skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Detailed Guide about Data Allocation in Distributed Database Design
Pyramid at Giza, 20 years -- laying one 2.5-ton stone block every 2 minutes, of every daylight hour, for the entire period. Some people say 10 years, one per minute. Or, construction for half of each of 20 years, one per minute.

You could imagine getting pretty good at it, five years in.
I mean it’s only $2/month. Less than what you’d pay for a cup of coffee. Or $340/year; here hoping you are very bad at math.

I suspect the 340 is deliberately designed to combine with the psychology of "bulk prices are always lower"; when shopping, I've seen plenty of examples where the larger quantity and more expensive item is shown boldly as "on sale" with a prominent reduction from a "non-sale price" when its per-unit price is still higher than the smaller quantity one.
As someone who doesn't follow his blog, my summary is: "lots of people have 'weird' interests. I think Smalltalk is the best programming language. It's so good it can help save the world."

Sure, there might be explanations elsewhere, just like there are evangelists for Lisp ... or Perl 6. And with similar arguments.

Take http://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html from 2002 as an example:

> I did try to introduce Lisp to Google. Having had some experience selling Lisp at JPL I got all my ducks in a row, had a cool demo going, showed it to all the other members of the ads team, and had them all convinced that this was a good idea. The only thing left was to get approval from the VP of engineering. The conversation went something like this:

Me: I'd like to talk to you about something...
Him: Let me guess - you want to use Smalltalk.
Me: Er, no...
Him: Lisp?
Me: Right.
Him: No way.

That was 17 years ago! Any essay which doesn't take into account the "Lisp-weenie" stereotype (see http://wiki.c2.com/?SmugLispWeenie ) is preaching to the choir.

I ended up putting this essay into the pile of other advocacy-for-language-X pieces I've read, with no interest in reading other blog postings.

But I did anyway. https://medium.com/@richardeng/how-does-python-make-thinking... ("Pythonistas will also tell you that Python’s syntax reads like English"). 1) It's a strawman argument, as I'm a Pythonista and I don't say that, and 2) AppleScript is more English-like than Smalltalk, so if "English-like" were really a goal, that's more like what we should be using.

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/python-vs-pharo-df47599a8ed... ("Python vs Pharo") asserts that Pharo is easier to learn than Python. However, it provides no empirical evidence that the chosen metrics are appropriate. The ABC language, which was a strong influence on Python, show how empirical tests can be done.

As an example from Python, a high school teacher presented at a Python conference almost 20 years ago. The AP test at that time used C++ or Java - I can't remember which. He found it was easier to teach Python first, then C++ or Java, than to do everything in C++ or Java. While this is anecdotal evidence, it's still more substantial than an argument based on being able to fit the syntax on a post card. (If that were important, use Lisp, Forth, or APL, all of which have simpler syntax.)

And so on.
I wasn't just money, it was changing the rules for spending the money. PhD students were funded. Science & math teachers were well paid and respected. People wanted to work on the space program, even if on the periphery.

It would still be great to work at SpaceX, even if Elon is diet Howard Hughes.
> There is also one 6 star, George Washington, General of the Armies.

John J. Pershing was also promoted to that rank, while he was still an active officer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_of_the_Armies
Must Read:

Peters, O. (2019). The ergodicity problem in economics. Nature Physics, 15(12), 1216-1221.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16380731883124301...
This isn't necessarily a good thing. The earliest versions of Javascript were insane. Bad isn't the word. Buggy isn't the word. You've never seen a language as ridiculous as early Javascript. It took a good twenty years to fix it.
There is another thread in this discussion where we discuss this, pointing out that default fonts in browsers tend to be quite ugly.

See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21841011

There’s also layout issues caused when replacing a font with another font, unless the metrics are precisely duplicated. There’s a reason RedHat paid a lot of money to have Liberation Sans with the exact same metrics as Arial, Liberation Serif have the same metrics as Times New Roman, and Liberation Mono have the same metrics as Courier New.
Also some new ones use ultra wide band. A super short pulse that can tell how far the fob is based on how long it took to respond to the challenge.
The name doesn't make it religious though, it's the people that celebrate Christmas and their use of Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus/etc.
That will lead to every news headline to be clickbaity to grab your coins
I know it is silly but everytime I hear Space Force I chuckle thinking that Space Cadets are going to be a thing.

That aside, it seems like a lot of additional bureaucracy for not a lot of gain. I'm curious how that works out.
>> I didn't realise the BJP IT cell monitors hacker news.

Not an IT cell member. Just a concerned Indian citizen who has seen and been affected by Indian vote-bank politics which grants a veto on public policy to minorities (specifically one minority). Is a community a minority if it is 25% of the population?

>> But I have a moral compass, so I could never be an Amit Shah.
How very smug. Good for you.
A fascinating thought on this for me is the basic American belief that "bigger is better". What I mean here is that the companies generating these fake ids will generate lots of the fake ids, under the belief that the more they have the more influence they have. At some point, the fake ids will reach a tipping point and outnumber the real ids thus making Facebook itself irrelevant. Sort of a "DOS" using fake ids, in this case a denial of relevance. There are some interesting paths that this could take, but I don't see any incentive in Facebook really doing much about this because their power actually lies in also "Bigger is better". So, generation of fake ids could be a blessing by overloading Facebook and making it irrelevant.
People dying from toxic cutting agents that managed to get distributed pretty broadly across the US seems like a pretty good reason on its own to regulate it like tobacco is. Added “sin tax” revenue is just icing on the cake.
Sending a message to an Erlang / Elixir process to change its internal status (a GenServer) is not conceptually different than calling a method of an object.

The big difference I see between Elixir and (example) Java or Ruby is that everything is an object in those languages but a big Elixir application has only a few GenServers, where keeping a state matters. Everything else is passed as argument, which by the way it's what a GenServer does internally with an endless tail recursion.
To be fair we’re much better at evaluating these things now.
You can block autoplay on Firefox without having to use any extensions.
Show HN: Member – Fully Decentralized Bitcoin Based Reddit Using Memo Protocol
Yes, this. From this small seed grew a huge industry, the careers of millions of people, and products that literally changed the world. RIP.
It's a bit clickbaity in that sense. She didn't write an OS as the term is understood. What's being described in the article would be better called her productivity stack.
Not true. The official policy is "Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas", translated to "with everyone, for everyone's progress", key being "everyone". I would like to see references to the policy that states "Islam is the enemy of the Hindus, and all means necessary should be undertaken to suppress the Muslims".
I don't think the lending industry would go away with a leak, though I do think that more players with the ability to analyze the data could have come along and used the data set to lower the costs of lending and/or incentivized other systems of data collection/risk analysis and underwriting.

Though I do think it would have hurt the bottom line of the giants that have few incentives to innovate, and many incentives to maintain the way things are.
Minitel
Cool project! Just curious, is the name inspired by South Park's memberberries or something else?
Impressively meta.
It's impressive even though the design was copied from Monotone.
Fast for fifty years ago, maybe. I wish they’d tell us about the cool stuff they built in the 80s or 90s.
How does anyone pay 10,000 a year on health care, unless you saying everyone is having major operations or procedures a year or expensive tests.

I certainly don't.
I recently updated my computer from i5 4690 / GTX 970, to Ryzen 3700x / 5700xt, because I’m sick of how bad Nvidia Drivers are. 3 times I’ve had my linux install completely destroyed by updating Nvidia Drivers. Everyone says amd is better for linux support so I figured I’m going all amd and if I summon up the courage to move back to linux at home I hopefully won’t end up with a dead install.
Nice book, but it's too bad David Gelernter's brain went bad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
Someone who plays/develops games for a living. Most of the rest are casual gamers. Then there are game-addicts, who play most of their wake hours playing video-games.

No?
DNS queries are not banned!

So you can tunnel network traffic over DNS.

More info https://davidhamann.de/2019/05/12/tunnel-traffic-over-dns-ss...
So a mega ghetto? What could go wrong?
MS removes Santa hat on VSCode. Christmas has cost millions of Jews their lives
Look up "eth btc atomic swap"
You can also do a butane extraction of the THC left in that vaped bud, which can result in a super pure butane hash oil (BHO) that is also suitable for vaping. I say can because most butane has horrible additives (unlike the quintuple refined stuff you can buy at headshops), and the materials used in the extraction are also important (e.g. if you use a PVC pipe, the butane extracts some of the PVC as well -- I've known people who did this and smoked/sold the product out of ignorance). The whole operation is typically dangerous/flammable and releases some butane into the environment/unprotected-respiratory-system, unless you have a shwanky machine that cycles and reuses the butane. This comment isn't a how to guide, I'm just trying to note that while buying oil you don't know the origin of can expose you to crazy additives somebody who does their research can make their own BHO that is damn near 100% plant material once the quintuple refined butane evaporates away. It's not that hard, though it is either expensive or dangerous depending on the materials used.
When we pick a set of facts to highlight, we are editorializing by what we choose to include or not include in such a list. This is the core of every good documentary I have ever seen: ultimately, they are compelling editorials because they construct a narrative by telling or showing you things that actually happened.

Whether or not those things are a representative sample, or plausibly support the narrative in the wider context of human society, is left as an exercise to the reader.

I recall reading once that Thiel said that most or all of the critically important events in history were accomplished by small, highly motivated teams. (Pardon me if I am misremembering the quote exactly.)

Perhaps pc is simply reminding us that “move fast and break things” isn’t always a bad thing? Just speculating, though.
Never heard of memberberries! Memo is the protocol, so the 'mem' comes from there - Member is because the platform has more of a focus on the users rather than the content.
I apparently screwed up on the edit, but only two versions. I do not disagree with you. I can no longer edit. I blame my phone and fat fingers.

It's a mess now. The gist of my original comment was "I agree with you".
80mph+? Instant reckless driving in Virginia, anywhere in the state.
Modern front end frameworks are certainly a step up from jQuery. The amount of incompatibility and inflexibility you’d see before is vastly improved upon with reusable and composable components. Sure, now you have other problems like bundling and packaging, but those problems can frequently be solved just with research, and hopefully those particular dev experiences will be smoothed over with time.
Atari’s home computers turn 40
I think "real gamer" in this context means a gamer that is interested in buying new titles, not just playing old titles. That is, "real gamer" means that you're a viable target for the gaming industry to make money off of.
Coffin Texts
The world has been changing the shapes of our hands since they were fins.

The problem I have with most language's function call syntax (except for point-free stack based languages like FORTH and PostScript) is that you can have multiple fingers on your "in" hand, but only one finger on your "out" hand. C#'s in/out/ref modifiers and Lisp's multiple-value-bind are hacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming

FORTH's /MOD ( numerator denominator -- remainder quotient ) naturally takes two integer inputs and returns two integer outputs, and it doesn't use need any special clumsy syntax to express that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza

4500 years old. Construction 10-15 years, >10000 workers (some estimate 200,000). Accuracy of construction is fantastic.
That 'just yesterday' is almost 5 years ago. I believe the amp hour interview was March 2015.
no it’s not. nobody will care. spotting fakes is trivial.
It reminds me of the misguided logic in mandatory helmet laws for motorcycles. They're more costly because people have higher survival rates. Whereas people who make the bad decision of not wearing a helmet are killed quickly - there's no crazy surgeries. Just send the coroner.

The laws should be taken off the books. It's cheaper to not have the bad decision makers around. (anti Idiocracy)

Disclosure, I ride a MC every day.
The title reminds me of a part of The Website is Down #2: Excel Hell (slightly NSFW)

https://youtu.be/1SNxaJlicEU?t=216
He's rightfully dunking on the Van Ness bus line for some reasons, but it's basically a major utilities infrastructure project disguised as a bus lane. They're overhead power and reconfiguring the street, but they're also replacing ~4 miles of 1800s water main, putting in a new earthquake-resistant sewer system, and redoing the fire hydrant water feeds.

I feel like it's more of a branding failure honestly. People would be much more understanding - if you heard "we're replacing 1800s utilities with 21st century tech built for the earthquake zone in SF and you get better transit along with that", I think the conversation would be much different than "it's taken a decade to build a new lane".
"...cost $793 per meter in 2019 dollars.".

IMO, extrapolations like this are not very useful unless it also means it can actually be executed at that cost in 2019.

Is that really the case here?
What stupid rambling is this? I'm from BJP IT cell? Because anyone in favor of CAA/NRC is BJP IT cell, right? Anyone who disagrees with you is non-secular, fanatic, isn't it?

"BULLSHIT. .... Don't speak of tolerance." It is infact you who is full of shit. India has given citizenship to different demographics based on time and need - people from China (Tibet), Sri Lanka, even Rohingyas. Currently, it needs to give citizenship to Islamic neighboring countries due to immense persecution they faced. Tomorrow special clause can be made for Amhadiyas from Pak too, if situation arises. But today it is minorities from these three countries. Pesudo liberals like yourself dont spend a minute in shedding tears about minorities elsewhere. But if India takes an action, then "why only minorities?".

So much of misconception is being fed by people like you about NRC. Have you even read what is NRC? How will government ascertain who is on the list? What process can be followed if one wants to challenge the list? Your questions and misinformation suggests, you haven't! But, heck! I'm ready with my pitchfork, because it's much easier to be internet warrior than do any homework. Do you know that even Hindus will be excluded in NRC list? Do you know that despite CAA, any person from any country, irrespective of caste/creed/religion can still apply for citizenship or asylum to India? Do you know people who'll be given citizenship, they are poorest of poor? Have you seen the squalid condition they currently live in?

"BJP has become militantly anti-muslim." Do you know BJP has massive support of Muslims in many areas of India? I'm sure you'd argue that EVM was hacked there. Do you know BJP's first nominated president was a muslim? BJP has many spokesperson, ministers, office-bearers who are muslims? I'm sure they are brainwashed, isn't it? Do you know NRC list was proposed much before BJP came to power? Do you know earlier governments of Congress and even Gandhi were proponents of providing citizenship to religion based persecuted people from India's neighboring countries?

"They never thought this through at all, did they?" Nope! Only you did! because everyone but you is a moron, right? None of your arguments were supported by any actual proof, just repeating lies. Should have thrown in words like fascist, hitler, nazi too and you sure would have gotten some TV/media coverage, if that's what your goal was. Very shameful of you!
Insurance premiums
Letting your inner Schicklgruber show...
How would that work legally? The fingerprint guy is literally logging in to account.
I occasionally see a therapist, drive a safe car outside rush hour, avoid drugs, get a flu shot, do not live in areas with high violence statistics, exercise and wear sun screen, but simply have no recourse against most gun violence. The magnitude of risk is commensurate with problems we take head on, but somehow it's wrong to consider gun violence preventable or a worthy issue.
It makes me reconsider the early RealID efforts in social media. Perhaps perhaps.
Plus, motorcyclists are excellent sources of organs.

They don’t call them donorcycles for nothing.
There's a typo in the title; the hacker is known as 'Spdrman', not 'Spiderman'.
So true. Or my current pet hate, noticing that I'm using the mouse to close the tab and throwing up a begging popup - a great way to convert me from feeling a site was useful and interesting to finding it annoying and toxic.
BSI is very simple compared to what they are proposing here. BSI illumination does not require that any features are actually built into the backside. It basically just requires that the backside be polished very nicely.

Here we are talking about building elements on the backside and then connecting them to the front side. It is much trickier.
Directly contradicted here: https://www.23andme.com/ancestry-composition-guide/
What I've Learned from Hacker News, PG
The TGV entry skips over the 20 years of R&D on high speed rail that preceded the first major construction, much of which was wasted on gas turbine designs.
> seems like there is probably a long history of these cutting agents being extremely toxic

A bit of an understatement, considering literal lead found in ganja (albeit rarely), any kind of dirt in hash, common use of amphetamines instead of psychedelics, and afaik some pretty deadly drugs instead of ‘regular’ opioids. And, I guess, antifreeze in wine if that's not a myth.

On one hand, a dead junkie doesn't buy junk anymore. On the other, the choice is often between selling something today or selling nothing, and apparently the short-term view wins.
Are all tech companies just copying Elon now?
This doesn't account for the extra value those folks will create.
I remember a common saying that's bandied about Hacker News: a 10x quantitative difference is a qualitative difference.

Well, America's violent crime rate is 10 times higher than Europe's violent crime rate, so make of that what you will.
The weird thing is that these are solved problems.

The most impressive, simple piece of software I've tried is a search tool called Everything.

I thought search was just hard and slow. Everything indexes every drive in seconds and searches instantly. I imagine it must be used by law enforcement to deal with security by obscurity.
It works for me, but it seems to have performance issues
Because these are summary statistics drawn from a non-uniform distribution.

If one in 10 people is over 70 and some others get serious or chronic illnesses earlier in life, the mean cost per person could easily be much higher than the median cost per person.
> UK's grammar rules differ from the United States- they don't capitalize acronyms.

They don't call themselves the Uk, do they?
It will go online 15 years after Starlink with users will claiming it is revolutionary. Apple will sell the sleek chrome plated antennae for 3000 dollars, but it will only work when you plug it into your network using a 900 dollar proprietary Ethernet standard which will be depricrated after four years.
Expanded NOAA Data on Multiple Cloud Platforms
Indeed, I've long desired such a tool not as a weapon to convince my enemies of their logical flaws but as a mirror to convince myself of my own.
Nothing about Einstein's miracle year?
>Actually, that's not quite right, he quotes Smith, Ricardo, and Franklin among others in support of LTV so it's my conjecture that he in fact did see an inconsistency and run with the theory anyway.

Of course, but his quotation is both praising and damning; he believed that he resolved the issue with the dual character of labour power, a qualitatively special commodity, to preserve the integrity of the theory, which previously failed to explain the origin of profits in a capitalist economy. He takes his critique of political economy from the rare gems of insight developed previously (by Smith and Ricardo). His criticism was that the theory as developed in classical political economy is inconsistent, but not inconsistent in the dimension you earlier pointed out - that prices do not match up to labour values. He took that part for granted.

Smith's work has holes, at least according to Marx, but the insight he developed, labour being the substance of value (more precisely, exchange value) was crucial to Marx's development of the theory. My point is that the theories can't be lumped together, since Marx presents such a radical break from Ricardo (and thereby Smith).
Well yeah, but at the same time, you want anything that could possibly go wrong to go wrong before you finish testing. A test that finds a design flaw is a successful test.
I don't think it is /generally/ true - it's certainly in a bunch of style guides (e.g. The Guardian says Nato) but not in others (e.g. Plain English Campaign says NATO). I'd be amazed if there was an actual grammatical "rule" about this, mind.
Space cadets, space men, or space marines?
Here is how I deal with the problem:

1. Customize a decent browser eg Firefox to my own safety standard (disable cookies, Autoplay, etc.)

2. Treat every website like an application. If a site is usable under my settings, fine.

3. If a site needs an additional capability, e.g a login credential or cookies, only provide them for that site if it’s compelling enough, otherwise blame the site and move on.

After customizing for a few dozens of sites, and not being able to use countless others, the modern web becomes a lot more manageable for me.
So this is how thought leadering works? Huh
Adding my data point: as a user of the terminal since 2005 I don't ever remember it crashing. Regarding the API (.Net) the only trouble I've had was when I was using a BlockingCollection to keep my simultaneous requests under the Desktop API limit of 128 and I still received a "too many requests" error -- but I trust Bloomberg's throttling software more than my own so I didn't complain.
lmaoo
And even without spoilers, one often already has a pretty good idea of the ending not even halfway into a movie.

As far as I'm concerns, spoilers should be avoided only for works where there's a prominent Sixth Sense-like twist.