skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to me that the US cente roof population is still moving west. Even between 2010 and 2020 there’s a notable shift.
Sounds like maybe Apple underestimated the risks.
About 10 years ago my Mom got cancer, and she was treated with Rituximab. She's alive and well, and cancer free, today. She literally owes her life to Big Pharma. Rituximab came to market in 1998. It's quite likely that my Mom's disease would have been a death sentence in 1997.
I mean come one, are we really going to argue that huge numbers of people are just fooling themselves into thinking that alcohol is fun? Yes. It is actually true that alcohol consumption makes many social situations more fun for many people.
Please no.

Back in the 90's I worked on a concrete crew for a summer. Building big box store type buildings. They pour the floor, then pour the walls on top of the floor, then tip the walls up and weld them together with metal flanges embedded in the concrete.

Nearly everyone on the crew did meth (except like 2 guys, I was one). Often work would start like 3:00 AM to prevent rapid drying. No lunch to speak of. Expected to literally run on the job site from one task to another. I suppose there may have been potential labor complaints but they never happened or weren't investigated.

It wasn't unusual for people to burn out and just not show up. That was part of the calculus I think by management. One guy fell asleep in his truck and could not be woken up (after presumably being up for a few days).

I quit after a few months but later saw my (low level) supervisor at a restaurant. He was alone and didn't look good. He told me how his life had gotten increasingly out of control and he had tried to kill himself (before finding Jesus per his words).

Company didn't care. They were making money. They turned a blind eye to what was going on. The human wreckage generated was awful however.

You think if meth is legal over the counter this won't be more prevalent? I'm pretty sure it will. Meth kills, and not just the body.
Setting aside tradition/ritual, which I don't think should count for nothing, I can think of many objective metrics on which alcohol is superior:

- Flavor

- Fills the stomach (can be a disadvantage too, but is advantageous in some situations, e.g. while waiting for dinner to be served at a party)

- Doesn't consume itself (i.e you can set down a drink and come back to it 30 minutes later)

- Easy to consume a small amount without substantially altering your mental state.

- No fire/burn risk

- Doesn't generate smoke/odor, which is unpleasant for other people and gets in your clothes/furniture
I have been turning off the menu bar for quite some time because I get distracted easily and any content that's not necessary just gets in the way.

That said, you can always call it up as a pop-up menu.
We just elected a district attorney in Manhattan who has adopted a policy that he will not seek imprisonment for charges of simple assault.
We have been consuming alcohol long before we even became Homo - even 10 million years back we were seeking out rotting fruits on the forest floor.
Which Dutch tech companies are those? None maintain Linux distros AFAIK.

After a decade of Ubuntu I spend 2021 distrohopping, and found my new home at Opensuse. Tumbleweed really is the bleeding edge without the blood for me. Leap is an excellent choice for more appliancy machines.
> Generating pre-signed URLs for file upload or download was quite a bit slower,

I'd be shocked if generating pre-signed URLs required talking to the Backblaze server, that should be something done totally in client code.

However, even with AWS S3, I discovered that the official AWS ruby SDK client was much slower that it could/should be at generating pre-signed URLs (and even just public URLs!), and was able to write my own ruby code to be significantly faster.

https://github.com/jrochkind/faster_s3_url

I'm curious for the specifics on what code you were using to generate pre-signed URLs for file upload or download with backblaze, and what you are comparing it to when you say it's a lot slower. It could be un-optimized code, but whose "fault" it is depends on what code it is, open source etc.
And I think that's exactly the point. Cryptocurrency promoters endlessly talk up how it's part of a decentralized wave of the future. But in practice it's quite centralized, and the incentives point in that direction for the future. That's one of the points made very well recently by Moxie Marlinspike: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
Fix the parts that are likely to cause the most damage in a hard freeze:
- Insulate your walls at the areas you have exposed pipes using something like closed-cell foam or rockwool.
- Know how to evacuate your sprinkler/pool water lines.
- Know where the water main comes in and how to turn it off.
- Flush your water heater regularly to that it retains max capacity/efficiency when the power is cut.

If you know the freeze is coming and have bathtub(s). Fill them up ahead of time, you may need them for water for flushing.

Spend money to properly insulate the windows/doors. This helps for the awful TX summers too.
Get an IR therm gun and find the leaky spots in the house and get them fixed.
Insulate the garage and garage door. If the water heater is in a closet in the garage, insulate the closet.

Spare propane tank(s) for the grill if you have electric cooktops in the house.

Get a powerwall/generac like unit for the house that'll give you a longer runway if power is lost.

Have an electrician wire in a tap on your main to allow cutover from city to a plugin generator.

Keep sleeping bags on hand.

For clothing; mitts, wool socks/hats, down jacket, over jacket/pants or shell.

Keep a set of chains for your car, no one in TX has winter tires. (chains are illegal in TX, but I'd still use them in an emergency)

A couple water filtration units like a Brita. If you lose water and run out of bottled water you may need to drink the bathtub water.
Ask HN: What's the best device for reading technical books?
Lately I have been reading many technical books — e.g. O'Reilly — and am looking for a better e-reader experience.

Right now I read either on my MBP, which has the advantage of large screen real estate, or my iPhone, which is portable. Both have high-DPI screens so the text is crisp. I had a Kindle Paperwhite (now dead) that was much, much better for eyestrain.

So what's a good compromise between these? Ideally an e-ink tablet with high DPI for text and illustrations?
> The answer is none because it negatively affects all physical ability.

Wrong. I can think of a few off the top of my mind who still have alcohol in their system while competing/training.

- Arnold Schwartzenegger
- Jon Jones and various other ufc fighters
- olympic athletes in the olympic village according to news sources

more here.. https://firstwefeast.com/drink/2015/08/athletes-drinking-hab...

Also note, physical ability isnt the only thing involved in high level performance. Ive had a couple beers before doing gymnastics before, and while it made me more disoriented i was less inhibited and actually performed better that day.
> “worse things are legal” is not a good reason.

Seems pretty excellent to me. Things should be arranged on numerically indexed scale from benign to deadly. We should identify a point on that scale where illegality begins, and everything to the left is legal.
> it's more like a linter than a separate language

I wish people wouldn't think like this; it's very possible to write perfectly acceptable JavaScript that's fundamentally terrible TypeScript. By "fundamentally terrible", I mean unnecessarily untypeable, or unnecessarily difficult to type. If you're just writing your usual JavaScript without thinking about the types just figuring you'll "lint" it later with tsc to catch some bugs, if you aren't thinking in TypeScript from the jump, you're likely to make your life much more unpleasant down the line. It's similar to the relationship between C and C++.
>So what standards should Apple have adopted?

If there was no suitable standard then they should have created one. Either that, or support all major platforms.

>Companies compete with one another, making products and offering services to attract customers. Why is this unintelligent and narrow minded when it's Apple?

Because it's classic short-termism for the narrowest financial reasons, showing no creativity or vision whatsoever. They prioritised locking in some U.S based users at the cost of creating an oppportunity for the likes of Facebook to serve the overwhelming majority of users for whom Apple's offering is useless.

I have no problem in principle with proprietary software that is only available on a single platform. What I find unintelligent and even offensive as a customer is choosing this approach to create this specific type of software that so obviously requires a different approach.

For me, iMessage and FaceTime do not add value. It's preinstalled crapware that causes massive security issues.
I'm all for Pfizer getting recognition for their work, investment and success, but it is a bit frustrating that other people and institutions involved are not getting any at all.

Specifically, I'm aware that Argonne National Laboratory[1] was involved in the discovery and development of this molecule, and I think we can safely assume there are other public institutions and universities involved as well.

This is just one more reason why people get alienated from the importance of public institutions they fund, and the importance of universities and academia.

[1] https://www.aps.anl.gov/APS-News/2021-11-06/aps-and-imca-cat...
Yes, it's sold under the brand name Desoxyn.
The issue I see with KeePass as an standard password format is that, afaik, it does not have the native concept of OTP which is critical these days. I understand some developers have come up with ways to store the needed information to generate the OTP in some of the metadata fields. But that does not guarantee OTP interoperability between different Keepass implementations accessing the same Keepass database.

For example, using MacPass I can access my KeePass DB managed by Strongbox from iCloud Drive but the OTP field seems to be opaque to MacPass, it does not know what to do with it.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29936237 (6 days ago)
Patents are like a brake that society applies to itself, only to enrich lawyers.

And there are certain countries that are not dissuaded by patents, where innovation will not stop. For a while at least.
I would argue that by you giving the torch to crypto.com as the company that caters to casual users that "just wanna invest and get rich", it is indeed one of the apexes of the industry. A product successfully marketing a fringe and specialized technology to the average consumer is just that.
‘White Hat’ Hacker Returns $1M Stolen in Crypto Theft Disaster
>How does one learn how to do this?

It's not something you can learn in a fortnight. You first have to learn C and Assembly for the architecture you're using, then you need to study how different OSs on different hardware manage to make themselves boot and then you need to use this knowledge to study the SoC's documentation and implement the stuff there. If documentation were perfect maybe you'd only need to know how to program and simply follow the specification, but in these cases experience with a large number of cases is a must to navigate the environment.
I suspect that the manufacturers are frightened that someone will undercut them if they conform to an open standard.
But if the person they attacked dies, arresting the attacker after the fact doesn't bring them back to life. Do you also think DUI should be legal until you get in a crash?
It doesn't need to be "an alternative to iPhones and Android devices" right now. It just needs to be somewhat usable by developers; since those are the ones improving and fixing things, writing new drivers and applications, etc. Those things will be necessary for a 'consumer oriented product'.

For example, it would be unacceptable on an 'iPhone alternative' to, say, have to tweak shell scripts to set the right driver options, or whatever. However, developers might find that OK (although annoying).
As a developer, I really have a love-hate relationship with Dynamo. I love how fast and easy it is to setup and get rolling.

The partitioning scheme came off as confusing and opaque but I think that says more about Amazon's documentation than the scheme itself.

I do not like that there's no really third party tooling integration to be able to query. Their UI in the console is _so freaking terrible_ yet you have no other way than code to query it. This problem is so bad that I will avoid using it where I can despite it being a good option, performance-wise.
Hot keys are much lesser of an issue nowadays. It'd been a big one in old DDB architectures.

I'd say requiring scans or filters as opposed to queries is one of the biggest issues that can bite your pocket.

Think carefully about how you'll access your data later. You won't be able to change it drastically and cheaply later.
If you use the "pay per request" billing model instead of provisioned throughput, DynamoDB scaling is self-managing, and you can treat your DB as a fire-and-forget key/value store. You need to plan how you'll query your data and structure the keys accordingly, but honestly, that applies even more to S3 than it does to Dynamo.
America in 2022:

>Need ID and face scan to pay banker extortion fees

>Do not need ID to vote
I have an ex colleague working there as lead dev: knowing him, no, they re not at the apex lol
This is as bad as the disastrous Wakefield Autism "study". People will deny alcohol is bad for them for the next 100 years even with multiple studies showing the results.
I think we need studies because there are people who believe the opposite. Growing up, a close friend of mine had a die-hard belief that everyone should have a glass of wine with every meal because it was good for your heart.
Counter-point: Alcohol was key in the creation of the United States.

"In the drink, a dream; and in the dream, a spark."[1]

"...the Founding Fathers despised each other. Like, these bros couldn’t stand the sight of one another and it’s a goddamn miracle our country ever came to be, that’s how much they hated one another."[2]

In 1787, two days before they signed off on the Constitution, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention partied at a tavern. According to the bill preserved from the evening, they drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer and seven bowls of alcoholic punch.[2]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=s3SqDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT9&ots=R...

[2] https://brobible.com/life/article/america-founding-fathers-b...
If think the joke is that author himself don't side with the (mostly pointless) debate about pizza and pineapple, so whatever your own opinion, you can see his point.
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If you wanted to try out such an experience, any recommendations on what makes a good vs. a bad place ? A lot of the websites I found are not very engaging to say the least
Similarly if you really want mass market adoption then you need a Windows port, otherwise most consumer PCs will remain without it, and for mobile adoption you want an iOS port (though Android does at least contribute a sizeable chunk). Porting FreeBSD does, however, not just serve as a PoC but also let you port all the standard third-party software that runs on all Unix-like OSes (most ports need few if any changes, but with tens of thousands of software packages out there it does add up if you want a full set of packages available), as well as being a reference implementation for other CHERI OSes to use when being ported since we'll likely have already encountered most of the friction points they do. Plus FreeBSD has its Linuxulator which provides a binary compatibility layer for Linux binaries, so you could even develop parts of a CHERI GNU/Linux userspace on top of that without a real CHERI Linux kernel implementation (we have a proof of concept port of the Linuxulator, but it's not currently fully fleshed out, in part because there wasn't even a proper CHERI Linux ABI defined by Arm at the time).
PineNote has been out for only a month or so, there are only a few thousand units in total out there and you are surprised there isn't a community yet? The only people who should be buying it these days are those trying to build a community. It isn't Pine's fault you bought something without knowing what state it was.
WTF are you even talking about?

You were contrasting a world that had about 150,000,000 people living it with today where we have about 7,800,000,000.

It's nothing to do with "class conflict", and all to do with load bearing. As things stand, we only just have the resources to support a fraction of those at Western living standards, and we damned well can't support the billions who haven't achieved them yet as things stand.

So yes, it's all about practicality.

And you and I are amongst the "patricians" already.

Also, don't pretend you know me at all.
Florida bill to ban making white people feel 'discomfort' about racist history
The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options
The 68k series are rather simple designs by today's standard and should be old enough to have lost patent protection. How hard would it be to reimplement the ISA as a Verilog/VHDL softcore?
I think this can be said about any technology, really...
The argument you are making here is not that drugs should be legalized for consistency's sake. The argument you are making is that drugs should be legalized because the dangers of prohibition outweigh the benefits. That is a completely different line of reasoning
How is that relevant? If you want change it to "no amount of driving to the bowling alley is safe".
WiFi 7 (802.11be) will support up to 40 Gbps links, real-time applications
Fortune favors the brave...and also apparently anyone who can circumvent the 2FA protections.
Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Company Is Inching Toward Human Trials
I was unfamiliar with the term, so from the Urban Dictionary:

> wine aunt: An aunt with little to no interest in having children. Has much more interest in having a free and carefree life than the responsibilities of a family.
Backblaze also has an S3-compatible API, so you should be able to use the S3 adapter with backblaze too, instaed of the third-party backblaze-specific adpater using backblaze-specific API. You can use either S3 API or Backblaze API with the same bucket, simultaneously even.
They're focused on heart health so they don't address the fact that alcohol is also a carcinogen. This is sort of a "The sky is falling!" kind of article, but it comes down to, as always: Be aware of the risks in some intuitive way and decide what you want to do.
5 years later, browsing r/all is much worse in other ways. Porn has been de-emphasized, but every other post feels like an outrage post designed to evoke anger, often without any proof, and it's enough to get people completely riled up.
There’s clearly an advantage, but I think it’s pretty minimal. Evading immunity or being more contagious would be a much larger increase in fitness.
The Greek word "δέος" I think describes what you feel. A combination of admiration and fear, but also to recognize the grandeur of a higher power. It's frequently used for spiritual purposes. Awe is the English translation.
Too many positive Covid tests for Dutch government's IT systems to process
Google Map's measurement tool is giving me a hair under 5 miles which beats out Rhode Island.
My server went down unexplainably and I manage to bring it back up. I'll be tailing every single log file I can find until I get a clue of what the problem is.

Am I wrong?
Isn't it more of an American phenomenon though - because of the country's puritan roots?
Ok -- first, let me quote the article:

"Three-hundred and twenty nozzles spewed a cloud of nano-sized droplets engineered to brighten clouds and block sunlight — providing a bit of cooling shade for the coral colonies below."

How big is the Great Barrier Reef?

"approximately 133,000 square miles"

How big is Germany?

"137987.506 square miles"

In other words -- use "cloud brightening" for an area the size of Germany? I would wonder if this is actually a good idea.

How bad is the coral doing? Let's get input from the Australian government":

https://www.aims.gov.au/news-and-media/reef-recovery-window-...

Moderate to High -- without cloud brightening.

Actually, I don't oppose the research. Just be careful if deployments are going to be "at scale".
I used to go to a chiropractor twice a week and it was some of the best $$ I ever used!

Also used to take walks multiple times a day, not any fast/exercise walks, just chill walk around my neighborhood, smell the flowers, look at the neighbors cats, blue sky, breeze, just to be present.

Also, investing in a good chair is totally worth it. I bought mine used so it was like 50% less than new (herman miller, steelcase, et al)

A pull bar has also helped with back pain, just hang from it from time to time.

None of these things are religious or strict regimens for me, I just do them as I feel like it, but the chiropractor and chair BY FAR have been the two best things for my back/neck/shoulder pains

Good luck!
- babies have fun without money

- kids have fun without money

- some teens have fun without money

Then at some point /some/ people, as adults, feel like they need money to enjoy themselves?
Not all -- but some. Syrah tastes better at cellar temp or below (IMO), Gamay usually tastes great chilled also.
If by "version your entire user dir" you mean "version all your manually edited configs", that can work.

Init a git repo in your $HOME, add a .gitignore that by default excludes everything then manually add just the files and folders you want to track.

Especially if you want to publish the repo, be careful, because it's <<extremely>> easy to accidentally expose confidential stuff.
TLDR;

“Libor was the interest rate that banks themselves had to pay, so it offered a convenient base line for the rates they charged customers who wanted to borrow cash to buy a home or issue a security to finance a business expansion.”

“Because Libor relied on self-reported estimates, it was possible for a bank to submit a rate that was artificially high or low, thus making certain financial holdings more profitable.”

“Libor could no longer be used to calculate new deals as of Dec. 31 — more than six years after a former UBS trader was jailed for his efforts to manipulate it and others were fired, charged or acquitted.”
I don't see the point, other news sites are free.
Does anyone know of a good visualization of a hypercube? Specifically, I'd like to be able to rotate it around various axes to see what its shadow looks like in 3D. On that note, a VR rendering might help since a 2D projection overcomplicates the shadow.

It's easy to construct, just build a point, extrude the point out to make a line, extrude the line out to make a square, extrude the square out to make a cube, then extrude the cube out to make a hypercube. It looks like two cubes with the corners connected by lines through a 4th dimension that we can't construct in 3D.

One way to visualize it is to use time, so if you translate a cube from point A to point B, the "extrusion" would be along time and you can kind of visualize that extra "dimension". But what would scaling, rotation, etc along that invisible axis look like? To fully grok it, we'd need to be able to sculpt the hypercube's shadow in 3D as easily as drawing a cube on a piece of paper.

Asking in the hopes of building a mental bridge to 4D and then possibly 5D in order to generalize to higher dimensions.