skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re 20 years old.

Make that full time work part time and go do something you enjoy.

You don’t owe anyone anything so badly that it costs your health. That includes your future self.
It's a lot easier for me than for you. I'm in the SF Bay Area, so my climate is milder on both extremes. Also I'm DIYing everything and scavenging discarded stuff where I can, so my costs are abnormally low. When all is said and done I'll have ~40-50 KWh of storage and a 20 KWp solar array for <$20k. And my cost of electricity is probably far higher than yours, so I have more incentive.

When I think of grid independence, I mean the electric grid. I'm keeping an existing gas-fired heating system in addition to installing a heat pump system. I also have a generator.
Are you trying to say that there are "very fine people on both sides"?
I should have been more clear---I just meant that his argument had a similar kind of structure. I don't think he's engaging in Western exceptionalism (nor do I think he's a closet racist).

To answer the question, my point is that there are countless examples of powerful, inventive, playful, varied works of modernist+contemporary architecture. I simply reject the premise. I brought up the Barbican because the core of his argument is "nobody likes these things because they're ugly," and I'm saying: I like them. They move me. Some of my most enduring early memories are of the Barcellona Pavillion and the Getty Center. And to read these architects, that was often the point. I guess I'm asking, why should I give a shit about this guy's taste? Don't yuck my yum.

He's just not putting forward a very strong case, nor invoking others who have studied these questions before him. I'm not claiming that there aren't any valid critiques, just that his isn't one of them. If he's only stating that middling traditionalist buildings look worse than middling modern ones: I buy that, and I think it's probably a question of economics, as he says. But to me, when recent architects set out to create the monolithic and meaningful, it's not clear they're less successful than their predecessors.

Regarding public tastes, a mea culpa: I had dismissed the survey too quickly, and on a deeper look it's reasonable (although it includes few instances of what I'd call great 20th+21st century examples). But, as the Civic Art Society says, it's hard to disentangle Americans' aesthetic preferences with their normative conception of what a federal building (or any important building) should look like. That will naturally tend toward traditional styles. I'm also not convinced that today's choice expression of populist preferences---the McMansion---is going to stand any test of time. Whereas I do think currently dispreferred styles will endure and come to signal beauty.

As for writing, I guess I found Le Corbusier's treatises convincing enough? But for defenses that post-date the modernist era, I'm not sure I have an answer for you. To me, the best defense is the work itself.
Reminds me of another Scifi book called "Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw in which the story uses the idea of "slow glass": glass through which light takes years to pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_of_Other_Days
Everyone running profitable companies on the cloud.

"Serverless" is basically AWS making money off of your technical debt and uncertainty.

It is cheaper to run your prototype with lambdas and "managed services" but as soon as it scales to a certain point, you're much better off with bare VMs reserved and orchestrated as per your business needs.
Just turn off the lights.
Couldn't you just remove the speaker and microphone then wire the speaker output to the microphone input?
I agree! Also, aside from hazardous waste, it would be easy to accidentally create a small-scale version of the PEPCON disaster, the Bhopal disaster, the Enschede disaster, the defoliation surrounding early alkali plants (from HCl emissions), or just a public nuisance. I think there are a couple of things we can do to improve this situation:

1. Create an environment without fear of repercussions for hazardous waste training and services. In much of the world today if you show up at a hazardous waste collection site with 50 kg of poorly characterized organic molecules dissolved in acetone, you can expect an investigation of whether you're running a meth lab.

2. Scale down the hazardous waste regulations to something realistic. A return to Victorian-era nonchalance about things like lead acetate and mercuric chloride would be counterproductive, but we've somehow gotten to a point where people call in hazardous waste teams if they break a mercury thermometer, which is totally out of proportion to the actual risk from metallic mercury, and I've literally seen a news report about sulfur spills where adult anchors who presumably went to college solemnly warn that sulfur is very toxic and can cause severe skin burns. Due to totally implausible concerns about toxicity, borax has been prohibited for most uses (fertilizer, flame retardancy, etc.) in the EU now, though it fortunately remains available in pharmacies. And I already mentioned California's restrictions on aromatic solvents on the absurd pretext of "air quality".

3. For chemistry in particular, focus on developing microfluidics and miniaturized apparatus, because a nanoliter of pyridine is much less of a nuisance than a liter.
We need to accept Covid, or it's never going to end.

Because it's never going to end.
There is a common saying when living in areas when using wood for heat -

‘Wood warms you up three times. Once when you cut it, once when you split it, and once when you burn it’.

The amount of manual labor and time required to keep a pool warm from wood is monumental. It will definitely keep a fit man in the prime of his life busy and tired.

It isn’t something to sign up for lightly, especially for someone who may not have that kind of physical strength (or want it spent on heating their pool).
We use cast.ai and it certainly has saved us a LOT of money. I unfortunately am not on the implementation / devops side of this, but it has been worth using, or can speak to exact figures, but it was definitely a significant difference in expenditures.
If you have one hour, you don't need to speculate: https://rumble.com/vtp2lw-freedom-convoy-organizers-press-co...
In other news :

Kolfage was indicted, along with Steve Bannon and two other co-defendants, on federal charges of defrauding hundreds of thousands of "We Build the Wall" donors by diverting money that was raised to personal use. Federal prosecutors said that despite "repeatedly assuring donors" that Kolfage would not be paid, the defendants engaged in a schemed to pass $350,000 to Kolfage "which he used to fund his lavish lifestyle." Kolfage was separately indicted in May 2021 on federal charges of defrauding the IRS and filing false tax returns.

I'm not surprised at all that they're ensuring things like this don't happen again.
And then there's the type of person who believes the answers to such questions are not known. Most everyone seems to strongly opposes such thinking outside of abstract discussions of human psychology, where most everyone acknowledges the truth of it. Such is the nature of the human mind, for now anyways.
If we threw say $100 billion in to computer aided protein design (sorry not sure the technical phrase here), could we make it faster to create antibody therapies? Like not just for cancer, but also for infectious diseases?
California started building a state highway network before the east cost did - also it has mountainous roads that have restrictions on overall length, simply because of curve radius.
In terms of the ad concern, through our choices we have already made that inconvenient to do. At the moment we do hold the encryption keys, but as privacy seems to be a great concern (as we expected it to be) we will continue to push forward our practices on privacy.

So to be clear, anything you share on Circles is encrypted in transit with SSL/TLS, then encrypted at rest on our servers, to which we currently (but hopefully not for long) hold the keys.
Shouldn't there be a GPT bot that can do this by now? I can see how translating human language to computer code would be hard, but going the other way seems like it should be fairly easy. There's a large corpus of well documented code out there to train on too.
Why not build with concrete and stucco?
Apparently you're correct, and I was misinformed. You could implement it this way—like how Tesla's newer designs can run the electric motor in a less-efficient mode to provide heat for the battery pack—but the designs I investigated did have separate heaters as part of the circulation system. (For some reason the specs for these were not listed in the product summary, but rather only in the manual.)
For those interested in some of the history of immunotherapy, and cancer treatments more generally, I recommend Dr Peter Attia's excellent interview[1] with Dr Steven Rosenberg. Dr Rosenberg is Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute, and was on the ground floor and helped pioneer the use of immunotherapy in fighting cancer[2].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVMl0LgdnOU
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Rosenberg
I can't really share any studies, but some people seem to have more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195371

Intuitively it would make sense that being able to see in front of you with no obstruction would have an impact on safety. How much, I can't say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> School buses typically have a large nose in front of the driver. Are they unsafe?

Guess what, European buses don't have a nose, either :-)))
and Amazon up 15%....
Man, I regret reading this. The cynic in me immediately jumps to a possible world is where a pharmaceutical company is incentivized to bring about a world where every human needs a Medicine-as-a-Service to not die. The world's greatest $ printer.
Brilliant Pebbles ballistic missile defense system
I relatively recently read a biography on John D. Rockefeller and this reminds me of some of the things Standard Oil did with rail companies to gain a market advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Monopoly_charges_...

Rabbithole indeed. Here's notes from a meeting of the HoR Judiciary Committee in 1999, "ANTITRUST ASPECTS OF THE OCEAN SHIPPING REFORM ACT OF 1998": http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju62447.000/...

TIL that ocean carriers have apparently been exempt from antitrust laws since ~1916.
Why Not ZFS (2021)
A few little comments:

1) The HP 7440A does support hardware flow control (RTS/CTS) so no need for the OA trick. You might sometimes need a better serial controller.

2) HPGL is simple enough you don't totally need it, but Chiplotle is a Python library for generating HPGL that will save you some work: http://sites.music.columbia.edu/cmc/chiplotle/

3) What the author calls a "DB-22 to DB-9 adapter" should be called a "DB-25 to DE-9 adapter." The shell size is kind of pedantic but the pin count confused me, because DB-25 is the spec standard RS-232 connector while a DB-22 is very much not! Actually if you get a USB serial adapter that's already a DB-25 it's more likely not to have issues with hardware flow control. Some of these plotters used HPIB instead which is a little annoying because the controllers are not so easy to find but they are out there and as a bonus you can use them with your old CRT storage oscilloscope too.

4) NOS pens for these plotters are stupid expensive, but I've had good success with using a lathe to produce some adapters to get it to grip Microliners. You will need a "case mod" of cutting out the section of the case between the carousel and the work area so the taller pens don't hit it. There are also 3D printed adapters you can find online but I've found the plotter is very sensitive about the diameter or it will fail to detect it has picked up the pen and retry a few times before going into error. My experience has been that 3D printed adapters aren't precise enough to avoid this issue but if you have a good printer or like a resin printer you might avoid this problem.

5) The plotter is very slow at linearizing curves internally even if you have the feature board, so you're better off doing that on the host and sending line segments than using the HPGL curve primitives. It's a print quality issue too because it keeps the pen down while calculating the next segment which tends to leave noticeable bleed at every node.
> They're a top trading firm, whose competitors have spent $300mm to run hundreds of miles of cables to save microseconds in latency.

It's microwave towers, and it's to save milliseconds. You're not dealing in mics until you're in the colo.

But those are investments, which will generate huge returns. Throwing $300m to paper over a hack isn't remotely the same.
A little bit of central planning can go a long way. Nobody was in charge of figuring out how to gracefully shed load at capacity, so when demand went up by 20%, the system overloaded and latency went through the roof.

Market fundamentalism (we don't need to plan, the market will do it) obviously screwed up here, but it doesn't follow that everything that the American Prospect hates is actually bad.
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By this token, it's also worth noting that the people who are blaring the alarm horns over AirTags are also people who are steeped in a very different life than the average citizen. Notably, Eva Galperin of EFF who works on investigating stalking-related issues. So, more than a few grains of salt need to be taken when hearing what they say.
give me your email and let's talk :) I can try to introduce you to first potential clients. This way you'll confirm product market fit.

Think simple: even something that could just ingest bookmarks from chrome/edge sqlite database and process them into a custom search engine (that would NOT expose said links to say google, even if they are public links) using good old tf-idf would be extremely valuable.
Being unable to own a place to live is bad
Was Nintendo “cool” ?

Video games were popular and well selling, but to my recollection they had an uphill battle in the wide public’s perception. If we were to ask, I’d wager Sony had a way stronger “coolness” factor in the 80s 90s.

Now, tables have sure turned.
I previously worked in this space and have a fair bit of experience optimising AWS spend for customers.

Cool idea! I see the pain point you are addressing here is friction in the marketplace, rather than simply cost optimisation? Traditionally the use of standard RIs was a pain, due to the inflexibility of moving between instance families. And the fact that the marketplace requires a US bank account which made it a no-go for non-US customers.

However, these problems were addressed first through the use of convertible RIs. Which allow exchange of instance types, but can't be sold on the marketplace (from memory). But, to be honest, they were still a pain to manage. You needed a good cost person, or a good TAM to keep on top of the required conversions. So, secondly, savings plans were introduced. I generally recommend compute savings plans these days, as they are much more set and forget, though I acknowledge provide less discount than standard RIs. My personal opinion is that EC2 based RIs will probably be deprecated by AWS at some point in the future. For this reason I don't think its likely they'll release this automated marketplace as a feature in future.

I work almost exclusively with enterprise customers and see very little use of standard RIs these days, which given the marketplace angle I'm assuming is the only purchase option you are working with? Are you doing zonal or regional scope? But if you can find an angle that means customers can make more efficient use of standard RIs all the power to you, that is a win!

Recommendation wise, the native tools (Cost Explorer and the CUR) can deliver reasonable recommendations that are good enough for most customers. Especially when using more flexible purchase options like compute savings plans the need to be super accurate just isn't there anymore.
Not to mention that passenger miles are substantially more efficient in cars - You drive (almost, given the amount I get turned around) directly on the shortest route to your destination, while a large percentage of mass transit system rides involve a transfer. Probably not a 10x, probably not even a 2x, but I did the numbers on my commute that was nearly-straight and still found I was going 20% farther to reach my destination by mass transit, because the time-efficient route required going backwards.
It seems more correct to me to say the Statue of Liberty is many thousands times bigger than a person than to say it is 50 times bigger than a person
no mandates

its literally on every truck
One of those photographs you posted found[1] to be taken by personal photographer of Trudeau and most of them taken away from protesters.

This[2] is one example how protesters react when they try to infiltrate the actual crowd.

[1]: https://twitter.com/stobione/status/1489320295764660228

[2]: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1488325761572478981
Interesting: is it possible that this shift towards the content graph has something to do with a more active approach to content moderation? I mean, if your whacky aunt says something on covid, then it seems that he gets a nice label and that his message are propagated to a smaller number of his friends. Is it possible that all these moderation mechanisms have had a ripple effect on the entire network? I mean is it possible that the active stance on content moderation (some call it censorship) has caused the shift towards the content graph versus the social graph? In other words: if they choose to show less content by your whacky aunts, then they still need to fill the timeline with something, so welcome to the content graph!

I mean to say that a change of editorial policy in a given media outlet is often related to a change of political direction; is that the case?

Funny aspect: big tech wants to obtan some real influence and weight in society, so they introduce more censorship as a means of obtaining this weight. Now incidentially this erodes their base, as their clients loose interest in the toy, and start to use something else instead.
Spoiler alert: it doesn't. But that won't stop them from making this nonsense clickbait headline I guess.

I guess parsing an MP4 file from YouTube is now classified as "hacking YouTube".
I think it's a gradient -- one extreme is that you have a recording with multiple takes and several long pauses as you're reading a script, in which case you want to streamline the clean up process. But I think it's a creative decision to make the cuts extremely tight and jumpy, not for everyone!
> it is also seeking the cheapest electricity, so it is incentivized to operate at off-hours to use more waste

or subsidized fossil fuels
There is a separate category for theft called grand theft, which is typically more heavily pursued. The opposite is petty theft.

However, the big problem with spending resources to investigate a theft is that the vast majority of the time there will be no leads, and no way to pursue them.

My laptop was stolen out of my truck, window smashed and backpack gone. Unless I had video evidence or witness testimony to go off of.

There are only so many detectives and forensics experts and only so much time and they typically have multiple cases going on at a time.
In the future, it would just use voice control. No need for any manuals or things printed on the PCB.
Even by your definition, you would consider writing an MP4 parser as "hacking YouTube"?
Oh no, not this talking point again.

For the last time, you can spawn mutations regardless of vaccination status.
> Curious question, what about if you use some of these "dark" approaches for something good?

All of these "dark patterns" are just tools and psychological manipulations. They're used for all kinds of positive outcomes. Gamification lets us use them to help with learning, or our todo lists, or to kick a bad habit or as part of therapy. It's not that these techniques themselves are always evil, but the potential for abuse exists and when they're used in games, it's often to keep players addicted or spending money.
Agreed, but I really object to the term "citizen science". It simultaneously implies that academic professionals aren't citizens and that the political question of citizenship (as opposed to, say, statelessness or nationality in a monarchy) is a necessary prerequisite to doing amateur science, or at least for doing it well.

I think it's likely that improving the options for non-institutional researchers will improve the situation for institutional researchers as well, among other things because it improves their BATNA in negotiations with institutional forces.
Have you checked to make sure you can actually disconnect from PG&E? Grid defection is not legal in almost all cities of any size. They make some exceptions for new construction that was never attached to the grid.
Are they actually good switches?
Wow, it's more than $1 a bit!
Yeah, sorry about that. The backend websocket server melted down.
In CA it's the same these days with the advent of community choice aggregators (CCA) [1].

If a CCA is available in your area, and you choose to use it, you pay the main utility for transmission/distribution, but the CCA for energy, both on per kWh basis. It all gets aggregated on the same (confusing) bill. Because they control the energy sourcing, CCAs can offer things like 100% carbon-free or 100% renewable plans. Some even subsidize batteries to add to homes in exchange for a portion of the stored energy capacity.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Choice_Aggregation
The Marek scenario occurs when a vaccine removes the evolutionary pressure against more virulent strains.

The actual mutation event that creates the more virulent strain occurs randomly. Whether that variant survives and thrives depends on all of the evolutionary pressures in force. If a strain is so virulent that it kills the host, it is selected against, because the dead can't spread. If a vaccine lets the host survive but does nothing to stop transmission, that negative evolutionary pressure is gone. Thus, the potential for a vaccine to drive the propagation of a more virulent strain if all other things are equal.

However, there's good reason to believe that all other things will rarely be equal.

The survival rate of the host is just one selection pressure. Anything can be a selection pressure if it has an impact on reproductive success of a subset of the population. It's possible that increased host survival is a very tiny or even zero pressure - for example, if the virus has a long contagious period, it might have already done all the spreading it's going to do before onset of symptoms and death, rendering survival time irrelevant. Other pressures could dominate - for example, the virus could be susceptible to being killed by sunlight, favoring variants with a light-insensitivity property over variants with a virulence property.

One could even imagine how host symptoms could create positive pressure towards virulence - for example, more coughing and bleeding could help transmission. Such a virus would have its survival chances reduced by a leaky-but-symptom-reducing vaccine, and increased by vaccine-avoidance.

Evolution is spectacularly multi-dimensional. None of these outcomes are inevitable.
I feel like Descript doesn't work well when you're editing footage with other noises or the video isn't talking based. eg. for a vlog, there are talking sections and non-talking sections where Descript wouldn't be helpful for editing