skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like first-hand testimony from someone who gave up their car more than a decade ago while working a corporate job.

I'm an environmental studies major whose dream job would be urban planning or similar. I've been looking for real solutions to such problems for a lot of years.

One conclusion I've drawn is that passive solar really needs a lot more attention than it gets. It's an elegant solution with no real downside.

Nuclear has a couple of big downsides. 1. When things go wrong, it's really bad, a la Chernobyl. 2. Even if nothing goes wrong, safely storing the spent fuel is a significant issue and goes on "forevy."

Everyone knows about those two issues. It's precisely why nuclear is controversial.

It's also possible for someone to be pro nuclear power and also pro conservation. There is no need to set this up as an either-or thing. People could be pro passive solar while being pro nuclear power.

I'm not pro nuclear power. I'm also not strongly against it. I'm just trying to let people know that passive solar exists and can play a role in solving these issues.
Here are the actual rules in the article:

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1. “State the idea you wish to express as clearly as possible, and in terms preschoolers can understand.” Example: It is dangerous to play in the street.

2. “Rephrase in a positive manner,” as in It is good to play where it is safe.

3. “Rephrase the idea, bearing in mind that preschoolers cannot yet make subtle distinctions and need to be redirected to authorities they trust.” As in, “Ask your parents where it is safe to play.”

4. “Rephrase your idea to eliminate all elements that could be considered prescriptive, directive, or instructive.” In the example, that’d mean getting rid of “ask”: Your parents will tell you where it is safe to play.

5. “Rephrase any element that suggests certainty.” That’d be “will”: Your parents can tell you where it is safe to play.

6. “Rephrase your idea to eliminate any element that may not apply to all children.” Not all children know their parents, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play.

7. “Add a simple motivational idea that gives preschoolers a reason to follow your advice.” Perhaps: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is good to listen to them.

8. “Rephrase your new statement, repeating the first step.” “Good” represents a value judgment, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them.

9. “Rephrase your idea a ﬁnal time, relating it to some phase of development a preschooler can understand.” Maybe: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.
I would be willing to take a bet that if you stood at one of the entrances to Times Square for 24 hours and tallied wired vs. wireless headphones, wireless would come out on top.

NPD had wireless overtaking wired in sales (obviously this doesn’t account for people using bundled earphones) for the first time back in 2016: https://qz.com/745108/wireless-headphone-sales-just-hit-a-ti...
google is the dual of the old web, the old web was a jungle, that's why we wanted google, and now google is the urban regulation body
I found amusing that he claim to have paid "a small fortune" for the Ultima VI game... which turns out to be less than one hundred dollars?

I also found it weird that he claims the disc is extremely rare, that none can be found and yet wanted a refund due to a bad sector? And left a bomby ebay review? And was in the end easily able to use it? (In fact, when reading it, my first thought was to use the PAL version copy to replaced the damaged files... which he did last instead of first.)
Are we all less risky and more skillful than our fellow drivers? (1981) [pdf]
This is very true when it comes to evergreening.

Yes, a drug company can make a minor tweak to a drug and patent it. However, unless doctors prescribe it, that strategy will fail.
In my experience very few people are supporting FHIR. It's a huge shift for many of the companies running EMRs from HL7/VPN to JSON/HTTPS/REST
I use request-promise and it’s always worked perfectly fine. I normally do

const response = await rp({
request params
});

and then continue on.
Wow, TIL. Thanks for sharing!
Thankyou for the link to your search guide - this looks tremendous! Especially when searching for a specific answer to something. I wonder what you think about discovery when you are looking for something unknown within certain parameters... Like, say you are looking for an "interesting film blog" - a search term like that will often lead to pages of "Top 10 Movie Blogs" lists that are all largely clickbait or not that interesting. Do you have any advice for that kind of search? (Perhaps you cover this in the guide, but I missed it in my scan - I thought I would ask while you are here.)
It's entirely possible that Apple doesn't like/trust the way their competitors approached waterproofing.
I'm not saying laws won't fix it. I'm saying one law here or there will not. Most congressional efforts have been with minor twists in the law hoping things work out.
New technique cuts AI training time by more than 60 percent
The Economist article I linked to provides pretty convincing examples of direct causal links, and personal testimony from those affected and why and how it affected them.

As for conquest and Imperialism, Islam has strong polygamous tendencies and has been very aggressively expansionist in it's history. It even has formal rules spelled out in the Koran for acquiring women through conquest (their non-Muslim marriages are automatically rendered invalid on capture).

Funnily enough Muslim countries rank high on instability metrics, and we can see from recent history how stable and developed Muslim countries under autocratic rule collapse into chaos once that autocracy fails.

If even just the top 10% of men only have one extra wife, or 'girl friend' in a flat and secretarial role, as is common for middle eastern businessmen and politicians, that means the bottom 10% of men cannot ever marry. People will go to great lengths to get out of that bottom 10%.

I wonder to what extent the recent shift in sexual access for young men is a factor in political radicalisation in America. There seem to be a lot of angry young white kids around these days.
I have been looking at saltpack to replace many of my PGP use cases. Has anyone else?

https://saltpack.org/
It's not just the old web. I have a small website that does not show up in Google's results. When searching for the title of the site it's the 7th result on DDG yet does not appear on Google at all (Google runs out of results after 19 pages, which is also ridiculous considering the search is very common). When I search for the domain name (sans tld) on Google the associated YouTube page is the first result, also an unrelated Twitter account, and even a Reddit comment that links to my website (Reddit is a more effective search engine!). But my website is not listed. Finally, if I search for the full domain name the website shows up as the first result.

This has been a problem for three years, it's incredibly frustrating, and also demotivating.
For what it's worth, he seems to be pretty open about that in the video
Painting the reimport ban (and the Medicare negotiating with drug companies point below) as a "competition" thing is highly misleading. Other countries distort the market price of drugs in those countries by leveraging their monopsony power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony) and imposing outright price controls. Keeping those distortions from affecting the U.S. market doesn't undermine "competition" any more than excluding highly-subsidized Chinese steel undermines "competition."
It's a drive. A biologicaly need. In not so recent past, many people (mainly men) risked death (becaues being gay was illegal) just to be able to have sex (and in many places that is probably still true).

So it's unrealistic for you to just dismiss it as "unhealthy obsession".

Edit: life would obviously be much easier and better if we were perfectly natural and had complete control over our instincts. But we're not (well most of us) and we have to deal with it somehow. Maybe sex robots or VR :)
The only way to get on a network is via an ISP or mobile provider and this step itself gives up your identity and credit card/financial details and your browsing history, location data and other metadata is available to any state entity and the private surveillance economy. If you use a VPN you paid for that is the same thing.

There is no way to get absolute privacy in this context for the average user. Journalists and activists should be aware there is no technology solution to protect them from spying by any sufficiently committed actor, with state actors all bets are off.

It's false self empowerment by some technical folks to presume there is a technical solution against state actors who are well staffed, have near endless resources and are working 24/7 to thwart any localized technical solutions.

If there is a way to get online truly anonymously ie public wifi points, mesh networks these will immediately be subverted by state actors with things like illegal porn, terrorism and made illegal or compromised and used as honey pots. There is no winning here.
It was fashionable long before that. IIRC Mint had an embarrassing start being advertised as particularly secure (great for online banking!!) despite not really offering anything good in that department.
They do, and it also costs $9[1]. I bought one after I realized (the hard way) that the new iPad Pro doesn't have a headphone jack…

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MU7E2AM/A/usb-c-to-35-mm-...
Silicon Valley Preaches Diversity and Inclusion While Excluding Iranians
This source indicates that nearly 50% of people who play video games are women, but it does not indicate anything about the time spent gaming. It is quite possible that men are a bare majority of gamers but play a super-majority of the hours spent gaming.
Sure. A lot of people thought when Apple removed the headphone jack that it would make room for a bigger battery, specifically. But Apple didn't use the space that way. They put the Taptic Engine there instead. The bigger Taptic engine on e.g. an iPhone 8 vs. 6 is used for two things:

1) 7/8 series have a home button that doesn't actually push. The Taptic Engine mimics the feel of a button push.

2) It allows for different types of vibration, e.g. when hitting the corner of the screen while dragging or for more subtle notifications. (https://www.androidcentral.com/its-2018-and-android-phones-s...)

The iPhone 6 battery is 1810mAh, whereas the 8 is 1821mAh. So they didn't increase the battery size; they added the Taptic Engine instead, and got rid of the mechanical home button.

Articles gush about the Taptic Engine, but I'd still rather have my headphone jack back. And I liked the clicky home buttons.
AMA with codinghorror at noon PST on hackernoon.com
Too bad I never even heard of this.

I'd pay $10-15/month for a service which had world/indie/fringe cinema all in one place.

edit: the closest i've found, is Kanopy[0]. which is free with a library card. (with NYPL, i get 10 titles/month).

[0]: https://www.kanopy.com/
I thought part of Google's ranking algorithm includes how often a site is updated? Perhaps there's some inclusion of how often an article is accessed which also determines a page's ranking?
Designing for what people want is how you get a Homer Simpson car.

https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/The_Homer
it's used in gitea too
The article doesn’t provide any evidence about sales figures. The “nobody wants” phrase seems to just refer to the low reviews on the Apple store website, which are almost certainly due to people complaining about the lack of headphone jack in newer iPhones.
Performance and removing the Emacs keybinding layer that I think complicates the way I use the tool. But mostly performance.
Wasn't really what I was getting at... which is more in the lines of the oil industry is going the way of the dinosaurs we need to found some new industries with its profit in ordr to survive the next century. However, since you want to talk about it, oil companies fleece Canada as well...

"While royalty rates in Newfoundland are the highest in Canada, in Alberta they have fallen from a 40 per cent high during the 1970s to less than four per cent, and a complex system of exemptions ensures companies often pay even less."

That's insane.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/oct/...
Meanwhile there are two separate Nazi references in the SSIDs of my friend's building. This is, frankly, an idiotic line of discussion. I mean, smearing Chinese students (oh I forgot, you said "not generalizing" as though that means anything at all [yes, you were generalizing otherwise what is the relevance?]) because you saw some SSIDs, really!
his other service https://www.festivilia.com/ is interesting.

I had no idea so many film festivals exist.
One of the producers I used to work with would double the price for any one that said ‘just’ when describing the project. To him, anyone using ‘just’ was evidence they really had no understanding of what we had to do thereby grossly undervaluing the amount of work on our end.
I have to disagree.

CD's were easily replaced with usb drives and music streaming. However while you (and others) love wireless headphones and will never go back, so many others seem to hate them and refuse to use anything not wired (myself included)
> One can neither use the same headphones for a Mac and iPhone, nor charge an iPhone from a Mac using the cables that come with the devices.

The latter is very much true, but my headphones (not Apple ones) pair to two Bluetooth hosts at a time. I use them regularly with my laptop and my iPhone.

You have to pause the audio output from one to use the other, granted, but it's not a big deal.
Australia doesn't have ocean access and fishing industries?
Why 40% of us think we're in the top 5% (2014)
Maybe I'm blind or it's not rendering correctly, but, where is Amazon and Apple in this universe?
I was curious so I started looking at teardown images before and after the removal. It doesn't look like it was an issue with space. I also found this article.
https://bgr.com/2016/09/16/iphone-7-teardown-specs-headphone...
Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of everything is crap [0].

The 1% Rule says that in any online community, 1% of participants create content while 99% lurk [1].

I'll propose Panarky's Corollary that 90% of the crap is produced by 0.1% of the participants and then shared, liked and amplified by 90% of participants.

These 0.1% pathological participants are corporations advertising, governments propagandizing, zealots proselytizing, and trolls antagonizing.

Facebook can see these patterns better than anyone, and they could eliminate or de-rank the material from the 0.1% if they wanted to.

But the 0.1% is disproportionately incendiary and therefore profitable, so Facebook has a very strong incentive to look the other way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
If you think of CS as a distinct area (outside of math) then it is used there a lot. Especially in cryptography (RSA, etc.).
Say I'm a solo web developer and I've built informational websites for some doctors' offices and small hospitals. They want to have simple patient referral and appointment request forms on their websites (mostly they still do that stuff by phone and fax), but in order to comply with HIPAA, I'd have to adopt a whole bunch of infrastructure above and beyond the couple of semi-managed VPSs I have now, not to mention paperwork and self-audits and so forth. (Or at least that's my understanding.)

Is this Healthcare API just targeted at people building full-blown EMRs or is there something here that would help me handle small amounts of PHI like in the above scenarios?

Going by the examples on the pricing page, this looks like it would be massively cheaper than e.g. TrueVault [0] (who don't seem to publish their prices any more but IIRC start out in the thousands per month), if indeed this could be an alternative to TrueVault.

[0] https://www.truevault.com/pricing
One of the changes that made Google forget the old web is favoring https sites. This is a big benefit to new and commercial web sites because setting up SSL is still a burden for non-comercial publishers.
Exactly, if went to university of chicago medical center google may already have your data: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-google-university...
Thanks for this. I'm not sure I've ever done it with devs I don't know, but I absolutely should - especially for small projects.

Come to think of it, there's one random package that quietly solved the most mindbending pdf issues I've ever faced... Sounds like a good first person to drop a thank you note to!
My experience is similar. I recently bought a USB-C to DC jack adapter from Apple for use on my Pixel 2 phone. The sound on my SoundMagic E10 was flat and mushy. Even though the earphones are "only" rated as 46 Ohm.
Agreed. This article commits the error that I see all too often online: a variation of Halon's razor where people will attribute something they don't like to deliberate malice rather than seeking some other explanation.

I would be surprised if google is actually "forgetting" older web pages. I would think that the pages were still in the index but newer sites are just favored over older results.
Progressive Web App Privacy?
From what I can tell, there's no links anywhere on the site to that particular page, you have to know the exact term and search it: http://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/

How is Google supposed to find that out?!
"men" arent forcing "women" to work as nurses etc., nor are they stopping them from negotiating forcefully.

how is it sexism that nurses get paid less than office workers? thats wage inequality, not sexism.

And honestly, women tend to be more amicable... thats a trait thats hard to have if you want to get higher in the work hierachy, as thats often gained by walking over other people.

take a step back and reread his comment. each of his points are valid.
This is what I was looking for: https://github.com/aeickhoff/compact

Cool containers.
Explicitly mentioning “no cameras” is currently very off-putting because the expectation is that there are no cameras in private accommodations. It comes off as well as saying “We won’t file a frivolous damage claim against you.” That wasn’t something I was really worrying about, but, well, now I am.

There is one exception, and that is to clarify both where the cameras are and aren’t. Saying “We have a security camera over the garage door, but no cameras in the house” comes off much more sincerely.
I was going to comment on $15k being pretty far off, but apparently for a mediocre programmer in Brazil it's not that uncommon. Decent ones, though, can get far better salaries from what I've found. I've always thought of starting an outsourcing agency hiring programmers from underpaid countries, but the reality is that the good ones aren't as underpaid as you'd think, and the whole process is incredibly complicated, even if you have substantial ties+citizenship+connections in both the US and the country you're outsourcing to.

Also, if he gets a 10% raise every year, he'll be making 73x as much (21x as much with 3% inflation) at the end of a 45 year career. If he starts out at $15k, he'll end up at $1.1MM/year, $315k in 2019 dollars assuming a hefty 3% inflation. Not half bad for someone who doesn't care about doing his work well and can't google a sorting algorithm!
Long enough to be someone else's problem. System working as designed.
'.......am tempted to take a $400 loss just because the thought of getting on a plane again is making me feel sick.'

I think if you do this it will be a long time before you are able to fly again?

A friend of mine suffered a similar situation a couple of years ago. He was so nervous that he froze at the check-in desk.

As it happened, this turned out to be useful since it triggered some kind of procedure with the airline and assistance was offered immediately.

What happened then is that they took him to the VIP lounge where the pilot came and had a chat with him. He suggested my friend board the plane 15 minutes before anyone else just so he could get used to the idea - with assurances that he could get off again if he wanted to.

It turns out that was all that was needed; and the experience of being whisked through security with an air hostess on each arm was something he quite enjoyed too.

So, what I would say, is speak to the airline and tell them your concerns because they might be able to help you in a similar way?
“Lord, Teach Us to Pray”: Prayer Practice Affects Cognitive Processing [pdf]
Ray Dalio Makes Progress Through Reflection
The narrative of this article is just horrendous. Seems like it was sponsored by the Norwegian oil industry
I have one. I had to buy it as my 8 didn't come with it.

I think the louder supporters of the 3.5mm jack removal are a bit disingenuous with how simple BT is. I have several iDevices. As does my wife. If we turn on a BT speaker, we don't know which device it will connect to. Sometimes the last one, sometime whichever one responds to the speaker faster[0]. My BT headphones? Same thing; will it connect to my work phone? My personal phone? My iPad? My laptop? Who knows? Here's what I do know, A 3.5mm jack with always[1] connect to the device I want it to connect to.

[0] I'm sure someone will tell me I'm doing it wrong. Whatever, a 3.5mm jack still wins here.

[1] For most definitions of always.
I learn a lot when I make something, and I'm always looking to improve. It's a balance between getting work done the old way versus my real motivation is in the new better way.

Identifying it helps.
Still looking for an example of something valuable you found on 4chan/8chan that could not be found on a site with less "vileness".
I wonder -- if this report had come out today, would as many people have believed it? Would huge numbers of people question it much like people question global warming?
On the other hand, there's nothing magical about petroleum that can't be synthesized, given enough energy (electricity from solar/wind works), and simple water/CO2/etc to provide the building blocks for long-chain hydrocarbons. It's even more straightforward to start from cellulose or plant sugars.

I agree that for things like aircraft, there's unlikely to ever be an electrical substitute for the energy density of organic fuel. But that could be done entirely from renewables if needed.
Americans will just drill more.

Here is the thing: the US will be net energy exporter by 2021. As of now it is self-sufficient. At the time when we put such a emphasis on using less fossil fuels, we also have more and more countries producing the stuff.

All it did (Norwegians not drilling) is raised prices for the oil exported by the US. Thank you! Recently it has been very cheap. Hopefully this will help a bit.

So that's global perspective.

The local perspective I'm happy that Norwegians are so wealthy they don't need to drill as much anymore or can focus on other issues then providing to the Sovereign Fund. Good for them!
So do you use a sling blade instead? Just because you’re not an axe murderer as you’ve stated doesn’t mean you not just a murderer using a different method.
250 million people may be using Pinterest currently, but I don't think Pinterest can maintain this position with just one product. It's outdated and most of the content is just copied from elsewhere. More and more people are shifting to Instagram/Reddit.

I personally know people who were using Pinterest back in 2015-2016 but have since then shifted to Instagram.
My pet theory is that it's proof of the Mandela Effect[0]... That or different people think differently and value different things. Nah, probably the Mandela Effect.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Commonly_held_fal...