skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. This was an amazing read.
Anecdotes in general are useless but the Adderall example is not just a single person's anecdote. It's an extremely common experience that almost everyone who takes the medication deals with.

Many of the patients are kids who don't really understand what the difference between generic or name brand pills even is, so its hard to attribute the difference to their beliefs. Many pediatric doctors try to start treatment with generics and then move to the name brand as an alternative to increasing dosage.
That was a great read. Asimov was always so far ahead of his time.
From http://stadia.com/faq:

> Do I need to use your Controller? (Stadia Controller)

> No, you can use many popular HID compliant controllers when playing via USB cable on Chrome or mobile. To play on your TV you will need to use the Stadia Controller and Google Chromecast Ultra.
Which environments are you referring to? Venus is the closest planet to Earth. The Moon is the only significant body between the two.

And by 'we've failed to terraform', did you mean 'we haven't tried yet'?
Yes, that is a high risk. We're not exactly lush with accessible Earth-ish planets near the habitable zone.
The repetitive tasks are the fun aspect for many people. If it isn't fun for you, you have two choices: Either quit the game and find something you actually like, or use bots and ruin the fun for other people that like the game.
Ola recently raised $56 million to spin out a dedicated business that focus only on electric vehicles. In March, Power Minister R. K. Singh said the government was aiming to ensure that at least 30% of the country's vehicles run on electricity by 2030, a significant dilution of the earlier-stated goal of an all-EV fleet by that year.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/ola-ev-business-ola-electr...
https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...

As far as I can tell, insurance companies are the only player in the system providing a check against the providers. The consumer has no idea what they're buying, so you need another similarly educated professional (employed by the insurance company) to vet the provider's charges. Insurance companies also have to spend 80% of their premiums on healthcare.
1. You both agree that animals can think. The question is in what manner? Dr. Egnor recommends experiments in his other writing on that site.

2. I agree with you here. I don't think Dr. Egnor should handwave away the need to test for a soul.
It's because price of your site downtime is insignificant. DO (and many other "bulk vps" services) is only suitable for projects like this. When 1 hour of downtime cost much more than year of hosting, you will be ready to pay for high availability and duplication, replication, backups verification.
Yeah, but this seems trying to avoid the possibility of the universe having a beginning simply because it's unsettling; taking the less likely thought path because it conflicts with beliefs.

I'm not saying that's what it is, that's just what it seems like what's happening here to me.
HaHa! The "eats resources" would not be the most friendly approach . . . although framed in the right context, the A/B test might come out different than we expect!

Overall I agree, if all you are saying is that the "free rider who eats resources" phrasing isn't the most customer friendly possible usage, all other things being equal
I wonder if this becomes a cycle - otherwise I'm not sure how it explains the problems at Boeing.

I assume there was a point where the FAA was reasonably thorough (although if anyone knows the contrary to be true correct me), but then a general lack of perceived risk led to a leaner FAA with lower regulatory resources, which then contributed to the problems at Boeing. Maybe this will lead to an increase of regulatory oversight, and then the cycle continues.
> There are no ads in G Suite for Education core services, and students’ personal information won’t be used to create ad profiles for targeting.[1]

[1] https://edu.google.com/why-google/privacy-security
Only the 1st Year content is going F2P; The Destiny 2 included with Stadia has all the content.
You can find Xonotic @ http://www.xonotic.org/ It's still very fun and progress on development has continued.
> but someone needs to make it crystal clear to him that his behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerate

We've been working with the school following 'proper channels' for some ongoing incidents, and it hasn't been effective even though the school acknowledges the problem and that it is with the other kid involved.

All this focus on bullying is great - but it feels a lot like lip service. They spend huge amounts of time talking about how bullying is not acceptable - but little preventing it from occurring. If it's not acceptable, the school needs to treat it that way.

If they're not (and honestly, I don't think they can - they have limited people, and their primary goal is teaching), then it's up to the students to make clear to their peers that the behavior is not acceptable.

> The solution to bullying isn't constant surveillance of
> children, it's teaching children how to stand up for themselves
> and instilling them with the sense of duty to stand up for their peers

We recently told our son that he's welcome to hit back when someone starts bullying him physically - he may get in trouble at school, but we'll support him at home. When 'proper channels' don't work, there's not a lot of options remaining.
Competitive games, at least competitive shooter games, are really the worst application for this though because they suffer the most from input-to-display latency. Games like League of legends might be fine though.
Silicon Valley has a track record of being just like the rest of America, just 10-20 years ahead of it. My wife grew up here during the 80s and 90s; the middle-class lifestyle was very achievable then. When I compare her childhood with mine, it wasn't that different - the main differences are outdoor school hallways, bigger high schools (it was my school that was atypical here), more non-white people, and everybody liked hip-hop instead of rock music.
So you order some thin client for 129 bucks, pay 10 dollars a month for the service and buy the games? I was assuming Stadia to be like a sort of Netflix for games. I could just as easily buy a console and buy the games.
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But you wouldn’t want to develop in that environment,
right? You do integration testing in it, but development should largely happen in small modules, with unit tests and test data, no?
Very interesting and surprising that no-one else is writing about what dev needs in terms of observability.
Okay... and how do you do that? I want to write more here, but I just don't know where to even begin. Where is the money in US infrastructure projects going, and is any of it to things that we can actually agree to eliminate?
A little while back two NASA scientists published a paper on how you would detect the existence of a previous advanced society on Earth. Apparently, over a long time scale it's actually fairly difficult.

Now imagine detecting one, when the entire planet is covered in a 90 bar atmosphere with sulphuric acid clouds.

I'll update my downer Sci-fi novel premise. Humanity makes its first Alcubierre drive warp ship. On its test run, something goes wrong, and the ship is shifted by a vast amount in time-space. The ship arrives at an unfamiliar, abandoned star system, with a different sized Sun, vast amounts of orbital construction, but an eerily similar though slightly different configuration of planets. Over time, the test pilot crew realizes that they were merely in stasis and "arrived" back in the Solar System far in the future, and that the 2nd Venus-like planet is actually the Earth.
Hear, hear.

Soviet victory in WW2 itself is a distortion of history. The second world war is as much a product of the Soviet Union as of Nazi Germany. So somebody please explain to me, how a murderous, treacherous regime that armed, trained and conspired with the Nazis is now a victor of the war.

In understand that the allies were desperate, but the price of their "victory", was paid by millions of people who ended up behind the iron curtain. Yalta was a betrayal.

Soviets did not liberate. They occupied. They stabbed in the back (look up the Warsaw uprising and what the red army did then). They raped and murdered. They overstayed and terrorized. They fought a regime that put people in concentration camps and then built a system of camps that killed even more people.
That sounds like a great outcome, but it's predicated on having been hand selected by Medium to share your specific story. 99% of posts won't get that same treatment. Would your outcomes have been similar without that boost? That is, just by posting on Medium, would you have achieved a reasonable level of reach otherwise?
With this AI, your voice could give away your face
>Now the school has committed child pornography by copying these photos from the student's device...

This is where the law gets kids in way more trouble than is really necessary. There's a little known provision in most child porn laws that exempts people reporting child porn from charges. But think about it, to get that protection, you must report.

So they surreptitiously lift the pics from a kid's phone, and then the alerts go to the police chief, kid's counselor, administrators, etc etc. From there it can make its way to public prosecutors really quickly if calmer heads don't prevail among the adults who got the initial alerts. And calmer heads rarely prevail in my experience. (To be fair, I think most police chiefs may have an actual obligation to let prosecutors know about it? Not sure?)
Sorta.

We are in this thing called space-time.

It came out of the Big Bang (we think).

There is a finite amount of it (about 45 GLY in radius, maybe).

You can only ever see about 14GLY of it due to some speed limits.

You can't get to an edge or boundary of space-time because it's not 3-D, it's curved in this really weird way.

There are a lot of holes in space-time that we're still thinking a lot about.

For some reason, the space-time is getting bigger and bigger, we think this is related to all that stuff in space-time, but we're really not sure.

Most of the stuff in it is not the same stuff as you are made of; most of the stuff seems to fall up, while the stuff you're made of falls down.

There is a lot more stuff that falls down than just the stuff you are made of.

There is a still a lot of things to learn about all of this, we're not really all that close to understanding it.
> If a kid is a bully, he's an asshole. He shouldn't necessarily be expelled or even necessarily suspended, but someone needs to make it crystal clear to him that his behaviour is unacceptable and will not be tolerated, otherwise he'll grow up to be an asshole and raise his kids to be assholes.

It's not entirely clear that this is true all the time.

I was reading a reddit thread the other day where the subject turned to bullying, people who were bullied, and people who were bullies.

There were several there who seemed sincere in that they claimed they had been bullies, but as they grew up, they grew out of it (some were "young bullies" - aged 8-10 or so, and grew out of it as teens, others were teens and worked it out as they became adults) - but were remorseful about their former actions. Many expressed the wish that they could apologize to those they tormented or hurt. Others noted that they had been able to do that; or noted that they had their bullies apologize to them. Some said it helped, others said that while they appreciated it to an extent, they still kept those people at arms length, as they didn't trust them. Others still mentioned becoming friends (in one case, their bully became their best man at their wedding!).

Yes, this is all anecdotal, and should be taken with a grain simply because "internet/reddit". At the same time, I don't think we can paint these people with a broad brush in either direction.
"While Ring owners are supposed to have a choice on providing police footage, in some giveaways, police require recipients to turn over footage when requested."

AND

"Ring does not support programs that require recipients to subscribe to a recording plan or that footage from Ring devices be shared as a condition for receiving a donated device. We are actively working with partners to ensure this is reflected in their programs."

The story should have ended there. But I'll bite on the more IoT fear-mongering.

This type of offer is normal. Your power company will ask for API access to your smart thermostat OR put a switch on your house in exchange for turning off your A/C when it's hot.

If you're worried about the privacy angle, pay full price for it. Also ring said they're not going to allow it like that.

But think about it like this, if you're a restaurant in a mall, and your cameras catch something the cops request that footage all the time. In some cases it's part of a warrant or subpoena when you aren't even part of the investigation.

Unless a municipality or police force mandates you install these AND share access to the footage, I don't see the issue.
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I wonder why there isn't a balloon mission being studied.

The upper atmosphere has temperature and pressure similar to Earth at sea level.

Maybe the wind is a big problem? Or insertion from orbit?
There is a heck of a difference between "eh, it only costs $5-$10" and between "the survival of my project relies on the site/service being under my control. If it was the latter, you go in having a plan B and a contingency Plan c.

GCP, AWS, DO, Azure... they all bank on that sweet combination of huge clients and clients who do not really need them but due to opportunity costs, cant be bothered to find viable, self-reliant alternatives.
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Sure they are widely used, but are they the main data structure in any CPU-bound hot loops? I'd be surprised.
Something tells me it scares DO too because I've been getting emails lately asking if I'm happy with their services.
According to James Hansen's book Storms of My Grandchildren, Venus-level warming is far beyond anything we could achieve on Earth. Given our greater distance from the sun we don't have enough carbon to pull it off.

(The worst we could do is still enough to destroy us, though.)
My understanding is that Joyent is comprised primarily of Sun refugees who've attempted to compete in the same OS/server space that Solaris operated upon way back when. They were acquired by Samsung in 2016-ish iirc. Solaris/illumos has failed to gain traction and the already-tiny community has only dwindled over the last few years with the expiry of OmniTI and other major illumos users.

The death knell really being the abandonment of illumos-gate as the authoritative ZFS upstream. If old-school diehards like Matt Ahrens are throwing up their hands and saying that the momentum in ZFS is in ZoL, the battle is over IMO.

node.js was always a diversion IMO. I think it was a play to maintain relevance, something Joyent has always acknowledged a need to do, but I don't think they've ever had the manpower or the buy-in to go full throttle.

I don't know if this is the end of Joyent as such or not, but IMO it's finally time for Cantrill et al to turn in. They've undoubtedly fought the good fight, but illumos is a farce at this point. Better to accept that their old-school big Unix development model is a thing of the past and put those efforts to something more practically useful, like FreeBSD. At this point, they're torturing the legacy of Solaris more than maintaining it.
Or more accurately: "The time it takes to make a quantum leap has been experimentally measured for the first time".

There is experimental news. Very cool and newsworthy. Just not new theoretical news.
I'll toot my own theory and it is that nobody wants to pay for enough capable support staff, pay to keep the support staff at the ready often enough, pay support staff who want to stay in that role.

They want to automate that all away as much as possible.

The future is everyone who isn't somebody chatting about how they run their application on X... because they're mysteriously banned form Y and Z and the next guy talks about how he was banned on X and is on Z now... simply for that reason.
Everything about sending a women a dick pic from the other side of a subway ride is threatening. Since she will have to step off the subway and walk to her destination alone, I consider it a serious offense.
Maybe because they had dozens of failures and DDOS outages? Why they have to keep their prices so low - because of reputation. Price is the only attractive thing in services like this.
Because if we have not beginning, we have no purpose. If we have no purpose, this is all really for nothing. I am not arguing whether it is or not, or whether there is a beginning, but lets look at it this way... You woke up this morning, that was the beginning of this day at night you will rest. Now, lets say there is no memory or record of 'waking up' beginning, we therefor cannot anticipate an end and everything we do now may feel for some less meaningful. I don't really know. I am just expressing my under-educated overthinking take on it.
Wait, what are the risks? It's not like you're going to make Venus _more_ inhospitable than it already is.

To some weird soul out there on the Internet, this sounds like a challenge.
Its not free. CFO is very aware of your total cost and its starting to show up on W2's.
I was just reading about some updates to URQL (another GraphQL client alternative to Apollo) from Formidable Labs. I'm happy to see more activity in this space after spending the last week wrestling with Apollo's API...

Will check this out later today, the partial fulfillment of outbound queries with cached data sounds interesting and I'm wondering how you might have implemented it.
Great point. I always run a separate backup through bash scripts that syncs with S3 bucket even though I also have the DO backups enabled as well. You always want 2 separate offsite backups for any real world production application.
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>Public school is important precisely because it is public. It gets the kid out to realize society exists and to deal with it as it exists.

Perhaps your public school was better than mine, but what I was conditioned into socially while in high school did not line up at all with "the real world".

At the age of 20, after many months of deep thought about my life's direction, I literally realized I needed to throw out everything I learned/was indoctrinated into by the public school and start over. The sad thing is, thanks to facebook, I've looked up many of my old high school buddies. They are still the same. They are 30+ years old now and act like they are still 15. Still playing the same video games, listening to the same kind of music, still showing the same attitudes, still not having any responsibility.

Which is the point I realized when I was 20, why send your teenager into an institution that will condition him/her into acting like a typical teenager? A person with a "teenager" mentality will never be a CEO, will never own a company, will never be successful and will never make wise choices. And why would they? They already know everything and can't be taught a dang thing.

Its clearly a two way street. I've seen some terrible products of homeschooling and I've seen some really good ones. But that brings the question of if the "terrible products" of homeschooling had went to public school, would they have been better off? I've going to assume probably not.
Lee Smolin makes an intriguing suggestion with regard to how the universe reproduces in his book "The Life of the Cosmos" -- I can't say I was persuaded, but I think it's worth reading
You know I think we're all saying something similar using different words.
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Stay tuned for the Venus mechanical maker challenge:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/events/2019/3/1/mechanical-make...

>With its sulfuric acid clouds, temperatures over 450°C, and 92 times the surface pressure of Earth, Venus is one of the most hostile planetary environments in the solar system. Prior missions have only survived hours! But an automaton (or clockwork mechanical robot) could solve this problem. By utilizing high-temperature alloys, the clockwork rover would survive for months, allowing it to collect and return valuable long-term science data from the surface of Venus.

>Challenge to be announced on July 8, 2019

Question: does NASA have a Venus environmental chamber? They must, right? How big is it?
Or just denied that it was a problem until it was too late to migrate to Earth before their civilization crashed.
That was exactly my thought. How does finding an assignment with the word "pussy" in it help anyone? (Plus if it's an assignment, wouldn't the teacher eventually see it? WTF?) I just don't get what parents and school administrators think they're achieving with this given the potential harm that can come from it. Were I a parent, I certainly wouldn't want some random person at the school to have access to everything my kid does online. Especially knowing how creepy some of the school administrators I dealt with growing up were!
No, it's not so difficult task and not even expensive. I don't think every project really needs it, though. But external db backups - they are ridiculously cheap and every project needs them.
> Craig said in of his interviews that he has a bank statement of bitcoin.org domain purchase

Which still doesn't prove anything, beyond that he bought a domain name. (Or, to be even more cynical, that he got something that looks like a domain name purchase to show up on a bank statement.)
Down to check it out some good alternatives. Is it compatible with PWA since it uses local IndexedDB?
On a related note, this is why when I search for a person, film, or other thing, I'll take the Wikipedia result every time over IMDB or some top ranking site. With Wikipedia, I know how the information will be formatted so I can find what I need quickly.
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Like verizon, AT&T, Sprint, IBM, Oracle...

I'd disagree that they're necessary not growing. Just growing at a more typical market rate for an established industry.
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Cloud or not, you have to trust your vendor to deliver the service you paid them for. That's the whole reason for doing business with them.
What do you do when Google doesn’t have a good answer?

The point is I can easily fill an hour applying different debugging and learning techniques that have a chance at getting me unstuck. That’s one of the things that makes me a good programmer.
Critiquing is a skill. The onus is as much on the critiquer to formulate their critique in a constructive, actionable way as it is on the critiquee to take the critique in stride.

That said, good crit skills are very hard to develop, and environments where effective critique sessions can be carried out very hard to build (because it’s fundamentally about trust). And it’s skill that is just not taught in engineering; people familiar with critique will be mostly people who went to art school, and even then many art schools do a pretty bad job at teaching it (I had a design teacher who, during critiques, would make students... vote on their favorite /facepalm).
If you use a lambda on aws you get 1 million requests for free each month and after that factions of a penny per invoke.
In my opinion, restrictive would be keeping Stadia to only Google specific hardware. Making it available for all Android devices feels pretty good to me.
I once had an idea to research and write something about the history of Textdrive. Seems like there's something in there about how the internet changed from the '00s to the '10s and it'd be neat to interview some of the players and see where they are now.
Good memories! https://davidpaulyoung.com/2016/06/17/a-brief-history-of-joy...