jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a surprise because it's wrong. The author used an emissive power of 1,360 W/m^2 -- the intensity of direct sunlight -- as so:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=(1,360+/+(5.67+*+10...

But this isn't the right number to use. The physics of the system is: when the plate is oriented facing the sun, 1,360 W of solar energy are absorbed per m^2 of plate area; and when it is at thermal equilibrium, the same amount are emitted. However, the sunlight is only incident on one side of the plate, while thermal radiation is emitted in both directions! If the plate reaches a uniform temperature (if it's not thick and insulating), then equal amounts of radiation will be emitted from both sides -- twice as much emitting area, with half the radiated power density (680 W/m^2). With this factor-of-2 correction, the equation is:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=(1360+/+2+/+(5.67+*...

For an equilibrium T of 331 K -- a more reasonable 58 deg C. And what's more, this is assuming a perfect blackbody -- a perfect, black, absorber of light at all wavelengths. A light-colored disk could be far colder. Check out the discussion on the wikipedia article (particularly the "earth's blackbody temperature"):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law

For a black earth (with no atmosphere), the equilibrium temperature would be around 278 K. (Note it is different from that of a flat disk. With a sphere, the ratio of emitting area to absorbing area (that is, the cross-sectional area of the earth projected onto a plane -- the plane normal to the direction of the sun) is 4 pi R^2 / pi R^2 = 4. So twice as much emitting area as a flat disk.)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=(1360+/+4+/+(5.67+*...

But with the earth's albedo accounted, (says wikipedia) the equilibrium T is 255 K, 24 degrees colder than the blackbody. Likewise, the temperature of the satellite disk would be very sensitive to its color. (edit): This source says (p. 26) a white sphere in LEO would be 90 K colder than a black one!

http://www.tak2000.com/data/Satellite_TC.pdf
AFAIK you just need the Nautilus file manager.
but OP is saying that more preferences don't necessitate
poor UI design

This.

And also that you could have the "right" number of preferences (if such a thing exists) and still have a crappy UI.

IOW, UI quality and number of preferences vary independently.
1) Freedom. It's up to people to choose what to play and how much. Don't feel bad if they choose to play a lot. It's their life to live, not yours.

2) Don't just make something people want purely for money, but also make something you think ought to exist. Making something you like and approve of is a nicer life for you: it's more fun, it's better for meeting people you'll like, you can use it, etc...
I hesitate to post something like this on HN, but it might be relevant. There has been talk about 4chan was planning on starting up a trolling campaign on reddit involving registering a number of accounts. You might be collateral damage.
Western medicine works pretty well for a lot of chronic diseases, actually. A few blood tests and a daily pill are all I have ever needed to take care of mine. Show me a working alternative treatment for not having a functional thyroid gland and I'll reconsider my opinion.[1]

A lot of Western treatments for chronic conditions aren't that great, but is there anything that's been proven better? It's not exceptionally pleasant for people with sleep apnea to have to wear masks and have pressurized air blown into their breathing passages at night, but at least they get some real sleep. Living with diabetes still sucks, but wouldn't it suck more without the treatments scientific medicine has developed?

[1] "Western medicine" is really a bad name for it. My specific condition was first discovered by a Japanese doctor, hence the name Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Exactly.

A lot of startup activity is centered around the internet. Limiting internet usage that will mean that people won't be able to use our web services just because their monthly bandwidth quota is up. This is a barrier to the web-centric view that Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc have been propounding. This is not a step in the right direction.
A long time ago, I also made these kinds of programs. That was on a PET 2001, and I didn't have the luxury of bitmaps back then. I would use the PET's graphic characters as 'actors', and POKE them to the video memory. It started with simple balls, but soon my 'actors' grew into sprites made up from multiple characters (with a square, a few line graphics and a ball you could make a little fellow). POKEing all these characters from BASIC became a bit slow, and that was the moment I started learning machine language (necessity is the mother of invention), and from then on I wrote my PET games in 6502 assembly. That made them blindingly fast! (And very prone to crashing, too ;-)
Agreed -- It was also my first thought when I read about the service. It's easy to make a database of md5 hashes and link the comments to that, no reason to even decode them. There goes anonymity. This article is only new in that it is (afaik) the first person that actually bothers to test it out and publicize about it.
Which we generally call a patent - in my understaning the only real monopolies are government granted ones - i.e you must use ATT for phones, or no one else can manufacture widget X
Yes, the US created banana republics. Can't argue with that..

But the banana republics are going forward, while the US seems to be going the other way. Just look at the poor/rich divide, for example.
but why md5 when there are better alternatives? not to speak about the issues with OP
Playing video games is a loser thing to do. Just stop it already.

It's irritating to see so many grown men hunched over a joy-stick. No one ever changed the world playing a game.
Bravo Google! The google checkout button no longer leads to a checkout page, but rather "Unfortunately, this merchant no longer accepts payments through Google. We apologize for the inconvenience."
I can see Andy and Meagan coding first because their designs are very blocky and square, but Elliot's work is actually quite creative and polished, so he's good inspiration to try going with HTML first on a test project or two.

Although I still think it's fine to start with PS or Fireworks first as long as it's for your own internal creativity and not something that clients or coworkers see, because then they just expect it to be xeroxed straight to the web exactly as is.
For a small fee, I am happy to offer my services to get you fired.
I saw a clip from 60 Minutes in college that showed Tim Gelway teaching tennis to a group of middle-aged people. None had ever played tennis before. He picked the person who showed the least potential and within 20 minutes had her serving better than I've ever served in my life. It made a huge impression on me. The book isn't really about tennis; it's how the human mind is meant to think and learn, and how far off we are in our preconceptions about those things.
Well, he is getting older.
If you're a legitimate craftsman running a legitimate business you should have no problem getting 30 day credit from your suppliers. Sure if I'm ordering something bespoke that would be hard to sell to anyone else, I'll happily make a partial down-payment up front, but other than that, no.
Any good CMS should separate logic, configuration and presentation clearly. If you need to recompile something to change anything less dramatic than the way the CMS works, this separation has been broken.
No... Its not just animation. The alternating images tricks ur brain. BUT this gives me major headaches almost immediately.

While yes animation does sort-of give the perception of 3d, the images here really do appear to have depth in the monitor. Its a cool trick. Now I am guessing we need to play this at a rate of 30fps each image (thus 60fps) or so so that we don't "see" the non-3d image alternations but we experience it nevertheless without a headache I might add.
I am referring to this sequence:

gozer:~$ fossil new zed.fsl
project-id: e4549d02538b1b58cf28488f76fc7549dc11a752
server-id: 0bb5e1159eef42ed514c6ec13d17ba05f21ecdea
admin-user: benjamin (initial password is "068bda")
gozer:~$ mkdir zed
gozer:~$ cd zed
gozer:~/zed$ fossil open ../zed.fsl
gozer:~/zed$ echo hello > hello.txt
gozer:~/zed$ fossil commit -m "initial"
fossil: nothing has changed
gozer:~/zed$ fossil add hello.txt
ADDED hello.txt
gozer:~/zed$ fossil commit -m "initial"
New_Version: 10c3840dc611fdc22888571560b908f36e647e59
gozer:~/zed$ echo zed >> hello.txt
gozer:~/zed$ fossil commit -m "edited"
New_Version: 10aa55193ddd374a75d37508cbc8a09466a05019
gozer:~/zed$ fossil update 10c384
UPDATE hello.txt
gozer:~/zed$ mv hello.txt hello2.txt
gozer:~/zed$ fossil mv hello.txt hello2.txt
RENAME hello.txt hello2.txt
gozer:~/zed$ fossil commit -f -m "renamed"
New_Version: 3c3253cbd31cbc479c888fb8b1f38a8a46d8d4d6
**** warning: a fork has occurred *****
gozer:~/zed$ fossil merge 10aa55
gozer:~/zed$ ls
_FOSSIL_ hello2.txt manifest manifest.uuid
gozer:~/zed$ cat hello2.txt
hello

And just to go the other direction, since some DVCSes behave differently if their parents are in a different order:

gozer:~/zed$ fossil update 10aa55
ADD hello.txt
REMOVE hello2.txt
gozer:~/zed$ ls
_FOSSIL_ hello.txt manifest manifest.uuid
gozer:~/zed$ cat hello.txt
hello
zed
gozer:~/zed$ fossil merge 3c3253
ADDED hello2.txt
DELETE hello.txt
gozer:~/zed$ cat hello2.txt
hello

Contrast this with Mercurial:

gozer:~$ hg init zedhg
gozer:~$ cd zedhg
gozer:~/zedhg$ echo hello > hello.txt
gozer:~/zedhg$ hg ci -Aminitial
adding hello.txt
gozer:~/zedhg$ echo zed >> hello.txt
gozer:~/zedhg$ hg ci -medited
gozer:~/zedhg$ hg up 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
gozer:~/zedhg$ hg mv hello.txt hello2.txt
gozer:~/zedhg$ hg addremove -s100
recording removal of hello.txt as rename to hello2.txt (100% similar)
gozer:~/zedhg$ hg ci -mrenamed
created new head
gozer:~/zedhg$ hg merge
merging hello2.txt and hell.txt to hello2.txt
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
gozer:~/zedhg$ cat hello2.txt
hello
zed

Git and Bazaar work similarly. This can come up very easily early in a product cycle--doubly so if you have the misfortune of working on a Java project where people are refactoring often.
It happens even when I consume non-caffeinated drinks with aspartame
Yeah... feels that way to me.

The original Digg page did that as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Digg1.6.png

I had to fight my anti-DP instincts to sign up on it back then.
This argument only works to a point. No amount of living indoors will make me sick of it as a lifestyle – I don't enjoy camping for more than a day or so. I enjoy living indoors because it's better – no bugs, controlled temperature, comfortable surroundings, safety, running water, toilets, electricity, on and on.

In the same way, candor is simply better than being bullshitted. Moreover, candor vs. politeness is a false dichotomy. You can be thoughtful and honest at the same time.

I'd say that the shifts we see toward more honest business come as a simple result of network effects created by the web. Do right by people? Word gets around faster than ever and you are rewarded with additional business. Screw people over? Everyone will find out just how bad you are to work with – and you'll pay for it lost revenues. It's a potent carrot and stick.
I considered that, but that map is from 2007 and doesn't have a source, so that distinction risks sounding more certain than it is. Troop movements are more fluid once a base is in place.

20 or 30, the number of countries isn't 150. Which was the main point.
I'm not intending to troll, but you seem to be describing Firefox more than Opera. Minimal UI? Sure it only has one more button on the screen, but once you open the context menu, or opera menu things get just as complicated as they have always been for Opera. Not that it's necessarily bad - I think Opera is a great browser, it's just the properties you describe seem to fit Firefox 4 more.

(To address 'draft standards support' - Opera doesn't even have the HTML5 parser or WebGL...the list goes on.)
have you seen a doctor? sounds like you may need glasses or something... your symptoms seem extreme to me.

do you have a nice big monitor?
These are good points.
"What was the last Oracle innovation you heard about?" - that is very good question. It is hard to believe that company with $26B (4x more than Google) in sales has no innovation.

Could it be that since oracle inventions are mainly in enterprise space and these technologies are not generally available to consumers, so they are never publicized not discussed in venues blogs and forums like this? You can only can see ad in WSJ and that is the end of the story.
Most management that gets installed after original founders retire or quit or die or whatever is pretty clueless. When someone gets an executive position by virtue of an MBA and a previous record of executive positions, you can know that the days of good management are pretty much gone forever.
You had to bring it up because everyone was waiting for someone more qualified than themselves to answer the question.
If you're ever in Boulder, the Celestial Seasonings factory tour is worth checking out: http://www.celestialseasonings.com/visit-us/free-tours.html The Peppermint Room will clear your sinuses for a week.

Anyone have other tea factory tours they'd recommend?
Your description reminded me of OneNote. We use OneNote to track things on our team in IT and it works great but we had to come up with some ground rules about the structure. I've shown it to other teams in IT and they don't really get it; they want something with structure baked in or that they can relate to email easier.
There's no debate, the answer is clearly "both". Just like how your barbecue fire is due to both oxygen and fuel.
How are people not angered to the point of spittle launching fury by "development kids"? Its outrageously contra to a functioning meritocracy.
The "news" is that games are coming to Mac. It's a huge topic to discuss and flesh out, just take a look at your sibling comments.
I agree, and 5 years out of college no-one should care where you went, or at least, care very little compared to what you did in the meantime. But like I say, you don't get to see what happens behind the scenes. The truth is, it's human nature to seek out the pre-qualified, and all other things being equal (as they are with a fresh graduate) diploma + brand will always beat diploma alone.

It's interesting you mention open source. Sometimes I interview kids who claim x years experience and what they mean is, "I've been programming since I was 8 years old". Which is great but experience here means a) stuff you were paid to do or b) in a well-known open source package (e.g. Apache). The experience a company is interested in is experience not of coding but of "transforming a spec into a product".
The $300k includes opportunity cost. That means it's tuition plus living cost plus four years of whatever after-tax salary you can make with a high school degree.
Interestingly I was in Berlin a few weeks ago, people I chatted to said the point of a degree was that you were covered by healthcare (?) while an undergrad, so it was normal to stretch a degree out as long as possible, into your 30s if you could.

I also learnt that Berlin is not at all like Frankfurt, where I've worked!
How much competitive advantage do Apples traditional strengths bring them in this Market vs generic web tablets?

I'd say none.
Emotional obstacles? They are something you have to overcome by yourself.

You're like a shy person asking for dating advice.

No one can help you but yourself.
I anticipate these very same arguments will be used very soon by western governments.
Get a cofounder, there must be many good candidates in your CS class.
Oh, me too, I was just explaining based on market forces, not my personal preferences. Try Darklands if you haven't yet, it might be right up your alley:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/194/Darklands.html

The list of games you like is very similar to mine - Planescape, Fallout 2, and Baldur's Gate are some of my favorite games. The review on the Abandonia page is kind of junk, but the screenshots will give you a little idea. The combat is real time tactical with pausing - similar to Baldur's Gate, and the majority of moral and skill-based choices are text based on beautiful hand-drawn backgrounds.

It's a really, really hard game with a tough learning curve, you'll die a lot before you get the hang of how to start and play, but it's really rich and rewarding. Probably the most unique RPG I ever played - it's historical fantasy set in the Holy Roman Empire, and the systems of the game are all based on the superstitions of the day. You can pray to actual saints to help you perform miracles, there's no magic per se - just alchemy that you mix from different ingredients. There's so many ways to play it and so many different options, but it is really hard and you'll get killed a lot in the beginning.

These sites have helpful info if you get into the game:

http://www.darklands.net/index.shtml

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/darklands/

Try it out, if you like sandbox-style fantasy games with tactical combat, detailed character customization, and don't care about graphics - this is quite the game for you. There is a plot and a main story (there's actually three of them), but you find it over time, you just start out the game trying to get rich and famous and you can totally ignore the plot if you want. Maybe worth a spin - you'll probably need Dosbox to get it working, also spend the time to customize the sound in Dosbox so it starts playing, the sound on the game is really, really good.
Linus Torvalds : Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux open-source operating system, has been leading his developer community with sarcasm, insults, and abuse for three decades, and many people think it’s time for a change.
Torvalds is a legend in the open-source community for the way he’s stuck to his principles and steered a free project into a giant. But open-source work is a largely thankless job that people volunteer to participate in, and their work is rarely seen outside of a small group of people.
We can't even solve it on Hacker News! Many threads complain about old people taking up resources that younger people want. I've even been "Ok, Boomered" several times here. I'm 57.
Thanks Olivier.

Re: nextdns-cli: I think you may have misunderstood my question. I was more curious abt how the backend worked: Do you run one unbound instance per nextdns-configuration?

Re: DoH: I was pointing to the fact that XHR request to 1.1.1.1 (or any DoH provider that supports application/dns-json) can now resolve domain names. In this case, there's no reliance on either browser's DoH resolver or resolver set by OS / AccessPoints / VPNs.
Similar in some ways, but duck typing is a misnomer because it doesn't involve typing.

These are type classes, or what Rust calls Traits.
But isn’t almost always the link just the current link + the link name?

Apart from being able to tell the client what functions they are allowed to use and a very superficial form of documentation I don’t really get the advantage of it.
I'm pretty close to reaching their free tier's cap on outgoing bandwidth. They only give you 100 GB.

To buy another 100 GB I would have to pay $20 per month (4x as expensive).

Also I don't feel comfortable basing my entire business on Netlify. My blog and course landing pages are how I earn a living. It's the same reason why I don't use GitHub pages. I just don't like the idea of having to adhere to their TOS (even if I'm not doing anything wrong) and also be limited to their free tier's traffic constraints.

I'm sure they are a good company and I wish nothing but the best for them but I just don't see them as a good fit for me given the above.
Accompanying article is here: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/war-stories-how-princ...

Which links to the transcript: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/princ...

And his journals from the time, which are now being published: http://jordanmechner.com/journals
I assure you the browsers were not quick to disable TLS 1.0. They've dragged down their feet as long as they could and beyond.

TLS 1.0 and previous protocols have been prohibited from usage since around 2017 by PCI DSS and most regulations. Any company that gets a basic security audit or self-submit their website to https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ would have been red flagged for using TLS 1.0 for years.

I've worked on the TLS upgrade in some financial institutions that notoriously always lag behind and even them have been ready for a while.

At this stage websites stuck on TLS 1.0 are either unmaintained for years or purposefully trying to support a Windows XP and Java 7 audience.
https://www.pbs.org/show/year-space/

https://www.pbs.org/a-year-in-space/home/
I am guessing it is 10x more likely to be Covid19 (and Baysian is even higher if you know community transmission is currently occurring in your area).

While Anosmia is commonly caused by flu, the flu doesn’t commonly cause anosmia.

If anyone can find what percentage of people with flu/cold present with Anosmia as a symptom (without having a blocked nose), I would love to know,
> EU members use the current situation as a way to work closer together

EU members are shouting "Every country for itself"

Pretty similar to the US states actually, other than US states can't close borders (but can enforce no travelling, which is basically a superset of closed borders)
It's really good to see more tools in the privacy space, resulting in more options and fallbacks for the end-user.

I think the author should also try to market this as much as possible outside of the HN crowd, since this seems targeted at non-tech users — I could be wrong but my reasoning is that HN users who care about privacy would prefer a combination of a VPN and DoH to defend against traffic & DNS inspection, respectively.