skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, can't really think of any daily experiences that would count as evidence for or against glass being transparent to UV. Maybe if long drives in sunny weather are a typical experience to someone, it'll be common sense to them, but I'm rarely in a car for longer than couple of hours at a time and I develop tans gradually enough I can't really notice it in span of days, let alone hours. My answer to your teacher's question 1 would be "no idea" since I wouldn't have paid attention to it in the first place.

Of course, given a premise "skin doesn't tan when sitting in a car", I think it's a good explanation for the subject.
Define 'simpler'?! A monolith is easier to build.

When you get into microservices, you get into additional layers of complexity.

The primary one being that you now need to get into inter-service communications, which means serializing/de-serializing messages across the wire, and building in structure to handle the associated failure modes.
I’ve always believed that if you’re a smart, educated, motivated person (if your reading this than I’m assuming you are one) that probably the best thing you can do for the world is to have kids. Those kids will likely contribute to the world in all sorts of ways that we can’t imagine.
I think that everyone who's used AWS or a competitor knows that it's very easy to rack up a large bill by accident. For companies, the main issue isn't the expense but the unpredictability.
Finally, we see legislators doing something good for a change:
"“These practices are outrageous,” says Chiu(Assembly member David Chiu) , who represents part of San Francisco in the Assembly. “No one who is going through the trauma of emergency room care should be subsequently victimized by outrageous hospital bills.”

So, they introduce a bill that will reduce patient billing abuse in CA.

Based on the article, it seems like Zuckerberg Hospital was especially egregious in abusing it's patients with billing.

I hope they can continue to crack down on Hospital overbiling.
What you mean by compile time, when we're talking Django and nodejs?
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I use a 2012 Dell XPS 15 daily. I got it as a warranty replacement when my XPS 14 broke. I've given it an SSD and swapped a new battery once. Otherwise it does everything I ask of it except having more than 2 hours of battery life. I've wanted to buy something lighter (the XPS is 5+ pounds) for years but I can't justify it when the 7 year old laptop still works fine.
Still running a Thinkpad x230t here. Outside the screen resolution while not docked, it has been great! It even survived a hard tumble down a flight of stairs 3 yrs ago; the only damage was a small gap along the seam of the external battery.
Makes me remember creating files by hand using Norton Utilities' diskedit directly on the raw bytes. Those were the days :)
I have three case studies right away.
Male, Age 60, left knee pain, doctor says its aging, life style active.
Male, Age 50, both knee pains, doctor says its uric acid, inactive life style.
Female, Age 50, both knee pains, doctor says its aging, active life style.

Please advise.
I have my ~2008 T61 as my pfsense router now. I was using it until about 2-3 years ago, but I felt it was barely usable anymore. I think anything with a Core 2 duo is past its useful life. Anything just slightly newer with Nehalem? I think would still be usable today.
> Every moderator I spoke with took great pride in their work, and talked about the job with profound seriousness. They wished only that Facebook employees would think of them as peers, and to treat them with something resembling equality.

> “If we weren’t there doing that job, Facebook would be so ugly,” Li says. “We’re seeing all that stuff on their behalf. And hell yeah, we make some wrong calls. But people don’t know that there’s actually human beings behind those seats.”

Some respect and acknowledgement, and more than $15/hour, seems like it would be a good start.
I'm curious how much that has to do with being around students as much as Feynmann's influence.

> Picking locks and doing physics problems at the strip club won't help you become the next Feynmann.

Those also sound a lot like stereotypes of the smart wannabe-cool (or wannabe-smart cool?) people in films and TV. Just look at the awful stereotypes of smug-smarter-than-all young guy in Goodwill Hunting for example. Or any movie where people write equations on glass with a marker.

That said, I'm not around physics grads much so I'm not expert. Although the one physics grad I know well fits into your categorization well. Nothing worse than a "quirky intellectual" without the intellectual part down.
I actually know a Facebook moderator who lives in Austin. I found it very interesting that they do a lot of moderating of illegal political content in countries that have strict rules about it. She works directly for Facebook and gets the same perks as the other employees in ATX.
Perhaps I should've said "the only piece of infrastructure that would ever use that database". DB browsing software and even ad-hoc scripts don't need a perfect schema; you can usually just grok it by visual inspection
Define "ok"

Our planet is just one of many... Technology is advancing at an incredible rate. Who knows where we will be in 50 years.
It's context dependent. "nearly" means "not quite reaching the target", so if you are talking about "doubling" something, then "nearly doubling" it would mean to end up with slightly less than double.

That said, I believe it is usually used to mean "less than". In this case, I would use "just over" instead, ie, "closed, it's just over double that".
The alternative being what?
Oh absolutely, but direct communication between teams is not the right method for that. Which is why every product, no matter how "micro" a service, needs to have a dedicated product owner/manager who is responsible for defining functional requirements.

Edit: I just noticed that "PM" in parent comment. Basically, product managers are not just for UI and customer-facing products.
I'm not sure if it actually worked that well in DOS, but in Digital systems, which inspired the DOS shell, it was useful for default file name parts. Using analogy to Unix, the current working directory is useful as a default - to avoid having to retype it. Same with the extension, although with a different semantics.
Newsweek is junk.
Facebook moderators are coping with PTSD symptoms by having sex drugs at work
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> Countries don’t have the power to dethrone FAANG.

Tell that to the countries that already block them.
At work we get new corporate PCs every few years and I've rejected the offer twice now because the build quality of my Elitebook 8560w is better than the modern alternatives. I put in an SSD and lots of RAM so now I don't want to deal with the hassle of a new one.
Not that there's no damage, but that sunburned skin is top layer skin that is constantly shedding so won't accumulate damage for decades
> But until the halting problem is solved at a compiler level (at a level that can account for runtime cases)

Idris can already check for totality (i.e. guarantee its programs will halt) without solving the (unsolvable) halting problem. So we're almost there!

And even in Haskell, you can write certain classes of concurrent code without thinking thanks to 1) its great RTS and concurrency libraries and 2) the fact that Haskell programs compose so well: If I have thread safe programs A and B, Haskell gives me a variety of ways to compose their results in such a way that thread safety is always preserved.
The question is phrased ambiguously, but the article makes it clearer that what is meant is:

"Is it still OK _for the planet_ to have kids...", not "Is it still OK _for the kids_ to have kids..."

EDIT: actually, I'm not sure which one of those the representative was getting at.
I used to love PDF but the more time passes the more I think it is broken beyond any repair.

HTML/CSS/JS covers almost any usecase. Then there is ePub (kind of HTML.. anyway) for eBooks, CBR for Comics, DJVU for scanned content and so on. There probably is a better format for any niche usecase you can imagine.
If you prefer the full description, type I hypervisors with unikernels.
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Yep, he basically says that he knew the only thing that would damage his eyes would be UV-B, so he just went for it. Long time since I read the book but that's what I remember.
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> a strawman

"Figure 7. Step 3: Attempt to do the job twice - the first result provides an early simulation of the final product."

1970 "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems"

"Figure 3 portrays the iterative relationship between successive development phases for this scheme. The ordering of steps is based on the following concept: that as each step progresses and the design is further detailed, there is an iteration with the preceding and succeeding steps but rarely with the more remote steps in the sequence. The virtue of all of this is that as the design proceeds the change process is scoped down to manageable limits. At any point in the design process after the requirements analysis is completed there exists a firm and closeup moving baseline to which to return in the event of unforeseen design difficulties. What we have is an effective fallback position that tends to maximize the extent of early work that is salvageable."

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970...
My ancestors thought it was okay to have kids during times in which many scholars where certain the apocalypse was due in the next 25 years, during periods in which the plague killed more than half of the population, during the 30 years war and in a time when there was a realistic chance of nuclear annihilation in the next 10 years.

I am glad they did.
That's just the exact same question as posed in the article.
One of the great books I am currently reading is Meditations* by Marcus Aurelius. This book reminds me time and again not to worry about things that I don't control and only focus on things that I can. This book introduces Stoic philosophy and I am surprised it is not that popular among Tech community (rarely being mentioned in Best Books HN posts).

*There are many translations of this book and the one I feel is easy to read is the one by Gregory Hays: https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Au...
I'm a carnivore and my diet is 100% meat (health reasons). Should I be concerned about moves like this? Do you think this will negatively affect the price of meat for consumers?
I'm not particularly well informed here but I currently use https://github.com/StreisandEffect with a standard VPS provider to give me a nice VPN + tor bridge. I'm interested to know what the pros/cons of this approach are. The setup is fairly straightforward and pain free.
Are you implying kids of "smart, educated, motivated person" will contribute more than kids of people who don't fall into your arbitrary definition?
Imagine you were somehow able to choose:
1. Either never exist at all, or
2. Exist as a human in the world of 50 years from now

To me, the clear choice is #2. If the moral question is whether human life is worth it to continue in the future, it's obviously worth it.

If the moral question is whether our own domination of the planet harms too many wildlife animals, and is therefore immoral, that feels like a more reasonable tradeoff. However it feels odd to me to that the same people advocating stopping having children continue to eat meat.

I will advocate for continued human growth regardless. I feel like there are few "long, slow" problems we cannot overcome.
But legal systems cooperate. Ask Kim dot Com.
>Or Pony is not ready for the world. I mean, they don't even have arithmetic operator precedences

Many languages don't have arithmetic operator precedence (Smalltalk, Lisp, etc) and that's fine.

It's not some feature that's missing, it's a design choice.
What would you suggest for downloading technical documentation, legislation, court decisions, and academic papers?
Does Planet 9 exist? All signs still point to 'Yes.'
The environment is in crisis. We have to save the Earth!

Save it for what?

Our kids.
> Either laptop improvements are well into diminishing returns, or progress in hardware has stagnated, or both.

Sort of. The part about diminishing returns is arguably true, but hardware didn't stagnated.

What happened is that _software_ stopped bloating and inflating like a balloon, as was the norm through the '80s, '90s and early '00s.

When a Microsoft OS requires _less_ resources than it's predecessors (like early Win7 compared to early Vista), you know upgrade cycles will be much longer than before.

Unless you're handling high definition video or playing AAA games, of course. But for any other "mundane" task, the only reason to upgrade from a 5 or 6 years old machine would be an un-repairable hardware malfunction.
FLOSS?
Biological damage from weak non-ionizing radiation is on par with ionizing. The fact that most commenters on HN can't seem to get their heads around, or even bother to research, is that this damage happens via two different mechanisms. One is simple and direct (ionizing) and the other is indirect and quite complex. In short, it happens via upregulation of ROS with oxidative tissue damage as result - also DNA damage. For more info, see: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/15368378.2015.10...
This story even suggests the _opposite_ of immunity--the more you see of them, the more likely you are to buy into them.

It's not quite a good analogy, but it also reminds me of how I noticed that building/construction contractors I know almost invariably believe that the risks of asbestos and lead paint are highly overrated -- I've thought it's kind of for their own cognitive self-preservation, since they unavoidably get a lot of exposure, and don't want to believe their job is killing them. But maybe it's also just got something to do with a sort of "exposure therapy" effect where whatever you are exposed to becomes normalized.
> the best thing you can do for the world is to have kids

...yet what is the best thing for the kids? That's a harder thing to know - you can't really compare "not existing" with "living in a world that has a ton of issues". You can debate how bad the issues will be, but that really dodges the inability to make that comparison.
43 years later (Trinity test was in 1945, he died in 1988).
what makes you so sure about that? We are only at the beginning of what could be a plastics apocalypse (among many other issues.) [0]

50 years ago was the golden age to be born in the West imo.

[0]https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
Yes, let's die out! Let's not even let any kid get born that may invent the key to nuclear fusion. Sure, let's just choose some non-sentient animals and plants over ourselves killing any chance of betterment right here and now. Let's not even try to spread out over the stars, let's make sure that any life on our current planet dies as soon as this planet dies instead of taking it with us across the barren ocean that is the milky way.

If we take this seriously we don't even deserve to exist as a species.

You die out Alexandria, let your bloodline end. I for one want to my genome to explore the galaxy, to have it help preserve earth in the future. To boldly go where no (wo)man has gone before! And if you only point at my right to procreate I will defend it with everything I have!

How cynical do you have to be to only see humans as sources of CO2? And to completely neglect their potential. Honestly, if this piece is for real (and I'm not lacking any context) then I think this woman is dangerous.
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>> I would say the expected cost of climate change to the lives of children born today is still far far less then the expected cost in the past due to disease, war, famine (etc).

This is exactly why it misses the point. Having kids is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, and therefore climate change.
Have you tried adding an unnecessary assistant face, so it's clear that the computer is watching you?

I once had a conversation is Skype, where only I had a video camera. The effect of the asymmetry is weird and annoying.

A silly face that is watching over your shoulders (in the oposite direction) may make the situation more explicit and more easy to handle. Can you program the face to look over your shoulders instead of looking at your eyes? Watch for some time in one direction and later in the other directions, and play a nice animation when the AI finds someone.

Try first with a simple happy face, to minimize the work. Perhaps the final version must have a gender neutral robot face, so you don't have to allow the personalization of gender, skin color, facial hair, and whatever more users will ask.
I thought this was an interesting point from the Gates' annual letter, the specific context is Africa but it's true globally.

> As more children survive to adulthood, women are having fewer kids than ever before. The result is a global population that’s creeping slowly toward middle age.

So people are _already_ having fewer children. Assuming we want to maintain the human species, _someone_ needs to be having children. For diversity everyone should be having _some_ amount of children.

Then of course, it depends on your climate change mindset.

If you think humanity is doomed and there's no way out of this: Don't have children because you think they'll die suffer through the apocalypse.

If you think humanity needs to continue and we will solve this problem: have children because we can avoid the apocalypse.

If you're unsure? Have children. Someone's bound to survive the apocalypse. Maybe it'll be your genetic material.

Personally I think we'll make it through. Life will be different, but we've got a better chance of surviving than humanity has ever had in the past. I think it's more likely that we'll get wiped out by a cosmic event that we don't even see coming.
Which can already happen, there is no prior approvement but people reacting to reports. And to be realistic, they also can and are simply google for it. You dont need facebook to find videos of people getting murdered, there are sites dedicated to that all across the internet.

Not a popular opinion, but its not reasonable to let kids have access to the current version of the internet and childproofing it is not a viable option. A lot of the issues we currently have with the internet can be boiled down to the contradiction of kids using it and the inability to child proof it. If we think that kids shouldnt have access to everything the internet allows access to, it should be feasible to get a second child proofed one online. With the focus on it being child proofed in mind during design, the maintenance wouldnt be that bad if you focus on access control. Kids are not allowed to walk into a sex shop or a bar, they get the internet right on their phone.
I think this misses what the question should be. It's not whether to have children. It's HOW MANY children.

FWIW I have two. My wife and I wanted kids. We also did not want to contribute to the population explosion. YMMV.
I SSH into VMs and write email all day. I could get by with a text web browser at a slight loss of productivity during the steep part of the learning curve.

I could do my job on a laptop from the 90s if I really wanted to. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Slowing down traffic can, in fact, increase the throughput of the road, especially when it is busy.

This is for two reasons:

1) slower traffic requires a smaller safety gap between each vehicle.

2) the dominating factor in traffic jams is often people responding to the brake-lights of the people in front of them. People over compensate and therefore a "braking bubble" (Soltion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton ) forms in the traffic which causes it to get even more spaced out.

Keeping traffic flowing is more important to throughput than keeping it flowing it fast. Constant braking and speeding up on a busy road means that the flow rate is constantly disrupted and this causes the traffic to tend towards clumping and congestion.

You're not "in traffic"; you "are traffic".
her election confirms the retardation of ny voters
The question was raised by a politician. Her motivation is to generate fear in the public in order for people to support her recently purposed legislation. Regardless of the validity of the question I have serious concerns about the context in which this discussion was created.
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Obviously genetics and nurture play a massive role in a person's upbringing and largely determine what kind of person they will be. What is the issue here exactly?
If not, why have an education system at all?
Still rocking T60p, with the NMB keyboard. If you haven't touched an NMB Thinkpad keyboard, you haven't actually used a proper Thinkpad.

One thing I found absolutely necessary to make my machine usable in 2019 was upgrading all the specs to the max.
I grew up in the town where Quantel was headquartered. They brought one of their workstations in for kids to use, this was probably around 92/93. I remember being blown away by how fast and responsive it was.
Well imagine nobody had kids and then we managed to turn climate change around. Now we've got a bunch of old folks being cared for by clean energy powered robots, living a utopian dream but thinking, "wait a minute... Did we just win or lose here?"
Based on her LinkedIn, she seems to be set on short-circuiting her career before it has time to start; 8 years out of school and as many jobs, two for 4 months only and none longer than 17 months. She has some impressive credentials within the Docker/container community, but that’s about it.
Probably gpu issue, because I am running some really old gpu. I will check when I get home.
The most hostile conditions climate change can throw at us are still a walk in the park compared to those at another planet.
That’s a description of part of the problem, not a reasonable excuse.
Oh, I was bringing up the price in comparison to the price of plant milks from a consumer's standpoint—while plant milks seemingly have a high markup from raw materials to product (transportation and storage costs aside), our perception of what makes it expensive has an unrealistic anchor in the subsidized cost of cow's milk. Paying $12 for a gallon of cow's milk vs. $5 for a gallon of oat milk changes the picture a bit.
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Other comments say glass does not block UVA
LED lamps do not emit any UV unless you specifically order ones that do. Fluorescent lamps put out more UV by comparison!
I do most of my work in a shell. But I love YouTube also! :)
My point is that chat logs make IRC a lot more "on the record" than in-person discussions in practice (even if not in theory). Anyone who's keeping a log can quote directly from it, and those quotes are credible (if nothing else, because the person posting them doesn't know who else was keeping a log and can call out inaccurate quotes).
What was it that made games in BASIC simpler than simple games in currently popular languages? Things like "x = x + vx" aren't really different. Python is a much bigger language and though you don't need to know the extra features, they're going to leak through in the form of harder-to-understand errors when you go off the rails. But is there more to it? I haven't tried to use pygame or https://love2d.org or the like. Is there a niche for an even simpler library and IDE?
Golden Rice is cool. And it's "nice" that the intellectual property owner has relaxed royalties for now. But it will be interesting to see how fast ancient local strains of rice disappear and there is less biodiversity. How hard is it to mix in a few greens with rice to get vitamin A?
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