jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well with MTConnect - the latest factories will have the ability to be networked like this, but we're a long way from this.

It's pretty hard to get the manufacturing industry to change their ways - we fight this everyday. However, I think this is what the article is talking about with these un-sexy physical industries.
Perfectly valid code that runs in one and not the other is fine, so long as context switching can be minimized between browser and server. (It's still a switch, but smaller.)
Great point. There are other lifestyle factors besides diet playing a part as well. Particularly, that Afghanistan is probably one of the most stressful countries in the world in which to live over the last 35 years.
HN has scaled, but not because pg hasn't worried about scaling (although to be fair, it doesn't seem to have worried much):

"I already have problems enough with that. Remember, the original motivation for HN was to test a new programming language, and moreover one that's focused on experimenting with language design, not performance. Every time the site gets slow, I fortify myself by recalling McIlroy and Bentley's famous quote

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

and look for the bottleneck I can remove with least code. So far I've been able to keep up, in the sense that performance has remained consistently mediocre despite 14x growth. I don't know what I'll do next, but I'll probably think of something."

http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
I can't tell if this is satire...
Do you have credible suspicion of such collusion in the anime industry?

And to answer your question, no. It was a crime, and law enforcement put a stop to it.
A golden goose in the hand is worth two in the bush.
So, why didn't the growers offer better wages to get their fruit picked? Were they ambivalent because of insurance? Or perhaps they thought raising wages was futile? Some other reason?
I don't think there will be such thing as a war. Rules are the same for every company, Apple are just telling FB in advance that they are not making an exception.
I watched NASA's stream of Perseverance landing on Mars. It would have been cool to watch a few different landings streams at once since one had good narration and another had better footage.
No companies are "heroes".
To add to the sibling comments, Christopher Hitchens literally yelled "Fire" in a crowded room [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY
You can actually just use the 'or' to shortcut this whole thing, because or returns the first true value.

x = False or (True or False)
You could focus on redirects, maybe some for npm modules, other for jquery plugins, etc

Also you could link/redirect references, like the Mozilla one https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript (Mozilla rocks \o/)
I am only guessing, but I think it is implied in the article: With the rainy weather common to southeast Asia and an open roof, the mall just became a basin of water, fantastic for breeding mosquitos. Unable to remove the water (or prevent water from entering), enterprising locals stocked the basin with fish to eat the mosquitos.
as a brand new employee who sits in an open-plan office, i regret not wearing my headphones (or muting my mac) before clicking on this link and scrolling.
ITA were world leaders in path planning systems. Yes for air travel originally, but IMO deep expertise in that area should inform path planning for autonomous robots. Its been years since acquisition, no doubt they've had time to generalize and extend.
>It's true that they've decriminalized drugs (and that society didn't break down) but I was struck by how often I still witnessed drug dealers getting busted by police.

Decriminalizing drug use and possession is not the same as decriminalizing drug trade. Have they done the former or the latter too?
We're not talking about just weed, so no.
Why is he looking at China? I thought Japan's trains were the exemplary high-speed rail model for the world. I had thought Japan's railways were what inspired the high-speed rail project in CA.
Oh... another pointlessly broken Lifehacker link. Thanks Gawker.
>As for why "neun...und sechzig" is ambiguous: with that weird pause it's not clear if this is still 69 or literally "9 and 60" (which is what the word "neunundsechzig" means), i.e. 9-60.

9 und 60 vs. 9 hundert 60, if you speak quickly then the "ert" part of hundert is often swallowed, making it more difficult to discern between the remaining "hund" and "und".
Everyone places a different value on the livestream piece. For most people I'd imagine even $0/night wouldn't be enough to justify the invasion of privacy of being livestreamed. For me personally I don't care as much and think it's a cool concept with no real downside (assuming I don't do anything stupid on the stream I'd later regret, which I think is a fairly low bar), so I'd probably do it for a night if only for the story.
Thanks for clarifying. I am in the same boat. Whenever I go against ideologies of HN, I am always prepared to lose some karma also. I refuse to use a throwaway account.
> 1. Proof of stake.

This has yet to be proven, and as you say, there’s reasons why it has yet to land. I give this one vitaliks sideways smiley face.

> 2. You can't -- this is a cultural problem, not a technological one

Uh, one that doesn’t exist in the current financial system. I’m sure y’all will find a way. As I said, it’s a prerequisite.

> 3. There’s no such thing as money laundering.

Hilarious. I see someone never took compliance training at work. With that attitude I’d love to see you explain your position to a judge. Money laundering is literally financial transactions arranged in such a way as to conceal the original source of funds.

> 4. Buzzword soup.

> 5. More buzzword soup.

More buzzword soup that immediately falls down as once you use crypto as only a bulk transport instrument you’ve lost out on all its ostensible benefits. No transparency, no security, it’s no better than just using a wire transfer.
Yes, absolutely. Prewar democracy in Japan was a complicated thing. It was largely controlled by elites from the Meiji to early Showa periods, but in the late 1920s universal male suffrage was extended with one huge caveat - the Communist Party was outlawed and police and intelligence services were given carte blanche to lock up, torture and kill leftists unless they publicly rescinded their views. While these acts largely succeeded in destroying opposition, defacto military rule was only put in place during the late 1930s.

Japan’s modernization, grappling with democratic and populist forces, and unfortunate collapse into fascism is some fascinating history to read about. “Japan in Crisis: Essays on Taisho Democracy“ is a good starting point.
I don't see why it dismisses itself. It asks questions, it's just philosophy at that point and the good old epistemological questions. But the first and second order thinking it encourages is a perfectly useful framework.

It helps understand situations vastly different from ours, but it doesn't dismiss your own core values.

It's probably a good postmodern conclusion that truly understanding the Chinese way is impossible without actually being completely in it, but at that point you are again too biased. But that doesn't mean that without a full immersion we can't gain valid insights about it. We can. We are perfectly aware of the big picture, we have seen it hundreds of times by now in various countries (and proto-countries) over the last few thousand years.
Indeed. Do you have a point?

That they could've made a dent resistant door out of aluminum.
The problem here is not prototyping, it's the service accepting executable code from the user.
Or that they're a business that doesn't want that kind of publicity. Just because you have a loudspeaker and a podium at your business doesn't mean you need to let everyone walking in to your office use it. Just as Chick-fil-A chooses not to be open on Sundays, Walmart chooses to sell bullets not guns, and Dunkin chose to make their company name really stupid sounding they're allowed to make business decisions good, bad, it otherwise because they think it will be the best thing for their bottom line.
That's such a narrow segment of users. Would it be worth supporting?
A normal Outlook setup is that you can see people's availability in their calendars but you can only see the details for your immediate team or if people have specifically enabled it.

There is no reason to have your full calendar visible by all by default.
I guess its just a matter of time until someone builds man-portable particle accelerators that can, indeed, take on an aircraft carrier. Its going to be a very, very wild world to live in when that happens ..

Sci-Fi seems to be a key factor in the inspiration of engineers. I'm left astounded at how quickly things proceed from "mm... feasible" to "on the market".
That link is fascinating, thanks for sharing. Two minor things that stuck out to me:

- "Kosher garum" - didn't see that coming!

- "På stora svenska online casino kan du alltid hitta casino spel från Netent, spelen har översatts till många språk inklusive svenska." I don't speak Swedish but is this randomly injected online gambling spam?!
> Around the same time Google redrafted its policies, making it a fireable offense to even look at certain documents. And let’s be clear, looking at such documents is a big part of Google culture; the company describes it as a benefit in recruiting, and even encourages new hires to read docs from projects all across the company. Which documents were off limits after this policy change? The policy was unclear, even explicitly stating the documents didn’t have to be labeled to be off limits.

Is such a policy legally enforceable or is it relying on the fact that Google can outspend them in a litigation?
I leave my room open and then say- people were watching me not just doing my work but also taking shower and sleeping - that's disingenuous.

The calendar doesn't distinguish between medical work or a meeting with union Busters. Google is deliberately muddying waters. Slimy
Definitely it is a text book example of things to not do, but what is painful is that they started with good intentions. (People with good intentions are the most dangerous one though)
I'd like to see what the market decides is worthwhile without capital ownership.
Or maybe "level 5 vegans", they won't eat anything that casts a shadow.
If you remove all forms of monetary persuasion and simply look at this from the perspective of a human being, the driver is a monster.
Ignoring the fact that it's not a tax that goes to the government, the flaw in your argument is assuming that the $1000 Subway now doesn't have to spend ensuring disabled access to a store will somehow end up funding ground-breaking disability research. I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion.

You can attack a problem in multiple ways, it's not mutually exclusive. You can simultaneously fund research into curing disabilities _at the same time_ as ensuring people with disabilities have equal access. Which is what we are doing now.

Trying to make the argument that hand-wavey "resources" are being somehow diverted away from disability research because private businesses need to accomodate disabled people sounds rather silly. Almost as silly as arguing that these unthinking groups (shall we call them companies?) would invest any of the money they would save by not ensuring equal access in anything related to disability research.

When it comes to some forms of meaningful change at a group level then focusing on the individual is not a great tactic. You can spend an hour individually explaining to every person in a country why smoking is bad for them but that won't have nearly as much impact on smoking rates as banning cigarette adverts.
There's a line in here that says "In the 1990s, Oracle created a programming language called Java." that is funny on its face, but is written this way for the exact reason you're talking about.
I can only think of a few reasons that LG couldn't make it, and none of them are enough to sink a brand:

* Lack of updates
* Occasionally non-flagship hardware
* That Nexus issue many years ago

Their UI is better than Samsung. They're less intrusive than samsung. Their flagships are usually pretty good and come at good discounts soon after release.

I have an S21 now, and the number of bloatware samsung apps has me wanting to move back to Oneplus or even Apple, maybe. I only bought it because I wanted a flagship high-refresh phone under 6.5".

I'll miss LG a bit, it isn't as if we need fewer competitors in the Android space. It's Chinese brands, Samsung, and Google now pretty much, no?
The dissent point out “non-competing” is a bit of a stretch as this affected contracts oracle had.
If Wikipedia is right

> Smiley was born to middle-class parents

Doesn't sound like the Economist
Why not computer science?
Well, obviously some people already trust electric vehicles that don't have batteries that the average consumer isn't meant to replace. So "nobody" is an exaggeration. But replaceable, modular batteries would be a nice improvement. Especially if a particular kind of battery fit in a wide range of vehicles and were available from multiple vendors. And if cars were designed to accept upgrade batteries with different electrical characteristics than the originals and have it just work.
The first two sentences describe the intent very simply and clearly:

> Album-a-Day is a Crap Art project. That means that it's a set of constraints (the rules below) which are meant to help you be creative.

It's just one of many many different ways one might choose to spend one's time. Choosing to not spend your time this way is abundantly understandable (heck, I'm on a 12,000+ streak of consecutive 24-hour periods spent not doing this challenge), but I'm having a difficult time understanding why you would hate the idea.
"A customer is
not required to indicate that he or she
will be traveling with a service animal
when calling to request a ride."

https://www.thetransportationalliance.org/news/adanotice.pdf
Is it possible for Sencha to start charging developers or users at some point in the future under the commercial license?
Might be useful for search. (not necessarily just web search, but ecommerce as well)

For example, instances of "aqua" should probably match the search query "blue". Google seems like it may already be that advanced, but other search engines perhaps not. Large-scale search engines probably would keep this in their own DB, though.
Nytimes article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/health/warm-weather-coron...

Some research papers from the past about SARS-CoronaVirus:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22312351
> The von Neumann architecture became possible because Church and Turing wrote their highly theoretical, mathematical works.

I don't know about others but Von Neumann architecture is much more described by Church and Turings work than derived from it, like steam engines are described by thermodynamics. Neither invention was actually dependent on the theory.

Science often derives from engineering, not the other way around. Get over it.
Honestly I don't have time to pick apart this entire comment, but just to address the most egregious assumption you make:

You compare death numbers from the flu to COVID.

COVID is a pandemic that is in its exponential growth phase, with zero existing immunity and no existing treatment. The flu is a well-known, well-studied disease for which we have a vaccine, to which many people will have some level of immunity and for which we actually have a treatment. The flu is also at the end of the season right now. COVID is only getting started.

Even if we instituted perfect social distancing and prevented all further spread we can expect COVID deaths to double every few days for the next few weeks because of the incubation period. I am willing to bet good money that the 2k influenza deaths this year will dwindle in comparison to the number of COVID deaths when everything is said and done.
> The problem is that the west has nobody in power with living memory of a pandemic.

Irrelevant. It's why we have things like (history) books: so that we don't have to relive past events to learn from them and repeat every mistake done in the past. It's cheaper to learn from other people's mistakes than your own.

The Trump Administration was specifically warned about pandemics before they even took power:

> “Health officials warn that this could become the worst influenza pandemic since 1918,” Trump’s aides were told. Soon, they heard cases were popping up in California and Texas.

> The briefing was intended to hammer home a new, terrifying reality facing the Trump administration, and the incoming president’s responsibility to protect Americans amid a crisis. But unlike the coronavirus pandemic currently ravaging the globe, this 2017 crisis didn’t really happen — it was among a handful of scenarios presented to Trump’s top aides as part of a legally required transition exercise with members of the outgoing administration of Barack Obama.

* https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-...

Trump could have done something between 4-6 weeks sooner per briefings in January:

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intellig...

When H1N1 appeared in April 2009 the response was swift and decisive:

> The CDC's summary report[1] of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic outlines how tests were administered at the time. The virus was first detected in the US on April 15. The CDC informed the World Health Organization about initial cases April 18. A test to detect this strain of swine flu was developed by the CDC and cleared for use 10 days later, on April 28, and the CDC began shipping tests across the US and around the world on May 1.

* https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/politics/fact-checking-trumps...

China's lack of transparency did not help matters:

> The research also found that if interventions in the country could have been conducted one week, two weeks, or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66 percent, 86 percent and 95 percent respectively – significantly limiting the geographical spread of the disease. However, if NPIs were conducted one week, two weeks, or three weeks later than they were, the number of cases may have shown a 3-fold, 7-fold, or 18-fold increase, respectively.

* https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/03/covid-19-china.pa...

* Study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.03.20029843v...

But all the "technical" knowledge to do the right thing was there. There is nothing new to this situation that we didn't already understand from an epidemiological perspective.
It's hard to accept that Italy hasn't even been under water for a full two weeks yet, it feels like months.

But I guess you are right, Italy didn't really crack down until early March.
If they didn't care, they could've just killed them all instead of spending effort on indoctrinating them. The Chinese government does understand proportionality. Wrongthink is countered with thought policing, not genocide.
M is "thousand". MM is "thousand thousand", which is "million", and a fairly common shorthand. I haven't really seen it, but its pretty clear then that MMM is meant to be "thousand thousand thousand", i.e., billion.
As a user, I don't want them, and I don't want the app developer to make that choice for me.
>wind back the easy availability of travel

What do you mean by that? I'm assuming it's not just a roundabout way of saying "more expensive", and thus more exclusive, like in the (bad) old days.
It's always the case that some trips are more profitable than others: for example there is another passenger to pick up immediately at the same place you dropped the last passenger off at. So while it matters that in total Uber driving is profitable for the driver it is not necessary that the 2% or so of the trips with blind passengers are.
You are only looking at the energy in the noise itself. But to make that noise there is a ton of wasted energy in vibration, friction from gears, etc.

Noise is a symptom of "slop" in an engine. It might be unavoidable, but it's still a symptom of wasted energy.
It's not really necessary to play the devil's advocate to an ongoing genocide. In fact, it's a pretty bad idea. The definition of Genocide clearly includes destroying a culture with forced removal, education, and forced birth control all of which China is doing.
As I understand it, no--assuming you are not in the office over some threshold (which I don't know). If you commute from NH to Massachusetts you do need to pay MA income tax. And, oh, if you live in MA and commute to NH, you also have to pay MA income tax. I've definitely seen people who live in NH and used to commute to MA switching to being fully remote in the current situation.
Most of the time when people do this, they're open to accepting an offer if it turned out to be really great. They just know that such an offer from a particular company is really unlikely.

I don't see a big problem with it. While it may 'waste' some time on the company's part, it also sends a signal of, "hey, you could get some of these really high quality engineers if you were willing to [pay more/offer more vacation/offer remote work/etc.]".

Now, if you're unwilling to accept an offer from a particular company even if their terms blow you away, then yeah, that's a dick move.
That first link is about a particular strain of coronavirus (which causes lower respiratory tract infections)
amongst 95 residents of a care facility. How does that generalise to all forms of the common cold and all over 75's?
We're living in a world where my 2 year old phone has 8GB of DDR4 RAM. Even a $150 Chromebook has 4GB. RAM consumption just isn't a realistic concern anymore for office and communication work, much like hard drive space is basically infinite for most people.
I can't reproduce that. How do I reproduce that?
I recently discovered I can write great looking browser-ready documentation easily by simply embedding the whole page in a single PRE-tag and embedding a very simple style-sheet:

<style>
pre
{ font-family: Verdana;
}
</style>

The reason it took me this long to not use HTML for writing simple texts I think is that the DEFAULT font for PRE in browsers looks terrible.

Whatever else I need are simple tags like <b> <h2>, <h3>, <hr> and simple hyperlinks. I can omit <html> and <head> and <body> tags totally it seems. No problem not having them. Just nice simple MINIMAL MARKUP content-pages.

But I can easily use the full power of HTML when needed. No need to rely on non-standard markdown dialects.

Is there a specific advantage of Markdown I am missing?
Old man yells at (internet) cloud

> for the most part, they work.

What is stopping you to just keep using an older version? If you are a developer, what is stopping you to target only the subset of features that you seem necessary?

> WebUSB and WebBluetooth are not things that I particularly need or want

I assume you are thinking about the browser on your desktop OS. What about platforms like FirefoxOS - KaiOS?
totally. It was a limit sell from days ago, I was banking on some volatility but didn't think it would necessarily soar again.
Thanks for posting this - this is genuinely one of the most interesting links I've discovered through HN.

I look forward to reading more comments and hypotheses. Currently the biggest questions is that raised by ankitoberoi - what other means could be used to manipulate the currency to such a large extent?

Sure RBI may be selling $ primarily. But what are foreign governments and private organisations doing? It is likely that they are also playing a role in currency manipulation.
Calling 35 years "a lifetime" is exaggerating. Calling 35 years less than half a lifetime is accurate, not minimizing. "Half his remaining lifetime" is probably true, and that's also a valid way to look at it. But it doesn't really contradict what I said, because what I said is true. ("Possibly all of his remaining lifetime" is incredibly cynical, but technically true.)