skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's similar to the well known "more likely to be hit by a meteorite than to win the lottery" style statements. Obviously that's completely wrong: i've never heard of anyone being hit by a meteorite, but people win the lottery every month.

I'm not saying that they're actively lying, but it seems some assumptions in these frequentist's numbers are just not correct.
Bitcoin and Data centers are two major global warming behemoths no one talks about. It's about time it became an issue.
> Maybe pick up a book now and again.

Maybe try reading the HN guidelines.

> Google did stop innovating, all the subsequent progress they made aside from gmail was acquisition of startups.

Obviously false. They bought technologies from startups, but those products didn’t stand on their own. Maps is the obvious example.

> Android being the most obvious one.

If you had any idea what Android was before Google bought it you wouldn’t say this. I do. I saw it.

> Yahoo and AOL were killed by google, i am old enough to have seen that play out live.

Do you even know what Yahoo and AOL were?

Yahoo was a web directory, and later a portal. That wasn’t killed by Google. Indeed Google was offered for sale to Yahoo for $1M. What killed Yahoo was just not being good at business.

AOL was a dial up information service that pre-dated the consumer internet. It had groups and communication services and in fact everything it needed to be Facebook.

Failure to adapt to the internet killed AOL. Not Google.
now do cloth dryers
Minor etymological note: the word plumb describes something that's hanging vertically. It comes from the latin word plumbum (lead). When people wanted to make sure something was vertical, they'd hang a lead weight from a string, and align the string with whatever was supposed to be vertical. Even though we've moved on to different metals, we still call them plumb bobs, and we still say that a vertical part of a house is "plumb".

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Tools-Hand-Tools-Marking-Tools-L...
I actually think the very opposite, that massive amounts are mined with very old and inefficient hardware, while those calculations seem to always over represent more modern and efficient miners.
Democracy is currently threatened from inside, and it’s not the citizenry. Please don’t make the mistake of thinking 62% of the country, or whatever large stat, is a bunch of blood thirsty crazies.

Both political parties have committed atrocities and are equally complicit in the current state of affairs. Tribalism will not solve this.

Please respect each other and do not accelerate our national divide.
> more a destruction of shared cultural values, in particular those that are good for "society" like a belief in the value of work, family unit, deeper concerns than material wealth (e.g. god/spirituality) etc at least in the west / America.

This is what conservatives have been crowing about since the 40/50's when black music started dominating the airwaves. It's a really old argument that is literally moral panic with no proof. I thought maybe you had some new thoughts to add, but you don't.
They weren't responding to any body of evidence. There was zero at that time, on either side. They were trying to get out in front and head off what they thought was something reasonable people would include in their consideration of origins.

They had no evidence either way but knew that they had a lot to lose, and fired everything they had.
The Economist article posted here a few days ago had the US at a bit over 1 million deaths.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
Why does the world need deflationary money?
> If your code doesn't have bugs, no validation of indexes is required.

Your code doesn't have bugs because you validated your indexes. What you said makes some sense when the index comes from within the program itself, but not when it comes from outside the program. Consider for instance the case of reading a data structure from a file or the network, where one field is an index or an offset into another part of the structure; you must validate that this index or offset is not outside the bounds, no matter how perfect your code is.
I approve of the Herman Miller Aeron :]
"I would especially question that being at all effective in an environment where clients are frequently compromised."

Could elaborate on that ? I am curious.

True enough although cash does not move by itself, you have to meet up and you can be caught with an unsual amount of cash with you.
This is by value. Please use some relevant stats.

https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/electricity-balanc...

https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/world-electricity-...

Additionally: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-fuels
We know that technological history is full of situations where the inferior technology prevailed for some reason or another. The classic example is Betamax versus VHS.

All that is to say, as much as I’d like to believe it is true, there is some naivety to suggest that a superior solution will simply up end cryptocurrency, when there is a lot of money to be made by a lot of very wealthy people in cryptocurrency.
I m wondering, Is this also true if we only look at EVs?
Delete the apps. I think out of sight, out of mind, is a good tactic. Isolate social media to one computer/tablet and then just keep limiting your time until you're using it less, and less. Getting the apps out of reach was a big first step for me.
You also get algae blooms when the water is warmer, because algae grow faster in warmer water. This leads to less oxygen in the water and less mixing of water layers. Warmer water bodies often occur during drought and that often means more artificial irrigation... https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/climate-change-and-har...
Because you can't sit and chill in a distributed message queue.
I just want to be clear that it's incorrect to use the word "censor" or "censorship" to refer to the act of terminating someone's Twitter account for breach of contract.

Furthermore, because Twitter isn't the government, it's probably incorrect to use "censor" or "censorship" at all. "Discrimination" is the correct word to use if a corporation like Twitter terminated her account for an illegal reason. For example: if Twitter terminated her account because she was a woman or a person of color or a member of a protected class.
I think you're hearing a typical Vulcan accent...
Yup, came here to make same remark! =)

Ed. I thought this was some kind of joke article.
Science fiction is usually nice for entertainment purposes but I wouldn't take it as 'promises for the future'.
I agree with you completely; I had this discussion 41 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304536
I lol’d. thank you for this
That's what the CEO is quoted as saying: What the data is showing to us is that the deaths that are being reported as COVID deaths greatly understate the actual death losses among working-age people from the pandemic. It may not all be COVID on their death certificate, but deaths are up just huge, huge numbers.
As far as I can tell: (1) Yes indeed, the composition of the samples was not degraded when they were collected and returned to earth. (2) The samples indicate that Ryugu is similar to Cl chondrites (break up easily when entering earth, therefore only small fragments collected on earth; rich in volatile elements, representative of the chemical composition of our solar system) BUT Ryugu is less reflective, more porous and more fragile even than Cl chondrites.

Therefore (in my non-expert opinion): well worth the effort to collect and study because we will never find anything similar from a Meteor so these samples will give us much more evidence about the solar system's chemical composition.
Ransomware gang coughs up decryptor after realizing they hit the police
While the Bull case has not been proven for Tesla, The Bear case is laughably bad at this point.
Fixed that for you:

But they are tracking people regardless of whether they have a cookie consent banner or not.
18-64 is an extremely broad range. Does anyone have a breakdown of smaller ranges? I'd like to know what is accounting for the deaths of younger people, since supposedly, statistically covid has a very mild effect on their health.
I would be suspicious about how the services report clicks and (especially) open rates. They are notoriously inaccurate.

Buttondown just may just be more generous (less rigorous) in detecting false positives.

Deliverability is also partially on you (versus the provider) and is not necessarily easy to get right (nor is it necessarily consistent between email blasts).
How is "real software" different from video game software? I ask because it seems like most consumer applications that run on our machines or that we use on the web also just have to be good enough to be tolerated by the human using it, or "fool the human mind". Where does the line get drawn between "real software" and fake (I guess?) software for you?
Vim already could be compiled with Lua, Ruby, Python with their own respective vim APIs. How is it possible that he didn't know he could use an established programming language for scripting?
Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account
Japan does just fine with a higher salt consumption than the US and has the highest life expectancy in the world.
That was already done, and specified in the comment.

>>“Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic,” he said. “So 40% is just unheard of.”

In fact, it was the entire point of the article - this disease is so bad because the entire population of people is subject to infection, and the death and disability rate is very substantial.

>>whereas a 0.2% death rate is devastating for a highly contagious virus that spreads rapidly over the planet (millions of deaths)

We've got that. Here. In this topic and case.

So, I'm really struggling to see the point of the comment. ?
I think the phrase "on-asteroid measurements" can already lay claim to the title "concise understatement of the year".
Terrorism is a pretext. Much like almost every other bill passed in the name of terrorism this one is about raw power. 99%+ of its intended use will be against non terrorists.

I suspect they'll eventually use it to deport naturalized citizens convicted of pretty much any crime, which will scare the rest into line.
> Well nothing is preventing them from implementing such features if they want to.

There's nothing preventing you from implementing your own social network with those rules.

Hacker News is a forum for business ideas and web-based technologies after all, built around an angel fund / venture capital slant.

But I'm trying to tell you that you'll end up relying upon user-based moderation for many cases: including simple cases like spam from new users or VPNs. Maybe even IP-based blocking as certain unsavory groups of people tend to cluster around certain IP addresses.
Then in this case, you lose your deposit and they sell it to someone else for the same markup you declined.
I think that fact is pertinent, but it may also be helpful to think of the distinction between a publisher and a technology. If I write a book called “Vaccines Kill and Trump is Still President”, it feels fair and correct to me that Random House has the right to pass on publishing it but that nobody could stop me from reading it to someone over the phone or mailing it to someone.
You are also in full control of the project for the entire duration. A few months of your work won't end up in the trash bin due to a C-level decision
Ah yes. The old “Nobody has ever tried Communism (or socialism)” argument.
You know what happened when you did that one simple command that every sysadmin hates? It copies all of the thousands of files containing all the millions of lines of production code from spinning rust-coated glass to spinning rust-coated glass on system that run at hundreds of megahertz. If anyone accidentally checks in a change between when the copy starts and when it ends, the entire source history going back years gets horribly and irretrievably corrupted and you need to spend a couple of days restoring everything from backup, which is inevitably rust-coated mylar tape to rust-coated spinning glass disks, rebuilding indexes as you go. That is assuming the restore from backup actually works, which is rarely if ever tested and you know full well even if it is tested that's the day you experience not one but multiple disk failures probably because of all the intense activity. Meanwhile you lost your slot at the manufacturing facility in Taiwan because your golden master wasn't delivered in the brief window required and they have already retooled the line for another customer. Maybe you can recover from the financial loss, or maybe your sysadmin just takes the reasonable precaution of freezing access to the CVS repo for the days the branch takes to create, and schedules it over a weekend to minimize downtime.

You have to wonder why, twenty five years ago, the sysadmin didn't just synch the entire network to the cloud through his iPhone. That, of course, would just show how none of was is your lived experience.
That's simply not true. A doctor can fill it out for you but can't refuse if you ask him to.
You can also do it yourself online... it's the main reason people are spamming the database.

Here is the direct link: https://vaers.hhs.gov/esub/index.jsp
How do I power my house with a JPEG of an ape?
One thing I’ve noticed after a hiatus from Reddit is that now 1/3 subs that hit the front page are stock or crypto focused. Not only that but they all have the 4chan culture of Wall Street bets that I am not a fan of.
https://som.yale.edu/blog/peter-thiel-at-yale-we-wanted-flyi...
Totally agree. When I hear the argument "People always say this, they said this before with TV and videogames", it just makes me think that people are discounting some of the huge negative impacts these technologies have had (or at least contributed to).

Just look at the overall physical fitness of, say, an average 18 year old in 1950 vs today in the US. By loads of measures (obesity, muscle strength, cardiovascular fitness, diabetes, etc.) there is an enormous degradation in the physical fitness of America's youth. I'm certainly not blaming this all on TV and videogames, but at the same time I think it's a huge mistake to pretend our technological advances haven't had other, large negative side effects.
Adam smith wrote a short philosophy book about this back in the day about this very topic. (something like: what is worse: stubbing your toe, or a natural disaster somewhere remote which kills thousands but doesn’t affect you personally).

I wouldn’t say it’s “the answer” but it is “a candidate answer”
Doesn't the GitHub dashboard (the page you see when you login) show you that? Not sure if it covers all your use cases but it's been improving lately.
I knew "plumbum" meant "lead", but I'd always assumed the etymology of "plumbing" was just that pipes were historically made of lead. thanks for posting!
Is it wrong that I've never achieved any satisfaction or sense of accomplishment from making my bed?
It is the former. Countries are not allowed to make someone stateless and the UK bill in question explicitly states that this can only be applied to someone with other citizenships available to them. There are different types of birthright citizenship, jus soli (by soil) and jus sanguinis (by blood) where the former depends on where you were born and the latter depends on your parents. The US recognizes both, but jus soli is very much a new world thing while in most of Europe, Asia, and Africa your citizenship depends on the citizenship of your parents. In the case that is the centerpiece of TFA the person being stripped of their citizenship grew up in the UK but her parents were immigrants and she also has Bandladeshi citizenship available to her.
It is usually against code to shed water toward the property line from that distance, so that may be the only option.
Except every UX decision in every big social media app is research backed attention harvesting.

Interactivity changes the equation. Limitless options change the equation.

Radio and TV couldn't tailor themselves to an audience of one, your ML powered social media feed can.
I has always been about who you know, not what you know.
I’ve never understood the BTC purists. I’m generally anti-crypto in any variety, but As far as cryptocurrency‘s go, bitcoin is really bad compared to so many alternatives.

I’d just as soon see it all go up in smoke. But why does BTC reign?
It's a battery in the sense that you can use it to buy electricity?
I don't think it's meant to be a joke with a punchline, more like an absurdly comical Dr. Who-esque situation. "You think you had a bad day? Well, I..."
Serious question: how would cryptocurrencies and defi have helped avoid/mitigate the subprime lending crisis specifically?
Show HN: Mmids – New OSS live video workflow server
I’ve never gone spear hunting but I did play paintball once. It was thrilling, and when I woke up the next day I was more sore that I’d ever been in my life (including playing varsity sports). I realized that’s because it was the closest I’d ever come to ‘running for my life’.

FPS mimic the pleasure of this experience, but without the physical engagement. It’s like the refined carbs version of hunting.
Peter Thiel is usually full of shit. If you ever find yourself on the same side of an argument as him I would suggest to check your premises.
SQL databases work well when all parties already agree with each other. With a distributed public "database" like blockchain you need a mechanism to prevent fraudulent transactions from being written to the database. That's how you end up with solutions like proof of work and proof of stake.
I don't know. If the experiments were perfectly random, the Buttondown-Substack difference is a 3-sigma effect, so the difference is unlikely to be random chance. But why? What's so special about one vs the other?
That data is for all ages. If you go to WISQARS and filter for ages 18-45, which is the subject of the news site's article, it looks to me like the numbers they are giving in the article are the same as the total number of accidental poisoning.
I have experienced it and it's truly crazy. However, it's hard to decouple the addictive parts from the useful parts. I use my phone as a book, calculator and map, among others.
More info from 2012 on the NIH site:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295368/

This has been known for quite a while.
Twitter use is near-ubiquitous among journalists, politicians, and those who wield or seek to gain influence. Corporations fire people, companies terminate business deals, and universities expel students based on what gets said on Twitter. News agencies find leads and shape stories using Twitter. Most of what gets said on CNN, NBC, or Fox News is filtered through the lens of writers who use Twitter and care about how Twitter will react. Political fortunes can swing on bad tweets. Most Americans may not use Twitter, but I would say most are still affected by it, whether they know it or not.
Thanks for the response, dang. I wish I could list my own comments/submissions ranked by score.
> that by using the term "3 sigma" I'm assuming they're modeling the data as a normal distribution

variance and standard deviation don't only apply to normal distributions. and "sigma" is the symbol normally used for variance regardless of the underlying distribution.

> I'm assuming

sigh.
Very cool. I love these DIY office setups.

The author mentioned organizing material transport by figuring out what would fit in his car. I would highly recommend just renting a flatbed truck from home depot to transport your materials home if they don't fit in your car. Its usually something like $20 to rent for an hour.

Also I wonder if the author has any plans to heat/cool the space. Seems like they might live in a temperate area. I'd would probably just install one of those DIY mini-split units to heat/cool the office if necessary.
Google will have paid ICANN $500k just to read the application for these TLD's ($185k * 3) and has paid them an additional $500k since then just to maintain them.

I'm not wholly convinced that ICANN is operating solely out of a sense of generosity. It sounds to me more like "pay me a lot of money and I will look after you" (i.e. a protection racket). I suspect ICANN is actually motivated to look after google as a high-paying customer and registrar, rather than be what they should be, which is acting independent, treating everyone the same, and not just using everything as an opportunity to cash-grab.
I totally understand what you're saying and completely agree with you, but...

... you know the difficulty of telling someone "don't get distracted" or "don't procrastinate"? It won't work. It's the same with me and exercise, I agree with you on an intellectual level, and I'm well aware of the dangers of my unhealthy lifestyle. But I just can't find the motivation to do it.

Like I replied elsewhere, I would definitely do trekking or biking if I lived in a place more suitable for those activities. I enjoy trekking and walking when I'm on vacation (my vacations tend to involve lots and lots of walking).
...at least one Ford dealership [...] informed them that an additional price adjustment of US$30,000 would be necessary in order to receive a unit from the first batches of Ford's new electric truck.

An additional non-refundable US$5,000 deposit is apparently also required to place an order for the electric pickup truck.

At ONE dealership, if you want a first batch its +$30K. If you wait, it isn't.

If you want to reserve one now it's $5000 down. That's not extra and you don't lose it if you take delivery.

I'm not a Ford fanboy, just saying.

And I wouldn't buy (let alone pay extra for) any first gen vehicle.
When I make a suggestion involving heavily qualified generalities, that's a signal that it's not offered as as a fully defined proposal ready for deployment. It's an invitation to explore the concept rather than just throw rocks at it. Of course I think a big project like TensorFlow or Pandas involves a lot more effort than some little helper function and should be rewarded proportionately, though not necessarily in purely linear fashion.
One explanation I’ve heard proposed is that the sweating induced by spicy foods helps you cool down faster in hot climates than just your body trying to maintain homeostasis.
Black Swan by Nassim Taleb is an entire book about this very common mistake.

It's a case where highly-educated people often make errors that laypersons would not.
In case you need a citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/nyregion/omicron-covid-ny...
As U.S. Nears 800k Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100 Older Americans Has Perished
Ah. Didn’t realize he is being granted options and not shares. That makes sense.
In 2021, between 300-400 thousand BTC transactions took place every day...worldwide.

In 2019, more than 108.6 million credit card transactions were processed every day...in the US alone. Worldwide, about 1 billion card transactions are processed every day. And this is just credit cards.

Need I say more?

Sources:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/730806/daily-number-of-b...

https://www.cardrates.com/advice/number-of-credit-card-trans...
Who was it who said “any man who, past the age of thirty, finds himself without a shed, can consider himself a failure”?
-Andy, Detectorists Season 3 Episode 1 https://youtu.be/QWJMxigdruM?t=552
Avoid social media.

Get lots of sleep, meditate, and eat well, as this helps.

See also the Huberman lab podcast on dopamine for more ideas.
I opened one at random and it's an uint overflow lol.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1087...