skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at a house in Boston that was built in the 1700s, and it had the opposite problem. Ceilings were like 6.5 feet, felt claustrophobic.

Where I live now, ceiling heights are going back up. 10 years ago it was common to have 9 foot ceilings on the first floor, 8 foot on the second. Now it's common to have 9 foot on the second floor as well. And there are a not-insignificant number of houses being built with 10 foot ceilings.
I don't know where you're getting your information from, but what I stated is very easy to validate and I'm completely correct. Here are the links to the actual FDA trials for the different major co vid vaccines on clinicaltrials.gov as well as their associated estimated completion dates. All are currently in Phase 3 trials. (Aside, it's not clear how they will complete reporting for these trials as the companies blew up the placebo arms of the study. I guess that's another role I can play in this pandemic, being the control arm of the experimental trials currently underway.)

Please do not spread misinformation, especially misinformation about healthcare during a deadly and dangerous pandemic. Lives are at stake.

Moderna's FDA trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427 Estimated Study Completion Date: October 27, 2022

Pfizer's FDA trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728 Estimated Study Completion Date: May 2, 2023

JnJ's FDA trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04505722 Estimated Study Completion Date: January 2, 2023
1-off projects is a big problem with nuclear.

You build them for 50+ years. People retire and now you have no clue how they built them that cheap.
I believe that Rust actually would allow you to protect against this sort of thing if you integrated the low-level API with rust’s ownership/linearity system. Most rust APIs for embedded SOCs (“HALs”) do this correctly.

In the example in the OP, ownership rules were violated as there were two direct mutable handles to an object.
it's not (self-protecting) transferable / decentralized currency.

It's same as a paper lottery ticket.
Would it have soothed you if he began the article with: “Though the advice in this article is necessary, it alone is not sufficient to achieve success. Luck also plays a large factor. You need both. You will also need to obtain financial leverage. Hard work at McDonald’s is not the type that this article addresses.”? It seems unnecessary to me, particularly because he’s already written articles on these subjects. [1] [2]

Also, as another person that doesn’t believe in free will, I find it interesting that you thought it necessary to critique the way PG handled this subject matter, as if he had any choice.

But then again, neither did you.

Edit, forgot to link the articles.
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html
> A lot of stuff, like the lack of formatting and HTTPS

What's the point of HTTPS for a static website which doesn't convey any secrets? (that's a genuine question, I'm not a web expert).
Going on vacation doesn't mean doing nothing.
Like you I don't understand how/why people do this.
I think it's about doing something different. Travel, visit, explore, camp, hike, do sport, meet new people, share that with family/friends or not.
I would say more likely in the days of coax, before hubs existed.
Retirement accounts aren't liquid at all if what we're talking about is reaching financial independence and retiring really early (in your 30s or 40s say), which is what I thought we were talking about. But if you're strictly talking about being financially independent enough to retire at the normal time (when you can access retirement accounts), then I agree with you.

On the house point, people always seem to forget that people already live someplace and also often have families. No, it is not possible to find a house for a family of four where I live for less than $200k.
Severely off-topic to the OP but have you tried watching "Battlestar Galactica" in full? (The remake from the 2004+, not the original -- tried the original and didn't like it at all.)

I mean, you don't get much CGI there but the premise is extremely realistic and the actors are absolutely brilliant.

Plus, you'll get to cry, a lot, during the long series finale.
I'm only suggesting Google needs to fix everything in 90 days (and reveal them afterward as they consider that standard practice) so they don't have unfixed vulnerabilities past that. I don't really have opinions on what policies they should have for cases where that isn't followed, though I think of thing even having a policy for that case encourages it not to be followed to begin with.
getElementsByClassName and getElementsByTagName return live HTMLCollection objects that update when the DOM changes (or rather get re-computed when you access their contents following a DOM change). Depending on what you do with them, you may end up with worse performance compared to the NodeLists returned by querySelectorAll.
agreed, but it's only one library, and might be the only one you need; really, it has an excellent track record considering that it's been around longer than npm itself.
Yes, and it doesn’t work in all sectors or all places, but it does in tech sector in the US.
Dry Roasting
Not a big fan of 'space.com' among space news sites.

This information is already out of date. The earliest possible launch license for launching a bunch of Starlink terminals is 1. August. A number of other licensing and regulatory issues are outstanding. Elon in a talk today mention 'next couple month'.

Looking at the progress of the launch site and required hardware I would be supervised if they managed it even in August. I would put my money on September.
Are there any commercially available devices like this?
Toilet paper is cheap? News to me, lol
You're underestimating the sophistication of said AI.
"that asking that question"

Asking what question?
Not all jobs are created equal, especially in hospitality or retail.
Oh that's weird that antibodies exist and that viruses are based on antibodies after all. That must be quite the discovery for the public health experts who spent the past 15 months telling everyone they're pseudo-intellectuals for thinking antibodies might have something to do with virus immunity and that getting a virus might help you be immune to it.
I didn’t have “hobbies” for a while after graduating. Having kids and making time for them as they grow up was one of the catalysts that helped me (re)discover things that I enjoy.

My grandfather passed away a while ago and when we had to empty his house, I took some of the larger telescopes he had. He was a die-hard astronomer and astrophotographer. I’ve always loved looking up at the night sky and now I’ve picked up astrophotography too. It’s a great mix between gear, science, patience, skill and technology. There’s something very rewarding and humbling about capturing the light of a galaxy 21 million light years away.

Electronics is another one of his hobbies that I was always fascinated by that I’ve now picked up. Building some toy gadgets, getting the soldering iron out to fix one of my children’s toys. It feels fun & productive.

I used to play sports as a kid and teenager and kind of forgot about that for more than a decade while working hard. I’ve now picked up skateboarding with my son. I love it. I think our human body benefits from intense movement, especially when you’re used to sitting stationary all day. Skateboarding is rewarding because you can learn something new every session. The place that organizes my kid’s skateboard lessons also does sessions for parents. It’s double fun since you also get to meet other people.

Anyway. I was in the same “work hard” position 2 years ago. My mind spent most of its “cycles” thinking and worrying about work. Now it gets diversions and downtime. I think it helps.

Hobbies are this thing between work and entertainment. It’s rewarding like work without being forced or mandatory.
What if paying for all of those things resulted in overall lower health care costs for you? If, theoretically, we all pulled our resources and collectively provided healthcare for everyone and, as a result, your overall health care costs went down (i.e. your share to cover everyone was less than your current expenses to cover yourself + whatever taxes you currently pay) would you be willing to pay for those things in your list?
Might be worth noting, 90 days are how long Google thinks it is reasonable to keep vulnerabilities secret without a fix.

The longer it is kept secret, the benefits of the public knowing about it outweigh the risks.

Not all vulnerabilities can be fixed in 90 days, but they can be disclosed.
> I posit the "housing" part of the CSI is almost completely inelastic and only reflects what people pay in rent/mortgage, not the cost of entry.

This is a really interesting point. A longstanding criticism of the reported unemployment numbers is that it doesn't take into account those who have given up / dropped out of the labor force.

Perhaps the CPI is similarly failing to capture people who have been shut out of the housing market altogether (e.g. homeless, staying with family longer than previous generations)
This might be true in tech world but in local economies does not make sense. How can folks “switch jobs” every two years when there may not be equivalent opportunities in many cases?

I’d also like to point out that while many tech folks are just as fickle with their jobs as they are with programming languages, there is a lot of benefit to holding one’s post and trying to build a better company, too.

That being said at some places stagnation can happen and then it’s obvious to switch jobs, but stability can offer many benefits over arbitrary switching for more money.
Huge surprise that the quintessential capitalist _just so happens_ to write an essay suggesting that you should never stop working at any moment of your entire life.
It’s slower but, assuming you have control over page content, I’d think the answer is probably pseudo selectors or sibling selectors. The more complex stuff really.

Of course if that’s a need the page needs work but, not everything is “fixable” in time limited business cases.
What do you want out of this query (yes, the SERPs are pretty bad)? I rewrote the query to [ who is best at limbo ] and got a much better result from Google.

But as soon as you add 'gender' to the query it switches to articles about being in 'gender limbo' which is't totally surprising.
This is inevitably leading to the moment where we don't need humans, but I'm fine with that.
American healthcare and drug companies are the modern robber barons.
Anyone remember the cybiko? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko
>it doesn't justify letting everyone drive everywhere.

Where do you draw the line? Who "deserves" the freedom of free movement and who does not? Assuming the near-future cars are quiet and tailpipe emission-free EV's, why would you care who does/does not drive?

If you like to walk, walk. If you need to drive, drive. Why try to force everyone into the lifestyle you think is best? Not letting "everyone drive everywhere" is a scary future that I would not like to live in. If I have the means and wish to drive, I will.
"1 unit of insulin will cover 10g of carbohydrates"

This varies significantly from patient to patient actually. The same goes for basal rates (how much insulin you need to maintain a healthy blood glucose level excluding what you eat). As you mentioned, weight is a big factor but so are other things like age, sex, diet, activity level, stress level, and just how well your body reacts to the insulin. Some people respond very well to artificial insulin while others just don't for some reason. I believe it can also depend on how long you've been using insulin. Your body can slowly stop responding as well as it used to.

The numbers you came up with as an average sound pretty reasonable, but it's important to remember that daily dosage will vary quite a bit between individuals.
> If there was any kind of wide-spread problem, it would have been loudly seen by now and those vaccines would have also been pulled. There has not been.

Yes, if it was a wide-spread problem. The side-effect that killed AstraZeneca wasn't widespread, it was extremely rare, and it was caught because it was such an unlikely combination of symptoms. Yet, this extremely rare side-effect was enough to make the vaccine more dangerous than the virus - to young women at least.

In a year, when all the facts are collected and processed, we'll see how much trouble the Pfizer vaccine really caused in terms of Myocarditis. Then we'll scramble to make up numbers on how many infections must've been prevented by the vaccine to make it all worthwhile.
I've done something really similar (albeit in modern C++) that created a type safe guard around DMAed structures to provide mutual exclusion between the device and the driver (and to handle the appropriate cache management as the buffer transitions on non coherent systems, but that part isn't really applicable to this article).
When you learnt something with better more easily readable syntax, it's kinda hard to make yourself use something worse to save 30kb, when that saving will be lost with a single image on the page you're loading...
Hiya, sorry for a little bit of a late response!

I think there are a couple fundamental misunderstandings here regarding cash. Answering this question may fix that a little bit:

> I’d be hard pressed to acquire Bitcoin in a way that didn’t associate the wallet with my identity (if you have methods, please share!)

If one purchases BTC on Coinbase, trades it for XMR, and then trades the XMR for BTC back to a separate BTC wallet, it is currently unfeasible to determine that the final BTC is linked to the initial BTC. Also, cash is not completely private- bills have serial numbers that are tracked in a similar way as to how one might track Bitcoin (unless you're dealing solely in coins). BTC and XMR are both able to be cashed out fairly easily as well. They could be legally sold, given that they're functionally untraceable. You can also fairly easily coordinate cash overnighted to a PO box set up with a fake identity.

Re: Private ledger cryptocurrencies

With Monero (for example), the sender, receiver, and transaction amount are all private. The quality of Monero's privacy is up for debate, but I see no reason why explicitly tracked cash bills are more secure than a private ledger cryptocurrency.

In conclusion, within the initial context of, "When I’m doing crime, I strongly prefer there to be no record of the transaction", I don't believe that there is an opsec-based reason for you to choose cash over cryptocurrencies. There is always going to be a risk when committing crimes- that is unavoidable. Maybe this is a big point for dealing in gold, haha?
They are used often in storage networks. Back when I worked at a vmware shop, we also implemented them on the vmotion network, and it cut down considerably moving very large DB servers to other hosts.
Housing costs are up, but we are also consuming more housing (sq foot per capita).

Believe It or Not, Real Estate Affordability Hasn’t Changed Much in 40 Years: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
"My heart is in the work" - Andrew Carnegie

Probably a very stress-inducing sentence to a lot of CMU CS grads
Yes. That is in fact how my view of luck works. It is not created or earned, it’s literally just the outcome of random uncontrollable factors, sometimes favorable (“I found a dollar!”) or unfavorable (“Oh no, I misplaced a dollar!”)

I’m highly educated in several fields that have exactly 0 overlap with my business, so reading all that Kierkegaard and Pharmako/Poeia over the years didn’t serve to make me any “luckier” when it comes to my professional life.

If I hadn’t been “staying home and playing video games,” I would have never met my partner. That’s luck. If I hadn’t been doing nothing in the middle of what should have been a workday for most people, I wouldn’t have been available to do a friend a favor that turned into a job that turned into a business. That’s luck.

I’m not advocating for everyone to just do nothing — many people find that excruciating. I’m just saying that good luck and bad luck can happen to anyone at any time in any way.

I personally find it just downright odd when human beings decide that they’ve somehow gamed the RNG in life rather than just uh… getting lucky.

For example, by my estimation “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne is not representative of reality. People cannot actually manifest things, however nice it must be to feel that one can. There’s a whole lot of randomness in the universe and I’m not in the habit of thinking that I have conquered it.
What part of Apple's privacy policy is unbelievable?
In the past I read a lot of his essays but I can no longer stomach his obsession with (high) school. He overanalyzes it and relates almost every essay to how things are in school and I'm certain someone has made it into a drinking game by now. Sadly, my tolerance for that kind of game is quite low these days.

Due to having enjoyed his essays 5+ years ago, I still open the new ones and start reading them but I can't help but preface that desire by skimming them for school references now. Additionally, if they're congratulatory of people similar to himself - which they often are - then I also have to say 'no, thanks'.
Of course combining smart work with hard work has a multiplier effect. Sheesh.
"Thus far" is implied. We only ever know what we know thus far and we could always learn something new.
The complaint is that Google's stance with Project Zero is "90 days is plenty sufficient; you're a bad vendor if you can't adhere to it", and then Google itself doesn't adhere to it, which implicates themselves here.

I see what they're saying if you lump them together; I just think it makes sense to treat P0 a little independently from Google. But otherwise it's got a point.
> However! I believe that the main benefit of central nuclear plants, is there ability to keep poisonous materials in a single location, so that it doesn't get lost.

Off topic, but: I often feel that problems related to hard-to-manage waste could be ameliorated by thinking of temporary solutions as "entropy-reducing storage". Especially with recycling — which is currently not cost effective [0] but perhaps could be in the future — we ought to keep the nicely sorted waste separated, and avoid mixing it in with other landfill trash. At a minimum, there's no point in actively increasing the entropy of trash and byproducts. That way, today's landfills could become tomorrow's mines with a lower bar for economic viability.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
If we exclude the VM the code is running on, and the OS layer, and the kernel, and the micro-code, and the standard lib, then people also like to include library code, and also like to depend on third party PaaS and SaaS aka the "cloud"... If you do know what all bits of your code does you can send me a PM. cough All software is shit, with few exceptions. Not necessary because the developers don't know their stuff, but likely because of business priorities, politics, and layers of management. Software is a "people problem". So if we remove the "people" we might get better software ;)
At least where I live, property tax is assessed based on home value, but the multiplier varies based on the overall budgetary requirements for the town. So it's not like you are just always taxed 1% of your home value(or whatever). If every house in the town doubles in price, and the budget remains the same, then whatever multiplier is used would halve. Which makes sense - if home prices increase it doesn't mean that the town actually needs to provide more services to the same amount of residents. Of course, towns frequently see increasing home prices as a sign that they can siphon more money out of people via budget increases, but that is a separate issue.
You obviously didn’t read my link as it addresses exactly what you’re saying in your comment.

Study completion date does not mean phase 3 trial completion date.

“ However, these dates do not mean clinical trials will continue for this long, and instead reference continued safety monitoring after the vaccine has been approved and rolled out, which is standard practice within the industry”

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

Get a clue. Lives are at stake. Vaccination will save them. The majority of people dying now are dying because they made the choice not to get vaccinated.
Oddly I was thinking the same thing. If it de-ranks sites with a lot of affiliate links I might do it. Most of my searches on Google and Bing result in affiliate advertiser blog spam. It's terrible.
What works for me is, in advance, saying that I will be doing X thing for 10 minutes, an hour, or whatever.

Even when I'm waiting for something, I'll say: "I will leave in 5 minutes" and set an alarm, knowing and trusting that I will leave and I can relax until then.

I know it sounds paradoxical, but it helps for me to schedule both creativity and relaxing time since I know for those times that I'll be able to do be purposeful about my relaxing or making.
Not sure why everyone keeps saying the trials completed, or which link you mean, because we can go right to the primary source (clinicaltrials.gov) and see that all the vaccines are still in Phase 3 of FDA trials. Here are the links.

Please stop spreading misinformation during a deadly pandemic.

Moderna's FDA trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427
Estimated Study Completion Date: October 27, 2022

Pfizer's FDA trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728
Estimated Study Completion Date: May 2, 2023

JnJ's FDA trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04505722
Estimated Study Completion Date: January 2, 2023
Not ignoring but these are very rare side effects. It's something for doctors to know about in order to help treat the unlucky. But I think we have different meanings of the word safe.

These vaccines are very, very unlikely to give anyone a hard time. Nothing's without risk, but even for the unlucky that doesn't even sound that bad.

As soon as my son is eligible, he's getting it, too.
You're right. There are two major errors in just this one paragraph from the article:

"Worldwide, humans use roughly one zettajoule per year. Satisfying that demand without further contributing to climate change means we’ll have to drastically speed up deployment of zero-carbon energy sources. Providing 1 ZJ per year with only solar PV, for example, would require covering roughly 1.6 percent of the world’s land area with panels."

Actually, humans used 162,494 TWh of primary energy in 2017, which is 585 petajoules (PJ). The authors admit to rounding up from roughly 600 PJ to 1000 PJ "for simplicity" later in the article. Rounding up by 66% is hardly appropriate for a back-of-napkin calculation, much less in a published article on a very serious topic.

Then, the authors imply that replacing all primary energy with solar power would require the same amount of primary energy. This is not true. If we were able to electrify all of humanities energy needs, we would only need 1/3 as much primary energy as we use today, since today's primary energy is mainly served by extremely inefficient fossil fuel combustion (coal and gas in power plants, petroleum for transport). 600 PJ is a reasonable estimate for primary energy use in 2021, so we would only need to build 200 PJ of solar power to replace fossil fuel combustion. The article called for 1000 PJ of solar, while reality is closer to 200 PJ. They were off by a factor of 5!

Obviously, this paragraph was an over-simplification and was meant as a thought experiment. But the sloppy rounding error and the lack of acknowledgment of the primary energy differences between solar power and fossil fuel combustion call into question how deeply the authors really understand the problem of climate change, and the solutions we have available.
I take all my meeting notes on Agenda ( https://agenda.com/ ). It links the notes to the calendar events.