skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see this now. As a teenager I experimented with DXM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan) as a hallucinogen. You could buy it in powdered form over the internet for a while, or one could just take corricidin pills or find certain cough syrups that didn't have acetaminophen. Anyways, it was well known on usenet/IRC at the time that drinking grapefruit juice prior to ignesting the drug would enhance its effects.
Does that make me a spook?
This is one of the reasons why I pursued engineering instead of a hard science. Mathematics in particular feels like an ivory tower with a bunch of gatekeeping.

Better language and grammar around core concepts could improve accessibility, but few in the field that I've encountered seem to care about that.

Biology and chemistry are a bit better, but there are still improvements that could be made. You can't easily go from zero to biochem or ochem, and I don't think that has to be the case. Gen chem and gen bio just suck at presenting themes and concepts and instead focus on being a smorgasbord of facts (that you later have to amend or unlearn).

Computer science and electrical engineering are a walk in the park by comparison. We have all sorts of interactive tools and visualizations of algorithms and analysis. We keep refining and making the onboarding process easier and more accessible.
Yeah there's a reason all my examples use the same ~3 languages, and only a few random fragments from them. You just need a few examples that demonstrate that something can happen. Everything actually works pretty uniformly, so as long as you have a few examples that cover the interesting cases and handle those cases in a general way, everything tends to work fine. The actual font formats are much more nasty and corner-casey. (Thank god you don't need to deal with that, eh Patrick?)

Same reason I prefer to use imperfect terms that capture the important aspects of the problem-space from an english-speaking perspective. Are ligatures the right word for how arabic and marathi get shaped into glyphs? Maybe not, but as long as you get that the æ ligature can be synthesized from ae by a font, and that this is super important for some languages, you're on the right path.

I don't even know what the fragments I use mean, lol. I like to assume I'm just copy-pasting Arabic swears around. Apparently at least one is just Manish's name?
>cheaper copay

I’m not talking about copays. My insurance doesn’t have a coppay until I hit the deductible. I’m paying cash for the drugs.
Great. I was!

And we had a lot of fun. I think that is key.

I read a ton of crap to get what I put here. Enjoy!

The worst that can happen is one or both of you are super relaxed for the day.
Extra weight. If gravity is the only thing changed, mass would remain constant.
A B.A. in math gets you to the forefront of mathematical research as it was circa 1912. (Source: https://slate.com/human-interest/2003/05/is-math-a-young-man...) This is purely my impression as somebody who switched away from pure math early in their career, but: amazingly, in pure math, unless you are really advanced, you are not even that close to engaging independently in cutting-edge research until well after your Ph.D. Math has been continuously researched by all the smartest people for hundreds of years (thousands, depending on how you view the dark ages). The low hanging fruit got gobbled up centuries ago. The same could be said for physics and various other "classical" scientific fields.
Yes, there are many rats and attention whores jumping in and it is truly disgusting.

But FSF definitely also had and has some cult like mentality, with not much tolerance and not much restraint sometimes. So I can understand that people with low self esteem tried not to cause a shitstorm by speaking up.
This seems like a huge opportunity for insurance fraud like you see often in Asia. Someone arranges to be struck by a car (ie flings themself in front of it), then splits the medical payout with a crooked doctor.
We cannot trust NI (natural intelligence) systems built on mom-and-pop having sex alone
> and food in general is a lot more expensive than in Berlin.

Interesting. I had the impression food in supermarkets wasn't __that__ expensive compared to Berlin. Restaurants were noticeably more expensive. For what it's worth, I thought the food quality in Stockholm was a lot better than in Germany.
This is super clever, but I bet some of its potential applications conflict with egress safety requirements/laws.

(If a door is part of an exit route, you probably can't require a key to open it.)
“Germany Talks”: Improving Social Cohesion, One Discussion at a Time
A self-driving car's fender bender is more newsworthy than a fatal accident with a human driver.
"Also, locking an open door is usually not possible."

A good feature to have on otherwise normal doors so that they only ways to lock it is to be inside or outside with the key. I now have a greater appreciation for deadbolts.
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Harold Lloyd’s Death-Defying Comedy
If you need cash because the card network is down, then it's already too late to get cash. Thus, it's important to test the decentralized methods, just like it's important to test your backups. And if they haven't been tested (and have up to date instructions!) the only safe assumption is to assume they don't work.
I only clicked this so I could say this same thing. I'm glad I'm not alone in seeing this as a completely ridiculous juxtaposition between wanting decentralized communication while using a horrible centralized service. This author should start with creating a static blog or something.
Macs are easy to write off too I am sure. Also going all in on Linux and donating to appropriate projects is another easy write off. Both of which do not have subscription services.
> So why is Hinckley Point C three times as expensive as wind farms?

That's an Apples to Oranges comparison. Nuclear provides stable energy, wind provides volatile energy. You need to factor in the cost of buffering that volatility, which will likely be natural gas, in which case you should be fair and put a price on that CO2 as well.
"The worst case climate scenarios are not actually "game over" for a lot of people."

These are not even close to the worst-case climate scenarios. We don't have enough scientific evidence to ascertain whether the real worst-case scenarios are likely, so reputable scientists avoid talking about them, but we can't rule them out either.
That model is actually made by Ford so it’s kind of car centric. However, it is also also more 3D than that picture makes it look like. It has plenty of raised walkways to get around and roads below them. This picture is just absolutely dominated by that freeway.

Here is a slightly different angle: https://placesjournal.org/article/indexing-the-world-of-tomo...
Iddris Sandu’s credibility called into question
I mainly prioritize making my pages work reasonably with different zooms and window sizes, since all I really know for certain is that there's no ideal for everyone.

The font settings are just from a copy of bootstrap from like 6 years ago, because I have absolutely no eye for this sort of thing.
Suppose a narrow field where only two human beings can understand. How could the society judge the progress of the field or the merit of a new project? I don't think it is possible to avoid collusion or groupthink in such a field and it would be difficult to differentiate the two.

So does it mean we should curb some superhuman thinking and let them explain better to other human being? I'd think so. It is all about balance or trade-off, but at some point, a field would become too esoteric for a society and it might need to slow down the short-term progress to ensure consistent long-term progress.

It seems the math field as a whole (or more specifically the number theorists?) needs more of good communicators who can link the cutting edge and more general public. The math academia could give incentives to such activities in addition to pushing the boundaries.
The main issue in the 2015 case was that the app was free and therefore the users weren't "subscribers" by the court's narrow interpretation. See the discussion near 103: https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/the-video-privacy-prote... They mention a later 2016 decision where free mobile app users were considered subscribers.

Typically circuit splits end up in the Supreme Court sooner or later. So if it does come up it'll be some pretty expensive litigation.
https://tryapl.org/ gets 70% of the way to what you're talking about (though it's obviously missing the closed-interface-focused-on-calculator-functionality part)
I'm an avid radio listener, literally every room in my house with a power outlet has one or more tabletop radios in it. Why would I want a radio that only tunes to one channel?

I tend to use vintage (80's era) clock radios at home for my tabletop radios, because of their decent pricing.
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Wonder what happens if you try to install without any network connectivity whatsoever. Like when it asks for internet just dont connect. I feel like it falls back to an offline account.
Single-level inlining helps a lot with that but any libraries that do more calls that should be inlined are still a pain (and it reduces your debugging ability with, say, lambdas in VS at least).
Migrating from Cloudflare
Also, that is quite a remarkable and provocative statement given that Andrew Wiles is still very much alive.
There is one super power that is rarely mentioned: having been successful enough that only superficial knowledge and time investment is needed to leverage a workforce.

If you are the guy that spends 40hours per week diving deep into one specific topic because your business depends on having someone being an expert on something to that degree, you won't be able to lead a this well rounded life.

If you are in a Founder position and feel this statement hurts, extract yourself atleast a day a week from being an employee of your business and think bigger.
I'm coming to suspect that even our data isn't enough for useful AI. Imagine you had a truly general sci-fi AI at your office. It still couldn't just look at your database and answer a simple question like "What was the difference in client churn rates between mobile and desktop last month?" or "What was the effect of experiment 1234 on per-client revenue?" Hell, a human couldn't do it. As far as the human or AI would know, you just presented it with a bunch of random tables. This matters because it's incredibly helpful to know which pieces are randomized. Which rows are repeated measurements as opposed to independent measurements. Which pieces are upstream of which others. There's so much domain knowledge baked into data, while we just expect an algorithm to learn from a simple table of floats.

The human state of the art solution seems to be going on slack and asking questions about the data provenance, which will decidedly not work for an automated approach.

A primary reason I can do better a better job than a generic algorithm is because you told me where the data came from (or I designed the schema and ETL myself), while the algo can't make any useful assumptions because all that info is hidden.
In business school we have a framework for understanding customer needs.. jobs to be done (functional, emotional, social).

In this case the "job to be done" is probably not really to listen to news/music (there's a million better things for this).

Likely it's emotional.. decoration, nostalgia, "toy"

Therefore alternatives to this product are not other radios but other fun decorations, throw back items, or simple electronic devices.

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For modeling I think this is similar to "the light phone" that also did well on crowd funding. So I think there is a trend here.
Giant exoplanet found around tiny star shouldn't even exist, astronomers say
https://www.santafe.edu/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Institute

> The Santa Fe Institute was founded in 1984 ...

> SFI's original mission was to disseminate the notion of a new interdisciplinary research area called complexity theory or simply complex systems.
That's what you think is important.

Blind people for example don't care about zoom factors, but they care very much about the fact that they can completely control and use their iPhone using text-to-speech and certain gestures.
It's pretty dang easy to move a Git repo of Jekyll pages anywhere, and serve them with 100% fidelity. In fact, the normal way of using GitHub Pages naturally makes it trivial to copy your content anywhere, and serve it from any web server.

That does not appear to be true of Medium blogs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengenlehreuhr
Who exactly is supposed to deliver them, and what are the results? You keep electing parliaments that negotiate specific deals and then loudly, angrily denounce those same deals. (And I'm not just talking about the Remainers. I'm talking about the ostensibly pro-Brexit party.)
Correct, except in my case and some other outliers I'm sure. My first job was due to a career fair where I talked to a very small startup, the owner was an old SGML guy, it was about a year before XML really took off and I was very into XML so I impressed him enough to get the job. If not I'm sure nobody at that fair or anywhere else would have hired me at the time.
Like IRC?
Quite possibly one of the new crop of for-profit schools.
Ridiculous... the cable and wireless companies expose their moral bankruptcy with this lobbying.

"Traffic shaping" to manage the network is a reasonable goal (whether or not you agree with it). "Monetizing consumer data" is slightly less reasonable, but still arguably reasonable. It is, however, NOT OK to do this without clear Notice, Transparency, and Choice to the consumer.

Today, these large ISPs do the opposite: hiding their behavior, offering no choice, and now enlisting lawmakers to eliminate alternatives.

The cable and wireless providers should ask their customers: are you OK with unencrypted DNS (a less-safe protocol) in return for lower prices (because we can throttle certain streams and monetize with advertising data)?

Or, if they suspect (rightly) that most customers would say "hell no"... these ISPs should offer a competitive encrypted DNS solution of their own. You're Internet service providers, for heaven's sake -- provide a modern Internet service, instead of regulating that your customers use your inferior legacy DNS!
I've seen (owned a house having) dual-fuel natural gas + electric light fixtures, mounted to walls, gas pipes to every room right alongside the (knob & tube) electrical wires. So we've done weirder shit in the past to deliver two types of power throughout houses.

And no, I never tried lighting one. Hopefully none of them had had an active gas supply in decades.
Part of the complaint about surveillance is the chilling effect it has of "someone is always watching over your shoulder", and the self-censoring which ensues; if you're going to "live as if I'd become president one day", the surveillance culture is having that chilling effect on you already even though you try to opt-out.

(And you're not getting any of the benefits those technologies could have; worst of both worlds).
Also a layperson. How many different specs are running around the house, and what sorts of electrical variations can they withstand? I think you'd need to have a house-wide AC-DC converter to feed in energy when your solar supply drops down. Or a battery storage system probably makes more sense.
So I find this interesting, because it seems to confirm a suspicion I held. I "only" did some undergrad math during my computer science (but due to a lack of specialization at my university back then it was "real math", i.e. we took the same courses as the math students).

My impression often was that a lot of this stuff isn't so hard if you "get to it", but it's clouded in a lot of complicated language that makes it sound harder than it really is. I never dared to postulate that this is a more general problem of math, but your words sound like that's exactly what is happening.

Do you think there's a way forward to make math more accessible by using simpler language without sacrificing correctness?
I really wish there was a configuration management tool out there with a statically typed API. I've spent countless hours debugging Ansible's YAML which gets really unwieldy with hundreds or thousands of tasks.
TIL! I know a couple other tools exist but this looks pretty nifty. May need to add it to my arsenal
I have seen this several times and it's almost akin to fake news because of how misled people are by it.

When they say 'pollution' they are completely ignoring CO2 emissions and only focusing on things like sulphur dioxide. So yes, it's not a conspiracy that you're seeing many articles about not eating meat, and not many about not taking cruises.

From your link:

>Even so, with cars releasing so little in the way of pollutants compared to larger forms of travel, it means you don't have to feel guilty about enjoying the wastefulness that is motorsport.

This is just sad.
It's the convention only to link to previous threads if there are interesting comments there. Otherwise you'll get downvoted by disappointed clickers.
“Thorp had inadvertently set one of the century’s great minds on yet another tangent.”

The idea of this grave misdirection of talent somehow gave me an insuppressible giggle.
Summary: Motherboard interviewed an attendee at the Interactive Theorem Proving conference who says that he thinks Interactive Theorem Proving is important. Also, professors specializing in proof theory think their tooling may become important but "the technology still needs improvement".
Power losses in wiring are an issue. Many of your DC devices also happen to be low-voltage. (For example, USB devices.)

If you transmit the same number of watts at a higher voltage (lower current) rather than at a lower voltage (higher current) through a wire, you will lose less power.

So for moving the power around the house at distances more than around 10 feet (~3 meters), it's more energy-efficient to convert it near the point of use. And if you're already going to convert it, it's probably not worth the expense and complication of running two separate wiring systems.
I like the notion, but I don't think there's a simple "age / 2 + 7" rule that applies here as I think this sort of stuff should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

I think it's all about personal responsibility for everyone involved. Content creator, and audience. I think that creators (even just posting comments) have responsibility to keep their noses clean or suffer potential consequences, and I think that the audience has a responsibility to think about circumstances like this objectively.

There was social support for Carson from every type of person you can imagine. Young, old, left, right, every race, etc. When presented with the facts, everyone jumped on Carson's side. We saw it for what it was: a character assassination that had nothing to do with the actual story at-hand. Aaron, and the DSM Register alike ("content creators"), wanted the controversy or they wouldn't be digging that far back on someone and/or including something this irrelevant in their story. When you operate this way it's bound to backfire at some point. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

The "audience" looked at this and almost unanimously decided that the DSM Register and Aaron's actions were reprehensible. These entities took a cheap shot at someone who is objectively putting good into this world and paid a real price in subscriber numbers and employment. I don't have any pity for either of them.
Copay, coinsurance, deductible, whatever.

If you're paying cash outside of insurance coverage, it's not counting towards the deductible or annual out-of-pocket max, which screws you if you have significant other healthcare costs.
Has anybody ever been hired via a career fair in tech? I did once but it was purely luck as the manager was interested in a specific skillset attached to a third party API. I worked with that API directly in a previous job so there was instant connection. The hiring manager told me the majority of time they get zero hits as they're just collecting resumes and binning them.
Please don't put words in my mouth. I wrote very explicitly that I am happy to share my experiences with students. What I do find tedious is students acting all chirpy and droning on and on about this project and that project, and articles like these further encourage that behavior.

For a company, especially one with brand recognition, a career fair is not a very good avenue for talent scouting. You get very little facetime with students, have to talk to a hundred of them in a couple of hours, and they are all telling you some small variation of the same thing, because well they did all these courses together and they all had to do the same projects and yadda yadda.

I am making these points to increase the chances that a career fair is an efficient use of my time and the student's time.
If the ideal is to have people stay in the hospital if there is a benefit to it, then yes, we could double hospital beds and fill them no problem.

That’s why people get kicked out quickly, even if they feel they would benefit from staying.

Of course there is a limit, but we’re far from it.
Typical is 25 years. We had 30 year mortgages before and they were eliminated to try to cool the housing market.
An interesting fact about this aircraft is that as the wings are positioned behind the center of gravity of the plane they typically induce the plane to pitch down. This is in contrast to a more normal layout that will typically pitch up.

On the conventional layout this means that the horizontal stabilisers at the back need to produce a downwards/negative lift to stabilise the plane.

The X-29 has canards at the front that have to produce positive lift to balance the plane. This means it's actually more efficient as both surfaces are producing useful lift and avoiding the penalty of the negative lift of traditional horizontal stabilisers.

This is of course more complex in practice, with the CoG not being in a fixed position and careful positioning of wings to reduce the pitch-up tendency.
Looked around a bit, and the link below says DC has a lot of problems. One is that you's still have to convert your home DC voltage to whatever voltage each DC device uses.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-use-AC-but-not-DC-in-househo...
For those wondering, here’s how GoodRx works and makes money:

1. GoodRx obtains prices of drugs at all pharmacies through contracts it has with PBMs (middleman that determines insurance payouts to pharmacies).

2. Pharmacies have wildly different prices from one another - going to one pharmacy over another can save you and your insurance a lot of money.

3. When you use a GoodRx coupon, the insurance company pays GoodRx a small amount as they had to spend less on their patient thanks to the coupon (i.e they didn’t use a super expensive pharmacy).

4. The pharmacy pays GoodRx a referral fee (kind of like a restaurant pays yelp a referral fee when you use a yelp coupon).

Over the last 5 years, insurance companies are increasingly pushing high deductible plans on to employers. As a result, patients are way more price sensitive than they used to be. If you had no deductible, you probably wouldn’t care too much about drug price differences because the copays wouldn’t be that different. However, due to these new plans you care a lot more and hence services like GoodRx and Blink become a lot more important.
My insurer has an app and web site to look up drug prices. It doesn’t require a login.

My doc could certainly use the same site I do to check. Her EMR could certainly check.

My doc will sit there with me as I look up prices and compare cheaper meds. I just wish it was faster to save both our time.
> forgetting

Or rather deliberately not including to decrease download size.

Though OpenType variable fonts are a thing now. e.g. Inter https://rsms.me/inter/ has a variable version