skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'They only happen because people like you and me agree to implement them.'

i am sorry, this is absurd line or reasoning. This logic has never worked in the history of business. It can only work in lisenced proffeshions like law and accounting where doing something nasty would loose you your lisence and your boss knows that, so literslly noone would agree to do it

secondly, captive portal at prague airport actually has a function - it provides you with up to date information about flights and dates.
A private non-traceable transaction of £10 or £100 is obviously not a threat.

Private non-traceable transactions of £100k? Enough money to move the needle on a political campaign or bribe a public official. Suddenly every cop or judge can be untraceably on the take. Law enforcement against crimes of the powerful becomes even harder.

Private non-traceable transactions of £1bn? Suddenly international sanctions don't work any more and you can't tell who's selling weapons to the Russians or funding the next 9/11.

The thing about cash is that the larger the transaction is the harder it is to hide. Digital transactions are the opposite: a micropayment and a megacrime are equally visible.

Westerners tend to forget, but corruption is real and left unchecked will destroy your society.
The 3 series I owned will likely be the most fun car I'll ever own, but the maintenance was always a multi thousand bill a couple times a year. Even a decade ago they were already charging a couple hundred for map upgrades, not that I paid for them. Personally, I'm going to stay away from German vehicles in favor of Japan, Korea and maybe Ford.
> (Who said you can't be a professional memelord?)

Ah, so there's hope for the kids after all!
Have been seeing tech news articles about mini nuclear reactor coming really soon now for about 22 years, so far, none have actually happened.
it gives you the choice.

do you think the state cares if it sees that you bought a new microwave? no, it's a very normal thing to do and there's no reason to hide it.

do you want to hide buying a house alarm system so nobody would know you have one installed, not even the state? then pay the premium and nobody will know
While digital synths sound good now (and have low latency) you still need a UI that is suited for making music (a good midi controller). Since you already need a DSP to hook that stuff up to a USB port it's not a stretch to just up the computing power a bit and also run your synth software on the device.
Also: while a generic computer has more power, you need a dedicated machine to not run into software issues (especially music software on mac often doesn't survive upgrades). An integrated synth just makes more sense to me.
The frog's been slowly boiling for decades now, so the former.
I appreciate your scepticism. I would probably do the same. Unfortunately I can't provide more information because its second-hand story and I just trust this person. Hence I did not verify everything they said. I do not know what kind of product they could develop from a diet (or if they ever wanted to). I know they had a product out for this and its an obvious conflict of interest.

I am not pushing any conspiracy here, my main points here was that gut microbiome is cutting edge research, and its actually a multi-disciplinary one since most nutritionists don't know a lot about the gut, and most gut doctors don't know a lot about nutrition (at least where I live). IBD is a prime candidate that I know of (but unfortunately I don't have a paper about it, because of whatever conspiracy or corporate greed reason) that can be helped with nutrition. But i've seen papers around talking about mental effects of the gut health too.
Ikr. The only win the cryptocurrencies of today have over these early digital cash proposals is that they are permissionless... Satoshi didn't need the cooperation or the permission of vested interests to get going. Now central banks and governments are being dragged kicking and screaming in to a world in which they could have had influence in 30 years ago.
There’s been a lot of talk about Netflix bringing a sponsored tier. Is this the first official announcement?
How the News Feed turned Facebook into a juggernaut
> You can't just set up a street stall or garage sale like you can with cash.

I noticed in Norway even the people selling cold water on hot days by the side of the road took Vipps. Electronic payment systems really can be that simple if people want. It is of course not anonymous, but that's far less important to most people.
Nothing bad per se, but as other people have mentioned in this thread, historical revisionism has been used for lots and lots of despicable things in the recent past, including genocide.

Yes, we "all" (I include in here people interested in history) know that nations are "imagined communities" and we extensively like to quote Benedict Anderson on that.

More exactly the "nation" as a term can be (and has been) quite easily de-constructed through revisionist means, but what do you do when the same line of thought is applied almost ad litteram by one of your powerful neighbours who happens to have one of the biggest nuclear arsenals in the world? (because that's what Putin actually said about Ukraine, that they're "not really a nation", that they're an "imagined community")
We have the same expression in Dutch: "komkommertijd".

The Dutch Wikipedia mentions English, German or Jiddisch as possible sources: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komkommertijd
If you happen to be in California and want to see the oldest non-clonal trees in the world, visit the Bristlecone Pines in the white mountains near Mammoth. But maybe do it soon... https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-06-27/drought...
The price of a 60KWh Model S was substantially lower than the price of a 75KWh one, and Tesla had economies of scale by just building 75KWh packs and using them everywhere.

It was not an unreasonable value proposition for the end user, but most importantly it was a single one-off payment. It's the monthly cost which really annoys me in the BMW case. Literally rent seeking. There is no justification whatsoever for a monthly fee for a heated seat, there is no back-end to run and maintain (other than what they build explicitly to make the rent a possibility, and fuck that).
I believe that is technically illegal in the United States. But I doubt it's regulated.
When you are designing for runs of 50k - 1000k units, this is expensive.
Gas is used for heating in the industry and private home and also in industrial processes.
my number 5 was about Schröder. I forgot to mention his name.
i know there is an website where you can see who buys from whom power and what source did it came from. I only found the energy sources that countries use for electric power https://www.energymonitor.ai/sectors/power/live-eu-electrici...
They are not requiring you to pay a monthly fee. The feature is available as a $18 monthly fee OR a 1 time $406 fee.

[TFA](https://www.motor1.com/news/597376/bmw-heated-seats-subscrip...) says:

> Should you want the feature permanently, that'll set you back $406.
> Because after 25 years of IT, I have a deep dislike for the whole mess that is the self-serving, disingenuous, marketing-riddled, self-referential cesspool of corporate IT.

Why do you think other industries are any better? "self-serving, disingenuous, marketing-riddled, self-referential cesspool" pretty much fits any large-scale human activity. The exceptions are rare and ephemeral.
>The idea being money without a central authority, something that has never really existed before (digitally, at least).

But you still have distributed authorities, the owners of Bitcoin. The idea that one should be controlled by the interests of financial capital is anthitetical to free speech, freedom and self determination.

>Also, Bitcoin threatens the status quo in a massive way. Not only private businesses like banks but also powerful entities like governments and intergovernmental organizations.

It doesn't, it entrenches the status quo. That is quite literally what deflation is, a reward for people who dominated the economy in the past.
I would assume you girlfriend and you have shared an IP address at some point, and the first thing she went looking for after your call was the thing she said she'd buy you.
You are cherry-picking and being unnecessarily dismissive.

From the same article : “Sleep loss can injure the brain, and if it happens in mice, and it has been shown to happen in other species, then it probably does happen in humans,” Dr. Veasey said. “It always begs the question: How much sleep loss would cause injuries? But looking at all of this literature together, of around one week of chronic sleep loss, it really does suggest that you injured the brain to some extent.”

There is enough consensus in the scientific community about "some" connection between sleep deprivation, free radicals, oxidation stress and cell damage. Because of ethical issues since we are not allowed to directly force stress a Human (the article states: there is currently no ethical way to measure the degree and kind of cell damage caused by sleep deprivation in the locus coeruleus and hippocampus of a living human.) we do it on genetically well-matched species like Fruitfly, Mice etc. We then use statistical inference to extrapolate to Humans and see how well it matches with self-reported/observed data.

Importance of Fruitflies in Human Biology research : https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/0...

Sleep, Death and the Gut (very good article) : https://hms.harvard.edu/news/sleep-death-gut
I'm stunned by the price difference.
1-1.5 billion for this power plant, but only 300-400 million for wind or solar.

We really have come a long way in bringing down prices for wind and solar!
Sometimes the need to "win" an argument can come second. The story here is about corporate greed. I can easily imagine a team meeting where someone brought up the research and people knew it might hurt sales even if it turns out that its not replicable or anything. No one probably said "lets buy it out so people won't be cured", I assume it was an innovation manager pitching "we can make a new supplements formula based on the nutritional value of this diet". Business people agreed, knowing its a win-win. Next agenda item.
> Or better yet, I'll do what I do with everything I own and hack it, unlocking everything I can.

The problem comes when the manufacturer starts demanding legal "protection" against people hacking their own possessions, or sharing technical information about their possessions.
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It's US thing, not English. English would be weekly :-).
Interesting how it excludes the most promising fusion start ups, especially Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
What is the point of addressing the challenges fusion face when the best contenders are completely ignored?
CFS are betting that the new breed of super conducting magnets(REBCO) will make fusion commercially viable. Beyond that, their reactor design is basically from the 50s.
Tried and true design + modern materials = success?

See Prof. Dennis Whyte, one of the of cofounders of CFS explain why he believes that fusion is coming sooner than you might think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
Considering those produce 20-25% (at random) of time, are you adding he cost of storage to this?
I asked GPT-3 about Elon backing out from the Twitter deal
I get your point, and actual unlimited plans would be just fine in my opinion. I've done remote work weeks completely from a phone connection, and on average I'd use between 1.2 GiB to 4 GiB per day for just work items depending on what I needed to do. This is chats, calls, RDP, and basic web browsing. Chats likely eat up a good amount of this, but even on good mobile internet, it's not feasible to do such items over a thin-client exclusively.

It'd be really nice if we could get to the stage where usage caps just weren't implemented.
> actively torn down recently completed and functional wind farm projects.

WTF?
I want cars to be disconnected from the internet in the first place, since there is much higher risk being hacked in the middle of highway.
> But the core of the problem is 27 emotions. That's really asking for trouble.

I'm not sure I agree. The examples highlighted in the blog post aren't cases of slight mislabels (like mislabeling frustration as anger, for example). They are often labeled polar opposite to what they should be.

Though perhaps what you are saying here is that low-paid workers won't bother to look through a list of 27 emotions to find the right one, and thus they are more likely to label at random.
Just let people connect to wi-fi and use it without screwing with them. I don't really understand your question.
I have read this story before on HN and every time it brings a smile to my face and idk why.
How much is to install your own switch?
I ran Windows NT 4.0 on a DX2/66 -- with 32GB of RAM.

The RAM cost about $750 from a Silicon Valley importer. 1994. That was during a crisis in worldwide memory availability, caused at least in part by a fire that destroyed the only factory that made a chemical required by the semiconductor industry.

Our current supply chain crisis seems worse, but it isn't the first.
I had that sneaking suspicion, yes. Hence the sheep.
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long, Short Story by David Einhorn is one of my favourite books.
The Hubble only went into very near infrared, nothing like JWST. Also JWST is a million miles from earth so it is ultra cold.

I like "James Webb Science Telescope" for JWST.
This reminds me so much of the ICO bubble. It just seems like fancy ways of dancing around SEC regulations. At least the ICO folks were honest about avoiding regulations, a SPAC seems like it is very transparently saying "we want to have a public company for the sole purpose of acquiring a private company that can't pass SEC scrutiny". It's a "saying the quiet part out loud" thing.
That's not how it currently works. The car's spec is stored on a central database and set in the specific modules when the car is first produced. You only lose the customised VO codes when you update a module (not a common thing to do, even for car modders) but even then you can often convince a dealer to add your retrofit's VO code to the central database. I strongly suspect that the subscription will piggy-back off of this infrastructure and the subscription will set/unset the VO codes.

BMW are fantastic with parts and supporting older car maintenance. Even now I can order 20 year old parts (including electronic modules) new from BMW.
Thank you James.
Elixir feels similar, being built on macros and doing transformations on immutable values.
Strange that the far right and "liberals" always complain about free speech everywhere.
The last time i looked at the constitution of the us, i never saw that free speech also means free of response.
ML approach for FSD was critized right from the start by mobileeye CEO who gave a very thorough talk on why that couldn't possibly work. I think the talk is still on youtube.

The guy was critized for being old school and not having adapted to the latest tech (including by elon musk when he dumped mobileeye), but in fact he was just plain right.

i think the tech community owes him an apology.
Have you also observed that you're better able to adapt to the 24-hr day when you're not working and getting regular outdoor activity and exercise? I really think working with computers indoors is a large contributing factor to my non-24.
Kafka is at least a bit simpler than RabbitMQ, though both are very square-ish shaped pegs and are usually forced into very round-ish holes. People regularly think they need a message queue, when they really need a job queue, or message bus. Or even all three, but then they try to hack everything on top of Kafka (or RMQ) ... which can be done, of course, but "results may vary".

For tracking state at scale (but still per-job, per-thing) a Cassandra-like system works best (but preferably a better implementation, eg. SkyllaDB or AeroSpike or some other KV store).
They were bipartisan until they weren't.
Those are the first signs of the beginning of the end for personal transportation as we know it. Car ownership as a whole is inevitably moving towards a subscription model. Which in turn obsoletes car ownership, which in turn will lead to a different transportation model altogether. It will probably still take decades but this here is where it starts.
This is why nuclear is dying and you don’t need the tinfoil hat explanations for why. Just like always, it comes down to money.
My point is: why C#, why Blazor? What's that doing that you couldn't just do in Dart itself?
I want to send you an email from a web page, for example a "Click this link to complete your registration" type thing. Your mailserver is paranoid (and rightly so) and responds very slowly to greylisted mailservers like mine that it has never heard from before, so it takes about a minute to complete the message.

The webpage I wrote twenty years ago would accept your POST request, wrap up everything into the email, send it, return a redirect to a GET to the same page, and finally send you a page saying "Thanks! I've sent you an email with a link to click on to confirm it's really you." You would not get this web page because your browser would have timed out, or maybe you would but you'd think "Jeez this site is so slow" not realising that it's just waiting for you.

The webpage I wrote ten years ago would accept your POST request, wrap up everything into an email, send it to a message queue, and so on except maybe now I'd say "I am sending you" rather than "I have sent you", which you'd see immediately. Around the same time, a queue worker notices a new email in the queue, sends it, hangs around for a minute or so waiting for your server. You get the email, click the link, wow what a nice fast responsive site!

The webpage I wrote last year would do much the same thing, but the queue worker might flip a flag in your account to say the email has been sent but the link has not been clicked. Meanwhile a wee bit of javascript is polling an endpoint watching for the flag, and flips the text round to say "Check your email, it's been sent".
> i do not dislike Windows Update but I want to control it and apply things that are convenient to me.

There's a lot of valid criticism for Windows Update but I don't think this is one of them (anymore?). Part of being a system administrator dealing with Windows Server is managing updates through WSUS or something else. If that's your responsibility and Windows Servers unexpectedly "just restart" then you are not qualified for that job.

Maybe switching to Linux servers solely because of how updates are applied is reasonable. Personal preference is absolutely reason enough. But I think reaching the same level of customization+automation for updates there requires similar amounts of knowledge and time spent.
Good question.

Wait a few years for your answer.
Bitcoin has very high value for authoritarians. If you can enforce the currency you can enforce wealth inequality and entrenchment of incumbents.
Finland’s low population density means the amount of economically viable wind is more than enough to meet annual power demand.

Production increased from 2.3 TWH in 2015 to 7.8 TWH in 2020, and capacity keeps increasing jumping from 2.3GW in 2020 to 3.3GW in 2021. And that recent growth has been without subsides.
Yes, also cooler objects show up, which are otherwise invisible and you can see through interstellar dust and clouds better.
I wrote some custom Chef code that handles a seamless Erlang and RabbitMQ upgrade of a cluster of RabbitMQ reliably. Sadly it's trapped at one company.

There's probably a way to write some code to drain a split brain's data but I suspect nobody has the time to write this code.

You could have a process where you block writers to the minority then drain messages and enqueue them on the majority.
True - but there's no reason why language shouldn't continue to evolve with society. There are many instances where common words or phrases have changed over time in line with changing societal conditions. "It's [supposed to mean | always meant] this" just isn't a great argument for such mutable systems as languages. Also it seems like such a tiny personal cost to tweak one's use of language where it may make a non-zero impact on some of our biggest social challenges.
This is true but only a partial picture. MS-DOS was Microsoft's first OS.

In the early days (roughly, the 1970s) Microsoft only produced programming languages. So, yes, the company was known for it, but only inasmuch as it was known for nothing else.
Sauregurkenzeit
The longer you "expose" the more detail is revealed yes.
I made once an estimate that to power the whole energy( not power,current,ampere) of the world we need a surface of the sice of spain. And I took bad Sunlight into account. …. So I wonder why for most countries … why not go all in solar? Nuclear seems so much expensive and wastefull compared to solar.

I know there is the storage problem. But most energy is directly consumed or has to be stores for a short period . Heat for example. And heat is stored in water.
I’m not so excited about the future where an 18 year old feels like flooring their used EV with shitty brakes, and 0-100km/h acceleration that is twice as fast as an 80s Lamborghini.

This isn’t a problem yet because these cars are still a few years out from being affordable by those drivers and they are still in good shape.

Remember what happened to those kids in the 90s that drove souped up M3s or Nissan Skylines?
Worka absolutely fine for me with Firefox for Android 102
>Maybe the problem is that you lack an understanding of what money should be and what problems banking and fiat have?

I don't believe people are capable of grasping the nature of money. Money is supposed to be a medium of exchange yet everyone wants to turn it into a forced store of value with no consent, that is basically the equivalent of slavery.
This isn't a real image of an exoplanet right? The one in the background. Nowhere does it say that, which I think is beyond the ability of even JWST, to resolve an exoplanet at 50 light years?

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-...
... And the amount of ads on this page was just killing the user experience there.. I like to keep the ads enabled to help to support small sites, but no way in that case.
Operating a good wifi network at scale is usually quite costly. It is a good idea in some settings to be able to monetize outsized users. For example, your first 30 minutes on the airport wifi can be free, and if you have to be there for longer than that, you can pay a fee for the next hour.

Have you never considered this scenario?
Analog subsystems will require rework from scratch; digital can usually keep the same HDL, and its associated test suite, but changing to much smaller standard cells completely changes the timing properties. So all the timing closure and layout work needs to be re-done. Budget about 50% of the original cost, approximately.
>The newer stuff (magni/modi 3) has fixed the Audio Science Review guy's complaints and he now recommends those models.

Now, I might be cynical, but this can also happen in a shakedown (bad review, money exchange, oh, good now) scenario - whether with updated version of the product in between or not. It's not like thosr are uncommon.
A low-power desktop PC, since my not-massively-impressive gaming PC (i5-10600KF and RTX 3060) draws 330 W from the wall at peak.