skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is what we need to worry about right now. Absent any real problems, we'd reelect the current Occupant. Fortunately (?) for all of us Maddow addicts, we've had a real problem this election year. So, we'll get a different confused loudmouth old white man from the urban Northeast who likes non-consensual digital penetration. Yay!?

For all his faults, at least Domitian wasn't a puppet of armaments manufacturers and surveillance capitalists.
Ask HN: What professional development for engineers have you found effective?
I'm looking to organize some group professional development activities for fellow engineers at my workplace. The general goal is to maintain a "culture of engineering" and continuous learning. I was also thinking that active learning activities might be more effective and interesting to participate in than the standard "Lunch and Learn" talk. Things like:

- Book clubs
- Collaborative katas
- "Hackathons" (but not really, just generally working on code together)

What were some effective professional development activities that you've participated in? What were some of your favorite things about the activity?
Conversely, what were some professional development activities that you've seen go poorly or that you didn't find effective?
Databases, instant communications, time And chart tracking all allow healthcare facilities (and every other private business) to scale up much easier and with far less labor than ever before.

I can right now download all my health info into Apple health app from my healthcare provider’s website and use that anywhere I want, whereas that might have required a few calls and someone’s time.
Don't worry, if this were to ever catch on it would be incorporated into browsers, meaning the net effect is just to make browsers more complicated.
Not how I interpreted it, the guy in the White House does not get a success, those on the ship need an escape for if the guy wins in November.
Since there is a higher incidence of smoking among poorer folks[0], couldn't the same argument apply to the massive sin tax on cigarettes? We justify such sin taxes as being to the benefit of discouraging a harmful health behavior and personally I see the same link with higher sugar consumption.

[0] https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/targeted-comm...
Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Targeting Couple
Many of the things you're saying aren't correct, see my other comment (sibling to yours) for references.

Nuclear is not cheap compared to photovoltaics, wind and hydro. Since the former two are bursty, overcapacity in them leads to cheap excess energy at times, which needs to be stored.

Which storage method is the best depends on multiple factors, particularly on the duration of storage, capacity required and frequency of charging/discharging.

Batteries are great for relatively short term storage, but for long term, seasonal storage, hydrogen and pumped hydro are the options we have. Pumped hydro capacity is limited, and the cost of hydrogen production and storage is coming down. So that's where hydrogen makes sense: Long term, high capacity storage.
Rather than curing aging (about as likely as interstellar human travel), it could be a ship capable of supporting multi-generational passengers.

11 years at light speed would still be 100s, 1000s of years at speeds obtainable by humans. Building a ship capable of that kind of life support is just beyond capabilities. A ship of that size is not getting off the ground. Our current manufacturing capabilities outside of the gravity well is assembling modules together or maybe a 3D printer
Or even more simply a stronger currency valuation.
Almost all death signs are pretty blunt.
A neighbor of mine has what he calls "sessions" in his driveway. 5 or 6 friends come by once a week with lawn chairs and lunch and they all sit about 9 feet apart from one another and chit chat for a couple hours. He says he needs to physically see people not to go crazy.

Personally, I'm generally fine without a lot of social interaction. But at my work we use Teams a ton at work and in my role I have a little too much interaction tbh. But basically we've turned lots of interactions into "hey you have a sec?" followed by a voice or video chat. Some of my coworkers who were really struggling seem to be responding well to this kind of thing.
Belgium

On your own initiative ( partially paid back):

- 9.6€ for the Covid test

- 17 € for the doctor visit

By Government:

- fully paid back by our health care, including doctor visit

I love transparent pricing :)
Beans and all that isn't cheap overall: it takes will, effort and time to figure out what to buy and how to cook it. If that was packaged into cheap ready to eat burgers, spiced with something to make it more tolerable, then poor folks would switch to it. This approach isn't economically sound, though: it has 0 profit margins and it cuts deep into the fastfood & healthcare owners.
U.S. aircraft carriers conduct drills in South China Sea
It’s really not - by limiting the life of keys, and having a service generating them, you can more effectively lock things down when someone leaves, rather than going round revoking keys from servers. Something we’re experimenting with at work is AWS Instance Connect, which uses your AWS credentials to push a key to a target instance with 1 minute validity - no more managing keys on instances, and revoking access is just a change to an IAM policy.
Falling Inward: Psychedelics in Modern Medicine and Mental Health
(I'm using 2015 figures because they were the latest available the last time I challenged this bullshit)

Nope, drugs sales in the EU alone are enough to cover pharmaceutical R&D costs worldwide. What they aren't enough to cover is Marketing costs, but that's OK since most EU countries don't allow direct marketing of drugs.

That's what the US covers. Not quite so noble sounding that you're covering the cost of advertising though, is it?

Pharmaceutical R&D spending in 2015: USA $47B, Europe: $33B.

Total drug sales Europe 2015: $190B
Yeah, so what you really need is a browser that only supports your subset. It’ll ensure that whatever sites you view are fast/safe/whatever, but Gemini sites you make will be equally accessible to users of “legacy” browsers.
Japan needs to focus on real problems such as banning smoking everywhere instead of use of phones.
I think it also relates to things like "humble-brag".
Cool tool to test implementation of graceful degradation in the service and between services
> It was tried and rolled back in chicago because it was deemed as unfairly targeting the poor.

There's no reason why you couldn't pair taxing sugar with price-subsidies on non-sugary foods. The US already knows how to subsidize food production. Just stop subsidizing corn syrup and shift the subsidies to something less clearly destructive.
No, because there's no evidence that's true. We've found lots of stars with planets around them where none of them appear habitable.
1998 - automated troubleshooting program for use by people on the production line for power conversion hardware. Worked, but system abandoned by employer after I quit.

2001 - 'real-time' monitoring and analysis of data coming from the ATE stacks on the factory floor with various trending graphs and other stuff for consumption by quality and manufacturing engineers. It worked well, but politics in the Mexico factory sunk it to create more jobs to do this stuff manually.

2006 - automation of XRF process. The technician blew the power head, so most of this testing was eventually outsourced to a local lab.

2007 - automation of "Type" tests and high-speed data acquisition for single fault conditions and thermals and other stuff. UL was too stupid to understand anything, and would not accept data unless the tests were done manually and data was hand recorded.

2019 - 'universal' environmental recording and control systems for use in test chambers and agricultural. Reliable and accurate, but too expensive and required the customer to understand a bit of physics to implement the zone mixing feature.
There kinda is?

While web sites can avoid JavaScript all right, browsing most sites does require JavaScript. As a NoScript user, I'm keenly aware of how many web sites simply do not work without JavaScript.

And I'm not even talking about all the third party spyware.
Dark Admin Dashboards – Coded in Flask and Django
It is illegal but no one can/will enforce the law,
And I don't see the issue with short expiry. The point of a cache is to reduce load, not to entirely eliminate it. Even with a 5m expiry, it's still 5 orders of magnitude better than having a 100+ QPS on your server.
Nope, but you can with a BEV. A SMB could afford to offer a low electric charging station; heck, software companies could offer the possibility to charge their employee cars for free as a perk; even a normal outlet would be enough, 8-9 hours would be more than enough for charging.

Maybe the local administration could offer some incentives to companies that have this.
> a constant 1 g acceleration would permit humans to travel through the entire known Universe in one human lifetime

Wow that is actually very fascinating, it never occurred to me that it works that way. I’m always thinking of 11 light years as too far away for someone to achieve in a lifetime, but I am of course thinking about that from the perspective of the person who is not traveling.
Not all databases are relational. Not all relational databases are built on b-trees.

From the summary:

> Many people are building queue managers on file systems as a transactional resource manager and a TP-lite monitor. An alternative approach is to evolve an Object-Relational database system to support the mechanisms needed to build a queuing system

The key word here is evolve.

The point is to think of a queuing system in the database as a concept sense, rather than the database as a specific implementation sense.
AMP spec: https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/spe...

"AMP HTML documents MUST..."

"The AMP runtime is loaded via the mandatory <script src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> tag in the AMP document <head>."

Do a whois on ampproject.org:

"Registrant Organization: Google LLC
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Country: US
Admin Organization: Google LLC"

Note that jQuery, as mentioned in some GP comment has no such requirement. Google AMP is quite unique in this regard. This is NOT some general CDN type issue. Also...agreed, WTF is "open intent"?
Onion Service version 2 deprecation timeline
That's the first guys point, remote enables cheaper american salaries, a better option for the company but bad for you (sorry)
This has happened to me as well. Where could I read about this method?
I took a shot at this, didn't have much luck though:

PROMPT
=======
Input: 21 + 110
Output: 100 + 20 + 10 + 1 = 100 + 30 + 1 = 130 + 1 = 131

Input: 89+78
Output: 80 + 70 + 9 + 8 = 150 + 9 + 8 = 150 + 17 = 150 + 10 + 7 = 160 + 7 = 167

OUTPUT
======
Input: 37 + 112
Output: 30 + 100 + 10 + 2 = 110 + 1 = 111

Input: 91+11
Output: 100 + 90 + 1 = 190 + 1 = 191
I think we're on the same page.

In the case here, approach instructed them to abort the approach, and the pilots should have. Well, they paid the ultimate price for their mistakes, taking many people with them.
Silicon Valley (mostly) is "the suburbs." Although there are more tech jobs in downtowns than there used to be, in a lot of areas most of the tech jobs are in suburbs/exurbs.
It would be interesting to measure this perceived performance with a camera to get hard numbers.
Diffuse optical emission lines from inner Galaxy: Evidence for LI(N)ER-like gas
$1,000 sounds high. I just had one this morning in Russia at a very nice modern private clinic. The entire thing including anesthesiologist was under $75 completely out of pocket. It was amazing to me compared to my experience with healthcare in the US (I'm an American) - they gave us a price up front.
Tracking TimeOnSite Metrcis Redefined;Transperancy,Accuracy and Insights of Web
You can also "just" make a fast enough ship and get there in 10 years, o 1 month, from your perspective at least.
I'm not sure what you describe there but it sounds much more complicated than it is.

Isn't signed exchanges basically CDN's without having to setup DNS? It's in theory no different than using CloudFlare to serve your content, except any CDN can just serve it without giving them access to your domain.
You can name the binary git-qlite if you want to invoke it as a subcommand on git.

git qlite "SELECT * FROM commits"
Thanks Brendan for all your work on performance analysis and BPF. I cite your work often to team mates. Your work is an invaluable resource. Seeing responses on Hacker News like this is why I keep coming back here.
Depends on the data.

DDG:

{ used_advanced_search }
{ used_country_toggle }
{ tabbed, *tab_maps }
{ filtered, *filter_date }
{ os "iOS", *ver "13.5", browser "Safari" }

iOS:

Mail
{ disabled_remote_images }
{ flagged_mail }

Keyboard
{ emoji_keyboard_via_globe }
{ *emoji_use "100-1000", *emojis [ ":)" ":P" ":(" ] }

Each of these could be stored separately without metadata then aggregated no problem. Things marked * could be left out, and some things could be randomized up or down buckets and such.
Maybe aggregators work.

But many users will expect search. And it's really hard to change people's minds.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
Potentially you could bring the sun along with you.
Google Maps Censors Art?
None of the above is classified, to my knowledge. A quick google search of this capability returns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
Thats two of us.
Images are generally not the point. Formulas, diagrams and illustrations are.

Managing image assets is tedious. The web design community still by and large hasn’t figured out a great standard way to do for images (versions with reversible/cherry-pickable diffs) what git does for code.

Instead, diagrams and formulas could follow the lovely ideas of mermaid, graphviz, dot, and mathjax inlined into the markdown as text. Tooling for VSCode handles inline diagrams beautifully for Markdown already.[1]

And then, inline SVG would let you illustrate nearly anything.

WSJ got by fine without photos, as did most journals for most of my lifetime, and Kindle books mostly don’t have them today. I wouldn’t be too quick to say a medium has to be filled with photos.

1. https://github.com/shd101wyy/vscode-markdown-preview-enhance...
RSS should make a comeback
Approaching Optimal Duplicate Detection in a Sliding Window [pdf]
"The Songs of Distant Earth" by Clarke had a sorta-third option, where we sent out ships with just frozen embryos, and some automation which in theory kept infants alive long enough to watch videos / and other automated "parenting" material to get them to adulthood and kick-start civilization.

Of course... this was to avoid an extinction-level event, is assumed to have failed on 95/100 attempts, and was even in-universe acknowledged to just be the best of a number of catastrophically bad options.

But, a sorta-kinda solution.
Normally people wait till they get the examples that they have asked for before they dismiss them.

I commend your efficiency.
>You need to convert other forms of energy to hydrogen at a loss.

When wouldn't it be at a loss? That's just physics. Hydrogen fuel cells aren't a source of energy in and of themselves, they're just a storage medium, like any other battery. And the act of filling them will never by 100% efficient because nothing is, so there will always be loss.
Actually, you are wrong. PCPs start at 90-100k salary. If you are quoting gross income before expenses then its about 200k. The overhead of running a physicians office is high. In terms of specialists, it's come down quite a bit. Just check the ads in the back of professional journals. 400k is more like the 70s.

Also you can look at the training of all the recent physicians, - many are from abroad. Same thing that the Silicon valley industry has been doing , hiring foreigners at lower pay. Education for physicians abroad is FREE. Whereas here you have to go to college (>50k a year tuition x 4) AND medical school (60k a year x 4) and then training 3-7 years at low income (40k a year) and crap life style.
Isn't it already the case though with CloudFlare and other CDNs serving most of the content? Very few people really get their content from the actual source server anymore.
The long game which X seems to be playing to take control of Y

Oh, exactly that: Google/AMP with the web, systemd with Linux.

The point though isn't about the technology or the tactics. It's about the seemingly-benign apologia from third parties that bit-by-bit chips away at the objectors' arguments. It's part of how X wins their long game and takes control of Y.

I don't even think the original comment to which I replied does this, but it reminded me of a pattern. The way in which AMP/web and systemd/Linux are playing out are similar enough to be worth thinking about.

(I almost certainly lack any kind of meaningful insight and – according to quite a few others here – an ability to write. It's disappointing to be accused of pure flamebait though.)
I think the charts are saying roughly a litre of lithium battery has 1kwh, a litre of liquid hydrogen 3kw and a litre of petrol 10kw. By 2050 your litre of green hydrogen might cost 10 cents to make or 3c per kWh.
Deleting or opting out is fine if that’s what you really want to do. But making a big public announcement that you deleted your account because they started an optional study to try to stop discrimination is pretty awful. You’re basically sending them (and everyone on this forum) a message that if they try to help discrimination then they will lose users. It’s a lose-lose for Airbnb. They either do nothing and people blame the platform for passive discrimination or they try to improve it and then have to deal with people blaming them for being big brother and deleting their accounts in a fit of rage.

MIT just had to remove a major AI dataset that was used to teach hundreds of AIs. It had numerous examples of black people and monkeys labeled with the N-word and has trained systematic bias into our algorithms. This type of bias cannot be fought by hiding from the problem. What Airbnb is doing is courageous and you are free to opt-out if you don’t like it, but taking a big public stand against an organization for actually trying to improve things for minorities in 2020 is pretty tone deaf.
What is SGI?

Seeing this question asked makes me sad. If you are browsing this on Linux then you're probably using code descended from Netscape which was developed by a guy called Zawinski on an SGI Indy.

Or if you have seen a movie, then all the special effects are descended from work done on SGI machines.

If you have fuel in your car, the oil field was probably originally found after running seismic analysis on an SGI. They were famous for their movie work but Oil & Gas was actually a far bigger market for them.

If you have flown anywhere, the pilot was trained on a simulator descended from technology developed by SGI.

If you program C++ then STL comes from SGI. As does the XFS filesystem.

If you have seen a weather forecast on TV, that probably was done on a Cray, who for a while were owned by SGI and who developed a lot of their tech. Many TV stations used SGIs to render the forecast on the green screen behind the presenter too.

If you have played Nintendo, the MIPS processor in it was developed by SGI. If you play games on PC, OpenGL was developed by SGI.

They were once one of the most influential computing companies in the world. Now they are merely a legend, and a fading one at that :-(
Many users also expect javascript-heavy experiences, that they'll be tracked across the web, and that every resource they're likely to access on the internet is commercial in nature. Gemini is quite explicitly a project to try different things.
I’m just not convinced that HTML and especially HTTP are “rotten to the core”. You can make http://motherfuckingwebsite.com and the markup is all very clean.
It still lives and popped up in the 21st century.

Different curses can have different effects in different situations.

Even computers or equipment can seem possessed sometimes.

In the 90's all we had were IDE hard disk drives with their parallel connections made using ribbon cables. Floppies for backup booting were parallel too.

Over ten years ago the serial connections started to show up on HDDs which otherwise appeared no differently. USB flash drives for backup booting have always been serial as the name implies, besides being _universal_ (to boot :) years earlier.

Prayers failed to be answered when today it's more rare for average users to have removable backup boot media standing by, or easily and quickly whipped up when needed. Plus USB drives are less _universal_ than floppies and can not yet be expected to reliably even fundamentally boot on every PC as widely. Without warning they can easily give you the feeling they switch over to the dark side simply as a visible manifestation of evil that can remain lurking.

One day my buddy gets a new PC and wants to put his previous HDD in there as secondary storage.

So he opens it up and does not find the correct parallel connectors available, calls me up and says "Why is there SATA printed on the plugs of the power supply connectors?"

We could only both agree it was because there was not enough room for Satan's full name.

Numerous curses were employed afterward, all to no avail.

And don't get me started on ghost data, after all there's nothing to be afraid of.

Edit: An effective ritual is to actually zero your drive space appropriately, every time you get the chance as long as it makes sense. It's actually superstitious to think you never need to do this. Timely meditation, and prayer for a fortunate outcome during this period would not seem to be inappropriate, or even blessing of the device. Not a waste of time going back to the garden. It does seem to result in less chance of having it run completely astray and acting absolutely haunted.
when you have no friends:

- Work around ~12 hrs per day

- Read books.

- Play video games.

- Workout.

- No dark thoughts (for those who understand the IT Crowd puns)

- Repeat.
The UI is a bit confusing. The bios section looks like a conversation. I don't like the name "Taaalk" either.

Other than that it's a good concept. Are you building this yourself? What's the tech stack?
I think you took OP the wrong way. Bacon doesn't say knowledge has to have utilitarian value. He says that something only IS KNOWLEDGE if it can predict an effect. He was arguing against the many theories of people before him like Aristotle who said a bunch of things that sounded reasonable but were actually purely speculative nonsense, no matter how reasonable they sounded. In so doing, Bacon was establishing the foundations of induction and criticizing the long history of deductive reasoning.
Software cheat to hide poor performance of Ventilators
Building a command line tool to view Minecraft data
Particles accelerate to light speed all the time though. So it is possible, we have not yet discovered a way to do it at larger scale.
> Zuckerberg praised context collapse as a force for moral cleanliness: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”

What a twisted view of humanity. No wonder people joke the guy is a robot.