skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
States don’t have interests, states are a pass through entity for the people they represent. The current structure disenfranchises the people actually living in those states. They’re semi autonomous provinces, not independent nations in a confederation (especially since we’ve settled the question of whether anyone can leave the union).

The voting blocs aren’t between small states and large states, those basically don’t and haven’t existed for a long time. The senate is not a moderating body; the founders entirely failed to account for political parties.

The constitution isn’t a suicide pact, the founders lived in a completely different world, and it’s very apparent that the US federal government system is dysfunctional and failing.

The US legislature is designed to not do much, especially with the filibuster. Which is a huge problem when there are a succession of crises that the legislature has failed to address.
HAHA! Funny enough, two weeks ago I wanted to learn how to create unique NFTs and a friend said "if you can sell my soul with an NFT, I'm in" ... yesterday I pushed the first test live (no minting yet) https://test.soulz.art
Try out the Logfile Navigator (http://lnav.org) for working with logs instead of a text editor. It can provide a lot of benefits by default, like collating messages from multiple files together, syntax highlighting, decompressing files and so on.

(Sorry this is a little off topic, but there’s a lot of room for improvement for working with log files over a text editor without scaling up to a log service)
https://archive.md/ymkAj
No amount of swivelling your head allows you to see the blind spot right behind you - not using a screen is really dangerous which is why they made them mandatory.
Some IDEs support full development over SSH now - VSCode and IntelliJ - so you can be freed from vim.
But you are also experiencing the best commodity prices of your lifetime, right?

For me personally up in the Canadian prairies if wheat stays at $12 a bushel it is just not a big deal if urea is $1100/mt, even at 8 or 9 dollars a bushel an average crop will be much more profitable than a few seasons ago.
Same reason as for HN, to allow transparency of moderation?

I.e. we (mods and flagging users) remove stuff, but for those who wonder (and have a small amount of "karma"?) they can always use showdead to see what they are missing out on and even vouch for things that have been killed for no good reason.

This works beautifully here, except for stories where it seems a few can kill it with next to no trace except in the server logs. (You sometimes find them in /active even after they are flagged off the front page.)
Good to know, can you link me to further explanation about this?
And - again - this has nothing to do with the question I asked/the issue I was talking about, which is not what happens to batteries, it is about who does the whatever is (considered lawful) supposed to be done with them and how much it will cost me, it remains a VERY practical question.

Who (names of the companies) today (not tomorrow, not in ten years time) will pick up my wrecked electric car (and its batteries)?

For an old, traditional, ICE car I open the local phone directory and can find a handful of car wreckers that are authorized to scrap the car.

What do I do if the car is an electric one?
>On average, people that get vaccinated will be exposed to much, much, much less spike protein than those that get infected

Except unlike a natural infection with a gradual ramp up, the vaccine is effectively an immediate megadose of an inflammatory and apparently potentially mutagenic protein. Blindly presuming that the vaccine is preferable to natural immunity from infection is, frankly, dangerous.

In addition, during the course of a natural infection, your cells are producing the full, assembled virus from the full viral genome. With the vaccine your cells are producing a single inflammatory protein which then embeds itself in the surfaces of your own cells, producing an autoimmune response in effect. Given the hysteresis of the human immune system there is a nonzero risk of semipermanent to permanent autoimmune effects/disorders. And obviously a side effect like a subtle autoimmune disorder would be extremely difficult to detect in such a short time scale, doubly so if clinicians and researchers are not actively looking for evidence. Just diagnosing known autoimmune disorders can take years...and there's no guarantee that such a side effect would manifest in the near term.

Two years in and the danger of COVID in healthy people, as in complication rate, has clearly been overstated. Ask yourself, if it weren't for news reports, would you even be aware from your day to day life that we are still in the midst of a pandemic? If the answer is no, then mandating an experimental vaccine, based on an untested technology, for what amounts to a bad flu, is unjustifiable.

Edit: and on top of all that, considering that the vast majority of cases are asymptomatic or mild, there's no reason to suspect that the total exposure of someone who builds natural immunity will produce a comparable exposure to spike proteins. Not to mention the assertion that everyone eventually will be exposed is also unfounded, and likely does not apply to rural populations.
There's always VSCode with the Remote SSH plugin, unless you prefer the minimal setup.
You’re right - I misread the article by missing the part mentioning the adjustment needed in BIOS before enabling scroll lock. I’m glad the title was updated to keep the discussion going without editorializing. My mistake!
3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29090008

(58 points/87 comments)
The largest project I know of for this so far is 100MW of hydrogen electrolyzers in Spain:

https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/lines-business/flagship-p...

We will be seeing a lot more of these in the future. By making fertilizer out of air, water, and sun, a lot of places could gain more independence too.
I'm curious if well see an even greater bifurcation in the market: low paying jobs (that was all I saw mentioned on the non-paywalled bit of the article) will be essentially instant to get, the equivalent of the pickup truck picking up day laborers who want to work for cash.

At the other end, very good jobs will get more competitive, and require more pledging of heart and mind to the employer. There was an article yesterday about the long list of interviews (including a "diversity manager interview") that a junior candidate had to go though for a tech job.

It's just a feeling, but I get the sense were heading closer to a feudal model, where we have an aristocracy and a servant class that deliver their food and parcels and whatnot
There is most definitely a higher end market on upwork. I freelance part time there, at between $95 and $299 per hour. (The low rate for stuff that buffs my resume, the high one for deep expertise).

I wrote an article about getting decent rates a while back...

https://highestpayinggigs.com/how-to-get-started-on-upwork/
Having to share a room with 3 other slaves counts as "privacy and their own quarters"?
By the time it's widely reported on by Reuters, it's a bit late to buy futures :)

https://www.reuters.com/article/sponsored/fertilizer-prices-...

> Prices are rising so quickly that, by early October fertilizer futures at CME Group were witnessing prices hit and exceed pre-financial crisis 2008 levels.
> managed to (mostly) not back into kids for over 100 years, without rear cameras

They reckon the mandatory backup camera law saves 95 lives a year.
> The downside of Jax is it’s not easy to debug. PyTorch, for better or for worse, will actually run your Python code as you wrote it.

Hmm. Jax's ease of debugging was the very first thing that caught my attention: https://blog.gpt4.org/jaxtpu#:~:text=pdb.set_trace()

> I ran it on the TPU VM, saw the loss curve go down, and it was like an electric shock. "Wow! That actually... worked? Huh. that's weird. Things never work on the first try. I'm impressed."

> Then I plopped `import pdb; pdb.set_trace()` in the middle of the `loss` function and ran it again. It dropped me into the Python debugger.

> There was a tensor named `X_bt`. I typed `X_bt`. The debugger printed the value of `X_bt`.

> I was able to print out all the values of every variable, just like you'd expect Python to be able to do.

> There was a tensor named `Y_bt`. I typed `X_bt + Y_bt`. I was now staring at exactly what I expected: the sum of those two tensors.

> I could write `x + y`, or create new variables, or anything else I wanted.

> Now I was real impressed.

> If it sounds weird that I'm so easily impressed, it's because, you godda understand: until now, TPUs were a complete pain in the ass to use. I kept my feelings to myself, because I understood that the Cloud TPU team were working hard to improve TPUs, and the TFRC support team was wonderful, and I had so many TPUs to play with. But holy moly, if you were expecting any of the above examples to just work on the first try when using Tensorflow V1 on TPUs, you were in for a rude awakening. And if you thought "Well, Tensorflow v2 is supposedly a lot better, right? Surely I'll be able to do basic things without worrying...."

> ... no. Not even close. Not until Jax + TPU VMs.

In the subsequent year, it's been nothing but joy.

If the problem is that you want to see tensor values in a JIT'ed function, use a host callback. You can run actual Python wherever you want: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jax.experimental.host_c...

> This module introduces the host callback functions call(), id_tap(), and id_print(), that send their arguments from the device to the host and invoke user-defined Python functions on the host, optionally returning results back to the device computation.

The nice part is, there's no "magic" under the hood. If you get a chance, I highly recommend reading through Autodidax: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/autodidax.html

Autodidax is a pure-python implementation of jax. (Literally in one file, on that page.) It walks you through how every aspect of jax works.

Delightfully, I found a secret branch where autodidax also implements host callbacks: https://github.com/google/jax/blob/effect-types/docs/autodid...

If you scroll to the very bottom of that file, you'll see an example of compiling your own XLA JIT'ed code which subsequently calls back into Python. TPUs do precisely the same thing.

Point being:

> PyTorch, for better or for worse, will actually run your Python code as you wrote it.

... is also true of jax, to within a rounding error less than "I personally don't mind writing id_print(x) instead of print(x)." :)
I didn't say your concerns were illegitimate, I said your analysis was insufficient.

Being concerned about exposure to spike proteins is fine, whatever. Infection results in far more exposure to those proteins and is basically inevitable for people that aren't vaccinated, so any analysis of the risk of vaccination needs to include that context, the risk due to infection (which is as I have said, is essentially a 100% chance of a larger exposure to the spike protein).
Its pretty easy to explain with two examples, like good or gift (soft g) and choreography or chorizo (hard g). Then, with these examples, imagine that a soft g speaker (almost) exclusively uses the soft g, and imagine a hard g speaker (almost) exclusively uses the hard g. You can recognize a soft g or hard g speaker after one or two sentences (also given the fact there's other characteristics of these two distinct groups such as slang, sound of r, ...).
If it's inevitable, why the mandates? Everyone will get it anyway which means the vaccine only helps protect yourself, not others.

If it's not about protecting others, then how can you justify forced medical procedures?
> hermetic == sandbox which only contains declared deps

Yes, exactly. It also can include other deps like networking. A perfect hermetic build will (for most of the build process) not have access to the network.

> I assume bazel implements this via containers?

Sort of. Bazel's code predates "containers" by ~6 years. Bazel is the build system used at Google (sprinkle on a large amount of asterisks here).

> Also, IMO, this only provides a false sense of safety unless you archive absolutely everything that's inside the sandbox.

Yes, that is what a Bazel monorepo does. You can also include your language's runtime and standard library as part of the build process. See Dropbox's repo for more details on how they do this with Python: https://github.com/dropbox/dbx_build_tools

Some more details about what Google does are available here: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/#

Essentially, everything is built from source (more asterisks here). Since everything is built from source using Bazel you can guarantee that at a certain view of the source repository you can build a reproducible copy of all software in the repo (more asterisks).

One other nice property is you can guarantee that all software in the repo is using a compatible version of each dep: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/oneversion/

The downside is that if you want to upgrade a library that has a breaking change this requires you update a lot of code. The upside is that doing that isn't actually that hard with the tooling available and you can guarantee that you can link together any two libraries in the repo (more asterisks) and have the build succeed without any dep version conflicts. Since you can do this some langauges with runtimes (like JVM language) can see massive speed boosts because they only need to compile changed libraries and can run a `java -cp ... your.jar` to load up deps. You can check out rules_docker for some examples of how this can be used.
Actually the first time I ever used a VR headset it was a program that put you in the dinosaur era. There were some triceratopses and hadrosaurs walking around in front of me, then I heard a branch snap behind me, I turned my head and saw a Tyrannosaurus and it was legit the scariest experience of my life. The graphics weren't even that high quality, but I don't think my flight or fight response takes the time to measure a predator's polygon count.
Looks like my SF market street studio. We sure have come a long way...
Well that isn't a good faith interpretation of that poster's comment.
Don’t be spooky
Not to nitpick but: trituim is 1 proton and 2 neutrons, otherwise it would be helium
Boring Fruits with Health Benefits
Unable to understand this article myself I found a news article [1] dissecting this.

[1] https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/11/04/covid-spike-hijacking...
Reaching a single digit percentage larger user count in exchange for 30% of your revenue is questionable accounting
Dang, I thought there might be good advice here, but I’ve tried reading good books and that doesn’t work for me. Xanax does work, but I’d much rather cure my anxiety than suppress it with drugs. I’ve heard flight simulators and/or earning a pilot’s license can do the trick, can anyone confirm?

It’s not a rational fear or a safety concern, I’m comfortable getting on a plane. I’ve been on thousands of flights. I used to skydive. I’m well aware of the tolerance the plane has for turbulence. Yet, whenever we hit turbulence my blood boils. I don’t know how to stop it.

I’ve been happy to not fly during the pandemic, and happy about the growing awareness of the environmental impact. Together maybe they mean I won’t need to fly, but just in case, I still want to conquer this irrational reaction.
I was reading the other day about these guys:

https://www.nitricity.co/

"Renewable on-site nitrogen fertilizer production"

Maybe some people here could find their process interesting.
Oh I am aware that screens are generally a lot cheaper. Plus you can update them over the air! (OTA updates being another anti-feature I do not want on any vehicle that I own or operate).
Wikipedia avoids original research which in practice severely limits it’s accuracy. At best it’s an imperfect copy of whatever the original source was before adding its own slant and errors.
You're ready to die to defend them? That seems like a pretty extreme escalation.
What % of your pay are you saving and what age are you? Almost no one saves enough.
on an applicant? really? if you were headhunting and this person really fit the bill for a key role, maybe.
But that's still detached from the actual physical object. I'm thinking you'd want a physical certificate with a verifiable signature, which would be easy if we have the relevant public keys. Or equivalent, something like a tiny QR code on the actual physical thing that can be scanned to verify the details + their authenticity. Digital stuff is blurrier but actual physical possession of an item is the only absolute way to determine its owner at a specific point in time, all contracts be damned.
And in the meantime we continued to use fossil fuels.

TMI had little to no impact on the environment and public.

Chernobyl was the result of a corrupt political system which skimped on safety (e.g., no containment building/vessel) because of costs—something that isn't present in any developed country.

That leaves Fukushima.

I'll take the low odds of maybe one incident in 60+ years of industry over the certainty of climate change. And I say this as someone who lives 50km from a nuclear power plant.
I don't really remember it being an endemic issue of people getting run over by backing up cars that had that small blindspot. Could have been an issue of unattended children/pets or tall car/short people, but I think it was more a big convenience boost.
You need to make a separation in your mind between "the web" and "web technologies." I said nothing about putting the device online.
I didn’t start any of this shit, someone else is barging into my life and saying that I need to comply with paranoid hypochondriac fascism, or else.

I have tried arguing rationally with these folks, but this is one of the situations where the right strategy is simply: “No, fuck you too!”
Is the shortage basically about finding raw materials for the Haber process? Are there any other industrial processes they use for fertilizer?
> In that case any ad could still trigger it‘s impression with a viewport listener, if that‘s what google needed them to do.

With AMP, Google (and Microsoft and the other companies running AMP caches) can verify that the ad doesn't trigger an impression until viewed, which they need to do because they serve it themselves.

https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/amp-ads

> Does it do a speculative auction when you load the search results page?

Yes.

> It so, that is an incredibly unfair advantage for google.

Why would it be? Anybody can participate in the auction.
Facebook Is Killing Its Face Recognition System Due to “Social Concerns”
> It's the closest thing to not using git that exists.

Totally disagree, because the whole reason for this is to support multiple developers working simultaneously of the same master branch. That is, sure, master may just be a linear history of commits, but at any specific point in time there may be 10 feature branches off master, each from a different branch point.
> but I think it was more a big convenience boost

They don't make laws to force cars to add features for convenience.
People with reduced immune function benefit from reduced disease prevalence, it's pretty straightforward.

For example it's not great that some older folks will inevitably die of COVID over the next 20 years, but it's better than just letting happen over the next 12 months.
I like the idea in theory, but I can’t entirely agree with the “Green” designation. Putting 12 Raspberry Pis, 12 USB SSDs, 12 switch ports, and cabling and power supplies for all of the above adds up quickly.

From a pure compute-per-watt perspective using typical cloud workloads, I’d still expect a run of the mill shared cloud server to be more efficient. It would also allow for more burst overhead for individual workloads.

This is an interesting option for people who need a specific Raspberry Pi hosted somewhere.
Amish Horse and Buggy Nails a Sick, Spark-Filled Drift
Note that MDPI is a predatory journal.

@dang, this is not from nih.gov, you might want to fix that.
My BMW was delayed for a few months due to a screen shortage years ago, seems to happen fairly often.
Wondering where we would stand if we had dumped all the funding and subsidies that went into nuclear fission and fusion research and into coal subsidies into solar panels.

Guessing dependency on oil and gas would be much much lower which also frees up a large chunk of the military budget.
That’s what I have never understood - why would you want to open a log file in a text editor (when the standard tools of the trade in this case should be an “unbuffered” text viewer, which by design, can handle files of any size, fgrep, and, if you want to generate a report, a stream editor, such as sed).
At this point people are too far invested in the vaccine both mentally and financially. First, many people simply cannot admit when they were wrong. If you were quick to get vaccinated, and then later found out that people who are vaccinated are still contracting, spreading and dying from the virus after being vaccinated; it takes a lot to say, hey... maybe the vaccine helped me, but this isn't the solution that is going to get everyone back to normal like I was told.

Many people were very much against the vaccine when Trump was President, saying it was rushed, that they wouldn't get the Trump vaccine; but once Biden was promoting it, then suddenly it is fine again. People want this type of flip flopping to go unnoticed, to simply rewrite history and hope that people have the attention span of a goldfish.

Never have we mandated flu shots, and they are only 40 to 60% effective. I see the COVID vaccine in a similar boat, we can never plan for or protect against all the variants. If I was 65 years old I'd be getting the flu vaccine. However, if you're healthy it doesn't make as much sense. Sure, if you want it, you can get it but telling people that they'll be fired for not getting it is ridiculous.

The OSHA rules is because of an emergency that they've known about for how long, and now they are delaying it until after Christmas? So much of an emergency, that they don't want it to impact Christmas workers. It is all BS.
> Maybe I'm going to piss many people off here, but vim is not an user-friendly text editor. An user friendly editor should pop some kind of prompt when I pressed the first g/G key and show me what I could press the next, not telling me to read :help (which probably has the volume of a dictionary at this point).

For anyone that wants this: these kinds of plugins are usually called "which key" after the Emacs mode. Most of the Emacs distros ship with which-key by default and it works very well with evil.

I get the sense that they're less popular on the Vim end, though I'm not sure why.
As an FYI there's no way to directly message capability here on HN so if you're interested in people being able to reach you you might want to put some form of contact info in your profile.
That's not entirely accurate. It's still a lot of power per unit of fuel burned, but you're right that it burns much much slower than people expect.