skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TikTok is a cancer on the universe. (In terms of converting its users into the version of the people on Wall-E). -- Go ahead Google "Wall-E people".

I thought Instagram was bad.

Trained or not, there is nothing good about scrolling through stuff for every moment when you're bored.

Boredom is nature's way of making the universe go forward. And it's best when its channeled into creative, industrious or thoughtful pursuits. Instead we have channeled Boredom into watching barely clad teens dance, or women complain about dating misadventures.

And the paradoxical thing about it. Is that the creators vs viewers ratio is still 99% viewers to 1% creator. Creators are the ones that have channeled their boredom (however misplaced) into something that others watch.

But then all of this is human nature anyway. And perhaps I'm railing about nothing. Flame away!
It looks like they've considered that:

>Their model also incorporated the emissions costs of mining and then spreading this powdered rock over fields.

Of course, there's always a chance of errors in both how they estimated these emissions and how they estimated the amount of CO2 that will be removed.
what if gov't regulated industry must also come with a mandated set of startup tax breaks or grants, for fostering competition?

If regulation is what stops competition from forming, but the regulation is required for safety reasons, it makes logical sense to assist new competition into the market. This assistance should be limited to helping the startup be certified, etc, in such as way as to eliminate the barrier to entry resulting from the regulation (but not more - i.e., startups aren't getting extra help beyond that, so as not to artificially subsidize them but not their larger counterparts).
There's an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...

> Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks of alfalfa bales ready to be fed to dairy cows – but not cows in California’s Central Valley or Montana’s rangelands.

> Instead, the alfalfa will be fed to cows in Saudi Arabia.

> The storehouses belong to Fondomonte Farms, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based company Almarai – one of the largest food production companies in the world. The company sells milk, powdered milk and packaged items such as croissants, strudels and cupcakes in supermarkets and corner stores throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and in specialty grocers throughout the US.

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An article from UC Davis: https://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/-files/pdf/shippingwaterputnam.p...

National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140123-co...

> Glennon crunched some numbers and figured that in 2012, roughly 50 billion gallons of western water—enough to supply the annual household needs of half a million families—were exported to China. Not literally bottled up and shipped, but embedded in alfalfa crops grown with irrigation water. And that's just to China, which still trails Japan and the United Arab Emirates as a top destination for American alfalfa.

Chasing the author, that leads us to https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.7/how-we-export-our-water-to-a...

NPR: In Time Of Drought, U.S. West's Alfalfa Exports Are Criticized https://www.npr.org/2014/08/12/339753108/in-time-of-drought-...

And WSJ Parched in the West but Shipping Water to China, Bale by Bale https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444517304577653...
Sure, it may not be possible to stockpile every niche product, but this is literally food, perhaps the most obvious thing (up there with water and medical supplies) for governments to stockpile.
On a related note, this is why paid magazines still have ads. The Economist has advertisment, and probably sells ad space at a premium because it's readers have more discretionary spending and engagement.
I simply use the ansiweather app [0] through an alias in the terminal...

[0]: https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather
I think the disconnect is that promethus helps a user to shard things, but it's not automatic. Other time series databases and monitoring solutions automatically distribute and query across servers. It's like postgres vs newswl (aka foundationdb, spanner, etc.,).

While Prometheus supports sharding queries when a user sets it up, my understanding is that this has to be done manually, which is definitely less convenient. This is better than a hypothetical system that doesn't allow this at all, but still not the same as something that handles scaling magically.
Depends heavily on the country.

I know in the UK, treasure belongs to the crown, but they will usually pay you a percentage for finding "their treasure". In the US, as long as it isn't something that would be sacred to native tribes, it's pretty much yours. In Italy, I'm pretty sure the government just gets it and there's a bunch of burden put on the land owner while they look for more artifacts (there are stories of people destroying roman documents rather than report them to the authorities).

It seems like Polish law would be the only relevant one here (I don't think EU law covers any of this), and based on a cursory search they seem to be much closer to Italy than the US on this spectrum.
Training with shaped charges made my father grateful he ended up in the infantry. They are clever, but seriously nasty.
"Put extra dirt on your fields" isn't really in the same class as those is it?
Ha! But even Rugby has rules.
i personally use it as a passive, diversified savings instrument, but i don't mess with altcoins or trading. most crypto is actually exceptionally bad for anonymity, worse than cash, and the proportion of criminal activity it facilitates is 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than the conventional economy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/haileylennon/2021/01/19/the-fal...

it is in fact so bad for anonymity that i suspect you have not read much about it!

i don't disagree that it features a lot of hype bubbles and ridiculous speculation, but that's hardly specific to cryptocurrency. how's your local housing market been looking lately?
That is one usage of the word. But we should not pretend that the word has only one use.

Chuck "discriminate" into Google and you'll get two definitions:

> 1. recognize a distinction; differentiate.

> 2. make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people.

I was referring to the latter use.
So I'm a bit out of the loop here. Are infants going hungry because of the formula shortage?
Wait, I was thinking of Baen.

Robert Jordan is trashy fantasy though, yes. Once you figure out what his fetishes are you can see how much of the stuff in Wheel of Time is secretly a sex thing. (Several of the magic techniques are BDSM, the Aes Sedai "pillow friends", any time anyone uses compulsion, the weird amounts of women talking about spanking each other…)

Brandon Sanderson didn't do any of that when he took over, I guess he didn't notice it.
Your theory is that he:

a). Was bored with everything.

b). Wanted his death to reflect well on his legacy.

c). Was afraid that he will embarrass himself in his old age, tainting his legacy.

It's an interesting perspective and one that I never considered before, though I don't exactly spend time thinking about Roman history. Do you think c has to be true? It seems to be the only way that all of this comes together. Otherwise he could just disappear somewhere.
With current technology, I think it would actually be somewhat simple to create an ASMR channel, for example, with generated content that only shows realistic hands manipulating objects, accompanied by a bot that variably responds to comments in a method which conveys gratitude, and invites everyone to a Discord where the bot also maintains sporadic and jovial communication. Instant community, and none would be the wiser.
> they surely succeeded in some places we still don't know about

Probably not very many, as a lot of them were arrested when the Mitrokhin Archives reached the west in 1992.
*Adleman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Adleman
"Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is crash test humans"
> while high resolution current weather information from Japan Metrological Agency

They are complaining about location precision. It might be very coarse (equivalent to US zip code size). It’s a valid complaint. I use Dark Sky on iOS because it’s accurate to 10 meters or so.
Oof. One does not offer 30% interest when one has access to capital any other way.

Methinks that Tether is not as healthy as they would have you believe.

For myself, I am not interested in any asset promising me 30% zero-risk returns. I know enough to know that is not a thing.
Is this lossy?
Doesn't the BBC contract out to production companies so that they're not liable as a huge organization for one small show's dumb actions? Seems odd, but maybe that's not a thing in the UK.
> Trained or not, there is nothing good about scrolling through stuff for every moment when you're bored.

OP here. TikTok doesn't mandate you use it every moment you are bored, that's a choice made by the user. However I agree it is very potent entertainment technology, and I have read about people using it 8 hours a day, and hating what it's doing to them. I have not read the book, but it brings to mind Infinite Jest, a film "so entertaining that its viewers lose all interest in anything other than repeatedly viewing it, and thus eventually die." The premise of my post is it can be used for good instead of evil, but it does require discipline.
Stopped reading after the first "harsh truth". In no way does the scenario described have any relevance to life. Period.
Distributed cache with client-side consistent hashing
The real question is what amount of time is sufficient. Its probably longer than you expect.
> async/await

Why would those be considered in the first place especially after Loom lands?
TikTok does have some interesting culture to it, there's an immediacy not really found elsewhere in the modern internet.

but I also think its possibly the lowest of the low when it comes to the dominant prevailing culture. Even ignoring that awful synthesized voice.

That being said I'm not sure whether this is just an insight into what I'm now going to literally call the "unwashed masses".

I spend most of my time on the internet in niche communities full of smart people, even shitposters have an intellect to them, most normal people do not, hence awful TikTok spam.
Thanks for answering I guess.
Survivorship bias is more about believing a task is safe/easy because you only hear from the survivors/winners. Not about saying someone is better at a job because they haven't died/lost yet.
Really cool UI with downright impressive polish.

Unfortunately I don't understand the language. But man, the UI looks and feels great.
He might have hated OJ Simpson.
I saw "Blown Away Guy" in the thread title and immediately that image came to mind. It was a very popular dorm room poster when I was in college.
BA, Art degree in 2007

I apply only to software engineer jobs. Full-stack, front end, or back end, I'm shooting my shot at all three. 95% of those are for mid-level and lower. Other 5% are for senior level. I get zero interviews for senior jobs, though.

I share similar views on passing an interview vs. getting an interview. The former is pretty codified these days- there's so much reading material to cover on leetcode/tech interviews.

Comparatively it's very tricky to figure out what goes into making your resume turn heads for big tech. It's great that I can read about top Lyft interview questions, but how to get Lyft to 1st round your resume to the top, though. Leetcode practice is useless if you don't even get the chance to use it.
That's terribly embarrassing. And hilarious because it's CNN and it couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of folks.

But seriously, I can see how something like that could happen, but that's mortifying.
This isn't just in the US. In Australia there are have been limits on how much baby formula you can buy per day for years because Chinese parents do not trust domestic powdered milk and so there's an underground market for shipping baby formula from other countries to China at extortionate prices.

My impression is that they trust anything that is not from mainland China will be better than what they can get domestically.
> By necessity, Augustus, therefore, set the boundaries of the Roman Empire at the Rhine and Danube rivers in Europe and negotiated a settlement with the Parthians in the East. The former proved durable almost until the end of the Roman Empire in the West, while the latter was the source of constant fighting for centuries in a series of conflicts known as the Roman-Persian Wars, which endured well into the Byzantine Era.

> I think it’s plausible that Julius Caesar, who was on the verge of setting out for Parthia, would have either conquered the Parthians or dealt a serious blow that would have allowed the Romans to negotiate a much more favorable and stable Eastern border.

What is interesting in the East, is that Rome's troubles in the East were worsened in a sense by their successes.

Mesopotamia and Persia were initially ruled by the Seleucid Empire.

Rome beat them up, and weakened them. Parthia was able to break away, and conquer much of the East.

Rome tried to beat Parthia but was unable for a long time, until Trajan was able to actually attack and destroy the Parthian capitals.

This ended up wearing the Parthians, which led to their downfall at the hands of Sassanids.

This turned out to be really bad for Rome for two reasons. First, the Sassanids considered themselves the heirs of the orginal Achmenid Persian Empire and demanded that their former possessions be returned to them. Of course since this included the richest Roman provinces like Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt it was a non-starter.

Second, the Sassanid Capital was much further east than the Parthian Capital had been so was much harder for Rome to get to.

So began centuries of Roman-Persian warfare, as mentioned which lasted into the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) time period.

It came to a culmination when the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, did a brilliant attack against the rear of the Persian Army which was besieging Constantinople and brought the Persian Empire to its knees.

This so weakened the Persian Empire, that just a short time later, they were conquered by the Muslim Arab armies of the Caliphate.

The Caliphate would eventually take much of the remaining Roman(Byzantine) possessions in the East.
Thank you for the constructive comment but I think you are approaching it from a cryptographical computer science angle which even if solved still results in work as an empty puzzle of floating point mips and what I cannot yet rule out is a reimagined scope for real provable work that also has some positive social value like say creation of 1kwh of renewable energy placed on the grid. Suspend disbelief for a moment as to the many actual mountains you would need to move and consider that such a scheme is hypothetically possible on paper under laboratory conditions given an infinite capacity of unrestricted action. Puzzle solving in a sandbox might have been fine back in the OG whitepaper hypothetical days of Bitcoin et al but the stakes are sufficiently high now that considerable thinktank type effort could reasonably be spent on this problem. My reductio ad absurdum argument of all miners proveably locking and unlocking real money as work in to and out of a single bank account tied to a snapshot lottery mimicking the existing mint award outcomes seems at least less impossible and the mining account's interest can at least then be put to a real world good use.
So the question was “what value crypto offers that can’t be done with more energy efficient mechanisms,” and your answer is.. you can transact in crypto. This is trivially circular reasoning.
> I highly doubt that any of NATO's members will veto an application from Finland (or Sweden).

The big questions are over Hungary and Turkey; Hungary because Orbán is somewhat pro-Russian and has opposed some EU and NATO moves already wrt Ukraine, and Erdogan for somewhat similar reasons, and because he has publicly stated that he is not in favor of Sweden and Finland joining.

OTOH, I think the general expectation is that those are surmountable issues.
Is it lossy to store data this way?
Minimalist text editor with Vim-compatible key bindings
> Find Your Passion: Spotting food or animals in photos…

> Get Recognized: earn cool badges, level up on the leaderboards…
Great concept! Looks like the main focus for now was US and German states and territories, which probably is a good proving ground for the general system. One thing you'll have to contend with, that those two mostly won't be test cases for, is the historical fact that lots of historical territories have fuzzy borders, either because we don't now know what the borders were, or because they were sort of amorphous even at the time. Early US states and territories "solved" this problem by drawing arbitrary nonsense lines on a piece of paper, and your map faithfully reflects that, but the trick won't work for a lot of others.
The Ukraine/Russia was has been fascinating to watch from a propaganda perspective here safely 5,000 miles from the front lines.

This might be true, or not, but I've been reading stories promising Russia's imminent loss and collapse since about 30 minutes after the war began, and it keeps not coming true. But, the propaganda seems to get picked up and reported and believed as absolute fact by a breathless nearly-everybody.
Reload the page for a new map
They are using CuePilot

https://youtu.be/GTZDn1BwVuQ

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3052371875013875...
We should also consider adjusting for population, if not consumption, when talking about how close we are to “peak” manufacturing output. GDP per capita means a whole lot more than straight GDP. We should apply the same logic to conversations about American manufacturing.
You truly are the product.

Don’t feed the FAANG.
Here is my visible light photograph of the M87 jet: https://nt4tn.net/astro/#M87jet

It's a much more interesting target for VLBI radio astronomy however!

My mind boggles at the resolution required to see the 'ring' if it, in fact, exists. -- something like thirty thousand times greater than my optical image.
Did you read the article? The article explains at length that “this has already happened”.
Copyright is actually hard power, like all other economic considerations. Without intellectual property so massively favouring wealthy countries, the US wouldn't be the hegemon, and I mean that literally. IP is hard power, and it is very major indeed.

Imagine a world where Chinese, Russian, Indian and Japanese companies get to sell their goods worldwide without a single care about American patents? If that happened tomorrow, just for one example, BYD would probably become the largest car company in the world (because they have the cheapest and most reliable batteries, but only in China due to IP laws around the chemistry). It would be a direct and immediate challenge to the American hegemony.
Ah right. I missed the fact that you mentioned Feser. I examined the argument first, but shouldn't have bothered since you mentioned him. I've read his blog, and it's chock full of the bizarre reasoning such as above.

> <lots of words>

> A implies B without a single shred of justification

> <some more words>

> Therefore Jesus

I'd recommend not bothering with any of that. It's honestly not worth anybody's time except as a curio for how to dress up nonsense to look reasonable.
Teaching the Death of Mao Zedong
TikTok is just way too “thirsty” — they try too hard to get me hooked which is a massive turnoff.

I have the app. I only open it to upload videos. Then I ignore it and its notifications.

Instagram works well for me. I have “trained” it to recommend fitness, football, & comedy. I go to search, watch what’s on the first page without scrolling, and then I’m out.
Isn't Volkswagen's Electrify America far ahead of any other network? They have the only fast DC charger in my town. Since I'm contemplating a Hyundai Ioniq 5 it seems like the only suitable service.

US of course
It's funny how badly people understand the mechanisms here.

Bitfinex is not offering that. It's peer to peer lending on crypto exchanges. Some random person is offering that.

I can go on there right now and create an offer of 150% APR for USDT, then screenshot it, go on twitter and claim the sky is falling. All for the cost of a few dollars.
Had they acted as if it was an emergency, they would have mobilized all available resources to clean and disinfect the facility, replace the faulty milk drying equipment, and get the facility back up and running.

But why wasn’t it a priority for Abbott? They don’t care about sales or making money?
Not nitpicking, it’s hot, just arrived in Florida which was much cooler…
Is this essentially mechanical Turk, but without paying the laborers?
The rape, murders, and burglaries would have to be committed every day by the most powerful individuals without any punishment for that analogy to hold, and indeed you would be correct in saying polite society is dead in that case.
https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/tooling-engineer/chi...
Average pay is ¥230,664 or approximately $34,000 USD. That's probably pretty good at twice the average Chinese salary.
Sounds like a recipe for high turnover
Tamil Nadu woman disguised herself as man for 3 decades to raise daughter
The only time I ever saw Norm Macdonald live, he was supposed to be doing a short set as part of an SNL-cast standup show.

The whole show was pretty unfunny (mostly just really crude, basically it turned into a "we're not on TV let's say all the things" exhibition), but everyone was excited for Norm.

Then he came out on stage high as a fucking kite and could barely talk. He mumbled and swore semi-incoherently for 20 minutes, and then they cut both the lights and his mic, and dropped the curtain practically on his head.

I was kinda young then, and didn't really know who this crazy guy was. Later, when I learned how funny he is when he's not whacked out of his fucking mind, I was really sad that that's what I got out of a live Norm Macdonald show.
I recently learned that active protection systems have really significant electronic signatures. I’m no expert but I believe that they rely on vehicle mounted radar systems to detect incoming fire.

Take a look at this graphic:

https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/imag...

The source for this is an advertisement for a Rheinmetal brand APS. So treat it like you would any marketing material.

Nonetheless, if it’s even remotely accurate, I would not want to be part of a tank crew that is visible to surveillance aircraft multiple countries away.

I get the impression these APS systems were designed with low intensity “anti-terror” operations in mind. They’ll do a decent job killing an RPG fired from across the street but they light you up like a Christmas tree. Not a problem if you’re battling ISIS but a significant liability against opponents with modern surveillance capability. Also they’re useless against top attack munitions which seem to be remarkably effective in Ukraine.
Seems like, with a better name tho.

But you get fun out of it! And you make a difference (in Alphabet's bottom line).