IngvarLynn

I'm all for EVs, but half of PM10 pollution is independent of engine type as it comes from brake and tire wear: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JR...

So direct environment impact is still huge for EVs and calling them ZEV is literally a scam.

Can't find the following argument in the replies: respect your visitors by not showing cloudflare's spinners and other bs in their faces.

If your site is static, a VPS would carry it a long way. I once hosted a tiny video site - 500 daily visitors, 100GB, 10$/month. Worked better than youtube, 0 issues.

relevant xkcd not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreev_Bay_nuclear_accident#A...

I've experienced something similar and I believe D3 is not to blame.

I took 5k iu oil softgels and got a unique and indescribable BAD feeling. It crept up very gradually over the course of a month and a half and I had a hard time realizing what was happening. It took me over a month to recover after I stopped.

Another time I've taken 2k iu dry D3 and had zero side-effects.

A couple of years after that D3 mishap, I tried some omega-3 and after a two weeks I realized that that unique bad feeling was making a comeback.

Again, another time I tried a different brand of omega-3 I had no side-effects.

I have a bunch of food sensitivities. So I believe that was a reaction to some contaminants in the oil.

25 an hour - the bottom decile wage for software engineering

You should be aware that most software engineers in the world live outside of US. Most of them make less than that. But that's just nitpicking.

The problem with your logic is that you suggest to feed the beast that will devour you whole. Youtube is involved in multiple planetary-scale propaganda campaigns.

There is a flood of fake SSDs currently, mostly big brands. I've recently purchased counterfeit 1TB. It passes all the tests, performance is ok, it works... except it gets episodes where ioping would be anything between 0.7 ms and 15 seconds, that is under zero load. And these are quality fakes from a physical appearance perspective. The only way I could tell mine was fake is that the official Kingston firmware update tool would not recognize this drive.

It could've been funny, but every second of this video reminds me of my own experiences of dealing with the government services.

There is definitely an abundance of low-skill jobs... so far.

So the choice is between different shops, not about homelesness.

Reason 10001 to abolish taxes.

Double bollocks.

First, you're striping agency from those workers blaming abstract society instead. There is no such thing as "collective guilt". Those particular workers are free to leave such an unsafe industry at any moment, probably even more free than, say, smokers who choose death from respiratory complications. I have exactly zero empathy for either. True that sometimes workers are not exactly free to leave the job and coerced into insane working conditions, e.g. the curse of russian monotowns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwzP-zr0S0c . That is definitely not the case for california though.

Second, your interpretation of the book is not right. Works of Pelevin, just as many other great writers, are not exactly fiction, but a compilation of a real life contemporary trends distorted by weird observation angle and grotesque style. The core theme of Omon Ra is very basic: government brainwashes people to be literal disposable cogs. AFAIR the book does not reference "society" in any way. I've read the book over 20 years ago though. One great thing about Pelevin is that he definitely had access to people of highest power at some point (early 00's at least) and translated their completely crazy worldviews into his books.

In my experience shrinkflated products already use inferior ingredients, so it's a very useful signal that should be boosted, not eliminated. So putting a warning is a good thing, but shaming is not.

To develop the idea further, most grocery shopping should move online, so I could trivially filter out products with shrinkflated packaging, containing palm oil, nestle brands, etc.

This proof of work doesn't mean crypto currency

Well, yes, I should've said 30 years, not 10.

You can start educating yourself on cryptocurrencies with the monero case: monero payments were used instead of captcha on an internet forum about 10 years ago.

You're trying to solve a straightforward engineering problem with an unfit solution to an ill-defined problem. The solution of sybil problem would not solve the case of coordinated attack by multiple nefarious agents. You can also call this meat botnet owned by master-coordinator. The solution would distinguish this from a normal botnet but in the end your service down in the very same manner and clients gave up most of their privacy for nothing.

Imagine instead the following trivial scheme: instead of burning resources the client would pay to be served in reverse order of payment value. Let's say client is willing to pay 1 cent to be served in the next 10 seconds. The attacker would have to pay more as he have to occupy the whole head of this queue all the time to be successful. Let's say server can process 100 rps - now he's making over a dollar per second, which he can use to scale his serving capacity.

modeling it after a general cryptocurrency is probably a bad idea

Not modelling after but integrating of an existing one. Because this saves massive amount of engineering effort.

rising prices may prevent legitimate clients from being able to connect to onion services due to the challenge being too expensive

Obviously, the price for legitimate clients would be much cheaper, as their requests shall be placed in the middle of priority queue (clients can wait a few seconds) while the attacker have to occupy the very top of this queue all the time. Also note that the bigger the DDoS in this scheme - the bigger profits server could make, which he could spend on expanding capacity.

each visitor contribute to a partial solution that can then be combined to derive funds

This scheme predates monero, which was about 10 years ago.

the next generation learns from our senseless technology-burnings.

Not if they would reinvent the wheel each time instead of adapting of existing tech to current needs.

And why do we need this assumption exactly?

DDoS has nothing to do with sybil attacks. DoS happens because limited resource (connection initiation) is provided for free.

They chose memory-hungry algorithm because that would prevent use of specific hardware (ASICs).

It's a shame that Torproject has decided to reinvent its own wheel, lagging 10 years behind the crypto crowd, instead of integrating with existing coin(s).

The problem is, such integration would require the chosen coin to be anonymous, which is essentially forbidden: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23843161/tornado-cash-ind...

AI hacked nothing. We've been doing it to ourselves for ages. This is just another way of doing it

except much more effective.

Humanity barely managed to get over (if so) previous mind-viruses like bible and communism. Partially because of massive discussion around these topics. With current LLMs (not future superhuman AGI) it's possible to spoon-fed a personally tailored mind-virus to each internet user. And there would be no discussion just because every instance is so original. (In practice it's often enough to just rename all the keywords, as proven by numerous psycho/business-cource gurus.)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366308

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.

Assuming 3 backslashes per iteration, one iteration per second - it would take 16 years to get to 1.5GB. This code problem looks deeper to me.

The very first article I clicked is "analysis" of Levada polls. This is pure garbage. In the land where all sorts of police get involved over child's drawing the phone poll has value just above zero.

I am yet to see any former kremlin official which public activity could not be classified as whitewashing.

Algorithm exists and is non-trivial, therefore it favors those groups of posters that spend more effort to hack it.

Not an escalation of course.

Bullying 101: maximize damage (emotional or physical) while remaining technically not liable. To increase damage further ramp up the frequency of such incidents. If other side retaliates - make them liable.

My tangential hypothesis is: the virus was intentionally leaked prematurely to vaccinate humanity from real bio-weapon it would be developed into.

The whole point of the movie is to show that part of soviet union that is not covered by historical facts. So most of it is a fiction but a very realistic one and intentionally so.

But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci.

Reminds me stories about school of fish following robot: https://newatlas.com/robofish-leeds-univiersity/15588/ or lobotomized fish (this looks more like anecdote than real research, i could not find the source).

Perhaps it is impossible to distinguish stupid boldness from real vision without complex communication.

I challenge you to discover Russel's teapot.

The real reason why these topics met is that Andrew Ng is a prominent politician.

See also: reversal of siberian rivers, aral sea obliteration.