skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key difference (from reading Wikipedia) is that people used to go to coffeehouses to socialise with whatever other regulars happen to be there, in the same way that you'd go to the pub knowing that a bunch of mates are bound to be there on a Friday night (this is also becoming much less common).

People don't go to a cafe expecting to socialise with whoever is there, you go to see a friend that you've planned ahead to see, rather than socialise with others. Cafes have become a vehicle for social interaction, rather than a destination or activity in themselves.

As a culture (Anglo-Western), ad hoc gatherings and meetings have sort of died off. Everything is always planned ahead and booked in. It used to be common if you were passing through the neighbourhood to knock on your friend's door and pop in for a chat, but these days you'd probably be considered a bit odd if you did that, especially without ringing or texting ahead.

Maybe it's smartphones and being always connected. Maybe it's because people are time-poor and are unable to do this kind of thing any more. Maybe people don't like socialising with strangers any more. Maybe people are less social and would rather sit at home watching Netflix. It's probably all of the above.
Thank you for even trying to answer my rambles! :-)

I think my contention with the iron is the tipping point and how quickly it goes. Pop-sci tv makes it seem like you fused a single iron atom and bam. Maybe it is you fused an iron atom and it is like a day, a year or a thousand years and that adds up; still bam in terms of cosmic timelines but it is not what I hear when I listen and hear "instant collapse".

Thank you for the thoughts on dark matter and energy as well, and the link on radiation pressure, I will read it.
I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic.

People don’t want to get sick especially given the enormous costs of hospitalization in the US.
LTE is 700 to 2600 MHz, depending on the band. Wi-Fi is 2.45 (or 5 or 60) GHz. They’re all considered microwave and face similar signal integrity concerns in the same channels.
Germans also discovered MDMA. What a different world we could have lived in.
Most probable the senders were non academic cranks. Not serious researcher will do that,even less for a kid just getting a PhD
Other countries have achieved it. Why can’t the US do it?
The aspect they didn't even mention the digital service tax of 2% that was designed to target this whole Amazon tax aspect. Well, that does seem odd - so article is clearly slanted.

THIS:- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introduction-of-t...
Effective from 1st April 2020 and directly affects Amazon in the UK.
Maybe because the advocates aren't particularly bright to begin with?

GDPR has shown its teeth annoying the crap out of me with it's stupid privacy notices on the few EU-based sites I occasionally visit.

I recall many companies simply stopped doing business in the overregulated hellhole. So there are less choices, customers are worse off and so on - isn't that plenty of teeth?
Also refrigerant has a very high carbon cost and installing piping on site between all of these appliances would require more refrigerant to fill those pipes and a higher potential for leaks.
While this is true, they are spelled differently.
<normal disclaimer about this just being my opinion>

I think there were a couple of contributing factors:

- WiFi is still easier to install (where you can get a good signal), and built into phones/laptops/etc. so mostly all you have to do to get wireless networking is buy the router. For MoCA, you have to buy & install a box for every endpoint. Also, MoCA is limited to places you have coax, which is usually bedrooms & living rooms. If you need connectivity in the garage/attic/closet/kitchen, MoCA might require new wires anyway.

- Lack of interest from MoCA developers. The main "customer" for MoCA chips was cable set-top-box vendors (Scientific Atlanta, etc.) for "multi-room PVR" products. That's where almost all MoCA networking chips made ended up. The cable/satellite vendors needed the deterministic performance of MoCA (vs WiFi) and they were always planning on putting a box in every room with a TV - which generally already aligns with where the cable taps are. They could also pre-configure the MoCA so it wouldn't interfere with some other stuff they might want to put on the cable (Example: DirecTV put its downlink from the dish squarely in the middle of the MoCA frequency band, so you had to configure MoCA to a different channel in DirecTV houses than e.g. Verizon). The market for bare Ethernet-Coax Bridges (ECB) was always tiny in comparison.

- The chicken and egg problem. The consumer market for bare Ethernet-Coax gateways was smaller (see above) as it has to compete with both WiFi and "just run some new CAT-5" (as well as niche things like HPNA/G.hn) so it didn't get a lot of focus or advertising. In turn, this means most people have no idea that MoCA even exists, so they don't go looking for it. D.Link, Netgear, Linksys, etc. then decided that lack of demand meant it's not worth developing/advertising new/improved versions of the products, etc.

MoCA was a very targeted solution for adding IP connectivity to things which were already wired together on a Coax network, and it did a great job at that. We sold 100s of millions of chips. MoCA was never meant to be all things to all people though, and while I personally use MoCA in my home I never got my own parents to use it - they just have the one computer hooked directly to their router, and WiFi for their iPad.
Opening up does at least one thing: removes the ability for workers to claim unemployment benefits if the employer also opens up.

More zero-hour contracts? You betcha.
It's not an analogy. There's a very serious risk that Youtube's policy will be used to prohibit honest, good faith disagreement of the kind discussed in the original article. (Medium's similar policy already has been!)
I've read about Hooks for awhile, but they still confuse me. Maybe it's largely because I haven't experienced any of the pain points that are described as the motivation for their development, but I've used a number of state-management libraries that handle state.

Just as one example, in a lot of posts and commentary I've seen, is that hooks are replacements for both HoCs and render props.

Admittedly, I haven't yet tried to do any actual development with hooks, but I can't even figure out how to solve the problem in the example in docs for HoCs[0].

Do you pass in a hook as a prop? That doesn't seem wise. A custom hook for each data source still has the same code duplication.

The docs talk a lot about how to build individual components using hooks, but very little about tying them together.

[0]: https://reactjs.org/docs/higher-order-components.html
> An author's children shouldn't get jack unless the author saved royalties for them.

This is such an obvious notion and it's not discussed nearly as often as it should.

It's not like my employer will be sending my last paycheck to my children 70 years after my death...
Ask HN: How can I find contract programming gigs?
Background: I've been a student for the past few years and have worked on several contract gigs for companies part-time in the past. I've mostly gotten these from going to conferences and talking to people I've met there.

I'm looking for these types of opportunities now (especially for summer), but my old approach won't work due to most conferences and physical meetups being cancelled. For those of you who are long-term remote workers, how did you bootstrap your network to land some of your first few gigs? Were there particular websites or online resources that you used? What approaches would you recommend for someone trying to land contract jobs during this time? Thanks.
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Sorry, my comment was not very clear and is prone to misinterpretation. I'm not saying masks don't keep infection out, but rather that the point of society-wide mask adoption is more to keep unwitting spreaders from spreading so widely. I mean it does both, but as I understand it, it's main value is to attenuate sources than vice versa.

I'm in Taiwan where masks are ubiquitous, and have been upset reading about the slow adoption of masks in the West because it was always from a selfish perspective ("do masks protect ME?") whereas here they're worn for a communal purpose ("how do I protect others?"). How effective they are at blocking incoming infection always seemed like a big distraction to me, since it's been clear from the start that it reduces spray from spreaders talking and coughing, which alone is enough of a reason to adopt it widely.
> This is not at all different from what's going on across the US for anyone who works in a service role, and most people still haven't had their UI claims processed / payments made.

Exactly. Most of my old team is simply floating on what savings they had, partner's salaries and any money from the family funds we are offered (small grants of $1200 depending on need and availability for FT employees). Some don't qualify for unemployment, as they're just furloughed waiting for a re-open date, or are still dependents and got screwed out of the $1200 checks sent out.

I stepped down from my role as a chef in late January to focus on SpaceX interview(s) and had budgeted accordingly and was ok with passive income sources, but those dried up as the Market tanked, so I had to get really creative this month to make ends-meet because I thought after my interview in February I'd be employed by May. My landlord has made it clear he still expects payment on the 1st, which made me ask serious questions about my current situation.

Ultimately, I have realized I have to go back to tech now as these past years in culinary to get to this point have been incredibly financially precarious, so I took some refresher classes on Coursera and sent out some CVs.

I've heard back from one potential employer so hopefully that pans out as our stay at home requirement is being lifted at the end of this month in CO. My family in CA is still required to stay at home and less than half can work remotely so its putting a strain on things.
The Strange Story of a Las Vegas Radio Station Co-Opted by China
Hypothetically, until we get to Google v. Oracle, and now really nobody has any idea what the hell is going on.
An equivalent plan in my state (MO) is 2.5x more expensive (monthly), with a higher deductible and fewer available in-network providers :(
Why did you guys move away from discourse?
Does anyone know why they haven’t been open sourced? Are they too closely tied to proprietary hardware? Too dependent on underlying software platforms that would never be open sourced?

At this point, would they even offer anything superior to etcd-raft? Asking from a position of honest ignorance.
I think framework is extremely abstract today. Sometimes I need to check the source code to understand what kind of magic is going on inside the framework.
It’s a luxury good because it’s more expensive than natural gas in the US. Natural gas systems are cheap, easy to work on, and resilient because they can continue working even when the electricity isn’t (especially nice in winter during snow storms).
That's a good idea. People have this weird fear of caffeine pills, but many of them are just 100mg of caffeine. That's a cup of coffee. Don't abuse them, and for what you are talking about (easing off caffeine) they are are a great way to easily taper your dose, which can be hard with liquids.
> Using the logic from that article, functions that perform side-effects have a different colour from those that don't, therefore we should prevent all functions with side-effects to enable better interoperation?

The argument is the reverse: it's too hard to explicitly manage side effects, so we should make our functions implicitly, pervasively side-effecting. E.g. allowing any function to throw an exception without declaring this in their signature is widely agreed to be a better approach than Java-style checked exceptions; the argument goes that we should also allow any function to be async without declaring this in its signature.

(I think there's some merit to the argument in languages that aren't powerful enough to express functions that are polymorphic over async-ness. Personally I use languages with higher-kinded types and then you get the best of both worlds: you have an explicit distinction between async and not, but you can write functions that work with both)
Exactly. For every vocal critic of Amazon, there are thousands who quietly buy everything they need from Amazon, and are satisfied with it. The critics are just the most vocal. But they are by far the minority.. by a long shot.
Yeah, but to heat a large swimming pool to near-hottub temps... not terrible. Propane would be thousands.
Not true at all. My basement is a muggy swamp in the summer. I have to run a dehumidifier 24/7 else everything molds. This water heater does that as a side effect. Plus, some of us enjoy owning things that are energy efficient, and are willing to pay for it. Enjoy your global warming.
How to support multiple authors in Gatsby.js
Everything after the first two sentences ripped verbatim from

https://en.ird.fr/assessing-el-ninos-impact-fisheries-and-aq...

Original has much more content.
Your experience might not be as universal as you think, depending on what you mean by generation.
Gulfstream. It’s been great so far (couple years in)
Ask HN: What are your favorite Golang books?
I have been a heavy go practitioner over the last few years and think it’s time to level up using some theory. If you’ve read a book on Golang that you enjoyed feel free to share.
> Last year, Ireland’s data protection regulator sought a budget increase of €5.9 million. It got a third of that amount.

AFAIAC they can go screw themselves. Taxes should be cut and not increased.
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> Her first book was also written without her receiving any money to do so.

But she owned the copyright to it, and could trade that copyright for a contract on the book. That is, she had a viable monetization mechanism if her work was good.

So once again: absent this, provide a plausible way Rowling could have made money on her first book.
I think a lot of people can get by just fine with SSH/mosh, vim, tmux... I did this for a bit but actually run vs code-server a lot too.
Note that 94°F is 34.4°C.
I order from https://bookshop.org. It's a sort of umbrella for local bookstores: one storefront, many vendors. I select my favorite local bookstore and support them.
Well, I'm not afraid of non-scientific ideas, but I am afraid of the harms they cause. Anecdotally, I've lost a couple of family members due to secret-style law-of-attraction attempts at fixing curable (by medical science) illnesses. Kind of a bummer, but it's a free country and we can't compel people to take medical treatments when they think they can wish away the cancer.

I'm also afraid of the measurable societal harms caused by, e.g. the anti-vax movement, where preventable illnesses are making a comeback due to non-scientific belief in the hazards of vaccination.

I don't know how to get anti-vax sentiments out of the mainstream discourse, but I think the world would not be any less intellectually rich, in any meaningful sense of the concept, if no one ever thought those thoughts, and caused harmful policies to be carried out, again.

Right now, of course, I accept it as "gotta take the bad with the good" but that doesn't mean I like that things like childhood measles are on the rise in various anti-vax hotspots; especially because these aren't informed adults opting out of vaccines, but ill-informed parents making decisions for their children that do have serious impacts on childhood health and the potential for serious harms later in life.

I certainly don't see the need to defend some ideas as holding promise for progress ("we could have cured your measles as a child, but some guy made up a story out of his head and that's why you have shingles now") when they are very much regressive ideas.
Ah, me too. For those still confused, "Free To Play"
Propane has higher energy density, can be liquified by compression, and doesn't need cryogenic tanks.
I don't think that Ioannnidis needs to resign or something, but he should retract the paper and recuse himself from the ongoing debate about this issue. It was their group's decision to

a) Run op-eds in the WSJ and get on Fox News with their theories

b) Create a faulty study with biased data analysis (of all people, Ioannnidis should be very sensitive to this -- he's famous for his paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False."

c) Publish the flawed paper as a preprint without peer review.

d) Publish the results of the L.A. serological survey without even a preprint so that the methods could be looked over.

If you publish a study that has huge societal implications before peer review, then Twitter is going to be your peer review. Deal with it.
We do not, in fact, have to accept that. That's the value of having a limited government - if they misbehave, you can often just tell them no.
Garageband for iOS is absolutely amazing. It is simply the best app there ever was, besides browsers and the basics.

As a guitar player since a kid I LOVE touch guitar, bass, the the drums, everything and especially the fact that it's not just an instrument but a song studio. I couldn't say enough good things about GarageBand for iOS. It's amazing. I have hundreds of diverse song snippets since 2010.

ChatRoulette! Ha. You're so right.
As the article pointed out, there are reasons to avoid Amazon outside of this anti-tech stance. These reasons may not be relevant to some people, but they will be relevant to others.

Those others are likely why this article is popping up now. In the past, people who did not like Amazon would simply shop locally. Now these people have to explore online options. Of course, Amazon has the mindshare so people may not think of the alternatives. People who seek alternatives may find it difficult to determine who is reputable and who is not, or simply who has their act in order to handle online orders efficiently, which also works in Amazon's benefit.

Regardless of how you view their desire to shop elsewhere, that desire still exists. The Guardian was simply facilitating the process for people who want alternatives.
Ask HN: Reosurces to learn about 802.11 in depth?
As the title says I'm looking for resources to get an in-depth understanding of 802.11 in depth, ideally newer versions (at least 802.11n). The standards themselves are more than I'd like to pay, with the latest being over $1000 and majority of other resources I find seem to be either casual explanations of what it is for non-technical people, or resources for designing wireless networks. I did find this book https://www.wiley.com/en-us/IEEE+802+11+Handbook%3A+A+Designer%27s+Companion%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9780738144498, but it's pretty old and there doesn't seem to be a newer edition.
No, salt pools do well. We haven’t had any issues over the past couple years. I know 94 sounds ridiculous, and I could do 88, but everyone loves it that warm.
r/covid19 is pretty good unlike the much larger and more political r/coronavirus.
> why would this particular one be differently treated?

- Because the issuer has vastly more ability to use the app and the data it might collect in ways that impact you.

- Because it's the first app of this kind and scale being issued by the government in Australia.

- Because it's being pushed onto as much of an entire population as possible with great urgency, limiting the time and opportunity for proper precautions to be taken.

- Because the issuer has an objectively _terrible_ track record on technology and privacy related matters.

- Because the ratchet effect means that once granted, privileges are highly unlikely to be ever rolled back.

> I would be much more scared of the unknown apps from dodgy shops

You shouldn't be. No matter how bad an adware mobile game is, the publisher can't put you in jail.
Zoom accidentally sent meeting host transcript of coworkers private chat
This is very misleading, they didn't "offer" any coin, and they don't have their own coin. They added a wallet for a coin that already existed. A pretty good wallet, too.
Yeah but if you don't put that info in the original tweet, that's really a stretch. At least put 1/2 and 2/2.
Apple's New iPhones Face a Double Whammy of Trouble
Propane is easily transported and stored as a moderately pressurized liquid at ambient temperatures. Propane has a big volumetric advantage over natural gas. Natural gas is mainly methane, liquifies at -160°C, and requires active refrigeration. If your use point is within natural gas piping range, gas is usually the better choice. Propane is the choice for locations not served by piped natural gas.
I think we’ve replaced a lot of that culture with HackerNews and Twitter.

You come here to find many of those conversations now.

Private chat groups/slacks for more intimidate revolution plotty stuff
No. I know a lot of people upset with Amazon in large part because they have devastated Main Street. Convenience is not the only human value worthy of consideration. I do use them sometimes, but even then, for some products it's a bad experience because you get fakes.
Hooks are an elegant & clever idea but they can be difficult to use in practice. You really need to understand in detail how closures work. Manually managing your dependency graph and memoizing in all the right places is harder than the old class-based model in my experience.

I've really enjoyed working with React but it seems to me like some of the newer frameworks like Svelte have taken the best ideas from React without the baggage.
Ignoring the source, I thought MZ owns more than 50% of the voting shares. Is there any way it’s possible for anyone to remove him from the board? Short of him committing forward fraud of some kind?
I have talked with warehouse employees, so I have a solid idea how it operates.

> They have specifically said, publicly, multiple times, that they've never seen an increase like this before in the history of their business.

That’s true, but not that relevant.

> Increased customer service requests

Customer support is a controllable expense. When customer support lines spike past a threshold they simply lack the people to take additional calls etc.

> Warehouses being full

Amazon has cut down on new items being added while still shipping some non essential items. What your suggesting is an extremely dumb move their not going to make.

> Prime SLA

What prime SLA?

From time to time, Amazon may choose in its sole discretion to add or remove Prime membership benefits. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Uhh ... why is this the top article on HN? I know all about B-trees, and I do not understand what is new or interesting in this very brief page.
Well said. I'm not sure the good religious folks here who are evidently big believers in the Rona calamity can fully comprehend your ideas though. For most here, i suspect it's a bridge to far.
> Google and Apple need to get their act together though, and just provide a contact tracing framework as part of the OS that is compatible, and can have data housed in each country where they see fit.

Absolutely not. That has way too much temptation for any government to utterly abuse. Simply creating it is opening a pandora's box and should not be done.
No concrete plan to open up? Isn't that exactly what you want in a pandemic situation? You can only forecast such a thing so far ahead.