skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accessibility link: https://archive.vn/ASS9F
It’s the western time zone where Denver, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, and El Paso are. The region is extremely mountainous and high elevation, and hence is often called the “mountain west,” as opposed to the Pacific Coast (which has a lower elevation and mostly smaller mountains by comparison).
Thank you! I was vaguely aware that something good and artsy was happening, but was not quite aware of what that was.
Cosmic rays are not just photons. A faraday cage is meant to block electromagnetic fields; it won't do anything to stop leptons.

In my university labs I remember an experiment where we were detecting cosmic ray muons that would travel through a series of stacked lead plates. You didn't have to wait long before recording an event. These particles are big and fast and you need quite a lot of shielding to block them.
I think a lot of cardinals around then were quite large, actually.

https://www.alamy.com/portrait-of-cardinal-flavio-chigii-163...
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/462252349233672807/
Well, true, but Google's product managers don't appear to care at all about second-order effects
That sound like the classic "How Do You Know?" question in Theory of Knowledge.
Indeed, you’re right. But isn’t this just restating my point?

Americans don’t reliably distinguish between various left-of-center ideologies in their language, but that’s not uniquely American, because neither do Europeans.
If I am not mistaken, you are saying that technical entry barriers into documentary filmmaking are much, much lower today than in 1978, and therefore it is much easier to create such a series today. The former is definitely true, but consider the following:

- "Connections" used a substantial amount of acted historical scenes. Creating them in such a quality (and not some sketchy animation or a re-cut of existing work) is still a challenge today. You need half-decent actors.

- Technical quality is secondary to content. "Connections" is not just a collection of interesting and well-made bits about how technology evolved, there is an entire and compelling theory behind it, which Burke tries to bring accross. Such aspirations, executed with such intellectual and inspirational confidence, need something more than just technical ability and financial resources. Just because paper and ink got much cheaper since the 16th century, we didn't suddenly produce a Shakespeare every 2 years.

So far, I haven't seen any historical documentation on YouTube which even compares to the depth and width of "Connections".
For anyone else who didn't know about this:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vasistas
> Potentially - all of them.

This would apply to artificial selection as well - perhaps even more so since you've no real control over what mutations are happening. Every new evolutionary competition edge a species receives is followed by an "invasion" phase where their newfound superpower allows them to take over for a few hundred thousand generations.

> If taking a species to a different island where it is not native to is bad enough, creating specific ones which have never existed anywhere ever is a major ecological disaster waiting to happen. This should not even be a discussion...

Actually, it should be a discussion, because the above argument is a false analogy. Invasive species are problematic because the surrounding ecosystem cannot curb their spread and out-competition of preexisting species. Modern crops don't have the capability of surviving outside of a human cultivated environment. Left to their own, they'd be choked out by weeds and changing soil conditions. Now if someone were to attempt to make a weed-proof AND bug-proof crop that can ALSO survive and thrive in non-cultivated terrain, THEN I'd be worried.
Visualize the Changes of the Constitutional Referendum with Git/GitHub
It's the assumption that everyone on the planet should know or care about this. "Mountain" could describe anywhere. The Himalayas, the Alps, Norway.
The would not discriminate a protected class, they would elevate one above the other to create the strive, it is irrelevant which one, in most cases the focus would be the smaller one.

The rest of the group would feel put aside and would direct their anger towards the preferred group. That is a basic "flaw" in human psychology. Being called names by a friend hurts more than from a bystander and the same effect is abused here to direct anger from the former target to your own group.

> I have no idea how producing formal evidence can ever be counterproductive to your political position.

I presented it as I see it. I think unions can be very important and it is in my interest that people don't mangle themselves on superficial differences. That happens a lot lately. I am no tycoon to likes union busting.
Not sure whether 'large cardinals' phrase in your message is intentional or accidental pun.
System services bypassing VPN and firewall because they're on a vendor whitelist (that can't be modified due to OS cryptographic protections) is a) fact not rant and b) nothing to do with telemetry.
Please, for the good of humanity, lock Dang in a room with an unlabeled set of comment training data and make an AlphaDang.

Unleashing the benevolent AlphaDang moderation AI across the internet will salvage the web, and ultimately all of mankind.
> A lot of people enjoy watching a new marvel movie once or twice a year while the movies themselves are more or less reiterations of the previous ones. People seem to enjoy the repetition.

The success of the Marvel movies is obvious in retrospect, but nothing like them had ever been done before.

Thor, Iron Man and Captain America were not considered among the popular Marvel Characters. Spider Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four had already been licensed by other companies, but no one cared to do the same with what became the foundation characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Having a cinematic universe where major characters had their own movies, plus movies where they banded together, was common in comics, but never on the big screen.

Keeping the characterizations largely true to the comics, when many directors had wanted to make them more "sophisticated" or "adult", also displays independent minded thinking.

Would anyone have predicted a sci-fi romp with a talking squirrel and walking tree the general public had no familiarity with would be a massive success?

Making Thanos the protagonist of the "Hero's Journey" in the climax of the whole series I think was a bold decision.

There are many other ways these movies were bold and creative and, yes, independent minded, leading to success that would have been impossible with conventional thinking.
> Companies are hiring software engineer not computer scientists. If someone wrote a sort algorithm in a normal job I would expect that not to be used and a library to be used. This is also knowledge that people who studied and aced their tests in Uni forget, because no one in their right mind writes a quicksort.

Typically these questions are asked to entry-level software engineers and not ones with some experience.

Again, I don't believe asking people to write quicksort provides any signal but I was arguing that there isn't any difference between asking a candidate to write a "basic sort" vs "quick sort" in an interview.

I also mentioned this is not a good question to ask if all you are hiring for is some MEAN stack app - but is an appropriate question if you do any development where some optimization is required.

> People actually sign contracts like that on a daily basis. That is literally what you sign up for. Here is the actual process: CV screening -> Tech Test -> Phone Screening -> Interview -> Trial or "probation".

Yes, typically for roles where it is difficult to vet a candidate's skills appropriately during the interview. It is also not an improvement for Software Engineering, imo. If you ask Software Engineers if they might prefer this process over the current process, I think, most would not.
Batteries (except flow batteries) must be scaled linearly with the desired storage capacity.
Hydrogen storage on the other hand only requires a container to be scaled with the desired capacity (square-cube law) while the conversion machinery, i.e. the power rating of the storage, can be scaled independently.

Building batteries for seasonal energy storage would require huge amounts of raw materials. Building hydrogen storage requires nothing because you can reuse salt dome caverns previously used for natural gas.
The quality of the discussion on HN remains high, while the quality of the discussion on much of the rest of the internet gets ever-worse. I routinely leave HN for the day a bit better informed than before, whereas most other sites I leave feeling way more emotional, and also probably a bit stupider (or at least less rational).

Such things don't happen by accident, and a lot of quality contributors is clearly not enough, or many other sites would be as good. Thanks, dang, for your work in keeping HN worth visiting. It becomes all the more impressive with each passing year.
> 2. Accurate estimation of development times is impossible (not difficult, actually theoretically impossible). All estimates of development times are wrong, some by more than an order of magnitude.

Some are useful. The goal isn’t to be right in that there’s no award for perfect estimates, that would be stupid. But having an estimate, especially with relevance to multiple features is helpful.

At one time a team I worked on used “story point cards” and each person would estimate blindly and the discuss. It was interesting hearing people’s reasons behind their magnitudes.

Over time the story estimates got pretty good. But the number was completely useless objectively and made no sense when comparing teams or different projects.
> It has learned from past experience that water is a deposit to your body budget that will hydrate you, so your brain quenches your thirst long before the water has any direct effect on your blood.

We have learned over the last decade or so that there are some rather significant direct connections between gut and brain via direct neural signalling. Chemical signalling can occur within about 60-90 seconds--ask a smoker how quickly nicotine can hit their system.

It is not proven/disproven AT ALL that the brain isn't responding to direct neural/chemical detection of the water by both the mouth and the stomach.

If that is the case, no, this CAN'T be trained.
Took a lot of years for American developers to figure out that string inputs are not limited to ASCII. And even that is more due to emojis (bless them). It's a slow process.
Also:

> There may even be a phenomenon like Dunning-Kruger at work, where the most conventional-minded people are confident that they're independent-minded, while the genuinely independent-minded worry they might not be independent-minded enough.
I just want things to go back to relative normal... I don't mind too much that places require a mask, mixed on government requiring it and overreach. I feel like people have generally gone a bit over the top on everything creating environments potentially worse than the disease.

All the same, I won't be taking any kind of anti-viral do to really high chance of Guillain-Barre relapse, I'd rather risk COVID than go through that again.
Show HN: I made a free-to-play games database API
"I can't believe it's not Grana Padano!"
I created a CSS proxy for reading PG’s essays. Formatting is a bit nicer https://pg-essays.now.sh/think.html
>> a grid with fixed-size cells

> creating a double precision float ... ?

This added top-level is uniformly distributed - so yes, it's a more precise float, but no, it's not a direct analogue.
I've been waiting for 15 minutes for this to load, and now it's stuck at 100%.

Firefox 83 64-bit, Ubuntu 20.04, Ublock Origin. 3D Acceleration on.
doseq isn’t imperative because it doesn’t support break or continue? That doesn’t make sense.
SMT solvers are also fun for that sort of thing.
How to use SRI hashes to secure third-party dependencies
It seems contrary to the purpose of Docker to run ARM Linux on the development machine if the server has an x86 CPU.
However super conducting pipelines don't. Crack cheap superconducting materials and you've got 20% more electricity back.
Hey, as someone who does Quality Assurance, I want to point out that 99% of the time, those issues are brought up. They never get dealt with out the gate because business evolves via iterative value delivery, and most systems capable of creating value can work just fine with massively simplified assumptions to keep the lights on.

Also, if you think timezones/calendars/seasons are bad, just understand that many people specifically have a difficult time with shifting their mind into a frame of reference where you can actually talk about time in the sense of "there is a moment in time $now, where I am, the clock displays X because formatting, the system clock is actually Y, and I want people in P to get experience Q which had relationship R to X and S to Y. I have libraries T, U,
and V to work through the abstractive layers of. These same people are all inclined never to admit this difficulty or the complexity inherent thereto.

Throw in the fact most folks in the U.S. don't even understand the written script of more than a handful of places, and you have a recipe for !quality. Again though, there's only so much political capital you have as a Quality person, and prioritization tends to be the Project Manager's shtick.

Also throw in that the real optimization function in the market has been "the crappiest software that can still maintain usership" and it should be no surprise that the software packages that do localization right are far fewer in number than otherwise.

It's a rather sad state of affairs, but it is what it is.

Just... Wanted to point out there has been at least one person who brought up your points in design meetings everywhere they've been, and never ceases to end up receiving platitudes.
Bury (Press = when reviewing) makes Anki not show you a card until the next day. Suspending (! to suspend all cards based on a note [if you have more than 1 cloze on a card, it will stop showing you all of them], @ just to suspend that one card) will make Anki never show you a card until you unsuspend it in the browser.
You should check out the bivector community https://bivector.net/ dedicated to Geometric algebra.

Join the discord https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk.

Check out a demo https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits
What's the goal? If you want to just stop thinking about it, write it down somewhere.
> The energy density of green hydrogen is three times that of jet fuel, making it a promising zero-emissions technology for aircraft

I assume this is on a per-mass (as opposed to per volume) basis, which is misleading due to the storage challenges associated with hydrogen. The practical reason we calculate energy density is because weight matters for transportation purposes. I think at this point in the discussion, we should be including the mass of the storage medium (tank) in the denominator of the energy density calculation, particularly given that cutting-edge solutions involve capturing hydrogen in metal hydrides or porous materials.

Also, given that the discussion is centered specifically around energy storage for long-haul transportation, shouldn’t the investment be evaluated relative to the potential cost of fully electrifying long-haul trucking, shipping and air transport (ie developing next gen batteries and electric motors for these apps)?
I’m completely fine with being conventional minded. It’s saved me from using MongoDB, nodejs, and countless other fads.
Or to put it differently, The US cheese industry has strong protection from the EU cheese industry's naming rules.

For Feta:

> According to the relevant EU legislation, only those cheeses produced in a traditional way in particular areas of Greece (Peloponnese, Central Greece, Epirus, Thessaly, Macedonia, Thrace, and the islands of Lesbos and Cephalonia), which are made from sheep's milk, or from a mixture of sheep's and up to 30% of goat's milk from the same area, can be called feta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feta

I would assume though that US or ZA feta is _never_ exported and sold anywhere in the EU under that name. That would be against the laws in place where it is sold.
Anywhere with water and electric can produce it. It's why Japan has long favoured it with the their (now previous) abundance of nuclear.
So explain the never ending cases of batteries catching fire. This is actually a big scandal, shows that the NHTSA has an agenda and no credibility at all.
That's the work of a demon.
You have to defend it, or you lose it. Like trademarks.
Thanks! This is much much better. By comparison PG's blog looks like it's out of the mid 90's. It needs a serious revamp.
Why would the supermarkets not want to maintain minimum prices if they could? Net income is usually a percentage of revenue, so if supermarkets could force prices higher, why wouldn’t they?

I don’t know the specifics of the dairy situation you are referring to, but all the information from financial reports I’ve read indicate that retail businesses don’t have much pricing power. Hence why you don’t get rich buying stock in grocery stores, but rather high margin businesses like tech companies.
Agreed. He obfuscates his point behind emotionally pompous British semantics.

His orthodox of privilege was obviously a public lovers quarrel with Thiel (who was, around the same time, also ranting like a god-headed buffoon in essays to the tune of “the rubes need masters! villainous cackle” on blogs around the web).

They have little information advantage, except in the form of ephemeral financial capital. Human tradition states “rich person = extra special” so we rubberneck at them.

Beneath the pretentious veneer it’s contemporary businessmen. Let’s see them resolve longstanding issues in society and science.

Wagging business success in the face of people who weren’t born yet isn’t terribly novel and their real output isn’t that useful to the future.
Is .NET the Future?
If you have hundreds or thousands of miles of pipes installed by third-party contractors, the existence of improperly designed pipes, incorrect alloys, and corner cutting becomes virtually inevitable.
No.

Green hydrogen might have some application, specially in creating some other greenly produced chemicals.

But in terms of transportation, heating and grid storage its not the right solution.

The price is still incredibly high so far we have seen no consistent cost curve on hydrogen production. While we have batteries declining in cost like crazy and lots of new battery approaches being developed as well.
A bonus to using command-line docker versus using "Docker Desktop": the former is free and open source software and doesn't include any spyware.

The latter is closed source, proprietary, and silently uploads a ton of information about your local system to Docker Inc if it should crash (which is easy to trigger accidentally), including pcap logs of your local network, and a list of all running programs on your system, among other massively intrusive things.

Docker Desktop is a privacy nightmare. Always opt for the command line open source docker, and either set DOCKER_HOST="ssh://remote.example.com" in your environment to do remote builds, or run a local VM like this article suggests.
This channel is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in SM64 hacking, here is another of his videos that specifically deals with floating point rounding error glitches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hdFG2GcNuA
> The more power and convenience they give IT, the more likely they will get sales, because... who picks the tools and approves the sales?

I don't believe I've ever worked in an organization where IT chose the tools and approved the sales. It is, in my experience, quite common to have to code around a lot of shitty tools who's purchasing decision began at some executive's golf outing.
Semantics might be important here. Saying you are manufacturing "Grana Padano style" cheese might be the problem since it could be seen as diluting the original designation (essentially, a special trademark). There is either Grana Padano or non-Grana Padano cheese, nothing in between. Describing the process of making Grana Padano should be no problem at all, as long as you don't claim the resulting product is Grana Padano or anything like it. It wasn't manufactured by an authorized person in the authorized region so it can't be Grana Padano. I know it is a bit silly..

And I agree he was indeed probably enough careful in the original video. This could certainly be winnable for the tuber in court with services of a good IP lawyer.
That looks interesting, now I wonder how dangerous/polluting a tank leak can be for ammonia compared to diesel and hydrogen
Thank you. I guess PG doesn't want to conform to make his essays more readable :)
It's only one aspect.
But this is good a good thing. ARM instances and servers will be used. #savetheplanet
My youngest son attends junior high remotely. He says the first 5 minutes of every class is the same: The teacher bawling out students for not doing assignments.

He says a lot of kids don't even bother to show up. My son's a good kid, he'd probably go to class even if his mother and I didn't stay on him. But we do.

I'm pretty sure this is a form of 'privilege', being manufactured right now. Kids with strong parenting are at an advantage. Kids without are at a disadvantage.
> However I'm now in situations where the world is divided and asking questions (in order to make my own mind up) is considered some kind of admission of guilt for being part of the "other". For example: Asking someone why they think immigration is good/bad. If it's a belief they hold, I'm interested in knowing the thought process and making my own conclusions based on something I might not have known. But the act of asking the question makes the person, who may not have put too much original thinking in; quite defensive.

It may be a matter of knowing when to stop. My personal experience is that most people will try to answer even sensitive questions when you approach them with genuine interest and make some effort to formulate questions in a way that doesn't imply some sort of value judgement. If this is difficult, just be explicit and explicitly say you're not trying to judge or offend them.

Sure enough, you'll hear people make an argument that you find unconvincing, or they may not answer the exact question that you asked, and some people will even admit they don't know why they believe something. When that happens, you'll have to accept that as their answer (and draw your own conclusions in silence).

People do get hostile when you keep "nagging" - asking more and more questions - when it's clear that they aren't interested in the subject or haven't thought about it much. To the other person it feels like you're either trying to make them feel stupid or change their mind. And you're getting none the wiser anyway because those who do not get offended will just make up their "reasons" on the spot.

Obviously avoid the mistake to ask someone for their opinion, and then immediately returning the "favor" by giving your opinion on the matter.
Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual intake
I don’t know about such things, so have a well-intentioned question: are these problems solvable at scale at reasonable cost? One hears about pipeline leaks frequently, and hundred+ mile long pipelines seem like a hard thing to construct with rigorous precision.
Dropbox is an option already, but it's not as stable and has problems.
shoutedDown != disagreed
Dassault Systèmes Acquiring NuoDB, a Cloud-Native Distributed SQL Database
Agreed. For someone who once wrote an essay titled "Keep Your Identity Small", PG sure has fully embraced an identity of "independent thinker".