skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of the mass extinctions killed 99%. The worst one, the Permian-Triassic extinction event, killed 83% of genera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian-Triassic_extinction_ev...
The digital aspects are also inherently coupled to their physical representations. That are not just four letters A, C, T, G in the DNA, each of them also has different chemical and physical properties.

Weak sectors on optical media and the classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card are similar analogies in computing.
> I will note that it's easier to break the rules and commit voter fraud when you can vote by mail. In person voting at least requires that you be physically present on Election Day.

Haven’t most (all?) jurisdictions supported vote by Mail for absentee ballots since a long time ago? All that vote by mail has actually changed is that people can vote from their homes.
Going to chime in with my usual statement, "baseload" as a concept only applies if you have energy sources which are cheap to run but can't scale up and down quickly. That is no longer the case.

What you mean to say is "we need to provide power all the time".
I've seen this term architect pop up a few times here, and it seems not to be referring to building design. Can you give more insight into what an "architect" career is, and some examples? Thanks!
It's quite effective at preventing serious illness and death, which is the whole point of the vaccines. It's even better if you don't get sick at all, but unfortunately not everyone has that much luck by being vaccinated.
This is scary. What has dissuaded Putin from this kind of thing in the past (if anything)?
I believe you are missing the point
Sure it is. Here's your links:
Link to the Porsche Taycan warranty information: https://files.porsche.com/filestore/download/usa/none/porsch...

In that document, it states the following:
Your Responsibility for Normal Use
Your Owner’s Manual (which includes specific recommendations against using your car in certain ways) was written with the assumption that you will use your car only in ways for which it was designed. Please refer to your Owner’s Manual for important information on how to maximize the life and capacity of the high-voltage battery.

(Sidenote, also excluded is "The vehicle was subjected to improper treatment or excessive demands (e.g., using the vehicle in motorsport competitions) or otherwise overstraining or overloading the vehicle.", which is implies you're not allowed to track the car at all)

Owners Manual link: https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/attachments/2020-porsche-t...
It states the following (page 63):
Notes on leaving the vehicle unused for long periods
For idle periods of two weeks or longer:
e Do not park the vehicle with a discharged high-voltage battery; connect it permanently to the mains supply instead.
e Make sure that the high-voltage battery is charged to between 20% and 50% throughout the idle period. The Profile function can be used for this purpose, for example.
e Make sure that the ambient temperature is between 0 °C and 20 °C in the vehicle's location.
If it is not possible to connect the vehicle permanently to the mains supply:
e Charge the high-voltage battery halfway (to a charge level of 50%) before parking the vehicle.
e Check the charge level every three months and recharge if necessary so that the charge level does not drop below 20%.
e Make sure that the ambient temperature is between 0 °C and 20 °C in the vehicle's location.
e Avoid using the Porsche Connect smartphone app. Establishing a connection between the app and the vehicle activates the high-voltage system and therefore discharges the high-voltage and 12-volt batteries.

Note, all these things are reviewed by legal at a company like Porsche. They chose not to use words like 'if possible' or 'we recommend', unlike in other places where it talks about HV battery care. These are instructions, and if you violate them then it reads to me like Porsche has a right to yank your warranty. Maybe Porsche is more lenient, but the strict reading implies to me that failing to follow owners manual instructions (i.e., using the car as 'designed') is a warranty yank.
> But again, because we had a rapid expectation for an acknowledgement, we could detect and reap these pretty quickly.

I found the best way to handle this was with an application level heartbeat. That bypassed dealing with any weirdness of the client firewalls, TCP spoofing, etc.
"Little to show"? You're not paying attention.
Go 1.18 supports generic functions. Wouldn't a generic function much simpler than an additional type for that use case?
I think the effect is the same once the patient is quarantined. If they survive two days or two weeks the virus is unable to spread either way.
IMO debt is a complicated topic -- One could criticize debt as traps for the poor, one could also criticize that the rich can use debts to maximize leverages / avoid taxes. Is debt something you don't want to get into? If so then why are the rich taking advantages of them? Does that mean you should prevent the poor from getting in debt? Is that not even worse -- gating them from education, home ownership, etc.? Is the problem then that education and housing cost too much? Or is the issue really proper education for the poor on what debt and how much debt they can afford? More rules and regulations to prevent them from getting debt "too easily"? Is that more gate-keeping against the poor then? I don't have answers to any of these and I don't have a perspective. Just wondering out loud.
Frank Herbert himself stated from the beginning that Dune is a book about the dangers of charismatic leaders. The characters are just humans and make stupid decisions and mistakes, but they affect huge numbers of people directly (the religious and political stuff - hell right up front Paul learns about hitler and asks "what was so bad about this guy, he didn't even kill that many people?"), an indirectly (the effects of severe resource extraction by foreign powers on the land and the people - even 17y.o. me could see that it was at least in part commentary on oil dependence).

If you want to rant on people interpreting art as metaphorical/allegorical, at least consider if the author intended it to be such. At least then you might be able to muster some credibility.
Yeah but the point of withdrawing cash is to buy stuff.

Credit card checks can also be used in many cases where credit cards cannot, and those don't always have the fee or immediate interest of cash advances.
> Being target for nuclear bombs isn't related to nuclear power in the slightest.

There's a reason nuclear power plant technology is strictly controlled as "dual use": the same technology used for power production can also be used to produce the material for a nuclear bomb. So you can't say they're completely unrelated.
Extreme Reduction – 11M to one gearing (2015)
in reality, more often than you'd like, the proceeds of these projects go straight to scammers who don't actually have the rights to the source itself.
when you say pay immediately, do people really get paid end of day in other countries?
Yeah I have, and they're really good. We need something similar for software engineering.

HN: make it so!
THANK YOU, I couldn't figure out why sometimes it would work and sometimes it wouldn't.
A bot doesn't have to be Turing passing for a one off post to be passing
> They expected years upon years of specific experience

They demonstrably didn't, since they interviewed/followed up. That's why your story doesn't add up.

Not doubting whatever you say happened, just your interpretation doesn't make sense.
Being in debt for 30 days without paying any interest is still being in debt.

If I owe someone $100 then I have a debt of $100, even if I've also got $100,000 in my bank account.
You say tomato, I say fraud
Percentages are misleading when it comes to power sources that only work some of the time.
Had corona not of existed, would they still be dead?
Three Deadly Sins
This would be very difficult for the grid. Switching to electric heating is a big hurdle.
The strangest thing is that it got so far. We had a nuclear-friendly prime minister, or at least one that could judge the benefits of nuclear, and he happened to forget all about it as time passed (Löfven)
You're right which is where I ended the conversation.

Ideally, you should be able to poll because it is resilient. The challenge however is when you separate the initial poll/pull from the update stream because now you have to maintain two code paths. What I'm proposing is that the poll and update stream use the same data format using patching.
Clouds reduce solar about 85% in Seattle.
My friend has gone through bankruptcy twice. It was a breeze both times. Paid a court fee and had to go through a simple online course. I wish there weren't such a stigma because companies do this all the time.
I used to think China was some North Korean-style hellscape and hated the country.

Then I had a flight transfer through China and decided to take a couple days there just to see how bad it was. Ended up realizing most internet comments and news articles are posted by people who are absolutely obsessed with China and only get their information through seventh-hand sources--it's that insanely distorted.

Left loving the country because everything was so contrary to my conditioned expectations and went back for a few more trips.

Pushing a super hard anti-anything narrative in this age is bound to backfire, because finding information contrary to it isn't hard.
In the US, you can also declare bankruptcy and wipe out almost all debt (except punitive debt).

In some countries, debt follows you forever and even gets passed to your family when you die.
It's amazing. How many so-called zero emissions cars will be running on lignite next year?

Oh, I give up.
Who is reading the Second Amendment as constraining the people rather than the government?

Everyone who argues that the "militia" means the National Guard or another organized, government-sanctioned body.
The graphviz system [1], originally from at&t labs, has a program called "dot" that does this kind of thing very well, including routing the arrows around other boxes that may be in the way. It's been open sourced. It's also been ported to the web [2]

1: https://graphviz.org/

2: http://www.webgraphviz.com/?tab=map
Sure, but at that point I would argue you metaphor is not very useful.

One convenience store would likely "bury" another if it were one block closer to its customers than the other. I wouldn't say the food store industry was "really messed up with market incentives" because of it.
after reading the webpage, i love the philosophy behind this tool!

i wish the documentation were online so i could see exactly what i could do with it. (i was tempted to download and install the deb to try and find the docs, but that's an activation threshold i'm not willing to overcome for idle exploration of new technology)
> 1) exponential growth has consistently ceased before the hospitals overflowed too bad

I believe quite a few hospitals around the world overflowed pretty badly.
> In practice, though, I'd be impressed if you could even find three different circles that are all on Matrix. I haven't found many people who are willing to switch yet over, anyway

Kind of funny, but my experience over the last year as been the opposite. Probably because the kinds of communities I am interested in are focused around various FLOSS projects, but it seems like everywhere I look the "Contact Us"/"Get Involved" page for a project linked to their Matrix room(s). Anecdotally, the momentum that Matrix has in the FLOSS space is reaching a critical mass where it will almost be the de-facto communication tool (I am starting to be surprised when I see an IRC link instead...)

Outside of the tech world, I agree with you. Adoption of Matrix is tricky, but honestly it does not seem much worse than trying to get your friends to move the MMS group chat onto any other platform (WhatsApp, GroupMe, etc). Only extra challenge is helping them understand what "homeserver" they should use.
It's not beneficial to use money from another country. Managing your own monetary policy and being able to spend without limits is important tool for governments. Currencies are one tool which countries use to compete with each other. Those countries which use US dollar suffer from its inflation, but don't get the benefit of unlimited spending. In other words, inflation in Turkey would fund deficit spending in USA. Using US dollar would be better for the people, but their governments don't want to give up this power. That's why the local financial institutions place limitations on foreign currencies or outright make them illegal.

With Bitcoin, people can completely opt-out of this "inflation tax" without asking permission from their governments. Another option is to use stablecoins such as Tether USD, which seems to be gaining popularity as a currency in countries with high inflation. This is problematic because Tether gains the power of a central bank without any oversight. Bitcoin is the only currency which has very high guarantees of its expected monetary inflation, and that's why it would be the best choice for individuals.
You make an argument that only works in theory. In reality you cannot switch heating modalities like underwear for whatever seems reasonable at the moment. Most houses are build with gas and oil heating systems. In some places like Berlin the gas infrastructure is very old and established. Even streetlights run on gas in some places and houses have generators in the basement to combine heat and electricity supply.
I first remember looking at Io because of this _why post:

https://viewsourcecode.org/why/hackety.org/2008/01/05/ioHasA...
Reminds me of a video I saw of someone using bendable woods to draw curves in the old days. Managed to find the concept again https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_spline
This may not have been YC's intent, but it does appear that's what's effectively happened in the end. I have to assume that YC has some method of exit strategy to separate itself from companies that deviate so strongly. Maybe YC was just asleep at the wheel, I don't know, but in either case they are attached to the failure here.
They should stop where there is no risk. Consider commercial aircraft. They warn pilots of risks because despite having thousands of hours experience, humans (pilots) make mistakes.
A political fight over 5G could upend air travel: What you should know
You are spewing lies and half truth.

> Life itself is a human right, and probably the most precious one.

How can welding front gates shut be protecting human life? How can anyone survive after being cut off from food, medicine, supplies, contact, income? Don't pretend zero-tolerance policy is about protecting people, it is to protect Xi JingPing who has staked his personal political standing on the zero tolerance policy[1].

Some regions have been under continual lock-down for the better part of this year. Do you know how many people have died from lock-down? Does anyone know? Does CCP permit anyone to count? For that matter, how many people died in Wuhan two years ago? Why is CCP killing a citizen journalist for writing about Wuhan outbreak[2]? Is her life not human?

>VPNs are legal in China. You just need to be technically-sophisticated enough to find the correct VPNs, and make sure it falls in the boundary of Chinese law.

Pray tell which VPNs are legal in China? Which one can I use to visit HN legally in China? What is stopping an enterprising person to make your "correct" VPNs user friendly to the mass? I will you, because it does not exist!

> I have several wechat groups discussing serious political issues in China.

Why don't you post to your WeChat groups "佟丽娅嫁给中宣部副部长," reputed marriage of an actress to the vice minister of Propaganda Ministry and take a screenshot? You cannot even search it in Baidu, and you have the gall to say the Internet in China is constantly watched.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinpings-leadership-style-mi...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/reporter-zhang-zhan-riske...
What do you mean when you say porn is illegal in most places?
I recall the NYT being a mouthpiece for Bush administration propaganda leading up to the Iraq war. It later came out that they squashed articles which would have cast a critical light on the claim that Iraq had WMD capabilities, in favor of beating the war drum.

Obviously no media outlet is perfect, but yes, corporate media is subject to the influence of monied interests almost by definition. That said, with how easy it is to run ads and hire influencer shills for whatever agenda, social media seems even more malleable if you're willing to spend money. Or, put another way, the financial barrier for creating propaganda is far lower on Facebook than in traditional media.
Just because you're presenting a more optimistic narrative based on two charts without context doesn't mean the panic is absurd. There's a lot of uncertainty that could end up the wrong way with potentially devastating effects.
>This is not a rebuttal to the myth. Imagine I'm talking about a car,

You're simply asserting that the car is analogous to the brain to make an argument. Humans designed the car and fully understand how it works. If you take out the engine - it doesn't run. The brain is not the same - tons of evidence of neural plasticity. There is simply no analogy here. Also, the author is a subject matter expert in cognitive neuroscience so they do have credibility IMO.

>But we have a huge body of evidence showing that there is a big difference in how the left vs. right brain processes information and that different brain regions are highly specialized, but that their specialized functions don't map cleanly into the language we were already describing human behavior with.

You're saying we only use certain parts of our brain for certain things, and the author is saying (with citations) that multiple regions of the brain are involved in most brain tasks. To me, this makes sense when you read about people who got brain surgery or whatever and then their brain re-wired itself, etc. Clearly there is a disagreement here. Can you point to this huge body of evidence that disagrees with the author?
Depends where you are, some parts of australia have certainly been fairly conservative. Opinions aside, they certainly estimated on the upper bounds of severity much more than the US. I personally am grateful that the aus gov did this, saving countless lives in the process.
It may have felt like a deception, but there's plenty of bad legal takes on the Internet. For this to be a deception, the sender would have to know for certain that the statute doesn't apply in this case.

Could be they did, but then I missed that. Just as likely, they genuinely thought this correct.

The deception was hiding that this was a study, not a genuine request. Lying about or misrepresenting the goals of a study is deception research. There's strict guidelines for that... in the "soft" sciences (APA guidelines). CS is a bit behind and seems intent on reinventing the wheel :s.
Researchers are held to a higher ethical standard than random people because experimenting on people is morally dubious unless you follow strict guidelines.

I feel like there is a lot of hyperbole wrt the harm that was done by this study but on the other hand I think it's clear researchers shouldn't have free reign to manipulate people as they see fit just because it's through email.
My wife has a BoC account (personal), no problem transferring money back and forth whatsoever, dunno other banks. You obviously need to get the iban or the shift code right. Your local bank should be able to help you.
When looking at live data we should keep in mind that currently 14 reactors are stopped in France for various reasons (maintenance delayed to winter season due to COVID, safety measures of several reactors due to investigation in a deterioration of a comportent in one).

In normal circumstances France should be exporting to Germany right now (it would make no economical sense for German grid operators to use the very expensive gas if neighbors could deliver lower cost indigenous production). Sadly right now France can't deliver and it increases tension even more on gas demand.

Thanks to it's nuclear power, France is the first electricity exporter in the world, Germany is a close second.
The capacity issue is staffing, and that can’t just be spun up. Basically because it takes time to train people
Not if you have cash already in hand to pay off the debt.

(Then you can siphon back a fraction of the card interchange fees already baked into the price of goods sold via rewards/cash back. Just another regressive aspect of our financial system.)
Those people either haven't lived in a dictatorship, or in a democracy, otherwise they wouldn't really have questions about which one is better, as far as treating your own citizens goes.

International relations are indeed law of the jungle though, if that's what you mean.
> The US has relatively generous bankruptcy laws. Many people go through bankruptcy and rebuild their credit over several years.

Are you happy to say this with a straight face?
Why would they need to go to court to shut you off?

At least in the UK utilities such as electric or gas only need to go to court to get a warrant to access your property to physically disconnect you - I do not believe the court process is about the disconnection itself, but rather the physical access to your home to physically cut you off.

For a digital service they'd just cut you off without needing a warrant to access your home.

But anyway, public utilities need to be paid for - I can't imagine people being too pleased to suddenly need to start paying for things like email or search (Google or otherwise).
What you're saying is supported by the data, but do you (or does anyone) know why infections slow down when they do? I can't think of any intuitive reason for it, and haven't been able to find an explanation why the waves crash, so to speak.
Yes, this is far more correct. PS2 marketing had people believing that the PS2 was going to be rendering Terminator 2 level graphics in realtime.
A suggestion for a more fluid translation could be "interest groups are taking notes"
It seems like this particular negative discussion is being allowed through. Are you saying HN is censored in YC's favor?
If it does happen, whatever the result will be, it'll be a part of your next presidential election.
Power off is guaranteed to work. (Big vim fan)
LGTM +1
This is BitTorrent with RSS. I built a proof of concept for Libgen and the Internet Archive. The RSS feed spits out torrents least to most seeded, the BitTorrent client joins torrent swarms advertised in the feed until disk space limits are reached. Env vars injected into the Docker container are the RSS feed url and max disk space to use in GB. Very straightforward.

I too was disappointed with IPFS, and my goal was to build the equivalent of the ArchiveTeam Warrior, but for rapid mirroring of existing sets versus archiving ops.
Google is from 1997. Io is from 2002. Google grew to number one almost immediately because it was so much better than the previous emgines. Of course we still had reference books around but Javadoc, which generates HTML, was included in the very first Java release from 1995.
While not a slave, for many bankruptcy will ruin any chance of the ownership of assets for 7-10 years. While not slavery, bankruptcy will put you into the peasant category.
Tobacco advertising is essentially banned, since it has long term affects. Credit should be no different. If used wisely it can be a good thing, but at the same time it’s marketed to the easiest and most vulnerable.
Credit advertising itself should be banned with tax incentives given to companies that require everyone to go through a financial course.

In my personal opinion a free financial course should be required before you first get your SSN and then no higher than a $500 credit limit for 6 months after.