skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says:

200 grams of mushrooms with 3,000 becquerel cesium-137 per kilogram corresponds to a load of 0.008 millisievert .
This corresponds to the radiation load on a flight from Frankfurt to Gran Canaria.

And:

If wild game or wild growing fungi are consumed in conventional quantities, the additional radiation load is comparatively low, but it is avoidable.

In other words, there is no danger to one's health - no more that one is exposed to by living regular life and being subject to various low-level radiation sources present in the environment. The regulations have very low acceptable level, just to be safe, but there is very little actual danger from the levels present right now.

From Wikipedia[1]:

For comparison, natural radiation levels inside the US capitol building are such that a human body would receive an additional dose rate of 0.85 mSv/a.

So, working in a granite building for about 4 days is as dangerous as eating a meal of "contaminated" mushrooms. Thousand of people do the former every day. Or about the same as one dental xray. I think my conclusion that it is done out of overabundance of caution still seems to be correct.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert
The Texas telemedicine breakthrough
That whole chapter reads like SOP of any large corporation in the US today.
I grew up on a farm and we did this all the time. We just fed the oats to cows.
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Why? Elon just said AI is a bigger threat than North Korea.
I know about self hosted solutions like mailinabox and mailpile, and sure, it would be fun to set them up to try them out, and they're much easier than going low level with dovecot or postfix and put all the pieces yourself, it still requires maintenance, update the os and the software, keep your server secure from intrusions and so on. I could do it, and I understand the reasons why someone would do it, but I think it's time consuming, and I'd probably not do such a good job in keeping the server secure as a dedicated team.
I have never noticed a difference in taste between butter and margarine, and I have eaten both with a spoon after coming home to an otherwise empty fridge. It's just fat.

Or maybe you are just talking about "soy cheese"? I agree that pure tofu is pretty bland, but with various seasonings (I'm partial to Chili oil), it can be quite good.
I dont think this will be adopted broadly unless it matches the price of real milk.

Given that oat milk cuts out the middleman (middlecow?), should this not be cheaper anyway, or are there scale effects preventing it from reaching price parity?
Meg Whitman has told the Wall Street Journal for a second time that she doesn't want the Uber CEO job. So who does that leave?

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/meg-whitman-stands-by-state...
If you click on the timestamp and go to the comment page you can "vouch" for such comments, undeading them.
I used WordPress. I leaned a lot on plugins which helped keep my defense time down to around 10 days.
Many people need a sort of permission to leave their jobs, usually because of the relationships they've developed and an inability to separate the work bits from the relationship bits.

But yeah, if you need this checklist to show 7/7, then you've probably already stayed too long, and you're looking for psychological permission to quit
That "We're a family here!" has been going on forever.

Every time I'm told that, by a few hours in, I'm thinking; The Manson Family.
I heard good things about fastmail too but it's hosted in a five eyes country...
If you care about security in the sense that the EFF does, you should not be seeking out providers that rely on DANE for security. DANE is a tree-structured PKI, like the SSL/TLS web PKI, where world governments have de facto control over the tops of the tree. The overwhelming majority of email domains we see on HN every day are in DNS zones controlled by Five Eyes governments.

There is a reason most secure providers don't use DANE.

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
Dogs picked up the ability to use some starches for nutrition around the time humans started to farm.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/how-farming-changed-d...
Wolves (from which we domesticated dogs) have only a tiny ability to digest starches.
Dogs that were bred in mostly hunting communities like the Siberian Husky do not have the ability to digest starches well, same as wolves.
The problem I see is that mainstream films scores are trivial to calculate and are pretty unusable because you just need to the see the list of the few successful films worldwide. Then you have a lengthy list of films that should be weighted in a different way.
> I think that Sikka and Travis would be quite compatible with each other.

I think that's what they board is trying to avoid. They shoved Travis out because they didn't like his style. I don't think they want someone else with his style.
I suspect the song being well choreographed with appropriate background noise was the memes' vector here.

I was "stupid lego video, how did it get so many votes", so watched it and actually enjoyed it.

It had something to it that was unusual brain candy. That was the hack part. Intentional or not.
Catastrophic flooding in Houston
Darkhorse: Padmasree Warrior. They really need a seasoned executive who understands autonomous cars. My best idea to get her is for Uber to acquire NIO.
Agreed. I'm not trying to say that non-animal versions of those things aren't possible.

The point I was trying to make is that replacing the milk sold largely for drinking probably doesn't do much of a dent in the industry demand for dairy.

To make a real impact you'd probably have to replace those uses (or get people to radically change the types of food they eat).
Are you talking about hot water heaters?

I wonder if there are more in garages or more in basements. Hmm.
Thanks! It's mostly devs, yes (and even more, I forgot to count the externals). I already read the 2nd and it was a great primer indeed. I'd hope to stay close enough to the team to have inofficial 1on1 conversation, but I guess you will tell me it should better be something consistent, especially for not leaving out anyone.

My plan would be to build some trust before introducing new "tools" like 1on1s (especially if they total to 2 days/month), but I'll definitely keep it in mind! So far I'm amazed by the team and so glad about the job and still keeping my head above water with all the lists one makes :)
I only buy Swedish pork. It has reasonable price. But I always buy Australian beef when I want a steak. It has so much better price to quality ratio.

My personal experience with the Oatly milk is absolutely the same. Looks like veganism is a thing in Sweden and provides enough demand for this business.
Whenever this topic arises, a subset of comments are devoted to differing definitions of 'consciousness'. Here, you can find definitions as diverse as 'only entities capable of language are conscious' and 'any entity that reacts to its environment is conscious'.

This is not very helpful - note that neither of the above definitions tell us anything useful about consciousness; if anything, they are ways to avoid discussing the issues that we don't have answers to.

I think it is more helpful to put aside the definition of consciousness, and begin by regarding 'awareness' as a continuum, though one that displays some significant qualitative differences across its breadth, such as:

Entities that have hard-wired responses to their environment.

Entities that can learn responses.

Entities that have some sort of internal model of their environment.

Entities whose models include themselves.

Entities that are aware of their own models, at least to some degree.

Entities that believe others have the same capability (i.e. having a theory of mind).

Entities that can communicate their models to similarly-capable others.

A continuum is probably simplistic (though still useful), given that recent experiments seem to be showing species capable of a mix of the above responses, depending on circumstances.

The idea of a continuum seems consistent with evolution: To me, it seems unlikely that, for example, language popped into existence, fully-formed, in one species, but there is a gap in the record: there does not seem to be a living species demonstrating the transition to the level of awareness that distinguishes humans from chimpanzees.
It's the government, so nobody. I guess someone might get fired if it negatively affects the governments case against Kim.

Governments never punish their own agents for illegal deeds performed in furtherance of the governments agenda, that'd just be tremendously inconvenient.
It didn't occur to me. Makes perfect sense.
The problem isn't lack of lithium. It's a lack of cobalt.
> About 12 years ago, I worked for a company that scored a one. I and a number of other people on the team started working to improve things. Over a span of about six months, we had the team up to a 7. There was still plenty of room to improve but we all felt massive accomplishment.

Similar story here, but it's a problem when most of the Joel points are only held up by one person. Eg only one person is driving the version control (managing the server, making people use it, and making people use it. Also making people use it.) Or only one person can be expected to clean up the project so it builds in one action, and you're then also the only person who can document this build action. Or only one person is running the bug DB, and others are resistant to using it. Or only one guy is reading about new tools.

When that happens, your Joel score isn't really a 7 or whatever. Or it's a very fragile 7.

I do remember an incident where a guy who'd worked for 7 years with us wondered out loud whether there was some magical piece of software that could tell you what the production code was on a given day in the past. That's the kind of thing that makes your respect for the guy collapse.
What'd it say? (just a synopsis?)
What type of parser does this produce?
I bet Marisa Mayer is on the list
The qmail security guarantee
Sure, that's an even better example. I guess, try as I might, I cannot grasp what people are finding interesting about this paper.
It can't be fixed. All hope is delusional.

It's a one, it's so bad to get to a one, you might not even get a computer to work on!
Just a reminder that pro-black is seen as socially acceptable while pro-white isn't because "black" and "white" aren't comparable concepts.

Black culture is a real thing: it is the culture created by kidnapping millions of Africans, stripping them of their names and heritages, and leaving them to their own devices in a new country. (This sounds activist-y, but it's not; it's a simple statement of fact).

"White culture", on the other hand, is not really a thing. Irish people don't share the same songs, eat the same food, tell the same stories or wear the same clothes as southern Italians. And, in fact, at points not too far back in history, neither the Irish or the Italians were considered "white"!

Compare "pro-black" with "pro-Irish" or "pro-German". You'll find that people are out and proud about their Polish or Lithuanian heritage.

The problem with being "pro-white" is that, when you dig into the history of the concept, it's really just a way of being anti-black (or, if you want to generalize, of being "anti the outgroup of races and cultures not currently accepted into the coalition of races and cultures we currently deem "white").
>you can afford to field 2,700 Furies against that F-22

You can't just divide the cost of a Fury into the cost of an F-22 and assume that's even remotely reasonable as a fieldable proportion. The limiting factor isn't the cost of building the planes, it's the logistics of coming up with with enough fuel, pilots, maintenance, and ground facilities to keep them flying. There's nobody who couldn't afford something better that could afford to field maybe 3:1 vs the F-22.

The salesman for Burt Rutan's little gun-armed midget ARES fighter/attack plane liked to tell people to "imagine how the Falklands War would have been different" if the British Harriers had been faced with waves of hundreds of ARES planes.... completely failing to address the fact that Argentina couldn't possibly train enough qualified pilots to sit in those hundreds of cockpits.
I don't disagree with these points, but you have to question the author's ability to ever find a job that will work for him long term. Over ten companies in 20 years is a sad resume that calls into question either his ability to seek out meaningful employment or some other issue with the author, like terminal "grass is greener" syndrome.
[Author here]

The mindset is actually a large component of this guide, and it intentionally delays any discussion of "prepper gear" until it gets through a long laundry list of lifestyle tips and discussing the need to plan ahead, figure out what is likely, what can go wrong, what the decisions points may be, etc. In contrast to most other prepping docs, weapons are literally the last thing discussed, and only in a perfunctory way.

That said, I think that your view of emergency preparedness is far more narrow than what I aimed for in the guide. A significant focus of the doc is dealing with small-scale but common adversities, such as recessions / unemployment, house fires, backed-up sewage, and other "boring" but life-altering contingencies. Basically, the stuff that almost everybody will need to face at some point in their lives.

I'd wager that for 90%+ of the events that a typical person in the US is likely to experience, heading into the woods to forage on berries and hunt wildebeest is not the way to go.
I agree that the decision that Promise continuations run always in a new eventloop iteration will have a serious impact in performance. Nevertheless I think it is a great design, because it provides you with lots of guarantees. I have worked a lot with C# Promises (Tasks), where the implemenation allows synchronous completions, and that gives way more room for errors. E.g. whenever you call TaskCompletionSource.SetResult(xyz) you might directly jump into the completion handler which executes arbitrary code (and may even call recursively back into your code). If you don't know that, don't know when it happens (understanding all the SynchronizationContext stuff) and don't take precautions against it (like checking for state modification after promise resolval) you might run into hard to find errors. Similar things can happen on the using side. In JS-land a continuation will always run in the next eventloop iteration, which guarantees that code after Promise.then() will still get executed before it. In other designs the continuation might run directly in .then sometimes, which is also another thing to account for. In my opinion the JS promise spec provides the most sensible and least error prone behavior. In my opinion that's great, because for the average programmer correctness is more important than performance. The smaller amount of coded that really needs to have a very high performance can still be hand-optimized, e.g. by falling back to synchronous callbacks where it matters, or for the usecases of the link reading bigger parts of the file at once and then performing more of the parsing synchronously.
hmm this really hit 'close to home'. It's 6/7 for me and been going on like this for close to 2 years. What keeps me is the fact it is a very small team and by leaving I would put things into turmoil - both on compentency side and timing. But really not sure how much longer I can go on...
I took a 30k paycut for my current job.

Why? because they gave me the ultimate perk, 100% remote!

I'm heading to thailand next week and plan to just travel around the world. As a bonus, my total living cost in southeast asia (including rent food and plane tickets) is going to be less than what I pay in rent right now.
You are explaining a job that I used to work. Visual Basic 6.0. Support and fix bugs in a program. Add new features. Make it more user-friendly -- was my job. I had to deal with a tyrant boss who would watch over me while I would code, belittle me, do everything he thought was "making me a better coder." Only lasted a year and a half... even turned down an offer that was double my salary because if it meant dealing with him... I just couldn't do it.

When I began working there... he was paying me just $10 an hour. The most I ever made there? $12 an hour.

Read more about it here: http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/the-opportunity/

I wonder how similar our experiences are.
I turn the TouchID feature off while traveling. I think it's important to have different habits with phone and computer security when you're on the move, and I hope it becomes the accepted practice.
This article definitely creates and then never uses unnecessary three letter acronyms (uTLAs).
Hackers warned to leak Game of Thrones episode 7
This makes no sense to me.

If an entrepreneur had 20+ clients over 10 years, does that make them unable to find a client that will work for them?

The author likely has a different view of the purpose of employment compared to many.
Roadkill did it with both multiple leaf blowers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U81_0waqEWA) and a full small block Chevy engine on a trailer supercharging another one in the car (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPMBR-imqUk).
One Year of Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup
Why Some People Think They're Great Even When Their Work Is Terrible
Isn't that the opposite of great leadership? Leadership is a nebulous term that roughly -you need an essay to define it even roughly- means getting people on board with your mission.

If you can only micromanage a bunch of people, and you grow beyond where you can do that, and the mission fails because people no longer know what you want, then surely you've not provided leadership?
I scored a 4 out of 7 (1, 2, 3, 7).

Changing jobs will probably require a significant pay cut but the alternative is watching my career slowly die.
"Parsing expression grammars (PEGs) are an alternative to context free grammars for formally specifying syntax" [1]

Basically, you have tools for context free grammars such as GNU Bison or Yacc. This is an alternative, but with PEG.

For more in-depth info, there's the original PEG paper. [2]

[1]: http://bford.info/packrat
[2]: http://bford.info/pub/lang/peg
Does New Zealand have a history of hosting its security services personally accountable when they break the law?
Very good read, thank you!!
The idea that insurance won't cover fires from unpermitted, DIY stuff is mostly urban legend. Most homeowners' policies are what are called "all hazards" policies. They cover any kind of damage for any reason, with explicit exclusions like war, earthquake, flood. Outright arson / fraud by the policyholder would also obviously be excluded.

Banks would object to policies that excluded unpermitted work, since it's relatively common and this type of exclusion would leave them with lots of exposure.

So, they may decide to drop you like a hot potato afterward, but a fire from your homebrew powerwall would likely be covered. Read your policy fine print to be sure.
> Europe is weak and is at its bottom

Weak in what sense?
With PEGs (like Pest), it's probably going to be a packrat parser (which would also make sense given the project's name).
A similar stack is Fable and F# with the Fable-Elmish library. It also works well with react/redux tooling (debugging in the browser supported), and has great tooling support in Visual Studio Code.
Interesting and surprising. Node 8 supports async/await as well as iterator functions. So the target for the typescript transpiler can be set to 'es7'. Would be interesting if this has an inpact on the performance.
>If you’re working in a startup with limited resources, it’s really up to you to craft your own role, take ownership.

This advice applies to ALL jobs and not just startups. The most valuable employees in almost any organization autonomously grow their value and power by delivering results outside the four corners of the job description.
That's the grammar, not the parser resulting from the grammar.

The README doesn't say, but most PEGs in the wild (AFAICT) compile down to / are implemented by packrat parsers.
Before the hurricane of 1900, Galveston, TX was the largest metropolitan area west of the Mississippi.

After the hurricane... yeah.

It's still difficult to judge the full scale of Harvey's damage, but major roads and bridges are starting to collapse, which means it will be incredibly difficult to even bring in supplies and equipment to start rebuilding.

Houston, the fourth most populous city in the United States, will not recover from this for months.
Echo Show
I've been there. And this feeling IMO I'd one of the very big alarm signs...
I once saw two marine lead-acid batteries explode and catch fire in the boat next to mine when the owner had dropped something big enough to short circuit and not disintegrate itself. Instead a fat copper cable exploded and then probably both batteries boiled, exploded and then everything caught fire. It took about 3 seconds.

Luckily he avoided the acid spray, but he had to empty 4 large fire extinguishers from the nearby boats to put out the fire and cool down the remains of the batteries enough so they did not immediately catch fire again.

I have a huge respect for what a huge solar array and a big bank of batteries can do after seeing what a relatively puny battery could actually do.

A standard AC system can't deliver even a percentage of that current.
They're still being pragmatic - they're trying to stay in power.

China is ruled by a one-party oligarchy that acts pragmatically in its own interest, not in the people's. A China with higher risk of regime change - even if it's a stronger and more prosperous China - is not in their interest.
>Over ten companies in 20 years is a sad resume that calls into question either his ability to seek out meaningful employment or some other issue with the author, like terminal "grass is greener" syndrome.

Changing jobs is what does work long term for them. In any proffession, why do you have to be at the same place for years upon years? In the tech industry, you will rarely get paid more, learn more, or really 'move up' if you stay.
OP was talking about internet, cars, travelling, AC, refrigerators, etc. not about consumerism. You can definitely not participate in consumerism, but you'd still be using much more electricity than anyone 50 years ago.
This is one of the things Perl 6 does really well,).
I really, truly believe it is immoral to 'not care about money.' I really think all of this crap that employers shovel on us, care about the mission, changing the world, have passion for what you do every day, and take pride in trying to up your output, etc etc etc, is well, CRAP!

In a system that 100% revolves around money, it seems inefficient to heavily prioritize anything besides money.

Can you imagine going to a taco stand and saying to the cashier, "I really need 10 tacos, but before I hire you to make them for me I need to know how passionate you are about making tacos. Also, can you let me know where you see yourself in 5 years, I don't want to hire you to make tacos if you don't think you will be doing this in the future!

Additionally, I don't think the price you listed is fair. How about I give you 80% of what you typically charge, but you will also get the satisfaction that you are helping me change the world! I am building an app to automate business processes and I need to eat, the more resources you give me at a discounted price the more resources I can dump into accomplishing my dream."

I really wish all questions in interviews were illegal other than "can you do this job", "can you prove that you can do this job", and "will you accept this wage to do this job?" Everything else should be illegal and the employment laws should be changed to allow fast firing without detriment to the company.

I don't know why, but when I'm analyzing transactions within capitalism I like to frame them around a taco shop :)