skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but that monotheisic number isn't a large number of religions. It's completely dominated by what are all offshoots of the same religion.

Almost every culture that develops religion independently develops a polytheistic religion. Those almost never morph into monotheistic religions.

The numbers of adherents are just dominated by Christianity and Islam, which are by no coincidence the principle proselytising religions in history. In fact proselytism was historically rarely observed outside of those two religions.
I don't think Steam ever had lower prices for some EU countries, I am from Romania and the prices on Steam were always high. I could not find any source to confirm this but I think that all EU countries have same prices and it is not a recent thing.
I don't know whether this counts as `cool' or not (David Bowie's Tin Machine):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtOjC0NLFw
Killed by MS anticompetitive practices
The reason peaking turbines use fossil fuels is the lack of a carbon tax sufficient to drive them to other inputs. In particular, they'd migrate to renewable hydrogen in a CO2-constrained situation.
Three reasons.

1: It's not actually cheaper than nuclear. The majority of the cost associated with nuclear is regulatory compliance and political rather than practical in nature (see: China). Discounting this cost makes nuclear the dominant option. Factoring for lifecycle costs pushes it much further ahead. Fun fact: there is currently no way to recycle photovoltaics whose useful lifespan is 20 years.

2: Use of landmass. Deploying wind or solar consumes landmass which must be cleared of flora/fauna. The landmass required to power a nation via these means is not at all negligible. This is contrary to managing climate change for obvious reasons.

Geothermal power stands as an exception here and should absolutely be deployed over nuclear where permissible.

3: Excess capacity. The climate debate is converging on the fact that we are past the point of no return and we need to actively sequester carbon out of the atmosphere to get back to a healthy scenario. Ignoring the specifics, this basically means that we need to 'un-spend' all the energy that we have consumed over the last 50 years via fossil fuels. While still meeting the growing energy demands of civilisaion. We need to be producing a huge excess of energy for this strategy to be viable.

Renewables are nice, but pragmatically they are not nearly enough to dig us out of the hole where we have found ourselves.
Ericsson T28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_T28
It has an awesome feature: quickly press the power button when it's off, and then you can see what time it is now. I really love this feature because with it I could quickly see the time without turning it on or waiting, for example when I am falling asleep or on the plane. But haven't seen this similar feature any more. So sorry for that.
> I think you're talking about a bug in an implementation of XMPP not the protocol itself.

Is a protocol worth anything without an implementation?

Is a protocol good even if it only has poor implementations?
I don't know if I want to value your opinion on browsers of the top feature for you is custom font download.

it was the mobile browser I could access more sites' content with at the time. even flash content, for better or worse! also I could download anything and open any local file, not just what apple allowed me.
There’s little need to store nuclear waste. Reprocess it and use the remaining fuel.
Yup unity was what spelled the end for the Ubuntu wave. I think this has been the single biggest mistake they made. I think it will take at least a decade again to bring the linux desktop to the masses.

Gnome 2 was perfect for people coming from windows moving over. Gnome 3 is like windows vista.

Me personally, I was really disappointed (of course you can install gnome 2 etc). But at the end of the day you just want something that works out of the box.
The Commodore Amiga.

Excuse me while I go reminisce....
I have a Fitbit charge3 and I really like it. I have only had it for 6 months, so I can’t speak to it’s reliability.

The only thing I wish it had was an alarm that would wake me up at a specific level of sleep, like rem sleep.
Killed by the Symbian feud within Nokia and being considered "a toy" by other higher ups, hence the Maemo/Meego rewrite instead of focus and shipping

(I might say one of the issues with lack of focus was relying too much on desktop linux components, as Android went down a different path, but that's a discussion for another time)
I live in Brussels, internet over 4G works great and nobody complains about it being slow.

I am willing to change my mind if somebody proves why we need to upgrade but (and as much as I love new tech) "if ain't broken dont touch it", if anything just make it cheaper.
It’s hard to prove anyone’s credentials when they are fleeing a war. if there is a chance that one person out of a thousand can be at this level, it’s pretty much a no brainer to let everyone in.

borders are a really stupid way people isolate themselves out - it’s just a step above wild animals instinct.
I'm not sure this is only Facebook fault. There are products clearly made for age, gender, race... The problem is the companies that abuse it for ads that should not be discriminating.
Facebook is a tool. And it is not a tool that will end discrimination. Like knife sellers can't end knife murder.
Discriminating for certain things is already ilegal in most countries so just apply fines to companies using this or other tools to discriminate.

People should stop assuming that facebook should fix all society issues automatically.
It is more difficult for apps to know your identity in other apps on iOS. Although Apple has bungled it quite a few times these frameworks are supposed to use an identifier that you can reset and change to be per-developer. Also if the framework goes over the line, which might be defined as ‘bad publicity happens’, Apple might come down hard and simply ban the whole thing (no app that includes the framework gets approved).
Yep, I've been through it - lived a life that sounds vaguely similar to yours, and hit rock bottom through burnout starting about 12 years ago, and only started to emerge about 3-4 years ago.

Life is pretty good now. Still not perfect, but getting better enough for long enough to give confidence that the future is bright and worth putting in the effort for.

For me the turnaround started when I embraced non-mainstream subconscious emotional healing techniques, which gave me a system for working through past traumas, fears, resentments; all the emotional baggage that weighed me down, one grain at time.

These practices helped me to understand why I felt these feelings, and to learn healthier ways of thinking and conducting myself, so I could let all the baggage go and progress in life with more confidence.

There's a few of these techniques around.

NET (NetMindBody). Psych-K. Holotropic Breathwork. EFT. Hypontherapy - the Milton Erickson version or the Dolores Cannon methods. Family Constellations. Plenty of others that I'm not so familiar with.

It's a journey and if you're like me you'll need to engage different modalities on the way to get to things on different levels and from different angles. But if you stick at it long enough, it works and things get better.

All that said, if you're at risk of harming yourself or others, you should certainly see a conventional therapist and seek their advice before undertaking any of these approaches.

These techniques are all perfectly safe, but are not a replacement for psychology or psychiatry if you're in a dangerous place.

For more info, look for books/talks by Dr. Bruce Lipton and Dr. Gabor Maté.

And feel free to email me if you want more advice. Address in profile.

Love and best wishes to you.
You might want to sign the international petition [0] and the petition for Switzerland [1].

[0] https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the-appeal

[1] https://www.change.org/p/p%C3%A9tition-contre-la-5g-et-ses-d...
In the long-enough run, evolution will select for civilizations that don't get bored and opt out.
Germany has been taking coal offline after taking nuclear offline; and are replacing coal by gas (so they depend even more on Russia) instead of replacing it by nuclear or renewable.

They produce 3x the CO2 of France, despite their commitment against global warming.

In an ideal world, renewable would replace everything. We are not yet in this ideal world, and we don't know the time frame to get to it (there are huge technological challenges, while the challenge for nuclear reactor are solved since 50 years. Of course they are still RD to be done on the nuclear side too, like molten salt reactors).

Given the economic and human cost of global warming, investing into nuclear too alongside renewable (rather than instead) seems the safer bet. Again, I am not saying that nuclear is a miracle energy that will solve all our problem (fusion would be). Nuclear energy does have a lot of problems. But these problems are trivial which respect to global warming, and we should solve global warming first (which again will involve even more electricity than we produce right now).

Focusing on closing nuclear first (like Germany did!) is like worrying about a leak under the sink while the whole house is on fire.
Just a friendly reminder, because I see this line of reasoning too often in here. We're not the average Joe. Just because we can circumvent those techniques doesn't mean that everyone can, or for that matter they even bother to. Most people can't even understand the repercussions of profiling.
No, because the mills of justice grind slowly (translated German proverb), and because the DPAs are horrendously under-funded and overloaded.

However, I do have the impression that the situation has already started improving significantly, and as the fines and other enforcement actions start happening, these practices will become less attractive (as in "I don't want this in my company because my competitor had it and got bankrupted by the fines").

A nice aspect of GDPR is the civil enforcement, allowing NGOs to sue on behalf of individuals whose data was abused. This helps resolve the problem that the DPAs are useless and it is infeasible for you to sue Facebook. NOYB.eu is one of the NGOs doing some work in that area (mostly pushing the DPAs to do their job by filing complaints, for now) that has led to fines.
Scotland probably also had a lot more bagpipes. A fact like this is not enough to draw conclusions from.
Yes, yes, though the potassium salt is restricted in some places, the sodium salt not so much (and it works almost as well, though it's hygroscopic as F)

Those were cool experiments :) though I never got much bang for the buck (more like a schwoooooo)
Same mistake sooo many companies make. There will be some privacy-unaware people doing the web development and they will simply add some Google server without thinking about it in depth. Once it is in the system (and a whole lot of privacy out of the window), there are often internal resistances to changing it back to something privacy respecting. For example: The not knowing better person above the web developer responsible for the project does not want to allocate the time for changing a "working" feature. The web developers responsible for adding it in the first place do not want to admit mistake ("But it's working just fine!") or do not want to undo their own work.

Laziness, unawareness and carelessness rule the world of web development, when it comes to privacy concerns. We have a looong way to go, until we have a population of privacy aware web developers.

This is of course not to say that all web developers act this irresponsibly. However, how often do you have more aware people than unaware people, in order to overrule any decision made in unawareness?

If you check regularly on websites what third party stuff they load, in case you have not done so, you might be surprised.
Calculate how many wind generators you need to guarantee the same production as Hinkley point and you'll see that it is not really realistic.

Then, take into account the goal of making of vehicles electric in the next 20 years.

There is no viable alternative to nuclear as of today even if renewables should of course be pushed as much as possible.

Germany is emitting heavily because most of its electricity comes from fossil fuel and it decided to kill nuclear power of purely ideological reasons.
(wood fired plants are counted as renewables in the EU, by the way)

The absolute priority should be to get rid of emissions, i.e. fossil fuels. Germany decided to get rid of nuclear energy first.

They are not a good example to follow.
www.airwavemini.com
I think this is going to continue until both a few of the app developers and some of the DMPs get bankrupted through GDPR fines for not obtaining proper consent.

The entire business model is infeasible under GDPR.
Manhattan is great for discrete components but doesn't work that well for digital with small smd ICs.

So it's best suited to analog but for digital, prototype boards -such as the one from Mike's Electric Stuff linked in the article- are pretty good for prototypes or one-off products.
There were popular methods in the past, like wire-wrapping, but unfortunately, they are no longer favoured. That used to be a good way to build fairly complex digital boards.

Nowadays, going direct to PCB is also a viable solution since they are very cheap and reasonably fast to get.
"we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells" is one of my favorite quotes about computers with "Computer programming is an art form,
like the creation of poetry or music" (Donald E. Knuth)
I had a Samsung Galaxy Chat. Miss that thing, it was awesome.
We don't reprocess spent fuel because it's a net economic loss to do so. The separated plutonium is sufficiently difficult to turn into fuel that, far from saving money, it costs more than just enriching fresh uranium.
Show HN: Fingerprinting TLS Clients with JA3
Actually, I am working an RSS reader app with built-in discussions and Google Reader was a great inspiration for me. I still use RSS readers as a primary way of aggregating content. Leave your email if it'd like to be notified once I have a beta version: https://forms.gle/Xp47FqQXKwcJakSW8
I personally consider all animal fats to be safe.

https://chriskresser.com/can-some-trans-fats-be-healthy/
> I'm not sure what is meant by this? I would assume that the more resources the government or the community has, the more they can support people's talents. You can invest more in education and arts.

Just investing in arts and education is not enough to bring about people's talents : https://www.heritage.org/education/report/does-spending-more...

> True, that's a good point, it's state level capitalism.

> If instead the oil money went into tax cuts, what would one call that policy then? Antisocialism?

You have missed the point here : even by Marxist standards, Norway's success is due to capitalism. It is better to think about economies in terms of the amount of economic freedom each permits. Capitalism-Socialism dichotomy is largely just fiction.
> I can never understand why google couldn't make it popular

Nobody could make it popular after that infamous shower photo. Products need certain coolness to gain traction and Scoble made it go the other way (I live in non-English speaking country and I use that shot to explain the word "nerd").
I wouldn’t use any plant fats for cooking. All of them oxidize pretty quickly.

Olive oils are often fake, unless you are paying around $20 for a small bottle.
That is not what I claimed and it is not what the Wikipedia article claims.
Where are you working that your gross yearly income as an IT Consultant is below 25.000 euro? Did you mean net income?
For those interested in what they invest in, that data is public: https://www.nbim.no/. They hold, for example, 0.86% of Amazon, 1,34% of AMD, 0,97% of Apple, 0,33% of Facebook, 0,95% of Microsoft, and 0,8% of Tesla.
Uh, what? The author doesn't appear to sell them, and the files to make the boards are open-source and linked from the article.
The reason why people in Iowa don't pay the same price than in Cali is because it is impractical, and possibly even prevented by some regulations, to buy the car in Iowa and drive it to California.

With digital downloads, and even physical games, that's not the case: I can buy my game in Czech Republic and have it mailed to Denmark (to stick with the example someone else posted) with minimal friction.
well, it's definitely not identical
Every politician and transportation decision maker in the US needs to read this one. That goes double for the collection of clowns who are letting New York’s transit systems rot.
Basic problem with Google Glass:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/14
Check out https://www.kaiostech.com/ , it's a fork of Firefox OS for feature phones.
I'll be the contrarian here. I tried wave and was never really thrilled with it. Maybe I would have grown to like it, but I never really saw its place in my workflows. IMHO it didn't do any one thing great. It also didn't really play nice with other applications. It was more of an all-or-nothing experience.

I think if it really was so great others would have copied it and made great clones. Given that that never happened it would seem that others were never motivated enough to build a clone, which tells me that it was never useful enough.

I would be happy to be proven wrong about what a great tool it was, but in the end it seemed like more of a cool tech-demo than anything great.
Not only that but, you would have be constantly exposed by constantly eating bananas. And even at one banana/minute you would only be exposed to an amount of radiation that is lower than living on earth.

If BED was a thing, banana plantation workers would all radiation poisoning.
I totally agree that these rules are absolute BS.

The goal of a job interview for me used to be twofold:

Can the candidate do the job?

Would I want to work with the candidate?

Unfortunately, I have got the second one wrong as often as not in the past, so now I just try to find anything that would mean that I wouldn't want to work with the candidate, in other words, are there any red flags?

If there aren't then that's good enough.
I think you've somehow ended up with the exact opposite understanding of what the banana equivalent does is intended for. It serves to call attention to the fact that measurable radioactivity is not necessarily dangerous enough to worry about, and that an actual safety assessment requires more detail than just pointing out that something is radioactive.

Similarly, pointing out that there is a measurable amount of Cs-137 in wildlife in Germany is not a statement about safety. More context and more quantification is required to make it anything other than sensationalism.
You're right, they're not treated the same.
Mmmm... z = 0 = z = sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2)

Zero can kind of serve many masters.
For me, I've always felt that CMD+tab was faster and easier than turning my head. My eyes can only look at one thing at a time anyway.
Very odd how Miami isn't already underwater considering the same was being said about 2020 in the late 90's and early 2000's. This article is climate change hoax fear mongering from a california "journalist".

Interesting how these folks can never seem to explain how we can't even predict the weather accurately a few days in advance or a hurricane path a week in advance (15 computer model guesses is not a prediction), but apparently ice cores are supposed to be a predictor for future climate change that is without doubt and rock solid.

Give me a break.
Imo. it comes down to the window manager, with regards to productivity.

One ultra wide (I got the Dell 38") has the added benefit of making it possible to have the primary app in the center, with less important stuff occupying the far ends of the screen.
Check out https://www.kaiostech.com/ , it's a fork of Firefox OS for feature phones.

> By mid-2019, KaiOS will be running on over 150 million devices around the world.

If that's true then Firefox OS is quite successful
Because TCP was designed as a single-stream protocol. There's SCTP which operates with messages rather than streams and can send those messages simultaneously.
I think it would have been a better product without camera.

Having some of the smartphone info in a HUD is a killer feature in itself, much better than a smartwatch.
feedly.com is a decent replacement
> Ironically this important piece of technology invented in China 400 years before Gutenberg flourished in the West while made negligible impact in China.

This is why we need many different cultures and forms of government etc. to flourish.

How many discoveries must have been ignored by humans because their implications were not compatible with any of our societies, but have inspired some other species out there to great progress? (I love thinking about things like that.)
This is exactly why HN/Reddit format of tree-structured discussions is superior to linear phpBB forums. They allow for segregating subtopics (on a long forum thread, there are always subtopics and offtopics), letting you ignore the things that are not relevant to you.

Were I setting up a discussion forum today, I'd immediately look for something halfway between HN and Reddit. Reddit itself is too much of a PITA to host (we tried in our Hackerspace, but didn't go too far); HN has too little markup and no built-in functionality for storing notifications about replies.
Book Notes: Atomic Habits
1. Sample size of three people (one per monitor arrangement).

2. A 25" 21:9 ultrawide is not comparable with 2x 24" 16:10 screens. You'd need something like a 44" ultrawide to get the same screen width (omitting bezels)
Went from two 27” thunderbolt displays that were side by side, to two Dell 38” stacked on top of each other. With the bottom monitor closer to the desk and the chair a bit higher, my eyes are at the top center of the bottom monitor and I’ve noticed my head doesn’t go back and fourth and my eyes can cover the vertical space pretty easily.

Looking forward to some high dpi 38” monitors over the next few years.
Ok, then: What's you're preferred form of industrial-scale energy storage?
> A nice aspect of GDPR is the civil enforcement, allowing NGOs to sue on behalf of individuals whose data was abused.

Is there a practical way to demonstrate, in a court of law, that one's data has been stored/used/traded in an illegal way?

For example, assume I use a specifically generated unique email address when signing up to one service. After a while I get spam on that email address from a different company. Can I use this as evidence in a lawsuit? How strong will the case be? Would it help if I ask a trusted party (notary) to deal with the generated email address (so nobody ever sees it except the notary and the company)? What options do I have in collecting evidence?
Wonder what this decision is baserad on, its non-ionized radiation and may confuse bees etc but humans ....?
There's still hope in this front
There seemed to be an assumption that someone on a single monitor would tend to use the whole screen for a particular program. So this might be specific to a particular, undefined, windowing environment.
Notably missing from this study is any note of the display resolution. The market is flooded with a glut of 22-26" monitors that have the same low resolution as the smaller ones they are supposedly designed to replace.

This is all also really dependent on the applications you run. I'm personally stuck running a CRM and remote control programs that open new windows for everything. 1 large high-resolution display + heavy use of macOS workspace seems like the best way to deal with it, though my colleagues all prefer 2 displays. Anecdotal observation indicates that none of us can easily find the window we were just looking at once we move away from it, so I think the window manager needs work too.