skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear here, you're drawing a comparison between citations in peer reviewed papers - written and refereed by experts in a field - and Like buttons clicked by non-experts on social media? I feel compelled to ask if you're arguing in good faith, because if you have a valid point I can't immediately think of a worse comparison to use.

Yes, obviously citations are a heuristic for achievement and Likes are not. Citations signal that one piece of research has had impact on another. It doesn't immediately declare the research is true and valid, but it does signify the research has held up to the scrutiny of n other researchers who felt it worthwhile enough to include in their own work.

Likes do not involve any of that reputation staking mechanism, nor do they involve experts in a review process that can reject papers by design. It would be incoherent to claim 17,000 upvotes on reddit give a paper anything resembling the weight of 17,000 citations.
In the USA's case it's more like "committed mass genocide to win land"...

Doesn't sound so noble then, eh?
>1.5w/kg, is far below what a

don't you mean "far above"?
That still isn't noble.
Both frequencies are also exactly the same used by cell phones and—more importantly—high power cell phone towers.
> All this is relevant for Haskell and irrelevant in Scala, where you don't have to compose functions to ensure order of evaluation.

Promises and Futures are counterexamples to your claim here.
So, I'm not saying they shouldn't be investigating this, but widespread cell phone usage has been here for a while now. Can't we just look at the actual rate of death from brain cancer (death rates not diagnosis rates since this reduces the bias from changes in how often it is detected), and see if there's been an increase in brain cancer? From what I've found, there has not. The frequency of people holding the cell phone right next to their head while talking on it has actually been going down in recent years, as texting and other ways of using the phone have replaced audio phone calls. If this was going to be a problem, it seems like we would have seen it by now?
It seems to me that both you and the OP are correct.

SK has a high level of social cohesion because of the threats it is under (militarily: NK, economically: China, Japan). Military service also creates a temporarily high degree of social cohesion among conscripts.

Yet, it also has a high rate of suicide due to it being a competitive, high-pressure society.

I'm guessing high social cohesion does not in itself lead to lower suicide rates.
I think you may be confusing being a child/adult (or having kids/childless) vs suburb/urban. We live in an apartment in an urban but not central part of Berlin and we know plenty of neighbours, especially since having kids.

How many childless adults do you remember taking part of these suburban activities/communities?
That is something that seems really useful. You can get your Raspberry Pi online without a minitor but it's always a bit like stumbling in the dark.

I'll definitely give this a try.
>She was a small person of Asian descent and, IMO, had designed Starbucks’ furniture for herself and her circle, which fit nicely into Starbucks’ density goals. To me, it seemed like it never occurred to her that people of statistically average size, or even fat people, should be made comfortable in the stores.

Could you elaborate more on why you believe this? Seems a little out there to me.
I will try to do that, in between my permanent traveling that I have been doing for a few years now. Any hints who might provide a more correct picture than the employees of UN, GIZ, Red Cross, Medicines sans Frontieres etc give over and over again?

Try to find a normal priced taxi as a white person in Haiti: 5 minute drive = $100. Or "You give me $150, I give you a receipt over $300." This scam was brought to you by... drumroll the UN! (It's a nice way to make one or two additional salaries while on an "educational visit").
I used to be lonely, I used to want to belong to a group, I used to want an identity.

Then I realize these desires are causing suffering.

Through meditation and medical marijuana, I've been able to free myself and realize, these are the artifacts of our Tribalistic nature.

But we live in a modern world, access to everything except the ones our ancestors used to value. I've come to enjoy solitary more and more.
Asset inflation.
clinical and research studies typically use male rats to control for the effects of hormonal changes etc.
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Historically speaking, the best time to own Bitcoin was back in January. Things always look great at the top of a bubble.

CO2 is higher than in the past several million years and we're still adding more at our usual pace. We've killed 60% of wild vertebrate life since 1970, wiped out a large percentage of the insect population, and we're continuing the practices that caused that as well. None of this can go on forever.

Almost everybody misses the main finding of the Club of Rome study: if you model a simple assumption that resources get more expensive to extract over time and environmental destruction gets more expensive to deal with, you don't get a gradual decline. You get continued improvement up to a peak, and then it suddenly crashes down.

What's really toxic: enjoying that run up to the peak and assuming everything's fine, instead of buckling down and fixing the problems before it's too late.
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> We do have an idea, because there are countries with mandatory vaccination laws, including France where refusal to vaccinate, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_policy , may be considered a form of child abuse.

France might be an interesting case: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00660-y.

> My point again is to argue that your statements along the lines "What better way to persuade than to pay for it" is not obviously true

We'll see when someone tries it.
Did he account for a religious population which thinks that suicide is a major sin?
Can you please provide a source to this?
We do not have any influence on which side of the line we are born : that's purely luck.
Considering Medicare and social security, that doesn't seem to be the case. The older folks basically said: our children can pay that. And kicked the can down the road because it won't be their problem.
Diesel and jet fuel by themselves account for over 30% of global oil consumption. Even if we get all other vehicles running on something else (ha), big trucks, freight planes and air travel will be guzzling oil for probably as long as we still have some left.
Briefly reading at the description vidir seems similar to Emacs' Wdired and I suppose it's an useful and valid choice, but I've decided long time ago that for me Vi/Vim is an hard pass... ^__^
No one talks about the irrational fear of talking to strangers. We are lonier because we have been taught to not trust.
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I disagree. Someone who wishes to claim asylum or intends to move to a country for life should be subject to a high level of scrutiny.
Blazor 1.0 is coming (eventually) which will make client-side Razor templating feasible. It runs C# code in the browser using WebAssembly, with fallback to asm.js for older browsers.

Vue is probably the best general-purpose SPA frontend option for .NET right now, in my opinion, but I'm really hoping that Blazor unseats it. Being able to reuse library code in the frontend would be fantastic! I've got a few use cases for this already that would avoid round trips to the server or duplicating/maintaining logic in different languages.
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> It OPENS the file.

Oh, don't worry! I can drop an env var to disable the right-> open file thing.

However, all dirs are listed on top separately and in a clearly different color. How often are you ending up pressing the right on a file? I am surprised because `nnn` has many users and no one ever mentioned this as an issue before!
The Accelerated Life
I replaced my irrigation device with a new one and now I'm only using water that has been boiled for 5 minutes in a brand new kettle and cooled down.

I'm also considering using specific salt packets instead of common salt.

Thanks again for the info.
Ask HN: How to restart with a new email address?
I'm making the move from my old (8+ years) gmail account to fastmail, mainly for privacy reasons and what not.

Has anyone ever done this, and/or how would you recommend starting this new email account? I want to leave the gmail days behind and don't want to just export/import my GBs of emails from one provider to the other. I'd like a fresh start.

Is it just as simple as updating services I use to this new email, telling my friends, etc. Or would you suggest creating new accounts for this email and abandoning all others. I don't use social media so it's not a big issue, but for example, my Apple ID for my phone.

Hope I've been able to explain what I'm trying to accomplish.
I've always wondered why there aren't lasers which can shoot down mosquitoes on its own.
> Maybe it's better to have strong opinions, even if some are wrong, than to just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

I had an epiphany the other day that the secret of life is being able to simultaneously hold-believe-do contradictory ideas -- micro-applying whichever is apt for the immediate task.

Apple / Jobs history isn't something I'd consider myself well-versed in, but both of your points seemed to be present and required.

Having a maniacal dedication to a product during development (ie strong opinions), while also being willing to amortize risk over many project and ultimately call a failure in consumer acceptance a failure (ie see what sticks), seems as apt a description of the "secret sauce" as anything.

Google's problem is that they seem to fundamental believe there's a RIGHT way to do something (as engineers do). When for many things, there are a lot of right ways and its intangibles that cause a product to succeed or fail in the market place (aka taste, as artists do).

Obviously generalizing over a company as large as Google, but you see it when the market pushes back against their offerings. It seems like there's a core cognitive dissonance (eg with the Chrome UI simplification) because they're damn sure they built it "right."

Facebook, for all their cool tech, seems to be suffering from the Soviet problem. Reward by the numbers, and teams reporting up to you will come up with numbers.

I'm surprised the article attributes to top-down dictates (skew the ad numbers in Facebook's favor) what the Soviet Union learned in the 70s and 80s -- ask an impossible or overly difficult thing, and there will be bottom-up metric fabrication in response.
My armchair opinion is that the middle ground / something missing is characterized by a few things that used to be somewhat fulfilled by the workplace:

1. Tribal feel: 100-200 individuals not your immediate family.

2. Pursuit of some shared goal. When we were still nomadic hunter-gatherers, this was probably as simple as shared survival.

3. Forced interaction and cooperation. If you can flee at the first sign of annoyance, you're never required to develop deeper bonds with the people from #1 if they are even remotely irritating to you and can just opt out of getting to know them.

Work probably fulfilled a lot of these requirements when people stayed at one place for decades. Even if people came and went, there was some stable group of people that you were stuck with in pursuit of a common goal. I suspect this held even in the face of industrialization and the formation of massive corporations. Now, though, people move around so much that the workplace feels extremely impermanent and fleeting. In some ways I think that may be a good thing. The "community" you get from work has probably always been false. But I believe it did serve a psychological need, and as that's degraded I think you're seeing a lot of unhappiness result.
Ask HN: Could there be data loss from DRAM while system is Up and Running ??
https://miuv.blog/2018/11/24/could-there-be-a-data-loss-in-dram-while-my-system-is-up/

Recently I was reading some article. It really struck me that RAM sitting on our systems has to be refreshed again and again in a timely fashion to ensure that the contents stored by the memory cells are intact.

Could there be any data loss due to some external factors in DRAM.
I was going to patent this idea but it’s so simple I think I’ll let you guys have it.

Did you know methane is lighter than air and rises? So we simply house cows in a building where the ceiling is a conical shape and we periodically collect the methane from the top.

Or if it’s too hard to collect we simply pass it through a flame as it leaves the top of the cone and convert it to co2, way less of a warming gas compared to methane.

I suggest this under the assumption most cattle are factory farmed meaning raised indoors? But you could arrange for them to at least be in this building during peak methane production. Timing their food intake and such.
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They used female rats as well in this study. That's not what happened here.
I have half a dozen Pis to reimage right now, so this is timely. Can't wait to give it a shot today.
Recovered?

Nonsense. The historical trend for the pound is to be worth $1.5 whereas it’s trundled along around $1.2 since. Stop making up excuses for the disaster that is brexit.

No sane nation would leave the EU.
You have the mechanism right but I think you draw the wrong conclusion.

Your max amount changes with interest rates. So if interest rates rise your max amount goes down for the same payment and house prices go down.
They have the benefit of working with older browsers, people who don't use JavaScript, and wget/curl. They are also faster to render on the client.
I think you need to go research what hard currency means. You’re all over the place with your response.
Yes, I agree. Opening questions should be simple, not too clever and not require one to reach too much. Small talk is supposed to be a social lubricant that leads to deeper talk, and it is important not to skip too far ahead.

If someone were to ask me what I'm excited about, my two options are "Nothing much" or "I'm trying to use Kubernetes for HPC....". Both are conversation stoppers unless the other party is a nerd.

For me, "what's keeping you busy?" works 80-90% of the time. It reaches into raw memory rather than the analytic side of a person. One can get to the latter eventually, but it needs to be a guided process.
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One point in the article I'd put another spin on is the adaptability part. While I totally agree with the author there, another symptom of this is that less "adaptable" people are prone to giving up with the phrase "I don't know" when they are faced with an unknown problem.

In most cases, "I don't know, but let me try and find out" would be a way better approach to things (as well as a more useful mindset overall). I've literally solved bugs that were ignored due to "not enough information" for weeks because the original assignee wouldn't even launch a simple grep query and apply some simple predicate logic.
Another area to investigate would be fertility rates -- the blog headline summarizing the research findings would presumably say "Why are millennials having fewer children? Because they keep their cell phones in their pockets on the subway" regardless of the study results.
When did you last travel to India? This has changed in the last 3 years or so. You can get a visa sitting in front of your computer.

https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html
Ask HN: What are the different ways to achieve passive income?
Hi,

I'm Sunil. I work as a software developer in a startup. I love coding and building new tools that solve everyday problems. Over the years I've built many small tools, but none of them were up to mark to generate passive income out of them.

I would like to know about different ways using which I can generate passive income(>1K $ per month) on the side by using my computer. Ideas need not be only related to coding.

If you're already earning > 1K $ per month, a small story of how to achieved this would be helpful too!
Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing
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I run a mail server using simple-nixos-mailserver (https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver) on an AWS EC2.
The need for and convenience of cars. Public transport promotes community, but cars isolate - in particular children. I daren't let my daughter ride down the lane on her bike, so she's trapped.
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It's possible that what we're witnessing is behavioural sink[0]. It's been observed in other mammals that overcrowding leads to social degradation and eventual total failure of the population.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
> you are subsidizing the large number of people for whom it is literally free

In every system, be it the justice system, a social system, or the free market, you're going to have a percentage of people taking advantage of it. That is no argument for not having it in the first place. That's an argument for reasonable laws and regulations. As for the people who do not temporarily have a job due to say family circumstances, or even permanently due to illness or disability, I have no problems whatsoever with it being "free" for them.

> because they pay but a tiny portion of their actual cost

You do the exact same thing. Your taxes do not solely pay for the roads and bridges you cross on your way to work, nor the police or firefighters that are on call to help you out, not for the regulators that ensure the food you buy is safe...

In some way or another, we're mutually subsidizing each other somewhat via taxes. And taxes will be collected. So the only question is where they should go? Be it private military contractors, or helping someone with their cancer treatment? I'd opt for the second option every time.

> I am more of a pay-my-own-way kind of person, which I do.

No, you just like to tell yourself that to feel better. As part of a nation state, there's a whole bunch of not "pay you own way" that you rely on every single day.

I realize why you'd need to convince yourself that you're entirely "your own man", but that doesn't change the fact that is it false.

There are plenty of places in the world where you can pretty much opt out of the system and go at it all yourself. I suspect you wouldn't like it that much, but it exists.

There is a whole other discussion as to whether taxes are the right way to do it and what debt are we really paying for, which is interesting in itself, but my argument is that assuming taxes will be collected anyway, at least I'd prefer to spend them on things like healthcare, education etc., than say excessive military spending.

P.S. Even posting your comment here on HN required resources that you did not pay for, (servers, programmers, electricity, free software).
It’s white supremacist to co-opt Jewish culture and achievement as being white. I really wish whites would stop doing it.
Concurrency on the Internet of Things
Yes...will fix
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A number of them refer to themselves as "classical liberals" in an attempt to reclaim the continental definition of liberal, but in the US media at least it feels like the definition has permanently shifted. This makes it awfully confusing when discussing US politics internationally. (Maybe one day we'll align our language with the rest of the world, and maybe one day we'll adopt the metric system too.)
Yes. The common use of the word Liberal means Progressive. Progressives, while sounding like they want progress, want regulation of anything they don't like. They want to regulate speech. They want to regulate the energy source that would have prevented Global Warming, nuclear. The list goes on. Welcome to the Liberals of modernity.
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Also, ASEAN countries are another option
Why would it be surprising when proteins offer life form and function. If Radio frequency radiation can alter form of a protein then we might develop cancer?

You only have to alter few proteins, so the duplication of cell become errrorneous and all subsequent cells are affected.

You can prove this in testube, simply bombard a protein with Radio waves.

Edit: i don't understand the downvotes, please educate.
Do you exist before birth, in some other pool of souls?
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So GUI and displaying the IP at the end is nice. But. I do wonder: If you already have to write a special image, why not just write the network config directly to wpa_supplicant.conf?
As the other response stated, it depends on what you mean by clean code. When used in a positive sense, “clean code” just means well written code that’s easy to reason and maintain. When referenced in the pejorative sense, it means “overly engineered”, or potentially that the author of the code spent an excessive amount of time writing something that could have been done much faster.

As for whether or not clean code always delivers higher business value, the answer is no. Businesses rarely deal in absolutes and clean code is not always better. Business and engineering is just a huge game of trade offs, and code quality is just one knob you can turn up or down when discussing priorities for you and your team. Is it one you should frequently sacrifice to accomplish company goals? No. But, sometimes it makes sense.
In a grant-funded and eyeball driven world, science and media have perverse incentives to cherry-pick data to show trends that don't really exist.

You live long enough, you get skeptical of 'sky is falling' narratives...
Don't forget about the direction of rates. If interest rates are trending upwards, that can increase the urge to buy out of fear of being unable to afford housing later.
How would that help? If the draft makes you hard enough for reala world without killing you, why doesn't the real world make you hard enough for real world without killing you? These "overprotecting parents" are still around in the real world (or not), so what's the difference?
It's probably more a demand that the new hire be on-site than it is an inability to claim the perfect excuse for remaining in Montreal.
Academia is not perfectly meritocratic but is most likely the most meritocratic environment in the world, particularly in science.
> Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules

Sounds like it’s worthwhile to at least try this. Has anyone attempted a similar approach? Did you get consensus with all the developers on your team?
I created a basic CPU with just resistors. Super slow, manual step only, but it worked and had some basic instructions.
That looks useful. Does it delete itself and the extra repo configuration after setup? If not, while convenient I'm not convinced the increased attack surface is worth it.
Are you sure about the 100 hz? I always thought it was more like 1?
#2 and #4 have already been done, haven't they? Amazon has a significant dev office in Toronto, and Canadian immigration rules are much more straightforward than the US ones.
There are too many other variables for that to be useful. For example, in the past decade we've almost completely phased out CRT displays, which were outputting measurable amounts of ionizing radiation.
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... and even as your second home capital gains is taxed at a lower rate than income. Plus it can be deferred until you die! If your estate is big enough to be worth it you can form a trust and defer it forever.

That unpaid tax flows straight back into the housing market.