skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed.

What does high end even mean? A modern high rise with high end amenities like a roof top swimming pool and nice interior appliances and craftsmanship?

I visited a friend in Atlanta who lived in such a high rise at a fraction of the rent of what a similar unit would cost in SF. A vast majority of the price of housing is from the supply-demand of that particular piece of land. Sticking a pool and some quartz countertops in there doesn't suddently make it ONLY viable as a rich-man's home, incapable of satisfying any of the middle-class demand that is overflowing in the area.
Your periodic reminder that - despite the propaganda campaign run by nuclear advocates to make it seem like being anti-nuclear is to be anti-science - nuclear power remains massively expensive and even less safe than people think.

Here's the most comprehensive peer-reviewed survey around:

We summarize the results of a recent statistical analysis of 216 nuclear energy accidents and incidents (events). The dataset is twice as large as the previous best available. We employ cost in US dollars as a severity measure to facilitate the comparison of different types and sizes of events, a method more complete and consistent that the industry-standard approach. Despite significant reforms following past disasters, we estimate that, with 388 reactors in operation, there is a 50% chance that a Fukushima event (or more costly) occurs every 60–150 years. We also find that the average cost of events per year is around the cost of the construction of a new plant. This dire outlook necessitates post-Fukushima reforms that will truly minimize extreme nuclear power risks. Nuclear power accidents are decreasing in frequency, but increasing in severity.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462961...
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I no longer need my machine
Here are some of the things I tried: cut out wheat, cut out refined sugars, lift heavy things 3 to 5 times a week, do an elimination diet (whole 30 is a good one), get a good supplement stack (Standard Process has good stuff)...

I'm not sure what else I tried. I think the changes in my diet made the biggest difference.
Begin Japanology – Name Seals / Hanko (2006) [video]
Shape’s latest product protects smaller businesses from credential stuffing
Make sure you install the administrator certificate with its private key...
Bundle the private key with the cert.
We've wandered for the largest part of our existence and just recently settled down.
We're still hardwired for that and some of us find immense joy in that.
Haha! I have I think 800+ tabs open (not loaded) in firefox on my personal laptop, and who knows how many on my phone. This is with 27mg of Concerta and 40mg of Strattera every day. Caffeine's next to useless for me. I get a 15-45 minute energy burst on it in followed by a few hours of extreme drowsiness, which is usually not worth it.
It's also one of the contributing reasons why restaurants in regions with such cultures are more expensive. Patrons who take up tables for longer means that fewer patrons can be served per service which means that overhead costs must be distributed among fewer patrons.
The character was also voiced by George Carlin, so that may also be part of it.
The problem isn't just that the total population is declining. It is that the dependent population relative to working population is increasing. This leads to all sorts of distortions to how things are supposed to be.
> And I don't believe the Author suffers from it.

The author was diagnosed after multiple sessions with a medical professional.
I posted this because I find it interesting as a form of authentication, compared to a signature. Especially with one person having multiple seals, for different purposes.
Yes, when people try to explain things they will often say it’s easy in hopes that it will help the learner relax and not feel overwhelmed.

But that backfires the moment something is not easy for the learner. It’s completely demotivating.

It’s better in my opinion to say, “it’s okay if you don’t understand everything at first.” If the goal is to keep the learner from being immediately discouraged.
More importantly, how did Shakespeare feel about bathrooms for the transgender?
For me, the etmyology (and context) of "script kiddies" laid within mIRC warscripting. Lots and lots of proto-hacker troublemakers creating various low-level ICMP attacks, ping floods, and so on.

Timeline is generally about the same time as well.
You don't use tags for searching for answers. You use tags to browse questions on topics you know a lot about and you have a high chance of being able to answer. Most of the questions on stack overflow I know nothing about so I browse the ruby tag where a lot of the questions are in the range of what I could answer.

Thats why they have the requirement for a tag "Could someone be an expert in this tag?"
What if you get struck by lightning? Better make that a faraday cage ziploc bag.
No I would generally would consider countries with recent wars and tensions which is why I brought both territorial disputes and the previous war.
Location: Sydney, Australia
Remote: Yes, preferably - at least part of the time (I have a quiet home office and 100Mbit+ FTTH internet)
Willing to relocate: Maybe, within AU/NZ - lets talk.
Technologies: C#/.NET, Powershell, Windows, Linux (Centos/Ubuntu), Ansible, Octopus Deploy, T-SQL, Redis, HAProxy, IIS, Elasticsearch/ELK, Graphite/Grafana
Résumé/CV: Yes, email me.
Email: will@willhughes.me

I've spent the last ~7 years working for a high traffic hotel metasearch company that was acquired late last year. My title was "Devops Engineer" but if it involved IT, our small team managed it for the whole org.
I primarily supported our production infrastructure on a mix of physical and virtual hardware, and cloud services. DNS, CDN, LB, Logging, Metrics, Monitoring, Deployment Orchestration, CI/CD Build Pipeline, and more.

For my next job, I'd like a role involving IT Operations - a mix of backend dev/automation and IT Infrastructure management/monitoring/support. Somewhere that's low BS, and things can get done without endless meetings.

If you're looking for someone to join a team of like minded folks, give me a shout.
What's the advantage of this over just using the existing AWS SAM with Ruby and your current favorite framework like Rails or Sinatra?
i said github not git
Exactly. The "luggage people" might have even saved some lifes.
"According to a witness some baggage fell from overhead compartments during the hard landing and passengers removed them in order to free the passage." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492
https://www.newsru.com/russia/11may2019/luggage.html
Only once the restaurant is at capacity. If there's at least one other of your type of table open, then the restaurant loses zero marginal dollars by you being there (and arguably gains slightly by looking busy and more attractive).

I'm very conscious about leaving a full restaurant as soon as I'm done with my meal but that's maybe only 10% of my dining experiences ever. I'm perfectly happy to linger at a half full restaurant for as long as I want.
This is commonly misreported. A 2010 study found that answers to questions like "Did you experience a lot of stress yesterday?" leveled out between $60,000 and $90,000. How satisfied people said they were with their lives continued to increase.[1]

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489
I met someone like this once, he used to hang out under the overpass near the Sunnyvale Caltrain station. He liked to joke that he had "Very strong opinions about very unimportant things." He was often reading a book and I talked with him about some of them. He lived the way he did because he felt that the human body was made to be nomadic rather than sedentary. If you asked if he was homeless he would say, "Nope, I live right here on this planet."
I think the point of the OP was that pollution and long-term storage are not priced in.

Try coming up with a price for safely storing nuclear waste for the next few thousand years.
I wonder how it will react to random input, I mean me just typing non sense
Plot twist ... It was a Bitcoin.
> In the US pretty much every restaurant I've been to hands me the check right after I finish my last bite.

Where in the US is this? In every place I've been to, and I've traveled across a good deal of the country, I often have to flag down a waiter/waitress to get the bill!

I loved all the "pay in advance" restaurants in Japan, or the ones where there is a call button I could press to ask for the bill.

I've spent plenty of time lingering at American restaurants, on a few memorable occasions I've stayed from 6 right up until closing time. Try to avoid doing that, and give an extra tip if I do!
GDB text user interface [1] is much easier and productive to use than this albeit it doesn't offer syntax highlighting.

[1] https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gdb/html_chapter/gdb_19....
Trees in SQL with Prime Numbers
1215 MW during the day when it’s sunny. Not 24/7/365. What is the carbon footprint of enough energy storage to handle that?
Some of those are toxic to fish and insects. The soap will still mess up the ecosystem in the lake if it doesn't have a good flow of water in and out of the lake.

Jojoba oil is roughly 12% Eugenol, which is used to euthanize fish (other cheaper Eugenol oils are typically used though). Peppermint Oil is a pesticide (specifically the Menthol). Those were the only 2 I looked up, I suspect several of the others would imbalance the ecosystem too.

Just because a product contains only natural ingredients that are safe for humans, doesn't mean its safe for use in small bodies of water.
In case you have to check like I did, Kilwa is in present day Tanzania.

The Portuguese colonized the east African coast but were run off by the Arabs and Africans in the region. Intermarriages between Arabs and the local Bantu led to the creation of a new tribe, the Swahili
SF journalist says police raided his home after he refused to identify source
Save the jokes for reddit
Yeah. There's a study referenced in "why we sleep". I'll have to find it. IIRC, the number given there was that about 50% of ADHD could be traced back to bad sleep.

I have a friend who knows a dentist. The dentist said that when he sees signs of sleep issues (apnea, but he might have seem more) in his patient's mouth, he recommends they get treated. And very often, if the patient had ADHD symptoms, the symptoms went away after getting the sleep apnea treated.

And lastly, yeah. I Also get a lot of ADHD symtpoms depending on my sleep quality/quantity.
I would not have guessed the first use referred to a shell script.
OK, when you mix that caustic potash (AKA Potassium Hydroxide) with vegetable fats, a chemical reaction called saponification occurs and you get surfactants. This is exactly how they made soap in the olden days.

Fish are extremely sensitive to surfactants, as their skin is covered with a thin protective fatty membrane that gets dissolved.

If you're still not convinced: go buy a goldfish, put a drop of this stuff in his bowl, and watch him die.
Damn, I was hoping this would be about debugging vimscript.
Great minds think alike. Unfortunately we can only speculate.
What does vetting an 18 yr old for a 60k unsecured debt look like?
> Everyone individual needs to cook thrice a day (or at least once a day + be damn good at packaging it)

Some meals are generally not regarded as cooking, putting cereal and milk in a bowl, making toast, slapping a few ingredients on a sandwich, those will always be cheaper and easier to just do yourself. Apart from that there are many meals you can easily make yourself and have last for 2-3 meals or amortize the time over the number of people eating it.

Tonight I'll be making spaghetti bolognese for under $10AU and it will last a huge dinner and two lunches, it takes under 10 minutes to shop for and half an hour to make, the majority of which will be spent on entertainment while I stir the pots every couple of minutes, the "damn good at packaging" is putting it in microwavable containers. If I was having this delivered I'd by looking at $20AU+ for a single meal, if it was eat-in I'd blow which of the time saving travelling and waiting to be served anyway. Other meals can be even less effort, like when you've got a rice cooker doing the heavy lifting.

Outsourcing food production saves little time, costs a lot more and will often deliver worse results, especially if you factor dietary factors into "worse results".
ADHD does suck. It's not about fitting the patterns of society, it's about being able keep your shit together and get things done.

No matter how you live with ADHD there will always be distractions pulling you away from what you need to do. There will always be things you should remember but don't, things you should have done at a specific time but were distracted and forgot.

It doesn't matter what society you live in or what the cultural norms are, those of us with ADHD are lacking some basic functions that makes life harder. And it sucks.
Likely because women were shackled to the kitchen before they burnt their bras. Feminism..at its advent..created this narrative that working outside is great and household work is holding them back from progressing towards gender equality.

However this didn’t translate as much to having children. Despite feminism and higher education and financial independence, women continue to have children at the same rate or higher than before. If anything, impoverished women choose to have lesser children due to the financial burden they’d create for them.

This is confounding to me. Maybe it’s the influence of religion or the biological imperative is stronger because mundane and menial tasks like cooking and even child rearing can be outsourced to cooks, day care and schools.

On a different note, cooking is a communal activity. In societies where work isn’t all consuming, communal bonding occurs through cooking. And so it’s a prized skill to learn. Cooking as a service is brilliant for any economy that places work culture over communal culture. So it will succeed here in the US.
You may have chanced upon this already but here is a wonderfully explained (IMHO) intro to Kalman filters: https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture...
My pleasure.

The set tends toward the pessimistic side, but I find that more credible.

Ophul's earlier bibliography (Ecology & the Politics of Scarcity) includes numerous works on both sides of the limits question, including Khan and Simon, John Maddox (The Doomsday Syndrome: https://www.worldcat.org/title/doomsday-syndrome/oclc/959523...), and others, all confirmed cornucopians.

There's a literature from the 1950s - 1960s that I find particularly interesting. It's from a period before the question became hugely politicised (as it did with Limits to Growth), and when you could find quite sober explorations from both the side of growth and limits. One of the more interesting of these is by Charles Galton Darwin, grandson of Charles Darwin, and with a ludicrously impressive resume. Truth is that human population was exploding in the period after WWII, and concerns were widespread. At least some of the lessening of concern since then can be directly attributed to the awareness-raising. Ophuls was exploring the question itself in his first book, and I think makes the case better and clearer than just about anyone over the case of limits. The fundamental idea being not that there is some specific limit and threshold that can be specified precisely, but that limits exist, and with exponential growth (constant percentage growth), those are met very quickly. His read of the likely future trajectories of various countries and world regions -- the US, USSR, Europe, China, India, Africa, and South America, has proved quite accurate IMO. China most especially. Ophuls is a political theorist, and captured the political dynamics well.

The histories of the world through the lens of energy -- Smil and Weissenbacher's books -- are most interesting to me. Weissenbacher is distinctly political, Smil far less so. His "just the facts" approach may be a snoozer for some, but I found it makes the point all the more impressively through its lack of exaggeration or emotion.

I still need to look at Cohen in depth, but am given to believe he's among the most credible demographers looking at the carrying capacity question.
This argument doesn’t jive with the facts that the scientific method was required for us to have computers. It’s a simple fact, which you can read about. The complexity of solid state physics meant that early electronics had issues that couldn’t be resolved until a complete understanding of quantum mechanics was made.

Also making transistors doesn’t have to say anything about psychology. The field stands on its own. So does the advance of medicine and psychology via the scientific method.

“We can try nearly futile psychoanalytic talk therapy on the schizophrenic patient, or we can give him 300 to 500 milligrams a day of clozapine. The scientific treatments are hundreds or thousands of times more effective than the alternatives.” — Carl Sagan
It is a cross-platform product
which readily comes with server components, logger components, IPC, many DB connectors and UI components if you are on windows, android or iOS.

Language-wise, UI design-time lets you execute code such as db queries while designing your screens. It is almost completely orthogonal. It has no GC which makes for a faster runtime and writing free in finally is not something that is easy to forget (remember orthogonal) and immediately jumps out as an error when skimming code. Data modules enforce a separation of concerns, visually seeing component properties enables another form of remembering setup parameters.

Tooling-wise, you have runtime stack traces thanks to jedi library. It can show memory leaks on shutdown by enabling a flag. You have package manager baked into the UI, compiler is blazingly fast and generates fast executables.

With all this, for example, you could concoct a db editor easily in a few hours.
Indeed. I can't remember whether it was used before then on BBs (it would surprise me if it wasn't to be honest), but it was definitely in use widely by the time all the mIRC customisation scripts began to be a thing.

Due to the time-frame and the crowd I hung out with at the time, i can definitively say that was between '94 and '97.

I would find it very hard to believe that Australian high schoolers were at the bleeding-edge however, no matter how advanced we were, which tells me the real origin of the term must be significantly earlier than that...
I write this way to make it easier to see when I’ve missed a comma, and also for editor macros.

I’ll often reformat when I’m done so it fits our code review style.

Also I’m usually working systemverilog so 5-10 parameters are common and 50 or more isn’t rare.
What are these "good" degrees, and what are the "bad" degrees? Have you actually looked at data or are you just going off gut feeling here?
How many Fukushimas will we (society) accept every 150 years in order to stop climate change? That's really the only question that matters.
"I got my homework done that day according to schedule!" :)
Probably to write Windows apps without being dependant to JVM/.NET ?
You can also hit up Bishops in Cool Springs and they carry it too.
I'm interested to try flutter out on chromeos, I might get a chromebox, the acer and hp i5 U series are the recommended ones for Android development.
Developing flutter without the need for a simulator or a phone connected via usb, is cool. Maybe the next step is develope android flutter apps on android.

With regards PWAs, maybe more so on mobile, flutter apps are AOT, Ahead Of Time, compiled for release so they should have better start up times than apps that run on a vm.

The flutter wiki has stuff on the diffent modes.
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter%27s-modes

Debug mode "Optimizes for fast develop/run cycles." runs on the Dart VM and allows for statefull hot reload.
> I learned via a friend that there are many hidden addicts in society. There are professionals who shoot H just to maintain and avoid getting dope sick.

A typical daily heroin addiction costs $100-$200 a day, or ~55k/yr. Some professions can cover the expense, but it costs serious money. When continuing with your career while addicted the user is put into a hard situation. Too many sick days from an empty bank account, a bad deal, or a lack of access can cost someone their career.
Agreed. I'd go a step further and say that "easier" coupled with in-your-face accessibility/visibility (e.g. ubiquity of Macros in Microsoft Tools) made for a powerful combo and provided tangible illustrations to programmers and non-programmers alike of the power of software - especially with simple tactical solutions. This exposure can be inspirational to all involved. At least for me, it was enough to switch careers entirely [1]. My first practical creation of any code in a working context was in response to the inability (lack of skills) of my employer to fix a problematic software data input form - resulting in inefficiency and degradation in my co-workers quality of (work) life.

Many of the comments here have focused around the skills and personality traits of coders. I agree with most: problem solving, some level of aptitude and curiosity are all important parts of the basic mix for success. Most of the discussion around motivation either has circled around economic benefits or some self-driven desire to learn.

Again, while not invalid motivators - I think a BIG one that's not been discussed is the general allure to the raw transformational power enabled by software (automation). With only a few lines of code, disruption can be created to make things easier, make things faster, make things safer, make things better - with immediacy and impact. In my case, I used it to disrupt inefficiencies and accelerate solving problems. As a factory process engineer, that kinda power was way too intoxicating to look away from. But manufacturing wasn't quite ready to embrace software quite yet - so I made the career jump. For me, I wish coding camps or other channels would have been accessible in small remote towns in the Midwestern part of the U.S. back then, it would have accelerated my confidence and given me a channel to seek a career. Instead the luck of the dotcom boom opened doors in job fairs where I had plenty to offer in the technical realm but little to show in terms of code at the time. Nevertheless, 15+ years and going in software has been a great ride thus far and one that I couldn't have predicted.

[1] https://medium.com/@boilerupnc/ten-lines-9a8403984bbf?source...
> It's all-natural, organic, kosher, and vegan. Vegetable oil-based.

None of those things means it's safe to put into a body of water. Leave no trace.
Cool! Is there a tutorial for cell shading? (The Borderlands 2 or Paper Mario look.)
Previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396563
Schedule an appointment with a clinical psychologist who specializes in ADHD and ask to be evaluated. It may take some looking to find someone who is accepting adult patients.
Modernity's Spell
Show HN: Embedding Math Equations in Medium.com
At first I was offput by the text on the bottles as well, but I've come to appreciate the uniqueness and it is mostly just about God and love. No more different than your typical Christian. Plus, they make really great soap.
That doesn't sound right. I think the difference is that C++ doesn't treat that as an array declaration so it doesn't require a complete type.
How is Dropbox better than rsync+vps? A lot of innovation in tech consists of making things that are straightforward for a technical person to do and making them trivial for an ordinary person to do.