skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaccines and masks don't prevent all the other health ailments that might require medical attention (and someone can still get a breakthrough case, even though it is less likely, and in that case less likely to need intervention).

We all pay the price when treatment is delayed or denied because the hospital is overflowing with COVID patients. Or because all our medical staff have quit because society feels they should bear unlimited amounts of trauma.
This was solved decades ago by simply pulsing the rows in sequence and reading the columns for each row. You can trivially do that hundreds of times per second.
Try thinking of being the zeroth person in a line. Or your child being in the zeroth year of her life.
I realize that it is said to be prohibitively expensive to store an image on-chain - but if an actual illegal image was stored on-chain would that be irreversible? Basically I’m wondering if making the entire ledger illegal to posses is as simple as ponying up the cost? Could that bring down an entire crypto currency? Sorry if this sounds naive, I am just not sure what is currently possible.
As an alternative, I find Lockly to be an awesome asset for my household.

I regularly hack my Lockly locks via Bluetooth and wireless.

It’s holding up pretty good.

https://lockly.com/
"Non-significant" in scientific means "within the error bars". It means that it is indistinguishable from randomness.
Google now lets you schedule up to 6 automated Takeouts a year, so you get an email every 2 months with links to download all your stuff.

If you do this every year (I do it on Jan 1st as part of some other yearly reminders) then at most you lose 2 months of data (certainly not downplaying the gravity of that but it's better than everything).
Impossible Burger or one of these fake meat startups should use that as their packaging label.
The website setup is rather confusing indeed, there seem to be two demos:

- DEMO 3: https://www.titanichg.com/downloads

- DEMO 401: https://www.titanichg.com/demo-401
Great link, thanks.

At the time I looked, MicroStrategy’s market cap is lower than the amount of bitcoin it holds. That has to be awkward if you’re an employee there.
>Buy music from Bandcamp and save it on your hard drive. That is yours

but itunes music is DRM-free as well?
Honestly I'll take that google-able error code over the modern trend of "The software has did a sad, please try again or contact our useless support".
That's the point of this sort of (hypothetical?) attack: poor Bob now has a poison envelope on his private key, he has something which roughly constitutes 'ownership' of illegal bits.

Does our legal structure support immediately transferring it to a null wallet as a disclaimer of ownership? Bob doesn't want to be the one to make that case law. Nor does he want to hand over his private key, or clean his wallet out of everything but the evil image and then hand over his private key.

Basically there are no good options, although burning the offending data by sending it to /dev/null should emerge as a valid defense. Will it?
I've been working on BookStack for over 6 years now, learning a lot about open source project maintainership during that time. Originally developed it while looking for a documentation system for my mixed-technical-skill workplace. Wanted something easy to use without having to get finance involved when increasing our user count.

With Confluence backing away from their self-hosted offerings, hopefully many will find BookStack useful. It's not supposed to be a direct replacement, and the design & content structure is quite opinionated, but it can serve many of the same use-cases as Confluence had served.
Quite likely you're right; I didn't spend time digging deep. I may yet make the switch...
Does this get around restrictions on new sales of more polluting vehicles (i.e. non-electric) after 2030?
My foot still smarts to this day. I miss the days office workers could
keep a whiskey cabinet and work things out hermano to hermano. Peace brutha.
I don't think most people realize how much the suppression of "misinformation" on Covid causes distrust of the system by the same people it is meant to protect, and results in much greater vaccination hesitancy. Source: A lot of conversations with people who are more frightened of the cure than the disease. People are still hearing the horror stories, but due to the clampdown, they are not hearing the rebuttals.
I love titanic: honor and glory. The people who are working on it are really cool and their livestreams are great. They really are truly passionate about this project and it comes through in the incredible level of detail they’ve achieved. Their ultimate goal is to use the model as the basis for a video game as well.

If you want the ultimate model building experience they just came out with an enormous kit model of the titanic. It’s like 4 feet long or something. And the model company actually worked with these guys to ensure accuracy.
Ha! Had the exact same problem - and same solution. 650hrs on bf2 alone.

One can learn a new language in less time.
That helps with storage, but still is larger than a bigint, and doesn't help with the random distribution of data. I believe newer versions of MySQL have a data type for this.
Electrical grids change slowly, over half of all electrical equipment worldwide is 20+ years old and solar only very recently became cheap. Many places are seeing lower rates due to recent renewable energy investments, others are seeing higher costs due to heavily subsidized early adoption. Some like Germany have both effects at the same time.

So remember, the economics going forward on a 20+ year time horizons look very different from existing infrastructure. We still have extremely overpriced concentrating solar installations that are not even vaguely competitive with sub 2c/kWh PV solar. However when you sign a 20 year contract for all power produced at price X you don’t get to drop it when something else becomes cheaper.
We’ve made the vaccine free, and widely available. If there were still people waiting weeks to get a vaccine they want to take then I can see an argument why we should all suffer serious injury (like what’s happening at this school) to try to give people more time.

There is no endpoint where SARS-CoV-2 is over. The strains will keep coming and Covid is endemic.

My personal experience is that each time you get COVID is more mild than the last, particularly if you are vaccinated, and this is borne out in the numbers.

Surprisingly the mutations are enough that getting it repeatedly is totally possible. Even an actual sterilizing vaccine that worked in the nasal passages might not have stopping this.

If not now, when? What’s your endpoint for when the extremely damaging and poverty inducing hysteria will stop?
What if I don't want an email client? I just want a headless program that downloads my emails. They can be kept on a NAS that is backed up offsite and keeps the emails searchable. I want this to happen even if I don't happen to open an email client on a desktop at my home for months.

That's why imap-backup is useful.
Thanks. Love the Fish shell!

Does this mean that every time you direct output to a file, like so:

the_prog > the_file

The output of the_prog passes into Fish first and then into the_file? Because then if the write to the_file blocks then Fish would itself get blocked.
That's unusual and unethical. You were right to leave the job. I also suggest you (anonymously) name-and-shame that company, maybe to a reporter. I would argue it is your ethical responsibility to protect those users.
Color my surprise when I came to the US to study undergraduate, and somebody asks me for my number so they can make a group chat. I was like "US people still use SMS/MMS?". Turns out everybody uses the included Messages app, and on iPhone it upgrades to iMessage if the recipient uses an iPhone also.

Every time I sees someone using iMessage, it pains me a lot because I feel like I'm being left out of the conversation, just because I refuse to bow down to Apple's monopolistic practices.
> You can't just expect a relational database to magically become a distributed system just by using UUIDs.

Nobody thinks this, do they?
This is under the assumption that each browser is being used with the default settings, firefox can do much better with customizable settings.
Seems like the image is back up of OpenSea: https://opensea.io/assets/0x5c61afa47570ab2b562606fa57822130...
How is ownership distributed? Out of this 300k are 298k aliases of Alice and 2k aliases of Bob? Is there a third dude maybe?
> and especially on ability to fund companies easily via labor

Not sure I'm following. How would that work, and how would crypto facilitate this?
There's patterns for implementing it. It's not really any different than using more than 1 database which is unavoidable in many scenarios (interacting with 3rd parties)

https://chrisrichardson.net/post/sagas/2019/08/04/developing...
Ah thank you, that's very promising! It was the kind of thing I wanted to hear, I write Lua every day and four data types didn't appear to support 'thread'.

I might just kick the tires on this over the weekend.
You can already do that though the regular old banking system, no difference there. Banks monitor and take action when they detect money laundering systems in their transfers, and they use graph analysis that's not dissimilar from the analysis law enforcement uses for tracking anonymous wallets. The mixers in the cryptocurrency world exist as school kids acting as fencers in the real world. A crime ring could definitely "taint" a politician's bank account if they wish to do so, but the manual oversight of the banking system probably wouldn't flag them.

It's not that this isn't a problem with cryptocurrencies, it's just that it's a problem that already exists in the real world.
Yeah kinda, but at least it's not every applications doing their own thing, it's the thing that runs applications, so assuming you only run sandboxed flatpak stuff, you end up with only one thing.
You can’t simply decide to be a different person
> Though the silver lining here is that we're clearly getting to a true "pan" pandemic with omicron, and still not seeing evidence of significant health care overload or increased death rates.

With omicron the chances that a given case ends up in the hospital is significantly lower than it was with previous variants, but because the case count is so much higher (7-day average of new cases per day over the last week in the US went from 387k to 648k) the number of people hospitalized for COVID is now higher than it has been during even the peaks of the worst prior waves.

Heck, I'm in a state that has always been in the bottom 10 for cases and deaths (and often in the bottom 5) and I'm in a county in that state that has been mostly been in the bottom 10% within the state, and our hospitals are hitting their limits for the first time since COVID started.
People use UUIDs for more reasons than just making things distributed. You can generate them client side if that's advantageous, you prevent leaking information about how many records there are in the system and prevent guessing of other potential PKs and potential unauthorized access, and there's some optimization strategies that benefit from not relying on a serial PK.
In other scientific news, you can tell a person's personality by what colors they prefer to wear.
I am 71 and I have been using Linux-only laptops for 14 years. Pre-Linux days were the dark ages of my computing experience. I wasted so much of my life with Windows. I used to dread those untimely updates that used to ruin my apps and the data. I never seemed to have enough RAM or hard disk or enough processing power. A re-boot took forever. Regular fresh installation was a must. MacBook was a great improvement. But the flexibility and openness of Linux beat the pants off those. An ordinary cheap laptop with a fresh installation of Ubuntu flies like a bird. I never need to worry about big RAM or huge disk etc. I have created my own help files and ways of accessing all options and flags of commands and their examples with just a few clicks and key presses. I love learning new tips and tricks every day even though I know I will never master it fully. I don't waste time encouraging people to switch over to Linux. It is astonishing how much fear there is among even the young people to try a new operating system.
Enable AUR: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

You could also try Fedora, I ran that for a while and it's also really good.
Generally in the UK cars get scrapped because they failed their MOT. Everything tested during an MOT (except emissions, which I've never seen fail) is also present on electric cars. It's basically checking brakes, suspension, lights and body rust.

Maybe there'll be less mechanics, but I doubt they'll disappear because they can't do engine work. Engines are super reliable these days - it's the stuff around them which develops problems.
I did call out the major flaw in the response (always jam tomorrow, never jam today) and elaborated on it, with examples or other technologies.

At no point did I say "this is a lie".

You can disagree with my factual rebuttal of the response, but you are also factually incorrect that I was doing some sort of shitposting.
Yeah, two things highly correlated with overdoing alcohol for me are worse sleep (irrespective of going to bed early, I'll sometimes get reflux for example) and clearest of all are anxiety attacks. I'll sometimes wake up with a sense of unshakeable doom (which in turn could lead to some suboptimal behaviours), but cutting out booze reduces these occurrences basically to _zero_, even on my worst, most stressful days thinking about problems at home or work.

Not going to claim it's all been plain sailing, and I don't really want or intend to maintain a permanent state of sobriety, but the article certainly matches my experience, and having hard evidence really helps.
Yes, the production is one thing, but whaat i wantex to say is:
1. Germany is plan to shutdow all atomic
2. They dont plan to build any new coal
Very much this. I want to talk to the people running the servers. Consensus, Ledger, etc... servers. I want to know who owns what percentage of those servers. I stumbled into this question when watching people go through the development process of implementing blockchain and a few lights came on. It isn't clear to me that web3 could not actually run by the same banking cartels and that they are not just using web3 as a way to side step some regulations, insurance and other protections that have been baked into the banking industry over a long period of battle hardening and mishaps.

People speak of blockchain as if distributed encryption makes it impossible for malfeasance but like any implementation of encryption the devil is in the implementation details and can render encryption into obfuscation by math. Coordinated out-of-band communication between the distributed servers could lead to collusion and that is why knowing who runs these servers matters and that is just the first step.
GS didn't fail and didn't want to take any money from the government but the treasury secretary Hank Paulson forced them to. They paid it back with interest.
Another long term (and equally hidden) consequence is the loss of critical educational development in children. We adults can toss off 2 years because it's just a drop in the bucket to us, but 2 years for a child represents a potentially staggering setback in their mental development.
A+ sarcasm
There was a movement in my town to push back school start times. However, there are some non-immediately-obvious consequences. Due to limited school buses, school start times need to be staggered, so the options were either to push all school start times back or swap school start times so adolescents start later and younger students start earlier. Pushing all start times back would have resulted with some schools ending around 6pm or 7pm, and swapping start times would have elementary schoolers arriving home before their middle/high schooler babysitters. While it still could have been all worked out, the district came to the conclusion that it would require too large a logistical shift to be practical.
Yeah, but real life doesn't really work efficiently with backup plans, that's the problem.

For efficiency what we do is we centralize and wherever possible we add safeguards and controls to the central authority, as auditors call them, mitigations.
An ADHD symptom does not require the patient to have ADHD.
As much as that sounds like a nice idea ICE and BEV are so fundamentally different I think it’s incredibly unlikely.

To properly take advantage of BEVs the drive chain is very different resulting in an incompatible mechanical structure. Also battery’s are very heavy (BEVs are significantly heavier than their ICE equivalents) which is why the battery’s are placed as low as possible. Retrofitting battery’s into ICE to make a BEV would result in a very bad and potentially dangerous weight distribution.

That’s not to say there aren’t components from an ICE that can’t be reused if they haven’t reached the end of their useful life (much of the interior for example). However there is already a good scrap market for these and so I think it’s unlikely manufactures will do it themselves.
I’m not clear how a type system would pick up a missing comma in a list of strings, unless the type was specific enough that the contents of the list or the length was encoded in the type.
Ah I understand, thank you for clarifying!
I've heard it referred to as "affluenza"
When reading the reference to "internally maintained technology" as opposed to open source, at an investment bank, I was reminded of this eye-opening HN post, "An Oral History of Bank Python", https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104047 . Which goes into quite a bit more detail (perhaps on similar/same things?) than an intern with an NDA would be comfortable sharing.

Pretty wild stuff.
Not to mention injecting themselves into the second-hand battery market, which I suspect is going to be huge.
> I could only truly stop playing it when I completely internalized the fact that the game didn't bring me anything except misery

Being cognizant of this was among the first steps to curbing addiction for me, but I found that I would quickly forget when my mind was in pursuit mode. Anticipation creates a large spike in dopamine - I've shaken in anticipation, you've got blinders on at that point. I needed the discipline to avoid entertaining the thought of cravings and take myself out of situations, offer alternatives even. When I was stressed or sleepless is when this was hardest. Eventually your baseline dopamine levels improve, and you find more motivation and focus for everyday life. It can get better with most other things remaining equal, which in my experience was beyond my imagination until I lived it.
I would say wood pellets are a grey area, similar to nuclear power. On one side, if the pellets are produced from wood that can't be used for other purposes and from responsibly managed forests, they're better than burning fossil fuels. On the other side, if they are produced from cutting down virgin rainforests and are then shipped halfway around the world, that's definitely not good.
Thinking that nuclear fission stations would lead to super cheap power is somewhat naive. Nuclear power stations are incredibly expensive to build. There is the cost of fuel, decomissioning and ongoing costs for waste disposal - note that most of this is not spent fuel rods, but things like PPE which can only be used for a certain amount of time.

Wind and solar have at times pushed wholesale prices negative in Germany in the past - that doesn't necessarily translate to a cost for users (ie homeowners). I'm not super familiar withWe really need much better local storage so that people can soak up excess power, or fabled smart appliances that communicate properly to use electricty at an appropriate time.

One issue is if you run a power plant which is difficult to shut off quickly, or the time to start up is also prohibitive. You might choose to take the hit and pay for the grid to take your power, rather than shutdown and lose out when demand increases in the future. If I understand correctly, this cost is sometimes passed to consumers (e.g. if your supplier owns the plant). So consumers actually lose when prices go negative - indeed if you have your own generators, in theory you should also be paying to supply the grid when demand is negative if you don't disconnect your feed. What should happen in an ideal world is you'd store/use it locally (say charge your car up).

See https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/windy-february-drove-re...

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/why-power-prices-...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266679242...
Not only is it making some very bad actors very wealthy for centuries to come, think of all the political power in play to ensure it continues forever.

I mean they still allow/use LEADED fuel in aircraft everywhere in 2022 despite everything horrifying we know about that now. It's not just a lack of care for health of a population, there has to be some serious profit/politics in that decision.

Electrons can have so many flexible sources and all can be relatively local.

Stop subsidizing burning things, make it cost what it really costs.
The Look of Gentrification
Land of Lisp [0] is a book where you learn Common Lisp through coding up games.

I picked it up and it was very good read. I had to abandon it less than halfway because of other responsibilities that I have. I very much plan to go back it. This book is very good, and I recommend it.

SICP is always a classic and worth going through in any stage of your life.

There are also suggestions in Common Lisp website for books [1].

[0]: http://landoflisp.com/

[1]: https://lisp-lang.org/books/
Cars are currently used beyond 10 years which is more than the 3 cycles talked about here. Almost reads like a scheme to cut of the long tail.