skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've dipped my toes in Quora. And ran into a situation where some moderator kept deleting an answer about VPN services. Because they thought that Wireshark is a VPN service, and that I was spamming for it ;)
In. History. :: serious face ::

I'd say the Washington Post is off by maaaaaaaybe an order of magnitude, or more.
An honest question, why do people really care about the market capitalisation of a company?
That requires entrepreneurship though, which is a whole collection of semi-related skills that most people don't have. "Just start your own business" works for some, but not for most. HN is biased more towards those types of folk by its nature, but we aren't a representative sampling of the population at large in this respect.
No. Because they are a result of democracy.
I think this depends a lot on what type of construction you're talking about and also what trade.

Residential SFHs is different to low-rise buildings, which I assume is different again to building high-rise buildings.

It also depends on what skill you have. General labourers are likely going to be lifting heavy things a lot but I don't think that's universally true. Bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, tilers, etc all have different profiles.

I actually think that for a lot of these kinds of jobs that you could be doing them well into your 50s just fine. Being active makes it easier to stay active.

Also, if you do pursue a trade you will likely have apprentices eventually. Part of what they're for is doing the heavy lifting.

Experience in construction will eventually open up avenues such as being a general contractor, property inspection, construction management and so on.
Some of the best ice cream I've ever had was on a hot day in Shiraz. I thought it was flecked with butter but apparently it's frozen clotted cream [1]. The Iranian ice cream + carrot juice combo is also a little odd at first to a Western palette but really really good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastani_Sonnati
I love the general idea of not just saying what you should do, but also showing the first two iterations of the site and talking about what didn't work.
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672415
They were considered a workaround for architectures that didn't have native multi-threading. I don't remember when they were dropped, but it was well before the Oracle acquisition.
Sounds like there's a lot more to this story than it seems at first...

I really hope this is not based in some right vs left wing political drama and is legitimately about abusive behaviour.

Listening to the BBC show (as I'm not very familiar with this story), it sounds like it's a lot of one and a little of the other https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csws6q
It's not the crown jewels. It's a set of "royal jewels" that were crown jewels for a past king. They're not the crown jewels that are in use by the current royal family.
I agree that LXDE isn't the first choice when you're thinking about customizing your desktop (check out reddit.com/r/unixporn if you're into this sort of a thing).

I meant that from a point of view of comparing it to others like gtk3, unity, cinnamon etc for some specific features that I find useful.

Of course, not all distros will lend themselves to all types of customizations easily and customizability, at least to some degree, is relative.

With that in mind, yes, maybe I should tone it down to 'customizable,' instead of 'very, very customizable.'
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To expand beyond color, Christopher Healey has an extensive report on perceptions of visualizations and the different elements you can use to identify things [1].

[1] https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/index.html
Seems to me if Bitcoin was going to "become a thing" (to use American parlance), it would already have done so by now. What milestone could mark success for this currency? Conversely, when shall we declare failure?
If this is all that's done and companies stop paying for insurance, I would expect employers to use the opportunity to pocket most of the savings and only pass on a pittance to their employees.

Also, uninformed consumers will opt for cheap plans without checking for (or realizing their personal susceptibility to) major pitfalls that the ACA used to protect against before the Republicans pulled it apart.
An open-source Git command line extension for Excel workbook files
>Isn't it a good thing that crypto is generating business for the energy sector?

Wouldn't it be good for the window industry and service/repair industry if we all went around town throwing rocks through windows? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

The energy sector is primarily producing the energy in question with non-renewable resources that pollute the environment and raise costs for everyone else, disproportionately harming the poor. Not to mention rising food costs due to money grabs in the ag industry with things like corn based ethinol.
PetroChina tops $1 trillion market cap in debut (2007)
Hmm. I'm waiting to see what the iPhones are like. I sense trouble brewing.
… and then wait 13 years with no response. (-:

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334120

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/459566/5132
Or even: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/petrochina-soars-to-1-tril...
Not as cool as this, but here are some PHP "frameworks" in a tweet (140 characters):

http://www.twitto.org/

https://gist.github.com/mathiasverraes/9046427

https://philsturgeon.uk/php/2009/12/15/Twiny-Framework-the-f...

https://gist.github.com/jeremeamia/2720020
you're forgetting the paradox free fixed timeline thing.
One can go back in time, but he cannot buy stock because he did not in fact buy stock.
When I worked at Apple in the mid-90's (BS before Steve) they lost $1B while I was there. I left and moved away because I didn't want to be there when it was sold or went out of business. Exactly one year later Steve came back. Oh well. Being there at the time not one person would have ever thought Apple could be viable much less worth $1T.
I'm really hoping that some journalist will do a write up titled "Elon Musk Unveils His New Silicone."
Show HN: Tech “explained” Like you're Five git.io/eli5
This is back of the napkin stuff, it doesnt need to be perfect.

It doesn't need to be perfect, but if the result is off by an order of magnitude or more than it's pretty useless.

If you have a better method, I'd love to see it.

I'm not saying I have a better way of answering the same question, but that doesn't make your analysis more valid.

As noted in the original post, its based on 5 kWh per GB of data transferred

Yes, I believe that if you take the entire amount of data transferred by the Internet, then divide it by the total amount of power used by all internet-connected devices, then you get 5 kWh per GB (or at least you do if you base it off of the data available in 2012 when that paper was written). But that doesn't mean that if I download an extra GB of data that it took anywhere near 5 kWh to do that.

That paper you linked includes things like "total power consumed by all connected desktop computers" as part of the power budget, but this is obviously flawed reasoning. There are many things that computers do besides transferring data, and even if a computer is sitting idle it consumes a good deal of power as long as it's switched on. If I spend 1 kWh of electricity playing an offline computer game for an hour, then download a 1kB file, that doesn't mean that it costs me 1kWh/kB to download data.
Crane operators are unionized. That's why they get good pay and have overtime and benefits. https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/local-14-a-thorn-in-...

It's really hard to break into though, because unlike entry level construction jobs that pay scraps, the demand is higher than the supply.
>Abstainers were mainly women, had lower education and physical activity, were obese, and had a higher prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors, all associated with an increased risk of dementia,11,12 which could explain the differences; however, adjustment for confounding factors did not alter the findings.

This is why interactive data visualization is so important. People need to be able to adjust the results of data to fit them, otherwise the margin of error and deviation from the "average" will be so great, findings are virtually useless to an individual.
Except for the ones that Google sponsors and installs on their systems for the US and China to spy on civilians.
Good times! And to those that like me enjoy a good dead trees-based book to learn a language, the Rust Book (from NoStarch publishing) arrived yesterday at my door :)

https://nostarch.com/Rust
AS someone who was a teacher at A-level (age 16-18) in the UK for 17 years until last year.... I think you may be right in the best case scenario, but my experience is that the number of pupils who use smartphones (or the wider internet) as such is vanishingly small. Most people don't have the mental discipline to use it for the amazing academic tool it could be, and the bright, shiny things of social media etc fritter away their attention. I don't think the last argument ('they'll talk anyway') holds much water - it's possible for pupils to look as if they are working but are actually on a phone; other forms of interaction are much more easily detected (two or more kids talking, etc).

I was made redundant from both my (part time) teaching jobs around this time last year (through no fault of my own or performance, I hasten to add!) and I have ZERO intention of ever going back - my (anecdotal, of course) experience of the education landcape and students' interest and behaviour (which I feel is significantly due to the attention-leeching effects of their constant exposure to smartphones) led the last 3/4 years to be a horrible experience that I wouldn't repeat if they paid me double what I was previously earning. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but I am greatly concerned about the effect that such technology (and unmonitored use most of the time) is going to have on those who have been exposed to it since a very early age (who will be coming through the education system in the next 10 years or so).
This looks like a great project, reminds me a lot of development for GameBoy
using GBDK especially with clipping screen buffers for scrolling.

I ended up writing a rough JS implementation of GBDK and used Emscripten so I
could debug those kinds of things while making GameBoy roms.

https://www.gbdkjs.com/docs/example-projects/

There's something about working within the limitations of retro systems that's really fun.
it’s one number that’s easy to get understand.
instead of shutting off when the current is exceeded- why can’t you just use a current limiting device and cap it?

modern bench top power supplies can limit current
I wish that was available in the 90s when I was still playing video games. Fell off the chair several times playing Descent.
Electricity isn't fungible. There are substantial costs and efficiency losses involved in transmission, so electricity is significantly cheaper to supply if the consumer is right next door to a giant hydroelectric plant.

Energy-intensive industries that form part of the productive economy are exactly the industries that we want to use that power. We want aluminium smelters and chemical manufacturers to be sucking up that cheap, clean energy. It's an efficient use of resources.

Churning out gigajoules of waste heat to process kilobytes worth of transactions is not an efficient use of resources. It's a colossal waste that has done nothing useful except enrich a bunch of speculators.
> Yes, sure, because the programmer is
> the oracle of testing.

I'm assuming the above is sarcasm?

> There are redundancies that should be
> set up in the development process for
> this reason.

Of course there should be tests, redundancies, fault-tolerant mechanisms and recovery systems _when_ errors/disasters occur. But these constructs are only functions of investments in time and money - and there is no absolute endpoint for tests which can signal that a program is completely error-free, only sufficiently error-free. And that word "sufficiently" is function of money and time. Developers and sponsors make explicit decisions about how much and what kind of testing is sufficient.

> Admitting the mistake gives you nothing
> but low opinion of everyone involved.
> (which is in itself sad)

If that has been your experience, would you mind sharing the anecdote(s)?
>Indeed, the article complains about names 'just being made up'

Unlike all those other placenames like "South of Market" which were decreed by god when he created San Fransisco :P

What they're really getting at is that it was made up by the wrong people. Like anything else that once happened organically among groups of people, you can now wrangle up an advertising budget and push it along.

My neighborhood has a "real" neighborhood name and a silly sub-neighborhood name that gets brought up once a year for a block party. If real estate developers thought the name was valuable, I bet it would mysteriously become a lot more popular.
Congrats to Duo!
Probably lifted thousands of people out of poverty!
When was this? I bought a TV barely a year ago and it's a flat 1 year warranty with paid upgraded warranty. And then a number of years ago my mom bought an Apple iPod which failed within 6 months and Costco shrugged, said it wasn't covered beyond 90 days at all.
Of course the competitors will follow. But Tesla will probably be first and a step ahead in the future, hence the talk about go-to-market speed.
yeah probably chinese iphone makers. (not americans)
I’m Sticking with Moviepass as Long as I Can
I think this is largely because for developers, the auto-updating is one of the biggest selling points of the snap distribution method.
No. It is the first PUBLICALY TRADED company on the US STOCK MARKET to be valued at $1T. There have been many companies that have broken that point in inflation-adjusted and NON-inflation-adjusted valuations. Three big ones are the Dutch East India company, the most valuable company in history, Standard Oil, the most valuable US company ever, and Saudi Aramco, the current, most valuable company. I've seen to many articles claiming this today, so I rage wrote this on mobile.

See article for numbers: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-valuable-companies-all-...
Accidents happen. You only have so much control over them. You also aren't the only person on the jobsite. You can be the most careful person in the world, and then die because your fumbling coworker a few stories up dropped a beam on your head.

A good parallel is motorcycles. A good motorcycle rider is much less likely to experience accidents than a bad rider, but even the best rider is still more likely to experience accidents than a car driver, simply because of all the other people on the road. You only have so much control. Likewise, even the best construction worker is still more likely to wear out their body or experience accidents than the average office worker.
One can go back in time but he cannot displace the air atoms where he appeared because he did not displace the atoms in the first place.
OTOH, the link is weird enough that my guess is that it's hiding other factors... So mapping to your own experience isn't likely to tell you much. (Unless you are a large aggregate of other people.)
Saw this on /r/golang and made some comments there. Good work! Always happy to see more non-web uses of WASM. Here's to hoping some of those higher-level features come to WASM soon so that we can really start sharing code instead of in the primitive constructs we have to use now.
That's a great portfolio.
I'm not a lineman but am a generally curious person, which has caused me to watch and analyze their work when I see it.

Any time I see them working directly on high-voltage lines, they connect a device that looks like jumper cables in-between the phase(s) and ground. They also put bright orange flags on this device so that it is easily visible to anyone nearby. It seems to be a great practice and seems to make things nearly fool-proof because this effectively shorts out any power that may occur on those lines.

I don't think I've ever seen a lineman work on a power line in a manner that would cause him to be electrocuted if surprise power were to occur on the line. I'd bet it's in policies and procedures somewhere, possibly even in OSHA requirements.

The requirement of not backfeeding is another layer in this multi-layer protection scheme.

If a system is successfully backfeeding the grid, something is badly wrong. If a linemen is then electrocuted by this backfeed, something is almost impossibly wrong.
Because investing has become integral in personal finance and market cap gives an estimate of a company's value, room to grow, etc.
The hardware Pyxel simulates seems closest to the Williams arcade games -- Defender, Robotron, Joust, etc.

These games had a single 256 x 304 pixel frame buffer, 4 bits per pixel (16 color palette). A hardware bit blitter performed fast block copy operations to draw sprites, scrolling, etc.

There was a dedicated 8-bit CPU for sound which could play cool effects, albeit one at a time -- Pyxel's sound generator is closer to the NES, better for music and pure tones.

You can see a sample game written in C for the Williams hardware here: http://8bitworkshop.com/v2.1.1/?platform=williams-z80&file=g...
Yes, it's nice to see improvemed error messages. I read many people loathed what the borrow checker threw at them.
Has a flight ever been brought down through a cyberattack? I've heard a lot of concern over that over the years, but (thank goodness) I don't recall any news of an actual flight being brought down.
In Netherlands they've been using all kinds of IT devices for 10+ years (depending on the school, etc). Recently a study was published which made clear that it doesn't benefit at all plus that books + notepad might be more beneficial. Cannot find the article about it.
We only recently added the "verified accounts" feature.
Many of the apps you listed are actually from verified accounts but we're in the process of validating them. We should have all the major ones done soon.
'Ghost Characters' That Don't Mean Anything
10ml of pure ethanol.
You have to be proactive. Contact the maintainers directly, reach out to other maintainers, etc.
Game studios are already focusing on different target demographics, it just that people tend to not see it because when a product change target demographic it also tailors (in a market competition way) all other aspect of putting a product to market and successfully earning profit on it. Those changes also effect how game studios compete against each other, and major developers for one type might be a minor actor in the other.

Triple-A games and block buster action movies has very many similarities. A lot of focus is on first day sales with flashy and short term advertisement that get concentrated to compete against the competition that tries to do the same thing. For some reason the young male with disposable income is a core demographic for this kind of product. In contrast Candy crush, Facebook games, romantic comedy and drama movies share a different target demographic of middle age women. If I remember right then production for that demographic has surpassed that of triple-A, with mobile games being a massive industry.

Why does marketing when targeting for men or women differ? Why does the purchasing pattern differ. I don't know and there are movie and game studios that do try to target all gender and all age demographics with the same product, using a singe marketing style and single platform. Maybe that works but lets not forget that game studios that targeting other demographics than young male with disposable income really do exist. They just don't call themselves triple-A, just like how a romantic comedy don't usually get described as a block buster. If I make a guess I would say it has something to do with marketing.
> Money is fungible. Whether they're saving it by having cheaper electricity or getting cut a check is irrelevant.

That's wrong (and also kinda dogmatic). Money is fungible with itself, but it's not fungible with electricity. If a business gets a cash subsidy, they have all kinds of options to subvert the purposes that subsidy [1], but still collect the money. With cheaper electricity, the incentive is tied far more tightly to the actual activity of operations.

[1] which are to incentivize them to locate their operations in a particular place
That's a great phrase - 'distraction engines' - which my stepkids will be sick of fairly quickly. Love the TV analogy, BTW.
I guess you missed where that infographic says "inf. adjusted".

Regardless of inflation adjusted or not, Dutch East India shouldn't be considered given their rampant use of slave labor. doing a lot of business off of slave trade (pretty easy to make money when you're kidnapping people and sailing them across an ocean then selling them), having a nearly absolute monopoly, and uh... being government backed.
Does nginx still force you to recompile the program to get access to the web application firewall? I remember this being a sticking point years ago when evaluating the product.
This is a bit of a meta comment (not commenting on the content of the article but the tech that the website is built on):

http://txti.es seems to have similar goals to https://itty.bitty.site but the former appears to use a database that may or may not delete content. The latter does not store content so it could potentially live longer.

See this related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17459204
Good point about the employment being fickle. Construction workers get screwed in pretty much every recession, the previous one being particularly bad. The only negative that happened to me in 2008 was we didn't get an annual bonus. The average construction worker saw much reduced hours over a period spanning years, or lost their job entirely. There was a huge outflow from the construction sector during that recession, disproportionately large compared to almost every other employment sector.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672415
Somehow I found it funny that companies like Microsoft and Apple basically survived because someone brought a new OS from the outside.