skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was expecting to see Arthur C. Clarke's "Fountains of Paradise" (where I first heard about space elevators), but it looks like this isn't aimed at technological ideas, more straight science. Though "telescopes" is one of the categories.

Glad to see Poul Anderson's "Tau Zero" on the list - that made a big impression on me when I read it back in the 70s.

Fun that Ted Chiang's "Exhalation" shows up in 3 different categories. Stunning story. I would have included his "Tower of Babylon" story as well - in cosmology <g>.
From my other comment here, I think you have a race condition or something like that in your code, or as the peer comment suggests scheduling contention on the CPU, which is causing this effect in your test.

For a real-world measurement, see:

>> "Windows event object was used but it takes 6-7us from SetEvent() to WaitForSingleObject() return on my machine

The person measured 6-7 microseconds.

The system timer is not interrupting that fast.
As much as I want to hate Prop 13 for everything, I don't think that's the issue here. People going to the exburbs to buy houses seem to choose large, traditional single family homes and you can only fit so many of those into the developed areas. I don't think exburbs like Pleasanton, Temecula, Santa Clarita, etc exist because people couldn't find affordable housing in SF, SD or LA. They exist because people can't find affordable single-family homes with modern amenities for a reasonable price in those markets.

That said, there is still the problem of rural residents who never wanted to live in the city to begin with. Nature lovers, independent types, and folks with jobs outside the city are still often living in unsafe conditions and providing them with affordable urban housing isn't going to convince them to relocate.
Obviously not directly, the matters developed quite complex. The early forms of slavery and "freed slave ruling class" co-evolved and mixed with existing clan systems into a system of so called "secret societies" that are active until today. There is still a strong correlation of some of these societies with access to wealth and power (I guess this is what your question pointed to...). However the civil war with its war lord groups and the main political fighting fronts stirred this up further and created new inter-twined power-structures. Things are further complicated by a general fear to talk about them or investigate the exact situation (hence the name "secret" society). It was not uncommon to find someone who investigated and asked too many questions without a head in front of a government building. If I remember correctly, I even had to sign a contract before being deployed to never mention secret societies or ask or talk to anyone about them. The main criticism apart from inequality to access of opportunity and intransparency were that some groups still practice genital mutilation of girls and enforce strong extremely conservative initiation and gender roles as well as problematic medical practices and superstition.
I'd point out that many things are not binary.
Yes. Some people use it wrong in a professional setting and it's really hard to correct without basically building a blacklist of cases where they used it wrong.
Probably - in 15-20 years from now. IMHO they typically wait a bit too long.

Right now Moderna's generalized approach towards creating a vaccine seems like a pretty good candidate for a Nobel prize in like 2035-2040.
Excellent point. 100% agree.
> No, they aren't.

Scientists disagree with you.

> No, it is judged by the community of people who engage in the scientific enterprise.

That community of people judge theories using the aforementioned axioms.

> No axioms are required to make these observations, nor to come up with the explanation that the reason that everyone agrees on all these things is that there are, in point of actual fact, sources of light out there in some objective physical reality.

You seem to be ignorant of the fact that observations are theory-laden.
"published in Nature Energy"

Sounds pretty unbiased
To clarify, no, this is a complete non-sequitor. The ability for a type system to do inference has no bearing on whether or not the types are checked or not. To make things even more confusing, as an example, python can have type inference (pytype) or not (mypy). In either case, annotations are type checked.
I’ma patent attorney. I’ve never heard that he’s biased, only that he’s competent.
Now monetize it with hCaptcha
Except programming languages state clearly what's going to happen.. excel.. eh, not really. It's hidden.
This is fun because steel was once a very valuable metal prior to 1850 it was a specialist material produced in low volume for purposes like weaponry. So when the penny was first minted it would have been insane to waste valuable steel on making coins, let alone the penny, but by 1992 steel was so cheap that it was the obvious choice for a cheaper core.
I like adding | as an alias for Union, and the PEP has lots of examples of where typing.Union gets gnarly really quick, but that doesn't seem like a great example in the changelog:

def square(number: int | float) -> int | float:
return number ** 2

A TypeVar constrained to int and float, T = TypeVar('T', int, float), should be used instead to indicate that the return type is the same as the argument type, no?
We call American elk wapiti in NZ, which I guess is a Native American name for them, and we consider them to be distinct from red deer - there's active management of the wapiti population (which is limited to Fiordland) to try to minimise hybridisation with red deer.
This is a problem of society zeroing in on the most convenient technology. You still today are not forced to buy a phone nor a car, but if you want any chance of making a living more than 5 miles away from your home (well, depending on how far you can walk or bike) you need both a cell phone for receiving work-related communication and a car for getting to/from work on time. The problem is that 99%+ of society sees that receiving cooler, better tech (like a faster phone or a more efficient car) is a worthy tradeoff for the issues that only <%1 of consumers aren't happy with.
i'd much rather we (speaking as an american, but applicable more broadly) just rebased down 1 order of magnitude, so whatever a dollar buys today, you could instead buy with a dime. we could even let change appreciate immediately, which would be a nice little gift for the folks who tend to hold change (not rich people), but issue different paper money while exchanging the old bills out of circulation. concommitantly, we should rethink inflation as economy driver and impetus of the time value of money, which causes this devaluation in the first place.
New Almaden predates prop 13 by over a century.
What do you mean by snitch? I think it's a perfectly valid reason to "snitch" if the driver was truly at fault.

There's some great reasons for driver-facing cameras- and if one of those trade-offs is that drivers are less likely to "get away" with causing a crash, then that's fine in my books.

Bias feels like a different argument entirely, though I do share your concern about it...
From my perspective a huge amount of features/modes/choices in things are rarely used things that a minority might want but most people never use, so things could be much simpler. I’ve never used an Android device because I would probably go down an unproductive rabbit hole of customizing and debugging etc. iOS cuts down on my freedom but frees up mental energy for more meaningful uses.
Thanks to the poster for submitting this.

I'm just now reading the last of the Culture Series[0] by Ian Banks (not included in the list, and for good reason) and will be looking for something new soon.

I didn't see Nightfall[1] in the list (although I just skimmed, so it may be there), which (indirectly) addresses orbital dynamics in a system with multiple stars. Perhaps it should be included?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_an...
Oh, I completely agree. That was one of the "couple of problems" in my initial reply!
There is a more detailed overview of some of the new stuff here: https://realpython.com/python39-new-features/
What about changing it to optional on the server side, and clients that don't upgrade will always send that required payload and you will know to parse it but then ignore it. Updated clients know its optional and also ignore it and don't set it. Once you have low frequency of messages containing that required field you can do the final cleanup.
> the worlwide [sic] terrorists

Who are you talking about?
The whole idea of diagnosis as a point estimate is inherently flawed. The deliverable for a diagnostician ought to be a distribution over diagnoses. Duh. Learn 2 probability, docs
Those towns are quite old. Once a town exists, in a non-totalitarian country, it is virtually impossible to get rid of it, no matter how impractical.
> its coming to dominate the games industry as well

Really? I was of the impression that Unity C# is the old, established player in this space, while Godot (which supports C# but doesn’t force it at all) is growing among hobbyists and indies and may eventually pass the current popularity of Blender in VFX and go on to dominate the games industry in a few years or a decade.
I searched for products to compare to and found these:

http://www.ergoquest.com/overbed-workstations.html

These contraptions cost more than my car... But they do seem to be safer. Nothing hanging above the user's head.
> Society has conditioned us to believe that reliable power for ... life-sustaining applications is something that we can't live without

> A modest proposal

Oh yes, I was taken aback by the sleight-of-hand tricks in the article, and I was keen to take some of the ideas to their logical conclusions while using a similar form of argumentation. I notice that there was a link to a Jonathan Swift article posted earlier, as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683397.
you gotta love the impartial quality of the Forbes op-ed section

"It is very sad that America’s tax system is so onerous that some rich people feel they have no choice but to give up U.S. citizenship in order to protect their family finances. I’ve written about this issue before, particularly in the context of Obama’s class-warfare policies leading to an increase in the number of Americans “voting with their feet” for places with less punitive tax regimes."

guy makes it sound like some immigrant father with 10k in the mattress was going to get fleeced by the authorities
This is going to sound harsh but I feel it is true and inevitable.
If you are not using an experience-based approach you are not doing your job. People seek doctors precisely because they are supposed to have experience. Medical school is many years long precisely so you can build that experience.
If you just execute algorithms based on evidence you are a prime target for automation.
Those in my profession (software) will automate your role away and do it better and faster and more available and more reliable. Because you make it easy for us. We may be cursed to solve only 80% of any problem but if you solve even less, we still end up ahead.

My point, all of the interest and investment in AI diagnosis (IBM Watson comes to mind, but the field is decades old) is caused precisely by the poor practices in the medical field. It is of course naive to think we will solve medicine with software. But we only need to be better than average just like self driving cars are not aming to be perfect, just better than average.

Be a HUMAN doctor and we will need AGI to replace you. Be a robot and you will be replaced by an actual robot.

(note: I do not believe technology is the solution here. I am just a bit pissed after a doctor prescribed stuff without even touching or looking at an acquaintance.)
You are correct. The USFS does not need any kind of state permit to issue timber leases. The reason the national forests in the west are under-harvested is because of economics. It is much less expensive to obtain wood products from industrial tree farms in the US south, or abroad, than it is to cut them in the mountains of the west. Currently, national forest lease activity stands near an all-time low.
> Forest management alone at any level cannot prevent these massive fires from happening.

Do you have a source for that?

Even with climate change, surely there are ways to mitigate it with the better forest management everyone is talking about? So that they're no longer "massive" but merely "regular"?

Why does it have to be either/or? Climate change is a global issue, California fires are a local one. And Californians seem to be the most climate-conscious of people in any state.
SEPA same day is free in a lot of countries from my experience setting up bank automation for various corporate clients. Not sure if it’s free for people though.
While this is true, everything is not cast in stone, people are changing positions and opportunities are rising. The org structure in most places is dynamic, additionally leaders usually happy to delegate their responsibilities.
It already has replaced those (or prevented them from ever catching on) in thousands of companies. .NET was always fast and highly productive, and the last 5 years of .NET Core have taken it to the next level.

The language stack is unmatched in terms of how quickly you can make a high-quality product across many different platforms.
Interesting! I used to have a Morgan car, and the seat was a blow-up to which I'd add or remove air to change my position. It helped avoid discomfort on long-distance trips.
Not a history of being tired. A history of falling asleep. That’s completely different and knowing that you regularly fall asleep at the wheel is akin to murdering someone that doesn’t deserve it. If only the driver died then I wouldn’t care at all but too often others die that don’t deserve it.
Wait until you read that they’re moving to yearly releases...

I love python but these short release cycles can be really annoying.
I think the difference here is that some places have easy access to public transportation while most places in the US do not. People that live in one situation don't realize that people live in the other and how different it makes life. I've lived across the US and it has been vastly different.

I grew up in Southern California where one time my car broke down and my 20 minute commute (mostly highway) turned into a 2hr bus ride while my car was in the shop. Once I was an hour late to work because the bus came and went before it was scheduled for that stop. I've lived in a rural town in the south where no public transportation even existed. There wasn't even a way for most people to walk into town because there weren't even sidewalks. A few people biked, but it was pretty well known that if you weren't on a $5k bike riding in the nice area of town you had a DUI and were riding your kid's bike to get to work. I would have had to walk along a highway (a 30 minute walk) just to get to the store (I saw people doing this too). I've been in the Bay and NYC where busses have to wait at stops and there is light rail. Now I live in a city where I rarely drive my car and using my bike is easier to get around. These situations are very different and frankly I don't think people understand this.

The problem is that most of the US doesn't have infrastructure to relieve people of the choice between driving and being safe because they have to maintain their job. In many places there aren't even enough population density to make this economically feasible (aka profitable or net even). Someone was mentioning that technology can't solve this problem, but frankly this seems like the exact problem autonomous vehicles solve. Light rail is great, but it isn't a practical technology for most of the country.
> but issue different paper money while exchanging the old bills out of circulation

While they're at it they could bring the notes into the 20th century by making them distinguishable from a distance and less easily damaged. If you need to distinguish the old notes from the new ones to prevent anyone getting scammed, might as well kill two or three birds with the one stone.
I look Google's product, because it (looks?) like it would work with static sites, like GitHub pages.
How would that work if you have 4€ and you need a train ticket and a snack for your journey? Your ability to buy a chocolate bar and a ticket would depend on a dice roll, even though you have enough money?
I really enjoy how TS is the same on server and client. The C# runtime is way richer, but I like the TS type system more. Not sure I’d want to use different platforms on backend/front end even if C# did server rendering like React.
We need to stop accepting data in Excel. Full stop. One day it’s going to kill someone.
"The mod requested could not be found."

I believe the correct link is: https://openxcom.mod.io/orchestra-of-the-deep
Uhh- the thing about not knowing you're sleepy until you fall asleep is not normal. The other discussion in this thread about whether or not its morally OK to drive drowsy does not apply to your situation. Definitely do not drive until you've had a sleep study done and been cleared by a doctor. The usual situation that is being discussed in this thread is where you are already tired and drowsy and decide to drive because you don't have a choice. Your situation sounds like a different medical condition of some sort, and (not a lawyer but) the fact that you are aware of this condition might mean you'd still be guilty of the same crime as someone who decided to drive when drowsy and fell asleep before causing an accident.
The closest example I can think of is the lyft fist bump (which is gone now I believe)
I think climate change is a red herring. Sure, it’s real, and sure, it has some effect on making California’s wildfires more intense. But California’s recent fires are “extreme and unusual” only in their intensity, not their extent. Crunching the numbers from historical burn frequencies before European colonization, California burned a lot more than we’ve allowed it to in the last century, and even in the last few years of “extreme” wildfires, we’re still far from reaching the amount of acreage that historically burned on a yearly basis. Anthropogenic climate change definitely wasn’t why California’s forests experienced a wildfire every couple of decades in the 1500s, and incorrectly blaming the issue on climate change just gives ammunition to opponents of climate change. People in California want to blame the problem on climate change because it absolved them of the need to admit that people really shouldn’t live in the woods, and that most people who live there need to move so that the locations currently containing communities built into woodland can be allowed to burn every 20-30 years.
Not talking about their advice only, WHO has been actively spreading false information since the beginning of the crisis, in full accord with China's narrative

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-transmission-coronavi...
Are there any good resources on combining projects Orleans and Coyote?

https://microsoft.github.io/coyote/
500k Sharks Will Be Killed to Make Coronavirus Vaccine
no but the comment that this comment is replying to is not a normal case of a drowsy driver - it is definitely not normal to not know you are drowsy until you already fall asleep, and that is wildly dangerous
Hardware is still definitely available. ADSL2+ (up to 24mbit/sec) is still pretty popular (I would imagine still over 100m+ active lines globally) and is 100% backwards compatible.

Nearly every VDSL modem/router and DSLAM is also compatible all the way back to ADSL1, at least that I've seen.
No one is saying driving is a right. They are saying that if you want to have a job you need a car (in some areas of America). Even moreso if you want a job that pays above minimum wage. The problem is that there is a high pressure to put people in these situations, where the consequence for them has a large impact on their life if they don't put themselves in the risky situation.
Melting Ice Reveals Mummified Penguins in Antarctica
It's a "Microsoft Framework", it's going to be enterprise-y Design-Patterns, convoluted abstractions, Dependency-Injection-on-Dependency-Injection and MS specific code/libs all the way down.
Now if they could just rework the look of the front...

Seems cool, but I prefer to drive myself. Maybe I'm not cut out to be an executive? IDK
That's a great achievement, given how annoying the flood in Venice is... but it's not all rosy.

Corruption. Overspending. Dubious technical choices.

I would look at the Netherlands as a model for the next place to face a similar challenge.
> Also, many of the folks that are around my age have switched careers away from development

Or switched into it! Got my first development job at 35 after a career in graphic design.
https://mobx.js.org/defining-data-stores.html#combining-mult...
In general, EU countries only extradite for things which are crimes locally (and to places where the extraditee won’t be executed). This fits both criteria so it’s fairly normal (and who’d want to hold onto McAffee?)
this is a very hyperbolic headline. A 24% growth on 11k cars is not as much as that number suggests.

Also a lot of people in the comment section seem to extrapolate from Germany to Europe, which is actually wrong as Tesla is facing heavy competition and actually losing ground (https://imgur.com/VEIB4mZ). I guess that's the kind of misleading narrative that these articles provoke
You can already do that by running Node with SSR (or any npm/js code) in .NET using Node Services [1] or use ReactJS.NET that packages everything for you [2].

But Microsoft won't officially do any more since they have Blazor which lets you run C#/.NET in the browser with both client-side WASM and server-side SignalR/websocket running modes. It's much more advanced and functional than React already. [3]

1. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/ASPNET-Events/ASPNET-Fall-S... 2. https://reactjs.net/ 3. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
Not entirely sure of that exact setup but usually the "monopoly" ISP will terminate the connection to the "resselling ISP" in some sort of IP tunnel. The underlying physical connection is basically invisible to the reselling ISP and it just looks like a normal IP tunnel they can route to and from. The ISP providing the physical connection bills the reselling ISP a wholesale rate for the connection, which then bills the end customer.
Yeah but there's a difference between seeking asylum and not feeling like paying taxes.
I think our company has a company-wide license for Office. When IT sets up a machine you get it automatically. Microsoft works hard to get those kind of setups to be common-place.
You should try Blazor first: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUstep
Not sure if it is on the same level of realism as those listed for evertyhign, but "The Expanse" series by James S. A. Corey for me was a breath of fresh air.

The book really considers things like the time it would take to go from Earth to Mars, or the edge of the Solar System, and also take into account gravity forces in battles and other events.

It still has a lot of very sci-fi things in some areas, but it was very interesting to see that going from Earth to somewhere after Neptune really took 8+ months for the passengers, including some of the psychological stress of spending that much time together on a small ship.

The TV Series is also good but misses a lot of those little things that the books explicitly deal with. It became my favorite book series because of that.

No magically going to another galaxy in the blink of an eye. Going to another planet always required planning, sacrifices, time, etc. In addition it also has some pretty nice politics compared to other space stories.
I'm from New Zealand, so maybe! never knew it was not a thing in America.
Thanks for the response, and good luck with your studies.