. It's like saying "Nevada cops use civil forfeiture to steal a teacher's life savings"
Let's say 99.5%, because Atlassian hosted offering is called "Atlassian Cloud"
I agree with just not complete with it. It is just important to keep the software actual / safe. Not new features, like Apple does it with full OS upgrade.
Not to raise the price for 7 years for spare parts is BS and far from reality.
It's everywhere now as a management fad. My Aunt works for the Environment Agency and has been 'agile' for a few years. The mind boggles.
Choosing America
It doesn't seem like they have explicit bot support yet given their roadmap[1]. It's supposed to be in their next update though.

[1] https://revolt.chat/roadmap
You need to be able to replace your battery for a phone to last that long.

It would be nice if manufacturers had to make them easily replaceable too.

EDIT: Posted to wrong story by mistake.
I’ve used strict versions of agile, as well as a dozen quasi-versions. They were all horrible. Both for managers and ICs.

It seems what works the best, as least for B2B SaaS, is driven more by building a feature that works, instead of trying to hit a date, or stripping the feature down to nothing in order to hit that date.
> A very pervasive argument against renewables is "but storage!!!".

This goes with my issue, emergencies. I expected to see that in the article.

When you absolutely MUST have power absolutely right now, renewables don’t cut it with current storage options. Think disaster or pop-up energy needs.

I’m just really skeptical that the hard pushes for renewables are taking into account we should have excess production options in coal and NG going forward.
Maybe not as literally, but the themes definitely come up in both comment threads and media.
I don't think security updates are quite enough. Sometimes you need updates to keep functioning. For example support for TLS 1.0/1.1 or older signature algorithms was widely removed, which can prevent old clients from connecting to most servers.
That makes some sense. Although I am having a hard time imagining someone trying to clickbait with "4k movies". I for one am not as much interested in the resolution as a I am in the content. But what do I know ...
Emphasis on "plans":

"Now, he just needs somewhere to build it -- and $400 billion in funding"
I don't think consumers are that interested in processor speeds anymore. Cameras are probably the biggest selling point for new phones these days, followed by battery life and display quality.
It bothers me that we don't view it as a problem on this board the fact that we have an entire upvote/downvote brigade that reacts purely on whether you're speaking good or ill about Rust.

I'm not one to tell moderators what to do but on some boards people get told off severely for such behavior.

"x in rust"[1] threads are so prevalent that they should get a ranking penalty.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> They still don’t get to hand over your emails, which is an improvement over most other providers.

They do if they're asked to and you're not using their custom e2e thing (e.g. you're using the imap gateway).
I realize it was rain (and not a hurricane) but we had very similar flooding back in 2012 (just 9yrs ago) with Hurricane Sandy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Sandy_in_...

I'm not as familiar with NJ as I am with NYC -- but in NYC we had something similar in 2012 and again in ~1992 with a Nor'Easter.

I'm just wondering if the risk distributions were' using are unrealistic?
Climate change means Australia may have to abandon much of its farming
I love the ambition. One thing I've been really amazed about China has been the willingness to tackle big infrastructure projects - building cities like Shenzhen in a few decades and all of the infrastructure projects in the Pearl River Delta in general. I think we need more of that in the west. So I wish them luck - I hope real estate speculation doesn't ruin it.

One thing I've noticed with US politics is that things tend to be viewed as local issues instead of national ones. For example, NYC's public transit is a key part of the US's financial engine, but still chronically underfunded and mismanaged, and New York's problem to deal with. So I hope people see projects like this as points of national pride, even if they don't live there.
Can you run a conpiler on ChromeOS ? How about a Blender or Freecad app ?
Commentary: Five myths about U.S. aid to Egypt (2018)
> That doesn't take into account the roughly 50% churn rate per decade in the S&P 500. The companies that were in the S&P 500 in 2013 did not all benefit from and average 15% stock price increase, not even close.

Which is why you generally want to invest in index funds and not individual companies.
It's up to the local authorities as you said. If the Chinese government files 500 requests on interpol and the Swiss authority recognizes the requests, ProtonMail will just have to comply.

But usually interpol rejects many requests from the Chinese government (to track uyghurs for example).

The real scandal here is why the French authority is making such request on an activist, why Interpol processed it (as far as I understand there are no crimes in play here?), and why the Swiss authority recognizes the request?
Perhaps we don't have the full story, but, with only the information we have, it sounds like an abuse of the protocol on 3 different entities. And double standards from Interpol (not okay to track down chinese activists, but ok for french activists?)
This is getting very lousy.
> but surely there are higher standard and processes than: police forward foreign request. Don't challenge or question, just do task required.

There are, which they specifically described.

This also goes for your second described case. The chinese government is only one of the two required.
But apart from the advertisement of language choice, an OSS alternative is quite good, no? I’d be keen to try it out.
it's still better than the actual state of million of phones filled with "abandonware"
They can when they are being used to produce kinetic energy. Using a motor as a generator however has much lower efficiency.
> Every action is an attempt to meet a need.

Very interesting read, well summarized.
UK NHS: Dear White People
> more curious and less dismissive

If a thing doesn't make sense to me, it must be that the thing is foolish, not that I lack understanding.

What's really foolish is thinking in linear, mean-reverting, zero-sum terms in the face of exponentially increasing knowledge and value.
Looking for a job is a sales task. It is all about self-promotion. It does not come naturally for many dev./engineer types (and I'm one of them) but that's the mindset to adopt.
I'd suggest everyone step back from their own politics for a moment and pause to consider just how absurd it is that a fucking medicine for parasite infections that barely anyone except veterinarians, tropical explorers, pet owners and farmers knew previously has now been polliticized to this degree across vast swathes of the media landscape.

The obvious answer to such a situation is that science should be allowed to take its normal investigative course and all possible options be investigated and presented so long as the researchers behind them are also honestly examining evidence. And yes, this could very easily include ivermectin or anything else, because it already does in much of the world where this polarization bubble around this particular medicine, or certain other subjects, doesn't ridiculously exist to the same degree.

I shake my head thinking about people a few decades from now shaking their own heads at emotionally and ideologically driven stupidities like this in the middle of numerous other hysterias revolving around a global pandemic and the politics of the last few years..
> Whereas Mars requires the Deep Space Network to reasonably be able to maintain communications - so your very cheap probes still need super-highgrade radios to be useful

That's not technically true. They maintain fancy radios that can reach Earth as a backup. Data transfer is done via the Mars Relay network.

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8861/the-mars-relay-network-conne...

Ingenuity uses this as well.

> if Starlink works on Earth, there's no real reason it shouldn't work on Mars.

Ground-to-low orbit comms relays have been in operations for half a century. And decades at Mars already. Starlink is for high throughput communications from ground to ground on the same planet with always-on connectivity and global coverage. Their sattelites are engineered cheap and replenished with cheap lift from SpaceX. Totally different problem calculus at Mars and doesn't address "backhaul" to Earth.

You'd need longer-lived high throughput optical terminals or better, preferably at Areostationary orbits. Checkout work by Briedenthal and Edwards on the matter.
So it would be okay if the Minister of the armed forces said such a thing about non-veterans?
From what I've seen, the quality of the experience is astounding. Well done!

To the Revolt developers: I believe your "Verify your Revolt account" email contains a link that can only be clicked once.
I've heard that gmail (and other email clients) automatically visit the links of email, so that may cause some problems.
It’s impossible to respond to fallacies without saying them.

I can show you examples of every single one of these if you want. This #2 example is interesting as it specifically excludes hydroelectric which is a common refrain in 100% calculations: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20022019/100-percent-rene...

Now having given an example can I mention how modeling the grid without hydroelectric power is a fallacy?
I routinely encounter all of these fallacies when discussing renewables with family and co-workers. Especially “the sun doesn’t shine at night” types of gotcha.

I encounter “wind mills cause cancer” less often now, but still encounter “kills billions of birds” all the time.

Do you actually converse with people who are against renewables energy? Or even people who claim “it’s not ready”?
You might enjoy Fairphone if you're actually willing to pay that premium for having a more sustainably produced and repairable phone. The company also produces spare parts, e.g. vibration engine + mic + usb port are in the bottom module which costs a grand total of €20 to order new. Screw it in with a regular Philips.

There's also a decent (especially compared to the market share) community so it has good support for various roms if that's your thing. By default it's a normal Android with Google stuff.

They'll introduce a new model with 5G some time this month, in case you're in the market.

(I'm not affiliated by the way, just a fan)
Looks like that ridiculous city the Saudi Crown Prince is building. The difference is he has money to burn. Good luck finding investors for this.
What about Conduit? Recently entered beta and is also written in rust.

https://conduit.rs/
I have a mildly different perspective, that is also shown in the quote about testing infrastructure that I think the author missed - it's not so much about instant gratification as it is identifying how to see the results.

Take the second suggestion, for example, where the author appears to imply that tech debt, test coverage, etc are "2nd rate tasks" yet the speaker in the quote addresses this very point about how Facebook learned the hardway to ignore such things.

Instead of shrugging shoulders and blaming instant gratification, how about taking some measures of the impact that tech debt is making? Are you seeing outages as a result? Are you wasting resources as a result? What kind of cost savings could you expect by fixing it? How many bugs have you released that could have been caught by better test coverage? How much time is wasted on testing that could be automated?

Those are killer KPIs to measure, and extremely satisfying, in my humble opinion.
I know this is meant to be a joke, but I actually do think that from the perspective of an 'ordinary' company it's better to have 'ordinary' developers. They might stay for 5, even 10 years. If you manage to get excellent people they'll realise their mistake and be gone within 18 months along with your onboarding investment and everything they've learned.
When I was in a similar position we switched to Digital Ocean (no affiliation) simply because of their predictable pricing model, and that worked very well for us. Linode would have worked the same.

Another service that I've used is using dedicated servers from OVH.

Of course all this is my personal opinion but the obscurity of AWS pricing (predict/calculate ec2 hours + predict/calculate network traffic costs + S3 storage class/tiers costs) is a major turnoff for me.

In some situations all that granularity could have costs benefits but in my experience it does tend to run and suddenly a we end up paying $600+/mo for a $20/mo instance because we hit some cap thresholds (true story)...

Good luck figuring this out!
Somebody mentioned in yesterday's big thread that the stay on uploading new stuff was only temporary (for two or so weeks), so the case itself continues, but ban on uploading is no longer in effect.
Would deprecated TLS not fall into the "security" category? It's hardly a feature.
The more I hear about Switzerland, the more I consider a life there.