skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to assume it's true to validate their advertising. For the sake of argument, if a server uses only a RAM disk, is that an improvement over having disks? Of course a network can still have sneaky equipment in between but that is still possible without RAM disks, so is it not beneficial to have a RAM disk?

Please note that I am not arguing in favor of their advertising or to say that it is successfully avoiding surveillance. But, do you believe that no-disk boot, assuming it actually takes place, is a positive thing, or not?

I admit I misconstrued your original comment to be a criticism of the technology rather than the fact that this VPN company advertises as such. Nonetheless I do think no-disk-boot is not useless as a technology and if you have any disagreement I would love to hear it, as someone who uses a VPN (not expressVPN) that says they use the same setup.
My cynicism was hard earned. I grew up with what is sometimes called Whig History, the notion that the world is a history of gradual improvement. Not just of technology, but of humanity itself, towards more freedom and compassion.

I believed I had a role to play in the next step. I was both smart and empathetic. I thought I could help establish middle grounds, where people found ways to live together despite disagreements. We did have to agree on anything except the need for everyone to live, and otherwise ignore each other.

What I have seen in that time is a rise in deliberate hatefulness, paired with a deliberate anti-intellectualism. I watched in bafflement as things I considered obvious, like basic science and basic civility, became points of argument. It all seemed designed to defeat specifically my approach.

TFA encourages me to choose optimism anyway. I don't know that I can. It feels a bit like accepting Pascal's Wager, which is itself cynical. Whig History fails for being too optimistic, and how can more optimism succeed any better?

It was painful to admit that the world was going to devote itself so hard to hate. It seemed impossible for so many to be fundamentally bad people. I avoided it as long as I could, but eventually I couldn't continue ignoring the evidence.

I believe at this point the best I can hope for is to make a few marginal, local improvements while the world as a whole gives in to hatred and chosen ignorance.
> I've found that frequently bluffing in life pays off.

Other life pro tips:

- Stealing is a way to get money

- Murder may be useful

- Fraud is profitable
This feels like whataboutism.

First off, activism is uncomfortable - it’s about changing the status quo and anyone who benefits will take issue with it even if they don’t actively perpetuate the system. MLK wasn’t met with open arms; he was harassed, arrested and ultimately assassinated.

Personally I’ve worked with many Indians too and I have never heard anyone one of them bring up caste; but I’m not Indian, so why would they?

A better benchmark is how many people of lower caste have you talked to and how do they feel about it? It may be the case that the structures of American Indians have already expunged all the lower caste Indians from your workplace.
3. What is purple pipe?
4. They have to get their water from somewhere, and clearly there is not anywhere else to get it. Wells are not the problem - farming is the problem.
5. SoCal and Desert communities don't use a meaningful amount of water. This is the whole point. ALL communities, businesses, industry, etc - put together - use very little of the water. Nothing is helped by limiting those uses of water. Only farming matters.
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> failure to differentiate Israel (the state and government) with Judaism (the religion) with Jew/Hebrew (the ethnicity)

That has not been my experience. AFAICT even people who are extremely careful and specific about criticizing the state of Israel - even more specifically the IDF or a political party within Israel responsible for a particular act - still get tarred with the "anti-Semitic" brush. Jewish people have been severely oppressed for centuries, and the state of Israel has been attacked repeatedly. The response has been a strong emphasis on solidarity and mutual support, which is generally laudable, but in some this manifests as militant intolerance of even the tiniest deviation from the (insiders') conventional position. Unfortunately, those few - and I know most Israeli and Jewish people are much more open minded because that has been their tradition for millennia - often end up controlling the debate.
Elm had a virtual DOM before React even existed.

You can argue (and I'd agree) Facebook has talent for cherry-picking the best parts of innovative projects. But cherry-picking in and of itself doesn't constitute innovation.
Like you suggested, convert to Hydrogen[1] to store for winter or filling a H2 EV.

https://newatlas.com/energy/lavo-home-hydrogen-battery-stora...
I wouldn't do it for 50%, I can see how some heuristics would get you there.

- Right now we spend 33% of our life working, nd the stress of work impacts another 33%.

- A billion is also way more than out life expected income, but there's a big marginal reduction of value to money. But you also get it now when you're younger rather than parsing it out.

- As a random 25 year old male, you would only have a 1 in 16 chance of surviving to retirement age at 60 on your own.

I personally would only take the deal for 2.5% chance of death though.
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Aside from last names, diet is a big giveaway. If someone is vegetarian, it is highly likely that they come from the so called "upper" castes. In certain interpretations of Hinduism, which are now becoming the dominant ones in India, meat is considered polluting. If you eat meat, you are dirty, and this "dirtiness" is at the root of why some castes are still considered untouchable.
Is Apple about to launch its own search engine?
Yeah, some of the most scenic landscape can be found crossing the Rockies.
To be fair, the vast majority of games on steam, iOS and Android are shovelware and asset flips. The barrier to entry to publishing on these platforms is $99, so it's not surprising that the majority are not profitable. There's only so many times I will play a passion project 2 person metroidvania with roguelike mechanics before I start to look for something else.
> Blockchain is just a technology

I am definitely a cryptocurrency contrarian, so I was going to stay out of this thread - it wouldn't help OP to have people questioning his fairly straight-forward request.

But I don't think there is such a thing as "just a technology". Technology comes out of people's desires, and you can't disentangle it from the context it's created in. You can argue that blockchain is just an append-only database, but that ignores all sorts of externalities its adoption is causing.
The Empire Builder actually has a park ranger get on the train and do nature lessons/wildlife sightings from a viewing car. It’s pretty great.
Eh, if you're just doing lessons then I wouldn't count that. The instructor is the one piloting the plane. Even if you take control, they're the one responsible for the aircraft as the instructor. I would only answer yes to that question if you solo.
Haven't seen these two so thought I'd add them to the list.

Minetest is a block building game engine (like minecraft) built around the idea mods add all content. There are a bunch of games built for it, and last I checked a active modding community.
https://www.minetest.net/

The other is AlephOne, a engine to play all the Marathon games (story FPS, pre-halo bungie made games) along with a bunch more community created ones. I've sunk a good bit of time into both the trilogy and the additional 6 big community made ones.
https://alephone.lhowon.org/
Why would you assume "best" = "racist"?

Also - which companies are saying they hire the worst people?

I've worked at several companies - every single one of them claimed to hire the best. It's just corporate psychobabble at this point.
You're asking a lot if you think consumers should know what the effect of buying almonds has on the water supply. Simply charge the almond farmers more for their water, almond prices go up, consumers buy less of them.
People can argue about the design of the study all they want, but 170k people followed over 7 years is enough evidence for me that drinking black coffee is beneficial to my health.
> Every Quality Engineering team I have been apart of had had a higher ratio of females

Positive discrimination is also discrimination, why not look for the same ratio as the job market has? Over hiring from an underepresented group necessarily means lowering the competence, unless you purposely interview a disproportionate number of individuals from the underepresented group, is this what you have done?

Edit: needing to interview a disproportionate number of individuals to be able to overhire from an underepresented group without affecting performance is just a straightforward statistical fact assuming the same competence across all groups.
> Genuinely asking: Is this also sexism?

One way to look at it is that the disparity may be a symptom of complicated cultural biases, and we may not know the specific reasons. Since there’s nothing gender or sex related to doing the job of QA, then if the disparity actually is measurable and widespread, it does reveal cultural bias. This is currently true for nurses and for elementary school teachers in the US, for example.

It’s important to note that this can happen without individuals who have any overtly “sexist” behavior at all. It can be the result of cultural attitudes and not prejudiced hiring practices. This is why using the word “sexism” on it’s own might not be the best word for it, even if it’s technically true. Perhaps better terms are “cultural sexism”, or “cultural bias”. I’m sure there are better terms. The problem with using the bare word “sexism” is it tends to be accusatory and out people on the defensive, where the issue may literally be with all of us.
I used this exact issue today while pointing out how Debian support dates can be misleading as packages themselves aren’t always getting fixes: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/763#...
1. you're trying to imply that because food budget is greater than water budget, that raising water prices on farmers will affect households more. This does not make any sense. Only a fraction of the price of food paid by a household is attributable to the price of water, so you can't really conclude that just because households spend more money on food than on water, that increasing water prices on farmers will cost them more.

2. even if that were the case, it's a necessary evil to incentivize lower water use crops. Suppose there were only two types of food, apples and oranges. They both cost around the same right now, but oranges require 10x more water. Raising water prices will raise orange prices, but that's arguably a good thing because it forces consumers to choose more water efficient foods. I don't see how the alternative (ie. continue subsidizing oranges even though they're more costly to society) is any better. Not to mention, you can redistribute the excess earnings back to citizens to make this revenue neutral.
Oh while we are on this topic there are branches within Brahmins and each group gets to feel superior to other Brahmins because reasons.

In some regions, there were also some devout worshippers of one God that take adverserial position about worshippers of another God (Shiva versus Vishnu)

Luckily most of these (I think) are on their way out and don't manifest in professional workplaces of today.

These tendencies must have definitely shaped careers and unfairly disadvantaged people as recently as a couple of decades ago.
> Do we need every mega-corporation to weigh in on every social issue globally?

It’s called “leadership.”
Is it true that Amtrak will ship your car for you? I thought about doing a cross country trip and the idea of having my car with me on the other side seemed like a solid plan.
Caste is inherited and runs in bloodlines. Why wouldn't it be considered racism?
Arguably it’s not protected right? Caste is more or less like the old European class distinction between royals and commoners. Nobody contends that lower caste people are a different race than higher caste people. (And I would argue it would be problematic to try and reframe caste distinctions in racial terms.) As far as I know, class discrimination isn’t illegal in the US.
As others have stated, if Harvard university relocated to Saudi Arabia, i would expect it to become a low ranked university in 10-15 years. Harvard became world famous because it was one of the crown jewel university of the most powerful nation on earth for the last 80 years, take it away from this context and it would have been just a good but not special university.
Perhaps GP isn’t a very good poker player :)
Yeah this is the main question everyone should be researching. Basically does caffeine (in)tolerance predict health issues.
> For those who are curious about the "7", this is the ASCII-fication of the modifier letter called glottal stop (Unicode: ˀ):

Why not just use the apostrophe "ʻ" as they do in Hawaii?
Shoot, they write Hungarian names in the wrong order.
Yes, but my experimentation with game development has shown me that I am no good at making games that are actually fun to play or indeed interesting in any way, so I don't quit my day job.
Brogue.
the roma i know just want to live in a different way, they dont really want to participate in the system we have built.

they live by another set of rules and values

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_society_and_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_(Romani_court)
Wow. Turok, that's a game I played to death back in the N64 days. Haven't really thought about it since. This brought back a ton of nostalgia!
not true -- your prefix location is a BGP tag which is appended based on where you're physically connected (which T1 carriers will do). Obviously you can get around it with an overlay network but you'll need some trivial PoP in India.
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Same as you, but I took 90% on the time only on the last line, the first three are solved use basic swipe of two squares, as in a beginner cube method.
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Because it's pretty easy to set up a ready only server that runs off read only storage and that doesn't include any writable storage. The fact that it could be done doesn't really require extreme proof. They could still be lying but it's not a hard or unusual thing to do.
It really is not. No where in that article does it even hint at patents being a primary limiting factor for the availability of vaccines in developing countries.

Of course not all companies are going to release their patents, but the fact there are several that already have, means its not the main problem. mRNA vaccines require extreme temperature controls during transportation and that incurs much more of a prohibitive cost in those countries than any amount of patent royalties do, even if there were no waived patents.

There are cases of huge shipments of vaccine donations going to developing countries that then go unused or underutilized because they do not have the resources to transport and distribute them effectively. Look at the COVAX initiative. The countries that failed to get vaccine rates up even with huge donations of vaccines lacked the infrastructure to distribute them whether it was the temperature controls or not having enough syringes.

"in Benin, only 267 shots were being given each day, a pace so slow that 110,000 of the program’s AstraZeneca doses expired...The vaccine pileup illustrates one of the most serious but largely unrecognized problems facing the immunization program as it tries to recover from months of missteps and disappointments: difficulty getting doses from airport tarmacs into people’s arms."[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/world/europe/covax-covid-...
The VS does not use wavetables like the PPG. Vector synthesis is in a category of its own. It uses four single-cycle waveforms that can be selected individually, and one morphs among them in a 2D plane using a joystick or via envelopes and LFOs. It is not a crossfade, as it recalculates the resulting waveform on the fly. The result is similar to a wavetable, but in 2 dimensions.
This looks pretty close to what I was hoping to find. Thanks for the suggestion!
I played DCSS for a while, but they kept turning it into a different game. I think the real problem with that game is that only the heaviest players take an interest in developing it, and those players eventually get bored with the game as it is.
Yea I thought that was worded a little confusingly as well, or at least my intuition is confusing me versus what was written.

I also wonder if it's just increased consumption of water via coffee that is helpful here. They're saying it's not the caffeine so would it then just be the residue from the beans soaking in the water?
>Should renters be stuck with extremely high water bills when their landlords require a green lawn? Or should landlords not be able to require certain landscape features?

Isn't the landlord responsible for maintaining the property, not the renter?

>And the toilets, should the renters living paycheck-to-paycheck be the ones replacing these units?

In theory that's what building codes/rental regulations are supposed to solve (ie. a law that says rentals must provide low flush toilets).
How is alfalfa being exported relevant? Only 0.005% of the water used to grow alfalfa ends up in the alfalfa itself. Almost all of the water used for growing alfalfa ends up in the local atmosphere via either evaporation from the soil or transpiration from the plants.

Before one can reasonably discuss the impact of alfalfa growing one needs to figure out what happens to that 99.995% of the water that ends up initially in the local atmosphere. What places does it end up? How long does it take to get there? How much of this process is a loop?

I've not been able to find answers to those questions.
Minetest is awesome. It is a lot of fun to play with kids on LAN. We played countless hours on the base game only and then there are tons of mods.
Why does it matter what the race of the speaker is?
But why is it important to make the distinction

We don't have a distinction for when other animals do things, there's no logical reason to separate humans
I know there were studies about eating organic food that at deeper levels of observation just mirror income inequality.
> I mean, you probably think it's a good joke, and it may be for the general public. But it doesn't make any sense to an astronomer at any wavelength.

There wouldnt be any wavelengths with a black hole, not even a lead balloon.
Indeed, I never played the original, but I believe a fair bit has been done since then.

BTW, it's easy to forget to include the cut scenes when building from source, which IMO do add to the game.
I agree a VPN won't help against a three letter agency. But it will help against an ISP, who has a legal right to sell your browsing data in the US.

This is one of the use cases for why you might want a VPN, if you trust a VPN company more than your ISP.

A VPN is just paying for putting your trust in a VPN brand rather than an ISP brand. I don't see why that's such an offensive business to so many HN users.
The suggested step 2 in this article is 'calculate the expected value' . . . but isn't this going to be far more complicated in practice? See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value#Expected_values...

Probability distributions are complicated. Even determining what kind of distribution you are look at is difficult in many cases. Such distributions are also skewed in real life by things like insider information (in poker, that would be cheating). Even so the list is rather intimidating, assuming fair play:

Bernoulli, Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Uniform, Exponential, Normal, Standard Normal, Pareto, Cauchy

If financial institutions (and crypto players) are using these kind of approaches to make their bets, then isn't the individual investor hopelessly outgunned in the vast majority of cases? Plus, not having a big pool of capital to absorb temporary losses makes that situation even worse.

Investment capitalism, in other words, is just a casino for the uber-wealthy. Letting it rule the economy is a serious mistake.
Sounds like sampling bias to me.
This is a follow-up to my most popular post, We Need a Middle Class for Startups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327219

Both of these ideas are on my list of solutions to The World’s Biggest Problems.

I want to raise a $1M+ per year rolling fund to build this accelerator.

Who would be ideal investors for this fund? I'm thinking angels to start and family offices and PE as we scale.
Agreed re: Zephyr.

I took it from SAC to CHI last month, even riding coach it was a pretty good two days I spent mostly fasted, drinking black coffee while programming in the observation car. It's the perfect duration for a short fast and that eliminates a bunch of the bathroom and food needs, just caffeinated coding with great views. And in the end I've gone from CA to IL for ~$150 with a mountain bike checked to boot.

Something worth noting is the dining car still wasn't available to coach travelers on my trip, only sleeper cars could access it. Vestiges of the pandemic according to the announcements. It felt a bit like skimpflation to me, but they still had the little snack bar below the observation deck available to all.
Think they were generating load? Going through the urandom device not bad as it has to do a bit of work to get that rand number? Just for throughput though zero is prob better.
Yes, I was going to add to that comment that Europeans can't understand the treatment of blacks in America either.
Last year I drove my car round trip San Francisco to Chicago, this year I'm taking the Amtrak Zephyr instead (fortunately I don't need a car at my destination). When I hitched around Europe after college I took multiple overnight trips on trains (and boats) but this will be the first time I have dedicated sleeping accomodations on a moving transport.

While I am looking forward to the trip I think there are some minor perils that should be noted (I haven't finished reading the linked article yet).

Tracks are shared with freight trains, sometimes there are unplanned delays of hours.

Bad weather, fires, or other incidents can also cause delays, a half day or more is not unheard of.

Because of Covid, it seems that for now, coach passengers are not allowed in the dining car, only those with roomettes (not 100% sure about this). I've read blog posts that on some Amtrak trips, meals were only served in the roomettes, so the dining car not in use (easier to keep clean, I guess?)

Wifi is not available on all trains.

The following discussion forum for Passenger Trains has daily commentary on various Amtrak comings and goings, photos etc. The first page is free to view, to see more requires a 3-month or full year membership (disclaimer: not affiliated with this site).

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/list.php?4