skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My whole point rests on the assertion that things are not static. Explicitly stated as companies changing from benevolent to less so, or politicians going from working for the people to against them. Implicitly, I expected this to be applied to other things as well, and I think it should be applied to things such as inner trust in communities.

You cannot expect the current conditions to persist indefinitely. Ceding what power you have to control parts of that, or even just to control tools which themselves affect that (such as politicians), just because right now things are good and you trust your community and the companies in it is a losing strategy.

Even back in the past when people had much more trust that a company would not treat them badly, any actions to make that the status quo (by weakening methods which those people had active input and ways to influence) was a bad choice, but possibly a less understood one.

Additionally, my response to rmason was meant less as a rebuttal, and more as an aside to do with the entire concept that relying on a company was ever a good idea, regardless of whether it often turned out okay for people during a certain time period. Not all replies are counters directly to what was stated, even if we are sometimes primed to view them that way. I didn't view myself as rebutting someone when I wrote that, but instead exploring the idea of why relying on a company was always a bad idea.
Dude lost the NFT for sure
Linear is phenomenal. Probably built for a different audience than Jira (it's like Superhuman for tickets), but if you want something that works well and is opinionated I highly highly recommend it.
Seems like that could be addressed with some fine print in the initial agreements. "In the event that you stop paying us, we may keep your data for up to N days unless directed otherwise by you"--or similar.
The meaning behind the Japanese Zen garden
Ehh.. the social norms around this are pretty ingrained. People do feel weird just saying “I have an appointment” for a job interview — even though, like you’re saying, they shouldn’t.

So I think writing like this, which explicitly spells out the ways in which this person “violated” these silly social norms, is good. It can kind of give people permission to do something they already know they should be allowed to do.
We expect St Louis to be falling apart. We don't expect San Francisco to be.

But I don't agree with the GP either. "Conservative bias in our media"? Either you're to the left of CNN (in which case you're far from the median, and so in a bad position to judge), or you're looking at a very skewed subset of the media.

Personally, I think it's a backlash. I think the liberals have been loudly triumphalist since... maybe the beginning of Obama's presidency? Somewhere in there. There's been this aura of "We're going to re-order the country to our approach, and we're going to fix all the problems." And they did re-order it, not completely, but to a large degree.

So when that fails to produce the paradise that was promised, people point out that the liberal agenda, in a place where they were pretty free to carry it out, failed to produce what the liberals claimed it would.

There's no shortage of articles pointing out that the conservative agenda, in places where they were free to carry it out, also failed to produce. But those articles get less traction, I suspect because people find "conservative agenda fails to produce" to be less surprising than "liberal agenda fails to produce". (Or maybe just because "the conservative agenda will produce" lately has been less widely trumpeted than "the liberal agenda will produce".)
I think the problem isn't that we can't achieve 2000 degrees with fission, but the entire design would need to be re-thought to handle such temperatures.

You need a completely different sort of materials and need to consider new types of risks for a reactor that's supposed to operate at such temperatures.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Investors Receive Your Pitch Deck
related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30797879
Despite never having owned one, all these years I also thought the element floor was hose-able. I wonder why I thought that and how I learned and kept this, apparently untrue, tidbit around with me all these years
I think it is important to remember that anti-renewables messaging has been around for a very long time. The panels might have needed to come off for repairs but definitely could have been put back up. Casually discarding even a public relations action like this likely had negative impacts on the discussion and many people taking the issue seriously for years to come. I don't know specifically how anti-renewables Regan was personally, but he definitely was the leader of a party that most strongly fought climate change messaging and actions in recent years.

Here is Carl Sagan testifying before congress in 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI

Admittedly this hasn't necessarily been as strongly polarizing as it was during the 2010s, there was a time that it was a bipartisan issue that unified both parties in the interest of reducing foreign energy dependence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDjjUAt3zc
Gitlab would be enough for engineering teams
Linear has a dark mode. I'm already won over! ;)
Same here. I actively made an effort to tell coworkers how much I hate Jira. Hopefully new startups choose something more sensible.
Yeah, I'm ignoring starship.

F9 Heavy can do a lot of good science missions, and many payload sizes are coming down. I'd personally include the Ariane stuff as well, James Webb launched on a Ariane 5 (around $200M per launch - so can get 20 launches on that or 10 launches + 10 new $200M science missions for one SLS).

This ignores the DEVELOPMENT cost of SLS which is mind bogglingly large as well as some of the ongoing just sustainment costs (also insane).
Average price in Freemont is 1.3 million.

Top 1% nationwide is: 538,926
Top 10% in bay area: 534,600

If you make only 100k with no savings or partner you might be priced out of that 6000ft average home. Most people will buy as a couple, have a down payment and get help from parents which puts you at a disadvantage but it is still possible.

No idea if a 5 bedroom NJ home is equal to a 3 bedroom 6000 ft home in Freemont. Not sure one location has more value. I would choose Freemont over NJ.
Some weeks ago I wrote a couple of bookmarklets, one of which was this:

javascript:(function(){
location.href = `https://nitter.net${location.pathname}`
})();

You can take this JavaScript snippet and save it as a clickable bookmark (hence the name bookmarklet) in you browser. I've named this "re-open in Nitter". I deleted my Twitter account a while back but sometimes I get handed a Twitter link. This snippet let's me quickly re-open the link in Nitter which is a nag-free way to browse Twitter without having an account. :)
Not sure any one know of any good books shops?

Even better if they sell secondhand books… bit cheaper and better for the environment!
Many.

One program that I am particularly happy with is a calendar generator for Scribus.

The Python script generates a year calendar, which I then print as a book. It helps me to plan my art career by week, by month, and by quarter. The custom layout somehow makes me take all the planning very seriously. And there is a lot of room for sketching.

Another recent project is a personal mind map, which I can extend to my own needs. It is heavily inspired by Kinopio, which, unfortunately, is not open source.

I am always amazed that not everybody is using computers and programming in this way.
Text editor, RSS reader, electronic schematic simulator, perfboard designer, optics simulator, browser, git GUI client, music player, expenses tracking app, spreadsheet app (I needed to make simple manual edit in many csv files and waiting for office just took too long, so I made just editor and it launches instantly), numerous one time use chrome extensions, calculator, libv8 based shell, video editor, ad blocker, ...

It usually reaches perfect usability for me very quickly, but to make it usable for others or make it publishable would take months.
Framework Laptop review: a modular PC easy to fix or upgrade
A backup solution. A bank statement scraper. An alarm clock. A GPS track extractor. A time tracker.

More that haven't seen regular use or which are just configuration.
I don't know why but people don't seem to understand that expending all energy upfront can actually be a benefit assuming you don't throw the car away for ridiculous reasons. In economics capital is often considered to be stored labor.

In practice storing labor is a very difficult or maybe even impossible thing, so the ability to store additional labor in the form of physical capital is very useful. Lots of people want to retire early. They want to work a lot in their youth and then relax instead of working until they die. If you get an ICE car right before your retirement, you are dependent on a lot of young people running the infrastructure necessary for that car. Meanwhile with EVs that infrastructure is a lot less labor intensive so a demographic decline isn't that bad. All the work was done before demographics got worse.

Now try doing the same with food. You can drive a car for 20 years off a wind turbine that lasts 20 years but you can't store food for 20 years. You are reliant on young workers who will take care of you.
I’m less concerned about privacy and more concerned about a bug in their code causing my microphone to say mute but not mute
You’ve got to trust someone. Do you trust yourself to host all these things more than you trust specialists?
Because it isn't a closed cycle, so you need a continuous stream of bulk materials in and out.
I got a little frustrated having to try several variations of the same root word. Spoilers below.

E.g. I tried Europe at 17, but I did not try European until 75. Likewise I tried language at 37, but it took until 85 to get languages.
Which SaaS platforms provide account-level restores?

If you contact them and say "please restore our data to as it was last week" those I know do not offer this.
I was a CPO of the largest Jira marketplace company for Atlassian. It amazing how much ARR you can drive and it is equally scary how it is to run a SaaS business within the walled garden. Atlassian's DNA is not cloud based software and it will take them time to get there. In the meantime there are so many better solutions for dev groups.
> Disincentivizing cash-hoarding

And the reason why this is important is because an asset that is not liquid has no utility as a currency. Put another way, if my $1 today would be worth $1.20 tomorrow, it would be in my best interest to "HODL" on to it instead of using it.

This would be a fantastic scenario for me as an individual, in the short term. Eventually, though, I'd have to buy some bread; the problem is that the baker decided to HODL their currency instead of buying flour (because that would be in their own best interest). Everyone would be sitting on heaps of unusable wealth.
> can generate electricity from a heat source of between 1,900 to 2,400 degrees Celsius [...] plan to incorporate the TPV cell into a grid-scale thermal battery. The system would absorb excess energy from renewable sources such as the sun and store that energy in heavily insulated banks of hot graphite. When the energy is needed, such as on overcast days, TPV cells would convert the heat into electricity, and dispatch the energy to a power grid.

Heating graphite based thermal batteries to >1900C using the Sun for long term storage? I'm not sure why the article is refraining from being explicit, but i'm guessing the intended application here is to replace the steam turbine usually found at the centre of high temperature solar thermal collectors.

I wonder how feasible and cost effective it is to insulate a battery well enough to maintain over 2000C for multi day periods without substantial loss? The heat storage strategies used for steam turbines doesn't require such high temperatures.
I thought Cider was all right. It’s useful and good enough, but I still preferred VS Code even though it’s not as integrated.
Biography of Jason Shea, 44th US President
I live by them; I probably couldn't name them all, they've become so embedded in my flow.

Probably the most important part of my flow is the following; it's a method for doing a personal "inbox" GTD style, 100% reliant on email + zim-wiki. I have a script that, when called manually, searches for new "inbox-marked" emails (i.e. ONLY those sent from me to me), and copies them to my zim notebook (specifically, to the page corresponding to "today" in the journal) as an open checkbox item.

Supporting that is-

- Desktop: a little shell script that pops open a zenity window to send such an email

- Smartphone: An android app called Blitzmail that does that and only that.(pops a window and sends to an address with no other interaction)

This replaces a LOT of things for me and helps prioritize immensely, (i.e. strongly prevents "email inbox as to-do list" which is a bad idea)
I was under the impression that NASA RTGs relied on solid-state Peltier / Seebeck thermocouples that had no moving parts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
I refer you to my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31017079
Still broken after 7 months.

"When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224730
Did you ever call it.

https://eggshelltherapy.com/overfunctioning-underfunctioning...

Talk about right on the money. I very much appreciate you helping me. I have some changing to do.
hmmm marriages fail after 15 years too, at what point do you declare success?
You are missing the point.

During the holodomor hunger the government forbid getting food food even if your produced it yourself.

If you went into the fields after harvesting and tried getting anything that felt on the ground because you and your family were starving you were put to death.

Producing the food yourself makes no difference if the government takes it from you
Thanks so much for the comprehensive answer!
Sorry, it's ~30 years ago and my memory was faulty as I checked and it did have one. However, I didn't use it so it must have been slower than PLIP.
The words you're putting in my mouth don't reflect my feelings or beliefs.

Don't put words in other people's mouths.

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See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Thanks! I had no idea about these issues.
> What if he did the exact same presentation in youtube, and in NK they saw that presentation? What if someone in NK downloaded the open source implementation of that blockchain, participated on it, or even mined quite a few coins?

I guess if he hadn't committed a crime, then he probably wouldn't have been arrested.
And that bird thing too... very boring these non-arguments.
No, it's definitely a ploy to get some time to interview around.
The blanket statement "people without insurance used to get care and then go bankrupt" does not apply to every single instance. Sometimes people were (and are) already so close to bankruptcy that they simply cannot afford the care that they need, so "I'll get health care and then go bankrupt" is not a live option for them.

Yes, emergency care has been essentially free in the US for those who can never pay for it, but that doesn't cover, say, chemotherapy. If you don't have insurance and don't have any way to generate significant cash (no house to sell and no wealthy generous friends) it's not that you're going to get chemo and it'll bankrupt you; you just won't get chemo at all (and you'll probably die). This is a little better now with the medicaid expansion, but not perfect, and not all states expanded medicaid.

Even today we have people dying of complications related to diabetes -- a serious but very treatable affliction -- because they can't afford supplies. In the US! The world's richest country!
SF's government is uniquely broken
If it is unimportant to you, and important to her, then splitting the difference doesn’t mean doing it your way half the time.

If it instead is important to both of you, then you have a fundamental problem that you need to sit down and work through.

Maybe there is a compromise that will leave both of you happy. Maybe one of you is willing to try changing. Or maybe you have an irreconcilable difference and need to split up.

Honestly if you are both ready to consider divorce before you change your dishwashing behavior, that’s a pretty big warning sign that things aren’t on the right track.

An example: I don’t give a shit about clothes on the bedroom floor. No one but me and my wife ever sees them. But it bothers her. It costs me very little to dump the clothes in a hamper, and makes her much happier. So I put my clothes in the hamper as much as I can remember to, and she gives me grace the times I forget. Happily together for 20 years so far.
Jamie Dimon: Fed risk tipping the economy into recession to combat inflation
You're agreeing to get audited by Oracle's lawyers and contacted by their sales just by having an account. Free is too much for doing anything with Oracle, they cannot and should not be trusted.
When I was growing up, right wing Americans were removing evolution and climate change from science books and the reason for the secession of the Confederacy from the history books. Some of that is still going on today.
I can pretty much guarantee that the wife did not say "When you leave a dirty dish by the sink, I feel like you won't do a simple thing that you know will make me happier, and that hurts me and causes me to doubt that you would do anyhing for me that required more effort." Instead, she just griped about the dish. Men are not that perceptive unless they've already been educated about this. Women need to be explicit about how they are feeling if they want to be sure that the men are getting the message.

Edit: I'll add, after a moment of reflection, that it's possible that the wife herself did not really understand the reason why the dirty dish irritated her so much. So all that occurred to her to do was complain about it and dig in her heels. The real reason might be that she feels doubts about her husband's commitment to her, and that manifests in being angry about dirty dishes.

So often we are taught that men and women are not different, but they are. This could be taught in high school in a personal relationship unit in health class. But it isn't. To the extent it's discussed, it is mostly focused on physical abuse. Mothers can also teach it to their sons, but I'm not sure many do. Mine certainly did not, and I had to learn it the hard way.
Ah, like that. Cities like Paris do still look like that because of such zoning laws, so it's not exactly impossible. IMO modern construction can be beautiful too, it's cheap (be it old or new) construction that's ugly.
You would like for carbon pulled from the atmosphere to be incorporated into something that would not immediately dump it back into the atmosphere again, such as carbon nanotubes to put in cement to strengthen concrete.
For the technology we’re talking about a couple of cans of black spray paint and five seconds of operation would be far more effective at destroying the evidence than demolishing the buildings or machines containing the technology.

Why the fascination with violent methods instead of effective methods?
It at least worked so far in preventing another Korean war. It didn't topple the Kim regime, but South Korea is mostly safe now.
It's correct for me. What are you getting?

Edit, yes I'm wrong, did a mental s/mars/moon/ without noticing.
You could use two different fluids with different densities, lose a bit on the efficiency but far lighter construction.
>Feel free to just think of me as some internet a*hole, but I'm just feeling terrible imagining myself in your position.

Nope, I appreciate the advice. From another post I think I discovered the approach. No splitsville needed.
If you invested, yes. Plus this assumes technology wouldn't have advanced regardless and ignores the massive financial pullback in the tech industry that hampered progress for years after the crash.
> My biggest problem about the author isn't even the content - but the whole thing is phrased the way it is for clickbait bc he's trying to sell a book.

I choose to take the author in good faith: his relationship fell apart, he learned something from it, and he's sharing it as a way to help others avoid the same mistake. He's owning his part of the failure. Maybe his wife made mistakes she regrets too. That's a different article for her to write.

I mean, sure, capitalism, everyone wants to make a buck. But I just don't seen any value in interpreting and commenting on this article cynically like that. The article only contains value if read in good faith. $0.02.
How do you update the schema on 300,000 databases?
'Change yourself', 'just be yourself', no one can decide what the duck to do!

Do you keep changing yourself to meet their every whim, maybe they should just let it go, it's just a glass?
International trade is a privilege not a right. If you want to thumb your nose at the international community on whom you rely to provide basic sustenance to your people you should prepare to have a bad time. Or figure out how to sustain your population without trade. But either way its the responsibility of NK, not the world, to find a way to feed the people of NK. That can be by participating in the world order and benefiting from trade, or by figuring out how to grow enough food at home.
There’s got to be a way to generate phony capital losses from NFTs that offset real income, similar to how it’s done in real estate.
Once you do that you have something that starts looking like a Gaussian process but is a lot cheaper. I believe it could have a lot of value (for people who have too much data for Gaussian process but otherwise could do with their good properties and are in a space with an easily defined distance).
Guys make up for it by doing the majority of the household tasks with the highest likelihoods to kill or maim the person doing it.

(Mostly joking. But only mostly.)
MacBook pros already have a mute-speaker button.

It would be so nice to have a mute-mic button which lights up when muted.
Sure. But one thing cryptocurrency is terrible at is requiring that you do your own op-sec. Maybe you're good at that sort of thing, but because of the inherent lack of controls to reverse transactions made by mistake or accidental fat-fingering other details, such as the address, it's pretty bad for the less tech-savvy.

Did you ever bother to check that "single link from a donation page" to make sure it's really the correct one?

I love being able to call a bank if my VISA card gets stolen and charged up to high heaven and get that all reversed.

Meanwhile, good luck with that NFT that mysteriously landed in your wallet that has bad coding in it to wreck your day. But yes, mass adoption imminent!