skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The suggestion is about trading across multiple exchanges, for example between London and NY. Going via Starlink is potentially quicker than a fiber under the Atlantic.

They will have servers “next door” to the exchanges, but need the servers to have incredible low latency connections to each other.
Books have gatekeepers, publishing houses that put in work to market the book as widely as possible, get it reviewed in newspapers, arrange media appearances.

How many Kindle direct releases are going to get that kind of backing?
Try dunking it into truffled honey.
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We should be focusing on reducing trash and getting raw materials back out of trash. The rest should be burned or processed cleanly and maybe generate electricity while at it.
Catastrophic failure of electrical substation in Humacao, Puerto Rico
Doesn't that same worry apply to users of Azure and AWS? It doesn't seem to have had much of an effect there.
Supposedly many lead pipes actually when even somewhat older will be coated on the inside with crap that prevents most lead exposure. New pipes for sure sound like a problem
So do we think ESG scores get transitively priced in, the way carbon pricing should work?

Like, if you make it harder for those who burn oil to raise capital, does that mean that there are fewer customers for the people who extract it? Does it hurt their profits?

Is this all passed on, magically, by the Efficient Market?

I suspect not.
Of course it's bad science, I won't argue against that. What I call into question is the enormous selection bias at work here: modern methodological inquiries will be performed only on famous and controversial pieces that are likely to produce notable modern papers. The vast majority of bad science of those days, that happened - by accident or intuition of the experimenter - to resonate with modern science, won't be examined and remain part of the scientific history.

So "expunging" may not necessarily be intentional, but it's clearly an adequate description of what's happening.
Basically the mainframes were almost incapable of any data exchange that was meaningful in the 21st century. Instead of IBM doing something same the market just built software to scrape bills off the mainframes printer output, which you could intercept in electronic form. But then every accounts bill files were different. And sometimes the mainframes moved data around on the page, and so on and so forth.
How much co2 does this release? Humanity needs to pick its battles carefully…
Yep.. This is a classic example of how many subscription services have embraced user-hostile design, and focus on trying to force the behaviour they want, rather than adapt to the behaviour a paying customer wants.

I will never use Spotify for podcasts. Nothing against them having podcasts, but I have other ways to consume them. I would love to turn all that shit off in the UI, the same way I can turn off Radio and other things in iTunes.

But no, Spotify will forever push that shit on me - a paying customer - because they hope I will eventually relent under pressure and start using it, or something.

And that disrespect for their customers really sucks.
> Ability to uncloak 3rd-party servers disguised as 1st-party through the use of CNAME record.

I always thought that would be the evolution of ads, but didn't realize it was already fairly widespread.

Maybe it's time for me to look at switching back to Firefox. I ditched them when they pushed so hard for DoH which looks a lot like ad delivery tech to me. I thought Microsoft would give users a good experience with Edge since they should be trying to gain market share, but that was totally wrong. It pushes Microsoft accounts and affiliated products super hard.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a plain, un-Googled, Chromium browser on Windows. I'd prefer something digitally signed and without extra features like Brave, etc. have.
Debt, especially low interest debt, is not a bad investment if it is used to grow the company. Since content is the only differentiator in the streaming market, this looks like a good investment.

An IPO is a form of taking on debt but issuing more shares is not the only way to take on debt.

If no debt was required to grow the company and be profitable, the company could have stayed private. Of course this doesn't work because early investors want to see some returns after 5-10 years and an IPO is the obvious way to cash them out.
Which is a huge difference from Red Hat, which contributes heavily and is very good at leveraging the resulting control of important projects to their advantage. It's why they keep out-maneuvering Canonical, as far as I can tell.
> They're dirtier than natural gas power plants, however

That is not true.

> and the pollution that they do create can be particularly nasty

That is also not true.

Plastic is made of the exact same atoms as natural gas, plus oxygen. Plastic burns very very clean, with no waste except for water and CO2.

PVC has chlorine, but is rare in trash, and the small amount of chlorine is easily filtered out of the exhaust.

> We're better off in terms of emissions-per-watt by burying the plastic and using natural gas instead.

This is also not true because it costs energy to extract the natural gas. The plastic is already there, and needs to be dealt with one way or another. Plastic makes about the same CO2/watt as gasoline.
Running the water for a bit should flush the standing water in the pipes (which if the lead is coming from your pipes will reduce the lead). Has to be done regularly before consumption to matter of course.
I think just about all household trash in the Netherlands is incinerated. And as far as I know the exhoust fumes are manageable, but definitely not something to live next to. Just like any other fossil fuel run powerplant by the way.
That option already exists, and we found that most people we interviewed used it more often than the default.
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted, that is very literally their entire focus to chop and selectively edit things to remove all context and repackage them in the most partisan format possible and has been since the start.

It’s such a fundamental thing that it’s literally one of the first things we tell children about through fairytales like the boy who cried wolf.
I agree with you that it brings things outside the original scope of the Turing test.
I do find it interesting to observe that a metric based on casual observation can have value in a society where elections can be swayed by online fakery.
Yeah, that would make sense. There are links that have been built by various HFT firms and banks [0] [1] that use microwaves instead of fiber buried in the ground simply because of this speed-of-light-in-media limitation. They can shave a few hundred nanoseconds (or something, I don't want to do the math right now) because of a higher signal propagation speed and get a trade in faster than their competitors. Same thing with a laser link like this.

Edit: cf.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-highfrequency-microwave/l...
It's a typing "bug" in code you don't control. In some cases that's enough to not use the library and sometimes it isn't. That's a value judgement based on the developers using the library.
I noticed this last year when I applied for a software engineering job. For that position, the process is:

- Initial screening (done)
- Personal essay (this stage)
- Standardized aptitude and personality tests
- Meet and greet with an engineer
- General interview(s)
- Recruitment screen
- Technical assessment
- Role-specific interview(s)
- Hiring manager interview
- Senior leadership interview

I highly doubt the initial screening is done by a human. So they want the essays and personality tests done before you speak to a human at the company, and they are probably not even on the team you're applying for. If you're unlucky, every human involved in the process will be on a different team until you get to the hiring manager interview, which is at the very end.

Not only this but on Glassdoor I found dozens of people saying that they ghost you before the hiring manager interview so you could spend tens of hours interviewing and never speak to anyone on the team.
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From my memory of reading Real Food, Fake Food, they don't care about the term "parmesan"--that term has been rendered generic, much like "champagne" in the US. But "Parmigiano Reggiano" is a protected term with a PDO ("protected designation of origin"). That's the one they care about.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/Real-Food-Youre-Eating-About/dp/16162...
One thing I’m not very happy about is that in the US, in order to get a background check of any kind, you need to get fingerprinted and have those prints enrolled in the FBI’s database regardless of if a match comes up. In many other countries, a background check is just querying the national criminal record database for your identity, which seems much more proportionate for most employment based background checks. I’m not thrilled about being enrolled in a fingerprint database because latent prints exist and are so inaccurate.
No. Because it is a way to compare performance. That’s all. Just convenience.
There's an incentive to bail out the banks to keep up trust in the currency, so government can print more. What would be the incentive for crypto?
I mean I get their explanation, sorta: https://1password.community/discussion/129160/it-s-time-to-s...

However, I like my data local because: https://blog.1password.com/update-on-our-recent-service-disr...

This was a "small" disruption but with a local file I have more confidence I can avoid disruptions. /wave 1password and hello bitwarden (though I'll be looking at enpass as mentioned in the first comment)
Here they defend the decision to adopt WebExtensions even though they're now reduced to chasing Chrome's whims. But maybe all the disruption and pain can be justified because there has been a flood of cross-platform plugins that were previously unavailable in Firefox. I don't have any data but my sense is that there are a lot fewer extensions than their used to be. There is definitely less plugin innovation happening since, as with most Google APIs, it is less powerful, less transparent, more locked down. There is also the question of differentiation, what is Firefox's value if it is but another Chrome clone?
It'd be more accurate and illuminating to say that a px is an angle.

The reference pixel is the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm’s length. For a nominal arm’s length of 28 inches, the visual angle is therefore about 0.0213 degrees. For reading at arm’s length, 1px thus corresponds to about 0.26 mm (1/96 inch).
- https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-4/#absolute-lengths

This explains why 1px is small on phones and large on televisions; the physical size varies by expected reader distance. The angle tries to stay constant, though in practice it gets rounded to the nearest multiple of the physical pixel size.
Way better than being unable to produce any exoskeleton at all. Which is where we are headed.
There is a great Reddit post that discusses this topic.

https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2s9u0s/what_do_in...
That’s why I show them middle finger and went and worked for MSFT. I am not going to talk about why I installed Arch linux 12 years ago, when I am applying to work on kernel.
Does anybody know of a good and affordable way to test lead in water levels? I want to test my tap water at various times and spouts (hot, cold, shower, etc) but all of the at home kits seem to be focused on testing lead paint and physical/dry items vs water testing. Or if I need to send results in to a lab are there any affordable ones out there that are recommended?
PET burns very clean with enough air. I use it as a fire starter for outdoor fires.

A fireplace is a smoky thing, without enough air (even the wood makes a lot of smoke). An incinerator makes sure to supply enough air.
Just adding a quick comment to mention that if you want to add your own SVG logo to the site, you can do it by submitting it via https://vectorwiki.com/upload Don't forget to add a short description, tags and a link. Cheers.
> tiny, food-safe transponders

Oh, no. I save the rinds to put in soup (I take them out before serving!). Tracking-tag soup, anyone?
The article talks about using it for environmental cleanup, but the paper seems more focused on recycling back into fresh PET[0]:

> ...and a circular carbon economy for PET is theoretically attainable through rapid enzymatic depolymerization followed by repolymerization or conversion/valorization into other products

> Finally, we demonstrate a closed-loop PET recycling process by using FAST-PETase and resynthesizing PET from the recovered monomers. Collectively, our results demonstrate a viable route for enzymatic plastic recycling at the industrial scale.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04599-z
It gives me authoritarian/oligarchy vibes disguised under ostensible moral facade, which makes it even more terrifying.
Yeah, and then the users need far less support time. It’s a trade off that makes sense for some companies.
> Yeah, landfills are not major environmental problems

... yet?
In fairness (not that I think it's a good hiring process), your story about linux obviously shows that you were interested enough to get a linux book with CD from the library. That's more interesting (and in a real interview might lead to a more interesting follow on discussion) than someone who first encountered it in university because it was part of a course.
I don't think it's a bad thing (quite the opposite) but it's common to take high SV salaries that include hard-to-hit discretionary bonuses and hundreds of thousands in stock, and compare that TC number to the $175k offered by the private company that's also hiring. It's an apples to hammers comparison.
> we found that most people we interviewed used it more often than the default

That's surprising/depressing, but kudos I guess for doing user research and listening to what the majority wants
Ah, thanks. OMFG and I thought our billing was hard. You're in my thoughts and prayers!
And if they think this is a good idea for hiring, they probably don't stop there. Imagine all your work emails being run through such evaluations every year during performance review.
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There's two concerns here.

First, the license for the individual pieces of work. There's a generic "wiki" license on the site which essentially says they own everything save for "fair use", which muddy as heck.

What I'm talking about here is not the use of any particular likeness, but of the rendition of that license. Since you have an SVG file, that, in itself, is licensable content - like any software.

Next, is the actual use of the likenesses. If I get a Twitter logo from here, can I use it? That's more a trademark issue and probably falls under that umbrella.

But you can see how you may be allowed to use a likeness because of trademark policy, but not allowed to use THESE, SPECIFIC incarnations of a likeness.

Vice a versa, these folks may well let you use their likenesses, but the trademark issues prohibit it.

So, anyway, in the end, there's not a single license involved here, me thinks, but potentially two.
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Yeah, I agree with this. It's like writing a summary study sheet before an exam...the actual sheet is not that useful, but the work that went into it is. I've found OKRs to be pretty good for clarifying focus areas, both in my org and for personal development. Both the Os and the KRs will frequently change, but good managers/orgs don't really care about granular tracking
Something that might is timing WHEN you start drinking coffee in the morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bjxFnAIAiI
> Opinionated on UI changes

There are more than 20 settings that can be individually enabled/disabled, so it's all up to the user how much they want.

> sketchy with the lack of details on how the click tracking removal works (the easier ways that come to mind on implementation are the same or worse for privacy)

Ah, ok. The word "sketchy" can be ambiguous. :-)

The real URL is actually already hidden in the DOM, so it's a simple matter of replacement.
Not that I know of but I thought it might be funny!
And then this escapes and starts to eat plastics in cars and other durable goods thus rendering increased near term maintenance costs across a large number of industries.... just a thought.
> Couldn't it also translate into a falling standard of living in developed countries as large populations of increasingly affluent people compete for the same limited resources?

This certainly isn't impossible! You could construct scenarios where exactly that happens. But in real life, developed nations have an absolute advantage in producing just about everything. Some things are cheaper in developing nations, but only because of the opportunity costs (as in, steel would be cheaper in America, but the difference is even bigger in planes or whatever so that's what gets made there). If tomorrow the entire world was developed there would obviously be huge issues, but a continuous change would work out just fine.

Now that's not to say that there wouldn't be a higher fraction of people working in jobs which today in developed nations are seen as lesser. Some tasks are simply most efficient with a human at the helm. But if you wander around the rust belt, you'll find plenty of people that wish it made economic sense to employ them in manufacturing or mining. The shift wouldn't be a bad one.

> It could also translate into an increased rate of extraction/depletion of natural resources, as the economic incentive grows stronger.

That is absolutely true, but people overestimate the effect of resource use compared to pollution and the like. We will probably never run out of oil, metal, or any other nonrenewable resource. There's plenty there, and productivity growth will likely ensure that it is cost effective to extract pretty much indefinitely. Land is another story, as we're using a greater fraction of it than most other resources, but it's not by enough to make a huge difference.

The issue is pollution and other public bads. We can feed the world on very little land, but all the nitrogen runoff could cause other issues. We could go centuries without ever hitting peak oil, but dumping that much carbon into the atmosphere is problematic for obvious reasons. But that's no reason to fear production specifically! With greater productivity, we'd find it far easier to roll out nuclear worldwide. And while wasteful food production wouldn't go away without government regulation (or worldwide shifts in consumer preferences I won't hold my breath for), we can make those regulations and it's a small price to pay to increase the global standard of living.
It's a job NOT my family.

>>Describe your familiarity with Linux performance debugging and tuning

Don't use snap and add more cpu's and ram.
> The house is the world, and the home owners are everyone who lives in it.

Hahahaha. Have you ever been part of a homeowners association? It's a clusterfuck. People constantly on power trips for the most miniscule and ridiculous things. I would not be surprised if somewhere somebody is trying to ban their neighbor from mining crypto in their garage

> But I could, theoretically, run for office to get to do so

I mean... go ahead. This is how it's supposed to work. Do try and formalize this and make sure this is what people want.

> Just because you pay the bills, it doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want.

That's exactly what it means. If my activities are aligned with the laws of place my house is in I can do whatever the fuck I want.

> You can't print USD or EUR in your back yard just because you bought the machinery and pay the power bill.

The US government want a word with you. You'll be shocked to hear that most money created is created out of thin air with no backing whatsoever. Also, this may come as a shock but I can definitely print money in my back yard as long as I don't try to pass them as real money or trick people into exchanging things for the said money. Printing stuff is rad.

> I don't understand why I (personally) am a part of this conversation. But here we are...

The positive spin: you are having this conversation because you've encountered someone you don't agree with and both people are open to learning/teaching something. It's a rare sighting in today's world to have people that don't agree have a somewhat civil back and forth and share their point of view
The negative spin: you are having this conversation because you want to be right.
Hardly - putting someone in jail for going into a federal building under false pretenses? That's pretty darn close to just trespassing to me.

I feel I have no strong biases one way or the other - I've only just heard of this media outlet, but from the list of incidents it looks like they're just doing _actual_ investigative journalism and digging for answers instead of just copy-pasting from AP Newswire and adding a politically preferred spin to it like other outlets.
I am at the start of writing a book and had some major freeze at the start before, much like the author here, realised that all that matters is that I write the damn thing.

I love how LaTeX lays things out, so I'm using LaTeX. I'd like to have a web version possibly but I can think about that later.

And now, I better get back to it...
A long Youtube video should do the “trick”
https://itty.bitty.site

Domain redirect to the generated URL.
The Panda update Google made in 2010 or so removed enormous volumes of spam websites that contained entirely machine-generated content, usually linking to shops selling counterfeit goods like Prada bags and Jordan sneakers.

And that was when Google was over 12 years old.

There was a time I only saw listicles on Cracked.com. Now most of Page 1 content on Google is structured like that, and most are low quality blogspam.
I think the main problem is that the average Joe/Jane confuses all types of pollution as equally bad. The real, most imminent threat is really CO2. That's what we have to spend the most money/energy on, because it could have absolutely catastrophic consequences in the next few decades.

Plastic in a landfill is just... Stuck there. It's unnatural, sure, but it's not immensely harmful, not nearly on the same scale as CO2, and realistically, in the future, we'll be able to mine it out of there and refine it into something usable if we need it.
Since I don't have a "webcam", I've been using my A7R2 as my meeting camera since covid. I use a 40mm manual lens, and adjust exp comp as needed. No overheating or other issues whatsoever. I'm surprised that so many people seem to have problem with their setup.
Dumb question, but if plastic eating bacteria starts spreading, wouldn't we all be in a lot of trouble?

Will car plastic interior start to rot?

Will PET soda and water bottles start decomposing in the grocery store, and will they require refrigeration to prevent that?

Will our computer keyboards require new materials?
If I'm not in pain, I don't care. If I live in pain, I'll get myself some painkillers and take them all probably.
Another organization we can blame for terrible environmental outcomes?

Why is it so common for people to pretend to be environmentalists and advocate for things that directly harm the environment?