skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ford v Ferrari comes to mind too. Great movie, kinda sorta got the events right, but forgot lots of people, assigned credit to other people than those actually responsible, and added a ton of drama crap.

Examples:

the Holman-moody team came up with the “hot swap” suspension thing, not the Shelby team.

Leo Beebe didn’t try to fuck Ken miles.

Ken miles wasn’t killed by brake failure, he was killed with the Jcar test mule lost the rear body work at high speed.

Lots more, but I don’t want to type it all out.
Well, prion diseases are very rare in humans (or at least their transmission is rare), and there is no evolutive pressure to create a super-prion that can infect more people, like happens with other pathogens. Thus, the most likely situation is that it will continue to be very rare until we are able to change it into virtually non-existent by technology.

They are a really scary thing, but it's a meteor strike style of scary, nobody really expects it to happen before we can deal with it.
I wouldn't choose InfluxDB over TimescaleDB. There's a reasonably balanced comparison here from the Timescale guys: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-...

The benchmarks are interesting, showing TimescaleDB to be the clear winner in most scenarios.

For me that's nice, but it's a bigger deal to me personally that I already have Postgres and SQL experience that translates directly to TimescaleDB, I don't have to learn a new tool and query language. Development is complex enough and I have to learn too many things as it is. The older I get the less enthusiastic I am about adding something new to the stack.
KDB in finance?
Did you point out they’re breaking the law when you complained?
It's time we understand that renewables have a poor benefit/cost ratio when you compare it to nuclear.

Renewables + batteries will NEVER supply enough energy in a world that will require more electricity if it uses electric vehicles and move away from fossil fuels. The coal and gaz industry love renewables because you NEED gaz and coal if there's no wind or sun.

Please look at the number.
None of your examples are on a public stage for a mass audience.

It's different.

What you say to the crowd has distinctly different impact than what you say "in the locker room" to an acquaintance.
I never even got to meet one of my grandparents. All I have is stories, and honestly not a lot of those.

I don't think you should feel narcissistic at all. Family is one of the prime places where we share our wisdom and values. Where we pass on the results of our mistakes in the hopes that the next generation avoids them. Don't feel bad for trying to do that, it's one of the fundamental elements of human progress.
> This is not systemic racism, this is recognising patterns, this is an explicit bias.

An explicit bias, held by agents of the state, affecting their behavior towards the citizenry with no regard to individual innocence. Congrats, you've demonstrated systemic racism.

> I can't find a single law discriminating on people's skin color: that's why I think there is no systemic racism.

Kristallnacht wasn't legally authorized, either, but it'd be an odd claim that it didn't reflect systemic anti-Jewish bias in Nazi Germany.
> "Ordinary users" cannot mobilize thousands to storm the capital

But he didn't do that. His speech on January 6th explicitly instructs attendees to peacefully march, which you can see in the transcript (https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-sav...). Twitter's original blog post announcing their ban did not point at any strong evidence that Trump incited anything either, and instead pointed at vague justifications like his decision not to attend Biden's inauguration (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...).
> Apply this logic to the fifteenth century - the vast majority wants blasphemers "cancelled"

I'm not convinced this is the case.

Anyway, I agree following the majority isn't ideal, but I don't know of a better solution.
Not that many features are applicable to Excel. I've tried these and eventually have to default back to VBA to do what I need.
Look at the examples he picks - I take "well informed" to mean not only knowledgable about the subject matter but also providing an insight beyond a platitude.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/fbi-entrap...

They do something similar with “terrorists”. They find someone, tell them “push this button to blow up everyone”, and then charge them with terrorism.
or if you burn today’s “waste” in reactors that can easily do so, you not only don’t have to securely store it while also getting carbon neutral energy that will displace existing fossil fuel derived sources.

Nuclear is predictable which means it’s perfect for base load generation. Something all the other “clean” technologies are not.
I think the major overlooked point is that the modern digital world provides a means for people to commit crimes they otherwise would not have done, simply because they can and because they feel there is low risk of getting caught.

A spike strip, you have to be in the area. A remote attack, you don't have to particularly care about any specific area enough to physically travel to it.. someone can cause chaos simply because they are bored.

And immediately after, they can go do something else.

Tech vulnerabilities aren't yet accessible enough to these types of people, but soon enough they will be and it is not like security is in a temporary poor state. A lot of these systems will remain unchanged for a long time because they are part of an already working business model
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I don't think thats really a contradiction. As far as science/engineering professions go, I think doctors tend to be the most religious.
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Looking forward to giving it a go
In the us we sometimes say "good enough for government work".
I would love to see some documented costs for France, so I agree 100% with "citation needed". As for the US, the historical document I read that gave me the impression that it never got as cheap as claimed was this 1985 article in Forbes:

https://blowhardwindbag.blogspot.com/2011/04/forbes-article-...

> but strangely, solar/wind still need large subsidies to exist

Citation needed here, too! The unsubsidized costs of solar and wind are still the cheapest sources, so they don't "need" subsidies to be deployed. The existence of tax breaks subsidies for wind/solar doesn't mean that the subsidies are needed, any more than the special tax break subsidies for oil/gas/coal are needed for those sources to keep on going.

> Batteries? Won't scale

This is a very strange claim! Not only do batteries scale beautifully in theory, we already have scaled them for deployment, with GWh grid batteries that can be scaled at the same site to 5-6GWh (Moss Landing, CA). Batteries can be deployed in homes, at distribution substations, underneath utility scale solar or wind farms, at old decommissioned fossil fuel sites so that the transmission capacity can be reused, on one side of a congested transmission line to avoid massive upgrade costs... Batteries are practically defined by their beautiful scalability, a real Swiss Army knife for any grid application

Current global production capacity for the lithium ion types of batteries is 285GWh, which on a GW completely dwarfs global nuclear deployment. Projections from the battery industry are for this amount to increase 10x every five years. And though lithium ion tech is by far in the lead, there are many other chemistries perfectly suited to grid use (but perhaps not cars), if lithium ion's improvement pace ever slows to let them catch up.

We are in a new era for energy, an era that is far more like tech, and less like the staid commodity industry that energy has been for the past century. Depreciation of grid assets is very slow, far slower than the tech change of energy tech, so we need to start paying very close attention to tech change curves if we don't want to waste massive amounts of money and screw up our fight against climate change.
A scuba tank is like an hour of air for a person, less if you're stressed - and that doesn't look as large as a scuba tank.
Definitely a problem -- excited to see a solution in this space!
Fundamentally, racism is the belief in race. It's bad because the whole concept of race is flawed and therefore applying it to anything else is flawed.

However, skin tone is real and skin tone does not equal race. So I don't think skin tone emojis are racist.

Rather, I think your argument should be that skin tone emojis will be "triggering" for racists.
This isn't fearmongering:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348520
I ride motorcycles. So there's that.
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It's basically the difference between a democracy and an oligarchy.
This thread badly needs a mention of another great app by the same authors [1].

LICEcap [2] is a great, absurdly minimalist GIF screen capture tool for Windows and macOS

[1] https://www.cockos.com/

[2] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
I was employed there so I don't feel entirely comfortable stating their name. Just google around for "operational historian". It was really frustrating because we had these ideas years ago (and many other ideas), but due to reasons we were not allowed to actually make the product genuinely better. Also, the product is in more places than you'd think because they partner with vendors to sell the database as a component in a larger system that the vendor packages up and sells.
it amounts to stealing from your employer. Surely you believe theft should be illegal, even if the victim is not the government?
> Yeah and your original comment wasn't worth much.

Having a rough day, or are you usually this unkind?

> How do you know your work wouldn't have been better if you hadn't had kids?

Still waiting for my time machine to arrive, but in the absence of that, I can state that I believe my work is better because of having kids.

When I felt like I had a less bounded quantity of free time, I was more inclined to squander it. Once kids made it clear that my time is extremely limited, I experienced a much stronger motivation to get something productive out of the small time I had left.

Also, the kids themselves are a motivation to make more out of my life so that I can provide for them better.
This board is so "independent" and "legitimate" that most of their website won't load without assets from FB's CDN: https://imgur.com/a/vkr7FMe
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Nuclear is still better than coal and gas. At this rate we will never limit temperature below 2.1C pre-industrial, so anything that gets helps getting rid of fossil fuels ASAP is a good deal.

Also, even worst-case scenario like Chernobyl ultimately wasn't that bad. Several natural disasters in the 2000's have killed way more than it did.
No denying that there's been fearmongering in general. But I'm still asking for an example of what regulation on the construction of nuclear plants should be changed.
Not sure I'd spend a lot of money on a deathtrap whose entire purpose is to recreate a Victorian method of corporal punishment.
I am pretty sure the reason is that France did not ban nuclear fuel reprocessing for several decades, and thus recycled large amounts of spent fuel elements. In the US reprocessing was banned and power plants built up large piles of spent fuel rods as a result.
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When twitter's snowflake was lengthened recently I was worried they might be doing this too. I'm afraid of the big ones moving to this. Spotify, instagram, twitter, etc
Seminal work of sci-fi, I highly recommend if for no other reason than to get the ice-nine references you'll inevitably come across.
Faster than sound faster than C?
A century ago supersonic speed had not yet been attained. Mach 1 seemed impassable. Similarly until recently by scripting languages compiled C performance could not be exceeded. But by ascript scripts faster than C task completion is possible. But about task duration, power consumption, does anyone care? Are all new programming languages tacitly boycotted?
This is not reflected in the actual electricity market prices.
Flurry Analytics is used in over 1 million mobile applications on 2 billion devices. They've measured the response to the data sharing popups and "Allow apps to request to track" setting added in iOS 14.5.
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Having worked on those very windows. They are also expensive because of other films and treatments to that glass that filter certain light that damages the items displayed behind it. Also they are just really big pieces of thick glass.
Even despot, tyrannically insane people have rights. Those rights are provided by the Constitution of the USA. That said, free speech is not an absolute right, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the....

Private companies are free to run their business any way they want. If they choose to ban a person based on the 45th president promoting an overthrow of the government, so be it.

Just as hacker news has rules so does Facebook, if you don't like it, go somewhere else.

In the case of our previous president (45th that is) that tends to exaggerate his wealth, why doesn't he just buy enough stock in Facebook to control it and change it's rules?
Yes, and that’s a distribution of wealth problem. Making both the drywalled and banker sit in traffic doesn't solve it. The banker will take a helicopter. Or leave the office early.

Congested roads have externalities such as the congestion backing up into side streets, rubber banding the congestion along the rest of the road, and extra use of brakepads/fuel energy to stop and go.

Spending time in congestion also adversely affects lower paid people because the cost of their time spent in congestion is implicit. If it was made explicit via tolls, then employers would have to pay better to get them to their workplace at peak congestion times.
Rust iterators are hard to implement without a big compile time hit.
> This guy has not raped anyone, assaulted anyone..

In my mind his crime is much more severe than shoplifting or paying by fake banknotes.

> why do we taxpayers need to pay

Both, Netflix as a company, and its shareholders are also tax payers, and can expect to be protected from fraud/crimes using taxpayers money.
A A four-person model lists for $17,500.

I'd much rather have a used lifeboat[1] for $8,000 that can hold 20+ persons.

[1] https://commercial.apolloduck.com/boat/commercial-vessels-li...
Actually, it can also re-enter outside of the yellow or blue lines. They given an error margin of 24 hours on the predicted reentry time, and the drawn tracks are only 6 hours long.
There are many jurisdictions where this would be a tort, not a criminal matter. Being sued into the ground is another way to be held legally responsible. It is a reasonable question if this is the best use of scarce criminal justice resources.
Cute idea, but nuclear submarines aren't that powerful. Output for ballistic submarine reactors are in the 150-250MW range.

For reference, natural gas power plants can hit the GW range easily. Even those diesel backup generators you see outside of hospitals and such are about 1kW. You could throw a bunch of those on a tanker ship and probably provide more power output than a nuclear sub reactor.
> The most successful lifestyle/dating coach Mark Manson often glosses over him being born into wealth.

The best trick he pulled with "Models" is selling it as a book about dating, when it's really just about developing self-respect.

I didn't know he was wealthy, but his stories aren't all that removed from your average white college guy in the 2000s. The advice he offers isn't dependent on your income. It's not like "4 hour work week" where the secret was just to pay people to take care of basic tasks and free up your time.
This might be a different Ask HN, but does anyone have suggestions on avoiding the content farm stuff? Searching reddit works, but amounts to being trapped in a walled garden.

I've found a lot of great stuff on random independent websites (i.e. https://woodgears.ca/, http://gizmology.net/) that have no Reddit presence. Filtering those out is a great loss.

Something like the Yahoo Directory (hierarchical tree of hand-sorted topics) could work, but that's long gone.

Thoughts?
Are there any plans to add Let/Lambda functionality to LibreOffice/OpenOffice?
No, it's more like, we put up this dialog, and people didn't overwhelmingly pick jaundice. And therefore the available variety is preferred over less variety.
It's safer to invest both in green power and nuclear. As long as we get rid of fossil fuels ASAP it's a victory, we can always replace those nuclear plants with solar/wind in 50 years if that seems to make sense by then.
Lol, I wasn't expecting such a cynical view!
YouTube is great for things where the directions for the specific activity you want might not include "basic" things someone who knows it well wouldn't think to list in written instructions, or some little technique or movement they do automatically and don't even think about. I love it for house and car DIY stuff, for that reason and also because it makes it clear which parts will be a pain-in-the-ass, and how much, to help me gauge whether I want to do it, or hire it done.

It's also great for technique with tools in the kitchen—not learning recipes so much, but learning the right way to process a certain vegetable really fast, or exactly what a proper whipping motion for eggs ought to look like, or how a pro moves the pan on and off the flame while cooking this dish, exactly what it looks like when they deem a certain cooking technique "done", all of that.
There's nothing hard about writing iterators in go.
You can generate Excel files in Python with XlsxWriter. It has an API for formatting, charts, merging cells and what not. If you want to automate an open Excel file, you can use xlwings. You can write data to Excel from pandas inside a Jupyter notebook.
I think the problem is also the rising and lowering of the unit. So you have to block off the sides and front too.
>Best case scenario is that his diary humanizes him to you and to others.

And the worst case scenario is that his diary demonizes him. Given the stories they mention and the potential SS division they hint at (perhaps one of the mobile death squad or extermination camp divisions), it seems quite possible.

But, especially so long after he's died, it might be better to know who he really was, whichever way it turns out. If I had a relative who potentially did and expressed terrible things, even though it'd hurt, I think I'd want to know the truth.

Or, as another commenter said, they could ask someone else to read it and give a vague but honest summary. If the contents are bad, they can learn that fact without the additional serious emotional impact of reading the lurid details.
ETA: A longer excerpt and details about the Rosetta Disk and NanoRosetta projects:

http://blogs.harvard.edu/lamont/2021/05/05/ray-kurzweil-on-l...

"The Rosetta Disk is the physical companion of the Rosetta Digital Language Archive, and a prototype of one facet of The Long Now Foundation’s 10,000-Year Library. The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history." (https://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/)

"For the production of nano inscribed nickel wafers or plates, the archival data in the form of pdf format is first submitted and organized sequentially or indexed systematically. After file conversion and other preparation for NanoRosetta processing, the documents or other data are then recorded onto a glass wafer by modulating a laser beam in a spiral or concentric manner using a polar raster direct laser etch. A matrix process in electroforming creates “father” nickel master from the inscribed glass wafer. An intermediate “mother” and final ”son” can then be generated from this nickel “father” master wafer. For mass production, polymer copies can also be provided in lieu of nickel “sons.” We also have the ability to combine digital data (CD or DVD) and analog human readable formats on the same disc." (https://nanorosetta.com/technology/)
The bike and the instructors are best-in-class. All of the accessories (shoes, weights, apparel, etc) that I've picked up have been cheap (but expensive) and underwhelming. Can't speak to the treadmill, but this recall article says a lot. The bike is one of my favorites possessions though and I'd be devastated if that ever went away.
> CEO John Foley apologized for not cooperating with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission sooner.

What an absolutely baffling strategy for them to have originally pursued in response.
So don’t build big plants. Micro reactors are far cheaper, easier to maintain and a distributed network of micro reactors would greatly reduce the burden on our already archaic national electric grid.

Kill two birds with one stone and all that…
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Ultimately, no, they're not "bad guys" in the sense that they're irredeemably evil. Unfortunately, the current situation certainly paints them in the "extremely foolish or downright spiteful" territory

Once a harmful set of actions comes to light, it's your job as the leadership team to:

1. Apologize

2. Correct the wrong

3. Allow your employees the space to process and heal

a. Note: People are messy. Especially hurt people express themselves in ways that seem foreign to us. Listen to them

4. Get employees back on board the company mission and work together as a team

Rather than allow space for employees to reach catharsis, they shut down the employees internally. Rather than get their employees back on the company mission, they told them "there's the door". All while externally extolling the virtues of "staying out of politics" and gaslighting everyone.

They're within their rights to do that. Supposedly all of this passed internal HR/Legal review. It's just not the ethical way to deal with this. It's not what we expected from a company that we've long associated with being brash-but-ethical in their dealings
This assertion doesn’t even pass the laugh test.

Massive repeated bailouts for the fossil fuel auto industry, gutting of EPA regulations to redefine pollution so as to let oil and gas and auto industries avoid financial responsibility for the pollution and other environmental damage (fracking quakes for example) they cause, and multi-trillion-dollar decades-long wars and military engagements all in the service of oil and gas, taxpayer funded, would beg to differ with your claim.
I’m not comparing for loops in general with map or filter, but rather the specific for loop boilerplate to implement map and filter. Moreover, the complexity of map/filter isn’t internal, but rather decomposing or breaking down one’s problem into map/filter/etc expressions. Often for loops are clearer, especially since you can frequently collapse a map and filter into a single for loop without thinking in map/filter/etc primitives. This is especially true when you need to abort the chain early (e.g., due to errors)—Rust’s FromIterator provides a clever solution to this problem, but it’s much harder to wrap one’s head around than a simple for loop with an early return branch.
If you could share more details, I'd really appreciate it.