jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why'd you run it through Windows? I had a 33Mhz 386 and 2 (4?) MB of ram. I made a boot disk, and it worked fine.
They should redesign the header so that the site title looks like an actual header instead of a large text box. I spent a while trying to click on it to enter in my own site to check.
I'm not a chemist, but from what I recall natural rubber is subject to (relatively) rapid corrosion by ozone and synthetic rubbers don't have this problem. The rubber used for tires on planes and cars is synthetic.

I don't feel like doing the research right now but obviously 'rubber' is an umbrella term if natural and synthetic rubbers have different properties.
Both "I think gay folks should have equal rights" and "America deserved 9/11" are fundamentally statements about ethics, and neither is calling for violence.
And people still think the sun is nuclear. Ha!
I'm just imagining the level of jaw dropping and brain exploding that would have gone on had that same headline been published in 1998.

Obviously at this point almost three decades into the internet era no one really cares. We all know that "somewhere" old COBOL code is running, but in practice the companies managing the bulk of data for society didn't even exist before Y2K. Everyone with unmaintainable COBOL has long since migrated to really bad Java code instead.

But... yeah. Linux is now an official heir to the S/360. We've made it. Finally.
"demonising countries like Sweden"

Earlier last year, Sweden was being highly praised for its approach, until they ended up with a much higher per-capita death rate than neighbours and comparable countries.

"Sweden deaths in 2020 are up only single-digits against 2018"

Sweden is a low population, sparsely populated country with a relatively wealthy, healthy and homogenous population and the highest percentage of people who live alone of any country.

While Sweden did not lock down like other countries, they issued instructions to reduce travel and work from home if possible, and - as Swedes have an atypically high level of trust in the government - they complied: if you look at Google mobility reports, you find that Sweden's non-mandatory lockdown had a similar real world effect as the various lockdowns in the US and Spain. Sweden was not entirely without lockdown rules either, which got more severe as criticism within the country and from neighbours intensified.

"Hospitals have never been overloaded [..] the potential for hospital overload (beyond what flu waves incur anyway) was also eliminated."

While the hospital system was not overloaded in the UK, individual hospitals were, and the system as a whole came very close to overload during the peaks. Were it not for the first lockdown, and using the time that bought us to massively increase the capacity, they absolutely would have been overloaded.

The hospital my girlfriend works at ran out of PPE, oxygen and staff (due to illness), and the conditions for staff were beyond awful, including multiple of her colleagues in their 40s and up being killed. This isn't just because the UK health system was poorly prepared, prior to the pandemic, we were considered the second most prepared country in the world for a pandemic.

I am not saying lockdown is the right approach -- I don't know, and indeed lockdown carries with it a huge number of economic and health harms. But to characterise this as just a normal flu-season and say that hospitals coped fine is clearly wrong. The only reason hospitals weren't overloaded was because of a combination of heroic efforts from staff and measures to limit the number of incoming patients. One reason the UK likely got so much closer to being overloaded and has a higher number of deaths (besides demographic differences and population density) was that we left it relatively late to lock down and our lock down was relatively tame compared to many in Europe.
It really stood out to me when fast food places started posting the calories on their menus.

And a large soft drink was competing with the giant burger in calorie count.
It's not much different than a recording of a conversation. I wouldn't implicitly expect the recording to be destroyed, or expect the law to require destruction when the recording was made on equipment I don't control.
This has been trendy for a few years now. It’s not quite “brutalist” because the nostalgic aspect references design that certainly was state of the art for its time. But it has brutalist artistic instincts.

I don’t think more modern/clean designs have to be devoid of fun/rebelliousness or lack character (I’m working on a site that IMO intersects both, it’s very much a WIP but feel free to check out [my handle].github.io if you want to see it in its infancy). But it certainly does tend to hew toward the easy.

The only thing I disagree with in your comment is that it necessarily has character. At a certain point the retro design trend will be so commonplace that it’s also hewing easy and a fairly straight shot from “I want brand to be fun”. I hope it doesn’t reach that point though, because I quite like being surprised by the occasional 90s-style graphics.
It's true one must advocate for one's self. It's not true that we should choose structures that require more self promotion than productivity. Academia used to be rife with corners where obscure problem solvers could live a decent life. The pressure for grant monies and summer salaries have done away with those corners and it shouldn't be so.
> but the definition of “historian” presumes some professional detachment

The idea of everything you've ever posted becoming part of a giant "digital permanent record" used by data brokers, advertisers, credit bureaus, trolls, nosy people, etc. is somewhat unappealing.
Non sequitur.

Most (if not all) of those are clearly maritime traffic connecting two points of the shore in an endless loop, not fishing ships.
Cloudflare is running authoritative nameservers whereas Google is running resolvers (8.8.8.8, etc).

I might argue that resolvers should support the ANY query since they are just acting as a proxy/cache in front of the authoritative servers.
I think this point is moot.

Degradation of soil - or specifically - the ability of topsoil to retain enough nutrients to support agriculture - is not the primary problem we are facing today.

The key issues are -

#1 Reclamation of fertile land for housing the burgeoning population is the largest reason for declining food production - which in turn leads to the increasing use of chemical fertilizers for enhanced yield from the same or reduced available land.

#2 The % of population engaged in agriculture as compared to pure consumers of agricultural produce.
This is perhaps what msandford meant. The net number of agricultural workers 'producers' is rapidly declining due to higher yield 'jobs' off farm. This impacts output/acre significantly.

However the ceiling for human resource in farming is pretty low. Perhaps we need to look at a metric like Man month/unit of produce.

The need of the hour is to change the basic value chain. Consumers have no stake in (and dont care about) the production or the land itself.

Farmers are being marginalized by increasing land prices/roi on selling farmland for other purposes.

Landowners/Bulk Consumers are driven by volumes - not necessarily by sustainability. This is like strip mining.

Perhaps a new platform is required to realign the value chain.
The above is particularly true for India - which will also be one of the hardest hit - earliest.
How does influxdb compare?
The article specifically states the the recorder indicates the copilot dialed in a deliberate descent.
That was the Air France flight, and it strikes me as a major UX disaster. The flight sticks' input was averaged, as if that's ever a desirable scenario!

"Oh yeah, we know we want to keep it level, so you pull back on the stick a bit, I'll push it an equal amount and we'll be okay." Yeeeah.
Hangouts/google voice have been really bad in this regard for me. Lots of sms drops a year or so ago. No message drops in a while but constant notification drops getting me in trouble.
+1 Perhaps it's their way of dealing with the fact that Office is just too expensive for many people, without acknowledging that to the public by dropping the price.

People who don't use Office for business would struggle to justify $209 AUD (RRP for Home and Student edition) to themselves just to write the occasional letter - even if they're not aware of Google Docs or other alternatives.
The idea definitely has potential. The current market they are targeting is the best setting for this kind of application. A bunch of horny college students in a confined location, i.e. a campus. If the founders manage things right I think they could turn this into a great platform for developers and advertisers and this comes at just the right time because everyone and their gandma at this point has a location aware mobile device.
One of the issues the whole setter/getter convention creates is that, for instance, I'm now reluctant to write a setter method that does more than just set the field value [1], because some other programmer or some tool might expect that it is no more than a property mutator.

[1] Example: child.setParent(parent) would perform parent.children.add(this)
And even then, if I was presented these options, I would take the third path: transfer to another university to finish my degree.
I've recently done a project with puppet that turned out horribly. I'll share what I discovered:

* Puppet's error messages are next to useless. Sometimes it can only tell you which file had an error, and not which line number. Sometimes you'll be left wondering where in the many files that make up a complex project there was an error.

* The only way to actually test the correctness of your puppet scripts is to deploy on real servers. Your staging environment has to be identical to production if you don't want any nasty surprises.

* Despite being written in ruby, the design doesn't follow ruby's philosophies or best practices. The config language is not dynamic or ruby-ish. Compared to ruby, you get code blowout when you can't use DRY and have to unroll loops to fit inside the bounds of what the config language can do.

* Simple things are hard. You have to write your own modules or use 3rd party modules for what I consider simple things, such as editing an existing system config file to add two lines in the middle if they don't already exist.

* There's a steep learning curve because a large project is like spaghetti code where you aren't quite sure which file to find what you're looking for. It is very easy to create dependency loops, and hard to find them, and even harder to resolve them. I ended up generating the dependency graph to a PNG file and eyeballing it, several times per day.

I got the impression that puppet is ideal for getting a "PHP+MYSQL" server up and running that requires almost no deviation from the operating system defaults. If your setup is a more complex one I'd stay well away.
I don't know. I have a suspicion books are overvalued due to the cultual weight they've historically carried. Wise people read books. We tend to think of browsing the internet as frivilous when compared to reading classic literature -- but is it really? With books, the individual ideas don't get filtered by up and down votes or what have you. You only get ideas from one person -- you don't get immediate dissenting views. People on the internet know attention is a scarce resource and make an effort to condense their ideas as much as possible. Long form has advantages, certainly; but perhaps a big reason we are so drawn to the internet is that it is actually the better use of time.
We should start worrying only when Steve calls an iProduct "my wife".
come to think of it, it could be neat to call your pizza joint "piz^2a"

(I am mildly disappointed that I cannot use <sup>2</sup> or something of the like. Are HN comments pto?)
Indeed. Last time I was forced on LTE in home at the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.
This makes more sense when you realize that DTC = Direct To Consumer.
I thought that there were a couple of free options for iOS/macOS, but to be honest I haven't looked into it for a couple of years, our in house solution is good enough.
The last time I was forced on LTE at home in the states, the plan I described above was the best in the US. That was 5ish years ago when I was living in the stix.
> The thought I remember having is that crypto-anarchism seemed to require being embedded in a well-functioning state, but that this assumption was kind of just waved away.

Not sure about anyone else, but speaking from my own philosophising, you're subtly wrong/missing the point: it requires not having any of your critical physical substrate/infrastructure embedded in poorly-functioning state. The distinction is that, in a lot of (over-)simplified models, there is no physical substrate, so what kind of state it's embedded in is a vacuous question. Compare, eg, any (over-)simplified model of computation that doesn't consider physical problems like cosmic ray bitflips or hard drives dying in fires/wearing out (ie, most of them).
While this of course is pure BS, with the way they handled all this so far my trust in them has been lost quite a while ago. And I guess I am not the only one. My question though is what alternatives are people moving to now? Any experiences?
It sounds like Kugel is running out of storage space
consciousness is dissimilar to awareness, in my limited understanding it is about feelings (experience) in itself and not about being aware of being aware about feelings.
In my experience the Cliff Notes distill out all the parts actually worth reading. The talking points tend to be obvious. The devil is in the details
:) I was assuming sort of an up-and-sideways kind of up, and maybe they sink down when they hit the top and go up-and-sideways again. Jellyfish just don't seem like the right-angles-to-the-surface sort of swimmers to me, but like I say, I have no experience with jellyfish, not even seeing them on nature shows.
Exhausting ports or generating a lot of TIME_WAIT states would also cause similar problems. How to protect against those ?
I love the "Greater Fool Theory". Well said. It is a great way to summarize the problems that exist with a lot of companies.
This is all true, and I am sure a lot of us on HN do such things. But a fresh designer type prolly hasn't/won't.

There is nothing wrong with your method, except that it is longer than "Step one."
I'm currently working on something like this. It's non-functional / not launched...
A surprising number of web developers don't have a VPS.
Every Latin student's favorite. So many dirty words to learn!
And a broken form at that. The vast majority of dental problems are avoidable either via diet or dental care.
>helping fund solar in Nigeria and elsewhere will be a net positive for your own economy

The issue here is probably that there are so many people on earth you'd have to invest in so many places that you'd be a poor country before getting any returns.
Nigeria prefers coal because it involves lots of heavy construction, which means lots of kickbacks for the political elite.

Acemoglu and Robinson's concept of "extractive elites" is useful here.[1]

1. http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/5/1/who-are-the-extracti...
The standard mechanism you'll find in the dangworks is you submit the thing and write a (almost certainly first) comment about that one interesting thing. You get to steer the discussion somewhat but not frame it entirely.
I think non-{science,tech,engineering} people are a considerably more pessimistic about the world than the average.
If the comments in this thread are anything to go by, I'd say they are not realizing it and just doubling down. Its downright disturbing to watch the double standards and hypocrisy.

We will now watch the full force of social media, traditional media, populist talking heads, CEOs, reporters, activists, group leaders, politicians, etc all jumping on this thing to milk it to it's full extent and amplify its negative aspects and blow it way out of proportion. Just like the same power structures were last year used to amplify the "positive" message of certain other protests.
Your advice is sound and it will definitely create security. However, what it will not create is "a sense of urgency". Follow both steps 1 and 2 and ten years from now you will find yourself still employed (by the same people?) and in the same situation.

My advice would be:

1) Make sure you have at least 6 months worth of savings.
2) While you're still in your day job try to land a freelance or contract job.
3) Once you have a gig, THEN quit your job.
4) When the freelance/contract job comes to an end, look for a new one.

Now point 4 will take some time. Maybe a few weeks sometimes more than a month. In that time-frame you can work on your project/product full-time. You might have to go back to contracting, but at least you can put in some decent time to work for project.
Especially when you have such pretty defaults in things like Matlab and Mathematica.

Matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) is actually the best opensource library for creating great looking graphs that I have come across, and is comparable to Matlab and Mathematica.
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I took booleandilemma's comment as a joke, but to the broader point, why does a joke page that's smaller than a blog post need a license?

Does it add something to the satire, or does it make it funnier? Clearly the original page's lack of a license didn't make it impossible for anyone else to iterate on it.

And again, I can't stress this enough, the point of the original page was not that every single addition you could make to a website was bad. It was not that you shouldn't have a dark mode. It used radical minimalism to show that by default websites work, even if you have no clue what you're doing.

The lack of niceties is the point. Nobody was unable to read the original page or iterate on it. Could the page have been nicer? Sure. But the point was that even if you did nothing at all, the web still worked.
The class of integrals that QCD solutions belong to is known to be NP-hard. It is not known specifically that QCD itself is NP-hard but it is suspected to be by many.
What’s a moving GC?
I could rephrase what I said as "being a police officer is slightly less dangerous than being a crossing guard"
Max width and font size are wrong. Text isn't measured in pixels.
I have stopped waiting for website authors to figure out how to make a dark theme. I just have my user agent do it with https://darkreader.org/

Like ad blockers, sometimes you have to adjust it, but it usually Just Works. The main innovation from this is that my display has much improved contrast, because I can set the brightness for text on a black background, instead of setting the brightness for an entire screen of white. It is amazing how good a screen looks when it's not running at 1% brightness. (Just don't open a non dark mode app at night, or you won't be sleeping for a week.)
If you analyse reams of statistical data for patterns, it's really unsurprising that, after the fact, a few patterns (sewer system, traffic, crime rates and AIDS cases) cherry picked for the fact that they match well .. well, matches very well. In other words, it's not surprising that large data sets have patterns. What would be surprising would be if a very large number of variables were predictable, but that does not seem to be the case.

There's a section in The Black Swan devoted to the fallacy that we tend to project the fact that we understand the rather narrow field of physics very well - to the extend where we can predict things in that domain reliably - to an expectation that we can do the same for other fields, when in fact, it's physics that's the outlier in our ability to understand it so well.

In the end all his efforts seems to come down to the conclusion that cities exists because they provide economies of scale. I couldn't provide statistical proof for that fact to save my life, but still .. well, duh?
>The problem is that people want collaborative editing, and we want our files not to be tied to a single device.

People also want Pringles and reality TV. Popularity doesn't make something good.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/06/08/14-days...

19 dead in 2 weeks, without any aggression even close to what happened yesterday. It's obvious that the death toll would be higher if BLM protestors were as aggressive as the Trump protestors yesterday.
> 27 inch 2K or 43 inch 4K are the sweet spots.

27" 2K is gross. Compared to 4K, it looks so pixelated that I feel like I'm back in the 90s. 27" 4K at native resolution is far too small for me to read, but it looks great at 150% scaling, or even 200% for some things.
Been using mostly Telegram over the last year. About 80-90% of my regular contacts were using it already, got a few more to use it today.

2-3 People are using other contact options like Discord or SMS. Which is fine with me.
Doc friends and I assembled to compare the features (we feel) matter most across all major messengers.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-UlA4-tslROBDS9IqHal...
I have been using Signal since before it was even called Signal (TextSecure and RedPhone), and I must say it has really refined itself over the years. It's pretty easy to set up these days, and I have more non tech oriented friends switching over seamlessly. I use Signal's voice and video calling features as well without any issues.
Same applies to using npm on workstations and production machines.
Matrix with nerds and nerd friends. Signal with friends and family.
I suppose then that you'd be happy to make any and all conversations you've had in private during recent years public for all to see.
First attempt at some content marketing for modfy.video would love feedback on either the product or the type of marketing itself
This made me laugh. Admittedly, I don't eat much meat, because I get sick of it so easily. Somehow I imagine roots and berries were a sought after alternative.
Whatsapp was not "unsustainable" at all. They took pride in squeezing every tiny piece of performance out of their servers - and ran with 50 (!) engineers for 900M users. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
They won’t be playing 24/7, if you assume a paying user plays one match/hour per day on average you need 1/24th of a server per month/user.

You can definitely get more than a few servers for $120/month
Weird, I have had the opposite experience re: touch screen responsiveness. Difficulty turning pages, multiple "clicks" to get a button to work, etc.

Being the owner of both an iPad and a rooted Nook Color, there's a pretty large quality gap between the two. That's not to say the NC is terrible -- the NC is actually a serious value buy -- but it's a testament to the competitive advantage that Apple has over everyone else in the tablet market.
I think the scare is the explicit statement that exercising is not enough. If that is the case, then I will make adjustments to my work/sitting habits; if it's not the case, I'm pretty happy with my current status quo of sitting most of the day and then doing a challenging workout at night.

However, all of these recent sitting news articles seem to be based on the same study. Perhaps the study is flawless, or perhaps the data collection was flawed, or the results can't be replicated, or something else went wrong. In that case, the news stories are prematurely trying to worry people into being into sitting less. I think being active is awesome, but it should be something you do because you enjoy it, or because you have weighed the pros and cons and decided it's worthwhile; it should not be something you do because you were misled about the the health risks.
Yep, there's no better way to make children hate something than to make it compulsory.

There are so many great pleasures in life (reading novels, exercising) that I never got to enjoy until I left high school and stopped being forced to do 'em. Let's not add another to the list.