skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obnoxious letter author here, just to clarify: I'm not stingy and I bought all versions of Reeder on iOS and two versions for macOS. It's not about the 10 bucks, I just don't want to find a new solution / problem every time it goes through stretches of no activity for years, breaks on new OS versions or crashes frequently like some people here reported too.

If there's an app with subscription pricing where I know it's a sustainable app for the developer and it'll get adapted to support new macOS features (or updated APIs like you said) then I'm happy to do that. I don't need updates every month, I just want to know that if there's a problem the developer will deal with it at some point.
Looked into it, but the big thing of my scripts is that they often use JDBC or http-kit, so cljs would not be as good.
It has always had a dark mode. Or, more accurately, 10 or so color schemes, half of them dark.
Vaporfly is actually heavier than some other racing flats that have performed worse, like the Nike Zoom Streak 6. So your theory of what is happening doesn't fit, unfortunately.

Regenerative braking makes cars heavier and generally only returns 4-5% energy, but you don't see people demanding their electrics don't have it, do you? This is the same sort of thing for running shoes, but with energy returning foams and plates making their weight worthwhile for improving effectiveness instead.
Conspiracy theorists are not people who believe people conspire. They're people who believe conspiracies without any evidence. Or worse, evidence against their preferred conspiracy only serves to re-enforce their beliefs. AKA, irrational people.
To be fair this is addressed in the article: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent,” John Maynard Keynes wisely said. Timing the market is extraordinarily difficult.
I'd like to reply to this in a similar manner as I did to another: it feels like there are extra variables being thrown into this that were never brought up from the start of this large discussion thread.

Being the guy who helps everyone else get stuff done often goes unrecognized in any meaningful way.

Valid, but irrelevant, I feel. I am a senior on my team, a junior asks for help. It might not be necessarily moral or even ethical to give them the time of day the second they ask for it, but it is a professional courtesy that I don't go looking to receive superlatives and accolades for.

If a contributor to the team has a question that affects their ability to contribute, that person should get the help they need. I happen to be sitting close enough to them that we can discuss the solution quietly enough so as not to be a distraction, and I do so.

What came from this were all sorts of wild extrapolations and suppositions that doing this created an otherworldly distraction to the rest of the workforce; and it is that mindset that I'm challenging. Not that people don't deserve a distraction free workspace, but to what ends we're willing to go to avoid that distraction while also operating in a manner that helps coworkers succeed, and enables colleagues to be accessible to one another.

Maybe it's a product of my compartmentalized mindset, I'm able to work through someone a few feet away talking about work things when asked about work things. It's when people have loud, echoing conversations about things not really relevant to the tasks at hand that I will HAPPILY concede to anyone who argues that those discussions should be taken elsewhere-like a break room or cafeteria if your office is equipped with one.

But two developers sitting next to each other, talking their way through a data validation issue, unless they're discussing it so loudly that it is legitimately obnoxious for two people whose faces are inches away from each other?

I'm not so sure this is such a work-shattering distraction as the implication seems to be from a majority of folks here-to the point where I'm inclined to call shenanigans and histrionics on the folks who can't function sans complete, utter total silence. The open office can die, in my opinion, but so does the idea that any instance of two people talking about work is just as, or close to being as unacceptable to the point of-as someone suggested-booking a conference room to have a 2 minute discussion when asked "How do I do x?".
5B miles in simulation. I wonder do they source the situations for simulation from Youtube from crazy/fail/accident driving videos.
Honestly, that's more than most that come out with their own pet data transfer standards.

But, looking at the models, there is a loooong way to go. And once you have more than a handful of these very small, very shallow models they'll have to, themselves, fit in a meaningful structure (at least at each organization that plans to do something useful with them)...

It will be interesting to see how they handle this when it reaches the next levels of complexity.

I mean, since Leibniz there has been a time-honored tradition of very smart people trying and failing at this omni-model. Who knows, maybe this group will be the first to conquer it.

I'll be happy if they take a small piece -- music services, for example, and really nail that. But the players have every reason not to get things too compatible so it's going to have to be a group of people pushing the services to use the data model than then other way around.
Air pressure on earth literally squeezes the water together, preventing it from turning into a gas until it's at a higher temperature.

More generally: practically all phase-changes depend on both temperature and pressure. Lower pressure almost behaves like higher temperature... within certain ranges (and it varies for every material).

E.g. for water, note that there are three major regions in its phase diagram[1]. At human-normal scales (the red horizontal line is 1 atmosphere) we see water boil/freeze at 100 and 0 celsius. If you lower the pressure though, you'll see there's a spot where all three phases meet, and below that there's no liquid phase separating solid and gas. When it's in near vacuum, you literally can't have water - ice evaporates (sublimates) directly into a gas, with no intermediate phase.

Given the diagram, this seems to happen somewhere around -60c in a serious vacuum. So in space or on the surface of the moon (without an atmosphere / something pressurizing it) you simply can't have liquid water - a portion of it will evaporate almost immediately, which steals energy from the remaining portion, causing it to freeze. After that, the solid portion just sublimates away (because the sunny side is 127c, well above the temperature needed to turn it into a gas).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_diagram#/media/File:Phas...
> They really screwed up with the name, in my opinion as a regular user. It's also not short or memorable

While I agree that it's not short, I disagree that it is not memorable. I've not had difficulty in remembering the name nor its association with a search service that is privacy focused, perhaps in part because of its awkward length. Are we perhaps using different definitions for "memorable"?
Well, there's that too, but people complaining about Google's decision r.e. Reader don't like being reminded that there are dozens of alternatives.
Yeah, I would kill for the k8s pod contract to have something like the borg status line.
> WASM has no real roadmap to get to running anything other than small, manually memory managed programs.

You mean small software like AutoCAD? https://web.autocad.com/

> GraalVM is generic.

How well does GraalVM perform on a beefy 200 MHz 32-bit microcontroller with 256 kB RAM? How do you use GraalVM to run existing C++ code on a website?

Or does your definition of "generic" exclude some platforms?

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure GraalVM has its uses in the server side, and perhaps in desktop (or even mobile) application context. It just doesn't seem generic in a way that is useful for embedding small/medium size libraries/executable code on top of systems written in C/C++/Rust.
>I was just trying to get a sign of life from the developer / developers

This seems a little weird, no? Reeder's a one time purchase, not a subscription service or anything, so it seems kinda strange to be so worried about "a sign of life" for it. Lots of software used every day live in "maintenance only" or even "not maintained mode".
Why does that app even exist? All its features are natively implemented in git.

And an RSS reader? I'm starting to get the feeling that Mac apps are stuck in 2005.

Say all you want about Microsoft or Electron, but VS Code is the only developer app on my computer that doesn't feel out of place or have a strange and outdated UI. I don't care that it's consuming the resources of my cheap desktop computer slightly faster than another app might, it gets the job done and it's intuitive and works well.
This is what scares me about these stories. First kill any competition (go in debt if you need to) to become a giant. Then start enforcing (sometimes arbitrary or politicized) rules to the detriment of some customers who now have nowhere else to go.

Uber with surge pricing and this MomCorp weed ban (Uber drove the taxi's out of your neighborhood first, so now you have to pay for surges). "Sorry sir, I won't pick you up and drive you home, even though you are drunk, and unable to drive, because I only pick up people with a 3.7 rating or higher."

Netflix for entertainment (you rely on it so much for entertainment that you simply don't see a movie if it is not on there).

AirBnB refusing hosts to host you, if they suspected you came to Charlottesville to protest/march for your beliefs (that are counter to AirBnB's beliefs). Not saying that those protesters are not scummy or that AirBnB does not have the right, but look at the future where AirBnB owns 90%+ of accommodations. Can you imagine a hotel chain acting like this? "Sir, we saw you say on Twitter that you came here to protest. The management has decided you can't sleep here. The next competitor is 50 miles that-ah way. Good luck!".
This looks pretty great, thanks! I'll look into it even if it doesn't have Fever integration. iCloud sync sounds neat.
Reality is also not economic theory. Economic theory won’t lead you to becoming the government of the world sans title. But that’s largely what the US obtained following its decades long of economic market expansion through trade agreements.

US debt is literally people who have agreed to take US currency in the future and are not themselves part of the US.
>According to that article they poured most of the red liquid into the street, which seems absurd to me.

Sounds like they knew what it was.

"The stinking reddish liquid turned out to be sewage that penetrated the sarcophagus through a small crack and completely flooded it from the inside."
Typical running shoes are about $100/pair. In some cases, more like $125 or even $150. Not infrequently, you can find them on sale, but that's the ballpark for the regular price.

Also, it's not uncommon for a runner to spend $50 per pair of shorts and $30 on a shirt, and you need about 5 of each if you train for a marathon because you're going to be running 5 days a week. Not to mention socks. Many if not most runners these days also have a GPS watch, and those usually go for $200 for a basic model.

And then of course, a lot of runners travel to other cities to run marathons. So you might spend $250 on airfare and another $250 on staying in a hotel the night before and after the race. Of course, the race itself charges a fee (lots of logistics to close 26.2 miles of road, time people, provide food, etc.), which is typically around $100 to $150.

So spending an extra $150 on a pair of shoes for the race isn't really going to radically alter the total budget.
Hmm, alright. I have seen parsers reject them, presumably from misinterpreting the standard.

Thanks for the correction :)
Would recommend checking out the algorithm design manual if you're looking for a book with that sort of approach.

Edit: just noticed this was already recommended below, take this as another strong endorsement!
To me that's the biggest factor.

Makes people look a lot more pretentious, in my opinion
Economically though, the same theories that say that tariffs are economically inefficient say that running a $400 billion trade deficit for twenty years straight should be impossible.

That's not true. Consider this: how much money have you paid to your dentist over your lifetime? How much has your dentist paid you? There's a pretty big trade deficit there, no? How is that even possible? Of course the answer is looking at trade bilaterally misses the big picture. You and your dentist are part of a larger economy with myriad flows of money. It's that larger economy that allows money from the dentist to flow back to you, even though it's not being tracked in the bilateral scenario.

The same is true at the nation state level. Trade shouldn't be looked at from a bilateral perspective, but from a comprehensive perspective - looking at the world economy.

Not to mention the other problem with these trade numbers: they capture the trade of 'goods.' You may be surprised to learn that the UN Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods excludes items bought for personal use (e.g. toothpaste) and aircraft. Which means a lot of the items the U.S. ships to China, think Boeing aircraft and Intellectual Property such as software and movies, are not captured in these deficit numbers. So there's that.

Remember the old adage figures don't lie but liars figure? Nowhere does that apply more than the myopic analysis of trade deficits.
Much closer to the topic of the article are quantum mechanics and quantum field theory which make extensive use of complex numbers. But that really does not say much about the usefulness of the structures discussed in the article for modeling the universe, complex numbers are just a rather simple and general tool and can therefore be used for a lot of applications.
The secret to WaPo articles: google for the headline and follow the google link.
Nexus.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript server platform
I use Reeder syncing with Feedbin. I couldn't be happier. Yes, Reeder rarely gets an update but it works well and I believe it gets updated whenever is necessary — which is enough for me.

Feedbin, however, is just fantastic. Easily the best service I've been using for years, along with Pinboard.
As chimpanzees have no legal rights, then the exact same genetic engineering should be able to make them smarter without legal consequence. Hmm, now which countries would do this first? No need for science fiction if this article is correct, just use actual science. Raising the intelligence of people rather than chimps might create unstable people; here you could simply kill the animals without legal difficulty - that is, until one of them graduates from law school.
A universe where math had been different
A space elevator is a long ways off - assuming that human interest in space continues and technology develops at similar rates to today, I wouldn't expect something like that to be constructed for at least a couple centuries. Hopefully I'm wrong, I'd love to see something like that, but a project of that sort would make the space station look like a dinky house-boat in terms of scale and complexity. As crappy as rockets are, I expect we will continue to be using them for the duration of our lifespans.
> Running sneakers are a relatively new invention.

This is true, humans have been running for thousands of years without them.

> You wouldn't want to run a marathon in whatever the ancient greeks wore.

why not?

> Abebe Bikila (August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was an Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion. He won the marathon at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot, setting a world record.

He finished in 2:15:16.2

Or take Roger Bannister: [1]

> Sir Roger clocked three minutes 59.4 seconds in the historic race at Iffley Road Track in Oxford on 6 May 1954 when he was a 25-year-old medical student.

> The thin leather running spikes which weigh just four and a half ounces were snapped up by an anonymous buyer at the auction in South Kensington, London.

I don't know about you, but I can't run a 2:15 marathon or a 4 minute mile, and I don't think fancy shoes would make the difference.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/11/roger-bannis...
Wouldn't a better control just be a typical running shoe? I don't see many serious runners running barefoot
> I've yet to come across a podcast I wanted to listen to without an RSS feed available through a website.

That's because podcasts on iTunes just point to an RSS feed hosted elsewhere. iTunes doesn't host the audio files; it's just a directory.
It's Open Source: https://github.com/oracle/graal

I made a very small contribution (removing 4 incorrect quote characters from some sample JSON code)
> Why should any corporation let you visit their premises without suitable assurances?

Correct me if I am wrong please, but it sounds like you are saying it's okay to trust corporations who are the subjects of media scrutiny to be the 'gatekeepers' of information, setting ground rules and defining what may or may not go into a news article. This is a horrifically bad idea if you care about journalistic integrity.

No harm in the corporation asking for that level of control, but I do not believe savvy journalists would accept. It is their (or their editor's) call to make, they must decide what the story is, and where the public interest lies.

Fair point about Nikon though, I think if you have a top-secret part of your factory that's just got to be permanently off-limits. Why risk it?
That is definitely a thing hindering adoption, but if there was really a big demand for decentralization, they would have been gone already. There are many more things holding back decentralized networks like the difficulty in filtering spam without easy coordinated effort, fixing network wide search and efficient monetization of content for creators.
Nice, thanks.

What are those cute little axes that he's running? And what's going on with them at 10m50 - is that a foldout pinky rest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eVBrMcflDE&t=650
That does seem like a lot, I suppose they theoretically could be driving 24/7/365 (the wear and tear would be serious, you'd think).

The idea of moving people to public transit sounds good, but I wonder if there's enough spare capacity in most transit systems to serve lots of new riders...
That seems pretty reasonable - 8 hours/day at 20mph, 5 hours/day at 30mph, and 2.5 hours/day at 60mph. Given a mix of highway, rural, and city driving, 156 miles/vehicle sounds about right.
Thanks. I found it there - otherwise, I couldn't have given the details above - but that's the name of the country's soccer team. The country's name is Ireland and that's what appears on my passport and in any official documents produced in any country in the world.
The intention of this project is great. But I doubt if it can even work well. The whole project depends on the fact that everything to synchronize can be standardized. But this is almost impossible.

Let's say "Birth of Date". Some contact providers support BOD without year. But some support only the whole date. If the companies do no even agree on this tiny little item, how can they agree on larger deviations? Like max number of phone numbers in a contact profile? The size/format of profile image? Address format? and so on
> However, this does resolve my concern about 'instances'.

On a surface level, it should. But given what I've seen over the past 15 years, no... it shouldn't resolve those concerns.

Consider if Google / Youtube became PeerTube compatible with ActivityPub next year. But then, there are additional features that only exist on Youtube's implementation (spam monitoring, Twitter integration, Youtube integration, etc. etc.). Something that makes people prefer Youtube over other hosts.

Eventually, Youtube can cut out ActivityPub, after it captures the ActivityPub marketplace.

See XMPP and Google Hangouts if you want a historical example. Embrace, Extend, extinguish is the name of the technique, and it is quite effective at killing open standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

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So the general community does need to be aware of it, lest another XMPP-extinguish effect comes around from the big players.
The hypocrisy will be hilarious when people start ripping yt vids and putting them on pt, given how yt was born off pirated content and hid behind "safe harbor" laws to build a browsable catalog. The first clip that came from yt will be met with scathing rebuke from Google's legal team.
Hell, it's often a step backwards. A lot of mid-handicappers prematurely upgrade to equipment that's only actually beneficial in the hands of an excellent player.
New rules say that athletes can't wear shoes not available to the general public:

> “Any type of shoe used [in competition] must be reasonably available to all in the spirit of the universality of athletics.”

https://www.outsideonline.com/2325366/track-and-field-iaaf-s...
Because it's a two sided network. Users go to wherever the best content is (or can be found). Content creators go to where the users are. It's most efficient for both users and creators for there to be only one discovery service.
Microsoft and their partners do sell millions of tablets per year, it's just that their unit sales pale in comparison to Android and iOS tablets. I'm also not even sure if Microsoft calls their Surface line tablets anymore. Their product page now calls them laptops which is odd considering you sort of need the optional keyboard to be a laptop.

>So I wonder where they are being bought from, is everyone getting them from Amazon?!

Amazon accounts for good percentage of tablets sold. I bought an Amazon Fire 8 HD for $49 during Prime Day. At that price it's an instant purchase.
Show HN: A scalping proof ticketing system that doesn't use Blockchain
So, I've built out a scalping proof ticketing system that doesn't use blockchain because I think it's quite unnecessary to use blockchain to solve the ticketing industry's problems at this point in time. More ranting here:
https://medium.com/@arjun.ramjam/bits-of-paper-to-bits-on-th...

Check out more on the actual product below and please let me know what you think about it! If you'd like to use it for your next event, do reach out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ybtZcvpUlI
> I wouldn't make that youtube's fault. People just grow out of content or like other content.

YouTube constantly messes with the subscription feed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkMrDmODtw

> People seriously seriously underestimate the amount time and tech that has gone into youtube.

No, we're perfectly aware. It's just a huge chunk of that time is used on actively bad tech, that does bad things. Not out of incompetence, but out of user and creator hostile decisions they make time and time again.

> Copyright system has to inspect billions of hours of video in a day, you can't expect people to do all of that.

Don't host more on your instance than you have the resources to check. If people want to upload a whole lot, they have to do it on their own instance, and be culpable for what they upload to it. What is so hard about it?

There are billions of people on this planet, each could say something any second that would land them in jail in multiple jurisdictions. No need to centralize all speech and check it centrally, is there?

> To have the enourmous CDN and advanced AI filtering algorithms that is better than youtube?

Hmmpf. They couldn't even really deal with ElsaGate, 99% of which consists of videos using the exact same music. Indeed, people found more manually, and then YouTube failed to act on the reports. They have a worse performance than many little hosters would have in aggregate, I'm pretty sure.
A Mansion Filled with Hidden Worlds
Yep this is what I look forward to. Fewer Minecraft videos and more educational series.
I have used Thunderbird on Elfeed on Mac, both are quite good. Just not standalone applications.