skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, as a formwr mountain view resident, mountain view also 'works fine'.
At the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, Westinghouse demonstrated a 10-kilowatt shortwave radio transmitter that cooked steaks and potatoes between two metal plates [1]. In 1946 a Raytheon engineer named Robert Spencer "...was visiting a lab where magnetrons, the power tubes of radar sets, were being tested. Suddenly, he felt a peanut bar start to cook in his pocket. Other scientists had noticed this phenomenon, but Spencer itched to know more about it. He sent a boy out for a package of popcorn. When he held it near a magnetron, popcorn exploded all over the lab. Next morning he brought in a kettle, cut a hole in the side and put an uncooked egg (in its shell) into the pot. Then he moved a magnetron against the hole and turned on the juice. A sceptical engineer peeked over the top of the pot just in time to catch a face-full of cooked egg. The reason? The yolk cooked faster than the outside, causing the egg to burst..." [2]. This discovery led to a patent application for "the use of microwaves to heat food", a concept which was eventually realised in the "Raytheon RadaRange" series of microwave ovens [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#/media/File:Coo...

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/a-brief-his...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#/media/File:NS_...
I understand, but it seems like an incredibly inefficient method of achieving that goal, no?
No it doesn't. Besides the fundamental economic rules of supply and demand, there is absolutely nothing we can learn from looking at ancient Rome that is relevant to the modern world. And honestly, you look really foolish trying to draw a parallel between such a primitive society and anything post-industrial.
> How is that relevant to the question of whether it is rational to believe it actually happened in that particular instance?

If there is evidence for it occurring, then yes that would be rational, regardless of how unlikely it seems for an event to occur.

> How is that relevant to the question of whether it is rational to believe it actually happened in that particular instance?

Forgive me, it seemed that you were dismissing the virgin birth and the resurrection as irrational because you considered such events as not being possible or to unlikely to occur.

> Is it rational to accept as truth something purely because you can postulate it?

No. You can postulate reasons for and against miraculous reports, but it is not rational to believe that some proposition or its negation is true unless there is evidence for it.
Always thought it would be really cool to do a city based on no roads at all, but bike paths and public transport. Ever think this will get to the point where I can play around with that?
Thanks.
As soon as you take the step of saying don't read him literally, you can read anything you want into him. And have given up your right to complain that anyone else read something else into him.

Now consider quotes like these:

"The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men."
"Not merely a master race whose sole task is to rule, but a race with its own sphere of life, with an excess of strength … strong enough to have no need of the tyranny of the virtue-imperative."
"I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honor to courage above all!"
"Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?"

Read this as poetry for your own enjoyment if you wish. But these "poems" both can be and have been used to justify atrocities.
Rayiner has asserted with authority that you can’t possibly end up in that situation if you and your wife have even basic reading comprehension skills once, let alone 7 times.

Can you provide examples of these ridiculous reasons so we can either conclude that the two of you are indeed invalids, or so he can re-evaluate his assumptions and perhaps stop denigrating folks like yourself?
Penny pinching on a government level seems to be symptomatic of local wealth not paying its fair share. No one ever got wealthy collecting a government pension. Where is the money going? It's going into offshore accounts, and corporate tax shelters.
When I hear the word "leverage" I remember it was a favorite of a young Donald Trump in the 1980s.
This kind of reminds me of the story of promises in javascript, which are almost but not quite monads. Among other things, this has made implementing cancellation difficult. In addition, if it were monadic, the async/await syntax could have been trivially generalized to arbitrary monads. That would have been nice.
Its also the reason young low income people cant live there.
Ask HN: How to consistently make right decisions?
HN,

I am trying to figure out how to improve my decision making abilities. I usually end up making wrong decisions most of the time. Whether its team selection in new job or carrying out relationship despite risks or other things in life.

There are a lot of things which caused me to regret my decision in many cases. A few things turned out that way by virtue of luck, for others I could have done better.

It's not that I don't consider data. In fact, I often go into analysis-paralysis mode. I just don't seem to improve, though I know I want to improve.

Successful people make right decisions most of the time over and over.

1. Any book recommendation besides Thinking Fast and Slow?

2. Any other recommendations or videos I could watch and learn?
Agreed.
A good tip for this is to try to find the earliest version/commit of the project you are interested into.
There are some interesting case studies of these weird denials provided by 'jhfdbkofdcho below:

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...

>In a 54-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said changes to the eligibility requirements, made several years after the program began, were “arbitrary and capricious.” Kelly called one of the Education Department’s main arguments “nonsense” and said a series of internal Education Department emails “decimates” another argument.

>Kelly ruled in favor of three individual plaintiffs who worked several years in public service and were initially approved for loan forgiveness, only to be notified years later that the approval was retroactively denied by the Education Department based on new rules.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/18/borrowers-denied-public-serv...

>Here’s another example but it’s about being in the wrong loan program or repayment plan. But the fact pattern is similar. The servicers and the dept of Ed did a bad job implementing this program.

>“Lawson-Ross said she spoke to staff at Great Lakes around 10 times to confirm that she was on track for the forgiveness. "They told me, 'Don't worry about it. You're good to go,'" she said. Had she known her loans didn't actually qualify, she could have simply rolled them into a kind that did.”
“Stealing”, in the USA in 2019, is a statutory offense punishable by law.

Making a job offer to an academic that they accept isn’t a statutory offense punishable by law, and therefore is not stealing, no matter how much you play with semantics.
I think hosting could be solved somewhat easily depending on how much control PBS actually has of their programming. They could go peer to peer, which makes total sense for a public good.

Digitization costs are still an issue, of course. I wonder if they just have a tape archive or if there’s some internal effort to digitize everything already (maybe cheaper in the long run than storing a huge quantity of tape?)
I was struggling with the exact same problem myself (similar situation, all meals catered + various snacks everywhere).

Eventually, it was as simple as learning about the amount of calories I should be eating and keeping track of them. Perhaps the greatest difference was when I stopped pre-allocating calories the day ahead (like 400 breakfast, 600 lunch and so on) but I simply ate whenever I was feeling hungry. I prioritised foods which are filling but not calorie heavy (salad bar, lean proteins, yoghurts). This way, I was able to lose 25 pounds in roughly 3-4 months without much cognitive effort.

An extra tip would be to also start exercising regularly, it makes a world of difference.
Or get a 4K monitor. With one it seems absurd to have dev tools docked. Why would you want to do that when you can see 2160 vertical pixels (minus chrome)? Always good to know if that footer is sticky.
I don't think the distinction matters that much in this context, so I amended above.

I think they're theater because they do something complicated with ambiguous security benefits. And even if they are used correctly, flaws in the designs like spectre/meltdown/foreshadow/rowhammer/etc etc compromise these use cases.
Except no one cares about monads.
You're welcome. I can't really recommend any specific books. I don't want my personal views on politics to be the focus, though. I'm just wary of biases hidden in supposedly unbiased algorithms.

If that topic interests you, I can recommend Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil, and Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble.

I'm a programmer myself, so I understand if people are initially defensive about these topics. But it's important to me that I never write software that's harmful to people, so I try to check my biases as I create software to avoid these more insidious issues. It's easier to spot issues that may arise due to programming machinery that could crush a person, for example. Or software designed to estimate fuel usage for an airplane. It's much more difficult to spot inequity of minorities in software.

There's plenty of examples out there of biased AI in response to biased training sets.

If you're more interested in the dystopia that must be created in order to "win" SimCity, here's a couple of interesting articles. (I think they've been shared here before.) By taking the game to its absolute extremes, it becomes clearer what the simulation considers most important and valuable, thereby laying bare some of the biases inherent in the game's design.

https://rumorsontheinternets.org/2010/10/14/magnasanti-the-l...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w4kg3/the-totalitarian-b...
"Outsider" might be closer.
I'm from a country where it's not too rare to see teachers in their 60s, who pretty much taken deep roots in the university, reading lectures in monotone without ever touching practice on the subject in the ‘real world.’ The lag of universities behind modern technology has become a matter of frustrated laughter here, and a widespread position is that a degree is only for the resume, with you forgetting everything you ‘learned’ on the day you graduate.

And my belief, as far as I gathered from hearsay, was that ‘Western’ approach was different, what with having professors who actually work in the field between lectures. So I was, uh, rather surprised to read this.
Please don't be so confrontational. This forum depends on constructive engagement to be useful.
Sure, but it didn't stop there.
Ah, understood (TIL Netflix distributes certain movies physically only)!
Instead of putting more shit in your mouth, don’t.

I wish all problems were that easy!
Do you really need to debug errors from implementing a stack? If you mean compile-time errors, I would look into getting your editor to report them while you type.
If you sign up to enforce evil laws, you're voluntarily choosing to do evil. Multiple parties can all be at fault at the same time.
I totally agree with where you're coming from, and I've written similar comments myself.

But the truth is that the government is already quite addicted to printing money in the form of low interest loans, to which the consumer market's primary exposure is the housing sector.

Economic and technological progress create natural price deflation. Rather than just letting that happen, the Fed prints ever more money to keep the CPI treadmill running, which is causing housing to shoot through the roof.

If MMT could allow new money to be injected into the consumer economy somewhere besides home loans, having more uniform inflation could by itself be a huge win.
I switched to a low-carb diet about 10 months ago. Not only does it work well (in the sense of helping me lose weight, feel great, and have my blood tests come back "OK"), almost all the crap food at the office is high-carb, so it naturally cuts it out. I find it much easier to decide not to eat crap carbs at all rather than trying to eat only a modest amount of them.

If you're currently eating a carb-heavy diet, especially if it's a sugar-heavy or HFCS-heavy diet, days 3-7 could be pretty miserable, but after that, my sweet tooth largely goes away.
Secret proceedings simply shouldn't exist. I think personally that grand juries that are allowed to hold people indefinitely because they don't want to talk in a secret proceeding is wrong. Also, if she talks in a secret proceeding nobody will know if she deliberately said something incriminating aka 'snitched' or just gave innocuous information.

Since her giving secret testimony would raise doubts as to whether she snitched or not, she wants to do so openly in order to maintain her public good-will as a non-snitch. I think you are mistaken in saying that she doesn't have the moral high ground here. These proceedings should be illegal in this country, you shouldn't be allowed to hold someone for unspecified sentences to torture them into talking. That isn't how testimony should be gotten. I'm appalled by some of the opinions here.
Yes, see my other comment on that here somewhere (on mobile)
Why are there any Is to dot and Ts to cross at all? Why isn't the application:

Name: _________________
Taxpayer ID: __________

? The government should be able to figure out from that what government loans you have that are eligible for the program, and if you've satisfied ongoing payment requirements. They should be able to figure out from your income tax returns if you are working in a qualifying public service job.
> OOP != Java

What is OOP language?
Which has just as many (if not more) trials and tribulations as the gaming industry.
The fact that there is a need for such a program in the first place makes me uncomfortable. How bad has the student debt gotten to warrant such programs?
This reminds me of an amusing thing that happened to me years ago: The volunteer coach of my son's little kid soccer team worked at Netflix. I only really knew this because she was really nice and invited us all to the HQ for the kids to watch a movie in a little theater they have.

We had a practice a day or so after the Qwikster plan was announced and then abandoned. So of course I mention it to her, with a dumb-ass grin, sort of like, "Wow, interesting times at work, hey?" And she responds with something along the lines of, "Well, Reed thought it was a good idea, and we tried to do the best we could to make it work." It was said in a way that I immediately thought, "We?? Uh-oh." I looked her up that night and found out she was a VP and most likely deeply involved in the whole process. It took me weeks to get the foot taste out of my mouth, I had wedged it in there so badly.

Lesson: In Silicon Valley, you never know if your kid's soccer coach is actually the VP of a multi-million dollar corporation making headlines that day, so keep it to yourself.
My employer provides fruits and snacks, from those I only eat the fruits, some times I bring lunch.

I also go to the gym every weekday after work hours (one hour of cardio, and weight lifting).

Saturdays I usually go skiing (during Winter, of course), or hiking with friends (during Summer).

Sundays I stay at home watching movies, or reading a whatever article I bookmarked during the week.
Once most features work in 2D, I’ll extend to 3D terrain. I’ll probably have over and underpasses before that for better traffic routing.
For those into Nietzsche, it’s worth reading The Ego and its Own by Max Stirner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own
i live in manhattan, i'd love for you to simulate congestion pricing. i hate cars ,but i think congestion pricing as a unilateral policy is an absolutely horrible idea. what do you think? it's a simple cash grab and it's a stupid backwards ass idea, creating artificial scarcity instead of directly pursuing gains in productivity.
AMD calls this SEV and has shipped it for some time. It doesn't help much. Here's one of the latest attack papers also with a summary of previous work: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01759.pdf
Eyes reveal early Alzheimer’s disease
Publicly funded educational institutions can compete by reassigning some of their budget dedicated to sports and administrative roles to their researchers, for starters.

For instance, the public US university I attended for grad school has an endowment of about $1B, and spent ~$150M on athletics in the past year. A post doc salary there is about $40k a year.

Why would anyone take this over $200k a year (with lots of sweet perks) at eg Google? Because they are passionate about academic research (and potentially teaching), something that the university is very aware of and has no problem using to their advantage.

Talking about level playing fields here seems disingenuous.
so, what's the resolution, 3 years later?
People constantly screw up the simplest and easiest things, especially when there are hundreds of simple and easy things in a program. And Go makes sure that you have to write a hundred simple and easy things every time you work with it to solve problems.
If you have two engines you could be running at 40% each, or shut one down and run the other at 80%, it will be more efficient to do the latter (unless you have to be able to start the idle one quickly and that's not possible if it's at 0%, so then you run one at 75% and the other at 5%).
Many good points above, I just wanted to point out that there are lots of places like where I live, where peak electricity is nearly completely correlated with the sun shining (air conditioning). Not that this matters for places where it's not that way, just pointing that out.
If I needed any more of a sign to get out of public education, this is it.
Well here is workaround:
http://peter.nikolow.me/safari-itp-2-1-demo/
read the power of habits it might help you
No, because you've demonstrated neither the capacity nor the inclination for good-faith discussion. I'm simply clarifying my original point, since I seem to have expressed it poorly in the first place.
Raising the highest tax bracket has historically resulted in less tax being paid by the rich. This is because it increases the demand for services and banking instruments that lower tax liability. Because higher taxes mean more rich people are seeking to shelter their assets, businesses can start to offer these services which are typically not very profitable because there are larged fixed costs and not enough market demand. However, increasing demand for tsx shelters by raising the rates make these businesses profitable. Thus, a rational billionaire seeking to shelter their assets via companies catering to the rich has it in his or her best interests to call for higher rates.

It is clear that these people are uninterested in paying higher taxes as it is completely legal to pay more taxes without any legislation. Thr website pay.gov accepts money for those who would like to contribute to the operations and debt costs of the united states government.

Until buffett and others make actual extra tax contributions to the government (as opposed to their own private charity), I'll continue to ignore them
The problem is that every new software project requires defining and solving a brand-new problem, and that "communication and setting expectations" part is really the problem of, first, specifying the problem and then, second, guessing how long it will take to solve the problem. Insert the old joke about "multiply by three and add five".

Within corporate environments, the ultimate problem is that the people who allocate the resources are usually the least knowledgeable about the costs of "digging a hole" (i.e. technical debt).

Of course, there is a great deal of blame to be placed on our -- the developers' -- shoulders, but guesstimating software delivery is difficult enough without non-technical people setting ridiculous timelines. I'd say the solution to the problem is to have managers select competent, driven developers who care about quality, and then for those managers to trust the technical teams to get the job done right. For such a team to work, each piece must work well and work hard.
I have a coworker who had a similar situation and outsourced as a solution. He hired a personal chef who makes well portioned meals + snacks that he brings in every day. He only eats those and none of the office snacks. He’s still social at mealtime, but he just only eats what he’s brought from home.

I’m sure it’s expensive, but it seems to have been effective for him.
Yes, it's especially important when these games are used to educate students. Recently came across this [0] very informative talk that discusses some of the same things.

On another note, I'm really excited to see that A Pattern Language was an inspiration for this sim. That seems like a great start!

[0] http://molleindustria.org/GamesForCities/
The deal is that after he died, his sister compiled his unfinished work in a way to be coherent with Nazism, then sold it into the movement.
It's easier to avoid the food completely vs. just eating once in a while. Make your own food, bring it with you, eat with your coworkers in the cafe. Feel free to drink as many calorie free or nearly calorie free drinks from work although.

I gave up long ago on tech companies serving a 'diet plan' cafeteria line of food, like they may do for vegans or similar.
> with sufficient application of technology.

Plus years of stupendously painful physical therapy and Herculean will.
What were the reasons for being rejected?
Thank you for quoting the form. It’s 120 full on-time payments completed in no less than 10 years. You can miss payments. But your loan must not be in default.

Yes, the many people claiming that a single missed payment will disqualify you are factually incorrect.
Any dummies guide to shaders?
YC’s own Sam Altman finagled a “single-digit millions” package when selling his startup, Loopt, for barely more money than it raised.
I love these obstinate fools!! Good on them.
If you do something illegal to help the federal government, you are still on the hook for it.