skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to get my feet wet with hydroponics because my daughter loves fresh produce and I love the idea growing her favorite fruits and veggies. Do you now how Zipgrow compares to Aerogarden (the "farm" size one).
Sorry, I should clarify. Those things are essential to our way of life. Our way of commuting, recreating, and living is different than what a large city dweller may be accustomed to.

This is why the electoral college is so very important. Without it, politicians would quickly shift even more focus to populous areas, to the detriment of the rest of the country.
This page is a subset of NASA's broader ebooks collection: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html
Yup, I think just bumping up the font size alone makes a huge difference, along with increasing the line height and margins. I know some people dislike this trend but I quite like it. Panic uses a similar style for the Playdate website[1].

[1] https://play.date
This is untrue. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/corona...
Yes. Most of the problems with reactors have come from parts that are glossed over at the PowerPoint level. Many exotic reactor designs have been built, and most have had problems. Everything with complexity inside the radioactive area has been troublesome.
The AVR pebble-bed reactor in Germany had a pebble jam, and still can't be decommissioned.

Often the problems involve plumbing. Sodium reactors have leaks and sodium fires. Helium gas-cooled reactors have helium leak problems. Ft. St. Vrain was a really good idea which had both helium leak and corrosion problems. Three Mile Island was a valve problem. Fukishima was a failure of the cooling system after a tsunami.

This is why some of the new designs are viewed skeptically. Molten salt reactors involve a chemical processing plant that works on radioactive materials. Radioactive chemical plants have always been troublesome. They tend to become toxic waste sites. (See Pantex, PUREX, etc.)
Modular reactors with multiple reactors sharing the same cooling pool are at risk if anything leaks and contaminates the pool.

Commercial reactors have to be built for a 40-50 year lifetime to pay off. Anything inside the radioactive zone is essentially unmaintainable for that period. Complexity inside thus just doesn't work.
Which is why we're stuck with water and pressurized water. Simple mechanically and chemically.
The Gulag Archpelago
Brave New World
1984
Would you happen to be in California? I would love to buy one from you (after this whole shelter in period)!
It's been an interesting exercise in leadership.

Plenty of people want to go even if it's not safe for them, and others don't want to go but want to respect their leaders. I've found that each time we made a decision to tighten up in-person meetings, it brought way more relief than anger.
OK, bear with me here. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Yes, it’s a fan fiction, and yes, it’s silly at times, but it does a great job of putting cognitive biases in a digestible format. It’s really a great piece of literature that stands up with its own merits.

http://www.hpmor.com/
Apparently he also has revenue from operating businesses that he owns.
And how is that going so far?
... But then it wouldn't be markdown?
archive.is specifically blocks requests that come from Cloudflare's datacenters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21155056
I 100% agree that conservatives value life just as much as liberals. But surely you must agree the "this is just a flu" narrative has been more common among conservative news sources than liberal ones.
I don't consider myself a Christian, but this is exactly what I consider appropriate in a situation like this.

The language of "tempting God" is weird though. I mean, I know it's a phrase used all the time, but it's still just weird because it makes me stop and say just what sort of personality does God have anyway?
The two tend to go hand in hand. Being strongly money-motivated almost invariably requires lying to yourself in order to maintain a sense of not being a bastard (which almost no-one, not even the most egregious figures, tend to believe about themselves). The best sales people believe their own lies. Greed is a cognitive malfunction.
How could we archive that? its not like almost disposably cheap actuators moving with 0.1mm precision guaranteed for >10K hours MTBF was a solved problem over 30 years ago (floppy drive). /s
The distorted idea of ‘cool’ brain research is stifling psychotherapy
Speaker for the Dead is the book that the author originally wanted to write. Ender's Game was written as a prequel for it.
I'm talking mainly about dynamic (switching) power. I'm not sure about overclocking, but I believe it tends to involve also increasing voltage (power does scale quadratically with voltage) and a higher internal temperature (this will also lead to increased power). The parent was looking at the lower end though and implying that there are big wins to be had if only we could do our computation at around 200Hz, which I don't think is justified.
Or graphics algorithms tailored to many cpu cores instead of just gpus. Or have the Mac platform interoperate with their mobiles better, again.
Are you sure? It seemed to be consistent theme of Apple rumours since I think ~2012, until grumbling about shit quality overtook it from 2015 onwards, but it never disappeared. The timeline was not so stated, but it usually boiled to "it will be the one more thing and next WWDC".
No, because we are not kids, what is it with this infantilisation of western adults?
Please register Khan Academy in other jurisdictions so I can claim tax breaks. Specifically: UK, Australia and Canada.

Look to how Effective Altruism has setup its various entities around the world.
The headline says "megachurches," but the article says "More than 550 parishioners attended, about half as many as the week before, pastor Tony Spell told a local news reporter."

1100 parishioners is megachurch now? Last I heard you needed at least 2k / week to qualify [0]

[0] http://hirr.hartsem.edu/megachurch/definition.html
This isn’t the cause. Even Trump is recommending social distancing, etc.
Man, you're on fire! First fraidyc.at and now this. Kudos!
Can we as a society please stop ruining stuff just because the author had bad opinions or whatever?
Further, epidemic models do not account for the source of the infection, just the model predictions based on observations so as to attempt mitigation.

They would tell you nothing about if it was indeed part of a conspiracy / biowarfare / bioterrorism / ineptitude / ecological disruption ...
Apple story on corporate support is infamously bad, and they don't appear interested in supporting buyer ownership of machines, unlike Microsoft (which requires it from the high end certifications).
I skimmed through the interview.

He's a lawyer, not an epidemiologist, but actually there's some interesting non-scientific points made based on his HIV epidemic experience that might spur somebody to creatively look at today's available stats, etc.

- another thread mentioned corona virus being temperature-sensitive. Can that be correlated with deaths by city?

- are there different strains of covid-19 with different strengths?

- what stats do we have that are reliable?

- H5N1 and H1N1 were also corona viruses. what can we learn from them?

- The reason we shut down the economy is because there's not enough ventilators, so it's worthwhile to look at the numbers, while making more ventilators.

- has anybody survived corona virus and being on a respirator? If not, the lockdown may not be helping since we aren't developing herd immunity to it.
the point is not to assert anything about God as much as it is to make clear that God is not to be used as a shield. One does not have superpowers or fewer responsibilities because God is on one's side. Tempting God by being boastful or reckless is simply a form of hubris.
This may be true of conservatives qua conservatives on the world stage. Conservatism in the US, however, has become married with a very particular dysfunctional form of identity politics. And that does tend to deny any science that contradicts the policy prescriptions of its brand of oddly selective libertarianism. The stats are pretty clear on this with US 'conservative' attitudes to public health, climate change, etc.
Roadside Picnic. The third part, where the main character has grown old and his young practical cynicism has turned into cynicism by habit, and is upturned, really got to me.
This is quite a gamble from what I can gather. If the infected congregation of 500 hopes to seek medical attention, they will not find it. Central has no hospitals, however Baton Rouge (the next nearest city) has a few. Tony is hoping that if his cavalier defiance of what he perceives to be a political agenda pays off, he will be able to avoid what his congregants have not: unemployment. He is rolling the dice to get blood from a stone.

Tony's gamble is dangerous and calculated, as is evidenced by his strategic use of busses to block media coverage. If a massive outbreak in Central occurs, his congregation will not be forgotten. People will remember Tony and his flock long after the federal governments attempts to "flatten the curve." They will remember flooded hospitals and associate any decline in regional medical care with him and his attendees. Whats worse, Tonys name will be on the lips and hearts of anyone in or around Baton Rouge who cannot get care, or who has watcehd a loved one perish to this disease.

At worst, Attendees will be shunned from employment, outed on social media, and ostracized from their community. Tonys quick attempt to turn some cash in a recession will ultimately send him out of the city on a rail as other faith based communities out him as nothing more than a huckster, not a leader. Tony might even see a few civil suits for his efforts.

Then there are the people who lose family, parents, or children. They wont think twice about torching the busses he hid behind. he'll stay in their memory long after the collection plate is passed this sunday.
Do like Texas's former governor, Rick Perry—shoot it dead.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100501095227/http://www.chron....
What tools are available? There used to be leaky.com, but they almost immediately got bombarded by dozens of lawsuits from different auto insurers.
What about the Lt Governor who said that his grandma would Gladly die for America as it were. Playing down the level of current and coming deaths and passing off the loss of those who ultimately do die as necessary for the continuing prosperity of the remainder is the mainstream conservative position.
You seem like you're not making real arguments, so I'll leave the conversation at this.
Ask HN: What's a good talk/video on a latest advancement in your industry/field?
You don't have to explain microkernels to me, I know how they work. You could replicate the advantages I describe of path caching in Linux VFS in a microkernel by having some kind of common VFS server, or perhaps write the VFS layer as a library that filesystems consume. This is because micro vs. monolithic is an orthogonal choice to the design. The fact that it has not chosen your favorite approach on that unrelated axis does not make it bad.
Can this be the beginning of the always-virtual megachurch?
I've been striking out with my fiction lately with one dud after another. Thanks for these excellent suggestions. I'm ready to dive back in.

Three books that I haven't seen listed, but were impactful on my life:

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita -- Incredible writing, maybe the best ever. And english was Nabokov's second language. Don't miss this just because of the creepy subject matter or because you saw one of the movies. This is an incredible read and one of the English languages greatest books.

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses -- I initially put off reading this by McCarthy's singular use of punctuation and his long, spare sentences. But I picked up the audiobook from Books on Tape (pre Audible) and fell into it. When read by a talented narrator its like poetry (and I mean that in a good way). When I finished it I immediatly rewound the tapes and listened to it again.

Rudy Rucker, White Light -- I read this 38 years ago and still think of it often. Think Alice in Wonderland written by William Burroughs and Kurt Godel. Giant cockroaches, absolute infinite, the devil harvesting souls, Albert Einstein, the Banach–Tarski paradox: its a wild ride. Hard to find but available on Kindle.
As the contrarian, can you at least enlighten us to what, in your opinion, would be the best strategy to proactively address potential bottlenecks? I think we can all agree, career shaming aside, that medical professionals and engineers of all varieties actively participate in mindsets geared towards problem solving.

So in a hypothetical situation, where existing permanent healthcare infrastructure is at capacity, field hospitals are setup and existing medical professional staff need to be divided amongst the existing and newly supplemented infrastructure, what is your suggestion to save the most lives?

This exercise of sharing ideas, informing, critiquing is what this forum is for. Disagree and casting shame for a lack of first-hand professional experience is not educational and it’s not what this forum embodies.

I want to be as informed as possible so I can call BS when politicians say “nothing at all could have been done.”
This is the release that brings us Wireguard on mainline! https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-March/00520...
Love all his work. Mother Night might be my favorite

"You are what you pretend to be"

Timequake is also amazing.

"Life is just for farting around and don't let anyone tell you different"
I had a terrible case of the flu between Dec 31 and Jan 24 while living in SF. It was so bad, I thought I was gonna die, and so I picked up some shrooms to cope with the pain, and my symptoms went away for about 16 hours.
Covid-19 Charts
No, most of the pollution from food production is from fertilizer. Nearly all commercial fertilizer sold is artificially derived from fossil fuels and pollutes just as bad as burning it. Over 60% of the world's total crop yield is the direct result of fossil fuel-derived fertilizer. Removing the fossil-fuel component would make fertilizer production alone rival the current total energy demands of the entire world on that single task.

Tractors are moving tens of thousands of pounds of material at a time and are extremely efficient for the energy they utilize. Tractors may seem like they are using ass tons of fuel from looks alone, people see the huge engine and big cab and chunks of large steel and think it just eats fuel to produce crazy tons of power, but many consumer cars have more horsepower than tractors and frivolously spend fuel on saving mere seconds in both acceleration and braking which are huge wastes. Tractors don't accelerate for long periods of time or waste tons of energy braking all the time just for personal convenience. Tractors are just geared down super low and built ultra-robust with zero concern for physical size. The run better and more efficient than car motors specifically because they didn't have to make any trade offs for compactness, weight, or engine and transmission form. How many cars have turbos and super-chargers? How many of them are tuned for fuel efficiency rather than peak performance? Tractors commonly have them for the sole purpose of fuel efficiency, they never lacked power in the first place because of the lack of other restraints.
Show HN: Log-Scale COVID19 Plots
Well, sure. Most churches in the country are, y'know, run by people who are trying to get by. But much like how profiteer companies should be called on the carpet, so should very-much-for-profit religious institutions that can't be assed to care about the well-being of their flock.
May be true. However, my point was that C is everywhere and you just cannot escape it. Knowledge of this one language allows you to program real-world high-level applications to low-level systems (eg. OS/Compilers etc.) and everything in-between.

Given the proliferation of processors everywhere, it is of immeasurable value to a programmer to become familiar with one "universal" language/runtime/toolchain so that he can program literally anything. It simplifies "incidental complexity" (avoids "tower of babel") which is key to getting things done.
They were supposed to give out free buckets in the opening of a new shopping mall, but that was canceled due to the virus situation. According to Iltalehti, the opening had about as much people coming in as any other store that day.
The word tempt in various Biblical passages when talking about tempting God use definitions #4 and 5 as listed at https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tempt?s=t

A summary of how theologians interpret the word is found here (just did a quick Google search), and the explanation matches with what I wrote above.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs...

So I don't think the words "tempting God" mean what you think they mean (presuming you thought it used definitions #1, 2, or 3).
Isn't there a saying "God only helps those who help themselves". Surely the logical way to interoperate this is that you should stay at home, not get infected and pray from home.
Amazing~
Better than cmake!
If you're excited by live physical effects, they still exist: in theatre! Well, maybe not this year.
What does it matter? What a toyish impression of human life, with such a focus on humiliation and glory and great narrative. How glorious is it to be concerned with glory and humiliation?

Who will be listening around for these stories? What will we be doing?
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

But it is really hard to imagine that Oregon’s governor is this stupid.

So either there’s some political gains, or she simply just hates charter schools, their students, or the student’s parents.
What's the point of humiliating evil? Seems more like a petty human impulse than a deific one.
The Key to Selling Music in the Streaming Age–-From the Man Who Brought You Bi
What I’m doing here is nothing exotic. I’m taking standard Darwinian economics—standard economic-evolutionary theory out of Darwin—and applying it to this particular case. And, if that’s wrong, somebody should tell me. But what happens is I just get these letters from people saying, “You’re not an expert. The H1 virus differs from this one in the following way.” What I don’t get from anybody is a systematic refutation which looks at the points parameter by parameter.

This guy is not very intelligent and worse, he is very stubborn and that costs human lives.

The way he talks about the virus weakning seems to me like he’s confusing cause and effect big time and nobody is going to be able to disproove his theory the way he wants.
Cut his mike, take him offline. He is in no position to give his advice.
Conservatives value their own lives as much as anyone else and presumably the lives of their own intimates. They are much more likely to believe that the lives of others are out of scope of their life and decision making.

That is to say that they in theory will express its value but will not sacrifice even the slightest bit of their own effort or their own well being for any degree of benefit to the other. In fact they will gladly sacrifice our well being or our very lives for mere wealth.
Unfortunately, he called it a hoax and conservative media spent a good deal of time downplaying the seriousness of corona. I think that initial reaction has done a lot of damage even with everyone changing their tune.
That is not a very useful statistic. Since megachurches by definition have much larger congregations than regular ones, you should be comparing total attendance not number of churches.
hahaha. hahahahahaha. ha. is this a real comment?
This is an extremely catchy and timely name!
Neil Ferguson Has Not ‘Drastically Downgraded’ His Worst-Case COVID19 Projection
about as fucking stupid as it gets
Ask HN: How does a game like Just Dance score movement?
Hi HN, playing Just Dance on Switch while I am stuck inside. Can anyone explain how a game like Just Dance determines the accuracy of your dancing given a single Joy Con per dancer? Of course it uses telemetry such as the accelerometer, but what algorithms are at work? How does the game process the telemetry? Sometimes the scoring seems a bit arbitrary / not sensitive enough / too sensitive. What movements actually matter? For calibrating the songs, do they capture many dancers/repetitions and average it, or do they take the data from one good performance?
I’ve Worked from Home for 22 Years. Here’s What I’ve Learned
The relationship with Saudi's didn't start with Trump's presidency.
Hyper-Stratification and Cybernetic Capital
Pretty damn well in my opinion. Mobilizing and coordinating resources is a hell of a task. The response was going to start off as a shit-show, no matter who was in charge.

In my opinion we're ramping up and course correcting very well.
I like these attempts to build a useful model of software companies, but this particular attempt is quite mediocre. The best attempt I've seen was the Gervaus Principle book. The colorful chairs and ping pong tables are there to distract the employees, to turn the workplace into a kindergarten. Once you remove all that, employees will grow up and become even more expensive.
Don't challenge the narrative with facts. You'll just embarrass them until you're downvoted into oblivion..
On a tangible level, the old man had been at sea for days fighting this thing. He had nothing left to be able to pull these ragged bits of fish in to possibly sell on the market.

And as he got closer to shore, perhaps he realized it didn't matter.
China Helped Put “Dr” Tedros in Charge of the WHO – Is It Paying Off?
We really had to spend time convincing my older in-laws that such large gatherings were a really bad idea. A couple days later, their church did the same thing most sport and music events did - online only. I can't image an organization would want the potential liability of running anything with a large mass of people right now.
Trump extends social distancing guidelines through April 30
The perfect deadly virus would have to be some sort of a time bomb virus. Everyone thinks it’s common flu and is spread to 90% of humans. Couple of years later it undergoes metamorphosis and turns into lethal suffocating or heart attacks. It would be almost impossible to control this.

Bio weapons are perhaps the nastiest of any weapon. Someone smart enough could make it in a lab and it could bring the entire globe to its knees.
Everyone, when the Resurrection of the Dead happens. We believe in two judgements: A personal judgement, which happens the moment you die and covers only the events that happened during your life, and then a last judgement in which every action by every human is revealed and the story made clear.
This is one of the guys, confirmed via email:
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Yep, that's what I've seen across my area (Boston) and friends' communities. I appreciate the writer mentioning that there are many megachurches that have gone virtual. I admittedly still find it weird to have service online, so it's going to take me some time to get used to it.

It was difficult for most churches figuring out the technical difficulties at first, but things have been smooth the past two weeks.

Also, if anyone has ever been interested in checking out a church, this is probably the best time to do it - you can do it from the comfort of your pajamas, and tons of churches have virtual services. Happy to share a few well-known churches/pastors if anyone is interested.