skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. NRC is a US government. I said _most countries_ which in fact includes countries other than America. The EU standard is 20mSv. You'll also notice that this NRC listing specifies which workers. For DOE 50 mSv is regulatory limit and 20mSv is administrative control level. Of course, all this also changes based on occupation. I mean astronauts are allowed higher levels and pilots lower. But most countries and (radiation) workers have a 20mSv limit.
Yes, I had a look at these formats before embarking on my venture. I listed the things I found important in the comparison matrix: https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding#-compared-to-o...

To your points:

- Protobufs is not an ad-hoc format, which is a big reason why low-friction formats like JSON are popular. There are many use cases where formats like protobufs are clearly the superior choice, but CE doesn't target those. This is a fundamental trade-off so you can't have both.

- readable-thrift is a diagnostic tool. You wouldn't want to be inputting data like that. I want the text format to be fully usable by non-technical people, like JSON is.

- the capn proto tool page doesn't seem to document how the text format works (or at least I couldn't find any examples). It looks more like a diagnostic tool, not a first-class citizen.

I felt that there were enough pain points, missing types, and missing security features (for example versioning) to warrant a fresh start.
Poor people are eligible for Medicaid, which means they pay nothing.

It's the middle class that takes it in the neck.
It’s great that they still don’t get how pointless it is to memorize things like protocol numbers for esoteric stuff that is trivial to google and find in a few seconds if the need should ever arise, which it rarely would. IIRC they asked me for the one for GRE.

I also had one (I forget the exact question) where my answer was technically correct but “wasn’t what [they] had”, and my explanation about why it was the same thing went way over the recruiter’s head.

Whoever thought this would be a fun little trivia game to have people play for their careers…yeah, no.

I still got through to the technical interviews wherein the first technical screener told me he doubts he’d be able to get his current position again now if he had to go through the interview for it, and he told me seriously not to feel bad if I don’t pass. I did pass that one.

Second technical screen was with a person with a thick accent and bad VoIP who was getting obviously frustrated due to both of us having to repeat stuff a lot.

This was all after a 6+ month dance of scheduling and waiting and hearing nothing from their recruiters. Got a rejection weeks later and never tried re-applying. They still reach out like every 6 months.
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re: FN1

Fortune uses a fake "paywall". View source to see the text. Reader mode on Firefox should work. Alternatively, use AMP for text-only page. No distracting photo of Holmes pretending to to finger-pricked, just the text.

For example,

curl https://web.archive.org/web/20211231035501/https://fortune.com/2014/06/12/theranos-blood-holmes/amp/|sed -n '/<meta charset/p;/<p>/p' > 1.htm
chrome ./1.htm

Theranos refused to publish validation studies in peer-reviewed journals. Theranos refused to sell its analysers to existing labs.

Someone else can confirm the details, but if I am not mistaken Holmes is a named inventor on almost 20 of Theranos' US patent grants, always with co-inventor(s) who had unlike Holmes finished school and worked under others to gain work/life experience. Usually, Ian Gibbons was a named co-inventor. One can interpret the facts we are given in different ways, but certainly one interpretation is that Holmes' affinity for fraud drove this man to suicide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibbons_(biochemist)

"Fake it till you make it^W^W get caught"
The problem with that stuff is that it's not about IF another earthquake will happen in that area. It's a matter of WHEN that will happen... and it will :(
These bans are easy to legislate, but building codes (including for apartment blocks) should be updated to require Passivhaus and things like triple-glazed windows and ubiquitous EV charging.
> The reality distortion field is something to be studied and pondered.

It makes me wonder if there’s an alternate history where Steve Jobs stretched the truth, had no products pan out successfully, and ended up being tried and pilloried as a fraud.

But I don’t think that’s fair to Jobs? Ultimately he had enough reality behind his distortion field to stand the test of time.
Yes, once you have felt and identified a chanterelle with success a few times, it's very easy for an experienced forager to tell the difference between gills and folds (especially in the larger species such as C. californicus). The folds are often veiny and cannot be moved or 'plucked' like gills. In general though, identification should be done using as many factors as possible (e.g. using a identification key which is like a decision tree). For example, besides gills and smell, another way to differentiate the (non- or only mildly-toxic) false chanterelle is the firmness.
By Wikipedia's 2019 numbers (14 Gt China/6.6 Gt US) you'd need 2.12 mini-Chinas.
Everything in depression ultimately is a self sustaining loop. That's why outside intervention is often needed.

I wouldn't leave my bed to get food when I was depressed. No showering. No work. Stayed in bed all day. Got dinner then repeat.

Anyone can tell you why that's a bad idea and how it feeds the depression but that's the nature of the beast.
Modify mlyle's argument to deaths due to power outages or the danger of state sponsored attacks on power grids. Either way these comparisons are very weird. No one questions how a knife can be used for cooking and is found in most homes yet knives are very dangerous weapons. But also people aren't killing one another with kitchen knives. They're both knives but have different purposes and different designs.
> I'm still trying to sort out solar hot water vs panel. We have a fairly high hot water consumption rate.

Every situation is different, but generally speaking it makes more sense these days to install ever cheaper PV rather than solar water heating and pair that with a heat pump water heater, at least in typical grid connected scenarios.

Perhaps the considerations are different for full off grid setups though.
You're right, of course: the comment I described as containing a personal attack was by bakul (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29684540), not by you. Sorry for mixing that up! I've added edits to the GP to clarify.

The core moderation point there is unchanged.
They do not stand still on ground on place with major continental fault lines.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/11/us/radioactive-soviet-sub...

did you say something about running safely boats... ahh, so for you dangerous amounts of radiation leaking into sea is not a major incident? or accident?
All of those are absolutely potential roadblocks and yet, somehow, web applications displaced desktop applications as the preferred user experience.

Purity does not always win out over utility.

I don’t particularly miss having to decipher which version of MSCVRT.DLL I need for which Windows app.
First POS was in 2012. Ethereum mentioned it in 2015.

So it's been 7 years since announcement.
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I omitted that bit because I thought it was the least interesting part of Mark D's comment. The subthread which it has inspired here has reinforced my impression. :(

There was actually lots of additional interesting technical detail from Mark D which I also left out; the part that was germane to the comment I replied to was the bit about the checklists, since that backed up the notion that the Emirates notice was messed up and weird.

The conclusion though, "Don’t fly on these types of carriers", can easily be interpreted as a sociocultural swipe, even if I'm inclined to believe Mark D meant something else and just botched the wording.
Actually, that’s just the truncated version.

Full text here: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfile...
> They aren't tech related and don't offer any new information. It is the same arguments over and over.

But that's true of articles on the same topic but with the opposite opinions, but they don't get flagged as often.
I was very outspoken about Theranos, and particularly Holmes, early on.

(2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765996

(2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10800002

(2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10799261

(2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983747

(2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053721

The problem, for me, was not terribly hard to see, having accidentally put some time into a similarly run startup (not in healthcare thankfully) and run away screaming.

I can see people falling into the story and charisma of Holmes. But at some point, people start wrapping their identities too much into these stories and when things are really going off the rails lose their minds trying to make believe that things are a-ok.

I have no idea if Holmes will see significant prison time. I believe she should because she did wrong, but compassionately also believe she needs significant mental health resources. Looking back at the context around some of the old discussions here I was reminded of just how bizarre her behavior was, and how harmful that behavior became at the helm of a healthcare company.
She slept with a male investor. I don't think I dared voice my suspicions beforehand but was distinctly unsurprised when that detail came out.

Men being able to hype their bullshit (edit: I mean outright fraudulent business plans) because they garnered backers via the casting couch isn't typical as far as I know. So I think her gender is pertinent and as a woman I have spent a lot of time trying to sort out how one gets taken seriously for your work.

And people finding it rude or something for me to want to discuss that are people essentially telling me "We can't let you figure out how to succeed because your interest in figuring that out is excessively gauche. So just stay poor and continue to go hungry. It sucks to be you and you aren't allowed to aspire to having it not suck."
I think they're referring to materialism, the philosophy that the only thing that exists is matter and it's movements/changes. In other words, it's the belief that there is no soul or supernatural entities.
Why does he have a green username? I was always under the impression that green usernames were for newly created accounts.
Except they aren't jamming up hospitals all at once due to their choices. That's the critical difference.
Thanks for the book, alina. As a former molecular biologist (who worked on non-pathogenic enzyme gain-of-function projects) when the details of the virus came out I looked at it and immediately thought, "huh, that's exactly what I would have done", caveat I wasn't a virologist, of course, but I felt like I was being gaslit for being told that there was "no way" it could have been a lab leak. I know that I am not the only molecular biologist who felt this way. In no small part due to your work I think it's being taken more seriously, and maybe this is selfish in the context of the crazy situation going on worldwide but I feel 'less crazy'.
Culture doesn't need any kind of "official" export. If it is good, it gets discovered, now more than ever in social media. I didn't grow up watching Atom Boy, Voltron, and Robotech because the Japanese government invested in exporting it. Those were pulled into the US by some distributor in the Midwest who discovered them by accident, and decided to have them translated and show on US television.

A lot of KPop and Anime was exported to the US by fans, who free of charge as a labor of love, did translation and distribution. In the 70s, 80s, even 90s, a lot of this happened by an underground distribution network, people would make copies and trade.

Indeed, I grew up in the 70s and 80s watching lots of Hong Kong Kung-fu films, eg Shaw Bros, Golden Harvest, etc. There didn't need to be a "strategic reason" for HK canto films to have atrociously bad translation and dubbing slapped on them and marked to Americans. It was done because someone noticed that Americans loved watching these things.

You're making excuses for the fact that domestic mainland Chinese art is suffering a crisis of creativity caused by the crushing censorship of the state. People only make "safe" art in China. If you make any art that criticizes the establishment, or tells history in a way other than they want it to be seen, you may find yourself punished.

Ask Ai Weiwei. This is not a conducive environment for artistic expression.
What app is that?

I tried to get into cydia and such as of late, and it's a confusing ecosystem, you need to find specific marketplace links from github to browse and then alot of stuff is very legacy and not organized.

Would love to jb but it is complicated.
Institutional Issues: Who Is Entrusted to Learn?
Sounds like a desperate attempt at saving face.
Yep! And a lot of his concerns and contempt for the written word were addressed by the post-structuralists later, so citing Socrates as evidence here is pretty dang old-fashioned indeed. A lot of the other comments here would find his viewpoint sympathetic though; if your concern is that new tools increase the rate of syntax errors and spelling mistakes in programmers, the case is obvious.

But can I controversially suggest that once we learned to write, we may've traded away some of our memory, but in order to gain an enhanced capacity for reflection and development of thought? Writing freed us from the burden of remembering as much so we could apply that energy to creativity instead. Likewise in programming, I'm happy to trade not being able to memorise and internalise a language's grammar if my IDE helps me accomplish the task more easily. I can focus on devising a solution rather than focus on nesting a parenthesis correctly. I appreciate there's a certain pride in doing these things without fault, but for the 95% of us who program to solve problems, the busywork can go.
bonds pay a yield. gold does not. so you get income from bonds in addition to a hedge instrument.

Gold's returns are not competitive at all compare to S&P 500.
The premise behind self driving cars that can handle most situations themselves relies on the assumption that a human operator is paying attention and can take over in situations the computer can't handle. I'm not a pilot, but it's likely that assumption can hold while flying at cruising altitude, but not so much when driving in various inconsistent road and traffic conditions.
Sure, but the reference to chickens and goats in the parent comment indicates a severe lack of knowledge about Emirates, the UAE, and (I would venture a guess) perhaps most of the world outside the USA...
> Zero people died from the [Fukushima] plant.

Chernobyl had something like 60 direct deaths and a few hundred to thousand long term deaths.

That is equivalent to about one day of coal.
I think that is not really related. Following a “guidance system” that’s using gps (and altitude in the planes case) is very different from having a neural net interpret the surroundings visually and make decisions based on that.

I don’t know where/why you are attributing sinister motives here… it seems a very understandable motive to make transport better.
State Capacity Drives Industrialization
I don't think that's fair. Poison is regarded as a dose, not a substance, and Taubes' argument precisely hinges on the quantity of sugar over time.
Thanks, this was my thinking. I took a look at microG and couldn't see any reference to it on the status page: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status

The options to make a true opensource assistant that would work in the same capacity as Alexa/Siri/Google (invoked via wakeword) is therefore quite limited. An alternative is to have it listening constantly, maybe as a background service, but this would use up too much battery I suspect.
Peter said >5 years ago that the dollar would collapse by now. 2021 was a very good year for the dollar.
It was newly-created at the time the comment was posted.
> Downward trust

> When I confront Americans with the distinction between valuable but uncommon long-term, routine international links for ordinary engineers and planners and worthless but all too common executive junket trips, the excuses for the pattern all fall into the same family: executives just do not trust their workers. Senior management in this industry in the United States views the people they oversee as little devils to be constantly disciplined, and never supported.

> Based on this pattern, the peons do not get professional development – only the executives do. If tabloid media criticizes European conferences as vacation trips then it is used as an excuse to prohibit civil servants from going, but somehow the executives still go on junket trips, figuring that someone at Eric Adams’ level can just ride out the media criticism.
Easiest auth I've found is Netlify identity: https://docs.netlify.com/visitor-access/identity/

It's usually a one liner to add to apps.

Reach for Auth0 when you need authentication a bit more down to the metal.
I'm very concerned about these and similar (e.g., recent New York) sort of dictates that place large populations at the sole mercy of the electrical grid with no robust backup. If the electricity goes out - recalling recent events in Texas here - do you leave everyone to freeze to death? In the near future, majority electric cars means you won't have any transportation either? Not so many years ago, as a teenager, I recall a hurricane knocking out the electricity for several days. At least back then we still had working gas-powered vehicles and landline telephones. Particularly with some of the bitter winters in Canada I worry for the safety and security of your average citizens that aren't prepping with emergency generators, fuel reserves, and whatnot, and I hope there's a stronger motivation behind this than some politician's virtue signalling environmentalist scorecard.

Am I exaggerating the risks?
Only beyond a certain distance — there are a few routes in China and Europe where the train will get you from A to B faster than an aircraft due to the aircraft's speed advantage mostly being in cruise flight. If you take into account the time spent in the airport at either side, there are actually a lot of such routes.
I've got a story that might explain what happened. So when my kid was born in 2011, at Morristown Hospital in New Jersey, he was several weeks premature and spent 18 days in the NICU. At some point during his time there, they came to us and told that they did not participate in any insurance network; they would still bill our insurance but the full amount would have to be paid, either by us or the insurance, since they were not subject to a negotiated rate. I was confused, why would this be the case since the hospital was in-network? It turns out the entire NICU department - inside the hospital - was run by a separate, independent physician group with its own billing department and its own (non-existent) insurance relationships. Of course nobody mentioned this during the hospital tour. I mean why would the NICU docs give up their revenue by signing up for insurance rates when the families using their services have zero choice about where to go? I've heard anesthesiologists in the labor and delivery department are like this too. Your wife's screaming in pain during labor, are you really going to jump on your phone and check to see if the anesthesiologist in front of you is in-network? And what do you do if s/he's not?

So that's one reason why you might get a bunch of different bills from a bunch of different entities when you go to the hospital: all the doctors there may have the same hospital logo on their badges but some may be independent contractors.

Edit: for the curious, the final bill for 18 days in the NICU was ~$94,000. The insurance paid all but ~$10,000. We spent several months appealing that, arguing that "we had no choice", and they kept denying the appeals. Finally we gave up and called the rogue physician's group to arrange for a payment plan... and they told us the insurance had paid the balance.
By "way over the top" I meant that your analogy was excessive and distracting. This should not be hard to understand. As everyone knows, there's a vast history of people arguing ad Hitlerum in internet flamewars. It was already a cliché decades ago—in fact it is the most notorious internet cliché of all time. When invoked in the context of contemporary political debates, it's pure flamebait. That's against the site guidelines because it leads to flamewars, which we don't want here.

Not only that but your comment contained other flamebait besides the Holocaust invocation. "Don't worry, there's plenty of time yet" and "So excuse me for not being impressed by your" were obvious provocations. That's not "a perfectly civil manner".

"Factual" is a red herring - there are infinitely many facts. They don't select themselves; humans do that. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Reddit is very far from reality. You can’t trust the people that run that site or the moderators.

The company has had petty CEOs that did shady things with users posts and data.
Kindle book: Excel calculating the probability distribution simulated data
It seems like you are looking at your thoughts as a part of yourself. They might just be a phenomena triggered by your current circumstances in the same way a sneeze can be triggered by dust.
If the US military couldn't recover it with the legal right to be there and no concern about having to be clandestine, I doubt a terrorist group will successfully recover it.

Probably the Air Force decided it would be cheaper to keep the site under constant surveillance for a few centuries than to go through the nightmare of trying to excavate a swamp well enough to extract the thermonuclear stage.
I mean, it’s absolutely unfair to judge someone because of who their parents are. At the same time, it’s a bit amazing that people unquestioningly trusted the daughter of someone connected to a major fraud, and then she committed a major fraud.
I believe that "natural gas" only refers to fossil gas, and other sources of Methane already have (different) marketing terms.
And what is your logic behind that?

Is your next statement something like "Restaurants shouldn't be required to follow food prep laws or other laws like refrigeration temperature requirements"?
I had a similar issue with my dad at a rehab facility. In his case, the mysterious bill was for a psychiatric session from a doctor we had never heard of.

We kept digging and had to threaten the facility with a referral to the Medicare inspector general to get information. Turned out that the guy prescribed some random drugs and billed for a “3 hour evaluation”, which supposedly took place on a day where my dad was accompanied by family members or in physical therapy for the entire day. (Context: he had a stroke and was unable to speak)

The doc just showed up and wrote random scripts. We didn’t get the feds to care, but the state medical licensing people did censure the doctor.

Good luck. These facilities aren’t very forthright and will retaliate against your helpless relative.
As of ~5 years ago, you could be cripplingly poor and still not qualify for Medicaid. I've lived it.
Just replace "gas" and "nuclear" with "German" and "French".
Before starting a business (which means you want to work for yourself and make money), you have to build on your expertise and strengths. If you are a software professional, may be you can start a SAAS or some service business. If you are a chef, then starting a restaurant is a natural line of work. You should also know a little bit of accounting and rules and regulations in your business. Please do not hesitate to DM me.