jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The wirecutter recommends filters which are ANSI/NSF certified to remove these chemicals:

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-under-sink-w...

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-faucet-water...

I have the Aquasana AQ-5300+ but the filters are expensive. It’s currently $75 to replace them and they last about six months.

The convenience of a sink mounted filter is nice however.
Technical sections seem like precisely the place where concentration is important and the reader doesn’t want to be distracted.

If you feel the reader doesn’t want to read technical content, omit it. Make it collapsible or give a link to jump over it. Or just put it on a different page. The web permits things that print does not.

It’s weird to be apologizing for your content and your choice of document structure by scrambling it up with pull quotes because “it gets better, I swear.”
Anyone familiar enough with the language to figure out what happened to Gandalf in Part 2? They have him crossing the bridge, there's a spooky tunnel, there's a lot of talk from Scarface (Aragorn?) and some of the hobbits cry. But there's no Balrog!
I mean the platforms all laid out rules about what you were allowed to do, bent over backwards to allow politicians to ignore them, and then finally actually enforced them after innumerable warnings.

No one was forced to make baseless attacks on the election. No one was forced to support an attempted coup.
I tend to view challenges like this as the songwriting version of doing "freewriting" as an author. The purpose isn't to write perfect songs that you would want to commercially release. The purpose is to get out of the "perfection" mindset and just write anything without judgement.

One of the primary ways to get better at songwriting is to write a ton of songs. Challenges like this help you do that. The best part about writing a ton of songs is that when you decide you want to truly release something, you have an arsenal of songs to choose from.

If you feel too much pressure to do an entire album in 24 hours, then make your own challenge. Write a new song every day for a month and see how your songwriting skills improve. Or maybe just write and record one song in 24 hours. Make the challenge work for you, stretch your skills, and utilize Parkinson's law to actually complete something. The majority of amateur musicians that I know (myself included) rarely finish songs, and that is what makes these challenges useful.
I totally agree with 1 & 2 as being major differentiators in any EV discussion.

I owned a Nissan Leaf gen1 and it was painful. It was about 2.5yo when I purchased it, and it claimed nearly 50mi range according to the range estimator (famously called the guesstimator in leaf community). Within about 6 months it fell to barely 40mi range on a good day. My wife hated to drive it due to range anxiety, and more than once I ended up sitting outside a restaurant using either 120v and a beefy extension cord or when lucky a hotel using their complementary Level 2 charger.

That feeling has completely flipped with our Chevy Volt. We usually last weeks or more on a tank of gasoline, thanks to much more reliable 50mi range of the Volt. Compared to the Nissan Leaf gen1, my Gen2 Volt has a highly accurate range meter. And if I'm at risk of depleting my electric range, I can still drive on gas until I can charge up, with no risk/concern for the EV systems.

I wish 5 was less of a concern than it currently is. While I applaud Tesla for it's initiative concerning wide availability of a charging infrastructure, I wish they wouldn't have created an incompatible charging infrastructure.

For the most part, the North American EV industry has a rather cross-compatible charging port, the SAE J1772. I believe this is equally common in Europe, but I haven't kept up with that. Functionally, the Tesla charger operates very similarly, except they use an auth handshake to enable charging for Tesla vehicles. This means that while Tesla vehicles can take advantage of non-Tesla infrastructure, it's harder for those with non-Tesla vehicles to make use of Tesla infrastructure, though I can understand why they made that choice as a company.

I think the best result we could hope for would be a solid and standardized federal infrastructure with some kind of point-of-use charging system. Ideally, something like a gas station for charging, where you can pay at the pump without need for registration or signup. I've tried once or twice to 'pay at the pump' with these privately owned charging kiosks and each time was unable to get to the point of charging due to network issues and/or being unable to register, which does not help with range anxiety in any way.
This is the single most awful web experience I had in my life.

I'd look at the comment above as complement, now you know what not to do (:
There definitely is. I'm not sure if that was the case with Feynman, but he sure did produce some great work during this era.

I used to be like that when I was in my 20s, but as I get older if I get depressed it significantly reduces my productivity.
> We need to take some back, lest the rich and powerful run away from one of the last forces restraining them.

What this neglects is that journalism is many times in bed literally and figuratively with the rich and powerful. Anderson Cooper of CNN is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt one of the oldest monied families in America. While Andrew Cuomo the New York governor, was doing policies that resulted in high number of elderly nursing home deaths, CNN was showing segments with him chumming with his brother CNN anchor Chris Cuomo telling each other how they loved their brother. Andrea Mitchel of NBC is married to Alan Greenspan, former head of the Federal Reserve.

Many of the high level journalists are family members of the "rich and powerful". Many of them went to the same Ivy League schools. Many times, they live in the same neighborhoods and send their kids to the same private schools.

If you expect the mainstream media or journalism to hold the rich and powerful in check, you will be just like a medieval peasant, expecting the bishops and cardinals of the Church, to hold the nobles and kings(who were often the older brothers, fathers, or uncles of these same bishops and cardinals) in check.
Knowing what is science and what is pseudoscience is a science itself. To take a trivial example, consider the climate change topic. Read a couple randomly chosen papers and if you’re unlucky, you might come out of it thinking global warming isn’t real. (Remember, papers like that do exist and although they are a minority, random number generation doesn’t know about that.) How do you know if the papers you read are a representative sample? How do you know the papers that are published are a representative sample? It boils down to some disturbing epistemological conclusions. You can use metastudies, but then the metastudies could have the same problem, or worse, might not exist. (In my experience they usually don’t.)
> The problem is when you are in the business of making predictions, if you just scream "Bear" long enough, eventually you'll be right and then you can write a book subtitled, "By the man who called the 2021 (or 2022 or 2023 or 2024 ...) stock crash" and people think you're some sort of genius.

I think the point the article is making is that successful Bears, even though they can't call the peak accurately, are able to say "I am reasonably certain that if I exit the market now and wait for the bubble to go higher and then burst, the correction will drive prices below the current high, and I will have made money overall, even though I'll miss out on the tail end of the bubble rising."

If you call the bubble too early (and if you are always screaming "Bear", you are by definition always too early) , the prices after the crash will still be higher than when you exited, you're completely screwed, and so is anyone who listened to you.

It isn't particularly difficult to say that the next crash, even if it happens a year or two from now, will probably drive the market below the current level. You would experience major FOMO by exiting now and watching the market continue to climb, but you won't actually lose money. If it happens sooner than a year from now, it will certainly dip significantly below current valuations, and you'll be ahead by quite a bit.

In this particular game of Chicken, opinions will differ as to whether it is time to lock in your gains yet, but it shouldn't be too controversial that it is definitely time to start thinking about it.

If I were currently in the market, I would keep an eye out for large and quirky M&A activity along the lines of AOL+Time-Warner. Eg. Tesla decides to buy a consumer appliance, rideshare, or financial services company. Or all of the above).
I'm sympathetic, but you have to consider free interstate travel and economies of scale.

A local or state government can't provide healthcare or a military, because then everyone else freerides. Just live in the low-tax state and move if you get sick, or bank on them if there's a threat.

Certain things depend on the feds not because they'll do it well, but because they'll do it less badly.
What do you mean by "Critical Thinking"? If something can be explicitly explained, it can be taught. But a lot of people who want "critical thinking" just seem to think "I wish people weren't stupid and would all agree with me".
Yannic Kilcher has a great video on this out already, including some thoughtful critique. https://youtu.be/rNkHjZtH0RQ

One of the things he mentioned was that they introduce this fancy alternative to BatchNorm AND come up with a fancy new architecture. The combination does really well, but it isn't clear how much of the gain is due to the new improved architecture Vs the 'adaptive gradient clipping' they introduce.
What is the cost to build power grids to support days of weather a geography doesn’t experience for decades at a time (it has been 30 years since Texas was this cold)? Would people pay more versus suffer through some power outages?
Ti and Scandium have different ride characteristics. Scandium (and aluminum) is stiffer. Ti, like steel has a little flex to it. While I honestly doubt anyone can really feel the difference, there are plenty of people who swear they can.

They've pretty much both gone out of style and largely not for the reasons this article suggest. Carbon fiber more or less took over the higher end of the bike industry. It is lighter and can be tuned for better ride characteristics than either Ti or Scandium (it can be stiffer than aluminum or or more flexible depending on layup).

Carbon is even pushing aluminum out of the mid-high end of the bike market in many places.
Hehe. I try not to jump on bandwagons and leave empty comments that say "this," but, c'mon. The NYT just did our Slate Star buddy dirty, and now they're saying they need more power. Yeah, your perspective is ... quite valid.
> I'm basically in a job that is quite important for my org, I get compliments for good job, but I hate most aspects of my daily work since the tech stack is complex and fugly

I think a lot of people can actually relate to this. IMHO, a good way to think about it is to consider that there's more granularity to work than a black-or-white "I like my job" / "I hate my job". Maybe you dislike meetings, but enjoy the feeling of triumph after fixing bugs, or maybe it's vice-versa. Maybe you enjoy helping coworkers get unstuck with your expertise despite working on a crappy stack. Maybe you take satisfaction in seeing the burndown chart go down each week, or maybe thinking about how to be a better tech interviewer is something that interests you. There's usually _something_ - even if it's a small trivial thing - that is nice about your day to day.

I often think of it in terms of parallels to meditation: honing self-awareness skills lets you realize small things that you might not have been aware of before. Walking to the supermarket might be a tiring chore, but hey look I never noticed that tree blooms beautifully in march, or hey I started to notice a small difference in my stamina, etc. You are in charge of your (limited) attention span, and you can choose to focus on the positive things - no matter how small - and let the rest naturally fall by the sidelines.
Yes, but I'm worried about the people component of my "people/tool" equation. If management sees that costly fines occur when AI is used, then maybe they'll abandon it and just use people instead.

However, if they hire a bunch of power hungry sociopaths who are very good at hiding their malicious oppression and who also bring in donuts every Thursday to stay on their bosses good side, then the situation could easily lead to worse outcomes for the people who have to deal with this system.

If we create a computer system that oppresses 1% of innocent people, then that is a problem. However, I don't consider it a win to ban the computer system and replace it with a human system that oppresses 10% of innocent people. Like, the situation isn't better because humans are oppressing humans instead of a computer doing the oppression.

That's why I was focused on management. I don't care that things are going badly for some specific technology related reason. It's management's job to fix it regardless. If management can't rely on the technology for regulatory reasons, then they might rely on people who do just as bad of a job. And hey, that scenario is even better for management because if they hire a bad actor who gets caught then that person faces the consequences and not them.
It’s for people with enough spare time. If you find yourself having to cut your work hours to the tune of $1000/mo (or more realistically, personal time that you value) to self-host some stuff compared to the time it would take to maintain non-self-hosted equivalents, then by all means, don’t – but that’s definitely not how “actual cost” works otherwise.

And two hours a month seems high.
I feel like dbus and systems built around it (i.e. Gnome) are at least a glimpse at that.
This isn't the first respiratory virus humanity has encountered that spreads through exhaled droplets, nor is it the first widespread outbreak of such a thing.

Absent evidence that a new respiratory virus that spreads through droplets is in some way different from all those past ones in a way that would make already known ways of dealing with them not applicable, you shouldn't really need to stop and do randomized trials on those past methods applied to the new virus before you put them into effect.
While the data itself would fit the description of PHI, I don't know if healthcare.gov itself qualifies since it isn't a "health care provider, health plan, public health authority, employer, life insurer, school or university, or health care clearinghouse". That doesn't mean that it's against best practices. I built an analytics platform for a project with the VA on https://catalyze.io/baas (I also work there), so their are some alternatives to analytics when HIPAA is a concern.
I believe there's more of an inverse correlation: the wealthier a population, the lower its birth rate. One-off starvation events caused by unusual weather in agricultural societies are one thing, where temporary aid would be helpful. But poverty in particular places isn't caused by a global shortage of food, but local factors such as incompetent and/or corrupt administration or culture and subsequent lack of economic development. There may not be much that a US organization could do about it.
Spokesman Aaron Albright said outside vendors "are prohibited from using information from these tools on HealthCare.gov for their companies' purposes." The government uses them to measure the performance of HealthCare.gov so consumers get "a simpler, more streamlined and intuitive experience," he added.

It's one thing to send session length, general location, usage stuff like that to see where, for example, awareness campaigns might be needed. But really:

smoker=1&parent=&pregnant=1&mec=&zip=85601&state=AZ&income=35000

That's a bit much! And I suppose DoubleClick is carefully siloing this information so it doesn't accidentally perform all kinds of analysis on it for comparison with its other huge databases? Perhaps they are barred from selling it wholesale to data brokers but I can't imagine they are unable to use it for plenty of their own purposes.
I haven't even tried the thing itself, but your website already turned me off. Now, i realize you most likely didn't realize this yourself, since Opera ASA intentionally seeded a lot of confusion and fucked over their original userbase, but please:

When you say "Opera", make it clear that you mean "Opera 15+", since Opera 15 and upwards are completely different software packages than Opera 12, share no code whatsoever, and are in fact just Chromium clones with some amount of reskinning and less than 1% of the original features of Opera 12 added.
Similar advice is at least 40 years old. You could always point people at Brooks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_pilo...

Brooks says that you should probably plan to do that. But almost nobody does.
One thing to remember is that one person's experience at a company can be vastly different than others. For example your job happiness can be either great or terrible depending on your manager.
Yes, I would call that tracking data. But unlike IP address headers, this cache contains information that is by design displayed to the user to help track their location.
I'll preface this by saying I'm largely a supporter of the referendum process in my state of California, and I would be hesitant to give up the power it has given me. That's not to say I don't see some of the big problems caused by this system, though I'm not persuaded that the author has offered very practical or substantial solutions.

"Initiatives should be far harder to introduce. They should be shorter and simpler, so that voters can actually understand them. They should state what they cost, and where that money is to come from. And, if successful, initiatives must be subject to amendment by the legislature."

I disagree that initiatives should be harder to introduce. In the last election, I had friends volunteering to collect petition signatures for the legalization of marijuana initiative, and it was a struggle to coordinate an effort large enough to collect the required signatures, testing the limits of grassroots mobilization. If such a controversial topic as marijuana legalization, with its army of local proponents in California, struggled to motivate enough people to support a ballot initiative, then I must ask how difficult it would be to organize an effort focusing on more mundane topics which may be just as critical to our fiscal situation.

I don't see how a limit on complexity could be determined or enforced, but I will agree that there is a lack of clear information on the likely ramifications of a given ballot initiative. A better solution here would be to have trusted 3rd parties providing assessments of various initiatives, perhaps a state-level equivalent to the Congressional Budget Office offering credible fiscal assessments.

One major improvement might be for initiatives to go through a process of competitive runoff selection, where petition signatories could sign on to an overarching policy goal (which is pretty much the only information they're given before signing the petition in any case), such as the legalization of marijuana, and then would be able to select from a variety of different implementations of that policy goal, with the winning implementation getting all the petition signatures.

One place I will agree with the author would be to allow our legislators a greater ability to amend these initiatives, and if we're unhappy with the way they exercise this power, we can always show them the door next election cycle (or just recall them if they really pissed us off).

I wouldn't give up my initiative power without a fight, and I am strongly encouraged that an unpopular law is only a petition and referendum away from redress. It's not for nothing that California is the R&D center of this laboratory of democracy we lovingly call the US states, with the California initiative process leading the way on many social issues, which then spread to the rest of the country. We should be careful not to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Amazon is not killing payments, just a product for payments. Eventually everything but Login and Pay with Amazon will be discontinued.
I am curious where do you get your data feed for trading. Do you pay for the data or are you using a free api? The main i reason i choose forex was due to ease of API use for data and trading.

Also follow up question, what sort of inputs are you using for training. Are you using mainly sentiment and price history or mostly technical indicators?
Sounds like they are targeting a jr programmer who learned java/c++ in school but absolutely loves python in comparison, which is easy to love coming from java or c++. Nothing wrong with that, just sounds like you are not their target for this job.
The most interesting cultural observation thats not often talked about is bare emacs and bare vi are equivalent-ish, but all the "cool" stuff in emacs is in the addons.

If you just use bare emacs you'll think its pretty boring and not see any productivity gains.

If you use a pre-packaged set for emacs, you'll be utterly overwhelmed trying to learn a million things at once. There are no pre-pack sets with just systemic improvements.

Another cultural thing is there's addons for emacs that improve everything (like helm) and addons that provide one nifty feature (like magit) and addons that are affinity specific (like clojure-mode thats of interest to clojure coders but not likely other coders). So we call them all the same thing, addon or extension or whatever, but there's 3 classes of thing with that name that differ in how you interact with them and they interact with you.

So ... my advice is install your vanilla emacs, put in the stereotypical system wide addons maybe just helm, and then add one package at a time figuring out what they do.

Aggressive-indent rather forcefully indents your code as it sees fit, which some like, others hate. Maybe a good place to start?

So projectile and helm-projectile makes opening files in the same project simple. It understands your git repos and you can open any file in that repo and a lot of other repo related stuff.

And perspective lets to segregate multiple project buffers so however unwise it is, you can work on multiple separate real world projects at the same time.

And flycheck does on the fly highlighting of errors in your code.

And magit does git inside emacs sorta

rainbow-* does colorful syntax highlighting (or drives people nuts)

yasnippet adds tab completion (so "i" "f" "tab" give you a whole if-then stanza ready for editing, depending on your language)

Trying to add all that at once would drive you nuts, so one package at a time till you feel OK with it. I still don't entirely feel OK with magit, whatever.

There's also language specific packages although cider and clojure-mode will be quite useless unless you code clojure, etc.
In the time it took him to write that post, he could have found his unterminated string and resubmitted.

I originally asked if the author is an adult, but then I decided to revisit the article and saw the link to his CV (http://ironholds.org/cv.html). I'll note that the picture he chose is himself as a small child and that he proudly notes, 'while at university I (amongst other things) occupied my time with acting as the Equality & Diversity officer for the Students' Union, and working as a political campaigner for the Liberal Democrats.'

This leads me to conclude that no, he's not an adult, self-reliant and self-actualised, but is instead still mentally a child, dependent on others for validation. I'm sure he's a very smart guy, but he has got to grow up.
Note that he used "designer time" for this.