skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that, but was trying to think of an endurance sport that removes as many physical variables as possible. Same track, same equipment, same temperatures and atmospheric density, etc. The question about multi day events is that there's a number of variables for choosing a route over off-road courses, peak effort during a particular time of day (sun is up vs down), how much sleep a person gets.

The people who regularly win RAAM (race across america) are the masochists who are able to combine peak athletic performance and 2.5 hours of sleep a night for a week.

Obviously something else much longer than 1 hour, with as many variables removed would be a better comparison. I don't think a traditional road race would work, since there's too many variables about team/pack strategy, the peloton, breakaways, etc. But possibly a 2 or 3 hour solo time trial on the same course.
There is a demand in the abstract sense- people want safe, fast, cheap, enjoyable transport.

Whether that is achieved through a horse or motor isn't important in my opinion.

You used to use normal phones until you bought a smart phone, surely :)
So in the past their predictions were incorrect, but we were supposed to 100% believe them. Now they are corrected, so they are even more believable.
This is quite modern take on this, but doesn't seem it took off: https://www.tekgear.com/twiddler3.html
If I understand it correctly, the rendezvous server is not a trusted third party, just a message relay. They wouldn't be able to read or modify your file transfer's contents.
>but actually pushed the car via the tow ball and the engine and transmission from the donor car.

I'm sure that handled spectacularly on on-ramps. It would be like flat towing another vehicle and coming into a corner too hot.
Why did these never take off, even in a 'big niche' way? Is corrected typing on a smartphone sufficiently speedy for it not to matter? Is the skill required more at the 'musical instrument' level than the 'touch typing' level? Something to do with voice recognition always getting better?
Engage by Questioning the Horseman.

Try to find out the pain points, it could be speed, Comfort, safety, feeling privileged or nothing at all. In that case use the gain points which are a plenty.

Try to connect on the right emotion of the horseman. (Fomo could be one)
I myself have left Medium and cancelled my subscription. When asked, I told them it was annoying to see the modal popup asking me to sign in every time I looked at Medium from my work computer.

The popups, as mentioned in the linked article are annoying. As is the increase in the number of articles you have to pay to read. Not to mention the fact that the trolls have discovered Medium, and the quality of writing there has gone down (One article prominently linked was about how one needs to “ditch loyalty” to have a healthy relationship).

For my personal blog, https://samiam.org/blog, I use a homegrown CMS that makes static content I wrote using UNIX shell scripts, with a bit of Perl and PHP, about a decade ago. I updated it to use web fonts once those became viable about five years ago, and updated its color scheme based on my wife’s wishes after she passed away.

For reading stuff online, I have a subscript to the New York Times which keeps me up to date on the news; I also read articles linked to here (and I haven’t seen Hacker News link to a Medium article in a while).
Worth noting that this is a theory, but there's definitely empirical evidence for it.
Because it does highlight what women are capable of and it is certainly something to celebrate. Also, when it does happen it creates an interesting story which brings more attention to the sport (like this one did).
I got 13 bits from Safari. Safari 12 introduced advanced fingerprinting resistance, I think they’re pretty far ahead of Firefox here.
Mao, Stalin, and Hitler weren't brilliant at anything except being ambitious, amoral, and rather deluded. Their only real talents were a flair for populist rhetoric and a knack for brutally eliminating and repressing political opposition using methods that morally normal people recoil from.

None was particularly effective as a military commander - which is something we should be grateful for, because if the Nazis had been ruled by someone with the military skills of Napoleon or Julius Caesar we'd all be fluent in German and xenophobia.

In fact they all did huge physical and psychological damage to their countries - something a genuinely brilliant political leader would have avoided.
Right. And countries like Greece saw the ... complications of that choice.
There are so many established and commonly used grids, such as MGRS (military) or Maidenhead (amateur radio), this just makes things more complicated.
The old saying goes that if mankind were angels we would need no governments. So saying the govt. ought to do something is functionally saying something is wrong with making the machines.
For me I was reading the Economists (through my uncle who works in publishing) in China since high school. My American foreign language teacher told me it’s too conservative. FWIW, it almost has the same effect
yes, the worst thing about the hitman trade is that it's unregulated so you can't get your money back if they kill you instead since the other guy offered a better rate. better to legalize it so these disputes can be resolved in court. and to keep regulations to a minimum so the industry can continue to innovate exciting new options.

i completely agree that the ban on murder for hire has been a total failure and should be rescinded immediately.
Just based on the url. (After having spent years reading it, I’m not touching Wattsupwiththat anymore)

“Silently slashes”: So silently that the information is easily available everywhere and is published publicly.

“AR5 Final draft”: Yes, it’s shocking that drafts change. It’s almost like the purpose of drafts is for them to be revised multiple times before they are published.

And finally, it’s almost a 100% that the “slashing” happened to get sign offs from political leaders of governments, without which they wouldn’t be able to publish the reports. If anything, this only illustrates exactly why the IPCC reports are far too conservative.
> As users, a step in the right direction would be to vote with your wallet, not use nasty services and prefer respectful services wherever possible.

I'd love an app where I could define companies, people and perhaps countries I don't want to pay so that I'm notified when browsing to a site, or scanning a product to buy so that my time and money could be invested elsewhere.
Is it any weirder than essentially every American turning a blind eye to climate change? Or even worse the ones who claim to care but do nothing to change their life and put in no effort towards changing society at large?

To me it’s not weird at all. People can ignore an awful lot if it doesn’t affect them directly and immediately. It’s even easier if they benefit in some way.
Call me a very ancient oldie, but the - in my opinion - best help system ever was the one from VAX/VMS.

It was rather simple, but thanks to its hyrarchical structure extremely accessible, even when you just started using the operating system.

DEC's extraordinarilly well structured documentation added to the whole experience.

Compared to that most technical documentation today is outright atrocious.
iOS 12.4 jailbreak released after Apple mistakenly unpatches vulnerability
"Finland producing..." funny choice of words here.
Not really.

Sierre Zenal was just run and Killian Jornet posted a 2:25. The top woman, someone who'd previously been caught doping, ran a 2:49.

Or take Comrades, probably the most prestigious ultra, an 89K race in South Africa. Men's record is 5:18, women's record is 5:54.

This race was sandwiched between Sierre Zenal and the upcoming Pike's Peak Marathon, most serious ultra runners are doing one or both of those.

Not to take anything from Ellie Pell, great accomplishment winning Green Lakes, but it is not accurate to suggest that men and women are "quite close" in ultra running, despite what that RW article suggests. Just take a look at the times for any major event.
This is the point of the quotes around the word "Male". It's not for emphasis, it's to show that there's another layer of interpretation at work.
Yeah, going into the cloud has great benefits that cost a shit ton.

We're migrating from a traditional DC into AWS because a) our current DC provider makes stupid mistakes that impact us severely and b) it's pretty easy to spin up the same K8s cluster in two availability zones to ensure we're (very nearly) always up.

Stupid mistakes list - "Oops, one of the disks in a machine in your Couchbase cluster had to be replaced, and we replaced the wrong one!"

"Oops, we lost your machine. It's responding to pings, but we can't find it, so we're going to have to go through the DC pulling plugs to figure out where it is"

"Oops, our sys-admin accidentally deleted your OpenStack deployment because he was testing something in the wrong window."

And this is the best DC we've managed to find in Europe over 12 years of operating there.

Going into AWS will nearly double our infrastructure costs, but our business is willing to pay for it for the reliability factor. No point having a self-healing k8s cluster if the underlying machines disappear because someone typed a command in the wrong window.
Google and Facebook both started life as tech companies.

Virgin started life as a one-man job hawking records out of a wheelbarrow.

Virgin is not a tech company. Their model is not centered around technology, but content.
> How can we - users, programmers, hackers - fight this?

By doing exactly what ElementaryOS did here: stop using these platforms. And if you have to use them (as a user), try to use them in the most open way possible: Never via a dedicated app, preferably via RSS or similar for the platforms where it is suitable and where it is supported (like youtube).
Thing is they want to put more recommended content to your face as much as possible without knowing much about you, otherwise your scroll bar will hit the bottom quickly.

The recommendation engine from technical point of view is not a rocket science, they're just simply trying to tune for maximum engagement even if it costs them repeated nonsense content you don't like which tbh defeats the purpose of "recommendation".

It seems there's not much of community in Medium. All viral articles are the ones that the author had a good influence over their twitter of facebook etc audience.

If you already have 10s thousands on your twitter follower list that you worked hard to find and bunch of people know you for some of your other work, no matter Medium or a static generated blog, your article will go hand to hand and viral in many cases.
It should be noted that BeiDou-1 and -2 are/were regional systems. The BeiDou-3 currently being deployed is global.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2010)
In fairness, while getting old is not ideal, it usually beats the alternative
Sierre Zinal is a pretty short race - it's only 31km. Serious ultra runners run a variety of distances, including the very long ones such as the UTMB (160km) and the Tor des Geants (340km).

Earlier this year Jasmine Parris won the Spine race (the UK's best known very long ultra: 400km along the Pennine Way in January). Not only did she break the overall course record by 12hrs, she also beat the previous year's winner (Eugeni Sole), who was evacuated off the last hill, 6km from the end, while in 2nd place.

Allez les filles!

Steve
(edit: spelling)
Page looks nice. But signup pages can't be Show HN as they can't be tried out (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). Please resubmit when the public beta is ready.
Doesn't seem sexist to me, given that the reason this is a headline is because it has never happened before. Historically, the assumption that a man will win is completely grounded. I also note that the two awards are physically identical except for the text.

What system would be better, here? A single award? That's just the same system as now, minus the female award - now women almost never take home a prize. Separate but equal "mens" and "womens" awards, labeled as such? Now you aren't recognizing the "overall" winner at all. Perhaps three awards - mens, womens, and outright? Might be a good idea for cases like this where the best man gets nothing, but for the majority of cases all you've done is hand another award to the man.

Remember, this is a headline because it's an edge case. Edge cases are a poor guide for good policy.
I seem to recall a Not-nine-o'clock-news episode where truckers were smashing C5's. This was after an episode where they smashed hedgehogs (naturally angering many).

The hedgehog thing is easily found on Youtube, but did I just imagine the C5 episode?

In any case, that was when I had pretty much given up hope with Sinclair QL (a home/business computer with 68008 CPU and 128K RAM).
Well, the fundamental problem is that Capital comes in and builds a really great Thing, a Thing that may not have been built without Capital, but then Capital wants a Return, which causes the Thing to decay. The thing Hackers can do, as in the OPs article, is to salvage the good ideas that the initial efforts of Capital managed to prove, and leave out the rest.

This won't work for individuals, in general, because writing good software is hard. Even if you rely heavily on 3rd party libraries like Jekyll, you still have to know how to pick those libraries, and how to use them, how to deploy them.

Personally, I think it's cool that Capital is willing to get into the fray, even though it so often ends badly. Often it does contribute something, even if it dies. People get mad at Google for axing projects, like Reader, but why? Consider all the market validation they did, for you, for me, for free. Consider all the product design work they did, for all of us, for free.

I don't even think it's bad that devs at Medium are, almost by definition, currently working on nothing but anti-features. It's just part of the Capital-driven software lifecycle, and they are feeding their families, and learning a lot. I can't even hate the managers who made unethical product decisions, because it was always going to be that way, and better to participate in the Capital driven software lifecycle and contribute something then to never have participated at all.

There are amazing, sustainable, ethical, Capital-driven software ideas still waiting to be done, and that couldn't be done without Capital's involvement, but clearly that's not Medium and its ilk. But as Medium declines and eventually dies, remember that this is the fate that waits for every project, no matter how successful, and they leave behind valuable information for us.
Linus was always very clearly against C++ __in kernel code__. Also, 1994 pre-std C++ != 2019 C++.
HURD has it also.

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation/transla...
> Whether long or short races, women cannot physically compete with men.

[Citation really seriously needed]

Edit Haha, love the downvotes for asking for evidence for an unsubstantiated claim.
The same thing that the "female" trophy (which they had) is, but for the first male...
Definitely worth checking out the chiptune entry, goes into a fair bit of detail on making music using early sound generation chips used in NES etc.
The opposite is true actually, Bitbucket was bought by Atlassian in 2010 to make Atlassian the one-stop shop, a strategy GitHub and GitLab are emulating (GitLab launched in 2011).
That's why voluntary unilateral actions won't be sufficient, but it doesn't explain why we're not taking collective action, like enacting a price on carbon.
Wow, I'm always impressed in which ways life finds its way.
Surely we need to measure this in kWh?
What the scientists are saying is irrelevant when every suggested solution is some form of global one world communist government.
What about a local Wordpress instance + a script to scrap content and publish it as a static website? Best of the two worlds without too much fiddling.
> The US is able to block GPS signal to a specific area

The GPS system does not have any area denial capability. If the US wants to block it in a certain area they have to deploy terrestrial jammers just like anyone else.

Allies get decryption keys for the military high-accuracy signal.
Science fiction isn't a think tank for Silicon Valley
another 50 years and the myth of the stronger male will be gone
The fact that the parent comment was talking about “these distances” aside, men still outperform women in that level of ultra-endurance. The problem you have though is getting any meaningful samples. Each course is different, those races have very few entrants, and far fewer female entrants. Some of those races have been won by women, and there are even some particularly obscure world records held by women, but nothing you could reasonably point to as a trend.
Adblocking is a good start. For physical products .. it's a lot harder. I don't want to go full "no ethical consumption under capitalisim", since that's useless, but basically everything that isn't specifically marketed as ethical probably is doing something wrong in the supply chain somewhere, and half of the "ethical" claims are dubious too.
> In most sports pro womens’ performance is achievable by trained amateur males

The men's time for a standard marathon is 2:01, vs 2:15 for women. While I wouldn't be surprised if most a lot of amateur men could get to ~3:00 with a lot of work, 2:15 is extremely fast.
Enter Courtney Dauwalter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/sports/courtney-dauwalter...
This is false, no it will not. AWS charges for unassigned elastic IPs. Elastic IP can be assigned to a stopped EC2 instance and you will not incur any charges.
agluszak, I've been around modern technology since the very beginning, before the Apple ][ days when the web wasn't much more than a gleam in Tim Berners-Lee's eyes and 'Money for nothing' by Dire Straits was the cutting edge of computer graphics and MTV was the closest thing anyone had to streaming media

I've witnessed the rise of the machines from a unique vantage point just across the y2k horizon which makes me uniquely qualified to describe the evolution of the so-called 'technology professional' born of the nexus of home-brew computing, video gaming, sci-fi and old corporatism -- the modern 'tech bro' if you will

I tell you for sure it's the attitude of the casually invested subtly egotistical tech pro intermingling with the traditional corporate stereotype that has brought us here and the only way out is to bootstrap ourselves out of the shadows and take over the system from the inside out by becoming sentient adults rather than code weaving pithicathropus. Our black monolith moment is way overdue
Yeah I had to read other comments to get that. It wasn't clear to me because I just figured there was only 1 trophy period, the way it's written it says there's only one overall trophy negating the previous sentence. English isn't my first language so maybe I'm just getting lost somewhere.
Things won't turn to be bright overnight. Openness and no bullying is nice. But it takes time to get there. Some counterexamples are Iraq or Libya. Governments changed overnight to be closer to the way Westerners like. But are people better off? Civil wars. Ethnic group divides. Oil interests.

It's easier to point out things you don't like when things aren't the way you like than offer pragmatic solutions.
I think OP's argument is that string theory is probably in roughly the same state as the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom: It's got some of the essential tensions right, but it's probably wrong in important details and it's missing a framework in which it all just makes sense.

In a similar vein, I wouldn't expect that the singularity theorems necessarily hold for some of Einstein's early attempts at GR.
That's more than likely because the moment you do start procrastinating as a professional wind surfer, like in any sport, you immediately get ousted by every hopeful who's willing to put in the hours to get access to an extremely limited pool of things that pay in that field.
What UI? Terraform/Infrastructure as a Code it
If it's going to die (and it might, I know I couldn't get off it fast enough), this can likely only help, not hinder.

Not every feature helps you. There's a support burden with every line of code, and the support burden for another entire version control system is probably pretty high. Every new feature you add has to either be written for that second version control system as well, or come with a disappointing article explaining why not.

If anything, this has the potential to free up resources they can spend on creating a differentiator that engages more than 1% of their customers.
The problem I see is that the OPS code has outgrown your actual application code. This application code you own, and can be open software. But the deeper you go into the cloud/serverless landscape, the less of your actual product you own and the more you're locked into someone else's. I guess I could be considered old-timer by now and although I can see benefits in the New Way, better ways of doing some things, it's the conditions as currently imposed by business models I've got a problem with. There's a smell when you think you're writing software but are really assembling an Amazon App (tm).

You're tying your own software into somebody else's all-encompassing and potentially hostile (to your business goals) framework instead of preferring the library way with clearly defined and exchangeable interface boundaries.

Doesn't bode well if your OPS tools have one company's name in them.

Sort of like unlearn a man to fish, and he'll be depending on you forever.
Remembering Microsoft Cinemania (2015)
They're on a mission to make money.

The marketing copy on the website is just fluff in support of that goal.
Antebellum Puzzle
Sorry about that! I think it belongs to both parties to make each others job easier so that they both gain the most from the boss <-> employee relationship. I’m sorry that your boss is so bad that you hate them so much.
Medium is surprisingly usable if you turn off all JS (and I'm not usually part of the no-js crowd).
Overseas Students Daily, the Chinese “Post-Truth” Publication Popular on WeChat
My physics teacher once announced, "physics survives all regime changes", as he whipped out a stack of GDR-era textbooks.
Have not looked into it but I feel that the headline qualifies for tech bs bingo...
I've heard from people who stopped buying cigarettes once they had to come out in olive green packaging. I guess whatever works right? It can be a pretty minor benefit, but as long as the net is in the right direction.
Groupthink, impostor syndrome and 'fitting-in-ism' rule the day Nextgrid, there's no chance you're going to get a fresh grad out of university fighting for 'ethics' when they're too busy jumping hoops for their management overlords
> IMHO the future of personal transportation is vehicles like that. We don't have the space in cities to support 2-3 tons of steel per traveler, and plain bicycles are uncomfortable in bad weather, or when you are physically impaired. But small (electric?) velomobiles with three or four wheels are perfect for city commutes when cycling is not an option. They also don't need 15-20kWh/100km like an electric car would.

And it pretty much is already. For much of Asia, a 150cc scooter is a standard of personal transportation. Just wait until they change to electric.
The warships of 2050 may look a lot like those of 1990
> Humans and many other organisms get electrons from food and expel them with our breath.

What
I didn't say faster, I just said more enduring, able to last longer, etc..