skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Leonard Susskind[1], fine tuning is a compelling argument by itself[2], and the strongest case is the cosmological constant.[3] In a nutshell it is a sort of repelling force first proposed by Einstein to create a workable model for a static universe who later regretted it as one of the biggest mistakes in his career. However, the theory is now back with Nobel prize winning research showing that expansion is accelerating, which would require a positive number. It could explain a large portion of "dark matter."

When expressed in one way, it is 10^-122 "units of the square Planck length". I'm not smart enough to completely understand it, but it is (according to physicists) an incredibly precise ingredient in the various properties of physics that make our Universe possible. Any larger or smaller and the model falls apart. If it is an accident, that is one hell of a lottery ticket.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Susskind

[2] https://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/3081

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant
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I agree, but also that they'd be more free if all the coal workers in a given corporation had the same number of representative voting seats on the corporate board as the shareholders did.

Freedom is a direction, it's a good quote.
What is the relationship between Nona and Chronoto [0]?

Chronoto sells luxury watches, is the same owner, registered at the same address and has the same commercial register entry.

[0] https://www.chronoto.de/impressum/

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> (1) I agree that Nona Search Technologies GmbH ("Chronoto") may use my e-mail address for advertising Chronoto, including advertising in connection with the sale (e.g. information on the value of the watch and the sales process), the purchase (e.g. interesting offers of watches) and ownership (e.g. offers of insurance and financing, as well as maintenance and repair).
Make paid news electoral offence, create legal options to counter fake news
Defamation is illegal and should be illegal. Publications that go around exposing the details of famous people's private lives are trash and nothing of value was lost. This type of lawsuit should happen more often
that's partially true, but... 'retiring' on $100k year is still potentially disastrous if you have a major health issue.
I'm not for IRV, you're confusing that with a 'normal' or two round runoff. In a normal runoff there are two rounds, the second round is a few weeks or a month after the first one- the French, most famously, do this for their President. I agree that IRV is pretty terrible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-round_system
Also, those "good old days", might describe "natural selection". You can't be certain that some of the survival benefits of your ancestors are NOT an adherence to traditions that give them a survival or reproductive advantage.
Sounds like either depression, ADHD, or both ( depression from ADHD ). Talk to your doctor.
The whole Netherlands is a hotspot. Something like a 20% increase in house prices in the last 12 months.
Honestly, I can't disagree with you on technical terms, because what you're saying makes sense and on other topics this discussion would be over.

But in this case, I have Conversations on my phone and can say from experience that it didn't degrade my battery life whatsoever. I know that android restricts this behaviour heavily by default and for good reason, because lots of apps will drain the battery in a matter of hours. No idea how the conversations devs do it, there must be a quirk to it I don't know which makes modem usage acceptable. I'm not a zealot in this case and I accept the flaws, but I can't leave you thinking mobile xmpp hurts the battery in a relavant way because that's (in my experience) not true.

I'm not deep into xmpp xep standards, but I'd imagine theres a way to tell the server "I don't care about event type x please don't send those until I ask for them again"
> We aren’t even through the current scientist caused pandemic yet

I'm astonished there are people that think like this on HN
Sequoia Capital Consumer Privacy and Autonomy Thesis
You seem to be the conspirator here, the linked article from hunterb123 makes no claims about Bill Gates (as a puppetmaster or anything else) but simply quotes what he has been saying at some event.
Deciding to culture the samples, versus just destroying them without analysis, must be accompanied by an interesting risk/benefit analysis.
I feel profound empathy here. Having been on both sides of this situation, it’s just really complicated. You can forgive a person but really once you’ve seen them in manic psychosis you will never fully trust them or their judgment ever again. There are a lot of contradictory emotions at work and they’re all valid.

It’s kind of a shit lot in life, but you get good at making new friends. Eventually you can get it under control enough to build a life that works. But it’s a messy process to get there.
Clang is now used on the x86-64 variant of OpenBSD.

I'm fairly confident that gcc is still available in the ports collection.

On architectures that clang doesn't support, it's (likely) still gcc.
Yes, developers are a major threat vector in any non-IT company. Which is why large companies can't innovate.
In the GP's defense, it is not like they posted this article completely out of the blue and on some unrelated topic.

I find it to be an intriguing coincidence that a vial labeled "smallpox" happened to be discovered around the time that "Bill Gates has warned governments to prepare for smallpox terror attacks and future pandemics by investing billions into research and development." It is either a dumb-luck coincidence or some remarkable prescience from Bill Gates. Either way, the article makes no claims on the topic.

No, I don't think this is the beginning of some grand conspiracy. Besides, it is completely within the realm of possibility that a virulent disease like Smallpox could be accidentally or maliciously re-introduced to the world. I see no harm in what the GP posted.
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Year-on-year inflation for producer prices currently stands at 14.2% in Germany. So it is actually already quite high.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Preise/Erzeuger...
This is not accurate. While some shared hosts offer node or rails you will be limited by memory and it might not even run your app. The reason PHP is so good for shared hosting is that it runs per request and when you have rarely visited PHP application it requires basically no resources. You can have 100s of small websites sharing resources that get few visitors a day on single server and it will be fine. Try doing that with node or rails which are application servers that need to run all the time.

Heroku is fine but imagine you are agency managing 50 small sites. Heroku is like 7usd month minimum? You can pay 350usd month for Heroku or put it all on 20usd VPS and result will be same.

That's why all self-hosted CMSes worth something are in PHP world and there are very few in python/rails/node.

Also its not like PHP devs have been living under a rock for 20 years and don't want nice things. Git deployment is offered even by many shared hostings, people use SFTP+rsync, or things like https://deployer.org/. And there is very active market of server management tools like https://forge.laravel.com/ https://ploi.io/ https://moss.sh/ that combined with attributes of PHP will give you your own little super easy heroku.

And scaling... well most people don't need scale, you scale CMSes by caching anyway. And you can run pretty big scale just on one machine. And if you want automatic extreme scaling it's not like you can't do that with PHP https://vapor.laravel.com/
Vive La Révolution: Comparing U.S. Inequality with 1789 France
Langterm
From your comment, I'm getting the sense that you live in a besieged fortress. It doesn't have to be so extreme though.

Singapore is no dystopia, and neither is London (in fact, I'd prefer living in the latter than the former if only because of the weather). They just make different tradeoffs in how they're organized. And they deal with different (though overlapping) sets of issues.
How to Choose Services for Cloud Application
I'd argue that cardinal systems are much more efficient, on two accounts. First, you just need to do reduced sums to determine the winners, whereas ranked systems you have blocks at each round (preventing it from being asynchronous). Second, you have a better embedding space for cardinal systems than ranked. In ranked you're saying that your preference is equidistant. This is not a requirement in cardinal systems (e.g. score or star). Thus you can express that you ''really,, like candidate A over B rather than just A is better than B.
> - dregs tech - it's no longer the new shiny thing, but there's still a lot of demand to keep systems running. So a COBOL master or an enterprise Java guy (especially someone with the ability to come in and fix large systems without taking them offline).

I’ve read and heard this over and over. So much so that I actually looked into it before committing to learning COBOL.

I have never found any actual evidence of this. It seemed like there were very few COBOL roles, they didn’t pay that much more or less than any other language, and a lot of it was outsourced to Indian sweatshops with which we can’t really compete in the west because it’s a race to the bottom where only price matters.

That is to say, be wary of what you read on the internet. A lot of it is apocryphal rather than actual. Some of it (like this blog post) is good for getting your imagination running and thinking out of the box but don’t take it as gospel.
Thanks for sharing! Looks like a QR code from space.
Twitter has become incredibly hostile to users not signed into an account (e.g. many search visitors), so AMP or not isn't going to make a big difference.
It was eradicated outside labs, but there's always concern of accidental releases, or that militaries will use it.
While it's especially bad of a situation in South Korea, it has become a serious issue globally.

> The same poll found that one in 10 guests (11%) had found hidden cameras in an Airbnb rental.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2020/01/27...
Also worth noting that Nginx recently got support for kTLS in OpenSSL 3.x, including the quictls fork:

https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2021-November/0611...

I'm happily using BoringSSL with nginx-quic but this might be enough for me to give quictls a brief look; I'm a sucker for seeing just how much perf I can squeeze out of a static file server without compromising too much on security, and this could be neat.

The only other TLS lib I know of with kTLS 1.3 support is wolfSSL.
Why? Isn't that exactly what Go was designed for?
Lots of "do your own research" folks here.
Same here. My first thought was: another post about someone who tried Clojure and at some point realized it was not apt for their project so now decided to criticize it in an article.
Twitter directly linked to AMP pages on the publisher's site. They didn't link to a cache at all.
It varies the same as in the US. In the US, housing in Detroit is very cheap but few people want to live there. In Europe, housing in Bratislava is very cheap but few people want to live there.

The issue with housing is that rates are very low but there are parts of Europe, just like in the US, that have been performing well economically so low rates just pour fuel on the flames (without really helping the parts that aren't doing well). This also applies to some countries, like Denmark, that have pegged their currency to the EUR (I have no idea how the Demark peg is sustainable, it makes no sense, they had strong growth, unemployment below the natural rate/serious supply issues pre-Covid, and negative interest rates...this is not a good idea, because their mortgage market is heavily securitized the impact of this likely won't come out for years i.e. when the people who have invested in the covered bond market come to pay out to retirees, and those people find out they don't have enough to retire ever).
The original article is talking about traffic from Twitter to publisher sites, not traffic from Google to Twitter. Twitter never used AMP for pages on their own site.

In this case Twitter is the platform, not the publisher, and would absolutely have been able to not use the Google cache.

> Now, when using one of Twitter's mobile clients, users will be sent to the amphtml URL in their browser, instead of the link that was shared in the Tweet. Users will load this link directly, not via a page cache. [0]

[0] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/a...
Yes, I get that. But a compromised root key is essentially synonymous with the end of your entire business (to say nothing of destroying the finances of many if not all of your customers) so the effort being expended doesn't seem disproportionate to me.

If you feel differently, by all means go do business with a bank that doesn't waste all this effort.
In Dialogue
>... You say you want them to succeed, but I don't believe you are sincere.

Not sure what drives your experience, but I've been using LO (Linux based) continuously for the past 10 yrs. Still do. More so, tried to convert other users. I don't believe I'm the only one to stumble on some usability issues with LO.

Did I get used to dealing with the issues? Nope. This still annoys me every time, it's also a drag to interoperate with MS Office (no, it's not going away soon in this world). Other users? Well, most of my attempted converts now either pay the subscription or use the GSuite or ... stick to the older version of MS Office.

So I myself do want the LO to get better, but for the most of the failed "converts" it's a lost cause for now.
I don't get the suggestion of not going to startups. I can't predict the future, but how many people got financially free by joining the right startups/blow-out small companies in the past 10 years? There are tens of thousands of opportunities there, and one can further maximize their chance by decisively leaving bad startups. A bonus to one's career is they get to build cool technologies in the successful startups too. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, AWS, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Pinterest, Databricks, Snowflake, Arista, a slew of PLG SaaS companies. That's just the companies that are on top of my mind. Think about the first 500 - 1000 engineers of each company, or hundreds of those who joined the company when the stock price was low. A simple math: say the chance of failing at a top startup is 80% (top companies have lower chance of failures than the average startups), and one stays at a startup for an average of 2 years before landing on a successful one. The chance of failing everyone of them in a 20-year career is 0.8^10 = 10%! And you don't want to take a risk of 10% of failure to be financially free?
Correct. A canceling is social/mob justice, never settled in a court of law.

To conflate the two is playing into the pitchforks of the cancel crowd. These label legal acts or free speech as illegal racism or hate speech, and we should not go along with that madness.

Cancel tactics are precisely the way they are, because they were designed to function without playing by societies formal rules, or the reasonable defense of choosing not to listen to someone you deeply despise, yet leave their speech and platform alone (they do not care about Alex Jones, but care about the views of those who like to listen to him).

Your absolutely valid point was downvoted/cancelled in a similar manner: projected to be factually incorrect due to political bias against Thiel.
“Man lost in desert opts out of drinking water” - Bloomberg
Not just a danger to America but the world.
The evil of intolerant woke culture is not new and has caused atrocities for centuries, from the Spanish Inquisition to the Holocaust.
We are living in the end days of freedom, not many are aware.
Same reason anybody does? Bags of money.

Personal Opinion: By selling NFTs - metadata about the art and not the art itself - their integrity as an artist is already somewhat suspect in my mind.
Except Erlang (and nowadays Elixir as well) has that for 30+ years already and it's done much better -- one green thread per request, and you can have 200,000+ of them at the same time on some fairly modest hosts, without any of them stealing run time from the others (as much as the hardware allows, of course).

PHP's "prescient" model demanded one OS process per request which is frankly absurd and I don't get how anyone views PHP in serious light because of this single fact alone.
Ask HN: Using SQLite for server/client web apps?
Is anyone using SQLite for server/client web apps?

SQLite was not designed for the server/client model. However, the simplicity and speed of SQLite makes it appealing for small-to-medium dynamic websites.

True client/server databases like PostgreSQL bring with them advanced capabilities but also complexity in installation and maintenance.

Below are some extracts are from the SQLite FAQ: https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

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Websites

...The SQLite website uses SQLite itself, of course, and as of this writing (2015) it handles about 400K to 500K HTTP requests per day, about 15-20% of which are dynamic pages touching the database. Dynamic content uses about 200 SQL statements per webpage. This setup runs on a single VM that shares a physical server with 23 others and yet still keeps the load average below 0.1 most of the time.

Server-side database

...Developers report that SQLite is often faster than a client/server SQL database engine in this scenario. Database requests are serialized by the server, so concurrency is not an issue. Concurrency is also improved by "database sharding": using separate database files for different subdomains. For example, the server might have a separate SQLite database for each user, so that the server can handle hundreds or thousands of simultaneous connections, but each SQLite database is only used by one connection.

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So, can SQLite work with dynamic sites that require writing to the database for many users at the same time?

- Has anyone had success doing this? How did you achieve it?

- Conversely, did anyone ditch SQLite and adopt a different client/server database e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL etc?
I believe there is multiple redundancy both in cameras being in multiple places and also delivery mechanisms (local copy + remote stream etc). I'm inclined to believe that there are more mitigations that haven't been told in the post, which is plausible.
Could Mars be punched onto a collision course with Earth?
There should be no doubt in anyones mind regarding the validity of results. Things like a national voter ID, and being in person except for the most extreme circumstances where someone cannot physically be there, ensures that.

It's been working great most of the time but it should be a system that always works. We don't need to speak hypotheticals, the news is fraught with articles about people not receiving their ballots, being told they already voted by mail when they go in person, people double voting, voting in someone elses name, etc.
There's no such thing as a guaranteed majority nor is that the point of voting.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190219005032/https://sites.goo...
That's an interesting idea: trying to create so many false positives that the user gives up. We're already removing around 100+ false positives per frame at the moment in difficult cases, so perhaps it's possible to overwhelm the filters with very maliciously designed environments.

I think the easier way would be to hide the cameras in much harder-to-reach places so that it's inconvenient for the user to get their smartphone near. This might reduce the kind of videos that can be taken, but maybe an attacker will find that a reasonable tradeoff.
> For now, "full self-driving" seems closer to a party trick to show friends than a must-have feature.

But as far as I can tell, they let it drive on full autopilot around Brooklyn and nothing bad actually happened other than some slightly jerky turns and breaking. Seems pretty impressive to me. Not that Im necessarily a Tesla fanboy...
It seems like you've been on HN long enough to know the guidelines so I won't parrot them. I think these type of "assuming worst intent" type of comments don't help the community honestly, they just piss people off more and further polarization. I believe it would have been better had you simply left off the "Infowars" part of your comment.
Chuck was president of ICS, which was acquired by Basic Four in like the mid-70s. I only met him long after, but he told me stories. Including one about how he wheeled an Apple II into the Basic Four boardroom and demonstrated it, saying in effect "this is the future, and if you're not on board with the microcomputer revolution you'll be left behind". They decided to pass, and continue figuring out ways to sell $50,000 hard disks to existing customers. And that's why most of Hackernews hasn't heard of Basic Four :)

I do know that MAI ended up selling microcomputer based products eventually, but by that time they were well into day-late-dollar-short territory and would continue to lose ground along with all the other minicomputer vendors like PRIME that hardly anyone these days has heard of.
All true, but the problem seems to be people who don't know him are screwing him over and preventing him from making new friends so to speak.
Not trying to be pedantic but carcinogenic is something that _causes_ cancer, that is not the mechanism this study is describing with palmitic acid.

The study claims that palm oil promotes the growth of metastasis of an original cancer tumour. So it is not that palm oil _causes_ cancer but that it will _potentially_ promote more agressive copying of tumurous cells into other regions of the body.
> by the looks of it approval voting is inferior to run-off voting by a mile.

I'm curious why you think this? I think exactly the opposite. RCV/IRV has major problems, especially for strong spoilers. They are also more difficult to tabulate and with the recent events of the last election the importance of ease to tabulate went up in my priority list (making me even question my preference of score over approval). In fact, IRV also favors extremists, which is something I really don't want.
> In the event of an outbreak, the C.D.C. said, “there is enough smallpox vaccine to vaccinate every person in the United States.”

I wonder whether the CDC has re-evaluated their scenarios and simulations given the politicization of vaccines during this pandemic.
Right, I'm mainly just talking about Google search results. I probably should have made that more clear up front.
Ok I'll bite :).

Energy cost can be very low when using Proof of Stake. For example a 7000 transactions per second network could run on the energy of a single windmill: https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/7ucw1a/the_en...

And for use cases, the second hand car industry is ready for disruption. You could say all blockchain use cases can be also handled by a central database. But this has failed miserably in the car industry. There are plenty of companies trying to log metadata, and as a result none of them have the complete picture. Even data aggregator companies are not able to properly bundle it.

Blockchain could offer a very good trustless solution, where you could log a cars history, and a second hand buyer could consult it.

Therefore, big names are entering this space, and I'm confident we will see blockchain solutions in that market soon.

This is only 1 example:
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/mercedes-benz-blockchain-used...

The DHL website also has a nice explanation on their use cases https://www.dhl.com/global-en/home/insights-and-innovation/i...
Even correctly labelled bottles can be dangerous. THere was an explosion in my lab when somebody touched a bottle of ether. Please don't make it any harder...
Well he was kinda right, except the product was TikTok, and not Facebook.
Would you consider open sourcing the app as-is?

You've got a community of people who're willing to spend time polishing.