skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid I haven't heard of Seveneves before today, although it does look like an interesting read.

My concern is just from a general interest in spaceflight. More of a wish to protect a resource rather than a Chicken Little fear of the sky literally falling out.
Should have been "rolling resource booms"
I was trying Polymer as a components library along with React (with react-polymer, and a bunch of glue code). That way the React code amounts, indeed, to a layer of scaffolding saying "render this component here with this data from here." It was wonderful, since to me it felt much more like working with a real UI toolkit, and the only part of React I needed to deal with was the part of it that's actually good. The thing is we already have that abstraction with all of the HTML form widgets, even mirrored in React proper, so _why not_ provide a similar interface around dialogs, progress bars, buttons and menus instead of spitting out gobs of div tags everywhere?

There is a bit of trouble here where different components don't always have a consistent interface, which kind of ruins the "yay, I don't need to think about how buttons are implemented!" thing, but sticking within Google's core library was mostly working out okay. Not sure how it would have panned out in the future, but my sense at the time was we just need some richer widget libraries that include layout components and it'll end up feeling pretty slick.

Alas, nobody else on the team was all that interested in reinventing the wheel, so it's a normal React app again. (This is a good thing, really). But I thought it was a nice taste of the sort of cleanliness we could get with web components.

Edit: Here's where I got, in a now-orphaned commit: https://github.com/pg-irc/pathways-frontend/tree/80fd61cf1f9.... It was the wrong direction, but I thought it was pretty cool :) (And, incidentally, that there is a really cool open source project if anyone's looking for something warm and fuzzy to contribute to).
If they are, they are not a traditional monopolies.

"Traditionally," crossing over a farmer's land entitled the farmer to extract a fee from you, no matter what altitude you crossed over at. The law had to change once the technological reality changed.

In this case, the supply of a good or service (social networking, webpage indexing and searching) are not controlled by Facebook and Google

I think this is a bit of a sham. As you observe, the mere existence of website pages isn't worth anything by itself.

What Facebook and Google have is massive, large scale user loyalty.

Human attention, on timescales measured in hours or days, is still a finite resource. Human attention, measured on a per-capita basis is still a finite resource. If you just call it "loyalty" and make some kind of claim of market sacredness to your hard earned spoils, you're just obfuscating the finite nature of the resource the actual product is based on.

Despite alternatives existing (Bing, Mastadon, DuckDuckGo, Myspace, etc.), users are voluntarily choosing to use Google and Facebook. This is not a monopoly, IMO.

You're actually just begging for a special exception for network effect based monopolies.
Do you mean that when there's intervention on a market people stop looking into benefiting from it? What do you understand by supply and demand?
Ask HN: Can you recommend cloud storage providers?
All I can think of are Dropbox and (the wretched) Google Drive

Looking specifically for:
- Security
- Availability (no downtime/problems)
- Compatibility (linking/integrating w/ other apps)
- Ease of use (upload, download, etc)
- UX
- Mobility
>IMHO the UX for all this stuff is very confusing to non technical users

It's quite confusing for technical users as well. Google has or is in the process of deprecating TOTP, and will make new users/accounts to use something else based on their android app (which is quite likely proprietary and/or tied to gms, push notifications etc.) if they don't use hardware keys. Or they'll force you to use SMS, which is also worse than TOTP. I think it is still possible to use TOTP if you jump through some hoops, but this is yet another case of some rubbish policy.
Ref: https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP/issues/219
It looks like it is, at least in the EU.[1] Substitutability also seems to play a role in the US, but I haven't read that article.[2]

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...
[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/1072648
> I can't afford to do another sleep study (American Healthcare rocks!)

I met a sleep study technician who, though convinced he actually has sleep apnea himself, said he could not afford a CPAP. Because he scrapes a living together by working as a temporary contractor for two different local sleep clinics, he does not have health insurance.
And that's slightly better than what's available in Kansas, 30 minutes from the nearest Walmart, i.e. no large nearby cities.
"Tanking" is a strategy that is talked about ad nauseam by sports radio gas bags, but is not likely to be an actual tactic being employed by organizations.
If you're truly estimating, though, wouldn't you use a 50% confidence interval — which gives you the rule of 1 (chances of the thing being true are 1/n — if you've seen 20 pages without a typo, chances are 1/20 that there's a typo on a page, with 50% confidence)?
Seriously, that article is a joke...

You get three atheists in a room together and it won’t be
long before there is some minor issue that divides them.
What can we learn from Eric Schmidt and apply to defense acquisition?
There's a difference between sacrificing yourself to save people you love and killing yourself because you are deeply unhappy. The later is generally viewed as a mental disease that can be assuaged with therapy and allow the victim to be happy again.

Also, I know there are a lot of other reasons to kill yourself (onset of terminal disease, etc.) but I would wager the vast majority are rooted in unhappiness.
...there was an awful lot of antenna range cut-and-try.

My mother's beach house still has a shed full of various aluminium pieces, many of them part of a range of semi- or fully-built customised Yagi designs, the legacy of years of my father's cut-and-try attempts to optimise very marginal UHF television reception.
It was an attempt to provide a resource for comprehensive, in-depth, accessible information for maxillofacial / heck & neck patients and practitioners. Part of the movement of empowering patients by giving them the information traditionally held by clinicians, but also helping clinicians to be aware of scientific research from adjacent disciplines that might be useful.

The CMS design comes into it because when you have a larger collection of non-technical authors you need an accessible way to manage the content. This was how it was initially conceived anyway - in practice more development time had to go towards handling the users' existing workflow (MS Word) rather than migrating them into the CMS directly. A real eye-opener for me about user-centred design..

https://maxfacts.uk
The hack they are talking about is not to change the settings on the machine, but to let patients look at the data the machine collects in order to understand their condition better. Separately, there is a web forum community that discusses how to change machine settings based on those insights, but you don't need to use SleepyHead to change the settings.

> Most modern CPAP machines create reams of data while they’re being used. They track things like average air pressure, AHI, average use per night, mask leak rates, “flow limitation index,” and other statistics about what the machine is doing and the patient’s sleep quality. Generally, the data is stored on an SD card, which a patient takes to their doctor once every six months (some new devices also transmit data wirelessly to an app; the data available on apps, patients told me, is rarely as thorough as what the machine is actually collecting.)
How will this work for, say, file transfers? I doubt people want to repeatedly download and look at checksums just ot make sure they didn't miss a packet.
> I recommend setting up a mailing list, project-announce or project-security, on lists.sr.ht for that purpose.

Indeed looks like it covers my needs. Thanks!
> This seems to capture the current intellectual zeitgeist very well. Once we name something, we can dismiss it without engaging it.

In the internet age, this is a necessity because the other pattern is the same claims repeated over and over again with the expectation that a comprehensive rebuttal must be provided each time. At some point you have to name the thing so it can be added as an entry to Wikipedia and move on. See also: how global warming denialists have an evergreen grab bag of false claims to pull from and expect a thesis-length answer to each one.

Also, this is nothing new. Commonly referenced fallacies like tu quoque are a way of saying that the other person is arguing from shaky ground, and their argument does not need a complete rebuttal until they refine it a bit. In fact, the comment I was replying to can be considered a derivative of the just-world fallacy[1], substituting the hand of the free market for the kind of ephemeral karma that the original just-world fallacy implies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
https://www.zgrepcode.com/java/oracle/jdk-8u181/java/lang/lo...

can be done via De Bruijn graphs
as explained here:
https://incubaid.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/number-of-trailing...
Their exercise, nutrition, recovery, and rehabilitation regimes are valuable information for the rest of us. Michael Phelps' affinity for fast food aside, professional athletes tend to adopt newer technologies and fitness modalities years befoe they become mainstream.
Professionals tried different settings, that's the key difference.
Sure for politics this is a bit different as the minister is probably more involved with budgeting and allocation of resources guided by his hopefully knowledgable advisors. It takes, however, special skill to be able to navigate through such deeply technical field as cybersecurity. While it's absurd to require him to be expert in the area, I would argue the ministry would benefit from him having a healthy curiosity towards technical innovation.

Otherwise it's my opinion as a technical person, that those knowledgeable in the cybersecurity matters will be frustrated by his inability to grasp even the basic concepts relating to the technical issues at hand. This will lead to poor morale and general apathy as technical ability is undervalued and instead political skill is preferred. Not a good mix for cybersecurity.
Suicide by guns counts, it just diminishes even more the inequality cause because if you take out suicide by guns then suicide rates are even much lower than in these other countries with less inequalities and free healthcare but no suicide by guns.
> Satellites don't collide with each other, it has never happened.

Actually, they do, and it has indeed happened before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision). Far from a Kessler syndrome scenario, but certainly something that should be examined.
People have way too much free time
I get what you're saying, but I think people waste way too much time worrying about what hypothetical future employers might think about something.

Yes, it's possible some future employer might take offense to what they said and throw their resume in the trash. It's equally likely some other employer with an equally awesome opportunity will agree with them and admire them for having the guts to speak their mind and with 10 bland inoffensive candidates and one who was quoted in the NY Times, they'll choose to call the latter. As a bonus, they're probably going to get along much better with the employer who liked what they said.

You can't predict how some imaginary future people are going to react. Be true to yourself and let the rest work itself out. Optimizing to try and please the sensibilities of every imaginable person is both impossible and miserable.
Any data to support those assertions?

FWIW I think the reasons you point to are just as plausible contributing factors as the ones GP mentions, but there's no reason it can't be both. And dismissing the effects of machismo/toxic masculinity as simply "feminist propaganda" is just not realistic.
First Film Version of Frankenstein, Newly Restored
I hope Japan is just playing with the Sun Tzu's idea: when far appear near.

They say he hadn't used a computer, but maybe he's a hacker instead.

On more serious note, I also support idea the person in charge has to have medium knowledge of all aspects of the subject he or she is appointed to lead, mixed with basic knowledge of overlapping subjects with the subject at hand, and finally hard earned high level leadership/people skills.
Well, yes. But California _also_ has the highest population of the states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

Might be more fruitful to look at a per-capita metric?
There is a lot to be said for getting a job at a BigCo and getting out of debt before taking big risks on startups.

Nothing to be surprised about what YC is saying, considering YC makes money if good people work for their startups.
> My point is that only a sleep technician or a sleep medicine doctor could have figured the right settings out.

Why? What about the process of adjusting the treatment and monitoring the results wouldn't have been possible to do at home?

I don't mean to discount the advice of experts. Certainly, an expert willing to dedicate sufficient time and attention to getting the treatment right for a particular patient is more likely to get optimal results than a patient modifying their own treatment. The problem the article focuses on, however is patients being unable to get sufficient time with experts.
>Changing the deductibility of charitable contributions would be just like that, a redefinition of the tax base.

ok, i see where we have disconnect. Let me rephrase my example - what happens to deductible charitable contributions if tax rate goes from 30% to 5%?
What makes you think that? The NBA team 76ers for example would severely limit the number of minutes their high value draft picks played during the "rebuilding/tanking" seasons. The team even has a meme about it.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/trust-the-process/
If you store your data under /run (or /var/run) your district will probably put it on a RAM disk. You’ll lose it in a crash, but you won’t be writing to the SD card and provoking it to corrupt in that crash.

If you then adjust your systemd journal to not write very often you have eliminated most of your SD writes.

The remote sensor systems I run lose power from time to time during the year, sometimes once a day. I’d say each time there used to be something like a 0.1% to 1% chance of corruption. Since I’ve moved to /run and a slower journal I haven’t lost an SD card[1]. Thus far it seems I have at least an order of magnitude improvement.

[1] Well, I had a wind turbine tower collapse in an inaccessible location. The raspberry pi is in a lake now, but it can’t have gone far so I don’t call it “lost”. I’ll dive and recover it in the spring. That camera/sensor has spent a couple months underwater before. In fact, I’ve had three systems end up underwater for months and all the SD cards have been fine when recovered.
Two thoughts:

1) I've been saying this for years, but nobody wants to hear it. In particular, an oft-repeated maxim from the immigration debate is “these are jobs Americans will not do!”. This statement is plainly and obviously false. Most Americans will not do these jobs FOR THE WAGE YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY.

Picking tomatoes is backbreaking soul-killing work. I won't do it for minimum wage. I will do it for $10,000/hr. Somewhere between these extremes is the optimal wage (from the employer's point of view) which will attract a field full of pickers. Perhaps that wage is $100/hr. Now, I hear the grower growling “$100/hr is not a reasonable wage for a tomato picker”. To which I reply, “define ‘reasonable’ ”. Is it not a tenet of Republican free-market orthodoxy that the fair value of a commodity is that which is determined by market forces? Why is this orthodoxy so quickly extinguished when applied to wages, and especially when its application argues for better wages for low-status people?

2) I've referred to products and labor as commodities with prices set by market forces. However, I caution against viewing the employer-employee relationship as being exactly analogous with the manufacturer-customer relationship. Both business and labor make money by selling something -- the manufacturer sells his goods to a customer; the laborer sells her labor to an employer. But the two are very different in one regard: companies (mostly) have a multitude of customers, while a worker generally has ONE customer: her employer.

Most companies strive to avoid overreliance on a single customer. They diversify their offerings and try to establish a large customer base. The IT company selling its software to Walmart, and only Walmart, is surely aware of the inherent peril.

Laborers can't do this. An employee is selling his time; he cannot slice his day into 5-minute segments and sell each 5-minute labor period to a different buyer. He may even be contractually constrained from trying this (“no moonlighting”).

A laborer selling her time is not really in the same boat as a producer selling a product. [There are exceptions, generally to the benefit of the laborer. For example, self-employed physicians and lawyers really do have many customers who purchase small segments of their time].
grammar* :)
Silly metric though. We have the most people/homes so of course we have the most pools. Arizona kicks our ass in the number of pools per person though.
Our regular Supermarket has racks and racks of different kinds of bread and they're all horrible fluff. Its great when you find "normal" bread, but you have to make the effort to go to the niche places.
Which model are you using?
Feynman, Waldo and the Wickedest Man in the World (2010)
> I trust the FSF not to do something sufficiently crazy

Personally, I don't trust this at all, and would recommend against the "or later" that yields future licensing decisions to the Richard Stallman and that FSF.
It's good satire as always, but its also reality. People are not following strictly their morals or money. They try to balance them both.

People should be more frank about it: "I demand satanic compensation for making people feel bad and agitated."
I didn't - I'd heard it was dangerous since breaking the membrane meant you'd absorb the contents a lot more quickly at the cut edge.
So, I'm curious, who exactly do you think is funding them?

That trip is not free.

Soros certainly has a history of funding exactly that sort of thing. For example, he paid to have boats pick people up right off the coast of Libya and take them to Italy. It would not be the slightest bit surprising for Soros to fund a mob of thousands to invade the USA.

If not Soros, then who? (and who paid that group, and who paid the payers... and does it not lead back to Soros?)
It's very difficult to compare suicide rates across countries. This is because they use different definitions. Your link doesn't say where they're getting their data and how they've fixed this problem.
>However, an apples-to-apples comparison would use the dry prominence of Everest too, which is the distance from the bottom of the Challenger Deep (-10,911m) to the summit. This would make Mauna Kea the second tallest mountain by topographic prominence if the Earth had no oceans

What? This does not make sense, if I am not mistaken? Topographic prominence would place Mauna Kea as the tallest (highest peak from base contour line), but it would certainly not be the second highest above the Challenger Deep... And the Challenger Deep is not the base contour line of any mountain..?
Curious why you won't do a sleep study? I recently went through this whole process, and it was pretty fascinating to see the data they collected from all the sensors (also confirming that I have mild OSA).
Have you heard the term "marketing"?
I have never been responsible for a nuclear test, but as a member of the human species, I can confirm that I really enjoy blowing things up.
I disagree. If doctors had to compete with each other, then none of them could charge so much.
Delivering value to only 0.1% of users is equal to taking away value from the other 99.9% of users. You're not strictly saving development time, you're reallocating it to better utility.

Now, if those 0.1% of users have some sort of legitimate accessibility issue, we can talk about it. If they just have highly idiosyncratic preferences about their user experience, the axe it shall be.
FWIW, there is no such thing as an S10. The last of the S-series (by name at least) was the S9. The current model you want is the AirSense 10 or AirCurve 10 if you want a BiPAP.

Anyways ... I have an AirSense 10 and I have to say ... I have no idea what the S9 was like, but the current model still fucks up my levels when I wake up in the middle of the night. Not sure how my breathing is different when I'm awake, but it inevitably causes the damn machine to detect an obstruction and it will push the pressure all the way to the maximum.

A pretty common complaint, but they have not released a fix AFAIK.
I'm not really making a case here one way or another about what people should eat, just trying to explain the gap observed between what people think they are buying and what they are actually getting. I don't think we should call things "100% whole wheat" when it is far from that. We're just deluding people at that point. If people prefer factory "bread" that's fine but they should at least know what it actually is.

> By the way, have you made bread with just wheat flour?

Yes, regularly. It is more difficult to obtain a good rise and pleasant texture but it is 100% doable with proper techniques. It takes a lot of time and effort. To each his own though.
Living with an Unmarried Partner Now Common for Young Adults
I have a _very_ delicately balanced sleep routine and a sort of mortal terror both of insomnia and of hypnotic drugs.

If it were safe and easy I'd probably just buy the APAP and see if it made me feel better. I don't feel much urgency; I get about 6 hours a night on the regular and don't as a rule feel tired or cloudy during the day (but it's possible that with an APAP I would, relative to my current condition, feel like an atomic superman, which is what drives my fascination.)
EU GDPR rights give you the right to

1 obtain access to the personal data held about you;
2.receive your personal data in a machine-readable format and send it to another controller (‘data portability’);

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_portability

"Nevertheless, circumstances may exist when such a reproduction of the code and translation of its form are indispensable to obtain the necessary information to achieve the interoperability of an independently created program with other programs. "
The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers came up yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442600 . It has interesting things to say about greatness. I wonder if what separates the very best of the best (e.g. Gretzky) from the best (professional Hockey Players) is analogous to what separates the best from everyone else. Or if it's just a matter of degree, not qualitatively different.
A Go-Based, Firmware Embeddable Root File System with JIT Compilation (2015) [pdf]
I'm glad that this is a good example of a translation, and not a trick.

I still think that if a blog post author says "this is a translation of my post", the author should host it as a sibling page on their own server. That allows them to more reliably vouch for its content, and removes an avenue that can be used for trickery.
It's workable if you take your MTU down to 256 or 128.