skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have found that being "against murder" is political and a matter of political alignment. Especially since the definition of what is murder, or who is protected by murder laws, and the punishments for murder are all controversial. For example, if you believe that fetuses are living humans then you would tend to argue that arguing against abortion was arguing against murder. Where you stand on the death penalty could make you believe the state murders, or the state does not seriously punish murderers.

Similarly, whether or not you think specific instances of deaths at the hands of police are murder is political. For example, the nature of acceptable violence in self-defense is controversial (in the US particularly), and the acceptable nature of force used by police is controversial too.

And the brand of "Black Lives Matter" does not exist in a vacuum, it been used over a number of years, by many different people, and has become associated (whether these are 'core tenets' or potentially misattributed) with a number of controversial stances, for example anarchist principles, support of disorder, vandalism, violence, revolution, etc. This might be surprising to some, but it is familiar to others. If someone criticizes or dislikes the movement with that context, then are they necessarily dismissive of police brutality against blacks, do they feel blacks don't deserve the same safety as others?
I think the fundamental problem is that legislation preventing cartels and "guilds" in the base industry, making top of the chain industry where the money is at, where the niche company more or less has monopoly by the nature of being niche or by controlling distribution/marketplace.

So base industry is put out of business in e.g. Europe and North America and stays in protectionist countries, making them overly dependent on foreign industry.

Greater custom duty should probably solve some of the unstable base industry situation.
> Early in the morning and late in the evening

That is solvable problem. Much worse issue is that in mid lattitudes (e.g. central Europe) it is not available (or just marginal) most of winter.
It's the same man. Wikipedia (or rather the Wikimedia Foundation which operates Wikipedia) was added to the Discovery suit later on.
You don’t need a centralized app to make or verify a public key signature and it’s many orders of magnitude less expensive than a blockchain transaction.
I don't think it's trivial, as it is built on Chromium instead of Firefox. However, if you or we as a community wanted to experiment with adding a similar native adblock using the Brave version as a model, I don't think the maintainers would be opposed.
At least they consume way less space that way.
What went wrong at the Journal of Light Construction forums?
Seemed like a great resource for planning home improvements. Locked down end of July 2020: "... the JLC forums are now displayed read-only."
Except plane casualties happen to the people actively opting into air travel; an individual choice can mitigate one's exposure to air travel risk. Not so nuclear accidents.
I know that co-location means “customer owned hardware”, but in this case, I think I’d way rather rent data center owned RPis and just pay them money rather than sending in hardware, having to cycle out hardware if/when it fails, etc.

It also means the colo is running whatever random power supply I send them, which seems like something they’d want to avoid and means that there’s all the inefficiency of 12 supplies per U rather than one beefy +5.1V supply (with battery backing) feeding the Pis via the GPIO pins.
This couple used Leaf modules to create a 48v pack for their vintage bus. 3 years later their bus construction is done and they're on the road, and the batteries are doing fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gHoNT3E6ZQ
(layman but web searches haven't yet answered my question well)

Both the virus and the vaccine may have long-term unknown effects. Of course, we simply don't have the data in this case.

In prior viruses and vaccines, are there examples in which similar viruses and/or vaccines had much different short-term effects than long-term effects?

For example, virus A or vaccine X had minor short-term effects and side effects, but drastically different long-term (multi-year) effects?

Or, is each virus and vaccine so different that my question is not a good question to begin with?
Since the vaccines have been shown to reduce severity of the disease, they will result is less load on medical services. I believe that is the only legitimate reason for mandates.
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For me working on my pilots license and meeting more commercial pilots made it worse.

It exacerbated my control issues and seeing how complacent commercial pilots get because it is so routine for them adds to my nerves.

I am very comfortable with the survivability of mechanical issues. Not so much with the human factor and egos.
Touch screens work on phones because phones have limited real estate. Even then some people doggedly held onto their physical keyboards for years (eg Blackberrys).

To me, touch screens are usually an excuse for terrible UI/UX. Why? Because it makes the maker lazy. "We'll fix/update it later" I'm sure is the mantra as they cut corners to get it out the door.

Physical buttons force you to do more work up front and think about how the UI works.

And of course that "later" rarely ever happens. It's onto the next model.

Physical buttons, knobs and switches allow you to use the interface without looking at the screen, something incredibly important for a driver of a vehicle. You shouldn't have to look away from the road to adjust the AC, for example.

This may be a blessing in disguise.
There’s code for L1 floating around, if you know where to look. Nobody bothers with L2, only L1 or L3.
For a long term assessment of our predicament , Tom Murphy's
book 'Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet' is a must read:
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m
Ah, yes, darwin selection. Should go to the Darwin Awards page to see what happens to people trying to steal from high voltage systems.
With Arch, I've had several times on separate machines when after updating I have had to mess around with recovery stuff, manually boot and reinstall grub or whatever.

I really don't need cutting edge packages, so I don't use it any more, but I understand why people would want a lean system by default.
external rainmakers will exfiltrate huge chunks of cashflow from the company which is almost your entire profit margin, you really want the rainmaker to be paid in equity (in this case, ownership of the quals/brand/trust which is an asset that can be sold)
I heavily favor end-to-end integration tests as well. For the kind of code you commented on, but also for older code bases w/out a hint of prior test automation. My experiences sound similar to yours - I've found they provide excellent understanding of general code paths and data movement, and that they help those remain stable during new development or refactoring w/out having to change too much within the code base.

Likewise on the controversy - my favor toward integration tests tends to get replies in favor of unit tests instead, in which case I'll say I understand their benefit and use them too. E.g. sometimes a method or class that handles some computation needs more coverage than what an integration test typically provides. Maybe the class or method gets called within an API, where inputs or contextual data are well understood. But it might also be called from back end jobs, or by code written by internal data teams where inputs or related data are more nuanced. In such cases, it's worked well to mock the class and go to town with various input or edge case data that might fall outside the perview of an end-to-end test.
First thing I thought: They look like modern student dorm rooms / living arrangements, but without windows, like that new Munger hall that is being built.
Anecdote: some one else's account of this was that it was really helpful because the Linux portion of the community (while much smaller than other segments) provided consistently high quality feedback/bug reports.
These are important conversations to have. I don't think we've found the right balance point yet.
This has been my experience also. These people get a mediocum of power and let it go to their heads.
Walt Whitman pens female admirer the nicest romantic rejection in history
It’s not even just controversial topics or politics: people try to control the pettiest things. I used to be active there, and it was a struggle to add “timelines” of band members to some old rock acts even though it was already in place in most of the site, because a classic-rock fan disliked them. There is also one specific user who gets to pick who is metal and who isn’t, and reverts addition to lists for bands who aren’t “metal enough” for him like Rammstein or Nu-Metal.

Even with sources and pushback from other moderators, it’s hard to compete with people with an agenda and a lot of time.
Ask HN: What are some open source projects that you have found recently?
I think Amex offers that as well as actual credit cards.
A must read for an assessment of our predicament is "Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet' by physicist Tom Murphy of UCSD
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m
Contact RV, off-the grid people, people with projects that need the batteries - PROFITS! Only the dumb people can't make a profit off selling BEV batteries.
That's a false equivalence - just because it's not an 'endemic' issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed. I don't see why things getting run over by cars (think of immovable things as well) shouldn't be fixed?
The fastest object diff library in JavaScript
Now if only AMD didn't treat ROCm as an afterthought the graghics card landscape could see an interesting shift. Steamdeck with ML capabilities wolud be pretty cool.
The Helion tech is summarily explained here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/sam-altman-puts-375-million-...
I found my first clients in job boards.

The next clients, I got by referal (friends/clients).

Later, after blogging for some time, CEOs/VPs made me offers via email.

But getting started and making good money only took a few months.
Additionally, people still have keys for a lot of devices, either via exploits (like shofel2 as marcan said), or via the manufacturers exposing them on some open server or similar. The pirates are always going to be winning this battle, to be honest. They’ll always be a step ahead of Google et al.
From https://examesh.de/en/docs/colocation/accessing-the-pi/ :

"Instead of using a public IP the Pi is accessed by combining a public hostname with dedicated TCP ports. The hostname points to one of the ExaMesh gateways and is assigned to the colocation along with the available TCP ports in the booking process."

So maybe useful for an extra node for redundency, but maybe not as useful as having an actual address. Perhaps an extra encrypted Syncthing node or something
As a former Googler responsible for some of its first developer products, this AMP story has been really disappointing. If the allegations are true, what an embarrassment. Imagine making your career out of promoting AMP to developers and lying to them. Imagine being the engineer who inserted the one second delay for non-AMP ads.

(I left Google many years before AMP was ever a thing, so no inside knowledge.)
You could write the same article in reverse: how many neurons does it take to simulated an ANN? A lot, because neither system is a good basis for representing the other. You need a lot of tanh functions to fit a spiking neuron and a lot of spiking neurons to represent a single tanh. This fact doesn’t say anything about the “computational power” of either system.

I am all starting to feel like it is borderline malpractice to talk about neuron/silicon performance comparisons without acknowledging that perhaps the driving design constraint in wetware is energy usage, and considering the implications this has for optimal architecture.
> how do you back-up safely without a screen to show you what’s behind you?

Always-on silicon dioxide transparent amorphous solid with a sublayer of vacuumed deposited silver: a mirror.
>Reddit has fallen to this same problem with subreddit moderators. A subreddit moderator can remove posts and comments they don't want anyone to see. A lot of the popular subreddits and many of the more obscure subreddits are moderator-crafted echo chambers.

Coz it's cheaper to pay moderators with a power trip than with money.

I've yet to see a viable solution to this economic dilemma.

* Decentralized moderation tends to end up meaning no moderation coz normal users are not really motivated to clean up spam, etc.

* Free centralized moderation like reddit does inevitably means the space becomes a fiefdom from people who have their own reasons for doing grunt work for free (e.g. pushing their agenda, marketing, etc).

* Paid moderation isn't usually something people are willing to pay for.
Valve does quite a bit more than just proton.

0. They manage the most popular games store in the western world.

1. They provide a community forum for your users.

2. Host downloads of games (sometimes 100s of GBs). They distribute the content all across the world and handle region specific laws about what can be sold, etc. They host content at edge so downloads are super fast.

3. Process refund requests.

4. Have one of the better VR abstraction layers for game devs.

5. Provide networking and social integration (chat, anti-cheat, friends, etc).

6. They allow you to generate steam keys (at no cost to you) and sell them on your own website.

7. They process payments (PayPal charges ~3% for this, Stripe is 2.9%)

8. Achievements, time tracking, etc. These are useful for game devs who iterate on their formula (most use achievements to see what percent of a user base does X).

That's what I can think off the top of my head benefits the game developers. The list of things that benefits the users is also pretty big (steam sales).

I don't think any company is good or bad but Valve's offer to game devs is a pretty decent one.

> Anecdote: some one else's account of this was that it was really helpful because the Linux portion of the community (while much smaller than other segments) provided consistently high quality feedback/bug reports.
Indeed, on seeing the pictures in the article I got the feeling that these might as well be structures used for playing a kind of sport, requiring a standardized shape and size like today's football pitch etc. People today like to play or watch sports, why wouldn't the ancient people like that too?
> This is an interesting option for people who need a specific Raspberry Pi hosted somewhere.

What is that use case though? The page says that they only host regular Pis and optionally a USB SSD. So they can't do anything that a regular cloud server can't do - no custom hats, etc.

I have a Pi 4 home server, and the biggest issue right now is that my home upload is a bit weak for remote video streaming. So this product could interest me, in theory - saves me from having to migrate all my data & configuration to a cloud server. But I would rather pay Hetzner a very similar amount of money to get a VPS that's about as powerful as a Pi (probably more) and still have the physical Pi here at home as a fallback.

Maybe there are ARM-specialized, highly distributed tasks for which a fleet of Pis is particularly efficient?
I get more afraid of flying with each flight. It’s bizarre. I was totally fine flying, then slowly, with each flight it got worse.

I wouldn’t say I’m a “nervous flyer”, but on takeoff I feel afraid. And then occasionally during the flight I kind realise how absurd the situation I’m in is and it really freaks me out.
Not all of the vaccines are affected by the questions this paper raises. The mRNA vaccines aren't affected, only the adenovirus vector vaccines are.

If you're concerned about the spike protein because of this paper, it's still best to vaccinated. The 4 adenovirus vector vaccines will still give you less exposure, but taking one of the others will completely avoid it. (And if you get exposed after vaccination you'll have extremely minimal exposure to the spike protein compared to if you were unvaccinated)
> Donate money to a mismanaged product so the management can raise their bonuses? Quit our jobs and start forking Firefox?

To make it worse you cannot donate towards the product, only towards the management (!)

They are quite clear about this if you ask the right questions, but not until then so I guess a lot of people think they have donated towards the browser and have instead sponsored the foundation that milks the browser company dry (seriously USD500M a year is quite some money).
Fate of a Roman slave was decidedly different depending on what the slave did.

House and urban slaves weren't much worse off than a regular citizen, having a good chance of manumission (release), after which they became freedmen - still not full citizens, but their children would be, and some freedmen became very rich.

Given that those slaves are the ones that we know the most about (from both archeology and written sources), it skews our perception of Roman slavery to being more benign than it actually was.

Rural slaves which worked in agriculture were worked very hard and they were much more numerous than house slaves. Not an enviable fate, though one must admit that ancient agriculture was a backbreaking work regardless of personal status.

Slaves sent to mines were basically sentenced to death. Few of them would last more than five years. Ancient Rome had very extensive mining operations and mines "ate" men by the thousands. These were mostly enslaved men, because they were cheaper and could not say "no". Mining safety back then was basically zero.
Apparently there was, and probably still is (process groups): https://www.anandtech.com/show/15483/amd-threadripper-3990x-...

And here's a table about hardware restrictions for Windows 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Comparison...

Looks like Windows 10 Pro is limited to 128 cores / threads per CPU. Guess I was a bit off with my "bazillion" remark above, but who with access to that kind of hardware would ever want to waste it on Windows anyway?
Skydiving is something I thought would help me get over fear of heights, among other fears. It didn’t work- the height at altitude is abstract, it wasn’t hard to jump out of the plane and let go, I guess because the landing wasn’t imminent.

The first time I jumped was out of a Cessna and the procedure was to hang from the strut and let go. I was so worried I wouldn’t be able to let go that I asked the pilot for 30 extra seconds on the jump approach so I could just hang there and get used to the idea. He obliged, but I only lasted a couple of seconds before I thought no biggie and took off. I dropped so early I didn’t quite make it back to the drop zone and had to walk for a while.

A couple hundred skydives later, too many flights to count, and some occasional cliff jumps and bike dirt jumps, I’m still to this day terrified about climbing down ten feet from my roof on a ladder. But I no longer feel like I need to overcome it, and in a weird way I’m glad it’s still a “thrill” to stand on the edge of something tall.
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You see evidence for the sleep quarters and assume they’re locked in, what evidence do you have to claim that? Where is the evidence of slave abuse you feel is true?

From archeology of Herculaneum they looked at a household with a slave and noted that one of the remains was fat, well fed man and had many signs of eating a meat rich diet, and a girl found was less nourished and had signs of malnutrition. They assumed from his healthy bones he was the master and the teen girl was the slave. The well fed man was the cook, a slave and the young girl was vegetarian by choice and the daughter of the master of the household.

Your assumptions of it being propaganda are not factually accurate.
But we need to keep all our hydro power for green crypto for ElonFlokiDoge token, not squander it on food.
You have deadly blind-spots when you rely on mirrors.
It’s not irrelevant because Presidents always place pressure on the Fed. The Fed isn’t the only issue at play here either.
Ah, didn't think of legs. Classic mistake
Assuming stupidity is actually the most charitable thing to do for something so objectively ridiculous. The alternative motivation being a calculated, manipulative, attention seeking stunt.
A whooping 1% in 9 years, great achievement.
Less than 64K in size, unheard of now.
I'm not keen to start a discussion here, but your wish for 'good looking women' looks a bit out of place next to affordable living cost, public transportation, etc. Might say more about you than you like.
I sit in a weird place myself:

My father is an extremely high risk individual who was vaccinated and then ended up having a breakthrough infection. I highly doubt he would be alive today if he had not been vaccinated.

My mother-in-law who was in her early 60s and healthy suffered a severe adverse event from her second Pfizer shot. 3 hours after receiving the second shot she went into cardiac arrest in the midst of a fever. This adverse event ended up not being reported to the CDC due to a bureaucratic error at the hospital. No conspiracy or anything it's just a 30 minute process to enter the event into the VAERS system and there's no penalty for not doing it. Translation most physicians put it on a list of to-do items and then forget to get to it.

So the lack of nuance in your analysis has to do with where the spike proteins are in the body in a natural infection versus with an mRNA vaccine.

The study is specifically talking about spike proteins in the nucleus of cells. That is not something that occurs with natural infection.

I'm not against the vaccine. I caught the virus before I was eligible and it's not a great way to get immunized compared to a well-designed vaccine. For older folks or people who are at higher risk it's a deadly way to get immunized versus getting vaccinated.

That being said it's important to note that this vaccine is not going to be the final one. It obviously has design flaws that could only have been discovered after a lengthy period of time. It appears based on studies like this one that the full spike protein is not a great payload. One of the reasons there are so many breakthrough infections is because the immune system doesn't even develop antibodies to the entire spike protein. It instead focuses on individual components of it which are not as evolutionary expensive to discard for new variants of the virus.

They will be able to develop a new MRNA vaccine that creates a much more targeted spike protein payload that will likely have far fewer side effects in the long term. That's my crappy analysis on this anyway.
You can check out some demoscene demos [0], which usually do this (albeit to save executable size instead of just to run fast). These days you don't even have to run them yourself; most have YouTube recordings.

[0]: https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform%5B%5D=Windows&pa...
The debate along that line predates both Newtonian and quantum mechanics. The ancient Epicurian atomist philosophy seems, at first glance, to postulate a fully deterministic universe like the simple interpretation of Newtonian mechanics does, and so would preclude free will. The solution was a randomness in the motions of atoms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura#The_swerve
Somewhat ironically, I'd guess that putting a server inside a wind turbine makes it less likely that you are utilising green energy. The power and comms connections to that location are there primarily to monitor the turbine, and they want that to work all the time, and especially when the blades aren't turning. So you don't go powering it with the wind farm itself.

Installing the server anywhere else means there is a chance that its power is being generated by that wind turbine!
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