skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started using the Internet at a time when HTTP traffic already exceeded Gopher+FTP traffic, but not by orders of magnitude.

I'd start nearly any session with Gopher, and it would end in either some web pages or an FTP server. Gopher was the go-to because it was organised unlike the rat's nest of links you had to deal with on the web.

This wasn't really fixed until the advent of big centralised search engines (and even then, the early ones weren't worth damn).
It's not a weird crusade. I saw it firsthand.

It is, likely, different across franchises.
I'm in Japan. Last year I remitted $16k. My residence is paid for and I spent an additional $12k cash. In total, I live on 28k / year. Add in a residence if I had to rent, down where I am it's $500/mo for a 3 br "home". It's really a shanty by western standards but enough for me. On 34k if you rented, one can live comfortably in Southern Japan. Of course, this is not possible without a valid visa. I have lived in Midwest, California, Washington and visited most of US. I would still choose to live here than anywhere else. I think most Americans who have not done enough travel do not seriously consider living outside of their country (if they had the chance) just due to a mindset that America is the best place to be (hint: it's not).
There's been pressure, it's not a priority.
I take issue with the assertion that the time that a module requires is a good assessment of its difficulty.
> In what sense does the citizen of the Central African Republic share any economic interest with the American?

"in my preferred world, no-one would be so rich"

I'm not sure if you're complaining that the "preferred world" includes ultra-poor non-americans or that it includes ultra-rich non-americans, or that the disparity of wealth and power is so huge between americans and africans, or you think that it would somehow be A-OK if only all americans had some particular limited inequality.

Legal and political systems may be largely separate, but economies are increasingly tied together. Globalization, foreign aid, military intervention, interfering in elections, and even separate political systems may become intertwined.

By no means do I think Bill Gates is an angel, or Henry Ford is without fault.

I do think that they are two good examples of people who got incredibly wealthy by capturing a very tiny fraction of the wealth they and their companies created for society.
Is there any published evidence that Goggle and Facebrick ads are actually effective? Genuine question.

I don't know anybody who clicks them or takes any notice at all of them but maybe these people exist. I don't know of any company that is wholly reliant on some kind of advertising who uses them. Eg Chanel, Coca Cola etc. I do see a bunch of goog/face advertisements on tv and posters at bus stops where I do also see coke ads.

I don't know of any companies and products who road the early google advert trend to prominence. Do they exist?

My strong suspicion is that the ad industry is drowning in BS and always has been. Data cuts through that so I'd love to see anything that anyone has. Maybe it's not all a giant mountain of con?
Why fecal medicine could be the next big buzz
If you're picky about what's in your ground beef, find a butcher you trust, or grind your own.

A lot of people lack the education to know that many more lack the time, energy and money to make it work. I guess the answer why this should upset you is that it shouldn’t, unless you’re troubled by empathy as many of us are.
Writing an unaccelerated classical raytracer is an excellent starting point in all things 3D.

Everything beyond that is arguably just optimization.
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I'm using a Vortex Pok3r which uses layers and I love it.

[Context] I was using AutoHotkey for some years before this to rewrite my keyboard. My main goal was to get rid of moving my hand to the arrow keys and back when programming to be more efficient, and have a fast way of moving around in text. Like Ctrl+arrows for jumping words, using Shift for chars/words/lines for quick selection, etc. For anyone not into this, the problem with the AutoHotkey solution is "keyboard shadowing": most keyboards don't use dedicated wires to each key but a matrix of wires instead, so, if you press 2 given keys, the system won't be able to tell if you pressed a given 3rd key or not. Also, different keyboards use different wires, so you can't use the same configuration on every keyboard.

I do miss a normal keyboard when I'm on the phone and want to use the arrows with one hand. Newer Vortex models do include dedicated keys so I might experiment with them. Also, I'm so much more efficient this way that I basically carry it with me everywhere and it's quite heavy. (I have 2: 1 at office, 1 at home.) The programmability of the thing is quite limited but still a huge win for me.

The build quality if the Pok3r is outstanding. I can't recommend it enough. I'm not affiliated.
The issue here is that the government doesn’t force food makers to distinguish a whole muscle ground into mince from 100,000 scraps soaked in Mr. Clean in a pressure cooker.
I think OP is referring to the "PCB mount" version of the cherry keyswitches which has two extra supporting plastic pins. The other "plate mounted" version doesn't have them. Nothing about the PCB mount version prevents you from using a plate but it requires two extra holes per switch.

https://support.wasdkeyboards.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500927...
Most of them aren't worth it. If a mall is failing, it probably exists in an area that is failing as well.

Malls with primarily upper middle class consumers and up are doing quite well.
Hiring is actually a tremendous burden for most small/mid sized business with all of the compliance and regulatory stuff. Its far cheaper to hire one person for 40 hours/week than 2 people for 20, even if their pay is half.
Infrastructure as Code – Deployment Recovery Automation Technology (DART)
Generally speaking when everything has been taken off the carcass, including parts used for animal feed, the remains are blasted by high pressure water. The resulting tissue, much of it membranes and other fascia are then collected and processed. It is as you say, not really meat, it’s mostly a collagen slurry. In the cases of turkey and chicken the term used is “mechanically separated.” You can find that term on any Slim-Jim.
There's no such thing as a "fair price". There's just what people are or aren't willing to pay.
In Roundup Case, the Science Will Go on Trial First
I’d like something a little “panoptic”. Have everything the student interacts with the teacher be recorded on a reviewable medium. Every minute of the teachers class gets recorded from multiple angles - no blind spots. Have teachers drop in on other teachers feeds randomly. This could be recorded material but should most definitely be done so that the teachers don’t know one another. Give the students the ability to flag a grade for review. (If the student flags grades often then that should trigger a review. Maybe a discussion with a school counselor.)

I’d also like surveillance in place with the express intent of catching and correcting bullying. But that’d encounter political push back. Bullying, though, should be taken as seriously as bringing a gun to school and a kill list. Lots of counseling, parental oversight, etc

And if all of this is too much then we scrap public schooling and offer online teaching with plenty of library study spaces.
They won't have much of an impact, as at the altitude that they operate and for various regulatory reasons, virtually every cubesat will deorbit and burn up in the atmosphere within 25 years of the launch date, with typical times being more on the order of 5-7 years. Should we reach a point where we decide there are too many cubesats and it is becoming problematic, we slow down or stop launches entirely for a few years and the problem resolves itself.
What are the bad consequences of this "pink slime"? Is it worse for you than a ribeye steak?

What makes it not OK?
I doubt that's it.
International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
I would suspect this same line of thinking is what led to the Touchbar on new MacBooks.
Psychedelics are a potential cure for everything from depression to addiction
For those unfamiliar, this is a riff on an anticapitalist slogan: "You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism". If you're baffled as to why someone would say this, you might consider Marx's theory of alienation [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
John Klein, Doug Reynolds: Infrastructure as Code – Final Report[1], CMU jan 2019

[1] https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/asset_files/WhitePaper/2019_01... (pdf)
All kinds of (Russian?) names end with dev.

President Medvedev and Art Lebedev studio come to mind.
> People are starting with too many misconceptions and gaps in foundational knowledge. [...] start with at least the basics about the physiology of human vision

A question I ask first-tier physical-sciences graduate students is "A five-year old comes up to you and asks, 'I'm told the Sun is a big hot ball. Awesome! What color is the ball? I really care about the color of balls - I'm 5.' What color is the Sun?". Among the pervasively incorrect answers I get, is a recurrent "It doesn't have a color; it's lots of different colors; it's rainbow color."

It reminds me of a failure mode in learning high-school stoichiometry: students not thinking of atoms as real physical objects. And why should letters be conserved?
Not being nutritious and making you sick are rather different though. Although porcini can be eaten raw it is probably most commonly fried or sautéed. Boiling it seems like a bit of a waste of a food prized for its flavor.
Big space debris is more dangerous because it can start a Kessler cascade.

In addition, small space debris could conceivably be cleaned up with lasers from the ground. That's not so feasible for bigger stuff.
I think it was Netflix engineer at a conference that once said that you shouldn't run chaos monkey if you expect it to fail. If you don't think it will work, then go fix those places that you know to be rotten first.

Your comment was probably in jest, but it provided a nice platform for mine :)
I take your point, but to be fair, there is a cost to me for thinking in this way where I better consider every possible action I take being offensive. I have no malicious bone in my body, but I am certainly callous at times (unintentionally).
related 300 comments 3 days ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19155655
I see what you're getting at, but there are many things that the US government would love to prevent you from saying that the Chinese or UK government couldn't care less about.

For instance, if you're a US citizen and a resident of the UK or China, you might want to call the President of the US a big baby on twitter. The UK or Chinese government probably wouldn't have a problem with that, but the first amendment protections you enjoy, even while abroad, is preventing the President from calling up twitter and trying to have you banned.
For sure. They mostly grow in groups though, e.g. five or ten within a few feet, so at least you usually have enough ones in good condition and in various states of their lifecycle to make identifying them relatively straightforward.
Why? Sincere question. Is it unhealthy or not nutritious?
let’s say there was revolution in the US right now because of the anti 1% movement. The 99%, having voting control of congress decide to enact some laws that greatly redistribute wealth from the 1%.

Let’s say in order to protect themselves the 1% decide to all move to one city (new york), and take all their wealth with them, and form a new country out of this piece of the USA.

Seems like a giant loophole because the 99% are still poor even though they’ve “won” the war for the US, but lost a crucial, albeit tiny, piece of land which contains the majority of US wealth.

You can bet the 99% would fight to take back NYC as well as all the wealth sequestered there by the 1%.

The fundamental reasoning behind China’s claim to Taiwan is not just the physical land, but also the claim of legacy wealth that was taken from China and moved there, which was why the revolution happened in the first place. A small but meaningful piece of the country cannot simply decide to setup a rogue government to avoid persecution from the law, just like how it would not be tolerated if a bunch of wealthy 1% decided to form their own country within the US (from US land they take) just to avoid being taxed.
Starmancer's Agent-Component-Event Engine (2018)
>Earth and moon are separated by a distance roughly equal to 30 earth diameters.

I admit I had to look this up simply because it sounds so off. I knew both numbers but never thought about them together. The moon is so much closer than I've always perceived it to be.
The way I understood it is they have their acquisitions raise a lot of money through debt, pay themselves enormous fees out of that debt, and then do hail-mary plays to try to recover the company (which never, probably by intent, work) and then have the company go bankrupt. Pocketing the fees, etc which are in excess of anything they ever put in.
I believe it's under the assumption that you (a funded start up) will be around longer than something that might go under and not worth eating the cost of the discount without the pay off of a full price subscription later.
I used to think I had no spare time. Now I have 2 kids under 3. It turns out I used to have a TON of time in comparison.
> find a butcher you trust, or grind your own.

Or you could not allow meat scraps to be called ground beef and trust all ground beef that you buy.

For context this meat wasn’t waste it was used for other products. But by allowing it to be called ground beef it is now more valuable.
Automated front-end development using deep learning (2018)
In the United States, the median household income is over 60k. Income is not the same thing as wealth.

I will say that there is a significant reduction in stress and jump in wellbeing between 30k and 40k. Beyond that, there is very little actual difference. As my income increases, all it does is reduce my time until retirement.
Without Churchill, India’s Famine Would Have Been Worse
> "Hey, that guy is late on his car payments, let's hire a repo man before they deface my property.
I love stuff like this. We made a whole laptop in this spirit, with a custom USB keyboard, optical trackball, motherboard and 3d printed/cnc milled case, also with KiCAD: https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-01-14-status_update_on_...
> As a software engineer, I can't afford to not be on the cutting edge. I have the feeling that if I stopped working for just 6 months, my career would be over.

Stop following hype and focus on practical business solutions. You'll have no problem finding work after doing so.

You need to remember that things like Wordpress solve the majority of business needs and skills related to it are in demand next time you feel like you need to keep a constant pulse on what's popular to the HN crowd.
There's also Msys/gnuwin32 which has some advantages over cygwin.
It's still beef though. If I'm getting a burger at a McDonald's or something, this is fine.
The market for Toys-R-Us is absolutely still there, and currently there is a vacuum for a better company to step in place. People are simply not going to buy their children's items online; moms just love to try things out in the store for their kids.
It is much higher in fat, and much lower in protein than meat. It also contains pulverized bone, nerve tissue and more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_separated_meat

This puree includes bone, bone marrow, skin, nerves, blood vessels, and the scraps of meat remaining on the bones. The resulting product is a blend primarily consisting of tissues not generally considered meat along with a much smaller amount of actual meat (muscle tissue).

Of course the final product depends on how it’s processed. A lot of the time the stuff is centrifuged to remove fat, in which case it’s used as filler. If you’ve ever eaten a cheap chicken nugget and tasted something off, that’s what it is. So nutrition aside it’s disgusting, and is generally only found in heavily processed foods with a ton of salt and sugar in them; nothing less will make it palatable.

You’re never going to find the stuff in any food that isn’t terrible for you. If you have concerns about prion diseases like BSE then it’s also a concern, since the processing is unlikely to destroy prions.
If your github profile is your resume, yes it is.
But it not so good if your resume contains other things.
By the same argument, land isn't really property, it's a restriction on what others can do with that area of the earth. I'd say that this is an argument against property in general rather than an argument against intellectual property, but my modus ponens is probably your modus tollens.

Intellectual property was created by capital with help of the state, and all other forms of property were created prior to capital but were instrumental for it with its support by the state (police and armies and enclosure). Only when capital realized that it needed to expand did it monopolize ideas as "intellectual property"; but make no mistake, it did exactly the same in the 16th and 17th centuries in Western Europe to common property.
>Is it the chicken or the egg, though?

Obviously it's not the people as human beings at fault. There is no "bad DNA" involved. Nobody is "inherently inferior".

>I truly believe that being rejected by society leads to antisocial behaviour. It doesn't excuse it, but it does explain some of it.

Sure. But whether it's the chicken or the egg matters when accessing the overall situation. When many from a group of people causes problems where you live, you don't care as much for the historical origins of their behavior, you first and foremost want the problems to stop.

Now, if those people complaining where also historically part of the problem (e.g. historically rejected/oppressed the Roma), we could care less about their complaints.
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I don't see how you can say a specification is a mess. Particularly since it (and openfirmware) tend to implement far more of what is required to boot a "generic" OS than any of the firmware projects you mention. Projects that are all mostly linux bootloaders. Further, there is an open source mostly complete UEFI (tianocore) implementation. Some people dislike tianocore for mostly religious reasons (it has 2 character tabs, and an odd build system), but those reasons actually have nothing to do with base UEFI.

Finally, UEFI as the OS interface is actually being embraced by u-boot and coreboot as the standard OS loader. Thats because they have realized that the services provided by UEFI actually do solve many of the problem users of uboot/etc systems experience. For one, it standardizes the update process for the actual firmware, as well as providing services/controls for managing the OS boot process following update/etc. It also has interfaces for plug in cards (PCIe option roms) and many other features that turn out to be critical to building a generic computing device.
There are several in-person alternatives. DSW is larger and cleaner than Payless, and also tends to have better brands. They also do a great job with coupons and sales. Kohl’s, the coupon/sale master, also sells shoes. And Nordstrom Rack has a good selection as well.

Then there are outlet malls—many brands to choose from.

Personally I have felt for a while that DSW was a much better option than Payless.
Who is a good/trustworthy registrar then?
Twitter is more akin to a soapbox than a pub.
Until you hit a patch where inflation or other economic trauma wipes out those assets.

Old money people always have hard assets as a core part of their wealth.
Any non-paywall source?
What registrar would you suggest? I have some on Google but I think I want to transfer now.

I also have some on Namecheap, are those safe?
It's totally reasonable to eat meat and still have qualms about its labeling. This is about processed meat being sold as ground beef. I eat both processed meat and ground beef, but they're not the same thing and don't have the same culinary or nutritional value. (Though, you're right that the "slime" label is obnoxious -- at least for anyone who eats, say, hot dogs or bologna.)
How the US Has Hidden Its Empire
I'm not sure why the EU bans it, but Canada bans it because of the ammonia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime (see some of the references)
MD5 is still not reversible, so it still has many uses.
Amazon paid no federal taxes on $11.2B in profits last year
Even when self employed I don't really want to. I know 5 days/week is unproductive, but it's difficult to scale down to 4. That's cutting down "potential" salary by 20% and with all the fixed costs out there, the potential income loss is much, much higher.

But the reality is that being constantly tired is unproductive and having 50% more time off is huge.
I thought they ALREADY closed. wow.
Why not have discrimination protection for political views first?
> Please note that we no longer distribute the following images that were previously available in our database: 4.2.04 (lena), 4.2.02 (tiffany), elaine.512, numbers.512 and testpat.1k. Although these images have played a significant role in the history of image processing, they no longer represent the best examples for future research.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_separated_meat#...

Concerns were raised again when the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic, commonly known as "mad cow disease", occurred in the United Kingdom in 1986. Since bits of the spinal cord (the part most likely to be carrying the BSE prion)[4][5] often got mixed in with the rest of the meat, products using mechanically separated meat taken from the carcasses of bovines were at higher risk for transmitting BSE to humans.

Given how resilient prions are I’d be pretty damned wary of eating purées of nerve tissue.
We had a kid last year. My time went from some availability to NONE. Granted, we don't have a babysitter, both myself and wife stay at home (I work from home, she doesn't work). Despite both of us being available, just the daily chores and things that must be done with a little one are insane. Ours could be a unique case because my kid is kinda difficult, but it's definitely a huge change from not having kids. That being said I think anyone who recently had a kid and works from home can attest to forming new abilities to manage time super effectively. Before I would waste a lot of time on non-important things, now I know what my priorities are and get things done really fast. I am a lot more focused because of this.
I hope something nice lands at jaiguru.dev
I have seen a parametric keycap library here https://github.com/rsheldiii/KeyV2

But standard FDM printing will not get you keycap that are smooth on the top, as they tend to be sculpted to fit a finger better, and you're still looking at ~0.4mm layers at best. You may be able to do it with SLA 3D printers which are able to do higher resolutions than FDM printers.

https://imgur.com/a/AalpV1r is an interesting project that 3d printed the keycaps too
I wouldn't be surprised if it is considered one of the variables. Most people lose their attention as the minutes go by, so if we add it as a multiplier to other direct variables, it can help better define difficulty.