skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even a question like this isn't so simple. There's at least a couple of ways electricity can hurt you. One is by interrupting the regular body regulation mechanisms, namely your heartbeat. Electricity passing across the heart can cause it to spasm. If it can't recover and find a regular heartbeat again you die. This is the most common way to get hurt and could happen from getting a shock from mains. The other is by electricity passing through you and burning you on the way through. This is common from lightning strikes as the electricity will pass through you to ground, rather than across the heart. It means you're less likely to die, but more likely to sustain injury.

In all cases, what hurts you is current. Current means electrons are flowing through you. As mentioned there are at least a couple of ways that current can affect you adversely. So it needs to be either a large enough current (so more electrons flowing), or a current going in the wrong place (across the heart).

So what makes current flow? Or, why do the electrons "want" to move? Voltage. A car battery has plenty of energy in it that could kill you in either of the two ways, but at 12V there's not enough voltage to get any current flowing through your body.

Voltage is the existence of an imbalance. Electrons "want" to be in a place where they are balanced with a positive charge. A battery represents a structure that is very imbalanced but the electrons are not able to move anywhere until the two ends of the battery are connected with a conductor. There are many ways that these imbalances arise but they are ultimately always the result of energy going in. When the imbalance is resolved the energy comes back out.

To hurt you a voltage also needs to be sustained long enough to pass enough current. A static shock is due to a very high voltage existing which it causes current to flow and why you can feel it, unlike the car battery. However, in an instant all the current has flowed and the voltage is gone.

So the answer is a high enough voltage and enough energy to sustain that voltage. Mains electricity can hurt you because it's high voltage (>50V) and can sustain that voltage all day long. Lightning can hurt you because it's very high voltage and can sustain it long enough (and that's only an instant) to cause serious injury.
I'm here to practice my English.

Language-wise the quality of posts here is much better than what I would get on reddit, fb or similar.

Not sure if this counts, but it's a major reason why I visit this site daily.
For me, this touches on everything that is wrong with the setup we find we have. How we lose our privacy and are beholden to our corporations and governments.

* We are separated from our data. It should be ours, and we should be able to allow for corporates to access it if we choose to and we are able to understand the usage.

* The options we are given here are to be able to move our data from one corporate entity to another. Hardly the solution individual ownership of one's data and privacy.

* We are looking to government legislation to make this right for us, but governments like having access to all the data that the corporations share with them. Governments are in the business of managing populations at scale - the more information they have, the better modelling, nudging, manipulations of the population they can do. Basically corporate and governmental interests align.

* Not to forget that corporations lobby governmental entities for the legislation they want. Even if the legislation states one thing, there are ALWAYS backdoors that are understood.

I'm sorry to say that the attack on privacy is a coordinated one with governments AND corporations. If you hope that this time the government will write better legislation or that corporates will do the right thing, you are mistaken. They only care about being perceived to do the right thing - so public relations.

If you are aware of all that, and have a solution, I would be interested to hear. I think any solution would involve individuals acting very defensively about their data. Any solution that begs government or corporations for better action this time is doomed.
> And even the ones who do expect it to not be long-term, would not have expected it to be cancelled overnight.

I find this argument really strange.

Budgets can (and do) change and cancel categories of benefits for poor people overnight.

But benefits that accrue to wealthy people must not be changed overnight?

This is a function solely of power.
One reason is that for a very long time, if you created a native WebView on Windows, you would get an IE7-compatible browser, even if the user had installed a much newer version of IE. There were a couple of tricks you could use to get the user's actual browser version, which I described some time ago here:

http://forums.apricitysoftware.com/t/why-is-markdownpad-spaw...

In any case you were still dependent on IE10/11 at the best, and certainly nothing as modern as the old Edge, much less the Chromium-based Edge. And on older Windows versions it completely depended on whether the user had upgraded IE.

You could write HTML/CSS/JS that was portable between IE10/11 and other native browsers, just as we all did in actual websites. I did this for Mac/Windows in the past and it worked, but it was fairly compelling for web developers to have a single browser version to target instead of the various incompatible native web views.

The situation is a bit different now, where you can get an Chromium Edge view on Windows 10 and a Safari view on Mac, but what do you get on Linux? I don't know.
For America, I was going to say:

- violence: tolerated

- nipple: becoming more accepted, barring antiquated FCC rules that only really impact things like Superbowl. streaming seems to completely allow it.

- dirty words (f-bomb, s-bomb, etc.): roughly same as nipple. Yippie kie-yay Mister Falcon.

- racism: depictions of historical racism, e.g. History Channel are fine. racial slurs, racialized depictions (Apu on Simpsons) risk randomly getting episodes or entire series effectively banned (delisted and never shown again). applies to actors' and producers' personal lives, twitter feeds, etc.

- sexism, other-isms: racism-lite. there is a bigger emphasis on sexism in personal lives vs. racism in the actual show content. Seinfeld wasn't cancelled over Michael Richard's Laugh Factory incident and there are tons of sexist tropes on 80's/90's sitcoms that haven't haven't (yet) resulted in cancellation.
To be honest, this probably would have been a lot easier to implement as a UberASM script rather than a standalone patch, since you could just run it in the level you wanted to run it in, and without worrying about freespace or overwriting existing code:

https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=19982

But it's a neat idea nonetheless, and works well either way.
In an alternate universe, a really “smart” AI would be able to answer the “how do you carry water without a vessel” question, still not in the normal human way (you freeze it), but in the same vein as what you would find in Randall Munroe’s “How To” book.
When I was freelancing I got a couple of gigs by talking to companies who listed themselves here.

Very recently I achieved a significant boost in production system perf from comments here about the underlying hardware of GCP at different custom assignments. This saved decent $$ at a small company.

I've used HN twice now to cash in on the rise of BTC (unfortunately my liquid capital is low enough that this is only low 5 digit gain).

And you say information doesn't count, but filtering through the information and analysis here is a high signal way to "get ahead". To acquire power at work and amongst friends it helps to be both insightful and reliable, as well as confident. While HN doesn't make me reliable it sure as hell helps on the other fronts.
I think it was photoshopped. I zoomed in on the photo and if you look closely at the edges around the ship, the colors do not match up with the rest of the photo. As in most photoshop fails, the ship was not cleanly cropped from its original photo, and the parts around the edges of the ship in the original photo don't match the photo in which the ship was inserted.
Really struggling to parse what you've said here
My sister did the painting! Her paintings are original and absolutely fine, just not remotely interesting to collectors. Me paying a silly amount for it has no real effect on that. Similarly, a Picasso picked up for cheap from someone who didn't understand art is still worth millions because collectors care about the current and future desirability of Picasso originals, not whether the last buyer/seller was an idiot. And collectors obviously also pay a lot more in real terms for Picassos than anyone ever paid Picasso.

Or to look more closely at your example, the resale values of a mint condition Harry Potter first edition bought for £10 and a Harry Potter first edition bought for £30k are exactly the same and exactly the same collectors and auctioneers will deal with it, precisely because assets are identical and the market cares about how collectible the asset is rather than its individual historic price. (The market price of a first edition owned by Rowling herself is also the same, but she can change that pretty easily with a signature to make it more 'special' than other first editions)
It's the lack of culture, homogeneization. Living in Seattle I'm constantly reminded of the lackluster quality of food.
That’s not the same graph because that includes retirees.
I'm not sure flipping the assignments would have helped with understanding the flow of electrical energy. It might even re-enforce the common misconceptions being outlined in the article here.

One, electrical energy does not flow from cathode to anode. Nor does it go the other way. The energy goes down both wires, from source to load.

Two, it's an arbitrary decision if you want to talk about negative charges going east, or positive charges going west. They're equivalent when talking about a net-neutral wire.

There are a lot of symmetries in the world that we break by arbitrary convention. The polarity of subatomic particles, the right-hand rule used in vector mathematics, the way bolts are threaded.

The alien society might just use a "left-hand rule" for their magnetism and vector operations, and have clocks that turn opposite of ours (which probably means their planet orbits the opposite way?)

As far as car batteries go, the reason to disconnect the (–) first is because it's almost always* the chassis ground. If you were to work on an ancient Volkswagen, then you'd be told to disconnect the (+) cable first. Disconnecting the other terminal first is more dangerous; your wrench is a perfect short circuiting tool!

* And the reason we all use negative for chassis ground has to do with galvanic corrosion, I think?
The US intelligence community is very successful attracting extremely talented folks.

It’s funny that you mention Israel. The would be one of the worst “allies” to partner with. Jonathan Pollard was just given a hero’s welcome. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
The private life of Sir Chris Hohn – the man paid £1m a day
I became a Software Engineer (my childhood dream) by reading edw519 (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edw519) comments and free PDF book. He wrote that you don't need a university degree to start in the field, so I jumped out of bed and started learning Python. Now 8 years later I'm a Senior Software Engineer.

I even was in a CTO position once, which didn't work out, because I arrived too late and the startup would have gone bankrupt anyway, but I enjoyed that the most.

I learned a lot about Python and generic programming related things from the articles posted here. I read 1 article/day on average for years now.
It looks like the search are exact. Is there a way to send either pattern (to be used with regex) or substring (to be use with contains) ?
Perhaps the best thing would've been quantitative easing with required guaranteed govt backed loans for anyone unable to meet rent or mortgage or utility payments.

Loans are forgotten if you fail to meet minimum income thresholds (i.e. you can put in forbearance until your income is above say $70k) if your income does't rise about that in ten years, congratulations you're free and clear and the government eats it.

Figure out some list of "necessities" bring your bills and get monthly loan disbursements for those amounts.

Or another option prop the banks but REQUIRE them to prop up landlords but ONLY if they prop up tenants who cannot pay and do the same for utlities, cell phone providers, internet.

That would've ensured a smoother way of essentially "pausing" where you're at, so we can lockdown and "reboot" the system. Basically.

Though I'm all for a UBI as I've been out of work for awhile myself as a freelance dev and am feeling the noose of despair tighten.
> TOML seems to be catching steam.

I am convinced that TOML is the _only_ reasonable configuration format, but very few seem to be swayed.

JSON and YAML are really not made for humans. Configuration must always be a hash. Configuration must allow for expository organization of the content to help humans understand what they are editing (comments, whitespace, section headings are very helpful). Parsing configuration should not result in unexpected code execution.

TOML satisfies those criteria.

I would love to see widespread adoption, but people still seem convinced that storing configuration in JSON is human friendly.
It literally got me a couple hundred bucks in some crypto from Keybase, just for having an HN account. Thats more than I can say for any other site lol
Wait till the price of Bitcoin, crypto and other so-called 'speculative assets' start hyperinflating and we'll see who is really being scammed.
From the list I love draw.io. It asks for login, but allows the export, has a client that can be downloaded and works just fine.
In which case falling back on a hash is fine.
Maybe researchers and professionals is more appropriate than nerds.

Take a look at streamers and Bill Gates collaborating, then compare that to Gates appearing in remote news interviews. Quality difference is significant with TV being always worse.
Seconded.

I'm taking a professional reporting course at my uni and I feel like lurking here has paid off at least a little bit.
How much time and expertise did it take? Did automatically work on all OSs? Could person without tech background slap something like this in a weekend? Did it have accessibility built-in? Could you reuse it on web?
I wonder how they vet any small companies? Just like stealing/selling Chrome/firefox extensions how will this work if a small company withe nextcloud offers migration - then it is 'acquired' by 'evil' company.

https://datatransferproject.dev/faq

> Q: Why aren’t there more, smaller companies in the Project?
It's an odd feature of the thing - I'm a native English speaker so I'm ok with that but getting upvotes / downvotes is quite good practice for improving your writing, I've found.
I think its great that combustion engines are banned since they pollute a lot!

Yes its named Parkinsons law. Parkinson noticed that the number of ships in the english army was decreasing but the number of administrators administrating the ships were increasing.

Government officials hire more officials which invents new laws and rules.

Reference link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
How the United States and Soviet Union embarked on a macabre surgical arms race
Good effort! But gram is not a unit of weight.
Sure, but I thought was that building an ML model that considers the questionnaire results (or existing similar findings) would be a very interesting next step.
Actually "half" is pretty dang well defined :)
How convenient that the perpetrators always turn out to be political enemies.
Sound dampening as well. Fabric lined partitions, just sitting angled to walls, etc. $3 headset isn’t the end of the world by itself but capping at $3 total invested in setup is surely going to ruin the sound.
I think the benefit of HN, reddit, or twitter is the random once-in-a-bluemoon jackpot you get with it. Sure, most of the post here are meh, but sometimes there's one that grabs you and alters your life. Perhaps all the okay-ish posts are the price you and I pay to get exposed to the once-in-a-bluemoon jackpot.
I was going to answer in a similar vein, although I don't normally participate in the discussions, mainly because English is not my native tongue and although I think I can now read at the level of a native speaker, I find it significantly more difficult to write in it (and, being a language that for reasons that elude me I love, I hate how artificial and unnatural my phrases sound like).

In my case, I have a background in statistics and biotechnology and I use Hacker News (via RSS) to learn about new developments in machine learning and related technology. I tend to ignore all news related to politics/social issues because HN, on average, has a very narrow-minded (too engineer-like, often ignoring a lot of vital nuances) way of looking at those topics. Also, I'm from Europe and I find that there's a particularly American way of looking at business and personal projects that we don't have here and that I feel beneficial to get exposed to (even with its downsides).

Edit: To expand a little more on my process of using HN, in case anyone finds it interesting, I subscribe to the frontpage RSS feed, so that I usually get between 75-100 stories (just the headlines) per day, which I then proceed to quickly scan to open the interesting ones (both the original URL and its accompanying HN discussion). I've found the signal/noise ratio to be more than worth it (also factoring in the time it takes me to do all of this).
Maxwell’s gambling demon is smart enough to quit while it’s ahead
The name is imho inappropriate chosen. Under zero data, I understand that the app needs no data at all.
Of my ~600 markdown notes, 85 currently contain the string "news.yco". Some of them may be just feel-good pseudo-procrastination (inspiration for the blog I did not start yet) but others definitely shaped me as a person. A big percentage is relevant material for my main side-project - the note taking app for my note - for which I got the idea and various details from HN. Another is a bunch of good (and less good) books I found here and read.

I don't have a collection of Teslas and some bay area real estate to show for it yet, but it comes down to this: My day-to-day thoughts are massively shaped by the media I consume. I can spend all day contemplating some dumb /r/askreddit question or a novel take on Docker CI/CD I read on HN. I am pretty sure the second one aligns more to whatever the opposite of opportunity cost is. IMO, in the end, being knowledgeable makes you a better dev.

Also, I am practicing my English writing skill, so if I start this blog one day, maybe it will not even suck (and earn me all that tangible money, of course ;) ).
dual booting is a kinda a lot of work just for some free games.

You also could charge a dollar since you are often offering a strictly worse product for Linux users. That's what happens in many other markets when you are trying to expand a userbase.

There is clearly a dollar value to providing support. Why shouldn't the price reflect that?
Interesting how what was seen as slow and bloated back then become the opposite today. Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping, yep, back then, 8MB was unthinkably large for a text editor...

Another example is the Enlightenment window manager. It was considered a little heavy, but good looking. But because there was a large hiatus in development, it got "stuck in the past" and now, it is one of the lightest there is.
Yes that’s actually how I got my start in writing. I had a travel blog back in 2007-08 and would post entries to Facebook. I gauged writing effectively by comments and rapidly improved my style.

Ended up starting a writing focussed business. Don’t think I could have done it without frequent and rapid feedback.

Your comment made me realize this is probably why I keep writing comments. It is constant, precise feedback on my skill in what I do.
> no radioactive waste

It can create things that take 100 years, a closed cycle thorium breeder takes 200-300 years.

And the waste from that process is actually quite useful to extract isotopes for medical, nuclear batteries and other applications.

> no nuclear meltdowns / runaway processes

Neither can a properly designed fission reactor. And in a molten salt reactor all dangerous gases are chemically bound in the salt and if removed from the reactor would freeze instantly not realising them into the air. So even if some basically unforeseeable chain of event lead to a runaway process, it would not release gases into the air and would stay contained on the reactor site.

A fusion reactor is actually more likely to release dangerous gases into the air in case of an accident.

> more abundant fuel (on earth and the rest of the solar system)

Thorium is incredibly common on most rocky planets. Its already a waste in rare earth mining, so likely you wouldn't even need a single new mine. Every country has enough thorium in the ground to power itself. Mars has plenty of Thorium as well.

Fission does not have any practical issues in regards to fuel availability.

> - less pre-processing of fuel

Depending on the fusion reactor you still need some preprocessing. Depending on fission reactor you need more or less.

If you have a continuously refundable thorium breeder you actually need very little pre-processing other then devolving the metallic thorium into salt.

While that might be an advantage, I don't see it as some gigantic advantage that it worth the additional complexity of fusion.

> fuel cannot be used to easily make weapons

Most fusion reactors that are considered today absolutely can be used to create nuclear weapons.

I would argue starting a nuclear weapons program if you have control over a fusion reactor is far easier compared to when you have a thorium breeder.

With neither is it easy in any way.

Practically is mostly a non problem. This is a buggy-men, and would still be with fusion.

> Should we use fission right up until we have viable fusion? Of course, we should definitely be building more fission reactors. But I can't think of a single reason we'd continue using fission once we get to fusion.

Well, the cost is the reason why you might not want to do fusion if fission works. That said, I'm not anti-fusion. I'm just miffed that we rush into fusion when we have so much improvement on fission that could solve the exact problems fusion is trying to solve.
On the flip side, you do at least get to meet tech bros and not have to pay for conference tickets. That's gotta count for something.
Notes on two Jonathan Blow's lectures on game design
Triviality arguments about computational implementation
> Sites like Netflix that region lock media will force you to show your ID just to sign up

I bet that'll come with an uptick of piracy then.
And Finland.

Except they also send it by snail mail, so you can read that and if it looks correct you don't even have to go online to click "OK". (Though I think I saw somewhere they may be phasing that out; saves on trees and postage.)
Stop trying to use vim like your IDE. Vim doesn't have shortcuts, it has a whole language of commands that can freely be combined.