skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get a slab of latex from foamoarder, which is how I got my mattress core. Honestly that alone would make a solid mattress on its own, although you'd still want an encasement I imagine.

If you want something more specific, check out the mattress underground forums. Very helpful users there.
It's very encouraging to hear this. Most content business apps (incl. ours) would likely have similar underlying tech structure.

Would you mind sharing the app links and any documentation / blog posts to make the app efficient and approval process smooth.
Cool tech article, hope it gets flagged.
Alleged money laundering scheme among Turkey-based Twitch streamers
Good sources, thanks for sharing. I didn't know a lot about the ACLU prior to this thread(other than in the news), but I agree - this is way beyond the scope of what the ACLU has been known for for years. Is there some other group that sticks to more neutrally standing up for folks, politics be damned?
> But the researchers might have an almost impossible task

Yeah I don't see how you'll be able to find someone whose not just immune to covid, but immune from genetics. Because someone could've e.g. gotten a small dose, been asymptomatic, and then started producing antibodies. Or maybe they're just very healthy and not genetically susceptible to covid (because really healthy people can still get really sick). Or maybe the process which produces antibodies got lucky and activated / produced the right ones early in infection.

And now that vaccines are out, you have to find someone whose also unvaccinated.
I've had excellent results in getting responses from info@archive.org.
We need to keep kids more offline.
Not really. In Mathematics "circle" refers to a boundary of a disk. So it's a 1D periodic manifold, and the circular harmonics/Fourier series are the basis for such periodic functions. The bessel functions give a basis for the radial part of 2D solutions to a certain class of differential equations on a 2D disk. Incidentally the radial part of those solutions are circular harmonics.
Don't Stuff Beans Up Your Nose
Not really a forum but more like reddit (for software), but many Japanese developers post here: https://qiita.com/
Send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com These threads sometimes are unnoticed.

For some somewhat similar problem, someone suggested Greasemonkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey , but you must write the script to remove the part you don't like.
So I ordered my toppers from intellibed but they no longer list their toppers on their website. I talked to a mattress enthusiast not long ago and you can still buy it from them over the phone, but keep in mind they only have that 4x4 buckling gel component in the middle so you need more than one if you wish to cover your bed with buckling gel.

In a different life I'd consider setting up a buckling column gel manufacturing station and just sell people custom sized buckling column gel sheets.
lets make June, the month of no Internet for kids.
Out of interest, is there a place where this practice doesn't exist (genuinely don't know), where service providers are allowed to tell targets they are being subject to a warrant?
I think this is just a redefinition into a bucket term. Social factors such as stigma, difficulty in child-rearing, and workplace discrimination can all be included in such a fixed cost or incentive model

The argument is that when presented with few attractive alternatives, they simply overcome these hurdles.
I think it's also worth noting Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote this article, he's pretty OG in this project
I'm familiar with that particular logical fallacy. However, I fail to see how that applies here.

What is the "strawman" you appear to believe that I've set up and then attempted to knock down?
See the discussion elsewhere in this thread about Donor-Advised Funds for donations.
TEL (the lead additive) is only made in one factory (in the UK, IIRC). 100LL is formulated at multiple terminals in the US.
> you can get your salary streamed to you constantly as opposed to a monthly payment - how cool is that?!

Enjoy prepping your tax returns :3
What were you doing in Cambodia?
From my POV, the issue in USA is that there's no incentive[1] for ACH to be made better once banks could go nationwide and compete for clients that way. Making ACH better made sense when banks were more fragmented and couldn't just lock customers in.

[1] ACH is private institution started as better clearing house between banks, unlike systems like Poland's ELIXIR which is under aegis of polish equivalent of Fed
What I think is interesting is that you can see from the volume where the spike is. It's not really that big of a spike, but after it went back to it's normal range, it subsequently worked its way back to the top of the spike again.

Either people are still mistaking it, or this has given the company a bit of exposure and hastened an upward trend. If you look at the 5 day chart, the current price doesn't look all that out of place.
Related: does anyone know why the Signal-Server code allows for toggling request logging? [0] If this allows for logging raw HTTP(S) requests server-side, presumably this could be grabbing the passwords generated and held on each device used for authentication [1]?

There's also no mention of TLS termination in the Signal-Server repository on GitHub, or TLS between the Redis cluster in use. If FBI or NSA has compromised the AWS VPC, then all of this network traffic would be in the clear to be picked up behind the load balancer(s).

The Account DynamoDB table [2] also seems to indicate more information is tied to the phone number in cleartext than what is indicated by the response?

[0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/14f5271c2012...

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/14f5271c2012...

[2]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/14f5271c2012...
The tweet in which you allege they’re “claiming there’s [sic] no men” is actually saying the exact opposite? It’s saying there are many different types of men.
Presumably the more realistic problem is having your data/business held for ransom by price hikes, not that AWS would jeopardize its reputation just to peek at your data.
> One of his big statements is that “to be is to be perceived” — that is, anything that cannot be perceived doesn’t actually exist. Berkeley makes a pretty decent argument for this...

Do you know of where a person could read a summary of his argument?
Nilay Patel on Facebook’s Reckoning with Reality–and the Problems yet to Come
TCP fingerprinting TOR would fingerprint the exit node
Same. (Also for DELETEs.) I would guess this is what a high percentage of people do.
This is tantamount to giving away their App Store revenue cut... so probably won't happen
Agree in principle, but surely there are exceptions. In my friend's case they reused nicknames across hobbies and projects; potentially dangerous people got upset over whatever reason and now they're concerned a connection will be made to that personal data they once posted (including home address).

Surprisingly, both Google and Bing removed the data within 1 week of making the request.
Related ongoing thread:

Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038356 - Oct 2021 (579 comments)
I totally agree!!! I really prefer some springs under my partner/me compared to foam. Sex is really different on foam.
This was not a hack.

This is the equivocation that is at the heart of smart contracts.

The promise of smart contracts is that "the code is the law". There is no need for trust, courts, or intermediaries. Of course his only works if the contract correctly implements a perfectly defined spec and has no bugs.

If one claims "the code is the law" they cannot claim it is a "hack" or "theft" when their code executes as written rather than as they desire.

This "theft" is an example of things working exactly as designed, and this seems to be an unfixable flaw in the concept behind smart contracts.
The cost of a crash for a mobile app (Wayfair's eng blog)
Reddit is the only major site that still gets away with outrageously shitty engineering. There’s no possible way to follow this link on iOS. The link shows only a link to open in app but they’re so shitty that it opens the app in the app store not the actual app.
Quite. We can see SPQR on the manhole covers in Rome and know that the Senate and People of Rome own the place. That's a signature that is well over 2000 years old - it used to also appear on the "eagles" of the legions and in a fair few other places. That is a very well documented and understood message from the past. A few miles (mille passus) from me is Lendiniae - we call it Ilchester these days. The -chester name implies it was a Roman camp/town.

What we are talking about here is context and history. Please share where you lot are from and some examples of how slang has changed for you. I might not understand it but I will appreciate it and it gets documented somewhere.

There is a really good reason for the Internet Archive to exist. It remembers stuff. We've lost so much already but future generations will have rather a lot of data to pick over.
One time me and a friend having an animated conversation on the 7th floor of Soda hall at Berkeley and William Kahan came out and gave us a coupon for Sizzlers. I think that was his way of telling us to get the fuck out.
The ACLU also opposed [1], [2] banning the non-medically necessary genital cutting of infant boys (“infant circumcision”) in the SF Bay area.

[1] http://www.bayareaintactivists.org/sites/default/files/aclu_...

[2] https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-urges-court-invalidate-sf-c...
And there are many. Zernike polynomials are a common one.
Might as well change to that from https://diveintosystems.org/. Thanks!
One of the (many) things that led me to getting a referral about possibly having ADHD was noticing that my hackernews comments are absolutely riddled with missing words, missing sentences etc. On hacker news that isn't so bad, but when writing in a formal context it is pretty annoying looking like a moron for forgetting a preposition or whatever.

Recently, I even wrote "buy" instead of "by"! Crazy times
The link you provided explains it pretty well:

“ Regulatory precedent with other preventive vaccines provides a basis for inference of vaccine effectiveness in pediatric populations based on immunobridging to a young adult population in which clinical disease endpoint vaccine efficacy has been demonstrated for the same prototype vaccine. The immune marker(s) used for immunobridging do not need to be scientifically established to predict protection but should be clinically relevant to the disease. […] A secondary objective is to evaluate efficacy of BNT162b2 against laboratory-confirmed symptomatic COVID-19 occurring from 7 days after Dose 2 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and in participants with or without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection. A descriptive analysis was conducted once 19 confirmed cases had accrued.“

The 19 confirmed cases were part of a secondary analysis. The primary plan was to compare immune markers and verify the vaccine was working similarity to the adult one which has been repeatedly proven to work.
For a rough estimate and ballpark, according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/1190638/quarterly-revenu... they got USD451m last quarter on a strong upwardly.

Ignoring the growth trajectory, that appears to be ~451/91.25/24 = 205k USD per hour. Assuming a steady ~15% quarterly growth; about 239k.

However a lot of the revenues are from subscriptions so it might be blunted by that; I have no idea what the distribution of subs vs one off transaction revenue is.

What might be far worse is the player drop off as they find alternatives.
anyone who uses helium in a balloon should be imprisoned
The question is dumb and so are the answers.

Person who asked this question, should have calculated how many lightbulbs he need to heat up the room - unless he has built tiny room for some pet, then it makes sense to use just one lightbulb.

I would assume, that most of the folks on this site are heating up room using their PC... For me it is clearly a 2-5 degree difference if the room is not heated by PC.

PS Ironically, I use the most energy consuming and brightest lightbulb I could find(among the energy efficient lightbulbs, because there are no other options).
Why’s that? NB You’d also have your spouse’s parents.
Could you tell a bit more regarding international payments from where to where?

From POV of EU citizen (though extra biased due to Poland just using IBAN numbers), international payments are pretty fast - personally the biggest issue is when I need to figure out IBAN/BIC codes because receiver doesn't know them. Payment for SWIFT transfer and currency exchange can be still annoying, which I mitigate by having currency accounts, but still not as big as it could be.
Six million Castle Bravos? Or, (just under) two million Tsar Bombas? Wow. Just... wow.

I had no idea Chicxulub was that big.
>Couldn't they easily use the phone number associated with the Signal account to find the target's name?

What do you mean? They already have the telephone number. It is listed in the subpoena. All Signal is doing is confirming that this phone number has a Signal account - sure, it's not perfect, but I don't really see your point. They don't need Signal to be able to do any of the things you listed.
The 2017-2019 models claim to support a max of 3 MIMO streams vs 2 on current models. Not sure what real life impact if any.
Recent and related:

Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29031116 - Oct 2021 (28 comments)

Previously:

AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114281 - Feb 2021 (162 comments)

AWS Goes After Microsoft’s SQL Server with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25276386 - Dec 2020 (10 comments)

Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25267204 - Dec 2020 (113 comments)
Does leaving tap water out help with the salt problem? I've read that after 4 days, most of the chlorine will evaporate from tap water - and this is good for plants.
>Kids hooked on a game vs adults reading a scary message for an app are psychologically very different.

Somewhat. And sometimes. And when the high-security-site for installing a high-security-tool is asking you to do a thing, it's quite a bit psychologically different than e.g. a reddit post saying "install this apk and approve all prompts: http://www.5z8.info/hack-outlook_w2f7vj_dogfights"
> What makes an occupation people-oriented vs things-oriented? … Is being a doctor one or the other?

Depends on the specialty. Scott Alexander once observed:

> A look at percent female physicians by subspecialty is instructive. The specialty with the most women is pediatrics, followed by child psychiatry, followed by obstetrics, followed by – you get the picture. The specialties with the least women are the various surgeries – the ones where your patient is immobilized, anaesthetized, opened up, and turned into a not-quite-color-coded collection of tubes and wires to poke and prod at – the ones that bear more than a passing resemblance to engineering.

Source: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/ —please note that the bulk of the piece is not strongly focused on this particular issue and is not a very representative context for this point. Scott restated the same point in a better context later on in https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge..., but left out the “not-quite-color-coded collection of tubes and wires” bit which makes the point significantly less punchy and quotable.

…

For the record, there’s a similar pattern in veterinary medicine. The majority of vets who treat pets are women, but livestock veterinarians are predominantly men. IOW, whether or not animals are treated more like people or things correlates to a significant disparity in the predominant sex of the veterinarian treating them.
Not such a great assumption anymore. I’ve given up my Amazon.com Prime membership and completely avoided them for many months now. I personally know several others who have done the same thing.

I aspire to not hand them AWS dollars one day, but Aurora has been an amazing product for my business.
> Strontium-90 has better power-density per unit mass than Pu

The power density of Sr-90 fuel is 15% lower by mass than Pu-238 - 0.46kW/kg thermal compared to 0.54kW/kg thermal. You must have been looking at the wrong figures. Since the Sr-90 fuel rod doesn't get as hot as a Pu-238 fuel rod of the same size, energy conversion efficiency drops significantly and you need up to 100% more Sr-90 fuel (and consequently more shielding as well) to get the same power.

> Half-life is comparable.

A factor of 3x is not really comparable (87.7 vs 28.7 years).

> Safety is better: less gamma, no neutrons, no shielding needed.

Where did you get that from? Strontium-90 and its daughter product Yttrium-90 emit high-energy beta particles and thus give off high energy bremsstrahlung which requires heavy shielding. The BUP-500 battery (the largest RTG ever built, designed to provide 500W electric after 5 years; 1.8m³ in size and 3.6 metric tons in weight) used a tungsten alloy for shielding; its predecessors used depleted uranium...

Pu-238 on the other hand is pretty much exclusively an alpha emitter and has no short-lived daughter products (U-234 has a half-life of >200ka).

> Overprovisioning is needed in every case, and excess power has to be dealt with the same way.

Again, where did you get that from? A space mission is designed to a certain power spec and if you need your primary instruments for a 15 year mission, you plan your power such that after 15 years all primary instruments can still be powered. With Pu-238 that'd be about 75%-80% of the initial RTG capacity (some losses due to development time and efficiency losses from thermocouples are included).

Due to its properties, Sr-90 would require about 3x as much fuel just to make up for its shorter half-life in addition to the up to 100% increase in required fuel mass from its lower temperature.

Since it's a beta emitter, the additional radiation requires heavy shielding as well. So no, there's a pretty substantial difference there.

> Low cost to orbit means more fuel / more ∆V is practical to provide, thus much shorter transit times, translating to less up-front decay.

That's not how interplanetary missions work. Chemical rockets are incapable of providing enough delta-V to substantially shorten transit times to the outer solar system. If you want to do anything other than fly-by missions, more chemical fuel isn't going to help with that - you'd need nuclear or electric propulsion [1].

[1] https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/doc/PRO/ACT-RPR-PRO-ISTS2004-Plu...
Words with this range of meaning are simply called ‘noun classifiers’ in linguistics [0]. They’re pretty common both in the region and outside it: they’re also in Lao, Hmong and Minangkabau, as well as various Australian, Mayan and South American languages.

[0] Aikhenvald 2003, chapeter 3: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/classifiers-97801992...
Would be better if it linked to the Mastodon statement itself https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-medi...
Is this assuming that you keep the voltage low? Say at 12V? Wouldn't we push the voltage to maximise the power pushed and minimise the resistive losses?
Vimconf 2021 – Oct 29, 30
> Outside of the HN bubble, it's a rare breed and it cost a lot more than your traditional linux admin, that you probably already have anyway.

Strongly disagree. It's much easier to find people with experience deploying to particular cloud services than it is to find someone who knows how to setup, managed, and maintain a bare metal Linux system from scratch. It's also much easier to teach a cloud solution than to teach someone everything to know about bootstrapping and maintaining Linux servers in a safe and secure manner.

> On the other end, setuping a linux box for the common tasks (web server, cache, db, etc) never takes me more than a day.

That's ignoring all of the future overhead of maintaining it and keeping up with updates. Not to mention the required documentation and knowledge sharing to help others understand your custom system so the bus factor isn't 1.

It's always easy to get started with one-off systems, but that's missing the bulk of the work.
Indeed, from the other comment about Teller's "Backyard" bomb it seems Kubrick's satire was more truth than fiction. The cigar smoking Ripper in the film was based on the real life Curtis LeMay, who it was later revealed really did want to start WWIII by bombing Russia, reasoning that America should strike before the Soviets developed effective retaliation, nipping the problem of Mutually Assured Destruction in the bud as it were.
Do you have a source that’s it’s worse?
Don't worry, these fusion weapons are so inherently clean, they'll clean entire peoples off continents.

What a disgrace that so many scientists and engineers have dedicated their lives to building and perfecting nuclear weapons, weapons that have virtually zero legal justifications in their use (or even threat of use) according to the International Court of Justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_opinion_on_the_Legali...
Remember, the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday to get back at you.

- Senator Chuck Schumer
What is this blog built on, I love it
Microbenchmark measurements that are faster than the memory system are frequently a symptom that the compiler optimized most or all of the unit under test into a no-op.
Archivists are increasingly sad and concerned that this generation of security and privacy may leave little trace of reality in history, but instead fill it with carefully-curated versions of history without the "undesirable" bits. It's definitely a tough problem to answer.
Did you know that Amazon is being sued for using client data to compete against them right now?
i've found that there are arguments being had between people my age that sex is a biological descriptor (M/F) and that gender is a looser, more amorphous descriptor. for instance, you can be born a man (your biological sex) and identify as non-binary (your gender). i'm interested to see how the origin of the words could contribute to that discussion.
Cheers mate. Do you have an actual cite rather than a Google assertion?
Except that's not exactly true; here is a counterexample.

https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/aclu-backs-n-j-woman...
My favorite was their footnote URL!

> The only information Signal maintains that is encompassed by thesubpoena for any particular user account, identified through a phone number, is the time of account creation and the date of the account’s last connection to Signal servers. That is all. [2]

> [2] see e.g. https://signal.org/bigbrother
* But FBI has access to Pegasus-like spyware.

If you have a phone number, a zero-click NSO spyware would provide full control over target device.

* FBI could get user’s data from Apple if it’s an iPhone (considering that iOS is closed source), or force a malicious update to user through so many ways (including by pushing a bad update or manipulating safety numbers in signal).

So why asking a messaging app that everyone knows doesn’t have the requested information?
> You didn't contradict a single thing I said.

Not every response is intended to be an argument.

> Drill requirements in particular are utter jokes. Nobody pays any attention to them.

Every public entity I’ve been involved with enough to know how they address them has, private entities are more varied.
Obviously the browser must prompt users before displaying non-ascii characters as well. Who wants to do anything other than read mailing lists in their browser?
Quite. I was making a rather bad joke.