skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently retired EMT here. Kudos for saving a life. I very seldom saw a person OD more than once, but it happens some times. I once ran on the same guy ODing three times in 24 hours. He died of an OD a few weeks later, though not on my shift. He was only 18. Folks, if you are going to use opiates, keep a friend that knows CPR with you. Simple chest compressions can keep adequate air exchange until somebody arrives with Narcan.

There are two drugs I carried that had an instand life saving effect: Narcan and D50 (50% dextrose solution). Somebody with low blood sugar will often present with a radically altered level of response, if they are even conscious. Start an IV, push D50 and within seconds, they sit up and talk to you as if nothing is out of the ordinary. Be advised, it is relatively short lived and the patient needs to consume some complex carbohydrates or protien to sustain their blood sugar levels.

Yes, it is terribly under paid, but there is great job security. I worked tech/research most of my adult life, but market and government priority changes made it really tough to work toward a retirement. It seems every few years, either the project was cancelled, or the line was shut down.

As an EMT/firefighter, my minimum week was 56 hours (by federal law due to the standard 33% duty cycle of a 24 hour, 7 day week) and sometimes nearly double that. Unfortunately, only the firstw 40 hours, (at just above minimuim wage) applied toward retirement benefits where I worked.
anything you share will be much appreciated.
The observatory in question is four or five hundred miles away from Russian waters, and monitors things locally that aren't of much interest as military secrets.
> Yet the consensus of 2016 was that he is the only man capable of steering forward a budget of the most valuable country on the face of planet Earth.

To be fair, more people who voted didn't think he was the best choice of a person "capable of ..." than thought he was. He only won thanks to a) a quirk of the American electoral system and b) his opponent also being historically unpopular, by nature of having been in the public eye on one side of the US political system for 25 years.
Just saw one today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Kind of wish it was up and running though ...
Because it advances my goal of saving enough money to retire and you still haven't actually specified any strings.
Wow. That article is just beautiful.

I'm very glad that I never got into opioids. I've used them for pain relief, but never really liked the other effects. Just lucky, I guess.
Joi was a behind the scenes player in a lot of successful Valley startups. Once someone reaches investor level it’s impossible to fully understand where their wealth is generated because it tends to be diversified. But he was a very well connected and respected technologist and investor who pretty much pursued whatever his interest were at any given moment, read his blog and you’ll see that it was pretty diverse.
Source?

Keep in mind that archiving Mastodon is pretty much inevitable: spin up an instance, connect widely, keep toots.

There've been some announced archive projects, one of which flared out loudly a few weeks ago when I asked what the content removal policy was (the operator threatened retaliatory actions just for my asking, I saved their replies ... via the Internet Archive).

IA basically have an "ask and we'll remove" policy for content removal. Given that Mastodon toots are parented (at least for source instances) under the user's profile URL, asking for a global removal is fairly straightforward. Email info@archive.org

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is also, at least for now, not very easily searchable. Having been involved in the project to archive Google+, it's 1) impressive at what they saved and 2) disappointing at what was missed, as well as 3) frustratingly difficult to track down specific items. If I've got a link, I can generally get there. If not ... it's much harder.

I do think we need to come to some level of agreement/understanding of what can be / should be archived, and what should not. That's not easy. I'm not an archive absolutist (save everything), but I understand the value in saving even the ephemeral and non-obviously significant. Significance often increases in time and context.
Ask HN: What is the ops architecture like for AAA multiplayer game servers?
I’d be really interested in reading about multiplayer servers for big title FPS games with matchmaking and lots of players
If you give someone Narcan, it is likely that they will be antagonistic towards you, and could even attack you.

The addict will look like they will be OK after getting the Narcan, but the opioids are still in their system. The Narcan will wear off any they could get an OD from the drugs in their system.
I thought it would be more of a secret affair.

The world isn't TV, you might be surprised what people can get away with in plain sight.

When you're supplying these girls to British royalty, politicians at every level, certainly law enforcement of various flavors, and plenty of generic rich people (VC/finance, old money, Donald Trump, etc.), yeah, you might kinda get the idea that you're operating with impunity. Because you are, especially when you have blackmail material on all of them.
fwiw, spiked's editor has a shitty agenda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_O%27Neill_(columnist)

doesn't seem like he or frank, the piece's author, are reporting on women's choices with objectivity or real research (or empathy).
> it is argued that having children is irresponsible because newborn babies constitute a threat to the environment

What a sad and depressing way to look at children. Treating them not as your own child to nurture and care for but as a carbon producing entity. I often wonder if the people that have this outlook on kids suddenly changes them drastically when they do actually have kids. It’s a mentality I’ve seen increasingly appearing on this site - I’m not gonna have kids cause the environment. Stop believing the hysteria that the world is gonna end in 2030 and live your life!

The other sad thing in the article is the Facebook group for women who regret having children. Imagine having your children find out about the group and the damage it does to their psyche.
> Speed of temperature, speed of water would be possible results of a nuclear detonation, no?

It's roughly a thousand mile trip by water from Kiel, Germany to Nenoksa, Russia... and the incident in Russia wasn't a nuclear explosion of the sort you'd see in a bomb, it was an explosion that involved radioactive material.
and/or a random portfolio investment of one of the VC funds he is an LP of

and/or a lottery ticket

and/or employment from multiple sources and picking stocks

and/or a particularly lucrative real estate holding

and/or it probably wasn't linear at all just like your wealth probably doesn't materialize linearly either

so doesn't that make this whole discussion rather odd and clickbaity? I saw similar articles regarding Epstein and thought "thats not how any of this works?"

if I was ever put under similar analysis nobody would know anything accurate, they would just google me and see a big crowdsale I was on the executive team of and saw that it collected several million dollars and assume "thats how I made my money" even though they have zero transparency on who was paid what and how, or how the organizations made its revenues or not, or the investing patterns and homeruns and leveraged losses I had - which resulted in a useful exemption from capital gains tax on my next homerun, and would have zero information about what partnerships I'm part of, what hedge funds I'm invested in, how any of those things perform, etc.
Do you know the new sensation of music in world?
Do you know the new sensation of music in world? UKSANDER singer of London is top 10 in the ranking of Billboard in 6 countries this second week of September 2019 .More than 3 Record labels like Universal Music Sony and EMI fight for get contract with the singer. 8 bi biew in the world. I don't talk anymore Não ligue mais Listen the sensation of mundial music.

The london singer preferred to debut his music in both portuguese and english simultaneously and reached the hearts of 4 billion people from Asia, 1, 2 billion Africans and 1.4 billion South and North Americans according to data from International Music Trending, which collects data from all online and offline media in the on-demand world. Now europe knows its newest super idol.
https://youtu.be/G9OJDy_am5Q
Similar experience w.r.t. patients (my coworkers were great though). It's really not about saving lives. It's about confidently telling somebody it's going to be okay when they are having the worst day of their life. That means the world to people.
If they really don't want to have children purely for that reason, they can always adopt.
> "The RBMK reactor had a serious flaw" The serious flaw was multiple consecutive human errors which could today be prevented by software checklist enforcement.

This is incorrect.

The serious design flaw was that the 'stop the reactor reacting' button rapidly accelerated the reaction briefly, but long enough to cause a massive spike.

There were also human errors on the operations side.
>'Until recently, babies were seen as a blessing. Now, far too many people argue that not having a baby is a blessing. Ultimately, the reason for this loss of faith in the human spirit is neither economic nor environmental. Rather, the main driver of this anti-natal movement is the difficulty that sections of society have in giving meaning to life today. Recovering our confidence in the human spirit and in age-old human virtues is the best antidote to the turn against giving birth.'

There is seemingly a sizable section of the population who mark all social change as having an origin point sometime in the 1950's, regarding any human culture before then to be essentially a variant of the 1950's, just with more horses. This article being a great example.
It's very difficult to clean up after yourselves when you are forcibly evacuated.
I am not going to dispute the value of compile-time type checking. And I admit to only having had time to skim the link at this point but it looks like a great read so I bookmarked it for later. That said...

Python can be as strongly typed as you like it to be. But of course, with Python, instead of insisting on an incoming parameter being of a particular type, the thing to do is Pythonically ask nicely if it can be the type that you want. If you need parameter x to be a float, call float(x), which will raise TypeError or give you a float. And of course, it gives the implementor of the class the option to implement __float__().

With a small amount of effort, you can design all of your __init__() constructors to do that style of validation. Yes, it requires some elbow grease. But you will not be able to pass bad stuff to my __init__ constructors if I don't want you to. And if you want some parameter y to be an instance of Foo, just call Foo(y) and if it is already a Foo, you get the Foo, and if it can be made a Foo, you get a Foo, and if it can't, you get TypeError.

So of course you actually need to exercise the code also, which is where the hypothesis package comes in.

Anyway, I think one of the reasons Python is popular is that it is very consistent about types. Haskel and Rust are also very consistent about types -- most other languages, not so much. Give me one end of the spectrum or the other. The murky middle is suboptimal.
There are X servers for most major operating systems, including, AFAIU Android. For OSX it's XQuartz (either native or XTools), for Windows, MingX11 and I suspect WSL, as well as various proprietary tools.

I'm not arguing that X11 is more streamlined than remote SSH (or tmux!) in a terminal / console. But it is far more available than you might think.
This is why it's best to titrate the dose with Narcan, if you have the luxury of doing so.
> Is motherhood natural?

Millions of years, says Yes. And that's just considering humans.
Among other things, Ito co-founded Digital Garage which is a Japanese publicly-traded unicorn.
Agreed. When I write an email, I usually address the topic generically, then list options or reasons or whatever, then give a takeaway or action item. Most people seem to only read the topic statement. Not sure if I have lazy coworkers or I'm not an effective emailer.
Mental gymnastics to avoid assuming bad intent without evidence is the only way to avoid becoming a deranged mob. This is a healthy instinct and you damage our ability to have rational discussions by attacking it. Until we get more evidence, and given that there is plenty of actual evidence of wrongdoing in other areas, let's focus our attention there, shall we?
No. Not at all. Picking the apex, at what speed to approach the turn, how hard to brake, when to accelerate out and how much, knowing the limits of traction of what your driving, and I’m sure much more. It’s very involved, and requires thought and decisions on top of reaction speed.
> Feynman's diagrams (like the orbital model of the atom) were attempts to visualize a world we can't experience

They are a convenient notion for defining path integrals.
"to no end" means: uselessly.
"no end" means: endlessly.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/69501/meaning-an...
I look at this as Natures way of keeping certain people out of the gene pool
> I don't think Joi would have done this personally. He's a smart guy.

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but are you saying there's a conspiracy to cast Joi as the fall guy and he's going along with it? I highly doubt that's the case.

He may be smart, but that doesn't automatically make him ethical or socially aware. It also appears he gained quite a lot personally by dealing with Epstein.
Drag racing is one thing that electric cars, all of them, can do very well. The limiting factor is often not how much power can be produced but how much power the rear axle can handle before snapping. But electric cars are heavy, at least if you want a battery big enough for more than a couple laps at a time. They are breaking records based on their acceleration advantages, not cornering abilities.
Scotland exports more energy than that it uses. Most of that energy is wind based; not solar. You are right that using nuclear of fossil fuels for this would not be economically viable. Luckily, clean energy is cheaper and Norway and Scotland export a lot of it. Especially Norway is rather dark and the only way to grow stuff there most of the year is indoors.

Regarding solar, even if your percentages were correct (and I'm pretty sure they are not); the point of sun light is that it has a very attractive cost of exactly 0$. It costs absolutely nothing. So it doesn't matter that solar panels are not very efficient. They actually are getting better and certainly 16% efficiency is nowhere near the best there is. However, the only thing that matters is the cost of these panels and the amount of space they take up. Which is why places like Scotland and Norway still find uses for solar panels even though conditions are obviously less than ideal for operating them. As mentioned, both have alternate sources of clean energy that are cheap and plentiful (i.e. wind and hydro). And if you look at Iceland, it uses geothermal to power it's greenhouses.

The whole point of LEDs is that they are supposedly very efficient; around 40-50%. Also heat is not actually energy loss in a vertical farm. Temperatures in Scotland are below ideal temperatures for growing things. Meaning most of the energy use in a vertical farm is probably used for temperature control (mostly heating and occasionally cooling).

Luckily, you can produce both heat and light using energy. Meaning that the reason vertical farming is getting a lot of attention is that the cost of energy has been dropping by rather a lot and is projected to continue to drop. Effectively this dominates variable cost in a vertical farm. The economics of growing vegetables in a vertical farm is a simple function of kilos of produce / kwh.

You seem to be arguing this cost is too high. That seems to be countered by the many people actually growing stuff in greenhouses for decades this and making plenty of money. E.g. the Netherlands is the largest exporter of tomatoes world wide. This is a billion dollar industry. These tomatoes are grown in green houses. Those used to be powered using cheap natural gas and in recent years are being powered by cheap wind energy. Square meters are expensive in the Netherlands and most of those tomatoes are grown in an area that has very high population density. I'd say vertical farms consume similar amounts of energy (or less) but have a much higher space efficiency.
Nigerian Award-Winning Actress,Omoni Oboli Releases Scorcher
Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
Reddit is actively moderated by both paid Admins (site wide rules) and volunteer Mods (per subreddit rules). So no, I disagree.
Those dust clouds, depending on particle size/composition, could start reflecting radar. Lander then gets confused about its altitude and crashes. This sort of thing makes some areas, the dusty flat ones, potentially more dangerous than others. But they are also flatter and so you don't worry about landing on a rock and tipping over. It's a judgement call.
Despite the outcry on HN, few users care about Apple’s “walled garden”.
Legality (or lack thereof) doesn't appear to have stopped many musicians before.
I once had a motorcycle kickstart lever shove my thumb backwards through the middle of my wrist. An odd feeling, looking at hand-bits poking out of one's skin. And my first thought was exactly the same as yours!

tl;dr: kidney stones suck. When we say that they hurt more than $terribad_injury, that is not hyperbole.
> Is more than $20B/year a starvation diet?

You are absolutely right but I still think USD 20B is not enough.

How much of the GDP of the Empire State is (directly or indirectly) because of the city? Everyone benefits when the city has better infrastructure. Yes, the unions are at fault. I too get angry when the overtime nonsense making the news.

> After five hours, all he could explain is what a chief measurement operator does — claiming Caputo is “one of only a few people” who can operate an “advanced track-geometry car,” which examines the rails for defects.

> Overtime payments surged to more than $1.3 billion across the entire MTA last year, up from $1.2 billion the year before, according to Empire Center data.

> Tarek justified the megasized paychecks by saying the agency has been working on major upgrades recently, and claiming it is often cheaper to pay an existing employee overtime than to hire another person for the same work.

https://archive.fo/fPTqA

Yes, this is a problem. I don't have a solution but I think the solution to this problem will also help introduce self-driving trains and help us reduce head count at the agency which should help decrease costs.
Agreed, however the turnover is terrible. With the low wages and tough working conditions, the department I worked had 15 EMT-firefighters when fully staffed, which was pretty much never. We averaged a little over two and a half new hires a year the time I worked there, nearl 17 percent turnover, every year. Ran into a former coworker a the grocery store a few months ago, he told me an entire shift just quit, a third of the department. That is no way to run a business.
It was mentioned elsewhere, but it is hard to pack up when you are fleeing attack dogs, carried off in cuffs, or being pepper sprayed.

Besides the fact that that isn’t one of the charges filed here, and the cost of cleaning up litter can’t possible compare to the amount of police work spent to hunt down this person.
I read the article. These "concerned" staff "decided that the assistants would be allowed to accompany Epstein but would wait outside the meeting room." So they didn't allow these two women to participate in the conversation about science! From the facts in the article, it seemed to me they made a judgement about who these 2 women were based upon their appearance.

I'm saying read this article with a grain of salt. There's a lot of B.S. in here. Instead of throwing stones at everyone, let's think about what the bigger pictures problem with the system are.
You don't have to be smart or well-trained to get the big bucks. I don't have a STEM degree. The most successful engineers I know don't even have a degree at all.
Articles like this seem almost calculated to be maximally devastating to lonely people.
Not exactly excited to jump at the party that unfairly blanket paints of them as redneck white supremacist Nazi idiots. Doubly so since they masquerade as intersectional saviors of humanity while doing so.
Not quite to disagree with your main point:

> because it was just a supporting detail for the point they wanted to make anyway.

The people who make arguments whose evidence is just a supporting detail for the point they wanted to make anyway are common--some are some of my friends, family and coworkers, but I take what they say a lot less seriously than I do people who have high standards for evidence.

>We didn't really need a study to tell us that

Perhaps not, but we can ask for studies on what kind of practice, how much and how old you are when you practice et cetera. Yes you "have to practice." But you can be interested in how to practice well, and one way to know that is good studies (i.e. not dubious ones).
> If your security and networking teams are unable to figure out how to open access to API endpoints that are all documented, you need new people on those teams

Careful, it's not yet 100% possible to do this 100% securely today across all endpoints for all services. Getting closer though.

> This also sounds pretty crazy to me. It's not a situation I've ever spoken to anyone in...

This would seem to disqualify much of your comment. Have a chat with AWS Pro Serv members handling accounts of companies with billion dollar IT budgets.

> I work pretty extensively with enterprise companies that are on AWS...

Most enterprises are not on AWS. That's where the growth will be, and who my comment is about.
I was thinking vibration but wouldn't we see a change when the retro-thrusters hit halfway through? I'm assuming the first part with downward slope is the craft accelerating due to gravity?

Given it's a polar landing I don't know how to translate this to the velocity vector of the lander.
But iPhones aren't the same as android phones. You can't run android software on an iPhone and vice versa.
iOS with its total walled garden and curated App Store is great for non-computer-people.

What we're seeing is the bifurcation of computing into devices and software for computer aficionados, programmers, hobbyists, and others who want a "real computer" and devices and software for people who don't know much about computers and don't really care about them beyond using them for communication, entertainment, etc.

I don't see anything inherently wrong with that as long as the stuff you can hack is still around and readily available. As it stands that's definitely true. I can still buy laptops and desktops that I can run anything I want on, and a Raspberry Pi 4 is $40.

Curiously Apple's other machine and OS, the Mac, straddles both worlds. You can use a Mac almost like an iOS device with apps from the App Store, or you can use it almost the way you'd use a Linux desktop.
Good Samaritan law does not apply to first responders unless they are volunteers.
If Mass Poverty Is Declining, Why Should We Worry About High Inequality?