skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind google replacing keywords with similar word2vec or doc2vec embeddings (or some other statistical fuzzing) that they found typically increased relevancy/click-through on users. Not sure why anybody really does other than the fact it makes the reasoning behind why certain results show up more opaque.
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* Testosterone increases lean mass and decreases fat mass. I think you have the relationship backwards

* Your body creates cholesterol, dietary cholesterol hasn't been shown to increase hormone production AFAIK, might want to link some studies if you can find them

* Calories increase body fat, no particular macronutrient has been shown to be disproportionatelly fattening. The insulin hypothesis is mostly incorrect.

* Different workouts produce different hormone reactions in different individuals. Even so, the effect is transient and unluckily to modify average testosterone levels

* Phytoestrogens in normal dietary amounts likely have minimal effects on testosterone

My personal hypothesis is that the environmental load of various endocrine disruptors from plastics, pharmaceuticals, hygiene products, clothes, etc, has increased dramatically.
> That quote by Rickover is one reason we should fix the NRC process, so companies don't have to spend $300M and get nothing but a paper reactor.

(I didn't answer your previous points about the NRC process, but for the record, I completely agree with you.)

> Moltex Energy agrees with you on pumping fuel salt. They keep their liquid fuel in a fuel rod, open at the top, no pumping. All the rods are immersed in a pool of liquid salt coolant, which just sits there. Secondary coolant in pipes through through that.

Yes, Moltex is an interesting design. The main drawback, AFAICS, is that since the fuel concentration in the fuel salt is quite low compared to solid fuel designs, they have to use pretty enriched fuel. I think their current plans call for 40% Pu. And the breeding ratio is poor, around 0.5 according to a paper I skimmed through a while ago.
Anecdotal but the mentality and culture of those I know who work in law enforcement in the US is quite frightening.

Referring to fellow citizens as civilians as if they were separate from them, obsessions with guns and military equipment, and maybe most visibly telling, mixing "blue line" symbols with things like "The Punisher" logo.

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

> The character is an Italian-American[4][5] vigilante who employs murder, kidnapping, extortion, coercion, threats of violence, and torture in his campaign against crime. Driven by the deaths of his wife and two children who were killed by the mob for witnessing a killing in New York City's Central Park, the Punisher wages a one-man war on the mob and all violent criminals in general while employing the use of various firearms.[6] His family's killers were the first to be slain.[7] A war veteran and a United States Marine Corps Scout Sniper, Castle is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, guerrilla warfare, and marksmanship.[4][5]

> The Punisher's brutal nature and willingness to kill made him a novel character in mainstream American comic books when he debuted in 1974. By the late 1980s, the Punisher was part of a wave of psychologically-troubled antiheroes.
FWIW, I've been using the one in DuckDuckGo's instant answers (search for "color picker" there), and it's been working great!

This one is nicer-looking for palettes, though, and has more functionalities :)
Understood... personally, I'd rather pay the extra dollar or two in order to NOT have to click through promotional crap during registration. I don't know about cloudflare's process, but I'm assuming it'll likely be as clean as google's (by comparison).
Yes, exactly.

The question I'd ask is, other than preserving the way of operating that amtrak has, is it worth the subsidy - I'd say yes, preserving the knowledge of how to operate LD trains is important, so is offering the rural communities it serves transportation, I'd like to expand rail service even.
You are very fortunate to have that role and experience it will provide; to drop out of high school would be a colossal mistake. Please don't do it!

Every job worth having expects people to have a completed high school degree or better (queue the edge case anecdata). Dropping out now because of this job is highly risky.

Your next job would have to not care that you didn't graduate from high school (you will be 20 at that point)...most jobs who see a 20 year old that didn't complete high school only see a 'loser' whether that moniker is earned or not, for the hiring process, perception is reality.

I've been in a similar situation as well (got a Jr. SysAdmin job at 17, promoted to plain at 18, but had to split it between high school hours and later working on my 4-yr degree at college) thus, I understand your point of view.

The feelings of being held back by school are very real. They are not fun to experience. You are almost certainly robbing your older self down the road in lost job opportunities and more if you don't get that HS degree. Don't do it! Your 25+ year old self will thank you for making the painful, sucks to do, mature decision.
Right. Just because you something makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean someone should be arrested for it. Criminalizing homelessness and poverty is not a humane solution and we already have laws for actual crimes.
Absolutely agree w.r.t. Neuroscience: it’s really exciting to work on. Reach out via email in profile to hear a few compelling anecdotes on an “advanced volt meter.”

(open to anyone reading, too)
16 2/3 Hz or 16.7 Hz as the newer standardization says is used by all countries that used AC early. 50 Hz wasn't feasible for railways before the 1960s or so.

16 2/3 Hz is at least in use in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, and Norway. In Germany development started already in the 1920s and regular usage in the 1930s.

France, Finland, and Denmark for example were later with AC and they chose 50 Hz.
I see that mercurynews uses a anti ad blocker. Therefore; I will not patronize the news service.
Er, no "most guns are illegal" is not at all true in Canada. Canada's gun laws are arguably looser than some US states. Plenty of "assault weapons" are non restricted rifles in Canada: https://tillsonburggunshop.com/Firearms-guns-Rifles-Shotgun-...

You just need a PAL to buy them. No background check at the time of sale, and no registration.

By comparison, here in California owning most of these guns would get you a felony punishable by years in prison.
I tried julia three years ago, but version skew was a huge drag. Has the situtation improved on that front?
And people have died and been paralyzed as a direct result of the flu vaccine. Death and paralyses that would not have occurred had they not received that vaccine.

Does that mean the flu vaccine should get dumped in the refuse bin?

Similarly, some other aircraft flying today/tomorrow has automation with an unknown bug/issue that will cause loss of life. Should we disable everything except the 6-pack and stick and rudder?

It would have saved the lives killed by automation, but we would have more aviation death overall.
“Violence of action” is the military version of our beloved “Zero to One”. What you lack in skill you make up for in aggression.
Same with Firefox 66, Android 8.
I never figured out what verbatim does. It certainly doesn't seem to force exact matches.
I vividly remember the meeting I went to in 2003 with a bunch of Microsoft bloggers and lawyers -- it was one of the few times Raymond Chen and I were in the same room. :-)

It was astonishing because of what the lawyers said: yes, it is a public relations risk to have ordinary employees communicating directly with the developer community, and we are willing to take on that risk if it dramatically improves our satisfaction metrics in the developer community.

We were basically told "don't be stupid, don't share corporate secrets, comport yourselves professionally, keep it on-topic, and if there are legal problems, legal will handle them appropriately".

I don't know that things would be the same today; it was a different time. But I'd hope so.
It's just an abstraction. Climate scientists know how to deal with their climate system, but they may not be equipped to then relate their data back to a military defense system or water treatment plant. SoS allows a different team to take a set of not-quite-related systems and analyze their interactions, similar to how a climate scientist might analyze climate models.
Maybe your criteria are different but lots of people in the US Northeast Corridor find trains a better value than the alternatives for a lot of segments.
No they don't. Flash LIDAR suffers from too little range, if you have an angular resolution for the LIDAR of say 0.01 degrees, you're looking at 36 million points! This means that you need 36 million times as much energy to match the same SNR as normal LIDAR.

Even with 1550nm light and single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), this is clearly infeasible. Even Princeton Lightwave (now bought by Ford/Argo), arguably the fathers of modern 1550nm/SPADs flash LIDAR have moved away to a hybrid configuration for autonomous vehicles.
I just do cmd+space and type color.
Which languages have you tried to use a debugger with? Debuggers like gdb look awful (at least without a GUI). On the other hand, Chrome's JavaScript debugger is a joy to work with.
“...the western world has been puzzled by how the vast Pacific could have been navigated relying only on the stars.”

Strap your undesirables to rafts and push ‘em out to sea? I don’t see why there has to be intentional “navigation” to end up inhabiting a place.
So where’s the link?
Cancelled Amazon two years ago and haven't looked back. Saved a ton of money shopping on eBay believe it or not
Go and C do not have classes either. If it's a bit comparable it would be a plus for me. I'm mainly a C++ programmer by trade by I don't enjoy it and in my free time I use mainly C with some shell glue and some Go.

I read that their focus is on scientific computing, but I feel that there is a growing effort to expand Julia's use cases. Also I think that some end user applications could gain a bit from optimized statistics or matrix operations.
s/climbing down/crumbling down/
Does it? According to the US Naval Postgraduate School, 56 people died in school shootings during 2018 (includes shooter). While this is terrible, I'm not sure this counts as a "battlefield"? According to the CDC, over 3x more children died from the flu (185)!

[0] https://www.chds.us/ssdb/number-killed-by-year/
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.ht...

EDIT: Yes during a shooting your environment does resemble a battlefield. Shootings are not common however (see above statistic) so I feel resources may be more valuable elsewhere.
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OK let's call it "psychodynamic" instead of "talk"
Because countries' railroad networks tend to optimize either for freight or for passenger service. They compete with each other. America has one of the best freight networks in the world. https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2011/06/29/freight-as-pa...
why are you quoting luck? I didn't say it, but somehow you conjecture that bezos won the lottery. Absolutely false: he is the _right_ person to execute, among a pool of a lot of other people capable of executing at the same level as him. To have 5-10 years of running a business without competition (AWS) is almost unheard of. He wouldn't have been able to do it pre commoditization of virtualization technology.

edit: Bah to a certain extent you're right, plenty of tech is before its time and me saying being at the right place at the right time is a hind-sight 20-20 sort of comment. What I'm trying to say is I think lots of people have the same vision. Some people have it too early, some have it too late, and some have it at the time where the stars align: customers get it, VC gets it, and your company gets and and has the ability to execute on it.

long story short I hope we can agree that while the ability to execute is a requirement it simply isn't enough.
> The device can thus see far without having to turn up the brightness. That’s important because the sensor works at 905 nanometers, an eye-sensitive wavelength the company chose because it works with silicon. You need exotic compound semiconductors to make and detect laser light at 1550 nm, a wavelength that’s easier on the eyes

905 nm is infrared, outside the visible range for humans. If someone made a LIDAR at that wavelength, and did "turn up the brightness", what kind of damage would it do to people? Is the danger increased because it is not visible, so you don't have a clue that you are looking at something dangerously bright?
Why annoy my users, even as a joke? I don't get this at all.
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It's not. I've never had one of these and none of my co-workers have had one. Stuff like this is ridiculous to Americans, too.
You don't change peoples opinions by shutting them out, all that does is drive them deeper into their own echo chambers. It's usually a bad idea in practice.

Freedom of speech means freedom of speech you don't agree with. There is no need to protect speech most people disagree with. FYI, the ACLU has also protected the same people you refer to. The problem with taking away civil liberties, is that eventually it will come down to losing your own.

For example, if you want the government to shut down speech it doesn't like, what happens when opposing views are in power, and Donald Trump decides he doesn't like what YOU are saying. Do you really want to go there?
Wonderful design. Example images are an awesome touch, quite useful!

Feedback for mobile safari - it would be helpful if the wheel was fixed to the top of the window (position:sticky?). Not the end of the world to scroll, but there’s quite a bit of back and forth as-is.
Not just luck. Amazon started in '94, but they didn't have to charge sales taxes in most US states, giving them a regulatory loophole advantage that lasted well past 2010. Plus their survival in the early days also had to do with the millions in venture capital propping them up for a decade until they finally became profitable in 2004.
I work fairly extensively in health care technology and have since ~2005 and am not aware of the particular regulation that would cause the "FDA" to react to a password storage security gap. Could you be more specific about the regulations you're referring to?

Unsafe logging of PHI would be explicitly problematic, but passwords aren't PHI.
Certainly not as mature as most languages that focus on web (since it was not the priority), but it shouldn't be hard to create simple services. For example with:

https://github.com/essenciary/Genie.jl

https://github.com/wookay/Bukdu.jl
You're conflating direct response with awareness marketing, which are both valid. It is a concept of information theory for imperfect markets.

In a perfect market, the consumer and seller know everything about each other and every other product and service that they could conceivably ever want.

Since we live with imperfect markets, consumers do not have all the information about everything on the market. Sellers will pay money to communicate to consumers about their brand, product, service, etc. A percentage of consumers will be aware of this seller the next time they research or consider making a purchase decision.

The perfect ad is only shown the consumers that it is relevant to. Search/display ads are still not perfect, but they're closer to this than previous mediums of communication.
>Same same but different.

They're both issues with which any moderately competent engineer would be very familiar. Heck I've seen commercial contracts that specified that audits be done to ensure no password and PII leaks into log files. Everywhere I've worked in the past 20 years that logged stuff conducted audits on a regular basis to check that sensitive data wasn't being logged or in inadvertently stored in a database.

The grey area might be for example when some data gets logged as a blob of HEX that it turns out has a password in it if you run the right decoder function on it. I've seen cases like that though show up in audits -- you see a blob of HEX or MIME and go find out what might be in it.

Anyway, it really isn't accurate to say that this is a kind of <slaps forehead> <doh, why didn't we think of that> thing. It gets thought about all the time.
Can you point us in a direction on this? I have never read a lucid attempt to describe the "anatomy of the psyche" on "psychonaut" websites, just a lot of people who may have had some personal experience of enlightenment but don't describe it super well. The closest thing I can think of is Jung whose description of the psyche was heavily influenced by mystical experiences he had, sans drugs.
It's good to know the distribution has gotten to that point, I'll have to give it a shot.
This is really neat.

One suggestion, make the two circles in the color wheel that you can drag slightly different (at least). Maybe just line thickness, shape, filled/open something to note that dragging one will produce the opposite results from the other. Maybe make only one of them draggable?

I know it doesn't really work this way, but I only figured out by accident that dragging to the orange/blue vs blue/orange produced totally different results.
> It’s this bizarre smodge of minority group agendas, dark horror-like scenes and modern political ideas disguised as the family friendly Star Trek that you could watch with your kids that we all actually loved.

Uh, every Star Trek series was, in its time, a “bizarre smodge of minority group agendas, dark horror-like scenes and modern political ideas disguised as” something else (“Wagon Train to the stars”, in the case of TOS.) It seems tamer retrospectively because it's usually been on the side that became the accepted standard on the issues, and because the presentation of horror evolves.

OTOH, the pervasive long story-arc thing hasn't been constant throughout Trek, but it's been a growing trend within Trek since at least DS9 (and also, within adult TV generally; static-background episodic fare outside of children’s shows seems to have been progressively going out of fashion for decades.)
I’ve just finished building a REST api with it that was fairly painless and seems pretty fast (after first compile).

If you need more features the Genie.jl library is aiming to be a full featured web framework.
Other people have said it already, but you are charging too little for your service. You should increase the price by at least 10 times. People use price as a proxy for value, and things that are priced too low are perceived as low quality. Increasing the price may even increase sales!
SCRAM has solved this and with it the server can verify that the client has the plain text password while only storing the hashed password a d without exchanging a plain text password.
> didn't look like real humans

Deep Space Nine. Mission succeeded?
Honestly, given the possibility of accidental caps lock, and how mobile keyboards try to capitalize the first letter...

...that seems like a clever feature, and it doesn't reduce security in any meaningful way at all.

I would never bother to program that, out of my own laziness, but I respect that they did. It's really thinking about users.
2012 elections are not what we are talking about here.
Yes. That's how it works. See [1] and [2]. Although by the time it'll be enacted it'll likely be 27 interpretations.

It's not worse, just different. The EU has a history of experimenting with directives that later become core EU regulations. E.g. the GDPR existed in one form or another for the last 20 years as privacy and data processing rules the EU directed EU/EEA members to implement.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)
I like the usability with the arrow keys and the instantly changing examples, but the results do not convince me. You might want to take a look at the adobe color picker [1] to get some inspiration for other modes.

[1] https://color.adobe.com
The training is fairly reasonable for someone who has a reasonable expectation of engaging in combat. You need to drill reactions under duress until you stop thinking and just do what you've drilled instinctively. The problem is that that this is not a reasonable expectation for school teachers. They shouldn't and don't really have a statistically significant chance of seeing combat. They're also a population that strongly self selects for physical and mental inability to be effective in combat. For the majority of school teachers, trying to turn them into halfassed semi-trained soldiers is hopeless and cruel.
>"Many sellers have begun essentially paying their reviewers with free goods via the Vine program; and of course those 99.9% of those reviews are favorable."

I long suspected this. Can you say what is the Vine program and how does it work? I am familiar with this.
I ran my email infrastructure before but deemed it too much hassle. I would rather offline the burden to a service provider.

When I say "writing code", it would be more or less like the newmail script here. Much simpler than running a full fledge email infrstructure. :-)
Thank you for a bit of sanity amongst the flames!
I've been following ROCm development closely, and everything I read is pointing towards it being a first class competitor to CUDA.

That being said, I don't have any personal experience because, well, I don't have AMD GPUs to play around with.
The market value of a company is (in theory) the sum of the lifetime value of all of the customers. No idea what Atlassian's ACV is but $160K is $30K/year over five years (not a crazy estimate for the lifetime of line of business software in an organization). However, investors also care about growth and Atlassian grew subscription revenue 64% from FY17 to FY18.
I’ve heard (not verified) that UK employment law means that it’s impossible to fire people after they have a year of tenure, so they’re reluctant to bring people on and eager to fire before the first year
There's a huge gap between depression and schizophrenia. While I'm sure that child abuse can likely lead to depression, just because you have depression doesn't mean you were abused.
The logs being in a searchable index makes it more likely that the password storage was inadvertent, not less. It implies that the primary usage model for the logs was targeted queries, not people starting at the top of the logs and reading down in such a way that nothing could have been missed.
Yes, the language was (intentionally) stabilized with 1.0. So version 1.1 (the current one) is fully compatible with that, and this will remain so for the whole 1.x series. And I expect that even 2.x won't be as bad (if at all) as the major changes that were made during the early evolution of the language.
If I can make sure that passwords are securely stored and nowhere available in plain text even for hobby projects that will never see real users, how can Facebook with allegedly the top developers not make sure the same thing? And if you log something like this then everybody that ever saw these logs should be alarmed and press for changing that. Inexcusable to ever have that going on for more than 2 minutes. In 2012 Facebook was not a small startup with just Zuck zucking along.... This company is just so bad.
I'm just using a phrase that the average joe understands (And is also used by the Mayo Clinic). We can agree to disagree if you want, but to be fair what I call it doesn't really matter, I'm but a young lowly programmer :)
It has since gone 1.0, so I assume it's better. I am just dipping my toes in right now though.