skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New research:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...
But that’s not how laws are written. Do you think he’s that naive?
I wouldn't be surprised if it's a scam. I also wouldn't be surprised if it was all wishful thinking and their attempt to bypass traditional risk models was just a failure.
Counting website visitors is hard
> You do realize middle schoolers are routinely recruited into gangs in rough cities like Chicago

So, are you saying that there's some inherent difference between rich kids and inner city kids? Like, beyond their circumstances? Because if rich hippie kids can govern themselves, and inner city kids can't, that is either because rich kids are just better - or that poor kids have shitty circumstances that take that ability away from them. If you believe the former, we can't go any further because you're just racist or classist or both. If you believe the latter, then clearly kids deserve a say in their circumstances wherever they have that ability - and where they don't, something else needs to change first.
It has to do with gas, because 12% of electricity in Germany is produced by burning natural gas. That's up by 4pp from 2018.
That's according to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany
Assuming it's not outright foul play, it's prob more likely that the matching services intentionally boost your profile gets better reach/impressions as that's a +EV play, and reduce your profile reach when you're subscribed long-term.

To carry this thought exercise more, someone structuring this system could also treat hot/responsive/engaged profiles as an asset of retention and intentionally matchmake the results to optimize for a system to be engaged (vs to matchmake two people who find love and unsubscribe after).
Props on paying it forward. It’s not a systems fix, but we underestimate how impactful culture is & in a future where the wealth distribution is going to be even more lopsided, benevolence & sense might be a good stopgap.
> not all who are vaccinated think that the vaccination policies are sensible, and criticizing vaccination policy is not the same as being anti-vaxxer

Agreed. I am vaccinated, but I think that most of the Federal and Oregon state policy is political baloney.
I get the impression that a lot of people honestly believe this. It's comical to see. People wearing masks outside, or while they're locked in a tiny metal box with their family. I've resigned to keeping to myself and my small group of friends for the next few years. Just doing mainly outdoor and private activities, as I refuse to wear a shitty cloth mask for an indefinite period of time everywhere I go
Is this the first time a non-American company has been the topmost domain? This is a watershed moment in the history of the Internet, in my opinion.

It also shows you how destructive the last several years have been for some American tech companies. YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Snap should be embarrassed by the innovation TikTok has shown. The tech that enables collaborative sea shanty videos is simple, yet so great. The American companies had over a decade lead time and squandered it with copyright strikes and focusing on how to divide people into marketing segments to "maximize profit" with targeted ads. (The side effect of which is a country split into nearly warring factions and a everlasting pandemic fueled by anti-vax conspiracy theories.)

TikTok focused on bringing people together, and have been rightfully rewarded for their effort. Wish they weren't a Chinese spyware company under the ultimate control of the CCP, but ignoring that "minor" issue, TikTok has been killing it.
Not US data but UK data backs it up:

https://fullfact.org/health/dr-hilary-lorraine-kelly-90-perc...
The fact that this came to you via a ticketing system might mean you’re a little out of touch with the personal blog operators this freaked out.
There is a ballistic chute on the cirrus SF50 (their single-engine jet). It's a 7 seater IIRC (6 minimum), and roughly the same weight (2.7T for the cirrus, 3.1 for the lilium).
How energy efficient is this concept? Can't this air taxi thing be done with better public transport and urban design?
A $100 loan that I have to pay back the next day for $101 has an APR of 365%.

A $100 that I don't have to pay back until one year later for $200 has an APR of 100%.

I fail to see how APR is useful in any way whatsoever when comparing those two loans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_medicine:...
Forget state level resources, plenty of distortion is created by corporations or other much smaller interests with relatively modest resources. I wouldn't' be at all surprised if this were the source of majority of manipulation in practice.

Assuming anything on social media is "untainted" is pretty naive, it seems.
Standard humans routinely fail to correctly asses options. They can’t even if they’re aware they can’t. Economists are still coming to terms with how badly the rational choice theory predicts human behavior.
Heat pumps change this a bit, doubling the efficiency (assuming its similar to Sweden), but it varies. So in the ideal case, its roughly the same, in practice slightly less, and with costs it gets complicated and dominated by subsidies and existing infrastructure.
Heat pumps require nearby reservoirs however, land essentially, which is available in suburbs, but can be quite a challenge in dense cities.

But the real problem is the cost of changing the infrastructure, remember its not just getting power instead of gas, its also switching out every heater from fluid based to power based. Switching stoves from gas to power, etc. Its not only a big investment, but a time consuming and inconvenient one.

Even if power prices dropped to half I would not expect this to be particularly fast, and worse still, historically Germany has subsidized directly(with rebates, taxbreaks, etc) and indirectly(nordstrom2... LNG harbors, etc) the gas prices whenever people complain, or just to prevent complaints.

I guess replacing gas in German households will require both electricity prices dropping to around one third or less, and substantial government support. Or a multi decade power price drop to say one tenth or less.
The valuation of assets doesn’t matter when you have cash flow issues (especially when you can't sell that asset). It really doesn’t matter in the short term how fast an asset is depreciating as long as it’s doing the job in the short term. This is why people say it’s expensive to be poor. Someone with good cash flow can make better long term financial decisions.
Can Active Dendrites Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting?
> Safety should be paramount

Interestingly, safety was not even one of the stated "aircraft requirements" from this article:

"So, the Lilium aircraft requirements can be summarised as follows:

Zero operating emissions
Highly efficient cruise phase
Vertical take-off & landing for inner city accessibility
Low noise for high frequency inner city flight operations and customer acceptance
High seat capacity to achieve attractive unit economics and affordable pricing over time
Scalability whilst maintaining ground footprint and low noise."
I'm using the Dell 5K on Linux. It is annoying to set up (works OK with nvidia) but after setup has been working beautifully.

I get 5120x2880, the same vertical resolution as this new LG monitor, but with more horizontal real estate.

I use it with 4 x long (tall) terminal windows.
And even if Broca's region is necessary for speech, that does not mean it is sufficient. You wouldn't assume an electronic circuit is localized to one resistor just because it breaks when that resistor is removed.
It's not about retention of value, it's that there never was any real value. A smartphone or car is useful; if the buy/sell price of my phone or car was $0.01 I would still need them, if the buy/sell price of most (all?) NFTs was $0.01 nobody would care about them.
> Perhaps it's because such high rates are necessary to make the business profitable at all.

It could also be that undercutting that 36% rate does not make you competitive (instead of profitable) against less scrupulous actors (they can advertise more and lobby more; convincing society that they are necessary). Also, it is a kind of business that has a very very high barriers to entry (enormous amounts of capital, regulatory, etc.).

Competition alone can not solve profitable abuse (particularly on those with no options). The less scrupulous you are the more you can abuse, the more you can profit, and the more you drive your competition to implement your practices. The only limit is that fine-tuned equilibrium of casinos: only constrained to the point that allows the larger proportions of your customers just get by earning & spending (as long as minimizing the ones that get under the bus does not reduce the income generated by the majority kept at equilibrium).
Yes of course, why wouldn't it?

Here is a video of a Mi-26T performing an autorotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27T07bIQB8

That beast can fit 90 troops or 20t cargo. Autorotation can scale to large helicopters.
> But isn't COVID novel in the damage it poses to microvascular systems (importantly brain and lungs), compared to other viruses?

Maybe. But I suspect actually the reverse is true. "Normal" viruses (virii?) are probably far more damaging than we have ever credited.

The fact that we can vaccinate against a cancer (cervical cancer) and the fact that asthma went down more than expected during lockdowns, suggests that we are significantly underestimating the risks that "normal" pathogens incur.
This has nothing to do with capitalism. Capitalism is merely private ownership of stuff. When people use the word “capitalism” like this, it inevitably sounds like a naive Marxist classism throwback. Anything bad is merely attributed to capitalism, and set aside the generations of economic nuance we have developed since the gestation of that dysfunctional construct.
Those with severe respiratory symptoms (ARDS) sometimes have very long recoveries. But this is distinct from vague, self-diagnosed “long covid” in the absence of ARDS, which seems to mostly be hysteria.
AWS is so difficult to use securely by default that there is an entire thriving industry of vendors who will analyze your permissions and try to bring them down to meet the standard of principal of least privilege. I'm not at all surprised that there are many insecure environments and privilege escalation exploits; AWS is almost aggressively hostile to any attempts to use it securely.
We’re a Suburban Nation. We Need to Get Used to It
So germans are still buying (some) Russian gas for heat, while shutting down nuclear plants? That just seems wrong.

> biomass" often gets hidden in the "clean energy" part, but that just means burning something other than oil/coal/gas.

That's usually CO2 neutral if it's waste/wood pellets etc. Whether it's "clean" or "sustainable" is a hot topic, but in terms of climate it's a lot better than fossil fuel.
> I don't know what the "right APR" is

In the UK, the consumer finance regulator the FCA did an in depth analysis of subprime lending and concluded that "fair" maximum charges were interest rates of 0.8% per day and total costs (interest, fees and penalties) no more than the amount of the loan principal borrowed.
I think CockroachDB might fit the bill. Take a look at that. IMHO postgresql is pretty easy to set up.
It makes sense this was one of the first computerized games.

The mathematical analysis of Nim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim#Mathematical_theory) is easier than even that of tic-tac-toe (where you more or less have to write out the full game tree to analyse the game. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe#Strategy), making it easier to program.
Insulation is exactly as beneficial to gas and power heated homes. It does jack shit or worse for cooking though.

France is self sufficient, but imports when prices are low in order to keep levels high in reservoirs, which further decreases prices over the year.
> I assumed and hope all that cash was because they’re actually lending directly.

It’s not typical that you lend your own money out, and banking 101 is usually that you borrow money from one person (E.g. someone who has a bank account with you that you pay interest) to lend it to another at a premium (and you get the profit between those two figures in return for holding the risk if there is a default).

Investors will typically expect a much higher return on their own funds than the loan APR (unless the APR is eye wateringly high).

Edit: Apologies I stand corrected - I’ve just looked at the internet archive and it shows rates of up to 1825% APR. These loans are definitely predatory and so could have been done directly from the capital. Not surprised they got shut down, similar companies operating in the UK got shut down years ago and pretty much everyone is better off for it. It’s a hugely predatory industry.
Yes please. I would like to see it in action and understand how it works.
Your response delves into topics my post does not cover. I think society would be better off banning exorbitant interest rate loans. Beyond this, on this topic, I have said nothing.
The history of twentieth century tells us that Germans have questionable judgement and bad opinions.
It is a giant surprise to many managing directors and other people who are not that technical.
The technical ramp up/down issue is often conflated with amortized capital cost.

Nuclear, in order to provide electricity at a competitive rate, needs >90% capacity factor. That means it can't ramp up/down and stay in business, not that it can't ramp up/down. Since the fuel is trivially cheap, ramping down does not provide any economic savings. The opposite is true for an CCGT plant.

... and that is the fundamental reason why there isn't any pressure to build new nuclear in the US (I am less familiar with PPAs and grid regulation in the EU).
There are lots of problems with this approach, even though of course it is also true on some rather important level.

The first level of problems is that what you're describing applies to only a tiny percentage of the DNA in a cell, and even for that DNA, it may overlap/exist in parallel with completely different "codings" that are more to do with structure, packing and replication machinery than protein coding.
Glad to brag that I am as productive on my 12” Thinkpad screen as I was on multi 27” monitors. I’ve 3D printed a foldable stand for my laptop to keep it at optimal height (got bad back) and distance from my eyes.
You're wrongly assuming that all incidence data of COVID-19 accurately represents its real spread. E.g. it may just be that beyond a point of exponential growth testing ceases to be accurate. The German Robert Koch institute has pointed out many times that there's a hidden incidence number of all actual cases and the official one that represents everyone tested and recorded.
> You know the best way to avoid healthcare collapse? Build more of it!

No, the best way is to not need it in the first place. Vaccinating people is vasty more efficient in terms of people's time and money.
> The EU energy market mandates that wind and solar production must be bought before everything else.

Not exactly. Operators can bid a price for generation and markets dictate the cheapest generators are bought up first. Renewables tend to have zero marginal cost and are therefore often cheapest. Nuclear also has low marginal cost, but not zero.

Renewables being favored is not a rule but effect of how the market works.
the definition of "computer" in "you are a biological computer" has been the subject of intense philosophical and scientific discussion for more than 70 years, and at this point I would say the best summary of the state of that discussion is "well, maybe but also maybe not".
Clearly, consent was given to take the photo. As for using the photo it may require a model release statement, depending on what that usage is.
Quic is the right idea. Encrypt everything including state. Kill middle boxes.

History has shown that if you allow middle boxes they will ruin everything.
> give me 200 GB of your rarest content

This sounds like a great utility indeed, I'd love it too !,
over time it would make the overall network more and more resilient :D
> No mention of why they left them out in non-interface types.

Actually it does:

"Or, we could decide that parameterized methods do not, in fact, implement interfaces, but then it's much less clear why we need methods at all. If we disregard interfaces, any parameterized method can be implemented as a parameterized function."

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
>It is actually possible to not sell software that spies on US diplomats. Why, I achieve this goal every single day.

it isn't that easy :) If you work on any major and/or popular software it is most probably used by State Dept (even if it is just an obscure part of some software stack that some State Dept LOB is using implicitly). Theoretically any software may have bugs/holes and thus be a part of such a spying.
I don't think this is true. My (Dutch) mom used to wash at night and in the weekend because of reduced tariffs. She is very energy conscious on general. Not everyone is oblivious to these things, especially less well off people.
> Is vaccine as a bi-annual service really practical?

Sure, why not? The flu vaccine's annual. Hopefully we don't end up there, but if the medium-term end-state is "it's manageable, but everyone needs a booster every six months", that seems... not the worst possible outcome?
Yes! Please! Every one of these problems are interesting ones that have been solved before...but the solutions are packaged up into massive systems (good luck finding the code for actually executing element layout in Chromium) and then it seems like are never discussed again on places like Reddit, HN, Stack Exchange, or even among other programmers I know IRL.

In particular, I'm incredibly interested in layout algorithms - I'm working on building a GUI toolkit, for which I need layout algorithms to lay out widgets, but can't find anything other than descriptions of how to use existing systems...
Also, can't a user just spend their token immediately after clicking verify? I'm a dev working on https://www.npmjs.com/package/solana-options. it would be nice if we had an easy way to securely verify ownership on the web.
On the flip side, the military also has Bethesda Naval Hospital and Walter Reed Medical Center (both who regularly treat the President, such as when Trump had covid), life insurance, TSGLI, G.I. Bill (free plus monthly stipend), lifetime disability, Tricare, VA home loans, among others. I know people who lived in brand new barracks with keycards. People who lived in air conditioned pods in the middle of the desert with four square meals a day.

Sounds like you had a bad experience and things could certainly improve. The military won't always offer a stellar experience, and Marines are often rough with their surroundings. Just ask people deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Electricity absolutely, unarguably, is a substitute for gas.
NFTs Are Pointless [video]
Poor people find that one off expenses happen surprisingly often. Between car breakdowns (far more likely for those who can only afford a clunker), sudden health crises, domestic maintenance, wear and tear on clothes, unexpected inflationary price rises on essentials like energy and food, and a host of other issues, the poor have no slack at all in their budgets.

Of course the real problem is many jobs don't pay enough.

In fact not getting paid enough - and therefore being unable to budget - is considered evidence of poor character, while not paying enough is considered evidence of enlightened and mature rationality.

It's quite a strange view of the world.
My parents had nearly 20% interest rates on their homeloan at one point. This isn't Valenzuela or Zimbabwe either, it's in Australia.
Security? What aspect of it? If your company is working on multiple projects for which different levels of security clearance are required, then there is little choice but to use multiple repositories.

Similar, if you work on projects for which the customers require following incompatible standardized (codified) procedures, then too multiple repositories are the obvious choice.

If the company you work for is in danger of being split up (for legal, commercial or other reasons) and different projects might go different paths, then you'd be happy to have chosen multiple repositories as well.

I'd think, one would have to have a very good reason to put multiple projects in a single repository.
> It is a data store

problem is, it's so, so so much more than a data store. There's no reason at this point, as we slowly come to understand more and more about DNA packing, structure, transcription control etc., to conclude that the non-coding parts are "junk".
Yes, I got the concept wrong on that one - my bad.
Teslas are not the most aerodynamic cars on the market. The Mercedes EQS is.

I think you're spending too much time with Tesla's advertising materials and not enough time with practical realities.
I use jails for years, the only thing which is painful are upgrades from ports for all the jails. It's time consuming. Poudriere helps but the whole thing is far from ideal :(
Yes, I am aware that it's got more moving parts. What are you using this flexibility for?
How is this not racial discrimination? If ‘positive racism’ is disallowed then surely outright discrimination shouldn’t be allowed either, right?
Yeah I like my HN in the Classic configuration or flavor. Can't say I'm sorry if you don't.
I don't know if it would be one network, though. You'd definitely need to be able to look up data, obviously, so you could talk to the network to do that, but I think trackers would be a good way to solve some of the issues of IPFS, which means that maybe each tracker had their own "network".

I've wanted something like this many times, though, where I could help keep the IA online. If I could tell my site's visitors "help keep this site online, please donate 1 GB", it would be great.
I feel like if we really cared about this, we would offer bounties or % of penalty.

Oh and exempt workplace from two-party consent recording rules.
The point is to have an equal point of comparison (APR or gallon or 100ml or whatever), so that the vendor can't trick you with numbers - e.g. a bottle of Fanta is 3 bolivars, a bottle of Sprite 3.5 bolivars, but the first one is 85ml, the second one 100ml. Most people wouldn't be able to do the math even if they immediately notice the difference in size/quantity.

Same thing with interest. Unless it's normalised ( in a yearly equivalent), it's very hard to know how expensive the loan will be. That's why in France it's mandatory when advertising loans to state the yearly interest rate and the total amount paid in the end, just to be clear what you're getting into.
I'm using internet since the simpler, lawless period. Yes, I miss the excitement of a new Netscape Navigator release, or using some new tool, and just being able to explore anything and everything.

OTOH, I welcome this change. Instead of losing my access or getting a strike on my account, I'd rather have my file merely flagged and stopped being shared (not that I share a lot).

I think service providers should be more transparent about problems they see with the users' accounts, so users can take appropriate actions. Of course there can be other mechanisms to prevent abuse, or lawful intercept (which is another can of worms that I want to leave it at the top shelf for now).

So, I've read a Google blog without bad feelings for once. That's good.
As a curiosity, a "flash loan" is a loan in which the principal is received and repaid simultaneously and therefore has little practical utility, other than facilitating wash trading and other forms of market manipulation, which are prohibited in regulated markets.