skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion?

Hacker culture was originally predominantly skeptics, the type that resist authority and think for themselves. Over time, the original hackers were diluted to the point of being on the margins of the tech scene. This happens to all subcultures that become 'cool'.

So, once programming became more established it found a wider audience, and a certain type of risk intolerant, rigid minded person became attracted to the scene, due to the structured nature of programming. These people and others of similar thinking are the least likely to consider they are wrong, and are the ones so opposed to anything that challenges the narrative they've been telling themselves.

The number of people willing to skeptically challenge prevailing opinions has always been fairly low. Most of the people I know want the comfort of absolute belief, even the nonreligious people.

I've worked with hundreds of developers and this has been my experience. Think of this anecdote what you will.
Given that we have maybe 10 years at best to make sure there will still be livable conditions for humans on most of the world's land area 100 years from now, worrying about radiation that could kill people thousands of years from now is simply absurd.
Nuclear is on par with solar as far as safety. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
I mean if you are able to do that, why to even have a checklist. I mean the computer must be able to complete the checklist, unless specified, no? Or is the checklist important because the pilots must know what they’re dealing with?
The movie "Don't Look Up" but the asteroid scientists funded by NASA create an artificial black hole to pull asteroids towards Earth with sophisticated "gain of destruction" methodology - how better to study the potential civilization-ending power of asteroids?

When an asteroid appears from out of nowhere right near the Wuhan Black Hole and on course to kill us all, head scientist DiCaprio dedicates himself to leading the effort to label anyone questioning the natural origins of the asteroid's planet-killing trajectory a conspiracy theorist, and almost everyone goes along and gets those people banned from the internet. The end.
It's not human trafficking. The app scrapes publically available pictures from Twitter.
You have always been able to see that, even before ACA I remember seeing itemized healthcare provider bills with inflated figures.

It just so happened that the meteoric rise in healthcare costs came to a head when the social media and the internet was also blowing up.

Even without the internet, it was still well known enough to be a sufficiently important political flashpoint to actually result in Affordable Care Act passing. But I remember Clinton debating about healthcare costs in the 90s on national TV, it just had not effected sufficient number of voters yet to become a big enough issue.

I also assume it has something to do with baby boomers reaching the age where they start experiencing healthcare costs and so you have a huge portion of the US population gaining experience for the first time of how much money they will have to spend on healthcare.
It will. We've been building the mobile app using a cross platform framework (Capacitor) with the view of making it Android compatible. Capacitor does the job, but we've had to do some native code to fill holes.

If you're a dev, you can also use the API: https://usdz.app/api

You could probably whip up a quick script that runs on Android. My first go of doing mobile (for enlisting my co-founder) was to use Apple Shortcuts w/ the API.
No you’re not exaggerating. I have both a high efficiency electric heat pump and a high efficiency natural gas furnace. Not only is the gas furnace significantly cheaper to operate, which surprised me given my heat pump is newer and among the most efficient available, but my gas furnace is also far more effective when the temperature is low (approaching freezing and below). The heat pump takes a lot longer to adjust temperatures and it feels like it struggles to keep up. The one complaint I have about my gas furnace is that it needs electricity to operate (ignition and blower fan) but that could theoretically be handled with a backup generator. There are alternatives that are fully independent of electricity though.

I’m also definitely wary of dependence on the grid and the sweeping rush to legislate every daily activity (cooking, driving, heating, etc) into that dependence. Over a decade back we had a bad storm that knocked out power for over 10 days. Luckily our natural gas and water service worked just fine, which kept us from freezing or starving. Ban based governance leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Ground source heat pump systems can handle colder climates well. Underground, the temperature is rather stable through the year. This is especially true when the loops are installed vertically.
It's also interesting that the precedence concept was in the original IP header RFC 791. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc791#page-12 Probably a good thing it was dropped along the way or I can only imagine what Comcast would have done with that.

Here are allegedly the guidance on what the precedence levels should be used for.
http://www.plexoft.com/SBF/Autovon.html
Woops yes a typo on a Kia Cerato. At least that is what it is called here in Australia.

https://www.kia.com/au/cars/cerato/features.html
My guess is a Kia Sorento

Edit: Ah OP replied. It’s the Kia Forte in the US.
For that matter even terms like DevOps seem very fuzzy and differently interpreted by everyone. It seems to some these are teams that fight fires. To others they are teams that perform any and all engineering relating to residence. To others it’s some mix. I’m not familiar with the space and approaches but I wonder if all these labels and constraints are useful or if it is better to just stick to a generic “software engineer” role.
Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review: pushes the lab-leak theory too hard
Title shortened to fit from "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review: pushes the lab-leak theory behind Covid too hard".
> we do need more energy

Sounds like ideology to me. I, for one, need many thing from basic food to nice music, but energy on its own in not in that list.

I wonder what people picture when they say "energy" but probably not that thing that is equivalent to movement and that is always a constant by definition (at least here and now), and that increase entropy when we manipulate it (entropy being that thing every life forms is designed to fight).

Anyway, carbon in the atmosphere may be a bigger problem than a fusion reactor in your garden, yet I'm a bit concerned by how much faster "we" could destroy our environment by producing more useless stuff if it became cheaper to do so.
In science everything is up for discussion. Anything else and it's not science anymore, but ideology.
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You are so close to imply US pilots are superior in flying? I have many incidents where US pilots failed and pilots from other countries heroically landing a damaged plane on US soil. But if yo didn’t mean that. You must understand Emirates doesn’t train pilots from their childhood. Who know/ the pilots might’ve been perfectly capable and even extraordinary. He might be under fatigue, may be he went into shock. Until FAA comes back we must avoid this talk. Recently people started making fun of pilots on Boeing 737 max, until they found out the plane had issues.
That’s not remotely true. Where did you get this story from? I grew up in Beijing and my parents were sent to the countryside near the end of cultural revolution. They and most of their classmates from our neighborhood came back. My parents are not well connected or elite at all - lowest possible workers in a food factory
> That’s not especially high, although it looks to be about double last year.

It's almost as if most people have budgets that can't so easily handle a doubling of their bills.
> Pretty much all businesses earn a percentage of revenue as profit

Pretty much no businesses have that percentage fixed by legislation.

If you make hammers and your customers are willing to pay $10 for a hammer and your costs are $9, your profit margin is 10%. If you can lower your costs to $8, you can still get $10, so now your profit margin is 20%. You have an incentive to reduce costs. And maybe even to reduce prices, because the higher number of hammers you sell at $9 might make up for the lower margin.

The main exception are utility companies and government contractors and it leads to the same perverse incentives there as in heath insurance.

> As long as there are competing businesses, and/or sufficiently low barriers to entry, then this mechanism to earn ever increasing profits is mitigated by the fact that a competitor will come in and take your business.

The way this works is that the lower cost insurer denies coverage for medically unnecessary procedures and the higher cost one doesn't. Then medical providers find someone who got denied and bring the story to the press that Discount Medical Insurance Co is intentionally murdering people by denying their health insurance claims! They must be stopped!

Then the bad PR loses them more customers than the lower price gained them, and the higher price makes them more money anyway. This continues until nobody is offering the lower price anymore.
Hiding problems from sight doesnt solve them. It justs hides them. Its like a temporary patch, but the ground will be radiated for long time. What then? Another spot? Then again in another spot? So my and your grandchildren will basically have live to on radioactive waste/a ticking bomb? Thats not solution.
Sulli Deals 2.0: Muslim women being auctioned on GitHub App as 'Bulli Bai'
Previous discussion yesterday: "Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22" (642 points / 337 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29756714
And we’re talking about it Hackernews not on Avsim or aviation herald. People here would better understand in a language they know.
The plane can't know by itself what altitude it is and at least provide warning to override what it thinks it is?
You're definitely right that DRC wants to move up the value chain. Most raw materials are shipped out of the country for processing or smuggled to neighboring states (gold). However, the impact on wildlife is most certainly negative. The economic development impact is pretty unclear; DRC has shown time and again that mineral wealth is equitably distributed. Despite the jobs some new processing plants might afford, the profits from these operations will likely just line the pockets of those in charge.
Caesar's Mushroom (Amanita cesarea [1]) can also be eaten raw, if you're making a list.

Note that it's not present in US/Canada which do have the common (and commonly considered poisonous) fly agaric (Amanita muscaria [2]), which can appear a lookalike to the untrained eye.

As advised in other replies, your local mycological society is likely to organize course on identification, foraging field trips, run id clinics, etc. so a good initial step for folks wanting to know more would be to look for local expertise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_caesarea
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
> Every time a user does a repetitive task that should have been a loop they created themself, that waste of life is a small death, and the blood is on our industry.

The majority of people have no interest in programming, no matter how humane a language were handed to them.
If you want a slightly more up to date example, these were in common use at least as recently as 2010:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Red_Switch_Network

As to what the FO button does, it cuts off whatever call the number you were dialing is on and connects your call instead. So you had better be sure your call is is important enough to potentially cut off a General Officer.

At least that's how it was explained to me back in 2003. Never had occasion to use the priority modes.
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Thx! So back to MinGW it is!

I'm surprised this is so hard to find, why is there no official redistributable compiler for Windows?! What is Microsoft so afraid of?

This is the only disadvantage Windows has compared to Linux!

I guess you can make this alot smaller if you remove the cross compiling parts?
> converting a house here in NL to as close to self sufficient as I can make it without rebuilding it from the ground up

Do you have any helpful resources geared towards beginners on self sufficiency for either ground up construction or renovation? I have seen videos on YouTube but feel like watching the final result is not the same as a comprehensive guide on how to go about it.
A lot of people write a series of tweets that reads like a short, high density essay.

They are fun and informative. Discussion ensues easily.

Often these are rough drafts on outline form for a blog post, or summaries of an existing one.
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Question your sources first, before you think about ruining lives.

E.g. here in Germany there's been a hospital management problem on the gov's side since late 00's early 10's. Relatively, in the past two years there has been no difference to the hospital problems compared to 2010 - 2012.
Understood - I shared more as a PSA given that there seems to be a lot of mushroom enthusiasts here on HN. It’s something that frustrates me about articles and even books on mushrooms.
that's just very bad design keeping water at same level with street, I was under impression channels in Netherlands are always below ground level for many obvious reasons
This is nonsense. Rocks don't throw themselves. If a moon rock smashes Washington DC then our missile submarines will still nuke Beijing or Moscow in retaliation. Nothing can end the nuclear status quo until someone builds a defensive system that can't be saturated by a massive retaliatory strike. MAD still applies.
Lets use this https://www.google.com/amp/s/futurism.com/space-catapult-sta... :) i love the idea of launching things with it :D
In fact, we are basically doing facial detection based on cropped photos of gorillas around the nose. Thanks for the links! I'll be sure to check it out.
I just fly small planes, so I don't know much about commercial airline sims except from what I've read -- but I think if you have just a limited time in the simulator then for sure you'd want to be hitting up flight failures more frequently to test yourself. These things are complex, so I'd imagine there would be discussions after of how it could have gone better etc, rather than just a pass /fail.
Every community does the same thing , it doesn't make it okay if small oppressed group (Farsi) does it nor does it make okay a large dominating group does it (Brahmins) or anyone else

while I only expanded to the example you cited but specifically mentioned it is a problem with every single community in India.

I couldn't possibly have made it clearer it has not do with only a single community small/big deserving or otherwise, but affects all. I can only assume you choose to ignore and read what only you wanted to.

The point was inherently companies[1] in India at all levels discriminate on whom to hire and promote. Even companies like Oracle in the U.S. have been sued /accused of this kind of discrimination made by senior indian staff.

It is not minority shareholders we are talking about, it is employees who don't get hired or worse never given the opportunity to raise up ladder despite having the merit to do so. It is just not employees either it includes suppliers, vendors, customers, policy makers, politicians , civil servants are all potentially treated and treat the same way.

[1] keeping racial identies and only intermarry and keep that cultural identify is every community prerogative to do so no one is complaining, calling them racists is mine and it does make each community and the country as a whole racist. That is not important for this discussion however.

What they do at work is what the article is about and this discussion is about and what matters to everyone's life.
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Carl Sagan expressed essentially the same idea in 1994 -- that the development of asteroid-deflecting *nuclear weapons* would be more likely to destroy the world than to save it. That the baseline risk of major asteroid impacts is low enough, that the threat of asteroid-deflecting technology being turned into a weapon -- a loose analogy to "gain-of-function" research, I guess -- is more probable than the natural threat it defends against.

>"In our view, development of this asteroid-deflection technology would be premature. Given twentieth-century history and present global politics, it is hard to imagine guarantees against eventual misuse of an asteroid deflection system commensurate with the dangers such a system poses. Those who argue that it would be prudent to prevent catastrophic impacts with annual probabilities of 10^-5 would surely recognize the prudence of preventing more probable catastrophes of comparable magnitude from misuse of potentially apocalyptic technology."

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/368501a0 ("Dangers of Asteroid Deflection", Carl Sagan & Steven Ostro)
A lot of the educated beijingers of that generation were assigned to factories in the hinterland (my friend’s family, for example, was assigned to a smaller city in shaanxi even though they were in Beijing before the CR). It gets weird, however, when we mix authoritarian factory assignments and youth being sent down during the cultural revolution (those are very different things), given that the former could have happened anytime from 1950 to the early 90s.

The real reason native beijingers are hard to find these days in Beijing is because Beijing has grown rapidly in the last 20 years. They are “less” only because 外地人 are more. During my first trip to Beijing in 1999, the taxi driver would always be a native city Beijinger who couldn’t understand your Chinese unless you used lots of 儿话. That is no longer the case (the taxi drivers are still from Beijing, but from the outer counties rather than the central city).
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I don’t want to just delete my accounts but also clear their content (or make randomized noisy edits to post) before commencing deletion, just because I feel like these companies can’t be trusted to actually delete anything. But they also don’t make bulk edits or deletion easy. Has anyone seen tools for this?
2021: A Year in Art on the Verge
> Both domain names, ARIN/RIPE/etc IP assignments, and BGP peering relationships are historically subject to revocation via a loud chorus of complainers when the speakers are politically unpersoned.

Do you have any examples of this? The only deplatforming I'm familiar with is the removal of accounts from websites, though yes that may include a cloud provider's website. I'm not familiar with any IP address related or BGP based filtering by any actor that isn't nation-state funded (for which a system like Tor is necessary.) There's also the GNU Name System as a DHT based domain name system.
I dont mean dams, i mean getting energy from oceans
The OP's argument about radiation degrading materials should apply whether or not it is a fission reactor, shouldn't it? And the page I linked does show some fission reactors which have been used in space as well.
It’s a great one. I have to say I also love sanj’s “Totally busted. Just the once, though, huh?” response.
What led us to climate change is going for short-term benefit and leaving the problems to the future. We shouldn't repeat that mistake even though we'll be long gone by the time the problems come to light.

And really we're already too late to prevent most of climate change. Especially because we won't replace fossil with nuclear in 10 years time.
The fact that medical students have it hard doesn't justify it being bad for the pilots.

Also it's probably easier to get student loans for medicine than it is for piloting.

Maybe the regional carriers should pay more and have better conditions but funny how they describe it as a "pilot shortage". It's just supply and demand.
It definitely will after the final report is available.
I did nasal surgery (deviated septum) and I asked around for quotes on how much it'd cost.

I was verbally quoted about $2500 out of pocket expenses. I have a really good hdhp plan that covers $1500 hdhp before a 10k max coverage at 90% coinsurance.

I ended up costing close to $7000 out of pocket anyhow...

The medical insurance system is really stupid in America. It's basically fraud.

Coinsurance coverage doesn't work as intended because the hospital can charge any amount they want, meaning your forced to pay close to your max coverage even if you have a high % coverage.

Your forced to sign a "please bill me on anything you want" to get medical services rendered.

I got billed $400 per post visit just for a camera to be shoved up my nose.

The anesthesia was out of network and didn't get covered by insurance
Knowing the lab origin of the virus wouldn't have saved us from the virus though.
> Tesla and Musk have said they want their technology to be embraced by other players in the industry. They have promoted open-source software and criticized the overuse of patents, and Musk has even said Tesla’s Superchargers are “being made accessible to other electric cars,” though it’s unclear whether any agreements are actually in place.

There don't need to be any special agreements in Europe because Tesla uses the CCS type 2 Combo plug. Teslas can charge on all charging networks with no adapters and, correspondingly, Tesla can easily open their chargers to all makes of EV.

So far, only 10 Tesla charging locations in the Netherlands have been opened to all EVs:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/1/22757159/tesla-supercharg...

The EV market in the US is much smaller than the EV markets in Europe and China:

https://www.ev-volumes.com/country/total-world-plug-in-vehic...

The two main reasons why are the stricter fleet emissions standards and the superior infrastructure standardization in Europe and China.

Hopefully North America will be able to standardize EV plugs soon. All other EV manufacturers have switched to CCS type 1 Combo for passenger cars in North America. What remains is for Tesla to do the same.
As wumpus said, we will never know about many soviet accidents. Im not sure ifnin today's russia or china such incidents... I think ifnthey could they try to hide it.
>The anesthesia was out of network and didn't get covered by insurance

This actually is specifically illegal, it's a pain in the ass to fight it against both the hospital and your insurance but if you insist hard enough they will cover it and you'll only pay what you would normally through your insurance. As long as the hospital itself is in network they aren't allowed to play "gotcha" with specific doctors/providers just not being in network all the sudden.
Modern phones could do with an "FO" button for an entirely different purpose. Don't like the current call... hit the FO button... let them know. In particular a disturbing practice I noticed in Australia. The bank calls, I pick up and a recording: "this is XYZ bank, please hold an operator will be with you shortly". A golden opportunity for an FO button. It could work like an email spam button Enough FO's and the number gets auto blocked.
I don’t think you get an overspeed warning on ground. Also by the time pilot realised he was already over-speeding, there is no way he is going to bring back the throttle, once he is up and climbing, until he crosses the transition.