skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem to be true of respiratory viruses though. Asiatic flu is still around, probably HCoV-OC43, now a nearly harmless common cold virus. Spanish flu is still dangerous like all flus, but not the killer that it was.

It would be odd if this is the one, the permanently deadly respiratory virus that just never gives humanity a break, for ever and ever.
With the current technology, you can't transport electricity more than ~1000 km with acceptable losses.

Atmospheric depressions are bigger than than, and the distance for solar are much bigger as well (other than cloudy, there's day and night).
Winter nights in Germany are the domain of coastal wind turbines. Off to build more wind farms, then!
That was probably my way of doing the pre-interview back then. Talking to the guest before we officially start.
I think the key here is that some tasks are very clearly localized, such as speech in Broca and Wernicke.

But others are not as localized. And functional areas might even move during phases of plasticity (i.e. being born blind).

So it seems very clear that some functionally distinct regions exist, but researchers still struggle to pinpoint very abstract things like memory, personality, and complex behavior.
It's also the country with the largest population and manufacturing industry.
If federal law makers cared about public opinion, they'd have declassified marijuanna as a schedule 1 drug [0]. They also would not have done the recent weapons deal with Saudi Arabia [1].

0 - https://news.gallup.com/poll/356939/support-legal-marijuana-...

1 - https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/12/7/a-strong-majo...
I am reading, he is calling some reporting possible propaganda.
>Take repairs - according to tax law, some can be deducted and some need to be capitalized.

The ones that need to be capitalized are not repairs (they are betterments, adaptations, or restorations, per IRS regulations), so they wouldn't go against the repair expense account. Instead, they would go into an asset account.

>That contradicts your claim that it's not necessary to split most accounts, since at least all accounts are being doubled!

In practice, no one actually keeps two complete sets of books. Instead, the tax return starts with the company balance sheet and income statement per books, and then makes book-to-tax adjustments only for those categories that require it, like meals and entertainment. The tax return in this sense serves as a specialized accounting system.

>why would you want to copy the entire data model and then make some modifications to one copy, rather than having a single data model that models everything?

The tax version of the company accounts is typically only updated once per year, and usually requires specialized knowledge of the tax laws, which change year to year. It isn't really designed for day to day management like the regular company books are, and as I have observed with the tax returns I prepare for small business, most owners don't really spend any time looking at the tax return.

>From my perspective, a large expense is still money out the door on day 1.

But lenders and the IRS don't see it that way. Maybe what you need is the third basic type of accounting report, the cash flow statement. Many if not most companies that go bankrupt have net positive equity, but negative cash flow. The cash flow statement, like the tax return, is also created on an "adjustment" basis, starting with net profit and then backing out the income and expense items that are not current inflows or outflows of cash, such as depreciation.
Have you watched any of the interviews conducted on the street in China on the Asian Boss YouTube channel?
> And so is development time of any distributed software system, and training time required to operate it correctly

Software is much easier than hardware. If you are to start a project today in this kind of hardware, you will be operating it in 2029, without changes.
Upvoting this because I agree with you.

Edited the parent comment to provide some more context
Even in ICUs, very few COVID-19 patients are now placed on ventilators. It is considered a salvage therapy and survival rates are low.
I'm just one data point, and I'm all for a large-ish government and high-ish taxes but I'd be happy to answer a concrete question if you have one. Was it approximately "why would anyone vote for higher taxes to fund a larger state", was that correct? You should be able to find around 50% of the people around you ready to vote for that (regardless of what the current tax level is!)!

That was my point - given that's basically the position of half the humans around you are you seriously wondering that, or is it rhetorical?
Spread doesn’t have to get close to 100% for things to get really bad.
Compared to building reactors, anything is quick.
Blockchain Document Management System
How do you make any document truly digital with verifiable security, permissions, authenticity, expiration, transmission and storage with full traceability and accountability using blockchain? Are there any existing tools/solutions out there?
Note that client side encryption changes this https://support.google.com/a/answer/10741897?hl=en.
My advice:

• Make push updates optional. If no push connection can be established, fall back to polling. You can start by implementing polling only and add push later.

• Use websockets only for server-to-client communication. Messages from the client are sent via regular HTTP requests.

• Keep no meaningful state on the server. That includes TCP connection state. You should be able to kill all your ec2 instances and re-spawn them without interrupting service.

• Use request/response for all logic on the server. All your code should be able to run in an AWS lambda.

• Use a channel/subscription paradigm so client can connect to streams they're interested in

• Instead of rolling your own websocket server, use a hosted service like pusher.com or ably.com. They do all the heavy lifting for you (like keeping thousands of TCP connections open) and provide a request/response style interface for your server to send messages to connected clients
Not sure if you can rampup/rampdown steel refining quickly enough to provide on demand buffer load for renewables.
It is not neutral, it takes tens of years for standard sources of biomass to accumulate to useful amounts. Fast biomass would use something like hemp or other grass but it's still problematic.

And it does increase CO2 and NOx levels when burned, not to mention soot - it's dirtier than quality coal. The growth itself does not capture nearly enough to cover for it.
Of course we do! Even the military covered bit is nonsense.

Americans do not take kindly to voluntary transaction meddling by the government because who is the government to say what two private parties agree on so long as it does not infringe on the rights of others?
My first major programming project was in high school circa 2005. A basic graphing calculator written in JAVA with Spring and all the UI elements made in MS Paint.

I wish I still had that code.
She did not support nuclear...she did not stop the exit before Fukushima. She just moved it a few years back. Something she took back after Fukushima.
Scaling nuclear power supplies to 100% of global primary energy would change the economics of extraction, do you claim you can predict these things? BTW, scaling it to 100 % is not necessary.

AFAIK, THTR-300 is only one of the different breeder models, CEFR from China <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Experimental_Fast_Reacto...> seems to be working, as a new model <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFR-600> is being built since 2020, sure, recycling uranium is not needed at the moment, so you could argue this is not demonstrating the interest of breeding though it seems to be working to a certain extent.
And they weren't even taken down for being a loan shark, where they can make over 600% interest in some states.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/map-shows-typical-payday-loa...
If the worldview you "hate the most" is one where LGBTQ kids are safe and loved and accepted, then forgive me if I don't have much sympathy for your position here.
For us young people (probably most everyone on here), the fear is not and has not been death for some time. The fear is long COVID, which remains poorly understood.
I take full responsibility for not being able to tell the story well back then.

It’s my responsibility more than it is Rob’s.

It was January 2012. I was still learning how to coach the story out of my interviewees. I’ve done a lot of personal work over the last decade to get better and better at that.

I appreciate that Rob trusted me with such a vulnerable story back then. Rob, if you’re reading this thank you.
They don't spell it out in the press release, but the 2016 settlement included a $3.63 Million fine. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/lendup-enf...

According to Crunchbase, LendUp has $361M in funding. Maybe they thought that a few million here and there is a drop in the bucket, and they stand to lose more if reforming themselves impacts growth. Turns out you have more to worry about than escalating fines.
Omicron evolved from Beta... so not really.
Before you use this as an excuse to accuse the commenter you disagree with as being a Wumao, note that China's propaganda strategy serves to distract rather than directly engage, as they would rather minimize engagement. It's the same principle of "don't feed the trolls."

Here's a Harvard paper that covers this topic more in depth, though it's about domestic propaganda: https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c.pdf
Federal government has limited purview of its citizens, but can more easily regulate the people in the military and interactions with them.

As it derives its power from the delegates of the states, it has to appease them even if it has the power to regulate all facets of life. So there isn't a law for all people as not enough delegates can stomach that, but for the military its easy.
Maybe. Not sure I've seen one that will work on a 7 seater, especially with the extra mass of batteries.
Thank you very, very much for this and all your efforts.
The biggest challenge when migrating from HTTP to any kind of stream is the loss of callback on response, because there is no request/response. There is only push. That means your messaging and message handling becomes far more complex to compensate.

The article mentions that your socket could drop. This isn’t critical so long as you have HTTP as a redundancy.

For any kind of application making use of micro services I strongly recommend migrating to a socket first transmission scheme because it is an insane performance improvement. Also it means the added complexity to handle message management makes your application more durable in the face of any type of transmission instability. The durability means that your application is less error prone AND it is ready for migration to other protocols in the future with almost no refactoring.
Nuclear is only 12% of the whole mix in Germany.
There is no battery capacity required for the simple effect of substituting gas power plant operation. Any MWh generated by another source will simply remove the need to generate that MWh from gas, where the price of gas is the dominating component.
It's worth pointing out that there is an explanation for this set of responses from tinder that makes complete sense and is relatively non-dystopian: Someone submitted a complaint about the author from his past usage of tinder, maybe even one specifically designed to get him banned. Tinder would never disclose the cause in that case in order to protect the identity of the complainant, nor should they be expected to. But in either case they should not have continued to charge him...
Nobody cares that you teach the history of racism in the US, correctly educate children about the civil war and slavery or talk about civil rights heroes.

What most people object to are the Derrick Bell arguments that racial segregation is good, that racism is fundamental and unsolvable and that equality is not achievable or real. These are illiberal views that have no place being taught.
This did not get to the bottom, the police will visit all your family members actually. You will simply give up and shut up as the cops will harass/threaten your family members. It's a common practice for many years and it's getting 10X worse under Xi, who is said to be the designer of "Culture Revolution 2.0" these days, who already painted every other countries(especially USA) to be enemies(except for North Korea, Russia, Iran and Taliban).
I feel like it was. It used it as tool to learn intermittently along with many others.
> Not sure what you mean here. What would high "design coherence" on the scale of the entire industry look like?

Like everyone uses NixOS/Nixpkgs and also it's more ergonomic.

> But the industry generally operates on a principle of interfaces

Aha! Actually I would say it does not, and there in is the problem. Most interfaces only have a few implementations, and as much as I love FOSS it has made that problem worse (in the context of the economy we've got). The interfaces we do have tend to become monotonically more complex over time as there is no systematic culling, and the result is we increasingly drown in accidental complexity.

Basically, accumulated implementations are viewed as big scary problems were maintaince to simplify is a cost no one wants to bare.

A lot of this is the same critique as http://langsec.org/, generalized to areas other than security.
If you don't think that modern gender ideology has any victims, you should read what some of them have written themselves: https://www.newsweek.com/theres-no-standard-care-when-it-com...
Well, "overweight" by CDCs definition (BMI > 25 == overweight). But there's a strong link between complications from COVID and Obesity. It's a shame nobody wants to make the obese pay for their externalities -- even the people who'd like to make the unvaccinated "pay" in some way turn a blind eye to this issue.
To be fair, Chrome also started as a very simple browser that was "good enough" compared to IE6.
Codified racism, plain and simple.
To answer my own question: Kodachi linux seems to do this.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxkodachi/

Although it's not nearly as minimalistic as Tails.
The problem is: native speakers have a very warped idea about what's "difficult" about their own language.

Ask English speakers about what's difficult about it, and half of the time they start talking about spelling, because that's what they feel difficult. Nobody says "When I see 'place' or 'book' how do I know if it's a noun or a verb?" because that's just blindingly obvious to a native speaker.
If hospital capacity is such a concern, why has there been just about zero effort in spinning up some kind of capacity to deal with Covid? Wasn't that the entire rationale of these lockdowns in the first place? To build capacity for covid?

Like, it's been 2 years. We shouldn't be doing any of these restrictions at all. We should be angry at our governments wasting 2 years of our non-refundable time on this earth while they did nothing. Blaming the public for hospital capacity at this point is absurd.
He already did it a few years back.
> Decentralised lending platforms where borrowers can get uncollateralised loans DO NOT exist. The technology does not allow it. There are no mechanisms through which make the borrower repay the loan.

They do exist, Aave allows for this, there is no one to approve the flash loan. Just that you can only borrow the funds for specific context that I described and the borrower will have to pay off the loan or the loan wont be made and will fail. You can't do this at all in tradfi.

> They're conventional loan agreements that are enforced by courts of justice.

And even if these happen traditionally, no defi involved, the borrower many not be able to pay of the loan. Risk will be eaten by someone. Courts of justice can't squeeze blood from stone. But Aave doesn't face this risk. Maybe other protocols will, but thats the risk people have to accept when they engage with the different protocols.
That's frankly an irresponsible and short sighted viewpoint. Fossil fuels will be around for decades at least, maybe centuries. Why would you not want them to be cleaner?
kind of icky, this weird intersection of tech with art space. otoh i know a bunch of oss devs who could use the dough. can't we find a better way to pay them than plaster their face all over web3. guess not.
Nearly all the people I know in Poland who were children at the time of Chernobyl have thyroid issues, including my partner. It’s not accurate to say that it had zero health impact. Of course, coal has plenty of health impact, just not a good look to be so flippant about a major nuclear disaster.
Just use Meteor and/or Apollo. They have all this stuff figured out.

https://www.meteor.com/

https://www.apollographql.com/
transmitting energy from other half of the earth (where is daylight when you are sleeping) is probably not best idea (not sure if even economically or technically possible). Also would be wise to turn off nuclear energy once you have this 'big enough grid'.
Nothing is important here except the price. Markets are based on supply demand. If the demand is not going to diminish the supply must increase. If this does not happen there will almost certainly be harm to the economy.
> “LendUp was backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra. “We are shuttering the lending operations of this fintech for repeatedly lying and illegally cheating its customers.”

Juicy!
It isn't. You cannot rely on everyone else staying carbon positive, as you will feel the heat too.
Statcounter says that Firefox has about a 4% worldwide market share, compared to Chrome's 64%[1]. Assuming that the parent poster was talking about Firefox's quality instead of market share is more than a little presumptuous.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
> Have you watched any of the interviews conducted on the street in China on the Asian Boss YouTube channel?

Why should anyone care about "man on the street" interviews on some Youtube channel? I mean, it's not like someone in a repressive country is going to open up with all their complaints about their repressive government to some rando with a camera.

Plus, Youtube is easy to manipulate (in some ways) if you have the resources of a government: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/ch....
Your comment is the epitome of what makes discussing nuanced legal issues an absolute farce on this site.
So far, it does look much better than last winter, but last year they had neither vaccines nor significant previous exposure.
The nuclear issue is fascinating to watch unfold, over the years. I didn't expect the rational pro-nuclear to be almost as religious as their opponents. Which makes them also refuse to engage in debate.

So, here is one of the thoughts that crossed my mind (and I am well aware there are counter arguments to it ).
With its high density of energy and perceived higher potential to harm its surrounding environment, nuclear power requires a level of State Capacity and stability that is not found over half of the planet.
It is not obvious that it can be a widespread, long term alternative for most of the world economies.

With that in mind, isn't it better if some of the wealthier countries basically front the cost and explore completely alternative (nuclear-free) systems for all the others ? Even if we globally end up with an energy mix ?

Curious to hear opinions with that point of view in mind.
> Some don't trust that the speed of the process as well as the immense political pressure to "do something" really sussed out the true… [etc]

This is your “second camp” but I don’t see how this isn’t another form of conspiracy nut. You’ve just got a suspicion that things aren’t right and are fact-fitting to that. If you’re measuring risks, there’s no comparison between Unvaccinated vs. Vaccinated.
> But that wide stretching empathy does not exist.

Yeah, it really does.
I like this new Jack Dorsey. The tweets setting off this tizzy:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1473139010197508098

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1473725424387694601
GP meant that they will just get infected and thereby acquire a degree of immunity, with higher risk of death than the vaccine, but (hopefully) not as high as with previous variants.
There's a reason why electrification of transportation and low-energy buildings are major topics in Europe. You see them on the top and on the left of your chart, respectively.
Just as a heads up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently launched a whistleblowing program for people who work in tech who see sketchy stuff going on around them that is worth checking out if you have something to share https://go.usa.gov/xe66f
Mypy 0.930 released with TypeAlias and better dict typing
Biden Extends Student Loan Moratorium Until May
That's a poor straw man. You can disagree with illiberal political takes and still support LGBTQ rights.

Put another way, if a teacher isn't teaching the bible, clearly they are agents of the devil right?

It's the same poisonous fallacious logic that equivocates a policy position with basic moral character.
I never understood the argument that nuclear takes too long, so instead we implement new technologies that have never been done at scale.

What if we run into unexpected problems with energy storage that push their timeline out even longer than 30 years? Seems better to do both, and accept the risk that we paid for too much clean energy in the end.
I understand that energy consumption includes things that aren't electricity so the proportion of oil is higher but everything else is different too. For example, in the parent comment, more wind than biomass is produced but in this comment the consumption is the other way around. Is it because biomass is used for cars as well (ethanol)? Maybe wood for heating too?
I don't know enough about the alternatives to namecoin to comment on them - i don't think any of them are used as much as even namecoin was at its height (which was still not much, but at least Wikileaks was using it and OpenNic supported it at one time). ZeroNet still uses it, but ZeroNet is in questionable shape right now.

Namecoin had issues with cyber squatting and spam, i would assume any alternatives significantly used would suffer a similar fate.
Call me uninformed, but I actually have this article to thank for introducing me to Proton - I have switched to Linux a few months ago, had installed Steam and played a few native Linux games, but so far I was completely unaware that most Windows Steam games can actually run on Linux too. You can blame Steam's very conservative default setting for this - only games that they have tested and certified themselves are allowed to run by default, to try other games you have to select "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" in the Steam settings (a dialog I had never seen before). But now I can happily (re)play most of the games I have amassed in my library over the years (and partly never played) - on Linux!
Those links suggest that peak uranium is driven by lack of demand, and not lack of supply, or renewability (including suggestions that we could create more uranium for as long as the sun lives)
And the free press, if we're talking about Australia. It doesn't count if one billionaire owns it all. Or being forcibly drafted by your government to spy on your employer.