jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It depends on where we are talking about. Inside the solar system is the heliosphere [1] with lots of particles from solar wind. As you leave the solar system you get the interstellar medium [2], which is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium, most of it about half a particle per cm^3. Between the galaxies there's the intergalactic medium [3], which is speculated to contain about half of (normal, not-dark) matter in tendrils with a density of about 1-10 particles per cm^3 (and a lot less outside those tendrils).

The best vacuums we can produce artificially on earth have a couple billion particles per cm^3.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm%E2%80%93hot_intergalactic...
It seems like they at least created the recipe at first, so it's not just 100% marketing.

> Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz was inspired by an existing energy drink named Krating Daeng, which was first introduced and sold in Thailand by Chaleo Yoovidhya. He took this idea, modified the ingredients to suit the tastes of Westerners, and, in partnership with Chaleo, founded Red Bull GmbH in 1987 in Chakkapong, Thailand. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull
I always wondered if that random stabbing pain in your rib or kidney etc was a comic ray to the nerve.
> I think YouTube is at its heart fundamentally incompatible with providing only high quality enriching content.

You could say that about any publisher or platform.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, it's exactly true. In EU if you have 28 days of paid leave, the company has to give you that time off, no exceptions. In US companies with "unlimited" vacation time it's not really unlimited because most places would really not like if you took 28 days off a year(and promptly exercise their right to at will employment) and a lot of companies would say ok, you can have unlimited leave but you have to be on call. In Germany it's literally illegal for employees to bother employees while they are on holiday.
Can you make the Terraform provider better please? :D
OAuth is just an identity tool (to say a login is a certain person). Zanzibar can be seen more as a ACL system that you can put across your system. So it is there to validate that a given user is able to access any specific resource.
hh yeah that's fun! try playing a game upside down
Well, take it to the easyprivacy guys, µBlock only has their list enabled by default.
To be fair, the crappy $99 inkjet these days is a much better machine than even 10 years ago. I got mine for free locally because the market is so saturated (used at least), which is great for the consumer. It has a scanner. It can connect to my computer or my cell phone wirelessly. I don't have to turn it on, feed in paper, and open some flaps or anything like that before use to ensure the ink doesn't dry out when I'm not printing. I just hit print on my device and it fires up in the next room from its sleep state. Putting in just the black ink turned it on black ink only mode automatically, my old inkjets on the other hand would moan about missing some colors, or protest by doing strange things like printing out a black and white document using only the yellow ink on the white page. It's also remarkably quiet compared to my ancient inkjets, which made my home sound like a machine shop when I printed out a few pages. Time will tell how it holds up over the years, but barring anything catastrophic, printing might now be a solved thing for me.
Tldr, he found a new platform he likes and has a few tips. Those platforms all seem like a trap to commoditize freelancers to me, at least in the long run. Then again, I tried freelancing in my own last year and it was hard to get clients without a track record. The advice I was given by some friends who have had more success is to work, use those years to build up contacts, and launch with a set of potential clients already in place (and beware of the employment contracts forbidding you from working with or for people after you leave your company)
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. Getting provoked by one word and making a flamewar reply out of it is definitely not in the set of response patterns we want here. We want the kind that lead to more interesting / less predictable discussion.

To do this requires resisting this sort of provocation in oneself—i.e. waiting until the activation dies down, and then either moving on to something else or finding a more interesting response to share. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

Also, please don't use allcaps for emphasis and please don't go on about downvotes. These things are all in the site guidelines—would you please review them (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and stick to the rules when posting here? We'd appreciate it, because we're trying to avoid the internet hell in which everything becomes consumed by the never-ending flamewars.
Agreed.

She ended up making money.

And Uber needs to give a bit more training to their drivers about ADA.

1.1M is under-the-couch-cushions for Uber, but the publicity cost them a lot more.
Happens today, like AWS Elasticache and AWS Aurora. I do think you're right in that it will make those decisions easier. Particularly for AGPL/GPL things. Now they can be reasonably sure that cloning the end user facing API bit is "fair use".
> So there is absolutely nothing a company can do to absolve themselves of the poor behavior of employees?

Let's disregard the absolutism for a bit. Generally companies are held accountable for the way their employees behave on the job. If they don't make or enforce policies, that's on Uber. It's clearly a widespread problem for them. The saying goes "the buck stops here" despite what these companies may do to avoid responsibility.
Fair point for the last, but what did Picasso say already about stealing?
Huh? For one, nothing stops you from saying you are the creator, and nobody would have any way to say you're not.

Second, even if you have used a generator tool, regardless of if you wrote it or just run it, you're the creator of the works it produced, and you can trivially get copyright for it, unless somebody else copyrighted the same work.

Half of Brian Eno's output is generated works, where he sets some rules on a music synthesis system, and lets it create a work. Never had any issue copyrighting them...
Seems like people think it will, and there will be a mini 13: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/15/iphone-13-mini-expected...
At first glance I assumed it was a your the man now dog downloader.
I see your point and I think the messaging about books is often a bit wishy washy, however I really do think books are a different beast.

I read a lot of biographies of legendary figures. Whether its Stalin, Oppenheimer, Teddy Roosevelt or Robert Moses, they are nearly always big readers. They tend to treat it quite seriously too. Not a few books per year, but 50-100+.. Teddy Roosevelt had 4 hours~ of his days' schedule blocked off for reading particular books, during an election campaign!

For me (and I believe, for them too), reading is serious business and the rewards really are great. This is not 'curl up by the fire with a nice story' and I will suddenly incur some magical benefits. Rather there are some things that are not easily achieved otherwise. Books allow you to efficiently deep dive and when you dedicate lots of hours to it, you can really make staggering progress. Reading all of the books on a particular topic becomes an achievable task. I could spend some hours scouring the internet trying to learn about a particular topic, or I could blast through a 200-300 page book on the topic. When you start treating books as your primary source of learning about new topics, and you build up a sort of grit for getting through books, you become a bit of an information processing machine and it is a bit magical.

I nearly always have a stack of books on my desk now and I just plow through them one after another. I would never absorb so much useful information reading articles on the internet or watching videos. Books are #1 for efficiency..

Right now I'm primarily reading Shirer's The Rise And Fall of The Third Reich.. It's a massive book (1100+ pages) and will take me over 2 weeks. It's hard to imagine how I could possibly get this much information on the same topic any other way. Try and find some documentary series? Follow my nose on wikipedia clicking around? Crap options, mostly. If I do this with two or three more books, by almost any measure, I have become somebody who knows a lot about WW2 and nazi germany. Now follow process with many other topics..
Oh my god! I've never seen the proper print interface and always assumed Mozilla simply didn't care about printing.
Yet? It seems the writer is debating a view that Elon doesn't have. His goal is to begin the process of making Mars habitable, I'm not aware of anyone with the position that Mars is currently as nice as Earth. Terraforming Mars is a long term vision and not one we'll see in our lifetimes. If we don't take steps towards achieving that goal then of course it will always seem lofty. Martian greenhouses may sooner emulate the feeling of being on Earth until it gets sufficiently habitable. As long as there are sufficient resources to start colonizing it, I don't see any points made as to "why not".
not to mention the higher percentage of high speed cells compared to other countries.
Nine, at the moment.
If anyone wants to learn more about Chris Crawford, the Zachtronics podcast[1] had a rather good interview[2] with him less than a year ago.

1: https://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/

2: https://www.zachtronics.com/podcast-files/Zachtronics-Podcas...
If network latency is a significant factor, and server storage and processing resources are sufficient, then the author's example of an 800 column table needs redesign.

Break that monster into smaller, more manageable tables and architect your database such that you can obtain exactly the data you need with well indexed joins, cached lookups, etc.
> Call me cynical but more regulation like this only serves to further entrench the existing (quasi-)monopolies by increasing the barriers for new entrants.

Have you actually read the proposals?

I don't mean that in a snarky way, but you're never going to be able to figure that out from a couple of lines in a wire report.

For instance: it's not mentioned in this article, but the proposals add extra conditions on Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) which wouldn't apply to smaller entities. The definition of a VLOP would be one that reaches > 10% of the entire EU population (~45 million).

>The implementation deadline seems excessively long to me. A lot can change within this timeframe, rendering the laws obsolete before they even come into force.

It's not like this is now law and the EU will be sitting around for 2 years. The DSM and DMA are just legislative proposals which need to be considered (and almost certainly amended) by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU before they can become law.

Large, impactful legislation shouldn't just be plonked on the statute book by the executive.
At one point a variation of it could compile a Linux kernel (very fast too!) and boot from the same ISO. Of course GCC or LLVM produced better optimised code, but TCC, being so small runs so much faster.
Okay, so you are saying that lockdowns do work, albeit in exceptional cases.

Then how did the lockdowns work in say New Zealand or Australia, or Singapore, or China? What is the mechanism of action?
Unfortunately, sophisticated threat actors are still very hard to defend against in aviation like in software.
Arte has some amazing German and French documentaries on YouTube. I believe they are not accessible everywhere, but if you have access, it's worth a look.
This performance optimization is valid for most databases:

COUNT(column) means in reality COUNT(column is NOT NULL), so if the column can have nulls the values need to be checked. But in most databases there is no difference in performance because the query optimized is intelligent enough to check whether the column can have null by definition and switches to COUNT(*) if there can't be nulls. In some databases COUNT(primarykey) is even faster, but these are all optimizations most often not needed, so micro optimizations as the query optimizer is intelligent enough to choose the best logic ;)
How does moving get me a flatmate?
Occam has exactly this. SEQ executes statements sequentially. PAR executes them in parallel, though the language is based on CSP and Cooperative Multitasking, so the idea of it doing 'the right thing' with a PAR is a little different.

Think of Occam programs as big Factorio factories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)

Alot the ideas that came out of Occam and CSP have been brought into various coroutine libraries though. Kotlin Coroutines, Goroutines, etc. So its definitely something that is explored.
Amazon: author

YouTube: Youtuber

Twitch (as discussed elsewhere in the thread): eSports tournament competitors
> I haven't yet seen a politics-based ban.

Wouldn't Trump himself count?

> Regardless, politics is not a protected class, nor should it be.

I think it should be, because attempting to ban political views gets in the way of finding out which political views are better. I don't know what "fascist" is, but I can definitely imagine political views like "Communism is a good way to run the country" or "Capitalism results in the best outcomes for everyone" being banned and I really don't like it.
Crunchyroll sponsors the production of lots of anime these days, and isn't too picky what they make (eg they've done like two fantasy novels written by misogynists about guys who travel to another world and get a sex slave.) They could sponsor adaptations of European stories, like Ghibli's already done.
Also promotion at Google is not easy to get. The competition is stiff, the standards are high, and you have to manage to get assigned to the kind of tasks and projects that get you promoted. I saw great people sit at one level the whole time they were there.
There are some interesting examples of large visual programs at https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

Yes, same problem, and same solution, as the Blender game engine. ROS, the Robot Operating System, which is really a message passing library that runs on Linux, is something like that, too, with blocks connected by one-way connections.

Emergent behavior between cards is not the same type of composition as connecting subroutines.

Good point. You can start to see where this model works. Things where there's a lot going on in parallel, and loosely coupled modules need some interconnection.

People keep re-inventing this idea, but so far, it tends to get really messy as it scales up. There's a second level of concepts needed here, something comparable to the invention of modules or classes or traits in programming.
I did some googling for the phrases "presse manchots" and "penguin press", combined with "Kerguelen". I couldn't find any reference, anywhere, to this device being a penguin press- though of course the phrase "penguin press" is difficult to google because of the publishing house.

I did find another, very different, device in this French news article which is a peat press in a Paris museum exhibit about Kerguelen, which was mistakenly called a "penguin press". It was actually used to make peat bricks, either as building material or as fuel.

So is there some myth that means that any press-like device on Kerguelen is assumed to have been used on penguins?

https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/2015/04/06/la-decouverte-des-...
Agreed, and I didn't meant to suggest that it's purely a fiscal decision, just that there _are_ fiscal elements that one should be aware of.
> So you want the government to force private companies to continue doing business with someone they no longer wish to provide services to?

How deep does your commitment to private corporate power go? For instance, suppose Comcast decided it doesn't want to provide cable or internet service to a particular cancellee. Does this bother you, or no? Does it matter if it's a monopoly setting? If it does, suppose we're in a duopoly market, and both companies refuse service to the cancellee. Does this worry you?
The dude who landed a big advertising campaign with Nike based on his high-profile activism?
If you want to save the soil then you can stop plowing and go no-till. Course if you go no-till you need to use more chemicals.

If you want to use fewer chemicals then you need to use GMO seed. Course a loud minority doesn't want farmers to use GMO seed despite a mountain of scientific evidence that it's safe.

I worked as an agronomist for twenty years. The overwhelming majority of farmers want to save the soil while balancing that with protecting the rural environment for their children. I trust them more than the hand wringing editorial writers to make the right choices.
I'm sure it would have worked fine for Dart if Google had tried to hype it. They simply didn't.
Why not talk to people who would nearly immediately appreciate your app's utility?
Server-side chat logfiles that are distributed to all connecting clients? I've never looked into the protocol, but I'm pretty sure that one is lacking.
Car accidents also suck, but no one is proposing to ban all the cars. The idea is to make them safer. High speed accidents are more dangerous than low speed accidents, but people still complain that they like to drive faster.

Talking with the cell phone while driving increase the accident rate, it' banned in some place, but I think it's not banned in USA. IIRC texting while driving is not banned in USA, even when it's clearly more dangerous because you have to put your eyes on the phone instead of the road.

The word is full of tradeoff.

A mammography increase slightly your cancer risk, but it can detect small cancers so it increase the life length. But if the mammographies are too frequent, the chance to detect a new cancer decrease (because it has no time to appear) and the chance to create a new cancer increase (because you get more radiation). A few years ago, they reduced the recommendation from one mammography each year to one mammography every two years, because once a year was too much.

(Check the current recommendation with your medical doctor, it depends on the age and other factors.)
My brain keeps blocking that bit -- apparently we can land rovers on Mars but we can't do collision checks on an airliner's autopilot.
It is the article's problem. A ballpark range of the risk is necessary to even get close to understanding the issue. Reporting without that is worse than nothing. It leaves people further from informed than they previously were.
Are you serious or trolling?

The vast majority of us can benefit from this. If not your home computers, then your VPSs or something like that.
> but as soon as you are working within a large, complex system that involves multiple teams, the benefits of using standards pays off.

That depends a lot on the nature of the project and the standards involved. In my experience, introducing complexity early on in the hope that it will pay off when the project itself becomes complex, leads to exactly what you would intuitively expect: a huge combinatorial code nightmare where productive work asymptotically approaches zero as time progresses.

There is a failure mode in the development of enterprise projects where actual work is being done only at the fringes where the tight external standards have loopholes allowing for the introduction of actual functionality through the backdoor. The resulting systems are of course extremely brittle.

> for small teams and simple services, using a standard like this is probably overkill

There are also simple standards deserving of the name. Small teams and simple services use them quite adamantly.

The "problem" I see with JSON API is not one of complexity (it really isn't, very), it's specificity. It's designed to cover a good range of common web-centric data interchange problems, but like any higher-order standard it carries the weight of certain abstractions and concepts. The pain comes, in my opinion, not from a project/team size mismatch but in cases where these abstractions are ill-suited for the problem at hand.

One of the key factors why plain JSON has become so popular: it's completely malleable. As a result, the actual JSON data on the wire can closely reflect the internal data structures (or at least a logical representation of them) of producers and consumers. The price for this is a relatively tight coupling, but the pain of it is lessened somewhat by the simplicity of the format.

In the end, the old adage of the structure of the project mirroring the structure of the organization probably holds true. When selecting a standard to work with, people choose one that innately reflects how their company works, and they do it for good reason: to reduce friction.
Thank you for reading my comment. The pope believes in theistic evolution which is essentially incompatible with actual evolution. It's like saying Deepak Chopra is an expert in quantum science. Even better, not all Catholics believe in lock-step with what the pope does (see: Catholics who have gotten abortions, Catholics who are rich, Catholics in favor of the death penalty, etc.).

I don't know why you would think I'm being American-centric, my comment was regarding Christians around the globe, not just the ones you've met. There are an awful lot of Christians in non-industrialized countries who don't behave like the ones you've met.

> I'm probably an Atheist also

Don't try to include me in your fedora-support-group, I'm Jewish.

> And if they say they believe in evolution, why doubt them? Why accuse them of making twisted rationalizations? It just doesn't make for intelligent debate on either side.

If the Russian government says it has fair elections, why doubt them?
For backups?
nika, good input! one insight though. I have a friend working high in hierarchy in one of the biggest precious metals trader in the world. He told me what you saying about gold (and other P.M.), but he said that White House is drafting an Executive Order for president (Obama if still?) to actually ban sell and export of P.M. you see, they know when dollar loose its green face, it will be nothing more than paper, and then P.M. will soar. In order to stop or slow it down, the government will be entitle to take ownership over your precious metals (it happened in the past!) and cruel penalties will apply if you do not submit. further to cool of the US market it will be forbidden to import/export not to create a shell in US for cheap/expensive p.m. tradeoff.
The biggest trade houses are advising clients to stash pm. or certificates in foreign countries. he also told me they lobby hard to allow IRS to tax other-than-bullion P.M. Right now, as you know, you dont need to report gold and silver coins to the IRS (bullion only).
I think you are right about the bubble, but this one will be "revert-bubble": it will grow naturally through market need, but will be artificially killed by US government and its sanctions.
I have 80% of wealth in us silver great eagle/canadian coin since $21. I think we will see $100 on it, but I may be wrong.
Well, the matrix is a little more straightforward than that.

XP won't get 9 and 10.
Vista won't get 10
IE 6 is being EOL'd, most new applications don't support it.

So, you need to support XP w/7,8; Vista with 7,8,9, and Windows 7 with 7,8,9,10.

But, (And, not being a web developer, I'm very curious about this) - does the operating system really matter that much - Doesn't IE 7 perform reasonably simliar on XP, Vista and WIndows 7? Is it the security model that makes most of the difference? Or the included version of Java? Where do operating systems have the largest impact on Web Development?
Because they haven't just brought out IE9...
Don't people usually deal with this sort of thing by signing a contract ahead of time?