skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everest is even worse than "doing it for the gram". It's not just that they're doing it for attention that's disgusting. It's that they're literally trying use wealth to buy achievement without doing the actual work of achievement.

It used to be that Everest was a crowning achievement in a mountaineer's career. To top out, you would have to climb many, many other mountains in preparation, building skills, physique, and relationships with other mountaineers.

But now people regularly reach the top of Everest as their first (and often last) summit. If you have never reached the top of a major mountain before, you're a beginner mountaineer. And if Everest is summitted by dozens of beginner mountaineers every year, it's a beginner mountain. The primary barrier to Everest now is amassing ~$40k in expendable income to pay sherpas to drag you to the summit.

It's worth noting that what the sherpas do is still extraordinary.
In the US, that would get you one new medicine, a few dozen yachts, and a few thousand citizens in debt :D
You could potentially always have with you as many displays you want to whatever size you prefer and use them wherever you like: desk, couch, laying in bed... VR / AR Headsets can be a more convenient and comfortable replacement for traditional displays and desk setups.

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Good point, it is an unsolved puzzle. Off to the labs!
Well, don't leave us hanging after suggesting such moral failing with so much contempt.

How many people actually die trying to rescue people like him?
This. Every time McCandless comes up - and bless him for his youthful misadventure - I think of the documentary Alone in the Wilderness.

It's one of my favorite films of all time, and have watched it numerous times. He had the right training and planning, knowledge, skills, equipment and support (a friend visisted regularly with supplies) to achieve it successfully.

I love that the film footage was recorded by himself, some of it is just gorgeous scenery. He demonstrates the hard work necessary to build everything for survival.
Loving this idea! I hope to see it implemented in monitors soon
Right, you say additive and subtractive, I think of it as emmissive colors vs reflective colors. That point seems to get ignored.

Some of this is interesting-- like every color is a frequency. But human vision systems are probably not innately tuned to perceive every frequency along a chunk of spectrum with an equal weight. Training and cognition probably influence our acuity in certain parts of the range.
Awesome! People can now use standard tools for adding malware into stolen archives! /s
Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we need
The first nuclear reactor predates the first nuclear test, so I'm afraid not.
That's just a dream. Chip design is generally hard. Chip design using the bloated, legacy x86 is doubly hard. Almost all of the resident experts with decades of expertise in all the weirdness and pitfalls of the ISA reside at AMD or Intel.
Podcast Addict. Free with ads, chump change to make the ads go away.

It has discovery, search, and the ability to add RSS by url address too.

I use it for podcasts, webcomics, and even a comedian's "upcoming gigs" feed.
Take your point, quite happy to have some alternative to uninstall like "Please hide forever" ala "disable" in Android.
Apologies: rereading I realize you asked a question; I thought you were making a recommendation.

I don't know anything about Jitsi. Will research. Thanks.

At the start of the pandemic, my friend at this particular court was tasked with figuring something out. Initial plan was choose a web cam and software combo for everyone to use. And then they'd be futzing with Windows boxes of unknown provenance, trying to do remote tech support, etc. Whose got time for all that? For instance, they told me one of the new Logitech web cams they tried doesn't have Windows 10 drivers.

I recommended they just a cheap iPad for each location, participant. Create iCloud account for each device. Use FaceTime. Buy mounts or tripods as needed.

I haven't heard back what they finally decided.

FWIW, I since learned they were also having uninvited people join their confidential sessions, just like the naked guy showing up for online classes. Such a mess.
I am not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
...and it's probably the most important reason I wont buy an iPhone.
BaFIN is very much shorthanded, their typical approach is to let go until things get out of hand, they simply do not have the manpower to do pro-active oversight.

Lots of companies that you would expect to be regulated operate entirely on self regulation, and that of course doesn't work at all in the longer run. Increasing the BaFIN budget and making their salary structure comparable to industry salaries would do a lot of good in this respect.
Nitpick: a government technically isn't a criminal organization because they define "criminal" to not include themselves.
https://www.iop.org/resources/topic/archive/cern/index.html
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/lhc-data-how-its-ma...

There are tons of resources written by them and others that explains how it all works. None of it is secret.
Logic and experience lead me to have an appreciation for how harmful and painful catch-22 or double-bind situations are.

When people are vocally backing the police at times like these, then I think it's obvious they are empathizing viscerally with the police who are subject to no-win situations, so they have that capacity for empathy.

But they are withholding that same empathy from the people who are on the other side of police interactions.

Have you ever been, in some sense, punished by someone with power or leverage over you, because you were less than trusting, and that made them distrustful or fearful of you? I tend to think this is common, whether or not it's exactly a conscious preoccupation for most.

There are things you can't explain, you have to demonstrate and/or experience.
> Can anyone help me out here? Is there a problem/theorem the Laplace transform solves/proves which the Fourier transform doesn't?

BIBO stability of IIR systems
The untethered headset makes sense from the perspective of Apple’s history.

One of Apple’s core tenets is that convenience trumps everything.

Often to the chagrin on power users. Always to the chagrin of spec lovers. But it has worked very well for them until now.
This is exactly it.

In March, when everyone suddenly wanted to do group video calls with their friends and family, most of whom are nontechnical, we settled quickly on Zoom for ease-of-access. Of all the options, it was the easiest one for me to get my parents into a family call.

You message someone a link, and they click the big buttons until they are in a call. No account, no confusion. We had 100% success rate on getting people in.

Also, it's asynchronous unlike something like FB messenger or Facetime (ie it doesn't push you the meeting, you can pull it at your convenience).
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological or nationalistic flamewar. Nothing about this leads anywhere good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ok, think of your favorite Linux only application, then imagine running it through cygwin. Does that sound like a good time?
And I’m wondering what your response to those examples would be.
It is indeed difficult to communicate one’s own humility.
Sigh. Just another avenue for wealth transfer. Thanks Trump!
Financed by states, sure. But they can and most definitely do operate without states. They can just turn to crime, drug smuggling, or if popular enough can finance themselves.
But there is in colour.
You never provided any sources. Wikipedia is a reference encyclopedia; it is not a primary source of any kind. Each article on Wikipedia cites its sources at the bottom of the article. Why don't you select a proper primary source, possibly even one cited from Wikipedia, and argue for it. Otherwise, you're only convincing yourself. You are arguing with positions I never made, using sources you never cited. I'm okay leaving things here if you are.
Not to be confused with _petite mort_

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort
Design and chemical synthesis of eukaryotic chromosomes (2017)
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's as tedious and repetitive as it is grandiose. Internet comments can't support meaningful discussion about such topics.

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An underground dark-matter experiment may have stumbled on a new particle
Who is loosening any definition of anything? I’m certainly not doing that.
FWIW, it doesn't have to be a "new communication channel", you just documented some best practices for email.

> No responding from mobile devices. The poor response rate is just too high.

If something was left implicit or de facto re-ask for it to be explicit or de jure.

> The reader is quizzed on the the contents of the communication before they can respond (randomly generated quizzes might be amusing).
> The reader has to retype the original communication themselves before they can respond....

A simple "What's you're rationale?" or if you're less confident "Sorry, I understand the action items and can execute them but I didn't follow the motivation. So I can do an even better job (or so I can make this decision without you next time), could you walk me through your thought process?"

> Timeout value, if no responses that pass the above tests in a given time frame, whomever asked gets to complete the task with no input and nobody can change the outcome for ... a week or so and everyone has to live with it.
> Anyone who wants to change it after the timeout value better explain why they didn't ask before hand... no idea how this would work, yeah we're getting into the weeds here.

This is the most important email best practice that trips up junior workers. Make the default of your email your desired outcome.

Instead of: "Does everyone approve?" then if people respond asking "Ok, when should I do it? Thursday?".

Try it like this: "I'll make the change on Thursday. Please let me know if there are any concerns.".

1. Make the default response (i.e. no response) in your benefit.

2. Ensure there is a timeout value attached.

None of this is difficult or theoretical, its just a set of best practices you can get your self and others used to.
Incredible work, congrats, the evolution of GHC is quite impressive. A better description of what linear types can be useful for is at https://www.tweag.io/blog/2017-03-13-linear-types/.
Progressives still haven't stopped undermining freedom of association. The "gay wedding cake" saga is a recent high-profile example.
Please do not use HN for nationalistic flamewar. This comment is a noticeable step into the flamewar style, which is exactly the wrong direction take here, regardless of how right you are or feel on an important topic.

Stepping into snark is also a very bad sign. If you find yourself typing things like "since you're so convinced" into comment boxes, please step away from HN until it subsides.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fundamentally, it's faster to write and type than it is to talk and listen.
Easy. Create or puppet an insurgent group in the US, and make the code open source through Tor, posing as an anarchist or something.
I came to this post through newsblur, which does a decent job on sites that doesn't give a full feed.

Though I would want to try out a local reader that works offline, just because that would be nice.
I've been working on some of these ideas. Even if you had mathematica-grade program implementations of all mathematical objects and properties, you can't get over things like "you can't solve the quintic this way, dummy!" Or "no, you can't have a good visual of R^n in a 2D screen!" Etc.

That doesn't mean all hope is lost. For now, I won't say more.
It turns out, depending on where you live, a piano may actually cost you nothing.

The free stuff section of craigslist has many pianos, for some weird reason. Just go to "For sell" > "Free stuff" and search "Piano".
I wasn't sure whether I was reading parody or mild Time Cube insanity until I got to this bit.
I'm not going to pretend that you are arguing in good faith. Have a nice day.
I was referring to dyslexia. About 5-15% of the US population have some form of dyslexia. Probably should have spelled that out.

I do agree that for non native english speakers, the written word is more accessible.
How would you check whether someone has special and deep insight into how the universe works? Making a lot of correct predictions seems like some of the best evidence available.
I thought that it was made in the future tense, meaning that in the future they might acquire them.
The idea of “defunding the police“ is to re-allocate funds towards services that are better aligned with the problems at hand in a given community.

Take drug addiction as an example — Instead of funding more jails and more officers, “defunding” would allocate that money towards addiction specialists, rehabilitation facilities and programs to help people recover, get jobs, and rebuild their lives.

In other words: A shift towards funding preventative care more, and reactive use of force less.

It doesn't mean the police go away entirely.
> Furthermore, organisations such as the International Commission on Illumination have made it their goal to keep Colour Theory at the forefront of colour science.

The illuminati!
You telling them your preferred medium of communication would be one way. See a sibling comment for the result of that alone in some situations.
Facebook carries both messaging traffic and user-generated content. If they support E2E encryption in their messenger, the threat is that they are not "following best practices for law enforcement intercept" and risk losing their protections over the non-E2E user-generated content on their main site.

The confusion is understandable because the two are unrelated in any technical capacity, but the DoJ seeks to twist their arm by taking away an existing legal protection for not making law enforcement's job easier.
I got about three paragraphs into an explanation of additive/subtractive color, rayleigh scattering, pigments and iridescence, before I realized this has to be satire.
I grew up in an area where tourism was the only industry. I think you under-estimate how many people in those places have drank the cool-aid and think they are sharing something special with the world. Everyone else gets out or gets addicted to something. That said, this was a first world country where people could mostly get out if they didn't like it.

That said, it's a terrible industry and is only marginally more ethical than cutting down mountains and polluting rivers for coal in my opinion.
All their criticisms seem sound!

There's a (good) theme in this: control. They don't want Apple to control the relationship between Hey and its customers. Which is super cool. I like it. It's bold, it's correct, it's an easy position to hold.

Which is why it's weird they don't have domain support. Why should I cede control of the relationship between my contacts and myself to them? I get the feeling domain support will be part of the coming business plan mentioned in the welcome emails when you sign up. So you can spend the $99/year, or more with the "premium" names, and still depend on Hey to control that relationship. I was soured on it a bit by not being able to get kye@. That's my name. I don't have almost $400/year to claim it. Someone more fortunate will be able to. I already have a domain for the name that's easy to remember.

Everyone loved Gmail when it came out. Having a Gmail address was a point of pride for at least as long as invites were scarce. Who thinks that now? Controlling the domain is a hedge against the risk that Hey will go down the same road. It should have been there at launch, and it should be available on all plans. I would have signed up the moment I got in and saw how well everything is put together.

I like it a lot, but I can't possibly use it if I can't point it at a domain I control at the plan level that's right for my needs.
Wow, so you moved the goalpost from "nobody discovers apps in the App Store" to "not every app is featured in the App Store".
So much this. My kid's school went with Google Meet for the online class chats, and gave us meeting codes. So far so good. I get the app, wants a Google account. I would have stopped right there if it was an option. Then, constant problems and apologies from presenter, just like in the bad old days of laptop presentations and projector resolutions. App is not the best either - rookie UI mistakes like the meeting code text box obscured by a CTA. A UX so bad that it boggles the mind.

The school district ended up distributing their own Gmail credentials to use for the meetings, too, which was behind a hard-to-find edu-website login. That's a lot of friction that Zoom solves.
I like me the most popular answer which is: Have a little fun.

I had the same idea (ie PID loop to control system behaviour) some time ago to control traffic to external system so that it is just at the limit of throughput of that external system. The external system is really badly implemented and we had to put much effort into maximizing throughput.

In the end we are replacing HTTP requests with Kafka topics which let's the other system process as fast as possible without destabilizing. On our end we continuously monitor latency and have flow control based on consumer behaviour.
> Startup investing is a subset of private equity investing

Not as the term is used in finance. Venture and PE are separate asset classes. Venture-like assets can become PE-like, in the same way private equity can become public equity. But PE is based on cash flows and leverage; VC is based on growth.
Sounds like a bad business model to me.

That market segment exists because of the walled garden - remove it, and it no longer exists.
I hope they implement this in Agda as well.
Yeah, but all the things mentioned are things that require my full attention for longer spans of time. I don't need separate displays for them, I need one single good display.
Nah, it's the same in most countries. If you kill enough innocents you create more people to kill and eventually you get riots.
And I had the same experience growing up in rural southeastern Ohio. Bushwhacking, spending a lot of time in and near rivers and streams, walking the fields, hunting small game. The specific place where I grew up has largely lost most of this, minus the water. I wonder if other places have lost pieces of it, too.
In our business, async communication is at the core of how we deal with clients. We design UI/UX for tech companies (http://fairpixels.pro) and in the 10+ years of trying out a dozen of ways to work, async email conversations were by far the most effective for us.

Email over Slack, why? Slack and other chat environments still create the expectation of realtime responses. Also, messages you type there are short and often of a lower quality.

Email is usually more longform. This forces us and clients to think first, write second.

The quality of feedback and communication is just so much better.
Please do not take HN threads into religious flamewar. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For most people, I'll happily agree with you. From a dyslexic's perspective, being forced to only ever present one's ideas and thoughts in text is pretty restricive.
Again, if someone was fired from their job, that's their bosses prerogative. Plus, the list of people who haven't gotten work again perceptually due to "cancel culture" is hard to enumerate. Roseanne, Louie CK, Kevin Hart, etc. have all worked since they were "destroyed". Neither their livelihoods nor reputations are ruined. Hell, listen to Roseanne's interview with Joe Rogan right after her ABC cancelled the reboot. He tried his hardest into leading her into blaming "cancel culture" for her problems, but she responds that she's doing fine, living in Hawaii, near where her son goes to college and she (still) owns a Macadamia farm and has a tour lined up. That is far from a "destroyed" life.

The people who have been in prison (Cosby, Weinstein) might have had a different outcome, but that's because they were arrested and placed on trial, which is a function of the legal system, again, not the work of angry tweeters. If you're saying the justice system is at the whims of "cancel culture", you're just being silly.
And then all the other people pull out guns and think that you're the shooter. Or maybe you miss and kill someone else.
I was visiting one of the dams at TVA yesterday. It was a beautiful day for running on the river trails, and because this is 2020 and I am addicted to my cellphone - I was looking up on the Wikipedia article on TVA. TVA is a huge, massive behemoth - but this lines from the Wikipedia page caught my attention:

>> Opponents, such as Dean Russell in The TVA Idea, in addition to condemning the project as being socialistic, argued that TVA created a "hidden loss" by preventing the creation of "factories and jobs that would have come into existence if the government had allowed the taxpayers to spend their money as they wished."

Now Dean Russell is an Austrian school economist, and his assertion here has no factual backing here. No evidence is ever given. And I was wondering, how much building has been also been stalled today by the fetishization of free-market economics?
It was the Alaskan National Guard who removed the bus. [1]

[1] https://www.dvidshub.net/news/372418/alaska-national-guard-a...
It hugely depends on one's competence in writing, and one's style of thinking.
"Please enable JavaScript and refresh the page to continue" = No, fuck you.
#1 is in the Python Programming FAQ at https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#why-did-chang... though not exactly the context you mentioned.

#2 is because multiprocessing forks, and each Python fork has a copy of the original environment, so that list isn't so much shared as copied into all forked subprocesses. This is not specifically a Python pitfall as it is generally true of any language which support forking.

#3 is in the same FAQ, at https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#what-is-the-m... . There is a special optimization in CPython which tries to work around this common issue.

Note that if at all possible you should use f-strings, as f"The value of the variable is {myvar} blahblah" is the fastest option if there are a fixed number of strings.

#4 is mentioned in the "PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips" document at https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/PerformanceTips#Loc... .

> The final speedup available to us for the non-map version of the for loop is to use local variables wherever possible. If the above loop is cast as a function, append and upper become local variables. Python accesses local variables much more efficiently than global variables.
Looks like the fraud was even worse than what last year's FT investigation was suggesting.

Originally it was just a few million transferred between multiple subsidiaries to fake sales figures to meet quarterly projections. Now actually "losing" billions of dollars sounds much worse.

I guess where there's smoke there's often fire.
Your "personal choice" may end up risking the lives of search and rescue personnel, and costing the public hundreds of thousands of dollars.

You get the benefits of your risky fun but a large part of the costs are externalized.

I don't want to live in a risk-less, fun-less society either but there are limits. As long as society is footing the bill, society has an interest in imposing limits.

I'm perfectly happy letting you do whatever you want, as long as you are not endangering the public, and you bear the costs. I'd be all for a system where you can opt out of health and safety restrictions, with the caveat that it also opts you out of health and safety programs, like publicly-funded search and rescue.