skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing is impossible, so sure it's not impossible I'm wrong, and Aramco goes public soon.

Given that they've already signaled that it won't happen this year, you do wonder why 2 years on there's no meaningful progress. They've announced the underwriting banks, but there's been no roadshow, no news of meetings with institutional investors. I still think it's quite unlikely you could float a $100 billion IPO today.

IPO aside, I think several of your claims about geopolitics and oil in general are at the very least heavily debatable, and in some cases just factually incorrect.

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> The Saudis seem to have quite a bit of influence on the current US presidential administration and I wouldn't be surprised if the Saudis played a role in the decision to sanction Venezuela

The stated reason for the sanctions was because the US and its allies alleges that Venezuela had sham elections. The EU is doing the same: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/eu-prepares-hit-venez....

In 2014, H.R. 4587 passed the House. The bill's rationale was to sanction Venezuelan officials who were alleged to have retaliated against opposition voters and politicians.

The bottom line is that US-Venezuelan relations have been fraught since the days of Chavez.

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> ...and the decision to sanction Iran, another huge oil exporter

Maybe? Trump ran quite openly on punishing Iran and tearing up the nuclear deal. I'm not sure if you can attribute this to Saudi influence given he and his family have business ties and taken meetings with everyone from the UAE to Bahrain to Qatar.

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> They've recently coordinated oil supply cuts through OPEC and also isolated Quatar, another large oil exporter.

Qatar exports ~1.25 million barrels a day. The Saudi-Qatari standoff has little to do with oil. Qatar sits on one of the world's largest natural gas fields: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/2/15882682/saudi-arabia-qat.... Saudi Arabia and Qatar are jockeying for political influence in the Middle East, over everything from the war in Yemen to Qatar's friendliness with Iran. This is analogous to how the war in Yemen was for the longest time a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and its allies vs Iran.

Scroll down to the "Price and Production" section of this Bloomberg visualization: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/opec-production-targets/. Notice how OPEC cut production sharply in late 2016. Is there any trend between OPEC output and overall oil prices?

What's changed? The US is now the largest oil exporter in the world: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-will-export-oil-most-in-w.... It's simply the case that OPEC doesn't hold the same sway that is used to. Look at the chart labeled "Shares of primary energy" here: https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat.... Natural gas is trending upwards, while oil is flat in recent years, and down quite significantly compared to past decades.

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One nit-picky thing, Mohammed bin Salman goes by MBS. I've yet to hear anyone call him MS.
> Anyone with passing familiarity of military history will tell you that professional soldiers can easily outperform a force of untrained fresh conscripts several times their size.

And in open terrain, until at least the mid-19th century, horse nomads could utterly dominate even professional soldiers.
I was trying to find a little server to host a friends wiki. I wanted to host it on an x86 server so my docker containers would be portable to AWS, but there's nothing that can compete with the rpi unless you're willing to spend over $200. I'd like to see the Y series processors on an SBC, but Intel ARK lists those for going over $250 for the processor alone.
My parents took me to a dream/meditation therapist when I was 8 or so for nightmares. He taught me to lucid dream and it has been a benefit ever since. Except, I just haven't been able to fly like I used to in my teens & twenties. In my forties now, I am lucky if I can get some gliding lift from running on a slope anymore.I used to rise from earth all the way past LEO. Sigh.

What has helped me stimulate higher consciousness is drinking a half cup of coffee right as I go to bed. Caffeine does not amp me out like most, but it does make the dreams more vivid & memorable.
>Do women tend to get older than men

At the very least, this is pretty well supported at the upper end of lifespans.

Looking at the list of oldest people recorded in modern times[1], the list is predominantly female. There is only one man in the top 20 positions (Jiroemon Kimura at number 16), and only 3 in the top 40.

Whether this is due to the same cause as the overall trend, I can't say. Looking at the CDC life expectancy tables for ages 65 and 75, however, we still see a gap of several years between male and female life expectancy, so whatever is causing the divergence probably isn't related to youth and early-mid adult mortality.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people#Ten_oldest_verif...

[2]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2010/022.pdf
On top of that, it'll compare complex structures to each other, so you could have a very large list of dicts that contain a custom data structure and it'll show you a diff and exactly where the mismatch is. Then it can auto-drop to the debugger and you can inspect previous variables to inspect the root cause, if not immediately apparent. Going back to C land, as much as I enjoy it, the tooling feels like the stone ages. I get that it's a lot harder for a language that compiles down to machine code, but dang.
Before they turned around, you had a mental image that filled in the rest of the picture.
America and its allies are wantonly killing innocents in the name of their war economy. This does not make for a strong moral position...
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A practical and interesting application of events processing
Not sure what long-form means, but maybe datagenetics.com matches.
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It's no longer required that you are able to turn it off on x86-64, that you can't turn it off on ARM or both?
I don't know. Even when we account for people who have made it past 65 and 75, there is still a several year gap.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2010/022.pdf
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This was interesting:

> yet paradoxically, while women have lower mortality rates throughout their life, they also often have higher rates of physical illness, more disability days, more doctor visits, and hospital stays than men do. It seems women do not live longer than men only because they age more slowly, but also because they are more robust when they get sick at any age.

Alternative hypotheses might be that either (for sociological or even physical reasons) that women are more aware when they're unwell so seek help more quickly and/or thoroughly; or that men are equally aware when they're unwell, but are less disposed to seek help?
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is too divisive for a tech forum.
So many classics here, some personal favorites:

http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/Agony_Loader6.ht...
http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/AlienBreed.html
http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/AlienBreed2.html
http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/ShadowOfTheBeast...
http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/ShadowOfTheBeast...

http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/Psygnosis_1992_L...
http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/Psygnosis_1992_C...
http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/Psygnosis_1994_X...
http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/Made_Babylona.ht...
http://amiga.lychesis.net/application/AmigaBoingBall.html
If the next Mac Pro doesn’t utterly blow me away I’ll take a dual-CPU POWER9 system into serious consideration. My only concern is drivers for suitably powerful GPUs.
No it's not. Prejudice isn't preference.
It was flagged likely because it came off as rancorous and provided incorrect statistics. It would have been better if he supported his claims with stronger arguments. Hopefully someone else can write a post which investigates this trend without the hyperbole.
Apple T2 chip, currently being used and produced.
I like http://slatestarcodex.com/ a kinda pessimistic leftist who sometimes calls himself a libertarian, but wrote the best takedown of libertarianism I've ever read:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

It's what finally pushed me out of libertarianism after it was straining under my increasingly long list of qualifiers. He has a bunch of other great articles too ranging from ADHD to bayesian analysis.
OSX has decimated the Linux on consumer baremetal use case. It's increasingly rare to meet anyone, even those who interact with Linux systems daily via the cloud, who has actually installed and run it on their own hardware let alone use it daily that way for significant amount of time.

I can't predict how long it will take Google to get Fuschia in good enough shape for Android/ChromeOS production use, but the intent is clear and confirmed.

The cloud is the only place where the kernel still sees a lot of usage, but containers and platforms like Kubernetes serve in part to weaken Linux's position in that space. WSL for example will very likely be utilized for running Linux userspace containers natively in Azure, and knowing Microsoft that will immediately be followed by Azure-specific features being made available through proprietary extensions making the next versions of those containers some combination of a Linux-compatible userspace mixed with WSL-specific extensions for the Azure-specific magic.

I've been heavily involved in Linux since 90s, and it pretty clearly looks to be in decline from my perspective. Hopefully puri.sm can get their mobile device off the ground successfully and get to a point where it's a sustainable business. It would be pretty sad if in another decade the only time we encounter Linux running on baremetal is on gadgets for tinkering like the raspberry pi.
Before we go ahead and give Tesla the moral high-ground here, let's not forget that Teslas are black boxes that pose immense privacy concerns.

Tesla surely created a hype about electric vehicles that has prompted mainstream car manufacturers like Volkswagen to step up their electric vehicle game, which is a net positive, but they also started the trend of including data-reporting black boxes, and they're one of the worst offenders in my view.

https://electrek.co/2017/06/14/tesla-autopilot-data-floodgat...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/02/19/the-big-...
Fighting the vanilla thieves of Madagascar
It would be nice to have a way to automatically update a bug's status when a commit claims to fix it. Presumably that could be done with a (server-side) hook.
The million-dollar brownstone that no one owned
That's not true. It's true for GNOME, and I guess Enlightenment, but they are not the only players. If you think there are legitimate security concerns with our approach then I'm open to hearing them but so far as I'm concerned so far you haven't said anything of value.
one would think men have more dangerous jobs -look how many women soldiers, firemen, policemen etc there are

also women are more responsible regarding their health and prevention than men
Isn't it their products? Why should they sell them to markets they don't want to sell them to? Because of those markets' misguided sense of entitlement?
My memory may be faulty, but wasn't this one of the design goals of BeOS?

I wonder if there is a chance we could take another try at that.
Dunno...how about all of them? And of course the journey as well?
> Fuck you MS

To be fair I've yet to see a good ARM manufacturer and they'd all deserve a "fuck you".
Two weeks ago I bought a small Zotac box with Intel Celeron N3060. The whole system with 4GB RAM and SSD drive consumes 8W. It is good for backups. It runs Ubuntu 18.04 w/o any problems.
After doing a bit research it does seem to be wrong however not entirely wrong. Body fat for women is also more concentrated in certain areas compared to men which would at least go towards explaining some of the reasons why women feel the cold more easily.
Explain to me which parts of what you quoted deserve a patent.
I know I'm just one data point, but everywhere I look, family, friends, women live healthier than men. My father smokes 3 packs a day, drinks, eats at night etc.

Add this to violence, murder rates, great hesitance to go to the doctor by men, higher prison population where you cannot live healthy etc. and you have the explanation ready, no need to look for a biological reason.

Plus, comparing to the other animals doesn't have great significance. Male animals are more aggressive, have to fight for mating and die.
IME, often the text is gibberish, or at least nonsense semantically, and/or changes as you move your eyes, especially if you look away for a moment. The same applies to eg. clocks. Details never seem to be very stable in the dream world.
I wonder if it has any effect on the hypnotic class of psychedelics.
I agree with you. It would be as though the Constitution, the Liberty Bell, most of the contents of the Smithsonian, and almost all the contents inside the White House were looted and then put on display elsewhere, and it took the looters 3-ish days to finish burning what they couldn't carry with them. And followed by claiming a bunch of US land as their own territory in the aftermath.

It would be pretty awful, and I would never wish that experience upon anyone, even people I disliked.
Interesting read.

I wish they had a list of products, though. I wonder if there are any other failed products I've loved, or if liking Crystal Pepsi is kind of a one-off.
Patterns for Authentication at the Edge
New Hubble image shows 15,000 galaxies, about 12,000 of which are forming stars
It's sitting on my hard drive, never released. And I probably never will.
Actually it's very apt, whether the intention was imperialist or not the result inevitably is: a single company from a single culture/country controls an important communications channel globally.

Besides, the intention is very much imperialist - to conquer the global markets. So much so that "world domination" is a standard part of business parlance.
"True, but it is not only the data. Even if it was why aren't the big 3 doing this already? Tesla is a technology company more-so than a car company. They employ the engineers focusing on machine learning and gathering the right data to support that. This would be a brand new area for Ford, Chevy, etc... I'm guessing. Not that they couldn't ramp up, but I don't think it would be as easy as you seem to suggest."

They are. GM is investing billions into self-driving cars and electric vehicles. Every other major car manufacturer has similar initiatives.

If you're wondering why they don't gather teh big datas like Tesla, perhaps it's worth considering that the benefit of this is more of an internet meme than an actual, useful idea. Pretty much everyone serious in the field is using LIDAR, not trying to make up for it with petabytes of bad bumper video.
For those interested, galantamine is a prescription medication "indicated for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer's type." Nice long list of reported side effects:

https://www.rxlist.com/consumer_galantamine_razadyne/drugs-c...

However...

https://www.amazon.com/Galantamine-Dreaming-Nootropic-Supple...

Hmmm.....
> But over the years, I feel like HN becoming less and less valuable for me. I feel like I am wasting a lot of time here these days. Maybe HN has changed. Maybe I have changed. Maybe I just know a lot more about startups and webdev so there are diminishing returns. It's becoming more and more like addiction.

A good rule of thumb -- if you feel like you might be addicted, you probably are.

> I'm wondering what the solution is. I tried blocking HN in my host file, but I found worse ways to waste my time on the internet. Maybe a reading later app is it, but I doubt it.

I've struggled with this an extreme amount over the years (on Reddit and here and so on). The most successful strategy so far is to partition my hard drive and install several different Linux distributions, each with different purposes (currently NixOS: work, Deepin: casual browsing, OpenELEC: watching stuff). I've different emails, firefox signins and so on. It can be irritating, but sometimes you just want that. Getting pissed off - I mean really, really pissed off - about being influenced by websites which optimise for stealing neurons can be very useful.
Its used in huge amounts in pastries, like donuts. It also makes for over 20% of Nutela content (55% being sugar), and its present in many other processed produts.
This is why you need to get the government out of business. They shouldn't be choosing what stores are built where nor should they be giving certain businesses tax breaks over others.
I don't know much about the heavy equipment industry, but from the outside looking in, it doesn't appear to have the conditions to support "disruption." First of all, the majority of consumers in the heavy equipment industry are price insensitive. Heavy equipment is mostly sold to other businesses, agriculture, construction and engineering firms, military, and government. Those companies will buy the equipment regardless of price or any other improvement.

Secondly, there isn't really any scalability in the market for heavy equipment. Even if firms made a big change to the heavy equipment design/mfg industry, they most likely won't capture any new markets. Even a substantial change won't make the average Joe say "Hey I should buy a 400 ton dump truck." The only benefactors of the disruption would be the consumers listed above, who again are pretty indifferent.

Finally, it's also heavily burdened by bureaucracy and regulations. I imagine the biggest bottlenecks to the industry are all the requirements for safety and quality. If someone gets hurt with your equipment, you are in for a multi-million dollar lawsuit. You need approvals, permits, inspections, and QA, each of them slowing the process down further. It's also possible the industry can experience a drastic change from a breakthrough in technology, some kind of mass adoption of a new process, or some sudden increase in demand for heavy equipment, but I see that being dependent on changes outside of the industry.
I usually realize I'm dreaming when I can 'breathe underwater'
IIRC human height and life expectancy are negatively correlated due to rare FOXO3 gene which makes people's height shorter and life longer, and there is a Simpson Paradox here: in both groups of people with and without this gene longer height its correlated with longer life.
In colloquial English, a claim for "99% of <x>" is almost never intended to be read literally. Usage of this construction is widespread and well understood by 99% of the people reading this.
I'm inclined to agree with you, however you also have to consider all the history destroyed civil strife: ISIS destroying ancient statues in Iraq, rebels in Timbuktu, the Chinese government destroying Lhasa, etc. There's an argument that we need to geographically distribute history to ensure its survival.
Environmentalism can easily become neo-colonialism in which largely Western countries impose their values and limit what developing countries do to better their people.

The people living in the countries in question should be free to make their choices regarding how they want to develop their country and economy without interference from the West.
Starlark configuration language
Men are, on the whole, also provided much less social support and education in handling negative emotions. So it would be understandable that they would perform more extreme forms of self-medication.

We know that related constructs vary more across cultures (ie - that present variance in the levels of social integration) than between the genders, which suggests that the chief causes of the difference here are more social than biological.
To me, this is sort of like saying you shouldn't use pronouns in English because they assume you've read the previous few sentences. It's possible, but it results in rather stilted prose.

There are situations where text needs to stand alone (such as tweets) but I think a function call is too narrow a focus. The body of a reasonably-sized function seems like a more natural chunk for understanding a program.
I tried service workers and even just unlaunching the feature was a major challenge. Our users ended up having cached versions of the site with a service worker for every and we had to put a ton of cache busters in to deal with it.

Not ready for primetime.
I can't agree with you enough in everything you've said. I taught myself how to lucid dream in 2011. I used a technique where I made a habit of checking reality through the day every day. Eventually the habit became ingrained enough that I started remembering to check even during dreams, triggering a realization that I was actually dreaming and initiating a lucid dream.

It is exactly as you described. Nobody can ever understand it until they experience it. Comparing it to the matrix might do it a little justice. But there are limitations -- waking up, falling back into non-lucidity, false awakenings and so on.

The first lucid dream I had was glorious. I was dreaming about being on a very tall grey building with overcast skies, on a wooden deck protruding from the side of the building. I became lucid and commanded the sky to crack with lightning and it did. I flew upward and created a swirl of clouds and was generally having an amazing time. This all was as if it were completely real. Then, too excited, I woke up. But it was a terrifying false awakening where a black figure sprinted toward me and attacked me. Then I woke up for real, absolutely terrified. It was so scary that I decided not to lucid dream anymore. But with recounting all of this, and thinking about it for the first time again, I think I might start doing it again.
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Similar to Commodore's failure with the Amiga line.
>> Reminded me of the more passive-aggressive Greek approach to their own stolen artworks.

Note that such arguments were once made regarding Egyptian artifacts. Post-ISIL there isn't the same drive to repatriate middle-eastern artifacts. I'm a fan of not keeping all my eggs in one basket. Perhaps artifacts from past civilizations should be spread around the world to avoid them being decimated by any local conflict.
Learning to lucid dream is basically giving yourself a sleep disorder on purpose. Having done this deliberately in the past and had some fairly wacky side-effects, I think it's worth people considering the negatives if they style trying to induce lucidity.
Because it's irrelevant. Women live longer than men even if you just count people who died of "natural causes" (old age).
AFAIK, they essentially "just" maintained the x86 port of NeXTSTEP throughout the entire migration from NeXTSTEP to Mac OS X.

I wouldn't be amazed if they supported big-endian PPC still for the sake of maintaining portability, though I feel that's less likely than little-endian ARM.
I'm with you here. I think the new AMD SoC that's coming out in the Udoo Bolt looks like a nice middle ground. I've been using Skull Canyon as a Linux desktop for about a year and a half now and the new model doesn't look a compelling upgrade for the price. I'm hoping the Bolt architecture is repeated in more products going forward.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/udoo/udoo-bolt-raising-...
I don't know the answer, but there was a fair bit of discussion here on HN recently that Prolog made for a nice platform for building out a new language.

I'll try to find the comments.