skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fishing might stop in the area due to adverse publicity, but not because of the radiation. Chernobyl fallout fell and was concentrated on the surface of the earth, a two-dimensional plane. Oceans are three-dimensional. Even a chernobyl-magnitude radiation event will be quickly diluted into the hundreds of cubic-kilometers of water that passes over every point in the ocean daily. It is hard to wrap one's head around exactly how big, how literally massive, oceans are.
I... never knew “favorite” was a feature on hacker news until I read this post.

Now I see the “favorite” link right above this comment form. I guess I never even noticed the links on the post page are different than when browsing stories on the front page. Now I’m noticing there’s also a “hide” link!
Conducting the Mathematical Orchestra from the Middle
I learned about Lampson from reading Alan Kay, who has praised him highly. He was one of the founding members of Xerox PARC, among many other achievements.
The reality is we need fewer, higher paid police with an extremely high barrier to entry. They should be required to go through the kind of training the military goes through for months so you see how they react under pressure. They should have people constantly giving them an opportunity to lie, cheat, steal and abuse their position of power to test if they are corrupt in any way. They should be monitored 24/7 and if they do anything that remotely looks suspicious they should be removed from their position of power. They should be required to go through intense training annually to see if they are still psychologically fit to do the job. Finally they should start as peace officers for several years and be required to communicate with people in difficult situations until it is possible to determine if they can be trusted. Everyone else should be put on peace officer duty with no weapons and no authority to do anything but observe and report information. The police don't need the amount of authority and power they have.
I think multiple "fulltime jobs" is extremely rare.

Usually when people say they are working 2-3 jobs I believe they mean they get a couple of shifts a week from a couple of different employers.

E.g. 16 hours a week at a coffee shop, 12 hours a week at a restaurant and 2 nights a week as a cleaner.
"decreasing maintenance overhead" could apply equally to every feature on the site, though. How often do people use polls?
You’re right, we’re even more adaptive than trees.
That's really over the top. Facebook scummiest of our generation? I envy you if Facebook is the worst company you've encountered. Many companies stiff their customers in all kinds of terrible ways, especially when there are no alternatives. I can honestly say I've never been stiffed by Facebook, nor has anyone else I know. Even the cases that are the most frustrating or angering are about censorship i.e. denial of service by them of something nobody strictly needs, they aren't e.g. charging for a service and then not delivering it.
I think arresting people for posts on social media is always a display of exceptional weakness of government. I would probably vote for the other guys, but I am not too deep into Australian politics.

I think many defer the justification for such a step into the future, but at some point there isn't any justification for a lockdown.

In practice many people already ignore it anyway, which could be bad. But it is beyond any state to enforce it.
I'm sure there is a ton of design and thought put into making the native file system API safe and secure, but wow does it scare me right off the bat. Even if it has to be enabled by a user like camera or mic permissions, this can probably be used to get malware onto the machines of users that don't pay attention to permission requests or understand the implication of what they're doing.

Many friends of mine will immediately, without thought, click to allow camera, microphone, or location data as soon as the prompt shows up. I can see the native file system permission following the same process.

It'll be interesting to see how it works. I'm sure Google has put in quite a bit of effort into securing it.
There's a difference in firing an officer and setting policy though. It's quite normal in most countries that you can't randomly fire employees ("at-will employment" is very rare, globally), but that doesn't mean the employees are free to do whatever they please. And when they break rules, they can very much be fired.

Mayors can set policy, but it's easier to have the police to their bidding while simultaneously say how terrible it is what the police are doing. Can't blame them, it's politics, but you don't need to fall for it and assume that police unions run the country with politicians as their puppets.
It appears to still be based on OGRE. The native wrappers in the repo seem to bind all the key OGRE types into .NET.
I'm predicting they turn cancerous.

And I would like to invite all Hacker News participants to call me out and make fun of me if it turns out I'm wrong. Come back in 2-4 years and respond to this comment calling me an idiot if I'm wrong.

After all, what's the point of making a prediction if people can't call you out for being wrong when it doesn't come true?
The event horizon is like a waterfall, only instead of water it is causality.

To a first approximation (because time and space melting into each other in a wildly non-Euclidean environment isn’t something I can do justice to), unless the neutron star is spinning so fast it is a torus with a black-hole-sized gap in the middle, a black hole inside a neutron star will doom it.
There are also Python bindings [0] for dublin-traceroute which allows things like analysis with pandas or generating charts.

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[0]: https://github.com/insomniacslk/python-dublin-traceroute
AmigaOS 3.1.4 on a ReMarkable Tablet
Even if preparing people to just put up with something miserable were a valid goal, it's exceedingly unlikely that just subjecting them to it for years on end is the most effective or the most efficient way to prepare them for it.

An entire essay on the subject: https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/getting-hit-head-lessons/
Being informed requires effort and some dedication. A bullet-point summary can't possibly capture what one can learn by taking the time to listen to a careful intellectual exchange with nuance and detail that escapes a summary.

That said, the conversation, among other things, explores the mechanisms through which academia tends to self-radicalize (note I am not specifying a direction) as well as some of the consequences of such radicalization.
No, they aren't really in many places. Our district runs a couple routes with limited stops, but nothing like I remember growing up 40 years ago.
We (a subset of the public) have shown the police we also don't act in good faith.
This comment was about Twitch :'( I guess you guys thought I was talking about something else
> Also, while POSIX is a nice base, it stops you using Windows, and also almost every non-trivial program ends up with a bunch of autoconf (which has to be updated every so often) to handle differences between linux/BSD/Mac.

I agree the lack of compliant POSIX on Windows is annoying. However, unless you rely on 3rd-party libraries, you can use #ifdef to write OS-specific code without autoconf.
Only if every trading day brings news about the company or its competitors that is surprising to investors (and makes them value the company higher)
That is an alarming number of spatulas.
You don't need an obscure clause for that. Leases have a term.
Is it persistent notes and not possible to remove them?
> I’ve been to (and lived in) countries where there’s pretty much neither - surely that’s where the bar should be?

Well, if the question is "Is this better than bribery", I can say without a doubt that its better than bribery. When EVERY traffic ticket is really a request from the local officer to shake you down for money (you may have not been speeding. Doesn't matter, the local cop wants his breakfast or whatever and knows that bribes are widespread. They stop you for a ticket, which is really a request for a bribe). There's simply no comparison.

> surely that’s where the bar should be?

Well yeah. But the people I was responding to was comparing the behavior to bribery. And bribery is what I have experience with.

You really, really don't want to live with a bribery culture. In this case, you're declaring friendship with the cops (through the use of an FOP sticker or PBA card, or whatever the local police union is). And that's where you get exceptional behavior.

Yeah, the USA has civil asset forfeiture, but given the red tape behind that, its still a step up from bribery.

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> I’m not sure I understand why this is even mentioned - it seems like you’re giving him credit for it, but why on God’s green Earth would he have done that? That would’ve been crazy, right?

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2020/07/01/cla...

Its not crazy in America. These things come down to the local sheriff's decision. I think people underestimate the power of the Sheriff in many cases.

I bring it up because Sheriff of Kenosha seems like a reasonable person, compared to other Sheriffs across the country. On the one hand, the Sheriff of Kenosha is responsible for the actions of his own officers (and in this case: responsible for the failure of his officers to arrest Rittenhouse for violating curfew).

On the other hand, the Sheriff of Kenosha cannot fight the "greater police culture" that's across America. The expectation for pro-police people to be treated with leniency is endemic in virtually every place I've been to in America (again: FOP decals or PBA cards): along with "Police Bill of Rights" (special protections to officers that normal people don't get), and so forth.
"Students will now receive grades based on their teacher’s estimate of what their grade would have been"

But if those estimates are improved using statistics, there's a political fallout. There's some valid criticism of the algorithm used (far less than that BBC article tries to imply), but there's no question the algorithm's estimates were more accurate.

So much ink was spilled calling the algorithm biased for its 4% increase in A-grades for independent schools, yet teacher's 40% increase of grades above the expected average is... what? Unbiased?

On any other topic, such a position would be called "anti-science".
Not the mybooks which is what people are shucking. I have about 20 in my nas and they’re going strong. For ~$120/8TB hard to go wrong when they’re essentially red drives inside (they’ve switched to white label drives with the same-ish specs).

The controller card inside of the enclosure is just a simple usb and power converter.
I remember AT&T's Unix PC (a remarkable machine) required an extra-large hard disk option to even be able to install the development tools. And the hard disk upgrade was cheaper than the tools.
I think it's actually worse that what's taught isn't even coherent.
There's always the liability of knives, stoves, ovens, and hot oil, that never helps.

Although in retrospect it was perhaps a bit ridiculous that my cooking class allowed only a microwave, while I worked an open forge in metalworking.
I fly southwest, and its free to gatecheck your bag if the bins fill up on a full flight. Are other airlines different in that regard?
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Except, habits some catastrophic failure coming together.

The later one makes you need to access production data even through you don't want to the former one makes you leak it in the hurry to fix that catastrophic failure.

To just name one example.
This is cool. I think it would be helpful if the list showed the date of each post as well. That’s an important signal for me when deciding which links to explore in a curated list.
it's nice that HN at least acknowledges that whether you like something or not is something that only matters for you, and no one else, rather than pretending there is value in centering a surfacing algorithm around it.
From this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24346300
Here’s a more mathematical description of the “sunflower pattern” on the sphere, a spherical Fibonacci lattice: http://extremelearning.com.au/evenly-distributing-points-on-...

As a live notebook: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/spherical-fibonacci-latti...
> For cores with a mass between about 65 and 130 times that of our sun (according to current estimates), the star is completely obliterated [via a pair-instability supernova]. Cores between about 50 and 65 solar masses pulsate, shedding mass in a series of explosions until they drop below the range where pair instability occurs. Thus there should be no black holes with masses in the 50-to-130-solar-mass range.

> The million- and billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes that anchor galaxies’ centers formed differently, and rather mysteriously, in the early universe. LIGO and Virgo are not mechanically capable of detecting the collisions of supermassive black holes.
Aha! Thanks. The UI can be improved, yes.
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On a related note, how do I block Google from showing me the Answer blurb when I search for something, especially on desktop browsers?
The author posts several job descriptions, then interprets them to mean that the company expects the applicant to fill half a dozen roles or have a certain personality. That doesn't appear to be the case.

For example, he reads that a company expects a developer to "facilitate discussions with business partners to determine needs and appropriate solutions." He takes this to mean that he's expected to "be a product owner, a partner manager, and do business development on top of being a software developer". Somehow he misses the part that says "facilitate discussions with business partners" and gets a warped reading.

Then there are parts where the author has some nitpicks (and frankly an unusual perspective for someone who is trying to be a software developer for an established company):
"'Possess the ability and desire to dive into an existing codebase and grasp the functionality, design, and refactoring opportunities in the code.' Who desires to refactor someone else’s bad code?"
It's just one of many unnecessary and pessimistic quips.

Applicants should keep in mind is that HR departments typically write and edit all of a company's job postings. Many of them try to write in a way that's enticing, but also shows a range of responsibilities that may be expected or skills that are desired. If you're reading a job posting and it interests you, but it has some ambiguities or odd phrasing, it would be worthwhile to reach out to the company for more information, or even just apply anyways. The specifics of the job will be fleshed out much more clearly during the job interviews that follow. Dismissing an opening because the posting expects candidates to have things like "a great sense of humor" is only going to hinder success.
It is, but it seems like you're arguing against a straw man? I don't see anyone in this thread arguing that bribes are good.
In the short term perhaps. However, I doubt many people consider Germany a puppet of the US. Japan for example has the 5th most powerful military in the world.

‘Amusingly,‘ Cuba has a US base and a rather antagonistic relationship. However, long term many countries like US bases because money flows in one direction from that base into the local economy. It’s the same reason so many bases exist across the US.
I’ve had great relationships with independent shops and only tip when they do something quick and don’t charge.
there are polls?
Had to look up astronomical time - assuming my understanding is right and you use "noon" to define the hours, I don't think it would really help in high latitude hours - no amount of temporal wiggling is going to stop kids from going to school in the dark and coming home in the dark as well.
> The “FYI” is somewhat misleading.

It was new information to me, and relevant to the issue at hand, so I'm glad OP posted it.
For the first time in like 20 years I played on a Game Boy just a couple of months ago after finding my old box with handhelds (also had quite some Game&Watch titles, but who has LR44 batteries these days..). Still fun. Unfortunately my 'Game Boy Oscilloscope' cartridge was missing, that was a pretty cool thing actually. Reminder of an era when things were different, but not necessarily worse. Probably I'll think the same of this decade 20 years in the future, but it's sometimes easy to foget how fast things can advance and holding an older piece of hardware always reminds me of that.

More on topic: the comment wrt batteries in the article is spot on. So common, yet so many problems with it. For that exact reason we have a kitchen scale driven by a small dynamo for generating power. No more empty batteries right when you need it. No more despair when the batteries it needs are not the type you have lying around. No more auto-off in the middle of weighing (cannot believe how many scales are plagued by that - or did I just get unlucky?). Just spin the wheel a couple of times and it goes on for minutes. Really hoping the thing lasts a lifetime; that's a good general rule for how tools should be actually: do one thing, do it good, and last forever.

Anyway: too bad this isn't up for sale, would make a nice gift for instance. But good to see there's still R&D being done in the direction of not requiring batteries, combining a couple of sources is perhaps the novelty here.
For me, the answer is that my browser bookmarks are tied to a physical machine and specific browser. I use many machines, and sometimes many different browsers on each.
If you review the history of police in America, this is definitely incorrect.

Police evolved out of night watches, slave patrols, and a variety of other loose organizations meant to guard capital.

In the mid 1800s, the first patrolling police departments were formed in the northeast, and the practice spread across the country. The police very much operated like a gang through to the early 20th century. There are many, many documented instances of police attacking, eg, the Irish in Boston. They often made allies with organized crime, and corruption was commonplace.

Later, the police were literally fighting unions. Again, there are many instances of police disrupting union events with violence including open gunfire on union members.

The Jim Crow era certainly had police doing innumerable, terrible things.

Through the later parts of the 20th century the police were arresting, beating, and extorting people for being gay. The modern Pride parades trace their origins to a riot against police violence.

Over the decades that followed, police got more and more military equipment, no knock raids became more common, and police became considerably more militarised.

Fast forward to today, where police are regularly killing unarmed, fleeing, or otherwise unthreatening black men and women.

There's no era in American history where the police were the good guys. Maybe to the straight white land owning folk, but police boots have always been on the neck of someone in this country.
Mainly because these comparisons are never apples to apples - SF is a City/County so the budget includes normal County expenses where many other city budgets don’t (eg the entire Sheriffs office and jail system). Also SF’s budget includes the Port of San Francisco and one of busiest airports in the country - both of which are net profitable to the city but whose expenses should be backed out if you’re doing a $$$ spent per capita calculation. I’m too lazy to do it myself but I’d love to see “cleaned up” numbers that take this stuff into account.
Pope's translation, using rhyming couplets, is very much a product of its time and is, in many ways, more a re-performance of Homer than a translation. I've not yet read Wilson's translation. Richmond Lattimore's translation is a great translation although also a product of its time (it strives to produce a line-for-line literal translation) which I feel is better than his former friend Robert Fitzgerald's translation. Originally the two friends were to translate the Iliad (Lattimore) and the Odyssey (Fitzgerald). The story goes that Lattimore found Fitzgerald's translation so wanting that he then proceeded to produce his own translation of the Odyssey and Fitzgerald in turn produced his own translation of the Iliad and the two men stopped speaking to each other.
It says this is happening in the article.
"making things not available to the outside world"

Has been proven repeatedly to not reliable work.

And security model must assume a attacker somehow got access to the VPN it whatever you use for isolation.

If not it's not a reliable security model.
Is the Venus Project the next step in human evolution?
I can't really see why you would need a supercomputer to do the analysis they did (it shows SC centers are getting desperate for users; I wouldn't even have been allowed to run this code on a supercomputer when I was an academic, because it didn't need interconnect for strong scaling.
It's not really surprising to anyone I think. School is hell for lots of teenagers. You're forced into a prison like setting with strict rules and little freedom, and you're forced to interact with a huge number of immature people of similar age - of whom the chances are a few will make your life hell, and you have no choice in getting away from it.

I would have been 100% happier as a kid if I could have simply done my education on my own or virtually, and spent my time with people I actually enjoyed the company of. Sort of what it's like to be an adult actually. The modern school system is such a terrible model.
Used the Android version, but I agree Play had/has a much better interface.

I know it's my age talking, but there are some people that still prefer to listen to entire albums. Make it easy for our kind to find albums, and then don't default to play a mix of singles after.
It's possible that if a tool allows you to destroy everything with a single click, that tool (or maybe process) is bad
Homicide rates had local minimum at 1960 at which point they when radically up after 1964. Whatever made murders more common happened in 1964.
I bought a 2080 like 2 weeks ago. Luckily EVGA has the step up program.