skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your concern but my behavior is pretty consistent with what it always has been.
death toll is not known but it's over 1000 they estimate of just chinese laborers. at the peak there were 15,000 or so workers working on the rail. in fact the main suspected etymology of "chinaman's chance[0]" (aka no chance) was because they were the demographic that did the super dangerous work that killed 6% on the low end. The construction was also not one large project but two large projects constructed in parallel and the blasting/excavating was done ahead of the time. Sure they could lay down 10 miles of track a day on open plains but the hard work was through the mountains and that's the stuff that slows the construction down like if you were to build 22 miles of track in a heavily populated area with land already claimed by other entities and having to deal with easements and other legal battles + logistics.

Nitroglycerin was used in large quantities on the central pacific railroad construction and were predominantly chinese laborers whereas the union pacific was more irish laborers. The central pacific rail owned their own TNT factory even. I am not sure what you are getting at; black powder was used but it certainly wasn't the only thing in use especially in the west.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinaman%27s_chance
I would not have relocated, period.

You can apply for an exemption, though, if you are a "lawful US resident" (their wording). Which adds to the already large documentation pile you need to submit.
So, a factual statement gets downvotes around here?

Who did that to me? I wanna know.
I wonder how much of the zipper failures are due to lack of maintenance. I use a tooth brush to clean them after each long trip and lubricate them with a little silicone grease. I bought my Jannu in 2007 and haven't had a problem with any of its zippers, ever. I've only had my Keron for 5 years so I can't attest to its longevity yet :)
> What are the issues with IQ tests?

They can have cultural or social biases unless very carefully calibrated. Ideally you should be able to take anyone who speaks a reasonable level of English, give them test and have them get a score that matches their intelligence percentile.

In practice, the tests are built for a particular socioeconomic class and type of person. As a trivial example, imagine the test uses the word "yacht" and you give the test to someone who has never culturally been exposed to that word - that person will, on average, score a bit lower than someone who recognizes the word immediately.

Or imagine you give a test using Imperial units to a European who exclusively grew up using Metric (or vice versa). Knowing that three feet are in a yard isn't an intelligence test, it's a test of cultural familiarity.
Why fear death? Once it happens, it will no longer be your problem.
It's your speculation that the underlying reason these features work is because individuals are adopting the behavioral norms of a subculture. This may or may not be the case.

Also, some dimensions of personality are correlated with political belief, so even if these features weren't useful beyond predicting political belief (which itself is an unsubstantiated/speculative claim), there should still be some transitive predictive utility there.
Thats sorta weird, they're slightly different builds too.
It's not just a rhetorical efficiency though. Phrasing it that way makes it feel like it's a lot easier to change, cause we can imagine personally overcoming a single person.

That broader human "we" is the deterministic historical process that is insurmountable for any one person. It can only be contested with a countervailing historical process when people organize and cooperate, and that's a lot harder to get rolling than just calling your congressperson.
googling shows that there is no good test for rabies, yet there is a test showing that vaccine had actually been done. I wonder why such an outright ban instead of the test requirement. Not being able to bring your dog may really be a big pain for people relocating to US (and i think it makes for the wrong filter as the people who would forego relocation in favor of staying together with their dog are the best kind of people).
OK, but what Oracle does in writing their database is not "web programming", by any reasonable definition. I don't care how many web programs use it as a lower level. Ditto Windows creating a file system. That's not web programming in the same way that it wasn't GUI programming 15 years ago.

And that's even if you have a web interface. There's plenty of embedded systems where you don't.

Here's an embedded system that run on a spin of an 8051 with some extra on-chip peripherals. (Why? Because lower hardware cost.) It's never going to support a web interface.

Over there, there's an embedded system that controls the wing surfaces on a jet fighter. It has to adjust the wing surfaces every 1/40 of a second. A web interface will never be allowed anywhere near that.

And so on.
But you do need to be vaccinated to get permanent residency.

(which is an interesting requirement for those cases where the person has been living as a 'temporary resident' for years already)
The spec is ok, but you do have to bounce around a lot. There are still areas that need improvement for sure, but we’ve been using it for about a year now with some level of success in building a chat product.
There were several chapters in the history of US IT outsourcing. After Perot Systems in the 1980s and Tata/Infosys/etc around 2000, a third era has been underway for the past 5 years or so: extending IT operations to parts of the US and Eastern Europe with much lower labor costs than large US cities, esp. as compared to the US left coast.

This has worked far better than the 'Tata' chapter which exported to very cheap Asia where staff tech skills and the support model were too often haphazard and frequently underperformed. Hiring remote staff in new-growth US cities with lower CoL (e.g. Charlotte NC or Austin TX) has delivered capable staff and nearly synchronous operating hours to the main office. However in the past 2-3 years, IT labor costs have risen greatly in 'secondary' US cities, reducing those savings substantially.

In my experience, remote staff in eastern Europe have skills equal to US folks, but the 5 hour mismatch in daytime hours and their inability to visit US sites where non-IT R&D work is done and data is acquired does hamstring this model.

I wouldn't be surprised if a 4th era of outsourcing arises soon: remote work in small towns across the US and in western Europe. European IT wages often seem to be 50% or more below US large cities. That differential is likely to diminish as remote work increasingly is established as a new norm.
Ask HN: How much electricity can be harvested from water coming to a house?
I realized we don't pay for water pressure when paying water utility bills, but only for the water itself. Can someone do the math and explain how much electricity can be generated with a hydroelectric generator to convert the high pressure water from the utility company coming into a home to low pressure that is still strong enough to have water flow normally in the house?

Are there times of day that water pressure is even higher and more electricity can be extracted?

Is the cost of extra water consumed for electricity production offset by the amount of electricity generated?
Centrism is a political position just the same as any other, and is just as biased.

Most major news sources in the world report in English too. So you can indeed read news from sources that aren't from culturally similar anglophone countries and instead are from anywhere in the world.
Interesting. But I often travel, only have the need for a tent for a few days and buy a "throw-away"-tent. And trust me, drunken vikings (speak Iceland) are pretty good in breaking your tent.
Ask HN: Is Gmail's “Send mail as” feature not working for you?
As of this morning, I've been getting the following error when I send mail using the Gmail "Send mail as" feature:

> Message not delivered

> You're sending this from a different address or alias using the 'Send mail as' feature. The settings for your 'Send mail as' account are misconfigured or out of date. Check those settings and try resending.

Is anyone else facing this?

I have two factor authentication enabled, so in order to use this "Send mail as" I have to generate an App Password. I tried deleting and recreating the App Password and it works for around an hour then stops working again.

Curious if it's just my account or if this is happening for others too?
Another thing: Work is generally how people best have the opportunity to interact with people operating at a higher degree of sophistication, and it's often where you have a chance to work with people who are smart or motivated.

If you stop working, you risk losing both those networks.
Cooking with a wok was painful regardless on the biggest burner available on the last consumer gas hob I lived with.
My understanding is that a bat trapped in a building with humans can get dehydrated, and they try to get moisture from people's mouths when they're sleeping.
@dang, your moderation is needed here. I am being flagged unjustly
Similar to "anything worth doing is worth doing poorly"?

The key is to lower the psychological hurdles / consequentiality burden of doing things. Simone Giertz's philosophy in making shitty robots that do stupid things poorly is an exemplar of this. There's no fear of failure *because the whole idea is not worthwhile" ... which makes the process an excellent learning tool.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/simone-giertz/
70 degrees inside tent?

Ah it is Fahrenheit, so 21 degrees Celcius...
I didn't recognize the name in the title. In case others don't either: This is about reading the journals of a successful female Canadian author whose books you have likely heard of.
But the part closest to the fire is a clear plastic sheet.
Show HN: Generate a free visual sitemap by crawling any website
There is no best car, hence there is no best backpack.

As a rule of thumb: It is easy to buy a backpack that is too big. It is nearly impossible to buy one that is too small. The experience of a traveler is in an anti-proportional relationship with the size of his or her backpack.

This being said, the best back pack I ever had was from Burton. I and I am still heart-broken that it got stolen. It is not produced anymore.
So let me get this straight, you cited a random "first link you dug up", unrelated to your point, and claim it as evidence because you "wouldn't be surprised" if some other article (that doesn't exist) supported your view?
Pit bulls (which is a problematic overly broad term in itself) get a bad rap largely because the worst dog owners disproportionally choose Pit bulls.

I have a friend of a friend with a pit bull that bit me on the neck and broke skin causing a minor bleed when I leaned over the dog while it was sitting on the couch next to me. Apparently that's one of its triggers (why didn't you tell me this before she bit me?). This dog has bitten nearly a dozen people and the owner still thinks that every bite is the victims fault, and I used to see her posting on FB groups about how all Pit Bulls are lovely cuddly nuggets that get a bad reputation for no reason until I unfollowed her.

Pit bulls can be lovely animals, but their destructive capabilities mean they need more training and socialization than the average dog because the potential outcomes are more severe. Lots of chihuahua owners are negligent too, but the tiny terrors they raise usually can't maim or kill people.
> Discord and Clubhouse need to verify my identity?

Discord are doing it for verifying bot ownership, because bots can do a lot of damage if they're just free to sign up to Discord and start "talking" to people. A good way of omitting bad bots from the network is by verifying and tying the bot to the (verified) identity of a real person.

I run a server with 1,200 people on it - I've never needed to verify my identity. You don't need to verify your identity for using Discord.
At the top of my wishlist for a tent is some level of animal protection. I get unreasonably afraid of bears especially when I’m half asleep.
Probably because it's written in SwiftUI.
I know this sounds crazy now but with improving brain computer interfaces, and I know it is not as good as they say, in a couple years maybe lets say 20 someone will run Doom on that brain implant. We all know we will see this during lifetime. I mean, you can buy in a shop right now a device that helps you control your pc with your brain waves. How is that not exciting? Is it amazing to be a science nerd?
I could be wrong, but I don't think the comment you are replying to is completely serious. I think they are saying that the disease risk of global human travel seems similar to, or higher than, the disease risk of global dog travel and that similar challenges exist. Given this, banning global dog travel and not banning global human travel seems inconsistent.

If banning human travel due to disease risk is over the top, is banning dog travel over the top as well?

I think the difference, as you say, is that the benefits are not equal.
Ask HN: Best Options for a “Slow” Developer?
I've been told twice now that I'm "slow". I currently work for a financial company. What kinds industries, companies, positions, etc tolerate slow people the best?
> Is this a game, or something useful, a currency system?

Do you not think the current economic system is a game? Because it is.

> single decentralized exchange...

Uniswap had no liquidity issues for blue chips with the recent crash.

Clearly there can be more liquidity in the market, but that’s not the argument.

> detractors don’t understand

Why would I think differently when they never do?

Assuming the rest of the response isn’t directed at me.
Velodyne Lidar Introduces Next-Generation Velabit Sensor
> ...and I cannot, unless they all have my domain.

You can't use family sharing on a Google Apps/G Suite/Workspace account at all, whether they share your domain or not.
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The one that suites your needs.

There is no best tent. There are only your requirements and how much you want to spent. I have done well with throw away tents. Be on a festival during my trip, trash the tent, keep traveling without unnecessary equipment.
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This is likely less about rabies and people moving with their beloved pet, and more about protecting US-based breeders. The price difference for purebred dogs (and cats) can be as much as 10x inside the US vs outside. I know people who specifically traveled to get the pet they wanted at a discount.
Statistically, without any other data, about half of the people will be smarter than I am, and half of them won't. How can I be sure that I chose the right half to follow, especially if we're assuming that I'm average?

Regardless, I still hold that following the herd is a recipe for disaster. It is a form of the Just World Fallacy.
It's supposed to work in quite a few countries, and not all make it so easy. Given the requirement in my country for ID when obtaining any other ID, I'm actually puzzled about what happens if you lose everything.

https://stripe.com/docs/identity/verification-checks
> At one point I spent a couple of days watching dozens of videos on procrastination

I don’t know exactly why I find that so amusing, but I feel like I’ve done something fairly similar. Added that one to my queue.
One of the points brought up by privacy folks in review of Apple’s plan to have your ID in your digital wallet is that the mere convenience of allowing access to ID may create ID requirements for users where none existed before, which is a loss for privacy. Do you think that Identity is going to create such new requirements?
I've been somewhat concerned about bears as well, though I wonder if just tying a bell to a string and around some trees would help.
A Top Virologist in China, at Center of a Pandemic Storm, Speaks Out
This is interesting. Even has e-mail “aliases” out of the box.

Thanks!
> Work is generally how people best have the opportunity to interact with people operating at a higher degree of sophistication, and it's often where you have a chance to work with people who are smart or motivated.

That's true of “work” viewed broadly, but not necessarily particularly of wage labor more than other things within the broad sense of “work”; certainly, I’ve found it to be no less true in political and charitable volunteer work than it is in wage labor.
No great resignation wave, are we looking at the same charts? Both charts have the highest values ever since they started tracking this in 2001, and we've only seen increases in monthly quits since the start of 2021.
To reiterate what others have said, do not run a fuel burning stove in a tent. I've heard several stories about people dying from carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to keep warm with a stove in their tent. (One about a parent and child in a national park is burned into my brain.) I suspect that people assume the fabric "breathes" sufficiently.

If you need to boost the warmth of your tent, boil some water outside, put it in a container, and keep that in your tent (being careful of scalding, of course).
Yeah I don't back every policy just because a liberal came up with it. I think racial equity in education is great and it's a thing conservatives don't seem to care about. I'm not familiar enough with this plan to say if it's a bad idea or not. I think it's a really difficult problem to solve and no one has a great solution.
Agreed - I mean I grew up on a couple of Sinclair's. You literally started in a command line. You needed to load up the distracting game from tape. Magazines had print outs to type in (that was less cool but at least you had he point)

Damn I need to start those coding clubs with my kids ... it's like growing up in a chefs house who just orders take out cos he is too tired after a days work. poor kids
I don't get the downvote. What's wrong with being relieved one's partner's new pet will be allowed through?
I mean, I ride flats on my mtb because the trade off makes sense, but I absolutely wouldn’t do a hard sprint out of the saddle in them like I would on clipless on my road bike.
The content of the leak is where all the real blame is – for those near the top crafting narratives, that is arguably something they actively want to avoid :)

If I wanted to be real cheeky, I would say the government has an incentive to not investigate things that would cause it to make self-incriminating statements.
Why is a wikipedia article about a ubiquitous piece of technology with very little context on the front page?
I think covid is a very poor example - it's already endemic through out the world. The real risk will be from things like zika, chikenguya, and things we don't even know about (and that we don't have vaccines or great treatments for).
Both, pushing-and-pulling for rapid acceleration; as well as just pulling, often going up a hill to give the pushing muscles a rest.

Pushing and pulling at the same time takes a bit of time to get used to, but it can become quite natural after a while.
How has that dog not been reported to the authorities?
"Inside Macintosh" superb? I was puzzled and then disgusted when I saw that in stores, and realized the difference between Macs and the Apple II.

The manual for that machine was a masterpiece ... written for users. The 'revolution' ... obfuscating the OS internals, limiting access to the anointed ... was a tragedy. 'Killing Big Brother' my ass.

(It took me a lot of digging - in those pre-web days - to find out what magic numbers to poke, and where to poke, to turn the Mac serial port into a MIDI port.)

Anyway, I expected the 'elephant' to be the array of monopoly-busting legislation floating around the Congress right now. Popcorn ready.
Reminds me of a race horse lol
You're going to USE the new, slower Gmail, and you're going to LIKE it! ... LIKE IT!!!

whip
The Economist has not changed its bias in over a hundred and fifty years, staying firmly focused on economic liberalism. Eighteen years is nothing.

>4 sources that aren't radical, have clear motivation behind them. Money makes people write in a particular way, that is easy to gauge.

I don't understand what you're saying here. Just because they have a bias that is for the status quo doesn't mean they are more or less right. As far as I'm concerned all I'm getting from this is "I agree with this ideological bias and I don't want to read anything else"

Anyways, it's your decision to subscribe to a biased news diet. You're not any better because of which bias you choose than someone who only reads Newsmax or CNN.

If your assessment is that anything that's not from the same ideology as these four sources is "insane crap", which it isn't, good points are being made by people of all political persuasions, then it's clear that you have created your own media echo chamber.
Finally, the perfect example of how 'Surveys show' is almost always bullshit.
I'm assuming/hoping there'll be a button to click to undo that. Typical California regulations.... All flash and no substance.
It's worth mentioning that FTDI's response to this was to update their windows drivers [1] - which caused the fake devices to be bricked - and that affected a lot of companies who unknowingly had used the fake chips on their PCB designs. Eventually they reversed course but a lot of HW was essentially sent to the landfill.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/ftdis...
Its $300 a week not a month. $300 a week is $7.50 an hour at 40 hours a week. People are getting this on top of normal unemployment. So it very well may be more than what some people were getting paid to work.
I wouldn't call that unreasonable, but it's not physically possible for a tent to even slow a bear down if it wants to get in. In my town, bears have gotten into houses and garages by tearing the front doors off their hinges, and by tearing through a house's siding and sheathing.

I recommend car camping in bear country.
Path Less Pedalled recently had a great discussion on this with Josh Poertner, the owner and president of Silca, the tire pump company:

https://www.pathlesspedaled.com/2020/01/09/your-tires-are-ly...
Me neither. I have an induction burner and would still love this feature on my vent - particularly for smoky steaks or oil fumes - sometimes I forget to turn it on/off.

I think an IR thermometer that activates the vent whenever the cooktop is over ~115F would accomplish this pretty well, provided the switch had a manual override to force it on if the sensor fails.

A quick search indicates they do exist on some pricier models.

I suppose there could be edge cases where the vent could make a stove fire worse by increasing airflow - wonder if these 'smart' vents have logic to handle these cases.
Being factually true doesn't mean its a productive contribution and not the kind of low-effort dismissal discouraged by the rules (I personally don’t think it warrants flagging, but I don’t think that or downvotes are clearly unjust, either.)
PG&E Commissions Microgrid Near Yosemite National Park
In scouts we winter camped in lean-tos made from sticks and spruce boughs. We would build a wall behind the fire to reflect heat into the lean-to. It works well enough in a survival situation.

It's best to just have a sleeping bag rated for the conditions. Gathering wood and stoking up the fire every 45 minutes is too much of a hassle.
Once you show symptoms of rabies, you are dead in about 10 days, with 100% percent certainty. You might live 100 years after contracting HIV (we don't know because we haven't known about HIV for 100 years.)
And by that time the network will be either sufficiently (more) centralized, irrelevant, or both.