skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brazil did it successfully in the late '70s or thereabouts. They didn't pay for people's slaves. There was a difference in the ideology of manumission before the law was passed. In short, it seems to have been more like New Orleans, where there was a distinct class of free men of color, and a (low-)middle-class free black person was nothing out of the ordinary. In the Deep South, black meant slave.

Could the US have done the same as Brazil. I don't think it was possible (except in a few special places like Appalachia and New Orleans and maybe the Eastern border states). The animosity over the issue had been building for 50+ years and was accompanied by a strong cultural divide and a slew of other issues that divided the US. And there was no regular tradition of manumission: black meant slave in the most of the South.

Maybe another 10 years would have made it possible, but I don't see where those 10 years could have come from.

I should add that victory at Gettysburg wouldn't have won anything but footwear for the rebels. Grant took Vicksburg and control of the Mississippi during Gettysburg, and in doing so fulfilled the Anaconda Plan. Grant and the Navy, historically a Northern/Midatlantic institution, effectively cut the South off from the outside world (except for the lucky blockade-runner and the small population of the Southern West. And the European powers had seen the writing on the wall like a year before. The CSA's slow death by privation was almost guaranteed. Even an Austerlitz-level victory at Gettysburg wouldn't have save the CSA. Washington was a fortress and there were of course Union reserves in the East and the possibility of transferring troops from other fronts. In my opinion, the CSA's two best chances for a negotiated victory were, one, a march on Washington right after the 1st Bull Run and two, a defensive or Fabian strategy maybe even coupled with asymmetric raids into the North until the 1864 elections and the defeat of Lincoln.
This is a misleading interpretation of the data in Iceland. According to the parent link, 18 people are hospitalized there, compared to ~80,000 in the US. Adjusted for population, that is a >75% lower overall hospitalization rate. Infection rates in unvaccinated are also more than 2x vaccinated in Iceland. Unless you misinterpret the data, it is undeniable that vaccines reduce transmission and incidence of severe disease.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-954838214391
It works pretty well from my experience, however the following caveats apply:

- maximum reminder period is 6 months

- if your price target is not met, no reminder

- no, not even if your reminder period is up - no reminder to prolong

- i'd say about 30-50% of the time, if you happen to read the mail hours later, the price is already up again

Aside from potentially getting good deals it also saves one from impulse buys and sometimes i even got a surprise reminder i completely forgot setting..
The protective earplugs are to combat wind roar and hearing loss over a lifetime. The non-Harley folk wear them too.
Thanks - this is something I wasn’t familiar with. Do you have any pointers for CPU inference engines that you’ve had good experience with or that I can look into further?
__padding replied to you, but unfortunately their comment is dead because of their account being new, so I’ve reposted it as I cannot vouch yet.

> __padding 45 minutes ago [dead] [–]

> Typically with devices like network cards (that also operate over PCI-E)
You send the device a circular list of descriptors (pointers) to a region of main memory.
In order to send data to the device, you write your network packet to the memory region associated with the pointer of the current ‘head’ of the descriptor list.
So far, you have a ring of pointers, one of those pointers points to a location you just wrote to in ram.
You then tell the device that the head of the list has changed (as you just wrote some data to the region that the head of the list is pointing to - so it can consume that pointer), the device then goes ahead and copies the data from ram into an internal buffer on the card. Once the data is consumed, the tail pointer of the ring buffer is updated to indicate that the card is finished with that memory region.
Well, 32MB * 400 clients ~= 12GB. It's not an irrelevant amount, but if you have that much load on your DB, you should have a beefy machine anyway, and that for one of the 2 main memorysets isn't any extravagant (and the shared memory is much smaller). In fact, I wouldn't even try to run SQL Server on that amount (not to talk about Oracle).

But yeah, if you go full microservices automatically deployed over kubermenets all connecting to the same place, you will need something in between so your DB server doesn't get crazy. This setup would break any central DB anyway, it's just that different DBMS would break for different reasons.
Dashboards are not bolted directly to engines. The issue is that motorcycle parts are more directly connected to the engine. Sportbikes normally use the engine as a structural member, bolting all the other bits and pieces to the engine block. So vibrations through motorcycle handlebars and such are more intense than those on the dash of even an extreme muscle car.
This is not correct. Comirnaty is Biontechs very similar vaccine. They are legally very different.

Comirnaty is approved for ages 16 and above. Like any other medicine, you have recourse to the courts if it doesn't work as advertised. Also, you may be mandated to take this one as it is fully approved.

The Pfizer one is approved under emergency use for ages 12 and above. Under the emergency use, Pfizer is not subject to any lawsuits or other civil actions. You cannot be legally mandated to take this one.

If you look at the press release, the FDA muddles the distinction between the two, but they are legally not the same thing, which is a very important distinction.
> Even now, I still think "I'll wait and do this on a proper computer".

I'm routinely in the same boat, though it's less about the computer and more about not fighting with a tiny monitor. Most things built for mobile are "light" versions, as easily exposing all the bells and whistles on a 6" monitor would be a UI nightmare.
Turning humans into robots. I went to the Air Force Academy and declined the pilot track because I thought they would be fully remote or automated by the time I graduated. Everything necessary was available and battle-proven already. I’d have almost my full retirement by now.
...and we still don't know who shorted the airlines that morning
> How much methane did flocks of pigeons generate if they were so large that they were able to darken the sky.

Sorry, what?
It's interesting how different one can perceive the same article. I quite enjoyed how he first explained some general ideas in a narrative style.

I agree that there are likely different reasons that had an impact. Performance is a good addition and I think also the bad mobile connectivity in the earlier years of the smartphone area is another reason.
They are not equivalent. There is zero evidence you can catch obesity or alcoholism in an elevator from someone you don’t know. And in the context of workplace safety, an alcoholic cannot show up for work drunk.
"as much as 55%" seems low since recent studies with seaweed have shown "over 80%" reduction in vivo.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
How do you deal with the healthcare thing? I'm not thrilled about the idea of getting arrested for calling someone a dick online, but realistically that seems like a much smaller risk to my prospects of a good life than the risk of medical bankruptcy if I lived in the US, particularly with the risk of losing health insurance through at-will firing.

(A dickhead manager lying and trying to fire me was the most stressful experience of my life even when I knew I was in the right and got a decent payout eventually; I can't imagine going through that with no legal protection)
Do you mean 100/8 other than the 100.64.0.0/10 RFC6598 CGNAT range?
my fav weather website is https://www.yr.no/
the name means very light rain.
Actually in the Symposium it is Aristophanes who tells this story, as a deliberately funny and absurd way of explaining how crazy love is. It features both heterosexual and homosexual couples (these are just halves of four-legged creatures that were male/female or male/male or female/female respectively). The real argument of the Symposium is that Alcibiades' love for Socrates leads him towards the true good, which is philosophy.
I used Turbo Pascal a lot as a teenager. Then I switched to Java and never looked back. For me the main reason was garbage collection.

String size was limited to 255 (non-Unicode) characters, array size needed to be specified at compile time, everything beyond this required manually allocating and unallocating memory... okay for school projects, but too much work for anything more complicated. The standard library didn'd support some simple functionality I had to write in assembler, such as detecting when a key is pressed and when it is released (how can you write an action game without this?), or using 256 colors (the standard library supported 16 colors at most).

The "smart" marketing move to rename a successful product and company to something obscure also didn't help. Why not call it "Visual Pascal" instead?
From that Let's Encrypt article: "We have a number of replicas of the database active at any given time, and we direct some read operations to replica database servers to reduce load on the primary."
Looks like a nice option. Sadly the development of native database management/query GUI tools seem to have stalled.

The last tools I truly enjoyed using was Sequel Pro on macOS for querying MySQL/MariaDB, but that seems to have been abandoned. The idea of browser based tools, or even the Electron based one, like Beekeeper Studio just don't feel as good as a truly native client.
It'd be nice if one could tell pg to only change its query plans during certain change windows, say, the first Saturday each month, with on call staff ready.

And if there was a "Revert to o old plans" button
Solar Futures Study: summary, graphs and FAQs
I found that too but being able to decode it 95% of the time was not useful because you have to redownload in another format if it turns out your RPI3 can't play a specific file.

I just avoided HEVC but I ultimately stopped using an RP3 as a TV because of audio timing issues that became apparent with Dolby Atmos. I now use a Odroid N2+, which I recommend.
Or you can use a propiertary DB like NexusDB that brings its own connection components - but then you are stuck with a DB without replication support...
Batteries are heavy and bulky so difficult to fit in a bike. Moreover the noise is on purpose so they'd just add a loudspeaker or something instead.
I was playing with the Azure "free" tier. Even I tried to be extremely careful with it, after a while noticed that I had left a storage blob for a VM hanging around and some external IPv4 address. I will continue to use Hetzner online for my own stuff instead running this on "public cloud".
This would destroy an already distressed and shrinking industry. EV motorcycles are comparatively very expensive and with limited range. None of the major manufacturers outside of Harley Davidson have commercialized an electric motorcycle yet. Furthermore, given the relative scarcity and lower miles traveled of motorcycles, banning ICE bikes would have limited environmental effect.
"Attaching your iPhone to vehicles with small-volume or electric engines, such as mopeds and scooters, may lead to comparatively lower-amplitude vibrations, but if you do so a vibration dampening mount is recommended."

Oh boy I can see it now: Apple to unveil $500 All Aluminum Motorcycle Mounting Kit with vibration dampening sensors and hyper shock absorbing rubber.

Then we watch them do something incredibly stupid like pair the mounts to phones so you can't just unhook it and let a friend borrow it.
It is very likely that it is too late on that point. It might be hard to detect or pick up your phone from your pockets when driving.
Even harder if it is on chassis somewhere.
Probably because they don’t care. They just want something that is low maintenance and consistently works. I don’t think it has too much to do with being uninformed. I know plenty of informed users that feel the same way.
AWS and Azure are a permission to spend.
You may be interested in era5 data for historical reanalysis. This is published by the ECMWF and is available for free. I’m pretty sure it has solar irradiance data but I’m not certain. You can also get NCAR reanalysis and other model reanalysis products through the NWS[2].

For visualizing gridded data products you can use panoply[3]. If you just care about GRIBS zyGrib works pretty well too.

[1]https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datas...
[2]https://www.ready.noaa.gov/archives.php
[3]https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/
Robotic cane with 3D camera can accurately guide user to chosen location
Tell me, why does Apple need to do exactly what Google does? I thought we liked different ideas and competition ‘round these parts?
That doesn't address my argument.
I suspect that the noise is a big appeal to motorcycle owners.
> And that the determinant is the volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the vectors:

It always bugs me when people throw that out because it doesn't underscore why that fact is useful. I saw this in my linear algebrea textbook as a practice problem and never got it until 3Blue1Brown spelled it out.

It is quite likely that the determinant was originally defined as the volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the vectors, when the mathematicians were working out linear systems. Then they threw out the intuition and kept the formula for the textbooks. The point is that because the transform is linear, the volume change of the unit square as it is stretched into a parallelepiped is the same transform as will be experienced by any volume in the space, which is quite possibly how the determinant was first identified.

So the perspective where this is an important fact is that the determinant is the volume change of unit volume -> parallelepiped (or higher dimensional equivalent) when a matrix is viewed as a spatial transform, then that turns out to be a remarkably fundamental measure that characterises a lot of useful properties about the entire matrix.
Well… my favourite joke is that “Skype for business” isn’t “Skype”, and it isn’t “for business”.

Skype for business isn’t Skype, underneath its actually Lync the replacement for Microsoft Communicator.
And to use it, you needed the other party to install software on their computer - which can rarely be done by standard non-admin business users.

So adoption was really low, which mean the app just never was improved.
Minimal Image Viewer, around 70 MB.

What has this world came to.

IrfanView says hi.
What if you're using something like grpc?
Oracle Leapfrogs Google in Major Cloud Ranking
Not gonna be cheap!
Pigeons poop. If there is a lot of them there is a lot of poop. Lota of pigeons-> lots of poop-> lots of methane
Modern web frameworks generate a lot of connections.

Let's say, a typical application may run on 4 instances each one with 16 cores. That means a total of 64 processes because one process per core.

Each process opens 16 connections to the database because bad configuration or default to the number of cores. We're now facing a total of 1024 SQL connections out-of-the-box for nothing.

That's the reason databases are commonly subjected to insane amounts of connections.
There is Product Chart [1], a site by a HN user.

But I think it has the focus more on the user interface than on a broad product index.

[1] https://www.productchart.com
I loved that Houston MFA show. Some of the beautiful light installations delightfully tricked my eyes and it was hard to tell what I was seeing or how I was seeing them. I’ve never seen anything like his work.

On a much subtler note, his skyspace at my alma mater Rice University is an unusual experience born from a comparatively simple concept. Visit at dawn or dusk to slowly watch the light change through a cutout in the roof of the open-air building.

James Turrell is a Quaker and he actually designed a retractable skylight for the long gray plain building called the Live Oak Friends Meeting House so people can sit inside in peaceful quiet and slowly watch the light change as they commune with God. It’s also in Houston and I recommend you check it out when they next open for public viewings on Friday evenings.
Mostly because it's more channels in parallel.

These days all of these interconnects (and high speed ether) are in the process of a bit of a convergence into what essentially just versions of raw serdes interfaces on chips - the same wires coming off the die can be 10Gb ether, PCIE, etc etc - they all just self clocked differential pairs
Because PCIe allows direct access to everything else.

A USB3 port is already pretty dangerous: you can plug in something that will generate keystrokes or mouse movements and also present storage, so a malicious device can mount itself, copy over a payload, run it, and then pretend to be a cup-warmer again.

Plug in a PCIe device and it gets to control your system.
I don't know why this broke in the first place, all I know is that I had no sound and that the device selection menu was borked where other video calling webapps worked just fine. The enumerateDevices API has been in Firefox for years [1].

To be fair(ish) to Microsoft, I did spoof Chrome's user agent because Microsoft forced a "this website doesn't work with your browser" screen in Firefox. Perhaps the failing API was an unstable Chrome-only API that they assumed works because of the UA. The browser compatibility screen communicates that they definitely tested it, that they definitely knew about the problem, and that they just didn't want to fix it.

I just dropped Teams as an option and sent everyone who wanted to video chat Jitsi links. That worked fine while I needed it. If a company chooses not to support me, then I will choose not to use that company if I can.

[1] https://caniuse.com/?search=enumerateDevices
> it seems like most articles these days are written for someone with a kindergarten level understanding of science.

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect may have only been coined 19 years ago, but this type of problem has been with us basically forever.
That again has nothing to do with my argument, which is about the risk that being unvaccinated poses to others. If you are equally likely to be exposed to COVID if many are unvaccinated as if many are vaccinated, then you can't argue that other people deciding to not get vaccinated puts you at any additional risk.
I killed at least three iPhone cameras this way with my KTM 690.
Human nature never changes. In that passage CS Lewis is literally a prophet foreseeing the major role partisan media will play in unleashing hell during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Also Rwanda and Radio des Mille Collines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_during_the_Yugoslav...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib...
1993 - I was born in a dead boring town and was very shy. In this context my dad's computer was utterly awesome.

2001 - After seeing my brother coding in Clipper 5 I wanted to do the same. I didn't have manuals or Internet access (I lived in the 3rd world) so I reverse engineered my brother's code to learn.

2003/2004 - Fell in love with infosec. Low level code for crackers, network protocols, etc. Already had a basic internet connection and I was really happy learning.

2011 - Went to the uni to meet other people like me and finally master all these "hackers stuff" I loved. Uni was underwhelming and time-consuming but got a few good friends and started loving software development.

2016 - After years of being working on side projects and teaching at uni I finally got my first job as developer.

2021 - Not really happy spending my time in meetings and fire fighting production issues. Thinking about what I want to do next.
A friend of mine has had his phone replaced twice due to this before figuring out the cause, however now that there’s a formal publication in it I’d bet that changes.
Humaninty must control everything, even what cow eats, and how cow farts. The next step will be to control what cow thinks about all that.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a famous sci-fi that directly mimics feudalism and the church after nuclear war-- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
It's susceptible to interference so there's probably no need to use something like this where something simpler (and more robust) will fit the bill. But PCI-E is used externally - that's what Thunderbolt is.
[Disclosure] I'm Co-Founder and CEO of http://vantage.sh/ and was previously the lead PM on DigitalOcean's Droplet product as well as on the product team at AWS for container services.

We try to help out a bit on this with Vantage which essentially gives you a DigitalOcean-esque view of your AWS costs. The first $2,500 in AWS costs are tracked for free which would seemingly cover your side-projects.

It sounds like you've found your home on DigitalOcean, but I'd be curious if something like Vantage would potentially change your decision to build on AWS? In particular what you mention about runaway bills is something that Vantage sends alerts on in advance. We also show you a full inventory of your AWS resources and what they cost you.
What I am mostly suggesting is iterative. We wouldn't switch to shipping graphics because as you say they're bandwidth intensive. RDP is not the right answer however useful it is for some things.

But a shell+terminal hybrid focused on running processes, managing outputs, and making it easier for the user to run programs could do a lot of that remotely with a helper program similar to how tmux and git binaries need to be on the remote system. Or how vscode runs a fairly beefy system in order to support remote coding that not only allows editing code remotely with auto complete, but lets you launch multiple terminals to run commands.

In a sense I'm really saying: we have like 80-90% of what a "modern" shell could look like in vs code remote... why can't we just make the shell like that?

One thing which I do not have a good solution for is input because I don't know exactly how reliably a shell would know it's being asked for input from the application. The other thing being that I think this shell could support a legacy mode which is triggered by those escape codes, but most apps don't do that. As you said they just print text cause it's easy and fast. That's exactly what my python scripts at work do and a better shell that I suggest could handle plain text pretty easily. The issue is things like Vim, Emacs, Tmux, and other curses-like apps. But that could be a fallback rather than the happy path.
This is something called an analogy. In particular I chose a "car analogy", which is a common technique. Sometimes when a non car analogy is used people smirkingly ask for or make up a car analogy even.

I could use a different one that would stir up much more controversial debate. What if stealing office supplies carried the death sentence? If you are guaranteed never to be caught how much of a deterrent would it be? If you get caught 100% of the time for that but all they do is to make you pay 10x what the supplies were worth?

Basically what I was trying to show that it's all about a combination of percentage of getting caught and the sentence. Only upping the possible sentence does not act as the deterrent people commonly attribute to it.
There are actually far more domestic livestock now than there were bison back in the day. Just a lot less roaming.

Pigeons don’t produce methane the way ruminants do AFAIK.

And, methane from livestock is only part of humanity’s climate altering activity.
I think this xkcd sums it up nicely: https://xkcd.com/1338/

Humans are good at cultivating farting animals.
You can use ses without moving your digital ocean server.