skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Trend" --- as in you're arguing that this is something on the increase?

You're missing the main problem in your post. In the example we're talking about, it's a deplorable case of the person involved not facing real justice or proportional consequence.

You can always find people advocating for deplorable things. But in the example we're talking about, this group of people was so large as to create acclaim; to give him an important public job; and to award him a medal. Surely that's different from a few people saying "THAT PEDOPHILE DESERVED IT."

We'll never get rid of the few people saying something stupid; but we can hope that the state and bulk of the populace comes to a reasonable decision, at least (8 years in prison, in this case).
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I guess the parent is arguing for a psychological benefit to reducing the number of discrete debts as quickly as possible. But I agree with you. If someone has credit card debt and then some other debts at significantly lower interest rates, in most cases (modulo liquidity) it would make sense to put any extra money towards the high interest credit card debt first.
Caspian Report on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CaspianReport
Condensed news which are more like essays, 15-20mins for each topic, they set the historical context for the current events in a very objective way.
I'm not sure that this has to be an issue

It doesn't "have to," but sadly it is. The internet, like the rest of the world, is not a perfect place. If IA doesn't find a web site before the bitrot sets in, then what? There are huge swaths of the web that are not in IA, and from what I read on HN, IA doesn't have the capacity to archive.
Lead poisoning makes you slightly dumber, it's not a big obvious poisoning, that's why it took centuries before humans noticed that they were poisoning themselves with lead. Hopefully it doesn't take that long to figure out how much damage plastic does to us.
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Worst case, such a ban would be a speed bump. But even just a speed bump would be an improvement over the way things are now.
For the europeans, 200ft = 60.96m
> technically law abiding unethical company which is a net negative on society.

Debatable - capitalism took 7 billion people out of extreme poverty, eradicated diseases, improved literacy, decreased child mortality, and increase life expectancy. All thanks to companies maximizing profits while abiding by the democratically enacted laws.
Automattic has raised US$617.3 million in six funding rounds, the latest one being 3 months ago. (Source: Wikipedia.)
A few years back I took part in an online design challenge to make a pocket calendar - it was a lot of fun, my designs are here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/albums/7215759450272...

One of them is very similar to this one (Design 2) - I was tidying up someone else's idea. Dunno if David Seah's was related in any way or just people came up with the same idea.
May 20th is also not a Thursday.
So? My honor, like my privacy, is valuable to me without having to attach to it a material worth. My honor is refusing to live a lie and therefore denying myself.

I would much rather die knowing I lived like Havel, then his infamous grocer.

(In case you don’t know Havel, he’s one of the thousands of bright lights who refused to live a comfortable lie in the Eastern bloc and took down an empire. The government is more scared of honorable men, then men who would flee)
You are high by at least an order of magnitude, if not two. Most estimates I’ve seen put the number of bird deaths from windmills in the thousands across all time.
Haha. I tell myself I just have to floss one tooth. But once I've got that far I finish the job.
5ms happens to be a special number. NEC reports booting unikernels that fast:

http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/lightvm.pdf

If you're doing NFV type of workloads fast boot time might be interesting if you are booting up and shutting down things as fast as you can, however, if you are doing traditional cloud workloads ala jvm, rails, etc. I don't know if achieving fastest time to boot makes a ton of sense - at least for those app envs it takes a while just to start and would defeat the purpose of spinning up/down. Your example of web servers typically would indicate some form of db connection taking place - even if it's just a static webserver - why need to turn on/off so fast?

I'd be interested in hearing some specific usecases cause unikernels definitely hold promise here but I don't have a ton of use-cases outside of NFV.

The low latencies that typically get a lot of us excited are the low run-time latencies and high throughput promises unikernels have.
Thats OK. Paying the smallest 1st builds psychological momentum. If people have willpower, financially paying the highest rate makes sense. People with less willpower and drive gain confidence by checking off a loan as paid, then moving to the next.
MacBooks were the first laptops I had where I actively liked the trackpad rather than grudgingly tolerated it. TBH, I've been pretty happy with the trackpads on my Chromebooks and Linux Thinkpads as well. It's mostly my one Windows laptop that I still feel I need to attach a mouse.
> nothing which should be illegal about what is going on.

I think that collecting data about people without their informed consent should absolutely be illegal, for exactly the same reasons that it's illegal for companies to install surveillance equipment in your home without consent.
not having the days of the week in close visual proximity to the dates makes utilizing this layout pretty tedious, imo.
I feel sure it's going to happen in the next several decades. More and more people on the left are not liberals or are even anti-liberals. The right is currently dominated by a wing that's not traditional-conservative. Arguably that's been the case at least since Reagan, actually - the word "conservative" has dramatically shifted in meaning over the last 75 years.
The diagnostic criteria for occupational burnout are pretty well standardized and can easily be found online (e.g. https://www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resource...) and, based on my personal experience, are pretty accurate. What about these common lists of symptoms do you disagree with?

You mention average hours worked per week being not unreasonable and not feeling you "deserve" to be labeled as burnt out, so I'll also note that, although severe overwork is a risk factor for burnout, it's only one of a variety of risk factors.
Reasons and Symptoms of Agile Failure
James Clear credits the research of BJ Fogg in that book.
You are just scraping the surface but that's ok. I've been using Vi/Vim for over 20 years and I'm still learning it but to me, that's what makes it so much fun! I learn a new thing (e.g.; `%` for toggling the cursor between matching things like parens) and then try to use that as much as I can for awhile until it's integrated into near muscle memory. Then I get the itch to learn more and so I dive back in.
> Would they be able to capture enough energy so their star would be indistinguishable from the ambient temperature of space?

You would still see infrared:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Conjectures_abou...

> Such a feat of astroengineering would drastically alter the observed spectrum of the star involved, changing it at least partly from the normal emission lines of a natural stellar atmosphere to those of black-body radiation, probably with a peak in the infrared.

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

> A Dyson sphere, constructed by life forms dwelling in proximity to a Sun-like star, would cause an increase in the amount of infrared radiation in the star system's emitted spectrum. Hence, Freeman Dyson selected the title "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation" for his 1960 paper on the subject.[4] SETI has adopted these assumptions in its search, looking for such "infrared heavy" spectra from solar analogs. From 2005, Fermilab has conducted an ongoing survey for such spectra, analyzing data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.[5][6]
We should also get rid of those pesky social media news websites that let everyone post whatever they want in seconds and burn up energy.
The first step to ending global climate change is getting rid of the internet
The MacBook trackpads are definitely great. And the trackpoint looks like an anachronistic holdover from the early 90s next to a modern trackpad. However, it has survived because it's truly a useful productivity tool.

It's a nice middle ground between having to move your hand between the keyboard and trackpad, or embracing a keyboard-only Vim approach.
Eh, nobody gets to make rational evidence based policy with nuclear, that ship has sailed. I think once fusion is cracked the 50-years away joke will just shift into the planning permission department.
Ask HN: What minor, yet annoying, problems do you need help fixing in 2019?
Are there any small issues, in your professional or personal life, that have been annoying you for a while? Maybe HN folks can help?

I would rather you posted problems that can't be Googled easily, unless your problem is not knowing the right keywords. It is just a preference, though.

Thanks and Happy New Year!
Thanks so much! I will add this resource!
AI wis
That's for US.
For Global: https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2019/GLOBAL/
> We are, therefore, surrendering to them right now.

Who's "we"? I am not surrendering to them.
MH370 is hardly relevant, because something like that was not considered to be a plausible scenario. My point is simply that there are historical precedents demonstrating that, when there is a sufficiently large perceived benefit, the cost of rolling out the change globally is not an obstacle preventing it being done. In the case of radio, we are currently in the situation where there does not seem to be an alternative that delivers a big enough benefit to justify making the switch.
Roman numerals. Not the most useful thing to know these days, but they’re still common enough and easy to learn in an hour.
Thank you for the help! I will implement those changes shortly!
No, it is no longer a tech demo.

> not sure what binary compatibility has to do with it ...

Because the meta object generated by the verdigris macro will continue to work with newer version of Qt.
But in Qt6, the binary format will change so some adaptations will be required.
That’s assuming you ran the codec on the CPU. We had codec-accelerator ASICs back then! MP3 players and DVD players were famously built on such ASICs. For a long time, the MPEG-2 decoder ASICs required for DVD playback were a differentiator on video cards and motherboards, allowing some PCs to offer DVD playback long before consumer CPUs were capable of realtime 480p MPEG-2 decoding. (E.g. the original iMac offered DVD playback through such an ASIC.)

The real questions in this hypothetical are:

1. if we handed the netlist for a modern H.265 codec ASIC to a 1990s fab, would they have been able to print it? (Maybe.)

2. Would the resulting chip have made H.265 a worthwhile encoding for shipping media in the 1990s? (Nah; the chip, as rendered at a ~100nm process node, probably would have been ridiculously power-hungry and hot. It would have worked out in a server with blower fans, or in a gaming PC with a powerful PSU and a water-cooling rig dedicated to the ASIC; but you couldn’t have put one in a piece of consumer electronics like the PlayStation 1. As such, its use, if anything, would only be studio-internal, maybe for archival storage of masters in a “nearly-losslessly-compressed” form.)
>I suspect those earning billions are going to fight tooth and nail to do everything in their power to stop that happening.

The misinformation surrounding the leading manufacturer in EV for the last 2 years has been astounding.
Well, if you're going to be snarky about it, all I'll reply with is the famous Big Lebowski quote: "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, _your_ opinion, man."
also "the Thing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...
> `PRINT#-1`

... on line 4500 looks to be some kind of idiom.. I don't see a corresponding `OPEN` statement?
I'd rather keep one of mine as a spare. I frequently find myself needing more time around the middle of the month.
If it turns out to be the reason human fertility is down, the harm-sum may be negative
I know but to replace it with coal??? Couldn't they have gone for e.g. LNG or more renewables phased in over time? The speed of the shift seemed mighty fishy.
I think it’s impossible to decide which of two criminal justice systems is “better” knowing only the conviction rate of both. Asking people to do this or placing them in a position where they are likely to is asking them to commit to finding flawed reasoning to support their own biases — and probably has an enhancing effect on those biases.
To be pedantic, the answer is neither. You use an abstraction that supports either answer with similar ease, provided by the language/framework/tools you used.

You bring up a very real point, but the most obvious cases are also most obvious to the people developing the stack below you and have almost certainly gone through the trouble of solving those problems.

This issue rears its head when edge cases are non-obvious and typically manifest through profiling, not through design meetings.
What about when those companies use their massive resources to lobby the government to make the laws in their favor?

Until our political system changes such that large amounts of money don’t exert such an undue influence on law and policy (which has been shown by a bunch of studies) isn’t that a bit of a chicken-and -egg scenario?
hi! For some reason, I used to not need to add to add in netlify-data=true in the HTML. The form was fetching addresses successfully until 3 days ago (checked the dashboard and had responses) and then it was broken without that tag in there. Once I added it in, the 404 went away and it worked again.

By the way, I absolutely LOVE Netlify!
Dependabot can be configured to automatically commit to master if the tests pass
Heat is the energy, not the flow. That flow is flux or power. A temperature difference is how we perceive or measure a difference in thermal energy density between two places, and is the potential that drives heat flux. A thermoelectric barrier between those two wells can extract energy from that flow, within thermodynamic limits.
> Monetization of data seems like a great tradeoff to me, really.

That's a fair opinion. But why should those of us who do not share that opinion be forced to be subjected to spying?
08, 09 that was the time they introduced service to figure out typos in queries. That was the time that I noticed drastic reduction of usefulness of their search. When the team responsible for it visited my university, I asked about this. Their response was: we don't show results that you asked for, but the results you want.

I goddamn know what I want, and it is so annoying that Google returns sites that don't contain keyword that I explicitly want, doesn't matter that I put + in front or write it in quotes.
Starting positions are also randomized and the maps are not symmetrical (nor are Terran buildings with add-ons!) so starting position matters slightly.

Plus the balance tweaks are somewhat aribitrary so there's a degree of luck to when exactly a match takes place.

I'm sure there are many more examples of non determinism but the biggest differences to chess are hidden information, which makes it resemble poker, and real-time actions, meaning SC is a game of dexterity as much as it is a brain game.
Mails:

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Knowledge:

Pick one, master it.
Pick another one, master it.
Do it one by one. Pick the valuable one first.
This is why I wish Jimmy Carr would have written a whole stand up around his tax avoidance and doubled down on it adding how he was doing more of it.

The problems was to rules that let him do it, not that he was doing it.
I've been reading WSJ for a long time because of their news reporting (I'm vaguely left wing on the American left-right spectrum). Recently however I've been pretty shocked to see them taking a right wing party line in some major stories, including this one about recent events in Bolivia (widely denounced as a coup by those on the left): https://www.wsj.com/articles/bolivias-accidental-leader-trie...
Pick a month on the top, pick a day of the month on the left, find the day of the week in the row/column intersection.
> And the little I do speak is designed to appeal, as much as possible, to my audience.

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" really helped me understand where I was running into problems when interacting with people. It was written mainly for those who are in sales and need to learn how to persuade, but I've found it overall helpful in my career (not sales). It's one of the three books I would recommend for those who either manage people or are customer-facing (the others being "Nonviolent Communication" and "Carrots and Sticks Don't Work").

That said, I don't really observe the book's dogma in my personal life. To an extent, it has basic advice that's good no matter what. On the other hand, carefully speaking to make someone like you and to persuade them can be awfully inauthentic. I've learned to be careful about being rude or pedantic, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy a good argument. I like it when I disagree with people. I like to dig down into it with them to uncover the truth. I like to share the truth that I know with others, and I really like it when someone helps me discover a truth I didn't know before, changing the way I see things.

Unfortunately that means that, while I try to avoid it (without sacrificing authenticity), I will be perceived as unlikable to some. This tends to be people who hate confrontation, those who are maybe a bit insecure about their beliefs, and those who tend toward valuing what the group thinks opposed to what the individual thinks.
Is it worth preserving all social media content from MySpace, Facebook et al though? I see the argument for blogs because people usually put more thought into the articles and they are more likely to be timeless. However, an endless stream of breakfast photos or drunken lashing out may well be better off deleted. Imo, the danger lies when the "serious" conversation/publishing moves to ephemeral platforms.
I was referring to amps that don't house speakers but instead connect to speakers with traditional speaker wire. If you search for "stereo amplifier" on Amazon there are a bunch of them.

Several companies make all-in-one bluetooth speakers that have amps built in, but they tend to be lower quality in my experience.
I don't want to speak ill of them because they're doing an amazing job, but the Internet Archive doesn't have everything (especially old, long gone and/or obscure sites), isn't always complete, and often doesn't have things that back in the day that were on FTP sites. Sometimes you get lucky, but I've not had great luck there.

If you're maintaining some repository of information others find useful, please-please-please have a plan to pass it on to a successor caretaker and a notation in your will about your wishes.
This was posted in January 2019?
Funny how they use services like MySpace and Flickr as the “old Internet”. For me, the old Internet was Geocities and IRC, where sharing content required a maker mentality, not a service.
You had me up until Twitter.

Twitter is the nonstop first date where everybody is working hard to look like somebody who is "in the know" and has their life together. Yes, there are "real people" there but they are few compared to the a sea of bots, narcissists and PR-talk.
Or you could try autojump. It tracks where you have cd and then you can jump to locations from past history using fuzzy matching.

so if you cd to /usr/home/me/tacos once, from then on you can just
> j taco

and it will cd to that directory.
Saves so much time! Instead of typing out /etc/nginx you can just type "j e ng" and it will jump there.
... and that Mr Assange is how you skip bail with style.
The comment made was "Russia has a cancerously warped morality." The slap on the wrist the company received, the fighting over how much compensation to pay out, the Swiss government valuing the time they spent holding the murderer as higher than the lives of the children combined, the management who cut corners to the point dozens died. All of these are just as equal if not worse cancerously warped senses of morality. So given that as the baseline and what can count as normal (can, not should), I don't see where one has the ability to condemn that one specific part of the incident as being so much worse.

>And the murderer can come home after a light punishment to celebration and acclaim? Gross, man. So gross.

More gross than the murderers responsible for the death of dozens getting fiscal rewards by the other governments involved due to the legal systems they choose to enable? If anything, given the level of culpability and punishments handed out I would say that this particular individual did not receive the grosses treatment.

>"taking justice into ones' own hands," creating secondary victims in the guy's children

Which is why it is so important for the existing legal systems to create a sense of justice enough that people do not burn their one use of total social disregard for vengeance. When you deal with a case like this, discussions of right and wrong have little bearing on individuals who feel like they have lost everything seeking on vengeance for wrongs they do not feel were redressed. This is not advocating such behavior, only recognizing that until we achieve some level of mind control people will always have the option of throwing everything else away for the sake of vengeance. Not the right to do; the innate option and ability to do so. It isn't that such behavior is just or what is moral or what is right. It is about that (most) all of us have the ability to disregard all others and act as we desire until others use force to stop us and how society seeks to prevent people from choosing that option of last resort.

This is a factor in numerous anti-social behaviors and one reason why some behavior, no matter how much we pass and strengthen laws to stop it, continues unabated.
https://www.redblobgames.com/ talks about map generation, A*, and algorithms for hex based grids.

https://blog.molecular-matters.com/ talks about a task scheduler and several types of memory allocators.

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisSimpson/20140717/221339... is an overview of behavior trees.
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The discussion about this headline has been going on in circles for some time though.
I wrote "something like this". Learn to read.
> If it can technically be done and it is valuable in any way, it WILL be done.

Until society determines that the practice is unacceptable and outlaws it. Outlawing it won't completely eliminate the practice, of course, but it would dramatically curtail it, and provide people with an actual means of rectifying the situation when someone is breaking the law.
I'm one of those people.. and I hate it in the city. But I like making six figures and that's not currently possible where I'm from originally.

>mental health issues related to loneliness

Citation? It's a fact that urban living is associated with higher levels of mental illness, not just conjecture.
Around the time when the marketing industry exploded in the 20th century, it became a hygienic necessity to strip the oils out of your hair and replace them with a synthetic alternative (conditioner). I haven't used shampoo for about 10 years now. For some reason many people are shocked by the notion of not using shampoo, but my hair looks good and I see no benefit to removing its natural oils.