jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
watts is a measure of power. The often confused "kilowatt hour" is a measure of energy and would indeed need the time "/second" (or other time unit) added. But I am working in power here.

would we not be able to take only a portion of that sunlight and concentrate it over time to get the same effect

Yes! We went the same way here. I replied to the parent comment with a description of a temporal light concentrator.

I've never heard of such a device, maybe people that know the name of them can order them from a catalog, but it is an intriguing solution because it solves the "massive collector" problem as well as the "holy sh*t! what am I going to do with all this waste heat!" problem.

It's also possible that people more comfortable with light as a wave spit coffee out of their nose and had a good laugh when they read it.
> While it is possible to overemphasize memorization and rote practice, the pendulum has certainly swung too far the other direction

Throughout my grade school and high school years (born mid-80s, Canadian), near everything was memorization. Memorize multiplication tables instead of learn to do arbitrary multiplications quickly. Memorize your table of elements instead of emphasis on what it means. Memorize how to find the roots of a quadratic function, the rules for arithmetic with fractions, physics equations... (I'm pretty bad at memorizing, so this doubly infuriated me because I had to look for the underlying relationships to do well). Even after my province introduced a new curriculum which was supposed to stop all that and focus away from memorization.

Anecdotally, this is only slowly changing if at all, as new teachers come in and old ones who won't give up on rote memorization retire. I know this is all just anecdotal, but in my (ongoing) university education, I still see a lot of students put their emphasis on memorization, which suggests to me that they were taught that is what it means to 'learn.'
Not over Android, over the look of their OS and devices.

Apple do have the copyrights over their iOS and their iPhone designs. Samsung devices and their OS do look like iOS/iPhone, and thus the lawsuit.
I like how the article says you can refer yourself and get the money, and the author goes on to say, hey hit me up and ill refer you and we split the money.... Really, why would I do that honestly; if I am qualified for the position?
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paying Dropbox customer here, I wouldn't call the features "unparalleled". SugarSync offers more, and for slightly less: https://www.sugarsync.com/sync_comparison.html

...or so I'm assuming. I never tried it because last time I checked they require a credit card for a free trial.
I think you meant 'isn't', and we're in agreement. It is just that it has some of the same effects.
Also, that NASA article is from 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20101013052045/https://www.nasa....

I have to imagine that with the advent of reusable launch vehicles, even NASA has to be a bit more optimistic about future launch costs now than they were 9 years ago.
Oh I agree with you 100%, it's just that this copy has gone through various iterations, and you need to step back once in a while and read all of it to see if it blends together well, which I haven't done in a while.

I, too, dislike people who try to be funny by cursing, because it feels facile. I just read the copy again now and there were a few cases where the cursing felt gratuitous, rather than for a specific effect, so I have changed those.
Can you give some examples where those "truths" have been downvoted?
Actually, they do try to match you on attractiveness. Also how much you swipe. If you swipe to like every profile you get different results.
yeah i wanna know..
What is there besides sessions?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but how does this help in the case of a compromised token? Doesn't this assume the attacker hasn't also compromised the refresh token?

Presumably, the token and refresh token are both stored in the client-side app. If that gets compromised, the attacker now has the username/password combo they need to restore the session after the T+5mins has expired.
> How do you think someone in Cyprus, Zimbabwe or Venezuela would feel about your statement saying to trust the banks?

Someone from Zimbabwe here - I endorse their statement: trust the banks. I lost my money to a bank closure in early 00s, eventually got some of it back from the zombie entity that the central bank resuscitated. The CEO of a Zimbabwean crypto-exchange[1] "lost the password" of a cold wallet (wink) a year ago - the deposits therein were lost with no recourse; the exchange is struggling with solvency[2]. So yeah, if you're not going to stuff money under your mattress, give it to a bank before going full crypto.

1. Golix - you might have heard of it as it was offering the world's highest USD:bitcoin rates. The fine print was that you couldn't get USD out of Zimbabwe

2. https://cointelegraph.com/news/ceo-of-zimbabwean-crypto-exch...
Jeez, kids have no patience these days.
Do I have a skewed mindset around this?

Every expense is a required expense. Every expense is looked at to be minimized. They're going to run with the fewest, cheapest developers as they think they can get away with to deliver what they want to deliver on the schedule they want to deliver it. It doesn't always work like that, over time bloat accumulates leading to restructuring/layoffs. This is so standard that exceptions are notable (20% time, skunkworks, etc...)
So the author hasn't even used Slack but assumes that a web version of WhatsApp will be its equivalent?

Slack is already more expensive than HipChat, Campfire, IRC, yet it is dominating those, why? Because it's worth it. The implementation and UX for company teams (especially technical teams) is so far beyond what other apps offer that the cost is a minor bullet point.

WhatsApp is great as a personal instant messenger, but for them to be better than Slack at what Slack does they would have to design for two radically different use cases, and the result would almost assuredly be mediocrity.
Hi, I know people have sold my company's shares on the secondary market before. Is there a way to find out the selling price?
>we focused all our energy on landing new, hungry grads out of high-caliber universities like Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA and more — with preference to athletes and others who had demonstrated grit and success on a team.

All they did was replicate the Financial Industry model. Goldman et al. do exactly this, nothing new or hacker about that at all.
"Imagine you are a hiring manager at Lockheed Martin".

I'd say walking away from that job might be the best option. You're not part of the mil/industry complex any longer, you sleep better after the next drone bombing of civilians, based on intel received from RQ-170 or similar.

Folks from LM should all walk away.

Thank you.
"The opportunity is risky to be sure, only for educated investors as ready and able to lose money as to make money."

That's bullshit. We let poor people gamble and they aren't "ready and able" to lose anything.

The laws around accredited investing are a disgusting example of how the 1% legally entitle themselves to opportunities while excluding the other 99%.
This is pretty clever. Where is your database of UPCs coming from?
Don't forget to put them in the Internet Archive!
MORPHEUS: For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living -

NEO (politely): Excuse me, please.

MORPHEUS: Yes, Neo?

NEO: I've kept quiet for as long as I could, but I feel a certain need to speak up at this point. The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. The efficiency of a power plant at converting thermal energy into electricity decreases as you run the turbines at lower temperatures. If you had any sort of food humans could eat, it would be more efficient to burn it in a furnace than feed it to humans. And now you're telling me that their food is the bodies of the dead, fed to the living? Haven't you ever heard of the laws of thermodynamics?

MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?

NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics!

MORPHEUS: Where did you go to high school, Neo?

(Pause.)

NEO: ...in the Matrix.

MORPHEUS: The machines tell elegant lies.

(Pause.)

NEO (in a small voice): Could I please have a real physics textbook?

MORPHEUS: There is no such thing, Neo. The universe doesn't run on math.

(http://hpmor.com/chapter/64)
The target candidate for these startups largely doesn't exist. Most folks accepting such a salary in the Bay Area are recently out of college and living in small apartments with roommates.

When it's all said and done, most of these startups will settle for a few offshore contractors or hire remote people who live in cheaper parts of the country where $90K goes a lot further.

The tried and true "solution" to this problem is to import a number of H1b visa holders from other countries who are willing to work for the lower salaries and accept the lifestyle choices that it imposes in the Bay Area. For many of them, $90K in the Valley is still an upgrade from where they are coming from.

For those of us with a decade or more of experience, it's best to focus on the post Series A startups that have the money to pay. However, many of these jobs involve cleaning up code written by those inexperienced folks who accepted less pay in the early days.
Your comment has that weird Euro-omniscient voice I usually see on Reddit.

I'm Norwegian, have lived all over the world, and currently live in Prague. Produce has looked the exact same to me everywhere from Whole Foods to Walmart to Lidl to Tesco to the small corner market down the street.
I would, yeah.

To put a dollar value on it? Maybe 25%-50% more than I'd need to work at a similar company with working environment that encourages calm and focus. And I'd be perpetually ready to jump ship to another company with such an environment. I also wouldn't be nearly as productive as I could be otherwise.

Those three things all have dollar values attached - in the tens of thousands of dollars, each.
Houellebecq:

~~~
De jeunes bourgeoises circulent entre les rayonnages
du Monoprix, élégantes et sexuelles comme des oies.
Il y a probablement des hommes, aussi; je m'en fiche
pas mal. On a beau ne plus imaginer de mots possibles
entre soi et le reste de l'humanité, le vagin reste
une ouverture.
~~~
Never used but solr is also boring and good.
Thank you - hope the course helps you. The reframing into product focus has been a life changer for me. (And I say that as a YC alumni)
I love how $100 billion companies with a hair (~11%) shy pf a billion - a billion users, active, d-a-i-l-y and run by 9,199 employees (for a company value of $1 million per empoyee down to every last employee including someone taking out the trash, and likewise meaning each and every last employee has whole army divisions, a hundred thousand users, they account for --) - suddenly doesn't know as much - to an OFFENSIVE extent - about productivity as someone who has time to post 5 paragraphs about it. There is someonething offensive here indeed.

* 3-4 month old figures: http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/
I don’t want to work with Indian-origin people unless they live in the USA AND have worked with colleagues that I trust and they give them their stamp of approval.

Language barrier, working hours, the fact that I need to ask and ask and ask instead of them speaking up on their own are all reasons that don’t help with the value they add vs my additional cost.
You mean your antibacterial salve did!

Don't let people with a bandaid on their hand work on your computer, they might just have Neosporin in there!
I was just wondering how did you deal with other senior team members that still stayed back. Hope there was no bad blood. I am curious as it seems you leaving would have been a big blow to them and they could have reacted a little adversely maybe out of self-interest...
No offense, but the book you mentioned is a case study in selection and survivorship bias. They interviewed 350 millionaires (out of how many millions that live in the US?) and prescribed spending and living habits based on those millionaires' responses. What happened to all of the people who invested, worked, and lived exactly like the millionaires who never accumulated a million dollars? Or bet on the wrong housing market and went bankrupt?

Spend less money, save more money -- all fine advice, but the average $40k/year individual can't possibly become "a millionaire" in any sense of the real value of a million dollars. Ignoring inflation then showing $1,000,001 in a bank account in 40 years doesn't really count.

As a general rule, pop culture personal finance books exist to make the authors wealthy -- not the readers.
OP here, this is a set of scripts to run in a new VPS, to install some basic stuff that you'll need on every server, to create a new user with sudo powers, to disable root admin, install etckeeper, install and setup ufw firewall and then, as a user, somesupercharging like zsh with presto, clones your dotfiles, tmux... Finally a set of optional scripts to install additional software which doesn't install with a line-liner (apt-get install) but requires some combination of download, untar, compile (cmake or ./configure, make, make install...), or add a new repo and download...

Both suggestions to improve and pull requests are welcome.
I had a problem displaying the page in Chrome Beta on Android. Most of the page was blurry and I couldn't read past two or three screens of the article, it just turned into a scrolling black field. Haven't seen that before...
Location: Mexico City, Mexico (EU citizen)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, ObjC, iOS, macOS, SQLite, JavaScript (ES6+), React, Express.js, Node.js, Bulma.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronyfadel

Email: rony+hn@fadel.io

ABOUT: Experienced iOS software engineer with 6 years of experience as a team lead at Apple, working on system frameworks and first party apps (iCloud, Files, Spotlight, Extensions).

Currently interested in full/part time contract work.

I can work on building your MVP or on your existing codebase. Clean code, sound architecture and best practices.
"as a Linux user"

Then you're not most people. This isn't that controversial.
From what I gather, the regime doesn't really intend to arrest anybody who simply regularly accesses western websites. Some big corps also have their special VPN channels to access foreign websites so that they can do business normally. Hell, even the foreign ministry spokesperson posts regularly on Twitter. What they want is to stop this floodgate of information being opened to the common mass, that's when things could get problematic.

People are arrested for producing things that are deemed potentially destabilizing for the regime/country, but nobody as far as I know ever got arrested for accessing blocked materials.

Of course, if you are also actively producing content it would be much wiser to camouflage your identity much better, if you can. That's when the secrecy becomes a major concern.
I'd rather play it in a browser, even if it's much worse.

With the browser version, I can just open my browser and point to the URL and run it. Easy.

With a native app, this usually means I'd have to go buy a new computer running Windows or MacOS just to run this one stupid application, because I don't have either of those OSes at home. Of course, I'm not going to do that, which means I just don't use the app at all.
They don't need to apply prettier, but it does no harm that it's sitting in their node_modules pegged to the version you're using.

Also, you may be underestimating beginners. If someone can learn git, how to make a substantial code contribution, and lift it into a PR, they can run your `npm run prettier` step. :)
No - we do not need dictatorships in these crises.

The notion of handing Donald Trump the ability to rule by fiat, let alone other national leaders, is beyond rhetoric, it's not even contemplatable.

We need coordinated, responsible leadership. Most governments have all of the constitutional powers they need at this time.
Thanks... you've probably got lots on your plate right now will keep an eye on Visual One! If there is enough demand I'm sure you'll invest more in the firmware retrofit, or maybe I'll buy some of your cameras
At least in Guardian comments they make no sense, are intensely rude, and tend not to reply to comments. As you say it makes them very easy to spot.
I've worked with some pretty sensitive information at places where it's a matter of policy to lock your screen whenever you leave your desk. It's second nature for me to click the screen saver button every time I get up from my computer now. I'm a little surprised that someone as paranoid as Ulbricht didn't have the same sort of habit.
> IQ tests measure the g factor

Ah, yes. The g factor: “that which is measured by IQ tests”.

The main arguments for IQ tests, as far as I understand, that they correlate with an assortment of cognitive metrics, which all correlate with each other. This is a question. “It's the g factor” is not an answer; you've just stuck a circularly-defined label on the question (or, rather, on a particular frequentist analysis of the question) and declared it solved.
Hmm, mostly I use my driver's license when I pick up packages from post office. Or open a contract and like.
Other thing is as customer reward cards in certain shop as it contains national ID number.

Funny thing is that driver's license is not official identification document here in Finland. Only passport and id card are...
Is there any reason to believe they won't up the budget to account for this?
Yep that website is useful as well, with more details about each registry. Mine is more focused on finding available extensions for a given name.
> Was it a premeditated “hit job” or revenge piece? Or is there a better explanation for what happened?

The OP offers as the better explanation that the NYT had a narrative for the piece to fit; and that narrative should not be seen as retaliation, because the trouble SSC gave them was beneath their notice.

This might be right, I don't know, but how do you square it with all the sources saying Metz told them he was researching a basically positive piece on the rationalists being right early about the pandemic? Was he just lying? (E.g. this post by Scott Aaronson, C-f for "Cade": https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5310)

Also, it's not clear that the paper or the writer would only retaliate against a party viewed as powerful -- you don't necessarily see swatting a mosquito as not worth the effort; it's not as if a negative story is more work than a neutral one.

Does anyone know more about when papers write hit pieces and when they don't?
I looked into Nomad and my problem is having to run a minimum of six machines in a cluster for a few microservices. The argument could be made that we wouldn't need container orchestration for a few, but if we plan on scaling I don't want to have to deal with a fleet of servers. With ECS or EKS, I would only have to worry about the worker nodes so it's less to manage
> Selling children and guns (at least in most parts of the world) is just outright prohibited. Selling land isn't.

Do you have a reference for this? Especially guns?
> force cities to pay for police misconduct settlements out of existing police budgets and pension funds, rather than apportioning taxpayer money to do so

Err that is taxpayer money?

Police budgets aren't the police's personal money. They don't care if you take it away it's no problem for them as long as they're still being paid.
"Mostly" != "entirely". Also, don't forget the rocket engine itself

My guess would be the explosion was of the remaining fuel in the rocket engine and tank. Either that or it wasn't actually an explosion, just burning fuel-air mix spewing about after the rocket nozzle deformed too much.
I'm a little bit confused about whom did you mean by "they" and "other side" in this comment. The Gaza government (Hamas) and people of Gaza are NOT the same entity, and Israel and israelis have very different feelings towards them (unless they are retarded far-right racists).
Engineering is not a science, there is very little space for discovery there. In engineering you're applying science, not creating a new scientific knowledge.
> many students get a PhD in just three years

Yep, that's the way it is in France too.

Having said that though, it should be noted that a PhD is preceded by an (often independent) MSc degree, so comparing a 5 year (?) US grad school program after just a BSc to a 3-4 yr European PhD isn't quite comparing apples with apples.
Australia has been an even more oppressive regime than America over the history of its existence. That you would assume that Australians don't care about how government oppression can have negative impact on culture belies your ignorance of the Australian governments' heinous actions against its own people over the course of centuries ..
It doesn't take much to make the kind of explosion you see in the video (those chemicals are quite volatile). I think the safety comes from that being the extent of the explosion. Compare that to a fully-fueled stage, which would have 90x more fuel, a 90x larger fireball, shock wave, etc.

The deck of the ship almost looked undamaged!
When finally tired of an unrequited limerence many years back, I used anger. Whenever they came to mind, I made myself get angry at them. I would reminded myself of all the things they had done knowing that it would string me along in that state just a while longer or some small slight that, because of my feelings, they had known they could get away with, or something like that. Very similar to your method, I didn't let them enter my mind without drawing up this rebuttal feeling. About three weeks later it was amazing how free and clear my head felt. Like part of me had been asleep or drugged for years.
Popular centralized services (name servers, certain web servers) will want to stick with IPv4 for a long time. They need to support customers who cannot or will not upgrade their clients.

Edge services (ISP customers, file sharing) can easily move to IPv6 as soon as their ISPs come to their senses.
Big assumption. The motivations are probably more akin to the US's 1998 retroactive copyright term-length extension.
Not sure this is hacker news, but if it is, could we skip the blogspam and link straight to the article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10349679.stm)? The blog post doesn't add any value.
I actually don't believe in detailed requirements or specs anymore. It is never possible to think of all issues beforehand. I am also not sure if they are really good for the client. Sure, it helps when negotiating fixed price contracts. But that also means that you will only get what was negotiated. If the developer has a brilliant insight while coding the thing, he'd better not tell you about it if he doesn't want to mess up his time calculations.
"Per the IRC meeting minutes, the board is now thinking about having the X.Org Foundation join an umbrella organization like the SPI, the Apache Foundation, or other free-software-focused organizations for riding some benefits like a non-profit status while having to deal less in paperwork and other managerial matters."

I do hope that any organization that considers offering fiscal sponsorship or controlling X.Org entirely requires a full comprehensive audit before moving forward. "Deal[ing] less in paperwork" is something you get to do when your finances are in good condition, not when they're a wreck.