skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a Dutch uprising.

The Afrikaaners (Dutch-descended colonists) already had their own states (Transvaal, Orange Free state), so it wasn't quite an "uprising".

However there was a gold rush happening in the Transvaal in the late 1800s, and the problem was that it wasn't British-controlled, so that had to be fixed.
How can this 1/2020 fraud still be on elected office?
Any tips or resources on breaking out of the middle class mentality?
Indigenous communities are probably fine with people going into their land and leaving ad embarrassing amount of money behind.

It’s probably less hassle than dealing with uncle sam, the cia/fbi and more than anything else, billing to random weirdos that this month have funds on their prepaid card and next month who knows.

Cash is better, I guess.
There are interesting differences between US, Chinese, and European anti-trust/anti-monopoly laws. You make a very good point that we should consider if the current legal need changing.

Definitely something is broken if Facebook can acquire not just Instagram but WhatsApp as well. One or both of those deals should have been blocked by regulators on at least one side of the Atlantic. And there's an argument to be made that Microsoft should not have been allowed to buy Skype.
> Not a good sign, usually happens with me with unnecessarily overengineered things.

Haha yes, I mean clearly this means it's Nix's fault. Has anyone ever considered using you as some kind of "overengineering divining rod" where they can just wave something in front of your nose and go back to the drawing board if it doesn't pass?
Mikepennisi.com – The Web Can't Survive a Monoculture
It depends on where you draw the line between what you call a webpage vs a webapp. If a webpage is something with just text, images, and non-interactive forms (and audio and video to a lesser extent), then it's perfectly possible.
Fun story about the OP: We brought Tristan on as a high school intern at Shopify. I heard about how fantastic he was off and on during his internship (I’m founder and CEO).

So when I heard that he was giving a town hall talk at the end of his stint I definitely wanted to check it out.

What I walked into was a 30 minute take down of Liquid, the template language that I wrote. He systemically took every single design decision I made and dismembered it based on language design fundamentals.

That was still one of my favorite townhalls. As a self taught programmer it also send me to read about compiler and language theory for the next years to better understand all the errors of my ways. Thanks Tristan!
> but what were they doing to the Zulus when they were at war with them?

Proving that guns beat spears, no matter how many spearmen you have.

it took 2 goes, though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana
Unfortunately, there is a lower limit set by the need to absorb neutrons. The blanket has to be roughly 1 meter thick.

One might be able to evade that if one could have a large number of tiny, or at least thin, reactors sharing a common blanket, much as the fuel rods of fission reactor share a common moderator. However, it's still likely to be inferior to a fission reactor in power density, as these tiny reactors would irradiate each other.

Beyond that, there's the need to confine the plasma to these very small reactors. Even in complete absence of plasma instability and turbulence, ions will scatter off each other and diffuse out and be lost. This classic diffusion takes time proportional to the square of the minimum reactor dimension / ion gyroradius.
It might be that London house prices were already overinflated - look at a comparison between London house prices and the rest of the UK: https://d1btnptfa0r0eu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...

I don't disagree with the substance of your point, but London is far from a watertight argument.
Kleiner Perkins Has 11 Big Ideas for the Future of Technology
I agree movies are expensive.

However, I’m very okay with iTunes’s <$3 per episode. Sure it’s more than most vod subscriptions, but the shows are mine forever, and I can buy just about whatever I want.

If I watched more TV overall, it might get too expensive, but I don’t, so quality over quantity.
> 100 companies are responsible for ~70% of emissions.

End consumers are buying and using the products of those emissions. Companies don’t create emissions out of economic isolation and a purely evil desire to ruin the planet. They do it because someone is paying them to do it.

When I buy and burn gas from Shell, I’m the one responsible for those emissions, not Shell, IMO.
This issue highlights some cool maps related to the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, as well as the usual selection of map-related goodies.

Please leave any questions or feedback here so I can respond. Thank you.
> Either that or legally mandate interoperability so that we can move to a federated social media landscape to encourage genuine innovation and competition.

The Facebook API providing "interoperability" is exactly what got 100 million people's data leaked and a $5 billion fine from the FCC. These companies shouldn't be allowed to provide an open api, as we keep seeing there's no way to make it secure.
It's a sort of exercise where you hold yourself in a position as though you're going to do a push up, so supporting your body weight on your feet and either hands or your forearms while suspending your body a few inches off the floor. The aim is to just hold this position for as long as you can, normally.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plank_(exercise)

Good core exercise, probably inappropriate for meetings.
> The power of vim is that it lowers a lot of more complex edits to the subconscious level: swapping two lines is three keystrokes, so it's a simple enough process that I don't have to think about it.

But it's not. In a modern editor, swapping two lines is ctrl-shift-up for swapping up, or ctrl-shift-down for swapping down.

Vim isn't that much more powerful any more compared to modern code editors, it's just weirder.

> I've known Notepad++ users who were faster Ruby programmers than me--I could certainly edit faster with vim

So were you a faster typer? How was it faster?

I find there's two points that get me speed in a code editor: Language specific shortcuts (like go to definition) and multi-cursor editing for editing formulas and the like.

But I'm not sure if Notepad++ has multi-cursor.

I'm not sure if vim does, either? I know you can do stuff whose result is very similar to as if you were multi-cursor editing, but do you actually get intuitive methods to place multiple cursors in various ways and then interactively edit what's there while seeing it change?

Because that's no longer a "nice to have". There's a huge difference between formulating an incantation in your head firing, and seeing if the result is right--that gets really complex with multiple edit points--and doing it interactively. You actually see a block of code grow and unfold interactively as you edit it. And it doesnt involve regular expressions :) (which are cool, but almost never fail to take my mind completely off the problem at hand, I only benefit if it operates on a pretty large chunk of text)
The movie is very loosely based on the real events though.
I think the worst part for me is how incompetent flight control on the ground is portrayed.
I have my doubts over bedroom quiet if you have hard drives in it. Ssd unfortunately still too expensive for redundant home storage use.
Who exactly are the "people" when you say "to some people?"

Specifically what science has suggested that placebo has no place in solutions/cures?

Cures for what?

Despite what science?

What success rate still comes short?

Short of what? Success with respect to what?

Everything you're saying is completely anecdotal and somewhat difficult to follow, unfortunately.

There's nothing wrong with being anecdotal, just acknowledge it and recognize that it's pretty flimsy for any kind of argument, especially generalizations. I often make comments saying "Anecdotally..." And then I provide opinions which are frequently shown to be inaccurate. Nobody downvotes me because I'm not trying to sell my opinions as facts or common sense.

If you don't want to be dismissed then provide specific evidence or research.
His books are all about path tracing, which is a subset of ray tracing.
For the record, I meant `autossh -M 20001 -R 10.8.0.94:11194:localhost:1194 me@my-server.com`, not dynamic port redirection over socks5. (I create a new interface+route for vpn connections to have more control over it)
For setting the a thermostat, it's not that hard to simply switch your brain over and know what's comfortable inherently in either F or C without doing a conversion back and forth. For accurate conversion, if c=(f-32)/1.8 or the converse is really that troublesome, Google can help you out.
Personally these special 404 just waste time and create confusion. Just a blank page with 404 and standard "Page Not Found" would be much better.
‘Fishyleaks’ website hopes to land those guilty of overfishing
Elsewhere in the comments someone mentions that the released carbon from all peat burning is about 2.5 times more than all emissions since the start of the industrial revolution.
The plank exercise is very similar to a pushup exercise move. It comes from making your body straight as a board (plank of wood). The position is face-down on the ground, with all of your weight supported by your toes and forearms.

It is generally difficult to hold that position in proper form for long periods of time (or at least your muscles start to ache)
You're graded only in part by aligning with the proposal. You're also graded on innovation, technical depth and software design. The TAs compare it to figure skating / high diving -- you should be able to say what you can do, and then nail it.

In my experience, the students who take the project courses at UW are ambitious and driven. I suspect the chief effect of this policy is an ambitious project whose plan has been fleshed out by a healthy back-and-forth with the TAs upfront, vs a ridiculously ambitious project that hasn't been fleshed out.
How to politely request customers use alternate services?
Hi,

I have an online service where users can ask questions to a particular kind of expert. User can then pay to unlock the answer and read it.

Normally questions are answered by first-come-first-served expert. Some users ask for specific experts to answer and I make a case-by-case exception. However experts may not always be active so I need to warn users that getting an answer can take a while.

Also the support burden of questions to specific experts is a lot higher and I want to encourage users to either opt for "open questions" or try other sites that allow this option.

So, this is how I have worded it.

> <service> is a self-serve platform that is designed to work with open questions. Questions to specific <experts> can take longer (days or weeks). We are unable to provide much support to help users with such questions.

> We encourage users who want to pick <experts> to try out other sites <link to alternate> which allow this choice.

Today I got an angry email from a user calling this "arrogant". How would you have worded this ?
Being born in the USSR, my memories are quite the opposite. Everyone new that Americans have landed on the moon.

What's more, I've never heard about 'moon landing hoax' until the end of 90s.
Can we get in touch, please? Sounds like my mind has worded these sentences. You find my mail in my account. Thanks!
Why can't everyone get their own office?

Edit
I would find another job in this situation. Not being in an open office is a serious improvement in work environment.
Cleaning Water with Bioinspired Chemistry
For both cheap and easy, pick up a used ThinkPad. Comes witj built in console too, normally a feature only found in high end blade racks!
If I worked there and did not receive similar home office treatment I would leave...

Edit
I would do so quietly without making a fuss about it. You would probably not even realise that was the reason for me leaving. Basically if I see the rules of my workplace as unfair and arbitrary I will leave.
AMP is built on Google's CDN, and the standard is controlled by Google for Google's own self interests.

It being "open source" or not kind of misses the bigger picture. If Google had any interest in AMP being a web standard they would have sent the spec out, and helped fund a neutral org to run it.
Cell is not an object-relational mapper. It is a programming language that uses relations to encode data, instead of records and pointers. There's a world of difference between the two. ORM helps you load/store your data from/to an SQL database, but once your data is in memory, all computation is done using objects. In Cell, on the other hand, computation is done with relations.

In that example, ORM is never mentioned: it's just a comparison between two different programming paradigms, functional/relational programming and OOP. It's not unlike comparing, for example, ML-style functional programming and OOP.

A comparison of the reactive part of the language with a framework like, say, ReactiveX would be interesting, and will be added at some point, once that part of the language has matured.
Pumping a barrel of oil out of the ground costs about $10 in Saudi Arabia, and gives about 1600 kWh. Electricity generally costs around $0.10 to $0.25 per kWH, so if you do the math, you can see that's just enormously profitable.

Renewable energy cannot compete directly with that. For some rough numbers, you'd expect about 150 hours of usable sunshine a month (depending where you are), so to generate a barrel of oil worth of power per month, you'd need around 10 kW of solar panels, which will cost around ....maybe $35,000 to build. (Then add a few more $k for batteries, controllers, whatever...)

These numbers are super rough, and vary a lot, but just as a general order of magnitude thing, obviously it's better to pay $10 to pump a barrel of oil out of the ground every month than it is to pay $35-40k upfront to build a solar system that generates the same power; it'd take centuries for the solar system to even break even (and it's only going to last decades).

BUT. We're obviously running out of oil in general, and cheap oil in particular, and the cost of solar power is dropping fast. And also, while it would be extremely expensive (today, at least) to switch to solar and other renewables for everything, it's a thing we can do. And by the time we really will have to do it, it may not even be that expensive. And if you factor in the impact of carbon, the numbers start to look more even.

> If it was such a great investment, wouldn't everyone be running to install it more or less?

A lot of solar is being installed; for a variety of reasons domestic rooftop installations don't tend to make a lot of sense (you didn't have a coal power plant driving a steam turbine in your basement either), but that doesn't mean all solar is un-economical.

But no, it's not an amazing investment yet. But it is feasible. The comic essentially suggested that we're squandering our only chance to live beyond the power of human muscles, and that's far from true. And given the cost curve on solar panels, it's not even clear we're being too slow to make the switch.
In such a software development organization, at the end of each meeting, everyone immediately has a moment of mindfulness, then pops another pill, shotguns a Red Bull, crushes the empty can on their forehead, shouts "Yo! Bro!", and crashes through the loft meeting room window, down to the open-plan work tables below.

If you want to make a culture fit, you have to break a few eggs.
I wonder if this thread will cause an alarm on one the linked pages due to too high number of bad requests (and will make some poor employee investigate it on Sunday).
Your objections seem to me to arise straightforwardly from a disconnect over the definition of "you". Taking DW's position, and your axiom of unique self, I can resolve the issue by saying something like:

Knowing that you can never be certain which branch you will end up in, bet on the outcome that maximizes the liklihood that you will end up in a branch you favor. Your bet, of course, will follow the form of the Born rule.
And in true British style, even fewer people in the UK know that the UK launched its own satellite on its own rocket!
Not everyone has realized they have migraines yet...
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The mysterious case of the man who draws in his sleep
I really like your missing cycle poster. Too relatable (lost 2 bikes in Amsterdam).
But… we know that federated systems can be at least somewhat secure. Do you use email?
This is close to reality for wild boars, but due to how sneaky pythons are - prob not really practical.
These approaches fall under positive political theories with name social choice theory, public choice theory etc. The idea is to apply the formal tools of economics, statistics, game theory, etc. to analyze politics.

The old classics:

- The Theory of Political Coalitions (1962) by William H. Riker

- Social Choice and Individual Values (1952) by Kenneth Arrow.

- The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (1962) by Buchanan and Tullock
WireGuard reconnects in less than a second whereas OpenVPN takes a good 8 (!!) seconds to reconnect. If you have an unstable connection, that's awful. If you only need SSH, Mosh (which utilizes UDP) could be suffice though.
Where I've worked, laptops are often seen as fungible resources aside from OS, i.e. all Mac laptops are interchangeable and all Wintel laptops are interchangeable. On the other hand, laptops haven't gotten much faster until very recently with Intel's 8th gen chips going to quad-core so I can see the IT and bean-counter perspective as well.

The bigger the company the more likely they are to have a policy such as the one you mentioned. I've been working for startups recently, and what you are issued is what you'll be working on for a long time, at least unless it stops working and can't be replaced (eg, a 2012 Macbook Air that isn't manufactured anymore)

As a team lead I have to fight to get the best hardware for my team sometimes, like 16GB RAM and good screens. So sometimes someone gets an upgrade just because of that, and the old laptop goes to someone who doesn't need to run demanding apps.
I mean...how is having one or two massive oligopolists (sp?) good for the US' international competitiveness? That seems to be something you just assumed would be true as given, which is odd. Yes, there will be less economies of scale, but on the other hand there will be more competition and innovation. The least innovative companies out there are major market makers who don't have to improve to grab that sweet sweet dollar. Like, is the US more internationally competitive because your internet provider is massive and charges you ever increasing prices for ever decreasing service? Clearly there are trade offs.
1200km year is not much (3km/day). The calculation above probably includes ten times as much usage.

Edit: apparently the edmunds.com calculator assumes 15000 miles per year which are 24000 km, 20 times your 1200km.
You are ignoring the concept of EROEI - Energy Return Over Energy Investment. Basically, how much energy you need to use to produce additional energy. Or, as the comics put it, how many slaves you need to produce additional slaves. The solar farms also require maintenance and ongoing replacement. Their EROEI will never be as high as fossil fuels were when we started mining them, which allowed us to bootstrap the industrial era. We will never have such easy energy from solar alone due to physical limits on the technology. Our economy will be fundamentally affected by this change in paradigm. Even if we use the remaining fossil fuels to bootstrap solar farms, over time the EROEI will revert to solar’s, because fossil is increasingly costlier to extract.

Another way to understand EROEI is, given a solar panel system (including batteries, circuits, etc) typical lifespan of say, thirty years, how many other systems equal to this would you be able to build with the resulting e energy during those 30 years? It’s improving, but if you also account for the maintenance and required labor to keep it working, it’s still looking really bad when compared to the output we had from fossil until a few decades ago.

For more detailed information on EROEI: https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t...
Analysis of the Google Keep WebAssembly Module
Solving the Rubik’s cube with deep reinforcement learning and search [pdf]
As Naur pointed out in his article, just keeping the existing program running in its original state isn't enough. The program reflects the needs of the people using it, and those needs evolve over time.

For example, the software that runs a bank needs to be constantly updated to comply with current laws and regulations and to support the new types of accounts and services being offered by the bank. Over time, customers wanted to have access to their accounts through ATMs, then over the web, and later via mobile apps.
Google maps now lets you search for available bikes in these 24 cities
> why are they there, how should they participate, and what should they take out of a meeting.

Vital for any meeting, but so often forgotten. So many meetings with nebulous goals and zero takeaways.
Email.

The postal service.

Telephone network.
Bulgaria tax hacking: Records of ~70% of population leaked
Why Is Airport Food So Expensive?
Windows+10+Latest+Cumulative+Update+Direct+Download+Links
None of which is secure, and e-mail is the least secure of all of them.
Just a curiosity, but has anyone ever become addicted to secondhand smoke?
Expecting D-wave to get shor working on its quantum computer is like expecting Nvidia to run Windows on its gpus. D-wave isn't even attempting to solve problems like the shor algorithm.
I especially love when devs mess up their CSS and I see three scrollbars instead of one.
Hah, that's great. This is the kind of humility that keeps me coming back to hN.
There are some free offerings available of dynamic DNS. IIRC DuiaDNS [1] is free.

In The Netherlands (a very tiny country though) Xs4all is one of the very few ISPs allowing home users to change the A/AAAA/PTR/MX records of their hostname/IP address (for both their DSL and FTTH offerings). You can get a subdomain or use your own domain, with reverse DNS. They've been doing that since forever. You can also get shell access. They're also a bit more expensive than the competition though.

Running your own server has one disadvantage (though it has gotten smaller these days): electricity costs and impact. I'm getting solar and Raspberry Pis and such are pretty marginal though. I suppose you should compare it with AWS and the like?

[1] https://www.duiadns.net
I don't see any benefit if the costs are going to be the same anyway. The time you need to optimize your setup for the cloud can be time you use to write code that pays your bills if you are a freelancer or self-employed.

If you are making this decision as a CTO be warned that developers worth their salt won't be too enthused about working on $500 Acers even if your cloud game is on point.

Lastly, most of my RAM and CPU cycles are used up by Firefox, Chrome, VS Code, Slack[0] and other "development environment" stuff. These are programs that need to run in the local environment and suck up a lot of RAM.

[0] - I tried running Ripcord as a Slack client and went back to Slack after a couple of weeks because the feature parity just isn't there. For example Ripcord doesn't support Ctrl-K to join any channel or direct message anyone, only those that are in your Recents list.
Ask HN: What is the most exotic technical requirement someone proposed?
Working with people that have less developed technical knowledge can lead to dubious demands on the priority list.

My favorite:
"It has to run on the cloud in a rackspace located in the datacenter owned by a guy I know from the golfclub."