skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would still be generating lots of heat with all those GPUs crunching numbers every day, and possibly even more to cool them down.
And there's also chips scarcity, in which I'm sure the pandemic isn't the only culprit.

Cryptocurrencies should be banned everywhere, unless we find a way to send a mining farm in space; but they're doing only damage here on Earth.
That is not the "only" reason that Mozilla is struggling. There are vanishingly few companies their size who manage to remotely hold their own against Google for over a decade, let alone in a market segment that Google has invested on the order of billions of dollars in engineer time and advertising cost (some of it in the form of "free" advertising on the google.com homepage). That Mozilla has to contend with Google also being basically the only one willing to purchase search deals with them just makes it even more difficult.
>Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining.

Lol, with headlines like this these I wonder why Brexit happens?

Ohhhh but what about the bumps Britain's getting along they way after ditching the EU after 50 years.... I can think short term... me dumb.

Anyway, isn't this just two bureaucrat tossers wanting to feel special?

The are asking the EU to ban Bitcoin mining and they are asking Sweden to ban Bitcoin mining. That doesn't make any sense outside of the brain dead population that can only read headlines, they don't even have Sweden on board but "Sweden" wants the EU to ban Bitcoin?

> call upon the EU and the Swedish government to ban energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining

Lucky the worlds hackers aren't a bunch of basement dwelling autists that let governments tell them what hash functions they are and aren't allowed to compute.
Maybe it's the opposite. Maybe our anxiety is increasing because we can no longer read minds and make generalizations without the subjects of those mind readings and generalizations intruding of their own will into the realm of our conceptualization.

----

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

--Blood Meridian
Completely disagree. If the "woo" you describe is so ineffective, placebos wouldn't be a thing. Sure, there are problems that may require some kind of invasive treatment, but there are also a lot that we seem to include in that group that can be treated with much less invasive procedures.

David Epstein touches on this here [0]: "A unique study at five orthopedic clinics in Finland compared APM with “sham surgery.” That is, surgeons took patients with knee pain to operating rooms, made incisions, faked surgeries, and then sewed them back up. Neither the patients nor the doctors evaluating them knew who had received real surgeries and who was sporting a souvenir scar. A year later, there was nothing to tell them apart. The sham surgery performed just as well as real surgery. Except that, in the long run, the real surgery may increase the risk of knee osteoarthritis. Also, it’s expensive, and, while APM is exceedingly safe, surgery plus physical therapy has a greater risk of side effects than just physical therapy."

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/when-evidence-says-no-but...
I guess the post kind of answered this:

> Whatever you decide to do with the signal, whether it’s Doppler analysis using software like strf or simply just listening to it for a while and showing it off to people, I hope this post was helpful and cleared things up. This is a unique opportunity to experiment with a whole different frequency band and hardware for SDR owners without having to spend obscene amounts of money on precision, custom, or obscure RF hardware and expensive SDRs.

So I'll ask a related followup: can one decode any information from these beacons?
Oh please. What evidence is there that Microsoft is 'reconsidering' this rollout exactly?
Can you elaborate? I'm in a similar boat and I've tried everything. I can't workout too much cos the back pain gets really worse after that. What do you mean when you say "high intensity workouts"?
> In Seattle anyway, 90% of the homeless are either drug addicts or alcoholics.

You wrote "90%" -- a specific figure -- as opposed to writing "most" or "many". Why did you choose this number? Do you have a reference you can share?
Back in the 80's and early 90's, my uncle's company had an IBM System/36, which was a predecessor to the AS/400. They used it for accounting. The thing was a monster, and it looked exactly like the top photo on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36

It had 8 terminals attached, and a couple of huge line printers. We opened up the main system cabinet one day, and the hard drive (about 200 megs?) was over a foot wide. The system also used "disk cartridges" which were several 8 inch floppies in a box. Supposedly the system cost almost $200K (in 80's money.)

In the mid 90's they replaced it with PCs.
Is there any place where you can discuss the textbook problems in this course?
I'm surprised to see the Portal listed. We have one for letting the grandparents talk to the kids, and it is the most unreliable piece of technology I've owned. Constant connection issues and laggy UI.
Not sure if you're aware, but the Aussie covid vaccination "certificate" from the government App uses a "digital hologram" to prevent forgery.

It's essentially an animated gif.
There are only 3 proteins on the surface of the virus and spike is most prominent.

What is actually needed and is probably working for previous infection is knowledge about proteins that are generated after entering cells.

Antibodies and cell based immunity against these do not avoid infection but will allow early elimination of the infected cells.

This is again where mRNA vaccines can shine as they can introduce any protein onto cell surface to be recognized by the immune system.
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There are a lot of big pickups and SUVs on the road. There's a tiny percentage where the vehicle suits the use, but in the vast majority of cases, the vehicles are entirely a fashion with no real utility - or even negative utility. There is only a self-reinforcing utility of defending yourself from other tall and heavy vehicles. All this has been said many times before. When it comes to vehicles, people have no shame. What it tells us about the future of global warming seems very clear.
High on that list of fundamental freedoms is the right of free association.
I'd love to be at Fat Tony's!
50 years ago I’m sure regular doctors would laugh at the idea of treating anxiety disorders with meditation instead of meds, electroshock or whatever.

Is there not enough space for both the Woo and our usual western methods?

The patient journey could be:
diagnosis, imaging, woo (if appropriate), physio, chiro and if need be, surgery.
This is a pretty clean reset, and the explanations are really nice and thorough! But the person coming out from the left edge of the page scared the crap out of me
I think you mean the codex? It was like a book, except the pages were bound on alernating sides. Not the best design, they improved on it in the middle ages. The codex achieved parity with the scroll in 300 AD, so that the modern book format coming just 200 years later means it wasn't around for that long.
Not all pain is associated with an existent physical injury. For example I had tears in my achilles last years which have since healed but I still feel pain when I walk. Look into fibromyalgia and nociplastic pain if you want more info. The tldr is that our bodies can react to danger/injuries by increasing our pain sensitivity, which means that minor activities which pre injury caused no pain can later cause debilitating pain even when physically healed. This is why pain is now being explored through a biopsychosocial lens.
I cancelled netflix more than a year ago, maybe something changed since then.

But at the time I’d list it as an example of user hostile UI. It had lots of unpredictability (few fixed UI elements). Also: autoplay and a search that never says if an item is not there but tries to offer alternatives.

I disliked it so much that whenever I wanted to watch something on netflix, I’d first check whether they actually have it and I used a different tool for that.
The problem is that until that's part of Chrome and offered by Wikipedia, it's niche at best. You know Google is not interested because they can't place flashy ads in it.
The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain
Truck drivers hate them!
> I had an aunt demand it go into an oven and sure enough overcooked it

Basically I point those folks to the microwave.
> It's not really practical to mix and match.

Tell that to my computer, with both 6-32 and M3 screws.
https://nzcp.covid19.health.nz/#examples

Here is the nz version
Some of those are true. But our governments are all shitshows (and all corrupt), there's oligopolies and cartels that run shit, one province is basically controlled by a single family, and the largest industry is a real estate ponzi scheme. Apart from that we're basically a petro-state pretending to be woke.
Not sure how similar they are, maybe extremely, but I really loved Borland C++ Builder 4. Making GUI apps was so painless.

I tried XCode but it was so complicated to do anything I gave up after a couple of weeks of reading docs.
I can think of one door in a place I frequent for lunch like this which I have repeatedly ran into. Now, 80% of the times I start thinking about it about 20 feet away as I’m approaching it. My internal dialogue goes something like “Ignore how it looks, it’s a push door.” The other 20% of the times I still fumble the opening. It’s the most unintuitive thing I’ve experienced in a while.
typo in title?
i dont know if this is exactly in or exactly out of the HN wheelhouse, but: my keychain. it's a small hoop of plastic-coated braided strand cable with two threaded ends that screw together.

the plastic coating hasn't ripped, torn, loosened, or discolored. none of the metal has rusted. the thread pitch is big enough to screw and unscrew quickly but small enough to not loosen on its own and has good clamping force. the threaded end for passing through keys is small enough for all my fobs and keys. its tough and strong but pleasant to handle. no part of it is worse for wear even though i fidget with it and have changed keys multiple times. it also currently has like 11 keys and a large fob on it. ive had it for ~5 years and I'm fairly certain it's the most reliable thing i own. it's easy to use and easy to understand and it always does its job.

and to top it all off, it was like 70 cents.

it's a god damn marvel.

looks like this, although mine is smaller:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/281726615218-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
I used to think about things exactly in the same terms as you do, rejecting anything that didn't have "strong" scientific backing in peer reviewed journals. I considered things like meditation complete bullshit quackery and because of this cynical view I ignored things that could have given me significant help at the time I needed them.

Of course when you eventually hit rock bottom you try everything available and then I realized that ignoring all "non-scientific" evidence is not the correct way to evaluate things.
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The thing's advancement is 100% typical. It also ensures that it is freed from dangerous engineered compounds. Expert administration is used to ensure the thing's authenticity. You will get 60 holders with your purchase, which should be adequate to last you for a month. The thing claims to grow ketosis inside a short period of time. These things assurance to extend ketosis. They can be used for a short time frame casing and help you with achieving ketosis.

https://ketopillsstore.com/product/lean-time-keto/

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Why are you assuming that there is no such thing as psychosomatic pain just because yous isn't? Such an unjustified leap.
So it is:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s...

I mean the politicians are in on it, and turn against them when their ability to control elections for their own purposes comes into question.

Look at the “testimony” of Robinhood guy. It’s a scripted TV show; you lose.
The plate also makes it easier to clean as without it peoples handprints will be in a wider area. For wood doors its even better as wood can be time consuming to clean well.
I much prefer relevant ads to irrelevant ads
> I went from not liking phone conversations at all (getting agitated after a few minutes)to comfortably having long phone calls

I love my Airpods. One of my favorite products of all time. But I've found them to be totally useless on calls. I'm on my third pair -- that's another thing: they wear out if you use them a lot -- and I've had 3 different phones in the meantime and nobody can ever hear me when I talk on them. I've tested it myself and they make the speaker sound very quiet and far away. It must not affect everyone, because I see people using them for phone calls, but I've never been able to make that function work.
Please note that for many when they say compounding interest they mean compounded rate of return. This return can be on any asset class not just bonds.

I 1000% agree with you on avoiding unnecessary expenses. Until you get a few million in the bank your greatest wealth building tool is your income so be wise in how you deploy it.

Best advise I have is have a budget, try and save 20% of your GROSS, 10% to retirement the rest non retirement accounts.
I presume it is limited to warmer areas: cold concrete is uncomfortable.
Well, in my experience meditation alone was not effective at all for my anxiety.

Actual doctors (in the US and in SE Asia) put me on medication for it and that was effective.

I don't think many "regular doctors" are telling people to just meditate for their anxiety...
> Does that not mean that every grateful person acknowledges God's existence, at least implicitly?

I'm not following.
Even with the 3 different tip sizes? The old EarPods/AirPods worked alright in my ears but never great. The Pros have been fantastic for me personally.
With trains you are limited because you need a certain amount of separation between trains for safety, and station platforms are only so long which limits the number of cars that can load/unload. And at the final terminal (typically the main downtown station) there are a finite number of platforms which limits the number of trains that can be in the station at any one time.

Agree that you can move many more people on one set of rails than one highway, but it's not unlimited.
Yeah, it's a very basic soaking method. You either have to add more grinds, or wait longer. I grind up about 60g for 2 large cups of coffee.

It works for me because I don't mind letting it sit while I prepare lunch. If in a hurry, you can keep stirring it to get slightly faster results.
Wish I could say the same. It did nothing for me
Hetzner support when I have needed it, has always been faster and of better quality than AWS or Azure. All emails and talking was in English
Wouldn't be because it sounds too much like "new"? the "new variant" can be misleading.
> The 'best design' is often something that's so frictionless and easy to use that it's invisible in day-to-day use

OK, here's something I use every day that's reliable and clever and works almost as if by magic, even though nobody appreciates it: a three-way light switch. Simple, elegant, interesting -- and nobody notices or cares.
> Another option would be a canal up to the Salton Sea. Obviously that's a much more major effort but it has nearly endless economic and ecological benefits.

That would be an obscene undertaking... going a hundred miles THROUGH several mountain ranges.

There would be no ecological benefit. Salton sea will still not have an outlet, so after a one-time dilution, the seas will continue to increase in salinity, endlessly. It needs a massive supply of FRESH water to try to dilute the salt down to acceptable levels. Sea water with salt will just worsen the problem, long-term.

The economic benefits are marginal. You'll be limited to the number of vessels the canal can handle, the size of the port you can build in the desert, and you very quickly overwhelm the roads in the area.

Any malfunction or damage to the canal would be devastating... the unstoppable flooding in the low desert and along the canal zone would be unprecedented.
Living in the city only implies renting because condos are so rare, only the richest few can afford them. Allow condos to be as abundant as single family homes - what we’re asking here - and that would easily change.
Plug for the book that helped me. Evidence-based self-treatment from an expert spine researcher. If you've ever heard of the "McGill Big 3" exercises, this is the guy.

https://www.backfitpro.com/books/back-mechanic-the-mcgill-me...
The Aeropress. I've made coffee in all sorts of different ways over the years, but for me this is the one that strikes the perfect balance between flavor and convenience. After a long period of making french press coffee, it was an absolute revelation the first time I popped out the little nugget of spent grounds from the Aeropress.
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It's woo to call anything that doesn't fit into your personal model of reality as woo.
Unfortunately some employers are charging 1% or more to get paid faster. It doesn't sound like much, but 1% to get money a week earlier is a very high APR.
I'm not sure. The fact that Uber drivers aren't cruising for fares is at least a huge improvement to the way taxis worked. Having spent 9 years in Beijing, it seemed like an even bigger improvement when ride sharing and even just being able to schedule a taxi with an app meant that cars and people looking for rides were connected much more easily and didn't have to go looking for each other (as I often did before).

There are actually places in Beijing to wait for assignments outside of major clogged ring roads and arterials. But it really depends on the design of your city.
Any Japanese bathtub. It's deep, you can fill it to the very top, and it's designed to overflow rather than deprive you of the top 1/3 with an annoying safety drain.
I was a huge fan of Windows Phone which based it’s Metro UI on Zune. I miss my Window’s phone dearly. I always felt the UI was far more intuitive and simple compared to iOS/Android.
I called. My local government , hopefully I will get a response, no one answered but I left a message.
I much prefer for it to be a choice by me rather than my vendor.
As a pencil enthusiast, I love the rotring 600. I have two. I also loved rotring’s Tikky 1 (not the subsequent ones)

Other great pen/pencil:

- Pentel Ortez. I have the 3 mm and, if used properly, the lead wont break

- Zebra delguard. Also wont break. I have it in 0.5 mm

- Rotring’s artpen. My favorite fountain pen, but it appears discontinued :S
Where is the nasal flush with saline-iodine solution? 94% effective in November 2020.
If we’re going to ban things because “trust us, you don’t know your own preferences” or “you’ll change your mind later” then we’d better start with alcohol and cigarettes. Apartments would be pretty far down the list.
That would essentially end targeted advertising and the companies that benefit from ads will fight that to the death.

I would be ok with every company dependent on advertising finding a different business model (or going out of business)
Also most intermodals these days use well cars which allow containers to be double stacked.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/DTTX_724...
It's the scientism mindset which is common among technical types. Anti-woo errs into a more dogmatic dismissal and closed mindedness towards anything not backed by multiple large RCTs and consensus among experts.

I think a balance is in order. It's good to explore things that don't have conclusive evidence with an open mind while maintaining a degree of healthy scepticism. If it improves subjective well-being then it works for all practical purposes. Whether that's all placebo doesn't even matter at that point.

Rigorous epistemology != a good approach to self-help.
This is what I was thinking. I thought they were supposed to provide service within a certain range. I mean the apartments around have internet, McDonald's has it and so does everyone around me. I feel like they just don't wanna serve here.
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> So I'll ask a related followup: can one decode any information from these beacons?

Everything I’ve read about this so far leads me to believe these are just continuous tones that only carry information to the extent that they are operating at specific frequencies relative to other. I’m just casually interested in this stuff and my guess is these are probably used to help the receivers in the user terminals correct for doppler shift in the much quieter broadband transmission frequencies. I don’t know if ‘pilot tone’ would be correctly used here but that’s the term that comes to mind.
> That second SOMEONE is the one that the being grateful is directed at, as they are responsible for things being the way they are. (Being grateful to anyone not causally connected to what one is grateful about seems most weird.)

It is also common to be grateful to <SOMEONE> for <ATTRIBUTE>. For example, I'm grateful to various people for who they are, by which I mean their worldview, their values, and their personality. Generally speaking, these aspects are not under full control of the individual -- they are the result of a complex interaction of their genetics, their experiences, their intentions, their opportunities, their choices, their habits, and much more.
That still sounds like price fixing, but for a different purpose.
I don't use much in terms of orchestration, so I'm probably not the right person to ask there.

One of the really big potential benefits of Julia is that it lets you remove language barriers which is especially nice if you are doing ML research (or playing around with new model types, etc). Since the ML stack is Julia all the way down to CUDA/BLAS/julia loops, you can really easily inspect or modify everything in your stack.
For me it would be mostly tools I've used that come to mind.

In the random order I thought of them here are a few that stand out:

Miller 35s Mig Welder,
Victor Cutting Torch,
Mac Mini,
Vise Grips,
Suzuki Samurai 4x4,
1985 Toyota Pickup 4x4,
LED Flashlight,
Handheld compass,
Handheld Garmin GPS with Maps,
BBedit,
Beverly Shear,
Super Cat Alcohol Stove,
Raspberry Pi,
Lancaster Metal Shrinker/Stretcher.
This is pure opinion. No Facts.

At this stage the virus has been found we know almost nothing else yet. And quoting Feigl-Ding is like quoting the exact opposite of a virus denier. Everything he ever sees is evidence that the sky is falling.

Vaccination rate in South Africa is only about 24% of the pop.

Just off the top of my head some of the things that would have caused the even the Alpha variant to spike:

We've just finished local elections i.e standing in long queues for an hour or two and the political rallies just before then.

Its summer and almost the end of the school year so lots of parties. I went to my kid's school carol thing this week. Outdoors but still 200 people all close together without masks. This included the hairdresser/epidemiologist mom who has done the research on why the vaccine is bad. (We have our share of idiots).

All the office parties are getting held now before everyone leaves for holidays or the government locks everyone down for Christmas. Think buffet style queue all using the same serving spoons, no hand sanitizing, questionable hygiene anyway after a few beers.
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