skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not unique to US. Almost all visa applications to any first world country are like this. It’s an excruciatingly painful process to fill out even a tourist visa form for crying out loud.

This social media requirement is as ridiculous and I won’t be surprised if other first world countries follow suit.
I wonder what the "next reddit" is going to look like...
And then there’s the fact than any feeling that persists for longer than a certain period becomes normality. So you are no longer happy because you become desensitized to the endorphins in your brain (or produce less) and go back to neutral. That’s when you need more.

Since happiness can be traced back to chemicals in your brain you can see it just like any drug. You build up resistance and even if from the outside it looks like you have everything you might still be not happy.

I remember asking myself these questions years ago when I read an article about some physically impaired people being just as happy as able bodied ones, and one guy who left the Beatles before they became huge also being perfectly happy and content. Probably more so than the rest of the Beatles :).
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Even speaking as a brit, your mixture of metric and imperial and metric fascinates me.

I personally would've written 150lb, 6'6 tall, 1ft deep, 37 to 0 degrees
List-checking can't help every time. Some people use "clever" tactics to use slightly different passwords (hunter2fb for Facebook, hunter2tw for Twitter).
I think in particular reddit has been gamed. Companies figured out that the way to do ads is good old plants in the audience; fake user to user interaction. ”I can confirm this, Pfizer’s HappyPill made my life much easier” is the new type of ad.

Twitter isn’t much better, it too has been gamed. By simply having hordes of accounts saying whatever the message is, and replying to all.
Ah, that brings back memories. That was the exact stuff we did, except that my exercises was to count backwards from 1000 by 13's.

We were told that we could possibly make it 3 to 4 minutes at FL250 before having to go back onto oxygen. I managed to get to 5 minutes, but was was pretty much useless after the 3rd minute. I started to feel a real out of body experience, and it was like I was watching my own body do stuff but I couldn't really control it. I managed to get my own mask on and gangload the 3 switches, but I remember watching my colleagues in the chamber struggle and they had to be assisted by the RAAF team. The guys outside the chamber kept a hawk eye watch on all of us, and the guy in the chamber were quick to assist those of us who were in trouble.

What amazed me was as soon as we 'gangloaded' the switches to go back on full O2 with the masks on, recovery to full lucidity was super quick - within 1 or 2 seconds. It wasn't gradual, it was as if someone just whipped a heavy blanket off your brain!

Side story - before we went into the chamber, we had to be fitted for our helmets and masks, and I was seated in the 'fitting chair' in the crew room as 3 RAAF specialists slapped a bone dome and mask on me. Unbeknownst to them, that mask had just come back from a test facility, and thus it still had the wax seal on the end of the O2 hose to the mask.

Normally, there is no seal, so when the mask is clipped on during a test, you can still breathe normally as the valve at the open end just opens and shuts with your lung pressure. With the wax seal on it though, NO air gets through.

It was a few seconds of odd feeling when they snapped the mask on and I tried to breathe in but nothing happened. I remember feeling really freaked out at the sensation of wanting to breathe, but feeling and experiencing absolutely nothing. I started to grapple with the mask release, but they thought I was just uncomfortable with the fit and they kept slapping my hands away and adjusting the side straps.

I went into panic mode, and I am not sure what prompted me, but I started reeling in the trailing hose from my mask and lifted it up to see the seal on the end. One of the crew saw it and exclaimed before grabbing the hose and ripping the seal off. I gulped down lungfuls of air. Not the best start to my first chamber session!
You need a really heavy weight on there as well. Ocean streams and the surface moving will make it not point straight down at all.
Something we used for "tech-days" at our university, when 8th to 10th graders came to visit, was a robot following a black line on the floor, built with Lego Minsotrm. A set includes the base unit w/ two engines and some sensors, which should be enough to build a simple robot.

After we explained the algorithm how the robot can follow the line by keeping the line between it's to photo sensors, we let them implement and experiment on their own. The programming GUI is intuitive and works with function blocks that can be customized and linked together.
I don't get it, what have we lost? Having to wait for pictures to load? Surely this is just nostalgia?
Makes no sense. If you want to trade, then trade. Timeframe is an illusion to make you feel comfortable. There is no difference between trading daily or yearly.

Also, the market can still go up in a recession, war or whatever.
and again, you are arguing about time complexity, while I don't, but I guess we can now just call it a day...
At sufficiently high partial pressure, it's toxic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity

Nitrogen becomes narcotic at high pressure; breathing normal air at 30m is like being tipsy, but below 90m it can be fatal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis
The "ten minutes next to Chernobyl reactor core at the time of meltdown" is 50 Sv, not 50mSv.

3.6R was measured by the small dosimeters on site (and also happens to be their maximum read value). The bigger dosimeters didn't work or also maxed out and the person in charge didn't believe it.

The show mentions a 1500R value later on but outside the reactor building.
You just described the biggest problem with Wikipedia lol. :D
What would transfer ownership even mean? Its open source, anyone can continue maintaining it without asking permission.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_M...
Uber does not, iOS apps are sandboxed.

Further more, if you use `canOpenURL` trick to check for anything but trying to fallback when you're actually trying to open the url/app, they will flag you during the review.
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Meanwhile, Washington is at 29%[1] of the thirty year average. That's nearly an order of magnitude different from California's, which is just a quick drive away. Things are getting weird.

[1]: https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-snowpack-down-to-29-...
Which is why you should always travel while your current stamping is valid. The renewal always has a window. This is what I did all the time. If your new visa is refused you still have time left on your old visa to come back and take care of your stuff in the US.
Kudos to the submitter. It got me to watch WarGames again. (Even though tic-tac-toe is the metaphor used in the movie, not rock-paper-scissors.)
Netflix was a pioneer of chaos testing, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
Agreed, I think F# which already has an interpreter would have been a great and obvious choice. Terse Syntax, amazing type inference, and a great existing community.
Those who are never bored can't detect toxicity
Does anyone have the link that turns a twitter thread in to a blog post? This is unreadable.
Which as I say, all depends on the provider implementing these extra options, in a way that the layperson can use.

To me, TOTP means 'Top Of The Pops', I had to Google your acronym! How is Grandma Alice going to be able to manage these extra steps? - It's already taken over 20 years to convince people that 'Password1' is not a good password.
The kind of stuff Foone turns up, and the rate that the weird equipment is aquired, dissassembled, and analyzed, not to mention the digital forensics tearing into obscure old game roms to extract assets for the name generator project, is truly prodigious. Just an insane quantity of high quality output.
I really like Hiccup, it is my favorite part of the Clojure web kit.
Crap, I forgot about that. I guess I'll have to swap words if that ever happens:

Complicatedpassword1
PasswordComplicated1
Complicatedpassword2
PasswordComplicated2
Complicatedpassword3
PasswordComplicated3

And if that fails, they win. Clearly they don't care about security, so I'll use a weaker password. And I will note it on a post-it and keep it in my wallet.
Rust is very unpopular. Popular being besides the usual suspects Assembly, Visual Basic, Delphi, Objective C , Swift etc. Finding the popularity of a language is actually pretty easy, ignore all the blog posts and opinion pieces of any kind and focus on third party libraries availability, documentation and benchmarks. Even on benchmarks Rust score very low making its “as fast as C” claim speculative to say the least. Strictness of a Rust also makes it highly unlikely that the language will become popular any time soon. Judging from the fact that innovation of any kind is one big reason for users to stay as far away as possible, even if that innovation ends up being part of all programming languages out there. Explains why innovation has stagnate the last century in software. So my rule of thumb is “if many people talk about it then most likely it’s popular if a ton of people talk about then it’s most likely unpopular”. So it’s definetly an indicator in a bell like curve.
The first time I came across password expiration was on a login I was given to someone else's windows server. I only needed to log in once a month or less and every single time I got the message, your password has expired and must be changed, it was laughably pathetic how they ever expected people to remember a new hard to guess password every month. So of course I did what others have said and tagged on a 1 each time to the end.
Maybe I'm just too old for it, but what is this "being bored" thing you're talking about? I clearly recall staring blankly into space while solving problems in my mind, or even just feeling the surroundings, as some of the most interesting moments of my life. I don't recall ever getting bored, not once.
Obligatory mention of rye [1] and Vavilovian mimicry [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye#History

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilovian_mimicry
Thank you. Very good information. Do you also use a business bank account?
From a long line of farmers...this is just one of the first steps of industrialization. It took two generations to eradicate family farming in America (at least where I am from), and it will happen faster for Africa. It's great that people have better and more effective local food production, but when the real economics kick in, and these people are competing with corporate farming, their way of life will change, sadly, for the worse, as it did in America. Enjoy the sense of freedom and pride now, and defend it as long as you can, because there are serious doubts as to whether this will be feasible in 50 years.
Where are you getting your 4K content from?
unlikely given consumer spending is at record highs. People are just buying different stuff.
I would propose the unit of "Cuil". 1 Cuil is present when a piece of information causes permanent PTSD in 50% of the people viewing it within 1 week. 0.1 Cuil cause PTSD in 5% of the people viewing it and so forth. Measurements over 2 Cuil express timeframes shorter than 1 Week. So 100 Cuil would cause permanent PTSD symptoms within 8 hours.

Alternatively, you measure how long people remember the video vividly and express the danger as the half life of the information related to it's damage.
Self awareness helps, but it doesn’t make it any less frustrating or easier to read because of vis chosen format.

It’s a free world and whatnot, but Twitter is a poor medium for these kinds of stories. It took me at least twice as long due to scrolling, squinting, etc.
I hear you that it doesn't work the same way offline. But there is a good reason for the difference. If you had 1000 people in your house, bump order wouldn't work either. Even 30 active people in a chat room gets too hard to follow if everyone is talking.

They are different mediums and have different requirements. I don't think real life conversation can be used as a good example for how online communication should work. I don't know that upvotes are the right answer either mind you, and I agree with your points about it. But it's just the best some platforms have come up with to combat the issues presented by large quantities of people talking all at once.

As someone else suggested, sort a popular thread by "new" and you're right, you get the full spectrum of opinions. However you also get lots of "internet noise". The baseless claims, useless yelling and general spamming that all open internet communications are subjected to.
I think in 2001 3Com got stuck with a $1 Billion worth of inventory that had to be scrapped. Sales of durable goods tend to fall off a cliff during recessions.
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>So, in discovering the laws of thermodynamics, evolution and quantum theory, which our brains presumably weren't designed for, we were just being lucky?

No, it was using a tool evolved over million years for something else, and very good at that something else (that it can even do it instinctively), to do another task.

And that task only 1 in millions of us can do (how many "discovered the laws of thermodynamics, evolution and quantum theory"?) that have uniquely smart brains, and that even them had to undergo years and years of training to perform them.

Case in point, billions of people can predict where a baseball would fall instinctively, thanks to their brain's evolutionary capabilities, without solving the physics equations. But to do it with solving the equations takes years of training.

Even in Einstein or Feynman or whatever, their basic evolutionary capacities and instincts (hunger, anger, lust, fight or flight, etc) would trump their physics prowess anytime...
I think the word 'beloved' did all the job of an /s tag and more.
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It’s good he found something that works, but that is an illogical explanation. How does he have too much ADHD to save drafts one paragraph at a time, but not enough to stop him from tinkering with an awesome thrift store computer for hours?
It's also one of the most problematic thing at the same time since getting the generators set up properly to output IDE usable stuff for a project that e.g. needs to be usable in IDEs on Windows, macOS and Linux is very time-consuming. Writing macros to make this work has been nerve wracking IMHO.
The point was changing the number at the end to work around the requirement to change the password. My real pw was better.
What about those billion or so people who are just starting to get the taste of consumption culture, having recently risen from poverty? Those quotes seem very Western-centric.
I've been using MyTaxi app in Germany, and it seems to provide the same major upsides (map for pickup and destination, fare approximation known beforehand, pay via app). Feels more trustworthy too.
That is so absurd, it's not even wrong.

For one, you weren't born with the affection for blankets and tea. You developed it under several conditions. And you chose this particular comforting pass-time other others for several reasons.

Heck, billions of people crave the lifestyles the see on movies and commercials, and e.g. go creating rituals of "hygge" (blankets and hot beverages being essential to it) because they saw a show about it or read about it on Goop and think they will make them as happy as the people in the photos...
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I get where you come from. You have to see though that for a lot of people recession means losing their jobs, being unable to provide for their families, etc. The fear of recession is entirely rational for anyone without a savings account covering the next 2 years.
I look forward to see its maturity improving, given that I am a fan of TypeScript and type safe languages.
because so few people were willing to come

That hasn't been true for the past 250 years.
It won't help you quite yet, but Google and Amazon resolved their issues around this in April[0] and their press release says you'll be able to watch Prime Video on your Chromecast later in the year.

[0] - https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
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Good. That this at all happened should make them think about relocating to a country like Switzerland. They're supposed to be an international organisation.
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>Curious why they don't have emergency unmanned drones with the crew or why they don't have emergency tanks at their work site (which he was able to get back to)

There was a UUV in the water, which helped to locate the casualty but wasn't capable of performing a rescue.

Bailing out to open-circuit SCUBA doesn't help for very long, because of the immense pressures involved. As you go deeper, you need more pressure to inflate your lungs. A cylinder that lasts for an hour near the surface will only last for a couple of minutes at 100m. Tethered divers do carry bailout gas cylinders, but they're very much a temporary fix for brief losses of gas supply.

There are major logistical problems with portering dozens of gas cylinders to a job site that may actually increase the overall risk, because of the far greater time spent in the water. That pile of cylinders won't help you a jot if you lose the job site or you're incapacitated. Saturation divers are increasingly switching to closed-circuit rebreather bailout systems, which recirculate the breathing gas and so are far less affected by depth.

Even that is only a partial help because of the effects of hypothermia - if you lose your umbilical, you lose the warm water supply that stops you from freezing to death. You also lose your lighting and communications, which substantially impedes your ability to self-rescue.

https://www.jfdglobal.com/products/commercial-divers-equipme...
I meant Twitter Status Page (in my defense it was 3 am). The only ones are: @gcpstatus and @gcp_incidents, both unofficial
Are you implying that Disney movies (lol Star Wars 2929384) are less recycled than other studios' movies?
I've tried a lot of build systems but IMHO CMake is the only one where you can get away with just using CMake and the platforms target compiler. The rest includes additional pain points, more stuff to set up and configure.

What's missing from my point is the community getting together and defining a canonical way to actually build CMake projects for all use cases. If you look at github, there is hardly any project using CMake to the extent of its abilities, or things stuck in CMake 2 days. In commercial scenarios I've seen even worse.

Package manager make this even worse since all of them neglect the fact that there actually may be packages available on a platform via existing package managers. What puts me of about vcpkg or conan is that on a Linux box this should just allow one to use yum/apt/etc instead of manually downloading from yet another 3rd party. Having yet another repository is pretty much only usable for non-commercial projects where things such as long-term support barely have a meaning.
Not so long ago I had to register to a website allowing a comma (or was it a semicolon?) in a password during registration but refusing to login using said password. Fun times.
If there shall be no growth, there may be no innovation. Essentially every product and service has to be created the same way, using the same amount if manual labor, as yesteryear.

Economical growth is not necessarily growth in consumption of resources. It is also a measure of getting more out of less.
Finally remembered what it reminds me of: LiceCap from https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
Setting up plex on a playstation 4 though that you just want to use the plex share feature is not hard though.
What I don't understand about this logic is, how do you have any confidence that if by some miracle you were brought back to conscious life again, your life wouldn't be an absolute living hell (organ damage, paralysis, etc.)? Like even if you had infinite money and resources to spend on whatever you wanted, would that risk be sitll worth it to you?
OpenStreetMap (GIS, OpenData, Humanitarian, Visualisation )

You can import - and analyse the OpenStreetMap data, and create some nice QA reports for the community.

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=openstreetmap&searchtype=all...
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Everyone can have blind spots that originate early and persist but I still feel like the answer is yes. In your examples at least two of them are condemned for actions at a young age no?
Everyone should be spreading their savings around different banks.

Banks will only pay back a certain amount if they go bust - and it depends on the country how much that is.
Lognormal distributions can be generated via processes that follow geometric Brownian motion.

Power laws can be produced using stochastic processes called sample space reducing (SSR) processes. Stefan Thurner from Vienna has done a lot of work on this.

Hope this helps.
True. There is a Liquid you can put on top of eg marmalade which seals it from air. I think it is a from of liquid silicone (mind the final _e !) which I think is not aggressive to rubber.
Unfortunately capitalism, or at at least the systems we built around it, can not be sustainable without growth.
It's a very unique fruit, unlike most commercial fruits available in the west it's 85% fat, it's got 7 grams of fiber, and a single fruit has about 320 calories.

That is about the caloric equivalent of 3 medium-sized bananas.
It's a great source of healthy fats, and very satiating due to the high fiber content.

Definitively something to be included in a healthy diet, but bear in mind that due to the high caloric content, if you eat a whole avocado with some toast that is going to give you the caloric equivalent of a whole meal.

So if you eat them every day in addition to your standard diet, it's going to add a lot of calories to your daily total. The suggestion is to eat them occasionally as guacamole making a meal out of it, or eat a smaller portion as a snack.

In their natural state, avocados are ripe about two weeks per year, so it's not something that we had the opportunity to eat a lot of in the past.

Definitively a healthy thing to add to the diet, I eat maybe one or so a week.
ADHD is a bit like autism, in that many sufferers can obsess over a single thing/topic/interest, but be unable to focus on anything else.
Makes me think of Edi Weitz's CL-WHO, which works very nicely if creating web pages from Common Lisp.
https://edicl.github.io/cl-who/
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135354815259656192.html
Actually, there is a fundamental difference between XML and sexps. In XML, text is unescaped, while the metadata are escaped. In sexps, the metadata are unescaped, while the text is escaped.

Most text formats fall into one of these two categories. Formats primarily for storing text (like XML or SGML or TeX) are in the former, formats primarily for storing (unstructured) data (like sexps or JSON or YAML) are in the latter.
In Unix, some files even don't have names. See for instance the pipe() call.
They dont seem to sell houses, but rather build buildings and then sell apartments/townhouses

https://www.boklok.se/hitta-bostad/
Preferential attachment:

The principal reason for scientific interest in preferential attachment is that it can, under suitable circumstances, generate power law distributions.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment
An apartmen seem to go for about 100-150k
150lb? That always strikes me as distinctly American, as opposed to 10st 10lb.
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