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167,053 | null | null | Well, words do matter. This <i>is</i> HN... | null | kergonath | null | 1,657,142,481 | "2022-07-06T21:21:21Z" | comment | 32,006,971 | 32,003,578 | null | null | null |
167,054 | null | null | If you know about inertia, the grabiy center is where inertia is minimized. But it's just a way to rephrase it. | null | shikoba | null | 1,657,142,479 | "2022-07-06T21:21:19Z" | comment | 32,006,970 | 32,006,851 | null | null | null |
167,055 | null | null | > With Bitcoin, no one has control!<p>Well, until a little over 50% of the miners decide they don't like you.<p>Ethereum's fork proved "no one has control" is an illusion. | null | ceejayoz | null | 1,657,142,489 | "2022-07-06T21:21:29Z" | comment | 32,006,973 | 32,006,928 | null | null | null |
167,056 | null | null | I'm not going to wait for the comparisons this time. Maxing this baby out right now. | null | vmception | null | 1,634,580,175 | "2021-10-18T18:02:55Z" | comment | 28,908,709 | 28,908,535 | null | null | null |
167,057 | null | null | My wife and I have gotten a lot of mileage out of playing these 1v1 games:<p><pre><code> - Twilight Struggle
- Hive
- Patchwork
</code></pre>
Choosing one really depends on mood. Twilight Struggle is the kind of game you have to buckle up and commit to playing for a while, but it's worth it. Hive and Patchwork are more bite-sized - both have enough complexity to be interesting, but with a much lower time commitment. You also have to refer to the rulebook less often with those two games. :) | null | mattcdrake | null | 1,657,142,503 | "2022-07-06T21:21:43Z" | comment | 32,006,975 | 32,004,522 | null | null | null |
167,058 | null | null | You should send your suggestions to Ruby Central. | null | ironick09 | null | 1,657,142,491 | "2022-07-06T21:21:31Z" | comment | 32,006,974 | 32,005,273 | null | null | null |
167,059 | null | null | I can’t speak for the others, but Rust definitely has separate namespaces for them. See <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/reference/names/namespaces.html" rel="nofollow">https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/reference/names/namespaces.ht...</a> | null | Ontonator | null | 1,657,142,510 | "2022-07-06T21:21:50Z" | comment | 32,006,977 | 32,006,886 | null | null | null |
167,060 | null | null | I'd also be interested as to what parameters could possibly be tweaked such that capitalism would find it unprofitable to commodify food or at the very least more profitable to distribute it to those who can't afford it. Massive state and international intervention might be able to do it but this isn't the kind of thing we could fix with minor tax incentives and penalties. | null | kieselguhr_kid | null | 1,657,142,509 | "2022-07-06T21:21:49Z" | comment | 32,006,976 | 32,006,810 | null | null | null |
167,061 | null | null | "All projects that finish late have this one thing in common: they started late" | null | based2 | null | 1,455,462,153 | "2016-02-14T15:02:33Z" | comment | 11,098,486 | 11,098,466 | null | null | null |
167,062 | null | null | Would a USB ASIC give better performance? | null | stephengillie | null | 1,465,308,486 | "2016-06-07T14:08:06Z" | comment | 11,854,593 | 11,853,312 | null | null | null |
167,063 | null | null | Measuring progress is hard.<p>100 years ago, a person in the wrong place in the United States who happened to say something someone else didn't like might end up getting murdered by a mob.<p>I guess that is getting to be a long time ago, but history should not be viewed with a tight lens. | null | maxerickson | null | 1,465,308,481 | "2016-06-07T14:08:01Z" | comment | 11,854,592 | 11,853,761 | null | null | null |
167,064 | null | null | TLDR: You made it up. | null | pc86 | null | 1,465,308,494 | "2016-06-07T14:08:14Z" | comment | 11,854,595 | 11,847,956 | null | null | null |
167,065 | null | null | Plenty of people have mango allergies. | null | GFK_of_xmaspast | null | 1,455,462,111 | "2016-02-14T15:01:51Z" | comment | 11,098,482 | 11,097,861 | null | null | null |
167,066 | null | null | Will it someday merge or integrate with visual studio? | null | anotheryou | null | 1,465,308,504 | "2016-06-07T14:08:24Z" | comment | 11,854,597 | 11,852,862 | null | null | null |
167,067 | null | null | Sounds like it would be relatively easy to then optionally pre-parse and automate the variable declaration cutting input considerably (for those who wished it) ... I'm sure that's been done already in such a long lived and popular project.<p>Thanks for you response and insight. Must give sage a try again. | null | pbhjpbhj | null | 1,455,462,043 | "2016-02-14T15:00:43Z" | comment | 11,098,480 | 11,098,366 | null | null | null |
167,068 | null | null | > As usual, religion is a smokescreen.<p>Why do you deny sincere religiosity and direct reading of the texts as the motivation for the acts of religious people? Through the ages the humanity has done a lot of harm to "others" based on much less than what's in the holy texts of "the religion that can't be named." But that particular religion has spread especially based on the idea of fighting the war for religion and benefit of the fighters (both in this world and as the shortcut to heaven), all in the "holy" texts.<p>For Christianity's witch hunting, only one verse in Bible was enough (Exodus 22:18). Luckily, there was at least:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar</a><p>Edit: return0, your "only very few lines have being pursued" signals to me that you don't know the content of the "holy" texts being discussed (that is, of the religion that can't be named). The visual presentation of the extent of hate directed to unbelievers is stunning -- almost every chapter remains heavily marked once we attempt doing this. And the ideas and demands are often, almost hypnotically, repeated. It's easy to prove it, there are enough translations even on-line. | null | acqq | null | 1,465,308,523 | "2016-06-07T14:08:43Z" | comment | 11,854,599 | 11,854,370 | null | null | null |
167,069 | null | null | Lol. Fabricated? Now you proved me a point. | null | meira | null | 1,465,308,518 | "2016-06-07T14:08:38Z" | comment | 11,854,598 | 11,844,115 | null | null | null |
167,070 | null | null | The point of the person you are responding to wasn't to really defend whether the idea of unbanning Trump was good or not: it was to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to explicitly move to a decentralized solution like <i>Mastadon</i> if that's your concern. | null | saurik | null | 1,667,757,261 | "2022-11-06T17:54:21Z" | comment | 33,495,262 | 33,494,552 | null | null | null |
167,071 | null | null | Handling it less like email and more like a “well if it blows up ah well” is part of the featureset in my opinion. | null | bombcar | null | 1,667,757,266 | "2022-11-06T17:54:26Z" | comment | 33,495,263 | 33,495,061 | null | null | null |
167,072 | null | null | I developed a fond appreciation for wine during the pandemic and am grateful for this discovery. The vast majority of people still drink alcohol responsibly. The anti-alcohol lobby has been especially active since COVID and it’s not clear how neo-prohibitionalism will move society forward. | null | danielfoster | null | 1,667,757,267 | "2022-11-06T17:54:27Z" | comment | 33,495,264 | 33,492,303 | null | null | null |
167,073 | null | null | Date: 2015 | null | brudgers | null | 1,455,462,181 | "2016-02-14T15:03:01Z" | comment | 11,098,489 | 11,098,112 | null | null | null |
167,074 | null | null | If you need to delete code in a codebase full of copy pastes, it's likely that you will need to delete it in many many places and miss some of them. So although the code isn't coupled, it is hard to delete. | null | stepanhruda | null | 1,455,462,163 | "2016-02-14T15:02:43Z" | comment | 11,098,488 | 11,098,410 | null | null | null |
167,075 | null | null | "with an objective measure of who would have won in a real combat situation"<p>In a real combat situation, the people being struck would experience shock and degradation of fighting ability, which would have affected the points they'd go on to score. I would say this is more about who would have scored the most points in exactly this setting. | null | EGreg | null | 1,393,401,636 | "2014-02-26T08:00:36Z" | comment | 7,303,619 | 7,303,111 | null | null | null |
167,076 | null | null | "Brains behind TiVo"? TiVo just modernized video recording by digitizing it. | null | zoowar | null | 1,393,401,623 | "2014-02-26T08:00:23Z" | comment | 7,303,618 | 7,303,565 | null | null | null |
167,077 | null | null | Impossible. It must be on the equator. Attaching a line from the ground to a large object in geosynchronous orbit is the essential plan, and GEO only happens above the equator. | null | jccooper | null | 1,393,401,421 | "2014-02-26T07:57:01Z" | comment | 7,303,611 | 7,303,519 | null | null | null |
167,078 | null | null | Another problem never answered: Do we have the resources (funds and material) to create the amount of material needed?<p>Lets say the cable is 1m2 thick: 1m2 * 100000m (Kármán line) = 100000m3. Maybe this doesn't sound like a lot until you check the prices of nanotube-like materials. | null | ohwp | null | 1,393,401,420 | "2014-02-26T07:57:00Z" | comment | 7,303,610 | 7,303,262 | null | null | null |
167,079 | null | null | Sending money internationally.<p>Comparing products across brands (they all have specs but the way they sort the specs is different and it's a pain to flip through tons of tabs).<p>Finding a chair to fit my kitchen table (given the dimensions of both).<p>Diagramming my bedroom to try to figure out if I can build a better bed.<p>Finding furniture that fits in a given volume (in my case, I want to find a trolley or counter that's Y cm high, at least X cm long, and between Z1 and Z2 cm deep). | null | atgm | null | 1,393,401,462 | "2014-02-26T07:57:42Z" | comment | 7,303,613 | 7,303,291 | null | null | null |
167,080 | null | null | Apologies, I'm posting this few times, but are you calculating the total number of solutions, or just finding a solution? The latter has a closed form solution: <a href="https://gist.github.com/IanCal/1858601" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/IanCal/1858601</a><p>That'll do ~N=1e6 in a second (I'm sure there are lots of optimisations that could be done in it though), or solutions for N=4 to N=1000 in less than 10.<p>The more complex problem is finding out how many solutions there are in total. | null | IanCal | null | 1,393,401,559 | "2014-02-26T07:59:19Z" | comment | 7,303,615 | 7,303,366 | null | null | null |
167,081 | null | null | He followed some pretty logical steps and made a fair enough point, there's no reason for you to be a douche about it. | null | fletchowns | null | 1,393,401,516 | "2014-02-26T07:58:36Z" | comment | 7,303,614 | 7,303,405 | null | null | null |
167,082 | null | null | I'm not quite sure I am parsing your question correctly, but:<p>The Moon is yanking the Earth around, but even something that stupendously massive doesn't do much damage <i>(the tidal forces are nothing to sneeze at.. but the 'wobble' caused by the difference between the Earths center of mass and the Earth-Moon barycenter (the point that the Earth and Moon both orbit) is negligible in nearly every consideration)</i>.<p>This would absolutely not be a concern. | null | Crito | null | 1,393,401,578 | "2014-02-26T07:59:38Z" | comment | 7,303,616 | 7,303,449 | null | null | null |
167,083 | null | null | how is Books a flagship product? :D | null | pas | null | 1,664,620,245 | "2022-10-01T10:30:45Z" | comment | 33,045,513 | 33,045,201 | null | null | null |
167,084 | null | null | For everyone who didn't know such as myself: Hells 500 is a Facebook group of cycling enthusiasts who like to bike hills/mountains.<p><a href="https://m.facebook.com/hells500" rel="nofollow">https://m.facebook.com/hells500</a> | null | oezi | null | 1,664,620,224 | "2022-10-01T10:30:24Z" | comment | 33,045,512 | 33,044,493 | null | null | null |
167,085 | null | null | Turns out I'd garbled things in my memory. There was no change in max object name length from S/38 to AS/400 – both were 10 characters max. The change was actually from S/36 to AS/400, which went from 8 to 10 – but AS/400 is not a direct descendant of S/36, only of S/38. Apologies for the misinformation.<p>The biggest incompatibility between S/38 and AS/400 is still in the object name syntax, but not in the maximum length – rather, in how qualified names are written. In S/38, a qualified object name is of the form OBJECT.LIBRARY, whereas AS/400 changes it to LIBRARY/OBJECT. (A "library" is essentially what other platforms call a "directory", except it doesn't just contain files, actually any kind of object; and, there is no hierarchy, libraries cannot be nested – except for the special system library QSYS, which contains every other library).<p>The change in the separator from . to / was necessary for S/36 compatibility - unlike S/38, S/36 allowed dots in names, so for S/36 compatibility, dot was added to the allowed characters in object names. This meant dot could no longer be used to separate the object and library in a qualified name, so slash was used instead. The reversal of the order was not strictly necessary, but was likely motivated by the fact that it is more consistent with what most other major operating systems do (MVS dataset names; paths on Unix, DOS, OS/2 and Windows; OpenVMS; among others). | null | skissane | null | 1,664,620,208 | "2022-10-01T10:30:08Z" | comment | 33,045,511 | 33,044,801 | null | null | null |
167,086 | null | null | Agreed about Things. On the whole it has absolutely incredible... err I guess it's called Interaction Design | null | frou_dh | null | 1,664,620,200 | "2022-10-01T10:30:00Z" | comment | 33,045,510 | 33,044,005 | null | null | null |
167,087 | null | null | >trivial
>requires user mistake<p>Not sure how that matches. | null | gsich | null | 1,664,620,353 | "2022-10-01T10:32:33Z" | comment | 33,045,517 | 33,039,864 | null | null | null |
167,088 | null | null | >more neuron to deal with more sensory inputs.<p>This makes some sense. However nature certainly does optimize as you can see with the sensory resolution from your hand vs the one from your back. | null | Silverback_VII | null | 1,664,620,320 | "2022-10-01T10:32:00Z" | comment | 33,045,516 | 33,045,467 | null | null | null |
167,089 | null | null | I think a simpler way to put it is that the coordination of more body mass requires more analog input. It's not the case that a large muscle group in a body is sufficiently abstracted into something that only requires a small amount of input to do work. It makes intuitive sense to me that it requires more signal bandwidth to control more muscle cells at once, and in turn more computation to produce data that requires such bandwidth.<p>A better analogy would then be saying that we need to treat cell groups of a certain mass roughly as one software application that has a certain level of computational resource requirements. The more such applications you have in your system, the more CPU and RAM you need to run them all.<p>Another way to explain it is that an engine is a autonomous unit that has a specific function, and all you have to do is to instruct it, say, to run with higher or lower power. But most of the body has to be centrally controlled by the brain. | null | dchftcs | null | 1,664,620,295 | "2022-10-01T10:31:35Z" | comment | 33,045,515 | 33,045,418 | null | null | null |
167,090 | null | null | There are thousands of people looking for jobs at any particular moment who "can do the work."<p>If you are searching for your next position out of need, then you are not special. The employees who can afford to have egos are those who are being recruited. | null | MisterBastahrd | null | 1,640,551,798 | "2021-12-26T20:49:58Z" | comment | 29,696,201 | 29,695,372 | null | null | null |
167,091 | null | null | > All of which is to say, the heterodox viewpoints offered by Corbyn and Carlson don’t represent the usual conflict between Left and Right. Rather, it’s an example of both poles making common cause against the center.<p>So, the center view seems to be support fot the war? Doesn't make sense to me. | null | BenGosub | null | 1,664,620,365 | "2022-10-01T10:32:45Z" | comment | 33,045,519 | 33,040,275 | null | null | null |
167,092 | null | null | > I'm not a user, although it's telling that you assumed I was.<p>I wasn't clear here, I meant user of internet in general. What I mean is that while your response may be justified, in reality archiving is a complex thing and forgetting/stuff disappearing is the default. Unless you actively fight against it (for example by archiving, but also personally like using spaced repetition for remembering stuff), you will forget, things will disappear. Lots of people are putting a lot of time and energy to try to remember more stuff, and some to try to forget/make people forget stuff. What may look like a decision by a big company is a constant war fought by people with vastly different opinions and values on what matters. If you consider something is worth preserving, you should try to contribute in your own way.<p>It's small, but I personally save web pages that I like, music that I like, movies that I like, so they can't just disappear on me. | null | Zababa | null | 1,664,620,354 | "2022-10-01T10:32:34Z" | comment | 33,045,518 | 33,004,757 | null | null | null |
167,093 | null | null | I've heard if it. I just don't think biometrics are ever going to be good enough to securely drive a key from.<p>And even if they were, I'm not sure one-key-per-human is what you'd want. I think we ought to be able to generate pseudonyms which provably belong on to a taxpaying citizen, but which can't be traced to the specific one. For protecting whistleblowers and such. | null | __MatrixMan__ | null | 1,640,551,821 | "2021-12-26T20:50:21Z" | comment | 29,696,204 | 29,694,619 | null | null | null |
167,094 | null | null | Try the less nice ones then.<p>In terms of decibels cars are indeed louder. But not all noise is created equal.<p>I have noise-cancelling headphones - they do a great job removing white noise(so traffic, among others), but aren't too effective against sounds with a more focused spectrum like people yelling in the middle of the night, bottles being broken or trash being collected in the middle of the night. | null | Tade0 | null | 1,649,656,772 | "2022-04-11T05:59:32Z" | comment | 30,985,192 | 30,984,732 | null | null | null |
167,095 | null | null | You know, every time I personally write a blog post, I've learned to just assume that people will only read the title. If I'm lucky they may also see a subtitle or read the first paragraph. But unless you just write some compelling content, almost nobody will read it all the way through. You can't blame people. We're so inundated with information these days, we have to skim through things. | null | j_baker | null | 1,433,454,496 | "2015-06-04T21:48:16Z" | comment | 9,662,358 | 9,662,199 | null | null | null |
167,096 | null | null | >speeders, drunk drivers<p>Unsafe and drunk drivers are quite condemned.<p>Obese people don't normally make hospital beds unavailable. If there was a safe, easy to take and effective vaccine against obesity, but they refused to take it, they would be condemned much more.<p>Plus none of them can infect others with their affliction. | null | belltaco | null | 1,640,551,823 | "2021-12-26T20:50:23Z" | comment | 29,696,205 | 29,696,119 | null | null | null |
167,097 | null | null | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Horribles_Cernettes" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Horribles_Cernettes</a><p>Great lyrics too ;) | null | stse | null | 1,249,433,404 | "2009-08-05T00:50:04Z" | comment | 742,555 | 741,744 | null | null | null |
167,098 | null | null | I've got to know more about this. Who set it up? Local start up? Bored engineers? | null | tvchurch | null | 1,525,297,872 | "2018-05-02T21:51:12Z" | comment | 16,981,464 | 16,981,451 | null | null | null |
167,099 | null | null | Always remember the Pareto Principle, you will find it applies to most aspects of life. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle</a> | null | helph67 | null | 1,640,551,830 | "2021-12-26T20:50:30Z" | comment | 29,696,207 | 29,693,117 | null | null | null |
167,100 | null | null | Very enjoyable, thanks for sharing | null | kiriliponi | null | 1,583,157,421 | "2020-03-02T13:57:01Z" | comment | 22,464,421 | 22,462,224 | null | null | null |
167,101 | null | null | .. Trump didn’t succeed in slashing the budget, however.<p>> Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased.<p><a href="https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104</a> | null | xenonite | null | 1,583,157,424 | "2020-03-02T13:57:04Z" | comment | 22,464,422 | 22,464,317 | null | null | null |
167,102 | null | null | One of the first things I do on a new Firefox install is add a user-agent switcher and set it up to tell sites I am using chrome for exactly this reason.<p>Somehow we have gone back to the dark ages of web where sites complain unless you are using one specific browser.<p>It was the more technical minded people who spread the word and mindshare of browser choice back then to get us out of that mess, and now the same group has gotten us back into it worse than ever.<p>I'll never understand how this happened. | null | randomdude402 | null | 1,583,157,435 | "2020-03-02T13:57:15Z" | comment | 22,464,423 | 22,463,725 | null | null | null |
167,103 | null | null | There's a model floating around out there now [0]. I think the main point of it is the transmission efficacy. The Gates article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine states the average person infected will go on to infect two to three additional [1].<p>I'm of the opinion that, while China appears to be the root cause, the advantage they have is a very authoritarian control on the response. People were literally welded into their apartments [2]. In the US, for example, there are many people that will blindly ignore all requests by politicians, local, state and national government. Many Chinese don't have that option for fear of strong repercussions. While I'm not condoning that use of force - I'm just stating as an observation. Beyond that the US seems to be in an odd spot given the upcoming election and divisive divide along party lines.<p>[0] <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bS6S4oNRuMHD4ezh177QSf3UU6a8lQHv/view" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bS6S4oNRuMHD4ezh177QSf3UU6a...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762" rel="nofollow">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1703503427818" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1703503427818</a> | null | windexh8er | null | 1,583,157,436 | "2020-03-02T13:57:16Z" | comment | 22,464,424 | 22,464,108 | null | null | null |
167,104 | null | null | One thing you can be sure. This will be a political football played aggressively by both or multiple sides trying to get an edge...<p>And the news of course will amplify things —they have since it emerged in China where they vacillated on whether it’s an overreaction or whether its a economy destroying pandemic. | null | mc32 | null | 1,583,157,436 | "2020-03-02T13:57:16Z" | comment | 22,464,425 | 22,464,079 | null | null | null |
167,105 | null | null | As there has been community transmission and aren't actively testing symptomatic people (unless in known direct contact with someone who has traveled to an affected area, or traveled there themselves), it's questionable if they have a sufficient grasp on "what is happening now". | null | CelestialTeapot | null | 1,583,157,441 | "2020-03-02T13:57:21Z" | comment | 22,464,426 | 22,464,157 | null | null | null |
167,106 | null | null | "Memory Safety" doesn't refer to leakage, it refers to read-after-free, buffer overflows, and other memory-access related bugs. Garbage collection runtimes keep track of memory access to avoid these issues, rust does it through lifetimes/ownership. | null | chewbacha | null | 1,583,157,445 | "2020-03-02T13:57:25Z" | comment | 22,464,427 | 22,464,272 | null | null | null |
167,107 | null | null | Here is some data from 1100 early cases in China. Median incubation period is 4 days, interquartile is 2-7 days. 14 days is a very distant outlier, and it's possible there was an intermediate carrier or two in those cases.<p><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032" rel="nofollow">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032</a> | null | Kliment | null | 1,583,157,446 | "2020-03-02T13:57:26Z" | comment | 22,464,428 | 22,464,242 | null | null | null |
167,108 | null | null | Original SID chips are often semi-broken as well. I had a few when they were cheaper and I was building a midibox SID. Most had weird VCA issues or oscillators leaking to the output always. Stuff like that. If you end up with a half decent one the oddities just become part of the charm. | null | tekstar | null | 1,583,157,453 | "2020-03-02T13:57:33Z" | comment | 22,464,429 | 22,462,483 | null | null | null |
167,109 | null | null | I don't know for sure, but AirBNB had the weird domain name airbednbreakfast.com or something, and it still has pretty weird company name too. It's not really what you would choose for disrupting the hotel industry.<p>By decades of media coverage, "Microsoft" evokes images of a behemoth. But try to imagine what the name "Microsoft" must have sounded like -- it doesn't sound very ambitious. It sounds a little lame. If you planned to be the biggest company in the world, would you name your company "Microsoft"?<p>Microsoft was started when Gates was 20 or something. I think a lot of 20 year olds are just trying to make something interesting. Some are dreaming of taking over the world, but those are the types that probably don't actually do it.<p>I think you can see a similar thing with Linux. If you look at Linus's original mail announcing Linux, it doesn't sound like he has any goals to run on the majority of servers, mobile phones, many desktops, and tons of embedded devices.<p>He even insisted it would never be portable past i386!!!<p>I agree with pg that a lot of these people are living in the future and don't necessarily realize that they're going to be riding this hockey stick growth. Even if you're doing it, I'm sure it's hard to predict. There's hundreds of decisions and improvements you have to make along the way. There's no one idea or feature to implement to get that big. | null | chubot | null | 1,424,891,673 | "2015-02-25T19:14:33Z" | comment | 9,108,837 | 9,108,689 | null | null | null |
167,110 | null | null | Since you seem to be well-versed in this world, do you know what reputation Nick Bostrom has in these circles? | null | oskarth | null | 1,424,891,618 | "2015-02-25T19:13:38Z" | comment | 9,108,831 | 9,108,759 | null | null | null |
167,111 | null | null | Yeah, I can imagine in NYC things are different. I live in a town of about 50,000 though the courthouse is still a pretty good size with a couple hundred for jury duty. | null | gmays | null | 1,424,891,618 | "2015-02-25T19:13:38Z" | comment | 9,108,832 | 9,086,583 | null | null | null |
167,112 | null | null | I think the distinction is you can say "I pay good money for you to do it properly and how dare you go down on me" but you become an "armchair infrastructure engineer" when you try and explain how you would have avoided the outage because you don't have the whole picture (especially based on a very carefully worded PR approved blog post). | null | cube00 | null | 1,639,200,129 | "2021-12-11T05:22:09Z" | comment | 29,518,669 | 29,517,423 | null | null | null |
167,113 | null | null | Man, 1999 sounds wild. | null | rootsudo | null | 1,639,200,116 | "2021-12-11T05:21:56Z" | comment | 29,518,668 | 29,515,192 | null | null | null |
167,114 | null | null | Unpopular opinion - but I think farming out the majority of the raising of children to daycares is a bad idea in the long term. Obviously some times you don't have a choice, but I think stay-at-home moms (or dads) are <i>extremely</i> valuable for the development of the child and potentially worth more than any monetary gains to be had from dual-income.<p>Yeah, you might not be able to afford a nice house or car as quickly, but you get absolute control over how much love, attention, and correction your developing kids receive. | null | umvi | null | 1,575,925,198 | "2019-12-09T20:59:58Z" | comment | 21,746,507 | 21,745,124 | null | null | null |
167,115 | null | null | Health, in my opinion, should not be a criterion for employment. As in completely illegal, not just discouraged. | null | P_I_Staker | null | 1,575,925,175 | "2019-12-09T20:59:35Z" | comment | 21,746,501 | 21,746,243 | null | null | null |
167,116 | null | null | I was thinking about this, too. In areas where housing supply is constrained, the increasing prevalence of dual incomes means people can bid higher, more competitive offers on housing. And of course they do, because why wouldn't they?<p>I would even expect this to be true, though on a smaller scale, in areas where housing supply <i>isn't</i> constrained, since, in general, each individual house is unique to some extent; two dual-income families fighting over the same house will have more resources to throw at their bids. | null | kelnos | null | 1,575,925,173 | "2019-12-09T20:59:33Z" | comment | 21,746,500 | 21,746,465 | null | null | null |
167,117 | null | null | Obviously nobody would advocate for them. But for a new Pandas programmer, loops are incredibly obvious, familiar, and do work. So, tons of people use them. | null | thehappypm | null | 1,575,925,180 | "2019-12-09T20:59:40Z" | comment | 21,746,503 | 21,744,246 | null | null | null |
167,118 | null | null | No, at least not universally. My cousins growing up were all homeschooled, and all creepy to be around. One basically never grew up despite pushing 30, another went off to college and OD'd the first week. The other two are nice people who still live at home but feel a little 'babified' to be around. Fast forward to today, just moved in next to a home-schooled family. Parents are really nice people, but their kids remind me exactly of the eldest cousin...something just 'off' when you interact with them. I hope for their own sake they grow out of it. | null | axaxs | null | 1,575,925,179 | "2019-12-09T20:59:39Z" | comment | 21,746,502 | 21,746,242 | null | null | null |
167,119 | null | null | It is a myth that attackers lose more people | null | d0mine | null | 1,639,200,046 | "2021-12-11T05:20:46Z" | comment | 29,518,661 | 29,496,848 | null | null | null |
167,120 | null | null | I believe “Writing to disk one byte at a time will be slow” is the standard answer, with varying levels of detail depending on the role. | null | kevinventullo | null | 1,639,200,022 | "2021-12-11T05:20:22Z" | comment | 29,518,660 | 29,518,562 | null | null | null |
167,121 | null | null | > no provenance of the data<p>This is hardly true. It's easy to keep a history of query logs, which is enough to figure out 90% of data lineage. The rest 10% probably correspond to operations not even runnable on a blockchain.<p>I can mock a web3 application by opening a database to the entire internet. All edits logs will be visible, although edits will be access controlled. Now I'll claim this is observable. Some people would probably complain. But how in the world is the general public going to complain? | null | tracyhenry | null | 1,639,200,083 | "2021-12-11T05:21:23Z" | comment | 29,518,663 | 29,518,146 | null | null | null |
167,122 | null | null | I was alive, however because I could not breath, I died.
Bob was fine himself, but someone shot him, so he is dead, (but remember bob was fine) --- What a joke | true | rodmena | null | 1,639,200,060 | "2021-12-11T05:21:00Z" | comment | 29,518,662 | 29,516,482 | null | null | null |
167,123 | null | null | I really hope this site does well, and makes a difference in a good number of lives over there. | null | vanusa | null | 1,639,200,094 | "2021-12-11T05:21:34Z" | comment | 29,518,665 | 29,516,890 | null | null | null |
167,124 | null | null | Just skimmed the first chapter, very interesting! Pragmatic Studio [1] has a similar course for Elixir. The authors explain how to create an HTTP server from scratch (ie, using Elixir and Erlang native libraries). Since I took [1] before reading the post, the example of the thread-based server given in the first chapter makes sense to me.<p>[1] <a href="https://pragmaticstudio.com/elixir" rel="nofollow">https://pragmaticstudio.com/elixir</a> | null | auraham | null | 1,639,200,084 | "2021-12-11T05:21:24Z" | comment | 29,518,664 | 29,510,000 | null | null | null |
167,125 | null | null | It's cool how big chess has become in Norway. Since Carlsen's first WC match, there's been live coverage on TV, streams from big online newspaper etc. And internationally it has also looked good the last few times. This year there were lots og different online streams of different styles, many gaining a huge view count.<p>And somehow, watching the rapid WC at the end of December has become sorta a Christmas tradition for many in Norway. It's a kind of slow TV that works really well. | null | matsemann | null | 1,639,200,098 | "2021-12-11T05:21:38Z" | comment | 29,518,666 | 29,517,694 | null | null | null |
167,126 | null | null | That's a great point. I'm pretty sure the term of art for this would be an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy</a> | null | jasonwocky | null | 1,389,454,211 | "2014-01-11T15:30:11Z" | comment | 7,042,786 | 7,042,021 | null | null | null |
167,127 | null | null | I have no idea why people are downvoting this, as it's pretty accurate. If anything it understates the difficulty. The original Xbox cost tons to develop, and Microsoft spent a lot more money getting games for the thing. In the process they created the canonical example of a console first-person shooter, the genre that now dominates game sales. (You could argue that Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64 got there first, but Halo is the one that really moved the market to where it is now.) Then on top of that, they created Xbox Live, which has had at least as much impact on how we play games as Halo did. And you're absolutely right that they lost money in the process. So yeah, dumping an insane amount of money into creating two products that revolutionized the game industry and not recouping that investment until the the second-generation product launched is how they did it. | null | cwyers | null | 1,438,024,420 | "2015-07-27T19:13:40Z" | comment | 9,957,334 | 9,957,231 | null | null | null |
167,128 | null | null | I don't think Cloudant's move was even particularly bad PR. Cloudant doesn't sell to the 99%, they sell to businesses. Businesses are going to be impressed that a large multinational corporation trusts Cloudant with their data, and probably won't care too much about Monsanto's ethical infractions. | null | Zakharov | null | 1,318,465,573 | "2011-10-13T00:26:13Z" | comment | 3,105,356 | 3,104,591 | null | null | null |
167,129 | null | null | > The number of parts/unit differs by an order of magnitude<p>For reference, a single car has about 30,000 parts, built by dozens of suppliers. | null | fn1 | null | 1,608,625,284 | "2020-12-22T08:21:24Z" | comment | 25,504,156 | 25,500,458 | null | null | null |
167,130 | null | null | milk and fruits are often considered ingredients in these laws - chocolate is too, chips are often taxed. stuff gets complicated depending on who wrote the law.<p>what's with the down votes - I didn't write the damn laws like this | null | protomyth | null | 1,322,110,547 | "2011-11-24T04:55:47Z" | comment | 3,273,128 | 3,271,351 | null | null | null |
167,131 | null | null | Like many 'Show HN' posts lately, this site suffers from readability problems by using thin fonts. The text almost disappears into the background for me on Win7 Chrome: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/mDayCop.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/mDayCop.png</a> | null | degenerate | null | 1,444,079,582 | "2015-10-05T21:13:02Z" | comment | 10,334,992 | 10,332,536 | null | null | null |
167,132 | null | null | If if its the iPhone you're talking about. Chrome is a "wrapper" around Safari's web engine. | null | aaomidi | null | 1,518,713,636 | "2018-02-15T16:53:56Z" | comment | 16,385,520 | 16,384,932 | null | null | null |
167,133 | null | null | > But I don't think it holds up in all cases (50% of chemist bachelor degrees are female (<a href="https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/membership/acs/welcom..." rel="nofollow">https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/membership/acs/welcom...</a>) and chemistry really isn't a "people" oriented discipline IMHO).<p>The article I linked also discusses similar trends in mathematics, ie. ~50% of math bachelors are also for women. Of course, what you can do with a bachelors in math is become a teacher, which is why the number of women doing grad and post doc math work falls to roughly similar levels as computer science.<p>There is no comparable horizontal skill transfer for a computer science degree into teaching, so there's less enticement from the beginning, and so less engagement. No doubt some women actually continue with math post docs because they actually find it more interesting than expected, and they change their minds about using the math degree for something else.<p>As for chem, besides teaching-oriented goals as with math, a lot of chem is closely related to life sciences, pharmacology and other disciplines which typically do show high enrollment among women.<p>The things-vs-people effect seems quite strong. I agree that it may not account for all of the differences, and this would need to be quantified to be sure, but it does seem to account for the many of them. Certainly much better than the oppression hypothesis, so why is the latter still the prevailing narrative?<p>> IMHO, the marketing / image part of this is always worth challenging.<p>Agreed. I think this should apply to all fields, like male nursing, pro dancing and flight attendants, whose stereotypes are typically highly feminized.<p>But we shouldn't then be up in arms if people <i>still</i> openly and naturally choose to segregate by gender, as seems to be the trend across all nations with high gender equality. | null | naasking | null | 1,518,713,638 | "2018-02-15T16:53:58Z" | comment | 16,385,521 | 16,385,344 | null | null | null |
167,134 | null | null | So, I'll be honest here. I'm at a {top5} CS university, and I would say that most of the people I talk with are pretty top students in STEM.<p>There definitely is an "initial impressions" bias against women in tech. When looking at the credentials for a woman in tech, it's hard to compare them on a one to one basis to a white/asian man.<p>For example, Facebook University/Google Practicum/Twitter University/any other diversity program is a great opportunity for URM in CS. However, it's completely closed off to white/asian males in tech. Thus, if you look at somebody's resume and you see Facebook on there, you can infer that a white/asian male must have gone through their regular SWE interview process. However, a woman may have simply gone through FBU, where they're asked to write an essay + write fibonacci.<p>Whether the interview process/having FB on your resume should be indicative of skill is an entirely different problem altogether.<p>That's an obvious example, but "diversity" hires are present throughout the entire industry. You have higher acceptance rates for tech colleges for URM, special diversity hiring processes, etc.<p>Basically, accomplishments are harder to judge for women in tech. Luckily, these biases go away after interacting with a girl face to face. | true | uhohnotgood | null | 1,518,713,646 | "2018-02-15T16:54:06Z" | comment | 16,385,522 | 16,383,980 | null | null | null |
167,135 | null | null | Less an issue with IPv4 in a consumer sense because the device blocking the ICMP is also commonly doing NAT too. | null | jsjohnst | null | 1,518,713,671 | "2018-02-15T16:54:31Z" | comment | 16,385,524 | 16,384,439 | null | null | null |
167,136 | null | null | Okay, so, maybe he's a nut or a troll, but nothing really about gaming? | null | thehardsphere | null | 1,518,713,688 | "2018-02-15T16:54:48Z" | comment | 16,385,525 | 16,370,797 | null | null | null |
167,137 | null | null | This is not true without qualification.<p>Non accredited investors buy securities all the time through their brokers.<p>Advertising to general non accredited public for unregistered securities may get you in trouble with sec.<p>Selling unregistered securities to non accredited investors happens all the time through private placements. | null | naveen99 | null | 1,518,713,692 | "2018-02-15T16:54:52Z" | comment | 16,385,526 | 16,379,511 | null | null | null |
167,138 | null | null | reduce() is a handy function. I agree that map and filter could be replaced easily with list comprehensions. I personally find list comprehensions to be more explicit and easier to read. | null | ericmoritz | null | 1,307,150,778 | "2011-06-04T01:26:18Z" | comment | 2,618,618 | 2,618,483 | null | null | null |
167,139 | null | null | > The metric (core inflation and CPI) isn’t measuring peoples experience accurately.<p>Yes; that's why the number in the headline is 10%, not the 5% core number. | null | ceejayoz | null | 1,664,551,631 | "2022-09-30T15:27:11Z" | comment | 33,036,167 | 33,036,119 | null | null | null |
167,140 | null | null | Weird way to phrase the headline. Someone manually controlling the vehicle with a joystick hit the person. | null | jtchang | null | 1,630,101,546 | "2021-08-27T21:59:06Z" | comment | 28,333,412 | 28,332,103 | null | null | null |
167,141 | null | null | I make it clear that things aren't working as soon as I can without giving ultimatums. If that isn't enough to trigger a response, then a desperate counter-offer is doing it for the wrong reasons. | null | srvance | null | 1,630,101,552 | "2021-08-27T21:59:12Z" | comment | 28,333,413 | 28,301,019 | null | null | null |
167,142 | null | null | I played a bit with Newspeak, in their legacy Squeak-based IDE, but after they migrated to the new webapp IDE, I was kinda lost, in this new environment. I didn't find much documentation about the new IDE. Any recommendations? | null | Qem | null | 1,630,101,543 | "2021-08-27T21:59:03Z" | comment | 28,333,410 | 28,333,211 | null | null | null |
167,143 | null | null | At a previous job we used beaker tests as part of our pipeline to test puppet modules & environments before we would merge to prod. One of the things this tests is that the module applies and doesn't try to change anything / error out on subsequent runs.<p>The documentation sucks though imo, every different guide you find will show a completely different way of doing it | null | LIV2 | null | 1,630,101,544 | "2021-08-27T21:59:04Z" | comment | 28,333,411 | 28,332,914 | null | null | null |
167,144 | null | null | I thought I understood briefly...I don't anymore. I think the part that is confusing is the 50% part...50% of what? But I am right in saying that the drop in assets has to be at least 90%? | null | hogFeast | null | 1,630,101,586 | "2021-08-27T21:59:46Z" | comment | 28,333,417 | 28,332,955 | null | null | null |
167,145 | null | null | SoftBank is Japanese, 安谋科技 is Chinese. Taiwan isn't at issue here. | null | scythe | null | 1,630,101,559 | "2021-08-27T21:59:19Z" | comment | 28,333,414 | 28,333,318 | null | null | null |
167,146 | null | null | This is difficult to parse in my Western mind.<p>I've grown up with a constant understanding of implicit liberties, so much so that I have the freedom to openly _discuss_ my general distrust of the government. The events that float by in HN are outliers: threats of more risk, but statistically unusual enough that they're stories of interest.<p>This means that living and acting in a country where your very _thoughts_ are monitored is practically an alien concept for me. How do you live and decide with a government over you that can grab control at any time they wish? | null | Phileosopher | null | 1,630,101,576 | "2021-08-27T21:59:36Z" | comment | 28,333,415 | 28,329,731 | null | null | null |
167,147 | null | null | > Making the hospital "public" doesn't deprive you of the need to raise money to pay for equipment and then pay interest on it<p>But if the federal government is the one borrowing that money from itself (the Fed), it is much cheaper. | null | JetSpiegel | null | 1,555,292,048 | "2019-04-15T01:34:08Z" | comment | 19,662,699 | 19,661,469 | null | null | null |
167,148 | null | null | > <i>Any time I've been training something, if I take a break from it, I come back and I have more skill than I had previously.</i><p>I’ve experienced this first hand, almost like a tangible thing, while learning a language.<p>Whenever I came back to it after a break, sometimes after months of no exposure to the language, I was sometimes surprised to find myself being able to understand some new dialogue without looking at subtitles etc. | null | Razengan | null | 1,555,292,036 | "2019-04-15T01:33:56Z" | comment | 19,662,698 | 19,662,555 | null | null | null |
167,149 | null | null | I'll take a look if you want, op. Native speaker, been writing proofreading and translating for a long time. Leave a comment here and I can get in touch. | null | luxpir | null | 1,630,101,603 | "2021-08-27T22:00:03Z" | comment | 28,333,418 | 28,299,851 | null | null | null |
167,150 | null | null | It is my belief that governance is just another form of tyranny. Government is not conceptually philosophically different from gangs, and if you look at how the police operate in practice there are <i>massive</i> parallels (such as, but not limited to, their "look out for our own" attitude: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH9k8L3oDa4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH9k8L3oDa4</a>).<p><i>"hyperbolic"</i><p>My point is that the only difference is scale. The difference in scale in this case happens to be somewhat extreme, so perhaps that is why you think I'm being hyperbolic... I'm not.<p>Furthermore, I've never regulated Reddit. | null | burgerbrain | null | 1,307,150,577 | "2011-06-04T01:22:57Z" | comment | 2,618,612 | 2,618,560 | null | null | null |
167,151 | null | null | What a weird take.<p>Once this woman had been granted probate the courts have said that she is legally responsible for handling the estate. Apple said she needed a court order but they don't appear to recognise the authority of the court granting the probate document. | null | DanBC | null | 1,603,115,058 | "2020-10-19T13:44:18Z" | comment | 24,826,280 | 24,826,196 | null | null | null |
167,152 | null | null | Google has always wanted to make web faster. See <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/articles/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/speed/articles/</a> . And I'm sure you know about various Google tools (including Chrome) that try to speed up web.<p>They rely very heavily on web, and it's absolutely important for them to speed up web for people to keep moving away from native. | null | namityadav | null | 1,318,465,478 | "2011-10-13T00:24:38Z" | comment | 3,105,350 | 3,105,281 | null | null | null |