skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure a great filter is necessary.

The universe is probably brimming with life, there is just no way to travel such distances due to quality of life issues in interstellar space.

Also, energy required to actually communicate that you exist to the entire universe is star consuming...
Have to watch when applying this. I was dehydrated and in the ER. Very stressed. I hate needles and giving blood. Had to do that. Then had a sit up, stand up test. Stated to panic. Counted. Then started to pass out.
Also Albanian sworn virgins, and in the Hebrew bible intersex people had to follow both the commands for men as for women.
Thanks! I started collecting the announcements as part of discussions we're having in my department about the fall semester, and thought I might as well stick the list up on my blog.
My brother works in HR at a fairly high level at HUD. He reminds me that most large government agencies have to expect that 1/2 of their employees have below average talent and motivation. So they design many of their processes to function under this assumption.

While HUD is certainly less productive (per capita) than a small team of highly talented people, turns out that in most large organizations half the people are below average talent/motivation. And designing for this instead of pretending that all of your staff is above average allows them to have higher productivity.
Google takes aim at Amazon. Again
I've been around the block in major, Top 10 silicone companies.

The app you talk about was probably developed by some summer intern on a tight schedule and never documented, then someone else took over.

They literally don't give a flying fuck about software. One manager I had once was so clueless, he couldn't understand that the GUI of the C# app I made had no code behind it, and kept asking why clicking the buttons isn't doing anything no matter how many times I tried to explain that a GUI can exist without functionality and it's a separate effort to implement that.

Certain apps we were using internally were based on same Java version from 12 years ago since the person who developed it is now a senior line manager and also the sole maintainer.

Then they brought in some Agile/Scrum consultant to increase efficiency and he implemented 45 minute daily stand-ups with 10 people and half of them remote via phone from another country and then he spent most of the day chasing us around the building asking how soon story X will be done. Then they outsourced the whole thing to Poland.

Working in that industry as a SW developer has been a colossal pain and a huge setback for my career I try to slowly erase from my resume.
> Naturally we breath out of one nostril at a time

I don't understand how anyone can make that statement with a straight face. Unless one nostril is blocked, we use both simultaneously. There's no balance to be gamed.
Yes, the cancer treatments vary in price. Even more so if you take the associated care into consideration: you can have a customized, personally adjusted treatment costing many times more than the (same ingredients) basic protocol.
If even Joan Baez's cousin John doesn't get the Hegelian Taco, it may take me a little while to work up to it.

Speaking of Hanoi, leg warmers were another item of pop culture found on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

"Hanoi" Jane vs. Liliya Sabitova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_VnsmATFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_SXPbDPMVE

(bonus track: Hart, "Peace for Triple Piano" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRW3FMuttY )
My students have to write lab protocols. In General Chemistry class they were filling in worksheets (seriously, are they paying tuition to fill in worksheets?), now they get to write 8 - 10 pages for each organic lab about the context, what they did and what is all means. The initial attempts are universally lousy, but they do improve. One hopes that the improved writing skills carry over to other kinds of written communication. It's just sad that expectations in the first semesters are set so low, it's really a tyranny of low expectation.

Footnoting means to put stuff into proper context. Of course you need literature searching skills to put stuff into proper context, and you need to know where to find documentation for your field of work.
It's a little bit more complicated than I let on.

Loan is structured in 2 parts: Bankloan and mortgage.

Mortgage is at roughly 0% and has a fixed payment for the duration - I cannot pay it differently than the initial agreement.

The bankloan is at (I believe) 3%. I've roughly doubled my contributions to this loan, making it roughly equal to the amount I'm investing each month. I'm missing ~$10.000 on it now, so I think i'll just pay it down and have that out of the way.

Being ahead also means that I'll have a way easier time if I ever need to buy something big one month - I can just choose not to pay that loan and not invest this month and I'll have plenty of money to spend. It's nice having some free cash flow :)
Everybody else but the ITER people are focusing on solar and wind. What more do you expect?
How I Offloaded My Anxiety to Trello
Agreed on the point that there are better mental models out there. The difficulty is to make content that is simultaneously correct, but also not over-complicated. I finished off the post with a reference to Russ Cox's work so any sufficiently motivated individual will find the right models there.
You assumption "no one uses anymore" is glaringly wrong in this case.

Those archives are full of useful and informative information.

Not everthing changes fast. Common Lisp has been around for 30 years basically unchanged. The discussions back there can be truly informative for today.

It does take time to wade thought it, but people have been collecting (via the google archive, when it existed, sigh) curated lists.

https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/
https://www.xach.com/rpw3/articles/
That always reminds me of this: https://i.redd.it/wwje449jjge21.jpg
Not yet, but it's being prepared to merge.
As an avid miles & points enthusiast, this does sound like an interesting tool to make CC rewards easier to digest.

Couple questions/concerns:

1. BIG red flag: You sidestep the monetization question in your FAQ. Monetization in this space is generally some combination of: spending data repackaging/selling, card affiliate links, subscriptions (least likely?). You should be up front as each one of these methods has privacy and or agency concerns.

2. You should help the user understand what they are getting into when signing up for credit cards. CC rewards to save money is a great thing but not when the user doesn't understand the consequences of doing so and the overhead of management (e.g. lowering scores while you're prepping for a refi would cost you $$$$).

3. The site generally needs more information. If I'm going to trust a site with read access to everything I buy every day, I need to trust you.

4. Doesn't look your tool takes into account issuer limits on card signups or current portfolio? Could cause issues where you are recommending cards but the user is unable to sign up due some issuer constraint

5. Is googling NerdWallet really the pain point you're addressing?
Gore's kids played lacrosse as well, at a fairly competitive level in high school.
Probably easier to become a bail bonds person instead of a PI, in states that still have cash bail.
> like we need to build cutting edge decentralized applications

Yes, please! More and faster.

Centralized services are easy to build, because they offer an obvious location to do some of the things that are tricky to do in a distributed fashion. They are also, by the way, far easier to for small numbers of coordinating people to control, which makes them popular with corporations, authoritarians and sociopaths.

Decentralized services will rarely be the New Shiny that attracts all the 14 year olds for a few minutes. But, unlike email, you never hear anyone whining that Myspace won't go away.
I said "easier", not "easy".

But even if we tone it down by an order of magnitude or even two, I think it still applies. I think turning $10M into $1B is easier than turning $100 into $10,000, for the same reasons outlined above. Don't underestimate the massive impact it has to be starting at a level where living expenses are of zero concern.
Ridiculous. They are blaming missing moderators, but only Google would be able to solve the spam problem. They open now these old forums, and Gmail is mostly spam free. Now you cannot even browse the archives. Where is the internet police when you need them.
> Even more importantly, it has overridden data collection preferences after the update. Check "Settings > Data collection". I had to disable "Marketing data" and "Experiments" toggles. Not cool!

Oh ffs thanks for the heads up. Re-defaulting settings is a big reason I jumped ship from other companies' products.
This is a lab experiment, just a huge one.
Former Ashley Madison here with basically the same tech stack.
Who would need exact accuracy? Why won't people be okay with numbers which are a bit off, but much cheaper?
Laravel uses Blade for rendering, while Next uses React. They are roughly comparable.
Are there any online breathing courses or services worth taking? I've read of diaphragmatic/belly breathing before, but I think I need an actual coach to check if I'm doing it correctly.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23910775
I'm of two minds on this and they aren't totally squared together, but I think they are both fair.

1. I'm somewhat nostalgic to physical newspapers for a couple of reasons, I think because they were physical and required a little bit more effort. They felt more authoritative and verifiable, that's the nostalgia. However I think there was another benefit to the journalists, because they were crafting a physical body of work, I probably naively believe it instilled a sense of duty in that work. Personally I feel like if my product (not code) was a fleeting piece of information, easily changeable and forgotten among a deluge of other work. I would not feel as obligated to honor the craft. So in short, less comprehensive and better verified and presented.

2. News was concentrated, I don't think this was necessarily a good thing. This is somewhat contradictory to 1. But I think this concentration was an easier to accept narrative and speaking to my above point, that presented a level of even-headedness to the whole affair of understanding the world and our place in it. The firehose that was unleashed with Google was good, but it then signaled the death of lots of rational measured thought and brought us to where we are today.
P != NP will be proven before we have a breakeven fusion.
USGS is in the process of collecting that data right now, it's not from the archives, and DEM is different from USGS aerials (which are photographs) and run out of a different USGS office. This is sort of irrelevant.

Making digital data publicly available is pretty new for USGS. Just a few years ago archived aerial imagery had to be ordered by mail and it was a pretty lengthy process. Topo maps (the earlier equivalent of the DEM data to which you refer) were generally ordered on paper as well up to five or so years ago, but they're in a lot more popular use so more third parties got into the business of distributing them. I've relied moderately heavily on both for some of my research and was a very painful process until just recently to get anything older than current. In the meantime, yes, Google had it all at some point, but mostly stopped using it or providing it because they obtained better quality imagery.

Fortunately USGS now has a slippy map for topo and an admittedly rather clunky ESRI query service for aerials.
I mean, you have a dominant hand. Doing everything with the non dominant will affect your experience.

You have a dominant eye. Focusing on the other eye will also affect your experience.

Why not a dominant nostril?
> ...if/when the idea of a privately-funded retirement floats out of reach, how does the overall electorate respond?

In a way this has already started to happen in lower socio-economic strata: they decouple as best they can. This is why you see such a large correlation between the "unbanked" and those strata.

Currently, most individuals in those strata lack the education and information to learn how to decouple in more areas of their lives. The information part is slowly being addressed by the proliferation of the Net, and it is even slower now with social networks (which retard the growth of structured and systematic information sharing). The education part is even slower to change, but it is changing. It is now socially acceptable to openly discuss the value of college/university education, where that used to be unthinkable just a decade ago. That opens the door to alternatives.

The rational response is decoupling from norms in real estate, insurance (especially healthcare in the US), finance, and education, and establishing alternatives with like-minded people who determined they're simply too poor to participate in the "accepted" norms (the notion that those "mainstream" norms have priced themselves out of their markets is still heresy).

In a Japan-evocative ZIRP environment, being a millionaire per individual in a family is no longer sufficient, "lean" FIRE/normal-retirement plans would need to re-calibrate to deca-millionaire. If equities start yielding 1%, the SWR would drop to around 0.5%, and $10M USD would yield only about $50K per year, a huge chunk of which goes to those "mainstream" norms. At these kind of numbers, we're talking about people with both education and information, and they'll start to make and share decisions, and iterate solutions, in a different manner than previously-affected strata.

Hard to say what the iterative ramifications are of people switching to alternatives. A sharp bifurcation just like envisioned in dystopian cyberpunk scifi is arguably imaginable, with megacorps and an underground, and a financial no-man's-land in-between. So is a demographic implosion-based hyper-depression: children are simply flat-out impossible to afford at some point for the majority, and they respond appropriately; vast segments of our modern economic civilization utterly dependent upon an implicit constant population growth run into a sudden reversal. More positive outcomes are also possible. Co-ops, on-site recycling, permaculture, local currency, DIY medicine, automation, land trusts, etc., blended into what works for each group's idiosyncrasies, and decoupling from the mainstream mores and indebtedness expectations to yield a good enough solution for them. They're poor in mainstream capital, but readily acknowledge they'll statistically never acquire massive amounts of it anyways, and enrich themselves in other forms of capital through other means of exchange, and have accepted the trade-off.
I'd say Radley Balko is libertarian. The intersection of doctrinally libertarian viewpoints with main stream American politics is complex at best. For what it's worth, I often see his articles shared in right-wing circles favorably. I haven't really heard of him having much of a following in left-wing circles. It doesn't sound very helpful to our political scene to be highly concerned that somebody can't be easily placed in a bucket of right-wing or left-wing.

On the other, to borrow some of the left's standard viewpoints, I could say that it's a very privileged viewpoint that property damage is inconsequential compared to injury. How many lower-class people will suffer from losing their mode of transportation, having their home rendered unsafe, or even having "luxuries" that were sources of comfort in a difficult life destroyed? How many people started out in poverty and spent a lifetime building a business from nothing so they could rise into the middle class, only to watch it be destroyed by privileged mostly-white rioters in response to something that they had nothing to do with, that happened in a completely different city? And it certainly isn't like rioters haven't intentionally attacked, injured, and in a few cases killed, both citizens and law enforcement officers as well.
Scaling factor in fusion is pretty well understood science. Last JET tokamak was the experiment that confirmed this part.

Fusion science has evolved to the point where it is necessary to bring the fusion engineering on the same level.
>US-China relations are bad

That's true although going back over 10 years (and I'm sure before) at least getting a Chinese business visa has been a bit of a pain--not really difficult but a bunch of paperwork. On the plus side, as of a few years ago, you could get a 10-year visa.

And India was just a bureaucratic mess. I ended up canceling two different business trips to India because I couldn't get a visa in the necessary window. My understanding is that in normal now there's visa on arrival.
I appreciate your intent but tbh I found this confusing. I think perhaps we want to talk about two different things and have been trying to squeeze that into one conversation.
I think most people's problem is that an initial winner is more likely to win next time in the system. these self made men certainly had some attributes which made them "win", it wasn't all luck, but as the game goes on, the playing field becomes more and more unfair. Not to mention how a certain segment of wealthy people influence politics and media to completely further their advantage. I think at the root of the issue is the idea of "meritocracy" and "fairness." Sam Walton was a great man, but are his children? Yet, they still control a vast amount of wealth and influence regularly ranking in the top 20 richest people in the World.
Disney buys the laws.
> 100k requests per user per month doesn't sound like it would come anywhere near being an issue (even with 10M users).

Nice. Thanks! That's re-assuring.

> It sounds like something that may have originated with someone hearing about a particular implementation detail of our anti-abuse systems but the game of telephone has transformed it into something that's just not true at all.

A Cloudflare employee engaged in this thread [0] confirmed existence of this internal limit: "...basically 2k subrequests _per minute_ per colo / zone / IP. Once you hit that you start serving 429s.", which another customer hit with ~5M requests per day (per a screenshot shared later in the thread) and had to get whitelisted for.

[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/massive-rate-limiting-iss...
> The facility could see plasma generated in the machine - a notional start to operations - shortly after the assembly phase ends in 2025.

So you're saying it's... 5 years away?
I didn't know about this, interesting. I definitely like it better than UBI, at least you get something for your money, plus people get the dignity of working and being productive. This seems like it would be a good way of (re)training people for skills that have become obsolete.

I think a lot of the buildings and trails at the National Parks used the WPA (or similar) labor. People 90 years later are still benefiting.
Universities have figured this out a long time ago, and have been cutting all sorts of corners in instruction (Despite the growth in tuition.)

The life of an academic is tenuous already, and a lot of instruction is done by poorly-paid, untenured sessionals. Tenured positions are in 2020, rare as hen's teeth.
C# Windows Service Tutorial
I can say if I were to see a reference to the adult industry in a resume, I'd be more interested. It may be because I've worked with clients from the industry before and I know they have a lot of interesting and unique challenges there, and if the candidate solved them successfully it'd certainly be a point in their favor.
Curious: What is your strategy on replication? Is it some form of synchronous replication or asynchronous (i.e. active/passive with potential for data loss in event of hard loss of primary)? Also curious why you might look at UDP replication given unless using a protocol like QUIC on top of it, UDP replication would be inherently lossy (i.e. not even eventually consistent).
The simple answer is that the surface only goes up a factor of 4 if you increase the radius by a factor of 2, but the volume goes up by a factor of 8. So the ratio of (energy containing) volume to surface (where energy get's lost) if getting better with increasing size.

There is of course much more complicated answers, all the way up to full-device simulations using gyrokinetic codes like Gene or Gkeyll that take millions of core hours and predict that ITER will work (and that predict performance of existing devices correctly).
70-80% of adults have a alternating congested nostril

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle

https://www.rhinologyonline.org/Rhinology_online_issues/2018...
Anyone with a passing interest in this or adjacent fields should check out the Deep Carbon Observatory website.

https://deepcarbon.net/worlds-oldest-groundwater-supports-li...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate-reducing_microorganism...
I'm a recovering thyroid cancer (good cancer) patient. My breathing and immunity had become bad due to my surgeries/treatment but also stress, occasional hookah smoking, etc. After suffering from severe bronchitis and cough for the first months of this year, I started doing the breathing exercises in this video (https://youtu.be/iUKjuni-6l8?list=PLxdtWIiZAUhoD6mxvZ0gO9ohE...) regularly (4-6 times a week) based on a HNer's recommendation. All my symptoms have completely disappeared, my breathing has become slower and I have become a much calmer person. My lungs feel really clear. Highly recommend doing these breathing exercises regularly (every day for the first month if possible).

This guy, Michael Bijker, also has a lot of good videos on breathing exercises. Here's an example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZInO0-ZHk&list=PLxdtWIiZAU...
Indeed, IMO he's covered many sides of this issue very much in need of attention. Sadly, per the point of the article, it doesn't offend enough people or fit neatly enough into a right-wing or left-wing outrage machine, so it doesn't get a huge amount of attention.
Maintain a fusion pulse for up to 8 minutes
What does this mean?
I had two personal accounts that I registered before GMail had a phone requirement. I don't remember setting up the work account, but I probably just used my normal phone number.
Why does it have to be only one winner?
I agree we should look at multiple possible paths for renewable energy, but to say that they shouldn’t work on this, is a bit far fetched.

This assumes the researchers working on fusion can work on the other renewable energies, when that’s typically not the case with highly specialized fields. Further, estimating the time it takes for advancement with the described time magnitude is a frivolous pursuit, if you put any weight behind it. Within 5 years, sure let’s predict. But at 30 years, now we’re talking a bit too far into the future. It’s much harder to guesstimate what will occur from now to then.

Lastly, if we assume it will take 30 years to produce a working model, then that only assumes we’re working on it today. If we could, let’s say, divert all scientists away from fusion research onto other renewables, the 30 year estimate would be perpetually pushed until we start working on it once more. Let’s have people who are passionate about their field pursue as many paths to solving the energy crisis as possible. We could have a breakthrough sooner than 30 years, which I would place money on.