skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. some numbers: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/

Listen Notes was started in early 2017 as a side project, when there were ~23 million episodes.

I remembered seeing the number of web pages indexed by Google in early 1998 was ~25 million, then I thought that "ok, 23 million episodes might justify the existence of a podcast search engine" :)
I suppose the main advantages would be less dependencies (no Redis server). Less overhead (you aren’t routing though anything)

I haven’t looked at the exact performance characteristics but it would be fun! You would have built in load balancing!
"The SS guards demanded the tape be destroyed, but YLE was allowed to keep the tape in a sealed container with the promise that it never be opened again"

How odd and weirdly naive.
That's a very good idea, but I'm not sure if the increased difficulty in building the filters underwater in an oceanic current would really make things much easier.
Every commented you've posted since 2017 has been silently hidden from almost everyone on the site as a punishment for something you've done to annoy someone at some point.

You've been talking into a void.
Nuclear is cost competitive with fossil fuels, if you include carbon externalities.

Still more expensive than renewables though, so only the best option if they didn't exist.
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I think that article is wrong; I think that acronym is of British origin, in the 80s, and it expanded as "Quasi-autonomous non-government organization" (which the article refers to as a "backronym"). That's the expansion I have always encountered since I first came across the acronym.

"Quasi-NGO" doesn't have anything for the 'A' (OTOH, none of the expansions offers an explanation of the 'U', I guess)

"Quasi" means "like", or "fake". It's the autonomy of a QUANGO that is fake, not its non-governmentalness.
Right. Because the miners will stop their operations when Ethereum moves to proof of stake in 2030. Because there won't be a hard fork from miners who would rather have PoW. Because the miners will just give up on their operations when Ethereum isn't the shitcoin of the day. Because they won't move on to another shitcoin that is worth mining on GPUs.
In order to deal with that, I would place two sorting options related to average:
- regular average
- weighted average (recommended, default)

Then the user can pick the regular average if they want, whereas the so-called weighted average (the algorithm described in the article) would be the default choice.
Hi Peter,

Thanks for doing this again. Is a work authorization visa (TN H1B etc) required to be hired for a remote US position for a Canadian not looking to relocate just yet.

Thanks
The fact that a certain demographic might be more likely to respond to the LEO with violence doesn’t matter because this isn’t a discussion about causation and correlation, it’s just a discussion about the fact that non-white people are more likely to be subject to LEO violence.

You can’t use a stereotype to excuse LEO’s treating people like stereotypes. Especially when there’s a tremendous amount of evidence that shows that those stereotypes are externally enforced (systemic racism, for example). I don’t want to debate whether or not that is a thing, that’s a separate discussion, and it’s totally unrelated to the one we’re having here.

> If a certain demographic were 2x more likely to die in an encounter, but 4x more likely to respond to a benign pullover with violence, then they're actually 2x more likely to be treated with less force than their actions require.

This is some insanely racist bullshit that you’ve just said so I don’t think that there’s going to be a productive end to this debate and this will be my final comment in the discussion. That’s as civil as I’m willing to be about it.
Hi. Is the position open to people outside US/Canada? Thanks!
Let alone other 'magical' techniques Ruby affords, e.g. you can re-open a class to monkey-patch more methods in; or even define method_missing so that the methods an object has are dynamic. Some very neat stuff.
Where do you plan to immigrate to that you won't perpetuate the exact same problem you see as your main reason for leaving?
“Right” and “wrong” implies a sense of free will. When the expensive negative externalities of a business are legalized, a market is guaranteed to force any would-be altruistic actors out of existence. Those who get a job in one of these industries have no functional or legal ability to make choices which would bankrupt their own organizations. The only way to solve the issue is with a regulatory level playing field.

Economic incentives are a scientific force. You can’t solve problems by suggesting that people ignore them, you have to work within the bounds of the natural effects that inherently exist. Groups of people do not make moral decisions like an individual person does.

We won’t solve this issue with mere criticism while we continue to financially reward these outcomes. Make negative externalities illegal.
In nearby Oregon we don't have that. Except for the part about the government having difficulty keeping rest stations open. We have that.
Yes, but I would say "...retained by tech giants like Amazon and Google, and to a lesser degree the police..."
Good news everyone!

Crypto Miners Driving High Demand for AMD CPUs with Big L3 Cache https://www.extremetech.com/computing/328908-crypto-miners-d...

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Wow! 150kW. The chargers I use now are 7kW max. I wonder what kind of stress that puts on the batteries.
'Tyrannophone' iPhone case comes with an actual dinosaur tooth
Not just iOS, just the issue that you need MacOS to make applications for the apple ecosystem regardless. Im sure iOS is a big part, but I also imagine all the desktop application that want to be cross platform, so think like Photoshop. Or Microsoft has to have a Mac somewhere to compile Office to MacOS.
I agree with @adrianN (impact correlates to population density) with the obvious caveat that the real question is the ratio between the rate of removal and the rate of replacement. In my initial post when I said prehistoric practices were not sustainable, I should have qualified it -- "not ALL prehistoric practices were sustainable." If you live on an island eating moa, a few thousand of you can drive a species to extinction.
What are the legal risks for a US company to hire a foreign contractor in a model that is more like of a full time employee?

I am the foreign contractor in this situation and I like it. I wish many more companies would hire this way, since a real FTE would require the company to establish a presence in my country (which will never happen).

I understand the risks of hiring as contractor with an employee-like agreement if I was in the US. But I am not. So what are the risks then?
Indeed.

Insofar as the presence of humanity is the enemy of biodiversity, the problem is suburban sprawl and excessive rural development, and the answer is urban density. Immigration is only a facet of that larger paradigm.
Two of my favorites are: http://iscaliforniaonfire.com/ and http://whereiscaliforniaonfire.com/

I check on iscaliforniaonfire.com every so often and I don't think I've ever seen it say "No". It's been YEARS. As far as I know California is quite literally ALWAYS on fire.
Have you ever sought out to see which deadlines the Ethereum Foundation has setup and met? The only ones you'd read about online would be the ones that missed the deadline. But if you look at the previous milestones (like the Berlin upgrade), they all had their deadlines met correctly.
This is a pedal assist e-bike. There are people that cheat and that install throttles so they can move without pedaling but that's a great way to get your vehicle confiscated.

A typical ride has me providing 40 to 60% of the Joules and the remainder comes out of the battery. If there is a very heavy wind up (not rare here) that might drop to 30/70 and if I have a tailwind it is the reverse. The bike has a nice stats display where it tracks all this stuff. Maximum assist is 350W (10A current out of a nominally 36V battery), at the wheel considerably less than that, this is only used when starting up from a complete stop. The rest of the time you're at a small fraction of that.
The visas most closely aligned with entrepreneurs are the E-1 and E-2, the L-1, the O-1, and the IEP (parole).
When you click a link on your SearX instance and you don't use referrers, how can anybody track you? Nobody knows that you are coming from your "backend" engine.

You just reveal your search queries to the hosting provider if he maliciously intercepts them.
C# .NET implements quite a lot of these too via LINQ, albeit with different names (e.g. map is called Select).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enum...
"again"

when's the last time you or anyone you know handed off large chunks of cash to strangers for the purpose of delivering that money to someone else?

noteably without trust - that means no insurance and no legal contracts.
Location doesn't make as much difference as you would think. Arizona gets about 3 times as much sun as Boston does, but a cloudy day in Arizona isn't significantly different than a cloudy day in Boston. And if you size your solar to support cloudy days...

And yes, solar farms are bigger than nuclear plants. That might be a problem in Singapore, but a few hundred square miles of solar farms is not a big deal in a country with 3.5 million square miles.
Most people aren't fully charging their car every day.

I have a 220v 24 amp plug for my car and it charges ~22 MPH, which typically covers my driving for the day.

High rises need maybe a dozen of these chargers with load sharing so multiple cars can be on the same circuit.
For ~10 years I have been doing what I call my "Daily Score". It is basically me reflecting and self-evaluating my day in 6 categories, that are the most relevant to me:

- Sleep
- Diet
- Exercise
- Execution (how well did I did what I should be doing)
- Mood
- Social (how much did I socialize, spend time with loved ones etc)

The value is:

- During the day I might consider: "what would it take to end this day on a 3 in Diet", for example
- When I enter the values for a day, I reflect over what went well/wrong - which can help me improve

Every morning, I get an email with a reminder to fill in my Daily Score for the previous day. It takes 30-60 seconds - sometimes a bit more, if it sets off a chain of thoughts.

It started out a spreadsheet, then I built a simple web-app for it about a year ago.

I often thought about sharing it, but doubt it makes sense without a lot of explanation about the value being in the self-reflection - not the data.
Henry L. Hillman Foundation Grant of $200K for Robotics Edu Programs Awarded
Ctr-alt-delete/ task manager, will show you what is using the most cpu.
Recurrent subjects on his show were things like The Cosmic Watergate, MJ-12, and all sorts of other slashfic derived from the Roswell crash, whatever that actually was. Real-life events like the satellite feed getting cut while on the air, the government stopping an Area 51 lawsuit on the grounds that Area 51 did not officially exist, and hilariously fake found footage kept spraying lighter fluid on the fire to keep it from burning out. But, IMO, none of it was as crazy as the QAnon folk expecting JFK Jr to show up in Dealey Plaza last week.

I mean I choose to believe there's life out there myself, I'm just skeptical that we're worth more than a single disappointing visit.
The difference is on the "kind" of Hotel.

A "traditional" hotel will (should) have a proper "bookings/reservation" procedure a "modern" one may well rely entirely on booking.com or similar.

Moreover it depends on the "incentives" (or lack thereof) of the actual people at the reception, in large hotels (or chains of hotels) why employee/clerk - say - #215 (possibly a low paid intern) would want to actually work to make your reservation (as you can do it yourself online, less work and responsibilities for him/her).

If you think a bit about it, when you book on one of these sites, you take all responsibilities about dates (arrival departure) people (number of people in each room) types of rooms (like two/three bed, queen size or king size bed, etc.) type of accomodation (with/without breakfast).

It is not entirely uncommon that people arrives on the "wrong" date or has miscalculated the days of stay (rare but happens from time to time), or - this happens quite often - having booked a single use room for two people or similar, simply because of a slip on the finger or not having read the whole page of info on the accomodation.

If you write or (when possible better) talk with the reception, usually they can verify your request and offer you more options (like - say - a "family room" for 4 people instead of two doubles, or a room with a large balcony if you are traveling with a pet).
Enumerable#collect is just an eager version Python map() in method rather than function form (#map is a avaulable as an alias for #collect); it is a little more concise for when the function you are mapping over is a method on the object being processed (even more than Ruby’s normal advantage with lambdas), but not fundamentally more powerful.

(Enumerable#lazy gives you an object where collect/map is, and other merhods are, lazy rather than eager.)

> I feel like it takes the role that generators have in Python

Ruby has generators, though in either Ruby or Python map/collect (the lazy versions, in Ruby) can be used for some of their uses, since it basically produces a generator from an input collection or generator and a mapping function.
I'm unsure of the security of anything on modern Apple operating systems or hardware, since I can't review the source code or hardware schematics.
You're not convinced that bringing more people into a country whose ecosystem is already severly impacted by man will necessarily make things worse? ok then...
Most municipalities allow homeowners to do their own electrical work, assuming you apply for the appropriate permits and have your work inspected.

If you already have a subpanel in your garage, it's not complicated to add a 240V 50A receptacle. Depending on the scope of the work, it can be done for less than a couple hundred bucks in materials.
You're doing God's work. Anything reminding people that there's more to the Internet than the Web is a step in the right direction.
All the speed of motorcycles without the sound awareness, what could possibly go wrong? My overall experience is that E-bike riders generally have decent cycling manners, it's the scooter and unicycle riders that seem to think they can just crank their walking speed up to 30mph and go everywhere a pedestrian would. I usually just give them a firm "heads up next time" when I get buzzed by an electric motor whine at 20mph.
Aye, but Houston isn't by far the only polluter on the list.
Anecdotally I see people with machine guns in the streets and especially in transit hubs in Europe much more often than in the U.S. It is true that ~all U.S. cops on a beat carry guns, whereas in the U.K. that's not the case. I get the impression that pretty much all cops in France have guns too, though.
You seem to be implying this security info is common knowledge all over(US?Earth?), because physical copies of the NYT are that prevalent. That seems an odd supposition.
That's their point. The core value from cryptocurrencies is just that, you cannot trust the other party, so here is a system that allows you to transfer money between others, without trusting anyone (well, except trusting the developers and makers of the protocol that is).
What about covid makes you think masks are ineffective when they've been broadly considered effective in the past, and in places where germ theory didn't become a political issue?

The screens on my windows don't keep out each and every creeping crawling thing, but it keeps out most. I wouldn't call it trivial either.
U-shaped relationship between LDL cholesterol level and all-cause mortality
ah, that's probably a more realistic interpretation - I tend to not see sarcasm if it's anywhere bordering ambiguity
A thousand deaths per year is still an astronomical number considering police kills less than 5 people per year in the UK.
I normally don't comment on misuse of idioms, but I will this time because you did the same thing twice.

"Begging the question" means to presuppose the answer to the question which is being asked while answering it. Eg, "I know God is real because the Bible says so, and since God wrote the bible and doesn't like I know it is true."

What you probably mean is "raises the question."
I think one thing important to not overlook is the value of HTML templating systems. I was exploring using Hugo for creating legal documents, and each paper and form can easily be populated using frontmatter. HTML is a lot more friendly for making legal documents than Word IMO, and can be exported to PDF all the same.
11 hours per week over 12 weeks would be a stretch if you're working full-time. Depends on the organization, but I'd personally be hesitant due to this.

Do get in touch with an organization and see how they feel about it.
> By "parentheses" do you mean "brackets"?

I choose to believe that this means S-expressions.
Here you go: https://www.microcovid.org/

Great site. Has variables for mask type, vaccine status, etc

I’d add that immunity pretty clearly wanes post infection and vaccination. Especially by six months, but starting at 3.

Single biggest and easiest interventions that people don’t do:

* N95 vs other mask. Well fitted, about as comfortable. Just stupid we’re not using masks rated to filter. Or, a brace on a surgical mask works well too

* meeting outside

* Opening windows. Even a crack helps, if weather calls for AC or heating. People treat this as impossible, but really it just raises electricity costs marginally

* HEPA filter in your home. This is a good idea for other reasons anyway

* Saline rinse in nose when returning home. Again, also not a bad idea for other reasons
Riding in traffic here is suicide. Drivers get very irritated when you are not exactly at the speed limit and I've had more than one instance where someone essentially overtook and then forced me into the bike lane. And that's just here in town, where there is absolutely nothing to gain.
Indeed, there is a clear connection in published research between viral load and incidence of symptomatic infections.

This is why masks "help", which is their job. Do not be misled by those who argue that less than 100% effectiveness means that masks do not "work".
Ah, thanks for the explanation! That makes sense.
It will be "OK" if we redefine what it means to be an American consumer.

Right now, there are still serious issues to EV charging at range.

When we have an EV system that can power our trucking system in any serious fashion, the consumer transportation question will seem minimal and facile.
> A lot of the fuel can be recycled and doesn't need to be stored for thousands of years.

But is it, actually? The amount of nuclear waste in interim storage speaks against it.

> It's a solved problem

It is certainly not. For example in Germany there's only one terminal storage facility, and it's already showing problems, less than half a century in. And we thought/hoped it could last for tens of thousands of years.

Maybe a case could be made that in ideal conditions, technical solutions exist, but I'm not aware of any actually viable solutions. (Note that a solution isn't viable from a public relations POV, it's NOT an actually viable solution).
I know what you're referring to because we've dealt with that issue for several employees of one of our clients. But it's really impossible to advise without knowing all the facts.
> i thought that the "democratically elected lawmakers" are there to carry on the will of the people, not to dominate.

The will of the people is supposed to dominate.

> And if instead you accept the system of societal dominance in principle, then does it really that matter who is going to dominate?

Yes, obviously. You're oversimplifying if you come to any other answer to that question.
> I'm not cool at all with basically motorbikes getting a free pass because they're disguised as bicycles

Why? Seems like a pointless distinction in regards to any sort of rules. Surely where they're allowed to operate, for example, should be based on things like speed and weight, rather than "whether or not the operator is moving their legs in a circular motion."
Hi Peter,

I'm a founder of a Canadian corp looking to move to the US. We have a subsidiary in the US already
I actually did understand that and I think it’s super cool from a technical perspective. I was just curious as to the use case where this was a strong contender to beat out the built-in stuff you can get from Redis server. It’s a “small” implementation but you still have to test it and own it throughtout the lifecycle of the product that’s using it.
I was just saying how we have too many current-gen CPUs and no one knows what to do with them
Logical result of population growth plus highly regulating the home&health care markets.

The next generation's only chances for success are in newly created, (yet) unregulated markets, like IT was for us.

There is no surprise teacher salaries haven’t increase much even though parents are so eager to spend to ensure their kids success: heavy government involvement in education market.
Thanks for doing this Peter! I am on an H1B and recently got an EAD/AP card valid for 2 years. Unfortunately in the November bulletin, the final action date retrogressed and my AoS application is not current any more. Can I quit my job and be jobless for a few months to work on my own or take classes at a university, until my final action date becomes current again?
Is Sendhil Mullainathan the "black researcher and author" you're talking about? I'm trying to get a sense of how much fact-checking you've put into this.
> If I were really paranoid and could pick I'd choose something like a low-power simple ARM or RISC-V core to do critical computation.

Isn't that what Apple does with its Secure Enclave processor?
I don't think they are dog-whistling, they are saying it is a funny construction to say 'I have never seen anything like this' said by a guy who was not involved in the study - because if they were not involved in the study it would make sense they had never seen anything like this.
If one is having to implement an each or map or select method in ruby, then I can definitely appreciate the differences you point out. Even though I've been using ruby a long time, it would frankly still be a bit of a pain to have to remember the details of how yield works.

Because Enumerable provides so much functionality, I almost never need to implement methods like those. So what I really care about a lot more are the ergonomics of using each, map, select, reject, all?, any?, etc, which I use very frequently.
Serious question since i don't know much, how can the display be used without the gpu?
What are some of the easiest things one can do to qualify for an O-1 visa?