skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farm equipment gets passed down from the big operators to the small operators through its depreciating lifetime.

The big operators running new couldn't care less. They keep stuff for a year, two at the most, and off it goes to the next farm. New equipment is least likely to break and when it does it is the manufacturer's problem to fix it. Also, the first generation operators are quite likely to lease the equipment, so it is not even theirs to worry about.

The slightly smaller second generation owners are still likely under warrantee and the machines are new enough that they shouldn't be breaking down in any meaningful capacity. Especially when it comes to the electronics. While they might have a mechanic on staff, it's just as easy to contract that out to the dealer.

It's the third, fourth, fifth generation owners that are more concerned. They start to buy the equipment when it has some age on it, starting to wear out, is more likely to break and isn't under warrantee. They also are more likely to want to fix it themselves.

It's easy to say don't buy Deere, but if that's all the bigger operators bought when they were new, there won't be anything else on the used market. The other manufacturers haven't been able to carve out a market of machines that can serve those smaller farmers with new equipment.

It is all very theoretical at the moment, though. This is not a problem today. There are plenty of options on the used market, with no signs of that changing, and even if you do end up with a Deere fixing it yourself hasn't been a problem to this point. But there is worry from some that things will change in the future.
I always found it interesting that sqlite was released into the public domain only a few days after 9/11. Surely, this was not a coincidence.
Stop lying. Trump never claimed that the pandemic was a "democrat hoax".

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-ap-f...

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize his response to the pandemic without making things up.

The current thinking is that mutations are most likely to occur in immunocompromised patients who experience prolonged infections. I encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated, but vaccines are less effective in those with malfunctioning immune systems.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...

I'll leave you with another Biden quote from October 2020: "220,000 Americans dead. If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this. Anyone who's responsible for not taking control — in fact, not saying, I take no responsibility, initially — anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America."

We're up to 900K deaths now. Is it fair to blame Biden for failing to get it under control? Probably not, but he never hesitated to blame his predecessor. Politics is never fair.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/...
gRPC is HTTP/2. I'd say its more of a situation that you need to "upgrade" 1.1 clients.

See https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.17.4/configuration/h.... NGINX isn't necessary unless you need it in addition for some connection handling / performance concerns. Otherwise the gRPC handling I believe is best with just Envoy alone.
> Further evidence that crypto is truly a cancer on software.

Yes, on the bastion of healthy software that is...third party antivirus(!?)
If you're using AWS you should just create separate accounts for each environment. This doesn't solve the issue of a compromised release orchestrator deploying malicious code to production. But it is helpful for other reasons: it reduces single points of failure, IAM policies becomes harder to over-scope, etc.
If there is a plea bargain (which happens most of the time) there is no need for testimony. When my checks were stolen from the mail (1990's, Los Angeles area) an officer just called me to see if I was aware of the suspect. I heard nothing more from him afterwards.
None of this matters.

This is literally[1] burning $300,000 to save $100. No matter how well you optimise that $300K, it will never ever EVER be less than $100. It can't possibly be, that would break the laws of physics and you'd have essentially a perpetual motion (free energy) machine.

If you have 'x' units of carbon (coal), which you burn to make 'e(x)' units of energy and some CO2, turning the resulting CO2 back into 'x' units of carbon will always take more than 'e(x)' units of energy. There is no magical future science that can enable this. It's a fundamental law of thermodynamics!

If it were possible, then you could turn 'x' units of carbon back into 'x' units of carbon PLUS have some free energy left over by running the above in a loop. That's absurd. That's literally a perpetual motion machine. You could start with one ton of carbon and never need more to make infinite energy.

There is an endless series of "science" papers like this published every year, because it gets funding and attention from people that just don't understand that "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch". They're a total waste of time, and have the same logic as trying to power your ceiling lights by using solar cells as your wallpaper and then connecting the lights to the wallpaper. Isn't that brilliant!? The photons from the ceiling lights will produce electricity in the solar cells, which in turn will power your lights! Never pay electricity bills ever again!

NOTE: There are ways of capturing (not "un-burning"!) carbon dioxide and trapping it for less energy that was released by burning the carbon that went into it. That's fundamentally different, and potentially economically viable.

[1] Literally! Not figuratively! This process literally burns expensive gallium metal to produce cheap carbon and burnt gallium (gallium oxide).
Estimate the amount of energy to move the volume of materials not there anymore.
Yes and no, with the marriages. Marriages in foreign jurisdictions are recognized, so people just take the hop to Cyprus and marry there, if they need to. This is just a technicality, in practical terms.

We are not a state that is governed by clergy, there is a free press and independent courts, there is a competitive political process, therefore your assertion that we are not a 'secular western state' isn't true either.

It is not an exclusively secular state, like France; but other, more mixed models do exist, in practice.
Speaking of "free" google services - I found it interesting that the free covid home testing kits signup links by the USPS have google advertising links.

https://special.usps.com/testkits
Yes, carbonates of alkaline earth metals (e.g. magnesium and calcium) are solids at STP and more stable than carbon dioxide. See section 7.2.2 "Chemistry of mineral carbonation" in this IPCC report:

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/srccs_chapte...

Even at the low partial pressure of atmospheric CO2 and at ambient temperature, carbonation of metal oxide bearing minerals occurs spontaneously, though on geological time scales (Robie et al., 1978; Lasaga and Berner, 1998). Limitations arise from the formation of silica or carbonate layers on the mineral surface during carbonation that tend to hinder further reaction and to limit conversion (Butt et al., 1996) and from the rate of CO2 uptake from the gas phase in the case of aqueous reactions. The challenge for mineral carbonation is to find ways to accelerate carbonation and to exploit the heat of reaction within the environmental constraints, for example with minimal
energy and material losses.
They used to be bigger though. I think around 20 megatons.
Yes, that's the difference between American morse vs International morse.

see http://www.jhbunnell.com/morsecode.shtml
Air moves.
We see here another example of why Valve is investing so heavily into Linux and Steam Deck.

* Sony is focused on their PlayStation walled garden.
* Microsoft is consolidating more resources around Game Pass and the Xbox store.
* Mobile is a large and rapidly growing segment, which Steam isn't able to capture.
* Epic is pouring money into its own store.

Valve needs a backup plan to stay relevant in the 5-10yr time horizon. If the Steam Deck can take off, that might serve as enough incentive to keep games available on Steam and away from Windows exclusivity where MS might start building a walled garden.
> IRC Nvidia being permanently banned from Apple platforms for early announcing something

may also be the major issues with their chipset.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203254
Going to depend on what you like. But my favorite modern games have been Rimworld, Skyrim (still part of the internet era), and Planet Zoo. I love how all of these games provide hundreds of hours of possible gameplay without getting stale.

And if you have VR, Pavlov has been the most fun I have ever had gaming. It looks like a CSGO clone on the surface but it becomes the most absurd/surreal experience ever with custom maps. It's almost like playing laser tag in one of those optical illusion room of mirrors type attractions.
which is funny, because 10 megatons intrinsically conveys scale. it's equivalent to 10 million tons of TNT.
Please don’t try to come up with solutions. At best they will be hopelessly naive or worst: dystopian nightmare worlds. Giving any credence to the idea that E2E w/ side channels is acceptable should be rejected strongly.

What you are proposing is a pluggable censorship module that can identify any forbidden speech and report back to the authorities. It will take less than 16 months for every regime to co-opt for their own aims. It will indirectly lead to the deaths of thousands of dissidents.
1. MS buys many game studios (especially those with popular IPs)
2. Puts these titles on Game Pass. Now in the long run, they don't need to sign deals for these IPs to be on Game Pass because they own them, they get their return on investment.
3. More and more games on Game Pass, MS is able to keep its ridiculously good value because they aren't forking out as much to put games on there (because they own the titles). Game Pass subs increase at an even higher rate.
4. Game Pass exclusives, even on PC. More people subbing just for exclusives. At this stage Game Pass is so popular fewer people care that this happens.
5. Other studios feel pressured that their games aren't on the most popular platform, which is no longer Steam on PC, and no longer the digital stores on consoles, it's Game Pass everywhere. They sign deals with MS to get their games on Game Pass.
6. Indie games are losing their ability to be seen on traditional stores due to loss of marketshare. At this point, MS makes it even easier to publish games to Game Pass and indie games take advantage of this.

Simple timeline of what will happen. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Microsoft embraced gaming, including the openness of the PC platform, and now are in the process of extending it with Game Pass and its value. They will eventually turn to the final E.

They probably won't be a pure monopoly, competitors will pop up, but it'll be an all subscription world and Game Pass will be the Steam of this world, except not just for PC and Xbox but for most platforms they can get their service to work on.

We will no longer own our games. Eventually Game Pass will be cloud only and the files won't even sit on our devices. And the worst part is no one cares, not now or in the future. Everyone just wants access to the latest games at the cheapest cost. And clearly the US government (I'm not a US citizen nor do I live there fyi) does not care to lift a finger against something in this sector.

I hate to suck up to another company, who itself does many bad things, but I hope Valve is able to keep the PC platform open for at least as long as I care to play video games. It's out of their own self interest, but they've done wonders for the Linux community and contract some great people to improve linux gaming for everyone, not just them. And they're releasing hardware that isn't locked down. Honestly, I hate to feel good about what a big company like Valve is doing, but I'm greatful.
As a dramanaut and troll I salute you good sir. May your internet interactions be only pleasant, may your desk fan blow cool in the summer, and may internet denizens heap praises and blessings upon your name wherever ye go, wherever ye be signed in and whenever ye post.
New code builds on a pyramid of legacy (internal and external) code. As painful as it may be, learning how to work with legacy code is a critical skill for most new projects or features.

When you encounter issues requiring a deep dive into stack traces, you will find sloppy code that is no longer maintained and can no longer be traced to a source (frustrating!). You will also find elegant code that has worked for decades with minimal issues (amazing!).
It takes time and money. The idiots that wrecked up the Capitol and tried to kill a sitting Vice President (all while recording thousands of hours of video footage) are just now being prosecuted, a year later.
Interesting. I’ve been idly speccing out a Linux workstation from System76 to replace my 8-year-old PC but maybe I should look into the Simula One. An evolution of form as well as function. Thought oculus would be too low-resolution for this sort of thing. I’m pretty finicky about my keyboard height/monitor height/monitor distance ergonomics and this would take care of a lot of problems that are quite difficult to solve in meatspace, especially if you want to lie down.

At this point it’s a race for who builds the first sensory deprivation tank VR workstation I guess.
welcome to the real world
But is it pronounced "Ee-gore" or "Eye-gore"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyU99BCNRuU
One security measure effective against a simple class of GPS spoofing is to check against the satellites' epheremi.

For example, if your RX tells you that bird #7 is part of your location fix, but it knows from prior valid ephemeris data that that bird is currently below your horizon, the bogosity indicator will flash red. Ditto with certain pull-off spoofing methods.
I was exaggerating a bit for effect.

I consider my time for a day off work, travel to court, preparation, irritation, etc more than the value of the TV, and they probably wouldn't pay me damages for those things.

The point is that I shouldn't have to do that as an individual for every purchase.

We need a blanket rule that they can't remotely modify purchased items in a way that cannot be rolled-back by the consumer to the functionality at the time of purchase.
Scott Manley has a great video about it talking about the atmospheric pressure recorded during the eruption and it is amazing to watch the pressure wave travel around the world.
I feel like plan9 nerds (of which I’m one) are missing the point. People are asking “what’s so special about plan9?” and the best response is some esoteric point about a thing people empirically don’t want to do? Who cares?

There has to be a better answer than “Wow, I can make my computer that can’t run anything people want to run secure in a hypothetical hierarchical organization structure of permissions that can each have their own subtree sudo. I even call it treedo, ha-ha!” .. it just doesn’t resonate.
Can someone summarize what allowed nginx to surmount the C10K problem? Was it some clever trick or just good software design?
Carbon, when combined with oxygen to for CO2, releases energy in the form of heat. It's why we burn carbon in the first place - to get the energy.

Turing CO2 back into C and O2 will require adding at least as much energy as was released in its formation.

Where is this energy coming from?
They're found virtually everywhere in Florida.
"Tell me about want to kick my ass."
sounds strange, I would have expected a Java Android app with jni calls to c/c++ through Android ndk
Because it's such an easy task for an individual to sue a company and an entire team of lawyers?
Probably when you get paid to do work in the field
Embalming is from which tradition? We are all descendants of Egyptian Pharaohs then…in which case, where are the pyramids?!
What about just forcing them to open the API to search competitors?
Interestingly, many of the plants on that list are toxic to some degree. Many take repeated boiling, or can only be eaten in small quantities (eg. Ginkgo).

I mentioned Sacks in the article — he has a fascinating book on cycad toxicity: https://www.oliversacks.com/books-by-oliver-sacks/island-col...
I'm not fluent, but I've been studying for 3 years now. I hate when people use latin characters to 'sound out' russian words. When I see Cyrillic, my brain immediately switches to Russian. When it's latin sounding out Russian, it takes a stupid amount of time for me to realize and comprehend what they are trying to say.
I think it’s going to take you forever and a half to hire someone. But I do agree with no leetcode.
the pervasive internet attitude that "it's just stuff, who cares? it's insured" certainly isn't helping matters either.
Vc - Vr < 0 <=> 1 < Vr / Vc

What kind of information the ratio gives you that the difference doesn’t?
> Arab citizens can vote and participate, and there are Arab parties in Israeli government.

This point is scarcely more than a deflection; the fulcrum of Israel's apartheid regime consists primarily in which Arabs are permitted to be citizens, and in particular those whose parents and grandparents were violently driven from Israel's current territory in what Palestinian Arabs call the Nakba [1]. The Israeli government blatantly wants to both claim the right to authorize violence in the occupied territories and blame the nominal governments of those territories for that violence. And however you want to frame the conflict philosophically, the practical reality is that the IDF has vastly more capacity to enact violence than do Hezbollah or Hamas. When was the last time either of them leveled a 10+-story apartment building in Israel [2]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

[2] https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/05/12/gaza-al-shorouk-...
I recently visited my ex-girlfriend, who is part Navajo, when passing through the city she lives in now and we had a good laugh about this. When we were dating, she never talked about being Native American because she didn’t think it would benefit her in any way. We actually argued about whether she should apply for the Native American scholarships available to her and she was against it at the time. But, since the Democratic Party identity politics craze began, she warmed up to the idea and now she shamelessly uses it to her advantage. I hate identity politics and so does she, but I was pleased to learn she became comfortable with it for her own sake. In her case, she never passed for white anyhow.
The downside is that whatever you can find to buy is ripped off from whoever invented it, usually neglecting rudiments of quality control.
I would assume that we have some sort of planetary defense systems by that point.
Ha, I didn’t read it like that but now I see it totally could have been a reference.
So use that energy directly. Why burn carbon, release CO2, capture the CO2, and use the sun to turn it back into carbon?
Anti-BDS "laws" are the most idiotic culture-war bullshit the American political system has come up with in the past five years. Secondary boycotts imposed by contract terms were illegal decades ago, and so all these new "laws" are entirely symbolic. It's the worst kind of political red meat, too, because both sides take the bait as if something was actually happening.
An article by the Defence Secretary on the situation in Ukraine
immunization wouldn't function as a form of evolutionary pressure?
A friend of mine worked with systems like this - and this was decades ago - said the pre-installed deals were very lucrative. decades ago it was > $50/machine

Nowadays there's also the automated data-collection, remote telemetry and troubleshooting, "know your customer", etc.

That said, the remote lenovo stuff is a whole different level
I'm kinda surprised that canned tomato soup contains actual tomatoes :)

We don't get Campbell here but the soup I got a few times has for this unrealistic red colour that stains my microwave cover. Doesn't seem natural at all. Homemade soup doesn't do that.
No. That doesn't follow at all, and I wish people would stop repeating this overclever "proof".

Burning fossil fuels for energy: hydrocarbon + O2 -> atmospheric CO2 + other stuff

Sequestration: atmospheric CO2 -> not-amospheric-CO2 e.g. solid C + other stuff

Notice that those are not exact reverses of each other, so there is no requirement that the energy released in one be the same quantity as the energy absorbed in the other.

Hydrocarbon fuels have very high Gibbs free energy. Solid carbon does not. We're only trying to get the CO2 out of the atmosphere, not return it to the form of the original fuel that was burned. Therefore, sequestration can potentially require less energy than was originally released from burning the hydrocarbons.
These days the cool kids love to call reverse proxies "load balancers" (when you have n>1 backends).
This.

I did an experiment to make the algorithm think I'm left wing on alternate accounts.

Not to much time passed before my feed was filled with the most hideous and stupid things some "right wing" people did.

It is the same on my primary accounts but the other way around.

No wonder we hate each other.
You said they live in the “wealthy” part of the city. The point being, even in wealthy places like Manhattan in NYC or SoMa in SF there’s plenty of petty crime. In other words, crime is not exclusive to non-wealthy neighborhoods.
A slow death over 10+ years can happen whatever Intel does. Doesn't make this a particularly big cojones move either.

One needs quite a crystal ball to predict such slow deaths, especially when it's going to be decade where chip production improvements are expected to slow down further and further. Finally, a slow death looks even more likely anyway if Intel doesn't change their ways.
Apparently there are quite a few in the Portland area. Someone has been mapping them.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=142zMsWAyuf9uYKGu7t...
Where can I get data on trending textbook sales?
I'm looking for a service I can query to get the most popular math textbooks every semester or so.

Does Amazon or Ebay have some sort of API I can query? I haven't found anything and I'm assuming this kind of data is valuable, so it's kept private. If so, what suggestions do you guys have for a one man show to get data on popular math textbooks for high school and college students?

Thanks!
A lot of research has been done on this. For most people their IRL social circle is a much smaller and stronger bubble than what their online presence is exposed to. Even a classic “echo chamber” online is likely to expose most people to greater diversity of thought than their offline life does.

For more reading on this I suggest “Breaking the Social Media Prism”

Also note: research shows anon accounts tend to result in more nuanced and less partisan discussion.
i'm glad i didn't buy a copy, even though i loved the original diablo 2

blizzard is dead, diablo is dead, it'll be very challenging for microsoft to make profits with that company
I agree with you there, but you won’t get it if you don’t force them to refund you. Things will just continue as they are.
Gallium is not cheap. Indium is almost as expensive. As a way to extract small amounts of carbon, this does not look cost-effective.
the same tools that thieves are using to steal catalytic converters all over california too.
Deterrence is the stick sure, but the carrot is social programs to grow people out of the need to steal in the first place.

Most people don't want to steal, but many more do because they feel they have to.

You can't deter someone from putting food on their family's table, putting a roof over their head, or getting sound sleep.
ask and you shall receive: https://gtowizard.com/ (go to the "practice" section for what you are looking for)