skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very valid question and we should all be asking this. Mars has approximately 200 estimated asteroid impacts per year (https://www.space.com/21198-mars-asteroid-strikes-common.htm... - a bit dated) while earth has about 10-12, most hitting water. The vast majority disintegrate in our atmosphere (https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/impact.html).

While I understand the need for us to look to the stars and dream big, if catastrophic destruction is the primary driver for looking for settling on Mars, we should ask if Antarctica might be a better first choice.
I can't comment on your specifics - a careful analysis of the facts would be required - but I haven't seen any change in the way USCIS is interpreting residence for green card maintenance and naturalization purposes.
What do you think about online immigration attorney services like self-lawyer.com? Would you recommend such?
In medical school, many doctors learn the saying, “When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras.” Most physicians are taught to focus on the likeliest possibilities when making a diagnosis, not the unusual ones.

However, it seems that some physicians oversimplify diagnosis so that _only_ the likeliest scenarios are considered. It's also an opportunity for subjective biases to influence an individual doctors definition of "likely."

E.g. Trans broken-arm syndrome

https://en.everybodywiki.com/Trans_Broken_Arm_Syndrome
Idea Pitch – Software for homeowner interior design
Hey there

I’ve had this problem for the past year and I’d like to see if others would be interested in solving it with me.

I’ve lived in my current house for a year and I get overwhelmed when thinking about remodeling or interior design.

The choices of wood flooring choices, artwork, trim, carpet, fireplace, paint, paint sheen, backsplashes, lighting, plants, doors, mantles, artwork, window shades and furniture! How would I ever figure out what goes with what??

I could hire an interior designer to design this, but I’d like to have the ability to create this vision myself. Not just because interior designers are expensive and never have time for me where I live, and I am inherently distrustful of people that bill by the hour, but I’d like to also be able to iteratively design and tweak things myself for each of my rooms, knowing what the prices are as well so I can make the trade-offs of budget vs aesthetic.

So, I’ve recently bought a new 2020 iPad Pro with the new LIDAR scanner so I could scan rooms into a 3D CAD model, and I’m currently working on interior design software so that you can edit that CAD model in a web browser.

The intention of this the interior designer software is that it would be focused on remodeling + interior design. There is software like Sketchup, but these are pretty complicated and can do a lot more than what i’m asking for - i don’t need the ability to create a whole new house, i just want to be able to easily change parts and pieces of my home.

I plan on charging some cost for shipping out the iPad Pro to you, processing your scans into a clean CAD model of your rooms (which you'll be able to download and keep forever), and you'll be an early beta user of the software - the cost for everything will still be much less than hiring an interior designer.

If you are interested, come join my slack channel here -

https://join.slack.com/t/interiordesignidea/shared_invite/zt-gefrk240-JHqkPo5fz0r9AyoKl262HA
Are we still having interviews for EB1-B during I-485 filings, given the pandemic?
average person on Mars would be much better prepared to the impact.
Well put. There is a huge simplification and again, very North American centric. I beg you, HN readers, apply what he wrote to other societies.

I read on the top comments of people getting worried about the US becoming like former Soviet States in regards about thought control and lack of freedom. That's a whole different issue. PG mixes multiple different problems and oversimplify them.
The initial attack came from the reporter. Even if true it was totally off topic. He also asked a relevant question which was answered.

I found the exchange petty on both sides, but the media made much more of it.
Off-topic but medium has almost turned into a paywall these days, it won't allow you to read more than 5 articles without subscribing to their paid service. Should HN and Google be promoting such a walled garden, especially when creative commons content is found aplenty on the interwebs?
I agree the title is annoyingly misleading.
Thanks! Didn't know about this
I wonder when 4 day work week will be considered. My company did it and we took a pay cut. But man those 4 day weeks were amazing.
I can't comment on Canadian immigration but I can share the names of some good providers in Canada if you'd like. Just email me.
Maybe I misunderstood the article, but my impression is that the ‘ 4% (1 in 25 users)‘ is just to make the percentages more understandable and the author didn’t only send the email to 100/25/12 users.
Who even uses calipers for critical precision? Calipers are for dimensions machinists append with -ish, as in four thousandths-ish. Important dimensions deserve a micrometer, especially the feeler guage that just said you need to tell your boss to scrap a 737. Decent machine shops even have different classes of micrometer; there's the one you carry in your pocket, and then there's the fancy set locked up in your boss's office that only comes out for special occasions, like when your boss has to tell their boss to scrap a 737.
Warrants aren't even needed these days with the Patriot Act
The US is going down the route of mixed socialism--more stimulus and bailout programs, plus private ownership and massive wealth creation. You have tens of millions of Americans getting a soft form of UBI, which benefits privately massive companies such as Walmart and Amazon. it is a form of the government picking winners and losers, the losers being small and medium-sized businesses and the winners being these huge big box and tech companies.
The problem is when the masses completely disregard what the scientists recommend.

It's like having a random group of people do your heart surgery.

Expert opinions matter - more. ...and we need a mechanism to ensure that specialists in a field have more say than the uneducated rabble.
Conventional/independent mind axis is literally Openness of Big Five model. People really should study Big Five. I agree PG is reinventing the wheel.
>Btw, some places are very good for outsourcing (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus)

I've had just as many problems working with outsourcing firms in Russia and Ukraine as I have with Indian firms. And I've had the same problems working for companies that tried to hire very cheap US based developers in house. I think the problem occurs whenever developer cost is your primary metric.
The second quote does not imply that all depressed people are such because they are lacking perseverance. There are several issues with this interpretation.

The first is that because something is on average true does not mean it is always true. There are cases where perseverance does not help depression. There are many where it does. On average it helps, which is the claim.

Next, it it is not fair to presume that because something helps, that it has a causal relationship with that thing. Most people feel less depressed (temporarily) if they take a dopamine agonist. This does not necessarily mean that their depression was caused by a lack of dopamine, only that dopamine helps. In the same way, focusing on goals will help a lot of depressed people. Influence does not imply causality.

And the last part of that statement about disengaging from goals and having a cynical attitude are also facts not conjecture. Negative thinking and disengaging from goal pursuit are linked to mood decline in virtually all people. This does not imply that people have full control over their thinking and goal pursuit or even that there aren't some people for whom such control is next to impossible.

As clinicians, we teach clients to work with what they have and make decisions that will help them. This study outlines some things that are typically helpful. It does not say that they will be helpful or possible for everyone.
Do you think it's a good idea to delay the application for Green Cards until after November to understand better the political landscape and also hopefully see a recovery of jobs given unemployment would affect PERMs?
Ask HN: Do you ever regret not having kids?
For the HN users who do not have kids, do you ever regret not having them?

Neither me nor my wife wants kids, and we are perfectly happy now. But I always have this doubt at the back of my mind that maybe it'll change and I'll regret it one day. Especially when I hear people talking about how wonderful kids are.

What's your perspective?
Lol no, I'm an attorney myself. Just idle curiosity.
Maybe there's only a handful of "regular people" getting cancelled... but that's enough to create a chilling effect, scaring others into compliance with convention.

A good example might be Walter Palmer, the hunter who killed Cecil the lion. He's rich, but wasn't a celebrity. What he did was legal, as far as he could tell. He didn't ask for his guides to break the law for him. Yet he was doxxed, received death threats, and had his house graffitied. People showed up to protest at his business (which is unrelated to hunting) and lowered its rating on Yelp through bad reviews.

(Incidentally, I disagree with the practice of hunting for sport, but think sport hunters should be stopped with new laws, rather than through mob action.)
Let's play this out for mask wearing:

Top Left: Top doctors asking people to wear masks
Bottom Left: People who are wearing masks
Bottom Right: People who occasionally use masks, or alternatives, bandanas, etc.
Top Right: People who don't want to use masks because of freedom.
I was raised in such a world too.

I get what you're saying. But like everything there is a middle ground. US has good press freedom, but they also, like every country, will kill you if you "blaspheme" against them too much. There's a balance between freedom and security. And what the US deems "safe" and "unsafe" is always important to keep in mind
No Ballon d'Or due to Covid-19
Quantexa raises $64.7M to bring big data to risk analysis and investigations
The local USCIS offices are first scheduling I-485 appointments for those whose appointments were cancelled because of the office closures and even though the offices are slowly reopening, we are still seeing approvals without interviews.
Really? Paying for someone to fill in forms? If it’s trivial like a field trip, I don’t see anyone paying for that. If it’s important like a legal document, you dont want someone to fill it in for you.
That is the real rub. It is like the word 'hacker'. No amount of 'but it really means' will change that. It is like the Mandela effect. People see and hear and remember what they want, but reality can be very different. But they will still go about their day with the 'wrong way'. Life will be just fine with something like this being 'wrong'.
Show HN: Note management without editor lock-in
FCC only regulates broadcasts that go over the public airways; cable TV isn't regulated by the FCC.
When you have a situation where the winning candidate has fewer votes than the other candidate, that clearly leads to some saying it wasn't a fair representation of the feeling of the country.

I don't think many contested Bush in 2004, when he got a majority (not even just a plurarity) of votes. They might not have liked it, but it was a given.

Clearly in 2000 there were complaints, Gore got more votes, on top of that was the whole hanging chad fiasco.

In both 92 and 96, Clinton got the plurarity of votes, but didn't reach 50%. Most who voted, voted against him. Not as bad as not getting a majority of votes, but will lead to some resentment.

Now on top of that there's the whole "Hacking" the election, which is far more woolly, and isn't just because of Russia and Cambridge Analytica, it's also about how informed a population is, the ease of getting onto the voting register, the ease of casting a vote, etc.

Democracy is hard
Why did you set this goal? Could you have picked any random 30 year goal and been as happy or was this something that naturally spoke to you? Are you still excited by it?
The gradient on the titlebar was from windows 98 btw, windows 95 didn't have it.

win95: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at...

win98: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Sound_Recorde...
When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)
I wouldn't say I have an uncommon take on RDF. I feel it gets more focus (maybe too much) in semantic web related academia and research than it does on the general web. And the substantial thing wasn't meant to be that harsh of a critique, but like another comment mentioned, sometimes these 'introduction / wiki articles about __' are a bit of a tease, and I wish someone were posting something more novel.

As for what I'm doing, it's a project that is taking various siloed fan-created data on the web and collecting, aggregating, and transforming it into RDF for the purpose of being queried by researchers. I think RDF and RDF-adjacent things (e.g. knowledge organization, ontology application) are useful here, but the actual querying / data analysis requiring an RDF transformation is maybe questionable.
You mean installing a dictatorship is comparable to attaching (perhaps excessively harsh) conditions to financial support?
Sure, that will be great. How to email you?
I don't think the sort of ad hominem you are engaging in here is very useful, or convincing. Ad hominem is exactly what it is: you aren't arguing that the negative comments are wrong, just that the sort of people who make them are dumb conformists in (1), hypocrites in (2), and losers in (3).
I've been studying Russian for several years. The pronunciation of certain letters and letter combinations can be difficult; give people a break. Or at least correct them in a helpful way.
It could have been expressed more clearly, but I'm not clear what's so obviously wrong with what I said that you felt the need to be rude.

What I said: You'll get up-ranked, but will always be below the carousel. Therefore being in the carousel is an unfair advantage of AMP.
I have put list per "expert" to make you feel better.

Herman:
- ISL
- Hands on
- Chollet
- spark+desk

Miller:

- Grus
- thinks stats
- la done right
- bishop
- data intensive
I certainly feel the article could have made more of their central points, which were mainly anecdotal / common sense.

This is the part I'd like to have seen more proof and analysis around:
"the Indian giants have also been unable to keep pace with technological change. Corporate software is becoming easier to use, reducing demand for their services. The lucrative legacy business of running mainframes is evaporating. Helping clients shift to the cloud makes money but not nearly as much."
I think you can apply his quadrant to usage of mask during Covid and the result speaks for themselves:

Let's play this out for mask wearing:

Top Left: Top doctors asking people to wear masks

Bottom Left: People who are wearing masks

Bottom Right: People who occasionally use masks, or alternatives, bandanas, etc.

Top Right: People who don't want to use masks because of freedom.
And you did not use the two passports trick - common if you are Woking in the middle east ?
The most economically successful company in the world is Saudi ARAMCO so what does that say about PG's startup founder thesis?
that's VC as a whole
> Mixing OLTP and OLAP becomes increasingly "normal"

Just because it's "normal" doesn't mean it's correct. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

All hail bob1029:

> We aren't running any reports on our databases like this. I would argue it is a bad practice in general to mix OLTP and OLAP workloads on a single database instance, regardless of the specific technology involved.
Most people use a sheet of paper for this. I wouldn't use it to check the tolerances of an airplane part, but it gets you 99% of the way there.
Is there any resource you're aware of that makes accessible all of the current immigration/permanent residence policies of countries worldwide?
For most political conflicts I can figure out who would benefit and who would lose if a given policy decision gets made. For a ban on immigration of highly skilled workers I don't understand who benefits - it seems like a lose-lose to me.

Can you explain the motivation behind preventing foreign engineers and scientists from entering the USA?
> People are afraid to speak openly to me and that does me a disservice.

I'm ideologically aligned with you, at least on this, and I would be afraid to speak openly. I think you are correct about this diagnosis.
I don't mean to pick on video games just for being video games. The place I worked at was actually pretty great when I started: we made these great educational games but then got bought out by another business that changed our focus in a negative way.
Like literature and other media, games can absolutely be a tool for good, for exploring all kinds of history and issues and raising awareness. They're also great for maintaining sanity in difficult times.
A good lecture by her (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS9nP-BKa3M
The polish government does influence media; recent major event:

>"Polish hit song on grieving 'censored', sparking protests"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52721152
There seems to be a real tradeoff in how the Americas vs the old world see 'coming from a good family'. Our mythology on this side of the pond is so focused on the idea that everyone is inherently equal and capable of achieving great things, that we celebrate and even embellish when someone successfully changes their social class.

The downside is that we lack a sense of nobless oblige. the idea that much will be demanded of those to whom much is given doesn't mesh well with our values of universal humanism - people born to privilege on this side of the pond seem to have more of a sense of guilt than duty about that fact.
Indeed. Only ~30k page views that trigger the google analytic script, so 99.9991% of requests have no html at all.
IANAL but Maxmind has to comply with CCPA I assume because they are sourcing data from California residents. If data is sourced in an aggregate or anonymous way, it wouldn't be subject to CCPA.

> Aggregate and anonymous data is exempt from the CCPA, unless it is in any way re-identifiable.
https://www.cookiebot.com/en/what-is-ccpa/
It's great to hear. I liked zabbix in general. At the time of its initial surge in popularity, nginx and cacti were the dominant force in monitoring. Zabbix was a little quirky to get used to, but a breath of fresh air.
When renewing an O1, how important is it to have "new" evidence? Can an original O1 case be sufficiently strong that it doesn't especially matter how much publicly visible, groundbreaking work has been done in the time since it was granted?
Yeah, great point, I think this might be the case. I'd been thinking perhaps a chat widget or link to a slack channel or something might be more useful, and clear in its purpose.
Observation of Acoustically Induced Transparency for Gamma-Ray Photons
Veto is being slowly removed from most decision-making procedures. It's already not there for a lot of (most?) "simple" areas. In theory even the budget should be approved with qualified majority at some point in the next 10 years or so, if the European Council follows the roadmap that the previous Commission recommended.

I don't know your lifespan, but in the next 40 years I expect the veto to be limited to mostly symbolic areas, like defense.
That's because social pressure is bad? I think it is generally agreed that court of public opinion is bad court.
Like Wiley E. Coyote running off the side of a cliff; he doesn't fall until he makes the mistake of looking down.
On a local level, the FCC paved the way for chain-based ownership of local stations in 2003, despite research suggesting it was a bad idea[1]. That being said, the US media is different on a national level- NYT, WashPo and WSJ (investigative journalism dept, not editorial board) have shown in the past their ability to leak private government documents, take anti-government stances, and generally resist authority. While yes, WashPo is owned by Bezos, I view this differently than other cases of "an oligarch buying a newspaper". While I think we'll always need to be wary and cognizant of his ownership, it seems for now that he's bought the Post for the same reason that other billionaires get their names on schools and museum wings. I recently read Bad Blood (story of Theranos), and I was struck by how brazen the WSJ's investigative journalism department was at pursuing the story through legal threats, government stonewalling (eventually seeking out leakers), and the consequence of making their own editorial board look like fools. I think the US's journalistic integrity and freedom still stands yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_U...
Before setting up on Mars, Humankind will surely setup itself in orbital space, and moon first.
That's correct. I'm editing it to say "1 of every 25 users" to make this less confusing. The actual sample size was quite large.
My guess is infrastructure doesn't required hordes of unskilled people anymore. I've been watching our water authority put a new water main in outside my house and I didn't see a single person swinging a pick. Instead there was a lot of technology being used and put in the ground. People aren't going to hop from barista to this sort of work any time soon.
"serialized" here doesn't really mean processed in serial, it means "serializable" in the context of database information theory. Databases have special concurrency control requirements in order to create hard guarantees on database consistency. You can process queries in parallel and still have a serializable result, because of transaction coordination. Doing this on one server is much easier than doing this across a cluster of servers.

So in your case, MVCC is what you're talking about, which is not the same level of consistency guarantee as serializable, rather it is based on snapshot isolation. Some database vendors consider them effectively the same isolation level because the anomalies associated to other common non-serializable isolation levels aren't typically present in most MVCC implementations, but there's a lot more complexity here than you are acknowledging.

Mixing OLTP and OLAP workloads on the same database is pretty much always a bad idea. This is why it's common practice to use ETL jobs to move data from an OLTP optimized database like Postgres or MySQL to a separate database for OLAP (which could be another MySQL or PG instance, or could be something like ClickHouse or another columnar database optimized for OLAP). Just because you /can/ do something, doesn't mean you /should/ do something...
The Pacific settlement happened much later (during European middle age for Hawaii), benefiting from 40000 year of technological improvement...
“If an artefact is a stone tool, you see numerous chips removed from the edge,” says Rademaker. He sees no clear evidence of this in the images in the paper — a point echoed by archaeologist Ben Potter at Liaocheng University in China.
Thanks for reaffirming my habit of checking the comments before clicking through. Learned about a lot of useful resources from this and other comments!
I actually did the same, but then (as I commented on in a hn post yesterday[0]), I switched to BitWarden as I couldn't find anything that 1Password offered to make me want to pay for it over BitWarden. Not to say that 1Password doesn't have anything worth paying for, but for my personal use, BitWarden has been the ideal so far.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23924543
> he's calculated Trump down by 3 points right now

Do you mean Trump has less support this election by 3% compared to the last election?