skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stuck in between, Canada is just weird. I learned speak a liminal dialect of Canadian from a mix of 1970s CBC radio presenters, UK expat caregivers and teachers, theatre school educated neigbours. It wasn't just "Canadian dainty," as people who said shed-ule were considered to have an affectation, but that influence was prominent. Both the anglo Westmount area in Montreal and the uptown neighbourhoods of Toronto have a detectable patter that isn't so much british as an emphasis on articulating complete thoughts, which at the time came from being raised by parents with multiple generations of education. Kids who went on to go to school in Boston or New Haven tended to come back with a more American mannerism, which abraded off some of their recieved colonial agreeableness, but you could hear them code switching because Americans typically don't play at banter the way people from commonwealth countries still do.

American banter is closer to a spectrum of what we would call chirping or passive aggression, as their culture didn't inherit a presumption of benevolence or a sense of noblesse oblige, but what I like about American culture and language is that where commonwealth deference is based on the polite presumption the person you are speaking to is secretly noble, Amercan deference respects that the person you are speaking to is plausibly equally dangerous. Having worked with a number of cross-border teams, the misunderstandings can be both comical, and irreconcilable.
This is what I find strangest. At least coins like Ethereum and Solana have entire ecosystems of complex projects being built up around them (no matter how skeptical one may be of those projects), Bitcoin seems like an incredibly spartan ecosystem with basically one use, and the sole advantage of being first.
Would torrent this movie
It is very useful, factual information. One might not know that Medicaid is a program run by the individual states, or that it is possible to move to a state with better options - and many "poor people" can and do move long distance for various reasons. Also, it's important to understand that if you want to change things you should be directing your efforts toward your state government.
Compounding factors.
It's hard to see this as a "boon" for Marjorie Taylor Green. If Twitter is such a useless platform, why was she busy using it to promote her ideas?

I absolutely agree that termination of her Twitter account is not meaningful censorship. I'm sure it won't be long before all the networks want to interview her about it. The invitations have probably already been sent.
What I mean by "tricks" is that there's only one thing that matters and that's doing it. You're right that there are efficient methods but I certainly have spent a lot of time researching "the best methods" before realising that the most important thing is to actually just start and then everything works out fine later. Everything else is an excuse to put off doing it.
? data centers are a net negative for carbon emissions.

1. no need to drive to a bank/govt office/business when it has been digitized

2. watching a video on youtube, netflix or tiktok is basically carbon emission free compared to other forms of enterntainment that would be consumed if the internet wasn’t available

3. emails instead of paper snail mail, billions of trees saved since the 90s

The list goes on and on
I don’t understand business rationale of not just returning the deposit to those who don’t want to pay the extra. Seems like a good way to burn basically all potential future customers while simultaneously pulling in more money than expected.

Maybe I’m kissing something? Are the dealers themselves paying more for the trucks?
I'm in Scotland, and in general I'll select wild fish from Scottish waters or farmed fish from Norway, as the Norwegians have very good standards.

I'll also swerve fish (such as salmon) from Chile, as standards are relatively low there - for example, they permit a much higher sea lice count than anywhere in Europe.

For shellfish, I prefer wild Scottish sources, but Scottish farmed is OK too. I'd swerve shellfish (typically prawns) from Bangladesh, as despite farming often being done in a small scale, standards can be low.
Would you feel more at ease if he said 38.23%?
Three years ago, 0% of ICU beds were used for COVID patients. Now it is 37%. If ICU admission correlates with risk of death, and those beds would have been empty otherwise, or used for lower risk patients, a 40% increase in deaths seems reasonable. Certainly not a rigorous analysis, but it passes the smell test.
I am not sure what you think you're arguing with.

I responded to your statement that 'The _ONLY_ moderating action internet citizens have is moderation [...]'; I'm just pointing out that while that is true for twitter users at present, Twitter could experiment with other approaches if they felt like it. I'm not saying they must or they should, just that nothing prevents them. I responded in handwavey terms because your comment about 'internet citizens' seemed pretty open-ended.

But I'm trying to tell you that you'll end up relying upon user-based moderation for many cases

OK? That's the idea I was exploring. It worked to some extent on NNTP, where people would maintain 'killfiles' and different Usenet groups were more or less protective of their cohesion. I'm not suggesting it as some sort of magic bullet, just saying that centralized moderation is not the only possible approach.
You can pretty much blame six sigma for these braindead once in 200 years predictions. When you beat your effecency numbers into the ground then have to explain a .000001 varianc will only happen in 200 years based on this totally detached from real world statistic model is hew you get here.

The person that sold that idea cashed out and left the company long ago.
Some time ago I've also stumbled upon this issue and found the workaround that I've posted here: https://www.gog.com/forum/papers_please/terrible_lags_on_lin...

Thanks for a more proper digging.
Sudden cardiac death has always been surprisingly frequent in healthy athletes, so there’s a lot of room for observational bias here.

(2016) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969030/

> A recent estimate of SCD incidence ranged from 1 in 40,000 to 1 in 80,000 athletes per year.
The possibility massive overvaluations across tech shouldn’t be totally discounted. Yeah, you might miss out doubling your money in the next five years if you sit out but you could also avoid halving your money in the next 30 years.

It all depends on what kind of investor you are and where you are in your financial planning. At some point growth stocks have to stop being growth stocks.
During the spring, summer and fall, I hit 6+ hours by mountain biking 3-4 times a week. When there’s too much snow on the ground I use an indoor smart trainer 4-5 times a week. The indoor workouts are not much fun but I’m the type of person who gets very edgy and irritable without regular exercise.

Mountain biking is an awesome workout and, more than that, and awesome experience. It’s got all the fitness benefits of road cycling with none of the monotony. Downsides are that it’s expensive, good trails aren’t available everywhere, the injury risk is real (but lower than motocross), and you might find yourself much more interested in the bike than in anything else.
> It should block if and only if there is actual io in flight which could produce a failure return that an application needs.

Blocking simply means that the specification does not guarantee an upper bound on the completion time. There is no other meaningful definition. POSIX is not an RTOS therefore nearly all system calls block. The alternative is that the specification guarantees an upper bound on completion time. In that case what is an acceptable upper bound for close() to complete in? 1ms? 10ms? 100ms? Any answer diminishes the versatility of the POSIX VFS.

> Syscalls should be fast unless there is a very good reason not to be.

I think this is an instance of confusing what should be with what is. We’ve been through this before with O_PONIES. The reality is that system calls aren’t “fast” and they can’t portably or dynamically be guaranteed to be fast. So far the only exception to this is gettimeofday() and friends.

Robust systems aren’t built on undocumented assumptions. Again, POSIX is not an RTOS. Anything you build that assumes a deterministic upper bound to a blocking system call execution time will inevitably break, evidenced by OP.
Working as an actuary. The only way I can make sense of this headline (GDPR block) is: normally for age X deaths Y. Of those Y there are many with health preconditions that can’t get life coverage. Now a disease hits that kills some and effects everyone (this is somewhat contrary to the usual view of corona). You can have a massive increase in deaths without preconditions even if the absolute rise is small. So their deaths are up 40% compared to the expectation of the insurer (not general mortality).

In other words: because of selection at the gate for long life you can get up to 50-70% lower premiums than the standard table assumes. So this insurer is having quite the scare.

It’s one of the reasons why many EU insurers have balanced portfolios (and are strongly favored by regulation to be balanced). Long life, short life, pensions all in a basket with reinsurance to get these risks of the books. Throw in some P&C and A&H books as well (lower incidence of traffic accidents for example) and the company could be robust to corona. Now the interest rate and inflation, that’s a different story.
this was a grueling read mate. go make them games, maybe something for your kids.
What else would you make illegal? High fidelity 3d graphics in gaming? It is clearly wasteful and games are hardly any better because of high polygon count, right?
Is that the origin of the mascot, Snoo?
Children workers are slaved to work in African gold mines
If you email hn@ycombinator.com I can look it up for you.
Google does not own .lol either.
For comparison:

Worldwide Total final energy consumption is around 82,000 TWh/a, or 10 MWh/a per person (a bit more than 1 kW on average per person).

So, Bitcoin consumes more than 13 million people, or 0.16% of world energy consumption (total final energy, not only electricity - it's a higher share of electricity consumption).

Edit to add: Put yet another way, one BTC transaction burns as much energy as a person needs per month. Can't wait for the utopia where BTC is universally adopted!
No magic formula, but in my case I worked for a research & evaluation office at a university for a number of years. I did everything from tech support to building small databases. During that time I learned about the needs of research projects, and a few specific grant programs, which led to opportunities to build systems to automate collecting and organizing data, then expand those beyond a single use case.

I'm no expert, so don't put too much stock in this, but a few tips from my experience:

1. Don't set out to start a business, then look for an idea. Instead, look for opportunities while you gain experience in a particular industry. I had 14 years of experience in the research/grant world before co-founding my first private business.

2. (Maybe) Look for a job as an SWE or IT support person within a non-IT company. Do a great job serving others and you'll become the go-to person for solutions. By the time I started the first company, we had already built over 10 small databases to solve specific problems, but none turned into anything more than one-off solutions to streamline specific processes.

3. Work hard, persevere, have a positive attitude, and always look for ways to help and serve everyone around you. Software is just the tool to provide a service. We support our clients through the software we build, but also through a very in-depth understanding of their world and how we can best help them. You also need a support network to start and grow a business, and people are much more likely to help and support you if they value and respect you.

4. Maybe owning your own business should be a 10 or 15 year goal. I know that's probably hard for people early in their careers seeing so many others self-employed. But there's something to spending a decade learning an industry and building a network. I'm not sure either company would have been successful had I started them in my early 20s. Just because the unicorn tech companies we hear about were founded by young college drop-outs doesn't mean that's the norm.I read somewhere that the average age of small business founders is somewhere in the 40s.

That was just my path, so take it with a grain of salt. There are many paths to starting a business and you'll want to decide what you want to get out of it. For me, it was never about making lots of money. It was about building something that helps others, creating good careers for people, and having the freedom to make our own decisions.
There is already impervious coverage on the ground, sloped that way. This shed does nothing to change that, and it's not attached to the ground. If you really want to get away with this from a code standpoint, put wheels on it.
I did two things recently cause I've wasted just about half my life on reddit:

- Blocked reddit at a dns level across my entire network via pihole (I run a personal vlan so the rest of the house network wasn't affected).

- Disable my internet completely on this vlan after working hours via a schedule in pfsense.

I get around the reddit block sometimes by enabling a VPN, which is only a few button clicks. But since this work around causes me extra steps, it makes me pause to think 'do I really want to aimlessly browse reddit?' which the answer is usually no, so I usually stop in my tracks there and get back to work/whatever.

The entire internet being cut was more about configuring a sleep schedule instead of blocking dopamine.

The big take away: make it hard to access the content. The extra step makes you mindful of your time.
Exactly, social media is not reality.

Repeat after me: Social media is not reality.

In a way, social media is the new tabloid mixed with popularity contests and politics. Very easy to consume, mostly bullshit, mostly doomscrolling eventually, mostly divisive and tribal in the cult-like movements.

It is somewhat scary when people believe the "movements" on social media, they are mostly being engineered. People's first reactions and bad takes are what you find mostly on social media, those are usually worked out in normal reality.

There is some good to social media, for hobbies and information, but it is submerged under the astroturfed and cult/popularity/tabloid madness.
In my part of the US, a temporary structure does not require a permit or zoning allowance, while a permanent structure does. When we build sheds to meet the "temporary" definition, they are built on top of cinderblocks and not a poured concrete foundation. In this case, the author built his shed directly on top of his patio, so I am curious whether this would be considered a permanent or temporary installation.
My experience suggests that this is true for most Apple products. It either works the way Apple has decided it should work, or it fails silently and mysteriously.
Critics Complain as New US Agricul Ture Dept Label Rules Replace 'GMO'
https://bikeshed.org/
Eh, I'd suggest your case may be an anomaly, at least in the VC/unicorn world. Products are "fluffy." Your idea for a solution or useful tool may or may not take off, for a thousand different reasons. If you're married to it, you may never pivot enough. If you have too much integrity, you may not be willing to bend the story about the problems it solves.

But if you just care about the money, none of that is a problem. Product doesn't have traction? Pivot to something else. Product doesn't _really_ solve the problem that the market is telling you would have value? Just fake it or fib until you that next round of funding and then maybe - just maybe - go back and build the actual solution. You just have to live long enough to position yourself for the big gambit, which should give you enough time and money to try to figure things out.

Perhaps I'm too cynical, but I've seen first-hand a situation where the product meant nothing - we sold the story.
One Americanism I've noticed a lot is "sure" replacing "yes". It happens all the time in interviews and stuff on podcasts, TV, etc. Where did that come from? Now some British people podcasts have started doing it. It sounds fake, like marketing-speak, to my ears.

Also I really dislike British exaggerated r sounds added to eg pass staff mask so they become parse starf marsk. And also American A in pasta or Mario (more ree oh) or words like mango becoming almost mongo.

Speaking is weird. We need an English academy that officially standardises (or is that with a z? Zed or zee? ) all this and fixes the silly spelling while they're at it.
Install an extension like News Feed Eradicator https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
I bet 90% came back here to comment before finishing the article, and will probably never finish it.
I mostly agree. Regulating something as a utility doesn't mean the government takes over the company. There are just much more rules for what they can do. For example my electric company has an approval process for price increases.
Yes, energy in at one geographic location, energy out at another
>This is not a competition between renewables and nuclear. They aren't enemies.

They kind of are. They are competing for limited investment and they are not complementary.

Nuclear power is not a "battery". It's an extraordinarily expensive way to produce a fixed amount of power whether it's needed or not.

You trade ~20% extra reliability for 3x the cost.

>I'm highly skeptical that it is possible or even desirable to build out all the capacity we need in just solar/wind/hydro in the short amount of time we have

Nothing can do it in the short amount of time that we have to save us from 2C.

Diverting limited resources to nuclear won't speed the transition up though, it'll slow it down.
Make it hard to login to social media. For example, setup 2FA via a hardware key, keep the key at home (or other place that’s hard to access throughout the day) and then logout of the site when you feel you’ve reached your “dose” for the day.

That ways you can’t just log in every time you crave a hit for a day.

Think of this like an alcoholic who always carries a flask — getting rid of the flask could be a good first-step in controlling the addiction.
Demand is outpacing supply for almost every auto manufacturer right now.
Would have been nice to see CPU and GPU benchmark scores alongside.

I get 1.5mil iterations in numpy on CPU which is on par with typed arrays and much slower than wasmblr.
Here's what works for me:

1. Only permit important notifications

2. Avoid mobile apps like a plague

3. Avoid apps that have dark patterns like deep scrolling

4. Use simple alternatives when available. I use NewPipe instead of YouTube and i.reddit.com in place of reddit.com

5. I know that my time and attention are valuable. There's no reason I should give it to these companies.

6. Use app specific hacks. For example, it's not possible for me to avoid LinkedIn as I am looking for jobs. But instead of routinely browsing it I can just configure daily alerts.
If the government leans on Twitter to silence a user, then yes, that would be censorship. There is no evidence this has happened, however; the substack post you referenced is drivel.
It won't. The recall is relatively minor (reverse cam wire harness protection/positioning and hood attachment mechanism adjustment) and can be quickly fixed with mobile service. Additionally the root cause on the assembly line was fixed over a year ago.
> And how does it even pass muster that a 10% increase in deaths would be a “once in 200 years” event. When has there ever been a 200 year period without major war, disease or disaster? What exactly are they smoking?

I don't know if it's a once in 200 years event or not, but this is a US insurance company, presumably talking about numbers in the US. Aside from ww2, in which the US had around 400,000 deaths, the number of Americans who have died in wars or disasters has been fairly small relatively.

Even the 400,000 for WW2 was over four years, whereas the US has had around 400,000 covid deaths a year for the last two years, and even more if you just look at excess mortality (however the population is obviously larger now than during ww2).
Blockchain is the immutable ledger, a place where if someone writes something down, it is guaranteed to not change, the immutable part. The difference between Blockchain/crypto/bitcoin and YouTube, is that the latter puts no guarantees about the content of a link, we trust Google.

If you go further, the content doesn't need to be a simple url, it could be data of any type. People get stuck on "who needs to pay for url, when I can copy the contents freely", but you're not buying simple url, you're buying a multidimensional point in the current manifestation
of what we think as web3/metaverse. This point is the intersection of your private key, Blockchain used and the content(url). This is valuable because none can claim the same point, and it is guaranteed not to change.
A complete removal from cocaine from my life is not really an option since it gives me more energy to be productive.
> The banking industry (often metonymically known as "Wall Street") is literally the canonical example of greed.

And crypto isn't? The whole thing runs on FOMO
I had the same initial thought, but this isn't quite a perfect model... that distribution averaging assumes that the only factor at play is covid... but there are other chances of death with highly irregular probability distributions as a function of age... with other nonlinear weightings as a function of age you could get pretty different numbers in the end...
(~13 GFLOPS over a ~13 kB working set)
Are you from South Africa by any chance?
Huh? I immediately assumed the use in cryptography was related to... the normal use. Compare https://www.etymonline.com/word/nonce-word :

> "word coined for a special occasion," and not likely to be wanted again, 1884, from nonce "for a particular purpose" + word (n.).

And despite what you say, I still feel certain that's what's going on. The meaning is identical.
Animal reservoirs are generally seen as a vector for reinfection, as well as places for diseases to mutate into more dangerous variants (swine flu, bird flu, etc...). The notion that animal reservoirs could give rise to less concerning variants is a welcome thought. Though, if covid can indeed infect rats and then reinfect people form them, then any hopes that this would not be an endemic disease are gone.
I think you're correct to point out they indirectly affect us all through their impact on society as a whole.

However what I meant (but failed to say explicitly), is that it is unlike breathing air (which is impossible to avoid), because partaking in these platforms personally is still optional for most people in the world - Maybe it's different in the US but you certainly don't need any of it for your job or government purposes in the UK and I expect most of the EU, and of course none of the east.
> No, it is not.

Which part are you referring to?

I made a couple claims.

A. Telegram has access to all plain text content
B. Someone with access to Telegrams infrastructure has access to plain text content
C. Telegram is less encrypted than Facebook messenger

The first, I stand by. The second does make a few assumptions.

The second assumption, that if you have access to the infrastructure you could get access to the private key, this may not be true. Depending on how well they manage their systems. Something that any user will have to trust vs a trust less e2ee system.

The final one is, admittedly, incorrect. I misspoke. It’s _as encrypted_ as Facebook Messenger, and _less encrypted_ than WhatsApp.