skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, when I was in elementary school, it was basically an additional class, that took me out of regular class time which then meant in addition to the extra class work, I had to also catch up on the regular class information, assignments, etc. that other kids had class time to learn/work on.

It was well intentioned, just not super well thought out I think. Also keep in mind that my perceptions are filtered through many years at this point, so take them with a bit of a grain of salt.

Middle school and beyond were a bit better, as you just ended up in more advanced classes (i.e. advanced Math).
Reason dictates we assume the negative when there is not conclusive evidence towards the positive claim.
Or the "radioactive gold" incident in NY State, when someone melted down gold radiotherapy seeds, and that's how the regional jewelry gold supply became contaminated. The government even issued public advisory posters, it was bad: https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/hpposters/goldjewelry.ht...
Indeed. They showed clearly that they were willing to throw near limitless resources at solving the problem before it became a worst case scenario. The worst cast scenario being the core reaching either the giant pool of water in the plant or the ground water beneath the plant which may have made a huge part of the continent uninhabitable.
That's what I thought about Curiosity's skycrane, and that ended up working out pretty well.

Yes, it's complicated, but I'm willing to accept that my intuitions about whether something is too complicated are wrong when we're talking about something that actual rocket scientist have spent millions of hours planning.
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This immediately makes me think of the movie Sneakers https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/9c0aya/in_sne...
Back in the day a browser without those plugins was not viable. Non-standard didn't matter.
Could Prostitution Be the Next Vice to Be Decriminalized?
In the chernobyl podcast, where a lead director and producer of the show talks about it, he said a haunting line that in my opinion is nothing but the truth

>Chernobyl could only happen in the Ussr, but the Ussr was the only country with the capabilities to solve it

Only a nation with the colosal human, and natural resources such as the ussr could have "solved" the chernobyl problem
It always seemed strange that so many people who produced good content ... were attracted to Medium for a while rather than say their own site.

Why hand that off to someone else?
L2 is unstable. There are stable Lagrange points that would be much better for this purpose if that was the reason.

The unique thing about L2 is that it's the only Lagrange point where the Sun is always blocked by the Earth. That's what they're going for here.
I resonate with the bristling too and the struggle to determine when to appreciate is a daily affair due to the kids' diverse activities. My six year old experimented with somersaulting on rings today, barely did anything to start with and then worked it to routine in just a day during a holiday break when he articulated a series of variations at the end. Hard work at play! I don't even know whether to say anything. Don't want to spoil it.

As for myself, I didn't consider myself gifted or intelligent though folks around me seemed to .. but mostly because they had no idea how much work I actually put in .. even just academically. So when I faced the same situation described in the article about facing peers also on top, I was rejoicing and enjoying it instead of despairing as seems to be a pattern. I attribute the main difference to an event that disconnected me from seeking external approval.
It's an illustration of how the hit-ratio of contemporary architects (give or take half a century) is terribly low. It even seems to approach zero once you start factoring in longevity. Steel and concrete is notorious for failing to meet even embarrassingly low longevity expectations.

Use modern materials behind the scenes if it's unavoidable due to cost, but advertising them as a longevity upgrade would be pure hubris.
It just makes me very angry that Chernobyl and Three Mile Island occurred, and the public was whipped into such an ignorantly self-destructive fervor to lobby against nuclear power and make it so expensive to develop. We've lost a good fifty years of additional experience and improvements and iterations on design, and meanwhile we have burned billions of tons of coal in the interim, releasing pollution and exhaust particles that contain more radioactive material than all the nuclear accidents ever, and even all the military atomic munitions testing.

Such a pyrrhic victory for the environmentalists, and a catastrophic disaster for the rest of us.
The standard interpretation of this is something like the following:

If you replace an element (e.g. a brick) with a new brick, you should aim for it to blend in discreetly and convincingly with the existing structure BUT you should not try to conceal the fact that it is a repair (by distressing it, for example).
Are Likes and Followers the Problem with Social Media?
The History of All-Meat Diets
This is true only where reliable birth control is readily available -- and used. Accidental pregnancy is pretty darn common.
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>but maybe somewhat less than ideal when every delay means thousands more dead people.

You literally just defeated your own logic. The reason we do medical trials and "delay" is to ensure the vaccines aren't "tainted" as you put it, and to ensure that there are no delayed side effects.

But... you want to rush an alternative option that could kill literally millions, because waiting could mean thousands die??
Is there someone who actually knows this issue and can tell me what the article is omitting

A few things:

- The zone was set with a few months notice, creating a huge problem for many that have been quickly dismissed. Usability of prohibition is terrible. I've heard there are loopholes like a dozen persons renting a single flat and selling their permits to rich people.

- The zone includes a variety on neighborhoods, from far-left still not gentrified ones, to offices mostly, main street and luxury homes.

- There's a lot of people living outside and working inside. Most use public transportation, but not everybody can do that: salesmen, suppliers... and there are a lot of private complementary schools (things like music schools) that are going bankrupt because parents can't get their children in or out.

- Some measurements indicate that pollution has in fact raised. There were no measures to replace the forbidden traffic.

- Reverting it is dead simple. Saying otherwise is plainly dishonest, but I'm reading it a lot.

I actually believe that a measure like that is necessary sooner or later, but it needs to be done right: transport alternatives, long enough notice, well chosen exceptions and specially doing the data based homework. As it is, it's propaganda.
I believe the name for what you're trying to describe is called "clinicians error" or something like that? I see your point. But I think the article speaks to the idea that most people equate being gifted with 100% success. When in fact, like anything else, there are no guarantees.
> It's actually quite useful to be able to send large quantities of money anywhere in the world without needing a series of intermediaries.

The problem is that the vast majority of businesses do not accept Bitcoin and right now Bitcoin is too volatile to store value/buying power. This means that for all practical purposes you need to exchange your local currency for Bitcoin, send it somewhere, then convert it back to fiat currency.

That means you require at least 2 intermediaries. Not to mention I would have a hard time trusting any reasonable amount of money to most Bitcoin exchanges.
...ok, then what are the alternatives? And why is it so bad?

Something that can handle hundreds of terabytes on hundreds of machines and provides useful tools on top of the whole thing (Spark, Hive, etc)?
Why every developer should have a passion project
I've always liked :-

> Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. - Picasso
Fair enough, but don't forget there are some extremely simple hypervisor implementations out there too.
ACLs Don't [pdf]
Exactly!

;-)
We keep heading right into darkness, and it is none but our own fault.
I don't see Docker mentioned on the page. Copy&paste error with the URL?
This is a totally valid move in my opinion, as well as just circumventing the trainwreck of a healthcare system to seek treatment overseas.

If congress continues to be negligent in its duties then this is really the only viable path forward for many people. If a large enough percentage of people bail on their student loans/medical debt then eventually dozens of predatory banks and "medical billing" companies will go out of business and then we can actually start to change things.
Regardless of what you paid for a piece of software, if it is critical to your business operations you should be paying someone to maintain it for you.

If you were a small lawn mowing company and happened to receive a free mower for your operations, you wouldn't just run it into the ground without regularly paying someone to keep it in good repair (though this analogy does raise some interesting thoughts about companies in general and their maintenance policies).

In exactly the same way, you shouldn't be using software of any kind, paid or not, without having some plan for maintenance and repair.

If free software can cover the same business needs as paid software, there's no reason to not use it. But you absolutely cannot sacrifice maintenance just because you did or didn't pay money for the software itself.
True. Though also for all other devices on that LAN.

There are device-based adblock systems that can be applied. On a rooted Android, you can run DNSMasq locally. For iOS there are adblocking apps AFAIU. Or you could (and perhaps should) run all traffic through a VPN, with adblock, when remote.
Yes, your're right, they're a new kind of cult facilitated by internet and anonymity which functions similarly to old cults, a charismatic leader brainwashes a mass of people.

Their outreach is far greater, anyone who has internet connection can basically partake. Traditional cults have a much smaller footprint.

I think other types of internet cults are yet to come, and we should brace for it somehow. One big factor that pushes people towards internet cults is the fact that society is becoming increasingly connected and yet people are more and more physically isolated from one another
FF 67.0 on Win10 w/uBlock Origin, i3 7100/8 GB, snappy. Scrolling back up reloads/regens images, so there's a sub-second flash of empty in the image locations, but otherwise it's not misbehaving for me at all.
all I am saying is, the ability to do something with constraints that are out of your control, is a skill that needs to be learned.
Does the site have an agenda about the topic?

Or is their agenda about clicks?

I feel like the second is more likely. Most science news is ultra click bait stuff. I suspect this is no different.

More places need science editors who are a bit more thoughtful. IMO it's possible to pull in the clicks... but provide context and educate as well.
We use Urql and are loving it at Thread. Nice and lightweight, easy to use, easy to build our own infrastructure around.
What evidence do you have for either of those? Considering that there was a single seriously injured person, and that the cathedral has its own income, neither of those seem obviously true.
It's hardly undervalued. Another one mentioned too much is "empathy".

I feel like these are such softball answers, as no one will say no, this is bullshit.
Why should all btc holders sell all their holdings, especially if price is steadily rising, since central banks are inflating money supply to buy more?
Making up a story where your claim is true isn't very convincing. I can do that too:

"I'll sell you this prime Florida real estate for a bargain price."

"Can I see it?"

"No. But it's definitely real!"

The difference is that scenarios like mine happen all the time, whereas yours is really uncommon.

God actively conceals his presence so the humans don't act differently? Sounds like I shouldn't believe in God, then. If the all-powerful creator of the universe wants me to think he doesn't exist, why should I think otherwise?

You tell me that I need to seek God for myself without the influence of other people. Do you not see how that's inherently contradictory? How can there be a true church of God if we're all supposed to get there on our own? The whole idea of a church is that people get together and commune in their shared beliefs.
>You can see what is happening in a piece of code just by looking at the local context

^ This. A thousand times this.

When I read this article, all I could think was _this_ is what object oriented code is meant to be about, aka message passing.

I have been working on a Rails codebase and it's an absolute nightmare - without knowing everything all at once you can come to a tiny class that has a bunch of identifiers set via inheritance or somehow used via inflection. It's completely mad.

Not meaning to start a flame-war but it confuses me how OO went from a simple idea of encapsulated "objects" having well defined interfaces to this crazy spaghetti mess of inheritance etc.

That said, bad code is bad code and you can ship a ball of mud in anything...
Talking about risk mitigation in hindsight as unnecessary is a very bad view of risk management, especially for someone who is supposedly an expert at it.

You don't do risk mitigation because things will go badly, you do it because it could go badly.

Or alternately, you could use "password" for all your passwords, after all, if no one ever breaks into your accounts, there's no reason to have bothered with difficult passwords.
That's...not always true.

We also have to consider the risks of the various results, and weight them against our priors.

If we think something is fairly unlikely (1% chance of being true), and as yet has no evidence to support or refute it, but would cause the total destruction of the earth, reason would dictate that we assume that it is true until we have evidence that it is not.

This is obviously quite sensitive to what our individual priors are about something in a world where we don't yet have any evidence. This will naturally produce different conclusions for different people (you may assess the world-destroying event to only have a .000000001% chance of occurring, in which case it's pretty reasonable for you to assume it's false until we have evidence that it's true). But, for any individual, I don't believe the situation should not be as simple as your suggestion.

Edit: of course, this presumes self-preservation as a goal which is not something which can be determined by reason. Of course, it's a goal shared by a vast majority of humans, so I feel it's a reasonable assumption here. As reason/logic are used as a tool to support our goals, I feel it's fair to include such a goal as part of our reasoning consideration.
I read the article and just thought about the big tobacco "merchants of doubt" strategy... causality is pretty hard in general; ascribing certain causality to a disease 20 years after radiation exposure is way harder.

And I think one point the series makes that he tries to make the opposite, is that people at Chernobyl and adjacencies had "the friendly atom", they didn't had much fear of radiation. Even someone as Akimov, who had a lifetime exposure in another accident before Chernobyl, were "chasing the dragon tail" of radiation. Vodka clears it up, right?

The thing is, like quantum behavior in general, chance is pretty much high when we talk radiation. The chance of DNA or cellular damage being significant and leading to something, when you just perchance aspire a few particles of some isotope "grows" with time and how strong and the type of the source. Up to acute exposure it is just a very hard multi-causal probabilistic situation.

Normally we understand that a few times background radiation wouldn't harm you, when even the sun and background radiation are in fact always harming us, mostly, of course, in ways our body can USUALLY cope with. So, any increase in magnitude, is an increase in probable suffering, and we are talking millennia here, with some isotopes.

So, nuclear energy may have its uses, sure. Particularly, we have a lot of reactors working now, and perhaps we should let them take their course. But not to fear radiation with extreme prejudice is just to be careless about it. This is an industry tied with the defense department. The dejects are strategic and must be guarded and watched -- and don't come with thorium and new ways of recycling... it might be less so, but it is always a pretty dirty business, with the military and defense, and human errors, and "acts of god".

I believe when the Chernobyl series guy said "it couldn't have happened in the US", well... that exact way, not. But capitalism has, as we all so painfully know now, it's own incentives for disinformation and lies. Also, I live in Brazil, where they are always trying to revive some dated German project to build reactors. And if the Japanese had "issues", anyone can.

We in Brazil can't even contain common dirt, so it doesn't come upon us and kill hundreds... don't believe engineers will save us, believe human incompetence and greed may take longer, but always find a crack and blow the whole thing up -- no matter the economic system.

edit: tried to fix convoluted sentence in the third paragraph, and a few misspellings.
This is a popular story, but really they stop taking on debt at about 30 and pay it off, easily, by 45.

Around here you can live a nice lifestyle for ~$40,000. Early career primary care physicians have a gross of something like $120,000...
Are you sure about Bitcoin? Last time I've been to some Microsoft talk about blockchain, they used ethereum.
The French Senate have already made the decision that Notre Dame needs to be rebuilt exactly as it was. So, the discussion of changing the cathedral is moot anyway.

-> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/frances-senate-vot...
They wanted to be able to use their cars, obviously. Why else?
Rolling your own CAPTCHA is very, very likely to introduce accessibility issues for your site. It is the accessibility equivalent of "rolling your own cryptography" for security. Among surveys of screen reader users, CAPTCHAs are regularly listed as the single most frustrating part of trying to use web sites via assistive technology.

Even if a CAPTCHA does offer a non visual alternative, it is very common for it to be inaccessible for folks with cognitive disabilities (eg, dyslexia) or motor impairments. Another common issue is assuming that users all speak English fluently. In this example, "beauty" is likely to be sufficiently culture specific to cause localization challenges.

https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ is a good resource for learning about the accessibility implications of many common types of CAPTCHA implementation.
This paper is just a stunt.
I searched for previous publications with the same fungus against anopheles, and 2015 study showed a natural isolate that was already 90% lethal.

That strain also kill some rice grubs.

The controlled installations in the picture look pretty piss-poor, such that GMO is already in the wild by now.
> Who pays it? Who collects it?

My only guess is that you misunderstand what is being proposed. The spammer is not part of the transaction.
Mozilla has been up to some questionable activity lately as well. They blocked the Dissenter extension.
I think the Russians were pretty good at that. I wonder where the UN got their data from...
The cycle of these SV companies is interesting. They start off with a bang and become "darlings" in the initial stages, then they reach mass-market appeal, attempt to monetize (some of them do so in the most unethical ways) and start to become loathed by the very people who touted them in the beginning.

Let's compile a list:

- Facebook

- Twitter

- LinkedIn

- Quora

- Medium

(You can add to it to see how far we go)
One thing I wished we had done originally was stratify by age. Commenters on the original post mentioned that it wasn't entirely accurate to average over all deaths, esp. as different things are more likely to kill you at different times in life.

The short answer for why we didn't do it is that I didn't realize this until after we finished the project. This was for a university data science project, and we were working on limited time.
With a $10 billion telescope dead in the water and the clock ticking, Louis Rossman leads a crack team of Apple repairmen -- specialists in fixing sytems designed to be unfixable -- through accelerated astronaut training for a last-chance human mission to L2! Will they save the day? Or will the inky clutches of space doom the mission and leave them stranded farther from civilization than any human in history?
XR Talks: Oculus Quest Review Roundup
At the time of Max Schrems' first complaints, our Data Protection Commission was located in a small office in Portarlington above a convenience store. It is only due to the international embarrassment caused by Schrems' successful cases (which showed the DPC to be incompetent and unwilling to investigate complaints) that they have recently received more funding to expand operations.

There is a tendency in Irish state bodies to always err on the side of the establishment - Ombudsmen and oversight bodies such as the DPC will rarely rock the boat by making findings against the State. This leaves citizens with little option but to take a court case against the State to vindicate their rights (as Schrems was forced to do when the previous DPC decided his complaints were "frivolous and vexatious" [1]). The current DPC has yet to fine a single company under GDPR, something which truly beggars belief.

People like Schrems take a great personal risk in taking court cases in Ireland. If you lose, you end up paying yours and your opponent's legal fees, which are huge and essentially bankrupting for the non-wealthy [2] (there are some exceptions where the judge thinks your case was in the public interest, but that's decided afterwards). Often cases have to be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court and the ECJ to find justice. One case against the DPC regarding access to exam scripts has been in the Irish courts since 2009 and finally won in the ECJ in 2017 [3].

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/court-t...

[2] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-co...

[3] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/failed-exam-ca...
Why is there no #include? (2003)
This study doesn't mention "number needed to treat" - if we give X people this medication we'd expect to prevent Y occurances of this condition. Sometimes X can be surprisingly high and Y worryingly low.

It also doesn't mention the drug company funding provided to some patient campaign groups. It's pretty cynical: you know your medication is not effective enough for the cost, so you give money to dying people and their families to campign to get your med provided by single payer systems and insurance companies.
Is everything we eat associated with cancer?
There's some fun to be had with the Java based jwildfire these days, http://www.jwildfire.org/, although arguably it's a bit more focussed on making things pretty.
> I believe it was because they needed a PC in a hurry.

That's a much better explanation. They made the entire thing in a year, and 90% of it was made by outside vendors. I think both of these things, long-term, contributed to its success.
Dyslexics of the world, untie!