skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are talking a proton density of ~10^-8/cm^3 or lower in cosmic voids. At 1/cm heat alone is going to cook everything long before radiation has time to do anything.

Next solar wind actually becomes significant protection at those densities. It varies significantly and simulating what happens gets complicated, but it shouldn’t be ignored at those densities.

Anyway, the outer fringes of earths atmosphere for example is almost exclusively Hydrogen and Helium as it gets sorted by atomic weight. Free neutrons decay in a matter of minutes and therefore would almost entirely end up as more hydrogen. What’s a much larger risk is stripping the atmosphere off of any planet.
At this point, we know there is close to zero risk to getting vaccinated. How much reward do we need to convince people to do it?
Hi, I don't see the intern positions available on the Lever listing page
What I Learned from 2 Years at a Digital Agency
Yes, autopilot interrupt, and initially as a shame factor - shaming myself not to go through with it and stick out the rest of the day phone-free. However, now this is more of a mental block since once I decide to have a phone-free day the bags are mainly symbolic.
If you know a sha256 collision the bitcoin network will currently pay you about 0.476 BTC (~about $26k USD right now) to publish it.

https://blockstream.info/address/35Snmmy3uhaer2gTboc81ayCip4...

https://blockstream.info/address/39VXyuoc6SXYKp9TcAhoiN1mb4n...

https://blockstream.info/address/3DUQQvz4t57Jy7jxE86kyFcNpKt...
Under the property tax, they'd be penalized for developing the land. Their fallowing of the land would be effectively subsidized.

Under an LVT, the landowner contributes the same amount to their community regardless of their use of the land -- empty plot, slum, or well maintained building. This is good for the community overall.

So in your example the speculator sitting on an empty plot would see their carrying costs double. How could that not affect their behavior?
That doesn't follow!

Could you please stop posting flamewar comments? Between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26939564 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26849805, you've been doing it way too much lately.
This sensitive topic was discussed recently. Be sure to read dang's comment at the top.

Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up (femfosec.com)

1005 points by femfosec 36 days ago | 1502 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612918
Exceptionally well written. I clicked into the source but was disappointed the quotation didn't have a way to read more.
Yea, the valley commute felt pretty brutal and incredibly stressful for me when I did it for a year or so. Not sure what it is, but traffic here seems really cut throat and there isnt much courtesy out there (e.g. merges here are hilarious, there is no such thing as a zipper merge here, you get everyone trying to cut ahead and merge at the last second).

Walking a few blocks to the office is an amazing way to start the day without incurring stress.
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Sounds like a good solar panel system will be economical for you.
Right, there are bad trips and a good shaman can help you avoid them.
in my case, the .com was owned by a computer company in tijuana (no joke).
This is the issue:

<<But it is the unanticipated outcome that is concerning," Powell added.

In fact, the genes that were passed on weren't the tweaked genes that were designed to kill and tag the mosquitoes but rather genes from the strains in Cuba and Mexico, according to Science magazine. The researchers also noted that this mixing of genes might have led to a "more robust population," perhaps one that would be better able to resist insecticides or transmit diseases, Science magazine reported. >> https://www.livescience.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-...

In other words, something they didn’t expect happened.

What else will happen that they did not expect?
It’s cool to erase me, no problem. Inconvenient facts: I hired Dave, as well as (not as hiring manager but by influence) Graydon. Also I’m cofounder of Mozilla Research and C-level advocate for grad student internships. I’m not taking more credit than them, I want less! But don’t erase sr. management or give anyone else at that level undue credit. It was a team effort, but while there is no “I” in team, there is no budget without C level sponsor.
This is fun. I'd really like to see an easy js scripting environment for slightly more complex logic. Though I suppose this accomplishes that since everything is reevaluated upon editing.

FYI If I highlight everything and delete, the right-hand side 'answers' remain there, with no text to the left
Ask HN: What do you use for interactive customer support?
I know a lot of sites use chat portals or calls with screen sharing but I think the limitations of chat widgets are that it can be intrusive to your website annoying to the customer not always responsive and may not be able to deal directly with their issue. Limitations of customer support with screen sharing are that both customer and agent can't use it at the same time. What are you using to give the best live support, (or, relatedly, accurately capture bug reports), what are its limitations and what do you want?
I think system76 was doing something similar, but even on a longer cadence than 4 weeks.

I like this setup also, as "the office" could also be a villa on the coast of portugal where the team goes for face time
What would your preferred alternative be?
Working from home will stick for some, in some regions, and it most definitely is not going to stick collectively.

my employer has demanded that all US employees (over 30k of us) return to their respective office by the first week of August. no non-medical exceptions. and that is AFTER a full year of being told how successful we are holding the company together, and keeping the lights on for our customers, etc.

"working from home will stick" my white butt.
Not my point at all, rather, that a well chosen domain name that's immediately recognizable as such, and a part of the corporate identity and trademarks, is an essential part of having an Internet presence.

Also ultimately your domain name and wherever its MX record points to is the start of authority for setting up official business accounts with all of the popular social media promotion channels (you sure aren't letting your social media people run the company instagram page from an account linked to their personal gmail accounts, are you?)

By no means would I say that people should ignore all the other ways of driving traffic to a company's online marketing presence, via all other modern means of social media (instagram, tiktok, facebook, twitter, whatever is the new hot thing of the current year). And having a dedicated app, partnership with third party food ordering services if you're something like a burrito delivery service.
Oosp! Fixed now.
I did this out of pure convenience, and actually never experienced the university's Windows account system at all (would I have had to sign up for an account? who knows). I had a list of strategically-located printers in my printcap, chose one on the way to whatever class I was headed to, kicked off the print job, and collected it as I passed by to class. In class I would get the previous week's assignment back, take the staple out with my pocket knife, and reuse it to staple the current week's homework before turning it in.
This is of course a pretty troll-y argument. Mass murder is massively wrong and unethical, procreation choices are at worst arguably defensible.

(Unless you're a religious fanatic of the contraception=murder variety...)
It was a white cargo van with a steel bulkhead. Difficult to break into where I was sleeping. I wanted my family to grow up rural close to our recreational activities. The work is/was in a Canadian city. I'd typically be at work or at the gym or just in the van sleeping. I still pay mortgage on a house in the sticks but at least I wasn't getting into leases in the city that would be far away from the next opportunity. Someone tested my door once and another time a snow plow pushed a drift into my bumper. That was the extent of it over the years. I'd never camp anywhere residential. Commercial and industrial areas were the best.
They could just file for postponement or use a reverse mortgage/HELOC to pay their societal obligations. This idea that people should get to keep the entire windfall while shortchanging their communities is ridiculous.
Recent and related:

First GMO Mosquitoes to Be Released in the Florida Keys - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26834413 - April 2021 (126 comments)

750M genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in Florida Keys - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24218044 - Aug 2020 (13 comments)
That was very interesting, thank you. I didn't realize some uuids were anything other than... unique. A version seems very useful.
For your frontend: MapLibre GL [1] is the fork of Mapbox GL that's still open source, so you don't have to pay for each usage.

For tile hosting: Openmaptiles [2], based on Openstreetmap data. Either pay them for out-of-the-box experience, or use their open-source code to set up your own server at whatever hosting for whatever price you prefer.

[1] https://github.com/MapLibre/maplibre-gl-js

[2] https://openmaptiles.org/
The probability of this particular project failing is unrelated to the fraction of previous failures. Those past failures serve only as a warning.

When you jump out of a plane, you don’t just say “99.999% of people survived this before, so I’ll probably be fine”, you carefully triple-check your gear, and you abort if you get a gut feeling something isn’t right.
I suppose if we love the idea of humans being the cause of the end of the world, it is because we are the only thing on the planet capable of causing the end of the world, such as it is. This is the result of science. Maybe you could call it scientism, if one needs something to which to ascribe a bogeyman or create division.

I am not ungrateful for our current actualization. Getting here took (and continues to take) tremendous sacrifice.
It's clear that the system occasionally struggles in making coherent sentences that communicate actual meaning -- others have pointed this out well enough. I think what's occasionally lost in these types of criticisms of these systems is the point the article is making about the transformation of the role of the writer from a producer to a curator. Already this transformation has occured in other fields; the job of a professional translator (for text) at this point is mostly starting with a machine translation and slightly tweaking it in order to produce something more natural. I can easily see this happening with GPT-N: the writer inputs some ideas, and filters what's produced and/or tweaks it to make the final product. It doesn't matter if X% of what it produces is trash: if there is usable content, the role of the writer has been changed. If the machine produces something like the article's examples on the first go, and all the "writer" needs to do is tweak it a bit to modify the bit about throwing babies in the trash, then it is still groundbreaking.
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We've recently closed our Series B and are growing at a very fast pace. This is a rare opportunity to join a small team of exceptionally talented engineers on a team with vast amounts of green field, where you're able to play an influential role in the growth and success of a category creating product.

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Google Trends is a horrible way to measure belief. It's at best a measure of interest or simply what people are talking about at a particular moment (what's "in the air.")
Something to note:

Before the CDC said that kids were a concern about spread earlier this year. The Chicago Mayor (Lightfoot) was trying to force kids back into school again. She tried fighting with the Chicago Teachers Union to do this. (Lied about mitigations in schools, the city doctor "magically announced it's safe in schools", etc)

There was the Chicago Public Schools head literally posting a thing that "a kid in the school said baseball games are much better in person than on the tv" and she used it for justification to support inschool teaching.

Tweet:

https://twitter.com/janicejackson/status/1350222205553156100...

This is the elected officials.
Is a yes/no question about speaking or not really the best possible question to ask here?

When we are lacking metacognition on the subject, we can be at the point where we don't even know how to ask the right questions. This is because we can't assess how our beliefs and expectations constrain the range of questions we even know to ask. If you've ever chuckled over the hoary old tale of someone asking tech support, "where is the 'any' key?", you know how lack of understanding can lead to wildly incorrect mental models of a subject.

There are decades - nay, centuries - of writing about race relations, racial bias, and systemic discrimination. Before we ask a question, perhaps we'd be well-served to have at least a survey course level of familiarity with the issues, so that we might ask good questions.
See also my experiments with GPT-3 on sane prompts, which have wildly varying quality even after generating them in bulk: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments

Creative writing hasn't been one of the super-hyped use cases by OpenAI for the OpenAI API outside of AI Dungeon, surprisingly. For just random generation, the necessary curation can detract from the time-savings advantages. (as an aside, the API is also extremely expensive for long-form content to the point I'm not sure how the economics work for these startups even with charging monthly fees).

I'm more bullish on small bespoke models for a given use case, which is what I spend my time researching. (example: a ~1M parameter GPT-2 Magic: the Gathering card generator: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VOt090UzvltoBgMdUZm... )
NASA solar probe becomes fastest object ever built as it 'touches the sun’
Well, maybe, but then it would be just as possible to post an interesting and substantive comment about it, which would be inside the site guidelines instead of breaking them.
Has to be! I'd be very surprised if it wasn't :)
Here’s Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Human_health

I am not a medical expert, just passing along what I have read.
Also anecdotal, but down the road here in Melbourne we did have some major lockdowns. I'm the only person from my team in the office. It would be an exaggeration to claim this floor is at 15% of capacity. On the 2 days I week I come in I get my pick of seats on the train, whereas it was sardine standing room only previously. My go to cafe is gone. As are my second, third and forth gotos.

I expect most offices will reduce their floor plans. Most white collar workers will WFH a yet to be determined proportion of their time.
Canada is basically just an economic extension to the US. I find it funny when people talk about us developing our own industry for X. We don't do that. Our approach is to be a pool of specialized and culturally similar people for the US to use as cheaper labor (when the loonie is low).
I like to have a single button to start and add 30s and a handle where you just pull to open.
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History has shown you to be right, too! Every time we have re-opened too soon, it was followed by a spike of cases, then a spike of deaths. When will we learn?
> On the other hand, I still have an almost instinctive aversion to all the sites with new TLDs that I come across in search results, because they almost always seem to contain SEO spam or similarly vapid content.

for SEO stuffers, spams, scams and phishes, a lot of these new TLDs are popular because they're used in a disposable fashion. Many of them have first year promotional pricing of $2 to $6 to register the domain (as compared to $9-10 for a .com), but the price goes up to $25/year for all subsequent years. People using the domain names like a throw away paper towel, registering dozens or hundreds of them, only care about the first year cost, because there's no way they're going to keep using the same one beyond 12 months.
That's not what he said. He said it doesn't exist in the company.
California already has a means-tested property tax postponement program:
https://sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html

It should be expanded, state income tax ended, and prop 13 repealed.
I was using the default terminal that appears alongside WSL, but switched to Windows Terminal (with the same font) and had success.
The Rise of BookTok on TikTok
People don't usually want to invest in your wild idea or in the wrong team. If you've had a series A then someone has vetted your idea and your team.
>as they treated you well it would be wrong for you to disparage them

that's somewhere between loyalty and patronage. A moral obligation is to speak the truth, regardless if someone treated you well or not.
It's kind of funny (and entertaining) thinking about what another person we have never met might be thinking. But let's go with it. I don't think he believes the God stuff, but he wants to. He doesn't want to let go of that possibility and I don't blame him for that. I believe that people believe mostly what they want to believe, by which I mean that they don't really believe it (since they only want to believe) but that they pretend, tell themselves that they do, believe.
Science dogma strikes again. Science can’t predict anything with absolute certainty, I’m quite skeptical of the idea that a prediction about a system this complex could be made with even a “very good” level of certainty. But when it comes to communicating science to the public, the only message that can be put forward is one of perfectly unanimous, absolute certainty. The people are too stupid to make their own judgements, so they must not be given the opportunity.
Which is why you should also watermark in non-obvious ways & include things like name/website/tweet timestamps/something else uniquely.

This way you can own them in court at a later date or put the things out for everyone to see.

Another potential solution is to crop a bit of your content video/photos & always have raw footage in such cases
I fully agree with that statement.

A lot of the framing around implicit bias and white privilege is actually straight up generalizing about a group based on skin color. That's racist. This business that it's not racist if it's against white people is seriously wrong - and racist.
I had not seen it yet, excited to read it! Thanks!
Couldn't they plug it in to the TV? My AppleTV can control my soundbar volume and it's plugged into the TV and not the soundbar.
You can no longer advertise ebooks using Google Shopping Ads
Only 1 out of 3-4 infections are confirmed. That would increase the actual number of infections to 30%-40% which is in-line with having at least 1 in 4 children having been infected.

Current total incidence is the wrong metric to use since tht will increase over time. Not using vaccines would mean 3x or so more infections before some level of herd immunity was reached.

It would also give the virus another 3x the number of die rolls towards mutating as well, with pressure to increase transmissibility which should come with an increase in virulence.

And my 1-in-12,500 numbers were before the virus started to mutate to increase transmissibility/virulence. Those numbers will probably drop.
As we learn from the BBC's "Yes, Minister" series - setting up a Task Force is the best was to do nothing while looking like you are doing something
Fake or True?
Is this site genuine or fake?
Sorry for my ignorance. Is there a simple way to tell the difference? Is dissociative identity disorder a subset of schizophrenia?
Your solution is to first handwave away the entire problem by somehow distinguishing between organic and artificial interactions, and then make the solution worse by using blockchain for no reason.

To draw on your analogy to explain the problem here, you may notice that despite the USA having lobbying, it also still has corruption.
Difference between good developer and average developer
I don't understand; the article says don't hide it, then the article shows a sign in link that uses a dark-pattern non-button sign in link next to a button. Visually I would have missed the sign in link until I took a second or even third look. The UI that changes based on some practically random variable (the cookie being present) is disorienting.
Also correct, though using my example and weird new TLDs, let's say in a theoretical example I see a bus stop outdoor advertising board on the street that says:

"BURRITO.CONSULTING"

I'm going to think, "uhhh, is that a website? Well, I recognize .consulting as a TLD. I guess it must be. But that's weird..."

but then if i see the same sign

"WWW.BURRITO.CONSULTING"

I'm going to think: "Well that's definitely somebody's website, but what a weird and anachronistic way of printing it, and why is it using one of those new long generic TLDs anyways..."
If that is the case then they should outright ban verbal communication since you can't filter what comes out of people's mouths but you can preemptively filter out text/have stored data for later analysis, which is what basecamp would love to do.
I think it's even less likely to be true in geographical terms; counties where people bought more houses last year are probably more likely to be the places where people buy more houses this year. Even if the individuals who did buy houses are no longer in the market.
Or he clarified a position that he didn't think needed it originally. Because who's so dumb as to caricature his argument as saying there's no white supremacy anywhere?

People are just looking for someone to lynch, irony intended.
Basecamp Blew Up
You’re not wrong, but this actually illustrates why we need to establish industry to counteract this problem. What you’re describing will always be true if we don’t have the initiative to correct it.

This stuff seriously concerns me because apart from natural resources, we have very little to leverage. I worry for my kids and their kids. Canada is in a very precarious economic and political position from my perspective.
True, the number of events / records is probably significantly larger than 6M. I still have a hard time believing any reasonably modern datawarehouse would struggle with queries on this dataset.

If you've got 1400 analysts, I hope you've exported your data from an OLTP database to an OLAP database. Those generally are much easier to scale to many users.
In Debian/Ubuntu /bin/sh, most certainly.