skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started building a bike shed during the 1st year of covid of the course of 2 or 3 weeks. I made the foundation and the sides myself and had help from my dad to complete the roof and doors. It was a nice change from work and looking after the kids and every time I walk past it it feels like an achievement and a shared experience with my dad. I spent about the same on wood and fittings as I'd have spent on a crappy self assembly plastic equivalent and I got to make it exactly how I wanted it.
At the same time, it's important to remember the maker's conundrum: "Wait, wasn't I making these tools for a reason?"

If what you intend to be working on is tools, more power to you, but it's very easy to get caught up in building a new workbench, or adjusting the settings on your window manager, or writing a new programming language, and forget the thing you actually intended to make at the beginning using the tool you stopped to make.

At some point you have to stop making tools and start making other things.

(Unless you're the GP, who is just consciously making tools for fun.)
Another sign of the challenges of the dealer system. Ford took reservations, but then depends on dealers to close the sale, and they can increase the price.

For all their faults, Tesla held to their original pricing on S, X, and 3 for early reservations, even giving them free upgrades when the production model had higher specs than the original announcements. More recently, Tesla has hit some reservation holders with modest price increases, but not at over 50% of the base price of the vehicle like we're seeing here.
Building a home gym helped me enormously. Since I built the gym ten years ago, I've been exercising pretty regularly for 45 minutes a day, 5 days a week. I basically don't allow myself to watch TV shows except while exercising, which keeps me motivated.
This would be a good argument but for the fact that everyone just clicks OK anyway.
Who Owns the Future?
I wonder how Ford will combat this. I know they're limited as to what they can do due to state laws, but from what I've seen they're not a fan of high markups.
> P2P meth

For those confused by the P2P acronym as I was, it's apparently a synthesis route that was developed in response to the crackdowns on OTC ephedrine products. It's apparently a lot more pure than the older stuff, at least according to https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
Would something like this work? (Grid of steel beams)

https://www.wayfair.com/Lifetime--Galvanized-Steel-Foundatio...?

They use them on TuffSheds, iirc. It's not adjustable. Not sure if it would sink into the soil or not.
But even in Germany, if you remove private car traffic, you are left with a big unknown: how much would public transport need to grow, how much would we need to modify roads and existing infrastructure, how should we support people's need to relocate closer to work, etc.

It's like all new people joining a legacy project shouting let's refactor everything! You fix the obvious problems with the current system and reintroduce problems that the old system did well.
IANAL, but I doubt that sites not available in the EU are legally obligated to annoy non-EU visitors with cookie consent banners? Of course, it's easier to annoy everyone, but if you can block EU visitors based on their IP you can also show the cookie consent banner only for these IPs?
You're getting downvoted for a perfectly reasonable question.

No we don't - because chess is a super-minority niche interest. The danger of social media is that it's social mass media - designed to be as addictive as possible to as many people as possible in as many different ways as possible using as many different techniques as possible.

And that's before getting into the dangers of targeted micro-niche ads used for political ends and/or individual belief and behaviour modification.

Without regulation it's an absolutely toxic medium.
Germany currently generates 50TWh per year of solar

On average that's 136GWh per day, lets assume that was spread so that it's say 36GWh per day in winter and far more in summer.

It consumes 500TWh a year.

Lets assume consumption is 1,400GWh per day evenly across the year. Consumption is higher in the day, so even with shorter days in winter lets make that half during daylight and half at night, 700GWh each.

If Germany increased its solar to 50 times as much as it currently has to generate 1800GWh a day in winter, it would require 700GWh of storage and a total of 1400GWh during the day.

There are 48 million cars in Germany, lets assume that 65% of them are parked overnight and connected to the electric grid, making it 30 million cars. Make them all electric, with with about 30kWh of "flexible" capacity for draining overnight (50% capacity) and filling up in the day per car. That's about 1,000 GWh of storage available overnight, enough to provide for the entirety of German electric consumption overnight.

During the summer when solar capacity would be three times as much, that excess capacity could be used to generate green hydrogen through electrolosis, used to do things like aluminium production, could be exported to neighbouring countries.

Now sure switching cars to fully electric would increase total usage of energy, about 2,000 kWh per car per year, say 100 TWh a year extra, but then there's a lot of wind generation in Germany (>100TWh) now which would offset that.
Oh yeah, that technological marvel/crutch when every single participant must lock permanently a big sums of tokens in advance to each other, and then the system will solve that little easy CS problem called "traveling salesman" in realtime on millions of paths and clients simultaneously. That one? Amazing and really enticing proposal but I'll stick with predatory mastecard for now, tyvm.
I’m not sure what she said, but given the amount of reversals and “facts-later-questioned” concerning this virus, I’d be interested to see if she ever would have it reinstated if she were right about the key points concerning her ban.
You can't log out other sessions, for example, if you don't have a central Auth point.

Anyway, this topic has been discussed to death already, you can also search in HN for detailed articles on the topic.
> I suppose a mistake we all make after years of JSON is thinking it represents objects for the browser but an object is always a byte array with an offset per attribute descriptor.

Doesn’t this depend on the language? Plenty of languages implement “objects” as a hash table underneath, with properties just being keys. In fact I think most JavaScript engines even work this way, at least until some amount of JIT optimization happens to start assigning static offsets to known keys (I believe this was one of v8’s advancements when Chrome first came out.)
I'd say it is an extremely factual position to say those things.
Used EVs probably will be very well equipped and seriously affordable?
> Twitter suspended Ms. Greene’s account after she tweeted on Saturday, falsely, about “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.” She included a misleading chart that pulled data from a government database of unverified raw data.

Does anyone have a link to the tweet in question? It's interesting that it was labeled the chart as "misleading" as opposed to based on doctored data. It appears being factual is not enough and you could "mislead" depending on how you present it. But "mislead" from what precisely? A policy decision? It relates to the whole shift from "disinformation" to "misinformation", which has a much broader scope.

Either way, I always feel a little weird about a private corporation censoring a democratically elected politician, especially when concerning political speech. I get that its their platform, but its not without political influence. The white house has admitted to be in close contact with all the large social media companies regarding what is 'misinformation', going so far as to flag posts [0]. There's definitely a risk of political interference

[0] https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-would-government-ce...
From Flatbuffers spec:

> Why not use Protocol Buffers, or .. ?

Protocol Buffers is indeed relatively similar to FlatBuffers, with the primary difference being that FlatBuffers does not need a parsing/ unpacking step to a secondary representation before you can access data, often coupled with per-object memory allocation. The code is an order of magnitude bigger, too. Protocol Buffers has no optional text import/export.
That is certainly a cool idea, but how would a system like that cope with getting "wires crossed"? The nice thing about standard protocols (a form of consensus) is that there is a schema and at least at the transport level, there are no unambiguous values.

Without consensus, you have the risk of party A saying something, and party B interprets it in a different way than intent.
Go for a walk at lunch time! I try and do a 1 hour walk ~6 days/week.
I've been working at home for 8 years now, and have always been doing this; but since Covid, those have been longer walks without going into shops.
Wow, most amazing part of this, is it's on sourceforge. I mean i guess there's "some" effort in transfering to something else, but wow. 2022.
I'd agree. Frequency and intensity, aerobic or strength, all matter too.

My mom walks for 30 minutes a day, while I run rather fast for the same time. I always tell her she should run a little, but she doesn't like to sweat.

Granted, 30 minutes of walking is 100x better than sitting around, and running is ~5x better. I'll give her that. Lessening returns and all.

My mental model is "easy" activity is sufficient to not die when you're 60, and more intense stuff will make you thrive into your 80s.
Gold as a material has many uses, not only to back currency. Comparison to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is not particularly useful.
Gold has many uses other than as a speculative holder of value.
Or how an American saying “Space ghettos” sounds like a Glaswegian saying “Spice Girls”?
Also Twitter has now demonstrated they are completely ignorant to the Streisand Effect.

This won’t change minds. This will only harden viewpoints and invite political and regulatory scrutiny.
so did u go bald?
Recurrences converging to the wrong limit in finite precision (2020) [pdf]
Programmers creating all sorts of Microsoft applications think they produce usable software. They are mostly incorrect.
Yes, even post-scarcity not everyone can be famous, unless you're willing to delude yourself with follower bots.
Jiu-Jitsu 3 classes a week for 1.5 hours each.
Weight training, 3 times a week, 1 hour each time.
Running, 2 times a week, 45 minutes each run.
That's on average, total 9 hours a week. Sometimes I do more, when on vacation I don't stress too much, if there is gym, fine, otherwise it could be rest week or 200 push up and 400 squats.

I enjoy every second of being physically capable without being obsessive about fitness.

One of the few advices that I give to people I care about: never give up moving your body. I am a bit older than 40 years old, and that's the time when you see people either be fabulous or going downhill with the wheels off.
Apart from disabilities and pathologies, there is not a single reason for anyone not to exercise at least a few hours a week. It makes you feel better, be better, look better. I see friends getting married and having kids and work 5 jobs like someone says in the US especially etc. and they stop exercising, and they suddenly look older, talk older, and often going downhill real fast. That's not a good example for kids, it is a good prompt for your partner to look elsewhere.

Be bold, be in shape, be beautiful.
Most private sector businesses don't want to be in the business of helping spread deadly lies, though. And they're not required to be.
Is it censorship? she’s not banned from the internet… less than 25% of the country has a twitter account.
Tesla Reports 87% Increase in 2021 Deliveries
I have it quoted in multiple comments here, including my top comment. Here it is again:

>Davison said the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

Here is the specific part I take issue with:

>it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people
In scientific papers the bit headed Abstract is basically the tl;dr, you can skip the rest.
I've been running Linux for a decade at home and work computers and it's awesome. I can't stand mac os or windows now, guess that's the only downside.
never seen those in use
I only go cycling. Three hours in winter, not every week, maybe 7 or 8 hours per week in summer, occasionally more than 10. I picked 3 to 6 as an average.
I can explain my own downvote, if you like: the article is calling for reform of Bitcoing to make it more sustainable. You're pretending it's calling for bitcoin to be abolished - i.e
a total strawman. You're also downplaying the enormity of the statement made by the post - including that Bitcoin has singlehandedly negated any climate gains we're making by electrifying cars. That's appalling, given the extremely low social or economic utility of Bitcoin at the moment.
> Even when Tarn decided: "Hmm, maybe making some money for a product I am proud of and work extremely hard on" when he decided to add the Steam version, it has been a long load to make it there.

Not quite. It's health concerns.

Quoting https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/3/14/18264569/dwarf-fo... :

"Not long ago, he explains, Zach had a cancer scare. Even with a good insurance plan, the costs to tease things out were high. When Adams looked at his own plan he was shocked.

“We were looking at the health care prices,” Adams says. “If it had been me — we grew up in the same town, right; we have all the same doctors and everything — I would have been wiped out.”

“It’s just scary,” Adams says, referring to the health care system. “The whole thing. So that was on our minds. But also, the whole crowdfunding environment has been a little bumpy, just in terms of how Patreon changes. [...] That’s just how it is in games in general. People just feel kind of a little squeezed right now.”

And so the brothers at Bay 12 are doing something they thought they’d never do. Nearly 16 years into the project, they’ve pulled the trigger on a plan to make a proper commercial release. But how they’re planning to do it is the remarkable part."
I am working on one right now. Solar powered, self driving. More of a planetarium on wheels with a memory foam bed. If I can get the active suspension right, it might be hard to tell you are moving.
Python's standard library has an ipaddress module that does these things for both IPv4 and IPv6.
> when you expect that the general case doesn’t need to be checked but a specific case does.

But surely that's almost never the case? Few programs actually desire or care for base 2 modular arithmetics, and when they do it tends to be for very specific tasks (usually cryptographic or cryptography-adjacent e.g. hashing, checksumming, ...).
Because that busy man has garden tools and other stuff which needs to be stored somewhere?
I expound in a conversation with Apocryphon attached to that post
Just for background and not trying to malign the source, but the was at a press conference where the Chamber of Commerce and hospital leaders were imploring state residents to get vaccinated as to avoid a vaccine mandate that the state legislature was considering for employers

Feels like the insurance guy at this press conference is trying to 'scare' young folks into getting the vaccine.

My question is, the life insurance company would see all the death certificates, if they don't say Covid, what do they say?
For those looking for a good starting resource on fitness and diet, I recommend the 4chan /fit/ sticky guide.

https://boards.4channel.org/fit/thread/17018018#p17018018
> and even some countries have local feeless/reasonably priced quick transfer systems

Brazil has one [0]: instant transfers to any account, 24/7, zero fees (at least for now). You can buy pizza, taxi rides and pay your rent with it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(electronic_payment_system...
That’s simply because fentanyl is cheap enough that the drug syndicates in the golden triangle are flooding the market with it. It’s so cheap to produce in industrial quantities using perfectly legal, easily acquired industrial chemicals that they really don’t care how many shipments get seized because a small amount can be cut into a whole lot of sellable product, so they don’t try as hard to smuggle it in.
Twitter did not even say she lied, they just said that they (Twitter) considered it “misleading.” Not false, “misleading.”
No they definitely should, this is precisely their job. Why should public officials not be held to the same standards as individual citizens
First posted 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29672203

Hoping for more visibility.

Notable stuff: SLS as a baseline. Quote chance unquote meetings with Boeing and MSFC. Preference for Jupiter Gravity Assist over a solar propulsive maneuver. The first truly multi-generational spacecraft. A potential Kuiper Belt flyby target (cf Arrokoth/Ultima Thule with New Horizons).
Those who can’t, teach.
If the administration don't pay for the drives, how is a sysadmin to make backups?
They are probably reaching out to their media contacts encouraging them to write articles about dealers marking up the prices.
Censoring their search results is not the same as censoring domain names
If used EV trucks are anything like real trucks, they don't really drop in price until it's such a piece of shit that it needs major repairs.
We moved into a new house seven years ago and turned half the basement into a home gym to combine with working from home. During the week, I'll stretch for 5–10 minutes after waking up, do ~20 minutes of light exercise at lunch, and more serious exercise after work (could be a bike ride, kettlebell/bodyweight exercises, running, etc.). After-work exercise varies depending on energy/recovery. Getting a standing desk was also a nice addition. Weekends we'll go for a longer bike ride one day and do something outside but lower intensity the other.
My man
It follows the general Australian pattern of stretching single vowel sounds into diphthongs, or breaking them up into 2 parts Consider for example the Australian pronunciations of 'late' and 'beer'.
A Thorough Introduction to eBPF
Most of mined Gold is used as an investment vehicle or to make jewelry.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...
Can confirm. Lost every single object I could lose, dropped out of school, forgot I had prescriptions to pick up for a year, constant messy room, spent an entire year literally doing nothing and still feeling nervous every day, failed jobs where I couldn't cherry pick interesting things out of JIRA and then spent 2 hours in hyperfocus, followed by 6 hours of faking being busy because I simply couldn't focus anymore (but in practice, nobody minded, and I was considered to be overperforming. getting paid based on hours sucks for me).

My job turned from amazing with coding every day to maintaining broken things last year (mostly black boxes others left behind). It got substantially worse. I can't remember the last time I managed to enter hyperfocus.

So I've made a new-years resolution and made an appointment online (thanks, low friction tech) this week. It'll only be... 9 months until I figure out which side of the ADHD battle this doctor is on. (I've had bad experiences getting trans healthcare, and only got treatment through a lucky incident, so my expectations are rather low). I've known for years that this is likely what it is, but only doing it when absolutely neccessary is on brand for it too I guess.
Effectively two party system means that no matter how badly the ruling party screws up and gets voted out, all they have to do is wait until the other party screws up and gives them the power back. Pendulum government and FPTP voting is not a real democracy.
Sounds like client certificates. I guess you have never used those. All major browsers support them.

In Firefox you can find them here: Settings -> Privacy & Security -> View Certificates -> Your Certificates
I prefer Gigerenzer’s idea of natural frequencies over the Venn diagrams. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Gigerenzer-Hoffrage-Natu...
I dunno what the disconnect is but you may be the only one struggling with the meaning behind the words. I don't see him referring to the death rate of people outside 18-64 at all.

You could say his information is biased because it is limited to folks that have insurance through his company, but he's up front about that.
On the other hand, overdose deaths were up significantly, which I think would also be fair to categorize as "deaths of despair" [1].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...
Doesn’t caltrans publish road closures in electronic form for mapping companies to consume? Perhaps there’s something causing seasonal road closures to not show up correctly. A forward looking effort to fix the problem might be preferable to a backward looking effort to assign blame.
I distinctly remember when discussing whether it was a lab leak would get you censored.

Now, scientists consider it unlikely, but now you are allowed to discuss it.
They suspended her personal account but her official congressional account is still live
I don't think money should be a driver to start up a company. Anyway not in my case. The product must be the motivator. Not money. Never seen someone succeeding with just money as the motivator.
I rather make 200k with my own business than working for a large company.
Nuclear is definitely sustainable [1]. There's at least four billion tons of Uranium dissolved in seawater, enough to power humanity until the heat death of the universe [+]. We just have to figure out how to get it out. [2] The amount in the ocean is constantly replenished through geological activity so one could even make the case its renewable too.

[+] There's 5.5 million metric tons of known uranium deposits. Switching to breeder reactors, which produce more fuel than they consume, would allow that supply to match current generation capacity for 30,000 years. Then there's the 4.5 billion metric tons in seawater. That'll get us 15 million years worth of power.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-reasons-why-nuclear-cle...

[2] https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4514
The problem with video games is that the software just has to be good enough to fool the human mind. Basically "smoke and mirrors". Real software, however, usually has much harder requirements, and most people find working on that instead more interesting and more rewarding.
> Apples is so bad that everyone ignores it

What package manager are you referring to?
Very nice! I like the sliding door idea. Thanks for sharing.
So you're saying no elected official should be bound by any laws, contracts or the terms of service of any organization, since doing so could be interpreted as "censorship?"

That if anyone else had said what Marjorie Taylor Greene had said, they would be subject to action by Twitter under its own stated policies, but the rules just shouldn't apply to her?
Because they have the weight of people who elected them behind them. I don't understand how that's hard to understand.

It's the same reason why we care about murder of an elected official more than a murder of any other person.
Before Reddit settled on the name "reddit", snew was one of their name ideas..as in "what'snew"...another was 360scope
Sure, but you have to follow the other advice of following people who are 1) subject matter experts and 2) engage with their followers regularly. Propagandists typically aren’t SME’s and don’t engage in discussions with their followers.