skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It flicks off every 40 minutes. Turning it on after 40 minutes will keep it warm as the hot plate has residual heat that keeps it piping hot for about 5-10 minutes fter it switches off.
>Whole-term-fixed rates are pretty uncommon in Europe.

Here in Belgium I think most people got those.

>why would you fix for 30yr when you know you're paying multiple points to offset market uncertainty?

Because my rate was 0,98% fixed for 20 years here in Belgium. I'd have done the same if I needed 30 (which is rare here as 20 or 25 is more common)
The chances of coming out ahead long term starting out with a higher variable rate are rather slim
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> If the system causes nurses to spend disproportionate amounts of time on admin work and not on direct patient care, it may be better to look at your admin processes rather than just hire more nurses.

I get the impression that the same is often true for teachers, academics and cops: too much focus on administration, which takes the focus away from the reasons they chose these jobs in the first place. Streamline the administrative process, or have dedicated administrators help them with the boring stuff, so the nurses, teachers and cops can focus on the actual content of their jobs.
Not a physicist either, and I don't claim to understand entropy that well either but maybe it would help to consider that entropy may not be a universal variable of systems in the universe.

I think you should rather consider it as a mathematical construct that applies to some systems where the microscopic quantities are well defined, and where the 'averaging' that we can observe is also well defined. So if you look at thermodynamics, entropy is well defined, but you may be totally right, that what we call "microscopic states" in a gas can be broken down further in elementary particles, that may or may not behave in quantic ways, and what not, and counting the micro-states considering the elementary particles is a whole different game.

But it doesn't really matter. What matters is that at the scale we're at and with the microscopic/macroscopic relation that's defined, entropy works. The calculations that give some numbers to entropy show that it looks like entropy cannot decrease. They call it a universal principle of thermodynamics, because there is nothing (to my understanding), that explains it microscopically.

And it works for a variety of situation in physics, such that it seems that it's a universal property of nature. But it's mostly mathematical. It seems to say that "given a system we know everything about, there is no way to go to a system that has some unknown things to us".

Anyways. I mostly wrote this to see if I could articulate it to myself, hopefully it helps you as well.
I don't think "social media" is anywhere well defined enough to compare its effects with the link between cigarette smoke and cancer.

It's far more difficult to prove specific effects of social media use, because it's so hard to separate it from all other social and economic dynamics of our time. There's no proper control group.

The way in which different people use social media may well make all the difference between it being beneficial and being harmful. Social media is not a substance that has a specific effect regardless of how we use it as individuals and as a society.

I think it's a mistake to expect social sciences to work like natural sciences.

The smoking gun you're hoping for may never be found. The entire question could end up in the same basket as worries about the alleged harmfulness of reading novels or comic books, watching TV, watching porn or playing computer games. If anything "social media" seems even more vague than all of these.
The models we have work and are relatively parsimonious. It would be silly to assume they are final but equally silly to shy away from using them for obvious reasons.

The modernization of physics also means we have outlines for what theories should look like, so even if our current theories are wrong we can still use the principles of (say) symmetry and information to constrain future work.
Why?

I've used APFS on my Mac, and it worked well enough that I didn't have to think about. Now I've been using ZFS on my daily driver Linux PC and I don't have to think about it either.

I actually prefer ZFS for being able to set up transparent compression. But other than that, I'd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite.
The photo of the caller was of a big-shot investor. Not the guy’s wife.

(Indeed, my wording was unclear)
> please do your own research

I'm not saying I don't believe you, and doing some research won't be a problem for most people here, but a few sources or maybe pointers in the right direction wouldn't hurt.

Btw telling people that there's a disaster headed their way and asking them to "do their own research" without any source or evidence may not be received well in ... well, in a society. Too many flat-earth qanon chemtrail pedo cabal believers around these days.
If you're going to make an alarmist post like that, I wish you would back up your claims with actual data and a deeper analysis of the situation. What you posted here is the equivalent of a low quality media article with no sources, designed to maximise engagement. There's not much substance. What's happening? Why? At why pace? What is the data that support this evidence? What about the data that indicates the opposite? How dangerous is this problem related to other problems we're facing right now? Why should we take care of the soil before anything else? What solutions have people tried? Are they working? How can we evaluate them? What about the people that have done nothing? Are they doing worse? How much worse? Who is working on this right now? How can we support them?How does this compare to giving money to the most effective charities? [1] How can we join them, help them?

[1]: https://www.givewell.org/maximum-impact-fund
If there's one thing I know about myself it's that I don't need an app to create awkward situations. I am very good at doing that already.
> EU recently banned sales of ICE engines starting by 2030.

Do yo have a source for that? I'm finding only proposals for a ban, and those proposals are targeting 2035. Thanks.
To answer your question. The risk is minimal to nonexistent.

Tritium, the thing ONE of the scientists is concerned about, is an isotope of hydrogen. It's barely radioactive, and it has half life of about 12 years. You may know it as the stuff that illuminates watch faces and sights. It's used in many other industrial applications and as far as radioactive elements goes

If you read the actual article you may see it's classic fear mongering:

The panel of multi-disciplinary scientists, hired by the intergovernmental Pacific Islands Forum, has not found conclusive evidence that the discharge would be entirely safe, and one marine biologist fears contamination could affect the food system.

TL;DR:
They couldn't say something could happen, so they said that they can't conclude nothing will happen. Which is exactly what everybody knew before. One of them said that something COULD happen, but he doesn't know how.
I imagine that Rocket increased their workforce by more than 8% between spring of 2020 and now. I work for a mortgage company and layoffs have happened multiple times this year. With rates so low for almost two years the volume increased significantly. In order to deal with that volume the company most certainly had to hire many people and quick. The market conditions can't support keeping those individuals (or at least the number of positions that were added) during the pandemic. People who work the operations jobs (who are behind the scenes helping the loan officer close loans) know the market is cyclical and know that layoffs are a part of the business.
YouTube takedown requests are rarely DMCA requests. YouTube modelled their internal system after the DMCA but left out the perjury part.
Ahh I see. Maybe it was a family emergency and he didn't want to have to explain, though.

I feel like this implicit judgment (by all of us) of which people this CEO wants to prioritize over work is exactly why he was right to change the photo.
Brexit means Brexit.
I guess the problem, and the point of the parent post, is that the full containment of the omicron variant might be very difficult in the long term.

Also since the omicron is milder and vaccines rather effective (as long as you don't refuse taking one), it's worth asking how much collective good is gained by personal inconvenience.

At least some people in South Korea seem to think that in the current situation the old restrictions are not worth it: https://www.ft.com/content/4be21b01-efd3-4f67-b353-7bad9eb33...
Just decant into a thermos in that case.
Less then a year ago the interest rate in Germany was less than 1%. Now we are over 2%. The most increases are since about February. It is not slowly growing. The speed of growing is increasing right now.

I got mine with about 1% interest two years ago and do almost 5% redemption, fixed almost over the whole time. Just 2 years or so left at the end.
He has written 78 books - some of them make little to no money... or have stopped already. That's a lot of continuous work. The books are about current technologies that are bound to change, if the books are not updated/edited/etc. they are bound to stop making money as well.

Anyways, writing that many book is not passive at any rate.
Perhaps it's actually correct, but our intuitions about ridiculously long periods of time aren't good. Note that heat death is in ~10¹⁰⁰ years, whereas this Boltzman body would take ~10^(10⁶⁹) years. That second time period is literally incomprehensible. So we think, of course a fully formed human body wouldn't appear; in practice, that's not how it actually works; the fact that it appears possible is at best a mathematical artifact, not reality. But we're talking about a timescale that's not just longer than the age of the universe, or than the total lifespan of the universe, not just orders of magnitude longer than those times, but on a completely different scale. Given that, I think we need to toss out those intuitions.

As to the author's last question of whether such a thing even makes sense at all given those time scales, I don't see why not. After all, once the universe reaches heat death, as far as we know nothing from the outside is going to come along and garbage collect it, so why couldn't it last for an arbitrary/infinite number of years? And compared to that, ~10^(10⁶⁹) years, or ~10^(10^(10⁵⁶)) years, or whatever, is nothing.
Automated trading of crypto is a derivative of crypto/Web 3. What I'm saying is that there are offshoots that may not seem directly related to it. There's still innovation going on.
That’s not what passive income is. Passive income is earning by doing nothing, which is what happens when you write a book.
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Only one side has blocked info? Hmmm.
Yeah, that style has been pretty common for what, ten years now?
It will be anyway. To create clean RF isn't all that simple.
Are you in Taiwan and able to assess the situation in person? Restrictions have been small relative to the rest of the world, with the exception of last summer during a Delta outbreak that was later brought down by effective contact tracing.

Context and time are relevant. Both Delta and an undervaccinated population were issues months ago. I would not say the virus is winning, nor would I call the response here a shit show. The CDC here has been saying since late last year that we will eventually need to live with Covid when it arrives.
> We moved Japan to during the pandemic because we don’t agree with the West and Americans’ attitude towards coronavirus.

Not everyone in "the West" agrees with america's attitude to covid. All the things this article talks about are very similar to things we did here in Australia. (Though lets be honest - the system probably worked much better in Taipei.)

Here in Melbourne we endured 263 days in lockdown. We were allowed to leave our homes - but only for essential supplies, outdoor exercise, medical care or essential work. Unless you had a good reason, you couldn't travel more than 5km from home. We also had a nightly curfew, and all restaurants were closed (or take away only). And of course, we couldn't visit other people's homes. Wherever you went you needed to do QR code checkins so they could do contact tracing.

The city became a ghost town. After 9pm (or whenever the curfew was) the only people out were the occasional nurse or delivery driver heading home, and a swarm of ubereats / doordash drivers feeding everyone.

Everything has opened up again now that everyone who wants a vaccine has had one. And now we're just letting omicron do its thing.

For the most part, I support our government's response. I was watching the situation play out in the USA with horror. 1 million people dead, and nobody cares? What on earth? And there were apparently protests in NY about the "totalitarian" situation in Australia? Uh, what? We aren't the ones who need saving thankyouverymuch.

I had a friend visit from the USA for a funeral and she got put in hotel quarantine for 14 days in Sydney. She was so upset and angry over it all. I didn't know what to say - I'm glad she was in quarantine. Her right to go to the funeral didn't trump the rights of australians to stay safe from any disease she carried.

Covid made the world a big place again. Everywhere had different policies, and everyone had a different experience.
Liouville's Theorem does indeed seem to imply that entropy doesn't change:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/202522/how-is-li...
Passive income is income that can be earned automatically with minimal labor to earn or maintain.
I guess you can't really call that passive if you spend time working for it. It's not like an investment that you buy once and gives your income each month.

PS: Sadly writing can pay off as much as giving you nothing (money wise).
I live in Taiwan. The gov response was the best I've experienced and heard about so far, compared to say the UK which was a shitshow.

A year and a half ago now we did something like 10 days in a airbnb quarantine which was a challenge for me as I don't think I've ever stayed that long inside. Deliveries everyday, felt sorry for the staff dropping it at the door all the time but whatever.

General life was good, everyone wears masks. QRs on doors and contact tracing. Only one small outbreak due to a Korean pilot that went drinking with some girls iirc. They had news from the CDC everyday.

Then the vaccines came and most people got it sorted.

Now the gov has opened up more and even dropped the QR code system. Only one annoyance I have is I need a booster shot to train at the gym.

A couple of my partner's friends have caught covid and it will start to pass through.

Pretty happy with the response compared to somewhere like the UK or currently China and Shanghai.
It's a bit more nuanced. It's true that you do research looking for insights that would give you a competitive advantage, and you don't find many - and very often the results don't justify the cost. On the other hand, if you don't do that, you risk staying behind, so some form of data analysis is absolutely necessary for any business - you can't just run on your gut feeling especially once you exceed a certain size.

As a side note, people tend to be very unimaginative in the initial stages of data analysis: very often they just take the data they have instead of thinking what data they need to have. And obviously the results correspond to the initial limitations. So much effort is put into data munging and other stages when your inputs are incomplete or plain irrelevant to what your business actually needs.
> Okay, so if they get into an accident are they hurting themselves or others by not wearing a helmet? Literally proves the point about Westerners thinking in terms of selfish terms.

Have you checked out vaccination rates for older people yet? Over 75s, in Taiwan the vax rate is 68%, compared to 83% in the US, and 92% in the UK.[0] These are the people most likely to require medical care, and for whom taking a vaccine would have the biggest effect on not overloading the healthcare systems in their countries.

> scooters, which is most likely Taiwan or Vietnam

if you had any idea how ridiculous this comment sounds to anyone who's spent time in the region I don't think you'd have made it

> Tell me you’re not a white guy yearning for Asia to open up so you can travel without intentions of wearing a mask.

Born and raised in Thailand, and spent most of the pandemic there. Probably time you stepped away from the keyboard, eh? These hot-takes from a recent immigrant to Asia about how Asians feel are not a good look.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
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Not many people live in such regions. And building enough solar and wind for the billions of people who do live in the good locations for it will drastically reduce the price of energy due to scale.

This will effectively render the issue moot, the few people in those regions could burn fossils and it wouldn't really matter. But it would be cheaper for them to import green energy.
It's interesting, we've heard this sort of thing before. We've had very few problems with firmware development, though we've been able to leverage esp32 IDF so far.

We have working prototype have costed out our BOM and are in the Alpha design phase. We've costed out the materials cost, packaging, tooling. Our industrial designer has helped us to estimate the costs as well and figures we're in the right ballpark. They actually suspect that as we scale, our costs will drop faster than what I am forecasting.

I'm trying to figure out, is there some big mystery surprise I'm waiting to knock me down later? How can I be prepared.
Boeing's board has just three people with degrees in engineering. They are outnumbered by accountants. Only two worked as engineers (the other is a pilot/Air Force) and only one of the two working engineers is from aviation.

https://www.boeing.com/company/general-info/corporate-govern...
That’s what makes pomodoro so powerful imo. I only need it to start the day, then I can drop it.
Ah so what I meant is that in Czech Republic I have a 30 year mortgage with a rate that is fixed at 1.99% for 5 years, and is then variable (or more likely renegotiated) after that period. I am sure I could have instead gotten a 30 year mortgage with a single rate for the duration, but I suspect it would've been higher than the rate. But if you're at a 2% for 20 years that is pretty great IMO - given that our rates are currently through the roof.
What is your reference of Europe?

In Germany, 15 years, 20 years, and up to 30 years is common. I took 20 years.

A close friend of mine working at a bank has an internal benefit, that the 10 year fixed rate applies for her as a fixed rate for however it takes to pay-off.
It doesn't die in the rain or from coffee or sugary drinks. Also not from dropping it into snow. I have not tested it otherwise. I would estimate IPX4.
The page has a lot of bull-shit. This phrase had me flummoxed:

To induce the flow state further, every composition should be arranged following these 4 neuroscientific parameters:

And then it turns out they mean "do 120 bpm", as if that fits every musical style, and, even better:

Harmonic variations are better remembered by the listener and activate certain areas of the brain.

As opposed to what: writing with a single chord?
We've been very fortunate to work with a great hardware engineer, and we've taken a "go slow to go fast" mentality. Building larger than necessary boards where we can cut traces, use 0603s so we can replace caps and resistors if necessary, and then going smaller once we've had that first gen working.
That is how business is run in the US, but not exclusively. They don't want to have dirty hands and hired some company with specific profile to do this job for them. They took a time to find company like this. This is not an unexpected accident. And when things become hot, they blow some money to shut other mouths.

Shady practice for the bad people who got caught several times. Taking responsibility for them will be ceasing whole business. Just stop doing bad things.
Because he’s an activist for freedom of speech and lives in a country that suppresses it?
Don’t y’all get me wrong, i think he’s in a very complicated position and I still think he’s a reasonable and important figure. Unfortunately some of his choices and the choices of people who made him who he is (namely Glenn Greenwald) have deeply affected his relevance and the power of his voice.
Couldn't do what? Pull the stick back into a stall? Sure you can. Under normal law you can't do that with an Airbus, that's one of many things that caught the AF crew off guard.

There's no such protection on the 737. Nobody's done that because unlike on the Airbus, it's never safe to do so. There are, however, plenty of ways to get caught off guard in a 737 and stall it. Take a look at the UTAir and Thomsonair go arounds that got their planes to about 45° nose up. Or the 737 Air Florida planted right into the Potomac because they didn't have the elevator authority to avoid the stall. Or Fly Dubai…

As for human interactions, the 737 is a series of bad choices (especially the MAX). Take a look at the Helios Air crash, the pilots were confused by an alarm that could mean two different things. Unfortunately hypoxic pilots aren't known for their reasoning ability.
I'm pretty sure I had my iPod touch jailbroken when I was ~10 ish. Obviously breaking the actual OS is hard but the actual process of doing it isn't.
You appear to be right. I copied these statements from the netfly website but the actual law seems to phrase it differently.
It also matches the reading of the law.stackoverflow question quoted in a sibling comment to yours.
This is a good reminder that book writing should not be for the income it generates, but for the joy of writing!

To me, this is truly inspiring and I certainly need to get back into my writing habbit!
Do you know approximatively how much time you spend to write one of these books ?
I'm using snapper (https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper) as a daemon which snapshots periodically and it's easy to search files with some fzf-like fuzzy-searching shell tools. But now checking its explanation, I must say it doesn't look polished.
It is better to stop doing business. I guess!