skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from the local lockdowns, China as a whole has recently issued a ban on international travel from China, making it difficult for people to leave the country. So in some sense, the whole population is locked down (or locked in). Source e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/13/china/china-covid-outboun...
Those conditions are perfect if you want a system to get overrun with spam and scams.
> Of course you could. Just carrying your identity (even an anon one) between applications alone can be useful.

You already have that without requiring any buzzword-driven marketingspeak.

And if your goal is to stay anonymous, in the very least you'd be using independent dedicated identities in separate services.
Oh, interesting! Wonder why? Maybe people exist who don't want the same people from Twitter to follow them on Reddit, Youtube, Steam, Spotify, etc. too, eh? Maybe independent isolated logins aren't such a bad thing? Maybe hand-waving about "BLOCKCHAIN" doesn't actually have any solutions to any of these problems that arise from the fact that: different people have different desires. There is no tech solution for reconciling the irreconcilable.
China has been quietly building a blockchain platform. Here's what we know
Your complaint is over $12 a year? Come on... they've provided you a reliable service for 6 years and now you have to pay $1 more a month and that is enough to drive you away?
Private browsing mode ("incognito" in Chrome)
The new docker-based CICD system uses cue: https://docs.dagger.io/1235/what#how-does-it-work
Define your MongoDB back end search API declaratively
I think you're getting Terra and Tether mixed up. Parent was saying the Terra explosion was a dry run for the forthcoming Tether implosion.
Do they even have usable vaccines? Their Sinovac/Sinopharm vaccines were reasonably effective in preventing severe COVID in the non-elderly pre-omicron, but they don't seem to be too effective against omicron.

Most countries using the Chinese vaccines had the "benefit" of having a ton of natural immunity as well. China obviously does not have this. They might seriously have to consider importing Western vaccines as boosters, especially for their under-vaccinated elderly population.
> With Facebook, people usually sought out people and groups that they wanted to connect with and complained about being algorithmically profiled for ads but accepted it as part of the business model.

Google's success with ads is that they were able to trigger them as part of user action. Paid search results are hypothetically helpful to some people. Contextual ads on a site may actually provide value if they are on-topic.

Facebook ads mostly target people. They don't really provide any in-context value, they are pure commercials - spooky commercials that know what is going on in your life, although the ability to utilize this information is often laughably bad.

Twitter often has the same problems. Ads interspersed within conversations just aren't helpful or desired.
Well, I'm jealous!

Here's my list of problems to solve on a rainy day†:

;; * kill-word-sp cancels ioccur mode for some reason
;; * after running ipython for a while, all terminal commands hang waiting for output
;; * iedit substition starts just corrupting shit (e.g., try replacing \t with spaces)
;; * "replace-match-maybe-edit: Match data clobbered by buffer modification hooks"
;; * delete-horizontal-space doesn't work w/ iedit mode
;; * vc-annotate doesn't properly restore window configuration
;; * the popup used by dumb-jump breaks when line wrapping is enabled and it's used on a wrapped line
;; * sometimes trying to launch a new shell just kills the old shell
;; * godef doesn't work when narrowed
;; * emacs stopped automatically recompiling .emacs wtf
;; * grep-ed while buffer is in loccur mode fucks things up
;; * undo in loccur mode messes things up
;; * visual-line-mode jumps around on very long lines (like paragraph long)
;; * parens don't overwrite properly in go-mode
;; * «Error running timer `auto-revert-buffers': (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)»
;; * shell doesn't save history a lot of the time
;; * piece of shit grep edit silently fails on spaces on file names
;; * code-wrap is stupid with long separator lines (like "//---" for a long time)
;; - sadly might be a visual line mode bug, actually...
;; * line highlight doesn't work after jumping to a definition
;; * highlight line mode doesn't work on most recent line in shell
;; * tendency to identify buffers by name causes bugs when renaming buffers ("stringly typed")
;; * subword mode doesn't think DEBUG_MEGA_GOLD is three words (in a .go file)
;; * if a shell command tries to open a file in emacs, and the active window is the minibuffer, the file will open into the minibuffer

Probably the biggest source of issues is two different modes not playing well with each other, which is understandable, but also something it feels like a less freeform approach to an editor might reasonably be able to do a better job of avoiding.

† To be fair, not all bugs -- some are just configuration issues I haven't figured out yet.
Hi HN, I'm the author, happy to answer any questions :)
You're right: with all of that, you're just shifting things around in time, and it resolves when you sell the asset or toss it. This can still have real effects in times of high interest rates, or due to the fact that a loss might give you less of a tax credit, depending on jurisdiction, than a profit generates in tax obligations.

Not sure how relevant it is to the issue described in the article: depreciations that are too small, thus front loading profits - but it might be that the tax code prohibits larger depreciations.
I thought these cars had radar and/or lidar? The radar should "see" things 160 metres away so regardless of whether the Tesla thought these were cars, shouldn't it still have seen them as obstructions and avoided them?

Is it possible overloading of the CPU that can't keep up with the volume of data being given to it by all of the various inputs?
SQL queries over traces are definitely worth it. Android and Chrome have had it for a while [1]. I once wrote about quantifying the UI janky-ness using it [2].

The point is that it can give you 1. quantitative comparison at scale and also 2.
alternative visualization that reveals problems which isn't obvious from the default timeline view. With it performance investigation becomes more like exploratory data analysis than a torture of your eyes.

It's not clear if Promscale can cross-reference other types of the performance metric. If it's possible that'd be a game changer.

[1] https://perfetto.dev/

[2] https://notes-dodgson-org.translate.goog/android/trace-proce...
I live in Hangzhou, 150 miles away to Shanghai. There are a few positive COVID-19 cases in past weeks and we prepared to lockdown, but it did not come.

Right now, there is a 48-hour-test policy, and we should have a negative COVID test within 48 hour to enter a public building. Once you have that, almost all services in Hangzhou are open. We can work, shop, meet as usual. The COVID test is free, available in every community, could be collected (mixed with 10 people) in 10 minutes. There are still a few cases some day. I believe we can stop the wide spread of Omicron in Hangzhou in this way.

Also, this is how Shenzhen fight with Omicron two months ago, it contain it, but Shanghai got it spread in the same time. Right now, the cases in Shanghai is declining, will be open soon hopefully, finger crossed!
"Adversity devours the weak"

From "Survive" by Gideon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNxiXy1nAeU

I use this mantra to remind myself that I can always go more than I think I can, and when I think I've done all I can, I can do more.
Nobody’s arguing that power has gotten more expensive. Or that replacing hardware costs money.
I just went from Quarantining all email from Digital Ocean IPs to outright deleting it before delivery.

Digital Ocean is a huge supporter of spammers and does absolutely nothing about spam or toward spam prevention.

Please do not support Digital Ocean as they've chosen to be a bad actor on the Internet in the name of profit.
The “and“ is important. Rudeness alone is rarely enough to provoke violence. Perceptions of what is acceptable vary quite a bit across class and culture as well.
> effectively increasing US security and lowering European one

Not really, there were still missiles in Italy and maybe Germany? It made little real difference to European security.

> Zelensky, Johnson and Biden get isolated by Europeans, and countries like Italy (I hope) chose to get out of NATO

Russia invading Ukraine, showing that European peace and security aren't as guaranteed and certain as most people thought is only bringing NATO and more specifically European NATO members together. Italy isn't on the frontlines, but is also impacted by Putin's idiocy. Why would it abandon one of it's two security guarantees (EU being the other one) now? Before the invasion, EU countries moving to a NATO independent military cooperation and defense pact would have made great sense ( and certain EU leaders were pushing for it), but now? No way.
The situation in Shanghai is orders of magnitude more extreme than what happened in Europe.

At the heights of lockdown, the European market dropped 76% YoY (from 1143046 cars in April 2019 to 270682 in 2020). Even in the most affected countries the market didn't bottom out so completely:

* in the UK, sales went from 161k to 4.3k

* in Italy, sales went from 175k to 4.3k

* in Ireland, sales went from 8900 to 344 (nb: the Irish market seems extremely seasonal, with strong sales in January and July, middling sales in Feb and March dropping to nothing by June, and basically no sales from August to December, in 2020 the bottom dropped out in March but sales recovered almost normally by July)

Shanghai has almost 4 times the population of Ireland, 40% the population of Italy or the UK.
Paul Ford said something about SQLite a few years ago which really stuck with me: https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jan/29/paul-ford/

> The JSON interface is like, “we save the text and when you retrieve it we parse the JSON at several hundred MB/s and let you do path queries against it please stop overthinking it, this is filing cabinet.”
Chinese vaccines are slightly less effective, but they do work, you can check the numbers in my country, Uruguay.

Pfizer has outperformed Sinovac, but it still provided protection.
The picture is from here: https://vividmaps.com/the-nearest-foreign-nation-at-any-poin...
Some people care because it goes to the heart of the advertising costs and value.
Are you always connected to power? I kept a few old laptops that would be practically useless today, but always wanted to resurrect for simple offline things. The biggest issue I have is power when off the charger.

I think my best laptop is 45 minutes or so per charge. At one point I even bought extra batteries and kept them safely stored and dry, only to realize that this does almost nothing to preserve their longevity as now years later I find them all to have about the same lifespan. I have extra 18650 batteries, however Im not sure, given the size of these, that this is what they use in there.
Unfortunately, China has failed at vaccine rollout. It might be too heavy handed now, but I am not going to direct an equivalent amount of ire at China's failed policy as to the US' failed policy when one resulted in hundreds of thousands of more people dying.
I just checked and it's still there. There is a chat bubble icon in the upper-right, between the mail icon and shield icon.

It somewhat works on old.reddit, but at least it's not completely broken like the "report" feature for comments or posts that break the rules. (To report something, I have to switch to reddit's mobile interface.)
As long as the next pizza lid doesn't contradict the last one, that sounds like a good early-stage startup process!
> A year ago I was diagnosed with ADHD (inattentive) and prescribed a very low dose of Vyvanse (amphetamine based). Suddenly it was gone.

Reduced appetite or appetite suppression is a very common side effect of those types of medications.
If you haven't seen it, remarshal is awesome and one can brew install it: https://github.com/dbohdan/remarshal#readme
Kerbal Space Program 2 delayed to “early 2023”
Huh?

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terra-luna/
Speaking of which…

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-on-ipfs/
Everything is a weapon. Even this video
Its self-promotion. Basically an ad for themselves. IMHO as annoying as an ad, except HN allows me to downvote it.
That's true, but then the price does go up on cue anyway. I see it as a way to express frustration that you know it will go up anyway
This is a link to a github repo that literally just contains a handful of pcaps, likely used as examples in the book.

There's no copy of the book here (it's not a "free" book) or anything else of interest.

This has been on the front page all morning, are people just upvoting it without clicking on the link or what?
Something the article doesn't bother to try and explain, why has interviewing become so difficult?

Is the market oversaturated with low quality candidates? Or has the recruiter been integrated internally into companies such that the role has become more bureaucratic?
Compare Twitter ads to the ads in a newspaper or something. 100% of a newspaper's readers are lurkers, but ads still seem to be worth more than $0.
I'd say they were in the middle between Kraftwerk and Belgian ‘new beat’ (https://youtube.com/watch?v=4XUipCxjmmw). However, I'm not from that time and place, so may be mistaken, and they seem to have made a bunch of pop-oriented songs, e.g. ‘Rock Around the Clock’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XGXHDMIJw4
The military funded think tank that prescribed all of our actions leading up to this point and accurately predicted Russia's responses disagrees with you.

No one wants direct nuclear war, but they do want to skirt around the edges and expand their power. The US has been in multiple hot proxy wars with Russia, the biggest being the attempted overthrow of Syria.

US leadership from both parties have publicly described Ukraine as a proxy war between the US and Russia. If you're still in the early days of the propaganda where Russia invaded Ukraine totally out of the blue with zero provocation from anyone and the US is just doing their best to protect the innocents, you're way behind.
"You poor incompetent kitten."
Uber launches robot food delivery in California
Fascinating to watch in real-time as somebody tries to convince us that Eastern European nations voluntarily joining NATO over 20 years was "aggression" and poor little Putin had no choice but to rain missiles and shells down on Ukrainian schools and hospitals.

Good luck "debunking" your "myth," comrade!
Could you try fitting both your elbows within the video frame or may be move away from the camera a little?
>If it's a source of bugs, that ... greatly reduces my future interest in adopting the language.

It can be a source of bugs because some/many packages incorrectly assume that what you pass is 1-based indexed.
Not quite. Bitcoin difficulty adjusts every 2000 blocks, which typically happens every two weeks. If the hashrate drops, those blocks happen less often, so the adjustment happens less often.

These past years the Bitcoin ASICs have been tremendously profitable, and as a result the demand for the hardware goes up, leading to huge profits for the hardware makers. These past few months have seen a drop in Bitcoin, which drops the profit for miners, but as it is still above electricity prices, only results in cheaper hardware.

If Bitcoin drops below the electricity line, you will see miners all over the world start to turn off their devices. And once that happens, block time will rise, and that will start making the entire network less trusting. This will cause a spike of people selling their coins, and with less blocks this means a packed exit. With the packed exit, you would think this would incentivize mining as transaction fees go way up, but those fees come directly from the value of the coin, so once this starts the value of the coin is going to drop heavily.

With mining profitability dropping the further this goes, the longer block times, the more the price of Bitcoin goes down. If Bitcoin goes below 10k quick enough, it won't ever see another difficulty adjustment, and the entire chain dies. The developers might chose to hard-fork and change the difficulty changes algorithm, but as we've seen with Bitcoin Cash, these changes are political and don't tend to end well.
Because unlike in the West, their coverage gaps are highest among the elderly.

https://archive.ph/Ww9o3/a0fe4ca441387dca37b8beebe30ac260501...
Just because something is expensive, doesn't mean that there's demand. If Europe starts paying Russia for gas in roubles, watch as the rouble falls back to earth (as demand forces it to find its level).
Because then I lose 120Hz, which my TV supports, but the receiver doesn't.
There is a balance. Computers are getting faster. Bandwidth is nominally cheaper. However, inflation is hell right now and supplies are still tight. A lot of components are just as expensive as they were years ago.
simple, if there are no more participants in a govt systems like social security or people dont want to use govt backed money, then it's value will collapse in a one way or another.

It means that people who are left in the system are screwed like in any ponzi like systems.

P.S. Thanks for downvotes HN on my orginal comment
Says who? Serious question. Is there any auditing of Tether's claims, by a reputable real-economy firm? Is there any legal or regulatory authority involved at all?
Court Ruling shows the GPL is both copyright license and contractual agreement
The Chinese vaccines do provide substantial protection against the most severe outcomes, though the mRNA vaccines are indeed better. Countries using such vaccines should be trying to provide at least an mRNA booster, especially to people at high risk.

The bigger problem though is that a significant proportion of elderly people remain unvaccinated. Look what happened in Hong Kong to see a prediction of what will happen if Covid gets loose in mainland China without a more substantial vaccine drive.
Really? German utilities use batteries for day-night supply/demand smoothing? [1]

How many GWH of capacity have they deployed?

And isn't it the country where a KWH costs 33 cents?

Given that solar produces electricity at ~2 cents per KWH, this seems pretty damning.

[1] Are you sure you're not confusing this with minute-over-minute smoothing, which requires ~two orders of magnitude less battery capacity?
It probably would. I'm not a webdev by day, but personally I find including javascript makes it much more simple for me than updating a bunch of <a> tags. All I have to do is build out the json file and it just populates all the info.

In the end, the amount of work is probably equivalent (updating html vs json), but html feels a little messier to me and less flexible if I have more dynamic needs in the future.

But I appreciate the feedback, I'll definitely think it over.
in rust code, I like using `debug_assert!` to represent numerical expectations/assumptions of the implementation. later if I have a problem, I can turn on debug assertions and I will get a bunch of additional checks. but I can also turn them off and not pay for them all the time.
The current purpose of NATO is to make sure that the Russian nukes won't get used.
If mining becomes a major expense because the price of bitcoin is too low to recoup the cost of electricity how long would it take for the difficult to adjust?

If miners and shutting down during that time I'd expect the time between blocks to increase.
I should have put caching also helps if you can't produce static stites via the application (i.e. some shopping cart software), not just wordpress.
> Make a search engine which indexes the fresh relevant data from the big siloed websites, and ignores the general dead Internet

I don’t understand why Google themselves don’t do this. LinkedIn v. hiQ demonstrated that they won’t get in trouble for scraping users’ subjective views of data within these silos and then stitching them together to form a cohesive whole. So where’s the effort to do so? It seems like the obvious step.
Finland and Sweden did the same, until now. Easy for Austria to keep it that way now that they are a member of EU and completely surrounded by NATO countries.

And in Ukraine we see that this strategy does not work when your neighbor is murderous.
The most useful metric in my view, and one I learned at IBM, is fixes applied over shipped lines of code. Multiple fixes over the same lines of code is exponentially bad.

IBM started measuring code defects vs working code in this way because productivity studies they did showed that fixes took much more time per LOC than new code and had other costs (customer sat, doc changes, reputation) besides.
I might be wrong on this but I thought they removed Radar in recent models due to the parts shortage and just implemented it in software?
Amid a Worsening Formula Shortage, Mothers Are Asked: ‘Why Not Breastfeed?’
Honest question: unless you're top 100 market cap companies in the world, what's actually the practical consequence of not following GDPR as a non-European company?

What's the most they can do in theory -- like issue a court order for a fine? (Practically are they doing this for >top 100 companies?)

And suppose a fine is issued, what's the enforcement? Do US courts or US banks actually enforce these orders? Are there historical cases of this?

In theory maybe they can apply to their local (European) ISP to block your site. Have they done this historically?

I'm asking because to a degree, some laws about the Internet feel like international law. That is, there's no good enforcement of it because the state (the monopolist on violence) doesn't generally care about these laws.

The European state can obviously enforce GDPR, but if you're outside the practical reach of the European state, what real incentive does that company have to care (beyond standard "moral" reasons).
I had the same thought about Vultr. Hopefully these smaller VPS providers do not domino with their prices.
I also have a Correcting Selectric III and to say that it's not very portable is as much an understatement as saying a boat anchor is not very slim or lightweight!

For actually portable typewriters I've really enjoyed my Royal Mercury and Smith-Corona Skyriter, both of which are usable on a lap on a bench (or under a tree).
What's the point? There was never a real "market" in any meaningful sense. Since the beginning it was always a fake scam to separate suckers from their real (fiat) money. A combination of Ponzi scheme and shell game.
It is my experience that SEO bots are increasingly ignoring robots.txt entries disallowing them from crawling our sites. Last week we noticed several doing this. I don't mind naming names - semrush, something called grapeshot crawler, something else called blex bot, and moz dotbot. Anyone else having the same experience?
Someone to throw under the bus maybe: https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/political-tensions-simmer-ov...

This may be a recurring battle between urban/tech and rural factions, although there probably are many urban areas that are envious of Shanghai and may want it taken down a notch.
There are few things more complicated that YAML - https://www.arp242.net/yaml-config.html#its-pretty-complex

> YAML may seem ‘simple’ and ‘obvious’ when glancing at a basic example, but turns out it’s not. The YAML spec is 23,449 words; for comparison, TOML is 3,339 words, JSON is 1,969 words, and XML is 20,603 words.

Grafana Labs, Datadog's Vector, the Istio Service Mesh project, Dagger, sigstore, the SLSA framework all use CUE in some fashion. Dagger wrote a great blog post on CUE [0]

0. https://docs.dagger.io/1215/what-is-cue/
I had no idea it was so strict. I just use Firefox. Their cookie behavior must be picky enough that it bypasses whatever nonsense Twitter is doing?