skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to understand, and hopefully address, a problem, a proper understanding is quite helpful, if not always essential.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2fsr0g/hierarc...

This essay addresses etiology.

My key point has been to join the three ills which seem to be the subject of much present discussion as having a common enabling factor. And that discussing the issues separately or without consideration of etiology has little value. Sometimes the answer will be dismantling sometimes it will be to modify governance, ensuring public, social, and or commonweal orientation; sometimes to create counterveilling power blocs to balance forces.
You don’t need a law for something a consumer can vote with their money. If annoying price structures are that bad, a competitor will create a superior pricing system that takes away marketshare. If that doesn’t happen, then it’s probably not a big deal. Adding laws increases the complexity to comply.
This finding is real science. The patent you cite is unrelated and 100% bullshit.

For example, it states preposterous sentences such as this:

"The fact that the fine structure constant can be expressed as a function of (2e) shows how important the notion of electron pairing is in the composition of the Universe, and gives credence to the theory that the fundamental cosmic meta-structure may be thought of as a charged superfluid, in other words, a superconducting condensate."

This guy is a scammer who was able to bamboozle his patent attorneys, presumably he gets some incentive to publish patents?
> Apple fibs about...

You aren't an American television news network reporting on politicians, and you don't need to pretend that a mega-corporation told a cute little "fib". They lied. That's the word to use.
I remember the iPhone launching as an AT&T exclusive or something back in the day. Did whichever US carrier it was get the same duration of exclusive placement?
While I agree that it is an interesting finding, the lede of "at room temperatures" buries the fact that using a median of 330-360 gigapascals as a measure of the earths' internal pressure equates to a pressure of 8223639745.0093 pounds per square foot. (Rough calculations based on 3,300,000 to 3,600,000 atm for the Earths' inner core)

[Edit to correct the maths] = 5325785739.6251 pounds per square foot.
I think this is the first time i've seen someone say that Sweden's approach involved unnecessary restrictions, but it's an opinion. Maybe lots of people think this I just haven't been talking to them.

We agree that "limited and targeted (high bang-for-buck) measures" are called for, I guess we just disagree on what sorts of things they plausibly should be? I'm not sure why you are making this into a disagreement on 'a priori' or whatever.

The thing with a 50-person limit is it is easy to understand and easy to comply with. A limit about number of people per cubic meter... the harder it is to know if you are doing it or not, the lower compliance there will be, whether voluntary or with penalties. It makes sense to approximate for comprehensibility -- since it's based on imperfect data in the first place, we certainly don't know the exact risk level of various densities or types of gatherings, only guesses based on imperfect data. (It would be really good to be investing in trying to get better guesses.) It's already an approximation no matter what. That doesn't mean it won't be effective at limiting infection, it is not damned by being an approximation, whether expressed in terms of people per cubic foot or no gatherings over 50 people.

Telling people "hey, just a as a rule of thumb you should 'distance', to whatever degree you think appropriate, but it's up to you" will, I am pretty confident, have very little effect on anyone's behavior. At least not in the U.S. Maybe in Sweden.
The act of secretly (or I guess not so secretly now) monitoring civilian information is a loss of a freedom in and of itself. Freedom from undue government interference in an otherwise normal citizen's life. It's existence is confirmation in and of itself, another overreach.
I think this is one of the few aspects where tumblr is more logical than other social networks, by using a subdomain for each user instead of the path.

I think reddit accepts this too to some extent - for example, programming.reddit.com will redirect you to reddit.com/r/programming.
Mars doesn't need a magnetic field, without it it takes hundreds of millions of years to lose its atmosphere. It's probably much easier to just top it up a bit every few million years.
Thanks for the feedback and suggestion!

For the contrast: you have a good point. I'm seeing if I can do something, but I am seeing a good variety of sales across packages. I might just leave it for today, come back to it later.

For pricing: I'm aiming to optimize for reach over revenue for this one. I'd like to keep the book affordable, and give people a good deal. But by people paying, I'm hoping to target those who will actually read it, over just download numbers. I especially would not want to overcharge as resume advice is... a subjective field, and no one can guarantee results (maybe some gurus say they can, but I don't want to be that guru).

Originally, the whole book was supposed to be two pages in the next book I'm (still) writing on growing as a software engineer, in the job search section [1]. I just hope the other parts won't expand as much as this one has :)

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/book/
From what I can see using a very basic understanding of superconductivity, in that patent superconductivity is achieved by:

1) Taking a wire, and mechanically inducing a wave of lattice vibrations
2) Firing a pulse of electricity down the wire to "ride the wave" of superconductivity produced

whereas normal superconductors (including this one) produce superconductivity because the first positively charged electrons in a wave of current "pulls up" the negatively charged lattice behind it as it passes over creating a wave that attracts the second wave of electrons traveling behind (which in turn does the same to the third.)
Yes please, we would really love that!
Can you shoot me a note at lucia@osmind.org?
Thank you :)
I would suggest you look at it as not too soon, and cancelled without completing the story.

Glow is one of the latest instances. They paid the actors for season 4, but never produced season 4. It left with a very unsatisfying ending.

Will I ever recommend anyone with Glow on Netflix? no, because I can't tell them "Hey, watch this show on Netflix, but it doesn't have an ending and likely never will"

It's similar to how I'll never recommend The Kingkiller Chronicles or a Song of Ice and Fire. Because doing so would mean that someone reading those would probably never have an ending.

This is where I feel Netflix is hurting themselves. They're producing all this content and then never finishing it. Their catalog is going to start looking like a bunch of incomplete shows.

I think it's fine if you have a show with a short run. One season that finishes properly? Great! Two seasons? Great! but ending before it finishes is just as bad as continuing on forever with no end goal.
The whole point is that the competitor can't compete because the consumer is being lied to about the price in the first place—which they don't know until it's too late.
That was an afterthought, so that japanese companies didn't think they were directly tied to Microsoft.
Agreed that I think this is pretty much the only reason why, and it makes sense for them to do that; what's the point of selling 5G on a flagship phone if you can't even get past 4G speeds on other networks' "5G"?
Why? It's apple, they not only have the resources and expertise to manage multiple relationships, but they have the market power to drain HUGE number of subscribers from the company by announcing the iPhone wouldn't be available at Verizon if they didn't play along with apple's demands.

This dishonesty (plus the huge verizon plug in keynote) doesn't look like having carriers bend over, it looks more like apple bending over. Which makes no sense, apple could probably (almost) buy verizon in all cash if they wanted.

What's crazier, is that (in 2020) 5g is just not that important or valuable. So why is any company (except infrastructure companies) really putting in this much marketing effort?
> Politically-motivated violence waged in violation of the law' (excluding situations of organized war) is the most likely the least controversial definition of terrorism.

It is not, nor is it even compatible with the protoypical example from which the term terrorist derives, since the original Terror and the Terrorists who executed it operated entirely within and through the power of the State. Non-state terrorism is a more recent extension of the definition. Nor does it even capture the mechanism of intended effect which defines terrorism (the whole part that motivates the reference to "terror".)

Britannica and, somewhat surprisingly, WordNet have probably the best general definitions I can quickly locate, "calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective" and "the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear".
Isn't hackernews meant to be politics free? Would be great if there was at least one place we didn't need to read these tiresome comments from people who can't comprehend that others have different value systems.
I had some friends who’s kids were like that and couldn’t believe it. Ours went to sleep at 8 and woke up at 5:30-6am just naturally.

As they get older of course, they want to sleep a lot later.
I was surprised that TFA asserted that WebP could be "used everywhere."

macOS Safari users must upgrade to Big Sur to support WebP. Only a brave few devs are on Big Sur currently.
I am willing to bet next year iPhone 13 will start at 128GB for the same price. Giving you the perception it is now $50 cheaper due to the increase in storage.
>In high temperature superconductors, it looks like the electrons are at least partially bound by interaction with phonons. The high pressures change the speed of sound, and therefore change how easily Cooper pairs form.

Interesting. Do we know if it possible to disrupt superconductivity with sound at just the right frequency? And the converse, has anyone tried to enhance superconductivity by using sound (i.e. increase either the critical temperature, increase the current density, etc)?
In a vacuum, sure.... but when they are removing ballot drop boxes that are already in place, you can’t say that it is because they didn’t forecast demand... it is intentionally reducing capacity after increased demand was already anticipated.
Still down for me.
HBO Westworld... Season 1 incredible, magical. Season 2 unraveled but was still interesting. Season 3 was just boring, nothing.
"Fourth-generation microprocessors". The Z80. Um... I... uh...

I mean, it was an earlier time, and it is at least partly marketing. But still, I find that phrase mind-blowing to refer to a Z80.

What were the first three generations, 4004, 8008, and 8080?

Also: The internal CPU registers are repeatedly described as "208 bits". That seems to me to be the least informative way possible to describe them.
Is it sad though? I mean, in the end this is the obvious consequence of an increase in the supply of devs.

If anything gives me hope is a world with more devs!
Wondering why you think this is better. Not sure the trade off of a messy dockerfile and/or adding a bunch of layers (possibly bloating the image size) is worth the trade off if the concern is just about forgetting to update the dockerignore. The same could be said about gitignore.
> "I felt a bit odd using exceptions as the core of this workflow..."

i've done something analogous before and it seemed to me the exception framework was the right abstraction to use (though other opinions are welcome!). in this particular case, it seems like the main problem is that the trigger exceptions are not sufficiently granular/appropriate to describe the exact exception condition on which to trigger read-only mode:

* ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid

* PG::InsufficientPrivilege

rather than "DatabaseDownForMaintenance".
Amusing to see for an x-ray crystallographer that the neutron scattering coefficient for tungsten carbide is actually lower than for pure carbon. Neutrons are weird.
We use Flask and Python with Postgres, and for the payments we use Stripe. Basically everything is automated, apart from withdrawing your winnings. That part is still manual for now as we haven't had the time.
For what it's worth, the classic Drake Equation is that old "back of the envelope" calculation they put together to try to ask this very question - what's the likelihood life evolved?

The problem with the drake equation is it had several variables for which we had no flippin idea what the values were. For example, supposing there are a bajillion stars (we know that much), then we have to multiply against how likely it is for those stars to have a planet - and at the time, the likelihood of planets was completely unknown.

That at least, is something that's changed in the last decade, thanks to new telescopes. We've addressed one of the Drake Equation's big unknowns: we now can hazard a guess that planets are extremely likely.

Sadly there are enough other unknowns that we still can't make any sort of conclusions, but at least the betting odds are going up.
Yes but Z80s were typically clocked at 4Mhz, and 6502s were more likely to be clocked at 1Mhz or so. Apples Vs Oranges. I started with Z80s and when I programmed a 6502 later I found, sure it's simple and orthogonal by comparison, all those good things. But it's not as much fun because there just aren't all the weird corners to explore. I think it's the mother syndrome at work.
I watch anime, and its great. Most shows only ever get one season. When they get more, its usually with a hiatus between seasons these days. The quality of US TV shows has finally risen in recent times, but they still haven't learned the value of a short run that ends permanently.
Congrats on the new PPL!

I love the app so far - but it would be amazing if the widget was location aware and could grab the METAR for the nearest reporting airport (that might be some work, but doable)

Thanks again and put all that App Store proceeds to good taildragger time! ;)
Even "herd immunity" requires a vaccine [0]!!!

"But it remains unclear whether these antibodies will protect individuals or generate herd immunity. Until there exist vaccines that can do both of those things, societies will need to continue to try to control the spread of the virus..." [1]

[0] https://www.jems.com/2020/08/18/who-herd-immunity-requires-e...
[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
This is a major life altering question. If we can't learn to all live together peacefully, learn to help each other solve problems here on earth; what makes anyone think that we will survive in space & beyond...

I love everything about space exploration, but I'm not naive enough to believe its the solution to our problems here on earth. One might argue its a distraction from our ongoing global humanitarian crisis.

People everyday are dying from lack of food, water, shelter, etc...

What time & money is spent on solving the galaxies mysteries, could be brain power backed capital used to solve our dire terrestrial affairs. IMHO...

Food for thought...
It’s feels good to be an asocial nerd. Like nothing really changed for me.
Looks interesting! Couple of things:

1. It's not clear to me how you actually secure the targets? Do you just enable access to the IP address of the controller proxy? In the video you mention a gateway but there's no description of that in the docs?

2. Is it possible to proxy a web browser session? Or is it limited to individual requests via something like curl at the moment?
I wonder if this has implications for fusion. In fusion, you have trememdous pressure outwards from the containment vessel due to the magnetic field "squishing" the plasma to a density that's enough to promote fusion and redirect scattering forces back inward.

Of course to create that magnetic field, you have to have superconductors very close to this superheated plasma. So the first thing to relate to this is there may be less cooling required.

The second thing is, and this is both a stretch AND possible a huge gain, but perhaps the required pressure for the superconduction can be provided by the inherent pressure of the fusion reactor core.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement#Environmental_...
I’ll tell mine.

- I do apps for businesses on the Atlassian Marketplace,

- First year was 3000€ (the whole year),

- Year 3 went over the engineer salary quite easily (we’re now a few employees and we gross ~200k€ for each worker).

- I’m a pretty hard worker, but I don’t believe I go over 40hrs/week in average if you count errands we run "exceptionally" the day (walks, meeting friends, etc) + 4 weeks holidays. Weekends may be at work, but I’m then less focussed during the week, so it evens out.

So it has been pretty easy bootstrapping. Of course life is hard, but it is hard for other jobs too.

I think the entrepreneurs’ biggest force is normal companies spend 50% of their workforce synchronizing with colleagues...

That comment was just to show there are happy stories. Big thanks to HN and especially Kalzumeus for teaching me how to do business. I’m forever indebted but, being extremely bitter with life, I’m currently bad at reimbursing. Currently. I still teach my experience to every school I can, though (but with more talks about the downsides of course).
> Almost no one goes to college in the US to play a sport.

I didn't mean that - I mean people applying for I don't know engineering or whatever having to compete by showing how good their extra-curriculars were.
What? So much of our constitution is designed to deal with bad people. It is why the whole idea of a balance of power is in place.
This is awesome! Great addition to the space. Another one I think is great is Sequoia their deck template https://www.slideshare.net/PitchDeckCoach/sequoia-capital-pi...
Different versions of the chip (different manufacturers, integrated into a larger IC..) just laid the RNG out a bit differently, I'm not sure what the reasons were.

There's a detailed comment at the top of MAME's emulation code for these chips (and a lot of parameters on the emulator's class constructor): https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/soun...
I see this as the logical progression of the destruction of traditional media. It began with Craigslist and the gutting of classifieds revenue. If media companies cannot see that allowing a gate keeper to control access to stories is going to put the nail in their coffin, they don't deserve to continue. This is most certainly the existential moment for newspapers in 2020, not for the censorship, but that the ability to censor does exist and it is being used.
Managing your hosts file with a CLI
I don't have any numbers to share, it's just my anecdotal impression.

I'm working on a platform for content creators (including blogging) so whenever I visit a blog I check the source code to see what they're using. It's not so often that I come up with a WP site to be honest, although I'm obviously biased in my interests.

> Matt Mullenweg's 50% market share goal isn't crazy hyperbole.

I agree, although it seems (again anecdotal impression) WP is a lot more common as a general purpose CMS.
It’s like saying that LUKS is bad because it doesn’t offer forward secrecy, or it’s more “cumbersome”; signal protocol is better.

There are different applications with different solutions.
PRISM is thing of the past... now they have FUCKYOU...
Yeah, I second this.

I would definitely be interested to learn more about approaching VCs at the pre-seed/seed stage & pre-revenue/product market fit. Some questions I would love to see answered:

How do you raise money in stealth mode? (not saying that stealth mode is good, but it's crazy that people raise large sums of money before having a public facing product).

How do you get in front of VCs who haven't heard of you yet? This seems a bit easier in a Series A round as your investors can talk to your seed investors and there's probably a crunchbase page of your company.

How do you give your business a valuation before it's launched? I've been struggling a lot with this one, I've ran through the TAM/SAM/SOM but honestly feels like a shot in the dark still.
Google Pixel 4a is for you.
Yeah. Companies tend to think "why get some of the profits when I can cut corners and get all of the profits". Especially when the corners aren't mandated by law (and even sometimes when the cut corners are mandated by law).
People had to create specialized languages for learning purpose to compete with builtin graphics feature of basic.
Not to mention dentists, doctors, hospitals, etc.

I have an eye doctor appt this week and I literally have no idea if it's gonna cost me $50 or $500.
It seems odd to call a $30 subsidy a lie when the industry standard was a 50%, 75%, or 100% subsidy just a few years ago.
I assume that quite often those are marketing & PR people who use special tools to track every mention of a product / company name.
Many companies (especially niche ones) buy those services that basically track the whole internet - so their representatives can comment on issues.

Bigger companies seem not to care that much, apart from maybe twitter? And those few thousand upvote posts on reddit.
Oh that's interesting, thanks for the additional detail! I'm intrigued by what you mean when you say: "tell the app to stay in read only mode until told otherwise". Does that mean use the read-only replica connection during that time? If so, did you have to configure some error handling for that timeframe?
If you think the retraction of voting rights is due to the actions of men some 300 years ago, I dont really have much to say... You might as well go back a few thousand years. However, if you're interested in the actual cause and effects of real, tangible actions and real legislation by living souls. People whose goals were to repress votes to change outcomes, I suggest you study the last 30 years of American media and how the Right morphed the rules to their benefit.
It's blowing my mind to think that all these dots are actual living human beings... and that you'd need over seven thousand of these million-dots images to count all of them.
In the 80s I was young and owned and used 6502 machines and not Z80, so had a builtin bias about the Z80. But looking back now, it really is a nifty processor, I wish I'd had a chance to spend more time with it. Not as cycle efficient as the '02, but looks nicer to write code for.