skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

Most people do exactly that for a living. I don't let my 9-5 define my life. It means I'll retire in two years, and be able to work for a cause that I deeply care about - or, better yet, for myself.

A better thought experiment is to ask yourself how many of your co-workers will come in tomorrow, if all your code became the most beautiful code ever written, with rainbows, and unicorns... but on the flipside, that they stopped receiving paycheques.
Hot spots was my first guess too, the emphasis on the damage being mechanical threw me off though.
Area of Australia = 2.97M sq mi
Area of USA = 3.78M sq mi
Area of Europe = 3.92M sq mi
Area of Canada = 3.85M sq mi

Ain't Google grand?
This is a really insightful example. It pretty near demolishes all the self-serving theories pushed by MIC-underwritten think tanks etc. So what are we left with? Maybe most other nations have just rationally decided that human life can and should be more peaceful, so it's not necessary to stockpile enough armaments to kill all humans fifty times over.
You mean like compressed json and xml?
Stand-off between protesters/police continues at Hong Kong's Polytech University
I just started playing Opus Magnum and so this article resonated with me. In playing, I've found myself throwing out all optimization on the three metrics used: component cost, speed, and size.

Instead, I've been designing for aesthetics, for symmetry or clean lines or linear solutions. When I've given in to the desire to chase the metrics, the results have been much messier in appearance.
Andrei Alexandrescu: “Speed Is Found in the Minds of People”
There is more productivity by having four coworkers sit together on a train and travel together than to have people in a car. Psychologically it’s easier for most to work on a train then a car, even if it’s a perfectly fine medium for you. Those time and financial costs are minimal when compared to the productivity you create by working together uninterrupted on the train.

If I were a manager I would ban driving and insist on trains (if the work would benefit from the added collaboration)
Pipe was originally measured by inside diameter.

Anyway, over the past 100 years, metallurgy got better and they could make the same strength pipe with thinner walls.

So now, because of the thickness change, the old pipes that measured 1/2” inside and the fittings for those pipes were the right size for new pipes that measured about 3/5” inside. They had the same outside diameter, but a larger inside diameter.

Instead of confusing everyone and requiring them to remember compatibility charts for every size pipe (and guessing about the age of the pipe), they just “solved” the problem by selling the new pipes under the name of the old size they were compatible with.

Tl;dr: Plumbers have technical debt that goes way back.
The beauty of a truly unpopular opinion is when it strikes a chord with the audience. Well done
So this tells us that the diameter of the moon is roughly one Australia, East to West.

Alternatively, if we simplify Australia to a circle, then the moon's radius is equal to Australia's radius.

Therefore, since the (surface) area of a circle is πr^2 and the surface area of a sphere is 4πr^2, the moon has roughly four times the surface area of Australia.
Sydney is not the capital! Canberra is, and a fine city it is too.

Ironically, given that it is the only city many foreigners could name, Sydney is (arguably) many Australian’s least favourite city. It’s too big, and its geography makes it a nightmare to get around. Less arguably, parts of it are stunning to look at. But as a place to live? No thanks.

Of course I would say that, being from Melbourne. ;-)
Frankly, you shouldn't assume you know how many trees are around me.

Plantation grown and old growth are very different. Just because it is a forest doesn't mean it is old growth.

I have a lot of trees and the State land next to me has even more that need thinned. I've thinned out my land for better forest health, better wildlife habitat and to reduce fire danger. The State would do well to do the same, but I is very hard to log anything but private land around here.

What happened to my logs? They went to a mill and some for pulp. They weren't old growth, that was gone long ago, but new products like CLT can make use of smaller trees.

Plantations are great, but this whole county grows trees like crazy. It isn't hard to look around and find something that can be logged in a response way, but getting approval is near impossible.
Ask HN: How do you handle distributed recurring tasks?
Just my opinion, but the author sounds like a corporate shill (I realize he is a VC): “ The old, creaky pillars of the free software movement need convenient scapegoats, because the facts on the ground raise serious doubt about the effectiveness of their leadership and the byzantine, insular ideology of copyleft they impose.”

The state of software development and benefits to society from FSF licenses are, I believe, manifest.

I also support other open source licenses, I am not criticizing them, I am merely defending FSF licenses.

I guess that my personal bullshit meter gets tripped up when something is an attack rather than a balanced discussion.
Don't know whether this is crank science or not, but it certainly seems like an intriguing theory.
Just anecdotally, every Chinese from China I've ever met has an obsession with how great China is. They always refer to ancient history. I'm pretty sure the communist party is coopting their history and cultural to create some sort of civilizational euphoria for the people, to achieve their goals. It really can't end well. It's funny because Americans will say America is the best country on earth, but they don't actually 100% mean it, like they know other places aren't bad too.
Intel Unveils New General-Purpose GPU: Ponte Vecchio
Has not gotten faster. Train travel is still limited to those who have time and patience for it
Yeah, the area of Australia is smaller. But in my OP I said "edge to edge" by which I meant (ambiguously, sorry) west to east edges. People don't realise driving from west coast to east coast US is the same distance as Australia.
What law requires this?
Agreed.

The train from SLC <-> SF is 18 hours and about the price of flying, while driving takes ~10 hours. That's stupid, it should take less time by train than car, and flying should cost more since it uses more resources (or at least it seems like it should...).

Any leisurely lines should be separate from regular travel. A train doesn't have to run 120mph+, it just needs to be able to for commuters. I think making "cruise" trains makes a ton of sense, but that's not the only thing that makes sense for trains.
It is a problem when people like you are the exception instead of the norm.
This reminds me of the (I believe) NYT article on the woman whose husband recorded tens of thousands of wrestling matches on VHS tapes. The archive was sought after by fans of the sport, but since the man's passing - the wife has struggled to maintain the collection and was contemplating tossing it.
> It's certainly bad for the business; companies that (by your numbers) are happy paying 150% extra in costs will have a hard time competing over time with companies that keep their costs low.

If most of my income derived from being an owner of a company, I would care deeply about this problem.

Since it doesn't, its really no sweat off my back, either way.

> It keeps us from getting better at our jobs, from keeping up with new technologies and new approaches.

In my experience, tech churn is one of the top reasons for why code has gone to shit. "It's been three years since the last re-write, let's rebuild the product again, in a framework that nobody here knows how to use!"

On the bright side, both the re-write, and the cleanup of the resulting mess means steady employment.
Not saying it is worth it, but I did want to point out a massive tunnel below mountains has been done before[1]. The Gotthard tunnel train below the Alps cost about $12 billion to tunnel about 35 miles. Pretty awesome engineering.

For reference, the LA<->SFO train was last estimated about $75-100 billion to complete before it was canceled. Of course, there's almost no way anyone could build such a train tunnel in the USA for the same price as they did in Switzerland.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
"one could argue that what the corporations are offering is also very irresponsible."

Well they paid needed bribes/insurance and bought the rights to kill some people for the good of all the rest
>>> I follow a lot of prominent people in Rust ... I'm not sure these people are even building anything, they seem to be "snacking" on the language only. - Touche

>> This is obviously false. How do you square that with all the Rust code we've shipped in Firefox, for example? I build things in Rust every day. - pcwalton

> I didn't state that no one builds anything in Rust so I have no need to square it. - Touche

Touche!

You are technically correct I suppose. You didn't state no one builds anything, but arousing suspicion that "a lot" of prominent Rust people aren't building anything and are just "snacking" on the language is pretty pointed rhetoric with an obvious purpose.

You could start up a Programming Language tabloid with a headline like:

EXPOSED: PROMINENT RUST PROGRAMMERS CAN'T EVEN WRITE IN RUST!

And really that's all before analyzing the line of logic of "people tweeting only about interesting language features and not their personal projects, public work projects, or private work projects implies they might just not be building anything at all" which seems pretty flimsy at best.
> corporate shill (I realize he is a VC):

[citation needed]

Your comment seems more to prove his point than refute it.
> It amazes me that anybody would still want to work there knowing their job could only have 3-months left. Unless they have incredible perks, I'd be updating my resume and going to interviews on my lunch break.

My impression from the article is that a lot of non-tech workers are being laid off. It's not as easy to just find another job for many. Heck, how many of them even know the layoffs are coming?
Why, Arizona
lots...

I've got Denver, SLC... where else?
In area terms that's true, but it does pretty much fit "over the US and part of Canada" as can be seen here:

https://www.aboutaustralia.com/australia-size-compared-to-us...
All-Electric Ford Mustang Mach-E SUV
I hope one day we stop comparing rail to cars on passenger-mile basis - like infrastructure costs per passenger-mile. These are apples and oranges. There is zero similarities between riding on modern trains and driving.

I’ve taken hundreds of trips, anywhere between 2 and 8 hours, on TGV, ICE, and Eurostar trains in Europe. I loved it every time and came out refreshed even after longer trips. At times when I wanted to get work done (probably 60-75% of total time spent on trains) I was as productive - likely more productive, due to lack of distractions - as at the office. In contrast, I don’t think I can remember any road trip lasting more than 2 hours when I could say I enjoyed it; many times I was so exhausted that I needed rest upon arriving to destination.

So, if we are going to try to fit this into some sort of economic model let’s not forget about countless billions of hours of productivity loss due to people stuck behind the wheel staring at traffic.

Not to mention both emotional and physical strain associated with driving (nope, can not stand up when you like, or walk over to the buffet car for a coffee), respective health care costs, and more productivity losses. Once we do that, the picture will be very different. It’s sad we in the US haven’t realized this yet.
Deepnude.to – AI that removes clothes from images
Does it have Windows drivers? If it does, you can set up a VM, set the device as passthrough, and sniff the traffic to it. Then it's not really any different than reverse engineering a network protocol or file format.

What are they, out of curiosity?
The Linux distribution is kind of clunky.

Curious if anyone knows of a better way to distribute such apps? Snaps? FlatPak? AppImage?
The header said “Venture Capital Shill”, so I thought I was using a term he self identified with. Maybe I was wrong about that and it is just the title of the article.
I mean,

The corporate entity should have it’s own banking accounts (to include checking, lines of credit, etc.). Not keeping these funds separate, also known as “commingling,” can lead to increased scrutiny and potentially serious liability in the event of audit by the IRS with the endangerment of personal assets. It is a best practices procedure not to commingle funds.
Meetings of the Board of Directors’ must be held at least annually, usually following closely behind Shareholder meetings (also known as “Special Meetings”). All 50 states mandate a meeting being held at least once a year.These annual meetings should be used to approve transactions entered into by the Corporation.In lieu of attendance by any given Director, written consent must be provided by said Director (either in the form of a waiver in the absence of proper notice, or in the form of a proxy vote given proper notice) for any decisions made at these meetings.Meetings of the Shareholders, also known as “Special Meetings” can be held at any time.The Corporation’s Secretary is responsible for giving proper legal notice of these meetings, and for maintaining the necessary waivers, proxies, minutes, etc.
Don't think you need to be this sanctimonious, as those two things aren't mutually exclusive. A child raised with a sociological imagination will eventually come to understand a housing shortage is unjust.
~19:50
Rise and Fall of the Theory That the Smurfs Are Communists
Any good photogrammetry software that can use handheld camera shots? I have a few hundred clay figurines my mother made that I have wanted to digitize in order to free up some space. I always thought 3d scanning required some kind of special scanner so this gives me hope.
There's a bunch of brave students in HK that might vehemently disagree with you there.
Fascinating article, thanks for posting!

I didn’t realize this all started because of terrorist attacks,

> In 2014, little more than a year after becoming president, he spent four days in the region, and on the last day of the trip, two Uighur militants staged a suicide bombing outside a train station in Urumqi that injured nearly 80 people, one fatally.

> Weeks earlier, militants with knives had gone on a rampage at another railway station, in southwest China, killing 31 people and injuring more than 140. And less than a month after Mr. Xi’s visit, assailants tossed explosives into a vegetable market in Urumqi, wounding 94 people and killing at least 39.

> Against this backdrop of bloodshed, Mr. Xi delivered a series of secret speeches setting the hard-line course that culminated in the security offensive now underway in Xinjiang. While state media have alluded to these speeches, none were made public.

Xi’s speech was enlightening too,

> In several surprising passages, given the crackdown that followed, Mr. Xi also told officials to not discriminate against Uighurs and to respect their right to worship. He warned against overreacting to natural friction between Uighurs and Han Chinese, the nation’s dominant ethnic group, and rejected proposals to try to eliminate Islam entirely in China.

> “In light of separatist and terrorist forces under the banner of Islam, some people have argued that Islam should be restricted or even eradicated,” he said during the Beijing conference. He called that view “biased, even wrong.”
“We say that development is the top priority and the basis for achieving lasting security, and that’s right,” Mr. Xi said. “But it would be wrong to believe that with development every problem solves itself.”

> “In recent years, Xinjiang has grown very quickly and the standard of living has consistently risen, but even so ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise,” he said. “This goes to show that economic development does not automatically bring lasting order and security.”

Great article, this gives me a much better picture of what’s happening and how it started.
Yeah, Meshroom! https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom
You literally quoted part of the section that describes that the author considers that label an unfair attack made to allow people to ignore his arguments. And then used said label to attack him and ignore his arguments.

The article is worth reading more carefully, even if you don't agree with him.
Pediatric Hal Is a Patient Simulator That Can Bleed, Cry and Sweat
I am not an expert, but why then most of the world has switched to cement, when cement is available at the right price?
So many reasons I don't like this, but you raise a fair point
> US residents pay a lot for healthcare, and that's used to fund healthcare research.

I'd really like to see a source for that, because that's far from obvious to me. I could see that being true for pharmaceuticals, but then there's a lot more to health care than just drugs.

In the US, health care seems more like the Parkinson's law of the economy: health care costs expand to suck up much (most?) of the economic surplus that results from any improvements in overall productivity.
Is there a way to hack around this?

I'm (involuntarily) great at remembering passwords when I'm at my desk at home, or a PIN when paying for petrol, but at other times in the "wrong" context, I'm totally blank. I read something a while back about methods for subconscious recollection based on an individuals location / state of mind context.

Just now, I forcefully remembered a password by picturing myself at my desk at home. But now maybe I've re-contextualized the memory and I'll struggle to recall it when I actually need it.
There is a somewhat competitive market for air travel. Amtrak protects rail freight from any interference from passenger rail. Which isn't a terrible idea, because rail freight is great, but I feel that completely killing any sort of market is going too far. Some sort of competition in passenger rail could really improve life in USA.
The closest solution to what you described in my opinion is Publii, which is open source and works very well with many static hosts. The whole process outlined in the article is very complicated and utterly unnecessary if you are not a developer and just want to publish a simple blog or site.
Agree. Low quality stories won't make the front page, but as someone else commented, there are many competing high quality stories. And what I find really fascinating is the extent to which randomness impacts the success of a particular story. I may get to posting this at one point, but I have simulated and fitted that first distribution of scores in the article with only 3 parameters: rate of story posting, likelihood of upvote and number of readers.
Why the world needs a Google detox
One thing both this article and the last one did was conflate their system's built in WC program with the C programming language.

They also compared a bare-bones wc program that only needs to care about the happy path versus one that needs to be fully featured and flexible (e.g. handling unicode with the -m flag, etc.)

But with this approach it's also trivial to beat C with, well, C.
(Actually I cheated a bit and used C++, but same idea. Got roughly 10x speedup in WSL on windows with a naive approach).
I imagine in school the teacher tells the poor girl: Mix the blue and yellow colors to get green, and the girl doesn't understand because she has a lot more complex color model than the teacher.

This is honestly one of the saddest parts of human society. Some people, including those in positions of authority, either don't understand or outright reject the notion that different people perceive the world differently.
There's also this sonnet, composed on a whim in response to a half-joking prompt:

The worm drives helically through the wood
And does not know the dust left in the bore
Once made the table integral and good;
And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,
A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;
The names of lovers, light of other days --
Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke.
The universe winds down. That's how it's made.
But memory is everything to lose;
Although some of the colors have to fade,
Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

This is, as noted later in the thread, a person who once won a World Fantasy Award for the poem on his self-published Christmas card (the absolutely brilliant "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", on line here: https://sigridellis.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/winter-solstice... ).
I have heard managers described as a "shit umbrella" for their team, I'm pretty sure now that that's true, especially for good managers. Know when to keep your team out of things they don't need to worry about or be involved in and in general I think they'll be happier for it.
AmTrak is primarily slower because all commercial freight has priority on the pitiful amount of track we have in the US (the NW/West coast routes are what I know best) so passenger trains have to regularly sit around waiting for freight traffic to pass. Other than that, travel times are about equal to cars, which is pretty amazing given how awful our rail infrastructure is.

Edit: grammar
Understanding Serde
Yeah, I think that's about the shape of it. And I think it's something we don't currently have a good, well established pattern for.

It calls for something more localized than a daemon, but longer lived than a utility. We see something similar with language servers. In that case (IIUC, and I may not) they're typically tied to specific places in the directory structure (eg. listening on a unix socket created in the root of the relevant source tree).

For the chat client I mentioned above, I tied things together with shell and environment variables. The script to start the long-running process read its initial output and set things up so that future commands would know which process to talk to. The code is at https://github.com/dlthomas/genies
Pros and Cons of Convertible Notes
Great job! This is amazing. Love how I’m you used off-the-shelf components. Congrats and keep going!!
This reminds me of one of my favorite short stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_stor...

The premise is that antigravity is ridiculously obvious & simple to discover for almost any intelligent species, and we somehow missed it.
It's triggered during times when database response time increases beyond 1 second per query.
Defence of others is indeed covered in self defence. But the threat response has to be proportional -- you can't shoot someone in the head because they look menacing or said you had an ugly dog.

The 'castle doctrine' you refer to is a perversion peculiar to some US states, but it still has to be your home and you still have to have a reasonable belief your life is threatened. Strangely, although you can use lethal force on an intruder/trespasser, if you shoot a police officer about to conduct a lawful no-knock raid, I think you could get convicted.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/a-no-knock-raid-in-houston...
It's pretty easy to say what's causing this, as I've given the exact reason why and shown two non-US search engines with the same behavior.

As far as your abortion example, Bing very clearly took an editorial decision to put its thumb on the search results ranking, going so far as showing a "vs." with two different articles at the top. Google just let its default relevancy algorithm do the ranking, which means articles that contain both the words "good" and "bad" will tend to rank higher than articles that just contain "bad."

The exact same checks apply to this case to throw out the Google bias argument as right wing outrage hysterics targeted at simpletons who don't know how to verify the assertion. My Google results contain two first page links that say without argument that abortion is bad. Both Yandex and Bing have 0.