skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly it is happening. My local stores have small amounts of yeast in little beverage cups with improvised seals, made by yeast manufacturers that usually sell large quantities to restaurants and industrial bread producers.

They've also briefly had shitty 1ply commercial toilet paper with big plastic bag and twist-tie packaging.
Dotcommon: What do people have in their dotfiles?
Yeah, modern electric cars are at least an order of magnitude less likely to catch fire than internal combustion ones.
I think they mean, Plaid the Japanese company. one of the biggest analytic firms in asia. & 6.8bn is probably users aggregated over their customers
What’s wrong with iOS?
In a professional environment, I’d keep that to myself unless someone asked me for feedback or I had a hand in the decision But I think once the point is brought up in an online forum, that’s an appropriate venue to give feedback like that.

Like it or not, people will have internal reactions to things—and I for one would prefer if others let me know if they found a project name I chose to be difficult in some way.
Can you provide more details of what occurred? I'm curious and would like more info. since I never lived near any Amish people.
That's exactly why I'd like to see some kind of dependency web. I was going to mention additional things such as the utilities: power, gas, water, but food made the point well enough, and you've demonstrated the reach of one of its tentacles very well.

> The shutdown actually serves to keep these facilities open, because it has reduced the virus's spread through the population

Yes, in total agreement. I'm in favour of the shutdowns because I can see far enough ahead to know how much worse things would be if they didn't happen. Those who bemoan the damage to the economy strike me as either incredibly short-sighted or selfish or both. Admittedly, however, I'm coming from the lucky and mightily privileged position of not having lost my job (at this point), although I do have "that Damocles feeling" fairly constantly.
I'm 40+ been coding professionally for two years now.

I used to be a network engineer but the nature of that business being treated as costly overhead and my personal interest slowly diminishing meant when my employer was bought I had a chance to think about if I wanted to do that and I .... did not.

I tried coding in college but:

1. I was a terrible student at that time.

2. At that time it was largely "Here is a book about C ... memorize what I tell you in lecture... now figure it out."

Not a good combo.

I was always interested / reading about coding and I went to a bootcamp and found I was suddenly a good student out of nowhere.

I think maturity and focus (both came late for me) resulted in being really excited every day that someone was going to drop some knowledge on me in a way that...I didn't get when I was younger. A couple other older guys in class had the same experience.

Coming from a different background has helped in some ways. My coworkers can code faster than I can, but I find I have experience that I can pickup businesses logic, craft it appropriately / so that it is useful and can be extended as needed, and can talk to customers easily.
Direct Multipixel Imaging of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravitational Lens
That is never the case in the US. Imagine half the population size of your country, then space out the distance between where you are and everything else by 10 or more. The reason we drive everywhere isn't because we want to, it's because we have to. Driving is our second pair of legs basically because everything is a minimum 10-25KM away from everything...if not greater.
That makes a lot of sense, and as I tried to say in my comments, no disrespect to altman, he is genuinely doing a lot and it was just the way it was phrased seemed to be off. Thanks for acknowledging it and the thoughtful response.

By the way, I love your book! It's what made me think maybe making a little side business selling computers wasn't so impossible when I was in high school.
> Had no clue what I was being sold until you pointed it out.

Unfortunately not even Googlers are immune to the draw to elite signalling by drowning your copy in industry jargon without ever getting to the point.

I see this a lot on hastily-composed GitHub Readmes and "rocket-launch" startup landing pages, but it's a shame it also happens to a company whose name is globally recognized.
Just because a legal system places two different things in the same category doesn't mean they're saying they are equal.

For instance, in many states, it is both a felony to steal something worth $300 and commit murder. No one on the planet would say they are equal. In the same way, I doubt there are any legislators in Sweden who say that cannibis and heroin are scientifically equal. They're just classified the same for legal purposes.
I think I agree with you. Forth was (fortunately IMO) the first language I really grokked after undergrad. Before that it was assembly, Apple Basic & (shudder) Fortran. I had zero exposure to CS 101. So Forth warped my brain in all the right ways.
I seriously wonder this as well.

I managed to build a profitable small business and mostly automate it. But now that I'm back in the search for another more ambitious idea to work on, it is way too easy to be distracted by all the electronics around me than to be able to ponder deeply about ideas.

I tried reading a novel the other day, I couldn't make it through 3 pages without reading some random BS on the interwebs.

Damn capitalism for incentivizing companies to make everything as addictive as possible...
How New Sellers Can Get a Good Ranking on Amazon?
All 3, AU, VST and JSFX (the reaper effects). I've never used it but I've heard very complex plugins like Kontakt don't work in it? My info might be way out of date.
I'm not sure if heartbleed is a good example here, given that it was basically a new class of exploit.
How much of energy consumption even is by households though?

I think people have a strong bias for thinking the things they see and touch during the day are environmentally important. But most "pollution"/energy use happen out of sight from our everyday lives.

Or so I think. Happy to be disproven!
The podcast didn't mention where she got here DUI in. She was just applying to a company in California.

However I am from Wisconsin and I can vouch for that. DUI's are like misdemeanors, no matter how many felonies of them you've gotten. So long as "DUI" is after it and you're not doing a driving job, nobody cares.
Okay, so mathematically proven that for every life lost to a respiratory disease two more will commit suicide. Impeccable math of yours.
Religion was created in order that priests, mullahs, etc. could perpetrate otherwise forbidden sexual acts on defenseless people. Some later offshoots have forgotten this, but Catholicism and Islam remember. What was the ISIS caliphate, if not organized sex crime? It seems the Protestants favor abuse of girls instead of boys, which in their minds is more moral...
Moderns GPUs are VLIW machines.
Was the Magic Leap naming intentional? I had always thought that that name carried the message in the clearest possible way. Were people not aware of that???
Many retirement homes here in Czech Republic have had the care takers voluntarily locking themselves up together with the people living there. Some have been there like this for many weeks, only taking in supplies in a safe way & communicating electronically.

Thats some serious dedication & very prudent one, give all the tragic cases elsewhere.
H/t the excellent Orbital Index newsletter.

This is the third ever NIAC Phase III grant, which is $2M over two years to transition the most promising advanced concepts to other parts of NASA.

The mission would fly a swarm of imaging satellites to 550 AU (11x Pluto's maximum orbital radius) using solar sails and ultimately image an exoplanet directly with a surface resolution of 25 km per pixel (!).

NIAC also funded a phase 2 grant for a new high performance solar sail which could reach the imaging point in just 8.5 years.
I’ve tried this and it didn’t work for me. I would always have anxiety about the end time and if I got to where I wanted to be. Without the bounded time I can work till I like where I’m at.
The most expensive plan for my family (2 parents and a young child) is $367 a month. Equivalent coverage in the US would be thousands of dollars.
I second Antichamber, it's an overlooked gem. It combines the mind-bending puzzle platforming of Portal with the intriguingly interconnected world design of Metroid.
>"That's crazy because I worked on them at Intel during the first process (which was an absolute beast to bring up)"

Could you elaborate on this? Do you mean bringing the the process node/fab online? More so of a beast than other other nodes? Cheers.
Covid and Knowledge Graphs: Assess Impact of Selective Lockdown via AI Reasoning
> Techies will pay for hardware though. But it's got to be good hardware.

Technies will pay for hardware like the iPhone, that gets you laid. Not AR/VR, which makes you look like a dork and makes you seasick.

FTFY.
Haskell has stack traces despite pervasive TCE.
> Spinning rust doesn't degrade materially over time when powered off but Flash certainly does.

Magnetic media does degrade, moving parts freeze or fail in other ways, and the circuitry can also fail. It’s often possible recover that at some cost but it’s much more expensive than n > 1 copies.
Already requested for Guitar. Follow this issue thread.[0]

[0] https://github.com/soramimi/Guitar/issues/76
> is rarely a choice between a corrupt politician and a non-corrupt one

2008? 2012? Can't say that I've heard (m)any corruption allegations against Obama.

2016? I mean, I don't think a single charge of corruption or malfeasance ever turned out to be true for Hillary Clinton, has it?

Unless you mean "corrupt" in the sense of "non-pure" and, yeah, 99.9$ people who have enough money to be politicians are distinctly "non-pure". Now if you want to get the money out of politics, it'll need consistent Democrat gains at every level down to local council for the next 20 years to move SCOTUS left and undo all the dark money idiocies of the Roberts' court.
You're missing an implicit assumption - that each country's testing regimes and levels and criteria were comparable - for an example from the top of my head, some countries only test if you show symptoms.

So if you'll allow me to rephrase:

> Germany went into lockdown at 3000 known cases per day, while the UK went into lockdown at 700 known cases per day, and Spain at 600 known cases per day.

As you said earlier, so many damn factors in this.
I currently use Music Volume EQ for android and it works. It's annoying sometimes cause I may need to restart every once in a while or reinstall it, but it allows me to turn the equalizer at the lowest level, turn it on, and then listen to that base "quiet" as the new lowest level.
A Look at the History of Shut Up and Sit Down's Impact on Board Game Trends
Trump's order to temporarily halt immigration amid coronavirus outbreak
This might be useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ymYTdA0ko

Janus is more of a Swiss Army knife, vs a all-in-one app for a specific use case for webrtc.
Gasoline fires don't spontaneously restart, either.

I've also never given much thought to parking my gasoline fueled vehicles inside my garage. When ICE cars do spontaneously ignite, it's never because of the gasoline.

I do sometimes think about how prudent it is to park my Tesla underneath my kids' bedrooms every night while it starts charging unattended after everyone is asleep. I'm glad to have a smoke alarm in the garage.
Not to mention effectively killing your mostly ireplecable medical personell - either directly by massive exposure to the virus, due to overworking or due to psychological issues caused by watching people die every day for weeks on end.
There is no performance advantage over Verilog. The reason why (some) people want C is because Verilog and VHDL are unquestionably terrible languages (they weren't even intended to be HDLs, that use case came later) which are damn near impossible to write complex systems in without spending most of your time writing bug-prone boilerplate. Every big name IC designer shop ends up wrapping them in layers of metaprogramming to make them palatable.

So, since those languages suck, people familiar with the procedural side of things end up asking for C. Which is an even bigger impedance mismatch than Verilog, but since you need a smarter backend to even begin to implement it, it can make life easier by that alone.

Personally, I prefer stuff like nMigen, which is basically Python metaprogramming a synthesis-oriented subset of Verilog constructs. Compiles down to Verilog behind the scenes.
That wasn't the point. The response isn't pro-model model or anti-model. The point is the author is saying things that are factually, obviously incorrect. If they'd done even a marginal amount of homework, they wouldn't be claiming "Buffet does this or Buffet does that" when all public information and statements about this exact topic point to the contrary. It signals intellectual laziness at best and willful lying at worst.
H is for Hybrid.
I love this comment because it relates to me. I've had multiple older men: my father, my grandfather, and a few "guiding male role models" who have steered me the way of real estate and while I can see the value in it, it bores me, terrifies me, and excites me at the same time. I have no passion for it. I don't have any desire to fix what other people break or attempt to collect rent every month. It sounds great when you have good tenants, but it takes a lot of years of mistakes and lessons to get to be a good landlord with good paying tenants.

Instead, I focus on virtual real estate: the SaaS market, which makes it easier to collect rent and leads me to your point of starting a business: find something people need and sell it. Make sure you save for Uncle Sam and the companies who help you along the way, and you can definitely build something from there.

Starting with other companies definitely takes a bit of patience and learning to work together and having the same goals. Everything starts off with a simple idea and it only takes chemistry to make it mean something. So its possible and there are plenty of websites to help those two people meet.

As for your suggestion with stocks, I do the same thing with stocks but I am a bit of a risk taker because I still have about 30 more years of work -- 15 if I am lucky. Depending on your age, you should certainly be willing to take risks, while creating a safety net for yourself.

If you're single and a developer, making upwards of 5 digits to 6 digits a year, then you really have no worries, and you should consult a financial advisor to let you know when you can genuinely retire if you don't change your life -- or help you figure out a few things if you do.

If you're married, you can still make it work, but you'll have to sit everyone down and explain to her that sacrifices may need to be made. It's not about cash-stuffing or putting away that extra $100 instead of taking everyone out to the movies. It's more about being more frugal, less wasteful.

As for the fastest and safest way of getting rich? Build something everyone wants. A service, a tool, a package, anything... and make the world realize they didn't know they needed this in their life. We all didn't know we needed Netflix or Disney+... but during the qurantine, our lives are far more entertaining than sitting there in your house in 1919, fearing anyone that sneezed. Oh, and Dominoe's Pizza. You don't actually need it, but you just ordered it.
The problem is that when there is availability fake meat can't compete on price, even with high local meat prices (mostly due to drought) real meat is still a much cheaper option. In my area 500g of ground beef is $6-7, up from $4 a year or two ago, but 300g of fake ground beef is $9. It just doesn't make sense to pay 30% more to get 30% less of an inferior substitute.

The question is why is the price so high, is it scale, inherent costs or just a virtue tax?
Exactly. Neither is ideal, but they're not exactly equivalent...
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Note that the article is talking about research ideas for researchers to research. Not for business ideas for entrepreneurs to develop. I clicked expecting the latter. It doesn't surprise me that academic research fields dry up over time.
Please look around you a little more. My buddy separated his shoulder snowboarding in Tahoe. He had a full time (40 hours a week) job at the time, but it didn't provide healthcare.

He couldn't afford to go to hospital, so never did. I was visiting from Australia at the time and was utterly horrified, having no idea the US worked like that. Now years later his shoulder is still screwed.

Of course people in the US avoid going if at all possible, it's horrendously expensive, and medical bills are the number one cause for bankruptcy in the US [1]

In a stack of OECD countries (all the other ones?) nobody has ever gone bankrupt from medical bills, because that's impossible.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-415...
But unless I'm reading this wrong, the penalties are equal for dealing either drug.

That doesn't match your analogy, where the two crimes - while both classified as felonies - have radically sentencing guidelines.
> Lots of implied "do you secretly have a medical issue?" questions, as the military is responsible for paying for your healthcare.

Basic training was the hardest exercise that I'd had in my life up until then. They don't want you dying from an asthma attack on the obstacle course or something similar.

Or, if you have a heart condition, they don't want you dying on the operating table from it when they go to remove a piece of shrapnel.
Why does nobody look at the medical profession as the racket it is? You don't need to be an MD to handle %80 of hospital visits, and you can train trades people to handle most emergencies.

Insurance companies are awful, but seriously, we can train field medics to do stitches and set bones, why should it cost $3000 to have an MD do it? Listening the hand wringing about it is infuriating when you realize that the reason you have to wait for simple procedures that barbers used to do is because there is a med school bottleneck.
VCs are looking for “hockey stick” growth and will push you to pursue that even if that’s not in the best interests of the business’ survival or long term health. Proceed with caution.

Angels are more varied in the outcomes they seek. Screen them for alignment.

Alternatively, if you can invest cash in the business now for meaningful ROI, consider traditional small business loans.
Ahhh! Thank you.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve uses salt caverns to store crude oil and has the capacity of 797 million barrels [1], which is equivalent to roughly 500-700 larger tankers. Both construction cost and carry cost per barrel are, of course, much lower vs. tankers.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_...
and that changes things how?
> And what incentive would companies have had to do that? Firefox simply doesn't have the market share to force anyone to develop for them.

- Firefox has enough of a marketshare that nobody ignores them.
- If Google wouldn't, someone else would have.
- The content providers (Netflix, Prime, Hulu etc.) would have forced them to do so.

I don't buy these arguments. And the fact that Mozilla makes it opt-in by default shows that the Mozilla board is now more concerned about revenue from Google and squeezing it as much money from their product than actually improving it. I wish the Firefox developers had more voice.
Sorites Paradox.

The fallacy lies in the question, that a collection of sand is either individual grains aggregated, or a heap. One response is that "heap" describes not quantity but behaviour, or even more crucially, useful mental models.

The old parable of grains of rice doubled on successive squares of a chessboard gives a useful visual image, here: http://all-funny.info/rice-chessboard-story

I'd argue that the transition between "grains" and "heap" occurs somewhere between 16 and 128 grains, the 6th to 8th squares (2^5 to 2^7). Sixteen grains is still, mostly, individual grains. 128 grains is almost certainly a heap.

In urban geography, urbanisations are virtually always classed by the log, usually base ten, of their population. This gives settlements of class 0 (one inhabitant) to about class 7.6 (roughly 40 millions of souls, greater Tokyo). Distribution nearly perfectly follows a power distribution -- frequency distribution is linear with the log size.

Going back through human history, the first settlements we might have termed "cities" may well have been only a few hundreds of inhabitants, but they would have dominated their regions. Anthropologists typically identify Uruk as the first settlement recognised as a city. "Many ancient cities had only modest populations, often under 5,000 persons."

https://www.ancient.eu/city/

A city is a permanent settlement of size and complexity which acts as a city.
Lack of built in user authentication kills this project for me, that's just something I don't want to deal with building my own anymore after django.
Other countries have fully trained doctors yet they don't have this problem. Therefore fully trained doctors setting bones is not the problem.

It's another problem or set of problems that occurs in the USA.
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You get used to it, but it is fair to call it a significant time cost. When we take the Tesla, we stop halfway to grandma's house for 20-30 minutes, then we stop again on the way back. Sure, it's a convenient break for the kids to go pee, but it's only a 2.5 hour trip each way and in our F150 we'd do the whole thing without any fuel or pee stops and it'd be fine. So it costs a solid hour, or 20% more time.
No, that guy disapproved of you being rather daft. See, names matter.
30 And single, move to SV to work on fundamental ml research at FAANG?
Weird question to ask, but I'm at a crossroads. Currently working remote near family, making very good money. Single, and in the past dealt with serious mental health issues. Doing much better now with a support system, but I'm nervous about slipping into old thought patterns. Have an opportunity to work in an ML research lab at big tech on the ground floor of c++/deep learning frameworks and state of the art algorithms. Issue is it requires moving to the bay area, where I know no one. It's my dream job and I'm very technically inclined, but I want a family and the support system I have at home. Finding a good partner is something I really need to focus on, and I worry the bay area will make it even harder. What do I do?
Counter-Strike code should you worry? What if your code leaks?
Unlike a Promise, I hope you can cancel processes in Elixir
It’s wishful thinking that we can somehow protect the elderly from getting infected while the rest of the population is getting infected. Possibly for individuals at home, but surely not for anyone in a home or hospital who needs nursing. Assuming that very few people remain infectious after catching Covid (jury is still out: there are cases of relapse and continual low level infection - we don’t know how common either is yet).

The writer mentions the problem, but lacks suggestions for how we can prevent the infirm from getting infected over the long term. Perhaps in a world with unlimited PPE?
Found in the discussion about Googles new data centers that will adjust the load based on the availability of renewable energy available: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22945942
Planet of the Humans Documentary
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