skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right my post isn't that relevant.

The product they are launching, for me, isn't relevant either.

We've long since reached peak Facebook, and its social network is fragmenting as they're losing people for the reasons I mentioned previously. They're effectively chasing a new audience to keep their numbers up.
Very good, its been very true of my cohort where there is a apparent correlation between enthusiasm for indefinite lockdowns and those in jobs where you can easily work from home, or are protected occupations in academia or government or those who are independently wealthy. Lots of people congratulating themselves on having "never left the house in 100 days" while not acknowledging the small army of workers they have relied on to deliver them food etc.
uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading:

https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...
It has a manual accessible through the screen, but most people just google it anyways. I certainly did.
very interesting mental model. Coincidentally enough, I got request from janitor (very nice person btw) to help him to buy bitcoin when it cost about $18k. I explained him to do not to, but the fact itself was clearly alarming.
The Chinese version of TikTok douyin is also a hybrid of games, shopping, live streams a messenger and instant apps. The ui is far less important than having a captive user base
Yup, I had gleaned that much from context. My issue is taht I don't know what a functor is!

Sure, I could look it up, but my problem is that I spend all my time looking things up. At some point, this gets in the way of proper understanding. It's a strong signal that I'm missing some foundational knowledge.

(Your reply is most appreciated, though!)
It's worth noting that while Mozilla is a nonprofit organization, it certainly retains a huge conflict of interest: It's primary financial sponsor is still Google.

If Firefox was solely aligned with protecting their users, the default search would be DuckDuckGo, not Google, and it would fully block Google Analytics, Fonts, and AdSense right out of the box.
In addition to being full-flow, Raptor runs on methane (CH4, the simplest hydrocarbon), which already exists many places in the solar system (including Mars), and is easier to manufacture than kerosene or liquid hydrogen.

SpaceX developed an incredibly advanced simulator to make it happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYA0f6R5KAI
It's expensive because it includes much more of the externalities in the price with much longer time-frames for ROI, as compared to other sources like coal or natural gas.

Nuclear as a power source is fantastic. One of the biggest operators is the US Navy which has been running reactors in military vessels for decades without incident. The problem is politics, ignorance and lack of will to actually see it through, not fundamental science or tech.
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but since we're doing more and more things over screenshare these days, I've noticed that all my peers are starting to use Firefox. I like to think it's because they've seen me use it when I'm sharing my screen.
The problem is that hardware buttons are expensive - expensive in pure cost, expensive in more material required for installation (cables, handles, complex plastic) and most importantly - expensive in time to manufacture.

This is why all companies are moving eveything to touchscreens - the cost savings are very real when it comes to building a certain amount of units in certain amount of time. And this is why the company with most manufacturing issues, Tesla, also went all in in making the cockpit as minimal as possible.

Sure there might be other reasons, but as always... follow the money :)
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What country are you talking about? I don't know a single one where the majority does not feel financially stressed with too many children. (usually more than 3, but even 2 is too much for a lot of people, in many countries for the majority, probably including the United States).
> Same for nuclear though, a steady source of power is not a good fit for our energy use.

This is completely wrong. There is a certain level of electrical production that is needed 24/7:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load

As the data for the province of Ontario (Canada) shows, nuclear plants are very good at this (click on "Supply"):

* http://www.ieso.ca/power-data

* http://www.ieso.ca/Power-Data/Supply-Overview/Transmission-C...

As I mentioned in another comment, Ontario could stand to build another 2500-3000MW with of nuclear to deal with the base load, and the variable demand could then largely be dealt with using hydro-electric.
He did coding for Zip2
The same reason why Europeans use American spyware and adware to communicate with eachother.

Because the risk profile permits it. In this county, many courts are open, and prior to COVID, you could just walk into one and listen. Court decisions are likewise open, and part of the public record.

Edit: Did you also know that courts and lawyers still use faxes? Did you know that tapping a fax line has been trivial for decades?
Nah, I think the comparison was apt. IG's features are not purely social networking. The 'TV' portion is an attempt to create a youtube/video alternative. The video chat can replace phone/video messaging. The 'shop' feature is an e-commerce gateway.
I'd read somewhere else that start-up costs in Germany are prohibitive vs. just about anywhere else in Europe, but I can't find that article. Personal experience trumps that of a journalist though.
> There is no evidence that Musk actually (partly) designed any of the creations his companies spawned.

That's not really true though. He's on several patents, and accounts from people who work with him are that he spends a lot of time working on engineering problems.

I don't think he's like working on sims or anything, but he seems to be pretty involved in the high level engineering decisions and understand everything that goes into his companies' products.
> Three weeks later, we found a quarter-acre of raw land near Pat’s tiny off-grid in the Cascades. It was a sloping meadow of ferns a short walk from the Skykomish River, festooned with mature Douglas fir, big leaf maple, and cedar.

A quarter acre isn't big enough to throw for distance. But the fact that he describes the land as a fern meadow (sic) pretty much sinks it. He was tossing onto the neighbor's land.

You could be right about them cleaning up, but the overlap between "throws tantrums" and "good forest steward" is far from perfect. I bet there's still bits of wood out there, next to broken plants.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a33499619/fr...

France is going to retire end of life nuclear reactors and replace them with renewables, while their new generation reactors have had all the same cost and schedule overruns as elsewhere. Including BTW, China, which did all the construction expertise management for nuclear that the experts recommend - e.g. using the same crews the build multiple reactors, moving them from project to project. China too stopped building new reactors in favor of more renewables.
Using products like this in the pastI've run into a pretty simple issue:

- Request 1 is a post that generates a "todo" with a random id "5y22"

- Request 2 is a "get" for /todo/5y22.

That works in production, but on replay of the traffic:

- Request 1 generates a different random id, "86jj".

- Request 2 is still a replayed "get" for /todo/5y22, which is now 404.

How does your tooling handle this nondeterminism in replays?
I was curious what these actually looked like in the wild and what Instacart shoppers thought. Here's some shoppers discussing bots:

https://www.reddit.com/r/InstacartShoppers/comments/gshom2/h...

https://www.reddit.com/r/InstacartShoppers/comments/fagva2/d...

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/7mfxmh/a_good_fre...

The most commonly-mentioned example is "MurGee Auto Clicker" (a simple form clicker: https://www.murgee.com/auto-clicker/tutorial/) and miscellaneous Android form clickers.
Sadly they kind of forgot about that in electric Mazda MX-30, which proudly adds a touchscreen for climate controls -_-
People will gladly spend hundreds of dollars on "fancy plates" (aka china) that sit on display in shelves. Thousands or tens of thousands of dollars could be paid for paint on canvas, just because the paint arrangement is unique, or the person that did the painting is well known. People pay 5 dollars for a cup of coffee at starbucks.

I think it's just important to realize that spending isn't always a strictly rational process. That said, there are definitely significant pieces of engineering that go into a keyboard. Here, the keyboard is fully programmable and you can flash the firmware. For some people's workflows, this might be very important. No keyboard in your price range will allow that. This keyboard is equipped with a low-power ARM cortex, which means it can handle additional logic a typical keyboard can't. You can use "layers" and swap between them at a hardware instead of a software level. This means you can take your keybindings with you as opposed to needing to change the OS settings when you switch computers while using the same keyboard. If you have actual wrist issues due to an injury, frankly I would pay even more money than this to ensure that I can type pain-free or that the symptoms don't deteriorate. As someone that's worked in hardware, I can say first-hand that the plastic injection molds are extremely expensive for products not sold at a massive scale.

I could go on. I'm not a "keyboard collector" or anything, but I do have a keyboard that cost me over 100 dollars, and having used it for eight years now, I consider the price entirely reasonable given the utility its afforded me, and the longevity. Not to mention that I can replace keycaps if needed, I can replace the cord, I can reprogram it as my needs change, etc.

I can understand if English isn't your first language, that's not a problem. Tone-wise, I think if you genuinely are curious about something, just make that clear. Otherwise, the question comes off as a rhetorical one, where you're "asking" in the sense of "why anyone would be so stupid as to spend this much money is beyond me."
Feels like it's already the new AOL.
I think they mean its different.

The seismic wave it way more devastating to the infrastructure. Leading to collapsing buildings, ripped gas pipes etc.

Explosion like this one move most of the energy into the heat and air displacement.
The immediate area is shattered but the building outside have only windows smashed.

The explosion look terrifyingly massive but the number of victims seams small in comparison.
that labor is essential to the production of value is, the LTV itself is not

But that's silly. We see celebrities generating tremendous amounts of economic value by the "labour" of taking a selfie. To emphasize the labour is like focusing on the discarded cigarette butt instead of the thousands of acres of dry tinder it landed in.

Or ownership of sufficient quantity of the means of production and a lot less luck

People who own factories needed a lot of luck to get there as well. What real difference does it make whether I earn a billion dollars with a factory or a laptop? Or are they roughly equivalent in power and my laptop ought to be collectivized? That doesn't seem right.
I've been playing with Minetest instead, because it is easier to work in isolation without a Roblox server. Can you run a Roblox server in single player mode?
That reminds me of the time I found an appropriately shaped bolt installed in a fuse-holder - presumably someone did not have a replacement fuse and improvised.

Except that it had been 5 years since the last maintenance in this place and it was a protection panel for a large synchronous generator in a power plant.

After you make a heroic temporary fix, please, ensure the permanent fix is applied later!
Damn, thanks for pointing it out - I forgot to change visibility from private to public...
Although this is a notable finding it's important to remember that it doesn't lead to the conclusion that supplementing vitamin D will be very beneficial here. When vitamin D is produced in the body naturally via exposure to sunlight there's a huge amount of other things that occur as well, and we don't have a ton of good science to back up if curing a vitamin D deficiency via supplementation of pure vitamin D is really nearly the same as getting it naturally, which is a common problem for supplementing things and nutritional science and epidemiology in general.

The extent that covid harms those that are metabolically unfit in many different ways much more than those that are perfectly healthy is still pretty under-discussed imo though, and this is yet another good data point in favor of it, even if Vitamin D is much more of a different proxy than some of the other large correlations we see with covid mortality.
That's the one I was thinking of, thank you.
Fair! Sorry for belaboring an unnecessary point ^_^;
You're spot on :). We got this feedback from one of our financial services alphas so we built a DLP rules engine to cover it. That wasn't enough. So we offered to integrate with Google DLP. Still no. So in the end we architected for a split-plane architecture (similar to DataBricks) so big customers can host their own data but we can manage the control stack. It's not something we're doing during the alpha but it's part of the plan. Would that work?
Is there a link to download the documentation because I missed it?
I did the same whenever LastPass doubled their prices. That seemed pretty steep for the value added and I did some research. Bitwarden seemed like the most obvious choice for being both open source and openly audited.

I've been recommending Bitwarden ever since - it's great!
Decades ago an ISP I was colocated at did the same thing. I don't remember the exact details, but it was a DNS server and they either couldn't log in or were relying on the zone files cached in memory or something but for some reason they couldn't power it off.

It was already plugged into a UPS, but they had to cut one of the posts off the rack to get the server out without unplugging it, then they plugged that UPS into a bigger UPS on a cart and wheeled it to the new data center they built out in the building next door.

The world was much different at the time -- this coloc provider had a good reputation, yet.... they had a keg of beer in the corner of the server room and a stack of adult magazines in the men's room.
There is a newer extension called CookieBro that is much better than CookieAutoDelete. Not only does it have more options for dealing with cookies, CookieAutoDelete often would leave some cookies alive.
http://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/uploads/publ...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-baseload-power-is-doomed/
I've seen the term 'evidence-based policy' pop up all over the place. I take issue with people who use this phrase because most of the time their definition of evidence is not very well developed, and when the evidence is something they don't like they start to stretch their definition of evidence so they can dismiss implementing a certain policy. If evidence is only restricted to, and dictated by, academic papers, you leave room for companies and news media to start selectively reporting and funding studies they want to see or want people to see. And where are the scientific papers dedicated to studying this problem? No one is going to fund them. Now you have an entire society believing that corporate influence is not real because there is seemingly no evidence for it.

If you only make decisions based on science you can pretend problems aren't real without a scientist's approval, and you can pretend solutions to those problems are bad if there is even a tiny bit of counter-evidence that supports your viewpoint.
> for example at the start of a years long app development project, the type system is just in the way.

Subjectively, my experience is that writing out the type definitions and signatures of main functions is a great way to start exploring an unknown problem space.
This is a mischaracterization of the state of US rail. The US has prioritized freight rail over passenger rail. That’s not a terrible choice given the long distances and the lower sensitivity to slower, more efficient speeds.
How are you doing? It's a simple question that's difficult to answer honestly in these trying times. If the relentlessly negative news has you overwhelmed, unable to do anything, and you're a husk of a human being, unable to do anything other than eat, sleep and scroll, then you gotta stop with the doom scrolling and take care of your mental health.

The virus doesn't care about how optimistic you are, but with suicides rates rising, and known factors of that are anxiety and isolation, which are both abundant right now, it's emotionally facile to say thinking happy thoughts is infantile. You can't do anything if you're depressed and stuck on the couch, and in that state no problems can be fixed.

It doesn't no one any good if you're too scared to work on fixing problems. If that means lying to yourself and believing that the only way out of this mess is a vaccine that will arrive in February, just to be able to put pants on to go grocery shopping, then anyone who judges you harshly (including yourself) for that is being an asshole.
Certainly an ACL tear or other catastrophic event would have altered his trajectory.

On a human level, it is worth appreciating such things. Finding new ways to express and experience gratitude is one of the most profoundly powerful things a person can do. A true key to happiness. (I hope this doesn't sound sarcastic: I really believe this)

I think we just generally leave that sort of thing out of "what makes Lebron, Lebron?" type discussions because it's a constant for all athletes. A catastrophic injury would disrupt any player's trajectory. That's not interesting or useful to discuss from an analytic standpoint.

What we're really looking for is, "why is Lebron different from others who've avoided catastrophic events?" or to be more on-topic, "why was Levandowski able to rise to superstardom when other engineers weren't?"

Certainly, yes, some of this can be chalked up to Levandowski's avoidance of catastrophic events. He wasn't eaten by bears! His parents didn't blind him with acid! He wasn't struck by meteors! But, this is also true for a lot of other engineers, so this doesn't tell us anything useful. Everybody already knows that being killed by a bear is detrimental to one's career prospects.

To return to (and hyper-focus on) Lebron for a second...

there are a number of equal/better players (physically and mentally)
who get bumped, land wrong, tear an ACL, and their trajectory changes forever

In his case, the numbers suggest that the number of "better-than-Lebron players who don't make it" is extremely small and likely zero.

1. Every year, millions of people play basketball and do not suffer catastrophic incidents and yet also do not display the sort of generational talents displayed by Lebron.

2. Given the extremely large sums of fame and money involved in collegiate/professional basketball, anybody manifesting his level of talent is unlikely to go undiscovered. There is a lot of incentive for everybody involved to identify and develop such talent. This would be less true for many other pursuits. I suspect there are many "undiscovered Bobby Fischers and Gary Kasparovs" out there in the chess world and many "undiscovered Lewis Hamiltons" in the racing world; I suspect this is not the case for "undiscovered Lebrons."

3. Basketball is also different from other pursuits in that freakish physical height is a great advantage. If you are tall, in most of the world, people will tell you to play basketball. A height of 6'8.5" (Lebron's height) is something like 99.99th percentile and playing basketball is one of the few lucrative things one can do with that height, unlike a 99.99th percentile intelligence or even 99.99th percentile strength.
It's a coping mechanism. They want to believe solar and wind will solve all the problems because it is comforting. Of course, it also totally ignores how renewables are enabled by peaker plants burning natural gas. And that renewables generate less electricity as a percentage of total usage now than in the 1950s. But somehow batteries are going to solve that problem. Of course, they haven't calculated how large the battery would need to be for that scenario to work out either.
Part of the problem is that since Google is a monopoly they have little incentive to produce good organic search results. It's much better for them if you end up clicking an ad than a search result. And with a dominant position there's not much alternative for businesses or consumers. A competitive search market might force them to come up with better organic results since those are (theoretically) better than ad links.

This problem is amplified by VC funded start ups. They're willing to lose billions in order to gain a dominant market share. How can little ole therapy service compete with VC funded therapy market when they don't care about making money? Eventually little ole therapy service folds and the therapists have to go work for VC funded therapy market. The long term outlook is that we get one (or a handful) of therapy platforms that are just middle men extracting value.
I believe Elon said they were targeting SN8 for a high altitude flight with 3 raptor engines, hopefully later this year. Various parts are already under construction.
Google has an incredible walled garden of apps and things that 'just' work together seamlessly. I remember switching from FF to Chrome years ago as Chrome was measurably faster. The staying power was using Google's entire suite of apps with Chrome. Things like copying and pasting without formatting or searching for strings all contribute to stickiness.
Oh I know about that. I also know about their attempts to do it again in the past decades.... not looking good!

Don't forget the Canada examples too! They were able to build effectively.

I don't think corporate culture in the US is capable of it. Ironically the one thing that may have saved Westinghouse is if there had been more regulation, and the NRC has to not only evaluate safety of the designs, but also "can we even build this thing." Something that an exec with long term thinking would ensure! But current executive culture is about cost cutting in the moment, and it has pervaded even those companies that need to be thinking on decade long builds of projects that need to last half a century or more.
This conclusion (10x higher mortality if deficient in Vitamin D) is rather significant. How trustworthy is this source?
Then I guess by this logic the CEO of Boeing (who has a degree in accounting) is also an engineer?
I enjoy Microsoft blogs where the screenshots are from MacOS and not Windows. I have no social commentary, it's just a tee-hee :D
What cookies are you trying to get rid of? Why are they a big deal?
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~I didn't read this paper, but~ I wonder how this compares to the same populate before and after they serve time in prison/jail.

I also wonder how such studies of Chinese prisons apply to prison populations in the US and elsewhere.

Edit: I did read this paper a while ago.
Why is baseline supply an issue? The only power supplies that are needed in a system are dispatchable aka peak. If your peaker plants can handle the entire load then you don't need any other type of power. You may want to have supplies that are cheaper and/or greener, but you don't need them.

So until Nuclear plants can provide dispatchable power, they're competing against the much cheaper solar/wind power, not against natural gas or batteries where the cost disadvantage isn't as bad. Nuclear theoretically could be dispatchable, but current designs aren't.
We make circular cpus and do everything in base pi! Yes!