skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember during the tail end of the pandemic someone posted a link to a big spike in wastewater COVID testing in our city's sewers. So I decided to pay close attention to the COVID test rates/hospitalizations for the next 2 months. But I never ended up seeing any correlation. The trendline stayed stagnant, before declining as it did everywhere else.

I know that's a one-off non-scientific example, but it made me wonder if it's occasionally just noise in a small sample set? Certainly useful but maybe not always easy to translate/project into IRL illness rates.
At one point I was an independent tech consultant down the street from one of their spaces, basically their prime customer profile. It was way too expensive for what you got.

What some people may not realize is that "executive suites" have been around forever, however they were never looked at as a "hypergrowth" SV/hot startup. This is where you get a small office among many others and there's a shared receptionist.

When I looked at WeWork, sitting at a table all day with other people and no privacy was about the same price as executive suites. They've also apparently had a business model where they don't own the spaces, so the underlying landlords can squeeze them at any time.

Was this the company where the CEO owned the trademark and was leasing it back to the company?

In any case just a company that, with a cursory inspection, IMHO showed no promise from day 1.
I don’t think beatniks particularly wore the equivalent $150+ Doc Martens.

Tangent, I really enjoyed reading On the Road
Didn't read the article, but I wish I had friends who made listening to the wind an activity growing up. There's a lot of performance any direction you take, surrendering time to the elements is a lovely little angle.
Didn't know about Hungary. All I was thinking was how EU had to force Apple and Ireland to pay taxes in Ireland, because... Ireland didn't want some free billions https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/30/apple-pay-b...
This is fair criticism, and I admit I got far too incensed. Thank you.

Dietary news of terrible quality gets often shared on here and I get annoyed when I enter a comment thread and, judging by how many were saying "yeah, I knew honey was good", no one had bothered to read the paper itself, but were reacting on the headline.

And so perpetuates the bad science and the bad dietary advice everyone is fond of sharing.
I think the single largest barrier to a well running compact Lisp is simply memory.

The more often you run out of heap, the more often you have to GC, and that memory churn on those very slow CPUs has great impact.

FORTH doesn't have this problem because it's quite static. It "never" reuses memory, the dictionary (where all the code and data live) just gets larger. When it gets too big, you restart/reset the dictionary (via FORGET), and memory reclamation is a simple pointer change.

BASIC only has the memory issue at runtime, specifically with Strings and the heap they're stored on. Everything else is quite static. When you type "RUN", the pointers to the working memory are reset and the variable tables et al are rebuilt as the the program is run.

Since BASIC separates the code from the data, this is easy. FORTH intermixes the code with the data, but since it doesn't reuse any of it, that works quite efficiently.

Lisps tend to mix code and data and that make heap fragmentation a real issue. Slow CPUs make for slow GC.

But, give more memory, GC happens less. When it happens, it's "more", it's "harder", but that can be more acceptable if the user is prepared for it. As I understand it, even the Lisp machines would get into states where it was simply faster to restart than have a "full" GC run.

Memory and MHz makes Lisps much happier. The Commander can have a lot of memory, but it's all in banks. A Lisp, perhaps, could be written that leverages that seamlessly, but it's not free. Not like with, say, a 65816 or the x86 where the banking (segmenting) is part and parcel to the addressing and instruction set vs being bolted on to something like a 6502.

Obviously one can write Lisp that CONSes less, but it's not especially idiomatic.
Indeed. But that only affects me in so far as I can't avoid using the services they offer.
Besides that it is not my problem nor am I in a position to make it my problem.
And after you scroll past the obvious solutions, "Install our Fix-O-Matic software for $29.99!" because the page is actually an advertisement cloaked as a help page.
sure but then you have to calculate the angle between each hub and spoke and cut the edges of the hub and boards to allow for flush angles when you screw them together. the whole idea behind the hinge is the angle will just naturally fall into place as you're building the structure.
96 cores and 6TB per socket with Genoa!
In a competition of Olympic divers, the one who wins and the one who somehow makes it there and then does a gigantic, hospital trip inducing, bellyflop are both notable.

The bellyflop is probably the one that will be remembered the longest though.
Just rotate through all of the services one at a time -- switch every 3 months or so, and you'll be rewarded with lots of fresh content. It also saves you a lot of money! (You get to watch everything from Disney/Netflix/Etc for 1/3rd of the cost.)
Electric cars are betweeb 2x and 4x more efficient than gasoline powered cars. Take a look at the MPGe.

https://insideevs.com/news/597460/tesla-efficiency-depends-o...

Of course that varies with temperature and driving style.

My question is-

What is better for the environment, A gas powered car or an electric car where the electricity comes exclusively from coal?

Short and long term.
I'm sure my "locally owned coffee shop" is going to just love it next time I use an overhead projector or a 42 inch TV to present a deck to the team.
Did Chinese beat out Columbus? (2005)
The US Navy could be quite quick building reactors and innovating, because it didn't have to go through the same amount of regulation. They've operated lots and lots of reactors with very little problems for decades.
If software engineers could read this they would be so upset. Their code stolen off of github and resold through ai is the silliest thing they could have done to themselves.
Remember the James Bond movie, “Casino Royale”:

I think Adam Neumann is the real life version of James Bond setting billions of dollars worth of Mohammed bin Salman‘s money on fire (by way of SoftBank).
Not surprising, especially given the current economic situation. They must have had a real boatload of cash to last this long.

I've tried a few coworking spaces and always come to the conclusion that they're a grift. Many people such as myself probably try them out, begrudgingly pay $300 a month for a few months, and inevitably cancel to make room for the next sucker.

In another time, this model probably worked, or at least was less unsustainable than it is now. Charge enough to have non-riffraff clientele that are dumb enough to fall for the grift but smart enough move on so another sap can take their place and repeat the cycle. Perhaps it's a good business to own when times are good (and easy money flowing in WeWork's case), but not when inflation goes up, wages stagnate, and labor force participation is down. $300 means something different than it did 3 years ago even though I was numerically making less than I am now without adjusting for inflation. There's no way in hell I'm throwing away $300 on that kind of experiment now, though part of me misses the days when I could and not feel bad about it.

It may be one thing if you're a scrappy business that has bootstrapped cash or a revenue stream, but coworking seems like a complete dud if you're just a professional who wants to work somewhere that's not Starbucks or the spare bedroom.
They weren't. The alt-right seeks to erase distinctions so all things mean whatever they want at the moment.
I think largely I agree but I'm personally sensitive to too much disparagement of having a plan at all. I doubt the empire footers were dug and poured prior to a plan. The important part is knowing when phase 1 can be executed and then phase 2 until the last phase so that all the layers are in the correct order. If you have incompetent planners or perhaps even people with disincentive to complete then you wind up digging out the electrical after the walls are finished.
A small latitude difference does not imply that you can ignore curvature.

I am just guessing, but perhaps your intuition is that the shortest path should lie along a line of latitude. An easy-to-see counterexample would be two points close to the north pole, but with 180 degrees of longitude separating them. In this case the shortest path actually goes through the north pole, rather than around it.

You can also generalize this say that within the northern hemisphere, the shortest path between two points will curve (when viewed on a flat map) towards the north pole.
Thus far only a couple of the French next gen builds have been built in France. During the Messmer plan, dozens of the same design were built. The fact that the former is more expensive than the latter isn't contradicting the claim that serial production is cheaper than one-off production.
Me reading the comments... So that's how Sweden must have felt a decade ago.
Pretty sure you can turn natural gas on and off to some degree to back the solar, that's part of why everyone likes it so much.
I'm old and I love the Carhartt tee shirts I bought a few years ago...thick cotton, softened through wear and washing, the best shirts I've ever owned. These kids have good taste.
Bean Machine retrospective
Visual Studio is right there. A lot of the features you love about VSCode are present in Visual Studio. But Visual Studio is a much more robust piece of software.

So while VSCode is nice, it's not even the most impressive piece of software bearing the Visual Studio branding.
Client side include feature for HTML
100% recommend listening, I love Hania Rani and only stumbled upon her work by chance after really enjoying Nils Frahm for years.

Give it a listen. And then check out Agnes Obel.
What is a sign that someone is intelligent?
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This is indistinguishable from
psychotherapy nonsense, palm-reading, soothsaying, entrail evaluation. There is zero factual basis for this “assessment,” and if you believe there is and buy into this, then you are only fooling yourself.
"The US has not taken steps to adopt the rules so far, despite Ms Yellen's championship of the plan."

Lol, obviously. Cheering them on as they shoot themselves in the foot
> As pointed out in the article, the nesting syntax has to work in every setting that CSS works in today and has always worked in—from a hobbyist working alone on a side project to teams working on huge code bases and everything in between.

Yeah, and I’m saying it shouldn’t work anywhere at all.

> Because of the universality of the web, anyone from a kid in a developing country with a netbook and a text editor to teams at Fortune 500 companies need to be able to author CSS.

Compiling messy unoptimized code into efficient code is somehow bad for kids with netbooks? I don’t follow.

> It's a non-starter to require all kinds of tooling—preprocessors, compilers, task runners, packagers, etc. to create web content. You can use these tools if it makes sense for a particular situation but it should always be optional.

Why? So the whole modern world should be stuck with outdated decisions from 1980s and be horribly inefficient because there is one kid in Djibouti who can’t download VSCode and learn to click F5 to compile things?

> BTW, browsers already use Just In Time compilers [1] to render CSS as efficiently as possible; all of the tooling you mentioned is mostly to reduce the size of CSS payloads over a network. Regardless if you minify CSS or not, its rendering speed isn't going to change.

Yet they are still unable to implement Sass syntax. So why not just get rid of this fundamental limitation that just makes no sense and that barely made sense even 10 years ago?
> the new system is too generic and insufficiently close to the original program

I may have been unclear, but this was the scenario I was describing. The need for a bug-for-bug re-implementation is a special case where the acceptable deviation from the original program is quite low.
GPS tracking on his plane is public information. So you can spin this shit any way you want but you are just wrong.

>up to-the-minute location information on him and his family

Nice exaggeration- you make it sound as if people are posting his real-time location at every moment from his phone or something.

All the plane info tells you is where he is in the sky, and then basically what city he landed into.
> Awesome. I have probably dozens of posts over the years about why one would choose Oracle, so I won't rehash it all right here, but I'll link some relevant ones

Unfortunately Oracle has become far to aggressive in lawsuit for a lot folks like me to ever be comfortable building anything with their products. Same for SalesForce, I just killed a project that we wasted $200k on but we'll save a lot more killing it rather than becoming dependent on SF next year. Oracle gets you over barrel, then charges you through the nose when they know you're in too deep to move. Their products are great, but the companies themselves are too dangerous to work with.
Why you want to create a twitter alternative?
Part of it is the binary config nature of Regedit though. I can't, from first or second principles, reason about which binary key to flip in order to change the behavior I'm looking for. Was it HKLM/ffebdcaaf, or HKLM/afbedccfh? Meanwhile if, eg dns got broken on my Linux box, there's a series of config files and daemons to check in order to figure out what's broken and then to get it working again. There's no way to learn anything with Regedit other than knowing you can just Google for the name of the key to set by looking up the problem.
I started using linux in 1996.
I've had a mac since 2010 - it just works, while my sound card would randomly stop working (pulse audio, whatever, I don't care anymore), and I even had to manually patch the alsa drivers manually (and write the patch) .
I wish I could use Linux reliably for anything else than a terminal (and I do use it everyday at the office in a terminal ) , but it's just never worked well for me, in spite of my wanting it to work.

I'm a bit sad about
Mthe whole thing : I want it to work, but it doesn't. I don't have the time to waste yet another linux evening, yet I can't resent the people who work on it for free, and understand very well that it works for some people.
I mean, I have a hard time finding issues with 24h or 7 days delayed journalism for small news. If you’re covering war, or the government, or something of public utility I can understand a live coverage tho
Ironic as it sounds, nuclear weapons in many ways have far shorter-term impacts than nuclear reactors.

The Little Boy (Hiroshima) bomb contained 64 kg of highly-refined uranium, of which less than 1 kg fissioned, the remainder being vapourised in the ensuing blast and distributed over a wide area. That dispersal in large part reduces the risk of radioactivity as it is so highly diluted. The rule of thumb for nuclear blasts is the "seven-ten rule": every sevenfold increase in hours from the blast reduces residual radiation by a factor of 10. That rule-of-thumb is an approximation, but with nearly 7^7 hours since the blast, radiation by that rule would be one ten-millionth the level 1 hour following the blast.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout#The_seven-ten_...>

Chernobyl put 400 times more radioactive material into the atmosphere than the Hiroshima bomb:

<https://www.scifacts.net/earth/chernobyl-400-times-more-radi...>

It's also worth noting that Chernobyl, and several other presently-operating nuclear power plants are in the middle of a war zone and have been the site of active fighting, bombardment, and missile strikes.

I don't find a figure for the mass of the Elephant's Foot at Chernobyl, though it's clearly many tonnes of matter.

In the case of Fukushima, the total reactor core and fuel waste on site is measured in hundreds of tonnes, with 560 tonnes of reactor fuel, from melted-down reactors, on site.

<https://www.citizen.org/news/how-much-radioactive-material-i...>

(There's another 680 tonnes of spent waste fuel, presumably in containment, on site. I'm excluding that from this discussion as that happens to be a managed waste stream.)

The immediate vicinity of both Chernobyl and Fukushima will in fact be uninhabitable and restricted for at least many centuries, if not thousands of years.
> What is the chance of Google cancelling my other account,

> since it was on the same card?

Quite high. Majority of companies have this automated.
By the time we cover all the daytime load with solar, they will probably have better batteries though.
I held out on this after a factory wipe on my phone invalidated my authenticator keys. The IT guy ended up using his own phone because cheapskate companies won't pay for real security.
Bigger tax for bigger business. Fair enough.
Hopefully the team that brought us “Foundation” has nothing to do with it. Their adaptation is unrecognizable.
I kind of feel like there’s more replies that can be distilled down to “If you prefer anything over Linux for any reason you’re just dumb”, honestly.
hopefully it will not be heavily censored and ended up being extreme boring.
I'm mumbling into the abyss here, but it would be better if somebody wrote a new story as good as Neuromancer was and developed that into a show instead. There are talented and creative people out there who could imagine new things rather than spending their careers working on existing IP because it's believed to be a safer marketing strategy.

Believing that only sequels, remakes, and adaptations are safe is ironic, because at some point all of the things you think you have to remake were new, unproven ideas.
https://m.economictimes.com/industry/services/property-/-cst...

Meanwhile WeWork seems to be thriving in India. They have a large number of locations in bangalore. Each one of them is reasonably priced, adequately appointed in amenities, and generally pleasant to work out of.

I wonder what's the difference between the operations (India vs USA) that led to such a vast gap in outcomes.
Building Resilient Organizations
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There is always a little that drains in... Often these tests are done on river water too.

And PCR tests are super sensitive.
I don't know what GP meant about "most places", but I guess generally places that have a winter (away from the tropics, that is) are cloudier in the winter, as well as by definition having lower solar irradiation. Most of Europe is in the unenviable position of having higher power requirements precisely when solar potential is at the lowest[0].

[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Typical-winter-and-summe...
The submission queue is fickle.
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Amazon is also making a Warhammer 40k series:

https://www.ign.com/articles/warhammer-40000-amazon-studios-...

Henry Cavill is apparently a fan is helping make it.
That's why most great innovations happen during or just after wars. Bureaucracy stifles everything. It would be nice if we could fix this without having a war.
Very cool, I was watching Johnny Mnemonic recently and lamenting that Gibson's stories have never really been given a fair chance on film/tv. Mnemonic is worth a rewatch and IMHO has actually improved with age now that you can look back at some of the effects and such as retro 90s nostalgia. I'm looking forward to see what Apple does for Neuromancer.
an eighty year old in either place may rarely talk to anyone, while a commuting Dad with kids in pre-school may get involuntarily exposed every single week. There is some truth to geographic locality for disease, but there is also Car Culture in the USA.
> Yes I know farmers use it for crop dusting.

In this context that takes on a very different meaning. I wonder how much lead is directly from crop dusting. Avgas is ~1g/liter of lead and 100LL is 0.5g/liter. A small plane burns ~50 liters per hour.
Not for almost 20 years. HIGP/SOEST used SunOS.
Not really... You don't wanna be that person talking on the phone all day. It's not good for you or the others around you trying to focus.

In a library being on a meeting flat out doesn't work
> its odd to me that the market can arbitrarily decide not to fill a sale at a listed price.

You might be misinterpreting what the "listed price" actually is on a stock market. Prices that you see quoted are generally not prices that somebody is offering to sell at; they are the price that the last sale was made at. But that sale has already executed, so you cannot infer that there is someone else still willing to sell at that price. The only way to find out for sure what is available at what price is to place a buy order, and your buy order is not guaranteed to execute immediately because there might not be a matching sell order in the order book; it is not even guaranteed to execute as soon as there is a single matching sell order in the order book. It depends on the type of order and the exchange it is placed on and how orders and trades are reconciled. It's not like going into a store and taking an item to the cashier and buying it at the advertised price.
Linette Lopez, a reporter at Business Insider, has been suspended from Twitter
> Linette Lopez, a reporter at Business Insider who published important investigations of Tesla and has covered Musk for years, has been suspended.

I've seen others saying she tweeted nothing about elonjet at all. Tough to validate these things reliably once the accounts are suspended though.
Coinbase loses bid to force Dogecoin sweepstakes case into arbitration
Reading the article I feel alarmed. It makes me want to doom scroll piratewires. It is like they are trying to manipulate me into habitually reading their site. Of course they don't have their own agenda - only Twitter does that.
I agree. I'm Team Smartphone, but those who want and can do without have my admiration.