jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, finding having a boom in natural resources does have the effect of crowding out other industries. I agree with you. That's "Dutch Disease" and you can find it in many well governed resource rich nations.

The poster above brings up Alberta, you bring up Norway.

But Dutch Disease is just one detrimental 'symptom' of the resource curse.

Some of the more adverse symptoms are increased levels of conflict and corruption and those are precisely the fears you need to have when looking at Afghanistan's potential mineral wealth because there is a lack of proper governance in place.

Now going back to your example, Norway -- and Alberta too. It is precisely because of their governance systems that they can harness natural resource wealth at more optimal levels than nations with the curse.

Norway for example has one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world. That provides a mechanism for reinvesting the natural resource wealth into other industries. I am no experts on SWFs, but from my reading, Norway's SWF has a pretty good reputation.

To contrast that, look at some of the resource rich conflict nations in Africa. They don't have formal laws and organizations to structure transparent SWFs, they have swiss bank accounts that they use to raid government revenues and sometimes fund militias.

So it is good governance that helps minimize the friction caused by new found natural resource wealth and redistribute it in an optimal manner.
If I had any point, it was to suggest that our ideas of "race" are anachronistic to the ancient world (and not even really scientific today), being so burdened with post-enlightenment ideas of "savage" and cultured peoples (I've tried to keep religion out of this, but it is a critical through-line) and which later finds its most sublime form as pseudo-Darwinist notions about "race" which renders the U.S. institution of slavery (like our flavors of Christianity) quite something new and different.

> I think there is a big crossover the post-apocalyptical fantasy, where the burdens of society are lifted.

I agree with you on this. In fact, I've had a thesis (that is surely bogus and which no one believes) that the Godzilla movies are about the sublimated desire to see the whole facade held up against earthquake, tsunami, and atom bombs finally be done in by a monster who casually destroys Tokyo Tower. If you like coastlines, maybe that idea will give you a chuckle.

The value of the ancient world to me, however, is as a counter-balance to everything timely. Sometimes it shines a brilliant light on what is today obscured by our modern confusions, but more often a deep well of fascination over how we used to speak and what we used to think, however errant it was.
I don't know if you are connected to Integromat or not but that's a smooth way to influence me to google it :)
I wonder if you could run a pharma company that buys IP for failed cancer treatments and runs small trials in rare diseases. you have the advantage of having passed Phase I/II usually, so you know it's decently safe, and oncology hits a lot of diverse targets.

there are some examples, for instance enzastaurin being repurposed for vascular EDS, after washing out as an angiogenesis inhibitor for cancer. I don't know if it makes sense mechanistically, I sure hope it does.
That's down to US road design I suspect: Wide multi lane roads with clear sight lines encourage drivers to think it's safe to go very fast. If these roads are normally congested with traffic then you don't see this downside, but when traffic dropped during the pandemic & it became possible to drive far too fast on these roads that's exactly what happened, with the inevitable consequences.
Google ads grant can only be used for search ads, not too sure if you can promote youtube video with the grants credit.
Also not new: When you control for income, race is the determining factor.
Speaking of diffuse, how do you sequester something that is at super low concentrations like atmospheric methane?

As an analogy, my home reverse osmosis filter doesn't even come close to touching things that are in the parts per billion.

Also, it isn't as if atmospheric methane is evenly distributed across the globe [0]. How do you expect to collect methane across borders?

[0] - https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4798
So methane control is a significant handle to control global warming. It is not a solution but it will buy time if we globally "burn" methane to COP2. See BlueDotChange.org.
This is a poor metaphor. A lot of the CO2 is for producing stuff for the western world. So your neighbor is saying: If I don't beat my kids, they won't come over to you and do slave work, and you'll have to beat your own kids again.

Or we can just agree that this metaphor doesn't work.
If you were already spending >$200/mo on spin classes, the price of a peloton is very reasonable as an alternative.
They could be living underwater for a very long time and we didn't know about it. They never crash in the middle of any cities that proves they know flying...
hopefully, Apple M1(ARM) and AMD Zen(x86) can push Intel, Intel stuck at 14nm is what happened when there is no viable competitor.
The conflation of privately owned social media platforms with democracy is an incredible Jedi mind trick these companies have executed. It's extremely discomforting that they have become so entangled with intellectual activity that something like this could have an impact on the future of democracy.
Agreed. Local migrations shouldn't take longer than a minute or so.
Desktop publishing was critical to Apple's early success, even though Microsoft was important for the broader market of users.
Have you heard of this language called "Mathematics?"
Subcontract.

Live the dream!
That is shitty. You may need to get 'creative' with your CV.
This is actually kind of funny IMO. Definitely don't try this at home, especially if you're worried about your liver. Some people who ought to be worried about their liver aren't. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9602154/Middle-a...
I'm not arguing that it doesn't make sense. I'm arguing that it's unethical. Also:

> You can't ask a CEO not to do the best to protect his employees and shareholder value.

Yes, I can. Your requirement is not to maximize profits at all cost unless that's what you write into your corporate charter. Don't do that. You can just as easily write a charter that leaves you room to make decisions that maximize long-term value even at the expense of short-term value, or that allow you to make ethical decisions at the expense of mercenary decisions, or even a "we can do whatever we want, live with it" charter.

(And the interests of employees and shareholders are not always aligned. An ethical decision may involve favoring the former at the expense of the latter, for instance.)
community.foundationdb.com is a little more informative ... not much but a little.

"Thank you for your support of FoundationDB over the last five years. We’re grateful to have shared our vision of building the best database software and we strongly value your participation in this community. We have made the decision to evolve our company mission and, as of today, we will no longer offer downloads. If you have any technical questions, please email info@foundationdb.com."
Yeah, I've reported a bunch of stuff, all of it egregious. I have an inbox full of "thank you but this does not violate our community standards" to show for it.
They did make the other GPUs less capable of mining.
One of the biographical books attributed to him (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out?) ha a chapter dedicated to this and related concepts. I was astonished when reading it, especially since he discussed this decades ago, but we don't hear much about it today, at least in popular media.
Perhaps Facebook could help mitigate stuff like this by embedding metadata into images. That metadata could then be used to track image origin?

Or maybe Facebook already does stuff like that, but the average person doesn't know how to access it?

Thankfully I'm too old to appreciate the virtues of Facebook. Now I think I'll go check if I have any new email. :)
I put the badge number there because I did not want people posting fake reviews, I wanted only people that had actual interaction with the Cop to be able to vote.

As for the word "evidence" I did not see that as having a negative connotation; which is why the example tag is 'awesome' and not something bad.

Also, currently there are more positive cop reviews on the site than negative.
While you're at it, remember <A> tags are a thing and let me open things in a new tab again.
I may be biased as a designer and front end engineer, but almost every banking website I've seen is designed horribly. Now I know this isn't directly answering your question, although it is addressing how banks can better serve their customers.

Look at Mint. My bank could offer what Mint does, since Mint is pulling in info from my bank– but they dont. A lot of what Mint is doing seems to be making the information easy to understand. Their UI is beautiful and their UX is intuitive. For me its hard to even understand why certain design decisions were made by my bank.

Beyond that, I would say to invest in mobile experiences. A lot of my interaction with my bank happens on the go as well. And while my banks iphone app is a better experience than the website, it is a little bit crippled.

You should checkout companies like Venmo and Square, who are really innovating in the area of mobile payments.
Facebook reports 78% of US daily users are mobile [1]; Twitter report 75% of monthly active users have used mobile [2]; and Amazon report 60% of customers shopped with a mobile device during the Christmas period [3].

Admittedly these headline figures appear to count users with any mobile activity, even if they have far more activity from other platforms.

I prefer desktop too, but I think it's a mistake to underestimate mobile.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/13/facebook-mobile-user-count/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/mobile-twitter-161m-access-...

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/26/amazon-2014-holiday-sales/
> You didn't say which version of the ANSI C specification.

Which does not matter because all of them clearly define the behavior of free(NULL). The language has been the same since C89[0]:

> The free function causes the space pointed to by ptr to be deallocated, that is, made available for further allocation. If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs.

I'm guessing pjmlp confused free(NULL) which is defined and double free which is UB:

> if the argument does not match a pointer earlier returned by the calloc , malloc , or realloc function, or if the space has been deallocated by a call to free or realloc , the behavior is undefined.

and didn't "bother to read the ANSI C specification" because he was so certain of what he misremembered.

[0] http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#4.10.3.2
I'm visiting Japan as well currently - for the whole month in January. I am in Tokyo right now, you can contact me for a drink somewhere...
/Grabs another bag of popcorn and sits back to enjoy the show.

Doesn't look like this squabble is ending any time soon. Unfortunately, it just seems like it's going to have a negative impact on both sides.
More concisely, he/she wants to be able to discover a user's email address when they visit a site, so that the user just has to click a "create an account, and email me my password" button. (i.e. removing barriers to user sign-up to his/her site) This obviously conflicts with the idea that a user should be able to keep that information private.
The PDK is only for Mac/Windows. http://goo.gl/MnyQf
Much of these problems with artificial organs revolve around the power supply. An artificial heart is pretty easy with modern technology compared to how to power it. Same for most organs.
They're usually considered bad for the web because, if the shortening service goes away any hyperlink that used the shortener instantly breaks.

Dead links are a fact of life on the web, but it's the idea that one domain-name going away would break links to thousands of different domains that unsettles people.
Small group rates aren't that different than the rates you can get through a professional group, though both are much lower than purchasing insurance as an individual. This site lists some small group rates for groups of 2-50: http://www.nysmallgroupplans.com/category.aspx?id=MISC5 The lowest small group rate, based on their comparison spreadsheet, was around $275.
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."
that's because they are known problems and relatively simple ie deigning a load bearing structure for a bridge
As someone that does not have a smartphone, WhatsApp and Signal are really annoying because they are the two apps that can not be used without one (even though they have desktop apps). Telegram and FB Messenger and Hangouts at least can, but here in Europe WhatsApp is the default for everything and there are things for which it is becoming almost completely necessary.

But I simply find the whole chat ecosystem so depressing. A few years ago at least I could chat with Google Talk people via Jabber. It is really absurd that instant messaging is not federated like email. Of course there is one explanation: while Email was invented in the 70s at research institutions with goals beyond profit, IM already started in the 90s with companies trying to capitalize their user-base with vendor lock-in... (ICQ, MSN, etc.). Sad, sad, sad.
There's no chance of Biden going easy on China, that would be political suicide. What might change is that Biden will lean more on multilateralism to build a coalition of democracies against China in contrast to Trump's reality TV "America first" approach.
Wow, only on hacker news would my flippant, but secretly serious, comment lead to an actual working implementation of something great. Are you involved with the sproutrobot? Super cool idea and I've just signed up!
Which is why it goes back to what your needs are! Site for a company with a half-mil employees would be insane to use Wordpress, an individual blogger would go insane (and broke) trying to us Interwoven.
Is your backend open source, or not?

Haven’t seen the git updated in a while.
Yes, sure. Sorry about that. But how can I edit the title? I try to find it here but I couldn't.
Were their exact words "an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Git"?
> Can't really avoid some weeknights traveling.

Just curious... does your leadership go out of their way to offer comp time for travel outside of business hours?

For example, they say or strongly suggest that folks who have to travel at night take the next morning off.

I imagine that this may not be common, but it seems like it would generate a lot of goodwill for folks who have to travel.
I've been to offices in the middle of nowhere deep south that are far better than what you are describing. No, they don't have the free food, comfortable chairs, etc that nice companies in The Bay have, but they do have AC, heating, and drinkable water. What you're describing isn't because you're not in silicon valley, or even California. What you're describing isn't right anywhere. It isn't just life and you shouldn't stand for that kind of abuse.
The author circles back on himself though and notes that even though the 15 minute stand up itself is "a waste of time" the conversation it catalyzes amongst employees afterwards is of value.
d) because nobody knows how much non-trivial project takes until its done. Its well known that developers missestimate time needed by the factor of 4 to 8.

So d) which you miss, is about 4 months. Anything else is not professional and you cut corners. There is no such thing as 2 weeks in enterprise - hello world would take more with adequate docs, ci/cd, metrics, proj. management, optimizations, authorizations etc.
> "Ultimately it just shows there are many more mysteries to this virus than solid answers."

it's not the virus but rather our bodies that are so mysterious. the virus is relatively simple in comparison (which is different from saying we know everything about it, since we obviously don't).
As gets repeated ad nauseum, industry numbering has gone wonky. Intel still hews more or less to the ITRS labelling for its nodes, which means that it's 10nm process has pitches and density values along the same lines as TSMC or Samsung's 7nm processes.

This is, indeed, no longer an industry leading density and it lags what you see on "5nm" parts from Apple and Qualcomm. But it's the same density that AMD is using for the Zen 2/3 devices against which this is competing in the datacenter.
Wow, all day? That's a lot!

My team and others have been having "office hours" meetings where everyone is just working, but often the cameras are off, mics are muted most of the time, and we only do it for a few hours a week.

I definitely agree that there is a lot of value in being able to jump in and ask questions in the moment. That's a big benefit of having these calls for us.

Maybe we should try having them more often. :)
"I am now in the state where I feel I've stopped growing as a programmer, not graduated to a manager or an architect.

In my mid-30s now I feel like I am outdated and outskilled."

Me too. I'm not even a senior dev (although I've worked as one and as a tech lead). I'm tired of restarting and getting nowhere.
To add to this, the security services in France already knew about the threat from the Paris attackers and did nothing.
I definitely relate to that as well. One thing to note is that that particular aspect is one that I think the meds can help a fair bit with I think.

Obviously I don't know whether you're already on them or not, but if not, maybe try them?

(Obvious caveats of me having no idea about your own situation apply).
It's going to be a herculean effort to simulate google's (and other's) services fast enough to attract loyal users. All these big tech companies' services are extremely valuable and it's hard to convince the general consumer to forfeit convenience for the sake of security, but I guess that was the idea all along. We might as well start now.
Still using my 2015 MBP 15" with no issues minus some loss of battery life. If you can find one with light usage for cheap it might not be a terrible idea.

I don't use mine for CPU intensive tasks though, so YMMV.
I like the book "the rational optimist" by matt riddley.
> It feels as though Stoppard read James Gleick's Chaos (or a similar popular text), misunderstood it, forgot half of it, and then wrote the play on this basis of what remained.

I feel seen.
> I just want the (functional, non-copyrightable) recipe itself.

There's the rub. You can copyright your story. It's easy to scrape recipes from webpages. It's harder to translate a story into a recipe. If you post a plain & simple recipe to the internet, it will be copied and folks (and the bots behind search engines) won't have a clear incentive to visit/link your recipe over the numerous copies. If you've got a clear copyright violation, there's a chance you can get the copies taken down, or at least hidden by search engines. If it's just the functional, non-copyrightable recipe itself, no such luck. And then, with all the expense of creating and hosting the content, plus fighting the deluge of spammers, how do you monetize? The easy way: the borderline malware ads, modal popups, dickbars, etc. Blech. I'm with you, it sucks. But it's not just "an SEO thing"; it's also a case study on how "information wants to be free" meets the gritty reality of the internet economy.
Because it would mess up in flight service, would be a mess when it comes to having people get up and go to the loo, would be hard to keep an eye on during ascent/descent and so on, and besides it would only work for the outer seats of a row, and somehow the geometry of the inner seats would have to remain undisturbed (shared arm rests), and that's before we get to talk about the weight. It's a funny idea which works on trains because the rows are much narrower and the weight isn't a consideration, nor do trains typically have in transit meal service tray tables mounted in the backs of the seats before them.
I definitely agree that it’s getting more popular.

I use vim inside VS code as my main editor and love the experience. It was also an easy way to step into learning vim.

I also have a vim product with vim in the name (it’s practically the whole name) and haven’t had any sort of trademark issues.
My wife and I learned under a Deaf school teacher (for a Deaf school) for a semester where she taught ASL and a little about Deaf culture. She was very sincere in her description that there is a lot of pride in Deaf culture. Now I have also heard the story of a hard-of-hearing woman who, having hearing parents, was greatly conflicted in going all in on ASL vs. learning Cued Speech. The Deaf community she was learning from spoke very intensely that she should not go that route and instead stick with ASL; partly I think because of this pride they feel in the culture and arts surrounding the language. There was shame and guilt in her story but she found a way to be connected to both the Deaf ASL community and the hearing community with Cued Speech.
I was exactly thinking about the Starship test flights for this. I think that's the only time I've ever had more than a single video playing at once.
Author here. When I first discovered the idea for Actually Portable Executable I thought I was going mad like Terry Davis. I couldn't even believe that it was possible until I actually did it. It cost me my job but I couldn't be happier with the result. This project is going to make problems disappear for so many developers. It's the sort of tool people can get excited about. I'm so happy that my prior career success and top-notch training have granted me the privilege of bringing something this cool to the world. Enjoy!
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>It's still not really concurrency

Well, it also has Workers, which is.
The fact the picture has "1mb.jpg" in the file name suggests it is 1 megabyte and therefore a good candidate for use as a speed test.

However the image is in fact 160 kilobytes, so I suspect whatever speedtest is being done is getting the wrong results...
I'm now curious, how much traffic does example.com receive? Does it use Anycast? Does IETF publish statistics? Searched and found the answer here, no known statistics, but it's backed by a CDN.

* Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8057442
No no, I actually made enough money from the early-access sales to work on it full-time for the coming months :)
> To narrow down the app, we decided to observe connections to the image from clients (phones) to our servers. We did this by opening the popular apps one-by-one and noting down the time. After doing this for all the apps, we then ran this query in Hive: SELECT * FROM wmf.webrequest WHERE year=2021 AND month=2 AND day=9 AND parse_media_file_url(uri_path).base_name='/wikipedia/commons/1/16/AsterNovi-belgii-flower-1mb.jpg' AND webrequest_source='upload' AND uri_host = 'upload.wikimedia.org' AND user_agent='-' AND ip=<IP>;

> We then found the specific app that was making the request by matching the time when it was opened and the time image was requested from our servers, restricting the results to the User-Agent '-' and from the IP we tested.

Unless I missed something, running mitmproxy/Charles etc. in front of the phone would have been way easier than querying the entirety of Wikimedia server logs and trying to match IP & timing windows.