skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ignoring it doesn't do any good indeed, fearmongering and using a pandemic to hustle views, doesn't do any good either.

I think that's happening on both sides of the political spectrum. Politicians and political parties will take whatever is going on in the world to push their agenda (and the news outlets follow along).

> People took the shot, what else do you want them to do? To stop living their lives indefinitely?

I don't think people should stop living their lives. I'd just like them to be aware of what's going on and take it seriously. I see some parts of America not wanting to wear a mask or get vaccinated, however, they definitely want their spot in the ICU if they got a serious COVID case. I think that they should consider that some of the newer variants may be more dangerous, and maybe revisiting the idea of getting the shot could be a good idea, that is all.
> that’s only benefiting those with capital

The irony of this is telling. I have to assume you are unvaccinated, and unaware that you are being publicly critical of the government.
It is pretty obvious why it is better though.

It is getting more input and it is getting faster input so it can course correct quicker and more aggressively.

The youtube algorithm wants to optimize for time on the site, and the creators try and have 10 minute videos it seems.

In that time you can consume 60 tiktok videos at 10s each and skipping the ones you dont want and watching the ones you do.

Since 10s is such a small investment they can throw random videos at you and it is pretty low cost.
Even if they have shitty commits, it barely matter if its hidden behind a merge commit. On the off chance that squashed commits wouldve been useful, I much rather have it than not.

In fact I once did a PR moving around some files which is visible with multiple commits (move file commit, edit file commit) which was replaced by a sqiash commit that deletes files and adds one with modified content.
Yes. And it only became relevant if you exploited a race condition by ordering the building to land, then ordering a siege tank to move under that landing point while the landing animation was in progress. You couldn't order a building to land on top of a unit, and a queued order to land would fail if any units were in the way, but once the building started to land, it wouldn't stop, and any units under it would be trapped. The bug fix added a second check which would kill any units under the building when it finished landing.

In principle, you could do this with any unit, but it was mostly useful for siege tanks, since those were the only Terran ground unit which really benefited from sitting in place.
Maybe it is because not only that tweet but they blindly blanket labelled ALL cryptocurrencies as bad for the environment without any compelling evidence to substantiate that claim. Their take on the whole issue can be found in this post [0]. (With some parts of them criticising NFTs in general I agree with.)

To create that claim and only attack Bitcoin and Ethereum as if they represent 'ALL cryptocurrencies' seems outright misinformed and at best fallacious and the best the author of the tweet has got for being against PoS is that it is 'coming soon™'.

If the author believes that 'all cryptocurrencies' 'are an absolute disaster', they're free to take a short position against their favourite disaster coins.

[0] https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issue...
Yeah, the problem of political will is paramount. When a majority of voters are homeowners, there isn’t any will to reduce home values…
I'd be willing to believe 99% of applications, yes - for the same reason that Wordpress can claim to drive some ridiculous percentage of websites - but since the larger use cases tend to come from larger organizations, 99% of developers don't work on systems where one instance suffices. There's a reasonably large number of companies for which that's not true, and there's not very many good "next step" options when you're too big for vertical scaling but too small to fund building your own engine.
Yep, accounting for carbon offshoring lowers the difference (US emissions gain 7% if you count consumption not just production, and China's lose 14%) but it still holds that China emits more per capita.

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
I know that I cannot access my protonmail email under a wide variety of circumstances that I make efforts to avoid. Two of them involve forgetting complicated passwords, either of which would render my entire (historical) email vault unreadable. But it could absolutely be security theater.

What I have no idea about is Google. Do they even need to do anything targeting you in order to decrypt the data or not? Obviously they can modify your software with a remote update such that they can capture your decryption password, but that's a lot more work than querying a database and using a master key that Google has on hand for this sort of thing.
> He never bothered to explain why he thinks so. Apple fans are a little too fond of describing their favored products using this word.

Learned programming in an Apple IIc, and I still remember how much I liked the Apple's and Macintosh computers. Anyway my second computer was an IBM PC, because I wanted to keep up to date with tech. Never liked the colorful clamshell, the lamp, or the fish bowl. But looking at the pixaleted rainbow apple logo in the UI brings the magic back.

How fast we moved from a world of computers are our friends, to computers want to spy and take money from us.
Doubt it. Many decent poker players have moved into areas where they can make money off of rich guys. From my minimal research many years ago, nobody knew of Dan B.
That is what I wrote, but I specified that the local van delivery drivers are not employed by Amazon, so Amazon not testing them for marijuana is a moot point.
This can be great for houses as well see https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.solarm...
> Your docs is not extracted from code

I don't really understand this. If the documentation doesn't exist next to the code it documents, isn't there a risk that someone will change the code without updating the docs, leading to confusing or wrong docs?
I see what you are trying to say ... but it's a bit misleading and actually technically wrong.

"x=x for all x" - this is true if you mean to say everything on the Fed's balance sheet is 'Debt' ... but that's wrong - it's referred to as 'Assets'. The currency itself is the 'Liability'.

A Central Bank issues currencies for assets, in which case the 'currency' is 'backed by' those assets. Ostensibly, one could trade the currency back for those assets.

That's not generally what we think of as 'debt'.

Now, much of the 'Assets' are actually US TBills, which is 'debt' - but - not all of the Fed's Balance sheet is TBills.

So 'x' does not equal 'x'.

The US Fed Balance sheet [1]

ECB Balance Sheet [2]

Historically the asset would be gold - and that still makes up part of the Fed's balance sheet. Since 2008, the US Fed has issued currency based on mortgage securities, essentially, it owns homes.

Otherwise, the Fed owns TBills, i.e. US Government debt, as assets, which is part of the basis of this article: The US Fed is one of the 'major owners' of TBills.

Yes, it's legit to point out that 'Internal Operations' are relevant and partly why Japan is not having major inflation, but your denotation of 'Internal' as being 'Government Agencies' is not quite right: by 'Internal' what we really would mean is 'internal to the Japanese economy'.

So Japanese debt is held by Japanese individuals and institutions of all kinds, public, private etc.. So 'Internal' means anything in their entire economy.

For a breakdown of a Central Banks Balance Sheet have a look here [3] which breaks down ECB balance sheet growth over the last while.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/10/understan...

[2] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecb.eurosystembalanc...

[3] https://gaeeuk.org/blog/jcc77k9fbhfymchj94edzbahjd5zbe
I have an acquaintance who wrote one about a decade ago. He said he was profitable in small stakes play, but the average player was pretty bad then. I've played recently and the average player seems quite a bit better now.

I would think that a pretty naive bot would do fine at lower stakes since most people there are not that disciplined, so just sticking to a basic strategy and not making obvious mistakes would probably have positive EV.

Seems unlikely that anyone is going to publish a system that currently works though.
Sport psychology may help https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/21/how-to-...
Perhaps more fruit and vegetables? https://neurosciencenews.com/fruit-veg-stress-18430/
Alter your playlist? https://www.anxiety.org/music-therapy-stress-reducing-playli...
Physical reality? What physical instrument measures merit?

The origin of the word shows criticism of the concept isn't just "Orwellian duckspeak".
I have yet to see a single CCP propaganda video on TikTok. What exactly are you seeing?
There is also, and mainly, the "hedonic adjustment" that is made in computing GDP - the price of computing devices, for instance is arbitrarily increased to reflect their increased "power", and this is taken to mean that their value to consumers is increased by the same amount.

This year's phone is ten times as "powerful" as one from five years ago, therefore we multiply phone sales by ten.

The same reasoning applies with cars, ignoring the fact that it's now nearly impossible to buy a car without power windows, power steering, automatic transmission, anti-lock braking, etc.
Again, it was only cost-effective to build farming rigs in the very beginning. It is no longer cost-effective to do so. Even major companies will eventually have a tough time competing with the amount of storage space that is already deployed in the world. IIRC is around ~7 Zettabytes. That is the big difference with Bitcoin. Chia is making use of a resource that already exists in the world and is well distributed. Bitcoin ASICs require manufacturing and building machines for the specific purpose of mining Bitcoin and then distributing those machines.
What a _completely_ surprising result.

Who is going to quote Jeff Goldblum first?
I think it’s clear you’ve never taught low level mathematics courses. There is a lot of hand waving and brain washing that happens. The vast majority of people don’t know what a number is in a precise, mathematical sense. At the level of the intended audience it would be wholly inappropriate talk about the definition of a number.

My background on this topic is that I’ve taught intermediate algebra for over 20 years.
Figure out the best location for a hyperloop hub and put it there
>by author Gir.

aka Moebius [1] [2] of Incal [3] fame.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_(comics)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraudhttps://en.wikipedi...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal
I’d much rather work four days at nine hours than five days at eight.
My hope is that the author, 10 years from now, will reflect on _why_ he thought these things, and gain some profound enlightenment from them.

I can identify many beliefs about the state of the present (now the past), and the state of the future (now the present), that I held around that same age, and that I'm now embarrassed by. I had no fully-formed idea of what success looked like, save for the meager success I'd enjoyed up to that point. Yet somehow, I felt qualified to hold those beliefs anyway.

Case in point: I at 24 (roughly the same age as the author, minus one year) was having a talk with a 37-year-old colleague, where he brought up a statistic he'd read: $27 million was self-sustaining - that, due to diminishing returns, you'd be living the same lifestyle solely off the interest proceeds, if you didn't work another day in your life. My first thought was, "that's not fully out of the realm of possibility - that's maybe even doable!" That was back when I was in the exponential growth phase of my career - I'd just graduated college, and had the word "Junior" dropped from my title shortly thereafter. I now know that's ridiculous, and I look back at 24-year-old me with some contempt for having thought it.
If you had to do it all over again, would you still start with MongoDB or would you go with Cassandra right off the bat?
Correction: Virus Outbreak-Mississippi Story
How about the last post being a redirect to new account?
Good job!

Does restic provide commands to automatically resolve these errors?
You Might Not Be Returning to the Office Until Next Year
> Saying that "some people just can't learn" so-called "advanced" math such as college algebra and calculus, or programming for that matter, is just pointless speculation with zero evidence to back it.

What about the anecdotes of millions of people who self-profess that despite very much effort, they just can't wrap their head around some advanced math concepts? That doesn't count as evidence?
When squash merging, all commit messages are added to the extended description in the editor, which makes it far easier to remove useless comments and add in any necessary info as needed. All of that context can then be viewed via git show and other commands, while keeping the base branch's history linear and readable in the process.

I don't see a problem with squash merging, especially as a point of policy. It's been the best of both worlds in my experience.
Humans in Tech
I meant Han Chinese. My bad.
I don't think it would or at least should.
Yup, to me they're known just a bit less than TI and Analog Devices (now that Atmel and ST Micro are gone) and more than Microchip or ST because they serve so, so many high power applications.

I just think those high power applications are invisible, like tens of percent reductions in the power used in an application. You can see them if you measure closely but not if you're casually working with it.
I suffer from DP/DR (a horrible anxiety-based condition https://www.verywellmind.com/derealization-2671582#what-is-d...) and coding hard for an hour can leave me in a similar state to DP/DR.
>What I mean is as an owner of bonds you are not expecting to get your money back from the lendee necessary.

Yes, because purchasing a bond is just purchasing cash flow at various points in time. It does not matter who makes that cash flow happen, as long as you receive the cash.

> If you are a government there is a market for me to sell it on easily.

There only exists a market for you to sell on easily because similar debts have been previously paid back.
Reminds me of The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi.
The correct way to handle this during a routine stop is to inform the officer that you do not answer questions. In the US, you are not required to answer any questions.

Also, the police have a limited time to conduct the stop. Once they give you back your license, you can immediately leave regardless of what the officer requests that you do. The stop is over at that point, and they cannot legally detain you any longer.
Sounds a bit like the dev got stuck in the childhood fear/fantasy of "what if the more words I speak, the sooner I die"...
https://my-store-11484295.creator-spring.com
This. I sell an eBay for a living and unless I have proof beyond reasonable doubt that the buyer is lying, I am required to provide a refund.

Since I started telling buyers that I log serial numbers for every item I sell, though, a surprising number of them started closing their own cases.
Also: who isn't at the center of their social circle?
CCP propaganda won’t be a red flying with people chanting “China is great!” It will be something like “masks aren’t effective” to increase the impact of COVID on America.
Very true!

I still use my 10-year old Samsung Galaxy 2 phone (mainly as mp3 player and spare phone when I want to take a more expendable one).

Flash it with cyanogen and you have a basic smartphone that still feels snappy.

https://cyanogenmodroms.com/i9100/

My main phone is a 5 year old Galaxy S7 and I would very likely buy another as my main phone if this one was lost.
"Life, uh, finds a way"
Resistive losses are proportional to current squared, not linear.
Nope, I’m using Chrome / Firefox and it’s a common enough problem that Atlassian sluggishness has been a running joke on multiple teams I’ve been on.

Maybe I should measure it and post somewhere, I thought it was a well-known problem but maybe there’s something different about our setups.
Note that this is "average time on app", which draws two potential pitfalls:

• Youtube is consumed A LOT on the website, including some people using the mobile website (not the app) to keep it playing in the background (duh). This only compares average time on app.

• It could also be totally skewed, if let's say 100M people spend 2h/day on average on Youtube, and 1k (a tiny amount) spend 2.5h/day on average on Tiktok, that'd be already good enough to say "average time per user spent on the apps is higher for TikTok".

I haven't read the report, but wanted to point out these two warnings. As we say in Spanish, the easiest way to lie is with statistics. And of course any half-decent PR person will take any numbers and blow it up into a headline, so tread with caution.

(Absolutely not wanting to discount on Tiktok, which has been growing at an incredible rate, just wanted to say that the wording on how exactly they are "winning" sounded a bit contrieved).
5 is really only debated by academics. I think the actions of policy makers prove they think it's true. Does anyone remember the debate during the Clinton years over whether or not they should start paying back government debt given a surplus?
There’s something wild about being so liberal that people assume you’re conservative. I’m very much vaccinated and also upset that our government left the out most vulnerable people with $1400 and a thumbs up, fucked over out healthcare workers, pushed people back to work rather than give any meaningful assistance and put everyone at risk, did basically nothing to control housing costs all while the stock market posted record returns for already wealthy capital holders.
Only within the borders of the United States.
Yes, I think it's absolutely worth arguing the difference between "it's hard" and "it's impossible", because those are two fundamentally different things.

You can overcome difficulty, you cannot overcome (by definition) impossibility.

What you keep ignoring in what I'm saying however, is that I do think certain things are impossible for some people. I will never play in the NBA, for example, but that's a far cry from being "very good" at basketball.

Learning calculus and completing a marathon are not the point at which "healthy" (and yes, it's fuzzy, but precision is impossible on this topic) people are sometimes unable to do things. Winning a marathon and getting a Ph.D. in mathematics, I would acquiesce to your argument.

In other words, I think anyone can dabble in anything, but you do need an alignment of genetic and environmental circumstances to be in the top 1% of something. I could be argued into top 10%, but below that, it appears the data supports almost anyone being able to do almost anything, or at least well beyond whatever artificial lines we might draw to discourage people from achieving.
> I definitely want to destroy my Home Nas in a matter of months to make a little money.

That won't happen unless your NAS is a bunch of consumer grade SSDs, which I hope it is not.
On Falsifying the Simulation Hypothesis
MMT people tend to support major direct spending to people on the bottom, not things like QE
Wow neat. Yes this is a challenge with ProtonMail, the search can only go by subject line and recipients as message contents are encrypted.

To your point about privacy not being lucrative, interesting.
And what would snubbing be?

All I came across are some industrial terms, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snubbing
that strawman conveniently ignored my point about taking an active role in the education of people close to you.

when someone I knew got hit by ransomware I felt responsible so I offered people close to me help understanding basic computer hygiene to prevent this sort of thing, and a lot took my offer.
They aren’t showing propaganda videos, they are filtering out what makes them look bad and emphasizing what makes them look good.

Update: here’s a reference to leaked documents to this effect: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/...
What matters is whether people are churning through hardware, not the scale of the mining operation. Apparently this churn was a problem in the past but it's not anymore. Is this not correct?
I was referring to the physical wear and tear that a phone had to withstand compared to a game console.
Can afford to lose money for a long time — IIRC this is called “long term planning” …
> What people who read this article may not realize is that this is the Chia incentive model actually working properly.

I think that most people commenting here understand that this is the way that proof-of-* systems end up functioning at scale. Participants in these systems are incentivized to cut corners, externalize costs, and generally fuck things up for everyone else.
I got to liquidate a broken stack of these back in the late 2000s. For some reason I couldn't get one of them to power off, so I pulled the power cable and waited. Then I went to class.

Four hours later, I came back home, and the thing was still running.

You could argue that it was just sitting at the folder-question-mark icon and doing nothing useful, but I'm assuming that it also meant no power saving features were enabled by the kernel (at least, that's how it works in the PC world - I was quickly disparaged of the notion that running DOS instead of Windows 98 just for my text editor would give me better battery life).
Right on the linked page is commentary about how the title is misleading. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62398-w
The original research article is the subject of an editorial expression of concern. There is no direct evidence to support the title of the post.
On typing: "other, intangible process factors, e.g., the preference of certain personality types for functional, static and strongly typed languages" stands out.

As he says, you may be able to show a slight benefit, but I would bet that if you controlled for that "personality type", the strong and replicable result would be "people who program in a language they like do a better job than those forced to use one they don't like."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62398-w Editorial expression of concern, including that the content does not justify the title...
Scale, Flow and Microservices
Having purchased an "in stock" SSD directly from WD at the end of last year, it's not something I'm keen to repeat.

Their store seemed to operate primarily on incompetence.

I finally got my invoice two weeks later, still with no working shipping information, and the drive turned up days later still.

On top of their scummy behaviour around SMR disks, and their NAS solution, I think I'll be steering as clear as possible.
Timeless is tough, this is from 2007:

"For javascript on the client you need nothing other than the browser you already have and the Rhino book"
you should read about standard intelligence operations and how underground resistance organizations have historically operated ie. French resistance in Nazi-Occupied France, etc. for a case study in covert comms.

the key you pointed to tho was regarding convenience. simple fact is that most of the usability desired in consumer email is not compatible with the practical design principles of covert communications.
Hmm. Are the biologists not aware of the Law of Truly Large Numbers? [0] That would be concerning indeed…

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_truly_large_numbers