skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, until you realize that in a lot of places Bitcoin is far more profitable than any other activity, meaning that any use other than Bitcoin mining would be priced out of the market.
In 1947, NYC was capable of vaccinating 6,350,000 people in the span of 3 weeks for a smallpox outbreak. [0] How does a person reconcile this information with the progress we've made so far with covid-19 vaccinations?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_New_York_City_smallpox_ou...
How difficult is it to just deny access for a few IPs? Firewall, ACL, something?
I should have stated in my original post that there are a lot of features that Signal could add/improve on; my post was meant to be commentary about the implementation critiques levied against Signal.

Your only point I disagree with is backups: there is simply no way for a non-for-profit company that doesn't monetize user data to afford providing cloud backups.

P.S. "New" groups in Signal support up to 1,000 users, did you need something bigger?
Just read the papers. There are dozens on that archive covering the design, theory, and testing - all of those issues are covered. 20kg is actually a high number optimized for a certain plasma temperature that radiates in UV without losing criticality. All things being equal (enriched uranium hexafluoride), at higher temperatures and pressures the reactor needs far less fuel but it causes too much degradation to the reactor walls to be economical or useful except in cold boots.

The terrestrial reactor and the rocket engine versions are different in how they transmit power from the reactor core to do useful work but not radically so - the core irrotational vortex compressing a high temperature plasma in a single crystal beryllium oxide chamber is the same in both designs and has been tested. The difference is in the cooling gas - hydrogen gas seeded with tungsten nanoparticles to absorb the black body radiation of the plasma for the rocket and water going through a steam turbine for terrestrial power generation.
Well this isnt suprising. They open the door and people walked straight in.
Samsung S21 Ultra Started Rolling January Security Patch in India
> Imagine working with a person like this when you're trying to get something done that involves their team acting like a gatekeeper. You get the approval from them on doing something one way, then plow a bunch of time into developing it, and then when it's time to deliver things, that same person gets in the way and stops the whole affair.

Every meeting should have a note taker who takes complete, accurate notes listing at a bare minimum every major decision, who decided it, and every action item including who it’s assigned to. Send it out to everyone involved with the discussion. Do it for every meeting so it’s not seen as some special event.

Every face to face conversation where a decision is made should be followed up with a written email basically saying “Per our chat on 3/5, you decided [very specific description of what was decided]. Please let me know if my understanding is incomplete.”

You need the paper trail!
Fortunately there's evidence that cooking is easier to learn than writing software :)

Mise en place[1] is implicit in recipes, but as you say it does make the listed timings misleading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_place
Cyberpunk 2077 staff didn’t think game should ship in 2020
Heh I’m that kind of person too. All my free time is spend building things!
> Planes are only cheaper and faster when you don't care about land usage

The land that airports use is negligible compared to hsr tracks
Military: We haven't been invaded yet. And it employs lots of people. And it brings pork to lots of districts. We installed two puppet regimes on the other side of the planet! How is that not success?

Space: every single robot/vehicle/probe that does science across the solar system and beyond. Every single NRO satellite the size of Hubble pointed at our enemies.

I'm actually serious about social security. How does that not work? Between it and medicare that makes most of the federal budget, and it keeps people healthy and fed. Repeating a libertarian trope does not make it so.
It is about the feeling being monitored. It is even illegal to have a fake camera installed because of the implications on the persons emotions.
Co-founder of Instil here. Here is a bit of backdrop.

We started Instil after finding out that many classes have gone live after the lockdowns began. It seemed to us that the live classes are here to stay and we should make our move to adapt to the changing paradigm.

We wanted to not just build a software solution, but also a community platform with a gallery. So here we are a few months later!

This is very much an alpha product so any feedback will be appreciated. Thanks!
I use relay and it's awesome, no ads and just better than their own app.
>Here on HN there's at least one horror story a month about issues someone had with Apple

With 2 million programmers, a marketplace of 100billion, and millions of apps, "one horror story a month" (i.e. "somebody was annoyed on the internet and posted about it") sounds like a huge success story. And many of these are non-stories, or stories of the kind "Me, one of 1.5000.000 programmers on iOS/macOS stores, had an app rejected for some reason".

We never hear the Linux horror stories of commercial developers trying to sell native apps. If we did it would be more like:

"I tried to make a living with a native desktop app - FOSS or proprietary - for Linux, but nobody seems to care and fewer would pay, plus between GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and 10 popular distros, the landscape is a fragmented mess. Oh, god I wish there was an App Store for all, and $100/year to give me access to customers who will actually pay and a way out of this mess".

>while still doesn't manage to catch many real offenders

Why would one expect it to? No system is perfect, it's enough that it catches most offenders, or more offenders than alternative systems. E.g:

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security....
It would matter to anyone who might want to build it in to a product.
> A serf cannot 'quit' his lord. An employee can.

Perhaps the analogy works better for graduate students. Advisors often control a Ph.D. student's academic progress and financial support, and it's very hard to change advisors without starting over from scratch.
I have a extremely mixed feelings on this.

I’m in my 30s, but have several of the major comorbidities, including diabetes and asthma.

Should I have to wait at the very end of the line like the healthy 30 year olds?
Pyrex. The new stuff you buy now is a different product made out of a different material than the original glass cookwear they sold. The new stuff has much poorer thermal shock resistance.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/pyrex-glass-is...
In similar spirit, Gradescope [1] is an excellent tool, that I just cannot do grading without now.

Students upload PDFs, and mark appropriate pages for each assigned question. The graders can then decide to either mark every question in a single sheet, or a single question in every sheet. I find the latter more comfortable. The key element here is that the burden of assigning pages to questions shifts from the grader to the student, which is a significantly better use of cognitive resources because it comes at little marginal cost to the student but tremendous cost for the grader.

[1]: https://www.gradescope.com
> and allowing walk-ins if doses will expire

Exactly. Any person getting a dose is better than vaccine expiring
I'm pretty confident the top apps for Mac include Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, After Effects, Microsoft Word, and other cross platform apps.

Mac users are just fine with cross platform apps.
Is there a reason to regularly switch plans? I keep the same one each time annual enrollment comes up.
How would one go about getting oneself invited to such a convention? or at least the after-hours social events?
After reading the paper it looks like they are saying that even smaller galaxies that they observed appear to follow a relationship that appears to be fairly general for describing the distribution of stars and mass in various galaxy types. A previous paper they mentioned had found a similar relationship but did not extend well down to lower mass galaxies. So these folks created a more general model they are saying. Net result is that the new model affirms that dark matter plays a major role in describing the location and accelerations of the stars in galaxies.

It sounds like they are aiming to target smaller galaxies because there is a greater chance that they can more fully understand all of the parts in the galaxy so their are less places for the dark matter to “hide” in the models they build up.
> Themselves.

This is bullshit, and if you did any legitimate research you would know this.

> Them bringing weapons

One guy had a pistol. You have been mislead.

> Them becoming increasingly agitated and violent

You mean like hiding a podium or stealing a laptop? So violent!

> the breakthrough where Ashli Babbitt was shot.

This is the only actual violence that happened and it was an overreaction by the police.
> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches.

Perhaps that's because the kind of digital utopian who would seek to build that community tends to apply UX ideas so out of date they have a fungus growing on them.
Can't help but read all of Rachel's posts through a Facebook engineering filter. And, with this post, once you've been on the opposing side of HR, you understand and appreciate her posts.

Everyone expects HR to follow the law but in practice you can see this is applied selectively at many companies.
I also have bluetooth headphones, but I prefer not having to worry about battery, prefer the sound quality, love the simplicity (pairing doesn't exist), and enjoy the utility (can plug into anything with an aux cord).

I can justify any inconvenience. I can justify additional expense. But in this case, I choose not to. If you choose to justify the inconvenience, that's on you—but acknowledge that it exists.
I guess agree to disagree? I personally don’t believe that these sorts of conversations are work appropriate and I’m wondering whether or not they become inappropriate when the poster disagrees with what’s being posted. The only way I could see this being taken as an accusatory gotcha is if your world view being questioned in any sense is a personal attack. Which is pretty par for the course for older millennials tbh.
I haven't, I'll give it a shot with PayPal, that's definitely interesting to me.
While I'm glad to be educated about the technical definition, it's still not even remotely relevant. The point is to whether the commonplace usage is worthy of correction... In this case, the correction adds nothing of value to the discussion. It struck me as a rude, self-aggrandizing gesture by an adult who should know better.
I'm sure one or two idiots out of thousands of people had (or at least expressed) bad intentions. What we're talking about here is the goals of the group.
Like the top comment suggests the one weird trick is the phenomenal level of group think based peer pressure.
It depends on your goals and where your interests align. The domain of philosophy is fundamental and all encompassing, and you have philosophical opinions that you can choose to examine or not. From a career perspective you are almost certainly right that time is better spent extending your skills in the empirical domain but others have a different temperament and have use for philosophy. And for some of those people, their contributions are long lasting and impactful.

See this link titled “The Purpose of Philosophy”: http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10113.pdf
Maybe I'm taking ths site name too literally, but I would think that computers, along with most electronics, are just one of those things that would never be a "buy it for life" purchase.

I actually do have a Casio calculator from High School (30+ years ago) that I still use, but no other computing devices that are more than 10 years old. Even if they still work, there just isn't much practical you can do with them.
There are some bans that do seem target at the right. https://www.newsweek.com/ron-paul-blocked-accessing-facebook...
I think you can develop this analogy further; why stop? Since the kitchen usually has neither the time or the money to have a bunch of trained chefs cook their meals, they just order frozen cake and pasta from the same retailer that everyone else uses without particularly checking the quality. They also copy the menus and prices for what to serve from the internet to save time.

If the customer has a bad experience with a specific plate of pasta or piece of cake, they just say “Sorry!“ and replace it with a new one automatically. Most of the times the people coming to the restaurant are not particularly discerning anyway and just want something to satiate their hunger, so they are fine with this arrangement. New packaged flavors are rolled out periodically by the frozen food company and so the restaurant can even boast a seasonal menu!
It is about the feeling of being monitored (and eg not trusted). A camera can also be used to punish you for being human (eg falling asleep for a second... Stupid example) instead of being a machine like your contract expects.

This argument is the same one why nobody should be scared of a police search since you have not done something wrong. It is a consequence of privilege.
Jesus man, I sure hope there aren’t many people like you who want to keep living like this forever.
". The major US political parties don't have any consistent ideology."

Yes they do.

You are missing the point with Milton Friedman. This is not about 'what works and what doesn't work. This isn't about ideas or their validity.

This is about populism and opinions.

The 'Right' consistently, ideologically wants 'Restrained spending, balanced budgets, possibly military spending and supply-side economics, Constitutional Originalism, fairly free markets, limited social spending.

The 'Left' wants deficit spending, demand side economics (i.e. stimulus cheques) etc. etc..

This is very, very consistent throughout the last many decades.

Donald Trump flipped the narrative by pushing for 'free money' for people, which is something 'the Left' has been pushing for hard since the start of the pandemic, and which was consistently rebuffed by the GOP - both sides consistent with their ideology.

Because Trump followers support him and don't even understand their own ideology, they think anything he says is 'Conservative' even when it's not.

So commenters in Fox News are all huff and puff about 'hard working people need that money' the day Trump made the claim, even though for months, 'the Left' had been pushing that only to rebuked by Fox News readers as being 'socialism'.

The plebes are often dumb, and believe whatever their populist leaders tell them, even if it's directly against their own supposed ideologies. This basically the nature of the article.
If you are going to pick a small arbitrary region of the country to compare, then I’m sure you could pick an arbitrary region of Japan to compare to New Jersey favorably.
That is probably why styles like

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existed. Allow you to quote everything while not waste so much vertical space.
The book SALT FAT ACID HEAT changed my life. I’ve gifted that book to 3 people in my life so far

Actually, you can be four! Send me your address and i’ll send it to you, email the gmail domain with the handle plusjade

it’s really that good ^_^
He did a great and hilarious teardown of that failed Juicero product that came out a year or so ago [1], noting how ridiculously overengineered and expensive it is to produce.

1: https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ
Because iOS has a very profitable app ecosystem that deep pocketed competitors (such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon) would buy into.

You can’t seriously imagine that at least these three plus TenCent/Epic wouldn’t create stores, likely within their existing Apps.
HR is not your friend, but sometimes incentives can align. One of the goals of HR is employee retention, and in that incentives do align.

I’ve seen HR really go out of their way to accommodate for personal situations during covid times for example. A lot of it is not seen by the typical employee, but they do happen.
Seems like you have some divergent ideas here. On the one hand, you ask about practical, actionable stuff; on the other hand, you ask "How many consecutive generations of people living to 100 does it take before it happens at a regular basis.". The answer to the latter question is not something you can really use for anything.

I sometimes wonder if the right thing for westerners wouldn't just be a big sequence of photos of mid-tier Japanese restaurant food -- like what's served at train stations -- with all the components broken down, along with a description of how a person fits those things together every day to have complete story for food. After going there a few times, I was surprised by how much healthier I ate, and figured out how to reproduce some of the effect back in the United States.

One category of difference with Japanese diet is things that are somewhat healthier at baseline. That is the way Japanese junk food is. A mochi is pounded rice, sugar and beans; and many sweets are actually filled with bean paste. A common kind of savory Japanese snack is grilled seaweed.

Another category of difference is eating the same thing but just in slightly different proportions. It's quite common in the USA that you go somewhere and get a meal and it's literally a piece of meat and a potato. Even at a good restaurant; but especially at less expensive restaurants. This isn't about Japanese food versus other kinds of foods. If you got a German restaurant in Japan (they are somewhat more popular in Japan than in the USA) and you get a plate it will be like three different kinds of sausages (in small sizes) and one or two salads and one or two vegetable items.

This is not due to some kind of technical balancing or something like that; Japanese consumers just demand somewhat more varied food with more vegetables.

There isn't a recipe or some weights or formulas. I just went there for 1-2 weeks at a time 5-6 times and tried a bunch of food and got used to it, came back and then wondered about what I could do differently. Everything that has changed in my diet as a result is entirely a matter of small adjustments -- adding vegetables at certain times of day or something like that -- but I did lose weight and have enjoyed other benefits like no acid reflux, no food coma, &c.
Can anyone recommend a Coursera/EdX or other online resource that goes over the basics of designing and setting up such kinds of high-performance server systems ?
Even the situations that you argue are clearcut are not. Say for example two teams in separate locations were working together, solely through email. One had a lead, who effectively lead both teams. One day they all met together in the same location for a team building event, and the other team discovered that lead was black. Suddenly when working together the lead was met with scrutiny, hostility, and even aggression. But because they never said the explicit gotcha words, there is no clearcut situation. And while that lead can raise attention to the problem with management, their only hope is an empathetic manager — which is rarely the case, especially without shared experiences of that kind of problem. Inevitably, that employee quits, because they find themselves stuck in performance reviews that are subpar, courtesy of having uncooperative coworkers (or worse, they poison the well behind this employee’s back), with no real hope for rectifying the situation.
Very on point. We have democracy on a government level and have 1 day in 2 years to select our representatives. For the rest of the time we have to please our boss, that we have not much say about and that has a lot of power about economic circumstances.

Yes, we can always find another boss, but mentally on day to day basis it is not that different to dictatorship.
You may be forced to switch when changing employers or when leaving your job and COBRA is not a good option for you.
I can't tell if you're trying to be serious here. It was in no way a good life to be a serf. Life was literally nasty, brutish, and short - even putting aside armed conflict and external dangers.

Lords would extract what they could. A huge part of life for serfs was figuring out how to survive without producing an easily-extractable surplus (because of it could be extracted, it usually would be extracted).
DDG is Bing and Yandex.
The Harbor Freight hand tools I've bought are really pretty decent. Wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers. I'm not a pro mechanic but I do a lot of my own auto maintenance. HF hand tools are least as good as current Craftsman, probably better IMO.
Newsom was brought up by the Getty family after his parents divorced. He is closely aligned with Getty interests.

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/01/gavin-newsoms-keep...

Can you be more specific about why you think what I've said is 'kind of crazy'?
So what?

Is there some assumption that traditional banking don't consume a significant amount of energy? I think we're all familiar with towering bank buildings full of employees using computers, air conditioners and a range of appliances (alongside their daily commute).

This is without even thinking about banking tech and system infrastructure.
Why wouldn't it? If the Capitol rioters have taught us anything _last_ week, it's that they're incompetent clowns -- much like Cheeto Mussolini.
My wife tells me this on a regular basis as I proceed to stuff my face.

I never cease to marvel that despite us living in the same household I weigh more than twice what she does.
This is pretty easy to answer.

The more inconvenient a mask is, the fewer people will wear it. In some countries like the US, a minority of people never wear a mask at all.

It's better to promote a mask with 10% of the cost/inconvenience and 90% of the benefit, which is what they did.

It just doesn't make sense to have a military-grade mask when most of the spread was at nursing homes, churches, weddings, funerals, and bars -- all places no one is going to wear a mask.
Thanks a lot - Rachel’s article as well as the one you linked to hit home extremely hard.

Besides the comics (re: macleod, dilbert, the office) or this very article - is there a field that occupies itself seriously with the described kind of dynamic?

Or a good forum where these things are discussed?

I’m looking for further information to deepen my understanding or a forum to bounce off thoughts and exchange experiences around that.
Depends on how stupid. If you follow the flow of traffic and find yourself breaking into the capitol, you’re out of luck
How many micromorts do we need to be at for it to be acceptable? If you can't name a probability of death that is acceptable then your opinion is worthless (don't worry, lots of people seem to be in this camp). We accept risks for far dumber stuff every day. Maybe its 1 micromort or 100, but there must be some point at which making everyone wear a mask is more trouble than it is worth.
A Historian Got Close, Maybe Too Close, to a Nazi Thief
Reflections on a Talk Gone Wrong
I don't think any of this matters. Its clear if you spend a lot of time in the company of Japanese people they actually prioritise their health and most always opt for sensible choices and restrict themselves when necessary.
Indeed, it's a cushion that gives incredible peace of mind. Not only job-related, but also gives the option to deal with all sorts of other life-related problems.