skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could afford to do that with all the expensive-to-purcase-and-repair stuff I've bought over the years - items that have turned out to be expensive lemons and a waste of money. Same goes for all the badly designed junk where user ergonomics was never considered as a part of the design plan.

A while ago it occurred to me to put my reasonably large collection (already stored in anticipation) in the carpark of a industrial estate I've access to and run over/smash them with the forklift with a camera crew to hand (I've even a favorite cameraman in mind and he's already been worded up).

...And I've special plans for inkjet printers that take forever setting themselves up before deciding to print.

Given the terrible dropoff in after sales service offered by manufacturers, especially so over the last few decades, it seems to me that this form of 'destruction' shaming is a very legitimate way of getting attention to the problem that's otherwise not possible to ordinary consumers. Platforms such as YouTube are ideal for this as the audience is potentially very large and thus manufacturers would have to take note of the bad publicly.

However, I reckon such spectacles shouldn't just become circuses - or means for manufacturers to seek revenge on those who dared post such content. Thus, if such destruction spectacles are to achieve anything meaningful then it seems to me that it's important we demonstrate the very real problems that we users are experiencing with the equipment we've purchased and show that manufacturers' indifference to the problems is a very significant issue. We need to be very clear about this before we destroy anything.
No, I wouldn’t want that :)

What I would want is:

- More intensive training and education with less focus on violence.

- Better laws to increase accountability and to reduce conflicts of interest.

- Police or social worker units which don’t need to carry guns. Basically separate dangerous crime from vice or disturbances in terms of enforcement. I fully agree the FBI should have resources to hunt down serial killers. I don’t think we need a similar level of force (guns) for dealing with a drug addict on the street, or a drunk driver.

And other things would be good or better I’m sure! My feeling now is that police are entrenched in their own system of power enough that many types of good changes are unlikely to happen. Why would police want to increase their risk by adding more oversight, for example?
> Seems like doing a webpage with SVG instead of CSS would also allow more flexible web design.

Seems exactly the opposite to me.

But maybe I don't understand the intended sense of “flexible” intended.
You're being confused by a nasty habit many loyalists to the EU institutions have, of conflating the EU (a political system) with Europe and Europeans (a continent and people).

A good rule of thumb is that if a British person says Europe or European they mean "the continent" and are including Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Vatican City etc, but excluding the UK itself.

If a German/French/Spanish/Italian person says Europe or European, especially if they've been to university, they a very likely to mean the EU and only the EU. These people usually don't consider Switzerland or Britain to the "European" as a consequence.

People outside of Europe always mean the continent and population, including the UK, when they use these terms.
This article is fake news. Bitcoin addresses are not identities and this “%1” are custodial services like exchanges.

The reality us, with deeper analysis you can see that bitcoin us widely distributed and getting mire widely distributed over time.

This is contrary to the dollar where the cantillon effect means the rich get richer and everyone else gets poorer.
Most of the "web3 VC's" with NFT avis and .eth handles (see Chris Dixon) are obnoxiously tweeting about how "web2" sucks and that you don't have any ownership in it whereas "web3" is a decentralized utopia where you own every single piece of information about yourself and have the ultimate freedom to do anything.
Saw it :)

> done efficiently with very few branches, though, using mostly SIMD and some scalar operations on masks [...] first phase basically looking for a comma or newline followed by a quote, then looking for the next unescaped quote

Yes that's almost exactly what ZSV does, except it just looks for any interesting char (i.e. delim or dbl-quote), irrespective of position relative to other interesting char, and then let's the non-SIMD loop figure out to do with the chunks in between. We tried pretty hard to use CLMUL-- ZSV was designed after a decent-enough digestion of Lemire and Langdale's work to try those techniques-- but the json vs CSV differences were too much, at least for us, to overcome due to the extra 8+ vector calls, without giving up more than the benefit. Furthermore, if you are going to "normalize" the value, even more of that benefit gets lost (in other words, if you read 'aa"aa,"aa""aa"', which are equivalent, and you want to spit out two equivalent values, then you will have to modify the second value before printing non-CSV, or modify the first value to print well-formed CSV, and either way you can't do that more efficiently with vector operations). Since we were not willing to give up the CSV edge cases, we were also not able to find any benefit from CMUL. That's not to say we turned over every stone-- maybe there is a way and we just missed it.

> are quotes in fields that don't start with a quote not special?

Sorry missed that q before. Yes, that is correct, at least according to how Excel parses with dbl-click-to-open (as opposed to doing an import operation from a menu). They only serve as a delimiter when they are strictly the first char. So: 'first cell, " second cell ,third cell' gives you 3 cells, the second of which starts and ends with a space and has a double-quote as its second char (i.e. the equivalent of '" "" second cell "')

As an aside, we made a deliberate decision to be consistent with Excel, for reason other than that in our experience, the users who are least able to cope with edge cases on their own, and therefore rely the most on the software to do what they want/expect-- are also most likely to accept Excel as the "standard", whereas users who want/need a different standard than Excel are also most likely to be able to be able to come up with some solution (e.g. python or other) if their need isn't met by the default behavior of a given software tool.
A different spin on Python dataclasses
Super interesting, ok I think I just assumed otherwise but thanks for the explanation.

One follow up though, did ancient Romans have fountains? Maybe not the same ones that exist today, but more or less did they, ancient Romans, have these public water services as well?
Thanks! It's conveniently hidden by a grassy area and some trees which throw shadows of their own. Actually, I should be doing something more useful at the moment...
This is more efficient than pngs or gifs, no question.

But modern browsers do movies (like, mp4 and ogg) really well, with no required chrome, a rendering engine that is very good and easily controlled by js.

I wonder how a animation in Lottie compares to a embedded video tag of the same animation.

Isn't js JIT (slower), and evaluated higher in the stack (slower) than the video renderer?
I feel like this is something I have been looking for for years.
Corona has other hosts, some of which seem to be unaffected by it.
I've seen plenty of the B230 motor (2.3L) tuned to high 500hp so that is definitely not a problem.
Opening Horizon Worlds to Everyone 18 in the US and Canada
No. Specifically, in this case we are multiplying exponentially large numbers meaning that they have linearly many bits with respect to the input, so you must account for the multiplication costs as they are not insignificant (e.g. O(n^1.59)).

For normal computations, you usually deal with numbers that have logarithmically many bits wrt. the input, so the runtime is negligible (something like O(log^1.59(n)), so we can treat it as a constant. It's technically not a constant, but it's so close to the time to actually read the input (log(n) or n) that we can treat it as one.
Jack Dorsey Dismisses Web3 as a Venture Capitalists’ Plaything
The law is likely intended for farm families with several fields a short distance apart.
Doesn't really scale, as you mostly have one or two games per genre that will become dominant.

I fear this approach would actually kill any user generated content. The king of user generated content are probably still the elder scrolls games, but I doubt they will develop anything like that ever again because it fails to make a business case against something like fortnite, even if the probability to develop the next craze is quite slim. I believe their latest online versions don't leaver many possibilities for modders
Wouldn't you need percentage of positive test to draw any conclusions of the impact the number of tests has on reported cases? And the testing strategy?
In neighboring Finland, teens are allowed to drive ATVs on public roads.

Both are bizarre and unsafe solutions to the problem that the Nordics have a driving age of 18, and yet, people under 18 who live outside the city still need to go places.

Nordic politicians in the cities pleasure themselves to the thought of a world without cars (cars and gasoline are taxed into oblivion), while ignoring the reality that the sparsely populated nordics lack the density necessary for good public transportation outside of the central districts of the biggest cities.

So if you’re a young person who does sports or has an after-school job, you’re out of luck if you don’t have well-off parents with a flat in city.

Hence, this weird outcome.
Just a reminder if you're being censored in any serious way then don't use TOR, as the network is largely controlled by a few actors and the devs don't seem to care / or don't have the proper resources to deal with it.

https://nusenu.medium.com/is-kax17-performing-de-anonymizati...
Same with the System Settings: Here search is disabled as well when you are not on the index page. So quickly going from display to drivers or similar is not possible.
Ask HN: Best FOSS browser extension to track time spent on sites?
I wonder where people get the illusion that "roads" are reserved for cars which can go at arbitrary high speeds. Roads are for any kind of vehicles, many of those cannot go very fast. Start with real tractors, which used to go no faster than 25 kph, some of them now go 40 or 50, but that's it. A driver of a car has to be able to safely cope with slow traffic. Of course there are plenty more, like bicyclists, horse carriots and on the country side often even pedestrians.

I can understand that slow traffic can be quite annoying, but calling it a safety hazard puts the blame on the wrong party.
Key paragraph: «Our target trial emulation study in the national VA health care system among 2 099 871 persons vaccinated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines between 11 December 2020 and 25 March 2021 and matched 1:1 to unvaccinated controls estimated that VE at 7 or more days after the second vaccine dose was 69% (CI, 67% to 70%) for SARS-CoV-2 infection and 86% (CI, 82% to 89%) for SARS-CoV-2–related death during follow-up extending to 30 June 2021. Vaccine effectiveness did not decline when follow-up was extended from 31 March to 30 June 2021. Vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection decreased with increasing age and comorbidity burden. This study advances our understanding of “real-world” mRNA COVID-19 VE by focusing on an older, racially and ethnically diverse, high-comorbidity population; applying target trial emulation methods that strengthen causal inferences; and examining whether VE declines over longer follow-up.»
this is normalization issue, not version issue

import unicodedata
list(unicodedata.normalize('NFD', "ñ"))
>> ['n', '̃']

list(unicodedata.normalize('NFC', "ñ"))
>> ['ñ']

both are correct, the issue is that unicode allows accented letters to be written as _accented_letter_ or _letter_, _accent_. The idea of "character" in uncicode is not very useful, most of the time you will want graphemes, not codepoints. User-friendliness wise, this is what Python should use (another rant - strings should not have length method, they should have byte_length, codepoint_length and grapheme_length).
Felony type criminal laws.
I have found with 4K tvs the cursor and UI is annoyingly tiny.

Currently I'm using the ATV 4K and Infuse (and MBP SMB share) for "other" content. Works a dream.
Dude, I am a German living in Berlin, haha.

I can tell you there are a ton of your countrymen and women enjoying life here and we have pretty awesome Polish cuisine throughout the city. If you ever come to Berlin, feel free to reach out via gbx at mailbox dot org. Definitely much more is possible in Europe than only ever staying in your home city.

Borders in Europe are defined by what you think is possible, not so much by what is, in fact, possible.
That seems like extremely low numbers. From what I've found the range seems to be $123-$204 / MWh, or $0.123 - $0.204 per KWh

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

For Hinkley Point C, another EPR we have the following, a guaranteed strike price of $140/MWh.

EDF has negotiated a guaranteed fixed price – a "strike price" – for electricity from Hinkley Point C of £92.50/MWh (in 2012 prices),[25][83] which will be adjusted (linked to inflation – £106/MWh by 2021[77]) during the construction period and over the subsequent 35 years tariff period. The base strike price could fall to £89.50/MWh if a new plant at Sizewell is also approved.[25][83] High consumer prices for energy will hit the poorest consumers hardest according to the Public Accounts Committee.[86]

In July 2016, the National Audit Office estimated that due to falling energy costs, the additional cost to consumers of 'future top-up payments under the proposed HPC CfD had increased from £6.1 billion in October 2013, when the strike price was agreed, to £29.7 billion'.[87][88] In July 2017, this estimate rose to £50 billion, or 'more than eight times the 2013 estimate'.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
I prefer enforcing the existing laws where it makes sense. We already have way too many laws. Time to abolish many
Suddenly the Truckla (Tesla pickup) makes more sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35gWBtLCYg - the inventor is a Swede living in the US.
Here's the fixed link: https://blog.emberjs.com/ember-4-0-released/ - any chance a moderator could fix the original post?
> The challenge with waste storage and other risks are real of course

But the “challenge” with waste storage is a big lie.

The French have all the waste ever generated by their nuclear program sitting under the floor of a single room. The quantities of “waste” generated by nuclear plants are not really meaningful even over long time horizons.
A common pattern for Russia is announcing unplanned railroad/pipeline maintenance when a country makes a political decision that Russia finds unacceptable. Or cranking up gas prices at random. Also harassing ships that are laying undersea power cables with unannounced military drills.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
That might be the case in the 1980s, but later I believe another mindset prevailed: an ambition of the EU to actually expand to include entire Europe, or at least the non-Russian part thereof.

With Brexit, the complicated security situation east of Poland and the fact that the Swiss, the Norwegians and the Icelanders seem to be OK with staying outside, this ambition is no longer realistic to fulfill short- to mid-term, but it survives nonetheless.
Nobody travels there anymore, the roads are always busy! /s
It all depends on your background. Maybe brush up Markdown skills?
Also, important stroke parameters are missing, line joins and caps. See pictures on these pages for illustrations:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/d2d1/ne-d...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/d2d1/ne-d...
In this post there's a good point about this figure being a projection and not a measurement, but we do have actual measurements that do not require full sequencing of the virus to recognize omicron but just a PCR test. From [1]:

> To gain insight into the spread of the Omicron variant in our community, we are working with a large number of partners to track S-gene target failures (SGTFs). SGTFs are a feature of the TaqPath PCR assay that fails to detect the spike gene of certain variants of interest due to a deletion in these viruses' spike gene. Most Omicron sequences have this deletion while most Delta sequences do not. As a result, the proportion of SGTF in positive tests can be used to estimate the prevalence of Omicron.

Worse, the key part of the reasoning is problematic: (emphasis mine)

> Assuming, as data has indicated, that Delta cases stayed approximately constant during this time, these numbers correspond to Omicron case numbers growing approximately twenty fold in one week, a doubling time of approximately thirty six hours, sustained over a two week period.

> This is out of touch with what we know about Omicron. Responsible estimates of the growth rates of Omicron in populations with better data (like the UK and Denmark) and prior data on the USA, have suggested doubling times in the range of TWO TO FOUR DAYS. This has caused us (and the real experts) to characterize its rate of growth as “explosive,” and to say in late November and early December that it might attain dominance in the USA in a matter of weeks. And that’s all true. But a doubling time of 36 hours, sustained for over two weeks, is out of step with all the other data. It’s not credible.

Even if 36 hours is a bit lower than most (but not all) measurement, it's not that far of the reality, while the “2 to 4 days” discussed in the article is too optimistic. A few example of doubling times:

San Diego: 1.4 days [1], in the different regions of the UK, the doubling time varies from 1.5 to 2.2 days (median: 1.6 days) [2]. In France, the estimated doubling time varies from 1.6 to 2.2 days.

Excerpt from [2]:

> We are observing doubling time central estimates of less than 2 days for every region
except the South West. This may be related to poor PCR gene target reporting coverage
in this region.

Oh, and in this sentence, just click on his link (which now includes data from yesterday and completely defeats his argument)

> And this points to another big problem. These numbers don’t comport with the national case numbers and what we know about how variants interact[link to 3]. While huge case surges have been seen in the states in Region 2, which was already 2.4% Omicron in the latest measurements (the week ending December 4), as well as other Omicron-dominant areas like the UK, they haven’t been seen in most states elsewhere in the country. This pattern was also seen as Delta took over from Alpha in the USA this summer, but we’re not seeing it in most of the USA now.

[1]: https://searchcovid.info/dashboards/omicron-estimates/
[2]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... page 6.
[3]: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+covid+cases
The problem I encounter while developing occasionally is that I encounter a series of errors and in the end you stop wanting to report the 5th bug of the day and just want to fix things the best way you can. Sometimes that attempt goes sour, sometimes it gets me out of the problem in 5 minutes.

> if only reported

Reporting bugs can be super time consuming, especially if your project is large and the maintainer has a high bar for bug reports (e.g. "provide a codesandbox link"). I can't spend 20 minutes reporting a bug that will be auto-closed in 6 months when I can attempt fixing it instead, especially if I'm annoyed at the tool already. This used to happen a lot with browsers and nowadays it happens with build tools and libraries.
*Makes this a tiny support ticket* :)

A bit of cursory googling around for that error didn't find anything particularly insightful, surprisingly. Most of the references were extremely obscure.

The only consistent theme I saw was "cgroups is not loaded or broken", but that doesn't make sense: systemd depends on cgroups, IIUC. And cgroups itself was introduced in the 2.6.x era. Honestly the only idea I can think of is asking on unix.stackexchange.com or #archlinux on irc.libera.chat.

I'm curious what syscall failures `strace -o cgcreate.txt -s999 -v -f cgcreate -g cpu:cpulimit` might reveal.

I'm also very interested to know whatever the root cause ends up being!

TIL that the cooling_deviceN trick does that on some systems. On the boxes I have here it basically slows everything to a crawllllll, especially if turned up to 11.

I've always looked at `cpulimit` as somewhat of an awkward hack. Yes, it works, but it's like bit-banging vs hardware I/O, or CPU vs GPU, or rapid polling instead of push/async. I kind of squint plaintively at it a bit. If it was all I had in an 11th hour situation then sure, but if I was deploying something to production I wanted to forget about? Eeeeeehh....
Note that in my comment $25 MWh was only about OPEX (fuel cost, personnel, etc.), while your cost includes CAPEX, interest, and probably payments to a decommission fund. The number is based on 2013 estimate of the US Department of Energy (IIRC at the time it was $23 MWh), so it may be indeed different for ERP. Though if it's sufficiently higher than OPEX of the old US reactors, then I would say there is a problem with the ERP design.
That's comparing apples to oranges.

In reality, a significant fraction of the cost comes from interest. Sure, the 1-month LIBOR rates may be 0.1% nowadays, but construction started in 2005. The 10-year treasury rate in 2005 was closer to 5%. Nobody would be willing to lend money for the construction of a plant like this for anything less.
People on the “anti side” of the debate have been asking this for 2 years. It was a valid question then and a more important one now.

It is likely that a significant percentage of people are dying with incidental Covid infections. Depending on how significant, that completely changes the dynamics.
I remember “clicker heroes” one. People calculated charts of most effective and fastest upgrades to grow the number. Without that the game seemed pointless to me, you click or wait, so what.

That’s partly why I like games like Borderlands or Fallout series. I spend most of the time searching for and testing guns and gear, because it gives you control over situations and alerts when you’re not ready for it.
I thought the premise was that “phylogenetic trees” don’t exist. Interesting phraseology.
1. there are always gray areas, that doesn't invalidate the principle

2. not a bad example - what if the government forced me to use margarine instead, secure it its rectitude? That's the point.
>I've never heard the phrase a natural walker or natural talker

You should spend more time around parents with young kids, then!
Remember that we stuff toddlers full of stories from books and telly and games where, to simplify, we present antagonists whose sole motivation is that they are 'baddies'. Culturally we push ideas of absolute moral character quite hard, and only add nuance later.
Nice, that looks cool. Thank you!
Risk of myocarditis in those same age groups is much higher with COVID than with vaccine.

But it should also be noted that in most cases, the myocarditis cases caused by the vaccine were mild.
I’m currently wrapping up a trip touring many ancient monuments during winter (aka off-season), and nearly all of them were having some kind of renovation work being done. Usually it’s a combination of whatever ancient stone is left from antiquity, combined with new material of the same type that would have been used originally (though not in all cases, there is some form of “artificial stone” that is used at times, not sure of what that is).

So, my guess at the answer to your question would be all of them, many times over.