skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As much as business and engineering types fetishize data-driven decisions

My counter argument to data driven decisions is Microsoft in 2007.

Microsoft had a large number of user studies, done by Very Professional Firms, that American customers would never pay for phones, everyone in America was too addicted to free phones through 2 year plan lock-ins. Making consumer smart phones was a silly idea!

So anyway iPhone comes out, and internal memos are sent out reminding us all that we have Really Good Data showing how foolish the iPhone is.

Turns out data does an excellent job of repressing innovation. If the data says "don't bother making an amazing product people want to buy", your data might suck. I mean, you may be making the wrong product sure, wrong price point, too small an audience, but if the data just flat out says "don't do cool shit", throw the data away.
It looks like it's pretty much completely inaccurate? https://twitter.com/bitcoinfool/status/1579479999333076992
Not every site.

Don't do shitty things to your users and you don't need a popup.

From https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ :

> To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:

> ...

> Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.

Defined as:

> Strictly necessary cookies — These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies. While it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.

It's entirely possible to have a useful website without requiring a popup. It's just not how most companies prefer to have the web work.
And I should add that it gives people a convenient language to talk about personalities and human characteristics. Clearly people find it (and other things, like ennegrams, tarot, palmistry, Myers Briggs, etc) useful as a way of structuring the vast complexity of humans in a society.

I would love to have something equivalently helpful and engaging that isn't based on superstitions. But something like the Big 5 model is a mouthful of sawdust compared with the other things I mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
How interesting, considering countries like Norway make tax return summaries public against one's name.
Parent comment is referring to uMatrix which is no longer maintained and last updated 20 July 2021.
Respectfully, the person you are responding to knows what he is talking about: https://xnux.eu/log/
> Colon cancer attacks 1 in 25.

The highest plausible 10-year estimate of colon cancer prevalence from the study was 1.2%. That's 1 in 83, not 1 in 25.
That's just Google muddying the waters and claiming they respect user privacy, but then the phone asks for precise location every single time.
> I actually believe vBulletin 3 is where it’s at!

Curious, what about vBulletin v4 and v5 do you not like?
Since "client B write" was successfully written on 2 of the 3 nodes.
Any read request that read only from 2 of the 3 nodes instead of using quorum read, will be able to see what Client B wrote until it magically disappears.

Quorum Read-repair is only one reason for why the value would randomly disappear.
Another one is periodic anti Entropy repair!
"Siemens Gamesa’s 14-222 DD offshore wind turbine prototype has, according to the Spanish-German wind giant today, set a world record for the most power output by a single wind turbine in a 24-hour period: 359 megawatt-hours. (...)
"The SG 14-222 DD is a 14 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine with a capacity of up to 15 MW with Power Boost."

359 MWh in 24h is 14.958 MW average output, out of the 15 MW "boost mode" that's about 100% "boost" capacity factor for the day :).
If we stop buying oil, if you want to hurt the Saudis, we also need to convince everyone else (China) to buy the oil.

If you want to replace oil, make the alternative undeniably CHEAPER.
It might surprise you to know that in fact kitchen utensils and what they're made out of is regulated in the USA - and I assume most other industrialized countries.

https://www.compliancegate.com/plastic-kitchen-products-regu...

The issue is decentralization != no regulation, and lots of crypto folks seem to think that they should build systems that cannot be regulated and expect that to be compatible with modern society.
also - you disagree with the proposed solutions in the article (I do too), but I don't understand why you are disagreeing with the stated problem?

If speeding is contributing to fatalities, changing road designs to discourage speeding is a reasonable response. We don't have to claim that fatal accidents are not related to reckless behavior to make changes to discourage reckless behavior.
There are a lot of 'soft' arbitrage opportunities out there, such as risk arbitrage or merger arbitrage. You may not have 100% certainty of a deal closing, but can still profit over hundreds of events.

Most 'pure' arbs are exploited, but many still exist. They often require capital, expertise, and experience.
I was looking at a Wisp for a rural weekend home and it was 15x15Mbps for $50/month for unlimited plus $200 for the equipment on install. When I looked at t-mobile 5G home internet it was $50 for unlimited and free equipment. Although the speeds fluctuate they are still faster than the wisp.

I think It's going to be mid range 5G that kills wisp, they might be able to serve edge cases but the mobile carriers see a market for home internet. They have the technology and the spectrum to make it happen quickly and everyone already has a mobile phone.
Dell, Lenovo and possibly HP.
Product page:

https://www.siemensgamesa.com/en-int/products-and-services/o...
Sponsorship via Github is the primary stream AFAIK
Somewhat agreed. Basically I found most people learn to like the music of their latest romantic partner.

I think partly it's just familiarity. There are plenty of "classics" I didn't really like when they came out but now they bring a feeling of nostalgia so even though they weren't "me" back then, for some reason they now feel like part of me, my history, my experience.
Three letters :FDP
Unfortunately, I believe that Fastmail leaks existing inboxes, and is theoretically vulnerable to brute-force scraping.

However, that seems pretty unlikely in my case. If someone was enumerating the Fastmail address space, then I would have needed to receive a "probe" email to that address first, and I don't recall receiving anything except communications from Comcast itself (and this is a low-volume inbox where I read every email).

Alternatively, that could have been the spammer's probe email - except that I emailed several of the other addresses on the recipient list, and none of those emails bounced, and I got several responses from real humans.

So either the spammers had a long list of addresses that they knew and were only probing mine (which seems far-fetched) or they just happened to guess both my address and every one of the others that I emailed (which seems incredibly unlikely).

Unless there's something else that I'm missing...
There are always a lot of unsatisfying hand-wavy answers to this question just saying that high framerate video looks "off" or "like a soap opera". I'd like to point out that the biggest factor here is probably the lighting.

Cinematographers have to pick particular aperture and ISO to get the depth of field and film grain they want, so they can only really adjust exposure though shutter speed. If you double the framerate, the minimum possible shutter speed halves. Therefore (unless you are shooting outside on a sunny day) it is very likely that your shot is underexposed, and the only thing you can do about it is add more lighting. This can be both logistically complicated and technically very hard to pull off without looking unnatural, especially in scenes that are supposed to be dark and moody.
Have a look at 'about:performance' to diagnose your CPU usage issue.
Because you can see the tuning of all the strings at once. You strum and they all show up. Then you can see which ones are more out of tune than others and tune them together. Prevents problems where changing the tuning (tension) of one string throws another string out of tune. I call it "global tuning." It gives you precise tuning extremely fast.
So in other words, by doing nothing in particular. A protest where you don't change your behavior in any way and don't have to bear any cost is not much of a protest.
This could be improved by adding a microphone to help determine a good time to execute.
Apple just did a once in a blue moon architectural shift to their new ARM processors.

I think this stimulated apple sales for current customers, though maybe a few new customers switched.

But I suspect once folks have switched to the new processor that sales will calm down again.
Because they didn't -> https://twitter.com/bitcoinfool/status/1579479999333076992
I think SF has had significant issues that led to a large homeless population prior to Marijuana becoming legal. That city is a case study in itself it terms of why it's gotten to where it's at (and I'm not remotely the person to argue either way there. I travel for work there a few times and year and it's always bad, unpleasant and I'd argue unsafe and each year is worse but my exposure is limited to infrequent visits and nothing as a resident). Housing availability has always been mentioned as one of the bigger issues there but I cannot speak to it beyond what I read.

People moving to locations without a plan, and avg to high rental rates will naturally lead to more homeless people. We did have an influx of unprepared people due to legalization. And Im not saying legalization is purely to blame. Certainly possible it was all coincidence with timing. Market rebound, in tandem with people in low wage jobs not prepared for market shifts? Veterans coming back from a decade long war without a safety net (medical or financial), PE buying housing. There are plenty of possibilities. But going back to the original post, I believe that allowing online betting for people already in trouble is not going to help towns and cities in any manner. So I would worry about things getting worse before they will get better.
How does one evaluate the work of an economist - repeatably and independently?
> If you’re running Firefox on macOS you might have noticed that its responsiveness has improved significantly in version 103, especially if you’ve got a lot of tabs, or when your machine is busy running other applications at the same time.

Nope. Sorry. It might actually be faster, but I haven't noticed anything over the last several months. I have FF/Mac/m1 open for hours per day, multiple tabs. Nothing jumped out from performance where it was noticeable.
Also prefaced by this:

“The short version of the code summarizes aspirations at a high level of the abstraction; the clauses that are included in the full version give examples and details of how these aspirations change the way we act as software engineering professionals. Without the aspirations, the details can become legalistic and tedious; without the details, the aspirations can become high-sounding but empty; together, the aspirations and the details form a cohesive code.”
> Not sure calling your congressperson will have a lot of effect

It does because most people don’t do it. So you get aides tallying phone calls to help an elected take a position on a fringe issue (Saudi relations are fringe in most districts and states) possibly a day or two before the vote.

> Do everything you can to minimize your use of oil

This is harder and less effective. (You should still do it, for the environment.)
Pass the mustard?
The whole trend is manufactured outrage from places like reddit, twitter, and the dull corporate "journalists" that for some reason act as a megaphone for these "ideas". Its anything but organic. Ending work, doing the bare minimum at your job until you get fired? Very strange to me. Its participants are chronically online, angry, and very jealous. Of course they're opposed to meritocracy.
"trust the core ideas of your company, with a random company whose product is slideshows, but because we say pitch decks instead of slideshows, we can charge c-suite rates."

If you can't come up with your own pitch deck how do you expect to actually deal with investors? Or learn to communicate your businesses concepts yourself?

Making the slideshow is part of the work. Like writing is part of the work of having novel ideas. Maybe you can get someone else to write it up, but the act of writing it up teaches you things about your idea and how you communicate.

But if you want to trust this company and pay for their slideshows I guess your time is too valuable to spend on your core messaging, and you should chuck that money away to these nobodies for a slideshow.
I think the “social media everything app/superapp” characterization is slightly off the mark: A lot of those are private chat apps. It’s called WeChat, you know, not WePostPublic.
Derivatives have a purpose and closing off regular people is just more gate keeping.
Streaming sounds incredibly simple compared to a designing a brand new handheld. Especially as they already have a growing catalog available through Game Pass Ultra.
I had the same thought... as somebody upstream pointed out, this is dated 1999. If it was drafted in 2022, it would probably read very differently.
But we can say without any qualifiers that complaining about popups and blaming them on GDPR is stupid and misinformed.
In a large enough kitchen you have both!

In a smaller kitchen it’s more likely that the dishwasher will be sacrificed than the washing machine (since it can be replaced with a sink)
> You're excessively fixated on nameplate capacity.

Sorry, my perspective is precisely the opposite. Nameplate capacity is a farce --I have said this much-- because it is only valid under ideal laboratory test conditions. Solar zealots are the ones who use nameplate ratings, or worse, solar radiation per square meter, to justify solar fantasies. Building and actually looking at the data from my system (something most solar panel owners don't do) delivered an education I probably could not have gotten any other way. If anything, it made me think and eventually decide I needed to to understand it the way I do any other engineering project I approach.

> Nuclear isn't even free of the need for storage and backup.

These are not problems.

> Also why would you need 24/7 power to serve EVs?

You'd have to model this in order to understand it. Beyond a certain threshold or concentration of EV's in an area, you eventually get to a situation where you have a massive number of vehicles plugged into the grid 24/7. That's the simplest way I can put it.

Here's a simple attempt to show the mechanism at play:

https://i.imgur.com/arNVRea.png

Again, super simplified. The idea is you have 25 vehicles, all charging for 12 hours. The charge start time is staggered by 1 hour. The bottom line shows how many cars are charging simultaneously.

What this shows is that you eventually get to a peak simultaneous charge requirement that will remain pretty much constant 24/7.

What if you rapid charge in 15 minutes, or 1 hour?

Well, sure, the number of simultaneously charging vehicles will be reduced, however, the power and energy requirements will not. In fact, due to efficiencies and losses one might very well require more power under such scenarios. Power is the killer (not energy) because it has to be delivered instantaneously.

The other thing this oversimplified illustration does not show is a distribution of vehicles of different types (from motorcycles to semi trucks) requiring more or less power, different charge durations, usage patterns (delivery van vs. working from home and barely driving) and varied power and energy demands from the grid. Including that requires writing a reasonably detailed simulation with hundreds of variables, which is what I did years ago in order to try and understand the relationship between EV's, power and energy.

In short, we need to create a complete doubling of our entire power generation and distribution system. In some cases, more than double. We need at least 1200 GW of power; which is equivalent to 1200 nuclear power plants (this should give anyone pause and a real sense of proportion). My model predicted a range between 900 GW to 1400 GW. I believe this range represents a confidence of 95%. In other words, the real answer is in there.

It is amazing to me that this isn't front-and-center in the national discourse. EV's at scale will not happen without the equivalent of about 1200 new nuclear power plants being built and the power distribution system adapting to delivery that power.
They are really historically the same thing, but I think ray casting has come to mean ray tracing a lower dimensional thing like a map and representing the results in a higher dimension, like 3d space.
I wouldn’t expect the number to be zero, but I expect it’s a small percentage. I also expect the number to decrease with age.
Yes.

USA won the Revolutionary War vs the British in 1776, while desperately asking / begging for aid from France. When the Soviets beat the Nazis on the Eastern front, they were also receiving gross amounts of aid / US Liberty ships to rebuild their stockpiles (from USA / Lend Lease program).

The question of winning vs losing can be determined by roughly the strength, and determination, of the armies involved. Indeed, weapon-shipments are an advantage in a war, not a disadvantage. Its pretty silly to suggest otherwise.

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The real measure of the strength of the armies can be seen in the front lines. Russia has a complete inability to do anything about HIMARS, and instead sends cruise missiles to Kyiv cause they're too stupid to find the HIMARS.

Around 100 cruise missiles, none of them hitting any of the 12 HIMARS that have caused them so much grief over the last 3 months.

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This annexation of Ukrainian territory will be remembered just as the Reichskommissariat Ukraine was remembered. A temporary setback that ultimately cost the German Army everything. The war doesn't end because some leader somewhere makes a declaration. The war ends when the armies both decide to stop fighting.

There's nothing that Russia has done here that encourages the Ukrainian Army to give up.
Mostly donations. See: https://awesomekling.github.io/I-quit-my-job-to-focus-on-Ser...
How does having a price cap solve the problem of there not being enough natural gas. Seems like an invitation for LNG sellers to go to China and Japan instead of Europe.
"Engineers and management professionals generally lack a broader education in civics, humanities and ethics, they are poorly equipped to make socially responsible choices."

Looking at the list of world's worst tyrants, I don't see many engineers by education, mostly civics and humanities.
Can Any Emerging Memory Technology Topple DRAM and NAND Flash?
I loved PunBB. 18 years ago at my first IT job I actually stole PunBBs design to make the control panel for our web hosting company. Nobody knew because even then punbb was kinda esoteric.
I have MacBook Pro M1 for work and Lenovo P52 for personal use. Lenovo is in my opinion better in every other way apart from the screen. Design and weight are of no concern to me.
"1491" is a most fantastic book about all of this.
> It pops up everywhere in python libraries.

It pops up everywhere because Python has default values and sentinel objects.

In a different language with a different logic, it wouldn't pop up anywhere as much. And usually (though not always) it doesn't overlap with the need for a null (and / or the distinction doesn't matter).

When it does, you can just add a layer of indirection e.g. `Maybe (Maybe a)`. That's what you get if you store an option in a map, in a language with option types:

lookup :: Ord k => k -> Map k a -> Maybe a

so if you have a

Map k (Maybe a)

(a map from any key to an optional value, aka your standard Java or JS or Python map) lookup will return a `Maybe (Maybe a)`, the outer Maybe is the result of the lookup, and the inner Maybe is the stored value. There is no information loss, and if you don't care about the distinction you can just `join` the result in order to collapse it.
While I don't work in a rural location, I have coworkers who live 10 miles away from the office (edit: and these are already rural locations) and I often hear their problems. The two major ones being:

- Internet is absolute shit. They don't have wires that get to them, so all their solutions have a ton of latency (and often there is only one company). Apparently the Starlink thing is being a huge help, but still latency is an issue. It is very annoying when it comes to meetings. These guys got exceptions to go to the office during the whole pandemic due to this issue specifically.

- Airplane routing. When you live near a major airport or even in a "hub city" traveling is always easier. When you live in a rural location you may need a 2 hour drive to the airport, a first flight to take you to a hub airport, then a second flight to take you to your destination. Traveling is highly inconvenient. It's almost impossible to to some city and back in the same day.
I live in a small collection of homes along an interstate in a national forest. Modern culture (tech and non-tech) is racing ahead of me. Every year I fall further behind. I don't even know what it is that I don't know. Even popular language is leaving me behind. I need to be part of a community, but it's not practical. I feel a little like Van Gogh in Arles wanting to establish a community of like-minded people, but it's not going to happen. One just has to push on anyway.
You are correct that if you have a singleton server returning monotonic time to clients this would work.

But this Monotonic time server is not part of Cassandra itself and for this reason majority of the people using Cassandra will use the OS time without knowing this is silently corrupting the database.
Right, just toggling a GPIO. From what I can tell, there is some claim of 5V 500mA for a short period when doing this, which would explain the transistor.
Official petition to save Germany’s nuclear power plants
Yep, they're helping Europe replace some of the oil and gas from Russia. Best European friends these days! As long as they don't invade a neighbour they're great... oh wait, weren't they heavily involved in the worst war in the world at present, in Yemen, with over 150k dead and the prospect of 10 million dead of starvation directly caused by that [1]?! Right, but those people dying are not white European so no one gives a shit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%9...
Why is OP expected to have participated in or read hundreds of other threads?
In my eyes this appears to be further evidence as to why a combination or extreme wealth inequality and centralized authority is counterproductive to a nation's continued prosperity.

For all its concentration of wealth and authority, Saudia Arabia is clearly squandering its power in favor of misguided projects of ego.
I do not see a long-term future for a government such as this which has decided to behave in the same manner as a spoiled mewling child.