skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mother and father are both twice divorced, and only now late in life have found enormously happy relationships, like, relationships they never thought were possible after the first marriage, and indeed, now that the stress of trying to collectively but not really raise three kids is gone, my mother and father are kind of friends, and my mother adores the lady my father is about to be married to.

The fact of the matter is, a previous relationship failing doesn't have to mean anything. You can grow as a person, fix previous faults, learn how to interact with people who you don't 100% mesh with. As most things in life, it matters the effort you put into it, and then you can always get very lucky.
An exponential also gets squashed by an asymptotic. That math gets a bit more complicated (You need to evaluate an integral) but that does not categorically change the math. Also i find the notion of an exponential ramp up quiet dubious, polynomial would make more sense.
> There was a time in 1998-99 when Internet Explorer 4 / 5 was actually the best browser by far.

Especially the Mac version of IE 5. Tasman was such a breath of fresh air. I never understood why they didn't use that engine everywhere.
Biometrics may not be easy to change, but they are a lot harder to copy than passwords. How many people are likely to be targeted by an organization with the resources to covertly steal and duplicate peoples fingerprints?

For the vast majority of users, the threat model looks like "I don't want that creep who just stole my purse to be able to log in to my iPhone", not "I am guarding state secrets and a potential target of Kremlin agents".

Passwords get stolen and used all the time, but I have yet to hear stories of everyday thieves breaking into iPhones with stolen fingerprints.
In other words, France needs to hurry up and double if not triple their nuclear capacity, so they can switch to electric cars and heating.

Somewhere to the north-east of Strasbourg would be ideal, not only for the abundant water supply, but also because the location is ideal for export to places in Europe that have not invested enough in stable sources of energy, lately. And if France plans to import power when the wind is blowing in those countries, the grid capacity out of that area will be needed anyway.
I think IE's monopoly is an important component that cannot be ignored when doing comparisons. If Microsoft stopped updating VSCode, 90% is Open Source, and there are multiple good competitors already on the market. So there's minimal captive-ness with VSCode, whereas IE held the browser market captive in outmoded web tech for years, with no real escape for web developers and competitive browsers struggling to make headway.
"ditches non-compete clauses"... and replaces them with NDAs for proprietary products like Windows, SQL Server, Office, etc?
For anyone reading this, I'd love some feedback on the formatting of the post. Specifically:

- Is the title of the post good? What can be improved?

- Is the formatting of the daily reading's information/metadata good? What can be improved?

- Should I put 'passages I found interesting' in the post itself or should I put them as comments to the post? Are there too many passages? HN has a 4k char limit, so I am leaving out a lot of interesting passages as is.
Wild that (supposedly) only 20/3200 think using what is basically the ultimate racial slur in English is bad. And that he thinks this is a good thing? Just when I thought my opinion of crypto companies couldn't get any lower ...
That's not how pregnancy works. It can take quite a while to get pregnant. it's a bell curve. Certainly, a lot of couples will have another, but if you want to have another with a good chance of success (>90%), you have to start younger.
Postdoc in Germany sees around 2400± after tax per month
> Sometimes you just want to tend a garden or walk a forest

I do both of these things a fair amount IRL, I'm not trying to single you out I just want to understand motivations for playing these games, is there a reason you do these activities in a game as opposed to IRL?
What we’ve learned from one year of Real User Monitoring data on Gov.uk
From the internet:

One limitation of buying I Bonds is the annual purchase limit. Each person can buy a maximum of $10,000 per calendar year as the primary owner.

In addition, if you have a trust, you can buy another $10,000 per year under the name of the trust. A lawyer created a revocable living trust for us back in 2018. It was surprisingly easy when I opened an account for the trust at TreasuryDirect last month. It took only 15 minutes to open a new trust account and buy another $10,000 of I Bonds.

So it lets you double the amount you can buy.
ubuntu desktop is free for all.

canonical needs to go public and do IPO.

ubuntu core is one approach to make some money out of the (free) ubuntu brand.

Personally I don't use Ubuntu Core, but I understand why it is there.
False.

It took them more than a decade beyond schedule, and 5 billion euros beyond quoted cost.

The finally delivered only because it was clear the money would dry up either way. If they could have strung it out further, they would have
The people who preach the loudest often do so to overshout their own past. It’s no coincidence that the loudest proponents of cancel culture and DEI have themselves a history of bigotry and bullying. Today this is the most effective way to bully or marginalize someone.
I'm showing my age here then. I mostly played version 3.3.1, then some of the 3.4.* versions. I haven't played 3.6.*.
Good point. Partially in my old house and partially in a bond (so I think I’m safe there).
Even less worth it when Alliant is paying 1% for a bog-standard saving account: https://www.alliantcreditunion.org/bank/high-yield-savings
My understanding is the current state is "yes on 3G, but no on LTE" which means (depending on where you live) the actual answer may be "no."
Not yet, maybe the OP hasn't ruled out being cryogenically frozen and re-animated by future generations. :D
1% of abortions is a lot as there are many abortions each year. According to the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/ss/ss6907a1.htm), after 21 weeks, this is about 5000 abortions a year, which is a lot.
I don't think Git "won" principally on technical merits.

I think it won because VCS transitions are very painful so people wanted to use the system that they expected to end up being most widely adopted. Certainly that's why I chose it in 2007.

And of course when you're making this decision you should assume that many other people are making it on the same grounds.

I believe the term for this situation is a "Keynesian beauty contest".
What you're describing is Fully Automated Luxury Communism‚ where most parts of work are automated, and people work under non-alienated conditions simply for that feeling of achievement. Or in the words of Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The economics of the future is somewhat different. You see, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century. The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity”

People need to feel useful; these chore simulators are parasitic on that natural impulse.
> Scar Consumption for Life

Sounds like a good thing in a world where we over-consume almost
everything?

I can't agree with some of the commentary in this thread about risk,
drive and early poverty. Some of the wealthiest people started out
dirt poor. They didn't like it and resolved to become rich. Plenty
more started out spoiled rotten and grew up to be lazy minded with
mediocre life outcomes.

"Brewster's Millions" is still a great film on this theme of growing a
healthy relationship with money.
Current status: refreshing https://hacks.mozilla.org/author/abeingessnermozilla-com/ waiting for part 2.
very useful indeed. will be following this product development
They also are looking "diversity of thought" over "stereotypical team diversity measurements".

It looks like to me that they are looking for people with common sense that don't get offended by everything and don't make everything a political issue. I hope we get more companies to do that.
That kind of reasoning only makes sense if any of the exchanges are driven by actual exchanges of goods or services rather than just speculation. It's unconnected to physical commodities just like fiat currency, controlled by an unaccountable small group of miners and whales, and becomes completely centralized the moment you go through an exchange. How stupid.
I suppose now that some of the sources of such gas is being cut, those French nuclear plants will be extremely profitable for a while.
People have no idea what a base rate is. And they don’t realize that the world for young people who didn’t go to college is even sketchier - those numbers just don’t get held up as a spear to attack institutions with.
Let's be honest: this has been ten to twenty years in the making. IE has sucked since... well, since always, at least based on my 20 years of web dev experience that began with AOL (which of course was just a fancy-for-the-90s UI on top of IE). I remember the shims I had to write for IE support... I shudder at the memory of the amount of try...catch blocks full of ActiveX instantiation attempts required just to do an XHR.

Of course, each version of IE was marginally better than the previous, and IE10+ did have XMLHttpRequest support (though with at least one bug), but still. The day Microsoft finally gave up on that very dead horse and just put a coat of paint over Chromium, I laughed, but also celebrated.

What are the chances that this Microsoft abandonment will force large institutions to stop using IE? Asking for a friend... that friend being me and those "large institutions" being several of my clients.
Good ol' corporate lobbying will make that a non-issue
While I'm not a huge fan of this idea or cryptocurrency in general, "illegitimate" industries are often the spawning point for good new ideas (see: porn industry).
The Potential of Probabilistic Computers
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/ss/ss6907a1.htm

CDC says about 5000. Is 5000 almost none?

So that means almost no people died on 9/11 (3000 deaths)?

Also, no children were murdered in schools (About 200 since 1999 altogether).

Imagine being so callous.
Sure you can, to some extent, given more effective progressive taxation. Starting with a "mansion tax", luxury car tax, cryptocurrency tax, ...
The problem with comparing the cost of different energy production means is that most of these have huge externalities. After all, this is why we're still burning hydrocarbons, because they seem cheap compared to anything else, except that we have massed up a huge debt by accelerating climate change. Something that may turn out to be nearly infinitely expensive.

Now the problem with solar and wind is that those also have pretty large energy investment needs at the beginning and given that we still mostly run on hydrocarbons these will also look cheap (include a sizeable amount of externalities).

Other than that, you're right that these articles rarely mention the problem of the fissile uranium supply. From what I've read and heard, without breeder reactors, the known U235 reserves won't last long if we plan to switch the world over. (Not that it's a viable plan to build so many reactors in time.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium
What does not fit for consumption mean?

Are there more ionizing radiation in a German mushroom or boar than in an average banana?
A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease
It's interesting how this plays out with crypto and not exactly the same / intensity with traditional finance employees.
So would this rely on a known compiled binary they could reliably project/simulate/anticipate?

This seems vaguely like when they would use page fault boundaries to extract passwords. An OS/hardware event that occurs within some if-then to leak parts of the "key".

Do we need some sort of "random delays" or binary execution randomization?
Was this formerly a good site? I remember running into cracked periodically in the last few years and it always looked like the absolute worst of clickbait spam, but these articles are rather decent
> Centralization has also created broader societal tensions, which we see in the debates over subjects like fake news, state sponsored bots, “no platforming” of users, EU privacy laws, and algorithmic biases. These debates will only intensify in the coming years.

This doesn't make any sense to me. It sure looks like motivated reasoning. What's the connection? The fewer sites there are, the more fake the news there will be? Why? State sponsored bots benefit from there being fewer platforms? When everyone had a blog, were blogs ever known for keeping out comments from bots? EU privacy laws only apply to large centralized sites? C'mon. I can see “no platforming” of users and algorithmic biases being related to centralization at least.
It's definitely a bit of a copy cat wild west with respect to copyright, but even there there's interesting things. Something I noticed is that almost ever big well known game title has a "tycoon" version of it created in Roblox. Ala "Among Us Tycoon", partially this is just for monetization but often times it's a fundamental change to the gameplay.
And some of the symptoms of being a raging asshole is behaving like one, and accusing anyone unhappy with your behavior of being 'not a team player', 'thin-skinned', 'a drama llama', 'outraged for the sake of outrage', and 'assuming ill-intent'.

Bonus points is if you're in a position of power over the people complaining about your behavior.
You'd be surprised! Some of the best smart contract security folks in the space are pseudonymous and I imagine many organizations would work with them without needing to know their legal identity. One of those people is samczsun[1] who, amongst other things, famously prevented a potential ~$350m hack.

[1] https://www.paradigm.xyz/team/samczsun/posts
tomato, tomato
Yes I don't disagree, but I think it's the same as everything related to topics of climate change. For example, the global increase in temperature itself isn't what's bad. We've had temperatures this high before and it led to global rainforests. The bad part is how fast it's happening and all the confounding factors causing a runaway effect

Perhaps if done carefully we could eco-engineer earthworms back into north american soil ecologies. But it's not being done carefully
In the United States, unless Roe is stricken down, then there is no point at which a fetus becomes a living child. States can regulate, but cannot restrict abortion up until birth.
I just looked it up, and transport accidents are the 3rd most common cause of death for my age bracket in the UK, and the first I can do anything to prevent (behind suicide and accidental poisoning).

Once the risks of dementia get close, I'll join you in the world of thin A-pillars, but I wouldn't call that good general advice!
This thread convinced me to look this up and apparently this site called "Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index" [0] that's continually tracking mining per IP address [1] to figure out where mining is happening.

Not sure how accurate it is, but apparently Texas is 11.22% of America's 37.84% hash rate share, so that works out to about 4% total.

[0]: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/mining_map

[1]: From the site: "We have partnered with several Bitcoin mining pools to collect geolocational mining facility data in a non-obtrusive and privacy-preserving manner. This geolocational data is based on IP addresses of mining facility operators (‘hashers’) that connect to the servers of mining pools."
IMO the only viable IoT is the one that can run completely isolated from the Internet, on a local network.

Home Assistant and Matter are a step toward this.
As a primary vehicle or a toy.

If you drive a Tesla , but always wanted a SUV for camping, go for it.

Don't drive the Tesla to work
> Maliciousness entails knowledge

Wouldn't using fans to blow off the methane require knowledge?
Which carriers are providing iPhones for free? How do those contracts compare to other carriers who don’t provide an iPhone for free every two years?

I know here in Australia the cheapest plans are prepaid SIM-only and the “free phone” contracts are the most expensive (because thousand dollar phones don’t grow on trees). We still have limited data plans in the lower price brackets.

As far as kids having iPhones vs androids, who is paying for those phones? Is it the parents? Do you think there might be some correlation between disposable income and the decision to get cheap androids versus expensive iPhones for the kids?
Oh really? Is there a catch?
I’m writing Windows apps for work, and I’d like to use my MacBook to do it. Currently everything has to be done through Remote Desktop, which works well enough, except on cellular or public Wi-Fi.

With Parallels, I’ll be able to work from my apartment’s rooftop patio on nice days, and coffee shops and coworking spaces on not nice days.

x86 emulation is good enough for good performance on the windows apps that I build, Visual Studio was the only real blocker; that and Microsoft’s refusal to license Windows on ARM for VMs.

But really the short answer for the use case of Parallels on M1 Mac is exactly the same as the use case for Parallels on an Intel Mac, and except for licensing, the M1 works even better.
Depending on the cost per database, a service like this could allow one to build SAAS apps with Single Tenant model [1] in a really simple and elegant way.

I always liked this model since it gives the best isolation and not having to code with multi-tenant in mind really simplifies development and security. But maintaing an infra for this is hard and costly.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/isv/appl...
Because it sends the wrong message. You take a significant other there for special occasions, or you take a date there if you're really interested/really want to get laid.
Article makes it clear that swimming was not necessary, right in the synopsis below the title: "Ian Morris on “Proto-Britain” Which Was Once Part of the European Continent (Literally) "
My assumption is that traditional finance money is often a lot more refundable.

FWIW, different industry, but I did a few months as a contractor at two AAA game devs and my god the amount of shit you have to deal with, having a staff flagged forum account with 0 posts, people would go through the member list, send hundreds of DMs begging for free shit, try to find your email to harass you for free beta keys or cash shop items, friends IRL would be like "haha does that mean you can edit my character to be max level"
Grid storage cost is falling even faster than renewables cost. Which you already knew.
What kind of systems do you develop and what stack do you use?

Software developers tend to impose their habits on everyone thinking the circumstances do not matter. But well, they do. A lot.

Both the article, you, and the GP are doing this. I've just read the first few comments, but I expect to find a lot more of it there.

Anyway, if the strictness isn't imposed by the problems you are solving, you may gain from pushing it into your tools and getting some experience with less strict procedures too. Just like the GP may gain from trying some more strict procedures for a while.
Maybe, and that sometimes happens... when it was definitely a mistake. But it often wasn't; the company has to make the best decisions given the information it has, AND things change. You don't fire people every time they make a mistake -- you fire them when you don't think their judgment is adding value. And while it might seem like that should be different when the mistakes are more impactful, it just means companies need to hire as well as they can (which often involves high compensation) to make the best bets on that judgment.

Judgment isn't about having been right -- it's about making the best decisions given the information you have at the time, and that means that some good decisions turn out not to work out in practice. Companies have to try things out to innovate and find new, better ways of creating as much value for customers as possible. You might hire 50 people to develop a new product line or offering, because it seems like it's going to work. If it then almost works, but the margins aren't good enough and it looks like there's untapped market, you might hire 100 more to scale it up because it looks like it will work at greater scale. But ultimately, if you end up not being able to make it work, you have to shut it down. Maybe some of those people fit elsewhere in the company, but usually that's very few. So layoffs are needed there, and it doesn't mean someone needs to be fired.

In many cases of layoffs, the employees were profitable... until they became unprofitable because circumstances changed. That's often the case at big companies. You find success with a product, but then consumer tastes change, or someone innovates better than you do (or gets luckier). You can't just keep that unprofitable product going to keep people employed -- someone has to make the hard call to hard pivot or exit that market. It doesn't mean the people who set that product line up made a mistake and need to be fired.
My figures were not gross, sadly. :(
Ok I didn't know that they implemented load following in France. However, note thatbbecause nuclear power cost is almost completely capex dominated so doing this essentially increases your power cost by the factor that you use for load balancing. So out of economic reasons you hardly ever want to not run a nuclear plant at 100%.
This is what I mean when I say "kicked out." You're forced to move away from everything and everyone you know.
It's definitely different, but it can be pretty similar really. Tending my actual plants and tending plants in stardew valley are both pleasant things I like to do while listening to an audiobook or podcast.
In most jurisdictions, it is illegal to contract with someone for goods or services over a certain amount if you don't have their tax information. Otherwise, tax avoidance would be trivial. In the US specifically, you're required to file Form 1099 for any contracts over $600, which requires the other party's SSN, EIN, or another foreign tax identifier.
I mean, it certainly makes it easier to try and hire if you're paying 40% less than Coinbase (at least as of mid-2020)※.

※ - Kraken offer was 120K USD with no room to negotiate, Coinbase pre-offer was ~170K base + ~30K options/year + bonus.

Edit: forgot to mention the weird interview process where they had the interviewee video on, but the interviewers were audio only. Hopefully that has changed since then.
It has all the major religions (8 or so named ones), and atheist, agnostic, other, spiritual. Note people aren't obligated to put religion in there and many don't. In my area about 1/3 of women's profiles don't have any religion listed. You can filter people, based on specific religions, but I'm actually not sure if you can do a filter like "Atheism or nothing".

One of the big problems with filters is that most filterable things are optional, so a lot of people won't have anything specified for one category or another. Exceptions are height and age, which people must specify for themselves, and so some people lie about those. People can lie about or omit even more important details, like the fact that they are married. Pictures can be very inaccurate as well. And there are scammers. You have to be quite skeptical and cautious on these apps whether you are man or woman.
The Dark Side of Self Study
Not everyone can do it - it can be like asking an alcoholic why they don't go to the bar anymore, because the walk and the beer has health benefits.

Sometimes you have to identify your weakness and ruthlessly cut them out of your life.
As we're seeing from Russia and Europe, depending on someone else means you can find yourself being threatened or actually being cut off.
Dispense with the government?