skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The going rate over here is about 30 Euros for 10ml of 5% solution, which the last time I checked out the current studies, was about the daily amount needed for it to have any effect. That's pretty expensive.
It's crazy, some energy providers like EWS Schönau (https://www.ews-schoenau.de/) don't even take new customers currently because of the volatility in the energy market.
This is fairly similar to my work day. I paint 5+ hours a day and use very small amounts of THC in liquid form with headphones. I get into a flow state where time either slows down or speeds up but I'm rarely "impaired" unless it's accidental. What's maybe a little different than some people is the music I listen to is anything but chill. Death metal, hip-hop, classical, IDM, etc.

I originally started doing this because I've got chronic pain and it helps replace the pain signal. The flow state is an added benefit.
They weren't fined for having their security breached. They were fined for not having adequate security measures in place. Again, under GDPR you can't get fined for simply having your security breached as you claimed earlier.
I agree it's scary, but at the same time I realize fearing it is completely irrational for me. I would assume in a first world country you are much more likely to die of, say, slipping in a shower than of a prion disease.
> That assumes what the initial price wasn't at least x20, though.

Yes, I assume this is true because these companies were profitable businesses charging 2x annual, not 20x, before the move to subscription models. Requiring 20 years of subscription to profit sounds highly risky and not all the kind of thing investors would support.
Yes, you're right. I missed that. A bit of a shame to leave it to the end though.
I definitely see where you're coming from, but viruses do have modes of transmission that evolve over time to counter immune defenses. Unless I'm mistaken, with prions, you either have to ingest infected tissue or apparently prick yourself with a needle with infective material on it.

I don't believe they reproduce in any but the broadest sense either. Don't they just cause other proteins of the same type to misfold as well? It's not really a transfer of genetic material, it's a change in the emergent structure of the protein.
Doing that sort of travel is, for most citizens of the industrialized west, pretty unusual.
This doesn't surprise me, I know there is a great deal of belt tightening going on which is affecting subscriber rates, but I feel there is something more to Netflix's problems. I have recently found choosing what to watch on Netflix has become almost a chore and I more often than not end up jumping on to Youtube after spending 5 minutes scrolling through Netflix titles to no avail.

I think there is plenty of opportunity for Netflix to turn things around and increase profits, especially if they go the way of Theaters and begin running advertisements before streams.(Something that would annoy people I know but a small inconvenience with a huge upside)
Yet, driving has been getting safer and safer with cars that crash better, have monitoring systems, pre collision breaking, etc. This is not possible with drinking.
Give EmEditor[0] a try, I can load gigabytes of text and edit with no issue, it's fast and snappy. Has a bunch of cool features, like visualising CSVs as tables :)

[0] https://www.emeditor.com/
When automobiles came out, Henry Ford (on his 3rd try) managed to perfect mass production. He lowered the cost of production by at least an order of magnitude below that of traditional manufacturers, while producing quality, interchangeable parts.

Eventually, the market saturated, and his competitors shifted to fashion based sales, with model years, etc. Ford resisted, but eventually gave in.

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In programming, the cost of production is effectively zero. There are no disks, boxes, and manuals to produce and ship any more. The costs are in support, and bug fixes (like recalls in cars).

Nobody expects to get next year's model car for free. But if a defect is found that can hurt people or damage the car in a premature manner, the manufacturer is required to recall and repair the defect.

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It seems reasonable for people to want to buy and own their copy of software. Because of the complexity of software, there might be a need for support. It is up to the manufacturer of the software to specify, up front, what support they include in the purchase price, and for how long.

It seems reasonable to want any manufacturing defects to be corrected for no additional cost to the customer.

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It does NOT seem reasonable for a manufacturer to be able to force the rental of a product instead of selling it. IBM was forced out of the exclusively rental business of its hardware for good reasons.

If someone wants to offer their software as a rental, to run on the customer's premises, that's fine, as long as purchase is also an option at a reasonable price.

If software manufacturers don't want to offer a reasonable price purchase, they should be forced out of the rental business by government fiat.
A large market for Starlink are ships and aircraft. It's already been tested in these applications, but commercial usage is pending regulatory approval.

Plus there've been some discussions, and even a signed contact regarding Starlink usage as a backhaul on cell towers.
Link: https://telecoms.com/511313/kddi-to-use-starlink-for-mobile-...
Hey all the vegetarians and vegans will survive
Guys, sorry for the typos. The original title was too long. I needed to replace "First" to "1st" (HN switch back automatically, lol) and try to abbreviate.
I am a dire pothead who only uses their Pax2, but please don't frame accepting "plant vapor" into your lungs as a totally harmless thing. It's still heated organic material that your lungs arn't made to accept.

It's better than smoking, but we need to be responsible and admit that it's not exactly without risk or harm.
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That's why you don't shutdown nuclear plants before having a solid backup plan. Or better not shutdown at all.
They can change their culture such that they socialize over tea or something not harmful.
That would be competition for the upcoming patented nasal anti-viral delivery products - including one where patent was awarded to use repurposed drugs of Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and some other one.
I tend to think the problem is just inherent to business. When business is booming nobody thinks are we going to keep this up? Are there factors that may cause this growth to slow? Generally they just make higher sales targets for next year. I tend to believe the market is just saturated now with exercise equipment. Plus you have a large number of people who didn’t get to keep working from home so unlikely to invest in a expensive piece of equipment. Peloton snagged a large group of management and exec level people at my agency, and they all love to talk about it. Which on the one side is great because they are all working out and trying to stay healthy. But on the other side people who aren’t on the Peloton train don’t give a damn about it and are sick of it coming up at nearly all meetings.
While entirely incurable today (like many other diseases), I suspect that reality is not nearly as terrifying as the story that as painted. A virus is after all your own cells used against you, so its modus operandi of having your body fail yiu is not really that unique.

Articles make it sound like our entire being unwinds in their presence, while the real outcome is likely much less exciting: clumps slowly forming that fail to get cleared and end up causing problems as they accumulate. Fatal and no available cure once there are symptoms, but... Less scary.

(Disclaimer: I, like everyone else in this thread, is not a qualified source of medical information.)
uh... caffeine? That's mind-altering.
I never suggested anything of the sort nor did I imply it. That suggestion was made up by your imagination as my quote was stated before your reply.

My argument is simply this, people can be biased, it's worth it to consider it. That's it. You interpreted as an attack.

I criticize no one. I usually am very amicable on my replies but you literally came at me with a knife calling my argument nonsense. If your response was more mature then mine would be less harsh.

Also why does my argument need data? I made no such claim that the windows UI is better. My claim is that it could be better and that people are biased. The whole point is for people to examine their own biases, and reconsider this thread from a context where you are aware of your own biases.

Looks like for your situation your biases are so ingrained you took it as an attack on your identity. For you the windows UI has to be shit... Otherwise your foundational identity of Microsoft as a corporate clown/villain crumbles.

Objectively, Your argument needs data. You make an extraordinary claim. Give data or your argument is nonsensical.

Additionally: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1196136/Senior-UX-Re...

Check the job description. It implies Microsoft is data driven in their UX research. The incentive exists as this is a multi billion dollar product. It is very very reasonable to say that every UI change Microsoft proposes requires data given that they hire "researchers" for this.

I'm also guessing that Microsoft is aware that there will be backlash against UI changes. It happens every time. What also happens is the animosity against these changes dies down with time. Microsoft of course very likely makes these changes fully aware of this pattern of human behavior.
Does bleach actually denature prions? I thought they were notoriously difficult to destroy
7M or more than 5% of US households are unbanked
Still not sure I get the distinction with prions that you're making.

The essential idea is roughly "we end up with more of the things that replicate more". Despite the redundancy, there is a crucial idea in here. If we allow the use of the word "want" metaphorically then anything that replicates "wants" to reproduce including memes, crystals, prions and computer viruses.

Maybe you're just saying that a prion isn't as good at replicating as a virus? It seems like a difference of degree rather than kind.
Was about to mention Jetbrain's perpetual license system which is the best of both worlds. I greatly appreciate their system.
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I don't know how Microsoft could possibly make pivot tables easier. You can easily learn the basics in half an hour's experimental clicking.

But, I've had a client explicitly request that a report in Excel shouldn't include pivot tables, because they're too difficult. Too difficult to even look at.
What about “can programmatically generate word documents and xlsx files in Python”
The question about English was just because many folks who only speak English don't realize how valuable it is (because they can speak it wherever they go), but also don't realize how other people cherish their own "niche" language. I gather you grew up with English and Welsh and hence have a different perspective.

I agree that there's a mix of cause and effect in what I said. Language and culture are intertwined and I don't know how to describe them in a "systems" perspective (how one affects the other). It's just my experience that language has a lot of the culture embedded in it, and even if you didn't grow up in the culture you acquire some of its traits when you speak it.

> But I don't believe in diversity as an end in itself; if there's some cultural practice that is simply bad and has better alternatives, I think it would be crazy to insist on preserving it just for the sake of it.

Having multiple ways of looking at one situation is enriching by itself. This is because it's a case of not knowing what you don't know, so you a priori you should aim to maximize your exposure to different cultures. There are some exceptions (e.g. I don't think it's worth it to keep or spread the Spanish practice of bullfighting), but they make a small part of what the world's cultures can bring us.
I'm a bit confused.

The draft was just updated two days ago.

Are you saying that the direct mapping requirements I quoted above have been abandoned?
HN seems to think that humans perusing relief from discomfort is an un-natural activity and that any pleasure that doesn't maximize your capitalist output is bad?
Primel – guess a 5 digit prime number – each guess must be a prime
I'm not sure it's entirely correct to refer to this instance by the term of "anthropic reasoning" too, but:

The viruses we see are common because they reproduce, it's not that they reproduce because they have some drive to become common.

Thus prions are less common because they aren't as successful in spreading (for some reason(s) I don't know either).
Glad you found this useful. If you have any performance optimization questions feel free to ask :)
I always wonder how they can be so sure what these things are. In this case, for example, it's described as a "carved grid" and "is hewn into the stone slightly clumsily". Perhaps it was made for storing some specific small item? Or maybe it was used to keep track of something (i.e. move the pebble to the next grid space every time X happens). Or maybe it was just someone bored and carving a design?
To give a more detailed picture than simply saying "nuclear gone, coal&gas usage up":

- Plan was to increase wind/solar electricity by massive amounts while phasing out old nuclear power stations over twenty years

- Plan was hampered by various political parties and lots of nimby's (one conservative state basically outlawed new wind power stations)

- Hence basically nowhere close enough new green electricity generation, while still phasing out nuclear over the last twenty years.

- Prices were shifted around so that private persons had to directly pay for the small amount of subsidies for green electricity, while subsidies for coal/gas were kept the same and paid for via general taxes

- This cost was not paid by companies, hence the total amount was put on the shoulders of private persons

- This all lead to this year where gas/fuel prices went up massively everywhere, so electricity prices went up as well. This isnt a uniquely German problem. This is the case in the whole of Europe.
Also, our chance of getting prions is low, because if it wasn't, we'd be extinct.
I realize the article was supposed to be humorous (it's in the humor section), but the amusing thing is that I'm seeing declining use of Word. Communication has gotten a lot more formal. People are happy to edit a report in the e-mail editor, using a screen capture utility to copy and paste bitmap graphics when needed. Or they use the editor in the cloud version and don't bother to learn where all of its features are. Or PowerPoint. Of course the programmers have switched to Markdown or comment-free code.

The main remaining uses for Word seem to be documents that nobody reads.
Jumping into random bodies of water in the industrialized west is not unusual at all however.
I can tell you from experience that a California birth certificate isn't mailed folded and is much too large to fit in one of those postboxes.
Why should that be owned by a private entity though? What right do they have for that? I wouldn’t mind it being run by a public (international) organization, for public good, but that’s very different.
Here the lancet unequivocally states that to our best evidence no alcohol is best.

The thing is this proscription is essentially useless. It's like saying "to our best evidence no sugar is best".

So should you eat that piece of chocolate cake or should you not?

You're from now on not drinking red wine for your heart but for pleasure.

We knew that already. But it still doesn't tell us whether drinking, say, 3 or fewer glasses of wine per week has a significant negative health impact or not. For any actual measure of "significant".
In France about 30% of nuclear power is unavailable because of maintenance shutdowns.

The price hike comes because of the hiking gas prices.
I big miss at a humour in my view.

Although, in general Im puzzled by the cliche portrayal of A.R.'s views as somewhat cold or inhumane. Though I did not read all her essays and works, Im familiar with the several ones which warrant no such trivialized characterization. On the contrary, she explicitly and implicitly said that "...reason and emotions are not contradictory or in opposition. It is only when we do not understand our emotions that such dichotomy appears". Any thinking individual can sign his name under this. And, that is why we have psychiatry industry, billion dollar self-help book industry, etc. On the other hand we have also recreational drugs and alcohol abuse, etc -- which is the point in case, when emotions take over faculty of reason to govern our decisions/life that ... destruction, destruction, destruction...
PSPad used to be my editor on Windows until they added crapware to the installer. No idea if they still have it or not, as I immediately jumped ship to Notepad++ when I saw it.
The lack of https on their site is pretty strange considering what it is trying to be.
Another thing that SpaceX has proven with Starlink is that the benefits of economy of scale could be applied to satellite production and the aerospace industry in general.

It is so incredibly wasteful that the companies and governments keep coming up with unique designs for the satellites serving similar purposes. Imagine if we had a standard design template for an optical telescope that could be cheaply and easily mass produced and launched by the thousands.
Just cancel the ones you need the least.
What kind of server do you have and which location? This only applies (as far as I’m told in the email) to servers ordered through their auction. I received this email at 13:15 CET.
This is awesome.

One genuine question from someone with no context into their product: does Fly lock me in by barring access to WAL replication? This is something Heroku does that is extremely annoying as you'll grow and grow with them and one day you realize migrating the data will be a massive hassle.
> less defensible against than viruses, and at the same time [...] so much more common (easier to appear).

Not really on both parts. It's only transferred by eating meat so the defence is as soon as prion infection is detected all possibly infested livestock is culled and severe bans on trading are placed. Cannibalism in animal feed is also disallowed which makes transmission rare. Being vegetarian is also a complete defence.

They're also rare to appear, otherwise eating livestock would have regularly wiped out humans already. They're basically non-existent if you don't eat humans and livestock isn't fed to livestock.
Statista have wholesale price data from January 2019 to October 2021

Increase from a low of 17.05 Euros per megawatt hour in April 2020 to 128.34 in October 2021:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267541/germany-monthly-...

Even if you go with a more conservative average before the increase of 40 Euro, its an increase of 220%!

If you are stuck behind paywall: https://imgur.com/a/HfpD2Pp
Would you excuse Hitler with the same sentence?
You can switch islam with white supremacy, it's a similar supremacist ideology in search of a boogeyman. Protocol of Zion is still cited as a legitimate source in the middle east.
Nice landing page - clean design and clear layout. I also like that you include a brief blurb about you and why you created it right on the homepage. So many software companies these days hide who is behind it and/or don’t have an “about us” page, which makes it hard to “invest” in the product as a potential customer…

Bookmarking for a future project!
I dont see why spacex has got to target the same niche (rural people in rich countries) everywhere in the world. They could provide low cost backhaul in developing countries for telcos. Offer more expensive access for airlines and ships. Have an offering aimed at organisations who want to run a WiFi network (like schools or offices). The advantage of satellite is that the same infrastructure can offer different services in different places.
Not only Signal refuses to have any 3rd party server federate with theirs, but they also refuse 3rd party clients. This is exactly the definition of walled garden.
> business or school that is a G Suite legacy free edition user

So only commercial use, but verge needed a clicky title.

> Google stopped offering the legacy free edition as of December 2012

Wonder how many places were still taking advantage of it ? I assume this means your work or school GSuite account was created 10 years ago.
There is clearly a pathological element in such an operation, whether it was by Martin or someone else. Inserting yourself in the work of somebody else can be a power move, or a subconscious desire to get noticed - like a serial killer leaving signature clues. Or it could be a misguided commercial consideration, that Bukowski can be "too sad / depressing / offensive" and so he needs to be toned down to sell more books.

Besides, Bukowski the writer is famous but Bukowski the poet, like all poetry, enjoys very limited popularity.
The outer layer of your skin is mostly made of dead cells. It's cold, dry, exposed to the elements, constantly discarded, and has the wrong pH for most biochemical processes that are optimized for the inside of your body. It takes a fairly invasive pathogen to break that barrier.
I have an SB34 that went up 4.2% to €30.16. Your SB42 seems to be +7.2%.
Technology has not been "appropriated". You still have the option to use free software, or only use software that charges an initial fee. The people building the software you use (not "appropriating") are also free to offer their software on whatever terms they deem appropriate.

Economically, if you're receiving ongoing value from software, it is not illogical that you'd pay ongoing cost for that software. We don't do this with most physical goods because it's logistically difficult to accomplish. But that doesn't mean it's an inherent evil. I really don't see the problem here.
> 100k+ people lifting themselves out of extreme poverty, daily, for the last 25 years.

where are these people located?
(I strongly agree with what you've said re: "But this study... fluke... not correctly measured")

At the risk of offering un-asked for advice, I have no problem settling that debate! I think we share similar enough opinions regarding the underlying things that our conclusions would align.

I'd attack it by using numbers. :D Measure the possible gain and possible loss for each choice, and choose the one with the EV or probability distribution you prefer, given your risk transfer function.

You can get (approximate, but better than ex-recto!) hard numbers for the approximate risk of contracting COVID under a variety of changing variables. Shoutout to microcovid.org. For instance, I used their calculator to estimate the risk of a 3x vaccinated, KN95 mask wearing person such as myself, in my area, to have a 5 minute long (does it really take that long?) indoor shopping trip where I would be ~3 feet apart from anyone, with ~2 people in the room. Provided the other person's masked, and assuming there's no talking (which is a fib, but more close to reality than assuming it's 5 minutes of active conversation), I get ~13 microcovids. If I change that to assuming talking for 5 minutes, ~64 microcovids.

To provide scale for the units, if you "spend" 200 microcovids per week, it works out to 1% covid/year.

Given that, it feels easy to pop the balloon that the risk from going to the store outweighs the tiny statistical benefit of doing so. And if you really wanna pop that balloon, simply have a someone do it for you, and meet outside. 1 minute, being 3 feet away from a average unmasked person in my area, while outdoors, is then ~1.3 microcovids. :)

yay numbers.
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I had never thought about kevlar being a brand name before and your comment made me curious. Apparently the generic name for that material is "para-aramid".