skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has happened to me. Ended up working for a very scary company because they were the only local option that came close to matching my bay area salary. Moved back to the Bay Area less than a year later.

Lesson learned, I won’t be moving again without a relocation package
> And as a result we have bigger homes, bigger cars, bigger TVs.... but worse healthcare outcomes?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but maybe "bigger $things" and "worse outcome" are on the same side of the graph.
I recently started working remotely for a Swedish company.

There has always been a tradition of taking a short break without agenda in Sweden. (non-work related is fine too).

Now that it is remote, its simply done in a video chat and it works equally well.
It's going to blow your mind when you realize all words are made up. Even more so when you find out that definitions change and new words are invented every year.
Being married (plus cats) is my solution. Plus, plenty of multiplayer games and discord for my downtime.

Seriously though - having an emotionally intimate partner in the home is a fantastic way to get through just about anything that life can throw at you. Married or not, same or different sex, sexual or asexual, it’s a very valuable connection that I don’t regret forming.
Nobody involved in Gemini wants "widespread adoption", because that inevitably means big commercial organisations coming into the space where right now they're having a lovely time building a community.

Screen readers handle Gemini just fine - one of the clients I've tried outputs text and buttons in a GTK window, another literally just outputs text into a terminal and takes command line input, if a screenreader couldn't handle that I'd be horrified. The format is paragraph-based, there's very little styling, no guessing at what the main content on a page is.
Really great tools. Worked flawlessly with the mentioned copy of the original post. Thank you for this!
Many great American companies started exactly from that. Time Warner comes to mind.. :-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinney_Parking_Company
There are a few gemini clients that support theming (inlcluding fonts, font sizes, text color for various elements, list bullet style, link color based on scheme, and page background color). This one comes to mind: https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall
A bit more info.

"Safe cave diving" was coined by Tom Mount in 1976 as an attempt to educate divers about less dangerous ways of diving.

The ICURR has a slide deck discussing various statistics at http://www.iucrr.org/fatalities.pdf

Anecdotally most of my friends that died in caves died from hypoxia caused by rebreather operation, not from the hard ceiling itself.
It's not like the US Constitution explicitly forbids "cruel and unusual punishment"...
The amount of energy required to keep that 1g acceleration though...
The next wave of startups is coming out of nature
Anecdotally speaking, that's because those are tourist trap cities. the person IS a tourist, is in the most touristic neighborhood possible, often in the center, and is behaving like a total tourist.

It's not a European thing, it's an "I'M OBVIOUS" thing.

I see your anecdote and raise you a "European Tourist gets off streetcar at 6th and Market St. in SF, because it's allegedly the city center and thus must be a great tourist location"...

*I'm originally American and I've lived all over Europe for over 15 years.
> The icons were Susan Kate originals done in vectors before SVG was a thing.

Susan Kare?
I'm going to suggest that the Internet is centralising rather than decentralising information flows. Not necessarily around the University, nut in direct contrast to the liberation many early tech visionaries advocated.

Much as the liberation of performance art from the confines of the theatre stage didn't result in a completely decentralised entertainment industry, but in the megacluster industry geonym of Hollywood (with a few culturally-defined satellites such as Bollywood).
When you consider the energy required to produce lithium ion batteries they are actually worse than fuel cells from an emissions perspective:

“As an example, a 100kWh battery will give a potential range of 250 miles and, in order to produce that battery, it will take around 20 tonnes of CO2,” he said. “A typical battery lasts for 150,000 miles, so that equates to around 83g/km of CO2. Then, when you take into account charging over that same distance, the same battery car will deliver 124g/km of CO2 over its lifetime.”

By comparison, Auto Express says that a recent study found that a Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car produces around 120g/km of CO2 over its lifetime when the manufacturing process is taken into account. But if hydrogen were to be produced by renewable energy, that figure could be reduced significantly.”

Source: https://www.theweek.co.uk/electric-cars/101196/hydrogen-fuel...
Hydrogen to avoid curtailment is key. Hydrogen is super inefficient. But if you would be dumping the energy otherwise that doesn't matter.
Per the government, the median American household has >$1000 remaining every month after all ordinary expenses, far more than enough to cover a $400 emergency. The "can't cover $400" trope doesn't imply what you think it does, it is pulled out of context from a survey about how people would cover an emergency, not whether they could. Many popular financial stats used in the media are misleading in service of a narrative.

As another example, you'll see many articles stating some large percentage of Americans don't have any savings, which is only true because they define "savings" as having a savings account, which many Americans with plenty of money don't even have (myself included). And then there is the one about Americans having no retirement savings, where "retirement savings" excludes any real estate investments, taxable brokerage accounts, etc which is where many Americans have the majority of their retirement savings.

The "food insecurity" surveys are a similar story. Same with "food deserts". If you dig into the underlying studies none of them imply what the media tries to imply with them. It is a hazard to uncritically accept statistics from the media. They have an incentive to paint the most dire story possible.
I love thinking about ideas like this. A few years back, I wrote a kernel that ran wasm similar to how Closos would run lisp. Webassembly is perhaps a bit uninspired compared to lisp, but there are many advantages, although the system cannot be dynamic in the same way that this would be.

I'd love to see these kinds of ideas revisited.
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I've worked from home since 2012. Along the way I figured what I miss is not human interaction. On the contrary, I'd rather have it exclusively outside of work hours, even with colleagues.

What I miss is the feeling of having people around. Hearing voices, movements, something unexpected happening from time to time.

I've found that having twitch in the background makes the feeling disappear. I choose streams that are kinda monotone, low interaction, from likeable streamers.
Did Chicago stop corn subsidies in the US?
In American PWR designs decay heat removal post loss of power is accomplished by natural circulation. Height and temperature differences between the steam generators and the reactor vessel produce flow of primary liquid between the two. Heat is rejected via the secondary system. The limiting factor becomes make up water to the secondary side of the steam generators.
Roberts is well-read and diplomatic, but I wouldn’t exactly call what he does with his show thoughtful engagement. The very few instances he has guests that truly diverge from his ideological dispositions, he mostly dismisses their arguments without the same rigor that he defends those within his biases. His conversation with Elizabeth Anderson on workplaces as a form of private government is a good example of this:

https://www.econtalk.org/elizabeth-anderson-on-worker-rights...
> At work I have scheduled meetings with no agenda.

That's a really good idea.

My version of this is to just suggest a call for very minor things and then try to toss in a good bit of small talk since we're on the call anyway.
You assume good faith here. I'd argue that the "system" is intentionally set up this way.
I think the persistence effect comes about from stronger and more complex dynamics than just "a lot of smart people".
I'm not sure how recipes, for example, would be an issue without inline images. You click (or otherwise trigger) the image link and look at the image (potentially in a new tab or window) then go back to reading content. It isnt hard or even a bad experience. It is just different than current expectations based on comparing something that isnt the web to the web.
That's not what the study is saying. They're not disputing the fact that bankruptcies are largely caused by healthcare-related costs. What this study says is that being admitted to a hospital only has a 4% chance of causing a bankruptcy.

The other thing I'd like to point out is that their sample set is entirely from California which is materially different from many other states in the US, so it's possible the 4% rate varies state-to-state.
What you mean locked up??

You can sell your house in France within a month, than land California with that wealth in your bank account.

Net wealth is good measure precisely because you can't transfer it into money and move around with it.
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Affordable, yes, but require more time and skill to cook a meal that hits the same reward centers as the edible junk sold in cheap restaurant chains... often both short in supply among those on food stamps.
There was a recent case of a Karen receiving mob justice to the point people began harassing the law firm her husband runs (granted she also works there), affecting their livelihood. We don’t want to get to a point in society where your character flaws destroy your life.

Just the other day, an out of context video embarrassed a supposed Karen on the front page of Reddit. We later learned the situation was more complex and didn’t have racial undertones. The mob still publicized a woman’s life.

#MeToo had several examples of people’s career being thrown out for offenses that were basically round objects being pushed into a square hole (Aziz Ansari, Al Franken, there were a few more).

I understand the need to use a chainsaw to cut a birthday cake, it highlights the desperation of the lack of tools to do a very basic thing. We now know, and quite frankly, we need to replace the chainsaw with a table knife sooner or later. Someone’s going to get hurt.

To keep the parallel, it’s important to see that the mob becomes the authority figure.
no? but wouldn't it have the same effect of burdening the poor more?
Plenty of people are low income or otherwise cash poor by reasonable standards, but not low enough to qualify for food stamps.
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>In reality, most of us aren’t at risk of going bankrupt from a health care emergency. Again, I fully agree that too many people are at risk of going bankrupt from a healthcare emergency, but it’s not the norm for the average American like you might read online.

In reality, every single person is at risk for a medical situation that will bankrupt you.

Ever drive? You're at risk for getting into a car accident that could lead to thousands or hundreds of thousands of medical costs.

One of the biggest lies of the american health care system is that your risks of medical costs is solely connected to your health.

You can be the healthiest person in the world, and a drunk driver can still lay your ass out. And that is being truly the healthiest person. Many people only seem like they're perfectly healthy, because diseases like heart disease and cancer can be lurking without symptoms for long periods of time.

The biggest cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical costs. STILL. The idea that most people are at risk of going bankrupt from a health care emergency is just false.
Someone else linked it below: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/e071a3f6c06f41068ad1...

Equivalent check in btcd, an alternative Bitcoin implementation: https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd/blob/991d32e72fe84d5fbf9c47...
What I mean by "moral shift" is a rapid change (as in over the course of months rather than decades) in what society considers morally correct and acceptable.

The dynamics of #metoo and BLM are different in that they are addressing longstanding attitudes and behaviors contributing to oppression or harassment of a minority group (I use the term "minority" very liberally considering that women make up 50% of the population).

We've also seen other moral shifts such as with homosexuality, although there was no "punishing wrongdoers" phase following that movement.

It's only when a punishing phase gets mixed in that you run the danger of mob justice, because there will likely at the time be either no laws covering the issue, or weakly enforced laws. Without clear leadership on what's right and wrong and the consequences, opportunists take it upon themselves to mete out punishment as they see fit. Sometimes it's for the better, but usually it gets out of hand pretty quickly.
If you don’t know the host key you are always vulnerable to a man in the middle attack. Is this really a vulnerability in Putty or a design weakness in SSH?
It’s ironic to read an article about how it’s a shame the internet is so full of distractions, when that article has multiple inline video advertisements.
I finally figured out what bugs me so much about people walking while looking at their phone. Without phones, when people approach each other in a hallway or on the street, there's a lot of nonvocal communication happening. You don't even have to make eye contact to decide how everyone is going to maneuver around each other. Everyone is generally looking at a point far ahead and walking in a straight line towards it.

Now enter smartphones. This entire communication is simply gone. People on phones only see about a couple meters in front of them. They constantly shift the direction they are walking. It's impossible to predict where they will go. If you're walking towards them, this creates a small spike of anxiety in your lizard brain because it's trying to communicate with them and the lines are down.
Wait. Are you telling me the seas have been rising since the ice age and not just in the last 100 years?
Seems more a case of "use whatever the hot topic is for circumventing rational thought".

Recent version could be something like this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

Or any of the other modern topics people have mentioned. It'd need to be combined with having the ability and intent to acquire the property of the targeted people.

In the above example, being the people don't seem to really own much/any property anyway, maybe it's harder than it first looks?
You are also encouraged not to give feedback in such cases, as I believe you cannot up/down-vote threads you participate in?
I’ve been working from home for 5 years, and I feel that my work social interactions are less than ever before. It was a mix of people in a room and people on the phone before, and I often would be irritated that I couldn’t hear some of the conversations between people who were in the room together. But as far as I can tell these side conversations have just vanished and now team meetings have become a series of public 1:1s.

So I think people are disengaged and you should push to have informal work conversations, perhaps in chat or email, about things that it’s easy to just mention in person. A lot of my work conversations that start as “I know it’s written down somewhere but which team owns this” end with “well how’s the kids, etc” which is mundane, but like, shits bad, the answer may not be just “oh, fine.”
Have a weekly board game lunch on https://boardgamearena.com/welcome. Most games are free and it works pretty well to jump into a video chat at the same time.
Don't get this fad of hate to be honest. The web, fucked as it is, works. Obviously there's a load of cruft because humans will try and exploit any system, but if our only problems are our Macbooks spinning their fans up a bit, it's a beef that really only irks purists. Day to day, talking to people, people don't bitch about the web other than about invasive adverts.

Frankly I think a lot of commentary stems from backend people being annoyed that frontend people earn a bunch of money for work they deem insignificant.
A summary of the virtuous cycle created by cheap renewables and hydrogen electrolyzation:

https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2020/6/17/renewables-p...

Lots of comments on this thread that reveal folks are up to date with the state of hydrogen infrastructure c. 2017. It's changing really fast as billions of dollars are poured into R&D and pilot projects. For example, storage and transport:

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-japan-hydrogen-chiyoda-cor...

Siemens has pledged to make turbines that run on 100% hydrogen by 2030: https://new.siemens.com/global/en/company/stories/energy/hyd...

Hydrogen trains: https://www.snam.it/en/Media/Press-releases/Agreement_Alstom...

Hydrogen in steelmaking: https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...

I could post 15 more. Our collective priors were well-grounded just a couple years ago, but it is time for a big update.
that's not social isolation
Haruki Murakami’s Kafka On The Shore is spellbinding
Not everyone leaves. They got families and friends after all.

And once this becomes too much of an issue, I'd wager they'll just blacklist anyone leaving from ever coming back. That's gonna make almost everyone stay where they are.
The lithium and other metals in that battery though can be recycled at its end of life. Subsequent batteries will have lower life cycle carbon footprint.
I was suffering from the same problem and built an app to get around these issues. I usually do gaming, video chats and playing board games. The hard part about doing them regularly is figuring out when people are actually available and what they are up for. So I built a simple app in which everybody has to enter their availability for the week and what they want to do. So I can just use the app and figure out which of my friends/co-workers are free today for something that I want to do.

You can check it out at : https://www.bl1p.app or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L__GJEdepus
When you read that much into a text, how can you be sure you're not projecting your own conceptions and stereotypes on it? It's impossible. Nobody really has access to the cogs running inside ppls minds, you're just claiming you know his ulterior motives. Plus, I'd have to assume that not only you have this special knowledge but that it surpasses the authors own words directly saying otherwise(1), sorry, I can't trust that thought and I do not follow your conclusions. I just don't buy it.

I haven't talked about 'intentions' anywhere either, I criticized your reasoning and you restated your beliefs. More on what I meant by "uncharitableness" is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

(1):

"This isn't to bemoan or disclaim my success or my hard work. The point is there are plenty of people who have worked just as hard as me, and many harder than me, who aren't having the success I am. It takes my social credentials to take a glidepath to the most interesting and
advanced subjects."

"I don't feel guilty for my success but I won't be satisfied until I see a Black trans person given the social license to do what I've done"
Thanks.

> All externally heated thermal power plants have become uncompetitive now. Not just nuclear, but also coal, geothermal, and concentrating solar thermal

Are you saying that an externally heated power plant is unlikely to be cost competitive even if the source of energy is free? If not, your overall comment doesn't make sense to me. If so, that's an extraordinary that could very well be true, but I haven't heard anyone argue it and I'd be extremely interested in further reading/links/citations.
Democracy books disappear from Hong Kong libraries
I was under the impression that it's illegal to settle on occupied land and what Israel is doing is hence illegal under international law. Am I somehow misinformed?
Hi! The server in question can definitely handle HN and a half, but, there's 9 different places to set the "max number of open file descriptors" on Linux nowadays, and I missed one of them.

Everything's back to normal, thanks for caring.
Essential oils naturally containing safrole (sassafras, sasparilla, brown camphor oil) are usually available with the safrole stripped.

I've had the pleasure of naturally brewed sassafras root and it's definitely a difference, albeit pretty subtle.
Same with using Bombadillo in a terminal (assuming a graphical environment is present and the user has set webmode to GUI).
> Volume wise, ugh. H- 8 MJ/L, Gasoline - 32 MJ/L

In practice, hydrogen @10 kpsi/70 MPa is currently a bit over 1 MJ/L when including the tanks. Gasoline is misleading as well, because a fuel cell is easily twice as efficient as a gas engine and up to 3x.

Li-ion batteries are anywhere from .5 to 2.5 MJ/L, for reference. Thing is, volumetric efficiency is all but irrelevant for most applications. Even airplanes have huge amounts of empty space that could accommodate tanks; container ships would be less efficient but that's about it.

> You need ~5-10 kilograms of H2 to deal with light duty vehicles.

5 kg will take a Toyota Mirai over 300 miles.

> Training and retraining all the gas station attendants to deal with cryogenic materials is no small undertaking.

This is not a thing. Attendants don't need to do anything with cryogenic anything.

> Hydrogen penetrates metals. Makes metals the enemy and things can wear down unexpectedly. Scary stuff. Preventative maintenance is complicated.

This is an issue when you're trying to build electron microscopes, not when you're fueling cars. The diffusion rate of hydrogen is negligible for everyday purposes like safety. Certain parts need to be designed to avoid embrittlement, but it's a minor problem- embrittlement is only really an issue at VERY high temperatures. If the steel isn't glowing, it's a minor issue, and for most other metals it's even less of an issue.

> Pumping hydrogen into a vehicle is done slowly from my recollection.

It's as fast as a highway pump, and often slightly faster. It's pretty hard to pump slowly when 10 kpsi is involved, after all.

> Hydrogen's flames are invisible. It's a pale blue flame that's difficult to see during the day.

Typically it just explodes, unfortunately. Hydrogen is always at such high pressure that it spreads out rapidly and sustained flames are very unlikely, and then there's the fact that the energy density causes things to break.

> The efficiency of manufacturing hydrogen for fuel usage is probably like 10% to 30%. Can't imagine it being more than that.

Commercial processes are ~60% and non-commercial are above 80%.
I think it's specialism. The topic that defines the community, dictates what kind of people are likely to join.

If youTube only server IT-related videos, it wouldn't be 1/100th as popular, but the comments would probably be much higher quality.
The university track will already put him on rails for a while. I believe your instinct on the encyclopedia should be followed because he should gain breadth early on to be sure that he has enough insight not to prematurely specialize.

It depends on your budget, but I would recommend the 10-volume set of “Encyclopaedia of Mathematics” (spelled just like that), which is a translation of the Soviet mathematics version. I have found that this is the resource I turn to when I want to quickly explore some new area of mathematics.

Because there are many books with this title, I will link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopaedia-Mathematics-Michiel-Haz...