skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if you lower the temperature, the hydrogen increases in density.

I haven't read the article, but I presume that the use of hydrogen is a non-starter. No-one wants a flaming fireball raining down on them.
> GDP almost exactly matches energy production and utilization

I think that's correct, and it can be seen in data like this[0]. It's worth noting, though, that the energy intensity of economies has been decreasing over time, and higher income countries tend to have lower energy intensity[1].

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/11/energy-poverty-vs...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_intensity_of_econo...
The "ink" would be amino acids that are always floating around in the cell, the "printer" would be a ribosome.

The mRNA would be something like the print buffer that stores the currently printing document. DNA would be the document file stored on disk.
It does support routing via SNI. And of course, people do use nginx (and other tools) just as proxy caches. That's sort of what I was getting at, lots of overlap and sub-niches.
A non-profit in the UK has put out a very detailed and convincing guide for how to regulate and tax meth.
I personally think that there is no perfect solution, and regulation with taxation is the least of all evils.
https://transformdrugs.org/publications/how-to-regulate-stim...
I was sitting here thinking why doesn't the author just use reagent? so much nicer and you aren't using yet another DSL
Depending on how far out, you might've still been under the inland rules.

Not that my pedantry changes anything - sailboat still comes below "vessel restricted in its ability to maneuver" and you gotta give way all the same.
Singapore may have been a poor choice of example.

In late August it was announced that 80% of the Singapore population was now vaccinated against COVID-19.[1] However, in September and October there has been a dramatic surge in cases and deaths in that country.[2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-fully-v...

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/singapore/
Possible, and a real burden to set up:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/127464/enabling-...

Perhaps this changed now, but I had to set up a different 2FA method first (I used a U2F security key), then add OTP, and then it was possible to remove the U2F method.

After logging in with OTP once (I just keep the private key on my laptop in pass) you never seem to get asked to provide it again, but 2FA is nominally enabled.
There's only 3 options (I'm on the panel), Google Prompt (requires a phone), security key, or text message/voice call (requires a phone). 2 out of 3 require you to attach a phone number and the last one requires a security key to be inserted every time you want to make throw away accounts via Gmail.
> How much progress? Are they harder than expected? Easier? Any blockers? Anything that could help?

We are talking about daily standups. In all likelyhood, you don't encounter blocker that often. If you have frequent blockers, then you have larger issue. In most days, I don't need help at daily standup time. If I needed help, I asked before and did not waited for standup.

> Are they harder than expected? Easier?

What would that be useful for? Like, I do quick venting sometimes, everybody does, but I am not under illusion it is useful for others.
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> Looks recent, at first I thought it was webserver from the 90's...

Well, old ideas are indeed new once everyone forgets they were a thing. Nowadays CDNs and edge caches and web accelerators are seeing a resurgence, and in practice they can mean having an instance of Apache Traffic Server deployed somewhere.
If you're using resistive heating, a computer is about as efficient as a space heater.

I have not recently done the math, but I'm pretty sure in my area its still more economically efficient to heat my home with natural gas than resistive heat. Obviously, emissions are a concern, future price uncertainty of fossil fuels, etc. Not the best way forward.

However, heat pumps in my area can make a ton of sense. They're far more efficient than resistive heating as long as it doesn't get practically arctic cold outside. When in decent climates they're about as economically efficient than a gas furnace.

In other words, mining crypto for heat isn't necessarily the most economical thing to do. It may just be better for you to use a heat pump and put your savings into buying crypto if ultimately having crypto and being warm is your goal.
apparently they did
I guess my issue was more with the implication that we'll find more fundamental building blocks of life.
Good. http://68k.news will work again in my country.
As it turns out, unreliable storage is not as valuable as reliable storage.
Can you elaborate? I've seen products that do this, it must be possible.
As noted, the lower explosive limit for hydrogen in air is 4%. Significantly lower with pure oxygen.
https://www.safeopedia.com/definition/2205/explosive-flammab...

The problem is that hydrogen is a very small molecule and readily escapes containment. It can even travel along grain boundaries through solid metal.
Dan ported and updated Fabrik to run on the JS Lively Kernel. The link is https://lively-kernel.org/repository/lively-wiki/Fabrik.xhtm... but I haven't tried it for a while so I have no clue how well it currently works.
Hackers? Isn't this a large part of the NSA's mission too?

https://gcn.com/articles/2013/06/10/nsa-bumblehive-data-cent...
While everyone else here discusses the daily standup, I was curious if anyone, outside of Basecamp, has tried this "Shape Up" process thing. The 6-week cycle sounds interesting to me. Sometimes I fel like the typical 2-week cycle is enough and sometimes it's too short so this longer one intrigues me.

https://basecamp.com/shapeup/webbook
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Usually when you lift cargo, the volume of the cargo is tiny compared to the volume of the lifting gas. Picture a huge blimp with a tiny gondola underneath.

With an aerogel infusion, the volume of the aerogel is the same as the volume of the lifting gas. Picture a huge blimp lifting a huge-blimp-sized lump of something underneath. Even aerogel, light as it is, adds up.

In other words - it's barely useful, and the only reason it works is because of the square-cube law: the weight of the envelope goes up as the square of the dimension, while the lifting power goes up as the cube. If you want to fill the volume with something, you lose the scaling advantage.

The fact that an aerogel-filled blimp might still conceivably be neutrally buoyant is actually testament to how incredibly light aerogel is. If you filled the Hindenburg with water, it would be more than half the weight of the Empire State Building.
The top 5 states for COVID infection per-capita (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona...):

North Dakota

Tennessee

Alaska

Wyoming

South Dakota

I don’t believe any of these states even have a single “sardine can on rails” used by daily commuters.

The idea that you are less likely to be infected in rural Wyoming because you commute by car is pure fiction based on the data. Very few people in the United States are able to avoid grocery stores, pharmacies, or restaurants for more than a week or two.
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Although it's a resource we should avoid using as much as possible, since it's difficult to renew, the crisis is somewhat averted.

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-helium-south-africa-gold.html

https://us.eitidc.com/new-helium-reserve-discovered/

It seems the situation isn't nearly as bad as was purported back when the helium crisis was the hot new story.
https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/tree/main/jit

Pretty sparse. Uses cranelift tho, which is what Firefox is using for wasm

For comparison, here's a complete JIT-for-befunge using cranelift: https://github.com/serprex/Befunge/blob/master/barfs/src/jit...

Rust is seeing ~5x improvement in compile time using cranelift for debug builds instead of llvm. Cranelift is much better suited as a jit library than llvm is. Bit of a pain postgres went the llvm route
I don't think these researchers are saying that EBM is false per se. They state, “Conceptualizing obesity as a disorder of energy balance restates a principle of physics without considering the biological mechanisms that promote weight gain.” My reading of that is that EBM isn't very helpful as a weight loss strategy because it's harder to "just eat less" if your whole diet is sugar. The CIM explains one's diet's effect on appetite, so can help come up with strategies that make it easier to eat less.
There is a difference between the two. That's like comparing the fuel use or exhaust of a Fiat 500 to that of a cargo ship.
Even though you didn't get hit hard: I wish you a good recovery.
AFAIK this is false; Offers began transacting at the Zestimate price in several markets earlier this year
Haha the older I get, the more I appreciate old people. Especially the snarky ones. We are all going to be old someday, I hope I'm the best type of old like your mother. I really do.
There seems to be a surprising amount of antipathy towards standups in this thread. Reasonable people may disagree about how useful they are, sure, but the suggestion that 15 minutes of daily coordination is somehow a foundational problem in modern software engineering strikes me as pretty unrealistic.

I would suggest that if you truly believe standups are some deeply destructive tool of mismanagement you probably have much bigger problems with your company or role that you're projecting on to this rather innocuous meeting.
For a double blind randomized trial, no one can know who's in what group. If an individual isn't willing to get the vaccine then they'd be excluded by default.
I recently forgot the lockscreen pin to my old iPhone and tried tried to unlock it. However, I had forgotten that I had setup the 10-wrong-entries-and-self-destruct feature and so I lost all of my data. Nothing was ever backed up to iCloud as I don't pay for that feature.

With my new phone the easy way would have been to pay for iCloud but I use an app called PhotoSync[0]. When I put my phone to charge, the app will sync all of my photos to my local NAS over SMB. Sure they aren't encrypted but they are hosted locally.

[0]: https://www.photosync-app.com
You could tax income from mining instead, which would have the same effect but keep the electricity price stable for everyone else.

A challenge might be in effective tax collection, but it isn't that hard to find heavy electricity consumers.
Oh, mostly it's cracked into syrup, oil, protein, fibre, dextrose, starch etc. And those things are used in everything - paper, fabric, building materials, other animal feed, plastic...

Corn won early and it won big, so everybody started figuring out what they could make with the cheap stuff. And it turns out, nearly everything.
That's rare. The majority of agile/scrum/standup is led by some kind or another of project manager. Specific titles vary.
I'm generally interested in a more systematic approach. I'd like to work with others on a project entailing really anything. As of right now, my interests are more abstract because I haven't been programming for too long or haven't spent a majority of my time focusing on a single concept. I would like an internship for the chance of collaberation and communication with those of experience and higher caliber :)
Yep. As a boy in the UK, "Steam gives way to sail, but don't try it with the Isle of Wight ferry."
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I feel I'm the only one who absolutely hates the zoo of MFA I'm subjected to as part of the latest and greatest in security for the masses. I hope something comes along to replace all of it soon.
I am not even sure it aims. It aims to make the team look "professional" or something.
Given that at most organisations the biggest problem always turns out to be communication, stand-ups are probably thought to be a remedy, but in reality they are more of a symptom than a cure.
Where communication works, there is no need to waste anybody's time with stand-ups. Where it does not work, stand-ups fix nothing. Just another cargo-cult practice.
The weekly 1:1s or project syncs that are also happening on top of standup, schedule a new meeting with the relevant participants if that’s too late from now, Slack or email if it’s a simple Q&A, JIRA ticket if it requires some work to investigate and answer.
And move to what?

Your choices are:

- Run it yourself: And get eaten alive by third party anti-spam products. Maintaining a mail server is a full time job.

- Move to another large corporation (e.g. Apple, Microsoft, et al). What have you solved exactly?

- Move to a small mail provider and hope they don't go under (and you lose your x year old email address associated with tons of stuff) or have security issues because they didn't/couldn't afford the expertise.

The "least bad" option right now just seems to be to spread yourself around, so you're not too invested in any one vendor (in particular in case they ban you randomly for reasons they won't disclose or discuss).
I think this kind of progressive consumption tax would be amazing for society.

In a capitalist society, the theory goes that the individuals who are better at allocating capital will accumulate more capital, allocate it better, thus accumulating more, etc. in a loop.

I could be convinced that some people are much, much better at allocating capital than most. It makes sense to let them be our societal capital allocators. Obviously, we want limits so that if 1 person makes a serious misjudgment, it doesn’t completely tank society.

But I could see it being the case where, if we were purely optimizing for sum-total societal capital accumulation, it would be optimal 1% of the population to be in charge of 90% of the capital.

There are a few obvious problems with this scheme where it meets reality, though. The most over-arching is that our current system allows the controllers of capital to more or less arbitrarily convert between capital and consumption.

That is, some billionaire can burn some of their capital and buy a $500MM mega-yacht. At the end of the day, this is essentially wasting the labor of 10,000 people for a year (at 50k average salary).

Even if we accept the premise that Jeff Bezos is a better capital allocator than 99.99% of people, I think we could argue that his having a $500MM mega yacht is not going to increase his capital allocation ability.

This is where the progressive consumption tax comes in. Imagine a tax that was quadratic with consumption. For example, you’d pay $1K in tax on $10K of consumption, $100K of tax on $100K of consumption, and $10MM in tax on $1MM in consumption (obviously these are example numbers, any upwardly curved function will do, though). It very quickly becomes prohibitively expensive to consume much more than some societal average. This would significantly decrease consumption inequality.

There are a lot of second-order things affected by this tax:

- becomes much harder for 1 billionaire to burn capital in order to consume marketing and influence elections

- one could use some proceeds of this tax as simple transfer payments, so not only is it quadratically more expensive to consume more, but the revenue from doing so gets send to people lower on the consumption distribution. This enhances the consumption flattening effect.

- reduces conspicuous consumption which is good for climate change

- improves labor productivity by increasing the societal savings rate (driving investment and increasing capital allocation per unit of labor), which further enhances this whole flywheel

- more things that are too long for this comment

There are obvious implementation problems though. On the face of it, it seems more difficult for me to hide consumption than it is to hide wealth, but I’m sure there are schemes to do so. The basic form of this tax would be to demonstrate to the tax agency some accounting of your wealth (savings, investments, etc) at two points in time, and then your consumption is computed based on the net inflows and outflows.
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> Crypto mining hardware is >100% efficient

It also makes the hardware depreciate (simply with the passage of time, but also because of the particular usage), which in practice effects the balance and can easily turn the monetary efficiency into negative.
> Stand ups are not as much for developers as much as they are for transparency.

Except the requirements for transparency is only for the developers, which makes it feel very degrading, all of the other people in this meeting, the leads, scrum master, product owner, ux etc, don't say anything about what they're doing, and they have no board with their tasks either so no transparency whatsoever.
This is out setup aswell with and added friday 1 h where we show off stuff we done/found interesting its great for team building imo
You don't need a mobile phone for TOTP -- you can do it from a shell script and openssl. Many security keys support storing TOTP built in, and Google also supports the various security key protocols (FIDO2 I think is the current version?)
It is difficult to imagine a system of evolution where "useless" survives in successful iterations.
Yup. Also mining rigs produce a lot of noise, are more likely to break down & need an internet connection 24/7. Not your average heater.
Charge the hull, ionize the gas, minimize loss by forcefield. Needs current carrying hull though. Graphene?
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> I have not recently done the math

What calculations are these? How do I figure out if it's worth it?
Google doesn't, they still allow you to use TOTP 2FA.
Getting rid of the GIL isn’t the hard part.

It’s getting rid of the GIL and having existing Python code continue to work, with C extensions and all.
In case anyone is wondering what they mean by "5D": they mean it's a 3D array of marks, each of which has both size and orientation. The 3D array is three 2D layers.

According to this definition, a DVD or Blu-Ray disc is "4D" because it can have multiple layers each of which stores 1-dimensional data (pit versus no pit). And a book is at least "7D" because it contains a 3D arrangement of marks, and marks can vary in (at least) what letter they are, how large, how bold, and how slanted. (It would be easy to add to that list.)

I would describe this thing as 2.5D storage: it's basically 2-dimensional but with multiple layers.

If it's genuinely 10000x denser than Blu-ray, great! If it's likely to last longer, also great! But there's no need for this "five-dimensional" bullshit.

(It looks to me as if what they have at the moment is not anything like 10000x denser than Blu-ray. I'm not sure it's even 1x denser than Blu-ray at present.)
I genuinely don't understand what your analogy is supposed to convey, could you elaborate?
This is not some binary “vaccinate everyone or take away freedoms choice”. And politicians are not our parents, they are not responsible for the lives of millions. They have limited roles on our lives that we elect them to; “taking care of me and making sure I’m healthy” is not their role, it’s mine.
The tech industry has been gleefully imitating scifi horror for a while now
Just block out the rest of your day and auto decline meetings. I do that and it works great. Forces everyone to schedule everything before noon. Also make sure to schedule lunch in as well. It make sure you auto decline that’s the trick. If you’re manually approving/declining each one you’ll end up allowing some which signals the blocked out time isn’t that blocked out to the rest of the team.
> Multiple currencies use proof-of-stake and still have value.

Are they Bitcoin valuable? Are they as valuable as proof of work? I think not.

> Price is determined by demand and supply.

So the supply is lower because it's harder to mine so the price goes up and because the price is going up demand is higher. It's kinda like diamonds. Pretty useless but because the big companies hoarde all the diamonds they keep the price high and because the price is high people put value in them.
Based on the article, a microcentury doesn't even last an hour.
Unfortunately, Hydrogen doesn't lift as much compared to Helium as we might expect, since it occurs as H2 molecules rather than isolated atoms.
I was responsible for extension author outreach at Mozilla at the time. The anger was terrible. And justified.
> Supports Google Authenticator and other authentication apps that can generate one-time security codes.

How do you do this? I'm looking at my personal account settings and the 2-step options are "app on my iOS devices", "security key", or "text message/voice call".
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I will try this.
I assumed, based on my experiences as a power consumer, they meant increase the marginal price of electricity above some threshold. That's how electricity is priced everywhere I've lived (US). Maybe it's different on Kazakhstan, although I don't think it'd be hard to implement.
What you are talking about is actually a type of vaccine.

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

My guess is that such a vaccine would take longer to develop, but I'm not sure about that.

Wiki also lists the following drawbacks:

In rare cases, particularly when there is inadequate vaccination of the population, natural mutations during viral replication, or interference by related viruses, can cause an attenuated virus to revert to its wild-type form or mutate to a new strain, potentially resulting in the new virus being infectious or pathogenic.[34][39]

Often not recommended for immunocompromised patients due to the risk of potentially severe complications.[34][40][41]

Live strains typically require advanced maintenance, such as refrigeration and fresh media, making transport to remote areas difficult and costly.[34][42]
Obligatory XKCD.

https://xkcd.com/538/
We had a VCR with a wired remote and oddly, the cable that connected it was something like 40' long. You could almost stand outside and start a movie. Thanks JCPenny. :)
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I don’t think it’s a big deal if it’s not backwards compatible with the billions of lines of existing Python which use C extensions.
probably Afterpay or another BNPL provider
When it comes to health decisions, I always consult my local gang leader
I'm using a TOTP authentication, are they taking that away? Because TOTP doesn't require a phone.
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