skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody doubts that a drop of water can act as a kind of lens. The question is then if a large number of very small water-drop-lenses contribute to sunburn.

The argument is that the light flux (the total amount of energy) hitting your body is the same. A lens just focuses the energy of a wide area (the size of the lens) onto a smaller spot, it doesn't add any energy to the equation. If the lenses are kept totally still, you would get a higher flux (more of a sunburn) in the focal point, and less energy (less of a sunburn) around the focal point. If the lenses move around a lot, it all averages out into not having any effect at all.

Here's some discussion on the topic: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/71263/why-does-w...

There's a counterargument to the above in that thread: the droplet-lenses have a larger surface area than the area they're covering, which lends them the ability to gather more light flux than the area they're covering. This seems rather theoretical, though.
This misses the point. There is no one "money" in our psychology.

Food money is not the same as rent money and is not the same as money allotted for a fancy holiday.

House safety, food safety, personal safety are what humans worried about for thousands of years before money even existed.
Do you have links to articles to backup your assumption?
This is the part people fail to recognize: in our society, money is an abstraction that provides necessities and wants. If you cant provide necessities, then of course you're unhappy. Many people can't and most everyone cuts corners and makes sacrifices to meet needs.
8 years and counting, same dose, 10mg lexapro / day
Pretty easy to see why they pressed back so hard against unionizing. Pretty much everything you talked about is the sort of thing a Union would squash.
A non-Apple computer? Was "Hackintosh" (presumably under a different name) a thing back then?
> The minimum wage should be livable - sincerely any good person

Also unemployment should never happen, and if we simply declare how the economy should works, it will magically reorganize itself in a way that makes it so, and which doesn't do serious harm to anybody, and doesn't cripple our futures. And you are a monster for daring to entertain the notion that achieving goodness in the world is any more complicated than this, and you deserve to be shunned and hated.
If momentum was transferred to the mirror then the emitted photon would not have the same momentum as the absorbed photon.
I think they would qualify as literal lab animals in this case...

"laboratory animals (also referred to as animals) are generally defined as any vertebrate animal (i.e., traditional laboratory animals, agricultural animals, wildlife, and aquatic species) produced for or used in research, testing, or teaching. "
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54054/
please read any study on cities that have substantially raised min wage in recent years (like Seattle) and understand how wrong you are about there being "fewer jobs" as a result before making such ridiculous statements
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Obligatory Mitchell and Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
> Open sourcing your project has nothing to do with pull requests (you don't have to accept outside changes), onboarding new developers (you don't have to provide support) or maintain code standards. You get to do exactly whatever you want, whatever that means.

I meant this in the sense of open sourcing a project and encouraging a community around it so other developers would help introduce new features and fix bugs. If you don't do this, aren't you missing out on a lot of big reasons to make it open source?

> Risk losing control of your own project? How would that even happen? Unless you put someone in charge of your project, and they run away with the keys (sort of), I don't see how someone can "steal" your project.

Someone could fork the project, rebrand it and take it in a new direction, especially if you weren't dedicating enough time to it e.g. ignoring pull requests.

Going back to my list, if you aren't doing item 1, you're not going to get much of benefit 2, and item 3 is going to be a risk for little gain.
>I have no idea why you would propose Tom Wolfe as an avatar for quality.

I have no idea why you think I've proposed him "as an avatar of quality". I gave him as an example of someone who was once widely celebrated, but not that read anymore (much less in a "100 years").

In fact, talk about literary quality didn't enter my comments in this subthread at all. It's about whether people will still read Asimov, or whether they would care about the facts in TFA so that his legacy as a sci-fi leader is in danger, etc.

>Asimov, re-reading him as an adult, is also quite mediocre. He writes space melodramas garnished with some neat ideas. He knew how to popularize scientifically novel ideas. He was genuinely imaginative. But you can't take his sentimental and cliched scenarios seriously.

Well, a lot of well known sci-fi is mediocre, if "garnished with some neat ideas". That doesn't change the fact that it's good and popular for what it is (genre fiction, not high literature with subtle writing and profound truths). Or whether it will be read in 100 or 500 years. And I think Asimov will (well, if people are still around, that is).
For me the solution here is a folding e-bike, of which there are many.
That’s probably accurate, but hotly debated. I would be very cautious about stating it as fact, since there are many competing models and studies about the effects of raising minimum wage, and the one thing that is clear is that no one knows for sure.
Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
I liked ory using it brevely from inside reactioncommerce, but I don't have any production experience with it, also like AccountsJS which is in TS and uses graphql-modules
Docs https://accounts-js.netlify.com/
Repo https://github.com/accounts-js/accounts
Don't you need a prescription for those supplements (or at least, metformin)?
Eufy (part of Anker) is the same. Our entryway is about 1/2" lower than the rest of the house. Small enough for it to fall in without triggering the edge sensor, too tall for it to get back out.
This is the paper:

https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/early/2020/01/03/jech-2019...
Those with investments have a much different economic situation than those who don't, to the point that it almost doesn't matter how well the economy is doing for the lowest wealth classes. Minimum wage in a bull economy is the same as minimum wage in bear economy.
It's really not that strange. No different than people paying $40k-$130k for Tesla vehicles that send data back with no compensation to help them improve their autonomy efforts, or users of social media products giving their content away for free (Facebook, Insta, Twitter, Reddit) thereby creating the platform's value. Lots of good business to be had taking something of little value and then selling for a greater value in some larger aggregate (which is even as low tech as your local metal recycling business; you want a cut of the revenue from the aircraft your aluminum ends up in?).

The consumer benefit is that it's only $100-200 for a 23andme selective sequence, versus the $1000 for a full sequencing someone like Veritas charges. It's brilliant that 23andme can turn health and ancestry curiosity into a pharma business, and they should be commended for their work.
Livable to what extent? You should be able to afford food (what quality of food? do good people also believe everybody deserves to eat filet mignon/comparable on occasion?), transportation (which in some cases means car + gas + maintenance + insurance) + housing (what kind of housing? rent a room in a low cost area? have your own single family home?) + family (should you be encouraged to have 3 children aka mouths to feed if you are low income)?

I don't know if I've been brainwashed growing up by fake news but... isn't the idea "work hard for a living", not "do the minimum and be rewarded?" (aka minimum wage)
> Kaufman is planning future work to see whether depression, a risk factor for suicide, also decreases with wage hikes

It doesn't. A good working environment does. £1/hr more is nothing if you're on minimum wage working for Amazon Fulfillment or Facebook Moderation, being treated like a slave.

Source: totally unscientific experience with factory work and workers.
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It does help. Giving people time to be sad, angry, and then accepting means they won't carry all those unprocessed emotions forward with them.
Leaving aside the Arrow specifically[1] basically the question is how long can Canada keep up, such that this work provides the sorts of benefits that you are expecting?

Every generation of combat aircraft ends up roughly an order of magnitude more expensive than the one before (Augustine's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine%27s_laws#/media/File...). So, let's say that Canada decides it could afford the Arrow, could it afford a domestic 3rd Generation Fighter (something like the F-4)? Could it afford a domestic Fourth Generation Fighter (F-15/F-16)? Could it afford a domestic Fifth Generation Fighter (F-22/F-35)? Since the cancellation of the Arrow, the UK has not made a single purely domestic air superiority fighter, everything has been transnational. They found affording a domestic 3rd Generation fighters too difficult, so would Canada have been able to do better? Maybe Canada could have gotten some benefit from spin-off technologies, briefly, in the 1950's and into the 1960's, but would it be sustaining if the larger and richer UK couldn't afford it? (Or, as someone else put it to me once, if you want spin off technologies, why not fund those directly, rather than laundering them through mass produced weapons systems?)

[1]: Most 1950's fighters that underperformed were because of the engine troubles, and the Iroquois engine never actually flew outside of a few hours on the tail of a B-47, so it's not guaranteed that it would have worked out in practice. The fighters that didn't underperform due to engine troubles did so because of fire control systems, and after the deserved cancellation of the Astra/Sparrow II program the Arrow was supposed to carry the AIM-4 Falcon missile, which we have ample evidence was very very bad. So as a weapon system, I've only limited confidence that the Arrow would have lived up to its hype.
Once you start getting to the 20 minute mark the scooter ride stops being so cheap, and you were probably better off getting an uber and going farther and faster for about the same price. I don't think it can replace the subways as they are used here in la. A scooter can't go from downtown to hollywood in 20 minutes; not even cars hit the 70mph the subway does in this city.
There's a funny story in Dealers of Lightning
[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1101290.Dealers_of_Light...] where a person driving in fog saw those laser flashes and, in a panic, called the police
They also share the market with bike rental.
OP lives in the US.
I don't want to seem negative, but the issue here (unless it is a "hobby") is about the Laws (different even in countries belonging to EU) that regulate waste treatment.

Only as an example (dated Strasbourg, 16.1.2018):

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

The actual technical guide has been published soon after:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:...

But nothing yet AFAIK to implement (and simplify where needed) the national Laws.

Basically, at least here in Italy, besides the (not-trivial amount of) bureaucracy and paperwork needed to be authorized even for a tiny activity, you need an analysis (from an authorised lab) to classify each and every batch of plastic waste you process.

And in some cases (some types of PVC come to mind) the material could be classified as "hazardous", and thus need to be disposed of by specialized firms (at a cost).
As someone with a jet ski, it is indeed hard to be unhappy on a jet ski.
I wonder how much of that is driven by suicide. Older men commit suicide at much higher rates than older women:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_suicide#/media...
Not an option. There is an association and this a new development. I'm just looking to for the most affordable and hands free maintenance aside from hiring out a company to do it which I still might do.
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Haskell's ST library yet. It hits this exact use-case, and comes with some pretty sweet safeguards from the type system.

https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad/ST

It allows you mutate arrays and other stuff "on the inside" like this article suggests, but it's also able to wrap up the operation so it appears pure from the outside, so the caller doesn't have to guess or rely on naming conventions to figure out the mutability.

It's your choice on whether you want to do the copy on the way in ('thawing'), on the way out ('freezing'), or both, by using the 'in-place' variants of thaw and freeze.
This is pedantry.

'light' means either electromagnetic radiation or visible light, depending on context.

In this context, it means visible light. I'm not sure what you get out of pretending otherwise.
Well this is actually one of the biggest issues in Eastern Europe. The belief the state should take care of its citizens ( the safety net you are talking about ).
The truth is only populist crooks get elected and only come up with shortsighted inefficient solutions (and half of the budget gets stolen).
I would like to see a source on this. This is not completely accurate, in my estimation. And even if it were accurate, that still doesn't discount parent's point.
No problem! Just wanted to get some insight and explain things as they are with nnn.
Ah, but public transit is inherently the slowest option. I have no desire to make 10 stops before I get where I'm going. I also have zero desire to rent my modes, as that encourages literally rent seeking behavior.

Either we need to figure out how to drop off and pickup passengers at speed, or penalize individualized transport that is space inefficient (like cars). Good luck pursuing the latter in the US; punitive measure seem to work elsewhere.

I think the way forward is compact private transport, like bikes, scooters, walking, etc, augmented by a robust mass public transit. Unfortunately, that mix implies a expensive re-configuring of most American cities.
The well-being of people in countries with high minimum wages and strong social safety nets, compared to the US, says otherwise.
If you want this to change, then you should not use "free" when you mean "gratis" or "freeware". Free software explicitly only cares about freedom and encourages you to charge as much as you want/can: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
In all seriousness, these are good points. I'm not a data center expert by any means, but here's what I know: The data center hardware has failsafes present by design, but they aren't disaster-proof being that they're in the same building.

To answer your questions: Yes, the backup storage box is in a separate chassis than the host machine that the Linode lives on; they have separate power supplies. The DCs themselves also have some sort of fire suppression. I don't know what would happen if there was an explosion.
This is a neat trick, thanks. Adding to my toolbox
This is like living in an alternate universe, I've been heavily involved in all things programming and webdev for years, following trends and whatnot and it is literally the first time I'm hearing of this particular company. What is (was?) so special about them that they attracted the HN crowd can someone briefly explain? Why would I buy domain from them when something like namecheap, even google domains exists? Why would I even host something there?
For $1/hour? I'd hope it would force them to review their expenses. But you're right, it won't, they'll just cut hours.
That's rubbish. A lot of rich people suffer from depression, to the point of suicide.
There's that one TED talk about privacy where the guy says something like, "People say they have nothing to hide, but do any of you want to give me access to your private email account right now? No? Right, no one's ever taken me up on that".

I've always thought that was a bit of a strawman. In the case of my front door, I really wouldn't mind even if it were livestreamed for the whole world to watch. I agree that "I have nothing to hide" is generally a poor argument, but I think when it's more specific it can be a valid statement, e.g. "I have nothing to hide when it comes to things that go on outside my front door". I can't recall in my entire life a single event outside my front door that I would care about other people being able to watch. Can I imagine a scenario where I might want privacy at my front door? Sure. Maybe my friend becomes a fugitive and comes to me looking for help. Maybe I become a CIA informant and they come to secretly meet with me. But in the few situations I can think of where I would actually care about total privacy around my front door, I'd hope I would have the prescience to pop out the batteries in advance. I legitimately cannot think of a single case in which I might care that someone is watching my front entryway.

Of course, I don't feel the same way about other camera positions. But I think I'm a pretty security-conscious guy (my in-home security cameras are airgapped and streamed to a local server) and I have a Ring on my front door and have no qualms about it.
easyDNS is pretty good.
That's a common trope, but there have been studies indicating that minimum wage doesn't have a significant effect on unemployment. [0] [1]

Assuming that's accurate, then shouldn't we mandate that these corporations pay their workers a livable wage? If they don't pay the workers a livable wage, guess who does? The taxpayers, in the form of food stamps, welfare, and increased prison population. I really don't see why the American public should be forced to subsidize Walmart (or any large megacorporation) just because they won't pay their employees enough.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#cite_note-104
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#cite_note-105

EDIT:
Before anyone says it, I know forcing Walmart to pay more to their workers would increase the prices of their goods; that's still almost certainly cheaper than increasing welfare.
Aren't you ignoring the hundreds of billions in public subsidies that your "basic unsubsidized transit methods" enjoy? Cars are expensive and our emphasis on subsidizing car travel at the federal, state, county and city level is an enormous regressive tax on the poorest members of our society for whom $1000 or $5000 is an impossible amount of money.
As far as I can tell the crate doesn't expose APIs needed to construct or verify the sibling/uncle hashes that would be used in partial verification.
I see a lot on craigslist for well under retail. Occasionally converted birds that work off the network crop up. That's the cheapest way, $30 on aliexpress then you just find the best looking bird you can.
> Why the photon is then re-emitted in exactly the same direction that it would have if it was reflected rather than a random direction?

That is, the equal and opposite direction, exactly as predicted by conservation of momentum.
When the bees used to pollinate almond farms are dying at 5 times the rate of bees pollinating, say, apples — there's cause for concern.
The ones I've found which claim good encryption out of the box are https://www.pcloud.com/ and https://tresorit.com/
Optimizing Webpack's build time by learning from the best
> simple services like abortion

This is dishonest. Philosophers call it "begging the question."

For someone who considers a fetus to be a human life, distinct from the mother's, with all its own dignity, this is not a "simple service".
That's 2011 data. Most recent data is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

* Global rate: 10.5 per 100,000 people
* Canada rate: 10.4 per 100,000 people
* US rate: 13.7 per 100,000 people
I used to live there, and visited over new year.

I'm sure there are statistics, but my impression is the huge increase in electric and hybrid buses, plus electric vehicles generally, has made a big improvement. The diesel black cabs still remain, and are probably the worst offender.

I would cycle on backstreets 95% of the time in London, to avoid the pollution.
Almost always (for big budget ones).
You might start feeling differently when a new test is developed for existing genetic conditions that it turns out you have, and since your DNA is already public suddenly your health insurance premiums quintuple.
> UBI would also probably help.

As the only candidate currently running on a UBI platform, Andrew Yang has argued that one of its benefits would be a reduction in economic anxiety, with ancillary benefits to health in the form of stress reduction and improved executive function, as well as lower rates of depression, suicide, and drug addiction.
I think they're referring to the "incident" that they experienced (on the storage unit in the datacenter), not the situation as a whole. The implication is meant to be that they prepared for many things, but not something as unlikely as this.
We've never done that.

https://www.23andme.com/transparency-report/
I've never heard of the caste system as applied to economic standing, but that's an interesting idea and perhaps worth exploring.
I’m all for fair pay, even if it means things (products or services) become more expensive. But therein is the problem: If the minimum wage is ten dollars an hour and you’re making twelve dollars an hour, that’s very different from minimum wage being twelve dollars and you’re making twelve dollars. Raising the minimum doesn’t just give minimum wage earners more money, it simultaneously devalues the money they receive. Does it devalue it at a rate proportionate to how much more they now make (on paper)? I don’t know. We almost certainly have to increase it (x+n)% to realize a benefit that on paper would come from an x% increase alone.

Globalization and protectionism also play a role here, and are a critical factor in the answer (think global minimum wage vs local minimum wage).
There’s something obviously wrong with the U.S. because suicide is now the second leading cause of death among young people and has jumped 50+ percent since the Great Recession:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/opinion/suicide-young-peo...
If nobody ever stole anything, I'd wholeheartedly support that. In fact, I'm willing to shell out 5 times the regular cost for a bike that would never ever be stolen wherever I leave it.

Finding places to park and lock and worry about it not getting stolen is just way too much.

Relevant: I've owned 4 $1000+ bike over the past 10 years, one of which is stolen right outside home, another is almost stolen (moved then found after a frantic search).
I see income inequality as a key issue here. I recently read the "Triumph of injustice" and came away with a changed view in our tax system. After reading the book, I now believe that any household with a net worth over $100 million should be subject to both an income and capital gains tax of 99%.
In short folks with income come and or net worth at levels that surpass their ability to buy a life of finical security for several generations only increase income inequality.

High historically high levels of income inequality have torn countries apart.

https://wwnorton.com/books/the-triumph-of-injustice
I always heard the 2 greatest days of owning a jet ski are the first day, and the day you finally sell it. I've had several people say they get old REALLY fast. Kind of like pools, get a friend/neighbor with a pool and a jet ski, now THAT's happiness.