skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But ... evidently that's not true. Why not?

The problem with lockdown measures is that it will inevitably harm someone. We might all be healthy and safe at home so harm is reduced with respect to Covid, but what about the harm caused by the lockdown measures themselves.

Say you have a town of 100 people. If you went into a hard lockdown to prevent any spread, you might save 10 people from dying of Covid; however, the lockdowns caused 10 people to loose their homes, businesses, some committed suicide, some overdosed. The problem with this line of thinking though, is that it's impossible to quantify that sort of harm. You can look at how many people foreclosed on their homes or went out of business but that really only gives you a partial outlook.

So what do you do? In my personal opinion this is a no-win situation, with some things it's clear what the right thing to do is. In Covid's case it really wasn't clear at all. Do you lock down people to save lives from Covid? How much harm does the lockdown cause? Are the gains we get from locking down enough to offset the harms done by the lockdowns? Everyone will have an opinion on each one of these issues but there really is no good answer.
Just to clarify, the prod() bug you mention was fixed about a year ago.
Ask HN: When Is a Project Too Old?
When working on a project, I have been finding tools that have a last modified date of some significant time, usually a year or more. There are some projects that have a last release of years ago, but still have active work done without any new release on the horizon. So I ask, when is a project to old to use?
Yes the battery is long dead, so I always run it off of wall power. I have though about making a 3D printed modern day battery that is shaped like a NiMh battery of old, but has LiIon batteries inside, gets charged off of USBC, and provides voltage at the same level that the original NiMh would provide. Should be doable, but never got around to it.
In some places, yeah. In my experience buildings higher than about 5 stories do have flat roofs ("cube shaped"). Almost all housing in my hometown don't have sloped roofs because it's mostly apartment buildings rather than detached homes.
Sure, but the government can make it so the seller does not see that information. Or the government can make it so taxes are not based on your address.
> Tesla can't even guarantee that their cars won't barrel directly into a fire truck that's stopped on a freeway trying to address an existing accident.

Isn’t this a design limitation of radar ACC systems, not FSD?

Not that I’m saying FSD will reliably avoid stationary objects (I have no idea), but afaik all such collisions so far were under radar Autopilot, which by design cannot see stationary objects.
Not even in the private sector?
I really wish the US would get an offering that's more like Hetzner and OVH (I understand OVH does have a near-US location, I'd like something closer to where I live).

I've been a DO customer for years. Over those years I've observed support become mismanaged with long delays, lack of continuity (except via escalations), etc... Increasing the prices with this vague message I think is a bad move; if you (as a business) need to increase your prices then save me the massaging. Just tell me what's gotten more expensive, how you're going to use this money, and if there's a path to making services cheaper in the future. That's how you get your customer invested in your direction versus selling them on generalized messaging that fails to succinctly describe what's about to happen to their wallets.
I know lots of people who let 8 year old children take the wheel, so perhaps that answers your question?
I imagine this is actually a pretty tough problem to solve.... road marking change dramatically within a few feet sometimes.... most of the residential streets in the historic area I live in have no markings at all but its also an area where markings, composition of road materials etc are subject to change QUICKLY from street to street.
First plants grow in soil from the moon
People will only use your product if they know about it and perceive value in it. How do people know about it, and why would they want to use it?

On "Most of the tiny number of real users have come from links posted to places like Hacker News, and there is almost no organic traffic from other search engines" - Organic traffic comes from word of mouth. Are people talking about your site? If they're not, you're not gonna see organic traffic. You could do what others do and pay some influencers to advertise your site, but that's expensive and not as scalable as "real" buzz. Is your product exciting or controversial? If not, why would people talk about it?

Your homepage's tag line is "Open source search engine and search as a service for personal and independent websites." A regular person's eyes would glaze as they try to figure out what this means. Given some time they might put together the words "search engine" and "personal" and "websites" and figure this is a blog search engine. So just say that.

The "Newest Pages" section is a fun novelty, but after a few minutes the novelty wears off.

The "Browse Sites" section is almost useful. Next to the list of sites I see some tags. Why isn't a heatmap of the tags the first thing I see? That would be way more useful than a paginated list of random sites.

Your "About" page lists "community-based approach to content curation". This is the most exciting aspect of the whole endeavor, so add that to your front page blurb ("Community search engine"). You would probably do well to build a real community around it, for example with a forum or chat system (GitHub Discussions does not count). A SubReddit would be an easy way to bootstrap this and later move it to your own hosted forum.

You'll probably need a very complicated moderation system if this thing takes off.
but market pricing is skewed if Bill Gates decides to turn the whole city into a giant statue of him don't see how that's the best use for that plot of land.
That's quite possible, I did move to nitter for a while, some months back, due to that.
None of our rights are absolute. The government can and does take them away. The question becomes more of what's a good reason to take them away, and saying no good reason is misguided.
Public ownership = centralized ownership = centralized decision making.

If you can't own anything individually you can't make economic decisions individually.

It's like having a million business partners all with equal voting shares but in every aspect of your life.
Too much here to deconstruct in a comment, but some choice responses:

* How does the author suggest non-blocking DDL is actioned? You'd have to snapshot your entire table using e.g. a similar method to snapshot isolation at the row level to allow concurrent access. Accessing the table, while in transition, will lead to inconsistent output data sets.

* If your migration is 'days-long', then you are doing something wrong. Try creating a new table (instant) then ETL'ing your data over from the original, dropping and renaming. It will be much faster AND it addresses accessibility on the table (no table lock).

* You can schedule migrations if using a tool like Flyway by doing this in code. If you insist on using a database product, you could use (for MSSQL) SQL Agent, or cron for anything on Linux (run a SP), etc.

* It is already possible to revert a migration if you are using Oracle, using Oracle Flashback. For other DBs, you can still revert a migration if you are using your deployment tool properly i.e. redeploy an earlier version of your schema and drop all other objects. You'll have to deal with your data, of course.

This would have been a more interesting post if a possible solution to all the points was posited.
I read this as a means of making the implictness of OO, explicit. Ie., it is syntax for specifying what `this` is

Inheritance, fluid changing + properties, etc. are all implicit in exactly the same way. OO programmers have just got used to them
Tell me, what assets exactly are backing BTC which stop it from crashing just like Luna?
> Virtual columns are defined of SQL:2003 as Generated Column, and are only implemented by some DBMSs, like MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Firebird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_column
> that can't be denied by a corporation

Every service that might use blockchain based authentication will implement allow lists. As everyone in the history of the Internet has learned trolls and spammers will ruin services. So some sort of unblockable universal login is an impractical fantasy.
cars being a necessity is just a sign of bad design for the living space.

the number of people for whom its actually a necessity is very small, and are pretty well all companies
Whenever I think about the situation in China it makes me wonder why the Chinese government is spending so much political capital to keep people from getting infected by such an incredibly transmissible disease. I had this idea that China was run by engineer types who were fairly rational.
From the initial denial that there was any disease at all, to later saying it wasn't transmissible between humans, to the obvious lies about the initial death toll, to now attempting to lock down more than any other country, I'm very curious what officials in China know about this particular disease that they aren't sharing with the rest of the world.
Better use your Geiger ;-) it's really significant, it should be one of the main reasons we should phase out coal totally and ASAP.
Oh, how many times I hoped for having a scaling issue :)
Quite.

And Kant was in his 50s when he published The Critique of Pure Reason. Quine was over 50 when he published Word and Object.
Eavesdroppers can hack some 6G frequency with easy DIY metasurface
Yeah I didn't mean Germany will go unscathed, just less so than hotter countries. And I think you only cherish the sun if you don't live there long term (especially during the summers).
I asked a Chinese friend who is studying the ongoing restrictions about this. He told me that over 80 vaccination rates in China are only c. 55 percent vs 80 percent in the over 60 category.

In HK death rates from omicron were quite high due to the same reason when it had its spike some weeks ago.

I too was baffled until I learned of the above.
You said:

"both sides are bullshitting to get a better price"

Which implies that this number is related to Twitter trying to get a better price. However, if this is the number they have always said, regardless of the methodology, clearly they can't be trying to get a better price - as they started doing this long before there was a price to make better.

That is separate and independent from whether the number is accurate to begin with - if it's remained consistent and publicly available, there's no chicanery here, the risk around that stat has always been baked into the market price of the company.
very unlikely to be ethical no matter what un-enforceable limits you put on the testers. their concern is legal liability and nothing more.
You might as well just promise 100% uptime. If you don't meet it, most SLAs you're only liable for a couple bucks in service credits anyways.
It doesn't index sites like Reddit, so, not too surprising Reddit wasn't in the result.
Even "better", the electricity in Kosovo is almost 100% lignite coal-based:

https://bankwatch.org/beyond-fossil-fuels/the-energy-sector-...
The problem with comparing out success to China's is that we know China lies about their numbers. From the outside yeah it looks like what China did worked; however, can we really trust the numbers? Hell can we trust the numbers coming out of the US or any other country.
I am 100% sure that if the stock market rallies back to March levels all this nonsense would disappear and Musk simply buys Twitter for the agreed upon price of 54$

Musk is the perfect CEO for our era, this guy doesn't brush his teeth unless the stock market gives him a solid round of applause accompanied by a 10$ rally in TSLA stock price.

Behind all the boldness and bravado there is a constant need to re-assured that his decision is the best decision. Warren Buffett on the other hand salivates every time the stock market goes down, rooting for it to go down at times so he can buy shares in the companies he believes in.
Thanks! I’ll definitely take a look. These works are valuable but my problem is just with that particular claim about CAs.

1. This impossibility theorem is proved in a really broad setting (assuming a “broadcast communication cloud” and a P2P channel). If he wants to circumvent the impossibility theorem he should clearly specify the system model and say how it differs from Doceur’s. There are other instances where by playing with the model you go around an impossibility theorem, but you have to specify the differences. Especially since this theorem is so well known/cited.

2. Some claims in the old paper are just plain wrong. Like, you can’t say it’s Sybil resistant just because it tolerates arbitrary number of Byzantine nodes. Dolev-Strong also needs just one honest party, but it requires a CA.
the problem is the argument seems to devolve into socialism versus capitalism which is ridiculous because most economies are mixed. is a mixed economy socialist? or capitalist? capitalism could look pretty awful as well. If you can buy anything murder for hire etc. Then I would argue against that.
Your problem is that SEO are under no obligation to be truthful with you, and will likely pull bait and switches as far as making accounts if it ever seems like your site will catch on.

Note, I nearly spit my food the first time I was at lunch and someone was talking about SEO a few tables away...oh a decade or so ago now. It's sad it's gotten this bad.
If the whole world did this and the virus was contained, perhaps it would have worked out. But millions and millions of people caught it and are breeding more and more contagious strains on a continuous basis. All signs were that the original COVID strain was relatively contagious but Delta and now Omicron have accelerated that to just crazy levels, and there are new variations on Omicron coming down the pipe that look even faster. I don't know if anything can keep it contained now but putting everyone who catches it into a cage is definitely not a viable strategy.
It ran FreeDOS just fine (and indeed runs Linux just fine for me), presumably they didn't want to QA that model with Linux.
Substitute "digital hats" for "exclusive contract with the star player on FIFA Football Manager", or "a mine that produces unobtanium on a blockchain version of minecraft"

And yes, I am not much of a gamer so these examples might sound super silly today. But 25 years ago the idea of people making a living by collecting and selling items on WoW would also be met with general skepticism, so we never know what the future holds.
Criminally negligent trash I have zero interest sharing roads with.
It's 2022, can we please stop saying 'pwned'?

Sure, I'll take the karma hit for this comment.
> And we can guarantee Discord has already sold your chat logs 200 shadier places.

[citation needed]
Why not one week? Masks aren't perfect, and they don't make sense in every context but a plane IMHO is actually reasonable.

Not every context is the same.

I'm willing to acknowledge that the data is not great, but I think the action is more or less "plausible" and IMHO the suffering is small.
> another revolution will occur

So the playbook of the CCP in cities seems to be push and push and push until the people revolt and then you cull the activists that are willing to fight by running the army through the streets and shooting everyone that's revolting. This has been a thing since Maos purges and it's the same thing they did in Hong Kong by slowly adding stupid rules until the people willing to revolt had enough.

Zero covid seems so stupid that I am inclined to think someone is just taking advantage of this to identify and purge citizens that are willing to violate government mandates.
Central banks rely on it
Is an old arm CPU really comparable to a Xeon/epyc?

And home connections are all asymmetric, you may get a gig down but I've not seen anything outside business class with over 50 up.
That's mostly a feat coming from the right wing propaganda machine though.

You have a history of environmental regulation you can look at, with say, DDT, CFCs, and acid rain
Hmm, I somehow ended up on a page showing a Neo Pi for $55.
The general purpose search engines search the whole internet, and as a result claim that you can search for anything on the whole internet, even going beyond that to answer questions which aren't on the internet as such, e.g. "What is my IP?" and "What time is it?". However, niche search engines only search specific parts of the internet, and only claim to be able to deliver results relating to their specific topic, e.g. you wouldn't ask the search on a car forum what the weather is today.
For Emacs to start that slow they probably load a ton of packages if not a framework like Spacemacs. If you just load simple settings, it opens instantly.
FSD understands roads _so much better_ than the old stack. I like using without any "navigate" features, aka "drive in a straight line" mode when on surface streets.
Then why are you rambling about CCPA? Why are you not clearly stating which country you are in and which DPA you are covered by?

Why are you discussing the size of the data -- it makes no difference if you record an IP address once or a billion times?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)
I wouldn't say next year, but by 2025 I think there will be a new ATH. But I'm just very conservatives in my predictions.
My favorite quantitative metrics for engineering teams:

- Avg time from code review requested to code review picked up
- Avg time to complete code review
- Avg time from eng done to first customer using it
- Avg time from eng done to full production release
- Fraction of tasks started that never reach a customer

These are loosely based on the Japanese concept of Muda (waste), as personified in the physical logistics world via the acronym TIM WOOD (or TIM WOODS)[0] and are similar but not identical to the DORA metrics.

The time to complete a code review is there (for example) not to focus on the amount of time actually spent performing the code review but to focus on all the waiting around the actual code review, which is typically much much longer than the time spent doing the review itself. It's not uncommon to see organizations where an engineer will submit code for review and then have to wait a day or more for someone to pick up their request and then another day or more for that other person to get around to reviewing it. If there are comments on the commit that need to be responded to, you can see additional delays. These "minor inefficiencies" can have huge impacts on the poor dev who is trying to get their code merged, and cumulatively they result in significant increases in feature latency, the total calendar time required to ship a feature.

[0] https://www.shmula.com/28695-2/28695/
Like most things made in China, COVID-19 was poorly engineered, just like their ham-fisted approach to combating it. Something about totalitarian regimes causes a race to the bottom in human rights, arts, and sciences.
What does starting with an entangled pair add to that argument?

You could say simply that if you have prepared a (half) spin state |z+> the angular momentum along the x axis is zero but if you measure the spin along the x axis you will find a non-zero value.
What functionality was different between Bitcoin and Luna?

Is Luna not run off of Bitcoin?

So if Luna could function as a Ponzi scheme, why doesn't Bitcoin inherently have that same capability or function embedded into it? Or is there something preventing that from happening with Bitcoin?

Confused.
>We are still on exponential curves for compute, storage and DC bandwidth.

We are not and we haven't been at it for quite some time already. Only compute is dropping in price but it is hardly on an exponential curves.

>A $100 workload from last year should not cost more than a $100 this year.

That is on the assumption that cost of are the same for other part of business even if hardware cost are dropping. Which isn't true.

And ignoring all the above, we are currently experience component shortage which means everything cost more, and energy price increase.
> It's an entirely baffling situation

One of the theories I've read is that CV is a cover for a shutdown related to incipient WW3 - to further stretch failing supply lines to breaking point and thereby hurt the West.

I'm not saying I support this theory, I really have no way of proving it one way or the other, but given how strange China's response is thought to be it does make one wonder.
I agree about all HA critics BUT what can you suggest? OpenHub is even worse, behind HA I can't find anything with a ready-made WebUI and ModBUS/MQTT pre-coocked support...

I use it since a bit more than an Year, pip-installed and kept updated on my homeserver, for p.v. (Victron + Fronius + Giavazzi + ... all ModBUS/tcp or MQTT), it's config is obscene YAML, but with org-mode (org-babel + noweb) is manageable, logging is obscene but work OOB enough, automation is obscene but work enough, if logic is not much complex it's doable, the WebUI is nice...

I know I can write something myself, Mosquitto is FLOSS, ModBUS FLOSS libs are there for various languages, but that's not so nice for a simple domestic use case like just seeing how a small p.v. plant works, control the VMC/heat pump and hot water...

Just to play with sensors and crappy wireless switches is even LESS motivating...

IME IoT is crap in general, mostly because too many have no use-case for it so it's sold just to play, not to seriously use and profit from it, also because it's mostly designed by electronic engineers not IT techies, and we all know how ee are bad software side, many other reasons but well... HA so far for me was/is the leas worse pre-made/almost ready to deploy stuff I found. Surely I do not care at all at their suggested deploy with docker, HA cloud etc, just plain pip, but nothing have stopped me so far...
> It's usually held up as an example of great presidential leadership, with almost no push back.

Where did you get this impression? In my US public school we learned all about the Bay of Pigs. If anything, my takeaway was that Kruschev saved us all by publicly backing down to his own political detriment, whereas Kennedy was only willing to make his concessions in secret.
Yes. A German friend of mine moved into her student dormitory in the US, and when she was told that her room was on the first floor, asked whether there was a lift, because she had a heavy suitcase...

Having said that, given that there are basements (in Europe, at least), it makes sense to call the ground floor 0. We are dealing with integers here, not natural numbers.
I personally feel that I have more negotiating power and can better apply it when I'm acting as my own advocate, rather than relying on others to advocate for me on my behalf.

With that said, I have no objection with others unionizing if they feel that they don't have sufficient negotiating power on their own; unions are really helpful in these kinds of situations.
I tried this website and instantly loved it and found it very useful. I’m disappointed that the advice isn’t accurate, is there any alternative app or website you would recommend?
I consider myself a libertarian with two exceptions: public education and healthcare as a fail-safe. Maybe a mixed system using vouchers would be even better, not sure. But from a practical perspective, I think they work better than the opposite options.

So we can more or less agree on these parts. But please, the Cuba example is nuts.