skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chipping in my nickel here... I believe that my life as a kid was easier than what my own kids have now. It was less cutthroat, more forgiving, more free in terms of having chances to learn and explore things on my own. Some of the reasons are inflicted by society and technology, some doubtlessly by their parents (including me).

Stats on things like depression and suicide might reflect this, don't know enough of the details to say for sure.

I don't think my parents felt the same way.
What is Boom's economic argument for supersonic passenger flight? Fuel is already #1 cost of airlines and pricing is very competitive, to the point that some airlines would rather cut service than raise prices. It sounds like the conditions that led to the demise of the Concorde have only exacerbated.
Most likely they don't have data centers in hawaii and thus the latency would be too high to stream it from the continental US.
prices of "houses" is really mostly land. the replacement of the building itself is a very small fraction in most in-demand locations.

So yes, land went up. All other examples you are citing are depreciating, non-scare items. It's not that it's "better" or anything, but we can make way more of iphones/etc.

However, there is only one Switzerland and only one Manhattan.
Probably so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
Consider the remark not as the cause of death of the company, but the remark as an instance of a general attitude, and that attitude fitting in quite well at the company.
I think it lasted about 6 months before I completely abandoned it, but I had started to cheat even before then. The main reason I quit was "mission accomplished". I had made new friends, discovered some social activities I enjoyed and was generally happier. But also I noticed some downsides.

One was that people will exploit that rule, even if they don't know about it. That church group would have cheerfully turned me into one of their most dedicated and active members just by inviting me to all the things. They meant well, but I was sending mixed signals by accepting all their invitations even though I wasn't interested in their faith. Once I had been to a few events I had to start saying no.

Another was that once I had a bit of a social life going, I didn't want to let happenstance push me around so much. The choice was no longer between do this thing or stay home and mope; I started to have other options and I didn't want to just end up doing the first thing that presented itself.

All in all, it was a great way to change my habits, but not a good way to live life indefinitely.
Very well put - exactly why free (unregulated) speech is so important, despite the downsides.
Held in stasis to train machine-learning algorithms? Too late, that's already happened - Mechanical Turk.

Or exterminated, then, but that'd make a much more boring movie. Can't have someone save humanity if we're already all dead.
The online version is just to avoid believing things. We don't have independent knowledge of most of what gets reported on the Internet and we're not here to accomplish anything much, so we don't have to commit to any beliefs.

(This is the opposite of the "instant expert syndrome" to which many people seem susceptible, where they are certain they know which side to take about whatever was recently in the news.)

In real life, you probably do have commitments and decisions to make.
Normalized to seasonality and adjusting for uncommon events like volcanoes, shouldn’t this happen all the time?
“the rate of increase is accelerating”. I was under the impression that we were reducing emissions. It’s terrifying that the progress combating climate change is nothing more than lip service.
Show HN: SSPipe, brought unix's pipe(|) operator to Python
This article doesnt read very legit, I'm sure it's a useful tactic but claiming that a complex behavioral phenomenon is controlled by a single gene that's being investigated using crispr is, well, questionable at best and it doesnt lead to a lot of confidence to the validity of the rest if the arguments made by the article
Japan eyes legislation to regulate global IT giants
It’s hard to do it as the numbers of videos are growing quickly year by year.

BTW it’s the latter
Question; it's been 20 years since I've done assembler, but I want to understand in what sense is this "512 bytes"?

- The downloaded COM file is almost 64k

- The source code appears to be about 4k

Is 512 bytes the memory footprint? Assembled but not linked code? Something else?
On first look, it appears that it's only been edited by aircraft enthusiast Wikipedians with diverse edit histories.
And this is a very tightly controlled domain with not a lot of unknowns and very close to Google's core capabilities as a CS tech company.

Now compare to the free range domain of self-driving cars. If automation fails this drastically, then it does not bode well for self-driving cars.
I didn't get into anything that extreme, but I did do some things that made me uncomfortable. That was sort of the point. I stopped when it didn't seem to be serving me well anymore.
Commodity residential broadband makes telecommuting possible. Reducing the influence of population density on capacity benefits folks like me that try to telecommute from rural areas.
Sigh

When will we learn?

I think the answer is incentives. Ideas?
Cheap natural gas is doing a great job ending coal without the need for big flashy investments
I'm not sure all that logic is sound.

First,
having a child does not require you to travel more, get a bigger house, keep it warmer or cooler, buy non-second-hand clothes or do anything else with a significant carbon footprint beyond grocery shopping (which admittedly has a nontrivial footprint). It's not until adulthood that they'll really start to have a full fledged carbon footprint of their own.

Second, social animals that we are, a person's net total impact on the carbon footprints of others can be much larger than that person's individual, "direct" footprint. Raise your kid the right way and their footprint could, in a very real sense, be negative.

Third, there are some indications that the point in the future where we either solve climate change or fail catastrophically is near enough that it may have past before your kid reaches that damaging, adult phase.

Your kid would live to see the impacts of climate change, though. If we as a society would just put a price on carbon emissions and reimburse the externalized costs through a fee & dividend system, even that would not be a problem (in theory) because your kid would be compensated financially for any climate-change-induced hardship.
I was sorely tempted.
a few dozen websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org#Available_website...
If you're not in your car to drive to the next Dunkin Donuts, what are you even doing?
Doesn't have to be $50, but a few might make sense to to keep their support from getting clogged with stuff that could be googled. Some sort of "Rescue Me" emergency flare option.
Debt/GDP ratio doubled in 20 years, and the bulk of that change in the in 10 years or so. It won't take much longer to get to 200%, we are going to see it.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say in the last two paragraphs? That we are somehow so fundamentally different, that the fiscal picture is not comparable?
I wonder how this could affect other countries' IT infrastructure? Seems interesting, and needed.
Career Growth Frameworks in Software Engineering: A Review
If you don't mind me asking, how did you get in the position of providing for 11 children? This sounds like a remarkable story.
Documentary that includes all the technical details wouldn't be. Kind of like the ambulance shows that seem to be popular now, but more technical.

Of course the target audience is probably tiny.
I would say make it a priority to do a small thing every single day to make yourself feel better. Eating healthy, exercising, and sleeping well. Maybe even see a Dr. to get anti-depressants. I went on anti-depressants a while ago and it allowed me get my life to a place where I no longer need them and feel the best I've ever felt. It just takes time. I don't think experience will matter to a girl that likes you. It just takes time to find the right girl but you need to keep going on dates. I probably went on 40+ dates.
The goal of a business is approximately whatever the founders decide to make it. The view that there is something inherently exploitative about all corporations is just naive.

Tesla is selling billions worth of cars while doing good for the planet. They have also triggered a technological revolution that will do more than any government or the UN could ever do with regulations.

If Bezos successfully ushers in an era where toxic industrial work is moved to space that could do more for the planet than almost anything imaginable. And that is his goal with Blue Origin.

These are the good actors. The bad actors are the Koch Brothers, coal plants, Walmart, the old car companies, etc.
Woman sues Tokyo medical schools over discrimination
I know what you meant; however, reports should not be tailored to individual experience. The facts should be reported clearly. I’m happy they are open about the whole incident. -4 hours was more like two days for us.

Our stack? Multiple OC wan, 10G LAN with 1Gpbs clients. About 4,000+ users, EDU. We are super happy using Google. No complaints! Google is doing great.
Wow - brings back memories!
Another of my favorites -- this was fun in middle school (years 6-8) when I had a spare minute or two to sit down at a random computer (maybe in a computer lab).

10 SCREEN 9
20 CLS
30 COLOR 1, INT(RND*10)
40 SOUND 20+(RND*5000),.2
50 GOTO 30

The effect is rather striking, like someone must have really messed up the computer.

My main gripe with Windows NT was that it would go back to the NT screen saver -- I couldn't get it to stay displaying my program, because there wasn't any true DOS mode.
For context : Last year it emerged that medical universities had routinely altered the admissions test scores of applicants to keep some of them out, including scores of women.
I use GNU Cash all the time! It's simple and does what you tell it to :)
They predict that there is demand for the service at a price that would make operation profitable.
> Because my company uses Slack I now have to use their stupid UI proprietary implementation.

Have you tried wee-slack or similar?
Ha ! I own that book, that is where it wormed into my brain from :) Thank you!
We have some cool things happening in Denver too, but not quite like either coast. I train at the Easton academies and it is pretty great.
> People do not want freedom and democracy, they want authoritarianism that favor their point of view or agenda

People want a stable life to raise their family, they want stable work, stable housing and enough cash left over to enjoy life with family and friends. They will vote for whoever appeals to that and lately it seems to be only the authoritarian leaders that give a fuck.
I need to check this out!
That’s ok, I didn’t think your comment was dismissive. Those facts are buried in the report. Their opening sentence makes the incident sound lesser than what it really was.
I’m honestly curious how one could think this would happen “all the time” in any sort of measurement scheme without things having gone wrong as a prerequisite.
Having the plane in the air for less time can lead to lesser costs also: you don’t need to pay your pilots or flight attendants for as many hours, and can fit more flights in using the same plane per week. If the fuel cost and maintenance costs aren’t too much higher, it could be a big win beyond just getting passengers to where they are going faster (like track and carriage utilization for HSR).
At which point these charts become entirely meaningless? When the fed owns 50%+ of sp500?

The fed, BOJ and ECB are already busy painting yield curves full time, the market has become so distorted it's not trivial to even orient yourself, nevermind to develop conclusions.
This article reminds me of a Russian novel. Too intense for me.
Allocating Aligned Memory
Can you please explain further why std::variant is not a true sum type?
That's your interpretation. The current system does not work -- we're going extinct. The politically correct situation is fascism masquerading as progress.

As in the OP of this thread, we're talking about nothing else than "family formation". That means marriage with CHILDREN, babies, with the wife having BABIES. In many ways for the good of the marriage, the family, and motherhood, having her start at age 18 with a husband old enough to be wise, strong, and financially able enough to be a good husband and father is about the best it can be.

Again, there are HUGE reasons for her to start at 18 -- one of these is so that a generation is about 20 years instead of 25 or 30 so that the young mother will have more ancestors who really care about her helping her be good as a wife and mother. One of the huge problems is that the mother is with her husband, who typically knows next to nothing about motherhood, and without her ancestors because they are already dead or just too far away. BUMMER.

So, you sound like you don't want women to have babies.

The women really aren't "fragile" -- you don't understand and need to learn. In some significant ways, women are stronger then men, e.g., in cases of endurance.

But here's what you just flatly refuse to get: "Men and women deserve equal respect as persons but are not the same.". In particular, as an expert explained to me, flat statement, no qualifications, "Of COURSE women are MUCH more emotional than men. That's the cause of all the problems [between men and women]", and you are an example: You just REFUSE to see women as different and, thus, fail to see that they are more emotional and fail to see the enormously strong role of the wife and mother being happy with her emotions in the marriage. The husband MUST understand the emotions of his wife and children -- his sons will be easy for him, but he will have to think HARD about the emotions of his daughters.

You just don't understand so fall back on some trivial, critical cliche. That's ignorant. I'm outlining a LOT here, paid full tuition. Now you can pay full tuition and be alone as in the OP or wise up, read, learn, and do better.
So whats the unofficial/off-the record/etc position then?
I feel like a small fish incapable of making significant difference. I have reduced my emissions, ride a bike everywhere and am trying to eat mostly plant based foods. What else can I do?

Is there anyone here on HN that can make a bigger difference - any lawmakers, anyone connected with lawmakers, any high ups in a large company, any influencers? It is your obligation to help us - we need you to be our voice.
Academic tells story of first Japanese to come to England
Bring Back the Golden Age of Broadcast Regulation for YouTube and Facebook
If I had to choose a favorite article on all of Wikipedia, this would be it. Almost reads like a sci-fi novel of our own personal voyage through the cosmos.
It doesn't do any good to pick an unrelated endeavor and say the resources would be better spent on a worthier cause instead. Private spending on space, or public funding of arts and culture, or humanitarian aid, etc. is not blocking us from tackling global warming.

If anything, such tangential criticisms are a distraction. Advocate for measures that would help, such as a carbon price and dividend, instead of attacking other causes and making unnecessary enemies.
I remain baffled by these conspiracies that big pharma doesn't investigate or hides certain drugs that could cure diseases because of some vaguely defined profit motives or political backstabbing. A version of this nonsense got the trial of the century with Axovant's approach to buying cheap discarded molecules that were totally just cast aside for political reasons before investing in huge, spectacular failures of clinical trials. Do people really think that the profits from a successful treatment for any of these diseases wouldn't outweigh any profits lost for the people that develop them? It's absurd.
You can't use deduction to prove them... but you use induction to show them to be statistically non-violated through experience so far.
The reasoning behind that is given on our "I have a great idea" page here: https://confluence.fuelrats.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId...
The biggest reason is the IRC server has a higher uptime than discord
They could but I'm guessing SpaceX margins on rocket launches are ~50% (to make it economical in the face of risk of blowing up billion-dollar payloads).

Which means that if Apple pays $60 million for a single launch, it costs SpaceX $30 million to do it.

Or to put it differently: if Apple was competing with SpaceX, then every Apple launch would sponsor one SpaceX launch.

With those economics, it would be hard for Apple (or anyone else) to compete with SpaceX in this business. All else being equal, their cost to create the satellite network would be substantially bigger which means they would have to charge more or have much lower margins and profits than SpaceX.
I suspect at some stage it's going to become unliveable.

So, some Musk-type crazy fella is going to solve it for everyone, become the town hero, get paid handsomely.

And we will just go one with our lives like nothing's happened... Dumb and belligerent.
I'm pretty sure flight time is not the dominant labor cost. It's docking and going in and out of the airport and pre/post-flight prep.
It isn't impossible. It just isn't Slack. Slack is a service offered by a private company. You want to have it easy by consuming a service; I want to slog through the mess of setting up things. One of these things is on the path to "decentralised, open source, configurable, modern and easy". The other is not. I leave it to you to ponder which is which.
RF resonant cavity thruster a.k.a. EM drive
> So it's real skateboard.

Boosted boards are real skateboards too (https://boostedboards.com/) and would make moving through a DC even more effective ;)
I'm pretty sure that by "the world" the GP meant human civilization.

And I feel like that's obvious enough that this objection that you and others raise has to be willful, disingenuous misinterpretation, just to be disagreeable or something.
Aircraft enthusiasts known as Boom employees? lol
The Matrix Finger Flick
Is that not Amazon?
A quick search shows tnt has 4 kJ / g while paraffin has 42 kJ / g. A lot of energy is in paraffin's hydrocarbon chain, but less energy per bond and it is less accessible.
We have 3 different levels of storages to avoid hitting remote. Redis cache for query, storing the results on our server and letting users edit the data as well and finally front end cache with service workers.

I think I'll start writing out the feature comparisons.
It's billing for solving problems they have caused.

This is completely not Ok. If the idea is paid support for random problems, that's fine, if it's larger prices so it includes support, that's also fine. But if any company caused me a large damage and decided to ask money so they would reevaluate their actions, I'd go to the police.
Calling it Libra (if they do) would generate a whole world of memes.
The Fuel Rats are still on IRC with no plans to move. The main reason is uptime and simplicity, but more can be found here https://confluence.fuelrats.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId...
Our own version of Netflix's "Chaos Money" is named "Eris" for precisely the reason mentioned in your first footnote.
> If anything, such tangential criticisms are a distraction. Advocate for measures that would help, such as putting a carbon price and dividend, instead of attacking other causes and making unnecessary enemies.

Amazon is allegedly the biggest company in the world, and is still not publishing open carbon emissions data[1]. Is Amazon here an "unnecessary" enemy?

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-reluctan...
I made no claim of foul play. It's just a poorly written article about something that is not notable.
Another vote for DarkScience. I'm currently using weechat on my home NAS but considering IRCCloud, especially with that announcement.
Can't agree more with this. Social media apps kind of force people to post(show off) about their lives constantly; with people feeling the need to broadcast even trivial things in their life like a morning coffee. Things like stories makes it even worse as people viewing/commenting on stories gives you that dopamine fix throughout the day and you crave for more of the same by constantly posting.

I like the idea of these platforms for content creators like photographers, athletes etc. but overall I see a lot more negative than positive for common users.

Online dating apps are the worst and I even found myself getting sucked into the whole attention thing. I quit it when I realized a lot of women I was talking to/went on dates, was just to get the ego boost. It was very unhealthy for me and definitely not fair for the other person.
The Earth's population keeps on increasing yet we are now facing the most prominent threat to us as a species.

This cannot go on forever if we don't start putting a maximum cap on our population, then we are heading for a disaster and the Earth itself is going to start doing what we have refused to do so so far.

Except that the reduction of our population will happen through heatwaves, pandemics, droughts...

Then what?
You're joking right?

Tragedy of the commons.
Yes. (With Hexchat, if you're interested.)

There are various tech support channels on freenode (like #debian) and other networks like moznet.

I also enjoy a smallish but active discussion channel which I won't name here for fear of it being HN'd.
Of course I use grep -o too. This is not a "correct" filter. It is not a perfect regexp for 100% of urls.

However for something as simple and essential (for the author) as filtering urls I do not want to always have to worry about potential differences in shells, different versions of grep or the absence of a grep as I use different computers, different OS or OS versions. I find this more predictable and portable.

Neither customization nor extensibility are goals. For that a scripting language is better suited.
The parent comment says in a footnote:

> [1] assuming orbits of 366 miles up, higher orbits would be even farther apart
the more i think about this the more wrong i think you are.

You're assuming that "nothingness" isn't an impediment to creation of something... it may very well be the ultimate barrier to something being created.

We'll probably never know, but at the end of the day until we can devise a way to define and measure "nothingness" we cant setup any experiments (thought or otherwise) to develop theories from/about it.
Do not judge too harshly... it may not be personal choice.

Life is hard as parent but a variety of things can exacerbate problems such as: both husband and wife working, work place requires long travel, age gap between children, having children with special needs etcetra..
Why not use liquid oxygen as the phase change liquid? Then the gas could be caught in a bladder tethered to the ground. When it comes time to ascend, use it as a balloon?

There must be some way to exploit the temperature difference between the surface and 50km up, without mega-engineering.