skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is encountering a hiring manager who treats book writing as a red flag: perhaps the candidate is more interested in self promotion and vanity projects than doing real work; perhaps they are too "academic" and don't have real experience; perhaps their book is one of these trash books that is nothing more than the open source docs (that the author didn't write) hastily thrown together; etc. That's not to say the candidate won't get the job, but that they get grilled harder in the interview to overcome these suspicions.

I only mentioned this in the first place as a counterpoint to the idea that books may have a lot of value in an interview. I think it has value in _getting_ the interview, but you might find the interview is now a little bit harder. And thinking that your book matters most may sound too arrogant.

I have recommended that people write books over the years (I'm not anti-book!): I just wouldn't list the interview as a perk. A big perk is getting to help people worldwide (my books have been translated into other languages), including those who don't have access to bay area conferences or other local experts. Another perk is assembling a technical review team of fellow experts and working on the draft with them, listing to their feedback and learning from their experiences to improve the book.
I love Postico on OSX. Not 100% certain that it does 100% of what other apps do, but it has been a real breath of fresh air for my development needs.
Palantir’s reference price values it at roughly $16B
In this case you can use for..of. The Array [... ] restructuring is converting the iterator to array so you can use reduce... but then you are using reduce in an imperative way. With for...of you skip the intermediate array and is more readable.

For...of has a bad rep because eslint usually is configured to show a warning, because the Babel transpile creates less optimal code if it targets old browsers; but is better here.
I don't think Epic is trying to force their store to be installed by default or to be able to bypass existing iOS sandbox/security mechanisms? So you can continue using the Apple App Store exclusively and reject apps that don't offer Apple Pay?
Palantir Apollo: Powering SaaS where no SaaS has gone before
You might want to rethink using a stability ball as your desk chair
https://archive.vn/Fhgrc

>Stability ball versus office chair: comparison of muscle activation and lumbar spine posture during prolonged sitting (2006)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16696264/
I doubt creditors would offer much against that guaranteed income. If you can't prove extra income on top of it taking your UBI would kill you before you could repay the loan.
We got new toilets at home last year. Without fail, I have to full flush at least twice for solids. They simply aren't strong enough to do the job in one go like the old ones were. Such a waste of water.
I've been working on this with a couple friends for the past few years. We took every videotaped presidential debate in history, synced the transcripts with the video, and made it all searchable. If you highlight a snippet of a debate and post it to social media, we generate a fancy image of the text as the thumbnail. Once somebody clicks your post, they can see the full context it was taken from.

Our original idea was (and is) to something like medium or substack, except the authors can only link to finite set of facts. It's more interesting read someone you disagree with if you at least agree on some of the facts. We ran out of time, so today we're releasing just the parts that work.

An interesting piece is that we serve all of our facts straight out of GitHub (proxied behind an HTTP cache, of course). So you can git blame typos and corrections, etc.

We're really eager to find more committers, so take a look and drop me a line if you'd like to get involved!

https://github.com/mytakedotorg/mtdo/blob/95af2d1b8c24eaeec1...

https://github.com/mytakedotorg/us-presidential-debates
ITER is expected to be energy positive, but it's a kind of pyrrhic breakeven. The gross power density of ITER will be 1/400th power density of a PWR reactor vessel.
Quote attributed to Freeman Dyson (of "Dyson sphere" fame):

> When I was a boy in England long ago, people who traveled on trains with dogs had to pay for a dog ticket. The question arose whether I needed to buy a dog ticket when I was traveling with a tortoise. The conductor on the train gave me the answer: "Cats is dogs and rabbits is dogs but tortoises is insects and travel free according."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7236984-when-i-was-a-boy-in...
Ask HN: How do you perform threat modeling in your project
Threat modeling seems to be a hot topic that every security team wants to talk about. How do you folks do threat modeling in your project/product/app? Which tools are being used or methodologies for example STRIDE <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRIDE_%28security%29> I am also curious if open source project leaders care about threat modeling ?
Start working on something small and easy that's related to the thing you're actually trying to accomplish, and that'll help swap the broader context into your head that you need to work on the larger problem.

Break the larger problem down into tiny little pieces that are easy to accomplish. Put them in a list. Pick off the easy items first each time you're trying to get started.
The only reason an Ekranoplan can't fly higher is it's wings don't generate enough lift out of ground effect. Load a 747 up high enough, and it too wouldn't be able to get out of ground effect, but I'd still say it was flying.
I'm of the opinion all bulbs say 10 years because no one remembers when they put them in so can't claim on that claim. Definitely think I've had some fail sooner, while others do go the distance. Maybe I need to keep a log.
Show HN: Optimizing where to live (with kids) around the Bay Area
Standard oil never had more than 20% marketshare.
> you have to substract a 10db echo to recover a 1db voice

You would think so, but subtracting the (speaker-generated, i.e., known-signal!) sound from 1cm away is trivial. The hard part is subtracting the echoes off your walls, laptop, desk decorations, etc. etc. etc.

That's not 10db, but it's still on par with your voice!

You are not wrong at a high level -- speakerphones are terrible -- but it's not because the speaker is right next to the mic!
I would argue that if someone trusts you, you have something to lose if you break their trust (you might feel ashamed, it will degrade your work conditions, etc...)

While of someone doesnt trust you already, if they catch you red handed it just confirms an already exisiting situation, so its no big deal.
Thanks, interesting book
You have posted in a way that insinuates I actively try to hide tracking and disinform the public.

That is not true. You have insinuated lies about me in an effort to win some silly internet argument. Why would I care what you think when you aren't acting honorably?

Also I never talked philosophy. I talked real world, what happens. That's why I said. Don't like my newsletter? Don't sign up. Don't like the legislation, vote to change it. I can't go to war with knives if everyone has guns. If no one has guns, I'll go to war with knives. That's the way the real world works. What you think is irrelevant.

I completely support your engagement in the real world. Which has always been the case if you actually read what I said and cared about who I am. I'm a dues paying member of EFF and EPIC. But that's the real world, instead of the caricature you have in your head with people who were 'violated' by a tracking pixel. Ultimately I'm probably just talking to a troll, few people have such low levels of self-awareness that they will lecture others on morality while insinuating lies about them.
Uber’s self-driving car unit has made little progress despite $2.5B price tag
I have a cluster of 3 RPi4 each with 4GB RAM because it is super difficult to get the 8GB spec.

The more the better because it is difficult to run multiple dbs or queue systems right now.
Seattle adopts minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers
Thats not accurate at all, Uranium itself is much cheaper than coal / any fuel per unit energy. Some contries have permanent, final storage for nuclear waste, it does not cost any more once created.

Furthermore, not only was solar power borderline non existent when those reactors were built, it is also still intermittent. You are just glossing over the biggest challenge of energy - balancing the powe grid. No-one needs energy if it's only avaliable at the wrong time. Energy storage multiplies cost of renewable electriciry several times over, and no country-scale grid has ever operated on wind and solar.

Lastly, energy is actually cheap - you can see that because we can afford transporting a pair of jeans 4 times across the world in the process of manufacture. We could have had zero-carbon grid since the 70s with nuclear - and France did. Even though France has cheapest energy in EU, suppose energy would be 30% more expensive. So what? We would be so much better off in terms of climate change.
Turtle graphics are a great way to introduce younger people to python. I modified the python turtle.py module to run a small 3d printed drawing robot running MicroPython to use in workshops at our local Makerspace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09BW6e14T1g
https://github.com/russhughes/turtleplotbot3
The justification that this group has come up with (and was sent to Mass voters as part of voter registration info!) doesn't even pass the smell test.

"Conor Yunits, the spokesman for the Coalition for Safe and Secure Data, said, "This ballot question will create easy opportunities for strangers, hackers and criminals to access consumer vehicles and personal driving data–including real-time location. It will put people at risk, without doing anything to improve the consumer experience."
Via
https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_t...
So your solution to people spending all of their UBI money frivolously is to give them even more money? (instead of helping them spend it on, say, essentials)
> The reason I don't mention "I see you are opening my emails" is because it makes people uncomfortable.

So you do acknowledge that it is creepy and undesired, and your solution instead of not doing it is just to not mention it but do it anyway. Classy.

> To blame a small business owner producing quality widgets and their marketing guys for the society we create jointly is immature at best.

We're not doing that jointly buddy. You are the one doing it and you only get away with it by trying to hide it as you mentioned just above.
If you read through the entire article, that is part of the point. It's an interesting take on how the judicial system was used in the 1800s with animal cruelty.
Liberals: Ready to Watch Your Pathetic Candidate Get Reamed on National TV?
Good point on the loop, I hadn't thought about that, thanks for correcting me.

On the error messages, I was thinking even clearer for beginners, giving them the whole statement, to avoid uncertainties around where the quotes should be included in '(true)'. Maybe even a shortcut to paste the corrected line in their terminal.

echo $(true)
^
fish: $(...) is not supported. In fish, please use '(true)', like:

echo (true)

Alt+r will insert this line in your terminal.
It's not just that the fusion only occurs in the core, but the fusion rate is also very low; it's only because the sun is so incredibly massive that this slow reaction rate can self-sustain. With a much smaller fusion reactor, the reaction rate needs to be much higher to keep itself going and to create enough power to run the electromagnets that keep it confined.
Uranium and even enriched uranium is still reasonably cheap. Fuel rods get expensive, and more critically only using up ~5% of a fuel rod before you need to replace it gets even more expensive. Other reactor designs can use a higher percentage of uranium without reprocessing, but they have other issues. In the end fuel including waste disposal represents about 10% of nuclear reactors operating costs or ~1c/kWh. It’s a significant but hardly gamebreaking cost.
I also wrote a book with O'Reilly and have collaborated on several more with other publishers and indies. I have to say working with the folks at O'Reilly was my best publishing experience by far. Even if I didn't get an animal cover. Not that I'm complaining... but you know, maybe a bat or a weasel or something would have been nice, just sayin'.
Oh I already posted about this higher up. Struggling right now at home with it. Maybe someone will make a non-stick coating one day that'll help, but the water doesn't dislodge anything that hits the porcelain, and sometimes the paper just spins around without going down.
It seems like this is coming down to a wager that you can get security updates out faster than a distro. Short-term this is probably true, long-term I doubt it. The incentives are not there for you.

If a 10 year old game has been abandoned, I don't mind testing or recompiling it for some security updates. I've done this for lots of open source games. I personally would never work on a closed source game, so most of what you/Ethan are talking about doesn't concern me. The situation changes when you stop trying to sidestep distro maintainers, and start committing to working with them. I get that it's inconvenient to do that and you're not just being difficult, but surely you know the trade-offs.
I don't understand how it's misrepresenting the data. :)

94% of COVID deaths had comorbidities, often serious. The average number of comorbidities is more than 2.

Can you clarify how this is misrepresenting the data?
Further fucked:

function compress(data){
return data.replace(/(?<=(\w+)=[^&]*)&\1=/g,',');
}

I say: do replace after all!

(Javascript didn't have zero-width look-behinds at the time)
Engineers found the location of an elusive leak on the space station
Was cocaine on Wall Street considered smart? Cause this has been there a long time.
>We have lots of issues in the US that some people feel are unfair, and we've been pretty successful approaching those problems through the democratic process rather than picking some randos off the street to decide them.

Err, the democratic process is about giving an equal voice called the vote to all randos off the street. (Not that it's implemented particuraly democratically in the US).

Not to mention that the original Athenian Democracy did just that: used (alongiside voting) the election of random people off the streets as a counter-measure for representiveness.
Disney to Cut 28,000 Jobs in One of Biggest Layoffs of Covid Era
I followed this before it was live. Super-extensive work.
> [I]n April 2019, Amazon contracted with a new clinic for its injured Colorado workers: Advanced Urgent Care & Occupational Medicine, a local operation that promoted itself online as “OSHA-Sensitive.”

> According to the Advanced website, Julie Parsons, then its occupational medicine medical director, believed in “treating injuries such that they are not OSHA recordable, if possible.”

> A nurse practitioner who worked at the clinic said she dreaded seeing Amazon patients because she didn’t think she would be able to treat them appropriately. She said she remembers an Amazon worker who came to the clinic in a lot of pain from a wrist injury, crying and asking, “Can’t you do something?”

> “I’m really sorry,” the nurse practitioner recalled telling her. “There’s really not a whole lot I can offer you right now.”

Is there a RICO-equivalent to medical malpractice? This is conspiracy and fraud, aside from what should be a blistering class action lawsuit.

Part of the reason I don't think we should tamp down too hard on a lawfirm's share of monetary damages is because there should be large (well-funded) firms who would salivate to take on such a case against Amazon, even if it could take 10 years to go through, even if it might fail in the end.
The claim is not that it's a linear relationship, it's a step function. There's a threshold where you spend enough to get a high enough quality that it lasts longer and saves money. Beyond that you reach diminishing returns and you're paying for minor luxuries or status symbols.
The author says "collapse", but all they discuss is civil war. People dying from a pandemic that is effecting the entire globe is not remotely close the the circumstances of the Sri Lankan civil war. Deaths from violent acts are still very low.
You could replace, "black" in that sentence with a whole bunch of other things. There's nothing special about race, and their shouldn't be. Again, multiple factors of variation. If someone is focused on "poverty" it's not that they find black people being disproportionately affected acceptable, it's that they have exercised their judgement and don't see it as a priority. And (IMO) rightly so.

Now you can make the argument that 99% of people don't give a shit, and only care about themselves. But that leads you more down the path of effective alturism than BLM, again because the former doesn't ignore the other factors of variation.

For those who genuinely care about the state of the world, and have identified issues that in their judgement that are more pressing, or those who do care but are currently busy keeping their own heads above the water for whatever reason, the accusations that they believe the current situation is acceptable are at best tone deaf and at worst downright insulting.
we wouldn't need more bureaucratic legislation if you stopped spying on people for profit. Are you such an immature child that you need a figure of authority to threaten you with a punishment for you to stop doing what you know is wrong?
PCs are availble from lots of different brands, you can even build your own from components. Game consoles are developed, built and produced by one and only one company: You can't buy an Xbox compatible console not from MS, neither a Playstation compatible device not from Sony. And you can't build your own. Therefore, the developer has to shoulder all the R&D and associated costs upfront. For game consoles we are accepting that the developer should be able to recoupe that cost by getting a share of all games sold. We even accept the idea that some consoles are sold at a loss.

For PCs, there is no central developer shouldering all the R&D costs. You can choose Windows as an OS, or some Linux or even (not legally, but technical) macOS. Lots of licensing and cross marketing deals going on. ("Intel inside," anyone?) You can build a single PC or a series of 50 or 50.000 without much R&D cost (but you won't have an ecosystem or a loyal user base you can control and monetize).

But you can't build an iPhone or iPad compatible device, nor can you buy one without an Apple logo. So, iPhones are in that regard far more comparable to game consoles than 08/15 PCs built from standard components. And it seems kind of consequential that Apple wants to be able to get their share from everything that uses their R&D (and platform and user base).

Being subpar has nothing to do with it, that's for the customers to vote with their wallets.
Introducing the Green Premiums
>They do advertise the ipad like that. But that is a ridiculous marketing statement imo. You basically can't install any software.

Yeah, there are only about 1 million and a half applications (including MS office, Adobe Photoshop and so on) plus web apps available...
A Texas Tycoon Throws Millions at the Covid-19 Testing Puzzle
Does the equation change for you if the person has children without basic needs met?
What happened to General Fusion's steam piston design? It seemed like such an elegant concept.
> You accused me of contacting people without consent, AKA spamming.

I know reading is hard, but that’s not what I said at all. I’m talking about whether people consent to the spying/tracking that you have already admitted you do.

Stop putting words in my mouth and then calling them lies. Learn to read, and then address what I actually said, not what you made up that I didn’t say.
Amazon will now let you pay with your palm in its stores
Mandelbulb – Searching for the Mandelbrot Set in Higher Dimensions
> Writing a blog post just takes energy in a way that writing on forums simply does not.

The key here is the interlocutor. Trying to write an interesting post for a general reader is a dauting task hence the energy. Try to materialize that reader a bit more, even if mentally. Or write in dialog form :)
I support Epic in this fight, but I agree with the Judge that "market" definitions in casual conversation have become so narrow as to be meaningless. I regularly see posters here unironically assert examples such as "general-knowledge search engine ads", "image-based social media", etc.

Anything can be a monopoly if you arbitrarily define its market as congruent with its market share.
Well 'recent' is since 2012, which I suspect the vast majority of Nvidia gpus out there are newer than that.
Admiral Rickover was a smart dude. But none of these points are applicable here. This development here is about fusion, not fission, those who are pursuing it are not amateurs at all, they are MIT people and they are not shy to pick up a wrench and use it in a lab. One by one, the points made by Rickover against his adversaries are not relevant here:

1. It is simple: no, nobody says here that fusion is simple.

2. It is small: well, this one is small compared to ITER, but nobody's saying it's small in an absolute sense.

3. It is cheap: sure, compared to the billions and billions poured into ITER, this is dirt, dirt cheap, but still, they have secured $200MM so far, and they will need more money until they build an actual reactor.

4. It is light: really not applicable here, since nobody's thinking of putting these reactors in submarines (which is what Rickover was really talking about).

5. It can be built very quickly: sure, the time horizon is less than the perpetual 30 years of the old fusion reactor proposals, but it's not going to be "very quick",

6. It is very flexible in purpose: no, for the time being, something that just works is fine, nobody cares about flexibility,

7. Very little development is required, it will use mostly off-the-shelf components: nope, there will be plenty of very custom made components developed for just this purpose, and lots and lots of development are required.

8. The reactor is in the study phase. it is not being built now: it is both in the study phase and being built.

In the end, what was Rickover's agenda: some people were competing with him for government funding for nuclear reactor R&D in general, and for naval nuclear reactors in particular. All those people were a nuisance to him, he had to go and plead for funds again and again, so he decided to write this letter to put this thing to rest once and for all. He managed.

But here it's fusion. Commonwealth Fusion is privately funded, they are not looking for government funding, and they are not making inflated representations to the public. They are actually keeping a low profile in general. The message of this article is simply "this time there is a glint of hope", nothing more.
It's nice that he is acknowledged. Sometimes Everest seems a little like hollywood - you see the image of a person at the summit, who becomes famous - and you wonder how many unacknowledged people are in the film crew behind the camera?
Nuclear has the opposite problem as solar in that it needs high uptime 24/7 to stay reasonably economical. You can easily design a grid following reactor as seen with nuclear subs etc, it just doesn’t save you any money.

24/7 365 grid scale battery backed and thus load following solar runs about 8c/kWh* which is cheaper than nuclear at high utilization. Sure, France’s model of importing and exporting significant chunks of electricity allowed them to ramp up nuclear, but they where exporting power at a loss and utilization still fell into the 80% range.

*Excluding the most northern and southern areas.