skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately, the way we've gone about things it seems like an inevitability that a successful plastic-eating microbe would evolve. Plastics are goddamn everywhere, and they're chock full of yummy hydrocarbons. Any organism that specializes in this food source has very good prospects for thriving.

Plastics are a terrible food source for microbes. The two most common plastics polyethylene and polypropylene are just chains of C2H4 and C3H6 respectively. No nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, or any other elements necessary for life.

In a world full of carbon dioxide in the air and photosynthetic life forms, having access to yet another carbon and energy source isn’t much of an advantage except in extreme environments like hydrothermal vents.
I suspect because of the also mentioned "own goal" of eliminating nuclear power despite not having green alternatives.
I’m using my sister’s ipad and frankly the only good reason i see to get an ipad is the goodnotes app. It’s really a killer feature app.

Is there a linux equivalent of goodnotes?

Getting this tablet and running linux would be ideal as long as i could have something like goodnotes
Thanks :) I’ll post here when I have larger updates.
I have no idea. However are their examples of companies that went public where it turned out well/better for customers?

I can't name a single example.
At that point for a few generations we do only 10x centi, deci, deca and hecto.
> However, after receiving the email, we encrypt it immediately using the Proton Mail account owner’s public encryption key.

Email contents could still be siphoned, copied and shipped before the encryption process starts.

How can you clarify that does not occur between then and that?
That’s what economists do, look at numbers outside the big context that is earth
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Bit late to the thread, but for those interested I found this interview with two scientists trying to reproduce LK99 insightful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFnA8gwnLms

Lots of interesting nitty gritty details. Also raises an interesting point about how lot of labs trying to reproduce LK99 are probably not doing it correctly.
If it doubles Starlink customers and gets more high-value customers, perhaps it does.
This article is not saying anything at all. It's just a bunch of vague, loosely related complaints thrown together, as if the author built their thesis from reading reddit comments about Germany, but never stepped foot there. It's a real Gish gallop.
In some places, yeah. The UK, Hungary, Poland, all the major culturally right-wing countries geographically in Europe are certainly either equivalent to or even worse than the US when it comes to human rights for the transgender minority.
It could not.

However, a household supply could supply substantially more with smarter software. Specifically, currently we rate power supplies with a decent safety margin for worst-case conditions.

However, your '100 amp' power supply can probably supply 200 amps on a freezing cold day (which helps keep cables cool). It can probably supply more than rated if your neighbours aren't using much (since your and your neighbours power connections may share cables).

If you or your neighbours have rooftop solar, thats power going the other direction, which cancels out some power use - allowing you to charge even faster.

If software could take these factors into account, we could get a lot more power to where it needs to be. Currently rules don't allow such things though.
I love that this comes up every few years, it's really a briljant article and talk.

What is also interesting, I'm usually at a "different place" in my tech-journey, in terms of skill or philosophy every time I re-read.
I prefer MacOS as a daily driving operating system to linux or Windows for development and general computing.
China has the same demographic timebomb. China's peak labor was like in early 2010s I believe. Their birth rate has been declining the last few decades.
Did you miss the last time exactly the same company bought SUSE back in 2018 (for double its current market cap)?

EQT IPO'ed SUSE by selling a minority stake at the peak back in 2021 for €30, now they're buying it back for a little over a half of that.

I guess they feel it's undervalued and might have another got at it when/if small-mid tech company valuations recover..
I graphed it: https://rentry.co/nkrc6

There's a difference, but it's minimal. Only the initial choice has to be random. As long as you have more than one bin to pick from, you are good regardless of your strategy (random vs adjacent).
You mix up time and code. You don't have to parallelize 100% of your code to scale with cores, you only have to parallelize the code that your software spends most of its time executing and that is often significantly less than 90%.
Please give me my two seconds back. This is utter rubbish.
South Vietnam was a US ally; subject to US sponsored coups when they didn't behave and ultimately were abandonned when the cost of war got too high.
The primary issue of language is that, the large movers and shakers strictly enforce the language in upper level and so it flows down and below.

For the smaller shops who opens their doors to speaking common language(English), the quality of pay is sub-par compared to COL, so there is nothing attractive for talents to be there.
We should be thankful that Betteridge's law of headlines applies here because Germans have a historical trend of coming up with internationally unpopular policies when they feel like they're in an economic downturn.
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It's actually easy to point fingers when you're aware of the tactics used by O&G. Examples:

* They knew about climate change a long time ago, yet decided to use tobacco industry playbook rather than try to be part of the solution.

* They obfuscated plastic recycling on purpose (do you know the difference between PET-1 and PET-2, why does the plastic type symbol look exactly like the universal symbol for recycling?)

* Even more recently, they branded the term 'clean coal' and had different media outlets and politicians parrot it around.

* Established fake grassroots movements to make it look like people support whatever shit they do.

These and many other violations are discussed in the excellent YouTube channel Climate Town.

If we do quick fixes, O&G will absolutely use the opportunity to keep pushing their garbage and hinder other progress.
Perhaps. I see it differnetly. I am privileged now with my nice job, back in the day I was just a kid who was trying to become independent adult without proper guidance and support from parents.
What I wanted to say is that young adults, regardless of their parent's social and financial status, need guidance and support in order to become independent and productive members of society. I got an impression that some people think that kids whose parents are well-off or rich always get it from their parents, so they are not entitled to get it from other sources (like scholarship, discounted housing, public transit, food, cultural institutions tickets for students etc.). That is not the case.
I found the concept of Grice's Maxims the other day, and it feels very relevant. Everyone is getting triggered because this fails the maxim of relation.

>Grice's four maxims of conversation, called the Gricean maxims—quantity, quality, relation, and manner.

>Be relevant — i.e., one should ensure that all the information they provide is relevant to the current exchange; therefore omitting any irrelevant information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
Because there is still the myth that Tesla has a secret sauce in their battery chemistry, and edge, and is not just using Pana, CATL and perhaps other vendor's cells?
He objectively sucks. He's had all the time in the world to improve his technique (to be on par with an average professional drummer) but he just doesn't care. If you listen to them live you'll immediately hear that he can't even keep the time: the most basic of tasks for the amateur drummer.
Anyone in city apartments (millions/billions of people, half the world) can't do that.
V3 Superchargers are 250 kW per car with 1MW power cabinets.

The issue at the moment is that grids in a lot of places in the world can't keep up with the connection requests, and this is indeed mainly due to not being able to upgrade transmission capacity fast enough.
I’d argue you can get by with English in any bigger city and most higher ed jobs.
Terraform is dead; Long live Pulumi?
Not really. It's possible to earn a living as an English speaker.

The biggest issues are housing and the horrendously slow immigration office. Bureaucracy in general is so slow that some people give up and leave. Employers can't wait 4 months for employees to get the permission to start working. Employees get tired of waiting for weeks for every little piece of paper. It's infuriating.
Isn’t English this language? The past exists but the future barely doesn’t, there are no declinations, every noun can also be a verb. However, you have to learn every combination of “t”, “ght”, “i”, “ou” mixed up together.
I thought lithium wasn't especially valuable, especially compared to the other things that go into a battery. I'd buy that sodium is cheaper though, with the amount of sodium salts that are knocking around the economy.
Same as for Tesla then. One of Elons' many labels is being a "subsidy truffle hound".
not true. i know lots of people who came here to work and none of them speaks german beyond mere basics if at all. as a matter of fact all of them explain that this is because you get by well on english.
No, the UK is.
Yes. The modern era of history starts after 1500.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_era
>The country is majority christian and white.

the country, yes. The world demographic of people who use your product, no.

>all commercials should be christian themed and advocate for whites.

and many commercials aimed at an older audiience, e.g. cable TV, do focus on this. Are we also playing dumb on the generational gap in technology, demographics using online media, and their ideaology?
Wonder no more: https://github.com/dudykr/stc

Written in Rust by the (lead?) dev of SWC

---

SWC (speedy web compiler) compiles TS to JS

STC (speedy type checker) checks TS types
Using Munich, a city entirely non-representative of the rest of the country is a bad idea. Munich in my experience feels like a modern post—current Germany entirely.
Monadic error-handing a win-win way of doing things.

People who dislike Go complain about being forced to check for error conditions too often (likewise with Java's checked exceptions.)
Using 'Either', you're not forced into checking; you can check, or you can let the caller handle it.

People who dislike Java's unchecked Exceptions complain that there's no way of knowing what will be thrown, or when. Using 'Either', this is made explicit.

> What about when validate fails? The error is returned to the caller, which is maybe suitable. What about when update-db fails? Should there be a retry? Try another service? Requeue? Tell the user? What about if the send-email fails?

The point is - you don't know! So your approach needs to be well-suited to not knowing, which Either is.

In my current Java codebase at work, there are different ways of 'handling' errors which have built up over the years. A call to a missing 'Limit getUserLimit(User)' might:

* throw a NotFound exception
* return null
* return a default

And you can't tell without diving in and reading the code. If it had been written with Either instead:

* the caller could trust it instead, rather than reading all the code that it calls
* easily convert it to another failure condition - the Either implementation in your language will have built-ins for 'orElse(null)', or 'orElseThrow(...)'

> Should there be a retry?

Either is an expression, which lends itself well to abstraction. This means you can likely write code to retry Eithers in general, as opposed to writing retry code for specifically inside your DbUpdater.
As an immigrant (and a very well paid one paying obnoxiously high taxes), I've recommended every single person asking if they should move from India to Germany to not to. The only upgrade is in cleaner air to breathe and safety from crime. If you're in the higher earning bracket in India, then you get these there itself. So then moving to Germany from India is like stepping back into 1996.

Every single thing is so obsolete. Nothing is digitized. Everything requires a giant stack of actual paperwork to be taken to an office where the whims of the clerk dictate everything. A million rules exist in the hopes that they cover all possible scenarios, but inevitable they don't and if you happen to have a scenario which is not covered, you're shit out of luck because the clerk is sure as shit not going to put their ass on the line and make a decision not explicitly present in the rule book.

You pay through the nose for health insurance, but when you need to find a doctor, none can take you because their quota of public insurance patients is done for the quarter. If I paid the same amount in insurance in India, I'd have a helicopter flown out every time I stubbed my toe.

And then there's the wait time for everything. Appointment for visa extension: 8 months. Driving license conversion: 1 year. German exam: 5 months. What, you want the results for your exam also? Better wait another year then. Honestly Germany is a shit show, and if I hadn't already invested so much time, money and energy into this god forsaken country, I'd be out of here in a heartbeat.

But the worst part of all this is - the vast majority of Germans think this is all acceptable and okay. If you go to the /r/germany or /r/de subreddits, any thread with genuine complaints will be drowned in responses from native Germans who naively believe that Germany is a great country to live in because they either don't have these problems, or they know how to work the system and get their results. So there is no voting pressure to get things to change. So long as the omas and opas get their pension, Germany will stay as it is for ever - there is no need to change in their view.
> Mainly caused by normalizing pork price, last year it went wild due to swine flu.

Seriously? One food can cause the entire economy to slip into deflation?
So companies shouldn't be allowed to own shares of other companies?
I never ever use try/catch in my code. The only time its really necessary is to wrap JSON.parse on use of untrusted input. For everything else it just feels sloppy as through there is insufficient logic in place for handling primary conditions versus edge cases. Also, try/catch will never compile in the JIT.
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I've been looking at this for years, there are options if you have suitable hardware (there are a number of caveats). Proxmox has looked the most promising for a while.
Sounds like you're talking from first hand experience!
What seems to have been missed is that almost all large projects germany tried to push through in the past 10 years or so have turned out to be a massive fuckup. Digital drivers licence, stuttgart21, the list goes on.
It’s also how middle-class kids whose parents don’t support them in any way get financial aid.

I understand why the system is the way that it is — it covers probably 95% of cases correctly — but for those of us who were essentially on our own after 18, it’s terribly unjust.
I'd like to know why aircraft have batteries at all... When you have three huge jet engines, there should be no need for batteries on an aircraft where every kilogram saved is worth tens of thousands of dollars over the life of the plane.
This is nothing new. Fiber has been used for years in various detection systems from long perimeter fences where it will alarm for intruders trying to climb over, to downhole drilling where fiber loops detect pipe break locations in oil & gas wells. It's detecting vibration and you can get this down to within a few meters along a +/-2km run if I remember correctly.
Now Releem collects metrics from database server, suggests configuration and users could apply it manually or automatically using Releem Agent.

Please explain your needs.
So, maybe AOSP should become another Linux desktop?
You've more or less described how and why English became the lingua franca of the modern era. English can be used for basic communication satisfactorily with only a passing understanding of the language.
Other than modern day arbitrary interpretation, isn't the byzantine empire the roman empire? They were called romans by each other and their neighbors. The roman empire fell when the ottoman turks invaded.

Ship of thessius and all. The empire slowly changed in many ways but people considered it rome until the ottomans.

When did the british empire end? Or does the commonwealth count? Isn't the UK alone that same empire still, but evolved?
It's worth remembering that the first serious gil removal patch was submitted against python 1.4, so it's not like people haven't been trying. There have also been (not 100% CPython compatible) python implementations without the GIL that people have could have used, but none of them got any traction.

I suspect the negativity you're seeing comes mainly from two main sources. First people are terrified of another 2->3 situation. If removing the GIL ends up breaking any existing libraries or causing significant single-core performance degradations then that could do seriously damage to python and no one wants to go through that again.

Secondly people who have been working on this for a long time get annoyed when people make removing the GIL sound easy and imply that the only reason it hasn't been done is because the developers are lazy, incompetent or haven't thought of it. Various people have been trying for literally decades, but so far no one has managed to come up with a solution that is both backwards compatible and performant.

Everybody agrees that removing the GIL would be fantastic. However most of the core developers aren't willing to sacrifice backwards compatibility with existing code to get there.
Things will keep changing forever. I don't know why people are afraid of permanent oppression. We only know of around 10k years of society history, in a planet that has had intelligent apes for 100k years, complex ecosystems for 4b years. Even if we vanish in the next century, the overwhelming chances are that a) uncountable complex ecosystems exist right now; b) uncountable intelligent species exist right now; c) uncountable oppressive and uncountable liberal systems exist right now; d) uncountable intelligent species and complex ecosystems will vanish and emerge over the billions of years ahead.

We get too attached to what we see around us, while Hubble and JW have shown we are utterly insignificant in both time and space.
Even if you do speak German, it's horrendously slow. You can't sit idle for months because this or that office has no appointments to do this or that thing.

Things that can be done online elsewhere must be done in person, by appointment. The appointments are hard to get, come weeks later, and only trigger a 2-8 week wait.

Language is just icing on the cake.
Expectations of comfort are always changing. Humans are a competitive species.

If the expectation for quality of life for the vast majority is living off of 1 income household, then that is an acceptable quality of life. If that expectation for the vast majority changes to quality of life by living off of 2 income households, then a quality of life from a 1 income household is no longer sufficient.

Also, expectations of work itself change. It could be possible that a sufficiently large portion of the population is simply unwilling to change bedpans for a price close to what old people themselves can afford (even if the cost is implicit from getting services from a family member). In this case, it becomes a political issue of how to allocate labor, i.e. who to tax, how much to tax them, and who gets the benefits of government spending.
Are you summoning Godwin here?
Wouldn't be a terrible idea given the long-term benefit to society at large of having young, healthy, educated adults. A relative shortage of them is a serious concern for a number of societies around the world.
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> The potential to export costs to python developers might be measured in percentage of GDP.

Of course, that's also true of the benefits.
Also, car commuters have greatly benefited from lots of public property dedicated to vehicles, and from private property, especially property owned by minorities, converted via eminent domain to support car commuters.
Possibly written by shiba inus?
Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy
The first time it happens, you can call it a mistake. But second, third? Is int't it obvious that, seeing this trend, you should calculate the risk and factor in the land cost increase when pricing your offer?
Isn't just using other vendors cells an understatement? Tesla and Panasonic jointly develop and manufacturer cells.
> a series of reforms in the early 2000s ushered in a golden age

Who did the reforms? -- Cabinet Schröder.

Who did nothing since then? -- Cabinet Merkel.
Because children can not give informed consent. It is that simple.
That's naive. Such leaks are typically planned PR. I expect it is leading to another round of fund raising. They are described as a money incinerator that has already run through the alphabet of rounds. They want to counter that without putting anything on the record because... well, you can guess why.
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This is the asymmetric nature of people. The needs/wants of today out rule those of tomorrow even if it means making tomorrow worse.

It is not set in stone but it is very prevalent in our societies nowadays.
That number doesn't lead precisely to your conclusion, it can be higher or lower.

Current US stats are 14.04/100k, with men 3.9x more likely than women.

As the following example doesn't depend on the actual numbers, let's eyeball that and imprecisely say the married women's suicide rate was 5/100k before and 4/100k after: this is a 20% reduction, but I don't even need to look up marriage rates for it to be clear that nowhere near 20% of all marriages end in suicide.

In the other direction, suicide isn't and never was the only was out of abusive relationships. It's a desperate path for very extreme situations, and the divorce rate being much higher than 20% means there may be a correspondingly higher abuse rate.
I’m not clear on the benefits of this proposal over just using anonymous functions. Some of the examples just seem contrived.

And the React example makes no sense, you can use a ternary and it is even shorter.

```
return (
<nav>
<Home />
{loggedIn
? <LogoutButton />
: <LoginButton />
}
</nav>
)
```
So I guess removing legal content you don't agree with is okay. Which, I mean, it is, but I just want people to understand the 'new Twitter' isn't as high on 'free speech' as they sell themselves. They banned an account just because they disagreed on their politics (and the motivation was a deleted tweet from 2013 apparently).

The ban wasn't regretful nor necessary, and why should I condemn anyone? I understand why Elon don't like anti-corporate discourse and why it bans it from his platform. I have trouble understanding that he apparently rescinded a ban of someone who posted CP, but at least he's coherent.
Why Japan has so many ‘never travelers’
Uh hu big thing. Hint: if you want to live in a different country, you should at least try to somewhat adapt the official language spoken, and also somewhat have a sweet spot for its culture. Otherwise, you are mostly just coming for economic reasons, and countries don't need that.

As someone else complained beforehand: the public health system is already strained, the influx of illegals, refugees and other immigrants didn't help the situation - what where people expecting?