skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could also buy the aft section of an old Russian sub, couple the propeller to a generator and plumb the cooling system to the campus HVAC.

They both sound simple on paper but in reality they'd probably cost more than the natural gas pipeline Fairbanks wishes it had.

When public institutions engage in infrastructure projects they need to do a massive amount of work to ensure their ass is completely and totally covered from every angle. Trying to do something off the beaten path, like go nuclear, is a recipe for lengthy court battles and cost overruns. Blazing that trail is best left to the wealthy universities. Modern micro scale nuclear reactors and power stations built out of surplus hardware would be cool but there's a massive cost disadvantage for the first mover.
Nordstrom thinks I'm an about-20 woman and sent me relevant ads in email for some time. I quite like Nordstrom but had to cancel because there was no way to tell them they were very wrong.
Too bad a cogent argument with references is doenvoted without discussion.
Not impossible, mathematically speaking, but yeah, no one is going to willingly eat that much spinach.

But I bet you didn’t lose weight on the keto diet because you were eating too much cheese or something like that; perhaps not enough exercise to keep a decent weekly calorie deficit. That’s where you went wrong.

I agree on binge eating yeah but so is anorexia or bulemia.
I agree. Just started with Wordpress and I'm still figuring out how to get rid of all the unnecessary stuff. I made sure I didn't have any creepy analytics though. The third-party JS is just fonts from Adobe.
Happened pretty well in Orleans Parrish.
One could argue that if you are about to majorly break back compat, that you should just rename your project. Even calling it `foo2` is better than pretending it's `foo 2.0`. It may slow adoption of your new work, but at least it's staying honest.
> Is it this more progressive, more healthy sport EXCEPT when it comes to brain trauma?

The problem, I believe, is that to have a concussion free football game is to not have football. You can redesign the helmets, you can try and catch em early, but unless the dynamics of the game change from two amazingly explosive 350 lbs men running into each other, concussion won't go away.
The online pharmacy (Alto Pharmacy) and online doctor (KRY) are the ones that sound like they could be unicorns, but they are going against entrenched interests.

Uber took on cab drivers and won. Doctors and pharmacists have much stronger quasi-unions (the AMA and AphA).
I wish for a similar API for Google Data Studio documents.
"Photos then surfaced of him wearing socks depicting police officers as pigs." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/colin-kaepernick-socks/

Sorry, this guy was over the hill and a severe locker room distraction.

Too much drama, not enough talent. A mixed talent for sure but with some horrific stats: (Since the NFL merger (1970), among all 186 quarterbacks with at least 1,500 attempts throughout their careers, only David Carr has a worse Sack%+ (era-adjusted sack percentage) than Kaepernick). [ source : https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/fantasy-football-metri... ... which does make an argument he was okay at some other stats ]. There's a reason he was riding the bench.
This has nothing to do with the current or future popularity of the sport, it has everything to do with minimizing the overall tort liability to current and retired players.
You probably do not need to upgrade then. You can use NVMe over PCIe and just swap out the graphics card.
So only the greatest QB's are allowed to take a stand?
It's possible, but the "minor" league which debuted Saturday night got higher overnight ratings than the Rockets-Thunder which was the league's marquee game Saturday.
The sport is just fantastically more popular than other sports in the US. That might change, but I wouldn't count on it.
What was that money expected to be spent on?
Unrelated: But Biosphere 2 has a nice Facebook page, and they are worth following for their live events.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Biosphere2/

I love seeing experiments with vertical farming.
Wouldn't this sort of thing be also very common in applying bit map masks to bit arrays in frameworks like numpy?
Yes, if we assume literally every microservice is just as bad as one monolith, that's true. That hasn't been my experience. Often time, the monolith encourages bad "new features", while the microservices seem to be more of a mixed bag.

Given the choice, I'd rather re-write 50 microservices in a heartbeat.
$245 Million for a _17_ megawatt plant seems insane - the Georgia and Kansas plants both are in the neighborhood of $2.5 billion a pop, and are ~50 times as powerful. I get that economies of scale are huge in power and that Fairbanks isn't exactly Georgia, but wow.
I know this is off-topic, but: a resource I really wish existed is "how to build Emacs UI like Magit".
Is "forge" a well known term in this context? What does it mean exactly? A web based git host that adds collaboration features like issues and pull requests? Seems like that from the context but I've not seen the term before.
The NFL isn't as bad of a tax scam as you make it out to be. The central coordinating organization doesn't pay taxes, but that's because they distribute all the money they make to the teams, which DO pay taxes, and lots of them. That's why cities are happy to subsidize them. Because with the revenue sharing, they get taxes on money that wasn't even made in their state.

Building stadiums with public money and then charging the public to enter is really crappy, but in the end it does in fact benefit the location in some cases.

And you can see the pushback already starting. San Diego and Oakland wouldn't build new stadiums, so those teams moved. One went to LA, where they are building a new stadium with Olympics money which will be used by the Chargers, and Las Vegas was happy to bring in all the extra people to gamble. So in both cases those stadiums will probably be net positives for their cities.
Used this way back in the day when we got rid of our landline phone (this was around 2000), used my Kyocera phone as a modem to dial into our Earthlink service. Since we had unlimited night and weekend calling we primarily used the internet around then, oh boy was downloading Windows NT SP6 back then fun.
Likewise. Probably found to be garbage as we have plenty of examples of people saying they couldn't vote because of things like their ID being stolen.
Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems
Using IoT and location-based analytics for content
"My methodology works as long as I'm the one who does all of the fiddly bits." (PS: it's all fiddly bits)

My only real beef with Fred Brooks is that he put the idea in people's heads that one or two people on the project are all important and everyone else is replaceable window dressing. A surgical team is a terrible structure for software development. It's much more like a team sport, where everyone should be constantly growing and reviewing past outcomes for new wisdom. It's not a perfect analogy/model because I also believe in the power of conceptual integrity, so there's a bit of a paradox in my line of thinking.

People should be able to add things to my code without me constantly meddling or taking over. Maybe I can clean it up to make it faster/safer, but my goal should be to be able to get things off my plate. If I'm indispensable, it should be in my ability to take on new areas of concern, not by monopolizing old ones and keeping my coworkers from getting promoted by making them look stupid.
The CTE issue will probably be settled out of court with some fantastic number paid to the player's union to be doled out and managed through that organization effectively silencing the issue. they may even be so nice as to have short little spots about how the NFL is the "leading supporter" some time down the road.

So its good see Bob Costas take off. Far better to get out than sell out. The NFL other damage to people and communities is all the tax money that goes into funding their stadiums, the juicy tax and concession deals beyond financing, and even have the tax payers pay for security at the recent Superbowl in Atlanta.

Don't just vilify the owners, the player's union and the players themselves, aren't here for anything but glory and money, lots of money. They have been riding high on the back of the tax payers for far too long; they are not the only sport that does this.
Boston based founder here - I think it makes perfect sense.

- NY is far easier to get to Boston from anywhere else on the east coast - flights, busses, trains, etc. Much less Europe.

- While the amount of total VC dollars invested in each city is similar[0], I've always gotten the impression that figure is skewed by a small number of mega-rounds going into the biotechnology companies in Kendall Square vs. the number of companies in the wider ecosystems.

- NY is just a better city to visit. More public transit options, hotel rooms, things to see while you are in town for the interview, etc.

I love Boston, but I'd make the same decision.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/04/boston-area-startups-are-o...
Alternatively, you can break the project up into modules; each of which are maintained my smaller teams. I think that is a cleaner approach.
No such thing as too much drama, just lazy thoughts.
It's got so much cultural momentum behind it at so many levels - college, high school, even younger - it's like trying to stop that 400 lbs lineman. It seems to be the best way small town America can create heroes and legends for itself.
It's a tight fit but works. I would have to put one arm forward and one arm back to shift my shoulders for a torpedo tube (approx 21in or 533mm depending on nation). 700mm is another 6 inches. The average male's shoulder width is about 18 and go wide as 24 inches (often hard core weight lifters).

https://www.google.com/search?q=person+in+a+torpedo+tube&tbm...
Im looking for an Upgrade for my PC at the moment and can't decide between ryzen 5 2600(x) and 7 2700(x).

Now if i know that AMD is Planning to release the zen2 in May(?) I think I have to buy the 5 2600 because of the price fall at release.

I also need any Tips for a good Mainboard :)
Building modern desktop apps in Go [pdf]
Off the cuff here, being seen as weird is a social construct. Making personal desicions with confidence inspires confidence in others. If “friends” see your actions as weird and you’ve made your decisions with thought and deliberation then you are faced with the question, are these people really your friends? In the case of privacy we share a situation where society is being normalized to make decisions that is not in the best interest of individuals writ large but instead favors the bottom line and profits of a few corporations that could not care less if we live or die. Actions being seen as fraudulent is just an enforcement mechanism to protect these motives. Opinions are changed one individual at a time, but as opinions change so to does society. As someone who is deeply appalled by the current state of affairs, I encourage anyone who feels the same to stay strong. These corporate culprits of societal rot are just one mass migration away from folding. It’s happened before and it will happen again. We on hacker news are the ones leading the charge.
Why Solving the Wrong Problem Is Guaranteed to Ruin Your Software Project
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18722548
Does Money Affect Motivation? A Review of the Research
Maybe? It might also depend on whether or not they are from Utah/Southern Idaho, because the California mormons I know are pretty laid back. In any event defining one's identity in terms of a negation observably warps one's outlook, and I've never seen it be positive.

Mormons obviously believe some pretty strange things, but they also tend to live pretty admirable lives, with a strong focus on community, family, charitable giving, and more.
PayPal CEO: We're Not Seeing Many Retailers at All Accept Any Cryptocurrencies
Is that true? Do rugby and Australian Rules Football have the same problem?

The substantial difference is the lack of padding in those sports. They are still physical. There is still tackling. But human beings behave differently when they don't think they and the target of their tackle are wearing a suit of armor.
It might be much more difficult to a get visa for an interview than for the program in some parts of the world, because people are much likely to stay illegally if they are rejected.
Not at all. I'm just saying, the guy got repeated tryouts. He was not shunned the way people act like he was.

It really helps your cause when you are great, and you gotta be realistic about consequences (and narratives) when you aren't because people will find every reason to tear down even those that are great.

Nike's selling shoes off that. That's not commercially exploitative?
Go back to leather helmets, and eject players for their first head contact. Wire up the caps with sensors. If the sensor goes off, you're out. The game would still be exciting without the head hits.
Why wait? about:config

media.autoplay.default (1 for disabled, 2 for site by site basis)

media.autoplay.allow-muted false
The NFL dropped its tax-exempt status a few years ago (in order to make compensation - and other business practices - secret). Furthermore, the non-profit status only applied to the NFL League Office, not to the teams themselves, thus the vast majority of revenue was taxable.

The NFL isn't the only sports league who once rocked the not-for-profit status, NHL is currently a nonprofit and MLB was formally one.

I can think of much. much sketchier non-profits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/04/28/t...

The public is starting to lose interest in subsiding for-profit teams, thankfully.
Not at all; you can write selectors that return a branch of your state tree, and you can generally tell where the line should be (user makes more sense than userName and userEmail).

You keep saying that you won't have these problems if you don't use redux, but I am arguing that _you do have these problems_, you're just creating ad-hoc solutions for everything that you would use redux for, except those solutions are sprinkled into your UI components in a way that makes them full of mutable state that is impossible to test and a constant source of bugs. Note that I have already agreed that there is a scale where redux is overkill and creates more problems than it solves. Once your app has a few dozen components it's time to start thinking about another layer of abstraction.
https://theconversation.com/rugby-players-more-likely-than-n...

Yes, concussions are still a huge problem.
My guess is because of this:

>For anyone who has ever wondered why American Football is so popular in the US in spite of being fairly boring to watch... I'd argue that many Americans view watching football to itself be a patriotic act.

I love football and don't find it boring at all. The GP is writing off millions of people as irrational, overly patriotic morons. The comparison to the rest of the world is silly as well because a lot of us find soccer to be about the most boring thing ever behind NASCAR and golf, but obviously many disagree with me.

>> It's really absurd how Football announcers have these gruff, hyper-masculine voices and how the entire sport coalesces nearly every negative aspect of masculinity and bro culture (2).

Yeesh, spare me. Yeah, it's insane how most announcers have "gruff, hyper-masculine voices" considering the majority of them were players themselves. Players in a sport which attracts the most athletic and physically gifted men in the country. How could it be? It's almost as if high levels of testosterone are correlated with higher levels of strength, athletic ability, and a deeper voice.
I think the initial vgo discussion and versioned Go modules proposal effectively said "developers expect semver; semver is helpful; Go is officially adopting and requiring semver". At the same time, I think there was also some discussion around "semver alone is not a complete answer". I can see how some of that might have been read as anti-semver, though I suspect that was not the intent.

In any event, it is exciting to see more energy going into the semver spec!
MIT Scratch Includes Google Analytics and New Relic
A few years ago I needed a way to SSH onto a dial-up server during a trip. Since hotspot was still an add-on, I bought a cheapie $15 Verizon prepaid flip phone and used that with a USB cable. It appeared as a serial modem under Linux.

The amusing thing was that apparently Verizon didn’t setup any sort of billing for my use-case, and since I never used the voice or text the thing just continued to work for a couple of years. It worked after the service cancelled, after the number was reclaimed, and then finally stopped only once the SIM card would no longer register on the network.

Not that I really cared - it was 9600 baud and I only used it a handful of times. Still a funny hack.
The ugly: It is still javascript....

I heard this argument against CoffeeScript. At the time CS was still fucking amazing. And I loved it. Sure now people roll their eyes because JS has all the features coffeescript had, but not the indentation-based logic flow... Whatever. CoffeeScript 4 lyfe!

In any case, I see it as a positive. This is just like saying at the end you still gotta know Assembly to write in C...

Also they forgot to mention. Interfaces. Fuck I love interfaces. Self documenting code? Yes please. Awesome auto-completion from tools? Yes please. Sure if you develop in the caves like cavemen and use VIM only without anything to help you, sure, TS is slower. But the point is that amazing dev tools are amazing.

The problem with languages is when the type system isn't strong enough in some cases, but too strong in others. It would be nice for prototyping to use `var` and let the compiler figure the type out. However it would be awesome to write a method that says position 1 is a number between 1 and 100.
Parents worried about CTE are threatening the talent pipeline, but the insurance angle is just as interesting

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/25776964/insurance-marke...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18945697
There are a lot of red flags in the abstract of that paper alone.

> Rendering techniques are currently a major limiter since they tend to be builtaround central processing with all of the geometric data present.

This is completely untrue - OpenGL and virtually all real time rendering is done using z-buffer techniques that were originally used because they don't need all the geometry present. These techniques date back to the 70s and were some of the first hidden surface rendering algorithms.

> This paper presents Abstract Rendering (AR), a technique for eliminating the cen-tralization requirement while preserving some forms of interactivity.

Interactivity might be novel here so that is what should really be focused on, if anything. I don't think coining a new term and acronym that don't seem to relate to what is happening is a going to be a good choice to communicate the techniques.

> AR is based on the observation that pixelsare fundamentally bins, and that rendering is essentially a binning process on a lattice of bins.

This observation was made in the early 80s and has been the backbone of renderman renderers for almost 40 years. Renderman calls them 'buckets'.

> This approach enables: (1) rendering onlarge datasets without requiring large amounts of working memory,

Renderman originally rendered film resolution images with high resolution textures with only 10MB of memory.

> (3) a direct means of distributing the rendering task across processes,

Giving different threads their own buckets is standard for any non-toy renderer. Distributing buckets across multiple computers is part of many toolsets.

> high-performanceinteraction techniques on large datasets

This is the only part that has a chance of being novel, but paper only shows basic accumulation of density for adjacency matrices. The visualization are timed in the multiple seconds but look extremely simple, and for some reason are rendered 'out-of-core' on a computer with 144GB of memory even though it seems very unclear that these images couldn't be made with z-buffer rendering in opengl.

> This is a great paper from Gordon Kindlmann and Carlos Scheidegger talk about how to gauge the accuracy of a visualization

It looks like that paper is about the transformations of visualizations for higher dimensional data, not rendering accuracy, so these two things are being conflated even though they are completely separate concepts.
What a strange article.

From my understanding it's an article about a family owned business supplying coal for a newly launched coal power plant in a remote Alaskan college town.

There were 4 quotes from the article:
1- From a representative of the college (good)
2- From an analyst who did not participate in this situation making a report that is totally unrelated to this news piece
3- From an analyst commenting on the news piece
4- From the company's website

There were no interviews with the residents. Nothing about the business supplying the coal. No comments from students. No mention of town halls or different sides.

Am I just becoming an old crabby guy or was this... lacking something?
Spoken like a true sleazeball. While I agree, generally that 'stranger danger' is bullshit, and the kid-safing of the world does more harm than good, it does not follow that being surveiled without recourse and being pushed to the fringes of social life is ever ok. I challenge you to elucidate how ad-tracking is not a social and sociatal detriment at best, and a tool for despostim and opression if misused in a rather simple way, as seems to be the case currently.
Квак :) Just like the Germans
>They don't need to get permission to bring in a new logo - it's part of Office, they can just do it. And no one has to get dragged into it kicking and screaming - you want to work off of an Excel file? Fine! It's still there!

Plus it wont be randomly cancelled when Google decides they got bored with it after several years of neglecting it first.
I just remember that when we had three dimensional differential equations I kind of hit a wall. Until then I had a pretty good intuitive understanding of things but this requires a lot of work. Other people had no problems with this. On the other hand I don’t have to work much on understanding computers and software architecture so it seems this is a better area for me.
Oh yes, I was also there! But I remember many people came out of that event hearing very different things from PG (there were also small presentations from YC alums hiring).

I remember PG saying NYC had clearly overtaken Boston as #2 startup up in the US, partly because Boston investors were more risk averse and focused on the late stages. Then he asked whether NYC could rival the Bay Area for #1.

I don't think he made a definitive conclusion one way or another. I even remember him saying the unstoppable force of the startup revolution would hit the immovable object - that NYC is already known as many other hubs (finance in particular).

The one concept that stood out was his argument that "chance encounters" with people who can help your startup are crucial. Good luck sometimes hits when you least expect it, but NYC at the time didn't have all the ingredients in place the way the Bay Area had. A month later he wrote this down more formally in "Why Startup Hubs Work"

http://www.paulgraham.com/hubs.html
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Last time I checked, Proxmox supports passthrough pretty well. It's just using qemu/kvm under the hood anyway.
> If the sensor goes off, you're out.

Ok, so this 350 lbs man has been hit in the head without protection and he's out. When does he come back? Is that it, career over? Cause I can guarantee you he now has a concussion.