skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even URL shorteners offer unlimited storage if you jump through enough hoops.

To encode ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ first get a short url for http://example.com/ABC, then take the resulting url and append DEF and run it through the service again. Repeat until you run out of payload, presumably doing quite a few more than 3 bytes at a time.

The final short url is the your link to the data, which can be unpacked by stripping the payload bytes then following the links backwards until you get to your initial example.com node.
> If you make it so that wind, solar, and next generation nuclear power is cheaper than other alternatives and more desirable, the market will progressively switch.

Not necessarily. Lots of people have jobs in coal, oil and gas production, and those constituencies will often vote for politicians who promise to keep those jobs around. They can do this through heavily subsidizing the cost of fossil fuels (which they currently do) in order to reduce the extent to which the economic benefits of clean energy can influence the market.

In the long term, they probably can't keep this up, but we don't really have a "long term" anymore.
”Plasma from old mice or humans worsens cognition and biological indicators of brain health, when infused into young mice. Conversely, plasma from young mice (or humans) rejuvenates old brains”

Sounds like a premise for B class horror movie, but apparently this is already a thing. Just Google for words ”inject young blood”
It's far cheaper to run an experiment on 100 rats than 100 people, and it's unethical to let people run themselves to death obviously.

It's not unethical to watch people run and eat -- Gatorade/UF exercise lab does this stuff all day long. Obviously it's unethical to let you continue to do so if adverse health effects are observed.
No, it's a rant, it's supposed to be over the top. But wait, are you planning on redesigning a tool I use every day? :)
Space X had over a $100 million invested in Solar City.
typing.ClassVar. See https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html#class-var...
My understanding is that LEDs have a very specific, peaky distribution. Heating a wire results in a wide distribution of color temps, but solid state lighting is a really narrow band of color.

I have a photo panel that needs two separate color LEDs to produce a balanced feeling color temp.
I am conspicuously non white; not that that actually matters (yet another way in which ethno nationalism has become entrenched -- you have to justify your own beliefs with skin color!). And yes, your inability to fathom that a non white guy may perceive ethnic tension to be higher now just shows how disconnected the races are.

I dont believe that theres any value in having several distinct cultures in one nation. For one, i think some cultures are better than others. American values are frankly superior to most other cultures.

We should feel free to share aesthetics (which is what most mean by multiculturalism), but I dont see the value in being forced to adopt other philosophies or moralities (which is what has been forced down our throats as multiculturalism). For example, we can decide chow mein tastes nice and bhangra dancing is fun, but we cant let that influence our fundamental conception of freedom, which is ultimately firmly rooted in a Greco-roman value system via Puritanism.
Seems like the store could use your public key to encrypt the data it uploads to your bank, they get the full data, you decrypt it. It's then just using the current channels.

But, I imagine it's easier to have the store make a temporary xml/json file on their servers, give you the QR code to access it, then you can control the data flow from then.
If you feed your cat, shouldn't it be obvious how much of it's food it is eating? Unless it's hiding the food somewhere.
Here's a great example, popular on HN just a couple of days ago:

https://www.meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/
A phone number is just an entry in my phone's address book - I don't think I dial them by hand any more often than I type an IP address by hand.
Try when G+ added all your social media contacts to Gmail. And gave them Calendar access.

That went down poorly.
The Wayback Machine version works fine for me in Safari, but it's just a matter of time until Flash is completely dead. http://web.archive.org/web/20190402083155/http://ckjcwf.ytmn...

edit: ironically, one of the non-flash versions doesn't work in Safari since it doesn't like a raw MP3 file in an OBJECT tag. The MP3 file is there though. https://web.archive.org/web/20060603154932/marioteachesptkfg...
I wonder why they do that. It seems to me like it would be more effort to leave the Google Docs files out of their calculation, and with no real benefit. For conventional use of Google Docs it would be hard to use a significant amount of disk space, so it's not like users would be clamoring for additional space.

Perhaps it's just marketing, trying to prize people away from Microsoft Office with a thing that doesn't actually cost them all that much?
Yes but whether dark is more efficient or not depends on screen technology, plus there's battery level, viewing conditions and user preferences to factor in, so ultimately it's up to the phone OS / supporting software to make smart decisions about what's the right theme to show at any given moment.
New Intel Zombieload vulnerability fix turns some Core i7s into Core i5s
It's gotta be the easiest stateless system to get started with, right? It's decidedly not a BAD language anymore. It probably has some of the best tooling for said system as well. And it has a GIGANTIC community.

That's worth a lot to most people, I think?
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"Without user research support, there's no acceptable route to creating new AMP components."

I can't think of a way to say this without sounds really cynical... I don't think they can about "users" in the same sense that "user research" would support, but rather they can that users click on whatever AMP is designed to do best, which is I assume ads or paid stuff at the top of search results. I seem to remember Google selling people on this by highlighting it's fast and more people click on it? I would think that's all that matters to them. I can't blame them, that's their job, to get more people to click on more things that Google makes money from.
That's likely due to amp-font, which will wait a certain amount of time for custom fonts to load before continuing with a fallback browser font (see: https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-font)
> The patriarchy objects, as a patiriarchy does.

People read sinfest for the humor. You can call it offensive or destructive humor, but it was humor nonetheless.

Then the comic switched away from humor to being moral lecturing.

It's not the same audience, so naturally you'll lose most of the old readership, and have to acquire your entirely new audience.
About 15 years ago when I was starting my life as a professional programmer PHP's way of handling strings was seen as inferior to stuff like:

> name = 'Jane'

> print 'Hello, %s' % (name)

but I can't exactly reproduce all the discussions from back then. As for me personally I can see that I dislike the new

> print(f'Hello {name}')

format because my editor cannot instantly show me that {name} is in a fact a variable, and now that I wrote this down I remember that this was one of the complaints made against PHP's use of "Hello, $name" . But maybe newer editors do in fact recognize {name} as a Python variable, in any case it looks and feels "impure", for a lack of a better word.
Leaving a job on good terms? Here's how to ease the transition
That's perfectly fair, should I have not asked about the commenter's own personal relationship with arachnids, or was I otherwise wrong to infer that they may have something to share about why people (like me) fear them? If so, why?
Thanks!

A lot of web dev people start off by writing command-line tools. Later this year, Rust will also be significantly easier to write server-side web stuff in, it’s a little tough to get into at the moment. You could also try front-end web stuff with WebAssembly! The PI stuff is also a good choice.

There’s links to learn more about these topics on https://www.rust-lang.org/ that should help you get started!
I'm worried about the shocks, not about the decline itself.

I mean wouldn't it be better if the changes were more gradual?
I think there's a fun angle we could take on this. One could reasonably argue that large solar deployment in major industrialize countries is unlikely to occur "in time" without some sort of government prodding (of some sort). And when that time comes, it's gonna be big. We're going to need crank out solar panels and wind turbines like mad.

In that context, basically everything we've done so far is basically warm up. Like 2% of US electrical production is from solar. We're gonna need to install like 25-100x the current installation base to do what we want.

A reasonable assumption to make is that by the time the USA gets around to doing that, most other rich countries will be doing that too. This means that global supply is going to be challenged. This means that having the domestic capacity to grow this production is key. This means that being somewhat inefficient at this stage to build knowledge-base and competency in key parts of the supply and operations chain may actually be the long-term optimal solution.

Of course, this is all just conjecture.
Personally, I'd say Elon is a lot more honest than Apple ever was. Remember, Apple is the one telling everyone they really don't want a headphone jack, even if they do. (Wireless headphones have significant downsides.)

As for Exxon, that's apples and oranges. Exxon doesn't make any products. It produces oil, which is a fungible commodity, not a branded product that's different from competitors' products in real and significant ways.

Boeing, too, is a pretty bad comparison. No one actually buys Boeing planes (except airline companies). As a consumer, you can try to choose non-Boeing planes to fly on when you book tickets, but that's about it. You're not their customer.
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Google for one doesn't think "Minnie Maud" is dominant outside of non-scientific fad blogs and one trademarked business offering.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Minnie+Maud%22

https://edinstitute.org/homeodynamic
This is naive at best and certainly unrealistic.

There is such a thing as "carrying capacity" of the planet if only in terms of quality of life.

I'm sure people prefer spacious homes, space, parks, nature, wilderness, rather than being cramped in a crowd 24/7.

Less people is a real solution to the main problems of today.

This does not mean less opportunity. Quite the opposite this means more opportunities and better quality of life.
Hah, don't worry about /rant, I agree with you. In particular wrt. treating environmental fraud issues akin to manslaughter, or at least intentionally causing bodily harm. Because that's what it is, except stretched over time and applying to more people. We have an issue like this close to home - apparently in Poland there are people who offer very cheap disposal of toxic waste. They take that waste and just dump it illegally. I'd like to see them - and those who in full knowledge use their services - to be dragged in front of the courts and jailed.
I'm 18, the only number I remember is 08456060973 because it was used for a radio show I used to listen to and they'd repeat it constantly. I seldom communicate via the telephony network, if I need to call someone I call them on Telegram, my mum uses Viber, my Dad uses Skype, and if I need to message someone there's more than enough options for that.
Remember Archive Team is not Archive.org.
> Dark themes reduce the luminance emitted by device screens, while still meeting minimum color contrast ratios. They help improve visual ergonomics by reducing eye strain, adjusting brightness to current lighting conditions, and facilitating screen use in dark environments – all while conserving battery power. Devices with OLED screens benefit from the ability to turn off black pixels at any time of day.

Why is light UI the default if dark theme confers so many advantages?
Poor people are poor because they smoke and drink and waste their money on stupid things while getting arrested for other stupid things.
Yeah, I would say linux _is_ unworkable for laymen. If crypto were trying to sell itself as infrastructure, I would agree with your statement. But 'just wait for the nice pretty layer' is what people have been saying about btc for the last 10 years.
> What I'd like to know is why this reaction isn't more common among humans. I'm a fat person who's tried calorie restriction and all it does is make me tired and depressed. I suspect there's a good reason for that, and it has a lot to do with why I'm a fat person in the first place.

There're interesting stories about people changing their weight after a
stool transplantation, without changing their diet.

The bacteria in the gut seems to have a deep impact how food is utilized,
even which kind of food is preferred and how you feel eating it, but it
also seems to work the other way around, that the food effects the kind of
bacteria in the gut.

It makes perfect sense to work this way, on one side you prefer food you
can better utilize, on the other your body is able to adapt to the
available food.

So changing the bacteria eating different food should also be possible, but
the change might be quite unpleasant, you certainly won't feel that well,
it might take some time and you need quite a bit of will power to get through.
> Capitalism requires an expansion of consumption to grow

But aggregate growth isn't important, per capita growth is, and that only requires per capita increases in consumption.

Which is actually easier, with fixed resources, with a shrinking population.

OTOH, support of an aging population is an issue.

On the third hand, for the near term, immigration can handle that for most countries facing that problem.

> Aside from a small core of anti-immigration extremists in the US, most people on the right and left, including our very Orange President, are for legal immigration, which is the best way to stave off population decline.

That's not true; there is a very large group, including “our very Orange President”, that are opposed to immigration in general, and are actively working to reduce the level of legal immigration, and especially targeting the legal immigrants that do the most to contribute to the viability of social support strucutures by paying heavily into payroll tax funded trust funds.
That's because to create a valid AMP page you need to add an 8 seconds delay of blank page for users that disable Google's third-party js.
US warns against European joint military project
Seems like more of a "can" rather than anyone actually using it. Always interesting to see how something can be broken or exploited, even though it may not be practical
I could not imagine ever following a webcomic without an RSS feed. I don't think I've encountered it either.

If I did I'd just think "funny webcomic. It's a shame I'll never see another one of those".
I really hope, someone makes a cheap spectrometer as a smartphone accessory. That would be the best way to quickly assess the properties of light sources. Beyond the health impact, one wants to know the light spectrum when e.g. selecting lamps for fish tanks or plant lighting.

As a very coarse but easily available poor-mans spectrometer, I have been taking pictures of a greycard with my camera in raw-mode. Looking at the histogram balanced for a fixed color temperature, e.g. sunlight, for the r,g,b-channels gives very different results depending on different light sources. While you don't see a true spectrum, just the strength of the blue vs. the green and red channel usually is very revealing.
> But when it's important enough we still have to try.

That I absolutely agree with.

Thank you for bearing with me and letting me figure out updates to my position on politics.
It seems you can only store ~177mb of data per account per day this way. Didn't test it myself.
Sometimes 'disorder' means "behaving in a way that annoys other people".

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-d...
We are all prisoners of time
So if my 17 year old son making Pizza were working full time, how much should he be making?

What about the franchise owner? An article was posted here a few weeks back saying the average yearly take home pay of a 7-11 owner was less than $40K a year and he was working 60+ hours per week.

Then the next argument is usually if they can’t pay a livable wage and be profitable that they shouldn’t be in business. Which is really a great argument on a site where many people work for money losing tech companies who are only in business because of VC funding.
Why Brands Are Turning to Spotify as the Next Big Social Platform
"Where does your plastic waste end up?" is the title of the piece and while it seemed to be on the UK edition (.co.uk domain and "UK" selected in the top right), it opens with "When President Donald Trump signed legislation", also after a not-too-deep skimming of the article it seems to mostly revolve around the US.

And now I'm confused. Is it really about the UK? Is the title just bad for this edition (should be on .com). Was the story planned to be for the US edition and then just moved to the other one? Nitpicking, I know - but this is what I noticed first and even after a little digging I'm none the wiser.
I think it's intellectually dishonest to compare artificial selection through selective breeding to genetic modification. You simply can't insert an anti-freeze gene from a fish into a tomato through artificial selection.

I don't even really have an issue with GMO, but I find the arguments promoting it are often conflating different issues which just seems to muddy the debate and in my opinion seems to create more distrust.
Yeah, the bet where he basically says "I refuse to report this bug to Apple because they obviously know about it already and are maliciously ignoring it" is just weird.
Edinburgh’s unique approach to handling household chores
It's as if millions of memes suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
As I wrote (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19919819) LEDs usually have a single color: blue. However the resulting spectrum generated by the phosphor can have almost any shape, some high-quality LEDs even have a pretty perfect black body spectrum without a blue line. Of course they are more expensive and also less efficient.
> This isn’t a subtle bug which only occurs in certain circumstances.

Sure it is. OP is an outlier in how they use this panel. Most people just use it to enable/disable the built-in menu commands, or to modify their accelerators.

One very common use-case for people who speak multiple languages is enabling the keyboard switcher accelerator. I expect that they have extensive tests for common use-cases like that.

On the other hand, I expect that the test suite they use probably only tests creating one or two custom keyboard shortcuts using the panel; and doesn’t give them overly-long names. UX integration tests, above the level of the control library itself, aren’t usually concerned with being fuzz tests on what happens when you have a whole bunch of something (long strings, many items) loaded into a control. Normally the control library itself takes care of that for you (and has its own trustworthy fuzzing/property-testing suite), so you only worry about ensuring that your view controller gets the data into the control’s data binding in the right way.

I would guess that this bug is there because the view controller is summing up the lengths of the strings under a given section for some task; and then, later on, accidentally using that sum-of-lengths as the determinant for whether each string is too long to fit into its column and needs ellipsis...ing (eliding? elision?), rather than using each individual key’s length. Totally plausible bug, it makes total sense that this is an old bug that nobody discovered until now. It would seem that literally nobody has tried to do this until now.

Still, this is the type of thing that’ll get fixed immediately if you file a Radar on it. Whatever the underlying problem is, it’s on the view-controller layer, and definitely a simple fix; and there’s no decisions or opinion required on what the fix should be; and it doesn’t require any specific expertise (like having knowledge of the kernel.) It’s an “easy win” ticket someone would likely knock out the same day you submitted it.

The fact that it didn’t get caught during any of the numerous betas since Sierra, really, really implies that nobody ever thought to try this—users or developers. (Because if someone did report this bug in the beta, and it was still in the prod release, you can bet they would have blogged about it when that happened.)
It checks to see if your paid up, and after a few failed checks Photoshop stops working.
Yoshua Bengio to Lead New Canadian Advisory Council on AI
A bizarre intersection with this: I once had to prepare part of my employer's source code for registration with the US copyright office. They wanted "the first N pages" of the source code, for N of a dozen or so. After consulting with the lawyers making the filing, I ended up making a pdf that included main() and the first few functions that it called until I got up to N pages.
On that page he wrote:

> I am still attached to every study that I cited, and have not unbelieved them, to use Daniel Gilbert’s phrase. I would be happy to see each of them replicated in a large sample. The lesson I have learned, however, is that authors who review a field should be wary of using memorable results of underpowered studies as evidence for their claims.

So it sounds like stands by the claims in the book. If that's the case, then I'm not sure what would be in a second edition.
That's a pretty expensive wagon, though, at 1.4m$/kg. Maybe it would be more profitable as contraband.
LED lighting panels in our office is so bad it looks as if there is a constant haze or fog in the office.

A number of people in the office were complaining of visual fatigue and a hazing effecting especially after working 3+ hours, additionally multiple people had noted that colours seemed diluted or ‘dulled’.

The light spectrum seems to be missing parts of the visible light spectrum, to test this I acquired and installed high CRI lights and the area in inch I installed them lead to people satin to that they felt less sleep, more alert and more comfortable - of course these are all subjective results.

Subjective TLDR; LED lighting isn’t inherently bad IMO, but bad LED lighting is bad.
In my forties now. Bought it few years back when things weren’t looking so bad. I have two jobs since then.
@steveklabnik what would you say are the core tenets of Rust's success? From Python's side (as a Python prosumer), I'd say Python's core tenets may be:

- Building an explicitly and observably welcoming open source community

- Separating corporate money from technical direction, even at the cost of faster execution

- Upholding pragmatism over all else (e.g. keeping around a C/C++ API)

I'm not sure whether these principles carry over to all languages, or if there's anything you want to add or subtract. Would be cool to have a broadly applied philosophy endorsed by many language stakeholders.
What does that say about all of the money losing startups that are living on VC funding?
It's certainly not bad. The stock is fantastic, my annual bonus can be over 20%. So, with healthcare, unlimited PTO, an onsite gym and cafeteria, etc, it's not a bad deal at all.

Yes, the housing in the immediate area is expensive (Boulder County, CO), but there are many more affordable places to live within commuting distance.
OpenBSD was right and disabled HT for Intel CPUs in June 2018 ago due to concerns of more such CPU bugs coming up. There we go ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350278