skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that many of the observations are ball lightning maintained and transported by radar. If so, studying the phenomena could have fantastic implications for nuclear fusion, which would make the investment well worth it.

The metallic cigar shapes could, within the realm of possibility, be free electrons in a similar toroidal path, giving the appearance of a shiny surface. That in turn could perhaps shield our spacecraft in the future.
He ran tests for staph and something else that I don't remember since it was a few years ago, but strep wasn't one of them. I specifically asked for him to test strep, but he said "That doesn't look like strep to me". I also tried to repeat to him on return visits that the person I thought I got sick from had strep, but he continued with the viral tests and said that the penicillin would have stopped it if it was strep. He told me to continue using the penicillin anyway when he started testing for other things, specifically herpes and shingles (IIRC) due to it becoming a skin infection. I generally don't remember that week very well considering I was trying to study for finals and trying to prepare for a foreign language interview for a class that I was struggling in all year. I just tried to follow his directions and keep my mouth shut after the first week. I really didn't have the energy to do otherwise anyways.

As an introvert and someone with Social Anxiety Disorder, I don't say much (hence my username) and I don't ask too many questions in person. This was also before I got treatment for major depressive disorder and SAD, so I spoke even less then. But, I was at least concerned enough to request he test for strep and to try to insist that I thought it was strep I got from someone else too, which was quickly diminished into disregard each time I tried. I pretty much kept my mouth shut after out of embarrassment. In the beginning things felt questionable, like the staph test (like why staph?), but I stopped questioning after I felt embarrassed. It wasn't until the second doctor that I questioned everything else he did, including the viral tests.

It was a bad experience I had and I'm salty about it. I may be putting blame or wrongdoing where I shouldn't due to said saltiness. A lot of the things he said and did were questionable though and I blame him in the least for making every visit and those 3 weeks as difficult as possible for me, when I feel there were at least some better options he could have chosen and the second doctor confirmed that to me.
>The difference is the conviction rate in China is over 10 times higher

Actually, it's not over 10 times higher; I double checked, Japan's is also 99.9% and has been for some time.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...

Statistics from Wikipedia link:
http://hakusyo1.moj.go.jp/en/61/image/image/h002003001001h.j...

If you just take guilty/not guilty, the % is actually 99.98% in Japan (e.g. 2011, 77 Not Guilty, 432,050 Guilty)
And a very good chunk of those (most I'd say) is only running some form of ad blocking.
No, at used temperatures kaolin will dissolve pretty well. However it does clog filters and causes waste as it counters water softeners. Then you require longer washing with longer drying cycle, which in fact does damage fibers.
I doubt sapient extraterrestrial life is going to bother with the hassle of shipping resources up from a gravity well, when those same resources are already abundantly accessible everywhere else.
You don't need to tap then swipe, just swipe.
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Ok, so you admit this was wild hyperbole:

> It eliminates all sources of bugs,
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Agreed. In the military world, there is just too much cloak and dagger stuff going on to take everything at face value.
Very interesting, thank you! This is definitely no excuse for not filtering the origins -- they just don't get it for free through passive but they still need to do it, or since they are a native app, generate and install a cert -- but it could be the motivation for the decision to go this route which is really useful to know.
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Superhuman Referral?
Does anyone here use Superhuman email? If so could I please get an invite / referral?
You might run into address space issues. I haven’t checked Broadcom PCIe documentation for RPi4 (is there any?), but I tried a very similar hack with i.MX6 and older AMD and nVidia cards. They get recognized fine, but BARs cannot be mapped because they don’t fit in i.MX6’s tiny 16MB PCIe space.
I now have two Turms t-shirts worth equivalent of 10 USD with both hydrophobic and antibacterial properties. They don't feel dirty even after sweating in them a few days. I'm determined to test them for 20 or more wears. But I wonder if they are counterproductive for the environment with the coatings.
completely off topic, but is this where we’re at now ? Calling someone « they » and thus create confusion, just in case he doesn’t belong to the 99.9% of the population who is just fine with his DNA, and eventhough he never expressed any kind of opinion leading you to think he isn’t fine with his gender ?
Do kindergartens buy apps? I’d try to increase the price a bit and go talk to them if they want to buy it. Maybe make a demo version to get the kids hooked.

Or specific groups for parents.

Maybe make a small booklet to give to schools and say they can buy it as an app with sounds included!

Also crowdsource adding animal sounds through mechanical Turk or something like that. Then draw the animals you receive.

Cute with the hats btw.
How Will We Go Beyond Moore’s Law? Experts Weigh In
Microsoft and Apple have barely changed in all the ways they are bad though. Specifically Microsoft has just moved to a different place in the embrace expand extinguish cycle. Give it a few years and everyone will hate them again (and maybe be surprised that it happened at all) because they did something unethical.
According to Wikipedia [0], the number of MV-related deaths has been right about 10 or 11 per 100,000 per year for the last ten years. Which makes the opening claim "Americans are condemned to lose friends and relatives to traffic violence" seem particularly overwrought.

And while the legal system may have been of some help, I rather suspect the main reason cars took over is because they give the user a tremendous amount of freedom and agency.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
Well, people like to smoke, drink and eat junk food. We have to to see beyond our liking at some point. To have a set of synthetics for a workout is not the same to have all synthetic clothing. And even on this, I would argue that while handling sweat better still it affects your skin.
There was a much-hyped recreation of a train crash at last year's Burning Man. The crowd that turned up to watch it was massive. The actual crash was a bit anticlimactic; To avoid generating a bunch of debris, the crash happened at very low speeds.

https://youtu.be/zIJW4fcV85k?t=300
This article doesn't go much in detail. A lot of French article describe better what happen. France Telecom became a case study in a lot of management classes of what not to do.

They even not really secretive about it, upper management even made classes for the middle management to teach them how to make someone quit. Giving bullshit/meaningless task, putting people in position were they had nothing to do but sit on a chair all day, enforcing dumb rules very strictly and having in general a very aggressive communication.

A lot of people don't realize how hard these things can be. Having nothing to do or only meaningless tasks makes you depressed really quickly. Having suffered it for 2 years, I think most people don't understand how difficult it can be.
No. People don't care about that. This is from our perspective, as tech users we are concerned about centralization and silos. The users aren't concerned with silos, because websites such as Instagram have so much pulling power, that everyone is already there. You don't have to worry about sharing data with other services because all your followers are on Instagram anyway.
> Unless they coded something very stupidly

In this particular case, I don't think we can exclude that possibliity.

In general of course I agree with you.
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Well culture changes, someone from the 19th century has a different culture to someone from today. Yes I accept the fact that some arbitrary date isnt that useful, and some (most?) people wont fit the pattern, but I suppose you could say that about any stereotype.

Nevertheless it is a useful shorthand for people going through the same life experiences at the same time.

I say this as someone who's technically a millennial, but old enough to remember when we were generation Y, doesn't eat Avocado toast, didn't have particular problems affording a house and don't particularly like facebook/snapchat/grindr or whatever the kids are on now. So I'm not really a representative Millennial.
I'm not saying we should never think in abstractions... but there is a formulaic pattern here that's old, paranoid and harmful.

Except these conspiracies were (and are) generally real, and their effects are real. The pattern isn't journalistic, it's historical.
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Thanks for reporting these. I'll check it out in Firefox.

I heard about the pricing section being an issue for some but haven't been able to reproduce it. I'm going to setup BrowserStack to find all of the issues.
Delivering money to shareholders is a good reason. That’s the entire reason these enterprises exist. Everyone hired knows that’s the deal when you applied to work at a company. If you dont agree with that, don’t take the job.
I like that you use the word albeit in that comment. It's one of the words where the pronunciation rules go awry.

No one is denying that English has rules mapping spelling to pronunciation for the lion's share of text. It's just that the rules are (as you say) complex and there are a lot of exceptions.

On the production side, there are a number of different opshuns for righting the seim sownds, sum ov witch are legitimate homophones, rather than just misspellings.

In languages like Spanish (or even better, Welsh, where sandhi is actually written down), as long as you know the rules, you can correctly pronounce 100% of never before seen words, and you can correctly spell a higher proportion of words than in English.
I'd take a word of a material engineer and chemical process engineer way over anything she has to say... Fashion is not really a credential. They make clothes, not break them.
Thanks for the response, my story about Catalyst was very old. I was trying to explain to some new Linux people that AMD was terrible a few year back. So I bought a new laptop and in 1 year Catalyst dropped support for the GPU in that laptop forcing me to only run distributions with old enough Xorg because the open source drivers were bad at that time.

I know that now AMD open source is better and my new computer will probably run an AMD CPU and an AMD GPU but until my current PC gets outdated I will have to continue use my NVIDIA 970 which is still a decent card for cashual gaming
> would have very deep existential implications.

I doubt that.

> It wouldn't definitely rule out a supreme being as the creator of the universe we live in

Yes, that's exactly what the believers will tell you even then.

Think about it: the science knows today that every atom in our bodies is either produced 13.8 billion years ago (is it is H2) or in the explosion of some star. It's true for every element that you learn in the chemistry class. We know that the Earth is 4.7 billion years old. And we already know that humans share 99% percent of the DNA with chimps. And that 0.006 billion years ago on the Earth neither humans nor chimps existed, but their common ancestor.

Do people who believe in a "miracle" divine intervention that supposedly happened only some 0.000002 billion years ago (or even only 0.0000014 billion years ago) when only at that point their deity became involved with the believers, do these people in anyway feel affected by all that? No.

Compared to what we know today, their religious "messages from the deity" obviously prove that they were written by plain humans of older times, because these messages don't contain any knowledge we have today, but instead the "eternal" truths like "at the end of the day the Sun sets in the muddy pond" or that the Earth's sky is a solid dome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament#Biblical_use

Do the believers feel affected by that? No.
I'm all up for public transportation, and this article brings some interesting questions.

First of all, I don't believe that people will be sending their self-driving cars to pick up coffee from the other side of the town. Food delivery services are already developing rapidly and bringing products to us. Though that's only one thing, sending your self-driving car wherever you want, and if people to it massively..could end up in even worse traffic.

However, I just hate reading about drunk drivers, including cops and politicians. So far the amount of accidents with self driving cars is minimal, remains to be seen when they're launched in full power.

Public transportation is the solution imho. Investing into comfortable buses and trains, not smelly and malfunctioning machines from soviet union.
I think the short history of web services has shown that depending solely on the whims of the founder is often much more reliable than the whims of VCs or other methods of running it. Delicious didn't live or die with Joshua Schachter, yet it's not around anymore.

And yeah, 220k/y is more than enough to support another person full time. Not everyone lives in SF and pays thousands for half a bedroom.
This was my initial reaction as well, but the article mentions that

> Each color cycle represents 4.8 inches (12 centimeters) of ground displacement either toward or away from the satellite.

...so what we're actually interested in is counting the number of cycles through the color map between two points, for which jet actually seems like a perfectly good choice.

jofer explains in their comment why the data is shown this way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20398703
I just wanted to let you know that your post is #1 on Google if you search for the phrase "allusory phrasing".

I was wondering, what does it mean?
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless
To anyone else wondering what's meant by "rejected energy":

https://energycultures.org/2014/07/rejected-energy-much-ener...
I don't think you are correct: you can view the extra degrees of freedom as just a symmetry
It's all fine as long as your clothes are reused, even into rags.
The very flexible microfibers probably are not a hazard on the level of microplastics.

Edit: they actually do pose this exact problem, though the filter in washing machine is supposed to catch all that. It doesn't.
This appears to just be a 60v->12v isolated converter at ~2kW. I've never seen a push-pull topology used for this power level since it makes such inefficient use of the transformer and FETs (note it uses 4 parallel FETs for each branch of the primary). Looks fun though
Nowadays there are cameras everywhere. I don't want to be (in)famous via a video. My autism can't handle that. But I surely have the balls to say no to my boss. If I'd urinate, no, it would not cross my mind. It's not so much the act itself, but coming up with it (and your position in the hierarchy).
In India it is called 'Chit Fund'.

A chit fund is a type of rotating savings and credit association system practiced in India. Chit fund schemes may be organized by financial institutions, or informally among friends, relatives, or neighbours.

The chit fund is said to be an institution that's been handed down since ancient times. In 1887, William Logan, erstwhile Collector of the Malabar district of the Madras Presidency, described the custom of chit funds among friend groups in that region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chit_fund
Unfortunately, at least in poorer countries, people will simply disregard the license. Indian/Chinese/Russian pharma companies are quite good at synthesizing patented compounds (after all, the relevant information is in the patent claim) and selling them for cheap.

And even in industrialized countries, crooked vets have abused reserve antibiotics not intended for animals.
The real problem is

There is NON BIODEGRADABLE plastic in everything!

Stop blaming the consumers. And start making plastic PRODUCERS pay the negative externalities. Make an international fund to freaking tax the polluters and redistribute to other countries to reward reforestation.

Same with carbon
And everything else
I am tired of plastic straw and bag BANS while plastics and fossil fuels are used every day.

You will see biodegradable plastics appear faster than you can say “progress”.

It’s like Andrew Yang’s idea to tax the gun makers for each gun death.
living in a big city in europe i was able to live without a car easily, but when i got a job in the US i fully expected that i'd have to learn to drive and get a car to get around.

BUT, i managed to get an apartment 10 minutes walking from the office. this was in san diego, of all places, a city which is very spread out. a few months later i moved in with friends and we found a place far north. most of my roommates had a car, but i took care that i had a bus going directly to work. it ran only once in 30 minutes, so missing it occasionally was a pain, but it was fine otherwise. it also provided for some memorable displays of humanity. another few months later the company moved to los angeles, and again i found a place with a direct bus to work.

i figured that if i can manage to live in sandiego and LA without a car, then i can do that anywhere. sure enough, a few years later i achieved the same in auckland. another city that is quite spread out and has a lackluster public transport system that rivals the US in lack of options.

not everyone is going to be able to achieve this. as a young programmer i could afford the higher rent in the areas close to the office. (i was a stone throw from hollywood boulevard, and crossed it every day on my way to the office :-)
This seems par for the course for their support. I tried to report that their signup form automatically, silently deletes spaces from your password (!?). After a painful process of trying to explain the issue, it was summarily ignored.

They didn't really seem to understand that it was a bug.
Being heavily subject to eczema in my first two decades I have experimented with various changes to the point of having it stop 98% of the time now:

- increasing the skin natural barrier through limited soap (only if there is a stinky area)
- reducing overall inflammation (better sleep, more sport, better nutrition through vegetables fruits and limited meat proteins)
- bathing in the ocean
- minutes of direct sun exposure

The last two will do wonders. A highly stressing episode or accumulated sleep debt however and the skin will start itching as a warning.
mass transit will never be capillary enough. you know what they did in old European cities when the started blocking city centers to public transit? they introduced 8 seater autobus to have enough and be capillary enough to get people where they needed to. mass transit can't do that, unless at some point you want very very tiny trams and tramways everywhere instead of roads everywhere

or would you prefer to live in a city where the job and housing market develops near a handful main connected roads and everywhere else you travel more than you work?

> [safety concerns]

on a side note, imagine the amount of deaths from not having ambulances or fire trucks and the price gouging of transit company to reach major productivity center.

if someone invented car today those would still be great selling points for them
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Assuming the universe is homogeneous (ie we are not in some special place) you only need to see a small portion of the universe to date it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe
N=1, very mild symptoms etc, but I rinse with diluted apple cider vinegar after shampoo and sometimes soap since the skin is naturally acidic. The slight scalp itch goes away.
Back in the dark past of the late 1980s/early 1990s, "[x.x.x.x]" used to be a convention to force parsing as an IP address rather than a DNS name. I have no idea where this convention came from, or where it went to, but it seems to have completely vanished since.

It's possible that it was a UK-specific convention that was borne from JANET but I don't know; I do know that PAD and CPAD addresses (from X.25) were more common on JANET than IP addresses, so that seems unlikely.
Sure, but we aren't trying to prove or disprove anything here, we're speculating for enjoyment.
Clippy, as orginally designed before they gimped it? ;-)

Or just contextual help as it existed in many Windows applications (and certain current iOS apps).
Electric vehicles will bring about significant changes.

As said, and as your quote highlights, this focusses on particles. But the main emission of internal combustion engines is CO2, and other nasty stuff like CO, NOx, hydrocarbons, etc. These are eliminated by electric vehicles.
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You can also get burned without current flowing through your body, e.g. by accidentally shorting the circuit through some sweat on your skin.
I am looking for ways to quickly load data into a PG database for local testing. An initial seed run is ok, but I want test suites to run on identical data sets and since PG doesn't (yet) support nested transactions, I a currently use my seed database as a TEMPLATE for suite-specific databases.

It works reasonably well but creating the database with a template takes several seconds, even though my test data is fairly simple. I imagine it should be faster than anything I can do from my programming language (nodejs in my case), or is creating with templates slow for some reason that I don't know of?
IOPs is one of the main pitfalls of cloud platforms and I'm baffled that neither GCP nor AWS make it easier to detect that you are hitting a limit there.

I've had multiple gigs where I was tasked with solving performance pitfalls, and most of the time it was as simple as upping the IOPS. In one case even though the problem was resolved in the end, the client migrated away from the cloud again because of that bad experience.
> maybe they can fix it somehow

Given the problem description (wrong number of resistors), I doubt that they'll be able to fix it in the existing boards. I don't know how feasible it is for them to retool, but maybe we'll see a model 4.1 with an additional resistor show up at some point.
Chinese Border Guards Place Malware on Travellers' Phones
Yep. The only saving grace is that it takes a loong time for the fan to finally kick in, it's pretty much impossible to make it run with anything less than 100% CPU load, and even then it takes a few minutes to kick in.
Fungi & bacteria can turn into spores & travel through space. There was also recent article about fungus growing on the outside (!) of the space station.
And of course the elephant in the room, the sterilization of undesirables as decided by the powers that be. Imagine using all that 23andme data to target certain genotypes with diseases.
Genetic Improvement of Software