skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> those at higher risk of severe disease are less likely to contract an infection

If you were running a business and there was a relatively low incidence of an utterly catastrophic outcome, you’d buy insurance for the eventuality.

If you were running another business with a high occurrence of a mild outcome, you’d price it into the cost of doing business.

Insurance = vaccine. Cost of business = stimulus cheques.
Really? That's what people said back when it was proposed that we shut everything down for a few weeks to "flatten the curve". Now look how long we've gone. I'd say Americans have very well tolerated this new way of life and could do so in perpetuity. I wouldn't count the protests and riots last summer since they were politically motivated.
Excitement < the countless hours required to rewrite a complex system in a non-trivial language.
The vaccines are the only way we’ll be able to sustainably relax the restrictions we’ve faced for the past year.

This only vindicates my point. The vaccine is being promoted as a means for ending the lockdowns.

People are being morally and socially pressured into taking it in the hope that the lockdowns will be lifted.
Given the currency (£), I suspect so.
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To me you are copy-pasting emotional information I’ve already heard over and over. It’s a metaphor, not a prescription of literal behavior.

I talk trash about big tech constantly, I’m hardly propping them up. They have no information advantage, just a political capital one.

The authors are using their political insight, based on the last generation or so of political rhetoric to emotionally minimize others value of Big Tech, suggesting that to be of local economic benefit.

> It’s not clear what you are trying to say here. Can you explain.

Our economy is predicated on a post hoc conclusion based upon information manipulation.

We denigrate humans spending time economy on public solutions to problems, and celebrate deference to privatization.

This creates a neurological preference for the latter over the former. We circularly continue to justify storing more value in these organizations ultimately based upon the initial post hoc observation; this is what happened so it must keep happening!

Never mind that ultimately it’s human agency being co-opted into propping up the value of others and undermining themselves.

Politics needs to consider the time dimension for the masses. If it’s going to take someone their life to pay off a debt because society told them that’s just how it works, that’s hardly freedom. Politics largely just concerns itself with space; ownership of property. Not the tax on our time for things other than making sure Bezos and Musk are still rich.
As someone who never funded a profitable company, I was a bit angered (and scared) of the prospect of a founder having a backdoor exit, i.e., the founder sees cash, whereas the employees not.

Do I get it correctly that this will not happen with WeWork?
Your example has nothing to do with fast-changing times and has everything to do with tech companies monopolizing social media with zero regulation.

The problem isn't that you need a smartphone now. The problem is that access to local businesses is now locked behind proprietary walled gardens.
I don't think MD-Data ever made it to consumer availability in the US, but you're not entirely wrong with regard to fragmentation. That said, Sony seemed to do a pretty good job of keeping it under control in the US prior to the release of NetMD in 2001, but I suspect "seemed" is the operative word there, and that it had less to do with effective management of the medium on Sony's part and more with the whole thing being an incredibly tiny niche in the US for its entire lifespan.

Sony certainly doesn't have a good enough record on avoiding media fragmentation generally, that any benefit of the doubt seems warranted here...
Your skills as an expert politician and deflector are on full display here. Why is your and IFTTT’s issues my problem as a paid customer for your service? If I paid you a yearly subscription, is there any chance you’ll fix these decade old bugs? I don’t think so.
The standards for a FAA third-class medical go beyond just what's on the official "disqualifying" list. It's not a walk in the park.

From personal experience, they care a great deal about your eyesight.

To start, you'd want to look through the AME Guide [1] and the rules in 14 CFR 67 Part D [2].

[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/part-67/subpart-D
Yep, and I happily spend a fair amount of my free time working on open source, as well as personal projects that I don't make any money from. I'm also currently helping a friend of mine learn to code just for fun and to give back. But when I do contract work, I expect to be paid well. If you said, "well, I'll pay you $10 / hour, and that's way better than what you get for this open source you work on!", I'd not only not do the job, I'd be insulted.
Cool idea. Where I work it would be much more useful to use it to find someone who can consult on specialised knowledge rather than programming problems. For example we are working on a disaster recovery architecture at the moment. This whole area is new to us so I'm reading a lot about it, but I know that an hour long discussion with someone with expertise in that area could save us months of time and tens of thousands in costs. It would be great if the platform could hook me up with those kinds of people.
The comic says it never stalls, but then says if it does you should not do the instinctive thing. ;-)
The commercial cameras have gotten so good over the years so they could put cameras everywhere. They added some local storage to retain images for post processing. They post process the videos to a much smaller file before transmitting. So of-the-shelf technology keeps getting better.
No, not a penny. It needs a banana for scale
They got flagged by users. We can still see what they wrote, see that it effectively willfully provided negative value to the conversation, and move on without it having to be a global conspiracy.
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Yes, I was lucky enough to be born after the fall of communism, so I had the privilege that my parents and grandparents didn't have of not struggling through starvation, not being subjected to attempts of erasing my identity and genocides. See, we white people just don't know what real oppression is, which is low black employment and trigger happy cops.
It's amazing to think that we had reusable single stage to orbit launch vehicle prototypes like this 25 years ago.
We could circumvent the war by wireheading the Ems so they experience great pleasure at all times. In the meantime, we fund philosophers to finally solve ethics and consciousness.
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Not very useful and adds bunch of boiler + more bandwith for each req.

With only links, you don't know semantics and inputs. The benefits are next to 0, and effects on the maintenance are non trivial.
What goes up,
I think that Germany has gone too far with that. I am the third generation after the war (born in the 70's) and I have friendly feelings about Germany. I am French and our countries fought for millenia, and there there was Pétain and everything.

My German friends told me that WW2 at school was presented in much details, explaining how Germans fucked up. Some people still expect Germans to apologize 80 years after the fact.

If I was German I would be pissed off and I am not surprised that the are neo-Nazi waves because of that. The treaty of Versailles should have taught everyone a lesson.

My children speak German and when they meet penpals from Heilderberg you could see that history was history for them (they child not care less, they had Instagram stuff to share).

With this in mind, I still do not know what to make out of this : https://youtu.be/HMQkV5cTuoY
For our technology demonstrator, we have a pretty small rotor. Future direct drive designs (typically higher power as well) will have much larger diameters.

I can't be too specific, but you can probably get an idea of the rotor size from the preliminary datasheet (and/or CAD model) that you can download from our website. We have dimensions of the outside of the unit. Remember that the inverter is in there as well!
What is your job was to walk through a forest identifies different kinds of Bees!
More like the headline has nothing to do with the story, and often relies on a particularly convoluted perspective or pun on the actual content.
This live set is just a delight all the way through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRvoa9p-SQ

I'm envious of both his gear and the talent to use it so well.
Why would they be cheaper to build? A quad-copter is ridiculously simple in it's design - 4 motors is all the moving parts it needs. The rest is sensors and software.
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I think it is a mistake to deflate the political aspect of things. There is a ton of politics involved when arguing policy (duh). There is no way to not politicize debate about whether to use our public funds to subsidize nuclear power or renewable power. These things are inherently political, and should be argued with political framework in mind. A good example is in a nibling comment which states the risk of the nuclear lobby (or worse the fossil fuel lobby) spreading misinformation with the agenda of getting the industry they have a stake in to get top funds. It would be a mistake to ignore this.

Listening to experts is also not a good advice on it own, there is a lot of domain specific knowledge out there. A nuclear physicist might be an expert on how to generate nuclear power, but they need a geologist with their own expertise to help them mine the uranium ore needed for the process. They also need electrical engineers to figure out where the powerplant would fit the grid, and a civil engineer to figure out if the plant is needed at all. Being an expert in nuclear power does not make you an expert in nuclear policy.

Off course I am non of these things, my expertise is in front end web development. I am less then a layman in nuclear or power policy. However I am worried about the climate emergency, and I do worry that experts giving advice in favor of nuclear power are misguided—or worse—have their own agenda. I don’t think this puts me on a high horse or—more accurately—under a tin foil hat. Experts failed to stop the climate catastrophe before it was an emergency. Energy experts in the seventies knew the risk fossil fuels posed to the climate, but they failed to influence public policy to stop it. Worse they failed to even warn government officials on it. And worse still, they still influenced politicians to enact policy that made matters worse and doubled down on fossil fuel. I think history shows that blind faith in experts can be misguided.

Again I am not an expert on what I am talking about. And I think I am a fairly typical HN member in that. When reading commentary on HN I usually try to filter out the people that seem to know what they are talking about. I certainly don’t fit that category, reading my comments I would think to my self: “This person is making good points, but they are not providing any meaningful information.” There are other commentators elsewhere in this thread that know a lot more what they are talking about then me, and provide excellent reasons for why you should be skeptical of people promoting nuclear as a solution to the climate crisis.
webmachine, mochiweb etc. come from Erlang.

webmachine is one of the earliest libraries I'm aware of that tried to think carefully about HTTP semantics and structured it's work with restful APIs (or web requests in general) according to an actual diagram that you can see here: https://github.com/basho/webmachine/blob/develop/docs/http-h...

There's an expanded and re-worked version that builds on this here: https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram/tree/master... (follow the links to system, request etc. to see the reasoning and references for each step)
I agree -- the ability to put a flat rate bounty (similar to what is done with non-monetary bounties on Stack Overflow) would be a better way of fair price discovery. Maybe even allow the devs to place bids on problems and auction the price down from a maximum price bounty.
And that was their downfall.

Nobody cared for a gazillion cartridges, sticks, disks, drives etc if it all sounded exactly the same in the end.
I know very little about the prison system, but surely the suspension of phone privileged cannot prevent an inmate from contacting his legal representation, right?
> While videos are nice, they don't have such scientific value as another scientific instrument that could have been on board instead.

While they don't have much scientific value, they have an extreme amount of value in a related field: marketing.

I mean, if you want more money for your hot new space rover mission nothing sells it better than high resolution quality videos of it landing on the surface of another planet.
> it's also very verbose code (due to the simplicity of the language).
That makes it very hard to read go code and build a mental model in your head.

Verbose does not equal complex usually.

Something that's a single method call on a built-in type may be 3 lines in Go. This doesn't make it hard to understand or keep in your head. "This iterates over a map" is the same regardless of the lines of code. You can very quickly skim verbose code, especially in a language like Go, where idioms and conventions are identical across many code bases.
Can you recommend any tutorials?
Noting that decentralisation requires a lot of effort, otherwise monopoly is a natural outcome in any competitive field.

So regardless of the egalitarian ethos of the Web, the natural result of leaving the environment to invent itself is that there will be one search engine that basically everybody uses, one social network that basically everybody uses (and that one network might change from generation to generation).
You can solve this problem pretty easily by using free software projects.
> Of course IAMNAMSWABRIAJ (I am not a mad scientist with a brain in a jar), so YMMV.

How can you be so sure of that?
Way better then this one, however only covers CRUD.
I always imagined that startup folks were working for a lower salary, with the expectation that if it goes big, the have a chance at a massive payoff. Is that not how it is? I'd expect discontinuous QOL changes between:

unsuccessful or not yet successful startup | working at a big company | successful startup

(I'd rather not work for a startup because the middle bracket looks fine to me).

If people are working for that startup lottery ticket and then not getting the full reward when it comes up a winner, they are just getting screwed. Which is a possibility but not very mysterious, right?
I agree with another poster that it's likely aerodynamics.

But, it reminded me of an incident when I was a kid. In a minivan, all windows open, highway speeds. Driver hit a swarm of bees. I've never seen a density of bees like it. Made the windshield opaque for many seconds of wipers and spray, and the number of bees that came through the side windows to be smashed against the back windows and luggage was shocking.

I don't know anything about swarming behavior, and it's been years since I thought about that incident. Thanks for the memory!
Well, I spend my childhood in Far East Russia. Vladivostok, and Blagoveschensk primarily.

Japan was all over that place.

I also remember DAT players. People say they were a commercial failure in Japan.

Players themselves were a frequent sight on sale, but tapes were near impossible to find, let alone ones with pre-recorded music.

And they were prone to tearing in humid climate. They were scotch taped, and superglued 100 times over, that's how rare they were.
There's a difference between starting new projects and rewriting old ones. I have 7+ years of professional C++ under my belt and probably wouldn't start a new project in it. Same with Java. Sometimes new things are better.
I really enjoyed the exploration of this premise in the novel "Kil'n People" by David Brin.

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

The premise is quite similar to "uploads" except the device is a "golem scanner", which copies your mind into a temporary, disposable body. Different "grades" of body can be purpose made for different kinds of tasks (thinking, menial labour etc).

The part that resonates with your comment is around the motivation of golems, who are independently conscious and have their own goals.

In the novel, some people can't make useful golems, because their copies of themselves don't do what they want. There's an interesting analogy with self control; that is about doing things that suck now, to benefit your future self. This is similar, but your other self exists concurrently!

Key to the plot though is the "merge" step; you can take the head of an expiring golem, scan it, and merge it's experiences with your own. This provides some continuity and meaning to anchor the golem's life.
If only.

>The minimum safe lower limit for the partial pressures of oxygen in a gas mixture is 0.16 bars (16 kPa) absolute.

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

If it was 20% that would be survivable with just an oxygen mask fwiw. Humans can go down to 16% atm pressure safely if they breathe 100% oxygen. The rest of the body can easily handle the pressure difference (1 full atm of pressure is equivalent to being 10meters underwater as a guide, human orifices have no issue with it contrary to pop sci beliefs).

So yes it's not 20% and it would be nice if it was.
Surely this will attract those developers least likely to answer questions that cannot be/ haven't been answered on SO.
> After some threshold of vaccine distribution, people need to be convinced that it's ok to return to normal life, and that they don't need to cower in fear in their homes or wear masks for years and years.

No one has suggested people should cower in fear, and people seem pretty happy going about without masks, or with masks worn in an openly defiant manner (under the chin, off of one ear, etc.) in public places with prominent mask mandate signage today, so, again, I don't think the issue you are alluding to is even remotely serious. As a society, whatever the formal provisions of law say, we haven't given public health authorities the power in practice that you argue we will have problems with when we need to take it away.
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You get 100 rep points by linking a different stack exchange account. So it's pretty much anyone.
I have not done it myself, but there are a number of kits out there. Look up "pen blanks". You'll usually need a lathe (often a small desktop one is sufficient for this purpose) and a kit to get started. Once you have a better idea of what you're doing, you will still need the hardware kits (for the nib and ink bladder, or pencil mechanism, etc.) but can branch out into using your own blanks and coming up with your own designs.
Yeah, I was gonna say that I actually quite like a lot of the copy; it speaks to a consumer's specific problems and feelings, which is, like, marketing 101.
Indeed. You can easily make it very hard to scale.
> Today, the waiting list for Mr Deshmukh's pens stretches up to nearly two years. The 10 models come in a range of colours and cost between $70-$160

and

> "The last time I looked at his online list, it said my order would be ready in 95 weeks," the Indian-born author, most recently, of Gun Island, told me.

Seems like a pretty big failure on pricing here... Raising prices to reduce wait times will generally make for happier customers and more money. Low prices and scarcity lead to secondary markets and unhappy customers.
Paypal is f*&^ expensive. They'll enforce a conversion to your native currency which will cost about 2.5% (but no one really knows - at least this used to be the case last time I used them).

$45/hr seems pretty low from here (Eastern Europe) and it definitely DOES NOT translate to $7200/month (which would be an OK income). Anywhere. You can't do this kind of work 160 hours/mo. Though if you have a stable project and you do this on top and only calculate the monthly income for a comparison, then OK. But you'd still have to calculate with at least your holidays.
To some extent you can do it with snap.
https://snapcraft.io/blog/parallel-installs-test-and-run-mul...

A lot of discussion here is already solved by snap/flatpack.
Having just finished that title, that's a bit of a poor reduction - that section is more one of his usual tangents, with some interesting consequences explored, but basically ends up being used to set up for the changes in technology required to support the rest of the book.

That said, he does spend a lot of time early on basically showing the transition his Shaftoe/Enoch/Dodge-verse must ultimately take; it's kind of an eschaton of many of his prior works.
>Remember the sign on cabs that said they accept all major cards, only to find out the "card reader doesn't work?".

Do I?! It's still commonplace! I have lost every ounce of sympathy I ever held for taxi drivers.
It's browser-based using webrtc so you don't need to install anything.
This feels straight out of Kafka.
There's not a huge amount of technique to climbing, it's mostly power to weight ratio. Do you have a power meter and have you done an FTP test?

One technique you can practice is calibrating your effort level in terms of watts or heart rate to the length of the climb. You need to get a feel for the maximum output you can sustain without getting gassed before you reach the summit.
No they don't work for vast majority of cases. They work only for CRUD and imposing resources paradigm on everything looks alien.
Used to work for a bank many moons ago and we bought a new mainframe (Unisys) and few months down the line we had major month end batch processing issues.

So they payed Unisys a not so small chunk of money to "unlock" the second CPU board which was always present inside the mainframe that was installed.

As a PC guy I was gobsmacked.
> Or why not go all in and use a quill?

I do. Like taking photos with film, the relative inconvenience of using a quill pen gives you time to focus on penmanship and what you're writing and engage more deeply with the act.
It really is! The more you read about it, the more interesting it gets, too - for example, while the virus is vertically transmitted, that doesn't happen by the ordinary route of mother-to-daughter infection. Instead, the viral genome is integrated into that of the wasp, as are genes that code for a unique type of ovarian cell that's specialized to act as a viral replicator.

And that's just one example! I could give more, like the effect the virus has on the wasp's reproductive host, and how it's honestly surprising that Peter Watts hasn't written a novel about that yet - I'm always happy to talk at length about wasps, or at least to whatever extent my interlocutor of the moment is happy to listen.
> In short, it doesn’t do anything.
> “positioned to deliver a potentially impactful payload at a moment’s notice.”

In my view, these are contradictory statements.

It hasn't done anything (according to evidence at the time of writing) is not the same as it doesn't do anything.