skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should use the renting prices instead of the buying prices to compare against other subscription services. $2.99 to watch a movie in the evening is anything but prohibitive. Or buying TV seasons, which amounts to close enough to the same hourly cost in my experience.

It’s less than I remember rentals costing when physical rentals were a thing, and while it’s certainly less cheap than a $10/mo subscription service, it seems like a stretch to call it prohibitive to most people. A season of a show plus a half dozen movies comes out to like $40/mo (ignoring all the ‘free’ stuff).

$40/mo for a vast selection isn’t fantastic, but in my eyes, it pokes holes in the pirate’s “If it were just more convenient while affordable I’d pay, I swear.”
Plus, "M" and "N" can often be hard to disambiguate, having "Mu" and "Nu" just adds another layer of confusion.
WhatsApp wins approval to double payments offering to 40 mln users in India
Is there a shortage of spit and/or baling wire?
> The “good news” here is that probabilities of 6C warming are reduced from what they have been historically.

So I guess it’s a good thing we didn’t listen to the old science and go scorched earth to prevent what they thought would happen.

The question becomes, why should people trust or believe the new science any more than the old? What if that’s also greatly exaggerated?

Sometimes I wish science were treated more like the fallible concept it is, rather than a religion whose followers can be more fervent than even the most fundamentalist of [insert religion here]
I suppose Nu might be dangerously confusing with Mu , and Xi was politically untenable. The next one is going to be Pi
That euphemism never crossed my mind but it makes sense now.
Ask HN: How to get ISP outage data?
Hi, I'm working on an open source project where I'd like to incorporate ISP outage data.

This service claims that it reports accurate ISP outage data, that is not crowdsourced like downdetector: https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/faq

Quote: "Q: Where does outage data come from?

A: ThousandEyes agents located across the Internet perform billions of measurements each day, yielding a massive data set that includes network interface and application server-level information on when and where network traffic is disrupted and applications are unavailable."

Anyone wager a guess on what websites they are scraping, and what measurements they are making to come up with this data?
Granted, but unfortunately some problems (war, global climate, trade baselines) can only be tackled in a multinational forum, because agreement between multiple parties is required for any truly optimal solution.

And the only feasible solutions to creating those forums are points somewhere between "completely political" and "apolitical."

So it's constructive to say "I wish the WHO were less political" or "The WHO should appease its members by doing X, so that it could be more neutral in Y," but it's pretty trite to comment that it's political. Yes, and what alternatives are possible?
Go back 20 or 30 years and the "story" with warming was sea level rise. However, as we learn more about how ecosystems respond to increased temperatures, we've learned that there's many more things to worry about than whether or not Miami Beach millionaires are going to have to add a floor to their garages. For instance, heat waves are hotter now than they used to be, leading to increased mortality rates in the very young and very old in areas that don't have reliable cooling available. Places like, oh, Paris. Entire populations are being displaced in mountain communities where fresh water came from snow/glacier melt, but now the glacier is gone and the snow doesn't accumulate anymore. Watch this space, because this could easily be a source of water problems in California before long, since most of Northern California's water supply depends on the Sierra snow pack. (Although, real talk: we should just stop giving almost all the water to farmers to grow more almonds). Sea level rise has caused recurrent tidal flooding across the Eastern seaboard and those effects are coming to the West coast and Hawaii next. Because of this, coastal communities are getting their flood plain boundaries redrawn by FEMA, leading to increased home insurance costs and disclosures that directly affect property values. Beetle populations have exploded as they can both overwinter more easily and, in some places, now have two breeding cycles a year instead of one. This in turn means trees are being killed by beetle infestations in NA at a rate that is literally higher than what is burned every year in wildfires.

I could go on...
I am constantly amazed at how well the Soviets did, with lesser orders of electronic and computer aided design tech. This diversity of engines exemplifies this.(bear in mind, I am not a rocket scientist).
From the youtube they seemed to do as well as the USA in hardware, but their organisational abilities lacked quite a bit, but their science was quite good.
Now I read about the resurgence of the Stalin era corruption, oligarchs, imprisonment at whim of certain powerful people, their saber rattling over the Ukraine etc - do they not see that the USA/Europe is not their enemy. Their enemy lies to the east and if Russia did not have ~~8,000 nukes they would already be well nibbled. They do have some doomsday cobalt-60 area contamination stealthy subs.
They cannot afford to allow their weapons tech to be stolen by the East, by theft or stealth or rank copying.
I would like to see the central government release their political prisoner(s). Let Navalny go and run for office. Putin can probably win honestly if he shuts down the resurgence of the old apparatchiks - their oligarchical kleptocracy is taking the money and resources Russia needs in the warming era.
There will be a huge area where agriculture and population can expand into and with good farmers, railroads(electric of course) and industry the expansion of the Russian East to the North of China could become a huge economic power house in the next 100 years - well past the current leaders, so a new well schooled population will be needed - and only a happy people will grow for the future. The current kleptocracy makes many men and women not want to bring children into the current situation.
If by “remove a few hubs” you mean level a few major colo’s then ok, but as far as I can tell there is not any single strand of glass or single switch or single server that can take everything down with it.
eMMC performance on the PBP is entirely acceptable, with avg. reads/writes of just over 250 MB/s. There are however other concerns with eMMC making it feel a bit sluggish when faced with lots of concurrent I/O. An NVMe SSD in the PBP solves that problem.
It's a weird situation, but it's very obvious with HC1 and SHC cards.

It starts with JWT. JSON is a human readable format (in utf-8), if humans don't need to read, the data could be binary, and the format could be exact. JSON isn't an exact spec, which is mostly inherited from JavaScript (there's no such thing as an integer only floating point, so 1e3==1000==1000.0==1.00e3 in human-readable form, as a stored number they are identical). Then there's differences in white-space (new lines, indentation) - although this could likely be overcome with convention. Because of this the JWT creators said instead of signing the data, we'll sign the exact representation in the payload - but of course with white-space and formatting variance (including a deserialize/serialize loops changing representations, or - in the case of bearer tokens, the HTTP spec allowing newlines/white space to be inserted at the protocol level) they had to encode it as non-human readable (base64). Now everyone agrees you're signing that exact Base64 representation of the JSON object. But! We've build a(n arguably verbose) human readable format that isn't readable by humans.

The SHC spec (common in North America) actually holds a JWT that's signed by an elliptic curve private key. You can validate the signature with a public key. The public/private choice here is great, the JWT is terrible.. they've doubled down on the mistakes. Further to keep the QR smallish, they zipped the payload portion (which is supported by JWT - this is done before the base64 stage), and use only the minimum QR resilience setting (which is fine if it's on a screen, if it's printed this may lead to reading problems). Now we have human readable (JSON) compressed in machine readable (deflate) in machine readable (base 64) in machine readable (QR) - for machine reading purposes. They didn't even trim the fluff (every SHC begins with 56 because.. you guessed it, the `{` character), or use sensible choices (they don't use IssuedAt/iat, but NotBefore/nbf to indicate the generation date). Anyway, SHC (reasonably) noticed because of the (mostly) base64 encoding the character set is only 64 characters (6 bits) which doesn't use the ASCII space (7 bits) very well, so they store the first 'shc://' in ASCII and the rest is a number (there are three modes in QR: ASCII, binary, numeric - the density loosely matches binary representations - a numeric digit (0-9) takes 4 bits, ascii char takes 7 and binary takes 8).

ASCII doesn't support the world very well, UTF8 isn't supported by QR (except as binary).

In the SHC case, because it's signing a specific format/output of the JSON data, it doesn't have the white-space formatting concerns that JWTs have to overcome. If they wanted to stick with a JWT like format (JSON object), they could have skipped the base64 before sign step, at which point they might as well get rid of the header (we're no longer to JWT spec), deflate the message to be signed, and put the signature after the deflated message. All the same data, less of the overhead, and better use of the binary space.
I mean sure but that's not what GP is saying. GP is purely laying into gambling by itself.

> I have nothing but disgust for these types of games, even without the block chain veneer

That's where my question arises.
Facebook is probably hiring more human psychologists and marketing specialists than developers now. It explains why they aren't really innovating anything particularly new and useful in anything but their profit funnel.

Many companies get stuck on pleasing investors more than users once they reach that stage of monopoly after they've gone public, and that's why regulation kills them once opportunistic manipulation is exposed.

Unfortunately it takes a really bad/unfortunate consequence of their manipulation to occur before regulation properly steps in.
Or you could just use React Native and push new features directly to the app...
I honestly enjoy FB ads much more than the average political content, covid posts, food pictures that I see on my timeline. I find such cool tech and software from the ads that target me.
Well, I assume that 99% of parents don't care enough to participate.

Then you have the crazy people who hate evolution/slavery is bad/vaccines/masks/wifi

And, one assumes, there's some people making valid points that don't get any media attention. Seems like it's something there'd be a record of in minutes of meetings, even if there's no statistics about it.
Trying to find some actual data, I googled "covid deaths by month" and I stumbled upon this: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

Notably, the "Growth Factor" plot looks qualitatively very similar from April 2020 until now. Before then, the data looks more noisy to me but not necessarily different on average. I believe folk started getting vaccinated in December 2020? Based on that plot, it doesn't look like the vaccine is helping much for the death rate. Maybe that data source is not legitimate, or maybe "growth factor" isn't the right metric to look at?
It's no wonder this article was written in 2006. One of the problems describes DBAs! Has anyone heard of a DBA in the last decade?

Most of these other problems are just... solved? Any decent language will let you override the meaning of equality between two objects, if you don't use a ton of inheritance the inheritance problem won't bite you, good libraries let you describe the schema once and either generate SQL or generate classes, etc.
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This does have quite a few mutations, including several that are pretty rare. https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/343
The prediction market Kalshi [0] is showing a ~50% chance that the CDC will designate a variant of high consequence [1] by March, up from a ~20% chance 36 hours ago.

A biostatistician friend of mine pointed me to this relatively optimistic Twitter thread [2], though this response [3] is much more pessimistic.

[0] https://kalshi.com/markets/VOHC-001

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-i...

[2] https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1464005676842184705

[3] https://twitter.com/theodora_nyc/status/1464257411582148608
Quick research tells me that Biontech does need two weeks to check if the vaccine works against the new variant [1], so clearly it does NOT need to be a new virus for the vaccine to become useless.

[1] https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/biontech-will-kno...
What made you choose this in particular?
I believe Bob Dole was a Viagra spokesperson.
Choosing not to be vaccinated is a harm to society. Being vaccinated isn't just about protecting yourself. It is people's choice not to be vaccinated, and they're responsible for the consequences of that choice, including not being allowed in spaces where they're a hazard to others.
Remember that movie about a guy who ate at McDonald's for a month, to observe the effects? [1]

Someone should do the same with Facebook ads. I wonder what somebody would feel and look like after engaging with every ad on the platform.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me
Yeah, I haven't broken down the numbers mathematically. I'm sure it will be a profitable business, and they have a great head start.

Just a question of valuation and ROI on a longer timescale. BYND stock seems wildly overvalued if you consider the very long run, for example.

You can't have a tech like multiple on a food/grocery product and expect a good long term return.
No, the experts were disseminating the best available evidence at that time. I will criticize some steps by policy makers, like stating initially that masks were ineffective when in reality they were trying to discourage mask shortages to keep them for essential workers. I think in cases like that it's better to be honest with the public. But I don't have any criticism for scientists who accurately portray the best available evidence at a given time.

My criticism was for the the hypothetical that the OP may have rationally stated that the virus was nothing more serious than a seasonal flu, based on experts stating that borders should not be closed. The statement that borders should not be closed was based on the most relevant research at the time; it turned out to be incorrect and was later reversed. But as a lay person, making the jump from that statement to the opinion that the virus is no big deal, and then echoing that opinion to others as fact, is not rational. One might have taken it as weak evidence in that direction, but no more than that.
Back in the 90s when I got on, so much of traffic was exchanged at MAE-West or MAE-East, and a backhoe in Iowa could make nearly all the cross-US traffic go through Europe and Asia instead.

These days, there are lively public internet exchanges up and down both coasts, in texas and chicago and elsewhere. A well placed backhoe can still make a big mess, many 'redundant fibers' are in the same strand, and last mile is fragile, but if my ISP network is up to the local internet exchange, there are many distinct routes to the other coast and a fiber cut is unlikely to route my traffic around the world.
But they should prefer to get solar/wind/nuclear, which would be half the price of coal/oil/gas if those 3 weren't cheating by polluting our air for free
Not OP, but about to enter and give a scholarship to a friend. There is no 1kUSD entry fee. What you need to enter is to buy three Axies/Pokemon. The starting point for this is nowadays near 300 USD, but buying a decent team is around 500 USD.
Current vaccines are non-sterilizing and therefore do not effectively stop the spread/transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) but is very effective at preventing the disease the virus causes (COVID-19). Initially the vaccines were able to keep viral loads low enough to meaningfully stop the spread, but the Delta variant resulting in far higher viral loads and removed that advantage compared to the original virus.

Arguing that the infection rates are uncorrelated is one thing, but serious illness and death is what we really need to care about with this virus. And for those metrics, vaccination is highly-correlated to better outcomes.
A projector. Or a commercial display: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1557462-REG/sharp_4t_...
Now I want to make two batches of coffee and measure the resultant coffee's temperature.
Except that AFAIK currently all the successful trials have been done with magnetic levitation..
The average power drill is used for just 13 minutes in its entire lifetime
Happy Black Friday everyone! Please remember to only purchase items you really need. Ask yourself few times and just because you see good deal on something you "might need" in the future, doesn't mean you won't find better item / cheaper, when you really need it!

Edit: source: http://tomslee.net/2015/09/the-case-of-the-power-drill.html
Yes, I have about 100 "scholars" from the Philippines working for me. I put in about $30,000 a few months ago. Return has been 300%+

I'm also involved in breeding new axies which is more complex and time consuming. The return of that varies a lot, but can be very profitable, very hard to put a number on that but I'd say las few weeks it was probably 250% APR if you didn't get too unlucky.

I would probably cash out a lot of things, but I feel bad for making 100 people suddenly unemployed, so I will probably stop expanding but not actually selling off all my things.
> what is even the point when you bill twice as often as most people get paychecks?

I'm seeing some employers here offering "next day pay" i.e. you get paid today for the hours you worked yesterday. IDK but could also imagine that many "gig" jobs work that way, i.e. do Uber drivers get their pay immediately with each ride provided, or two weeks later?

Wonder if that model will soon be more common?
As an owner of many RPis and an M1 mac, I wonder what the target market is for this?
The article does have a heading "Examples of Implicit Loops", so the author acknowledges that the loops are there, but implicit. I guess "implicit-only-loops code" or "explicit-loop-less code" or whatever isn't as catchy a title, but I don't think anyone reading it expects it to be literally loopless code.
Have you actually done this comparison? I have compared a T430 (2012 era Intel) and the PBP directly. Power consumption on the PBP is a lot lower IME, and the machine is much lighter. I decided I could out source raw performance to the cloud and then dropped the dead weight.
Are you talking about reggieband or igorkraw? I was referring to the former.
If the rocket taking the nuclear material to the moon blows up during take off, you've just scattered nuclear waste over huge areas of the world. It is basically a dirty bomb.
Do you have a source for that? Or know anyone who has actually done that? Specifically, persons not resident in FR, or not citizens of FR?
Setting up, monitoring and maintaining LE isn't free
How does this compare to various Chromebooks? I thought there was a way to run just Linux on them if you want. I remember I had one in like dev mode for awhile. But those are affordable ARM laptops and have been around for ages. Although maybe it was not really just Linux and was still booting into Chrome OS.
Why, it's almost as if some sort of central planning would be a better way of planning healthcare for a nation!
AliExpress charges VAT now.

If your IoT device burns the house down your circuit breaker failed, or you connected it without proper failsafe measures.

Is it burning it down by being on fire itself, or by turning something on that shouldn't be?
Of all the FAAMG out there, Microsoft arguably has the most diverse revenue streams, I don't see what's surprising with them going after another market (let alone payments). It's just another layer for monetization and doesn't prevent them pursuing their other business lines (it's arguably different teams anyway). Nothing's ever worth it if you take the approach of "It's already worth/earning 100x, adding 1x isn't worth the effort".

P.s.: I don't mean to defend BNPL, IMO it is shark loaning disguised behind late fees. I forgot the exact number but when I did the (ballpark) math for Afterpay you were capping at like 30% in late fees within 3/4 months.
And all the implicit conversion rules between pairs of types couldn’t fit on a single-page chart; the official IBM manual included an honest-to-goodness fold-out bound right in. Fun times.
Signatures, hash functions, message authentication codes, zero-knowledge proofs, authentication, etc. are all part of cryptography. They’re not “encryption” no matter how hard you try to stretch that word’s definition.
With physical books, the cost of the pages was never that significant anyways. Same with VHS. The scarcity was never in the medium, so I fail to see why suddenly it matters.
It's true except Rust core team can defend themselves by being transparent or allowing moderators to speak. These aren't national security secrets. In the lawyer case you almost always believe the quitting lawyer, they are just doing their job, it must be pretty bad for them to need to quit.
> we’ll have to wait for the next market crash to get rid of these fake public companies

Given the lack of evidence for founder-controlled companies underperforming the market, I wouldn’t hold my breath. Particularly if the business is not reliant on outside capital (e.g. Uber under Kalanick, who was ousted despite having super-voting privileges).
More frequent and more damaging bushfires, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, cold snaps,
No. Carbon taxes are an accounting trick.

Just fucking deploy modern nuclear technology. Run trains and heating and industrial heating for entire cities limitlessly with a predictable dollar budget. Zero carbon emissions.

The problem I have with this entire line of argument is how in reality you have nations such as China generating significant volumes of carbon credits in exchange for that sweet cash generated by gullible nations.

We have the Department of fucking Energy and a thousand other agencies that have researched and operated this technology for decades in the most grueling environments (Nuclear Submarines and other classified domains) and it is more than ready for large scale commercial use.

Imagine having limitless power to run projects of Earth scale -> Literally convert saltwater of an ocean into freshwater and pump it continuously into deserts or inland. . . Turn off natural gas heating entirely in the northern hemisphere thanks to electric heating . . The possibilities are endless.
People that toke all the wrong turns and mistakes are often in a privileged position to have amassed some valuable advice.
Igorkraw
That’s a common error, reused by antivaxxers. They are indeed because even what we consider relatively high infection levels are just enough to get 15-20% of the population infected per year. This is less than the part of unvaccinated people. That’s why having a very high vaccination rate is critical to kill COVID. Above this threshold you’d see the infection rate affected. Still, vaccinations are good strategies because they still reduce infections, or at least severe forms of it. Without it in many countries would have been totally saturated by Delta.
klimadao does look interesting, it does have some of the same warning flags (super high APY) as OHM/WAGMI though.
I mostly use my brain for this.