skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that there's no place where not anyone's backyard. Even the big US failed for Yucca Mountain.
There is a diversity visa category that is specifically geared toward getting diverse immigrants from all over the world. Increasing diversity is not a goal of the employment-based green card system, and neither is it a goal in the family-based green card system (it is family unification).

The reason for caps is historical. The idea was to reduce any ethnic group from wielding too strong an influence on politics by immigrating in large numbers, but that is now moot because of mostly uncontrolled/lenient immigration from Latin America over decades.

The main problem with the US immigration system is the high prevalence of family immigration vs. employment-based immigration. The majority of professional immigrants, such as the doctors who serve rural areas, medical/pharma researchers, postgrads in various scientific disciplines and software and high-tech industry employees are drawn from the latter category, and the majority face insanely long wait periods. This is rapidly eroding the attractiveness of the US as a destination for these people, which can only harm the future prospects of the country.
People who are particular about what they put in their bodies should note, you almost never know the details of what is in the flavors. Vaping pure VG+nicotine or VG+PG+nicotine is extremely safe if the nicotine is at normal doses. Flavors are probably mostly safe, but you don't know for sure. Nicotine itself is highly toxic (contact, even on skin, with 0.5mg per pound of body weight is lethal). Also inhaling heated glycerin vapor is not good for you, it doesn't cause anything remotely resembling what cigarettes do and thus far is not thought to cause any long term illness. PG is used in asthma inhalers, although not heated, so that should give you some idea of how inert these compounds are in your lungs.

The most dangerous aspect of vaping IMO is the content of the metals used to make the heating coils. Currently I'm not aware of any sort of assurance that manufacturers can give as to where they source coil wire, and if you make your own coils you should do it with wire that you know is inert when heated, which isn't as easy as it sounds. Two materials used for coils, Nickel Chromium alloy and Titanium, are known to release toxic oxides when heated too much, but these aren't very popular, and 2 other alloys that are common, Kanthal A1 and stainless steel are inert when heated so long as they're made of what they're supposed to be made of and have no impurities.
But the Westphalian system explicitly emphasizes the importance of the boundaries of the state vs the size of those boundaries. The HN usage tends to imply that “nation state” is something particularly impressive. But “an attack by a San Marino-level agency” doesn’t convey that same level of impressiveness.
The foundation was created after Mozilla let the team go. Mozilla also joined the foundation.
Was rate limiting not a concern? How often did you run it? I'm sure you had to keep some state too?
It takes a very selective reading of the facts to claim conservatives are any more anti science than liberals, in the US. Whatever hot button issue there is, there will be people who deny whatever the scientific consensus is if it doesn't suit their beliefs. The question is, who would you rather have running things? The guy that thought humans were riding dinosaurs 5000 years ago, or the guy who thinks paying 40 million people not to work is going to boost the economy?

The diversity/inclusivity stuff has gone totally bonkers. It's racist now to want to not judge people by their skin color and instead use merit. I don't see how liberals can abide this.. some don't but most are just scared of being yelled at by a twitter mob.

And human rights--with respect to voting one side wants more verification of eligibility and one side does not, no one holds the view that some people shouldnt be allowed to vote. And conservatives think abortion is a human rights issue too, just for the baby (or fetus or clump of cells or whatever you want to call it). We can play word games all we want about it but there is a real moral question here about what constitutes a human.
I don't so much miss the keyboard on my pearl as much as I miss the form factor. It was so small, yet you could do so much with it.
It would make a lot more sense if you actually took time to understand the opinion of those people whose mind you aim to change with your thought experiments.

You can only come up with this thought experiment if you start from the assumption that a tray full of fertilized embryos is not life.

Let’s imagine that you do believe that the tray full of fertilizer embryos is life, how would you answer this thought experiment?
Yes, positive. Now all businesses can start using reservations to circumvent laws and regulations, and before you know it that reservation land just becomes the latest trend in ways for America to further destroy Native American traditions and prosperity. Not even to mention that most tribes now operate essentially corrupt pyramid organizations where the money often doesn't flow down and many tribe members never see any of the profits or benefits.
All I had to do to drop my meat consumption by 80-90% was to live with someone who introduced me to plenty of tasty meatless cuisines and meat alternatives.

Frankly, cutting meat consumption in half is usually easy and would already take us a very long way if done universally.
For a data point, as a user, I think requiring an API key is fine if the process to create and use a key is simple. Having to use one to prevent abuse is fair enough.
It seems vastly more likely that the virus lied dormant upon supplies that were kept cold and was by happenstance later carried back into the warm than to imagine it carried across thousands of miles in the upper atmosphere.

Even if it were possible for someone to infect you from thousands of miles away with no intermediary save the wind it wouldn't be likely nor would it change the average dynamic where masks and lockdowns decrease spread in far more normal scenarios.

A lot of arguments against public health measures seem to bear a strong resemblance to yours. It is formulated like bullet proof vests don't stop hellfire missiles ergo we should stop wasting our time and money making swat team members deal with the sweat and discomfort of wearing vests!

It's only tolerable as an argument between people who have already decided that such protective measures are bad. Had the same sort of argument been made on a topic which they found controversial their reason should immediately have suggested 7 different counter arguments.

It seems like dubious reasoning to imagine that individuals spending 90% of their time in their homes and going out to the grocery store once a week wearing masks or not at all with curbside should spread disease just as much as when people mix normally.
It sucks, and it shouldn't suck.

Does https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/configur... work for you?

You can email me at voltagex (at) voltagex dot org if you like.
> For Tesla to kill third-party dealers, they'd have to do everything third-party dealers do, and then they'd be indistinguishable from third-party dealers.

What do third-party dealers do that Tesla does not?
One thing that has always rubbed me the wrong way about Zcash was after I listened to this RadioLab recording wherein the reporter's (Morgan) phone started to play the audio from the Google hangout during the trusted setup ceremony.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/cerem...

Skip to around 36 minutes for that.
So... how would you get anything into the system that way that you couldn't get in via an actually recorded floppy? You're still waving analog magnetic fields in front of the read head, it's not like usb or firewire where you have inappropriate levels of access to the system bus...
What does one need "credentials" for after attaining that level of success?
Care to quickly add some explanation to that stance, before getting voted off the island?
The only blocking issue is that their success (and subsequent spam/abuse issues) is greater than their focus on open access, to the extent that they formally disallow 3rd party client access.

So at the one end of the spectrum with have IMAP/SMTP, in the middle we have things like Telegram (everything's GPL3! The protocol is terrible and here are all the details! Go nuts!)... and at the other end we have Discord: One Protocol, One Allowed Client™®©.

Do I use Discord? No.

Would I like to use Discord? Yes.

Why can't I use Discord? The client is too much for my older laptop.

Would I like to use Discord? Yes there are a pile of people on there I'm missing out

Can I do anything about it? Yes, I have two options:

1) use https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ until it suffers the same fate as https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless

2) throw the whole thing to the wind until I have better hardware

Hmm. You know come to think about it the chances are people with similar interests to myself are probably also stuck on older hardware too and probably won't be using Discord either...
Anyone has context of why it was withdrawn?
Idk, Github's API does it, seems to be working. You can always offer an API key as an alternative option.
Undersharing is always preferable to over sharing.
Computer issue causes voters to be informed they already voted
> smart but are not particularly eager to please

This describes my dog, two cats, and fairly often my children.
I think this is pretty much on the mark. The modern Republican Party has managed to carve itself a niche as a pretty hate-fueled / senseless place.

The issue is that “holding your nose to vote” is taking a stance: somebody who votes for a candidate who is sexist because they like their fiscal policy is saying “I’m OK being led by this person because I value their fiscal policy more than their character”. And in the modern era, we’re seeing increasing signs that society at large has taken notice of that distinction.
I'm sad too. I wonder if it demonstrates how rare it is to get a second chance.
But culture itself has a large geographical component to it. Human cultures do not evolve in isolation from their geography. Rather, geography shapes culture as it develops.

Yes, geography is not the only factor in cultural development. There's a certain element of random chance, there's human agency, and then there are feedback loops. It's a super complex system. You're probably right that reducing it to geography is mistake. But I'd no sooner see a curriculum reduce something as complex as the history of industrialization to culture than to geography.

Yes, over emphasizing geography would tend to teach an external locus of control. But overemphasizing culture gives students a misguided sense of cultural superiority, which, while better than racial superiority, is just as likely to lead to discrimination and misunderstanding. The discrimination would just be based on the language that someone speaks or the country that they come from rather than the color of their skin. Slightly more rational? Maybe. Just as devastating? Certainly.
Financial anonymity is important — just because the panic of the day is “secret Nazis” doesn’t make this untrue. Consider a woman trying to escape domestic abuse, who has been financially trapped. If all transactions are untraceable, a $20 to “a grocery store” here and there can very well be her escape route. Same goes for oppressed individuals attempting to escape abusive families, neighborhoods, countries. Realistically the people you’re most worried about have used what they’ve always used to conduct their transactions anonymously: cash.
I dunno, if you look at the releases instead (https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/releases), they were doing monthly releases for a long time, and now it's been 6 months without a release. The last was April 2021, and OP quotes the "release maintainer" of Jekyll as declaring Jekyll dead in "May 2021"...

Sounds like a "Hotel California" repo now, if you follow me. Which is unacceptable for a lot of distributors/users (are they just going to package random git HEAD snapshots whenever they feel like it, now that releases are apparently de facto banned?).
$20 for a steak, maybe. I would argue that $50 or even $100+ for a steak has far more to do with the scarcity (fillet mignon is, after all, a very small part of the animal) and definitely the status involved.

Also, bison absolutely cost more per pound than beef. Beef sells because it's cheap, not because it's expensive.
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing people averaging percentiles?
I work at a middling SV company, and I see people taking averages of percentiles (or, even crazier, percentiles of percentiles) every day - that is, each server computes its own "50%/90%/95% latency" of all requests, sends it to a central time-series database, and the Grafana console averages them all to show a "nice" graph. They are used for everything from alerts to launch decisions.

It's driving me crazy because that makes no sense: you can't average percentiles, you will get bogus numbers that randomly jumps up and down based on aggregation (how many servers you have, which tag sets you use, and so on). And I'm apparently the only one who is seriously bothered. Everyone else is somewhere between "Eh, that's the best data we have." and "What do you mean the numbers are wrong?"

Is this normal?
I made the front page of a newspaper with a simple analysis for my friends
When I worked in email marketing in the 2000's, our director of engineering said something to me I've repeated many times.

"Everything is hard at scale."
I strongly suspect that Youtube makes no attempt to assess whether or not the claimed copyright is in fact in the public domain, so I wouldn't quite call it "working as intended." But, for the next few months, it's not wrong.
> Increasing the corporate tax rate will provide revenues that could help feed, clothe, and house some of America’s most vulnerable people

How will increasing corporate taxes deregulate the twin tapeworms of NIMBY housing policy and a completely captured health care sector?

Because all tax increases will do is use the poor as a conduit to feed these two sectors.
The popsci history on TV strongly suggests he was a poor fit for the role. I'd love to believe otherwise, but I wonder what the kids thought. The ones who didn't adore him, (and there were some) probably hated it.

A teacher has to learn how to handle mixed abilities. Pedagogy is not just for the genius.

This quote from TFM:

The villagers had never heard of anyone pulling their daughters’ braids or boxing their sons’ ears for failing to understand algebra. In all likelihood, no one had tried to teach their children algebra before. Wittgenstein’s time as a schoolmaster came to an ignominious end when he struck a sickly eleven-year-old in Otterthal so hard that he required medical attention, resulting in a legal hearing. He was not charged with a crime, but, to his intense shame, he had to rely on his privileged background to avoid punishment for misconduct.

To his intense shame indeed.
One of the first steps when rooting is usually to block outgoing and incoming in iptables (it's a fairly standard ubuntu install after all) so you don't lose root at any point, so the risk is minimal. Not to mention I have a dedicated non internet routable IOT network specifically for this reason.
I think the reddit user someone else linked to pretty clearly explained the Monero side. Zcash has a bad reputation with darknet markets and the like that use Monero. Some of it deserved. ( I say this as someone who wrote original Zerocash protocol) https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/oui6zj/zcash_vs_mon...

Also, Zcash has optional privacy.

On the other hand, the decoy based privacy protocols Monero uses are not really private at all. https://slideslive.com/38911785/satoshi-has-no-clothes-failu...

Its cryptocurrency, everything is tribal.
I wonder if this will have application for diabetics.
> "Agh, this is soooo terrible, but I'm going to keep using it!" just means, in practice, it's not that terrible.

I don't think this is the only conclusion here.

I think we should acknowledge just how central personal computing devices are in society in 2021. Sure, it's true that humanity survived without them, but at that time, societal norms were drastically different. Removing tech from daily life today can be crippling, and that's part of what makes some of these issues so terrible. They directly threaten our daily lives.

I'd argue that it's possible for the thing to be "very terrible", and to conclude that it's still your only option to continue using the Apple/Google ecosystem.

- Not all users have the financial means to switch. The iPhone they own is the one phone they'll buy for the next 3-4 years.

- A growing number of users have only an iDevice and no standalone PC. Couple this with #1, and things get even more difficult.

- The utility afforded by the Apple ecosystem is high enough (or virtually required depending on one's job) that it outweighs the current set of downsides.

If a corner store owner pays a weekly fee to the local gang "for protection", it doesn't necessarily follow that because the owner chooses to pay the fee, the extortion must not be soooo terrible.
The objection barely warrants addressing. A founder says "I'm keeping the equity and I'll pay you X salary." Employee says "OK." Nobody's exploiting anyone in that exchange.

At a point in time before Mailchimp was clearly a success (and thus equity would actually be worth something), most engineers would jump at a salary-over-equity compensation scheme because it's common knowledge (at least around here) that equity is a lottery ticket that usually doesn't pay off.
> deviating from that without a clear plan is like deadly frightening to the parents et al.

Sometimes it is because they co-signed 6 figures of student loans.
Well right or not anyone can take an issue to trial :-)
And Mint
I have never engineered a weather api, but also wondered why historical data is so sparse. Thank you for clearing it up!
When you develop a value exchange that is perfectly designed for facilitating human kidnappings and subverting international sanctions, you should not be surprised when other humans decide they value institutions over this level of personal privacy.

The narrative that this type of value exchange will protect people is as easily argued that it will put others at risk. We have institutions for a reason, and nobody living in a free country should desire such an absurdly dangerous means of value exchange.

At least when you exchange physical currency, it's actually physically difficult for a kidnapper or bank robber to handle the actually physical volume of $1M.
Not a farmer, but from my little knowledge, I believe animals are also bred for docility, disease-resistance, and growth rate. The latter two in particular are likely higher priority than flavor. Consumers don't seem to price discriminate on meat flavor very much, so the animal that puts on the pounds the fastest makes the most money.
Thanks. I remember that proposal and thinking it was pretty wild.
smol is in the same category as Tokio - it's a runtime for the async capabilities in Rust.
They do profit sharing.

https://mailchimp.com/culture/investing-in-people-through-pr...
Ivermectin use and vaccination are not mutually exclusive.

Or are you suggesting that if anti-vaxxers were convinced to not use ivermectin, or otherwise prevented from using it, they'd be more likely to get the vaccine?
Sure.

An aside as an engineer founder, I have always thought of accepting stock instead of wages is more like gambling.

1. You are concentrating your risk instead of diversifying.

2. As a minority shareholder in a private company you have virtually zero choice over any critical decisions, and the other shareholders have financial incentives to screw you.

3. You may influence technical outcomes, but even there you often realistically have limited financial incentive to improve profits. Unless you are an early employee, the amount of work you need to do to increase valuation by 10% is probably actually not worth the extra effort you put in for the $ you might get out.

4. Most people grossly misprice equity - ordinary shares are worth much less than the preferential shares an investor gets. Even though you are investing the equivalent of cash, you don’t get preferential shares. This is misrepresented everywhere, and certainly a startup has no financial interest in telling you the truth.

5. It is a high risk investment. That is fine for a VC which can spread their risk over many investments to get the industry average. It is a bad bet individually because even if you could invest your time in 10 startups, your variation in profit is still high. (Assuming one in ten startups is successful, which I highly doubt). Even VC funds are OK with ‘high’ variance because LPs are usually looking for diversification (especially non-correlated diversification with the rest of their portfolio), and the VC partners still get their tidy 2% even if the fund tanks.

6. Engineers usually seem to believe that they can pick a winner to join. VCs with decades of experience fail all the time, so the majority of engineers are just fooling themselves (or more truthfully, being fooled).
Here I was thinking life expectancy was in the mid-80s for some crazy reason.

TIL that 35 = "more than half of your life". Ugh.
Across the Multiverse
So I was bullshitting :) I've updated the post with a clarification.
> Monero also opts for a shorter transaction time of 2 minutes, rather than 10 minutes for Bitcoin.

Why are people still pursuing this cringely inadequate technology
Thank you so much for putting your effort into this. Keep being you.
> Meanwhile the billionaires or hundred-millionaires will still be able to find a way to reduce their tax because they have enough capital to hire an army of tax accountants.

> Dems shout about billionaires and hundred-millionaires for years. Yet they never make law that targets this particular group. What is up with that?

That's an excellent point. The IRS is chronically underfunded and the added funding for it was removed in the latest bill. They can afford to sneak around the tax code because of hired help and loopholes (like taking out loans rather than paying from money you 'own').

I do think focus is much too powerful on 'moderately wealthy' people.

Relevant: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-treasury-irs/irs-chie...

I know audits are random, but I really think if you make over a million or something, you should be automatically audited. But then...that would require funding the IRS adequately.

Edit: typo
It would be a lot easier to just make the point you are trying to make.
"Where the prostate is located in the pelvis and close to organs important for sexual, urinary, and bowel function—mucking around there can impact the quality of life. They can lose sexual function. We definitely want to be really careful in terms of not over-treating cancers.”

It's unfortunate that proton radiation treatment was not mentioned in this interesting article. I personally know four men who were fortunate to have proton treatment, with no side effects (after the end of treatment). (search Bragg Peak)

If my insurance would cover the 50k USD price, proton treatment would be my choice (recently diagnosed with "very low risk" prostate cancer). Instead, I'll wait 3+ years for Medicare to cover it, and hope they continue to cover it.