skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the use of a word like 'fight' should be treated differently for powerful figures/politicians - it feels a bit arbitrary. Why not treat Facebook or Twitter as a platform that in aggregate has that degree of influence and power, and ban all uses of the word 'fight' across the entire platform? Think of it like what Apple did when banning the 'pistol' emoji across all their operating systems. Why does it matter whether one politician does it or if ten thousand activists do it - after all, in 2020 the latter group incited a lot more violence than Trump is alleged to have incited.

My perspective is that these efforts to ban speech or speech that includes "human emotion" (like 'fight') would be a step too far for everyone. Right now those rules are being applied to only one side (the right), and so others (on the left) are deeming this censorship acceptable. This is quite evident if you look for all the instances when Democrats used the word 'fight' (https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/trump-team-plays-videos-of-dem...).

> a certain percentage of people may very well misinterpret that as a call to violence

But this is why our society is built around individual, personal responsibility. Those that follow a call to violence are still, solely, responsible for their actions. Our justice system charges those individuals that engaged in criminality on Jan 6th, not Trump. Why should these massive tech platforms be any different in determining who they censor or ban?
The 100,000 smaller reactors can still be put in the same place as the 100 giant reactors to make inspection and monitoring easier. The modular design makes incremental capacity upgrades easier, makes maintenance and repair easy, and helps to put more testing and QA on the modular design. Just think of it as 100 locations where you can either have 1 giant reactor each or up to 1000 modular micro-reactors.
profanity isn't a real conduct issue, though, unless the president is using it in speeches or in diplomacy in such a way that it makes the country look bad.

and I doubt many people who dislike trump would accept jackson as an archetype of acceptable presidential behavior.
If you're arrogant enough to experiment with microdosing the first time (or one of your first times) immediately before a critical moment in your life, you're asking for trouble.

I've done similarly and taken similar risks - and I'm lucky enough that the combination of my prior experiences with the stuff and luck in the moment helped see me through my troubles.

But if it hadn't, it would've been painfully obvious I'd shot myself in the foot and would need to confront the choices that led me to being able to make such a stupid one.
Actually, I find this comment extremely uninteresting, not because of the blatant ad hominem sophism it primarily builds on, but because it's completely leaving out the discussion about why people would be defecting from their side to the other which I believe is happening in significant proportions. Yes, I believe D&I had the majority in tech but lost it along the way, and the polls I remember seeing confirm it.
Can you describe a universe without fixed laws to me? I am pretty much unable to imagine one. What would it mean to have no fixed laws, wouldn't that imply absolute randomness? Is that even a consistent idea to have no fixed laws at all?

If it is not absolute randomness, then there is some law, at the very least something is correlated or distributed in some way and one can at least statistically say something about the universe. But even if it is absolute randomness, if every variable might take on every possible value at every time [1], doesn't this also imply a law, everything is uniformly distributed?

I really have a very hard time to imagining something about that you can essentially not make any true statement. Because that is what it kind of boils down to, if nothing is fixed in the universe, then more or less no statement about the universe is true. [2] On the other hand, if you can make a true statement about the universe, that implies some regularity, some law the universe follows.

[1] For simplicity I assume the universe has some state that evolves over time, which is certainly not the most general imaginable universe.

[2] This is a bit handwavy, one can make all kinds of true statements - the universe is red or it is not the case that the universe is red. But I hope the gist of the argument is clear, if nothing is fixed then also statements like the universe has three spatial dimensions or the universe contains electrons or opposite charges attract each other all become false.
One thing I've always found amusing about US is that bribing a normal person is illegal, as it should be, but bribing a politician/Congressman via campaign funds and lobbying is legal.
Standard HN rebuttals apply: This is a baby study with tiny groups, poor methodology, clickbait title (heh), etc, blah blah blah.

But then:

> Does iPhone night shift mitigate negative effects?

"Conclusion 1: If you sleep less than 6.8 hours per night there are apparently no negative effects to mitigate in the first place, so...uhh...no."

"Conclusion 2: If you sleep more than 6.8 hours, then also no. No word on those who sleep exactly 6.8 hours."
An even more apt analogy might be: if your living room is on fire, you should dump water on it. You shouldn't let the fire rage because the water could damage the carpet.
France's reliance on nuclear is almost 100% government-and-geopolitics driven, to avoid relying on foreign states for energy imports, the market has little to do with it. I can't speak for how much regulation is needed or not, but given nuclear failure is catastrophic, I can see why we should err on the regulated side. Nuclear is incredibly safe, but only because we made it safe by spending on it. Solar/wind just doesn't have the same risk profile.
Did you watch the video that was widely circulated in the news? A child is playing with a ball (around 12" in diameter), it gets sucked under and traps his hands, then the treadmill pulls his entire body under as the treadmill itself (which weighs 300-450lb) moves on top of him. In this case the child was lucky that the ball didn't burst so he was able to climb back out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXNnlCYJ4Y
I refuse to let my students touch AWS directly exactly because of this infinite billing problem.

My current workaround is finding some SaaS provider that is willing to take the risk on free accounts and act as a middleman.

Currently using aiven.io - downside: this covers only a small subset of services that aws offers.
OK - here’s a key question - where do they talk about base load and predictable generation? Indeed, they hand wave it off with “The present study does not examine grid stability, since it is evaluated in separate work”.

Well since they are countering the unreliable generation arguments with “unreliable generation isn’t a problem if you have enough diverse sources” - if you can’t interconnect those diverse sources then you don’t have much of a solution, do you?

Nice theory, zero discussion of how you make the theory practical reality.

Edited after cooler head prevailed.
I've been working on a rubric for evaluating HN reaction to "Show HN" launch posts:

1. Universally Negative - Either it's cryptocurrency-related, or it depends on source of negativity:

A. "I read the site and I don't know what this is" - Genuinely bad explanation of an idea that doesn't seem particularly technically interesting or challenging.

B. Criticism of superficial aspects (e.g. website, related topics) - Genuinely bad explanation of an idea that DOES seem particularly technically interesting or challenging. _(Commenters don't get the message, but are worried they'll appear ignorant if they say it.)_

C. "Nobody needs this" "Why is this a thing" - Either bad or HN is nowhere near the target audience.

D. "This is not the right way to do it" "You can just do X" - Either bad or revolutionary (and new enough that the idea hasn't clicked with anyone.)

2. Polarization -

A. If positive people are REALLY positive about it - potentially a disruptive technology, potentially ahead of its time.

B. If negative people say it's actually much harder to solve - the idea is great in principle but the only reason it hasn't already been solved is it's not possible or very difficult in practice.

3. Universal Adulation - It will transparently never make any money, it is some kind of attempt at decentralization that will never get adoption beyond hardcore nerds.
The True Cost of Growing Your Team – Founder Chat and Q&A
Come on. You can understand from context that Craig is talking about using "tweet" to mean "a post on Twitter", not claiming that he literally invented the word "tweet".
also, the issue with the access hollywood tapes wasn't that it was "locker room talk" that got public, it was that what he said was morally pretty disgusting. people were mad about what he said, not the manner or forum in which he said it
In support of your point, I’d add that when doing cost comparisons with nuclear, one has to be wary of the accounting tricks they play such as not factoring in the costs of failure scenarios. Or even end of life decommissioning in some cases.
Orbit is now open source
Yes and no. The vaccines are by definition new and untested. That the blood clots appeared suggests that the unknown surface area of the vaccine is higher than we expected; whereas the almost all of the risk on your commute are known and preventable.

For example let's say the vaccine causes a side effect that appears only two years from now; then you wouldn't necessarily be correct in asserting that the morning commute is more dangerous. By contrast, the morning commute causing an unknown side effect in two years is highly unlikely.

(For the record I'm vaccinated)
I would love to known of some alternatives to Rockwell, wonder ware, Schneider to propose to our customers. What startups are building on top of timescale?
Either way, I'm sure police would push hard to stop any car chase, or sometimes simple pull overs I'd imagine.
if true perhaps it’s just something he has a strong opinion about, doesn’t indicate anything bad
That sounds right to me, but this:

"He wore cargo shorts and a T-shirt to a meeting with Geodesic, a VC firm founded by John Roos, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan. An Iterable board member later informed him Geodesic wouldn’t invest, implying it was partly because of his casual attire."

Seems petty. Surely VC firms have had to look past appearances before. Of course, it did say "partly"...other things could have transpired in the meeting.
ISDN: The Untravelled Path of Mobile Computing (2015)
What could be some the troubles?
Certain time series databases tend to me be optimized towards making the most recent data readily available and quick to fetch. There are also certain filtering / compression algorithms that are run on these time series databases that only make sense in a time domain.

Also, some of these time series databases have very specific use cases and you have to also think about the client tools associated with the database. Many of these databases sit in power plants, factories, etc. and they stream data to tools that are built to visualize or analyze the last few minutes of data and then trigger alerts based on patterns. Also, these database are very "device" aware and integrates with other systems that represent their data in a timeseries fashion already (like a sensor). A lot of customers who needed this type of database care only about this index because their concern is record keeping and monitoring. Not necessarily number crunching (this is changing though).

There are drawbacks to storing your data this way. If your primary index is time, it can be hard to merge that with some based on a coordinate system. So doing certain types of analysis is really difficult unless you replicate your data into some other database with a different index.
Personally, I would use the one most people around me use.

The second choice for me would be the least bright one. I don't like how shiny bright colors mixed into text.
> Do what I did in February:
> Quit.

But go where? Where can you go to escape this insanity? It seems to have taken hold everywhere (except, I guess Basecamp?)
Only investment that sticks out is Schrödinger. It's clearly a growth company. Not making profit yet.

Schrodinger Inc makes software for drug discovery, materials science, computational chemistry. They also have their own drug development.
You need baseload power. On a dark windless night, when everyone is charging their electric cars, you can't just have brownouts and blackouts.

And sure, you can imagine a power grid that's smart enough to handle all of that, but implementation of something like that isn't any faster than the construction of more nuclear power.
I pasted it from the US Congress site. Anyway, no matter how you cut it, it does not say Congress shall outsource all freedom of speech decisions to a private monopoly and its highly partisan oversight board.
Maybe they should just shorten "oversight board" to "overlord".
Draw.io [1] (now diagrams.net I guess?) lets you export a .png file with the diagram embedded in the image. So you don't need to keep the original file, and even an old image from a wiki can be opened up and edited by anybody on the team without having to get the "diagram file" from the original author.

Granted, I don't think it does collaboration so that may be a dealbreaker for you

1: https://app.diagrams.net
No one cares that you're a unicorn
I get that treadmills can be somewhat dangerous, you are basically building a moving road, but surely we’ve ironed out most of the safety kinks by now, right? Treadmills are an old, understood technology. At this point we really should only be seeing injuries from people who purposefully misuse them, not during normal operation.

It’s particularly galling for Peloton, because their gear is already overpriced. Shouldn’t some of that cost go into making sure that it doesn’t rattle itself apart?
Well, I was about to say - the applications girl is going to click on, what exactly, parts of the brain? Then there are these images like "$" or "mobile phone" or "chat"... If I was presented that interface, I mean what am I expected to get if I click on the Amygdala - like some kind of bitcoin pay out?
The title should rather be “Having no free time is the enemy”. The article confuses being busy with being efficient.
I have watched the video, I can recreate that video with a non-peloton treadmill like the one at my gym. It doesn't stop either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNlX4VaN2bU

Which, again, is why there's a magnetic safety key that takes seconds to remove so that something like this doesn't happen.
The problem with a programmed emergency stop is that an emergency stop has to be gradual or it's going to slam the runner into the front of the treadmill as he continues running when the belt suddenly stops. Obviously that's better than sucking in a child, but false alarms can cause injury.
I agree it's time for the "board" to do their job... and wish they'd do the same job for those calling for violence - and doing so - for years before and after the "capital riots"...

IE: Why isn't Maxine Waters banned everywhere? She's ACTUALLY called for more destruction and had it happen... compared to Trumps "call" which specifically said "protest peacefully".

This is all a waste of time and the hypocrisy is astounding... rules for thee but not for me. Wokeness at its deepest levels of hypocrisy.
In my mom's case, at least, the "benefit" is being able to feel superior and having someone to fight with 24/7 (she absolutely loves conflict - arguing and starting fights is her favorite activity in the world).
How to leave cryptocurrency in your will
Sure, but that's sort of absurdly missing the point.

0.04 deaths per TWH of nuclear vs 0.01 deaths per TWH of solar in 2012!

Am I seriously supposed to ignore the fact that nuclear metldowns have the potential to kill millions of people — because they didn't in 2012?

Edit: sorry that sounded mean.
>many people in this discussion

No they don't; we're talking about verbal disagreements and resignations in the workplace. None of these things deprive anyone of their First Amendment rights. If someone verbally disagrees with you, they are not infringing on your right to free speech; by insinuating that they are, you are taking an anti-free-speech position.
Did you turn on compression in TSDB?
Epic vs. Apple: Day 3
> Facebook failed to act when Trump and others (of all political styles) decided to lie about voting, the mechanics of voting, and validity of voting.

To address each of your incorrect points:

The FEC considers voting from one state to another state after moving to be election fraud. That happened thousands of times.

It appears that Dominion Voting Systems, used in 29 states, is owned by the CCP. (They were banned in Texas because they didn't clarify ownership, which they consider to be a FEC violation.)

Poll station staff have admitted to using voting machine admin screens to "correct" voting selections, with no oversight.

> Twitter failed to uphold it's ToS when allowing trump to issue threats to use nuclear weapons on north korea.

It's the President's decision as CIC when to use nukes. N. Korea flies ballistic missiles over Japan, one of our closest allies. Xi has threatened the US twice with nukes in 2020, and N. Korea is their vassal state. Not sure what your point is, or where you get your nonsense from.
Influxdb makes it really hard to delete data.

Example: your temperature sensor is faulty and produces values like -100. You can't delete this data by using "delete from measurement where temperature < -50". You have to get all timestamps, then delete those timestamps one by one.
Nftfy just changed the NFT game
Nftfy just changed the non fungible token game forever!
This is an project will be launching an IDO on POOLZ launchpad on may 5th 2021. In this video Crypto Lifer breaks down what is Nftfy and why they are different to every other NFT project in the crypto space.

What is Nftfy ?
Nftfy is a robust decentralized open marketplace for anyone to monetize assets, art, Lands and collectables. Nftfy platforms features trading, staking and fractional ownership of NFTs. With Nftfy you would be able to for the first time ever fractionalize NFTs and enjoy a new world of possibilities.
Doing stupid shit.
Insuflation: the act of blowing on or breathing on
Why do people assume open borders means freeloaders vs freedom?
This story seemed to lack some flow. It almost felt like a middle school essay.
> Of course, it did say "partly"...other things could have transpired in the meeting.

And another source in the article claims that had nothing to do with it; so who knows.
This is misleading. Gas turbines used for power plants usually put out 100-250mw. Most gas plants just stack 3-5 of them together in a common location - same thing could be done for small reactors.
The problems came from the touchscreens loosening, detaching and falling, which I would assume is a fairly new problem in the history of treadmill safety.

Edit: main safety issue doesn't seem to be the touchscreens actually
> if the parent poster's great-grandfather was a member of a Waffen-SS division that tracked down and executed civilians en masse due to their ethnicity

Britain and Belgium especially have this all over their history, and no one cares.
>The answer to [less knowledgeable people] misinterpreting words literally isn't to [simplify] our speech.

Yes, it is? For the biggest example, Have you ever done child care? Kids may not understand whatever complex metaphor you're trying to use, they're not "idiots" for being that way, that's your responsibility as the adult to explain what you mean to them or use a simpler phrasing. Some kids may not even be ready for the explanation and you'll have to wait until they're older to use the complex phrasing. Yes it's unfortunate that for some this pattern continues into adulthood but they're also not "idiots" for being that way, not everyone can be an English major.
But are they cheaper when you add the batteries? Doubtful. I hear maybe by 2030.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/exclusive-india-may-buil...
There's no shame in taking LSD or being fired from the company you helped found because you think different as Steve Jobs might say if he were still alive. It's almost the ultimate homage to Jobs. I'm sure Zhu will be fine. I can't talk to people on LSD. I'm surprised no one told him about set and setting.
Is it unconstitutional for the government to tell tobacco companies they can't advertise to children?

There are laws that the phone company can't discriminate who can use their service. Is that unconstitutional too?

People have had very broad interpretations for what constitutes corporate first amendment protections recently.
We used historical flow meter readings (started out with 15 minute intervals but it worked much better with a higher frequency) and used that to train Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN's) to predict where areas were likely to flood. I was the devops lead on it for the prototype, not the data scientist unfortunately so can't give you the in's and outs but can tell you that we used tensorflow together with pandas/df/timescaledb. We then displayed that using plotly, all this was stuffed inside several containers. It was a great project to work on actually. The whole setup was pretty much a joy to work with.
Hence why I will never buy a Tesla (among other reasons).

n=1 ... and you may be right in general.
"How about actually having a likable personality, which easily tops all other qualities?"

So do you now agree this statement is obviously false?

Height is just one of the first filters women use, and often the requirement is more strict than just "taller than me". You also have to pass other commons filters. Another very important filter for most women is race, and we're just getting started.
As I understand it the Peloton treadmill upon detecting a jam will reverse for a second and then run full speed forward in an attempt presumably to clear the jam. Except if the jam is a child it will just suck them in despite detecting a problem.
We have ironed out the kinks, it's just that Peloton decided to remove some of the safety features (IE, a guard at the bottom to stop feet from getting stuck under) to make it look sleeker.
Tech companies block another Leila Khaled event
There are a variety of small modular reactors (SMRs) under development, not shed sized more like small town sized. NuScale is the furthest along, they are licensed by the NRC and have a project due to come online towards the end of the decade.
Democracy is doing just fine. Anyone can vote, fool or laureate. That's democracy, and nothing more.
And then in the midst of the #MeToo movement, you have books like Fifty Shades of Grey setting sales records, and you're like, "Hol' up".

I think the answer here is that the expectations being thrown into the ring from all parties are unrealistic and self-serving, and the only true bastion of sanity is the one provided by raw biological drives. We as humans can continue attempting to put ourselves above our animal nature, but it does seem that we might be destined to fall on our face.
Looks great! I see that you have a ton of integrations already available with more on the way. Could I ask, which one was the easiest to implement? Which was the hardest?
Your saying that the supreme court ruling is unconstitutional? Really? I guess I can guess you think the election was fixed too.
Their stuff is a nightmare to use, and is insanely expensive.

Always nice when we get to just swap it out for something like Canary or even Ignition although folks are always trying to trash the Ignition Historian when it works well for most use cases people need to solve.