skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of Europe is following in Germanys steps I am afraid.

I can only speak for Sweden. We had for the longest time the most solid energy base with hydro power in the north and nuclear in the south.

Policy has since decades been anti-nuclear though but it really accelerated 2016. Basically nuclear power gets heavy tax and fee penalties while wind gets the reverse treatment.

If you check https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/ you can see the result.

Nuclear and hydro still supply all power - but we now have an erratic additional source of wind power that has such volatility that it can spike its production and reverse in just a day. It's completely uncontrollable and so can't provide a stable base for industry nor homes or offices.

Meanwhile, with nuclear plants now being taken offline, southern Sweden is paying a multiple of higher prices than Northern Sweden.

This is exacerbated by other countries in Europe making similar faulty decisions - notably Germany - meaning that even if Sweden produces energy to export on a good day, prices are high. Northern Sweden is for now safe because there is no bandwidth to transfer the energy produced in an efficient way.

I only hope that the election this year will see policy change to normal again, with a renewed focus on nuclear. Nuclear needs no subsidies, it just needs to not be penalized by inane policies, taxes and bureaucratic nonsense.

During the summer, when less energy is needed, Sweden even had to start its old oil based power plant. The solution is similar in Europe where reliance on natural gas from Russia is becoming normal, in particular for Germany.

In Sweden we have at least come far enough to recognize this as a crisis and the so called environmental party will probably be booted out of the Riksdag come September.
Ash HN: Is there a concurrent database that fits between SQLite and PostgreSQL?
If you want a concurrent RDMS (Relational Database Management System) that is relatively light and easy to deploy, are there any contenders that meet this criteria?

Between the simplicity of SQLite and the complex, heavyweight that is PostgreSQL, it seems there is a chasm between these database opposites.

Is there a concurrent client/server database that fits in this gap while being simple, performant and easy to deploy?
As other have said, that's why bankruptcy exists. Also, loans like this aren't a 1-year repayment, it's a much shorter window, so you are not paying 36% more, you will pay likely in a shorter time window. While 36% looks bad, these kinds of loans can be helpful to people.

Just because it looks scary to you, people go to these kinds of tools because they need them. When those tools are taken away, they will go down riskier paths, or fail to pay bills (which can lead to worse outcomes). Don't treat everyone like they can't think for themselves and understand what they are getting into. Sometimes solutions like these are needed.
From what I've seen there seems to be a growing body of evidence that "long COVID" is very much overblown. Eg. See this recent meta-analysis which found that when you actually add a control group, most of the symptoms disappear. A higher study quality was associated with lower prevalence of almost all symptoms.

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/ShamezLadhani/status/1472622893154639876

Link to study: https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)005...
And all of the young "healthy" people who died had comorbidities like obesity and diabetws or some congenital issues unknown to them.
> …GDP, which is where they belong given their vast human and natural resources.

That’s so not true. China has long been relying on critical resources like oil, hell even pork. Russia fit this better.
>You cannot travel abroad (no passport for average citizens, except for those that study/work abroad)

Really? What accounts for all the Chinese tourists visiting Europe/UK/USA? I have a friend who runs a hostel in Edinburgh and the majority of her guests are Chinese so much so that they have had to print signs in Mandarin asking people to abide by certain rules.

>You cannot transfer money out of country legally, pretty soon can't invest in other countries's stocks

This must not be enforced that severely given how much capital has flowed into other countries real estate market. In fact this is a common loophole used to get US citizenship. (invest 500k and you can get a green card).
The milder it gets, the less noticeable it is. As it gets less noticeable, the chance of exposure to new hosts increases. Seems reasonable.
The article sets up a bit of a straw man (or maybe a motte-and-bailey) I think, because it says "all mammal brains (and most likely, all vertebrate brains as well) are built from a single manufacturing plan using the same kinds of neurons."; but I'm not sure that really refutes the notion that most of us have when we think of the lizard brain. Ontology doesn't recapitulate phylogeny, but we do have a cerebellum, and our actions and reactions happen along a broad spectrum of temporal control and conscious awareness.
I discovered Codecademy in late fall 2011, while miserable in my first semester of law school. I had no idea how to code, and had only found it after stumbling on PG's essays for the first time (which led me to google "learn to program"). I dropped out of law school after a year and ended up a self-taught data scientist. Codecademy was only a part of my journey, but you kicked it off. Congrats, and thank you.
these amounts (10, 50, 100, w/e) are being lent on a minute by minute basis and are paid back in a week:

https://www.kucoin.com/margin/lend/USDT

USD transaction cost might be too high if the technology doesn't exist
Yeah the NFT isn't the image. The image is metadata, read the ERC721 contract interface [1]. The NFT is the NFT.

- 1: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721#specification
Exactly. And a seven-seater gets to pay for this.

The V-22 was how many years late? How many billions over budget?
Pretty much everyone will contract covid at some point, just like common colds, influenza, etc. You can't expect to never get sick the rest of your life, can you?
Tirana Prosecution to Investigate Alleged Data Leak of More than 630k Albanians
"I think it's a little sad that people can't have any trust in strangers"

For women, dating is a process of meeting a larger, stronger person who is a member of a demographic responsible for nearly all sexual violence. If they want a little social proof before meeting a strange man alone, I fully understand. Obviously this goes both (all) ways, but is a bigger concern for women (at least the many women I have discussed this with over the years).

Sorry to be disrespectful. I was specifically talking about the idea that it is no longer possible/acceptable to meet people in person. Do you truly believe this? As I said, I know a lot of people who date actively, and they do still meet people when out and about. Sometimes it's a friend of a friend, sometimes a random person at a bar. One of my last serious relationships started when we met at a wedding. A good friend of mine seems to find dates by just stepping out the door! She's cute, but it's not like men are constantly fawning over her - she just tends to chat with strangers and sometimes that leads to dates! So I see this so much in my everyday life I find it strange when people (especially people who admit they are not dating in the current era) make claims about how dating does and does not work these days.
Thank you! 2022 is looking really fascinating for Linux gaming. The two biggest factors:

- For typical gamers, anti-cheat support will be a big factor.

- Then there's the Steam Deck, which ships in February. I'll soon be building in support for as an option for writing reports.
Both are problems, but to me the biggest facepalm goes to log4j because anyone in their right mind should assume that log messages are untrusted input and should absolutely never have been parsed for control sequences. It's another prime example of Java over-engineering everything that should have been simple.
More then 36% APR for anything more then a fraction of your weekly / monthly salary is likely to be crippling for most people and predatory. I can understand higher rates for very short term debts (i.e. a payday loan where the entire thing should be paid off in 1 month, but these lenders often try and have people turn over the principle into new loans).

IF someone's credit won't support a 20% interest rate then I don't think they should be leant money in the traditional sense. Either the purchase isn't required (in which case it shouldn't happen), or if its essential they should be supported by mechanisms to get people out of debt. Governments can make low value loans available to help here. In Australia, your entitled to a loan if your on benefits (centrelink) in which repayments are deducted from your welfare payments but charged no interest.
Or you could be not realizing that people are uncomfortable with it regardless of those "laws and norms."

It's tempting to bring up something else more severe to prove the point: Should we be okay with what's happening with the Uyghurs in China because it's not happening here (wherever that is)? I would say no.
Look into random graph models. Or exponential random graph models.

Mathematical models are difficult because we don’t know the real inputs and fitting a curve in retrospect is easy to get a compelling looking answer which is wrong.

You can gain an intuition for it just imagining a random walk on a social network graph though. Just jump from friend to friend randomly on Facebook. Early on it is easy to spread to new people. Later on it’s very difficult to find new people. You get stuck in the same cohorts.

More simply just look at past covid outcomes. Or pretty much any epedemiological model. All of them claim only the initial period is exponential. It’s the issue of how to determine the slowdown period that’s tricky and frankly impossible without more data than we have. But assuming that the slowdown state will look similar to previous slowdown states is a good idea.
It's an empirical observation, not the output of a mathematical model.

The graph of human social contacts is not even close to uniformly random, so it makes sense that simplistic formulas would not work.
In fall 1975 in my senior year of High school, I toured the local Junior College (Vanier CEGEP) and saw a lab with a HP 9830A driving a HP flatbed plotter producing Biorhythm plots. I applied to that college and a year later the lab become my second home. I learned the 9830A Rocky Mountain Basic, wrote and shared many program on cassette tapes. The most fun was shared game we called Cosmic Pinball. Shells fired at static planets with the ballistic plots drawn out on the flatbed plotter. Longest run took 18 minutes before it finally hit 1 of the 7 planets. I should rewrite it in python.
It was, because they were claiming it all the way along, even before any real evidence was apparent. Thus guaranteeing the issue would not be adequately dealt with, and showing Trump the way to undermining election results in his defeat.

Also, weaponising facts is not a good way to increase public confidence in a democratic process.
Regarding the last section -- you might want to think about how you would answer the question: "When did you stop beating your wife."
I gave an example in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29656265

Because the thing you're buying is short term, unsecured credit, it's generally pretty fungible. Regardless of the credit product - payday loan, credit card, line of credit, or something else - what you're paying for is immediate access to money. And in most cases, these products allow you to borrow as much (or as little) as you want - so you're not going to "overborrow". This is more like comparing the cost of buying 30L of water in 330ml containers for $2/ea vs. in 481ml containers for $3/ea except the math for compound interest is harder to do correctly.
New evidence links Pegasus spyware to Jamal Khashoggi murder
I also fondly remember those times.
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber [video]
> If a loan is so risky that it requires greater than 36% interest, it should not be made.

Playing devil's advocate: it depends. When I was younger, there were times when, if you lent money at only 36% per month interest, you'd be losing money. You'd have to lend at rates higher than that, just to break even, no matter how low the risk was.
At the start of the pandemic, when downloadable data became available, I started charting it every day. The curves for many countries were uncannily exponential. Of course I knew that those curves had to tip over at some point, but I decided that I would use the exponential growth curve as a baseline and watch for deviations from it.

I told my friends: "I'll breathe a huge sigh of relief if this thing turns over before it's infected most of us." In fact it's probably hard to speculate why it turned over, but behavioral measures are probably an important factor.
Do you have a demo video?

It's especially helpful to have this when you're asking someone to download an app and connect to a data source. You're asking a lot, you should at least give them an idea of what they're getting into.
> Some of these places have like 400 ICU beds in a region of 17 million people.

That is, of course, far too few (Where is that? I've never heard of a ratio _that_ low for a developed country). But unfortunately, the time to fix it was about five years before it became a major crisis.

> You absolutely could 10x that or even 50x that given the fact you have asked hundreds of millions of people to put their lives on hold.

With what staff?

> What amazes me is somehow we managed to do exactly this back in march of 2020 with hospital ships and field hospitals.

As far as I can see, those were envisaged as a solution to a regional problem; if covid was only a big problem in a few regions, then this could work via redeployment of staff, drawing on limited reserves of staff (military, bringing people back from retirement, and so on). In practice, very few countries managed to maintain covid as a regional problem, so temporary hospitals became less interesting because _you can't staff them_.
Yes and that's why many people look at both countries as equals, or equally bad actors. That wasn't always the case, though.
Absolutely, happy to. FUD in all forms against any party is unacceptable. I’d like to think we’re all just using curiosity to seek the truth.
But they do win. They just win by selling their house at a premium to someone else who can resell it for even more once they buy out the racetrack.
“A cold” is not a single virus.
It’s expensive to be poor and people who haven’t ever been poor just can’t wrap their heads around that. They don’t understand the loss-loss choices poor folk have to make every day and the toll and psychological exhaustion it puts on them.
It's that high in France because Germany is knee deep in gas plants.

So much for a European partner ...
Would it be enough for the safety batteries at the motors to be only as big as to provide power for the aircraft for an emergency landing? Like for a 30 sec full thrust?

That might not bother the weight distribution that much.
>(2) Gilbert (father) was convicted of murder (not felony murder)

One or the other of us has got wrong information.

I just double checked and read that he was an "unarmed getaway driver" convicted under NY's felony murder law. If this is wrong, that would be good to know.
More cost.
> I'm still wearing a mask for facial recognition purposes

Real talk, wth is going on in your head...
Also because Microsoft try to lock people in by giving teams for "free" when an org buys Office 365.
The US is somehow singularly incapable of implementing decent public transport. Thus venture capitalists are throwing stupid amounts of money at exotic technology that could potentially alleviate some of the problems arising from this stupidity.

With trains you don't need self driving cars!

Rather, why don't we imagine a differently configured society? If you have streetcar suburbs, then it's possible to have a lot of last mile delivery delivered by light rail.
This wasn’t what Herzl meant by the Uganda option I take it
To be fair, residential/commercial heating could be entirely electric, and heat pumps have additional benefits over natural gas heating (like being reversible in the summer).

Presumably people would switch if the cost of electricity was low enough for it to be more economical. Decisions that result in the price of electricity staying high provide political leverage to gas producers.

Though, eyeballing the numbers, it really should be very attractive to install heat pumps in the EU despite the high electricity cost. The cost of natural gas is quite high.
In Sweden natural gas is hardly used yet electricity prices have gone up astronomically compared to last year - daily rates are now around 10 to 20 times what they were last year around the same time. Heating in Sweden is a combination of electric (resistive elements and heat pumps), wood in some form (firewood, pellets, wood chips), some oil and process heat from industry where available. The Swedish equivalent of the German Greens is proudly proclaiming they're the ones who have closed nuclear power plants long before their calculated lifetime was out, leading to an increased need for electricity imports from e.g. Poland (mostly coal-fired plants). Their "green" policy has led to oil-fired power plants which normally only come online in the deep of winter to be fired up in summer to prevent brown-outs.
Roads required public money to build though.
If you have the time, learn a few tools and learn them well enough. Like django, bootstrap, git, and postgres. Maybe celery, redid or gunicorn.

As for the front end, no matter how it seems, the fastest and easiest path forward for a newcomer is plain old HTML, CSS, and JS. Maybe jQuery.

Keep it simple, keep it maintenable. (most of the hot new shiny tools are not really suited for one person shows, unless they are also your day job, IMO)
Restaurant robots debut in Ottawa amid staffing shortages
the best propaganda is the correct truth, no?
> It's a big issue that they have been allowed to control this market the way they do.

I don't think that's true. Tinder doesn't control the dating app market, nor would it be a problem, per se, if they did.
I was a freshman in college in Fall of 2011 and took the python course because I was starting to regret majoring in business.

10 years later I'm a senior engineer and can take care of my family for life. I wouldn't be where I am today without the start you and the company gave me. Thank you and best of luck in whatever you choose to do in the future.
At that point you have shortages elsewhere (and that _is_ happening to some extent in some places; hospitals are delaying routine procedures to keep the ICUs running at full capacity). It's not a great solution, especially if it goes on a long time; when you start delaying routine things for years, you start seeing serious problems.

Realistically, the only viable course is probably to vaccinate and boost as many people as humanly possible, and await better vaccines and therapeutics. Paxlovid should hopefully help when it's available in quantity.
His mother was let out much earlier than his father. Apparently his father got out in 2021, due to Andrew Cuomo making him eligible for parole.

It's possible that Chesa's public position is that while prison was not inappropriate, the extreme difference in the sentences was not justified.

I did have the impression that was what he had claimed.
Yeah when Alan Dershowitz says on TV that he was introduced to Epstein by Lynn R*thschild we shouldn't read too much into it right? Or when Cindy McCain says that everyone knew what Epstein was doing but no legal entity would go after him. Its fantastical really.
At least for Americans, I don't think many can afford to travel and those who do probably have considered visiting or have visited. Only ~1/3 of Americans have a valid passport. I assume part of it is due to the US itself being so vast and diverse that you can really explore this country and probably be content but also that ~51% of Americans have less than three months of emergency savings. Combine this with no legal mandated days off and its not looking good for a lot of the country.
UK: hold my beer…
You mean because your country had high inflation?
‘Stop being poor’ is the usual advice given in that predicament.
Yes, the data is still coming in so not 100% sure. But, unless I'm missing something, one benchmark would be the relative severity profile versus the outgoing Delta variant, right?

I mean, it seems there would be no reason to expect a sudden change in severity from one virus to the next in such a short time span, unless there was something intrinsically different about this virus.

EDIT: I'd add to that there also seems to be an overwhelming prevalence of those five seemingly milder symptoms versus symptoms from previous variants.

There also would not have been a sudden surge in immunity that would explain such a rapid shift.

Also, see ms to be not just milder symptoms, but different symptoms. So there does seem to be something intrinsically different here. Given all we've heard about the striking mutations at the spike proteins for Omicron, it's probably not surprising since they drive so much of the virus's profile.
> that they think they will trick communists, people who grew giving their whole lives to intrigue

Please don't do that here.
> excluding the possibility of needing something like react ssr

No need to exclude that possibility. I once worked on a Go app that rendered React (in Typescript) server-side. The Javascript could call Go API functions directly when rendering server-side and those calls would turn into gRPC-web calls after it was loaded in the client. It worked really well.
If I try again to "convert" non technical people around me, I'll try to document properly what is wrong in the UX and experience. (but maybe it will all be fixed)
This is obvious. Plus, Russia announced in the past 1-2 days that it was going to legalise mass graves. See Radio Free Europe publication: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-mass-burials-regulations/3161...

In recent history (past 30 years), the vast majority of usage cases for mass graves pretty much have been for genocide.

Pay attention people and use your critical thinking skills. Stay off of social media: Russian propaganda is making claims that this is for COVID-19 which is pure BS!

In addition to this RT (Russia Today) along with Sputnik News apps need to be removed from app stores!
Nice work. What wallets does this work with?
I can't say I disagree with any of this (except maybe the cryptocurrency bit), this was my experience as well. I even made a pinning service (https://eternum.io) years ago, but I shut it down after having to deal with the umpteenth frustration of the IPFS server being slow, not discovering data, not pinning, taking up all the resources, taking up all the space, not pinning, failing to find other nodes, and not pinning.

I think IPFS is a great idea, but I don't think IPFS is a good IPFS. Give me something that is a content-addressable network of people who want to archive/store sets, that sounds like a much better thing.

Imagine: You have 200 GB of free disk space and you want to donate it to the Internet Archive. You connect to its tracker and say "give me 200 GB of your rarest content". The tracker obliges, and soon you have 200 GB of blocks. Or, you can ask people to help you keep your site online, so they pin up to X GB of it. Or, you dedicate Y GB to your OS's packages, and you can fetch them from and send them to other people without needing to contact the package servers at all.

This sounds very much like "BitTorrent but with extensible data sets". Maybe I'll see if it's close enough that I can build it without too much hassle, hmm...
Wuhan starts with the same (or at least something very similar and indistinguishable to me) semivowel as the English word west.

Pinyin w + ang is ∅ + uang. Either way there's a w sound in there.