skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That Slack money must be nice ;)

With no intention of attacking the author, but as someone renting in Vancouver, I think excluding costs while regularly hinting that they didn't have much of a budget seems a bit off, if not even just to add a transparent datapoint to the corpus of potential Canadian/Vancouver salaries that have been stagnating for years, while Johnny and his family likely saw massive appreciation on their duplex between what seems like 2014 and now. It's not easy to support a family in this city, so no matter how much you make, owning anything and having two children is going to be tight, and I wouldn't assume you're being disingenuous about that, but if you're cool, break down the actual overall costs. Not necessarily what the specific contractors charged you, but probably an approximation of what your take home salary is and what it cost to build. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to geogeuss the location and property assessment, but it would be slightly more charitable to be upfront.

> A lot of people dream of building a modern home. Or rather, a lot of people dream of living in a modern home. A place of their own, with the people they love, surrounded by functional beauty and considerate form.

A lot of people in this city, even in tech, couldn't dream of owning anything, but this article has the potential to be inspiring. The median salary earned in Vancouver at a tolerable savings rate would require 35 years to own a detached home.

> I hope you’re able to fulfill your own dreams too.

Well...

Edit: It was trivial to track this information down, it's named in the article. I won't reveal the address, but I'll add the cost of land and current value of the property if the author doesn't. Overall the property gained at least 1.8M in taxable value as far as public records are concerned, but it would be awesome to get a sense of what it actually cost to build.
It's one example of many that could have been chosen, and needs no interpretation, his words stand on their own. The fact that there are incoherencies in his various statements is not relevant.
Peer-to-peer cryptocurrencies do not need intermediates. For governance, one can use smart contracts.

This is why things like ConstituionDAO can happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConstitutionDAO

If it’s good or not is another topic, but it is definitely possible to skip banks and other middlemen.
That would actually do something to address the risk, removing their ability to complain.
> Heart disease and cancer kill far more people on an annual basis and nobody bats an eye

I mean there are massive institutes, companies, and laboratories engaged in research on both these topics, tons of fund-raising, campaigns to improve diet and exercise, shockingly expensive treatments and so on. Other than all of that, yes, nobody bats an eye.
> Somehow there's this idea that the Sars-CoV-2 vaccines need to prevent infection or symptomatic disease but that is an incredibly high bar that no respiratory viral vaccine has ever met.

So what you're saying that Fauci, Pfizer etc. weren't just wrong about the vaccine ("if you get it you won't get sick" a.k.a. "science has changed as we've learned more facts") but actively lied about it (after all, they of all people should know that no other vaccine succeeded in that for respiratory viruses).
We do but many of the build problems are flaky in nature, eg timeouts
You didn't answer the question. Will you admit that you fell for a stupid conspiracy theory and that absolutely nobody should take anything you say seriously ever again, if in a reasonable timeframe, this mythical financial doomsday fails to materialize?

Or will you just make up another excuse?

That is what I mean by falsifiability. If you do not say that you will admit that you were wrong, if this mythical doomsday does not happen, then by definition you are saying that you cannot be convinced out of your position, no matter how long goes by, without the doomsday happening.
Thanks for the update, previously (before 2020) it was believed that if caching was turned off and it was purely routing over Cloudflare, they wouldn't get pissy over the extra traffic. I guess this shows they will anyway.
you're thinking of Clyde (https://ryanharveyauthor.com/2018/09/27/learning-clyde-sensi...) he's the most interesting one
> What matters is the source of the electricity that is consumed. It is key to distinguish between renewable sources of electricity and fossil fuels. We do this by taking into account the total electricity mix of each country to convert Bitcoin’s electricity consumption into its carbon footprint.

Jumps out to me as being not particularly precise. In the US, for instance, you need to take a much more local view- bit coin mining tends to be clustered near hydro power. This pulls the opposite way with coal plants in the boonies of China.
A nice summary of human attempts to fully eradicate pathogens - a feat we have accomplished precisely two (2!) times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_dise...
> The meta game of completionism does not affect everyone the same, but I don't think it ever adds.

I think it adds.

Your argument seems to be that it never adds, which is easily refuted by one person who thinks it adds.

Although, saying "it adds" is incomplete. What I mean is it adds to the enjoyment of the game, there are games I would enjoy less without "leveling up". Thus, leveling up adds to a game by enhancing its primary purpose for existing, mental stimulation and enjoyment.
Along with #1, a culture shift to promoting the publishing of null-results would also help quite a bit. Journal acceptance and funding is now incredibly biased towards finding a significant result. Every researcher will find p<.05 on average after 20 studies even if those studies are literally measuring random noise.

We need to have some incentive to at least share null-results and replications.
Not sure about the .bin format yet but will check with my team. The immediate next step is multi file support.
I have also not experienced beeping. I do get the occasional alert from family member tag crosstalk but it feels like this is improving.

But the lack of explicit Family cross-view when other devices automagically have it is nigh unto unforgivably bad. I have heard arguments made about privacy but they are not that coherent. Expose an "opt this device out of Family sharing" during config option or whatever.

That friends have attached two different tags to their kid's backpack so both spouses can track is total fail. :|
How would you have responded to the person asking, if you were in Dan's position?
There's an approved nasal vaccine in the United States (FluMist). It's use was not encouraged for a while because it didn't vaccinate against H1N1 (recent years have included H1N1). It doesn't look to be particularly more effective than the shot (marketing focuses on no shot, not on it working better; the CDC says the effectiveness is similar).

There's multiple candidate intranasal SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, just none that have concluded trials.
I don't have detailed knowledge of Great lakes to give you specifics on why this is a problem

However generally no water system is closed or independent of each other. Precipitation, weather and other cycles (wind, heat, underground etc) make even small changes in distant places drastically impact outcomes anywhere ( the OG butterfly effect).

So I would still say conservation of use is independent of how abundant it seems locally and how disconnected it looks on the surface to other problems.
I wouldn’t monetize directly, instead the cost could be subsidized by services built on top of it. For example, naming & discovery, durable log aggregation etc.

Edit: spelling
Also the soup kitchen harrassed by the protesters for food.
Nice piece of establishment propaganda.

> The company changed its schedule to four 10-hour days

Yeah, that's not the idea. They even acknowledge it, but still make it the center of the piece.
Igalia Developing Wolvic Browser to Succeed Firefox Reality
I believe the vaccines are a big part of why they're not overwhelmed now during the Omicron wave. But we achieved the bulk of our vaccination rate before mandates.
I knew that was a Technology Connections video before clicking on it :)
Chris Rock said it best--Nobody ever says, 'Hey daddy, thanks for knockin' out this rent.' 'Hey daddy, I sure love this hot water.' 'Hey daddy, it's easy to read with all this light.'
I don't think that Linus is right here, exactly. "We know best" isn't a problem, as long as you (A) focus on a narrow set of users and (B) actually _DO_ know what's best for those users.

GNOME fails on both of those points.
This current situation already exists with the App Store. There are apps that have been removed from the store that are simply gone forever, such as Flappy Bird, which was at least free. So how does this change anything? Just because Apple will outlive third party stores doesn't mean the situation you're describing doesn't already happen.
Oh for god’s sake - they were clearly brought up simply as examples of great works of literature that are often translated, and translated loyally when they are, because when translators translate great works of literature they generally try to respect the originals instead of deliberately mutilating them for the sensibilities of their audience. And I’m being scolded for saying that the Iliad was “written by Homer” instead of, what, “was composed by Homer”? “Is generally attributed to Homer”, as Wikipedia puts it? By someone who - either owning to pedantry, bad faith, or extreme ignorance - denies that “the Iliad” as an original work even exists!

This conversation is about whether it's "sinister" or not, as you put it, to make "all sorts of minor changes in the text and images to better fit regional tastes and cultural norms", and whether to call those changes "censorship". jevoten believed that these changes were, in fact, sinister, and explained why - arguing by analogy that making similar changes to works in other artforms to satisfy prudish sensibilities would be viewed as heretical. You then, seemingly, played inexplicably ignorant and focused on the fact that the particular works that they chose as examples were based on mythologies that have inspired other, independent works. The only way your confusion here makes any sense whatsoever would be if you were literally unaware of the specific works they were referring to, particularly when you said that there was "nothing resembling" an original Iliad or Faust, so, taking you at face value, I demonstrated their existence.

As for the question of what constitutes "censorship" - maybe that's what you perceived as the significant part of your comment? I suppose that'd help explain some of your frustration, not that it'd justify your bad faith argumentation or personal slights. Censorship doesn't need to be handed down by official government censors or something - it can be self-imposed, or imposed by copyright holders against the wishes of the original creator, due to political, social, or economic pressure, which is clearly the case here.
You can opt out of the "Find My network" part separately from the overall Find My system. This does mean that you'd not be able to find your phone if it's fully powered off, of course, but that seems to be a fair trade-off if you don't want to track or be tracked as part of this.

See: https://imgur.com/a/ZY9oBPV
What if you move, do you have to buy another kit??
creating wETH doesn't create any SOL, they are separate things.
Because Amazon’s expectations are just one part of the system. If they exceeded your expectations you may be bullish today.
>I've always thought that this was because NA has air pollution laws that are strictly and honestly enforced and that that would make diesel cars difficult to offer.

Yes, the US regulates NOx emissions much more than Europe. This makes it very hard to offer passenger diesel engines in the US. On the other hand, the EU regulates/taxes CO2 emissions, which the US does only indirectly through CAFE (fuel efficiency) regulations.
Adjacent question - what specific methods and techniques have DeepMind contributed to the field? Deep reinforcement learning? (Didn't they stop using it at some point?) What else?
First, that was simply an editorial piece.

But more importantly they "assert" natural immunity is being ignored by scientific journals, but provide no evidence. Even worse, they then go on to cite studies from prestigious scientific journals that discuss natural immunity! What is it, are they ignoring it or are they publishing well cited papers on it?

Lastly, they conflate science with policy. As they even note, the scientific community has long known that there is some immunity with surviving infection. But policy has to take more than that into account.
There's not as much lock-in with the analog formats, you want different speakers or a different head unit with the same speakers you just change shit out at the end of the wires.

All these strange products we are getting around media probably mostly has to do with licensing requirements for DRM.

I assume it's as much the industry these people are working with/coming from as it is the actual straight greed of sonos.
The modal UBI recipient is not your average Karikó; the modal UBI recipient will probably sit around beating their children and watching music videos on whatever the equivalent of MTV or YouTube is in 02039. No conceivable intervention will turn the majority of the population into inventors and scientists, so we shouldn't try unless it's a low-risk effort.

But we can certainly aspire to liberate science from bibliometrics, dollar-auction postdoc rat races, grantwriting, mandatory reporting requirements, and especially prosecution, so that the people who do want to spend their time on advancing human knowledge have the opportunity to do so. And we can work to change the public perception of innovation and research from Frankenstein and Walter White to Edison, Tesla, and Einstein.
Yes, it’s being forced all around by new insulation codes. Structurally, 2x4 walls are plenty enough.
The Windows app allows downloads, too.
That was never a valid reason. They were just making things up without following evidence-based medicine practices.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-19-current-state-omicron/
This reminds me very strongly of the WireWorld cellular automaton: https://quinapalus.com/wires0.html

(Also, how did you get a post with both text and a link? I didn’t know it was possible.)
Rubbish. The CDC advises all policy on this matter in the US and they publicly published that infection and recovery from Delta and subsequent variants gives a stronger immune response than vaccination alone.

It's trivial to find this information.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cdc+natural+immunity&t=brave&iar=n...
Wow, $14.99/month is a stark difference with the €2.99/month that they charge for a Prime subscription here in The Netherlands. I wonder if they will increase the subscription fee here to the same level once they reach the desired market share in the video streaming and e-commerce spaces here.
If you adjust for quality, many things in Europe are similar in cost to the US. Rents are arguably cheaper. A 2 bedroom apartment in Wien is like 1200 USD vs God knows how much in SF. And Wien is officially the world's most livable city.
Yeah he should have preemptively made it yesterday to comment on his article being posted by someone else today
What I want to know is why I'm not reading this in dark mode.
> In this case, the structured query drills down from thousands of potential results to 61 results, which is manageable to triage manually.

If, of course, you have the domain knowledge required to do so.
Yeah, seriously. What is up with all that tar sand oil ruining our environment from Canada? Build your own pipelines and don’t ruin our tribal land down south, please.
Not really, when you look at where things ended up anyway, aside the issues with pumping up antibodies continuously.

Another case of going for short term efficiency wins over doing things properly, but not so easily.
So it's another case of KPI overfitting? Goodhart's law?
The Federal Reserve is absolutely tasked with regulating the banks[1].

Congress should not be in the business of preventing banks from imploding in on themselves via regulation. Congressional regulations should insulate consumers from predatory financial institution practices. FDIC insurance exists to protect consumers in the event their banks behave irrationally. There should be no backstop for the banks themselves. Even if they wanted to Congressional regulations couldn't keep pace with the speed at which financial instruments of institutional suicide are forged.

1 https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/reglisting.htm
I think you misread; I should have been clearer. This is how I understand/remember it although to be fair it's been a while since I've worked on either so might mess it up a bit.

Anyway it has nothing to do with compression or the intake valve in either case. Compression happens in both cases, and doesn't affect anything.

In diesel, Jake type breaks steal energy by opening the exhaust valve right after TDC, e.g. what would be the power stroke. The energy stored in compressed air escapes out the exhaust valve rather than being (mostly) reclaimed by the crank on expansion - this slows down the crank and hence (if not in neutral) the vehicle slows. NB this is not when the exhaust valve would normally open, but rather a cycle earlier.

In gas, on the intake stroke the intake is blocked (not by the valve, further up by throttle) so the intake motion creates vaccuum - this takes energy, which slows down the crank, and hence etc. etc. The exhaust valve doesn't change timing.

The latter approach only works if you have something blocking the intake "above" the intake valve. In a diesel engine the airflow is kept the same and the fuel adjusted (unlike gas) so there is no natural mechanism to do this with the throttle.
If I understand correctly, their net sales went up nearly 100 billion dollars in 2021, but their small increase in income entirely came from AWS.

It's a pretty common theory that their retail division is just around the corner from reaping massive economies of scale. But they just had one of the biggest retail years ever had by a company in history and might have lost money overall.
For Titanic somebody claimed that is was practically unsinkable: "God himself could not sink this ship!" ... and we know what happened...
My guess is that the logistics of 2 day delivery in the Netherlands is much easier.
> My current application is a music hardware device that is mostly Lisp. As to why, this could be a lengthy post, and I am sure I have made one elsewhere on HN.

I was curious and stalked your profile, but I didn't come up with anything that summarized your reasoning on why you use Lisp beyond this brief statement. Perhaps you were remembering the discussion around "Some thoughts about raising the profile of Lisp" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28366292).

If you get a chance I'd love to read your take on in it. There are so few people doing active development in lisp its hard to let go of a chance like this.
It doesn't at all. You can continue to just publish your apps to the App Store and the Play Store, much as the vast majority of users will continue using those.
Let the good times roll as long as crypto "evangelists" can find new "believers" to keep that fiat flowing in. They tricky part is recognizing the right time to jump off this carnival ride and avoid being a sad clown.
One of my defining memories looking around universities as a 16/17-year-old was going to their libraries and being overwhelmed with how much knowledge there was there. Shelves that showed the parallax in the rooms, where books went off into the distance and motion-activated lights. As an undergraduate, I worked extensively in an underground library -- isolated from the world, isolated from anything but my tasks at hand, and with all the knowledge one could conceivably want if you could find it effectively (or, at least, that's how it felt).

Libgen.rs may have an unimaginably larger number of titles on offer, but it's not quite the same as walking into a cathedral-size store of books and looking at the weight of humanity's greatest achievements staring back at you. Libraries are awesome. We should support them, and keep supporting them, as much as possible.
Whole thing was built in the span of a few days (including all-nighters leading up to the deadline)
I built the backend, my friends built the frontend. I seem to recall it took them a bit of researching to find a fast way to do it. The code is on github so you can draw inspiration: https://github.com/EliasHaaralahti/No-Mans-Canvas-Client
Imagine unit-testing the functionality you claim to provide.

Oh, wait, it's PHP... Nevermind.
Why not both?

It's astonishing that we have, essentially, a single "one-size-fits-all"[0] mechanism for funding biomedical research. We should have a bunch, ranging from "trust me, I'm a genius" to "you've never heard of me, but the data suggest this will work." There should be mechanisms where tons of preliminary data are required, but also mechanisms to generate that prelim data. There should be mechanisms for trainees, but also to keep experienced people in the field.

[0] Essentially, the NIH's R01. Even that needs work because inflation has chipped away at what one modular budget can support.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or genuinely giving a list of minuscule island chains, culminating in the country that's literally the universal metonym for 'middle of nowhere'.
Yeah, this has not been posted by me, but shared by a reader.
I don't think it would result in less AWS income -- AWS knows exactly how much on-demand, reserved, and spot instances cost them and they price them accordingly.
VLC is free and 64-bit. Not the most convenient for playing music but it plays everything. I use MAX Tray Player which is really old but still works. It's this great little program that sits in your taskbar off to the side so it doesn't take up icon or window space. I use it for internet radio and I made a skin for it to match my dark theme.

trayplayer.com

As for mobile audio I use Spotify but I have a library of mp3s on my SD card that I play with the default Samsung Music app which works just fine. No ads in that so far. If you haven't tried a modern BT 5.0 device, try giving bluetooth another chance.
I don't think we can use terms like "lie" with respect to the pandemic yet, because full post-facto analysis is not done yet. That analysis isn't just on people's words, it's on their relationships to other people, entities, etc... You also have to determine what they "know" during a given time. I'm fully supportive of holding government officials accountable, especially if they've enacted their own agenda, but there's a time and place for such things as well as a path to proving them.
The numbers were pretty bad, big miss on revenue and guidance below analyst expectations. It seems the market was pricing in even worse numbers, given the terrible stock performance over the last quarter and last 18 months. It's really only up 6-7% over yesterday's close after taking out today's fear drop related to the abysmal FB report yesterday. After FB's most disastrous ER in modern history for a megacap, just about anything looks better in comparison.
Amazon warehouse employees, at least, do work 4 days (4x10).
Our large west facing windows get way too hot so we had this 3M film installed that essentially tints the windows and blocks UV. I’m a HUGE fan of it — in many ways it actually improved the view out the window by reducing glare.
Prime Mover[0] is a pretty fun "IC"[1] puzzle game. ComPressure[2] also scratches a similar itch with a steampunkier vibe.

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/693700/Prime_Mover/

[1]: Scare quotes because these things are ultimately games, not realistic simulations. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[2]: https://github.com/brejc8/ComPressure (FOSS!), https://store.steampowered.com/app/1528120/ComPressure/