skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just throwing the baby out with the bathwater - I'll have even less idea why this or that comment is at the top of the feed, it will be just as gameable for the committed bad actors, and I won't be able to get a quick estimate of whether a social media post is worth engaging with or a crowd has already gathered and established some rough consensus about it.

It's good to keep experimenting with the development of better UIs though - seems to be plenty of demand for that on Twitter today as people react coolly to their new UI.
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If you are certain that "make people less selfish" is no goal for actionable items and people are only comfort driven, there is another simple solution: Reduce the comfort.

Make them pay more money every time they show descructive behaviour. Tax them for it.
This article reminds me of the difficulty ascribing meaning to data. The meaning of a series of bits - ASCII or Unicode, data or executable - is dependent on consciousness to give it meaning. Much like all of the physical observations of science.
I can't prove that you didn't create me. Where are you going with this?
This seems like a nice improvement.

I don't think the user's experience as a 'nobody' is quite comparable to as a celebrity.
I'd waste much more of my time worrying about social media metrics if I got more attention.

Though I also hope it doesn't exasperate competition anxiety, if people just presume those they're competing with are more popular than they are. (My understanding is Instagram tends to be very unhealthy for adolescents).
How could you distinguish "the situation isn't getting any more dangerous" from "risk mitigation tactics are working"?
Claiming they have no impact besides storage is also being disingenuous. The more indexes you have, the more noticeably slow inserts have become on some of the tables I've worked with. Of course, this was an inherent issue with the table design (massive table with lots of columns and a lot of indexes) but sometimes you can only work with the legacy system you have.

In an ideal world with a sanely (not over the top or inadequately) normalised database I'd agree with you. But in my experience there have been times where adding an index for a rarely run query was absolutely the wrong decision.
> Now all we have to do is tear down and rebuild old buildings

Or use 2" / 5cm of closed-cell spray foam to air seal buildings to reduce drafts, and then add more insulation to reduce heat exchange/loss.

(You can spray foam more, but it can get expensive and batt insulation can be just as useful.)
ITER won't even burn DT until 2035, and that's if things go as expected. DEMO won't be designed without that data, if it's ever designed at all.
Consols schmonsols! The modern prospector such as Mrs. Bennet would want to know how much is that in today's money. Using the Bank of England's trusty inflation calculator and plugging in 1813 (the year Pride and Prejudice was published), Darcy's worth £681K a year and his friend half that. In the Valley or London, what's that, a director level at a FAANG, and a tech lead? Using the annual yield to derive asset, the author in another paper put Darcy's net worth at £16.8m - £28m. Pathetic! Not even a one-percenter. I would not walk three dirt miles and muddy the hem of my dress and suffer a terrible cold for half that.

I have a stupid fascination for historical finance tidbits like this. I once wrote a price comparison paper for Les Misérables, Thénardier accused Valjean: "You eat forty-franc bunches of asparagus in January!” I have lost all my sources (it was likely wildly inaccurate and didn't take into account GDP, cost of living, relative wealth) but my paper says one franc in 1830 was about £2.2 (correct me please) - so a bunch of winter asparagus was £88? Sounds excessive. Cosette was purchased for a mere £3300, and her inheritance from Valjean was £1.32m.
The Chrome uVPN extension is a privacy disaster
Not exactly the same, but here's the advice for if you win the lottery:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/02/11/10-th...

Much of it involves don't make big lifestyle changes, invest smartly, get lawyers/financial planners together to protect yourself, and pay off any debt you have.
We shouldn't really listen to anyone. Consider them first, sure, but we have to judge on a per-argument basis (David Irving was - as far as I know - a reasonably respected if unorthodox Historian early in his career - now he is not... for obvious reasons).

Speaking of which, I recently saw a petition which was sold along the lines of "100s of scientists sign petition condemning 5G", where the vast majority of signatories were either scientists not working in a related field or physicians (Who are not scientists at all).
The problem is that it says I've been pwned, but it's completely unhelpful because it doesn't say which service(s) it was. I use different passwords for most sites (randomly generated via password manager), though a few unimportant ones share a common password.

I use Bitwarden, which has a way of checking password dumps, but only for individual passwords. I have over a hundred entries, so checking that frequently is quite time consuming.

I've decided to just switch my email on as many sites as possible using a few aliases to make put them into buckets, but there has to be an easier way...
> There's next to zero value in looking up old posts. I don't know why this hasn't been done.

I genuinely cannot tell if this is satire.

A lot of subreddits are bastions of information for sometimes very niche topics. I frequently run into reddit posts that are 6+ months old but still relevant to what I'm seeking knowledge about. Outside of the programming sphere, posts from years ago generally still hold value.

Saving posts would imply that I knew what Future Me wants to look up, or praying that someone was interested and cached it. Writeups/insightful discussion would be completely wasted, and I would have to find -another- website for potential caches of things relevant to what I'm looking for.

It would be like IRC where people delve into the same topics and arguments ad infinitum.

If I wanted an ephemeral social network (like snapchat) I would use an ephemeral social network, like snapchat.
Consciousness has been observed externally many times using a very well known method: a vast number of analogous reactions to a large variety of stimuli. This is the very reason we aren't all solipsists and believe in human consciousness in others.

And that's all that any agreed upon measurements and observations have ever been. Just because you can't (yet) quantify it or model it formally doesn't mean you can't observe it.
I don't go to stores like gap, and don't really buy trendy clothes. I've never seen tons of styles like all those you mentioned, especially not in one place. My jeans are usually $20-25 a pair; I buy on-sale.

I've also never really heard of the "raito of waist to thigh to calf" being used as a measurement.

Maybe these sorts of things are popular among the younger "metrosexual" boys?

> Now you're being a sexist caricature.

How? Caricature of what? I'm relaying the exact things I've heard and seen from others. I'm really just asking a question, more "why is there this expectation of women?", and you cry "sexism"? That term is very overused.
Another Person Has Died After Rationing Insulin
Standard advice:

- Set aside money to pay taxes FIRST.

- Invest in mostly conservative instruments, as if you were a retiree.

- Keep a small position in risky stuff to
capture some growth and get it out of your system.

- Diversify

- Keep quiet about it, don't get talked into crazy investment schemes. Think "old money" rather than "new money."

- Treat yourself a bit, recognize when you've hit "enough." i.e. more doesn't bring happiness. The number is lower than most realize.

- Remember mom, and others instrumental in your success. Everyone else can apply to your scholarship foundation, haha.

If your expenses are "reasonable" you could live off interest/dividends for the rest of your life. Donating time and charity to whatever causes you see fit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJjKP8vYjpQ

Frank:
You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25 year roof, an indestructible Jap-economy shitbox, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fing solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of f you. Somebody wants you to do something, f* you. Boss pisses you off, f* you! Own your house. Have a couple bucks in the bank. Don't drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level. Did your grandfather take risks?

Jim Bennett:
Yes.

Frank:
I guarantee he did it from a position of f* you. A wise man's life is based around f* you. The United States of America is based on f* you. You have a navy? Greatest army in the history of mankind? F* you! Blow me. We'll f* it up ourselves.
Heat waves are not personal comfort matters.
That's why they're a big deal. If they were, they wouldn't be heat waves.

For those with compromised thermoregulation systems, primarily the elderly and the sick, and especially those who also lack an appropriate support network, most of the heat mitigation techniques other than "be in a cold enough environment" will not work.

They'll just figure it's a normal but unusually hot day. Then they get heat stroke and die. It's very easy to not notice it's happening to you until it's too late; there are known cases of people dying at (or after) sporting events on hot days due to this.

Yeah. That's totally just a "personal comfort" problem.
There is an important distinction here:

Encrypted data is information.

Encryption algorithms are math. Math can be expressed with data, but the immutable intangible reality that is being expressed is not information, nor property.

By your logic, the government can argue banning encrypted data, and encryption algorithm implementations.

The latter hits close to the mark of what A.G. Barr is insinuating. It would still be a significant for a government, especially the U.S. government, to ban the implementation of specific algorithms. That would equate to banning the writing of specific mathematical formulae, which is equivalent to censoring speech.
It's not my definition, that's how the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (applicable to US only) defines spam and most marketers are familiar with since it's been around for 15 years. Of course the laws are different in Europe and Canada.

One of the factors I didn't mention in previous comment is presence of physical mail address.

Not sure what "unfortunately for me" is in reference to - BigMailer isn't a platform for cold emails (there are plenty others that specialize in cold email campaigns) and Amazon SES doesn't give a free pass on the practice either.
It's dreadfully common to not understand database performance. Junior engineers I can understand, they're given a task and hack it together and don't understand why it's slow, but at least it works. But I've seen some pretty shitty work from "senior" engineers too. They know how to put a product together but they shy away from the database besides creating the table itself.
Just ran across this: an HTML e-mail that is only a link (i.e., HTML <head> refresh):

* https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ch83sz/why_the_he...
Although there tends to be great molecular diversity in each person's cancer, there are still avenues of genetic commonality that can be pursued. For example, the tumor suppression gene TP53 is mutated in a high percentage of cancer cases. If this mutation can be reliably repaired, our ability to treat a number of cancers could be significantly improved. There are recent results suggesting that this may indeed soon be the case (for example, treatment with APR-246).
I'm not in this position, I've thought a fair bit about it since it's in the realm of possibility. This is what I'd like to believe I would do:

Buy 30yr Treasury Bonds with enough of the cash to generate ~$200K/year passively for the next 30 years.

Then proceed to continue my normal life. I'd treat the extra income from the bonds like a raise, invest it smartly, buy things as I would normally. Except now I have an immense buffer to stop current work and/or the freedom to pursue other interests.

But I wouldn't change anything in the first year of such a cash influx.
I understand that, these are the bits that I like about the project:

"Then, it will remain to be seen whether Wendelstein 7-X can also fulfil its optimisation goals during continuous operation – the essential advantage of stellarators." ... "Although Wendelstein 7-X is not designed to generate energy, the device is intended to prove that stellarators are suitable for use in power stations."

And from the ITER Goals statement (https://www.iter.org/sci/Goals) "ITER will not capture the power it produces as electricity, but as the first of all fusion experiments in history to produce net energy... it will prepare the way for the machine that can."

My take away from that, is that if both machines fulfill their goals, then building a power station that uses the technology would be the next step. I expect two things to be true; First, the 7-x will prove out its goals before ITER does, and second given that the stellerator design is significantly less complex than the tokamak design, it will be realized as a test power plant before the tokamak power plant is.
Here's a good, brief article that sums this up pretty well: http://www.grubstreet.com/2019/04/how-to-tip.html

Until I read that, I honestly didn't know that people tip on top of the tax. I was firmly in the "tip 18 percent, before tax" camp and assumed I was leaving a good tip by doing so. I'll admit that I was a bit outraged after reading the article because it made me feel like a cheapskate over something that had never even occurred to me before.

What other tipping faux pas am I unknowingly making?
The chart refutes the idea that experts promised fusion power on a certain timespan, got the resources they requested as necessary, and then failed to deliver. That false narrative is the basis of the incorrect aphorism "fusion is 30 years away and always will be".

The chart is not intended to be definitive proof that we would have had fusion power if we had spent the money (lv's last throwaway line notwithstanding.) No one knows what would have happened. To estimate that, we must use our prior based on how long/expensive other major tech developments have been. That's very different than pretending we know fusion's track record.

Incidentally, NASA is currently spending huge amounts of money on computer simulations for the equipment that will return humans to the moon half a century after they were last there. That doesn't mean those simulations are necessary to get to the Moon, as indeed they weren't possible in 1969.
According to Wikipedia operation is supposed to start in 2033 with input from ITER design. No idea what’s right but I believe they want to build it in parallel with ITER, not after. Not sure how realistic this is.
I used your example. Now you're complaining about my choice.
Great suggestion. Didn't know that
>You shouldn’t teach anyone how to make a "weapon" if you can’t be sure that it won’t be used against other intellectuals

What does that mean?
I have a feeling it was awesome to live in America in the 80s and 90s. (1880s of course). This article hints on the zeitgeist of the era.

But I'm mostly reminded by this when I walk over the Brooklyn bridge. That bridge was completed in 1883 and somehow is still heavily used today. At the time, nothing that big was ever built. Nobody even knew if a suspension bridge that long would be feasible.

Also by 1882, NYC had it's first electricity power plant thanks to Edison. Imagine the benefits of electricity over gas burning light. Reminds me of Arthur c Clarke's quote "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
> A lot of subreddits are bastions of information for sometimes very niche topics.

While I don't doubt that's the case, it's incredibly difficult to get at old content due to Reddit's horrible search experience. I never look up anything old there.
Yes, I think someone is injured. There were gunshots and lots of screaming.
The big problem is that it's very inconsistent across the OS. Only certain apps adhere to auto-saving (and thereby this modal).
This is a decent documentary on Rolls Royce that discusses the single crystal blade. I think each one has 18 tons of centrifugal force, and uses a few micron layer of air to cool it, so running an engine too slow will melt them. Fascinating stuff.

https://youtu.be/1Ufd5nDeEK8
What kind of mail client doesn't send mail? I am talking about someone using a mail client to draft and send an email.
Woke up
And difference between "did" and "should or should not do" is even more massive, although completely beyond Elon's (admittedly rather limited) powers of understanding.
Thanks for your work on Fastmail. In my experience it definitely lives up to its name. I love how instantaneous everything feels.
I'm tired of modern web design. These icons are even not intended to be used on toolbar buttons, but for silly landing page lists. Landings that are all the same on every website.

I miss silk icons that were ubiquitous in late 2000s: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/. I miss Tango Project icons, although Gnome went off-the-rails in their UI design. I miss small UI elements, like on freaking Windows 95 desktop, not optimized for pressing with finger, despite being shown on desktop.
Reddit's search has always been terrible.

site:reddit.com or site:reddit.com/r/nichesubreddit <query> is how I actually find things. Lately I actually have begun to cache important things locally, but I wouldn't assume anyone else is doing that for the particular topics or niche subsection of a topic that I'm looking up.
She's creating a database of people labeled in that category. She's playing the "well I didn't say to go harass these people.. but here's a database of them"
Tmobile.com is having some serious problems
T-Mobile's site has been having some major issues for several days now, bad enough to make the site unusable. 400 bad requests everywhere (among other things).

Even the salespeople in their brick & mortar stores can't order anything because their systems are only working intermittently.

They are apparently in the middle of rolling out a new site design - some pages are in their new modern looking theme and some are not.

As some one who is primarily a desktop and embedded developer, I can only wonder what causes this kind of thing. I admit it, the only sites I have been responsible for were small and simple and just worked.

But I'd be interested in reading about some of the things that can go wrong in a more major rollout. Anyone have any interesting stories, or speculation about what went wrong in this case?
In the same respect as this post, the Golden Age made some insanely wealthy people. If you have ever visited the mansions in Newport, RI, the Breakers is something to marvel at.

But what fascinated me more was how Cornelius “the Commodore” Vanderbilt actually built his wealth. If you visit the mansions, they only talk about the social life and everything about the mansions.

But Commodore amassed some like 200 million in that day and age. There was very little regulation, and he fits the mold of someone who with very little education, excelled at business.
YouTube blocks the word “Christian” in advertising
Providing evidence towards the likelihood of truth, as I said, and saying "this is true because X is trustworthy and Y is an 'evil schmuck'", as you said, are not equivalent.

Are you actually trying to argue you can't tell the opinion of children and subject matter experts apart because gathering evidence based on reputation is a logical fallacy?
I've been trying to get this story on the frontpage for a while. I'm glad it finally made it.

Details of the arson attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack

GoFundMe campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kyoani-heal

Kyoto Animation is without a doubt the best 2D animation studio in the world. Not only were they raising the bar in terms of quality of their work, but they were also setting an example for the rest of the industry with better working conditions for their employees.

Here's an in-depth article about them: https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2018/08/25/the-evolution-of-kyo...

Hopefully they can recover from this tragedy to keep creating new masterpieces.
‘I Refuse to Call It a Corvette.’ GM Moves the Engine, Revs Up a Revolt
Is it using a custom 3D engine?
“My dearest sister, now be serious. I want to talk very seriously. Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay. Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"

"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.”

Elizabeth already knew Mr. Darcy's income and despised him. It was upon learning of his wealth that her love bloomed. A practical woman, Miss Bennet.
Creatures which we’d all agree do not possess consciousness also display “a vast number of analogous reactions to a large variety of stimuli”. What do you imagine it proves about consciousness that we do, too?
I was unaware of this 10 year rule. Here at UH Cancer Center I know there are teams with samples in the freezer from decades ago. Any links where I can learn more?
You should probably read the article. Tesla wants a government hand out. The government will give them a hand out as long as they use CCS plugs and any EV can use the charger.

Sounds fair enough to me.
A Gigantic Gold Coin Makes Its Way to Wall Street
Yeah when someone said that to me as an excuse for an indexless query on my team, it took a lot to remain calm and help them learn. I'd rather change it to: "excessive premature optimisation is the root of all evil".

If you're making a query that lots of users will run regularly, that needs an index. Period. Lots of the time there'll already be one, but that doesn't excuse you for not confirming and adding it if it's not there.
I don't have personal experience with a windfall of that size, but I've found that Bogleheads usually has decent advice: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall
#2 is a spectacular career skill.

For more career skills, take the information you glean and set yourself some specific goals and milestones along the way. Check in with people and keep them updated about your progress.
There was a thread the other day about quality vs fast-fashion the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20503194

There are a some mentions of some better brands out there. Proper Cloth was one, but there are others, even ones which make bottoms.
Stick - feedback platform. It's like Slack, but for customer feedback.
Yes: it can experience qualia.

And, yes, no one really knows what that means. This is by way of being the whole point: that the question of what consciousness is and means is a matter for philosophy rather than science, as is everything else that can’t, or can’t yet, be precisely enough formulated to be susceptible to scientific inquiry.

(Personally, I take no position on the question, other than that as far as I’m concerned I have consciousness and that’s good enough for me, and I graciously extend the same privilege to all human and many nonhuman animals - dolphins, for instance, out of professional respect for a fellow species of highly successful bastards. I just think it’s fun to poke at unwarranted senses of certainty every now and again.)
I already tested it, works very well.