skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many kinds of VOCs, some harmful and others benign. The human nose is sensitive to certain substances and insensitive to others. For example, the human nose can barely smell 1ppm of formaldehyde [1] or 0.000002ppm of damascenone (the fragrance made by roses and added to many products) [2]. That's a difference in concentration of 500,000. Put another way, an overpowering rose smell shows a tiny and harmless concentration. While a light formaldehyde smell indicates a harmful concentration. So you cannot trust your nose to tell you if VOC levels are harmful or not.

I used to be like your partner. A whiff of perfume would trigger nasal congestion, itchy eyes, and irritable mood. It got worse over 5 years. It became unbearable, interfering with my work and personal life. I consulted with an allergy doctor. They told me it was incurable and probably won't get better, just avoid perfume.

I started doing my own research. I found a study result [0] showing that perfume sensitivity is psycho-somatic. Then I learned stress-reduction techniques and used them to cure myself. Specifically, whenever I smelled perfume, I would practice slow breathing, go for a short walk, or get a drink of water. Gradually, I stopped feeling stress after smelling perfume. After about one month, I used lightly-perfumed (normal) hand soap at my friend's home and felt no discomfort afterward. My life improved a lot.

Allergy is a very specific physical process involving the immune system. Doctors have reliable methods to measure this process. Perfume sensitivity is something different. People develop emotional habits of reacting with fear when smelling perfume. When the body enters that triggered emotional state, it releases stress hormones. The stress hormones cause the symptoms of perfume sensitivity.

Your partner can cure their-self, as I cured myself four years ago. After they do it, please reply here so I can point others to this thread.

[0] http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(06)01696-4/abst...

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00022470.1969.10...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242146083_GRAS_Flav...
Space becomes an issue when trying to minimize your buffers. During a casual playthrough, it won't really matter, but if you're dealing with megabases, the distances and buffers can really impact how the smoothly a factory works, how quickly it can respond to changes. For example, not all of the "infinite research" technologies have the same science pack requirements, which changes what your base has to produce.
This story gives me so much hope.

I too have meandered around in life. Although i've always 'Focused' and worked long hours, i've jumped between so many projects it's hard to keep track of them all.

After HS i joined the air force for an enlistment, didn't care for it, tried college, didn't like it so i got a year long internship at tesla. Tried to go back to college for a semester but I hated it so i did another year long internship at Tesla. After my second internship they told me they could only hire me full time if i got my degree, so I went back to school. However, after a month I dropped out. Now i'm 26 and i feel like i have nothing to show for it. However, this essay paired with a book i've recently read called on Range gives me a bit of hope.
Yes but not equally.
To quote a recent post: quadratic time is good enough to land to production, and bad enough to fail in production.
Don't Blame Wind for Texas Electricity Woes
I also dual-boot because some of the games I like run on Windows better. But this is not what OP was about, OP's Linux worked well otherwise, that's why I suggested that if they had two of them, they'd have the same "insurance". So that it's not a matter of the operating system itself, but the redundancy.
doge coin did not exist in 2011.
It seems to me that the biotech people I follow on twitter are now doing Biotech Clubhouses? I think it's more like a talk show and you are in the audience and you can raise your hand to ask a question?
It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_hydride

It the energy storage is comparable to gasoline on a weight basis, it won't be viable to fuel cars with it by hand. 6 pounds a gallon for gasoline, 10 or 15 gallons, that's a lot of paste.

The press release makes it clear that it compares favorably to hydrogen, not requiring huge infrastructure just to sell a little bit (because you can move the slurry a lot easier than cold/compressed hydrogen). So that's what they are chasing, a way to use hydrogen as fuel.

It seems unlikely to be good enough to beat batteries.
I bought like 200 BTC back when it was $10 and ended up selling half of it when it hit $1000.

I liquidated the remaining ~90 BTC until 2018 when it was approaching $10,000.

I have no positions in crypto anymore. Lot of people are going to be caught holding the bag now. It's not common to hear somebody moving a big chunk of their savings in to this "digital gold". I am worried that this is going to result in a lot of broken dreams. Doubly more worried about people over leveraged in real estate.

Bitcoin is a poor storage of value and the cognitive dissonance is profound-the more they hype it as "digital gold" the more it deviates from that description.

I realized that Bitcoin, cryptocurrency is largely a vehicle for money laundering, in particular moving money out of China, Russia and other similar countries.
>If the competitive wage rises

That's begging the question. The competitive wage will not rise to FAANG levels just because some FAANG jobs are available in every city. It's the worker's problem if they can't get the that FAANG job anyway, because the number of FAANG jobs hasn't changes and instead they've just been diluted over 100x as many cities and a much larger talent pool.

Affordability is relevant because it's one aspect affecting how much the competitive wage will rise.
Are there any Amazon lockers in your area? I usually drop by the University which has a staffed Amazon store since it's a distribution center and packages get there a day early usually. There's a series of lockers at a near by 7-11.
Isn't the tattoo a performance?

Like paying a secretary to type up a copy of a novel for you, or paying a musician to perform songs?

As for the copy & distribution aspect of instagram, don't the copies have to be plausibly usable as stand-ins for the real thing? Are any of those pics of such quality that you can frame them and otherwise use them instead of the original?

Then again, don't you need to negotiate rights to include even small samples of someone else's song in your own? The sample nor the new song certianly can't stand in for the original.

Maybe IF the tattoo artist included pics of the original alongside her own work, then she just needs to do whatever petapixel did to include their copy in this article? Did they have to do anything much?

I think both the tattoos and the pictures of the tattoos are safe but any copies of the original on instagram etc is probably a much less cut and dried question.

But it doesn't sound like tbis can possibly be a new problem that hasn't been hashed out 100 times in 100 essentially equivalent cases by now since decades ago, maybe even literally involving tattoo artists.
> Are people gonna start moving their pension funds to Bitcoin? I think the governments will crack hard down on that, because you really want investments in building the economy, not in a pure investment/gambling scheme

By that logic, do you support government prohibiting pension funds from investing in Gold?
Imagine that the base population has alleles A-Z, all at equal frequency. A small population splits from the base population and becomes isolated. Because they're a small sample of the whole, they only have alleles A-M. This is the founder effect. Inbreeding would be A-A pairings (which may be more likely depending on population structure, frequencies, and size), but is not necessary.

In practice, there's a huge array of complications on top of all this that affect frequencies. That's the basic idea though.
Mark Rober has an awesome video on this which outlines a lot and gives a very high level bit of info on it. I can't imagine the amount of stress these engineers are feeling watching this delayed feed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2tKigOPBU
The beginning reminded me of a related essay by Eliezer Yudkowsky that lays out a similar argument for why old style AI was a hoax.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zY4pic7cwQpa9dnyk/detached-l...

“Similarly, to this day, it is still quite popular to try to program an AI with "semantic networks" that look something like this:

(apple is-a fruit)

(fruit is-a food)

(fruit is-a plant)

You've seen apples, touched apples, picked them up and held them, bought them for money, cut them into slices, eaten the slices and tasted them. Though we know a good deal about the first stages of visual processing, last time I checked, it wasn't precisely known how the temporal cortex stores and associates the generalized image of an apple - so that we can recognize a new apple from a different angle, or with many slight variations of shape and color and texture. Your motor cortex and cerebellum store programs for using the apple.

You can pull the lever on another human's strongly similar version of all that complex machinery, by writing out "apple", five ASCII characters on a webpage.

But if that machinery isn't there - if you're writing "apple" inside a so-called AI's so-called knowledge base - then the text is just a lever.”

--

It's also a good explanation of why the new style of AI appears not to be a hoax and actually works.
I think he means comparing output of the app for 2019 with what you filed for 2019. Not using the app for 2020 with your filings from 2019.
Facebook was using D for rather important components at the time of linked tech talk.

As of today, there's only one important looking thing left implemented in D.

So...
Giant oil tanker goes electric with 3.5 MWh battery pack – Electrek
What job were you doing at Tesla? Is there a particular reason you hate college so much? Purely curious
Apple has them in the pencil too and they kind of suck. For the AirPods it’s not too bad for the double tap action but on the pencil it’s horrible. It’s such a difficult action to make when using it and I trigger it randomly all the time. Would much prefer a Wacom style button bar.
I think the future was decidedly better before, in fact it's so much better that almost all modern sci-fi is written in some x-punk genre, where x just refers to a time period, and x-punk refers to the vision of the future from that time period.
I had to read hacker News comments to understand what this device does, and I went pretty deep into the page.

Seems like they're trying to do too much with this instead of niching down. I have no use for a device I can touch that triggers some tiny subset of things I might want to trigger.
I hate to break it to you, but you're probably out of luck. This is why the common "not your keys, not your coins" phrase exists.
Sounds like pets.com all over again and I am glad I just started diversifying into gold.
If it's not your private key, it's not your money. So yes, if the exchange doesn't come back up you can pretty much write it off.
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/old-ways
Cursor movement is latency sensitive in a way that 95% of plugins are not. An editor where your cursor doesn't move when it's supposed to is very distracting -- I think for most people, it's disqualifying. I like VSCode, but my primary machine is a 2015 MBP and I can't use VSCode as my primary editor because the vim lag is too strong.

It's not simple to engineer a plugin system that can accomodate this. There aren't that many preferred input schemes, why not just support them as first-class?
Regardless of your claims, this portrait is a studio photograph and requires very careful setup of lights and also clear direction by the photographer.
> The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition.

The word "cult" in the phrase "cult of tradition" serves as a synonym for "too much" in an attempt to avoid the question: How much is too much? Celebrating christmas? Easter? And: Is too little also possible? A too radical rejection of tradition, such as the ten day week in the french revolution?

> This new culture had to be syncretistic.

So, muslims celebrating christmas, for example? Are those ur-fascists?

> Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course)

One almost gets the impression that Eco imagines Hitler and Goebbels as anxious to avoid being judged as fascist according to Eco's list, and therefore cleverly disguising their true traditionalism with a modernist facade.

> Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”)

That would be a very strange statement to make for someone who looted two hundred million dollars worth of art[1] and indeed google returns only Eco's essay when searching for this quote. But maybe, whenever he heard talk of culture he reached for his gun to steal some of it?

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-revelations-...
that's right i wonder the same. a motivated state actor with access to hydroelectric dams, nuclear power and large datacentres can still easily take over the network.
Its supported pretty well now but you need to explicitly switch ES module support on in nodejs.

The easiest way is via the "type": "module" flag in the package.json file for your project.
That was meant more as a preliminary defense as I saw other people complain and don’t know enough to defend the specific legislation.

But damn, that is indeed a pretty good indicator that it’s working as intended.
It is ok to interleave programming with Math class.

By play some Unity Game tutorial along with Geometry, Trig classes, you will likely see math come alive in front of your eyes.

You will want to know more on how and why.
I'm Sending My M1 Apple Back. It's Not Ready Yet
Good, that'll be the end of this abomination.
I'm honestly not the most knowledgeable in this, but from what I can see it's actually two separate issues. The first was the actual tattoo, but the second was the instagram posts using the tattoo and picture.

I could be wrong, but I feel like, as for the issue of the tattoo itself, that's going to end up amounting to nothing. The publicity pictures on the other hand may be more of an issue.

As far as my very ignorant opinion, likely not based on reality or laws goes...

Copyright on a photo should apply to direct copies being used in in ways photos are typically used.

Paintings, tattoos, etc. of photos should not fall under 'usage of a photo' as far as copyrights go. It's ridiculous. It doesn't matter how photorealistic somebody can paint a picture, it's still not the same picture.

It's not identical, the medium is not the same, and they're not even competing for the same...I guess...pool of money?...I dunno how to word that...but they don't tend to interfere in eachother's markets.

It just doesn't seem reasonable to me.
After a minute scrolling the page I gave up and thought "quicker to read HN comments to figure out what this thing actually is" and I was not wrong. Very sad.
Vite 2.0: Next generation front end tooling. It's fast
Writing SQL is so much easier than understanding ORMs. ORMs tend to be very complex, because the problem they're trying to solve requires that complexity.

Now maybe my perspective is biased too much, since the only ORM I've really used is Hibernate. But in that experience, I learned that Hibernate brings a ton of complexity with no real value. Seems like a high price to pay to avoid learning SQL.

The sweet spot seems to be using a library like JOOQ, which lets you write queries, as well as safely construct queries at runtime.
They do.

Sending a resume is free. Takes a few minutes to apply.

It's not like applying to college where, to be competitive you have to write a personalized essay (and pay the application fees).

"Johnny is soo good with computers, always repairing the wifi, he should go work at Microsoft.".

Relevant: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
I do a similar thing for my site, but instead of renting a database cluster in the cloud, I wrote a small Python script that converts nginx log files into a SQLite database. https://github.com/ruuda/sqlog
> the hoaxes of computer science

Without the benefit of hindsight we can't tell which of these building blocks will become the next paradigm. I think your expectation that progress should be a direct line where every step gets you closer is mistaken. It's often guided by a very subjective feeling of interesting-ness which cannot be formalized.
>whites ... , if anything, are over-represented in prison

The prison population statistics from the BOP only account for federal prisons, which is less than 10% of the incarcerated US population. In your cited Wikipedia source, the number of homicides tallied by the FBI (in Wikipedia’s [44]) totals around 6000, or around 5% of the size of the number of BOP inmates. These two figures do not come together to provide your conclusion at all.
It’s still supported and developed, but it’s not an area where most activity is currently focused. It is very stable, even more so when it was first added, since bugs are being fixed and regression tests are added. You can see what issues are open and closed at https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3AArc.... The Wasm specification is also progressing over time, sometimes unblocking some opportunities in the Go implementation.

I’ve been using Go in the frontend in many (most?) of my personal projects since the early days of GopherJS, and by now I’ve compiling most of that frontend code to Wasm. I’m very happy with the experience and results, and my top wishlist item would be improvements to the binary size for faster first-time loads.

If you haven’t already seen it, https://golang.org/wiki/WebAssembly has lots of good info.
I was aware of Bitcoin back when it all started and thought it didn't have any tangible value. I still believe it has no real value. While I wish I could foresee playing the market to make some money, at the end of the day "magical internet money" is just smoke and mirrors.
Things that work for voice commands for me (iOS/watchOS):

* Call my wife (or $person)

* tell $person $message - sends a text eg: “tell Dave ETA 25min”

* ping $myname iPad - plays sound on my iPad so I can find it.

* set timer for $duration (I wish Siri wouldn’t be so loud in acknowledging)

* remind me $task on $date $time (you can switch the arguments around)

* take me home

* redial

* take me to $location (mostly used in my car)
Sometimes walking down the cleaning products aisle in some stores feels like running the gauntlet. (is it now the cancer gauntlet?)
It would be extremely costly and if you were to already invest all that money, your incentive is to make money from it, not cause a very short term disruption.
For anyone interested:

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> I'm back to programming in swift after half a year of doing go only, and i'm more and more sceptical on the benefits of adding generic programming to the language.

I'm not sure how the generics implementation in Swift has any bearing on how generics will work in Go.
Yes. I have to confess, I have been patiently waiting since 2013 for the US government to effectively shut this shindig down in one way or another. After all this time, I have begun to reconsider my position. Tulip mania only lasted 2 years, and both the dotcom bubble and the US housing bubble only lasted 5 years. Honestly, there has to be some legs to this whole thing if it's managed to last 12 years. Might be a legitimate new store of value.
I have created shared libraries with Go which can be called from C, no problems. Those shared libraries can start their own goroutines quite fine and can call back into the C application. Usually it is a good idea to call back into the C application from the thread the Go function called from C was running.
I stopped scrolling down at:

Every thing
is extra­ordinary.

Such a ludicrous oxymoron I'm amazed this isn't The Onion
If you plan on getting hired to do it D would be a pretty bad bet.
> It demonstrates that taxes are inescapable

It demonstrates the hypocrisy of Washington et al. It doesn’t demonstrate inescapability of anything.

> Yes, for the definition of coercion!

Feel free to include the definition when you substantiate your assertion.

> See upthread.

I responded to your assertion upthread, you have yet to substantiate your opinion that property necessarily implies violence. Are you able to do so?

> But not all forms of taxation are based on income or wealth. There are consumptive taxes. There are taxes that are more akin to fees. And all taxes can also be expressed as membership fees for citizenship, irrespective of economic value.

The common thread being the fact that a person extracts a payment through threat of violence.

> Sales taxes and VAT surely aren't. Land value taxes are not. You are conflating all forms of taxation with income or wealth taxes.

Those are also unilateral coercive claims on a nonconsenti g person’s labor.

> Civil courts can levy penalties. Are those penalties coercive, or are they agreed by those who agree to be bound by the court? Then, are taxes coercive, or agreed to those who agree to accept citizenship?

Both are coercive in the current system. Neither are necessarily coercive except insofar as calling them taxes implies that they are coerced. Its possible to have voluntary citizenship and voluntary dispute resolution.

> Harvest sharing in hunter-gatherer societies takes the form of implicit taxes

Use of the word taxation implies that they’re coerced but the anthropological literature suggests that this is voluntary. Foragers lack the ability to coerce payments from each other to any significant degree.
The studies you cite do not list who funded them, but one of the links is ... a website which sells sneakers! One of the worst VOC offenders!

Also, that's a nice story, but I already practice stress reduction techniques on a daily basis for other stressors. I also regularly assess myself for stress level so that I know to apply them.

When my partner bought a couch that off-gassed from the particleboard for months, I was not stressed by it. I did, however, develop a severe headache, disorientation, and migraine-like symptoms.

There's also the correlation of various VOCs with long-term health risks. Do you think that is just stress as well?
Sounds like a stroke? That is scary
The previous discussion was of an article of much higher quality:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26159068

This is some sort of development on using magnesium hydride as a storage mechanism for hydrogen. You combine magnesium with hydrogen, get MgH2, and then when MgH2 comes into contact with water, the H2 is released.

This is an old idea, and Wikipedia links to a 2006 effort along these lines:

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/01/safe_hydrogen_r.htm...

that achieved a specific energy of 2kWh/kg and 1.5kWh/L. This is about 10x better than lithium ion. However it's about 5x worse than gasoline. But since ICE are horribly inefficient relics of the past, a typical engine is only about 20% efficient, so it cancels out.

As for something like flight, jet engines are far more efficient than ICE, so this may or may not work there...
Which Ryan Holiday book to read first