skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few possible reasons for this:

- You aren't their target audience. I come from enterprise SaaS, where we often force people to talk to someone, and working with sales is not a problem for the people we care about. I know that someone who has your reaction (calling it a "sales dance" and assuming you'll be spammed) is unlikely to be a real buyer, since real buyers are accustomed to the sales process. They also appreciate that sales reps for this type of product can be really valuable. Maybe you're the exception here, but it's worth losing your business to filter out bad leads.

- They've done the math and realized that when they get someone on the phone, they are better able to build a long term relationship and have a substantially greater customer LTV. They lose some customers, but the ones they retain end up being higher enough in value to offset the loss.

- The product can't be sold as a standalone item - it requires setup and integration, and without understanding what you have in place already, they can't give you a quote. Of course, this seems less likely for a hardware solution.

- Related to the above, it's possible that it's a complex product to set up, and they've found that if they don't get you on the phone, you're likely to screw up the setup and get mad at them and/or return it. Better to scare you away up front if you're ultimately just going to take up time and end up getting a refund.

Ultimately, the answer to this question and any like it is that if they're competent, they do this because they've done the research and determined that it is better for them (typically in terms of revenue generation, but really better is defined as they see fit).
So is LaTeX worth mastering? It depends on the researcher: how often do you use equations, how much is fine-grained control do you need over a document, and how much time do you have to devote to learning a new language?

But I use LaTeX mainly because the resulting documents simply look better, and I imagine that’s a major selling point for many.
As a counter-point, the collision avoidance in my car has saved me from hitting a deer twice in the past 18 months. The brakes activated as my foot was moving towards that pedal. I’ve never had a false alarm activation.

This is with a 2018 Audi. YMMV.
Its fuel for any kind of reactor. The process is a bit easier if you make salt fuel.

Its makes sense if you also get money to consume the waste otherwise its cheaper to go with freshly mined uranium. Or if you are interested in a fuel mix that is easier to obtain in spent fuel.

Edit: For those interested, one of the company engaged in the Canadian regulator process is proposing this:

https://youtu.be/TvXcoSdXYlk?t=1828

MSR Reprocessing - Sylvie Delpech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBEjys1SKCQ

This is a talk by the company that is furthest along the timeline of bringing molten salt to the market and he talks a little about their fuel as well (they don't do reprocessing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QVxYrQRxA
Agree with her on the dangers posed by political parties. Most people don't seem to have a political position, they have a team.
Sub China for Japan, Germany, or the US for different periods of history and the comparison still works.
Not sure exactly how to phrase this comment.

If I see a computer with an antivirus on it(besides the default windows defender thing), I assume it is less secure than something with an antivirus. Most often it was installed by someone who was either mislead about the benefits of an antivirus and/or tricked into installing it. Getting adblock is an massively better way of making a computer secure.
Experienced engineers use react when it is needed for the enhanced ux. JavaScript is actually a decent programming language if you use the functional paradigm and read enough books and ship enough products to understand its strengths and weaknesses. It’s even better with typescript.
And I think you're missing the fact that you're not actually breaking any laws by telling people you're one race or another. Saying, "by law in the US she is considered white" implies there is some legal repercussion, which was likely cause for jumasheff's confusion. I could only imagine that happening if there was some sort of fraud involved.
Mozilla was more relevant back then, and mobile Web wasn't as strong.

Nowadays for most consumers it is whatever Safari or Chrome support.
We thought we were smart not to go to Costco on a Saturday...
> there's also tons of radioactive building materials

It's a rare case where this is an accurate statement, because a typical nuclear power plant produces a dozen or two tons of waste per year. Take a look at this observation until it sinks in just how little waste that is.
Isn't the simplest answer that most American men aren't offered paternity leave?

To be coupled with the fact that even those who are are still expected to be the breadwinner, which paternity leave interferes with.

Much (all?) of the differences in outcomes between men who do and men who don't is easily attributed to men in higher social classes having more paternity leave, more stable marriages, and fewer economic stressors.
Doesn't sound realistic? And is this coming from a position of experience? Where you have had to deal with prejudice and everything else that comes with being singled out as a minority?

Or is this coming from a upper middle class white male that has always lived amongst people who look and sound like they do?
how did she get elected?
I spent a year researching ways for making touch screen interfaces usable without demanding visual attention (in a medical context, almost as fun). It’s really really hard to beat tactile, physical knobs and switches. Tesla can do way better than they are doing. Operating the radio etc. on their touch screen is virtually impossible without taking your eyes off the road for dangerous amounts of time. Despite knowing this, I still ordered a Model 3.
I don't disagree. But, at a time when the cost/benefit ratio of college is challenged every day in popular discourse, maybe colleges have no choice but to embrace "The customer is always right" as a fundamental value.
AI that can remove noise from grainy photos and automatically enhance them
Yes, like that, but in the form of a car instead of a truck/SUV.
Windows, at least, has a group policy to prevent that behavior, so if you have that problem with Windows you are either using a version not made for work (Home) or not managing it for your particular workload.

I think the default behavior is actually the right default for consumer and nonserver work machines, so I'm not seeing the problem, at least as regards Windows.
Oberlin is teaching textbook racially-organized crime, as seen thousands of years ago in Greece and earlier still elsewhere. Next time, they will have the judge and the jury and will win.
Well the cladding is radioactive but to a far lesser degree then the fuel itself. Its waste but lower level waste as it doesn't contain the most long lived elements. I mean, they will be their anyway, so your not creating more waste buy having the old rods.

Also, most molten salt reactors wouldn't use fuel rod. And the ones that do would be different compared to those in PWR so reuse is unlikely.

Edit: See here https://youtu.be/TvXcoSdXYlk?t=1828
Great idea, would love to see it.

Related, there were journals like this at some point, e.g. International Journal of Negative & Null Results, or ournal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, and I think at least one more. Not sure how they fare, though.
History of Larks/Ravens
LaTeX is one of the most important tools that I properly started using regularly whilst at unviersity.

It's the typesetting tool in CS, and you can get some really beautiful results from it. There's great tooling for IDEs like IntelliJ (https://github.com/Ruben-Sten/TeXiFy-IDEA), it makes managing references (using BibTeX) much less of a chore, there are tons of high-quality packages that do pretty much anything you could think of and there's an excellent community on e.g. TeX.SE to provide support. It's free software, the results are better than Word and it's much less painful to use than an unpredictable WYSIWYG editor.

I've used it in industry to write security audit reports and more recently as part of my dissertation. My only regret is not discovering LaTeX earlier and using it more.
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> so it would never be at risk of a melt-down

This is a misunderstanding of what a melt-down is. In every case we know of involving commercial reactors, fuel melt-down happened when the reactor was non-critical, completely devoid of fission.

Meltdown happens when the heat generated by decay of products produced when the reactor was critical cannot be removed fast enough, such as when a cooling system fails or coolant does not cover the fuel modules.

Any reactor with solid fuel and a high enough energy density will have a meltdown possibility, unless it is somehow using a reaction chain that precludes the production of high-activity fission products.
We're doing this in the IndieWeb community, an example: https://jeena.net/comments/1045

The background technology: https://indieweb.org/Webmention

The rather unsuccessful try to do a indiewebring: https://indieweb.org/indiewebring
Classic fear mongering. The so called risks of these bad actors are part of life, and something we must accept. There will always be evil.
Just like the maps are not the territory, but like maps, models/descriptions can become out of date.
Oberlin is an extreme case, even among other small, liberal arts colleges.
An open-source chatbot built with a neural network: Olivia
Learning a lot how science actually works and how flawed it is I came to the conclusion that the biggest boost in scientific progress you could ever achieve is by eliminating science waste and doing more good science.

There are a few tiny steps in the right direction, but it's frustratingly slow. Once you understand a phenomena like publication bias it's hard to swallow that there are still empirical studies published without preregistration. There are so many studies published with such low quality that it's a complete waste, because the likelyhood that they're some statistical fluke is much higher than that they tell the truth.

Though the problems are known since a while, little has changed:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
From memory, it would do 1.5 frames per second.
Tactile switches should be mandatory.
I suppose they don't believe in their own ability to educate students enough to generate ideas that pay for themselves via research grants; otherwise it would be more profitable to charge less.
> She isn't good looking, not interesting, her videography and photography is very average

All of these are relative; plus, there are other reasons to follow an account.
Facebook lawyers explain to a judge that privacy on Facebook is nonexistent
It's an SVG animation, which is kinda interesting, but it's annoying as hell, like you say.

Perhaps the web dev is a geocities throwback.
Symbols in JavaScript
Very cool! Since I already have my feeds sitting locally in my feed reader's db, it'd be cool if I could just pipe that out to Openring somehow.
Resources on Wardley mapping:

The book: https://medium.com/wardleymaps/on-being-lost-2ef5f05eb1ec

Hired Thought (leading mapping expert in US): https://hiredthought.com/

Great learning resource from Ben Mosier (of hired thought): https://learnwardleymapping.com/

Reach out to me if you want to learn more as well.
For those skeptical that you even need an inner mental life to be intelligent, Peter Watt's novels "Blindsight"* and "Echopraxia" are a must-read.

* https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
How to Test Drive 200 Linux Distributions Without Ever Downloading or Installing
other selling points include great look, reproducible, gitable, makes for great boilerplates, etc.
My biggest issue with (la)tex is how hard it is to find up to date best practices. There are fifty ways to accomplish your desired outcome but it seems like every blog post or stack exchange answer conflicts with everything else and it turns out half of what you're doing is deprecated.

I'd pay good money for a "modern idiomatic latex"-type of tutorial.
> The other big disadvantage is the failure mode: if the screen fails, a whole set of functionality becomes inaccessible

Yep, the touch screen in my car cracked recently and the AC got stuck on a very low setting and was constantly blowing out cold air - there was no way to adjust it without using the screen.

It is not only the single point of failure that is annoying but the fact that to control the AC you need to use the touch screen in AC mode which mean switching from GPS mode or radio mode etc. Very distracting when driving.

Car designers: Please give us more knobs!
It’s just a random guy with a blog. This isn’t Forbes reporting. It’s a contributor site. You pay to become a contributor and you can post whatever you want. There’s no fact checking here. No investigative reporting. This is literally just a blog and designed to look like a legitimate news story from Forbes. Frankly, I think, for that reason, Forbes contributor sites should be banned here.
Sorry, but that is opinion & not a proof. It sounds more like a committee rubber stamped a policy & declared it as "settled". Similar to Galelio's time with a Geocentric universe model being the "settled science".

I don't need to persuade you either. You can have the wrong idea & it does not affect me unless you manage to convince enough people to take away my rights to free speech & property. The "high road" "let's not dignify their arguments" does not work if your models fail to predict anything & if the "Emperor has no clothes"; which is one of the reasons why we are seeing increased censorship.

Re: proof, think of it this way. If this has been so obviously proven, why are you unable to produce any evidence of the proof? Why are the standard climate models wildly divergent, under constant modification, & still unable to predict phenomena? One would expect consistency & predictability, like Newtonian Mechanics or Maxwell's Equations. Until then, it is at best, a tenuous, model that over time is becoming increasingly unbelievable as alternative models better fit the data & have physical experiments backing them. Also, "the map is not the territory".
I think you might be underestimating how interested other people would be in those stories, and overestimating how much attention the newest page gets. Many fine submissions never reach the front page. We do a lot to try to mitigate that, but more is needed.
The Gender Gap in Heart Disease
Hey, would you like to showcase it in dev conference, happening next weekend Jun 23?
Yeah I can definitely see that. I may just be weird. A lot of people in the comments here are talking about not subvocalizing to read faster, and I have never really worked on doing that, but according to the couple possibly unreliable reading speed tests I’ve taken, I read really fast, despite subvocalizing. So perhaps as long as I subvocalize, I can fully absorb the narrative? I also know that I can read slightly faster when I try not to subvocalize, but I’m not very good at it and I would never try to read a novel that way because I feel like THAT would destroy the narrative, at least for me.
I was the main programmer on a web application with 250k lines of code; it handled a single very complex product selection/configuration process. The time came to expand it to handle multiple products in the same family of products.

We ended up, over six months, doing a complete rewrite that, from the outside, looked like refactoring (meaning, from the user's/product owner's perspective, the old stuff continued to work as we wrote the new stuff beside it, switching over as we went).

We launched on time and on budget. My last week was a death march but that was it. There was now only 50k LOC. Where the previous version was tightly coupled to the product specification, we now had an engine that could perform the same selection/configuration process for any product that could be articulated in the new DSL we'd developed; as a bonus, the specifications were standalone modules so we could use them in completely separate web apps.

The whole time we were aware that we were breaking the 'never rewrite' rules spelled out by Spolsky and others, but we were successful, the codebase took a huge leap forward both in speed of development and maintainability, and a subsequent project to add another set of products took half the time that was estimated.

I don't know what we did right, exactly, except perhaps that our rewrite was never about burnout or annoyance at the existing codebase; our decisions along the way were always justified by what we had to deliver and a reasonable feeling of an experienced dev that refactoring the old code would take more effort than starting over.

I'm not sure I buy the articles rejection of the rewrite they did, because he frames it entirely in terms of delay in updating and adding features, without seeming to consider that this was just legitimate technical debt that they had to pay off. The old code got them into a position where they could rewrite it. How many startups fail because their attempts to get it right the first time prevent them from ever launching and getting the customers that will pay to fix it later?
Stop Emails from Going into Promotions Tab on Gmail
Leaving all the real espionage possibilities aside, I wonder if this is not a modern day propaganda machine doing its job.
The assumptions you make are amusing, and some might even say racist.
> A warning that unintended but disastrous effects on society have resulted from improved and computerized recordkeeping, owing to (1) the habit of limiting the number of variables considered to those easily quantified, (2) the tendency to use records and scores instead of judgment, and (3) the use of information to maximize private profit without regard to the damage inflicted by everybody doing this at once.

Sound familiar to anyone?
Same with me. They never respond.
>I don't like this, but violence is a proven remedy against fascism, possibly the best one. Engaging them in good faith debate in the marketplace of ideas isn't.

I wish you had posted this earlier so more people would have seen it. You're the problem.
> you'll realize that they don't even mean anything, much less describe a physical reality.

Wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipse#Planetary_orbits

"In the 17th century, Johannes Kepler discovered that the orbits along which the planets travel around the Sun are ellipses with the Sun [approximately] at one focus, in his first law of planetary motion. Later, Isaac Newton explained this as a corollary of his law of universal gravitation.

More generally, in the gravitational two-body problem, if the two bodies are bound to each other (that is, the total energy is negative), their orbits are similar ellipses with the common barycenter being one of the foci of each ellipse. The other focus of either ellipse has no known physical significance. The orbit of either body in the reference frame of the other is also an ellipse, with the other body at the same focus."

The existence of barycenter it a physical reality. The elliptic movement is a physical reality. Compared to all other distances, the barycenter is for all the motions of all the planets effectively Sun. Even it it is approximation, it's a good approximation. Even if it moves and is sometimes a little outside of the Sun surface, it's still compared to the other distances practically there.

Sun.

It was known even three centuries ago, but now some "philosophers" think that they "relativize" that away. No. It's there.
Leases are a giant unsustainable bubble.
This article is misrepresenting the truth.
Maybe the majority of the waste mass is really uranium (i doubt it, but i'm no expert), but from what i heard from an EPR engineer, the volume of this waste is in fact tools, clothing, used part that have been replaced and stuff like that. Not hard to take care of, and waste that contain very low level of radioactivity, but this should be the majority of nuclear waste, and this is not "mostly fuel" in any case.

Please be precise.
Depends on the user. My GF for some reason uses FF, Edge and Chrome at the same time, most of the time (she's not in/into tech).

So if someone asked her, she would just switched the windows.
I am a grad student leaving university soon enough, and this does not surprise me at all.

Especially at elite universities, there is this interesting phenomenon of mostly upper middle class white women from on average the most privileged upbringings in the western hemisphere arriving at a university they (anyone) could only attend by incredible privilege and luck. Yet they arrive fully convinced they have been held back by the patriarchy their entire lives. Same for other groups and their pet causes.

They find no apparent contradiction at being the most privileged of their generation (speaking of Harvard, Oxbridge, Stanford here), yet the smaller and local the cause, the more vicious the activism. Someone they disagree with dare speak on campus? Violence, trauma, discrimination, hate.

Getting arrested for taking off a veil in Iran? Genocide? Consumerism destroying the planet? Yawn.

I often see people on hn saying this is all blown out of proportion and a small vocal minority but when you talk to undergrads these days, you will realize these beliefs are not just a handful of people but carry weight across the student population.

Not least because opposition is shamed into silence. University admins are usually easily cowed submission on these causes, mostly because it does not cost them anything to uninvite/fire someone.
Demo url does t seem to be working or not allowed on browsers?
>> The social sciences have gained an incredible amount of control over academia. Why would they allow the current system, which works very well for them, to be "fixed"?

> Hmmm I do not know about that, the test real, meaningful control would be who gets the funding, no?

It may be that social science can exert control, but can't use that control to enrich itself. In that case, scientists who don't conform to the proper norms will suffer from a lack of funding, but the social sciences may not get increased funding.

Sadly, this is a much more difficult case to measure.
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So as someone working in application of medicines, I'd agree with the comments that say those of us doing these things have learn to make code work, but are not software engineers (and would not claim to be). This means that if you can improve the tools that are used (and don't care about making a return), the leverage would be massive.

I imagine it isn't trivial (otherwise it would have been done by now), but imagine if R was automatically parallel processing; seldom is the code in my field worth figuring out how to make it parallel, but if it was automatically, then a hell of a lot of time would be saved! I know there are two packages that kind of make it work, but so far I've yet to hit a threshold making it worth it (I just leave thigns running overnight).

Abstract from that to projects like Zotero and you can see how you could have an impact on a lot of people by enabling them to do what they do.
Does YC, Paul Graham Invest in India?
I am looking to start a conversation and have the creds and respectable resume!