skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the positive externalities, there is still some environment cost when using synthetic CH4. You're still taking water from the ground and moving it into the upper atmosphere (CO2 + ground H2O -> CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + atmospheric H2O) - which contributes to the greenhouse effect.

It's not worth worrying about, given all the other more impactful ways we can move the needle on global warming, but it's not actually zero.
Maybe your assurance is ironic. I assure you that my assurance is not ironic.
I’m always leery of solutions to complex problems that take the tone of “all you’ve got to do is…”
If you are acting in good faith, it should be easy for you to produce an example of primary evidence I requested from your Wikipedia page.
Oh. You mean anarchism?

Yep. That's why we need to learn about anarchism: to practice designing and playing different societal games from the norm.
Very interesting. Qoins app seems non-trivial, in that it interacts with the user's bank and arranges payments on the user's behalf.

Great point about making a V1 quickly.
The Struggles of a $40M Nutrition Science Crusade
Veterinarians have a gadget that they use to heal horse bone fractures 2x+ as fast.

"The Body Electric" by Robert Becker is a useful primer.
Basically everything about this study is questionable, from their selection method selecting for people who publicly broadcast their diagnosis:

> In our “Depressed” cohort we only include individuals with a (clinical) diagnosis of depression, which they report on Twitter explicitly

To the way they tried to extract significance from the control group posting more between 3AM and 6AM than the depressed group:

> Compared to the control group, depressed subjects were significantly more active from 7 PM to midnight and less active from 3 to 6 AM.

If you have a significant number of people posting at 3AM in your cohort, you might have a very non-standard cohort to begin with.

Regardless, it's important to note that circadian disruptions are extremely common in depression. It's actually a bidirectional relationship: People with depression tend to either wake up too early (short sleep duration) or too late (oversleeping) as well as either struggling to stay awake or fall asleep. But depressive behaviors can also lead people to poor self-care habits, including not putting any effort into maintaining healthy routines. The latter can further entrench the problems caused by depression.

Interestingly, modifying circadian rhythms has been shown to modulate depression in many patients. Often, advance the sleep cycle (going to bed earlier, waking up earlier) can produce notable improvements. Unfortunately, it's easy to produce these changes under doctor supervision and reporting, but much harder to get patients to commit to maintaining the schedule on their own despite the improvements. A lot of people don't like going to bed early, especially if evenings are their time to avoid their stresses by watching Netflix or playing video games or scrolling social media.

Strangely, sleep deprivation is also a surprisingly good antidepressant. Depriving people of the second half of their nightly sleep or even keeping them up all night will often produce a strong anti-depressant effect, though not in everyone. It can even trigger manic episodes in bipolar patients. Sadly, the effect disappears as soon as the person sleeps again. There has been some study into using partial sleep deprivation and circadian rhythm advancement in conjunction with antidepressant medication to accelerate the onset of antidepressant action, but it's not a sure thing and it's ridiculously hard to get patients to actually go along with it, so it barely gets any attention.

Anyone interested in trying circadian rhythm advancement out can simply make an effort to go to bed 1-3 hours earlier and wake up a corresponding amount earlier. Use large amounts of bright light (more than natural room light) in the morning to amplify the effect. Of course, if you are suffering from depression and struggling to break the cycle, it's best to engage with professionals.
Hi there!

USDZ is the format that Apple is backing for VR/AR delivery (developed by Pixar)[1]. We're betting that it is what is going to be used in any Apple headset.

Right now you can't easily view USDZs in the browser (the format is a moving target), however Apple is making strides to make it available with the proposed Model element[2].

We were doing some USDZ --> GLTF converstion (GLTF being a format that will work in the browser), but it is jankey (technical term).

I have not tried an iPhone 6 yet. I will have to pry it from my children's hands and remove a layer of cheese and excretions before I do.

I've made a video on how to do this via the browser here[3].

TBH, the experience a heap better in the iOS App (currently in testflight) [4].

[1] https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/release/wp_usdz.html (seem to have cert issues)
[2] https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/tree/main/model
[3] https://usdz.app/screencasts/getting-started
[4] https://testflight.apple.com/join/VteIxFd7
Facebook and friends were screwed before they even got going.

I find it amusing that people use "getting news from Facebook" as a slur. It's stupid, but for entirely the opposite reason that they think it is.
Staffing humans on the moon requires efficiencies and innovation in rocket launches, landing, inhospitable settlement, and transport of goods and people between the Earth's surface and the moon.

It is a good stepping stone towards further exploration farther out.
same here, I guess simplicity rules for some.

I read medium once a while and wish there is a full text version of that eye-candy site.
You forgot to mention the "click on this one specific checkbox or your source code is now leaked to the entire internet forever" part. So actually, not that simple and potentially much much worse.
I think the whole fiasco about labor regulation is as misinformed as most other issues about other countries are presented in the US. China's labor protection isn't ideal. However, the US has its own share of failures when it comes to labor protection.

China arguable has better protection when it comes to mandatory severence pay and most workers don't work by the hours, or depend on the tips to survive. On the other hand, China don't have hyper-active unions, overtime limits are not strictly enforced. However, I remember reading a piece about a janitor in San Francisco who worked so many hours he's getting paid more than a regular programmer. So when it comes to that, regulations can't do much when someone's determined to get that overtime .

The core thing is, however, a lot more Chinese workers are willing to work that overtime and get that extra pay without complains, and the cost of living is simply way lower.

For an outsider, $15 per hour in the bay may seem high, but even if you work the full hours, you can save very little after housing and food. However, those workers in China are housed, fed, and they get to save all that they get.
"I think you're kind of overreacting"

There is no such thing as "overreacting" with foraged mushrooms. The bar for "competent" identification is far too high, and the downside of being not-quite-competent-enough includes spending 72 hours knowing that you and your friends are going to die with no hope of a cure.
Upon account creation or reset, can't the user select a password, that hashed as the private key for a keypair and just the public sent to the server? Then when logging in they just sign a challenge on the client. Only thing stored is a users public key on the server.
I still have my copy, the original DEC edition. Dave Ahl was one of my heroes back then.
My father worked on Safeguard. It's unfortunate to think that the last several decades of relative calm might have been temporary.
The Moon at least has 0.16g, which is a lot better than 0g.
Thanks I looked it up. Very interesting but scary story.
Even with interpreted languages - if your configuration is in code you still need to wait for a code review, wait for CI to pass, and wait for the deploy. It can easily take over an hour to do a simple configuration change.
Here is the letter[0], and the researcher in question with a huge conflict of interest is Peter Daszak[1].

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2414
Maybe those eligible for vaccinations at the time, and chose to get vaccinated, were more cautious overall about their health than anti-vaxxers who were also eligible but didn’t take up the vaccine?
This article's use of language is different from the situation it is describing to the point of absurdity.

> "new nightmarish challenges"

> "frantically scratching around for ideas"

> "ALARMING DEVELOPMENTS"

It seems the problem is they have a big tank and the article author wants it to be replaced? And that they measure density at the top of the tank and he wants measurements from the bottom? The article is unjustified fear-mongering and panic. It isn't even an especially big tank, they include a photo.
Low enough.

Earth is ultimately just another time-limited spaceship that will eventually loose the ability to support any kind of life due to the natural lifecycle of our sun. Over a long enough time span not expanding off-world is a death sentence for all life on this planet.

It's acceptable to do some small amount of damage to it as part of securing a future for our species (and all the other species we will carry with us) that is not dependant on a single, vulnerable and time-limited ball of rock.

A moon base is a step towards that.
Oh, I should also mention, HEICs are your friend (as they have depth, and accelerometer data embedded in the file format).
https://github.com/mrcampbell/open-monster-registry/blob/mai...

I'm working on an Open Monster Project, based on the game mechanics of Pokemon, Final Fantasy, and others - but fully opensource, fan created, and IP nightmare free!

I've worked on Pokemon Game implementations, algorithms, and have implemented it dozens of times, and feel like it's time we create a regulated system to allow others to build games from scratch with the least amount of friction possible.
Lua is JITed nowadays. Python has numerous design gotchas that force it to be slow. (But Numpy manages to work around many of them, and be fast.)
That is their plan, except not in the middle of the ocean, just off the coast.
We already have enough resources to support 10 - 11B with zero poverty we just need to improve economics and politics to do so.
Ever since I quit my job in finance - that was 4 years ago now.
The Open Monster Registry
Both Russia and the US still have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out much of humanity. All that changed is that we don't live under is the constant reminder of that existential threat.
A simple way to think of it: one incident like Fukushima destroys the economics of the entire nuclear industry over a very long time span. Nuclear can only be cost competitive if there are zero such incidents ever.

It’s like if one plane crash cost more to clean up than the revenue of the entire airline industry for years.
As tends to be true of much of philosophy, the core insight of Wittgenstein is not too big, I think. His argument, at least in his later work with language games, revolves around "why is it that we look for truth with such unclear language? Is it even possible to clarify our language?" And that's both Socratic and also more specific than Socrates. It's done in a very down-to-business and direct tone, which gives it that ironic sensibility, since it projects confidence in an investigation that we can easily see is going to start reducing itself to the tiniest scraps of truth by assuming so little a priori.

Within the context of his mathematical investigations this question makes a lot of sense, though: the younger Wittgenstein was studying logic under Bertrand Russell and therefore had a lot of exposure to the idea of a formalized logical totality as represented by Principa Mathematica - this was the world he lived in. And he did not seem to feel that the incompleteness theorems settled the limitations of logical formalism either.
If only that were true, Julian Assange and many others would be free.
"The solution to pollution is not dilution." Strontium-90 can take hundreds of years to decay to safe levels and is taken up as a replacement for calcium in organisms. If it is released, it will end up in algae, and work its way up the food chain.
I used another app before finding Hack (iOS). The developer is absolutely amazing, and has responded to me very quickly on the single bug I found (in several years of usage), as well as the feature request I made. Definitely a great app for consuming HN.
Well, I wouldn't doubt one of the best airlines on the planet. However, the article claims that they hire pilots with lower flying hours as they cannot find experienced pilots like American or United does. I fail to understand this. Can't they just hire experienced pilots from other airlines instead of hiring the inexperienced ones ?
I guess you'd have to wait for the market to mature a bit more or short companies that hold large quantities of btc
Thinking racism has been a "solved" problem for a "long time" is just incredibly naive. Have you considered historical injustice still effect the present day? Have you considered other people's experiences when they tell you racism still exists and has a major impact on their lives?
Amsterdam represent! :)
Truncating the DB between every test is indeed horrifically slow. However it's much faster to wrap the test in a transaction and roll it back at the end. Transaction based cleaning also allows parallel testing. That mostly leaves the argument of not writing tests that rely on the state of the database being clean. I have mixed feelings on this one.

Just last week I opened a PR to fix some tests that should not have been passing but were due to an issue along these lines. The tests were making assertions about id columns from different tables and despite the code being incorrect the tests were passing because the sequence generators were clean and thus in sync. The order in which the test records were created happened to line up in the right way that an id in one table matched the id in another table.

So, I get the pain. But I'm not yet convinced it's worth a change.

Another option that I think isn't a bad approach is the default testing setup that Rails uses. Every test runs in a transaction but the test database is also initially seeded with a bunch of realistic data (fixtures in Rails lingo). This makes it impossible to write a test that assumes a clean database while also starting every test with a known state.
I think it's "Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19" in the Lancet from Feb 19 2020:

The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins. We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.
...
We declare no competing interests.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

They later published an "Addendum: competing interests and the origins of SARS-CoV-2" in June 2021:

Peter Daszak has expanded on his disclosure statements for three pieces relating to COVID-19 that he co-authored or contributed to in The Lancet—the February, 2020, Correspondence, as well as a Commission Statement and a Comment for the Lancet COVID-19 Commission.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Depends on the language and function. Some sorting algorithms happily rank ‘9’ > ‘10’.
Experienced software engineer here, but no experience with robotics. Interested to learn and work on projects, specifically related to water vehicles.
One nice thing about solar is the economics of making the night shift more expensive and less common.
We allow you to download as USDZs (and sometimes do conversions to GLTFs).

You can import both of these into Blender and export as Obj (and I'm pretty sure STLs).

You may want to use our API to do the Images ---> USDZ conversion[1].

[1] https://usdz.app/api
Simulated skylights are probably possible, but you may have to go a bit deeper to create the space for an effective simulation.
Could you please ask them to stop doing silly things like distributing an installer that then goes and downloads the actual installer?
well, i'd say that's capitalism.
I do a lot in the PL space, and Zig has me pretty excited. I think Zig, paired with memory tagging for memory safety, could be a killer combination one day.
> Note that you have to use the EFI loader (only on x86_64)

Does that mean booting into my flash drive using EFI boot rather than MBR? In EFI boot, Haiku reboots itself after lighting up 0 tiles, and in MBR boot, Haiku hangs at 0 tiles lit. And one time when I hit power, my motherboard didn't power down, but remained on with a black screen, and I smelled magic smoke. My computer still works... for now.

> use the fail-safe video driver if you get a black screen after the splash

If I hold Shift and/or Space during boot, the same thing happens. Note that I have a Nvidia GT 730 GPU salvaged from an older machine. I suppose I'll file a ticket.

EDIT: I can boot nightly 55756 if I hold Shift while restarting Windows, or run `efibootmgr -n ....`, but run into the same self-reboot issue if I press F12 from my motherboard.

EDIT2: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/17515
3d printed buildings. I'm not even kidding. I've been soft-offered a job to write software for this that might get deployed to space. I am seriously thinking about taking the job and using it to get into the astronaut program. It would be pretty badass to be the first person to build a permanent structure off the planet
Would you also support a total ban on hunting wild animals in the West? Or are the animals only "exotic" when they're consumed by Chinese people?
Many people seem to expect "vaccinated" to mean "enjoy utter immunity to". Kinda like some World of EverDungeon video game, where having the Amulet of Foozaz makes you utterly immune to any & all poisons.

Anti-vaxer's love to play up that meme.

A better analogy would be the body armor that Marines wear in combat zones. No Marine is stupid enough to believe that wearing body armor will make him completely immune to bullets. And certainly no Marine is stupid enough to say "I won't wear it, because it doesn't make me completely immune to bullets".
If you are genuinely interested you can look through that page yourself to see if you can find evidence matching your stringent criteria :) I am not able to read your mind to guess what you’ll find convincing and am sure you can do your own research provided the starting point.

In any case, have a wonderful day!
If some asks me to "calculate" something I assume they mean from scratch (without using a built-in). That's probably what a fair number of these people did.

Also, my sense is that Python is something of an outlier in having a mean and median functions in it standard library. I could be wrong, but AFAIK Go and JS do not, for example -- so people using those languages would surely bomb (at least on the median calculation part -- again, assuming they interpreted your question as "calculate from scratch").

I don't mean to be pedantic or split hairs. The point I'm trying to make is that even simple-seeming problems can have gotchas to them, depending on the context.

Interviewers could do better by either thinking just a bit more about the problems they select, or just communicating better. But many do not, unfortunately -- I have the sense they just pull problems out of the air, and see what sticks. Meanwhile counting the high number of fails as a success signal.
As someone currently learning how to lift weights, I would love to be the guinea pig of a lunar exercise program.

At 16% gravity I should be able to deadlift over 1500 lbs and bench 1000 lbs!
Same here, though my copy is in abysmal condition. Between this book and the 80s era enthusiast magazines that had delivered their code directly on the printed page I learned how to program and not be fearful of programming. I have to say that calling Ahl's book the most influential BASIC book sounds like a very feasible claim.
I got into it from hiking. I enjoy the outdoors, and eventually discovered some mushrooms when I was younger. Over the years, I began to become familiar with the differences, and more courageous with what I was willing to explore with them.

I imagine most become fascinated with them because of how different they are from other food, and how they can be a rare and interesting find.
I am working on https://datapeek.org , basically annotating online debates with data. I am open to collaborate, in particular with hackers with a taste for the business/marketing side of things. Email in my bio.
I think part of that is due to nuclear power primarily being in decently wealthy areas with very strict regulations and high amounts of security measures being taken. Coal plants are in even the poorest, most run down areas and run by just about everyone. They’re the baseline for energy.

I support expanding nuclear energy in areas that are capable of doing so, but there are some places where nuclear would be an absolute disaster far beyond what coal could ever be.
Excellent. Thank you for the reply.
It's the smallest airplane and a very long route which means it gets the least promoted pilots; it's the shittiest route. The article discusses this.
How far are we away from using open.ai to earn money on Mturk? Or is this like the fusion problem?
> but asteroid mining's the only thing I know of with a clear ROI in space

I dont think asteroid mining at current transportation costs is a clear ROI - the same amount of resources could be used to mine the earth for a lot more.

I see ROI in micro-gravity manufacturing - stuff that is impossible to do in gravity could be the future! Things like nano particles that would not be possible to create under earth gravity, fine structures that could collapse easily could be sustained in space for example.

Also, a 2nd human habitat (moon or otherwise) as a backup isn't a bad idea, even if it doesn't generate an economic return for a while. We are one asteroid impact away from extinction!
Git doesn't require an internet connection. With git you can keep doing backups the same way and store the git repository in flash drives, Dropbox, Amazon Glacier, or anywhere you want. The main difference here is that you don't need one folder per version anymore.
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_ma...

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/q-a-dissecting-the-deve...
what's low carbon gases?
Yeah I agree with what you say (especially your last part), that its use is likely to be much more for some industries than others; for eg. for Battery EVs particularly outside North America iirc a much smaller battery can do 95% of trips, so hydrogen makes very little sense for a family car. Though the person I was replying to was more pessimistic in general.
Test data only has a "realistic shape" in some applications; applications with short small transactions and low cardinality relationships. I agree keeping the data isn't a bad idea in those cases. It's probably normal in B2C apps.

Some B2B apps have large background transactions with 100k to 10s of millions of rows inserted or updated (with application controlled queuing rather than only relying on database locking), and you won't get realistically shaped data long term on unit tests designed to run in reasonable time. It's just as easy to end up with a performance problem in test code that you never see in production. Except when you have a customer who tests your service remotely on an automated basis. That can be annoying.
Mirrors, or even artificial sky lights are a thing.
This is what I've been doing for simple projects, easy.
Hm... fair enough. I have studied this for years and come to the opposite conclusion. Specifically in Geography and Urban and city planning courses.

What studies or books lead you to your conclusion?