skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only instances I could find of respiratory irritation requiring medical intervention related to fog machine use where involving oil based fog machines, or mixed-use but have so far been unable to find case reports of Glycol or Glycerin based fogs alone.

Not all theatrical fog is the same as vaping as far as I am aware. If you have any articles specifically dealing with the components used for vaping I would be interested to read them. Vaping does not use oil.
For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local
Ack, I meant Elliot Abrams.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/6-reasons-why-a-calorie...

It just isn’t true “that a calorie is just a calorie”. A simple search show ample evidence.
And what about the subsequent pressure on new ever growing need for housing?
Love the faces your tool makes! So wonderfully weird. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
> Backblaze

> Impossible

Now this is disappointing for a backup company. Hope yevp sees this and weighs in. Is it even impossible for a EU citizen filing a GDPR request?
I don't even know how people fast for that long. I start getting head-aches and feel awful long before that. So just deciding to fast for 48 hours/week seems untenable to me.
The stable program-kernel interface is not the kernel syscalls, but library API. That's exactly the same as every other non-Linux OS out there including other Unixes and other Free OSs.
This all sounds rather tone deaf. What is the point, in your mind, of "equality of opportunity" if it doesn't result in any outcome? How exactly are people at the poverty level helped, this month, by the performance of the stock market?

When someone making more than triple the median salary in this country (who I'm guessing has never had to live on minimum wage) says we don't need to discuss wealth redistribution, but without offering any concrete suggestions about how to help the poor today, I find it hard to take that seriously.
I've now for a couple years suggested that tweak to Hacker News, with the modification that either a refutation or an upvote on a refutation would qualify you to downvote.
> AMD has a 5x advantage on the price of the CPU alone

Maybe I missed something in your comment, but how did you come up with 5x?

$52,044 / $13,011 = 4.000000000

If instead, I use the numbers from the article, you get:

Intel: $52,044
AMD: $13,900

Which comes out to 3.74x.

If you normalize for performance, then yeah, you get 4.86x. But that doesn’t match up with your numbers ($13,900 vs $13,011). So was it a typo, or are you doing something different?
Yes I think "report" -button would be a much better solution.

But, it seems the company that owns Stack Overflow SAVES MONEY by not hiring people to filter out improper questions. Rather they rely on the free "help" of the community.

Which also means they can hide behind the community. It is not Stack Overflow that is rude to you, it is some users, some bad apples. SO takes no responsibility. And saves money.
As far as I remember, even in beta, Gmail had the option to archive. What set Gmail apart from other free email services was the large amount of email storage that was always slowly increasing. I don't remember my first google addresses but I don't think I've ever needed to delete an email.
That or an asteroid.
Don't forget Manning and Assange which are currently both in Prison.
Unfortunately, every lifestyle change requires hard work. You can't learn to dance or play an instrument without putting in the hours. Same thing applies to losing weight and getting healthy.

Sure, there are "tricks" (such as eating lots more low-calorie-dense food such as broccoli or cucumbers to quell hunger pangs) but those are just tools that still require hard work to apply.
It just depends on what minority you use.

Blacks/LGTB/Jews? Not many people would consider it.

White supremacists/Nazis/Islamic Fundamentalist? It's already mainstream.
The bizarre logic of the many-worlds theory
https://www.justfacts.com/news_poorest_americans_richer_than...

The poorest 20% in the U.S. have it better than the middle class in most countries, despite the inequality.
> Interpreting downvotes as a lack of empathy is the same sort of wrong reasoning as thinking that letting somebody go in front of you at a stop sign is considerate. It disregards the well documented and publicly posted rules for something you made up.

Interpreting downvotes as a considerate act is like stabbing tires on someone's car who just had a light go out. Saying nothing because downvotes don't give any useful signal at all, they don't even know you stabbed because a light doesn't work. And seeing stabbed tires doesn't really give people seeing the car an useful signal either, only maybe a sense of being in danger.
It’s very hard to blow it if you’re born rich. Examples are over-represented in media since they usually involve celebrities & there’s a measure of savage entertainment in the general population, but these outcomes are exceedingly rare. If you’re rich (and in America if you’re also white or male) you just get chance after chance after chance, and you can do horrible things like manslaughter or sex crimes or large-scale fraud and never be penalized, or be penalized in a relatively minor way and bounce right back, usually with family money.

Meanwhile if you’re not born rich, then even completely innocuous mistakes by your parents, like taking out a mortgage in the wrong place / wrong time, or having a sick family elder / child to pay for, can just instantly nuke your chances at college or adequate opportunities / networking that could enable entrepreneurship, etc.
This is very well-written, from my point of view it's a showcase of how the mind works to prevent cognitive dissonance.

The author compares meeting the neighbors with meeting God.

> My relationship to UFOs is like my relationship to God.

I call this "cognitive leverage". There's a sort of if-then structure: IF aliens exist THEN something-something-God. The THEN-clause is too psychologically immense so the brain invalidates the IF-clause and organizes thought and perception in alignment with the result.

> I want to believe, but find it hard.

> I wish I could see one for myself, as I wish I could see the Virgin Mary floating above the yellow roses in my backyard.

Would you want to meet somebody that made that big a deal about it? It would be wildly uncomfortable for anyone but a megalomaniac, eh?

The reason the "G-men" don't openly talk about the UFOs, and the reason the spacemen don't land on the White House lawn, is right there: it would cause too much trouble because humans are nuts.

One classic way that this sort of denial of reality presents itself is in trivially invalid reasoning, for example when Cohen postulates that we can hide the existence of ultra-tech aircraft but not UFOs.

And here is a textbook rationalization:

> Belief in UFOs is really no stranger than any other sort of belief, no stranger than a belief in prophets or ancient codes.

That fails to account for e.g. his own neighbor who "had been in the military when he saw the UFO." and who presumably believes in UFOs only because he has seen one. He wasn't raised in a UFO cult, eh?
You are smelling their screams
also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099cHWSbAL8
(was on hn a few weeks ago)
Yeah... I don't think you got my point at all (which may be down to how I made it).

The author started with "I amaze people with how well I can learn", bridged with "here's my method", which could be reduced to the mixed-media version of the stereotypical programmer who "read one book about that once" (which drives experts crazy), and closed with "I think I've optimized this!
Behold!"

So it easily reads as hubris, possibly mixed in with some raw horsepower, with a dash of Dunning and Kruger giggling in the corner at invocation of their work in what is likely a demonstration of their work.

So it's not the musing on a well-trodden topic that bugged me. It's the tone and subtextual (and, at times, overt) assertions...

Two more things, one of them important-ish:

1. I haven't experienced diminishing returns on my time and effort. I learn much more quickly now than I did when I was a fresh-to-industry voracious hot-head, in large part because I've learned how I learn, a mechanism that doesn't map well to all (or, really, many) other learners. My scoffing at 1000X comes from having thought the same sort of thing 20 years ago and having been dead wrong at how much more ceiling there is.

2. I'm in no way well versed in metacognition, proving a different point: One needs merely know more than the others around at the time to seem like an expert, and slinging some language around can buy one a false sense of expertise, for others and oneself.
Holy shit! This is incredible. This was a product I've been dreaming about making, I can't believe it already exists. I wish I'd seen this before!
Liquid nitrogen is almost that already. It's readily available, reasonably cheap, and you just need Styrofoam for the bulk of the insulation.

The superconducting material itself is expensive, brittle, hard to fabricate, and hard to work with.
Ask HN: How to grow as a software engineering generalist?
I am working as a software engineer at a tech startup in India where our tech stack is Django on the backend and Angular on the front-end. I have learnt enough of the two technologies to be able to do most tasks but would not consider myself an expert in either of these two technologies.

I am more interested in being a software engineering generalist than in being a Django or an Angular expert since I don't want to be doing web development all my life. My company is unlikely to expand its tech stack beyond these two in the near future and frankly, there isn't much in the way of technical mentorship being offered to me either. On the other hand, I've also been given a lot of managerial responsibilities. As a result, I am feeling that my technical growth has become restricted.

Should I be learning another language such as C++ or Haskell in order to grow myself? Will my experience at Django and Angular fetch me a job at a company that works primarily in C++ if my only experience in C++ was outside work in hobby projects?

For eg. Will Google ever consider me employable as a senior engineer with my 3-4 years work experience in Django and Angular? Or will Google treat me like a fresher?

PS: I have a bachelor's and master's in CS from a reputed university (IIT) in India and have been working at my current company for the past 3 years.
20 Percent Doctor Included - Vinod Khosla's vision for medicine [pdf]
The problem. Stack Overflows commenting system is like a lawyers idea of fact finding. Everyone gives an answer and votes like a jury would with the mods acting as harsh judges. This is why SO just gets more and more toxic over time.

What you want is a communal Socratic method. Where everyone goes round and round till the community produces a good solid answer.
This is far outside my wheel house, but... Surely it's the pressure differential that dictates the burst pressure? So if you had multiple sleeves, each decreasing in pressure as you get closer to the outside, this could be possible?
I know very well vultr but I prefer OVH. Their infra are in France and no US Cloud Act.
That's always a balancing act.

With a lot of small teams, you have each team producing components which are relatively good individually thanks to easy, flat, one to one communication and continuity of means and responsibility. The alternative is some degree of siloing which tends to cause significant overhead which can even result in an organization being completely blocked.

But it's not a perfect approach either. It's really hard to maintain consistency and you tend to have some degree of duplicated effort. This explains partly why AWS is so inconsistent in term of API and also why the console is so slow (and just unusable garbage past a certain size).

And it's not like there is no gradation in between individual teams acting alone and big silos. You could pretty much have something that tries to mix the better of both view, with some kind of lose central authority that is here to enforce stability, SLA, overall architecture and consistency of interfaces (both API and UI) but doesn't dictate which tools mut be used.
To be more precise, then, the Linux kernel is the ABI boundary because during Linux's fluid and formative period, the kernel and libc were separate projects. I agree that it's mostly epoxied in place now, modulo my lkml libsyscall proposal from a while ago.
Yea, but the calories in a kg of vegetables is different than the calories in a kilogram of meat right? Or put another way, a hamburger might be the same weight as a plate of veggies and they're calorically quite different.
Hey there, Readwise founder here.

Unfortunately 'My Clippings.txt' is a narrowly (and honestly, pretty awfully) defined format that Kindle devices generate. So that won't work for Google Play Books.

That being said, we want to build a separate Google Play Books importing tool -- it's on our roadmap!
It would be much better if users added their down-votes in the comments because then they would feel some need to explain why they down-vote something. In fact I think IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED to give a reason for your down-vote (if down-votes are allowed in general)

An SO down-vote is not simply an "opinion", it affects your karma-score, perhaps even your chances of getting hired.
A bit out of topic but curl can as well gives you timing details in case you want to know how long each step of a request takes, here is a nice post about it: https://blog.josephscott.org/2011/10/14/timing-details-with-...
Zuckenberg's $10M Security Plan
Here's one in Leavenworth, WA, a town where they have a Bavarian themed design requirements.

https://goo.gl/maps/LaCgUjQLbMX3nGuv5

The McDonalds is a bit subdued, the Starbucks is perhaps a better example.

https://goo.gl/maps/nFemv8G1n7toUa4h6
Yakuza war has anniversary with a bloody bang
Agree.

And WikiLeaks sort of jumped out at me from the OP's comment.

Not much accountability when it is actually SelectiveWikiLeaks.
Sorry if it came across that I'm associating kale with magical weight loss. What I was getting at was I break my fast with a burst of fresh nutrients that my body can easily absorb.

I think the whole approach of strict fasting, along with the plant-based diet is what worked... and I can't see how it won't work for others, but then again I have no idea. People are radically different, and certainly, I was super motivated to lose weight because I never, ever wanted to be obese.

When I was a kid I used to watch The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Will Smith did a bit about Dunlap Syndrome. When my Doc told me I was going to be obese that bit from Fresh Prince flashed in my mind's eye and it was like Will Smith was laughing at me lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeU0fJ-nRIk
>Way forward

I didn't see any mention of a way forward, just commentary on past changes and past articles citing a dislike of SO.
Very useful.

Interestingly, with few exceptions, the worse user experience correlates with the hardest it is to delete a profile.

> GoDaddy Accounts are apparently retained “to comply with [their] legal obligations” though you are able to clear out most of your information by editing your profile.

That's always a good idea.
Writers and their targeted readers have two things that aren't present in internet communication: time and room.

If i was to explain my emotional state and intent on every other message i send, chatting would become rather laborious and having a fluent conversation much much harder.

Indicating that beside my contrary opinion my critique of your comment isn't a try to bluntly dismiss and educate but rather an act of wanting to partake in the conversation in a benevolent way takes me a good third of what I am writing. Or i could just :)
At least for the Eurasian civilizations, the term 'independently invented' is easily falsified:

Metallurgy and chariots arrived in China from the west; Mesopotamia, Indus and Egypt were in very close contact. So much so, that the cultural artifacts of the epochs preceding the first dynasties are near identical (including building plans!) :
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/pannous/hieros/susa-e...
You've used a lot of rhetoric, but you haven't described a threat model. Both this comment and your previous one, the GP, use language of moral duty when talking about a specific software security measure. That's a category error.

What specific threat is bypassing libc supposed to protect against? I don't think you have an argument here. As the poster to whom you're replying mentioned, anyone who can do symbol interposition already has full control over your program.
Analyzing Smart Contract Public Data: AXA Fizzy – Bia.is – Devlog
Giving Up Darwin by Yale University Professor David Gelernter
Thank you both! I too like the Unix philosophy of small tools that do a specific job. In a package like this, people may find they only care about one or two tools. They can ignore the rest and mix and match with other tools as they see fit.
Try Total War: Warhammer I/II with that machine. Does your i7-4970K have DDR4 RAM?
How well is the American economy working for working people?
People deciding to stop working is a good thing. It means they have market power and potential employers need to take that into account.
Been looking for a fun way to learn Clojure. Thanks!
Why you think backend is hard? In general javascript is hard language and not intuitive. I would recommend you try to play a little with python and see how it goes, it should be easier and more fun. If you like writing you can also try to explore being a content writer for websites or do some marketing.
>Severe redistribution of wealth can have second-order effects : people stop working and producing if too much of their labor is taken from them.

I guess the key is to only take from people who do absolutely nothing.
Amateurs Identify U.S. Spy Satellite Behind President Trump's Tweet
What exactly are the “great injustices” being inflicted on white supremacists, Nazis, and Islamic fundamentalists?

We certainly aren’t going around killing them in purges...
> the accepted answer means that the solution proposed worked for the asker

That's a fundamental tension in the purpose of the site. If the particular problem of the asker is the end goal, then duplicates would not be closed. All other site criteria institute a strong demand for general interest of questions.

Part of its success may be deftly balancing those two conflicting interests. On one hand is the role of helping people, and the other hand is a non-repeating and immediately useful knowledge base. Both of these demands bring human attention, and satisfying either requires real work by a human. The challenge is to keep the relevant human around just long enough to do enough work so that you have plausibly usable content.

Accepted answers are a site design tailored for one use, but it is fantasy to pretend that it harmoniously exists along side the other use. They are not separated. Design elements oriented toward one way of use degrades the other use.
Why don't people like it? Because SO is full of people who just love to down-vote. Your proposal would take power away from them
fun! made one: https://i.imgur.com/KwBNzWQ.png
The point is that inequality causes a bunch of societal ills (crime for example), nevermind what the actual living standards are.
My Homage to Road Fighter Is Live
Bioaccumulation is a big issue with fish. Have you tried getting omegas from algae supplements?
Is it intended to be a Little My generator, or is it just me?
Try the Konami code ️
Introduction to Rust Web Applications
Funny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ).
At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces.

After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoothly changing faces.
Equality of opportunity means that if a homeless person and a rich kid work exactly as hard and get the same grades on the same tests and both perform the same at work they end up in the same place. That means if they both do great they could both end up well off, and if they both decide they don't need to work and skirt their responsibilities they can both end up out of a job and not in a good place, at least until they start doing better at their jobs again.

Equality of outcome means a lazy drunk who never cracked a book would get the same as an industrious person who makes great sacrifices for their career and education.
Even simpler solution: present a downvote button, make it show a "downvoted" label on the item to the user who pressed it, don't have it change the actual score at all.

In other words, give them a placebo button: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
Can they really? How are they going to beat the cap on Moore’s Law? You can only go so small.
My first time (back when it was still legal in my country) was with 5 gram fresh mexican mushrooms (yes, fresh). Did I notice it! Almost fell asleep in bath (lucky I didn't fill it completely as a precaution), and the colours were beautiful, and music sound very 3D and touched me deeply.
I assure you that you should take my opinion very seriously. After all, I'm smart enough to type JavaScript into a text editor, which makes me more qualified to make judgments about political/social issues than any journalist or politician.

Equality of opportunity means that no one is a serf or a slave, except people in the third world, who obviously don't count. It's important because it means no one can ever accuse me of having an unfair advantage over anyone else.

The stock market helps the poor by giving money to job creators, meaning that it might reach the poor eventually. Didn't you ever read Basic Economics?
Unix at 50
Earthquake fault long thought dormant could devastate L.A
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16819113581

When will a product where consumers who don't want to spend $7.5k on a processor but still benefit from 5x-bang-for-buck be released?
Thin Outside Fat Inside
The initial conditions of the weather simulation, which is based on measured data and previous simulation results, are perturbed to within a reasonable range to represent the error in the measurements. Because of the equations being solved and numerical methods being used, these small changes can cause large change on long term predictions.

The tracks come from one original simulation. If you look at the start of the tracks closely, you'll see the eye of the hurricanes diverge in a regular grid, so I'm guessing they are perturbing the direction and speed of the bulk movement of mass - I would have to research more.

So the initial conditions and early stages of the simulations are correlated, but each simulation is solved independently. The question is how long into the future can you consider each track less-correlated.

Given the met organizations release probability envelopes based on these track means it's a reasonable approach.

What I really want to do is weight the predicted wind speed with the probability map. I don't know if this will work. But you can imagine if a hurricane has a 75% change of going well into the continent it would weaken and cause less damage, but if the other 25% of the tracks go over sea and hit an island, it'll likely strengthen and cause more damage.

In any case, all the above will be interesting.
Averia – The Average Font
What’s the name of the first pop start who owned the bar?
Ask HN: What back end scenarios you find yourself implementing again and again?