skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? It's only like 30 years off. They didn't say 2150 or something else further into the future. How bad do you think things are currently that 28 years from now, society will be totally shattered?
Then why have an exposure limit?

There are a variety of studies showing higher levels could have adverse effects, particularly on children. The examples you chose for cell phones and power lines also show mixed results. Non-ionizing radiation also has some known health effects depending on the power and frequency (ask any ham about high power VHF and eyeballs).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9503290/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15933351/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32216233/

The overall risks of EMF is still debated and requires more investigation, but it's not appropriate to say that it "doesn't do anything".
Check out this book: "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein. I bought it, but haven't read it yet. It's highly rated on Amazon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAJ3_-Hou8 - Great coverage of this entire issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjRcEwLGtV8 - Gas VS Induction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe_711l42e4 - Gas VS Induction

Tl;dr over 50% of heat from a gas stove ends up in the environment. Nearly 100% of the energy from an induction cook top ends up in the pot.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock... describes the benefits of the above approach.

Something to bear in mind is that if you have a bug or crash in your task handler that causes a rollback, another worker will likely try to grab the same task again, and you might end up clogging all of your workers trying the same failed tasks over and over again. We use a hybrid approach where a worker takes responsibility for a task atomically using SKIP LOCKED and setting a work-in-progress flag, but actually does the bulk of the work outside of a transaction; you can then run arbitrary cleanup code periodically for things that were set as work-in-progress but abandoned, perhaps putting them into lower-priority queues or tracking how many failures were seen in a row.

Postgres is absolutely incredible. If you are at anything less than unicorn scale, outside of analytics where columnar stores are better (though Citus apparently now has a solution for this - https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/06/citus-10-columnar-...), and highly customizable full-text search (it's hard to beat Elastic/Lucene's bitmap handling), there are very few things that other databases can do better if you have the right indices, tuning, and read replicas on your Postgres database.
Tesla Issues Recall for Faulty Heat Pumps, Loss of Heating in Cold Weather
Probably unpopular opinion: men having it tough is actually a good thing for men, if you make the most of it. Yes, in modern times as a man, you pretty much don't have any programs specifically designed to benefit you. And yes, men get shat on by pretty much every corner of society. But it's still possible to succeed in these conditions, and some people most definitely do. And those who were able to find their way and make it in a very unfriendly system tend to be extremely competent, not just intellectually but socially and emotionally as well. It's that old saying - "hard times make strong men," yada yada. Having just gone through the whole school process, I am very confident in my ability to solve a problem / achieve a goal on my own, and I don't need some special program or exception to the rules in order to succeed.
Folks, stop making Chrome a soft dependency for your software.

I'm only one data point, but when I visit a site and see that, I immediately close it and move on.
Even that is optimistic; they don't expect any net production of energy before 2055, and I doubt there's any guarantee that that will work, because if there was, they'd be trying that right now.
Zuck just dump your shares for cheap and you will avoid antitrust lawsuit. haha
I've long felt the same - the military used to be this, used to do this - its part of why we had such an era of tranquility politically post WWII - you had a large number people with a shared experience who came back from war, and who were willing to work together.

I've long believed in some form of mandatory national service, just to encourage this - it would also decrease the risk for military adventurism if the military was a broader cross-section of society.
You don’t give it 28 years?
In the early 2000s I was in the “fast crash” camp, too. Not anymore.
On iPhone sideloading: it’s ok, I’m changing my mind
But the size of those wall plugs tho...
>With induction, everything is gradual

The opposite. It's pretty much the same as gas. Even your article states so:
"Induction stoves and cooktops offer precise temperature control. Electric cooktops take a lot of time to heat up and cool down, and it's difficult to hit a precise temperature with gas ranges. But with induction, you're afforded super precise temperature control which allows for more controlled cooking. When you turn the burner off, heat transfer stops immediately, so there's less of a chance of foods boiling over or overcooking."

>Induction is more expensive and requires new cookware, pushing that further.

I'm not sure if this is true, as far as new cookware. I guess it depends on who you are. I've never had cookware that was incompatible w/ induction.
Hyper-concentration of wealth means no upward mobility so it's no surprise America is having this crisis. Turns out in capitalism if the goal is to hoard the most resources, once you're winning the game it's no longer profitable to educate the masses, better off to leave them poor and dying in wars that make even more money. Can you imagine a library or a modern public computer lab being built in cities? We make kids go into debt for food at school.
You don't need to be competitive to be successful or happy. My first question is: what do you want?

If you enjoy life in the most boring way, then it sounds like something in your life is already fulfilling. Boring and exciting are entirely in the eye of the beholder.

Especially early in your career it can be daunting to see the success and skill of other people in the field but recognize that their success took a long time to build up, and probably some amount of thrashing around too.

So again, what do you want? Do you enjoy continually learning new things and getting satisfaction from exploring new ideas? Do you enjoy the act of building something new from scratch? Do you enjoy optimizing parts of what you build at a small level until the details are just right? See if you can clarify for yourself what you really care about and focus on doing more of that.

For now, I would also counsel against avoiding being 'a boring copy-cat'. It already sounds like you have an interest in going broad - embrace that.
I only know because we attempted a home birth and my wife trained to become one, but a doula is an assistant to a midwife. It would make sense most men would have no idea what this is but a lot of women have probably watched YouTube videos thinking about how they want to give birth, so doula would be a well defined word for them.
Ah, that's a good catch. I'd have trouble providing a precise definition for a lot of these, but I know them. ("servo" is some type of engine; "degauss" is a button I pressed on CRTs to make them go "boing"; a "doula" helps with birthing somehow in a non-medical capacity.)
makes sense; thanks doc!
My Mazda3 2019 now shows an mpg at about 15, yet with a full tank of gas I can still drive about 300 miles.
> But medical research leads to treatments which may have far better quality of life improvements than ramps. And when discovered, those treatments can be used forever, whereas ramps require constant spending for every new or renovated building.

I think you make a good point here. Likewise, making software accessible, e.g. to blind people, requires effort for every GUI toolkit and non-trivial application. In the short term, that work has to be done, because it would be wrong to just leave blind people without a way to independently access software that might be critical to jobs, education, etc. But if we started funding research into curing or preventing all of the various causes of blindness now, then we could eventually solve the problem permanently. I'd have to find a different problem domain to work in, but I might be retired by then anyway.
Sounds about right. This type of mandate is what the truckers are protesting. They aren't against vaccination, just the government forcing people to get vaccinated.
> What's the likelihood they've all standardized on the exact same default heuristic?

In some cases really high. Professionals are often under the same constraints, have no reason to be diverge, and even are incentivized to converge in opinions. These are not independent probabilistic events.

To my earlier example, _many_ appraisers adopted the heuristic of “appraisal = offer + irrelevant_random_noise”.

You security guard example doesn’t really apply to professional opinions. They’re usually done independently. By hiring multiple security guards, you’re forcing them (or at least encouraging them) to spread out. Sure, you’d get a similar effect if you hired ten doctors to spend 20 minutes with you all at the same time. They couldn’t all listen to your heart and tell you to take an aspirin. But if you visit them one at a time they can. So it’s more like ten security guards all watching one camera feed from different rooms.

Examples of this problem aren’t made up. Citigroup accidentally sent $900 million dollars to creditors. An issue I believe is still in litigation about a year later and has been a huge loss. It was approved by three people.
Or that it even redirects to 4xx or 5xx. I had considered this, but decided to draw the line here.
This article seems very gung-ho on ITER, but over the past few months, I've seen other articles and HN comments suggesting that ITER is already hopelessly obsolete, locked into a design that's likely to be far from optimal, and new startups taking fresh approaches are much more relevant to the future of fusion.

I wonder who's right?
But it doesn't have to be such a shitty compromise. Most desktop applications could be made such that you have all the security and the convenience.
Define "successful career in tech" for yourself, then ask if that is what you're doing.

For me, I want to put my attention onto helping others, in this case by using computers, data, and statistics. I also put attention onto playing music for others, listening to their problems, and cooking for them. There's no need to one-up anyone if your goal is simply to help others.

And btw, it's not bad to spend attention on yourself, it's good to improve your fitness, nutrition, sleep, quality of life, and your own satisfaction and joy. There's nothing wrong with a Giver Giving to Themselves, which will enhance their overall health + giving abilities.
I saw the villain as the Grandmother's pride, but either way, it wasn't a named character.
> great book on this topic is friedan's feminine mystique (1963)

Another is “The Will To Love: Men, Masculinity, and Change” by bell hooks (2004)

There aren’t a lot of authors that I feel get it right about issues relating to men and masculinity. Bell hooks is one of the few.

> not sure how yang made this his topic. my sense of his random walk is 'had a job at yahoo' -> future of work -> UBI -> numbers guy -> times square -> ?

I live in NYC and spend a lot of time online, so we got kinda saturated with Yang during the last year because he was in the mayoral race. As far as I can tell, he’s a passionate self-promoter, and engages on a shallow level with tons of different topics as some kind of cynical way to promote his brand. If he were at least more skilled at it I would respect him more, but he’s made so many obvious PR blunders and it’s obvious he doesn’t listen to advisors. He pokes around at sensitive topics like race and sexism, but as far as I can tell it’s so he can stay in the news, because he rarely has anything interesting to say on those subjects.

It seems like a random walk because he’s doing whatever will get him in the news online.
Further, I think it is largely undesirable for people in their late teens or early 20s to be living with romantic partners. Breakups are way more complicated when you also lose your housing.
Yeah anecdotally same experience.

Social groups just dry up when you get to your late 20's as people are marrying off, having kids, and only maintaining the utmost of friendships. I know it's brutal but it's a time thing... significant others and families take lots of time if you're doing it right so socializing time becomes of higher value/expense.

It was way easier to meet people when I was younger - not just romantic partners. Social groups were much more cohesive and much less based around couple activity. People were just down for whatever and would jump at something just for the experience. I had tons of friends I could just call/SMS like "hey I'm bored let's go find a show" whereas I would feel inappropriate doing this as an adult.
Without which, you think personal computing would be in a much better place today. You have no way to verify that belief one way or another.
Don't quit your day job
There is no such thing as a "galactic habitable zone" defined or meaningful.

There is a an obviously uninhabitable zone close to the core black hole, and uncountable similar zones elsewhere, but Sol could move into one of the latter at any time. And, distant events could wipe us out, anyplace else, with decreasing probability as the density of other stars in the immediate neighborhood decreases.

All we can say is that we have not entered any uninhabitable zones in the last billion years or so, i.e. five orbits, and not been blasted too badly from a distance, likewise. Milder events could wipe out everything but deep-sea microbes, which at this late date might not leave time to evolve intelligent life again.

Lots of galaxies have heavy star-forming going on in the rim, with increased risk of supernovas. I don't know if we know whether ours is among those. (I doubt we can tell. Such regions are identified by high UV flux, but UV is blocked by dust, which is plentiful.) But otherwise, farther from the core is generally safer.
Teams has been an awful experience for me on MacOS:

1. There's plenty of times I open the app and just see a blank screen in the chat window, I have to click away or close the app to get it to work again

2. There was a weird issue where I would get access to their internal debugging menus

3. Sometimes I paste an image and the image disappears. I get an error that they "lost my image". I'm not even sure how that is possible

4. Sometimes a single message will completely fail to load. Just recently this even happened with a code snippet

5. Scrolling a conversation loads in messages too slowly, and if you scroll back all you see are placeholder messages. It makes trying to find something in an old conversation incredibly frustrating

6. I never found the search to produce useful results

I would take Slack over Teams any day. The only Microsoft software I like is VSCode
Incidentally, boiling-water taps can fix this by having a (thermos) store of hot water all the time.
They are mostly that size for safety. You can't electrocute yourself nearly as easily in the UK.
I'd insta-preorder a cooler running, less powerful, fanless version.
Then you get to enter a username, click "join", and immediately get put back on the front page with the same message.
I've never seen a car stereo get a firmware update. Manufacturers seem to treat these as throwaway components. They're made once and forever sealed. Kind of crappy from the perspective of consumers and the environment.

I guess what I've heard about eg. Tesla is a counterexample.
Oh, the fast food chain, you mean.
Clearly the end goal is to beat the First Law of Thermodynamics and its pesky "conservation of energy." We already know how to print money, now it's time to print energy! /s
I like what Kevin Systrom said on a podcast about being competitive. (Paraphrasing) He said he was not the type of person to need to beat someone else in everything. He doesn't need to be number 1 all the time. But he was competitive with himself. He would set goals, and try to reach them. Personally, I think this type of competition is very healthy and will lead to a fulfilling life.

Set your own goals. Don't just ladder-climb or be competitive for the sake of it. Don't live someone else's life.
Are there any studies on what the world might look like in 50 years, based on a reasonable, realistic projection of climate change, human change in behaviour etc etc?

Just to be clear, I 100% believe in climate change, and do what I think is a fair amount to help (cycle as much as I can, don't take long haul flights, take train instead of short haul flights, drive EV, insulate house, don't eat much meat, Solar PV panels).

BUT!

I feel like humanity and the earth are way more fault-tolerant than the parent comment gives them credit for. I don't think we are going to see the total collapse of civilisation - far from it. But I would welcome any links on people/studies/groups who have theorised what might happen in a medium-case scenario?
The "Girls Who Code" program was created because of the discrimination and bias women face in the tech industry (not to mention other workplaces and areas of life). Also, the existence of woman managers doesn't suddenly mean that sexism doesn't exist in the industry. I'd imagine that many woman managers have faced a lot of prejudice throughout their careers. And there's probably a large amount of women who want to get into technology, but are intimidated by the space and fear potential sexism.

Also, the reason that running a "boys club for computers" or a "men's IT society" wouldn't end well is because men already make up a large portion of the tech space and, like I said, there's a lot of gender bias in the tech world. This comment comes off as you using anecdotal evidence to disprove the marginalization women face.
Yes, but if you’re in a zoom/whatever conference room, with a zoom/whatever client running, it’s not unreasonable to think that you want to use the conference equipment. Couple with the various constraints on BT, etc this is a reasonable solution.

Where this reasonable solution is actually implemented securely is another question, and Zoom’s track record isn’t exactly fantastic.
> You do realize that a career in the skilled trades can lead to very good pay, right?

Only if you can start your independent business, which few can do pretty much by definition. That's still a recipe for bimodal outcomes. And the U.S. has pushed "college achievement" on paper, but their K-12 education still sucks. There's no way that this isn't a drag on college outcomes.
Uh... my mind read:
DHS' misinformation greatest terrorism threat to U.S.
Rahul Vohra CEO of Superhuman on fundraising and solving problems with software
People are emotional creatures, not rational ones. Like it or not, there is an outsized influence on (especially) young people when they do or do not see people "like them" (gender, ethnicity, immigration status, nation of origin, etc.) in various roles. And this is also exaggerated by society. If a boy is in a community where it's "common knowledge" that men are stupid, deadbeat, bums, then no one will be surprised if he acts in a way that indicates he's heading in the same direction. No one will intervene on his behalf, and he will (statistically, not universally) act in a way that conforms to those expectations.
Exactly. Disney having to make a profit certainly taints their productions with ideology:

- Obsession with royalty

- Obsession with absolute power

- Excuses for exceptionalism

- Binary morals (good / evil)

You might see it as simple entertainment, but seeing there is nothing to learn about in Disney stories, any worldview carried over to the real world _is_ propaganda.
Special "Help $Gender enter $Field_Where_Gender_Is_Rare" stuff makes sense, if (for whatever reason) it seems that having some fields highly gender-skewed is undesirable. And whatever the PC / ideological reaction, programs aimed the other way sound like a waste of resources.

Or maybe there are a bunch of "convince women that nursing is a career for them, too", "day care workers shouldn't all be men", "ladies can become receptionists", etc. programs that I'm not aware of.
>> Are there any mainstream distros (not things like OpenWRT) that have / as not-your-main-hard-disk though?

Sort of.

Some smaller Linux live CD / live USB distributions such as Damn Small Linux (DSL) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_Small_Linux) and Puppy Linux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Linux) had the option to load the entire distribution into memory (RAM disk) and run completely from memory.

This allowed them to run very fast since the entire base filesystem was in RAM and also be ephemeral since the filesystem would disappear on reboot or power off.

Your could still mount the computer's hard disk or other removable disks, but / was in RAM.

Other larger Linux live CD / live USB distributions such as Knoppix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoppix) would place a core portion of the system on a RAM disk and then read from the CD / USB to get other files as needed.

Plan 9 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs) is not a Linux distro, but a Unix successor that extended the "everything is a file" Unix idea even further to allow multiple computers to act as one using the 9P protocol. This means that you could "mount" server _programs_ running on other computers somewhere under / and use file-like operations to interact with them. Almost like a REST API, but with 9P instead of TCP and file-like I/O instead of HTTP GET, PUT, and POST.
Ok .. let's pack it in, and kiss our tails goodbye then .. lol
It's kind of you to say so & you're welcome.

I would be really hesitant to give a checklist to the person you've described, but maybe if it really motivates you? I would rather see a qualitative exploration, something much deeper or even overlapping with your current concepts for curiosity's sake. For example could you somehow map the concept of excellence onto who you already are? I think you could, and maybe one result is something integrative of both aspects of excellence & appreciating the day-to-day, like Tom Hodgkinson's _How to be Idle_, etc.

So the exploration and its nuance would probably be worth much more than the checklist itself, just a guess & IMO.
> Get a HEPA filter instead. Lots of cooking methods (especially involving high temperatures with fats) produce terrible air quality by themselves that you can only mitigate with either a prodigious vent fan or lots of HEPA filtration.

> I know this from measuring it in my own kitchen, air quality would spike to worse than the worst city globally for hours without filtration or minutes with.

HEPA filters don't help with NO2 levels. Air filters on the market that advertise activated charcoal are full of it, you need pounds of activated charcoal to make a huge difference, not the tiny little sheet that most filters use.

FWIW I have 2 HEPA filters running, they don't help with spicy food either.

Someone on HN once mentioned a real charcoal filter they had bought that had several pounds in it, but sadly I lost the comment and I don't remember the product they recommended.
Very challenging? Most couples have a car between them and a whole lot of appetite for adventure and risque.
Simple manually deployed docker images have been a great win for us.

You get to declare all your dependencies in the docker build. All config is in one
.env file.

Installs and roll backs are trivial.

Setting up new dev environments is easy.
Hit men are on their way.
Try that in a town with double the men that there are women. Easier to switch hit.
> because of reading historical fiction that's not military wankery.

wondering what the gender breakdown is on that category?