skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you just described life (not that of any one individual, but all of it, the biological meaning).

PS: I usually hate snarky one-liners, especially on HN which is supposed to have more substance, but in this instance I stand by my one-liner because even after giving it some thought I think it's a valid reply. Asking for a reason is just useless after a few iterations.

The first time I noticed this was when I was still pretty young and watched one of those nature documentary movies (The Living Desert, possibly). When, completely by chance, conditions are right life "explodes". There is no reason apart from that it can. And then it all goes away (meaning everything dies!) when conditions are not good any more. Stuff (and life) just happens.
I posted that as a comment / question earlier. Why is transmitting high quality video from at / near space so difficult when we've been doing live satellite broadcasts at broadcast TV quality for decades? The current responses are non-sequitir as they don't explain the seeming contrast.
Why would any of the platforms join together? If all of the streamers had the same content, there'd be no point in having more than one streaming platform.

Why would the content owners want to work with only one streaming platform? There'd be nobody to bid against each other.

I want to see a show on Broadway, but I don't live in New York so I guess I should just find it on the pirate bay? No? How is it any different? I should start complaining on the internet? I want to see a concert in my town, but no promoter decided to bring that show to my town. I should again start complaining on the internet? A TV show/Film is not available in my available ways of viewing is totally acceptable to complain on the internet? So I go to the internet and complain, and then someone else has the gall to call me out on it? Please children, dad has a headache from the banality.
I was fired once, and it really crushed my self esteem and morale for a long time.

Similar story, I wasn’t paid overtime and I was a new developer. I worked like crazy. I was the full stack dev slash designer. If my work didn’t meet a standard or I made a mistake, I’d be kind of coerced into recording less hours for the effort. I don’t think this is uncommon in software.

I’ve come to believe I was fired for a few reasons, but none of them really reasonable. The main two were that my CTO learned that I found our product morally reprehensible, and he simply didn’t like me. I was never rude or argumentative with him at all, but it became quite clear over time that these things were creating a divide between us.

I ended up having a health issue eventually, and I mostly kept it to myself. I became quite depressed because I was facing an operation which might change my life permanently (loss of sex drive being a major risk) and my output dropped for a couple months. It was like hitting a switch. After nearly three years of work and a team who really valued my work (and many even kept in touch to this day), he called me into a meeting and literally had me escorted out. No one understood or saw it coming. My project was passed on to several others out of the blue.

At the time though, it crushed me. I blamed everything on myself. The new team would message me for help and I’d actually do it! I felt sure I must have left a legacy of garbage and I owed it to them. Although they expressed that my leaving created a major bottleneck at the company, I was still sure I must have been fired because of incompetence. I must be a failure. I contemplated leaving software for months, convinced that I’m terrible at it.

The experience was eventually incredibly helpful though. My filter for people like that CTO is extremely useful. I use the experience as a reference to avoid treating people the same way and to remind myself how hard juniors will work despite bad conditions. Am I treating less experienced people properly? Am I making sure I don’t take advantage of their enthusiasm, making sure I credit them properly for their efforts? Making sure they don’t work overtime and simply learn instead to be realistic and content with their output?

Inexperienced people in competitive industries are vulnerable. They often feel like they might never find another job. Sometimes they feel inadequate. They work harder than they should for the compensation they’re given, and tell themselves they’re lucky.

Being able to reflect and recognize how crazy I was is helpful in teaching myself how to be a better mentor, and generally a better person to work with. So I’m grateful for that at least.

There is still the part where I need to value myself and my work more. That’s the hardest part. I’ll get there eventually.
The argument about the US being too large for X gets made for all kinds of X, all the time. It tends to not make a lot of sense. As the size of the country goes up, so do the available resources. Maybe there will be a couple of layers of additional organizational overhead, but there's going to also be access to a lot more economies of scale so it should be just a wash.

Why would health care be harder to scale up in terms of the size of a country than, e.g. the military or the fire brigades?

As for diversity... I don't buy it for your specific example. Switzerland has:

- Four official languages.

- A federal system with similar levels of decision-making devolved to the cantons as to the US states

- 11 political parties significant enough win seats in the parliament

- High levels of immigration: 30% of the population are immigrants.

The reason Switzerland shouldn't be brought up is that the health care system isn't particularly good, just different. In particular it's the second most expensive in the world.
How far we have not come

https://www.businessinsider.com/1993-independent-article-abo...
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Terrapower is using molten salt instead of water: they can produce 150% output for five hours. Unfortunately they only just started building a demonstration plant.
It's also better to get fired from one than quit. Author was going to depart either way, but in firing case got severance to relax and job hunt.

I'm not saying one should aim to be fired, but if you smell an abusive company, it's sometimes better to wait for the axe, act professionally, and come out ahead.
We manage to do this in the UK - it’s subsidised by TV watchers but if you don’t do that you don’t need to pay a penny.
Good for a grade school kid but a bit much for a preschooler.
Technically, my wife and I are millionaires. This is a combination of the (anticipated) value of our house, our pension funds and some investments. We are retired and living comfortably but within our means.

Our funds have to last for the rest of our lives. There is no way we could suddenly use our 'wealth' to fund a 'millionaire' project.
> The containment isn't the most expensive part, the pressure vessel is.

I was referring to the expense introduced due to regulations. Or are you saying that one could make a much cheaper pressure vessel without those pesky regulators?

Gen IV reactors have the property that they aren't available now, and won't be available and matured anytime soon. Many also have aggressive operating profiles that will stress materials. No one is going to want to buy a MSR only to discover corrosion limits its lifespan to 20 years. So, getting them to a state that customers would be comfortable with will take a long time.
Because you can too!

For $250k. Including beverages.

I'll be interested to see if Branson stops there or tries to go for orbit.

The obvious long-term play would be a space hotel, because the Scaled craft is really just a fast car ride. And It's taken a very long time indeed to get that far.

Orbit is an order of magnitude more difficult, and a full-time space station at least one or two orders of magnitude more difficult than that.
If you know how to use a scrollbar, it is fast and easy. Grab the thumb and drag it down. If you overshoot or have trouble landing on the last file, use the page up/down areas of the scrollbar or its up/down arrow to fine tune the scroll position. Should only take a few seconds.

Another way is to hold down the Ctrl key and use the PgDn/PgUp keys to scroll. If you hold down Ctrl+PgDn you can whip through thousands of files quickly. Because you have the Ctrl key down, it won't affect your selection of the first file.

If all you know is two finger touchpad scrolling, then it will be very tedious.

Unfortunately, from observing a number of people - and apps that hide the scrollbars - it seems to me that two finger scrolling has largely taken over from scrollbar scrolling or the scroll keys.
In one click intercept, debug and mock HTTP with HTTP Toolkit
I think if solar is used simply to charge electric cars--many of which sit idle during peak sunlight hours--it could be a huge win.
I'm willing to support honest, well done journalism and thoughtful editorial for $5 bucks a month and expect about 4 articles for that.
Zero frontiers have been pushed here.
It’s easier to take risk if you have a safety net, and family wealth is a hell of a safety net for risk takers in capitalist markets
The planner of 9/11 was in Afghanistan and actually carried out an attack on the U.S. Presumably the parent comment didn't think he was a direct threat worth invading over.

One might make a similar argument about Europe during WW2 (I am not, but that's why I'm asking the question).
Depends on the students. The top students in a graduating class can be extraordinary compared to the average experienced person, although there is a lot they don’t know
Why tho? Musk calls someone a pedophile for petty reasons, he gets called out for it and his defenders respond by saying he is the reason the electric car market exist. It's absolutely bizarre.
The technical achievement happened years and years ago.
I clicked there but nothing happened.
The largest comet ever discovered is heading towards the Solar System
https://theskylive.com/2014un271-info
This sort of removes any agency from humans. It's then easier to believe in a clockwork world where everything is predefined.
Well, he did wait until the fourth flight, so he is doing some risk assessment.
Well, he was Cosmonaut 001.
The grid can only handle so much energy instability. So in that sense stable sources such as nuclear can be complements to unstable sources.
We are budget conscious but this is what our spending naturally settles into just going to to the store and getting the ingredients we need for the meals and snacks we want. Meat several times a week, lots of fruit and vegetables, some pasta and wraps and breads. We don't feel deprived or unhealthy, and it fits well within our means.
Yeah, I had to quickly fact check that one too.
I was part of a google program that did just that. In fact, they tried it twice but I don't even remember the name. You loaded an account with some cash and it would deduct micropayments from various news sites. I loved it but they killed it pretty quickly.

Edit: Found the name. https://contributor.google.com
Yeah, I'm jealous of the Minneapolis Skyway. IIRC, there's an underground area in Chicago that is similar.
This is not true. They can sell a fraction of shares, or get loans against collateral, and have $billion of cash is to spend.
Show HN: An open source block storage system base on SPDK
Ten is too young, I think. I also don't think it's something you can push externally, unless you want to stigmatize the activity and ensure that it is treated as a chore; like piano practice, or ballet dancing.
Imagine this were the reaction when Kennedy proposed the USA should put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, "not because it is easy but because it is hard".
Not really. They just get loans at incredibly low interest rates, using their equity as collateral.

They can deduct dept/interest payments from taxes and never actually have to sell a lot of their stock. That way their wealth can accumulate and they don‘t really generate income. Almost like the tax code is skewed in their favor.
And yet the live video from the Moon was higher quality using analog: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2993/how-did-nasa-...

I feel like we have made negative progress in this particular area.
The article completely misses the point of R. Go ahead. Try and run a mixed effects model with random slopes in Excel, and plot the random effects and the fixed effects in a spaghetti plot. Let me how that went.
Do you happen to know most billionaires or something? Asking because this summary of "most of them just buy homes and yachts" sounds curiously like one of those straw man POVs.
Why not? That's close to how things were 20 years ago. When you searched any topic, there would usually be a quality hit within the first page of results of someone with vast technical experience writing up their knowledge as a hobby, as plain text or basic HTML. You needed the skill to discern whether the person knew what the hell they were talking about and what was their own bias, but after that you had access to a pretty great stream of information.

The influx of money-incentivized noise swamped that out, and now we're left with a continuum from aggregator sites (eg stackoverflow, forums, etc) to just straight up webspam. I'm not saying there is an easy way to get back to where we were, but there is a standard to compare to where all of those qualities existed together.

In the present, why would I believe that a news site which demands payment would be any higher quality than the ones who do not? The basic business dynamic is to market to gain a sale, and then deliver the minimal cost product that doesn't violate the expectations.

Ultimately it goes back to the fragmenting of authority. You used to be able to trust the NYT or whatever because it was all you knew, everyone else trusted them, and therefore there was little reason to break that lock step, even when they did end up misleading you. But with the modern plethora of voices, there are more opinions to choose from and we can easily see when "authorities" ended up misleading us. If you want quality news sources, this lack of authoritativeness/trustworthiness is the genie you need to put back in the bottle, not simply funding.
The anti romantic movement consisting of Hawthorne and Melville comes to mind.
Without defining rich and “self-made” pretty tightly your statement is pretty weird. If someone with nothing risks $100 is that an indication of more or less risk tolerance than a billionaire risking 200 million?
>There’s really not a reason to use R if you’re not going to use tidyverse.

I feel the same way, except for the data.table package.
Rutan is alive.
I'm Brazilian, I once interned (when I was still in college) for a 33 million pounds Star up for $200 dollars a month. They would pay me through Paypal who took 20 dollars as cut, haha. Those were dark times.
> appearing in drag to promote his wedding business.

Even he now admits that "Virgin Brides" (actual name) wasn't his strongest idea :-D
That's really the idea behind Substack. You can subscribe to the journalists who investigate the issues you are interested in.
To be fair they usually invest some time, energy and/or money into making sure that you want to read it. I don't want to pay for most news, but often I'm baited by an appealing headline. I'm not above being baited and fear of missing out, and they are exploiting this.

If I'm preparing food in my house and people want a part of it, it would be weird to me. But if after preparing my food I use a complex system of fans to blow a delicious odor over my neighbours while having a beautiful table set up visible through my windows, and do this every single day, I can understand that they can't stay indifferent to the situation.
Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?
Forums that are actually like HN that have a minimal interface and promote actual discussion with tree like threads unlike other forums where you can barely see 4 people's response and can hardly tell who's replying to who.
Something that has always puzzled me: how do so many incompetent CTOs get into the ground floor of startups? I've met more than one and I just don't understand it. There's readily many extremely competent technical people I know who want to start a company but have no idea. How could a CEO find an investor and not find a tech person who can foster/grow a team of engineers?
Graphene Oxide Detection in Aqueous Suspension; Unauthorized English Translation
> maybe studying them to see how they would respond

Have you ever looked at the Book Of Job [1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job#Contents
Land is expensive, not houses. Land is non depreciating, financed by loans, not substantially part of wealth. Houses are mostly under $300K depreciating consumables.
DJB is famously "extreme" in a lot of his positions and although his work is incredibly valuable is not a good representation of the typical beliefs of the community.
> Following this argument, nobody is culpable for any crime they may commit, because their behavior is fully determined by their biology and environment. Try that in a court.

It's pretty simple. If you have no choice but to commit murder because your fate is predetermined, the court is also predestined to put you in jail.
A New Tool Shows How Google Results Vary Around the World
I'm just going to go ahead and give a reminder that these statistics only represent correlation, not causality.

My guess is that it's more that when you don't have things, the more you tend to have more of a motivation to seek religion. That being said, it would be an interesting study to find if there was a causal relationship between non religiousity and certain markers of prosperity. As a "practicing" Christian, I'd honestly love to know, regardless of what the results are.
Older job seekers get fewer offers on LinkedIn but a younger profile photo helps
Can that kind spaceship design get orbit in future or is this design dead end without somekind breaktrought in material and rocket science?
Why am I being downvoted for stating an undisputed fact? Do you feel good about yourself for promoting misinformation and downvoting factual corrections?
Which journal do you think worth paying for?
Assuming the lowest wage possible at $7.25, you can make $100 dollars in one week; that's only 14 hours of work... 3 hours per weekday.
You get what you pay for. Working long hours is orthogonal to working effectively. Modern capitalists don’t resort to moralizing work style like that.
Tether isn't Bitcoin, nor is it a decentralized crypto asset.
https://archive.is/3r5c5
I have a background in research, and moving to the United States I’ve had some situations where I’ve coached people in a team who’ve never directly talked to their customers. Something I always have to do with Americans is to practice getting them comfortable with silence.

A tip I stole from someone else (can’t remember who otherwise I’d credit) when asking a question in research interview is to stay silent until you’re feeling uncomfortable, and then count slowly another 3 seconds before asking a follow up prompt.

The majority of the time, people do have useful things to say if you are willing to give them the space to speak.
See also, how to do an endo.
Does WriteFreely now support hosting multiple sites on a single instance?
Doing it the first time is interesing.
You can use payback time to back into expected returns that adjusts for the time value of money and you need to consider that you're getting expected (investable) savings as well.

Indeed, anything that can pay itself back in less than 5.5 years should be on par with the market.
This and the implication that free will is an illusion - supported by ample evidence.

https://m-g-h.medium.com/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tale-4fecf80...

Note: Evil exists and has a purpose though
Can a hacker prevent access to a form and submit before anyone else?
Hi friends,

I am trying to help a friend avoid a really serious problem in their website. Here is the scenario:

They open an access for admission form at 9:00am in certain days. After they close admission, they chose the first person who filled the form and award them the admission.

My question is: Is it possible for a hacker or a technically knowledgeable person to prevent access for others for a few seconds and submit his/her request before anyone else?

I have tried the form in the specific time. There is a countdown until the form shows up, and then a server error occurs for a few seconds before the form shows up. I was thinking this is maybe because of too many requests, but the number of users who visit the website is not more than a thousands people.

Anyone has any idea if manipulation could take place in such a case?

Thanks a lot,
While looking down on anyone who reads the Bild and co. and feeling very superior in general.
I don't think there is any excuse for doing analysis in excel at this point, and if any analyst came to me with either a) no coding skills or b) no interest in developing them, I'd laugh them out of the room.

My BiL is this breed. He's a financial analyst. He's got a hilarious mental block about using any kind of coding language in his work to the point that he actually developed a web-scraping app in excel. Don't ask me how. But jimmeny-christmas, use the right too for the damn job.
Can you do this in a VM?
What is a browser security sandbox
I'm saying that determinism doesn't remove issues of ethics.
Most people are boring. Even the moderately wealthy with plenty of disposable income.
Its impossible to subdue a society little removed from the 7th century, unless you're willing to replicate the actions of Alexander the Great, Mohammed, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Abdur Rahman Khan:

That is, slaughter or enslave all males from any tribes who oppose you [1], take their women for your own [2], and enforce your own culture, language and religion [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Qurayza

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susa_weddings

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuristan_Province

All of that is rather politically incorrect these days, so Afghanistan and nations like it will remain unconquerable except for nations like China who are still willing to carry out that level of annexation and assimilation.
Space tourism, not space. There are two space stations orbiting overhead this flight today, which is very much more technically difficult.
The person doing nothing never errs.

I did not say all US intervention was good, but that as a whole, Pax Americana has been great to us. The Chinese or Russian alternatives are not very enticing.
Branson’s decades-long passion and perseverance is an inspiration
Vespucci ( https://github.com/MarcusWolschon/osmeditor4android ), Go Map!! ( https://github.com/bryceco/GoMap ).

But sometimes making note with StreetComplete and editing with JOSM at home is more efficient.
Indoors is more about solar insolation than climate. Southern Ontario is same latitude as northernmost california.

Check out Leamington Ontario and there are some big greenhouses.

But there’s a part of Spain where the whole city is a greenhouse: check out el ejido.
Hugo offers pretty much every static site feature that writefreely does for free. Media on a page isn't an issue with Hugo websites.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Still $100M is a literal order of magnitude away from a billionaire status, mentioned upthread.

In any case, a millionaire can technically have wealth spanning 3 orders of magnitude; no way this could be a homogeneous category regarding what's a "millionaire" is capable of financially.