skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And it turns out this happens because of a little thing called fresnel. [...] To account for this affect, you can use Fresnel [...] Certainly, PVC has a fresnel."

It's called Fresnel coefficient [1] after the physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel. "Fresnel" is not a noun.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_equations

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin-Jean_Fresnel
I know benchmarking DB is very hard and pretty much nonsense, but do you have any idea / production use cases of EdgeDB at large scale? Did you see a performance drawback given from the higher abstraction, and the EdgeDB stateless client between the app and postgre?
I never said or implied that it was.

But (in the US at least), it actually is the government's job to keep the economy stable in order to "insure domestic Tranquility [... and...] promote the general Welfare"
> I believe this test doesn't really test logical thinking, but our biases about what we think the rules are implying.

The most interesting thing this brings up is a bimodal distribution of answers between those that take a "quick intuitive answer" approach and those that a "stop and think through it carefully" approach. This can be influenced in towards either method by priming the testee as you suggest. But the fascinating thing is that if you don't do this, you find that each individual has an innate preference towards one or other method.

This is one of the main subjects of Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking Fast and Slow" (see also: "Maps of Bounded Rationality" if you'd rather read something journal article sized), and along with introversion/extraversion constitutes one of the primary axis of the MBTI.
> extremely decentralized network

Can you provide source for this claim? I thought that infura was the dominant infrastructure provider for eth and if it gets taken down, a majority of the apps goes down too.
just because you reach the whole world doesn't necessarily mean there's a good way to monetize it, at least without losing what makes the service attractive.

Sure they could start slapping ads on everything, even paywall the site but at the end of the day there'd be significant competition eroding profits.

Twitter almost makes more sense as an open protocol than a commercial service, which is basically what Mastodon is. It's even what Dorsey wanted to do at one point with Bluesky, not sure if that's still alive.
Almost always the answer to a question in a headline is No (Betteridge's law of headlines). I think there is a lot of wishful thinking about breaking SV's dominance. Reasons being that it is such a HCOL area and how great would it be to live elsewhere! Truth be told, high tech salaries are not as high in other regions compared to the COL (in the general sense). SV has at least two top engineering schools (UCB and Stanford), and many people are unwilling to give up the easy opportunity to switch jobs and _not_ move.

There is also this gravity effect of SV. People move to SV to get a tech job, so thats where the majority of them are. But from talking to folks, there is a real lack of available talent, so companies are forced to look elsewhere. From my own experience, there are not a huge number of available candidates in other areas either.
They were cash flow positive in q4 and project positive cash flow into q1
I migrated from Gmail to a hosted domain on a cheap cpanel account 10 years ago.
That was fine for a long time. The trick was to setup an auto responder with the new address, then systematically go through each incoming Gmail and go update the connected account. Took about 2 years to fully migrate. More recently i moved my custom domain to FastMail, and I am very happy with the added security and ease of use ( MFA, application specific passwords, wildcard email addresses, contact , calendar sync etc...). I briefly tried protonmail for the higher security, but the lack of imap was a real pain, and the 50 shades of purple UI was ugly to me ... FastMail just works very very well....
They removed the SD card slots and headphone jacks. They downsized the battery. They also lowered the screen resolution on the base models. I hate that we are getting worse hardware than previous years.
I agree, but from previous HN threads, people have said that this would enable people in abusive relationships to be stalked. Also, it appears that some distance is required to trigger the notification, so I imagine stalkers could use the AirTags within this distance. For example, to find which apartment someone lives in, within a building.

I think there will always be headlines about stalking and abuse, and people claiming Apple didn't do enough (even though it's so annoying as is), regardless.
I wish he came back to evolving C#. Progress from v1 to v5 was enormous in contrast to v6 to v10.
Poor people are making _nominal_ income gains. Their real income is actually declining because wage gains aren't keeping up with inflation despite a red hot labor market.

It's almost like rents rise to match incomes unless you build more housing. Rent control just means that the costs get offloaded to other things like the security deposit, application fees, and deferred maintenance. You can't regulate the market out of existence.
No because network latency is not that big on unreliable connections if the exchange are "small" and relatively "rare".

Which is most applications on the web, particularly with these techniques.
Because we've been at or near full employment most of the time.

Also, the exact definition of full employment is fuzzy, whereas grocery bills rising is quite tangible.
Don't get me wrong, but that implies she is not using Firefox as her daily driver.

Changing the icon to, shudder, the edge icon might help and call it "Internet" and maybe she will use it. Most people do not really know, or care, that their browser is.

I do this with very un - techsavvy people and install uBo and they have a fairly safe time online.
Is this a structural issue with how recruiters are compensated?

At many companies they have quotas or are paid bonuses based on how many candidates they source. I can imagine a policy whereby candidates that approach the company directly aren't counted as "sourced" by any particular recruiter.
France is the only country I know that's managed to make nuclear power work. Unfortunately, they haven't been able to export that expertise.

Nuclear power plants are vast construction project. The construction and large-engineering industries combined are vastly corrupt in the US (look at the 3 billion dollars planning costs of the unbuilt high speed rail project in California, look at the Big Dig in Boston, etc). In an ideal world, nuclear might be great. In the existing US world, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

Edit: found this text on the problems of standardization of nuclear power in the US. http://www.strategicstandards.com/files/NuclearEnergy.pdf
Depending on the license, that might cost more, or not be an option at all. For example, Adobe doesn't allow you to host their fonts; you have to link to their CDN. https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/font-licensing.html#web-...
Don't they just assume using the site without accepting is the same as accepting all?
Their advertiser don't want to advertise to bots and the users who break the rules potentially cause a pile of bad publicity for them so they're happy to get rid of them.
This looks like a better prisma. Too bad its using postgresql. It will not scale. Do you plan to develop your own backend or support others one ?
In this case it would be a server at each end so you could claim that all computation and rendering was "done on the server"
I don't think it's fair to dismiss South Korea's results as propaganda. They do indeed have serious contact tracing. I'm not sure how it is now, but when I was in Korea in March-June 2020, there was a website where anyone could see literally every positive COVID case (anonymized), and everywhere they'd been over the last 2 weeks. They obtain this information via credit card transactions and such because they know that that is more reliable than personal testimony's.

Although this would be a non-starter in the U.S due to privacy concerns, I don't deny that this was probably effective. At the same time I imagine cases were drastically underreported because testing positive would result in your whole office shutting down, potentially getting one fired. So there's no incentive to get tested unless you have no choice.
How would it guard against plagiarism? A blockchain can log the timestamp of a certain article, but there is still no proof that it was the first.

You could also accomplish the same thing (verifiable digital timestamp of a text) by emailing the article to multiple people through a major email provider like Gmail.
If that's what it takes to allow locals to govern themselves independently, sure.

The technical difficulties seem so entirely solvable, in time (and with that competition you mentioned). Right now it's easy to deploy servers across tons of instances. In the future, if we need to, we can build analogous solutions to the problems you're talking about.

And where we can't build our way to easy solutions, that's fine. Those cases are probably the ones where there are legitimate local differences in what's acceptable, and I want locals to be able to decide that for themselves. It's an absurd goal to try to make it easy for six engineers alone to scale to the entire planet.
I'm a software engineer. Who else to play around with those type of things than us?

I 'setup' my lights and don't go around to switch them on. I just stop doing that. With hue i have always a specific scene active. For watching projector, eating, learning etc. I constantly play around with the lights. Its actually quite fun.

And yes of course i would love to have a local ML chip and some open language model. But i'm also running around with my smartphone. Friends work at mobile provider, they know were you are. The android os is 'trustworthy' but i still have a microphone in it and having it around me all day.

Knowing that those activation words can't just be deactivated, makes it, in my opinion, similiar if not more secure than my smartphone. So that wasn't a big deal for me either.
Peloton does not use FT employees to deliver everywhere in the US and I know for a fact that their first-party delivery is a far better experience than when you get third-party delivery.
>I probably also wouldn't equate "a person with an ADRB1 mutation can sleep less" and "a single individual that underwent brain surgery can sleep less" with "Decreasing sleep by 1-2 hours a night in the long-term has no negative health effects".

I made 5 points in that section (https://guzey.com/theses-on-sleep/#decreasing-sleep-by-1-2-h...):

> 1. A sleep researcher who trains sailors to sleep efficiently in order to maximize their race performance believes that 4.5-5.5 hours of sleep is fine.

> 2. 70% of 84 hunter-gatherers studied in 2013 slept less than 7 hours per day, with 46% sleeping less than 6 hours.

> 3. A single-point mutation can decrease the amount of required sleep by 2 hours, with no negative side-effects.

> 4. A brain surgery can decrease the amount of sleep required by 3 hours, with no negative-side effects.

> 5. Sleep is not required for memory consolidation.

You cited (3) and (4) but ignored (1), (2), and (5) all of which are based on studying dozens and hundreds of people.
The left view in [0] seems to be taken by a camera attached to the booster/interstage, viewing forward while the right view seems to be from a camera on the upper stage. A schematic of the rocket was shown at [1] if you want to get an idea what the rocket looks like.

After reviewing the separation sequence, I would say that fairing separation failed. Right after MECO (main-engine cutoff) was called out, there is white/blueish light appearing in front of the upper stage. This makes me think that the fairing should have opened at that moment but it did so only partially and that this is sunlight shining through a gap. Shortly after, the upper stage was separated from the lower stage and was pushed away until being stopped by the still closed fairing. Then the upper engine ignited and now actually pushed the second stage through the fairing. God knows what was already damaged at that point.

Edit: it seems like this is exactly what happened. There is a video [2] (made by Scott Manley) with a side by side view of two stage separations which lets you see what should have happened when. Just watch that.

[0] OPs link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jlQmW7mnYM&t=3740s

[1] https://youtu.be/8jlQmW7mnYM?t=2177

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq-a_F6F2xo
I use Fastmail instead of ProtonMail, but the premise from my understanding from talking with others is the same.

Protonmail has an import feature that works extremely well when migration from Gmail, and from there you would forward any mail from Gmail to your custom domain. Whole thing takes maybe 10-15 minutes.

Your mileage may vary slightly however.
Why would it be? If it drives up prices, WD is less able to capture that price increase due to production losses than its competitors.
Question: Shouldn't it be quite possible to use GA without client-side requests, and without sending personal data to Google?

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
I was under the impression that it is in the range of 1-2x per reactor. There are some old Swedish ones that are at 800mw, while the ones I believe the article refers to are in the ballpark of 1500mw.
> Twitter started putting up an overlay up prompting you to log in or create an account to continue after viewing x tweets. Annoying, but not a huge issue as you could just dismiss the modal and continue.

you can no longer dismiss the modal, or in any other way bypass this as of a few days ago. (at least on mobile)
I think it depends on the intensity of the experience.

I recently found myself in a hotel that I stayed in as a 7-8 year old in the 80s for a particularly memorable vacation with my extended family. It was funny that I still remembered the I unusual aspects of the layout and could spot many of the changes that had been made over the years.

But if you asked me to describe someone I met for a few days in a business context in 2020, I’d have a hard time remembering detail.
Are the stakes that huge for potential exploiters? It seems that exploits can write off a bunch of value from the exploited but, at least for big and quickly noticed exploits, it is hard to launder the gains into the ‘legitimate’ part of the ecosystem with big exchanges and suchlike.
Infura already went down several times and nothing happened. Metamask users can easily switch to other rpc providers (including their own nodes).
Very exciting product, congratulations on the launch!
I think it’s equally fair to ask if the future is more distributed in nature. Yes, maybe Austin becomes more of a concentrated home of tech than it was before, but haven’t we seen it proven out over the last two years that companies can be successful working apart, hiring the best folks they can find regardless of location (many of who would prefer to stay in low COL locations?)

Regardless of your personal ideology on the topic, there are too many benefits for all parties involved to ignore remote work as a lasting trend.
You have to be joking...

France just had to turn off 3 of their rotting reactors[0] and they lowered their estimates for this year to 295-315 TWh[1]. They're desperate, it's election year and they failed to come up with a diversified energy plan for the future. Luckily the recent taxonomy decision may help to avoid sharp tax rises to finance this backward and hilariously expensive[2] strategy but those EU funds won't run forever. Expensive times coming up for the French taxpayers.

Why would you need conspiracies when the failure is so clear in front of you?

[0] https://then24.com/2022/02/08/three-nuclear-reactors-shut-do...

[1] https://www.edf.fr/sites/default/files/epresspack/2447/5c9aa...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edf-announces-new-de...
.tex to .doc(x) will typically lose formatting and require rewriting the resume.
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Last time around it was negative learning by doing for France[1]. I wonder what magical efficiency gains they will manage to muster compared to Flamanville [2], Hinkley Point C[3] and Olkiluoto 3[4] which the state owned french nuclear industry is building. Well, more than magical "simplification", "cost cutting" and "modular design" shown on a powerpoint before reality hits again.

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...
> your arrogance is just stunning.

Sorry if I don’t follow your reasoning, I’m still stuck at this piece of USA policy you seemed to have glossed over:

> Sec. 14. Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents from the protections of the Privacy Act regarding personally identifiable information.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-01-30/pdf/2017-0...
> they don't even try to read alert windows or error messages, assuming that they will be meaningless

I work in IT and I can assure you that software developers have been doing their best for the past 20 years to live up to that expectation.
99% of the tracking notifications are given to my family members. It’s hilarious that you can’t “join” a family members tag so it can be shared within the family.
Sales and Marketing line item is over 50% of their Operating Expenses. $96.2mill last quarter.

Since it’s still in a growth phase with revenue, the losses can continue as a customer acquisition cost.

They can scale back at any time.
Battery Status API, Ambient Light are the two big Mozilla examples I know, but I suspect the list may be fairly long. I believe they are also against web bluetooth and serial.

Apple has some permission stuff that apparently degrades Tile on their platforms IIRC.
Whether it's from the goodness of their hearts or from economic necessity, the fact remains that western countries with largely Christian historical traditions (I never claimed that they are today Christian states in the way that Islamic states are officially Islamic) are some of the most tolerant and open societies on Earth. No other cultural regions in the world match this level of tolerance or openness. That is absolutely worth considering in any discussion like this. It has a certain practical moral weight that it's dishonest to ignore.

As for what you mention about the migrants in the Mediterranean, bear in mind a couple points:

1. The governments of the EU are not killing these migrants themselves. Most of those that tragically die do so because of their own extremely dangerous efforts to desperately reach a continent that they know will largely treat them better than their own homelands do.

2. You mention tens of thousands. That's an awful number, but compared to the millions of immigrants that do reach and eventually get accepted by the continent through many programs and laws that later assist them, it needs to be placed in perspective, both morally and practically.

3. Even if a certain percentage of migrants suffer repercussions in their attempts to reach Europe, the states of the Union do have a basic right to make efforts at protecting their borders from unregulated entry. They can't be held responsible for this being dangerous to illegal migrants or even in some cases tragic. That their entry should be difficult is indeed part of the point. Much more blame should be assigned to the governments of the countries they came from, which made things so intolerant and economically/socially corrupt as to provoke mass flight.
This query language looks really nice!

I wish GraphQL were more like this and considered built-in features like where clauses and cursors, instead of having to add those over the top with loose conventions.
Do visual icons like the three lines for a menu help or hurt the usability of an application for people with dyslexia?

I had assumed iconography was a boon for illiterate people- thinking primarily of symbols on shop signs or a striped barbers pole, for example.
0.6% monthly inflation annualized isn't 4.8%. Not really sure how you got 4.8%, but the computation you want is 1.006^12 = 1.0744, about 7.4% (which also happens to match the annualized figures).
I think the question is phrased pretty explicitly to be of the form "If A then B". Are you saying that they're being misleading? Or are you saying that the normal english meaning of "If A then B" is "A therefore B and B therefore A"?

The later might be the case—"or" is another case where the logical connective and normal interpretation differ; the logical "or" is inclusive, but the standard english meaning is exclusive. Then the fact that people are more likely to get question 3 correct is due to the fact that we're more familiar with the situation, and so already know that "If A then B" really is the logical connective.
This is a huge pain, mostly stemming from using the same computer for different projects, because dependencies start to conflict. Big companies (fb, google, workday) solve this with cloud-hosted dev environments. Cloud environments let me contribute to our code base as a technical founder without having to have the technical expertise of a CTO. I'd rather not go back because while I know how to code, I'd rather not spend time configuring dev environments if someone can just share theirs with me. (disclaimer: I work at https://brev.dev)
It reminds me of one of those Yakuza games where you go into houses and walk around on their tatami floors and never take off your shoes.

I figure being a Yakuza means you're such a badass you don't have to take off your shoes.
This has nothing to do with nuclear power plants.
Yes, the differences between fascism and communism are mostly ideological and academic. To the people living under them it's the same experience. Sacrificing oneself for the good of the nation/party/body.

People make the mistake of thinking capitalism is incompatible with communism, but that is false. Marx wrote a lot about the role of technology in wealth creation. He thought that it would be technology that would bring abundance and set man free, and the best technologists where the free-market-capitalists.

Marx also said something along the lines that capitalism, unchecked, was bound to become centralised and monopolised, creating the necessary conditions for the revolutionary transfer to totalitarian dictatorship of the proletariat.
Usually a candidate will not have enough time to ask all these questions. My usual approach is to pass the interview, and then ask for a reverse interview. Of course, we don't have to use the term "reverse interview". I just ask politely if I can chat with two or three people: a member in the team, the hiring manager, and the skip. In such reverse interviews, I also do deep walk-throughs, such as how an engineer deploys their code to production, or how they mitigate an outage. It tells you a lot about the company.
what is gimped about iOS browsers?
It's 100% NIMBYism.

Just like the complaints about how higher-density housing may hurt 'the environment' for whatever city people live in. Like, if everyone blocks high density housing, those people don't just disappear, they're gonna end up living in low density housing, and that's obviously much worse for the environment: takes up more space, which means cutting into nature more, and generally takes more energy for the lifestyle too.

But that doesn't matter to NIMBY's -- the important thing is that they don't have to see the environment changing where they live in particular.