skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I regularly take cold showers. The trick for me is to stay under the cold water as much as possible. Swapping in and out means you have to experience the cold rush multiple times, which is the most unpleasant part. Deep, meditative breaths at the beginning help a lot too.
3x levered nasdaq 100 would give you an annual volatility of at least 30-50%, occasionally much much higher. The crazy thing is that medallion presumably achieved this with a very small volatility and no significant drawdowns. Nasdaq 100 was down -42% in 2008, so levered 3x you would be out of business.
Let's recall that the author of that first link literally sued his scientific critics who published a peer-reviewed take-down of his 100% renewable plan a few years ago.

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/609308/a-renewable-energy...

One element not often mentioned in these is the Energy Return On Investment which drops to around 5:1 as intermittent renewables with massive backup systems ramp up. This low level (5:1) seriously challenges the renewable transition plans.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2019.100399

Nuclear eroi is closer to 50:1.
Imho both would improve because of the change and innovation required. New technologies, new service industries (“decluttering consultant”, maybe).

Plus of course what good does income do if the world around you is shit?

Air quality, water quality, etc, should be baked into our economic models.

Income and employment age currently incomplete measures of health, happiness, and well-being — of which they are supposed to be indicators for.
> power located closer to usage centers

If you are willing to throw money at the problem then high voltage DC transmission lines can move a lot of power over long distances with surprisingly little loss.

A 1,100 kV link in China was completed in 2019 over a distance of 3,300 km with a power of 12 GW. HVDC transmission losses are quoted as less than 3% per 1,000 km.
Isn't it obvious that cold showers will make you more resilient to cold? Even if we assume there aren't any health benefits - which would be foolish IMO, being resilient to cold is a benefit in itself.

If you're waiting for science to put a number on everything before you consider it you'll be disappointed in the long run.
IBM Bookends AI with New Accelerated Power9 System
Germany is a terrible place for solar; their solar plants average a 10% capacity factor. By contrast, solar plants in Arizona are around 30%, and even the worst lower-48 US state, Maine, is 12%. Yet they've largely made it work, though perhaps as with Harvard's early computer and the US's early adoption of the Tele-phone, perhaps their pioneering status will slow them down further down the road.
But I don't see why that would be true if we're talking about arcane patterns in data. Who's to say anyone's even looking at the same data, let alone the same pattern? If we were talking about intuitive patterns that map to logic and investor psychology, then sure, others will reliable stumble upon the same ideas. But if we're talking about unintuitive patterns in non-obvious datasets, the search space is far too big to assure that effect.
When I switched from gmail to Fastmail I just slowly switched everything over. It took a few years before I was comfortable killing the gmail account. But I got there.
Where are you getting "prove there aren't any solutions" from?
Google tag manager server-side containers
Proton user and content with it overall. Note that you don't need to switch. Make Proton your primary email and keep Gmail alongside. You can do the switching at your own leisure and reconfigure accounts as needed. Can keep Gmail for low-value subscriptions and spamcatcher. Also could automatically forward from Gmail to Proton (or other privacy-aware provider).
It happened to an old lady in switzerland recently - she didn't hang up, the scammer just got quiet after saying he would hang up so she could call the police, and then had someone else answer the lady when she assumed she was talking to the police.
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> Nuclear does not scale

Tell that to France, who have been sourcing the vast majority of their energy from nuclear for decades and, other than territories with the geography to support large amounts of hydro, are the only country to ALREADY have a low-carbon, stable energy supply.

So, instead of opting for a low-carbon solution which is already in place and proven to work, we want build renewables alone, depending the on decades-away storage technology needed to stabilize their intermittence. In the meantime, we either back renewables with nuclear, or we back them with fossil fuels. They are your options.
Anyone here using Godot for VR/AR dev? ...curious what's the story here and how it stands against Unity on this front since I'm lately interested with developing VR productivity apps and using a game-engine seems like kind of the only viable cross-platform solution for this, the path that others have taken too.

But which engine... that's an open question, and I'm not that fond of Unity :)
Well when a governor orders state officials NOT to approve ANY evacuation plan... it doesn’t matter what you do.
You might not know how funds work? You don’t try to get the best returns, with quite a bit of risk. You try to get the best returns with zero risk of losing all the money. You get paid 2% + 20% of profits. If you lose all the money you lose your reputation too.

If you were levered x3 on the nasdaq in 2001 you would have lost all your money. Heck, even 1.2 would have lost you everything. Ditto 2008.

Having all your assets levered long term, that much, it’s risky and something you would only do with your personal capital anyway. Funds usually do that for shorter amounts of time and with a small percentage of the total assets.
Restating this for folks in the comments who didn't read:

When I applied for a policy, my agent provided me with an electronic signature pad at payment time. I understood that I was providing my consent to apply for coverage, and to pay for that policy. I do contract review as a part of my job, and read legal language carefully before signing.

Just before I left the building, they provided me with a folder full of informational material--a bunch of ads for state farm services and disability coverage in general, some policy overviews, etc. I set it on the counter when I got home, and planned to read it later--work was incredibly busy that week.

It turned out that State Farm had applied my payment signature to additional forms without my knowledge: a HIPAA authorization form and consent for State Farm to draw my blood and test it for HIV. I was provided neither verbal nor written information prior to signing that I was agreeing to either of these terms. I was not given a chance to review these agreements prior to signing. I didn't ask to see them, because I didn't know they were even a thing.

State Farm started pulling my health records from my old doctors. One of them thought it looked sketchy, and called me to confirm. My reaction was something like "What the fuck". They emailed me a copy of the forms, and that was the first time I learned I'd "agreed" to disclose my health records. Sure enough, they were in the folder: buried behind the ads and policy information. If I'd flipped through the folder in full before walking out the door, I could have run back in and insisted they cancel the authorization.

I immediately called State Farm, informed them they did not have my consent, and demanded they destroy any records they'd obtained. They said they'd do that. I've been waiting for them to confirm they've destroyed those records since, uh... May, I guess. The folder's still on top of my desk; I've been meaning to follow up with a HIPAA complaint. Started getting the state regulatory bodies involved, but haven't finished that process.

I had a detailed conversation with my agent at State Farm where we talked about the importance of informed consent and presenting people with paperwork prior to signing. He actually told me that not only was this standard procedure, but that he didn't actually know how to get a copy of the forms to show to customers so they could review before signing: the workflow State Farm designed didn't actually produce forms until the signature was already in place.

I don't fault my agent specifically for this; I fault State Farm's training and workflow. My understanding from talking with state regulators is that I'd have to initiate a complaint specifically against my agent, which is less than ideal. I like him and I don't want to fuck up his business, and he didn't understand that contracts require a meeting of the minds. This is, IMO, a systemic problem requiring better training and software design, and those are both State Farm corporate issues.
The fact that nuclear projects require this sort of huge, long term projects, instead of a quick buildout as compared to solar, does indeed mean that all of that has to do with nuclear power.
clang-tidy has support for doing code upgrades, but doing that in a ISO standard language with several implementations, including compiler specific language extensions, is an almost impossible task anyway.
You are talking about reactors

I am talking about power plant ; one nuclear power plant has generally multiple reactors

A lot of active nuclear power plant are old and based on old design. This article was written before Fukushima !

Many new projects are canceled because nuclear is now too expensive, partly due to the security constraint
How big are the external funds? If they are large enough, it wouldn't be hard (quantitatively) to shave a percent or two off of their returns in bad medallion years to keep the winning streak alive.

The inflows inspired by the mystique shrouding medallion alone could make this easy
I agree, I never click on such clickbaits. Judging from the comments, it was (yet again) a good decision..
They did plan ahead! The plan was to push some newfangled "world changing" product, get a promotion .. and move on in the company.
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What's with the downvotes? Even dyed-in-the-wool Apple fans like Gruber admit that the 5GB free tier iCloud storage is stingy at best. He's been saying so since 2012(!) and he's absolutely right.

2012:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/24/icloud-storage-... "Now that iCloud is up and running and seemingly holding up under demand, Apple needs to start offering more than 5 GB of storage at the free level."

2016:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/08/08/google-photos-s... "I realize Apple is building up its “services” as a profit center, but 5 GB just isn’t enough for the free tier."

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/27/icloud-photos-c... "Surely Apple will eventually increase the storage capacity of the free tier; the sooner they do so, and the larger they make it, the better."

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/27/trouton-icloud-... "Apple should give all iCloud users a lot more free storage"

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/12/15/speirs-icloud-s... "This 5 GB tier is just untenable."

2018:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/01/25/stern-icloud-st... "5 GB seems ridiculous when the company is selling $999 iPhones with 64 GB of storage."

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/05/25/icloud-storage-... "My fingers are still crossed that they’ll increase the storage capacity of the free tier at WWDC, though."

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/08/01/iphone-x-snell "I think Apple’s (Cook’s?) interest in increasing revenue from Services is keeping them from doing what’s right — increasing the base iCloud storage from 5 GB to something more reasonable."

2019:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/11/01/snell-services "That miserly 5 GB free tier is emitting an evermore pungent nickel-and-diming aroma."
Local governments should use gov TLD but aren’t
any idea about monthly unique visitors ...??
daily posting one of the best seo tricks, which i learned form Matt Cutts
If we had a paid internet, then IMHO we'd still get the same adtech surveillance because it's extra money available - in the exact same manner as paid cable tv became ad-filled anyway.
It’s crazy that they do this yet still charge nearly 3%.
On the federal level you would not have any of those issues. You'd be at a medical facility or a minimum security. I have been to one of them. It's certainly better than what most people would expect.

At the state level.. you're going to be hurting.
> There were plenty of ways to automate deployments for .Net over a decade ago.

There's a difference between just pure "automate deployments" and what Octopus does.

While sure there's been tools like NAnt around forever, back when Octopus came out* there wasn't a good easy to use workflow tool for deployment orchestration.

Sure, you could use TeamCity/Bamboo/TFS to deploy your code, but it was really focussed on the CI side of things, and the process of building a pipeline was often quite a pain to manage, with them not really understanding 'environments'.

You could, and in many cases often did - tell your CI system to deploy direct to a dev/staging environment - but it really wasn't intended for production environments. If you wanted to orchestrate deploying to more than one machine, it was a pain, and doing even tens of machines required that you built a ton of tooling to do this.

Octopus comes along and gives us the ability to:

- Define environments (ci, dev, staging, preprod, production, etc)
- Define a common deployment workflow, with branching/conditionals based on the environment/machine
- Define a release workflow, for how a release needed to progress through environments (eg: a release MUST pass deployment on a preprod environment before it can be deployed to production)
- Define a release which comprises one or more artifacts (particularly useful if you have multiple parts to your applications - such as a website as well as a service)
- Give a good overview of what's deployed where.
- Easily roll back a release for an environment - just pick up the previous good release, and re-deploy it to that environment.

While sure I could have achieved all of that, the reality was that few people would put all the effort in to building it themselves, AND making it reliable.

* = I recall Stovell talking/writing that the whole reason he built Octopus in the first place was because he kept running into the same issues over and over when he was at a consulting firm. There just wasn't any tooling, free or commercial, that would do these things nicely.
From what I understand (Matthew Walker - Why we Sleep), you will have a better nights sleep if you take a cold shower before bed. According to the information I read, you want to bring your body temperature down for a more restful sleep.

As a bonus, cold showers likely bring on Hormesis, which in turn can also be beneficial for ones health.
> If they did then there is no problem here.

There is actually a major problem. Signing is not (anymore, at least, hopefully ...) (JUST) an authentication mechanism. It's a legal / contractual device that embodies the notion of consenting to something at some point.

Importantly, when you sign anything, there's not just the text of the contract or agreement. It also features the date (and usually place) of the signing. How does that square with the insurance company using someone else's signature on their behalf? Ignoring all else, the mere presence of the date on the document presented on that tweet implies that it is a claim that soandso signed the document on 05-16-2019.
There's enough data today to show that it absolutely is. No air pollution, very little CO2, almost no deaths/TWh compared to other sources.

Accidents have been bad but recall that fossil while operating normally kills 3.8 million/year and causes climate change. In comparison to that nuclear is absolutely pristene.

Germany's choice to phase nuclear out and leave coal on straight up kills a few thousand people per year.
I think the idea is having either ECMA or ISO Go.
Yes, good to know as it's quite a usual counter-point I get. The differences are trivial in my opinion.

I take about two showers a day, mainly because I do sports, so I think I make up with the volume ... even training in sometimes dodgy gyms around the world or doing jiu-jitsu for a long time basically rolling on the ground with sweaty dudes, I was able to keep myself clean of any infections, fungal or viral ... I'm just taking regular shower clean myself properly, the the body should fend off easily.

It's anecdotal but I think doing hygiene properly and regularly makes bigger impact than temperature of a water.
Of course. It’s not an apple to Apple comparison, it’s just to point out those returns are possible. Also, would you rather have invested your salary from 2003 to 2020 not leveraged or always leveraged x3, bust in 2008, and then cash out today? Probably the latter. And that’s pretty consistent. After a recession, you usually have a decade of growth. So not exactly hard to do either.
Is fastmail as reliable as Proton mail?
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I am sorry you are so misinformed.

Lithium is a common abundant resource and battery packs are easily recycled but more importantly there is a financial incentive to do so.

Manufacturing technology for cells is improving rapidly. Much faster than the pace of innovation in Hydrogen fuel cells. Most are focusing on reducing Cobalt and other techniques to reduce or eliminate chemicals and energy used in wet electrode processes.

Hydrogen is pretty much DOA for cars. This is a good video on the subject: https://youtu.be/f7MzFfuNOtY
I do the same, though it feels dangerous because both the good-copy and scratch sections share the same kernel. JupyterLab works on .ipynb files, and makes it way easier to copy (or drag and drop) cells between different notebooks. One of these days, I plan to switch to JupyterLab to get a sense of what else it offers above Jupyter Notebook.
Actually I find it a disadvantage, I don't want to deal with source code from other teams/companies, rather binary artifacts totally separated from their toolchains.
C. Publish in a series of small articles and give up after the second one, leaving it incomplete forever
I've been presented with several offers over the last year to renew my car's warranty as it's expiring soon.

I don't own a car nor have a driver's license.

I usually get through to a person then ask them which of my many cars is expiring. Somehow they never know, and just keep asking me for the make and model of my car.

Maybe I should look up some really obscure model to further troll with?
Hopefully it will not be a repeat of Python 2 to 3 migration. I hope Python community can find an intelligent utility which can automatically convert deprecated calls to new format transparently.

Personally I had issues with pycrypto module when upgraded one of my micro-service to use Python 3.8, it was frustrating experience. Hope it does not happen again with 3.9.

Guido already mentioned in his email not to do it [1], Python community suffered enough from 2 to 3 transition.

[1] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...
There were then and are now legitimate concerns about nuclear fuel storage and how trustworthy and transparent the human organizations managing the nuclear plants are.

Imho the industry brought it in itself. Even now — look at how TEPCO was irresponsible prior to Fukushima and initially dishonest in its reports to the public about the scope of the problem.
> super serious problem (Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl)

Chernobyl ended lives, while TMI harmed bank accounts. You may as well mention Pol Pot and Bernie Madoff in the same utterance.
I like documenting how the devenv is setup and making a pull request against the readme as an introduction.

Finding the right project from a personality aspect is really key. Not everyone is going to click and that is ok. Finding a project will make working on the codebase and interacting with folks invigorating, the wrong project makes it feel like a job.
There are two simple explanations for this:

- somebody lies.

- one out of hundres of thousands may seem (and be) incredibly lucky for quite long. Until it isn't.

With the amount of transparency involved in this case for all I know they could be just laundering money for mafia by doing too many transactions that anyone could ever audit and claiming profit on them.

It's way easier explanation than "random walk is not random" and even easier than "they got 30 years of luck on random walk where second best got 5 or sth." which still is not so implausible as the first one.
Nuclear power is the only green solution that allows necessary power density and a constant power output. Too bad it has so much negative press, mostly by journalists interested in sensational scary stuff.
It's not idiomatic C, and is pretty rare in practice. And the ergonomics are vastly better in other languages, starting with C++.
The thermal part of these is essentially the same cost as a coal plant — the only difference is that you're boiling the water with molten salt instead of burning coal — so they're having a really hard time competing with modern photovoltaic. It's true that they're a zero-carbon option for energy storage, but batteries are a more likely option.
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But that’s ~one small-ish object per operator. Unless you’re using `SelectMany` or otherwise generating queries “in a loop” I don’t see how that could be so bad.
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Causes biogenic methane emissions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023102/
It can share specific monitors, just not windows. This satisfies the authors stated gripe (though they may be able to do window specific shares with Discord)
In the last couple months my mental-model of SEO has evolved. Traditionally SEO tends to be defined by things like kwyword density, proper heading tags, page load speed, etc. I don't dispute those, but the perspective is misguided.

Ultimately, someone comes to a search engine with a need. The search engine's top priority is to satisfy that need. That's the relationship that matters to the search engine. That's the customer. Supplying you visits is not what the search engine cares about. Your source site is a means. It's not the ends.

Your website page rank, and such are effectively irrelevant. The priority isn't you. It's the asker. They have the need. They need to be happiest.

Yes. Of course. There are things you can do help the search engine help others. The key to maximum effectiveness is to understand your role and your place in the process.
VLC or VNC?
I get under water gradually then stay there until I stop feeling discomfort. The part of the habit is not just the hygiene but the cold shower itself.
Any power plant basically. All those kind of plants are mostly similar (turbines activated by steam that produces electricity), the biggest difference is how you produce the heat.
I agree.

While its easy to point at Facebook and say "they are so creepy" - this sounds like the type of challenge every marketing department faces. "What is the attribution of X,Y,Z ad campaigns?"

Connecting purchase + email + 'where the ad happened' via social solves that.