skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the paper's conclusion:

"The empirical results of this paper suggest that nuclear testing contributed to hundreds
of thousands of premature deaths in the United States between 1951 and 1972. The social
costs of these deaths range between $473 billion to over $6.1 trillion dollars in 2016$. These
losses dwarf the $2 billion in payments the Federal Government has made to domestic victims
of nuclear testing through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and are substantial
relative to the financial cost of the United States’ nuclear weapons program. It is likely that
the values of both the testing moratorium enacted in 1958 and the Partial Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty are understated. These political compromises likely saved hundreds of thousands of
additional lives at a minimum."
After the Fire: HP Archivist Pledges to Rebuild
Come on can we keep this kind of stuff off HN?

If you have concrete criticisms say them so we can have a discussion, don't write snarky lines like this is some kind of "us vs them" game.
Has anyone tried to “peg” a cryptocurrency to USD? That seems like an ideal thing to have... Somehow change reward size based on exchange rate. That is increase supply when above 1:1 and decrease when below.
I’m sort of surprised the centralized Bitcoin businesses like BitPay, Coinbase, and exchanges aren’t collaborating to transparently push transactions between them off-chain.

Lightning Network isn’t even required, just simple unidirectional payment channels would allow them to amortize the transaction fees over many transactions, and be instantly confirmed.

The only tricky bit is the sender knowing when it can go off-chain. With BitPay soon requiring Payment Protocol that becomes easier [1]

1. https://blog.bitpay.com/payment-protocol/
Shripadk, mean sea level is actually irrelevant as far as these calculation are concerned. Really irrelevant. The climate scientists throw around their 1 to 10 metre or more scenarios and so all we need concern ourselves with is the gross minimum volume of ice required to melt.

Since the planet is an oblate sphere with a non-uniform land distribution and we have a large moon orbiting the planet, any prediction of what we would expect to see as an ocean level rise will depend critically on where on the planet you are stationed as well as the effects of tides.

In addition, any rises of the magnitudes predicted will require more ice to be melted not less as there will be inundation effects that will, in effect, increase the amount of surface area attributed to the oceans.

Hence, all calculations are a minimum not a maximum. If you want to seriously model tidal and inundation effects, then the amount of energy will greater and hence more unexplained by these very climate scientists.

If they cannot give an explanation of the energy requirements for a minimum then they will most certainly be unable to explain for any situation requiring tidal and inundation effects to be accounted for.

So mean ocean level is irrelevant.
There's a fine line between lazy and efficient. That is to accomplish the most with the leaat amount of effort.
Or have the time to cook. Which is a very important criteria, as someone who works two jobs likely does not have the luxury of that amount of time.
The iPhone was first released 10 years ago. 10 years is a massive amount of time in tech.
They're opposites, I know. I'm trying to put strong, static typing and laziness onto Smalltalk and clean up it's syntax a bit (it's already pretty clean, just a few things could be improved) - essentially a faster Smalltalk.
A developer that makes $160k in Seattle would top out at 55k euro in Berlin. But you can get a 1/bd flat for <600eu a month in Berlin, where as in Seattle, you'll be paying over $2k.

Not even taking into account that a Germany resident could get public health care, lower cost for transportation, and could live and work in most areas without ever needing a car.

There is considerably less income inequality. Because your specific profession makes less isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Peek definition with Emacs frame
Pseudoscience!

If you have sleep issues go see a healthcare professional. Don't follow advice from random strangers on the Internet.

The circadian rhythm (aka sleep cycle) is regulated by a hormone called melatonin (not to be confused with melanin). It is produced by the pineal gland after exposure to light.

Light intensity from artificial light is usually low (unless you use luminotherapy lamps), leading to melatonin production issues, which affect sleep.

You can solve that by spending a bit more time outside. If you happen to live in a place with dark winters, get a luminotherapy lamp.

Other than that, there are other aspects that have to do with how tired you might feel... nutrition, hydration, exercise, etc. You can do all of that correctly while still having insomnia.
Bitcoin looks like a ponzi scheme to me as there is no value to a Bitcoin other than that of itself.

Currencies used to represent the gold stored by each government. These days currency represent the trust that the system that uses the currency, will trade goods for it. However we had to go through the gold equivalent to get here.

Bitcoin doesn’t represent anything and has nothing to back it up.
Dynamic languages definitely help with the rapid development of a small application or prototype, but when you have a large team trying to maintain the application, static typing allows for better compile time error catching. Weird hybrid approaches makes me wary.
Yes, there is Tether - which is pegged to USD - and somewhat controversial for reasons I don't fully understand.
I really like mixed-mode stores for clothing: try things on in person, and order online. Bonobos follows this model, and it’s great: they can have one article in store in every size for every line, and one of each color or pattern. But they don’t need both: I can see what fits the best, they can keep their store well organized and easy to find what I want, and I know what I’m getting is what I wanted, without wasting a ton of time trying to find the exact size/color matches in a giant pile of clothes.
Quantum Neuron: a building block for machine learning on quantum computers [pdf]
Depends on how you define "this" but bitcoin seems to have similar drops every few months. This time on Dec 22 it just dropped to where it was on Dec 6th and seems to have recovered a little.
Compared to the alternative? Yes, I think it's better she goes through the program then gets booked on misdemeanor shoplifting. I also think it's better that a dumb kid gets the program instead of entering the judicial system.

And if they don't take the program, they still have the exact same opportunity to plead their case to the court.

The details still need to be hashed out, but this is meant as a compassionate program.
I found this happening with many other domain specific keywords. However, this can be deadly with medications.. Scary.
Fortress is weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_Investment_Group

They have often bought distressed assets and also they did some weird things with regards to the Vancouver Olympics.
They have $200M of cash on hand according to the article. Not defending them but you can do a lot with $200M including a full pivot and brand reboot.
The tagline for the article:

> "...And it has to deal with mounting threats from climate change."

Paragraphs 4,5,6:

One local climate researcher, Irvan Pulungan, an adviser to the city’s governor, fears that temperatures may rise several degrees Fahrenheit, and the sea level as much as three feet in the region, over the coming century.

That, alone, spells potential disaster for this teeming metropolis.

But global warming turned out not to be the only culprit behind the historic floods that overran Rasdiono’s bodega and much of the rest of Jakarta in 2007. The problem, it turned out, was that the city itself is sinking.

A fear of a 3ft rise over 100 years, and global warming, is related to Jakarta's current problems in the manner that a scent candle burning in your house is "not the only culprit" in the worlds CO2 problems.

If you feel like its worth mentioning household candles are a problem, when having serious discussions on the causes of global warming/climate change, then I guess the reporter's inclusion of it makes sense.

edit: still wish HN had a preview button.
As much as I respect that it serves to protect the vulnerable and elderly from heightening costs

And I would even question that. If your house has appreciated so much that you can't afford the property taxes, so you're "forced" to sell it for a huge profit...maybe in an ideal world that wouldn't happen, but it's nowhere near the top of my list of injustices that need to be fixed.
Lol, thanks for the laugh. Merry Christmas.
"I don't buy for a moment that processed food is cheaper than the raw ingredients. The processing has a significant cost. The main factor for many people is pure laziness--they can't be bothered to spend 10 minutes preparing stuff; they'd rather waste money on processed food."

When was the last time you worked multiple jobs, and had to take care for kids? That 10 minutes is not readily available.
You buy support. Centos exists because building redhat from source isn't hard.
Current state of affairs in IBM i world

https://www.itjungle.com/2017/12/13/2017-ibm-year-review/

https://www.itjungle.com/2017/06/21/seven-bright-spots-ponde...
Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead
There could very well be some functional aspects of the company's products.

It's not a consumer brand.

So ... if something 'works' and can be proven to work via regulatory approval, or validation from a big chain - there could be something there.

$100M rescue money to get a big piece of something may possibly be worth.

Lots of people have made a lot of money off of distressed assets.
A donation to a worthy cause.
I'm not involved with cosplay, but I do believe that this is already a common workflow. I know there's a papercraft plugin for Sketchup that let's you flatten objects, add glue tabs. Folding and gluing takes the majority of the time.
I think the critical distinction to make is that if I trade you fish for wood, we are both getting something we need more than what we have. But if I trade two securities with you, we are essentially making a bet- and with a bet, one party wins and the other loses. It's a truly zero sum game.
The controversy is that it is unclear whether every Tether is backed by real USD. See: Tether's TOS, Bitfinex's banking issues, etc.
This is a pitch deck that I would love to see

We’ve had some set backs, but are really excited to show you...
I've been putting up over 200 of my btc in various loans for over 15 months now. I do this on Bitfinex. It's a double blind loan and can only be used by the receiving party for margin trading. That party has to have maintain a certain reserve to be able to allow an automated stop-loss.

This system is fully automated and I've gotten some interesting rates on btc that would otherwise just have been idle.
really?

I bet there's a story here....what made that your best present ever?
This person wasn't asking for opinions on mentors.
The usually best introduction for this is
“Compiler Construction using Flex and Bison” Anthony A. Aaby 2004
http://foja.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/kompilatory/docs/compiler.pdf
I'm not sure what part you found to be pseudoscience. This technique was prescribed to me by a healthcare professional and can be found in medical journals.

And, I fully agree -- light is important. Maybe I'll add an addendum on that.
Seems like that would be easier for DTC companies than for Amazon. The companies just have a handful of different SKUs and therefore can probably fit everything into one warehouse (where they also make the products).
The depth of human stupidity is truly astonishing.

"This company was built on fraud, which was eventually exposed to the world. But what if we...gave them more money?"
I don't think that's how the author arrived at his conclusions. I think he directly analyzed mortality vs fallout
From a pragmatic perspective: adding a level of interactivity via JavaScript requires a lot of work and/or $$$. Text content Just Works.
From what I noticed, the trains were not very long. Only about 3 or 4 cars. In other cities they are 10+ cars long. Are they long in rush hour?
Yep. And scent candles are causing global warming, thus must be discussed in any article about global warming.
I remember reading a post on HN a while back that alluded to this effect in the context of Kodak film, packed in corn husks from the Midwest, being ruined during the shipping process on account of fallout on the corn husks prematurely exposing the film. This paper claims a lot—I cant wait to dig in.
I'm on the fence. It's always interesting when a victim has a say in wether a crime gets prosecuted, which often leads to a situation where said victim may use that power to encourage an outcome that is preferable to both them and the perpetrator than letting the justice system handle it in typical fashion.

I'd prefer if home break-ins don't get handled in a "Pay me $x and watch this video or we'll be forced to prosecute" BC while that may be better for both parties, it's likely worse for the rest of society.

Not sure how I feel about petty theft being handled this way.
Whats the logic behind Google rejecting Max Howell, the author of Homebrew?
My Man in Japan (2015)
I identified eleven ground breaking languages here: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/blog/GroundBreakingLanguages.ht...

There's a family tree of languages here: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/tongues....
MakerDAO just launched its stablecoin, DAI. It maintains stability by a complex system of smart contracts and CDPs. The problem is much more difficult than simply increasing/decreasing supply.

https://makerdao.com/
Tony Hoare's Hints on Programming Languages Design are still worth a read: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~bchandra/courses/papers/Hoare_Hin...
They pay rent on Page Mill Road and have multiple lawsuits pending, last I heard, so I'm wondering how far that cash would actually take them. Also, if Elizabeth Holmes insists on the same level of control without any biomedical credentials, how realistic is a reboot? I would very much like to know the reasoning that any funding providers would use to justify their support.
Usually its longer if your at big co, shorter if your at startup co.
No, they don't "tend to allow it". Craigslist takes down explicitly illegal content. Yes, prostitutes offer "massages" on Craigslist and get away with it, but winking and nodding isn't illegal.
You are likely to provide more of the actual things needed to make a self-driving car work than any car company is, though. No car company will give the engineers the time, resources, or control over the project to make a self-driving car that is trustworthy. But an individual might at least provide themselves a quiet environment, the tools they need, the time they need, and never be forced to rush or forge ahead with uncomfortable reservations simply because an MBA wants to meet his metric projections and knows that no court in the land would ever levy criminal charges no matter what happens.
These are fine technical reasons.

I'll add some human ones:

- vanilla html webpages had way more actual content [1]

- they don't burden you with updates, social sharing

[1] nowadays very often you run into a site with header, menu, flashing area, related articles, footer, cookie warning, etc etc. In the middle of all this you can barely see the first paragraph. And when you scroll down you realize there's only two of them. html5/css3 improved the wrong factors, or at least gave people the wrong idea about where to spend time
Do you have the same concerns and vocalize them when you get gifts on christmas, also?
He payed the price to write this book (and maybe got salary for his work), so you can have it for free.
Sorry, but your comment seems awfully misguided.

(assuming you celebrate christmas)

EDIT: instead of dismissing it directly, how does actually reading some parts of it first sound like?
Ah, and dismissing an important argument with "excluding open source" is not a good way to actually find truth. Because if excluding this argument means changing the question and scrambling the context too much, the answer to this modified questions does not reflect reality that much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Melatonin has a strong influence on the circadian rhythm regulation and is nowhere to be found in the article.

If you suffer insomnia this is where you should be starting with.

PS: I suffered insomnia, spent a lot of time working through it, and got medical advice.

Prefer residences and offices with natural light, or take a walk outside around noon (wear sunscreen). There you go...

Then, amount of papers doesn't necessarily translate into scientific rigor. Since research universities adopted a "publish or perish" policy there's a deluge of junk science.

update: corrected typo
Try being a JavaScript developer on here ;)
Hair hacking lessons by Becky Stern
Why I started saying ‘reality-based press,’ instead of ‘mainstream media’
In regards to your 1st post - what happened to you is really unfortunate. I do hope things are better for you now.

However, I have worked remote for over 10 years in a 100% remote workforce and the company did not abandon me. BUT I did experience part of what you described: "(1) my networking opportunities plummeted to zero and...". This is the biggest potential downside IMO

>The ideal is a situation where you work in an office, but have a flexible >schedule where you can work from home 1-2 days a week, or 1-2 months a year.

This really should be the norm and encouraged practice at companies. I've posted this in other comments on this post, but if this became the norm I believe it would lead to less stress, better employee health, solve a lot of traffic problems - especially in IT where there is often no reason not to. You still get your face time for collab. Society would be better off. I really wish companies were incentivized to do this - especially in the bay area.

The real trick is to stay active in the industry; keep making contacts; attending meetups/conferences etc ; prioritize networking... Its too easy to be forgotten if you don't make those efforts.

I think we tend to make things black or white - remote is not the death of your career or something that cannot work. It just requires you to stay visible in the company and put a little more effort than usual toward networking and connections. Again, I think the ideal is remote/office split time. Spend a few days in the office and a few days WFH every week. I think this gives the best of both worlds (and something that I wish companies would embrace) and avoids a lot of the pitfalls of what you described.
I guess Fortress thinks they can get a return on the assets, whatever they are. Could be a power play too, if you look at Theranos board there are a surprising amount of political players which could be advantageous for the SoftBank-owned Fortress.

Edit: looks like most of the original board members are gone post-scandal. But for reference here’s who was on it previously http://fortune.com/2015/10/15/theranos-board-leadership/
Surface area? Don't you need volume to compute the thermal expansion of the ocean? And you also need the volume of land ice to compute how much might melt... if you want to convince people, you need to do more than just provide four statistics and walk away, you need to show how you use those to compute the level of expansion. Which you haven't done, and I'm 99% sure you can't with just those four numbers.
"We'll reveal incriminating information to the police unless you pay us $500 and perform this service," is pretty textbook blackmail. The law often doesn't make any distinction about the type of action because it relies on prosecutorial discretion for that.

The problem is that they aren't involving the courts. Specifically, there's no trial or court proceedings to determine the facts of the case or to ensure that the offender's rights are being protected. The offender doesn't get the right to an attorney. They aren't guaranteed to know all the evidence against themselves. There's no way to know that a given Walmart store isn't blackmailing it's customers.

If Walmart started a nationwide program which provided these services to any shoplifter as an alternative program that a judge could sentence the offender to or that a prosecutor could recommend, it would be perfectly fine and may have the same effect in reducing recidivism for shoplifting at Walmart and other stores. The problem is that it's all taking place behind closed doors, so there's no way to know that it's not blackmail. It's not even necessarily in the best interest of the general pubic. It means that people who shoplift aren't being tracked, meaning when they do re-offend and get caught they appear to be first time offenders to the state.

Furthermore, there's no way to know what criteria Walmart is using for this program. Even ignoring the fact that at $500 it's a get-out-of-jail-free card is only for middle class and upper class individuals, what if Walmart only offers the program to whites or women but always prosecutes blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals?

In reality, if we want first time offenders to get lesser charges or face lesser punishment, then we need to change the actual law and reduce the actual punishment for the crime. If the law is unfair, the answer is to change the law, not to find ways around it. This is the exact same reason the police argument against body cameras -- lack of police discretion -- is bullshit. If the laws are unjust or don't best serve the public, the answer isn't to allow uneven enforcement. That just leads to abuse!
Hate it or love it the drudge report remains one of the most powerful sites on the internet
This is done, drivers do get a route (EDD trace). Problem is that there's a min wage human (machines are too slow/expensive) with heavy time constraints who loads the truck. If they're part of the 1/3 that is a peak seasonal, don't care, or are pushed too hard by management, the load will be bad. Loading stop for stop is hard and has no incentive.

Most routes (at least here) have business stops which make up the majority of the bulk down the middle. If it's a resi route with a lot of irregulars (70-150lb packages, mattresses, etc) it'll be a mess.

The options to solve this are pretty much more trucks (there are none, and nowhere to put them after the "normal" seasonal increase), more drivers (hiring/training is an issue), making multiple trips (depends on distance from hub), or having parts of the route shuttled out.
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Fortress is selling itself (trying at least) to SoftBank [1]. Their stock price is down to 7.87 from 30.17 IPO [2]. Fortress hasn't been doing too well. They've never done well.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FIG/

[2] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1505p66vq06cy...
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add that to the "common wisdom" invariants to clarify that's an assumed prerequisite.

FWIW, I live in California and spent four months on the beach prior to undergoing this regimen.