skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very succinctly put. Reminded me of this brief clip:

Milton Friedman - Your Greed or Their Greed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

> Is there a socialist government where the powerful aren’t rich in a much more inequitable distribution of wealth

Perhaps:

In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110201/in-norway-start-ups-say...
Building a mall would be more in keeping with the original intent. Remember, Notre Dame is on prime Paris real estate because the church served a critical role in peoples' everyday lives back then. Today, Parisians are increasingly irreligious, so it no longer serves that purpose. So that prime land was dedicated to an important civic institution. Now, it's dedicated to what is primarily a tourist attraction.
I was browsing reddit and noticed lots of people complaining about persisting injuries from practicing BJJ. Do they handle youth BJJ differently to protect from these types of risks?
The dramatic death added is of course fiction. But the economic damage of Chernobyl is still very hard to measure. For example, 20% of reindeer slaughtered in Sweden (of 50-75k per year) had to be discarded because of radiation for years after the incident.
This wasn’t in Ukraine, or even in the Soviet Union. It was in Sweden.

We talked about CS137 and radiation levels of meat and other things for many years even though we were never of course in any risk of suddenly bleeding from our skin or having an increased rate of birth defects. The levels were low but still very much there. You were fine so long as you didn’t overconsume. A lot of things had too high levels to be sold, which affected a lot of companies (the reindeer industry is just one example.)
Thanks. I probably misread that and I edited my comment above accordingly.
Quite. But I see no allusion to either administration in the story. President Trump is named twice in headlines for unrelated stories on the right sidebar.
The female version of this taken even further is pretty much literally a Black Mirror episode. Season 2 Episode 1
How effective is a double layer of mosquito netting at stopping fungal spores ? The workers in the photos don't seem to be wearing any sort of protection equipment either. This seems like a very carelessly conducted experiment. The fungus is in the wild at this point. Fungi are very persistent and our immune system is not well equipped to deal with them, much more care should be required to avoid release in the environment of a pathogen agent not thoroughly tested and evaluated.
Even ignoring Sega's dire financial situation at the time, Segagaga had some uh..."issues" that may have prevented its localization:

>For the most part, once you've assigned your staff, this process is fairly automated. You pretty much just kick back, speed up time, and watch as the numbers pile up. Sometimes different random events will pop up, like an employee getting married (which makes them happy), getting divorced (which makes them depressed), making friends or enemies with other programmers, discovering efficient design tricks or coming across some nasty bugs. You can give specific orders to each person, telling them to work harder, or to take a break to study, or take a rest. You can give various items to alter various stats as well, most of which just refresh their stamina. (One of the skills, which shows up as a Question Mark, summons an underage girl wearing a gym uniform, who refreshes each staff member with incredible boosts.)[0]

[0]https://hg101.kontek.net/segagaga/segagaga.htm
From commonplace to rarer tragedy – declining child mortality across the world
The whole "didn't flee rape charges" (or some form of that claim as the 'charges' thing hadn't happened at that time IIRC) situation is always odd to me.

Sweeden considers espionage a political crime and does not extradite people for political crimes. Sweeden seems like a great place to be if you're wanted for political crimes. Not a great situation in life, but a good place to be for that.

The usual theory in response to that is that the US was going to kidnap him from Sweeden or something (it seems to be the standard response I get). I find the idea that a kidnapping would be less likely in the UK or Ecuador fairly absurd. If the US (or any nation) really wanted him that bad, it seems like a first world country that doesn't extradite political crimes would be a RELATIVELY great place to be... and if things are as folks say about governments wanting to kidnap him, I think they could have done it long before the embassy events too.

I think Assange at some point (maybe the start, who knows) really has struggled with the "truth" in favor of grooming his own narrative. This is hardly unique to him, politicians do it all the time too, but it also makes his stated motives and explanations hard to belive. On their old Facebook page (not sure if they still had one) in the early days if you followed up and asked "hey want happened to what you said you were going to release today" they'd delete your post in short order, and any post about their past plans to release whatever it is they had promised ... IMO their willingness to control the information for their own purposes seemed to betray whatever people wanted Wikileaks to be. Not that they should just dump it without consideration but their actions did not seem to follow the ideals.

This article talks about "never about the law", and yet in the end he's charged with helping someone try to break into a computer. IMO that is a step beyond what a journalist should do. That's the law, it's a legitimate law IMO, and we'll see how the trial goes as for proving it and what if any punishment there is.
> you knew how it would (eventually) end for him

Deep Throat, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein did fine [1].

I’m not convinced that, had Wikileaks filtered their material like the ICIJ did with the Panama Papers [2], they would have been charged. Ignoring the collateral damage caused by Assange’s decision not to curate, like every journalist is trained to do, doesn’t make it immaterial.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_%28Watergate%29

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
I recall some clip from the Ronaldo movie where he takes the camera crew to his bedroom and points at his bed and says something along the lines of "this is my bed, it is very important - I spend almost 12 hours a day here:

I sleep for 7 hours, I get up in the morning, I train, I then sleep another 5 hours to recover, then get up and train some more"

The guy has virtually no life beyond training - and he optimises his schedule to squeeze even more training time out of every day.

Say what you like, but I find it to be a little bit inspiring to see someone at the top deciding to dedicate themselves to seeing just how much further they can push themselves just for the sake of being even better...
From what I can tell, nothing in the Venice Charter says the reconstruction must be identical. On the contrary:

Article 12. Replacements of missing parts must integrate harmoniously with the whole, but at the same time must be distinguishable from the original so that restoration does not falsify the artistic or historic evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Charter
Welp... that is if you want to interact with the people there.

Youtube lets you make money. Medium just makes readers frustrated.
I find myself wondering if going half and half for lighting styles (original radiant and the darker version of later) would be a good approach. It certainly would be an educational contrast like showing bleached and restored original bright flat color Greeco-Roman statues side by side and highlighting both the "true original" and the "traditional" depiction from its wear. Perhaps a bit gaudy in some ways so I can see why that contrast approach wouldn't be favored for aesthetic reasons.
I think you are missing the point that we risk releasing a fungi that kills billions of us as a result.
New Tricks for XFS (2018)
sometimes I read an article, like this one, that has a sound basis in science, look at the headline, look at where its published, think about the target audience that will read the article, and can't help but question the "why" that article was published.

Is there any reason at all to publish an article about the gender of research mice in the Guardian except to push some kind of political gender agenda?

I ask specifically because of the article's last 4 paragraphs. They are so laden with gender agenda it kind of blows my mind.
Reduce, reuse, recycle

That has always been the mantra and always will.

I'm certainly opposed to God forbids opening new nuclear plants, but I'm also opposed to closing existing ones, those are different arguments and should be treated as such. Nuclear fission is a relic of early 50's, but we already paid the co2 cost of building said plants, therefore should continue operating to reduce further damage to the biosphere by releasing more co2/methane. But we don't need to build new nuclear plants, as they are overly expensive and the safer you try to make them the more expensive they get, not to mention that they take a huge amount of time to actually get built and in the meantime release ungodly amounts of co2 with the colossal amounts of steel and concrete needed for the construction, a co2 budget that will take a long time to be recovered
Cuba?

>Capitalism was conceptualized as the most effective method of containing these impulses.

This is terribly incorrect. It only increases these impulses, competition is at its heart. Everything becomes gamified, a competition, a race to the top while simultaneously pushing everyone else to the bottom.

I'm really interested to watch some of the markets pop up in Cuba because I think there needs to be a healthy balance between Capitalism and Socialism for innovation, and care for the workers who produce literally everything.
Britain tried to 'erase' India's third gender
More expensive than solar and wind per MW comparison misses something essential.

If you can't figure it out, you are missing the big picture.

Nuclear is not full solution for all energy needs, but it has that something that makes it very effective part in the mix together with wind and solar.

Anyone?
Have been playing around with urql on a project for a couple of months now, mainly due to the small bundle size. Urql is 7.5kB min+gzip, where Apollo and Relay add ~30kB min+gzip!

Great to see Formidable investing further in it, I am very excited to see first class extensibility.
Maybe the reason you don't have the luxury is because the school never gave you the luxury so you didn't have the opportunity to work out something to retain it.
This guy? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/texas-indicts-co...

It's absolutely routine for basically anyone accused of sexual assault to find a whole bunch of men reporting that they seemed to be a standup guy. That doesn't mean they remain a standup guy when left alone around women.
With freeipa I meant server, not client. Installing is not enough, configuring it into usable state is needed too (i.e. running freeipa-server-install or freeipa-replica-install).

It is possible to run other services of such configured httpd, but you need to be careful. When freeipa wanted mod_nss, you had to use mod_nss, not mod_ssl (though they switched it); when freeipa wants to use gssproxy, you are going to use gssproxy too. These changes can happen during upgrades, and it is up to you to fix everything after such change.

The project doesn't recommend to run anything else with the same server; you are free to try though.

The point was, that with docker or another container system, any such problems are irrelevant, and it allows you to have separate service instances without having to run separate VMs.
$Tr Coach: The Management, Leadership and Coaching Principles of Bill Campbell
What would it give you to compile scheme to glsl? Glsl is already a pretty direct yet high level representation of shaders. Why put another layer on top of it?
I was not ignoring you. My point is the 19th century changes were made in a spirit of restoring the church to its original design. The current gargoyles may have been carved in the 19th century but gargoyles were placed on cathedrals starting in the 13th century and certainly fit well with the medieval gothic style. The original gargoyles of Notre dame, according to Wikipedia, were removed in 1726 so again this is an example of the 19th century changes being a restoration to the original state.

Bolting on visible concrete, steel, transparent glass is a clear discontinuity from the medieval design.
This is bad advice in general. For every person who happens to love something that is lucrative, there are hundreds who love things that won't put food on the table. If your advice doesn't distinguish between the two, its bad advice.
Needs or wants? Could you conserve another 40% if you tried?
> 1- Distribution channel

Write searchable posts on topics people actually search for. Post it on Reddit, HN, etc. Those are specifically for distribution.

> 2- Autosave draft

Write it offline, copy paste it for online. Btw WordPress has had this for 10(?) years or something similar.

> 3- Social plugin integration

There are existing solutions for this, see IFTTT, Zapier, etc.
I don't think that holds up to evidence. In tribes largely untouched by civilisation blood revenge is still fairly common. These are social norms, but without a neutral judge one party might execute revenge, the other party doesn't see their fault and instead retaliates, and you get an endless circle of bloodshed (which has killed entire tribes).

One of the major achievements making civilisation possible is a judge or court that can decide who is right and and who is wrong, preventing BS from spiraling in endless retaliation and counter-retatiation. In a small system that can work with just one universally respected person or person of authority, but once you scale it up to an entire country codified laws are incredibly useful for this. Codified laws means we need people making laws, which is exactly what the entire job of modern politicians is. Sure, we could have civilisation without politicians, but our countries would have to be a lot smaller than they are; a justice system without laws just doesn't scale.
Intelligence is like physical beauty. It probably wouldn't be terribly productive to tell your kids all the time how beautiful they are even though attractive people tend to be more successful in life.
It looks from the renders like the telescope has solar panels, antennas, etc on the sun/earth-side of the shield. Wouldn't sending a standalone shield screw that up as it would shade them?
Coding on Your Smartphone with Vim [video]
Building serverless applications with the AWS CDK – and testing them locally
There is a lot of FUD spread about what WikiLeaks has published. I see the same accusations being repeated over and over, rarely with any explanation of the actual meat of the accusations.

For example, you say that WikiLeaks has released a huge amount of material of zero public interest, and give the example of them supposedly outing a gay man in Saudi Arabia. WikiLeaks actually published a huge cache of Saudi diplomatic cables, which are obviously of immense public interest. Those cables detail the Saudi government's backroom dealings with foreign countries and internal repression. One cable mentions the arrest by the Saudi government of a gay man. That is the cable that people use to accuse WikiLeaks of outing someone in Saudi Arabia.
Claiming that the fallout is in no part due to exploding nuclear plants is disingenuous.
I've been thinking the same. Furthermore speccing out a desktop box with big specs is just so expensive with Apple.

That said, my "travel laptop" is my old 2015 MacBook Pro and I absolutely love it. If it breaks though... I just can't imagine I can justify OSX anymore.

My main concern is the operating system, honestly. I really enjoy OSX, and I hate dealing with random things breaking. OSX is really stable for me, especially if I don't upgrade to new versions right away (lol). I don't know what I can do about the OS..

I really really wish someone would make a pay-only, detailed linux OS. Nail the hardware, drivers, etc. Make the OS pretty, but don't try and reinvent every app under the sun - be sustainable. I'd happily pay $100-200 (yearly for new versions too) for an OS experience on Linux that tried hard to fight those time consuming issues and gave me an OSX experience. Argh.
There is a market for speculation, black and grey market finance, and gambling that will always give Bitcoin and other deflationary type cryptocurrencies value. People will "play" in these markets just like they play in casinos. The question is how much value and how realistic current numbers are. I have little doubt that if say 5% of BTC holders tried to cash in the price in USD would crash hard.

Cryptocurrency in a broader sense is an emerging technology and will probably find other areas of utility. I feel like we don't even know what it is yet.
Plug: here's my article about current state of affairs in Linux

https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/
That is a good reaction to Godot's growing popularity.
What makes you think simulating intimacy is harder than impersonating a human during conversation?

I remember reading about researchers constructing a fake monkey mother out of blankets, a heat lamp, and a milk bottle. The babies seemed to get what they needed in terms of intimacy.

Likewise Paro the Seal seems able to help elders cope with loneliness.
Here's an exercise: try to find an actual fact in that blog post and then look to see whether it was in fact not covered in the stories about Assange. For example, “he wasn't fleeing rape charges” is true only to the extent that journalists said “charges” without explaining that it was an arrest warrant which could lead to those charges — that was heavily covered at the time and for the subsequent years in which it ended up, among other things, being litigated to the U.K. Supreme Court[1], all of which got a ton of publicity for years.

Again, I'm not saying anything about the actual merits of the case or the conduct of any of the parties involved, only that I don't think a good discussion will come out of an inflamatory blog post by someone who lacks particular legal expertise, knowledge about the case, and seems to be using it as grist for preexisting grievances about “corporate media”.

Accordingly, I'm not going to reply further.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
How would you see using the knowledge that you are smart to your advantage in a given field? You still have to do the work? (my line of thinking is something like: You produce what you produce in your field. To me the effort you put in matters the most. Smart is a meta quality to your work)
White-collar tech staff may have it good, but their workplaces are undemocratic
> Also right now many adtech companies are going bankrupt.

As someone currently working in IT for an adtech company, I can at least provide one data point in that the company I work for is slowly (but surely) dying.
What happened at chernobyl WAS Not a "worse case scenario", had the entire with the other 3 reactors plant exploded in a thermal explosion. Now that would had been a worse case scenario, and today there are still RBMK reactors in operation

You wont ever hear of such a risk from a solar plant exploding...

If you want to discuss the safety of nuclear energy, then own up the risk and face the criticism, to do otherwise is misleading and cowardly
On Platforms
How is it stealing from the future? The future can raze it if they want. Razing it now is stealing that option from the future.
Have you considered open-sourcing that and posting it on HN? I'd use it.
I don't think that's true? At the exact L2 point, the forces are zero, anywhere off that point, they are non-zero, away from the point, from what I understand.

Ref: https://www.space.com/30302-lagrange-points.html "L1, L2 and L3 are all unstable points with precarious equilibrium."
But Chernobyl was not a worst case scenario. It was bad but the Soviet government did respond to it seriously. It could've been much worse had they not.

In fact, that's what this article gets entirely wrong about the film. The most disturbing thing the film highlights is not the gruesome deaths of a handful of individuals. It's how the disaster could've been much worse.
Beach volleyball is played typically with 2's or 4's. The rules are slightly different, court size is smaller. There are no positions in 2's, there are no position faults.

Feel free to make analogies between two other similar sports, such as Competition Karate and Taekwon-Do.
I personally didn't find it easy to consume, and others here didn't either (see the confusion about what it is, asking for context, etc). The links aren't clickable, there are multiple newline-separated links in a single cell, etc.

I'm not just objecting to the use of Google; part of an open dataset is its ease of use.

As for alternatives, I agree, it's hard to rival Google Sheets in terms of the creator's time. But again, for someone invested in curating open datasets, I'd hope for a bit of time invested in curating their own data — even if it remains within Google sheets.
"Stealing the land. If we built a shopping moll there, future generations could build something significant to their society."

They can still do that. Not tearing down a building today does not prevent future generations from doing so if need be. The only choice today that steals from the future is razing the structure because that's the one thing that cannot be undone.
Wrote this recently, seems relevant to a lot of recent discussions on here.
The article also seems unclear about the cause of the fire. Arson is not currently suspected. There are recent arson attacks on other churches in france which caused some confusion with this fire.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/frances-other-burning-c...
For something like this? An extreme amount. There are other options (a vaccine is already being tested) that can't mutate into a pathogen that kills off more people than the thing it was supposed to cure. Let's finish vetting those out completely before we move to what can only be described as the unstable nuclear option.
Let's assume expectations scale with budget.

The original cost estimate was $0.5B [1]. Now it's roughly at $10B. So there was a 20x cost increase.

So if we assume original expectations it would need to exceed original expectations by 20x just to make up for the cost growth.

Of course we also need to consider all the other NASA telescopes that didn't get funded to feed this one. They all would likely have exceeded expectations too. It's hard to estimate those, but at least a factor of two addition seems reasonable. So it has to be 40x better just to not exceed

BTW nothing of this is cynical. It's just basic cost-benefit analysis.

It would have been better to cancel it early and spend a small part of the cost in technology development (and other more manageable telescopes) to make sure such an epic project disaster never happens again.
It was really cool in the early 80s became the printer was often the most powerful computer in the office.

Multi-megabyte memories and fast RISC processors with FPUs were not uncommon.
Extraordinary efforts to suppress evidence would be very visible on their own thought.
I read the Grit book and it talked about having high expectations. I had never heard of this Pygmalion effect before. Thank you for sharing. Here is the article I just found on it

https://www.wisdomtimes.com/blog/the-pygmalion-effect-at-hom...

If you can suggest a better one, I would be grateful.
I would expect the R&D costs to dominate.

One does not even need to consider economy of scale. For example, if the R&D is $1 million, and manufacturing one mirror costs $100k, the total price for two mirrors is $1.2 million vs. $1.1 million for one.

Plus, consider a non-zero probability of a launch failure.