skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respect the workers for walking away. If they are committed pacifists, then more power to them.

As for me, I'm a proud military veteran. I believe a strong US military helps make the world a better and safer place. So I'd keep that job and work it as best as I could.

Different strokes for different folks. Life's too short to hate people who think differently.
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redmond has a head tax, they seem to be doing okay. maybe that microsoft company will move somewhere else. /s
It says that the snails retracted only briefly as a baseline, but learned to retract for longer periods of time to avoid the jarring electrical stimuli. I’m totally unfamiliar with this stuff, but it seems to me that injecting a snail with RNA would also be a jarring stimulus. Therefore, wouldn’t it be learning from the injection itself to remain in its shell for longer at a sign of human touch?
Genetic storage is a form of "memory" generally speaking. Some state can be stored and transferred, obviously. It's okay to recognize that biological systems have multiple, diverse, and sometimes redundant subsystems operating simultaneously.
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i think the east side is the best place to live, the worst place is sodo.
Honest question: Why isn't copyright something you simply pay to renew at some exponentially growing rate? You get X free years now and then year X + N costs 2^kN, for some X and k. That way you internalize the negative externality of locking up interesting works. Disney is happy and estates who choose to renew copyright need to be sure they're doing something with it
In a small enough community, the Boy Who Cried Wolf remains a pertinent tale.

If you had the reputation as a decent and polite poster, the sudden use of a vile cuss, judiciously applied, yielded far greater aggregate results than someone who used them all the time. At the very least, you would save it for someone who really did deserve it.

Perhaps the sanding off of the web’s edges is simply a product of its size. Maybe we should go back to Usenet.
Glenn Branca, guitarist and composer, has died
Use Discourse. It's not only the most advanced from a tech perspective, but it also aims to promote strong communities.
I just purchased it. Its nice that you felt motivated from an audio book! I definitely need it. I'll let you know how it is once I'm done.
>One of the reasons traditional streaming is in trouble is because it's a pain in the neck to deal with. The upload at a time schedule is frustrating, I have to wait for my favorite YouTuber to upload something.

I don't see the difference here. If you need instant gratification, you will have trouble with episodic content no matter what the medium.
I for one welcome our new hive mind snail overlords.
you don't want to work in downtown seattle for google because of a 275 dollar tax? that's ridiculous. google probably doesn't even have any software engineers working for less than a 100k, and you think about $25 / month?
worse, the fun things they had supplanted were never coming back. Forums were depopulated; blogs were shut down.

I get what he's saying. In the beginning the net opened the doors to self-expression. Lots of people had fun playing around, exploring, lots of new toys. Then conventions and concentrations arrived, and it BLEW UP. There's still a lot of personal, fun stuff out there, but it's harder to find.

As of 2015, PER DAY: 50,000 new -Wordpress- websites; ~ 3 million new posts. Good luck digging through THAT slush pile. https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/wordpress-statistics...

I find new, interesting websites by pouring through aggregators and topical forums (still out there). Takes time.
It's not how much is produced but how much ends up in the ocean.
My HDMI cable would disagree with you on that one.

I understand a lot of people want the convenience of wireless / push to screen functionality, but it always makes me laugh when friends sit there for several minutes trying to get content on a screen, and I just bung a cable into my laptop and it's up and running.
You will get chipped – eventually
I took a quick look at the google on this topic and found this:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-total-rubbish-w...

That is incredible. I have been all over the US in many, many parks over 40 years and never once, anywhere, did I see a pile of trash like this. Even in the early 80s this never happened at a park. (I know many, many other countries are way worse, but being 3rd world is at least a partial excuse)

In a big city, in a few places, (I lived on the streets for a bit in a few big cities) there wasn't even trash like this. Even the worst places in Portland, LA and other big cities, unless it was a total slum, it was not like this.

Anywhere there their is a public interest, the US actually gives a crap about keeping it clean. It's surprising how other cultures give the US such a hard time about "recycling" and "being green", I am about to be sick of hearing it.

Considering the size and magnitude of the park systems in the US, we are one of the cleanest, greenest friggin nations the world as ever known. (besides the nasty pollution from factories, but that is another issue)
except housing is about the same as seattle, with much much lower salaries. moving to vancouver doesn't make sense in terms of finances.
Second vote for discourse!
> Jobs said that what he learnt at Pixar was to hire and trust great people.

Given what we now know about John Lasseter, Jobs' record on implementing this advice was decidedly mixed.
Same is true of the USA.
Ruby is actually an ISO standard. Admittedly, it's frozen at Ruby 1.8 and it doesn't count for much.
There's definitely something about forums that can't be found in social networks. I don't know what that is, but I know it's very unlikely that I'll have as much fun as in those days.

Not sure if it's because I was a teenager back then and perceived the internet differently, but nowadays everything looks way too "serious".
in my experience, 90+% of software companies with 100 people have an office in seattle, every job i've looked for for years has an office here.
While it's a disappointment, it's understandable. Oculus is a subsidiary of Facebook.
They injected the other snails with control RNA from snails which were not subject to the shocks. In other words, they did control for this.
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So synapses are like a fast cache for memory stored in neurons nucleus?
Prison guards who ‘boiled schizophrenic inmate to death’ will not face charges
> you sure as hell have never had a right not to be criticized for what you say.

I think that this is insufficiently emphasized.

Personally, I think what's even more importantly forgotten and has led to the rather ridiculous situation on college campuses[1] is that there is no right not to be offended. I would even go so far as to say that such a right would be the opposite of freedom of speech.

[1] e.g. trigger warnings
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> Because he didn't pay registration fees?

Because he used his plates, or lack thereof, to park in disabled parking spaces [1]. That speaks volumes about what kind of person Steve Jobs was.

[1]: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Handicapped.txt
what happened to 802.11s, the supposed-to-be mesh protocol for a long while?
That's more of a "broken window effect" than anything. Once your used to some trash, more trash doesn't seem that much worse.
Its not just caching. This stuff seems to survive generations too by some as yet unknown magic. Google "inherited PTSD".
Came back here to say this. The relevant part:
“Control snails that received injections of RNA from snails that had not received shocks did not withdraw their siphons for as long.”
I think this was proposed back in the 60s with flatworms. There are some recent experiments, again with flatworms, where they studied this.

Flatworms can regenerate heads. So they trained a flatworm to avoid a certain type of light and cut the head off and allowed the tail to regenerate back a new head. I think they claimed that the newly regenerated animal exhibit the same behavior.
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Your numbers are reasonable. 5-10x as many cycles on a flywheel versus best-available Li-ion tech was what we figured, too. The initial construction cost per kWh is much higher for a flywheel, though, basically enough to wipe out that advantage. Also, even if a flywheel is cheaper in the long run, it's a tradeoff of upfront capital cost vs long-term maintenance costs - and when you refurbish your battery in 10 years, cells are probably going to cost 20-30% less than they do today.

The other problem we had was that we were making 10s of flywheels per year and competing against Samsung and LG's battery manufacturing efficiencies. And buying an ultra-low-volume product from a startup that might not be around to maintain it in 20 years is also a tough sell in the risk-averse power industry.
Maybe. Maybe there was a problem or it will fail to replicate.
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It certainly seems negligible, but it's still makes it more expensive to employ people. Seems like this kind of stuff helps raise the unemployment rate.
Heat is well known to cause cancer, including in the form of hot beverages; but the contents of smoke aside from CO2 and H2O depends entirely on the source of combustion.
I missed that - thank you for clearing this up!
Not really answered in the paper... were those levels fun to play? The "Levels Evaluation" seemed a little lackluster too.

Back in early 2000 I ran a Quake server that generated levels that were decent. It would build a new one ever 15 minutes so when playing you would always find yourself in a new map regularly. I spent time tweaking it for fun and diversity which were the interesting bit. I didn't want to play the same level type over and over with guns just slightly shifted, but to play a wide range of experiences some of which were very surprising.
So I’m not sure I’m very convinced by these papers.

The first (nature) paper appears to show that in market traders increased levels of testosterone result in more risk taking.

The third is mostly about fish and other animals, and doesn’t seem hugely relevant (though it’s interesting).

The second seems like the most interesting (MIT press article). They look at risk taking in adolescents. The paper seems to show that testosterone is linked to risk taking in males, but increased (natural) testosterone in females didn’t seem to show much increase in risk taking.

Overall, boys had very slightly riskier behavior than females. From the graphs the error bars are pretty big and the difference in risky behavior is quite small.

The difference doesn’t seem big enough that it would result in skewed gender ratios in jobs for example.

So, if this is well established in the literature, I’d expect to see better results than this. Are there papers that more really show that males are more prone to risky behavior and that this has a biological, rather than social basis?
Anonymous warns world to ‘prepare’ for World War 3
If you are in Asia that’s probably why? It’s very useful having AWS in an Ohio since it reduces the latency a bunch (I am based in Chicago ). Also if you need to have low ping times for global deployments .
Proxy is not tech specific. It has been used in law, economics, and other fields for a long time.
Had a like experience and got a premium subscription to a manga service and haven't looked back, every week I start a few new ones. These are often surprisingly well written (of the last dozen or so, 4 of the authors had at least a degree in some field and the knowledge showed in the writing). Might not be everyone's thing but getting something interesting to read was the solution for me.
Awesome! Thank you. I was hoping someone would recognize the problem. Yes, I have nothing invested in the current install (it hasn't even booted), so I was going to take the opportunity to switch to 7.5 anyway.
No doubt that discourse is really nice software, and I will give it a go, but it does lack the “nostalgia” referred to by the original comment I replied to with this idea. All options are valid at this point though!
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I have seen entirely too many Python scripts that are poor reimplementations of shell scripts that don't get the edge cases right, have more security vulnerabilities, etc. than a shell script a fifth of the size. There are things you simply can't do in other languages without excessive verbosity. (One that came up at my workplace recently is using <(...) to load a password from a secret store without writing it to disk or putting it in the environment.)

Use the right tool for the job, and then put it in version control (and add tests, too, by the way). Shell is the right language for tasks that primarily involve running lots of subprocesses, whether they are simple or complex. If a small part of your task needs functionality that can't be done well in shell, fortunately, shell is very good at running subprocesses, and it's a perfectly reasonable approach to do something like this:

foo () {
python3 -c 'import sys, foo; print(foo.bar(sys.argv[1:]))' "$@"
}

a="$(foo "$baz" "$quux")"

I regularly do this with the requests and json modules in particular, because being an HTTP client or a JSON parser is not a thing shell is good at. (For the specific problem of manipulating JSON, jq is another fine option if you have it installed.)
I find it a bit hard to parse the pie menu. My eye has no obvious place to start or end in reading the options, so i try to pick one quickly. Vertical menus have an explicit order (if not alphabetical, an intentional one) which helps I can scan quickly. Also, when I go into a sub-menu, I don't lose the context of the parent (which is also avoidable in pie, but not in the x10 demo shown).

We've been trained from an early age to process lists. Lists are cool.
"Now it just seems like every website online is trying to steal and sell your data."

I remember the days before the Morris Worm, the days before we were all drowning in malware, before you had to worry about your bank account being hacked in to, before your personal data stood a good chance of being leaked, stolen, or held for ransom, before the corporate/government gold rush for profit, spying, and control. Spam and the occasional troll seemed to be about the worst one could encounter back then.

Maybe I'm just remembering the past through rose-colored nostalgia glasses, but it seemed back in those days the internet was a mostly positive place -- or at least not a hostile one where you had to constantly watch your back and pretend to be who you weren't lest records of your past come back to haunt you.

Overnight popularity was the best thing and the worst thing to happen the internet. Perhaps if its growth wasn't so explosive, maybe we could have had time to deal with all the crap.

Back in those days we used to laugh at how clueless the corporations and governments were about the net, about how they'd never be able to control it. Well, now they've got us all by the balls.

Who's laughing now?
> CentOS is not targeted at desktop use much; if that's your goal and you're new to linux, Ubuntu may be an easier ride.

Thanks. Here's my reasoning regarding my choice of distro, FWIW:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17070970
The origins of pgen, Python's parser generator
Ya, YT is a bottomless well of helpful info. (Just try stumping it with some obscure musical artist or band from whenever. Good luck.)

YT's great especially for doing things. A relative of mine with -some- car repair experience (mostly engine) just acquired the parts and rebuilt the car's entire front end, learning how from YT sharers.

(I used to be into electronics ... pre-surface-mount ... and from what I can tell it's the same way.)
Seconding the keyboard: perfect spacing, pleasing fonts, fast animations and responsive feeling and hands down the best text prediction I’ve ever used: best suggestions, best balance between aggression and accuracy. You could write a word and have it return any matching emoji’s literally years before Android or iOS.
Amazing idea! I'd love it if the site could give some sense of how profitable the business could be, and over what timescale. I don't need specific numbers, just the fundamental expectations for a model: How do I calculate ongoing costs? How many customers does it take to get to breakeven? What's the marginal profit for a customer after that point?

It would be great to see a blog post about how joinnecto.com got off the ground. "Be the savior the Internet needs and start your own ISP" is a good slogan, but "Start a great business and save the Internet in the process" seems even better.
> occasional cutting down of office doors with axes.

What? Who was cutting down the office doors? Job frustration? and , still survived getting fired?
Top U.S. generals: Women should have to register for draft
Ah I haven't been on Android for a couple of years so I wasn't familiar with it. Having said that, I still think Apple's version is a clearer design.
I think a site similar to Sci-Hub to host, say, 10k orphan works is not equivalent to Google's planned scanning of very large number of books and potentially profiting from them (if not from selling them at least from using the text as input to their various ML systems). If you provide the works freely you undermine many of the arguments that AAP had.
ArchiveOS is only for free or open operating systems. For OSes like Amiga or Atari OS, WinWorld has you covered: https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
What’s the status on Los Angeles? Been waiting a long time for that one. Anyone know where it’s located?
120 kWh / 24h = 5000 W, not 500

Many houses in cold climates using electrical heaters will actually use at least 2-3x this energy.

So yeah, 100 kW is quite streched, but we're not _that_ far from the power available in a home.
It's like a maelstrom, don't swim too close!
ReactOS missing?
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Google Scholar won't work on VPN (no CAPTCHA option)
Looking back over the last twenty years (yes I'm old, like a lot of the you in this thread), user growth has been responsible for both the Internet's success and its demise.

I like to to separate content from community, because they have different end results. There's so much music, video, comics, games, ebooks, etc being generated now that we are spoilt for choice. That's great for consumers and not so much for creators, but that's another very large topic for a different conversation. Let's just say that there's so much great stuff out there, and the barriers to getting it are very low.

But that low barrier to entry is also what I think has made communities less fun for me. Not for everyone, but definitely for people who are a little bit outcast, or who like to challenge the status quo. Kinda like the people who are drawn to HN. Because online communities are so easy for anyone to enter, conversations tend to congeal into "popular" points of view. Even when those points of view are extremes epitomized by types like SJWs or alt-right, they're still large collections of groupthink. And I find those conversations boring. This has been well documented as the Eternal September phenomenon and it has been happening long before I got onto the net in 1995.

The best fun I had in an online community in recent times was the forums and then the slack channel that came out of the Starfighter CTP games from 'patio11 'tptacek
& 'elptacek. It was announced here on HN, so the initial exposure (in the scheme of the world) was low, and because everyone involved had to have a common interest of hacking market order books and/or AVR emulators, it turned out that I had quite a bit in common with the average participant. Moreso that standard comment threads here, where it's very likely I'll be arguing with some HN rando who is just looking to score karma so they can shill their upcoming React e-book.

Good communities are still out there; what makes them good is that they are hard to get into. We shouldn't give up on the Internet and consider it "done". We should be casting wider nets to connect with people that we find interesting.
Dark: back-end development, 100x easier
Not sure why you got voted down. It seems HN users don't like snark or can't understand sarcasm? (need a /sarcasm tag?)
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I don't think I've ever encountered one.
Charged a fee for getting arrested, whether guilty or not
I don't understand why there is no CAPTCHA.
Seriously? If you can't do all that with a .docx file then you might want to branch out of your .txt comfort zone a little more often.
Anyone got a map of where the 3 locations are?
It’s something a noob would do. The page was from ‘95, widescreen didn’t really exist, and free-flow was the best practice.
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"Wi-Fi EasyMesh technology coordinates multiple access points ... Access points organize themselves ...
Wi-Fi EasyMesh offers both service providers and Wi-Fi users a consistent approach to multiple AP solutions"

A good start for interoperable AP's but a standard end-user device mesh is probably more useful to me.
I do not recommend it. It gets irritating if you want to inspect some version of the image, but then the image moves up and down, instead of being static.

My suggestion, A simple GIF would work fine. Or if you want to get fancy you can do interactive demos like on this blog: https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/
Cut copy paste was best on win phone.
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I think a lot of people here are missing the point. Yeah, there's a lot more content to consume now. However, it doesn't feel like a community... it feels more like watching reruns on TBS.

I remember making actual friends on message boards. Friends I eventually met in the real world. I don't think relationships like that are really formed anymore. Most of social media now is a broadcast, not a conversation. People (myself included) want upvotes, retweets and more followers. And now, real identities are involved, so they have to be professional.

Back when I started using the internet, there were no "celebrities". At most, there were community leaders, and their "reach" was within the same order of magnitude of the rest of the community. And to be one of those leaders, you needed to learn HTML and build a community the hard way. Nobody was trying to get famous, get more likes, etc. They just talked and made stuff and shared content and learned.

Sure, maybe it is just an age thing, and nothing has really changed. But I don't know... I feel like the Internet used to be something special, and now it feels like flipping through TV channels in your office break room.
By bluequoll:

> But first, the basic cause of this issue is not the VPN per se. Google simply sees a large volume of traffic coming from a single IP address, with no way of knowing that it's a VPN. The same behaviour has been reported by students of large educational institutions, where there is a large volume of users trying to connect to Google Scholar through the institution's single public IP address. The reality that there are hundreds, thousands or perhaps hundreds of thousands of individual users behind an IP address is not known to Google. The VPN provider or institution's network keeps track of the individual users while presenting a single connection to Google. There may be a rogue user somewhere on the network, or it may simply be the sheer number of attempted connections that triggers the blocking, but the point is that it has gone past the point of a CAPTCHA. I guess it's similar to power load shedding on an electricity network.
Police departments are thinking about using drones armed with stun guns
Pearls before swine.